iano gh - Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. ” ®E Wer Yaac, VOL. 9. GRAND RAPIDS, APRIL 20, 1892. NO. 448 Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Nats, Figs, Dates A Full Line always Carried by THE PUYNAM GANDY 60. ST HRRrReINS & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK GF CAKE TALLOW FOR MiLL USE. MUSKEGON BRANCH scracicleiandl STATES BAKING CoO., Successors MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits # Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. Every Bookkeeper Will Appreciate a Plank Boo’: that Opens Flat. The MULLINS FLAT OFERIBS SPRING BACK BOOK, Alvrand Bip Took Hirting Vo. 29-31 Caria St. “ea Beis Mich. HARVEY & HEYSTEK, JOBBERS IN Wall Papi, Window Shades ind PIGtOrS Mouldings. e the only Jobbers in Western Michigan, and sell = ory Price We make a spe cee af Rtas > Sh, ade 75 & 77 Monroe 8t.-Warehovse, 81 & 83 ehaped Bt, Grand Rapids, G. 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Wholesale and Retail. SPRING STOCK IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES NOW COMPLETE. MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMTLY. ADAMS & CO., 90 Monroe St.,_ - Opp. Morton House. ESTABLISHED 1841. | A BM A RN ON MR THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Mr. G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada | For 50c (stamps) I mail you specifi- , cations by which wi th one hour’s 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’! agency. (Merchant), Ashland, I1]. na) Fall and Syrup Gaus. ES Paper Packed Screw. WRITE FOR PRICES i i ee Wm. Brommeler & Sons Manufacturers and Jebbers of Pieced & Stamped Tinware, 260 8. IONIA ST., TELEPHONE 640. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FOR SALE, We have for sale a store and general stock of goods at Deer Lake, Mich. The stock is well kept up and of good assort- ments. We will sell the stock indepen- dent of the store building. For particu- lars address Osterhout & Fox Lomber Co, Grand Rapids, Mich. FOr MENT. Store and Basement, Size, 24x36. Lighted by gas; two nice show windows. There is in the vicinity a meat market, several drug stores, a hardware store and grocery. Desirable opening for Boots and Shoes, Clothing and Gent’s Furnishing, Furniture and Undertaking. Rent very low for the right tenant. Enquire of Mrs. J. PATTERSON, 138 Summer St. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1892. $2000,000 IN GOLD. Who Took Old John Swanton’s Money From the Cavern? In the year 1860—and some of you will no doubt remember it—the newspapers had many paragraphs concerning old John Swanton of Creston, Ia. He wasan old bachelor 60 years old, living on a small farm seven miles from the town of Creston, and he had neither kith nor kin in America. In January of the year named he received a legacy from Eng- land. I have heard the sum named as low as $50,000 and as high as $500,000, but I have the best of reasons for believ- ing that the exact figures were $200,000. He got his drafts cashed in Chicago, and he would take nothing but gold. This money he shipped home in cast iron boxes and buried in his cellar. He was a loquacious old man, and he made no secret of his wealth. On two occasions he invited friends in and let them in- spect the contents of the boxes. It got into the papers, and no doubt more than one gang of robbers laid plans to get hold of the money. To prevent being despoiled and per- haps murdered, the old man surrounded himself with ten large and savage dogs, and he armed the house with half a dozen guns. After he got the dogs no one dare enter upon his premises, and on several occasions travelers on the highway were attacked. Litigation resulted, and the ald man became disgusted and indignant and left the State. One would naturally have expected him to go East, and per- haps to England, where he could have fully enjoyed his handsome fortune, but what did he do but head for the West! He bought a span of horses and a coy- ered wagon, loaded up his few household goods, and, taking seven of his ten dogs along, he made his way to Council Bluffs to join an emigrant party. He had his boxes of gold in the wagon, and people along his route turned out to gaze at his outfit as it passed. Here and there he even permitted strangers to look at the gold. It has always been a wonder that he was not robbed, but perhaps those wko would have entered into such a scheme did not credit the stories afloat, and regarded him as a boaster or a lu- natic. Swanton joined a caravan bound to California. I had relatives in the band, and therefore can state that the party had not been out two days before every one in it knew of thegold. Many efforts were made to persuade the old man to re- turn to civilization, but he was as obsti- nate asamule. He didn’t intend to go to California, but to stop whenever the country suited him. There was hardly a tribe of Indians not on the war path against the whites, and there was no spot where Swanton would be safe fora day. Arguments proved useless, how- ever, and he accompanied the party for many weeks. When it had reached a point about fifty miles from the South Pass, in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming, the old man found a spot to suit him and announced that he would go no further. The party numbered 126 NO. 448 people, of whom 48 were men. They had been attacked by Indians no less than eight times en route, and had had three men killed and four wounded. They were now in a country occupied and overrun with hostile red men, and halt was made for one day in hopes to per- suade Swanton to keep on. He was as thickheaded and mulish as ever, and next day was left to his fate. Perhaps he should have been forced to go on, but there was trouble enough from the In- dians without creating more in the party. He would not have gone except as a prisoner. The last white man who saw old John Swanton alive was the guide of the party, whose name was McCall. He rode back a distance of two miles to recover some article left behind, and he found the old man turning his horses out to graze and looking for a site for acabin. Toa last invitation to accompany the party he waved his hand and shouted a good-by. It was in the spring of 1861 when the story got back to Council Bluffs. The war had then fairly begun and was ex- citing the country, and two or three ex- peditions which were planned to learn the old man’s fate were abandoned. At no time, from 1861 to 1866, could a party have reached the spot where he halted, as the emboldened Indians had regained over 200 miles of lost frontier and were unusually vigilant. Meanwhile the story had gone to England, where Swanton had relatives, and in March, 1866, Jack- son Thomas, acting for the next of kin, arrived in St. Joseph to organize a party to fight its way to the spot and settle the question whether the old man was dead or alive. AsIwas one of the members of it | ean give you the particulars first hand. There were thirty-six men in the party as it finally got away, and all except Thomas were veteran cavalrymen of the war. The leader was an ex-Confederate Captain named Wakefield, and we were under strict military discipline from the first. Each man furnished his horse, arms and ammunition, while Thomas furnished two wagons loaded with pro- visions. The agreement was to pay each man $2 a day on our return, whether successful or not. If the money was re- TWENTY THOUSAND RETAIL GROCERS have used them from one to six years and they agree that as an all-around Grocer’s Counter Scale the ‘‘PERFEC- TION” has no equal. For sale by HAWKINS & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And by Wholesale Grocers generally. 9 a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. covered, then each one was to have $1,000 It was an adventure prom- but none of us had the least hope of secur- as a present. ising both excitement and profit, ing the slightest trace of the old man. If we got his gold, it would be because he had buried it before the Indians had dis- him, lucky stanee would direct us to the cache. covered and some cireum- On the trip to and fro we encountered at different points an aggregate of 5,000 We a loss of four men. Indian warriors. had fifteen fights with them, suffering We spent three days searching the val- ley where o!d John Swanton was last had ever been there cou!d weturn up. Weshould t the hopelessness of further had Innians left peacefully pursue it. It was the general seen, but not a sign that he have fel search even the us to opinion, and it was shared by Thomas, that the Indians had captured the outfit and removed it miles away before de- wagon and killing that, the man had removed of his own accord, and We otf and disbanded, and it was generally con- . un } " stroying the useless their prisoner. If not then might be hundreds of miles away. returned empty-handed, were paid sidered that the search was ended. In the spring of the following year, while I was at Fort Laramie, | met an old hunter and trapper named Dunn. We got to yarning, and he told me of finding some of the iron work of a wagon in a valley to the east of South Pass. | Not ouly that, but there was a rude shanty which he believed some white man had constructed and occupied. It was so far into the Indian eould he was puzzied over his find, and only concinde that some emigrant fam- ily had left the caravan and fallen victims tothe savage red men. He had not heard the story of old John Swanton. told it to him we were agreed that these I were traces of him, and that the pair of us should set out on anojzher expedition. The Indians were still hostile, but we believed that a party of two, taking all due preeautions, than a hunting could accomplish more larger one. expedition, having a } mal to bear our packs, a we were Six- L r ti» , +} ty-two days making the trip from tune Some days we had te fort to the valley. J ie quiet to aveid the Indians, others the weather prevented lt was not a valley I had ever seen be- fore, and not the one in which the man had first stopped. it miles to the through a separating spur. For reasons which no one will ever know the old man had decided to make a change. valiey was smaller, and was completely walled in, like < among the hills. with a and it bullt ¢ The area 300 acres, h the center, He had cabin of ereek runnins > was a littie very comfortable rocks an poles, and might have lived there for months before the Indians discovered We wheels bi den in found the tires of the four him. the thick green grass, with other portions of the wagon scat- tered about, and there was no sstion that may que but the vehicle had been burned. This the dent, but no one has ever reasoned We found about bones, which were ui.doubtedly those of the dogs. ried many away, have been result of acci- that way. the shanty many The wolves must have car- but there were enough lying about to force us to the conclusion | Whog Whe ln : whee + There was nothing eountry, that | | pass, and so we concluded that he meant |hand certainly pointed down the pass, i not | season it was a water course: in the dry, ;a capital retreat for reptiles and animals. | We had to ligh jand as we slowly advanced we measured |off as near as could be 100 ieet. The j}old man had meant feet. Right there was aspot three | south of it, reached by a pass | This | to the mouth than I caught sight of gold that all the dogs had perished. Who but Indians would have killed them? There was the cabin, but not a trace of the old man, and we were sure that none of the Accepting the theory that he had occupied the valley | bones were his. for some weeks or months before discov- ery, What would he have done with his gold? He had a rude fireplace in the cabin, and we were not ten minutes discovering that his money had once been buried under it. Hidden it away, to be sure. The Indians would never have suspected his wealth or searehed for it, and this would have been a safe place, but for reasons of his own Swanton had removed it. Where to? After half aday’s search we discovered the spot, but it was also empty. He had dug ahole in the base of the mountain near the pass, but some strange idea had caused him to look for a spot he thought more secure. It was our fourth day in the valley when I accidentally discovered what we the clue to the treasure. Many bushes had sprung up in the five In pulling one away which hid the face cf a rock bear hoped was or six years. the entrance to the pass I saw that some letters had been cut into the stone. We could not make them until had water, and washed the rock. deciphered the following: out we brought Then we The letters ‘‘J. 8.’’ doubtless stood for John Swanton, but it was some time be- fore we could decide on the meaning of *2d——100.”’ There three and narrow ravines running off the main were small second ravine and 100 feet or paces. The and the dollar marks stood for money. else—rocks, trees, hills or stumps—which we could make “2d”? out of, and so we went down the pass and turned into the second ravine. We had the clue! On the face of the cliff, as high as an ordinary man could reach, were three $$$, which had been eut by the same hand as the other. The ravine was dark and lonely, and feet wide. In the over four rainy torches to make our way, the right hand and we no sooner thrust a torch in- was a natural cavern in sral} Wall, pieces. On the rocky floor lay three twenty and two five-dollar pieces, and _ | we picked them up we realized that we| had the treasure at last. But had we?| Alas! no. Old Swanton carried his | gold in six sheet iron boxes, each one of | which was a smart lift for an ordinary | man. There they lay in the cavern, | each one open and empty! The leck on} each had been broken. | the have always believed that old man? I after a few| How had it been with weeks of his isolated life he could stand | itno longer, and so made ready to set: He had to return | | for it, and he had wisely left marks by | out on his return to civilization. eached his money, expecting ease he sent Before he could get away he had been attacked. He was killed, but | where or how has never been ascertained, | his money? Not the Indians, as | which it could be found in others. no gold was in circulation among them when peace came, and their finding it without a clue could hardly be considered White men, then; but who? No expedi- tions bad been organized anywhere along the border, nor was hunter or trapper ever subsequently discovered to be flush with money. It would have required at least three pack animals to carry the coin; but at what point had they struck civilization their return? Also how eould they have kept the find so quiet? l ask you these questions. lI asked them of myself until weary. Some on have one got that golden treasure, but no further facts will ever be known. Hun- dreds of Indians have been consulted as to the fate of old man Swanton, but no one has ever furnished apy information. _ 2 <—-_- Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons Morning Noon e Night Good all the time. It removes the languor of morning, sus- tains the energies of noon, lulls the weariness of night. delicious, sparkling, appetizing. Don’t be deceived if a dealer, for the sake of larger profit, tells you some other kind is “justas good ’’—’tis false. No imitation is as good as the genuine Hirgs’, SCHLOSS, ADLER & G0, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, (veralls —- AN D—— Gauls Furnishing Goods, 184, 186 & 188 JEFFERSON AVE., DETROIT, MICH. HESTER & FOX, AGENT FOR THE MANUFACTURERS OF Plain Slide Valve Fogines with Throttling covernors. Automatic Balanced -ingle Valve Engines, Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive BOILERS. Upright Engines and Boilers for Light Power. Prices on application. 44-46 S, Bivision St., Grand Rapids, Don’t Buy YOUR SPRING LINES OF Hammocks, Base Ball Goods, & Fishing Tackle Until you have seen our assortment. Our sales men are now on the way to call on you. EATON, LYON & CO., GRAND RAPIDS. Commercial Gredit Co. 65 Monroe St. Granpb Rapips, April 1, 1892 We take pleasure in announcing that we have this day consolidated the two agencies, formerly known as Cooper's Commercial Agency and the Union Credit Co. under the style of the Commercial Gredit Go. retaining the best fentures of each, thereby giv- ing oir members the benefits of both. We shall place competent and experienced help in charge of each department and combine our efforts to please and benefit the business men. STEVENSON & CUMINGS, UNION CREDIT CO. The office of the Commercial Credit Co. will be at the former location of the Cooper Agency. 65 Monroe street, where experienced and compe- tent men will be ov hand at all times to attend to the wants of our patrons. Telephone 16 for Commercial Reports. ial 1030 for Collection Department. 17 Years of Development HAVE RESULTED IN THE AUTOGRAPH HeULSTER, Which makes, automatically, a fac-simile — eate and triplicate, while making original bills, receipts, orders, checks, etc. The original is given to the customer, the duplicate to the cash- ier, and the triplicate is rolled up inside ts a record, and can be taken out at any time for ex- amination. It is absolutety incorruptible, al- ways ready, and does not permit dishonesty or earelessness. 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 Deseriptive Pamphlet Showing Different Styles. CHICAGO Antographic Register 60, 154 Monroe St., Chicago. Cuas. P. STEVENS, Sec’y and Gen. Mgr W. Vernon Boots, Pres’t. | IN JAIL FOR FRAUD. False Reports to Commercial Agencies Are Dangerous and Criminal. From the Denver Tribune, April 10. Judge Burns delivered an opinion in the West Side Criminal Court yesterday which is of particular interest: to all business men. It was his decision on the motion for an arrest of judgment in the case of People vs. Ismar Schayer, who was convicted by a jury for obtain- ing credit on the strength of a false re- port which he had made to R. G. Dun & | Co.’s mereantile agency. In September last Schayer set himself up in business as a druggist with a capi- tal of $500. By falsely representing the value of his assets he was able to get a rating of $1,500 with Dun & Co. On the strength of this rating, he was able to get credit from Bockfinger & Co. and many other merchants, and five weeks later he failed, with liabilities exceeding $5,000. A motion for a new trial had previous- ly been overruled and yesterday Judge Burns denied the motion for an arrest of judgment. Schayer was then sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail and to pay a fine of $300 and costs. In delivering his decision Judge Burns said: ‘** Section 1378, Mills’ Statutes, pro- vides that ‘if any person shall cause or procure others to report falsely of his honesty, wealth or mercantile character, and by thus imposing on any person or persons obtain credit and thereby fraud- ulenily get into possession of goods, wares, merchandise or other valuable thing, every such offender shall be deemed a swindler.’ “The defendant was indicted upon a charge of having violated this statute, and has been tried and convicted. A motion for anew trial having been de- nied, the sufficiency of the indictment is now challenged by a motion in arrest of judgment. “The objections urged against the sufficiency of the indictment are that there is no averment that the defendant had any knowledge at the time he ap- plied for credit that Bockfinger & Co. had made application to the mercantile agency for a report concerning his wealth or mercantile standing; that there is no averment that the defendant knew the purpose tor which the statement made by him to the mercantile agency was to be used; that it is not shown that Bock- finger & Co. sold and delivered to de- fendant any goods upon the strength of the report of Dun & Co.; that there is no sufficient colloquium set forth, and that the report was not such as is calculated to deceive anyone of ordinary pru- dence.”’ After reviewing the evidence in the case Judge Burns went on to say: ‘‘If it is necessary for the people to aver or prove actual knowledge on the part of the defendant as to the character of the business carried on by the mercantile agency to which he made his statement, or that he knew that Bockfinger & Co». were relying on such statement at the time they extended to him the credit and delivered to him the goods described in the indictment, then the verdict cannot be sustained nor is the indictment suffi- cient. ‘The crime charged is a statutory one, the gist of which is to cause or procure another to report falsely concerning one’s wealth or mercantile character, by reason of which a third party is imposed on by being induced to extend a credit and part with the possession of his goods, merchandise or other valuable thing. These elements are all plainly charged in the indictment, and being so charged, the indictment is, in my opinion, suffi- cient. “In regard to the defendant not know- ing the nature of R. G. Dun & Co.’s busi- ness, the office of commercial agencies and their manner of doing business is so well known and understood among mer- chants that it would be as detrimental to public policy to permit one to say that he was ignorant of the law itself as to permit a merchant to say that he is tg- norant of the reliance placed by mer- chants upon the reports made by such agencies. When the defendant made his statement to R. G. Dun & Co. he intend- ed to make a false statement. That he | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | thereby caused them to report falsely of | his wealth cannnot be doubted, for he must be held to have known that they | were not obtaining the statement for | their own private use, but to be used in | accordance with the well-known usage | of merchants. “The fact that defendant did not | know that Bockfinger & Co. were relying | upon this statement at the time he ob- tained credit and possession of their goods, is immaterial. The defendant did cause R. G Dun & Co. to report falsely concerning his wealth, and Bock- finger & Co. did rely upon the report as being a true statement, and gave the de- fendant credit. “To prevent such an imposition as this is the sole mischief against which the statute is aimed, and it would be no more contrary to sound policy to permit the defendant to say that he did not know of the existence of the statute, than to per- mit him to say he did not realize the con- sequences which would follow his own act, when he lodged with Dun & Co. the statement on which they predicated the false report which deceived Bockfinger & Co.”" ~ The attention of merchants desiring to move to Grand Rapids is ealled to the store advertised bp Mrs. J. Patterson on another page. 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. aying Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ienia St., Grand Rapids. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. va W. Baxer & Co-' =) Breakfast — se Cocoa Is Absolutely Pure and itis Soluble. | Unlike the Dutch Process | No alkaties o1 other chemical: lor dyes are usec in its manufac: | A description of the chocolate lant, and of the various cocoa anc hocolate preparations manufac- ured by Walter Baker & Co., wil | ve sent free to any dealer or} ipplication. ¥. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. 3 ““Not How Cheap, but How Good.”’’ products. ‘Blue Label’ Ketchup SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, Will be found to maintain the high character of our other food We use only well-ripened, high-colored Tomatoes, seasoned with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color. PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY CURTICE BROTHERS CO, Rochester, N. Y., U.S.A. Clothing and General Store Merchants will do well to Inspect the Line of Michael Kolb & Son, Wholesale Clothing Manulacturer ROCHESTER, N. Y. Most Reliable House, established35 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, patterns and designs, adapted for all classes of trade and sold at such low prices, and upon such equitable terms as not to fear any competition, and within reach of all. WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall Mich, William Connor, representative of above firm 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 takes pleasure in calling attention to his nice line of Boy’s and Children’s Clothing as well as to his great also 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 Serew Cutaways in fancy and plain. attended to, or write William Box 346 Marshall, Mich., and he will soon be with you to show you our full line, and he will supply you the leading merchants’ printed opinions as Mail orders promptly Connor, with to the honesty of our goods and prices Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St. GrandoRapids We are very large receivers of the above ar icles and are prepared to sell your Shipments romptly at the highest market price and to rive youquick returns. We also receive and seu HAY, GRAIN, WOOL, HIDES, GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES, GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS, 07 ANYTHING YOU MAY HAVE 70 SHIP. 1 i> eral advances made onshipinent sif requested. Write us fer prices or any information 3%" may want, SUMMERS, MORRISGH & 69.. Commission Merchants, 174 S. WATER ST., - CHICAGD, ILL Reference: Metronolitan Nati. Bank, Chicago. Be sure and Mention this Paper. : 3 : i i i i ' ; i i ert oes pone islaaeasnlAecd ateich THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Burr Oak—G. J. Robinson has sold his | grocery stock toC. D. Dixon. { his drug stock into it assoon as the nec-, essary repairs can be made. | Evart—W. W. Mitchell, whose gro- | cery stock was recently destroyed by Interlochen—S. Jones succeeds Tom | fre, has decided to remove to Belding, Courtney in the meat business. Frederic—F. H. Osborne has sold his | 2&SS- general stock to Chas. F. Kelly. Athens—Geo. Allen succeeds Allen & Grillin the drug and notion business. Britton—Floyd A. Brown is succeeded by J. W. Gifford in the meat business. | where he will engage in the meat busi- | Trufant—The W. H. Walker drug | stock has been purchased by Sid. V. Bullock, formerly engaged in the same business at Howard City, who will con- | tinue the business. Ludington—W. Cartier succeeds Gul-} embo & Cartier in the grocery Belding—Angell Bros. by W. F. Sandall in the meat are succeeded | business. | business. | Decatur—A. MeWilliams & Son have! bought the implement stock of J. D. Bag- | ley. Battle Creek—N. H. Hammond has sold his bazaar stock to Glenn & Pritch- | ard. Marquette — Rasmus Olson succeeds Hughes & Olson in the furniture busi- ness. Marlette—W. ceeded by J. W. trade. Leslie—Chas. D. Chapman is succeed- ed by B. M. Chapman in the grocery bus- iness. Saginaw—‘teo. M. Byerlein succeeds Weil & Byerlein in the grocery and meat business. Bay City—Silas Forcia succeeds Briske Warner & Co. in general & Forcia in the grocery and clothing business. Cross Village—A. T. Burnett, a pion- eer grocer of this place, has made an as- signment. Au Sable—Wm. McFarlane & Co. are succeeded by M. L. Penoyer & Co. in general trade. Bear Lake—E. C. his grocery and Thompsonville. OEasy—Youmans & Yerdon, druggists, have dissolved, M. A. Youmans continu- ing the business. Milan—J. L. Marble kas sold his agri cultural implement business to D. W. Hitcheock & Son. Au Sable—Selig Solomon is succeeded by W. F. Potter & Co. in the dry goods and clothing business. Ann Arbor—Hayley & David, grocers, have dissolved partnership, J. W. Hay- ley continuing the business. Lansing—Wm. H. Magher, grocer, has taken his brother into partnership, and the firm name is now Magher Bros. West Bay City—Walsh & Edinborough, wholesale grocers and provision dealers, have dissolved, Walsh & Co. succeeding. Kalamazoo — Buechner & Bidelman, Keyes has removed furniture stock to hardware dealers, have dissolved partner- | |ing from the saw almost as smooth as |from a planer. the | Sages thinner than the band saws in - ship, and are succeeded by Buechner & Co. Constantine—A. A. Redfearn is name of the gentleman who has chased the grocery stock of R. F. kins. Perrinton—Emma (Mrs. J. A.) Mericle, pur- | | Stafford & Co., Wayland—F. H. Beach, who has con- ducted a hardware business here for the past four years, has closed up his place of business and will hereafter devote his attention to the manufacture of well sereen and windmills. Saranac—F. E. Nayles has removed to} Chicago to open a branch of the whole-/| sale fruit and commission house of R. of Milwaukee. He is a | member of the firm and will manage the | Chicago end of the business. A. White & Co. are suc- | | $20,000, all paid in. | sumed $3.000 worth of | Season and expects to have about four | months’ run. j j Wat- | Detroit— The Branch Bank Co. has. been incorporated with a capital stock of | The object is the} manufacture and sale of smal! banks and | safes. The incorporators are C. J. Whit- | ney, James H. Cleveland and Charles H. | Fisk. Tustin—Lovene & Stevenson have re- about flames burned, and added | The goods saved boots and shoes and dry having saved stock from the the night their store largely thereto. were mostly goods. Detroit—T. R. Schlesinger & Co. have filed a chattel mortgage on their stock of cloaks, etc., at 161 and 207 Woodward avenue for $3,000, in favor of Joseph Beifeld & Co., of Chicago, as security for the payment of promissory notes for the amount named. business, MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Coldwater—The Pratt Mannfacturing Co. succeeds Pratt & Chase inthe manu- facture of sleighs. Hancock—Pau! H. Exley succeeds Ex- ley & Roberts in the wagon making and blacksmith business. Evart—C. A. Waffle & Co. have added to their plaining mill machinery for the manufacture of butter bowls. Pomona—L. P. Saxton & Son are erect- ing a new hardwood mill here which will have a capacity of 20,000 daily. Fitzpatrick’s Siding—N. Watson has started up his hardwood mill for the Bay City—Green & Braman have tested their new 16-gage gang saw and are well pleased with the result, the lumber com- These saws are two | | on this river. Bay City—*. O. Fisher is not decided | | as to bringing logs recently purchased on | | Lake Superior to this city, as he is con-| general dealer, is offering to compromise | with her creditors on the basis of cent. Grand Ledge—Babcock & Streeter, hard- 25 per | Cheboygan and the logs may go there to ibe cut. ware dealers, have dissolved partnership, | and are succeeded by Babcock & Whit- | man. Battle Creek—Richard R. Brenner has sold his bakery and restaurant to N. Mc- Intyre, who will hereafter conduct the business. Elm Hali—J. A. Shaffer has purchased | the Hawkins building and will remove sidering propositions from Alpena and He thinks the cost and risk would be Jess. He regards the outlook for the season as excellent. Negaunee—The Johnson Lumber Co.’s sawmill! resumed operations last Monday and will hereafter run winter and sum- mer. As this company is prohibited the use of Teal Lake, which is used by the | consideration which will run a side track into the mill, so that the logs can be taken in on cars. Before resuming operations this spring the mill was completely overhauled and | everything put in fine condition. Saginaw—lt is announced that Merrill, Ring, Fordney & Co. have just closed a | deal for the purchase from the Dodge estate of the standing pine in eleven) townships on the Meganatawan river, Georgian Bay district, estimated to cut between 450,000,000 and 500,000,000 feet. The deal also includes 19,000,000 feet of logs afloat and a sawmill having a eca- pacity of 12,000,600 feet. It is not de- cided yet if the mill will be operated this season. It is said that the logs cut ' will be rafted here and manufactured at the mill of Green, Ring & Co. and that the bulk of the timber will come to this river to be converted into lumber. The involved in the trade is reported at $750,000. —_ > <—- Weighing the Paver. | From the St. Joseph Journal of Commerce. It strikes us that the discussion in the trade papers about weighing paper with | This cus-| tom is of so long standing and so gener- | the sugar is rather frivolous. ally acceptable, that it will continue to prevail, whatever objections may be made against it. ing grocers or dry goods merchants to furnish wrapping material for their goods. ‘The sugar is so much per pound, xpd the ealico so much per yard, and when the one is weighed and the other | measured and cut off, that is all that can be rightfully claimed of the merchant. Custom, however, which often makes un- written law, has been from time imme- morial for the merchant to wrap up such of the goods sold as can be wrapped con- veniently; and, in the case of the grocer, to weigh the paper with the goods. There is as much justice in demanding a bucket to carry the molasses purchased as in demanding a paper wrapper for the sugar. Custom has settled this matter, and the presistent discussion of it will only tend to disturb existing amicable rela- tions between buyer and seller. If a stingy customer insists upon his sugar being weighed without the paper, the merchant should insist upon his taking it direct from the scales, or charge him extra for the wrapper. We believe that not one in a thousand would be guilty of such contemptible littleness. a eee Errors in Ordering Goods. The jobber is not always responsible for errors in filling orders; in fact, he is seldom responsible. Merchants are often very careless in submitting orders and the salesmen are left to make a decision on what was intended. The following suggestions from the Dry Goods Bulletin are worthy of being cut out and pasted on the desk of every retail store-keeper, where they can be carefully committed to memory: 1. Write plainly and legibly. 2. Give exact shipping directions in each and every order. 3. Write only one item on a line. 4. Devote a separate sheet to corres- | pondence. 5. If ordering from a catalogue, give | exact number, description and _ price, | Stating number or month of a catalogue | from which your order is taken. 6. Put your samples in an envelope marked ‘‘samples.’’ 7. Don’t forget to sign Many do. initia The Drug Market. Opium is dull and lower. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is steady. Cut soap bark is lower. Chlorite of potash has declined. The price has been fixed by the Paris Green Association for the opening of the season, as follows: ares ew a. 16 your name. | city of Negaunee for drinking purposes, | 14°93 nae lv packages 12.0 11....22 22238" to float logs, arrangements have been | 1 ee 18% ee i 20% made with the Chicago & Northwestern, 3 OE ES Sn mit There is nolaw oblig- | The Grocery Market. Sugar is without change. Green Rios have declined about 3ge. Cal. dried fruits are doing better. Apricots are scarce | and in active demand at about We ad- | vance. Raspberries are stiffening and the demand is active. As a result of the improvement in some articles, the whole line has taken on a slightly firmer tone. The orange market is firm and a shade | higher. There is no real good fruit in | sight except Floridas and they are scarce and nearly at an end. Lemons are plenty, the cold weather having reduced prices. The quality of the stock is excellent. Schilling Corset C0’ MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. Schiling’s FRENCH SHAPE Send for Illustrated Catalogue. See price list in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO,, Detroit. Mieh. and Chieago, I] (lover and Timothy Seed, Now is the time to buy CLOVER AND TIMOTHY SEED for your spring trade. THIS We have a good stock and for WEEK will sell you FOR CASH In five bag lots or over as follows: Prime Clover, - - . $7 00 No. 2 _ - - - - 6 00 Timothy, - - - 1 50 Bags extra at market price. W. T. LAMOREAUX & GO, Grand Rapids, Mich. cutneiaatt tenement abana sient Sion coni POP anes RIES pagar onts | { ; ee atthe RST oN te scot Siovconit . SS SPWRR EY _— = = POE AE REINS. paceionast siden et THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. J. M. Scott has opened a grocery store at Alto. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. Lyman Townsend has resumed the grocery and restaurant business at How- ard City. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnisued the stock. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. sup- plied Lovene & Stevenson, of Tustin, with anew grocery stock last week, to replace the goods destroyed in their re- cent fire. R. Rhodes, formerly of the firm of Rhodes Bros., general dealers at River- side, has opened a grocery store at Duffield. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. sini lia Purely Personal. H. B. Gibson, general dealer at Elm Hall, spent Sunday with friends in the city. Chas. S. Withey has gone to Phila- delphia on business. He will visit New York before returning home, the latter part of the week. Geo. F. Phelps, the lonia grocer, spent Sunday in the city the guest of his brother, Wm. M. Phelps, of Spring & Company. He was accompanied by his wife. Wm. H. White, of the Traverse City Lumber Co. and Wm. H. White & Co., the latter operating three mills in the vicinity of Boyne City, was in town one day last week. He says the Traverse City mill has 1,000,000 pine, 3,500,000 hemlock and 5,500,000 feet of hardwood logs on hand, which it is converting into lumber at the rate of 40,000 feet per day. The gang saw will be started next month, which will inerease the capacity 75,000 feet perday. The Boyne City mills have 3,000,000 hemlock and 8,500,000 feet of hardwood logs on hand, which they will cut at the rate of 30,000 per day. The products of these mills are sold almost entirely in the Chicago, Sheboygan and Towawanda markeis. A A Gripsack Brigade Chas. S. Brooks is recovering both health and strength and expects to be able to resume his visits to the trade in about three weeks. Sample Case: The order book of the commercial traveler is a sure index of the state of trade, and a barometer of its prosperity. Full pages denote full crops, empty ones, ‘‘nothing but nub- bins.”’ Bert Remington, formerly on the road for Musselman & Widdicomb, is now head book-keeper for E. B. Preston & Co., the rubber shoe house of Chicago. He invites his Michigan friends to call and see him at 411 Fifth avenue when- -ever they are in the Windy City. W. A. Grover, who has recently been traveling for Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co., Detroit, representing their sundries department, having been connected with the old firm of Williams, Sheley & Brooks for a number of years, has ac- cepted a position with the Grand Rap- ids Brush Co. and will cover all the lead- ing points in the United States. — ~~ < Display Seasonable Goods. From the American Grocer. Do not be afraid to throw your ban- ner to the breeze. Do not be afraid that a few packages of goods are going to get soiled or faded. Let your people know what you have to sell in its season and tell them about it in unmis- takable terms. Make a display of season- able goods. lt is true that, compara- tively, it may be a very modest one, but it will tell your friends that you have such goods for sale and now is the time to buy them. At this season of the year every grocer should bring to the front articles used in house cleaning, such as soaps, soap powders, polishing powders, bath brick, scrubbing brushes, pails, brooms, dust- ers, chamois skins, furniture polish, potash, lye, soda, ete. A very good dis- play can be made at small expense, with a lurge heap of sal soda in the center of the window and other cleaning materials arranged about it. Brooms, scrubbing brushes and pails should be placed ina prominent position near the doors. There are a hundred ways in which a thought- ful grocer can stimulate sales at any ‘particular season of the year. With the advent of the spring weather | salads are largely used, and a nice dis- | play of olive oil is sure to tempt and} lf a grocer keeps a/| vegetable stand, a nice display of fresh | lettuce, with a bottle of olive oil stand- ing here and there in it, would be very | Any way, make a display. | It will show that you are awake, that | you are looking for business and that! you are ready to help your customers to} eatch some trade. attractive. think of the things they probably need. Often we have heard acustomer say, ‘‘l am very glad yeu mentioned that. 1 would have forgotten all about it if you had not,” and these little things are more appreciated than the average gro- cer is apt tothink. It will pay you to make your display. a Five Essential Legal Elements in Nego- tiable Paper. There are five essential elements to the legal validity of a negotiable draft, note or check: 1. It must be payable in money; that is, gold, silver or greenbacks, possibly, also, in United States currency, notin any kind of merchandise. Thus a note ‘‘payable in 100 calves’? has been decided to be invalid. 2. It must be payable without any con- tingency or uncertainty. A note prom- ising to pay ‘$1,000 out of the proceeds of ore to be raised and sold from any mine” is invalid. Buta particular fund may be designated, as: ‘‘l promise to pay out of the estate of B., deceased.’’ 3. It must be payable at a certain speci- fied time—a time certain to arrive. A note payableto A. B. ‘‘when he is 21 years of age’’ is not good, for he may not live to be 21, and so the time is not cer- tain to arrive. Buta note payable ‘‘on demand’’ is held to be good, for demand is in the nature of things certain to be made at some time. The owner of such a note would not possess common sense if he never demanded payment. 4. It must be payable to the order of a certain party therein named, or else pay- able to the bearer. Otherwise it is not negotiable, although as a simple written contract it is good as between the maker and the person to whom it is payable. But it is not capable of endorsement un- less the words ‘‘order’’ or ‘‘bearer’’ ap- pear. 5. The amount payable must be speci- fied and certain. A note for $100 ‘‘with interest” is good, because the interest can be calculated and thus certainly ascer- tained, but a note reading: ‘‘Pay $100 or $200’ is not good. —— -2 The Drummer’s Mistake. From the Pharmaceutical Era. Not long since in one of the large ho- tels in New York state, one of the ‘‘boys’’ was complaining about the dullness of trade, and from the conversation over- heard, it seems he had had nothing in the way of orders to send into his firm for a number of days, and so one day he tele- graphed them as follows: Messrs. So and So. 1 merely telegraph you know [I am still with you. In areasonable length of time came the following reply: Mr.—— You are mistaken. to let you You are not. [)o You Want a Gut e @ « Your Store Building? cr Taauut wae CO Te For use on your Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Etc.? We can furnish you a double column cut, similar to above, for $10; or a single column cut, like those below, for $6. In either case, we should have clear photograph to work from. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Your Orders for Oranges Bananas, Lemons, Dates, Nuts, Figs And Everything Handled by us are Respectfully Solicited. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. THE ONLY Right Package for Butter. Parchment Lined Paper Pails for 3, 5 and 10 lbs. LIGHT, STRONG, CLEAN, CHEAP. Consumer gets butter in Original Package. Most profitable and satisfactory way of marketing good goods. Full particulars free. DATROIY PAPER PACKAGE CO,, DETROIT, MICH. ew, Gis 4 . THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TALKS WITH A LAWYER. CONTRACT BY CORRESPONDANCE. As a first requisite to the forming of a valid contract, there must be a meeting of minds of the parties thereto. An of- fer can be revoked before its acceptance, but after the acceptance the offer be- comes a promise. The time of accept- ance of the offer is the moment of the} the meeting of minds. It is nota diffi- | cult thing to determine this moment in} the case of contracts made in the pres- ence of both parties, but the question be- | comes difficult and very important when | the offer and acceptance are made by | letter, telegram, messenger, or other- wise. At what moment is the contract | consummated? Is it the moment of the} posting of the answer, or the receipt of | the Is it the moment the message is started on its way or the moment it | reaches and is thus communicated to the | offerer? In general a communication of | an acceptance is necessary to a forming of the contract. Is this essential requi- complied with when the party to} is made does all he can acceptance (whether it | ever reaches its destination or not) or | must the acceptance have reached its destination before it can have the effect same? site whom the offer to deliver his of binding the parties? It is now decided that the acceptance | is made when the acceptor has done all | that he can tion. The moment then of dispatch of | acceptance is the moment the contract | has its beginning and once having dis-| patched the acceptance it is irrevocable. It is understood that one making an of- fer by letter is making that offer contin-| uously during every instance of the time | the letter is traveling, so that if the let- | ter is delayed in transit, and on its re- ceipt a letter is at once posted accepting the offer, the contract is complete, even tho’ in the meantime the party offering may have sold the goods which were the basis of the offer. Suppose the letter of acceptance be lost and does not reach the party offering. Is there a contract? The logical result of the position that the accept- ance is posted leads us to infer that the question demands an affirmative answer, and such is the law. The settled rule in our courts is that the time of mailing the acceptance is the time the contract is complete, and that the subsequent fate of the letter isimmaterial. Thisis soon the theory that the postoffice is the agent of the person who makes an offer by t, and the delivery of the letter to the | post is the delivery to the agent of the person making the offer. Suppose that a letter revoking the pro- posalis mailed before the acceptance is mailed, this does not affect the result un- less the revocation is received before the acceptance is mailed. One in mak- ing a proposal may state it as a condi- tion to the making of the contract that the notice of the acceptance be received in order to be binding. Many other in- teresting and important conditions arise, a treatment of which we postpone until our next. Wma. C. SPRAGUE. —_> > > The Cordage Trust’s Rival. It will not be the fault of the Belfast Cordage Co., a concern that introduced itself into this country less than two} months ago. if the back of the cordage | trust is not broken before many months. It is currently reported in circles that are supposed to know, that the Irish con- cern, which is one of the largest cordage houses in the world, is making arrange- ments to bring to this country several entire steamer loads of binding twine. to communicate his inten-| | | | 1 } | | the contract is made when pos Hout pay freigh From Boston and New York on Shoe Dressing when you can buy it of HIRTH & KRAUSE at Manulactarers’ 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. Best Six Cord Machine or Hand Use. FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeetTT, President. 8. F. AsPINWALL, Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - $300,000. Transacts a genera! banking business. Makea Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. Do You Desire to Sell Larpels ald Lace GUrtalls By Sample? ‘Send for ovr Spring catalogue SMITH & SANFORD, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dry Goods P rice Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. “Arrow Brand 5% atic . 7 — ae eed ee is fm = Wide.. = ro is... 6 a! f Atlantic 1 6%|Full Yard Wide..... 6% __ BASSE: GiGoorsm A.......... 6 . a... 544|Honest Width....... 6% D......_... 6 iMartfordA ......... 5 mm -O8i.......... S iindian Head........ 7 ee Seamer A B........... 6% Archery Bunting... = [King & Co . 5 Beaver Dam A A.. Blackstone O, 32.. : %4|Lawrence L L 5% |Madras cheese cloth o% 534 Black Crow......... 6 | Newmarket ae Black Rock .....-.- 5 | B. i. 0 : Boot, AL........... 7 I . a 6% Capital a... 34 . DD.... 5% Cavanat V. 574} . 2... oe Cc hapman cheese cl. 3% pare © .......-.4.. 5 a oe 5 Our Level Best..... 6% Co ao . Oo eee &.......... 6 Dwight Star. Gx|Pequot.............. 7. Cite CCC......-. eee 6% |Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. ABC. ............. Bgigeo. 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Soa, 2 .......... eee au. 8 es os isce cane mo Memee........ 7 een . Tee oeee........ 10 DEMINB, Amoskeag ae --12%/Columbian brown..12 oe 13% Everett, on Se 12 . brown .13 brown. ....12 Aucover... 11% Haymaker ee... 1% Beaver Creek le brown... 7% - CC , 11% v C. Lancaster yee --12% Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 90z...... -_ blue 8% © No. 220.. “* d«& twist 10% No. 250.. a Columbian XXX br.10 - No. 280....10% " 222 81.) GINGHAMB. Azpoubone ....... ...- Lancaster, staple. . * Persian dress 8% fancies . 4 ' Canton .. 8% " Normandie e IG eos xe 110% Ranceshire.......... c Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 8 ™ Angola. 10% Monogram........ 6% ' Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... _% Arlington staple.... @¢iPersian........ ..... 8% Arasapha fancy.... 4% Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 8%/Rosemont........... 6 - staples. 6%/|Slatersville ......... 6 Centennial,........ 104% |Somerset............ 7 Crise .......... io ecome ............ 7% Cumberland staple. Sh ou. Gu Nord....... 10% Cumberiand.... .... ae... ......... 7% meee... ..... ‘ ** . seersucker.. 1% -e..............-.. el eeeee.... ...... 8% Everett classics..... 844| Whittenden......... 6% ixposton.......... 7% ne heather dr. 8 Cesar .......-..- 6% _ indigo blue 9 Gienarven.... -..... 6%|Wamsutta staples. . os Gisnweet........... 7% Westbrook ol Peeeos..... _ ...... — tie 19 Johnson Vhaloncl %/Windermeer........ ” indigo blue 9%|York..... ... cesecue 6% _ zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Avaoskesag......... eG) ¥ Slley City.......... 154% a 19%) oe Asecreene......-.... 16 |Paci cae . 14% THREADS. Clarks Mile End....@ ([Barbours....... -... 88 (one, 2. @7....... > (Meremalrs.........- 88 PORyeRe........-.+,- 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. — ho. 6... ..2 = oe M...... 37 ' oe -— 6M... 38 3 = 2... 40 _ - 39 44 - ee 36 41 =. 45 CAMBRICS, i < Geaeeee........... < 4 \Lockwood... 4 -. 4 [Wood’s. as. f Neowmerket......... 4 |Brunswick ........ 4 RED FLANNEL. Fireman...... ot 22% Creedmore........-. he 32% Talbot XXX.. oi Dae, Bee......... 35 Nameless..... Bechers..........-. 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid. = fort w.....-..-- = ee 2 Veen ......-.. 18% wae ...-. ..-... Sette oO .... 2. es - 18% 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XxXx...... 23% Uae &.........-.- 224i Manitobs..........- 2B — FLANNEL. Nameless Lene : @ 9 mT 9 @10% eae 44@10 ' ave 12% cane AN D PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black. 9% 9% 914/13 13 10% 10% 10% = 15 15 11% 11% 11%}1 17 Wy 12% 12% 1254120 20 20 DUCKS. Severen, 8 oz.......-. 9%4|West Point, 8 0z....10% Mayland, 80z....... 10% 10 0z ...12 Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% ad 100z a 13% Greenwood, 8 oz. mn PO vice ones 13% es 10%|Boston, 10 0z........ 12% WADDINGS., Wate, Gos.......-- 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87 50 Colored, dos........ 20 SILESIAS. Slater, Tron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10% Red Cross.... = —— ecu acces 9 . ec ieee es 104iBedford.... .... ...10% . Best AA..... 7 — a iN Bc ce ee i ao . git SEWING SILKE. Corticelli, doz....... % (Corticelli knitting, twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30 50 a doz..37% KS AND EYES—PER GRO No ; BI’ te & ‘White.. = No 4 Br ré& ‘white.. 15 8 -20 _ 5 ' AB "2 . 125 No 2—20, M C....... 0 Pe 4—15 F 3%...... 40 S26, 6 C.......- ca No 2 i, & BI'k 1 No 3 White & BI’k..20 .15 “ 10 se 7 23 e é ” 1.18 | 12 " ae SAFETY PINS. es....... o.....28 Ee | NEEDLES—PER M. a .-1 40|Steamboat.... ... i. & oer es... +e 1 3)Gold Eyed.......... 1 50 Marshail’s........ i TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—4.. 225 6—4...3 25 a 6—4...2 9% i as am oom TWINES. Cotton Sail utes. = Teeeeee.....---- .-- 18 ee 12 Rising Star 4-ply....17 a fe 18% : 3-ply ue Bee... -.ss Terth Seer.........- 20 Bristol . ..13 [Wool Standard 4 wet Tt ‘Valley... .-15 |Powhattan ..... es. 18% PLAID OSNABURGS Alepemes............ 6% Mount Pleasant.... 6% Alemance...,....-.. ot 5 I oo iv hed nt cy 7%|Prymont .........-- 5% A eee... .... 6 andsimen nee Oe Georgia i aceruneetne 6% a es oi Oe ec oe, 5x8 eel oe 64 Baw River........+ Tolee ii ceiieeceey © Haw J = : tim at ee f = : im a “eee A TELL-TALE PAPER BAG. How a Grocer’s Dishonesty Was Dis- covered by a Lawyer. The New York Herald furnishes us still another reminder that ‘‘Honesty is the best policy.” Baker Kenney, whose store is No. 383 Grand street, Brooklyn, was sued for $2,600 by the New York Biscuit Co. It was alleged that Kenney owed that amount for crackers and faney biscuit that he had bought during the eleven months immediately preceding April, 1891. Kenney set up the defense that the biscuit company owed him a great many dollars for shortages. ‘That is, he found that shipments of crackers were short forty or fifty pounds each. He had dis- covered shortages in nineteen shipments between November, 1890, and March, 1891. He didn’t want to pay the bill un- til there had been deductions. William J. Westlake, Baker Kenney’s chief clerk, was the chief witness for the defense. He testified that he had dis- covered a shortage in every one cf the shipments of crackers his employer had received previous to March 30, 1891. ‘Did you keep any record of these shortages?”’ asked Lawyer Dill. “Oh, yes,” answered Westlake. ‘‘l weighed each box and made a memoran- dum of the amount lacking. I made the memoranda on scraps of wrapping paper and bags.”’ Westlake handed the referee nineteen scraps of brown paper. Here is a copy of what was written on one of them: HATFIELD & DUCKER, FEBRUARY 20, ‘91 5 Om SOG@e, SHOTE..........._..... 1S 5 box sweet broken, short........ 15 OO LE ee 7 A bee SOG8 Sort... ............... 5 - ee OO cere... 4 1 box pregvers, Shoré.............. 1 1 box cream fancy, short......... 1 Lawyer Dill noticed that the dates of these memoranda corresponded with the dates of the bills, but did not correspond with the dates of delivery of the goods as they appeared in the truckmen’s books. That night as he sat in his study the lawyer pondered over Westlake’s testi mony. His children had been playing that evening with picture puzzles of ani- mals that were put together with diffi- culty. Mr. Dill happened to think of the puzzles when he noticed that two of the clerk’s memorandum scraps fitted each other nicely. Presently he found that a third scrap could be joined to the first two. He sat up most of the night fitting the scraps to one another. He found that pieces of paper bearing dates months apart could be joined accurately. Be- fore he went to bed Mr. Dill put the nineteen scraps together. They formed a complete paper bag. Westlake had sworn that he had torn these scraps from different pieces of wrapping stuff at intervals weeks and months apart. Apparently all the nine- teen pieces had been torn apart at the same time. When the newly-made paper bag was handed up to Referee Chittick, Clerk Westlake collapsed. So did Kenney’s defense. Itis exceedingly likely that the New York Biscuit Co. will soon collect the $2,600 bill. oo -2 Ellis—J. Keifer succeeds M. E. Flynn in general trade. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, aud Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO., Mfrs DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. OwEn, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. . AUGURS AND BITS. dis. eee. 60 et ES ee = a eee ......................... ecurrogn, Watieth.......................- 50810 AXES. First Quality, S & B Brome. ................ 87 50 DB bree 12 00 i - BS See... 8 50 : DD. O. Siees...............-..;.. 13 50 BARROWS. dis. Ce ee 3 14 00 Cee net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. ee a ia Carrlige new list. «-- Uae —————————————————————————— ..-40&10 a alee Coe ee ae 70 BUCKETS. wen ve... $3 50 Wea saliva... 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cant Loces Pm feared. ....... ............-. 70& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 66&10 wo ee 60&10 Wrouems Tec |... 60&10 MWereuget feeide Bling. |: ..... 60&10 eee. 75 ened Cisses 1... ss. ee ey 70&10 ee 70 BLOCKS, Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, "S5........... 60 CRADLES. Ce dis. 50402 CROW BABS. CoC eee perb 5 CAPs. is... per m 65 a Eee 60 ee " 35 a. eas : eee 60 CARTRIDGES, ee eee... 50 CO eee dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. eee a 70&10 (OE OE Ee 70&10 eee 70&10 meee eee 70&10 Butchers Taneed Pirmer............ .....- 40 COMBS. dis. aires. Terence s.......................... 40 EE 2 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. —" zs oz cut to size... .. per pound 28 peti, 1456, 14560...) 26 Cold Rolled, 4x56 mG eee)... ........... 23 Cold Rolled, ae... ... 23 aoe... 25 DRILLS. dis, Bice Wt Secees..........-.-...-....-.. : 50 ‘Taper and straight Shank................... 50 Mee eo eer See... c.. . 50 DRIPPING PANS. Gall einen, der pound ...................... 07 Davee eee, ber poumed...... ............... GG ELBOWS. rn 6 eee oie dos. net > Ce, dis ——. dis. 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS. dig. Clark's, mmanll, G8; large, OS................ 30 Even, 1, Ge; =, Gt: © Ge ................... 25 FILEsS—New List. dis. ee EE Ee 60&10 mew Atoetoem. ...................... 5... 60&10 Telcnoisen & ...........- SS 60&10 ee 50 TO 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 2; 22 and 4; 2% and 2%; 2 2 List 2 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ......... 50 HAMMERS. | ROPES. Maydoie Stee ea! a inch and larger ..... ip’s.. oo dis. on Mania.......... weee cee reese Yerkes & Plumb’s. . din, 40410 |. slik ines SQUARES. Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . ..80¢ at 60 ay aa B ee ee Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30c 40&10 Mie OVENS. +e oo oon enn enue HINGES. i “SHEEP InOR. ade, Cah, 1,0 8............. dis.60&10 Oe Mee pe er doz. ret, 2 50 | Nos. 10 to 14.... ae aaa 82 95 Screw Hook and Strap, to12 in.4% 14and —— | Nog. 15to17..........------ er 3 (5 longer . 3% | Nos. 18 to 21.......... 46 36 Screw Hook and a ee 30) Noe. Sito ee | 246 315 Lg Tae nals -+--net 8% | Nos, 25 to 28 . 4% 825 i a i B.----- sores soos HOG ao No. 27 ee «ae 3 35 / Bevevereeeeees +. BOE TH All sh eets ‘No. 18 ‘and lighter, over 30 inches Strapand T......... era a aaa -..- Gis. iin 50 wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. C = WwW ood track....50&10 | List acct. 19, °86 ne i r : si i dis BD Champion, anti-friction.............. .. 60&10 | SASH C ‘ORD. i Bigee, Wood eee ......-........ Looe 40 | Silver Lake, ee 50 ‘actrees el atm i Drab A. ee " 55 eee ced uy 60&10 | « White B. Lc 50 el 60410 & eee 55 ee 60&10 ‘“ Whose oe 35 (eae Gaamcicgd s,s. ...- 40&10 Discount, 10. i HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS, Stmvea Ta Wware................... now let 70 | Solid Hyes.............-.. ee to Japanned Tin Ware....... a 25 | SAWS dis, Granite Iron Ware . new list 33 — . Hand ........ 2... eee weeceeerees 20 WIRE G0ODs. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 79 bees. ae 70810610 Special Steel] Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 Berew Eyes... _..-.. wos) - a4 CRRIOOEIO T Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, ver foot.... 30 Hook’s _ 70&10&10 | Champion and Electric Tooth xX Gate Hooks and Ey es. Poaceae 70&10&10 | Cuts, per foot! Meee eee esc ae LEVELS. dis, | TRAPS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .. i. 70 | Steel, Game............ a . .60&10 KNOBS—New List. dis. Oneida Community, New Hounete 35 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .......... — 55 —— ee” Hawley & Norton’s.. 7 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 56 | Mouse, choker.... .... .....18¢ per doz Door, porcelain, plated trimmings... oe & | Mouse, dclusion............... . 81.50 per doz. Door, porcelvin, trimmings. ................ oi. WIRE. dis. oer and Shutter, porcelain. . ae 70 | pps Eee 1. sis. LOCKS—DOOR. i)~—iCéi:C Aeneas... Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new lst ..:.... 55 | Coppered Market ......... ee 60 Mallory, Wheeler ' ............ . 55 | Tinned Market. lll Branford’s ..... . 55 | Coppered Sprin g Steel... 50 55 | Barbed | Fence, galvanized Me lenee ee MATTOCKS. | painted ee Ace ve... $16.00, dis. 60 | HORSE NAIL8. Bont hee oo 5 60 da @ | Au Sable... ae 6S Thiare........- be eee, $18.50, dis. 20410. | ee Cree eee oe ‘ dis. - AULS. dis. | Nort western. eee ee lee is. 10d1 Sperry & Co.'s, Post, ‘henaied ns eee 50 | WRENCHES. dis, MILLS. dis. | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coffee, es Con... . 40 | Coe’s Genuine . : ans 50 & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultur ral, wrousit, ...._.. %5 g. | . lac een Ferry & Cle .k’s. oa 40 | Coe’s Patent, Talleable oC -75&10 . aes CC Ce. 30 | MISCELLANEOUS. dis. MOLASSES GATES, dis. | Bird Cages ..............0. sees ese ee coon 5U Siebein’s Patvermm. ... ............... Ona | Pome, Cistemm............-.............. ‘S Stebbin’s Genuine.. . eee eae 68&10 | Screws, New L[ ist. _— 70610 Enterprise, self- measuring.. 25 | ee, —" a = Plate.. --5OE10&10 Ni Ss | Damper: merican.... i OO EE EEO 1 85 | Forks, hoes, rakes and ai steel. goods fee er &10 Wire marie, Oeee.......... ......... aera OUT METALS, _ Advance over base: Steel, Wire. | PI@ TIN. Rese (Pee tase... | cirercas.. .... ......... 28e 20 ZINC, 20 | Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. 0 GAO DOUG CONE 6% 35 | Per pound.. beers eee cee ceeeccrcace o 35 " SOLDER. 40 | 4@% al 4 eee el 50 | Extra Wiping . 15 65 The prices’ of the many ‘other. qualities of 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands 1 50 | vary according to composition. 2 00 ANTIMONY 2 00 | Cookson. c. . per pound 90 Hedlett’ Ss 1 00 TIN—MELYN GRA DE. 1 25 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal. eee Lodeca cece © oe 1 00 | 14x20 1C Q Reco eee Geis ccee seme tee. Oe 13 10x14 1X, a. Piece Geeeetccctccee. cc... See 1 50 | 14x20 IX, —. ee 8 7 Each aattionsl on this grade, #1. %. 1 90 _ TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 1 1 Go WeSC. Cemreoal ....... ee as. ee es, 17 2 50 1Oxid 1 al oe tee ee eee eyes yee 6 75 PLANES. dis. — , es 8 25 Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy ........ .......-+.+-0- @é0 | 14x20 ' 6s Selota Bench........ Cae eee aun tach additonal X on this grade 91.50. Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy..............+.- ING Bench, first qualit ty.. as : eee 14x20 IC, ' Worcester... Poccs. o.. OOM Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &i0 | 14x20 TX, i i Stetecesscees ce. Oe PANS. 20x28 IC, ' ee ee mes. Agme. |... dinco-10/14201C, * Allaway Grade........... 6 00 cna, polinhed Bee ee ee dis. - 70 oe aa ‘ i . eee ee a = RIVETS. . 20x28 IC es 2 en and Vinee... ... .............-...... 40 | 20x28 1x, hs _ . 4... 22 Ge Copper Rivets and Burs.............-..+++- 50—10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. wad PATENT FLANISHED IRON. re... ee ‘‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20] 14x31 IX...... eee = “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 | 14x56 TX, for No. : Bollers, ‘rar aiseadl aes Broken packs %e per pound extra. 14x60 TX, . THe. FAVORITE CHURN. The Only Perfect Barrel Churn Made. POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. It is made of thoroughly seasoned material. lt is finished smooth inside as well as outside. The iron ring head is strong and not liable to beak. The bails are fastened to the iron ring, where they need to be fastened. It is simple in construction and convenient to operate. No other churn is so nearly perfect as Dowt buy a counterfeit. SIZES AND PRICES. No. 0— 5 gal. to churn 2 gal ee ee ae $8 00 “* -1—10 det ee on 8 50 “ 2-5 “ . ee ae 9 00 « 3-20 “ . . 10 00 “4-23 “ : eo ee 2 00 ‘ &—35 “ . eens nes 16 00 “« 6 oo * i a 26 00 * to “ eee 30 00 ‘ 8—90 ‘“ . Me ee ae 35 00 THE FAVORITE. Write for Discount. S ostere N o. F é Z i 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The revolt in the State of Matto | Grosso is caused by the refusal of the | people to accept the Governor appointed henner stennniik: seatibddies in ain by the General Government. Bloodshed Retail Trade af the Wolverine State, | has already occurred, and it is possible Michigan Tradesman J ficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. that the present trouble may prove more | serious than any of the bloodless revolu- | tions which have occurred since the over- | throw of Dom Pedro. The successor of Fonseca appears to | have considered the change in the Presi- Postage Prepaid. | dency should bring a change in all the | State Governments. It is this effort of | the Federal or Central Government to i i FAL i ~ | control the States which has precipitated a invited from practical busi- most of the trouble in Brazil during the Correspondents must give their full name and | Past few months, and unless a different address, not necessarily for publication, but as | policy is soon adopted it cannot be long ee ee mailing address of a as © eet their papers: changed as often as desired. : something like the old dictatorship re- Sample copies sent free to any address. stored. sh neoney Grand Rapids post office as second- | MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS NOT PARTISAN. t@ When writing to any of our advertisers, | The plan of making each city a vast in- please say that you saw their advertisement in | dustrial coneern, to be conducted on Tue MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. | scientific business principles, must com- mend itself to every thoughtful mind. ee | There is nothing the matter with the WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1892. |plan. It is but frank, however, to add —= | that there is apparently little hope of its THE SOUTH AMERICAN REVOLU- /early adoption in American centers of TIONS. |population and politics. Think of the The record of revolutionary move- | bluster, wrangles and billingsgate of the ments in South America does not appear | average City Council at a meeting of the to grow less interesting as time passses, | directors of a factory, a bank or railroad! and if the meager accounts which reach | Who would be so foolish as to expect us are to be believed, there are two revo-| such a factory, bank or railroad to suc- lutions of some magnitude in active pro- | ceed and prosper? gress at the present time, namely, one} Men who set out to conduct success- in Venezuela and the other in Brazil. | fully the vast business affairs of a city In the former country a number of popu- ; ust mean business and not politics, and lar and ambitious leaders are in arms| politics as used here does necessarily against the Government with a large fol- | mean party politics. What is generally lowing at their back, which has been’ known as party politics is not always the goaded into rebellion by unconstitution- | most dangerous kind. There are also al acts of the Executive of the State. In/ several kinds of business in connection Brazil one of the most important States, | with city affairs, and some of them essen- that of Matto Grosso, has revolted and tially vicious. It is business, for exam- deciared its independence. | ple after a sort, for an alderman to use U The situation in Venezuela is alarm- | his strings in order to have more bonds ing, as the revolution has assumed im-| issued and sold and more funds collected, portant proportions, and it is now ques-| and then to pull to have the lion’s share tionable if the Government will be able of the cash expended in his ward or with to maintain itself against the movement. his favorite firm with certain wares for The trouble, like all similar South Amer- sale. His constituents may like this and ican affairs, is the outgrowth of rival} re-elect him. Such conduct on the part political ambitions, assisted by the open of a stockholder or director in any suc- disregard of the constitution by the ; cessful business concern would not be people in power in order to retain their | business at all. It would not be legiti- hold upon the offices. | mate business to cripple or weaken an The revolutionists have been able to | entire line of railroad in order to build a gather together a considerable force and | magnificent depot building at the favor- it is understood that they are amply ite city of some one of its directors. supplied with funds. They also have | So it is not legitimate business to burden the advantage of the leadership of|a wholecity in order to build up a single capable generals, such as Crespo, Guz- | wardor a single friend. man Blanco and Rojas Paul. Although —oaoaoaoaoaeuwul®ys«— the Government has not yet met with| THE BEHRING SEA CONTROVERSY. a decided setback, all accounts agree in | Although the interest in the contro- reporting the strength of the revolution-|versy between the United States and ists as constantly growing. | Great Britain over the Behring Sea fish- In Brazil a very unsettled state of |eries has greatly abated, the fact still affairs exists. The successor of Da remains that no definite settlement of the Fonseca, Vice President Peixoto, shows | matter has been announced. It will be no disposition to call an election for a| remembered that the correspondence be- new President, although the Brazilian | tween our State Department and the constitution demands that in the event, British Foreign Office resulted in Lord of the removal or death of the President | Salisbury’s agreeing to the renewal of within the first two years of his term an last year’s modus vivendi on the condi- election for a successor must be called/| tion that Canadian sealers should be within three months. |reimbursed in the event that the pro- Considerably more than three months posed arbitration should decide against have elapsed since the overthrow of the claims of the United States to ex- Fonseca, and the inaction of the acting|clusive jurisdiction in the disputed President begins to look like a desire on | waters. " his part to maintain himself in power by| It is presumed that as the matter has overriding the letter of the constitution. | been apparently allowed to rest there, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY — THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Dollar a Year, - ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. E. A. STOWE, Editor. the reply of Lord Salisbury was satis- factory to the Washington authorities and that within a short time an announce- ment will be made to the effect that the arrangement of last year has been re- newed. In any event, the feeling of uneasiness that possibly some friction might result between the two Govern- ments over the matter appears to have passed away entirely. This is true to such an extent that the Government has permitted a United States cruiser on the way to Behring Sea to put into the navy yard of the British Government at Vic- toria for repairs. Everybody will hail with satisfaction an amicable settlement of the contro- versy, which has already lasted too long, as no one would care to see two such powerful nations go to war because of so small a matter as a seal fishery. Clew’s Weekly Financial Review warns investors against monopoly stocks and declares that publie opinion is becoming more decidedly hostile to whatever form of organization conspires to defeat free competition. Congress and the state leg- islatures find it necessary to respect this determined attitude of the people, and at no distant time the laws will be so framed that nowhere in this country will any form of corporation which aims to exercise the powers of a monopoly be able to exist under the «gis of the law. The attempts of the trusts to evade the penalties of their illegality by organizing under the loosest form of legalization to be found under the state laws will be- come futile. The procurement of con- trol of asystem of competing railroads, under such expedients as have been adopted by the Philadelphia & Reading, will be declared illegal, because contrary to public policy. The law will be con- structed with a simple purpose of pre- venting the defeat of competition by mo- nopolies; and that form of prohibition will be made to apply to any and every form of organization. Of this there can be no reasonable doubt; for the present drift towards monopoly is so widespread, so utterly revolutionary in every sense in its character, and so threatening to vast interests that to suppose that it ean be much further tolerated would be to assume that American citizens had lost their regard for freedom and their sense of self-respect. One of the most absurd performances in the way of straining the construction of a law took place in Chicago the other day, when a sign painter and the mana- ger of a loan association were arrested for counterfeiting and bound over for trial. The alleged infraction of the law was the sign of the association, which represented a gigantic hand holding a bunch of $20 United States Treasury notes. The topmost note on the sign was four feet long and two and a half feet wide, and was a good representation of the subject, with numbers and signa- tures complete. But nobody of the slightest common sense could for a mo- ment consider it a counterfeit, or imagine that the Congressmen who passed the counterfeiting law had any such repre- sentation of the currency in mind. One of the great express companies of the country, fully impressed with the skill and daring of the express robber, has offered the magnificent sum of one hundred dollars to anyone connected with an express company in the United States or Canada who shall devise the best car or car appliances for transport- ing—safe from the greed of robbers— money and valuables. The designs pre- sented must be drawn to a prescribed scale, and as the men who are to compete are not, generally, mechanies or drafts- men, it is possible that they could get some one who is to work up their ideas and make the necessary drawings for, say, three or four hundred dollars. The inventor could, of course, take his pay in glory. From several sources come suggestions that the business men formerly affiliated with the Michigan Business Men’s Asso- ciation hold another general convention in the near future, inviting the presence thereto of such other business men as are in sympathy with the aims and objects of the organization referred to. The suggestions appear to TuE TRADEs- MAN to be pertinent and it will cordially co-operate in any movement in that di- rection. No more representative gather- ings of business men were ever held than the conventions which met at Grand Rapids, Flint, Cheboygan and Muske- gon, and the beneficial results of these gatherings is still apparent in the exis- tence of certain reforms which would never have been secured but for the concerted action of business men. Who will be the first to move in the matter? It is by no means uncommon for econ- omists to rail at the American habit of taking frequent trips to Europe and to deplore the amount of money expended in that manner. In an admirable treatise on this subject, which appears on the opposite page of this issue, Matthew Marshall controverts several long-cherish- ed ideas on this topic and succeeds in satisfying the unprejudiced reader that the evil so strenuously decried is not so great an evil, after all. Many valuable suggestions to the in- suring public are embodied in the series of articles on the subject of fire insur- ance, now being published in TuHE TRADESMAN. No merchant should fail to note the suggestions of the writer and the conclusions he draws from estab- lished facts. Risk Your Own Capital. An old merchant says: ‘‘A man has the right to risk his own capital, but he has no right to risk the property of others without their consent, and he can only honestly extend his business at any time sothatif his property should suddenly depreciate in value to the ordinary level of low prices, and he should meet with the average percentage of loss and other risks identical to the business, he would be well able to pay his debts. “Without accurate information on these points, a man whose liabilities are three times the amount of his capital should be extremely cautious in extending his purchases, however inviting the spec- ulation may appear; and if he takes to giving credit, he cannot calculate with with any degree of certainty in being able to meet his payments promptly except by giving one third less credit than he takes.” —— nil ili Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: J. D. Noah, Moline. Carrington & North, Trent. Lovene & Stevenson, Tustin. White & Fairchild, Boyne City. Jas. L. Felton, Burnip’s Corners. H. B. Gibson, Elm Hall. cco Fe "RS ee te pete SER EONS RENAME DLE SAE eh THE MICHIGAN 9 TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL. The increasing value of the transat- lantic passenger business between this country and Europe is shown by the an- nouncement recently made that the Cunard Steamship Company has now in course of construction two new steam- ships which, in size and speed, will sur- pass the largest and swiftest of their present fleet, and that the White Star Company, not to be outdone by its great competitor, has also contracted for the building of two steamers which will be a little larger and, if possible, somewhat faster than the new Cunarders. Each of these companies has already two vessels which usually make their crossings in a week or less, and carry between three and five hundred cabin passengers each time. The Inman line has two of the same character, the Hamburg-American line two, and the French Transatlantic Company two. In addition, there are engaged in the business the smaller craft belonging to the lines just mentioned, those of the North German Lloyd, and a considerable number owned by Belgian, Duteh and Swedish companies. Alto- gether, these vessels carry to Europe about 100,000 cabin passengers every year, of whom at least nine-tenths are Americans. At an average of $100 each, this makes $9,000,000 paid by our citi- zens, annually, for transportation out- ward, their return passages costing as much more. I am not one of those who lament that this $18,000,000 a year, more or less, thus eollected from Americans for transat- lantic travel, besides the sums paid for steerage passages and for freight out and home, goes into the pockets of foreigners instead of those of our own citizens. | Large as the aggregate amount is, it represents, when the necessary expenses and losses are deducted, a very small return upon the capital invested. The Cunard Company, for example, has paid but a 3 per cent. dividend from last year’s earnings, and the White Star and Inman lines none at all. I am not positive about the other lines, but I am told that the shares of all of them are not much above par, if indeed they are not below it, Inasmuch as Americans could not get what little profits the vessels earn without owning them, and inasmuch as they could not own them without divert- ing the money they cost from more profit- able employments, I am quite willing to let foreigners do the business. Nor can 1 join with certain austere economists in deploring as entirely wast- ed the expenditures made by Americans in transatlantic and European travel. To repeat what I have already often inci- dentally remarked on other occasions, wealth is desirable solely as a means for procuring enjoyment, and while I con- eede that to some the only enjoyment it is capable of affording is the accumula- tion of more wealth, the majority have a} wider and much view of its use. other end than continually to add to his more comprehensive | : | A man who toils for no | |ing packet of t,000 tons burden was the} finest means of conveyance afloat, and if | hoard is like a squirrel in acage or a| dog in a treadmill. He keeps the ma- ehine going, ishe got across the Atlantic in less than | three weeks it was something remarkable. | The number of passengers was as re-, round and round, and to} that extent he is useful, but he himself | | stricted as the accommodations for them | never advances a step. On the other hand, the man who, when he has earned enough to justify his taking a vacation, goes abroad to see new sights, enlarges | his knowledge, expands his mind, and | inereases his store of happiness. 1 do not know when my admiration | Europe thoroughly. inc nainicli and esteem have been so much excited as | they were by a Boston boy whose ac- quaintance I once made traveling abroad. We were in Italy, and both following | about the same route, so that I was con- tinually encountering him in riages. His conversation was so enter- taining and he showed so much knowl- edge of literature and art that I finally | proposed that we should travel together, but he excused himself by saying that he had only a limited amount of money, and this required him to take cheaper con- veyances and put up at cheaper inns than even my modest ideas demanded, nor could I persuade him to let me pay the small additional expense which com- panionship with me would entail. ever, we saw a great deal of one another, and on my return to America 1 made enquiries about him, the result of which confirmed my estimate of his worth. 1 learned that he was the eldest of a num- ber of brothers and sisters, who, together with their mother, had been, a few years before by the death of their father, a merchant with a small capital, pendent upon him for support. tinuing his father’s business. He man- aged it so well that he educated his brothers and sisters, got them well start- ed in life, and after this was all done and his mother provided for, he set about saving up the little modicum needed for a trip to Europe which had been his am- bition from boyhood. This was the money on which he was traveling when I met him. It was the first he had spent on himself since his father’s death, and Iecould not but acknowledge that it was the best investment which, at his age, he could make of it. He purchased with it a store of information, experience and pleasant memories which brightened his life and sweetened the toil to which his necessities compelled him in the future to devote himself. Instead of postpon- ing the enjoyment of his savings to his old age he took itin his youth and got, annually, interest and compound interest out of it. My young friend, 1 am happy to be- lieve, is only a specimen of a great and increasing number of our fellow citizens. It would be a mistake to infer that be- eause the newspapers chronicle the de- partures and arrivals by the transat- lantic steamers of only the rich and the distinguished, that these constitute the larger portion of those who go abroad. If they did, no such fleet of mammoth steamers as that which I have mentioned would ever have been built. The profits of the transatlantic passenger business, like those of all great industries, are de- lrived not from a select few, but froma great multitude of modest and unknown | customers. In my younger days a sail- were, and, excepting those who went on | business, they were persons in affluent | circumstances, who expected to devote | one, two, and even more years to seeing | Many of them on}: their return thought that a book describ cities, | churches, picture galleries, and places of | that kind, but I did not see him in the! same hotels nor in the same railway car- | How- | left de-| ‘tHe was then about to enter Harvard College and | was well prepared for it, but he gave up | that purpose and devoted himself to con- | O1SeN OfCE Cos HOO OFFEE. LION COFFEE; DESCRIPTION Write your Jobber for Prices or Address Il. WZINTERNITS, Resident Agent, Or. 106 KENT STREET, - - - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Facts Talk Louder Than Words? 8,487,275 SOLD IN 1886. 3,009,575 SOLD IN 1887. {092,360 SOLD IN 1888 0,690,025 SOLD IN 1083 v0,000 SOL 6,983,207 Sold in 189 FIGURES, sof EXACT velebraied RECORD BREAKERS These Cigars are by far the most popular in the market to-day. MADE on HONOR, Sold by leading dealers all over the United States. Ask for them. but a TAG! At SUGCEESS ( t ott This is not an ordinary monument, showing the monument BEN-HUR (10e or 3 for 25c) MOEBS & CO, Mantlacturers, | DETROIT and CHICAGO. : ; i a Pisa ANA cern eae: Shalt ond 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMA ing their travels and their adventures was due to the public, and produced one accordingly. The same sort of people nowadays go, it is true, not once in a lifetime, but every year, sandwiching in their two or three months’ excursion be- tween the winter carnival and a summer at Newport or Bar Harbor, but, for all that, a very few steamships would suffice for them alone, and, were they not sup- plemented by a crowd of less conspicuous travelers, we should not hear of so much competition in the business. In exchange for the millions which they spend abroad, this unpretending multitude bring back, as my young Bos- ton friend did, not, indeed, goods which ean be sold for money, but information, experiences, and a store of pleasant recollections, which to them personally is of priceless value. What ihey spend upon their travels is certainly no more squandered than if it had been devoted to the purchase of books and photographs, and it yields them a far more vivid pleasure. Besides, 1 am not so sure but that the increasing familiarity of our people with the ways of the Old World, brought about by this increasing tide of transatlantic travel, is profitable froma mere money-making point of view. By introducing new enjoyments it creates new wants, and in supplying these wants new sources of wealth are opened, and thus the aggregate riches of the country are increased. : Nobody disputes that acquaintance with the best productions of art obtained by travel in Furope, little as it may be in some cases, tends to elevate the average taste, and thus to compe! an improve- ment in the objects of which beauty is an essential element of value. The effect of the competition of the best foreign painters, sculptors, and architects is not | only to make those of our own country strive to produce better results, but the competition extends to furniture, decora- tions, jewelry, silverware and ail sorts of ornaments. I can bear personal testi- mony to an immense improvement since my youth in the matter of househoid fur- niture. The days when black horsehair- Brus- eovered chairs and sofas, staring seis carpets, and gaudy wail papers were fashionable has gone forever. In their place we have an immense variety of pretty articles which enables people of | very moderate pecuniary means to fur- nish their homes inastyle which was formerly unattainable by the most wealthy. Glass, china, silver-plated ware, gas fixtures, cutlery, and other objects of household use and adornment have undergone a similar change for the bet- ter. One has only to compare the old silverware piously preserved in families is heirlooms with that offered by our modern silversmiths to recognize the ad- vance in taste. Ido not know so much about jewelry, but I cannot imagine that anything could be prettier than the spec- imens I see on exhibition in the show windows of our great New York jewelers. With this increase of beautiful merchant- able objects has come an increase of demand for them and a willingness to pay higher prices for them. This, in turn, has increased the quantity of them produced, and thus, as I have said, the aggregate wealth of the nation has been augmented. Of course, it is too much to claim that this improvement in the beauty of our home surroundings is due exclusively to the foreign travel of our citizens, but that it is so in a great measure is, to my | 5000 Sold. mind, very clear. I only regret that the, work has not gone further than it has gone, and does not go on faster. That Americans returning from their first trip | to Europe usually find much here which provokes their dissatisfaction I do not regard as unpatriotic, but rather as the} symptom of a healthy discontent which} leads to amelioration. That much bene- fit is yet to be derived by us from the study of European civilization, not only in respect of the elegancies of life, but also of its essential comforts, I think I ean demonstrate by facts, but what I have to say on this point I reserve for another time. MATTHEW MARSHALL. ho 28 ‘“‘What Next?’ 1s’ Companion. ‘A new boy came into our office to- day,’ said a wholesale grocery merchant to his wife at the supper-table. ‘‘He was hired by the firm at the request of the senior member, who thought the boy gave premise of good things. But 1 feel sure that boy will be out of the office in less than a week.”’ -What makes you think so?’’ ‘Because the first thing he wanted to know was just exactly how much he was expected to do.” ‘-Perhaps you will change your mind about him.” ‘Perhaps I shall replied the mer- chant, ‘‘but I don’t think so.’’ Three days later the business man said to his wife, ‘‘About that boy you remember | mentioned two or three days ago. Well, he is the best boy that ever entered the store.’’ **How did you find that out?’’ ‘‘In the easiest way in the world. The first morning after the boy began work, he performed very faithfully and system- atically the exact duties assigned, which | he had been so careful to have explained to him. When he had finished he came to me and said, ‘Mr. M , I have fin- ished all that work. Now what can I do?’ From the You a little job of work, and forgot all about | him until he came into my reom with the | question, ‘What next?? That settled it for me. He was the first boy that ever entered our office who wes willing and volunteered to do more than was assigned him. I predict a successful career for that boy asa business man.”’ Business men know capacity when they see it. and they make a note of it. Willingness to do more than the assigned task is one of the chief stepping-stones to commerciai success. _ > Butter For Export. Denmark produces 100,000.000 pounds | of butter yearly for export, almost the | whole of which goes to England. The | Danish laws require government inspec- | tors of all butter factories, who can, at | any time, enter dairies, factories or ware- houses and take away samples for analy- sis’ Should oleomargarine or any other adulterant be found, the maker is fined $27. The result is really first-class but- ;ter of uniform character, due to this government supervision and the careful treatment of the milk until it is made Patented 1887. Why Wanted, It’s the original of its class. It’s the favorite with Druggists, Clothiers, Shoe Siores, Hatters, Gro- cers, Hardware Dealers, General Merchants, Bak- ers, Butchers, Millers, Ho- tels, Dairymen, Laundries STOP and investigate the Amer ican Cash Regis.er before purchasing. YOU will robably 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- ¢ tem almost complete. Yours truly, Cuas. RUEDEBUSCH CO., General Merchants, Mayville. Wis and in fact every retail dealer who wants correct methods, Write us this day for de- scription and prices. State and local agents wanted. AMERICAN CASH REGISTER GD,, 947 te! ws. tie Gicag, For Bakings of All Kinds Use Fleischmann & Go.s “‘T was a little suprised, but I gave him | SUPPLIED FRESH DAILY To Grocers Everywhere. Unrivaled Compressed Yeast, of England who orders 50 tubs of Danish | | butter knows exacily what he will get. | It must be the same with American but-| ter if we are to have the trade. - i - ei A Wise Customer. First floor-walker—**Talk about mean- ness. That woman inthe blaek silk is a reg’ lar old miser, Ill bet.”’ Second floor-walker—‘*Did she haggle over prices?’’ First floor-waiker—‘‘No; she selected her things and paid for ’em fast enough, but during the whole seventeen minutes | we’ve kept her waiting for her change, she hasn’t moved around once to look at other sorts of goods we’ve got on sale. *Fraid she’ll see something she wants, I s’pose.”’ - A Use Tradesman Coupon Books. ‘The Finest Quality and Best Article for Ceneral Cleaning known in the World. into butter. A retail dealer in any part} t < Special attention is invited to our which is affixed to every cake of our Yeast, and which serves TO DISTINGUISH Our Goods from worthless Imitations. 5 é Sold by all wholesale grocers, or orders may be seit direct to the factory. FIRE INSURANCE. Its History and the Laws, Rules and Customs Which Govern It. FIFTH PAPER. Written for THE TRADESMAN. ‘‘Or if the abovementioned premises shall be occupied or used so as to increase the risk, or if the risk be increased by the erection or occupation of buildings, or by any neighboring means within the control of the insured, without the assent of the Company indorsed here- on,”’ etc. In the old, conservative European countries, where everything bears the} musty stamp of immutability, and con- | ditions remain fixed, the above condition in a policy of insurance minor account. But in this country, where conditions are rapidly changing and nated with the spirit of and development, this condition is of para- the very air we breathe is impreg- 5 & progress mount importance. The air which Americans breathe vibrates with the elick of the axe and the hammer and the musie of the saw. Forests rapidly dis- appear, prosperous villages spring up as if by magic; and the multifarious fruits of man’s industry are springing up con- tinuously all around us. Stores, mills, factories, hotels, dwellings and buildings of all kinds are being multiplied every- where. buildings are erected and to which they are subjected are subject to the same spirit of vacilla- tion. New lines are constantly being added to stocks of merchandise and old lines closed out. Change, change, every- where—nothing fixed. The conditions of to-day must give place to the condi- tions of to-morrow. Uses for which When it is considered that this multi- farious, accumulating property must be insured and remain insured through all the manifold changes of rapid develop- ment, the great importance of the condi- tion which stands at the head of this paper will be readily seen. Much litiga- tion has been caused by violation of its requirements which, quite largely, might have been avoided, if the unfortunate policy holders had taken the pains to read it and acquaint themselves with its full import. Sometimes a merchant unwittingly vio- lates this condition in his policy by changing the insured stock for one more hazardous, or by adding a more hazard- ous line to theone insured. For instance: Three houses were insured im one pol- icy, for an amount specified on each. One of them, which, when insured, was occupied by ashoe store, was afterwards, without the kaowledge or consent of the insurers, occupied as a grocery store, in which gunpowder was kept, from an ex- plosion of which all three of the houses were injured. The conditions annexed to the policy required that a higher rate of premium should be paid for groceries and gun-powder than for a shoe store and it was held that the policy was void; that the contract was entire, and there eould be no recovery for the injury to any one of the houses, although the in- sured did not know that gunpowder was kept by his tenant in the house. There was a case in which the subject insured was ‘‘a two-story frame building used for winding and coloring yarn, and for the storage of spun yarn.’’ It was held that such statement was only a warranty of present use, and thatif the insurer desired to protect himself by a continuing warranty, as to future use, whatever | would be of |} TRADESMAN. THE MICHIGAN | importing such intent. | jhe must secure it in language plainly | | Insurance was made upon goods in a) building which would cover goods in any |part of it. lt was held that if the in- ‘sured allowed a hazardous 'be earried on in any part of it, though claim under the policy. Representation in an application that adjoining ground to the extent of a dis- tance specified as materially qualifying the risk is vacant does not carry with it that it lan implied will tinue so. warranty And so, one may secure a low rate of | insurance on his dwelling or store by reason of the extent of vacant ground which surrounds it on all sides; and a third party, owning vacant ground ad- joining, may erect thereon a building, thereby materially increasing the risk, yet the policy would not be affected and the company’s assent thereto would not be required. as the changed conditions which caused the increased risk were not ‘‘within the control of the insared.’’ Anything done: any change, alteration or improvement made, after the policy is taken out, whereby the risk is increased on the insured property, whether known by the insured or not, if within his con- trol, the company’s assent thereto is not endorsed will invalidate the poliey, if thereon. Ignorance of the insured, of the facts constituting a breach of this or any other condition in a policy of insurance, will not always excuse or relieve. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has held that a policy of insurance, ob- tained upon a building by the owner and containing a proviso that it shall be void if the building shall be occupied or used for unlawful purposes, is avoided by the unlawful use of a building by a tenant, even if without the owner’s knowledge. Ohio that if the use of a cornmeal mill, in connection with a fire kiln for drying corn meal, was not a known or usual in- cident, or an appropriate part of the ordinary business of a ‘‘steam flouring mill,” the introduction of such a busi- ness into a building insured as a flouring mill was a breach of the condition of the policy and rendered it void. The same court held that the oecupa- tion of a portion of an insured flour mill, by the owner, for some three months in the business of coopering, as the demand served, in violation of a condition which provided that an appropriation to other purposes increasing the risk should avoid the policy, renders the policy void, al- though the coopering trade not carried on for such a length of time as to become ‘‘permanent or habitual.” Where some rope manufacturers pro- cured insurance on their stock, contained in a brick building with a tin roof, or occupied as a store house,” it was proved that a part of the building was used for hackling hemp and spinning it into rope yarn, the court held that the words ‘‘oc- cupied as a store house’’ constituted a warranty that the building was occupied as a storehouse only, and that the addi- tional use was fatal to a recovery. was Where insured premises were described in an application which was made part of the policy, as ‘‘occupied for a grist mill,’? and it was proved to have been also used for carpenter work, this was held to be a warranty, breach of which avoided the policy. business to} not occupied by him, it would defeat his FERMENTUM COon- | It was held by the Supreme Court of | Important to Grocers and Bakers! The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. We respect honest competition, but deprecate unscrupulous methods in trade and meet all prices made by illegitimate competitors. | Special attention given to out-of-town-trade. Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years, Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. L, WINTERNITZ State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. NNOUNCEMENT OP PPP III PDD FD PDI PDIP PDP PPP PP PPP PPP PP PP We have removed our Manufacturing Department to the new building which we have erected solely for our own use at 330 and 332 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 be a 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- ROBINSON »»2 COMPANY: DETROIT, MICH General Agency of the CANDEE RUBBER Co. esas ow gy “ova 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Where the premises insured were de- | scribed as the ‘‘five story brick building | and the three story addition, occupied | for stores below, the upper portion to| remain unoccupied during the existence | of the policy,” there was an affirmative | stipulation and warranty as to the lower part that it was occupied for stores at/| the time of procuring the insurance, and | a promissory warranty, as to the upper | part, that it should remain unoccupied; but that there was no warranty, as to the lower part, that it should continue to | be occupied for stores. A policy of insurance upon a trip ham- | mer shop, with the machinery therein, BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. NOTES—EXCHANGE—CONSIDERATION. Wash Goods! The New York Court of Appeals held, in the recent case of Rice vs. George, | that the transfer and delivery of a prom- | issory note by the payee to the maker of | another note in exchange therefor was a | valuable consideration for the latter, and | that there was no failure of consideration, | |although the former note subsequently | became worthless. FEDERAL RIGHTS — PROTECTION — VIO- LENCE. The question was lately before the Su- preme Court of the United States whether or not the right of a citizen of the United contained a provision that the policy| States in the custody of a United States should be void if the building remained | marshal to answer an indictment against unoccupied over thirty days without | him to be protected against lawless vio- ; i i {lence is aright secured to him by the — — er nena’ meereeen, - Constitution or laws of the United States. it is not sufficient to constitute occupancy | The question, which arose in the case of that the tools remain in the shop and|the United States vs. Logan et al., was that the plaintiff’s son went through the| decided by the Supreme Court in the shop almost daily to examine and see if| all was right; but that some practical | use must be made of it, and that if it thus | remained without practical use for thirty | days it was, within the meaning of the policy, an unoccupied building for that time and the policy would become void. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that the instructions were correct. Certain parties were insured on ‘‘ium- ber, lime, nails and lead, in their two steres on their wharf at Weymouth” and | it was provided that, whenever the cir- cumstances disclosed by the assured in their application should become _ so changed as to increase the risk, the pol- icy should be void, unless notice should be given to the company. A vessel was subsequently wrecked near the said stores and, the seamen being wet and cold, the assured gave them permission to sleep in the counting room of one of the stores for that night, but expressly prohibited the making of any fire in the stove, as the funnel in the loft was in an unsafe condition. The seamen made a fire in the stove, in spite of the prohibi- tion, and in consequence of the fire the building was destroyed. The court held that the occupation of the building with the assent of the insured, for a resting place for a single night was not such a **change of risk,” within the meaning of the condition, as to avoid the policy and that the building of the fire in the stove, being contrary to the express directions of the insured, would furnish no defense against an action for the loss, it being a wrongful act of third persons, for which the insurers were liable in the same man- ner, and for the same reasons, as they would have been if those persons had unlawfully broken into the counting room and burned the building by kind- ling a fire on the floor. aftirmative. WILL—CONSTRUCTION—LEGACY-STOCKS. The question was recently raised in the case of Smith vs. Walker, decided by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- chusetts, whether under a clause in a will providing that $10,000 should be given outright to the testator’s wife, to- gether with ‘‘all wearing apparel and all other chattel property except books of account and evidence of property,” the title to certain stocks passed to the wife jor to the trustees under the will, or whether title to the stocks passed to the | trustees under aresiduary clause. The court decided that the title to the stocks passed to the trustees. INSURANCE—LOSS—PREMIUM—ESTOPPEL. The Appellate Court of Indiana held, in the recent case of Continental Insur- ance Co. vs. Miller, that where a clause in a fire insurance policy provided that the company would not be liable for loss occurring while a premium note re- mained due and unpaid, and that such notes should be paid at their main office or through an authorized person having the note in his possession, the company was estopped from insisting on a for- feiture where the delinquency of the premium note was caused by the fault of their local agent, who had the note in his possession, and to whom payment of the premium notes had therefore been made. NOTE—ALTERATION—FILLING BLANK. The Kentucky Superior Court held, in the case of Newell vs. First National Bank of Somerset, that if a written in- strument is, after its execution and de- livery, altered in a material point with- out the consent of the maker it cannot be enforced; that the addition of a place of payment to a note, which raises the in- strument to the dignity of a negotiable paper is a material alteration; that when a person signsa paper wholly in blank or blank in certain particulars he impliedly gives authority to the holder to fill the blanks in accordance with the general character of the instrument, and if the holder does so it is not such an alteration | as will invalidate the paper as toone whe Readers of THE TRADESMAN, look up your insurance policies and carefully | read over the finely printed conditions; | and if you find the one which I have) made the subject of this paper, remem- | ber that you may guard against embar- | assing complications and ward off future trouble and possible losses by a strict} compliance with its requirements. Do! not run any chances, but secure the duly endorsed assent of your companies be-| fore you execute your contemplated changes, alterations. or improvements, | and thereby avoid all entanglements. E. A. OWEN. - “+ —_ Use Tradesman Coupon Books. | takes it for value without notice of its infirmity; that where the maker of a note delivered it to the payees with the | words *‘payable at” followed by a blank, |and the payees having filled the blank with the name of a particular bank, ne- gotiated it without notice to the bank of | the alteration, the maker was liable, and | that the title of a national bank to the | note it had discounted was not affected by the fact that the rate of discount was | usurious. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS La I PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. BATES, TOILE DU NORD, A. F. C. WARWICK, AMOSKEAG, GINGHAMS, SIMPSON, HAMILTON, MERRIMACK, HARMONY PACIFIC, GARNER AMERICAN LIGHT AND BLUE PRINTS IN FANCY AND STAPLE STYLES. 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We Control Territory on the Finest and Largest Line of Cheap, Medium and High Grade Machines in the State WRITE US FOR WEZWANT \ AGENTS IN EVERY COUNTS TO ff i LIVE TOWN. | PERKINS & RICHMOND, | 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Prescribing By Druggists. From the Pharmaceutical Era It is very difficult to lay down rigid lines to govern this practice. No one, not even the most hide-bound of physi- cians, will deny to the druggist the priy- ilege of a certain amount and kind of counter prescribing. Simple ailments, a cut, the tooth ache, a cold, perhaps, are all within his province for treatment. But how serious must be the case to ren- der it imperative that the physician take charge of it? careful thought and weighing to deter- mine the measure of responsibility and culpability attaching to a druggist’s course. A woman asked for something for her child’s cough; it was given her and the druggist even visited the child and prescribed for it. The child died of diphtheria, the druggist has been cen- sured by the coroner’s jury, and, we be- lieve, assessed a five dollar fine for ille- gal practice of medicine. (It may be said that there are virtually no restric- tions regulating the practice of medi- cine in Michigan, and the penalty of the fine mentioned is all that is provided by law.) Statements differ as to whether the druggist advised the mother to call a physician. He says he did, she says he did not, and further avers that when asked to prescribe he did so at once. She thought it was all right, and that the druggist was a physician, as he had long been called ‘‘Ductor”’ by all the neighborhood. Just what measure of responsibility rests upon the druggist here concerned, we will not attempt to state, but a few words of protest and expostulation against indiscriminate counter prescrib- ing may not be out of place. We are confident that this practice in its object- ionable form is not general among drug- gists, but that there is too much of it eannot be denied. There are some, who, professing a knowledge of medicine and having it not, unhesitatingly prescribe for grave and trivial affections alike. There are some, mostly these same indi- viduals, who make a specialty of, and have achieved a notoriety for, treating certain private diseases. They are the exceptions, however, and are but guerii- las, preying upon both pharmacy and medicine. We desire to speak of that class, alone, who by their prescribing are taking upon them a responsibility they are not fitted to carry, and are stirring up discord between themselves, the pub- lic, and physicians. Druggists complain that physicians dispense. So they do, and we do not blame them, when it isa tit-for-tat against the druggist. The cause of counter prescribing can be at- tributed to physician, druggist and pub- lic. The public has a smattering of knewledge of remedies, and virtually forces the druggist to become a prescrib- er or lose custom; the docter prescribes secret or proprietary preparations which the druggist knows to be frauds, or car- ries his compressed tablets, triturates and pills for all indications. The drug- gist is between the upper and nether millstone, and he must keep right on with a certain amount of prescribing. This is his privelege and duty, but it should not go toofar. Refuse absolutely to treat any grave trouble, leave diagno- sis alone. False treatment is worse than none, and the druggist who prescribes for headache, indigestion, rheumatism and other ailments, (often due to obscure causes), without being able to trace the effect back to the cause, is on a level with the veriest quack. A pharma- ceutical training does not make a physi- cian, nor does medical training fit one for the pharmacist’s duties. Treatment of local, superficial troubles, when the cause is not obscure and to be sought for, and where disastrous or problematical after effects are not to be feared, are those the physician cannot claim as_ his own, nor does he want them; they are the druggist’s, and are all he is entitled to. We have no idea that this moralizing will do any good. Those whose sole thought is the capture of the dollars, and to whom these remarks are addressed, will not be influenced by moral and eth- ical argument; the better and greater proportion are not in need of advice, A case recently occurring | in this city presents features calling for | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | they recognize the aims and purposes of their calling, its responsibilities, as well | as its restrictions. We merely record | our earnest protest against unjustifiable ) counter prescribing, as we have and do , against general dispensing by physicians. ~~ © <> Naming a Store. A correspondent writes Printers’ Ink, enquiring what would beasuitable name | for a boot and shoe store. The reply is both pertinent and sensible: Where is the necessity of having any | *‘name’’ at all? The firm name ought to | be distinction enough, unless there is | some special reason for adopting another. | The ‘‘Lilliputian Bazaar,’? which is the | name given by Best & Co., of New York, | to their store, was a happy hit and has /no doubt been of great service to them in |an advertising way. They cater to the jneeds of children, and the name is at |; once so appropriate and unique as to fasten it in thememory. But acommon- place name is more of a hindrance thana help. It is necessary to mention in every advertisement both the store name and the firm name; thus extra space is re- quired and an unnecessary strain is im- posed upon the memory of the public, which is capricious enough at best. Giving a store a distinctive name is an old-fashioned custom. Such names as “The Black Raven,” ‘‘At the Sign of the Red Lion,” ‘‘At the Sign of the Book” oc- eur frequently inthe advertisements of a century or two ago. Nowadays names are confined largely to liquor saloons and restaurants. In the ease of the former the reason may be that the real owner does not care to have his name appear, and it will be remembered that in Frank Stockton’s story ‘‘The Hundredth Man,’’ the proprietor of a fashionable restau- rant exhibited a similar spirit of delicacy about coming before the public in such a connection. Old New Yorkers recall the three signs on Chatham Square: ‘Jacob Cohen,” ‘The Only Original Cohen,” ‘*‘The Only Original Cohen on the Block.” A large dry goods store in Brooklyn is called “The Universal,’? but it is safe to say that a large proportion of its customers know it under the name of its proprie- tors. Hence confusion results. The “Palais Royal’? is the name of a New York store, ‘‘Oak Hall” of one in Boston, and innumerable stores throughout the country have been christened ‘‘The Bee Hive.” A famous Paris store is the ‘‘Bon Marche.” ‘‘The Little Church Around the Corner” has become well known to many people who might never have heard of it but for its peculiarname. In that case, however, there was a story be- hind the name. One retail store is called the ‘*‘White House,” the whole out- side being painted white, which was in itself not a bad advertisement. In gen- eral, the business man will do well to follow the advice to the shoemaker and ‘stick to his last” name, unless there is some special reason for doing otherwise. —_—__ > 9 Vassar—Wm. H. Stark has sold his boot and shoe and men’s furnishing goods stock to Mrs. A. M. Allen. A Word to Jelly Makers. From the American Grocer. The manufacturers of jelly will par- don us for saying to them that in our opinion they are doing themselves great damage by the efforts they are making to sell goods cheap. In their attempts to make jelly very cheap they are compelled | to make goods that are positively unsat- | isfactory to those who are led to pur- chase them and do not result in dupli- cate orders. They seem to be very short- sighted, for it is admitted by all that the | reduction of price to 214 or 3 cents per/+ .. | sisting of hats, caps, boots and shoes, men’s fur- | nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries. pound does not increase the consumption to any appreciable extent, and every one of them is complaining now’ about dull times and small profits. If they would put their prices at a point where they could make a decent margin of profit it would be better for all concerned and just as much jelly would be sold. Half of the stuff that is being offered as jelly to-day is hardly fit to eat, and ought to receive the attention of the authorities. In the effort to make something cheap they have made something nasty, and the retail grocers are finding this out. The best grocers do not want to offer to their trade these cheap and nasty goods, but are willing to pay a fair price for a good article. Come up higher, improve the quality of your goods and do not be afraid to ask a fair price. —_—_——_ ~~ - > The New Town of Beaverton. BEAVERTON, April 15—In addition to the sawmill being built here by Brown & Ryan, of Saginaw, Tonkin, Harris & Co., of Mt. Pleasant, are building a shingle and lumber mill and erecting a flour, feed and general merchandise store here. Hood & Seely, of Gladwin, are to put in a hoop, stave and shingle mill. Brown & Ryan have built a permanent dam across the Tobacco River to afford boom- ing facilities for the mills and also to drive the upper part of the stream. Ross Bros. are now erecting a second shingle mill and enlarging their paving block mill. Mr. Knowlton is building a large hotel to accomodate the mill hands and woodsmen. A postoffice was lately established with communication three times a week. The Flint & Pere Mar- quette has put in aside track from Cole- man. Three or four weeks henee will see this a busy manufacturing village. <9 The Hardware Market. A new wire nail list has been adopted by the manufacturers, changing the ad- vance on the various sizes. It comprises a reduction of the advance on small nails from 3d down and on casing and finish- ing nails, but makes an advance on larger nails from 6d to 50d. The glass market remainsfirm. The factories have all agreed to close the last of May, which will result in a shortage, with a conse- quent advance before the summer is over. There is no change in rope or barbed wire. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. out slips” to be lost and break the record. to the record of any previous day. desire. After using a Peck Because a merchant can file away his entire day’s business on one PECK ’S CASH REGISTER. WE SELL MORE Registers a Business Men Than all the Other Register Companies Combined, Why is the Feck Autographic Cash Register the Best for Merchants ? Because it records items instead of General Results. 0 Because it is always ready to make and preserve a record of money paid in and out. Because there aré no “charge slips,” “received on account slips,” “‘paid out slips and ‘“‘just sheet and refer in an instant Because figures won't lie, but machinery, if out of repair, is bound to. Because it is not necessary to send it to the factory every six months for repairs. Because you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register one amount. Because it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants West Bay Crry, Mich., Feb. 25, 1892. Cash Register for one year we can conscientiously say that we are entirely satisfied. We are continually harassed with periodical communications from the National Regis- | ter Co., but we don’t want their register at — price. We voluntarily state our preference for the Peck Register. EO, L. WILTON & CO., Books, Wall Paper, Ete. 415 FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED GROCERY . business, stoek, fixtures, ete., in hustling city of Muskegon. Reasons for selling, other business. A rarechance. Address Lew W. Cod- man, Muskegon, Mich. 456 OR SALE—OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF GEN- eral merchandise at Chippewa Lake, con- Having finished our lumber operations, we offer the above stock for sale cheap for cash or on time with good security. Will sell this stock as a whole or any branch of it. Enquire of Chip- pewa Lumber Co., Chippewa Lake, Mich., or of H. P. Wyman, See’y, Grand Rapids, Mich. 449 OR SALE—ESTABLISHED JEWELRY BUS- iness, stock and fixtures. at Evart, Mich. No opposition. Reasons for selling, owner de- ceased. Splendid opportunity. F. P. Atherton, Reed City, Mich. 420 e- BUSINESS CHANCE FOR A PER- son with #1100 cash. Can step intoan old established cash retail and paying business, Don’t fail to investigate this. For particulars address No. 471, care Michigan Tradesman. 471 OR SALE—ONE OF THE BEST DRY GOODS houses in southern Michigan; established 25 years; best of reasons for selling; excellent opportunity for obtaining a good business, Ad- dress Lock box 1237, Coldwater, Mich. 47 OR SALE—NEW, CLEAN STOCK OF DRY goods. Established trade; good town. Lock box 963, Rockford, Mich. 483 | ge SALE CHEAP—AT LISBON, MICH., A drug stock all complete and favorable lease of store—an old established business. Enquire of Eaton, Lyon & Co.,or Stuart & Knappen, rooms 15,16 and 17, New Houseman Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 463 OR SALE—A CLEAN GROCERY STOCK, doing a good business. Reason for selling, poor health. W. L. Mead, Ionia. Mich. 395 a SALE OR WILL EXCHANGE FOR stock of clothing, dry goods, and boots and shoes, two-story brick block, which rents for #475 annually. Best locationintown. Address No. 412, care Michigan Tradesman. 412 OR SALE CHEAP WELL SELECTED drug stock — New andclean. Address F.A Jones, M. D. Muskegon, Mich. 391 SITUATIONS WANTED. — FOSITION MAY i, BY A registered pharmacist of twelve years practical experience in the business. Am a married man aud a permanent situation is de- sired at moderate wages. Best of references. Address Lock Box 11, Akron, Mich. ___466__ \ J ANTED—POSITION AN ASSISTANT pharmacist. Good references. Address No. 462, care Michigan Tradesman, 462 \V JANTED — POSITION BY YOUNG LADY as stenographer, typewriter, copyist or cashier. Can furnish best of references. No. 478, care Michigan Tradesman. 173 MISCELLANEOUS. | seg SALE OR EXCHANGE—FIVE BRICK stores in live country town for improved farm, or clean stock of goods. Stores all occu- pied. H. A. Durkee, Nashville, Mich, 454 OR SALE— GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer ecantile companies. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 370 O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. a; SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM- proved), located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun- ty, Mich. Land fitted for machinery, good fences, large curb roof barn with underground for stock, horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New windmill furnishes water for house and barns. Eight- een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, two years old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or will exchange for stock of dry goods. If any difference will pay cash. A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark. 341 OR SALE — BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- ed with native oaks, situated in gool residence locality, only 200 feet from electric street car line. Will sell for $2.500 cash, or part cash, ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. y ANTED—SOBER, INDUSTRIOUS TINNER with some experience in plumbing and pipe fitting. Good wages; steady employment toright man. Address No. 475, care Michigan Tradesman. pay- 354 475 _ SALE — 81.100 BUYS 5-ROOM HOUSE and corner lot within ten minutes walk of post office. W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis st. 469 We — REGISTERED DRUG CLERK. Write particulars as to experience and sal- ary expuceed L. A. Scoville, ea fin OR SALE—11-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD LO- eation, within ten minutes walk of Monroe Price, $3,200. W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 470 ANTED—A GOOD SHOE SALESMAN who can give good references. No other need apply. G. C. Yonker, Muskegon, Mich. 482 F{NOR SALE—320 ACRES OF LAND IN HAYES county, Neb. Will sell cheap or trade for a stock of merchandise. A. W. Prindle, Owosso, Mich. 480 ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR MEAT market. Address H. H., care Michigan Tradesman. 479 ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST— lady preferred. Geo. C. Rounds, Vickery- St. ville, Mich, 481 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Four Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Five Years——C. A, Bugbee, Cheboygan. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. © Meetings for 1892— Star Island (Detroit), July 5; Marquette, Aug. 31; Lansing, November 1. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’p. President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L. Pauley, St. Ignace; A. 8. Parker, Detroit. ee a Parsons, Detroit. Treasurer— Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; (3 Webb, Jackson. Next place of meeting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. Local Secretary—John D. Muir. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Grand x ids Drug Clerks’ Association. resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith. Grand Rapids; C. E. Detroit Pharmaceutical! Society President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. DRUGGISTS OBJECT. Features of the Paddock Pure Food Bill. From the New York Press. The druggists of New arms against ‘Senator Food bill. The bill, which has passed the Senate and is now before a House committee, will, it is claimed, prove a serious men- ace to the drug and proprietary medi- cine business if it is permitted to come a law. Although popularly known astbe Pure Food bill, it relates in its provisions as much to drugs and medicines as to foods, and if the druggists are in the right in their estimation of its scope it will in- jure them to an incalculable extent. The bill provides for the establishment of a board of chemists, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and to be under the direction of a chief chemist appointed in the same manner. ‘To this Buard must be submitted, according to the provisions of the bill, samples of all drugs and foods intended for interstate sale for examination. The word ‘‘drugs,” as used in the bill, ‘‘shall include all medicines for internal or external use,” and the word ‘‘food’’ shall include ‘all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed or compound.” It shall be the duty of this Board of Chemists to make their examinations of samples submitted to them, ‘‘under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secre- tary of Agriculture,” and if the foed sam- ples are found to be adulterated, or the medicines not up to the standard of strength, quality or purity recognized by the United States Pharmacopeia, the persons selling them shall be sentenced to pay a fine of from $10 to $100 for each offense, or to serve from thirty to one hundred days in jail, or both. Several wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines were seen by a reporter, and all were outspoken in denouncing the bill. The feeling against the bill is not confined to New York dealers, but is en- tertained by the majority of the leading manufacturers of proprietary articles throughout the country. The largest manufacturer of medicines in the coun- try, whose factories are in Massachusetts, has had a representative in Washington to watch the progress of the bill. This manufacturer has received word that the bill is slated for passage in the House. This information, when it became known to New York druggists, stirred them to great activity. They are discussing the matter among themselves, and it is prob- able the New York drug trade will soon be heard from at Washington. “The act is a pernicious measure,” said E. G. Wells, of C. N. Crittenton, the largest patent medicine house in the world. ‘‘It would, if made a law, worry and harass the drug trade to an incon- ceivable extent. It would open one of the broadest avenues for corruption ever known in this country. It would make the Secretary of Agriculture the father, mother, sister, brother, patron saint and chief potentate of the drug business. Some Eryil York are up in Paddock’s Pure be- /out the country. | government chemists would be covered the business that would be inconsistent and uncalled for. **] will illustrate. We sell more than 10,000 different kinds of proprietary and other medicines from our store alone. Think of the vast variety sold through- In a short time the up with samples for analysis. We must await our turn. Suppose some manu- facturer who was in ahurry and had millions invested in his business should step up to the chief chemist and say, ‘I cannot wait for all these other people. Give me immediate attention. It is worth $100,000.” He would get attention, probably, and could then parade his med- icine as ‘sanctioned by the United States Government’ whether it had merit or not. “There is a way of getting at dealers in bogus medicines, and the courts are the places to do it. There is no reason why the government should become the protector of medicine makers. We are in a legitimate business of enormous proportions and we should not be an- noyed and harrassed by an unnecessary law.”’ Among the grocers there does not seem to be so much feeling against the vill. This is due, perhaps, to the fact that there is not such an infinite variety of groceries as medicines, and the bill would not cause the grocers much trouble. F. B. Thurberof the Thurber- Wyland Company said: ‘‘I think the bill as wise an act as could be found, al- though | object to one feature of it. That is the clause which prohibits the publication of reports of offenses until after the offenders are convicted. Pub- licity in such eases does much to correct the evil aimed at. Dealers in honest goods need fear no trouble or annoyance from this bill. The Wholesale Grocers’ Association are not opposed to it.’ > oe —- is In Business for Others. It is unquestionable that there are re- tailers in trade who are permitted to be there only by the grace of the honses which take the risk of furnishing them with goods. They are keeping store be- cause these houses want to make some money outof them, and that probably will be the one end realized as the result of their keeping store, unless by a su- preme effort on their part they can get into a position to choose their sellers. A retailer that cannot give sufficient cre- dentials to secure credit from one house to make a start may be accepted by an- other. This difference may be owing to the fact that the former house has a good sound customer doing al! the business there is to be done in the place where the applicant aims to open up, and the latter house is doing no business in that place at all. Consequently the starting of this new man by the latter house means the acquisition of a new customer. He goes in on the understanding that he is to sell goods, his profits are not ecal- culated to amount to much in a compe- tition whose object is to displace seme- body that does not buy from the same house as he does. He is watched well to prevent his getting beyond the tether of his patron and he is doing business solely for the benefit of the house which has taken him up. That house may be pleased to run him for three, four or five years, as circumstances may determine, but when that house concludes to run him no longer he is cast aside like a squeezed orange. This is one of the ways some whole- salers adopt for getting ahead of their rivals, who have a good customer some- where that it is impossible for the other house to sell anything to. The taking up of aman who has no title to inde- pendence and who is delighted with the confidence placed in him, will usually damage the trade of the retailer who was there before him, but it will seldom add anything to the wealth of the dupe who filled the breach. If once the origi- nal trader at that place sees it to be his interest to treat with the honse supply- ing the new-comer, the latter will find he has served his purpose and will be called off. Wholesale competition upon a strictly It | wholesale stage is keen enough and suffi- would give him an arbitrary power over | ciently depressing upon prices, without descending to retail stores for the pur- pose of carrying it on. Let retailers do all the competing that is done in retail stores. The Gospel of “Getting There. From Lippincott’s Magazine. ‘“*Pve come tothe conclusion that Get- ting There is the one business of the modern man. It doesn’t matter what he is or how much he knows, but only what he can do; indeed, it doesn’t matter what he can do unless he does it. If you’ve got anything in you, show it; if you can do anything, do it; that is the gospel of the day. What are we here for? To make some sort of a mark; to be at the head; to benefit ourselves and, incidentally, our neighbors; to arrive, as the French say. The measure of a man is in the end he reaches, rather than the roads by which he reaches them. He has to be his own committee on ways and means, and to determine not only what he can accomplish, but how he had best set about it. Nobody cares for the pro- cess, but result speaks foritself. Money talks; position and power and popular- ity need no apologist. Attain these in any notable degree, and you are a bene factor of the species, a model for youth.’

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Se ee @1 75 | Antimoni, po.. 4@ 5 Solut Chloride........ @ 15} « w Te, " et Potass T. 55@ 60 Sulphate, com’l....... 1%@ 2) spigelia............... 48@ 53 Antipyrin TT, @1 40 ong pure... @ 7] Sanguinarta, (po 25).. @ 2 Antifobrin..... @ 2% — Lode ehenues 35@ 40} Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60 scat i ny 45@ 50| Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 Arnica .....--..------- 2@ 25 Similax, Offcinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud.... 55@ €0 ee eee 25Q 2 M @ Wi Bismuth & N......... 2 10@2 2 Matric 0 —lfl..-e- 25@ 30] Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12] Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s. FOuaA —— Feti- 11; ee, 1S... @ 9 ite 6 75 | dus, po........ ts 2 = Cantharides Russian, ois a ae ' Valeriana, Eng. (po. 0) 2 ee Cae, acu 7 os German... 15@ 20 Capstei Fructus,af... @ 2 mv ie “Ale! 35@ 50] iBibera............. 2@ 15 - @ B all Ramer 3.......... 18@ 22 ‘ é : @ — gauge 12@ 15 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (po. i) 10@_ i2 ae 8@ 1C] anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 aa ee am som = GUMMI. Apium (graveleons) .. 2@ 30 —. = icked @ 80 ee - 6 Renae = 40 Acacia, 1st p i, sees Carul, og. 2 io | Coccus ...........----. 40 reel Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 “ “ @ 4 eee. ..,......... 1 00@1 25 pa en @ 10 ao 3d aT @ B Coelandrus..........- 10@ 12 cas oa a @ 40 sifted sorts... 1 go | Cammabis Sativa....... 3%@4 ACCUM .....-..---.- a a -.... %5@1 00 | Chloroform . 60@ 63 60 50@ 60) © eet... ...... me a @! 25 Aloe, aon ~ 30... 6 2h ._----- 10@, 1? | chioral H angal “1 25@1 50 Cape, { 60). @ 50 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 35 Caan vr seeeee 20 35 ae (00. Foeniculum..... ..... S 8s se ae os Catechu, 1s, (4s, 14 448, 1 | Foenugreek, po.. - 6@ §| Cinchonidine, =o = = Rimini s 55 60| Lint ....-..-.... 4 @4% Corks, lst, a. = BRITA «oo. 0 0s 0s v9 wo Lint, a, (bbl. 3%) . 4 @4%% " « Assafcatida, (po. 33)... 35 4 | Tobe ld * ig. ir” Seiad seat 60 Bensoinum..........-- - 0G 33 Pharlaris Canarian.... 3%@ 4% cet * ees @ 0 Camphore...........-: ee Pe 2. Euphorbium po ...... 35@ = sinapis, A Albu CO 8@ 9 t : Det eee aoe 5@ u Galbanum. ..........- @3 Nigra........ 11@ 12 precip. %@ Gamboge, po.......--- W@ % ubra.. — @ 8 Guaiacum, (po 30) . @ % er oe. 30@ 35 Kino, (po. 30) .....-..-- @ = Frumenti, wa Co. .2 00@2 : — @ #4 eS 8¢ D .... 1 75@2 00} Cupri Sulph........... 5@ 6 neat (po. 45)........ ee eat esea ae a 1 10@1 50/ Nextrine .............. 10@ 12 Opil, (po 2 an sete 1 70@1 ie Juntperts Co. O. T....1 %5@1 75 | Ether Sulph........... 68@ 70 Shellac oe eae aeu on 25@ 35 a SC 1 15@3 50 Emery, = - numbers.. @ : “ aga oe = = Coen, ag a ] ane a @ é Tragacanth .........-- sp’ ni Gaill........ é . Ergota 1 &.. 60@ 5 HERBA—In ounce packages. — — pene ;: 4 00 | Flake vite LED - 2 1b Absinthium ............-.--- . } eo co 7 @B Bu —- Gelatin, Cooper-....-. @ -70 Lat Sos So Florida sheeps’ wool, on ¥French........ 60 Mentha na Piperita a 23 Nasa or ve 2 oe flint, 75 and 24%. Sa ert aa mariage) oc en eee 30 Velvet extra sheeps’ Glue, os... 9@ 15 Tanacetum, V........------- Z wool Carriage....... 1 10 aa saa oe ee = Thymus, V.......--.------++ Extra yellow sheeps’ Glyour ee ' 2 MAGNESIA. carriage ........ ans 85 nina 55 Caleined, Pat.......... 55@ = — sheepe! — 65 Hydraag Chior Mite... @ % Carbonate, os ue 25 Hard for slate use. 15 a 4 S. Po Cees a Yellow Reef, for slate Ox Ra rum @ Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36 1 40 “ Ammoniati.. @1 10 cia ee. a Teen. Ob Absinthium - SYRUPS. drargyrum ........- @ 70 pose oo eae 5 ——— Oo pete eee eee cee et Ishthyobolla, Am... ..1 wal = arae ee a. — 60 Toate, Resubl........ 3 75@3 85 Auranti Cortex. ert IO Go | fomerorm.............. _@4 70 Cajiputl- —.. <4 [po soon Caryophyiil : Similax coy... Eanes = oe: rasaes: -_ %5 80 nodii . Se eee TOM lc, 27 Chenopodtt Selllse Bed ee lv ecas sce cuus 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Cinnamonii ... ine (bbl eee ae ciekee om Sie . a = —_— Sulph ( -—s onium Mac.......... 35@ ae ee eS EE aoe 1 10@1 20! Prunus virg ................ 501 Mannia, 8. F......... 32@35 Morphia, S. P. & W...1 8@2 05 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 24| Lindseed, boiled . 44 47 ' SN. ¥. @ & eT Lous eee @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter .-. |... CC <— Ue @ 3 mrermeG Moschus Canton...... @ 40| Snuff, aac. De SpiritsTurpentine.... 42 50 Myristica, No. 1. 27@ 75 i ee @ 35 bbl. Ib Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. - Ib. Ge Sec 18@ 20] Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 — Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Ochre, yellow Mars.. oo 2@4 @2 00 | Soda Carb.........-.. 1%@ 2 Ber... 1% Picis Liq, N..C., % gal Sode, HECar..... @ 5/| Putty, commercial....2% 2%@3 . a @2 00 Soda, 7 ......... 2... 3%@ 4 “ strictly pure..... 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., —— . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... 2} Vermilion Prime Amer- mn... @ 8 | Spts. Ether Co ........ Son Sh eee 13@16 Pil tina (po. 80) .. a | “ — — @2 25} Vermilion, English.... 70@7 Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 1 Myrei Lo . @3 00| Green, Peninsular..... T0@7 Piper Alba, (po g5)... @ 3 . Vini ‘aa bbl. Lead rod. ............ 7 @7 Pix Burgun........... @ tf os. S212 Si; White ........:.. 7 @iy Plumbi Acet . 14@ 15| Less 5e gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... @i Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20| Strychnia Crystal..... @1 Whiting, Gilders’...... @ a, boxes H Sulphur, — a 3 @4 | White, Paris American i¢@ _ ie Co. doa... @1 25 Rol __..... See 3% a Paris Eng. ‘ Temerinds 8@ 10 CHE .........2......-- Pyrethram, Yn 393 35 | Terebenth Venice... a 2 eee gid Quinia, 8. P.& W..... 29@ 34| Theobromae ......... 38 43 | Swiss Villa —, « S German....20 @ 30) Vanilla... ....... soos a Tee 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 | Zinci Suiph.. 2... 8 VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 2% No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 ee 1 75@1 85 ee Extra Turp...... 160@1 70 Sanguis Draconis..... @0@ 50 Bbl. Gal} Coach Body..... .2 %@3 . 2 14} Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 1S | Lard, extra........... 5% 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ited he 7........... 45 50; Japan Dryer, No. 1 Linseed, pureraw ... 41 44 oo 70@7 HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers ef DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. DEALERS I® Paints, Oils 22 Varnishes. SWISS WILLA PREPARED PEINYS. Full Line of Staple Drogsisis Sundries. We are Sole Prepeieters of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. We Have im Steck and Ofer a Fall Eims «f WHISKIE8, BRANDIEBS, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Persona! Attention to Mail Orders and Gearantee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Sead in a order. Haxelting & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. > ae cosets . : & gest 6 82 an eS he sn YO Seg RG Soy RS - se Dstt Latha: tt geet an gape aii welt nae Sete 8g THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. a FARINACEOUS GOODS. ROLLED OATS. Grocery Price Current. Farina, Barrels 180... ........ @4 2 100 Ib. kegs....... oaks 3% | Half bble 90.......... @2 % “. ‘ al ies : ‘ ; cI Hominy. PICKLES. e quotations given below are o_o — — y offered buyers who pay promptly “Universal. ” Barrels. .... al .. 300 . me maaan ou and buy in full packages. $ 1, per hundred. ..++ 88 00] Grits ......._.......-.---- 3 50 | Barrels, 1,<00 Count........ é arate yup aan tictita| 3 50 cn Wein Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 10 - 3, EO 4 00 | ytd. 4 Small. 5, cn HiRaieainaninl 5 00 wee OOOH eee ett aee APPLE BUTTER Salmon. CHEESE. $10, ie 600} Maccaroni and Vermicelll. ao. grt ene § = 30 Ib. pails. ......-..--. -. 5 | Columbia River, ee... ok Be OE ee oe @ #20, emt 7 00 | Domestic, 12 Ib. box.. : PIPE 20 Ib. pails ue oe “tal Herkimer ............- @13_ | _ Above prices on coupon books | Imported...........--- “ioy@r1ss — Mason’s, 10, 90 or 30 Ibs . 6 | Alaska, 3 Ib. -etsectanaae= a AN @ are subject to the following Pearl Barley. Clay, a ee 1% 5 lb ae : i ea @ —_ discounts: : ELEN @2% 2. D, Fa Gount........ % i .E GREASE. — Skim . ce @10 = — ae ae per cent. ee Cob, No. 8.... 26.00.0065 25. 125 Graphite. ies American 4s ec 44O5\ pia ......... .. 7 @1 00 1000 * oe - ele be 1 40 48 gaeate ties 13s ib. ails, pera hig pdanae Imported ¥ cee TGs Limburger ne @10 iia an ain Bone ger Wh Sia 6h woe 12 00 its oe = Can be made to represent any Sago. Penna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 25 100 ib. kegs, pet Ib. eo 4 wore gS 7@9 a @% | denomination from $10 down. | Some Screen tenenare ts : ROOT BEER a 250 Ib. % bbis., per Ib...... 3% | Boneless .. i oh alae e 20 bOOKS...............+- eae ents r j ok a oi ee ek oe imported. @30 50 Wheat. Williams, rB eee. : > me oo ge sits m-th... a omestic .... @i5 100 “ eee 5 nich ia ses, ats : % ib. pails, perdoz. -... 7 00 FRUITS, Snider's 500“ FISH--Salt. Domestic. a ) ‘ ‘“ < = i — | Apples. Half pint, 25 bottles........2 % 1000 ase ee ee an Bloaters. Carolina Lag ees 6 = Fe ,Pe — 3 3 lb. standard........ 85 | Pint cee Waermouth.................. 1 10 400 Ib. bbls., per Ib......... 3 aan — 3 40) Quart 1 doz bottles .. .3 50 — ead Cod. i ' Cat a 4 doz. in case. cc patie BAKING POWDER. ae Apricots. lies ee ae a a 7 40| Whole, Grand Bank... 6 osx Acme. - tye oon 2% ay 6 25 | Boneless, bricks ...... 7%4@8 Sib: “as —_ . ~ pe TUZ........ ... 2 a COCOA SHELLS. — oe 8 00 | Boneless, strips... ..... 74@8 ce ee 5 | oo ee de 5 Ss + eoeeoues 0 i i-_ * 7. + : 1 00 | Ov erland. : 1 90 — er : a. i -- i merican Swiss 7 00 Smoked Halibut, 12 Bulk......... ere pew Blackberries. go | Pound packages... ... 6%@7 —— SAUERKRAUT. ‘Aretic. a ¢ : —E 60 | ae Cherries. niom*_ i ee... 18@20 Silver Thread, vores _- % b Kae, a bai . 1 20 COFFEE. Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% Holland, — oo 11 00 % bbl...... ib CT Hamburgh - 1% Family XXX 8 i Rh see 6 See ee - 1 20 GREEN. Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% | Round shore, % bbl... 2 00 Cook's Favorite. pon nik Siiienet ies Rio. i. Rennes 6 % bbl.. 110 SPICES. ° % ) > j Ss and G nh ne Na nae j : iia | Gage aA... i oo Whole Sifted. ame : — olo 2 i - @i 25 | Prime 18 — ; Soo a a > i. eee, 11 60} allspice 10 “a Reni Se ae as oy eg alga a ain a etapa osto a 0 8 So 1 2 | Cassia. Chinain mats... oe 1 70] Golden. BO | Butter bisemit °22..07.". 6yg | amily, 4 bbls, 100 ibs. -~ 5 50 | Mt Gatevta in bund....28 (100 hdl cups and saucers) | ¢ Gooseberries, "Santos. Soda. Kits, 10 Ibs......., %& “Saigon in rolis...... 35 shia 9 go | Common ....-......-. 110) pair. 16 Se i. Sardines. Cloves, a cee ae 22 itenkerd pite s=her with each can) Peaches. Good. ee —— poral TE rae %* Russian, ae ao ee 45 Sinae a a z= Dr. Price’s. eeu eee Le ee Te 18 oda, Duchess.............. 8% en cere) | eeReens ae. on | Crystal Wafer...) 2... 10 | No.1, % bbls, “To0lbs Le 6 50 | Nutmegs, hey reetinsieieninie tt 80 Sune Dime cans. 90 | ne sre 1 40 Mexican and Guatamala. ee “on co 10 | No. 1, Kits, 10 ibs.....2-.0.-. ” iy No. 2 Lea eeue: is 0 | California 2 = . i SE ere re ee ae Racial Cuca 4-02 1 33 | Wonitor PI 2 |8. Oyser XxXt............. + le tue eee Pepper, singapore black....15 b02 1 20 | orora io... 21 | City Oyster. XXX ‘itt. 25 1 ae 2 47 . Co or * cote ee ate teoee +o i ee eee ) 8 iS oe “ ‘ - hd eh Paes 23 | Fariaa Gyeier............. 6 Family, i DDI. 100 lbs... 3.50 shot.. ....... --19 a a. sa Maracaibo. CREAM TARTAR. kits 10 tie... Pure Ground in Bulk, ' +” tea ie... ee 30 |] ——_——_—_—__—_—_—__—___ | Allspliee..................... 15 = ‘ oe ian. ‘|e. 20 aan 8 Absolute.. _ “inne FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Cass fa, Batavia ee 20 5.1b 21 60 Java. srocers’ a 15 . and Sai 10-Ib 41 80 emer rene ae 1 ie 1 ae Jennin = Veal les . = on ee a g nson’s sliced... 2 50 | Private Growth........... ..27 : -” ‘ oves, verse. 30 Red Star, 4 2 » ‘ grated 2 75 | Mandehling . ae DRIED FRUITS. ——e- 7s ae. 20 ed Star, * came....... Seadeane Dom ti oz ---1 00 1 50 | Ginger, African ! 15 £0 co Quinces. “Mocha. estic, 402 “ "1 50 2 00 § a cere 2° ss 150 mmon .. : 2 Een... .... -....... ae PLES, 6 02 “ "9 00 3 00 a ae tr = Telfer's, a Ib. cans, doz. . . Snietencion. Arabian. -ssrstereees++-26 | Sundried. silced = bbls. 5 8 oz “ _..3 00 4 6Ol Mass ute =. ; ed ROASTED. ae quartered ‘ 5 e ut Mustard, a tb. - “ .. 150] Black Hamburg....__. ; = To ascertain cost of roasted | Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7 | gags err Tries — B Victor. Erie. black 1 49 | coffee, add she. per Ib, for rosst- |. iccenia in bage : a .. Watmege, 3 2 Sectans dace ........ .. 80 ng and 15 per cent. for shrink- een OE eee Pe uh 2 oe —- ‘ous ee 8% HERBS. ee as 16 2dos............ 200 | Hass bes, cL PACKAGE. : — a8. on ll ui Cayeame........... 25 2 Erie. = ' ceca f 9 . Arbuckle’s Ariosa...... 19.80 In wee . 4% Hops. lL 25 EE a einen 20 . il Terra . ‘ cLaughlin’s XXXX.. 19.80] + NDIGO. . r ae 2 aozen See apin| - a 19 £0 Sd —— i ee oe ti . Madras, 5 Ib. po 55 Absolute” in Packages. Bristol cP a ‘ Whortleberres, Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 19.80 eae ean an S. F., 2, 3. and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 Allspice os “sn Zio... 1 20| Bunola ... =» WP ies eee. 12 JELLY. Cinnamon... 222. 84 188 ee =. Gaees Blueberries > in bags..... @ ; Mason's #0, 20 and 30 ibs e Ginger Bis cokany, BA i 55 pale, tn oents...... .. oe BB ---.. @7 . er eet eeesae —— + 0) | corned beet zaz Cabinets PEARS, ___Raeaghinaeitopeae 7 oe 84 155 os oo. Naima 10 50| Libby’s...... containing | California in bags .... @i LICORICE. isc esl 84 155 is 10. 2 i. ’ » | Roast beef, Armour’s....... 120 1 Ib Pure 30 | Pepper et i C me sifting box... ez Potted ham, i. siininiaes PITTED CHERRIES. Calabria... one ped) sm A 84 55 H Mas os oe ie ©) Siteigeaens: sold at case | Barrels........ ......... ‘ae. ae - oon a a... lee Ib Se price, with as boxes . a a ca . one > te ale eee 12 Condensed, 2 ‘dos Se 125 icin . oa a = Dewees oo nares of PRUNELLES. es) 2 25 SEEDS. re ABLES. g s for Bm eg ee 2 25 Beans. — 12% | No.9 sulphur............... ‘iain. “a No. 2 Carpet... 2 50 | Hamburgh stringless.......1 25 ‘TARR TRTURMRRe Anchor parlor............... 170 | Caraway Aaa 8 No. 1 ceca 2 French style... .2 25 aie. 17 | No.2home.................. 1 10 Cardamon, Malabar... Parlor oa Wika ee 3 60 i ecuimas ee 1 40 enone —-_ boxes.............. 17% | Export parlor............... 400] Hemp, Russian...... 4% mumon Whisk............ ima, green. ................130 Valley City. en pp | POND. eee eee ee eee 18 MINCE MEAT Mixed Bird........... . 44@ 5% es 1 20 ee 80 Forel Mustard, white Mill - 2 JIT! 8 95 | Lewis Boston Baked **7 1"! 135 Hummel a _ 10 oa <= piteaseearmenbae 9 Warehouse... Selb sae ee 1 35 es wea 150 CURRANTS, EE, ote Come awe om « - —....... 2 eC. 6 cs BRUSHES. i ae LCCC nl —S ne a @4 Cuttle bone........... 30 S.C. curcory. “in Tess aay @ an STARCH. ia oes 15 eer 1% rae den 22.2000 15 | Bulk....-.....-2.2 222... 8 Corn. kee Root Scrub,2 row... 85 | Purity --...0. 002.0 Med... 6 | Citron, Le ioe d 2b, 2 20-ID DOKOB.......-0- 2.0200. oes Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Honey TI ens een neo ol CLOTHES LINES. Lemon Re mh 25 | =" 0 We alee chevnnernias oe a — : ae es 1 50 | Morning ~~ een ea 1 10] Cotton, 40ft....... per doz. 1 25 Orange = “ “ 11 3 Gloss. AT FLOUR. 7 . ee SES Hamburgh marrofat ........1 35 : = Domestic. 3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00 2 BOIS: ---~----- 200s 4 York State.. ene —_ June... 1 London layers, 2 oe . MEASURES. Ce # Self Rising, case..... ...... Hambureh at 1 2 1 “s is ney a sa Tin, per dozen. 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 4% eek vf eo So ee — oo iG fancy sifted..... 1 90 Loose Muscatele, boxes cn [iho ae... 140 pe % otel, . boxes.......... 11 oaked ... Co Forel WOW OP eae 70 tar, | 40 er | eae 75 ore: gehen aerate -. ...-. 45| Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Paraffine Ll Vv an cS amp’s Marrofat iw eae. 29 lb. boxes... 1*8 7™% Half —_ 40 Maccabo: ’ in jars ore w ee + eeaie 35 aaae............., .. Early June......1 30 ultana, 20 i 1 @i2 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 ci Arc her’ s Early Blossom... 1 35 Valencia, 20 . "OM@ A lipstion. ee SODA. CANNED GOODS. renc “- Ce PRUNES. ee ee sc. ee 475) Box Seutiebnien Bosnia —_ Ee Pei ee ia) rex. . |..... Mushrooms. | A Awe) |e fm | Bosnia................ mart ........ ............ 3 W9| Kegs, English........ Clams. French ... ‘ 2 7 cen. 16218 California, 90x100 25 Ib. ae 8 mG... ee, ce, EO Kess, aaa — 4% N umpkin. Little Neck, 11b..-........110| pre. Pam = ‘a fs — .«. — ao ie. aia Chowder. Squash. |p . 60x70 " o% Sugar house......... cc uranulated, boxes.......... 1% Standard, 3Ib.. ....2 09 | Hubbard .................... 1 20 See lone Cuba Baking. SALT pie Oysters. Succotash, ‘Tradesman.’ ee eae cette sretet tenes 11% CO 16 100 3 Tb. sacks... 2 a Standard, 11b.-..... : : : . c a Porto Rico. BEI re eenr sees 2 00 + ; : 1, per hundred........... 2 00 ENVELOPES. Pi ae 16 | 28 10-b. sacks...... La 1 85 Se ce? « Fe ina ie ai 2 50 XX rag, white, Fancy .. oar 29 | 20 _ ~ be cca 2 2 le Tomatoes. : en .. BO! No. oe... 81 75 are Oe... 5... 150 Mmieeo.k SR ESO icone ee 1 00 : ie OP Ocoee 1 60 New Orleans. 36 1b. "airy | in linen bags. . 1) 2m oe epee tats ae 3 60 | Relipes «2200000000202 100/90 eee 40) | NO. 16.200 veer DI iss ie sce 14 | 28 Ib. drill 1 re Mos | Gallon se IIR] Supertor we 1 okt wood, wiie,” 1° | Batra good. — eens | 81, er nunarea 2 50 | NO: 1: BH eee ee eeeees 195] Choice ........-..ccccecc0. 87 | 96 1b. dairy in drill bags... 35 Standard, i Ib in CHOCOLATE—BAKER’s. —< Ss F oy | NO. 2, GH-......... 2-2-0... 1 25 | Fancy.. 35 | 28 Ib. - 18 “ b.. "'2 25 | German Sweet 22 ss * “ 50 Manilla, white. One-half barrels, 3c extra Ashton Mustard, 3b... 2.000" 1. 3 00| Premium... 00.000 20.07. _* * een mpeeieteeee. meme 1° Tomato Sauce sees 2° TN Slee sow cog ST A EERIE ncn — 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 a... 3.0 nee Ble 00 Coin. ea: + Higgins. beans : MUM NO. 4....c0s- ---eses, 100] Half barrels 100...°.......@2 25 | 56 1p, dairy in linen sacks. 75 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 17 Solar Rock. SWEET 60 See s ‘aon... 25] Ginger s ees a patensiasaleaiak OYSTERS—Cans, OILS. mger Sree... ...... 8 O.eeeeeeee eee 22 Fairhaven Counts... @35 . Common Fine. Sugar Creams.. 0 8 Hiawatha es ae 38 WFD Sélecta SO The Standard Oil Co. quotes UNM oe ee 85 | Frosted Creams....... ® | Valley City ........... 34 Za @25 | 28 follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Manistee ......... -...... 90 | Graham Crackers..... 8% Finzer’s Brands. 2 32 | Grand Rapids: SALERATUS. Oatmeal Crackers. . gy, | Old Honesty.......... 40 nee @e |lww 4 Packed 60 Ibs. in box. ee nee eee 32 Standards ............ «=6@is. | W:, W- Headlight, 150 Church’s .... ....--+... 40s 30 TEAS i oo s Brands. SHELL GOODS. Water White CT : Pg Deters 3 15 ' ere It ig... .. seeeee 28 i N ee : 1% eee | 3 30 JAPAN—Regular. Gu Mivie....... 31 Oysters, per 100 ..... 1 25@1 50| Naptha................ @7 RO eal, 3 00| Fair @i7 Jas. aioe & Co.’s Brands. Clams. 75@1 00 oe eee. i @ 8¢ ee nr te - Nometnine Good...........-..4 28 a ce - ; a SOAP. a na ne ene os oe Ue TS HIDES, PELTS and FUR: ate oii waa ee LAUNDRY, Choicest....... 32 @34 Out of Sight... ™ — w Thompson & Chute Brands. Pe 10 12 Private Brands. Perkins & Hess pay as fol Le Silver, 160 i20s........ Sa.) le @12 Sweet Map! eC... 6... 30 lows, prices nominal: Snow, 100 oT mT SUN CURED, oe... 26 HIDES POULTRY. Wins a 6 eee @17 Smoking. Gren |. 3 @4 German Family, mim... Seliger... ........ aap | Oee..... 8 12% Part Cured @4%l- Local dealers pay as follows “—11h..... ee 2 @26 Cc heel eCholee. 2... 13 mie eT bo 5 2 | for dressed fowls: Laund Castile, 7511b.... 3 05| Choicest.. ..82 @34 waa... 14 i... a 5 @ é Fowl 9 13 Marbled, 7 oe | Dust... ..10 @i2 Banner ... a “15 Kips, green ..... 3 @4 Tavern. a = avon Im eee. 60 1 1b... 2.50 Sine Bee 2 ‘ . @5 ee jee. a “395 BASKET FIRED. Kil ted 17 C valfsking, green 4 S 5 Ducks . =P ea 13 @14 Olive, 10010 0z............. 250) Fair............-...... 18 @w | Nigger Head................ 23 Single cured S ohn ae Golden, 8011b .. ......... 395} Cholee................. @25 | Honey Dew................. 24 | Wilson... nit #2 09 | Deaconskins..... ia i UGS = Economical, 30 21b.... ... 2 25 | Choicest. @35 | Gold Block........... ....- 28 |Saginaw...... .......-...-.175| No. 2hides % off. Ul ee —— d, 302 Ib eas 35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 oe Looe ee, = Ps aa AA ‘ia Le ea en risley’s Brands GUNPOWDER . Sa Daisy.......... . 1 00 | Shearlings. 10 @2s Old Country, 80 1-Ib ....... 1. ji Uncle Sam..... tro tete eee ee 28 angtry 6 2 lars oN 2 Good aes = 7 ‘*7""3 gp | Common to fair....... % @35 | Tem and Jerry..............25 a: ; ; = Lambs .......-.......5 0 @1 50] PAPER & WOODENWARE White Borax, 100 %-1b......3 60 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | Brier — ee es able. i a WwooL : PAPER. Proctor & Gamble. — Choicest fancy........75 @g5 | Yum Yum..................3 32 | Wilson .. » 59 | Washed.. ...... i gee TSW 8... 61. ee sll, 2 80 Roeder @26 met Clover... 32 |Sacinaw..... Le 3 9, | Unwashed .. 10 @x a 2 : : 9 LONG. oo el of RAG SURAE.. 2. vce veee enc cers 2 Ivory, ir : oo | Common to fair... ...23 @30 | Handmade.-..00 0020.2... 40 ant Ly z red cee TRAITS eens Lenox a 3 65 IMPERIAL. Frog oe 3 Ceeene S es Tallow . Lcee., Sen 4 Omens... .. aos 214 Mottled German. ... 3 15| Common to fair....... 23 @26 Red Star....... i 2h butter 2 Town Talk .. : 3 uo | Superior tofine........ 30 @35 | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFs | Shamrock | 2° °2..2.05...5.. 250] BUARENEB --- --- TKO aon eee No. 1... = TOILET. YOUNG HY8ON i vy beat 2 25 a ee ee Snow, 00G0n ........ 3 1. | i eae VINEGAR. No. --.4% Cocoa Castile, 24 Ib........ 3 09 | Common to fair....... 18 @ | No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) Bawa TOT, w% FURS. uN TWINES. Superior to fine 30 @40 48 Cotton 0 SCOURING AND ~~ Deana ee ae No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) SE %4%| Outside prices for No.1 only. | Cotton, No. 1............ “or Silverine, gh dao ae ee : = ENGLISH BREAKFAST. MEAL. frdngeliexsnamd hades ea Se / ee : ET MUS' . sees ) os " : 4 Sapolio, “echen, $ doz... 3 80 a es ee ee = @2z | Bolted.. 2 20) Bulk pergal 00) 1... sa | Bear... ..... 15 00@25 00 No —_— assorted....... = hand, 3 doz oe 250 B ate ones —— on Granulated. 1 401 Beer mug,2 dozincase... 1 75| Beaver ....... .3 00G@7 00] No’ G «& ees a4 = Potash Flakes’ 72 1002... 5 00 | Best------------ +--+ @ ouR. a TEAST—-Compressed. Cat) wild 12... Fens Socah MIRON | Ebsbpavittntsae g aaa Seer ee — | Straight, in racke a : a Fermentum per doz. cakes. | iho OMB cl 10Q 2% Tubs, No. 1 cae 7 00 5 : TOB i Trelis. ....-. - per Ib" oo. _.| | Migber....-.________ _4 Goa@ie Go ‘ Ss S aa — a 3% Oe 5 ee ee mee ae n im a § &, 5 6 vi “6 > 1 ‘ nr : J De seeeeccesee as Soctas ce g : i Fine Cut. : Graham sacks.... 51 _Per it be... oo “ a oo ie pon = Pails, = 1, two- hoop.. 1 35 na @4.69 Pails unless otherwise noted Rye mu ay 250| §ISH and O¥STERS 7 nx. veseeeess 2 00@3 00 Clothespins, Sgr. boxes . 1 a Confectioners’ A. @4 56 Sweet Cuba... aa = a 16 00, , F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as | fartin, pale é yellow: cans a Bowls, 1linch.............. 90 one @ 4% a Screenings 15 00 follows | I i ce ae 13 90 White Extra C 418 McGinty .. a 24 ngs i" \ Mink, dark. 40@1 10 : : rea. @ se baa oa Middlings 7 PRESH FISH i | Muskrat O8e 16 ae 1 60 Extra C. oo @ 44 a ote rs 7 ~ 0 | Whitefish § @10 | Sa a ae : cee an i 2 35 Cc Valley City.. 32 | Mixed Feed.... --++-- 1700], | Oppossum...... ...._.. 15@ £0 @+ | pendyJim.........-- ee 16 50 | Trout . 8 @9 | Otter, dark ....5 0O@S 09 a ted, 17s and 198 2 50 Yell 385%@ 3% Dandy Jim.*.... ' on ' | Halibut... - 2 i lose 158, 178 and 198 27 Leas ‘than bbls. 4c advance oreo Ss lite deka. cee 43 | Ciscoes 5 @6 | Skun CC 1 on on Baskets market...... a cog Yom Yum -....__.... 26 Less than car lots..........45 | eeeetons ae } oo Wolf.....-.-. 2-20. ... 1 00@3 00 shipping bushel.. i 30 vais n > ” » A ‘ “- « Te saat ee , lug. OATS. Mackerel... 15 @25 Beaver castors, Ib. ....2 0O@S 00 | shee 1 50 — 25 Sorg’s Brands. Car lots .... ee ie Salmon --10 = | DEERSKINS—Per pound willow cits, Not & 3 Pure Cane. Spearhead ............ 37 Less than car lots.. — No. 1 Pickerel. @ 9 | Thin and green . 16 “ “ Noa ? = oon... .....-.- .-- 19 Joker eee ee —. 22 HAY. Pike |. a @8 | oferty... _ ..__.... 2 splint ‘No.1 3 50 oe ee oe 383 | No. 1 Timothy . car lots....13 00 | Smoked White @8_ | Gray Pe ace eee ae “ No2z4s Chom... 22-0 eee eee eee 30 MY..-..- eee rere eee 29 | No « ton lots 14 90} Bloater, per box .... 1 50 | Red and tinue ... ....... 35 “ “ No350 A NA TIONAL BEVERAGE! GERMAN COF EF’ Ej. Ea The Great and on'y Consideration in the Manvfactire of GERMAN is Beautiful Books and Handsome Pictures GIVEN FREE to Patrons of German Coffee, (See certificate i n each package. ) Purity, Strength A Combination of OLD DUIiCH JAVA —— AND—— THE FINEST MOCHA. Guaranteed te » diive ' utire Satisfaction. and Fine Flavor. TRY 1T! You can get it of any Jobber in Michigan! VWiICTOr BAKING POWDER. The Very Best! Packed 4 doz. each, 6 oz , at 80c¢ per doz. 4 « os 9 Q « “_< Outwitted & Orask. From the St. Louis Republic. The late Marshall O. Roberts was once called upon to deal with a crank in whose mental disorder there was much method, and to deal with -him quickly. He got rid of the fellow in a characteris- tic way. It was on a summer evening and Roberts was the only person left in the offices with the exception of the por- ter, who was on the lower floor. An impecunious individual secured admission to the building somehow and found his way to the millionaire’s room. He leveled a pistol at the latter’s head and said coolly: “Gimme a hundred or I’ll fire, mister, for I'm down on my luck.” ‘Surely you wouldn’t kill a man fora paltry hundred,” said Roberts, whose nerves were as cool as a blacksmith’s ‘I’m myself in luck to-day, but all my ready money has gone into the bank. Suppose I give you a check for double the sum?” This suited the freebooter and a check for $200 was duly made out on the Chel- At the visitor’s sugsestion, it was made payable to bearer. The trans- action closed, the payee took his depart- ure, apparently well satisfied with his day’s work. When he got to the sidewalk Mr. Rob- erts closed his desk and went home equally well satisfied. He had bought immunity from sudden and violent death with a check on a bank which had ceased to do business several years before. —_——_- > -+4+ coe For the finest coffees in the world, high grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner, 167 North Jonia street, Grand Rapids, TRADES | calling upon A, Almquist, ticket ager Mich, general representative for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York City. 3M. AN. Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect January 10, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. — from L a going | Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. 6:20am Pow Cincinaag..........., 00... 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm For Cincinnati 5:30 p m 6:09 pm For Chicago. 10:40 p m 11:05 p m From Sagina 10:40 pm Trains leav 0 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & [odiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive. 7:00 am 10:10 am 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:40 P m 9:05 eh m SLEEP IN@ & PARL OR NORTH 11:30 a m train.— me eee to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 0:30 p Seciae to Petoskey and Mackinaw. Cc AR SERV ic E. SOUTH--7:00 am train. —Parlor chair car Grand | Rapids to Cincinnati. 0:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 Pp m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 305 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 am 2:02pm Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p m 10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car 11:05 p m 6 50am Lv Chicago 7:05 a m 3:10 pm 10:10 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2.00 pm 8 35pm §:15 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p mn train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and full information can be had by 2t at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mic Cc iL . LOCKWOOD, General Bo and Ticket Agent Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe 1 | Grand Rapids and Toledo, VIA D., &. & W. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. Ar. Toledo at ..... .-1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. VIA D., G. H. & M. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. Av Veiedoot. ......... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. Return connections equally as good. Vy. H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent Toledo. Ohio m, m, m. m, GHAS. A. COYE, MANUFACTURER OF Tol Horse and Wa; on Covers if 4 > JOBBERS OF Hammocks and Cotton i ucks SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1868. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Wholesale Dealers in BUILDING PLAIN LININGS, ASPHALT AND COAL TAR PREPARED ROOFING, BEST GRADES ASPHALTUM & FIRE PROOF PAINTS, COAL TAR AND COAL PITCH, ELASTIC ROOFING ROSIN & MINERAL WOOL, ASBE-TOS FIRE-PROOF SHEATHING, ETC. PRACTICAL ROOFER In Felt, Composition and Gravel Cor. LOUIS & CAMPAU STS., Grand Rapids, Mich & SHEATHING PAPERS, TAR m train.—Sleeping car Grand i uth. North. | For Saginaw and Cadillac...... . a5 am 7:05 am | For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 a m | For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 2:00 pm 4:15 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10 pm 10:30 pm | From Kalamazooand Chicago. 8:35pm | 19 MIGHIGAN CENTRAL ** The Niagara Falls Route.’’ DEPART. ARRIVE oo ss couk os ... 7:00am 10:00pm eee .... a. 7:05am 4:30 pm Day Express.... ateocue- SD mm 19-008 mm *Aflantic & Pacific Exy press. ........10:80 pm 60am New York Express........ Ls 4:40pm 12:40pm *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic trains to and from Detroit Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at7a.m.. returning leave Detroit 4:45 p. m. and Pacific Express | arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m -Parlor chair car G’d | AND CORRUGATED CARPET} | Lv. | - . — | cars on all trains CEMENT, | | Ar. DDTROIL FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent. 8 Monroe St. A. ALMQuUIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot Gro. W. Munson, Union T Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rugenes G.P. & T. Agent., Chicago TIME TABLE NOW DETROIT ES aia gaa dal IN EFFECT. EASTWARD, Trains Leave tNo. 14/+No. 16\tNo. 18/*No. 82 G’d Rapids, Lv 650am|1 20am) 3 25pm 10 55pm oe ar 111 25am) 4 27pm /12 37am St. Johns ...Ar; 8 28am/12 17pm} 5 20pm) 1 55am Owoss) opm 6 CSpm) 3 15am E. Saginaw 3i(5pm 8 Upm) 8. 45am Bay City = $45pm) 7..0am Flint . : pm 7(5pm! 5 40am Pt. Huron. an| 6 Wopm 8 S0pm 7 30am Pontiac Ar/16 am| 3.05pm) 8 25pm) 5 37am Detroit. --Ar]il 50am] 4 05pm 925pm)} 7 00am WESTWARD, ‘Trains Leave *No. 81 No. 15 11 itNo. 13 Gd Rapids, Lv 7 Oham) 1 vopm| 5 10pm G’d Haven, Ar 8 35am| 2 10pm 6 15pm Milw’kee Str Be ueeee ‘hic x0 Str. *Daily. tDaily excep it Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:50 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has 12:50 a. m., 10:10 a. m., 3:16 Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No.18 Chair Car. No. s2 Wagner Sleeper. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetear. Joun W. Loup, Tratlic Manager. Ben FLETCHER, JAS. CAMPBELL CHICAGO AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y. Trav. Pass. Agent. , City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. JAN’ ¥: 1892. GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv.GB'D RAFIDS...... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:°5pm Ar. CHICAGO..........3:53pm S:2ipm *7:0Gam RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAGO 9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS. 3:55pm 10:10pm *6:10am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST. JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS. Lv. Grand Rapids 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....*6:10am 3:55pm 10:10pm For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only. TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Livy G6. 10:06am 12 05pm 5:30pm ar G.X...... 10:55am S56pm S:23pm ....... f0 AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK RAPIDS, 8:30pm Ly. Grand Rapids .. 7 :208In Ar. Grand Rapids.... -11:45am THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago—Wagner Sleepers—Leave Graud Rapids *11:35 p m.; leave Chicago 11:15 p = Parlor Buffet Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 1 2:05 pm; leave Chicago 4:45 p m. Free Chair Cars- . zeave Grand Rapids 9:00 a mj; leave Chicago 9:00 am Between Grand Rapids and Manistee—Free Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapi is5:17 pm; leaves Manistee 6:50 a m. DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. 5:17pm 9:40pm JAN’Y 3, 1892 ~ GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. GR’D RAPIDS..... 7:15am *1:00pm 5:40pm ...-12:00 m *5:1¢pm 10:40pm RETUKNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. DETROIT ...... .. 7:00am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS. .....11:50am *5:i5pm 10:15pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, Lv. Grand Rapids... Ar. Grand Rapids TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS. ..- 7:05am 4:15pm ..11:50am 10:40pm . BR. Grand Rapids . 7:15am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell. --11:50am 5:15pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE Between Grand Rapids and Detroit — Parlor Seats 25 cents Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 am; arrives in Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. STUDY LAW AT.HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Correspon- vence school of Law [incorporated]. Send ten cents [stamps] for particu lars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. $75 Whitney Block, DETROIT.- MICH, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The only Cash Register Especially PEA DAON RAGISTAR Adapted to a Mercantile Business, Why is ihe Peck Antographic Cash Register the Best for Merchants? BECAUSE it records the items instead of GENERAL RESULTS. BECAUSE it is always ready to MAKE and PRESERVE a record of money paid in and paid out. BECAUSE there are no ‘charge slips,’’ ‘‘received on account slips,” ‘“‘paid out slips’? and *‘just out of slips’’ to be lost and break the record. BECAUSE a merchant can file away his entire day’s business on one sheet and refer in an instant to the record of any previous day. BECAUSE figures won’t lie, but machinery, if out of repair, is bound to. BECAUSE it is not necessary to send it to the factory every six months for repairs. BECAUSE you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register ONE amount. BECAUSE it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants desire. Its Advantages over a Key Register. It leaves a black and white record for reference, while a Key Register does not. With the “‘Peck Cash Register’ each cash transaction is recorded as made, while with a Key Register the record only remains while the tablet is up, each sale spoils the record of all previous ones, If a clerk willfully makes a wrong entry with the Peck Register, it is impossible for him to change it, while with the key machine it is easy to press the wrong key ‘“‘aczidentally.” In paying money out of the Peck Cash Register a place is provided for the entry on the same continuous strip of specially prepared register paper, while with a Key Register you puta slip in the drawer and if it is lost your cash won’t balance. The only advantage ever claimed for a key machine over our Register is, that with the former the amount of the purchase is thrown up on the tablet in view of the customer. We will admit this point if the customer is standing in front of the bar, especially before the novelty wore off, but in Luying goods at astere very few people look to see the amount registered, and evenif a clerk is reported as registering the wrong amount, he can easily say that he pressed the wrong key. In proof of our claim that the Peck is the Best Register on the Mar- ket, we herewith submit a few of the many Voluntary Testimonials re=- ceived from Leading Merchants of Michigan: DETROIT, Mich., April 14, 1892. We have used Peck’s Cash Register nearly two years and find it a very valuable fixture. It works perfectly, and, in fact gives satisfaction in every way. JOHN P. Fiske, Crockery, China and Glassware. Bay Ciry, Mich., April 15, 1892. We have a Peck’s Cash Register in our crockery store and find it just the right thing for handling cash and saving of labor. It works well and gives entire satis- faction. W. E. SEE & Co., Crockery and Silverware. BENTON HaArpor, Mich., April 15, 1892. The Peck Cash Register 1am using gives me satisfaction and works well. I have tried many ways to keep my cash straight, but never until I used this style of register have I succeeded. I would not be without it at any price, if I could not get another. C. C. Sweet, Dry Goods. WHITEHALL, Mich., April 14, 1892. I would almost as soon think of doing business without insurance on stock as to be without the Peck Cash Register, bought of you. It works to perfection and insures much greater accuracy than any other system I ever tried. J. J. Gee, Hardware. MrT. PLEASANT, Mich., April 15, 1892. We are very much pleased with the Cash Register. We find it very simple and always as correct as any cash register can be. We would not do without it for many reasons, One reason is that it settles a great many would-be disputes in cash on account, as we always place to the right of the amount the man’s name by whom it was paid. In our opinion, the Peck Cash Register is the best for the money that we could possibly find. Your statements of the same have always been facts. Marsu & Lewis, Clothing and Gent’s Furnishing Goods. We will gladly have one of our agents call on you, with sample Register, on application. Circular and Price List. SHELBY, Mich., April 14, 1892. We are well pleased with our Peck’s Cash Register and would not do without it. It will pay for itself in six months’ time in correcting mistakes. RANKIN & Dewey, General Merchandise. Bie Raprps, Mich., April 15, 1892. I have been using Peck’s Cash Register constantly for more than a year, and can say that it has always done the work perfectly. Saves lots of time and is all that is claimed for it. Would not exchange it for any other kind of register that I have ever seen. F. W. Josiin, Merchant Tailor. Port Huron, Mich., April 15, 1892. I have used Peck’s Cash Register nearly a year. It isin perfect order, and I can see no reason why, with ordinary care, that it should not iast many years. It is a system whereby any person who can write, can keep an accurate cash account. The price is such that it does not require a large percentage of the capital of many beginners in trade to enjoy this advantage. It works to advantage where there are several deprrtments to a business, ss, in my case, grocery, flouring mill and meat market, each have their columns, and it takes but a few moments in the evening to see what each has done during the day. Nothing that I have ever seen, so far, could take the place of Peck’s Cash Register with me. — CuAs. WELLMAN, Wholesale Grocer. ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 13, 1892. I consider Peck’s Cash Register a valuable assistant to my line of business where it is necessary to record the events of each day, in so far as they relate to mercantile transactions. Ours more than paid for itself the first three months by aiding us to correct mistakes. Every merchant should have a register of some kind. J. W, BRownine, General Dealer. Send for illustrated A. R. PECK, Manufacturer, Syracuse, N. Y. LOBDELL & GEIGER, Gen! Agents Grand Rapids, Mich. 39 Pearl Street, _ ee ¥ C ya uw t awe ey = _ eT EDS LR RI IO SAGINAW MANUFACTURING CO., SAGINAW, MICH., Manufacturers of the Following List of Washboards. Crescent Red Star goa } Shamrock | gotid zine, 1 Ivy Leaf - = | Wilson 4 Saginaw / | Dovble Zine a | Defiance Surface, Sea iid | SSS Sinan site tin a = eee tee q Defiance Surface, ip) Rind = The above are all superion | Washboards, in thefclass to | which they belong. Send for euts and price-list, before order- ing. es se T. S. FREEMAN Agt, Grand Rapids,|Mich. "TOICT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Garpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsteimer & C0, “°* Grand Rapids.” RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO. 12, 14, 16 PEARL ST. If you use River Shoes, see our line before placing orders. We make the correct styles. Also want to sell you your Boston Rubbers for next season- Terms and discount as good as offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. earnennesi — STANDARD OIL CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Tiluminating and Lubricating -OILs- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRIOE PAID FOR RMPYY GARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. Works, Butterworth Ave. Grand Rapids Storage & Transier Go, vimite 5 ———— pr..o7 Winter St, between Shawmut Ave, and W. Fulton St., yGRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “ General Warehovsemen and Transfer Agents. COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES.‘ Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En- gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons. Buggies, Wind Mills and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. Telephone No. 945. J. ¥. F. BLAKE, Sup’t. Spring & Company, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, ‘Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons . We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. H. LEONARD & SONS, GENTLEMAN'S BILL AND POCKETBOOKS. | All Packed One-half Dozen in a Box. Net per doz. No. 619 Leather Wallet, with 3 pockets and bill roll. All cloth lined. A stunner for a quarter....... $1 67 No. 630. Leather Wallet. Net per doz It will last a life time, leather lined and stitched A A an ae me wy No. 110246 Assortment. : ORG ee ae aN eis os $4 67 Assorted 3 styles, size 8x33 inches, cloth lined. Five compartments, net per doz....-.......... $3 00 i No. 806, size 8x34 inch, 3 compartments....... 2 00 : Style of Nos. 639 and 649. No. 639 Calf finished wallet with 3 pockets and ca ¢ BE MO Se ce lc Ieee ol ging oahu og iciadeag cleans $2 00 ‘ Style of Nos. 632 and 775. No. 641 Russet color, finish same style as cut, No. 632. Calf finish russet color, all leather, a beniier Thee. 2 67 AS SHOWER oa ee Pee ts $5 00 No. 775. Same style only the linings are trimmed in fancy colored leather .......... 6 00 No. 1193. Size 8x3°; inches, 4 pockets, memorandum book and pencil, red and black finished leather, $4 00 No. 505. Black and Brown Fnish. r Fork AO... Ae All leather, smooth Russia leather outside finish, 5 67 Fancy finish as shown. with 4 pockets, a beauty OE SOC OLIMAR ee $3 67 No. 1195 full size, 4 pockets-and bill folder with flap leather faced. A dandy to retail for 75e,...... $6 00 No. 5728S. All leather. Elegantly finished, ass’td colors in box......... 6 00 : No. 608. All leather. Full stitched with 4 pockets and bill roll.......$4 00 No. 1200. Bill Book. Size, 814 x3<¢ inches. bill No. 565. Gent’s fancy imitation seal all leather Elegantly finished, leather lined with pocket, : pocketbook, with patent button fastener.... 4 00 folder, stamp and ticket spaces, $6.00. No. 586. All leather; imitation seal. Rough finish, good value to retail for $1........ 7 65 Also a great variety of Purses and Ladies’ Pocketbooks.