Michigan Tradesman. Published W eekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. $1 — Son VOU, | 9. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. Land 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS ae ee coe a 1892. NO. 457 c = BROWN, ——— Os Foreign and Domestic Ervits and Vegetables. (ranges, Bananas and Karly Vegetables a Specialty, Send for quotations. 24-26 No. Division St. Wash Goods! BATES, TOILE DU NORD, A. F. C. WARWICK, AMOSKEAG, GINGHAMS, SIMPSON, HAMILTON, MERRIMACK, HARMONY PACIFIC, GARNER AMERICAN LIGHT AND BLUE PRINTS IN FANCY AND STAPLE STYLES. Cottons, Ticks and Demins Peerless Warps. P. STEKETEE & SONS. THE NRW YORK BISCUIT GO, Ss. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. MUSKEGON BRANCH Drainiebtsiggel STATES BAKING CO., Successors M USKEGON CRACKER Co. HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits # Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. You can take your choice OF TWO OF THE Best Flat Opening Blank Books e than the Old Style Books, Write for prices. In the Market. Cost nox GRAND RAPIDS BOOK BINDING CO., 29-31 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. IRE CRACKERS Loy Pistols, Paper Caps, kite. ities sears CLIMAX CHOCOLATE DROPS, TRE WORKS LATEST AND BEST LAGS A. E. BROOKS & CO., Confectioners, 46 Ottawa Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NO BRAND OF TEN CENT CIGARS comesees CG fins HY" G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. The Green Seal Cigar s the Most Desirable for Merchants to Handle be It is Stante and will fit any Purchaser. Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. BIC ¥ CLES We Control Territory on the Finest and Largest Line of Cheap, Medium and High Grade Machines in the State WRITE US FOR WE WANT TERMS AND DIS- p desea a WON VY /Z= AGENTS IN EVERY COUNTS TO vs LIVE TOWN. AGENTS. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. a —® MArr & Ca. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. MOSE.LEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SKEDS, BRANS AND PRODUGK, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST., Grand Rapids, Mich. nn ero Be To entra ei GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Illuminating and Lubricating -OLlLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Offic., Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORK3 AT GRAND RAPIDS, BIG RAPIDS, ALLEGAN, MUSKEGON, GRAND HAVEN, HOWARD CITY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. MANISTEE, CADILLAC, LUDINGTON. PETOSKEY, STANDARD OIL C0. Company, Cry: a a er SE 1] A Manufacturers of SOW Cases First-Class Work Only Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. 63 and 65 CanalSt.. - GRAND RAPIDS. Agents Wanted !? We can give you exclusive territory on a large line of Bicycles. Send for catalogue. Our includes the: COLUMBIA CLIPPER VICTOR PARAGON RUDGE IROQUOIS KITE PH@NIX 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. SAGINAW MANUFACTURING CO., SAGINAW, MICH., Mannfscturers of the Following List of Washboards. \ tract =) Red star | SURFACE } Shamrock | solid zine, vy Leal) — | Dovble Zinc Defiance Surface, Rival ) | Wilson } Saginaw Single Zine Defiance | surface Rival The above are all swperion Washboards, in the class to which they belong. Send for bi cuts and price-list before order- ie ing. T. S. FREEMAN Agt,Grand Rapids, Mich. Send us your orders for Commercial Printing. WV £ are not the cheapest printers in the State—would be ashamed of it if we were. When we find a “cheapest printer” who does workmanlike work, we will lock up our plant and sublet our printing to him, As it is, system enables us to handle work on close margins. There is more in it for us to do $1,000 worth of work on 10 per cent. margin than $100 worth at 25 per cent. Besides, we carry our own paper stock, envelopes, card- boards, ete.—buy direct, discount our bills and save the mid- dleman’s profit. Let us show you what we are doing. PRINTING DEPARTMENT THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. a E | ' a # # x 4 Sea a ts =e | f Eyes tented 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. ERT 5 RE A A ARTE THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Hr: G. Dun & Go. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada Tse) STU aGstt1t) ts) ete Jie WAZ eV) dal ees) (on c4 SMe 1i7, i aa ins om Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blauks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays per cent, on deposits, ee semi-annually. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasury. “GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUN ‘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. Greing ess ZY CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres*t W.FP: PRED McBain, Sec'y Fire & 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. BOSTON PETTY LEDGER. Yeur account is always posted! Your bill is always made out! bound in cloth and leather back Size 814x3%, and corners. Nickel bill file, indexed, ruled on both sides, 60 lines, being equal toa bill twice as long. 1000 bill heads with Ledger complete....... 83 00 2000 ** “ ee ““ 6 _-.... 2 oo 5 “ “ ‘ “ -_ TB Address F, A. GREEN, 45 Pearl St., R’m 9, Grand Rapids, Mich. I prepay express charges when cash accom panies the order. Send for circular. 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. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Broeutive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, Engiand. Girand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ENGRAVING It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits, Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, Machinery, etc., macs to order from photo- graphs. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. FRANK H WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden AND Indurated Pails & Tous, WOODEN BOWLS, CLOTHESPINS & ROLLING PINS, STEP LADDERS, WASHING MACHINES, MAR- KET, BUSHEL & DELIV- ERY BASKETS, BUILDING PAPER. Manufacturers in jlines allied to above, wish- ing to be represented in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. E22, 1892. ON THE TOANO GRADE. Dark and dumb and cold as death itself lay the dry mesa. It was late at night. The coyotes had ceased to howl. The owls no longer gave forth their dismal hoots. No breath stirred the leaves of the dry greasewood and sage. The cold stars shone out as they only shine through the rare, clear air of the desert. The slim horn of a cold moon, dropping down over the far away buttes, glinted the wheel-worn edges of two steel rails that ran away into the blankness on either side of the spot. Near the railroad track stood a ghostly telegraph pole, and its wires also ran away into the blankness. If there were any sounds at allin the air, they came from these wires. But they must have been mere whisperings, for the man who lay awake under them heard them not. The man was frightfully, strainedly awake. But by his side, and under the same blanket, lay another man who was sound asleep. It is best for a supersensitive man to sleep, and sleep soundly, if he must needs lie out on the desert under the stars. It is an awful thing for sucha one to be cursed by sleeplessness at such a time and in such a place. The horrible stillness, the dumbness of nature weighed upon the wakeful man, who lay there upon his back, looking up at the myriad eyes that peeped through the dark roof of the world. He felt the oppressiveness of it all as keenly as he felt the numbing of the chill night air. He turned on the unyielding bed of sand and heard the crackle of a sage twig under his body. A _ pistol shot would have sounded no louder to his overwrought ear. Why did not the sound awaken the sleeper at his side? If only he would awake or even turn. But poor, tired man, he had tramped many a long ‘mile over the burning plain, through alkali dust and by sage and cactus wastes. Let him sleep. The sleepless one raised his hand to his face, on which the skin was tightly drawn. How hot the unwinking eye of heaven had blazed upon him through the day! It seemed to have seared his cheek and forehead. “God! If I had but one glass of rum— one glass!” he greaned, half aloud. And then he went over his life, and made himself to see clearly why he had become so dependent upon a fiery fluid for his peace of miud. It was the thirst —the cursed thirst—that had built itself up within him out of the very elements with which he had thought to appease it. And the consequences of that thirst! His mind ran back to his home. How she must hate him—that patient wife, who had borne with him so long! Did she? Was it hate that blazed from her eyes when they had had that final quarrel, and he had left her, never to return? He could not bring himself to think that it was. He was so frightfully alone—so much in need of being in someone’s kindly thoughts that— The man at his side did turn at last. But he settled down at once to peaceful NO. 457 slumber. He had not awakened. If he only would awake, his cheery Irish ban- ter would make the night less hideous for a time, perhaps; but let him sleep. He should not trespass on his good na- ture by arousiug him. Although only the acquaintance of a day, he had, in his genial Celtic way, been more than kind. He had given a most unworthy and unde- serving man food from his slim store, and now he was sharing with him his poor, thin blanket. An unworthy man— yes, most unworthy. Had he not left his wife to shift for herself? Had he not wholly deserted her? Yes, but she no longer loved him. He had been such a drag upon her—such a burden. She was better off without him—far better. The immoving tide of this heavy thought bore down upon him more than all the oppressiveness of the night silence on the desert, more than the fearful thirst. It was better that she should live with- out him—far better. He was unworthy. How cut off he seemed from the whole world! The little warmth he felt from the man’s body, lying by his own, made its impress on his mind. In spite of all his desire for independence when he had started off on that wild journey with only afew coins in his pocket, his hot asser- tion that he could go his way without reference to others seemed now to have been a part of his weakness of character. Even the strongest must lean upon some- one. None could go their way wholly alone. How independent was the whole race of man? And she had leaned on him. Perhaps she did stillina way. For might she not be looking for him to come back? It was not likely that she even dreamed that he was a thousand miles away. What were a thousand miles, after all? He had not been long in passing them over. It would not take long to retrace them. With these thoughts tingling in his brain he could no longer lie there. He must be up in motion. So he arose and lamely made his way to the railroad track, leaving his friend of a day to sleep it outalone. He stepped between the rails and halted there, fac- ing the telegraph pole. Tothe right was the way of the free man, without wife or 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 & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And by Wholesale Grocers generally. seas rns Sica easeaSe aetna ise eesti tn le nelietee rae ea NU REITER: cc a a ea ue a Nn 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. home. To the left the way led back to her. “IT have almost killed her by my reeck- lessness,’’ he thought; ‘‘why should I go back to complete the job? ”’ He glanced over his right shoulder. ‘*‘But that may mean the same thing. She is alone and helpless. Still, to go back means—God!” he sobbed. ‘*why ean’t I be a man?”’ . His eyes sought the stars. “Yes, | can be.”’ He took off his hat and raised high his head. Then he spoke, while yet looking up, and the still night air words: heard his ‘I swear that hereafter I will hold my | desire for drink in check, and that I will | strive to make myself worthy of the good womar who bears my name. So help me God. Amen.” Then down the back track he strode | fiercely, clinching his hands as he swung | them at his sides. Two hours later he stepped upon the platform of the station at Toano. he stopped to rest. and no one was about to look at him sus- piciously as upon a tramp, and to tell him to be off. From a small building across the way lights were shining. doorway he saw stove. He heard their loud jokes and hearty laughs. How warm and comfort- able they seemed. And he was bitterly cold. He went nearer to the place. As he approached it, a man came and stood in the doorway. Strange to say, this man greeted him with a cordial, ‘‘Hello, pardner !” Through the open He made some sort of a reply, ina shaky voice, for his teeth were chatter- ing. ‘“‘Trampin’ to Frisco? ’’ es.” “‘Wall, its good walkin’, ain’t it? ”’ “Oh, yes.””’ Why should his teeth chatter so? ‘“‘Say, now, pardner, I kin tell you suthin’ that beats walkin’ all to pieces.’’ “What is it? ”’ “Why, about half a mile up the rail- road there’s a heavy grade on a curve. When the emigrant train goes up there she don’t go fast—not much faster’n a horse and wagon. You kin jump on without any trouble or without any of the train hands noticin’ you, as they would at a station, and you kin go into a keer and sleep all the rest of the night. When you wake up in the mornin’, you'll be at Mesilla, seventy-five miles from here. That’s two big days’ journey for aman travelin’ afoot.’’ It was worth trying. ‘“‘When will the train be along? ”’ ‘In about an hour.”’ ‘Thank you.”’ “Say,” and the voice grew ‘‘ain’t you pretty blame cold? side awhile and warm up.” He followed the man into the house. kindly, Come in- There was a bar there and some men | were before it drinking. His new friend led him up to the bar. This would not do. There was his resolve to consider. Well, he was on his way back home—that much was settled. And as for drinking, there would be just this one glass, to warm him up. He was really very cold and numb, and needed it. As it was to be just one and the last, it was well that it should be a large, | warming draught. glass nearly full. So he poured the He felt the fire of it There | It was still dark, | men sitting about a}! |as it went down. Yes, it did warm one |—that was certain. He had eaten so | little that the hot liquid swiftly set up its reign in his tired brain, and when his | new comrade urged another and still an- other upon him he could not refuse. ‘‘Now I reckon you better git up the track if you’re goin’ to git that free Pull- man pass 0’ your’n from Toano to Me- | Silla, with nochange o’ keers,’’ remarked | his entertainer, glancing at the clock. He started up. ‘‘Good bye,” he said ; “God bleth you.’’ s His tongue was thick, though his gait | was fairly steady. He could walk very | fast now, and soon he was up the grade and at the curve. How strong his nerves were. No longer did the night weigh upon him. What a different man he was from the creature who had limped along the ties a few hours ago! How much firmer of purpose! The light from an oneoming locomo- | tive shot up the track. The iron giant | coughed, wheezed and panted. It was truly a hard pull up the Toano grade. He stood by the side of the track as the dazzling headlight glared upon him for a moment. How firm he was, but how he would have trembled had he gone there ; unbraced for the ordeal. He did not tremble now. It was along train. The ears, with their dull lights, passed slowly at first, but they gathered speed as they went along. He would not wait for the | last, for that was the caboose, and in it was theconductor. Whatspeed the train had gathered! Still it was not going very fast, he thought. Now was the time. It would be two days’ foot journey nearer to her. He would soon be at home. He grasped a hand rail, lifted one foot up, missed the step and was thrown with relentless foree under the wheels. There was a wild cry, acrunching sound and the train had passed, leaving the light dust it had stirred up to settle down again upon the sagebrush leaves. ‘‘Say, Bill, I heard someone yell.”’ It was a trainman who spoke and it was the head breakman who heard him. “So did I—it was ‘under the car. An- other tramp gone to Kingdom Come.’’ “We ought to stop—hadn’t wez—and see about it? ’’ ‘Stop on the Toano grade? you talk. ing.’’ How wild You must have been drink- FRANK BAILEY MILLARD. ————_ ~~» © ~~ Shorter Pieces. From the Textile World. The smaller retail dry goods dealers | are calling attention to the burden im- | posed on them by the length of the present |pieces of dress goods patterns. They |claim, and with good reason, that with | the present length of pieces, their avail- able capital is tied up in a comparatively | small assortment of patterns, which is | even more detrimental to sales in the | country, where every woman knows the exact wardrobe of every other woman, | than in the city, when similarity of pat- | terns is lost in numbers. The jobbers |charge quite a little extra for cutting | pieces, weich acts as acheck upon a wide | selection by the small dealer. Sooner or later, the demands of the re- | tailers will be met by the manufacturers, ;as competition forces them to concede | one point after another in buyers’ favor. | On the other hand, anything that tends | to the advantage and ultimate greater! | prosperity of the retailers, must in the | end prove beneficial to the manufacturer, | although at first sight, a change to shorter | pieces would seem to entail nothing but increased annoyance and expense. j til ; A man should never be ashamed to |} own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than yesterday. rane th 3? fr J tis x 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. rPUITNAM CANDY Ci. 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. 1-6 size, 84 in, wide, 6 lines, 1 ¢ ‘ 4} . ae é 14 e< 500 each size, 1,000 « Send for sample. 500 1000 2000 $165 $250 $4 50 2 OO 3 00 5 40 2 75 5 OO PRINTING DEPARTMENT THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. See Quotations. PEREING & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK GF CAKE TALLOW FOR MiLL USE. VV E are on top, in the way of Boys’ Express Wagons. They are daisies—-the finest in the market—and the prices are within the reach of everybody. Don’t fail to get our catalogue and prices before you buy. Prompt attention given to all communications. Benton Mannfacturing Co., Manufacturers of Hand Rakes, Suow Shovels, Boy’s Carts, Express Wagons, Children’s Sleighs, Etc. POTTERVILLE, MICHIGAN. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address PECK BROS., “Gzinn Ravins” ORDER .. NOW ies) FW § pisos wn an pr” menonis S MANUFACTURED BY p WILLIAMS & CARLO. HARTFORD. CONN. SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS. H. F. HASTINGS, Wholesale Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich, stint e- cae beet oeeorapanemeee ripest 4 NOVIONS AND FURNISHING GUUUS, neg eerie eer i e THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 The Alert and Active. From the Wational Grocer. The man who sits down quietly and expects that fortune will smile on him without any effort of his own, is just the very man to grumble and growl at the conditions of society and mankind. For- tune never smiles on him, fortune never comes to him, but he sees it coming to others and wonders why it is that he was born under an unlucky planet. There is another man who is always up and doing. He_is full of activity, of energy and of thought. He is always in action. He may not succeed at first; he may have a hard road to pull, but he pulls it and ultimately getsthere. When the world is black and his fortune is at its lowest ebb, then is the time when he spits upon his hands, brushes up _ his thoughts and makes up his mind that he will have suecess or die in the attempt to attain it. ‘All things come to him who waits’ is the old maxim, but we would add, providing that in his waiting he does not neglect working. Truth is harder to arrive at than falsehood, and no fortune was ever made without the man seeking it. Some men do not have to seek so long as others. It is not necessary for them to search so hard for it. Itcomes to them asif by luck, but still they have done their share to attain it; they have had a capacity to direct their energies in fields and pastures that have given results much more quickly than they would have done had they been directed otherwise. At times we do know that the world looks black. blank and cold, that hope deferred does really make the heart sick, but to the man who never says die must ultimately come the reward of his earnest and active work. The darkest hour is just before dawn, and when the worst almost arrives then to the man of action new energy is created and suecess comes to him sometimes in a way that he little thought or dreamed of. “Eternal vigilance is the price of lib- erty.”? Not only liberty politically, but liberty commercially and socially. The man of business does not have commer- cial liberty until he has reached that point of suecess which makes him per- fectly independent and have the fullest liberty both in mind and in action. The merchant loaded with debt, tottering under a load he can barely carry, is practically a slave. Life to him is searcely worth the living, but if he braces up, makes a determination that he will command success, the chances are that he will sueceed. Some men are much like cats; no matter how they are thrown down they always alight on their feet. They belong to the irrepressibles; failure with them only renews their exertions. They are truly and surely the ‘‘never say die’’ brigade. Men of this caliber succeed in thelongrun. No matter what their ups and downs may be they never lose hope; they never lose faith in their ability to cope with anything and every- thing that may come along. Their ac- tivity creates opportunities and these opportunities result sometimes in stamp- ing them as successful men. To the mournful and doleful merehant who is everlastingly under a_ black cloud we would say it is the ‘‘alert and active’? who win. Mourning never does and good. It never created a brilliant thought since the world commenced. It is useless, and one of the poorest senti- mentalisms that humanity is afflicted with. The world is, to a very great ex- tent, what we makeit. Some men can earry trouble and worry much easier than others. To one man it is inspira- tion, to another it is destruction. It de- pends entirely on yourself which of these two you are willing to choose. —_—_——_<>-o<————_—_—__— Canvassing For Orders. From the Merchants’ Review. Regarding the expediency of retail gro- cers drumming up trade by a personal canvass for orders there is no doubt a de- cided difference of opinion among the parties chiefly concerned—the retailers themselves—but it is an undisputed fact that canvassing has sayed more than one dealer from failure, and itis because it offers hopes of success to struggling dealers that we have advised the adopt- ion of the plan by those who have never tested it. Wehave, in a former issue, given an instance of the successful appli- eation of the system of drumming for or- ders by at least one beginner in the gro- cery business, and we will now mention a ease where all other means had been tried but proved fruitless. Some years ago a retail grocer in a city not a thous- and miles from the metropolis found, after several years of hard ‘‘sledding,” that he was making very little headway, and, as the public was dilatory in com- ing to him, he determined to go direct to the public, and at the residence of con- sumers seek the orders for the lack of which his business was pining. He im- mediately acted upon the_ resolution, with the result that his trade rapidly in- creased, and to-day is one of the largest in the city in which his store is located. He does not send out employes, but goes the rounds himself, every other day, tak- ing orders, and on the intervening days taking goods. There are constantly em- ployed in the store three clerks who do nothing else but pack the goods taken on the canvassing trips of the proprietor, which now cover a very extensive terri- tory, including suburban towns and dis- tricts. In aconversation with a repre- sentative of this journal this dealer said he was pleased to see it recommend the canvassing system to retail grocers, and he gladly furnished us with the facts re- lated above. He stated that the system required a certain amount of energy and determination in those who gave ita trial, but it certainly offered a good prospect of suecess to retailers suifering from ex- cessive competition and a lack of neces- sary capital. >_< A Discourteous Merchant Brought to Terms. From the New York Herald, A Baltimore merchant not long since was corrected for discourteous treatment to two commercial travelers in a manner that he will not soon forget. On entering his store the two men, who hailed from New York, paused for a moment to exchange greetings with some of the salesmen. In the distance they canght a glimpse of the proprietor, who spied them at about the same time, but who, thinking himself unseen and not caring to meet his visitors, spoke a hasty word to a clerk and then disap- peared slyly into a huge fireproof vault. The two drummers saw the act, and upon walking back toward the office were not surprised to hear the clerk tell them Mr. S. was in New York. “Oh, he is, is he?’? said one of the commercial travelers. “Yes,’”’ replied the clerk unblushingly. ‘“‘“He left last night. He will buy goods from both your houses. I saw his mem- orandum before he left.’’ *“‘Come, let’s be going, Jim,’’ remarked the other traveler. ‘‘There’s no need of staying here any longer if he’s in New York.”” The two men whispered for a moment together and then, instead of walking out by the direct aisle, turned to one side, and going to the huge fireproof vault, Jim slammed the door to with a loud clang and dropped the fastening bar in its place. Then the two proceeded on their way slowly, while the imprisoned and thoroughly terrified merchant kicked at the boiler plate door and howled to be let out, his voice sounding faintly from within. The men did not remain to witness the merchant’s humiliation when he emerged from his cell. That same afternoon the salesmen were sent for by the man, but they calmly informed the messenger that it was impossible for the chief to have returned from New York so soon and that they did not propose to enter his store merely to be hoaxed. When this was reported back to the merchant he became really alarmed, for the men represented two of the most prominent houses in New York, with whom it was important for him to stand well. He, therefore, made a call in per- son and to propitiate the drummerf, who assumed an air of anger, before he had completed his explanations, he pur- chased two of the largest bills of goods of his entire business career. SWARTOUT & DOWNS, JOBBERS OF Al South Division St., feer— (Grand Rapids, Mich. We have opened a new and complete line of Notions and Ladies’ and Gen- tlemen’s Furnishing Goods at the above number. trade is solicited. The inspection of the ee ee a senses nat saint meas THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Gscoda—Ernst Bros. sueceed C. F. May- nard in the bazaar business. Detroit—L. D. Finn succeeds Finn Todd in the undertaking business. Hastings—Cora Powers has sold her hardware stock to Ira Van Valkenburg. Riverdale—Willis J. Mills’ drug stock has been seized under chattel mortgage. Petoskey—R. F. Logan, meat dealer, has sold his business to A. E. Bachelder. & Topinabee—Jerry McCarthy has sold | his general stock to Mrs. K. L. MeCarthy. Blissfield—B. M. Austin has sold his hardware business to Warren & Glea- son. Marquette — Edward L. Kellan eeeds Kellan Bros. in the grocery busi- ness. Grand Haven—G. Gringhuis succeeds Gringhuis & Boss in the clothing busi- ness. Saginaw—Miss H. H. Doyle has re- moved her grocery stock to Franken- muth. Spring Lake—De Witt & Rideout are succeeded by A. Price in the drug business. suc- nm uN. Quiney—C. G. Powers, dealer in cloth- ing, hats and caps, will move his stock to Adrian. Reed City—The hardware stock of M. N. Witherell has been closed under chat- tel mortgage. Chesaning—B. E. Pratt will continue the boot and shoe business formerly conducted by Pratt & Wiley. Coral—W. A. Woodard, who recently embarked in the grocery business here, has removed his stock to Ionia. Kalamazoo—Geo. J. Gildea, commission and produce merchant, has sold his grocery stock to M. W. Morton. Scottville—The Hartzell Medicine Co. has added a second story to its building and will occupy the same with a print- grocery, ing office. Bay Port—J. C. Liken & Co. have merged their general stock into a stock company under the style of the Bay Port Store Co. Downington—Haynes & Paige, dealers implements, have dis- continuing the in agricultural solved, Geo. E. Paige business. Lansing—The grocery firm of Baker & Taylor has dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by Augustus O. Taylor. Detroit—Abram C. Schloss, of the firm of Schloss Bros. & Co., died at Detroit | last Friday, after a year’s illness. ceased was born in Detroit in 1855 and went on the road for the firm when 17) years of age. Two years ago he retired from the road and was admitted to part- nership in the house. He was married four years ago to a Cincinnati lady, who survives him. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Nashville—Houghton Bros. have closed their cigar factory and retired from bus- | iness. Beaverton—Seely & Hood have erected | a stave mil! here and also put in a cireu- | lar saw rig with which to cut lumber for | 3rown & Ryan. St. Clair—The Diamond Crystal Salt Co., whose factory was destroyed by fire | several months ago, has nearly complet- ed its new building and expects to resume the manufacture of dairy and table salt by July 1. De- | ber Co. has closed its doors and removed the stock still on hand to Empire. The corporation expects to complete cutting its hardwood logs by July 15, when the mill will be removed to another location. Hastings—The Hastings Furniture | Manufacturing Co. has elected Ed. De C. Jaquith Superintendent of the factory. As soon as needed repairs have been made to the factory, the wheels will be | set in motion again. Cheboygan—D. Quay & Son are adding ;machinery to their shingle mill here. | The same firm contemplates the removal of its Munro and locating it on the lake shore. cut 2,000,000 shingles from timber cut on Bois Blane island last winter. Manistee— The Canfield & Wheeler test well is now down over 1,000 feet, and, as rock has been reached, no further difficulty is expected. They are going to demonstrate to a certainty whether or not there is oil underlying us in sufficient quantities for fuel, when the refuse from the sawmills will not be available. Detroit— The Michigan Automatic Music Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $150,000, of which $20,- | 000 has been paid in. The following | are shareholders: Martin V. Brady, Prov- | idence, R. I., 1,000 shares; Michael Bren- nan, Detroit, 400; Caspar Lingemann, Detroit, 1,000; H. W. Burgett, Boston, Mass., 1,000; E. P. Carpenter, Brattle- boro, Vt., 1,000. Escanaba—This city is growing away from its original character as a lumber port, although there is a large lumber interest here still. As an ore shipping point it has long been famous. Now it is to take a step in advance as an iron manufacturing center. The Delta Steel & Iron Co., with a capital of $2,000,000, is to erect works here which will give employment to 1,000 to 1,500 hands. Manistee—The hemlock bark trade is considerably off this year, and the price is not nearly as good as it was last season, as it is claimed that the tanneries all have a large surplus of the raw material on hand, and will not need to purchase | any for six months to come. In the | meantime, the weather has been against | the peeling and curing of the crop, so that the supply is not likely to be over half the usual amount in this region. East Tawas—The sawmill of the East Tawas Improvement & Lumber Co. was | completely destroyed by fire on the 14th. Iv | The mill was owned years ago by Locke | & Stevens, and was sold to Sibley & | Bearinger, who operated it several years | j}and sold it a little over a year ago to | | Eastman, Chamberlain & French. It had |a daily capacity of 100,000 and was | stocked by Sibley & Bearinger. A raft owned by the last named firm is now on | its way across the lake and then the mill would have been started again, running i night and day. It is thought the mill | will be rebuilt, perhaps on a smaller scale, as the site is a desirable one and its owners have a large tract of hardwood /land on the Alger road. The mill was and was in- It had been idle two weeks and the origin of the fire is not | valued at about $25,000, | sured for $18,500. known | te te | That is single-entry bookkeeping which | never enters into the borrower’s head to | return it. Good Harbor—The Lime Lake Lum-/ Frankfort Rates Back to the Former Tariff. FRANKFORT, June 15—Will you please publish in your valuable paper, for the benefit of Frankfort’s oppressed mer- chants and the Grand Rapids jobbers, the fact that since the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railway has taken possession of the Frankfort & Southeast- ;ern Railway, through rates of freight | Groot Manager of the business and R. | from Grand Rapids and points beyond, | via Chicago & West Michigan Railway. |}and Frankfort & Southeastern Railway, which were reasonable heretofore, have been cancelled and excessive local rates substituted at an advance of 100 to 140 per cent; therefore we are thoroughly | disgruntled and kick, to which the T., | A. A. & N. M. people here say, “Ship | from Grand Rapids via G. R. & I to Cadil- sawmill from the township of | The firm has also taken the contract to | lac, care T., A. A. & N. M., and we will restore former rates.’’ Well, we will try them on this tack and see. Trusting all Grand Rapids jobbers will make a note of this, I am Yours respectfully, Frep KERN. With a view to ascertaining the exact facts on the matter, a reporter of TuE TRADESMAN called at the General Freight Office of the C. & W. M. Railway, where Mr. M. W. Rose, Assistant. General Freight Agent, furnished the following information: “When the F. & S.E. Railway was pur- chased by the T., A. A. & N. M. Railway, we were requested by the latter road to cancel the tariff then in effect with Frank- fort. This we did in our circular No. 170, under date of May 28. In the mean- time, we began negotiating with the T., A. A. & N. M. people for a renewal of the former rate. We were successful and on June 13 sent out cireular No. 174, restoring our former rates to Frankfort, as follows: 1st class, 25 cents per 100 Ibs. 2nd ee 20 oe ee 3rd ee 14 és ° “sé 4th sé 10 se “ec 5th ee 9 sé ‘ 6th ee 8 sé ae This tariff, which is certainly very sat- isfactory to our Frankfort patrons, is the same asthe rates in effect for several months prior to the absorption of the F. & S. E. Railway. Pending the re- adjustment of the matter—from May 2 to June 13—we were compelled to charge local rates to Thompsonville, while the T., A. A. & N. M. people charged local rates from there to Frankfort, which naturally caused a great deal of dissatis- faction, and which we were unable to remedy until the new arrangement went into effect. Our rates to Frankfort are the same as they are by the G. R. & I. via Cadillae.’’ -_> > “ Wants Alum Money. ‘“‘Your husband is a man of wealth, is he?” inquired the judge. ‘“‘He’s worth about $75,000,” said the applacant for divorce. ‘‘He owns a bak- ing powder factory.’’ “You want a sepdrate maintenance, I presume?” “A what?” ' “A separate maintenance—allowance —alimony.’’ “That's it. alum money.”’ I want my share of his omnes lt Last summer a shrewd Troy merchant attended the races. Afterwards a friend asked him what luck he had. ‘Excel- lent,’? was the reply; ‘1 came out $50 ahead.” ‘‘Why, how was that?” asked his friend. ‘‘Well,” he explained, ‘‘I took $150 to the track to bet with. Hav- ing staked $100 on the first race and lost it, I put the other $50 in my pocket and went home.”’ Whith suggests that the surest possible way to beat the races is not to bet the races. This is a ‘‘tip’’ that may be relied on under all circum- stances. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is without special feature, although granulated and con- fectioners is a sixpence lower. Willett & Gray, who are the leading authorities on the sugar market in this country as- sert that the McKinley law, while giving the people of this country cheaper sugar, has diverted the large profits incident to the business from European speculators to the American Sugar’ Refining Co. Bananas — Good shipping fruit was scarce during latter part of last week, on account of cars coming in with over-ripe stock, which was too soft to reship. Nearly all handlers were in same pre- dicament, and, as a consequence, a great many outside dealers were disappointed about getting fruit for Saturday’s trade. Peanuts —Shade lower, but not any weaker. An advance was expected, but the light demand served to avert sucha turn of the market. Oranges—Selling fairly well, but the demand has fallen off somewhat owing to the arrival of small fruits and berries and to the rather high price which pre- vails. Lemons—The expected advance put in an appearance the forepart of last week, with a vigor somewhat surprising to those who have been waiting and expect- ing to buy at just a shade higher prices when it commenced to get warmer. They jumped a dollar a box the first crack, and another dollar when the first three hot days had come and gone. If the warm weather continues, the price will be maintained and, possibly, still higher prites realized. Currants—Primefstock is firmly held, but the demand is light. Rice—The new crop of domestic will be several weeks later than usual this year. Foreign grades are in good de- mand at former prices. Coffee—The market on Rio grades is practically flat. Canned Goods—Corn, tomatoes and peas continue firmand the former is very scarce. Peaches are more active. Lob- sters and salmon are quiet and firm. Teas—Dealers look for a shrinkage of values on Japans as the season advances. There is an easier feeling grades. Formosa teas are change. in Oolong without a The Watermelon Crop. Nearly every state in the Union is in- terested in knowing something about the melons, says the Fruit Growe~, of Macon, Ga. Every commission house expects the markets to be glutted like they were last season. Butthey won’t be. And do you know why? The melons are not planted, and the dry weather is playing havoc with a good many that were planted. A good many growers havn’t got a half stand. The indications now are that the crop will be 40 per cent. less than last year, and if it should rain just as every grower wanted it, the crop will be 40 per cent. off. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. HOW’S THIS ? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We the undersigned, have known F.J. Cheney for the last 15 yeurs, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and fin- ancially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Trvuax, Watpine, Kinnan & MarvIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actin directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces o: the system Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. rages GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. The name of the Valley City Table Co. has been changed to Valley City Desk Co. A. W. Seymour is succeeded by Sey- mour & Babcock in the manufacture of boxes. H. F. Mull & Son have sold their grocery stock at 425 East Bridge street to O. A. Perry, formerly a member of the firm of White & Perry, jobbers of wrapping paper and woodenware. Fred A. Gill has sold his interest in the firm of Holmes & Gill, proprietors of the West Side Paper House, at 20 Seribner street, to Clark Mills and W. C. MeDon- ald. The new firm will be known as Mills, McDonald & Holmes. Morris Levy, who has represented Jacob Brown & Co., of Detroit, on the road for twelve years, will open his wholesale notion and furnishing goods stock at 8 South Ionia street about July 1. He has just returned from New York, where he purchased his stock of summer and au- tumn goods. One of E. J. Herrick’s show windows has attracted considerable attention the past week by reason of a window dis- play, made in imitation of the seales of justice. The execution and effect of the display are excellent and reflect credit on the designer, Edward Leibenderfer, who recently removed to this city from Day- ton, Ohio. The Patterson Furnace Co., which has recently removed its plant and business from Lansing to this city, has located on Madison avenue, just south of Hall street, where two sizes of wood furnaces and four sizes of coal furnaces will be manufactured. J. Q. Patterson will manage the business and J. Wilber Pat- terson will officiate as book-keeper and superintendent of shop. W. T. Lamoreaux has merged his wool, grain, seed and bean business at 128, 130 and 132 West Bridge street into a stock company under the style of W. T. Lamo- reaux Co. The capital stock of the cor- poration is $50,000, of which $30,100 is paidin. W. T. Lamoreaux is President, Treasurer and General Manager of the corporation, A. P. Collar is Vice-Presi- dent and L. Giles, Secretary. The change in name and form will not carry with it any essential change in the policy of the house, except that the added capi- tal will enable the company to conduct a larger business than before. so Gripsack Brigade. Thos. Ferguson, Western Michigan representative for the J. M. Bour Co., was in Toledo a couple of days last week, on a visit to his house. Chas Kernan, Manager of the Converse Manufacturing Co.’s store, at Newaygo, has gone on the road for a month for the furniture factory owned by the same cor- poration. Wm. L. Curtis, who traveled a short time for the former firm of Curtiss & Co., is now on the road for Hollis & Duncan, paper dealers of Chicago. His territory includes all available towns in Northern Michigan, North of the D., G. H. & M Railway. Geo. Raynor, with Eaton, Lyon & Co., has returned from New York and other Eastern points, after enjoying a two weeks’ vacation with his wife. He re- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ports a most enjoyable time and recom- mends the same experiment to all of his road brothers as an incentive to future increased usefulness. Albert C. Antrim, traveling represent- ative for the Alabastine Co., has re- turned from a five months’ trip through Montana,Idaho, Washington, Oregon,Cal- ifornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas and Indian Territory and is looking remarkably well, considering the length and extent of his jaunt. He expects soon to start out for a tour of the Southern States. Such a trip is not dreaded by Mr. Antrim, as he claims to have a recipe for withstanding the heat, rendering a visit to the Southern States in summer about as comfortable as a trip through the Northern portion of the country. At the meeting of the Kansas Travel- ing Men’s Association, held at Emporia May 23, Joseph Waters of Topeka, who delivered the annual address, bitterly denounced Congressman Otis, who re- cently spoke of traveling men as ‘‘com- mercial tramps.” His speech was en- thusiastically applauded, and his refer- ence to Otis will be printed as a campaign document if the People’s party should renominate him. He said: ‘‘A milkman by the name of Otis misrepresents my district in the National House. Heis a slanderer on the capital, on its institu- tions of learning, its churches, its news- papers, its people, its intelligence, and its good sense. Cows, cream,calamity and currency he spells with a ‘*k’. Heisa stigma on the alphabet and a reproach to words of one syllable. He was fifteen years on a milk run, and he gathered in all that time no more knowledge than his milk did cream. Although the proprie- tor of a dairy of four cows, one stub- tailed heifer, a tin pail and a soap box, he was always considered the hired man of the outfit and never once the proprie- tor. A manof curds and whey, he com- menced his career in Congress with bills for the expenditure of billions of public money and which would make a paper dollar cheaper than one of his milk tiek- ets limited to a call for one pint of bonny clabber. His mental vision is so abso- lutely horizontal that he has to get on the fence to seethe sun rise. He hasthe narrow tread of a wheelbarrow. God Almighty could not set his eyes any closer together without placing the bridge of his nose on his under lip. From milk to millions; from butter to billions; from milking heifers to stripping the treas- ury dry. He cameto the front when the Alliance people in their blind staggers betook themselves to a revolution in poli- tics. When the volcanoes of calamity commenced to smoke and throw up lava, among the debris, scoria and slag vom- ited up, this man landed in Congress; and as he came down with a thud in his seat, ‘‘Hist, Brindle,” came involuntarily from his lips. The disgrace of his pres- ence there as our Representative is eter- nal. If the earth were one rounded ball of soap, the deluge of Noah’s flood upon it could not wash it out. We have had men in this district to represent us in Congress who had a fair average amount of cineritious ganglia and the descent from brain te funeral trappings, crape adornments, and calamity emblems of mourning which now accentuate the void of our empty chairs in Congress is as steep, as precipitous as the road that drops from high Olympus down sheer in- to sheol.”’ Health for the Baby, Pleasure for the Parents, New Life for the Old Folks, aN a 5 »yHires Root Beer THE GREAT of the home. A a delicious, effervescent beverage. Don’t be deceived if a dealer, for the sake of larger profit, tells you some other kind is *‘ just as good” as the genuine HIRES’, AFamily Affair 25 cent | package makes 5 gallons of | strengthening, —'tis false. Noim#ationisas good | Don’t Buy YOUR SPRING LINES OF Hammocks, Base Ball Goods, & Fishing Tackle Until you have seen our assortment. men are now on the way to call on you. EATON, LYON & CO., GRAND RAPIDS. Our sales- GHAS. A. GOYE, MANUFACTURER OF Horse and Wagon Covers JOBBERS OF Hammocks and Cotton Ducks SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Il Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich, MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Go. Organized 1881, Fair Contracts, Kquitable Rates, Prompt Settlements, The Directors of the ‘‘Michigan” are representative business men of our own State. D. WHITNEY,’ JK., Pres. EUGENE HARBECK, Sec’y. 5 - THe STEAMSHIPS “QGEANIC” AND “EMPRESS OF INDIA” HAVE PLACED US IN POSSESSION OF THE TEMPERANCE DRINK C>HOICEST PICKINGS NEW CROP It will be a privilege to supply you with samples, WESTERN DEPARTMENT: Chase & Sanborn, BOSTON. 30 & 32 S. Water Street, CHICAGO. 1892 a > ~ o ” = ST NEW SEATSONS | The most delicate Japan teas are harvested in May, known as “‘‘first picking,’ which are a lux ury. We will continue the old price as an in ducement to further introduce the perfection of our new Bee Hive Teas The situation will save you 10 cents a pound. Read the message: New York, June 6, 1892. J.P Visner, Grand Rapids: Have closed out all old crop Bee Hive Japans Will fill orders you take with our new teas, which will arrive in about three weeks. KE. J. GILLIES & CO. For information in regard to above, call on or address a. ©. VISNER, WESTERN MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE, 167 No. Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. HE GOT THERE FIRST. How a Creditor Succeeded in Effecting a Prior Attachment. From the Boston Herald. Four creditors started from Boston in the same train for the purpose of attach- ing the property of a debtor in Farming- ton, Me. He owed each one separately, and they were suspicious of the object of the others, but did not breathe a word about it. So they rode, acquaintances all, talking upon everything except that ! which they had most at heart. When | they arrived at the station at Farmington, | which was three miles from the debtor’s | place of business, they found no con-; veyance to carry them on to their destination but a solitary cab, toward which they all rushed. Three got in| and refused admittance to the fourth, and the cab started. The fourth, not to be left, ran after the cab, and induced the driver to let him ride on the outside. He at once decided upon a plan of action which he believed promised not enly suecess, but revenge as well. He asked the driver if he would not sell his horse. The driver said he did not want to sell—that the horse was not worth more than $50, but he would not sell him for that. He then asked the driver if he would not take $100 for him. The driver said he would. The ‘‘fourth” man quickly paid over the money, took the reins and backed the cab up to a bank, slipped it from the harness, and tipped it up so that the door could not be readily opened. He then jumped upon the horse’s back and started off ‘‘lickety switch,’’ while the ‘‘insiders’? were gazing helplessly out of the cab window. He rode to a lawyer’s, got a writ made out and served, and his debt secured, and got back to the hotel just as his late companions, whom he had discomfited, came up puffing and blowing. The cabman then bought back his horse for $50, which amount the beaten} creditors offered to pay if the successful one would agree not to tell the story in . Boston. It is not certain that their offer was accepted. ae Short Western Credits. From the Dry Goods Economist. A merchant who has just taken a tour through the West suggests that the retail merchants of the Atiantic seaboard might well learn a lesson from their Western contemporaries in the matter of credits. The leading merchants in Western cen- ters, particularly in Chicago, are prompt to abruptness in dealing with bills. In that part of the country they are not so tied up by traditions of courtesy as in the older stores at the East with their long-time, and often hereditary families of customers, and hence are able to keep their accounts on what is pretty nearly a cash basis. In the East a retail merchant often fears to offend his debtor, but the brisk Western house is apt to give such an one very short shrift. The practice is to serve notice at the beginning of each month that the bill is due. If this hint is not enough, the floor- walkers, after five days, enter in their books a significant mark against the offender’s name. If the customer buys anything further she is escorted to the office and there has the situation very courteously, but very frankly, explained to her. If she still objects tothis prompt system, her name is posted where the help leave their apparel, that they may understand that she is no longer a charge customer. This system is carried out fearlessly in some of the largest houses in Chicago, and in other Western cities, and is found to work admirably. Very few bills are allowed to run, and customers get the benefit of the rule in closer prices than would be possible under any system of long and sometimes doubtful credits. There are advantages, surely, in a new order of things which enables a merchant 7 to avoid the meshes of social red tape and the fetters of tradition. cect lhe nena A Sure Sign. First Man—You are a politician, ain’t you? Second Man—Yes. How did you know? First Man—By your breath. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pauls, Shirts, aud Overall Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO.,, Mfrs. DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. OwEn, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Schilling Gorset G0. MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. on Karth! NCW ILiNg § FRENCH SHAPE "-_* * Send for Illustrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO., Detroit. 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Ee 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 84 Paewell....... ....- 8 UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL, en 54% Middlesex No. Le Hamilten 2 oa 6% icles . 7 ’ - 2 Middlesex a ...... 8 _ - 7..... mun 2 " - fi. “ No. 5. 9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Bemtiton H......... TH! Middlesex A A — ii Middlesex rT. 8 4. 12 iwciee 9 C a ...--. 138% a. Tine 9 vl Sa 17% - - F..... 10%! ’ Bian cd 16 CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 17% |Integrity colored... 20 - —_— _ Brits White i cue ens 18 Integrity . ' * colored. .20 DRESS ‘@oops. Poe. ieee ; {Nameless...... : ot 10%) “ GG Cashmere...... SS Nameless a 16 ' en eae 18 " CORSETS. Coreeee............ re 50/Wonderful .... ....84 50 Schilling’s. < Bee... .4-->--- 475 Davis Waists..... 9 OiBortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANB. DOS occ, oni. 6% Naumkeag satteen.. 7 amen ogein il fo Psi cus 4 ones i . eee... 6% Brunswick. .... .... 644) Walworth .......... 6% PRINTS. Allen = reds. . Serer tan fancies.... 5% 5%|\Clyde Robes........ - pink a purple $4) Cc. hoster Oak fancies 4% DelMarine cashm’s. 6 - pink checks. sacl - mourn’g 6 . staples ...... 5% |Eddystone a 5% - shirtings... 4 hocolat 5% American fancy.... 5% " cubes s+ On Americanindigo.... 5% e sateens.. 5% American shirtings. 4 Hamilton — 5% Argentine Grays... 6 — - 5% Anchor ~—- ~« Manchester ancy. 5% Arnold _— 6% new era. 5% Arnold Merino..... Merrimack D fancy. 5% . long cloth . 10% Merrim’ ck = 4% = Reppfurn . 8% “ 6 century cloth 7 7 |\Pacific fancy..... . 5% * gold seal... 4. * «Pones......... 6% “green seal TR 10%| Portsmouth robes... 5% ‘* yellow seal..10%/|Simpson ee 5% = ee........- 11% e greys 5% “ = Turkey red..10% . solfd black. 5% Ballou solid black.. 5 | Washington indigo. 5X ‘© colors. 5%| ‘“ Turkey robes.. * Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robes.... 7% and orange... 5%) “ plain Tiky x & s Berlin solids........ 5%; * - co ie...... — * a ey - = i. oe 6 “ FPoulards.... Big Martha Washington OO. ins ues q Turkey red &..... “ ues 9%/Martha Washington “ = oe. Turk as hk vahew 4 = @ eee. Riverpoint robes.... 5 Cocheco fancy...... Windsor fancy...... 6 madders. . 3 - gold ticket - XX twills.. 6% indigo blue....... 10% .~ oo... PORNO ee owes 4% ‘on KINGS. Amoukoos AC O..... URI. GC Bo .cce oe cccnee 12% Hieeatiton H........- 7%|Pemberton AAA....16 ia Me ereu bce EN oes ee 10% 5a Awning..11 |Swift River......... ™% Peer. a S iceme: MIVer......... 12 ie TE a en os vce ea ce 13 Lenox Bilis........+ 18 COTTON DRILL. Stan, Da ox —_ se webanves ee doe ee 6%|No Name........ . 7% curton, a... 6% Top of Heep iecens 9 SATINE Simpson age ous wae Imperia! pobeeuee seed 10% eenwicce ween s WD ices ev ones. =. % eee e vee teks 16 ncn 10 Coechco “pean ee te ee oe Amoskeag es ees 12%/Columbian brown. .12 cum... .. 13% Everett, pee... 12 - brown .13 brown. ....12 Bree. oso. oss ss 11% Haymaker pie. .... 7% Beaver Creek ie brown... 7 - See 11% ” cc. Lancasier eae eee: 12 Boston. Mfg Co. br.. Lawrence, oon... 138% blue a No ae... 38 “« 4 & twist 10% ei No. 250.. «11% Columbian XXX = 10 ' No, 280....10% XX bl.19 GINGHAMS, Aeneas ...,....... 7 Lancaster, staple. . ‘* Persian dress 8% fancies . 4 ” Canton .. 8% i Normandie 8 ’ APU...... 1044/Lancashire....,..... 6% . Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5% ™ Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6% - Persian.. 84%|Normandie..... .... 7% Arlington staple.... 644/Persian............. 8 Arasapha fancy.... 4% Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 844|Rosemont........... 6% staples. 6%/|Slatersville......... 6 Centennial......... 10% rena Die ae see os 7 Colerees ..........- art ecomes ............ 7% Cumberland staple. oi Toll, * Nord.. 10% Cumberland.... .... eee i... 1% Essex. . : ‘¢ seersucker.. oe eee ............ -« See WIeE.... <...4- Everett classics..... ;|Whittenden Sets kee eu Exposition.......... 74 . heather dr. 8 eee ss 6% “ indigo blue 9 Gionerven.......... 63%|Wamsutta staples. . - Greenwood. ......-..- 7% Westbrook ans Peeseem.... - ...... ee Fc 10 Johnson Vhalon cl %y seiindiatnigais Loe 5 - Sas DEG BGI TOEE..... soccer enee 6% : zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Amoskong.......-- -1634/ Valley “weal a 15 oe 19 |Georgia.. ces ee BCTIORR 5s sos es 15%|Pacific....... 13 THREADS, Clark’s Mile End....45 |{Barbour's........... 88 Coat’, 2. &F....... 45 meres. ... ...... 88 Hol yoke Ledeen cee oe 22% KNITTING COTTON, White. Colored. . .. ... 38 White. Colored. --37 42 No. io. 7 2 “ Dice 34 we eee ae _ 2... 40 Mie 44 ee 36 -_ Foe 45 CAMBRICS, piieaae aes ben 444|Ed@wards........... 4% Wives BE a ce coe 4g eee... ..-... 4% Bid Glove..........- eees........ .... 44 Newmarket......... 4%4|Brunswick ics eee, oh RED FLANNEL, Pireman...... «+++ a Ee ee 22% Creedmore........-- oe ag 32% Teel 2 As...-....- - wey, Cee.-........ 35 Remiiems........... 27% Buckeye se eens cone RH MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Re Bhi noo cuetes 224%4|Western W . ---18% NE isos tec en Re aes ets 18% 6os Western........ > ivsoeeing 2EX...... 23% Union B........-+-. 224i Manitoba........... 23% wo FLANNEL, Nameless oe 8 @9 eee 9 @10% ohon ooo” ” ies 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black. 9% 9% 934/13 13 13 10% 10% 104/15 15 15 11% 11% 11%)/17 Pw 17 12% 12% IAI nth 20 20 Severen, 8 0z........ 2% tWest Point, 8 =. -- 10% Mayland, Bee. ...... 10% 10 -- 12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 944|Raven, 100z......... 13% Greenwood, 8 oz.. 111% ea aan 13% Boston, 8 0f.......:. 10% |Boston, 10 0z........ 12% WADDINGS. White, Gos.......-.- = Per bale, 40 doz... .87 50 Coloeed, dos........ alent. Slater, Iron Cross... 8 an eg baae ote 10% Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie.. ao ” PE noses 10%| Bedford. . .10% vs Best BA vn oe City 10% Oe ae 10% i te aeeeaas eas ge SEWING SILK Corticelli, doz....... % twist, doz. .37% ppt doz. .37% Corticelli Santen, per 4%oz ball 30 OKS AND EYES—PER GROSS. No 1 BIk. & White..10 oe 2 o 12 No : Br k& White. 4 oe " Be “10 rf 35 2S 7 ae a ~ > SK.....2 40 316,68 C........ No 2 White & BPk.12. “No o 8 White & BI’k..20 + « - cai’ . . 2B oe _ “ei” 2 - 26 SAFETY PINS. ee es NEEDLES—PER M. A. James bedaee ed 1 40|Steamboat.... ... . = COI, sk cs cons : s Gold Eyed.......... 1 50 Marsials.... ...-00 aa es CLOTH. 8B 26/5—4....1 6—4...2 © 1212 6—4.. ee ee COTTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ..- 18 OE go et ee ac 12 Rising Star 4-ply....17 PES ccc acees 18% $ply....17 IE oo oc nce ese 16 {North Star.......... 2 Dees |. ...-. 5... ee Wool Standard 4 piyi7% Cherry Valley...... 15 |Powhattan ......... DO ioe sab eo te. 8 18% PLAID OSNABURGS lee cs 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% Ee 64%4/Oneida.........-.--: 5 I noo no cae oe 7%4|Prymont .........-- 5% Bere... oc. 5s 6 |Randelman........- cv cee cess 614| Riverside..........- 5% Granite ...... coosee. SMISiDlOy A........--0- 6% maw wver......... PONGUO 0560 2500 ‘ane’ ME ae hiicedeens 5 + ¢ i Bf af ' i eee NE am if THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A Long Road. From The Engineer. Of the many causes for failure in busi- ness none is more common than the im- patience of individuals. The average man, coming to years of discretion, after working for a salary, feels able to man- age for himself, and embarks in a ven- ture of one kind or another with more or less capital. He is sanguine of success, or he certainly would not risk his time and money, but it is seldom that he real- izes the length of thé journey before he can feel certain that he has an established connection. Some men acknowledge to themselves that there are such things as bad debts, dull seasons, and losses of ‘all sorts to be faced, but even these men do not realize the time that must elapse be- fore a business advertises itself, as one may say, or brings in money solely by reason of its being well conducted. Through not considering how long it takes to make a business, many get dis- couraged and sell out ata loss, or fail wholly, when, if they had been satisfied with the day of small things, they might have lived to see them grow larger. The hare and the tortoise of Esop’s fable exist to-day in trade, and the business hare is just as confident of his ability to make atrade in a day as his congener was of outstripping the hard-shell con- servative who went slower, but got there first in the sequel; for it is not so much brilliancy that is wanted as sturdy stick- ing to trade through thick and thin. It matters not what calling, or what line men take up in any one of them, certain qualities must be manifested, and ordi- nary business faculty will succeed with perseverance, where the erratic, can’t- wait-man misses every time. The most trying man to encounter in business is the one who never does what he agrees to, and, failing to keep to his promise, comes forward with an explan- ation, in other words an excuse. The complications which may arise from his default he never regards in the least, the “explanation”? is the main thing; and if this is plausible he may execute the order when he pleases. But this man, who is always losing his work by de- fault, is the promptest of creditors when he hasa bill due. Mark the swiftness with which he presents it and the perti- nacity with which he insists upon im- mediate discharge of it. ‘‘Stand and de- liver” is his motto, but he never considers his own delinquencies. We feel that it would be only just to procrastinators to make them wear outa pair of shoes in running after $3, make excuses for not paying them, and to make them feel un- happy and discouraged generally. Per- haps, after such an experience, they would mend their ways. ep Celluloid was discovered in 1869 by Hyatt. It is prepared by directing a jet of a mixture of 5 parts sulphuric acid and 2 parts nitric acid upon a roll of un- sized paper which is slowly unrolled by machinery toreceiveit. It then becomes pyroxyline, a variety of nitro-cellulose. After washing, the compound is ground with camphor until thoroughly ineorpor- ated, and then dried under a hydraulic press between bibulous paper, again ground and compressed in a special ap- paratus and heated to acertain tempera- ture, when it becomes a translucent, hard and elastic substance, capable of high polish. When heated to 250 degrees F. it becomes soft and malleable, can be drawn into very thin leaves, which being mixed with various colored substances, is made into a variety of articles. It is soluble in methyl alcohol, amyl acetate, amixture of ether and alcohol, either ethylie or methylic, in a solution of zine chloride, in twice its weightof hydro- chloric acid, ete. _— oO OS From the annual report of the Bell Telephone Company, it appears that the number of instruments in use at the close of the year 1891 was 512,407—a large increase over the previous year. The total earnings for the year were $4,- 375,290. The expenses were $1,505,872, leaving the net earnings at $2,869,418. The extension of the long-distance tele- phone system is rapidly progressing. rl rennet Use Tradesman or Superior Cowpons. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITS. dis. a a 60 ie eT ame mlee = Sennen SCONNNNG. jenmimes , Hmitetion ......... 20.2.5. S0&10 AXES. First Quality, oe Brome. 7 50 . mB Bees. ............... 12 00 ee, 8 : 2. ee 13 50 BARROWS. dis. RRM $ 14 00 ee, net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. eee tec oa ay 50&10 Carriage new list.......... Se 75&10 oe ee 40&10 Sieigh ee 70 BUCKETS. Wem, ee $3 50 Gl BWV, 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis, Cant Loose Pin. figured........ .......0..... 7& Wrought Narrow, bright bast io 60&10 Mtoe Lovee Tim. 60&10 od, te 60&10 Werouert teeide lind. |... 60&10 WROMG Drege 75 oe CO 70&10 Blind, Gt a 7O&10 Pt, MORRO 70 BLOCKS, Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 60 CRADLES, eee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Wee OOO. 8c. perb 5 CAPS, Ae perm 65 —— Ce ee cl. 60 Se ol ea Tie ' 35 aba eee on os _ 60 CARTRIDGES, ee Pe 50 MOGs WO. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. ees Pee 70&10 ee ee 70&10 eR ce 70&10 Re eee ccc acs eels — Butchors Tanged Pirmer........... ...... COMBS. cs Cumey, Lemonegs. el... 40 OO EE Ps) CHALE, White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28 14 io Pee, eee... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 wea Meee 23 Cold Rolled, — Os ue cabana dea eue oe 23 ee 25 DRILLS. dis, mores Wat Deeees......................... 50 Taper and straight Shank........... eels 50 mOrnG h Peper onene.............. 1... ‘ 50 DRIPPING PANS. Reel witee Gee Hot... 1... ck. 07 Perec Gece ber perm. ..... ......... .... 6% ELBOWS. Come. 4 peeee O.......s.. dos. net 2 Corre el. .. dis Adjustable...... Sd cred cdeeeece case see yo dis. 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, —, $18; = SN eee oec cs cee 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, 824: ee eel, 25 cio List. Lo camera RE eae 60&10 Pee ee es i 60810 Micneison’s .......... -60&10 ee ons cc ws Hletier« Moree Matps................ cee 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28 List b 13 14 15 16 a Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. —— Mule and Level Ca.4............... 50 | HAMMERS. | manage SUG 6... 6c... dis, 2) Rs, ai... ... $8 00 *« -1—10 - a 8 50 s 2-15 “ . ee 9 00 « 320 “ . e ” 2... 1... 10 00 “« 4-3 e ee ce cae eee 12 00 * +a ~ o ee ee 16 00 “« 660 * 6 26 00 ° 7s. “ ‘ ieee us coe. 30 00 ’ . » a 35 Write for Discount. 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. | A WEEKLY JOUBNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY — THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Dollar a Year, - Pestage 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. w= When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in TwE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1892. THE FUTURE OF CANADA. Despite the renewed vigor that has been infused into the Canadian Govern- ment since the discovery of irregularities on the part of some of the leading oppo- nents of the ministry, the annexation agitation has not altogether died out. The desire for political union with this country may be said to be as strong as ever among the Canadians, but of late it has commanded less of public attention, junion and encourages it, the final con- | this new phase of the problem. the Dominion to the States having recent- | wealth, so that the country is both torn ly become so large that public men there | with political turmoil and financially have been compelled to seriously consider 'ruined. It is, therefore, not surprising | that a very unsettled state of affairs pre- Referring to this constant flow of Can- | vails, and that the Government is not in adian emigrants to the States, a leading | a position to handle with firmness even Canadian journal says: ‘Will not some | | an insignificant rebellion. one suggest some way in which this de-| Jt is to be feared that, encouraged by bilitating drainage of the life blood of | the success of the rebels in Matto Grosso, the Dominion can be checked? So long | the discontented elements in other por- as it continues the development of an | tions of Brazil may attempt a similar re- independent and consolidated Canada is| yolt, with the result of finally dismem- a dream, and the future of Canada re- | pering the most extensive and populous mains shrouded in the mists of uncer-!| State in South America, which, under tainty and dread.” the mild rule of Dom Pedro, was the It would thus seem that force of cCiI-| most prosperous and well-ordered of all cumstances without any encouragement | the Latin-American countries. on the part of the people of the United States is driving the people of Canada to seek annexation, but unless the British | Government voluntarily consents to such THE ABUNDANCE OF MONEY. The recent exports of gold from this country to Europe have not failed to create in some quarters fears of a finan- cial stringency later in the summer, when money will be needed to move the crops. It is true that the movement was not heavy, but it served to arouse fears that it was but the beginning of a more liberal movement later on. summation, if indeed it occurs at all, is yet many years off, as this country cer- tainly is in no condition and has no de- sire to risk a war with Great Britain for the possession of Canada. BRAZIL IN A TURMOIL. There has not been a time in the past two years when civil war has not been in progress in some portion or another of Latin-America, but at the present mo- ment even that record has been surpassed by the fact that there are in progress two full-fiedged revolutions. .One of these fratricidal wars is being waged in Venezuela and is fast nearing a crisis that must determine which off the con- tending parties will come of victor. The other is in the southern portion of Brazil, Although the engagements of bullion for export have not entirely ceased, re- liable information from New York indi- cates that no serious fears are entertained there that there will be this season any considerable drain of gold from this country to Europe, because all the prin- cipal European banks are well supplied and money generally is a drug on the market across the Atlantic. This plentiful supply of money in Europe is doubtless due to the conserva- for the reason that it has received little | in the province, or rather State, of Matto | tism which has prevailed since the finan- encouragement from the United States while there is also the ever present fear ment has been declared. of the interpretation the British Govern- ment may see fit to place upon the efforts of the friends of the movement. | The causes which inaugurated the an- | of very serious importance, particularly .|Grosso, where an independent govern-| cial panic of year before last, in which ' the Barings failed. That event forced a Under ordinary circumstances a re-| Sort of general liquidation, which pro- volt in so distant portion of the Brazil-| cess not being conducive to the develop- ian Republic ought not to prove a matter|™ment of new enterprises, money has gradually accumulated at the financial nexation desire some years ago are, if|as the country is cut off from the sea-| centers. anything, stronger than ever. heavily upon Canadian trade now than | they ever did, and it is no secret that | neither commerce nor agriculture are | flourishing in the dominion. Under such The tariff | board, and has laws of the United States bear even more small population. but a comparatively | It is true that, notwithstanding this Nevertheless, it ap-| reported plethora of money, there was a according to recent dispatches, | serious bank failure in London this week, ' ithe effects of which are likely to be |serious enough within certain limits. pears, that the troops that the Brazilian Gov- ernment has sent against the insurgents | |have met with a disastrous defeat, and | The failure of the Oriental Bank was in circumstances it is not surprising that| have been practically driven out of the | BO sense due to any abnormal condition there should exist serious discontent and | country. a steadily growing demand that there | should be either commercial or political union with this country. For some time past vegotiations have | | Government to reach the seat of trouble. been in progress between representatives | than it should be under ordinary circum-| disquieting feature of the financial posi- of this country and Canada looking to the establishing of reciprocal trade rela- | tions, and the hope that some arrange- | ment would be arrived at has kept the | clined to make common cause with Matto | purchasing power of countries possessing desire for annexation in the background. Since the resignation of Mr. Blaine from | Grosso than to aid the Central Govern- | @ a the office of Secretary of State these ne-| ment to quell the disturbance. | The isolation of Matto Grosso, | of things prevailing in the general finan- while making it of small consequence, at | cial situation, but was the direct result the same time makes it difficult for the | of the recent heavy shrinkage in the | value of silver, with the consequent de- Another consideration which makes preciation in all Eastern exchange. the rebellion of much more consequence| The silver question is, in fact, the only stances is the widespread dissatisfaction | tion, owing to the steady shrinkage which prevails all over Brazil and which | | which has taken place in consequence of renders many of the provinces more in-| |the decline of the white metal in the silver standard. This state of things The ru-| warrants the belief that something will gotiations have suddenly terminated, and | inous administration of affairs since the | soon have to be done either to accord a unless they are soon re-opened the an- | inauguration of the Republic has plunged | more extensive recognition to silver, or nexation agitation will doubtless be given | the country into new life. There is no doubt a strong national bankruptcy, causing | |to-put the silver countries on a gold widespread discontent with the existing | | basis. state of things. There lingers, more-| The prospect of cheap money during sentiment prevalent among a large num- | over, some attachment to the old regime | the coming crop season will assist greatly ber of people in Canada which may pre- |among the people, which keeps many |in encouraging industrial and business yent the political union with this country | aloof from all participation in public af-| development, as the fear of a possible desired by the remainder for many years | | fairs. to come, particularly as this country | shows no peculiar desire to encourage | | men in Brazil have gradually withdrawn No matter how strong, from all connection with the Government, however, the national sentiment may be | | and have either gone into voluntary ex- in Canada, no one can be blind to the ile or retired to private life. number of emigrants from all parts of | to the movement. fact that the Canadians are being rapidly | annexed in detail to this country, the | monetary stringency being removed, The most enlightened and influential | there will be no occasion for ultra con- servatism. THE PEOPLE’ Ss WEALTH. The men| The returns of the total aggregate of who have assumed control have been} all taxable property in the United States completely unsuccessful in attempting | in 1890 has been made up by the Census establish a well-ordered common- Bureau. This grand showing of wealth foots up in round numbers $63,648,000,- 000. Sixty-three thousand millions of dol- lars is the sum of all the taxable property in the union, and if equally divided among the sixty-three millions of the Union’s population it would allow one thousand dollars to every man, woman and child. But when we know that many hundreds of individuals own property to the amount of millions each, and many thousands own it to the amount of hundreds of thousands each, we are brought to realize how many there must be who do not own the regulation $1,000. It is the dream of the socialists that all wealth shall be divided equally or held in common for the equal use of all, but it isnot in human nature to maintain such a state of equality. If there is one truth which has been thoroughly estab- lished by experience, it is that people are not equal in anything but in abstract rights. If all the wealth were equally divided, not a month, not a week would elapse before there would be rich and poor people side by side just as there are now. Some have the gift of gathering and keeping; others are equally gifted in seattering and spending. Men may have a theoretical right to be equal, but this right is never realized to any considera- ble degree. But some may be rich in this world’s goods and others may have their treasure stored in heaven. Some who have little may be contented and happy, while some who have much are ever hoping and striving for what they have not. Per- haps each gets his deserts, although neither he nor others may think so. It is only in the final account that it may be estimated how rich a man is and of what his riches consist. Doubtless there is some wealth that cannot be measured in dollars. If there is one centure, more than an- other, in which Grand Rapids people can take a commendable degree of -pride, it is the admirable service now rendered the public by the Consolidated Street Railway Co. Nothing could impress the stranger and casual visitor more favor- ably than the regularity and rapidity with which the cars now run on all the lines in the city and nothing tends to the greater convenience of the general pub- lic. While the municipality was very liberal in according the company the use of the streets, the latter is certainly act- ing with great fairness and generosity in according excellent facilities and a lib- eral system of transfers. The Kansas Undertakers’ Association’s articles of agreement bind the members not to purchase from any wholesale es- tablishment which sells to undertakers not in the Association. J. M. Knight attempted to start an undertaking estab- lishment in Topeka, but no company would sell him a hearse. He brought suit against the Association for damages, and was awarded $5,000. The United States District Attorney announces that he will institute proceedings to dissolve the Association. The Dry Goods Market. Comforts—Prices are about 15 per cent. lower than ayearago. The Palmer Mills have gotten out an entirely new line. Yarns—Prices are 51¢ @ lower than last season. 61¢ per cent. iC a & ES ay oe So THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE GROWTH OF CITIES. tual and material development. It is a/| The most striking and peculiar fact in great festering place of vice, often of | connection with the movement of popu- | disease and alwaysof crime. Here alone | lation and the development of civiliza- the depths of misery and of poverty can | tion to-day is the extraordinary growth | be sounded, and so widespread and deep- of cities. rooted are moral depravity and social | Such urban growth is always attend-| degradation that there is no wonder that | ant upon a high state of material devel- | some of the foremost philosophers and | opment and social luxury. Pak ee ee ee & 5 successive ages dominated the world and made up the chief passages of its annals, we find that the names of the great cities and the acts of their people so monopo- | lize attention as to make it easy to be- | lieve that those cities constituted the | whole of the nations they represented. Babylon, Nineveh, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Venice, are names peoples | which stand not only for races, and nations, but for periods and eras in the world’s history; yet they are only the names of cities. To-day it is difficult to realize that there was in the history of the ages they represent anything outside those cities worth attention. We are almost ready to believe in the glare of those potential names that there were no people in the world fit to have their names recorded who were not inhabitants of those mighty eenters of population. To-day, also, London and Paris seem to stand for the nations they represent, and everywhere cities are looming into sudden promi- nence because of their rapid growth in population. Only a few decades ago the United States was not remarkable for its cities. Now they are becoming notable features in the development of the coun- try. When we come to consider the growth of the total population of our country as compared with that of the cities, we find that the cities are gaining inhabit- ants at a vastly greater rate. For in- stance, New York City has grown in the last census decade at the rate of 27 per cent., while the State of New York has gained population at the rate of 18. For Chicago it is 118 to 24 for Illinois. Brooklyn has grown faster than New York City, the percentage being 42 to the State’s 18. Baltimore has gained 31 per cent. to Maryland’s 11. Cleveland has grown 63 to.15 for Ohio, and Buffalo 65 to 18 for New York State. Minneap- olis has gained in population 251 per cent. to 67 for Minnesota, and Omaha 360 to Nebraska’s 67, while Kansas City gained 138 to Missouri’s 24. The growth of Southern cities has not been so dis- tinctive. New Orleans did not keep up with the State, only gaining 12 per cent. to 19 for Louisiana. San Francisco is also another remarkable comparative laggard, for although the city gained 28 per cent. the State got 40. Philadelphia barely kept up with Pennsylvania, show- ing 24 to 23. Where a city gains people so much faster than does the State, it shows that all is not due to immigration, but that the country people are leaving the farms and flocking to the cities, which is al- waysa bad sign. But so far the great- est increase of urban population is from the immigration of foreigners ; the great majority of these people stop in the cit- ies, so that in some of them they make up the bulk of the population. The crowding of the people into great cities is not good for the morals of a country. A great center of population is not alone a seat of wealth, learning, refinement, of industry and all intellec- In reading | philanthropists have deplored cities as the history of the nations which have in the plague spots of civilization. A New York clergyman, seeking novel and sen- | sational sermons, recently made a round | of some of the gilded abodes of vice in the American metropolis, and detailed from the pulpit and through the press his adventures with the inhabitants of |suech resorts, but his ill-considered de- | scent into the infernal realms of human depravity exposes only a very little of the vast moral filth and corruption which ;are to be found in the underworld of every great city. The religionists and self-styled statesmen who are unable to propose remedies for these terrible moral evils, do ill to uncover them. They are inseparable from the gathering of vast masses of population into cities, and | their extirpation and purification are |among the highest problems to which statesmanship and real virtue and true piety could address themselves. A Sictatal Senin ‘icaiein: Omaha commercial circles enjoy the ber a feminine drummer, one of the fair sex who is a member of the guild, not by courtesy, not by the license of news- paper imagination, but by the right of a service wrich is identical with that im- posed upon men. Sheisnot a peddler of novelties, and doesn’t deal with her own sex. She carries astaple line, deals with business men and competes with male drummers. The lady in question is Miss Marie Stocum, who represents the Consolidated Coffee Co.. of Omaha, on the road. It may be well to anticipate doubters right here by stating that Miss Stocum has been a traveling saleswoman for about four years and has been with her present house well onto two years. That is the best possible evidence that her endeavor is not recent and is not an experiment, but is backed by energy and ability, and has won her a success which entitles her to recognition as a full-fledged veteran in the noble army of drummers. Miss Stoeum is a native of Wisconsin, but removed with her family to Michigan at an early age, and her parents now re- side at Hartford. She began her career on the road in 1888, traveling out of Chicago for Chapman & Smith Co. and selling extracts and baking powder. She worked the Omaha trade for that firm. In September, 1890, she joined the forces of the Consolidated Coffee Co., of this city, and has met with excellent success. She has traveled all over the west, but at present her territory is Western Iowa, which enables her to return to Omaha every Saturday. Miss Stocum is only twenty-three years old and a very attractive looking young lady. Even a short acquaintance shows that her physieal charms are _ supple- mented with equally attractive graces of mind. In short, Miss Stocum is an ex- ceptionally bright and charming girl. While there are hardships on the road, as all know who have tried that kind of work, Miss Stocum confesses to a liking for it. She is independent, the trade treats her kindly, and in the traveling man she has found the most chivalric of friends. The Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association, however, refused Miss Sto- cum a membership in that organization because the constitution had the word “man,” and not ‘‘woman.’’ ——t The boy who had been caught by his mother in the act of stealing sugar, pleaded his case thus: ‘‘You ought not to whip me because you know I have been vaccinated from a hooking cow, and I’ve got it in my blood.’’ distinction of having among their num- | SNIDE SOAP MAY LOOK ALL RIGHT ON YOUR SHELVES BUT YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO SELL POOR SOAP. UFFALO SOA HAS FOR YEARS HEADED THE LIST AS THE BEST LAUNDRY - - KARTH. I. M. CLARK Sect Co. LION = KING —~ And His two courtiers are —~ 0.0. JAVA a0 STANDARD MARACAIBO, His RovauHicuvess MERCHANTS should place all . three in their stores, since Lion is the leading package coffee in the ee while O. D. Java and Stan- a -— S bulk sili ue Lion Coffee i 1s = = composed of Mocha, Java and Rio, LI LION COFI F EEO a picture in ak package, and valuable premiums are given to customers who return the trade marks cut from the wrappers. Why not write your Jobber for Quotations or address WOOLSON SPICE CO, =k, WINTERNIYZ, ROASTERS OF RESIDENT AGENT, High Grade Coffees, | 106 Ker Sr. TOLEDO, - - OHIO. | GRAND RAPIDS, MIOH. ese aerate: po THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. BUSINESS ENTERPRISE VS. HUST- LING. Written for THE TRADESMAN. It is common to find nowadays in trade journals brisk, stirring articles contain- ing advice as to the best methods of car- rying on mercantile business. In most of them emphasis is laid on what men of this age are accustomed to call push. The ideal business man is represented to be not only affable in manner, neat in his habits, thorough and prompt concern- ing all small details, but, above every other qualification, he must merit of being a hustler. There always seems to be a shade of uncertainty as to what the writer means by hustler; but the idea is suggested that he must be| wide-awake, use sensational methods of | advertising, know what is going on else- | where than in his own store, and that! sales | he must ever and always push away ahead of every competitor. Sneer- ing remarks are thrown out in this con-| nection referring to dealers who are not | moving at a 2.40 gait, and who do not} keep the atmosphere around them at all times in a constant state of perspiration. | This kind of mental stimulant is quite | refreshing to the average young clerk, | who, on a small salary, is faithfully cul- tivating a mustache and also hopes of fu- ture commercial prosperity, when he, too, will have a business of his own and be able to hustle to some purpose. His imagination soars to a height where he ean see the future unrolling itseif in ever new and enticing forms, until the pres- ent dull routine of buying and selling seems tame and unworthy his ambition. Thereupon he writes his name on the Scroll of Fame as a hustler who scorns plodding in any {well-beaten commercial road. This advice is, nodoubt, well intended, and, possibly, may, here and there, spur some laggard in the proper direction. But evidently this is not the age to which it is applicable. It should have been given to our great grandfathers a hun- dred years ago, long before the world had waked up and stretched itself for the race that will only be finished when time shall cease to be an element of measure or strength or growth to mankind. At that time the gospel of push would have been like good seed sown in good ground. To-day it is not needed, for the commer- cial pace already set is at present so fast that even the lively advice referred to can scarcely overtake it. The need of our times isa break rather than aspur. The tendency of this age is to overproduction and overtrading, and the element of actual equivalent is not always considered. this century have ful dealer is becoming oftener the ex- ception than the rule. filling up with new stores in every small hamlet, which divide a trade already demoralized for both buyer and seller. Thus trade has been drawn from larger towns, and this compels new schemes to} secure large sales to make such increased ventures profitable. gins more goods have to be forced on consumers, and new commercial products are every day added to the dealer’s list, one favorite crowding out another in be- wildering succession, until dealers have} become almost free distributors of manu factured specialties. I speak for a class of dealers who have have the/| The inventions of | increased artificial | wants faster than the ability of the pub-| lic to procure them. The safe and care- | The country is! With smaller mar- | heretofore not been considered in the on- ward rush for sudden wealth, but wha! are the salt of each community wherein | they do business, and whose standing on | the ledger of wholesale trade is far ahead | of the hustlers, as they average. They | have behind them accumulated results | of years of careful business experience, | and, also, some feeling of responsibility | to the public whose interests have been | served equally with their own. They | recognize the fact that mutual prosper- ity is based on the uniform working of | the natural law of supply and demand. | Feasts and famines in trade products are /no more desirable than the same ex- |; reemes in the lives and homes of cus- tomers. They honor the true axiom of trade that no bargain is worthy the name unless both parties thereto are gainers. They therefore give thought to the work of preparing for a supply of all reason- | able as well as seasonable demands; tak- |ing care that quality shall be a potent factor in every calculation, with prices | fixed according to the golden rule person- At the | same time they respect commercial ethics | ally applied to each transaction. | by keeping their lines of traffic as much as possible from encroaching on other dealers, in the spirit of the maxim to ‘live and let live.” This one point is apt to be forgotten in the rivalries of commerce, like manners in a boarding house rush; but the practice of courtesy need never detract from one’s business enterprise, and is what constitutes the difference between a merchant and a fakir. Most of the business conducted in this country is done by houses whose meth- ods are based on the theory that quiet, persistent effort to give customers the value of their money is the golden chain that binds them in a common interest, andnot any startling departure from the ordinary modes to attract public atten- tion. Some advertise largely in papers, especially those who sell by retail; but most have a custom obtained by personal canvass, and maintained by fair and hon- orable dealing. The hustler of to-day is often a farmer who has found his calling distasteful, and with speculative instincts has es- tablished himself in business with no knowledge of trade further than to un- dercut in price and startle by loud ad- vertising. He succeeds in demoralizing prices, and doing, for a time, an appar- ently large business. Having a few fa- vorite customers to whom he sells at job- bing rates in consideration of their per-| sonal influence, he is able to spy out! |; all the weak points of his competitors and often to coax away customers. In many staples and partial luxuries he has a habit of dealing only at occasional intervals, and then at cost prices, just | enough to call such trade away from his competitor, who believes the public should be served all the time with such goods at fair prices, if served atall. He catches onto all the gambling schemes adopted by certain manufacturers to in- | troduce their specialties and the homes |} | ot his customers are in time filled with | useless bric-a-brac, and cans of baking | powder bought at prices that would make | a Chatham street Hebrew blush to the! point of his aquiline nose. Every other | device is made use of as fast as offered to force on a credulous public goods that | | would not seH on their own merits. | | Schemes of all kinds to boom business iby pyrotechnic display are pushed in| WW See that this Label appears EERE on every ‘package, as it is a FER ENTURy Tig RIVERDALE BTR — of the genuine ar- re enerra By en CHICAGO oe gHIGAGO FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE OMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years. Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. L. WINTERNITZ Telephone 566. State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich, 106 Kent St. See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a guarantee of the gennine article. BEANS W. TT. LAMOREAUX CO., 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. efor Tap Tox ey RIVERDALE BISTIUSS If you have any beans and want to sell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity upto car loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. For Bakings of All Kinds Use leischmann & G0. Unrivaled Compressed Yeast. SUPPLIED | FRESH DAILY To Grocers Everywhere. Special attention is invited to our YELLOW LABEL which is affixed to every cake of our Yeast, and which serves TO DISTINGUISH Our Goods from worthless Imitations. -® .pounds. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 44 rapid succession. The result is he has made anoise in his little world, sold a great many goods at a very little profit to himself or ‘he public, and is then anxious to sell out, and go where there is a larger sphere for the exercise of his peculiar talents. The village could well spare him were it not that another neo- phyte with aswelled head would take his place, and pursue a similar system with new variations. And this is what some thoughtless people call enterprise! What the world wants to-day is less of this class of hust- lers. The centrifugal force that moves the business world is at present sufficient to keep it spinning along in its own reg- ular orbit. We do not want more speed. Neither do we want a more eccentric or- bit. Let us rather attach the centripetal force of wise experience, that it may re- volve in harmony with other commercial, social and moral planetary systems, and thus go ahead safely while no less surely, in the boundless future of our national greatness. S. P. WHITMARSH. 2 The Sampler and the Loafer. A grocer of twenty years’ experience has made the statement that his annual losses, through the giving away of candy and nuts to children, and the sampling of dried fruits, crackers, cheese, ete., by eustomers, run up into hundreds of dol- lars. The general merchant constantly suffers through ‘‘sampling,” for his cus- tomers want a piece off of every bolt of ealico and dress goods in stock. A dry goods merchant, of New York City, wondered whether one person in a thousand who asks for a sample of a piece of dry goods ever stops to think what it costs the merchants of this coun- try a year to satisfactorily respond to the simple request, and so great was his wonder that he started out toinvestigate. He had a talk with the managers of a dozen or more big houses not long ago, and among other things discussed was that of giving away samples and sending out samples of dry goods, ete., by sales- men. Finally he went to figuring on the matter. The result was most appalling. He found that, placed at a conservative figure, there are more than $3,000,000 worth of goods given away, and conse- quently destroyed, in samples every year in the United States. Worse than the ‘‘sample’’ fiend is the loafer. The loafer sticks his dirty hands in your cracker barrel, opens your cheese box and lets the flies in, notches your bologna sausage, spits on your floor, and, worse than all, spends hour after hour telling you how to run your business. The sample fiend is bad enough, but the loafer is worse. nll, A Hint to Dealers. A valuable assistant to a dealer is a well-compiled scrap-book made up of items gathered from the trade journals and miscellaneous reading which relate to the business in which he is engaged. Practica! information may thus be gath- ered which, if not needed at the moment, may on future occasions prove valuable. There are a thousand and one topics treat- ed of inthe trade journals during a year’s issue which would comprise a compen- dium of knowledge almost inestimable to the progressive dealer, and outside of this branch of journalism there is the world to select from. Dealers who have as yet plodded along without this aid will find the suggestion of interest. ——————.2_> > —_— A Maple Sugar Miser. From the Boston Traveler. A man living at Burke, Vt., has saved all the maple sugar he has made in the past fifty years, having now on hand a considerable quantity of the boiling of 1842 and his entire crop of every year since, the whole aggregating 10,000 It is all stirred sugar and has kept perfectly. Nobody knows why he hoards the sugar, and he offers no ex- planation. —_—_———<-<——_—_— Use Tradesman Cowpon Books. oe LANDLORD AND TENANT. PAPER V. Written for THE TRADESMAN. A mortgagor in possession before de- fault is not an implied tenant of the) mortgagee; but a promise by him to pay | rent tothe mortgagee after default cre- ates a tenancy. A lease by a purchaser | to a seller, with the privilege of repur- | chasing, is a mortgage; but a deed with | a lease back may be an absolute convey- ance, with security to the seller for the purchase money, or for a maintenance during life. A mortgage may be created in the form of a lease to the mortgagee, or of an assignment of a lease as securi- ty; but an absolute lease will not be deemed a mortgage merely because the rent is applied upon a debt, nor because there is a privilege of purchase, if there is no debt. When a lease is given to a mortgagee | as additional security, he takes posses- | sion as lessee and not mortgagee, and | may hold as such after foreclosure until the time for redemption expires; but if | he has an option to hold over at a fair rental value, such value, after foreclo- sure, must be applied to the mortgage debt. Our courts have held that, after the debt is paid, the mortgagee cannot retain possession under the lease without payment of rent; and in another case it was held that retention of such a lease during the term does not suspend the right to foreclose the mortgage at ma- turity. The mortgagor cannot make a lease to a third person, subsequent to the mort- gage, which will bind the mortgagee after he obtains the right of entry; but a lease made by the mortgagor before the mort- gage is not affected by its foreclosure, but the mortgage, when the right of pos- session accrues under it, operates as an assignment. of the reversion (grantor’s remaining interest) and entitles the mortgagee to rents accruing after notice of the assignment. In a recent case in this State, our Supreme Court held that if the mortgagee make a parol! lease for life to the mortgagor’s grantee, it will be enforced after foreclosure of the mortgage. RIGHTS OF AGENTS. An agent has no autherity to make a lease under seal, unless his authority is in writing and under seal; and the Stat- ute of Frauds requires that his authority must be in writing to make a valid lease for a term exceeding one year; but verbal authority is sufficient to make a valid lease for one year or less. An express authority must be given to an agent to make or confirm a lease and authority is not inferable from previous acts of the agent. In Clark vs. Field, 42 Mich., 342, it was held that license from an agent is not admissible unless his authority is shown. A lessee occupying under the with consent of the principal is estopped to deny the agent’s authority, nor can the principal suing upon the lease deny that it was authorized. A general agent lease may take a lease for his principal’s ben- | efit, but cannot make a lease without special authority, nor exceed the term of a lease beyond his authority. An agent authorized to collect rents cannot lease or consent to an assignment of a lease. A lease under seal, executed by an agent of the lessorin his own name, conveys no estate, and the principal cannot sue thereon, but the agent may sue there- on as lessor if occupation is had **Not How Cheap, but How Good.’’ ‘Blue Label’ Ketchup SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, Will be found te maintain the high character of our other food products. We use only well-ripened, high-colcred Tomatoes, seasoned with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color. PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY CURTICE BROTHERS CoO,, Rochester, N. Y., U.S. A, BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO., Distributing Agents. Glass Covers for Biscuils. Cracker Chests. ee : Oy ae ie Price $4. HESE chests will soon UR new glass covers are by far the | pay for themselves in the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any | breakage they avoid. of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherina moment They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER. The Modern Writing Machine! This is bound to be one of Visible Writing. Permanent Alignment. Automatic Ribbon-Feed Reverse High Speed. Powerful 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 Pe = inches wide, and writes a line 13% R inches long. Price, $110 complete SEND FOR CATALOGUE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, State Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. under it. The principal may sue upon | they might have produced if leased, and | an unsealed lease so executed, if his | name appears therein,-and any lease so the principal, if the intent to make it} such clearly appears. In Massachusetts it has been held that | an agent doing business in the name of another responsible for rent. An is is accountable for losses for omitting to) |lease, or to obtain a fair rental for the | executed will be regarded as the lease of | premises. A statutory receiver has no power to| |lease, if not expressly given, and the} agent controlling the rental of lands is | responsible to his principal for due dili- gence; but is pot personally liable fora nuisance caused by the tenant. He is entitled to reimbursement for money ad- vanced and has a lien on the rent first to | become due, after notice of his claim to the tenant. lessor and lessee and claim compensa- tion from each, when his sole service is to bring them together; but our Supreme Court has held that an agent cannot vb- tain any profit for himself by taking a lease in his own name and sub-letting to | others. A power of attorney must be express and cannot exist by implication, and must be strictly pursued in form and substance to make a lease under it vaiid. lf the lease exceed the power, it is void the excess. When usual covenants are) An agent may act for both | | 'tions of a valid lease by her. He ac- | } cannot be set off against rent of his wife's legislature alone can ratify a void lease | made by him. | HUSBAND AND WIFE. In this State, where husband and wife | join in making a lease, it has been held | that the husband cannot assign the lease; and that, where the wife rents land in| her own name and cultivates it by her | own separate means, she is entitled to| the proceeds. In this State a married | woman can make a valid lease of her| own separate property and control it as | completely as if she were single. A hus- | band cannot lease the homestead without | the wife’s consent; nor can he bind her} separate estate as an agent by an un- | necessary renting, nor change the condi- | quires no interest in the products of his | wife’s separate estate by contributing labor thereto; and a debt due from him | | land. in law, but good in equity except as to| required by the power, it is a question | of fact what are such covenants in the} neighborhood, or in other leases of the same kind. A power to an executor to ‘can the infant himself during his minori-; Grand Rapids, lease includes a power to collect rents | and distribute them to the persons bene- | ficially interested. Trustees having the legal title may | 'make a valid lease by an agent; and a) | license by an infant to commit waste | |upon his lands has been held by our| lease lands consistently with the trust; and severa! trustees having a joint au- thority must act together, and a lease by part of them is void. Leases by trustees | must be for a reasonable period and upon reasonable terms, or they will not be| upheid in equity. make a valid the lease without the concur- trustee; and the who rents may collect or sue for rents in his own rence of trustee name. when the title to the property is held by the lessee in trust for the lessor. An executor who is empowered by the will may make a lease pursuant to the power, even before the will is proven; but an administrator cannot grant a lease before the issuance of letiers. Statutory conditions of the power to lease by an} A beneficiary cannot | A lease is not merged | executor or administrator must be strict- | ly complied In this country, guardians of the prop- erty of an infant may grant leases during the whole of the infant’s minority, sub- ject to be defeated by another guardian appointed pursuant to statute; but not by the election of the infant at the age of fourteen, the old common as under law. A natura: zuarcdian cannot make a valid lease, ior receive rents so as to bind his minor child; and our Supreme Court has held that the death of the ward determines a guardian’s lease and that rent paid ihereafter may be _ re- covered. A guardian cannot bind his ward for improvements upon leased lands, nor by a lease extending beyond the ward’s ma- jority; but the ward. may ratify such a lease, and after he becomes of age may collect the rents in his own name, or sue for a breach of covenant made by his guardian for his benefit. A guardian in his settlement may charge reasonable with to make the lease valid. | | time when a bill shall be paid. | have the hearty grip, winning smile and, |tender conscience of a | Christian Association secretary, and yet) inever dream that your pay-roll comes | rent for a building used for the business | of the ward; and if he occupies the ward’s lands, he is responsible for what INFANTS. Leases by or to an infant are not void, | but are voidable by him when he arrives | at majority. An adult lessee of an in-| fant lessor cannot avoid the lease, nor | ty, and to avoid it after majority, there | should be an express disaffirmance, or | some positive act which is inconsistent | with its continuance. An infant cannot Supreme Court to be void. During the} minority, or upon, disaffirmance at ma- | jority, he may plead his infaney as aj defense to an action for rent, unless it | ean be shown to be included within the) term ‘‘necessaries.”’ This’ will my ‘‘Parties to a Lease.” The next step in| order will be a consideration of the} * 9 : : | ‘Rights of the Parties,” which will be| taken up in the next article. x. A. OWEN. | —————_- > +4. | A Few Remarks on Credit. Always bear in mind that in trusting a| man you are doing him a favor, and at} the time a bill is due you have just as} good a right to request him to settle as he has to request you to get the job done on! time in the first place. Always set a} Indefi- | nite credit is the worst of all evils. The} more prompt a man can be made to pay | the better customer he becomes. If a} man proves to be poor pay, unreliable, | do not continue to accept his orders. | Never credit on the strength of per-| sonal acquaintance alone. A man may} conclude review Young Men’s around on Saturday. He may have an} eye of tender blue and wear the finest} clothes; you may see the corner of a half ; used check book sticking out of his in-! side pocket—yet he may never pay his| yills. When asked for credit, always in- | vestigate the man’s previous standing and get your information from the peo-| ple who trusted him before. Always vear in mind: ‘*The best criterion as to | how aman will pay his bills is the way he has paid them.’’ Study this subject and you will realize before you are too old to profit by it the value of cash in hand—the ghost-like, unreal, visionary value of book accounts. | —_—_—_—~<>-+o<——___—_—— The severest test possible for a man’s | character is to do good and have some one else get the credit for it. Practical Rooter Established 1868, Geo. H. Reeder & Co ’ HM. REYNOLDS & S0H, BOOTS & BOOTS & SHOES WHOLESALE DEALERS 1N Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for Bui Plain and Corrugated Carpet lding and Sheathing Papers, Linings, Asphalt and Coal Tar Prepared Roofing, Best Grades Asphaltum and Fire-proof Roof Coal Tar and Coal Tar Pitch, Elastic Roofing Cement, Resin and Mineral Wool, Asbes- Paints, 158 & 160 Fulton *t. Grand Rapids SCHLOSS, ADLER & GO, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls —AND—— Gents Furnishing Goods, REMOVED TO tos Fire-proof Sheathing, Ete. In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor.csLOUIS and CAMPAU Sts.. Mich. STANWOOD & CO, Gloucester, Cape Aon, Mass. Salt Water Fish of | North Ionia st.. Grand Rapids, Mich., who will FOURTH NATIONAL BANK 23-25 Larned St., East DETROIT, MICH. Dealers wishing to look over our line are in- vited to address our Western Michigan repre- sentative, Ed. Pike, 272 Fourth avenue, Grand Rapids. ont pay frelgh From Boston and New York on Shoe Dressing when you can buy it of HIRTH & KRAUSE at as Manufacturers Prices. GILT EDGE, GLYCEROLE, RAVEN GLOss, ALMA, [ Large size]. A Rug with each gross, $22.80. Shce Stool with two gross. An assorted gross of the above dressing, $22.80. HIRTH & KRAUSE, GRAND RAPIDS. RECEIVE Masker:|, Codfish, Herring AND ALL KINDS OF DIRECT FROM THE FISHERMEN Represented in Michigan by J. P. Visner, 167 be pleased to quote bottom prices that first-class stock can be offered at by any producer or eurer. Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeett, President. Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wa. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, - $300,000. CAPITAL, Transacts a generai banking Dusiness Make a specialty of collections. Accounts of country merchants solicited. | WHO URGES YOU TO KEEP yA C) | i ()? 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. Purely Personal. Herbert T. Chase and family have taken possession of their new home at 4 Windsor Terrace. Cc. S. Adams, of the firm of Adams & Lich, hardware dealers at Lawton, was in town ever Sunday. Peter Dykema, prescription clerk for Thum Bres. & Schmidt, has taken a simi- lar position with D. C. Scribner. Edward Formsma, who has charge of the print department of P. Steketee & Sons, is taking a fortnight’s vacation in the country. J. Q. Patterson, Manager of the Patter- son Furnace Co., has removed his family from Lansing to this city, locating at 563 South Lafayette street. Harry Hall, of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., took a vacation last week and improved the opportunity to visit most of the manufacturing establishments of the city. © H. H. and J. J. Herrick, composing the firm of Herrick Bros., grocers at Lansing, were in town over Sunday, the guests of their uncle, E. J. Herrick, the Monroe street grocer. Isaac Bearinger, the East Saginaw lumberman, takes to water as naturally as aduck. Last season he had construct- ed, at Cleveland, a fine large steel steam yacht called the Straightaway. He made a number of cruises with her up the lakes with parties of friends. Her inter- ior arrangements did not suit him, how- ever, and after receiving a new boiler at Saginaw, she was taken to Wheeler’s shipyard, at West Bay City, and will come out about July 1, greatly improved and much more convenient. Mr. Bear- inger is a most hospitable entertainer, and will make it pleasant for those fav- ored with invitations to cruise with him. G. W. Williams, grocer and meat dealer at Kalamazoo, was in town one day last week. Mr. Williams has lately pur- chased a two-story frame store building, one block south of his present location, which he will probably occupy on the expiration of his present lease. Mr. Williams is happy in the possession of a daughter, twelve years old, who has a decidedly business turn of mind, being able to review his books and accounts about as rapidly as he can himself. She exertises a vigilant oversight over every detail of his business and is frequently able to prompt him on matters which es- cape his notice. Mr. Williams is to be congratulated on having such a daughter, as she will prove to be an invaluable assistant as she grows older. 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Many are Called, But Few are Chosen. From the Clay Worker. The financial agent of a great insur- ance company, in a city of a hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants, recently died. The manager of that company went to that city te appoint a successor. Out of twenty or thirty ap- plicants forthe position not more than two could be regarded as eligible. The capable manin any walkof life is rare. The capable boy is rare. It is a very difficult matter to get a good office boy or a steady, capable fellow to run an elevator in an office building. Really good laborers are scarce. We some- times think about overcrowded profes- sions, or an over-supply of help in many directions. The supply of really capa- ble help of any kind is limited. A _ first- class superintendant of a works of any kink is very difficult to get hold of. They are rarely out of a job. A man who is out of a job is open to suspicion. The best and most capable help come out of the workshop—the steady, quiet, capable fellows. There are not many of them in any establishment. Generally one of good judgment can pick a leader fromagang of men. He will need a little coaching, some help and some pa- tience. But he is nearly always to be found. When such an one is discovered the great work has been done. A man has been lifted up from a lower plane to a higher one; his horizon has been en- larged; the world has grown bigger for him. Nevertheless, the really capable man is rare, and in this prosperous per- iod he is seldom if ever out of a job. . — The Drug Market. Opium — Reports from the growing crops are favorable for a large yield and an easier feeling exists, although the price is unchanged. Morphia—Steady at unchanged prices. Quinine—Firmer. On account of an active demand, an advance of ‘ec per ounce foreign is noted. Domestic brands are unchanged. Canary Seed—On account of large ar- rivals, is easier. Cocoaine—On account of the low price of cocoa leaves, this article has declined. Cacoa Butter— Has advanced abroad and is tending higher here. Balsam Copaiba—On account of large stocks, has declined. Soap Bark—Has declined. Gum Kino—Is in good demand and is higher. Oil Bergamot—Has declined. Serpentaria Root—Lower. Oil Pennyroyal—Searce and stocks are in concentrated in few hands. has advanced. Castor Oil—The low price existing for the past few months has been below the cost of manufacture. A reaction has taken place and the price has advanced lge, with an upward tendency. Alcohol—Has declined 2c per gallon. Linseed Oil—In good demand and is firm in price. The price A tt George Gillet, a commercial traveler at Kansas City, recently became suddenly deaf, dumb and blind. Surgeons exam- ined him carefully and decided that a clot of blood had formed on the brain The clot was located, the man prepared for an operation and a trephination pre- formed. As soon as a small button of the skull was removed Mr. Gillet’s senses returned to him one by one, leaving him as well as ever. J. L. Strelitsky, wee HAPS celebrated brands man- nown house of Glaser, Including the following ufactured by the well Frame & Co.: Vindex, long Havana filler................ $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havanafiller and binder... 585 mae eee Oe Bees, .. 8. we cae 55 ie Donmeelia do Morere, ................5 65 ee Peeee wea Or......................- 55 ioe ve teu ge cous aasyus 60 Headquarters for Castellanos & Lopez’s line of Key West goods. All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stock. 10 So. Ionia St, Grand Rapids, AGNES BOOTH CIGARS Better than the Best [mported and cost oniy one-half as much. SALES LAST YEAR, 7,295,275! I. M. CLARK GROCERY CO., State Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Gum kino, gum kino po., oil pennyroyal, castor oil. Declined—Balsam copaiba, soap bark, oil bergamot, eocaine, serpentaria. ACIDU™M, a 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 60@ 65 eee iii... 20 Carbolicum Re BW Citricum ... 50@ 52 Hydrochior 2 5S Nitrocum ... 0@ 12 aa 10@ 12 Phosphorium dil...... 20 Sancyucum ..........-. 1 30@1 70 Sulphuricum.... .. 14%@ 5 Tannicum...... +... i @ et cee.......-....- 30@ 32 AMMONIA, Aqua, oo .... 34@ : 2 deg. oe oF Carbonas ...... “ ee ANILINE Black ' “. owe. ....... nes meee ........:.-...- ae a ee 2 H@3 BACCAE, Cubeae (po 7%5)..-.--- 75@ 80 —e—_ 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum ........- 23@ 30 BALSAMUM. C — eee 40@ 45 ee @1 30 Terahia, Canegs ...-. 35@ 40 MOU ws cose ees - > 35@ CORTEX, Abies, Canadian..........-. 18 OS recon er ese een sess li Cinchona Flava ......------ 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po........- 20 Prunus Virginl..........-++- 12 Quillala, grd...........+-++- 10 ae 2 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ Haematox, 15 Ib. box.. 11@ 12 Bence sne 13@ 14 . BOB... cova 14@ 15 . Bee... uses 16@ 17 FERRUM Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Solut Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, = as 1%@ 2 pure.. oe 7 FLORA. Aven ....-.--...--+-- 2@ 28 Anthems ........-.--- x@ Matricaria Sic ss 2@ FOLIA sae ........-_..- 16@ 60 Cassia “,culifol, Tin- nivell M penkoc senses B@ 2 . lx. 3@ 50 Salvia a 4s a 12@ 15 Ura Ural. Dopdae pees ees 8s@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @ 75 . 2d asus @ 50 me @ 4 - ah sorts. . @ SB MO BD iene “i-o es 60@ 380 Aloe Dab. (po. 60) . 50@ 60 ‘’ Cape, (po. 20). @ 22 Gene, | fd 60) . @ Catechu, 1s, (48, 14 448, —.. Le @ Ammon’ 5D ] 5 60 jane. (po. 35).. 39@ 35 ae Deieemecae se 0a = Eu horbium po Tragacanth ........--- 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. Sire. ......-...-.... 25 Eupatorium ...........-..--- 20 ee 25 Majorum .............---...- 28 Mentha Piperita............ 23 be ie ea. B SS ee a ae 30 Tanacotum, V.....-...--++-- 22 Thymus, V.......--.--02eee- 25 MAGNESIA, Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat........ 20@ 22 Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ 2% Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Abeintnim . ....-...- 50@4 00 Amygdalae, pile... 45@ Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 Ae ce 1 65@1 75 Auranti Cortex....... 3 00@3 25 Reeeene .......---..- 3 00@3 25 Caltpnts............-. 60@ 65 Caryophylli . @ 75 CoGar ....... 35@ 65 Chenopodii . @1 60 Cinnamonii 1 15@1 20 Citronella . @ 4 Conium M 35@ 65 Copaiba ........:-+-.-1 10Q1 W eee cs - &cme TINCTURES. Exechthitos.......... 2 50@2 75 Ren 2 25@2 50 | Aconitum Napellis R....... . 60 Gaultherla ............ 2 00@2 10 i Te Ai at 50 Geranium, ounce..... @ 7 eee... 60 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75|.\, aud ‘myrrh............ 60 a 2 00@2 10 | Arnica ............---- eee ane 50@2 a Ee ee 0 lids 90@2 00 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 eT 2 75@3 25 | Benzoin.....-..........+-5-- 60 Mentha Piper.......... 2 75@3 50! . " eo. 50 Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 | Sanguinaria................. 50 Morrhuae, gal......... 1 00@1 10 | Barosma .................... 50 Myrela, meee ooo so | Cantharides................. 7 ee. 9 75 | Capsicum ................... 50 Picts Liquid, (gal..35) 100 q2| Ca damon... ............... 7 ee els aa 8 92 nig ce. ........-.....5, i eat . 75@1 00 ee 100 Rosae, ounce.......... @6 50 wee wc, 50 ae 40@ 45 Comoe 50 ee 90@1 00 . Ce a . @ ie 3 50@7 00 Ce oe 50 Sassafras. . 5O@ 55 eee 50 Sinapis, e85, ounce. @ 65 eee. 6 Oe iglii i. @ 9 Digitalis . ile eeu tycee Thyme ees 40@ 50 Ergot eer eet wey tose eeaen see 50 $ om @ 60 ROOONOE 50 Theobromas........... 1b@ 2], a ee 60 POTASSIUM. ~ a. ee Pete... te wee .......... ........ 50 Drcpromate ........... tage 1) Eyoecyamne................ 50 Bromide pate o eeee ee ee OE vis} Carb Deed e eee ccs 12@ 15 - Coloviom, .....-....-. %5 Chlorate ioe 38). ..... 16@ 16} Ferri Chloridum....-....... 35 Co Se - Si eine........ Oe oes se cc, 50 a 2 80@2 90 — eee 50 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 2 2 ee a ee 50 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15|Nux Wanda oS ne 50 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Opii eRe cmec esa eccoeus 85 Fotame Niweed.......... q 9 " Campnorsted........... 50 Prue... ..:...-... 28@ em e@eeue......,.....-.... 2 00 Sulphate po...... .... 15@ 18/ aurantiCortex...... ....... 50 RADIX. — Deke eee ieee asus se ans 50 ent ec , 20@ 2% — bei a Aad sacle aes san 50 I i inbiicswueees 22, WH | MNEL.......----.ereseeee sees 50 Teen RENAN 12@ 15 asst eat ear - +++ 50 Ao @ x sete e eee 50 falas 20@ 40 Serpentarla eee eee cea cae 50 Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12 ae 60 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 ae 60 Hydrastis Canaden, Walertan ........--.--. -_... 50 Le ee @ 35| Veratrum Veride............ 50 inula, Po: Ala, po.... 4 = MISCELLANEOUS, Heecus, pe............. 2 20@2 30 | Ather, Spts NitsF.. BB Iris cee ¢ (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 " “4).. 3S & eeiege pr............. au «40 | Alum... 24@ 3 Maratea. “s.....-.-.. @ . ground, (po. Podophyllum, me... 4. 15@ Be odes ee ce 3@ 4 Eee ee 75@1 00 | Annstto.. <--i,0.-. Sole OO 7“ Sal eee @i1 75 Antimoni, ‘po. ee 4@ 5 - _ Ce ee T5@1 35 et Potass T. 55@ 60 ES Sa 38) Apion ............. @i1 40 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2] Antifebrin.... @ B —— ewes oe 82@ 35] Argenti Nitras, ounce @ &2 a 45 %O| Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud.. 55@ 60 M @ 2} Biamnth & N........- | .2 10@2 20 Beiliae, (po. %)........ 10@ 12 oe — 1s, (48 Symplocarpus, Feoti- 7 A tn. @ Gus, oO......... @ 3 chests Russian, Valerians, =e. (po. 50) - 25 Wes. e @i1 00 erman. 1 20 oo ee 12@ 15 ae g oF, Pinotoee §.......... 18@ 2 “ ‘“ po. a) SEMEN. Gan aa _ 14) “_. 12 Anisum, (po. 20)... @ 15 ermine, No. @....... 15 Apium (graveleons) .. 33@ 35 Cera Alba, a. &@F..... 50@ 55 ee te 4Q@ 6 Cera Flava ecco cecccces 38@ 40 Cumul, (po. 18) .......-.. 8@ 12 pn eed veue sues @ 40 Cardamon..........-.. 1 00@1 25 assia Fructus........ @ 2 Corlandrum........... 10@ 12 pre eea AE AE @ 10 Cannabis Sativa....... 3%@4 pena sete etee acess @ 40 donium.... ... .. %%@1 00 oroform ........... 60D 63 Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12] onioral — “+, @l 2 Dipterix Odorate......2 25@2 35 | CPrOre. © Hyd Crat...... 1 Ln 40 Foeniculum..... ..... @ 15 bi Sa dine pew 25 Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 8 ne oni ne,P. & W 15@ OO 4@4% German 3 @ 12 Lini d, (bbl. 3%) 4 @ 4% Corks, list, dis. per pall aep pent g RN 1 Sie e . -geatapuamieesena 3 1% Creta, (obi. — @ 2 ECG | tiie agp sic maa a @ 5 sinapis, hs — %@ 11 Sinaia _ MEO. cass. @ 8 Crocus .... Frumenti, W., D. Ca..2 2 50 | Cudbear.... “7 = 2k... 1 75@2 00 | Cupri Sulph 5@ 6 eS 1 10@1 50 | Dextrine .. 10@ 12 duniperis Co. O. T....1 a = Ether Sulph . 68@ 70 Sascharom NE ie 4 rg 00 oe = uae $ 6 t n a inl Oporto .....-...-- 1 5@2 00 Breota, (po) 65 ae Wil Alia 1 25@2 00] Galla...... ‘ eer reo 5 e _ emer... 8... persian Gelatin, Cooper eA 70 Florida sheeps’ wool nch. 60 oe | eee... Gaccere............. 2 25@2 50 ier flint, 75 and 10, Nassau sheeps’ wool i by box 70 Carriage ............ 2 00) gine. B: Velvet extra sheeps’ Aue, white, wees seme ae 9@ 15 wool carriage....... ‘oo > Extra yellow sheeps’ G st ees ose ae aie 15%@ 2 ArEOEe ccs 85 Bums aradisi........ m3 = Gramaheeps'woolcsr =| Hydreag Chior iiiie!. “@ Hard for slate use. %5 : % 7 Ox Rubrum @ 9 — es _ slate 1 40 . Ammoniati.. @1 00 ec es es a Unguentum. 45@ 55 SYRUPS. Le draceyrum ........: @ 6 eS ee 50 ——— Am... .3 = 50 ietnee. <6. 5. s,s... ss 50 Ind ee 7 ao eS 60 lodine, Heanhl........ 3 TE@3 85 ee re Go | ledefons.............. @4 70 —— — Boee pecan ye eS 45@ 50 Rhei A ic eoccee OO L¥COpOdIUm .......... 50@ 55 Similax ‘Ofticinalis: Cees 60 ~~ 75@ 80 Ce... .. 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- ee 50 pare Tod... .... 6 27 ee ay 50 Liquor. PotassArsinitis 10@ 12 ae ee aes 50 | Magnesia, Sulph (bbl ee cs. et O56). co. 2@ 3 Pranee ¢itg..., ......------+ 60 | Mannia, 8S. F......... 30@33 Morphia, 8S. P. & W...1 70@1 95 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 24| Lindseed, boiled .... 46 S.N.Y.Q& Sinapis. ea. @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter Ce, 1 69@1 85 - Bee cis alate @ St miane........... 60 Mosckus Canton...... 40 Sant, accaboy, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40 Myristica, No. 1..-.... ae @ 35 agg br gpg (po 20).. 1 10 suuf?, Scoich, De. Voes @ 35 a. PAINTS. bbl. 1b. See ce ace a a Boras, (po.11). . 10@ i1/} Re enetian..........1 2@3 Per sin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 4 30 | Ochre, yellow Mars... ix 2@4 a 00} Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Ber......1% 2@8 Picts Liq, N.«C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5/ Putty, commercial....2% 2% Se eevee ca Ga Oo) Soda, Ash|............ Se 41 strictly pure. ....2% 24%@3 Pieis Liq., quarts en @1 00] Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2| Vermilion Prime Amer- .. @ 85|Spts. EtherCo........ 50@ 55 —-................... aoe Pn a = a).. @ S| * Myreta Dom. > @2 25| Vermilion, English.... 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. — @ i se — re .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular..... T0@TS Piper Alba, (Po $5) .. @ 3 « “Vint Rect. bbl. Lead, red.............. 7 @i% Pix Burgun. . @ 7 ee 2250235) ° white........... 7 @ Plumbi Acet .......... 14 15| Less5egal.,cashtendays, |{Whiting, white Span. @i0 Pulvis Ipecac et opil..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’...... @% Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl......... 24%@ 4 | White, Paris American Le & PD. Co, dow... @1 25 Roll... 24@ 3% Whiting, Paris Eng. Pyrethram, pv........ 30@ 35| Tamarinds ............ 10 | , Cli -.-..--.---- 2... 1 4¢ Quassiae.............. 10 | Terebenth Venice..... 30 Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 Quinia, 8. P. &W..... 29 34 Theobromae ..........38 @ 43| Swiss Villa rn, «’§” German....19 @ 30| Vanilla............... 9 —_— 00| Paints ............... 4,00@1 20 Rubla Tinctorum 1 12@ 14| Zinei Sulph.. ........ VARNISHES. Sace arum Lactispv. 29@ 30 No. } spose: 1 69@1 65 Orns. Eeira Tuy : r ni ui ; 160GH. 70 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ Bhi. Gal | Coach Body........... 27 00 Sapo, Ww... ..........- 12@ 14) Whale, winter........ 7 21 No. t Tarp Furn.... .. 1 00@1 10 i: sl em 12) Led, axie........... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 C... .. @ iter Ne t.........-. 45 50; Japan Dryer, No. 1 Linseed, pureraw.... 43 46 Ure. ......... .... TO@75 coleiliadenialelaiianan . aE i a ooaeestaenensninemanenenanatiatiymeea Importers and Jobbers of DEALERS IN | a a » Paints Oils “= Va a YNISNnes Se 5 a Sole Agents for the Celebrated SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Ling of Staple Druggisis Sin We are Sole Preprietors of Gh. Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order: HAZELTINE & Eh NS DRUG C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. gag Ear rene coe ARS hae Fp 45s Se aac eS 1otations THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. given below Grocery Price Current. are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. Apricots. CLOTHES PINS, doz g#roes| Liveoak....... . ie = oo Serene Oa... 40 Auror 55 6 00] Santa Crus........ 2 00 i Diamon 50 5 50| Lusk’s..... . 2 30 COCOA SHELLS. Frazer's 8 9 00} Ov rerland.. 101 bere @3 N 75 8 00] Blackberries. Less —— onion ooo e @3% P 1 \ 5 6 00) B. & _... . 90 | Pound packages........ 6%@7 BAKING POWDER. | Re Cherries. 120 ee 45 | Pitted Hamburgh . 1% COFFEE. mm t0. 6 ais, « O02 7 i age er g5 | White ... 1 20 GREEN. lib. - ee 1 20 Rio. Bulk 19 | Damsons, Egg Plums and Green | pair ........... 2.2.2... ..16 Arctic | Gages. eee 17 44 T cans 60 | Erie - Coe cee Otero. ..:....... 18 ye th 1 20} Cal lifornia...... ee 20 i b 2 00 Gained ——-.. ... 20 5 B ceca fo em 1 10 Santos 100 | a ll Peache ee 16 i ylored glass roe... 110 ae Ow ee 1 50 a eae f crystal glass Shepard's 1 49] Peaberry ..................-@ ”) - i2 00} California 2 25 Mexican and Guatamala. ips i sauce ‘eeeeeor +... oi. hl. 20 2 do s .. 9 60; Oxford ............... Leen le ie ¢ witi OH Can Pears. sl 23 r : Domestic. 123 Maracaibo. aS wd Riverside.... i a oe ecans.._ 90 ~neapples. Te 1 %) | Common el 130], . Java. a 2 47 | Johnson’s sliced..... 2 50 | tnterior .........-.- ‘oe ie 3 7 “ grated 2 75} Private Growth..... 2% : 4 Meee ee >... -. 28 0% = ¢ Quinces. Moch 11 40 | Common te 1 ocna. 2 21 60 Raspberries. ee od Black’ iiss mit ur i : 7 cen | Erie. bl ome g- i a 149| To ascertain cost of roasted 40) | s ai -| coffee, add \c. per 1b. for roast- 80 trawberries, ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- (on) Cees... 1 age b.cans, doz. 45} se * nH PACKAGE. 7 “7 al Terrapin feeds || 4 a ie Aeione.. |. 19.30 Sie | McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 19.30 . ¥ Whortleberries. ee 19 30 6 S, 4 ane ee aig 1 20] Bunola ..... 8.80 9 1“) s.° 1 25] Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 19 30 16 a 2 00 | Blueberries . 120 CK. _ MEATS. case | Corned beef, Libby’s. -1 80 abinets Br _ — qo | Roast beef, Armour’s.......1 7 Bc Brist an | Potted ham, % Ib..... i & 120 1 Ib " eet i 1 00 nd ' tongue, % Ib.........1 10 sold at case i a. Oe price, with chicken, 1 Ib....... 95 additional VEGETABLES. charge of Beans. 9 cents for Hamburgh _Stringless. ......1 25 Cabinet : French style.....2 2 . Limas a 1 40 iia green. Se . e soaked. cee Serer. Aa « \~ | Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 —— City .. 7 er ee 2 50 pay eee Seked........... 0 ot wee... 13 _ 2 Carpet eS os woes Pee... 1 35 Hummel oe 1 50 : oe Corn. ‘tin tos Oren ow 6 2 P C m 3 00 : ‘orm on Whisk Cn a sma eo 1 op | Livingston Eden ...........115 CHICORY. Pee ee AE lo lia a gt ee EE 8 : a. mee ....... 6 CLOTHES LINES. Hamburgh marrofat . ...1 35 | Cotton, 40 ft....... per doz. 1 25 early June... 2. - 1 ¢ Champion Eng...1 1 Hambur gh petit pols.......1 1 fancy sifted.....1 1 1 Soaked . Le ioe Hote}, 40 lb. boxes. 10 Harris standard............ Star, 4 4 Van Camp’ 8 Marrofat i Paraffine 11 Early June...... Wicking 24 —— Early ee _. —_— renc : : CANNED GOODS. iia Mushrooms. | French Clan | Erte I Neck, 1 1b ‘a. ‘ > Ik 1 90 ra = Hubbard ‘ ywaer | Stand 2 00 | Hamburg Cov ysters SEI, 6 reek pesos. cs. oe ‘ Ste rd, 1 Si es Bee 1 60 ‘Tradesman.’ - 1 65 Tomatoes. 8 1, per hundred ees cee 2 00 L Se 1 00 : ; i -- 250 2 49 | Eclipse........ Sin 10g. eae ain 3 00 eT Hamburg CA Lear a! 130] 80° « a etttterese oo OT oe og ee ee wenn on 250 el —ai ee ee 5 00 i oo ” =i CHOCOLATE—BAEER’S. 1, per ae 2 50 5 oe | German Sweet... 2182, « ee 3 00 > 95| Premium.... . 35183, “ 3 50 ts cain ne ea peri at 38185, * 400 2 25 | Breakfast Cocoa........ " 40 | 810, * 5 00 CHEESE. e200, “ 6 00 ee @ 8& 1 Hor oe. Cu. @ 8% Lat erro ........... @ 8% 2 it / 2 10 Gold PINE, ed ek oss, @ 7% jen ie a o cia aa le I gonna Universal, ae "GS 7 | Bde .....--.- @1 00 | § 1, per hundred.......... 83 00 impart pe ia mara RR rt cietienee -- Ds | Roquefort.. @3 |85, a ae ett 5 00 Mus - “ os a2 | 810, We ee 6 00 ee ee — te imported. @30 | 820, ee 7 00 Brook, 3 Ib.................. 2s0| * —— ~~ Above prices on coupon books FRUITS. CATSUP. are subject to the following Apples. Blue Label Brand. quantity discounts: 3 ib. standard. ow 85 | Half pint, 2 >_bottles eke. 2% 200 or over — 5 per cent. York State gallons. 2 40 -— Tee Sat ee peered 10 Hamburgh, “ 2 50 | Quart; doz bottles ......... Cees eens - . COUPON PASS BOOKS. ~- bé made to represent any enomination from $10 ee | 20 books oe v0 sh CUCL. 2 00 ee 3 00 — * .............., oe — 10 00 mo CONDENSED MILE. 4 doz. in case. Genuine Swiss............. 8 00 American Swiss.. ........ 7 0 CRACKERS. Butter. Seymours es ........2.-..., Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% ee a 6. Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% Salted XXX. ... Salted XXX, ‘cartoon ...... 6% Kenosha — % Pe 8 Butter ets 6% Soda. Soak. £an................ © mode, (lir.................., 7 Sook, Decnem.......:...... Bee Ceeweel Wearer........ ......09 Reception Fiakes.. ........ 10 Oyster. eS 6 (Cony Over. SEE... ....-.., 6 Farina Oyster.. i. © CREAM TARTAR. Strictly peire....s.......... 30 eiters Ateolute.......... 35 Grocers’. oo -10@15 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, APPLES, Sundried, sliced in bbls. 5 : quartered ‘“ 5 Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7 APRICOTS, California in bags....... 94%@10 Evaporatedin boxes. ..12@12% BLACKBERBIES, moore..... . ....... 4% NECTARINES. Ce: 25 Ib. boxes. , 2 one PEACHES. | Peeled, in boxes....... 12 Cal. ll 9@10 . in baes...... 8@ 8% PEARS. California in bags .... @i PITTED CHERRIES, Barrels. . 10 50 lb, boxes - 11 eT ec ee 12 PRUNELLES, 30 lb. boxes.. “a il RASPBERRIES. In barrels.. cesveoe See Soe Berens 22 we a se, 23 Foreign. CURRANTS. Patras, “ag barrels...... @ 3% ¥%-bbls...... @ 3% a = less quantity @4 PEEL. Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib, boxes 20 Lemon _ 2 * . 10 Orange ' = * ™ ll RAISINS, Domestic. London layers, 2 crown....1 40 = — = ao... 1 8§ Loose eaimiinn hemes 4 1% 70 lb. bags @5% Forei Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes... ae 7% Sultana, 20 . -11 @28 Valencia,30 ‘ .s Be PRUNES, Bosnia.... @ California, 90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 8 80x90 “ . - 7x80 - - . 60x70 - -9% ee ec ce @s% eee 11% ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. a ce en ie et $1 75 2. oe-............... 1 60 ee ce 1 65 Pea ce 1 50 XX wood, white. Se 1 TO FO i ene eee 13 Manilla, white OS eich is chen aes 1 00 ee i eee 95 = Mill No. 4. 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. Oe Oe. BOON... ines... 3% Hominy. I oo ech perenne ences 3 00 ee... eee neo 3 50 Lima Beans. ees, 4 Maccaroni onl Vermicelli, Domestic, 12 lb. box.. ported. ne hoeer enn es 10% 11 Pearl Barley. ” % Sx Peas. COON, DH... .....500 008 oe 2 Sait wer Th... cs 3 00 Sago. CO os0ss00es Kae ree... 5... 5 Wheat. Creeked.....-.. 2... a ees an 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Yarmouth..... patos tke 1 10 Cod. Pore... ee Whole, Grand Bank... Boneless, prices ...... 6 @6% Boneless, strips.. ..... 53@6% Halibut. Smoked ..... ioe lai ccm 12 Herring. EEE 18@20 Holland, eee. 11 00 De co. 85 Round shore, % bbl. i. 2 00 \ bbl.. 110 Mackerel. No. 1, 4% bbia. SO Ids........ 11 60 a 1, Ae, oe... 12 Family, % bbls. 100 Ibs.... 5 3 cae, © TG.,..<... 7 Sardines. Rustin, ties.............. @ Trout. Mo. 1, 4 bpin., ebe.....-.. 6 50 oe. 1, Ree, WO e.........-... 90 Whitefish. No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs........8 00 No. 1, kits, 10 ee 110 Family, 8 bbls., 100 lbs.... 3 00 kits 10 Ibs.......-. 40 PLAVORING EXTRACTS, Jennings’ DC. Lemon. Vanilla 2 = folding box.:. 7% 25 30 -.1 00 1 50 4 po . 1 & 2 00 6 oz - ‘2 00 3 00 $ oz a’ .-3 00 4 00 GUN POWDER. cae eee ee cee g ee ee 5 50 Half Rose... 6. 3 00 HERBS. ee ee ce ee ee 15 a ._ -oe NDIGO. Madras, 5 Ib. on 55 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes. . 50 JELLY. tt ©. PRIM... 55 _ ee ececeo es 85 LICORICE. i occ eee 30 cor tae NET NASR i ONG a 25 eee. i 12 Condensed, 2 ‘_ sie bees i oe... 2 2 MATCHES. 7 2 eee... 8... 1 2 Anchor parlor...... aceceer ee 170 pe eee... 3... 110 Mayer Periee.....-......... 400 MINCE MEAT 3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. [ae ... a eee Sees... :...... 40 ce ace eres ql eee cee 45 me OMe os. ask 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. oe ee z eee See... we. 47 Se 3 7% a... 2 25 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Sugar house... ......-.. oe» 18% Cuba a Baking. CGR 0... cn oc 16 Porto Rico. Pee ieee Seeiee os 16 aa... wos | secaeees 20 New Orleans ~~ ——. 14 hee 17 oad peed. ....... 22 Cones... se 27 Og eee oe, 35 One- half barrels, 3c extra —— pivele 200... 2... @4 75 Halt cede -...: +o. 2 5O ROLLED OATS. Darres 0... ........ @4 75 at See 0.......... @2 50 PIOKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ ae 50 Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 25 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. Half bbls, 1,200 count oe oS boas sae auas cous TD. Tail count.. Cob, 5 ea a POTASH 48 cans in case. PO ge ce. 4 00 Penns Salt Co.’s.......... 3 2% ROOT BEER Wittens, perdos......... 1 @ - 3 Gos. Case... .. 5 00 RICE. Domestic. a oe bee eee _ a OF BPOROM sos c ccs. 1... o cee se 3% Imported. eee ee... 6 a. 5% Jae... .. 3» pie Gote ss. eas 5 Pee 5 SPICES, Whole Sifted, BI on sc te. 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 8 ' Batavia in bund....15 iy Saigon in rolls...... 35 Cloves, Tt ES 22 —- eset beetee 13 Mace Batavia.. Para Nutmegs fancy.. biceeeeneuece 80 No. (ES TSN gH, 4 No. j Pepper, Singapore, black. eos amok Pure Ground in Bulk. Aieee.. 8, 1 Cass fa, Batavia eee cee, 20 and Saigon.25 _ — oh a eed 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... 30 ca Sete... 20 Ginger, po Ee ae 15 : ae ae 18 ws Sees ........ mg ence Eeteria............... St Mustard, ees and Trieste. .25 hades cacy ee 27 oe es, No. srenecasee ties epper, Singapore, blac 20 Peep ie . Cayenne... cc awige --25 dl “Absolute” in Packages, 4s YS OE oak cae ee 84 155 en A 84 155 oes oun s se & 155 Caneer, JOm........... 8 155 ek eee 84 1 55 _eeere............... 84 155 BOE occ ae les 8 1% page... ee SAL SODA. Sh bee aie tee oe one ms Senet! boas... ....... 1% SEEDS. ae. @12% Canary, Smyrna. ..... . 4 lee 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% omen Sere ...,...... 44@ 5% Mustard, white ...... 6 2 & 9 Rape : 6 Cutie home........... 30 STARCH. Corn. = lb boxes eee eee eye 6% eee 6 Gloss. 4 > pene: eee cee e ea ae 5% - “ee 40 and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 4% oo ee os es 4% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccabey, in ars... ......5 5 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 soDA. eee... et Sh ome eee... «25s 4% SALT. 100 3- om sacks euaecchee ead 82 25 en Lk. 2 00 28 10-Ib. sacks a eee oe 1 8 Seer | neue. oi... 2% eee ONNee............... 1 50 56 = ee it in‘linen -. 50 28 ” “drill 18 Warsaw. 561b. dairy in drill bags... 35 ain, * ” oe Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. 56 Ib. sacks.. eke Common Fine. NN ice seds te cgukie 80 Sees .<... . 5s... .<.... 85 \ SALERATUS. Packed 60 Ibs. in box. eee ci... $3 30 Dees |... 3 15 ROM 3 30 Cee 3 00 SOAP, LAUNDRY, Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-ib........ 3 20 Good Cheer, 60 1 tb pool. 3 90 White Borax, i 1b. ..... 3 60 Proctor & Senha. eeeree... cs oc. 2 avery 0 On... .... 1... 6 6 Lenox . Mottled German eo | 3 00 SCOURING AND POLISHING. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 “ce hand, 3 doz....... 2 50 SUGAR. (am beet... ... |... = Ce g 3” Powacred 1)... @ 5% Gagaueted.. _.... @ 45 @ 44 @ 4% @ 44 @ 4% - 83¥@ 4 @ 3% coo 5 Ea bbls. 4%c advance SYRUPS, Corn. eee 6.5. cos... ieee Whee 24 Pure Cane. PO i 19 NO oe. 25 MO oe os 30 SWEET GOODS. Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Suger Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers. . 8% TEAS saPpaNn—Regular. ee @l7 MN ee oo se cou @20 erent 24 @26 Co 32 @34 a ae ae 10 @I12 SUN CURED. ae. @17 ioe... os... @x» ae... ---24 @26 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CUGION.. oo. cs le, 32 Pe. 10 BASKET FIRED. RE ooo sel: 18 Eee i... CHenGOME. 6.5.22... Extra choice, wire leaf GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 Extra fine to finest... .50 Choicest fancy........ 75 OOLONG. Common to fair... ... 23 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 Superior tofine........ 30 YOUNG HYSON. Commdh to fair....... 18 Superior to fine....... 30 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, Deir oe 18 a... 24 Es 40 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. @34 @i2 @w @ @35 @40 @35 @65 @85 @26 @30 @26 @35 @26 @40 G2 @23 @50 Pails unless otherwise noted Saweie ..,......... Sweet Cuba.. Valley Clty........... Dancy Jimi .-........- UGGS 1.5 6.<- es. . im drums.... en Ys... Sorg’s Brands. Spearnead ........... emer i... 5... Booms Twit........_... a ey... Scotten’s Brands. BYIG, noi voues bee. Hiawatha......... 4 Valiey City .__........ Finzer’s Brands. Old —— oe ee Middieton’s meee MIA... ie Seve... Brands. Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. Something Good.......... - U Out of Sight.. Il Private Brands. Sweet Maple.......... L. & Bos Colonel’ 8 ‘Choice. ee WI ORONO 06 cos Le. . 14 Peete cc acl. 15 King Bee... ... alee ecaley e+ ce 20 Me ree eels i bo es Ee ee 23 egies OW 24 Goid Biock........ geese 28 Peerless. . Rob Roy.. Uncle Sam. Tom and Jerr eler Pipe os .30 Jam Yom... .... esc, 32 wee CIGVEr. 6 ws “< 32 GVM es. , Handiiade. 0, 40 F Frog Se ee 33 WASHBOARDS, Single Wilson .................... 2 Co ee 1% BOVAE is aces. s ress sen, 1080 WI ea. 2 OO peoeuy..... 1.10 erence 4... 1% Double. Wie 2:50 ree 2.25 io _...., 1 Rrememee. 0.0. 4.2.......... 2 CreeCeme -<. 2 Oe Beater... 1... Se Sueeoen. 8... le oS 2% VINEGAR. ee. eee 8 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD. Dik. pore ..... 30 Beér mug,2 dozincase... 1 75 YEast—-Compressed. Fermentum per doz. cakes.. o Derie...... 1... Fleischman, per doz cakes. erp... .... GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFSs WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 80 No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 80 MEAL, Boltea.... ....... 1. . oo Merenmneoe: ... 5, 5... 1 50 LOUR, Straight, in ame icesece, SOG Darrcig........ 4 60 raient 6“ efeks........ 5 50 . OEE os. cs 5 60 Graham “ sacks:... ... 210 Rye , eo 2 40 MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Bran.......... $15 © $15 OU Screenings .... 15 00 15 00 Middlings..... 16 00 17 00 Mixed Feed... 21 00 21 00 Coarse meal .. 21 00 21 00 CORN. Car lots.. o.oo Less than car lots..........57 OATS. Car lots, .. oe Less than carlots......... 41 HAY. No. 1 ‘Timothy, car lots....13 50 No. 1 m ton lots 19 OILS. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: Eocene. . Water White, old test. @t W. W. Headlight, 156° oo Soe ........ @i eee... ... 6... @ Stove Gasoline........ @i G2 @ rts IIH Cylinder .. ee ee Engine | et ae _-. oo Black, ‘ 1 25 to 30 deg. oo 7M FRESH MEATS. Swift & Company quote as fol- lows: Beef, Carcass. - 4G 64% = kind quarters. . _7 @e “ fore ... 34@ 4 loins, No. 3 94@10 ............ 84@ 9% roands,........ 54@ 6 Boloena .............. @ 4 Tor Sane ........... @ 8% * Shoulders. ..... @ 6% Sausage, blood orhead @ 4% Mver ....., @ 4% - Frankfort . @7 Mutton ......... -..... ‘8 @ 9 ee 6 @ 6% HIDES, PELTS and FU» Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows, prices nominal: HIDES. MOONE ack a ss ee Part Cured Loses @ 3% Da eS @i ee 5 @5 Rize. epee ........... 246@) a4 we @4 Calfskins, green......4 @5% Gured,.....5 @i Deacon skins.... 10 @30 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS Bearings, ............10 ae. WOOL, ec. ........,...2 Unwashed ....... ....10 MISCELLANEOUS. Tallow . Bee 4 Grease butter —..). ae ReeCnrOM 6.1.6... 1%@ 2 Ginseng... vo wean ee Oe 7 POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows: DRESSED. i . 10 @l12 maureen... ........5..15 @is Deeks... a aie LIVE Chickens, .............14 @ié iu. _8§ @e Tieess........- ...9 Gl Spring Dack.... .....10 @i4 FISH and OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH Wweucese ............% @8 ree a ~ @8 Halibut.. ma he @15 Ciscoes or Herri ing 5 @6 _oe.......... _.11 Gi Fresh lobste r, perih.... 20 Soft crabs, per doz...... 90 Shrimp, per gal... _...-. 1s Cod. ... 1. ie No. 1 Pickerel ee eee @B8 Pike. Lia @ 7 Smoked Wi rite tee @ 7 OYSTERS—Cans., Fairhaven Counts... @40 ¥. 7. D. Selects ....... @35 SHELL GOODS. Oysters, per me... Clams, + eee O81 SS 25@1 50 IY 3 PAPER & WOODEN WARE PAPER, 1% o | \ " cr sakers ... mi Dry 26 Jute G% R; No. 1 ay ned wO. 72 NO. 2 {hy Wi Ss 45 ( ‘ Cot 17 ‘ 16 Seg sor l 30 No 15 No. ¢ : 15 WOODENWARE, Tubs, No. 1 W ‘ Ni 6 00 ‘ No 5 00 Pails, No. 0} 1 45 ‘ No. 1 e-hoop iw i gr yxeR tt 1i : 80 2 oo re 60 o 2 4 G 3 00 4 > Fi) af B ; 35 bus! 5 No.3 5 % HILLSIDE JAVA! FOR YOUR 88 OR 40c GRADE. $100 will be paid for a formula that will produce a Cop of Coffee better ROYAL DUGHKSS JAVA & MOGHA For your 35¢ g rade. A True Combination of Central American and eat India Java and Arabian Mocha. than Hillside | SAN MARYO BLEND Makes a better drink than a straight Maracaibo. not rank, Entirely free from Rie. For your 30¢ grade. Very fragrant and rich, Strong but tzOur Coffees are all selected with great care, especially for Fine Drinking Qualities. Roasted in the Latest Improved Cylinders and Packed while hot into 50-I0. Cans ouly. "TELE: J. We Affirm That Good Goods Make Business. Mm. BOURNR CoO. Importers, Roasters and Jobbers of Fine Coffees, And Poor Goods Mar Business, TOLEDO, O., also Detroit & New York. We are represented in Michigan as follows: Eastern Michigan, P. V. Heonir Northern and W estern Michigan, Soutbern Michigan, J. B. Frrenp; "Thos. FERGUSON com eigimcaeMEn ce ee nite ages ya Pais vada Sugas a i i pre as hw shies i £ : i i : THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CONDITIONS FAVORING 4 RISE. The solidity of financial affairs in Wall street has been abundantly demonstrated during the past fortnight by the way in which the Stock Exchange withstood the depressing intluences of the Oil Creek disaster, of the failure in London of the New Oriental Bank, of the unfavorable weather at the West, and of the Minne- apolis Convention. Any one of these factors, singly, would have been enough to bring to light weakness, if any had existed. Numbers of my readers can probably remember how the loss of the steamer Arctic, the Chicago conflagration, the assassination of Garfield, and other ealamities of that nature produced de- cided little panies when they occurred, not to mention the more recent results of the collapse of Baring & Co. in London. Political distractions, too, are notoriously hostle to the maintenance of prices, and the Presidential year is always expected to be a bad one for trade. Just now, however, neither flood nor fire nor great bankruptcies, nor the excitement of nom- inating a Presidential eandidate have made more than a transient impression upon the market, and even the addition to them of renewed shipments of gold has failed to create alarm. This extraordinary firmness doubtedly due tothe abundance of money seeking borrowers, and this agan to the searcity of borrowers actually needing money either to carry on existing enter- prises or to start new ones. The finan- cial winter which was ushered in by the Baring collapse, eighteen months ago, has not yet fairly thawed out, and cap- italists and speculators, both here and in Europe, are going about with their coats buttoned over their pocketbooks, wait- ing for the spring to begin before they open them. I have not kept a record of the new undertakings for which money has been borrowed in New York City,but the amountin London for the year, so far, is one-seventh less than during the same period in 1891, one-third less than in 1890, and not ome-half of what it was in 1889. As here, so in London, loud complaints are made by the speculative stock brokers of a decline in their busi- ness, the bankers’ clearings on Stock Exchange pay days having shrunk three- fourths of their volume in 1890 and the years immediately preceding it. The brokers who deal principally in invest- ment securities have not suffered so much, but they cannot have escaped the consequeuces of the diminished supply of new stocks, which has driven the price of 2°; cent. nearly up to par, and first-class 314 cent. municipal corporation bands to 110. Even the which stood for years about 80, are now selling is un- bonds and per consols per French 3 per cents., at about par, a fact to which the friends of the republic exultantly point as proof of its popularity, but which really indi- cates only the scarcity of new in- as well asin Great good vestments in France, Britain and in this country. Why this abundance of money and scarcity of investments has failed to cre- ate an upward speculative movement here lexplain by referring to the dis- credit into which have fallen the im- mense amount of railroad stocks which for many years furnished the staple for speculative operations. The really good stocks of this class have been bought by investors and withdrawn almost entirely from the field of everyday dealings, while the poor ones show so littic prob- ability of improvement that they are not tempting. The favorable conditions of the market, which ought to send them up, barely result in keeping them from going down. What with excessive capi- tals, excessive debts, diminished earn- | ings, and the hostility of legislatures, rail- roads west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio have all they can do to avoid bankruptcy. They are not all by any means in so bad a condition as the Rich- mond Terminal, the Union Pacific, and other unfortunates, but they are alto- gether too uncomfortably near it to tempt men into investing their hard cash in them. The industrials have not this objection to overcome, but they are still too new and untried, and the circum stances of their launching upon the mar- ket are too suspicious in the eyes of the public to make them favorites. Yet, I can remember the time when the best railroads were in the same category. Long after the New York and New Haven Railroad had recovered from the Schuy- ler frauds and was paying regular 10 per cent. annual dividends, its stock was a speculative fancy ranging between 120 and 140, while now, upon a capital five times as large, it sells at 250 in little lots of 10, 15 and 20 shares, and then only once a week or so. New York Central, before the old Commodore Vanderbilt doubled its capital and took in the Hud- son River road, sold regularly in the neighborhood of 80, notwithstanding it paid steady 6 per cent. annual dividends. It now pays barely 5 per cent., and yet sells at 113. Lake Shore is another ex- ample. A few years ago it was one of the liveliest gambling counters on the Exchange at about 60. Now, at 130 and upward, it is bought and sold only as a sober investment. Even Western Union Telegraph stock, which, in my experi- ence has been up and down like a sky rocket, hundreds of times, has settled nearly if not quite into an inactive con- dition, and, for the last twelve months, has done nothing but go up upon pur- chases by people who buy it for the sake of dividends. Whenever, therefore, the industrials,which are now dividing 8 per cent. and upward in their selling prices, shall have succeeded in getting the con- fidence of the public they will probably exhibit a like improvement. One great bugbear of the market, free silver coinage, which, entirely without reason, in my opinion, has deterred a great many people from investing in stocks, seems now in a fair way to be re- moved. The renomination by the Re- publican party of President Harrison, a declared enemy of free silver, upon a platform which demands the mainte- nance of the parity of silver with gold, ‘so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold, paper, shall at all times be equal,” commits the party, logieally, not- withstanding the explanations of the silver men, against the unlimited coin- age of the metal; and it is unlikely that the Democrats will declare distinctly in favor of it, because if they do they will imperil their success in the Eastern and Middle States. The most that they will do, I fancy, will be to adopt a resolution similar to that of the Republicans, only a little more on the side of silver. That no silver bill will become alaw during the life of the present Congress is nearly certain, and the recent speech on the subject by Senator Sherman shows that a change has come over his opinions or PRODUCE MARKET. Asparagus—20e per doz. bunches. Beans—Dry stock is in small supply and active CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. demand. Dealers pay $1.30@1.35 for unpicked EF . : i and hold city handpicked at #1.65@i,75 per bu. Standard, per on — . — 7s Beets—New, 35c per doz. bunches. Ee a! 6 7 Bermuda Onions—81.75 per crate of about 50 “ ee 6 7 ibs. | Boston Cream .......... 20 1b, cases 8% Butter—The market is featureless, the glut | Gut Loaf.. So 9 8 being complete in nearly all localities. Dealers | Extra H. ae cases 7 8 pay 11@12¢ and hold at 12@13c. Nearly all pur- MIXED CANDY. chases not sold promptly are being placed in Full Weight. cold storage. Bbls. Pails. Cabbages—$2 and $3.50 per crate, according to | Standard.... 6 7 size Leeder ....+--. 7 Cucumbers—40¢e per doz. EO ED TT: 6% 1% Dried ——— is held at 4@4%c and | N he Sek bbe cock ce Sincere 7 8 evaporated at 54@bc eS 7 8 Eggs — The market is strong and_ higher. | Conserves.................-+--»--- a 8 Dealers pay about 13@13c and hold at 144@15ce. | Broken Taffy........-...-- baskets 8 Honey—l4c per lb. Very scarce. Peanut Squares............ 8 9 Lettuce—Grand Rapids Forcing is in fair de- | French Croams.......... ......... 10 mand at 10¢ per lb | Vatey Cromiee..........-......... 13 Onions—Green are in fair demand at 10¢ per | Midget, 30 Ib. baskets................0.220 008 8 dozen bunches. eer ee 8 Peas—Green, $1 per bu. Fancy—In bulk. Pieplant—ic per Ib. Full Weight. = Pineapples—$1.25@31.75 per doz. Lozenges, — ee ee este eee eee ee Potatoes—The santicipated boom in the price a ee Oe eee i of old stock failed to materialize, the market | Chocolate vi ee 11% being now decidedly fiat, good stock selling at | Chocolate Monumentals...............-.-+-- 13 25€ at bu. New potatoes are held at 80290c per | Gum Drops... .... 2.2.22. 2-2e conven ceese cece 5% bushel ares 8 Radishes—10c per doz. bunches. i I i es ee en oe 8% ae sg are in plentiful supply and | Imperials........ ........ 20. nse eens ese sene ces 10 active demand at 15¢ per quart. a Strawberries—Home grown are now at thelr Lemon ae. In 5 Ib. boxes. Per _ best, commanding 6@10c per quart, according to ee ee 55 quality and the condition of the market. Peppermin a 60 Tomatoes—$1.75 per crate. Seeeec tae Oe = Watermelons—25@35e apiece. The melons s0| WM, Chocolate SS nee coh el aaa ee ius Sogn 90 far received are small in size and inferior in | gym Dro: aE ERAT" quality, owing tothe drought prevailing in the | piegrice Tops a a i nice a gee NN aN a ia 1 00 region where they are raised. A. B. Licorice ‘Drops cc ana ene agiae ans 80 Wax Beans—#1.50 per bu. Lozenges, plai ici SIRI aR DIR GSS a 65 PROVISIONS. eee a = The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | Cream SOR cane et abne yn sntnsnnneneney toys ener teas quotes as follows: (OE Ee PORK IN BARRELS. Hand Made Creams bicee tach chee keen eka aes Mae OO oe A. 11 50 | Plain Creams..................2.-.c00+0ee 80@90 oe eee a kn at een ean 12 00 | Decorated Creams............ 252+ ce seenceeee 1 00 Extra clear pig, short cut................-.- 13 50 | String Rock.. : 65 Maite Burnt Almonds.. ee 13 09 | Wintergreen AO DEAN AE te 60 Boston Gloar, sport cut...................... 33 50 CARAMELS, eer ROK, GOEL CUE. oo... oes. css. 13 50 | No. 1, wrapped, 2 - boxes eee 34 Standard clear, short cut, best............ ET aa > on sausacE—Fresh and Smoked. No. 2, . 3 eee se 28 Pe ic oases eoi ge tc 7% | No. _ 3 , dhe hue 42 ee ee 9 Stand up, 5 Ib. bemes.......... 90 ee Sausage. - 1 ORANGES. rankfort Sausage bee hl ewe . 1% | Call jas OF ; ee Se re ee 2 ts ein wie: ltt 5 ‘ ee 4 50 aa. ees vets LARD. Kettle ie. LEMONS : Rendered. Granger. Family. pound. Messina, = a @5 50 Tierces ...... 7% a % 5% 5% i fancy, ete ees epee een @6 00 50 lb. Tins...8 7%, 6 55% i I cei sane nec 20 Ib. Pails.. 84% 7% 64 5% faeces Oe.....------..--- 4... @6 50 wm < |. ae 8 6% 6% OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. 5 Ib. ” 856 8% 65g 6% Bananas, ee ee ess. _ie 2 2 _ 834 8% 6% 63% Seconds.......... 1 00@ 1 50 BEEF IN BARRELS. Figs, fancy layers, CP. ...4s... i @13 Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs............... 6 50 1OD .... 2.00.0... eee @i4 Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ ad extra we, reese agence @15 ee ee ee. a. 9 00 . Oe @18 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Dates, Fard, = Ib. box ee @ &% Hams, average 20 1DS............-.00ee sere eee ma tl ee Cee @ 6% ee 11 16 Persian. Pe Na 44@ 5 o _ ee Ee 11% NUTS. OP i ee ee i 84 Almonds, oo See nee ees ed euee @17 “pest boneless. . Ce @15% a... 7% - California oe Ql7 Breaktest Bacon, bomeless.................... o% ee ee @s8 oe eee, es es Oe @11% Long Clears, Ee Eg ee Be ox Walnuts, ones a @13% Briskets, medium. ee eee. ee oe @ ~“ Se een es hee ina ee » es a 10 Table Nuts, fancy.. oy eee. ees oe @i2% oes kee cee aeee @l1% Penis, TOME, H. Fig oon ines: -- os cenes 11 @14 HESTER MACHINERY C0 Cocoanuts, full HTN GA @4 50 " PEANUTS. Fancy, Hi. P., ia es tae ck @ 5% AGENTS FOR . Roasted lou ane ee @i% Fancy, H. Ps eae os esse @ 5% ’ Sonsied.. @ i Choice, H. P. Extras.. @ 4% “ Roasted ., @ 6% California ‘Walnuts. ek 12% iH mn a a a : oH Plain Slide Valve Engines with Throttling fa Governors. © Automatic Balanced Single Valve Engines. = Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive eS BOILERS. fz Uprigkt Engines and Boilers for Light Ee Power. Prices on application. SE 45S. Division St., Grand Rapids. W K i | h 8 PAMPHLETS Ml [ mime br ONS Manufacturers and Jobbers of . ' CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS) Pieced & Stamped Tinware, For the best work, at reasonable prices, address : : a 260 8S. IONIAST., - Grand Rapids THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. TELEPHONE 640, } which needs only time to spread to other political leaders, and, finally, to the peo- ple at large. John Stuart Mill said, years ago, in his essay upon August Comte, that ‘‘a belief which has gained the cultivated minds of any society, un- less put down by force, is certain, sooner or later, to reach the multitude.” Mr. Sherman is now not only opposed to free silver, but he is opposed to the act of July, 1890, which bears his name, and under which the nation is buying silver to the amount of nearly $50,000,000 a year and issuing currney against it. He sees, as every sensible man must see, the tendency of the act is to put gold coin to a premium and thus drive it out of use asmoney. This is a result which the most fanatical silver man is not prepared to accept, and whenever its imminence becomes apparent, as it will do very soon, I look for a repeal of the act of July, 1890, in accordance with Mr. Sherman’s recommendation. By the way, I observe, in the Republi- ean platform, the assertion that ‘the American people from tradition and in- terest favor bimetallism.’? Whatever may be the present inclination of our people, tradition shows that in past times they have been practically always mono- metallists. Down to 1834 the country had nothing but the silver standard, and since 1834 it has had exclusively the gold standard. It is true that the law, until 1873, provided for the free coinage of gold and silver alike at a fixed ratio, but that ratio, prior to 1834, so overvalued silver that gold was driven out of use and its re duction in 1834 drove outsilver. Plenty of men can remember both the time when none but silver coins, American and foreign, were in circulation, and the subsequent time when silver dollars were curiosities, worth from five to ten cents more than their par value. Indeed, very shortly after the passage of the act of 1834, even American silver quarters and halves disappeared from circulation, and the only small change to be had was the little worn and depreciated Mexican and South American pieces, more like old buttons than coins. Finally, in 1853, Congress, to remedy the evil, reduced the amount of silver in quarter dollars and half dollars to so much less than their nominal value that it no longer paid to melt them down, and ever since then a dollar’s worth of small change has con- tained 7 per cent. less silver than a sil- ver dollar. As to the future, it is pretty safe to say that this country will not at- tempt the restoration of bimetallism, even on the statute books, by itself alone, and that international bimetallism is an illusion of which the fixed hostility of Great Britain will forever prevent the realization. We have, thus, favorable toa rise in the stock market, the positive conditions of easy money and a dearth of new schemes for the employment of it, while the negative forces of apprehensions of disaster from free silver or from any other source are too feeble to be worth considering. It is quite likely that with- in the next twelve months we shall ex- port a considerabie amount of gold, par- ticularly if Austria carries out her scheme for the adoption of the gold standard, but with our enormous volume of currency the loss of it will not be felt.. Even a bad grain harvest, in view of last year’s abundance, would be only slightly depressing, and we have enough THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. cotton left over from last year to make up for any possible deficiency in the crop of that staple. Vigorous and de- termined leadership alone is needed to renew the buoyancy that prevailed be- fore 1890. MATTHEW MARSHALL. _— 2 <—-- Why the Drummer Swore Off. From the Detroit Free Press. “No,” said the old drummer fiercely, “I play no games of chance any more, not even the simplest kind, for money.” ‘““Won’t you piteh pennies? ”” nersisted his companion. “That least of all,” he said, affected. ‘“‘Why not?’’ asked the other. ‘Do you see this dollar?”’ he said, taking a cart-wheel from his pocket. “Well, thereby hangs a tale. Listen! Ten years agol was, and had been for five years, traveling for a big diamond- importing house in New York, and I carried with me a large number of gems, often having as much as $50,000 worth. One day four of us, all in the same line, met in Denyer, and thatevening we were drinking and matching dollars in my room. It was a hobby of mine, as it was of one of the other men, Frank H—, who was as inveterate a matcher as ever the late John T. Raymond was. Well, we drank and matched, and kept at it until we began to toss up at $5 a toss, and the other two soon backed out and watched us. I guess we were both pretty drunk, for, before I knew it, we had made a pot of a hundred dollars and were tossing best two in three for it. I lost, and lost again, and then, having no more money, I put up a diamond against his pile. Llost that, too, and then put up two against his money and what had been my diamond, and that time I won. I think we were both half crazy now, for Frank pulled out one of the pocketbooks from the inside of his vest and laid it open on the table and asked me angrily if I dared to match it. Of course, I dared, and dared more. I put down be- side it all mine, valued at wholesale rates at $50,000, and he emptied his other vest pocket to an equal amount. Our two friends tried to stop us, but we were wild and would listen to nothing. Frank threw first and I called ‘tails.’ It came ‘heads.’ It made me shiver. Then I threw ‘heads’ and he called ‘tails’, and we wereeven. I don’t know how he felt as he picked up the dollar, and looked at those glittering gems, for I don’t know anything clearly, though I had a vague idea that somebody would be ruined forever on the next throw. Frank tossed the dollar to the ceiling and I ealled ‘heads.’ It struck the floor and rolled over towards the register. All four of us made a rush for it, and Frank fell headlong. The dollar had dropped through the grating and was lying on the closed shutters of the register just be- low. ‘*‘Get a match,’ I almost shrieked. “I stepped back and my foot struck Frank. He did not move. I bent down and shook him. He was still. I tried to ery out, but could not. The other two men caught hold of him then and turned him over. His face was blue and the blood was gushing from his mouth. He had died in aninstant. The three were sober men in a second, and at once alarmed the landlord and sent for a physician, but he might as well rot have come. He told me death had been in- stantaneous. I put my diamonds back into my pockets and took care of Frank’s; and the balance of the stakes I divided, taking what I put up and setting his aside, and the next morning we started for home with poor Frank’s body.” ‘*How about the dollar in the register? Who won?” ‘“*Oh,’”? said the old drummer with a start, ‘‘I almost forgot that part of it. I never thought of that dollar until just before we left, and going back I fished it out and put it in my pocket, and this is it. It was ‘heads.’ ”’ ‘No wonder you don’t gamble any more,’? exclaimed the listener with a sigh of relief. ‘‘Let’s go and take a drink as a forgetter.”’ ‘‘And I don’t drink any more, either,’’ said the old drummer quietly. visibly Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect June 12, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going North. te ut. For Traverse City & Mackinaw 6:50a m From Kalamazoo and Chicago. 9:20am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 1:50pm For Traverse City & Saginaw.. For Petoskey & Mackinaw ..... 8:10 p 10:30 pm Train arriving from south at 6:50 a as all oar trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going 8 e 7:20 am North. outh ow Ceres on ck 6:20am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the a a 50am 2:00 pm Oe CRNA GE coco cece cucesse 6:20pm 6:00 pm Wee Ceres. o.oo. «oe 10:40 m 11:20 pm PEGs HASIBOAW. .. 2... oe csdcccnse 10:40 Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:20 p. m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive. 6:55 am 11:25 am 5:30 pm 4:40 pm 9:05 p m SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 7:20 a m train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse City and Grund Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 2.00 p m train has parlor car Grand pan to Pe reed and Mackinaw. sy train.—Sleeping ia Grand sos ce Petoskey and Mackin: SOUT H--3 7:00 am train.—Parlor hate oar Gea ta pids to Cincinnati. to. 05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 70 se tenia. We agner Sleeping Car Grand face Bes to Cincinnati. 1;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car a Rapids to ) GRicago. Chicago via G. R. & 1. RB. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 am 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 3:35 pm 9:00 p m 11:45 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. 11:20 p m 6:50 am Lv Chicago : 7:05 am 3:10 pm 10:10 pm Arr Grand Rapids 1:50 pm 8.35 pm 6:50 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. C. 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 np Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:15 a.m. and 1:00 p. Ay. Toledo at ..-.....- 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. VIA D., < H. & M. Ly. Grand Rapids at.... .6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p. Ax. Voledo at. ......... "4a: 55 p. m. and 10:20 p. Return connections equally as good. H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. Se eee AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y. BB BE . GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.GRD RAPIDS.....- 9:00am 12:05pm *11:°5pm Ar. CHICAGO. .........0:209m0 5:25pm *7:G5am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAGO..... ....9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS.....3:55pm 10:10pm *6:10am GRAND RAPIDS AND CHICAGO, Via St. Joe and Steamer. Lv Grand Rapids............12:05pm + 6:30pm Ar Chicago .. Meas ces ees CC 2:00am in Clceee .............5... 9:30am Ar Grand Hapids............ 5:20pm TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS. Ly. Grand Rapids..... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....*6:10am 3:55pm 10:10pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. iy. G.i...... 10:0Cam 12 05pm 5:30pm 6:30pm a. GE... .. 10:S0am 3 itpm S:2)pm ..... TO AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND EL K RAPIDS, iy. Grand Wapids................7:20am %S:25pm Ar Grand Hagecs............ -11:45am 9:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago—Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m.; leave Chicago 11:15 pm. Parlor Buffet Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 12:05 p m; leave Chicago 4;45 p m. +Except Saturday. DETROIT JUNE 12, 1892 a LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. GR’D KAPEDS..... 7:30am *1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. DETROIT..........1):30am %:16pm. 10:40pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. DBTROET.......... 7:05am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar. GRD RAPIDS..... 12:00m *5:15pm 10:10pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST, LOUIS. iy. Grand: Hapids............... 7:20am 4:15pm Ay. Grand Mapids............... 11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:30am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ay. feom Lowell........-. om S:ibpm =... THROUGH CAR SERVICE Between Grand Rapids and Detroit — Parlor cars on all trains. Seats 25 cents Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor ear leaves Grand Rapids 7:20 am; arrivesin Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents, *Every day. Other trains week days only. Gi EO. DEHAVEN, Gen, Pass’r Ag’t. : _ se am RUN on, ** The Niagara Falls Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE a eee se. 7:00am 10:00pm 7:05am 4:30 pm Day pre 1:20pm 10:0am *Atlantic & Pasifte Express.. 0:30pm 6:00am ee Somer Wren. ck. ccc 640pm 12:40pm *Daily All pe 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. Brigas, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. MuNSON, wry Ticket Office, 67 —— St. O. W. Ruaoirs G.P. & T. Agant., Chicag paced TIME TABLE SOT wd NOW IN EFFECT. EASTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 14 |tNo. 16| tNo. 18 ae 82 Lv. Chicago.... 8: 30pm}... ' chee eee Cl. iy. Milwaukee | 730pm 0.0 _.)....._.. Ee G’d Rapids, pel 6 50am}19 20am) ; 25pm | 10 55pm oom ....... Ar| 7 45am/11 25am) 4 27pm/12 37am St. Johns ...Ar} 8 30am/12 17pm) 5 20bm| 1 55am Owoeas ...... Ar; 905am} 1 20pm! 6 ¢5pm)} 3 15am KE. Saginaw..Ar/10 45am| 3 05pm) 8: 0pm} 6 45am Bay City .... . Ar}11 30am} 3 45pm) 8 45pm} 7 22am Pi .-..... J A r/10 (Sam 3 45pm) 7 05pm} 5 40am Pt. Huron...Arjii 55am} 6 00pm} 8 00pm} 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar| 1105 3am} 3 05pm) § 25pm) 5 37am Detroit.......Ar|i1 50am] 4 05pm) 925pm) 7 00am WESTWARD. *No. 81 |tNo. 11|+tNo. 13|*No. 15 Trains Leave Lv. Detroit..... 11 5p mj1 50am! 4 05pm G'd Rapids, Lv} 7 05am) 1 00pm) 5 10pm)!» 20pm G’d Haven, Ar/ 8 35am/ 2 10pm} 6 15pm}11 20pm mw scene | tL... 6 30am} 6 30am Coie mr “i... 6 00am 6 a *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a m, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:30 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Chair 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. SHORT LINE TO CHICAGO. Via the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau kee Railway and the Goodrich Line, The Magnificent New, Fast Steamships, “Atlanta” and “City of Racine” Built expressly for this route. Each steamship 1,200 tons burthen, with sleeping accommoda- tions for 300 passengers. These steamships have immense reserve power which enables them to make their regular sched- ules in the most unfavorable weather. SCHEDULE: LEAVE GRAND RAPIDS daily, except Sunday, at 5:10 pm, via D, GH & M Ry, arrive in Grand Haven 6:15 pm LEAVE GRAND HAVEN 8:30 p m daily except Saturday, via Goodrich Line, arrive in Chi- cego at 6: :00 am Nore—Saturday trips resumed on May 14, RETURNING—Leave Chicago daily exe ept Sun day at 7:30 pm, via Goodrich Line and ar- rive in Grand Rapids at 6:45 a m daily. Nore—Sunday trips resumed May 15. $3.90 And for the round trip, $6.50 Stateroom Berth included Through tickets can be had at the city office and depot of the D, GH & M Ry, Grand Rapids; also at all stations on the D,G@H & M Ry, D, L &NRR,GR&IRRandT,S & M Ry. JOHN SINGLETON, Gen’! Pass. Agent, C hicago. STUDY LAW AT HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Corres —~ dence School of GRAND RAPIDS TO CHICAGO, QNLY {incorporated}. Send go cents [stamps] for particu lars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. 375 Whitney Block, DETROIT, MICH. a oo eam cami nar ie diateeng aaa a arti a areemnplr ent Cae 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ig a EI aa The Hardware Market. Wages—As the time approaches for | the settlement of this important question for another year, the difficulty to adjust | wages so as to be satisfactory to both employer and employe seems more than probable. Pig Iron—No improvement to note. Stocks and the demand remain about the same. Bar Iron—The extreme prices which have been made by some makers have been withdrawn. Warm weather and the adjustment of wages will result, no doubt, in the temporary shutting down of many mills. Poultry Netting—Still scarce. Job- bers are getting 60 to 65 cents per 100 feet when taken in full rolls. Wire Screen—Screen wire for windows and doors is now in great demand, and stocks on hand seem to be exhausted. All the jobbing centers report no stocks on hand. Prices have advanced from 10 to 20 cents for 100 square feet. Sereen Doors and Windows—Demand very large and stocks very light. No jobber seems to be able to get the goods of the manufacturers. Sheet lron—Prices seem to be growing firmer as the time approaches for wage adjustments. Wire Nails—No special change to note. Prices about the same. Wrought Iron Pipe—Prices are a little irregular. No immediate prospect of an advance. Barbed Wire—Market quiet. Orders are being filled more promptly, but no change in price. Woo! Twine—The demand being about over, prices are being shaded. Window Glass—As the time draws near for the general shutting down of all factories, orders seem to be coming in more freely, but there is no indication of any change in price. Oil Stoves—The warm weather has de- pleted all stocks. There is no change in the price. Jobbers are quoting 30 per cent. discount from list. > + To Trust or Not to Trust. “In God we trust, Everybody else pays cash.” The above sign is displayedin a modest little baker shop on Tenth Avenue, New York City. It is an old sign, but that little baker has prospered just the same, and, we are reasonably sure, it is because the good woman who presides over the destinies of that little shop long since put all her trust in God, leaving none for those who come in to buy her bread, pie and cake. If everybody paid cash, as seems to be the rule with our woman, there would not be so many failures, nor so much destitution and misery. Itis a good habit to get into, that of paying cash. It is a wonderful restrainer and manager, this cash system. A man then buys what he needs and no more, and, therefore, is likely to live within his income. It is so easy to buy things and say ‘‘charge it,’’ but how dif- baker | ficult it is sometime to pay for that which has been charged. The simplest and best way, and the only way that will in the long run be found | mutually satisfactory, is to call for the eash, and first obtain it every time before the goods are delivered. There is noth-j| ing so conducive to extravagance and | waste as this credit business. He who buys on credit is thus encouraged to live beyond his means, and so reach inevit- able debt, if not a great deal worse. But he who buys for cash, not only learns the value of money and the lesson of hus- banding his resources by saving, but he gets very much more and of a better} quality than the man who promises to pay. i A Novel Divorce Case. From the New York Herald, For two years after their marriage a New Hampshire couple lived in content- ment and happiness. Then the wife be- came a convert to the doctrine of Chris- tian Science, studied, took the degree of of doctor, and began practice. Her hus- band, not objecting to her belief. urged her to abandon its practice. He implored, ed, reasoned, remonstrated. She would notyield. He became ‘‘moody, morose, and reticent.” He neglected his drug business. He was troubled with insom- nia and loss of appetite, and ‘‘became generally despondent and unhappy from brooding over his changed domestic re- lations.’? Finally he applied for a di- vorce, and brought twenty witnesses, in- cluding four physicians, who testified to the change in his mental and bodily con- dition and the injury to his business after his wife became a Christian Science practitioner. The physicians gave the opinion that if the cause was continued it would seriously endanger his reason and his health. The law of New Hampshire allows divorce on the ground of ‘‘extreme eruelty.””’. The Supreme Court held this to be acase of extreme cruelty on the part of the wife against the husband, and accordingly granted the divorce. — > 2 Traveling Men’s Yarns. From the New York Morning Journal. Thomas Worrall, who travels for a Broadway clothier, says that the meanest man he ever met lives in a town in Mich- igan. ‘During the Winter, when it is twenty degrees delow zero,’’? said Mr. Worrall, ‘‘this man soaks his head in water and then sits out in the back yard until his hair freezes. Then he breaks it off and cheats the barber out of a hair eut.”’ “The last time I went hunting,’’ re- marked Ed. Monroe, the umbrella travel- er, ‘‘l shot seventeen ducks in one day.” ‘‘Were they wild?” inquired a listener “No, but the farmer who owned them was,”’ said Ed. One of the most bashful of commercial travelers is Charlie Ames, who is on the road for a haberdashery firm. At Kala- mazoo he called on a young lady and re- marked, as they sat in the parlor: I hold you in the very highest respect.”’ ‘‘That’s the only way you do hold me,”’ said the girl. or OO Hints to Clerks. Be punctual. An employer always ap- preciates the clerk who can be depended on under all circumstances. The habit of being promptly on time when work commences cannot be too highly esti- mated. Work full time. Clerks should not be watched or driven, yet there are many who are but time-servers, and who work only in the presence of an employer. It is your duty either to give your full time and best efforts in the interests of your employer or leave his service. Do your best. Make it a point toserve your employer honestly, and although you may not earn the wages paid to a brother clerk or worker because of. his superior ability or experience, do your best in the work laid out for you; you are thus fitting yourself for greater undertakings In the future. + ——— Tarantula in Bananas. A well known fruit firm says: ‘“*There | has been fa tendency of some of these ‘feather-brained reporters’ to get up sensational stories regarding the ripen- ing of bananas and the dangerous ‘taran- | tula,’ all of which tend to excite timid } purchasers, especially the women and children who form a very large class of trade in bananas in this country, until it will make them regard a bunch of banan- as as they would a wild animal and won- der why the dealer hasn’t placed them in and iron cage instead of ranking them as they should be, the most delicious of all tropical fruits.” el Beware of the man who claims to be giving you the best end of the bargain. A New Contributor. Tue TRADESMAN welcomes a new writer this week in the person of S. P. Whitmarsh, dealer in drugs and groceries at Palmyra, who has consented to be- come a regular contributor to THE TRADESMAN’S columns. As the reader willnote, Mr. Whitmarsh wields a trench- ant pen, although his observations are tempered by charity and breadth of judgment. In a personal letter to the editor, outlining the scope his contribu- tions will take, Mr. Whitmarsh writes: I shall try to avoid in discussions of trade topics any harshness of judgment or prejudicial statements that may dis- please the patronsof THe TRADESMAN. While I want to ‘‘Shoot folly as it flies,” I hope none of my well meant arrows may wound or offend an innocent party. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Crockery & Glassware FRUIT JARS, UN ce $7 7% wre cia ececnn spe ce ceeeecuccminasce + cum 8 25 We a ee eas ee cl a 10 75 a ce eC ee 3 50 ——————————————— ns 45 LAMP BURNERS. We Oe 45 mis Uc. oc Mae ee een... i 2 as eee 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. No.0 Sun... _—it lk. ee a First quality. a Poe tee bee. ........ 2 2% as . ee eS 2 40 as " OF ele ee ei 3 40 XXX Flint. OE EE ee 2 60 ss. - ke ce cece ee ec 2 86 Za2 * wal ehh ae eu ke 3 80 Pear] top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 70 No.3 * ” - Oe eee 470 No. 2 Hinge, “ " ean 4 88 La Bastie. We. i Han, piain bulb, pordes. .............: 1 25 nee * " " ge 1 50 De. 5 ee, ee ee... 1 35 —s ee cee 1 60 LAMP WICKS, mae oe... 23 Be. 3, gl Ae ER idl Sa ne iain 28 No. 2, oe — 38 No. 3, eee oe ee ee, 7 eee, wer ies... 3... 90 STONEWARE—AERON. Butter Coocks, 1 and Geel ............ 2... 06% i, a ii ask sare tescse ee 75 eee ay ee coe 90 2. - a a Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 75c).... 60 o oo 1 oo ii ( oe 0c) 7 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, bens SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, PATENT medicines, paints, cigars, tobacco and sun- dries, in town of 1600. Town growing. Good trade. Best location in town. Good clean stock. Good reasons for wanting tosell. For particu- lars address, G A R, Box 139, Corunna, Mich. 523 OR SALE — HALF INTEREST IN GOOD paying drug store in Grand Rapids. Rare opportunity for young man. P. V. Finch, Grand Rapids y OR SALE—A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES and crockery in first-class shape. Doing a business from #15 000 to $18,0 0 per year in as fine a farming country as there isin the state of Michigan. Can give good reasons for selling. Address Lock Box 14, Elsie, Mich. 517 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND shoes in a desirable lumbering town. For rticulars enquire of Host & Mertes, Newberry, 533 Mich. OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—FOR STOCK of merchandise, 160 acres fine land, one- half mile from railroad, in sight of county seat, a flourishing town on division of the C,, B. & Q. Railroad, Akron, Colorado Address Box 616, Howell, Mich. 536 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, GROCERIES and wall paper in town of 1000 inhabitants. Building for sale or rent. Reasons for selling, 00r health. Address No, 518, care Michigan Tradesman. 518 OR SALE—DRUG FIXTURES CHEAP. Ad- dress No. 525, care Michigan Tradesman. 525 OR SALE— CLEAN STOCK OF STAPLE dry goods, clothing, furnishing goods, mil- linery goods and boots and shoes in one of the best oe in Michigan. Stock will inventory $3,000 to $3,500, Liberal discount for cash. For —— address No. 530, care Michigan adesman. 530 OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK IN town near Grand Rapids surrounded by ex- cellent farming country. A bargain for some one. M.S. McNitt, Byron Center, Mich. 526 [. BUSINESS FOR SALE IN THE hustling town of Belding. A splendid busi- ness. For information, address Lock Box 50, Belding, Mich. 520 re SALE—A DRUG STORE, NICE FIX tures, fresh and well selected stock, in- creasing trade, nice residence portion of the city. Inventory, #2,500. Address No. 498, care Michigan Tradesman. 498 OR SALE—GROCERY STOCK AND FIX- tures in corner store in desirable portion of city, having lucrative trade. Best of reasons for selling. Address No, 504, care Michigan Trades- man. 504 OR SALE—OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF GEN- eral merchandise at yes et ote 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 STOCK OF DRY goods. Established trade; good town. Lock box 963, Rockford, Mich. 483 SITUATIONS WANTED. ne — SITUATION AS TRAVELING salesman. Would prefer drugs or drug- gists’ sundries. Five years’ experience in the drug business. Address 534, care Michigan Tradesman. 534 TO EXCHANGE. Wy Ane eee STOCK OF GOODS IN exchange for a first-class 160 acres of land, unencumbered, in Brown county, South Dakota. Will pay some Cash difference. C. A. French, 65 and 66 Wonderly building, Grand SS 5 MISCELLANEOUS. NOR SALE—ONE 11x18 ENGINE AND TU- bular boiler with all fittings. One lumber rig, capacity 15m; shafting, pullies, ete. Also wagon and backsmith shop, size 20x50, two stories and 21x40 one story; situated in good town with lots of business. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake or Luther, Mich. 537 Atos WANTED — A THOROUGHLY \S experienced window glass salesman, with an established trade in Michigan and Indiana. One having a knowledge of the paint business pre ferred. Address The Van Cleve Glass Co., Cleveland. Ohio. * 53 OR SALE—11-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD LO- cation, within ten minutes walk of Monroe St. Price, $3,300. W. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 470 OR SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE OUR grocery stock at Traverse City, invoicing $4,000 to $5,000; or, if purchaser refers, we will sell our general stock at cae invoicing $8,000 to $10,000, and our store building at %2,500, or either alone. Both stocks are clean and well selected, with established trade, and the pur- chaser secures a bargain in either case. Ad dress M. V. Gundrum & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 535 Dp? 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 gooi residence locality, only 200 feet from electric street car line. ill sell for $2,500 cash, or part cash, pay- ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 354 OOD WANTE D— CORRESPONDENCE solicited with parties having any No. 1 stovewood. Cash and highest market price paid. M. E. Lapham, 431 East Bridge street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 503 OR SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer cantile companies. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 370 OR SALE—DESIRABLE RESIDENCE LOT on North Union street. Size 50x142 feet to alley. 400 feet from electric cars. Easy terms. W. A. Stowe, 160 Louis street. 513 WANTED | LUMBER RED OAK, WHITE OAK, BLACK ASH, ROCK ELM, GREY ELM, BASSWOOD. A. E. WORDEN, 19 Wonderly Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, a . UL une BANANAS. _ VII, HERPOLSHEIMER & C0, WHOLESALE THE PUTNAM CANDY co. Dil! hoods, Carpets and Gloaks We Makea Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live | Geese Feathers. ® . . Spring & { On ppan»n VY, Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. : OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. | IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN : 48 BO. B2 Ott St ’ ; awa St., Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Vole Herpolshelmer d (0. Grand Rapids. Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gl hae , Wool , ce ene Gregan RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO,, Prints and Domestic Cottons 12, 14, 16 PEARL ST. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well . : assorted stock at lowest market prices. G Pan d R a p 1 d S; M 1C h ° ° \A 7 © would call the atten- Spring & Compan Vy. tion ~ ie eons to al lines of walking shoes. We can show you all the novelties MICHIGAN BARK &S LUMBER CX).. at popular prices. 7 ar We also carry good lines of 7) : : a. : a Tennis Goods at low prices. We want tosell you your rubbers for fall. Terms and discounts as good as | offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. | | Successors to N. B. Clark & Co. LEMONS! It will be a good idea to order 25 ‘boxes before it gets warm. There’s money in such a purchase. Get our prices. ie a. Sa vA), = OS ae == =e = igs F Dreams 18 and 19 Widdicomb Building. PUTNAM CANDY CO We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1892. Correspondence solicited. ° AS) Litas: If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using one of our improved Coupon Book systems, you are making a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the coupon book plan and are the largest manufacturers of these books in the country. Drop in and look over our factory when in the city or send for samples and price list by mail. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEONARD & SONS’ Complete Lines of Crockery, Glassware and } ouse Furnishing Goods, Store Lamps and Parlor Lamps in Every Variety. Catalogue No. 108. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Free to Merchants. The “NEW PROCESS” ‘ . Cabinet Range. How Does the Our Elevated Oven alone is worth the price of the Stowe. we make the only elevated - ss “CABINET” stove combined r New Process Operate? with the “New Process” prin- o> ciple, and which possesses sev- eral DECIDED POINTS OF ADVANTAGE. The oven being raised to a convenient height require no stooping in its manipulation— it is out of the way—a perma- nent fixture, NEED NOT BE MOVED OR SHIFTED and has the door in front. This The fluid drips, drop by drop (mever runs), upon a_ brass evaporator, mixes with and car- burets a current of air, de scends the supply pipe to the burner, where it LIGHTS LIKE GAS. HOW SIMPLE. And yet that’s all there is of <3 mee Sa oven is of a peculiar construc- it. All parts are made inter- changeable, are readily de- tached and can be replaced. By actual test during the past TWO YEARS, i has been proven that the “NEW PROCESS” consumes less gas- oline for the amount of heat given than any other style or kind of vapor stove. It is now made WITHOUT a “sub-fire,” which device has proven un- certain and unsatisfactory, causing much trouble and giv- ~ ine off a disagreeable odor. tion, designed to retain the heat and prevent wasteful and unpleasant radiation into the roum—a result attained so ef- fectually that the hand may be held against the top of the oven at the time of baking. The oven burner is swiveled and can be moved from under the oven, and. used for heating a wash-boiler and all cooking purposes. The flame is always in sight when heating the oven, and can be regulated easily by the operator while standing. The “Cabinet” is without doubt a great improvement over the “Step” style of stove, and is 7 certain to meet with the popu- = lar favor its unquestioned merit will justify. An Essay on Vapor Stoves. CONOMY in the kitchen should begin at the point where waste is greatest. That point is the cook’s fire. Science asserts and ex- & perience has proved, that by far the greater part of the heat produced by the modern cook stove is totally lost; or, in other words, if in one year ten tons of coal are burned fcr cooking, not more than one ton is actually utilized—the rest being wasted. This waste of fuel in a coal stove can be traced to many causes. Some of them are unavoidable—such as the long time of waiting until there is heat enough for cooking, but during which time combustion goes on; the impossibility of quickly stopping that combustion when the cooking is finished, as well as the great and constant loss of heat up the chimney, and into the room, from not being able to use it all as fast as itis made. Then there is the waste of fuel from avoidable causes—forgetfulness, ignorance and the many other qualities which } mark the wasteful cook who uses two tons of coal where one would easily answer. To command heat, to produce it in a moment, to regulate its quantity at will, to concentrate it upon one point (reducing radiation to the smallést amount), and finally to banish it instantly, is to lower the expense of the kitchen fire to one-third its present cost, and to increase the comfort of the kitchen itself three-fold. This is the problem to be solved, and the certain, scientific and only solution is the vapor stove. Its work is two-fold. First, it stops almost every source of waste; and secondly, it applies with great care the heat actually used. Moreover, besides the convenience, low cost and comfort, we shall find that it does better cooking, because it is less uncertain. The claims of the vapor stove are many, but they may be classified under five heads.’’ Those heads are then given: Convenience, economy, comfort, efficiency and safety; and among the various things they say under these heads—space will not permit them all to be quoted—the following are of special interest: Convenience—With a vapor stove the long preparation for cooking and the after effects of the fire are wholly avoided. The whole stove absolutely under your orders at all times, and not a moment’s delay at either end. Economy—The expense in using a vapor stove is much less than that of a coal stove. They are made in various sizes, having usually one, two, three, or four burners, any one of which may be used alone, or altogether, as desired. Each burner costs less than one cent per hour. The total cost, then, of a large-sized vapor stove with all the burners at highest heat is less than four cents Comfort—It is a delight, as every woman knows, to go into a perfectly cool, clean kitchen and begin work with a stove that in a few moments ‘hed the boiling and roasting point, and during all the time of its use, radiates almost no heat, and does not, on the average, raise the kitchen ther- mometer five degrees inaday. Efficiency—Every kind of cooking possible—baking, boiling, broiling, roasting, toasting, frying, stewing—can be done with a vapor stove, and usually much better than with any other. The full flame is clear, pure and very hot. Yet one burner, or all, can be turned down to any desired heat, and kept at just that point for hours, without change and witnout attention. Safety—A vapor stove is so simple and so easy to handle that even a child can safely useit. It needs little care, less knowledge and no skill whatever. It lights like gas. Makes no smoke or smell. A safe stove. An economical stove. It pleases the user, satisfies the dealer and stays sold. Ours is THE stove that has revolutionized the vapor stove business.