Michigan Tradesman. Published W eekly. THE “TRADESMAN COMPANY, “PUBL ISHERS. $1 Per Year. haat 9. GRAND RAPIDS, MAY 25, 1892. N O. 453 THE NEW YORK BISCUIT GO. S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. MOSELEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SEEDS, BANS AND PRODUGE, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Micn. MUSKEGON — eee STATES BAKING CO., uccessors M USKEGON CRACKER Cou HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits « Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MATL ORDERS. Every Bookkeeper Will Appreciate a Blank Boo’. that Opens Flat. The MULLINS FLAT OPENING SPRING BACK BOOK, Made n Michigan by the Grand Pipi Pook Aording Uo: s\jthe Best in 29-31 Ceca: ot. the Market, Write for prices. Grand Rapids, Mich. Ger tas Dest! Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts SEE QUOTATIONS. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. land 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS The Green Seal Cigar It is tanks ical il fit any Purchaser. Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. HARVEY & HEYSTEK, JOBBERS IN Wall rape Window Shades ant AiGto Mout Nes, e only Jobbe 1 Western Michi ell at Facto We Saas er a ae ade 75 & 77 Monroe St.—-Warehovse, 61 & 83 vee Bt, Grand Rapids. . = MAP & CO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. + SS. BROWN, —_——_JOBBER OF-—— Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables. Oranges, Bananas and Karly Vegetables a Specialty, 24-26 No. Division St. Send for quotations. 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 W. arps. P. STEKETEE & SONS. | * oN: ‘ Get our special list of Fine Goods. NO BRAND OF TEN CENT CIGARS comeszes Coy HODES G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. Make No Mistake! Send your order for fine Choc olates hand- Imade Creams, Caramels, and Fruit Tablets. Marshmallows, etc., to ae BROOKS & CO., 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich santeainitiaeaianiianiniampiiiinns — ——— siglo eat AA IES Ale OM OE IT STANDARD OIL CO., 4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Illuminating and Lubricating Stamp before a blast. | blast. | Fragments after a blast. QO sTROWGEST ad SHFESTEXPLOSI mown to the Arts. = \= POWDER, FUSE, CAPS ee Electric Mining Goods, aEnCULES, AND ALL TOOLS FOR STUMP BLASTING, THE GRHAT STUMP AND ROCK FOR SALE BY THE ANNIHILATOR. HERCULES POWDER COMPA NY, 40 Prospect Street, Cleveland, Chie. je WW. WILLARD, Managere Fe S Agents for i as a os! SG Western Michigan, Offic., Cawkins Block Works, Butterworth Ave. Write for Prices. PLANTS, TOOLS, « ETC. NEW CROP. BULK WORKS3 AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR KMPTY GARBON %& GASOLINE BARRELS. SAGINAW MANUFACTURING CO. SAGINAW, MICH., EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN. end for Ste — Tliustrated Catalogue MAILEG Clover and caaant aa Seed Corn, Onion Sets, and Seed Potatoes. All the Standard Sorts and Novelties in Vegetable Seeds. BROWN’S SEED STORE, 24 amp 26 Noatn Division Strresr. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Manufacturers of the Following List of Washboards. \ Serer (ict [Reese hurnore Red Star | “Isomrace LEMON X WHEELER COME ANY. ee sxcinaw mich ie SHAMTOGK = Solid Zine. | ee Ey Ll IMPORTERS AND =, sue Wholesale Grocers Defiance =|“ Surface. Rivl =| | GRAND RAPIDS. Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the = , : \ | Call if] Boks Country and Save Money. ee Wilson | | The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids SaginaW =| Single Zine y= || BANANAS The above are all superio, ;|SEND YOUR ORDERS TO US AND WE WILL ENDEAVOR Washboards, in the class to| a i" id tag Salona Seek bal TO SEND YOU STOCK THAT WILL BE SATISFACTORY. cuts and price-list before order- ing. 5 S. FREEMAN Agt, == Rapids, Mich. THE PUTNAM CANDY .CO. i et &; 2 a : % ALOE LLA LE GLE AY Ld i: on tind, ae ates. 4 } eae oa VOL. 9. Wayne Count Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and bla: ks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasury. The Bradstreet Mercantile Apency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, NY CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. Fine Millinery! Wholesale and Retail. SPRING STOCK IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES NOW COMPLETE. MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMTLY. ADAMS & CO., 90 Monroe St., - Opp. Morton House. A J. SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street Za Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latest improved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. ESTABLISHED 1841. Ses am aR ere IN THE MERCANTILE AGENCY KR. G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada ‘tHe PHILA. PAT.FLAT OPENING BACK ee maedincek 1.0. Ra ual tala Hn UE See amy COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE ST. Formed by the consolidation of the COOPER COMMERCIAL AGENCY, AND THE UNION CREDIT CO., And embodying all the good features of both agencies. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J. STEVENSON, c. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. ( ARES) k Burglar Proof All Sizes and Prices. Parties in need of the above gare invited to correspond with I. Shultes, Agt. Diebold Safe Co. MARTIN, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1892. Merchants tne make money SELLING OUR Lumbermen’s Leather TRAVERSE CITY TANNERY, Write for prices. Traverse City, Mich. THOMAS STOKES, WHOLESALE DEALER IN SALT FISH, New York City. Represented in Michigan by J. P, WISNER, Merchandise Broker, 304 North Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Who will quote prices by mail or call on dealers wishing a supply for Lenten trade, COnw FIRE Beri INS. 79° CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t. __W. Prep McBa:rn, Sec’y Aprons. Established 1868. HM. REYNOLDS & SON WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Building and Sheathing Papers, Plain and Corrugated Carpet Linings, Asphalt and Coal Tar Prepared Roofing, Best Grades Asphaltum and Fire-proof Roof Paints, Coal Tar and Coal Tar Pitch, Elastic Roofing Cement, Resin and Mineral Wool, Asbes- tos Fire-proof Sheathing, Ete. Practical Rooters In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor.cLOUIS and CAMPAU Sts.. Grand Rapids, - Mich. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeertt, President. 8. F. AsPINWALL, Vice-President. Wm. H. ANpERsoN, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make pe Specialty of Collections. Accounts untry Merchants Solicited. A TALE OF THE CRIB. The season of mysterious disappear ances and abductions would seem _ to have come in real earnest. From indi- eations daily manifesting themselves it looks as if it had come to stay. Engle- wood, Ill., had a sensation all its own Saturday night. J. Bingham Darcy is a gentleman hold- ing a responsible commercial position in Chicago, and enjoys an enviable social rat- ing among his neighbors in Englewood. He is a gentleman of the most commendable domestic virtues, is enamored of his wife, and passionately devoted to their one promising infant. When Mr. Darcy sought his home on Saturday afternoon he was accompanied by a patent folding crib—one of those intricate contrivances with the slats made in two pieces and hung upon hinges. When he opened the crib to explain it to the delighted Mrs. Darcy and put the mattress in, Mr. Darcy omitted to fix se- curely the catches that held the slats. Mr. and Mrs. Darcy retired to rest early on Saturday night, and about 11 o’clock, while they were asleep, the baby got awake and began to kick vigorously. The result was that the slats slowly de- scended and deposited the mattress and baby on the floor. The baby, being par- ticularly wide-awake, crawled out into the room and went through the door just as Mr. Darcy’s aunt, Miss Lizzie Bingham, who had tarried in the kitchen to put her hair in papers, was coming upstairs. The lady picked the baby up and finding that its father and mother were both asleep, she carried it to her room on the third story, determined to take care of it during the rest of the night. About an hour after, Mrs. Darcy awoke and thought she would take a glance at the crib to see how the baby was getting on. No sooner had she done so than she jumped from the bed in alarm. The baby was not there. The bottom seemed to have fallen out of the whole contriv- ance. Her first thought was that the baby was lying under the mattress smoth- ered to death. She pulled the mattress aside, but there was no sign of the baby. Then, with wild alarm, she shook Mr. Darcey and told him to get up. Darcy growled out, in a sleepy tone: ‘The sirup bottle is in the cupboard— go and get it yourself.” ‘James!’ shrieked Mrs. Darcey, ‘‘you don’t understand. The baby is gone! He is gone! — stolen — kidnapped — murdered, may be! Oh, what shall I do?’’ “Now, be calm, Julia,’’ said Darcy, getting up; ‘‘don’t get hysterical. The child, most likely, is under the bed.”’ ‘‘No, he isn’t; he’s not there!” exclaim- ed Mrs. Darcy, on her hands and knees, ‘‘Possibly,” said Mr. Darcy, beginning to feel uneasy, ‘‘he has crept into the cupboard. Let us look.” “This is horrible!’ ejaculated Mrs. Darcy, clasping her hands. “Do you think,’’? asked Mr. Darcy, “that he could have crawled into a drawer and pulled it to after him?”’ “Certainly not! You know he couldn’t. “NO. 453 I think I hear him now. He has fallen out of the window,’’ said Mrs. Darey, as a faint wail floated up from the back yard. ‘‘No, it?s onlv Mrs. Bradley’s cat howl- ing,” replied Darcy, as he closed the sash. ‘‘Have you looked in the bath tub in the next room? Perhaps he has gone to take a bath!” **Drowned! I know it! screamed Mrs. Darcy, bath-room. ‘‘He is not here,’’ said Darcy. ‘‘Could he have gone downstairs and fallen into the bucket in the pantry?” ‘“‘We must search the whole house for him,’’ said Mrs. Darcy. So they began the hunt. They looked every where—in the clothes-basket, in the kitchen cupboard, and even the cellar— but without avail. ‘“‘He couldn’t have gone upstairs,’’ reasoned Mr. Darcy, ‘‘because he couldn’t climb the steps.” ‘‘No! He must have been stolen! He has been stolen by burglars! I shall never see him again—never!’’ ‘Don’t give way, Julia! Be calm! 1 will go at once for the police.” Mr. Darey dressed himself hurriedly and dashed down stairs and out into the street. He met an officer almost at the door, and in frantic accents laid the case before him. The officer sent in an alarm, and soon a wagon laden with policemen from the Englewood station was clatter- ing down the street. The officers entered the house and pro- ceeded to examine the fastenings. Every- thing was right, and one of the police- men said: ‘‘It is my opinion the burglar is in the house yet.” “We'll go for him!’ said another. So they drew their revolvers and proceeded to search the building. Presently Mr. Darcey heard the report of a pistol in the kitchen. He rushed down stairs. ‘I think I’ve killed him,” said officer Tom Murphy. “Bring a light quick!’’ ‘“‘And killed the baby, too!’ Mr. Darcy. “By cricky, I forgot about the baby,”’ said the officer. I’m sure of it? rushing into the ” shrieked TWENTY THOUSAND RETAIL GROCERS have used them from one to six years and they agree that as an all-around Grocer’s Counter Seale the ‘‘PERFEC- TION”’ has no equal. For sale by HAWKINS & CoO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And by Wholesale Grocers generally. peat ae assanetty pares maar sina tastes 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Then the light came, and they found | that Policeman Murphy had shot the, desk sergeant’s dog, which had followed him into the house. Then officer Jack Rayn’s revolver went of accidently and the bullet hit the kitchen clock, at once struck 981, and the confusion and racket so unstrung Mrs. Darey’s nerves that she went into hysterics and emitted successive yells of a terrific character. This brought Miss Bingham down from | the third story in great alarm. “What on earth is the matter?” she called. ‘‘Matter?”’ said Darey. ‘Don’t you know that burglars have broken into the | house and stolen the baby? Why, we’ve been having the most awful time you ever heard of for the last two hours.”’ “Why, I’ve got the baby upstairs with me,’’ said Miss Bingham. ‘I’ve had him all night.’’ “You have?” in a breath. “Certainly.” *“‘Do you mean to tell me,”’ exclaimed the asked Darcey ‘that that baby was quietly asleep in your room all] this time?” “Veg” Darey simply looked at her. He felt with supernatural calmi.ess, that language pression of his feelings. Mrs. flew upstairs two steps at a time. The laughed and was upequal to the ex- Darcey policemen disappeared, Murphy pulling the deceased dog after him by the tail. Darey went to bed with anger raging in his heart. He violated the Sabbath by putting a sheet-iron bottom, fastened with rivets, upon the folding erib. So The Story of a Factory, with a Moral. From the Minneapolis Furniture News. The burning of the factory of the Man- itowoe Manufacturing Co., which oc- eurred late last month, has disclosed one of the methods pursued to sustain mapu- facturing institutions established chiefly “for the good of the town.’’ The fire wiped out what little was left of the manufacturing company, and in the financial ruin, which it seems would have come in any event, was involved also the T. C. Shove Banking Company. The creditors of this latter institution may get 63 cents on the dollar, and they may not get more than 29 cents. The manu- facturing company seems to have at- tempted to do business without capital, save such as was furnished by the bank. It seems that very little, if any, of the stock of the bank was sold for cash, and the stock always reached the bank as security for notes given in exchange for it. These notes thus secured became bank assets and are now wholly worth- less. The history of the Manitowoc Man- ufacturing Co., when the facts are known will be a curious and interesting story. It had a constant struggle for existence, due to insufficient capital, which evil was further aggravated by the grossest mismanagement. It was the Mississippi land scheme on a small scale, an institu- tion built on nothing doing a large and profitable business. It had no financial backing but that furnished by the bank whose collapse it aided in bringing about. That it survived asinglie year un-‘er its management up to within the last few | months is a marvel to all who know the facts. product had a reputation throughout the United States for the highest excellence, and it is probable that, wrecked com- pletely as it is, involved heavily as it always was, a mere bubble ever trembling on the edge of a collapse, it will pay 25 per cent. of its indebtedness, and has | already paid its laborers back wages of one month and a half due them when the | factory was burned. There is something pathetic in the efforts of the bank to keep this factory afloat. Every nerve was strained and every resource called, upon to meet demands for settlement. which party | With all the disadvantages its | | To refuse payment was death to the fac- | tory and death to the bank. What the | president of the bank, who carried the | whole load of anxiety as well as the fi- |nancia! burden, endured during the last few months can only be imagined. The manufacturing company made a specialty in the furniture manufacturing | MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance 60. Organized 1881. line, and did not encounter the compe- | | tition which would have fallen to its lot had the line been a general one. But j}even with the connections it enjoyed it | failed. We have recited this story thus | fully to point a moral. |ing started all over the country upon | capital, generally inadequate, furnished | | to boom real estate. The factories live | for a time, Factories are be- | ‘Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates, | Prompt Settlements. may possibly put upon the| |market fairly good furniture, but under | | are sold for what they will bring for the prime object of realizing funds. Prices are demoralized. The competition is | generally disastrous to competing con- cerns because it is an entirely unfair competition. The manufacturers of fur- |niture who are doing business upon a | business basis do not object to competi- tion when it is fair. But factories are | being started all over the country, not | because they are needed, but because | their establishment ‘*may help the town”’ |—foratime. Someof these will succeed because capital aud business ability will come to the rescue. But more than the usual percentage will fail. a Keeping Books in Hieroglyphics. In a suit for wages recently tried ina New York town, the judge asked the plaintiff. a farm laborer, if he had any book of account in which a record of the wages due had been kept. Many of those present knew that the laborer could neither read or write, and they expected that he would have to answer in the negative. But to the surprise and interest of everybody, he produced a tattered, dog-eared almanac and present- ed it to the judge. A glance at the book showed that opposite each day of the month, on the edge of the page, was a hieroglyphic of some kind. Some of these signs were evidently rude attempts at pictures, but the meaning of many could not be discovered until the owner of the book explained them. It seemed that in order to compensate for his in- ability to read or write, he had adopted a system of characters of his own inven- tion to describe various things. When he did a full day’s work he made a cross after the date: when it was only half a day he made a straight live; if a fence was repaired by him he drew a picture of a fence opposite the date; if ne mend- ed a mowing machine, a crude illustra- tion of a mowing machine appeared on the almanac page, and soit went on. He had a sign for everything. But his in- genious record did not win him the suit, for the jury decided that such a method of bookkeeping must of necessity be faulty, and brought in a verdict against him. >.> ____——- Power of the Dollar Greater than Ever. Are we correct in estimating that the worker who now gets adollara day can buy more useful things with it than he could some years ago with a dollar and a quarter? If we are, the man who is getting $1,000 a year has in effect had his salary raised to $1,250. It makes a big difference whether we pay, as now, $6 a barrel for flour or $8, whether our coat costs us $10 or $13. So the laboring man to-day (with his wages somewhat raised) because of the growing cheapness of things, is in a much more comfortable position than in other years, thanks to (the sewing machine and other modern improvements. This confirms what we have often claimed, that every useful in- vention works wonders for the poor and ought to enrich the inventor. We are each year getting into more economical | ways of producing and distributing use- ful things; transportation, too, is con- |stantly getting cheaper. all of which ; work for the welfare of the working | classes. Gro. R. Scorr. the circumstance of limited capital goods | The Directors of the ‘‘Michigan” are representative business men of our own State. . WHITNEY, JR., Pres. EUGENE HARBECK, Sec’y. Do You Desire to Sell Carpels aud Lace (Orta By Sample? Send for ovr Spring catalogue SMITH & SANFORD, Grand Rapids, Mich. HESTER & FOX, AGENTS FOR Plain Slide Valve ,iugines with Throttling Governors, Automatic Balanced Single Valve Engines. Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive BOILERS. Upright Engines and Boilers for Light Power. Prices on application. 44-46 8S, Bivision St., Grand Rapids. SCHLOSS, ADLER & GO, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, (veralls ——AND—— Gents Furnishing Goods. 184, 186 & 188 JEFFERSON AVE., DETROIT, MICH. All children caso a ‘drink of Hires’ Boot Beer. So does every other member of the family. A2% cent package makes 5 gallons of this delicious drink, Don’t be deceived if a dealer, for the sake of larger profit, a se you some other kind is “just as good ’—’tis false. No imitation is as good as the genuine Hines’ ° Don't Buy YOUR SPRING LINES OF Hammocks, Base Ball Goods, & Fishing. Tackle Until you have seen our assortment. Our sales men are now on the way to call on you. EATON, LYON & C0., GRAND RAPIDS. CHASE & SANBORN’S ioe TEA IMPORTATIONS CHASE & SANB SPECIAL COFF ORN’S == -C & S.BRAND. JAPANS ie CHASE & SANBORN, 30 and 32 South Water St., CHICAGO. Also Houses at Boston and Montreal. Western dealers are requested to ad- dress the Chicago department. ed ce a e ne i THE MICHIGAN 'TRADESMAN. | 3 THE WORLD’S MEASURE OF SUC- CESS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Statisticians tell us that ninety-five per cent. of all business adventures are failures. What a startling statement! Did you ever stop to think of it? Out of every one hundred who go forth to battle in the business world, only five survive to sing the peans of victory! What be- comes of the other ninety-five? Nobody knows; nobody cares. One success com- mands more attention than twenty failures, and we are so dazzled with the eclat which surrounds the successful few that we cannot see the true condition of the many who fail to win the world’s plaudits. Human existence is, indeed, failure, when tested by the world’s plumb line. Nineteen out of every twenty fail to come up to the world’s standard and are thrown aside as fail- ures. Only every twentieth child born in the world will ever reach the high goal of business success. Twenty bright eyed, ambitious little fellows stand in a row at the black-board and vie with each other in a struggle to find the sum of several numbers in simple addition; but in the years to come one only of their number will find the sum of worldly suc- cess. Which one will it be? a sad Twenty young men graduate from our high school with high honors and fond hopes for the future, and pass on, at once, into the world’s real, practical, matter of business college; but nineteen of them will never graduate again. Only one chance to draw and nineteen blanks in every twenty numbers! Surely this is avery discouraging picture of life. Is it a true picture? Is the world’s stand- ard of a successful life a true one, and does ninety-five out of 100 men who enter the business world make a failure of life? Ifso, then human existence it- self is a most miserable failure. In the writer’s opinion the world’s standard of success is a false one. It is based exclusively on the acquisition of wealth, which is made the infallible test of business acumen and mental capacity. To fail, financially, is to fail in every- thing. A failure to make money is a mark of inferiority, and denotes an in- herent weakness somewhere. The de- fenders of this worldly standard of suc- cess shower praises upon the one soli- tary head and deal out censure and re- proof to the other nineteen who fail to get their claws into the earth. They seem to think that all men might be- come rich and be somebody, if they so desired. When they lecture to young men, they hold up the image of Baron de Moneybags and say ‘‘Look there! He was once a poor boy like you fellows! See what industry and close application to business will do! Emulate his noble life and you may become great, like him, and an appreciating world will fall down and worship you.’’ They change the parable of the New Testament in this modern gospel, by placing one within the fold and representing the ninety and nine as having gone estray. They would feign make us believe that nineteen- twentieths are guilty of flagrant sins of omission and commission and that the reason they do not get rich in business is because they are incompetent, indo- lent, improvident, intemperate or wil- fully negligent; and, thérefore, they make a miserable failure of life and de- serve to be sat down upon by those who improved their opportunities and accu- mulated their pile, and now await the final judgment encomium, ‘‘Welldone, good and faithful servant, enter thou,”’ ete. This teaching is false and misleading. Five per cent. of all who engage in busi- | ness of one kind or another succeed in acquiring wealth; but whether’ they make a success of life or not depends altogether upon other matters. The acquisition of wealth is no bar to a suc- cessful life, but it is no evidence, of it- self, that a man’s life has not been a miserable failure. On the other hand, the ninety-five per cent. have failed to get rich, but this is no evidence that they have not made life a most glorious and complete success. As a matter of fact, a certain portion of this larger number do make a grand success of life —just what proportion, our wise statis- ticians do not know. It is, also, true that another portion, and probably the larger portion, make a miserable failure of life. Ineompetency is a_ prolific cause of financial failure and one which might be, to a great extent, avoided; yet, incompetency, spurred on by honest effort and proper motive, by one who is irre- sponsible therefor, is no bar to a truly successful life. Improvidence, indo- lence and intemperance, either one or all three combined, is a bar to financial success and also to a successful life. It would be impossible for every busi- ness man to become wealthy and, there- fore, it is irrational and unjust to expect men to attain to what is practically un- attainable, and then censure them for failing to reach it. But every business man who is industrious, temperate, and honest can make a success of life, and if he be thoroughly competent and skillful he will secure all of this world’s goods that is necessary to develop his man- hood and amply provide for those de- pendent upon him. The young man who masters a trade, acquires a profession, or becomes pro- ficient in some mercantile pursuit, and goes out into the world and consecrates his time and talents to the advancement of human progress, gaining thereby, through steadfast determination and patient industry, a comfortable home with all of its attendant blessings, for himself and family, makes a success of life, though he fails to become rich, financially. In a former article the writer describ- ed the home of a temperate, industrious American artisan. This home, with its manifold comforts and its beneficial in- fluences, is the fruit of patient, honest toil; yet these modern worshipers at the alter of mammon would place the owner of this home among the ninety-five who make a failure of life, because he has not become rich or is not the owner of the factory in which he works. Who has made a success of life—this Knight of Skilled Labor, or his employer who has succeeded in accumulating a half million dollars? E. A. OWEN. ll lnm His Own Business. A Chicago grand jury has decided that a person’s health and the management of it are his own affair. And thatif he choses to employ any doctor or none it is nobody’s affair. Mrs. R. C. Stebbins, a faith curist, has been presented to the jury as occasioning the death of Mrs. Jennie L. Nichols. who trusted to the faith treatment. No bill was found and the faith curist was discharged. Cream Laid Bill Heads. \ A 7 E have an odd lot Cream Laid Bill Heads which we will close out while present supply lasts at the same price as our cheapest paper. 500 1000 2000 1-6 size, 84 in, wide, 6 lines, $165 $2 50 $4 50 2 * 7 eo 2 00 3 00 5 40 500 each size, 9 %5 1,000 5 00 Send for sample. PRINTING DEPARTMENT THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER Successors to Co.., 18 and 19 Widdicomb Building. We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1892. Correspondence solicited. PECK’S CASH HEGISTER:;, 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. Because it is always ready to make and preserve a record of money paid in and out. Because there are no “charge slips,” “received on account slips,’ “‘paid out slips’ and ‘just out slips” to be lost and break the record. Because a merchant can file away his entire day’s business on one sheet and refer in an instant to the record of any previous day. Because figures won't lie, but machinery, if out of repair, is bound to. Because it is not necessary to send {t to the factory every six months for repairs. Because you are not obliged to strike three or four keys to register one amount. Because it is simple, practical, reasonable in price, and accomplishes the results that merchants desire. LOBDELL & GEIGER, Gen’l Agents, 89 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ““Not How Cheap, but How Good.’’ ‘Blue Label’ Ketchup SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, Will be found to maintain the high character of our other food products. We use only well-ripened, high-colored Tomatoes, seasoned with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color. PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY A CURTICE BROTHERS CoO, eon / Rochester, N. Y., U.S.A. ee BALIL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO., Distributing Agents. + THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Clarendon—Robt. Moore succeeds Geo. A. Cook in genera! trade. Cloverdale—Geo. Mosier has removed his grocery stock to Milo. Flint—A. stock to Chas. M. Campbell. Benton Harbor—M. 8. Peck & Co. have opened a boot and shoe store here. Manistee—Emmett & Zoebel have sold | their bazaar stock to Simeon Kolk. Kalamazoo—Hall Bres. drug store on South Burdick street. Bay City—E. A. Spear has grocery stock to G. G. Powers & Co. Ludington—Samuel Fisher has his meat market to J. H. McCiutel Bay City—E. T. Holcomb from the hardware firm of Holcomb Bros. sold his} iie. has Menominee—Fred Heinritz, dealer in cigars, is succeeded by Heinritz & Kurtz. Three Rivers—McJury & Co. succeed | MeJury & Bowen in the grocery business. Charlevoix—F. E. Wood & Co., con- fectioners, are succeeded by Jas. B. Parson. Saginaw—F. L. Carter & Co. are suc- ceeded by De Groot Bros. business. Constantine—E. Stroub & Son are succeeded by Byrd & Ruple in the coal and ice business. Detroit—Wilson & Simpson sold their grocery and hardware business to P. T. Lawrence. Bay City—Schweikle sueceed Schweikie Bros. facture of cigars. Roscommon—Rebecca Lewinson (Mrs. Max) is succeeded by Lewinson & Monta- gue in general trade. Howard City—O. J. Knapp has sold his grocery stock to Gates Bros., who will continue the business. St. Ignace—Mrs. R. E. Metevier is suc- in the grocery nave Bros. & Co. in the manu- ceeded by Abraham Gaudreau in the boot and shoe business. Jackson—C. F. Binder & Co., meat dealers, have disolved, Chas F. Binder} continuing the business. Sunfield—Geo. Steele, formerly engag- ed in the harness business at this place, | has removed to Charlotte. West Bay City—Walsh & sueceeded by Walsh & Tanner in wholesale grocery business. Ishpeming—June Trevithick (Mrs. J.) Heikka in the con- Co. are the is succeeded by Wm. fectionery and fruit business. Jackson—D. M. & Son, tlers and cigar manufacturers, Conklin bot- have sold their bottling business to Stephen Kink. Manistee—Emmett & Zobel, notions, have sold out their Simeon Colk, a brother-in-law of South Lyon—The firm Sprague, lumber dealers, disolved, Chas. Sprague continuing the business. Stanwood—C. H. Smith store building and drug stock to Emmett deaiers in business Zobel. has has sold Wiseman, of Big Rapids, who will con- | tinue the business. Cedar Springs—Charles McCarthy and Dennis Lewis have bought the MeCon- nell meat market and refitted and furnished the same. Leonidas—A correspondent that a men’s would pay at this place. they need one badly. Allendale—I. J. Quick has sold his general stock and store building to Frank Brotherton and Lloyd Molyneant, who will continue the business. re- suggests goods store He says that furnishing have opened a| sold | retired | | thousand acre tract of cedar into shingles. | the Webber & | Heltey &| his Central Lake—C. E. Ramsey is erect- ing astore building here, 22 x 60 feet in dimensions, and will occupy same with a general stock as soon as it is completed. Elk Rapids—Horatio B. Lewis has re- | tired from the firm of Lewis, Butler & | 'Co., dealers in groceries, provisions, S. Little has sold his bazaar hardware, agricultural implements, ete. 'The business will be continued by | Joseph Butler and Thos. Marriott under | the style of Butler & Co. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Watervliet — The fine water power | Privilege here has been purchased by S. | Dudley & Co., of Holyoke, Mass., who | will put ina plant for making paper and | give employment to 140 hands. | JIonia—B. B. Hall and A. J. Webber | have commenced operations on cutting a The style of the firm is a Cedar Co., and the partners | those two and H. B. Webber. Tawas City—On account of excessive | taxation the H. M. Loud & Son’s Lum- | ber Co., of Au Sable, is said to be con- sidering a proposition to remove to Ta- was City. The company’s taxes at Au Sable for ten years aggregate $100,000. Saginaw — Jas. T. Hurst and W. R. Burt, of this city, have organized the Wyandotte & Detroit River Railway Co., with a capital of $250,000. They have made large investments in property on the river front between Wyandotte and Detroit, which will be utilized for manu- facturing and other purposes. Tawas City—The Emery sawmill be- gan operations last week with a full are stock of logs for the season. N. O. Emery is the superintendent. A new irefuse burner has been built and is doing duty. iron — two It is constructed wholly of thicknesses — with a water | chamber for generating steam to operate | the salt block. Sault Ste. Marie—Frank Perry, of this ‘se Louis A. Hall, of Bay Mills, and J. L. Norton, of Lockport, Ill., compos- jing the Perry Lumber Co., have bought | 192 square miles of the Canadian Indian | reservation tributary to the Goulais and | Batechawanna rivers, about forty miles j}above this place. The bonus paid for | the right to cut timber was $50,000, after |which come the timber royalties. The | deal will reach into the millions and will lresult in pine, spruce and cedar opera- Mr. Per- tions ef immense proportions. ry has long been a heavy operator, and Mr. Hall is of the firm of Hall & Buell, have handled from 50,000,000 feet upwards in Upper Michi- gan for years. Heis also a member of | the Hall & Munson Lumber Co., of Bay | well-known who 0} Mills. i ———————— Country Callers. Calls have been received at Tue TRADESMAN Office during the past week | | from the following gentlemen intrade. J. Cohen, White Cloud. John Gunstra, Lamont. F. L. Tolles, Big Prairie. T. H. Atkins, West Carlisle. Thurston & Co., Central Lake. _. <— Beware o 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. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is oo internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. 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. ¥ er sold by Druggists, price 75¢ per bottle. “THE KENT.” Name of the New Hotel Opposite the Union Depot. | Capt. Heman N. Moore and Lewis T. | McCrath, who are erecting a new hotel | directly opposite the ladies’ entrance to the union depot, have decided to | christen it ‘‘The Kent” and have leased the hotel for a term of years to Beach & Booth, who have established an enviable | reputation as caterers as proprietors of the New York Coffee Rooms. The hotel | will contain sixty rooms, all of which will be steam heated and completely equipped with electric bells, electric | lights and all other modern conveniences. The hotel will be conducted on the European plan, with a first-class restaur- | ant in connection, and will cater to the best trade—merchants, traveling men and the traveling public generally. It | will be ready for occupancy early in July. ARCO Se aa Purely Personal. J. P. Visner has taken the agency in this territory of the fish house of Stan- wood & Co., of Gloucester, Mass.—a most desirable arrangement for both parties. Frank E. Leonard has returned from Europe, where he spent a couple of months in search of both staples and novelties for the fall and winter trade. He is looking hale and hearty. Geo. L. Thurston, junior member of the firm of Thurston & Co., general dealers at Central Lake, was in town a couple of days last week. It was his first visit to the Grand Rapids market and was hugely enjoyed. — ~~ -4 Potatoes Higher and Advancing. Owing to the destruction of a large portion of the Southern potato crop by wet weather and floods, the potato mar- ket has advanced several cents a bushel during the past week and every indica- tion points to a strong and advancing market from this time Handlers here are paying 25 and 28e along the line of the railroad and buyers on the water —such as Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay points—are offering 24—-26¢ per bushel. Some dealers are confident the market will go to 50e¢ before the end of June, but there is no certainty on this point. That the market will be strong however, is very generally admitted by all engaged in the business. A te Bank Notes. It is reported that the banking house ; of D. A. Blodgett & Co., at Cadillae, will | be merged into a National Bank in the near future, at which time the leading | business men of Cadillac wiil be given | an opportunity to become stockholders | in the institution. Itis stated that Mr. | Diggins is desirous of retiring from the active management of the bank, to en- | gage more actively in the prosecution of | his lumber business. an et | An Apt Answer. ‘‘Are hides looking up yet?’? asked a reporter of Elmer Thompson, the other day. ‘“*Yes,”? was the reply, ‘‘they are flat on their backs and can’t help look- ing up.”’ einen pinneceinsccnnsinn The Grocery Market. Sugar is without change. Corn syrup is strong, owing to the recent advances in corn. California dried fruits are strong and higher. Rolled oats, Canary seed and jelly are a little higher. on. | ‘BOSTON PETTY LEDGER. Yeur account is always posted! Your bill is always made out! bound in cloth and “Teather back Nickel bill file, indexed, ruled on Size 84x3%, and corners. both sides, 60 lines, being equal toa bill twice as long. 1000 bill heads with L edger oem cece . 00 2000 * ne 4 50 5000 “ “ “ see "7 95 Address F. A. GREEN, Grand Rapids, Mich, I prepay express charges when cash accom panies the order. Send for circular. J. L. Strelitsky, wee H1ar's 45 Pearl St., R’m 9, Including the followi ing celebrated brands man- ufacturec ~ the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co \ Vindex, long Havana filler.....4.......... $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 CE ee 55 Lae Doneetin do Morera, ................. 65 Ri cee, eI A OE... uc... 55 ee ee a ee 60 imistinsanehin 8 for Castellanos & Lopez’s line of Key West goods. All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stock. 10 So. Jonia St, Grand Rapids, U/npolluted Lh ag ets Lt WE; . ; f AZ THE f GOODS IN HIS PACKAGE ARE GUARANTEED YZ tO BE GROUND FROM hein) Ips THE FINEST SELECTED Ld NWO LE SPICES AND TOBE, f Sree ABSOLUTE LY PURE ZZ )i 2 ‘yy, * aS 4oucrer® a ABSOLUTELY PURE PEPPER EDWIN.J. GILLIES & CO. 245 10249 WASHINGTON ST NEW YORK. A HUAN HL Hust MN Sole Owners of CRESCENT, Genuine Arabian MOCHA BLENDED DIAMOND, a Most Delicious Blend of Three Javas, STAR, a High Mountain Maracaibo. GLOBE, an Old Golden Rio. BEE HIVE TEAS, Full Strength and Fine Flavor. J. P. VISNER, Gen'l Representative, 167 N. lonia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘ area Br -~@& eget gM IA typ ara ’ % s : te ¥ oe 4 . - ‘ evenings. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Aspegrim & Anderson have opened a} grocery store at the corner of Third and | Stocking streets. Musselman & Widdi- comb furnished the stock. A. Dunnebacke has sold his grocery and dry goods stock at 75 Gold street to J. E. Plischke, who will continue the business at the same location. H. Leonard & Sons has issued their annual catalogue for 1892 and it is now being mailed to the trade. It comprises 256 pages and cover, being the largest and most complete catalogue ever issued by the house. The Antrim Iron Co. has engaged M. M. Dunean as successor to Edward Fitz- gerald, who recently resigned ‘the man- agement of the company’s business - at Mancelona. Mr. Duncan was manager of the Roane Iron Co., of Chattanooga, eleven years and brings to his new con- nection a most excellent record. Henry J. Vinkemulder has purchased the two-store frame building, now oc- cupied by the grocery stock of Vinke- mulder & Bro., at the corner of South Division street and Third avenue, for $12,000. The property has a frontage of 491¢ feet on South Division street and 176 feet on Third avenue. The _ pur- chaser proposes to enlarge the store building and put in new hardwood floors. ~ a ae te Gripsack Brigade. John Payne is spending a couple of weeks with friends at Allegan. His route is being covered in the meantime by Frank Kruse. David R. McGann, traveling represent- ative for Kortlander & Murphy, reports the sale of three liquor outfits during the past week—John B. Kelley, Traverse City; Chas. R. Smith, Cadillac; John McIntyre, Benton Harbor. Wat. Kelsey, the handsome end of the Toledo Spice Co., is in town for a few days, interviewing the jobbing trade. D. K. Applegate will represent the house in this territory in the capacity of traveling representative for the next three months. A Chieago grocery salesman was eall- ing on a grocer in a certain Northern Michigan town, one day last week, show- ing his tea samples. He had booked orders for Japan and Hyson goods, when he enquired, ‘‘How is your stock of gun- powder?” ‘‘We have plenty of caps and shot and I think it is too early in the season for gunpowder.”’ - i — i lpm —e The Correct Quotations. Tue TRADESMAN announced a decline of ‘ge per gallon in illuminating oil last week, but the quotations persisted in appearing incorrectly. They should have been as follows: Mpecene ....... ee eee ae eeu 9 Water white, old test............... 81g . ‘© headlight, 150 deg..... 6 oe oe ~ Above quotations are for oil in barrels. The price for oil from tank wagons was also declined at the same time. — Another Change in Her Route. The City of Grand Rapids has been compelled to abandon Manistique and South Manistique as the Northern termini of her route, having changed her course to Escanaba and Gladstone in- stead. The boat leaves Traverse City at ” o’clock . Monday, Friday Wednesday . and evenings, returning alternate Reyoked the Obnoxious Orders. The General Baggage Agent of the C. & W. M. and D., L. & N. Railways is- sued new orders in regard to the hand- ling of excess baggage a few months ago, whereupon Geo. F. Owen wrote General Freight Agent Davis as follows: I have been a friend of the D., L. & N. and C. & W. M. Railway systems and have taken pains to give them every pound of freight and mileage I could, which you will find by looking it up; but, in common with all commercial men, I have become thoroughly disgusted with the picayunish rules adopted by your General Baggageman, Mr. LaBar. He seems to look upon the traveling man as a thief and all of the employes in his department as tne same or worse. I have heard a large number of traveling men who carry trunks say that, as long as these arbitrary methods are kept up, they will divert every pound of freight from your line they can; and I assure you that from this date on not a pound of my freight will be drawn by your com- pany which I can possibly divert over some other line, as long as Mr. LaBar continues this foolish system of. his. Please do not think that I am trying to evade excess or get through over your line one pound of baggage more than il am = entitled to, but to be obliged to go through so much red tape—and to be looked upon as acommon thief, I kick. Please make enquiries of the baggagemen any- where on your line and you will find that never in a single instance have I tried to evade any rule laid down to your em- ployes, but have cheerfully accepted them, as I know well that their positions is to them their bread and butter; and so far as my firm is concerned, we are able to pay all charges which are imposed upon us, but refuse to submit to such foolish rules as laid down by your Mr. La Bar. Ihave no recourse but to fall back on my right to ship my freight by any line which I see fit. [ travel on every mile of your system in Michigan, except south of St. Joseph. Of course, I fully understand that the small amount of business I do will not cut any figure (the trains will probably start and stop on schedule time, as before), but the co- operation with the many who have spoken to me may be felt a little. While 1 deprecate such methods, I feel justified in this instance. Yours truly, Gro. F. OWEN. In the meantime other travelers petiti- oned the freight department to the same effect, and Mr. Owen recently received the following reply to his criticisms: Referring to your favor of May 1 in re- gard to excess baggage rules, Mr. De- Haven, our General Passenger Agent, advises me that the features of our rules to which you objected have been re- moved and that he has made even a more liberal arrangement in regard to excess baggage. He has also countermanded the instructions issued by the General Baggage Agent in reference to the labor of which you complained. He has also extended the limit of time that baggage is allowed to remain free at stations to seventy-two hours, instead of twenty- four, and thinks that everything now will be satisfactory to the traveling men. I trust that this is so. Will you kindly notify your traveling acquaintances? Yours truly, BV. Davis, G. FB. A. a The Drug Market. Tartaric acid has tarter is lower. deciined. Cream Gum camphor is weak but unchanged. Citric acid has de- clined. Prima Calcutta assafcetida has again advanced. London gum is at almost any price down to 20 cents, but it is not fit for druggists’ use. Oil berga- mont is lower. Oil cassia has declined. English vermillion is lower. Alcohol has advanced 2 cents per gallon. Later—Linseed oil has sustained an- other advance, this time of 2c per gallon. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CU, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE, Voigt, Herpolsheimer & G0, *° Grana Rapids.” H-S- ROBINSON SPCOMPANY Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, er SHOES New Factory, 330 and 332 La Fayette Avenue, Office and Salesroom, 99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, MICH. Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Fiannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Bankrupt Stock Nuisance. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. A decision that will be pleasing to retailers generally was given by the Massachusetts Supreme Court last week. The decision relates to the law, recently enacted, imposing restrictions on itin- erant vendors. Under this head it business of opening for a few days or a few weeks with a loudly advertised sale of bankrupt stocks or goods damaged by fire. It is needless to add that these sales are usually frauds, so far as_ their representations go, and that the remark- ably low prices they advertise are in fact remarkably high for the quality of the goods offered. The facts in the case de- cided upon are as follows: “Erastus Crowell was indicted, charged with being an itinerant vendor, and at the trial in the superior court it appeared that the defendant was in the employ of E. F. Miller, who at that time earried on business, having a manufac- turing establishment in Boston, with various permanent places of business at Worcester and Springfield. Miller was engaged in the manufacture and sale of tailor-made clothing, and by reason of misfits and other causes always had on his hands large quanties of clothing which had been returned, This he dis- posed of as ready-made clothing. The defendant, not a resident of Dennis, went on behalf of Miller to Dennis and opened a store which he furnished with a stock of clothing of the above descrip- tion, with the intention of remaining in the store until the goods were sold. Upon these facts the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the defendant took an appeal to the Supreme Court. This tribunal overrujJed the exceptions, on the ground that the object of the statuti is to protect the public from imposition by itinerant vendors who are not hawkers or pedlers_ be- cause hiring, leasing or occupying a building for their business. but who are to sell temporarilly or transiently in one locality. The court held that the statute is not designed to prevent fair and free competition, but only to pro- tect the public against fraud. It comes within the police power, and stands on the same ground as the acts relating to hawkers and pedlers, auctioneers, pawn- brokers and others. The fact that Miller had a permanent place of business elsewhere, and that the defendant acted as Miller’s agent, does not help the defendant.”’ This decision is to be commended as good common sense, something which is too often ignored by judges in their un- questioning adherence to legal precedent and traditional phraseology. The itiner- ant vendor who acts as an agent for a strong central concern is all the more dangerous to the established trade in a community, and all the more fraudulent in his representations that the stock he offers is the salvage from a failure or a fire. There is a wide difference be- tween legitimate competition and this species of business piracy. Retail dealers do not seek for a monopoly, and ask for norestrictions on any competition that desires to come in on equal terms. The regular dealer is obliged to main- tain his reputation by giving good value for the prices he receives, and by living up to all his public promises. The itinerant vendor, on the contrary, has no reputation at stake, and he can make the most evtravagant promises with impun- ity. The average buyer is not an expert, and is easily deceived by the appearance of the cheap trash. He has learned to rely, to a reasonable degree, at least, on the statements of the regular dealers, and very naturally accepts the fraudu- lent claims of the transients as being ap- proximately true. Before the buyer has a chance to test the quality of his pur- chases, the great aggregation has disap- peared. At first the buyer, on compar- ing the prices, makes up his mind that the regular dealers are attempting to rob him by their extortionate figures, but, when he discovers the swindle, he jumps at the conclusion that the regular dealers belong to the same class, inas- much as they are in the same business of selling goods. . Use Tradesman Coupon Books, * is | aimed to include dealers who make a) Best Six Gor Machine or Hand Use. FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions, Schilling Corset Co.'s £ fe CORSETS MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. Schilling’s FRENCH SHAPE “A” me Send for [lustrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO., Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill, BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. See price list STANTON, MOREY & CO,, Mfrs. DETROIT, MICH. Geo, F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. “a AS ......5..--4- 7 Arrow Brand 5% Bee... 6... 5, ; : sag Wide.. 6% AGAR + 4% Atlantic ao ox Full yard ee. .... 6% | SESE 6%iGeorgia A.......... 6% . Bick 5\¢|Honest Width....... 6% wa eT © Herida ......... 5 - to S iind@ien Heed........ 7 Aueere.... «01... imme A B........... 6% Archery Bunting... 40)King EC. .......... 5 Beaver Dam AA.. 534|Lawrence LL...... 5% Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% Black Crow......... 6 Newmarket -...-. 5% Rieck Beck .-...-.- 6 B ..... mee, oe.......... : - en 64 Capital a 5% _ DD.... & Covent ¥.......... 54% ° mM 21: 6% Chapman cheese cl. 3%|Noibe R............. 5 coe © e......... 544/Our Level Best..... 6% ee cl uOrrore E.... Dwieet Star. .......- Secon. 4.5... 7 Clifton CCC........ I ig ie cence tenn |Top of the Heap.. BLEACHED COTTONS. ARG. We 8%|Geo. Washington... 8 IE. oes ceo ices 8 |Glen Mills.......... . Amebore,... ...-... 7 iGold Medal......... 7% Ast Camsbric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... ex Blackstone A A..... i Great Palls.......... oes A2l........<... ee Md ee... 12 Just Out.....- 4%@ 5 ee ; King Phillip ese 7% Se OF cs Charter Oak........ of Lonsdale — -10 Conway W .......... a Lonsdale...... @s Cees ou Middlesex.... .. 5 Dwight Anchor..... ay me peers... ...... 3-4. T% _ «shorts. § “som borate hore eee... 6 NER. oon ie ow —— SER RTE 7 Pride of "the West.. to ™% a eiame dae eeeu ie im Fruit of the Loom. 8%/Suntight............. 4% ieee ...... -.-- 7 Dueae Milis tes 8% Dae Pees... -....- 7 ‘Nonpareil ..10 Fruit of the Loom %. 74/Vinyard............. 8% Fairmount.......... 414)White Horse.......- 6 Pall Vaino.......... —— 6 6... HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. CE, cos ps cnccr eves 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 8% Farwell.. .6 UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Trem h........... 5% Middlesex No. 1... Hesntitea M......... 6% 2. Eee sa a. 2... Middiesx AT.....- 8 ie * +7... . Bk 9 ' * S....00 sat Bo, 25.....9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Hemiton ......... 1% Middlesex A . aces 11 Mitte Pe... et lll CUS. 12 . J . A 6 ae 13% Kg ZA... 9 Sf 17% " af ...... oe - Sigs. 16 CARPET WAR Peerless, white... .. 17%) Integrity nee -20 colored. . tit White S oe ee 18 cape a] . * colored. 20 pe Goops. Motion. ......<... : Nameless —— 20 eee .10% . ae 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 oe 30 Nameless ... ....... 16 ose ekew eens 32% ee 18 ene 35 CORSETS. Coraline............89 50/Wonderful .... ....84 50 Schilling’s......... 9 OOjBrighton.. ........ 475 Davis Waists..... 9 00)Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|/Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. UE oie cee nn os 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7 ‘aamponte ogein EN oe MOR eES....... ..2--- 6% Biddeford........... Conestoga........... 6% Brunswick. ........ 8% MU ARWOHEN ...+.. +. 6% PRINTS Allen — reds.. 5% Berwick fancies.. 5% bites woke 4|Clyde Robes........ “ og 2 purple 6%/|Charter Oak fancies 4% - OE bein ieee DelMarine cashm’s. 6 “pink checks. 5% ' mourn’g 6 «meee ...... 5% Eddystone ae. 5% ° shirtings... 4 ocolat 5 American fancy.... 5% . eae --- 5K Americanindigo.... 5% ' sateens.. 5% American shirtings. 4 Hamilton — 5% Argentine Grays... 6 ~ O.... 4 Anchor ee. os Manchester ancy. . 5% Arnold . o% new era. 5% Arnold Merino..... Serrimnek: D fancy. 5% _ long cloth > 10% Merrim’ ck shirtings. 444 . Reppfurn . 8% ‘* century cloth ; Pacific fancy pecans 5 gold seal..... 10% robes.. “ green seal TR 10%) Portsmouth robes. . 5% “yellow seal. Sts, Simpson a - 5% - —- Lads we bu 11% oor... ...- By “Turkey red. we ' solid black. 5% Ballou solid black. . Washington indigo. 5% ‘6 Colors. 5% Tur = —: * Bengal blue, green, ? 1% and orange... 54%) ‘ plain Tky ryt % 3” Berlin ais c esse ~~. “ cube * Ottoman ur. “ ee ~ Martha Washington ” Turkey red &..... ” Martha Washington “ 44 10 Turkey red........ 9% . ‘“* 3-4XXxXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 Cocheco ae. _ 6 Windsor COROT. 20505 6% _- old ticket _ ao iis. 6%| indigo blue....... 10% - eotids...5. SPOOR «oo. ce ecenes 4% TICKING. Amoioen AC A... TGA Bio. sen cesee - Hamilton cela sees Hs —— AAA.. ° Awning..11 |Swift River......... 1% se Pear Biver......... 12 First Prize i a 13 Lenox Mills ........ 18 COTTON DRILL. Stee, BD. .6 5... 0 6% Stark A sh es No Name Clifton, K.. Seine: el --16 OI iciscn' dirnen 10% A Mc ee ae —. Amoskeag oe ee 124%/{Columbian brown..12 90 -13%|Everett, oa in odie 12 - bows . 13 bro Beeyer Ss... 11% Haymaker blue. os 7% Beaver Creek 7 “iis _o Weleee....... ng Lancaster....... “ Boston Mtg co. — Lawrence, a 13 blue by No. 220....13 “« d & twist 10% "8 No. 250....11% Columbian aon oe. o No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 — Avokbobe ...... <... Lancaster, staple. . a ' Persian dress 4 . fancies . ’ Canton .. 8% . Normandie § . BG. an ‘10% Denecesnire ....:-... - Teazle...10144|Manchester......... se ~ Angola. .10%|Monogram.......... 6% ' ee 8%|Normandie.. : Arlington staple. . - % Persian.. <-> on — fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress. . mt 1% Bates Warwick dres 8%/Rosemont........... 6% . staples. of Slatersvilleé.......... 6 Centennial......... 10% |Somerset.......-.-.. 7 Criterion ..... Se eee: ... «2c... - ™% Cumberland staple. By Tou Gu pom. ...... 10% Cumberland........ so Th ES 4% “« seersucker.. 7% a TERT WOEWIOR oss ences 8% Everett classics..... 844|Whittenden......... 6% Mxrposition.....:..,. Te - heather dr. 8 Glenaric..........+.0- 6% . indigo blue 9 cereen......-..- 6X%|Wamsutta staples... 6% penweog........... 7% Westbrook secs ee eee 8 ee Oe aoe cs 10 Johnson vhalon cl %|Windermeer.... .... 5 - indigo bine 944i Tork..... .........- 6% - zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Snes Laced 16% | Valley ~ eeewu 15 a Georgia ee a Poe a axl ae oo 13 THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 Come. 6.47 ....... (arenes... :....- 88 Eiotyoue............. 22% ENITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored. i 6... mS Me iM. 42 . . 04 a CUM. 43 yeas 35 i ....,.. 44 ee ened 36 -— i oe. 40 45 CAMBRICS, eee es css. a (eewerds........... & White Star......... & ilockwood.... ..:..- 4 Rid Giore......-.... a tWoors...........-. 4 Newmarket......... 4 (Brunswick ........ 4 RED FLANNEL. Fireman...:.. ....- oe a CR eee RY Creedmore.......... Wee i as Be 32% Tarees £4 4.......-. mS Ue eee......... 35 Nameless........... STM ieucneye.... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid..40 |Grey SRW......... 17% Calon B...... -.--4; 22% ce @.... 18% _ aa Ss 18% 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% Union B.........-.. 22%4|Manitoba........... 23% DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless ..... 8 @9% Se 9 @10% ee 8%@10 en 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black./Slate. Brown. Black. 9% 9% 934/13 13 13 10% 10% 1044) 15 15 15 11% 11% 114417 17 17 12% 12% 1246120 20 20 Severen, 8 oz........ 944 TWest Point, 8 0z....10% Mayland, Sos........ 10% . 1 ‘1002 . Greenwood, 7% 02.. 9% eli We cea 13% Greenwood, 8 oz.. 11% eee eee 13% Boston, § O8.......4. 10% |Boston, 10 oz........ 12% WADDINGS. aes, Gas... 05> . bale, 40 dosz....87 50 Colored, doz........ - Slater, Iron —- . 6 rewsuores.......... 10% Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie...... eae aeuae 9 ' BRO ics cin cus :.10% MUON. so ssd bene 10% o Best AA..... a wiey AGEF i... ...- Ls ices hae setae WM ea eoeaes Cann 10% Mss ek eb eee 8% EWING SILK. Corticelli, doz. . % {Corticelli knitting, twist, doz. .37%| per %oz ball...... 30 50 034, doz. .37% KS AND EYES—PER GROSS. No : BI’k ¢ « ‘White. = No : BI’k & White..15 “ 3 “ se “10 “ 25 No 2-20, We Oieias 50. No 4-15 F 3% eauad 40 3—18,8 C........ hel No 2 White & Brk.12. “No 3 ‘White & BI’k..20 - = i oo - " ..23 = s - we 1" oe - . 26 SAFETY PINS. ied Sheen 28 |No3. . 36 NEEDLES—PER M. A. ame. Ee IGE 1 40/8teamboat........... 40 Ce 1 &)Gold Eyed.......... 1 50 Marsha 's eles eur 1 00 )| TABLE onis-4 CLOTH, 22% 6—-4.. --195 6—4...2 % wn . ‘3 0 _ COTTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 18 COE in dvoscunes cs 12 Rising Star co. oan PRES os oc cv ecces 18% Soly.... UNE asp isveenss 16 j|North Star......... . 20 a Se 13 | Wool Standard 4 plyit% Cherry Valley...... 15 |Powhattan ..... De ribs ecdue ge 18% PLAID OSNABURGS BR vc vicscces 6%| Mount sacar . 6% Alamance, . ... 64%/Oneida..... ee Augusta... .- TlPrymont ..........- 5% Ar sapha.. 5 6 Randelman. . 7 Georgia.. . 6g/ Riverside .........- 5% ranite ... . 5% per. jartasiapeey 6% Haw River 5 |Toledo.........se+es DOE Pies casivetses BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. EXEMPTION—FURNITURE—BOARDERS. The Supreme Court of Texas held, in the case of Mueller vs. Richardson, that under an excemption from sale under under execution of ‘‘all household and kitchen furniture,’”’ a widow taking boarders incidentally for the purpose of support was entitled to hold exempt from sale the furniture in the rooms occupied by the boarders. INSOLVENCY—UNPAID STOCK TIONS. The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in the case of Marson vs. Deither, that where a corporation has made an assign- ment for the benefit of creditors under the insolvent law, the court in which the insolvency proceedings are pending may make an order requiring payment of unpaid stock subscriptions, the same as the directors might have done before the insolvency proceedings, and that in an action for an unpaid stock subscrip- tion it is not necessary to allege the issue and tender of a certificate of stock unless it is expressly stipulated in the contract that the stock is to be paid for upon issuance of the certificate therefor. SUBSCRIP- GUARANTY—NOTICE—ACCEPTANCE. In the case of Wilkins vs. Carter et al., recently decided by the Texas Commis- sion of Appeals, it appeared that the ap- pellant wrote the following letter to the appellees: ‘Carter Brothers & Co.—B. E. Wilkins & Brother may be a few days late in paying you their dues. If you will bear with them I will see that you are paid; cotton is six weeks late, hence the scarcity of money; they are in good shape otherwise. W. D. Wilkins.’’? The appellant contended that if the guaranty was accepted he was entitled to notice in order to make him liable. The court held that the appellant was entitled to notice, saying: ‘‘Carter Brothers & Co. were not bound by the proposition until they had agreed to accept its terms. From the time they received the letter until after the goods of Wilkins & Brother were attached, they did not notify appellant that they agreed and would extend the time. But they say that they did accept by forebearing to sue. How was Wilkins to know but that the consideration for the extension moved from some other source, or was a mere favor to the debtor?” SALE—GUARANTY—WAREHOUSE RE- CEIPTS. Where, by a written contract a party agreed to sell to another binder twine at Peoria, 1l]l., Omaha, Neb., and various other points at certain prices therein named, free of charge for freight, stor- age, etc., until the warehouse receipts of the same should be turned over, payable by notes on receipt of invoice, one-third on September 10, one-third on October 10, and one-third on November 10, fol- lowing, the vendor guaranteeing that the twine sold was in good condition and a merchantable article, the Supreme Court of [linois held, Luthy et al. vs. Waterbury et al., that the guaranty had reference to the condition and quality of the twine at the time the contract was made, and not to the time when the warehouse receipts were turned over, although possession of the goods would not pass until the warehouse receipts were delivered. —_—~ -+ <> A New Sugar Process. A French chemist has invented a new process for manufacturing sugar, which recent reperts from Clenfuegos, Cuba, say has been tested with remarkable suc- cess. The secret of the method is mix- ing molasses with cane juice. The re- ports say that the new}; rocess yields 11%¢ per cent. of first jet sugar, polarizing 98.3 degrees on anaverage. Furthermore the managers of the American Sugar Refining Company declare that the sugar thus produced is the handsomest raw sugar ever imported into the United States, and they readily pay for all cargoes of this brand of sugar 1-10 of acent more than the running prices. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ee eos se 60 aie le 40 Re ee ee 25 J ennings’, oe ee en 50&10 AXEs. a a < 7 50 i +. ae S 8 50 Se * 13 50 BARROWS. dis. CO 8 14 00 es, net 30 00 BOLTS, dis. Te cece ee swan 50&10 Carriage Cg a a 70&10 ee 40&10 Sleigh EE a 70 BUCKETS. et a : 50 Well, WEE ee ee. 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cant Loose Pin, figured........ ....... wick as 0& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast join Wrought Loose Pe Wrowent Tere... .......... Wrought Inside Blind.......... - .60&10 eres ee a 75 mone Caen 70&10 Blind, og ee — Blind, ere. ce. BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... CRADLES. Me ee, dis. 50&02 CROW BABS. ee ee perb 5 Ely’s 1-10 oe 65 DEAE ode we secs sccvoeccscecaswcce ce rE m Bees cP. i _ 60 Meee eee ces oo 35 Musket ee _ 60 CARTRIDGES, ee ee... a ce 50 Contre! Pine... ew dis. 2% CHISELS. dis. PCOG ec 70&10 Socket Framing --70&10 Socket Corner... --70&10 ee ES 70&10 Butchece Tanged Wirmer............ -..... COMBS. dis. — EE 40 ki i a, 25 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28 i4x OO — eee 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........-.- 23 Cold Rol led; eee 23 oe ei ee eee cess 25 DRILLS. dis. Ce ee ‘ 50 Teer OG Wereient BEAU... .......-..0c0. 50 Ot Wee a es sll... 50 DRIPPING PANS. EE Oo ee ELBOWS. ee, © whee Oi... oa ee occ s om. m % Corrugated ... 40 AGTastabie........... Wace be us weve wae a 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; large, 826.. dee see 30 Iver’, 1, $18; 2, 824; MO esc ee ll 25 ritEs—New List dis. Disston’s aeeececvenst sh ninten heat AgEE Ue Son —- Ode dace se das ekeuaened sos Cea 1&10 RE Dinos cos cane 50 Heller's Horse Rasps hebawee : 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 2; 2 — 24; 2 “2 6 ima hUelhCU 16 a Discount, 60 GAUGES, dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 HAMMERS. Meveee See... dis. 25 se - eunoe & Pe... ig ccs dis. 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40410 HINGES, coe. Clare e& 1, 2,9 .-.....__..-. 2... .- dis.60&10 | WO per doz. net, 2 50 Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. a 14 and a Ee 3% Screw Hook and Eye, ee net 10 oe net 8% “6 - ad net 7% - . - Se... net 7% el dis. 50 HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Champeon, Gmtl-fricgon.................... 60&10 Mer, Woe teem oc... tc. 40 HOLLOW WARE. Ce... 60410 ee cc... 60410 eee 60&10 Gras GummmcIed a. - 40&10 — FURNISHING GOODS Stemiped Ti Ware................... “new list 70 | cope Sr WOre........ 2.22... 25 | Chamiiie rom Ware ......-...:.... new list 3334.&10 | WIRE GOODS. dis. ee 70&10&10 | Screw —_ etd oa oa ae 70&10&10 oe ee -70&10&10 Gate Hooks ee ............. ee | LEVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............. * 70 | KNoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..... Ceo 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 | Door, porcelain trimmings. ................ 55 Drawer and Shutter, Moreelame........, 2... 7 LOCK8—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Cos................... 55 eee 55 ree 55 MATTOCES, Boe eee. $16.00, dis. 60 Hunt Eye. -B15 00, dis. 60 oo a $18.50, dis. a Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘eee a 50 MILLS. dis. ry es he 40 & W. Mfg. Co.’s aaemagataen 40 . Esaee erry & Cleve s............ 40 “ Baca i... 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Peers Peers 8s 60&10 eee Gore... — Enterprise, self-measuring............ - 25 AILS Sigg: wane bee fe, 1 85 Wire game beme.................-.. ......-.. 1 90 Advance over base: Steel, Wire. Base 10 25 2 35 45 45 50 60 vis) 90 ia 1 60 1 60 65 90 75 99 ' é es de eek ada doe conus 1 15 110 —— Be ee ieee sets cu coun 85 70 a ae 1 00 80 “ ieee ete ee el Lo, 1 1 <5 PLANES. dis. Obie Tool Co.'s, fancy ..................-+-s Qn) Ee Sandusky Tool = Co ee ee @40 Boneh, firat quality... ..........0.scececesss @60 Stanley Rule and TLavel Co.’s, wood. &10 PANS. ee, BO ie... dis.60—10 Cee, polished Bee eee dees “ wf RIVETS. dis. Teen oe Tie... ...,..-... Copper Rivets and Burs.............-...-+- 50—L0 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘*A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 - = “B” Wood's _— at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs \e per pound extra. ROPEs. tinal, 46 tneh and lereer ...: 9% eee... 13 SQUARES. dis, oo ee eee 5 yy Gog Bevom.... 60 ee 20 | SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com Mn, ee 405 8295 Mee tee. 4 05 3 15 3 to 2 3 (5 3 15 3 25 2 44 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, pa {inches | wide not less than 2-10 extra | SAND PAPER, es, dis. 50 | SASH CORD. Silver Lake, Werte Bo cl iy 50 | Drab 55 “ White B 1 ae | . Drab B... _ 55 - Whtec.......44..........., - 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Bold Been per = Nea SAWS. | ss Cee * 29 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 s a Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 be c ampion and Electric Tooth X | Cuts, per foot..............-- 2. eee eee eee 30 TRAPS. dis. | Steel, ec ee 60&10 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s. 70 geouee, ChGker. 18¢ per doz } Mouse, delumion. .... 6... s. $1.50 ae on WIRE, Beies Meee, Aoeaice Maree... cic cae, roto Comporee Marect. PO WORE oy oeree Grete Meee...................... 50 Barbed | Feneo, gaivanized............ Jieued 3 10 ee 2 65 HORSE NAILS. An See dis. 40 Dale ee oo: dis. 05 a dis, 10410 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coes Gemume ........... se. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75 Co@s Patent, malleabie...............:..... T5&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. itd Cagee i. a... 88 ee 50 Pompe Comer. ................. 2... a Gerewn Newt we. i T0& Casters, Bea a @ Wiste...............,5. so&10el0 Dampers, OE eee 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods......6%&10 ETALS, PIG TIN. Pas Deree...... oe 26¢ es... 28c ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. Co Noted Cage 8, 6% Fee pound 7 SOLDER. eee ee ee 16 4@ OE eee 15 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY COONee per pound Pores... TIN-—-MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Sew oi oe ese ue esa ua ca. $7 50 14x20 IC, : i 7 50 10x14 = . 9 25 14x20 I " 9 25 Each x aditional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Leb Se cele ces $6 75 aa ll CO: 6 75 10xi4 1x, a . 8&3 14x20 IX, oe ee ne 9 25 Hach additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES Soe OC Weeweeneer...... 5... cs 6 50 14x20 IX, - MT pce ae veesee suena: 8 50 20x28 IC, - Oe eee ae 13 50 14x20 IC, “ Allawey Gede........... 8 00 14x20 IX, - FF 7 50 20x28 IC, ' . og ae 12 50 20x28 IX, . bea a 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS. Sone Oe. $14 0? See Be 15 aes for N No. a Boilers, pound... 10 THE FAVORITE CHURN. The Only Perfect Barrel Churn Made. POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. It is made of thoroughly seasoned material. lt is finished smooth inside as well as outside. The iron ring head is strong and not liable to beak. The bails are fastened to the iron ring, where they need to be fastened. It is simple in construction and convenient to operate. No other churn is so nearly perfect as THE FAVORITE. Dowt buy a counterfeit. SIZES AND PRICES. No. 0— 5 gal. to Churn 2eel............,. 38 ee 1—10 . a lee 8 50 “ 2-15 Be ee ea ees 9 00 “sa “ : ce 10 00 “6 4-25 ‘ : ais 12 00 “« §— 2 “* 13 1 a 16 09 “.¢—60. “* * ee ce yeas 26 00 oh geomet, SS . eo ea 30. 00 ‘* g—90 ‘ " iso yea anes 00 Write for Discount. SRO ENS fosginG 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Jificial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Dollara Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. t= When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tue MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E, A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1892, CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. During the past few years there has been considerable agitation within the borders of our northern neighbor, the Dominion of Canada, both on the sub- ject of annexation to the United States and also in favor of establishing recip- rocal trade relations between the two countries. To the ordinary observer such agitation might argue the exis- tence of the most cordial relations be- tween the people of the two countries, while as a matter of fact, this is not the case by any means, it being well known that there is little in common between the two nations, except that their relative geographical positions have brought about certain common interests of a purely commercial char- acter. The passage of the McKinley bill was the signal for the commencement of all the agitation which has troubled Canada for some years past. The Dominion had previously looked to the United States as the principal market for its agricul- tural products. The taxes imposed by the McKinley law have greatly cut down the profits of the Canadian farmers and in some cases have entirely shut them out from what had been previously their best market. As the Canadians could find no way of compelling the repeal of the McKinley law, they have been casting about for means of neutralizing its effects. An- nexation, by making their country part of the United States, presented in the eyes of some the surest way of getting rid of the burdens of the existing tariff, while others less radical have sought to escape the evils wrought by the obnox- ious law through a reciprocity treaty which should provide for the free ad- mission of such Canadian products as are now shut out by our tariff. It will, therefore, be seen that the re- ciprocity and annexation agitations in Canada are not influenced by any yearn- ing after the privileges of American citi- zenship or dislike of British allegiance, but purely and simply by the selfish de- sire to overcome the obstacles placed in the way of Canadian trade by an adverse tariff imposed upon foreign imports by the laws of the United States. this country and Canada. States by our laws. of the boundary line were increasing in population while the sub-committee was informed that on the other side of the line the population was diminishing. There was also found an average differ- ence in the rate of wages of 25 per cent. in favor of the United States. Under such circumstances it is not ex- traordinary that the Canadians should be willing to submit to annexation, or, for that matter, to even greater evils from their standpoint, rather than to permit their trade to decay and their population to emigrate. It is also not extraordinary under the circumstances that they should feel somewhat incensed against us and seek to retaliate upon us for having passed the McKinley law by harassing our fishermen and discriminating against our trade on the Canadian canals. With respect to the fisheries difficulty, it is probable that we will have to put up with it, as our Canadian friends are com- pelled to accept our tariff; but the dis- crimination on Canadian canals can be overcome by the construction of canals on the American side of the great lades. PROPOSED BIMETALLIC CONFER- ENCE. The announcement made last week by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer that England would accept the invita- tion of the United States to take part in an international couference upon the sil- ver question, has created no small stir in financial circles all over the world. The importance of this acceptance of the in- vitation has been fully appreciated, as is shown by the general interest manifested in the matter since the matter became known, and its influence upon the action of other powers towards the proposed conference has been manifested by the fact that the State Department has re- ceived since ._the announcement of England’s action notice that Italy and Austria will also be represented at the conference. ‘The lead of these nations is likely to be followed shortly by all the other important commercial countries of Europe. Although the acceptance of the invita- tion of the United States Britain does not necessarily imply the promise of that Government to accept any of the findings of the proposed national conference, there is no denying, nevertheless, that the action of Mr. Goschen has been largely influenced by of bimetallism. in the British Parliament that the action States. A sub-committee of the Senate Finance Committee has for some time been mak-| of the constantly growing disproportion ing inquiries as to the effect of the tariff | of the world’s gold supply and the needs laws upon the trade relations between This sub- committee has reached the conclusion that so far as the Dominion of Canada is concerned, there is no doubt that its in- habitants pay the entire burden of duties imposed on their exports into the United It says that the places visited on the United States side by Great inter- a growing sentiment in England in favor This has since been made very manifest by a statement made of Mr. Goschen has been in full accord with the request of all the Chambers of Commerce in England that the Govern- ment accept the invitation of the United It will be remembered that at the time of the great financial panic two years ago, when the great banking firm of Baring Brothers failed, Mr. Goschen, in a speech delivered upon the causes of/ corn, oats, rice, tobacco, etc., and that the money troubles, referred to the fact of commerce, and announced his belief that unless some additional basis of value were adopted to supplement gold there would be a constantly recurring financial squeeze, due to the balancing of trade accounts. This statement of Mr. Goschen was understood at the time as pointing strongly to a belief on his part that some arrangement would have to be made by which silver would be accepted by the commercial world as basis of value side by side with gold. The serious state of affairs existing in the great Indian Empire, the brightest jewel in England’s imperial crown, has also had much to do with the acceptance of the invitation to attend the bimetallic conference. The steady depreciation of India’s silver money has worked great mischief to the commerce of that country and has greatly unsettled its finances, besides subjecting to much inconveni- ence and loss the great manufacturing centers of England, which trade largely with the East. In spite, therefore, of assertions to the contrary by a section of the English press, the acceptance of the invitation of the United States by the British Gov- ernment was undoubtedly based on something more than mere international courtesy, hence there need be no ques- tion but that, should a_ practicable method of monetizing silver be hit upon as a result of the deliberations of the conference, Great Britain will be found willing to seriously consider the advis- ability of agreeing to the arrangement. The strike fever appears to have about subsided, so far as Grand Rapids is con- cerned, both the strikimg painters and plumbers having voluntarily surrendered and gone back to work, fully convinced that their position was utterly indefensi- ble and that a continuation of the strikes would simply result in the filling of their places by other and better men. The main point at issue was the refusal of the strikers to work with any but union men. The inhumanity of such a demand is clearly apparent to anyone of ordi- nary decency. If such a demand were earried to a legitimate conclusion, a member of the Methodists church might refuse to work on the same job with any but Methodists and a Free Mason might decline to labor on a building or in a factory where men who did not belong to the order were employed. Such de- mands strike at the very root of human liberty and stamp the men making them as tyrants of the meanest sort. The Methodist church, the Masonic fraternity and the trades unions are useful organi- zations, so long as they do not overstep the bounds of justice and decency, but when an organization arrogates to itself the tyranny of a Russian sovereign, it de- servedly meets with condemnation and disaster. Bradstreet’s has practically taken a census of the existing business condi- tions throughout the cotton country, as bearing on planters, storekeepers and manufacturers. From the mass of data received from nearly twenty-four hun- dred correspondents in ten states it con- cludes that the acreage of cotton for 1892 will be decreased one-fifth. Three- fourths of these correspondents report that a larger acreage will be devoted to , hog and cattle raising will receive more |attention than ever before. There has been much less depression in those dis- tricts not devoted exclusively to cotton, and the South generally realizes the im- portance of diversifying its productions. The remedy for tte low price of cotton and the consequent depression of southern agriculture is at work. And the cotton crop of 1892 will be produced more cheaply than for many years past. The unfavorable weather which has retarded planting this spring will have one particularly unfortunate effect. It will bring out the great army of croakers and calamity howlers who will predict all kinds of evils and misfortunes as a result of these conditions. But after all isn’t it just as well to wait until the misfortunes have actually arrived before commencing to mourn over them? We thus abbreviate the period of mourning and we have the benefit of a chance that the reality may not be as bad as the prophesy! Wait until the crops fail before tuning up your voice to the whining key. The Journal of United Labor and the Knights of Labor Journal both denounce the boycott on Fleischmann’s yeast as ‘*without reason, justification or excuse’”’ and decline to be a party to such in- justice. Both journals assert that they have documentary evidence proving be- yond question that the claim made in is- suing the boycott was a lying one. THE TRADESMAN begins this week the publication of a series of articles on the relations of Landlord and Tenant. The articles will appear consecutively for the next six or eight issues of the paper and will prove to be worthy of preservation alongside the series of insurance articles which terminated with last week’s issue. David Ward’s Pine. David Ward, the multo-millionaire, writes the Mancelona Herald as follows: In your !ast issue I notice you quote a dispatch from Bay city to the Detroit Tribune to the effect that David Ward has contracted with the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad to transport all of his pine timber in Kalkaska, Otsego, Crawford and Antrim counties to Bay City to be manufactured. As a matter of fact, I have made no contract of any kind with the M.C. Railroad. My son, Henry C. Ward, contracted last winter with said company to transport one season’s lum- bering of pine saw logs from near Gay- lord to Bay City, which is now being done. The Bay City correspondent has seemingly seized hold of this fact to boom up Bay City by his bombastic tele- graph canard. The business men of Western Mich- igan have long anticipated the manufac- ture of Mr. Ward’s pine near the places where it stands and the above emphatic denial of a contrary statement by Mr. Ward gives ground for believing that the anticipation will eventually be realized. : in The Hardware Market. The wire nail market is still in an un- settled condition and, notwithstanding the recent changes in the card rate, nails are being sold as low as they were prior to the advance. The manufacturers of barbed wire have caught up with their orders and are filling same with more promptness. There is no change in price. The rope market is stationary. Wool twine has declined 4c per pound. The glass manufacturers have come to no positive decision as totheir future course and it is believed that all the factories will clese down June 1. ° t | gp. i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 LANDLORD AND TENANT. PAPER I. Written for THE TRADESMAN. In this series of papers, I shall hew just as close to the line of mercantile in- test as is possible and endeavor to avoid all matter not specially applicable to the mercantile and business fraternity. When I use the term ‘“‘land,”’? the reader will please remember that it refers to the store, mill, shop or other building and the land it stands upon, just as pointedly as it does to a 200 acre farm and the buildings thereon. DEFINITIONS. A lessor is one who transfers the pos- session of land in consideration of some- thing valuable which is called rent. The lessee is one who receives possession and pays the rent. These parties are called landlord and tenant. The term estate refers to the right or interest which a tenant has in lands which he holds, and the term tenure has reference to the mode or manner by which he holds this estate. Tenancy denotes the estate held by atenant; but it is also used to de- scribe the relation of landlord and tenant. Reversion is an estate remain- ing in the lessor, to take effect in pos- session upon the determination of a par- ticular estate granted, and is not consti- tuted by the mere reservation of a right of re-entry for breach of conditions. Whether a tenancy (or relation of land- land and tenant) exists is usually a question of fact; but whether ascertained facts prove a tenancy isa question of law. THE LEASE. The contract whereby one party (the tenant) takes the possession of the land, and the other party (the landlord) gives possession of the land and reserves (that is, agrees to take) a rent, is called a lease. A tenancy is never created by act of law, but always by contract or lease. To create a lease there must be a certain fixed term, whether it be for a day or a year, or any number of years, Leases for ninety-years, or for 999 years, are not uncommon; and, indeed, perpetual leases, where not prohibited by statutory enactments, are sometimes, created, in which a certain term is fixed, but the term is, by express stipu- lation in the lease, renewable from time to time and forever. No certain form of words is necessary to.create a lease; but those in common use are ‘‘demise,”’ ‘‘Jease,” and ‘“‘let;? any other words, substantially equivalent thereto, will be sufficient. It is not essential that a lease be dated, and a mistake in date cannot vitiate it. A lease dated and executed on Sunday is void, though our Supreme Court has held that such a lease will be considered as taking effect at the date of a later acknowledgment. The omission or insertion of the middle name of either party is immaterial and a slight mistake in the name of a party will not invali- date; but the lessee must be named and a blank cannot be left for insertion of his name after delivery. A lease nam-| ing one lessor in its body, and signed by | another, is not the lease of either. A| lease may be made as an indenture ex: | ecuted in two parts, both of which are | eonsidered as originals, though the one | given to the tenant controls in case of | difference. lt may be simply in the form of a receipt, expressing the form and | nature of the tenancy, or of a declara- | tion of having let the premises; but it | must describe the premises with reason- able certainty or it will be void. It will | ever. be sufficient, however, if it affords the means of identification; and such means will control, notwithstanding a mis- | description or variance in quantity. All parts of the lease must be taken to-| gether in determining what is demised. | A written declaration indorsed on a/| lease after its execution, that a greater interest was intended to be demised, will | not increase the interest actually de-| mised. In general, a grant or demise of prop- erty carries with it all necessary inci- | dents and appurtenances without ex- | press words including easements, or all of the rights and privileges actually | appurtenant to the premises demised, | which naturally and necessarily belong | therety. A lease includes all of these cus- | tomary rights by implication and evi-| dence may be given to show what rights were previously enjoyed, or what privi- leges are incidental or necessary to the use of the demised premises. In a New Jersey case it was held that a lease of a store and rear cellar did not include the right to have a platform remain over the front cellar steps for access to a show window. A _ personal privilege of a lessor does not pass to his lessee. The use of the word appurten- ances in a lease passes only such things | as belongs to the realty, and does not in- | clude personal property. An exception in a lease, as of part of the demised premises, must be con-| strued most favorably for the lessee; while a reservation is properly of some right or privilege pertaining to it or is- suing out of it, but not part of it. A reservation of aright of way is personal to the grantor and is not assignable to third persons. It has been held that a reservation of a right to build on the land of athird party, so as to use the wall and stop up windows of the build- ing leased, will not entitle the lessor to an injunction to prevent the tenant from building on such land, under a lease thereof procured by him. A condition annexed to, or embodied in, a lease is a qualification whereby the tenancy may be created, enlarged or de- feated upon an uncertain event. A con- dition differs from a covenant in that it is binding upon both parties. 5 An agree- ment by the lessor to make improve- ments before the term begins is a condi- tion precedent to its beginning, but the lessee cannot claim it as such if he takes possession without performance. The placing of a tenant in possession is a condition precedent to his liability for rent, No particular form of words is necessary to create a condition preced- ent; but a mutual intent to create it must appear. Whether a condition is preced- ent or subsequent, must depend upon the intention of the parties. If the in- tention was that the tenancy should be postponed until the Jcontingent event should happen, then it is a condition pre- cedent; but if the intention was that, if the estate should be divested by the happening of the contingent event, then it is a condition subsequent, and the words in a lease which create it are “while,” “as long,” ‘‘nntil,” and “‘dur- ing.’’ If a condition-subsequent is im- possible or unlawful, it is void; so, also if it is against public policy. If the condition is not to do a particular act without consent of the lessor, if lease is once granted, the condition is gone for- Equity will never lend its aid to BEN-HUR GE), MORBS & CO, Mad divest an estate for breach of a condition Facts Talk Louder Than Words! 8,487,275 SOLD IN 1886. 3,009,575 SOLD IN 1887. 5,092,360 SOLD IN 1888. | 0,090,025 SOLD IN 1083. 08,050 SOLD IN 1800. 6,000,407 Sold in 102 This is not an ordinary monument, but a TABLE of EXACT FIGURES, showing the monumental success of our celebrated RECORD BREAKERS (The Great 5e Cigar.) MADE on HONOR Ask for them. GUIS, DETROIT and CFICAGO on SRE Ce FEE. i (10e or 3 for 25e) | These Cigars are by far the most popular in the market to-day. Sold by leading dealers all over the United States. DESCRIPTION Write your Jobber for Prices or Address Iu VATINTERNITS, Resident Agent, - a 106 KENT STBEE', - - - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH subsequent, but will relieve against a/| forfeiture if the tenant has acted in good faith. Rent must be reserved to the lessor, and not to a third party, andit should be fixed with reasonable certainty. It may be inthe form of a royalty, or of a certain share in the profits or produce; or, it may be left to be fixed in the future by appraisers, in which case they must all concur to make it binding. The tenant may expressly waive in the lease the benefit of exemption laws for all debts contracted for rent, according to a ruling of the Supreme Court of Kansas. A stipulation for ‘‘net rent’’ requires the tenant to pay all rates chargeable upon the premises. The object of the construction of an instrument is to ascertain the intention of the parties, and to this end all parts of the lease must be construed together, as also separate instruments which were contemporaneous. are the courts to get at the true intent of the parties that the Supreme Courts of North Carolina and Maryland have held that, when the intent is manifest, words may be construed have a contrary meaning. be interpreted by local customs, known to the parties and with reference to which it was made, and an existing statute providing rem- edies enters into and forms part of the contract of rental; affected by a subsequent statute. In general parol evidence is not ad- missible to vary or contradict the terms of a written lease. It may be admitted to prove customs presumably contem- plated by the parties, or to locate or apply So desirous to A lease may but a lease is not the description of the premises leased | and to show what is included in them. It may be admitted to vary the date of the lease, or fix the time of the com- mencement of the term; or to show the duration of a term not specified. It may be admitted to show that the lease was | intended as a mortgage, or that the lease was executed for an illegal purpose, or | that the requirements of the law were not observed. When a lease testimony of its content: 5s oral its terms are a question of fact for the jury, destroyed and is given, subject to the instructions of the court A without as to their legal effect. lease is not admissible in evidence proper proof of the genuineness of the olgue- | tures. To create a lease required to be in writing. it must be signed by the lessor | alone insufficient; but a lease signed and de- livered by the lessor is valid, although not signed by the lessee. Usage permits a lease to be executed by exchanging duplicates, each of which is signed only by the other party. Execution by agent should the name and the signature of the lessee an be in of the principal, and a party signing a lease | cannot prove ignorance of its contents. All leases for a term exceeding one year must be in writing as required by the Statute of Frauds which prevails in most | of thestates, including our own. E. A. OWEN. or 2 Why Is It? Why is itthe brightest eyes a:e the ones socn dim with tears? Why is it the lightest heart must ache and ache for years, While the eyes that are hardest and co!de.: t shed never a bitter tear, And the heart that is smallest and meanest has never an ache to fear? ip —— Use Tradesman Couvon Books, is | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TALKS WITH A LAWYER. THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN LAW. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Prior to 1558, the date of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, England had not claimed the coast of the new continent south of the 44th degree of north latitude, i. e. south of a line passing in the neigh- borhood of the southern boundry line of New Hampshire. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth there arose an impulse to colonization, influenced by a desire to limit the world, and to extend England and the protestant This colonizatien impulse had its first For Bakings of All Kinds Use Fleischmann k Gos, power of Spain in the new) the territory of | religion. | fruit in the colonies of Virginiaand New} England, the colony at Jamestown being | the first important English Colony. the purpose of a brief study of the early colonies, they may be divided into. three classes, the northern, middle, and south- | including the} Massachusetts, Connecticut, | ern; the northern colony Plymouth, Rhode Islandand New Hampshire colo- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware colonies; the southern including Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia. A few words regarding the founding of each. The first permanent New England settlement was at Plymouth, in 1620. The pilgrims composing this colony at first had no grant of land. They were intruders, settling on the territory of the Plymouth company, to whom the -King had given a charter, covering the conti- nent from ocean to ocean, lying between the 40th and 48th degrees of latitude, a | strip of land including all the continent embraced between parallel east and west lines running through Philadelphia and | the northernmost point of Maine. Inthe charter this is called New England. The | Plymouth company to whom this grant had been made tried to found a colony on the coast of Maine, but failed. It then ceased to attempt to found colonies, and contented itself in granting lands to others who did found them. It finally disposed of the whole New England coast, and finally in 1635 surrendered its charter to the king. The Pilgrims, as stated, settled the Plymouth company’s grant as iniruders, but in 1621, the year nies; the middie including upon |after they janded, and in 1629, they re- | ceived charters trom the Plymouth com- | pany from however, the crown withheld an approval which was neces- which, | sary to its legality. The Pilgrims, how- ;ever, continued an association, making its own laws, even although its zovern- ment was irregular and unauthorized. For | UJ | | (| ; (| _ ; fIValed LOMPressed 1 east, SUPPLIED 3 Special attention is mvited to our | YELLOW LABEL | which is affixed to every cake | of our Yeast, and which serves | TO DISTINGUISH | To Grocers Everywhere. Our floods from worthless Imitations. Bk ea Pn a 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. W. T. LAMOREAUX & CO., 128, 130.and 132 W. Bridge St.,. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. For 25 years the leading brand. Not the cheapest, but | a the best and most profitable to handle. “Good as Amboy” has been for years the argument used by our competitors to ‘ There were forty-one adult males in thc | company of the Pilgrims, and before pact: names are underwritten, the loyal sub- jects of our dread sovereign King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, | France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, ete., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Vir- ginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and com- bine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preser- | vation and furtherance of the ends afore- said; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal | } ‘In the name of God, amen: We, whose | | i | | sell inferior grades. You cannot afford to experiment. Stick | landing they signed the following com- | to the “Amboy,” you KNOW they are O K. e You can SELL ten while TRYING to sell five of any ‘ot’ er brand. ULNKY & JUDSON laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and | offices. from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto ; which we promise all due submission and GROCER CoO. obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunder subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the 11th day of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ire- land, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini, 1620.”’ The government which the Puritans founded was democratic. All the mem- bers of the church met in a general as- sembly, and made the laws, until 1639, when a representative body was elected to take the place of this popular legisla- ture. Their governor was elected from theirownnumber. In 1629, King Charles I. confirmed a grant made by the Ply- mouth company to ‘‘The governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England,’’ and gave them powers of government. The charter gave power to elect an- nually a governor, deputy governor, and eighteen assistants, Four ‘‘great and genera! > were to be held every year, to consist of the governor or depu- ty, the assistants and the freemen. These courts were authorized to appoint such officers as they should think proper, and also to make such laws and ordinances as to them should seem meet; provided they were not contrary to the laws of England. Its form of government was the same as that of the Pilgrims at Plymouth— first popular and finally representative. This charter was declared forfeited to the king in 1684, and in 1691, a second charter was granted, which continued in force down to the Revolution. This second charter merged Plymouth, New Hampshire, Maine and Nova Scotia in Massachusetts. Maine continued a part of Massachusetts, until it became a state in 1820, and Massachusetts and Plymouth were never separated. courts’ Discontented Massachusetts cclonists planted three towns on the Connecticut river, between 1634 and 1636, and, in 1639, these towns united and adopted a constitution called ‘‘The fundamental orders of Connecticut.” These three, with a settlement at New Haven, and others on Long Island Sound soon united | in one colony under the name of New Haven. They had no charter and no title to their land; but, in 1662, Charles II. granted them a charter, which re- mained in force, save during five years, for 156 years. The people of this colony, by the ex- press words of their charter, were en- titled to the privileges of natural-born subjects, and invested with all the powers of government, the only limitation being that their laws should not be contrary to those of England. So well were the people satisfied with it, that Connecticut did not adopt a constitution until 1818. Another offshoot from Massachusetts was Rhode Island, and, as in the last eases, the Rhode Island colonists had, at first, no grants either of land or power. The Rhode Island colonists were Bap- tists, under the lead of Roger Williams. They were driven out of the Massachu- setts colony in 1635, one division of them founding Providence, and the other Rhode Island Plantation. In 1663, Charles LI. united them under the name of ‘‘Rhode Island and Providence Planta- tions,” and gave it powers of government similar to those of the Connecticut colon- ies. The Rhode Island charter continued in force, with but a brief interim, until 1842. The colony of New Hampshire, which became a royal colony in 1692, was founded by Capt. John Mason and ae er oe Sir Ferdinando Gorges, by a grant of the old Plymouth colony in 1622. Their territory being between the Merrimac and Kennebec rivers, Massachusetts claimed this territory, and for the most part, the | New Hampshire settlements were subject | to her government until 1692. Wo. C. SPRAGUE. << | The Founder of the Adams Express Co. Erom the New York Press. A gentleman was reading about the troubles of the President of the Adams Express Co. **] wonder,’’? he said, ‘‘what the old man would say if he was here.’’ “What old man?’’ “Old man Adams, founder of the com- pany that bears his name.” “You knew him?” “Slightly. He wasa fine old man, and was another example of what an Ameri- can boy can do or what can be done in j this country. He began life as a stable boy, and his first promotion was to as- sistant bartender in Boston. Think of the chances he had of going to the devil. lt is a wonder he didn’t. ‘There was a good souled old lady who lived in the house where Adams worked. She had two babies — girls—and when Adams wasn’t mixing drinks for the Bostonians he was playing with those children. That showed what sort of a boy he was. If he had lived in this age he wuld probably have spent his spare time on the race course or in the ‘gambling house. The good woman used to tell him that she was sorry for him. He had been an orphan since he was six. Then he would ery and the woman would pity him. She got him a place in a retail grocery store. He stuck to that until he began to pros- per. After he had grown to be rich he heard that his benefactress was old and poor. He found her aftera long search and pensioned her. Her two daughters had grown to womanhood and were liv- ing with her. One of them never mar- ried. Oldman Adams made an allow- ance for her. She is still living and the ” : 44 allowance is still continued by old man Adams’s son. The elder Adams always said he owed all he had to the woman who took him from behind the bar. There iS gratitude for you, young man. It is a rare plant, I grant you, but like Dickens’s ivy plant, it is rare, indeed.’’ _ 2 <———___— ; In many places where water-power is going to waste more and more will there mission. Undoubtedly in many instances this will be found practicable. But steam engine builders need not be in any- It is not within the | than a very modest fraction indeed of that furnished directly by steam engines | —not enough to be found in the total} business of building and selling steam engines. Thetruth is that for moder- ately large powers there is much less power thus transmitted will ever be more 1 | ' saving in water-power as compared with | ruffied and disheart- | is business to put up goods attractively,” | He sought out a lithographer and had | some hondsomely colored labels printed. “They will buy the bottles,’’ said a steam-power than there is generally be-| lieved to be, but when it comes to fur-| nishing sma! power in a good many} places within a small radius, the cost, | counting attendance, should be less with | lelectrical transmission from a_ central friend, ‘‘just for the picture you have on | ‘from steam. them.” whether | station than by direct power, the power is had from falling water or Ee = SAPOLIO? 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? ae. fie exclusive territory on a large line of Bicycles. Send for catalogue. Our line COLUMBIA CLIPPER VICTOR PARAGON RUDGE IROQUOIS KITE PHENIX 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. STUDLEY & 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 WE WANT \GENTS IN EVERY TERMS AND DIS- COUNTS TO LIVE . AGENTS. ideas techni PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Send us your orders for Commercial Printing. E 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 i0 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. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 418 THE INSTINCT OF SUCCESS. Every successful action in life requires a certain fixed set of motives. They are five innumber: 1. A distinct object. 2. Confidence in one’s ability to accomplish the desired result. 3. A sincerity of pur- pose. 4. A clear understanding of the relative value of things, aside from their intrinsic value. An intimate ac- quaintance with the average conclusions of the average man—otherwise known as ‘*human nature.”’ From these outlined motives spring the subdivisions, or details of character, which we term prudence, perseverance, honesty, fidelity, integrity, observation, experience, executive ability, compre- hension, foresight and the like, all of which are simply the results of the gen- eral principles outlined above. These results or definitions of character are not in themselves matters of moment, except from their connection with the governing motives which produced them. We are, it is true, daily reminded by ‘‘men of wisdom’? that these terms of character are the rungs of the ladder which leads directly to real success. The young man whostarts out in life with the determination to forge great success from his possibilities, and depends solely upon the application of prudence, perse- verance, honesty and the like for sup- port, will no doubt meet with the appro- bation of his fond parents and anxious friends, but his chances of eventually securing high success in any particular line are by no means assured. These worthy and highly commendable ele- ments of character and conduct are of great value as details, but the men who to-day command our respectful business admiration did not build their present standing upon these conditional factors. To practically test the matter, place yourself, if possible, for a moment in the position of one of these self-made and highly successful business men. Sup- pose then that you require a faithful clerk, and that ‘‘John Smith’’ applies for the coveted position. 1f ‘John Smith’’ can prove that he is prudent, persevering and honest, and the like, and is able to attend to the details of the labor required, he will no doubt secure the position. Now, on the other hand, suppose that you require a working partner in your large and successful schemes, will a man of the caliber of ‘‘John Smith,’’ the faithful and honest clerk, be your selec- tion? According to a somewhat popular idea he naturally would be, but a little observation will show the contrary to be the actual result in large business life. The very burden of details which make “John Smith’? invaluable as a trusted clerk render him unfit for the higher position. Seemingly this proposition is in conflict with the. fascinating — how fascinating—story of the boy who, hav- ing faithfully run errands in a bank and refused the temptation to .steal, was gradually promoted to the presidency of the same great institution. Some presidents of banks and rail- roads, some owners of national mercan- tile concerns, some great manufacturers, were undoubtedly, in their boyhood, poor and obscure, and presumably faithful to the little tedious duties which formed their daily tasks; but it was not the fact that they faithfully performed these duties which primarily led to their present high success. The real cause of their 5. conspicuous success lies in the fact that, lie all suecesses, they were thereby able and willing to leave the tedious though necessary details of affairs to faithful subordinates. In fact, one of the chief factors is their discretion in selecting men of a subordinate character who are faithful to details, thus preventing com- petition from within. Details are the spokes of the wheels—the support of the whole—but motive is the tire which binds them ina single group and turns them to success. The highly successful men of to-day, with rare exceptions, com- menced life on an entirely different line than that in which they are now engaged. They mastered the motives of success, and then simply harnessed the opportun- ity to the motive and rapidly won the race. The fact that a loved President of the United States rose to the highest office in American politics from the humble station in life found on a ‘‘tow path” is no real encouragement for those who now walk that path; it is simply the ex- ample of the result which any man may achieve, in some line, who realizes the difference between the motives of success and the details of that success. Sucha man, if health permits, can no more help being highly successful in what he under- takes than can water resist the force of gravitation, which is one of the ‘‘motives” of nature. Such’a man can change from one business to another at will, and while in partial personal ignorance of the de- tails of the particular business engaged in, will make a decided success of the venture. The instinet of success is very keen in men of this class, and an opportunity, or danger, is seen and appreciated and its relative value determined long before its passing effects are even apparent to the average man. We daily meet men who have been successful in small mat- ters at a loss to know how to take a step further, and their unconscious ignorance of the governing motives of high success leads them to the conclusion that ‘‘luck’’ is a prime element of further progress, and, acting on this erroneous belief, they take a few steps ‘‘in the dark,” and in- variably lose what little success they have already achieved. Other men reach a certain point of small success, and finding that they can gono further in that line, come to the conclusion that the opportunity lies in an- other direction, and leaving their present surety step out into a different field of labor, and by prudence, perseverance and honesty again reach a small success, only to find themselves once more blocked in their further efforts to a higher plane of suecess—they have simply reached their limit. The man who understands and can apply the motives of success will succeed in any line, or, failing to secure suffi- cient success in that line, will be able to turn his faculties to greater use in some other line where the possibilities are wider—plenty of room at the top. In short, the man who views the detailed results of success is the man who will succeed to a limited point—the point which determines the vaiue of his efforts, while the man who secures high and growing success is the man who knows how to apply the general motives of success, and is thereby able to leave the working out of the details to ‘‘the other man.”’ lf you do not wish, therefore, to be ‘the other man,’’ study the motives rather than the results of business suc- 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. FINE OPPORTUNITY—WE OFFER FOR sale o:r stock of hardware, located in one of the best towns in Michig+n, surrounded by a fine farming country. Good trade established, Clean stock. Store in fine location and well arranged Hardware part will inventory about $8,.00. Would exehange part for good city prop- erty. Satisfactory reasons for selling. Address Wood & Atwood, Flint, Mich. 514 OR 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. 48 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR OTHER stock—Clean stock of drugs. Reason forsell- ing. am not a pharmacist. Address Geo. C. Rounds, Vickeryville. Mich. §12 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- tures in corner store in desirable portion of city, having lucrativetrade. Best of reasons for selling. Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades- 504 man. OR SALE—A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES and crockery in good shape and doing a good business. Can give good reasons for sell- ing. Box 87, Allegan, Mich. 489 OR SALE—OUK ENTIRE STOUCK OF GEN- eral merchandise at oe Lake, con sisting of hats, caps, boots and shoes, men’s fur nishing goods, hardware, crockery and groceries. Having finished our lumber operations, we offer the above stock for sale cheap for cash or on time with good security. Will sell this stock as a whole or any branch of it. Enquire of Chip- ewa Lumber Co., Chippewa Lake, Mich., or of 1.°.P. Wyman, Sec’y, Grand Rapids, Mich. 449 OR SALE—NEW, CLEAN STOvCK OF DRY goods. Established trade; good town. Lock box 963, Rockford, Mich. 483 OR SALE VR #XCHANGE— FOr CITY property, a general stock of merchandise at a bargain. Situated fifteen miles from Grand Rapids. Address No. 510, care Michigan Trades- man. 510 TO EXCHANGE. O EXCHANGE—PORTABLE STEAM SAW- mill in a good hardwood country, for mer- chandise or improved real estate. Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 508 MISCELLANEOUS. EW STYLE COMBINATION SHOW CASE and counter top, 75 eents per foot. Geo. A. Rowe, 47 Eleventh St. 516 NTOCK 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 275, Grand Rapids* Mich. 497 I 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 e-ectric street car line. Will sell for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay- ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 1 Louis St. 354 OR sALE—11-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD LO- eation, within ten minutes walk of Monroe | St. Price, $3,200. W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 470 | OR SALE—320 ACRES OF LAND IN HAYES county, Neb. Will sell cheap or trade for a stock of merchandise. A. W. Prindle, Owosso, Mich. 480 naar te SALESMEN TO sell baking powder to the retail -rocery 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, Il. 506 | OR SALE—THREE NEARLY NEW LAMB} knitting machines. Also one round Tuttle knitter. Frank MeDerbv, Nashville. Mch 55 Vy OUD wWANTE v—CUORKESPONDENCE solicited with parties having any No 1 stovewood. Cash and highest market price paid. M. E. Lapham, 431 East Bridge street, rand Rapids, Mich, 503 | ANTED—A 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 F cantile companies. Grand Rapids OR SALE CHEAP—TIN PEUDLERS’ BOX with springs. Will fit any wagon. Painted red On theroad only two weeks. Address W. W. Brower, Fife Lake. Mich. 511 YR SALE—DESIRABLE RESIDENUCE LOT on North Union street. Size 50x14? feet to alley. 400 feet from electric cars. Easy terms. W. A. Stowe, 1:0 Louis street. 513 OR SALE—ONE LAKGE DETROIT SAFE, with burglar proof «hest and time lock, in 7R SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer E. A. Stowe, 100 — St., 370 good condition. Fort particulars and _ price, ad- WANTED | LUMBER RED OAK, WHITE OAK, BLACK ASH, ROCK ELM, GREY ELM, BASSWOOD. A. E,. WORDEN, 19 Wonderly Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for fiaphus SITE FOR PRICE LIST. Wi Wm. Brumme'er & Sons Manufacturers «nd Jobbers of Pieced & Stamped Tinware, 260 S.IONIA ST., - Grand Rapids. TELEPHONE 640 Dont pay irs! From Boston and New York on Shoe Dre 16 aes phecectete 384Y@ 5 beeeee boas 54@ 7 cee eee 12@ 14 Coors ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE. ee 2 W@2 25 — nse — = Yellow se aR “2 503 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po 75)...... 75@ 80 Peter 4. wn. sees 8@ 10 Zannosyiem ........- 25@ 30 BALSAMUM, Copaiba .. 45@ 50 ae @1 30 Terabin, Canmage ..... 35@ 40 ao 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian 18 Caasia® ........ ti Cinchona Flava . 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica a po.. — Prunus Virgini..........---- 12 Quillaia, grd. 12 GARNIER once cece es i. = Ulmus Po (Ground ae 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... UG 2 " PO.....-.- 35 Haematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12 ee 14 . es GR tae 1 15 ™ BER. onsen ss J 7 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip...... 15 Citrate and Quinia.... Citrate Soluble........ Ferrocyanidum Sol.... 88 esessge 688 BBE Solut Chioride......-.. 15 Sulphate, coms'l. haus 1%' 2 - pure. ‘ 7 FLORA. ee 2 28 Anthomis ...........-- 3 35 Matricaria —__iéc: 2 30 FOLIA Berea ....-«-+---+- 60 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- ! WAVORY 6. -c0- tt aoe 2B@ 28 . . Alx. &@ SO Salvia officinalis, 4s ond tia. La 12@ 15 ee 10 @UMML Acacia, ist picked.... - 2d a @ 7 50 ' 3d oe @ #0 . sifted sorts... @ 8 " OO Lewis -++ 4: 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb, ae _ “— . Cape, Senet: "ioe. 60) . @ Cee. 1s, ss, 14 448, ‘ a... co 55@ 60 Assafoetida, (po. 35).. 4@ 4 Benzoinum........---- w@ 55 Camphor®.....-------- 50@ 53 Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10 Galbanum. ee uh 50 Gamboge, po.......--- 7 () Guaiacum, (po 30) - @ 25 Kino, (po. 30)......--- @ 2% eh elas venues @ 80 Myrrh, (po. 45)....--.- @ 40 Opi, as 2 mm Coes 1 65@1 7 Shel lac ae eee 35 bleached...... 30@ 35 mnseiae Ouse ae ecues vis) HERBA—In ounce packages. Absinthium ...... se Eupatorium .... 20 Lobelia........- 25 Majorum . 28 Mentha Piperita. 23 Vir 25 TO, cicci cues 30 Tanacetum, V. 22 Thymus, V.......------+--+- 25 MAGNESIA, Calotied, Pat. ......... 55@ Carbonate, Pat. . . 2 = Carbonate, K. & M..:, 2@ 2% Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Absinthium. .........3 50@4 00 Amygdalae, ele... 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae.. 7 OO@S 25 a a 1 65@1 75 Auranti Cortex....... : 00@3 25 Berga ......-.s05-- 50@3 > UE sivas ieee ens 3 Oe 6 Caryophylli ........... W@ . aii sya coe 35@ 65 Chenopodii ae eeaees @i 6° Cianamonll ..........- 1 15@1 20 MONE ag aie see @ S Conium Mac.......... 35@ Gopaiba ..........+5-- 1 10@1 2 Cubenae............. @ 5 = TINCTURES. Exechthitos.......... 2 eps ee 2 25@2 30 Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 Gaultherla ............ 2 W0@2 10 : ad 50 Geranium, ounce..... @ % 60 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75 60 Resewe 1 60@1 70 50 Jae 50@2 00 | Asafcetida....... 0 eee 90@2 00 | Atrope Belladonna. 60 ay 2 75@3 25 | Benzoin........... 60 Mentha Piper.......... 2 75@3 50 Co. 50 Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 | Sanguinaria 50 Morrhuae, gal......... 1 - 10 Barosma 50 Myrcia, eae. Cantharide 6 ince ee cbeueuec es Capsicum 50 Picls 8 Liquida, (gal..35) 10@,, ie Ca demon S a 0 omental CER Toa oo | Castor .. 00 Rosae, ounce.......... @6 50 | Catechu. 50 eet “e. 45 | Cinchona 50 Sab 1 00 i -+ 60 a 3 2007 Ws CO oe 50 Sassafras. 55 pone hd coos beer eee aiseele a Sina is, ess. ounce. 6B | VUDEDB..... ce eee eee eee ee — ~ 7... 50 Tie 40@ 50 Ee 50 Oa es cy .. @ 60| Gentian - 50 Theobromas........... 15@ 2], a CO... . eee eee ee eee ee 60 POTASSIUM. ne gnomes tesco 6D i Gee, ck, Te ieee ........... 5... 50 Bichramate ........... fe Meee aes... .........- 50 — eg wee se crue OE 75 Rene cee nnd oan 12@ 15 “ Clee... .... 75 Caheciie (po. 18) ...... 16 16) Perr! Chioridum............ 35 ee ee es ee Gee... 50 Ree..........-...... = cee ees... .............. 50 Potseen, Gilet, pure... TO TEE Mee... ........ 2.5.0... 50 Potassa, Bitart, com... mm 01 oe Veeiee.... ............ 50 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 pil... 2 ees eee eee cee eee 85 Potees Mrcren. ... ...... 7 * ' Cooreied........... 50 OO ee oo Bi —................. 2 00 Sulphate po........... 15@ 18] aurantiCortex...... ....... 50 RADIX, Ee 50 Meum oo... l 20@ 25| Rhatany ................ ... 50 laa 25 30 ec ee oe 50 Aen 129@ 15 | Cassia ‘Acutifol.. 50 —_— @ RESAENRE 50 ee 20@ 40 Berens ow cd 50 Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12] Stromonium................. 60 Glycbrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 I cites cee Hydrastis Canaden, Valerian eet eater ee: cerns Oe (po. “A @ 35| Veratrum Veride............ 50 inlay Po. S Ga MISCELLANEOUS. Teecee, pO........_-.-- 2 30@2 40 | Atther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@Q Ww Iris aa (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 ‘ © a? ae SS Jao, OF...........-. ae Sie... 24@ 3 errs, Ma... ...... @ 35 _ ground, (po — ~~... a el bee es ToGl GO Annetic............... SQ @ 3 oot Gi 7 | Antimont, po.......... 4@ 5 og Shue censaeeias 75Q@1 35 . et PotassT. 55@ 60 ieee i. 5... ee SS) AtGern .....-....... @1 40 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2) Antitewin............. @ B® —— ee 35@ 40} Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 6 PI oink cee nea oes 45@ 50} Arsenicum............ a 7 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.... 55@ 60 M @ | Bimsuth & N......... 2 10@2 20 Betilac, (po. %)........ 10@ 12 — Chlor, 1s, (48 Symplocarpus, Foati- .....--..- @ 9 oe @ caninsriaes Russian, valerian, Eng. (po. 30) eS = we... ....... @1 20 ingiber a. - saree 20 3 capsic Degeten, an @ = Zingiber j.......... 18@ 2] « : 3 2 SEMEN. pet ma (po. Pi) 10@ 12 Anisum, (po. 20).. .. @ 15] Carmine, No. #....... @3 7% Apium (graveleons). . 33@ 35 Cera Alba, S. &F..... 50@ 55 Bee 4@ 6| Cera Flava............ 38@ 40 Carul, Ee 8@ 12 COeee. oc. nc. ..-. 5. @ 4 Cardamon............. 1 00@1 25 | Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 Contec. ._......-. 10@ 12 a @ 10 Cannabis Sativa....... SAO a @ #0 rool MAN 75@1 00 Chloroform beeen ene “e . Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 35 Chloral i Hy@Gat ice a 20@1 40 Foeniculum........... @ 15} Chondrus . 5 Foenugree ewes 8 ’ Fe greek, po.. : 6 a Cinchonidine Rew 3S = Lint, ‘ord. (bbl. 3%) .. 4 @ 4% —_ list, dis. per Lobelia. ..........-..-- 3@ 40 ees tote seer r= @ ° RharierisGaaian..": 4 @ 44 | Cero) 0. 3 Sinapis, Albu......... 8D 9| |, PECD....--------- 5 5 ‘ eee 11@ 12] ¢ ee sete teee es 7 . ce fh, rr ceer ees Frumenti, W.,D. Co..2 00@2 50| Cudbowr. 0100000000 "QB F. R.....1 %5@2 00} Gupri Sulph.. i OG 6 ee 1 10@1 50 ony ¢ J , i 6 OT 1 Bel ee Se 10@ 12 uniperis Co. 0. T.... ““} fogs 50 | & Ether Sul h. a 68@ 70 Ser xi ee : oa = P= epi a ¢ 6 t. mo Gre. .....-: 7 i tnt Oporto =... 20.2... 1 ge & | Brgota (oy 68.0. aa os Wet Be... :....... 1 25@2 00 Gala - ho ‘ @ 2 a seinen Gelatin a esewes 70 Florida aeone wool “ ae 60 carriage ; 50 Ginasiene. flint, 75 and 24. Nassau sheeps” ‘wool by box 70 ; carriage 2 00 1 B Velvet extra. ‘sheepe” G lue, aa tbagecec ae 15 wool carriage. . 110) aivoerne Eerie rsthons | = Rxira, yellow sheepe’ 85 —— lk cues = —_—_—SL “ a ee 65 Hydraag a. 2 aed for slate use. % 5 . Ox Rubrum @ or . Unguentum. 45@ 55 SYRUPS. Biydrargyrum ......... @ 65 eS A aS 50 | Ichthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 goog eee wie eos Gp eae .........-...-... 75@1 00 Tools coke eee e ies cee 60 | Iodine, Resubl........ 3 75@3 85 ee ee ce et Pere cc @4 70 ures Oortes.............. ee 45@ 50 Tete: AYOM.... = 88. cone as 60 | Lycopodium .......... 50@ 55 Similax Officinalis..... Oe eS ee ee eee 75@ 80 . ' Co...... 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- hea ss. a 50 ae oe... 3c... —:; gi cnee apabauccsssw ons - need hggy ak ag me 10@ 12 a agnesia, Pp TN ieee as stan Ee, ie cc eivee cease 2@ Pree OE a 50 | Mannia, 8. F......... 30@33 _——:; S. P. & W...1 8@2 05 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 24 " an. ¥.¢ & Sinapi . ............... @ 18 i. ........... aes. lUm”lCU ........... @ Moschus Canton @ 40 = Macestos, De Myriatica, No. 1...... Ge Mi Ver... .. @ 3 Nux hoo (po 20) .. @ 10 snatt “Scotch, De, Voes @ 3% On Sipe, Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11 Pe ao sac, H, & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 sy eek bee @2 00 Sada Cawb 6...) 4g 2 Picts Lig, N.wC., % gal soda, Bi-Carb......... 5 epi Sai @2 00 a Aa 4 Picis Ligq., — @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas.... @ ts @ 8 /|Sptse. EtherCo........ 30@ 55 i eee (po. D @ bw “~ Myrcts Dom..... @2 25 Piper Nigra, (po. 22 @ 1 ~ Myre Dep... .-. @3 00 Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 . ini Rect. bbl. Pix Bur _ eee iece ans @& 7 a 2 21@2 31 Plumbi — 1a Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Pulvis ‘Gos et opii. 4 10@1 20 | Strychnia a. ...- @1 30 ‘ena boxes Sulphur, Seee.....-... 3 @4 ar. ©. Ca. Gee..... @1 2 . _ oll.. .. 2%@ “ rethrum, pv........ amarin --+++ 8@ Seem, n 3 | Terebenth Venice. Guinie, _fSW..... 29@ 34| Theobromae .. 33 @ 3 “ S. German....19 @ 30 Vea... ~...., oo 9 00@16 00 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14) inci Sulph.......... 7@ 8 Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 28 See. 1 69@1 65 OILs. Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gai Sapo, ee 12@ 14] Whale, winter ....... 70 7 ee ie Oe Lard, Gxiee..........-. 55 6 a @ Wited wo f........... 45 5¢ Linseed, pureraw.... 43 46 Lindseed, boiled .... 46 49 Neat’s Foot, — strained 50 €0 Spirits Turpentine. . 36% 40 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Red Vouetion.......... 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4 ' Ber......1% 2@3 Putty, commercial... 1B 24@3 ‘* strictly pure..... 2% 2 Vv — Peles Amer- — —......... 13@16 Vi eunian. English. . 65@7 Green, Peninsular..... 70@7 Lead, red 7 white ‘ Whiting, adie Span.. @70 vane? Gilders’ . % a White ris American 10 ee Paris Eng. eli 1 40 Pioneer Prepared Paintt 20@1 4 Swiss Villa : See Paints . 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES. No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Extra = A '0@1 70 Coach Body.. . .2 T5@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furn..... q 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar. ..1 55@1 60 Japan _— No, 1 won... 3 a T0@75 HAZEL TINE & PERKINS mu il. Importers and Jobbers of DRU Gs CHEMICALS A ND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils “2 Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebrated SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Full Line of Staple Draggis We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh We Have in Stock and Offer a Full L WHISKIES, BRANDIES, ¢ Sundries. Remedy. ine of GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guara All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HAZEDTINE & PERKINS ntee satisfaction. Send a trial order: Dive C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grocery Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. — doz gross| Live oak....... 4 2 eS ny 5 eee Cee........ .. 2 00 ee SS ooo... 2 50 Peeeees............. & 9 OO} Overiand............. 1 90 ee et 8 00 Blackberries. reteeoe .. .... > st eaee............... 90 BAKING POWDER. Cherries 20 Acme. Sea te 1 = 1% lb. cans, 3 doz. 45 a ne 7 » « 2 85 Whit . 120 - 1 1 00 + gd ‘ 1 20 We eee 19 | Damsons, Egg Plums and Green er 14 Ib cans Erie . a ce @1 2 b California. " 1 70 A Gooseberries. 5 b rine Common .... 1 10 Cook's Favorite. : 100 44 Ib cans..... 12 00 Peac hes, (161 pieces colored glass) Ee 110 es eee... .... 12 00| Maxwell .............. 1 50 (10 51 pieces of crystal glass) Peerae es ....... 1 40 100 &% Ib cans..... ..- 12 00| California.... 2 25 (106 hdl cups and saucers) | Monitor 135 2 doz 1ibeans...... .. ©) Oxted... oe 1B (tankard pitcher with each-can Pears. Dr. Price’s. Domestic . 12 per doz | Riverside... 210 Dime cans 90 4-02 1 33 Pineapples. 6-02 om 1 9%) | Common nt a 1 30 8-oz ' 2 47 Johnson’ 8 sliced 2 50 12-02 3% ' grated 2% 16-07 47 uinces. 2h6-it 11 40) Common ” . 110 t1b 18 2 5]I 21 60 Raspberries. i0-1t 41 80 | Red eon 1 30 Black ‘Hamburg on 1 50 Red § b 40 Erie. black 1 40 eo eee Oe Strawberries. us % > * ' i Lawreee 1 Telfer’s, % lb. cans, doz. 45 | Hamburgh........... ae ‘6 %lb. “ «| gs | Erie co 5 i- « . 159 Terrapi: : i 1 28 Victor. Whortleberries. Coc oe tO ........ .. 80 | Common " 12 r dese 120) F.& W. 1 25 16 2 ioe........- 2 00 | Blueberries 1 20 BATH BRICK. si is ——. 9 a he oe | Corned beef, Libby’s 1 80 English . dozen in va gy | Roast beef, Armour’s in 2 Potted ham, % Ib..... 1 Domestic an ED “jg lb... --1 00 oS | tongue, & lb 1 10 BLUING. Gross vs ci — oer chicken, 4 lb...... 95 eeeeee reer ‘ } pints. roan... ... 10 50 VEGETABLES. No. 2, sifting DOK... 2B Beans. « Me 3, te Hamburgh stringless 7S “« No.t " . 6a French style.....2 25 = rae ....... ... oo Ls [ ie ...........1 . ma, green H ~-k oo et Lt | eed os No. 2Hurl.......... ....-. 200! Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 No. 1 ween sees sees 2 25 Bay State Baked 1 35 cy, ] ° j - o ' fi ne < - 2 —- _* Be ee 13 No. ' a | ae Parlor Gem.. ) | Hamb Corn. Common Whisk. | Hamt urgh a Fancy 1 | Livi ingston Ede n 1) | Purity : i. ee soem aie ee | Honey Ce ane 150 SHES, | Morning Glory 1 Stove, No. 1........... aie i a” 10 eo reas “ en LLL 1%) Hamburgh marrniak.... 5... 1s Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 | early June....... Rice Root Serub, 3row.... 1 25} Champion Eng...1 50 Palmetis, soose............ 1 30} Hamburgh petit pols....... i 75 | fancy sifted ....1 90 CANDLES i 65 Hotel, 7. ya. ‘i oe | Harris standard. 75 Star, a Camp’s Marrofat 2 Teeieiee .. elven ae Early June...... 1 30 Pee... 2s... Oe Te Sarty bases 1 35 + ———— | French be chek eee cess as 1 80 CANNED GOODS. iF . Mushrooms. an en’ DO ooo ce twee cane nnee an 16218 Clams. | Erie Little Neck, 1 1b... 1 15 | Brie - S ib.. 1 90 . Clam Chowder. —_—, Standard, 3 ib.. ..e Hamburg Cove Oysters. | Soaked .. 80 Standard, > : | Homey Dew...............2. 1 60 ib. ed Tomatoes. teen ee 1 00 at . -2 40 | Eclipse oa ekee een cenes 1 00 - o- ..8 30 | Hamburg ................... 130 re e........-....:,. 2 . | betel 2 50 i 2 % See cn CA Le a EE Mackerel. ‘| CHOCOLATE—BAKEB’S. een tee... LL 1 30 | ‘ 6s AC 2 25 | ons ee. oss ve aad 8 2 25 | Premium.. 35 Tomato Sauce, $b. es Pure... 38 Soused, 2 Ib. : 2 95 | Breakfast Cocoa, 40 ‘ai CHEESE. Columbie River, flat.... ...1 85 | Amboy................ @i11% a...) ie) ere... @i2 Alaska, 1 lb.............. 1 4 | Riverside ....... @11% a 2 10| Gold Medal @10 Sardines. | Skim ...... 8 @10 American \s............ 4n@ 5 | Brick.. 12 “ 8 .6%@ 7 » | dem ..... @i 00 Imported %a....0. 20.22... 10@12 | Limburger ........... @10 a 15@16 Reva ed inline ine ie @235 eS 7@8 ag et a @35 ee Schwelt teen eese recess Gq Trout. | Se weltzer, epeetes. @x ie OMe 2 50 | domestic . G15 FRUITS. CaATSUP. Apples. Blue Label Brand. 3 Ib. standard......... 85 | Half pint, 25. bottles a 2% York State, gallons 2 40 | Pint Sere burgh, “ 2 50 | Quartfi doz bottles ©2°. 17". 3 50 CLOTHES PINS. ee ee COCOA SHELLS. me Oe i Less ee - coe @3% Poun packages ces 64%@7 COFFEE. GREEN. Rio. Wee a a. ee ee 8 Le oe ee a 18 eee... Pees oc. Le Santos. ee ee... eee... 18 Peaterry ...... oe Mexican and Guat amala, —........... 20 ee oe oe . 23 Maracaibo. Prime .... oe —: 20 Java eueetsoe . ;..... — ia Private Growth.... = Mandehling ..... a Mocha. | Imitation .. ' | Arabian. ..: .. i | ROASTED. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per vent. for shrink- age. PACKAGE. Arbuckle’s Ariosa 19.30 } McLaughlin’s XXXX 19.30 | ee 19 30 Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case... 19 30 Bunola eae 18.80 Cabinets containing 120 1 lb. eae sold at case price, with additional charge of B 9) cents for cabinet EXTRACT. Valley City .... 75 Felix ‘Ss Hummel’ ee 150 tin cs, oe CHICORY. —s.... 8 Red ‘ 6 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per doz. 1 25 " 50 ft.. " 1 40 . oe... . 1 60 ci 7 tk... i 1% a ae .e Jute aot... a 90 ' 72 ft - _ 1 00 COUPON BOOKS. “Tradesman.” $1, per hundred.. 2 00 — fe Ge etn eM 2 50 a. wie — . * oe al ot « 8@ =: s $0 : Ce 5 00 “Superior.” S i, per hundived........... 25 _ eG 300 s x “ “ 50 o * gee 400 — — 5 00 — * 6 00 “Universal, . 8 1, per hundred.......... 88 00 8 2, le ree etre 3 50 8 3, ee 4 00 8 5, SS ee 5 00 810, Se eee ee 6 00 $20, i 7 00 Above prices on a books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 20) OF OVGr.........: 5 per cent 500 * niche - 10 : ef. s * COUPON PASS BOOKS, — be made to represent any enomination from $10 down. | 20 books Coes coches cas $10 50 ee Be oeckd eee cee 3 00 250 “ce ae Ee 5 6 2 eee 10 00 ao CC 17 50 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. mane... 8... a 2. _—_—_ oO 6 2 Genuine Swiss............. 8 00 American Swiss.. ........ 700 CRACKERS. Butter. POOMINIE EEE oc cowie 6 Sey mour XXX, cartoon..... 6% ee o. Family Kx, ‘eartoon...... 6% Salted XXX... es Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6% es iti... 1 2 Boston. .... . oe Butter biscuit . au _-. 6 Soda, ee ee peee tee... 8, T™% gL ee Crveenl Weer... .... 6... 10 Reception Fiakes.. ........ 10 ee S. Oyster XXX. a City Oyster, eee _s Parina <)yeter....... 20... 6 CREAM TARTAR. eee Pe, ie. ce = Telfer’s Absolute.......... me joais DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, APPLES Sundried, sliced in “pbis. 5 quartered ‘ 5 Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7 APRICOTS, Californiain bags....... 94%@10 Evaporated in boxes. BLACKBERRIES, In boxes. ... : 4% NECTABINES, - 10@i1 rk Os 7% ib. DOES 9 @I% PEACHES, Peeled, in boxes ..... 12 Cal.evap. “ it. ae _ . in Dees. ..... 8a 8% PEARS, California in bags ' @7i PITTED CHERRIES. ee. 3. 8. i. 10 Sole. Obes ... ...4..... 11 i i 12 PRUNELLES, oom. bowes........ nn 11 RASPBERRIES. eee 15 Seem SORE 16 WOR eee ce, 17 Foreign. CURRANTS, Patras, in barrels...... @ 3% ’ in %-bbls...... @ 3% - in less quantity @4 PEEL, Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib. boxes 20 Lemon cg = 10 Orange " = ** . li RAISINS. Domestic. London layers 2 crown 140 ot 5 “ a a 65 aie Toor .......4 a Loose Muscatels, boxes.....1 25 Foreign. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. 74%@ 73 Sultana, 20 e -11 @2 Valencia, 30 ‘“ --. 64@ 6% PRUNES, ee. @ California, 90x100 25 Ib. bxs. 8 80x90 " ..8% _ 7x80 is i “ 60x70 - oi ee @5% Silv Pe ie {1 ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. (a SEG BSS VERS Seale 81 75 Pee, 1 60 7 3,6... 1 65 BO 6. 6s el 150 xx = —— No. 1, 64%.. 1 35 No. 2, 6%.. 123 Manilla, white, 6% 1 00 -.. . 95 Coin, Mul No, §.......- 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. em. Reee............ 3% Hominy. BOETONS . oc ocaccevseses sescoe 300 WE is icccscr econ cs. 3 50 Lima Beans. Dried..... ie se Aisle 4 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 1b. box.... 55 Imported. ial pa haak -10%@11% Peari Bar arley. @2% FOOD towne eee seseee | Peas. eeeeen, WH... os. seen as 1 40 See eer Tb ....... 5... 52.5): 3 00 Sago. Orme ....5..5. capa 4 RP cee 5 Wheat. Cenee.......... were se eee 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Teeth... 2.2.4... 1% Cod. PORNO occa ee once es Whole, Grand Bank... 6 osx Boneless, bricks ...... T%@s Boneless; strips..-..... 744@8 Halibut. Smoked ..... Pes 12 Herring. eee eet aa 18@20 Holland, bbls. os 11 00 kegs 85 Round shore, % % bbl... 209 ly bbl.. 110 Mackerel, no. 1, & Ubis. Sie... -.- 11 00 oO. 0, eek, Oe. 8c 1S Family, i bbls., 100 Ibs.... 5 50 Kits, 10 Ibs.......- 75 Sardines. Russian, kegs..... ie cuca ae 45 Trout. No. 1, % Dbis., Weibs........ 6 50 a toe ee... 90 Whitefish. No. I, % bbls., 1001bs........ 8 00 No. 1, kits, Oh 110 Family, 3 _ 100 Ibs.... 3 50 - 0 Ibs ie esidiee 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’ DC, Lemon. — 20z folding box... we 1D 3 02 ‘1 00 1 50 40z e assorted, 17s and 195 2 50 15s, 17s and 19s 2 7 Baskets, market oe a ts - | CC . 51 No. 2 2 A 28 No . 3 dg a, 2 , boxes.. oo... ORANGES, Californies, 26 and O)................ 3 50 - la te aoe O......:....; : 4 25 Messinas, choice 200.. bois uns eae @4 5u ok ee heen ac @4 00 LEMONS. Messina, MOBO, BN aos cons cows ue ec ies ; @3 50 fancy, ee eas ce @4 00 “ eo, @3 50 ' WO OE ee ec ce, @4 00 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. iss, Camcey layors, SP .................. @13 “ “ - oe... i : @14 . extra 1. ae @15 “ oe... @is Dates, Fard, = > box. @t% @ 6% ice eee 4%@ 5 oe sy ee ie @i5 . California ee ee Ql? eee WOU... ew... @8 uc i @11% Walnuts, ek, @13% . — site lae beds Lucia es s RO eee i chsaw aves @10 Table Nuts, tees Chae deere ste s kl. @i2 Oe ee lay @11% Pidene: Seenn, ee Cocoanuts, ieee @4 50 PEANUTS, Fancy, H. P., bes es cag @ 5% o Maanied ee @™% Fancy, x. P., ee ieee seein ss @ 5% 2ee....... ine @i% eros, , ee... ... se ee @ 4% : . - I cocks cp @ 6% California Walnuts, ...55....:... scc.5¢ 12% It is the Caper in this Era to make preparation for such events considerably in advance. We are “in the swim” and shall be prepared to furnish everything in the way FIREWORKS. When you get ready to order, let us furnish you with of quotations. PUTNAM CANDY CO. PaREI NS & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. < meraancee oNeeaas a a EE TS a ee Se < awneeren e a eR ae phere SNE RPS process of weeding, the various grades | business. of men find their proper level, and the/too much for the old THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Ten chances to one he pays stock to begin least skilled obtain no more wages than | with. He knows nothing of values. He is the price of their product in the market | easily overstocked by energetic salesmen. justifies. When this price falls below the point at which these least skillful workmen are desirable, they have to be laid off. Atalower point those of the} next grade follow them, and so on until the process ends in leaving only at work the workmen whose producing power equals the wages paid them. As this limit is perpetually shifting with the vicissitudes of trade, a certain number of workmen are always, in spite of their unions, out of work and seeking for it, or else sinking down into the mass of unskilled laborers which no union has been able to benefit. For all this, both combinations of cap- ital and unions of workingmen are as distinct an advance over the guerrilla warfare of competition as it prevailed before they established themselves as the consolidation of modern civilized society into a few great nations is an advance beyond the multitude of petty tribes of savages which it has supplanted. Only we must not be too sanguine and expect that by any ingenious invention we can extirpate an essential element of human nature. So long as the world is consti- tuted as it is, and men are what they are, they will strive to get the better of one another, and the most we can do is to secure the greatest possible benefit from that strife with the least injury. MATTHEW MARSHALL. a et WHY MERCHANTS FAIL. Statisticians claim that 90 per per cent. of, all who enter mercantile pursuits make a failure. This is an appalling statement, and, if true, some good eause for it must be patent. The changes in business concerns throughout the United States and Canada are computed at 2,000 per day. Not necessarily are all these failures, for included in the changes are dissolutions, retirements, deaths, changes of ownership and fires. There are at the present time nearly 1,217,000 busi- ness names in the two countries, and that about one-half of these should be involved in changes during the course of 300 working days is remarkable. Personal environments seldom alter the individual financial eondition of a merchant, except so far as rises in values are concerned, hence, as thorough a knowledge of the character, capacity and capital of a debtor as can be had-is as inseparable to the dispenser of credit as a compass is toa mariner. Business op- erations are becoming more and more ephemeral in their character, conse- quently more faith is needed in the transaction thereof, and faith without knowledge is simple superstition—a rud- derless vessel, indeed, to widen merce upon. The greater number of failures is not among men of limited means, but among men of limited knowledge. Abundance of capital at the start is not essential to a successful business man. A_ good character, an industrious disposition, economical habits and a knowledge of the business undertaken are qualifica- tions that capital cannot make amends for. Take, for example, a mechanic, making good wages. He has been able to save a few hundred dollars. He is allured into the belief that keeping a shop is an easy life and all that is necessary is to tie up a few parcels to do com- *% | | | | | by figures on | His paltry savings are soon represented | the wrong side of the} ledger. He has to depend upon imme- diate sales to liquidate current obliga- tions. A few dull days overtake him, and his paper is protested or his bills become overdue. This compromises his credit. Then where is he? An assignment follows, stock is seized by creditors and he is out of business, penniless and with a dearly bought ex- perience. These scenes are repeated day after day in almost every instance where a man goes into a business he knows nothing about. An examination of the books of the assignor reveals the fact that he owes twenty to thirty differ- ent wholesalers. Is there not something strange about this? Is the man entirely to blame for his failure? His lack of business knowledge induced him to seatter his indebtedness, and it is very easy to understand that indulgence is much more easily obtained from a few than many. Aversion to taking stock is a danger- ous habit to fallinto. No merchant is safe who neglects to take stock at least once a year. Future operations can only be satisfactorily gauged by the condi- tion of the present. A merchant who does not take stock regularly is doing business on guess work. In case of fire how can he swear positively to what he has lost, and what proof have the insur- ance companies that they owe what the man claims? The largest and most conservative houses of the country are now insisting upon their debtors taking stock at least once a year and also upon their carrying ample insurance. They further insist upon a copy of their debtors’ balance sheet being placed in their hands every time one is drawn off. There is nothing unreasonable in that. Surely a creditor is justified in satisfying himself as to the advisability of entertaining a debtor’s ac- count. When a new account is to be opened, a statement of the prospective debtor’s financial condition and infor- mation relative to the man, personally, should be reviewed. How is a whole- sale house to discriminate between the good and the bad withoutdata? Itis im- possible. Investigation respecting a de- sirable credit risk promotes, encourages and strengthens commerce, and is, if anything, more of a benefit, if confi- dence is deserved, to the inquired about than to the inquirer, and when the risk is undesirable the fact that it is known is a boon to the whole community. -The percentage of failures would be lessened materially if the dispensers of credit were less indulgent and knew more of their debtors. Trade would be steadier and the transaction of business void of many of its irksome responsibilities. GEO. HENDERSON. ————< -¢ <2 Wouldn’t Die an Old Maid. H. Clay Adams, who has lately em- barked in the business of cigar salesman, tells of a young lady at Kalamazoo whom he met on his last trip and fell in love with. One evening young Adams was left alone in the parlor with her young brother. “Do you think Nellie would marry me?’’ he asked. ‘*] guess so,’? replied the boy. ‘‘! heard her tell ma she would marry any- thing rather than be an old maid.” Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect May 15, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. ort. | For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 6:15am 7:05 am | For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 am For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 2:00pm 4:15 pm | For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10pm 10:30 pm From Kalamazoo and Chicago. 8:35 p m Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all ates trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. rrive from Leave going North. South. ee Cee os 6:20am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 11:45 am For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 11:50am 2:00 pm Oe CR he 6c cent ccnceenss 5:30 p m 6:00 pm won Cyeeeee. -- 10:40 p = 11:05 pm YE BRIO goog sons cece ces se 10:40 p Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11: oS a m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive. 7:00 am 10:10am 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:40 pm 9:05 pm SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car G’d Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. be 30 train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7: 100 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 11:45 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 PR m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car woe apids to Cincinnati. 11;05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. =~ Lv Grand Rapids 11:45am 2:09pm Arr Chicago 5:25 pm 9:00 pm 11:45 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:05 pm 755am 11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping a Ly Chicago 3:10 pm 11:15 p Arr Grand Rapids 8 35pm 6:15 a a 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:15 p train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and full information can be had by ealling 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 u Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand R —-* ee 7:15 a. m. and 3:00 p. m. Ar. Toledo 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. Tolede at... ...... 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. GHAS. A. GOYE, MANUFACTURER OF AWHINUS & TEI Horse and Wagon Covers JOBBERS OF Hammocks and Cotton Ducks SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 19 MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’ DEPART. ARRIVE ooo OR oo 10:00 p m ee 3 4:30 pm Das Exprec.............. :20 10:00 a m *Atlantic & Pacific 6:00am 12:40 p m New York Express........ *Dail 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 7a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 p. m. arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p, m. FRED M. Brieas, Gen’l Agent. 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Ruaeves G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. EASTWARD. Trains Leave ‘Soon 14/tNo. 16;tNo. 18|*No. 82 Ly. Chicago.... Lv. Milwaukee. G’d Rapids, Ly 8 30pm} . 7 30pm| ee 6 Soam|10 2 am 3 25pm |10 55pm 4 oo ........ Ar| 7 45amj11 25am)! 4 27pm/|12 37am St. Johns ...Ar| § 30am|12 17pm} 5 20pm} 1 55am Owors)...... Ar 9 05am| 1 20pm! 6 C5pim)| 3 15am 2 E. Saginaw -Ar/10 45am} 3u5pm)| 8 Opm) 6 45am Bay City.....Ar}11 30am} 345pm) 8 45pm) 7 ¢2am Flint ........ Arii0¢ ssain| 3 45pm) 7 (5pm 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar|1i55ain| 6 00pm) § 00pm} 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar|10 58am] 305pm) 8 25pm} 5 37am Detroit.......Arjil 50am] 4 05pm 9 25pm) 7 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 81 |+No. 11 tNo. 13|*No. 15 Ly. Detroit. ....|10 45pm} 6 50am 10 50am)! 4 05pm G'd Rapids, Lv| 7 05am} 1 0pm) 5 10pm)! 20pm Gd Haven, Ar) 8 35am} 2 10pm) 6 15pm/11 20pm Milwkeeste “| ......- | 6 30am) 6 30am Chicago Str. ‘| .....-.{. 6 00am| 6 QUam}........ *Daily. +Daily exc cept Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a m, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:30 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet ear. No.18Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward— No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. CHICAGO AND WESIr-MICHIGA N R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.GR’D RAPIDS...... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:°5pm Ar. CHICAGO..........5:16pm 5:23pm *7:Gem RETURNING FROM C _ AGO. Ly. CHICAGO..... ... 8:25am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS... ne 5pm 10:10pm *6:10am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST. JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS. Ly. Grand Rapids 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....*6:10am 15pm 10:10pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Ly. G. R......10:0fam & G6pm 5 ‘30pm AY GR... .: 10:Sam 3 bpm S:2opm ...... ZO AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK RAPIDS. Lv. Grand Rapids..... 7:25am 5:17pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... -11:45am 9:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago— W agner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m.; leave Chicago 11:15 P m. Parlor Buffet Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 12:05 pm; leave Chicago 4;45 p m. Free Chair Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 9:00 a m; leave Chicago #:25 a m. Between Grand Rapids and Manistee—Free Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids5:17 pm; leaves Manistee 6:55 a m. DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. 350 a. m., MAY 15, 1892. 8:30pm MAY 15, 1892 GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. GR’D RAPIDS..... 6:25am *1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. DETROIT... ....... 10:50am *5:1lepm 10:40pm RETUKNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. DREHROET:.....---- 7:05am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS.....12:00m *5:i5pm 10:15pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS, Ly. Grand Bapids............... ¢0am 4:iipm Ar. Grand Rapids...............11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 6:25am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......--- 12:00m 5:15pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Detroit— Parlor ears on all trains. Seats 25 cents Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 am; arrives in Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. STUDY LAW AT HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Correspon- eence school of Law {inecorporated]. Send ten cents [stamps] for particu lars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. $75 Whitney Block, 11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich. DETROIT,- MICH, pearance eo soe fie 8 ge ee BEN He ae ee ee ee pin BRE aie ai 3 4 ti ‘bf i 4 4 g i ; a ari Bim ta Pence eet tts ETS AE INE SOS TS RTO R CATTLE NCEP OSAE TS 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WEATHER ON AN ELECTRIC BASIS. | regular? Moreover, if the shifting of If we only knew the real cause of/the sun’s direct rays from the northern weather and the philosophy and mechan- | to the southern hemisphere and back ism of rainfall we would be enabled to| again every six months is held to ac- foreknow and provide for its most nota- | ble changes and their potential influences on human affairs. Weather is one of the most important of terrestrial conditions to tbe inhabi- tants of our planet. The entire supply of subsistence for all living creatures, with perhaps the exception of some of those which live in the sea, comes origi- nally out of the soil through the influ- ence of weather conditions. These may be favorable or the contrary, and on their outcome depends the wellfare of people and nations. Droughts, floods, excessive and untimely visitations of heat or cold, make up the damaging or destructive influences which so often and so seriously affect human destiny. If it were only possible to foreknow these floods and draughts and freezes some enormous benefits to human econ- omy would be secured. And why should we not foreknow them? depend on laws. There is neither chance nor uncertainty in their operation, and yet not the smallest progress has been made in un- raveling their mysteries. We can pre- dict with certainty the movements and positions of the heavenly bodies in the skies for years and centuries in ad- vance, but we are not able to declare with any sort of accuracy what will be the state of the weather even for a few days in the future. We are told in general terms that all weather is caused by the sun’s heat, but when we know that the total supply of this heat received by our planet is con- fixed and regular stantly the same, one day with another, and that the changes in the amount of this heat in either polar hemisphere is gradual and regular from day to day, it is difficult to see why there should be any variations and radical changes in the weather con- ditions. Why should there be rain, wind, clear, calm weather and storms sudden occurring and following each other in a manner which seems chaotic, when | the supply of heat and the constitution | of the atmosphere are so constant and | THE ONLY ckage fi k tt Right Package for Butter Parchment Lined Paper Pails for 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. eount for the changes from summer to winter and from winter to summer, why should not the weather of the same season every year be precisely alike; that is, why should not every March be like every preceding March, and each July be a duplicate of every other July, and every December be an exact counterpart of every other De- cember. . But evidently there is a powerful fac- tor which is not yet understood. Many philosophers have endeavored to discover a correspondence in weather irregular- ities with the changes in the sun’s spots, but while the theory is interesting, no logical connection has been discovered. The possibility of an electrical cause has been often suggested, but it has met with little favor from those who are wedded to ancient theories. We are discovering so many and so varied potentialities in electricity that we are not disposed to All the phenomena of weather | limit its influence among the powers of nature. It is easy to trace in the solar system with its numerous celestial bodies re- volving around their several axes and around the sun as acommon center, the same sort of mechanism as is seen in any electric moter in common use. It is a system of revolving magnets revolving also around a central armature. Such a4 theory would constitute the sun a vast incandescent electric light accounting, through the successive aphelia and peri- helia of the planets, for many variations in electric intensity, and furnishing a mechanism for our oceanic tides quite as competent as that of gravitation. When- ever the electrical mechanism of the solar and planetary systems shall have been properly investigated, it will in all probability be found a vast dynamo capable of producing all the phenomena of heating, lighting and motion with a vast reserve of forces to account for the weather. a Attention is directed to the hardware | Stock advertised by Wood & Atwood, of Flint, in this week’s paper. The stock is remarkably free fiom old goods and the location is all that could be desired. LEMONS! It will be a good idea to order 26 boxes before it gets warm. There’s money in such a purchase. Get our prices. PUTNAM CANDY CO. The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER. The Modern Writing Machine! Visible Writing. Permanent Alignment. Automatic Ribben-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 13% inches long. Price, $110 complete SEND FOR CATALOGUE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, State Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich RINDGH, KALMBACH & CO,, 12, 14, 16 PEARL ST. Grand Rapids, Mich. E would eall 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 as offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. WV See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a i % cOMERESSED Yeggy ‘ guarantee of the genuine ar- C RIVERA c pisTives ticle. CHICAGO ¥Y FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE OMPRESSED YEAST Old in this market for the past Fifteen Years, Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. ‘L, WINTERNITZ, State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. E See that this Label appears ee ya on every package, as it is a Frio @ RIVERDALE DISTIUSS guarantee of the gennine CHIC DAG 0 article. — EN eS nS ee nn ry van — EO men Salada eee ) ! acs alive tess cia | ONE NTI eae a erin THE NATIONAL, WITH COMBINATION LOCK. IND: 34, Evidence that The National IS the Best. The Cashier’ 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” ts no Protection. Sr. Louis, Mo., April 4, 1892. I have this day 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. FrIEDEWALD, Druggist. Would not keep the Cashier.” MancueEsrer, [a., April 14, 1892. After having used the American Cashier Register 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 difference in cost. Henry GOODHILE, General Store. He Returned the Pech. Houuanp, Micxr., April 5, 1892. I have returned this day a Peck Cash Register and boughta No. 33 National Cash Register in place of same, which I think is much easier to operate and better in construction than Pech’s. I am well pleased with it. Joun Pessink, Baker and Confectioner. Countermanded Lhew Order for the Peck. CaprLiac, Micu., April 8, 1892. We have this day countermanded our order for a Peck Cash Register, and have ordered one of the National Registers, No. 33» same being 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 [ 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 Ragistirn atv adaptid Lo all Krids of Business THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO., DAYTON, OHIO. H. 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