Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. “$1 Por You VOL. 9. GRAND RAPIDS, APRIL 6, 1892. NO. 446 The MULLINS FLAT OPENING SPRING BAGK BOOK, G. S. BROWN & Co, ‘|Jobbers of Foreign ani Domestic Fruits. RO» .ff Ws Ws fb T Grand Bipide Book Bong Co ITA | Ahapicls aa BAU HL) LU - Oranges and Bananas a Specialty. Send for quotations. 24-26 No. Division St. Is the Best in the Market, Write for prices. 29-31 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ee amen TAR NEW YORK BISGUIT 60, Wall Papi, Window Shades and Pictore Monlings. 8. A. SEARS, Manager. (oS iinet Cracker Manufacturers, 75 & 77 Monroe St.-Warehovse, 81 & 83 Campav St, Grand Rapids) (37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. Something New! [NM RAPP & CoO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ues sea find something new and especially e by o paakig pone On ndy of A. E. BROOKS & CO,, WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Wholesale Coadecttinars, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich Ger THs Best! MOSELEY .BROS.., - WHOLESALE - Jennings’ FRUITS, SEDS, BEANS AND PRODUGE Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Flavori ng Extracts 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, ee eeeraress. Grand Rapids, Mich. "CG A. LAMB «& co, | lhe Green deal Cigar Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produse,|**** Staple and will fit any Purchaser. eas Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. 84 and 86 South Division St. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, Olney & Judson Grocer Co., MANUFACTURERS OF ° . s pL Ss ‘ ; « Ss r€ p @ Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of ole Agents for the Justly Celebrated Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. Sk Ww Cc 36 0 r 1 and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND — 3 = - = iga 5: MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., M USKEGON CRACKER Co., BLACK BASS CIGARS HARRY FOX, Manager. NEVER GO BEGGING. Made only by Crackers, Biscuits «Sweet Goods. Gc. F. FAUDE, IONIA, MICH MUSKEGON, MICH. THE NE PLUS ULTRA OF A NICKEL SMOKE! SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS, LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. Manufacturers of + Shy bases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. First-Class Work Only. GRAND RAPIDS. BICYCLES! We Control Territory on the Finest and Largest Line of Cheap, Medium and High Grade Machines in the State 63 and 65 Canal St.. - WRITE US FOR WERWANT TERMS AND DIS- —\ AGENTS IN EVERY COUNTS TO LIVE TOWN. AGENTS. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. BALL-BARNHART-PUYMAN 60. Manufacturers’ Agents for the Wedding Bouquet Cigar. The Climax of Perfestion! L. KAHNER & C0. Made in thirteen Sizes by Wa POWDER) Stamp before a blast. | blast. | Fragments after a blast. YA STRONGEST and SAFEST EXPLOSI Known to the Arts. POWDER, FUSE, CAPS. Ge ia Electric Mining Goods Ex. sit RO o aT ta By a AND ALL re FOR STUM® B. BLASTING, THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK RCULES * POWDER C ANNIHILATOR, - 40 Prospect Street, € er he J. W. WILLARD, Managere Agents for Western Michigan. NS eee Write for Prices BANANAS Season now Well Opened. Buy Them of THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. PLANTS, TOOLS, : ETC. NEW CROP. EVER YTHING ae Clover and Grass eae Seed Corn, Onion Sets, and FOR THE GARDEN. 24 amp 26 Noarrtn Division Street. Send for eS Reenter Tiustrated Catalogue MAILED F Potatoes. All the Standard Sorts and Novelties in Vegetable Seeds. BROWN’S SEED STORE, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the COUPON BOOKS rwernsrmc estes sone ae a 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 bla 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. Fire & Burglar Proof All Sizes and Prices. Parties in need of the above gare invited to correspond with vitl I. Shultes, Agt. Diebold Safe Co. Fine Millinery! Wholesale and Retail. SPRING STOCK IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES NOW COMPLETE. MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMTLY. ADAMS % CO., Opp. Morton House. 90 Monroe St., - THE < 7° FIRE INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t. W. FrRep McBain, Sec’y A. J. SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street, Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latest improved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every Color. Sign of big spectacles. THOS. E. WYKES, WHOLESALE Lime, Cement, Stucce, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Lath, Wood, Hay, Grain, Oil Meal, Cloverfand Timothy Seed. Corner Wealthy Ave. and Ionia St. on N.C. i. B, Office, 45 S. Division. TER eee WITH tHe PHILA, PAT.FLAT OPENING BACK ieee TDN) oe ee For 50c (stamps) I mail you specifi GRAND RAPIDS, cations by which SO) that Leak! 2isces% work (your own) you transform your useless cheese safe into a handsome store fixture. Last pound of your cheese then remains fresh and salable as first one cut. None to throw away. Double your sales. T B. LATOUCHE, Reference any comm’l agency. (Merchant), ' Ashland, I]. Furnitare Men Attention! ' Beatrice, (the best city in Nebraska) wants a FURNITURE FACTORY, and a bonus of $10,000 awaits the right man. Parties accepting must have capital and experience. Address for particulars, A. L. GREEN, Beatrice, Neb. THOMAS STOKES, WHOLESALE DEALER IN SALT Fisn. New York City. Represented in Michigan by J. P, WISNER, Merchandise Broker, 304 North Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Who will quote prices by mail or call on dealers wishing a supply for Lenten trade. ESTABLISHED 184). 1 A SAE RRR NC THE MERCANTILE AGENCY A. G: Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada The Bradstreet Mercantile Aveney. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 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. HENRY IDEMA, Supt. KYUERGREENS And other ornamental trees. dred distinct species. Michigan. Catalogue one now. W. W. JOHNSON, SNOWFLAKE, MICH. One hun- Largest stock in free. Send for PARENTS—Give your children a knowledge of Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, etc. IT WILL BE VY i FOR THEM — \LMNt/ =“ MONEY. Educate them ut the Grand Rapids, Mich., Busi- ness College, Ledyard Block, corner Pearl and Ottawa-sts. Visit us. For catalogue address A. 8S. Parish, successor to C. G. Swensberg. Mention this paper. BEANS If you have any beans and want to sell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity up to car loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. W. Y. LAMOREAUX & 60., 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1892. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ELLIE. Ellie and I were wandering through the garden of a long-closed but hand- some country seat, called, in Millhaven, the Harding Place. Years before, the owner, Jasper Harding, had died, and his widow, having consumptive tenden- cies, had been sent to Italy, where she lived at the time I was saying farewell to Ellie Ditman in the neglected garden. For 1 was twenty-one, and going to seek my fortune. For many long years Ellie had been like my sister, her father being the clergyman of the church my mother attended, and keeping a school for boys during the week. That we all worshiped Ellie, whose brown curls and soft, fawn-like eyes were our standard of beauty, was but natural; but she was afraid of the rough country lads, and clung to me as her friend and protector. I left school when I was eighteen and went to college, but, during the holidays, 1 discovered that Ellie was more to me than a sister, and I wooed her with boy- ish but sincere devotion, until I arrived at manhood, and my uncle wrote me to “‘come to New York and learn business.” I had lost my mother, and stood alone in the world; soI sold the small cottage that she had owned, banked the money and went to say farewell to Ellen Dit- man. We had spent many pleasant hours in the old garden, and knew all the nooks and corners; so I went at once to our favorite resting place, a summerhouse on the bank of the river that winds through Millhaven. Here I told my love tale and asked Ellie simply and frankly: ‘‘When I have made a home for you, will you be my wife?’’ And I was satisfied when she put her little hand in mine and said, quietly: ‘**You know that I will, Horace.’? **You love me, Ellie?’ “‘T have always loved you.’’ But there was no shy blush, no droop- ing of the graceful head, no lowering of the soft brown eyes. I, knowing nothing of girlish tremors, was fully, blissfully content. Ellie loved me—Ellie would be my wife! How I would work for the home in which to make her happy! With such a spur to exertion, I must succeed! We talked as we had often done before, of the handsome house beside us, so long closed and deserted. Many a time, as little children, we had coaxed the old servant who took charge of it te let us roam from room to room, looking at the handsome furniture muffled in linen, at the pictures sent from Italy for the wide drawing-room, and whose beauty was a mystery in the half-light from the broad windows. Margaret, the servant, told us stories of the wealth and glory of ‘“‘the family,”’ of the gayeties that were every- day occurrences in the time of Mr. Hard- ing, of the young heir who was so long in ‘‘foreign parts,” but who was evident- ly old Margaret’s idol. There was a life- size picture of him, taken the year he went away, a tall, handsome lad, with large, dark eyes and strong features. ~ NO. 446 Ellie had given me my first pang of jealousy, when she said: ‘Is he not handsome, Horace? You will never be strong and tall as he will be!” For I was small, slender and never in very strong health. It was to give mea chance to gain health that my mother had moved from New York to Millhaven, when I wasachild; but, although I im- proved in that way, I was never strong or tall. “If only I could bring you here, now, to live,’’ I said to Ellie, as we stood upon the porch in the June moonlight. And she laughed the low, sweet laugh pecu- liar to her with whom all things were sweet and tender, as she said: ‘*You need not aim so high, Horace. I will be content with a far humbler home than this.”’’ It was late when we parted at the par- sonage gate, and Ellie gave me the first kiss of betrothal, for I would not see her again for a year. Yet 1 was happy in going. The city was my mine of wealth, to be worked by patience, industry and hope until I earned a home for Ellie. Every week she wrote to me tender, loving letters, full of interest in my bus- iness, little womanly suggestions about my health and accounts of the events of Millhaven. In one she wrote: ‘‘Margaret is in high glee. Harding is coming home. died in Florence, in March.” In another: ‘‘Mr. Harding called upon papa to-day. He is but little changed, although he is now twenty-three, and he is the hand- somest man I ever saw.” Charles His mother After this she mentioned meeting him several times, but said no more than she would of any of her numerous friends. So for two years I worked for Ellie and home, secure in love, in hope, think- ing ever of the sweet face that would brighten my fireside, the darling whose life I would make happy. Then fortune’s wheel made a sudden turn in my favor. I have mentioned the small sum of money I had placed in the bank forarainy day. It was still sun- shiny weather when my uncle advised me to invest it in a business enterprise he had in hand, which promised quick returns of immense profit. I took his advice, doubled my money, put itin again and again, and in less than a year was arich man. Then I stopped. I had no love for business. I had more than repaid my unele for his interest in me, and my ambition was only to marry Ellie, settle down quietly at Millhaven and bea benefactor, as far as my means permitted, of my fellow- men. Again my good star seemed in the ascendant. It was just before my de- parture from New York that a stranger called at my boarding house. In a few moments I recognized my old _ school- fellow, Charles Harding. He was, as Ellie had written, handsome, and with a graceful finish of manners, never foppish, but the perfection of easy courtesy. To my surprise, he came to offer me a lease of his house. ~ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | ae IF SO told spicnacnogit COUPON BOOKS ; a promise ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED! S e ser dane ‘was BETTER than any other Coupon System and FAR SUPERIOR to PUNCH, BRASS OR PAPER CHECKS. ~ ~ : ° | We can refer you to Hundreds of Merchants who are using Our System, who would not = ary ¢ run their stores without it. Write for particulars, prices and free samples to : cew Y THE TRADESMAN CONMPANY, ‘| eee : ‘i i - r Original and Largest Manufacturers of Coupon. Boeks in the United States, : : Zz r 100 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ' ina m | Geo. H. Reeder & Co., _ * Don’ te uv i eameaansie BOOTS & SHOES aa = 7 ce YOUR SPRING LINES OF Felt vag and Alask: a Socks. sh : a : : € : oo Hammocks, a BS, “id : oe a . r sir eT — men are a on the w nw re ep ag - come in shame, into my eyes. EATON, LYON & CO., | 2 | & ve e er to ances GRAND RAPING. 1288 160 Fulton St., Grand oat = rosa a tacaevartom so | Ts RStrelitsicy, — Ray Pails and Syrup Cans ae eae ED sal eget gem Jabber of } dl ‘© = @ Paper Packed €. a Sorew. ’ / 2 i . a ne A aig a pay oe she 2 jin - th lowi ng cel lebrated brands man we : a ck a ak ufactured by the ee =) WRITE FOR PRICES Z ome ipa weeks. Vindex, long Havana filler......... $35 3 ‘ | 3 y . Anwa S ney Three Medals, long Havana filler ...... 35 | Se CE Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder 55 | } | “Tatewot nin Enperaieee,,. i WM, Brdmmeler & Sons she had fade The roses that had a grade — spices, ete., see J. r. ener, ee en 55 | Manufacturers and Jobbers of Wa z 04 No i m sixvect, Grand Rapids, | @.2. Piewemes.............,...........,. 65 |} ge zg ish Mi general representative for F. J. i no Gne lit = 2e a West goods -* rock bottom Pieced & Stamped Tinware, ning . always been Gillies & Co., New York City. — eee 260_S. IONIA,ST., slender, was emaciated; her hands were a eee : often hot, then cold as death. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. TELEPHONE 640, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 10 So, lonia St, Grand Rapids, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8 Be Frank With Your House. Correspondence Inter-State Grocer. The upright traveling representative will be open and above board with the house, and will not conceal the slightest detail of his intercourse with the trade. The house should encourage his confi- dence, and to that end it should be chary of criticism of such items of expense which may not be specially previded for, but may be shown as to be expended for the house’s benefit. I ean imagine no valid excuse for the slightest prevarica- tion in the matter of itemizing expenses; with the proper mutual confidence be- tween the traveler and the house it ean never be necessary. When it occurs, the blame is not altogether on one side. To illustrate the how and why of this small piece of deception, I give a synopsis of a conversation to which I was recently a listener. One of the party was asked if his house was liberal in the matter of allowance for ‘‘miscellany.’? ‘No,’ was his reply, “they will not allow even for a cigar for a customer, and it’s bad policy. Why, only last evening I had worked a man my level best for an order, but without success. So, giving up hope for the present, I determined to make an impression for the future. As he was closing his store, I asked him over to have a game of billiards. We grew quite friendly, and, after finishing the game, I said: ‘See here; my samples are in the next room, and while I do not expect to sell you a dollar’s worth of goods, I would like you to look over what I’ve got. Perhaps you may see something you may want to order later on.’ The result was that I sold him a nice little bill on the spot. Now, if I should enter that game of billiards as an item of ex- pense, there would come back the big- gest kind of a howl.” ‘Well, how did you geteven? Didn’t go down in your own pocket to pay for the game, did you?” ‘‘Not much; charged it up to bus and baggage. But I don’t like to do that sort of thing.” The traveler will probably be frequent- ly advised by a fellow traveler how he should approach particular dealers. He will make a mistake, however, should he attempt to follow this advice. A special method which may be successfully worked by one man may prove a dismal failure when attempted by another. The traveler must have his own individuality, and the attempt to be somebody else will never succeed. And right here, I may say, it is not wise for travelers to dis- cuss in public or on the train the pecul- iarities of their customers. Aside from the questionable taste of the practice, one hever knows who may be listening. A 0 ge The Value of Courtesy---Friendship in Business. There is nothing more conducive to securing trade and more necessary to holding it than courtesy to customers. The merchant who is swollen with self- importance, who is unfortunately desti- tute of a gracious manner, who is power- less to extend a welcome greeting, or who is indifferent to such, should change his location. Those elements are essen- tial to successful selling. They are re- quisites as imperative as select stocks and fair prices. When the customer is held at a distance by the salesman, there is likelihood that the next purchase will be made at a distance. The purchaser who wishes to buy is usually in a pleas- ant mood, and a jar or repulse changes the mood and the wish. There are many dealers who do not understand, or, if they understand, do not appreciate the real value of friend- ship in business. They will see a stranger enter and modestly ask for some member of the firm or some sales- man. If the desired person is absent, there is a disappointed look and usually adeparture. These visits and inquiries are not always through curiosity. The visitor in all probability is a stranger in the city and heart hungry for home. He wants a familiar face, a hearty hand- shake, a friendly greeting, and they are much to him at that moment. The man who can supply, wins a customer, wins future sales, wins an advocate among other buyers, wins a supporter in trade. The man who lives ina small town and has left home and family behind is lost in a city, is out of his element, is lone- some, and like a fish thrown on the bank is gasping to return to his tribe. A little friendship will dispel his lonesomeness. Why Is It That-- Bees never store up honey where it is light? The moth has a fur jacket and the but- terfly none? Leaves will attract dew when boards, sticks and stones will not? A horse always gets up foreparts first and a cow directly the opposite? Corn on the ear is never found with an uneven number of rows? Fish, flies and caterpillars may be frozen solid and still retain life? A squirrel comes down a tree head first and a cat tail first? Electricity is never visible except when it comes in the form of zig-zag lightning? A horsefly will live for hours after the head has been pinched off? The dragon-fly can devour its own body and the head still live? Some flies thrust their eggs into the bodies of caterpillars, but always in such parts of the body that when the larve are feeding on the flesh of the foster parent they will not eat into any vital part? Can this be explained? Does the fly reason? _ -
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Some People Do.
Do what? Know a good thing when
they see it. For those who use Gringhuis,
Itemized Ledger certainly a good
thing, for they time and labor and
many disputes.
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entry? If so,we guarantee our Customers,
od
have
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or Itemized Ledger, with a general |
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A young lady clerk of Fall River, Mass.,
was some time ago hit on the left side of
her head by a falling sign as she was walk-
ing home from the store where she was
employed. The accident was followed
by brain fever. After some weeks she
was well in mind and body as ever, but
from a right-handed person she had be-
come so left-handed that she could neither |
cut, sew nor write with her right hand,
but found it easy to do all of these things
with her left. Her righthand was just
about as useful as her left had been be-
fore she had been hurt. One strange
fact is that, with so recent a change in
the use of her hands, she is as graceful
in the use of her left hand as if she had
been born left-handed.
to keep posted
sample sheets and price
Duty of the Jobber Toward the Cutter.
From the American Grocer.
We question the right of any jobber to
sell the cutter, even for cash. By so do-
ing he aids a demoralizer whose course
weakens the entire trade within the
range of his influence, and, therefore,
weakens the standing of a large number
of hard-working, honest, efficient, steady-
going men. As the cutter saps the
strength of the entire trade of small
towns, villages and sections of cities, he
is a trade evil that should be suppressed
and not encouraged. To compromise
with a cutter who has failed is com-
pounding an evil.
Hout pay freight
From Boston and New York on
Shoe Dressing when you can buy
it of HIRTH & KRAUSE at
; .
Manufacturers Prices.
GILT EDGE,
GLYCEROLE,
RAVEN GLOSS,
ALMA, [Large size].
A Rug with each gross, $22.80. Shoe
Stool with two gross. An assorted gross
of the above dressing, $22.80.
HIRTH & KRAUSE,
GRAND RAPIDS.
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Larpels aud
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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions,
Dry Goods Price Current.
UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
Bereee .... 55. = ‘« Arrow Brand 5%
Anes .. «cs. 6 ' agg Wide.. 6%
Aseeeta AA.......... 6 Oe ie ae 4%
Atlantic i 6%/| Full veut Wide..... 6%
a eee AL... i... .. 6%
“ r.. i... 5%|Honest Width....... 6%
- D. . G faeries ......... 5
a Se S jindian Head.......: x
eS ee 6%
Archery Bunting... 4 \RineEC............ 5
Beaver Dam AA.. 5%/Lawrence LL 54
Madras cheese cloth 6%
Blackstone O, 32.... 5
Black Crow......... 6 Newmarket a
Bisck Mock ........ 6 5
ect, Als........... 7 - a. 6%
NOE as se 5% DD.... Bs
Covenest 7.......... 5% . -_... 6%
Chapman cheese cl. 3%|Noibe R............. 5
Cen < a....,.... 544|Our Level Best..... 6%
Re oo, Gi Oxtord &........... 6
Dwight Star......... 6% a peg ed ee
Caton Gcc........ Cee 6%
Top o the Weap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
REC. ........... 2. 84/Geo. Washington... 8
ee oleet Blt... ...... z
Sraeeeee.... . .<...- Gold Medal oe cones 7%
Ast Cambric........ 10 Green Ticket....... 814
Blackstone A A..... & (Great Pais.......... 6%
CL 4% om. 7%
EES ee vee On...... 4%@ 5
ee. 7 King Phillip a. 7%
oe, ee. 6% OF... 7
Charter Oak........ 5% /|Lonsdale seen "10
eee WF ks oe ae 74|Lonsdale...... @
Cleveland ...... .... 7 |Middlesex.... .. @5
Dwight Anchor..... Simo penee............ 7%
‘shorts. 8 — — Faseelaweus 6
mawercs............. 6 owe... 5%
Peer. .......-....- 7 Pride of "the West...12
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Fruit of the Loom. 8\/S
2
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Picea ......... Utica” e.......: 8%
Poe Pee... 7 Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom X. wiavard............. 8%
Patonount.......... 414|White Horse........ 6
Par Yarse.......... 6 co.
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
coe... 8. 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 814
Perwet...:... ..... 8
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Tremont O.........< 54%4[Middlesex No. 1....10
Hemiltea N......... 6% . - ..
ee Be ' - 2.
Middlesex AT...... 8 . 2
ea. 9 ws oe
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BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hemstitos T......... ver Middlesex A + one 11
Middlesex P T...... sre lc 12
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a 9 _ ee 17%
. ZF... 10% o ie 16
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, maee...... 17%) corey colored. ..20
colored.. -- ea Wee © ccang(t ee 18
Peery. .-....-.. 2s; Co“ “colored. .20
DRESS. ‘coone.
Hamilton ec ee 6 (iemeciews...... ..... 20
. oo fn Nee 25
Sf -10% ace weee 27%
GG Cashmere...... 21 sid -..30
Nameless ae oe ae 16 ge 32%
eb ee ee eek 18 - 30
CORSETS.
Ceres... $9 50| Wonderful . ..84 50
Does. ........ © Oe... . 475
Davis Waists..... 9 GrBortree’s .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50;Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS
6
Columbian 2k a 10
22x bi.19
Hampton.... i
Johnson Vhalonecl %
: indigo blue 9%
° zephyrs....16
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Amoskeag eden ecac 124% [Columbian ae: -12
Son. .... 13% |Everett, blue........12
- brown .13 ” bro -12
Auegver.. 23.5... 114%|Haymaker blue . 1%
Beaver Creek Sa -10 - -
- -_2 alee... -11%
' ce. Lancaster i 12%
Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 90z...... 13%
blue 8% iO, 20....18
°* @4 twist 10% - No. 250....11%
. No. 280... --10%
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APMONEOOE ...... <-.. pangine, staple... 7
* Persian dress i fancies . 7
Canton .. 8% " Normandie 8
' Ave...... ‘10% Lancashire.......... 6%
- Teazle...1044|)Manchester......... 5%
se Angola. -10%|Monogram.......... 6%
_ Persian.. 8%|Normandie...... *. oe
Arlington staple.... 614}Persian............. 8%
Arasapha fancy.. 4% Renfrew Dress...... 7%,
Bates | arwick dres 844|Rosemont........... 6%
staples. a Slatersville ......... 6
Cuneta eee 10% |Somerset............ 7
Ceieerem ..........- Perreons ............ Te
Cumberland staple. ys ‘moll Gu ore....... 10%
Cumberiand.... .... een... 7
oe oe scans 4 so seersucker.. 7%
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Everett classics..... 8%4/| Whittenden......... 6%
Bxpestion.......... 7 ” heather dr. 8
RerCeneeO............ 6% rg indigo blue 9
Cenerven.... ..... 6%|Wamsutta staples... ox
Glenwood.. ne Westbrook
GRAIN BAGS.
someting eee eee 16%) —— Pee... k 15%
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teen be ecu ee Peeee |. ........ 14%
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's....... +. 06
Cos, 2. &@Ff......- > mereeie.... ...... 88
Holyoke. act oe eel pe 22%
KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. — —
mo 6. 38 No. i4..
re So... 34 .... 3
- oP — i ......2 44
ens. ea) Soa 45
CAMBRICS.
a < Weeweres....... .... 4
White Star......... 4 |Lockwood.... .. + =
Bid Giove........... ot 4
Newmarket......... 4 eeunewice .... .... 4
RED FLANNEL,
Pieeen...... ..... a z 2 Pe ae 22%
Creeaiaore..... ...-..20sge a... ...-.- «ose os
Talbot XXX........ ; R Py, 2ak. 35
Reece... .... 27% Buckeye ee ene - 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%
eee Bh oes cee 22%) Western W ......... 18%
Windsor Less oe Pere Ps... cee 18%
6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 3%
Uae B........-... 224|Manitoba........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL,
Nameless ..... 8 @9% ke 9 @10%
Se 8%@10 ae 12%
CANVASS AND PADDIN
Aree ............. 34 Naumkeag satteen.. 7
Androscoggin....... aeers....... » ..-. 6
eeeeree.......-.-. 6 iene oe 6%
presse. .... .... Oe) welwortm .......... 6%
PRINTS.
54%|Berwick fancies.... 5%
peees.......- . 5M Clyde Robes........
. = & purple 64/C
6
harter Oak fancies 4%
DelMarine cashm’s. 6
. pink checks. 5% mourn’g 6
” staples ...... 5M Eddystone fancy... 5%
- shirtings... 4 chocolat 5%
American fancy.... 5% ° rober.... 5%
Americanindigo.... 5% " sateens.. 5%
American shirtings. : |Hamilton fancy. + Oe
Argentine Grays..
Anchor a
Arnold
Arnold Merino..... op
4 | Manchester eas |
new era, 5%
Merrimack D fancy. 5%
c long cloth i 104% | Merrim’ck shirtings. 414
** century cloth :
- oeee..... 10%
. — - 8&&%
Pacific fancy........ 5%
robes
6
‘green seal TR 10% eae robes... 5%
‘* “yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning. --
ll 11%
“ Turkey red..10%
Ballou solid black.. 5
ss colors. 5%
Bengal blue, green,
and orange... 5%
— 5
Es solid black. 5
5
Washington indigo.
Turkey —: ™*
* Indie robes... 7
Berlin ee... 5% hie
Gon eee...... 6%| “ Ottoman Tur-
- | oo... oe sees... .......
“ Foulards .... 544)Martha Washington
= oe ........ Turkey red &..... 1%
“ a a 9%|Martha Washington
“6 eee 10 Turkey red........ 3%
- ‘* 3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes..
Cocheco ae : Windsor a Spain
madders. . = ticket
0 XX twills.. * BI indigo blue....... 10%
Se... SE INT oo oe oan ws 4%
ee
Amoskeag AC A ieee B..... ue 12%
Eien &......... 7%|Pemberton AAA....16
- 2... ore... ..10%
' Awning. .11 Swift Rever........- 7%
he S ireer liver......... 12
Wreest Freee.......... pi en ie 13
Lenox Wills ........ 18
COTTON DRILL.
—. ces coun eee ven ese 8
eee ees cee CMiInNO Meme........ .. 7%
Chfton, bic eee on © Tropor ieep........ 10
SATINES,
IN is oid cae Be Pe ies i 10%
eee cla, as ss 9@ 9%
eee eeenuee ae 16 gc) ae ae @10
CID osc s nce oe 1
SEWIN
Corticelli, doz....... 7
twist, doz. .37%
50 a doz. .37%
No : BIk ¢ & White. -
5—4....22% 6—4...3 26
| Oe
ps Sail Twine. =
a. oe
eT
ME ch veue cual el 13
Cherry Valley...... 15
IXL 18%
Seen... .. 00... 6%
Bee... sk. 6%
I og oes ccnse 7%
Ar’ 88 05 eckbbecuse 6
MO pec neue 614
II ois sic bn cena ox
Haw River es a
We ec eeeaiys
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4..
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate, pene, Black.
9% 944/13 1 13
10% 10% 104/15 15 15
11% 11% 11% 17 a7
12% 12% 1244|20 20 20
DUCKS.
Severen, § on........ 9%|West Point, 8 0z....10%
Mayland, oon....... 10% 10 oz -- 12%
Greenwood, 7%; 0z.. 9% -aeeed 100z SS 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz. . 11% es 6h Cs 13%
Boston, 8 ed 1044|Boston, 10 0z........ 12%
WADDINGS.
Wott, Ge.........- 25 {Per bale, 40 doz....87 50
Colored, doz........ 20
SILESIAS.
Slater, Tron Cross...8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10%
Re : Croms.... D ieeeie.............. «
. ee :.10% PN oe ae 10%
Best AA..... "TIKK Veuey City......... ian
{Corticelli we
per 40z
OK8 AND EYES—PER GROSS
No 4BI'k & ‘White. =
. ; o “3 “ ' ‘=
PINS.
No 2—20, M C....... 50 |No4—15 F 3%...... 40
~ O- Oe, © C..4. ones 45
COTTON TAPE.
No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
.s . mies " - 23
~ & ' 21+ = - i
SAFETY PINS.
WOR ccs 28 _— ritgeeces ceuge. 36
NEEDLES—PER M
A. aa. idee asees 1 40 ironmbont See cites 40
CI, ose ns ove 2 iGad Byoed.......... 1 50
mors... 1 00|
--195 6—4...2 9
COTTON + a na
Eo cee
Rising “Star 4 -- me
3-ply....17
erties Gir... .... .. 20
Wool — 4 plyi%s
Powhattan
PLAID OSNABURG
8
Mount Pleasant.... 6%
eee te ETS 5
POE os ct.
Randelman......... _
Sibley A. ipstoains a
~~ GY wees oeus accor &
See
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Business Prospects of Little Rock.
Lirtce Rock, Ark.,
letter of recent date received, inquiring
as to the present and future of Little
Rock; and you say that, if I am not
ashamed to let my Michigan friends
know where I live, a letter descriptive
of the place and this part of the Sunny
South would be acceptable.
In reply, 1 will say that it is a beauti-
ful and thoroughly modern city, located
on the south bank of the Arkansas river
and commanding a tine view of the val-
ley and surrounding country. It stands
on high, rolling land, similar to Grand
Rapids, and is growing very rapidly. It
is known as the City of Roses, and it is,
indeed, an appropriate name, as they
bloom almost every month during the
year, and many of the famous varieties
are common here. They add much to
the beauty of the homes, as all take de-
light in growing different kinds and
varieties.
Many wholesale establishments are lo-
cated here, and as this is the geograph-
ical, as well as the railroad, center of the
State, not only Arkansas, but much of
the trade from Louisiana, Texas and In-
dian Territory, are supplied from this
point. Ithas no competing city near.
New Orleans and Dallas are 500 miles
south and southwest; Memphis, 150
miles east; St. Louis and Kansas City,
350 miles north and northwest, while
west there is no city until the Pacific
coast is reached.
Little Rock is the center of this great
seope of country and is the natural dis-
tributing point. Within this vast area
not only rich and fertile lands may be
found, but pine, oak, cypress, gum, wal-
nut and other valuable timber lands are
attracting northern and eastern lumber-
men. The valuable timber lands are be-
ing rapidly gathered up by outside cap-
italists, but choice farming lands can yet
be had very cheaply. I am told that
there are yet hundreds of thousands of
fine farming lands that belong to the
government and State and can be home-
steaded.
Thirty miles west of the city are inex-
haustible coal fields, equaling in quality
Pennsylvania anthracite. Not more re-
mote we have iron, lead, zine and other
minerals, while we have any amount of
gray (granite of which our court house is
built, one ef the finest buildings in the
city) located within ten miles.
The State is practically undeveloped
so far as it pertains to coal and minerals,
also the same may be said of limestone,
bauxite, fire clay and soapstone, all of
which may be found in large quantities
within easy distance. Men of nerve and
energy could lay the foundation for
making immense fortunes here within
the next few years.
Little Rock is one of the healthiest of
cities.
Her public school system equals any
in the Union, and many northern teachers
areemployed. Our churches are counted
by the score and are generously sup-
ported. Some of the largest factories in
the South are located here, notably the
Southern Cotten Seed Oil Co., Southern
Stave and Lumber Co. and the Cotton
Compress Co. The electric street rail-
way system, put in about two months
ago, is one of the most perfect in the
country, about twenty-five miles being
operated at present.
Real estate is in splendid shape for in-
vestments, as values are low, and I look
for a healthy rise in property and that
the advance will be maintained. A mili-
tary post will soon be established. New
manufacturing establishments are being
organized and new railroads are pointing
this way. All goes to emphasize the fact
that the city’s growth will be rapid and
sure. We have over 30,000 people at
present, having doubled our population
during the past five years, and that sure-
ly is a remarkable growth.
ALBERT RETAN.
i — elo —
In a Drug Store.
Fair Customer—I sent my maid here
for some sticking plaster, and you gave
her a porous plaster.
New Boy—Yes’m. That’s the stick-
ingest plaster I know of.
—_____~-9-—<—
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.
Hardware Price Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
so. 60
oo Eo aes ee a a =
eCMmaetiew SONG... ci. kl.
Semninge , PAC ............ 222... 2... s0ui0
AXES.
Firat Guality, & 5. Bromsc.................: 8750
c me © Pees ec... “= =
S. & S oreer._..-.
: DB Sea 3 30
BARROWS. dis.
ene 8 14 00
oe net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
CE 50&10
Carriage OW EMG, oe 70&10
Se eee ee ee
Sleigh WAGG 70
BUCKETS.
Mom, ee 8 50
Wed, Bwiver.......
BUTTS, CAST. Pv
Cast Toose Pin figured........ .............. W&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 66&10
Wrought Loose [aE 60&10
Wromiet Ferre... 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind.
Wrought Brass.....
Blind, Clark’ 5.
Blind, Shepard’ Oe
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 60
CRADLES,
ot ee dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
es perh 5
CAPS.
Beer... 1... per m 65
ae oh oe 60
on. oe 35
aa... _ 60
CARTRIDGES,
(a 50
Cemtea, Piro... sc... dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
mOGren PrtMee se cece cee eee 70&10
ee I 70&10
R@cmOLrCorier................ eee sete oon 70&10
Bee. 70&10
Butchers Tanecd Pirmer............ ......
COMBS. dis.
Curry, Eawrences................. ee. 40
aes... P-s]
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER.
Planished, 14 os cut to size... .. per pound 28
Pao, Pome, Oe... cc ., 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and eee. 5s 23
(elo Moen. ee... .......... 23
TO ee 2
DRILLS. dis.
Moree es Ha, Stocks... — 50
Taper and straight Shenk................... 50
Momse + Tarver Geeee.......... 2.5... u 50
DRIPPING PANS.
Eien) Sinee eer pet .............. 5... 07
Teeee aes, bee poend...... ............... 6%
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 ep CO ae dos. net =
ace weap cece ig
Pe cc dis. 40810
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, $18; -— ooo a eee a cree 30
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; a 25
a List. dis.
ml OE ee 60&10
ee Se i 60&10
iceoinears .......:.... ees eee direct ee eeeca 60410
ee ee oe 50
eco we eevee Hae. ..................-...-
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 3: 22 and 2: 2% and 2%; 27 28
List = 13 14 15 16 br |
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50
HAMMERS. | ik silanes ROPES.
| Sinal, 44 tach and larger |..............,....
EID enns coeresigecececcccceeicecece cece 28 | MDH... 13
Teed Pees... dis. 40410 | . 0) and I SQUARES. mas
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. ee gr 8 renentrttis tees enesaanns a
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 | Mine and bevels. aseeahMeKBaKeiane: |
neha | Mitre eee eee tec cce cee eeee tte:
Gate, Clade ie soe gne lm ene "sii uccte. Ci.
coon... oz. ne wan is..lldlUlhlhmU.,DhLUhUmUCUCUUCU 05 «=. 82-95
Screw fidoi ad Strap, to 12 in. i 14 and ian min a. ona > =.
long a 40 365
screw ‘Hook and Eye, = - OA te 405 315
a 8% Nos. = a a 46 3s
i 7% | No. 4 ee
1% ait sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
creas... din 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra
HANGERS. dis. | SAND PAPER.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. 50610 ERE 18 ee dis. 50
Champion, antl friction.................... 60&10 | SASH CORD.
Mimeer Weed Gece... 40 | Silver Lake, Wiss list 50
HOLLOW WARE. en EE 55
i ee ee 6010 | “ Whe 8 “ 50
meee ee. 60.10 | ‘“ ae 55
Ce 60410 | ‘“ Wiese | ee “ 35
(ray cuammeree. 40&10} Discount, 10.
|
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware..
Japanned Tin Ware.. a
Granite Iron Ware ............... “new list 334 &10
WIRE GOODS.
ee. oe. 70810610
Serom Moe. 70&10&10
Toone |... -70&10&10
Gate Hooks and 7, Mee eres cemee 70&10&10
VELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and lad os. ....... Le 70
KNoBs—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, Jap. trimmings. ..........- 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcetein, trimmmings................. 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 5
Mallocy, Woocler & Con................... 55
eee 55
OE — EE besee ose 55
MATTOCKS.
OE $16.00, dis. 60
oo oe. ......... 2... $15. 00, dis. 60
ae $18.50, dis. 20410.
AULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘bandied eee oy
MILLS.
Coffee, Peres €Cog........ ...........
P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables
“ Tender, Werry & Cloik’s............
‘s Enterprise
MOLASSES GATES.
piers Peters 60&10
pe 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring. . boo 25
NAILS|
eee ne bee. ee 1 &
eee 2 00
Advance over base: Steel. Wire.
— Base Base
ee Base 10
Ee 05 20
30 10 20
ee ee 15 30
se. es. 15 35
2 15 35
ee 20 40
Se 2 50
ie een aa eas 40 65
ee 60 90
Oe a ee a cee 1 00 1 50
eo 150 2 00
Pie 2....... D 2 00
ee ee 90
- 2. 1 00
° ee 13
Finish 10 1 00
sl 8. 1 3
iy é. 150
: 75
oe a
“ 1 00
Barrell “ eee ete ee eae eeu. 1 2 50
PLANES. dis.
ene Tock Ona, famey.... 8... @4)
OEE ee @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................- @40
ence Get Gaery.......................... @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &10
PANS.
OE dis.60—10
aeien, | caimad ae dis. 70
RIVETS. dis.
OO eee 40
Copper Rivets and Burs..................+.. 50—10
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 2s 10 20
““B” Wood's _ at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 920
Broken packs 4c per pound extra.
.new list 70 |
25
SASH WEIGHTS,
EE per = -
SAWS.
’ eee cece ccc eae e el. * 99
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
‘Champion and Electric Tooth X
Guts, per fO08...........2 0. el, 30
TRAPS. dis.
Steel, Game. a
Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s . i
Oneida Community, ee & Norton’s.... 0
Mouse, choker. .18¢ per doz
Mouse, delusion. "81.50 ale
"WIRE.
Pipes Meee. 65
Avmceied Mearece........ ....5 7010
Cepperce Markes.......................,
Tinned Market....... a ay
Coppered Spring Ee
Barped Venee, sarvanised.................. 3 9
. petneee 2 65
HORSE NAILS.
Au See. dis. 40
laa dis. 05
Morte westers...................... dis. 10&10
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, niekeled.............. 30
ee Centre ......................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bird Cages ...... :
Pumps, Cistern. .
Screws, New L ist.
Casters, Beds @ Pits... 5010810
Dampers, American. . ea
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. a 6 &i10
ETALS,
PIG TIN.
~~ o................ 26¢
C—O 286
ZINC.
Juty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
Con pound Ceaee. 6%
Fer pa... 7
SOLDER.
ee =
Bee Wee... .
The prices of the many other qualities a
solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
oa... per pound
ee 13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal eet eee veces ecce ces a $750
ee el ae 7 50
10x14 ix, ee Se a oe ic 9 2%
14x20 IX, oe eee 9 2
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
— a Charcoal ee $6 %5
14x20 6 75
10x14 Ix, _ 8 25
14x20 I 1% 9 25
20 IX,
Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, 7 Worcester a
20x28 IC, ‘“ Me ESR tet ee es ewes
D202 GSO
SSSSS
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wai, * “s ‘.— 2
20x28 IX, ' i - 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
i. .......... .. $14 09
Mee Ee a ce 15
on ng for N No. : Boilers, | per pound.... 10
risk
with
8iZe,
heavy Wire Hanger,
stock,
SPOUT NO. I.
Actual
like Hangers cast on «
that does not break
spout.
SAP SPOUTS
We are agents for thissSpout andocarry a full
We also have the ANCHOR SAP SPOUT.
No. 2—Actual Size.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Michigan Tradesman
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. |
Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,
Published at
100 Louis St., Grand Rapids,
—_ BY —
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
j
|
| perial Fair Commission at work and Aus-
tria is also making appropriations. Den-
mark has appropriated a sum of money
for an exhibit, during the past few days,
and all the other countries of Europe
One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid,
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TE MicHiGaN TRADESMAN. |
i
E. A. STOWE, Editor.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1892,
INTEREST IN THE WORLD’S FAIR.
As the time gradually approaches
when the preparations for the World’s
Fair must begin to give some indication |
of what the enterprise will amount to
when the doors are ready to be opened,
interest in the matter increases. The
work on the buildings and grounds is
said to be progressing satisfactorily, and |
as far as the sight of the great fair is
concerned there is good reason to expect
that every preparation will be in as
complete a state as is usually the case
with such exhibitions when the opening |
day comes round.
The important work of interesting ex- |
hibitors in the fair has also been pushed |
with great energy of late, and there is |
now no doubt but that a greater and}
more varied collection of exhibits and |
curiosities will be gathered together at |
Chicago than has ever been the case at |
any previous exposition, not even ex- |
cluding the one held at Paris some years
ago. The foreign exhibits promise es- |
pecially to be fine. At first very serious
difficulty was encountered in inducing
foreign countries, particularly those of
Europe, to display any interest in the
fair, but hard and persistent work has
gradually overcome this trouble, and
now there is no reason to complain of
the support the fair is receiving at the
hands of the foreign powers.
There never has for a moment been the
slightest doubt of the active participa- |
tion in the fair of the Central and South
American countries. All of them, from
Mexico to Chili, have made arrange-
ments for space at the fair. and nearly
all have appropriated money to make
suitable exhibits. Some have even set
aside funds to erect buildings and em-
bellish their surroundings. The only
country in which difficulty was encoun-
tered was Chili, but since amicable rela-
tions have been restored between that
country and the United States the live- |
liest interest has sprung up there in the
Chicago fair.
As far as Europe is concerned, it is}
now practically certain that all the coun-
tries will be represented at the fair.
Great Britain has appointed a commis-
sion and has made an appropriation or |
grant to assist it in its labors. France is
taking a lively interest in the matter,
| different trusts.
| affairs to the Trust.
| suit compelled the Sugar Trust to liqui-
date and reorganize under the name of
\the American Sugar Refining Company
| as a regularly chartered institution, with
| all the responsibilities to the law exacted
| of other corporations.
| and the Chamber of Deputies is shortly
expected to vote a grant for an exhibit.
| delay is caused solely by the discussiov
| of details.
Germany has for some time had an Im-
|have already made preparations, more
| or less, to be represented at the fair.
| All the Oriental countries, also, will
probably be represented at Chicago, and
Japan has made large appropriations
and will have a most extensive display.
With respect to this country, interest
has been lively enough in the enterprise,
considering the time yet to elapse before
the date for holding the exposition ar-
rives. Many states have already made
appropriations, while all of them have
chosen commissions and have begun pre-
liminary work towards gathering to-
gether exhibits of their products and re-
sources.
There is, therefore, every reason to
believe that the Chicago fair will not
only equal the finest of past interna-
tional expositions, but will actually sur-
pass them all.
THE TRUSTS AND THE LAW.
The recent action of the certificate
holders of the Standard Oil Trust, dis-
solving that organization, was brought
about by the recent decision of the Ohio
Supreme Court, to the effect that the
| transferring of the shares of the Stan-
dard Oil Company to the keeping of the
Trust was illegal. This decision makes it
clear that the different companies which
comprise the Trust had not the power to
transfer their shares of stock to trustees,
and virtually surrender their corporate
existence.
The New York courts, as well as other
State courts, have held the same doctrine
with respect to suits brought against
In New York the status
of the Sugar Trust was brought into
question by a suit to annul the charter
of the Brooklyn Sugar Refinery because
it had surrendered the control of its
The result of that
It is probable that the Standard Oil
Trust, which is the parent of all the
trusts, and which has probably been the
| most hated of them all, will reorganize
|as a regularly incorporated company,
and, to all intents and purposes, will
,exercise the same control over an im-
portant industry as before, with the im-
portant difference that the new form of
| doing business will render the organiza-
| tion liable to legal supervision in com-
mon with other chartered institutions,
the secrecy and irresponsibility of the
trust system being entirely eliminated by
| the law.
The laws of the States have thus shown
, their ability to compel the trusts to be-
come amenable to the same regulations
| which govern all other business enter-
prises, whether conducted by private
| capital or by corporations. The laws
jhave not yet been able to prevent the
It is stated that the committee of the |
|Chamber having the matter in charge are |
| unanimous in favor of a grant, and the)
| existence of monopolies, howeyer. The
| problem is, nevertheless, attracting the
‘attention of legislators, and it is said that
even Congress is considering a measure
which is aimed at preventing any sort of
/combination having for its object the
controlling of the price of any article
entering into general consumption.
The problem is a most serions one, and
is not to be hastily passed upon. The
great combinations which are gradually
acquiring control of the leading industries
of the country are slowly but surely cre-
ating a state of things which the law-
making powers of both State and Fed-
eral Governments will eventually be
compelled to regulate. Whether or not
the law can be made to correct the effects
of the existence of monopolies is a prob-
lem, the solution of which we do not
venture to even predict.
THE COLORED PEOPLE’S PKOGRESS.
In arecent sermon on missions Rev.
Dr. Beard, of New York, gave some in-
teresting facts concerning the progress
of the colored people in the South. On
the abolition of slavery the negroes were
at the bottom of the moral, intellectual
aud social scale, and their total taxable
property amounted only to $12,000. At
the end of a little more than one-quarter
of a century we find them with $264,000,-
000 of property subject to taxation.
There are 18,000 colored teachers and
1,240,000 pupils in the schools. There
are also sixty-six academies and high
schools and seven colleges with colored
presidents. Their editorial talent is
represented by 154 newspapers and two
magazines.
To rise from darkest ignorance to
such a stage of enlightenment in less
than one generation is an achievement
worthy of any race. The fact that many
negroes have made no _ progress
argues nothing against this record of de-
velopment. After more than a century
of faverable government and favoring
conditions of all kinds, there are still in
the United States thousands of white
people ignorant and vicious. To lift all of
arace to the same plane is impossible.
The progress of a people is to be judged
by the advancing many, and not by the
lagging few.
Inspired by a resolute desire for ad-
vancement and aided by a wise philan-
thropy, the negroes in the South are
working out their own moral, intellec-
tual and financial salvation. The fact
that in twenty-five years they have ac-
complished so much in spite of the great
obstacles presented by their environment
and previous training is good guarantee
for their future progress. ‘The negro
problem,” both political and sociological,
will solve itself through the agencies
now at work. The longed-for time is
bound to come, and it will come all the
more quickly if the missionary spirit
which is so strong in Americans shall
labor as assiduously for the education of
the ‘‘poor white trash’’ in the South as it
does for the uplifting of the blacks.
In the death of Sterne F. Aspinwall,
Grand Rapids loses a citizen who was in
every way a model man, socially, morally
and in a business sense; the Grand Rap-
ids Fire Insurance Co. loses a tower of
strength and the Fourth National Bank
is deprived of the counsel of a man
whose opinions were more than ordinari-
ly reliable. Grand Rapids can illy afford
to lose a man so valuable to the com-
munity, in more ways than one, and the
positions left vacant by his demise will
be hard to fill.
Artemas Ward, who has managed
the advertising department of ‘‘Sapolio’’
for several years, and acquired the rep-
utation of being one of the most success-
ful advertising experts in the country,
has started a monthly publication, en-
titled Fame, which no advertiser of any
pretensions can afford to be without.
The new publication is not to be scattered
broadcast as a chromo to secure business
in other lines—after the manner of
Printers’ Ink—the hard-hearted publisher
announcing that nothing short of a dollar
bill can secure its visits for a year.
They have a brand of whisky in Ken
tucky known as the ‘‘Horn of Plenty,’’
because it will corn you copiously.
If every man was as big as he feels,
there wouldn’t be standing room in this
country.
Firm Merged into a Corporation.
N. B. Clark & Co., who have conducted
the hemlock bark and lumber business
here for the past three years, have
merged their business iuto a stock com-
pany under the style of the Michigan
Bark and Lumber Co. The capital stock
of the corporation is $40,000, oue-half of
which is subscribed and paid in. The
directors of the corporation are N. B.
Clark, W. A. Phelps and C. F. Young,
the officers being as follows:
President—N. B. Clark.
Vice-President—W. A. Phelps.
Secretary and Treasurer—C. A. Phelps.
Messrs. Clark and Phelps are both men
of wide experience in the bark business,
the former having operated at Fremont
and Cadillac six or seven years, before
removing to Grand Rapids, a half dozen
years ago, while the latter was a heavy
handler of the staple for twelve years at
Whitehall.
i el
Compressed Yeast Fight at Chicago.
CuicaGco, April 4.—The fight between
the rival compressed yeast companies
waxes hot in all parts of the city, and the
present price—5 cents per pound for
bulk and 5 cents per dozen for tin foil—
is likely to rule for some time to come.
As this price is below the cost of produc-
tion and distribution, its continuance for
a considerable length of time is likely to
drive some of the smaller companies to
the wall.
The dissolution of the Northwestern
Manufacturers’ Assoeiation, referred to
in THE TRADESMAN of last week, was
caused by the withdrawal of the ‘‘Fer-
mentum” people, who became weary
over the underhanded competition of
smaller rivals who failed to live up to
the agreement.
—_——~. 2
Potts Changed to McKinley.
Mc KIntey, April 2—I write to inform
you that the bad, busy and booming town
of Potts is no more, having been changed
in name to Mc Kinley, and entered upon
a new career of prosperity.
The H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co.
will soon start their railroad in full
blast, operating twenty-five mogul en-
gines. Things will hum when they get
to running.
B. W. McCreedy has put in a line of
millinery goods. A. KIMBALL.
_—_ -O- -
The Hardware Market.
The iron and nail markets appear to be
rather weak. Jobbers are now taking
orders for axes for next season, at the
same prices ruling a year ago—$6.50 to
$7, according to quality.
change in barbed wire.
There is no
Rope remains
stationary.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
BUSINESS LAW.
Last Resort.
EVIDENCE—LIMITED PARTNERSHIP.
According to the decision of the New
York Court of Appeals, entries made in
partnership books before the tormation
of alimited partnership by the former
partners and another entering as a
special partner, of which the latter is
not shown to have knowledge. are inad-
missible in evidence against him to show
that the special partner has not paid his
contribution in cash.
PARTNER—LOAN—NOTE.
If a partner borrow money on his own
credit and gives his own note for it, the
partnership is not liable therefor, al-
though the money may be used by the
partnership; but where the money was
borrowed for the use and benefit of the
original firm, and the payment of the
note assumed by it and succeeding mem-
bers of the firm, the succeeding partner-
ship is liable. So held by the Appellate
Court of Indiana in the case of Case et
ai. vs. Ellis.
CHATTEL MORTGAGES—FRAUD — POSSES-
SION.
The Supreme Court of Illinois held, in
the recent case of Deering et al. vs.
Washburn, that a chattel mortgage,
where the mortgagor retained possession
ot the property with an agreement that
he might sell the same in the usual
course of business, he paying the pro-
ceeds of such sale over to the mortgagee,
wus fraudulent and void as to ereditors
ot the mortgagor, and that the statute
granting the mortgagor permission to re-
tain pession of property mortgaged con-
templated that such possession should
remain with the grantor and not that he
should have such possession for the pur-
pose of sale.
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENT — STATE LI-
CENSE.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana held,
in the case of McClellan vs. Pettigrew,
that the agent of the manufacturer of
elocks in another state who solicits or-
ders for them in Louisiana is not subject
to the payment of a license tax. The
court said that the agent would be liable
to the tax imposed by section 23, act No.
150, of 1890, if the ecloeks had been
shipped to Louisiana, and after they had
been located in Louisiana the agent, by
peddling them, disposed of them, and
added: ‘‘Whether the tax can be im-
posed, either directly on the goods intro-
duced into this state or by license on the
party who is intrusted with their sale,
depends upon the fact whether the goods
have been incorporated into the general
mass Of property subject to taxation. If
the manufacturer in another state sends
an agent to Louisiana to find patronage
tor his manufactured goods still at the
factory, and he takes orders, and these
xoods are shipped directly to the agent,
to be delivered to the purchaser, he is
not liable to said license tax imposed by
said act. It is immaterial whether the
sale is perfected by delivery. The clause
of the constitution of the United States
whieh declares that Congress shall have
power to regulate commerce among the
several states extends to negotiations for
the sale of manufactured articles situated
in another state. ‘Therefore, any license
tax imposed upon an agent or solicitor
tor soliciting orders for said goods by
sample is in violation of said clause of
Se constitution of the United States.’’
STENOGRAPHERS’ CHARGES — COMBINA-
TION.
in the case of More vs. Bennett the
Supreme Court of Hiinois held that an
association of stenographers formed to |
establish and maintain uniform rates of
charges, and to prevent competition
among its members under certain penal-
ties, was illegal, as being in restraint of
trade and against publie policy, and that
one member could not maintain an action
against another for damages occasioned
by the latter underbidding the former in
violation of the rules of the association.
The Court saic: ‘‘Contracts in partial
restraint of trade which the law sustains
Summarized Decisions from Courts of
| are those which are entered into by a
| vendor of a business and its good-will
| with his vendee, by which the vendor
agrees not to engage in the same busi-
| ness within a limited territory, and the
restraint, to be valid, must be no more
extensive than is reasonably necessary
| for the protection of the vendee in the
| enjoyment of the business purchased.
| But in the present case there is no pur-
| chase or sale of any business, nor any
|other analogous circumstance giving to
;one party a just right to be protected
a‘rainst competition from the other. All
| of the members of the association are en-
|
|
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|
OF COURSE YOU
SOMETHING TO
|}gaged in the same business within the |
| Then Harken Not to
same territory, and the object of the as-
sociation is purely and simply to silence
and stifle all competition as between its
members. No equitable reason for such
restraint exists, the only reason put for-
competition as it existed prior to the or-
stenographie work had been reduced too
far, and the association was organized
for the purpose of putting an end to all
competition, at least as between those
who could be ind: ced to become mem-
bers.”’
RAILROAD LIABILITY—AGENT—DISEASE.
A question of some novelty was de-
cided by the Supreme Court of Kansas in
the recent
Company, in which it was
where a railroad’s ticket agent at a sta-
ease, and another person came in con-
tact with him in purchasing a railroad
ticket at the station and thereby con-
was not liable in damages therefor. if
neither the company nor any of its su-
perior officers had any knowledge that
the ticket agent had the disease. The
court said: ‘‘It is the rule that where the
owner of a house, office or other tene-
ment, knowing that it is so infected by
the smallpox or any other contagious
disease as to be unfit for occupation and
to endanger the health and lives of the
occupants, and, concealing this knowl-
edge from the person invited, induces
him to hire, oceupy or visit it, and the
person so hiring or invited takes a dis-
ease by reason of the infection, the
owner is guilty of actionable negligence.
In such a ease, however, it must be
shown that the owner knew that the
house, “office or tenement was so infected
as to endanger the health or life of any
person who might visit or occupy it.
Knowledge is an element in the intent
essential to liability. * * * The neg-
ligent or accidental act, if any, of the
agent in imparting a contagious disease
to Long, the purchaser of the railroad
ticket, was not within the scope of his
authority so as to charge the company,
his master. The sickness of an agent
with a contagious disease cannot be pre-
sumed to be authorized or directed by
the master, and is not an incident in any
way to the employment of selling tickets
or acting as agent at a station.”
Se
Lost the Bet.
He was smart of course. He knew it.
It was an old joke, but he had only just
heard of it, so he thought it wore short
pants and was twenty years this side of
a hirsute appendage. They called him
Sampson—probably because he had so
much on his shoulders.
“There ain’t a nail in that shoe,” said
old Andy Briggs, who only knew Sampson
by sight.
*‘How so?’’? queried Sampson.
“Cause it?s a sewed shoe, that’s why.
I never wear one put together with nails
an’ pegs.”’
“Pll bet you 50 cents [I can find nails
in that shoe.” :
“Pll take that bet, my boy,’’ said old
Andy. Taking off his shoe he handed it
to Sampson. Now, then, find your nails.”
Sampson pointed to old Andy’s foot.
“If you didn’t have five good nails in
that shoe when we bet my name ain’t
what it is.’’
He reached out for the stakes.
“Hol up, old Sassafras,” eried Andy,
pulling off his sock. ‘‘It’s cork an’ plas-
ter; the original’s at Antietam. This
makes $82.50 LU’ ve won off that chestnut.”
ward being that, under the influence of |
case of Long vs. Railroad |
held that}
tracted the disease, the railroad company |
The Calamity
at once
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RESIDENT AGENT,
106 Kent Sr.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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HOSPITALITY AN HEROIC VIRTUE.
Hospitality has, in every age, been
lauded as one of the most important of
the virtues. It is enjoined and com-
mended in the doctrines and precepts
of the world’s chief religions and by the
wisest rulers and teachers of every
country.
he stranger in a strange land is held
to be a proper object of compassion and
kind treatment, if not of charity itself,
because he is, in a measure, helpless and
at the mercy of the people among whom
accident, the will of others or his own
may have brought him, and, there-
fore, to take any mean advantage of his
dependent condition
choice
would be cruel,
cowardly and wicked.
How beautiful soever such a doctrine
of hospitality may be, we discover that
it obtains with most constancy and
power among peoples and in states of
society that are comparatively rude and
settled. It
savages and
in countries that are sparsely
is peculiarly the virtue of
barbarians, and of the poor. It is the
istom in the camp, the cabin and on tke
cl
frontier, instead of in the crowded city
oe palace. Everybody remembers
the brave and hearty hospitality ten-
dered by Rhoderic Dhu to his foeman
2 two doughty warriors share the
when
same rude meal and address themselves
to sleep by the same camp fire, to rise
next morning to a duel to the death.
‘Stranger is a holy name, and shelter
and rest and food and fire, in vain he
never must require,’? was the declara-
tion of the Highland chief, and it ex-
presses a sentiment which many a vet-
eran of the great American war, indeed
of every war, has felt in giving or re-
ceiving the shelter and cheer of the
watchfire camp.
No people have been more distin-
guished for the cds of hospitality
than have the American Indians. No
stranger ever asked hospitality of them
in vain, although while the inmates of
one lodge were entertaining him with
the best they had, the people in the next
lodge would most likely be stealing his
such @ ract
horse or other effects.
tection
would not interfere with the per
hospitality of those upon whom
the duty of dispensil it had fallen
his will be found the experience of
ali who have been familiar with the wild
tribes of the American aborigines, and
like accounts have been given of the
natives of most other uncivilized races,
with exceptions against some few of the
tribes of Africa and Asia and some of
the South
be born murderers and cannibals. A
Sea Islanders, who appear to
pleasing story is told of the people of
Yoruba, in Western Africa, to the effect
that water is stored in large jars near
every hut or roadside shed and may be
had for the asking or taken freely by the
passing traveier. It is one of the un-
written laws of the country that the
traveler may stop at any farm or field
and cook sufficient food from the stand-
ing crops for one meal, but it would be
considered a heinous offense to carry
any away with him. The hospitality of
the frontier and of the mining camp is
quite as characteristic.
The idea which strikes us in all this is
that hospitality is a quality inherent in
all brave, self-reliant and hardy peoples.
It is the virtue of the soldier, the hunter,
he frontiersman, the pioneer of the
races that conquer, colonize and explore.
3ut it is cherished only under conditions
. HE
comparatively rude. It is a virtue of
the country not of the city; it fades away
before a high degree of civiltzation.
Civilization in its simplest form is
friendly to the stalwart virtues. So long
as it confines itself to improving the
minds and morals and ameliorating the
greater hardships and discomforts of
human life it does not seriously change
habits of living and thinking.
But the higher civilization is the em-
ployment of all science, art and knowl-
edge to multiply physical comforts and
to minister to bodily ease. This higher
civilization is luxury, and its effect, if
not its mission, is to debauch and ener-
vate. A luxurious people cannot pre-
serve the qualities and the characteris-
tics of the hunter and soldier tribes.
Luxury is for him who can command it,
while he who cannot must go without.
The poverty of him who lacks is of small
concern to him who enjoys, and so the
very root of true hospitality is destroyed.
True, charity survives in such a state,
There is
something contemptuous in the giving of
but charity is not hospitality.
alms, but hospitality is heroic. Heroic
virtues have little scope in the midst of
luxury.
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How to Indorse a coe.
J. H. Blacklock in Baltimore Journal «
Commerce.
There are several ways of adie a
check for deposit. Some simply write
their name across the back without speci-
fying that the proceeds are to be paid to
anybody in particular.
dorsed passes from hand to hand _
bank note, and if it be lost in the mail,
or stolen, it may be cashed by the | bank
upon which it was drawn as if the check
had been originally drawn to bearer.
Moreover, when a check is once indorsed
in blank, that is by the payee simply
writing his name across the back, the
payment cannot be restricted by any sub-
sequent indorsement. For example: It
would be useless for the bank where the
check is deposited to indorse, ‘‘Pay to}
the order of such and such a bank,”
naming its out-of-town correspondent.
Such an attempt to restrict the payment |
of the check would not amount to any-
thing after the first payee had indorsed |
in blank. |
A favorite way to indorse a check is, |
**For deposit only to the credit of.” This |
is good enough as faras it goes. The}
trouble isthat such an indorsement trans- |
fers the title to the check to the bank]
where it is deposited, and if it be followed |
up by similar indorsements as tt passes |
from bank to bank on the way to its final |
destination, the title is transferred at}
every stage. Now, the check having|
reached the bank on which it is drawn,
it is paid and the money starts on the}
return trip. If at any point on the way |
back a bank should fail with the money }
in its possession, that money would go
into the general fund to be distributed
pro rata among the creditors. But if
the original holder of the check were to
indorse in this w ay, ‘Collect for account
of” or *‘Collect for my account,’’ then
these words would operate as a notice to
all concerned that the «riginal holder
had not parted with his title to the check,
and that all subsequent holders were
agents for the purpose of collecting only. |
If, after the check has been cashed and
the proceeds are on the way back, any
bank should fail with the proceeds in its
possession, the original holder can fol-
low the proceeds of his check and com-
pel the receiver to pay over the amount
to him in full.
It is worth while noting that checks
should be cashed promptly. This is*a/|
case in which it may truly be said that |
delays are dangerous and sometimes fatal.
The bank may fail, or the drawer may
fail, or his funds may be attached in
some legal proceeding, or the drawer may
die. Massachusetts is probably the only
State in the Union which provides, by
Act of Legislature, that a bank may pay
checks for a certain time after the death |
of the drawer. |
MICHIG FAN
This is the least |
desirable of any way, for a check so in- |
5000 Sold.
se ADESMAN.
Patented 1887.
Why Wanted,
It’s the original of its
class. it’s the favorite
with Druggis‘s, Clothiers,
Shoe S.ores, Hatters, Gro-
cers, Hardware Dealers,
General Merchants, Bak-
ers, Butchers, Millers. Ho-
tels, Duirymen, Laundries
and investigate the Amer
ican Cash Regis.er before
purchasing. You will
probably say as this party
does:
Dear Sirs: We will say
that for our business we
greatly prefer your ‘‘Desk
Cashier” to the National,
even at the same price, for
every business selling bills
of goods, or odd number
sales your Desk Cashier is
preferable to the National,
not considering price. We
are so well pleased with it
that with our three Desks
we consider our cash sys &
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iate and local agents
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We close this department of our business, for the present
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We thank the trade in general
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the next season opens, September 1
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MERCANTILE AGENCIES.—(Continued. )
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
In accordance with the promise in my
last article, I shall undertake to say a/|
few words in reference to the liability of
of mercantile agencies doing a collection |
business.
In the first place, almost all agencies
who doa reporting business also handle
collections, it seeming to be almost a
necessary part of their business, and as
almost every one, at some time in his
business career, is tempted to employ an
ageney in the collection of his claims, a
statement with reference to the liability
of an agency handling such business,
will be of genera! interest.
In the first place, it may be stated as a
general rule, that the liability of an
ageney is governed by the contract made
between the agency and the owner of the
claim.
tract is merely an implied contract, no
In most cases, however, the con-
express terms being agreed upon, unless
it be as to the rate percent. to be charged
by the agency for the work it does.
Usually a bare receipt is given for the
collection and the liability of the agency
in some cases, and in all cases where the
terms are not defined, is to be determined |
from the general law of contracts.
By undertaking to collect an agency |
does not insure a collection; and early in
the history of agencies, it was thought |
that the taking of aclaim for collection
was an implied agreement upon the part
of the agency to forward it to its local
correspondent, and to act merely as a
forwarder of the claim and as the agent
for the receipt of the money and the}
turning of it over to the client. That
its liability did not extend to the loss of
|
the money by failure of the correspondent |
to pay it over, and that it was only bound
to use ordinary and reasonable diligence
in the selection of capable and honest
correspondents and reasonable diligence |
in following up the claim. There ean
be no doubt that if the terms of the con-
tract expressly state that such is the
position of the agency, that is that it
shall be the agent merely for the purpose
of forwarding a claim, the agency can-
not be held responsible after using ordi-
nary and reasonable diligence in preform-
ing its duties.
The law in latter times, however, is
much more severe upon the agencies,
where there is no stated contraet absolv-
ing it from liability. The position of the
agency is now said to be the same as}
that of the attorney doing like work, and
the law with reference to it is the same.
In the leading case, Bradstreet vs. Ever- |
son, 72 Fa. St.,
undertook to collect certain claims be-
longing to their customer, giving the
following receipt:
J. M. BRADSTREET & Son,
Improved Mercantile Ageney.
PITTSBURGH, June 2, 1865.
Received of Messrs. Everson, Preston |
& Co., 4 duplicate acceptances for collee-
tion, vs. Watt C. Bradford, Memphis,
Tenn., amounting to $1,726.37.
J. M. BRADSTREET & SON.
In delivering the opinion of the court, |
the judge observed: ‘‘It is argued, not- |
withstanding the express receipt for col-
lection, that the defendants did not
undertake for themselves to collect, but
only to submit to a proper and respon-
sible attorney, and made themselves
liable only for diligence in correspond- |
ence and giving the necessary infor-
mation to the plaintiffs; or, in briefer
124, a mereantile agency |
' eaee
| terms, that the attorney in Memphis was
inot their agent for the collection, but
| that of the plaintiff's only. The current
| of decision, however, is otherwise as to |
attorneys at law sending claims to cor- |
respondents for collection, and the}
reasons for applying the same rules to |
collection agencies are even stronger. |
They have their selected agents in every |
| part of the country. From the nature of |
| such ramified institutions, we must con-
clude that the public impression will be
| that the agency invites customers on the |
| very ground of its facilities for making |
| distant collections. It must be presumed |
| from its business connection at remote
| points and its knowledge of the agents
| chosen, that the agency intends to under- |
take the preformance of the service |
| which the individual customer is unable |
|
| to preform for himself. There is good |
| reason, therefore, to hold that such an
| agency is liable for collections made by |
| its own agents, when it undertakes the |
| collection by the express terms of the |
receipt.’’
There was another case arising and de-
cided at Philadelphia in 1870, where the
j receipt given by the agency read as fol-
| lows:
| For collection according to direction,
j}and proceeds when received by us to be
| paid over to King & Baird.
Across the face of this was written:
N. B.—The owner of the within men- |
| tioned taking all the risks of the mail,
the losses by failure of agents to remit
and also the losses by reason of insurrec- |
tion or war.
By thus limiting their liability, the
jageney was decided to have been re-
lieved of sought to be
responsibility
| charged against it.
Other eases deciding that the attorney
undertaking the collection of claims,
| who fails to limit his liability in the re-
ceipt or agreement to make the collection, |
is liabie for losses occurring through the
negligence, ete., of his agents, may be |
found in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Indi-
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and else-
| where. Won. C. SPRAGUE.
——— - 2
Abolish the Absurd Postal Note.
We do not know to what befogged
mind we are indebted for that colossal
absurdity, the postal note. We do not
know why fractional currency, which
| could be had at par, was retired and the
postal note, ata premium of three cents
japieee, substituted. The postal note,
being payable to bearer at any postoffice,
lis no safér than fractional currency, and
it is attended with the inconvenience of
going to the postoffice and getting one of
these little documents filled out and
| punched. After all this is done the
buyer has only given one kind of cur-
rency at par to secure another kind ata
premium. The retaining of this absurd
| system in our otherwise excellent postal
service shows a lack of business edu-
ication somewhere. If anyone can show
| any good reason why fractional currency
was traded of for the postal note he will
throw a flood of light upon a very dark
place. If anyone can see any objection
| to a paper dime that would not apply to
|a paper dollar he has higher powers of
| discernment than most mortals possess.
| By the light in which we view it the ery
|of the business public should be until
further notice: Abolish the postal note!
Give us fractional eurrency.
MERCHANT.
—_—_ <<
People hate the man who is a constant
| drain on their sympathy.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Clothing and General Store Merchants will do well to
Inspect the Line of
Michael Kolb & Son,
Wi
BC loting Mannfactarers
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Most Reliable House, established 35 years.
The senior member of this firm being
a practical tailor, personally superintends the manufacturing department, and has
the reputation of making the best fitting garments and most select choice in styles,
of all.
WILLIAM CONNOR,
Box 346, Marshall, Mich,
| patterns and designs, adapted for all classes of trade and sold at such low prices,
fand upon such equitable terms as not to fear any competition, and within reach
William Connor, representative of
above tirm in Michigan, begs to announce
that the trade can secure some Closing
Out Bargains for Spring and Summer
trade which will be sold at astonishingly
low prices. Mr. Connor also takes
pleasure in calling attention to his nice
line of Boy’s and Children’s Clothing as
well as to his great selection of Men’s
Suitings, Spring Overcoats and Pants,
all closing out to the trade at marvelous-
y low prices. Largest line of Prince
Alberts and Cork Screw Cutaways in
faney and plain. Mail orders promptly
attended to, or write William Connor,
Box 346 Marshall, Mich., and he will
soon be with you to show you our full
line, and he will supply you with the
leading merchants’ printed opinions as
te the honesty of our goods and prices
Mr. Connor’s Next Date.
Wm. Connor, clothing salesman for
Michael Kolb & Son, will be at Sweet’s
Hotel on Friday, April 8.
NNOUNCEMENT
PID DIDI
\
rere
We have removed our Manufacturing Department to
the new building which we have erected solely for our
own use at 330 and 335
Lafayette Avenue, on the same
street, but seven blocks distant from the new Post Office
building, and easily reached from our store by the Con-
gress and Baker, or Fort street cars.
Our specialty in manufacturing will bea high grade
of Ladies’ Fine Shoes in Hand-Turned, also Men’s and
Women’s Goodyear Welt and Machine Sewed, and Misses’
and Children’s in Machine Sewed.
In “Low Cuts,” both
Hand-Turned and Machine
Sewed, we are showing one of the most desirable medium
priced lines now offered to the trade. Sample orders will
have prompt and personal attention.
H-S: ROBIN SON ANDC OMPANY-
DETROIT, MICH
General Agency of the
CLANDEE HUBBER CO.
A ioe
Lia A No es
THE VALUE OF VACATIONS.
Twenty-five centuries ago Isaiah cried
| unless work is dropped and a vacation
|taken. He must leave home, else he will
THE MICHIGAN
ning gorge and river, and, reclining in
our easy chair, brings a bird’s-eye view of
to the Jewish people who were slow to/ see a thousand things which need doing | some of the most delightful scenes which
walk in the way of rest and peace: ‘‘Pre-
cept upon precept, line upon line, here a
little and there a little;’’ and the admon-
ition is just as applicable to-day as then
for the over-worked and over-burdened
merchants who refuse to see that they
need rest from toil te accomplish the
best purposes of life. If this essay will
help some brother storekeeper to make
his work easier, the writer will be well
paid.
Possibly I have not had as much ex- |
perience behind the counter as older
merchants, but few of them have spent
more hours in their stores for the last
ten years, and none enjoy a vacation |
more than myself. The question is asked:
‘“‘Are merchants benefited financially,
physically and mentally by vacations and
trips away from home, and why would
atrip from Chicago to New York City,
via Chautauqua Lake, be especially at-
tractive?’’
Naturally, the physical point in this
discussion comes first in order, because
it has the mort important bearing upon
the subject. Mental strength largely de-
pends upon physical conditions, and bus-
iness success certainly leans upen both,
so that without the physique there can
be little satisfactory progress in a voca-
tion drawing upon every individual re-
source, as modern storekeeping most cer-
tainly dees. Judging from the experience
of every merchant in the land, vacations
are physically beneficial. It is as true
to-day as when Solomon penned the
statement that ‘‘Much study is a weari-
ness of the flesh.” Who spends more
hours in diligent study than the enter-
prising merchant, and to whom is a
change and rest more essential? To say
nothing of the brain labor required to
plan his business, to instruct his clerks,
to watch his accounts, and to keep things
level, he is often the victim of an atmos-
phere tainted by the odors arising from
highly colored goods, poisonous paints,
inks and other articles confined in close
rooms, and of that more treacherous
poison arising from the impure breath
of the many constantly passing in and
out of the store.
The only certain remedy is pure air
and plenty of it. To get that, and free-
dom from care with it, is the thing to be
sought. The change which comes by
making the hammock, oar, bicycle, gun
and fishing rod play a part in his recon-
struction may tire one member, but they
rest another, and the whole system is
again brought into the nermal condition,
Work
seems like play, former disagreeable
so that he feels like another man.
tasks are now light Jabors, and all things
become new. The fact is, he must have
vacations if he expects to have strength
for a prolonged business life.
As to mental benefit, can there be a
question as to its positive necessity? The
man who asks twenty times a day: ‘‘How
ean I extend my business?” ‘‘How can
1 meet competition?” ‘‘How can I get
the best returns for capital invested, risks
“What shall
>and what refuse?” ‘‘Who shall I
and how shall 1 handle the sly
taken, work performed?’’
j bu
trus
dead-beat?”
of ease, and grappling these problems
y
;
t
] ‘ ry hedec
sleeps on no flowery beds
will wreck the mind of the strongest man
if allowed to continue without intermis-
sion. Here, too, rest and change is the
but they cannot be obtained
remedy ;
|}and then no vacation. Sleep is of little
| value when constantly disturbed, so rest
|is valueless without change of work and
| surroundings. Let his mind be drawn
jinto other channels of thought, and in
| contact with other minds, perhaps better
|informed than his own and which have)
advanced ideas of business, and his own
mental faculties will be sharpened and
broadened, will cover new territory and
| will be raised to a higher plane of busi- |
ness possibilities. A blacksmith might
|as well try to rest hammering on his
anvil as a merchant to undertake to find
mental recreation at his office desk.
Turning to the financial phase of the
question, we think it can be proven that
'the merchant is benefited. Health —
| which is more than wealth—has been
renewed; thought has been quickened,
the reasoning powers enlarged, so that on
his return he carries into his work an
increased activity ef both mind and body.
The vacation has brought to his notice)
improved store decorations, new forms |}
of advertising, and fresh experiences of
successful business men. He is now
more alive to the needs of bis work, bet-
ter prepared to use his strength to the
best advantage, and all this knuwledge
Work weil planned
2
lie colus into Cash.
Saves time, and ‘‘Time is money.’’ Sys-
tem economizes and ‘*Economy is wealth.”
There are many reasons why the trip
proposed would be beneficial, and to me
especially so. Anyone whose boyhood
|like my own has been spent on a farm
and followed by years in a country store,
could not fail to gather new inspiration
j}and fresh impulses from a visit to the
|leading cities of this continent — New
| York and Chicago—with possibly a side
|run to Philadelphia, Boston and Wash-
|ington. The enterprise of Chicago of
itself is enough to make a merchant’s
|; heart beat quicker. While there we
should get the best business information,
and in every place which fortune should
afford the opportunity of visiting we
should try to quickly catch the best pos-
sible on handling, arranging, displaying
and buying goods to advantage, all im-
portant information to the merchant.
Not too much of this, however, lest we
fail in the main object, that is, rest.
Here comes to the mind’s eye of the
weary storekeeper a steamer out of New
York, a day on old ocean’s wave, and,
if opportunity permits, a bath in the
briny deep whose waters lave the shores
To the West-
ern country merchant whose eyes have
never rested upon the sight of the statue
of Liberty which guards the entrance
into New York harbor, the shipping in
of the ‘‘my ain countrie.’’
the bay, the Brooklyn bridge swinging
in mid-air, and the thousand other scenes
which will attract him, will be like
a leaf from the book of life’s education.
We come to Chautauqua, one of the
intellectual centers of this great land,
affording to the weary rest and to the
overburdened quiet and pleasure. Here
the soul can feast on the highest and
purest expressions of human thought,
the ear can be delighted with music, and
amid the beautiful scenery of lake and
hillside, cottage and lawn, there can be
but one regret, and that the farewell to
these grand associations.
The Erie speeds us homeward through
some of the most enchanting scenery of
the land, past mountain and lake, span-
| the human eye can rest upon.
| If all this will not bring rest and re-
icles if it will not quicken the
| blood in one’s veins, the mental current
|of life to flow more swiftly through the
brain; if it will not benefit mind, body
and pocket; if it will not cause the
| thoughts to fly upward to Him who is
| the Giver of all things good and beauti-
| ful—what will?
In conclusion, but a faint picture has
been drawn of the physical, mental and
| financial benefits to be derived by the
worn-out merchant from a trip from Chi-
cago to New York via Chautauqua Lake,
| but let us hope that every one of them is
|in store for some weary brother who may
take this very vacation this very summer,
jand be benefited thereby. Then may
| he quote with Dryden:
“Better to hunt in fields for health unbought
Than for the doctor for a nauseous draught;
The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made his work for man to mend.”
D. W. SHEPHERD.
— 2 ie
Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
W. Baxer & Cos
& Breakfast
ie §(0c0a
Is Absolutely Pure
and itis Soluble.
Unlike the
Dutch Process
No alkalies o1
[other chemical:
lor dyes are usec
in its manufac:
A description of the chocolate
| lant, and of the various cocoa anc
| hecolate preparations manufac-
j}ured by Walter Baker & Co., wil
lve sent free to any dealer or
lupplication.
V. BAKER & 8., Dorchester, Mass
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Nuts, Figs, Dates,
A Full Line always Carried by
THK PUYNAM GANDY 60.
Important to Gro
Gers ald Bakers |
The Only Reliable
We respect honest competiti
methods in trade and meet a
competitors.
Special attention given to ou
Sold in this market for
Endorsed
Telephone 566.
FERMENTUM
Compressed Yeast
on, but deprecate unscrupulous
ll prices made by illegitimate
t-of-town-trade.
the past Fifteen Years.
Far Superior to any other.
Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited.
Wherever Used.
L, WINTERNITZ, State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich.
106 Kent St.
wigs &
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Purely Personal.
Edward L. Merritt,
Mulliken, was in
week.
Herbert Montague, General Manager of
the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., was
in town over Sunday, the guest of S. A.
Sears.
general dealer at
town one day last
Wm. H. Van Leeuwen, the Cherry
street druggist, is lying near the point
of death at his residence on Fountain |!
street.
Chas. F. Irish, of Rochester, N. Y.,
has been spending a week with his
brother-in-law, W. F. Blake. He was
accompanied by his wife.
Chas. 8. Brooks, who has been very ill
with typho-malarial fever, was reported
dead Monday morning, but the rumor
was afterward contradicted.
A. B. Schumaker, the Grand Ledge
druggist and grocer, has been confined to
his house for a fortnight with a severe
attack of inflammatory rheumatism.
Heman G. is expected home
from Mt. Clemens to-day, having suffi-
ciently recovered from the rheumatism to
enable him to resume his duties with the
Olney & Judson Grocer Co.
Byron Beerman, of the firm of Lam-
oreaux & Beerman, general dealers at
Fruitport, has engaged as first
on the Atlanta, one of the
Transportation Co.’s best boats.
Geo. Vernier, who has conducted the
hardware business at Crystal for the past
fifteen years, is looking for a new
tion.
Barlow
engineer
Goodrich
loca-
Ile was in Grand Rapids a couple
of days last week in furtherance of that
aim.
Fred L. Fallas, of the firm of
E. Fallas & Son, has removed to Lowell
and embarked in the butter and egg bus-
iness. He has also leased ten
land and will put up pickles
kraut in the fall.
C. J. Brook, formerly engaged in trade
at Wolverine, has
former
acres of
and sauer-
taken the management
of the Delta Lumber Co.’s store at Thomp- |
son. The Cheboygan Tribwie
to be congratulated.
E. C. Wright,
the Cereal Milling Co., has decided to
embark in the tea, coffee and spice busi-
ness at Kalamazoo, having rented the
store at 114 North Burdick street. He
expects to open for about
April 10.
Frank M. Daniels, the Traverse City
grocer, has invented a computing attach-
ment which can be applied to any grocers’
scale. The device is now in the hands of
patent attorneys, who assure him that
the invention is a valuable one and that
they will, undoubtedly, be
a generic patent.
D. W. Shepherd, of the firm of T. H.
Shepherd & Bro., general dealers at
Martin, was in town last Wednesday.
Mr. Shepherd acquired a national repu-
tation last year as the writer of the best
essay on ‘‘Summer Vacations”? for Mixed
Stocks, the prize being a three weeks’
business
able to secure
trip through the Eastern cities as far as |
Boston, which Mr. Shepherd thoroughly |
enjoyed.
in reproducing the article on another
page of this week’s issue.
ENGRAVING
It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits,
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
Machinery, etc., made to order from photo-
graphs,
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
17 ae of Development
HAVE RESULTED IN THE
AUTOGRAPH
REGISTER,
basirany h makes, automatically,
a fac-simile dupli
| cate and triplicate, while mi king x Original bills
| receipts, orders, ee ete. The original *
given to the customer, the duplicate to the cash-
ier, and the triplicate is rolled up inside as a
record, and can be taken out at any time for ex
amination. It is absolutely incorruptil le, al
ways ready, and does not permit dishonesty or
carelessness. It is alike a protection to the cus
tomer, the salesman and the merchant.
These Machines are rented, not sold, and
the saving in cost of Each 20,000
bills Pays the Rental,
SUITABLE FOR ANY BUSINESS.
Send for a Full Descriptive Pamphlet
Showing Different Styles.
CHICAGO
Antographic Register Co,
154 Monroe St., Chicago.
W. VERNON Booru.
Pres’t.
Cuas. P. STEVENS,
See’y and Gen. Mgr
The Peck Cash Register
.> _—____
The Production of Bay Rum.
Bay rum is manufactured in Dominica
from the dried leaves of pimenta acris.
It is procured by distillation in a very
simple manner. The leaves are picked
from the trees and then dried; in this
State they are placed in the retort, which
is then filled with water and the process
of distillation is carried on. The vapor
is then condensed in the usual way and
forms what is known as “‘bay oil,” a very
small quantity of which is required for
each puncheon of rum. The manufac-
ture of bay rum is carried on at the north-
ern end of Dominica, and proves a very
lucrative business to those engaged in it,
as the plants are plentiful in that district.
Ammonia in Case of Fire.
The great usefulness of carbonic acid
water in extinguishing fire is well known.
According to a reportin a French journal,
the vapor of ammonia has been used with
a similar result. A vessel of gasoline
had become ignited, and the flames re-
sisted all efforts tosubdue it until a bottle
of ammonia water was thrown into the
apartment and, broken by the act, lib-
erated the vapor of ammonia. The flames,
it is said, were immediately extinguished.
This application of ammonia should be
fully investigated. It is almost always
at handin the store, is much easier to
bring into use than carbonated water,
and if as effective as reported, might pre-
vent many a disastrous conflagration.
i. << — on
Another Postal Telegraph Bill.
There was some talk some time ago to
the effect that the illfeeling supposed to
have existed between Jay Gould and
Postmaster-General Wanamaker had
given place to more friendly relations,
and that the result of a better under-
standing between them would appear
during the present session of Congress
in a new sort of Postal Telegraph Dill.
Heretofore the Postal Telegraph bills
have contemplated either the leasing of
existing lines or the building of new
lines to be operated in competition with
existing systems.
There was introduced in Congress last
week a bill, understood to have the ap-
proval of the Postmaster-General, which
possibly represents an agreement between
the Postoffice Department and Western
Union, and at the same time looks as
though it might yield practical results.
it proposes that the Postoffice Depart-
ment shall contract with existing tele-
graph companies for the transmission of
messages which are to be collected and
delivered by letter carriers. The adop-
tion of this plan would bring 500 cities
having free delivery into direct electrical
communication. The telegraph com-
panies, it is claimed, can afford to trans-
mit these message at a low rate because
they have none of the expenses of col-
lection or delivery. Practically, a person
dropping a letter in a postal telegraph
envelope in a box in Chicago would have
it taken up at the next collection, tele-
graphed to its destination and there de-
-livered in the next carrier’s delivery.
—o > <—
A Clever Swindle.
Retail merchants of all classes in cer-
tain sections of the country have recent-
ly been cleverly buncoed out of small
sums of money by two young men work-
ing as confederates. One starts out os-
tensibly on the hunt among the stores
for rare coins. He interests the mer-
chants in his search and leaves with
each a catalogue giving prices of the
coins he wishes to secure. In a day or
two his companion puts in an appear-
ance, purchases some trifling article and
lays down in payment a coin of old date.
Almost immediately he snatches it up
again, explaining that it is a pocket
piece and one that he does not care to
part with. The storekeeper, remember-
ing his first caller, asks to see the coin,
and a consultation of the catalogue
shows that it is valued at $25. After some
haggling the owner consents to part
with the coin for $15. The merchant
waits several days for the first caller to
come again, becomes suspicious, makes
inquiry of a numismatist, and finds that
his coin is worth exactly its face value—
no more. The men are said to have been
making about $100 a day by this scheme.
oe
The Drug Market.
Citric acid is advancing. Cocoaine has
declined. Cloves are lower. Cinchonidia
has advanced. Gum gamboge is lower.
Ipecac root has declined. Salacine is
lower. Canary seedisadvancing. Hemp
seed is lower. California yellow mus-
tard seed isadvancing. Opium is steady.
Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is dull.
Turpentine
Linseed oil has advanced.
is lower.
Do You Want Dyes
That satisfy your customers?
That net you a good profit?
That are in fact ‘‘Perfection?”
Cushing's Perfection Dyes.
Ali our goods will be delivered carriage paid
either by mail or express.
DEALERS’ WHOLESALE PRICE LIST.
1 doz packages, 8 80 6 doz packages, 4 20
3 a“ “oe 2 25 3 “ee ay 8 00
One gross in cabinet, with advertising matter, $9
All goods delivered free. Send cash with order,
and address all orders to
B. A. ALMY, Middleville, Mich,
CINSENG ROOT.
We pay the highest price forit. Address
PECK BROS., “Gran Rarips™
POULTRY.
We are very large receivers of the above ar-
ticles and are prepared to sell your shipments
promptly at the highest market price and
vive you quick returns. We also receive andsell
HAY, GRAIN, WOOL, HIDES,
GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES,
GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS,
Boe ee a ANE eit romicstod.
Write us for prices or any information you
may want.
SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO..
Commission Merchants,
174 S. WATER ST., - CHICAGO, ILL
Reference: Metrovolitan Natl Bank, Chicago.
Be sure and Mention this Paper.
SCHLOSS, ADLER & GO,
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
Pants, Shirts, Overalls
Lessee NEBr
Gents Furnishing Goods,
184, 186 & 188 JEFFERSON AVE.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Playing Cards
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
Daniel Lynch,
19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.
ball YOu Spent
If these are not good enough for ¥
can make better ones for $12, $15, $20 and
upwards.
We are not retailing these
Which will be better appreciated by your
customers, or which will.do you more good
than to have 1,000 men each carry
one of your Vest Pocket Memorandum
Books with your advertisement on both
outside cover pages?
of)
ou, we
BOOKS
We are Dot jobbing these Books’
We Make ‘Em!
No quantity is too large, and the larger the
quantity, the less the price per thousand,
Send for samples!
thing in the printing line.
shipment with your memorandum books.
We do not confine ourselves to making memorandum books, but execute any-
Let your orders for stationery or circulars come in for
PRINTING DEPARTMENT
THE TRADESMAN
COMPANY,
THE MICHIGAN TR ADESMAN.
Whoioasies Price Current.
Advanced—Tonka beans, linseed oil, balm gilead buds.
Declined—Po. gum gamboge, po. ipecac, cloves, cloves powd., hemp seed, salacine.
ACIDUM.
Boer ...... .....- 8@ 10
Benzoicum German... 60@ 65
ee 20
Cernoncnme ........... 22 30
Ci@icaum ...... . 55@ 60
Hydrochior . SS 5
Nitrocum 10@ 12
Oxalicum ...... 10@ 12
Phosphorium dil. . 20
Seiecyrcrme ........... 1 30@1 7
Sulphuricum.... . 1%@
Seeeeeeee............. ci 40@1 0
Tere ees... . 36@
AMMONIA.
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la eds ue 54@ 7
eat Piaeme evens. 12@ 14
Coeere@ere ............ 122@ 14
ANILINE.
SS 2 00@2 2
a al 80@1 00
See... ... ee ede eae 45@ 50
emo... 4... 2 50@3 00
BACCAE.
Cubeae (po. 90)...... 80@ 90
coeeere ........-....- 8@ 10
Sentnoryram ......... 25@ 30
BALSAMUM.
Coe ...... <...
Peru on
CORTEX.
Abies, Canedian............ 18
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Ciaéhoas Vieva ............ 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30
Myrica —— ec... 20
Frome Vig... ..-........ 12
Gulliata, ord................ 14
—_ 14
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 42@ 2%
es 3@ 35
Haematox, itibhber.. 1G
ne 13@ 14
’ eo. cy. 14@ 15
' 1... 16@ 17
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip. ..... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble........ @ 80
a as @ SO
Solut Chloride...... @ 15
Sulphate, at. Luecuee 14 2
' pure.. ‘ @ 7
FLORA.
a es 2
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OE 2@ 30
FOLIA
pees... .......... 0@ 7
Gan “acutifol, Tin-
nivell ee ee BQ Ww
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ni officinalis, 148
ae 8.......-....., 12@ 15
Ta Cee........---:--- 8@ 10
GUMMI.
Acacia, ist picked.... @ 80
. 2d ro diese @ 55
_ eee @ 40
= sifted sorts... @ 8
© WO . cove eo 2. on =
Aloe, Barb, é
Cape a a @ 2
Sonie's 60). @ 50
Catechu, 1s, Cai 14 4s,
Woe ieee esc ee oe 1
AUD 5... se 55@ «60
Assafootida, (po. 35)... 35@ 40
Deeeeenees...........- @ 55
Copeeeeee.............- @ 53
Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10
Me, ccc @3 50
Gembers, po.......... W@ %
Guaiacum, {po 30) .. @
ee @
Mastic . beees @ 80
Myrrh (po. 45). eee @ 40
Opii, (po 2 a uae aa 1 7%5@1 80
eee ss... 23 35
cas bleached...... 30@ 35
Tresecensm ........... 30@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
eee... a. ose. 25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22
I We eres ues vac 25
MAGNESIA.
Cotes, Fas.......... 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat........ W@ 2
Carbonate, K. & M.. W@ %
Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
y serene rg iene ee 3 50@4 00
Aimydale, ate 45Q 75
ae, Amarae.. a 00@8 25
S eeeee daeeeues se 1 75@1 80
Some Comtex....... 3 00@3 25
‘amii
Canenee............. @ 6 00
Exechthitos.......... 50@z On
prlecron ..... 32 2 50
aprnere 2 00@2 10
Geranium, ounce. @ 7
Gossipli, Sem. gal.. hota 0@ F
Hodpoma 000 1 40@1 50
aoeeee.... 50@2 00
Davenawe ............ 90@2 00
a 2 75@3 25
monthe Piner.......... 2 75@3 50
Mentha Verid..... . -2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal. 1 00@1 10
a ounce @ 50
edd e ice eeeica us 80@2 7
Picls _——— (gal..35) 10@ 12
oS 08@1 24
oe ‘ 75@1 00
Rosae, ounce.......... @6 50
Sacer... . 40Q 45
Sabina . eau oe 90@1 00
Pameee 4... 2... a 50Q@7 00
Sassafras. .... 50@ 55
Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65
oe. @ 9%
Thyme tote ee seca. 40@ 50
' a @ 60
Theobromas..........- 15@ 2
POTASSIUM.
pCa... .......... 15@ 18
oe eeu eeeee 13@ 14
Bromide... ios, | he
Carb.. _. oe
Cc hlorate, (po. i6) .. eee es 18@ 20
voor... 50@ 55
ee 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, — 26 30
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Petass Nitras, opt Lene 8@ 10
Potass Nitrag.......... 7G 9
Prussiate . Meseeee, 2 2
Sulphate pe -... 19 15
RADIX,
es ............. 20@ 2
AMeee a
AOCeIee .......:...,.. 12@ 15
nr 8... @
Calamus.. i. oo a
Gentiana, (po. oh 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. i6q@ is
“— o Canaden,
> oe @ 3
He oe, Ala, po.. 15@ 20
Eume pe........._.... 15@ 2%
Ipecac, po. 2 50@2 60
Iris aioe (po. 35@38) .. 35@ 40
Jae, OF... 42 45
Maranta, igs... — @ 3
Podophyllum, Po. Lodeee 15@ 18
Rhei. «ae. GO OO
" cut. Pee on @1
” gee eae 75@1 35
spige ae il 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25). @ ®
Serpentaria............ 35@ 40
a... ............. 45@ 50
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
se ’ @ 20
Boilies, (po, %)........ 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Fosti-
cue. 10.............. @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 2%
German... 15@ 2
eee a 12@ 15
@ipeiner j.......-.. 18@ 22
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20). . @ 15
Apium (graveleons) . M@ 2
Ree, w.............. 4@ 6
Carul, ive, T2)......... 8@ 12
Cardamon............. 1 00@1 25
Copigncram..........- 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa....... 34%4@4
Cy@ontais.... ........ tan @
Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 35
Foeniculum..... eo. @ 15
a po.. . Ce s&s
see eee 4@4%
Lint, ra, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4%
Lees. ......-....... 35@ 40
Phariats Canarian.. a 4%
ee doe aaa . ‘
Sinapis, Albu.. 8@ 9
I Nigra.. _«. Io
SPIRITUS,
Frumenti, W., os Co..2 00@2 50
DF? @..... a T5Q@2 00
es ee 1 10@1 50
Juntperts Co. 1 ta
-1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. -1 7T5@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli........1 75@6 50
Wind Goorte .........-. 1 25@2 00
Vini pe ee 1 25@2 00
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool
Cree... |... -... 2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool
ORETIONe .......,---- 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage....... 10
Extra yellow sheeps’
eee... ... 85
Grass sheeps’ wool Car-
eS ee 65
Hard for slate use.... 75
Yellow Reef, for slate
SS 1 40
SYRUPS.
Sree 2 i
Me a es. 50
eit i eet tee eee Oe
ee ee 50
oe er hee Seecectaae 50
50
60
50
50
50
50
50
50
TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 |
° " :...... &@
oe. 60
Y one werk... 60
Co 50
Asafcetida. . oe
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Benzoin Leela. 60
Ce ow 50
PGMAUMIAFER. 28.6... 50
poraees oe
COnsneewrce................. 7
ees.
Ce Game... ............... %
. to -
Castor .. 100
eee ee oe. 50
ceecnone ...........,....... 50
e a
Comate 50
eee, 56
oes... oe
a.
AO. 50 |
Gentian a ae 50 |
a... 60 |
Guaica . 50 |
ane 60 |
Zingtber eC oo 50 |
ee 50 |
Todine.. Seste ets eee OT
: Colorless............. 7
Perri Chioridum............ 35 |
—........ 50 |
a 50 |
Myrrh. 50 |
Max Vouiee 50 |
eRe e ees e tee esc eus 85 |
** Camphorated.. -_. OO
* Teodor. . et
AurantiCortex...... i
ere 50
a ee eee cece 50 |
Re ee cere 50 |
Cassia “ee. . i
Ce 50 |
DERPOntArIa, ............ es
— ee. 60
Tolutan . . 60
alee 50 |
Veratrum Veride. 50 |
MISCELLANEOUS.
4ither, Spts Nit, SF.. SB Bi
4F.. 0@ 32 |
Alumen Bees eee: 24@ 3
ground, (po.
ee Sen i ee 3m 4)
ee 55@ 60}
Antimoni, po... ‘ee 5!
r et Potass T. 55@ 60 |
ATI... @1 40 |
TIPPCI tt. @ B|
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 63)
os ............ a «6h
Balm Gilead Bud.... 55@ €0}
Bish & NW. 2 10@2 2}
Calcium Chlor, is, (4s |
11; Mis, 2). 9
Cantharides Russian,
~~... @1 2}
Capsici Fructus, af... 62 |
“ss “e _.. @ 2' |
se “ce po. @ 20 |
Caryophylius, (po. 14) 10@ 12)
Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 |
Cera, Alba, 8. 4&7... 50@ 55)
Com Pave... ........ 38@ 40)
COoceus..........-..... @ 4)
Cassia Fructus........ @ 2
Ceperee ............. @ 10
Cenc... ......... @ 4
Chloroform . 600@ 63
squib nl @i1 25
Chioral Hyd = eee 1 25@1 50
Choise .. 5. 8... 4 25
Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2
. erman 3 @ 12
—_ list, dis. per
ec ee sess. 60
cuinn ee a @ 30
Creta, A meg 5) . Cee @ 2
ee 5@ 5
" 7 ......... 9@ il
“ eere..........: @ 8
Crepes... 30@ 35
Cudbear. . @ xz
Cupri Sulph.. 5@ 6
Monee .............. 10@ 12
Ether Sulph.. 68@ 70
Emery, hn numbers.. @
i @ &
Ergota, ( 4 pe. Re 60@ 65
aa.” Pee... 2@ 15
ge ete ects sce @ B
ees Li. 7 @es
Gelatin, Cooper. pieces @ 7
renen........ 0@
Glassware flint, 75 and 244.
by box 70
Glue, Pes ios 9@ 15
Wee lL 183@ 25
Cryoeees ............. 15%@ 2
Grana Paradisi...... @ 2
ee 25@Q 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ #;
Cor @ &
” Ox ana @1 60}
iss Ammoniati. @1 10
“ Unguentum. 4E@ 55)
Hy@rareyrum......... @ 70
Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
ego... c......, 75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl........ 3% 85
Toggtome. |. @A 70 |
Lupulin . rteccce. See Se!
L copodium . Soa 55@ 60)
OM oc 75@ 80
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
ea @ 2
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
———. Sulph (bbl
eid bee baa boaee 2@ 8
sama. nF... 82@ 35
Morphia, S. P. & W...1 8@2 05} Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 24| Lindseed, boiled ....
ew ee Sinapis...............55 @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
oe ae ize 6S) © oe... @ Mi siaimed...........
Moschus Canton...... @ 40! Snuff, rae De | Spirits Turpentine. .
Myristica, No.1....... ie wr Vee. @ 35!
| Nux Vomiea, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35) PAINTS. - 1D.
| Os. Sepia... . 18@ 20} Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30) Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4
ee Ge @ | Soda Carh............ 6@ 2 | ce oe 2@3
Picis Liq, N.C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb...... — 5 | Putty, commercial. =i 24@3
oe @2 00 | Soda, Ash. : - 348 4|__“ strictly pure. ....2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts ....._ @1 00 /| Soda, Sainhags 2| Vermilion Prime Amer-
pints... ... @ 8|Spts. EtherCo........ 50 55} _ lean .. -- 13@16
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50 Myrcia Dom..... @2 25| Vermilion, English../. 70@75
Piper Nigra, (po. “i ae i ‘© Myrcia Imp @3 00 | Green, Peninsular..... TO@T5S
| Piper Alba, (po $5) .. @ 3 rea Rect. “bbl. |tead, red...) .... 1... 7 ae
| Pix Burgun.. | a 7 2 14@2 24 i Witte ......__... 7 @i%
Phampi Acet ........ .. 14@ 15| Less5e gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. Qi
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal. @1 30 | Whiting, Gilders’. @%
Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl. 3 @ 4 | White, Paris American zo
'&P. BD. Co., dos... @1 25 | Se 24%Q@ 3% | V —— Paris Eng.
Pp a a | Penarinds ............ 8@ 10 -« i
— oe 38 io Terebenth Venice.. 28@ 30/ Pioneer Prepared Painti 0@1 4
ae |Theobromae .... "98 @ 43/ Swiss Villa —
Gumia, 8. PF. &W..... 31@ 36} +: P ‘ o
‘“ S. German....20 @ 30 Vanilla... eee unas ‘9 — 00 aints . : -a«--k COGT 20
Rubia Tinctorum..... 1: 14; Zinci Sulph.. ...... 7@ 8 VARNISHES,
Saccharum Lactis stab @ 2 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 2
Salacin.. ..-1 T5@1 86 mE) Extra a ee 10g 70
| Sanguis Draconis. ae 0@ 50 Bbl. Gal | Coach Body «++ -2 75@3 00
Sapo, W.. --- 12@ 14] Whale, winter 70 70} No.1 Turp "Furn. .-1 00@1 10
- 10@ 12] Lard, > -— oS 60 | Eutra Turk Damar...1 55@1 60
_ 2... @ 15) Lard, .... 50 | Japan aise Noa 1
ek Said raw.... 40 43 | ‘urp. oe es TO@iIS
HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Importers and Jobbers of
DRUGS
CHEMICALS AND
aints, Oils 28 Varnishes.
S#i8$ VILLA PREPARZD PALYYS.
wii Line of Stale Drogaisis Sundries.
We are Sole Prepriécters of
Weatherly's Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
We Hawe ix Beck and Ofer 2 Pull Idee of
WHISKIES, BRANDIES,
GINS, WINES, ROMS.
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Sead in a
trial order,
Haxelting & Perkins Drug Go,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
16
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
o
Grocery Price Current.
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly
and buy in full packages. g
8 2
| oo $ 3, SL 4 00
re | $5 ee 5 00
APPLE BUTTER Salmon. CHEESE. $10, coe ee ee 6 =
r, 1 ar , 20, ee 7 00
OO ee ULL ..lLlUmlLrll ee
o>. MEE oe ae ce | lc olumbia Riv er, — . : 85 ines ee @. Above prices on coupon books
ee 2 i 2 Pesce oo; Seer... @Qi3 fica na Fale
Mason’s, 10,20 or 301bs.... 6 | Alaska, 1 Ib. ......-.e esse ee 1 0/ Biverside ......... @ are subject to the following
a + | 2 quantity discounts:
Bld. / _ TE ee a @
| Skim @10 200 or over......... 5 per cent,
AXLE GREASE. Sardines. “ol a 13 “ a
Graphite. | American 36.....-. 2... MO @i1 00 | 1000 * ET Tag
36 BT. CASES, Per Br. ..- $8 50 | oe 6%@ 7! Limburger ........... 0 . > ;
12% Ib. pails, per doz .. 7 50| Imported 4s............-.11@12 Fiacanets ae aon ee ee ee
$0 Ib hoon, per Ib. . | Mustard _ Ns et — aia = Lome ayy mony
250 lb. % bbis., per Ib | Boneless ... oe 29 | Sap Sago.............. Q» 20 DOOKS............. +++ $10
400 Ib. bbis., per Ib... . "Prout Schweitzer, imported. @30 50 EGE 2 00
r ae . i : . domestic @i5 es 3 00
Badger. Broek, 3 tbo... ie CATSUP. 10 * 3 Of
Br. cases, per gr... | i — 6 25
Ib. pi uils, ver doz FRUITS, Half pint, common. eee hl 10 00
Me p
ab. Apples. Pint ae 1000 gl een TESS Ten cn 17 &
. keg =8, per r Ib i3 lb. standard i i li 85 Quart C a -1 50 Ce ee tere tna aa era mage iy eR
: % bbis., per Ib | York State, gallons.... 2 40 | Half pint, fancy............ 10S CONDENSED MILE.
p-¢- Ib. bbls., 1 per Ib |Hambureh, “ 2 59 | Pint ao 2200
: sin ~* | Quart CS 3 00 4 doz. in case.
BAKING POWDER. | Apricots. Resic........ 7 40
Acme | Live oak.. 2 2 CLOTHES PINS. ee 6 25
a oo c : bee. sec eee eo
1g Ib. cans, 3 doz....... -. 45 | a oN ~ = Db erens Dears... .... 40 | Genuine Swiss en caite 8 60
- ” SB Clk, ae 85 | oa d for 1 90 COCOA SHELLS, American Swiss. . oopene 1 OO
“ce a cn » iii «20 ee no
A 1 ie 1 10 Blackberries. 35 Ib bags............... @3 CRACKERS.
= ie Bay... 90 | Less ——— oe @3%4 Butter
( : “ : Bacar . '
% » oe .....-..-..--. © | nea Cherries. sa Pound packages........ 64@7_| geymourXXX............... 6
120 3 oT ‘OFFEF. | Seymour XXX, cartoon..... j
ae oo *: 3 ap | Pitted Hamburgh i. COFFEE. oe
cs = ...... 9 60 | White ........ a 1 20 GREEN. Family X) x, cartoon...... 6%
Cook's Favorite Erie .- 1 20 Rio. Salted XXX. 6
100 4 Ib cans.. .. wee es umsons, Egg Plums and Green i Salted XXX, ‘cartoon ...... 6%
(181 p ieces colored gl a. Good........................17 | Kenosha . ... ee oe
100 14 Ib cans.. I eee @i | Prame............ i ete ae a 8
(151 pieces of erysta California. TT eg I E 6%
100 44 1b cans - Geumsendon. Peaberry ... ..---.- 2... -+ + 20 Soda.
(106 hdl er Ups & and sau cers) Common .... C 1 10 Santos. Soda, XXX i 6
‘atikard pitch 7 Peaches. Baltes cre | Soda, Clty 222 ILL
—. |. 1 10 ec ' anne Soda, Duchess.............. 8%
eee PO) Peahieery 0, 29 Crystal Wafer...............10
— 1 40 cig vee a Reception Flakes.. ........10
a : , 29 | California... ‘ 29 Mexican and Guatamals. Oyster.
C ee i EE 29 |S. Oyster XXX..............6
SRPRICES| in ; | Oxford i 1 ee ee City Oyster. XXX............ 6
CREAM ae 3 Th i ae 23 Perine Oyiter.............. 6
BAKING 16-02 4 = Date |... 1 25 Maracaibo. Strictly oan cnt 30
214-lb 11 40 | Riverside. 21 Prime 19 : e eee «
‘ib 18 25 | — “ea a aa Telfer’s Absolute.......... 35
PowpeEer 5 1b 21 60 Pineapples. Milled ......................20) | Grocers’ ..........00s000) 10@15
a - 10-Ib 41 80 | Common.... oe 1 30 Java, eo : é " —
vlna Johnson's sliced... 2 50 | Interior... .. Le :
ro grated..... 2 75 | Private Growth. eS DRIED FRUITS.
Red Star, ‘> cans... = Quinces. eee... —
2 : "7777" 450 | Common 1 10 a Mocha. PLES
Telfer’s, 1% Ib. cans, doz 45 | Recnbeniion. — eas 23 | Sundried, siie “ed in ‘bbls. 5
ms % Ib. 85 | Rea i 130\- eee 26 a gy On 5
) 5 8 . 3 : ‘ ny,
lesa “.. 150) Black Hamburg.. 1 50 ices a 3
Victor. | Erie. black 1 40 To ascertain cost of rcasted . , APRICOTS.
ee ‘ doz so | ca ce coffee, add %c. per Ib. for roast- | California in bags....... 8
9 ann Pp 120 i Straw berries. ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- | Evaporated in boxes. ... 8%
16 33 Ley 2 00 — a ! _ _ | age. BLACKBERRIES,
i I © UGE..--oe-cenrs © amburg i. 2 : Q ce i
BATH BRICK Erie - oe ‘ il PACKAGE, In boxes eats 4%
iia hia ibang ! ‘Terrapin , 3x | Arbuckle’s Ariosa...... 19.30/79 1p. bags - 8.
i ~ 9ze€n in Cas . r ia : | McLaughlin’ s KXXxX. ‘a1 2 eee a
= . se Whortleberries. ae ere 19 £0 ie. | ° ann
r toi. . a a i 1 20/ Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case... 19.80 | peeled. i ceo emtsitg .
Domestic 60 | F. “a 125 Pee ed, in boxes... ._. 12
BLUING. Gross | henson 1 20 = = i ree oe
Arctic, 4 00 MEATS ne in bags...... @ 7%
‘ ” 0p : al , Cabinets | PEARS.
3 = gg toe _ | i 80 conta lining California in bags .... @i
— * y 1 Go 1) 1) :
275 Potte i a um. % Ib jah 2 a eae PITTED CHERRIES.
4 00 ' ih 1 00 solid at case a cette et tetas eens 11
a ngue, % Ib 1 10} price, with 50 Ib, boxes So 11%
f iaanias L fi oe aoe - additional ee ae a 2
BROOMS. HICKEN, . sail) charge of PRUNELLES.
2 00 VEGETABLES. | 90 cents 20 u
ue. 2 Hurl.. nh a papran E cabinet for | a0 1b. boxes............. 12%
No. 2 Carpet ee ue i 2 50} Hamburgh stringless. 1 25) RASPBERSIES,
No. 1 ee 2% | French style.. 2 25 | meee... WwW
Parlor Gem sei Limas.... 1 40} XTRACT. poem eee... ee, 17%
Common Whisk.. 1 00 | Lima, — eee 1 30 | valley city... q {Po lb. “ .......00.--0-. 18
Fancy 121.” eee... 80 | Felix : 7
se 3 25 | Lewis Boston Baked........1 35 | Hummel’ 8, foil... : a en.
Warehouse.... 3 00 | Bay State Baked........ i= “ ti cS CURRANTS.
| World’s Fair 135 | con eee --+ 250] p a
ene | 1 eke a ee atras, in arene... @4
Stave, No. 1--..-...- _ Corn HD iL - A ones @ 4%
- 10 aepurem ......... a | n less quantity @ 4%
s... Livingston Eden ....... in i: 4+ PEEL.
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row Purity wsce oe | Bed. = ‘ | Citron, Leghorn, 2 “0 1b, boxes 21
Rice Root Scrub, 3 rov oe >; Honey Dew ee ee ae | CLOTHES LINES. | Lemon “ “ 10
Palmeto, goose.... 1 $0 | Morais Giory............. 1 © | Cotton, aa per doz 1 25 Orange m = . “ 11
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. Peas cg ok "140 Spusentie
i i ) | Hamburgh marrofat ...... is. | 60 ft... “ to mestic.
rote, Teeny 7 oo early June : ie oa. 4 95 | London layers, 2 crown....1 40
Self Rising. c 5 CO Champion Eng...150|_ Pe Ly ° ---1 65
| Hamburgh petit pols....... 1 75 | Jute or....... . 90 fancy -185
i } fancy sifted.....1 90 “ ft. “ 1 09 | Loose Muscatels, boxes.....1 25
Hotel, 40 ib. boxes. 10 jens - agg 65 —— : eelnar bags @5\%
Star. 40 g | Harris stant arc cient. oe Cc ne
Paraffine 10% | V an ‘amp’s Marrofat _ | 10 neteateiteneca eviesieessioes ee boxes. “1x”
Wicking | Early June...... 1 30 Sl 1a, * D -s 2
| Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35 Valencia, 20 “ - 64@ 6%
CANNED GOODS. (ereeee 1 80 PRUNES.
Pan Mushrooms. ee @
Clams. suena a. bs a 16218 California, » 90x100 2 25 Ib. bxs. 8
Neck. 1 It a umpkin. .8%
Little ack : ig ANU 0 | Hrie.....,.... 0... ..0--2+0e. 95 wig 70x80 . 9
c | Squash. 60x70 _ 9%
sheet ak, ee. 2 99 | Hubbard ..........--........ 120 ao terererenceeesee G Gtr
. ' - Succotash. ‘ RRM oh cew av cdidne ces enaes 1
Cove Oysters. ie | 1 40 ‘Tradesman.’ apse tteeinceer
Standard, 1 _ ----_ 90 | Soaked . stevesssee...-.- 80/81, per hundred........... 2 00 ENVELOPES.
21b.. seine sat EA Peis cce ous se2e.-1 60 | 8 2, : Biel atta 2 50 XX rag, white,
Lobsters. | Tomatoes. 2 3, . “ - 33
Star, 1 Ib 50 | Excelsior .................. e.g 3 on
eee Jal ee Sues 6 3° 40
Picnic, 1 Ib ‘(one | Meme, 1 30 ea chee tt 5 00
* ee | Gallon en 2 “Superior.”
Mackerel. ae ceric ennai © i, por hundred...........
Standard,ilb...... ........ 1 30) aneteeauaiauallene edhe 8 2, 2 3 00
“ ee 2 25 | German Sweet............ 22/83, wees en eee eos 8 50
Mustard, 3lb.......... cee ei 4 00
Tomato Sauce, 3 1b Oe Pee . fo Si al ati iit 5 00
Soused, 3 lb ..3 00 Breakfast Cocoa........ 4g | 820, as 6 00
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina,
100 Ib, kegs.......+. a 4
Hominy.
BOFPOlS ..ccccscccescscescscs © TD
ES ove cestctcstod oceeson 425
Lima ‘eone.
Dried... see 4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box....
Imported... .......... ioy@tie
Pearl Barley.
BOR ee eae ws 3 @4
Peas.
Pr, On, i ees ns 1 40
ee 5 00
Sago.
I ecient, 4%
ee ee 5%
Wheat.
ee ce 5
FISH --Salt.
Bloaters.
Weeoein:.....: 110
Cod.
Pollock . . 4
Whole, Grand Bank.. -6 @6%
Boneless, bricks ...... 7%@8
Boneless, eine........ Tes
Halibut.
meee 12
Herring.
OU, osc cee een sss 18@W
Holland, bbis eda ee 11 00
a 85
Round shore, % bbl... 3 25
_ : 1% bbl.. 1 35
Mackerel.
Ho, 1, 4% Ddia. Wibe........ 11 60
No. 1, kits, oie... 12
Family, + “2 bbls., 100 Ibs.... 5 50
mis, OW I0S........ %
Sardines.
Rueien, beee.............. 45
Trout.
No, 1, 56 Dbis., HDs. ....... 6 50
re. 3, Mats, Fe... <0. 90
Whitefish.
No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs.. o-8 00
No. 1, kits, oh RRNA 110
Family, } 4 bbis., 100 lbs.... 3 50
_ kits 10° TO ke cens 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Jennings’ D C.
emon. Vanilla
20z folding box.. 5 12
3 02 i :.1 00 1 50
4 0z o 1 50 2 00
6 Oz C 2700 3 00
8 oz ' 3.00 4 00
GUN POWDER.
more... el eee eae 5 50
meee BOER...,.........-..... 3 00
HERBS,
a eas cae ese yt 15
RN a ok ta cn cots oe
INDIGO,
es 5 ib. boxes. ...... 55
o. 7.2 3 ona s lb. boxes. . 50
JELLY.
Chitego soods......... @3
Mason’ 8, — 20 and 30lbs.. 6
- * .
LICORICE.
roe 30
Seen 25
ee 18
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos........... 1%
. moe... 1... 2 25
MATCHES,
0, © mtpree............... 1%
Anchor parlor...... erie cace 170
We Se. cw oc 10
Peeper’ parier............... 400
MINCE MEAT
3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
ee $1 75
Reale eahoe............... 1 40
— ee eee 70
PO ve er cree 45
Bae ee 40
Wooc
igelion ....
en, for rs = doz.
7 00
Half gallon . a 4 7%
NO se cee ey ee, 3%
Pee s. 2 25
MOLASSES.
Biackstrap.
Sugar house......... woes OG
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary .....-....+. oe 16
Porto Rico.
PO ete ee ee cess 16
PORE... ccm eee | pct eee ene 20
New Orleans.
TE is bikin renee ue 14
008 ........6++6 oe ns 17
Extra good. . oral 22
CNS .. oes ee es 27
ee 35
One- half barrels. 3c extra
OATMEAL.
Merpele TOG: occas @4 40
Half barrels i100........... @2 30
ROLLED OATS.
Bere 100... ........ @4 40
malt bbieS0.......... @2 30
PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count........ #4 00
Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 50
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count.. 4 50@5 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count 2 75@3 60
PIPES.
Clay, me, Bee. ee 1%
7. 2, Tullcouns........ 5
Cob, No. 3.. ee cues ae
POTASH.
48 cans in case.
eee a 4 00
Penna Galt Covs........-. 3 2
ROOT BEER
Ww illiams, per doe... ..... 1%
3 doz. ons... ... 5
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina — bebe ek essa cua 7
a 6
. ae @5
eee
Imported.
eenen, WO tT... .-........... 6
. Pee....... .......... 5%
SAVE... .rcrscsee ioe ee eee 5
Tera......................, 5
SAUERKRAUT,
Silv er Thread, . eens $4 5
4 dbl. 12 5
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
Rime... 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 8
e Batavia in bund....15
- Saigon in rolis...... 35
Cloves, aeee...... 8. 22
Panuinee ll ll. 13
meee Wele....... ....... 80
Nutmegs, fancy.. - 80
ee %5
. a a .
Pepper, Singapore, black..
white... “3
' shot... ie
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Sees... .............. 15
Cassia, Batavia eee ee eee ee 20
and Saigon.25
o St 35
Cloves, Amboyua. epee eee a 30
Zansiber...... . ae
Ginger, gine wn Leelee enan 15
eee... oie
. pce bece wee eee 20
Wace Tetayin............... 80
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. 25
Trie ste de ele ola 27
Poreees, Wo. 2 ............. =
Pepper, Singapore, black.
woes. .... "30
" ONG. ook. ee wens 25
cies... 20
“Absolute” in Packages,
4s es
a ne 84 155
Oe scons nee 84 1 55
eee eee eae 84 155
Ginger, cc occ ce es. & 155
Sa a 1S
Mustard..... osc eee 84 1 55
Pepper . ciuabceus.s GF 2S
Pe wks ce 84
SEEDS.
sie... @12%
Canary, Smyrna....... 3%
IN ois oo ce en 8
Cardamon, Malabar... 90
Hemp, Russian...... 4%
mie Sie........... . 4% 6@ 5%
Mustard, white....... 6
OE oes tease es 9
a ee oa ol oe 6
Cute bone........... 30
STARCH,
Corn.
te 6%
ee 6%
Gloss.
1 > packages 6
ae 6%
40 and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 4%
Tae ea ens 4%
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SODA,
I eee Sb,
Kees, "Bnglish Seed pel ee a 4%
SAL SODA.
a 1%
Granulated, boxes.......... 1%
SALT
100 3-lb. sacks ea. ---08
oor. hl 2 00
28 10-lb. sacks..