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KDWIN FALLAS & SON, Valley City Cold Storage. HOW THE WORM TURNED. David Jethro trembled visibly as he entered the bank in which he had once been a trusted employe. He knew, of course, that twelve fellow-citizens,sworn to well and truly try his case, had ac- quitted him; but some of his old asso- ciates might still suspect him, people not always agreeing with verdicts. They all saw that he had aged in the three months since he had gone away in cus- tody of the police. A charge of rob- bery and twelve weeks’ imprisonment would age any man, especially one whose family needs evey cent of his small sala- ry. Some of the clerks came to him with honest congratulations; others stood aloof, too busy, perhaps; particularly one young man, Thomas Wharton, who had been promoted to his place. The messenger went into the ecashier’s private office to announce the waiting of the former employe, David Jethro, and returning, bade him go in. He timidly entered the little room, which was lux- urious with tapestry high- earved wainscot, stained-glass windows, walls and ceiling of elaborate papering— 3russels, everything speckless to the beaten brass | clear | cuspidores. A large screen of plate-glass kept the heat of the old-fash- ioned wood fire from Mr. Jacob Merri- field, the cashier, a stern man of fifty, who sat writing at a fine walnut desk. “Sit down, Jethro, until I finish these signatures,” said the cashier, busily, and the little visitor sank weakly into a ca- pacious chair. ‘Jethro,’ answered it, verdict.”’ *“Thank you, sir.” ‘Of course,’’ he continued, tapping his “I congratulate you on the | thumb nail with the point of an ivory paper-knife, ‘‘you cannot censure the bank for its action. against you, you know.”’ | Jethro straightened himself, and a lit- tle spirit showed in his jaded figure as he | replied: ‘““You might have been less hasty. You might have given me more chance to clear myself.” ‘Why, my dear sir, you know as well} as I do that a bank cannot be too strict regarding the honesty of its employes. We have millions ot dollars of other peo- | It must be watched | Before | ple’s money here. with the most exacting vigilance. its vast interests an individual must be brushed aside like a worm. In this case you were an individual, and you feel as if you had been treated asa worm. But you must remember that the stolen pack- age of bills was on your desk just before you went to your lunch. After you were gone they were missed.” The visitor’s face flushed, and he nerv- ously pressed his sallow hands together, until the finger-nails grew red,and asked earnestly: ‘Why, sir, you don’t still think I took that money, do you?”’ The cashier turned around on his piv- oted chair, still tapping his nail, and 1891. * he began at length, after he} had rung an electric-bell and sent out a} bundle of papers by the messenger who | Appearances were} NO. 429 looked through the glass sereen into the waving flames. He slowly answered: ‘I am compelled to say, Jethro, that appearances are still against you. That money has never been yonanered: ‘In spite of the verdict, r “Yes, in spite of the eal Frankly, there are still people obstinate enough to think that you took that mon- ey; and, unfortunately for you, they are bank officers.’’ ‘They are unjust,’”’ said the little man, with a low chord of despair in his tone. “Frobably. But, censure the bank. over to the law; you were some as I said, True, for, as I have remarked, the individual, the be brushed aside. gut you forget that we paid your he cleared you. Could you expect more?” ““Yes, I think so.” ‘““What?” asked, quickly, turning rapidly around, now that he had led the man to the chief point. Jethro rose, as if for plied in quivering voice: *‘Reinstatement!”’ ‘Tam truly surprised at your men- tioning that after what I have said—that some people still believe you stole that money. We can’t, we dare not, employ a suspected man in the bank. Besides, your place has -been filled by a younger, sprightlier man, of high social position— I might say, a better man for our pur- poses in every way. be.”’ The Pallor drifted across his face, as he stepped to the desk, and said: ‘““And my family and I starve | because I am suspected, and that after | having been acquitted by a jury. I |eouldn’t have believed such injustice | could be, sir.’’ you cannot we turned you worm to must not attorney, and the cashier courage, and re- No, Jethro, it can’t ‘““worm’’ was turning. are to “Oh, you’ll hardly starve,” said the | cashier, with airy thought of his own se- cure elevation. | and fit for at least able-bodied, manual labor. Vl frankly confess that it will be difficult for you to secure a position of trust in ithe city. Our | will be hard upon you, but you must ac- leept itas a harsh ruling of fate. If I | hear of any small place, Ill see what Il ean do for you. you that.”’ He touched the electric button, and the | answering messenger showed Jethro out. | Stunned, he dragged himself several doors away out of observat.on from the bank windows, and stopped in sheer despair. His long anxiety in im- prisonment had left him too weak to re- sist. Misfortunes seem to delight in striking when we are least able to strike back. Days ployment. Why had he not been rein- stated? It was always the adverse ulti- matum. Finally a note came from Mer- rifield offering legal copying, in the same manner a bone is thrown to a dog. But the dog takes the bone, and Jethro took the copying. He could make very lit- tle, and he and his family were slowly starving. A stronger man might have become criminally desperate; Jethro sank ‘**You’re refusal to reinstate you I promise helpless, passed in vain effort to secure em- 2 into sullen, timid fury that often seeks suicidal relief. One morning the papers gave glowing the Thomas Wharton, his successor, to Millicent, the beautiful the cashier. It was a union in high life, and the papers accounts of marriage of daughter of yielded columns to it, naming guests and deseribing dresses—the prices of which would each have been a fortune to the This wedding goad- had trodden. disearded employe. The now ed him. worm been brushed aside; he felt Merrifield’s deliberate He saw sacritice of him- self. to advance his son-in-law. A silent hatred, terrible in tendency, gnawed him: thirst fur vengeance burned in his timid heart. One evening a hesitating knock fell upon the door of the poor tenement, whither misfortune had driven Jethro it himself, | Wharton, much He opened Mrs. She and his family. and was amazed to see Merrifield’s daughter. was distressed, and ‘asked nervously for a Mrs. Jethro drew, and the young bride, tremblingly, | private interview. with- | began: “Mr. Jethro, I are hunting for the man have learned that you le the who sto money from yeur desk at the bank.” He had that direction, and, his gaunt face hard- | made a few feeble moves in| ening at the recollection of his failure, | he replied affirmatively. | i ‘And you have discovered that it was | my—’ She stopped, seared at him, for a light} had flashed upon him, driving the flush | caused by the visit into pallor, while his | eyes, larger now in the thinness of his face, seemed to glare cruelly. He re-| membered now that Thomas Wharton | had frequently done his work while he was out at lunch, and wondered that he had not thought of it before. A cold tremor waved over him, at the thought of the power this discovery would place in his hands. He looked | down at the weeping young woman, and replied, hoarsel **Yes, I have discovered it.’’ “And you were about to make infor- mation against him?” “Yes: just about to put him where | once was,” be replied, feruciously. “Oh, be is torn with remorse,’’ she eried, wringing her hands behind her muff. **He confessed it to me. Oh, what a blow to a young wife! Think, Mr. Jethro, think what a disgrace to us. Think where it will drag my husband and father and me. Oh, God, it would Jethro, to offel Make it be awful! Il came, Mr. you any sum for your silence. enough to enable you to go away where you can begin life over again.”’ He drew himself up proudly, but his eyes were unsteady and his nostrils di- lating, while sands, clutching. one above the other, the front of his coat, trembled pitiably. in a tone, which he tried to foree into sternness and oe i. steadiness, he answered: disgrace? No, li *“*And stili have the ean not doit. Lam entitled to my good name. Nothing—nothing can pay me for that. i , taken it back. i You has away from me: he must giye it have nothing to do with the disgrace that will fall upon your father and your husband you, 1 would and—no, not upon that if I could.’’ “I thought you had not forgotten, Mr. spare Jethro, the kindness 1 showed you once.” | | brushed | give. ihim. At accidental glance around the cramped home, its bareness, its discomfort caught his sternness in its flight, and he said: “Is it right, Mrs. Wharton, is it right for you to make a point of my gratitude | now? I dare. not let it influence Dare | allow this crime to rest upon me and let my children grow up in its shad- ow? would have to go when we far away among strangers, and have the story fol- | low me there? No, no; L would you if {i but my wife, my children demand that this cloud spare could, manhood, my should be swept away. And your father must do it. let consequences be what He called me a worm to be The they may. aside. has turned, Mrs. Wharton!’’ *-Name any amount, and I will double it: worm ’cried the distressed young wife. “I will not.”’ think, Mr. that what I offer will be more than you could save in “But Jethro, years from your salary at the bank.’’ “And that is double, amount lose something worth treble any you could l refuse. 1 will go to-morrow to | your father, and he must lift the heel he has set upon me.” He was very haggard next morning, when the messenger showed him again into the private office. Mr. | kept him waiting, but one could easily | have seen that the visitor was irritating length, finishing a signature with unnecessary scraich of the pen, he said, sharply: “Jethro, | am very busy. To save | time, ll tell you at once that there are no vacancies.”’ A little red spot flushed upon each of Jethro’s cheeks, and his eyes flashed the pent fire, as he arose, replying: **There will be vue soon.” ‘Oh, there wiil?’”’ sneeringly. **] beg your pardon, I didn’t know it. Perhaps you mean mine?” **My old place will be vacant to-day.” | The cashier swung angrily around on i his pivoted chair, but, catching himself, as if suddenly struck at the man’s seri- ousness, leaned forward, placed one hand over the other upon the table and with calm scorn, said: *-Your name should be Daniel, Jethro. You give your prophecy very little time for fulfillment.” Jethro walked forward and stopped at the Mr. Merrifield, placing his slouch hat thereon, with his stern purpose showed in his face, but he evad- table-side opposite left hand nervously crumpling it. ed the cashiers eyes, fixing his own up- the desk was turning, but with ou the black figures on calen- dar. The ‘*worin’’ a worni’s weakness. ‘‘You taunt me,”’ he said, chokingly. “| know you are strong and powerful, but | warn you, sir, not to be too scorn- ful. Do you love your daughter?” ‘“‘You are have impudent. vil you thrown vut of the door.” He reached for the electric button, but Jethro’s voice stopped him. ‘You have married her to the man who stole that money.” Merrifield »>prang up, his face swelling, and, striding to the table-end, with clenched fist, said: **} called you worm, and lonly brushed you aside, before. 1 shall now crush you.’’ “Send for Wharton,’ said Jethro, | Wavering appeared in his face, but an quietly. me! What would your money be to me, | Merrifield | jagain sat writing at his table, and again | t ; ‘Do you mean, you cur, to reiterate | that James Wharton, my son-in-law, stole | that package of bills? 1 shall make you |rue the accusation.” “Send for him,’’ Jethro repeated quiet- ly, the crimson spots expanding. | “He shail be Do you dare?’ summoned, and he will kill you. Pallor suddenly invaded the crimsen, but he repeated, tremulously: ‘Send for him.” The messenger answered the ring, withdrew, and Wharton appeared. With that peculiar stern levity which often | shoots up from inward seriousness, Merri- field motioned flourisinghly toward Jethro, and said: ‘Ha, Wharton, our worm here has| turned on us! He says that you—” He stopped. One swift look into] } Wharton’s face, and the cashier sank in- to his desk chair; for that face had | blanched, leaving red specks of excite- | the looked at nothing. the cashier muttered, | ;ment, and watery eyes **You—you—”’ He could net proceed, could only gaze, | fascinated,into Wharton’s twitching face. | He ; chest was was trying to stand erect, but his} heaving, each breath seeming to leave it more inflated, until, as if it could bold no more, and guilty thoughts were crowding into unbearabie pressure, with a deep sigh, he said: “Jethro has spoken truly: | took the money.” Merrifield sprang up, livid, his fingers crooking and uncrooking. He reached | for the young man’s collar, but stopped and upbraided him: “You us! You will have to suffer!” seoundrel! You have deceived | The fierce words seemed to fan Whar- | ton’s smouldering courage, and he said: “You Know what I stole that money for.” “[_ know? “if you don’t, you should.” **] don’t, and I shouldn’t.’ Then listen, for forced you must know: By your will you your daughter to marry me against her choice. I was of for some adyan- | au. | 1 took that of the ele- Your your daughter | Wharton, and I high family; tage. Don't Millicent; I money to bear you hoped deny it, love her the gant wedding you insisted upon. fulfilled, she is a you loved yet. expenses } wish has been married high; am a thief. Yes, a thief. Now, what| will you do? Turn me over to the law and disgrace your daughter and your- self??’ I'he cashier fell back into his chairand the that paled his knuckles. remained | caught arm-ends in a grasp Wharton as he had uttered the last word, not de- fiant, but as if awaiting a blow; while | still stood by the hat | cumpled tightly in his left hand,his right the Jethro table, his clutehing desk-edge. He had not! moved since Wharton camein. A silence dropped into the room, so deep, that the hum of the bank reached them, with} coin clinking—even the scratching of the | nearest pen. Merritield’s face showed a confliet. The two watchers saw justice desperate- ly fight its way to victory. It almost seemed as if the anger wrinkles uncurled a bowed, into those of age. He looked broken man, years older, as he turned Wharton, softer, but still stern voice, said: | toward and in a “Wharton, you have disgraced me and | jmy child. It would seem that I should | duty to lay Both of you wait until | come back.” }man against | face. shieid you, for Jethro cannot prove your theft.”’ He slowly arose, and a little of the old tone he had used toward Jethro rang in his voice, as he exclaimed: ‘But individuals their and their hearts sink before the interests The di- It is my them. and relatives of a great institution like this. session above. this rectors are in matter before He looked at neither as he spoke, but vacantly, as if his whole attention was engaged in wringing these words from a reluctant heart; and he looked at neither as he turned, dignified, determined, and | went out of a back door. Wharton sank into the nearest chair, but Jethro stood. The worm had turned Silence, pierced The clock beat on sedately, with a seeming longer interval of waiting between the ticks; the buzz of the bank, eclinking, and the rattle of leaked in; and was still. by sus- pense, crept into the office. brazen on the street cobbles moment Wharton tires and each sank lowerin his chair, waves of suspense | dashing their white foam on his face. But the ‘‘worm”’ still stood, looking at tle door through which had vanished the whom he had turned. His | sallow, trouble-streaked face was astudy |—a deserted look there, as if something were retreating to his heart; an expres- | sion of looking backward over his suffer- ings, and the dreadful consequences of guilt, or even suspicion of it. There are degrees of satisfaction. Some demand ithe highest pleasure; others are content little. The this side of murder—‘'lIf the with vengeance of some stops not trodden worm doth turn, hath it strength to justly avenge?”’ Merrifield returned. wounded, but de- idermined; the old dignity there, but tempered. ‘Jethro, the directors want you. You have suffered most; we will wait here on your decision.”’ The merest tremble of appeal was in the tone; the merest sign in the eyes and The crushed him, was now appealing to him. mighty man, who had | Here was the triumph he had prayed for But quivered, crumpled the hat walked weakly through —the chance to mercilessly avenge. the ‘‘worm’’ still the door, to meet the solemn body above. more, and And next day he stood making figures the older, as of old, tm his book; cashier, wrote luxurious ehanged, less assertive, quavering signatures in his |room; and James Wharton, with his wife, was speeding away ona journey for his health. H. M. Hower. Barnett Bros. Se ehh: Commission Merchants AND DEALERS IN Apples, ° -_ Dried Fruits, Onions. Ah | a Twenty-five years’ experience and ample facilities for the transaction of business. Refer by permission to the editor of this paper. Write for information which will be cheerfully furnished. BARNETT BROS. 159 So. Water St., Chicago. ete Ti sore pease oes ete Ti sore pease oes eee eee RECENT REVELATIONS OF FRAUD. | Like causes produce like effects the | world over. The recent revelations of financial fraud in Germany have been paralleled. by similar disclosures in this country, and here, as well as there, the commission of the crimes and their dis- covery have constituted a similar chain of circumstances. First, high credit, won by honest and success- there was a ful dealing; then there was an abuse of that credit for the purpose of repairing disasters which it was delusively sup- posed were only temporary, and, finally, same exposure, in consequence of an in- ability to carry on longer the process of deception necessary to conceal the origi- nal wrongdoing. The with the nouncement of a misappropriation of the stock of the Standard Gas Light Co., of New York, by its former President, and ended with that of Lindley, Wiechers & Co., and the dis- eovery of their rehypothecation of bonds and stocks which bad them as security for money loaned. disclosures began an- been confided to In- termediately, we had the news of sundry small defalcations in country banks, and to crown all, that of by a woman manager of a girls’ school, showing that the prevailing epidemic of dishonesty has no respect for sex. Nor has the past fortnight been specially remarkable for events of this character. one Ever since the Baring collapse of a year ago the calen- dar has been full of them. With the uneasiness which that catastrophe creat- ed, and the consequent curtailment of borrowing facilities, many cases of finan- cial unsoundness have come to public knowledge which had previously been covered up, and among them that par- ticular sort of unsoundness coupled with dishonesty. which is These revelations remind me of one of my boyhood’s experiences. Near where I lived in the country was a mill pond, into which, at high tide, flowed the water of the ocean, and this, being retained by adam with a swinging gate, served at low tide to turn amillwheel. Usually, the hours of tide were not long enough to empty the pond, and it there- fore preserved a lake-like appearance. I remember well how I admired its pla- low cid surface, rimmed with green meadows, and reflecting the blue summer sky or the golden clouds of sunset. I swam in it, rowed over it in my skiff, and caught killy fish on its pebbly shore. For all that I saw, it was a mass of liquid azure, with no taint of imperfection. One day, however, either the milldam broke, or the miller purposely opened the gate, and at the next low tide the water ali ran out of the pond. Miss Edgeworth, in her childhood, was not more disgusted with her purple jar, when she found out what it contained, than I was when I what had been hidden under my hitherto admired sheet of water. mud was the least of the horrors. bed of the filled with tin cans, broken and decaying timbers, saw Black, stinking pond was slimy rocks, green weeds, and all sorts of rubbish. had concealed these if it had remained there have known they existed. Its did not create them; it only let them ap- | pear. So, the financial crimes which are shocking us have not been caused by the financial depression, but only brought to times even more impressively. If our former level of pros- | more humanely conducted than they were light by it. perity had been maintained, we might even by the chosen people of God. The | old | land never have known of them, but now the knowledge is forced upon us. The illustration holds good further |than this. Most people are accustomed to declaim against swindlers and de- faulters as if they were monstrous devi- ations from the normal type of humanity, but They assume that honesty in deserved nothing execration. men is the rule, and dishonesty the exception, and that the dishonest are therefore special criminals and specially worthy of pun- ishment. I used, in my early days, to be of this opinion, too, but experience and reflection have taught me better. 1 now see pretty clearly that the old Pres- byterian doctrine of the total depravity not far from the truth and LI ean sincerely join in the con- of human nature is fession of the Episcopal liturgy, that we are all miserable sinners. Our outward | show, like the water in the old millpond, the failure of Field, able purposes. The water at its usual level | abominations, and | 1 should never | outflow | j j | | | hides a world of evil, and we ought to wonder, not that so many men are honest, but that so few of them are. Science and philosophy corroborate the | For- repudiated all teachings of religion on this point. merly rationalists who religious belief held to a profession of | faith in the dignity of human nature, and traced al! crimes to the perversion of that nature by exterior influences. The brilliant, witty, but unsound school such as Voltaire and just of French writers Rousseau which flourished before the Revolution, succeeded in impressing | this idea upon nearly the whole intel- leetual world, and it finds numerous sup- Indeed, unless Lam very mistaken, most, if not all, of the schemes for reforming mankind, of much the porters at the present moment. much which we hear so from time to time, proceed upon assumption that men are naturally good | and disposed to do right, and need only freed from themselves to be adverse influences to show perfect angels. im- partial investigation has demonstrated the fallacy of this roseate view of the the doctrine of evolution dissipates it entirely, Whether or not it matter, and be strictly true that man is evolved from | an animal, it is certain that he has, dur- ing the historical period at least, risen and not fallen in development, morally and intellectually. Not only do we still regard as crimes things which our ancestors regarded as such, but in addition we condemn actions which they permitted. which the pious John Newton approved, and which up toarecent date was de- fended by hosts of Christian divines in this country, at the North as well as at the South, is now a thing of the past. I} have in my own lifetime seen duelling become first odious and finally impossi- bea = the spectable gentlemen of this city are seek- large number of most re- to suppress the lottery in its last retreat in this spite of the fact that the fathers of many of them upheld lotteries as a legitimate means of raising money for religious and charit- Drunkenness, which was ing country, in once only agentlemanly weakness, is now use of great viewed almost as a crime, and the profane ljanguage, such as_ the Washington permitted to himself in mo- dis- | Human slavery, | | games and pastimes have in great meas- ure, if not entirely, lost the savage char- /acter which they possessed in civilized Rome. Torture in criminal proceedings | has been abolished, and the death pen- alty, which was formerly inflieted fora hundred petty offences, is now reserved for murder only. improved until Prisons, too, have been they are more like asy- j}lums than places of punishment. With all this, crimes of violence have dimin- rather than increased—notwith- standing the publicity given to them by the press may produce an impression of | the contrary—and both property and life ished | are safer than they ever were before. The is that religion, civilization and morality have not the restora- | tion of human nature to a pristine state inference I draw from these facts for their mission of purity, but its elevation from a primi- | tive, degraded, savage, and even brutal |condition toward an ideal not yet at- tained, and toward which it has no in- | stinetive Like wild flowers which have been developed by tendency. garden eulture, and which need sedulous eare to keep them from reverting to their origi- nal form, so man has in him a lingering | : |taste for savagery which, as we see, | | For- tunately, he has also a tendency to per- | frequently breaks out into crime. sist in acquired good habits, which are justly called a second nature, |transmits this persistence to Otherwise, the and he his. off- work of spring. whole |improvement would have to be begun |}anew with each generation, and would | be a hopeless task. Holding these views, I regret and de- | plore financial dishonesty, but I cannot | join in expressing hatred and contempt | for those who are guilty of it. They are sufficiently punished by the loss of es- teem to which they are subjected and by ithe odium which their conduct upon them. I brings cannot help suspecting, i too, that much of the resentment against | them much by a | healthy dislike of their crimes as by the {pecuniary injury, direct or | which these crimes is provoked, not so indirect, oeeasion. I do not exaggerate when I say that hundreds of men are enjoying good reputations who constantly do things, which, if they were known, would demnation no bring upon them a con- less severe than is pro- nounced upon the rascals who have been found out. As a warning to them popu- lar indignation at dishonesty is useful but it cannot be treated as a | rational conclusion of a thoughtful mind. MATTHEW MARSHALL. Yraveling Men! ATTENTION! | — TRY THE— Neatest and most useful book in the Jound in fine leather, and ac- ruled in three sizes, with index. WRITE FOR PRICES. market. eounts ments of excitement, has become a con- | elusive mark of ill breeding. Going further back in the annals of the race brings out the advance of modern Our Wars are | Grand Rapids Book Binding Co., 29 & 1 CANAL ST., ‘Grand Rapids, - - Michigan, 3 R. MAYHEW, JOBBER OF Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Woonsocket Rubbers, Felt Boots & Avaska Socks, Whitcomb & Paine's Calf Boots. G. Write for Prices. _ Our Complete Fall Line of Holiday au nt Ra Will be ready September 10th Iwill pay | every merchant handling this line of goods | to examine our samples. EATON, LYON & CO,, 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. Great Removal Sale. We are going to move and stock. Harness, Robes, Blankets, Saddles, Whips, Trunks and Traveling Bags must reduce Reduction. PAUL EIFERT, 41 SO. DIVISION ST., Grand Rapids. Everything going at a big FREE TO F.AM 1 cyte & CO., Mas Publishers and nrera, 7 Broadway, New York. Ought to Send At Once For Sample Sheet and Prices, with ¢ back. Made. Of Ledgers and Journals bound Philad- Iphia Pat. Flat openiu the Strongest Blank Book Ever | \ | { | GINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PEGK BRO i Wholesale Druggists GRAND RAPIDB8, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Stanton—Ball & McLean. grocers, have {igasy od x rs rat ! Marshall—C. M. Paimer has sold ! siness t acs, MeKe r nt Pleasant 4 4 ) g : sold his gr ry & k to! Bros ( to D—BY YOUNG LADY POSITION AS COPY- ty writer or cashier. Can furnish best of jrese 258, care Michig an Tr udesm n, SITUATION v vax T ANTE AS BOOK-KE give the best of refer- Michigan Tradesman, 305 married man who can 305, Address No. Grand Rapid i" eget ED—POSIT petent lady They have a prac ences. care OR THRE stenographers and ty ewriters cal knowledge of the elements of book-keeping. Are willing to be subjected to any reasonable test. Address W. N. Ferris, Big Rapids, Mich. 353 MISCELLANEOUS, ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- and 5-room house on North St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187, Michigan Tradesman. 187 IR KRENT—A GOOD STORE ON SOUTH DIVISION street—one of the best locations on the street. kK“ mR SALE- ment. Lafayette in care Ik ~CHEAP Corner lot irable forthe dry goods business, as it has been ised for the dry goods business for three years. Size, 22x80 feet, with basement. Geo. K. Nelson, 68 Monroe street. 326 HAVE ANY PROPERTY TO EXCHANGE FOR ssidence brick block in Grand Rapids, addre ss 35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. TWO HUNDRED ACRES A} (60 IM- , located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun- -d for machinery, good fences, curb roof baru with underground for stock, nd other necessary farm buildings. New nishes water for house wend barns. Eight- een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,00 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 341 qORS SALE—THE BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN GRAND feet, beautifi Rapids, 70x175 shaded with native oaks, siti 1ated in good residence loc ality, only 200 feet from electric street car line. Will sell for $2,500 cash or part cash, payments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis Street. . 4 W ANTED—ONE GOOD PEDDLING W AGON, FOR which we will pay cash. Address No. 342, care Michigan Tr ale a 342 W ( STOCK BY PARTI r sh down. Must be dirt cheap dress No ‘are Michigan Tradesman A YANTED— TO PURCHASE FOR CASH DRUG stock in a good town of 3,000 to 5,000 inbabitante Winans & Alien, Tower block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 332 \ TANTED—UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 1 WILL PAY 65 cents per pair for partricges, s,ot cash; ship by expre C. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids, Mich. 335 \ TINDOW DRESSING FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON! Send for Harry Harman’s illustrated Christmas pamphlet containing novel window displays and store decorating arrange d for every line of business, adapt- ed to the holiday season and for other occasions. Price, postpaid, 75c. Harry Harman, window dresser ; and decorator, P. O. Box 113, Louisville, Ky. 348 W TANTED—BOOT AND SHOE 8T 8 STOCK, SUITABLE fcr the trade of a oer town. Must be cheap 355 for spot cash. J, M. Fowler & Co., Kalamo, Mich. TRADESMAN. THE MICHIGAN GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. & Hendrick have opened a furniture and bazaar store at 748 East Fulton street. Robinson Philip Baas has opened a grocery store at Alpine. pany furnished the stock. Lowell Lamkin has opened store at Goodhart. The Lemon er Company furnished the stock. V. Eddy has opened a grocery store at Petoskey. the Lemon & Wheeler Company. McCue & Tripp have opened a grocery | store at Bass River. son Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Frank MeIntyre has arranged to open | a grocery store at Marion. The Olney & Judson Grocer Go. will furnish the stock. O. Trumble has removed his general stock from West Olive to Oakdale Park. locating at the corner of East and Adams streets. E. P. LiddJe has engaged in the gro- cery business at Stittsville. The stock was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. Co. replevined $157 of Moore & Co., at Muskegon, last week, on an allegation of fraud. Geo. H. Reeder & worth of stock from the shoe store T. J. Nixon & Co. have opened a gro- cery store at 418 and 420 South Division street. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. Frank D. Saunders has opened a gen- eral at Sheffield. Voigt, Herpol- sheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods and the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. sup- store plied the groceries. H. Matthews, druggist at the corner of Sixth his branch drug store at Chase to Zim- merson Ross, i Matthews’ city store. street and Broadway, has sold who formerly clerked n The Worden referred to last week having purchased a large tract of shingle timber in the Upper Peninsula is not A. E. Worden, of this city, but Jas. H. Wor- den, of Cedar Springs. as Hester & Fox have sold a gine and sawmill complete to Newman & Beckett, of Sebawaing, Huron county, in competition with several other markets in this and other states. boiler, en- Tucker, Hoops & Co. have sold their sawmill, at Luther, to Camp & Hinton, who own a large tract of pine near Lum- berton, Miss. mediately begin the removal of the mill The purehasers will im- to the place named. G. A. Krause is erecting a third brick store at the corner of East and Cherry streets, which he intends to have com- pleted by Christmas. The building is two stories in height and 20x64 feet in dimensions. It Youngblood & Son as a meat market. te 2 <—_ | Gripsack Brigade “Hub” Baker struck his gait last week. driving last Saturnay, and Mrs. Johnston was the She mending rapidly Monday, when her ulti- mate recovery was thought to be a mat- badly cut in head. was ter of a couple of weeks. The accident was a most fortunate one in every respect. Sample Case: The reply of Mr. Geo. F. Owen, as published in Tur MicuiGan 28th, to the unealled for attack social aud moral status of the commer- the ap- peared in a late number of the Ypsilanti slan- the ‘RADESMAN Of Nov. derous and on cial travelers of world which Sentinel, is an eloquent and convineing refutation of the vile slander indulged in by a wooden headed individual who as an and leader of thought. His “that one would ever make a mistake by shooting a poses instructor assertion no commercial traveler on sight,” should be borne in mind by every commercial trav- eler in the land, and if the author duly rewarded oceasion offers, in his own eoin. The Freezing of Vegetables. An egg expands when it is frozen, and breaks its shell. Apples contract so much that a full barrel will shrink until top layer is a foot below the chine. When the frost is drawn out the apples assume their normal size and fill up the barrel again. Some varieties are not apprecia- bly injured by being frozen if the frost is drawn out gradually. Apples will car- ry safely in a refrigerator car while the mereury registering twenty degrees below zero. Potatoes, being so largely composed of water, are easily frozen. | Once touched by frost they are ruined. is <> -2- < Retirement from Trade of Storm & Hill. | | Storm & Hill, the Chicago dry gooods | jobbers, will retire from business Janu- | ary 1, the entire stock being now offered at private sale. The was estab- lished at Milwaukee in 1842, removing to | Chicago in 1880, it took rank | |} among the leading houses in the Garden | | City. | 2 <—- house where chased a small lot of pine on the Tittab- | | | Gladwin—Graham & Lang have pur- | | awasse, and will put in 1,000,000 feet. | having taken orders for three grocery stocks. Valda Johnston, wife and son, were} thrown from their earriage, while out the | | shows at once the day’s business. 4U LY FOR BUS 5 Do you want to do your customers justice? Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way? Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you? Would you like torid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’ your books and , ‘“‘nateching up’’ pass-book accounts? Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge? Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres- ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it? Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they have or not? Then why not adopt a system of crediting that will abolish all these anda hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes a CASH BASIS of crediting? A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all |enterprising merehants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the Tradesman or Superior Govpons, COUPON BOOK vs. PASS BOOK. We beg leave to call your attention to | our coupon book and ask you to carefully consider 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 know from experience that many times the customer does not bring the book, and, as a result, you 1 | j | | | | | | for the makers to pay them. This ren- ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts with each customer and enables a mer- chant to avoid the friction and ill feel- ing incident to the use of the pass book. As the notes bear interest after a certain date, they are much easier to collect than book accounts, being prima facie | evidence of indebtedness in any court of have to charge} many items on your book that do not} appear on the customer’s pass book. This | is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-| ing when bills are presented. times the pass book is lost, thus causing considerable trouble when settlement day comes. But probably the most se- Many | rious objection to the pass book system is | that.many times while busy waiting on customers you neglect to make some charges, thus losing many a dollar; or, if you stop to make those entries, it is done when you ean illy afford the time, as you keep customers waiting when it might be avoided. The aggregate amount of time consumed in a month in making these small entries is no inconsiderable thing, but, by the use of the coupon system, it is avoided. Now as to the use of the coupon book: Instead of giving your customer the pass book, you hand him a coupon book, say of the denomination of $10, taking his note for the amount. When 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, The notes, which are perforated at one end so that they can be readily detached from the book, can be kept in the safe or money drawer until the time has arrived wr io law or equity. One of the strong points of the coupon system is the ease with which a mer- chant is enabled to hold his customers down to a certain limit of credit. Give some men a pass book and a line of $10, and they will overrun the limit before you discover it. Give them aten dollar coupon book, however, and they must necessarily stop when they have obtained | goods to that amount. It then rests with | the merchant to determine whether he will issue another book before the al- ready used is paid for. In many localities merchants are sell- ing coupon books for cash in advance, giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent. for advance payment. This is especially pleasing to the cash customer, because it gives him an advantage over the patron who runs a book account or buys on credit. The cash man ought to have an advantage over the credit customer, and this is easily accomplished in this way without making any actual difference in the prices of goods—a thing which will always create dissatisfaction and loss. Briefly stated, the coupon system is pref- erable to the pass book method because it (1) saves the time consumed in recording the sales on the pass book and copying same in blotter, day book and ledger; (2) prevents the disputing of accounts; (3) puts the obligation in the form of a note, which is prima facie evidence of indebt- edness; (4) enables the merchant to col- lect interest on overdue notes, which he is unable to do with ledger accounts; (5) holds the customer down to the limit of eredit established by the merchant, as it is almost impossible to do with the pass book. Are not the advantages above enu- merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the country and address your letters to one THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. Po iB Bargain Counters. Merchants’ Review bargain counter is one of the principal features of all dry goods stores of any pretensions to magnitude, and is gradually being introduced in the "smaller establishments. Probably in time no general store-keeper in the country will be without this feature of enterprising modern store-keeping, because when con- : * ducted properly it never fails to act as a powerful magnet with female customers. bargain counter be made if. but it also is of great Not only ¢ in the profitat i i assistance lisposing of goods that never reach it. The first use that is generally made of the bargain counter is to work off damaged or shopworn goods, or goods that have been kept in stock until they have become antique in style. The dealer having been success- ful in gray! moving such goods in this manner, is led to try the virtues of the bargain counter in order to dispose of a portion of ane xeessive stock of a certain line of goods that may be new in style and in fair demand, but which do not move out rapidly enough. From this is but a step to the use of the counter as an attraction for buyers to get them into the store and in the mood for purchasing when they may be more easily inducedo buy of goods that have not been reduced in price, for it must be understood inthe first place, that ‘“*bargain —— means a place for bargains, otherwi goods that have been marked down in price. Considerable skill is usually required to run a bargain counter to the best ap- competition enterpris- attention vantage i lities where is brisk, and rival dealers are ing and ingenious, and proper n loca must be paid to its management, but practice makes perfect, and any trouble to which the dealer may be put will be! the results. goods may be placed upon | the bargain counter, according to the cir- | cumstances, such as notions and articles which are supplied by the city wholesal- well rewarded by All kinds of ers expressly for that purpose, slow-sell- ing goods, damaged goods, and articles that have been bought at especially low rates in large quantities, in fact every- thing that requires to be disposed of | promptly. But when these are not avail- able, articles that are sufficiently attrac- tive to draw customers to the _ store should be used, or a variety may be of- fered, the best results usually following when the offerings are numerous and varied. The dealer having decided to try the virtues of a bargain counter and selected the articles to be placed upon it, the question of location should receive care- ful consideration. The nter intended principally as an par sanaserl col being should be given a conspicuous place in the store, not hidden away where it would be difficult for intending costom- ers to find it, but as near as possible to the entrance of the store, and the more room the better. A well managed and advertised bargain counter ought to draw a good many people, in well populated towns and cicies, and unless they cau be accommodated with sufficient space to move about in and examine the goods, the chances are that they wiil not visit the store a second time. A recent writer upon this subject says: ‘*When proper- be rally used the bargain counter influence; toning ly and exerts a subtie and penetrating it is a power tbat ac up and making vigorous the entire system. It tends to in ihe number tomers, aisles thronged with ladies create a favorable and the the flourishing and prosperous the bu It is obvious, that the position and space to ts like a tonic ‘rease of cus- impression, convey idea of condition of siness. therefore, be accorded the counter are questions of importance. Themore the counter is advertised in the local newspapers the bet prospects of its success as an attra¢ the des eription O red, as well as their prices, _— ild be announced in the papers at re lar inter vals. It is not necessary to ion ve the publie in regard to the merits of the ‘oniin offered. Let them be genuine is, and the an- nouce t at i rrices have been re- duced wil! be sufficient to attract buyers, without resorting to misrepresentation. | If damaged goods are to be seld, the dep- | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Dry Goods Price Current. U NBLEAC! HED COTTONS. recation in value must not be concealed, otherwise considerable loss of trade may ensue. Square dealing is essential in the management of the bargain counter as in any other department ofa business. $< 9 <-____—— The Derivation of Dollar. From the San Francisco Chronicle. Few persons have ever troubled them- selves to think of the derivation of the word dollar. It is from the German thal (valley), and came into use in this way some 300 years ago. There is a little sil- ver mining city or district in Northern Bohemia called Joachimsthal or Joach- im’s Valley. The reigning Duke of the region authorized this city in the six- teenth century to coina silver piece which was called ‘‘joachimsthaler.’’ ‘‘joachim’’ was soon dropped word ‘‘thaler” only retained. went into general use in Germany also in Denmark, where the orthography and The piece and was changed to ‘‘daler,” whence it came into English, and was adopted by our forefathers with some changes in the spelling. Vogl, Herpolshelmer & Go, WHOLESALE Dry Goods. Carpets & Cloaks, We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts & Live Geese Feathers. Overalls if ovr own Manufacture. Mackinaw Shirts acd Lumbermen’s Socks. ‘Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Schilling Corset Co.s ba aS Dr. Schilling’s FRENCH SHAPE a? > ¢ le ae Send for Illustrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET C0., Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill. The word } the | Aerie ....... . Arrow Brand 5% Argyle ooo. i Vorld Wide.. 7 Atlanta AA va ia ce a Atlantic A. Full Yard Wide. 6% e cece oe miGeorgia A.......... 6% r.. Honest Width... 6% a. mibertforag A ..... 6 Li... 44/Indian Head.... 7% | Amery... : nee A A... .. . 6% Archery Bunting.. See. ...... is Beaver Dam A A 4|Lawrence LL.. 54 Madras cheese cloth 6% Blackstone O, 32.. DAP 2 OF C0 08 OF 92 #2 GC? OT OF Be $2 OF OO CD $2 > Black Crow. 1¢:Newmarket G...... 6 Black Rock ' = ...., o6 Boat, AG...... 14 ' _. 6% Capital A ye r DD.... 5% Cavyanst V¥...... Lg . x 7 Chapman cheese cl. 3% Noibe R............. 5 Clifton CR......... 54)Our Level Best..... 6% Comet.... . eon me... 6% | Dwight Star. lg — Os ae en 7% Clifton CCC 4g So 6% See price list | «e+ VD ro of the Heap. on CARPET WARP. Peerless, white.. -18 colored Integrity, --20%;W hite Star... | colored. .21 Nameless...... Integrity . 18% 8ESS GOODS. Hamilton a “ i 9 ee .10% GG Cashmere......21 Nameless a 18 CORSETS Coraline...... Schilling’s. Davis Waists Grand Rapids.. 9 OO Bort ..89 50|Wonderful . 9 00| Brighton ree’s ... 4 50/Abdominal. CORSET JEANS. colored. . .2 or OO OO Armory i .. 63%|/Naumkeag satteen ™, Androscoggin....... 7%4| Rockport... . 6% Biddeford....... 6 |Conestoga... . 6% Brunswick 6%! Walworth 634 PRINTS. Allen turkey reds.. 54%!Berwick fancies.... % ' robes........ 54%/Clyde Robes ——. ' pink & purple 6%4'Charter Oak fancies 4% ' buffs 6 |DelMarine cashin’s. 6 ts pink checks. 5! _ mourn’g 6 staples Eddystone fancy... 6 shirtings - chocolat 6 American fancy.... 54 rober 6 Americanindigo.... 54 sateens. 6 American shirtings. 334 Hamilton fancy. 5 Argentine Grays... 6 staple 5% Anchor Shirting 43,4 Manchester fancy. 6 Arnold : 64 : new era. 6 Arnold Merino ' Merrimack D fancy. 6 = tlonec cloth = 10% Merrim’ ck shirtings. 4 ” y. BY . teppfurn . 8% " natmedians 4 | |Peciic Tansy.....:.. © ‘gold seal. ....10% —......... Oe ‘* green seal TR10% Portsmouth robes... 6 ‘ “yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning.. 6 * personalty and real estate | gen- | 8 one | New Coins. With the beginning of the new year | the half and quarter dollar and the dime | that have been familiar for over half a century will begin to be retired, and a | new design for each piece will be substi- tuted. Ihe new coins, it is stated by the direetor of the mint, will be radically different from those now in use, and of a design that will at once be recognized as handsomer than any coin ever used in this country. The designs selected for the new half dollar, quarter and dime will be a elassie head of Liberty, instead of the sitting figure of her, on the ob-| verse side of the coins, and the coat-of- } arms of the United States on the reverse | side. Theact of change provides that it! shall not be again undertaken for twenty- | five years. —__—s-+ => Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Hardware Price Current. HAMMERS. Mayvdole &Co.'s............ one is. 25 iss ulliee ack Mee Geek tae, a Ce La a e s are for cash buyers, WhO! Yerkes & Plumb’s................ dis. 4010 | , ns suv i aT sages. | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....... \ 30c list 60 | Pay promptly and buy in full packages. Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40&10 ' AUGURS AND BITS. dis. HINGES. | SMES... 0. eee eee eee eee 60 | Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...... _ .dis.60&10 Cook’s a 40 | State. “per doz. net, 2 50 | Jennings’, ;genuine...... oo . 25 | Screw Hook and Strap, ‘to 12 In. 4% i4 and | Jennings’, imitation . se loueer...... i ! 3% AXES. Screw Hook and Bye, ie ‘net 10 | First Quality, S. B. Bronze........ OTL iu us iu 5... net 8% . Bm B Beonse 2... ...... Wor u ts 4 % ea a be “ a Be HE BOE tae ee nse ees) o> § 50 Strap and T adc dis 50 D. @, aeee....... . 350 HANGERS. dis / ee a dis arn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 tailroad ..8 14 00} Champion, anti-friction 60&16 Gerden...... kl. met 3 OO! Rida. Wood ack ..............-. BOLTS. dis. HOLLOW WARE. Stove. : -50&10 Pots. ... 60 Carriage new list. ie Kettles......... 60 rien... weIo Spiders - ae _. 60 | Sleigh shoe nn 70 Gray enamel ed . 40810 BUCKETS HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. ee ee Stamped Tin Ware.. tees ne ms Well, plain. ..8 3.50) Japanned Tin Ware. a Wor Weivel.................-.---. 1.5. as 4 00} Granite Iron Ware ..... ha new li BUTTS, CAST. dis. WIRE 600D8. Cast Loose Pin, figured...... oneness eee — et Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... ea&io | te Nye. : Wrought Loose Pin. §0&10 Hook's TOs10810 eee ee toe ean | ome Hooks and ‘Byes. i FH10K10 Wrought Table... .- 60810 LEVEI dis ba — Blind. --G0&10 | sonley Knle aud Level Co.’s 70 Vrought eee es er a I KNOBs—New List. dis. Riot (ete .................. ks 10&10 | p i i 5 Hind Paes w0&10 oor, minera jap. trimmings ...... 58 | Blind’ Shepard’s on) Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . : 55 ae ‘| Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. 55 BLOCKS, Door, porcelvin, trimmings....... : 55 | Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85.... 60 | Drawer end Shutter, porcelain. -- 79 ae LOCKS—DOOR. dis, | ia Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list 55 | Grain...... ao .. dis. 50&02 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s......... a 55 CROW BARS. sraufora’ 8 Leueevaee cae < on . . a N Orwa. Be ela ee ak vO | Cast Steel perth 5 MATTOC KS. : CAPS Rose Bye. .....-....1.._...,.. . $16.00, dis. 60 A eee ee a perm 65] Hunt Eye $15.90, dis. 60 _ k’s C.F...... . 60 | Hunt’s 818.50, dis. 20&10. >. ot ‘ eee. oe e 35 AULS dis. Muaket. : . r 60 | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, pa led . CARTRIDGES, Coffee, Parkers ¢ MILLS m ae Yoffee, Parkers Co.’s........ ae: Gin _ = P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables oe . i . ian ia “ Landers, Ferry & Clr k’s. . — 40 | CHISELS. dis. Enterprise nis 20 | | Socket Firmer . .70&10 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Socket Framing.. “70&19 | Stebbin’s Pattern.... - -60&16 Socket Corner..... ‘"70&10 | Stebbin’s Genuine. oo .- -68&10 Socket Slicks ..... 70410 | Enterprise, self measuring a 25 Butchers’ 'fanged Firmer.. 40 NA is ' Steel nails, base. 1 80 oo, dis. | Wire nails, base... Le en Curry, Lawrence's 40 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. Hotchkiss Lelia meee . Base Base CHALK. Oe Base 10 | White Crayons, per gross..... 12@12% dis. 10 = a an cOFPEt aaa a 3g Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound Ee 15 35 o BO, PO, PO... ccs su, ee 15 BS : ‘jld Molled, 14006 and 10e00.... ........... eee 20 40 Cold Rolled, 14x48. . 23 15....- 25 50 Bottoms . ; mie ee. 5... Lo... 40 65 DRILLS, dis (ia 60 90 Morse’s Bit Stocks.. a ! 59 3 --1 00 1 50 Taper and straight Shank.............. a 5O | 2as-- ose: 1 50 2 00 Morse’s Taper Shank...... et 50 | Fine 3 --1 50 200 eee 60 90 DRIPPING PANS. : « g 6 1 00 Small sizes, ser pound ..... ... ae ot. ¢€ 0) 1 25 Large sizes, per pound Gee | Hints 10.0)... 85 1 00 ELBOWS. Fee eae atleast 1 00 1 2 1 4 > | al 6 14 150 Com. 4 piece, 6 In . dos. net 75 | Clinch*10 85 75 Corrugated = so. Gan St TE TE 1 00 9 Adjustable ee eee 6 fC a EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Ravel & isd 2 50 Clark’s, mal 8; 30 | PLANES. is. cea > 4) #19 ; a Ge ag _ - | Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy en --+ @é : | Sefota Bench... ........-------. cece eens sees Boi ries—New List. dis. | Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.............-... @40 ( . ..60&16 | Bench, first quality........-...-.----+«.-.-+s Go | New American. ..60&10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s, wood &10 | neta oo - 60&10 | PANS. ae e...........-.....-.... oO Fry, Acme...........-.... dis.60—10 Heller’ ‘. Horse ‘Rasps ae 50 | Common, polished... 0... ' - 70 | " ) i RIVETS. Gis. Nos. 16 to 20; - aren - + on- o7 9g | ron and Tinned... Us - oe ee ee 24 ot oe “9 Copper Rivets and Br ITs 5¢—10 List 12 13 14 15 «18 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. Discount, 60 : ‘A’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos, 24 to 27 10 2 GAUGES. dis. “Be Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Stanley Tnle and Level Co.'s 50 Broken packs 4¢e per pound extra ROPES. Sisal, 4% inch and —— Manilla : : : “SQUARES. Steel and Iron. ke Try and Beyels.. Mitre . ' ‘SHEET IRON. Nos. Nos. Nos. Nos. % Nos, 2 as... — All sheets No. 18 and lig wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Tast wect, 19, °S6.... to 14..... mi tot7..... 18 tol... SASH CORD. Silv er L ake, White A ies... . White B. ' Drab B... . White C Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS, Solid Eyes. oo SAWS, a a... Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, . pe t foot, per foat Special Steel Dex Special Steel Dia. Champion and per foot x ( uts WT Chita .. ut 8, - Electric Cuts, TRA Steel, Game Oneida Communit y, , Newt house’ S... a. Hawley « Norton’s.. Oneida Community, | Mouse, choker Mouse, delusion . WIRE. Bright Market Annealed Market. Coppered Market Tinned Market . Coppered Spring Stee Barbed Fence, galv aa : paintesi HORSE NAILS. Com. ater, per Smooth. 6 wc wo 2D me oor .. per ton $25 dis. 20 ion.... l'ooth ..18¢e per doz $1.50 per doz. dis. ~ 65 attempt of the kind has ended in It strikes THE TRADESMAN that the severe strictures on advice-givers, dealt | merited. 'by people who are not qualified to be- stow it. Ancient history describes a pe- culiar individual who wrote a treatise on the blessings of poverty while resting | his parchment on a table of gold. In this age of the world, it is noted that | books on such topics as ‘‘How to Succeed” and ‘‘How to Get Rich’’ are usually writ- ten by men who have never riches to any extent, consequently what | they write is the result of observation, instead of actual experience. congruities have, very naturally, created a distaste for the didactic discourses of | all advice-giving writers, but Tue) TRADESMAN would give $1,000 for a ser- ies of articles from the pen of Marshall | Field or John Wanamaker, setting | forth the manner in which they acquired their enormous competences in the short space of a quarter of a century through the medium of legitimate merchandising —and there is not amanin Michigan who would not walk ten miles over a rough road for the privilege of perusing the articles. Men of eminence seldom dis- close their methods, however, for the reason that such a course would open the door to a flood of competitors. Be- sides, the time required for such effort could be more profitably expended, financially speaking, in creating addi- tional wealth for themselves. The time may come when men of means will be- queath a knowledge of how to acquire riches as a legacy to posterity, but in all human probability the keys to success will never be entrusted to men who have not first learned how to use them by dint of patience, economy and energy. Some business men regard the immedi- ate presentation of a bank check as dis- courteous to the drawer and therefore are in the habit of holding checks several days before making use of them. The danger attending this practice has been shown in a decision rendered lately by a New Jersey court. A check drawn by the defendant in the case on May 26 was not presented for payment until three days afterward and in the meantime the bank had suspended. The drawerof the check, being sued by the holder for the amount, claimed that the bank had am- ple funds te meet the check before the day on which it had closed its doors, and that as the holder had been guilty of un- reasonable delay in presenting the check he should suffer the loss. The judge de- cided that the point was well taken, that the rule in commercial circles was that when all the parties resided in the same city the check should be presented on the day of its receipt or the following day, and when payable at a different place from that in which it was negotiat- ed the check should be forwarded by mailon the same day or the following one, for payment. Two organizations of business men— the Grand Rapids Board of Trade and are doing all they can to increase the growth of the city by encouraging the location of new manufacturing enter- prises and assisting those already in the field. These efforts are heartily sup- plemented by the co-operation of busi- ness men who have the interest of the city at heart, but another element—the tribution on the subject, are not wholly Advice is seldom heeded, for | |the reason that it is most freely offered | succeeded | in anything they undertook or acquired | Such in-| | was on long drives Grand Rapids Improvement Association | ists—is doing all it can to counteract the efforts of good citizens by endeavoring to tear down institutions which refuse to bow the head to the tyranny of union labor. With the issue of this week the discus- sion of the two weeks vs. the three weeks | visit of traveling salesmen closes, so far }as THE TRADESMAN is concerned. The discussion of the subject has brought out | several interesting features, prominent among which is the fact that the rapid | increase of rail facilities has enabled the men of samples to cover much more ter- ritory and visit many more towns than | they were able to when half their time to town. from town |The necessity for curtailment—if such exists—grows out of this fact, not to a decline in the trade legitimately coming to Grand Rapids, which has shown a handsome inerease every year for the past quarter of a century. The series of circular letters, recently seut out to their customers by F. Good- man & Co., general dealers at Burnip’s Corners, which are given, seriatim, in another part of this week’s paper, will be perused with interest by hundreds of dealers whose minds are occupied with the thought of adopting the cash system or putting their business on a cash basis. The letters are interesting as showing that a move toward the curtailment of the credit business leads ultimately to the adoption of the cash plan, or some sys- tem which enables the dealer to get as near the ready pay method as possible. Because you have taken pretty good eare of your business this year is an ex- eellent reason you should make every exertion to take better care of it next year. In this age a successful bus- iness is only secured as the result of eternal vigilance. The man who is al- ways pushing ‘‘gets there,” and the man who stops pushing ‘‘gets left.’ why Do not misrepresent what you sell. If you have not just what is called for, be sure that you let the customer know that you have something much better. EEDS ——AND— RAIN MENTION THIS PAPER, W. H. MOREHOUSE & C0. No merchant can afford to employ asa salesman a young man with the tenden- cies of amasher. Such a person is of- fensive to every lady of refinement: and he is so persistent in making himself conspicuous that he detracts from the good appearance of the entire stock, of which he tries to make himself the most prominent feature. Senator Paddock, whose _ so-called “Pure Food Bill’? was a feature of the last Congress, announces his intention of again introducing the measure at the present session of Congress. Do not induce a lazy, ignorant boy to attempt to make a salesman; he will make a failure of the effort, and you will be the father of the failure. If you have an employe in any capa- city of whose loyalty or integrity you have reason to suspect, let some other man employ his services. Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentleman in trade: J. J. Williams, Fields. R. G. Rice, Dowling. B. S. Holly, Woodland. Dr. W. O. Barber, Caledonia. Philip Baas, Alpine. M. M. Robson, Berlin. P. B. Sharp, Byron Center. H. E. Hogan, So. Boardman. Alex. Denton, Howard City. P. M. Van Drezer, Saranac. P. M. Cleveland & Son, Nunica. J. J. McNaughton, Lowell. W. R. Lawton, Berlin. J. L. Handy, Boyne City. Patrick & Niergarth, Reed City. C. F. Walker, Glen Arbor. A. D. Spangler & Co., Saginaw. M. V. Gundrum & Co., Leroy. Frank McIntyre, Marion. S. H. Ballard, Sparta. Oe Next Meeting of the Board of Phar- macy. The next meeting of the State Board of Pharmacy will be held at the Knights of Pythias hall, 401 Center avenue, Bay City, January 13 and14. The dates for the other meetings for 1892 will be fixed at that meeting. a Use Tradesman Coupon Books. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Grain, Clever and Timothy, Hungarian, White Clover, Red Top, Millet, Alfalfa or Lucerne, Biue Grass, Orchard Grass, Lawn Grass, Popcorn, Ete. Choice Clover & Timothy Seeds a Specialty Orders for purchase or sale of Seeds for future delivery promptly attended to. Correspondence solicited. Warehouses—325-327 Erie St. ? Office—46 Produce Exchange, 5 TOLEDO, O. | ELSIE, WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF PURK-;-BUGKWHEAY-:-FLOUR And would be pleased to send you sample and prices. PRESENT PRICE, #4 IN SACKS. A. SCHENCK & SON. MICH. out by Mr. Owen in his this week’s con- faction represented by the trades union- YF ERE INGES & BESoe DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool é& Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 9 How Can I Increase the Profits of My Business? THIRD PAPER. Written for THE TRADESMAN The writer is personally acquainted with many retailers who can increase the profits of their business as surely as they live, by acting upon the suggestions con- tained in last week’s installment of this subject. Didn’t read it, eh? Well, if you can’t find the paper, ask your most intelligent clerk to tell you about it and then you will be prepared to consider this installment. Assuming that the domestic manage- ment, which was treated of last week, is a wise and economical one and not sus- ceptable of material improvement, we will proceed to the store management. If we find anything wrong here, you will not be able to attribute the cause to your wife or some member or members of your family. If the ministering angels who preside over the destinies of our household affairs present such marked contrasts in the matter of mastering de- tails and economical management, re- member that men exhibit the same char- acteristics and that a lack of order and system which would lead to a neglect of minute details and improvident manage- ment would be more disastrous in the management of the store by such a man than it would bein the management of the home by such a woman, A retail business is made up, exelu- sively, of little things, and no man whose head is screwed on his shoulders in sueh a manner as to confine his scope of vision above the horizon among the stars, there- by making it impossible for him to see the many little things which lie about his feet, should ever invest his money in a retail business. Reader, if you belong to this class, you will not be able to in- crease the profits of your trade. You have blundered into the wrong pew and the sooner you get out the better it will be for you. Don’t wait until the ‘“‘mony wees’? which make up your ‘‘muckle’”’ have all flitted away, but sell out the very first chance you get and place your money somewhere where you can keep your eye onit. But the man who has a joint in his neck and whose eyes are not too far gone to see a little thing can in- crease his profits by exercising ‘‘eternal vigilance’? in the manner of treating these minute details. Commence to- morrow morning and see to it that every move, act and deed effecting value to the extent of penny shall the same careful forethought, and be guided and controlled by the same application of thought and business judgment that would be brought to bear in a transac- tion involving value to the extent of ten dollars. Do this and you will be sur- prised at the sudden increase of the profits of your trade. No more will a whole bin full of potatoes freeze solid through neglect to close a window. No more will the wareroom floor be flooded with the contents of the molasses barrel because you ran to the door to see a dog- fight and forgot all about it. Never again will you lose the sale of a five dol- lar pair of fine shoes because you _per- mitted yourself to utter an unkind word, in a moment of anger, in reply to a very common-place and womanly remark on the part of your lady customer. Never again will you neglect to wire that stove- pipe until it falls down and ruins five rolis of butter, a basket of eggs and three dollars’ worth of glassware. You will no longer pay delivery clerks for one receive hauling four hundred pounds of boys all over the city, through the mud and sand, for every pound anda half of goods he carries. If some fellow who is a little smarter than you are, has ‘‘waxed it to you ona hoss trade,’ don’t wait until the ‘‘new hoss’’ kicks the bottom out of your business, your unfortunate delivery clerk to his long home, where sends he will have no further use for his over- coat and mittens, and lands you in the poorhouse, but trade him off to the mean- est man you know of (I mean the ‘‘hoss,” not the delivery clerk) and then take a solemn oath that, God being your helper, you will never again disgrace your fami- ly, imperil the life of the poor orphan delivery clerk, or cast reflections on your character as an intelligent business man, by swapping horses. This is absolutely necessary if wish to increase the profits of your business. Of course, you cannot expect to increase your profits by keeping a half-dozen boxes of blacking with as many brushes lying about the store for the use of the adjoining town- ships, or by sacrificing a pair of hose every time you want a ‘‘try on’’ These are small matters, but they denote that the little things and minute details of aconecern are neglected. In the ag- gregate, these little things make up the business and they cannot be neglected without neglecting the to a greater or less extent. Who of all the thousands of retailers whose eyes will glance over this article will endorse its sentiment and general tenor? Not the grocer who keeps wooden plugs in his vinegar and molasses bar- his front window with vou sock. business rels; decorates spoiled fruit and rotten vegetables; keeps his cookies and doughnuts in a showease with the top broken out, and allows his eat to nest in the tea chest. Such a fel- low particular for THE TRADESMAN, or anything in it, and if he should accidentally read this article or hear someone else read it, he would eall it ‘small potatoes’’ of the ‘‘tweedle dum” variety. If you step into his store, a very positive odor would meet you more than half way and impress you more than The clerk who receives four dollars per week and boards at home tells you that : awful dull, and that Mr. Loosends, the proprietor, who has gone has no use would as being domestie foreiqn. business is quail hunting, wants to sell out awful bad. Two able-bodied, long-tailed mice run a foot race down one of the shelves for your special entertainment, dodging in and out among the cans of baking powder, knocking over a poor old weather-beaten package of saleratus, and disappearing behind a row of bath brick. One glance around the store will eon- vince you that the proprietor will soon be out of business whether he sells out or not. This man is playing a losing game and no one can convinee him that incompeteney or willful neglect is the sole cause of the unprofitableness of his business. Every successful retail merchant will endorse the general drift of this article, for well he knows that unless the great- est diligence be exercised in the mapn- agement of these insignificant little de- tails, the elements of destruction- will fasten themselves upon the very vitality of the business, draining it of its life- sustaining resources and foreing it into ruin and decay. So far we have been considering the subject from a sort of house-keeping standpoint. We shall now take up larger matters connected with the transaction of business and endeavor to point out other ways and means by which the retailer’s profits can be augmented. E. A. OWEN. "RAGISTARKD PHARMAGISY.” is not found to be exactly as represented. the money than any manufacturer who depends on buying his stock from second hands. agents on the road to sell it, therefore depend upon mail * REGISTERED PHARMACIST” is sold by the following reputable druggists, all of whom warmly IN GRAND RAPIDS. Peck Bros. H. & F. Thun, (2 stores). W. H. Tibbs, (2 stores). D. C. Seribner. Geo. G. Steketee. J. C. West & Co. R. A. McWilliams. W. H. Van Leeuwer Albert Stonehouse. Aj. Dayton S. T. Newson. V. Sinz. D. Kimm. The Finest Havana Cigar f on the Market. In proof of the above statement, we offer to donate $50 IN GOLD to the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, in case the above brand J. D. Muir. G. T. Haan. A. Sanford. E. Treadgold. Kellogg’s Drug Store. G. H. Oliver. M. B. Kimm, P. T. Williams & Co. C. W. Cook. H. Henika. J. C. Dutmers. M. A. Clark. W. A. Swartz & Son, B. A. Hoxie. o eS W. Z. Bangs. J. DeKruif & Co. P. ¥. Finch. Chappell & Chappell, Cc. G. Dykema. Steketee & Baker. T. Kemink. H. Matthews & Co. A. C. Bauer. Powell Bros. Steele & Co. Francis Van Dugteren. If you are not already handling the ** Registered Pharmacist ” your cigar trade will increase by putting by the manufacturers, who fill all orders the same day they are received. KUPPENHEIMER BROS. 45 Pearl St, it in stock without delay. or the Money Ever Placed We import our own stock, direct from Havana, and are consequently able to produce a better brand for We make this brand so good that we cannot afford to put orders and the merits of the goods to increase the demand. recommend the brand to their trade: IN SURROUNDING TOWNS. A. W. Tripp, Cedar Springs. J. O. Doesburg, Holland. Hessler Bros., Rockford. E. A. Richards, Saranac. Wolfinger & Gilligan, Hopkins. Yeiter & Look, Lowell. Hunter & Son, Lowell. Clark & Winegar, Lowell. J. L. Handy, Boyne City. L. D. Chappell, Wayland. Dr. W. O. Barber, Caledonia. Gooodrich & Andrews, Fennville. A. DeKruif, Zeeland. Fred A. Huntley, Grand Haven. L. A. Perham, Spring Lake. Sold only - Grand Rapids, Mich. Warrenty : j 4 10 Dru gs ss M edicines. State Board of Pharmacy. aniey E. Parkill, Owosse Jesson, Muskegon ve si or, Detroit ach, Ann Arbor Five Years—( orge Gundrum, Ionia President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon Seeretary—Jas. Vernor, De tr rit. Treasurer-—Geo Meetings for r_ 18s »0b Wichigan State Phar rmaceutical Ase’b. President—H. G. Col Vice-Presidents—S Ignace; A.§. Parker, De Secretary—Mr. Parsons Treasurer—Wm Executive Commi v— | zburg, Grand R Ap vids Frank Inglis ar G. W. Stringer, Detroit; ¢ Webb, Ja Next place of ting wire Rapids I ocal Seer retary—John D. Mu Grand Rapids Pharmacentical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meet i evening of Marcel June, S¢ eptemt ber and Grand i TS Drug Clerks’ ARsOC iation. resident “ta v } Detroit P h trmaceutical Soctets President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank Vuskegon Drug Clerks’ Association wy President, N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler WHO STEAL. The Big Shops are Th WOMEN Favorite From the New York World It does not take men to wate! ean do it ea number of one time is m stated here. his work noi The men are const: there, of customers, many e Half a dozen t} ne big store. most instances a guard goes about and unobirusively. moving here and the great throngs ne it in clever fashion as to attract absolutely no attention. If a woman is seen te nip something, not a word is said while she is in the store, for that would only result in creating ascene and would tend to scare away trade On the other hand, she may stay in the store an hea r or more after she has taken chief or the cloth, buying | or pretending to a say a wordt this is merely part of the gener: € Onee let the shoplifter lure herself into the that she is safe, and then let her start to go away with her booty, and before she ‘ has gone a yard from the door she has \ quietly watching but do such a dker- and no one will dream been arrested, so quick, so sudden, so re- lentless the vigilance of the bazaar de- tectives. In the big bazaars there ut ass es of women thieves. and in a measure the most is represented by the woman who nips pocketbooks from dry This is the way she works: She selects her store—one that she thinks is ‘‘right,” as the phrase is:that is, one in which she thinks she ean plunder with a fair chance of getting out again uncaught—she selects the store, mingles with the crowd, prices this and that and in the meantime fellow-shoppers. It is the custom of thousands of women hile carry thet purses in lass, goods counters. easionally to lay them on the counter while examining some article tl con template purch He is the op- portunity the pocketbook thief has wait- | } ed for. turned than the thief brushes past and nips the pocketbook in a twinkling, isappears in the big cases out of ten she is never caught. Pocketbook thieves in the big bazaars will Soon ve t than ever bef . for they no doubt an- ticipate < arvest as the grand holi day shopp eason ct ilong Neve your pocketbook on a counter in one of these big stores, even foramoment. You may regret it if you do. ’ Among shoplifters there is always a large class represented by those poor and perhaps otherwise honest women who are sometimes weak enough to yield to the. opportunity to steal. With this class it is opportunity that makes the thief. found comes in with the best intentions in the world. She sees her chances. To-day xperienced | letectives on duty at] ss than the number | dangerous, | keeps her eyes on her} No sooner is the woman’s head | then | throng. In nine] ker and more numerous | | does not put up with Mine Host Smith Such a woman as this may always be/ haunting the big stores. She} ‘ B ty She | kept hotel affords. THE MICHI GAN TRADESMAN. fia nips a handkerchief. To-morrow “J | feather. Next day a paper-cutter. She | throws regret and conscience to the} |} winds. She is poor and her children are starving. That will be her requitement. | The professional shoplifter is, of ; course, the most dangerous of her class. Yet in the very largest stores she is not especially feared, from the fact that the detectives are supposed to recognize her on sight and order her away. The profes- sional shoplifter usually has the front of | her dress made in such a fashion as to | icontain, yet absolutely invisible, a great pocket, often running the entire length of the skirt and as wide as the dress | She is usually accompanied by a | friend, who engages the attention of the ielerk while the shoplifter seizes her | first opportunity to steal something. In {the case of dress goods or other bulky | |material the scheme of the thief is to} i first get the bolt of cloth covered with 1 other odds and ends lying on the coun- | ter, then suddenly slide it, quick as| lightning, into her yawning pocket. | Dozens of customers will be passing to | and fro, but in ninety-nine cases out of a | j} hundred no one will observe the theft, Even if some woman does see her take the silk she will never say a word. At| least not until she gets home, when she} will tell her friends at dinner. But, woinen invariably leave the concerns of | other women severely alone. They do not care to be mixed up in anything that savors of publicity. Hence the shoplif- ter must be caught by the bazaar detec- tive or she will perhaps escape for good | with her plunder. Dangerous women in the big stores are these: Mrs. Herman apd daughter, Annie Derrigan, Mamie | Burke, alias Big Maria; Mrs. Pool, Nellie | Bird, Nettie Scott, alias Seotty; Mrs. | Hogan, Mag Murphy, a thief known as | roods. the Little Blonde, Rachael Simmons, Kate Armstrong, Mary Bushy, Lizzie | Milehy. ‘These women are known to the best detectives of New York, and are in- variably ordered out when they enter the great shopping resorts. There is another class of women who steal from the big bazaars, and these are generally people high up in life, with beautiful homes. and all this world can give, in the way of luxury and station. Why do such women steal? Scout the idea of kleptomania. There is another and more logical reason. it is the fact that they have the fever of robbery in |} their blood, and it drags them to the} most pitiful length imaginable. . A woman who is caught in the clutches of such a desire will haunt a big bazaar tor hours, watching her chance to steal some | bit of lace, a feather, or some skein of worsted. She may have $500 in her pocket. Her jewelry may have cost $5,000, and her husband’s income may be far beyond the dreams of avarice. Yet she will steal. Steal a nine-cent paper- cutter. Steal a fifteen-cent feather. | Steal a skein of silk. Steal anything for which opportunity offers. Some day she ; will be caught. Then there will be a |}scene. Disgrace perhaps. Certainly the | brand of thief before the world. For, as between the poor woman who nips a hundred-dollar purse and the rich woman | who steals a nine-cent feather, what is | | the difference? There is no difference. Both | ply thieves. —_—_— OS are sim- | Bound to Lead the Procession. | Since Chas. R. Smith resumed posses- | Sion of the Hotel McKinnon, at Cadillac, he has expended about $4,000 in a com- | plete system ef repairs, extending from ellar to garret. He has put in steam heat throughout, electric bells, baths— in short, all the modern improvements incident to a hotel. Mr. Smith’s method of running a hotel is to | satisfy every guest and the fact that he gets more than his share of the public patronage is sufficient evidence that his | efforts to please his patrons are sccess- | ful. The man who goes to Cadillac and | first-class ' misses an experience which only a =a —_—_— > alae a 80@1 00 Co . MORO ee ee an 2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. 90)...... %@1 10 Juriperas ....<.------- 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum......... %@ 30 BALSAMUM. Yopaiba .....-. 50@ 55 won i ea a ale @1 W Terabin, Canada .... = 40 olutan ...-...---.+.- 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian... .....-.. 18 Ce ns oe ea 11 Cinchona Flava ......------ 18 Euonymus atropurp....... 30 Myrica — _ Lcerees 20 Prunus Virgini. i. Quillaia, grd........-.-.-++: 14 Seeearrae ...........---: . Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM hiza ee AG wd Glycyrr ms Haematox, ie ib. box. 11@ 12 1h ease 13@ 14 - Y48 14@ 15 _ \s.. 16@ 17 FERRUM, Carbonate Precip. ....- @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50 Citrate Soluble.....-. @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Solut Chioride....... @ 15 Sulphate, coer: .-..- we : ee... : FLORA. Avie .o .....:-...-. ae Anthemis ...... _. #2 BW Matricaria 23@ 30 FOu1A, ae . = . sou 2@ 50 Cassia cutifol, nivale... 4... Sab. 2 Y Aix. 3@ W Salvia officinalis, 445 me ,........... Te a oe .....---.. ' 8s@ 1¢ eUMML. st picked... @ 80 Acacia, Po pick - g & “ 3d “ a @ 40 e sifted sorts. 3) a 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 ‘¢ Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12 ‘* Socotri, (po. 60). @ —— 18, (48, 14 48, “3 oe oe i saan oo 55@ «60 Assafostida, (po. ~ @ 2 Benzoinum ..... wW@ 55 Camphore...... WG x Euphorbium po 35@_ 10 Galbanum. ...-.-.- G3 50 Gamboge, po .-. %@ 80 Guaiacum, i: 30) as @ % Kino, (po. 25). @ w Mastic ... Q@ Myrrh, (po rc @ 40 Opii. (po. 3 2} ---2 1@ 15 eee. 1. one ee. 3@ 35 r bleached...... 30@Q 35 Tragscanin ......---- 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. Asin... 5... ae eae 20 Lobelia. . a, Majorum 28 Mentha Piperita Sen 23 . .. |... 25 Rue 30 Tanacetum, ‘oo 22 Thymus, V 25 MAGNESIA Caicined, Pat . Se @ Carbonate, Pat ......-. 0@ 2 Carbonate, K. & M.... 2G 25 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Adeinuthium. ........- 3 50@1 00 Amygdalae, Dulc .. .. 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 are... .1 75@1 85 Auranti Cortex.......2 80@3 00 Heese ........ 3 T5@4 00 oe 7@ 80 Caryophylli .........:. 90@ 9% Ced 35@ 65 @17 Aa Cubebae... ‘ @ 6 Exechthitos...... 2 50@2 75 Erigeron ...... -2 25@2 50 Gemteeria ............ 2 O@2 10 Geranium, ounce..... @ & Gossipil, Sem. - 50@ 75 Hadeome 004 40@1 50 po eT 5HOM2 00 Lavendula oo. ae Limonis . ee f Mentha Piper... a S 0@3 50 Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 Morrnuad, gal.........1 OG! 10 Myrcia, ounce......... ones 50 —s... HQ? 75 Picis sani (gal. 3 0p 12 i 4 08Q@1 24 Rosmarini.... ‘ 75Q1 00 Rosae, ounce.... @6 50 Re a ce 40@G 45 eee ......,......... Seen Oe a_i. .38 O@7 00 Sassafras. .... 50@ 55 Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6 ec i @1 00 The ................ a & c opt Lote, @ 60 Theobromas.. —. oa POTASSIUM. PiCwe...........-.... 6 Bichvomets ........... B@ MM ——s.......... 23 2 Se 12@ 15 Chiorate, sla )...... ae Cyanide .. | 50@ 55 jodide...... .2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 28@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt ee 8@ 10 Potans Nitras........ %7@ 3 Proseete.......... 2@ 30 Sulphate po..... 15@ 18 RAD{X. Aconitum ss 20@ % ares... 1... ...... Ps 30 Anchusa .. on 129@ 15 Arum, po. , @ & Calamus. .... 2N@ 40 Gentiana, (po. 15) 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15) 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 30). @ 3 Hellebore, ‘Ala, po 15@ 2 Inula, - : 15K WwW Ipecac, .2 40@2 50 Iris pion on '35@38) . 25@ 40 Jalapa, pr.. a 55@ «60 Maranta, 4s. - @ 3 Podophyllum, po.... 15@ 18 ie............. ..... ta @ " cH... @1 75 . - 75Q@1 35 Spigelia 48@ 53 Sanguinaria, (po 25) . @ Serpentaria 33@ 3 Senega 40 45 Similax, Offie! inalis, H @ 40 M @ Ww Setliae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 — Foti dus, po. @ 3 Valeriana, ‘Eng. ‘(po. 30) @ German.. 15@ 2 ingiber a. 10@ 15 Zingiber j 18@ 2 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 2) @ Apium (graveleons) 1K 22 Bird, 1s.. oe @ 6 Caruil, (po. ss). 8G 12 Cardamon.. noises) OOS Corlandrum......... - 10@ 2 Cannabis Sativa 444@5 Cats... ........ Bale Chenopodium ...... 10@_ 12 Dipterix Odorate.. 2 10@2 2 Foenicuium..... .... @ 15 ee po.. 6@ 8 ea ccn tae ee . «4 @4 iat, grd, (bbl. 3%) 4 @ 4% Lobelia. ... . we Pharlaris C anarian.... 34%@ 41% Rapa _: iQ € Sinapts, Albu. ‘ 8@- 3 Nigra... 11@ 12 SPIRITUS, G2 Be TH@2 OO 10@1 3 Frumenti, fe D. Co. 7 eR. Suniperis oa6° T. Saacharum N. Bo Spt. Vini Gallt.. Vini Oporio rae Wiel Ais... .. bitten nine 2% o2 Q 5 ty Ys =~ | | | | } } | | | { TINCTURES. Aconitum NapellisR....... 66 . e ar... Aloe: -. 1. oo “and myo... ........ 60 Po a ee 50 Aearoeies............ aa. o Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 ee 60 e ee 50 Daneuinaria.......... 50 Baroama ......- io 50 Cantharides.... 5 Capsicum ' 50 on cere le . a —— .................... 100 eects i... ' 50 CucnOms ........ 50 . Ce... 60 Columba .... 50 Conium .... 5G Cubeba.... 50 DISteelIs .......... 50 Ergot 50 Gentian a 50 (e.. 60 | Guaica . 50 ammon. 60 | Zingiber 50 Hyoscyamus 50 oe... z r Colorless. z Ferri Chloridum... 35 oo........ . 50 | ‘oe.........-.,.. 50 | myere... 50 | Nux Vomica.. 50 | Opti ed eeu eue Gauls, 85 . oe * Deodor.. eo Auranti Cortex. 50 Meee 5... ss. 50 Rhatany 50 Rbel. Whe eeee ete 50 Cassia Acutifol. i \ 50 ro... 50 Serpentaria ... 50 Stromonium.... 60 Tolutan 60 Valerian .... | 50 Veratrum Veride 50 MISCELLANEOUS, Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. %2@ 28 r ~<4?.. ao o Alumen -... an 2 ' ee (po. ch : 38 4 Annatto. . 55@ 60 Antimont, po. << 5 et Potass T 552 66} Antipyrin @i 40 Antifebrin ....... Q@ & Argentl Nitras, ounce @ 65 Arsenicum ... \ a 7 Balm Gilead Bud.... 38Q 4 Bismoth SN... .. 2 10@2 W Calcium Chlor, 1s, G48 tae, .... 9 Cantharides Russian, po. @1 20 Capsici “Practus, af. @ Ww po @ 2 B po @ BW Geena (po. 15) 12@ Carmine, No. 4).....-. @ Cera Alba, S.&F..... 0@ 56! Cera Flava 38 40 Coceus _.. 4 @ 4 Cassia Fructus oo @ 22 Centraria. . @ 10 Cetaceum . @ 40 Chloroform . 60@ 63 . squibbs . @1 25 Chloral Hyd ‘Crst Lanes it 25@1 50 Coons ............. 20@ 2 Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2 e German 3 @ 12 Corks, list, dis. per comet «Cds... 69 Creasotum @ Creta, (bbl. 75)... SS Ff pree...... 5@ 5 precip... 9@ 11 Rubra @ & Crocus 30@ 35 CuGneer.-.. .......... @ %« Capri Suiph........... s@ Gc Deswine.............. Hae oer Golen........... Se Ww Emery, all numbers. . @ . be..... ..---. @ 6é Ervota, (po.) 7....... GB W Piswe Wolte.......... Ime 5 Galla Do ae @ BB i 7 @3 Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 70 “ Prenan........ 60 | Glassware flint, 70 and 10. by box 60and.10 Glue, Brown.... 9@ 15 = Were... ._..- 138@ 25 Giycerina ........ 15%@ 20 | Grana Paradisi. @ ZR | Humulus.. 25@ 56 Hydraag Chior Mite.. @ 9 Co @ 80 Ox cies @1 ‘0 : Ammoniati. @1 10 “ Unguentum. 44@ 55 | | Hydrargyrum .... @ 75} Tchthyobolla, Am. .1 25@1 50 Indigo.. a. 5@1 . | Iodine, Resubl....... 3 7E@3 8 loditorn @4 70 Peis... -..... 35Z Evconogiam .........- 40 i | | Mee me & Liquor Arsen et Hy- | eee FOG... ck... @ 2} Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph (bbl ea, 2G 3 Mannia, 8. F.. “HQ 4 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool carriage... 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ “wool carriage 2 00 Velvet extrse ‘sheeps’ wocl carriage. . 1 Extra yellow sheeps’ carriage ....... 85 Grass enone wool car ree... ... 65 | Hard for slate use... 75 Yellow Reef, for slate mee 4... 1 40 SYRUPS. Accacta ........ ce. meee... ss 50 | , 60 | ae 50 | Auranti Cortes. . 50 | ies Arom........--- i. coe Similex Officinalis......... 60 oe oe Co. ey a 50 ES TN cc geen ck cone ees 50 oe eh et Tolotan ..:--.: oe 50 Prunts ite... .5.;. 50 Linseed, pure raw 36 Morphia, Nl _ W...1 95@2 20} Seidlitz Mixture... @ a. N. Hiei & Sinapis.. _ @ 18 ic. 4 _..-. Ge Io pt @ 30} BE the Canton. @ 40/ Snuff, Maccaboy, De a Net... i “— 75 Vees ... @ 3 Nux Vomica, (po 20) . 10 | Snuff, Scotct! 1, De. Voes eo B| Os. Sepia ' oo 25 | Soda Boras, (po. 12). i1@ 2 —— Saac, il & Pp. D. Soda et Potass Tart 30@ 33 | @2 00 | Soda Carb...... 1%@ 2 Picis Liq, N nx. Cc, i gal Soda, Bi-Carb... : @ do a @2 00 | Soda, Ash... el 34@ Picis Liq., quarts @1 00 | Soda, a _. @ | ™ mn... @ 8} Spts. Ether Co ; 50M 5 Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) @ 50 Myrcia Dom @2 Piper Nigra, (po. 22) Ge I Myrcia Imp : @3 00 Piper Alba, (Po €5). / @ 3 . Vini Rect. bbl. Pix Burgun. mam fi Sea)....... -- © ole 4 Plumbi Acet ... - 1442 15| Lees Se eal., cash. ten. ciao Pulvis Ipecac et opii -1 10@1 20} Strychnia Crystal @1 30 Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, fon. Ula &P.D Co., doz... @1 25 Roll 24Q 3% Pyrethrum, pv... 30@ 35/| Tamarinds ... ; 8@ 10 Quassize . . 8@ 10!| Terebenth Venice.... 28@ 30 Quinia, S.P&Ww . 81@ 36! Theobromae a 45@ 56 S. German 20 @ 3/| Vanilla. 9 00@i6 00 | Rubia Tinctorum.... 12@ 14! Zinci Sulph. 7@ Saccharum Lactis pv @ 3 | Salacin es 1 60@1 65 | OIL. Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50! Bbl. Gal | — a eae 4 50; Whale, winter 70 70 Sapo, 12@ 14! Lard, extra 55 60 Mees oes ues OR Oe) ee ee 4 45 5 a... ie @ i 39 | Lindseed, boiled .... 39 42 Neat’s Foot, winter strained .... ae 60 Spirits T1 irpentine. _ =< 46 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Red Venetian..........1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4 i‘ Ber 5... 1% 2@3 Putty, commercial... .2%4 24@3 r 7 pure.....2% 2%@3 Vermilion Prime Amer- ss .... ‘ 13@16 Vermilion, English. 70@75 Green, Peninsular..... TQS Lead, = a. ewes 7 @7% white .... 7 @ik* Whiting, white Span.. @70 | Whiting, Gilders’...... @% White, Paris American r¢@ | Whiting, Paris Eng. i a ( Pioneer Prepared Paint1 20@1 4 Swiss Villa Prep wn Pare 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach 1 10@1 20 Extra Turp............100) © Coach Body wince .2 TH@SEOO No. i Turp Furn.. ‘..1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp. oS 70@ 75 HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CoO. importers and Jobbere ad DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. DEALERS me eeewere oe = Paints, Oils 2s Varnishes. Sele Agonts for the 0si+2ratet SWI88 WILLA PREPARED PRINTS. ; Fall Ling of Staple Droggists’ Stndries. We sre Sole Proprictere of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. We Hare tn Stock and Offer » Pall Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. pone ee a We seli Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Persenal Attentign to Mail Orders and Guarantes Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Sendin 2 | trial order. Harelting & Perkins Drug 66, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROC CERIES. A New Way of Testing Eggs. ‘Sure these eggs are fresh?’’ enquired | a man with a basket on his arm, into an oblong box in a grocery proprietor. ‘Certainly, sir,” answered the ‘Those eggs are per fectly fresh. from the country.’ ‘‘What are they worth?” ‘Twenty-five cents a dozen at id I make a cent on them at that.’ ‘If you had any right fresh city eggs I think I had rather have ’em,”’ observed the customer, doubtfully. ‘Tell what II! do. en or so by a way of my own, and they turn out to be all right, Pll give you 50 eents for them. If they area little too subsequent, as it were, you give me the eggs for nothing. How does that strike you?” ““] guess it’s a a dozen go.” said the after a moment's reflection. grocer, ‘IT have the privilege of testing the entire dozen?” “Certainly.” ‘In my own way?”’’ ves,” “That's right. Please stand still a moment.’ Whiz! An egg thrown with terrific force just grazed the grocer’s ear and | broke with awful etfect on a pile of bak- ing powder cans on the counter “You moved a little,” said the er, considerably vexed, putting ket down and picking up another epy—? “Hold on!” shouted the *‘What are you doing?”’ custom- aor or cee- proprietor. “Testing the eggs.in my own way. ‘hat one was all right, anyhow. I have my doubts about this one though.” And he drew back to throw it. “Stop!” yelled the excited grocer, dodging be +hind a potato barre], “I i the police.” “They won't “pay,” pealing t's compromise thing. Take the eggs for 20 cents.”’ “I'd prefer to pay 50 cents for them if they were sound.” ‘Take ’em fer 15!”’ ‘That’s unreasonable. got hold of now get a dozen for out a little, if you please.” ‘Look here.’ gly, ‘‘you can have —two and a half! en for nothing and go!”’ “H’m! That seems fair,” customer, putting the egg back in oblong box and picking up his ‘‘but, Christopher Columbus! want any eggs. I only wanted to intro- duce my new way of testing them. See you again some time. Good morning.’’ — © *“ Cash is King.”’ Under the above ere A. the Stocking street grocer touch me.”’ called out the grocer, in an ap- tone. this I’ve bad, I Stand If this one turns out to be nothing. See? the said grocer, them for despair- in ten—five , announces his abandonment of the credit system in the following circular to his trade: We want all our new plan, as it is to their interest as well as ours that we make it. We propose to mark our goods down to rock-bottom prices and sell for cash only. many customers we would be sellon time, but if we sell best friend or nearest think hard of us. we caine here to be very careful in giy- ing credit; still, we havea great many accounts that we would sell for twenty- five cents on the dollar; and this ex- perience is the same as that of every merchant who undertakes to conduct a credit paninens. The credit system kills nineteen out of twenty, and the day has come and gone when a man may win on a ledger plan. King credit must go and all must plank down the Almighty Dol- lar. Cash is king, and we propose to prove it by our method of buying and sell- ing for cash, upon the system of the smallest percentage and the greatest ag- tag 6 Therefore on January 1, 1892 relative. We have tried peering | store one | morning, and looking suspiciously at the | latter. | They’re | don’t | you | If you'll let me test a doz- | his bas- | Take a couple of doz- mused the} the | basket, | I don’t} Vidro, | customers to read our | No We have | glad to|n for cash we | will be compelled to refuse credit to our | So don’t | since | | dollar’s worth of goods will go out of our | store without the cash. Thanking my customers for the liberal | | patronage accorded us in the past and | assuring them that my new method wil! enable me to give them better satisfaction | than ever before, I remain, | Yours truly, A. VIpRo. ————~- -¢ > ___ Direct Connection with Bear Lake. | An old logging road owned by the now | defunct Hopkins Manufacturing Co., of | Lake, extends from Pierport, wad Lake Michigan, east to Bear Lake and to | within a mile and a half of the| Traverse City branch of the C. & W. M. Railway. This road has been inguivat:| by the of Bear who have arranged to extend it the necessary | the C. & W. M., when | it will be operated on the narrow guage | The thing for | Bear a point basiness men Lake, distance to reach extension Pierport, Bear son and Sanders, | basis. will be a good Lake, William- as it will give them di- | communication with Grand | Rapids and the outside world. = — —<—-- For the finest coffees in the world, high | | grade teas, spices, ete., see J: P. Visner, | 304 North lonia street, Grand Rapids, Mich., general representative for E. J. Gillies & Co. en York City. | —— rect rail < S. LIVERMORE, Manufacturer of Mince Meat and Jelly. i711 GENESEE AVE., SAGINAW.EG, - - MOE) There is now a great demand for Liv- | celebrated Home Made Mince | Meat. It has been sold and is being sold to | most all the best merchants of this State, besides tons he has sent to different large | cities outside of this State. He has sent loads to St. Paul this season. He | 100 tons last season and expects to sell 200 tons this season. | He prides himself on the purity of his | ermore’s almost two car and | : ° | Minneapolis already . | manufactured about | picked | per bbl. boar samagin and 4%e PRODUCE MARKET. Apples— #2 per bbl. for choice winter fruit. Beans—The market is a little stronger. Dealers now pay $1.30@1.40 for unpicked and country and holding at $#1.65@1.7%5 for city picked pea or medium. Butter—Choice dairy finds ready sale at 21@ | 22c. Factory creamery is held at 28c. Celery—20c per doz. Cabbages—40c per doz. Cider—Sweet, 10c per gal. Cranberries—Fancy Cape Cod are held at $8 Jersey Bell and Cherries command ing $7 50 per bbl. Regs—Dealers pay ing at 22c. 20e for strictly fresh, hold- Cold storage and pickled are in fair | demand at about 2c below fresh stock. Evaporated Apples—The featureless, dealers buying 6e and holding at 7e. Grapes—Nine-pound baskets sold at 25@30c for | for Delawares. California | Tokay command #2 per 4 basket crate. Honey—Dealers pay 12@ 4c and hold at 15@16. Onions—Dealers pay 50@60c and hold at 65@ 70e, extra fancy commanding about Sve, Potatoes—Local handlers are paying 18@20c for choice stock, but are not at all anxious to purchase, even at that price. Squash—Hubbard, 2¢ per lb. Sweet Potatoes—#2.50 per bbl. for choice Jer- market is utterly grudgingly at 5%@ | we | sey stock. Turnips—25e per bushel. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS, ae Ll le roeetceee 8 11 50 | Rute Clear pie, short cut................... 13 7% mecee Cooke, Meee... 8... . Ci ieee ey ae | Boston clear, short cut. ee | Clear back, short cut. 13 50 | Standard clear, short cut. bee 13 50 SAUSAGE—F'resh and Smoked. oo... 6% Ham Sausage.. oles e ewe Ce Tongue Sausage.. ee 9 Ereeeeers coeeeee .......-..,....... 7% eae. C . 5 er eee _s | Bologna, Te LEN AR es eee _o | LaRD—Kettle. Rendered eee 7% ee g aa... 8 | LARD Jom- Family pound | Terces ............ - O% 54% “0 and 50 Ib. Tubs. 6 5% 3 Ib. Pails, 20in a case. Looe rk 64% D. Pails, 12 in @ case....... . 65% 636 | 10 1b, Pails, 6 in a case. -+-- 06 644 20 1b. Pails, 4in a case. ee 5% i Ceee....... ‘ 6 5% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. 6 50 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............ —~ oo Rance tome be 9 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. | Hams, average 20 Ibs... ' ee ae —_.......... Lac eee a: . ee ee............... oe ae. 7 “ best boneless... ease ed hoya, oy 9 goods. Shoulders... ... aes beet eee 6% Breakfast Bacon, ei 9% i eee — prices Cece eee ee. 2 | Wea eo Crockery & Glassware | Wiicr sass 00 oc. is “ ae... Th i LAMP BURNERS. : —e...... 45 ee ee 50 a 7 | a Oe 5 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: | ee 4@6 ; 6 doz. in box. .' quarters ee ieee ee ce ae ea 4%@ 6 eee 16: ” ee eee a, 3%@ 5 eee ee eee aoe ..1 88 ° ior ee. Ss... , 8% eee 27 a. =... 6 7 | First quality. - ee 44%@ 5 ~ 0 Sun, crimp top.. ee Sat “ seo... .. ee, @ } 0. 1 ee ee cee 2 a Pelee .........-..... @5 | Ro.2 ‘ ° oe. eee eT OO @ 6% XXX Flint, ; *~ see ...,; eee eee ae @ 4% Peon oe... i Sausage, on oboe @5 1 bs ‘ss ll SS es ..2 BQ | Leva oh ee wee lek wm em @5 Be ag Kal - ..3 86} - Frank fort ek @I™% Pear] top. Pee... co... @ No.1 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled. a 3 70 | Veal. 54@ 6 | No. es 470 No. 3 Hinge, “ ' ee i 70 | Le Bastie = 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per doz on us 25 | FISH and OYSTERS. : a «A | = ‘ i crimp, per doz.. 1s F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: nv oa cee 7 “te " FRESH FISH, No. 0, per gross.... ee 23 | | ae... gs No. 1, " eee ee ee No.3,“ cet cileneseteeesesseees 95 | GWIOVGR. wee sees cette ereetee seeeeees @> Mammoth, per doz...... 2... .012227222222. ae Bluefish. Rie init ini mate ae ea $3 STONEWARB—AKRON. “Tio o Futter Crocks. i aod ten... |... 06 | | Mackerel . se ace Si rp a 3 to6gal...... TUTTE Ope | COD. -- 2 eons eenee-ceeee veee cree eres ene 12 J ugs, 4 gal., per doz eee ekes | cae si side Bulk. Te - “ 2 4 0 | Standards, per gal....................... $1 00 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 75c).... 60 | Selects, oi aaneatan atid eet ace 1 60 eee a 72 | oYsTERS—Cans. | Fairhaven Counts..............-....... @35 POULTRY. oa Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: ates enickees.......... 9 @i10 pd oe ee OOO ea eiee Cai cede e @16 NN os a is os cee eca ees, SHELL GOOoDs. Oysters, per 100 Ge r gr CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails et, ~¥ PS ee oa ee 6% % See ee aes le ese ee 6 7% | ' a ae TT ee CP cs cee, 9% EE ee a 8% SS ee ee i % 8% MIXED CANDY. | Full Weight. Bbis. Pails. ee i 6% i% eS ee ee 6% 7 ge ce ee : 8 Ee eo 7 o. tees Vee 7% 8% | eee te, a 8% CS 7% 8% | CEE VOS 8. -- +. oes ee. eno 7 8 i eS 1% 8% | Peanut Squares... ee 9 FO ek ec eta et ea beeches ses 10 | ees Ce 10% vee Ceeeee,....:..5........... 13% Pancy—In bulk, Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Lozenges, Ce 10% 11% eee ii 12% Crcenere Dreee..-.............. 2... 12% Chocolate Monumentals............. 14 MO as eee ree eee 5 6% eee ees. 8 9 ee ee 8% 9% Eeeris...........-.-. meece . 10% 11% yanoy—In 5 1b. boxes. Per Box. ET Ee 55 ee kee cess e eae ee 55 oes ee 65 I ce i ee = a. ot. oe WO cl i ee poe eee eee. ee 1 00 B. @ teeeeee Poe. .................-..--... 80 | Lozenges, ee ee ec ke 65 | printed .. i eet ee dee alee 70 ores... ,...- Se eee es 65 ee ce ee % Cees ee eee 60 Molasses Bar.. dl el ence eee. 4 Hand Made Creams..... ...............-. Pees ‘sig Decorated Creams. . se teesescens eee creed OO ee es ec 70 ee 3 © Wintergreen Ry 65 CARAMELS. Bo. 1, Weeewed, 2. beres................. 34 No. 1, 3 ' bees 51 No. 4 > . : ia a No. 3. . . beee eee Cea 42 Stand up, 5 Ib. ound Ca 10 ORANGES. Floridas, fancy... ..-- Leds oe on oe oe ee LEMONS. Messina, cuenee, ae... ....... eee @4 50 oor o..-.:-.-..........- @ . choice 300...... Legere cle @ . PO i @ OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers, GD..-.-............. 14 @I15 ae “ce “se Ob ns @15 ' extra " @i6 @li% Dates, Fard, 10-Ib. box eae eee eee ols. @9 50-lb. elle @s ' ented. ih be 6 @6% NUTS. Almonds, enews. _ . California es : Qi7 ee oe 8 oe, EE - @I13a% Walnuts, Grenoble. eeu @15 Oe @ . NE ey @10 Table Nuts, Oe @14 el 114%@13 aie Texas, H. P., a 15 @17 Cocoanuts, full ie ae @4 00 PEANUTS. Pee, © FP. eee... @S% - . ~ meeee............ 7 @t% Fancy, EB. P., eee @ 5% ‘* Roasted. . a1 5 oe oe Choice, Hi. P. oe... ea @ 4% ‘+ Roasted .. -- -- © @E6K HIDES, PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as follows: HIDES. MN ce he wee oe eee ere ae 3 @4 Part Cured.. ‘7 i @4% Full @5 ss g 6 eee i. e cured..... @5 Calfskins, — ee ees chs es 4@5 WO og Ge 5 @6 Deacon skine. Dee ede Cue eked pace 10 @30 No, 2 hides \& off. PELTS. poo oe Ce oe cl ee eae ak 10 @25 ees es cy le 20 @7 wooL ween... bile cee ws . .20@25 ee 10@20 MISCELLANEOUS. ee 34@ 4 MO NI ei eee crea sae @ 2 I ee ixo 2 Ginseng. . ced aee eee cde ce es - 2 00@2 50 OILS, The Standard Oil Co. ee as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rap W. W. Headlight, 150 fire test (old test) @ 8% Water bo oo bees ea ies ge @8 I Foie true eet cae. @™% is dias ski ene ek sce s laos ee a @™% ose * @21 Bleek. 25 t0 30 deg. peataubey ij vetseccban @ 7% : ‘ ' : cate bnetdSeet snibtniest ooo APPLE BUTTER Strawberries. | CONDENSED MILK tb. palia . ..... a ce Lawrence : " 1 Eagle... c e ; 2 ao oo eee, 5% |Hamburgh............ ee OI csi. oe 6 50 Mason’ 8, 10, 20 or 30 Ibs... Ce ll 1 65 | Genuine Swiss............. 8 00 ec. | ae i Whortleberries. American Swiss... ........ 7 @ AXLE GREASE. —— settee ; 40 —- a i ie 25 : Grafite. ne Blueberries ........ 1 30 c 1g gr Cases, per gr..... ..88 50 ae . a ah Ib. pails, per. doz sees - = Corned beef, Libby’s.......1 85 “cee * 00 | Roast beef, Armour’s. 1% 100 Ib. kegs, —.. ..... . Potted ham, ! ie = 250 Ib. % bbis., per Th...... 334 “ i 1 00 400 Ib. bbls toe a 3% “ tongue, % lb 110 is a .. se 1g gr. cases, pergr .........86 50 chinken a mh. 95 @ on, 1% Ib... ) 1246 Ib. pails, — ae me VEGETABLES. 1001b kegs, per lb ..... 3% Hamburgh saci 1 & 250 Ib. %& Dbis., per tb. ..... 3% French style. me io “Tradesman.” 01d. biis., per Ihb........ 3 ‘ Limas ...........1 49/8 1, per hundred 2 00 BAKING POWDER. Lina, oreeg a ee 7 : 50 Acme, «yk. ... £0) Peas 820, 6 00 ~ 5 a... oe Hamburgh marrofat . 1 35) Red Star, 4 Ib cans.... 40 early June _-.) oO . a £0 | _ Cc hampion Eng...1 50 i> * 1 50| He amburgh petit pois ck BATH BRICK, fancy sifted -1 90 ; a dozen in case. ‘i | Soaked . ao ‘““Wniversal.”’ Se 90 | Harris standard....... oe TIS i pe iahlltlwtwtwtwt«i(‘iéa oe Pec ee oes ae wiv an C amp’s Marrofat -+ 10;3 2 a ec 3 50 a 60 | Early June..... 1 30/3 3, “ $60 ‘ — Gross | Archer’s Early Blossom 135/85. “ 5 60 Are tic, OZ ova eee 4 00 | French i. _...4 80} 810. 6 00 8 0z saan tr < 00 | Mushrooms. $20, ; Of ‘* pints, round........ scilbncdl Cok 17218 i / «Rowe sitting box... 2) Pimpin, pull orders for above eoupon i a : i a + 4 ZI Erie....._.. oes . 90 ing discounts: * Fee pO oo.) ae) Bape 1 30 = oe “ per cent. | BROOMS. | Succotash. ae 20 | og — ete dee dae ae 1 S [Mare 8... 1 40 ees ei ae lt a Ee . COUPON PASS BOOKS. No. 2 Carpet el ey -. 2 20 bones Dew...-.........._.. 160} [Can be made to represent any Eee 2 50 : Tomatoes. | denomination from $10 down. | oe wii ee eae ee 1 00 20 books. 1a Common isk............ eee 160} 5 ee 2 00 | Fancy . mace cceseres 1 z Tee 35) te rs Mill 22... 1 eee eee eee SOM ee (62 Warehouse........ = 75 CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. oo ° ee. 10 00 | BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. towont.. ..... a311000 ‘ 1. 1 oe eee... ....--.. 5 ¢ (Premium. i 36 CRACKERS. eee... lUd GCC i 38 | Butter. | Bele Mining, Gase..... ......5 ( eee Cigda 40 | Seymour XXX. oe CANDLES CHEESE. | Seymour XXX, ‘cartoon... 6% | Hetel, > Ib. boxes.....-..-. 104% | Amboy ‘ Ging | Ramity S500. |. | ogee ial la 10% , Norway..........-..-- @2. | Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% | Pariine. .. 12° | Riverside |... @12% | Salted XXX............ + | yicking.... | Alem : @12 | Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6% | [Sim |... i) ae Kenosha a , | eink ou . | l i | Brick . 12% oston.......-..-- . CANNED GOODS. tam... @i 00 | Butter biecait.... -..-. | FISH | Limburger ..........-. au |. _. Soda. | Clams. | Roquefort SS @35 | = ja Leelee » San Sago. ...... ae |s , City Little Neck, 2 i 4 = Schweitzer, imported. @25 | Soda, Duchess ae ae Chowder, “ domestic ... Gis | Lea W — asta: y 9 § CATSUP. | Reception Flakes. . } are ters. 2 30) Half pint, common......... 80 | _ Oyster. | Standard, 11 y i 1 10 Pint a 1.0/| S. Oyster XXX. ween cere ete 2 | —- 1 a 2 10) Rat | . _.-..s5 .2 DO | Cigy Orgetee AAe. 1... .. Ot TLobaters, Eg nee Half pint, fancy eee eee 1 25} Shell Oyster.........-. 8 7 Star 1 ib 2 45 as. .lU » 2 00] CREAM TARTAR. | ace oe ie 45 | Quart ee 3 00 | Strictly pure.......... Lea ae Picnic, 1 b.-. Bt i ge cued cael 2 00 CLOTHES PINS. | Telfer’s Absolute.......... 35 | 21b.. "'"3 99 | 5gross boxes ...........-.-. 4) | Grocers)... ..10@15 | ce COCOA SHELLS, — standard, sate 1 29 | Bulk. eae DRIED FRUITS. SIL IEEE 2 00 | Pound ‘packages...---.. ai Apples. | Mustard, 3 -......... a ee ae @ 5% | Tomato Sauce, om...... ..3 00 COFFEE Evaporated ..........- @ 7% |} Seused, 5 i). ......... 3 00 shicinlelmei California Evaporated. Salmon. — Apeteota. M4 | Columbia River, eas. a 1 90 | pair Rio. 16 | Blackberries .......... 5 a "5 s° ay ae ie Alaska, 1 —— 145 ee 7 a 10 21D... sees eee --2 10! qoiden. ‘99_~«| Pears, sliced.......... ily Sardines. Peaberry _ a | PRU ee 8% | American 6s ee ecu ce “2% 5 5 | eabder:ry ee | pacar ‘see oe | Santos waco — ue _ > | 16 Turkey... —.. OC 6 | oe eee [a Mustard “ ee eee es bret a ee ae = | Trout. Pome 290 | ¢ rrr acs ss? 84@ 9 | Brook 2 )........-.....,... 50 Mexican and Guatamala. Sie = 18 — ee... 2) fp eee ee ; i ¢ ae... 18 ples. eee... : | York State, gal lons.... 2 50} Fancy. Las sve BL Geom oe @25 | Hamburgh, : = “Maracaibo. in beeen. @26 | Liv k "Apricots. a Pee |... : a a CURRANTS. aes. * ao ” 3 00 MiGente barrels ee @ 4% | ae 2 50 Java. Lo in -DDIB.. 2... es | Cena 4} On| Eterion 6)... 112.25 | “ inlessquantity§ @ 5%! Blackberries | Private Growth.............27 RAISINS —California. a ee " 99 | Mandehling ................28 | London Layers, 2 ¢r’n 1 60 | Cherries Mocha. e | i cas 2 00 ee 1 2 beitation 3 6.s ;.... i Seal Pitted Hamburgh 1%) Avabion ........ Ss Muse saan ye sige *: ; - —- eee sees 6 : = ROASTED. Foreien. | Damesons, Egg Plums and Green cae abe ae TE of rome | eon eon ia tt @ 8 | Gages. _. .. | ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- | guitanas..........---.. 1 i a ence, @1 25 | soe Sie alia: | Sultanas..... @ i Gooseberries. i Tia ‘medal . 20% | | 1, eooDs. Common eS 1 10] McLaughlin’ 3s XXKxx.. 20% | 60 Ib, = arina, ; . Dee scene Bog | 100 Ib, kegs.....---++-+- ean 90@1 00 ~— sharia a a ee Maxwell aes 1 50 Valiey City nee a 5 | eee baba eee ene nn : = Shepard BD -eee eee eens 1 30 | F ie 1 15 | Grits - eee more tao setts At California. aes: @2 2% Hummel te 1 50 | eal uima Beans. . oF ee POOP eee et tosee® Peeeeene. cg... 1% seta 2 50 | “Maccaroni and Vermicelli. ee .. sil ans 2 25 Bulk.. CHICORY. ;| toe 12 lb. box. 55 | neappies, mported.....-......... 10 | COMER. 65 aces 5 oy - 1 30 | Red..........-. ---. eelea ess Pearl Barley. Johnson’ mW mee... ..... 2 50 CLOTHES LINES. POR cee cae @3%, | grated. ..... 2 75| Cotton, 40 ..per doz. 1 25 | Peas. Quinces. e meee - 1 i Green, ba... Sse ceed JON Conemnte 1.01 «| ae oe See DBM el 5 00 | Raspberries. “ ee. a | Sago. al ee eee 1 30 . s2 ivamens - 1 90 ee a -oreetter esses S ac amburg. cassie 1Sidute WH....... es oo) Beat Mes co eee le, rie, Bieek... i... eo; * GREG cc os 1 00 Wheat. Cracked...... 5 FISH--Salt, Bloaters. Yarmouth... .. ioe. 1 0 ( ‘od. Polloek 34 Whole, Grand Bank... 6 @b% Boneless, brieks .. 7%@8 Boneless, strips 74@8 Halibut. DaOReG@ ....-......... 12 Herring Benen... P| Holland, 1 00 sn oa. . : R85 Round shore, bbl... 2 50 " ¢ bbl. 1 © Mac ke rel, No. 1, % bbls. 90 Ibs.... 11 60 No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs. . 1 2 Family, 44 bbls., 100 Ibs 5 AO hits, Wy ibe........ 5 Sardines, Russian, kegs..... 45 Trout. No. 1, % bbis., 1001bs. 5 75 a, 1, Mite, 16 We........... 80 Whitefish. Wo. t, 4 bis... 100lns........7 50 No. 1, kits, 10 lbs . 1 00 Family . bbis., 100 Ibs > 60 E bi ts 10 Ibs ot) FLAVORING EXTRACTS Jennings’ DC, Lemon. Vanilla 2 0z folding bi xX TS a 3 OZ 1 00 + SO 4 OZ . 1 5) 2 OO | 6 0z 2 00 3 00 | 8oz : 3 00 110 GUN POWDER. | Kegs : 5 50 Half kegs.. 3 00 HERBS. oon 15 | Hops. os 23 | JELLY | Chicago goods @3 Mason’ a As 20 and 30 Ibs 6 a ih.... 7 | LICORICE. | Fore... 30 Calabria 25 | Sicily .. . 18 LYE. | Condensed, 2 doz. ob MATCHES, No. 9 sulphur. .1 Anchor parior........ 17 po eaoee................,.. 10 Export parlor 4 00 8 or6doz in case per do 1 00 MOLASSES Black strap | Sugar house .......+0+0+-- 14} Cuba Baking. | Grdimary ......_......- 16 Porto Rico. Pie et ee. 16 Fancy . a 20 | New “Orleans. |... rei | Good ..... ee c dea ee 20 | Extra good.. Dee ogee... 26 a i 30 (a 36 One-half barrels, 3c extra | OATMEAL. | Barrels 200 oo @4 &5 Half barrels Ae @2 Halt bbis W......-. @2 65 | PICKLES. | Medium. | Barrels, 1,200 count........84 50 Half barrels, 600 count 2% | Small | Barrels, 2.400 count ..... 5 50 | Half barrels, 1,200 count 3 25 PIPES. Clay, No. 216........ 1% T. D, full count 75 | Cob, No 1 25 RICE. | Domestic. | Carolina — Leste 7 ' me. 1........ (6 No. 2. .. @ 5 ane ee cea caes Imported. | Japan, Not... -.-- 6 ; © Noe.. dae oe ieee an ss... 5 | Patna. ....--. 2... ere e- neon. 5 | Silve r Thread, Dit... MINCE MEAT ROLLED OATS Barrels 180. SAUERKRAUT. @4 85 | . 83 50 % bbl. 2 00 | SAPOLIO. | Kitchen, “— in box. 2 50 | Hand 3 2 50 SPICES. Whole Sifted, Alianiee....... io Comte, China in mats. 8 ™ Batavia in by mnd....25 ° Saigon in rolls...... 35 Cloves, Ampovne......-.... PAPMOE i se. 3 meace BaletiA...-..' .. +625. 80 2 65 | | Common to fair.. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Nutmegs, fancy 80 N 1 : 5 i epper, singapore, blac x 15 white... .% 19 anet...... Pure patent in Bulk. Allspice _ Cassia, Batavia ' ' and Sa saig pti ' Jumaica “ Mace Batavia 80 Mustard. Eng ind Triest : rrieste Nutmegs, No. 2 65 Pepper, Singapore, black a . ' white Cayenne Save ‘aGuaions ‘in Packages ls Alspice US “84 1 Cinnamon G4 1 Cloves S4 Ginger, Jam. 4: S4 iy Af mM 1 Mustard oa | Pepper a Sage s4 SUGAR Cut Loaf l @5 4 Cubes @ Powdered a Granulated. 1 4@ Confectioners’ A t 31@ Soft A a White Extra C @ Extra ( @ 333 Cc @ Yellow a: Less than bbls. ye advance STARCH Corn. 20-lb boxes 40-I1b He Gloss, 1-lb pac kages 3-lb 6-lb o i 40 and 50 lb. boxes Barrels a SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders 2 Maccaboy, in jars..... .. french Rappee, in Jars.....43 | SODA, ; pOwes .......... s -. ote | Kegs, English...... . 4% SAL S8ODA. Kegs oe. 1% Granulated, boxes too Ie | SEEDs. Mixed bird 44@ : Caraway. : Canary .. ; : BM | Hemp. 444 Anise... 13 Hape ..... edie 6 | Mustard. ..... . |. . SALT Diamond Crystal. 100 3-lb. sacks 60° 5-Ib ' 28 10-Ib. sacks miei, ~ 243-lb cases 56 lb. dai ry in linen bags i, ‘ 25 Warsaw. 56 lb, dairy in linen bags 35 a. | ‘ Mm 18 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy bags 75 Higgins. 66 1b. dairy bags 5 Sol: ir Rock 56 Ib. sacks. i 25 Saginaw and Manistee. Common Fine per bbl 90 SALERATUS. Packed eRe in box. Charen ........ DeLand’s . . . . Dwight’s LC 3 30 Taylor's . 3 00 SOAP. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars. .#3 50 | Good Cheer, 60 1 Ib, be 3 0 Bonner, 100 3%-1b, bar 3 00 SYRUPs Corn Barres... .... ug 24 Halt bbis..... 20 Pure Cane. | alr... .. a 19 Good ..... ao beau. 25 Crores ........ i _ oa i SWEET @OODs. | Ginger Snaps...... 8 | Sugar Creams...... 8 Frosted Creams. 9% | Graham Crackers... 8 Oatmeal Crackers... 8% | TEAS. JAPAN— Regular. Fair Good . ae ' Cngice...... a Choicest..... oa Dust a SUN CURED. Fair . Good .. Lee : Cuoee,..... * (2 cee.......... oe Dust....... 10 BASKET FIRED. arr... bod oe Choice, . Choicest. seas Extra choice, ‘wire leaf GUNPOWDER. -25 @3 Extra fine to finest... .50 @b5 Choicest fancy.......-. 7 @ss OOLONG, @Q@26 Common to fair... ...23 @30 135 iMPERIAI YOUNG Hi YSON, Common to fair 18 @2 Superior to fine 3) Qa ENGLISH BREAKFAST, -18 @2z 24 @B 41 ah FOBACCOs. VINEGAR for barre ET MUST ARD. ud ah eles a 30 beer mu » doz ine ase 17 7 AST- ‘Compressed, = ' } cakes . 15 1 2 PAPER & WCODENWARE PAPER. 4 Ie EG HE 2 ek euen 2% lye 7a HY Gb% vo. 1 . 56 Yo. 2 1%, ry ES. 18 Cotton a oe % Cotton, No, 1... ad / 20 | ny cee cca. oa a he Sea Island, assorted i. oo No. 5 Hemp No. 6 “ . ea WOODENWARE, Tubs, No. 1 7 00 NG, 2... See ceee. Ge »> OO l 3 1 60 AO Bowls 1 00 i I 1% 1D 2 00 17 Sy assorted, 17s and 19s 2 50 158, 17s and 19s 2 75 » 2 hipping bushel... 1 full hoop n 1 bushel 1 5 willow el’ths, No.1! Gr G9 89 9 ty -2 or splint Nos 5 oC GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 88 No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) SS MEAL, solted oa dil al sil 1a | Granulated. Seo aa 2 oo FLOUR. Straig ht, in sacks.... > 00 Beerele |... > 10 Patent sacks.... 6 60 ‘ Darreis........ @ Graham sacks aa 2 30 Kye 2 65 MILLSTUFFS oom. .............. 17 00 Screenings . ch ndtcaece eens Ae ae Middlings. .. teu. oe Oe Mixed Feed.... ee shoes, a ties, lumbermen’s, ete., the best in the mi: urket. We carry the finest line of felt and knit boots, socks and rubber clothing inthe market. Send for price list and discounts. 4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. STALLION FOR SALE. I have a three-quarter blood aveland Bay Stallion 18 hands high, 10 old, weighing 1.350 pounds, years which | will sell for $250 ® that sold a short time the quently offer him at the price named. He is worth twice amount, having been ago for ®606. have no use for horse, and conse- He is a deep bay, with one white hind foot, is a good good style. L. H SHEPHERD, CHARLOTTE, MICH. traveler H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper, Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral Wool, Ete. Corner Louis and Campau Sts., GRAND RAPIDS. fact any- | 1 & GOWNE, President. | D. A DGET Vice-President. | H. W. Nasn, Cashier | GAPITAL, $300,600. | | Make a Specialty of Collections. field and | Transacts a genera. banking business Accounte of Coantry Merchants Solicited. KOMUND B. DIKEMA THE GREAT Watch Maker Jeweler, Kh CANA! 37. Grand Rapids - Ml } i 4 AN! ; o™ i Parry od er] Aarne len j 4 } “| Price - ose i j—WARRANTED NOF TO 8IP.— PPL PPLEP LP LEAL ALP A PDP | | STANTON, MOREY & co. Detre | Mich. ,.cturers, Mi: anuf: Geo. H. R feeder a Co. BOOTS & ; SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Soeks. Agents for and gets up in 158 & 160 Fulton : t., Grand Rapids. og betta tt h: $F i THIS IS WHAT EVERY SUCCESs¢UL PER SON MUST DO. IT IS THE CONDITION OF CONDITIONS. The Industri ishes } something st irse in | book ke t , pen- I espondence. nd see | why this school is worth your spet ial considera tion, Address, | W.N. FERRIS, Big Rapids, Mich. ' 2 3 4 3 g : a x > j 4 3 2 = 4 Safa aac nt Tpit lei Ta dee, 4 setarsIote sic 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TWO WEEKS VS. THREE. Much Diversity of Opinion Among Traveling Men. The retail and wholesale grocery trade having each had their innings on the sub- ject of lengthening the time between salesmen’s visits from two to three weeks, THE TRADESMAN last week solicited the | opinions of the salesmen themselves on this matter. Less than half of those ad- dressed have, as yet, volunteered a reply, | but the letters already received disclose | the same which marked the interviews with the jobbing | houses, which were published last week. The opinions of the travelers are as follows: diversity of opinion John Cummins (Olney & Judson Gro- cer Co.)—In reply to your request, would say | am perfectly satisfied with my trip as it is and cannot see how a change to three weeks would either benefit the job- | ber or retail merchant. If 1 called on| my trade every three weeks, | certainly would worry them more than I do now, by trying to sell in much larger quanti- ties than under the present method. I have never had “You call too often:’ on the my trade has always treated me with the | greatest courtesy. 2. B. (Ball-Barnhart-Putman | Co.)—In regard to seeing trade often, | would say I cannot see anything that would be of any great weight on the point. Ihave always visited my trade once in three weeks, and am sure that, should I see some of them oftener, or- | ders would, no doubt, be given in size to | correspond with the difference in time. Jerry Woltman (Olney & Judson Gro- | cer Co)—In reply to your request, all I! can say is that I cannot judge for oth-} ers. I know that itis necessary for me to see the majority of my trade once in two weeks. The pestering to death THE TRADESMAN’S retail correspondent com- a customer say to me, contrary, Evans plains of wouid not be remedied if we had three-weeks trips. A. 5. Doak (Hawkins & Company)—In | reply to your favor of the 3d, 1 would say that I am very much in favor of length- ening the time of visits to the trade to three weeks and have talked with many of my customers and they have all ex- favor of the} pressed themselves in change. Jas. N. Bradford (Olney & Judson Gro- | cer Co.)—In reply to yours regarding three weeks trips, would say 1 try to eall upon my trade as often as I can make it profitable todo so. Some of my trade it is necessary to see once in two weeks and others once ir four weeks is sufficient: and I govern myself accordingly. Tak- ing in consideration the welfare of my house and trade and knowing that our interests are identical, I use my best judgment to gain that point where cus- tomer, house and self shall be happy. prosper and W. F. Blake (Hawkins & Company)— In reply to your favor of the 3d. I am most heartily in favor of extending the time between visits to the trade, provid- ing all the local jobbers adopt a uniform rule. In conversation with my custom- ers during the past week, I found nine out of ten favorable to an extension to at least three weeks. Byron S. Davenport (Olney & Judson Grocer Co.)—In reply to your enquiry regarding my opinion of lengthening the time of visiting my trade, I can say I am perfectly satisfied with my trip asitis. I! | cerned. | own peculiar views on this subject, but | eration. visit the larger part of my trade every two weeks and some only once in four | weeks. I should not like to make any change in my trip as it is now, as I am perfectly satisfied, also the house I have the pleasure of representing, and I am | Sure my trade is satisfied with my pres- ent time of visits by the pleasant way which they receive me and the liberal patronage they bestow upon me. ‘Hub’? Baker (Lemon & Wheeler Com- pany)—lIn reply to your letter asking my opinion as to how often I should visit my customers, can only say that it has been my best judgment to visit the trade as often as it is profitable to all parties con- All traveling men have their let their views be as they may, it matters little to their employers what their views | are, so long as they do not coincide with It has been my aim to do busi- | theirs. ness as my employers desire it done, and / not my way, as I believe them to be more | has never been Booming Times at South Boardman. SoutH BoarDMAN, Dee. 5—This place so active, in a business way, as it is at present, lumber and mill- ing operations in town and vicinity being carried on on a larger seale than ever before. J. P. Bergland has sixty men at work at his camp, one mile west of the village, |eutting logs on one of the tracts he re- competent judges of how often I shall | call upon the trade, as they have free ac- cess tothe ledger and know how every customer’s account stands. Therefore, | | cheerfully submit the whole matter to them, believing they will do the best inj | their power for all parties concerned. “Con” (Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.)—1 | believe in the policy of ‘‘The greatest good to the greatest number,’’ but as to a two or three weeks’ trip, the question has its pros and cons. by the commercial traveler, neither do I believe him to be so utterly devoid of business way; but on the expediency of lengthening the trips, no doubt, in a cer- tain prescribed teritory it will be as well, I don’t believe | e retail merchant is ‘‘bored to death” | | th . r leath” | hardwood lumberman and will bea val- | business tact to bore his customer in a/| perhaps better, than the short ones; but | where we come in Chicago, competition Toledo and Detroit, writer is inclined to believe, in justice to | our Grand Rapids trade, they would like to see ‘‘our boys’ as often as those from other cities. Some of the territory cov- ered by Grand Rapids men, perhaps, may be worked to an advantage every three weeks, while the balance should be covered as often as our competitors do. The question of discounts, amount of bills, and whether the majority of the merchants want to buy a three weeks’ supply, etc., are to be taken into consid- These questions will undoubt- |edly be taken up by an abler pen than mine. _—_ oe 2 The Hardware Market. The wire nail market continues weak. There is no change in the barbed wire market, but manufacturers refuse to take orders for future delivery—only for im- mediate shipment—giving ground for the belief that an advance is contemplated after Jan. 1. The manufacturers of window glass say they must have more money for their product. The National Cordage Co. appears to be getting its grip on the rope market, as the price has been advanced. Sheet and bar iron are without change. <— 2 <> Attention is directed to the advertise- ment of the Grand Rapids Book Binding that house. The book is the acme of simplicity and utility and will, undoubt- edly, meet a large sale. making | | their trips once every two weeks, the with | cently purchased from the G. R. & I. Railroad for shipment to Cadlilac. Geo. Van Ness’ new shingle mill is now in operation, cutting an average of 30 thousand per day. His sawmill hasa daily capacity of 10,000 hardwood. Geo. W. Hart’s hardwood sawmill, one and one-half miles south of the village, is cutting 10,000 feet per day on contract for the Oval Wood Dish Co., of Mance- lona. A. B. Dougherty, who operates a bowl factory eight miles east of town, has put two handle lathes in the old bowl factory in the village, and proposes to increase the capacity as fast as the business war- rants. Geo. I. Quimby has put in a new boiler and an additional engine in his sawmill and is cutting and skidding the hard- wood on the timber section he recently purchased. Edmonston’s handle factory is now employing thirty men and the business promises to expand to still larger pro- portions. Taken asa whole, South Boardman has every reason to feel proud over her pres- ent condition and the prospects for the future are by no means less promising. a ee Change in the Parkes Lumber Co. Soutru Arm, Dec. 1—Leo. F. Hale, of Bear Lake, has purchased an interest in the Parkes Lumber Co. and is now its President. Mr. Hale is an experienced uable acquisition to the company. The company will add to its business the purchase of cedar, wood, bark, ties, posts, and contemplates putting in a | shingle mill either this winter or next spring. a et Drug Store Wanted. There is now no drug store at New Buffalo, a town at the junction of the | C. & W. M. and Michigan Central Rail- ways, in Berrien county. It is claimed that the opening is a good one, full par- | ticulars of which can be secured by ad- | dressing the postmaster. | Arr Grand Rapids Co., on another page, referring to the | train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. ‘‘Handy Pocket Ledger’ gotten up by} Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect November 15, 1891. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave goin North South. orth. For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15am 7:05 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 a m For Saginaw & Traverse City . 2:00pm 4:15 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ..... 8:50 30 pm 10:30 pm Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. oe eee 6:20am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm oe Coe... 5:30 p m 6:00 pm Per Cesoebe.... ..........5...... 10:40 pm 11:05 p m re 10:40 p m Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive. ‘ 10:10 am 4:40 pm 9:05 pm 11:2 am 5:35 pm SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 11:30 a m train.—Parilor chair car G’d Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:3 m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car | Grand Rapids to Cincinnati 11 [oF 2 m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. “Chicago viaG.R.&LR.R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 a m 2:09 pm 11:05 pm Arr Chicago

ae scsi ANYTHING Delectable: That will help a man in his business ought to be W e have made arrangements whereby we have secured the exclu- i ie : . e. i sive sale in Michigan of the fainous of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer- : chant has found when + O re ~ Cherrystone Oysters TOO y ATE which have never before been sold in the State. On account of their ae Superior quality and delicious flavor they were, heretofore, cS TY oe ee ee 8, ak eats invariably eaten by epicures in the East, but we, ever on the alert lat he has allowed his money to leak away. 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.” = WO i hake bare of Itself Positively the fattest, plumpest, sweetest, most tempting article of - : its kind to be obtained anywhere. Order P. & B.s through any sin = Grand Rapids jobber or of us direct. keeping itis not good enough, the more of it you And the quicker you tumble to the fact that the old way of THE PUTNAM CANDY Co. wil have to vont up Grad Rapids Storage & Transier Co, Lite If you wish to stop all the leaks incident to the mercan- tile business, adopt one of the Winter, St, between Shawmut Ave, and W. Fulton St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Coupon Systems General WarehoUsemen and Yransfer Agents. “7 - per —z ~ Manufactured in our establishment—* Tradesman,” “Super- | COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND ior” or “ Universal ”’—and put your business on a cash basis. | ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES. \ For Samples and Price List, address Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En- | gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, THE TRADESMAN COMPANY Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons. Buggies, Wind Mills | and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Telephone No. 945. J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t. Bolts Wanted! ' I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel- sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths @ as above. For particulc~s address J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT Suver Thread R | Fe Sauerkraut. ' ae 2 cae - > J Y aay z2. Order this Brand from Your Wholesale Grocer! , Z A “4, , - Bee Menday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News Heyman &x Company, 4 fer further Particulars. | $100 GIVEN AWAY acne } To the Smokers of the PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. (Hl | W [ d§ E t Te the person guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will appear in a series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not to exceed 100 i ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d, $25; 3d, 15; 4th, $10. Guess slips to be had with ’ every 25c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Bold Every where. f Up to date there has been published 23 cuts, with a total of 303 Imps. Of Every Description MANUFACTURED BY ALEX. GORDON, Detroit, Mich. WRITE FOR PRICES. DANIEL LYNCH, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale Agt. First-tI 1 «On IPSt-b1a88 WOPKkK UDI. 68 and 68 Canal St. - GRAND (RAPIDS. FH. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A few articles from our No. 107 Christmas Catalogue, if you have not received one, drop a postal and we will mail one at once. If possible call upon us at once and examine our line of Christmas Goods. We have yet a very full assortment and guarantee to fill orders promptly on receipt. Keep your stock full. ery ee i) | ABCDEFGHT JKLMNOPORS TUVWXY | 2&$1234 967890. , : jh? TG Tela cap aril Wisiricay yp 5 } i t pe x PATENTS PENDING 5 3 anal) egy) a f=) istic eas de G & TBE DOLLAR TYPEWRITER. novel and useful machine, doing the same quality of work as the high ble rspidity. Writes a full letter sheet any length. s well AS a World ictor. Feeds and inks automatically. Well made, FOLDING TABLES legantly finished. mounted on polished hardwood base and packed in : Each neatly wrapped and Jabeled, net per doz., #9.' 0. Svuare or Round, like above pattern, : i which is entirely new. ‘The latest style of card or sewing tables, net per doz, $15 A wonderfully cheaj, est priced Type Writer Will write as fast anda carefully adjusted and e wood box with full directions. ind with cons NO. 27 BLACKBOARD. This blackboard is 40 inches in height. The up right blackboard is 17x20 inehes. Size of desk 10x21 inches, Net per doz., $9.00. No. 101, similar, $9.00. National Tool Chests. | Special Line. | =, ROUND THE be ~ WORLD ELLIE BLY. SCINATING GAME WITH PLENTY Similar te above Cut. mN OVEL ANI No, 29 Laundry Set, complete as shown 44 inches long, 15 inches Ironing table, 22% wide, net per doz. sets, 89.00. : oc yea woe SSS S i. ‘s No. 42%. 1 y, the famous Corres No. 1 UPRIGHT ENGINE xy pondent of the York World. who This cut illustrates the “Weed made a complete tour of the worldin 72 | a. pigi ng = ae iis oe ua kis mo. SBA Tow Tee Chew. net per doz. days. We now offer this popular game, 2’ Engine, which has proved t “ 45 A Size 4x9 inches. A good box for “ “ 9 calculated to please both old and young, be the,most popular engine of the : ao og etl hes. . = ach. sete e eerste eee : 2 giving the story of each day's journey, kind ever made. Itis finished in “ & “ Ragetw 5 acti egy Pg “Pe aaa ag “6 “ : g OF} ys 3 Y> steel bronze. scarlet. t and 80 A 5%x12 inches. Contains 14 tools......... 5 net per doz., $5.00 Rncic | ek woe ine a oe se 600 A “ gy44 ‘6 “ ce ‘ec “ " ce eee cee : 700 A ~ Syetlon re a a - 8 « (5A. * Tyxiby * “ es “ 16 r 750 A “ wax c ° eee a . . 12 + OO A eee i ee ae pe a A Se SLRe 33 2s at hand KC (lg SSSSSSSSSR No. 17 Shoo Fly. Size ha fancy figured cloth, has toy box and roller in front. See page 18 of our No. 107 Catalogue for other styles Rocking Horses 42x2> inches, hair main and tail. upholstered in Net per doz. $18 00. NO. 114 PIANO. Net perdoz. SOLDIERS’ DRUMS. No. 114, 12 D, Size 14x1114x8 inches............ _ $9200 10°E0 Metal shell with soldiers stamped on shell. 6in., per net doz. ....€2 00; 8in., per doz. net, ...$3 7% 9 in - dae 4 50/10in. “ - 68 11 in a o . 6 we} Same in nests of 6 drur ns from § to 13 inch net per nest, #275. One pair of sticks with each drum. All our drums have colored fancy cord, and prices include hook and string for carrying. No. 114, 15 D, Size 16144x114%4x8% inches __......... Instruction book with each piano. See page 8 for other styles of Drumsand Pianos,