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VOL. 9.

GRAND RAPIDS, MAY 18, 1892.

NO. 452

 

 

TELFER SPICE COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of
Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries.

land 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS

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BORDER BANDITS.

Asa haunt of crime, the slum-laby-
rinth of a populous city is rivaled by the
wilderness of a thinly settled border
land. For purposes of bolder enterprise,
there is even a decided preponderance of
advantages in favor of the wilderness;
and during the carnival of chaos that
followed the downfall of the Mexican
Empire, the border-counties of Texas
were infested by whole regiments of
professional bandits—‘‘patriots,” as they
called themselves, when they used their
pistols only to ‘‘defray expenses,’’ as the
Salvation Army would say. In Cameron
county, near the mouth of the Rio
Grande, the firm of Cortina & Bros. was
doing a wholesale business in patriotism
of that sort, till one day the senior
member of the syndicate was arrested on
a charge of having annexed the horse of
the widow W » an American lady
who had been visiting on the Mexican
side of the river.

The next day a representative of the
Matamoros Ranchero called at the head-
quarters of the firm.

“It’s an infernal piece of blackmail,”
cried Cortina, junior; ‘‘but mark my
word, we’ll make them sorry for it.
There’s some mistake about it, sure,” he
added after a while. ‘‘If that had been
my brother, he would have kidnapped
the old lady, too.’’

By a similar line of logic a Mexican
expert would probably arrive at the con-
clusion that no countrymen of his could
have had a hand in the recent Texas
train-robberies. On the first occasion
the passengers were not molested at all.
The last time they were let off with an
optional contribution. That latter trans-
action, would, especially, have struck a
Spanish-American critic as wholly un-
professional. A wealthy candidate for
the presidency of the republic might
content himself with stopping a train for
the purpose of removing a political rival;
but a specialist should have business
tact enough to know that only a
thorough and impartial search can do
justice to all parties concerned. A single
deviation from that rule once cost
Colonel Jeaningros the prize of a peril-
ous expedition for the capture of an
army-chest, which a disguised paymaster
managed to smuggle throughin ashabby-
looking tool-box.

 

When the first regular train was put
on the trans-Cordilleras line from Vera
Cruz to Puebla, the Rio Grande profes-
sionals sent down a commissary, who
scrutinized the phenomenon with a glad
surprise, at once appreciating the busi-
ness advantages of the novel invention.
Stage-coaches could take to the woods,
or change their route altogether (the
Mantamoros diligencia having thus re-
peatedly dodged the best-laid traps); but
the pre-ordained track of a train prom-
ised to raise interception to the rank of
an exact science. <A picked band of
veterans, with a detachment of trained
spies, was at once dispatched to the new
Eldorado, and from November, 1869, till
May, 1870, the passenger train of the
main line was robbed about once a week

 

NO. 452,

—by some queer coincidence, nearly
always on ‘‘crowd days,” no matter how
cunningly the depot agents might have

smuggled in their passengers in the
bustle of miscellaneous _ traffic. It
seemed clear that the ‘‘patriots” must

have inside aid, bu‘ a constant change of
employees evidently failed to diminish
their sources of information. Railway
patrols were equally unavailing. A
force of mounted rangers scoured the
country in every direction south and
north of the track, but that track led
through a rougher mountain country
than the eastern division of the Denver
and Utah railroad. Regular train-guards
would have strained the resources of the
impecunious company, but had at last to
be adopted as a lesser evil.

Uniformed beef-eaters, to the number
of twenty and upward, were then hauled
to and fro on the line of the most dan-
gerous section (from Paso del Macho to
Amozot) and local toughs were -collared
by scores; but the genius of the
Grande committee rose superior to all
difficulties. Twice the west-bound train
was robbed in the open prairie, within
gun-shot of a regular depot. Twice the
track of the lower section was obstructed
in a way that prevented the two trains
from meeting at the dinner-station, thus
putting the west-bound passengers at the
mercy of the bandits; and on one occas-
ion the car containing the beef-eaters
was uncoupled and left on the track,
while the rest of the train
way in charge of
ductor.

Rio

pursued its
an improvised con-

But as the excess of all evils tends to
suggest the means of relief, the afflicted
officials at last bethought themselves of
exorcising their demons with the aid of
Beelzebub, by invoking the assistance of
the ‘‘Contra-Guerillas’’—mounted detee-
tives, as we might define them—a quasi-

organized body of desperadoes, sub-
sidized by the general government, and

employed chiefly in the neighborhood of
the Indian reservation south and south-
west of the Rio Grande. The leader of
these rangers was at that time engaged
in guarding the mines of Chihuahua,
which had been been repeatedly raided
by the moss-troopers of Pancho Parras,
but after meeting the agent of the rail-

 

 

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way commissioners he had a private in- haps rather suspicious alacrity, for they

lieutenant, a; were ordered to halt and advance one at
ready companion of every desperate en-|
(El Cura), asi

terview with his ablest
noted partisan of the Juarists, and a
terprise. ‘‘The Parson’’
his troopers called him in allusion to his
favorite disguise, at once closed the
bargain, but stipulated for absolute
secrecy and carte-blanche privileges for
all preparatory arrangements.

Three days after, El Cura and a select
posse of his sharp-shooters embarked for
Vera Cruz under various disguises.
During the first half of May, 1870,
the spies of the bandits had no reason
for special apprehension. A new brake-
man or two were added to the force of
the freight department. A baggage-
master of the passenger train was recom-
mended for a position in the repair-
shops, and his successor was temporily
accomodated with several assistants; a
new huckster appeared on the platform
of the dinner-station, and seemed busy
enough to justify the engagement of two
partners; but the trains came and went
as usual; the beef-eaters were again out-
witted, and on the 18th of May a train
was for the last time stopped in the
open vega and ransacked from end to
end.

That outrage furnished a welcome
pretext, and on the next day the train
started out with a howitzer conspicuous-
ly mounted on the weather-deck of the
tender. On that isolated redoubt the
commissioners might as well have
mounted a wash-tub, for in the absence
of an ordnance guard there was nothing
to prevent the robbers from collaring
the engineer and pitching his battery
overboard; but the arrangement served
as an excellent blind; an innovation of
some sort had been visibly adopted, and
the patriots might be expected to take
their accordingly. Those
measures simplified by
change of programme,
The old train-guards beef-eaters)
were transferred to an platform
ear, drawn by a special engine, and fol-
lowing the regular train at a distance
varying from a hundred yards to a mile,

measures
were another
equally futile.
(the

open

for nothing seemed pow easier than to
run the main train ahead, and detain the
rear-guard by some sudden obstruction.

Traffic of some sort or other seemed,
nevertheless, to increase, for the passen-
ger-trains now began to carry double
baggage-cars and modified their schedule,
made it difficult to
run the up-grades on time. The
guard, too, then moderated their speed
—so much, indeed, that they often re-
mained two full miles behind. For
nearly a week the little howitzer rode
triumphant, and the bandits themselves
seemed to enjoy the absurdity of the
phenomenon; but on the long run there
was no resisting that combination of
business chances, and on the 26th of the

as if their overload
rear-

month a big tree was suddenly dropped
athwart the track of the rear train just
when the front section was making good
time on a down-grade. At the end
of that grade a red flag was fluttering in
the breeze, a blockade hove in sight, and
the train came to a full stop.

“‘Q Dios! Ladrones! Bandits!’ Yes,
there they came. Twenty, thirty of
them, pistol in hand, rose from behind
the obstruction or emerged from the
shade of concealing thickets.

‘*Alaxo! Out and down, all of you!’
came the fully expected command,
which the trainmen obeyed with per-

 

a time.

‘‘What’s in that third car?’’

“Baggage. Shall we open it?”’

“Never mind now. Out with your
boodle! Turn out your pockets, and be
quick about it!’

The search began.

“Hurry up! Here comes the train-
guard!’ yelled out one of the brakemen.

‘“‘Who was that? Hush up, you luna-
tic!’ growled the leader, not, though,
without an uneasy glance to the rear.
“Here, my men, stand together here!”
fearing that some of his cutthroats
might take the alarm and run. ‘‘This
way, all of you!”’

Just up to programme, for in the next
second the door of car No. 3 began to
gape, and a moment after a crash of
musketry turned the scene into a babel
of yells and confusion, and before the
robbers could answer the shrieked com-
mands of their leader, twelve of them
were rolling in their blood, while the
rest rushed to the woods in wild, uncon-
trollable terror. Volley after volley
sent forth its storm of balls and slugs;
and when the beef-eaters at last did
come, though at a double quick, the
work was done, and EI Cura, note-book
in hand, was standing on the track,
while his men were dragging up the
corpses or emptying their pistols into
the brain of some crippled wretch.

From that day the security of the
Mexican railroads was equalled only by
the popularity of their securities, till the
line of the Mexican Central approached
the Rio Grande and tempted the border
bandits to muster their reserve forces—
their home guards, as it were—and re-
new the campaign on the scene of their
historic triumphs. Robberies then be-
came chronic again, and for nearly a
year the interception of every rich cargo
proved that the patriots had once more
established a thorough system of espion-
age. In stress of contracts the govern-
ment at last massed all its available
troops along the imperiled route; the
United States garrison in Southern
Texas were instructed to co-operate, and
an international fox-hunt of two years
ultimately abated the nuisance.

Train robberies have since been re-
duced toarational minimum of half a
dozen per year, and more than once the
cavaliers have been routed by the timely
arrival of a patrol; but, time permitting,
they rarely fail to indemnify themselves
by an exhaustive search. They rip up
bundles and satchels, empty the contents
of every trunk, make passengers strip to
the skin, and in doubtful cases take their
baggage along, to search it in the leisure
of their bivouac. Their ferreters seem
to have developed a sixth sense for the
discovery of hidden valuables; but, for
all that, a little jew from Brownsville,
Texas, once managed to baffle their vigi-
lance. Just as they entered his car, he
turned in his seat, and with an appear-

ance of anxious dispatch proceeded to
squeeze a small satchel behind the
shutters of the next window. They

could not help noticing his maneuver,
and promptly ordered him to stand up |
and fold his hands. When they tackled
him in due course, their spokesman at
once turned to that window.

‘‘What’s this here? Tried to beat us, |
you poor sinner, did you? Cogale—hold
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“Oh, don’t, don’t,’? wailed the poor
sinner; ‘“‘that’s my children’s money.

They will starve! they will starve! they |

will die! my poor little girls!’

‘Send ’em this way, and we'll
eare of them,’’ was the brutal
‘“‘How much is that, anyhow?”’

“Oh, Lord Senor, all I have in the
world—twelve thousand dollars in Aimer-
ican money—twelve thousand two
hundred dollars, I think—’’

“Is that so?” fingering over the notes.
“Yea, more or Let’s see your
pocket, now.’’? A handful of silver was
turned out bit by bit—some five dollars,
perhaps.

‘Oh, Senor, you are surely not going
to take my last penny?’’

“D—n it, no!’’

take
reply.

less.

broke in the leader.
‘Let him keep his nickels, and his
watch, too. This will do us,’? shoving
the roll into his gripsack. ‘‘Good boy!’’
with a slap on his back. ‘‘Next!’’--with
a complacent grin, which a week or so
later was probably seen on the other side
of his face, when he ascertained that
those ‘‘American bank-notes’’ had been
issued by the Confederate Government.

A package of less irredeemable secu-
rities had, in the meanwhile, been stick-
ing safely under the eushion of the wily
passenger, who had taken that satchel
along for the special purpose of divert-
ing attention from the main stake.

Frevix L. OSWALD.
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Abrogation of Tobacco Monopoly.

The failure of the Tobacco Monopoly
in Persia bids fair to have political re-
sults of considerable importance. It will
be remembered that last summer a syndi-
eate of English capitalists secured a con-
cession from the Shah for a tobacco regie
to include not only the export but in-
ternal trade. After a considerable sum
of money had been expended in perfect-
ing arrangements, the Persian Govern-
ment was compelled by popular clamor
to recall, first the internal and at last the
export concessions. The question then
arose of remuneration to the English
stockholders, both for their actual ex-
penditures and their loss of interest on
the capital. After considerable bargain-
ing, the Persian Government agreed to
pay the English stockholders the sum of
£500,000 in full for all claims. This
proposition was accepted, but then
came the question of how the money was
to be secured. There is little ready
money in Teheran, but the Persian finan-
eciers have already learned lessons from
Europe and Turkey, and a loan was soon
suggested. Here should have’ been
England’s opportunity, and had_ Sir
Drummond Wolf been Ambassador it
weuld probably have been improved.
As it was, Russia stepped in and has
offered to loan the requisite sum, receiv-
ing as security the control of the cus-
toms. The results of such an arrange-
ment it is easy to foresee. With the
most important source of revenue abso-
lutely in her control, Russia can scareely
fail to make herself omnipotent in
Teheran. That once accomplished, and
the Kajar dynasty made dependent, it
will not take a long step to the Persian
Gulf, and Russia will at last have her
outlet to the southern seas.

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There are at present only five factories
in this country for the manufacture of
beet sugar, three being in California and
two in Nebraska. It is estimated that
it would require 750 factories of the size
of the Chino, Cal., factory to produce
enough sugar for the consumption of the
United States. Many are of the
opinion that no more profitable crop
can be raised in a large portion of
the United States than sugar beets, and
the establishment of factories would,
no doubt, prove to be a very profitable
investment.

 

 

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It is easier to create a debt than the
means for satisfying it.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

EVOLUTION OF THE DRUMMER.

The Younger Traveling Men Said to be
Ousting the Old-Timers.
From the Denver News.

“One of the noticeable changes of the
last one or two years is the disappearance
of the old-fashioned traveling man,” re-
marked a wide-awake hotel manager
yesterday, as he cast his eye over a num-
ber of guests of the house as they sat in
the rotunda. The keen winds from the
mountains had warned the patrons of

ithe hotel to remain indoors, and the

lounging place presented an animated
scene.

‘Now, take these people here,’’ con-
tinued the speaker, ‘‘and ll venture to
say there are not more than three old-
time drummers in the entire crowd.
While over half the men in the rotunda
are representatives of some Eastern com-
mercial establishment, they are young
men, and some of them are in Denver for
the first time.

‘The change commenced last year, and
I eould name at least a score of familiar
countenances that are greeted no more
over the counter. The day is past when
a commercial traveler can camp down in
any of the larger cities and coax his cus-
tomers of smaller places to pay him a
visit and inspect his samples. In the
years gone by the drummer who struck
Denver expected to remain ten days or
two weeks. He spread out his samples
in the sample room of the hotel and
booked orders as the country customers
dropped in. The traveling man usually
laid himself out for a high old time
while gracing the city with his presence.

*‘Why,I’ ve seen representatives of large
houses take a vacation of a week to rest
up after a long railway ride from. New
York or Philadelphia. The houses have
found out that the heavy, slow-going
men were getting left by the young chaps,
and the change was quickly inaugurated.
The young fellows are sent out now.
They go on the fly and make it a point
to visit personally every customer in his
regular place of business. Postal cards
to customers don’t count under the keen
competition which has developed recent-
ly.

‘Another innovation which is spread-
ing alarm among traveling men is the
ease with which business men may secure
passes from railroads. A business man
goes to a railroad manager and announces
that he is thinking of visiting the Eastern
market. Although nothing may be said
about it, the railway magnate takes it for
granted that his caller will order his
goods shipped over the line granting the
pass. Pasteboards are accordingly is-
sued, not only for the merchant, but for
his entire family and one or two cousins
and aunts thrown in. The practice has
grown to such an extent that the railway
men tell me it is becoming a serious
question for the management to decide
where to draw the line.

“The merehant goes East and makes
his selection of goods, instead of patron-
izing the man who ison the road. The
railways have thus stepped in and inter-
fered to a large extent with the business
of the commercial traveler. As the pas-
ses are issued as often as asked for, the
larger buyers are getting further and
further away from the drummer for
this reason younger and less experienced
men are sent out at a comparatively
small expense to the house.”

What Certification of a Check Implies.
From the American Banker.

It is held that the certification of a
check attests the genuineness of the
signature and the presence of  suffi-
cient funds to pay it, the bank reserving
the amount certified and regarding it as
having been already paid and, therefore,
unavailable for other use. The courts
hold that the certification relieves the
cheek of all defenses when if has passed
into the hands of a bona fide holder for
value. The bank, by its certification of
the cheek and charging the amount
against the drawer’s account, becomes
liable to pay the same to any bona fide
holder. <A certified check stands on the
same footing as an accepted bill of ex-
change, so far as the rights of the holder
are concerned. The bank, by act of cer-
tification, imparts to the paper such a
character as to rank it with the highest
kind of commercial paper.

 
    

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*‘*Not How Cheap, but How Good.’’

 

products.

 

“Blue Label’ Ketchup

SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES,

Will be found to maintain the high character of our other food

We use only well-ripened, high-colored Tomatoes, seasoned
with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color.

PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY

CURTICE BROTHERS CoO,

Rochester, N. Y., U.S.A,

BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO.,
Distributing Agents.

 

Cream Laid Bill Heads.

 

price as our cheapest paper.
1-6 size, 84 in, wide, 6 lines,
1 ‘ é ‘
+ ¢ ‘ ‘ 14 cé
500 each size,
1000
Send for sample.

E have an odd lot Cream Laid Bill Heads which we
will close out while present supply lasts at the same

i 500 1000 2000
Si 65 p2 50 m4 90
2 OO 3 00 5 40
2 15
5 00

PRINTING DEPARTMENT

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO.,

Successors to

 

18 and 19 Widdicomb Building.
We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1892. Correspondence solicited.

 

out slips”’ to be lost and break the record.

to the record of any previous day.

desire.

 

 

Because a merchant can file away his entire

CASH. REGISTER.

WE SELL MORE

Registers

 

ee
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. i
Because it is always ready to make and preserve a record of money paid in and out. :
Because there aré no “charge slips,” “received on account slips,” ‘‘paid out slips” and ‘‘just

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,

39 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

temeteenenim care myn ssrcre

 

 

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.
Newberry—Joseph Emms succeeds
Barr in the grocery business.
Jackson—C. F.
Binder & Co. in the meat business.
Wacousta—Jas. W. Randall has sold
his general store Jno. A. McClelland.
Kalamazoo—J. N. Hewett has succeded
the grocery firm of Hewett & DeWater.
Saginaw—Geo. M. Beyerlein succeeds
Weil & Beyerlein in the grocery business.
Flint—C. E. Pomeroy is succeeded by
Pomeroy Bros. in the grocery business.

signed his general stock to his brother.

Holton—Geo. D. Burton has removed
his drug stock from White Cloud to this
place.

Ovid—W. H. McLeod has sold his dry
goods and boot and shoe stock to High &
Farmer.

Detroit—Peter A. Dumond sueceeds
W. H. Wilson & Co. in the flour and feed
business.

Ludington—The Pere Marquette Lum-
ber Co. has sold its general stock to H.
S. Fuller.

Chester—Wm. Boyles, dealer in agri-
cultural
Charlotte.

Kalamazoo—A. L. Conger sold a
half interest in his variety stock to Frank
Baumann.

Marquette—Albert Ekstrom has retired
from the dry
Strong & Co.

implements, has removed to

has

goods firm of Ekstrom,

Cass City—Laing & James succeed Jno.
C. Laing in generai
mill business.

Perrinton—Meyer removed
his clothing and furnishing goods stock
to East Jordan.

Negaunee—Feibish & Co. have sold
their wholesale liquor and cigar business
to Decker & Simons.

Traverse City—D. H. Woodham
sold his confectionery stock to
Kane, of Grand Rapids.

trade and the grist

has

Berg

has

Binder succeeds C. F. |

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

| his general stock from Elmira to this
place, having sold a half interest in the

, | business to F. D. Hunt, of Chesterton,
1 Ind.

The new firm will be known as
| Spreen & Hunt.

Traverse City—S. W. Perkins has sold
his meat market business to E. R. Knee-
land, who will continue at the same

place. Mr. Perkins will probably en-
gage in the cold storage business on
quite an extensive seale.

Vermontville— Dry goods will no

longer be on sale at the store of Robin-
son & Rannells, as Mr. Robinson has

| made arrangements to have them shipped
Williamsville—J. Fred Merritt has as-!

to his store at Clarks, Ohio.
store will continue to run
supervision of Dr. Rannells.

Detroit—The wholesale grocery firm
of Sinclair, Evans & Elliott will here-
after be Known as Sinclair, Elliott & Co.,
the interest of the late Mr. Evans having
been taken by David Whitney, Jr., who
contributes $50,000 in cash to the com-
mon stock as a special partner.

Traverse City—Frank Kubeck and
Robert Church have formed a co-partner-
ship under the style of Kubeck & Church

The drug
under the

and will open a clothing and men’s
furnishing goods stock in the new
Greilick block about Sept. 1. Mr.

Kubeck was with the Hannah & Lay
Mercantile Co. for about’ eighteen
years, while Mr. Church has lately been
in the employ of H. W. King & Co. and
C. P. Kellogg & Co., of Chicago.
Hoiland—P. W. Kane has sold _ his
drug stock to Wm. Swift and Miss Susie
Martin, who will continue the business
under the style of Swift & Martin. Miss
Martin has had about a dozen years’ ex-
perience in the drug business, having
occupied the position of prescription
clerk for W. H. Dendel, the Hopkins
station druggist, for the past four years.

| Mr. Swift was a passenger conductor on

D. Fi

Cadillac—J. F. Hutchinson has decided |

to remove to the Upper Peninsula and
will therefore his meat market
about June 1.

close

the C. & W.
dozen years.

M. railway for about a

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Trout Creek—The Trout Creek Lum-

| ber Co. has started both sides of its band
mill and expects to get the shingle, lath

land siding

Bradley—Dr. J. H. Reed has purchased |

the drug stock and

fixtares of KE. G. |

Beckwith, and will conduct the business |

at the old stand.
Clarendon—G. A. Cook has sold his
general stock to Robert Moore, who has

ness at the old stand.

Kalamazoo—W. J. Soles retired
from the grocery firm of Allen & Soles.
The business will be continued at the
same location by C. B. Allen.

Manistee—Fred and
purchased the grocery stock of the late
W. J. Rich and will continue the
ness under the style of Secor Bros.

has

 

busi-

Hamilton—R. K. Dykstra has sold out
his stock of hardware, and will shortly
move to Holland. He has there engaged
himself to J. B. VanOrt, dealer in hard-
ware.

Greenville—Serviss & Riley have sold
their meat business to Frank Nelson,
who has been in the employ of the
Anderson Packing Co., for the past
seven years.

Orange—Henry H. Jordan has _ pur-
chased the interest of the junior member

machines in operation this
week.

Bay City—Ball, Thompson & Co. will
put machinery into the frame of the old
Bradley shingle mill, and intend to be-
gin the manufacture of shingles about

| the middle of June.
taken possession and wiil conduct busi- |

Roy Secor have |

| dismantled.

in the firm of E. C. Tew & Son, general |

dealers, and the style of the house will
hereafter be Tew & Jordan.

|

Jennings — Mitchell Brothers & Mur-
phy’s double sawmill is now running day
and night. Their daily input of logs
from the woods is between 75,000 and
100,000 feet and they have several mil-
lion feet of logs on hand.

Saginaw—The Sample & Camp sawmill
has gone out of commission and is to be
Last season this mill cut
7,000,000 feet. The mill has been oper-
ated by this firm since 1882. It is under-
stood that a woodenware concern is ne-
gotiating for the mill site.

West Bay City—The new mill of the
Kern Manufacturing Co. cut its first log
on the 10th. ‘The mill is one of the best
equipped on the river, and has a con-
tract to cut logs for David Ward which
will last twenty years. A planing mill
and sorting yard will be operated in con-
nection, and the entire product will be
handled by rail.

Twin Lake—E. R. Ford’s shingle mill
was burned to the ground on the 10th.
There were distroyed with the mill about

Watervliet—W. C. Spreen has removed | 75,000 shingles, entailing a loss all told

 

between $5,000 and $8,000. The mill
was new, having been built early this
spring, and had run but one or two
months. The loss is an especially heavy
one upon Mr. Ford. He was just getting
started in a small way in the lumber
business, and, owing to the inadequancy
of the water protection; had been unable
to procure any insurance. The mill will
be rebuilt.

Saginaw—The Michigan Land & Lum-
ber Co. is pressing suits against a num-
ber of lumber concerns in this section of
the State. Thecompany named obtained
patents to certain lands from the State
which had previously been granted to
railroads by the United States govern-
ment and subsequently sold by the rail-
roads. The Michigan Land & Lumber
Co. asks these lumbermen to pay for the
timber cut from lands which they had
purehased and for which the lumber
company claims to hold patents from the
State. One lumber concern in Ogemaw
eounty has been asked to come down to
the extent of $60,000 and long litigation
will doubtless ensue.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Chas. S. Brooks started out on the
road again Monday, after an enforced
idleness of two months by illness.

Ezra O. Phillips, traveling representa-
tive for W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg, left
monday fora two months’ trip through the
Upper Peninsula, intending to go as far
as Duluth.

Howard Udell, who has been traveling
in the Dakotas several months for the
J. B. Pace Tobacco Co., of Richmond,
Va., has engaged to travel for Felix &
Marston, of Chicago.

Kendall W. Hess, who covers the
States of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia
and Florida for the Filer & Stowell Co.,
of Milwaukee, Wis., has been in town
for a few days on a visit to his father,
Wm. T. Hess.

The traveling men of Grand Rapids
now have an opportunity to entertain
the Michigan Knights of the Grip, on
the occasion of the next annual conven-
tion, if they so desire, and THe TRADEs-
MAN should be pleased to see some one
take the initiative in the matter and call
ameeting of the boys to consider the
subject.

The Travelers’ Protective Association,
which had a checkered career for a few
years, appears to be on the high road to
prosperity, the treasury containing a
comfortable balance of $13,000, with all
debts paid. In addition to the $3,000
accidental death indemnity, each member
is entitled to $100 per year, in case of
death from natural causes, for every
year up to five years that he has been a
member, provided that he has been a
member for the years consecutively prior
to his death. One who has been a mem-
ber for five years has a paid-up life in-
surance policy for $500, in addition to
which he gets the benefit of week end
tickets, five thousand mile tickets, and
extra advantages in baggage excess and
hotel rates.

Atlanta Constitution: ‘*Two weeks ago
we had commercial travelers here in
capes and skirts and lace. Now there is
one in knickerbockers. Fourteen-year-
old Loie Walker, who is selling tobacco
and representing a newspaper, is the
youngest drummer on the road. He
started out from Winston, N. C., seven
weeks ago on his first trip, and has been
as far as New Oleans in the West and to

 

Tampa on the South. That Master
Walker is a bright lad goes without say-
ing. He has a pair of sparkling brown
eyes and a pleasant, honest face. Loie
says that he has hada good trade. He was
a New York boy until a few months ago,
when his father moved to Winston. He
has had good training, and did some-
thing Sunday quite original for a drum-
mer—went to church twice. Loie talks
well and is polite and modest. He will
sell goods where anyone else can.”

The regular quarterly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip convened at the
Hudson House, Lansing, last Friday
evening, continuing until daylight the
next morning. All the Directors were
present and the President and Secretary
were also in attendance. The resigna-
tion of Geo. C. Cooper, as Treasurer, was
received and accepted, J. J. Frost, of
Lansing, being elected to fill the
vacancy. It was decided to accord all
those in arrerars for dues 90 days’ further
time to pay up and be reinstated. Those
who fail to take advantage of this exten-
sion will be dropped from the roll of
membership. An invitation was received
from the Detroit Post to hold the next
annual convention at Detroit, but as
there appeared to be a general desire on
the part of the membership to hold the
next meeting at Grand Rapids, it was de-
cided to pospone the further considera-
tion of the matter until the next meeting
of the Board, in hopes an _ invitation
would be received in the meantime from
the Valley City. The reports of the
officers disclosed the fact that the or-
ganization was in a prosperous condition,

with a comfortable balance in the
treasury.
_ oO
The Grocery Market.
Sugars are without change. Green

Rios are ‘ec higher. Domestic rice and
Valencia raisins are each 4c higher.
Corn syrup has advanced 2c per gallon.
The Alaska salmon packers have effected
a strong combination and agreed to cur-
tail their output one-half and advance
their quotations 714 per cent. over those
of last year.

The orange market is very strong and
prices East are fully 50e per box higher
than a week ago.

Lemoms are 25 @ 50c per box higher
than a week or ten days ago.

Foreign nuts of all kinds are firm and
everything except pecans have advanced
4 @ 1%e.

Peanuts are firm at a slight advance.

Oo
Butter Will Be Cheap.

The indications are that butter will be
a drug on the market by June 1, as the
luxurious grass feed is already increas-
ing the supply on the market and stocks
are beginning to accumulate in the hands
of the retailers. Country merchants
should be careful not to become over-
loaded, and should also avoid paying too
high prices, as the market is sure to be

unsettled and dull in a very short time.
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The Drug Market.

Opium is firm but unchanged. Mor-
phine is steady. Quinine is unchanged.
Mercurials have declined. Bi-chromate
of potash has advanced. Canary seed is
higher. Gum Arabic has adyanced.
Buchu leaves are lower. Oil cloves has
declined. Po. jalap is lower. Pink root
is lower. Assafetida has declined.

 

Linseed oil has advanced 1c a gallon and
a further advance is looked for.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

J. W. Forbes has opened a grocery
store at Alaska. Musselman & Widdi
comb furnished the stock.

F. A. Rice has removed his grocery
stock from 75 Pearl street to the corner
of Fifth avenue and Union street.

 

N.S. Hubbard has opened a grocery
store at 75 Pearl street. The I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock.

B. A. Cooper has opened a grocery
store at 75 Clancy street. The Lemon &
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

 

Armstrong & Ringler have opened a
new grocery store at Traverse City.
The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnish-
ed the stock.

L. 8S. Roell, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Belding, has opened
a grocery store at Bellaire. The I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock.

 

The Wolverine Drug Co. has sold its
branch store at 605 North Coit avenue to
Theron Forbes, who has lately been in
charge of the business in the capacity of
manager.

Harry Snow, formerly engaged in the
drug business at Grand Ledge, has de-
cided to re-embark in the same business
at that place. The Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. has the order for the stock.

 

H. M. Reynolds has purchased the
Mechanic block, located on the northeast
corner of Louis and Campau streets, for
$15,000. The property is a valuable one
and the purchaser congratulates himself
on having secured it at a bargain.

 

The New York Tribune, which is pub-
lishing what purports to be a complete
list of the millionaires of the country,
credits Grand Rapids with the possession
of three men who require seven figures
to indicate their worldly goods—D. A.
Blodgett, D. H. Waters and J. W. Con-
verse. The latter gentleman is largely
identified with Grand Rapids and has an
enormous amount of property here, but
his residence should properly be stated
as Boston, Mass. Grand Rapids has a
dark horse, however, abundantly able to
fill the gap thus created in the person of
Jonathan Boyce, who has resided in this
city several years. His possessions are
mostly timber lands, he having one tract
of pine in the vicinity of Midland
which is valued at $1,000,000 by con-
servative estimators.

a
Purely Personal.

B. H. Farren, of the old house of
J. S. Farren & Co., of Baltimore, was in
town a couple of days last week.

Charles E. Watson’s horse, which was
recently disposed of by means of a raffle,
was drawn by E. White, of Saginaw,
who held ticket No. 146.

Charles E. Olney and family returned
from Southern California last week and
leave about June 1 for Thompson, Conn.,
where they will spend the summer.

H. D. Wood, of the wholesale grocery
firm of H. D. Wood & Co., at Toledo,
was in town one day last week on his
way to the trout streams of Northern
Michigan.

Herbert T. Chase has purchased the
York residence, at 4 Windsor Terrace,
and will take possession of the property
some time during the summer. The
house is superbly appointed and the loca-
tion is unsurpassed.

 

W. C. Spreen, who has been engaged
in general trade at Elmira several years,
was in town last week on his way to
Watervliet, to which place he has re-
moved his stock. The family were
sorely afflicted, a few days before leav-
ing Elmira, by the death of an infant
daughter.

Amos §S. Musselman was in Traverse
City for the first time last week and re-
turned home thoroughly .impressed with
the belief that great things are in store
for the Queen of Traverse Bay. Mr.
Musselman confidently predicts that
Traverse City will be the Saginaw of
Northern Michigan, basing his predic-
tion on the superior water and rail facil-
ities of the place, the almost inexhaus-
table supplies of hardwood timber natur-
ally tributary to the town, the wonder-
ful fertility of the soil in almost all di-
rections and the remarkable fruit yields
which the soil and climate render pos-
sible.

Cc. C. Chittenden, of the Chittenden
Lumber Co. and Chittenden & Herrick,
was in town a couple of days last week
for the purpose of buying machinery for
his mills and goods for his supply store.
The Chittenden Lumber Co. is operating
at Hoxeyville, twenty miles west of Cad-
illac, where it has a sawmill cutting pine
at the rate of 35,000 feet per day and is
putting in a hardwood mill, with a daily
capacity of 20,000 feet, which will go
into operation about July 1. Chittenden
& Herrick have just closed a deal for the
purchase of 15,000,000 feet of standing
pine in town 22-7, Missaukee county,
seventeen miles east of Cadillac, which
will be manufactured either at Cadillac
or Lake City. Operations will be begun
on this tract about July 1.

No Truth in the Report.

The daily papers have devoted con-
siderable space of late to an alleged com-
bination of wall paper manufacturers,
formed in the shape of a trust for the
purpose of restricting the output and
controlling prices. THE TRADESMAN
has inside information on the subject and
is prepared to state that there is no truth
whatever in the report, which is cir-
culated solely for the purpose of stimulat-
ing the retail trade to stock up specu-
latively, in anticipation of higher prices.
There are about eighty manufacturers of
wall paper in the country, the majority
of whom are small producers, and no
combination is likely to succeed with so
many branches to look after. When the
demoralizing competition of the past
three years shall have reduced the num-
ber of factories to about twenty-five, a
revival of the former combination may
be expected.

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Bank Notes.

Henry C. Russell has sold his holding
in the Peoples’ Savings Bank of Grand
Rapids to Ex-Judge Hatch and resigned
the position of director.

The new Commercial Savings Bank of
Marshall expects to open its doors for
business Wednesday morning. Every-
thing was in readiness a week ago, but
the presence of State Banking Commis-
sion Sherwood could not be secured.

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Country Callers.

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

Spreen & Hunt, Watervliet.

Bates & Troutman, Moline.

Geo. Schichtel, New Salem.

M. H. Sherman, Okemos.

Chittenden Lumber Co., Cadillac.

H. K. Bush, Pierson.

 

Wash Goods!

BATES, TOILE DU NORD, A. F. C.

 

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

Cottons, Ticks and Demins

Peerless Warps.
r. DIBBEITEE & SONS.

VOIGT, HERPOLSGEIMER & OO,

WHOLESALE

Dry Goods, Carpets and Gloaks

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

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

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0, “° Grana Rapias

 

 

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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.

 

Heyman & Company,

Manufacturers of

SOW Cases

Of Every Description.

 

WRITE FOR PRICES.

First-Class Work Only.
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

63 and.65 Canal St. -

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Courtesy in the Store.

Not long ago, writes a contributor to
the Youth’s Companion, I was seated at
a counter in an underwear and children

clothing establishment frequented by the |

wealthier ladies of San Francisco, when
a poorly dressed woman wandered in,
leading a little boy and girl. From her
dress and appearance she was evidently
a working-woman or the wife of a day-
laborer,
skirts of the town, and who rarely got so |
far away from home, being accostumed |
to make most of her purchases at one of |
the little suburban stores scattered about
the city.

It was the first day of the month;
day before had been the monthly
day of her husband,
from her bright expression, that she had

who probably lived in the out-|

the |
pay- |
and it was plain, |

in her purse a little money which it was |
her delight to spend, mother-fashion, in|

the adornment of her children,
of whom were painfully shy and
bily dressed.

**] would like to look at a bonnet for
my little girl,” she said, modestly
dressing the stylish-looking,
young saleswoman.

‘**A wash bonnet, I suppose?” replied
the young lady.

“If you please.’’

Stooping and reaching under
counter, the young woman brought out
a large box piled high with dainty em-
broidered caps of the latest pattern, and
eovered with a frost-work of fine em-
broidery.

The woman put out her hand timidly,
and possessed herself of one of the more
elaborate. The saleswoman picked out
one of plainer pattern and held it out to
her, saying pleasantly:

*‘Here is one of the prettiest bonnets
we have in the store.”

The mother took it in her hand, look-
ing happily at her child’s smiling face.
It was a charming little bonnet; pretty
enough for the nicest little girl in the
city: one that would be sure to be becom-
ing to the sweet little face; but prudence
checked her.

**How much?”’
‘*Two dollars.”

The price was very reasonable for the
bonnet and the place. Nobody goes to
that store without expecting to pay
roundly for exquisite taste and perfect
workmanship. But the poor woman put
the bonnet away with a decisive gesture,
trying to disguise the disappointment
she felt.

*-That is too much.
than fifty cents.”’

I looked anxiously at the saleswoman,
wondering if she would make a con-
temptuous retort. But the girl remained
as calm and polite as if she were serving
the Queen of Sheba.

‘I will look and see if we have any in
her size at that price. Iam almost sure
that we are out of that size in fifty-cent
bonnets,”’ she said.

Then she madea feint of looking under
the counter, and rose again, still with
the utmost courtesy.

‘J am sorry, but we entirely out of her
size,”’ she said.

The poor woman took her children by
the hand and left the store, with her
pride unhurt, and the girl handed me
my change with a word of thanks.

I nodded a good-by to her, wishing
that I might express my appreciation of
her gracious little deed; wishing, too,
that other saleswomen would follow her
example of thoughtful consideration for
the poor; and wishing, most of all, that
there was some way of slipping two
shining coins into the purse of the poor
mother. so that she could have the
bonnet she wanted to frame the child’s
sweet, shy face.

—_—_————_ ><

The Farmers’ Co-operative Trading
Store, of Alta, lowa, at a meeting held
lately, decided to close out their entire
stock of groceries, dry goods and general
merchandise. This company is compos-
ed of about eighty Swedish farmers who
started in business about two years ago
with the idea that there ‘‘was millions in
it,”’ but, like most co-operative stores,
the dividends prove to be only much ex-
perience — bought.

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Best Six Gord

— FOR —
Machine or Hand Use,

FOR SALE BY ALL

Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions,

BUY THE PENINSULAR
Pants, Shirts, and Overalls

Once and You are our Customer
for life.

   

 

STANTON, MOREY & CO., Mfrs.

DETROIT, MICH.

 

Gero. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan,
Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

Dry Goods Price Current.

— coTToONs.
Dees ............ Arrow Brand 5%
heave... ... World Wide.. 6%
Atlanta AA a Riise ee 4%
Bite A... ..., 2 = Full Yard Wide..... 6%
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i. . 6 Georgia A.......... 6%
' P .. 5%/Honest Width....... 6%
- QP... ove Oe Loree .......-- 5
= 1 . 6 ieaian Bond........ 7
Amory.... - oe ee a 6%
Archery Bunting.. o: one was .
Beaver Dam AA.. 4|Lawrence L “hana

Blackstone QO, ¢

ue 5 “| Madras ee cloth nox
Black Crow.. 5%

. 6 |Newmarket G.

 

Black Rock f Bi 5
Boot, AL.. 7 C Bo 6%
Capital A... oo» Ohl . DD.... Oe
eee F.......... 5% = . 634
Chapman cheese cl. 3%/Noibe R............. S |
Cee CR..... 544|Our Level Best..... 6%
Comct....... a 6
Dwight Star. ie ee 7
Clifton CCC oe... .-...-.... 6%

|Top of the Heap.... 7

 
 
    
 

 

 

BLEACHED COTTONS.
ABC............-.. Bgiem. Weemingion... 5
Amazon. ‘ |Glen ee 7
Amsburg.... Gold Medal......... z
Art Cambric 0 Green Ticket....... 8%
Blackstone A 4 744|\Great Falls.... -. 6%
Beats All ‘4 Hope.......- e+. oan
Pee ...... ee Week C..... %@ 5
ees.....-.+.. King Phillip here eee 7%
tooo, &--....--...- 6% es 7%
atte Oex.......- 5%|Lonsdale ———. -10
Conway W.....--... 74|Lonsdale...... @ 8%
(levelemd ...... .-.. 7 leeeeaeeex.... .. @5
Dwight Anchor..... See meee... ........ 7
- «shorts. 8 “san a eee enue 6
Bewares ........... S tr Opn............ 5%
a ae x Pride. of t the West. ..12
8. ci eneess 7%|Rosalind............ 7%
Fruit of the Loom. 84|Sunlight............. 4%
Pee ..... -..- . hie ee... 8%
Pict Prise.........- 7 - Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom %. 74%} Vinyard............. 8%
Pelrmoont:.......-. 414|White Horse........ 6
Pull Vetwe.......... oo 6h6.lU Re... ., Oe
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
i 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 84
Paswe....... ..-.- 8
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
reso m.......... 54%4(|Middlesex No. 1....10
Hamiltea N......... 6% . - 2
is Betts 7 wil - fe
Middlesex AT...... 8 ’ * v...c
. c....... 9 . * -...
” He. .... 9
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hesston © ........- a en’ iene 11
Middlesex a Ee 12
AT. 9 . A 6 caeke 13%
' Zz A...... 9 ” eee 17%
. =e... 10% - Goce 6
CARPET WARP
Peerless, wihite...... 17%) Integrity colored. . .20
colored. . 19%) |White se ccs 18
leer, 18%4| “colored. .20
DRESS GOODS.
ae. eee oe 8 Nameless deus coupe -”
” ee SO 27%
GG Cashmere...... 20 - eee eee
Nameless ie ace eae 16 _ 6 be cone ese ee
eee cae 18 . oo
CORSETS.
eS a. 50!Wonderful . . 84 5
Schilling’s. . 9 00/Brighton.. ... 1.
Davis Waists.. ne 9 @iBortrees .......... 9
Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00
an JEANS.
Aveory ........-..+.- ee 7
ie oggin poe: vi erewers........... 6
Biddefora.........-. a 6%
Brunswick. .... .... bs _arwores ...... .... 6%
NTS.

Allen turkey reds.. % Berwick fancies.... 5%
robes 5%|Clyde Robes........
mi elk & purple 6% Charter Qak fancies 4%

_ oan ........ 6 DelMarine cashm’s. 6
" pink checks. 5% mourn’g 6
a miagies ...... 5% Eddystone fancy... 5%
- shirtings... 4 chocolat 5%
American fancy.... 5% _ er. . 5%
Americanindigo.... 543 ' sateens.. 5%

American shirtings. 4 Hamilton fancy..... 5%

Argentine Grays... 6 staple .... 5%
Anchor —- _/ ‘Manchester ancy. - 5%
Arnold 8%) new era. 5%

Arnold Merino..... a D fancy. 5%

- long cloth = 10% Merrim’ ek shirtings. 444

- hegsaa - 8%
“century cloth 7 7 Pacific fancy.. -- 5%
“ gold seal..... 10% BONER... 0s. 6%
“ green seal TR 10% Somnanalle robes... 5%
“yellow seal. - Simpson mourning... 5%

 

 

= oee........- 11% oe... 5%
“ Turkey red. 10% - solid black. 5%
Ballou solid black. . Washington indigo. 5%
sa “colors. 5% “ Turkey robes.. 7%
vee blue, green, “ India robes.... 7%
and orange... 5%; ‘ plain Tky x x, a
Berlin — pecaae ae 5%
oll biue...... 6%) ‘ — oni
a een .... 6% ae... 6
“ Foulards .... 5% Martha Washington
* eo .....-.. 7 Turkey red &..... 1%
“ ss ‘ % ues 9%|Martha Washington
“ af, 10 Erbanicen 4 foe. ....- 9
<i .  S4NRKX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5
Cocheco fancy... ...- . Windsor fancy.. 6%
madders. . old ticket
- XX twills.. * 8x] indigo blue....... 10%
- -e.....- Su oermny...........-. 4%
TICKINGS,
Avpkoss ACA....1GA CO A..... ........ 2
Hamiiten B......... 74_|Pemberton AAA..
- - ree... .-...- acne “"i0%
. Awning..11 iSwift River......... TR
aa. S Peel Hiver......... 12
First Prize tee Te one gs cs 13
TLonon Mie ....-... 18
COTTON DRILL.
Bene, OD... .4. 6x eee onsite, 8
cc es cs 6%|No Name........ - T%
Cee 6%4|Top of Heap........ 9
SATINES.
Simpson eee OMe ee oa oe occ 10%
eenieinees ie eee,
cheese one. 16 yaa @10
CD ons cece WA Bes ec; 12

 

 

 

DEMINS.
Amoskeag aees eas 124%|Columbian brown. .12
wes..... 13% Everett, nn 12
_ brown .13 brown i/o
Ree... cs es 11% Haymaker blue.. -_
Beaver Creek AA...10 brown.. 7%
_ ee... 8 Lee 11%
_ C Lancaster idee ens 12%
Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, POR. sis. 13%
blue 844 No. ee oe
“ d& twist 10% ' No. 250....11%
Columbian ae br.10 ” No. 280....10%
XXX bl.19
GINGHAMS.
Avoskeag ...... -... 7 Lancaster, staple... 7
‘Persian dress 84% fancies . 7
“ Canton .. 8% ” Normandie 8
. BU issues 10%|Lancashire.......... 6%
c Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 53
_ Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
| “ Persian.. 8%|Normandie..... .... 1%
| Arlington staple.... 644|Persian............. 8%
Arasapha fancy.. 4% Renfrew Dress. ..... 7%
Bates Warwick dres 8¥4|Rosemont ae 6%
staples. 6%|Slatersville ......... 6
Centennial......... 10 i |
Criterion .... i. Dee 0 7%
Cumberland staple. 5% Tol Gu Nord....... 10%
Cumberiand........ ee ee 7
oe... ........... i“ “  geersucker.. 74%
ee a u TEP occ civ ese Yy
Everett classics..... 8%4|Whittenden......... 6%
BRxposition....... | on ’ heather dr. 8
Ciesieeee,... i... 6% . indigo blue 9
Giemerren.... ...... 6% Wamsutta staples... Ho
Glenwood...... ot 1 Westbrook Ls uceuee
Co en ee  aeienes es 10
Johnson Jhalon cl %/Windermeer.... .... 5
" indigo blue 94¢/York..... ..0....+4- 6%
” zephyrs....16

GRAIN BAGS,

Amoskeag......... -1614| Valley a te eee es 15
ee TS a 19 |Georgia.. i.
Americam. .... ...++- eg 13
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88
Coe, 2. af... ... 45 O_o 88
Holyoke. Loca oe 22%

KNITTING COTTON,

 

White. Colored. White. o—
ee re oe... 37
* 62 mtr 6 38
a we 35 3” ee... 39 44
Bi ead 36 41 ee 45
CAMBRICS.
ee < (eee. ......-..- 4
White Star......... 4 (Leckwood.... .. a. 8
ia Giove...........  Twoore.... ..:..-.. 4
Newmarket......... “4 {eeumeweek .....-... €
RED FLANNEL.
Pirgwen...... ..-.. EF ese een ee BR%
Creedmore........-. ONE ees sooo BH
Teret © 2......... - WEP, 222......... 35
Mameloes...... ....-27% Buckeye ees eee eee 324%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid. s arey ee ....... 2. 17%
Deaton @...... ...,.. 2244| Western W ......... 18%
I era weenns Oe Peo ieee eo 18%
6 oz Western.. 20 (erienine KEX...... 23%
Dion B......-..-.- 224i Manitoba........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless ..... 8 9 | eee 9 oe
eo 84@10 le
CANVASS AND PADDING
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 9% 934/13 13 13
10% 10% 10/15 15 15
11% 11% 1134 17 17 17
12% 12% = 20 20
Severen, 8 02........ o% TWest Point, : 0z....10%
Mayland, . ..... 10% os ...12%%
Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% Raven, t002.. dey ees 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz. 1111/8! dad 13%
Boston, § 02.......-- 10 |Boston, woe....s.. 12%
WADDINGS.
Weise, G0s.........- Ps) ea bale, 40 doz... .87 50
Colored, dos.......- 20
SILESIAS,
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10%
Met Croms.... 9 Pandie...........<.. 9
. Bee... )soiedtard 10%
’ Beat AA..... 12% oe RAF csc cae 10%
eee ee eee eels Co
SL Bi
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz....... 75 (Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30

50 _ doz. .37%)
KS AND EYES—PER GRO
No 1 BYVk ‘& ‘White.. - No : BI’k & "White.. 15
20

 

 

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PINS.

No 2—20, M C....... 50 i 4—15 F 3%...... 40

* 3—18,8 C........ 45
COTTON TAPE.

No 2 White & Bl’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
ee. - ae eee - a
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SAFETY PINS.
WOR ss ieee, i EE a:
NEEDLES—PER M.

A. Pee... 3. ss 1 40| Steamboat ie cat ones 40

Crowely’s....... .--- 1 35|Gold Eyed.......... 150

Wareeerrs........... 1 00

TABLE OIL CLOTH.
oe ..22 6—4...3 26/5—4....195 6—4...2 %
re oo 3 io
COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 18

oe i 12 Rising Star4-ply....17
eee. 5... eck 18% ' Sply....17

ae Se 16 Worth Seer.........- 20
NE oi ses lo a 13 |Wool Standard 4 plyi™%
Cherry Valley set 18% Powhattan .........

PLAID OSNABURG

Sieben... ....->-45- 6%| Mount "Pleasant... - 6%
Dieenoe,.......... CREA a. es os ts 5
BOR oo ns csi oun 7%|Prymont ........... 5%
Ar 88 “4 ade eee 6 Rendelman Kines cues ox
CORREIA... ck ec eos 614|Riverside..........-
Gran te ck sceeee 5% Seeks iio ap sade paws on
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BUSINESS LAW.

 

Summarized Decisions from Courts of
Last Resort.

EXECUTION CREDITOR—PURCHASER.

An execution creditor who buys at his
own sale is not a bona fide purchaser
within the meaning of the law, accord-
ing to the decision of the Supreme Court
of Indiana in the case of Old National
Bank of Evansville vs. Findlay.

 

MARRIED WOMEN—PROPERTY SEIZURE.

Where a married woman contracted
for the purchase of land, purchased lum-
ber and was erecting a house on the land,
when a sheriff seized the lumber under
execution against her husband, the
Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in a
suit against the sheriff (Granning vs.
Swenson), that the facts justified the
conclusion that the lumber when it was
seized was in the possession of the
plaintiff, and not in that of her husband
so as to create an appearance of owner-
ship in him, and hence that the plaintiff
might recover against the sheriff even
though the statutory affidavit giving
notice of her title had not been served
on him.

 

PARTNERSHIP INTEREST-SALE—ACCOUNT.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in
the recent case of Houk et al. vs. Walker
et al., that a sale of one partner to acon-
tinuing member of the firm, or to a third
person, in the absence of any special
agreement to the contrary, carries with
it the actual interest of such partner;
that the presumption is that the account
of such partner with the firm was taken
into account, and his interest in the
partnership increased or diminished ac-
cording to the state of his account, and
that such selling partner, in the absence
of special agreement to that effect, is not
liable to account to the purchaser for
any sum which may be due from him to
the firm, and that prima facie such sale
eancels his account, in so far, at least,
as the purchasing partner is concerned.

 

APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS—USURY.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals held,
in the recent case of Neale et al. vs.
Rouse, that all payments on a debt
should be first applied to the principal
and legal interest; that so long as any
part of the principal and legal interest
remains unpaid the debtor may elect to
have any payments he has made on the
debt at any time in the past applied in
that way, although the money was paid
as usury; that this is true although the
note evidencing the debt may have been
renewed from time to time since the
payments were made, and although
there may have been a change of a part
of the obligors, and that the limitation
of one year, which applies to actions to
recover usury paid, does not apply.

 

ASSIGNMENT—FRAUD—CREDITORS.

Where an assignor just before making
an assignment drew out of the bank a
sum of money and gave it to his wife,
who kept it secreted for eight months,
the sum in question consituting the
greater part of the available assets and
not being included in the inventory and
schedules, and after the existence of this
fund had been discovered by the credi-
tors by legal procceedings the money
was paid to the assignee, the New York
Court of Appeals held that this conceal-
ment rendered the assignment void, al-
though the assignor swore that he did
not intend to defraud his creditors, but
merely to hold said money for whom-
ever it belonged to. The court said that
the rule was that the intentional with-
holding and secreting of assets of a sub-
stantial value from the possession of the
assignee is a fraud upon the rights of

 

creditors, and renders the assignment
void.
CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

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

Hardware Price Current.

 

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

 
  

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ae 60
OO 40
Pe ae ee 25
woman, Nemetnen sl. se . 50&10

AXES.
Piret Goality, §. B. Hronse.................. 7
r ee 12 00
8S oe... sl. 8
: eae 13 50
BARROWS. dis.
aie... .. 5... ...-8 14 00
Ce net 30 00
BOLTS. dis
eee 50&10
Carriage Sow mee. se 70&10
ON icc ee, oes 40&10
Sleigh mee q
BUCKETS.
a. a... $350
—CC OO Eee 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cont Leone Pin Sue... 2... 70&
Wrought Narrow Drignt Gest ioint.......... 60&10
Wrought Loose ee a mE TA 60&10
Wee ee. 6010
Wess: eetee Dred... 60&10
meee 75
CO EE, 70&10
Br Peres. 70&10
Pend Geers 7%
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 60
CRADLES.
ol, dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

OE EE perm 5
CAPS.
Bete... perm 65
eee 60
op... : 35
mace... . 60
CARTRIDGES.
na ree... 50
Conteel Pure... ......... ce. see. dis. 25

CHISELS. dis.
I Ee 70&10
ee ee eee 70&10
Socket Corner. . .--70&10
OG oo eet enc cee te ne een 70&10
Butoherm Tanged Firmer...........: ...... 40
COMBS. dis.
(Cue, Eewremoe se... .....-........... 2.1... 40
ee Ps)
CHALE.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished, ~ = cut to size... .. per pound 28
idx i 1oene Pewee ................ 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 ie tee 23
Cold Rolled, oe el. 23
ieee Ps}
DRILLS. dis,
Morse’s Bit Stocks...............-0.ssseees 50
Taper and straight Shank............... Sean 50
Moree @ Taper Sak... --.. ....... : 50
DRIPPING PANS.

Peels Mises, Gor poe ...................... 07
Eeceo sisce, per pound...... ............... Gg
ELBOWS.

Com, 4 pleco, 6in........ ee dos. net 7
Coermpateo ............. i dis 40
Adjustable ee oe shee gouges dome e aca dis. 40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........-......+ 30
Dyer, 1, OS: 2. Ge; 6 Oe... .-............. 25

FitEs—New List. dis.
Se 60610
New — -60&10

  
  

Nicholeon’s .

oo ecw ade ca aces . 50
Heller’s Horse Raspa Deco teee ce toccac <eceue 50
GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and &%4; % and %; 27 2
im 6 6C6cellCU 14 15 1» 6

Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.

 

   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

HAMMERS. OPES.
Mayaole ea dis. = = a i’ inch and larger wt etee eee e ee ee ees . 2%
eee oes eee eee BH | ON. ww ee eee cee ewe enw e towne eeeee
Marken & Phomtre dis. 40410 | oot and I SQUARES. dis.
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 bag oes Tb -aAa e 7
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30c 40&10 | | Mitre Se ences rnen ee aac atas sees ase as 66
minces, t~S=S CM nn ee eee eee eee tee eee eee teen es }
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, dis, 60610 | —e Com, ‘Smooth. Com,
EE cas r doz. net, 2 2 50 | Nos. 10 to 14......... ee 4 05 82 95
—— Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and ati | 46 35
Ss... 3% ae nie... 40 35
screw Hook and Eye, 4.........-...-.-. et wing Hie 4 05
—-_..................... a 3 15
nh i i ee ia cs ce, net 8% Noe Bias ................ 4% 325
ag LL itttteacets as anaa- See eal 445 835
Metres etre sen ens net 7%/| All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
Strap aes... ine os eS wat 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. 50810 List acct. 19, °86.. Lannea a dis. 50
Cheraoton, watl friction... ................ 6010 SASH CORD.
Bceer, wood Geek .:............. ete eues 40 Silver Lake, White A Ce ist 50
HOLLOW WARE. ae ‘ 55
eee 60&10 | “ jt b ‘ 50
eee 60410 | ‘“ Drab B.... i 55
Spiders Lee alee ae ei sldelGa ama ddasaece s Wdlelse alee 6010 | “ ace-..l..UhLUmrCCsiCia‘ ‘6 35
Cay Came ts. .. 40&10 | Discount, 10.
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS,
eet — Re dees ob ceec ewe -new list = Solid Beoe............ Chien daria per - gg
apanne! Were... 8.
Granite ison Were ............... new list 410 SF. HANG .....--ceseesercecnenccess * 99
WIRE GOODS. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
ee, moa 10e10 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
oe a 70&10&10 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
ee soe s as, -70&10&10 ‘“* Champion and Electric Tooth X
Gate Hooks and men ee ce cee ste Toaos0 Com yer tee. “i
8. TRAPS. 8.
Stanley Rule and Level. Co. 'S. ieee. eee OO ~—
KNOBS—New List. dis. Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...........
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Pe —— Hawley «& ee: . 20
Door reelain, Jap. inmates. ........... 55 ee, CeOmee fc. 1 ic per oz
Door, genie plated trimmings.......... Sa | Mouse, Gclusion..._.._............... $1.50 ae
Door, rcelin, eee... 55 WIRE.
Suacer aad Shutter, porcaman a 7 es |... ro=10
LOCKS—DOOR. 8. Anneale ee 7
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... ou | Copperce Marect.......... ..
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............ . Oe | Peres WR... . kk 8s co es ce sete eK
Beearorae. .................... . 55 | Coppered Spring Steel.......... . : 50
Morar e................-..-..........._.. 55 | Bar ed Fence, a . si
MATTOCES. Werneee cc 2 65
Aa. $16.00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS.
ante. $15.00, dis. - —_ Sable.. aa on
as $18.50, ‘ite’ — ss... tt. dis. 05
dis | Nombwomem.......... dis. 10&10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled Lee ed cs aa WRENCHES. dis,
MILLS. dis. ee ——— niemercd..............
— Permers Com... 2... a Coes Gevgine |... 50
P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s —e.-. 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75
. Landers, Merry G Clovirm............ 46 Coes Patel, mallceblic.................... =
= Beers ..................... 30 MISCELLANEOUS.
- MOLASSES GATES, dis. ee 50
Secure Pestern ........................... Ode FF ees, Coster... ws... a
eemue ss Goumee. me | Serewe, New Fue... 70&10
Enterprise, self- a oe a. 25 Casters, = - Ss Pee eo soa10&10
Ss Sic, American 1...
OO 1 85 | Forks, hoes, rakes = — woeas...... 6& &10
(ee ——————————— 1 90 . i
Advance over base: Steel. Wire. PIé TIN.
ee 26C
Siete... 28¢
05 25 ZINC,
10 25 | Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
15 an | GeO pound Games... 6%
15 AS tree pee 7
15 45 SOLDER.
20 Ee "
25 66 | BeGe Wins ...........-.....................
40 vis} The prices of the many other qualities of
60 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands
00 1 20 | vary according to composition.
1 50 1 60 ANTIMONY
Mee ce ee one 1 50 1a (Cockeaen.. per pound
ee M.S 60 ee ee ee ae 13
~ ££... 75 75 TIN—MELYN GRADE.

- £ :. ......... 90 _— 1c Charcoal ae ripe ec ge. $7 =
eee 85 7 a ee, 7
es 10 90 10x14 I EE bo BOSE RRS RAS TiDa EAE 0 35

- £ 115 TG, wren tte tetteettewesaces cae 25
me ee eee cue 85 7 Each jaditional X on this grade, $1.75.
- Dee ee ee eee ce ee eas 1 S 80 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
- 6 11 90 = 1 Charcoal Be ce ta al 8 : 7
Barrell % ee ea 1 Se 75
PLANES. dis. a Ix, - 8 25
Waelta ss foney ...... s,s... Cetera  e l 9 26
Sclota Bench “ag ae Aa AE Qe “Ea caattional 5 ‘on ‘this grade $1.50.
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fanCy.........+..-++++
Bench. first Cee T ee re eee a 14x20 IC, ‘* Worcester...............0.. 6 50
Stanley Hola and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... G10) Te, tt ___ctttes ceeces arenes 8 50
PANS. 20x28 IC, - oe 13 50
oe, Age... dis.60—10 — oy i Allaway Grade See ciseace 6 =
Gammon. porlmned...................... dis. 70 | 14x* oe 7
- Po a myers dis. || 2x28 Ic, . : 6 aes 12 50
rom and Tingod............................ 20x2 Ue
Copper Rivets and Burs.................+.- 50—L0 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
- PATENT a — bas z “a — = Bs, * 08
‘A’? Wood’s patent planis os oO a ee ae:
“B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. SBollers, | per pound... 10
Broken seen’ 4c per pound extra. 14x60 60 IX,

 

 

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

 

 
  
     
   
 
 

 

FAVORITE CHURN.

The Only Perfect Barrel Churn Made.

 

 

 

POINTS OF EXCELLENCE.

It is made of thoroughly seasoned material.

lt is finished smooth inside as well as outside.

The iron ring head is strong and not liable to beak.

The bails are fastened to the iron ring, where they need to be fastened.
It is simple in construction and convenient to operate.

No other churn is so nearly perfect as THE FAVORITE.

Don't buy a counterfeit.
SIZES AND PRICES.

No. 0— 5 gal. to churn - pee eee se ceae $ 8 00
ee eee ead 8 50

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1892.

 

 

THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

During the early part of next month
there is to take place in St. Louis a
convention for the purpose of advocat-
ing the completion of the Nicaragua
eanal. To this convention all the States
and Territories of the Union will send
delegates accredited by their respective
Governors, and it is also understood that
the principal Boards of Trade and Com-
mercial Exchanges of the large cities will
likewise be represented by delegations.
The convention may, therefore, be ex-
pected to thoroughly represent both the
commercial and political interests of the
different sections of the country, hence
the conelusions it may arrive at will be
entitled to the serious consideration of
our National Legislature and the masses
of the people as well.

The completion of the canal would
afford the United States easy communi-
eation, not only with its own western
coast and the western coast line
of Mexico and Central America,
but with the entire Pacific slope of
South America, with its rich trade.
Those parts of the world are now
only reached by the long voyage round
Cape Horn, or by transhipment across
the Isthmus, with the attendant break-
ing of bulk and costly handling. The
rich and prosperous republics of the
west coast of South America are large
consumers of food products, as well as
all sorts of manufactured goods, agri-
cultural implements and the like. These
articles are now nearly altogether fur-
nished by Europe, but with the facilities
the eanai across the Isthmus would
furnish, the United States ought to
secure the bulk of the business.

The ignominious failure which attend-
ed the Panama Canal scheme has not
dampened the ardor of the promoters of
the Nicaragua venture, because the
natural obstacles to be overcome are in
no way as formidable in the case of the
latter as they proved to be in the case of
the former work.

 

|

improvement of which and the connect-
ing of their different waters and levels
by short canals and locks would form the
most serious engineering problems to be
overcome.

As the completion of this work would
give an easy and short water connection
between the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts
of the United States, thus aiding the
commerce of both coasts, it is important
that the canal, if it is to be built, should
be constructed with American capital, so
that its control may remain in American
hands. Intime of war the canal would
then permit us to move our warships
and war material from one coast to the
other, which we are not now able to do,
a fact that, in the event of touble, would
prove a serious matter.

 

Some years ago, when the question of
allowing a half holiday on Saturdays,
during the summer months, was first
agitated by business men in the large
cities, the project, while finding much
favor on the part of many, was stoutly
opposed by a very respectable minority,
who held that the granting of a half holi-
day on Saturdays as a permanent feature,
for no other purpose than to subserve
the pleasure and recreation of the em-
ployed, was establishing a bad precedent.
Those in favor of the half holiday, how-
ever, largely preponderated, and the
movement gradually extended, until the
custom has become the general rule in
most of the large cities of the country.

The state of New York has made all
Saturdays half holidays, irrespective of
the season of the year, but the custom as
far as other parts of the country are con-
eerned has extended only to the Satur-
days during the summer months.

As the heated term is now almost upon
us, the question of early closing on Sat-
urdays is again being agitated. It is
understood that most of the wholesale
houses will close at 3 o’clock, as was the
custom last year, but there is a move-
ment on foot to make an early closing
arrangement even more far-reaching than
has hitherto been the case. While all
the jobbing houses have in the past agreed
to the early closing hour for Saturday,
there have always been a few which
have carried out the custom in but an
imperfect manner, so that the concession
to the employes was but a nominal one.
It is to be hoped that this year this will
not prove to be the case, and that all the
jobbing houses and as many of the retail
establishments as may be able to see
their way clear will close early on Satur-
days in the literal sense, thus affording
their employes and clerks an opportunity
for recreation and rest which enables
them to continue their duties and labors
in their employers’ interest during the
entire summer without impairment to
health or strength.

There is no reason to doubt that the
early closing movement on Saturdays
during the summer is as popular with
employers as it is with the employed,
and, as long as it is generally understood

that the custom will be carried out in|

good faith by all, there will be no in-

| centive for any one to disregard the rule.
The DeLesseps canal | During the summer months there is really |

necessitated the excavation of the entire | no wholesale business that requires at-
j

route through a mountainous country, | tention after 3

o’clock in the afternoon,

while the Nicaragua Canal would need and, with proper diligence, matters can
but comparatively little excavating, the | be always so arranged as to close promp-

route for nearly its entire length follow- ly at that hour,

Experience has proven

ing the course of natural waterways, the | that the custom is a good one, hence it is

|

 

to be hoped that it will be faithfully ob-
served by all during the coming sum-
mer.

 

OPPOSITION TO THE SUGAR TRUST.

Although there has been an anti-trust
law in foree for several years, it had
been allowed in a measure to be forgot-
ten until the recent agitation against the
Sugar Trust urged the United States
authorities to apply it. In reply to a
recent request of the House of Repre-
sentatives that the Attorney General in-
form that body what steps, if any, have
been taken against the trust under the
“Sherman Law,” that official replied
that the United States District Attorney
at Philadelphia has recently brought
suit under the law against the American
Sugar Refinery and the Philadelphia re-
fineries,, which some weeks ago sold out
to the combination.

The suit in question is understood to
mean that the Government will seek to
prove that the absorption of the inde-
pendent Philadelphia refineries by the
trust was a violation of the anti-trust
law and that both the American Sugar
Refining Company and the Philadelphia
refineries must restore the condition of
things existing before tke consolidation.

This suit will be watched with inter-
est, as it will undoubtedly test the
efficacy of the law now in force to reach
the trusts, and if successful, will un-
questionably lead to similar proceedings
against the other trusts. It has been
claimed by some that the Sherman law
is powerless to reach the monopolies and
would not stand the test of constitu-
tionality, which are points that the
present suit will doubtlessly set at rest.

This method of fighting the trust is
possibly to be preferred to that recently
agitated in Washington, which com-
prised the entire removal of the duty on
refined sugar. The enemies of the com-
bination desire to strike a blow at it by
forcing it to compete with the foreign
refined sugars of Europe. This would be
unfair, because the blow aimed at the
trust would actually iaflict the greatest
injury upon the domestic sugar pro-
ducers, and would, moreover, destroy
the possibility of independent refineries
being hereafter constructed.

If Congress desires to regulate the
Sugar Trust it should do so by direct
legislation, or by compelling the execu-
tive officers of the Government to en-
force the laws already on the statute
books, and not by disturbing the tariff
laws, to the detriment of the country’s
legitimate industries and business inter-
ests generally.

 

CURIOUS LABOR COMPLICATION.

A curious phase of the labor question
is reported from Paris. A decision was
rendered in the courts some time ago
forbidding the Paris Omnibus Company
to work its employes more than twelve
hours a day, and fixing a penalty for dis-
obedience at 100 frances a day, to be paid
to a syndicate of themen. The company
ignored the decree, and the men con-
tinued to work for, the statutory twelve
hours, and for certain hours in addition.
Thereupon the syndicate communicated
with the company, but no notice was
taken of the communication. The men
continued to work during the forbidden
hours and the company continued to em-
ploy them. As the next step the syndi-
cate claimed the penalty. But the com-
pany still.pursued a course of masterly
inactivity. It ignored the claim. There-

upon the syndicate became aggressive.
A sheriff's man appeared at the bureau
of the company and asked for the full
amount of the penalty from the day of
the decision, and, the claim being ignor-
ed, seized tables, chairs, desks, and
office furniture. The defense of the
company is that they have appealed
against the decision. Meanwhile the
men go on working over-time peacefully
and contentedly as usual.

 

 

Competition and the mercantile world
wishes the national cordage trust would
go hang itself with its own twine, to
make its strangulation binding.

 

 

The Square Merchant.

He is as honest as the day is long—his
yard-stick always the full length, and
his goods are as satisfactory as himself
and his measure. Remember, when you
go shopping, that the lowest priced
article isn’t always the cheapest. That
is cheapest which costs a little more and
wears three times as long. Those are
the real bargains. A good honest article
at a fair price. Beware of traders whom
you don’t know and have not proved.
“Prove all things” is a standard maxim.
How will this definition of a merchant
answer? He is one who opens store, not
altogether for his own enrichment but
partly for the accommodation of the
community. The square merchant never
loses sight of this one of the funda-
mental facts—his interest lies in im-
proving the condition of every family in
the country. He is as interested in get-
ting a good price for what the farmers
have to sell as he is in getting a fair
price for what he sells himself. That’s
a true merchant, and the people soon
learn to trust him and love him. When
he hears of anything that is an improve-
ment in seed, implement or methods, he
scatters the good news along through the
townships. That’s an honored country
merchant. The city trader works on the
same lines; he has learned that decep-
tion or trickery of any kind is of all
things the most unprofitable. As the
great majority of buyers are not experts
—knowing the cost and value of goods to
have dealings with the square man is a
great relief, pleasure and gain. They
are quite at home in such a store, and
regard the shopkeeper’s word as genuine
as gold. So we are not only to stand by
such a man, but we are to mention him
among our friends, and praise him all
the time for the honor he brings to the
race. Gro. R. Scort.

—— —~< ++ <
The Hide Market.

All quotations are nominal and not
likely to hold good many days. At a
largely attended meeting of the upper
leather tanners of the Eastern States,
held at Boston on the 12th, all the tan-
ners represented agreed to either shut
down July 1 for 60 days or reduce their
output one-half for four months from
that date. This will tend to make a
stagnant market for some weeks to come,
although the enforced idleness will bring
about a healthier condition of the
business.

a

Kerosene Oil Lower.

A general decline of }¢c per gallon has
been made all over the State in illumi-
nating oils, both in barrels and from
tank wagons.

 

Lowell—John ©. Scott is succeeded by

 

Scott & Boylan in the hardware business.

    

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9

 

THE NATIONAL FINANCES.

Our citizens have become so accustomed
to an overflowing national treasury that
they scarcely think of an opposite state
of things as possible. The richest coun-
try in Europe, Great Britain, finds in a
surplus of a million of pounds or so of
annual revenue over annual expendi-
ture matter for self-congratulation. Ger-
many, Austria and Russia barely manage
to make both ends meet, while France,
Spain, Portugal and Italy regularly face
deficits more or less considerable. Italy,
particularly, is just now in a financial
situation in which her statesmen have to
confess that heroic reductions must be

‘made in her military and naval estab-

lishments from the absolute impossibility
of raising enough money to pay for them
on their present footing. Our govern-
ment, on the contrary, has, for the past
twenty years, enjoyed the luxury of a
surplus income so large that it has been
difficult to dispose of it. We have paid
all our ordinary expenses, redeemed hun-
dreds of millions of our war debt in ad-
vance of its maturity, and scattered other
hundreds of millions in river and harbor
improvements, in the payment of pen-
sions and arrears of pensions, and in the
liquidation of all sorts of claims, which,
under other circumstances, would not
have been considered. So oppressive be-

‘eame this plethora of national revenue

that we were lately driven to deplete it by
a revision of the tariff, which lopped off
millions in duties on raw sugar, and
raised those on many manufactured arti-
cles to a prohibitory point. The remedy
has been rather over efficient, and, dur-
ing the last ten months, the customs have
fallen to $150,000,000, against $195,000,-
000 for the corresponding ten months of
the previous fiscal year, so that, notwith-
standing aslight gain in internal revenue,
our total receipts have been only $295,-
500,000, against total expenditures of
$300,000,000.

This deficiency of $4,500,000 is, to be
sure, not important in itself, and if it
showed the full extent of the change in
our national financial condition, it might
be viewed with equanimity. Butthe fact
is that it conveys only a partial idea of
the real state of affairs. Not only has
the revenue decreased in the ten months
mentioned $45,000,000, but the expendi-
tures have been kept down to meet the
decrease by a process of staving off the
payment of claims against the govern-
ment, which merely postpones the evil
day when a much larger deficiency must
be acknowledged. The reduction of pay-
ments to $300,000,000 against the $342,-
000,000 which they were a year ago has
been effected by a disregard of pension
and other appropriations, and even the
requirements of the sinking fund act
have not been complied with.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in his
report presented to Congress last Decem-

ber, estimated, for the fiscal year ending |

with the end of next June, his ordinary
requirements at $409,000,000, of which

the proportionate part for the ten months |
Inasmuch |

just expired is $327,000,000.
as nothing has happened tu diminish this
amount legitimately, its reduction to
$300,000,000 in actual fact could, as I
said, only be effected by putting off pay-

 

ments which will have to be made sooner)

or later.

Furthermore, in the same re-)

port, the Secretary acknowledged that |
the requirements of the sinking fund for
the extinguishment of the principal of
the national debt would be, for the cur-

rent year, $48,913,000.02. Of this amount |
about $25,000,000 has been met by the|
redemption of the 41¢ per cent. bonds |
which matured last September, leaving |
about $24,000,000 yet to be paid, with no
means in sight for paying it.

All the probabilities, therefore, are |
that we shall commence the next fiscal |
year on July 1, not only without any sur- |
plus of annual income to carry forward,
but with unpaid obligations to the sink- |
ing fund and for other purposes, of many |
millions of dollars. Evidently, we shall |
have either to cut down our expenditures,
increase our revenue, or borrow the |
money which the revenue falls short of |
supplying. No political party will be
desirous of resorting to borrowing to |
meet current expenses, nor can those ex-
penses well be reduced below their pres- |
ent figures. The most available expedi- |
ent will be to increase the receipts from
customs and from internal revenue, but |
this measure involves difficulties of a|
very serious character. |

Apparently it would be easy, by merely
augmenting the duties on imported goods, |
to augment the total revenue from that
souree, but, in the first place, raising
duties means raising prices to the con-
sumer, which tends to diminish con-
sumption, and thus to defeat the purpose
aimed at. Besides, on most manufac-
tured goods the duties are already so
high as to restrict importations very con-
siderably, and raising them still higher
might prevent importations altogether.
An increase of duties upon raw materials
and the reimposition of those on tea,
coffee, and similar articles, now free,
would be effectual, but it would be un-
popular. Higher taxes on whisky and
tobacco would, again, by stimulating
ingenuity in devising means for their
evasion, and by making fraud more prof-
itable, fail to have the full effect desired.
The financial problem which will soon be
presented to our statesmen for solution
is, therefore, one which will tax their
abilities to the utmost.

The depletion of the Treasury is, at
this present juncture, also embarrassing
in its relations to our national currency.
We resumed gold payments in 1879, and
have ever since maintained them with so
little effort that, in spite of all warnings,
very few people really believe that there
is any likelihood of our not being able to

 

 

 

maintain them forever. This sense of
security has been confirmed by the ab-
sence of any ill effects from the great
exports of gold which we made a year)
ago, so that the exports now going on |
have as yet excited no alarm. Provi- |
dence, which proverbially takes care of

bad harvests to our fellow men in Eu-
rope. But we cannot count upon always |
being thus favored. This very year,
perhaps, we may have to confront a state
of things in which our ability to main-
tain the gold standard will be put toa
test which I, for one, have serious doubts |
of our enduring successfully, ‘The sur-
plus of gold in the Treasury, which saved |
us from a suspension of gold payments a.
year ago, has nearly disappeared, and I
see nothing which will supply its loss.
Not to repeat what I have so often
said before, 1 will only remind my read- |

those who cannot take care of themselves, | '

has thus far been on our side, its jatest |

| interposition in our behalf having been

the sending ef good harvests to us and | ; j ;

| ers that the country is carrying a volume

of $1,100,000,000 in silver and paper cur- |
rency, withonly, at the utmost, $300,000,-

    

 

IT

 

These are Our Leaders:

LION COFFEE, 0. D. JAVA and

STANDARD MARACAIBO,

ION is our leading package coffee, being composed of Mocha, Java and Rio,

with a handsome picture in each package. As high-grade bulk coffees, O. D.

Java and Standard Maracaibo take the lead. We guarantee these coffees to give
entire satisfaction. For quotations write your jobber, or address as below:

WOOLSON: SPICE GO, = L. WINTERNIY2,

ere RESIDENT AGENT,

High Grade Coffees,

TOLEDO, - - OHIO.

 

106 Kenr Sr.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Facts Talk Louder Than Words!

 

3,487,275 SOLD IN 1886,
3,509,575 SOLD IN 1887.

{092,360 SOLD IN 1888.
0,690,026 SOLD IN 1003.

MOLD) IN fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

j {

 

 

 

 

This is not an ordinary monument, but a TABLE of EXACT FIGURES.
showing the monumental success of our celebrated

BEN-HUR RECORD BREAKERS

(10¢ or 3 for 25¢) (The Great 5e Cigar.)

These Cigars are by far the most popular in the market to-day. MADE on HONOR
Sold by leading dealers all over the United States. Ask for them.

MOEBS & CO. Malulacturers,

DETROIT and CHICAGO.

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

0v0 in gold available fur its redemption.

| say that a fashionable young man

I know that the director of the mint esti

mates our stock of gold at a much greater

| have been derelict—may be

amount, but he does it by assuming that |

all the gold coined since 1879 and not |
| tailors have used to collect their money.

otherwise accounted for still remains in
the country and is within reach. On the
contrary, much of it has been melted up
or carried away in the pockets of trav-
elers, or hoarded where it cannot be got
at. Atall events, the only gold that it
is safe to reckon upon to maintain the
rest of our currency on a gold basis is
that which is in the vaults of the treas-
ury and of the banks, since it is only to
those institutions that applications for
payment in gold areever made. Indeed,
I question whether we can rely upon any
gold except that in the treasury, since so
soon as the treasury ceases to pay gold,
all the banks in the country will follow
its example. Considering that the treas-
ury has now only $119,000,000 of gold of
its own, and that it is liable to be called
on at any moment to redeem with it
$346,000,000 of legal tenders, and
000,000 of notes issued under the act of
July, 1890, besides some $28,000,000 of
retired bank circulation, of which it has
assumed the redemption, its position is
not very strong.

What may happen between now and
the first of July is, that as soon as Aus-
tria perfects, as she is likely to do some
time this month, her plans for creating a
gold currency, this country will be drawn
upon for at least $20,000,000, and per-
haps more. If our banks supply it, as
they probably will in the first instance,

$93,-

they will immediately seek to replace it |
in ex- |
|/him that she has ealled to collect

by drawing it from the treasury
change for legal tender notes. This will
very soon run the treasury stock of gold
down to the $100,000,000 which it is now
holding as a fund for the redemption of
the legal tenders, and then the govern-
ment will have to decide whether it shall
go on and impair this fund or offer silver
dollars instead of gold. If the treasury
refuses to pay the banks,
and then the shippers of the metal will
have to buy it in the open market at a
premium, as they used to doin the days
before resumption.

With regard to the effect on the money

zold so will

market of a suspension of gold payments
by the government and by the banks, I
am not one of those who expect it to be
disastrous. It will
of the currency in circulation,

cause no contraction
sinee gold

circulates to so limited an extent that its |

withdrawal will not be noticeable.
will be no reduction of the
banks, since the gold they refuse to pay
out or to sell will still form part of their
reserve.

There
loans by

There will be no rush to sell
merchandise, but rather one to
before a depreciated
prices, and there will be no presssure of
stocks and the market, since
they will fetch in exchange nothing but
currency. and there will be
gained by selling them.
await the course of events with equanim-
ity, and I recommend my readers to do
the same. MaTTHEW MARSHALL.

-_> —>
Success of Women as Bill Collectors.
From the New York World.

currency raises

bonds on

nothing

This is a story of how some young
women in this town make a very good
living. It is a truly interesting story.
Some folks will say that it is another il-

| dates
| blank blocks besides, to fill in the space |
\if the candidate’s
| letters.

lustration of the superiority of women. |

Everybody knows that the tailors who
make the young men of this town look so
fine have a deal of trouble in collecting
their money. Some of the funny papers

| discovered a plan
lock upon as Machiavellian in its deep

buy it}

Altogether, I |

{ blocks, placed in four parallel rows.

who
tailor with any degree of |
Only those who |
‘“*fashion- |
able’? would be the better word—have
any idea of the deep plots that the

pays his
promptness loses caste.

have
debtors

Now some of the very wisest

which the

cunning.
Who but a tailor would conceive the
idea of employing a pretty young

women to collect his bills from young
men, or old ones who still think they are
young? It is quite true that several |

fashionable tailors are doing that very |

thing. There was never any plan so ex-
cellent for them.

The great trouble with this new de-
parture, from the woman wage-earner’s
standpoint, is that it makes an invidious
distinction. The woman so employed,
to be successful, must be pretty. She
must also be quick of wit and have no}
ordinary amount of _ self-possession,
Given these things, with courage,
she can make a small fortune.
she is clever, she will not make the col-
lections on a salary, buton a commission.

     
   
  
   

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COMPRESSED YEAST

and |
For if |

| Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years.

When a pretty young woman, charm- |

ingly dressed, appears at an office and |

says that she wants to see Mr. Putoff,

the office boy never dreams of inquiring |

what her business may be. He s mply
goes to the young man and says that a
lady wishes to see him, and he adds,
with the office boy’s privilege, that she
is young and pretty. Mr. Putoff never
dreams of demanding to know her busi-
ness before he goes out. He appears
with asmile as broad as a French play and
greets her with overpowering politeness.
And when she looks at him shyly and
timidly and murmurs with a little catch
in her voice, ‘Oh, Mr. Putoff, you'll
pardon me,”’ he feels that there is noth-
ing on earth he would not do to help the
beautiful girl who is in distress. He
doesn’t notice the slip of white paper
in her hand. And then when she tells
the
little bill which he owes Cuttem &
Tailor, it dazes him. He pays the bill
before he can recover from his amaze-
ment. And even if he did recover his
wits in time he would never dare put her
off and run the ecross-fire of the other

| fellows in the office.

There are in New York now about
half a dozen young women who are em-
ployed as collectors by tailors. Natur-
ally, it isn’t a business that every young

lady would care to go into, but the
wages are attractive. There is one
young woman, employed by a_ Fifth
avenue tailor, whose average is 350 a

week, and she does not work over six
hours a day.

‘‘It isn’t nearly so bad as it seems,
said she. ‘‘The first time | went into an
office I thought I should faint. It was
only with the greatest effort that I could
make myself go there at all. But I
didn’t have to do any urging atall. The
man paid me almost without saying a
word. It didn’t take me five minutes
and my commission was $10.

9 |

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Endorsed Wherever Used.

State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich.

106 Kent St.

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Telephone 566.

 
  

     

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guarantee of the genuine
article.

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couraged me and now I get along splen-}

didiy. But it takes lots of assurance at
times. Still | have never been treated
discourteously but once. The worst
trouble is that the men want to
you to dinner, to the theatre and all that |
sort of thing.”

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One |

space is left blank to allow of free motion |

along the various roads to the goal. On
each block is printed a letter of the al-
phabet, the total combination spelling
the names of twenty-five possible candi- |
for the Presidency. There are}
name hasn’t enough
The scheme is to select a candi-
date, and, by moving one block at a time, |

|get his name in the winning line—an |
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likely to cost the victim that tries it)
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If you have any beans and want tosell,
we want them, will give you full mar
ket price. Send them to us in any
quantity up to car loads, we want 1000
bushels daily.

WwW. T. LAMOREAUX & CO.,

128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

THE BOYS WHO SUCCEED.

 

They Must Have Clear Minds and
Cool Brains.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

In articles immediately preceding this,
the writer made an appeal in behalf of
the boys of this. generation by showing
the necessity of a good, practical, busi-
ness or mechanical! training, in order to
help them over the rough and rugged
pathway of life, when it came their turn
to report for duty. The advantages in
after life, resulting from an early prep-
aration of this kind, were depicted,
showing that the American artisan, by
reason of his practical knowledge, was
in a position to command a much larger
degree of the comforts of life than was
possible on the part of the unskilled
laborer.

The simple acquisition of a mechanical
trade or a thorough business training
will not, however, bring these comforts
and blessings of life. The knowledge
acquired must be turned to practical
account. It must be applied closely and
continuously. It calls for constant,
skillful action guided by thought, and
this thought must proceed from a clear
mind and a cool brain; and this brings
me to the subject of this article.

A young man may graduate with
flaming honors in the best educational
institution in the land; he may diligent-
ly serve the old English apprenticeship
of seven years in the acquisition of the
best mechanical trade in the world; or,
he may become an expert in some mer-
eantile pursuit, but, if he does not keep
his mind clear and his brain cool, all
will avail him nothing. Proficiency
talent—skill—of what use are these all,
when the mind is beclouded and the
brain is ignited?

Young man! How dare you tempt the
anger of the gods and insult your
employer, by enhaling your whisky-
polluted breath into the face of that lady
eustomer? Don’t you know that she
is somebody’s sister, or somebody’s
mother? Are you so foolish as to im-
agine that you are superior to any
human being whoever lived, inasmuch as
your secret sins will never find you out?
My young friend, if that brain, which
God has endowed you with, and for the
proper care of which he will hold you to
a strict accountability, has ever been set
on fire by the doubly-distilled essence of
ruin and damnation, take my advice and
stop! Never, by your own hand, de-
throne your reason again; for, in spite of
all the fine accomplishments you may
have, sooner or later you will be erushed,
if you continue in this dangerous course.

The writer is personally acquainted
with certain clerks in this city, whom he
could name if he wished to, who are
going down grade at preak-neck speed
and will soon reach the bottom and
plunge head-first into the pit of black
despair. Is this all? If it were all, it
would be sufficiently sad, but in some of
these cases, heart-strings of fond
mothers and loving sisters are already
beginning to snap, and when the final
crash comes, God only knows the full
extent of the ruin and desolation which
will be left behind.

These are the boys who, lacking this
innate desire to do right—or, possessing
it, are lacking in executive force in ex-
ecuting it—who can never get there.
The world is too full of dangerous pit-
falls, and the forces of the evil one are
too formidable for these unfortunate,

 

 

weak brothers to cope with and they are
drawn under the current and perish.
Young man, permit me to ask you to
what class you belong? Do you know
whither you are drifting, and are you

utterly unable to stay your course, owing |

to your driveling imbecility? Then [I
pity you and those who gave you birth,
from the lowest depths of my heart; but
if your inability is caused by falling a
victim to your diseased appetite,

to a medical treatment.
to make yourself believe that your daily

guzzling is what you need to make a man |

of you, and that the customers you wait
upon, and the people you associate with,
do not know that you are
more than half the time?

then |
frankly confess it like a man and submit |
Are you trying |

out pay fret

From Boston and New York on
Shoe Dressing when you can buy
it of HIRTH & KRAUSE at

cad
‘Manulacturers Prices.
GILT EDGE,
GLYCEROLE,
RAVEN GLOSS,
ALMA, [ Large size].
A Rug with each gross, $22.80.
| Stool with two gross.
| of the above dressing, $22.80.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

intoxicated |
Then you are}

a fool and it is a great pity that you eyer |

had a mother or a sister.
bummer through choice, and do you
glory in it? Then you are a monster
and ought never to have been born. If
you belong to either of these classes,
you can never ‘‘get there” until you are
able to keep your mind clear and your
brain cool. K. A. OWEN.
ne a <i einen

Proposed Syndicate of Whip Makers.
From the Westfield, Mass., Republican,

An attempt is being made to buy up
all the whip manufacturing concerns in
the country and run the business under
one management. C. C. Foster, of New
York, is engaged in this mission, and has
visited the manufacturers in Westfield,
who make three-quarters of the product
in the country. Mr. Foster says that his
plan meets with general favor and he be-
lieves he can secure the object sought.
There have been repeated attempts to
combine the whip interests to prevent
ruinous competition, but every ec mbina-
tion has fallen through, for sooner or
later some member violates the agree-
ment. Now it is proposed to have only
one ownership, and let each concern
share in it by holding stock. Mr. Foster
says that whip-making has _ suffered
peculiarly from competition, which has
not resulted in cheapening the product
as it should. In other industries the
cost of selling does not run over 10 per
cent., but it has cost about 25 per cent.
to sell whips, and’ there are twenty
traveling salesmen when one could do
the business. The large number of
competing concerns and their rivalry,
Mr. Foster says, has made an unprofita-
ble and unnecessary number of styles in
whips. There ought not to be over 150
styles, but in their eagerness to get up
salable articles different from those of-
fered by competitors, the manufacturers
are using 1,000 or more models, which
are expensive because requiring special
preparation.

The plan proposed is to continue the
different concerns, the Owners
given shares in the controlling corpora-
tion. This plan, Mr. Foster believes,
will stimulate interest and rivalry to
produce the best article. The buying of
material will, however, be left to the
general management. Stock will be as-
signed to each and a careful accounting
made of the finished product. Of course,
this will make prices uniform, but it
will also cheapen them. The product
of the Westfield whip factories amounts
to over $1,000,000 a year, and this big
purchase will especially interest that
town, although Mr. Foster says it will
continue to lead in the business. It is
proposed to have the managers of the
big corporation American manufactur-
ers. The principal concerns still to be
consulted in the matter are in Rochester,
N. Y., and Columbus, Ohio, but Mr.
Foster believes that all can be brought
into the big corporation.

ENGRAVING

It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits,
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
Machinery, etc., made to order from photo-
graphs.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Are you a}

SLAUGHTER SALE |

being |

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

N June 1 I shall remove

my notion stock to 41 So.
Division street, where the bus-
iness will be continued under
the style of

SWARTOUT & DOWNS.
Previous to that time, I offer

any goods in my stock at cut
prices for spot cash.

_W. H. DOWNS,

8 So. Ionia Street,

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F, A. GREEN,

45 Pearl St., R’m 9, Grand Rapids, Mich.

I prepay express charges when cash accom
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Don’t Buy

YOUR SPRING LINES OF

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Base Ball Goods,
a Fishing Tackle

Until you have seen our assortment. Our sales-
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EATON, LYON & CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

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| Geo. H. ‘Reeder & Co.,

JOBBERS OF

BOOTS & SHOES

| Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

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Wm. Brummeler & Sons

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| Manufacturers and Jebbers of

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

TELEPHONE 640.

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.

W. Baxer & (os

Breakfast
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“i other chemical:
H or dyes are uset

A description of the chocolate
lant, and of the various cocoa anc
hocolate preparations manufac-
ured by Walter Baker & Co., wil
’e sent free to any dealer or
ipplication.

¥. BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

D. A. BLopeEtT, President.
S. F. ASPINWALL, Vice-President.
Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier.

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.

 

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

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FIRE INSURANCE.

 

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

NINTH PAPER.
Written fur THE TRADESMAN.

This company shall not be liable under this |
policy for a greater proportion of any loss on |
the described property, or for loss by and ex- |
pense of removal from premises endangered by
fire, than the amount hereby insured shall bear |
to the whole insurance, whether valid or not, or |
by solvent or insolvent insurers, covering such |
property, and the extent of the application of
the insurance under this policy or of the contri- |
bution to be made by this company in case of
loss, may be provided for by agreement or con-
dition written hereon or attached or appended
hereto. Liability for re-insurance shall be as
specifically agreed hereon.

The principle of contribution between
eco-insurers of the same property was |
early established and has always been
enforced; and, as this series of papers
purports to bear upon the history of fire
insurance, my readers will pardon me}
for quoting from Angell, in his work on
the subject of double insurance:

There is no illega‘ity in the practice of
double insurance, nor is it prejudicial in
its ordinary effects to the assured or to
the insurer. To the assured it is at-
tended with advantage, as it provides
with greater certainty for the protection
of the whole amount of his interest, and
the several underwriters on different pol- |
icies being in the nature of co-insurers, |
he is enabled to select any whose respon-
sibility he may prefer for satisfaction
for the amount of his loss. No incon- |}
venience, on the other hand, is sustained |
by an underwriter in the case of a double |
insurance, for his contract is not varied
by it, and if the underwriter in one poli- |
cy should pay the whole amount of the
loss, he would be entitled to recover a/|
ratable contribution from the under-
writer in the other policy. The princi-
ple of contribution has its foundation in
the clearest principles of natural justice,
for, as all are equally bound and equally
relieved, it is obviously but just that, in|
such a case, all should contribute in pro- |
portion toward a benefit obtained by all.
Any other rule in case of double insurance
would put it into the power of the as-
sured to select his own victim and,
upon motives of mere caprice or favor-
itism, to make a common burden a per-
sonal oppression.

The above learned opinion was writ-
ten in an early period of the history of
the development of the fire insurance
policy. Atthat time, in case of double |
insurance, the assured could recover
from either or any one of his insurers |
the whole amount insured for, and the |
insurer’s only remedy was to fall back
upon his co-insurer for a ratable contri-
bution of the amount. This was the
cause of much inconvenience and un-
necessary expense to the insurance com- |
panies, at best; but when it is borne in
mind that the policies of cc-insurers
frequentiy became invalidated, and that
the co-insurers themselves sometimes
failed to contribute, it will be seen that |
the system was not altogether free from |
hardships and injustice.

In most of the policies now issued in
this country, specific provisions similar |
to the one quoted are inserted. They
vary considerably, but usually require
that any other insurance must be stated
by the insured and endorsed on the pol-
icy, and that in case of other insurance

each company shall pay only a ratable
proportion of the loss. This does away
with the old contribution system and
gives each insurer the right to limit the
recovery of the assured against itself to
its ratable proportion of the whole
amount insured. It was, therefore, held
in a Wisconsin case that, where there are
several insurances on the same property,

| son of want of notice of the prior insur-

|duced; the principle of ratable liability

| panies on his own goods and on goods

lof the covenant relating to other insur-

| was not entitled to an abatement on its
| policy by reason of such other insurance.

| own State.

|and the centipede are such deadly ene-
| mies of the human kind as they are cred-

| before they jumped in any direction, and

‘out of sight,

ito die, as the centipede had crawled

|affected differently by the bites or stings

| virus.

and the policies stipulate that each com- |

pany shall be liable only fer its ratable |
proportion of any loss, if one company |
pays more than its just share, its remedy |
is not against the other companies for
contribution, but against the assured, to |
recover back the over payment. It was)
held that where property covered by |

| several policies of insurance is burned, |
| the policies containing substantially the |

clause above cited, the proportion to be |
paid by one insurer is that which the |

amount of his policy bears to the total |

| amount of the insurance, though some of |

the policies cover other property in ad- |
dition to that destroyed.
It was held in an Iowa case that where

the subsequent insurance is void, by rea-

ance or for any other cause, the liability
of the original insurers is not ratably re-

being applied only with reference to the
amount of valid insurance. This diffi- |
culty was removed by adding the words,
‘‘whether valid or invalidated,’’ and thus
another stage was reached in the devel-
opment of the modern policy.

In a case in Maryland, where one was
insured in a Baltimore company on his
own goods, and in certain foreign com-

held on commission, the policy in the
first company containing a clause similar
to the one cited, it was held that the for-
eign policies were not within the effect

ances, and that the Baltimore company

Out of cases similar to the above has
grown the necessity of a standard policy,
so constructed that all underwriters may
adopt it and put it into practical use.
This necessity has been fully met in our
x. A. OwEx.

————_-_>
Not so Deadly as Thought.

A Californian writer to a San Francisco
paper strongly denies that the tarantula

ited with being. Hesays: ‘I have cap-
tured every tarantula that I have seen

have teased and tormented them until I
was tired, and presume they were too
tired to jump, but Ihave never been able
to get them todo more than try to get
Centipedes, I was told,
would cause the part of a person over
which they crawled to shrivel up or
waste away, yet aman on my place was
stung by a good-sized centipede. We
applied sal soda and sent the man home

nearly the whole length of him and stung |
him on the back, but he was on hand the
next morning and stated that the sting
was about equal to a hornet’s sting.” It
is probably true that different people are

 

of these ‘‘varmints,’’ just as some people
are seriously injured by poison oak and
others are not susceptible to its peculiar
Cases are on record where people
have been physical wrecks from injuries
inflicted by centipedes, tarantulas and
stingrays, but it does not follow that
everybody who is struck by one of these
creatures is doomed to such a fate. It is]
just as well, however, not to make the}
experiment. When one is bitten there is |

 

| hardly anything better than a little sal

soda applied directly to the wound. The
virus of all poisonous reptiles and in-|
sects seems to be of an acid nature and}
the soda neutralizes it if the application |
is made before the poison gets into the)
blood. |
—_——__—> -.<.__—— j

There were in 1865 about 9,500,000
buffaloes on the plains between the}
Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, |
Almost all are now gone—killed for
their meat, their skins and their bones.

 

Send us your orders for

 

 

 

 

Commercial Printing.
are not the cheapest printers in the State—would be

ashamed of it if we were. When we find a “cheapest
printer” who does workmanlike work, we will lock up our
plant and sublet our printing to him, As it is, system enables
us to handle work on close margins. There is more in it for
us to do $1,000 worth of work on 10 per cent. margin than
$100 worth at 25 per cent.

Besides, we carry our own paper stock, envelopes, card-
boards, ete.—buy direct, discount our bills and save the mid-
dleman’s profit. Let us show you what we are doing.

PRINTING DEPARTMENT
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

 

 

WHO URGES YOU TO KEEP vA C) | l ()?

The Public ?

By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers create a
demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply
the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods
sell themselves, bring purchasers to the store, and help sell less known
goods.

Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders.

 

Agents Wanted?

We can give you exclusive territory on a large line of Bicycles.

Send for catalogue. Our line
includes the:

 

COLUMBIA CLIPPER
VICTOR PARAGON
RUDGE LROQUOIS

KITE PHOENIX
TELEPHONE GENDRONS
OVERLAND and all the
LOVELL DIA- Western Wheel Works
MOND Line.

Also others too numerous to mention. Wholesale and retail dealers in Bicycles, Cyclists’ Sundries,
Rubber and Sporting Goods, Mill and Fire Department Supplies. 7

STUDLEY é& BARCLAY,

4 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

BICYCLES!

We Control Territory on the Finest and Largest Line of Cheap, Medium and
High Grade Machines in the State

 

WRITE US FOR

TERMS AND DIS- WE WANT
sei as \ AGENTS IN EVERY

AGENTS. LIVE TOWN.

 

PERKINS & RICHMOND,

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

  

 

WINDOW DRESSING.

Comprehensive Suggestions by an Ac-
knowledged Expert.
Henry Harman in Printers’ Ink.

Window dressing, as a method of at-
tracting custom, is now recognized as
being of the highest importance. In no
department of store building or remod-
eling do we see amore marked change
for the better than in the present highly-
improved methods of constructing show
windows. The store of 1892 has more
than a plate-glass window, it has a plate-
glass front. Formerly only dry goods
houses made a study of window dressing,
but now the practice extends through
all branches of trade. It is beyond ques-
tion that there are few things so attrac-
tive as a beautifully and artistically
dressed show window. It is, perhaps
the cheapest advertisement that dealers
may indulge in. Its real aims are to
show the people what you keep to sell,
and the prices at which you _ sell.
Around these all the various details cen-
ter. Bear in mind that the principal ob-
ject of the most successful window
dressers, like that of the best advertisers,
is to do something that will cause people
to talk. Excite the curiosity, the cupid-
ity, the talk of the people and the ad-
miration and the patronage will surely
come, as it has numberless times. To
keep abreast of the times it is necessary
for your windows to have your utmost
attention by a constant change of dis-
plays similar to a moving panorama.

IDEAS FOR DISPLAYING DRY GOODS.

The principal object to attain is to
dress your windows so they will attract.
The key to success is a fund of resource.
To have only one way of placing a piece
of calico, puffing a silk, or opening a
ribbon, one particular spot in which to
place a particular piece of dress fabric,
is but a poor effort to a great end. By
repetition of the same argument day
after day and year after year, the general
public lose a chief point of interest.
There must be a constant succession of
novelty, even while continuously work-
ing from the same class of goods. In
this line I will offer a variety of dis-
plays.

FOR A DRESS GOODS DISPLAY.

A ribbon effect may be formed to cover
the entire ceiling and background in this
manner: Hang two curtain poles within
a few inches of window pane, each
pole being hung from the other at about
a distance of three feet, or according to
height of window. Another curtain
pole is hung across the back of window
to correspond with the lower pole hung
in front. Start by pinning the ends of
ribbons to top pole, bringing them under
the lower one, back over the pole sus-
pended at back of window, allowing the
ribbons to drape. Dress fabrics or goods
of like character may be formed in corn-
ucopia shape, placed in an upright posi-
tion about three or four feet back from
the window pane and three _ feet
apart, in two rows, one row behind the
other, three in the first and four in the
second, having the forms of the first row
standing in front of the spaces of the
second row. If the window is a small
one have but a single row, and that of
but two forms, filling the spaces between
with fancy fans or other suitable articles.
The forms are made by taking uprights
the desired height braced to heavy
lumber and barrel hoops secured to the
top. The goods is then taken and
pinned in pleated folds around the hoops
and gathered at the base. Trimmings or
laces are festooned over the goods with
buttons and gloves to match. Glove
forms may be secured inside of hoops,
holding a parasol or spray of flowers.

Another very pretty design is to ar-
range one or two rows formed in half
circles, with the patterns shown in the
shape of goblets. The same form is
used, and in place of gathering the folds
at the base gather them about half way
and tie to upright, allowing the folds to
drape gracefully, then draw tightly to
base. Place a bunch of flowers from the
top of each goblet. If sateens or challies

are displayed, drape over a few yards of
laces lengthwise.

Another way is to take off the hoops
and nail a crosspiece on top of upright
and bend a half hoop, which will form

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

an arch. By pinning the material to
hoop and gathering the folds at base it
will resemble a fan.

‘“‘A world of dress goods’? may be
formed in this manner: Secure to the
center of the floor an upright according
to the height desired. Nail a cirele to
the top and bottom about the size you
would judge the shoulder of the frame-
work will come to and fasten to up-
right. Another large circle is necessary,
which will have to be made at a lumber
mill, and secure to center ef upright.
Take thin strips which are pliable and
nail to top and bottom over the circles,
which will produce the desired effect.
The framework is now ready to be dis-
played with a variety of dress patterns.
A card should read:

 

Wer HAVE A WoRLD’s SUPPLY
OF
DRESS

SPRING PATTERNS

AT
FAIR PRICES.

 

For a spring opening, a window of
dress fabrics displayed on the cornucopia
order, arranged in some special design,
will make an elaborate display. The
forms may be constructed in various
sizes. Take the center of window and
build a platform from three to five feet
square and about four feet in height.
Drape the front and sides of platform in
this manner: Nail on half-barrel hoops
and from each hoop pin on a pattern and
gather the folds at floor and tie
with ribbon. Inthe center of platform
nail an upright according to the height of
window and secure to the top a large
hoop. This will enable you to display
several patterns by pinning around hoop
and gathering all folds at base. Fill the
top with plants and flowers. At each
corner of platform nail an upright with
hoop and form the goblet design. Fill
goblets with flowers. The spaces be-
tween patterns arranged around base of
platform fill in with fans. If there is
any space open in the background and
room will permit, fill in with patterns on
each side similar as described around
base of platform, otherwise merely drape
in plain folds. The floor of the window
fill in with a mirror on each side of plat-
form, to represent a lake within a few
inches of window pane, and bank up
with Nile green material. On each
mirror place a swan, as described for
Easter; water-lilies may be introduced.
The floor arrangement may be shown if
the dresser desires, or according to the
size of the window.

A solid window of laces and embroid-
eries may be shown in this manner:
Arrange a number of steps built up from
boxes and planks. Display your laces
wound around cardboard formed in the
shape of cones, pinning on blue cambric
as afoundation. On the top of each cone
display afan. The spaces between fill
up with embroideries. In the center of
window place a column and arrange
laces in a spiral manner. From the
top of column pin on laces, festooned
around the entire window to form a
eanopy. The floor fill in with em-
broideries.

IDEAS FOR DISPLAYING SHOES.

In dressing shoe windows I think it
best to make it a point to exhibit the
greatest number of styles without over-
crowding the windows, and to have some
particular color, so to speak, for the en-
tire display. Too many colors attract
attention to the dressing of the window
and detract from the display of shoes.
I also say that the mere changing position
of shoes is not sufficient, but each time
you dress a window change it in such a
manner that the people will notice it.
Paper flowers, vines and tropical plants
set the shoes off to excellent advantage.

It is impossible to show shoes to advan-
tage unless there is a background, which

 

|

is now generally used in the shape of |

mirrors and plushes; but this is not nec-
essary, as cheese cloth may be procured

|and draped into any number of effects.

Tissue paper may also be used for the
same purpose by making a framework of
light strips, the eutire length of window
covered over with cloth and paper pin-
ned on irregular so as to form wavy
effects. Crushed tissue paper makes up
the best effect.

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crushing the paper in the hand. Gold! RQYOR SALE—OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF GEN

paint, touched up here and there, will add |

to the make-up.

- eral merchandise at Chippewa Lake, con
| Sisting of hats, caps, boots and shoes, men’s fur
| nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries.

A pretty display, ‘‘The Incoming of | Having finished our lumber operations, we offer

Spring,” may be arranged thus:
cheese cloth or paper ofa Nile green or
delicate violet tint and cover the side
wall and background with the same ma-
terial. Fillin the floor with the same
material or bank upsod and arrange a
spring from rocks. Display stands and
shoes may be disjributed throughout the
window. Another way is to place a
large mirror on the floor and bank up the
sides. Place a shoe on the glass with a
figure doll seated in the shoe top drawn
by miniature toy swans. Plants, flowers,
ete., may be arranged as desired. A dis-
play card to read: ‘*The spring has come,
so look at our shoes that have just
sprung.”’

Varied colored cheese cloth or tissue
paper may be used throughout the sea-
son, according to the fancy colors that
will be worn. This will make a very
handsome and tempting attraction for
the general public.

IDEAS FOR DISPLAYING MEN’S FURNISH-
INGS.

The most effective window displays
for furnishings is to arrange a unit, com-
posed of as many articles as the taste of
the dresser may dictate, and to repeat
this unit to fill one or more bars, or the
entire window.

In dressing a window for the purpose
of getting as much show as possible with
afew goods, I would suggest that an
appropriate ceiling and background of
one certain shade be arranged from
cheese cloth. This may be done by
tacking the material around the entire
edge of window pane and brought to
back of window. Floral decorations
consisting of trailing vines, pots of
tropical plants and hanging baskets may
be made especially attractive distributed
throughout the window. Make up price-
tickets same color as scarfs.

The arrangement of a spring display
may be made up as follows: Form a
ceiling effect and background with a
violet or Nile green cheese cloth. (Where
there are no display fixtures form arches
of high strips of lumber, starting near
the window pane and gradually incline
toward the back.) Cover the floor with
same material and introduce Spring by
a doll figure seated in a chariot drawn by
searfs made up as butterflies. This is as
follows: Take a small wooden box and
tack on pasteboard curved in shape to
the front part; then cover over entire box
with gold paper, edging it with ‘lowers.
The wheels are made of barrel hoops,
covered over with silk handkerchiefs.
At some distance from the chariot secure
a number of scarfs at intervals apart to
the floor of the window by inserting stout
wire into the skirts. On each side of the
body attach a small wing made of tissue
paper or pasteboard cut to shape, which
may be outlined with gold paint. Insert
two gilt scarf pins into the head to rep-
resent the eyes, and around the neck of
each scarf attach ribbons which represent
the rains held by figure seated in the
chariot. Floral decorations may be
introduced througouht the window.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion and
one cent a word for each subsequent insertion,
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

rr. SALE—A DRUG STORE, NICE FIX
tures, fresh and well selected stock, in-
creasing trade, nice residence portion of the
city. Inventory, $2,500. Address No. 498, care
Michigan Tradesman. 498
OR 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—GROCERY STOCK AND FIX-

 

 

| H. P. Wyman, Seec’y, Grand Rapids. Mich.
| BYOR SALE—NEW, CLEAN STOCK OF DRY

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ja bargain.

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| goods.

Take | the above stock for sale cheap for cash or on

| time with good security. Will sell this stock as

, @ whole or any branch of it. Enquire of Chip-
pewa Lumber Co., Chippewa Lake, Mich., or of

449

Established trade; good town. Lock
box 963, Rockford, Mich. 483
, pamapecg BUSINESS CHANCE FOR A PER-
son with #1100 cash. Can step intoan old
established cash retail and paying bakery.
Don’t fail to investigate this. For particulars
address No. 471, care Michigan Tradesman. 47i
ee SALE OR EXCHANGE — FOR CITY
property, a general stock of merchandise at
Situated fifteen miles from Grand
tapids. Address No 510, care Michigan Trades-
man, 510
OR SALE CHEAP WELL SELECTED
drug stock — New andclean. Address F.A
Jones, M. D. Muskegon, Mich. 391

SITUATIONS WANTED.
fee eben — POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist of eleven years practical ex
perience. Am married man. Or would like to
find good place to locate with first class store.
Address No. 499. care Michigan Tradesman. 499

 

ee. POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist of eleven years’ experience.

Address No. 487, care Michigan Tradesman. 487
\ ANTED—POSITION BY YOUNG MAN IN
dry goods, men’s furnishing goods or gen-
eral store. Six years’ experience. Good refer-
ences. Address No. 5/2, care Michigan Trades-
man, 502

TO EXCHANGE.

ryNO EXCHANGE—PORTABLE STEAM SAW-
. mill ina good hardwood country, for mer-

chandise or improved real estate. Address P.

Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 508

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

OR RENT—NICE LARGE LIGHT STORE
in brick block near Fifth avenue at $25,
Jno. C. Dunton, Widdicomb Building. 491
OR SALE—GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING
stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer
cantile a E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St.,
Grand Rapids 370
—— OF GOODS WANTED— WILL EX-
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 2 Grand Rapids, Mich, 4%
¥F\O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO

you buy of the largest manufacturers in the
United States? If you do, you are customers of
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

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

OR SALE—11-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD LO-
cation, within ten minutes walk of Monroe
St. Price, 33,200. 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. i a
V ANTED — TRAVELING SALESMEN TO
sell baking powder to the retail grocery
trade. Men acquainted with different sections
of country. A good side line; also good oppor-
tunity for clerks or any live men who want to
get on the road; experience not absolutely
necessary; we mean business. Tothe right man,
a liberal contract will be made and steady em-
ployment given: we pay not less than 875 month
salary and expenses, or 20 per cent. commission.
Address, with stamp, U. S. Chemical Works, 842
Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill. 506
OR SALE—THREE NEARLY NEW _ LAMB
knitting machines. Also one round Tuttle
knitter. Frank McDerby, Nashville, Mich. 505
AYOOD WANTE D— CORRESPONDENCE
\ solicited with parties haying any No. 1
stovewood. Cash and highest market price paid,
M. E. Lapham, 431 East Bridge street, Grand
Rapids, Mich. 503
yo DRUGGIST TO GO TO DEL
ton, Barry county, Mich., and start a drug

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

store. Living rooms above. Immediate posses-
sion given. Address Henry Arbour, Stanwood,
Mich. 509

 

WANTED |

LUMBER

RED OAK, WHITE OAK,

 

 

 

tures in corner store in desirable portion of

city, having lucrative trade, f 9
saline. Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades-
man. 504

EW, CHOICE

STOCK OF DRUGS

Best of reasons for

AND

groceries, $3,000, and new store $1,500, at

Okemos.
or exchange in part for a
Grand Rapids.
Tradesman.

Profits about $1,500 = year.

Will sell
esirable home in
Address No. 507, care _—*

DC ges SALE—A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES
and crockery in good shape and doing a

ood business.

Gan give good reasons for sell-
This is done by merely |ing. Box 87, Allegan, Mich. 489

BLACK ASH,

 

ROCK ELM, GREY ELM,

 

BASSWOOD.

A. E. WORDEN,

19 Wonderly Building,
j GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

State Board of —
One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Four Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Five Years—C. A, Bugbee, Cheboygan.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Meetings for 1892— Star Island (Detroit), July 5;

Marquette, Aug. 31; Lansing, November 1.

 

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

Ignace; A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Sec retary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer— Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids;
Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; C. E.
Webb, Jackson.
Next place of meeting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4.
Local Secretary— —John D. Muir.

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

June, September and December.

Pauley, St.

Grand Regige Drug Clerks’ 2 Aasociation.

resident, F Kipp; Secre ree re nith.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.

President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

 

How to Test Drinking Water for Im-
purities.

 

Frederick J. Wulling , Ph. G., in Pharmaceutical Rec
ord.

Sometimes the pharmacist is called up-
on, especially if his sign reads ‘‘chemist
and druggist,’’ to ascertain whether a
sample of water is fit for drinking and
domestic purposes or unfit for that end.
It isn’t avery difficult matter to apply
a few tests for the simple determination
of the fitness or otherwise of a sample in
question. A complete examination of
the character of a sample of water is a
very difficult problem and should be re-
ferred to a skilled chemist. The sub-
stances to be looked for primarily are

organic matter, albuminoid matter, am-
monia, nitrates and nitrites.

The nitrogen compounds are usually
more abundant if animal matter is pres-
ent; they of all other abnormal constitu-
ents render water the most unwholesome.
Their presence and of ammonia and of
albuminoid substances, does not neces-
sarily render water unfit for domestic
purposes, but water containing them or
either one usually becomes the breeding
piace of the contagious disease germs if
they are around.

1. For organic matter, put a little of
the sample into the beaker, add two or
three drops of dilute sulphuric acid and
color distinetly with a solution of per-
manganate of potassium. If much organic
matter is present, the color of the per-
manganate becomes discharged almost
immediately; if less or very little, it
takes longer to decolorize. If the color
has not changed in twenty-five or thirty
minutes it is safe to assume that organic
matter was not present. This is a tol-
erably reliable test.

For nitrites, a little sulphuric acid
added to the water forms nitrous acid if
nitrites are present, which is easily de-
tected by its power of liberating iodine
from iodide of potassium. A little starch
paste is mixed with a small quantity of
a solution of potassium iodide, and the
mixture added to the suspected water
containing the sulphuric acid. If nitrites
were present the nitrous acid formed lib-
erates the iodine from the iodide, which
turns blue with starch. This indirect
method is a ready means for detecting
the nitrites if present in not too smalla
quantity.

3. Nitrates are detected by converting
into nitric acid, which turns morphia red.
A portion of the water is evaporated to
dryness, the residue treated with a drop
of strong sulphuric acid (which makes
nitric acid of the nitrate) and a portion
of the morphine added. If nitrate was
present the morphine gives red color.

4. For ammonia, Nessler’s reagent is
by far the best test. It may be made by
dissolving grains of iodide of potas-
sium in a little water, adding solution of
mercuric chloride until the red iodide of
mercury first formed redissolves upon
agitation. To this is added a solution of
50 grains caustic potassa and distilled
water to make 8 ozs.

This reagent will detect 0.00375 of a
grain in a pint of water by giving a yel-
low color. A reddish color or precipi-
tate forms with larger quantities of am-
monia.

5. Albuminoid matter requires a more

18

 

 

elaborate proceeding for itsdetection. If
all the above were found it is hardly
necessary to go to the trouble of looking
for albuminoids; the water would be un-
wholesome even if they were not present.
If it is desired to test for them, neverthe-
less, Chapman and Wankly’s test is the
simplest to employ. If the water was
found to contain ammonia, the latter

|must first be removed, as must also any

urea that 7 be present.
> <—
The Coal Combination.

The inerease already made in the price
of anthracite coal by the great com-
bination of railroads and mine owners,
with the probability of a further in-
crease, is stirring up inquiry and dis-
cussion as to what can be done by the
people in their own behalf. The profits
of the coal operators, there is good
reason for believing, was disproportion-
ately large before the advance, and this
advance will, if it goes no further, put
millions of dollars into the pockets of
those who are cornering the business, at
the expense of the people. It is the
opinion of some that the combination is
illegal, but we do not believe it will be
so declared. This may be bad for the
people and bad for the law, but it is very
doubtful if, under existing laws, the
combination can be prevented from in-
creasing the price of coal at its will.
There is, of course, a limit beyond which
it will not be profitable for the coal op-
erators to go, and that is about where the
combination willstop. Inthe meantime,
the people, by a slow process, may get
stirred up to a point of demanding that
laws be enacted by the operation of which
they may obtain some of their natural
rights. Itis to be hoped that this may
be the case.

The fact that antracite coal cannot be
satisfactorily contracted for in the East-
ern part of the country has led some
manufacturers who use a large quantity
to look to the substitution of bituminous
coal—we believe in some instances to con-
tract forit. But, should this become any-
thing like common, the combination will
undoubtedly find ways of controlling
that trade as well as the trade in anthra-
cite.

ae
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 fold to the good you
can possbly derive from them Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Gheney & 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.
t= Sold by Druggists, price 75¢ per ‘pottle.

 

 

WHY NOT DRINE

WILLIAMS:
OOT BEER

“© DELICIOUS zon a
SPARKLING ="
HEALTHY.

TAKE NO
OTHER,

BEST TEMPERANCE
BEVERAGE KNOWN.

 

 

 

 

 

RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO,,

12, 14, 16 PEARL ST.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

E would call the atten-

tion of the trade to our
lines of walking shoes. We
can show you all the novelties
at popular prices.

We also carry good lines of
Tennis Goods at low prices.

 

We want to sell you your rubbers for fall. Terms and discounts as good
offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER.

The Modern Writing Machine!

 

 

Visible Writing.

Permanent Alignment,

Automatic Ribbon-Feed Reverse
High Speed.

Powerfal Manifolder.

Light-Running, Durable.

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

The No.3 Machine takes paper 14
inches wide, and writes a line 134%
inches long. Price, $110 complete

 

SEND FOR CATALOGUE,

TRADESMAN COMPANY, State Agents,
Grand Rapids, Mich

H- S: ROBINSON 8>C OMPANY.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

BOOTS,

Fr SHOES
and RUBBERS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Factory, 330 and 332 La Fayette Avenue,

Office and Salesroom, 99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave.,
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

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THE MT CHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

 

Advanced—Canary seed, linseed oil.

Declined—Buchu leaves, gum arabic Ist, g
cloves, po. jalap, corrosive sublimate, calomel, red precipitate

ACIDUM.
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Benzoicum | ‘German. 60@ 65
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Cartolicum ........... RE @
Se 55@ 60
Hydrochior ..........- 2 5
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Timmseuime......-.-. .-1 40@1 60
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BACCAE.
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BALSAMUM,
Copaiba .....-..--+--+- 45@ 50
Peru wie , Gl 30
Terabin, ‘Canada oe a 35a 40
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Carbonate Precip....-.- @ 15
Citrate and Quinie.. @3 50
Citrate Solubile......-- @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ 50
Solut Chloride Lesa sese @ 15
Sulphate, ot. pe 1%@ 2
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Cassia Acutifo n-
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Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50
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Guaiacum, (po 30) . @ 2
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Baeuee ... ...-+.-+--s- 25@ 35
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Tragacanth ......----- 30@ 75
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Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36
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(0 ae 15@
POTASSIUM.
im Carh.,.............. 3a
maenroeete ...........5 13@ 14
ci cccae eee
Ore. 5... soe. 12@ 15
Chlorate (po. 18)...... 16@ 18
ho 50@ 55
homes... 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 26@ 30
Potassa, Bitart, Com... @ 15
Poetass Nitras, opt..... 8 10
Potass Nitraa.........- 7G 9
a 28@ 30
Sulphate po........- . 5
RADIX.
AConm ........ he 20@
aes 25@ 30
See ........-4..-. a
eee @ B
eee 20@ 40
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden,
eli a @ 3
Hellebore, Ala, po.... = 20
Pogie, O0.....-........ 15@ 20
Ipecac, po..........-.. 2 30@2 40
Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40
eeiepa, OF............. 35@ 38
Maranta, 4s. ‘ . @
Podophylium, ‘po iedae 15@ 18
eee 75@1 00
u oo ae @1 75
- 75Q@1 35
spig e fa. 35@ 38
aomeieasia, (po 25) .. @ Ww
— eee cee ae 35@ 40
eee 45@ 50
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 4
M @ w
Scillae, (po. M)........ 10@ 12
— Foti-
; pe... @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. ‘(po. 30) @ 2
man. 15@ 20
Sneiber @............. 12@ 15
Zeer j.......-.- 18@ 22
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15
Apium (graveleons).. 33@ 35
eee 8. c,... 4@ 6
Carul, on ).....--.- 8@ 12
Cardamon..........- 1 00@1 25
Contandrium.........-- 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa....... 34@4
ae 5. ....-... 75@1 00
Cheno me... 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 — 35
Fooriculum........... 15
Foenugreek, po..... j 6 8
ie ..........- -4 @4%
Lini, - (bbl. 3%) .. -4 @4%
es 35@ 40
Pharierie Canarian. .4 @4%
Dee ee erase eee t@ 7
Sinapis, Sie... 8@ 9
Rige.....-.. 11@ 12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
Dz. a 1 75@2 00
| eae 1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 75
“ ee 1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto ..........- 1 25@2 00
Wink AlbG......-.»+-;- 1 25@2 00
SPONGES,
Florida sheeps’ wool
Garriage.........---- 2 2@2 50
— sheeps’ wool
eres. .....-..--- 2 00
velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage....... ix
Extra yellow sheeps’
carriage .........---- 85
Grass sheeps’ woo! Car-
Ce 65
Hard for slate use. 15
Yellow Reef, for slate
NN oa concen eo 1 40
SYRUPS.
I cee tee eran eceas 50
ee 50
ON occ cnc ec er e-e tae 60
re ON ecw eee ees 50
Auranti Cortes 50
net Arom.......-.-
Similax Officinalis
Co.
Bee a
NRE oc cs std ope cues oun
wo
NR ne. a ck peas cera 50
Preeee Ce... 5-4...) e es 50

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, White precipitate, turpentine.

  

 
 

 

 
 

 
 
 

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Morphia, S. P. & W...1 N@2 05 | Seidlits a hieens @ 24/| Lindseed, boiled .... 44 47
lil am. YY. Ge& Sinapis.. ulus une @ 18] Neat’s Foot, winter
C. Co wena ces cee sees 1 7O@l 95 bis opt : @ W/_ strained.... , = 66
Moschus Canton...... @ 40/} Snuff, MN accaboy, De Spirits Turpentine 36% «WO
Myristica, No. 1. 6@ 70 Voes eo & i
| waz ¥ omice, (po 20). @ 10} Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35| PAINTS. dbl. Ib.
| Os. epia.. : 18@ W a Boras, (po. 11) om 6911 Red Venetian..........1 2@3
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart ae 30 Oe hre, yellow Mars. ix oe
| Co ih @2 00 | Soda Carb.... . 1G 2 | " Ber 1% 2@3
| Picis Liq, N Lue, 4 gal Soda, Bi-Carb.... @ 45/| Putty, commercial....2% 24@3
an : : @2 00 | Soda, Ash........ 34@ 4) strictly —_ -. 24 2XE@3
Pic is L iq. ‘ ‘quarts @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2| Vermilion Prime Amer
mae ...... @ 8% Spts. Ether Co S0@ 55/_ ican 13@16
| Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) @ WD ‘* Myrcia Dom @2 31 V ermilion, Engl lish... TOQT5S
| Piper Nigra, (po. 22) @ 1 “ My rela Imp @3 00 | Green, Peninsular TQM
| Piper Alba, (po $9). @ 3 “ Vint Reet. bbl | Lead, red.... 7 @iw®
| Pix Burgun.. ae we 7 : 2 21@32 31 | white ...........f Quy
Plumbi Acet ... 4@ 15 Less 5¢ gal.,cash ten days. | Whiting, white Span @v
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 ioe 20 | Stryehnia Crystal @! 30) Whiting, Gilders’.... @%
| Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl........ 8 @4 | White, Paris American 1G
"GP. D. Co.,, dos... @1 3 ue Roll 24@ 3% | Whiting, Paris Eng.
| Pyrethrum, pv........ = 35 | Tamarinds 8@ 10) cliff 1 4c
Quassiae on 10 Terebenth V enice 3@ =| Pioneer P re} vared Paint] 2O@l 4
Quinia, 8 pia we ag 34 Theobromae = Swiss Villa P —, i
Geen | 46 3) | Vanilla 9 coasts al Paints wsaetnas GOA Oe
Rubia Tinctorum..... 13 14 | Zine! Sulph 7@ 8} VARNISHES.
| Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 38 Ne. 1‘ » Coac @i x
Vereen os 1 60@1 65 OILS. atl mm ty — | ae e
| Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ W Boi, Geli Conch Body.......... 2 T5QS 00
Sapo, . 138 14] Whale, winter.... 70 70) No. 1 Turp Furn .-1 00@1 10
i M. ee OS Lend, Gxira........... & 60 | Eutra Turk Damar. ...1 55@1 60
Mec eee ce @ 15 Lard, No, 1...- . & 50 | Japan — No. 1
Linseed, pureraw ... 41 44 | tp. — TOQTS

TINCTURES,
Aconitum Napellis R....... 60
' ™ r.. SO
Aloe. ...:. ba es 60
- oo myr trh.... 60
Arnica ‘ 50
meer... . 1. os. a. ©
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Donen... 4. ce l,l
Hy MO cc cece sees cance 50
Ce
Barosma .... i
he
eet cee ee
ee
" ee
i a
ee che 50
Ce
' os... SS
—e.. le.
—
lh
Digitalis . a.
Bere. oc sas i 50
Gentian .........-.. Lea seay 50
MRP dc cccreiuasceecss Oe
Guale eee SO
ammon. 60
a 50
ed 50
Toamne. ........ ce cenyse OO
' C olorless. . 7
Ferri Chloridum.. 35
Kino . a 56
eee 50
Myrrh has ceecscyasee Get
a V omica oa 50
0 pli Des We see ceeass bee us 35
' Campnoreieg........... &
ee. 2 00
ee Coniee...... ..-.... 50
hata ae ee eee es eeu es 50
50
hel. 50
Cassia ‘Acutifol .. ee oe
C 0. beac eteess 50
eee
PR ic ete ue 60
Tolutan . i 60
Valerian .... .. =
Veratrum Veride............ 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 26@ 28
‘ ‘ 4 F . 30@ 32
Aloreen ............... 24%@ 3
. ground, (po.
a ae 3@
Annetio....... 55@ 60
Antimont, po.. 4@ 5
“ et PotassT. 55@ 60
———— eee eee eu as @1 40
ae @ Dd
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60
Breemrcum ............ os 7
Balm Gilead Bud.. 55@ 60
Hasmese ©. ........- 12 10@2 20
— Chior, 18, (48
1; =......-... 9
Cantharides Russian,
~............ @1 2
Capsici Fructus, a... @ xz
a @
ac it) @ 20
Caryophylius, - Pod) 10@ 12
Carmine, No, @....... @3 75
Cera Alba, 8S. ‘ r.. 50@ 55
Com Prave.....-.....; 38@ 40
ee ce @ 40
Cassia Fructus........ @ 2
Coutrerae.............- @ 10
Co @ 40
Chloroform ns 60@ 63
— uibbs . @1 25
Chloral Hyd Crat...... iL 20@1 40
oe ae 2@ 2
Cinchonidine, P&W 1O W
German 3 @ 12
Corks, list, dis. per
aoe Peed cary eceeses 60
Oe ae ee @
Creta, Dbl —....... eo 2
ns 5@ 5
° Oe ccl es 9@ 11
. Se eS @ 8
reese .......,....... 33@ 35
Coeee. ....... 4... @ «4
Caer Sulpe........... 5@ 6
es 10@ 12
Ether Sulph.. 68@ 70
— = numbers.. @
hee ucesceeas @ ¢
= «Po. —......- 60@ 65
Pe oti cog 12@ 15
Gal ~ ee @ 2B
Gambier. . -* @S&
Gelatin Cooper... .. @ 70
French........ 40@
Glassware flint, 75 and 2%.
by box 70
Glue, Brown. 9@ 15
White.. 183@ 2%
Glycerina ...... 15%@ 2
Grana pane : @ 2
ee 2Q 55
Hydraag =. —- @ 8
@ %5
r Ox auesia @ 9
° Ammoniati.. @1 00
° Unguentum. 45@ 55
* arerererun .....-... @ 6
7 olla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
nat Led ce el cues benes 75@1 00
iodine, eee. se. 3 7E@3 85
ete... c.....,.. @4 70
— De te eet scenes. 45@ 50
Lycopodium .......... 50@ 55
ee ee eee qi 80
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
i gt ee 27

Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bbl

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DEALERS IN

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Remedy,

We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of

WHISKIES, BRANDIES,

GINS, WINES, RUMS.

We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only.
We give our personal attention to mail orders and guara

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Grocery Price Current.

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

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AXLE GREASE. a.
doz gross} Live oak....... . 2D
rs... .......-.. G6 Oi Dame Crue........ ... 2 00
_oaee............ @ aE 2 50
ee... ses. OO S| Oveaand............. 1 90
ee... 75 8 00 Blackberries.
ree |. Cf 55 sme. aF........... won = 90
panne POWDER. Cherries. 120
ee ee lee ei 2
¥g Ib. cans, 3 doz....... .. Aci ee ; =
% Ib ‘“ 2 =
11b. ‘ , & Erie ... 1 2
es Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
Arctic | —
14 Ib cans — ---. | Eric.... : @1 2
tb "+4 20| California... 1 70
1D Sees oe 00 Cuieeitien
5 b c Soeag = ore ais ae. 110
Xook’s Favorite.
Oe tee 12 00 Peaches.
(191 pieces colored glass) Pie . eee 110
100 4% Ib cans...... 12 00| Maxwell .............. 1 50
(1 i pieces of cry ‘stal glass) Shepard’s ........... \ 1 40
100 % lb cans....... ..- 12 00| California............. 2 2
(106 hdl cups and saucers) Monitor ee 1%
Soe 1 eees.........-...- bop neers... 1 3
(tankard pitcher with each can) Pears.
am 7 (oe... 1 2
eieaene doz | Riverside.............. 2 10
imecans.. §
4-0z ie Pineapples.
6-0Z a 1 30
8-0z 247 Johnson’ S sliced... .. 2 50
12-0z .3 75 | grated...... 2%5
16-02 1% | uinces.
2%-Ib “ 11 40] Commo ° 1 10
4-lb ' we I
5-1b 21 60 | Raspberries,
10-Ib pata... 1 30
| Black Hamburg....... 1 50
40 | Erie, black : 1 40
seat ah is 22 ner-saeal oo Strawberries.
eo 1 50 | Lawrence . . 1
Teifer’s % Ib. cans, doz. 45 — tte tenon e *
iL % “ ss . 1 50 Terre ............ : 1 2
Victor. Whortieberriee
Soxcans,4dcc ........ ... Bi a 1 20
, eee 120) F.& W....... ue 1 25
16 oc 2 00 Blueberries ........ 1 20

BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

a...
ee
ae... 70 |
BLUING. Gross |
Arctic, 402 ovals eae 4 00 |
ae 7 00
e ints, aan... 10 50
. Yo. 2, sifting pox... 2
C No. 3, a 00
- 7 3, ' se
- reo ..........: 4 50
BROOMS.
oe 2 00
i” CC 2 2
No. 2 Carpet , 2 50
a_i. ht... oe
Parlor Gem. . oe
Common Whisk. . 1 00
— — 1 20
Warehouse L 3 50
BRUSHES,
move we t.............-.. 1 a
c — oi 2
ae co
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row 12
Palette, go0ne............ 1 50
CANDLES
Hotel, 40 ib. boxes.......... 10
Star, - oe 9
fee ooo oes
ee... ............. 24

CANNED GOODS.

FISH.
Clams.
Little Neck, : = 1
“ 1 90
Cc lam ae.
Standard, 31 2 00
Cove Oysters.
Standard, 1 ».. 85
21b.. 1 65
Lobsters.
Star, 1 Ib............ 2 40
wc
Plente, ae 2 00
oe 2 90

 

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MEATS.
Corned beef, Libby’s.......18
Roast beef, Armour’s.......1 7
| Pegeed ham, ip... crak SG
e % Ib a ie 1
tongue, oo...
' se ce... ...
° chicken, % ib.......
VEGETABLES.
Beans.
Hamburgh Birimwions.......1 4
French style..... 2 3
- ae 1 40
Lima, eee... 1 30
eoemee.....-.. 80
Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35
Bay State Baked............ 1 35
eae Pee... 1 35
Corn.
Hamburgh . ol
en Eden ..... a
ron
O_O a 1 50
Morning Glory............. 110
Peas
Hamburgh marroret ........3
early June..
e Champion Eng.. ‘1.50

Hamburgh petit pois..
fancy sifted .

 

ees 65
Harris standard.. a
Vv an Camp’ s Marrofat 2
Early June...... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35
Poon Le... 1 80
Mushrooms.

I i 16218
Pumpkin.
—S...... 95

| Squash,
cee a 1 20
| Succotash.
SO ere eee 1 40
eee 80
aay Dee... 1 60
Tomatoes.
eee ee 1 00
——............. 100
Ee ane 1 30
IE oc rect c ee eee oe 2 50

  

a men CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
— Plena —.._. —«#
Mustard, 21 oa oe te ~onnt snes Z

§ > QF eer eeeee eoeces coveeses .
—e - $m. e 2 = Breakfast Cocoa. 40
Salmon. | CHEESE.

Columbia River, flat. ...1 85 | Amboy hee sh Gi2%
co 1 9% | Mexkimer ...... @Q\2%
Alaska, 2 ib . -.----1 45| Riverside . @12%
r~—....... ---2 10] = @i2
Sardines, | SAim ...- » @10
American ms.- ea 4n@ 5 | — ene ene bien ein 13
4B ee. 64@ 7 | Bdam ......-.. ...... @i 00
Imported 48..0..000.....10Q12 | Limburger ........... @10
oer ia aa 15@16 | Pineap “Seanad aes @25
Mustard us. ce So -
Boneless . i ae 20 | $8 a @22
‘Trout. | Schweitzer, imported. Qn
i 250| “ domestic... @i5
FRUITS. CATSUP.
Apples. Blue Label Brand.
3 ib. tandaerd........ 8 | Half pint, 25, bottles eens 2%
York State, galions.... Sires. 4 50
Hamburgb, ‘ ine 2 50 Gomtt doz bottles ......... 3 50

 

 

  

CLOTHES PINS.
Serene bores... ............ 40
COCOA SHELLS,
cere Oiee............... @3
Lees quantity........... @3%
Pound packages........ 6%@7
COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

Fair. oe .16
Good a
Prime . ie
Be 20
Peaberry oe

Santos.
—........... 2.
oe... ......
ae 18
Peaberry ...... . 20

Mexican and Guatamala.
ae 20
oe 21
a 23
Maracaibo.
Pe 19
— 20
"Java,

ineerior..... ae
Pervete Growih..........._- 27
Mandehling . ese

Mocha.
Imitation . a a
nee... 26

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
MeLaughlin’s XXXX.. 19. 30
eee ................- 19 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 19 30
Banos ....... . oo
Cabinets
containing
120 1 Ib,
packaeee
sold at case
price, with
additional
charge of
90 cents for
¥ Cabinet
EXTRACT.
er City .. a
eee ae et cliG a. 18
Humiunei's, _ eae 1
oe 2
CHICORY.
a... 8
a. 6
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 2%....... — doz. 13
o —..... 1 40
1 60
1%
1 90
90
00
‘Tradesman,’
$ 1, per hundred........... 2.00
_—_ Ge eee 2 50
z 3, “6 “ - 3 00
a |B . ee 3 00
_ = wee 400
—_ * eee 5 00
“Superior.”
8 1, pee hundrefl........... 2 50
8 2, “ oe 3 00
ss, * 3 50
7. “ 4 00
— * 5 00
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*o nivereal.” o

$1, per hundred a 83 00
eT 3 50
8 3, ee 4 00
85, Se 5 00
810, ee EE 6 00
$20, oa nae NE 7 00

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

ee ONE bac. 5 per cent,
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COUPON PASS BOOKS.

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= books Es $10

ee 2 00

100 SS ee ok ce 3 00

ce ce eee 6 2%

eT a 10 00

1000 eee ee es 17 50
CONDENSED MILE.

4 doz. in case.
PN 7 40
RT, oe eee em owesccees 6 2
Genuine Swiss.........
American Swiss.. ....

CRACKERS.

Butter.
co ee it 6
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6%
ee ,
Family X ZX, cartoon...... 6%
Mallee Eee 6
Salted XXZ, cartoon ...... 2
~ eer ee stad eco ee

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Butter Poe ........-....- 6%

Soda.
eee FB ee.......,....... 6
Soda, City .. es - %
Soda, eed I 8%
i 10
Reception Flakes.. ........ 10

Oyster.
a oper Rae... 6
caey Oye. Ba ............ 6
Pere Oysor.............. 6

CREAM TARTAR.

Par Oe... 30
Teifers Absolute.......... 35
Grocers’ Se eee cs 10@15
DRIED FRUITS.
——
ES.
Sundried, eet. in bbls. 5

quartered ‘ 5

Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @7
APRICOTS.

California in bags....... 94%@10
Evaporated in boxes. ... 10@11
BLACKBERRIES,
mee... 4%
NECTABINES,

“0 Ib, ee TK
25 Ib. boxes bes tc aes 2 @%
PEACHES,

Peeled, in boxes........ 12
Cal. evap. “ oo 8
. in Dage...... @7%
PEARS.

California in bags @7
PITTED CHERRIES.
meres... . 10
ore. OKOs ......... 11
7 ” ee. 12

PRUNELLES.
ee te, Dees. ........... 11

RASPBERRIES,
ae oes... 15
Dore, OER. ... 5... 16
oe |. 7

Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels...... @ 3%
in (em...... @ 3%
~ in less quantity @4
PEEL.

Citron, Leghorn, os boxes 20
Lemon . 10

Orange . = " ’ 11
RAISINS,
Domestic.
London jayers, : crown....1 40
ok oo
a fan oer... 1 85
Loose ae —— oo 123
b bags @5%
‘uaa
Ondura, 29 Ib. cee. 74@ 7™
Suitana, 20 _ 4. OF
Valencia, 30 ‘ -- 64@ 6%
PRUNES.
Pee ee, @
California, 90x100 25 lb. bxs. 8

“es 80x90 “ .8%

“ 7x80 “

" 60x70 - -. 9%
oe oes deena @5%
Silv Oe ne eee {1 %

ENVELOPES.

   

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FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
100 Ib. keogs....:........ 3%
Hominy.

I eee eh cee -- 300
NN scenes etvetenee SOD
Lima Beans.
dees cy 4

Maccaroni and Vermicelli.

10%@11 %

Domestic, 12 lb. box. .
Imported

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Pearl Barley.

 

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Peas.
ee a ies
ere OEE 1D... ce ees sles 3 00
Sago.
Conan ........ ee. fo
eS a Sn 5
Wheat.
Cee a 5
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters,
iis cc. wt as 1 10
Cod.
Pee. 5 4
Whole, Grand Bank... 6 @6%
Boneless, bricks ...... 7%
Boneless, strips.. ..... 74e@8
Halibut.
he ene 12
Herring.
Se messes co enoe 2 18@20
Holland, — . 11 00
keg 85
Round shore, \% bbl.. 2 00
\% bb 110
Mackerel
No. 1, % bbls. ibe... ... 11 00
he. 1, Si,  e..........- 12%

Family, i, bbls., 100 lbs.... 5 50

. Kits, 10 fee........ 75
Sardines,
esien, KOO... .5........ 45
Trout.

No. 1, % bbls., 100lbs........ 6 50
Bo. 1, Rie; 1 ee............. 90
Whitefish,

No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs........8 00
EO 1 10

Family, 4 4 a ie...

. 350
seresoces 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.

Lemon. bigs
= folding box... @
co “1 00 i 50

4 rs c --. 2 00
6 Oz -2 00 3 00
8 oz Ve 800 4 00
@UN POWDER.
_ eee ces ee 5 50
meer wees... ........_-...... 3 00
HERBS.
a 15
oe...
INDIGO,
_— Sib. bomes....... 55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes... 50

JELLY.

Chicago goods......... @3
Mason’s, 10,20 and 30lbs.. 6
CE i
LICORICE.
oe 30
Calabria ee ee ee ee 25
ee 12
Condensed, 2 ro Lue leaue 12
oe 2 25
MATCHES,
Bos eee ..... 123
Sewer Peerr.......,...,.... 170
em, Bee. 5 ss ees ee 1 10
mars Pareer............... 400

MINCE MEAT

 

3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00

  

 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
[ores ee $1 75
ioe Selo... 140

ee a ee 70
ee 45
=. Oe 40

en, for vinegar, - doz.
1 peo mec. kee 7 00
Half gallon .... _. 2
eee i Cd
Qe 2 2
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house......... e- 13%
Cuba Baking.
CrGieery .....-.... sia ows 16
Porto Rico,

Re ec a 16
Peney ....... —— oon Leas 20
New Orleans
DE opine even ac cde e ese :

weer ee lese OOescesveseee ‘
We NOG co ie. 5. 22
NG oo eae eee 27
PY... «5 oes cnn,
One-half barrels. 3c extra
OATMEAL.
ae a ........... @4 2
Half barrels 100...... -- -@2 %
ROLLED OATS
ere i... ....--... @A 2
ca See e.........; @2
PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 83 50
Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 25
Small,

Barrels, 2,400 count. 400
Half bbls, 1,200 count 2 50

 

 
 

PIPES.
Clay, WW ic ces 1%
oni feu count........ 75
Con ee 8. 1 26
POTASH
48 cans in Case.

CC Ee 4 00
Penne Salt Co.s.......... 33
ROOT BEER
Williams, perdos......... 1%

” 3 dog, case... ... 5 00
RICE.
Domestic.
—o eich sees :
+ oe ee
a ne 3%
Imported.
Japan, Pe ike 6
PO ies oe 5%
es case ce bad aec cle. 5
Peree............ beece er esse 5
SPICES,

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

- Batavia in bund....1
“  Besgon  reis...... 35
Cloves, = beeuee peaks =

Weer... 555. .L8
meee etary... 2... i
Nutmegs fancy..... . 80

No ig ll 05

Oe ee ce 65

Pepper, Singapore, black....15
white...

 

 
 
  

 

“125
- me... 19
Pure Ground in Bulk,
Riese ow 15
Cassi a, Batayv Me 2
and Saigon .25
' eM
Cloves, — - me 30
ae: 20
Ginger, African soe 15
ee 18
. Soames: Lone cls 20
Mace Batavia
Mustard, eae and Trieste. .
oe ae bia
epper, Singapore, blac 20
." . oe) 30
. Copeane.. ecepecoers 25
“Absolute” in Packages.
is Ms
Bee ......., 2... 84 155
Coeemon............. 0 1
eee 84 155
Ginger, 2Om........... 84 155
Ree co. 84 155
ae... 84 155
Pemeer ...5.....,.,.... 84 155
me ..... a
SAL SODA.
eee eee cs oe 1%
aoneuiil WOROE.........: 1%
SEEDS.
MNO oo... @12%
Canary, Smyrna....... 3%
Caraway ..........,... 8
Cardamon, Malabar... 90
Hemp, Bussian....... 4%
mae Mire. .........- 44@ 5%
Mustard, white....... 6
a 9
a 6
Cuttie bome........... 30
STARCH,
Corn.
meee OO 6%
ae 6
Gloss.
1-lb pape. eae esd . 5%
3-lb ' . - 5%
6-Ib a . 6
40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 4%
ee. 44
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maceahoy, in jara........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
soDA.
Lou eens oo pes - Sy
oo Sgnglish tiene ok - 4%
SALT.
100 3- ™ sacks.. 25
Oe ea. 2 00
- et Ib, sacks Lveacecoeesas 85
een ses eu 2
eit el EA 150
56 lb. dairy in linen bags 50
28 1 Y d 18
Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 35
28 Ib. “ee ae “ au 18
Ashton.

56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins.

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. 75
Solar Rock.

om wees... «3+... 25
Common Fine.
I 80
Pees 4.8. a 85

 

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SALERATUS. ReROerE a gue PWSEOat 14 l aT come
ciemababten bite. ae : = Banner Ressctettccesssssss-14 | @RAINS and FEEDSTUFFS | HIDES, PELTS and FUR~ | PAPER & WOODENWARE
eee 30 NE DEC. .....0000...-... 22k WHEAT. 3 >
DeLand’s .. na * 15 BASKET FIRED. Kiln Dried......... Wiese ce ke q z ‘ > aaa a i. na
Seid aveneies ues 3 15 No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) g5 | lows, prices nominal: cece eee eee ac
Dwight’s oo 3 30 @w Nigger Wee cs ae 23 > a ok : ey ni
Sove’s " vee Bae 2 Honey Dew 34 No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 85 HIDES. sea oO
eee cee Eee ee ce ecs | Ce Dee ere “ ‘ tag meer... .... 5... 9
@5 | Gold a pia MEAL. Green ...............-.+.8 3 @s4 : ae
SOAP. Extra choice, wire leaf oo ne weeeceescecsrees. 1 20 a a te ae — nN a
CRT) GUNPOWDER. jranulated.. hey ---- 140) 5, ae a S : Dry Goods. CII sg :
3 Common to fair....... 25 @35 | Tom on Jerry s Kips, green ...........3 @4 Jute Manilla......-....  @5%
4 odcountry 8 Tbs 20 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | Brier Pipe.. oi “as ams Sale 4 60 eae ee se. ee 3 Bee a
Y Good Cheer, 60 1 Ib... 17773 99 | Choicest fancy........ % @85 CO 32 Patent “ sacks......... 550 Calfskins, ae sy : @5 eter
White Borax, 100 %-Ib...... 3 60 OOLONG. @% ca Ree istissehrereae Seeds barrels........ 5 60] Deaconskins.......... 10 G30 a, ar
| ERUMe SM eee bstidla ces oy el 2 traham ‘“* saéky.... ... 22 ee oh ee oF . 8 Cotton...... ee
: ~sisgs & Gamble. Common to fair... ...23 @30 Handmade a 40 | Rye ee ag ) a No. 2 hides ¥ off Cotton, No. 1. >
cece eee 2 80 IMPERIAL. ee 33 E ee. aeess- oe
an Common to fair.. Cee 23 @26 - ae MILLSTUFFS. Shearlings.............10 @25 | Sea Island, panne : 30
Superior tofine........30 @35 WASHBOARDS. He Less : Lembe ...............60 Gi & No. chee ............ .. 8
F Mottled German........... 3 15 he bap aaa Bran......... $15 0) 516 OD Washed Pee on ee ae
Me ee 3 yo | Common to fair....... 18 @2%6 Screenings .... 15 00 16 00 acca ee ae adbeast
SCOURING AND POLISHING. Superior to fine....... 30 @40 Middlings..... 16 00 17 00] ~ Pr res een ae ae Tubs, No.1... 7 00
| i Mixed Feed... 19 00 19 00 MISCELLANEOUS. No. 2...... 6 00
\ Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, Coarse meal .. 18 50 18 50 | Tallow eee  Neg........... 5 00
hand, 3 doz....... SU ou 18 @ CORN. aa we 4 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 35
Onokee. 6.6... 24 @28 Car lots.. et i MO erased ne = ‘No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 60
SUGAR. Be 40 @50 Less than car lots..........! 50 Sa | 42 2 | Clothespins, 5 “hei boxes.... 4¢
Ginseng i ....2 0022 50 Bowl i 1 inch. 30
Cut Loaf.............. @5%| ici, neat a ae eee > 33 cnn t Le
eae. @ 1% ‘Os, Toes a plea oo POULTRY. . iB oe 1 60
Powdered ............ @ 4% ess than car lots. - + i. 2 35
Granniated._ "Tg B6@ 456 Fine Cut. | HAY. _ Local dealers pay as follows " cmmented 17s and 198 2!
, Confectioners’ A..... 4.44@ 4% Pails unless otherwise noted a 1 Timothy, car lots....13 50] for dressed fowls: . . 158, 17s and 198 27
Soft A. Lo ae ee ene. 60 No.1 “ton lots 15 00) pow! 12 3 | Baskets, market 35
White ExtraC........ @ 4% | Sweet Cuba......... . 34 murkeys tae mats 2. oe oe bot bushel.. 1 20
Seen CL. lees @ 4 McGinty .. 2% D ea i a a saa i u 100p 1a
4 i a 2 : eee . 4. 4...,., 13 @l4 | fr
. glee ~~ eee wD eis, Wo 8%
po ‘aan bbls. Ke ‘advance andy gm... 27 The Standard Ol! Co. quotes a ng c ick ens, » pe ros 8 4 to $6 ‘6 "No.2 6 2
Torpedo i a) = follows. in barrels, f. 0. rah oc a @ oe ‘ “ No.3 7
: pedo... .... ..-... 2 Rapids: Key oe > @I13 "es splint ~ wala
i SYRUPS. in drums... 19 rh splin ee
, r on ': 6 . ba r No.2 4 2
i ee ton Yom... 26 i W. W. Headlight, 156 736 . . . tg if
ee Plug. —. — , | Water White, old test. @ 8's rn
1 otto 24 Sorg’s Brands. Se a oo. White ........ @i%
sat ____, Pure Cane. a a Stove Gasoline... @ 8M :
a ee. ioe ee = 2 cgpennancaenninees
ee 99 | Oh My.......--------+-- 29 | Defiance ay 25 13 Ql F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as
i jl Black, to 30 deg . ve @i*% foll i
SWEET GooDs. Scotten’s Brands. a Double. OllOWS: 4
> 8 i laa eae ce 2 50 et i CE 8 u
Ginger Snaps.........-. 8 BY1O,. .-eese ses 2 +s 22 a lh 50 | RESH FISH i |
a aa 3 Hiawatha. ce 38 tr eietar 2 Whitefia® ............ 7 @8
Frosted Creams....... 9 ¥ alley City . . 34 Defiance... [ i CS na oes 00 oe ‘co ‘= 2
; Graham Crackers..... 8% Finzer’s Brands. Credese TT ne a ogo oe
Oatmeal Crackers. . 8% | Old Honesty... cei O | Bedstead Se Bincish..... - 11 @l2
ee —________—. | Jolly Tar.........--.-- SF | Shamesek. ..... 10... 2 Fresh lobster, per 1b .. rr)
TEAS. Middleton’s Brands. Iyy beas........-. 2 2% Soft erabs, per doz...... 1 25
Here It Is........+..+. 28 VINEGAR. Shrimp, per gal......... 125
JAPAN—Regular. Old Sivie.............. 31 ee 7 Cod. nw oe
EE eee aii @iz | Jas. @. Butler & Co.'s Brands.| 50gr...... . ..---..00 e208 No.1Pickerel......... @8
Ca @20 | Something Good.............. = $1 for barrel. F ike. a @ 7
Choice ee 2 @26 ‘ WET MUSTARD. Smoked V | Oe
-# Ceebe 32 @34 ins Of Migs... . 2a Balk, pergeal ....... ....- 30 ne N hite 1 i
TE 10 @12 Private Brands, Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75 een cee
ue Sweet Maple.......... 30 YEAstT—Compressed. Fairhaven Counts... @Av
. Lee 26 | Fermentum per doz. cakes.. F. J. D. Selects ....... @35
} ~~ a: @17 si Smoking. per lb’. SHELL GOODS.
i ee @ {| Boes..................... “on - Fleischman, er doz cakes... Oyste ar 100 2% fi
Choe % @2% Colonel’ WeRiiede ll, 2... Guan. oe
E rms, ... TQ 00
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* £4 “2 * See *

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

DECIDEDLY UNGALLANT.

 

Objections of an Old Traveler to
Women Drummers.
Sam. Blakely in Dry Goods Bulletin.

A paragraph is going the rounds of the
newspapers in regard tothe success of
women as commercial travelers; and
while an attempt to disparage the use-
fulness of the fair ones in any of the
various branches of men’s work which
they have undertaken will be frowned
upon as ungallant, 1 have determined to
brave the storm of criticism and, if neces-
sary, sacrifice myself upon the altar of
justice for my sex. I shall fight bravely
as long as there is hope, and when, at
last, overpowered by the superior num-
bers of the enemy, I will submit grace-
fully, put on a decollette corsage and an
injured air and invite my friends to a
‘pink tea.” 1 take this stand not be-
cause of any aversion to housekeeping,
nor through a dislike for crocheting and
singing the baby to sleep. I am not an
extremist. 1 think no true gentleman
would object to his wife draping
her dresses on him or_ sending
him to secure a bargain at a remnant
sale. We should not be too exacting; but
when the newspapers talk of ‘‘woman’s
suecess on the road,’’ 1 think it is time
for some one to protest. It will not
alone be the traveling man who will
suffer, but it will bankrupt every retail
merchant in America in less than two
years.

1 will relate a littleexperience of mine
to prove this assertion. About three
years ago, as 1 got off the train at the
town of B , and gave directions to
have my trunks sent up to the hotel, 1
noticed a young woman with a business-
like air who got into the omnibus in
waiting. l was asingle mar then, and,
with assurance born of long practice, I
stepped into the omnibus and took a seat
beside her, asking her politely if I might
hand her satchels up to the driver on top,
as the vehicle was somewhat crowded.
She replied that she could ‘‘take care of
them herself,’? and, encouraged by her
smile, 1 ventured to remark that it was a
very warm day. She looked at me sharp-
ly for a moment and said it was not so
warm as some days she had experienced,
and murmured something about the
weather having very little effect on the
“freshness” of certain traveling men. I
said nothing more, but an hour later,
when I called to see my customer (‘‘tele-
scope” in hand), I found him in a corner
of his office, while before him stood my
fair friend of the omnibus shaking a red,
white and blue paper duster in his face,
and talking at a rate that inspired me
with mingled awe and envy.

She explained that the great advantage
this duster possessed over those trashy
things made of turkey feathers, and, in
fact, over all other dusters of any kind
whatsoever, was to be found in the fact
that it could be used on the roughest
woodwork without harming the duster or
on the finest piano without scratching
the shining surface of the instrument.
It could be used to clean the fixtures or
the floor. It would polish brass signs,
brighten the silverware, rub the show-
cases toa gleaming transparency. In the
home it could be put toa thousand uses
and placed upon the mantle shelf as an
ornament of rare beauty. It was a win-
dow brush, a hat brush,a clothes brush,
a shoe brush and a nail brush combined.
It would shrink if it was too large and
expand if it was too small. It could be
washed like a piece of linen and dried
in the sun without fading the colors.

‘‘What!” said the merchant; ‘‘you can’t
wash it. It’s paper.’’

‘Yes, but my dear sir look at the pe-
culiar fiber of the paper.’’

Altogether, it was the most beautiful
and wonderful invention of this marvel-
ous age. It would prove a blessing to
the possessor; bring the sunshine of glad-
ness to the household. Her firm had the
sole right forthis country. She would
dispose of a limited quantity (in lots of
ten gross only) to one firm in a town, for
the ridiculous price of $36 per gross.
She pleaded and argued and bullied, and
finally coaxed the old gentleman into
placing an order for five gross. That
was a smaller lot than she had ever sold
before: in fact, she had refused several
orders of the kind, but as a special favor

 

 

she would let him have them;
such a dear, good fellow.”’

Half an hour later an express wagon
unloaded five big boxes in front of the
door. Thirty days later her firm drew}
on him for $180.

I stayed intown waiting for a draft;
on the third day I walked down street
and counted seven separate show win-
dows full of that woman’s goods. Every
merchant in town had a consignment of
dusters, and a horrible suspicion that he
had been worked. They tried to sell}
them, but they wouldn’t sell. They
tacked up a ‘‘take one” sign, but people
wouldn’t carry them away. One man
tried to foist them upon a crowd of small
boys who were picking pins out of the
sweepings at the back of the store, but
the boys scoffed at his overtures; another
man tried to give his to a cheap circus
that struck the town. He said they
would make nice plumes for the horses
in the parade, but the circus man
wouldn’t have them. There are about
twenty firms on my route that get red in
the face every time the janitor dusts the
office. Oh, yes! women on the road are a
howling success; that’s the difficulty. I
tell you, it will never do.
oo

The Catechism of Seite.

See the lady. Is she a pretty lady?
She is a pretty lady. That is to say, if
accused of being pretty she would deny
it; if not so accused, she would be as
mad as awethen. Is the lady rich? It
looks like it. She does not see anybody
else in the world. Oh, yes, she is rich.
What is the lady doing? Let us see.

See her go into the store. Did she
step on the pretty boy who opened the
door for her? Not quite, but the boy
had to hustle to escape. Why does the
baldheaded man behind the counter
have such hard work to look pleasant?
Some people find it hard to look
pleasant anyway. Does he enjoy pull-
ing down all the goods in the store as
the rich, pretty lady requests? He
should. She will probably buy large
amounts of goods. But no. See, she is
leaving the store without buying any-

‘she was

thing. Does the baidheaded man seem
tired? Heseems tired. He has half a

day’s work before him to put the goods
back where he found them.

See the lady. Is she having lots of
fun? Itis to be hoped so. Nobody else
is. Does she work other stores the
same way? She works a large number
of other stores in just the same way.

Does she buy anything?

Not a solitary blamed thing.

What is she doing?

She is shopping.

Is the lady shopping? She is shop-
ping. Do many ladies shop? They all
shop. Is there no cure for the habit?
No.

a
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.

 

 

eee 45
i 50
i ee i.
eee 75
LsMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.
6 doz. in box.
ae eoen.:........... ee ee 175
ee ee i 1 88
eel eee — 2 70
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top... 2 2
ss - Poe ..2 40
No. 2 oe oe a 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top ee ee ae 2 60
ee eta ee 2 80
Rea.? “ c a 3 86
Pear! top.
No. : Sun, wrapped and labeled coh ee 3 70
ae SS Cel lS Se 470
No. 2 Hin pe, - wi eke ae 488
La Bas
No.1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per doz. ook eee 13
ee eke ee 1 50
No. 1 crimp, per en cee ee ee tehebes Cocke aps 1 35
0.2 CE eee heeds oh ye 1 60
LAMP WICKS,
No. 0, PCT BTOSS.--.--. 6 eee eee eee eee eee ees 23
at 2 ll 28
_ . ee acces 38
0.3, eee i keen 7
ta ree
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Besser Cees, § AE 6 OAL... . 5. ences cues 06%
Jugs, ~y gal., per doz i dsc ska oie eicei aes %%
L it Mo teeta estes tees eees nee =
Milk Pans, % eal., per dos. (elaged 70)... >

PRODUCE MARKET.

 

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

Asparagus—50c¢ 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@#1.60 per bu.

Bermuda Onions—#2 per crate of about 50 Ibs.

Butter—The market is well supplied, dealers
paying 13@14c for choice dairy and holding at
15@l16e.

Cabbages—New stock isin fair demand at %3
@#3.50per crate of 125 lbs.

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

Cucumbers--$1 per doz.

Dried Apples—Sundried is held at 4@4%e and
evaporated at 54%@tc.

Eggs—The market is steady but not nearly so
firm asa week ago. Jobbers pay about 12¢ and
hold at 13@14c.

Honey—1l4c per Ib.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids Forcing is in fair de
mand at i0c per Ib.

Onions—Green are in fair demand at ize per
dozen bunches.

Parsnips—In full supply at 30c per bu.

Peas—Green, $1.25 per box.

Pieplant—2c per Ib.

Pineapples—#1.49 per doz.

Potatoes—Old stock in full supply at 25¢ per
bushel. New stock isin limited supply and de-
mand at $1.50 per bushel.

Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.

Strawberries—Tennessee berries
freely, being held at 0@12c per qt.

Wax Beans—#2 for 34 bu. crates.

are Srriving

 

PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co,
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,

ae eee ce
I i 11 7%
eee Peeer pie, wert oet................... 13 50
NE ns ek ay ose se oe

Pee Wee WOO ee 12 50
Pees ee, re Oat... ..............4... 33 50
eer ree 13 25
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 13 50

saUsaAGE—Fresh and Smoked.

   

   

  

eee 7%

Ham Sausage... is

ee eee... - 55. 9

es ee ee 7

Blood Sausage....... ee

ee 5

Sees Cee 5

ee 5

LARD.
Kettle Com-
Rendered. —, Family. pound.

wherces ...... 734 514 514

50 Ib. Tins...8 1% “ 519

20 Ib. Pails.. 814 74 5

pi |. ws 734 6 6

5 1b “ au 85, Tg 6% 648

3 ib. " ., on 8 6% 6%

BEEP IN BARRELS.

Bextra Mees, warrentod 300 ibs............... 6 50

Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 6 50

Deaciees, fe Pe... ..,..,...........-... 8 %

SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.

Hams, average 20 lbs. : ca

16 ee 10%

' . eee —

~~ ee...

‘ss best boneless. . ee 8%
Shoulders... .. bee 6%
Breakfast Bacon, Senha 8%
Dried bee?, ham prices es 8%
Long CA 6%
Briskets, medium. ... ees one oe 6%

ih eT 6%
FRESH MEATS.

Swift & Company quote as follows:

Beef, carcass...... se
- hind quarters. . tee eeteeenneco Ae
= fore eeu . 34@ 4%
- oe oe. 2... : @10
. ribs . 8%@ 9
Bp rounds eke ree . 54@ 6

Deleon .............. eee @ 4

eee eee ts Cita. eet,

Oe @ 5%
Sausage. oe OF Oe... 1... @ 4%

iver... a @ 4%
' a @7
Mutton Se eet ceeweece +e cuecc oe
We 5 @6

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

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

Full wae.

_ Pails.
— , eS ee 7

  

 
 

‘
beeen bee ceeeseuaes cess $ 7
_ iwiat aa cone be aree ee eden oie 6 2
Beeten Creem........... 20 lb. cases 8%
i i eee a 7 8
Deare ©. ........ .......;.,.. cases 7 8
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.
Bbls, Pails.
ee ee 6 7
Leader... oon ¥
Royal --6% 7%
ie ee ie a 7 8
ees OCE........ e555... 7 8
EE eee . §
Broken TaMy.............. baskets §
Peanut Squares............ 8 9
ee Cree os oc ca 10
wae Sees... oe css. 13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets cond se a ae 8
ie cece 8
FaNncy—In bulk.
Full Weight. Pails,
Lozenges, —_ be Cee eee eee oe 10
eS Se a a 11
CCR a 11%
Chocotaie Monumentals.................-..- 13
ae ee 5%
eee a 8
a ee 8%
ee ee Te 10
rancy—lIn 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box.
ee ne le 55
ee ee 55
Peppcreirns bem... .....-060- 00. 60
MI OO bw ko ceiice ned c eacecc sc onees =
eee Pe...
re Re aagso
DT FI oa oe eter etm ee ee 1 00
A. S, Eerie rore................-... 2.0... 80
Lozenges, — ee taeeeesee dee Go eyelet oe =
a
i 80
Toe eee eee ee 70
eee ..55
Molasses Bar.. ee ob ete eee ee 55
Hand Made Creamer 85@95
Eee Cree... .... 1... 5090
Prpoeeeeee Crees... .... es 1 =
es Ee
ot 1 oo
ieee Boreas... 8... 60
CARAMELS,
No. 1, wrapped, 2 Pro Gees. es 34
No. 1, 3 ye 51
_ * . 2 ey 28
N ie é Ce 42
ead wn, 5 boxes.. Cheer tpscececese,
ORANGES,
( ‘alifornias, Te Fk eee ete 3 50
ro, tend 20...........- 4 00
Moeesinas, choice O............... ee @4 50
ee @4 00
LEMONS
Messina, meee Oee..:. 44... oe @3 =
fancy, —.. oe =
. I Os ae ec ck @3 50
. oe ee @4 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, am 2 @l4
a 14 @i5
’ extra i ‘ @15
“ a @18
Dates, Fard, = Ib, box a deseeebae ele. > :
” Penta, pate 6“o 5
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.. eee @17
Pree. es... @15
” California. . le @16
eee ee 8
Filbert . @il
Wainuts, Grenobie. fea pee ewe de @13
[ a, @
. i @10
Table Nuts, ea @12
choice eee ee eee 4 @ii%
Pecans, Texas, H. P., a uae. ae
Cocoanuts, fallpeeke @4 3
PEANUTS.

Fancy, H. P., ee
i ‘meee.
Fancy, H. P., Flags.. i
. . “Roasted...
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DEALERS IN

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NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
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MADNESS AND BADNESS.

This is an experimental and inventive
age. It must, therefore, of necessity be
a speculative age. An experiment pre-
supposes an idea, a thought, which is
neither reason nor Knowledge, but im-
agination and speculation. Aninvention
is generally brought out as a result of a
hypothesis which is called a working
theory, this meaning a conception, only
that there are some discovered things
which render it plausible and perhaps
probable, even if the law of probabilities
cannot as yet be applied to it. The re-
sult of all this is wonderful discoveries,
great inventions. Butfor every hundred
of these there are thousands of vagrant
fancies, hypotheses proved only to their
authors, or perhaps to some school or
sect that has received them. The first
great sphere for these theories is in the
physical world, and relates to physical
nature. Notonly is there the seeking
of a cause for everything, but the con-
clusion that a cause is discovered. There
was nothing wilder in alembic days than
some of the modern announcements of
the laboratory or the assumption of those
who speculate about the means of vital-
izing enfeebled life. There never before
was so favorable an age for humbugs.
We do not mean patent nostrums or cun-
ning but useless devices, but humbug
ideas, believed in as solemn verities by
those who have espoused them.

It is impossible to confine this activity
te the sphere of physical nature. It is
mental activity and moral activity and
speculation also, and is as rampant in
mental science and psychology as amid
the laws of the material universe. In-
deed, everything is asked to materialize.
As to health we are told it is a concep-

tion. Think yourself well and you are
well. The bodily condition is a mental
state. As to badness or crime it is mad-

ness in the sense that it is an infirmity
consequent upon the physical constitution
Between physical philoso-
phers, like Huxley, or mental philoso-
phers, like Maudsley, philosophic novels
like those of George Eliot and ‘‘Robert
Elsmere,”’ and beliefs like those of the
Christian Scientists, we find strange ap-
propriations and jumblings of terms,
strange faith in unbeliefs, and strange
admixture and trituration of body, mind
and soul.

As toinvalidity, pauperism and crime,
how far is all this true? Is this a corre-
lation and conservation of the forces, so
that they are all one energy or one in-
ertia? As Emerson puts it, is the sick
man araseal? Is the pauper thriftless
only by force ef circumstances or by the
laws of Reformer George? Is the crimi-
nal guiltless because of the material
convolutions of the brain? These ques-
tions would not be so earnestly discussed
were it not that somehow some grains
of truth had become mingled with much
error. It is true that no one part of that
which is human or that which our person-
ality represents is independent of the
other parts. lll health often inclines
one to irritability, to hasty judgment, to
discouragement, or to some mental or
moral morbidity. Hence health is to be
sought for its mental and moral uses.
It is to be prized not merely for athletics,
but for thought and for character. But
the moment that invalidity is used to
cover up permanent faults or to apolo-
gize for the absence of graces that moment.
it is pressed beyond its legitimate use.
It is to be admitted that acquired or in-

 

herited conditions of our physical, men-
tal and moral natures may and do often
give a wrong bias and that this bias is
harder to be controlled by some than
by others. But bias does not vacate re- |
sponsibility. It gives all the stronger
argument for assertion of self-restraint |
and self-control. It awakens another
resident force which determines to be
master in defense of right and truth.
Some of the strongest characters and some
of the noblest of men—the Fabers, the
Cowpers, the Paysons and multitudes of
less noted sufferers—have shown that
mentality and morality need not and do
not succumb to ill-health. Indeed, in-
stances abound in which invalidity has
brought out the finer traits of character
in those naturally vicious, stubborn or
ill-tempered and made them examples of
‘‘sweetness and light’’ or, what is better
and older, love and light.

Poverty, too, has its bias, but is no
excuse for ‘‘blaming the Fates.” A
most distinguished preacher of New
England was born in an almshouse, and |
we could point to other cases of equal
lowliness and similar success.

Most of all, crime is not either a physi-
calor mental state. Here, too, bias, is no
doubt,streng and there must be asummon-
ing of all the mastery of self and an appeal
for help to the higher power. There is
triumph by the road which Bunyan and
John Newton and Medley and Colonel
Gardiner and Je1rry MeCauley walked.
We are hearing now-a-days so much
apology for failures of character that we
must carefully guard against confusion
of terms or excuses derived from incli-
nations which were bound to be resisted.
Yet because it is desirable not to have
temperaments or dispositions which are
aggravated by invalidity, we are to think
of health as one of the great factors for
the elevation of society and the improve-
ment of mankind. Mental, moral and
physical hygiene are associated outside of
the body as wellas init, and must to-
gether do what they can to increase our
powers of vital resistance to all that will
damage our manhood or impair real force
of character.

—_—— o-oo _
Yellow Garter Craze.
From the New York Sunday Advertiser.

The ‘‘yellow garter” craze has struck
Brooklyn with emphasis, and though one
may not be able to ascertain the fact, one

can rest assured that nine out of ten of
the pretty girls on the street are wearing
just above their left knee the dainty yel-
low band that is supposed to be Cupid’s
masecot-in-chief. At one of the counters
of a Fulton street dry goods store, the
other day, a dashing young woman asked
for seven pairs. When they were shown
her a broad grin rippled down the line of
girls behind the counter, and the pur-
chaser smiled feebly. Then, when asked
if she wanted them all the same size, re-
plied: ‘Oh, dear, no. Vm not going to
wear them all.” Butas she knew only
three sizes, presumably those of her inti-
mate friends, she had to go without four
pair. And the salesgirls giggled audibly
as she left the store. There is another
handsome girl in Brooklyn who is wear-
ing a yellow garter. She confessed the
fact at the table of a married friend,
when the brutal husband asked her to
show it to him. The two women ex-
changed glances, and there was a rustle,
a dive, a little snap, and in the young
lady’s hand lay a bright golden band, on
which shown a broad silver buckle.
The husband viewed it: with interest,
but somehow it took refuge in a pocket
before he could make any careful investi-
gation.

 

 

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Charlevoix—Frank E. Wood & Co. are
succeeded by Jas. B. Parsons in the con-

 

fectionery business.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

| Schedule in effect May . 1892.
TRAINS —, NORT!
rrive in Leave going
South. North
or Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15am 7:05 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 am
| For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 2:00pm 4:15 pm

| For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10 p = 10:30 pm
| From Kalamazooand Chicago. 8:35 pr
rain arriving at 9:20 daily; all ee trains daily
except Sunday.
| TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from Leave going
North. South.

Wor Cipcimmad................... 6:20am 7:00 am
For Kalamazoo and Chicago.. 11:45 am
For Fort Wayne and the East.. | 11:50am 2:00 pm
Ber Comeenmess. 4... 5:30 p m 6:00 pm
Fe Ci con deen 10:40 pm 11:05 pm

 

From Saginaw. Lee eee cee eanae 10:40 p m
Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily;
all other trains daily except Sunday.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive.

7 m 10:10 a m
11:25 am 4:40 pm
5:40 pm 9:05 pm

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR C

NORTH
11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car G’d
rey to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
m train.—Sleeping car Grand
Repiae o Petoskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTH--7:00 am train. —Parlor chair car Grand
Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:45 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car
ay Rapids to Chicago.
train.—Wagner Sleeping Car
sod Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car
Grand Rapids: to > Chie ago.

Chicago via G. R. & I. R. _

Lv Grand Rapids 11:45 am 2:00 pm 11:05 p m
Arr Chicago 5:25 pm 9:00 p m 6:50 am

11:45 a m train through Wagner Parior Car.

11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car
Lv Chicago 3:10 pm 11:15 p m
Arr Grand Rapids 835 pm 5:15 am

3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:15 p m
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

AR SERVICE,

 

 

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.

Oo. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
Railway.

In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e¢
offers a route making the best time betwe pn
Grand Rapids and Toledo,

VIA D., L. & N.
Ly. Grand Rapidsat..... 7:15 a.m, and 1:00 p. m.
Ay. Votedo at ......... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p, m.
VIA D., @. H. & M
Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p. m.
Ar. Voledo af.......... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m,

Return connections equally as good.

H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

Playing Cards

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS

SEND FOR PRICE LIST,

Daniel Lynch,

19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

CHAS, A. GOYE,

MANUFACTURER OF

IUNgS & TE

Horse and Wagon Covers

JOBBERS OF

Hammocks and Cotton Ducks

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

 

 

11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

MIcHIGAN CENTRAL

** The Niagara Falls Route.”

 
 
 
 
 

DEPART. ARRIVE
Ripens AOR 7:00am 10:00pm
ixed . 7:56am 4:30 pm
Day Ex 1:20pm 10:00am
*Atlantic & Pac .1030pm 6:00am
- 5:40pm 12:40pm

New York Expre

*Daily.

All other daily except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express
trains to and from Detroit.

Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit
Express at 7 a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 p.m.
arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m.

FRED M. Briees, Gen’] Agent, 85 Monroe St.

A. ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. Rueaies G.P. & T. Agent., Chicago

TIME TABLE

NOW IN EFFECT.

 

 

 

EASTWARD.

. 144+No. 16)tNo. 18{/*No. 82
——__ ce i

G’d Rapids, Ly| 6 50am) 1/1) 20am} 3 25pm /10 55pm
Tonia ...... ar Sam |i 25am 4 27pm /12 37am
St. doline ...Ar 112 17pm! 520pm|} 1 55am

  
 

 
 

Owors) ..... Ar n} 120pm) 6 65pin| 3 15am
E. Saginaw..Ar!l0 45am} 3¢5pm! 8 Opm} 6 45am
Bay City.....Arj11 30am} 345pm) 8 45pm) 7..2am
Pit ........ Ar 10 u5am) 345pm; 7(5pm)} 5 40am

Pt. Huron...Arj]{ 55am) 6 00pm) 80 pm/ 7 30am
Pontiac ......Ar|/10 58am) 3 05pm) 8 25pm) 5 37am

Detroit.......Arji1é 50am| * 405 Spm 925pm!/ 7 00am

io

WESTWARD.

Tr ains Leave *No. 81 |tNo. 11 |tNo. 13 |*No. 15
G’d Rapids, Lv| 7 0sam) 1 00pm | 5 10pm /10 20pm
G’d Haven, Ar) 8 35am) 2 — 6 15pm /11 20pm

Milw’kee Str ‘ 6 30am) 6 30am
Chie ago Str. “| .- 6 @am)...,....
*Daily. +Dail y ‘except Sunda: Ly.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m.,
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p, m.
Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a m,
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:30 p. m.
Eastwe can te 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
ear. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 W aguer Sleeper.
Westward— No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetear.
JouHN W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
Ben Fietcuer, Trav. Pass. Agent.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.

CHICAGO

JAN’ ¥ 3, 18.
AND WES? MICHIGAN R’Y.

10:10

 

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv.GR’'D RAPIDS. 7:06pm *11:5 "5pm
Ar. CHICAGO 25pm *7:05am
RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.
Ly. CHICAGO..........9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm
Ar. GR’D RAPIDS. 3:55pm 10:10pm *6:10am
TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST. JOSEPH AND
INDIANAPOLIS,
Ly. Grand Rapids. ... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm
Ar. Grand Rapids "6: 3:55pm 10:10pm
For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.
Lv. G. R. 10:0Cam 12 05pm 5:30pm
Ar G. x... . 10:3bam 3 55pm 5:25
7 AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK
RAPIDS.
Ly. Grand Eapids..... .....- _..1 ele
Ar. Grand Rapids....... .11:45am
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
Between Grand Rapids and Chicago—Wagner
Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11: 35. pm.;: leave
Chicago 11:15 pm. Parlor Buffet Cars—Leave
Grand Rapids 1 12:05 pm; leave Chicago 4;45 p m.
Free Chair Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 9:00 am;
leave Chicago 9:00 a m.
Between Grand Rapids and Manistee—Free
Chair Car—L eaves Grand Rapiis5:17 pm; leaves
Manistee 6:50 a m,

Try r run
DETROIT,
LANSING & NORTH EEN RK. KR.
GOING + TO DE’ rR OIT.

Lv. GR’D RAPIDS..... 7:15am *1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar. DDTROIT.. .......13:00m %:16pm 10:40pm

RETU RNING F R OM DETROIT.

. DETROIT. ...- 7:Qoam *1:1opm
~ "GRD R APIDS. . ti: 50am *5:1

To and from Lansing and Howell—
and from Detroit.

TO AND FROM SAGINAW,
Ly. Grand Rapids............... 7:05am 4:15pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...........-..-11:50am 10:40pm

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R.

Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:15am 1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell.......-- 11:50am 5:15pm
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

 
 

       

8:30pm

 

5:17pm
9:40pm

 

JAN’Y 3, 1892

5:40pm
5pm 10:15pm
-Same as to

ALMA AND 8ST. LOUIS,

Between Grand Rapids fand Detroit— Parlor
ears on all trains. Seats 25 cents.
Letween Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor

ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 am; arrivesin
Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents,
*Every day. Other trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

- .. STUDY LAW
; s AT HOME.

Take a course in the
Sprague Correspon-
eence school of Law
[incorporated]. Send ten
cents [stamps] for particu
lars to
J. COTNER, dr., Sec’y,

No. 375 Whitney Block,
DETROIT,- MICH.

 

 

 

 

    

20

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The Village Politician.
Sittin’ on a cracker box, a barrel or a keg;
Chawin’ on tabacker he has been obleeged to
beg;
Whittlin’ of a splinter while a workin’ of his
jaw,
Sayin’ what a pity his opinions ain’t the law;
Runnin’ the hull country as *twas never run
before,
Turnin’ out the rascals while he spits upon the
floor;
Showin’ of the President egzactly what to do,
Keepin’ things in general from gettin’ in a stew,
Grumblin’ over Wall street, monopoly and
work—
Wife at home a hoein’ in the cornfield like a
urk.
Fig’rin’ on the comin’ nominations purty Close,
Givin’ to the other side a mighty sick’nin’ dose;
Talkin’ tariff and reform, McKinley and pro-
tection,
Swearin’ that the earth won’t move a peg before
election ;
Givin’ lazy congressmen a needed rakin’ over,
Settin’ there in Washington like well-fed pigs in
clover;
Givin’ Gould and Vanderbilt a pointer here and
there,
Showin’ jest how surely one can bea millionaire,
Payin’ off the nation’s debt as easy as a wink,
Borrowin’ a dime to get himself another drink.
Spankin’ little Chili jest toshow her how it feels
Sassin’ back Great Britain for pesterin’ ourseals,
Tellin’ of the czar to let them nihilists alone,
Helpin’ Kaiser William to propup his shaky
throne.
Builuin’ a great navy with an hour or two of
guff,
Lettin’ the hull world know that we're rabid,
rude and rough;
Gettin’ off his high horse, though when home
he goes to dinner,
Dodgin’ creditors like an ordinary sinner:
Jumps to hear his first-born yell, “You'd better
watch out. dad!
Flour’nd coffee’s plum give out, ’nd mother’s
mighty mad.”
——-~_-4 >
Reach the Top by Well Doing.
Surrendering to difficulties or bad
habits is a bad business. It is weaken-
ing and disgraceful. When a_ strong
man says, *‘l’m going to conquer,’’ he
generally succeeds. When a weakling
says it, he fails. The boy who goes into
an office to reach the top—determined to
do it—doesn’t stop short of the mark.
He is in to win and so takes precious
good care of his mind, his body, and
morals. He seizes hold of everything
that contributes to his advancement;
obstacles in the way are to him stimu-
lants. He has learned and uses the
grand old Bible maxim, ‘“‘If you faint in
the day of adversity your strength is
small.’’ Nothing pleases a father more
than to see his boy sweating and pro-
gressing through hard places. It proves
that he has the stuffin him. Wilting and
whining are not in his line—not his way.
Enduring hard things is a _ superb
quality. The finest epitaph in the
English language is this—‘tHe died
trying.” He is a rare specimen who
hasn’t met hard lines—some time or
other through life—and one can’t be too
grateful for the hard things he met by
the way and conquered. The richness
was in the overcoming. He weathered
storm, saved vessel, cargo and character.
That was a brave girl who seized a
burglar the other evening and held him
until the officer came. She is entitled to
a good husband and a good home. May
she have both right away. The world
admires heroines, and there are many of
them in country and town. Do they not
endure hardships with more patience
than men? Yes, of cousre they do.
Many of the hard cruel things of life
which one encounters in the afternoon
come from imprudences in the forenoon,
Here a bad beginning doesn’t make a
good ending. Mastering difficulties and
crucifying temptations make a delightful
memory, and what greater joy than that.
It is a joy one can have without the ex-
penditure of money. That’s one of the
beauties of it. In the army and in the
counting-house it is the man who
masters things who is sent on honored
missions. In every little group of men
there are picked ones—fellows on whom
the captain can depend—ones who don’t

 

 

bury their talents in a napkin but who
make the most of themselves and their
surroundings. On their path are no
stones left unturned. Do you want to
be a success in this life and the next?
If so, obey St. Paul by keeping your
body in subjection. Avoid doing works
for repentence. The crowd dothat. Be
against the crowd. Make your business
a suecess by handling wisely your many
opportunities. Reach the top by well
doing. Gro. R. Scorr.
|
Grit makes the man;
The want of it the chump;

The men who win lay hold,
Hang on, and hump.

Unpolluted

 

 

 

 

     
      

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Sole Owners of

CRESCENT MOCHA, Genuine Arabian

BLENDED DIAMOND JAVA, Most De-
licious.

STAR MARACAIBO, High Mountain.
GLOBE RIO, Old Golden.

BEE HIVE TEAS, Full Strength and Fine
Flavor.

J. P. VISNER,
Gen'l Representative, 167 N. lonia St.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  
  

Drop

Is as good as the
first. No dregs.
All pure and whole-
some. The most
wapiae drink of the day.

‘ 9 Root
H ir Cs Beer.
A perfect thirst quencher.

Don’t be deceived if a dealer, for the sake

of larger profit tells -7 some other kind

is “just as good’’—'tis false. Noi imitation
as good as the genuine Hirgs’,

CINSEZENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address

PECK BROS., “Gusne Ravibs”

 

 

Uo You RUN a Store?

IF SO

TRADESMAN, SUPERIOR OR UN

COUPON BOOKS

 

 

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ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED!

 

BETTER than any other Coupon System and FAR SUPERIOR to
PUNCH, BRASS OR PAPER CHECKS.

 

We can refer you to Hundreds of Merchants who are using Gur System, who would not
run their stores without it. Write for particulars, prices and free samples to

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Original and Largest Manufacturers of Coupon: Boeks in the United States.

100 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

THE ONLY —
Parchment Lined Paper Pails for : " i i mn

3, 5 and 10 Ibs.
LIGHT, STRONG, CLEAN, CHEAP.

Consumer gets butter in Original Package. Most
profitable and satisfactory way of marketing
good goods. Full particulars free.

DETROIT PAPER PACKAGE CO.,

DETROIT, MICH.

LEMONS

It will be a good idea to order 25
boxes before it gets warm.

 

 

There’s money in such a purchase.
Get our prices.

PUTNAM CANDY CO.

 

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THE
NATIONAL,

WITH
COMBINATION
LOCK.

Evidence that Ihe

INO. 33,

 

 

 

National IS the Best.

 

The “Cashter’” ts of no Use.

Sr. Louis, Mo., March 15, 1892.
There is not the slightest comparison between the American
Cashier and the National Cash Register. Yours is a register in
every sense of the word, while the American Cashier is a slight
improvement over an ordinary memorandum book.
A. H. Sippy, Prescription Druggist,
Vandeventer and Finney Aves.

The “Cashier” 7s no Protection.

Sr. Louis, Mo., April 4, 1892.

I have this Gay ordered a National Cash Register, at the same
time disposing of the one I had in my place of business, called the
Cashier for the following reasons: The Cashier is really no pro-
tection against mistakes, and it requires too long to figure it up,
consequently taking too much of the valuable time of any person
doing any amount of business. M. E. FrRIEDEWALD,

Druggist.

Would not keep the « Cashier.”

Mancuester, Ia., April 14, 1892.
After having used the American Cashier Kegister for 18
months, I find it does not prove successful enough to keep it
longer. The National Cash Register -I considered so much better,
even considering the price and all, that I finally made the change,
and am well pleased with the way the National works. I think it
fully pays for the cifference in cost. Henry GOODHILE,
General Store.

He Re turned the Peck.

HOLLAND, Micu., Apri! 5, 1892.
I have returned this day a Peck Cash Register and bought a
No. 33 National Cash Register in place of same, which I think is

much easier to operate and better in construction than Peck’s. I
am well pleased with it. JOHN PEssSINK,

Baker and Confectioner.

Countermanded Lhe Uirder for the Peck.

Capitiac, Micu., April 8, 1892.
We have this day countermanded our order fos a Peck Cash
Register, and have ordered one of the National Registers, No. 33>
same bein less than one-half the cost of the Peck Register.
Witcox Bros., Grocers.

Discarded the Peck.

That I have seen fit to discard my Peck Cash Register for one
of your No. 3 National Cash Registers, shows for itself what I
think of the value and usefulness of the two machines. Of course,
Peck’s Cash Register is not to be compared with your National
Cash Register for simplicity and usefulness, to say nothing of the
labor saved in adding up itemized figures for the entire day’s busi-
ness, which has to be done by users of the Peck machine.

Gustav Geiss, Evansville, Ind.

We Make 34 Different Styles of Registers.
PRICES: $15, $20, $25, $30, $50, $65, $75, $100, $125, $150, $175, $200, $225 and $250.

Our Regiatirs av adapted Lo abl Krids of Ruveinoe/

THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO., DAYTON, OHIO.

 

 

 

 

HI. LBONARD & SONS,

GRAND RAPIDS,

*  Jobbers of Seasonable Goods.

If you are a dealer and have not received one of our new 1892 Catalogues,
No 108, ask for it and we will send it at once.

Adjustable Chairs, Hammocks, Spreaders, Rope and Hooks,

 

 

 

 

   
 

“*-ENG.CO.ST i

This cut shows the chair
folded for shipping or put-
ting away, no ilevers,
ratchets or screws to Man-
ipulate: no chance to pinch
your fingers while swing-
ing.

 

Steel Automatic Friction Acting Swinging, Porch or
Lawn Chairs, self-adjusting to any position from upright
to horizontal.

 

Same chair in a different position.

The Wayne Steel Swinging Gheatr

Leads all others, trimmed with striped sateen
finished duck.

Met COGN... kesh eee

In half dozen iots, $4.50 each net.

 

 

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ant PWAMMOCKS cl

Length body. Pall length. Net per doz.
No. 250—Gray, India Hemp, with
braided edge, Mexican weave,

clinched thimbies....-....-...-- 6 ft. ist 2¢ o
No. 250 — Colored, India Hemp,

with braided edge, Mexican

weave, clinched thimbles. 6 ft. 13 ft 8 00
No. 260—Colored, braided sisal,

improved Mexican weave.....- 6 G6in 14f. 12.40

No. 88—Colored, India and Sisal
hemp, with braided edge, Mex-

ican weave, clinched thimbles 7 ft. 14 ft. 10 95

No. 265—Colored, braided sisal,
improved Mexican weave...--- 7 tt. 14 ft. 14 00

No. 71—Knotted linen, improved

Mexican weave, oval thimbles.. 7 ft. uw. 23 50

No. 72—Colored, linen, knotted
edge, improved Mexican weave,
owal Chimbies........----.---- ' ft. Sin: 16 ft 55 30

BABY HAMMOCKS.

No. 1—Baby, rope knotted, cotton, 4 ft 6h. 9m. S&S So

PANCY FRINGED HAMMOCKS.

No. 2265—Colored, knotted sisal,
improved Mexican weave. oval
thimbles and fringe......----

 

7

ft. 14 ft. 25 85

No. 86—Knotted cotton, im-
proved Mexican weave, with

oval thimbles and fringe.... 7 ft. 8 in. 16 ft. 45 00

Peerless Hammock Spreader,

Patented Noy, 18, 1879.

    

is made of a solid piece of Hard Wood bent bow
shape ‘with hooks on its lower edge. It is designed
to sustain a heavy weight, and is so simple in it

construction and application, that all will under-
stand how to use it. Many imitations have been
offered to the public, but none possess the qualities
thot have made the Peerless Spreader so povular.

Net per doz.
Poeriees SEVGtCHOrs. . oe a ee eee 85

 

Auroras Biretebers. 2.560. 0. ote ee SO

ANCHOR HAMMOCK RoPE

Patented May 3d, 1881.

   
 

   

 

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| THISIS THE BEST DEVICE EVEROFFERED

‘OR FASTENING UP A HAMMOCK.
You can put it up and take it down in an instant,
without tying a knot, By sliding the anchor upand
down the rope you can regulate the height of the
Hammock.

Anchor Tope............---

 

This is the latest hammock
It is safe and sure cs

Leiter Rope.
rope and fastener.

 

No. 98.
No. 98—Bright tinned hammock hooks,
the back piece is 2 in. square; hook is

3 in; tong, extra Strobe: .4...-- 79

No. 48-—-SereW BOOK, o.oo es ee eee 6