Published Weekly. VOL, 9. MichiganTradesman. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. GRAND vain nie JANUARY 2 $1 Per Year. T, 1892. NO. 486 MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER CoO., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits « Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. MODELEY BROS.. - WHOLESALE - Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Produce, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Mich. W. H. DOWNS, —— JOBBERS OF —— Notions & Fancy Goods 8 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SPECIAL LINES TO CLOSE. | Get TH Best! Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts SEE QUOTATIONS. Improved. Flue | ete Sagat — ~ Ss pe e s) oe THE BEST ON THE AREY. HESTER &. FOX, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. C. A. LAMB. C. A. LAMB & CO, WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce. 84 and 86 South Division St. F. J. LAMB..| TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF THE NEW YORK BISGUIY 60, Ss. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. Arand Rapids Look Binding Wo. Sole Manufacturers in Michigan of the MULLINS oi eanaaad Fuey sninaiinati BLANK BOOK. Flat Ope 29-31 Canal St., g Ledgers and Jo als alway 1 Hand. dea R: rpids, Mich. something New! _ — Bx one new and espec A. E. BROOKS & CO. Wholesale Confectioners, . 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich Olney & J ates Grocer Co., Sole Agents for the Justly Celebrated ca «©. CS.” Cgam Bolts Wanted? I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel- sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 tnches I also want Basswood Bolts, as above. For particule~s address J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. THE GREAT SEAL CIGAR! 10 CENTS STRAIGHT ! Like Its Little Old Daddy THE GREEN SHALL Is the Best of Its Kind Made. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. G. S. BROWN & CoO., long. same lengths — JOBBERs OF — Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Pomentic Fruits and Vegetables Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries Land 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPI DS We argest stock i he ¢ siti west bie rke on SEND FOR “Out STATIONS. 24 and 26 North Division St, GRAND? RAPIDS. VOMMENCE {002 ATICMY = LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY. It is not economy for a business man to use unprinted ; stationery. IMPORTERS AND In or dering from houses where you are not known it may count against you. To them, proper stationery is considered | as essential as the k -dger—and they certainly would have little | faith in the success of one who economizes [ ?] by “doing bus- | iness”’ w ithout books. We Ofer : GRAND RAPIDS 400 XX Envelopes, 34x6, white or colored, ) 900 Note Heads, 6x9}, either flat writing : or Imitation Linen, ( | 500 Statements, 54x83 : | 500 Business Cards, 22x42, 1000 Shipping Tags, J ; 1000 Each of Above, $11. CASH WITH ORDER. SAMPLES IF DESIRED. We cannot “ break packages,” that is print less than 500, to} | advantage. Cost of type- setting and getting ready to run on | ress makes the cost of 200 or 300 nearly as much as for 500. | P j mar uapesway ooweany ‘ex PUTMAN CO. Heyman & Company, Manufacturers of NOW Cases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. 63 and 65 Canal St.. - GRAND RAPIDS. Bd. DETTENTHALER Diamond Crystal pegs Table and Dairy Salt. OYSTERS 007 PURE. SALT FISH | Put up in pockets and wooden ‘iin and sold at only a slight advance over the pee © of inferior brands. POULTRY h GAME. Order a sample biderak ie has ak oy or case of your jobber and§be con- vinced of the superiority of e Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in. Another Colwman. | D aeranrmebing ae a | 1amon ryvysta CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED. Se _VOL. 9. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNES SDAY, JANUARY 27, 7 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7, 1892. 6. 43 6 PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK.| Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts., Capital, $100,000. Liability, $100,000 Depositors’ Security, $200,000. OFFICERS, Thomas Hefferan, President. Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President. Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier. DIRECTORS, H. C. Russell John Murray J. H. Gibbs Cc. B. Judd H. F. Hastings D. D. Cody 8S. A. Morman Jas. G. McBride Wm. MeMullen D. E. Waters Jno. Patton, Jr Cc. M. Heald Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cent. interest paid on time certificates and savings deposits. Collections promptly made at lowest rates. Exchange sold on New York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. Money transferred by mail or telegraph. Muni- cipal and county bonds bought and sold. Ac- counts of mercantile firms as well as banks and bankers solicited. We invite correspondence or personal inter view with a view to business relations. ESTABLISHED 1841. SACRE TEER PT THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Fr. G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada BE. J. Mason & Con! PROPRIETORS OF Old Homestead Fastory CaN, AG Frnit Jellies aud Ane Batter Our goods are guaranteed to be made from wholesome fruit and are free from any adulteration or sophistication what- ever. See quotations in grocery price current. Our goods are now all put up in patent kits, weighing 5, 10, 20 and 30 pounds net. J. L. Strelitsky, wwe H19arS Including the following celebrated brands man- ufactured by the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co.: Vindex, long Havana filler................ $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 Do Beet Ge A eteeee.........-............. 55 La Doncella de Morera,.................. 65 ne 55 W. J, Florence..... Leeeeb ee eees sy uss 65 Also fine line Key West goods at rock bottom Lg All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stoc 10 So, Ionia St, Grand Rapids, IT WILL FAY YOU To Buy ALLEN B.WRIsLEY’s GOOD CHEER SOAP Leadin$ Wholesale Grocers keep it. OYSTERS! We quote: Moncures pereal. $1 15 Solid Brand in Cans. occ... ke ee PCRS... 19 Daisy Brand in Cans. Beles, wo SUMGREOS........... 17 Favorites I 15 Mrs. se dapat 8 Home- made Mince-Meat. Large bbls.. el. a 6% a01D. OBES ......... . 6% mb. patla ........ 6% | 10 Ib, pails.. 7 Ib. cans, (usual w eight). $1.50 per doz. Bit a ae - $3.50 per doz. Choice Dairy Buber oc. 22 Eggs... i Oa i 21 Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., = Pure Cider Vinegar.. _ ‘0 Sweet Florida Oranges... Lemons . . ¢ Will pay 40 cents eae ch for Molasse Ss S half bbls. Ab ive prices are made low to bid for trade. Let your orders come. EDWIN PALLAS & SON, Valley City Cold Storage. CUNY LLY CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALi, Pres’t ww fe RED | McBarn, . Sec’ cy 1 THOS. E. wr YKES, WHOLESALE Lime, Cement, Stucce, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Lath, Wood, Hay, Grain, Oil Meai, Clover and Timothy Seed. Corner Wealthy Ave. and Ionia St. on M.C. KR. ER. Write for prices. FIRE ae SCHLOSS, ADLER & CO., MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Stirts, Overalls AND-—— Gents’ Furnishing Goods 184, 186 & 188 JEFFERSON AVE, DETROIT, MICH. The Bradstreet Mercantile Avency. The Bradstreet eens: Props. Executive Offices, 079, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y. CHARLES F,. CLARK, Pres. Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. (irand Rapids Office, ae 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY IDEMA, Supt. Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and bia: ks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 4 per cent, on deposits, compounded semi-annually. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasury. | | | | | | A LEAP YEAR STORY. It was a very small house in the heart of acrowded city, and yet, small as it was, three families made a home there. The first floor, and the one that brought the most rent, was occupied by James Saunders, retired sea captain, who was supposed by the neighbors to possess a gold mine at the very least, and who had undoubtedly ‘feathered his nest” well in | many years of prosperous voy aging. The basement floor was distinguished by a sign over the door, and a shop win- dow, wherein were displayed the wares of a grocer—George Davis—on a very small scale; a grocer who bought by the basket and box, and by the half- peck and pound. Upstairs—there was sold only one story above the first floor—Nanette lived with her mother, Madame Hillien. Nanette had been ten years in America, and was employed by a milliner, who made good use of Nanette’s nationality when her customers suspected her of being any- thing but a French milliner. Madame Hellien was yellow and wrinkled and wore an odd sacque of dingy colors over black silk petticoat, and a cap of elaborate construction over very rough gray hair. Nanette was a clear brunette with eyes as black as sloes and soft as velvet, cheeks like the heart of a crimson rose, teeth like pearls, and the triggest little figure ever balanced on two pretty feet. With scant means and her French tastes, Nanette was always well dressed. Her print gowns fitted her toa nicety, her hair, glossy and abundant, was al- ways arranged becomingly, and there was never anything tumbled or soiled to mar Nanette’s toilette. Two men, at least, adored Nanette— George Davis in heart-sick silence; Cap- tain Saunders with the audacity of wealth and position. Captain Saunders sent always to Ma- dame Hillien such preserves and fruits as opened wide the eyes of the favored few invited to partake of them. He had always a friend in port, just arrived from Italy, from Cuba, from Livérpool, from China, from any point where the long arm of commerce pushes her vessels; and these friends would always have foreign dainties to tempt the gold from the purse of the generous captain. It was whis- pered that fabrics only suited for femi- nine wear, jewels, fans, trinkets also came to the captain’s room, but of these lhe said nothing. Boxes of oranges, jars of ginger, bottles of rare wine, boxes of macaroni, tempting from lands were carried up the flight of stairs to Madame Hillien, but of India muslins, Canton crapes, Pon’s silks, rings and bracelets the eaptain said never a word. Still the face of George Davis grew longer and paler day by day, as the sight of his rival’s prosperity was forced upon a morsels all | him. It was true that Nanette loyally purchased every pound of tea and every | peck of potatoes at the grocery in the basement and presented her cash with | the smile of an angel. True, too, smile and sometimes a little blush. that room. she never passed the grocer without a;the young For the grocer was three-and- twenty, with a blond beard and eyes as blue as a patch of summer sky, while the captain was nearly sixty, with griz- zled red hair, a skin like mahogany eyes of no especial it sea-green. But the captain had a long bank-account, and could woo and loudly, while the grocer only spoke with eyes, and wondered vaguely how long two could live upon profits that were half starvation for one. ‘She is so pretty!’ the fellow thought with a sigh; ae , und tint, unless was gallantly his poor young ‘no wonder she likes to ride with the captain in the park, while I am tied to the counter, and cannot afford to to roll in the barrels. I could not send a basket home if a customer asked it.’’ But fortunately the customers were of that class that trust market- basket out of their own hands. Still, as they were very exacting as to the largest measure for the price, that bal- anced the matter. It was nota very flourishing grocery store, for the goods were of the cheapest and the profits small; and often when the stock be replenished, Davis patched shabbiest clothes. “It would delight my heart,’’ Nanette said once to her mother, ‘‘if I could once get my two hands in the linen-closet of Monsieur Davis and repair his and cuffs. They are frayed. with uplifted hands — ‘ shabby!”’ ‘*You had better look at something else than the cuffs of Monsieur Davis,” said Madame _ Hillien, ‘in my country maidens look at young even hire a boy never a lowest description, were very had to wore of George shoes and the collars Oh!” they are ‘how severely. did not men.’’ “Bat, when | him every day how ean I Do I not buy of all that we have to eat?’’ “If you were wise you would not be compelled to buy food in a little store like that. Listen: Monsieur, the ecap- tain, has told me that if he marries he will buy the whole house. Ah, think of a whole house!” ‘ But 99 must look but and tea mamma, at him? and see him sugar we are comfortable in three rooms. “Bah! We But comfortable? You have no sense, Nanette! Twice al- ready has the captain spoken to You will lose him.” “Let him go! I have my work and we have five hundred dollars in bank. Why should I marry an old horror like that?” ‘*He is not horrible.’’ ‘No, you are right. He is kind and good, and I am he will when I cannot love him.’’ “But, why?’’ “Ah, why?” asked Nanette, shrugging her pretty shoulders. But she ran away then and began to concoct a marvelous omelet for supper, singing in aloud, clear voice, so that her mother could not make her hear from where she sat in an inner Why? Never a word of love had spoken, though his honest eyes told his adoration; but Nan- live! me, sorry love me grocer ette knew that she always had the choice of the market set aside for her, and that there was always alittle overweight of all the choicest things in her basket. attentions of th a burden; but became fretful and exacting on But the e captain of his Hillien the sub- soon became not because per- secutions, because Madame ject. It was all foolishness on Nanette’s part, the husband her her, she and no modest girl refused mother offered said. But Nanette America, had e was but twenty-two, been too though sh to give up her freedom of choice for any old French custom. “Here girls choose their own hus- bands,” she said. And Madame “You would offer yourself to him?”’ “Not SO this is Hillien screamed: bad as that, leap year,” said Nanette, for 1888 was but a week old. ‘Leap year! Ah, a bold girl!” But tender he you are Nanette and her her was not bold, art was sore over silence. He was her lover—of that she but he and needed a wife.to help him grow rich. Was sure; Was poor, SO very poor, How she could helphim! Howshe would save in his housekeeping, and make his clothes last twice as long, and the rooms the open door showed to be so forlorn. She little Nanette, was a true woman, this longing to give loyal serv- ice where she gave loyal love. But he would not speak. “It is already two years we have Nanette ‘and | know he loves me.’’ in the heuse,’’ thought, Something this France, a c wonderful happened just at time. There was an old uncle in lose-fisted miser, who had refused often and widowed sister by so much as a pinch of salt, and he died, sum that made ten thousand dollars. t fairly stunned the To be that, choking sob came into her little milliner so rich as when—and here a long in| were such standing _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “Then she told a serious mistake. Nanette has me distinctly on three separate occ: So the way is open to you.”’ sions. “Ah, no! I am so poor, so very poor, you see. I] have no capital to start any- thing, and I can only seratch out the barest living. And now this money has come. No! I will go away! You see I love her so much I cannot stay any longer. My heart is breaking.’’ Odd confidences? Well, yes; but 1 dark that They think it must have been the opened their hearts to each other. honest, childlike hearts, both of them, to belong to great, bearded men. lam quite sure the dark was answer- able for what followed, George was leaning against the banister | when he said: mamma, though | ” ‘*My heart is breaking! Suddenly, therefwas a little soft rustle ahem!—she made a | refused | above him: then he felt two arms steal | j;round his neck, a soft cheek touch his, | and into his ear stole a whisper: lover’s | } land shut with a bang, | heard it. tidy up} been | i she often to help hbis| leaving to Nanette aj} American | | wedding throat—when | He the man she loved had not a good coat to | though he worked Nanette his back, faithfully to earn one! grieved over her ac- cess of fortune as much as she rejoiced. She shrewdly suspected the cause of George’s silence, and knew that this leg- acy would be another bar between Already her ing into a better them. mother was talking of neighborhood and commodious apartments. The lations rather ruefully, appreciating the captain had offered his congratu- weight of this new phase of affabs 5. **] was sure of the mother,” he theught, ‘‘but now I am not so sure.”’ It was dusk when he rattled his figure the key in own door, and he did not see a tall near him, until a familiar voice in the darkness said: *‘May I leave the keys of the basement with you, captain?” ‘“‘Hey, what? You are going away?” “Yes. lam going away,’’ said George Davis, very sadly. ‘Il hope you will be very happy.’ “Oh, you do! Pray what is there to make me especially happy, just now?’ Then George flashed out: “If such a woman as Nanett I should something e were zo- that suspiciously ing to marry me, not ask question,” and like a sob ended the sentence. “Who told Nanette?’’ ‘‘Madame Hillien.” you | was going to marry | brand-new | next | those “Don’t go away or will break heart, you too!” The captain’s door opened with a jerk but I do not think the foot of the staircase What did sayr. Ah, can repeat the rapturous speeches of one; two at they who the shy whispers of the other. thing Nanette said at last, as arm in Hillien: not tell I proposed to you, Sut one they went arm upstairs to con- front Madame “You will that anybody, will you, George, though it is leap year?” ‘““Never!” was the emphatic reply. Madame Hillien ex was hvune too well pleased: Nanette George her hand at ied and laughed and but, after all, loved and so she last, and a motherly greeting. my | of the | Rochester for | derfully gave | | better prosecute | they have But the strangest part of all was yet to} the present of ail the finery he had come, for captain made purchased especially for her— and heart to bought his hand the whole house too, and a grocery store was started with Nanette’s The door a portion of money. neighbors ‘‘always knew |} it was the widow the captain was court- | household is the mov- | more ; ing, and it would be difficult to say which happier, that of jolly and that grocer, and SHIELDS. Captain Saunders his wife, or Davis, ANNIE of honest George pretty Nanette. -> & Rich Without Money. Many a man is rich Thousands of men with without money. nothing in their pockets. and thousands without even a pocket, are rich. A man born with a good, sound constitution,a good stomach. a good heart and good good head piece.is rich. better than gold, tough muscles than silver, and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every function are better limbs, a pretty Good bones are than houses and land. Itis better than a landed estate to have the right kind of father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses Education may do much to check evil tendencies or to develop good ones, butitis a great thing to inherit the right proportion of facul- ties to start with. The man is rich who has a good disposition, who is naturally kind, patient cheerful. hopeful. and who has a flavor of wit and fun in his compo- sition. The hardest thing to get on with in this life is a man’s own self. A cross, selfish fellow, a despondent and com- plaining fellow. a timid and care-bur- dened man, these are all born deformed on the inside. They do not their thoughts sometimes do. Nanette a} then offered | Madame Hillien. | Keep Your Feet Warm! 12 & 14 Lyon St, Grand Rapids, By Wearing PARKER’S: ARCTIC SOCKS For Sale By HIRTH & KRAUSE, Jobbers of Shoe Store Supplies. Our Representatives are all out Hustling for Orders with New Lines of VAL YLNTINES. Blank Books, Stationery, Wrapping Paper and Twine. ‘RAYON, LYON % 60, - 20-22 Monroe St. The New York Commercial News, speaking of Michael Kelb & Son, one of the oldest and most reliable wholesale CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, established 1838, Rochester, N. Y., says: ‘The clothing industry has been leading features of the many years. Many of the firms began business in a very | way, but have since developed | the leading manufacturers So extensive is the here that a very large city’s inhabitants are Good hands can get plenty of work and demand a fair com- pensation for their labor. One of the oldest firms here engaged in the clothing trade is that of Messrs. MIcHAEL KOLB & Son. This concern was established thirty-four years ago by the senior mem- ber of the firm, and has enjoyed a won- successful career. They have for many years occupied their large building at Nos. 135 and 137 North St. Paul street, but for want of more room and improved facilities wich which to their extensive business resolved to erect a fine, large building in the spring, consisting of six stories above ground, two basements, and with a frontage of seventy-two feet. The structure is to be an imposing one and an ornament to the city, and one of which its owners may justly feel proud. one present modest into some of in the country. dustry carried on per cent. of the supported by it. | As a further evidence of the prosperity ) will limp, but of the clothing manufacturers Mr. Kolb states that quite a number are contem- plating building their own houses, which probably occur during the present year. In this respect, however, he does not propose to be outdone. The business with this house for the past year has been | | j | | books city of | show a decided increase over the year preceding. The outlook for the | present is even more flattering than it has been for many years past. Although | they manufacture a genera! line of goods i their specialty consists of a fine grade. in- | In these they are not surpassed, the strictest attention being paid to every detail, and none but the most skilled hands are employed in their manufacture. As a guarantee of the most thorough workmanship and finish being given to goods turned out of this house, it may be stated that the senior member of the firm, Mr. Michael Kolb, devotes his whole and undivided attention to the manu- facturing department of the establish- ment, he having been a practical man in the manufacturing of clothing, and is eminently fitted to fill so important and respo.sible a position His son, Mr. Jacob M. Kolb, attends to the business on the road. In connection with their manufacturing they also do an extensive jobbing trade, but principally in fine goods. With a long and honorable career this firm has established a demand for their goods in almost every State in the Union, and enjoy the most implicit con- fidence and esteem of all with whom they have dealings.”’ Mr. Tripp, a clothing traveler says: “Wm. Connor—There can be no difti- culty selling Kolb’s goods, for they are as staple as flour, and that is why you sell so many.”’ Write our Michigan representative, William Connor, for printed opinions of all that could be desired. Sales have]}the leading clothing merchants in Michi- been larger, collections easy, and their} gan. WINTER CLOTHING -We still have some nice ulsters, overcoats and heavy weight suits, salable all the year around. Mail orders promptly attended to, or write our Michigan agent, William Connor, box 346, Marshall, Mich.; also 1. W. Morton, of Big Rapids, Mich., and look at our line, learn our prices, and judge for yourselves. C. G A. VOIGT & CO., Proprietors of the STAR ROLLER MILLS. (ore re OUR BRANDS; OUR PATENT. 4 GILT EDGE. 3 STAR. CALLA LILY. GOLDEN SHEAF, PEARL. BOSS. -BAKERS’ CHOICE, PATENT ROLLER FLOUR. SPECIALTIES: ->GRAHAM, RYE and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, 3RANULATED and BOLTED MEAL. - Prompt attention given te mail orders, Mich, Grand Rapids, | i Hi i ae << The Commercivl Traveler, Net---All Discounts Off.* Mankind build monuments of ever- | lasting granite and polished marble to their statesmen, their soldiers, their poets, their scholars, their artists and their great men—commemorative of their grand achievments, their deeds of valor, their beautiful songs and poems, their scientific discoveries and contributions to | literature, and their beautiful paintings —and even to their physicians; as a jocu- lar writerremarks, ‘*The cemeteries are filled with monuments to their success- ful malpractice.” But where stands the monument to the commercial traveler, and who, as a class, better deserves the grandest monument ever erected in this world, for in him are combined the at- tributes of all the others? As a statesman he stands without a peer; as a diplomat, he is a great advo cate of reciprocity. You buy yourgoods of him, he gives you low prices, and he tells you that, if you stick to him, you will wear diamonds. As a soldier, no braver soldier than he who fights the daily battle of commercial life. As a poet, he who listens to the soft | song of the drummer is a lost man. As a scholar, it is related of Gen. VonMoltke that he was able to keep si lence in seven different languages; the | commercial traveler can talk in seven- | teen different languages, if necessary, to sell a bill of goods. As a conversation- alist, he is a great success, but the man | who made the remark that the commer- | cial traveler could set his mouth to work in the morning on a customer and go} away and leave it and come back again | in the afternoon and find it still going, is | a base slanderer. As an artist, though he may not be} able to paint a beautiful picture, he can | show you a magnificent oi! painting with | a solid gold frame, this great work of art | to go with one thousand cigars or one doz- | en of Dr. One Lung’s cough balsam. In talking over this matter with a few | friends just before leaving Denver, one | of the number, Col. Scholtz, of the Opera | House pharmacy, made the remark: ‘‘I agree with you. The commercial traveler | should have the grandest monument on earth, a thousand feet high, built of solid brass, surmounted by a big wind- mill, illustrative of the ‘fairy tales’ which he pours into the ears of the cus- | tomer while endeavoring to fill his store | with goods.” (1 could not resent this as | the Colonel is a customer. ) But the commercial traveler needs no monument—honors crowd thick and fast | upon him. He is invited to banquet | with the clergy and the lawmakers of the land, and to sit down in the presence of | our governors and other notorious ehar- acters. Whoof you, my brothers, would not far rather prefer a large increase in salary to the grandest monument ever |} erected, covered with a glowing account | of your numerous virtues? | The commercial traveler is the most thoroughly independent man among all human beings. He, like William Tell, | removes his hat to no man, be he king or emperor, except the “high and mighty | potentate,’’? the one who controls the salaries and the allotting of territories. Let us look at the commercial traveler as he stands, net, with all the discounts taken off, in the way of his little jokes, harmless exaggerations, his tales of big sales and the enormous salary he re- ceives; his little kicks at the hotels that eharge him $4 a day and give hima 2a week treatment. What do we find? It would be false modesty on my part, simply because Iam a humble member of the fraternity, not to pronounce him simply as I know him to be from long years of experience—a noble, brave and true man; for, if he were not such, he could not remain on the road as a suc- eessful salesman. Is he noble? Show me the charitable object that his attention is called to that he does not respond to, from the hospital to the babies’ fresh air fund; from the traveler in need to the customer who wants a position on the road. Is he brave? He fights a battle every day, in comparison to which all battles | *Responce by Dan. Y. Wheeler, of St. Louis, at the | recent banquet of the Western Commercial Travelers’ | Association. I |eance; for the hero of a battie, | deeds of | prised to look upot | family and the firm he represents. [take a | account.”’ ion the brow of the commercial traveler. | station agents. Toe MICHIGAN of the gun and sword fade into insignifi- laboring under intense excitement and urged on by the cheers of his comrades, does sueh valor t he himself is it the commercial | battles under no ex- —exvept, possibly, what he can get out of a 2 o’clock call to take a freight train to some town which all the fellows in his line have just left—spurred on by the jeers instead of the cheers of Sur “> t ] » 4 } ns traveier highis pis citement | his competitors. Dr. Snyder will tell you that the man who controls his temper, who conquers | himself, who gets the mastery over his own passions, is greater than he who taketh a city: and show me the pathway of any man which is surrounded by the many pitfalls and terrible temptations that crowd around that of the commercial traveler, and point out to me the class of men who more successfully resist them. It cannot be done. Yes, indeed, he is a brave man. Is he a true man? In the great major- ity of true to himself, his Once more I say, he is a noble, brave and true man. brothers mine, a great us. To some it will ec others of us will eases he is at future awaits yme quickly, while have grown gray in the service waiting, but hope on, hope ever. Any moment it may come, and we be ealled in and invited to step higher and seat on the right hand of the seniorspartner, and, as one of the firm, be given charge of the travelers. To such of you who may be ealled to this | | great honor, do not forget your old days upon the road, deal tenderly with the raveler—especially so with his ‘‘expense | Do not, when you note a dol- lar or two for extra meals, write him a | letter and ask him if he cannot ‘‘sell his trade without feed them:” or, if he charge you sleeping-car fare of $2.50 be- tween St. Paul and him that the next walk. Ah, how we long for the Arcadia of being greeted by the numerous employes | as ‘one of the firm!’ No more 4 o’clock | ealls to take the ‘‘limited cattle train;” no more hurried until late breakfast call, faintly dis- turbed by the patter of our children’s | feet, instructions having been issued: | ‘‘Must not disturb papa, for he is one of the proprietors now.” So strive, my brothers, that, when that | | happy time arrives, you can bring to that | Minneapolis, write trip he had better Kermani cemmmne ~ UN We Roast Coffee 3 PERC TIANTS! of Every Kind. OFFER 15 QUR LEADER And is sold in 100-Ib. Cases and 120-Ib. Cabinets. LNG. TELL YOUR ._ depots at all = UR LION COFFEE artistically made by CABINET IS experienced cabinet makers, beautifully var- nished, and just the to retail the cereals and merchandise of many kinds. thing from which The cabinet is covered before shipping to protect the panels, so that the mer- chant receives it untarnished. Merchants everywhere are securing a number of these cabinets. They dress up the store and make it more attractive. Every cabinet contains 120 one pound packages of LION COFFEE. Shipping prineipal points in the United and low freight charges. States, insuring prompt delive LION COFFI is sold by all Cincinnati jobbers. ry LE CUSTOMERS That Lion Coffee is composed of Mocha, Java and Rio, Is Roasted by natural gas and that every package Contains a handsome picture eard. We fully guaran tee Lion Coffee to give satisfaction. LSON SPICE CO,, £2°°: S50, aro, L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS, Sok cc aki or the teewuts shocnes ueavs | SET Logging Delivery Pleasure > An Unfortunate Telegram. A lawsuit now in progress in Califor- | | nia is likely to lead to the abandonment | of the practice of employing women as} Until a week or two ago, the station agent at Banning, a place on} i the Southern Pacific Railroad, was a very pretty girl named Mattie Green. Quite} recently the company determined to} grant uniforms to all its station agents, | and awarded the contract for the cloth-| ing to a firm by the name of Cowie & Co. | In order to expedite matter, Mr. Cowie| dispatched the following telegram to all} the station agents along the theline: ‘*Be| on the platform when special train No. 19 passes, with nothing on but your! pants and shirt”—his object being to measure the men in short order and pass on. When train No. 19 pulled into Ban- ning, Mr. Cowie jumped out, looked, around and exelaimed, ‘*‘Where’s the sta- tion agent?” Twostalwart youths who happened to be pretty Mattie’s brothers. responded to the query by asking wheth- er he was the man who sent the telegram } which they showed him. On receiving | an aflirmative reply, they proceeded to ‘“elimb’? him with such terrible effect that he is now lying in the hospital with several fractures. His lawyers have al- ready commenced legal proceedings against Miss Mattie’s brothers, and are} taking steps towards obtaining heavy | | | damages for him from the railroad com- pany. knocks or electrie bell i |ealls to drag us out of that sweet dream | of selling an enormous order at fabulous | profits, but to sweetly and calmly sleep 1 = MICH. Manufacturers and Jobbers in SI KIGHS. Send for Catalogue. — is H Repo gs toe we ae I) AUN Nao on & CHUTE © T we SE eS * 1 1a ee MPS THO ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. } | | AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Montague—The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. of Grand Rapids, has returned the | writ of replevin against the grocery stock fund their indebtedness and resume bus§ iness. Ed. Russell will act as President, E. R. Welsh will officiate as Secretary | FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. aval | Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a wo the first insertion and one centa Pierson—B. W. Warner & Co., grocers, i ~? | word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ‘ have removed to Edmore | purchased from W. A. Austin by the Her- ‘and C. A. Wall will serve the corporation | menttaken for lessthan 25 cents. Advance payment. i FEC . } Clare—A. H. Roder succeeds J. Acker- | ‘ren Grocery & Stock Co., and has com-/ in the capacity of Treasurer. BUSINESS CHANCES. man in the ssesiiiainle business | menced suit against the latter. Bay City—It is now said that Jonathan | (OE Sale GOOD aan Soe a vee . i ce | ne shoe 28 1in Michigan. Cause ' Rochester—Thos. W. Hacker has sold| Hastings—Minnie K. Barnes has pur- | Boyce, who recently purchased the Wil- | of selling, - health. Address No. 383, care s — s. ° as s * . : < —_— i i Michigan Tradesman. i : : al as rocery busi- | liams sawmill, will erect a planing mill al mal his grocery business to Henry R. Smith. | Chased the dry goods and y : : : ; f the pro-| FOR SALE—WELL ASSORTED LINE OF / Vassar — Denman Moody succeeds | ‘ness formerly owned by Goodyear & and nandle a good portion of the pro | bazaar goods. Will inventory about $2,200. i Frank McConnell in the dicen business. | Barnes. Her husband, George Barnes, | duct of the mill by rail. Mr. Boyce’s| ee ee Sen ee Ge ee z ~ 5S - " — . : s , Northville—M. F. Stanley has suc- was a partner in that firm and will have |superintendent has arrived, and is ar-| Menominee, Mich. 382 3 c i pe. . o > & | oe 3 i : ‘ig nn : : a ign with pine | WiOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. THE UNDER- 7 ceeded the Stanley Air Rifle Co., Lim- | the management of her business. ranging for an active campaign with p | signed will sell his stock of drugs, etc., at i ited. | Saugatuck—James Koning has sold his | logs next season. om i eS SS ee : Ds “ ! oi y 3 re | i Bronson — Nichols & Broughton suc-| interest in the firm of D. L. Barber &| Saginaw—Geo. T. Warren & Co. have | throughout this and near counties and has an i 1 oon i 4 i siness i s x com-| established trade of over twenty years. As ‘ ceed C. A. Bartlett in the lumber busi-|Co. to William T. Hancock. The busi-| merged their business into . stock COM | Ge-ire to devote my whole time to the manu- i ness. | ness will be continued under the same | pany under the style of the Geo. T. War- | oe - my —— ae age a a : — ee : c { " ee r coo : or no other reason, I offer my stoc or sale i >j he ry goods + style by D. L. Barber, George Crawford | en Cigar Co. The new corporation has | Geo, G. Steketee. 384 1 Pierson—S. Sheldon, dry goods andj style by : er, g | ai alk d i ue ae ee ital s $5 8 ad | SALE—GROCERY STOCK IN GROW- : nootn amd shoot, has seid cut and genet end Willem T. Gancesk. The jonler|*e0ete tok of S000) ee ee Pe eae about 18¢0 inhabitants. ps4 : Florida partners are sons-in-law of Mr. Barber, | 4S follows: President, Myron Butman; 4 exclusive grocery store in the county. Owners 4 if i " "nn at 3 i. j | engaged in other business, the reason for s' ling i Jackson—Smith & Adams succeed C. the last mentioned being a recent ac- \ ice-President, Jas. B. or oe Kritzer Milling Co., Newaygo, Mich. _385 ! C. Pond & Co. in the lumber and planing quisition in both relations. Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. T. Warren. | 7)OR SALE—FIRSI-CLASS GROCERY BUS- mill business. Imlay City—F. T. Holden Holden & Forsyth in the drug, paint and oil business. succeeds Detroit—William J. Peoples has been arrested on a civil warrant at the instance of Phelps, Brace & Co. Peeples is a re- tail dealer in groceries and meats on Manistee—The Canfield & Wheeler Co. | - is putting down a new well, and if all | goes right, and the old well is cleaned | out in time for spring use, it intends, af- | ter reaching salt, to continue the well | inessin the best town of 5,000 inhabitants in Northern Michigan. The purchaser can have a trade of $50,000 a year at the start. No town | in the State has better prospects. This is the ; chance of a life time. Address No. 363, care Michigan Tradesman. 363 OR SALE—DRUG S STORE; WELL LOCAT- : » 2 : \ Grand River avenue and recently exe- ed in good country town, Minnesota; good Manistee—J. E. Sumerville, books and : : ' Tan cate of oo ’ a i" . nr- »o | prescription trade. Address W. S. Johnson cuted a chattel mortgage to his father | With a four-inch pipe through the salt to | peeeo Minn. a stationery, has been succeeded by Sum- erville & Wood. Cross Village—Berger & Swartout have been succeeded in the grocery business by George Mathews. Stittsville—Eugene Liddle, formerly a farmer near here, is now in the grocery business at this place. Ontonagon—Emmons Bros. are reduc- ing their hardware and tin business and will remove to Marquette. Galesburg—Brown & Co., whose drug stock was destroyed by fire about four covering a large portion of his stock. Phelps, Brace & Co. claim that Peoples made a misrepresentation to them of his finances and upon his claim he was given eredit for $520 worth of goods. Peoples’ father offer to settle his son’s $3,700 in- debtedness for 35 cents on the dollar and many of the creditors have accepted this basis of settlement. Muskegon—John O. Oleson has com- menced proceedings in the Circuit Court to collect $450, which he claims to have rock, which underlies the | 300 feet, to see if there is | the Trenton the salt about anything in this oil matter, about which there has been so much talk. Ivunia—D. C. Crookshank has sold his interest in the Williams Manufacturing Co.’s business and plant to Gregg Wil- | liams, under whose management the bus- iness will be continued, as heretofore. Mr. Crookshank will remove to Colum- bus, Ga., where he has purchased an in- terest in an established sash, blind and | excellent location. | for business. VOR SALE—A GROCERY STOCK WITH store and two dwelling houses; fine trade, Reasons for selling: too old Address A. Van Hoe, Kalamazoo, ich. 379 4VOR SALE CHEAP — WELL SELECTED drug stock — New andclean. Address F. A. Jones, M. D. Muskegon, Mich. 391 SITUATIONS WANTED. NITUATION WANTED BY A YOUNG LADY \ competent to keep a set of books and willing to make herself generally useful about a store. One year’s experience. Not afraid of work. Wages low. Good references, Address No. 376, eare Michigan Tradesman. 376 JANTED SITUATION — BY FIRST-CLASS registered pharmacist; ten years’ exper- i . . door factory and building contract busi-|ience Address No. 387, care Michigan Trades months ago, have arranged to resume | invested in the meat market business of iii man. 387 siness Arnt Anderson. He recently procured wean | it _ —— — a snes senaek ot Aeaiiieas ats : a of Alpena—J. D. Turnbull, who owns MISCELLANEOUS. Yashville—Elmer Swift, formerly a st of / s i i ane Nashville € y and operates a small mill near this place, O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO resident of this place, is now in the hard- ware business at Bellaire as a partner in the firm of Adams & Swift. Cadillac—Fred S. Kieldsen is again be- hind the counter, having opened a gro- cery store in the A. M. Lamb building, lately vacated by Miss Lacount. Reed City—John Schmidt, Jr., and} Theodore Schmidt—composing the firm of Schmidt Bros.—succeed to the agri- cultural implement business of J. L. Rayfuse. St. Johns—The St. Johns Manufactur- ing Co., manufacturers of furniture and undertakers’ goods, has merged its busi- | ness into a stock company same style. Benton Harbor — Kidd, Dater & Co. have opened a wholesale grocery estab- lishment here and will on the road in this part of the State and | Northern Michigan. Saranac—G. W. Clark has sold his pho- tograph gallery to Claude Abbott, of St. | Johns. Mr. Clark will remain at Saranac | for the present, under the ‘i i } be represented | | | until he determines upon | business venture. City—Friedrich Bros. have some Traverse ‘that false representations had been made }son asserts that Mr. Oleson is entirely |mistaken in his | whole affair resulted from a misunder- | pine and hardwood logs, and is also buy- | ing all the logs offered in this vicinity. | of the Capital Wagon Works is called for | January 29, to consider the proposition | 000 to $150,000. the larceny of this amount, on the ground to him to secure the investment. He withdrew the criminal proceedings and will now try another tack. Mr. Ander- claims and that the standing. He will contest the suit. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Lakeview—William Trownfeller has bought M. Y. Gephart’s shingle mill and will continue the business. West Branch—The French Lumber Co. is putting in a stock of 2,000,000 feet of lonia—A meeting of the stockholders to increase the capital stock from $100,- Hart—Russell & Flood,lumber dealers, are succeeded by the Hart Cedar Lumber |Co., of which Fred. J. Russell is Presi dent, S. A. White, Vice-President and J. K. Flood, Secretary. is considering the project of converting the mill into a spool factory. The Alpe- na Spool Co. is turning out 4,000 gross of spools weekly and they meet with aready sale. The works are provided with new patents, and the venture is meeting the expectations of those who put money in- to it. Se ast ti Financial Matters. The Owosso Savings Bank has decided to inerease its capital from $60,000 to $100,000, the additional stock being nearly all taken by Owosso business men. Ten shares of stock in the Woolson Spice Co. were recently sold at Toledo at $1,000 a share—ten times the par value. This is probably the largest premium ever paid for any manufacturing stock in the West, but the indications are that the stock will continue to enhance in value, as the corporation has a capital stock of but $180,000, with $1,500,000 of assets and no commercial whatever—a most remarkable showing. The wonderful growth of the company is due in no small degree to the fact that no dividends were paid during the first |eantile companies. indebtedness | Cheap. iY you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. OR SALE—ABOUT 100 POUNDS OF NON- pareil type, well assorted as to figures, fractions and leaders. Just the thing for a country paper for use in tax sales and general work. Laid in two cases. Will sell for 25 cents per pound and $1 per pair for cases. Tradesman Company, Grand Kapids, Mich. 359 age SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM- proved), located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun- ty, Mich. Land fitted for machinery, good fences, large curb roof barn with underground for stock, horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New windmill furnishes water for house and barns. Eight- een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, two years old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or wille xchange for stock of dry goods. ie any difference will pay h. A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark. S41 OR SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN IN vestment Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187. care Michigan Tradesman. 187 IOR SALE —BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- ed with native oaks, situated ‘in gool residence locality, only 200 feet from electric street car line. Will sell for $2.500 cash, or part cash, pay- menjs to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 354 OR SALE —GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer- E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., 370 Grand Rapids. ANTED—G ROC ERY STOCK BY PARTIES who can pay cash down. Must be dirt Address No. 343, care Michigan Trades- 343 man. OR SALE—GROCER’S FIXTURES, SCALES, coffee mill, showcases, complete outfit; also small line staple groceries. Nearly new. Will sell cheap. Address Lock Box 963, Rockford, Mich. 375 OR SALE OR WILL TRADE FOR STOCK leased one of the new stores they will Coleman—J. H. Peters, who has been as puaee ot Be Seepenys eaeiones ~§ "i cele ons in ae toa a ’ : s : | Sparta or particulars p r- s s accumulat » she 2 build in the spring to Host & Mertes, of | operating a mill manufacturing head lin- eruhuasedteaiieass ing in the shape | ta, Mich. Here's a bargain! 386 Newberry, who will put in clothing and | men’s furnishing goods. Eaton Rapids—L. C. Van Gorden has | sold his interest in the drug firm of W. D. Brainerd & Co. to his partner, who will poping the business under the igle mill in connection with the lining | ning nights. | ings near this place, has erected a shin- mill, which was started last week run- | North Bradley — Marsh & Heald are} | | cutting the timber on thirteen forties in | ot surplus. a em The Peddling Evil. CLIMAX, Jan. 22—You ask, ‘‘Would you meet at Lansing with other business | men of Michigan to discuss the peddler | nuisance.’’ I would say Ido not see as LORIDA—FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR | other good property; sawmill and planer, | store and some orange Yand in a fine locality in | Florida; also stock of goods ($4,000) in Michi- | gan for good unincumbered farm; will sell half | interest to right party. Smith & © 0., Hanover, Mich 381 Ww ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST | or good registered assistant at A. Sanford’s | drug store, 146 West Fulton street 388 style of W. D. Brainerd & Son. Warren township, Midland county, about such a meeting would result in more) ANTED — SALESMEN WHO VISIT THE The : a / >“). , | than a good deal of talk and exchanging | \ dry goods and notion trade to carry a side Cheboy ia vacant store in the | 2,000,000 feet, nearly one-half of which of views, when we would go home, no | line. Sells at sight. Sample can be carried in Bennett block has been leased by H. iselm. It is taken out on a spur rail-| nearer a solution of the question than nie apne een AE, SS Pinkous, who will open it March 1 with |road track that is being built about a} { fore. I believe it should be taken up by YOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR NORTH- | business men at home through petitions ern property—stock of goods preferred—t,280 to legislators, insisting on the enactment | acres of fine timber and cotton land in Northern Louisiana, four miles from railroad and parish seat. No.1land. Title perfect, For particulars a new stock of clothing. It will be known c as the ‘‘Favorite”’ and Louis Pinkous, of | Manistee—The stockholders of the | of a law which will stand the Supreme Saginaw, will be manager. | Eastshore Furniture Co. have decided to | Court test. J. F. CLARK. mile west of this place. address No. 390, care Michigan Tradesman. 390 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. | E. Soderik has opened a grocery store | on East Bridge street. Musselman &| Widdicomb furnished the stock. C. H. Chaote has opened a grocery | store at Belding. The Olney & Judson} Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Foster, Stevens & Co. have secured the Western Michigan agency of the North- ern Refrigerator Co. and will carry a full line of the goods in stock. Rowson Bros. &Co., composed of John and James Rowson, William Green and Chas. E. Harper, will succeed the firm of Rowson Bros., planing mill and builders. Studley & Barclay have taken the State agency of the Grand Rapids Cycle Co. and willestablish about 200 local agen- cies in the various cities and towns of Michigan. John Kosten, grocer at the corner of North avenue and Quimby street, has given a bill of sale to Hawkins & Com- pany for $234, which practically shuts out any other creditors. Geo. R. Perry, of the former firm of Hawkins, Perry & Co., has opened a mer- chandise brokerage oflice at 4 and 5 Hart- man block. He will pay particular at- tention to the introduction of new goods. The stock of the South Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co. is now owned by James M. Barnett, A. B. Knowlson and Joseph Horner. The business is well estab- lished and under Mr. Horner’s manag- ment will probably thrive. Wm. E. Barrett has formed a copart- nership with W. A. D. Rose, of Big Rap- ids, under the style of the Globe Lumber Co., for the purpose of embarking in the wholesale lumber business at Benton Harbor. A suitable location for a yard has been secured and Mr. Rose will re- move to Benton Harbor early in the spring and assume the local management of the business. oO Gripsack Brigade The Detroit Cigar Manufacturing Co. will be represented by the same duo as last year—Geo. Germain in Michigan and Mike Howarn in Ohio. L. C. Van Gorden, who has just re- tired from the drug firm of W. D. Brain- erd & Co., at Eaton Rapids, has engaged to travel for T. H. Hinchman & Sons, of Detroit. R. B. Orr has reconsidered his intention of going South, having gone to Chicago Sunday night to take a position offered him by a leading manufacturing and job- bing house there. A. D. Baker will finish his trip this week and leave Saturday, accompanied | by his wife and son, for Lockport, N. Y., where he will spend a couple of weeks with friends and relatives. Chas. L. MeLain is seriously ill with a combined attack of pneumonia and quinsy. His territory is being covered | in the meantime by S. R. Evans, brother | of the immaculate Dr. Josiah B. Phillip Gaubatz, who had been a regu- | lar visitor to the Grand Rapids market | for the past dozen years—most of the | time as the representative of B. Leiders- dorf & Co., died at his home in Milwau- kee on Jan. 15. A. W. Coffinger, formerly on the road | for E. B. Preston & Co., of Chicago, has | engaged to travel for Studley & Barclay, starting out this week on his initial trip. | | | | | He will cover Eastern Michigan and the | Saginaw Valley. Frank Conlon was born near Keady, | ~ 27, Armagh county, Ireland, May 1849. | | As soon as he was old enough to go to school, he was sent to the Derrynoose | national school until seventeen years of age, when he decided tocome to America. He made the voyage alone, coming di rect to Detroit, where lived the only friend he knew in this country. This friend loaned him sufficient make the voyage and paid his way until | he was able to secure employment which would be self-sustaining. He accepted the first employment offered him, and for ayear drove an oyster wagon for John Heffron. He subsequently acted as house salesman for two years and for two years more represented the house on the road. In 1872 he started for California, coming by the way of Grand Rapids, where he met John Caulfield and was seduced by his eloquence to become a resident of the Valley City. He worked for Mr. Caul- field in the capacity of shipping clerk | for five years, when he secured a posi- tion as traveling salesman for the whole- sale grocery house of W. T. Allen & Co., of Chicago, representing the house on the road until its failure, six years later. He then engaged with the Pearl Baking Powder Co., of Milwaukee, with whom he remained two years, when it also failed. In 1885 he engaged in the com- mission business here for himself, aban- doning the enterprise two years later to accept a lucrative offer from the Price Baking Powder Co., of Chicago, with whom he is still engaged. His trade comprises the jobbing and large retail trade of Michigan, Northern Indiana, Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota and the Province of Ontario. He known everywhere as one of the most energetic and tireless men on the road, and few cities of importance have failed to suc- ecumb to his efforts to launch his product in car lots. Fortune has smiled on every business enterprise he has ever engaged in, and he is now the happy possessor of twenty houses and 150 desirable residence lots, all paid for—and money in the bank, besides. He is happily married and has several bright and promising children, but his sole ambition now is to go to Chili as captain of Sheridan Rifles and help clean out the bellicose inhabitants of that elongated country. - <> -@- <> is The American Wheel Co. on its Feet Again. KALAMAZOO, Jan. 23—The offer of the American Wheel Co. to pay its creditors in full, on long-time paper, has been ac- cepted by the creditor,sand business will shortly be resumed under the former management. The company was origin- ally compelled to go into the hands of a receiver because its paper matured at a time when the money market was in bad shape, but its assets always have exceed- ed its liabilities by a large amount. The amount of its indebtedness in round numbers is $1,500,000. The receiver of the company, Hon. Noble C. Butler, esti- mated that the company hada surplus above its liabilities of about $700,000. This is, of course, a conservative esti- mate. The company estimated its surplus at over $2,000,000, and those who are fa- miliar with the company’s assets claim it can pay its debts and still have over $1,- 000,000 left. 9 Country Callers. have been received Calls at Tur TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade; D. W. Calkins, Alto. A. Engberts, Zeeland. E. L. Boynton, Griswold. For Bakings of All Kinds Use Fleischmann & bo. money to} Unrivaled Compressed Yeast. SUPPLIED q Special attention is invited to oar | YELLOW LABEL FRESH DAILY) To Grocers Everywhere. j | | | } which is affixed to every cake of our Yeast, and which serves TO DISTINGUISH Our Goods from worthless Imitations. PmwB Pee ot ert If you desire to serve your trade with the best Oysters the market affords specify the P. & B. Brand when ordering. For general excellence and uniform good quality they have no equal. Place your orders with any of the Grand Rapids jobbers THE PUTNAM CANDY CO Oranges & Bananas! WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Cc. ew AAFP & COQ. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Florida Oranges a Specialty. | H 4 21 ' BEE tae ainda ae RAZA Aad ap eaet ORME aot 6 MICFIT GAN TRA DES MA N. ; It Was a Fine Carpet. From the New York Herald Being much in need of a new carpet for her parlor, a matron who lives up town secured, the other day, the permis- sion of her lord and master, to buy a new one. Now, this lord and master, although well to do, is exceedingly watchful over his dollars and cents, and it took a great deal of beseeching to get him to agree to buy a new carpet at all. When he did y on condition that the price e than $1 a yard, for rved the bargain advertise- thing or two himself, as he assured the partner of his bosom. ts ) on went to the so if was on hot uld neo So the ma carpet and ri e store, which from time to t she had honored spar- ingly with her custom; but, of all the car- pets at $1a yard or less, there was not one which s would havein her kitchen, she said re was one, however, a} perfe lovely thing, for $1.75, and on’ that “art was fixed, only she knew h would never consent. 1 } »bliging iz t . icular store they sell goods + 4 hie ent p ‘ »ha 1 con- trouble, das wr she whow, womal ily solve her difficult problem by for the carpet now and the rest nuch a month. The} art fluttered somewhat at the | ut the temptation was great. | save money out of her| allowance for bonn pet sent home There yards of it. At night in came the lord and master. rarmed. *said he; *“‘do you get such a that for $1 a yard?’ yes,’’ said the matron sweetly, h feeling pretty guilt !, I call that a great bargai n. Fine were ninety-s goods, too,”’ feeling of itadmiringly. ‘‘We need anew carpet in our office. 11] just step around to So and So’s and get some u ee matron suggested that would not do at all for an office, in fact ,she was perfectly sure of it. The lord and master thonght differently. She said that it would look just hideous down there He sa wouldn't ‘ ‘ She said ‘\ »is no more S So 3." e said grimly » i e ould go at Seg Naturally, a whic s usual, the lord and on the natron retired with es and tracted mind ikfast next da th ord and nou ed as a clinche that he Vas going to b carpet aS soon as he hi lispatched the early morning business. The matron said nothing, but screwed her mouth sideways, as one wh« swallows a bitter dose. As soon as the rd and master had gone he whipped on her things and flew to the carpet and furl Ju vhat ‘ments she mad this brie t and master reé 1 ju- bilant ‘You said there was no more of that carpet,” he said, ‘‘and I got enough for ! tsi a yard, too.” take?’ asked the sortof way. said the ten yards,”’ more was said on the subject, xt day the matron viewed a bill f establishment in furnishing hing like * two items were somet My lord admires his office carpet very much, and has sent many customers to So al So’s, recommending, especially My lz me thinks she paid in a year, but, in the i have gibi estat - i > Notice to Stockholders. She had the car- | Desire to Sell Carel ald Lace Cort By Sample? Send for ovr Spring catalegue SMITH & SANFORD, Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘Vout, Herpolshelmer & G0,, | 7? -eting of the stockholders of e & Ir di: na Railroad Company » (reneral Office, in the City of in, on Wednesd p.m., for the e directors to serve for the ens for the transaction of such other as may be aasaears 1 a the meetin . H. P. HUGHART, Sec’y. March | ction of, | ing year | business | | WHOLESALE ‘Dry Goods. barpets Cloaks. | We Make a as ialty of Blankets, Quilts & Live Geese Feathers. Overalls of ss wae Manvfact jre Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. Vogt, Harpolsh ne GO, 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. facwuend 6 ab Ui INO, SOU, Greatest Seller on Karth! chilling’s FRENCH SHAPE Send for Illustrated Catalogue. See price list | in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO., Detro.t, Mich. and Chicago, Ill. he Monte Pie Cuieeut. UNBL EAC HE nC OT TONS. Acree ..... 7 | Argyle oes 6 World Wide.. 7 Atlanta AA...... ae | LL . | Avante A. Full Yard Wid 6% | ' — 6341 ( jeorgia A 614 - Fi 6 |Honest Width..... 6% D.......-.. Seer Bw. 5 “Idi. 5%|Indian Head........ 74 | Amory bik ak . tare eS A... cs Archery Bunting / ipmeec. ..........6 7 I r Dem AA 544) Law rence L L . 54] i 32 5 se cloth 6% i 6 ‘e.. 6 i 7 B 5M } Ty i N 6% Cs 534 DD 5% oC ' 5% x 7 { ecl AG 5 Clif Best 6% Comet 6% Dwight Star / 3 SuMOs...... \ i. oon | Clifton CCC My “a . Top of the Heap.... 7%, BLEACHED COTTONS. 8l4iGeo. Washington 8 hd oo GS Mee mte.....-.... 7 7 (Gold Medal. i . 10 iGreen Ticket....... Oi A 8 falls. 6% | 41 i ode 1%~@ 5 | { OP... Lonsdale Cambric i44|Lonsdale... @ 7 Midd lesex . BX No Name....... f 4/Oak View MY t 12 ve} 7% t of the Loom. 8! ; Sunlig eh. oo 4% q “IU tica Mills eee . * anne il om %. 1\ ‘Inyard a. -. 8% Pek... 2 a. 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OM i / 6 jConestoga..... . 6% Welworm ...... . 6% PRINTS. reds.. 54%/Berwick fancies.. % '6'Clyde Robes 5 & purple 644.0 he irter Oak fancies 4% 6 |Del M arine cashm’s. 6 pink checks 5% ‘ mourn’ gs 544|Eddystone fancy... 6 3% = chocolat 6 5g “ rober.... 6 54 " sateens.. 6 | 3%| He amilton f rancy. ... © | Ary Grays... 6 staple ... 5% Anch r Shirtings 444 Manc 6 Arnold " .. 6 j green seal TR 10%! Portsmouth robes... 6 “ yeliow seal..10% Simpson mourning... 6 ig a. 11% greys . 6 - Tur key red. .10% _ solfd bi ack. 6 allou solid black.. 5 “Colors. 5% Bengal blue, green, aa and orange... 5% eee 5 Washington indigo. 6 Turkey robes.. 7 India robes. 1% ’ plat o Tky x % 8% ‘s Berlin solids .10 = @oee.. Ottoman Pur. “ “s green q key red a 6 * Foulards.... Martha Washington - weg... ‘ ~ Turkey red &..... Ts . “ % ....... 9%|Martha Washington _ r | Terkey red........ 9% Riverpoint robes.... 5 Wi int isorfancy...... 6% e “ madders... 6 ‘gold ticket . XX twills.. 6% cline mae....... eee . SONGS. ..,... Oe j TICKINGS | Amoskeag AC A....i2%)/AC A. esoane | Hamilton N -. 7%) Pe mberton A. AA A i | - D wenns Orel LOFK ee 10% | | ' Awhing..11 Swift River......... %4j)2 | Fa rmer..... . Peart River.........i | First Prize. 256 Oren. ..... oon Le enox Mills .. 18 | COTTON DRILL. Atlanta, D . 6% Stark A is Boot 6%'/No Name 7% Clifton, K 6% |Top of Heap i .10 SATINES. | Simpson. . os 20 [immperta:..... -10% | 7 os 18 |Blac k « cngee ORD OM | | . ol UR. - @10 | Coechco...... ......10%]} Arrow Brand 5% | Ar nold Merino 6 | Merri cere Dt long cloth B.10% Merri m’ck shirtings. ts C. 8% ‘pp furn 8% century cloth 7 |Pacific mane aces @ | gold seal 10% a oo a 6% ‘ | 225 6—4...3 25|5—4.. DEMINS, | Amosieag oe oe 12%{Columbian brown. .12 9oz.....18% Everett, bine... .... 2 a’ brown .13 : i amGerer..........,., 11% “im | Beave r Creek AA...10 brown... 73 Bs... Jaffrey eects eee ‘11% ' Og... Lancaster pea — | Boston. Mfg C o. br.. 7 |Lawrence, Saal! _ blue 8% . 0. 220....19 “6d & twist 10% . No. 250... -11% Cc olumbian XXX br.10 - No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. a 7% Lancaster, staple.. - 6% ‘* Persian dress 8% fancies . 7 se Canton .. 8% _ Normandie 8 eee ue 12%|Lancashire.......... 6% Teazle...10144)/Manchester......... 5% ' Angola. .104|Monogram.......... 6% " Persian.. 8%|Normandie. . 3 Hs Arlington staple.... 61 iy ‘ Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... 1 Bates Warwick dres 844;Rosemont........... 6% . staples. ® 4|Slatersville ee . Centennial, ........ 0%|Somerset....... z | Criterion ....... ee ee ee . 6 Cumberland staple. 5%/Toil du Nord.......10% Comperiand.... .... 5 WwW ee % Eesex.... 4%) ‘¢ seersucker.. 7% miei. ... a 7%| Warwick... Everett classics..... 844|W hittenden......... 6 Exposition.......... 7) " heather dr. 8 Gienarie.. sec. eed . indigo blue 9 i Grenerven,... ...... 6% Wamsutta — - Glenwood........... 74iwee stbrook.. i. Hampton. ' Sal lela pes 0 | Johnson Vhs alon ¢l i lindermedi 2 | ' indigo blue 9%/|York..... ue ee, 6% . zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Amoskeag....... - 1634] Valley City....... -- 15% Beare...... 19% Georgia, .... ...... ..10%8 American........... 16%4|Pacific .............14% THREADS. Clark’s - Bnd,...@ [Barbour s.,.......-+ 88 Coat’, J.&P. 45 a. -88 POUR. oo uns \ _ 22%) KNITTING COTTON. _ White. Colored. White. Colored. No. wooo m ino, i....... 37 42 . S255. =i. hCG... 38 43 nS oO 8. 44 ee 4 + oe 45 CAMBRICS8, Siater. EE eee White Star...... .. & eee wood.... .. 8 aC... © Pee... ....-.. & Newmarket..... 4 |Bronswick .......- 4 RED FLANNEL, Pepeream...... +... oe te dE 22% Creedmore........ ane oe Talpot 72%..... - 30 iJ R F, hs a ce A 35 Nameless 27% [Buckeye oes daw es R% MIXED FLANNEL. | Red & Blue, ie © iGreysHW......... 17% Union &... <» i Hf 1 ee | 1 -» i ‘ a = Sem aaa Ss | i | Po 5 Tf i | i! | 1 | i Bl if fe ls a i | ths If you wish to do more business and press a complete outfit, comprising hear from you, we are respectfully yours, | withon : Tea i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. — ito the elevator and shown his room. : ; : : ; After that he is able to dispense with | assistance. At the Southern dining |! room he is always attended by the same | . . . | waiter, by whom | regard. he is held in special He will never goto any other portion of the table, and as long as he is a guest his seat is keptin reserve. The waiter reads to him the bill of fare, and, it asking for its repetition even onee, Mr. Perry orders what he desires. too, the waiter will help him from a desire Sometimes, t this is more LO try rhi¢ to be obiiging than from any belief that issistance is necessary Mr. Perry will chat with that waiter on every topic of the day, have a joke upon any subject that may offer an opportunity and take as much interest in everything that goes on around him, if not a good deal more, than any other dinerin the room. Al- together, he has that happy disposition and that peculiarity of manner born of feeling which go so far to make friends among strangers. He has no traveling companion, and it is said that he has interests. Certain it is that he is as frequently seen at the desk of the telegraph operator dis- patching messages as any traveling man about the hotel. The ease of Mr. Perry reminds one of the num of men engaged in active business and professional pursuits who suffer from of sight, and of the ad- vance which has been made in recent years in the education of that class which not 30 long ago was regarded as helpless in a world where men even more fortu- kindly considerable business loss inate in the matter of physical sense find it difficult to maintain their place. There is one blind man named Hal! who travels over the country at all seasons of the year in the interests of the business which he has built up. He is superin- tendent of the Blind and Industrial Home elphia, which he was instru- founding. The home was e purpose of giving employ- blind, forming a center where ould give most profit. Year yy year he goes the West, finding a r the brooms which are manu- SO Phil a at the Se over TRAVELING SALESMEN WANTED Write to us for particulars. factured at the institution and purchas- ing broom corn by the carload. He has the reputation of being among the keen- est business men of the country, and such men could be named by the score. —_———_ ~~ -+ <> Purely Personal, H. M. Lee, formerly engaged in the clothing business at Nashville, but now a prospective resident of Tacoma, was in town Monday. Geo. R. Mayhew has returned New York and Boston, where he spent a fortnight selecting goods for the spring from and summer trade. R. Van Bochove, runs a drug store on cach side of the river, is spend- ing a couple of weeks with friends in Kalamazoo and Chicago. who Ed. Bullock, formerly interested in the defunct coffee and spice hotise of J. H. Thompson & Co., at Detroit, is now book- keeper and office manager for J. M. Bour & Co., at Toledo. John L. Buchanan, for the past five years book-keeper for the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., has taken a similar position with the Universal Tripod Co. Mr. Buchanan is a competent and faith- ful worker and deserves all the good luek which comes his way. Daniel Cleland, the Coopersville gen- eral dealer, is rejoicing over the suc- son, Roila J., who recently passed a most creditable examination and was admitted to the bar. Mr. Clel- and’s many friends will join THe TRADEs- MAN in hoping that the son may be even a better man than his father. ti — ip elm Northville—A. D. Power, of the firm of A. D. Power & Son, cheese manufac- turers, is dead. eess of his Do You wish to handle a side line on liberal commission ? The Difference in Salesmen. From the Trade Knight, One introduces himself as the repre- sentative of a house; his address is re- spectful and pleasant, and the merchant glances over his samples, and listens to his arguments respecting styles, quali- ties and prices put forth in the usual manner from the manifest standpoint of self-interest and a desire to effect a sale. At length the merchant says, ‘‘I am glad to have met you and to see your goods, but trade is dull, collections slow: be- sides, it is a little early in the season, so that I don’t feel like buying to-day. I will keep your card, and whenin town again, come in and we may give you an order.” The next day, perhaps, another sales- man calls with similar goods and prices. Somehow, he gets closer to the merehant. His talk is unassuming, sensible, not at sll stereotyped, and it interests him. He seems to enter into the practical spirit of the merchant’s business, to realize his hopes and his struggles, and to appre- ciate his prudenee. Hetouches upon de- tails, and everyday results stand out clearly. He makesit plain that goods must be bought or they cannot be sold; yet he does not try to sell him more than he thinks it prudent for him to buy. His suggestions and recommendations are characterized by an intelligent interest in the welfare of the man he is dealing with; he aims to doas he would have others do unto him, and he shows it. As a result, he takes with him an order, and leaves behind a customer and a friend. In these things lie the difference between salesmen on the road. —_—_—— 4 Duly Notified. PENTWATER, Jan. 20 — Please notify the Grand Rapids traveling men that the Sands & Maxwell Lumber Co. and the Pentwater Bedstead Co. will not buy a dollar’s worth from one of them until they withdraw the resolution regarding Dikeman, of Wigton House, at Hart, Mich. W. B. O. Sanns, Pres. Ss —— ae In point of strength, lightness and durability, excellence of workmanship and design, These cuts present to you our “NEW PERFECTIO Patent Ironing Table and Clothes Rack. We have a large trade on these articles extending throughout the central and southern parts of the United States. purposes. states. Liberal commission paid on all personal and duplicate orders. thereby greatly increase your samples of printed matter used, also small models that ¢c Not long ago we commenced a plan of selling these articles to all classes of merchants, for advertising The result has been most satisfactory to the merchants, and now we wish a few more traveling men to work in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, [llinois and other these articles have no equal. ” income, -vrite to us, with references, and if satisfactory we will immediately send an be carried in an ordinary grip, taking up but little room. you by ex- Waiting to CATO NOVELTY WORKS, LAKE VIBW, MICH. BNF cena Betta State Boa rad of Pharmac y Four Years— Five Year: Pre : Ay ‘Bi an. ob Jesson, Must i we ernor, Detro Michig Presiden yan ‘State ‘Pha armac entice al Ass’n Kalamazoo. . Owosso; t ~H. G Cc role man, L. Pauley, St. Next plac “e and 4. Local Seer et ting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,° ohn D. Muir aceutical Society. ury, Frank H. Escott, y evening of Marck Grand a ride Pha ‘ ’ Association. C. Smith. erk Ary, Ww Detroit Pharmaceutical a jety. President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. heinfr ank. Muskecon Drug Clerks’ ation. President N. Miller: Secretary, A. T by THE ECONOMIC A new topic of consi EFFECTS OF WA deration cussion has been supplied tothe busine world in the Chilian que sti W politicians and plain citizens are bus only with asking themselves whether Congress ought or ou o declare war against the Seuth American Repub- lic, and whether it will or w not do it financiers are more cerned 1 forecasting the possible ef- feets upon business of hostilities, if they should break out. Experience on this point is lacking to most of those who now have to dea! with it. The survivors of the generation which itnessed the Mexican war of 1846 are few in number, and thes have nearly al! retired from tive life. while our civil war, which ended in 1865, furnishes no precedent by which to judge of one with a foreign power. That war gave birth to new and wide-reaching financial measures: it revolutionized many great industries. and it stimulated inventive ingenuity to an extraordinary degree. In the field of railroad building and operating alone it produced those enormous fortunes which are the admiration and envy of the be- ginners of this day in the task of ac- cumulating negro slavery, it wealth, abolishing the former slave States a blessing instead of the curs, which, from the commence- ment of the Federal had dreaded and sought to avert. So far and, by brought upon Union, they _| smooth, ev@e and nicely-adjusted and dis- } THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | opposite direction. Political economy, being not politics in the sense of states- ~ | manship, as its name misleadingly sug- gests, is the science purely and simply of getting rich. It has as little connec- tion with patriotism, religion and moral- ity as the differential calculus has, and when experts in it declare that war is unfavorable to a nation’s welfare they refer solely to its growth in riches, and to nothing else. At the comes in con- flict with mere material prosperity. It disturbs and upsets the rontine of busi- ness and substitutes uncertainty and dread for certainty and confidence. It acts upon the habitual course of trade as a misplaced switch or a broken rail does jupon a train of cars. Instead of the track | along which it had hitherto been gliding, | it is foreed into a path for which it is not fitted and upon which it comes to a stop with a jar erash. When war breaks banker, merchant, manufact head of organized in- very outset war and a out, every urer and ; dustry has to stop and consider what he will do next; before he went on serene whereas, from day to that, as day in confidence to-day was like yesterday, to- would be like to-day, and that he need give himself no concern to pro- morrow vide for extraordinary contingencies. Hence it results that the declaration of war, or even a confirmed conviction that it is impending, produces arise in the rate of interest for money,a fall in securi- except in the ¢ for which war case of commod- creates a special market as materiais for its prosecution, ja fall in the of merchandise. Capitalists are unwilling to lend money cheaply until they are sure that they can- rate for it, they cease buy- ties and, ities prices not, by waiting, get a better j}and for the same reason ling stocks and bonds and are disposed, rather, to sell them. Merchants limit their orders for goods until they can make up their minds what their custom- ers are likely to want, and this checks manufactures and importations. susiness is like a bieycle—when it no longer moves forward it begins to topple over. in turn It isa curious feature, too, in human nature that any sudden, untoward event, even although it has no direct relation to business, has a depressing influence up- from annilhilating the cotton crop, free | on the mind and, for a longer or a shorter labor has swelled it from 5,000,000 bales | period, indisposes it to enterprise. So a year to nearly 9.000,000 bales, and, in| unimportant a death, from a commercial place of confirming the dependence of ilight, as that of the Duke of Clarence the South upon the North for food sup-| momentarily produced a slight fall up- plies and for manufactured gos it I ion the London Stock Exchange, and I set the South to establishing mills and| well remember how the sinking of the manufactures of its own, and to increas- ing its home production of n and ba- con. None of these things can be ex- pected from a war with Chili, and in es- timating its probable effects they should be omitted. As arule, theoretical economists look upon wars as agencies purely destructive of wealth, like fires, shipwrecks, earth- quakes and pestilences, and, if we con- fine our attention rigidly to their field of thought, we acknowledge that they are right. A must war takes men all the while they arein service, at least, idlers and frequently the destroyers of the products of other men’s labor. strength, skill and time of peace, wealth are, ingenuity which, in in time of war, turned in the from | productive occupations and makes them, | The | are devoted to creating | steamer Arctic, involving, as it did, the of a number of New York’s most prominent citizens, cast a gloom over Wall street which lasted for several days. A war, therefore, being associated in our thoughts with and destruction, with wounds and maiming and with the widows and orphans, j | loss carnage {multiplication of to say nothing of an increase of national pecuniary burdens, is a disagreeable thing to all who imme- diately profit by it, and falls within the eategory of calamities. At first, therefore, if war should be de- |clared by this country against Chili it except those would have a bad effect upon business. I know that many people entertain the conviction, based upon their own mem- ory of the results of our civil war, or up- | | on information which they have derived from the recollections of others, that this expected war would give a like im- petus to trade and industry, but I can- not agree with them. It was not until the civil war had been in progress for a year that it began to stimulate enter- prise, and then it was chiefly because of the immense additions which the ernment made to the national debt and the national and to the un- natural, activity generated by consumption of war mate- During that first year stocks and were frightfully low in_ price, real estate became unsalable and mer- chandise of all kinds fell lower than had been known for Finally, it is true, the depreciation of the not only put prices up, but it set every- body to buying goods upon speculation, as they bought gold, for a further rise, and thus it made trade lively. The rail- roads, too, which transported troops and munitions of war,charged high rates and earned great profits. Hundreds of manu- factories of arms and ammunition sprang Gov- currency, feverish its enormous rials. bonds years. greenback up, imports increased, to fill the vacuum caused by the diversion of home labor to the battlefield, and, generally, specula- tion ran riot. How unhealthy was all this seeming prosperity the crash of 1875 and the stagnation of the succeeding few years sufficiently war Chili ean reasonably be expected to yield prove. No with even a similar apparently good result, if it it would, in the same manner, at last leave us worse off and, were to do it, than we were when we began it. Equally fallacious, it seems to me, is the that, or the apprehension of war, in Europe, creates a demand for our food products, such as inference because war, we now experience because of bad har- vests there, so a war us and Chili will likewise stimulate speculation in grain and pork. A man more food as a soldier or a sailor than he bet ween consumes no does as a simple citizen, and the number of men who are going to be withdrawn from the production of food by a war with a country like Chili will not be, as it is in the case of a European war, suf- ficient to decrease the supply materially. This consideration in favor of the econom- ic benefit of the apprehended conflict is, therefore, of no value. Besides all this, it must be remem- bered that the expenses of war must be paid for in money, and that this money must be procured either by taxation or by borrowing. If it is procured by taxa- tion, the taxes will be a burden upon the industry of the nation, and will, to their full amount, with the cost of col- lecting them, go to diminish the earn- ings of every man’s labor applicable to personal expenditure. If it is borrowed, the capital borrowed will not be availa- ble for investment in other ways, and the rate of hire which other capital can command will be increased, the increase coming outof the profits of the borrower A nation cannot eatits cake and have it, too, any more than a schoolboy can. It eannot spend millions of dollars in ships and cannon and powder and retain the wealth which from the employment of those articles, or and provisions, Get would flow ‘PECK BROS., What You Ask For!? --HINKLEYS BONE LINIMENT-- FOR THIRTY-FOUR YEARS the labor they cost, in the pursuits of peaceful industry. All this, my readers will take notice, is a presentation of the purely economic aspect of the subject and is, by no man- means, a conclusive argument against war. We have the highest au- thority for saying that the life is more than meat and the body than raiment. Riches are worthless except as means to the promotion of human welfare, and human welfare sometimes demands war as imperatively as it usually requires The good and pious Dr. Samuel used to maintain under certain circumstances, law- fully aceept, although he might not send, a challenge to fight a duel, because, as remarked, he might have to fight to retain the esteem of his fellow- men, and would, therefore, fight in self- So a nation may, in. the pres- ent contingency, be forced to wage war upon Chili for the better protection of its citizens. It may be that not only Chili but other nations need to be taught by forcible means that they cannot with impunity assault and kill American citi- zens, and thus, indirectly, the cost of the war may be profitably expended by us. This, however, is leading me beyond my province, and, being only a humble eontributor to the Sun, and not its edi- tor, I will like Lord Dundreary’s dog, attempt to direct the course of the animal from my end of it. MATTHEW MAR > ‘te Sales of Liquor by Druggists. An interesting question was recently raised before Judge Buck, at Paw Paw, in the matter of a ‘‘motion to quash” in the cases of certain druggists who were arraigned on a charge of violating the loeal option law. The defense claimed that such action could not be maintained against a druggist, and that the offense was only trivial, as a violation of the general law regulating sales by druggists and registered pharmacists. The court held that a druggist who made illegal sales was on the same plane as any other transgressor of the law and that the actions were properly wrens. - i — elo ‘The Drug Mash. Foreign quinine is active and firm at the advance and higher prices are prob- able. Opium and morphia are steady. Alcohol has declined 4 cents per gallon. Quicksilver has declined. Lor f i THIS IS WHAT SON!MUST DO. CONDITIONS. The Industrial School of Bustness furnishes something superior to the ordinary course in book keeping, short-hand and type-writing, pen- mi inship, English and business correspondence. Write for a copy of Useful Education, and see why this school is worth your special considera- tion. Address, W. N. FERRIS, Big Rapids, Mich. ner of peace. Johnson that a man might, the sage defense. not, SHALL. EVERY SUCCESSFUL PiER- IT IS THE CONDITION OF CINSEZNG ROOT. We pay the highest price forlt. Address Wholesale Druggists GRAND RAPIDB, THE FAVORITE. Enclosed in White Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER, Saginaw, Mich. ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Ergot. Declined—Alcohol and quicksilver. ACIDUM. Acoticum ...... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German... 50@ 60 Pee |... 20 Carpelicum ........... RE 30 a 48@ 53 Hydrochior ........... a 5 Nitrocum Li. oe i Ores |. ws... 10@ 12 Phosphorium dil...... 20 Salicylicum ...........1 36@1 70 Sulphuricum.... -- [ao > ‘Tormicum.............1 Maps oO Tartaricum......... 38@ 40 AMMONIA. Aqua, 16 deg.. 34@ 5 4 oo Goe.......... 54@ 7 nies — 12@ 14 Cileciauma .......-.--.- 12@ 14 ANILINE, ie... wees oe ee one... 1... 80@1 00 ee... 45Q 50 eae... 2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. _ 90@1 10 Juniperus . 8 10 Xant oxylum .. 2@ 30 BALSAMUM, Conaiba..........-.--. Om S eo. e..- @1 30 Terabin, Canada ..... 35@ 40 Wititht..............- Soe Oe CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.. 18 Cassiae ..... weaserecanee EE Cinchona Flava. a . 18 Euonymus etroourp..-..... 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. ne 26 Prunus Virgini........-.. 2 Quillaia, grd........-.-- 14 Sassafras ...... .. = Ulmus Po (Ground ih) 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra 2AG, 25 isi ~~ 33@G 35 Haematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12 Y m4... 13@ 14 se ie... oe 1S s TT FERRUM. Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15 Citrate and Quinie.... @3 50 Citrate Solubie........ @ bo Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ 0 Solut Chloride.... _@ 15 Sulphate, com’).. 14@ 2 ” pure. eo * FLORA. anges... ---..---- 2G 2 Anthems ........-- -- B@ 30 Matricaria me 2 30 FOLIA. Barosm 20@ Cassia “acutifol, “Tin i nivell wo 25Q 28 - Alx. 3hG WW iyi eee, 4s a *) 129@ 15 wn Ural. eee 8@ 10 e@uMMI. Acacia, ist picked... @ 80 ‘5 24a is a @ 53 “ 3d “ @ 40 . sifted sorts. . @ . mei... 60@ 801 6 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 © "Cape, (po. 20). @ 2 © ~—- Socotri, (po. 80) . @ Ww Catechn, 1s, (445, 14 48, tac @ 1 Ammoniee ...... 55 «60 acca. (po. 335 . _@ 28 Benzoinum.....- W@ 55 —_ _en...... oe, 53 orbium po. ., oo albenum. —— @3 50 yn cn | o..... .. ma 7 Gualacum, a 30) @ wb Kino, (po. 25).. @ w Mage... ...--.----- @ sa on (po. ee @ 4 (po. 3 a. 2 10@2 15 Spelling Me dee aes teee 25@ 35 - esched. bees = 35 Tragacanth .. wees 15 HERBA—In ounce aaa Seater... .......-..... Eupatorium ............-- Pe oo. Dg ee eee eet dees 25 Majorum .............-----+- 28 Mentha Biperita. yes eeees 23 Mas... 30 aes ¥......:........ a Thymus, V 25 MAGNESIA. Caieined, Fus........-- 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat.......-. 20@ 2 Carbonate, K. & M. GQ 2% Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35Q 36 OLEUM. Absinthium. .........3 50@4 00 Amygdalae, Dulce... .. 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 Ave ........-....-. ..1 80@1 9: Auranti Cortex....... 2 50@2 75 Peeeeeen .........-..- 3 T5@A 00 Calo ...........-.. 70@ 80 Carvoonyii........... 9@ 9% oS . 8G 65 Chenopodii . Le @1 75 Ciumamont ........... 1 2@1 25 ae @ 4% Contam Mac.......... 35@ 65 I nad eee nese, 1 10@1 20 Cupenas........... . @a2tm Reccninitos.......... 2 SOB 75 a 2 25 Gaultheria . Geranium, ounc ae Gossipii, Sem. gal..... Peeters |... 6... cs: Juniper. ..... Lavendula Limonis .... Mentha Piper i Mentha Verid.........22 Morrhuac, gal...... Myrcia, ounce... Oliv o.oo Picis Lic qulda, (wa al. Ricini . Rosmarini......... 75@1 00 Rosae, ounce.... @6 50 let | ST 40@ 45 a... 90@1 00 Gata: ...... 3 50@7 00 Sassafras. . SO Sinapis, 88, ounce. | @ 65 Tiglil Lees @1 00 Thyme lie ———. oe . opt. oo @ 60 Theobromas..... 15@ W POTASSIUM. Bi Carn. ..... 15@ 18 Bichromate 13@ 14 — eee 254 27 Can . Bea os Chlorate, essisits )...... ie Cyanide : 50@ 55 lodide.. .2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, pure. . BB Potassa, Bitart, com.. @ Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Potass Nitras.... 7@ 9 Prommeie . |. ....... 28 BW Sulphate po..... 15@ 18 RADIX. Aconitum 20@ % Althne 25 30 Anchusa im «(15 Arum, po... @ Calamus 20 40 Gentiana, (po. 15)... 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 — “ drastis p pe Iris pe sat a (po. "35@33) Jalapa, pr. oo... oe Maranta, l4s.. @ 35 Po — um, po . be Rhel. ' ' 75@1 00 cut.. a @i 75 - oF................ THQ@1 35 Syigeila .... . & B Sanguinaria, (po 25). @ 2% Serpentaria ee 35@ 40 Senega .. £6 © Similax, Officinalis, B @ 4 M @ Ww Selec, (po. )........ 10@ 12 Symploe arpus, Fostl ae, 00. @ 35 Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ QF German... 15@ W Teper &........ 10@ 15 Zingiper }..... 18@ 22 SEMEN. Anignum, (po. 2)... . 15 Aplum (graveleons) 2G Ww Bird, 1s . é 6 Carui, (pe. 18}. Ge eeas 8@ 12 Cardamon. i 1 CO@1 25 Corlandrum.. . 10 22 Cannabis Sativa.. 44y@5 ~waoniims.... ..... 75@1 v0 C encpodium nee ee 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate......2 10@2 20 Poentowlum.......... @ 15 Foenugreek, po.... 6 8 1208 ... beees 2 % Lini gerd, ¢bol. 3%)... 4 ” Lobelta 40 4% har laris anarian. heen ace . Sinaple, Albu. . lara... SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 ' D. F. R.....1 Ce “ a ae Juniperis Co. oom. 1 75@1 75 a 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 75@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli........ ; 75@6 50 Vini — ae aaa 25@Q2 00 Viet Aloe. ........ i ape 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool | carriage. . -2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ ‘wool Correa 5... oi .. 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage.. 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ carriage ocak aa ie om 85 Grass sheeps’ wool car ee 4... ' 65 Hard for slate use... gt Yellow Reef, for slate ose... : i 40 SYRUPS hee... 4c. 50 Ee — eee 50 ee ES 60 Ferri Iod. e 50) Auranti C ortes. 50 Rhei Arom.... . oo Similax Offic inalis. a. Co. 50 Senega .... a 50 ee 50 =. c.....- 50 Woniten .....-. ' 50 Fronee ¢irg........ 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis _ es ba eee 50 | Aloes bo auc eee cue. 60 and myrrh. 60 We ce 50 Asetetids............ i... @ Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Benzoin. . 60 - ee ea 50 Sangulnaria.... 50 Barosma ... ; . 50 Conteaidea ae Capsicum ....:...- 50 Cua damon. 7 _ © 0. ee ee 1 00 Oe ee tee 50 | i . ee 60 ———...... 50 Conium 50 Cubeba.... 50 Digitalis . 50 Ereot.... 50 Gentian 50 . co.......... 60 Guaica ..... 50 | . ammon. 60 Zener ........ 50 Hyoscyamus 50 | Todine.. a Loe 7 Colodene a Perri Chioridum........ 35 | Kino ' 50 | Lobelia... 50 | Myrrh. ey eee de 50 aos Voore................ 50 Opii . 85 “ « ‘amphors aoe) . Deoger:.......... ..2 00 Auranbti Cortex. 50 Quagsia ....... ee 50 MOGIAy .....-. 50 Rhei..... 50 Cc assis Acutifol. eed 50 0. 5D Serpentaria ........ 50 Stromonium eH) Tolutar i oO Valerian .... 50 Veratrum Veride. 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Atther, Spte Nit,3 F.. 2%@ 2 ’ . “ 4). ae & Aen... ....,...... cae « [ — (pe. oe 3D 4 oe 55@ «60 tim | po. i 4 6 c &t Potass T. 55@ 60 Antipyrin . Loueeu @1 40 Antife a @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 64 Arsenicum . a 7 Balm Gilead. Bud.. 38@ 40 Bismuth S. N.. .2 10@2 20 ae oe i Chlor, 1s, “(KS 12). 9 C antharides Russian, po ' @1 2 Capsic! Fructus, “. Sw ' " io... @ BD ‘ “ $pe. @ Ww Caryophyllug, (po. 15) 12@ 13 Cermin me a)... @3 15 Cera Alba, Sor..... Se of Cera Flaya.. i. 38@ 40 Coccus ... alee q@ 40 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 Cemiraria........ a @ 10 Cetaceum @ 4 Chloroform . 60@ 63 equ uibbs @i 25 Chlora! Hyd Crat...... 1 25@1 50 Chondrus . W@ 2% Cinchonidine, Paw 15@ 2 German 3 @ 12 Corks, list, dis. per Ce 60 Cregsosum ........... @ WO Creta, (bbI. 75). ... @ 2 oo 5@ 5 ee: : 9@ 11 tubra.... @ & Crocus eae cu ce 0@ 3 ae @ «A Cue SO... ......- 5@ 6 eee wk. 10@ 12 Miner hale... ......... 68@ 7 2 numbers.. @ le @ &¢ easie 3 0.) SS 85@ 90 Flake White.......... 12@ 15 ae @ 2B oe % @s Gelatin, Coeper....... @ 7 French oe 0@ 60 Glassware flint, 70 and 10. by box 60and 10 Grae, Brown. ......... r Bree..... Glycerina ....... / 5 Grana Paradisi........ 22 Po e..........-... 25@ 55 Hydraag C hlor Mite.. @ Cor @ 80 . Ox Sakedan @1 10 ' Ammoniati.. @1 10 " Unguentum. 4@ 55 Hydrargyrum...... @ 7 Tehthyobolla, Am. -1 23@1 50 Indigo. +... Cr. oo lodine, Resubl.. ..0 as lodofor aa @A 70 Lown ............... ae & Lycopodium .......... ) 45 ee 75@ 80 Liquor Arsen et Hy- rane loa............ @ 2 Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12 — one (bbl 1%). a Mannia, S.F......... 38@ 40 | | —, * P. & W...1 9@2 20 | Seidlitz Mixture. ..... @ 25} Lindseed, boiled .. q _+.¢€& & a ' ' @ 18|Neat’s Foot, win ter | © Go... ... 85@2 10 opt. oe. . @ 30|_ strained... . | Moschus Canton...... @ 40} Snuff, Maccaboy, De | Spirita Tt urpentine | Myristica, No. 1. W@ 7 Voes occ eue, @ 35] a | Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ a PAINTS. (Oe Sema 22@ 25] Soda Boras, (po. 12). . 1 Red Venetian i= Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 33 | Ochre, yellow Mars i @2 00 | Soda Carb.. a 7 Hi | Pie - Liq, N 4 gal Soda, Bi-Carb. doz ‘ @2 00 | Soda, Ash..... Pieis Liq. ' ‘quarts @1 00 Soda, Sulphas. pints . . @ %&| Spts. EtherCo........ Pil Hydrarg, (po. 0). @ 50 * Myreia Dom..... Piper Nigra, (po. 2 @ 1 Myrcia Imp.. Piper Alba, (po $5). @ 3 \ Vini Rect. bbl. Px Burgan...... @ ¢ cece e eee Piumbi Acet ..... 14@ 15 Less 5¢ g Pulv is Ipecac et opii. 1 10@1 20} Strychnia Pyrethrum, boxes H | Sulphur, Subl.. ar. BD Co., dos.... @i 25 | Holl... Pyrethrum, pv. 30@ 35 | Tamarinds .. Quassiag ........ .... 8@ 10} Terebenth V enice Quinia, 8. P. & A 31@ 36] Theobromae S. German....22 @ 36| Vanilla Rubia Tinctorum.. 122@ 14} Zinel Sulph.. Saccharum Lactis Pv. @ 2 Saisein........ ..1 50@1 60 Ors. | Sanguis Draconis. . 40@Q 50 | Sentomere ..,........... 50 | Whale, winter Sano, W............... tg 14] Bard, extra. i. =... 10 ‘+12 / Lard, No. 1. = € @ mi Linseed, pure. raw | | | | | | | | | HAZELTINE triai order. DF PATENT © SWI88 VILLA PREPARED PHIRY: Fall Line of Staple Br & PERKINS DRUG CO. importers and Jobhere sa Gs CHEMICALS AND [EDICINES. DEALERS i aints, Oils 2s Varnishes. I A ALRNet aN Sele Agente fer the Dalereeind s ~~ ‘SiS SUNS. We are Sole Propristers of Weatherly's Michigan Gatarrk Remedy. ee een ee ne a We Barve mm Btock and Offer s Pali Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, ROMS. a We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction AN orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Senc in 2 Aarelting & Perkins Drug bo, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ss MICHIGAN TRADES SMAN. Grocery Price Current. APPLE BUTTER A 4 is 8 oz s. TX 1 BROOMS . . tiny 2H W i } 6 St N i D < i me t B wt F S¢ CANDLES \OKES CANNED GOODS. FISH. Clams. Little N Neck 11b “ 2 Ib Chowder Standard, i ib 9 Mustard, 3 an Tomato Sauce , sib Soused, 3 Ib. Coh umbi Alaska, 1 ie 21d i. Sardines. American Imported Mustard %s Trout. Brook, 3 lb... FRUITS. Apples. York State, gai lons Hamburgh, ‘* Apricots. [ave oak....... Santa Cruz..... Lusk’s... Overland uotations given below are 1 90 | Red | = tted Hamb urgh ich as are ordinarily and buy -5 in full packages. Blackberries io. & 4... oie ee 90 Cherries. 20 75 60 pak bd pe te Erie Le 1 30] Damsons, Egg Plums and Green ee @l 2} Gooseberries. , | Common ao. 1 10 Pie Ma xwel wnmre grated Quinces. Common bat uspberries. och peak eet ~ me 2D ee erries. = tak pa feed ed peek bak fea fe Y Pumpkin. ee a ie Squash. Hubbard ........- succotash. De Tomatoes. on CHOCOLATE—BAKER'S. German Sweet.. ...... . 22 | Premium oo 35 PN i i 38 Breakfast Cocoa........ 40 CHEESE. NE ice poe es @13 Norway @i2 i @13 @12 @10 12% | Edam @1 Limburger @10 toquefort i b35 Sap Sago o- @22 Se 5 weitzer p yrted @25 ymestic G13 CATSUP. Half pint, common. . , oo Pint . 1 0 Quart iene mat pint, fancy.,..........8 oo int eas - 20 Quart C Lenee 3 00 CLOTHES PINS. OC COCOA SHELLS, Oe . 2 Less — @3% Pound, packages... : .. 64 @T 1 49 | Lio , 60 or 100 1b. ease 1 25 _— 1 30| matin, offered buyers who pay promptly ROASTED, | COFFEE. i GREEN. | Rio. | Fair. nN 18 | Good... oe ne Ee ee... ee | Peaberry ... . . | ae Santos. a a Good .. ees hea es ee 18 ‘reery ....._... 20 | Mexican and Guatamala. [oe....... ' ‘<<. 21 | : | Maracaibo. | | Prime 19 | Milled a 20 Java. eee i ee | Private Growth...... ie Mandehling ..... oe } Mocha. 23 } a | J 26 cost of roasted . per Ib. for neat eent. for shrink scertain ad | wee 115 per mu | PACKAGE. | Arbuckle’s Ariosa | MeL ana s XXX | Lion } el’s, foil tin CHICORY 20 books. -.8 100 oe 200 ieee datians 3 00 | — . CDi ia * / 10 00 (1060 7 50) j | | CRACKERS. | Butter. Seymour XXX ot Seymour cee. ‘cartoon. in. 6% | Family XXX. oe Family XXX, ‘cartoon. 6% | | Salted we... See —— | Salted XXX, cartoon 6% | Kencsha a Leslee ed PNR meee ets cece ertaee OT Butter biscuit 6% | Soda. | eS 6 6 i Soda, City... 7% | | Soda, Duchess . -»+- 8% | [Creel Warer..........-.... 7 Reception Flakes = Oyster. | 5 Oveter SEE... ie Oe City Oyster. XXX.. .. 5% Shell Oyster.......... . 3 CREAM TARTAR. | Strictly pure i 30 | Telfer’s Absolute.. ecuicwuel 35 | Grocers’ 10@15 | . n + | DRIED FRUITS. | | Domestic, ' | APPLES. | Sundried, sliced in bbls 5 ‘ quartered ‘ 5 | Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 7@7% | : APRICOTS. | California in bags on 8% | Evaporated in boxes. 11% | BLACKBERRIES. | In barrels.... 4% C—O 434 | NECTAR INES, CL Lei T% 35 lb. boxes. :.. 8 @8% | Peeled, ‘ 12 Cal.evap. “ od owt 18 . ° im bees... .. 7 @s8% _ PEARS. California in bags .....7 @8% PITTED CHERRIES, ao... a 11 om bores 11% Dm ss “ 12 PRUNEL 30 Ib. boxes... 12% - RASI IES In barrel | 17 50 Ib. heckon ‘ 17% oi, Sw i s Foreign. } CURRANTS, | Patras, in barrel oa. c. @ 4% { in %-bbls.. @ 4% in less quantity @ 4% PEEL a « ox | Cltron, Leghorn, 2 2 Cotton, 40 ft per doz. 1 25] fFemon horn so boxes s ce ond sé o m — 50 ft. . 140) Orange “ oF Fe OU It... 1 bf >A 76 Tt 1 7% RAISINS, 80 ft ‘ 1 90| Domestic. al 60 ft 00 | London layers 2 crown....1 40 v2 tt 00 _ 1 65 Hc . fancy 1 85 CONDEN Loose Muse atels, boxes.....1 25 4 doz. in case. 70 1b bags 5144@6 mere |. ws ' 7 40 Foreign. Crown . 6 25 | Ondura, 29 lb. boxes... 74@ 7% Genuine Swist............ 8 00 | Sultana, 20 | American Swiss.. .... 7 00 | Valencia, 20 | PRUNES, coul PON BOOKS ° Bosnia..... cs @ California, 990x100 25 Ib. bxs. 9 _ 89x90 “ ..9% C Ti x80 ” .-9% o 60x70 " 934 Turkey eT 6 ENVELOPES, XX rag, white No. 1, 6% $1 75 Co 1 60} ‘ i No, 1,6 . 1 65 | ie at No. 2, 6 1 50} ise : zz ‘wood, whi te | lan, = an) oe 1 13 a. gO | No. 2, 634 135 | 29° cit 5 00 | M anilla, white. I ' | 6% ee a Le 1 00 | “Superior.” “Ea Gain 95 18 1, per hundred........... 250] aay) w _ eT $09 | ME! No. 4........ 100 ee ed igo Scr ee ceenees .. 400] — oe rARIN [O08 S | B20; : | FARINACEOUS GOODS. | Farina, | a 4 i Hominy. | IS ae 3 75 | lg i a Sn FG 4 50 : “Universal. | |$ 1, per hundred.......... 83 00 Lima Beans. i g 2, een a ee 5 2 9 “ ‘ <> la -. 4 | face aroni and Vermicelli. 1d v9 oe | 810 Ee eg 6 ae | Dor nestic, 12 lb. box. 56 | | go) “ an 7 00 DO os occ en ce 104.@11% | a. . | Above prices on coupon books | Pearl Barley. jare subject to the following | OBB owe coon n even snes se @3% | quantity discounts: Peas, | | la | | 200 or over......... 5 per cent, | Green, bu. | ee 10 sc i | Split, bbl | Pe kanes 20 Sago. | | | German be he ed nieces 4% | COUPON PASS BOOKS. | East India..... aes 54% ’ ' ' | [Can be made to represent any | Wheat. denomination from #10 down.| | Cracked.......... ole ceca 5 FISH--Salt. muses Yarmouth.. Pollock Bly | RICE, Domestic. ' oS | BrPOKOM. os cnces.. Whole, ‘cca Bank... 6 @6% | Boneless, bricks ...... 74@8 Soneless, strips.. 74%@s Halibut. Smoked ..... eee 12 Herring. NE, ccc ete ecncuee 20 | Holland, bbls 19 50} kegs 7 Round shore, 3 00 | ‘ “ 1 50 | estou, i. Wo. 1, %& Dbia. SO ihe........ 11 60 No. 1, Kits, tee... ee 12 Family, % bbls., 100 lbs.... 5 50 . Sits, PO 16. ...2... 7% Sardines. Russian, kegs..........3. = Trout. No. 1, % bbis., 100ibs........ 5 75 Bio, 1, bite, WO e.....-- ss... so Whitefish. No. 1, % bbls., 100Ibs........7 75 | No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs......... Family, % bbls., 100 ie.... 50 _ kits 10 IDe......... 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’ D C, Lemon. Vanilla 202 folding box.. 95 1 2 3 02 4 00 1 50 4 0z ug 1 50 2 00 6 0z " . 2 00 3 00 83 0z Bi ..3 00 4 60 GUN POWDER. ie ek 5 50 Half kegs 20 HERBS. Be... 4u ia ihe woke cn ae Pee eee cia eee Cle INDIGO, Madras, 61h. boxes....... 55 Ss. F., 2, 3 and & ib. boxes. ; 50 JELLY. Chicago goods. @3 Mason's, 10 20 and 30 Ibs.. 6 " Bie ee 7 LICORICE. Pure Lee ue eel bi eee een ae Camere... .. a Sicily. i. LYE. Condensed, = Goe...........) @ ne ie 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian. 4% Mixed Bird ss acess 44@ 5% Mustard, white:...... § eee 9 Rape .. ie tas 6 Cuttle bone ...... 30 STARCH, Corn. Oe 6% hee ee 6% Gloss, Lene. Re 6 3- ee ee eee 6 oib NS! 6% 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 4% Barrels ieee aces ee SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars..........- 35 french Rappee, in Oare..... 43 soDa. I ee cee 5he acm ge . . 4% SAL SODA. i ee 1% Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SALT 100 3-Ib. sacks.. ‘los «oo 60 5-Ib 2 00 28 10-lb. sac EE 1 85 ee ee 2 2 |243-lb cases. 150 56 lb. dairy in linen. bags. 50 i, * — lhl Warsaw. | Barrels, 1,200 count........84 25 | 56 1b. dairy in drill bags... 35 Half barrels, 600 count 265/28)b. ** ‘ - . = Small, Ashton. Barrels, 2.400 count ... 5 25 | ae 1p . ‘ ee 6 Half barrels, 1,200 count... 2 85 56 Ih. dairy meee a. © PIPES. | 56 lb, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Clay, No. 216........ aaa Solar Rock. T D. fullcount........ 75 | 56 1b, sacks. . oh wa Be 1 25 Saginaw and Manistee. | Common Fine per bbl..... POTASH. | : 48 cans in case. SALERATUS. 0 ee 4 { ke Penna Sait Co.’s.......... 3 25] aaa = 7. ROOT BEER ee i ES Ege 3 30 Williams, per doz... ..... 1%) Dwight’s.... ... ». +++» - $90 $ doz. case... ... 5 00| Taylor’s....... cint see coessne OOO THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 SOAP. TEAS . . Smoking. White . @8 DEERSKiINS—Per pound 4 +e , ie LAUNDRY. sgapan—Regular. hoes ‘ r, per box ~ 2 eB op ea cra | PAPER & WOODENWARE Thompson & Chute Brands, ee @it Colonels C pees -- wee ES ae a hin and ‘ ereen | c Silver, 10012 0z............33 65 | Good ... @» |W ih ne 4 | Standards, per gal ta Snow, 10010 oz ....... a A2B oe oo a i Mono, 1001202 .. Choicest oan interne eu cec ceases i aa ee e aA Ring 666. ......... a German Family, 6011» Dust ( } Bee. ..... iota ue ir Be “6 ~~ 1 ta Rin ied |. .......... : = a ie ioe Nigger He: on Laundry Castile, 75 1 1b n Fe eee hi a a aa a Marbled, 75 1 1b i rel Fair Le a Leo. @AT Ania’ ek _ y is Savon Improved, 60 1 ih...’ Good .. ............... ) oo ... est) ee! Jute Mar My Sunflower, 100 10 0z.. Choice....... ee Rob Re , Revcons Wald a Olive, 100 10 oz... Choicest... = @ Unel C No ig Golden, 80 1 1b ; Dust 10 @Ii2 ote : Economical, 30 2 1b BASKET FIRED. : Standard, 30 2 1b Fair a : ' ae ’ Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands, ripe hh aaah iy | Red cl oe . t Choice | Red Clover.... 5 oops 1 Old Country, 80 1 ~ . 3 301 spent ‘saws moos ove HELL GOODS. Straight, in sack : 16 Good Cheer, 60 tye acu. eo OO . J... nasi Oysters, per 100 ......1 25@1 5 ‘ i pe | White ee aT : ban Extra choice, wire leaf » Al) : andmade...... cl jams . 75@1 aa Pate H cu ‘5 gq AD.....- o 0 ro¢g este ib onl v i ng f Proctor & Gamble GUNPOWDER. well ' pe Sly | noo ae o . } > ~ * e Concord ....... _...-- 2601 Common to fair.......% @35 i HIDES, PELTS and FUR Graham WOODENWARE, : Ivory, 10 OZ... -..- ee eee 6 75 | Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | 40gr le | Perkins & eee pay of fo! | Rye | , NO, I 7 00 I aaa ea enn : = Choicest fancy........75 @85 Cea 9 | lows: MILLSTUFPS. No, 2 ce He kee (he kmecnd ue 3 6 : " Sif § . DES | if D 3 > OO Mottled Gauan | 3 15 OOLONG. 26 $1 for barrel. HIDES eee 16 00 | sis "9 3 " Town Talk cance cess BOG) Commons We fale... 23 @30 ee | ios sured : id boa Ni x TOILET. CL Pak, wer eek 4... ... 30 | Full “ira Mi ; i, i : : . t sam, on as 3 75 | Common to fair 22 O26 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 17 | is —— a ' . - 45 00) Bowls uf + ¢ © int t eee ae Tome! isTY . } ree meai..... lt OO] ocoa Castile, 24 Ib.... 3 00] Superior tofine........30 @35 rEastT—-Compressed, Kips, green a > > ; 4 COR} j FCOURING ee POLISHING. : YOUNG HYSON Fermentum per doz. cakes 5 | et a... | 2 j Silverine, 100 12 3 50 ; 3 | Outer Sight......... pg @ 8 Beaver castors, ‘Tb.....2 00@5 00 | ! { NEW YORK. DETROIT. M. BOoUR & CO., PROPRIETORS OF EAGLE SPICE MILLS, Selected with especial reference to Fine Drinking Qualities. Manufacturers and Millers of High (57 (S00d8. Office and Salesroom, 140 SUmmit St,, "TOL Ft). c) Mills, 189 Water St. We are represented in Michigan as follows: China, India, Ceylon and Japan Teas. Direct mporters Private Plantation Gollees. Eastern Michigan, P. V. Hecu_erR Southern and Northern Indiana, M. H. Gasser. Western Michigan, T. Frrauson [Old Fergy”. | ©w } THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PRODUCE MARKET. medi ked pea or mailer mand at 18@20c. Fac PROVISIONS. Rapids Packing and Provision Co, quotes as follow RK IN BARRELS. Mess, new . : 12 00 E—Fresh and Smoked LARD, N BARRELS. 200 ) ibs ene : 6 50 Cr bekery & (Gis No. 0 Sun | 45 pak i . 2 LAMP CHIMNEYs.—Per box. Butte r Crocks, ‘I and 2 Le 3 to 6 gal nen (ae 06% Jugs, yea. eee 7 ‘“ ee . ‘ ss Milk Pans, % gail., per doz. thy id 1 ‘et “e (glazed 75e) ce .” =. 72 demand. Choice iSSware | CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Prancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Lemon Drops....... Sour Drops ..... ....-.-..-.- 2.202. -s sess eee Peppermint Drops. en Ea Chocolate Drops............ H. M. Chocolate — ences Gum Drops. " Licorice Drops.. Le 1 00 A. B. Licorice Drops. oe. oT Lozenges, —— 60 ' praees.... le Imperials. . eee eees cee a Mottoes. ee eee enn Molasses Bar.. oe end Mate roe Plain Creams. Decorated Creams............-.... sone or er. 65 Burnt Almonds.. SS Winkusween Bevieg €0 CARAMELS. | MoO. 1, weepped, 2. bores................. 34 No. 1, - 3 e ee mo. 2, r 2 a 28 Ko. &, ' 3 eee Cee 2 mene on. 5 eee... 90 ORANGES. Floridas, fancy. | rT ehobee. oo. ce ee ee cae oo oe nie oe a. { LEMONS Messina, jcuenee, oe... --...-.,... on @4 25 fancy, 360... a @ oo ee... @4 50 —-...............,. @ OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Fig a, fancy layers, 6b.. ee ae 14 @I15 extra i... @16 fo Pe @1li% Dat ates, Fard, 10-Ib. box. Lehane @9 Se @s ws Persian, 50-Ib. box............... @ 5% NUTS. Almonds, Co @17 —...... @ neapapicamlgoma atte Teas Hu suede cau al os Bil6 [a oe 7%R@ 8 Filberts . Pee eee @13 | Walnuts, Grenoble. @14 ee @ ee @10 | Table Nuts, er... lc @13 ee a ‘11 @i2 iain Zeon 1 OF. ..-..-- tet ee | Cocommats, Fut] GRGES............. -..2- @ 0 PEANUTS. Fancy, H. P., meee @ 5% eo 7 @T%K Fancy, i. P., Flag —— eee @ 5% SS SS 7 @™% Choice, x. P., WO eee ee @ 4% ‘** Roasted 6 @6% If you have any beans and want tosell, | we want them, will give you full mar- ket price Send them to us in any quantity up tocar loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. W. T. LAMOREAUX & 60., 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Seemann, per i... ................ 6 ie ra ae... 8 : C ee en 6 . Boston Cream ....... «.. 20 lb. cases 84 or ee : 8 Sea EH, O... .-cases 7 8 MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls Pails eee a a i... CC 4 eee 644 T% — co oe 8 Rawlins ock. .............. 8 8 een 8 Broken Taffy ...... .. baskets 8 PosmetSquarcs.........._. & 9 French Creams.......... as 10 nas Creams...... El 13 Midget. 30 Ib. baskets. . i... eS Sade, co. - 5 FaNcy—In bulk. Full Weight. Pails Lozenges, Se 10 . eee Cece eos... 11% Chocolate Monumentals................... 13 a ee 5% oor... eee ee | Sour Drops. ....... ee 8% ———.... ., Per Box GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN —, = —_ ee — a | J os — ce [luminating and Lubricating —-OlTlLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. BULK WORKS3 AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MAWNISTEE, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, JONTA, ALLEGAN HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR CADILLAC, L.UDINGTON. Works, Butterworth Ave. KMPYY GARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. W. H. WHITE & CO., BOYNE CITY, MICH. Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, ate ene = | | nal | 6 sh Ww Ay S S&S 8 manne & CO*SS \ a AIT E&Co oon ‘Boyne Falls re TIMBER os R DeerLake /s 4 | 9 2 = Oo a! S iY E.Jordan . % * Raq JUBINVILLE MILL s¢ ¢ | tii) ) ao jm 2a Ls i Product taken by a oy Sy DATITE & CO. = Bh | ‘7pd) jf oe i “ by ot 3 o* “¥ | Ly eh? . o 2 OfFSouth Arm Scale + + * | ‘/e5 7 ane SWAN C0. : v = ¥ follows: Boyne City mill, 7,000,600; facilities for shipment are unsurpassed, either by rail or water. 2,000,000. We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3,000,000 feet hemlock, as Boyne Falls mill, 3,000,009; Deer {Lake mill, : Our ae oa ae + THE HISiORY OF AN EGG. Written for THE TRADESMAN What a space it fills in the economy of nature, containing, as it does, such a great amount of nutrition and so little | waste material, and endowed with that favor peculiar to itself which seems to | meet the taste of all. How few farmers, when they gather this precious article for the market, and how few grocers, as they count them by the half-dozen or dozen into baskets for their daily customers (and they only as} far as the general preparation for the table is concerned), give any thought to theirformation. All, however, are aware that, once broken, it is beyond the skill of the best workman or finest chemist to | unite its fragments and again restore the shape of the egg. We are unable to study its manner of growth as to. formation in the body of | the hen, and so must content ourselves in studying the newly laid egg after the proud fowl has left the nest. invested by an outer porous covering, salled the shell, which salts of lime, deposited in an organic basis. The inside of the shell is lined | with a toughish, opaque membrane, ealled the shell This shell membrane has the appearance, in a fresh egg, of a single membrane, but, upon close examination, two be distinguished. tained in an egg only a few days old by holding it between the eye and the light, as the two membranes then have a ten- dency to separate at the large end of the egg. A cavity between the membranes is thus formed, through which the passes. This cavity is called the chamber. The development of the air chamber is due to the shrinkage of the albumen, or white of the maused by its evaporation through the pores of the shell. Next to the shell membrane we come to the white of the egg, or, as it is tech- nically called, the albumen. This al- buminous fluid is of two kinds, one being of greater density than the other. The one of greater density lies next to the shell, a similar one investing the yolk, membrane. membranes air air egg SS: while a fluid of less density lies between the two of greater density. This fluid of less density contains a fibrous net- work, which also contains fluids, extend- ing from the yolk on either side nearly to the shell membrane, which in the albu- men bear the resemblance of two woolly looking, twisted cords. These cords, when examined with a lens, have the appearance of opaque white knots band- ed together; hence the word ‘‘hailstones” is sometimes applied to them. ‘Their use is to act as elastic pads to keep the yolk in position. We next come tothe yolk. mass of yellow material, enclosed in a very thin and delicate membrane, which may be easily creased, and is called the vitelline, or yolk membrane. The yolk is made up entirely of two kinds of cells, one being lighter in color than the other. The lighter ones form what we call the white yolk; the others, which are much greater, form the yellow yolk, through which the white yolk is disposed. neath the yolk membrane is a thin layer of white yolk, which is connected by a flask-shaped mass of the same material, occupying the center of the general body of the yolk. Several thin layers of white yolk are arranged through the mass, con- centric with the external layers resting This isa 3e- We find it | is composed of | can | | This is easily ascer- | ‘TEE: ! ;on the yolk. Resting on the yolk mem- {brane is a small, disk-like body, about one-eighth of an inch across, which, if | closely examined, will exhibit two more .or less well-defined parts, or outer white | rings; an inner’ transparent circular | space in white dots is usually seen, | ; termed the ‘‘blastema,” from which, and it alone, the chick is developed, the re- } mainder of the yolk serving only asa} nutriment for it until it is hatched. The central clear space is called the pel- lucid area, and the outer white ring, the | opaque area. Itis inthe former area that the chick is formed, the opaque area giv- | ing rise to temporary structure, which | serves a purpose ending with the hatching. | The blastema rests upon the top of the | | flask-shaped mass of white yolk, between | | which and its lower side is a cavity filled | | with contains a few} The blastema | which | | consists of two layers of cells, the upper clear fluid minute, floating cells. layer extending beyond the edges of the | |lower one and resting upon the white | yolk, giving rise to the opaque area. In preparing a fowl for cooking we | ifind the egg inamuch different form. Various numbers and sixes are observed is called the in little capsules in what legge bag, all being of a spherical shape. |They resemble the yolk of an egg in | color, and are enclosed in a delicate mem- brane. Each of these is the egg proper, jand it contains the germinal disk, which | 'eontains a bladder-like body called the germinal vesicle. Inside this again isa small ealled the spot. When this ovum is ripe, the capsules burst and discharge into a long tube with muscular walls, which is termed the |oviduct. In_ this the accessory structures are added to the ovum, to con- vert it into the egg ready for laying. In the upper portion of the oviduct the white of the egg is deposited around the yolk; next, the shell and shell membrane which process takes from twelve to eighteen hours. From this description it will be seen i that an egg, although seemingly a small affair, is really a complex object. W. M. GIBBs. a me His Wife’s Pride. From the Wilmington News. The wife of an employe of a Pennsyl- vania railroad gave a very amusing ex- hibition of family pride in adry goods store a few days ago. Her husband isa very tall thin man, the chest measure of his clothing is very small, and when he buysunderclothing he gets the smallest size. His wife is a very large woman. She had gone into a store to purchase underclothing for her husband, and, while standing at the counter, a little bit of a woman came in, and, seeing the goods being displayed, said: spot germinal tube formed, is “That is what I want—some under- shirts for my husband. Number 33, please.” ‘“‘What number will you have?” said the salesman, addressing the first woman. ‘No. 38, please,” was the reply. The two women bought the same size garments, one buying for a big-chested |and the other for a narrow-chested man. When the latter took her purchase home | and displayed it to her husband, he was | astonished to find the shirts too big. He said: “What did you buy such big shirts for?’’ ‘‘Because.”’ | ‘Because what? I[ can’t wear them.’’ | | ‘f don’t care. I was not going to| | stand alongside of a little bit of a woman and buy shirts fora little bit of a man when she was buying shirts for a great big one. If you haven’t any pride I have; thai’?s why I bought the shirts.’’ ee Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | the Great Feat! i He has great feet, but they are great feat that WapHAM's }REASE can be relied upon nothing GRAPHITE to perform time. To try it onceis to become an al | voeate of it. To praise it too highly is i A BOWNRE, President ble nl nt ble. D. A. r, Vice-President. . W. Nase, Cashier CAPITAL, - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. Barnett Bros. . Commission Merchants AND DEJ Apples, Dried Fruits, \ ArRiL 25th, 1881. | Wadhams Oil & Grease Co., Milwaukee: Dear Sirs—For the past year I have been usin your Graphite Axle Grease and have found i will do better work than any other grease in the market. Yours truly, e Putiurp ScHaReETr, Barn Foreman, On 10NSe Jos, Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis aX, ae Twenty-five years’ « faciliti Refer by permission paper. xperience and ample es for the transaction of business. the editor of this Lo Wagon Jack Free Vrite for information which wil We are sending to every dealer whe } N walt a TT ormation which will handles “GRAPHITE AXLE GKEAsE,” | be cheerfully furnished. one Daisy Wagon Jack, worth $1, to be | BARNETT given to the holder of the printed order | 159 So. Water St. contained in one of the 1-lb. boxes in each | H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Wadhams Oil & Grease Co, Milwaukee, Wis, and Seattle, Wash,’ Carpet Linings, | And All Kinds of Geo. H. Reeder & Co., | Roofing Materials, JOBBERS OF BROS. , Chicago. For sale by all Grocers, Hardware Dealers, Harness Dealers and by the Manufacturers. Wholesale and Retail Jobbers of Building Papers Coal Tar and BOOTS & SHOES) ona Products Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. We mak f the seaml | ready root t oO e se less asphalt J id two State Agents for | which is far superior to shin n cheaper. We are practical 1 s of nty-five years’ W nm ¢ Ss snhOW e wants | Cor. LOUIS & CAMPAU STs., |'Grand Rapids, Mich Ought to Send At Once For Sample Sheet and Prices. with Journals bound Philadelphia Pat, Flat opening back. The Strongest Biank Book Ever Made. Of Ledgers and SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, | CUTS tr BooM EDITIONS PAMPHLETS 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. For the best work, at reasonable prices, address | THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. indi THE GOLDEN KEY j i | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. play no small figure in attracting and hold- ing customers. Even if all that idea about By Which the Merchant Achieves | buying where goods are cheapest is or is Success. From the Dry Goods Economist. Allow me to reply here to the question, ‘‘What are the substantials of a success- ful merchant’s capital in trade?” Man and money must be working part- ners. Money must have the effort of man to produce results. Man can start with assistance of capital and become a capitalist himself. Whether you have capital plenty or have to run close in the wind, the only way to succeed in either case is to ‘‘push things.” Some say, ‘‘If 1 only had capital Icould make money.”’’ | { | not wholly correct, you can add to that some business by attention to these mat- ters. It’s the increase and ‘‘add to” that we areafter. Thereis a heap o’ digging | and it takes a right smart digger to to get I contend that capital needs the man! more than man needs the capital. How many successful merchants have started | only a} without any, and others with small] capital, and are to-day doing busi- ness on the enormous results of their enormously intelligent efforts, which result always in enormous capital! What would that paltry $2,000 amount to in the bank at 4 per cent., beside what it has amounted to by the effort of a lively man? Why dol speak of it here? Because | hear so many retail men telling what they would deif they had capital. Now, let me tell you this: If the necessities of the case warrant; if due deliberation and intelligent investigation all agree in assuring you that the move is wise, do it, capital or no capital. The increase to your business by the move, if carefully and heroically followed up, will increase your capital, and you will be called a success. Sit still and tell what you would do if you only had the capital, and never get over doing a ‘thard-pushed, sit-still” business. Always keep the confidence of those firms whoare selling you goods. Let your plans be fully understood by them. ~ m * Here are a few more of the essentials: A clerk who has the interest of his em- ployer at heart; a clerk who will be ealking the vessel so there will be no leaks; a clerk who tries always to keep the stock on his mind, so that whenever the opportunity comes in showing goods, where size 814, or 514 yards, or 7 buttons, or °¢ yard ruching is what the customer is after, he is found showing these in connection with other goods, and, unbe- known to the customer, presenting them rather more heartily than some of the others shown; a clerk who. suggests something to his employer or head of department; a clerk who cares whether stock is large or small stock day; a clerk who can create an interest in your store by his knowledge of his business: not a know-it-all knowledge, but a knowledge when it has opportunity and is asked for impresses with respect. * Another essential is that the merchant himself knows what is going on ‘‘all over the lot;” amerchant who has that interest in his business himself which begets the interest of others; a merchant who knows how to distinguish between a think - it -is-a-good-thing-to-have-in-stock stock and an earnestness about having it in stock which will get right under the lot and make it move; a merchant who is not influenced by the promises of sudden wealth to invest in outside pro- jects when whatever capital he can spare is trying to speak out and tell him he needs to do thus and so, his business de- mands it, the public will recognize it. The result will be positive and a sue- Cess. *% How does your store look? Could you add to your spring business by any repairs, painting, addition of new department? Just as important a part these things play as does the buying of goods. You would not like to have your goods shipped in passe eases. No, you would be ashamed to have customers passing your store see these cases unloaded for you. Now, just go through the inside of your store and see if you need to be ashamed of the frame to the picture you are about to create with handsome spring fabrics. True, people like to buy their goods where they can get them cheapest, but neatness, dispatch and accommodation much of the root. dollars. Will you dig with a clodded, dull spade or a bright, keen one? The ‘‘root’? means Keep a stub of events and a stub of goods slaughtered. These will become a part of the records of your business organization and you will be suprised how you ever did without them. Keepa stub of events of the bright things done by any in the trade. These will be good to show you your pace. Why is it that you don’t know that people in your town are sending by mail and buying goods years ahead of the | times you seem to know anything about? Successful storekeeping is not the art of having goods to sell. Successful storekeeping is not havinga big stock. Successful storekeeping is not the art of selling goods at a low price. Successful storekeeping is not many, many offerings of job lots. Successful storekeeping is the result of intelligent, active, earnest effort to serve the educated demands of a critical public. Todothis is not a mechanical think-so, ought-to, guess-it-will effort. Rather it is, and let it be, an anticipat- ing, permeating, investigating, authori- tative, substantial ‘‘it-shall effort.’? Mer- chants with small stocks and small stores think they have not got to do much. No, you have not, if you wish to be justas you are always, and then when your town gets its boom and is adapted and calls for larger offerings of stock and effort, you are surprised that you are stunted, and a chap comes to town with a flash in his eye and a determined demeanor. opens up and flashes his ideas and light into every nook and corner thereabout. What you thought were little things, you are paralyzed to see your community think are splendid ideas, just in touch with what they longed for, had heard about but had never been given any conception of by you. _—_——— <> Detroit Business Notes. Derroit, Jan. 25—Jacob Brown & Co., who have long been identified with the jobbing trade of Detroit as jobbers of no- tions and manufacturers of pants, over- alls and socks, being owners of the Alas- ka Sock Co., have concluded to remove their business to Chicago, having accepted the offer of a land syndicate in the Southern portion of the city to deed them three acres of land and present them with $35,000 cash as an inducement to them to make a change of base. The lo- cation accepted is near the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad and is convenient to sever- al other railway lines. Work on the necessary buildings will be begun at once, the intention being to begin manu- facturing operations in the Windy City by July 1. The firm has the lease of a portion of the Bagley block, now in course of erection at the corner of Bates and Larned street, but will probably ex- perience no difficulty in finding a pur- chaser for the same. : Schloss, Adler & Co. also have a lease of a portion of the same building and ex- pect to remove from their Jefferson ave- nue store to the new location about June 1. John D. Mangum, wel! known to the trade of Western Michigan, now covers the Upper Peninsula and Northern Min- nesota for Schloss, Adler & Co. Thos. R. Hagerty is covering the Wisconsin trade for the same house. The Grocery Market. Sugar is a little higher. Sauerkraut is higher. brands of starch, except Golden Grain. Whitefish is higher. Pickles are selling more freely. Fresh oysters are in better supply, the latter now being equal to the demand. Prices are weak anda decline is not im- probable. Kingsford has declined all his | Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect January 10, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15am 7:05 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 am For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 2:00pm 4:15 pm | For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10pm 10:30 pm From Kalamazoo and Chicago. 8:35 pm | | | Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily | except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. : Arrive from Leave going North South. ee NN sewed ce 6:20am 7:60 am For Kalamazoo and Chicag 10:30 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm | ee Se, 5:30 p m 6:00 pm ieee vtec de enue 10:40 p m 11:05 p m ee ee 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. 7:00 am 0:l0am 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:40 pm 9:05 pm SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 11:30 am train.—Parior chair car G’d Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:30 m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train. —Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 11;05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & I. RB. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 am 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 3:55 pm 9:00 p m 10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sieeping Car Lv Chicago 7:05am 3:10 p m 10:10 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2.00 pm 8 35 pm 5:15 am 3:10 pm through Wagner Parlor Car. i0:10 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. 11:05 p m 6.50 am Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk ¢ offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo, VIA D., L. & H. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo at ..... ---1:10 p. m. and 11:0) p. m., Vis DD. &. BE. 2 Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a, m. and 3:45 p. m. Ar, Toweae a¢.........,. 4:20 Dp, mm, And 17-00 bom, Return connections equally as good, y. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W. Baxer & (0-s , Breakfast Je (Coco Is Absolutely Pure and itis Sotuble. \ Unlike the ‘Dutch Process _¥\ No alkalies o1 Fi /i\\\ other chemicat: a ; or dyes are usec a in its manufac: - ture. Ohio. A description of the chocolate Jant, and of the various cocoa anc hocolate preparations manufac- ured by Walter Baker & Co., wil xe sent free to any dealer or ipplication. ¥. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass STANTON, MOREY & CO., DtTROIT, MICH. —-———— MANUFACTURERS OF PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls, Every garment made by us strictly on honor and if it RIPS return it tothe merchant that it was purchased of and get a new one. Our line of shirts for 1892 is second to none in America. | MIGHIGAN CENTRAL | arrive in G “* The Niagara Falls Route.’ DEPART. ARRIVE ROT I, onc es ec se esce cas 7:00am 10:00pm es idee eu nee ed aoe 7:06am 4:30 pm PO PO ices eke ce 1:20pm 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific Express......... 10:30pm 6:00am er CO ci hee ucs 5:40pm 12:40pm *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express | trains to and from Detroit. Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at7a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 p. m. d Rapids 10 p. m. FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe 8t. A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. MUNSON, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. RvuGGLEs G.P. & T. Agent., Chicago. eae YIME TABLE SATAN NOW IN EFFECT. peeia WA lial EASTWARD, Trains Leave G’'d Rapids, Ly tNo. 14/tNo. 16/tNo. 18/*No. 82 ia Dt 6 50am/1) 20am) 3 25pm/10 55pm fonia ........Ar| 7 45am/11 25am! 4 27pm /12 37am St. Johns ...Ar) 8 28am/12 17pm! 5 20pm) 1 55am Owos -. Ar) 903am/ 1 20pm) 6 ¢5pm/ 3 15am KE. § 7..Ar|10 iano] 3(5pm| 8 Opm] 8.45am Bay -.-Ar)1i 30am] 3 45pm) 8 45pm) 7.:0ain Fi .....At}10 05am} 3 40pm)! 7 (5pm) 5 40am Pt. Huron...Arj1i 55am] 6 00pm! 8 50pm! 7 30am Pontiac ..Ar/10 53am} 3 05pm} 8 25pm] 5 37am I 4 PeUrOns....- 4 Arj11 50am] 405pm) 925pm)| 7 00am WESTWARD, |/*No. 81 No. 11 [fNo. 13 G’d Rapids, Lv am) 1 vopm| 5 10pm Gd Haven, Ar 8 35am) 2 10pm] 6 15pm Rinses fe ne Chicago Str. ‘“‘ Be *Daily. +tDaily except Sunday, Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a, m., 12:50 a. m., 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p, m. Trains ive from the west, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 Pi i —No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet . 15 Chair Car. No. $82 Wagner Sleeper. ward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager. Ben FLetcuER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND WES! MICHIGAN R’Y, JAN’Y 3, 1892, GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.Gk'D RAPIDS...... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. CHICAGO..........3:65pm 5:15pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAGO ..... - 9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS.....3:55pm 10:10pm *6:10am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST. JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS, Ly. Grand Rapids 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....*6:10am 3:55pm 10:10pm For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only. TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Ly. GR 10:0Cam 12 05pm :30pm ar. Go. m..... 10:55am 3 55pm 5:25pm . - ?0 AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK RAPIDS, 8:30pm Ly. Grat ..7:25am 5:17pm Ar. Grand Rapids .11:45am 9:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago—Wagner l e Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m.; leave gy 15pm. Drawing Room Cars—Leave ud Rapids 12:05 pm; leave Chicago 4345 p m. Free Chair Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 9:00 am; leave Chicago 9:00 am Between Grand Rapids and Manistee—Free Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids 5:17 pm; leaves Manistee 6:50 a m. en, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. GR’'D RAPIDS - 7:15am *1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. DDTROIT.. .......12:00m *5:16pm 10:40pm RETUKNING FROM DETROIT. Lv. DETROIT.......... 7:00am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar. GRD RAPIDS.....11:50am *5:!5pm 10:15pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, d Rapids... Lv. Grand Mapids......°........ 7:05am 4:15pm Ar. Craig TABOOS. 0... -.....,.. 11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R, R. Lv. Grand Hapids........ 7:15am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 1iteem S:isom ...... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Detroit — Parlor ears on all trains. Seats 25 cents Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 am; arrives in Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents, *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen, Pass’r Ag’t. STUDY LAW AT HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Correspon- ence school of Law {incor on Send ten cents [stamps] for particu- lars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. 375 Whitney Block, DETROIT, - MICH, SR ere an arated ebb dct te coors cab aaron ASE eet ae RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.. ' Manufacturers of Boots & Shoe es, Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Send us your mail | orders and we will try | and fill them to your | satisfaction. We have | the new line of ~ Grand Ravids Storage & Transfer Co, vine Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton &t,, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. General Warehovsemen and Transfer Agents, COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND Storm Slips ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES. @ in cotton and wool lined | for ladies; alsothe —| Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En- Northwest gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, or a 1 , a rs ° Roll Edge Plows, Pumps, Car ts, Wagons. Buggies, W ind Mills at oe and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. Hur a aud Troneane | i verte ms | Pelephone No. 945. J. ¥. F. BLAKE, Sup't. IF YOU WANT f ACCEP® NONE BUT : a ies i Sauerkraut. Order this Brand from Your Wholesale Grocer! ‘““You can fool some of the people all of the time, and , all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all a | the people all the time.” Spri J le & Co I ) pan Vs, ~ o The Tradesman Conpon Book IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN is what the people will have after having been fooled Dress Goods, Shawls Cloaks * * » . 1“ : ' 3 @ once or twice into using something said to be just as i ' : cit. Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well : assorted stock at lowest market prices. ( » ‘ Spring & Company. laa. Vertis LAT HS Tr’! 4 Good as the Best and Five Times Cheaper. THE “SIMPLEX” Cash Regist Price, $35.00 } Simple and Durable! PERKINS,*& RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St, Grand Rapids. P. STEKETEE & SON WERLOLESAILLE URY GUUUS & NUTIONS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. so. NEW PROCESS # IMPROVED GABINEY GASOLINE RANGE IT TAKES THE LEAD OVER ALL OTHER MAKES, No. 6 “NEW PROCESS” CABINET RANGE. MANUFACTURED BY The Standard Lighting Company, CLEVELAND, OHIO It has many improvements over last year. The Oven Burner is on a swivel, and will swing around under the oven when wanted for baking, or it can be used as shown fo1 cooking, or to put a wash boiler on. There is a mica window in the flue, so the burner can be seen without stooping, the bottom of oven is on a level with the top of the stove, which is very desirable, and is stationary, but can be « sasily removed by loosing a set screw. The RESER- VOIR has been greatly improved, the needle point valves are German silver which will not rust or corrode. No smoking, flooding or odor, if directions are followed. ONLY ONE j FIRM in a town allowed to handle them. Ask for quotations’ and secure the agency. = 96 : We are the Manufacturers’ Agents for this Wonderful Stove, H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 134 to 140 East Fulton Street, - - - Near Union Depot.