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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 
 

A TWICE TOLD TALE.

Many years ago, I stayed awhile in an
old cathedral town in the richest and
loveliest part of Yorkshire. Such
quaint, old houses, roofed with bright-
red tiles, such green meadows and yel-
low cornfields, such great over-shadow-
ing trees, and such sweet old-fashioned
gardens, I shall never see again. But
the great charm to my young faney was
the solemn old cathedral and the cool,
silent courts of houses that clustered
around it. The dreamy, peacéful life
enchanted me. I thought that I could
live forever among the dim aisles of the
grand old church and the shady gardens
of the handsome houses.

‘This is a court of peace,’ I said.
‘Surely no shadow of discontent or sor-
row can ever come within it.’’

But this I said in my haste and my ig-
norance. At the end of the first week of
my visit, as I was wandering in my
friend’s garden, which touched the
graveyard of the cathedral, 1 heard the
wildest, strangest, most sorrowful musie
coming from it. I knew the vesper ser-
vice was over. I knew this was not the
organist’s playing, and my interest and
curiosity triumphed over my fear, and
led me to take the keys of the vestry,
which were at my command, and satisfy
myself. No human cry of agony was
ever more intelligible. I divined at once
that some poor, breaking heart was
pouring out itself into the Divine ear,
which understands all speech and lan-
guage, and so I stole away again,
ashamed and sorry for my intrusion.

Frequently, after this—sometimes
early in the morning, sometimes deep in
the gloaming—Il heard the same musi-
cian. At last 1 spoke to the friend with
whom I was. staying. She _ looked
troubled as she answered:

“It is the poor old dean.
he has this consolation.
turb him.’’

A few days afterward, as we were
walking up the court, we met the dean.
He begged my friend to go into his
house and see his daughter Mary; and
then I soon understood what mighty
grief it was which had struck the key-
note of his passionate, pleading prayer.

She was dying; no one but a parent
could have doubted it for one minute.
The earnest of eternity was in her eyes,
which looked as if they had seen some
vision that had forever separated her
from time. She lay upon a couch drawn
close to the open window looking into a
garden thick with green shade, and
bright with many a sweet flower whose
name is now forgotten. I gazed on her
with admiration. Ido not think it ever
entered my mind to pity her. I reserved
that feeling for the gray misery of her
father, and for the hopeless, resentful-
looking distress 1 saw in the face and
manner of a handsome man whom I took
to be her brother. There was, however,
some element in the sorrow of that dying
room that I did not understand then,
though soon afterward, when I knew
Mary Harlowe’s history, it was clear
enough to me.

1 am glad
Do not dis-

 

NO. 450

She was the only child of her father,
who had received her in exchange for
his young wife’s life. Among the silent
rooms of the great house, and in the
pleasant old gardens belonging to the
church property, she had grown up to
a sweet and lovely girlhood.

When about seventeen years of age,
her cousin, Bernard Harlowe, was sent
to her father’s care, while he prepared
for taking orders. The young man was
not rich, and was never likely to have
any inheritance but the handsome
person, the clear head and the warm
heart nature had given him. But Mary
loved him almost from the first day
of his arrival, and Bernard thought him-
self richer in that love than the Bishop
in his see, or the kingin his crown.

The dean was not so wrapped up in
spiritual matters as to be oblivious of
what was transpiring under his own
roof, yet he made no remonstrance; so,
though there was no positive engage-
ment, Bernard and Mary Harlowe con-
sidered themselves as one heart and soul
for time and for eternity.

One afternoon the sunny stillness of
the court was broken by the galloping of
horses and the rattling of a carriage. It
stopped at the dean’s door, and Bernard
recognized a young earl, famous for his
wealth and church patronage, who
owned a magnificent seat about three
miles distant.

“There is some dispute between my
lord bishop and the earl,” he said to
Mary. ‘‘I wonder how the dean will
manage between them?’’

But the earl’s visit seemed to them a
matter of the very smallest importance.
Wandering under the trees, pulling ripe
berries, or idly gathering some flower
fairer than all its mates, they did not
even speculate on the length of his visit
or watch for his departure. It was,
therefore, with some surprise they saw
him and the dean come slowly walking
down the main avenue together.

Mary would have escaped the inter-
view by taking a private walk to the
house, but Bernard, with some strange
instinet of being on the defensive, drew
her arm through his and awaited their
approach. The dean seemed annoyed at

 

 

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the attitude. He introduced his daugh-
ter and his nephew, and then bade Mary
*‘eo to prepare for dinner, which Earl
Grey,” he added, bowing, ‘‘will do me
the honor to eat with me.”’

The young nobleman languidly assent-
ed, following Mary with his eyes until
she was hidden from view by the shrub-
Surely, “‘loving and hating come
by nature,’’ for ere the earl had spoken,
Bernard hated him; and long before the
night was over, he fancied he had good
eause to do so.

He was'angry at Mary for looking so
beautiful; he was a: gry at the earl for
looking at her beauty. He thought his

bery.

uncle disgustingly subservient to the
young man’s rank; he thought Mary

unusually cool to him. Ail night long
he was his own tormentor, and this was
but the beginning of sorrows.

The earl, charmed with Mary’s fresh
young beauty, so different from the
clever, intriguing women with whom he
had danced and trified away all last sea-
son, fancied himself deeply in love with
the simple, innocent girl. He came
again and again, at first inventing all
sorts of excuses, finally without any ex-
cuse at all.

It required, indeed, small persuasion
to obtain the dean’s full permission to
woo his daughter. Then stormy scenes
ensued; uncle and nephew came to bit-
terest strife, while Mary’s defense of
Bernard only brought on her such anger
from her father as filled her with grief
and fear.

Poor Bernard! The end his heart had
prophesied came soon enough. In the
presence of the dean there was a cruel,
formal parting; under the silent stars,
amid the thick shrubbery of the garden,
there was another parting. Then two
young said the which
doomed one to an empty and the
other to a splendid tomb.

Mary would have’ promised con-
stanecy, but Bernard would not let her
do it.

‘“*You shall never have to reproach
yourself with broken promises for my
sake, darling,” he said. ‘‘What could
you, you poor timid little dove, do be-
tween your father and that lordly
earl? But whatever they make you do,
remember, Mary, I shall never blame
you, and will love you until my last con-

words
life,

hearts

scious breath.”

Then he kissed her pale face over and
over, tenderly, clingingly, as we kiss the
dead, and left her. And Mary, almost
heart-broken with grief, and faint with
terror lest should be discovered,
could only wave her hands in mute fare-
well, for she knew now that love and she
must walk apart forever.

she

Bernard went to Oxford and Mary be-
came Countess Grey, and went whither-
soever it pleased her husband to take
her. She was naturally affectionate, and
would doubtless have become a loving
and gentle wife, if she had received any
encouragement. But she soon outlived
the earl’s short liking, and then he only
seemed to find pleasure in those petty
cruelties which unloving husbands above
all others understand.

One of these was to affect the most un-
bounded chagrin at the sex of her first
child, tosneer at all daughters, and to
send it from its mother’s breast to the
care of a strange nurse. Another was to
pretend she needed exercise and change
of air, and remove her from London to
the Continent before she was able to

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bear the fatigue. He gave her no rest
until she reached Rome, and here she be-
came so seriously ill that even her ser-
vants remonstrated against the cruelty of
moving her further.

In Rome she remained six months,
nearly alone. The earl traveled hither
and thither as his fancy led him, making
his wife only occasional short visits of a
eruelly ceremonious character. His life
of extravagant dissipation was a shame-
ful contrast to the loneliness and abso-
lute seclusion which her Italian physi-
cian ordered, while her separation from
all who loved or cared for her, and
her longing for her native land and

home told fearfully upon her failing
health.

But one day a far more cruel sorrow
faced her. A _ letter without signa-

ture was placed in her hands, not only
accusing her husband of the most fla-
grant disregard for her, but also intimat-
ing that her physician was in the employ
of her enemies, and not a safe person to
be instrusted with her life.

She had long felt sure that she was
dying, but the dread of dying away from
her child, her father and her home over-
came all other fears. This terror made
her prudent. She arranged for an im-
mediate return home, and took advan-
of her husband's first absence to com-
mence it.

For him she left a most noble and pa-
thetic letter, entreating him not to fol-
low her, forgiving all his positive and
negative cruelities, and asking only to
be permitted to die beside her father
and their child.

Her requests so completely agreed
with the earl’s desires that for once he
did not thwart her; and so, two years
after this ill-starred marriage, Earl Gray’s
traveling carriage again broke the
silence of the peaceful cathedral court.
The dean’s daughter had come back to
him wearing something higher than a
ecountess’s coronet; she had received the
signet of immortality, and been anointed
for a heavenly coronation.

After Mary’s marriage, the dean had
gone to see his nephew, and easily in-
duced him to come back with him; so it
was Bernard that lifted Mary from her
carriage and carried her in his strong
arms to the room she never left again;
and it was Bernard that rode day and
night, so that he might bring a few
hours earlier the child which was to com-
fort Mary’s dying hours.

In order to excuse the step she had
taken, and procure her father’s promise
to keep her little daughter, she had
been compelled to divulge all the cruel |

martyrdom of her’ married life.)
After this revelation it was not hard to
understand the dean’s wretched look,

and his passionate, pleading prayers,
and the music which was an articulate
agony. I could understand, too, now
the angry, longing look on Bernard’s
face, and his miserable restlessness; but}
in Mary’s |

the peace of her descent into the grave.

I went often to see her the next few)
months. It was like lying with her at |
“the Gate Beautiful” of Heaven. I used
to wonder at her loveliuess, and rejoice
in her certain hope, but I never pitied
her. As I said before, I kept that feel-

days. Despair and remorse were sitting
in the handsome chambers, and a slow
but certain sorrow creeping up the mar-
ble stairs. The next day a narrow coffin
had separated father and daughter,
mother and child, husband and wife,
lover and beloved, as effectually and as
widely as all the starry spaces.

No one can step in between two lov-
ing hearts without guilt; and when love
is slain for gold or rank, it has bitter

avengers. AMELIA E. BARR.

 

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COMMEND AND PRACTICE HON-
ESTY.

I think it a safe thing to commend hon-
est actions, and to practice them. If
there are those- whose minds may be
more easily moved by holding up unselfish
motives, let them have the benefit of
such teaching, and if others can be led
into paths of honesty only by being made
to understand that dishonesty means
misery and ruin, let this argument be
laid on, with triple force. Let the
young and the old be taught that ‘‘the
way of the transgressor is hard,” as well
as that ‘‘virtue is its own reward.’’

But, after all, there is such a thing as
stirring the higher motives in young
hearts, and 1 deem it to be the first duty
of the parent and the teacher to impress
the young mind with the sense of a per-
sonal responsibility When President
Garfield said that the person whose char-
acter we should most closely sean is he
who wears our hat, who sleeps with us,
eats with us, thinks our thoughts and
does our daily work, he spoke
truth as well as a simple one.

a great
Put that
truth forcibly before a young man, and

‘let him feel that there is no way of rid-

ding himself of this perpetual companion-
ship. He may not beable fully to com-
prehend the omniscience and omnipres-
ence of God, but he can understand that
there is no way of getting rid of himself.
Let him feel that the way for him to look
out for the man at the other end of the
bargain is to think of that ‘‘other man”
as himself, grown old. Let him know
that by and by there will come a time
when his life will be greatly reminiscent
—when he will live mostly upon the
memories of the past, and that it is now
in his power to lay up a treasure house
full of such memories as will make his
declining years the happiest of his life.

‘ Let him know, moreover, that while it is

the first mis-step that costs, it is also
the first mis-step that is easiest to be
avoided, and easiest to be retraced.

How is a young man ora young woman
to know what is a mis-step, or whether
any act is permissible on personal ground?
I would not have young men despise or
underrate the opinions of others, but
there are cases which can be settled only
by the individual conscience. It is true
that conscience may be badly educated,
but it is, after all, the safest guide.
And beyond this, young men should be
tought to be self-reliant. The most
critical junctures in life are those where
decision has to be rendered at once and
without the chance of consultation; and
there is, besides, something cowardly
in the attempt to shift upon other shoul-
ders the responsibility of our own act-
ions. The great soul-conflicts are those
which are waged in secret places with
none but God as witness; and one does
not have to live long to feel the force
of Mr. Beecher’s position when he
said, “‘If anybody would say to me,
‘Brother Beecher, how is your soul?’ I
should answer ‘none of your business.’ ”’

Is there, then, no guide for the young
man or the young woman who wants to
be honest and virtuous, and who would
save himself or herself from lifetime re-
grets?

There are a few simple rules, which I
have laid down, and which have helped
me, if they have done no other good; and
I give them here, notas recipes, but as
suggestions:

1. Never doan act or write a word
that if fully exposed to the werld would

 

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place you in an embarrassing position,
or that could not be explained to your
own honor.
blunders or mistakes, honestly made.

>»
be ashamed to permit to lie upon your
table open to your best friend. As to
young ladies that best friend would be
the mother.

2

3. In a business transaction, while
you are not called upon to supply to the
other party the

are bound to a strict truthfulness, not
merely in words, but in the inferences
naturally drawn therefrom.

And, finally, adopt as a rule of con-
duet the aphorism of St. Peter Cooper—
never to receive anything
world for which you do not reuder an
equivalent in some form of service.

And in looking out for the man at the
other end of the bargain you should not
lose sight of the regret, which may
come to him in after days of having
cheated you. So be careful, for his sake,
not your own, that he does not cheat you.
Have your wits about you, and compel
the respect of those with whom
you deal, by showing shrewdness as
well as candor. The highest behests of
honesty and fair dealing do not call
upon you to be either a fool or a
weakling.

Do not imagine that
honest, nor take it for granted, because
it is an easy thing to say, that the world
is given to lying and dishonesty. The
probabilities are that there are far more
honest folks than knaves in the world,
and you know a good many of them, not
only in your own family, but among
your neighbors. When you are told that
the world is growing more wicked every
day, and the country is on the very
brink of destruction, just look about
you, and from among your friends and
acquaintances pick out the rascals and
traitors that are going to precipitate
this great calamity. Ask yourself,
even, if you are one of them, for there is
an even chance that you are an average
citizen and an average man.

And, finally, do not imagine because
men who make a business of politics,
and go into it for what it is worth in
money and power, seem at times to carry
everything before them, and because
vice seems prevalent and thrifty, and
virtue nerveless and timid, that honor
is dead and the country given over to
thieves and despoilers. There is such a
thing as civie virtue. Patriotism still
lives, and the voice of the people—
which is aptly defined as the voice of
God—can make itself heard when the
great occasions come. So don’t despair
of the republic, and don’t weary in well
doing. Honesty is not only the best pol-

icy but the only policy.

S. S. PACKARD.
——.-<———_——

The Baltimore Refinery to Resume
Operations.

The Curtis Bay Sugar Refinery in Bal-
timore will be in full operation again by
July 1. Those who now have charge of
the works are pushing the improvements
as rapidly as possible, as they are anx-
ious to have the refinery in good order
when the canning season opens. Im-
provements are being made in the build-
ing and in the machinery, and when the
work is completed it is said that the re-
finery will be as complete as any on the
Atlantic seaboard. The capacity of the
refinery will be nearly doubled and the
cost of refining will be much reduced by
the new and improved machinery that is
being put in,

 

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The attention of merchants desiring to
move to Grand Rapids is called to the
store advertised by Mrs. J. Patterson on
another page.

2. Never read a book that you would |

sagacity which you have |
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MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO.,

This rule would cover even |

Successors to

 

1% and 19 Widsicomb Building.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1892.

Correspondence solicited.

oe CASH REGISTER.

Because there aré no ‘charge slips,”
out slips” to be lost and break the record.

to the record of any previous day.

desire.

 

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WE SELL

Registers

MORE

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Business Men

 

Than all the Other Register Companies
Combined,

Why is the Peck Autographic Cash Register the Best for Merchants ?
Because it records items instead of General Results.
Because it is always ready to make and preserve a record of mone y, paid in and out.
“received on account slips,”

‘“‘paid out slips’? and ‘‘just

Because a merchant can file away his entire day’s business on one 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

LOBDELL & GEIGER, Gen'l Agents,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

products.

 

Rochester,

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO.

Distributing Agents.

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“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 nataral flavor and color.

PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY

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AMONG THE TRADE.

AROUND THE STATE.
Sears—Frank T. Jeffs succeeds
Bros. in general trade.
Homer—E.
taurant to G. S. Murray.
Zeeland—H. Wykhuizen has removed
his jewelry stock to Holland.

| there.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

| sandstone cies containing three

Jeffs |

| Stores and a sixty-room hotel.

Allegan—C. C. Spear has purchased ‘J
grocery store in Chicago and will remove

| his grocery stock to the Windy City and

W. Blair has sold his res- |

Dollar Bay—Harry A. Fry has sold his |

general stock to Hugh Moore.
Grassmere—Jas. W. Richards has sold
his general stock to M. A. Vogel.
Saline—Alfred Humphrey
M. Kelsey in the grocery business.
Webberville — James Dunn succeeds
Sweet & Dunn in the grocery business.
Zeeland—Peter brusse
Brusse & Son in the clothing business.

 

succeeds O.

consolidate it with the goods purchased
His store is located at the corner
of Seventy-first and Peoria streets.
Traverse City—M. V. Gundrum has
bought the vacant lot between the new
Greilick block and Friedrich Bros. and

| will at once proceed to erect a three-

| story

|

succeeds G. |

| decamped a couple of months

Amasa—Jacobson & Oleson have sold |

their general stock to M. Gleason & Son.
Brinton—O. T. Brinton & Co. have
sold their general stock to A. Husband.

Port Huron—Robert Connally has pur-
chased the grocery stock of John Bena-
way.

Sault Ste. Marie—W. C. Given succeeds
Higgins & Given in the hardware busi-
ness.

Negaunee—Alfred Senecal has sold his
boot and shoe stock to Henry A. Breg-
stone.

 

Alpena—Geo. H. Warren, Agt., has
removed his fancy goods stock to
Owosso.

Detroit—F. D. Stevens & Co. are suc-
business.

Hudsonville — L. M. Wolf has com-
pleted a 30 foot addition to
building.

Negaunee—P. B.

his store

Kirkwood has

 

brick structure, occupying the
ground floor with his grocery stock.

Miriam— Gilbert W. Stevens has re-
moved his grocery stock from Fallas-
burgh to this place, locating in the store
formerly occupied by Adam Hehl, who
ago and is
now working at the blacksmithing busi-
ness at Fort Wayne, Ind.

Allegan—L. L. Putman & Co., of
Albion, have opened a branch house in
Allegan and will buy eggs and all kinds
of produce. ‘They are the proprietors of
the Albion cold storage and also have a
storage at Ogdensburg, N. Y. Irving F.
Clapp will manage the Allegan end of
the business.

Big Rapids—Finley F. Peterson, the
grocer, died April 15, after an illness of
several weeks. Mr. Peterson was born
at Ameliasburg, Ontario, in 1826, and
came to Big Rapids twenty-one years

|}ago last December, when he purchased
|the place on North State street which
ceeded by Stevens & Todd in the drug}

his drug and stationery stock to C. H. |

Kirkwood.

Manchester—Gieske & Blum succeeds
Gieske & Dresselhouse in the grocery and
crockery business.

Jackson—Frank M. Matteson is suc-
ceeded by Matteson & Stanton in the
hardware business.

Grand Haven—Clark & Lum are suc-
ceeded by Clark & Knight in the flour
and feed business.

Norway—C. D. A. Wright has retired
from the firm of Browning, Lindahl &
Co., general dealers.

Overisel—Dangremond & Nykerk are
succeeded by Dangremond & Van Bem-
melen in general trade.

Sault Ste. Marie—Melady & Flood are
sueceeded by Annie (Mrs. Robert) Flood
in the grocery and crockery business.

Mecosta—J. H.

 

Denslow has sold his

general stock to Peter Gingrich, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Edmore—Geo. D. Lunn has purchased
the old opera house building of Edson,
Moore & Co., of Detroit, and removed his
drug and clothing stocks to that lo-
cation.

Otsego—Chas. Pipp, Henry L. Pipp
and their father have formed a copart-
nership under the style of Pipp Bros. &
Co. and purchased the Harris grocery
stock here.

Vestaburg—H. E. Hart has sold his
dry goods and grocery stock to Phillip
A. Johnson, who will remove the same
to his own building. E. F. Owen will
remove his drug stock to the store thus
vacated.

Belding—W. F. Bricker has concluded
to rebuild the structure recently destroy-
ed by fire. The new building will be a
three-story brick structure, with Ionia

 

ing his chief complaint.
sold |

 

has been the home of the family since
1871. Although not confined to his bed
much of the time, Mr. Peterson had been
ailing for about four years, diabetes be-
Deceased was
well liked by all who knew him, and he
will be especially missed in the neigh-
borhood where he so long resided. He
leaves a wife and four children to
mourn his death, his eldest son having
been killed about five years ago by a
falling tree. The business will be con-
tinued by the widow without inter-

| ruption.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Gladwin—The Saylor Hoop Co. is
manufacturing 30,000 hoops daily.

Detroit—Wm. W. Kurtz & Co. are: suc-
ceeded by the Kurtz Paper Box Co.

Tekonsha—Randall Bros. are succeed-
ed by A. H. Randall in the milling busi-
ness.

Adrian—M. H. Higby is succeeded by
the Higby & Lloyd Lumber Co. in the
sawmill business.

Battle Creek—Andrew Knight & Co.
succeed Halbert & Knight in the sash,
door and blind business.

Saginaw—Bliss & Van Auken, James
McKeon and Estey & Calkins are each
building short spurs of logging roads
to reach more timber in Gladwin county.

Oden—The Northern Michigan Lumber
Co. is having the line surveyed for a
narrow gauge railroad from this place to
a tract of hardwood timber, 18 miles
northwest and expects to have the road
in operation next fall.

Mancelona—The Mancelona Handle
Co. has purchased a tract of hardwood
land, with an estimated stumpage of
100,000,000 feet, on Cedar River, and
surveys are being made for a narrow
gauge road, to be built this season.

Marquette—George L. Burtis started
his sawmill this week and has stock
enough to keep him busy until the close
of the season. Wm. Walton has started
his mill at Dexter, where he has about

 

2,000,000 feet of on C. Hebard & Son
| have started their mill at Pequaming.
Cadillac—The firm of James Haynes &
Sons has been disolved by mutual con-
sent, E. J. Haynes taking the

planing |

 

!
that the laws of the State of New York

mill here and Norman D. Haynes taking |

the planing mill at Brookings, which he

has secured a contract for considerable
work.
Empire — The Empire Lumber Co. is

contain nothing against the sending out
of true statements, no matter how much
individual interests may be damaged
thereby. There is talk of introducing in
the State Legislature a bill to limit the
privileges of agencies and to guard
against business men being annoyed by

| the divulging of ‘‘trade secrets.”
will remove to Benton Harbor, where he |

 

Commercial Trav-

TMPORTAND cores

putting in a shingle mill, in connection |

with its sawmill. The company will re-
move its Lime Lake sawmill to Empire
as soon as the cut at the former place is
completed, and also close its
that place. The company will also put)
in a shingle mill at Otter Creek during
the course of the summer.

West Bay City—The machinery of the

mill of the Kern Manufacturing Co. is |
being placed in position, and it is intend- |
ed to start the mill by the middle of next
month. The first logs will be cut for
Mr. Folsom, the company having a con-
tract to cut 3,000,000 feet for him.
The mill has two band saws and is ex-
pected to cut 70,000 feet daily.

Detroit—The Galvin Valve and Hy-
drant Co. has begun suit against R. G.
Dun & Co. and George H. Minchener for
$25,000 damages. The allegations of the
complainant are that Dun & Co. publish-
ed matter which was the means of break-
ing off negotiations for a large contract
the company expected to get from par-
ties in Lllinois, and that they thus lost a
large profit.

Saginaw—T. E. Dorr has sold a tract
of timber on Bluff creek, estimated to cut
20,000,000 feet of pine, a large quantity
of hardwood, a farm of over 200 acres,
and a logging railroad four miles long,
all for $150,000. Col. A. T. Bliss was
the purchaser, and the timber will be
brought to Saginaw River to be manu-
factured. Mr. Dorr purchased this land
about fifteen years ago for a mere song
and has cut several million feet of logs
from it every year since. In fact, it has
been almost like finding money, but Col-
onel Bliss got it at a bargain, and will
make a good sum of money in the deal.

Manistee—Henry Clay Ward has ar-
ranged to have the McKillip mill saw for
him again this season. Mr. Ward is also
operating in a tract of timber that he
bought the past winter, and which ought
to be fine stock, as he paid $80,000 for
10,000,000 feet of it. This stock is on
the Michigan Central, and will go to Bay
City to be sawed. His partner, Mr.
Baker, whoruns a yard at this point,
through which they handle all their
good stock, will start a branch yard at
Bay City, as they think that there is
more money in manipulating their
lumber in yard grades, than in selling in

bulk lots.
Ratings of Business Men.
From the New York Telegram.

During the past few days the down
town bankers, brokers and business men
generally have been discussing a move-
ment for the purpose of preventing the
commercial agencies from sending out
ratings of individuals and firms without
first obtaining the consent of the parties
concerning whom the information is
given. The intention of the promoters
of the movement is to form an organiza-
tion, raise a fund, retain lawyers and

appeal to the courts to ascertain just how
far the managers of the agencies have a
legal right to go in the publication of
details and statements affecting the fin-
ancial standing of business men.

It is asserted by some lawyers who

store at)

 

 

have carefully investigated the matter

Notice is hereby given that the American
Casualty Insurance and Security Co., of Balti-
more City, Maryland, is furnishing the most lib
eral accident policy, affording more protection
for the money than is given by any other com-
pany or association doing business in the United
States. Its policy is short and simple, is free
from all objectionable and unnecessary clauses
and conditions, and isan absolute contract se
cured by a cash capital of $1,000,000, with over
$500,000 surplus, hence there are no contin-
gencies as to amount to be paid the insured or

| his beneficiary, asin all association certificates

Those wishing the best policy issued, should eall

| up telephone 1008, or address

W. R. FREEMAN, Agent,
Grand Rapids, Mich

 

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.,

JOBBERS OF

BOOTS & SHOES

Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

State Agents for

 

 Grand:Rapids.

 

WRITE FOR PRICE LIST.

Wm. Brémmeler & Sons

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Pieced & Stamped Tinware,
260 8S. IONIA ST., - Grand Rapids.

TELEPHONE 640.

 

SPEND YOUR VACATION ON THE
GREAT LAKES.

 

Visit picturesque Mackinac Island. It
will only cost you about $13 from Detroit
or $18 from Cleveland for the round trip,
inc luding meals and berths. The attrac-
tionsof atrip tothe Mackinac region are
unsurpassed. ‘The island itself is a grand,
romantic spot; its climate is most invigor-
ating. Save your money by trav eling

— een Detroit and Cleveland, via the

) & C. Line. Fare, $2.25. This division
is equipped with two new steamers, “City
of Detroit” and “ City of Cleveland,” now
fumous as the largest and most magnifi-
cent on fresh water. Leave every night,
arriving the following morning at des-
tination, making SURE connection with all
morning trains. Palace steamers, four
trips per week between Detroit, Mack-
inac, Petoskey, the “Soo” and Marquette.
Send for illustrated pamphlet. Address
A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit & Cleve
jand Steam Nav. Co., Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Parks & Pettitt have opened a grocery
store at the corner of Hastings and Kent
streets.

 

L. Sweet has opened a grocery store at
Six Corners. The Ball-Barnhart-Put-
man Co. furnished the stock.

G. S. Putnam & Co., wholesale confee-
tioners, will remove from 412 South Divi-
sion street to 36 South Division about
May 10.

John W. McCrath has decided to con-
tinue his pickle business, south of the
city, under the style of the West Michi-
gan Pickle Works.

E. Treadgold, M. D., has sold his drug
stock at 458 Jefferson avenue to James
Cowin, who will continue the business
at the same location.

James Gleason, formerly engaged in
the grocery business at Volney, has
opened a grocery store at
Monroe county.

Deerfield,
The Lemon & Wheeler
Company furnished the stock.

F. D. Winnie has formed a ecopartner-
ship with D. Vinton & Son under the
style of F. D. Winnie & Co. and opened
adrug store at Williamsburg The Ha-
zeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished the
stock.

- <->
Purely Personal.

QO. C. Pemberton, the Mecosta druggist,
was in town one day last week.

Dr. V. C. Van Liew, the Vestaburg
druggist, was in town over Sunday and
left Monday for Delton with a view to
investigating the advantages of that
place as the location for a drug store.

A. B. Schumaker, the Grand Ledge
druggist and grocer, is taking a course
of treatment at Mt. Clemens for the
sciatic rheumatism. His many friends
in the trade will join Tne TRADESMAN
in hoping for his complete recovery.

Geo. P. Hoppough, who is the oldest
merchant in Otisco township, Ionia
county, was in the city one day last week.
He opened a general store at Smyrna in
1872 and proposes to celebrate the twen-
tieth anniversary of the event in June.

John A. Tinholt, senior member of the
drug firm of Tinhol & Abbott, at Muske-
gon, was married April 26 to Miss
Elizabeth G. Brandt. The happy couple
left immediately after the ceremony for
Chicago, where they will spend a few
days.

Chas. J. Brown, of the new grocery
firm of Brown & Winslow, Benton Har-
bor, was in town Monday. Previous to
embarking in business at Benton Harbor,
Mr. Brown was for five years a member
of the grocery firm of Collins & Brown,
at Coldwater.

Jas. A. Stratton, the Gold street
grocer, has the sympathy of the trade in
the dangerous illness of his wife, whose
life has hung in a balance for several
weeks. Mr. Stratton is nearly beside
himself with grief and apprehension and
plainly shows the results of attempting
to do double duty—attending to store
and the bedside of his wife at the same
time.

Cc. F. Walker, the Glen Arbor general
dealer, was in town several days last
week. He called at THe TRADESMAN
office and demanded a retraction of the
statement, made several weeks ago, to
the effect that he drank water on the
occasion of his last visit to Grand Rap-
ids. As Tue TRADESMAN has no proof

to offer in support of its statement, and
|has no desire to libel so genial a mer-
‘chant, it hereby complies with Mr.
| Walker’s request.

Frank Hamilton, the Traverse City
|clothing merchant, was in town last
| Thursday and called at Tue TRADESMAN
office. ‘*We are not having a real estate
| boom,” he remarked, ‘“‘but a genuine
building boom is, nevertheless, in pro-
gress. Carpenters and building mechan-
ics of all kinds have never been so
busily employed as they are this spring,
it being almost impossible to obtain the
services of a man for a short time, owing
to the fact that their present employers
have promised them steady work all
through the season.”

Grand Rapids business men will regret
the action of the Merchant’s Dispatch
management, changing the headquarters
of Thos. Hill from this city to Detroit,
although the many friends of that gen-
tlemen will rejoice to learn that the pro-
motion carries with it a considerable in-
crease in salary, as well as added respon-
sibility. Mr. Hill’s family will con-
tinue to reside here until he disposes of
his residence on Henry street, so that his
former associates will have an occasion-
al opportunity to shake him by the hand
and receive the benediction of that in-
fectious smile. His suecessor at the
Grand Rapids office is J. W. Pierce, who
was formerly agent for the same line at
Suspension Bridge,

Philip B Kirkwood, who has long been
engaged in the drug business at Negau-
nee, writes THE TRADESMAN as follows:
‘““My successor, Chas. H. Kirkwood,
takes possession of my business to-mor-
row—and I leave the mercantile world;
not disgusted nor sour, but with feel-
ings like a man who is taking a last
shake of the hand with an old, true,
tried and trusty friend. I find that my
health demands a change and a business
life for the past thirty-five years is
surely entitled to a rest. You kindly
ask me what Lintend todo. Well, 1 in-
tend to do some building this summer
(a business block of three stores), go
fishing and hunting, spend some time
round my home and, as the old chestnut
says, get acquainted with my family,
where I expect to continue to read THE
TRADESMAN and be happy, while I rum-
inate over my past life and say to
myself, thank God, I knew enough to
quit before I was all broken down.”

— ne
Gripsack Brigade.

A. W. Peck, traveling representative
fort he Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., will
shortly change his residence from Pe-
toskey to Traverse City.

Judd E. Houghton has purchased a
handsome residence at the corner of
Henry and Prince streets and has already
taken possession of the same.

A. S. Doak has gone to Coaticook, Que-
bec, to attend to the settlement of his
father’s estate. His route is being cov-
ered in the meantime by Frank Kruse.

Chas. 8S. Brooks has so far recovered
from his recent illness as to be able to
get down town and hopes to resume his
work on the road again in about two
weeks.

A. F. Draper, formerly engaged in

general trade at South Arm, is now on
the road for the wholesale grocery house
of Mendel, Smith & Co., of Milwaukee.
He now resides at Marquette.

Windy Hawkins came home from Alma
last Saturday and returned again Mon-
day for a two weeks’ stay at that resort.

 

 

His general health is improved, but his
nervousness has not yet left him. 1

“Tf I had $1,000 to invest in real
estate,’ remarked A. L. Braisted the (lover and
other day, ‘‘I1 would take my chances on
Traverse City. That town is growing 2
faster than any other place of its size in Tinoth Coed
the State, yet there is no boom feeling u
there and the people are postively
averse to working up a real estate boom. ‘
The unusual amount of building in pro-| Now is the time to buy CLOVER AND
gress tends to make business there better} TIMOTHY SEED for your spring trade.
than at any other town on my route.” We have a good stock and for THIS

Wm. H. Berlin has begun suit against WEEK will sell you

Moore & Coughlen, wholesale grocers of
FOR CASH

Indianapolis, alleging $10,000 damages
In five bag lots or over as follows:

 

for conspiracy. The plaintiff was in the
defendants’ employ as traveling sales-
man and desired to enter the employ of

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Association, the consent and release of
the employer is necessary in such a case
and this was refused. The case is the W

Bags extra at market price.

T. LAMOREAUX & G0,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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come will be watched with interest by
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aga oneigner and the por
tie Warranty was not mainta
ANY j Q Ns ‘EAT
A “ * * *
When a party made a deposit of a sum
¢ . * , * * , «
of money with a bank to be kept by the
bank antil it could invest the same ina
hes aie a ene
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wae delivered to and accepted by the}
deporitor, showing that the bank was
debtor to the others in such sum, and the
money wae wiixed with the other moneys
of the the Supreme Court of Illi
noin hel ) the case of Wetherell ve.
(O'Brien, that the deposit was a general

one and created the relation only of
dettor and creditor, and no trust attached |
to the more o deposited. In the same
ease the court held that when money is
deposited with a bank and a pass-book |
given to the depositor showing such de-|

entries therein are evidence of |

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NATIONAL HANS UsSURY TATE LAWS.

The Supreme Court of South Dakota
held, in the recent case of State vs. First
National Bank of Clark, that a national
bank may be criminally punished by a
state for usury. The court said, in giv-
ing judgment ‘The only indication
that Congress did not intend to allow its
national banks to be held newness Lo
tate criminal laws for taking illegal
interest is the fact it provided that a for
feiture should result from sach act, and
then it is argued that a penalty or for-
feiture like that named in said section 30
is inconsistent with, or at least unfavor-
able to, the thought that Congress under
stood that such banks would still be sub-
ject in this respect to the police laws of
the state. This would only be a fair
inference if the forfeiture provided by
Congress was such in its nature as did,

or would within the common understand-

ing of law-makers, take the place or
answer the purpose of the penalties usu-
ally provided in police laws, but they
do not. They are precisely the penalties
found in the interest-regulating laws of
states, which also make the taking of
illegal interest a criminal offense. It is,
therefore, a strained and unwarranted
deduction to conelude that when Con-

gress imposed the usual civil penalties
for taking unlawful interest common to

nearly all state usury laws it meant to
have such penalties cover other and
different ground, and have other and

different effect from the same penalties
when found in corresponding provisions
of state laws.

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DEMING.
| Amonkeag 124%(Columbian brown ..12
i . 90% i4'% Everet t, biue.. 12
- brown 14 brown -.12
Andover 11%\ Hay make r blue . a
Beaver Creek AA 16 brown... 7%
“ BB... 9 \Jaffrey 11%
' COO Lancaster 12%
soston Mfg Co, br.. 7 (Lawrence, 90z 13%
“ blue 8% ’ NO oe 13
* datwist 10% o No. 20) 11%
( folumbian 2 Zao Or. “ No, 230 10%
xX x bi.19
GINGHAMA.
Amorskeng . 7 (Lancaster, staple 7
* Persian dren 4% _ fancies 7
Canton 5% . Normandie §
' AFC 10% 'Lancashire *”
" Teazle...10% Manchester %
+ Angola. .104% Monogram %
Persian 8% Norn nandie “%
Arlington staple 6% Persian a

Arasa pha fancy 4% Renfrew Dress.
Sates WwW arwick drew 84% Kosemont
' staples. 64%/Slatereville
Centennial. 10% Somerset

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Criterion 10% Tacoma Ye
Cumberland —— 5% Toll du Nord. 10%
Cumberland 5 |Wabesh i
Eskex.... co ee 4% ad seersucker.. 7%

SIG... 7% Warwick.... 8%
Eve rett ¢ Jansics ‘ Bi 4 Whittenden. 6%

Exposition a heather dr. 8

Glienarie 634) - indigo blue 9
Glenarven 6%|Wameutta —: 6%

Glenwood . 7% Westbrook... —

Hampton a kee oy

Johnson Jhalon ¢) |Windermeer.... .... 5
a 6%

. zephyrs 16
GRAIN BaG8.

Amoskeag 16% | Valley City. 15

Ce cee eee

Amcrican . 15% Pacific 13

THREADS,
Clark’s Mile End....46 |Barbours...........88
Cos’. J. af .......40 PROreeire.... ......0

Holvoxe..........-.- 224
ENITTING COTTON,

 

 

 

White. Colored.| White. Colored.
ao «6. oo oo (a0. M.......07 42
. 5... yi Bie 43
~ Boe oo :* 1S. se 14
a. wo. 36 <i” @.,....0 45
CAMBRICS,
ee ; teewerds......, ....
White Btar.......-- * ieemwood.......... 4
Rid Glove........... S woeee...........- 4
Newmarket......... 4 rupewiek..:..... ¢
RED FLANNEL.
We ks cake S24 /T W..-.-------+---- 22h
enone... ..-.- Bees © os aaa
Talbot XXX... a War, Sak. «+e
Nameless...... ; ‘274 | Buckeye ice cue cies R%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid. -40 ier ee W......... 17%
Union &...... .....- 224| Western W ......... 18%
‘Windeor...... ...... 18%! oer... 8%
Goa Woestern........ 2 iFiushing XxxX...... =
oes @.....--..-- 22%4|Manitoba..
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless . -8 @ 9%! . - 9 @10%
aoe 84%@10 | ” 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black./Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 9% 914/13 13 13
10% w% 1044/15 15 15
11% 11% 1144/17 iz a7
12% 12% 124%4|20 20 20
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 0z........ 9%|West Point, 8 0z....10%
Mayland, 8o0z.......10% " Woe .. 4
Greenwood, 7% ‘OZ. 944 | Raven, 100z a
Greenwood, 6os....11i¢Stark “ .........
Boston, 8 02z.. ..10%|Boston, 10 oz. : De
WADDINGS.
White, doz..........% |Per bale, 40 doz....37 50
Colored, doz........20
SILESIAS,
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket..... a
Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie.........
- Bost eee 1034) Pearerd.... .-..» “10%
. Best AA..... ig Velliey City......... 16%
es 7 4iIKK i i ele | lini 1044
ee
SEWING SILK.
emai” doz.. {Corticelli ee,
wist, doz. 37%| per oz ball.....
50. yd, doz. "37%4)

HOOKS AND EYES-—-PER GROSS
No 1BI’k & White..10 [No 4Brk& “White..15
“ 3 “ 12 8 20

 

. 2 nig —i) [ 25
PINS.
No 2—20, M C....... 50 es 4—15 F 3%...... 40

* 3—18, Pe saeeee

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No . White & BIk.. 2 No 3 White & BI’kK.. 2

7,

oe : a | oe = 7) "26
SAFETY PINS,
i ck ee ce PE eee akenes 36

NEEDLES—-PER M.

A. —. eeu 1 40|\Steamboat.... ...... 4
eer e....-. +... i 35| Gold Eyed... Seu eauees 1 50
Marsha Ve -1 00)
TABLE ou CLOTH.
5—4....22%5 6—4...3 2/5—4....19% 6—4..
ae 3 0
COTTON TWINES,
Cotton _ Twine..26 (Hasna ......... ie
Crown . ih ES Rising Star 4 ply. ao
Domestic . Peeauael sas 18% : 3 oly... .17
Aue .............16 Ueoeth Bias... ...... 20
Co 13 |Wool eeaeeand 4 “et vs
Cherry ‘Valley. 16 lrownattan .........
RO ae ce ewe gs ..18%

PLAID OSNABURGS
ie A oan Pleasant.... 6%
Alamance, . ---- 6|Onelda.............. 5
I og ic sac eeae ees ee 5%
Ae GOR, ios ei 6 |Randeiman......... 6
ne SE 64 ———: ale ae acer OE

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4%
6% 4
5% j
7% ‘qushiie a @ 84
7 \Middiesez..... @ 5
Scio Mame,........... TEI
8 Oak View -
6 tery Own \ “ss ee
7 ride of the West.. .12
7% Kowal ind 1%
% ; nlight. oeore 4%
7 Jtica Milis..... 8%
2 Nonpareil 10
Pra of the ae. 7% Vinyard : 8%
airmount 4% White Horse.. 6
6 “ Boce 8%
“HALP BLEACHED COTTONS.
z Dwight Anchor 814
UNE! _EACHED CANTON PLANNEL.
544|Middiesex No. oe
6% “ ae
L 7 oe Bee ee
AT & - ¥....8
x g 6....9
No. 25 9
BLEACHED CANTON PLANNEL.
TH Mi adi ——. ce
:: «*«. fy i2
3 A 6. 13%
% A 17%
10% 5 16
CAEFET WARP.
Peerlens, white 17% Integrity colored. ..20
colored % White a... 18
Integrity \ ‘1b % ' * colored. .20
DRESS GOODS.
Hamilton Pe} Nameless. oe
e 2. :..hl Ur CLD 25
” aaa -10% ee eeu 27%
GG Cashmere......20 | . a
Nameless — -_ 32%
, oho . C aaea, 35
CORSETS,
Coraline " . 00 SiWonderful . .. .... #4 50
Schilling’s.. , Sore... ........ 475
Davis Waist: 9 00 Bortree’s — = oe
Grand Rapids 4 50|Abdominal. - 15 00
oe JEANS.
Armory %4|Naumkeagsatteen.. 7
Androscoggin , ie ROCK port...... oo, ae
Biddeford ee ee eee - 6%
Brunswick 6%|Walworth 6%
PRINTS.
Allen turkey reds.. 5%/Berwick fancies.... 5%
: robes 54 Cly ae Monee... 5.
purple 6% ¢ ~ ow te Oak fancies 4%
6 Del Marine cashm’ ‘8. 6
5% mourn’g 6
54% Eddy rstone fancy... 5%
4 ' chocolat Bi
5% rober ... 5%
54% sateens. 5%
4 Haroll ton fancy. 5%
6 staple 5%
4 Mar iche ster fancy.. 5%
6% ' new era. 5%
6 Merrimack D fancy. 5%
104% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4%
~ r B% . Reppfurn . 8%
centurycloth 7 (Pacific fancy ........ ae
gold seal.....10% - eee
green seal TR 10% Portsmouth robes.. oe
yellow seal. .10%|/Simpson mouruing.. 5%
~ wee... «1.4.0 C ereys .. .... 3%
“ Turkey red..10% ' solid black. 5%
Ballou solid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 5%
” ‘* colors. 5%) “ Turkey robes.. 7%
Bengal blue, green, | “ Jndia robes.... 7%
red and orange... 5%/| “ plain Tky x % 5%
erlin solids....... 5% *
“= oi dine...... 44 " = ay
” ‘* green %) key r
“ Foulards - BalMarthe aibaaied
us red %....... 7 | Parker red &..... 7
ss “ x. ------ O66 Martha =
ss ..2.-40 | Durkey red.. 9
34x XXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5
Cocheeo fancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6%
“ madders... 6 | " gold ticket
“ XX twiils.. 6%) indigo blue....... 10%
* polds...... CAR UOT oaks see cs 4%
TICKINGS,
Amoskeag ACA....i24%/ACA.. - 12%
Harinilton N A Pemberton AAA... one
- 2... eg eke r as ci cee. 10%
- Awning. .11 iSwift River Loa el oo
WORWIOL, 60555 0+ ++ S irom. Bivee......... 12
Ee FI io pes ens cn 1% WRITER oes ass es 13
Lenox Mills ........
aie DRILL.
Atlante, D. .. 0.5 004 mt
Boot. . Sees -- ae mesee.......- 7%
Clifton, AOR arrop Of Meap........ 9
iis
Simpson pice second 20 smears -- esas Kee sniet
cine eet 18 Black. . Mon
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

7

 

The Future of the Telephone.
From Hardware.

As the time approaches when the pat-
ents which have protected the Bell tele-
phone will expire, there is a discussion
as to the effect it will have on the vari-
ous industries which play a part in it.
In the matter of organized exchanges,
which are found in almost every village
in the densely populated portions of
the country, there can be but little
change in the situation. Charges for
this service will naturally be held in
eheck, for any attempt at extortion will
be met by popular clamor, which may
jeopardize franchises, but these plants
are so interwoven with ‘‘long distance’’
lines reaching to neighboring communi-
ties, that innovations of this sort would
only result in confusion and disappoint-
ment. This, for a long time, will be a
chief obstruction to opposition companies
which will take years to meet.

Again, in subways there will be insur-
mountable obstructions, for the present
companies have taken time by the fore-
lock, and in many cases the ducts are
exclusive. It is, however, in private
lines and interior wiring that the tele-
phone will receive its great impetus.
The cost of a telephone at present is
surprisingly small; and a report comes
from Spain that a hotel has been fitted
up there with an insulation so simple
that the cost is less than adollar per
phone, and it is so efficacious that the
women servants used it with freedom at
the start.

It is in this way that the hardware
dealer will be able to increase his sales
largely in electrical goods, for with so
cheap a service the demand will be very
large. In fact, almost everyone will be
in ready communication with his butcher,
his grocer, and if he is in good circum-
stances, his stable. The future of the
telephone is to be calculated in this man-
ner, and not in the way it is now so pop-
ular, the exchange and the long distance
service with which we are familiar.

i — i le
An Ingenious Contrivance.

To instantly obtain alight sufficient to
read the time by a watch or clock at
night, without danger of setting things
on fire, is an easy matter. Take an ob-
long vial of the clearest of glass, put into
it a piece of phosphorus about the size of
a pea, upon this pour some pure olive
oil heated to the boiling point; the bottle
to be filled about one third full; then
cork tightly. To use the light, remove
the cork, allow the air to enter, and then
recork. The wholeempty space in the
bottle will then become luminous, and
the light obtained will be a good one.
As soon as the light becomes dim its
power can be increased by opening the
bottle and allowing a fresh supply of air
to enter. In very cold weather it is some-
times necessary to heat the vial between
the hands to inerease the fluidity of the
oil, and one bottle will last a winter.
This ingenious contrivance may be car-
ried in the pocket, and is used by
watchmen of Paris in all magazines
where explosive or inflamable materials
are stored.

-- o>

How to Remove Rust from Knives.

When knives and other steel cutlery
become rusty they should be cleaned at
onee. To remove the rust rub with a
flannel dipped in sweet oil; then cover it
with slacked lime and allow it to rest for
twenty-four hours; wipe clean and finish
off with some powdered whiting and a
piece of chamois leather. This will make
the article as bright as new. An excel-
lent way to prevent steel cutlery from
rusting is to plunge the blades in a pan of
whiting after washing and remove them
just before they are used. When tuey
are wiped they will be perfectly bright,
and if kept in this way cannot get rusty.

— _— eo —_>

Glass Factories to Shut Down.

The Eastern window-glass manufac-
turers have indorsed the action of the
Western Manufacturers’ Association,
which decided to shut down all factories
on May 31 and remainidle until October
15. If the rule to shut down is
enforced, it will be the longest window-
glass shut-down since the long strike of
1883.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash bwyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

   

 

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Pe ea. 60
1... .............-........-...--.._. 40
Jennings’, genuine eee 25
Jennings’, Ee 50&10

AXES.
First Quality, 8. &. Bromac.................. $750
' We I i cece ceca 12
: CE a 8 50
' DB. Boece. ................. 13 50
BARROWS. dis.
ee. 8 14 00
eee. net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
a... 50&10
Cc arrlage ew Fe gc cs, 70&10
Plo nul
Sleigh 6 70
BUCKETS.
C—O $3 50
Wal werrer .. .... .s, 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Tg &
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 66&10
Wrovent 1oese Pie... ...-................. 60&10
eae Tee. ss 60&10
Werouent lnside Bid. ...................... 60&10
Wrought Brass..... Be eo vis)
Beoa Calee..... 70&10
mee Famers... 4... 7&10
ee 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, Het April 17, "S6........... 60
CRADLES,
oe ee dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
Cael Sloat... ....... peri 5
CAPS.
Ely’s 1-10 . eee ceers .. perm 65
Hick’s C.F. .  , 60
oc ie crepe cee ts re ee cues . 35
weet Bee eee eee aie eye ' 60
CARTRIDGES
im vee........... bed waite ue geca ce erec veauee 58
a eee. dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
Socket Firmer...........-.................. 70&10
(OO 70&10
BOEEGLE@EtGr............--...--.-------.- 5 70&10
Boceet eee —
Butener’ Tanged Firmer............ ......
COMBS. Plog
Curry, Lawroence’s....... 40
ogee ce ... 25
i CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis, 10
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. per pound 28
Meee Pease, Tene... 26
Cold Rolled. 34006 ope Poree.... ........... 23
Cold Bien fe 23
Metres .......--. ----.-.-..- be 5
DRILLS. dis.
Rae oe eee... . 50
‘Taper and straight Shank................... 50
Morse’s Taper Shank.. i eee 50
DRIPPING PANS.
TE 07
Laree 00e0e, ver pound...... ......... -++0. 6%
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 eee 6 in. --doz.net 7%
Corrugated .. Bee etc cae re yaa c ce Ge 4n
me ce dis, 4010
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis,
Clark’s, small, ei eact sie 30
Ives’, 2: a3 O- a ee................. 25

FILES-—-New List. dis.
Disston’s (oe. ot...
meow Sereee........-..-.-- ee tees
ee ............ : -60&10
FIGURE H.... on oc cccs cc cers cc rnnencewscur sacs 50
Honied 6 Ores HAGOM.... io. 40... 551 .s.e 50

GALVANIZED IRON.
Hos. 16 to 2: 2 and BM: @ and %; 2 28
List rz 13 14 15 16 ¢
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ......... 50

HAMMERS. ROPES.
Mavdole SOG dis, 25 | Sisal, + inch and larger .................... %
Se ee dis. | See ee 13
Ne ee ‘dis. 40 ill il SQUARES. dis.
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . 300 lis rr | Stee - ae 75
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 | Try and Bevels.......-....-...--.-..-. --+++ 60
La | Mitre... ee eee eee cnee sete eeee eters
Cate: Clacka tS dis.60&10 | at Com, ee dk
Bee ol 4 PO r doz. = 70 ten tee BHO 82%
Screw _ and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and % ee 405 3 (5
Serew Hook and five, i200, net (10 | Nos @tom I a 8
La in i a. =< 3% | Nos. 2: ee .. 4B 3 25
Lu a a Seg eee a wa Weer. ba es etaleaa es Le 4 45 3 35
RE hc RA NN TE ai 50 | All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
SirapandT......... ron aaa 8. ar wide not less than 2-10 extra
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... - 50610 | List acet. 19, ae dis. 50

Cihemapien, Sutifriction ...................
Kidder, wood track ee see ese

 

SASH CORD.

“20 | Silver Lake, White A.................... list 50

HOLLOW WARE. Co 55

eee eee 60&10 ‘“ Waa ee ‘“ 50

SS ee 60410 “ ee —e 5B

Oe 60&10 “ whee. “ 25
Conese ore) Diaecant ee

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

   

Stamped Tin Ware................... -new list 70
Jeoennee tim Ware........ ..-............. 25
Gramtte Ivon Ware ............... new list —
WIRE GOODS.
Bright...... ee moa 10610
Sow Eyen............. 70&10&10
Hook’s . ee oose ue.
Gate Hooks and Byes. os 70&10&10
EVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and level om... 70
KNoBs—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, ea 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. 55
Door, porcelvin, trimmings....... : 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 |
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55 |
ee OO 55
Sa... 55
MATTOCES.
eee $16.00, dis. 60
see. $15. 00, dis. 60
faee......-.-...-..-

ec oa eas $18.50, dis. —
Sperry & Co.’g, Post, _ae.. '

MILLS. dis.
Coffee, Parkers om... 40
P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
ic a. Perry & Cle: h's..-......... 40
= Enterprise eee ee 20
MOLASSES GATES, dis.
Seer a Peers .........-..-.-.-..... ....60&10
Peceese Goumie........................... —

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Glee: calle bees... CC... 1 85
Wire Bote beee...... 8. 1 90
Advance over base: Steel. Wire.
' Base
10
25
2
45
45
50
60
7
90
a 1 00 1 20
i ee ee ee oe 1 50 1 60
as... ll. eee 1530 1 60
eee tec 60 65
[ ef z 7
' ge cee st 90 90
Finish me ee, cee cee, 85 15
Be aye bas we ae sce a eee 1 00 9)
Qo 1 15 110
citnen;19 Se a 85 7
@ ....... Oi ee eeeee Cio eae 1 00 80
ge ee if 90
Bano ©... .-.. 22.1... 17 17
PLANES. dis.
Obie Tool Co.'s, fancy .........-----..-.---- ow
Gere Bewem. 1... |... ........... -. QO
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........-..-.+--- @40
Bench, first quality... ..........0.-22000 eee
Staniey Rule and es > *s, wood. &10
wry, Ace... dis.60—10
Common, poliahed ace ane a i 7
IVETS. dis.

Ween and Wied... te... 40

Copper Rivets and Burs..........-..----++- 50—10
PATENT FLANISHED IRO

“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. “4 to 27 10 2

“B” Wood’s = at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20
Cc.

 

 

Broken packs %c per pound extra.

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SASH WEIGHTS.

Ee per ton 825
SAWS. dis.
. MO en, 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
‘¢ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
‘ss Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
‘ Champion and Electrie Tooth X
co oor ree... 30
TRAPS. dis.
Steel, Game.. is - -60&10
Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70
owes, Coker. 18c per doz
Meuse, delusion. ..............._.... $1.50 per _
WIRE. =
Bright Market.. es ee
Annealed Market............-.- a

Cee 60
‘ime Mees. 62%

 
  
  
  

Coppered Spring Steel........... 50
Barbed Fence, a be
. painted . 2 65
HORSE N
Bn Maes... dis, @
PO ee dis. 06
Nanmewemter.... dis. 10410
ENCHES. dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, ‘nicheled eee dae we caus 30
eee Geme o 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, a. Piece eas 75
Coe’s Patent, malleable.. ot...
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Michigan Tradesman

Oficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

Published at
100 Louis St., Grand Rapids,

— BY -—

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1892.

 

 

A month ago every indication pointed
to a good summer trade in this State,
both in city and country. So far as the
latter is concerned, these indications
promise to be fulfilled, but retail busi-
ness in such cities as Detroit and Grand
Rapids is likely to be seriously interfered
with by the infamous strikes already in-
augurated and predicted by the leaders of
organized labor. As a result of this at-
titude, on the part of the mouthy agita-
tors of the ‘trights of labor,’’ hundreds
of buildings which would have been
erected this year will not be built at all
this summer and the construction of one
large block which would have entailed
a pay roll of at least $10,000 to workmen
will be abandoned until such time as the
men who are stirring up strife among
the plumbers, carpenters and painters
are less unreasonable in their demands.
The era of good fellowship between
master and man will never be ushered
in until honest workmen come to realize
that the walking delegate and the griey-
ance committee, who are at the bottom of
nine-tenths of the ill-feeling between
employer and employe, are the worst
enemies thev have to contend with, as
pre-
office
is absolutely es-

the existence of such interlopers
vents that co-operation between
and workshop which
sential to the complete success of the
occupants of both.

The union plumbers of Grand Rapids
are out on strike, demanding ten hours’
pay for nine hours’ work and the
ployment of none but union men. Both
demands and stamp the
men making such demands as unworthy
of respect.

em-

are infamous
If a workman is not receiv-
ing adequate compensation for his ser-
vices, he has a right to ask for increased
pay per hour, day or week, but a de-
mand for ten hours’ pay for nine hours’
work smacks too much of dishonesty.
Again, the man who denies another the
right he claims for himself—renumera-
tive employment, even though he refuse
to bow to the dictation of a trades union—
is a dangerous man in a community, be-
ing but one step removed from a socialist
and but two steps from an anarchist.
For the sake of the liberty of the indi-
vidual and the independence of honest

 

labor, THE TRADESMAN hopes to see
the plumbers’ strike end in deserved
disaster.

In the death of Alonzo Seymour, the
traveling fraternity of Grand Rapids
loses one of its earliest and most con-
sistent exponents. While the deceased
traveled almest continuously for a
quarter of a century, he never did aught,
by word or deed, which would reflect dis-
credit on the profession he represented
or the house whose goods he carried.

A man seldom gets more money than
he wants, but heoften gets more than he
needs.

Women Inventors.
From the Philadelphia Times.

New York State outnumbers by many

hundreds other States in the number of

patents granted to women, 646 having
been taken out since the year 1809, 96

being granted during the last three
years. Massachusetts is next, while
Pennsylvania ranks third. Two hundred
and forty-seven patents have been

granted to women of our State, 36 having
been taken taken out during the last
three years. Of this number, Philadel-
phia has furnished nearly one-half. Of
these, Marie E. Beaseley, famous for
having invented a machine for turning
out complete barrels by the hundreds,
has been granted no less than_ ten
patents. Besides the best known and
most generally employed appliances for
making barrels, she is the patentee of a
life-saving raft, a machine for pasting
shoe uppers, a steam generator and many
other useful appliances.

The women of Philadelphia are stylish
or nothing, and in the number of their
inventions they have not overlooked
anything that would in their opinion im-
prove upon their personal attractiveness.
They do not pose as being particularly
strong-minded, but since it has
been done by the women of Massa-
chusetts and especially those of Boston,
it is not without point to notice that out
of nearly three hundred patents granted
the women of that State, two-thirds have
been improvements upon corsets, hoop-
skirts, bustles, hair curlers; in short, all
such flummery in the line of wearing ap-
pare], and the balance, with the several
exceptions I shall name, were taken out
on various good and useful things grow-
ing out of house-hold thrift.

To the renown of our sisters of that
State, let it be known, the first fountain
pen was the invention of Susan 8S. Tay-
lor, of East Cambridge. And let Helen
L. Macker have due credit for an im-
provement in alloys to imitate silver,
and Annie M. Getchell a process for har-
dening copper. But the greatest achieve-
ment was that of Miss Margaret E.
Knight, who invented a complicated
machine for making the useful square-
bottomed paper bag, and refused $50,000
for the patent, and who has since invent-
ed another machine that does the work
of thirty pairs of hands in folding
these bags.

Country Callers.

Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentlemen in trade:

F. C. Sampson, Boon.

Wm. H. Severance, Middleville.

Geo. P. Hoppough, Smyrna.

E. E. Hewett, Rockford,

C. F. Walker, Glen Arbor.

B. Voorhorst, Overisel.

Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.

Nelson Pike, Morley.

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Bank Notes.

Hannah, Lay & Co. will merge their
bank into a State organization about
June 1 under the style of the Traverse
City State Bank.

C. J. De Roo has been elected a director
of the First State Bank of Holland, in
place of J. C. Post, who has taken an
interest in the Holland City State Savings
Bank.

 

Death of Alonzo Seymour.
Alonzo Seymour, who has been very
low for several weeks, expired early

Monday morning at his late residence at |

the corner of Hastings and Clancy streets.
He had been failing in health and
strength for several months, owing to
the gradual breaking down of his system,
and the final summons has been expected
hourly for weeks.

The following sketch of the life of the
deceased—up to eight years ago—appear-
ed in THE TRADESMAN of Feb. 20, 1884,
under the head of ‘Pencil Portraits—No.
eda

“IT was born in Watervilie, Oneida
county, N. Y., in 1819,” said Mr. Sey-
mour,in reply tothe reportorial enquiries,
“and was brought up and educated at
Winfield, derkimer county, where I was
married in 1844, removing to Grand
Rapids in 1849. I engaged in the hub
business with L. R. Atwater about a
year, and was subsequently — station
agent at Rockford, Ll., for two years.
Afterward I worked for Geo. W. Water-
man, whoat that time run a wholesale
and retail grocery store where Julius
Friedrich’s music store is now located.
In 1852, | formed a copartnership with
the late John M. Fox and Joel Merchant,
under the firm name of John M. Fox &
Co., and until the panie of 1857, we car-
ried on a general merchandising business
at Eaton, Lyon & Allen’s present loca-
tion. When the crisis came on we
closed up our business, and for a year or
more I worked as a book-keeper for the
firm of Wilmarth & Patten. Afterward,
I engaged with Wm. Renwick in the
manufacture of hubs under the firm
name of Seymour & Renwick, which re-
lationship continued about three years.
Then the firm of Seymour & Brown—
Jas. W. Brown—engaged in the grocery
business at the present location of A.
Rasch, who succeeded the firm after we
had been in business about a year. In
May, 1865, I engaged to travel for L. H.
Randall, being the first man to carry a
sample case for a Grand Rapids house.
At that time there was but one railway
here—the ‘D. & M.,’ asit was then ealled
—and traveling was done almost entirely
by team. My Northern route required
three weeks’ time, and included Plain-
field, Coon’s Hollow, Rockford—then
ealled Laphamville—Cedar Springs, Ens-
ley, Lisbon, Casnovia, Croton, Big
Prairie, Big Rapids, Paris and Hersey.
It took another week to take in Hesperia,
Hart and Pentwater, and still another
to see my customers at Greenville, Elm
Hall and other small towns. Nearly a
week was usually consumed in going to
and returning from Wayland and Brad-
ley. There were no regular roads
through most of the country I traveled,
and it was not an uncommon thing for
me to improvise a pole bridge over a
swollen stream or stop to chop in two a
fallen tree. Wolves, bear and deer were
frequent attendants, and occasionally the
wolves gave me a good chase. From
Big Prairie to Big Rapids, I had atwenty
mile drive without a house or stopping
place of any kind between. Occa-
sionally I encountered bands of Indians,
but they never made me any trouble.
On my return trips I usually had con-
siderable sums of money, but I did not
feel as timid in the deep forest as I did
when I got to the city. There was no
police force here then, and open roberies
were not uncommon. Of course, I met
many perplexing experiences which are
decidedly amusing reminiscences in this
time of fast railway travel and good
hotel accomodations. I remember sleep-
ing in a garret at Hesperia one cold win-
ter night and finding an inch of snow
on the bed in the morning; and my re-
membrance goes back to another warm
morning when I awoke with an enormous
bedbug in each ear.

“On leaving Mr. Randall in 1868,
I took charge of A. T. Thomas’ general
store at Bowne for a year, after which I
was employed as book-keeper by Wheeler
& Borden, who were known as the ‘eight
hour firm.’ Subsequently I worked for
Wheeler & Green, taking the road again
in 1870 for Wm. Sears & Co. With the
exception of one year, when I was in the

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employ of Berkey & Gay as a book-keep-
er, I have traveled continuously for the
Messrs. Sears. I think that one of the
most peculiar features of my long ex-
perience on the road is that I have never
met with an accident of any kind. Trains
before and behind mine have had smash-
ups, but I have never been on a train
that had a wheel leave the track. I have
slept in hotels which burned the next
night, involving loss of life, but have
thus far escaped without mishap of any
kind.”’

As the interview above given was read
to Mr. Seymour before publication and
approved by him, it probably states the
facts connected with his long career with

absolute accuracy. He remained with
the former firm of Wm. Sears & Co.
until about three years ago, when he

retired from the road and thereafter de-
voted his entire time to his family.

Deceased leaves a wife and four chil-
dren—three sons and a daughter.

Mr. Seymour was a man of strict in-
tegrity and genial disposition and made
friends wherever he went—friends which
remained steadfast as long as life lasted.
He had no bad habits and, wherever he
went, he was as welcome a guest at the
home circle of the merchant as at the
store and He leaves behind the
record of a well spent life and bequeaths
to his friends a reputation and character
they can revere for all time to come.
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Counterfeiters in Chicago.

Four counterfeiters were arrested at

117 South Greene street, Chicago, Sunday

office.

 

afternoon. They were Mick Dunn, a
mechanic, James Dalton, a shipping

clerk for Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett &
Co., Martin Lewis, who has been in the
penitentiary at New Orleans, and Ed-
ward Mack, who is described as an all-
round thief. The men were arrested be-
cause of the suspicions of the landlady
of the premises where they had their
room.

A search of the room revealed every-
thing necessary to mold money, but no
money was discovered. Upon atable were
trimmings and scraps of silver, giving
every indication of having come from the
mold of a silver dollar. A stove stood
in one corner and a roaring fire was
burning within. Melted silver was
strewn in promiscuous heaps upon the
floor. A peculiar appliance for milling
the edge of a coin was also found. The
instrument was experimented with and
it was found that a silver dollar just
fitted the confines between the outer
edges of the machines. Three crucibles,
one holding perhaps a half-gallon and
two a half-pint each, were found on the
table filled with melied silver and a com-
pound of tin ore. In a small kettle of
common pottery was a mass of silver,
partially melted, with a spoon which had
been used to skim off the dross. How
much of the bogus coin these parties have
put into circulatoin is not known.

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Fermentation Industries.

The Louisiana Planter says that ‘‘dur-
ing the coming month of May there will
be opened in Paris, under the patronage
of the Minister of Agriculture, an inter-
national exposition of aleohol and the
fermentation industries, comprising wine
production, distillation, brewing, cider
manufacture and the incidental food in-
dustries. This exposition will be in-
stalled in the vast machinery hall in the
Champs de Mars, which will remain con-
spicuous in the memory of those who
visited the great exposition. Various
foreign countries, noted for their pro-
ducts, have already promised their sup-
port, Belgian and Dutch gin, English
whisky, Russian vodka, the kirseh of
Switzerland and of the Black Forest,
colonial rum, and special liquors, beer
from all countries, the wines of Spain
and Italy, of Portugal and Hungary, and
of the Crimea, as well as those of Cali-
fornia, have their ‘locations already
marked at the expusition.”

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FIRE INSURANCE.

 

Its History and the Laws, Rules and
Customs Which Govern It.

SEVENTH PAPER.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

‘** Or if the interest of the assured in the
property be not truly stated in this pol-
icy,” etc.

Nearly all modern policies contain a
condition similar to the one quoted above,
which compels a careful statement of the
title of the applicant for insurance; and
any material omission or misrepresenta-
tion will surely avoid the policy. Es-
pecially is this true of a mutual policy,
where the insurer has a lien upon the
property insured. This provision applies
to cases in which the actual interest is
an estate of less duration than a fee sim-
ple, or of a different character from that
set forth in the description, and not to
technical evidences of the title of the
assured. And this, too, even in a mu-
tual company, in the charter of which
was a provision that the policy shall be
deemed valid and binding on the com-
pany in all cases where the insured has
an estate in fee simple to the buildings
insured and the land on which they stand;
butif his estate be less than a fee simple,
the policy shall be void, unless the true
title of the assured be expressed thereon.
Where the assured had purchased an
estate in fee, and was in possession under
his purchase, but, by reason of a defect
in the execution of his deed, the legal
title did not pass to him, the court held
that the equitable title in fee simple was
in the assured, and that he was, there-
fore, entitled to recover; that the ex-
pression in the charter, ‘‘less estate
therein,” referred to the duration of the
estate, and not to the evidences of title.

A claim to real estate, resting upon a
conditional bond for a deed, will not be
sufficient to sustain a policy issued by a
mutual company, where the policy re-
quires a disclosure of the ‘‘true title.’’
In a case where the policy contained this

condition, the plaintiffs insured the prop- |

erty as owners. The title was derived
by purchase at a sale under the fore-
closure of a mortgage in the State of
lllinois, the mortgagor having fifteen
months within which to redeem. Before
plaintiff’s deed was executed, the prop-
erty burned. The court held that the
terms of the policy did not relate to the
nature of the title or its evidences, but
to the character of the ownership and
real interest in the property; also, that
the plaintiffs, having subsequently to the
fire acquired the full legal title by the
deed, such legal title should relate back
and take effect as of the inception of the
equitable title, thereby rendering the
plaintiffs, at the time the policy was
issued, not only equitable owners, but
holders of the legal title in fee.

In the early cases, before this condi-
tion with its ample details was inserted
in fire policies, it was held thata mis-
representation of title, which was mater-
ial to the risk, would avoid the policy;
but modern insurers do not feel inclined
to rely upon the caprice of an average
jury, as to whether a misrepresentation
of title on the part of the assured is or is
not material to the risk; and so we have,
in the modern policy, a clause much
more definite. It is less liable to be mis-
understood by the assured and miscon-
structed by the courts. Its terms are
not hampered with vague provisos, but
define clearly and arbitrarily what mis-
representation on the part of the assured,

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

will avoid the policy, whether material
to the risk or not.

It has been held that parol proof is
inadmissible to prove that the true state
of the title was known to the agent, when
the policy contains a provision that every
such agent is the agent of the applicant
and not of the company; also, that where
a policy is rendered void by a misrepre-
sentation of title in the application, a
subsequent assignment, with the consent
of the company, would not give it valid-
ity.

A father permitted his son to use his |

name in buying and selling goods; and,
while the goods were really wholly owned
by the son, the business was done in the
name of both. The court held that the
legal rights and interests of the parties
were not so affected as to render void a
policy of insurance issued on the goods
in the name of the son.

A failure to disclose the true title, as
to one of several parcels of property,
insured by the same policy but each sep-
arately valued. was held in a Maine case,
to effect an avoidance of the policy; also,
that property held as collateral security
was held ‘‘in trust,’? and must be so ex-
pressed in a policy containing the con-
dition we are discussing, in order to sus-
tain the policy. It will be seen by the
abeve decision that the applicant for
insurance should exercise great care and
not confound the terms ‘‘mortgagee’’ and
‘*trustee,” in dissolving his title or
interest in the property. He should
clearly understand the nature of his
interest in the subject for insurance and
see to it that it is properly expressed in
the policy, and then all will be well.

“Or if the property be mortgaged, or
otherwise encumbered, at or after the
date of this policy, without permission in
this policy,’’ ete.

Neglect to comply strictly with the
requirements of this condition will, al-
most invariably, defeat the policy and
leave the insured stranded, without a
remedy, in case of a loss by fire. A free
and easy solvency and a good financial
rating in the business world are such
magical aids in transacting business in
this age that men will hedge, dodge and
evade, in every possible way and manner,
everything tending to cripple or mar
their financial standing. So still mouthed
do they become, and so successfully do
they cover up their tracks behind them,
that our commercial agencies, with all
their searching of public records and
their sharp system of espionage, can give
us but an approximation of the true
commercial standing of a very large por-
tion of the business men of to-day. When
a business man applies for insurance on
a piece of property, he certainly knows
whether it is encumbered or not, and, if
so, to what extent; and if his policy con-
tains the condition under discussion, and
if his tongue—owing to long-established
habits—refuse to speak, or speak falsely
as to such encumbrances, then he does
so at his peril and his policy will be
avoided. The courts look upon such
neglect as being wilful and devoid of
any reasonable justification. They have
gone still further and decided that a
statement of a less amount than is due
upon a mortgage, which is disclosed as
an incumbrance, in answer to a question
in the application, will avoid a policy.

“Or if the assured shall keep gunpow-
der, fireworks, nitroglycerine, phosphorus,

saltpeter, nitrate of soda, petroleum, nap- |
tha, gasoline, benzine, benzole or benzine |

 

       
 

    

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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3,509,575 SOLD IN 1887.

5,092,350 SOLD IN 1888. |
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varnish, or keep or use camphene, spirit
gas or any burning fluid or chemical oils
without written permission in this policy,”
etc.

The policy provides that kerosene may
be kept in stores and dwellings for light-
ing purposes, and in stores for sale in
quantity not exceeding five barrels—and
drawn only by daylight. The insurer
has, of course, a right to stipulate for
the exclusion of such articles as he may
deem unusually hazardous, and if the
prohibition is clearly and definitely ex-
pressed, it must be substantially com-
plied with. It has been held, however,
that such a stipulation is not broken by
a mere temporary deposit of the articles
prohibited; and in another case it was
held that the temporary introduction of
hazardous articles, for the purpose of
repairs, would not be a breach of a
condition which prohibits trading in or
storing such articles—the object of the
prohibition being held to be simply to
prevent the building from being habitu-
ally used for the prohibited trade or pur-
pose, and the habitual deposit in store
of the prohibited articles, and not their
occasional introduction for the purpose
of repairs and painting.

In a Pennsylvania case, where the
keeping of benzole was confined by the
stipulations of the policy to a detached
shed, the fact that the insured, in carry-
ing on their business, used it as needed
in the factory from an open can in the
usual way, it was held not to be a breach
of the stipulation—benzole being ordi-
narily used that way—and the insurers,
having knowledge that it was used by
the insured in their business, must be
presumed to have intended that it might
be used as it is ordinarily in similar
manufactories.

The courts have decided that, when
there is aconflict between the printed
and written portions of a policy, effect is
usually given to that which is written,
as more surely indicating the intent of
the parties. The written description of
the subject insured by a policy was as
“A stock of goods consisting
of a general assortment of dry gvods,

follows:

groceries, crockery, boots and shoes, and
kept in a
general retail store.” In the printed

such goods as are usually

conditions, annexed, and made part of
the policy, it was stipulated that if any

of certain enumerated articles (including |

gunpowder) should be ‘‘deposited, kept
or stored,” without the consent of the
company endorsed on the policy, the
policy should be void. It appeared that
at the time of effecting the insurance,
the assured kept for sale a small quantity
of gunpowder, and that gunpowder is an
article usually kept in a genera! retail
store in quantities from ten to fifty
pounds. It was held by the Supreme
Court of Minnesota, first, that keeping an
article in a store for retail purposes is
not a storing or keeping within the
meaning of the words of the policy;
second, that the written portion of the
policy should contro] the printed condi-
tions when there is a repugnance between
them: third, that the written words in
the policy were broad enough to include
all articles usually dealt’in by persons
keeping a general retail store, and that
all such articles were as much included
in the policy as if each was enumerated
at length, and that the policy was valid.
It will be seen that aruling similar to
the above would naturally depend upon
the general broadness of the written

THE MICHIGAN

portion, the definite clearness of the
printed condition, and the customs of
the trade in the conducting and make up
of a general retail stock of merchandise.

It has been held by the Supreme Court |
of our own State, as well as that of|
several other states, that where, by a
fire policy, the keeping of gunpowder, |
without written permission in the policy,
was to render the policy void, knowledge |
by the agent taking the insurance on a
stock of goods, that gunpowder was kept
and to be kept, would prevent the avoid-
ance of the policy thereby, whether such
permission was endorsed thereon or not.

E. A. OWEN.
———__—~-+ <<. —
Equity Between Employer and Clerk.

The Christian Advocate was recently
appealed to by a correspondent who en-
quired whether a clerk who had contrib-
uted greatly to the success of his em-
ployer’s business had not a moral right
to demand a partnership interest and, if
denied, embark in business on his own
account. The Advocate could do noth-
ing but reply in the affirmative, where-
upon the American Grocer comments on
the matter as follows:

Fair play between employer and those
who have contributed to the success of a
business would go far to reduce competi-
tion. The world has endorsed the prop-
osition, that ‘‘the laborer is worthy of
his hire.’? Such cases as the above are
constantly arising and, unfortunately, in
small towns and villages where a multi-
plication of stores is not desirable.
There is enough trade to make one store
profitable and not enough to insure good
profits to two or more.

it frequently happens that a capable}
clerk with strong personal characteris-
tics becomes, through intimate associa-
tion with customers, very popular.
They not only like him, but take an in-
terest in his prosperity. His hold upon
patrons becomes stronger when the pro-
prietor lacks those qualities which are
calculated to make him popular. It is
good policy to give such a clerk a just
share of the earnings of the business. It
cements the relations between the em-|
ployer and clerk, as well as_ between |
eustomer and clerk. It places a pre-/|
mium on the popular man putting forth
extra exertion to increase the business.
If, however, he desires to be indepen-
dent and hoe his own row, he has a per-
fect right to open a store and use every
legitimate means he can to gain pat-
ronage.

There are, however, popular clerks
who are unscrupuious and who, harbor-
ing an intent to start in business for
themselves, deliberately set to work to
undermine the reputation of their em-|
ployer, ‘They insinuate that they were |
driven to start in business fur them- |
selves because of the dishonesty and in-
competency of theiremployer. They in-!
timate that he has teo many tricks of
trade for them to remain and keep a
good conscience. We recall an instance
where a hard-working and popular but}
dishonest clerk falsified pass-books and |
created errors in accounts, in order to |
discredit his employer and pave his way |
for an easy capture of customers wholly |
under his influence.

The competition started by former |
clerks is frequently a source of great |
annoyance, the starting point of slander |
and abuse. |

Dealers who are capable and whose
character is of the best can afford to let |
such aclerk go on his way without at-
tempting to counteract his work of de-
famation and injury. Nothing can de-
stroy character, although reputation |
may suffer foratime. The people are
not long in detecting pure gold from
dross, and when they have been deceiv-
ed and find it out the reaction is great in
favor of the injured party.

Equity between employer and clerk is
calculated to prevent the best helpers
assuming the care and risk of an inde-
pendent business.

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. |

 

 

TRADESMAN.

Clothing and General Store Merchants will do well to
Inspect the Line of

Michael Kolb & Son,

Wi

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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

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WILLIAM CONNOR,

Box 346, Marshall Mich,

William Connor, representative of
above firm in Michigan, begs to announce
that the trade can secure some Closing
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trade which will be sold at astonishingly
low prices. Mr. Connor also takes
pleasure in calling attention to his nice
line of Boy’s and Children’s Clothing as
well as to his great selection of Men’s
Suitings, Spring Overcoats and Pants,
all closing out to the trade at marvelous-
y low prices. Largest line of Prince
Alberts and Cork Screw Cutaways in
fancy and plain. Mail orders promptly
attended to, or write William Connor,
Box 346 Marshall, Mich., and he will
soon be with you to show you our full
line, and he will supply you with the
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THE CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS.

‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

8. | the result of which will appear at the
The tendency of capital toward aggre- election of directors May 10.
gation into large masses, to which I re-| | mond

The Rich-
Terminal reorganization scheme

ferred last week in speaking of the so- seems to be hampered by a similar strug-
called trusts which are a distinguishing | gle for control of the property involved,

feature of the development of

modern |

industry, has at the same time made the

control of these masses of capital an
object of ambition as well as a source of
profit.
in this country comparatively

amounts were invested in each
They were formed by men who
well acquainted with one another,

small
one.
were

| own intrinsic merits.

|
|

In the early days of corporations |

and its fate probably depends more on
the result of this struggle than on its

Oceurances of this kind are,
not absolutely new. It nearly
thirty years since the New York Central

is now

| Railroad, after having been for years the

and it |

was understood at the outset that their |
affairs were to be conducted by officers |
then designated, and who, like the mem-|

bers of a private partnership,
retain their places for life.

good behavior.
partnerships,

purpose of avoiding personal liability.
When changes were made in their man-
agement they were usually made with the
consent of because with-
out such consent changes were ‘all
The the

panies being, as 1 have said, small
their shareholders few in

all coneerned,

impossible. eapitals of com-

and

were to|
or during |
In fact, they were really |
incorporated -only for the |

| years,

but |

number, an|

absolute majority of the stock was easy |

to retain, but difficult to acquire.

Thus |

they remained in the same hands year!

after year, and often descended
fathers to sons, like any other property.

This primitive simplicity
withstand the’ growth of the country’s
wealth and the necessity of ever enlarg-

from |

eould not |

ing means for the development of its re-|

sources.
little railroad companies owning
connecting links of road into one great

The consolidation of numerous |
short |

company covering the entire line, which |

was demanded by the exigencies of
travel and trasportation, was another

powérful element of corporate aggran- |

dizement.

Thus the New York Central |

Railroad Company was formed in 1853 |
out of the companies which severally |

owned the pieces of road between
Albany and Buffalo. It was followed by
a similar consolidation of the lines be-
tweeen Buffalo and Detroit, and of those
between Detroit and Chicago. These
examples were imitated elsewhere, and
we see the result in the gigantic railroad
systems of the present day, the affairs of
which occupy so much of the public at-
tention. A like necessity has led to the
formation of the so-called industrial
trusts, and for all that I can see the pro-
cess is destined to go on still further.
What may be called corporation poli-
tics has, under these new conditions, as-
sumed an importance almost equal to the
affairs of nations.
topic of interest is the revolution sup-
posed to be imminent in the course of
the present week in the Union Pacific
Railway Company. A year ago, to the
surprise of everybody, Charles Francis
Adams retired from the Presidency of
that company, and was succeeded by
Sidney
Jay Gould.
is to make way for a candidate proposed
by the European stockholders, who are
as little satisfied with Mr. Gould’s man-
agement as Mr. Gould was with Mr.
Adams’s. Week defore last we heard of

a movement for supplanting the ancient
dynasty which has so long ruled the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
by members of the modern house of
Vanderbilt, but as the present occupants
of the throne are indisposed to withdraw,
a lively canvass for proxies is going on,

Just now the leading |

 

Dillon as the representative of |
Now, it is said, Mr. Dillon |

 

so have

private property, as it were, of a few
Albany was wrested from
them by the late Commodore Vanderbilt
by the aid of the millions which he had

magnates,

amassed in running steamships. The
struggles for the control of the Erie
Railroad Company are historically fa-

mous, and some of the incidents to which
they have given rise have been as dra-
matically striking as
upon the stage. How, in
the Reading Railroad property,
the New Jersey Central, the New York
and New England, the so-called Nickel
Plate, the West Shore, and many others

those of a
more

of equal importance have passed from |
one set of hands to another by revolu-|
tions as sudden and unexpected as those |

which occur in Spanish-American repub-
most of my readers do need to
The important point is that

lies, not

be told.

these revolutions no longer excite alarm |

or even surprise. They are accepted as
normal contingencies in corporation
affairs, and are matters of
course.

In this latest phase of corporation life,
so to speak, we have but another illus-
tration of the universal law that
eauses tend to produce like results.
Civil society, as we see it about us, is the
final outcome of many years of progress
in development. From the family of the
savage it proceeded through the tribe to
the nation, and then through the con-
solidation of nations into empires and
republics. The same mutual attraction
which keeps the members of the family
together keeps men together in larger
bodies, and the same necessity for mu-
tual help and defense which preserves
the tribe from disintegration guarantees
the permanence of the nation. The
ideal to which the world is moving is
universal brotherhood, though we are
yet a long way from that goal, and I do
not expect that it will be reached in my
time. For the present, the interests of
one country are adverse in many respects
to those of all other countries, and much
statesmanship and diplomacy are exer-
cised in defending each one against the
aggressions of the others. So it is with
corporations. They have arisen out of
the industrial and financial necessities
of the human race, and their relations to
one another resemble those of civil
societies. If nations have their wars
and their treaties and their compacts,
railroads and manufacturing
companies, and in the contests for the
direction of their affairs there are the
same opportunities for intrigue and
manceuvre that are employed in winning
high places in the State. The collection
and disbursement of the millions of dol-
lars of revenue of a great railroad, for
example, the employment and promotion
of its thousands of servants, and the
patronage of its purchases, like those of
a nation, afford abundant room for the ex-
cise of the talent for command, and re-
quire a quality of it not inferior to that
employed in civil government.

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We have removed our Manufacturing Department to
the new building which we have erected solely for our
330 and 332 Avenue, on the same

own use at Lafayette

street, but seven blocks distant from the new Post Office
building, and easily reached from our store by the Con-
gress and Baker, or Fort street cars.

Our specialty in manufacturing will bea high grade
of Ladies’ Fine Shoes in Hand-Turned, also Men’s and
Women’s Goodyear Welt and Machine Sewed, and Misses’
and Children’s in Machine Sewed.

In “Low Cuts,”? both Hand-Turned and Machine
Sewed, we are showing one of the most desirable medium
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

But while to the public at large these
chances and changes in the careers of
corporations are only matters of enter-
tainment, like the other news of the day,
and while its chief solicitude is that cor-
porate aggrandizement shall not be
pushed so far as to raise unduly railroad
rates and the prices of commodities,
such as sugar, whisky, coal and cordage,
the very considerable number of small
stockholders who have bought their
stock for the sake of dividends, without
a thought of controlling the affairs of
their companies, get little or no commis-
eration. Yet it is upon these people

that the burdens imposed by their rules |

weigh directly. Nominally they have
votes and may protect themselves by
using them, but really they are as help-
less as the subjects of the Russian Czar.
They buy in under one administration
and before they know it a new one is in
power, with whose methods of manage-
ment they may have good reason to be
profoundly dissatisfied, but the only
remedy they have is too sell out at a loss,
occasioned by the acts of their ostensi-
ble representatives. Their condition is
like that of the darkey on the Missis-
sippi steamboat, in the years before the
war. Being asked by the Captain whose
**boy,’’ or slave, he was, he could only
answer: ‘‘I was Col. Johnson’s boy when
we came on board, but he has been down
in the cabin playin’ poker over an hour,
an’ I don’t know whose boy I am now.”

Fortunately for these humble members
of great companies, railroad and indus-
trial, the men that contend over their
heads for the control of their property
are usually not altogether conscienceless,
and whether from integrity or from a
regard to their reputations, vouchsafe to
them some of the profits to which they
are entitled. If they did not, they
would soon become discredited, and in-
vestors would shun every enterprise in
which they were engaged. As _ this
would deprive them of occupations, they
are compelled to be reasonably consid-
erate of the rights of their subjects, and
thus it comes to pass that dividends are
paid on most stocks which makes them
worth holding at some price, greater or
smaller.

Ili is but just, also, to acknowledge
that the control of corporations, while it
gratifies ambition, yields patronage, and
affords great opportunities for personal
enrichment, has, on the other hand, its
burdens and its responsibilities. The
business of a corporation, like that of an
individual, is exposed to many contin- |
gencies of loss from competition, from |
depreciation of commodities,
financial depression. The maxim ‘‘Un-
easy lies the head that wears acrown,”’ ap-

and from |

control of his property when they hap-
pen to be to his disadvantage. There is
no such thing as absolute safety in in-
vestments. The best a man can do is to
make them only after a thorough inves-
tigation of their character and their
prospects, and then abide the result.

MATTHEW MARSHALL.
qa» oe __—_
The World’s Peanut Center.
From the Baltimore Sun,

Norfolk has a crop which is worth
millions of dollars annually—peanuts.
Norfolk supplies the civilized world with
peanuts. The street-corner Italian who
empties a pint in your overcoat pocket,
and the Parisian fruit merchant who
weighs you outa quarter of a kilogram
of the homely nuts, get them from here,
for this is the only peanut market in the
world. Smyrna has its figs, Barbary its
dates, Bordeaux its grapes, and Norfolk
its peanuts. What would life be with-
out peanuts? One can scarcely. pic-
ture an existence which would be toler-
able under such circumstances.

The peanut magnets grow the edible
tuber in Nansemond, Isle of Wight,
Surry and Southhampton counties, but
the common market is in Norfolk. The
rows for the nuts are laid off three feet
apart. They are made fifteen inches
deep, and phosphates are largely used as
an under dressing. They are strewn
along in these trenches about the middle
of April, and mature after the same
term which is required for potatoes. It
is a crop which is marketed like the
Dutch drumhead and purple Savoy cab-
bage, running from November to March.
The nuts, however, have to go through
the factories before they are shipped
northward, and these factories are,
with a few exceptions, situated in Nor-
folk. There are two factories in Frank-
lin, Southhampton county.

“What is a peanut factory?’ might
be asked. A peanut factory is a
place where they put the ‘‘goobers”
through some such process as wheat has
to undergo when it is being cleaned of
chaff and rid of cockerel. The most
complicated machinery is used to assort
and polish the nuts, and when they are
packed in the ninety-pound bags the
prime class bring by the pound from
$2.75 to $3 a bag. The “tops” bring this
price in Northern cities, and are mostly
used by the swell groceries. The street-
cerner vender sells at his apple stand the
second grade, and the old lady at the
foot of the wharf carries a stock of
doubtful ‘“‘tailers.” This is the result of
a market which yields to Virgina truck-'
ers $8.000,000 annually. It is second in|
importance only to the sweet potato crop |
of Accomack and Northampton counties,
on the Eastern shore of Virgina, which
is calculated at as many millions per
acre as Bermuda has square feet, and |
Bermuda is the only yam-raising country |
that can compete with the Southern!
peninsula.

2

Cleyer Swindle by a Woman.

| A well-dressed woman entered a store
}at Elmira, the other day, bought $75 |
| worth of goods and asked that they be |
sent toa hotel. They were sent by a |
jclerk. She presented a $1,000 bill in
| payment.
She was very indignant at the question,

 

 

He asked her if it was good. |

plies no less to a corporation president | and told him to go to any bank and see.
than toa king or to a prime minister. | | He went out and found it good, and came
He has to be on the lookout for danger | | back with prefuse apologies for having

| raised the question. She, however, was
all the while, and to guard against it by| 1,4 virtuously angry at his suspicions
suitable measures.

make, treaties to negotiate, strikes to op- | The crestfallen clerk took his bundle

pose, hostile legislation to avert, and | back to the store. In the course of an
ti 1 ti o> take that bis! hour, however, she appeared, very peni-
continual precautions to take tent for her temper, asking the clerk’s

company shall not suffer detriment in new | pardon in the sweetest way, and offered
and unexpected ways. Of all this the| again to pay forthe goods. The apolo-

the little stockholder knows nothing. | | gies were accepted and the goods paid
| : for, $925 being given in change. In another
He gets his dividends when they are) |hourit was found that the second bill

made, without returning thanks for} was counterfeit, but the woman was no-
them, and when he gets none he is not | where tobe found. She had taken the
slow to exercise the privilege of grum-| = —— her, and still possesses the
bling. Inasmuch, too, as he knows or eer

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accept with resignation changes in the! with your business.

He has ailiances to | and utterly refused to take the goods. ’

 

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E are not the cheapest printers in the State—would be
ashamed of it if we were. When we find « “cheapest
printer” who does workmanlike work, we will lock up our
| plant and sublet our printing to him, As it is, system enables
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THE MERCHANT’S PARADISE.

A Dream Almost Too Good to be True.
The day was a lovely one in spring,

just warm enough to give one a touch of |

that dreamy, delightful malady popular-
ly known as spring fever. The violets
and dandelions were peeping above the
greensward, the peach and apple blos-
soms perfumed the air and the persistent
house-fly, renewed and rejuvenated, dis-
played wonderful energy in tickling the
nostrils of the drowsy loafers about the
corner grocery.

John Easeman, dealer in dry goods,
groceries, clothing, shoes, ete., had
spent the greater portion of his 48 years
in his present business, and he was still
far from being a rich man. He sat in
the easy chair in his office, reflecting on
his business cares, on the dull season,
the low price of some of the staple crops,
on the slowness of colleetions, and won-
dering how he could tide over his finan-
cial embarrassments until the next crops
were harvested.

“Its pretty tough, sure,” he mut-
tered, ‘‘to get in such straightened
circumstances through no fault of my
own,”’

The mild, warm breeze was wafted
through the window, laden with the per-
fume of blossoms.

“this is a lazy, sleepy sort of
weather,’’ he murmured; ‘‘the farmers
are all busy in their fields and the town
trade is fearfully dull to-day.”

He leaned back in his chair, placed his
feet on his desk and in a few moments
the drowsy goddess of sleep had taken
full possession of his faculties. His
head fell lower and lower until his chin
rested on his snirt front, and a gentle
snore gave conclusive evidence that all

2?

cares were drowned in oblivion.
*% * %* * *
‘sMr. Easeman!’’
“Hey!’? exclaimed Easeman, rousing

himself. ‘‘Oh! it’s you, is it? What
you want, Henry?” he asked his clerk.

‘Several caddies of plug tobacco
have just come.in; what price shall we
sell it for?”

‘*What do you ask that question for ?”’
said Easeman irritably, ‘‘You know the
manufacturers make the selling prices
for retailers, and that settles it.’’

‘“‘You have forgotten, sir, that letter
from the manufacturerers permitting the
retailers to make what prices’ they
choose. Here it is.”

Easeman grasped it eageriy and read
it carefully.

“Well, Vil be hanged!’ he ejaculated
slowly. ‘“‘If this thing keeps up, retail-
ers will be allowed after awhile to say
that their souls are their own. Well,
sell it at 10 per cent. less than old
prices.”’

The clerk departed and Easeman re-
sumed his musing.

‘“‘Hey, Easeman!” exclaimed a_ voice.
“What prices will you make me on a
barrel of granulated sugar and a sack of
Java coffee?”

Easeman looked around. ‘There stood
one of the leading citizens of the town,
aman who had always in the past order-
ed groceries for his large family from a
wholesale house at the nearest market.

‘*How do you happen to come to me?”’
asked Easeman. ‘Il thought you always
bought from a wholesale house?’’

‘*Read this,’’ he replied handing him a
letter.

Dear Srr—We are sorry to have to decline
your order. In compliance with the request of
retailers, whose interests we desire to foster, the
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
sell no more goods to consumers.

“Great Scot!’
“Can it be possible?
again. Yes, it’s true.
ium is near.’’

Easeman made satisfactory prices, sold
a good bill, and had just resumed his
easy chair when he heard some one enter
the store.

“There comes that confounded Stand-

do

exclaimed Easeman,
Let me read it
Well, the millen-

cif,’”? he muttered. ‘*He’s been owing
me $80 for over two years, and it’s a

dead duck. Tl take 50 cents for the
account.

‘Howdy, Easeman, old boy,” cried
Standoff cheerily.

“Tolble, tol’ble,’? responded Ease-

man, rather coolly; ‘‘what can I do for
you?”

has decided to,

| ‘‘Well, you can write me receipt, if it
; isn’t too much trouble. I owe you $80;
make the receipt for $100 to cover inter-
|} est,’’? he said, counting out that amount. |
Easeman gazed at him in amazement. |
| He picked up the money, but it dropped
| to the floor from his trembling fingers.
| He picked it up again and seized a pen,
| but couldn’t make a figure or letter.

“What the dence is the matter with you
anyhow?” asked Standoff.

*‘?m paralyzed, I think,’ replied
| Easeman, pulling himself together and
| writing the receipt with an_ effort.
“Much obl.ged Standoff, much obliged.
Do you want any goods to-day? You can
get all the time you want.”

“I don’t want any time. All the peo-|
plein town, except the merchants, held
a convention this morning, and resolved

 

that as the interests of retail merchants |
must be fostered, they would pledge |

themselves to pay all old debts, and in
the future pay cash for everything. |
Good day, old man, you look sick. Bet-
ter go to bed”

Easeman muttered an unintelligble
reply and sank down in his chair.

“Blest if [I dom’t believe ’m dreaming,”
he said. ‘‘No”—pinehing himself—‘'?m
awake. Well, that Yale College pro-
fessor is right about the millenium hay-
ing come.’’

His clerk laid several letters on the
desk which had come in the last mail.
The first one he opened was from a
wholesale grocery firm of whom he pur-
chased largely:

DEAR Str—You will doubtless be gratified to
learn that at a meeting of the Sugar Trust, held
yesterday, it was unanimously decided, in order
to protect the interests of retailers, to disolve
the Trust. You may confidently expect a drop
of 25 per cent. in prices of sugar at once. The
glass, tobacco and other trusts have also an-
nounced theirintention of taking similar action
within the next week.

**Whoo-oo-pee!’? yelled Easeman = in
true Comanche style, causing the clerk
to look back in astonishment, and won-
der if he hadn’t been drinking. ‘*Well,
the world is getting good—too blamed
good when those trust fellows take such
a step.”

He arose from his chair and paced
back and forth through the store to
wear off his excitement. An acquaint-

ance who always traded with a rival,
Jones, between whom and Easeman there
existed a deadly enmity, entered and
remarked:

‘‘Kaseman, Jones sent me here
some canned peaches. He is out of the
best brands, and says you have some-
thing first-class.’’

‘**Who—sent—you?”’ gasped Easeman.

“Why, Jones, your competitor down

to get

the street. What’s the matter with
you?”

‘“‘An attack of nausea,’”’ faltered Ease-
man. “Here Henry, wait on Mr.

Thompson.”’

Easeman started back to the office, his
head in a whirl. Jones, his rival, his
bitter enemy, his unrelenting foe, send a
customer to him? Incredible! yet true,
nevertheless.

*T must rest awhile,” he muttered,
“and get my wits together. Confound
it, there comes that Mrs. Hardcase

who never knows what she wants, and
consumes several hours of a man’s time
trying to find out. The last pair of shoes
{ sold her required four hours. She}
never knows what size she wants, what
style. what last or what anything. As
luck will have it, Henry is busy and Vil
have to see what she wants.”’
| ‘**Good afternoon, Mrs. Hardcase,” he |
said, politely. ‘*What can I do for you?” |
‘Tl want a pair of shoes,” she replied,
rapidly, a button shoe, common sense
heel and toe, No. 4, D last, to cost—
Great heavens! what’s the matter?”

Easeman had fallen heavily to the
| floor.
| It was the straw that broke the camel’s
back.
* * * * *
lt was a dream.—K. C. Grocer.
- —_— o
Manistee—The sawmills are all at

 

work now, and are turning out lumber |
very fast. We will soon have a stock of
different kinds to offer the hungry
buyers, in place of the empty spaces that

now greet them when they come to look |

j

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THE MICHIGAN

1a whole or any branch of it.

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Advertisements will be inserted under this
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one cent a word for each subsequent insertion.
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

OR SALE—OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF GEN
eral merchandise at Chippewa Lake, con-

| Sisting of hats, caps, boots and shoes, men’s fur

nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries.
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
Enquire of Chip-
pewa Lumber Co., Chippewa Lake, Mich., or of
H. P. Wyman, Sec’y, Grand Rapids. Mich. 449
OR SALE—BAKERY, GROCERY. CONFEC
tionery and ice cream business. Established
trade. Apply to Box 237, Gladwin, Mich. 4}
VOR SALE—A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES
and crockery in good shape and doing a
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ling. Box 87, Allegan, Mich. 489
NOR SALE CHEAP —_SMALL ST:n K OF
' hardware, boots and shoes and groceries

store building and fixtures in the lest new
growing town in Northern Michigan. Business
well established. Address No. 490, care Wichi
gan Tradesman. 420)
IOR SALE—NEW, CLEAN STO: K OF DRY
goods, Established trade; good town. Lock
box 963, Roekford, Mich 1S?
NPLENDID BUSINESS CHANC4& FOR A PER
kK 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. 171
| ase SALE—ONE OF THE rDRY 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, Vi
yo 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, fonia. Mich. 395
nIOR SALE OR WILL EXCHANGE FOR
stock of clothing, dry goods, and boots and

     

 

 

shoes, two-story brick block, which rents for
$475 annually. Best locationin town. Address
No. 412, care Michigan Tradesman. 412

 

RIOR SALE CHEAP — WELL
drug stock — New and clean.
Jones, M. D. Muskegon, Mich.

SELECTED
Address F.A
391

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

|, pant giahge WANTED AS CLERK IN GEN-
hI eral or dry goods store. References fur
nished. Address No. 493, care Michigan Trades
man, 493 i
ANTED — POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist of eleven years’ experience.
Address No. 487, care Michigan Tradesman. 487
Vy ANTED—POSITION WITH WHOLESALE
or retail grocery house assalesman. First
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j TANT ED — POSITION BY YOUNG LADY
as stenographer, typewriter, copyist or
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ASH REGISTER—#00 IS THE REGULAR
C price. We have a National Cash Register
which we offer $50 less than the regular price.
Perfectly new. Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand
tapids, Mich. 485

  

 

\ TJANTED—REGISTERED DRUG CLERK.
Write terms, experience, etc. C. A. Gur-
ney, Hart, Mich. 494

 

FOr RENT Nice LARGE LIGHT STORE
in brick block near Fifth avenue at
Jno. C. Dunton, Widdicomb Building. 491

TOR SALE—GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING
stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer

ecantile companies. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St.,

Grand Rapids a7

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TANTED—A DRUGGIST TO GO TO DEL
ton, Barry county, Mich., and start a drug

store. Living rooms above. Will ber eady May
1. For particulars address H. Arbour, Stanwood,

86

Mich. ol , 486 |
CITOCK OF GOODS WANTED— WILL EX
s change a first-class farm within six miles of
Grand Rapids, for a stock of merchandise. Dif
ference in cash. Not particular about location.
Address Box 275, Grand Rapids, Mich 497
¥\O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO
I you buy of the largest manufacturers in the
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YOR SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM-
k 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, pay-
ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 354

 

  
 

 

 

 

EE HERE—GOOD CHANCE FOR <A BUSI
ness man or practical miller, with some
Address J.

492 _

money to invest in a roller mill.
Wylie, Fairgrove, Mich.

    

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ee SALE — $1.100 BUYS 5-ROOM HOUSE
and corner lot within ten minutes walk of
post office. W. A. Stowe. 100 Louis St. 169

Ww NTED — REGISTERED DRUG CLERK,

Write particulars as to experience and sal

ary expected. L.A. Scoville, Clarksville, Mich.
472

OR SALE—11-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD LO-
cation, within ten minutes walk of Monroe
Price, $3,200. W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 470

OR SALE—320 ACRES OF LAND IN HAYES
county, Neb. Will sell cheap or trade for

a stock of merchandise. A. W. Prindle, Owosso,

Mich. 180

Vy TANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST—
lady preferred. Geo. C. Rounds, Vickery

ville, Mich. 481

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ete.

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Practical Roofers,
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A description of the chocolate
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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, Jonia.

Five Years—C. A, Bugbee, Cheboygan.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

§ Meetings for 1892—Star Island (Detroit),
Marquette, Aug. 31; Lansing, November 1.

Wichigan State Pharmaceutical Asa’n.
President—H. G@. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L.

Ignace; A. S. Parker, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer— Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Re —

Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; C.
(_] Webb, Jackson.

Next place of meeting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4.
Local Secretary—John D. Muir.

 

 

July 5;

 

Pauley, St.

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott,
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of Marc hb

June, September and December.

 

Grand Ra _— Drug Clerks’ —--
resident, F. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.

 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Seciety-
President, F. Rohnert; See re tary, J P. - Rheinfrank.

 

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

 

‘The Story ae Life.

Only the same old story, told in a different
ttrain:

Sometimes a smile of sadness, and then a stab of
pain; :
Sometimes a flash of sunlight, again the drifting

rain.
Sometimes it seems to borrow from the crimson

rose its hue: '
Sometimes black with thunder,
a brilliant hue;

then changed to

 
 

Sometimes as false as Satan, sometimes as
Heaven true.

Only the same old story But, oh, how the
changes ring!

Prophet and priest and peasant, soldier and

scholar and king;
Sometimes the warmest hand clasp leaves in the
palm a sting.
Sometimes in the hush of even, sometimes in the
midday strife,
Sometimes with dovelike calmness
with passions rife:
We dream it, write it
story of life.

sometimes

. live it, this weird, wild

a sai
The oe in the McKettrick Case.
Some the Associated
Press sent out the following despatch:
INDEPENDENCE City, Ohio, Mareh 30—
Palmer M. McKettrick, Cashier of the
Spread Eagle National Bank, has gone
to parts unknown. Reported deficit in
his account $100,000. McKettrick did not
superintend a Sunday School.
Except for the last

few weeks ago,

sentence this an-
nouncement would have been no more
startling than the weather reports, but

its paradoxical character excited intense
public interest.
standpoint,
remarkable.

Mr. McKettrick lived in a New England
town up to year From his
youth up he had been conspicuously
pious, and at Sabbath school bore away
many prizes for excellent deportment.
He was a constant
and at meetings; and regarded the theater
and round dances with unaffected hor-
His clothes invariably black
badly cut,

From a psychological

the facts in this case are

the 1880.

attendant at church

ror.
and

were
and for a nectie he never
wore anything more frivolous than a
black butterfly cravat. In fact, McKet-
trick was such a model of decorum, that
he could obtain no situation of trust or
responsibility. Hehad a natural leaning
toward the banking
employment the bank; but its
not have him, for they
had lately trusted implicitly to a deacon,
whose silver hair is now kept closely cut
t the
ations

business, and sought

at local

directors would

State’s expense. His recommend-
were too abundant, and his repu-
tation for vital piety too great. In this
awkward position, finding that he had no
chance of success at home,
well to his native town to seek a fortune
in the wide, wide world.

He appeared next in the lobby of the
hotel at Independence City, dressed in a
chain-lightning plaid suit, a vivid purple
cravat and a white top hat, adorned with

he bade fare-

 

a Bowery weed. Entering the hotel he
tossed his gripsack across the counter
and took the short cut to the bar-room,
where he invited all present to liquor up.
The boys cheerfully rallied to honor his
proposal, but were struck somewhat

aghast when McKettrick poured out for |

himself three-fingers of brandy which he
sprinkled with cayenne pepper, in order,
as he expressed it, to make it take hold.
in the course of the afternoon ac-
quired such ascendency over his asso-

he

ciates as to make them receive with ac- |
clamations his proposal that at night-fall |
they would break the memorial stained- |

glass windows in the new Baptist church.
When Mr. McKettrick applied for a situ-
ation at the bank, the Directors removed
their aged cashier and installed the im-
petuous iconoclast in his place.
man was not to be had every day, and
they felt it. There began McKettrick’s
life of hideous hypocrisy; when, beneath
a mask of worldliness and dissipation,
he concealed his rea! nature, and passed
on to fortune.

On Sunday evenings,
to be at meeting, the need of maintain-
ing his false position compelled him to
play draw poker with the bank directors,
and it is but justice to remark that he
played exceedingly well. Wine made
his head ache and cigars shattered his
nervous system,
manfully.

when he longed

but he indulged in them
To join in round dances was
opposed to all his training and abhorrent
to his nature, but at the coffee parties
there was no more agile foot than Mce-
xettrick’s, no arms more hospitable at
the fireman’s ball. It was odious to him
to weara purple cravat, and he would
often shudder as he hung up his plaid
suit at night. But when he thought of
the sagacious manner in which he was
arranging the bank’s accounts a pleased
expression would come over his f
he would even smile.

The directors were delighted with him.
The town rang with praises of his frank,
outspoken manners, and his freedom
from cant. One evening a belated revel-
ler saw a very respectable looking man,
dressed in sober black, and with a heavy
carpet bag, take the midnight train east.
He told his friends that it was McKet-
trick, but his friends replied, ‘‘Go to.
You have been out with the boys.”

But the next morning the bank direc-
tors discovered that that institution no
longer required the services of a cashier,
as the popular Mr. Kettrick had taken
all the cash with him to Brazil, which
empire has a defective extradition treaty
with the United States. Pale-lipped
citizens of Independence City ask each
other ‘‘Whom can we trust now?” The
bank is in the hands of a receiver.
es

The Drug Market.

German quinine is dull and lower. Opi-
um and morphine are unchanged. Bu-
chu leaves are Powdered ipecac
has declined. Chloral hydrate crystals
are lower. American saffron has advan-
eed. Lycopodium has declined. Nut-
megs are lower.
Cocoaine

face, and

 

low.

is lower. Arnica flowers, are
lower.

_— >
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell |
and completely derange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on pre
scriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten to ld to the good you
can possbly derive from them Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of thesystem. In buying Hall’s
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is
taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by
F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
{= Sold by Druggists, price 75¢ per bottle.

Such a}

Turpentine has declined

 

A Tonic

and

A Pieasure:

That’s the happy
combination found in

Hires’ _—

Beer

You drink it for pleasure, and get
physical benefit. A whole-
some, refreshing, appetizing,
thirst quenching drink.

 

One package makes five cee

Don’t be deceived if a dealer,
of larger profit, tells you son

as good ’’—’tis false. No imi itatic a
is as good as the genuine Hirgs’.

Ke

 

 

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Yeur account is always posted!

Your bill is always made out!

Size 844x3%, eal in cloth and leather back
and corners. Nickel bill file, indexed, ruled on
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as long.

1000 bill heads with Li edger complete See . 00
— =p 4 50

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5 1 2
Address

F, A. GREEN,

132 S. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

I prepay express charges when cash accom
panies the order. Send for circular.

 

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.
D. A. BLopeett, President.
S. F. AsprinwA.u, Vice-President.
Wma. H. ANDERSON, Cashier.

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.

 

 

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We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BRO Wholesale Druggists

GRAND RAPIDS

 

Playing Cards

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS

 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST,

Daniel Lynch,

19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

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RAVEN GLOSS,
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Including the following celebrated brands man-
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sae “og 5,5 SAIL a 50 jantharides. es | Pulvis Ipecac ao 14@ 15) Mpa ahh 2 21@2 31|_“ _ white ee aaa 7 @i%
Aqua, 16 deg.. 3% Picis s Ligutda, (gal. 35) s0@2 75 | Capsicum . be Se ome 10@1 20 | Stryc se gal cash ten days, Whiting, pl ere -7 G%
“a .. 34@ 5 Ric! aa : >» 10@ 12 Cu damon. | ‘&P. D. Co., doz... @1 2 | Sulphur, Sut oS @1 30 Whiti g. white Spam... @i0
Carbonas ........-- a 20 4 Rosmarint. ol BO mic Co Pyrethrum, pv.. Ot el | aS o . White, Paris American on
Chloridum .-... a a Rosae, ounce... Bi 00 | Castor ......... ee... 30 | Tamarinds . “Sa 10 iting, Paris Er os
ee 2@ 14| Suecini...... eee @6 50 Catechu. | Quinia, S. Pew. 8@ 10], Terebenth Venice.... ba 10 1g.

ANILINE. See TL 0@ 45 Cinchona S. Ger 290@ 34} Theobromae i a 30 | Pi ont eer Prepar 1 4¢
Biack.......- . Ae 3 suat OOF Co | Rubia Tincto man....19 @ 30| Vanilla... ; ---.38 @ 43) ° PY Frep Fs d Paint! 20@1 4
ee 2 00@2 25 | Sassafras. =. 20... 3 50@7 00 | Columba ....... . | Saccharum I rum..... 12@ 14 |Zinei Suiph.. ... -9 00@16 0}! alnts ee
+ 2 gaat aT 80@1 00 | Sinapis, ess, ea 50@ 55|Conium ..... veseeseeesees 5O| Salacin acts PV. @ 28] te ee mi oo
wale ie ae 50 | Tighil...........-.. et ., 56 | Sanguis Drac TT 1 75@1 85 | ott \No.1T iorminonigay

+7++2 oo | Thyme ....... . «= @ | Digitalis ... rir-+--+--- 50] Sapo, W ow ---- 40@ 50) ce | No. 1 Turp Coach 1

ce a 40@ 50 ee re 50 | M as lL pe i 1 Bt j Extra Turp -oe-l) 10@1 W
Cubeae (po 75).- ” Theobromas.......-.-. @ 60} Gentian a Rac ee --- 10@ 12 | hale, winter 7070 Coach An SS i /
Juniperus ae ec 15@ 2 eee 2... oe sees ae | @ 15 | Lard. extra......- ji . U No 1 'Turp F PT eee 2 75@3 00
Tenthox a: Laas ses 8@ 10 BIC POTASSIUM. Quaica.... erties 60 € 5 | —, Wal i. -- = 60 | Butra Tank oe 1 Ogi 16

annem — > sa LOE 15@ 18] Zi ramen RE 50 | minupuanes mannii a a ee Dryer ai
ae ea : ae 60 | / 3° Turp......... ce 7
i SAMUM, a Bromide.....0000 000. i Hyoscyamus | as a ae | a
Peru. .--+--:+- 45@ 50] Chlorate (po. i8)...- 2@ 15 ee 50 |
ac ae orate -- W@ by) ® wa cee ese ae a
Terabin, Canada ..... 350 20 Cyanide ee errr 16@ 18 | Ferri C foloriess. ... sete aeee sees 4
SS a5 4 Sides 0, aie peda i ia -

! Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 2 80@2 90 | Lobelia............ me
ren ; CORTEX. Potassa, Saeee” a: - -2%6@ 30] My a es ue
ace. eee Sl ee : &

JASSIAE . = aes eee eeeeee sees ass Nitras.......... i, Opil . teseseresees BO
— Flava ......------ a i i 9) ae theres ae BRK .
uonymus atropurp.... 3p | Sulphate eo 28@ 30} “ De — cu --+ 50
Myrica Cerifera, po..-.----. Tc hUlUhl ll ---- B@ 18 odor....--...-.----..2 0
pees Weatel....-.-------- 2 RADIX. Auranti Cortex.
eee eee ae Pag RU
on eee 2 a : ata ue oT 9
eee Fe a 14 os oo a Rae a ana . 2%@ 30] Khel. ~ a ed i .
s Po (Ground el. 10| Arum, ‘po RM OPM 12@ 15 Cassia Acatifol. cee eee cee Oe iy
ExXTRACTUM. Calamus.. : wine asst | @ |. a6 “ Co. ou eae 50 Soma po: ‘ 3
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... UG % Gipauerel (po. 15)... 4 a a lowe ea ee
eeu 20 ae * rrhiza, (pv. is) “n “ mt i, + =
Haematox, 1 Ib. box.. 11@ i oe. SC oe 2a ea oe
Doce c cee eoe 13@ 14)H mn ne @ 35 Vere ee vere
ellebore @® 3 eratrum Veride =|
‘6 = ga cn 14@ 15] Inula, =a Ala, PO. --- 1Q MM sess nate 50
pees 16@ 17 Ipecac, on beeen ete 15@ 20 MISCELLANEOUS.

FERRUM. Iris plox aa 35@38 .2 30@2 40 | Ather, Spts N |
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Jalapa, pr... ). - 85@ 40 her, Spts Nit, 3F.. 6@ 2wW i
oe and Quinia.... @3 50 — 42@ 45| Alumen .. 4F.. 3@ 32

trate Soluble......-. @ 80 Podophyilum, Po “| a i groun 1. (pe. 24@ 3
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 Riel... po...... 15@ 18) 4). n (po.
Solut Chloride. ....- @ 15 o> “eat secere veneer “5@1 00} Annatto... veeess SQ 4 WM

Sulphate, com’l.:..... 14@ ; oe “@1 7 | Antimoni, po... = * LS AND
a. -. =F spige “al nea cA TQ 35 Pcie t 1@ 5 i
Sanguinaria, (po 25 48@ 53| Antipyrin eT Potass T. 55a 60
- FLORA. Serpentars. til ).. 3 @ 20| Antifebrin...........-- @i 40 4
Arica eos swe 98] SBEE aicisatioe i se io | Argentt Niiris, ouiids 25
— im Ns X@ 35 imilax, Officinalis, oa '- 50 ‘Arsenicum ..... e @ 60
vu ..--. %@ 30] Seillae, ( - «2 Sian Gilead Bud... os 6 |
FOL a... ee smuth S. N.. 55 ( J
iia omy ne — Fett. 10@ i2)C ae Chior, 1s, ont —
Cassia Acutifol, SO Olt Ryo G 5 yc :
ae 26 2 Valerishe, Bik (pot caniniriaee ‘iia, , :
> Aix! 35@ ingibe rman... 15@ 20} ¢ na - @1 2 EALEKS
a eee, 4S 50 guentuer 3. — 12@ 15 Capsici Fructus, *.. @ 22 D Ps :
. ) ae 12 sll we ss i an on be 3 t
ie Ge 30 | dnt SEMEN. Conpesbistius, a g 20 :

ee Apion , (po. 20). @ 15| Carmine, No. ee 14) 0@ 32 oy Ss 4 i
Acacia, 1st picked Bird, 1 Oe eee. 33@ 35 Cera Alba, 8. aa @3 75 : a7

gm ug Eee | Carte a i eee ’ “e CQ
os Card :. s@ 12] Goccus .... +--+ B3Q 40 i
: a sorts. . g Bs a... -++1 00@1 25 | Casste woo ae . |
too, BES, (0). eo 80 | Cannabis ge og. 12 | Centraria.......2.... = ATTRA TRS
0e, Borb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 . donium vsses SAQA Cetaceum .........-... @ 10 vie f
Cape, (po. 20) 12 | Cheno cate eo 75@1 00 Chloroform . uc a Bete Agpemts ‘
ai Socotrl =. of Diptertx Poe : 10@ 2 ene 60@_ 63 Sex the Gebwkemtiot
chu, 18, (48, 14 48 Poenioulum........... 2 25@2 35 | Chloral Hyd ‘Crst we oe s
TS hacia > @ 1 | Foenusre a. @ 15| Chondrus . veeeeok 201 40 ¥ welt
pera nine een 60 Lini — intent 6@ «C8 Cinchonidine, Pew a - 188 WILLA ¢ ie 4s é
Assatetide, (po. 35)... 35@ 4 Lint, grd, (bbl. 3 4@4%1, Gawun s 5@ 2 PAR EE ie %; (
—— a So@ 55 | Lobelia %) a 4% | Corks, list, dis. per @ 2 Ra A Gey
horse a 9| P ch "| 35@ 40} cont ..-. wu
Son evuhenn Ae 2 38 aaiamgnag "” 84%@ 4% BE nooo an 60
Galbanum. ...----- @3 a Sion is, Alb eee ae 6@ = 7 | Crete, ma. @ 50 i
en, ee a CO % . 2... si. a STR
Guaiacum, (po 30)... @ OO re 11@ 12} « precip... a - 5 " j i
Kina, (pa a @ 2B Frumentt, ag age a ek @ . e rf 4 g lena fi :
Myrrh, (po, #8) os. OS 00-2 on? 80 | Cadbeat 000.2 832 3 | ares
‘ Se 85 ee rae :
Shellac .. os oO 33 Juniperis Cee == eae ena minis 5o *% '
‘ bleached eee 300 . se ‘6 fe ) sees 3@1 ‘ aie... 10@ 12 Ea RA
Tragacanth @ 35|Saacharum N. £...... 1 75@3 50 ulph. . 68@ 7
ae 30@ 75 | Spt. a, 5. 1 75@2 00 | =Mery all numbers.. =" We are Sole
ERBA—In ounce packages. Vint oO Perr eee 1 75@6 50 | Erpota. (po.) 65. Ss Peper ot
Absinthium ....... ‘ca ee Qo eran ah 1 25@2 00 Ergota, ( po.) STH an bs i ; $
betas «o-o--e0--+ +" os | Vini Alba............. 1 25@2 00| Flake Whito.......-.. 0@ 65 Wei In’ ‘oh?
ccc ss “ 2 SPONG ease” “@ 23 ‘3 8 Ib (gal Cat
eee rete ennns icles il ES. Gambier..... vee “a sac aft smedy.
Mentha spate... i 3 aan eeps’ wool | ead Gelatin, Cooper.-..... @ a.
ee sae 23| Nassau sheeps’ woo! 2 ren uM
Rue. oo gseecec erro = oe. wool Bl be Aint, wanase ws Save
age S| eee ica shinee 2 09 | _ Oy box” ' ar 's Gave im Meck and Offer
oS oe Glue, Brown | oe
aos et ee, 1 10 ME coco: @ 5 WHIS
aa Boel SSion'ticow! latent Mg 58, BRAN
Cerna - Saat 60 | Grass shee steesee cesses as | Grane Paradisi........ HD 2 ” Dis SS
Carbonate, kai 2@ 22} Tes vadiegsnoaiil Hum os esp 33 a
Carbon’ 20@ 25 | Hard a 65 | Hydraag Chior , Mite.” QD .
ate, Jennings.. 35@ 36| Yellow oot hee a %5 -——- 2s GINS, WINES

oumun. ef, for slate ‘“ @ 80 § ROM
eee : ee TT 140 us ox Rubriin @1 ¢0 ™ -
Amygdalae, ae aS sYRUPS, « — _Unguentum as Ww :

Amydalae, Amarac....8 00@8 : Accacta ... Hydrargyrum . 2 @ sell Liquors for Med
Anti congas n 1 751 5 Biagiber <n 50 | Tahthyobolla, Aim. 1 2,8} on pe agence ya ee
tee. oo. < ee ndi ius ca 50 | orders ntion €
; Bergamil ..........-- : oo See Poe Lol ae + bine oo eae | te = are Shipped and In to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satis

ssc none, ee OO | Aneenid Corte... 00.00.) ou. 50 | Iodoform . --3 T@S ial order. voiced the same day we rece! —_—
Caryophylil ...-.... @ 65) Rhel Arom. 0 80) Leap oo ae i | reaanaat _s

ee te ® 80| Similax Officinalis.......... 50 | Lycopodium ... ee.)
Ghaneneall ........:-- 35@ ie ‘ Micaela = se ai 60 | gp jium ..... .. 50@
Peee oly @ Senega........ nas 50 | Liquor Arsen et Hy -
Citronelig +1 SGI 85 | Belling, =. ae _ rare toa x @

um Mac.. 1 He iquor Potass Arsinitis
agg ae “a ficken... 50 | M ss Arsinitis 1

ot A 1 10@1 20 a. Vee ae agnenia, Sulph (obi - rT}
Hee asin ean et 50 Mannie, Pt es 2@
oe, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Grocery Price Current.

The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly

  

 

 

 

and buy in full packages.

  

AXLE GREASE. —
doz gr Live oak.. 2%
a... ......... & 6 00 | Santa a 2 00
ae lO Cee. 250
Frazer’s 8) 9 00 | Overland... 1 90
a 75 8 00 : Blackberries.
Paragon 5D co.5 & w........... ee 90
BAKING POWDER. Cherries. 120
Acme . , ee. 0
14 Ib. cans, 3 doz....... - Soe =
a” 6hUe 85 a
1 1b. ‘“ ce 1 00 r “ag ee iid oe ale el 1 20
a ec 10 Damsons, Ege Plums and Green
Arctic Gages.
14 i cans - Sia... @1 2

lL . t 30) Califormis....... 1 70

1 freee ere ee cees 2 00 Gooseberries.
5 b s peat earn er Comes 1 10
Xook’s Favori ne
$00 i, Th eams.. 000000 12 00} Peaches.
(181 pieces colored glass) | —_— |... 1 10
100 14 Ib cans.... oe meawell ....... i 1 50

(191 pieces of c rys sti Shenerd’s ........ 1 40
100 &% Ib cans.... .- . California.... 2 25

(100 hdl cups and saucers) omeper 1 35
Silos 1 ipcams.............. Se ieeern.. |. 1 2%
(tankard pitcher with each can) Pears.

Dr. Price's. Does 1 25
per io eS 210
sepia gam 133 ee
6-0z 1 9) | Common. nee 1 30
8-0z 2 & Johuson’ 8 ‘sliced... Pea 2 50
12-0z 375 ereted...... 2%
ca ~*~ te Quinces.
— : o = aan... 1 10
5 Ib 21 60 Raspberries.
10-Ib H ooiaee 1 30
Black Hamburg.. 150
vm Erie. black 1 40
os pe, < : a nen : £0 Strawberries.
* a 777777 ge | eee... 1
Teifer’s, i Ib. cans, doz. 45 ee : =
; Ib 85 gi 3
+ ss | gp go) Perrapan ..-----.. 1 35
Victor. \aaeseemnaie
Son Cans, 4don -....... 80 | Common ..... 1 20
: ai ale _. Lire a. i 1 25
16 can ........... 2 oe Blueberries L 1 20
BATH BRICK. “ ae 2 —.
2 a > orned bee yy? 8. 18
English dozen in case. go | Roast beef, Armour’s.......1 7
Bristol ee go | Potted ham, a ... 2.
es | - . Ye 1 00
Domestic . on . tongue, % Ib |
BLUING. Gross “ rt i 95
Arctic, o- ovals.. 4 nod + chicken ib... 95
i. * |... 7
_ pints, aa. 10 50 VEGETABLES.
_ =. , sifting box... 2% Beans.
— 3. ..i£e Hamburgh stringiess.......1 &

“ No. 5, “ ... se C French style.....2 25

= toc ...... 4 50 us aos -.......... 1 40
ee, eee... 1 30

sre 1 soaked se.

No. 2 Hurl...........--..--- 2 00 | Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35

O.1 wee ee eee eee eee ee 2 25 | Bay State Baked............ 1 35
oa eaneanena Rage ei Ween tee 135

a. 7 :
ParlorGem............... a ee
Common Whisk............ oS Sia eae ee
Fancy “ ae oo Stee ls 15

3 50 Ce
snieiessagictommnenn on we. 150
MOrniee GAY .........00.. 1 10
Stove, No. a Ca i 25 . ' a.

_ oe z Cee Hamburgh marrofat ........ a)
Rice Root Scrub,2 row.... 85 early June.......
Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Hamburgh petit pols... -1 50

, goose............ 150 | Hamburgn petit pois.......2 ‘
ne ee fancy sifted.....1 90
CANDLES eee 65

Hotel, ~ - 10 Harris standard............ 7

Star, Ls Van Camp’ s Marrofat in
Paratiine . cee ete 11 Early June...... 1 30
ee... ..- co, Archer’s tii Blossom... i.
= French . es

NED GOODS. “Mushrooms.
ar one ce ee eR ET 16218
jo Pumpkin.
° BO oe ee coerce aee 95
Little Neck, i 1b a oe :
ei... Al aes Squash.
Clam Chowder. sane analy
9 C sh.
Standard, 3 Ib oo Hamburg coe
Cove Oysters. Ee 80
Standard, 11 Ib. : / oe ee 1 60
Ib. 1 65 Tomatoes.
tema, a. |... 1 00
1 LLL Sete --.----._ 1 60

ona 2 — = oo | emiburg..-.--..--.......... 1 30
ais. See te 2 50

7 Sih... aE Sean Ain REC ec
a ee CHOCOLATE—BAKEBR’S.
— . —_ eas : = German Sweet... .......... 22
Mustard, 21b 2/2. 127.2 25| Premium... 2.
Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 95 | Pure.... 38
iam Sib... 2 25 Breakfast Cocoa. 4

Salmon. CHEESE.
Columbia River, as... .. 1 eee. ....-........ @13
ae... 1 75 | Herkimer @i2%
Alaska, 1 ee 1 45 | Riverside @13
See 2 10| Allegan ..... ee @
Sardines. ee ee @19
American 8 a 454y@ 5 | — tees eee 13
soo evees OB 8 | Tinparger 20! gio”
Imported ge A pina cs @25
eee oe 7@8 ae ort sees GQ
~aeame  E RA 20 | 32 Sago........-..... Gx
Trout. | Schweitzer, imported. @30
ee 250| “ domestic... Gis
— CATSUP.
Apples. | Blue Label Brand.
3 ib. standard........ 85 | Half pint, 25 x as hie ale 2%
York State, gallons.... 2 40 | Pint ieee
Hamburgh, ‘“ on 50 | Qu art{i doz bottles ......... 3 50

CLOTHES PINS.

 

5 grogs DOKeS............ ..40
COCOA SHELLS.
S5ib bags...... ee ceee @
Lees auentity........... @3%
Pound packages........ 6xor
COFFEE
GREEN,

Rio.
a
|
—- rl,
ee 20
NR

Santos.
ee oe
ee Le
ee... 18
Peaberry -20

Mexican ‘and ( Guat tamala.
——................ =
ae 8
Pea .23
Maracaibo.
ieee...
as... 20

Java.
ae... 25
Private Growth....... oe
Mandeliling ....... 28

Mocha.

— ss... ..tti«itat. 23
—............
ROASTED.

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per Ib. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.

PACKAGE,
Arbuckle’s Ariosa.. 19.30
McLaughlin’s <<<. 19.30
ere 19 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 19 30
Bunola ... 18.80

Cabinets
containing
120 1 Th.

packages
sold at case
price, with
additional

charge of
90 cents for
Cabinet

 

EXTRACT,
ee eee 75
ee 16s
Hummel" s foil. 1 50
a  , 2 50
CHICORY.
ae 8
a... 6
CLOTHES LINES.
Cott 40 ft.......per doz. 1 25
_ oees....... . 140
' Oorn.. ' 1 60
. —o...... - 1 %5
- 80 ft. . 1 90
Jute rs... ” 90
” =o ..... ' 1 00

 

 

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‘Tradesman.’
$ 1, per BupGred........... 260
>. ee 2 50
ce. c et op nec ace. ae
+ 5 Ue
$20, - 5 00
“Superior.”
8 1, per hundred eee eee 2 50
? : hee mela 3 00
a+ + ee
-, * rr 5 00
— a 6 00
“Universal.”
: 1, per hundred i oe 83 00
;: 2 EE ae etl 3 50
Be theese 400
i" " a
810, - 6 4
$20, |. 7 00

Above prices on coupon books
are subjectyto the following
quantity discounts:

oer over. ........ 5 per cent.
500 * ue oO
ee eee _ *

 

 

COUPON PASS BOOKS.

{Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 "Siu

20 books Ce ales Se v0
eT a eee 2 00
— 3 00
— * 6 25
ee ee 10 00
100 «(* 17 50
CONDENSED MILE.

4 doz. in case.
ae... 7 40
NI rc oes 6 25
Genuine Swiss. ............ 8 00
American Swiss.. ..-..... 7@

CRACKERS.

Butter.
Seymour ees ............... 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6%
Waste MER ll o.
Family a cartoon...... 6%
ee ee 5
Salted xxE, cartoon ...... 6%
—shllCw!wCU 7%
ieee Ci 8
Butter biscuit ...

Soda.
pees SUk.........-...... 6
Soda, City..... . Th
Soda, Duchess - 8%
(ayes Wares........ -.,.:. “10
Reception Flakes... ........10

—
S. Oyster XXX... i.
City Oyster. ae 6
Farina Oyster.. iosec,

CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly pure. . ec 30
Telfer’s Absolute.......... 35
—-.. .......... iogis

DRIED FRUITS.

Domestic.
APPLES.
Sundried, sliced in bbls. 5
: quartered ‘“ 5
Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7
APRICOTS.
‘California in bags......: 8%@10
Evaporated in boxes. ... 10@11
BLACKBERRIES,
In boxes. 4%
NECTARINES
orp. bees... TK
25 Ib. boxes : 2 @9%
PEACHES,
Peeled, in boxes........ 12
Cal. evap. oe . 8
- in bees ..... @T%*
PEARS.
California in bags @7
PITTED CHERRIES.
Barrels. . 10
50 Ib, boxes - a
ee 12
PRUNELLES,

Seip. bades............. 11
RASPBERRIES,
Pee... C. 15
Sore. Domes. ............. 16
oe ri
Foreign.
CURRANTS,

Patras, in barrels...... @ 3%
' im 56-Dbis...... @ 3%
. in less quantity @ 4

PEEL.

Citron, Leghorn, => boxes °
Lemon
Orange .

= oe “a 7

RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers, 2 2 crown. i
.
. is nee... 1 85
Loose ——— pones..... 1 2
lb. bags @5%
Foreig n.
Ondura, 29 Ib. pene. - 14@ 7%
Sultana, 20 ' 11 @i12

Valencia, 30 “ :. 64%@ 6%

 

PRUNES,
Bosnia. @
California, '90x100 2 Ib bxs .
80x90 - 8%

. 7x80 o 9

- 60x70 ” 9%
PN oo eet oct @5%
cae a 11%

ENVELOPES,
XX rag, a.
peo. 1. .................. 81 75
Coe ee 1 60
mo. 1,6... 1 65
+6... .. ......,-.., 1 50
XX wood, or
No. 1, 6%...
Oa La
Manilla, white
WO rede sce conus 1 00
a 95
Coin,

Me Mo. 4.......- 1 00
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina,

00 >, Rege............. 3%
Hominy.

I oc otc a nee cooe 8 00
NE ee oi ee cece 3 50
Lima Beans.

Dried... eae
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
a 12 Ib. box..
MBPOFGOE 00. ces sescees ‘ioy@1ty
Pearl Barle ey.
OR isos... @2%

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Peas.
meen, Bo. s 1 40
Sere per .........- 2. 3 00
Sago.
oe ee ae 4
East India...... (cee 5
Wheat.
eee 5
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
Tie... 110
Cod.
Pome
Whole, Grand Bank... 6 @sx
Boneless, pees ...... 7%@8
Boneless, strips.. ..... 74@8
Halibut.

Pee cc 12
Herring.
ON. 18@20
Tolland, — oe 11 00

. Re cunescs 85
Round shore, 3 % bbl... 2 09
\y bbi.. 110
Mackerel,
No. t, 4 belie. WD ike........ 11 60
me. 1 ce we e..........- 1
Family, 4 bbls., 100 Ibs.... 5 50
. kits, 10 The 5
Sardines,
Muetien, Kegs............. 45
Trout.

Bo. 1, 4% bbls, 00lbs.......- 6 50
So. 1, kits, We...........- 90
Whitefish.

No. 1, % Dbis.. 100ibe.......-. : 00
No. 1, kits, Pe 110
Family, § % bbls., 100 1bs.... 3 50

cits fo 16... 50

FISH and OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as
follows:
FRESH FISH

Se ceca ay ene ee 7@8
Trout . oe
Halibut. / @15
Ciscoes or Herring... 5 @ 6
eee. me @12
eeekorel....-........ 15 @25
ee... le ee
Mo. ft Pickere!......... @8
Ce ee @ 8
Smoked White ....... @7
OYSsTERS—Cans.
Fairhaven Counts.... @40
Pr. J. OD. Sercets ....... @35
peeeeae ............_,,. @20
oe. 3. @25
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per me ...... 1 25@1 56
Clams. oe 75@1

 

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFSs
WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 86
No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 86
MEAL,
pee... 1 20
Ceased. .....-......... 1 40
FLOUR.

Straight, in sacks........ 4 50

e es ee 4 60
Fatent “ secks......... 5 50
= = berrom......-. 5 60
Graham “ sacks.... ... 2 20
Rye eas 2 50
MILLSTUFFS.
ee... 17 00
Peroeeees.... 5... 15 00
ees... 45... 18 00
eee ree....  ......, 17 50
eee a. 17 00
CORN
ae 44
Less than car lots......... -46
OATS.
Car tots ..... 83
Less than car lots.. 35
HAY.

NoiT imothy , Car lots....13 50
No. 1 ’ ton lots ..14 50
PLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Jennings’ D C,

Lemon. Vanilla

2 - folding box... @ 1 2

30 it 00 1 50

4 - " -1 50 2 00

6 oz -.2 00 3 00

8 oz ' ..3 00 4 00
GUN POWDER.

—_ eee ee ee ey oe 5 50
ie ee... 3 00
HERBS,

ee 15

i
INDIGO,

Madras, Sip, bawes....... 55

S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes. 50
JELLY.

Chicago goods......... @3
Mason’ 8, a 20 and 30lbs.. 6
‘

  

LICORICE,
ie ae eee ees 30
i eS 25
ae 12

LYE,
Condensed, 2 doz.. -1 2
ccc cs 2 2%
MATCHES.
eae eee... .. 04... 12
Anchor parlor...... Shabe cai 170
ee es ee 1 10
Wes Serie. 4.5 2.5. w+e0

 

MINCE MEAT

 

8 or 6 doz, in case per doz..1 00

 

  

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.
Loe $1 75
lee wale... 5... 1 40
oo, 70
ee cs ous 45
er eine ...... \......-... 40

Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
oe a ees 7 00
Half — 4 75
Quart .. cetes estes a Oe
Pint... i 2 2
MOLASSES,
Blackstrap.

Sugar house. ........ ecee 13%
Cuba Baking.
(reteaey.......... 16
Porto Rico.
co eS 16
Peace ....... oe se 20
New Orleans.
Were... 1.5... ae 14
ae 7
extra wood....... 22
Choice ... 27
es 5

One-half barrels, 3c extra
OATMEAL.
marrow S).....-...-.- @4 25
Half barrels 100... — 25

 

OILS.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes

  

 

  

as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b.
Grand Rapids:

W. W. Headlight, 150

fire test (old test)..... @ 8
Woeter White, ........ @wm%
eee... 5. @i7
Gasoline ........ @ 8%
Cyreees ....... 2 5
ee ee cote ee.
Black, 25 to 30 deg.... @t%

ROLLED OATS.

Bares 19... ........ @4 25
ait bila @.......... @2 2%
PICKLES.

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 4 00
Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 50
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 4 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count 2 %
PIPES.

Clay, a 1 =
7. ~ Toll ecouns.... ....
et 1 25
POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Deri s .......... ....... 4 00
Tenne Sat Co.'s.......... 22
ROOT BEER
Wittems, ........ pordos. 1 &

_ -- -- & GOR, Case. 6 00
RICE.
Domestic.
Carsitaa bead................8
" me ts 5
“ me S........... @4
res 3%
Imported.
Japan, No Bo aes ee 6
' mee... ..... 5%
Java ss 5
Pee. 2 cl 5
SAUERKRAUDT.
Silv er ‘Thread, bbl. _
4 me
SPICES,

Whole Sifted.
ieee 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 8

_ Batavia in bund....15
” Saigon in rolls...... 35
Cloves, —— hoes ou as 22

ee ee pose. 13
Mace Batavia.... .
Nutmegs, f fancy.

 

oe z : . .65
Pepper, Singapore, b ack.. ae
Re whit 95
” es.. .....-...... 19
Pure Ground in Bulk,
OS a 15
Cc ass la, Batavia. . ‘ -20
and Saigon. 25
_ wee 35
Cloves, Amoorvns........... 30
Zanzibar..... 20
Ginger, Teen ce ese, 15
Coenen: ..... 8... 18
" a 20
Woes Pelere..............5 80
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .25
eee 27
— 2 a heenasers rae
‘epper, Singapore, blac.
Cnet er white. ....30
. Gnennt.. niddaebeos 25
PD i obs deninc tyes oes 000e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

17

 

‘‘Absolute” in Packages.

448 Ys
BE i. oy sa. 84 155
loeenn............. & 1
Cores... ............. 84 1 55
Ginger. Jam........... 84 155
. Be 84 155
mee... 84 1 55
Peper ............--.. 84 155
Beme...... oo. ce on
SAL SODA.

Kegs. on 1%
Granulated, boxes.......... 1%
SEEDS.
Ae... @12%
Canary, Smyrna. ...... 3%
I ohn cee oes 8
Cardamon, Malabar... 90

Hemp, Kussian.......
mivoa Birra .......... 4

Mustard, white.......

PODDY ..---- s2.-..5..-. 9
Rape . oe 6

Cuttle bone .......... 30

STARCH.
Corn.
20-1b boxes be eee ole 614
ae 6"
Gloss

: ge ee
se

ee 50 1b. boxes... 11). a%

parem ..... 4g

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders. . oe

Maccaboy, a SORA... 35

french Rappee, in Jars..... 43

sODA.
ee ce

Rees, Beatiek:...............- a

SALT.

100 3-Ib. sacks eee . 82 2%
60 5-Ib i 2
=~ 10-Ib. sacks. 1s

14-Ib. . 2%

Fy 3-Ib cases. 1 50

56 lb. dairy in linen. bags.. 50
ao. «| drill 18

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill bags. 35
lb. “ 8
Ashton.

56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins.

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks ®
Solar Rock.
ot: Seeks... Cg... 25

 

Common Fine.

 

 

Seema ...... 3... 80
Megnpeee ......... 22... 85
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Cumren es ...: oc. 883 30
eee ................. 3 15
Dwight’s. ee oo
Teviere..-. 2.1.00. c. 3 00
SOAP.

LAUNDRY.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........3 20
Good Cheer, 60 £10..........8
White Borax, 100 3{-lb......3 60
Proctor & Gambie.
Concord...... 2
Ivory, 10 oc... 1. 6 7

' So. 4 00
LenOk . .. i _ 3 65
Mottled German. a 15
Towa Cam ....-........... 3 00

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz.
. he and, 3 3 doz..

SUGAR.
ee @ 5%
Cares .............. @ 4%
ae ............ @ 4%
Granulated... --4.58@ 45g
Confectioners’ A..... 4.44@ 4%
Soft A. ia @4.31
White Extra C........ @ 4%
Extra C. Le eeee @ 4
c.. .................. @3 %
Yell @ 354
pon aa bbls. 14¢ adv ‘adv ance

SYRUPS.

Corn.
Ss ._ 2
eet DONE es. 24

Pure Cane.
eo 2. 19
oooe ........................ 25
Cieies ...................., oe

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.......... 8
Suger Creams......... 8
Frosted Creams....... 9
Graham Crackers..... 8%
Oatmeal Crackers.... 8%
TEAS.
JaAPAN—Regular.
a @i7
ke @20
ae 24 @26
Chelcest. .......-. 2.2 Ga
eee 10 @12
SUN CURED.
mo... @i7
Goes. oe @2wv
Choice.. eon oe

 

 

ME, vo ov eee cee. 2 @i4
oe... 10 @12
BASKET FIRED.

Pale. ............... 18

Cues ....... 1...
i
Extra choice, wire leaf

 

GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........75 @85

OOLONG. @Q26
Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.
Common to fair.......23 @26
Superior tofine........ 30 @35
YOUNG HYSON.
Common to fair.......18 @%6
Superior to fine.......30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
van. ..........-.....- 18 @2
..24 @28
.40 -
“ TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.
Pails unless otherwise noted

  

Hiawatha .......-..- 60
Sweet Cuba........- : 34
McGinty . hs 24
5 bbis.. 22

Valley city bees 32
Deady dim. .........-- rf
Torpedo... ..-. -.-..- 20
ay in drums... 19
Yor Yum ........-.. 26

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead ..........-- 37
Joker ......- ee 22
Nobby Twist.....-...--- 38
On wy... 29

Seotten’s Brs aie
Byio.....-...-......... 22
Eaweie......... «os 38
Valley City ........... 34

Finzer’s Brands.

Old Honesty.......... 4)
ooliy Tar............-- 32
Middleton’s Brands.
Here Tt is.......«---. 28
eo... .- 31

Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.
Something Good.. 38

Mose Up. .......-....-.... 2-4 26
Octet Sieks....-.......... -. 25
Private Brands.

Sweet Maple.......... 30

1, & WW... esos... oes 26
Smoking.

OM es en 12% |

Colonel’s Choice..........-- 13

 

 

 

 

 

 

were ee. a
oo ee 15
roe ce... ........._.... .
in Dred Vi
Nigger Head.. neeee ee
oey Dew... ............ 24
Gorm Hieek........... -28
ol
oo ee 24
WHele Bem, coe... ..65--... 28
"PO And JOLY. .....sccresee ‘

Brier Fie... ..--......--. .. 30
Yum Yum. oe
Red Clover. Ms
ee 3:
Simaimege. 40
r |...

WASHBOARDS.

Singie.
Vee .......-........
Saginaw...... ee
vee co.
Daley...
Langtry ......
Defiance...

Wilson ......
Saginaw......
tival

Peaees

i
Rec Star......

ae

ivy Leat._..............
VINEGAR.

CT

oO ar. .....

WET MUSTARD.

Bulk, pergal ....... ....-

Beer mug, 2 doz in case.
YEAstT—-( tompressed.

 

‘Douibie. uous

Siforbarrel.

30
1%

| Fermentum per doz. cakes..

yer 1b*
Fleise ‘han, per doz cakes
perlb.

 

 

HIDES, PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol

lows, prices nominal:

HIDES
Green ........ 3 @4
Part Cured..... @1%
ee ae @ 5
ay. ..... 6 SG
Kips, green. lle c..8 @s4

~ Gurea....- ees @5

Calfskins, green......4 @5

cured...... 5 @7

Deacon skins. 10 @30
Yo. 2 hides % off.

PELTS
Shearlings...... ..10 @25
Lambs eres 50 @1 50

WooL.

Weve... ...... 20 @
Unw ashed . 4 10 @20

MISCELLANEODS.

TAO .....--.--- 7 no
Grease butter 4 1 «
Switches ...... =<. See o
Ginseng... 2 00@2 59

FURS.

Outside prices for No. 1 only.

Badger ms 50@1 00
peer... 4... .15 00@25 00
peaver........ . 3 W@7 00
Cc. Ve.............. 2a

* Howse... ..

0G

Pinner.................4 Gas @
roe voc .............. 1 00@1 50

 cooe...... .-3 00@5 00

“ ere. ee, Oo
Tw 2 00@3 00
Martin, dark... .....- 1 00@3 00

- pale & yellow 50@1 00
ine Gaie............ 40@1 10
Musurat.......... o 03@ 16
Oppoesim...... ....... 15@ 20
Otter, dark..... 5 00@8 00
Reccoan.......... ._. oo 2
Skunk. coe J 00@1 20
war........ . 1 00@3 00

Beaver castors, “Tb. .2 00@5
DEERSKINS—Per pound

Thin and —
— gray.

Red end Die.........+4-

 

- POULTRY.
Local dealers pay as follows
for dressed fowls:

PAPER & WOODEN WAKE

 

PAPER.
ee oe 1%
Rockfalls Lei esecas eum
pT -
Here ware.......-.....-.....- 2%
omer... -.... i « <eo
Dry Goods............ 6
gute Manilia...... —.) @5%
Red Express No. 1 Lovee ace
No. - 4%
TWINES.
48 Cotton ee
Cotton, No. t..e a. ee oka
ee 16
x Island, Saad Leo.
i a
aso eee ee ace Cae ee
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, Not... 2. oe
WO 2... cee ee... 6 00
c No ft... ... oe
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop. 1 35
‘s No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 6
( sete al 5 gr. boxes.... 40
Bowls, - inch detec uecues 80
1 weuacua waa 90
e ees 1 60
17)" 23

2
assorted, 178 and 198 2 50

o ‘158, 17s and 19s 27
Baske ‘ts, market. . =
shipping - bushel. i=

full hoop 1

' bushel ...... 1x
e willow cl’ ths, No.1 5 7
' No.2 6 25
me « Bost eS

e splint No.1 3 50
ik No.2 4 25
_ ey

 

 

 

 

 

Wowl................-. 12 @13

Turkeys... ...........14 @io |

Ducks _...............1% @ia
Live Poultry.

Spring chickens......25 @3)

i... i.e. 2 Oa

| Turkeys...............12 @13 |

 

A NA TIONAL "BE VERAGE!

GHRIMAIN
COF' EE:

The Great and only Consideration in the
Manufacture f GERMAN is

Beautiful Books and Handsome Pictures GIVEN FREE to Patrons of German Coffee.

(See certificate in each package. )

TRY IT! You can get it of

VWicTOorfe The Very Best!

Purity, Strength and Pine Flavor.

AKING POWDER.

TO DEALERS: We authorize you to guarantee every can of Victor B

to any on the market or money refunded
Manufactured by THE TOLEDO SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio,
Roasters of HIGH GRADE COFFEES.

Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana.

A Combination of

OLD DUTCH JAVA

a ee

Guaranteed to Give E

THE FINEST MOCHA.

ntire Satisfaction.

any Jobber in Michigan !?

Packed 4 doz. each, 6 oz , at 80c per doz.

“ee 4 “ se 9

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2.06

aking Powder to be absolutely pure; free from any article inj

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$1.20 “

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urious to health and equal

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18

THE MICHI GAN TRADESMAN .

 

 

Trying to Collect a Claim in Northern
Michigan.

From the Detroit Collector.
Sands F. Moore, of the law firm of |
Sloman. Moore & Duffie, of Detroit, has

just returned from Northern Michigan,
and his experience in trying to enforce a
elaim will interest our readers.

A prominent local merchant ina nani
ern town, having given a mortgage
three hundred and sixty dollars upon his
stock, several clients of Mr. Moore’
firm became alarmed, and Mr. Moore
took the first train what could be
done. On arriving he found thata

5

to see

there

second mortgage for $1,045 had been giv- |

en to debtor’s brother three days before,
and assigned tothe local bank one day be-
fore. The stock in the store was greatly
reduced. and Mr. Moore did not like the
looks of things.

A Deti ~<ditor had sold the
three about five hundred
dollar goods, most of the bill
being spring g The client’s repre-
itive. who accompanied Mr. Moore,
could find no spring clothing in the store.

vit ef debtor,

 

weeks efore,
Ss Ww wth of
ods.

sent

 

  

After several efforts to get an interview
with the debtor Mr. Moore succeeded in
getting him into his room in the hotel,
where he denied all charges of fraud, but
after some talk wanted to know how
much would settle the claim, and on be-
ing informed, promised to tell Mr. Moore
in fifteen minutes what he would do, and
hurried to his lawyers’ office.

After waiting an hour Mr. Moore tele-
phoned to the county seat, twenty-two
miles away. fora writ of replevin, and
the sheriff arrived with it about nine
oelock at night The debtor, his two
lawyers and several friends locked them-
selves in the store and refused to let the
sheriff in. but that officer promptly broke
in the doors and took what few of the
ereditor’s goods were left. When the at-

 

 

torney and the sheriff entered the store
they were informed by debtor’s attorneys
that an assignment had already been |
made for the benefit of the creditors and
that the store was then in possession of
the assignee: but they were greatly
taken down when they were coolly in-
formed that the assignee was already

named as a defendant in the writ.

In a few days after Mr. Moore’s return

 

 

to Detroit it was learned that an invoice
of hats and gloves had been taken from
the depot to the store on the day before
the assignment, and that none of those
goods were mentioned among the assets.
Mr. Moore’s clients then instructed his
firm to use every means known to the
law. regardless of expense, and make the
debtor come to time, or give him the best
fight possible. Returning to the scene
of conflict, and learning that the stock
was to be sold under the second mortgage,
Mr. Moore quickly prepared a bill in
ehancery charging the second mortgage
to be a fraud, filed it at midnight at the
county seat. drove twenty-five miles, ob-
tained an injunctior from the cireuit
judge, got back in time to catch a train
for debtor’s residence and had the in-|
junciion s~rved in time to stop the sale.
In the meantime a detective. who came
from Detroit with Mr. Moore, had satis-
fied himself that, inasmuch as there was
not more than fifteen hundred dollars’
worth of goods in the store there must
be some elsewhere. A search warrant

had determined to have the debter ar-

an is a misde-

property, which in Michig
meanor, and for this purpose prepared
to take the train for the county seat, to
procure a warrant. Before reaching the
depot he discovered that the whole town,
|apparently, was following him, and the
next thing he knew he was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by aman who kept a
saloon next to the debtor’s store, and who
had complained that the attorney had
charged him with having stolen property
in his building. The situation had now
become exciting. Mr. Moore refused to
plead on the ground that the warrant
charged no offense known to the law, and
threatened prosecution to all who were
instrumental in his arrest. A gentleman
present, seeing the difficulty of Mr.
Moore’s situation, promptly furnished the
necessary bond, and the case was adjourn-
ed to the next day. On the next day the
case was called in the largest hall in the
town, but one of the people’s witnesses
was out of town and it was proposed to
adjourn to the next day.
the attorney and he demanded an adjourn-
ment for thirty days. The
then hurried to the lawyer’s office to get
another warrant,
ly procured a team,
miles to the county seat, got
started with a warrant for
and the next morning the

brought before a justice of the peace who
had been county clerk, and is also an
attorney, and aman more fearless in the
discharge of his duty cannot be found.
The debtor was arraigned, Mr. Moore and
the detective gave their evidence, and
hurried home on the last train Saturday
night, having spent a whole week on
their second trip. A week afterward
the examination was continued, and the
debtor was defended by two attorneys,
one of them the prosecuting attorney of
the county. This man for two whole
; days, vehemently insisted that the pros-
ecution should stop, and that his client,
who had done nothing wrong, should be
let He declared, as prosecuting attor-
ney, that no wrong had been done, and
that something dreadful should happen
to Mr. Moore for setting the criminal law
in motion; but when it was shown that
| three weeks before the assignment the
debtor had about $8,000 worth of goods,

the debtor,
debtor was

ry
£0.

j}and at the time of the assignment he
owed about $9,000, and had - only

$1,500 worth of goods, the justice of the
| peace stood firmly to his post and bound
| the debtor over to the circuit court. Mr.
Moore learned that another warrant was
out for him, drove twenty miles in a di-
rection different from what was expected
and got home again on Saturday night.

| Proceeding again under the bill in
chancery, it was made to appear to the

circuit judge that the assignee selected

| by the debtor was not a proper person to
represent the creditors, and an order was
made removing him, stopping the sale
| which he was about to make and appoint-
ing a receiver. The receiver has now
sold the stock, and the bank will have to
make a hard fight if it ever gets any of
the money.

A motion has been made requiring the
debtor to appear before the circuit court
in chancery with all his books
papers, and make a showing as to what
has become of his property, and explain

This disgusted | freely,

rested for fraudulently concealing his |

tormentors |

but the attorney quick- |
drove twenty-two |
the sheriff |

 

 

[ MARKET.

PRODUCE

 

Apples—Russets are about the only variety
still in the market, commanding $3 per ‘bbl.

Asparagus—#1.25 per dozen bunches,

Beans—The supply of dry stock is nearly ex
hausted, Handlers pay about $1.20 for country
stock and hold city picked at $1.50@#1.€0 per bu.

Butter—Dairy is in better sup ply. Dealers pay
about 16¢ for good to choice and hold at 17@1£e
— lb.

abbages—New stock is in fair
per crate of $125 Ibs.

Cranberries — Repacked Jerseys are in good
demand at $2.25 per bushel box.

Cueumbers $1.25 per doz.

Dried Apples—Sundried is held at 44%@5ce and
evaporated at #@0%c.

Eggs—Jobbers pay

Honey—1ld4c per Ib.

Lettuee—Grand Rapids Forcing is in fair de-
mand at 10e per Ib.

Maple Sugar—Dealers pay
hold at 8@9e.

Onions—Green are in fair demand at 12¢ per
dozen bunches. Dry stock is in small demand
and supply, commanding 60@s80e per bu.

Parsnips—In full ery at 30c per bu.

Pieplant—2!oc per Ht)

Pineapp jles- ~#1.75 per - doz.

Potatoes—Old stock in full supply at 25¢ per
bushel, New stock is in limited supply and de-
mand at $1.75 per bushel.

Radishes—35e per doz. bunches.

Strawberries—Tennessee berries are arriving
being held at 20@25c per qt.

demand at #4

12c and hold at 14e,

7@8e per lb. and

  

 

PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:

 

PORK IN BARRELS,
ee, Oe a 10 50
ee ee 11 50

| ie Coeee wie, SONS ONE.............000.. 1 oO
ere Oe,
Clear, fat back. — eee 2%
Boston clear, short e ut.. eee ee a 23 50
Clear back, short cut. . 3 2
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 13 50

SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.

i 7%
ee 9

 

ee Ne ioe eee ee a s
ere ee ec a 7%
ON ee 5
ew i ets ees ee oe 5
a ee 5
ee 5
LARD.
Kettle Com-
Re onde red. Granger. Family. pound.
Tierces . me 7 514 54
50 Ib. Tins...8 Z4 5% 514
20 Ib. Pails.. 814 TM 6 5%
~~ .. os 734 614 6
S836 ti‘ OG 7% 6% 6%
a. 8 614 6%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 6 50
Rita Moss, Caulcewo packing...............- 6 50
ee eee 9 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain,
Hams, average ee 9%
ee... 934
- Y me Oe ee a 10
. ae... Hs
” best eA NN A
eee "
Rroaktes Bacon, bOnOIeM.................... 8%
Drson eet, Ram Orioee....................:,.. Be
eee eee 6%
Pines, secre, ....:............ a ee ee 6%
“ Ee 6%
FRESH MEATS.
Swift & Company — as follows:
Beef, carcass...... sn a. ‘oo
“oo quarters.......-. 2-6... 6%@ 7
a — trt”t~i‘(iCS Ce 3%@ ie
SP, eee @ 9%
. ene 8%@ 9
ie I oc eet etic e ee @6
as... @ iw
Pork ioine..... oe i. " @ 7%
i ce ee @ 5%
Sausage, blood or CT @ 4%
eee. at @ 4%
oe @7
oe ee 9 @9%
Wee, ee es ee. 5 @6

and |

was sworn out, andin the debtor’s living | how it happens that, after starting in
rooms over the store was found about | business with $3,500, he fails in a little |
four hundred dollars’ worth of dry goods, | over a year, owing $9,000 and having}
boots, shoes, barrels of sugar and crack- | only $1,500 worth of property, and that |
ers, boxes of soap, canned goods, in fact} mortgaged to his brother. And if his!
avery complete assortment; among the!explanation is not satisfactory to the
rest, one full box of hats and gloves | circuit judge it may go hard with him.
which had been received the day before| If creditors throughout the country
the assignment. The goods were hidden | wonid have as much pluck and determi-

under beds, in trunks, and concealed as
much as possible.

By this time the situation was decid-
edly interesting. Nearly everyone in the
little town knew what was going on, and
quite a crowd collected about the store.
Mr. Moore proceeded in vigorous lan-
guage, to tell the debtor what he thought
of him, and that the fight had only just
begun; and in order to give him to un-
derstand that further search would be}
made, he turned to the detective
said:
ing over there,” at the same time shak- |
ing his head, but indicating no building |
in particular. By this time Mr. Moore

and |
‘*} would like to search that build-|

nation as these Detroit
there would be fewer

ereditors have,
failures,

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

 

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.

 

 

Full Weight. Bbls, Pails.
Standard, ici vc eis siete 6 7
il. ee OS ane 6 7
. EE ek snk ae es tr eke 6 7
Boater Cree .......... 20 lb, cases 8%
WO NE ee conc ccics aie 7 8
Boa 2 el cases 7 8
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.
bie, * Pails.
ie ead cae ees 6 ’
ee 6 7
ee ee 7M
(ices 8
eS ele 7 8
———__—_—————————_e—_eoeee | : &
Broken Taffy. Meee esos ease. ——, 8
Peanut Squares.. oo 8 9
i 10
Valley Croams......... i. 13
Midget, 30 Ib. beskets ee lee ee ees 8
Modern, : 0 Ib, as 8
Fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. Palls.
Lozenges, — eee a
ee oe
Eee .. 2s
Chocolate ieaemneniaia Leet dees ee ee aen ee 13
ee 5%
[eS 3
ee i ee 8%
ee ee eee 10
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box.
TE nc aoc bt eee oe cee ca 55
Gour Oreos ........ eee 55
PRC IIG PODER... on ee cee eect ne cous 60
Chocolate Drops.......... riisecues - 65
H. M. Chocolate ‘Drops... Ee es 90
MN Bis bocca cine in eyes .. .40@50
RO ee eu eahales 1 00
i Bee Fee... . 80
Lozenges, ecu eee Le eae e elon 60
printed.. ee
Ce 60
ee EE a 70
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ee ce cl
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ee 80@90
Deere Cree. ..............-.. ... 5... 1 00
ee 65
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Wintergreen A CA EN NE 60
CARAMELS.
mo. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes bh ee ee ay et ae 34
No. 1) é a Se 51
No. 2, ‘ 2 eT 28
No. 3, . 3 . ede eras cases 42
Stand up, 5 Te Meee. ... «2... ss. , 90
ORANGES.
Floridas, fancy—150 oc uee @A 00
eee eee @1 00
" russets - 150 Se eeie 4 eele bee muce @4 00
ai es 4 00
Californias, Riverside ie eee ee ees @
(OO
Messinas, choice gE ee a eS ooo @3 50
aoe @3 50
LEMONS.
Messina, ee @3 (0
ee 3 50@3 75
" —_—_—_ ee @3 50
' ee eee @4 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, ..... biebeisiyenee 12 @14
ee 14 @15
“  @mara 14% Lae wie ie weal oan oe @15
“ cc es ee @18
Dates, Fard, 10- Ib. box ee ee g 9
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" Persian, 50. lb. box.. 44@ 5
NUTS.
Almonds, ee. se @16
ee @15
. California Dia ease ues eee cee. Bl6
ee @i%
ric ee ek ee @il
Walnuts, ee @13
ars....... Se ee @
“ "hil ee @10
Table. Nuts, a eee eee @12%
eee ce ooe @11%
Pomme, Tore, G. F., ...---. cvisseusdh ee
Cocoanuts, NS oiuuss cuacs @4 25
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P., cc cece eee. @5%
o ‘Roasted Ee! .- Om
Fancy, H. P. Fla, BBB. woe ee eee eee ee @ 5%
Roasted....... ieee @ iT
Choice, H. P. hunien Bee ec cues @ 14%
~ woe... @ 6%

 

 

Your Orders for

Oranges Bananas, Lemons, Dates, Nuts, Figs

And Everything Handled by us are Respectfully Solicited.

and col-|

lections would be much more prompt}

and satisfactory.
—-_> ®

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

—OR——
PAMPHLETS.
| For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

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THE PUTNAM CANDY CO.

 

PEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

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THE

Give the Boys a Practical Business
Education.
Written for Tuk TRADESMAN.

There never was a time in the history
of this country when the absolute neces-
sity of a careful business preparation
was made so manifestly apparent as it is
to-day.
at the present time.
maintaining a

The chanees for
family and securing a
home are very poor, indeed, for the man

who lacks the necessary qualification or

practical business training to enable him }

to go out into the rushing, crowding,
jostling, matter-of-fact world, and make
something

mands the application of shill.

or do something which de-

Tg - tc - tej |
There is no demand for unskilled labor. | in business and, therefore, it will not be

The old countries of overcrowded Europe |

have been using this country as a com-

mon dumping ground for their surplus |

population to such an extent that the
American market for common, unskilled

and unedueated labor has become so com- |

pletely glutted that an American born
citizen in the condition above described
is compelled to lay aside his working
outtit, hang up shovel and hoe and en-
list asa common private in the mighty
army of satellites who manage by hook
and by crook to secure a precarious liv-
ing off the industry of others.
sionally a manof this class, endowed with

Oceas-

an unusual degree of Yankee smartness
and not too heavily burdened with con-
science, succeeds in amassing quite a
property; but the rank and file are pushed
to one side—victims of early neglect or
of wasted opportunities. ‘Go West,
young man,” will no longer afford an es-
cape from the difficulty. There was a
time when Uncle Sam was supposed to be
“rich enough to give us all a farm,’’ but
when we read of the terrible scramble
which 40,000 men, women and children
made the other day down in Oklahoma,
to secure the privilege of buying a little
spot of alkaline earth in which to drive
a home stake, we conclude that the sup-
position was a shortsighted one. When
we read of the mad rush for a small
piece of blizzard-stricken and drought-
cursed Dakota earth, when Uncle Sam
gave the signal and yelled ‘too.’ in the
Sisseton reservation race, we wondered
why these crazy people did not go and
quietly settle on some of our Uncele’s
free farms. It reminded me of my first
‘“‘earavan.” when I lingered to witness
the feeding of a cage of hungry lions. The
lions were wild ferocious brutes, but in
their scramble for meat, they exhibited
about the same intensity of desire, and
about the same disregard for their fel-
lows, as the over-crowded and land-hun-
gry citizens of this country do when
Uncle Sam tosses them a small slice of
fourth-class real estate. For the want of
room, war to the knife has been declared
between the cattle raisers and grain pro-
ducers of the new State of Wyoming.
Three years ago, while the writer was in
Washington ‘Territory, he read in the
Governor’s report of that year, this state-
ment: ‘“There is no use denying the fact
that all of our most desirable government
lands have all been taken up two years
ago.” At this time, interest in the East
had just been awakened in this remote
corner of our great country; yet all of
Uucle Sam’s desirable free farms had

been given away two years previous to

that time.

The lot of the unskilled American lab-
Free land is
no longer at his disposal and the for-

orer is, indeed, a bad one.

Conditions are rapidly changing |

}
leigner is crowding him out of the fields
of common labor.
| plorable, but it is unmeasurably

than will be that of his children, if

His condition is de-
better

they
follow his footsteps and take his

the ranks of

ylace in

}
pla
unskilled labor. Let us

gracefully resign this department otf

human activity (or inactivity, as it ts

| fast becoming) to the foreign elements
and enter upon the higher planes of use-
fulness, as becomes true Americans. In
order to accomplish this we must not
neglect the education and training of our
ichildren who are so soon to take our
| places. Let us not be deluded with the
idea that, because we may have plenty of
means, we shall be able to set them up
necessary to give them a thorough busi
ness education or subject them to a com-
plete training in some skilled mechanical

department of labor. ‘The wealth which

we command to-day may take the wings
of the morning and fly away, leaving us

|

inothing but a superticial education and
a little polish with which to ward off the
butfeting billows of adversity.

Every young American, before he
reaches his twenty-tifth birthday, should
acquire some profession, master some

mechanical trade, receive a thorough

practical training in some commercial
pursuit, or learn to do well some service
for which the business world has asteady
demand.

Give the boys a chance; they will be
battling with the tough and knotty prob-
laid
every assistance we may render them in

lem of life after we are away, and

their preparation for the great battle of

 

life will be kindly

| City of the Dead.

remembered every
time they read our epitaphs in the Silent
It is a duty we owe to
them, to society, and to our country.
E. A. OWEN.
ene i i i “

Tired of Raffles and Raffle Tickets.
From the Interstate Grocer.

‘Heaven deliver me from raiiles,
a prominent specialty dealer. “It is my

dealers of this city, and L am asked often
to buy tickets for some kind of rattle.
These rafiles are
thing from a pointer dog to a wagon, a
stove, or a white elephant. Not long

 

 

or nothing from me, came to my office to
sell me some ratile tickets for a park
wagon. I told him that Il had no use for
a park wagon, that my wife would have
me sent to the insane asylum if L brought
lone home, and that any way, if only
| three tickets to the rafile were sold and 1
| held two that the third would be sure to
win. He insisted, however, and I put
up two large, lovely below-par_ silver
dollars for two tickets. Well, the draw-
ing took place last Saturday night, in the
little 3x9 bar-room back of my friend’s
store, and, unfortunately, L won the park
wagon. He sent four men out to my
house to look for me, to inform me of
my good fortune, and bring me to the
| proposed feast, but 1 was not at home.
On Monday, however, | went to see him
and he proudly took me out to see the
park wagon. L should, on a rough esti-
mate, say that it had stood in some park
| for about twelve years. lL estimated its
| net worth at $8.63. I smiled a ghastly
| smile of pleasure, and, thinking to do the
proper thing, I handed him $2, with the
lrequest that he ‘treat the boys.’ He
looked me over coldly and remarked that
the boys had drank about $8 worth on
me. I handed that amount to him, after
calculating that it represented about 160
drinks, although five people couldn’t get
into his place at once. I tried to trade
the wagon off for $10, but the only offer 1
received for it was $6. I am done with
raffles and rafile tickets.”

_ lt A lap

Use Tradesman Cowpon Books.

 

since a grocer of this city who buys little |

   
 

said |

business to circulate daily among the}

likely to be for any-|

|
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Schedule in effect January 10, 1892
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

Arrive from Leave going
Nort

    

 

Se nh
>:15 a m r:.0S a m
averse Ww 2 ll. am
Saginaw ty 4.15 pm
Petoskey & Mackinaw 10:30 x
k wand Chicag
ir ng at 9:20 ally ains aily

   

From Sagin
Tra {
allot

 
 

  

Muskegon, Grand Kapids & ludiana.

e@av From Muskegon— Arrive
>a
4:40 p m
¥:00 P

11:30 am train.

Rapids to Petoskey and

    
 
    
    

10:30 p m train. ran
Rapids to Petoskey an

SOUTH--7:00 am train, -Pa and
Rapid » Cin at

  

»>m train, Wagner Sleeping Car
nd Rapids to Cincinnati
05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping ©
Grand Rapids to Chicago

Chicago via G. R. & 1. KR. RK.
10:30 am 2.0 pr tt

   
 
    
 
    

11:05 p m train daily, thr

Ly Chicago

Arr Grand Rapids
3:10 p m through Wa

train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

 

Through tickets and full information can be had by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta
tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent 67
Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

©. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent

 
 

Railwey.

In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern or Detroit, Grand Hay & Milw
offers a route making the best time betwe :
Grand Rapids and Toledo.

Via D., L, & N.

Ly. Grand Rapids at 7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m.
Ar, Toledo at 12:55 p. m. and 10:4) p.m.
VIA D., @. H. & M,

Ly. Grand Rapids at 6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at ... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p, m,

Return connections equally as good.

, H. Bennett, General Pass, Agent,

    

>

Toledo, Ohio

GHAS. A. GOYE,

MANUFACTURER OF

 

10S & Tel

Horse and Wagon Covers

JOBBERS OF

Hammocks and Gotton Ducks

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

We are very large receivers of the above ar
ticles and are prepared tosell your shipmente
promptly at the highest market price and to
vive you quick returns.We also receive and seli

HAY, GRAIN, WOOL, HIDES,
GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES,
GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS,
OR ANYTHING YOU MAY, HAVE TO SHIP ste

Write us for prices or any information you
miny Want.

SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO..

Commission Merchants,
174 S$. WATER ST., - CHICAGO, ILL

Kefereuce: Metrovoltitan Natl Bank, OLicago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be sure and Mention this Paper.

 

'Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan

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MiGuiGAN CENTRAL

    

 

 

 

   

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Trav. Pass

City Ticket Agent
23 Monroe Street

JAN'TY 3, 180%

 

HHCAGO *

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AND WES? MUECHIG AN R’Y.

GOING TO CHICAGO
Ly.GR’D RAPIDS O-OOwm 12:05pm *1i 8pm
Ar. CHICAGO 2:55pm S:2hpm Ye Oa
RETURNING FROM CHICAGO
CHICAGO O-00am 4:45pm *1tstSpra
GRD RAPIDS :Sopm LO:tOpma *os 10am
ro AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, st
INDIANAPOLIS
Lv. Grand Rapids O:O0um 12:05pm *ibssopm
Ar, Grand Rapids o:}0um 3:55pm lO: lopm
For lndianapolis 12:05 pm only
fh) AND FROM MUSKHQON
Ly. G. 10:00am 12 08pm 5:50pm
Ar, G. O:S5am yur Os Yopi
ro AND FROM MANIT AE TRAVERSE CUPY AND KLAN
RAPIDS.
Ly. Grand Rapids vam
Ar, Grand Rapids 11: 5am
TMIROUGH CAK SERVICE
Between Grand Rapids und Chicago
Sleepers Leave Grand rpids *11:35 pm ; leave
Chieago 11:15 pm Parlor Butfet Cars— Leave
Grand Rapids 12:05 pn, leave Chicago 4)45 pm
ree Chair Cars Leave Grand Rapids 9:00 a mn;
leave Chicago 0:00 tn,

Between Grand Rapids and Manistee
Chair Car--Leaves Grand Rapits5:te pin,
Manistee 6:50 a m

DETROIT,

LANSING & NORTHERN RK, B.

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Ss :d0prm

Te pre
9:40pm

Wagner

Free
leaves

 

JAN'Y ¢

QOING TO DETROIT

Lv. GR’'D RAPIDS 15am *1:00pm 5 40pin
Ar, DDTROIT 2:00 #5: topm 10:40pm
RETUKNING FROM DETROUTP
Ly. DETROT! yOOuwm *t:iSpm 8:40pm
Ar.GR'D RAPIDS 11:d0am *5: 15pm 10:15pm

To and from Lansity nnd tlowell--Same as to

and from Detrott

ALMA AND AT, LOL is
7:05am 4:15pm
11:50am 10 }40pm

ro AND FROM SAGINAW
Ly. Grand Rapids
Ar, Grand Rapids
ro LOWELL! VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS K, BR
Ly. Grand Rapids Tiida 1:00pm § 40pm
Ar, from Lowell 11:f0um 5:15pm
THROUGH CAR SERVE K

Between Grand Rapids and Detroit Parlor
cars on all trains, Seats 25 cents
Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw Parlor

ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 a th, arrives th
Grand Rapids 7:40 pm, Seats 2 cents
*Kvery day Other trains week days only,
" “GRO. DEHAVEN, Gen, Pass'r Ag’t,

my
STUDY LAW
AT HOME.

Take a course in the

Sprague Correspon-

dence school of Law

[incorporated] fend ten

cents [stamps] for particu

lars to

J. COTNER, Jr,, Sec'y,
No. 875 Whitney Block,

DETROIT,- MIOH,

  

 

ot amen

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

|
Shopping from the Standpoint of the}

Shopper.

“Not fond of shopping, ma’am?”
Mr. Oldstyle. ‘‘Dear me, how extr’or-
dinary! I thought the ladies always were.”’

There are certain traditions handed
down from father to son about ‘‘the
ladies,”’ and ‘‘the gentlemen,’’ bless
them, will believe them until the end of
time.

Perhaps in those old days when the

says

customer was of importance, and when a
lady could sit comfortably at a broad
counter deliberating on the respective
qualities of the goods laid before her,
while the obliging shopkeeper dilated on
their merits at length, and seemed only
born to wait upon her, shopping may
have had its charms; but in the present
“upstairs” and ‘‘downstairs,” ‘‘farther
along’’ time, it is different.

I fancy even our great-grandmothers
would not feel it necessary to keep their
reputation for »eing all ‘‘womanly,’’ by
eontinuing to be ‘fond of shopping.’’

The ordinary shopper certainly regards
it asone of the trials of her life. She
must endure it if she would have proper
raiment, and she might like a day’s
outing if the thing could be made easier
for her. Often she would save herself
long journeys and the struggle with an
ill-mannered crowd, if she could get any-
thing at the small shops.
ean?

Is it want of common-sense, of enter-
prise or of means that causes small shop-

But who ever

keepers always to be ‘‘out’’ of everything
Todrive
their patrons away by offering them rusty
hair-pins, needles without eyes, cotton
that snaps with every stitch? After try-
ing to deal with the poor little woman
around the corner, or the nice old man
two streets off, the effort is abandoned by
the most benevolent. The big, four-story
establishment is the only alternative, and
if any woman enjoys shopping as it must
be done there, she is a candidate for a
museum of curiosities.

sure to be asked for every day?

The shopper is a person of no impor-
tance in these days; the crowd of custom-
ers are usually objects of derision to the
young persons behind the counters.

‘““Customers,’’ I heard one saleswoman
say, ‘‘are an awful bother.’’ And her
neighbor replied:

**Oh, yes.
to their whims.

I never pay any attention

This disregard of custemers’ ‘‘whims”
is the rule among the salespeople; it adds
to the trials of the weary shopper, who
has left her house, her needle, her baby,

perhaps her trade or profession, to provide

 

herself with articles that she at
needs. She wishes to deliberate;
make a sensible choice; to a. a
little taste; and this is scarcely possible
in the midst of a crowd fighting for place,
standing three deep before the counters,
often with no seats to sit upon, no place
to lay down bag or parcel while the purse
is opened; with continual advice to go
‘three rooms down,’”’ or ‘‘four rooms
across,”’ or ‘‘to the basement,’’ or ‘‘up-
stairs,’’ fur articles that properly belong
to each other, such as the linings and
the buttons of a dress, trimmings to
match it, silk with which to sew it; the
long waiting for change or for little|
parcels she wishes to take home—all this
in an atmosphere always oppressively
close, and sickening with furnace-heat in
winter.

You may select a scarf in two min-
utes and pay for it in two more, and you
may wait fifteen for your change,
and then find that Mr. Smith has
not signed a mysterious piece of pink
paper, and wait ten more until he is
found and signs it, and five more while
he holds it in his hand and gets alengthy
explanation from Miss Brown, assisted
by Miss Jones. No doubt it is all part
of the splendid system that keeps the
proprietor from being robbed by his em-
ployees; but the customer who stands
quivering with impatience, and hearing,
in imagination, her infant’s wails, can
searcely be expected to enjoy it. Ten to
one she goes home without buying half
the things she put down on the list as |
necessary, and without having gratified |
her taste in anything she has bought.

In a greater or less degree, according

 

to circumstances, this is every women’s
shopping experience. 1, who have lefta |
favorite heroine hangingover a cliff by |
the tips of her taper fingers, and must!
rescue her before I sleep, have wasted |
nearly an hour in buying a ballof darn- |
ing-cotton and waiting for one cent}
change. And Mr. Oldstyle thinks that it
is extraordinary that I’m not ‘‘fond of |
shopping.”

_>-

It is time to call a halt on the practice
in vogue among many retailers, of adver-
tising to sell almost everything below
cost. It is ahumbug plan that deceives
a good many people and drives away the
patronage of others. It is unnecessary, |
for it is a useless exaggeration. The
firms who sell regularly ‘‘below cost”

have big rental bill to pay and other |
large expenses, and_ they cannot
pay these bills and os
‘below cost.’ ” There are tricks

|
|
i

-The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER.

The Modern Writing Machine!

 

 

Visible Writing.

Permanent Alignment.

Automatic Ribbon-Feed Reverse
High Speed.

FPowerfal Manifolder.

ee Durable.

The No 2 Machine takes paper 9
inches w ide, and writes line 8 inches
long. Price, $100 complete.

The No. 3 Machine takes paper 14
inches wide, and writes a line 13%
incheslong Price, $110 complete

SEND FOR CATALOGUE.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, State Agents,

Grand Rapids,

Mich

 

Oranges, Lemons Bananas, Nuts, Figs, Da

A Full Line always Carried by

THER PUTNAM GANDY GO.

 

5000 Sold.

Patented 1887.

Why Wanted,

It’s the origina! of its
class. it’s the favorite
with Druggists, Clothiers,
Shoe Scores, 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

i purchasing. YOU will

probably say as this party
does:

Dear Sirs: We will say
that for our business we
greatly prefer your ‘“‘Desk
Cashier” to the National,
even at the same price, for
every business selling bills
of goods, or odd number
sales your Desk Cashier is
preferable to the National,
not considering price. We

| are so well pleased with it
| that with our three Desks
we consider our cash sys ©

tem almost complete.
ie . 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,

 

car "5 AMERICAN CASH RBGISTER OD 7m Chica

till at the Peane!

The Merchant who buys the Best always secures the Famous

IVERSIDE CHEESE

Which brand has been handled by our house exclusively for 18 years and has always taken the lead.

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO.

 

 

    

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~ SAGINAW MANUFACTURING C0,

SAGINAW, MICH.,

Manufacturers of the Following List of Washboards. i
|

 

 

 

 

5) tresvet |
4 Red Star | POSURE ACE |
| Shamrock — | gotid tine,
| Ivy Leaf ]
S| Wik |
| Saginaw ==: Double Zine
™ | Defiance | ‘Surface.
| Rival
| Wikon
| Saginaw Single Zine
A | Vefiance §= | Surface.
| Rival

 

The above are all superior
Washboards, in the class to
which they belong. Send for
cuts and price-list before order-
ing.

 

T. S. FREEMAN Agt,Grand Rapids, Mich.

STANDARD OIL CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

 

DEALERS IN

Tlluminating and Lubricating
2

-OILs-

NAPTHA AND GASOLINES.
Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave.

 

BULK WORKS AT

MUSKEGON,
GRAND HAVEN,
HOWARD CITY,

GRAND RAPIDS,
BIG RAPIDS,
ALLEGAN,

MANISTEE, CADILLAC,

LUDINGTON.
PETOSKEY,

HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR

KMPYY GARBON % GASOLINE BARRELS.

 

Wash Goods!

BATES,
GINGHAMS, SIMPSON, HAMILTON, MERRIMACK, HARMONY
PACIFIC, GARNER AMERICAN LIGHT PRINTS
IN FANCY AND STAPLE STYLES.

TOILE DU NORD, A. F. C. WARWICK, AMOSKEAG,

AND BLUE

Cottons, Ticks and Demins

Peerless Warps.

ro eM ETEE & SONS.

 

Spring & Company,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Dress Goods, Shawls,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons

Cloaks,

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.

Spring & Company.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & UD,

WHOLESALE

Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks

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

Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks.
OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE.

Tig Harpolsheimer & G0, *° Gana Rapias

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.

 

     

 

 

 

H. LEONARD & SONS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

IRON LAWN, OR GARDEN VASES.

 

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Entire height, 32 inches. Entire diameter, 21 inches on top. Bottom of vase, Entire height, 39 inches. Bottom base. 21 inches square. Top base, 15 inches

15 inehes square. square. Diameter of Vase, 21 inches. Width to outside of handles, 29 inches.