Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. VOL. 9. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. GRAND RAPIDS, JULY 20, 1892. $1 Per Year. NO. 461 MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits » Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. The BAR LOCK TYPEWRITER. The Modern Writing Machine! SPECTAL Visible Writing. Permanent Alignment. Automatic Ribbon-Feed Reverse High Speed. Powerful Manifolder. Light-Runnaing, Durable. The No 2 Machine takes paper 9 inches wide, and writes line 8 inches long. Price, $100 complete. The No.3 Machine takes pape1 14 inches wide, and writes a line 13% inches long. Price, $110 complete SEND FOR CATALOGUE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, State Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich ee N RAPP 2 CO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. MOSELEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SKKDS, BEANS AND PRODUGE, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Mich. cS & BHROw WN, JOBBER OF Foreign and Domestis Fruits and Vegetables, Oranges, Bananas and Karly Vegetables a Specialty. Send for quotations. 24-26 No Division St. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. l and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS Bargains in Bicycles. We have the lead- ing lines: For two weeks, beginning June 27, VICTOR we will offer special COLUMBIA inducements on CLIPPER BICYCLES GENDRONS : ad Lal SY and all the we cee a ae Western Wheel Works Line. Call on us or write us for bargain sheet. 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. NO BRAND OF TEN CENT CIGARS Ga A G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. COMPARES WITH THE See Quotations. Our Fall Lines of Oil Cloths, Garpets and Curtains Now ready. Write for prices. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St. YHE NEW YORK BISCUIY GO, S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, Grand Rapids 37, 39 and 41 Kent St., The Green Seal Cigar Is the Most Desirable for Merchants to Handle because It is Staple and will fit any Purchaser. Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. Send Your Wholesaler an Order. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Illuminating and Lubricating | 63 and 68 Canal St. ~ -OILSs-| NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPYY GARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. During the building of the Kansas & Pacific Railway BUFFALO BILL Contracted to furnish the laborers with meat, killing in one | pr inter’ season four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two BUFFALO We have taken the contract to furnish every dealer in Western Michigan with BUPFALU SUAP BESY LAUNDRY SOAP ON KART}. L M. CLark GROCERY Co. SOLE AGENTS. Works, Butterworth ie! STANDARD OIL CO, "pare" | | N) . — = Manufacturers of | Show Cases First-Class Work Only Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS es aete x APOLIO? 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. Send us your orders for Commercial Prin cing. VWy* are not the cheapest printers in the State—would be ashamed of it if we were. When we find a “cheapest ’ who does workmanlike work, we will lock up our iP slant 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. meg en ae VOL. 9. TE Se Once Wie PHILA. PAT.FLAT OPENING BACK TRE = Stno FOF PRICES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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 wiil find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and bla ks for proceedings supplied without charge. Ail communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays per cent. on deposits, compounded sémi annually. 3. D. ELWOOD, Treasury BOSTON PETTY LEDGER Yeur account is always posted! Your bill is always made out! Size 84x33, bound in cloth and leather back 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 es i eae 4 50 5000 ow “ “a “oe “oe a 7 25 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 C0. 65 MONROE ST. Formed by the consolidation of the COOPEK 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, Cc. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive 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, England, Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg, HENRY ROYCE, Supt. A, J. SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street. mae FE ea Zui ~ Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. ESTABLISHED 1841. | a SMP RE A UNE ARN OT THE MERCANTILE AGENCY RR. G. Dun & Vo. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, J ULY 20, 1892. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Aromatic! a SPICES }} EDWIN.J. GILLIES & CO. 245 10249 WASHINGTON ST NEW YORK. f AH A O say that the above fancy bottled spices are strictly pure does not convey the excellent high merit of the goods. They are put up from such as Shot Sifted Pepper, Saigon Cinnamon, finest Zinzibar Cloves—nothing else—and can be retailed at popular prices. The best will make trade and in use is good economy. E. J. GILLIES & CO., NEW YORK, MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE, J. P. VISNER, 167 No. Ionia St.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Fire & Burglar Proof All Sizes and Prices. Partiesin need of the above gare invited to correspond with I. Shultes, Agt. Diebold Safe Co. MARTIN, MICH. FRANK H WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden ND Indurated Pails & Tubs, WOODEN BOWLS, CLOTHESPINS & ROLLING PINS, STEP LADDERS, WASHING MACHINES, MAR- KET, BUSHEL & DELIV- ERY BASKETS, BUILDING PAPER. Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish- ing to be represented in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TE afr PROMPT, FIRE INS. co. CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. Stewart WHiTrE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBary, Sec’y. THE NEW MINISTER. All alone in the cool, green shadows of the glen, with tall ferns nodding around, and blue asters dipping their fringes in the forest pool, while the midday sun- shine could scarcely penetrate the awn- ing of beech leaves overhead—Mr. Pyn- sent felt like a modern Robinson Crusoe, as he leaned back against a moss-enam- eled rock, and turned the leaves of his pocket edition of ‘‘Shakespeare.”’ “Now, I don’t suppose,’ thought Mr. Pynsent to himself, luxuriously watch- ing the erratic flight of a gigantic blue butterfly, ‘that there is a living soul within a mile of me! Idon’t suppose—” But just at that instant a sweet, impe- rious voice, like the call of the robin which had just fluttered away into the blackberry thickets, pierced through the fragrant silence of the summer noon, calling: ‘*Charley ! Charley!’ And abunch of autumn leaves drift- ed down upon his book from the edge of the precipice above. ‘*Are you there, Charley?” reiterated the sweet, bird-like voice. ‘‘Good gra- cious, why don’t you speak?’’ Mr. Pynsent straightened himself up, and tried to look through the green braid- ing of foliage overhead. “Yes, I’m here,’’ said he, wishing in his secret heart that he wasn’t so near- sighted, and hadn’t left his eyeglasses behind in New York. “Then, why didn’t you say so before. you stupid fellow!” retorted the. unseen eatechist, with a fresh shower of leaves descending from her aerial height. ‘‘May I come down?’’ ‘*Certainly,” responded our puzzled hero. ‘*Oh, but I can’t though,’’? added the voice, with a little hysterical catching in its accents. ‘‘Il’ve quarreled with Bell and mamma, and l’ve broken the big china vase, and I’m very, very misera- ble!” To this frank statement of affairs our puzzled hero could think of no immediate reply. Although he was a clergyman of the Church of England, he was not quite prepared to give in his adhesion to the doctrine of the confessional. ‘Why don’t you ask me why?’’ cried out the voice; and through the green, tremulous chiaroscuro of many leaves he could see the shine of crimped yellow hair, the flutter of a pale blue searf over- head. ‘‘I declare, you don’t seem a bit interested!” ‘I am,indeed,’’ protested Mr. Pynsent, with genuine earnestness. “It?s all the new minister,’’ said the fair one with the golden locks. ‘‘Com- ing poking and prying here where no- body wants him.” ‘“‘The—new minister!’’ repeated the Reverend Mr. Pynsent, with a curious sensation of seeing himself in a sort of mental looking-glass. “Yes, the new—min-is-ter!” repeated the girl, mimicking his accent of sur- prise. ‘‘ Charley, don’t be such a fool, or I shall throw my parasol down at you. Of course, it’s the new minister. Who NO. 461 else should it be? Coming to dinner just when nobody wantshim! And there is Bell, putting her hair in curl-papers, and laying out all the religious books on the centertable, and hiding away the novels under the sofa, and mamma fresh trimming her cap and making lobster salad; and, oh, Charley, killing my white doves to make a pigeon pie! Oh!” (with a sob) ‘‘I do hope the very first mouthful of it will choke the new minister! And I cried—I couldn’t help it, Charley dear —now could you? And I slapped Bell, and I told mamma the minister was a greedy pig to want to eat my white darlings up; and mamma said I was pro- fane and impious, and she’d have my name sent up as a special subject of prayer a Wednesday night. And I said, if there was any praying to be done, I eould do it myself; and then I turned around in a huff, and my skirt knocked the Dresden vase off the little stand and broke it; and, oh, Charley, do you blame me for being very, very wretched?’’ ‘‘Not in the least,’’ answered the Rev- erend Mr. Pynsent, with energy. ‘‘And I’ve cried until my eyes are as red as pickled beets,’’ added this mod- ern Penserosa. ‘‘And I’ve got to go back and beg mamma’s pardon, and make it up with Bell, and—and [ know 1 can’t eat a mouthful of dinner with those dear white doves under the pie crust, and that horrid prig of a new minister sitting op- posite.” ‘*Perhaps you'll like him, after all,’’ soothed Mr. Pynsent, feeling very much like an eavesdropper in momentary ex- pectation of being detected. ‘“* ‘Like him!’’’ with a little derisive laugh. ‘*Oh, you know perfectly well, Charley, that I never could get along with clergymen. I can’t remember the dates in Deuteronomy, and I never could be quite certain about the Pharaohs, and I’m always sure to laugh out in Sunday school. Bell says she’s going to set her cap at the new minister—Pincers his name is, or Pinto, or some such out- landish-sounding thing. Well, let her, if she likes. J couldn’t marry him—no, not for ten thousand dollars! To think of my dear, little white doves! ”’ ‘*“Yes,” faltered Mr. Pynsent, waxing TWENTY THOUSAND RETAIL GROCERS have used them from one to six years and they agree that as an all-around Grocer’s Counter Secale the ‘‘PERFEC- TION” has no equal. For sale by HAWKINS & CoO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And by WholesaleGrocers generally. 2 THE MICHIGAN Thought, if 1 made good time from the | station, I might be in season to dine with you. Why, Paulie, child, what are you | | Staring at?” | For Paulina Wilton had grown first pale and then pink. ““Charley,’’ cried she, with one hand | pressed convulsively against her pearly | thruat, ‘‘wasn’t it you at the Forest Pool | this morning?” more and more uncomfortable all the) time, ‘‘but don’t you think it’s just possi- | ble that this—this gentleman may not have known about the white doves? ”’ ‘*Charley, why are you so hoarse? ”’ cried out the fair unknown, in an conscious paraphrase of Little Red Rid- | ‘‘Have you and caught another cold?” ‘“‘N-no; not that [am aware of,’’ said Mr. Pynsent, pondering how he should ‘*My dear child,” said Charley, ‘‘l tell | contrive to explain to her at this stageof, you I an express train until | twenty minutes ago! ”’ “It was 1,”’ said the Reverend Mr. Pyn- sent, composedly. ‘‘My name is Charles, | | un- inghood. been was on affairs that he was the wrong Charley. “Then it’s the said the damsel. echo from the rocks,’’ “It makes your voice} sound as gruff as a bear. Is that the | too; and when I heard it called, I 12 o’clock whistle? Oh, then, I must | answered. And I am much obliged to hurry and help Bell with the peachesand| you, Miss Paulina, for this rosebud,” cream for desert. And I ean’t come/ with a calm, downward glance at the down to talk with you, after all. But) half-opened ‘‘Mareschal Niel” in his but- there’s a tea-rosebud, Charley, dear. If} tonhole. Paulina looked at him for a moment, with half-startled eyes. He could but smile reassuringly. “You are not vexed with me?” she, solemnly. ‘‘Not in the least, ’’ he answered. ‘Then I forgive you the tragedy of the white doves,” said she. And they shook hands upon it. I'd left it on the bushes, Bell would only | have gathered it to pamper the new min- ister with. Asters and johnny-jumpers | are good enough for him.” And the next minute a_ half-blown Mareschal-Niel bud, golden-centered and with drifted | down upon the leaves of the *‘Shakes- peare,” and the sunshiny little with its fluttering blue coif, was gone. It is needless to add that Bell Wilton The Reverend Mr. Pynsent rose and didn’t marry the new minister, after all. looked around with a bewildered air. | And Mrs. Wilton says, rather pensively: ‘To think that little Paulie should be the one to be a minister’s wife, after all! | Paulie, that never could learn her cate- | chism nor sit still upon the Sabbath- day.” Amy RANDOLPH. said odorous subtle perfume, head, ‘‘Upon my word,” said he, ‘one might | almost believe one’s self to be in an en- | chanted glen. Was that golden head really adream? Andam | actually such an ogre? Is the widow Wilton positively | about to serve up to me adish made of | the little penitent’s white doves? By the | >> They All Do It. From the Dry Goods Retailer. | **Here, you get out of this! Don’t let sacred stork of Egypt, Pil not taste a : cat An tin a r i i _ | ine catch you in this store again! mouthful of it! And who is ‘Charley, A little feminine shriek followed this And how about this imperial | rough salutation. The writer turned and beheld a beauti- | ful and fashionably dressed young lady in the cluthes of a floorwalker. He had | | torn open a little bundle which she had just received from the package desk, and | forced her money into her hand, and with | cousiderable roughness was hurrying her | to the door. The face of the young wom- an was a picture. She looked like an |angry queen. Her eyes were haif aflame | ‘and haif drowned in tears. Her mag- | nificent teeth showed through the reddest | kind of lips, and her clear complexion yas like marble touched with the fine carlet of flowers. and twenty summers. | lwas tempted to interfere, but the i | tales of kleptomania and other strange And the |things which happen in our great ba- Py nsent, who had been sitting, in rather zaars, and, knowing the man, besides, to uncomfortable state, in the ‘best parlor” | be a gentlemanly tloorwalker—for this the widow Wilton. |drama was taking place in one of the : most fashionable stores in the city—l into the little withheld my hand. There, in a white dress with a blue sash “Do 1 know that lady?” said knotted floor walker with alaugh. ‘I should say stood a lovely young gir! of sixteen, with | 1.40! She is avery grand lady, indeed. De acelil | My dear sir, she isone of the tricks of golden tresses gathered into a knot, and a} sie tein. tuft ‘“That bewitching lady in Paris-made Mr. Pynsent felt himself color up to his} gown and imported bonnet is a salesgirl temples—it was the very face that had in the store of our enterprising neighbor i on the next block. She gets $11 a week. She came down here disguised as a cus- tomer, bought a dozen handkerchiefs as a blind, and proceeded to price a number of goods in which ourenterprising neigh- | bor suspects we are underselling him. This isso as to give him a tip how to mark his goods. In short, sheis a spy, and a healthy sunburn on his cheek. |and, as weare not permitted to hang spies “Charley!” cried the girls, in concert. | in this warfare of trade, all we can do is oa “ : _ | to escort them to the picket lines and let **Cousin Charles,” added the widow, |them go. Now that this young lady has extending a cordial hand of greeting, | been discovered, her occupation in this ‘pray, let me introduce you to the Rev-| line of usefulness is gone; but our neigh- bor will have another rigged up in less oe than no time. to you, sir, nodded ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of under- Charley. ‘‘Yes, I thought it would be | selling. ” a surprise, Aunt Phillis. I’m just home| “But do all the big stores keep these : i i +s there at| SPies, a8 you call them?” I asked. from Boston. Spent two days there a “Well,” said the ungallant floor walker, the great Musical Convention. Only! witha sly wink and smile, “they all of anyhow? ‘Beil,’ who is going to marry me, nolens It strikes mel am about to into unknown How- resolutely closing the ‘*Shakes- slipping have volens! venture daugers. ever,” peare” pocket, ‘‘l paign and I am going to carry it through, | and it into his vest commenced the cam- even though it should prove a Waterloo!” * x * % x x ‘‘Dinner is ready, Mr. Pynsent, if you sell Wilton, a tall some three or fou please,” said Miss Juno-like damsel, of feverend Charles Courtney with followed his hostesses dining-room. the loosely around her slim waist, | of geranium leaves in her bosom. smiled down from the top of the preci- pice, encircled in its framework of forest foliage. At a dark-haired, pleasant young man came in with a linen the same moment, duster over his arm, avalise in his hand, | erend Mr. Pynsent.” | “Glad meet reached Brattleboro’ half an hour ago.! them do but ourselves.”’ bj Best Six Gord — FOR — Machine or Hand Use. 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REYNOLDS & SOW, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Building and Sheathing Papers, Plain and Corrugated Carpet Linings, Asphalt and Coal Tar Prepared Roofing, Best Grades Asphaltum and Fire-proof Roof Paints, Coal Tar and Coal Tar Pitch, Elastic Roofing Cement, Resin and Mineral Wool, Asbes- tos Fire-proof Sheathing, Ete. Practical Rooter In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor.cLOUIS and CAMPALU Sts.. Schilling Corset (0's CORSE & THE MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. Dr. Schilling § FRENCH SHAPE -_* Send for Dlustrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLINGECORSET CO., Detroit. Mich. and Chicago, Ill. See price list STUDY LAW AT HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Correspon- “gence school of Law {incorporated}. Send ten cents [stamps] for particu ars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. 375 Whitney Block, DETROIT, MICH, BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. CONVEYANCE —CONTRACT- ORS. | Where a firm of contractors who had | undertaken to grade certain sections of | a railroad, being unable for want of means to carry out their contract, con- veyed to appellant all their property for equitable distribution among their cred- itors, appellant undertaking to complete the work and turn over the profits to the grantors’ creditors after reimbursing her- self for expenses incurred, the Kentucky Court of Appeals held that the creditors of the grantors had no right to complain of the conveyance. VEGETABLES—DELIVERY—FROST. In the csae of Anderson vs. May the FRAUDULENT Supreme Court of Minnesota held that upon a contract to raise, sell and deliver | a specified quantity of beans of various kinds, no particular land upon which they were to be raised being specified, the fact that unexpected early frosts so far de- stroyed the party’s crop that the vendor could not deliver the whole quantity specified did not excuse his non-per- formance of the contract. CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT—LIABILITY. The Supreme Court of Utah held, in the recent case of Long vs. Citizens’ Bank, that a bank is not liable, even to an innocent holder for value, on acertificate of de- posit issued before its organization or in- corporation, and signed, as cashier, by the person who afterwards became such, there being nothing to show that the bank ever received any consideration therefor, and that the promoters and subsequent officers of the bank, other than the cashier, cannot be held liable on the certificate in the absence of alle- gations and proof that by fraud or negli- gence they aided in giving it currency. CIVIL RIGHTS DECISION. Judge Black, of the Missouri Supreme Court, rendered a decision in the case of Younger et al. vs. Judah, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con- stitution was not violated by the refusal of amanager of a theater to a colored man and a colored woman to occupy seats in the parquet of the theater. The judge said in his opinion: ‘‘The colored man has and is entitled to have all the rights of a citizen, but it cannot be said that equality of rights means identity in all respects. Here the de- fendant did not exclude or attempt to ex- elude colored persons from his theater. He provided accommodations for them, but in doing so required them to pur- ehase tickets and take seats in the bal- eony, and this rule adopted by him ac- cords with custom and usage prevailing in this State. Such custom has the force and effect of law until some competent legislative power shall establish some other different rule. The defendant’s rule was no more than a reasonable reg- ulation which he had a right to make and enforce.”’ INSURANCE — INSOLVENCY — CONDITION. The question whether a condition against sale in a policy of insurance was broken was before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Brown vs. Cotton & Woolen Manufac- turers’ Mutual Insurance Company of New England. Itappears from the opin- ion that the sale relied on was a convey- ance by the plaintiff four days before the fire to the trustee in insolvency of her husband’s estate by a deed which pur- ported to be for valuable consideration, but for which the plaintiff testified that she received nothing. The plaintiff proved against her husband’s estate, and her claim was allowed, but she received nothing upon it. TheC ourt said: ‘‘It is argued that her position as a creditor preserved for her an insurable interest in the factory after the transfer, and that the conveyance was notasale. In the opinion of a majority of the Court the conveyance was a breach of condi- tion. * * * We are of opinion, in the first place, that it makes no difference whether the consideration of; the con- veyance is of substantial value or is merely the technical consideration which is said to be imported by the execution THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. of adeed. If the plaintiff's conveyance was in other respects a breach of the condition, the fact that she received nothing for it will not save it. * * * But it is said that the plaintiff did not alien- ate her. whole interest because she re- tained an insurable interest after the transfer as one of the creditors for whom | her grantee held the property in trust. We will assume that it is true that a creditor has an insurable interest in the estate of his debtor when conveyed to an assignee in insdlvency. * * * But we think that an interest of that kind would not be a continuation of the former in- terest of the plaintiff. By her convey- ance the plaintiff parted with the whole legal title, and as her grantee already owned her husband’s equity, she ex- tinguished her mortgage. In whatever words we express the fact, she put an end to her preferred right to satisfy her debt out of this land before other cred- itors could touch it. Her right after- wards was not created by or reserved or excepted out of her conveyance. It arose from the independent circumstance that her grantee was an assignee in in- solvency, and that the land became part of the fund held by him as such. It was aright in common with other creditors to share in the fund and in the land only in so far as it was part of the fund. We are of opinion that the condition against sale was broken.”’ a Girard and His Workmen. Stephen Girard had many excellent business traits. He was not a general giver; vagrants found little quarter in his house. But Girard was distinguished for his considerate conduct toward em- ployes. If aman conformed to his whims, he would be his friend, and stand by him through all reverses. One day, a young man, just commencing business, wished to obtain of Girard a bill of goods on credit. ‘‘Have you brought a eart to take these goods with you?” ‘‘No,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I prefer to save the expense; so I shall carry the goods on my back.” ‘‘You will succeed,” said the banker, ‘‘if you don’t drink. While you are sober and carry home your own goods, you can have all the credit you want.’’ One day aman came to him and wanted employ- ment. ‘‘What do you want to do?” ‘I will do anything that will give me an honest living.” ‘‘I will give you a dol- lar a day,’’ said Girard. ‘‘You take that pile of stones that you see in the end of that lot, and carry them to the other side and pile them up inthe same manner that they are now.” The job was com- pleted, and the man took his money and went home. In the morning he came for work. ‘*Take that pile of stones,’ said the merchant, ‘‘and put them back where you found them; pile them up, and do it well.” At night the man came for his money. The next morning, he had to remove the stones again; and so he worked day after day for a week. On Saturday night Girard complimented him on his industry, his attention to business, and the uncomplaining manner in which he went about his work. ‘I like you,’’ said the banker; ‘‘there is no nonsense about you; you do what you are told to do. Many men would have objected to doing the work over and over again. You shall have work as long as I have anything for anybody to do.” 8 ee The Changes of Two Decades. Twenty years ago the buyer went to the seller, now the seller goes to the buyer. This is not to be taken literally, of course, as if the seller was required to hawk his wares from door to door, but the whole tendency of modern business methods is that the man who has some- thing to sell seeks out the buyer, a com- plete reversal of former conditions, when he who was in want of something sought out the seller. The tradesman who now- a-days contents himself with a dignified seclusion petrifies into a statue. The live man advertises, circularizes, thrusts his personality in a hundred ways on the notice of the public, presents his wares so that they speak for him, considers the taste of buyers, creates wants and desires and studies the convenience of customers. et — mene Use Tradesmanor Superior Coupons. | | - ° Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the | | diseased portion of theear. There is only way |tocure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed 3 CHAS. A. GOYE. | condition of the mucous lining of the Eutachian | | tube. | rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when | itis entirely closed deafness is the result, and | unless the inflammation can be taken out and | this tube restored to its normal condition, hear- | | ing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of | ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but | an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces, We will give One Hundred Dollars for any be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. culars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. (= Sold by druggists, 75c. Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. HIRTH, KRAUSE & C0, JOBBERS OF CHILDREN’S SHOES Leather and Shoe Store Supplies. 12-14 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, V/V 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, Stow Shovels, Boy’s Carts, Express Wagons, Children’s Sleighs, Etc. POTTERVILLE, MICHIGAN. When this tube gets inflamed you havea} ease of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot | Send for cir- MANUFACTURER OF gS & TED _ Horse and Wagon Covers, | JOBBERS OF Hammocks and Cotton Ducks SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich. SCHLOSS, ADLER & U0. MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls ——AND—— Cents’ Furnishing: Goods, REMOVED TO 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. | | | | | } HESTER MACHINERY CO, AGENTS FOR Plain Slide Valve Engines with:Throttling Governors. Automatic Balanced Single Valve Engines. Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive BOILERS. Engines and Boilers for Light Power. Prices on applicaticn. 45 8, Division St., Grand Rapids Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for Upright 158 & 160 FultoncSt.’ Grand Rapids} = » THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Ironwood—Stone & Eaton succeed W. Stone in the meat business. Detroit—Thos. Davey succeeds Edwin Davey in the meat business. Ewen—J. H. Scott succeeds Scott & | Mack in the hardware business. Benton Harbor—Herr Bros. succeed E. H. Foster in the grocery business. Flint — Wood & Atwood, hardware dealers, are going out of business. Mt. Pileasant—W. W. Cox Cox & Peake in the drug business. Fremont—Wwm. Boone will shortly re- sume the retail furniture business. Bessemer—M. A. Mittenthal, clothing dealer, has removed to Goshen, Ind. Matchwood—The F. J. Hargrave Co., general dealer. has moved to Ewen. Three Rivers—O. T. Avery succeeds C. H. Creighton in the meat business. Cheboygan—L. J. MeLeod & Co. sue- eeed Frank E. Caswell in the clothing} business. sueceeds Vassar—F. L. Wittenbrook, proprietor | of the 99 cent store, is removing to Nor- walk, Ohio. Muskegon—Andrew Wierengo has fit- | ted up a handsome office in his wholesale | grocery house. Cass City—James McArthur succeeds | James McArthur & Co. in the dry goods | and grocery business. Ishpeming — Andrew Conradson suc- ceeds Hansen & Conradson in the grocery and furnishing goods business. Laingsburg—Whitney & Bailey have nearly completed their cold storage build- | ing. It is of brick, three stories high. Jackson—Cowley & Davis succeed T. Cowley & Co. in the boot and shoe busi- | i ness. They also succeed H. J. Davis & | Co. in the same business. Manistee—The new Canfield & Wheel- er combination salt and oil well is down about 1,200 feet, and going China-ward at the rate of 10 feet daily. Vermontville—Fred Benedict, one of Vermontville’s enterprising young busi- ness men, has gone to Chicago to look over a good offer he has had to go into the grocery business. Detroit—Webb, Standish & Co., whole- sale meat dealers, have filed articles of association. The capital stock is $50,000. R. S. & A. Webb and Charles D. Standish are the stockholders. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Pinconning—Estey & Calkins succeed | Estey, Calkins & Co. in the sawmill and lumber business West Branch—French & Co. have cut out all the stock on hand and shut down their sawmill for the present. Au Sable—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co. is supplying 1,500 Norway | poles for the Fort street railway line, of | Detroit. Cheboygan—The Cheboygon Lumber | Co. has contracted to saw 2,000,000 feet | of logs for Salling, Hanson & Co., Grayling. Escanaba—The Metropolitan Lumber | Co. Saginaw parties, of lumber to go east. recently effected the sale through 18,000,000 feet of West Branch—Bartholomew Bros. have | purchased a small saw and shingle mill | at Deep River and are removing it to a point near this place. Cadillac—Elbert J. Haynes and Chas. E. Haynes succeed the old-established of | Sons under the style of Haynes Bros. the building formerly occupied by J. R. Gavin and will start a harness factory | August 1, employing about a dozen men. Saginaw—Contracts have been signed | for the transfer from St. Louis to Sag- | inaw, of the Palmerton Wooden Ware Co., a concern which manufactures pails, tubs, ete., consuming large quantities of pine and basswood timber. It will em- ploy 150 hands. Gaylord—George Fiege, who built a ter, is manufacturing hard and soft lum- ber and 35.000 hoops daily. He reports the hoop market a little slow, as he is just working up a trade and has not |fairly got into the harness. His elm | hoop logs cost him $6 to $6.50 at the mill, which makes elm timber good property | for the settlers in this vicinity. j ~ >.< |Might Have Been a Mammoth Mon- opoly. In this modern day of trusts, monopo- | lies, syndicates and combinations, it is | not generally known that about forty | years ago a scheme was planned which, | had it gone through, would have created | one of the biggest monopolies the country lever knew, even surpassing, in extent and wealth,the Western Union Telegraph | Company orthe Standard Oil Company. | The scheme was nothing less than to | secure the control of all the timber land in Western Michigan, from Grand River North to the Straits of Mackinaw, and it would have been accomplished if the capi- | talists who were invited to accept ground | floor positions had had thenerve to put | up the money necessary. Hon. Thomas D. Gilbert, of this city, | and his brother, the late Francis B. Gil- | net: planned the deal. It was in 1850, soon after the close of the Mexican war. The soldiers received land warrants from the government in recognition of their services, and the country was flooded withthem. The warrants called for 160 acres of government land each, and were so plentiful that any number of them could have been picked up at prices run- ning as low as $100. The scheme was to buy up all the land warrants obtainable, and on them locate pine lands tributary to the rivers flowing into Lake Michigan —the Grand, Muskegon, Manistee, White and the streams further North to the Straits. It was estimated that $2,000,- 000 or $3,000,000 at the most would be sufficient to carry the project through, | and place in the hands of the corporation | or syndicate organized for the purpose, the virtual control of the entire timber resources of Western Michigan. If such a plan were to be _ proposed to-day, | it can easily be imagined how quickly the | necessary funds would be forthcoming. But in 1850 it was different. Ten or twelve years before that there had been | a wild speculation in Western lands and | town sites, and the Eastern capitalists had lost heavily. The Gilberts did not have the neces- sary funds to swing the deal themselves, j}and they invited Eastern capitalists to join them in the immense project. They | presented facts and figures, showing the lumber resources of the territory which could be picked up at less than $1 an ,acre. They told of the immense pine | forests offered, to put in all the money they themselves could raise and guaran- teed that the capitalists would receive at planing mill firm of James Haynes &| Mt. Pleasant—T. J. Barber has rented | saw and hoop mill at this place last win-| least 10 per cent. interest a year on their investment, but they applied for money in vain. The Eastern capitalists were | too eautious and allowed the golden op- | portunity to slip by, and it was the only |opportunity that was ever offered. A few years later the money could easily | have been obtained, but it was then too late. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land to aid in the jenna of the road, 500,000 to aid | the ‘‘Soo’”’ canal, and another large grant to the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, |of swamp lands to aid internal improve- |ments. With these grants valuable pine and hardwood lands were located, and erators, the Blodgetts, Hackleys, Tor- rents and Wards awoke to the necessity of buying early and often. purchasers instead of by one gigantic corporation, and the land found many owners instead of one. Thos. D. Gilbert, the originator of the scheme forty years ago, is still an honored resident of this city, and he remembers his early plan to gain great wealth, but rejoices as a patriotic citizen that it did not work. it would have made him and those whom he invited to come in im- mensely wealthy, but it would have retarded by many years the growth and development of Western Michigan. Had his scheme gone through, instead of hun- dreds of operators building mills and starting towns in this part of the State, all the land and timber would have been owned and controlled by a single corpor- ation and this corporation would have practically controlled the lumber matket of the country. Instead of a hundred fortunes being made in pine, there would have been but one, that of the corpora- tion, and this corporation would have ex- ercised a despotic sway over prices and output. The result of the combine can more easily be imagined than described, and, as it failed, it will have to be im- agined anyway. > <> The Hardware Market. - Wages—As a large number of the lead- ing bar and sheet iron makers have signed the wage scale for the coming year, we do not look for any scarcity of goods. Bar lron—In many cases, owing to the closing down of a number of mills, high- er prices are prevailing for well-assorted orders. This firming of prices cannot be maintained when business is resumed. Wire Nails—At this writing no wire nail mills are in operation, having tem- porarally closed down for repairs. The result is a scarcity of nails and higher prices are being asked by those who have stocks in hand. This shortage will not last long, as all the mills will soon be in operation, when nails will again be plenty. Cut Nails—No change to note. Window Glass—The market still re- mains stationary. The demand during the past week has not been heavy. Screws— While no change has been made in the published discount, the prices established by the manufacturers are being shaded. Liberal buyers can obtain from 5 to 10 per cent. better dis- counts by asking tor them. Shot—Still firm at the last advance and there is some talk of another advance. The government had given the} besides giving the State immense tracts | about that time the mill owners and op-| The Mexican | land grants were picked up by many | Pig Lead—Is not firm, but very little is moving. Lead Pipe—The recent advance is firmly held. Jobbers are getting 514 to 51¢¢ per pound in full coils. Copper—No change to note, although prices are not very firm. Apple Pearers—The time is soon com- ing when these goods will begin to move. The prospects of a very small crop of ap- ples will, no doubt, tend to decrease sales on them. Stoves—New catalogues are beginning | to be sent out by the different makers and, while nearly all are getting out some new patterns, the prices will range about the same as last year. Agricultural Tools—Such as cradles, scythes, snaths and forks are all in such | great demand, owing to the immense | crops, that itis very hard to find a full assortment anywhere. The manufactur- ers of all these lines are working over time to kvep up with orders and still find it impossible. We do not anticipate this shortage will make any advance in the goods, as the dealers seem determined to hold the prices down during the season as they began. Shelf Hardware—As usual this time of the year, trade is quiet and shelf goods are moving but little, except in build- ers’ hardware, and the demand for that keeps pretty regular. a 0 ee The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is strong and the demand is heavy. Why the refiners do not advance prices is a matter of con- jecture among the wholesale trade. Canned Goods—Corn continues strong and searce. Blackberries and pie peach- es are both a little stronger and higher. Cheese—The market is fully 4e higher than a week ago and the tendency is still upward. Green Peas—Advanced 30¢ per bu. Jelly — The manufacturers have ad- vanced their prices about 10 per cent. Pickles — Fully 50c per bbl. higher than a week ago, as packers have suc- ceeded in completely concentrating stocks. The acreage this season is much below the average, giving ground for the belief that pickles will continue high un- til the crop of 1893 is in the market. Prunes — Californias are about ke higher. Sealed Herring—Lower. Yeast Foam — The price will be re- duced on the 20th from $1.08 to $1 per box. Oranges—Unchanged. Lemons—Without particular change. Bananas—In good demand and fair supply. The quality is generally good. Nuts—A sharp advance has taken place in New York, amounting to 2%e on Brazils, 144¢c on Almonds and 4%e on Walnuts. The market is excited, owing to the heavy demand. Ali Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: A. Cohen, White Cloud. F. L. Convis, Bancroft. A. C. Barkley, Crosby. Snell & Whitney, Bradley. Jas. McConnell, Jennings. ie esneinianentinmnnee Southern Peaches in Market. Large and handsome yellow Crawford peaches from Georgia are now in market, commanding $3.50 per crate of six bas- kets. cosencesencte si GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. A. M. Stover has closed out his grocery stock at 168 Fourth street and retired from business. C. C. Terwilliger has opened a grocery store at Ensley. The Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. furnished the stock. A. Engberts has removed his grocery stock from Zeeland to Grand Rapids, lo- eating atthe corner of Hall street and Terrace avenue. Thos. Keating has sold a half interest in his grocery stock at 239 East Bridge street to Wm. Killean. The new firm will be known as Keating & Killean. The assignee of the Fidelity Savings, Loan and Security Association, which was compelled to go into liquidation as the result of the peculations its Secre- tary, announces himself ready to make a distribution of the funds in his hands and Judge Adsit has set the time for final hearing for August 1 at 2 o’clock. The assignee puts in a claim for $550 for personal services, figured at the rate of $10 per day, besides $150 expended for legal services and $57 for traveling ex- penses. The claim appears to THE TRADESMAN to be a most unreasonable one, considering the amount of property at stake and the time apparently required to wind up the business, and any of the creditors who feel disposed to object to the allowance of so large a sum would do well to be present in court, either per- sonally or by representative, on the date above mentioned. ———__~> -.- <> ___—_— Gripsack Brigade. William Connor the versatile clothing salesman, will keep open house to his friends at Sweet’s Hotel July 28 and 29. H. S. Powell, who has represented the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. in the Upper Peninsula for several years, has severed his connection with that house. O. Levy, who has represented Gorton & Praet on the road for the past year, has taken the position of house salesman in the store of his father, Morris Levy. E. O. Phillips has returned from the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, where he spent six weeks in the interest of W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg. L. C. Langdon, traveling salesman for Drew, Selby & Co., was married at Pa- toka, Ind., July 14, the bride being Miss Ora Watson of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Langdon will reside in Kalamazoo. R. B. Orr, who has represented the Thompson & Taylor Spice Co. in this territory for the past six months, has ceased traveling for that house and an- nounces his intention of taking up his residence in Tennessee. Cornelius Crawford suffered so severe- ly from the rheumatism last week that he abandoned his road work for a time and hied himself away to Mt. Clemens, where he is taking baths and knocking out Old Rheum in double quick time. His route is being covered in the mean- time by J. H. Hagy. J.C. Watson entered the employ of Chas. 8S. Yale & Bro.—the predecessors of the present house of Daniel Lynch— fourteen years ago and has not taken a vacation fora full decade. He has sworn off on working forever, however, and is spending the present week with his family here, taking in the parks and re- sorts in this vicinity. Geo. T. Smith, Western Michigan re | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 presentative for P. Lorillard & Co., has gone to Collingwood, Ont., to spend a couple of weeks with his mother. He has fully recovered from his recent rail- way accident, although the back of his head is still somewhat sore. He had two accident insurance policies—one in the Star and the other in the Preferred. The latter company has not yet been heard from, but the former sent a check for $75 the same day the proofs of claim were received. Jas. N. Bradford writes THe TRADES- MAN as follows: ‘‘I have endeavored to do my best to execute the commission issued me by the Great Grand Pedro of the United Sons of Pedro and Poker; but find, while canvassing the Northern coun- try, that the members inclined to join such an organization are very reluctant to embrace the opportunity I offered them for so doing. After asking me to deal the cards, they say my inability to stack the cards and deal from the bottom, without being detected with ease, totally unfits me for the prominent trust im- posed in me; furthermore, they say that they want an expert and a man of large experience to instruct them in the mys- teries of 5 cent ante and think no one less than Dave Haugh or Charlie Brooks will fill the bill.” > <—-_—___— Purely Personal. Edward Frick is confined to his bed by reason of one of Job’s comforters. O. A. Ball returned from White Birch Point Sunday and returns again to-day. F. L. Convis, dealer in groceries and notions at Bancroft, was in town several days last week, the quest of Ezra O. Phillips. C. E. Udell, the extensive cheese job- ber of St. Louis, was in town a couple of days last week, the guest of his brother, C. S. Udell. Frank A. Stone has purchased acreage on West street, between Fourth and Sev- enth streets, and has platted same into sixty-one lots as the ‘“F. A. Stone Addi- tion.” Wm. H. Van Leeuwen, the Cherry street druggist, has purchased the EI- liott E. Judd homestead at 397 Fountain street and will fit the same up for his own residence. The lot is 73x365 feet in dimensions. The purchase price was $5,900, John Lynch, once a lumberman of Muskegon, now a resident of Grand Rap- ids, is about going to California, where he has an interest in the Kings River Lumber Co., with P. A. Ducey, of De- troit. The operations of the company are in Tulare county. Mr. Lynch will devote his entire attention to the busi- ness. The company has been long es- tablished, and operates in redwood, sugar pine and yellow pine. Thestump- age owned by the company is estimated at 2,000,000,000 feet. Connected with the plant is a log flume 50 miles long, and costing $200,000. Change in Firm Name. GrRanp Raprps, Mich., July 1, 1892. We take pleasure in announcing to our Cus- tomers and the tradein general that we have admitted Mr A. B. Hiith, who has been in our employ in the capacity of traveling salesman for the past eight years,and Mr. E. T. Hirth, who has been in our Employ a similar length of time, as copartners. The style of the firm shall be known hereafter as HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. Thanking the trade for their liberal patronage bestowed on us the past nine years and trusting that the same will be extended to the new firm, we are, ee HIRTH & KRAUSE. | 1 | ])0 YoU USE TAGS? We quote the following prices on No. 4 Tags, delivered to any Express Office or Jobbing House in the City : a One Thousand, _ - $1.50 Two Thousand, - - - 2.50 a Five Thousand, - - ~ 4.50 We carry all other sizes of Tags and can fill orders on short notice. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “Not How Cheap, but How Good.”’’ “Blue Label’ Ketchup SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, Will be found to maintain the high character of our other food products. We use only well-ripened, high-colored Tomatoes, seasoned with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color. PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY CURTICE BROTHERS CoO., Rochester, N. Y., U.S. A. BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO., Distributing Agents. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADHSMAN. THE EASY-GOING STORE. Proprietors Who Are Good Fellows but Do Not Achieve Success. From the Dry Goods Economist. Did you ever think of it—the easy-go- ing store? Well, it’s a fact; there are easy-going stores, and they are in the majority, too. in every city, town and village in the Union. The proprietor is always a good fellow, and his wife is just as nice as can be, and if he has children, why, of course, they take after their father and mother; so the whole combination is of the most de- sirable order. He never puts on airs; heis purely and thoroughly American, his employes are his equals. For him to assume a manner of distance. reserve or dictatorship, even | in his own store, would be, to his mind, an outrage against the native, inborn principle of American freedom and cit- izenship—equality and the rights of man. So he is always on good terms with all his help. So life goes along smoothly and pleasantly in the ‘‘easy-going store’’ —to the employes. But the business is not increasing; in fact, sometimes you can catch a look in Mr. Easy’s eye indicating that there is a sore spot sumewhere; possibly in the money department, a leakage or a tying up, or, well—something that we can’t just get at; but then, he isa fine fellow and we must not damage his business by incautiously saying to a friend, *‘Easy looks worried; do you think things are going against him?” Such a suggestion, repeated from friend to friend, would soon be so changed that it would be a common ru- mor that poor Easy’s finances were in a bad condition; then the best houses in trade would begin to draw in their lines of credit, and soon Easy would be in bankruptcy, or fighting out a long, hope- less, slow fight against misfortune; so we must be careful what we say. Good nature is all right, but unlicensed good nature does not pay; it produces the “easy-going store.”? When you go into an easy-going store, really, you are not | expected to buy. The proprietor and his clerks would feel absolutely hurt if you insinuated that they were trying to force a sale upop you. No, they want you to feel quite at home in their store. Come in as often as you can and look round and price the goods. Some day you will see just what you want, and then they will be glad to sell, when you have found the article you wantto buy. They are so used to people not buying that it is no surprise to them when you walk out, and they open the door and pleasantly say to you, ‘Call again.”’ It is not at all uncommon in Mr. Easy’s store for some of the men to go to his little office and refer some question to him that has been under discussion at the counter; anything, from baseball to poli- tics, or from religious to serious business matters, such as whether ‘antique’’ should be spelled with a ‘*k’’ or not. Mr. Easy often sits at the counter and indulges in pleasant, sociable chats with his young men, his idea being that they will thus see that he is agood fellow and, of course, do all they can for him in pushing business; and that if he enjoys the good will of his clerks, business will show better results. Mrs. Smith comes in and Mr. Jones waits upon her with the utmost atten- tion, patience aud good will; talks church, Sunday school and the latest social gossip of the town, but fails to sell her anything. Mr. Easy does not ask Mr. Jones what Mrs. Smith wanted—that would be questioning Mr. Jones’ sales- manship; he goes into his little office and looks again at his ‘*bills payable” and at bis ‘‘-bank account,’’ and wonders what he must do to turn some of his stock in- to money, even only a little, and he sits | and thinks. Mrs. Easy and the children are passing, and they come in, and for an hour or so} pleasant little Mrs. Easy makes a nice | visit among the young lady saleswomen; an air of brightness and cheerfulness is | diffused oyer the whole place, and the happy (2) Mr. Easy goes home to dinner | for about two hoursor so; but that night, | when figuring up his sales, he looks again at the ‘“‘bills payable” and at the | footing of his ‘‘bank account” and ' | | wishes he could find some way of reduc- | ing stock or selling out, so that he might | try again in some other town better (?) | adapted for business. Poor Easy! With all his good nature, | he is secretly carrying a burden of wor- rying distress, and the way is growing | dark before him. What do we find in Mr. Easy’s store? Well, we find that his help are all good, nice, polite fellows; perfectly candid, well-bred and gentlemanly, plainly be- 'lieving, as Mr. Easy does, that ‘‘window | dressing,” ‘‘department dressing” and i ticket writing are all accomplishments requiring special natural gifts. So we find goods hung up on lines and against the wall and in the windows in a manner that is a cross between what would be expected from a washwoman and a young lady with embryonic and chaotic ideas of home decoration. There is nothing in these displays attractive to us or anyone else. As to ticket writing, possibly someone in the store has an incipient leaning toward what is called drawing. He pro- duces tender little things that favorably impress some young lady friends, who come in and admire them very much and wonder how he can do such nice things. Still, we find Mr. Easy wondering why that stock does not reduce itself and why that harrassing condition persists in existing between his ‘‘bills payable” and his ‘‘bank account.”’ While he is rubbing the wrinkles into his brow in his little office we find his men sitting idly round the store. The stock shown to Mrs. Smith is still lying about, just as Mr. Jones left it—mussed, tangled, and looking fearfully like amess of stuff from a second-hand junk store. There is a tradition somewhere in the air that confusion indicates business, so confusion goes on, growing rapidly, un- til no man knows the stock and no man feels responsible for it. Mr. Easy is the | buyer and owner, so it is all right, and | that is why we find in ‘‘the easy-going | store’ so much stock going to waste by | bad management. The amount of stuff that is jammed up, spoiled and absolutely ruined in an ‘“‘easy-going store” is appall- ing to anyone with the slightest idea of what proper handling of stock means. No doubt Mrs. Smith came in to buy, and may have seen just what she want- ed, but she wanted it nice and neat and fresh; possibly she wanted a new dress, and would not buy athing that would need hours at home to fuss and bother over to make it look new. We sawaMr. Easy one day putting new counters in his store. They had glass fronts, and we asked him, “Why do you have glass fronts?’’? He replied, “To show nice novelties.”? Now, in a large city such athing might do well; butina provincial town—why, ina month every novelty in his store, so exposed, would be old. We can easily fancy Mrs. Smith saying, ‘Yes, Mr. Easy, it is very nice; but, you know, it is not new. Ev- erybody in town has already seen it. If my daughter wore it to the party every- body would say, ‘Oh, look at Miss Smith with that old novelty from Easy’s No, it won’t do; I want you to write to New York and get me something new.”’ An old saying has it that ‘‘The good- natured man is the beggar’s brother.’ It is worth Mr. Easy’s attention to think about. He need not be afool, nor an ass, nor a hog; all he wants to do is to realize that he opens his store in the morning and keeps it open all day purely for bus- iness; that he hires his help purely for business, and that he must have atten- tion to business in business hours. Let him select his best man and spend an evening with him in his little office; show him the record of last year’s sales for the month corresponding to the ap- | | proaching month; impress upon him the absolute fact that that record must be | beaten; show him that the store has de- |generated until it has now become a | cross _between home life and an infant | | a change must be made. Then, let Mr. Easy take a vacation, not ito New York for more goods, but to the} towns similar to his;own that have smart, | | clean, aggressive, progressive stores; let | him study their methods, their manners and their styles; it is the education that ‘he requires. Dry Goods Price Current. aT COTTONS. Adriatic .. “Arrow Brand 5% Argyle .. 3 “ World Wide.. 6% Atlanta AA. -.s te 4% Atlantic A.. .. 6%|Full Yard Wide..... 6% - Z.. . Sh Georgia A.........-. 6% - r.. 5%|Honest Width....... 6% . D..: . © teres ......... 5 ~ S02... S lindten Meed........ 7 ok okies cass Gere A A........... 6% Archery Bunting... 40) King EC _o Beaver Dam A A 534|Lawrence L (UN 54 Madras cheese cloth = Blackstone O, 32.... 5 eek Coe... . 6 Newmarket G Black Hock ........ Va Capital A arenes ¥.......... Chapman cheese cl. Caren C R......... EE Dwight Star......... Clifton CCC........ BLEACHED COTTONS. 2. ......-..... 84 |Geo. eee _s Amazon ......... Glen Mills. . 7 Amsburg.... - Gold Medal . Art Campete........ 10 Green Ticket . 8% Blackstone AA..... 7% naar _— . 6% Beats All........ 4%\Ho . eee ........ 12 |Just Out..... 5 Cees... 2... a King Philip eee 7% Canok, &........ ce Ot te, % Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..10 Conway W....g----- 74|Lonsdale....... @ 8% Cleveland ....-. -. 7 |Middlesex.. @5 Dwight Anchor cn 8144|No Name... - 7% shorts. 8 |Oak View.... _. Rawards, ....... 6 - 5% ere... 12 Pere... 2.1... 7 - 1% Fruit of the Loom. 8% - 4% Witehville ..... .... 7 - 8% Pim Frise... ...... 7 10 Fruit of the Loom %. 7% 8% Fairmount.......... 4% 6 Full Value.......... 6% 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. ea ; Dwight Anchor..... 84 Tarwe....... ..-.- ee oa CANTON FLANNEL, oo, 5% (Middlesex No. 1....10 Ears Hy. ......-. 6% S - 2 otee ni f........, 7 » - 2... Middlesex AT...... 8 - oo . Z........ 9 _ ° ....- " 7a S.... 9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Haemittion N......... 7%4|Middlesex AA...... 11 Middicsex PT...... 8 ' 2. 12 ' se... 9 ” - a... 9 . _ Ze ...... 10% “& CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 17%| ore colored. . .20 colored. . 19%) White ee 18 Entomrity ..........-+ a * colored. .20 ns @oops. a os 6 (Wamolem...... ....- 20 C 9 eee 25 Re ieee oe O% ee 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 coe 30 Nameless a4 oe onus 16 . - 32% eee es 18 ” eel CORSETS. coeeee......-..-.-. $9 50/Wonderful . .. ....84 50 Sehilling’s......... 9 @iprigntom.. ........ 4% Davis Waists..... 9 00|/Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50j|Abdominal........ 15 00 — JEANS. are... ss... 5. ne satteen.. 7 Androsco; nd oer i Receeees...... . ---. Bigaerers........... ee... 6% Brunswick. \ ou ee i 6% PRINTS. 5%|Berwick fancies.... 5% Allen turkey reds.. robes Le = & purple on Clyde Robes........ Charter Oak fancies “ > oe ........ DeiMarine cashm’s. 6 ” aa checks. by mourn’g 6 We staples ...... 5% Eddystone fancy... 5% . shirtings . 4 chocolat 5% American fancy... 5% - rober.... 5% Americanindigo.... 5% . sateens.. 5% American shirtings. 4 Hamilton = ... oo Argentine Grays.. a — . 5% Anchor —e-- Manchester ancy. 5% Arnold a 7 ew era, 5% Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5% - long cloth “4 10%| Merrim’ck shirtings. 444 a 8 ' Reppfurn . 8% “century cloth 7 (Pacific fancy........ 5% “gold seal..... 10%, “ robes......... 6% “green seal TR 10%| Portsmouth robes... 5% yellow seal. a ee mourning. ce = se... ...-. — - ee.....- he “ Turkey red..10% _ oo in binck. 5% Ballou solid black.. 5 Washington indigo. 5% “colors. 5% Turkey robes.. 1% Ben ae. green, 5 ” plain Try’ % T% and orange... * plain T’k on Berlin oee.......- 5m; * . x, ofl bine...... 6%) “* oo = ie oe een .... 6% es oe se “ Foulards 5% Martha Washington - 22... .. aun see Ee 7. - ™% se ee »” Martha ashington . ae i... 7 oreer ved........ 9% ” - « 34XKKK i Riverpoint robes.... 5 Cocheco sae ae Windsor ——— peae ae 6 ers. . é old ticket _ XX twills.. 6%| indigo blue....... 10% ° eotids...... Su ieemomy............ 4 TICKINGS. AmoskoopACA....1RGA OC A..... .....4.. Bees A ......-.. ™m — AAA.. Rie i eT “10% - Awning. .11 Swift i Th esa ee cee 8 — Raver.........08 | First Prize ped coeaue BAST WR conv cc ces seus 13 | Lenox Mills ........ 18 COTTON DRILL. —* espe bies ox _— . be weed 8 ee 6%|No Name........ . 7% | Clifton, me 6% Top of . bietoe da 9 SATINES. Simpson Dose adieu 20 Heeperie......... i... 10% | cic aeen Oe a okes ovens 9@ 9% Se 16 . aoe oe | Goecheo 2... 222.2. eA AA... 12 DEMINS. Amoskeag ae 12%/Columbian brown..12 oo..... 13% Everett, pee.,...... 12 c brown .13 brown. ....12 DE ons ces os 11% Haymaker ree... 7% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown. “10 - BB... 3 \Jamrey........ ...... ' OG... Lencester........... ie Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, on.....- 13% ' blue 8% oO. 220....18 “ d& twist 10% - No. 250....11% Columbian ZEx br.10 - No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. Amoskeag ...... .... 7 Lancaster, staple.. e Poien dress 8% fancies . 4 ’ Canton .. 8% . Normandie 8 - BO ina ‘10% Lancashire. a . Teazle...1044|Manchester. = Angola. .10%|Monogram.. - Persian.. 8%|Normandie... Arlington staple.... 614|Persian......-. Arasapha fancy.... 4%|)Renfrew Dress Bates Warwick dres 844|Rosemont..... ' a 6%|Slatersville ... Centennial. . 2 %e penenenet iseee Cees ins...» 10%|Tacoma . . Cumberiand staple. 5% Toil = Nord......- Cumberland.... .... eee... ......... 7% i oc ee a “ geersucker.. 7% i a 7\iWaerwick..........- 8% Everett classics..... 8%| Whittenden......... 6% Exposttion.......... TW . heather dr. 8 pemeree............ 6% . indigo blue 9 Giron. ... .....- 6%|Wamsutta staples... ox Gremwoed........... 7%4|Westbrook...... Hampton..... ...... 6% ees 10 Johnson Jhalon cl %|Windermeer . 0 " indigo blue 94%/York..... ..+..----- 6% v zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag........- - 1644 bebeennon | — aes 15 en 19 |Georgia ok eee oe 15 Amcreen..... ....-- 15a Pectee.....- ...-.... 13 il THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's.......-.-- 88 Coats’ i 4 |Marshall’s.........- 88 Holyoke.........-.+- 22 KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored, _<. oe oS ino. 14.......37 42 i .... oe 43 si fe 44 > =... 45 CAMBRICS, Ce, 414|Edwards.. .. White Ster......... 4% \Lockwood.... ...... 4% mid Giowe........... sc Woueen.... 1... 4% Newmarket......... 4¥4|Brunswick ......... 4% RED FLANNEL. Pie. ..... sous BBE WE asc ee cca e sae e 22% Creedmore.......--- ge ae Nea AE 32% Tait ET E......... SS Uae, £ee........- 35 Namoloss........... 27% iBuckeye.... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid. -40 Grey SR W......... 17% Union &...... ...... 221\4| Western W ........- 184% Windsor Pie oe ......-...---.. 18% 6 oz Western 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% Unien &......-...-. 2\,|Manitoba.... ....... 23% ~~ FLANNEL. Nameless ea. ee eens 9 @10% oo. 8410 ' tise 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black. 9 9% 944) 13 13 13 10% 10% 10%) 15 15 15 11% ie 11%}17 17 17 12% 12% — 20 20 Severen, 8 0z...-...- o% 1West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, Son... 10% 10 oz BY Greenwood, 7% 02. 9% oo 100z a ner Greenwood, 8 oz. :.11%|S oe ise Boston, 8 02.......-- 10%|Boston, 10 ER 12% WADDINGS. White, dos.........- 25 |Per bale, 40 dos....87 50 Colored, doz........ 20 SILESIAS. Slater, Tron Cross. . Red . 8 ;Pawtucket ---10% Cross.... 9 |Dundie... 9 = os... _.10%|Bedford.. .10% » Best AA..... a — City... .10% LL 2 eee i 10% SE Se a ee SEWING SILK. Corticelli, doz....... % twist, doz. .37% gest doz. .37% Corticelli knitting, per %oz ball 30 8 AND EYES—PER No : BI’k & White. . No ‘ BI'k ré "White.. = ” ; 1a “3 "e ' 3 PINS. No 2—20, M C....... 50 a 4—15 F 3%...... 40 « $—18,8C........ 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & Bl’k..20 “ 4 “ oD “ 10 cf : 23 * 6 ” 2 |" = ° _ SAFETY PINS. Oe a. ess Me cee cc 36 NEEDLES—PER M. A, TOMNOB... 0. oo occa ee 1 40|Steamboat.... ...... 4h Crowel - « seeek Sone Byee.......-.. 1 50 Marenairs.......-..- 1 TABLE OIL ——, &4...2%6 6—4... *| 195 6—4...2 9 * 322 * Cee COTTON a. Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 18 Cr 12 Rising Star “7: -17 .. 18% 3-ply....17 16 iorth Star.......... 20 .15 18% “13 |Wool Standard 4 plyit% Powhattan ......... PLAID OSNABURGS ae 6%|Mount Pleasant.... Ripe... . 0... 55 6%4|Onelda.............. 5 i ' ' } THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Damages to Hardware Stock. The average retail hardware store in small towns is seldom adapted to its pur- pose. It should be well lighted, dry, and its fittings should be as simple as possible, giving dry, warm air free ac- cess to every corner and crevice. Dampness and dirt are but too com- mon in this elass of stores, and it is hard to estimate the losses which result yearly from this cause. The rusting of iron and steel; the verdigris and deadened polish on brass and copper goods; the pinholes in tinware, and the dulling of the fine polish of gun stocks, tool han- dles, and carpenters’ levels, are nearly all due to this cause. lt is comparative- ly seldom that articles are actually ruined outright, although in some cases the loss in this way is considerable, but the main loss is .in the general depreciation of stock, neglected by customers who pick out newer and more attractive articles, until the dealer sooner or later finds that he has a large amount of goods which must be sold at cost or sacrificed ata considerable loss. No store goods suffer so much from damp as hardware, because being much colder than the atmosphere, they attract all the moisture held in suspension by the air. If the cellar is damp and sends its vapors up through the cracks in the floors, or through the cellar way, be sure that it will doits work on your bright steel, tin and copper goods. Good ventilation, and in damp weather good diffused heat, with frequent ex- amination and cleaning of goods, is necessary to keep a hardware stock in first-class condition. When heavy and farm machinery is sold all bearings and polished surfaces should be protected, except, perhaps, those kept on show, where they would be likely to damage the clothing of customers. Guns, rifles and pistols should be frequently ex- amined and should never be loaned or used if intended for sale. Small calibred rifles and pistols are very delicate and easily ruined by careless use. Indeed, it is almost impossible to find a second- hand 22 caliber rifle or pistol which is not ‘‘leaded” beyond cure. Almost every hardware store which sells firearms has in stock weapons which have been un- salable for years because of neglect or the loss of polish and finish lost in a day’s use, and often as the result of the too-accommodating spirit of the proprie- tor. Apropos of firearms, the dealer in these goods and the necessary ammunition, should always be on the watch against the stupidity and carelessness of cus- tomers. He should never allow one to “try” a cartridge in rifle or pistol; the dealer should do that himself, and be sure to remove itafterwards. He should not allow smoking where loose powder is kept or used to load cartridges; nor should he countenance on any pretext the careless handling of any weapon. More than one salesman has been killed by such carelessness and folly, or even had the store turned into a shambles by a desperate suicide, whose purpose might have been foiled had the general rule been observed, that ‘tno weapon should be loaded on the premises except by the dealer.”’ In many cases it would also seem that dealers ought to refuse to sell pistols, dirks and the like to minors, unless with the consent of their parents. When the consent is given the dealer is justified. but any business donein neglect of this rule, is often in a business sense a great mistake. Itis true that in these days caution in this respect is too often con- sidered old-fashioned, but many a dealer has made a small profit, to regret the sad result of the trade all his life in pocket as well as spirit. a Wanted His Money’s Worth. Insurance Agent—I came to call your attention to the fact that your policy ex- pires to-day, and beg you to renew it. Eeconomist—Very sorry, but this is the tenth year that 1 have been insured in your company, and nothing has hap- pened, so I have made up my mind to try another company. —— 2 << —- Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. SO a. oe oe 60 TN 40 conreues , gemeine.......................4.- 25 aeromner Wenete.................. 2. 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 2 8 Sees... $750 i @ peoeec............... 12 00 me BS Geom... ........ 11... 2 oe ‘ eae 13 50 BARROWS. dis. ee 8 14 00 ee net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. mee 50&10 Cc aes ee 75&10 Pee i 40&10 Sleigh ee 7 BUCKETS. wee oe... $350 OO 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured... beveees ae Wrought Narrow, bright bast ‘joint. eke secues 66&10 Wrought Loose Na 60&10 Wercuees Tees. f. 60&10 Wronwnt nmide Blind -................... 60&10 Wrodeut Oram... 7 ee 70&10 ee, Pees... 70&10 Pine Seepage... 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 60 CRADLES. re i 2. dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. a perb 5 CAPS. ete per m 65 Ce ee 60 OP - 35 ee . 60 CARTRIDGES. He Pee... .. 50 (Comtre: Pire....... .-............... 2... dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Secmet Wirmer.......... 70&10 Socket Framing....... - 70&18 Ee 70&10 eree Me 70&10 Butcher’ Tangod Pirmer............ -..... 40 COMBS. dis. Cates. Dmwreneoe ......................... 40 Meteeeee........--........ P-5] CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28 Daute, 14056, 16200 ................ 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 ane eee 23 Cold Rolled, ee 23 i ee eee 2 DRILLS. dis. Mosse Bi Goocws......................... 50 Taper and straight Shank........... oes 50 Morso’'s Taper Snank...................... : 50 DRIPPING PANS. Small aised, ser pound ...................... 07 Tacos eek, oer poune......<.............. GG ELBOWS. Com. 4 Lo il etn. ...:._...-.... 2. s dos. net > ee ee dis Adjustable a aa dis. 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; large, @26................ 30 Eve’, 1, G8; S, Get: 5, WO -.................. 2 rites—New List. dis. aes. 60&10 Noe Ameen... .... 5... -60&10 Ce ee . 60410 Weer Weeds cies Helier’s Horse Rasps.............++ Se coce ee 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. ee = mo = 2 1 List Rn 16 17 Discount, 60 GAUGES, dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........-.+» 50 ‘ HAMMERS. ROPES. Maydole & Co.’s............ veces 4 ae i cree ay Re cree cna nd a ‘ Yerkes & Plumb’s................--.000- dis. 40&10 is SQUARES. dis. Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 80¢ list 60 | | Stee oo 9 ho eg a ee RN % Blacksmith's Solid Cast ‘Sizel, Hand... 30¢ 4080 | | Mitre BI tar nnet asnene rene esta tans = —< #8 nO --------------- = setteceeeceeees eee eee dis,60&10 | ee Te oo ee per dom. met, 200 Won thin 14 ititi(‘(‘(Cj(#N( #4 05 i 82 95 — Strap, to12 in. 4% 14 and _ [Naa ita ee 3 05 eee 3% | Nos. 18 ——.hlUlUCC 4 05 3 05 screw "Hook and Eye, a net ed Se 4 05 315 a a uy eee cee net 8% | Nos. 25 5 to 26. .. 4% 325 ee HH % wteteccercorcenss pon re | No. 2. ~ swe dg HC 5 ike .44 8 3 eee eee es sheets No and lighter, over 30 Inches Strap ——7......... sence Lcd cee ou aaa -, 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER, Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. 810 ’ Champion, anti-friction...!.............05. —— ‘Skew om. -~ = Kidder, wood track .................-..-.... 0 | Silver Lake, White A.......... ve ne HOLLOW WARE. i Drab A... ie 5B ee 60&10 ‘6 wee “ 50 eda aun 60410 “ Drab B ‘ 55 PO i a a ee eae owe 60410 “ White ¢ ‘ 35 coy Goan 40&10| Discount, 10. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS, Stenned Tin Waro................._- ew eee | Sere Byee per ton ~~ Jamenned Tin Ware. ....... ....-.... 1. 25 SAWS. dis Grente ron Ware ............... new ae ° PU is onic cca WIRE G00Ds. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 70 MNEs oon 70810610 a ahem Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 Screw eee... 70&10&10 i cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 mares... -70&10&10 . @ ampion and Electric Tooth x Gate Hooks and am ee 70&10&10 | Cuts, er C—O 30 EVELS. dis. TRAPS. dis. Stanley Rule and toon Co.’s. .. a 70 | Steel, Game.. es BO&10 KNoBs—New List. dis. Oneida Community, Newhouse’s . ai 35 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 | Oneida =: Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 Door, porcelain, Jap. Ginmings...........- 55 | Mouse, choker.. ei .18e per doz Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 | Mouse, Ce "81.50 per doz. Door, porcelvin, trimmings..............--- 55 WIRE. dis. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 | Bright Market.... .... ee, 65 LOCKS—DOOR,. dis. Annealed Market. ee, “70—10 Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... oh | Copperce Moret ........................... Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s 55 | Tinned Market.. beeee eo. 62% Branford’s 55 Barbed Spring CEN 50 awe et .._.........-.--.-.--... es 55 | Bar ed Fenee, galvanized.............. . se MATTOCES. yee 2 55 UG ee $16.00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. anges... $15. 00, dis. 60 - =—- Bee eee ee, coed dis. 40 ere ee $18.50, dis. 20&10. | Putnam..... “ is. 06 AULS. dis. emenaaias eee ee ese dis. 1oai0 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled ee RENCH MILLS. dis. Baxter’s adtunsie, meokelod 30 Coffee, oe oe... “6 Cces Genning............ 50 P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75 6 6LLanders, Ferry & Cle:k’s............ 45) Coes Patent, malieabic....................- 75&10 +. Moserpeme <....................... 30 MISCELLANEOTS. dis. MOLASSES GATES. dis. or oor 50 ee | See Pore Cote "5 ee 60&10 | Screws, New I ist... et eee 70&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ . 25 | Casters, Beda d Pia enn eae NAILS Dampers, Ce Steel nails, base.. Se 1 80 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... 6° &10 Wire malin Deee................... «........ 1 85 METALS, Advance over base: Steel. Wire. PIGé TIN. Boece | re tae... ......... 26¢ EE 28¢ 25 ZINC. 25 | Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound. o Ge0 pound Casha. 8. 6% a5) Pee pocne. 7 45 SOLDER. EE a. 60 | Extra Wiping 15 7 The prices of the ‘many ‘other. qualities of 90 | solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands SS a 1 00 1 20 | vary according to composition. eee 1 50 1 60 ANTIMONY ee 1 50 1 @ |) Coomeee..... per pound OO CE 13 . oe. vi) 7 TIN—MELYN GRADE. . £.. . 90 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal ee $750 Finish 10.. ee eee econ 85 OE 750 Me eo ee ieee nas ‘!1 00 90 10x14 IX, By ee ee e ©... oo... 116 1 10 | 14x20 IX, Se 9 25 Clinch; " eee take 85 70| Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. eee 1 00 80 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. . 8 eee a 1 15 90 | 10x14 - Charcoal . eae uaa 86 7% ee 1% ao tis... 6 75 PLANES. dis. 10xi4 IX, eee ee 8 25 Ohio Tool Co.'s, 10NCY ....-... 2-02 00-s00 eee @A) | 14x20 TX, - + Oe ee @60; Each additional X on this grade 91.50. Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........--..----- @40 ROOFING PLATES Wenen Seat quality. .....................-..- @60 | 14x20 IC, - Wercoer.................. 6 50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. &10 | 14x201X, * " a PANS. 20x28 IC, . ap nics eee -- yes, Fry, Acm ee eee dase dis.60—10 | 14x20 IC, « Alinwey Grede..........- 6 00 Gebaen, veliaked SES eh es eS dis. 70 | 14x20 IX, . = ~ ok 7a BIVETS. dis Sas ic, op co 12 50 ton ene Tine... .............-...4...... 40 | 20x28 IX, ° _ . ioe Copper Rivets and Burs............--++++++ 50—10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. PATENT FLANISHED IRON, <1... ........... 614 00 ‘*‘A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 34 to 27 10 2 4a ee oe “B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Botlers, 1 per cain 18 Broken saci \e per pound extra. 14x60 IX Fishing Tack We are carrying this season a larger assortment than ever of all goods that belong to an angler’s outfit. “The Little Finger Does It.” 6 Headquarter Tawmal & Erbe Automatic Reel. Uiididllll NS oO. ost ey 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade 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 mer. 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. ge" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tse MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1892. THE SUMMER OUTING. The season of the annual summer mi- gration is now upon us. Some go for health, but the majority have pleasure as their chief object: and, without doubt, the greater part of them, whatever may be the object of their flitting, will come back improved in health. Some may possibly be benefited by the medicinal action of the special mineral waters they will drink, for some of the waters, far fewer than is commonly imagined, pos- sess undoubted curative properties in some sorts of physical disorders. But we are inclined to believe that many more will find their recompense for the inconveniences and expense of a summer tour in the general circumstances of change. Change of food, change of air, change of scene are vastly more conducive to our physical welfare than we often im- agine. The circumstances of modern life are often of a nature to make exist- ence monotonous. We have read a story of aman who never failed a single day in thirty years to repair to the same office, hang up his hat upon the same peg, seat himself at the same desk, and set himself for a given number of hours to the task of figuring up the same sort of accounts in the same sort of books, without a break in the sameness of his existence in all that time. Truly no honest man should complain that he has steady employment at fair wages. Every honest and industrious man should congratulate himself on the enjoyment of such an advantage. But health is an absolutely necessary ingre- dient of being able either to appreciate the benefits of a regular and remunera- tive occupation or of being able to ren- der fair and faithful service into the | bargain. it is certainly true that the tendency of modern life is towards same- ness and monotony. In an early day business and industries were not so close- ly classified as they are to-day. In the average mercantile establishment the same man was at the same time salesman and accountant. In amachine shop an apprentice learned every part of the bus- iness from the foundry to the finishing tools. To-day a man is a bookkeeper only; his life is spent in figuring over accounts. Ina machine shop a man may spend his life working with a particular tool and know very little about any other part of his business. Economy requires a division of labor and a classification of industries. Some of the most successful and emi- nent merchants who have grown up in the great cities in the past quarter of a eentury were boys raised in- country stores where they handled all sorts of merchandise, from gloves to grindstones, dry goods, groceries, hardware, drugs and faney goods. They learned every other part of the business before they became specialists, just as the trained athelete, if he be not over-trained, de- velopes all his muscles in harmony, in- stead of becoming lopsided by excessive use of some organs and neglect of others. This monotony of life is seen in every department and it is much the rule with those who merely play as with those who work. For what stagnations, for what one-sided development, for what morbid physical and mental habitudes is this monotony not responsible? There is no mechanism so exceedingly complex as is the human being—physically, intellectu- ally and spiritually—and when a few faculties are excessively developed or unduly taxed while all others are left in abeyance, then there must be bodily and mental disorders. It is because of all this that a change of scene, of air, of surroundings, mental, moral and physical, is so often beneficial to the health. It means simply getting out of the old groove for a little while. It is putting into play a new set of mus- cles or anew set of mental or spiritual faculties. It is often beneficial for peo- ple from the lowlands to go to the moun- tains, or from the hills to the sea coast. But there is no sure rule about this. A change of latitude or of longitude with- out regard to the topography or land level may have the desired effect. The chief consideration is to secure the intangible and obscure but easily realized influences of change which are able to correct the disordered chemical! or physiological or spiritual functions of our nature. As soon as we begin to feel better we know the fact, even if we know not why. It is the right sort of change that each must determine for himself. But, ordinarily, it is easily got by those who are really not too seriously diseased, and when ob- tained each knows it for himself. There- fore, advice in the premises is but of lit- tle worth. Of course, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The rolling stone gathers no moss. The vag- abond is a miserable wretch. But a rea- sonable and proper change is good and desirable. ARBITRATION OR ANARCHY. Labor riots seem to be just now the regular order of things. Emboldened by the success of the or- ganization of the ironworkers in Penn- sylvania in a pitched battle with an armed force, the organized miners in the far off State of Idaho have attacked | the non-union men working in the Cour |d’Alene mines and routed them and a company of local militia sent to maintain |order. A score of men makes up the list | of killed and wounded, while there has | been great destruction of private prop- erty. The military resources of the State of Idaho, which contains only 84,000 total | population, are necessarily very feeble, | and already they have been exhausted, while the country is virtually under the control of the mob of miners. The Gov- ernor, realizing his helplessness, has ap- pealed to the Federal Government, and doubtless the State of Idaho, as was a few weeks ago the State of Wyoming, will in a short time be under the control of the forces of the United States Army. Every violent and lawless demonstra- tion by any class of citizens against the settled order, if it possess not force suffi- cient to dominate and control the powers of the Government, must come to grief. When popular violence cannot rise to the dignity and force of revolution, then itis a riot, and rioters, instead of being he- roes, become mere criminals amenable to the law for the blood they shed and the property they appropriate to their own use or destroy. No riot by laborers can ever accomplish any good. No movement by working men which adopts murder and arson as its means of progression can end other- wise than in failure, ignominy and gen- eral execration. Working men have every rightof organization for the ad- vancement of their interests, but they have noright to violate property interests or to disturb social order. Employers of labor have every right of regulating the details of their business, but they have no powers of compulsion over their work people beyond what is confirmed by the terms of a lawful contract under the guarantees of the constitution. It is plain enough that any demonstra- tions of violence either on the side of em- ployers or of employes can bring only evil consequences, and no matter how great the force that may be mustered on either side, all the disturbers of the pub- lic peace will be compelled in the end to succumb to the lawful authorities and be made to suffer for their crimes. The only remedy for differences between employ- ers and employes is in some fair and reasonable system of settlement based on arbitration. A congressional committee has been appointed to investigate the matter and that committee, if it be wise, will suggest some system of legislation that will provide for compromise and arbitration. The most enlightened coun- tries uf Europe are already taking the lead in efforts to solve the problem of settling conflicts between capital and labor. Theneed for something of the sort is quite as urgent in this great re- publie. If peaceable means be not de- vised for adjusting such controversies, bloody conflicts will become constantly of more frequent occurrence and vastly more destructive and terrible in their consequences. It will be either arbitra- tion or anarchy. In the meantime strikers who carry their cause to the extent of rioting, ar- son and murder must be treated the same as amy other criminals and men who sym- pathize with such manifestations should be placed in the category of traitors and poltroons. REPORTS OF CHOLERA IN EUROPE. The announcement that cholera had appeared in Western Asia in the ports of | imaginary way renounced. difficult to believe that cholera has been permitted to findits way into the heart of Europe insoshortatime. bButif this news be true, it is only through the most inexplicable mismanagement. If cholera is in Western Europe now, the time will not be long before it will be imported to our shores. The reports alluded te should be carefully examined, and until ascertained to be true there isno good to be got from creating unnecessary alarm. Nevertheless, all proper precautions should be taken to keep out foreign in- fection. Cholera, while originally traced to the tropical valley of the Ganges in In- dia, is by no means confined to warm regions nor does it require the ‘heated season for its spread. St. Petersburg, Moscow, Edinburgh, Montreal and Que- bee are localities which have suffered most deadly if not most frequent visit- ations of the disease. Cholera is now held to be one of those malignant diseases caused by a peculiar microbe or micro- phitie germ, distributed for the most part in drinking water. The dejections from cholera patients, finding their way to running streams, appear to furnish these germs and thus they may be transported by such streams to great dis- tances. In this way the waters of rivers are poisoned and the disease can be com- municated to the people living along their course or tothe people who travel on them in boats through the use of the water for drinking. Being due, in all likelihood, to some sort of filth poison, there can be, in view of the possible advance of cholera from Europe, no more urgent duty than to clean up every American city with the utmost diligence. The warning fromacross the water ought to exciteevery municipality to prompt and vigorous action. In aecareful crop report compiled by the New York Tribune it is shown that erop prospects have continued toimprove rapidly, and while estimates of the ripen- ing wheat range all the way from 520,000,- 000 to 580,000,000 bushels it is well to re- member that the lowest estimate exceeds any crop except the last, and that with 50,000,000 bushels carried over the coun- try would have at this lowest estimate a supply of 570,000,000 bushels, whereas the consumption with the unprecedented exports during the past year have reached only about 580,000,000 bushels. From present appearances it seems more likely that the yield will exceed the government estimate, which pointed to about 550,000,- 000 bushels, making the supply over 600,- 000,000 bushels for the coming year. Not all rules or precedents work both ways. For instance, it is possible for a millionaire to imagine that he is suffering all the ills of poverty, and in this humor to starve and die from hunger; but no poverty stricken son of humanity can re- verse this experience and, by imagina- tion alone, satisfy the keen demands of hunger, clothe the chilled limbs with warm garments and enjoy the luxurious pleasures which the millionaire has in his If he could, the Caspian Sea was serious enough to| there would be neither poverty nor riches have aroused European nations to the |in this world, but one all-satisfying con- strictest vigilance and the most strenuous | dition of universal content among those sanitary measures to prevent its advance | who were willing to be contented. No further west. | provision is made in this supposed case He is beyond the reach of all suppositions and possibili- Very few weeks have elapsed since the |for the anarchist. disease was reported at Baku, the great petroleum port of the Caspian. Now we | ties—a chaos that can only be acted on by the same Power that makes a world. hear of it at Moscow and Paris. It is — oo" in oe ee -@e-~ z some THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 LANDLORD AND TENANT. PAPER VIII. The tenant is liable to the landlord for any injury done to the premises by him- self or his agent or servants; but his lia- bility for waste does not depend upon | negligence. The general ruling of the courts is that he is clearly bound to re- move all damage to the leased premises, or to pay therefor. parties for all injuries caused by his neg- ligence or breach of duty to make re- pairs, although the landlord is bound to | make repairs; but he is not liable for in- | juries resulting from inevitable acci-| dents, nor for injuries to which the com- | plaining parties have materially contrib- uted. reasonable care, and his negligence must be established as a matter of fact, and it must appear that it caused the injury. Tenants who occupy different parts of | the same building without joint right | are not liable foreach other’s negligence. | it is the tenant’s duty to remove ice from the doorsteps, and he only is responsible for injury resulting from such ice. The term ‘nuisance’? means, legally, ‘‘anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, | inconvenience or damage,’’.and the ten- ant, as well as the landlord, is responsi- ble for the continuance of a nuisance up- on the premises, although continued by subtenants; but, if the lessor has no control over its construction or use and has not sanctioned it, then the lessee only is responsible. The lessor will be- come liable for a nuisance created by the tenant if it is continued after the lessor may havea right of entry to abate it. The fact that the negligence of the ten- ant contributes to a nuisance which ex- isted before the leasing will not relieve the lessor; and, before the tenant can be made liable in such a case, he must be notified to abate it, unless he has com- mitted some act which is in itself a nuisance. Filthy tenements crowded with filthy tenants may be condemned by a board of health of a city as a nuisance. In a Pennsylvania case it was held that a Chineese laundry in a basement so con- ducted as to injure the business of a ten- ant of the story above may be enjoined as anuisance. A tenant may recover damages for a nuisance affecting his rights, although he took the premises with knowledge of its existence, and the damages are not to be estimated by the amount of rent paid, but by the actual injury sustained. Ina Missouri case, however, the court held that, after the death of the tenant, his wife can maintain no action, although his illness was caused by the nuisance. The right to sue to enjoin or abate a nuisance rests with a tenant from year to year, and not with a tenant from month to month. A landlord may recover the loss in rental value arising from a nuisance to his property; but the mere establish- ment of acoal yard near his house will not, of itself, entitle him to such recov- ery, nor will the erection of small, cheap tenements for orderly colored tenants be ground of complaint, although intended to injure an adjoining proprietor. When any part of the leased premises is taken for public use, the tenant is en- | titled to compensation for damage, to the value of his term, and may be awarded the use, for the remainder of the term, of the amount paid for such part of the leased premises as is taken. He is en- He is liable to third | He is only bound to exercise | | titled to receive the amount awarded for | buildings which belong to him, and all | necessary expense incurred in rebuild- ing, or in the removal of machinery, and | damage sustained by loss in the use of the premises; but loss to the tenant of the good will of the business or of cus- tomers, or injury to personal property of | the tenant, it has been held, cannot be so considered. It has also been held that loss of sales during the widening of a | street cannot be proved if not shown to have been caused thereby. In making the award, advantages to the respective parties are to be deducted from the in- jury to each respectively, and interest | may be allowed from the time the dam- ages should have been paid. The covenant for quiet enjoyment is not broken by a lawful exercise of the | right of eminent domain during the term; but, of course, if the whole premises are taken for public use, the tenant’s estate is determined and the lease is extin- | guished. If the tenant abandons the leased premises without cause, he is still liable for rent. Any act of the lessor which interferes with the quiet enjoyment of | the premises, or any breach of duty ren- dering them untenantable, unless the right to abandon is waived by a continuance in possession, is sufficient cause; but if the tenant abandons without cause, and the landlord consents or accepts by re- suming control of the premises, he will be freed from liability toJpay rent. In |ease of an abandonment without cause, the landlord may either leave the prem- ises vacant and recover rent, or he may take possessionand determine the ten- ancy. He may re-let the premises for the benefit of the tenant, and he may re- pair and take care of the premises with- out releasing rent; but he cannot both take possession and treat the lease as sub- sisting. Acceptance of the key by the landlord without a waiver of the§claim for rent does not prove consentfto the | abandonment, and the mere moving off the premises, or ceasing to useathem, as has been held in this State, does not prove an abandonment, or justify an en- try by the landlord. The tenant, after the expiration of his term, has aright of ingress and egress to remove his personal property, and he is entitled te a reasonable length of time for that purpose; and it has€been held that, where there is no unreasonable de- lay on the part of the tenant, he may enter with reasonable force to take away his personal effects, or he may maintain replevin for personal property left on the premises of which the landlord takes possession. The landlord 2makes him- self liable as a trespasser if he interferes with his tenant at will while acting promptly in removing his personal ef- fects, and the tenant also incurs liability as a trespasser if he resort to violence in removing his goods and chattels. Incoming tenants can claim no rights against former tenants whichrthe land- lord could not lawfully urge; but it has | been held that an incoming tenant has a right to fill an ice house beforechis term | commences. | An outgoing tenant has a right ito re- | move plants which he had himself set out, and the tenant of a nursery may re- | move trees and shrubs therefrom. Our Supreme Court has held that, where there is an agreement to pay rent in advance, a breach thereof does not, of itself, determine the tenancy, and that a a. UTMAN GANDY GU Are Extensive Manufacturers of High Grade Confectionery, And the Largest Handlers of (frances, Lemons, Bananas, Nuts, Dates, Figs, Fic. In Western Michigan. Your orders to them will be promptly executed and duly appre- RCE Cos EE. ciated, > DESCRIPTION Write your Jobber for Prices or Address ey Na ee 106 KENT STREET, - - - - Resident Agent, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. forfeiture cannot be enforced until the lapse of a period allowed for a discount of rent payablein advance; and the same Court has held that the tenant has the whole of the day upon which the rent is made payable to pay his rent. When rent for a fixed term is to be paid at a certain rate per month, with right of re-entry for nonpayment, it is payable monthly and not at the end of the term. Rent does not accrue to the landlord as a debt until the time for pay- ment arrives: ment falls on Sunday, there is no default until midnight of the next day. Where the statute gives the landlord a lien for rent on the tenant’s property, the rent becomes due whenever the tenant at- tempts to remove the property. As before stated, a lease may be dated back so as to cover a term, part of which has already expired, but such naming of a past day does not make the tenant lia- ble to pay rent from such day. When additional rent is to be paid in consider- ation of certain improvements to be made, it will operate asa condition pre- cedent, and the additional rent will not be payable until the have been completed. When the lease is silent as to where the rent is payable, itis payable on the leased premises, but, where some place is named in the lease, it is the duty of the tenant to find it, if possible. , A tender of rent payable in specific articles upon the day fixed for payment extinguishes the obligation without re- and, when the day of pay- improvements gard to the subsequent value of the prop- | erty, and after the tender the articles are held by the tenant at the risk of the land- lord. - The acceptance of negotiable paper for rent is not a payment thereof unless intended and accepted as such. If the landlord directs payment by mail, he must assume the risk and bear the loss, if any, and, where the tenant pays taxes, he may deduct it from the rent. Having reached my limit, I am com- pelled to close this paper this part of my work. My next paper, under the head of ‘“‘Summary Proceed- ings,’’ will close the series. E. A. OWEN. —ererneenceccere—allpem One Seller of Veils. ‘“*There is a girl presiding over the veil counter in a certain big store,’’ says an exchange, ** cause of more woman making themselves than any other person in the city. She is a plump little thing, with the dark hair, dusky eyes, olive skin and brilliant coloring of a Spaniard. ‘“‘When she throws some blue gauze over her face one marvels at one’s stu- pidity in never trying blue one’s self. guys of | gloomy tints over what should be bright |ing things were different. | laws for the collection of debts would be /a boon to everyone who exchanges arti- who is probably the innocent | |do as they agree without such compul- | ‘**‘When she twists a white embroidered | veil around her head, one resolves to have a veil like that, no matter what it costs. mantilla fashion, over her jet tresses and peeps out with gleaming teeth and laugh- ing eyes, a woman simply that black net, although she knows that her eyes are green plexion is like a mud fence. “This is why the women stand six deep around this particular counter at all hours and buy veils which make them look hideous. They get the girl to try on the veil they desire and then buy it, fondly deluding themselves into the be- lief that they will look just like her in it—a delusion quickly dispelled by their mirrors when they get home.”’ a i i One canning company in Salem, Ore., has canned 50,000 pounds of strawber- ries this season. The value of the fruit is about $2,000. Half a dozen other can- neries at different points have been pre- serving nearly the same amount each. | relied upon for efficient service, for they **When she flings a bit of black “1 mostly couiience Gunns Qitten =p | by men who use one business man as a has to buy | and that her com-| ' 1- | the number of chronie and exasperating and with it! The Collection of Debts. Written for THE TRADESMAN. From the memorable transaction in the Garden of Eden, where a dishonest | financier made a contract which he never intended to fulfill, up to the present day, | when false and bad debts | largely make up the record of commer- | cial business, the question of how best} to keep the debt and credit columns well | balanced has puzzied the wisest and most enterprising of men. Whether the com- | merece of the world was carried on by a system of barter and trade, or by ex- | changes made in the coin of the realm, | there has pretenses always been a debtor class | hanging like a dead weight on the heels | of commercia! enterprise. unfortunate but honest; but shiftless:; another dishonest enough to steal, but preferring a safer way of petit larceny. A still larger portion has | been made up of those who unite selfish instincts with a low moraltone. Neither debts nor duns disturb their consciences. They have a sublime indifference to the consequences of broken promises, and a peculiar faculty of invention that brings fresh excuses to serve their purposes as fast as the old ones are worn threadbare and cease to procure further confidence. 1 might go on and describe as many more types of debtors, each having some distinguishing features easily recognized in the mind of any dealer who will take a retrospect of his mercantile experience. They are the dark shadows, haunting recollections that else would be pleasant; they are threatening clouds casting A part were a part honest hopes of the future; they are the una- voidable conecomitants of business life— thorns in the flesh that discipline the soul for good or ill—evils that will bea part of trade experience as long as hu- man nature falls short of being angelic. There is no use of complaining or wish- The spirit of our institutions, instead of decreasing | debtors, encourages them by legal ex- emptions aud judicial interpretations of | statutes becomes against the creditor, until one! satisfied that a repeal of all | cles of value for human promises. As far as the retail dealer of to-day is | concerned, he receives no practical ben- | efit from the machinery of the law in the collection of debts, as honest men will sion, and dishonest ones can always find ways enough to make the seeming power of statutes futile or too expensive for | frequent use; nor can agencies often be hunter does a decby duck, to draw an- other into the meshes of a scheme that usually collapses after the initiatory dues have been collected from the too confid- ing subscribers. The retail dealer, therefore, might as | well make up his mind to face the situa- | tion with all the eourage and judgment which he has obtained from experience, and do business with each customer ac- cording to the credit he individually | earns. Eternal vigilance, however, : will be the price of a clean balance} sheet that will show less than 2 per cent. loss on gross sales, unless it may be in | some favored locality. with When wearied fruitless attempts to collect ac- | See that this Label appears on every (package, as it is a guarantee of the genuine ar- ticle. Ti TE See RESSED Dy ve iv VEROALE DIST uss gah 0 FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE OMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years. Far Superior to any other. MEN REC nessi yh Ley VERDALE ar er ... 0 Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. 106 Kent St. [. WINTERNITZ Telephone 566. 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The satis- faction one feels in reflecting that a remnant is still left whose actions recon- cile one to renewed faith in humanity will go far to smooth the asperities of a business life. To such the dealer can, and ought to, extend the most liberal inducements. He may justly concede to all honorable and prompt customers reduced prices, according to the amount of purchases, without being unfair to those who are i} embellishments. It transient buyers and pay ruling rates. | It would be unjust to concede to the lat- ter favors solely for the purpose of at- tracting future custom. Every reason- able concession to a regular customer whose trade is enough to justify it is preferable to increased sales at full rates to a class whose credit is unsound. Good policy dictates this course, for they will feel that their custom is appreciated, and they will mentally institute com- parisons in favor of the one who makes just distinctions between good and bad credits. Every man’s sense of justice tells him when he is well used, and self- interest is a motive worthy to be appealed to, if done within reasonable limits. All this may seem to have no direct reference to the collection of debts, but yet it is pertinent to the subject of present dis- cussion, for, if ‘‘A penny saved is a pen- ny earned,” surely a book account avoid- ed is a definite amount saved to the far- seeing, enterprising merchant. While no business can be carried on, in these days, on a strictly cash basis, the man who shortens his pages of book accounts by a wise system of discrimination in giving credits is on the safe side. To pursue such a course is far better than to make large and reckless sales, al- though one may be never so sharp and successful as a collector. The pleasanter the relations between buyer and seller, the more profit there is for each party. The less dunning one does, the easier it is to maintain the entente cordiale, which is as necessary in commercial as in social affairs. Business should never be conducted on the princi- ple of ‘‘Every man for himself and may the Devil take the hindermost.’’ The ordinary worries of commercial experience are enough, without adding to them by a careless habit of indiserim- inate credit, and the various irritating dunning methods that are the necessary sequel. Since margins of profit are, to- day, close on all classes of goods, the lines of credit should be correspondingly shortened. If one cannot succeed in do- ing a safe business under these condi- tions, it is better to fail, if one must, with goods unsold than to be obliged to report most of the assets as book ac- counts hopelessly bad. Should one choose, occasionally, to leave the ninety and nine who are true and faithful and seek the 1 per cent. of fugitive debtors in the hope of saving something, he may do so, not so much for profit as for athletic exercise. And, should he once in a while be tendered a full payment, he may thank his stars, and may very properly attach to the usual form of receipt a promise never to trust the debtor again so long as grass grows or water runs. THE MICHIGAN I will close this article with a collect- ing incident witnessed many years ago in California, which shows one of the methods then in vogue. One day, in fhe spring of 53, I started from Doty’s Flat, in Placer county, for Sacramento, secur- ing a passage with a freighter who was returning empty to the city. After a two hours’ ride we overtook a number of six-mule teams going also to the city. Their drivers were much excited over an accident which was deseribed in eager staccato terms and with many profane appeared that a} German with atwo-horse team had driven around them, and, in getting back to the road, had roughly collided with the lead mules, bruising and laming one of them and breaking parts of the harness. While | they were repairing damages we drove on, the man I was with promising to watch for the culprit and report when they should meet at the North Fork House at noon. Just after dinner, as the whole company were discussing their ci- gars and also the episode of the morning, the object of their resentment came quietly along the road. At once there was adramatie scene enacted that will never fade from the recollection of the spectators. The one whose team had been injured stepped to the door and halted the German, while two willing comrades held the heads of his horses. He was asked the reason for his action of the morning, but, terrified by what must have seemed to him a Vehmic tri- bunal in terrible guise, he could only stammer out his most humble apologies. On being told that he had done damage to the amount of $50, and that it must be paid on the spot in cash or taken out of his hide with a horsewhip at the rate of $2.50 per blow, he became demoralized with fear, imploring them to pity a poor man who had not enough to support his wife and children. But this did not in- fluence the man who had been angry for hours over the injury done to his favorite team, and he insisted on the German making a choice either to pay for such injury in coin or in personal suffering. Hardly had he time to do more than make a sign in response be- fore the heavy whip of the enraged team- ster began to collect his claim, not in hard eash, but in the fiat money of re- venge. The air for thirty seconds re- sounded with the swish of the whip and the heart-moving cries of the victim. Then the horses were released, and the poor wounded fellow drove on, followed by the comments of a heartless crowd. However much of truth there may be contained in the saying, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive,” I am sure that neither giving nor receiving ever blessed either party to this transac- tion. But one of the witnesses, at least, learned a lesson from this peculiar methcd of collecting that has since tem- pered his judgment towards many un- fortunate as well as dishonest debtors. S. P. WHITMARSH. MICHIGAN MINING SCHOOL. A State School of Mining Engineering, giving prac- tical instruction in mining and allied subjects. Has summer schools in surveying, Shop practice and Field | Gcology. Laboratories, shops and stamp mill well | equipped. Tuition free. 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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. This is bound to be one of THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., GRAND RAPIDS. i i] i iq a] 1 i a 4 a a i . H Ml a 1 " 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Rambling Thoughts From a Pessimistic Standpoint. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Away back in the 50’s, when l was a boy on the old farm in Canada, my only daily companions all through the long summer months were dear, faithful, and long-suffering old Buck and Bright. Shall I ever forget them? not. Buck—how unclassical and prima- tive that sounds to me now!—was as black and as devoid of.horns as the ace of spades, and he sported an abbreviated tail. Poor Buck has long since departed this life, and, with all due respect for his | memory, | cannot refrain from laughing when | think of the frantic efforts of that tail in fly time. He was kind and obedi- ent and when he saw mein the attitude | of holding high his end of the yoke in one hand and swinging his bow with the other, and heard the command, ‘*‘Come under, Buck,” he never refused to obey. Bright wore brindle stripes and one sawed-off horn; and one of his eyes (the the one next to Buck) was no good and the other was sky-colored. As before stated, they were my daily companions aud, while plodding back- ward and forward over the old fields, we frequently halted under the friendly branches of an oak or a wild cherry to rest. During these rests I would sit on the old wooden plowbeam and watch the myriads of noisy crows on their way to campmeeting; and the other two fel- | lows—that is, Buck and Bright—would heave and ‘‘loll” and get ready for a fresh start. Did you ever watch the crows? to remark to Buck that I thought the crows exhibited the least sense and wasted the most noise of anything 1 ever saw: but I had never seen very much at that time. If Buck had even hinted to me at that time that men were just like crows, | would have gone with him into another form of existence and wceuld never have become a man. My only source of information up to that time had been the little Sunday school library and the catechism, and | supposed that men —not some men, but all in- dividually independent, intelligent beings possessing reasoning powers which justly I used men—were constituted them the crowning work of Created in the of the Great Architect of the universe and given creation. image the earth and the fruitfulness thereof as a heritage, and placed in dominion over every created thing therein, 1 supposed a natural result of the divine plan. all men exercised their God-given that, as attributes. brains in- dividually in regulating their own actions, that men utilized their own and that they formed their own opinions and drew their own conclusions accord- ing to the dicta of their own judgments. Yes, men are just like crows—blind multitudinous followers of the blind. For every old crow that seemed to possess a marked degree of individuality and evince the least symptoms of a desire to} investigate for himself and a capacity for mapping out his own course, there were 999 who followed in the cried I used to think that even the boss crow did not know as much as he imagined he did, for sometimes he would strike out for in advance of them cried ‘‘Caw, caw.’’ the pine grove under the impressien that he had caught a sniff of a dainty morsel of corruption, and immediately the whole crow tribe would take up the ery and fol- Well, IL guess | In other words, | supposed | wake and) “Caw, caw,” simply because those | low, filling the air with sucha confusion |of rasping sounds that Buck would roll | his off eye heavenward and wonder what /it was all about. In afew minutes back | they would come, showing that the boss crow had made a miscalculation; but the | common herd followed just the same— | mere echoes of their leader. Yes, men are like crows. Keep your ear close to the ground, and before the present political campaign comes to an end, you will hear something that sounds | - | very much like *‘Caw, caw,—caw, caw, | it is my intention to give these | ‘rambling thoughts a commercial appli- | iM ; caw.”’ 'cation, and the reader may make his own | application politically, socially, and re- ligiously. | “Caw, caw,” in crow parlance, means ja whole volume of old commercial saws ‘and aphorisms when translated into plain English. These business precepts | are originated by prominent and success- ful business men, and are at once adopted by the masses and incorporated into the | code of business ethics. They become | the gospel of trade, and to question their | soundness is an evidence of menta! aber- ration. In arecent number of a leading trade | journal, a writer takes up considerable | space in defining the qualifications neces- | sary on the part of a business man to en- sure success. First and above ail, he stated, was a firm and steadfast determi- nation to win success, or die in the at- | tempt. This is the gospel we preach in this our day of grace, and yet we wonder | why it is that seif-distruction is so preva- | lent in the land we boast of. ‘The ‘‘suc- cess,’ andthe ‘‘get there” in this modern | get-there-or-die doctrine means the ac- j}cumulation of wealth and nothing more. Get rich and win a glorious success, or failto get rich and make a miserable failure. No wonder that suicides are so common and accomodation in our asylums so limited. Of all the motives which prompt men to action and spur them on to dare and to do, none is more powerful than the love of appprobation—to gain the respect and admiration of others. A motive of this kind may be strongly tinetured with selfishness, but that only adds toits strength. We are told that the world is growing better every day, yet | cannot help but think that possibly there was atime when honor, brotherly love and business integrity were more sought after, and commanded a larger degree of respect and admiration than the mere acquisition of money. Be this as it may, the only standard of earthly success recognized in this country to-day is based on the Almighty Dollar. Reach it by any means; miss. it and die in the at- tempt. Any standard of a successful earthly existence that is not within the reach of every man is false, cruel, unjust, sub- versive of human happiness and distruc- tive of true manhood. This false stand- ard licenses oppression, encourages pi- racy and places a premium on robbery. It distroys every noble and generous im- | pulse, puts a blight upon patriotism and breeds contention, hatred and crime. E .A. OWEN. —- 2 A tradesman on Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, has a big sign stretched across | the front of his store bearing in large i black letters the legend, ‘*Dealer | Green Goods.” He sells vegetables and igeneral garden truck, but if the sign | doesn’t bring him many rural customers, | eager for unhallowed speculation, there | is no virtue in appealing to their ineli- | nations. 'N ) ; prices and judge for yourselves, and no offence will be taken, buy or not buy. One of the largest and most complete lines on the road in single and double imported and domestic material. single and double breasted. Double Breasted Suits in many firm this statement. Cutaway, frocks and sacks should be breasted ulsters, with regular or shawl collars. in Friezes, Shetland, Fur Beavers, Chinchillas in blue black and many fancy colors, HIRTY-FIVE years experience teaches us that retailers best con- I sult their own interest and that of their trade and the general public, by purchasing trom a stock which combines durability, style, fit and excellent work- manship with prices so low as to meet all competition: MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothing Manofacturers ROCHESTER, N Y¥. assure the retail trade that their entire 2 stock for fall and winter 1892 and 1893 - is manufactured upon the above princi- ple. Inspect our samples which will demonstrate this truth. Write our repre- sentative, William Connor, Box 346, Mar- shall, Mich., and he will soon be with you, go through our entire line, learn Pronounced best fitters ever seen, OVERCOATS. Very many styles in Kerseys, Meltons, Chinchillas, Irish Friezes, Fancy Woven bespotted 24-ounce rough wools, Royal Montagnacs soft as spun silk and very warm, all Grades of material and colors. PRINCE ALBERT COATS and VESTS. In style and fit positively pronounced unexcelled. Our mail orders for these con- seen to be appreciated, which will! satisfy the closest buyers of excellent clothing to retail at a desirable profit. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, Rochester, N Y. qast® &Sa Nborp THE BOSTON TEAS COFFEE IMPORTERS, Are now receiving by every incoming steamer and Overland, New Crop Teas of their own importations, which means that in pur- chasing from them you get Teas of special character and at only one reasonable profit above actual cost of importa- tion. You are surely paying two lor more profits in buying of ithe average wholesaler. Chase & Sanborn, in | IMPORTERS, | CHICAGO. BOSTON. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance 60. Organized 1881. Fair Contracts, Kquitable Rates, Prompt Settlements. The Directors of the ‘ Michigan” representative business men of our own State. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. EUGENE HARBECK, Sec’y. ? Don’t Buy YOURsSPRING LINES OF Hammocks, Base Ball Goods, & Fishing Tackle Until you have seen our assortment. Our sales men are now on the way to call on you. EATON, LYON & CO., GRAND RAPIDS. are THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 THOUGHTS WISE AND EDGEWISE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Many a man thinks he has real re- ligious doubts when they are only chi- meras. * * *% The man who makes motions in and around a court of record sarily a lawyer. * aes Of many men it may be said that, in- stead of going boldly into the battle of life, they send substitutes. *& * + A man cannot be wholly selfish who allows his wife the last word. < <= = A clear conscience is said to be a sure cure for insomnia, butit is too expensive a remedy for the cneese paring econo- mists of the present age. is not neces- Some radical reformers begrudge the ‘Almighty His monopoly of the air they | breathe at no expense, just because it is a monopoly. It is strange that the suicides who are every day inventing some new way to} ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’? do not think of putting up at a many storied hotel with patent elevator attachments, se- euring quick conflagration. = + * 4 A sad-eyed young man whose practice | at the court of love had obtained only adverse verdicts bitterly remarked that female “for,” said he, ‘‘the education defective, of to-day teach their daughters only the gospel of negation.” was sadly mothers If capital punishment is the best de- those murderers wko commit suicide deserve the thanks of society, for they accomplish what all the executive and judicial powers but par- tially achieve at an immense cost to the public, while this is done at no cost save the coroner’s expenses. » © « The nearer a state comes to the ultra- humanitarian standard set up by profess- ors of penology, the more it costs the peo- terrent of crime, ple for protection. Innocent life is safer when judicial red tape is not used to blind the eyes of Justice. 3 *% If a sentence to State prison for a term limited conditionally is an indeterminate sentence, and, therefore, invalid, accord- ing to the opinion of our Supreme Court, what assurance have we that the same Court, if confronted with a case, will not decide that a life sentence terminate and void, since life may be but a span or a generation of years? * * * The fire escapes, so called, attached to is also inde- | '| native town and truly honored the office full with a polite request to call and ex- amine his new stock of goods. It is too early to state results. If it works well, the patent on the scheme will be worth a million. *% * * There are two kinds of highway rob- bery: The first is the old way with the revolver, which generally takes all one has at the time; the other is when you are accosted by an acquaintance and asked for a loan of 50 cents or $1 to tide over an emergency. This takes but a trifle, ’tis true, but, like lost opportunity, is gone forever. There is, however, this compensation — it one man (too mean to do anything else) dodging for the rest of his natural life, trying to keep out of the range of your vision. * * * Bashful John Simple, on being intro- duced to Miss Clara Hargreave, un- consciously paid that lady a compliment | that no society man could have excelled. In reply to her remark that she fancied they had met before, he said: ‘‘I cannot remember the occasion. If I had ever been in Heaven, I would know it must | have been there.’’ sets * * * There was once a boy who resolved |that he would have a fixed purpose in | life and strive for it until it should be attained. So he studied hard at school, | and, when he became aman, he read up jand studied still. He sought far and | wide for all the practical knowledge his lgrowing mind could master, filing it away in his mental storehouse for the necessities of the future. At the age of forty-seven he reached the summit of his ambition—he became postmaster in his by faithful attention to every duty. * % * Some people may smile at the humble ambition of one who set his mark in life at what would be called a low standard; | but, when the plans now in process of in- | cubation by expert statesmen and those who are something else, including a host of petitioners from every part of the land, to modify the postal system in the inter- est of what is called reform, shall become fully developed, a humble postmaster- of asinecure than a The man who then writes P. M. after his name will find that | | | | ship will be less place in the cabinet. it means more than post meridian. He will have to get up early in the morning and keep his wits about him all day. If | civil service rules govern the selection, he will have to be a living encyclopedia, | and, perhaps, a Briarcus, before obtain- jing a local appointment. He will have | to understand banking, to superintend | his part of the complicated deposit sys- | tem; he must be a telegraph operator, grand hotels are rightly named, for the receiving and sending cheap messages; fire escapes in spite of all efforts to check an expert in using the phonograph; an it; but the guests only escape “as bY | gjectrie scientist, to make and report fire,’ if lucky enough to escape at all. | signal service observations; a statisti- | cian, to make out records to be filed in A late writer observes that ‘Wasted | the census bureau; a sleuthhound and force is the great trouble of to-day.” | detective, to mark the clews of crime This is true so far as it applies to the ex- land immorality that may lurk in the cessive coughing in church indulged in | mail bags; an express agent and money by those who have but little strength to | broker; an expert in all styles of book- | keeping, so that the office standing may | be seen at a glance by an inspector who * * * : » " , , ; sides act- A Western country dealer has hit on a | ¢#? stop over only one train, besides act lanai te stteniane tad He had | (28.8 superintendent of carriers organ- mae neheme Se Sen Se ized for a double daily delivery of mail a large list of customers long in arrears lat every dwelling on every erossroad in for small amounts who had not visited | his district. In short, a. - a — is s for many months, because as | of all work, a genius 0 e first water, Se aa as anal to Sone a | ae ee ae —_ de- ' : mands 0 e system, he will be the won- creditor till that little bill was paid.’’) der of his day and age. To each one of them he sent a receipt in July 8, 1892. S. P. WHITMARSH. — = * spare. | )o You Want a Gut o » © © Your Store Building! For use on your Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Etc.? We ean furnish you with BPORt Cae Fama Go a double column cut similar to above B1O. Or asingle column cut, like the above for 36. In either case we should have clear photegraph to work from. + THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, 100 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. PEHEREINS & HESS Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, DEALERS IN NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF UAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. ee ee = 4 Acne ea pO te A eS PIN EIT ANTS papas! ty tie Ra ahaa epee spe a me he ie ANTE y | i i 4 { nese fise int A iageearore Saar 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Four Years—George Gundrum, lonia. Five Years—C. A, Bugbee, Cheboygan. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Meetings for 1892 — Marquette, Aug. 31; November 1. Lansing, Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President— H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L. Pauley, St. Ignace; A. 8S. Parker, Detroit. Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; C. E. Webb, Jackson. Next place of meeting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. Local Secretary—John D. Muir. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Grand Rapids Drug rf — resident, F. b. Kipp; Secretary, W. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. One Hundred and Twenty-Six Pass a Successful Examination. Atthe July meeting of the Michigan State Board of Pharmacy, 145 candidates were examined. Of these, 68 received eertificates as Registered Pharmacists, and 58 as Assistants. The next meeting of the Board will be held for the exam- ination of applicants living in the Upper Peninsula at Marquette, Aug. 31. Fol- lowing is a list of the successful candi- dates at the recent examination: Registered Pharmacists—R. B. Arm- strong, Petoskey; G. A. Backmeyer, Clayton; James Bates. Flushing; F. M. Billings, Marshall; Ray Burlingame, Dowagiac; W. B. Cady, Ypsilanti; J. G. Campbell, Windsor, Ont.; W. Church, Flint; L. H. Cole, Fenton; T. W. Cooper, Harbor Springs: T. J. Carley, Ann Ar- bor; W. J. Dalbey, Mt. Clemens; Geo. Dale, Wyoming, Ont.; J. B. Dale, Toron- te, Ont.; C. A. Datton, Ingersoll, Ont: W. R. Faber, Ann Arbor; F. 8S. Geppert, F. Giddey, W. B. Gordon, Robert Halls and James J. Hayes, Detroit; C. M. Hen- sel, Lithopolis, O.; A. J. Hertzel, Ada, O.; Charles Hill, H. H. Hoffman, Detroit: D. Johnson. Marion: F. G. Johnston, Marshall; F. Carmsen, Grand Rapids: F. H. Kelly, Detroit: l. N. Kinney, St. Louis; George H. Landis, Woodland: E. Leibhauser, Nashville; W. Lunger- hausen, Mt. Clemens: Charles T. MelIn- tyre, Woodland: W. McKee, Kalamazoo: J. S. MeLarty, Toronto: John Maxwell, Ann Arbor: G. R. May, Stockbridge; C. Menold, Bangor; C. W. Merkle, Char- lotte; W. H. Mortimer, John A. Murray, J. Paddock, Detroit; E. A. Pickard, Thomasville, Ont.; T. E. Robinson, Charlotte: J. A. Schaick, Mt. Clemens; E. Shabert, Alvado, O.: T. Schmalzried, Geo. M. Schultz and L. Seltzer, Detroit: Wm. G. Sieg, Ionia; J. Sielong, Ada, O.; A. Sipprell and M. Smith, Detroit; Wm. P. Stafford, Cadillac: L. Tai, Lowell: F. A. Tiller, Detroit; C. A. Topping, Fenton: J. A. Van Loon, Detroit: John Vermema, Menominee: E. Z. Ware. Grand Rapids: G. J. Warner, Birming- ham; J. A. Webster, Detroit: Bert Well- man, Armada; J. J. Wells, Athens: John Werner, St. Thomas, Ont.: A. J. Wilkin- son, Windsor, Ont.: Van J. Witt, Lake City. Assistant Pharmacists—F. E. Charlotte: B. Bearss, Yale: W. Beck, Charlotte; T. W. Bonifield, Neptune, O.: N. S. Bristol, St. Johns: W. E. Bromley, Detroit; W. T. Charbonneau, Chatham, Ont.; W. H. Cooley, Clio: F. W. Dersch, Adrian: J. H. Dunn, W. H. Eaton and F. Faber, Detroit: L. C. Forger, W. Bay City; B. Franks and L. T. Freytag, De- troit: G. G. Gardiner, North Star: R. Hamlin, N. Healey, N. L. Hubbard, FE. Hunt, Detroit: C. Jewell, Pontiac: S. Judson, Clayton; C. D. Kendall, Port Huron; B. E. King, St. Johns: J. H. Klien, Chelsea; E. Kranth, S. A. MeDer- mitt, Detroit; H. A. Main, Tekonsha: M. A. Millar, Garna: L. Morrison, Williams- ton; W. L. Newton, Richmond: E. E. Palmer, Potterville: G. E. Prenton, De- troit; W. Perkins, Alma; R. Prickney, Ypsilanti; A. M. Reid, Detroit: E. H. Richards, Saranac; W. Riddle, Detroit; J. Rothacher, F. Rothacher, Detroit: C. Rowley, Marshall: John Rutherford, Jonesville; E. Sargent, Saranac; P. J. Beard, Sauer, Detroit; F. Schmitz, Pontiac; E. Schwint, Ada, O.; G. Sherrard, Yale; R. Shaw, Port Huron; 8. Smith, Cass City; W. A. Smith, Windsor; J. Staley, Yale; F. J. Stephenson, Brooklyn; Claude E. Whipple, Detroit; Fred Winn, Elk Rap- ids; C. B. Zuam, Eastport; H. Zirn, Sag- inaw: F. Gleason, Greenville; Fred A. Richter, Saginaw. — <> Inventions That Paid. The popular ‘‘return ball’’ yielded the patentee an income of $50,000 a year. The “Dancing Jim Crow’ toy was worth $75,000 a year to its inventor; the Spring window shade, the stylographic pen, the marking pen and rubber stamps, each $100,000 a year. The common needle threader was worth $10,000 a year to the man who first thought of it. The rub- ber tip on lead pencils, the gummed newspaper wrapper, the machine for making type, made rich men of their originators. Silverton sold his patent for copper tips to children’s shoes for $67,000. Waterman’s process for tempering wire netted him $83,000. Plimpton, the in- ventor of roller skates, made over $1,000,- 000. Burden realized a profit of $90,000 for his invention in horseshoes. Hoe’s printing press made for him in fourteen years $248,000. Singer, living in a loft over a stable on the Bowery in New York, with no money and little to eat, was next met in Paris luxuriously enjoying an income of $1,400 aday. Arkwright, the inventor of the cotton spinning machine, whose father shaved men for a penny in London, ac- quired a fortune which yielded an in- come of $2,000,000 a year, and left at his death nearly $50,000,000. — _> . —_ Good and Bad Advertisements. From Fame. ‘‘When a happy hit is made in the way of catch lines it is worked to death all over the country, and invariably has a number of imitators who endeavor to attract attention by playing on the same string; but at best these are only echoes, and sometimes they are worse than that. ‘“‘Do you wear pants?’ had its day, and is a thing of the past. Its populari- ty and advertising value has probably led to the latest ‘bungle’ in an advertise- ment of the same class. I will not quote the author’s name, although he unblush- ingly parades it in connection with an announcement like this: ‘I have dropped my pants to $4.50’ ‘Here is a rather neat way of desecrib- ing a two-dollar pair of shoes. It comes from Greenport, Long Island, where Krancher doubtless does a good business: ‘Krancher has shoes at $1 a foot. Es- tablished 1856. All kinds of footwear for man, woman and child.’ ”’ 0 The Drug Market. There are few changes to note this week: Gum opium is steady. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is firm at last week’s price. Jalap root is higher again and tending upward, on account of small stocks. Balm of Gilead buds are lower. Nitrate silver is weak and declining in price. Tonka bean stocks are concentrated and tending higher. Cocaine is lower. Orange peel is higher. —_——_-_—~+-9 < B. M. A. Organized at Harrietta. HARRIETTA, July 13—The merchants of this place held a meeting last evening and organized a Business Men’s Associa- tion, with ten members. Every business man but one joined in the movement. The officers elected are as follows: President—John C. Benbow. Vice-President—S. J. Doty. Secretary—John Garrett. Treasurer—Harry Driben. We look for excellent results from this action of the business men. JOHN GARRETT, Sec’y. ce Owosso—J. H. Thorn succeeds J. J. Knapp in the commission business. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeett, President. Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a specialty of collections. Accounts of country merchants solicited. PAMPHLETS CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. An children Cay a ‘jin of Hires’ Boot Beer. So does every other member of the family, A25 cent package makes dgallons of this delicious drink, Don’t be deceived if a dealer, for the sake of larger profit, tells you some other kind is “just as good ’’—’tis false. No imitation is as good a@s the genuine inks’, AGNES BOOTH CIGARS In ten sizes and shapes. We will guarantee to increase your cig your customers a chance to buy the Agnes Booth Cigar. sales if you will give All we ask is a sample order. I M. CLARK GROCERY CO., State Agents. Don’t Forget when ordering NUTS, FIG FIGS, DTS, FIGs, ( AN LY » DATES, ETC, To call on or address A. E. BROOKS & CO., Mfrs, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Special pains taken with fruit orders. J. L. Strelitsky, we S190 10 80, lonia 8t, Grand Rapids, Including the following celebrated brands man- ufactured by the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co.: Vindex, long Havana filler............ ... $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 Sooo CA Ane... C... 55 La Doncella de Morera, ................ 65 Se teen, ee bee............. 2. . 55 ree 60 Headquarters for Castellanos & Lopez’s line of Key West goods. All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stock - == THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Jalap root. Declined—Balm Gilead bud. ACIDUM. po 8@ 10 Benzoicum German... 60@ 65 Beene .............: 20 Carboneum. ......... BE Crseectes 8. i... 50@ 52 Eeperoenior ........... 3% 5 N wee SS aes cee 10@ 12 erect ..........5.. 10@ 12 Saecaarinn Gi. ..... 20 Salicylicum .. .-.1 BOI 7 Sulphuricum.. : 1%@ 5 —eeoes. ..... 2... .. i 40@1 60 Tieeericum.........,.. 30@ 32 AMMONIA. Aqua, 16 Gee.........- 34@ 5 a 5%@ 7 Oieenas eds ae aueeees 12@ 14 aero ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE, Bie 2 DO@2 25 ao 80@1 00 ee 45@ 50 Tepes ..--............ 2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po 65)...... 60@ 7 amapords .....,.-.-..- 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum.. 25@ 30 BALSAMUM, Copaiba .. N@ 4 Peru os @!1 30 Terabin, ‘Canada ..... 35@ 40 Meet... 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Camadian............ 18 sl. 11 (Taehous Fieve ............ 1 Euonymus atropurp......-- 30 Myrica anna oo... 20 Prunus Virgini..........-.... 12 Quillaia, grd...............- 10 Sassafras 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 12). Loe 10 EXTRACTUM. lye rrhiza Glabra... 4@ 2 _ x po.. ._. ae & Haematox, 151b, box.. 11@ 12 1s 13@ 14 “ 15 “ 17 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip..... @. 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ % Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Solut Chioride......-. @ 15 Sulphate, _—*- a 1%@ 2 _ pure eo ¢ FLORA. Avokee ..............- We 28 Anthemis .......-...--- %X@ 35 Matricaria 2Q@ Ww POLIA, Barosma 1 00 Cassia Acutifol, “Tin- i nivel uc.) oo... B@ 2% " Alx. 35@ 50 Salvia officinalis, ‘4s _— ee 12@ 15 tive Oca .-..--.------- s@ 1¢ @UMMI. st picked.... @ 75 Acacia, = p _ 3 “cc 3d “ oe @ 40 wa sifted sorta... @ 2 ' oo... .... Ce & Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 6 Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12 Socotri, (po. 59) @ WwW Catechu, 1s, (48, 14 34s, os... @ 1 Avamponiee ........-..- 55Q 69 cama (po. 35) . G@ 35 Benzoinum...........- We 55 Camphor®........-.-.-- W@ 53 Euphorbium po ...... 3@ 10 Gaibanum...........-- 4 @3 5U Gamboge, po.......-..- 10@ Td QGuaiacum, (po 30) .. @ % Kino, (po. %)......... @ 30 kk ae 80 Myrrh, (po. 45 eS 40 Opi, @oe 2 5))........ 1 6@1 65 Seem .. ..-....-... 3@ 35 wa bleached..... 30@ 35 Tragacanth eee ce 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. Sues ....-.-..-... oo a a 20 ee ee ice ase 28 Mentha — dss a ‘ = Rue.. Ne A RE Tanacetum, ee 22 Teens, ¥.......-..---.---. 25 MAGNESIA, Calotued, Pat.......... S@ @ Casbomste, Fat. ....... W@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... W@ 2% Carbonate, Jenning5.. 325@ 36 OLEUM. Abeteties . ........-2 3 50@4 00 Amygdalae,Dule... .. 45@ 7% Amydalae, Amarae... * 00@S 25 a 1 65@1 75 Auranti Cortex....... 3 00@3 25 Pare .......-....- 3 00@3 25 Cajiputi ...... Lanes 60@ 65 Corooeyil ........... 65@ 75 ON ce ect nae 35@ 65 Chpeenogr _.....x.... @1 60 ———————— 1 10@1 15 Citronella . : @ 45 Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65 eed ie 90@1 00 Cuseeeg....._..._.... @ 5 00 Exechthitos.......... 2 50@2 7 Milearen .... 2... 2 25@2 50 Gaultheria Pee 2 OO@2 10 Geranium, ounce..... @ %5 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 7 Hedeowia 2 00@2 10 ee SO@2 00 Pevenduia ....... 20... 92 00 caere. 2 T5@3 25 mentha Fiper.......... 2 75@3 50 Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 Morrhuae, gal..... «1 Ol Myreia, ounce......... @ 50 Olive . . 80@2 75 Picis Liquida, (gal. 35) 10@ 12 eee 86Q 92 Ronmering......... 75@Q1 00 Mosse, CUNnCE......... 6 30@S 50 Secem.............. 2am aoe... Si Oo Pe 3 50@7 00 Sassafras. .... 50@ 55 a eS8, ounce. @ 65 pen... @ 9 Thyme a 40@ 50 ome ......... @ 60 Theobromas........... 15@ W POTASSIUM, me Cero............... ta a8 a Sittecanss San 2 Broroide. . 244@ 26 Carb. —. oa Chlorate (po 18). oo 16@ 18 yeneee....... -.. wa oo See 2 S0O@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, —-- 2 2 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Petass Nitras, opt .. sf Potasea Nitrasg.......... 7 9 Peueeees tl. 28@ 30 Sulphate po...... 15@ 18 RADIX. Acouitum ........ .. =e & AMMES................. 2a oe Rees .............. Ta arr, oe... @ 2 Calamus. . os -. 02 Ww Gentiana (po. 12). 8@ 10 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15). 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 35)... ae @ 30 Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 20 mee wo... 15@ 2 Heese te... 2 20@2 30 Iris plox (po. “ew. 35@ 40 Jalapa, pr.....- 45@ 50 Maranta, %4s8.. o @ 3 — Po. boa 15@ 18 hei ...- tee Ce @1 75 = 75Q@1 35 spige ia . 35@ 38 Sanguinaria, (po 5). @ w Serpentaria. ! 30@ 32 Senega 4550 50 Similax, Officinalis, i @ 4 ? @ w Seiilas, (po, 35). ....... 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Foti as, oO... ..... @ 3 Vv aleriena, Eng. —_ 30) @ BS German. 15@ 2 oer s............. Te Zingiber j..-... 18@ B SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). 15 Apium (grav eleons) 3@ 35 Bird, is... 4@ 6 Carui, (po. 18) 8@ 12 Cardamon --1 00@1 2 Corlandrum.. as a Cannabis Sativa....... 344@4 Cydenium.. Leccss | ee Cheno dium ic a Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 35 Peerseeiam.........., @ 15 Foenugreez, po.. 6@ 8 — .... 4@4% Lint, grd, (bbl. 356) 4@4% Lobelia 35Q 40 Pharlaris Canarian. . 83%@ 4% Rapa wa. aa Sinapis, ‘Albu. es 8s 9 Niers........ 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 ' D. ¥. B.....1 See @ e Locseenan cok a oe Juniperis Co. O.T....1 gi 7 Cecgua 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 T5@2 00 _ Vint Galt... 17 50 Vini oa oe tees 1 25@2 00 Vini Alba.. -.---1 B@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool | eo 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ woo! carriage .. 2 00 Velvet extra ‘sheeps” wool Carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ GCareee........-...- 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- a 65 Hard for slate use. vis) Yellow Reef, for slate use . 140 SYRUPS. ee a en 50 Deere . 2... ee. 50 eS 60 ee ee 50 —— a 50 oe 50 Simflax ‘Ofticinalis. Siva ceen se 60 ca. -...- 50 ee 50 ae... Con. oe = Oe....,.. ieee Tolutan ote Pramas vire........ 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 . . . 50 Be 60 oan waver... 60 Co ee 50 Seeteion. kl . 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Orn kg ee. 60 - Cm... 50 Sameaineria 4... 50 DearQeme 5... 50 COnteeriues. 8. Brett ic. 50 Ca damon... a = Co.. ee eee: it Oo Cateche 50 Cinchona ... 50 . Co. 60 Columba .. _. oo Comiom .......... 56 Cubeba.... 50 Digitalis . a 50 eo. 50 Oe ee ' ....... 60 —— CL 50 : men... 8. 60 ee 50 EyOpecvane ................ 50 lodine.. ... cues) oe) a . Colorless............. z Pert Clloridum............ 35 me 50 [oce..... ._............. 50 co 50 mux Vomien ..... 50 Opit eee 85 * Camphorated....... oe Oe ee: a 2 00 Auranti Cortex.. 50 Quassia . (le Khatany . eee a 50 hei. _. oF Cassia Acutifol 50 Ce 50 per ocmeerie ..-............,. 50 PeeeeenE 60 eee... 60 Netcres ..... 1... . Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. ther, Spts Nit, sF.. BB B 4F.. RB & Alumen ee ee ee | 24@ 3 ——— (po. 7 : ..., oa 4 Annatto.. ... oe @ Antimont, ‘po ae 4@ 5 et PotassT. 55@ 60 —— Lecce cee @1 40 ae e............. @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 61 Areenieum .... 6... 50 7 Balm —— Bud.... 38@ 40 oe. 2 10@2 20 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s 1: ae, Pe... 9 Cantharides Rassian, ne . @1 00 Capsici Fructus, i... @ 2 : 20 as se 20 ees, » ga Pod) 100 12 Carmine, No. @....... @3 75 Cera Alba, a a@F... 50@ 55 Cera Flava............ 38@ 40 Coceee.........-...... @ 7 Cansia Fructas........ @ R Ceeeeeeee.............. @ 10 eos @ 40 Chioroform ea 60@ 63 — @1 25 Chioral Hyd Crat.. uy 20@1 40 a 20@ 2 Cinchonidine, = &W 15@ erman 3 @ 12 Corks, list, dis. per coe .............., 60 CSemeeees .. 5... |... @ WO Creca, Gi. 75) ........ @ 2 ee os «Ss ae . %@ 11 ee. @ 8 Creces ................ Se & Ceeeee. @ A Cupri Sulph . os — 2. «© Dextrine ..... - a. Bther Suiph........... 68@ 70 Emery, & = ee $ . end ) eS. ieee. 60@ 65 Flake ee LD 12@ 15 eee... @ B hee an, SS 7 @8 Gelatin, Cooper. . 70 i 60 Glassware flint, 75 and 10, by box 70 Glue, _owe.......... 9@ 15 Te. os 183@ 25 Cg 15%@ 20 Grana Paradisi........ @ wR Bomar. ............. 25@ 55 Hydraag = = 85 % _ Ox aaa @ 9 . Ammoniati.. @1 00 ' aera 45@ 55 e drargyrum . @ 65 ae olla, Amt 25@1 50 Indig De oe ee cae eus 75@1 00 ioaies, Heeubl........ 3 75@3 85 Pogo... kl... @4 70 oS i ee 45@ 50 L — snes! 50@ 55 oc ........_........ 75@ 80 Liquor i et Hy- ore as ae eae @ ae Gene Anaad 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph (bbl 12)... 4k... 2@ 38 Rios, OF... 30@33 ——, 8. P. & W. _ @1 SN. ¥. © & ee. 1 69@1 Moschus Canton...... Myristica, No. 1....... 65@ Nux — (po 20) .. @ Cs feme:.. Repsin Sane, H. & P. D. > Picis Liq, NwC., % ‘gal LS Soli @2 Picis Liq., _— ete @1 pin mes Pil eee, (po. 80). g Piper Nigra, (po. 22 @ Piper Alba, (po $5) .. @ Pix Barzun)... ... if Maras gl ee ulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10a Pyrethrum, boxes H @ ©. 0. Ce. doe. .... @1 Pyrethrum, py........ 30@ ieee 8@ Quinia, = aw... 29@ S. German....19 @ Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ Saccharum Lactispv. 29@ Nae 1 59@1 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ eS 2@ ee, 10@ ECE oaoaaae @ HADELTINE & PE Importers and Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 24} Lindseed, boiled . 46 49 Sinapis ees Coase @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter -— om... ..... @ Wi siraimed........... 50 60 — Maccaboy, De . | SpiritsTurpentine.... 36 40 a @ 3 Snuff, Scotch,De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. bbl. 1b. Soda Boras, (po. 11}. 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4 Pees Ce. "1%@ 2 Ber. ..... 1% 2@3 noGa, HiCarb......... @ 5) Putty, commercial....2% 2%@3 Soma Ape - 34@ si ——o pure... il. 2% 2%@3 Soda, Sulphas.. 2 — Time Amer- Spts. Ether Co ........ cog 56) eae oT 13@16 “" Myreia Dom..... @2 25 | Vermilion, English.. 65@7 © + Mint ne |. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular..... T0@75 ini eee bbl Fee, Yom... ... 7 @7% 2 25@2 3 c i 7 @i% izes be gal., cash ten : days. ° | whiting, white Span... @70 Strychnia Crystal..... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’...... @x Sulphur, a 2%@4 | White, Paris American 10 Roll 2%@ 3% Whiting, Paris Eng. Vasasinds 8@ 10} _ cliff . 1 40 Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30| Pioneer Prepared Painti 2@1 4 Theobromee ......... 40 @ 45} Swiss aa —, Venta 9 ‘oa 06; Paints. 1 00@1 20 Zinci — a VARNISHES. Yo.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 on | Extra Turp... 160@1 70 Bbl. Gai| Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00 Whale winter ....s ® be | No. i Turp Far... .. 1 00@1 10 Lard, Gxtra........... 55 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Lard, No. 1. _- 2 58 | Japan aes No. 1 Linseed, pure raw... 43 46| ‘Terp.. — . TO@75 Jobbers KIN DRUG of RUGS CREMICALS AND ENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils “> Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Druggists Sundries. We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. WHISKIES, BRANDIES, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of 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: HAZEDTINE & PERKINS Une CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eee | i i a x OMe rv Cet eae TENA SE TE NT THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grocery Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. * AXLE GREASE. doz gross —_————a 55 6 00 eee... 50 5 50 Press... . 8) 9 00 oe ....... 75 8 00 Paes .. |... 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. + cans, : doz a . 1 + C i go 1 60 ae 10 Arctic ee 60 CS 1 20 re * - 200 [> ~........__.......- 9 60 Cook’s Favorite. te 12 00 (i¢1 pieces colored glass) ee (191 pieces of crystal giase) 100 1 Ib cans. 12 00 (106 hdl cups and saucers) 9 2G 1 De oiee............-. 60 | (tankard _ her with each can) | - Price's. r doz | Dime cans.. 90 4-02 - 6-02 1 90 8-0z 2 et 2-02Z 3%} ax * 2S 2%-ib “ 114 4-ib * BS 5-Ib - 28 10-Ib 41 80 Red Star, % cans . = te eo Telfer’s, 4 = cans, doz. = “ oie oft an Victor. Cocca £00 ........ _-. 80 C ue 120 16 —-_........ ee BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. a ee 90 OO Peseewiic...........- oe 70 BLUING. Gross Arctie, : = ovals oo 4 = val ee round 2... 30 50 a sifting box... 2% a oa 3, 4 00 se No. se oo es 00 “ oz ball ee. 4 50 BROOMS. ee eee... 2 00 a_i. «(C«C«........,.--- 2 2 ee 2 50 No. ee eee ee ee 2% eee .se Common Whiek............ 100 Fancy ee 1D Warehouse.. 3 50 BRUSHES. Stove, No. - eee eee ews een 123 es 150 - - 1% Rice Root ak 2 row. 85 Rice Root Scrub, Srow.... 1% Palmetto, goose............ 1 50 CaXDLES Hotel, 40 lb. boxes......... 10 Star, 40 _ 2 Paraffine | Wicking. = CANNED GOODS. FISH. Clams. Little Neck, i Ib. [Ss > .. 1 am Chowder. Standard, Sib eee ete 2 00 Cove esa Standard, : Ib... 85 21b : 1 Lobsters. Star, ; - ae 2 40 +. oe Piente, : Tb. a Sib... i oe Ms ackerel Standard, a —cneo ko ee 22 Mustard, 21D. oe Tomato Sauce, ree 25 Soagee. 2b... ...... 2 25 "aia Columbia River, fiat... ...1 &% " a, ee ' -_~.........,,.... 9 6 dines Aueioen i............ 4w@ 5 . vee 64@ 7 Topectel we... 10@12 : — ee e........... ee ........,.. 20 Trout. — ee... hl 2 50 PRUITS. Apples. 3 lb, standard.. / 90 York State, galions bee 3 60 Hamburgh, 250 oeseeecaael Live oak....... 2 2 pees Ces... LL. 200 —s.... 250 oe... .. . 1 90 Blackberries. sy... ...... 95 Cherries eee ees ao 1 20 Pitted ee . 1% White 1 20 —...... .......... 1 20 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green Gages. ae... @1i B Celitoreia. -... 17 Gooseberries. coe... ......... 110 Peaches mo 12 ree... . 1 65 oes ............. 1 65 ee. 2 00 es 15 ,Oxford ... — Pears, ‘poetic... 13 | Riverside. . 210 Pineapples. ee... 1 30 Johnson’s sliced... 2 50 - grated . 2% Quinces. Common i 1 10 Resphervion. Meee es 1 30 Black Hamburg.. 150 Erie. black : 1 40 weaseneaees Lawrence . cee. 1 Hamburgh | QE a. i. 5 as... 126 weertbenten. Common .... 1 20 r.& W. eee ee 13 Blueberries ........ 1 20 Corned beef, “Libby” .. 1 Roast beef, Armour’ a 1s Potted ham, -_m..... . oo eee ae 100 . tongue, % lb.. 2 : re 95 1 chicken, 4 Tb....... 95 VEGETABLES. Beans. Hamburgh _firingless. +o oe French style..... 2 2 ae es... -1 40 Lima, green. 1D = soaked.. _ Lewis Boston Baked.____._ 135 Bay State Baked............ 135 Wolds Pie 1% Corn. aes... dC Livingston Eden .....__. 1.8 Purity eee cee Honey Se EE MLE 1 Morning Glory............. 1 30 Peas Hamburgh —— oda 13 . Carly Jane....... . Champion Eng...1 50 oe. petit = ee aac 175 ancy sifted..... 1 90 ee 65 Harris standard............ 75 Van Camp’s ee 1 10 . June......1 30 a 8 Eee lossom....1 35 eee 1 80 Mushrooms. Peeen 16918 Pumpkin. ee one. i il i il 95 uash. Hubbard = ee 1 2 Succotash. 1 40 mdi 80 Honey ee -21 60 atoes, ae See 1 00 ee 1 00 ee 130 ee 2 60 CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S, Gorman Sweet... .......... 2 i i ea Fs] 2. 38 Breakfast Cocoa. . 40 CHHESE. eee... @i16 _-.......... ....., @:0 aoe... @10 tone meee... @ 9 ee. 5 @6 oe, 10 PE oie coos cu @i 00 ee... @10 eee... @25 Roquefoert............. @35 oe oe.............. @22 Schweitzer, imported. ox ” dom vues @i5 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pint, 25. bottles eee cae 2% Pint oe aoe 1 doz bottles ......... 8 50 CLOTHES PINS. So ees... ; COCOA SHELLS. ee @3 Less quantity .......... @3% Pound packages........ 6%@7 COFFEE. GREEN. Rio. wee ct: 16 ee. 17 ee 18 ae 20 ee «.. .._........ 20 Santos. eee... .-..--........ -16 oe. ................. 17 eee... 18 ——e 20 Mexican and Guatamala. ee 20 ON eae 21 Poy. x 7am Prime . 2 a 20 ie a. |... oe Private Growth..... ee | Renecneee ...............53 Mocha. eee ......... ......... 28 ——......... ROASTED. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. PACKAGE, Arbuckle’s Ariosa...... 19.30 McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 19.30 Corman ......... “ -= 30 Bunola .. 18.80 Lion, 60 or 100 1b. case. 49 30 Cabinets containing 120 1 Ib. Pepi sold at case price, with additional charge of e 90 cents for * Ca! inet. EXTRACT. valley —. —— = a ae 1135 Hummel’s, foil...... 150 =. 2 50 CHICORY. Bulk 8 —. 6 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per doz. as 50 ft se ‘Tradesman.’ 2 00 2 50 3 00 3 00 40 5 00 “Superior.” $ 1, per hundred.... - 280 . * “s - - 300 -. * - 350 ef.” SLU 400 a 5 00 as fe 6 00 S 1, per hundred.......... $3 00 $2, _ |... 3 50 8 3, Cs 400 $5, oes 5 00 $10, ee 6 00 $20, ee 7 00 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts _eore......... & cent. aay 19 Ps ee adie - COUPON PASS BOOKS. _— be made to represent any — from $10 — | — ee ee 2 00 100 wee ee ee 3 00 — 6 25 so 10 00 SL 17 50 CONDENSED MILE. 4 doz. in case. coca, te eG FOr ciel lair 7 40 Re ete eee 6 2 Genuine Swiss........ - 8 00 American Swiss.. ... - 700 CRACKERS. Butter. poymeeraes............... 6 ne nag 22x, cartoon..... 6% te : Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% as 27 ............ _ s Salted XXX, cartoon ome oon IE, oo coe, oc Date biscuit . Soda. on. 2.s.-............. & Soda, City _ Soda, Duchess Crystal Wafer....... : Reception Flakes.. ........ 10 yster. S. Oyster XXX eee ne eee 6 City ceyeeee, SEE... .... 5... 6 Farina Oyster...... ates 6 CREAM TARTAR. Cereceey pere............... 30 Telfer’s Absolute.......... 35 Grocers’ ee ee, --10@15 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, APPLES, Sundried. sliced in bbls. 5 ' quartered ‘“ 5 Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7 APRICOTS. California in bags....... 9%@10 Evaporated in boxes. @14 BLACKBERRIES, in tores..... __..... 4% NECTARINES. eae. ™% ibn bakes... 2 @9% PEACHES. Peeled, in boxes... 12 oan = 9@10 ” ' a 8@ 8% PEARS. California in bags .... @7 PITTED CHERRIES. eee. 10 oo boxes . 11 ero nee ae 12 PRUNELLES. —e hoe. 11 RASPBERRIES, eee... | ae we... 22 Se” CC. 23 Foreign. CURRANTS. Patras, in barrels...... @ 3% in %-bbis...... @ 3% _ in less quantity @4 PEEL. Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib. boxes 20 Lemon _* re 10 Orange ' = * sy 11 RAISINS, Domestic, London Jayers, 2 crown....1 40 a oo a. ee. 1 & Loose Muscatele ages ou 1% b. bags @5% ae Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. . @ Sultana, 20 ' 1 @i2 Valencia, 30 “ — PRUNES. Bosnia. . Cc ‘alifornia, 100-1: 20. . 84 California, 90x100 25 1b. Dxs. on 80x90 “ 2x80 “ “ion - 60x70 " -10% sc @5% ie 11% ENVELOPES, $1 75 _ ia 1 65 1 50 13 13% 1 00 9 Coin. Mall Mo. §........ 100 FARINACEODUS GOODS. Farina. 100 Ib. kegs............. 3% Hominy. TI 6 aon erecce cscs rescs 3 00 ee 3 50 Lima Beans ee as Maccaroni and Vermicellt. Domestic, 12 lb, box... Im ch N -ion@nts rted Pearl aereeewnes Peas. Ce, is ccc ee 70 Pee oer es 3 00 Sago. RIE oo ceneseneeceencess + Ee 5 Wheat. Coscred.......... bate cause 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. To oc... ese 110 Cod. a ............... Whole, Grand er Boneless, Drees ..... @b% Boneless, strips.. ..... Saber Halibut. | eae enen 12 Herring. a EES @16 Holland, bbis eS 11 = Round shore, "i bbl. : 2 00 \% bbl.. 110 Mackerel. No. 1, 40 lbs 4 25 No. 1, hte ae... 13 No. 2, 40 lbs 3 50 No. 2, 10 Ibs.. . 16 Family, 4 bbis., "100 Ibs... 5 00 kits, 10 the... 65 Sardines, Resien, bees.............: 45 Trout. No. 1, % bbls., 100lbs........ 6 50 me. 1, oe ee............ 90 Whitefish. Bo, 1, 4% bbis., 00ibs........7 No. 1, kits, 10 Me 95 Fami ly, % a 100 lbs.... 3 00 kits 0 Ibs. ac. FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Jennings’ D C. Lemon. —_—_ - oz folding an. 75 1 50 4 ne C 4 50 2 00 6 oz ' -2 00 3 00 8 oz ' ...3 00 40 GUN POWDER. a 5 50 Half a 3 00 HERBS. Dice beens aoe ican ues 15 ee 25 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 JELLY. 17 Ib. pails ee 60 ee 90 LICORICE ES es 30 (eee... 25 ee 12 Condensed, 2 — ee 12 ooem........... 2 25 ATCHES. No. 9 oueies eee 13 Pace eee... ........... 170 Me eee 1 10 mers WOCEOE.. 400 MINCE MEAT 3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. eet -.. $1 75 Heit ae: 1 40 NE i eee ee ce ence 70 int . aoe 45 Half pint . Ae es ae 40 po arg for vinegar, per doz. ee 7 00 Half ain i 4% a 3 75 Mee ck. oe. 2 25 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Sugar house......... ———- se; Cuba Baking. Ordinary ..... eee. 16 Porto Rico. se .. . 16 ae ...... oe Cicenuene 20 New Orleans war... 14 17 22 27 Fancy 35 One-half barrels, 3c extra OATMEAL. Perces O............ @4 75 Balt barrels 0... ....... @2 30 ROLLED OATS. ee oe... ........ @4 75 Balt bhis @.......... @2 50 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ $5 0 Half barrels, 600 count.... 3 00 Small, Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES. ory ee Oe, 1 % 2. D, Toll couns........ 75 Cob, ae 1 25 POTASH 48 cans in case. MN ec 4 00 Penna Salt Co.°s.........- 3 25 ROOT BEER Williams, or Gm... ...... 1% 3 doz, case... 5 00 RICE. Domestic. Carolina Mi 6 No.1 5 SPICES, Whole Sifted. re se eee ae 10 Cass a, China in mats...... 8 Batavia in bund....1 . Saigon in rolls...... 1.35 Cloves, Ampboyna........... 22 . eee... ...... 13 Mace Batavia.... -80 Nutmegs fancy. + No. ee 75 * ee... 65 Pepper, Sing apart __-- ve —— 2 ' oe. 19 Pure Ground in Bulk. pS ae 1 Cass la, Batavia. Cee 20 and Saigon .25 ” vaig ey 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... 30 Seer... 20 Ginger, Sree. .........,.. 15 eee... 18 “ ae mace TART... ........... 8 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste, .25 Wetemte 0s 27 a = 2 8 baka epper, Singapore, blac inhi 3) C Cutan... L culece Gace 25 —...... 4... “Absolute” in Packages. 4s Ws Sree... & 155 Cinnamon.. ossece OL Cl0ves......-- & 13 Ginger, ee. oe 84 155 84 155 ee 84 1 55 eee 84 155 oes <<. OF SAL SODA. ae Granulated, boxes.......... iz SEEDS. ee @12% Canary, Smyrna....... 4 tie, 8 Cardamon, Malabar... *. Hemp, Russian....... rien Bee... 4%@ os Mustard, white....... Pi 9 6 30 Corn. Seip bones... 5... 6 eh” hCl cece 6 Gloss. Ly > packages SIS en UeI aT 5% none eee eecunn 5% 6- Sib ee 6 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 414 Pee... .--:,...., 4% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 - Maccaboy, in jars.. as ce french Appee, in Jars..... 48 soDa. TI io ace oe ccc cnc ce 5h =o English. pooe gel e 4% SALT 25 00 85 25 50 50 28 lb. 18 Warsaw. 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. i ——_ “ . 38 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 lb, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. St eee... ...., 25 Common Fine. I ooo ci ccwes ces ess 80 eS ee 85 Se eke att ea ee ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. SALERATUS. CMeRee mo 32 @34 | Warpath .......... 14 | GRAINS ; CR & W =N ; ‘i Packed 601 60 Ia ‘is box, — 10 @i2 Banner Ep ae AINS and FEEDSTUFFS | HIDES, PELTS and FUKs PAPER & WOODEN WARE Church’ ... 83 30 PO eeeeee le... 2 WHEAT. Perkins & Hess pay as fol PAPE: ae 3 15 BASKET FIRED. Kiln ee 17 No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 77 | lows, prices nominal: ? Straw it ae 1% Se Le Ee 18 @20 | Nigger Head................ 23 | No. 1 Red-(60 Ib. test) 77 HIDES. Rockfalls - --1% ee 3 00| Cholee........... 2.2... @25 old 4 Dew..... 0.2... eee 24 auas, Green .... vos. 1.24@3% | Rag sugar.. 3 ha inn Choicest............ a ee baal oi ee Bolted . 1 30 | Part Cured... iui ee a paneeieteresee © SOAP. Extrachoice,wireleaf @40 SNe = in seeeceeeeeeeee es oe aa 1 BO Ful ull a @ 4% | Bakers 24 sada GUNPOWDER. sti rl sNicdenceu eee hon inate ga Se er 5 @5 Dry G 5 Cntaaeiaen te: Gide 25 @35 | pm eee 28 ips, gee 2%@ 3% Jute Manilla........... asx orallen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Pg athe hee ge = Tom and Jerry..o...e cesses Bb Straight, in oncke ea aaa cured. @ 4% | Red Express ee ooniuy, 68 1-Jb........ 3 20] — ow ao | en Ce, Se kesonme wala 5 Calfskins. green... Nes ..... Good Cheer,601ib.......... 99 | Choicest fancy........ 7% @85 moan, ees 32 Patent alfskins, — SEs 4 g 5% one aa White Borax, 100 3Ib.... 3 60 OoLONe. @2%6 Nay oe i 2 ities Deacon skins...... Se lignans | ‘ Proctor & Gamble Common to fair... ...23 @30 | Handmade..........7! Rye No, 2 2 hides 3 off. Cotton, No. Ce Ti Cee IMPERIAL, / " / Mie ene eee oe 16 Ivory, 10 oz. Common to fair....... 3 @26 MILLSTUFFs. ——- . 10 @2 Sea Heme assorted 30 6 oz Superiortofine....._.. 30 @35 : Less Tae 20 @ 50 _ See 15 Lace iiacaes ania Car lots quantity WOOL Ee 15 Mottled German “a . Bran......... = 00 $14 0U| Washed... ..... ..20 @23 WOODENWARE Town Talk.. Common to fair.......18 @26 ne -- 15 00 15 00 Unwashed .. -.. ...10 @20 Tubs No.1 1 i ul SCOURING AND POLISHING. Poraccarudinel eaaunners: » On i ib = bmn See a ' Mixed Feed... 20 60 20 50 MISCELLANEOUS. . 6 00 Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, Coarse meal 19 50 20 00 | Tallow 3 33, =... 5 00 ison. tie. 18 @22z CORN. Grease putter’ a ie 2 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 35 oe aes: 24 @28 -— lll CLs Switch 7 1%@ 2 No. 1, three-hoop 1 €0 SUGAR. Me 40 @50 Less than car lots.........- 56 Sauer 2 OOM 5 ere gr.boxes.... 40 on oe ast: oo oe Ons lots moma 39 a 1 ene aan en @ 5 TOBACCOS. Less than ae ag POULTRY. L a Granulated... --4.36@ 4% Fine Cut. a HA Local dealers pay as follows: 19 Confectioners’ A. @4. Pails unless otherwise noted No. 1 Timothy, car lots. ...13 £0 ai me ak @431|Hiawatha .......... 80 No. 1 ‘ ton lots 15 00 ie DRESSED. 9 @10 Baskets, market. a wake an @4.18| Sweet Cabs.” bo aa spy ‘bushel... 1 25 Extra C.....000000000 @4 (6 | MeGinty ...- 2220. 24 ae 10 @il = .o C iow . 34%@ 3% eT ee aL 22 OIL». a _ “ee + No. a ellow @ 35, | Valley ct Sie. 2 Y By a a No.2 6 2 Less than bbls. 4c advance | Dandy —. 27 “te ee ag A mae coe S 7 os No.3 7 2 Torpedo Bee wees anes ne 20 Grand Raplas: ee Turkeys........ eg @10 ss — ‘ a : : = SYRUPS. , ., in drums... 19 Spring Duck.... ..... 10 @il «“ “ ts sana ir c Mame St... 2... 26 agene:. 9 en seats Oru. Plug. ia, singie ‘on Water White, old test. @ 8% FISH and OYSTERS. INDURATED WARE, ee cccece seeoses sees Sorg’s Brands. v s nn ie 2 0 Ww Headli ht, 156° 7 pails. .. 46 8 ae ate 1 7] Water White © cn ait f F. - Dettenthaler quotes a8 | pps Midom! 0 a 455 Spearhead ............ ES ee 140) Nantha @7 ollow eOner -.........,..... 23 Dee 1 00 aoe Gasoline 1... @ 7} FRESH FISH Nobby’ Twist............ oe ae 110] Cylinder.............. ar + | Whitefish 7 @8 ee 39; OD My...........--.-... 2 Penance 1005) wine 1S gee) | mreme 7 @8 SWEET Goops. Scotten’s Brands. cn Double. o nq | Black, 25 to 30 deg... @ 7% | Halibut. eel @15 ee E 29 Wilson Dee ia le. 2150 Ciscoes or Herring.... 5 @6 aoe con ec : ilesaiin —. 38 = Meee el ee 2025 - ~ = eECNEEEL. tt @12 Se —- Riva ee eee ee ee 080 : : i. 2 Frosted Creams....... g | Valley City ......-.... 7" ie 2 00 a a. Sree i 90 Graham Crackers..... 8% Finzer’s Brands. iGreen 260] Swift & Company quote as fol- | Shrimp, per gal. ee Oatmeal Pn see 8% | Old Honesty.......... ee 2 75 | lows: Cod.. ...10 @12 — Te oe. ee 32 Seamrock .................. 260) Beet cavcam.......... 6%@ 7% | No. 1 Pickerel. @8 TEAS. Middleton’s Brands. Co 225; ‘* hindquarters. . - 14@ Se ame @7% 4 Moxa ie |... 28 VINEGAR. Sexe . ie @ 1% Smoked White |.__11! @7 JaAPAN—Regular. Cie ade... 31 a eT 7 ' loins, No 2 3 @10 OYsTeRs—Cans eS LULL. 7 (dea. G@ Batler & Coe Brande.) Wer... le ' eS 8%@ 9% i @li Fairh Cc ( ree A A @20 Something eee 38 $1 for barrel. Ce @6 rhaven Counts.... @40 Ge a ge (ee 26 WET MUSTARD. Ce @ 4h SHELL Go0oDs. niet. 3) gat | OUtor Sight. 3.2... |. 25 | Bulk, per gal eee coe. Pore 2O8as @10 = | Oysters, per 100 ...... 1 25@1 50 ae 10 @12 Private Brands, Beer mug,2dozincase... 175} ‘“ shoulders ...... @ 7% | Clams. +--+ OGGEl 25 Sweet Maple.......... YEAsT—Compressed. Sausage, ao orhead @ 4% SUN CURED. Ee 26 | Fermentum = doz. cakes.. wee) @ 4% as... @17 Smoking. eeete yc e. ma wanton @7 =... ae |e... 12% Fleischman, ot a cakes... eaten... 8 @ 9 meres 2% @26 Calenel BCmoree. ...........85 a Weel. ............ 2... 6 @6% HILLSIDE JAVA! FOR YOUR 88 OR 40c GRADE. $100 will be paid for a formula that will produce a Cup of Coffee better than Hillside ! ROYAL DUCHESS JAVA & MOGHA For your 35e grade. A Frue Combination of Central ann and East India Java and Arabian Mocha, SAN MARTO BLEND For your 30¢ grade. Makes a better drink than a straight Maracaibé. Very fragrant and rich, not rank, Entirely free from Rio. t23~Our Coffees are all selected with great care, especially for Fine Drinking Qualities. Roasted in the Latest Improved Cylinders and Packed while hot into 50-lb, Cans only. boas 2. Be. BOUR CO. We Affirm That Good Goods Make Business. TOLEDO, O., also Detroit & New York. Importers, Roasters and Jobbers of Fine Coffees, And Poor Goods Mar Business, Strong but We are represented in Michigan as follows: Eastern Michigan, P. V. Hecuier; Southern Michigan, J. B. Frrenp; Michigan, Thos. Frreuson Northern and Western tries wdc Minter aaa ih at = as AES a Sot a as are seine s tetera FP oreabonated alte catotcenens meee ee yaa nS I THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CENTRAL LAKE. Interesting Commercial and Personal News. CENTRAL Lake, July 11—The Chicago & West Michigan Railway is in full op- eration through this place and runs trains as far north as Petoskey. We are having first-class service—eight trains per day—six passenger and two freights. The extension was not open for the freight traffic until July 5th, though passenger trains ran the 26thof June, and there was considerable freight waiting to be taken to this and neighboring erstwhile railroadless towns. Central Lake mer- chants received their share with the rest. - = And this recalls the weary years that the writer has spent, more than twenty miles from the nearest railway station and nine miles froma lake port. How we used to swelter under the hot sum- mer’s sun, trailing groceries and other commodities through the scorching sands between here and Elk Rapids! And how we nearly froze to death in the fierce storms of winter! Perhaps, after many years have rolled away, we will look back to the good old times when leeky butter was legal tender in this realm, and when Walter Sissons made period- ical trips to Eastport with a yoke of spotted steers to bring over loads of flour to his father’s store. Perhaps we may look back to those times and feel that we were better off then than in the time to come; but when that time comes, if it ever does, we shall probably be very bald, very olu and very foolish. * * * Charles E. Ramsey, formerly of Kal- kaska and Grand Rapids, is building a store at this place and gradually squar- ing himself for business. He has not yet divulged the exact character of the merehandise which he will handle; but we are tolerably sure that it will be gro- ceries to a great extent, and that he will have a good stock and handle it well. He has been appointed American Ex- press Agent here, and carries off the honors of the position in first-class shape. + =— = A. T. Hoxie, of Traverse City, appoint- ed a day for the purpose, came here early in the morning, and bought 4,000 pounds of wool from the farmers in this neighborhood. There are many thousand pounds yet within the reach of this sta- tion, held by people who for one reason or anotker did not bring it on that day, and many thousand pounds more have gone to Chicago commission merchants. The wool growing industry is yet in its infancy in Northern Michigan, and there are those who say that sheep will not thrive here. We venture to predict, however, that not many years hence the counties along Grand Traverse Bay will have a national reputation for the extent and excellence of their woolen industry. * of * With the superior advantages that we have for the production of brick, it seems strange that there are so few plants in this region for the manufacture’ of this article. We have great hills of ex- cellent clay, with an abundance of wood and water, and no dearth of sand. Only a few miles from here is located a brick yard where is produced so superior an article that the proprietor cannot supply the demand for his best grades. The growing scarcity of timber is being felt all over the United States, and it eannot but result in the increased consumption of other materials available for building | purposes. In the few instances where small brick manufacturers in this part of the country have failed of producing a satisfactory article, it has been the result of inexperience or carelessness in manipulating the materials at hand, or of poor shipping facilities. * # | Last winter the farmers of the Grand | Traverse region paid out for hay more | hard cash than they received last fall for | potatoes. Hundreds of tons were shipped in and sold in this immediate vicinity. Next season, if the signs hold right, there will be a different order of things: The Northern Michigan farmer looks out | $141. over his fields with a feeling that he has! and there are judgments against it of been blessed with an abundance. There | $500 or $600 more. I’m an honest man, ; you smoke?’ are no poor crops. Therains which have | driven to despair the husbandmen of the | Sunny South, and made the gods to weep, have been just what our people | have been looking for, lo, these many | years. It has rained very steadily here | at times, but they have been mild and | pleasant showers which have been milk | to the soil and given life to the growing | plants. Our grass crop is abundant, and | the pleasant weather of late is giving the | farmers opportunity to save it in good | condition. Potatoes never looked better and we hope to have enough to feed half the people of the United States. If the crop brings the price it should, money will be plenty in Northern Michigan an- other year. = © *& It becomes more apparent every year that the cash system is gaining favor with the retail trade. The old song of “Mark it down,” with its variations of “Chalk it down,’”’ ‘‘Charge it up,’’ ‘Just keep track of it till I come in again’? and “lll pay for this after threshing,’ are not sung as frequently as in the past, and the singers themselves do not feel the same certainty that their song will be received with favor by the merchant. It isa pity that the cash business has been held in such fear and disfavor by merchants generally in past generations, for it leaves it to the present one to solve the problem and to pave the way for the future. It seems, however, that the present, with, perhaps, some aid from the one that is to follow, will get things in pretty good shape for the retailers of the time to come. The writer has been unable to find a single instance where the cash system has been thoroughly tried that the merchant has not declared in favor of the system, and knows of no merchant who has adhered strictly to the rule of ‘‘No credit’? for the space of a year who has gone back to the old sys- tem. And among the customers them- |selves we find some of the warmest ad- vocates of the cash plan of buying goods. They find, after the feeling wears off that the merchants think them dishonest, that they can buy goods cheaper of the eash man. They find that they are not so tempted to buy goods that they do not need. They find that they have no trouble in settling old store bills—when there are none to settle—and they find themselves, as well as their merchant, better off at the end of the year. The cash system is one that is worth trying, and we conscientiously recommend it to the prayerful consideration of many a careworn, discouraged, tired-out mer- chant of the old school. If you don’t sell quite so many goods at first, you will, at least, have something to show for what you do, and if goods do not go, you still have them where you ean put your hand on them if necessary, and not scattered over the length and breadth of an uncertain community. * *% Our Detroit shoe man was here this week. It had been in his province to make a collection in one of the towns further south, and he related his ex- perience somewhat as follows: ‘I found my man seated on a box in front of his place of business. ‘**Good morning,’ said I. **Umph.’ ‘* ‘Nice morning.’ sé ‘Umph.’ ‘**T represent Shoestring & Cartoon, of Detroit.’ ***Glad to see you. thing to drink.’ ‘**No, thanks, don’t think I eare for anything.’ “* “Weil, Let’s have seme- let's have a cigar. Suppose ‘**Well, don’t care if I do.’ ‘So we went over to a_ grocery and } | we lighted our cigars, and talked a few helped him to get away with his beer, and | minutes. Finally he said: ‘**-Come over to the store,’ | did. ‘I looked around for a minute, and it seemed pretty bare: ‘* *What’ll it invoice?’ he asked. ‘*‘For a guess I should say about $135.” ***You hit it pretty close. It goes just There is a mortgage of $250 on it, whieh we Mr. Upper, and when I can earn the | money, Ill pay your firm every cent I owe them. I’m always glad to see any 'of your people, and when they come around I always buy them a drink or a cigar, whichever they prefer; but that’s all there is in it now.’ “] thanked him for his candor, told | him that admired his nerve, and silently | stole away, leaving behind me all that, was mortal of our $325 creditor. Gro. L. TuursTron. ——————_~ -4 Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Crockery & Glassware, | | FRUIT JARS. | 50 | 1 a Se a 87 = bee ees sae ee sues de touuee esas tou 8 00} Half aaa ee 10 50 | ee ee 3 25) eee se 45 | LAMP BURNERS, oe Oe...._....-..................... 45 | ee 50 Dee oo 2. oo 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. No. 0 Sun kee _.2 0.1 1 88 oO. 2 oc o First quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top Leos ecue eens seen pa. oeeeee 22 ee TF 2 40 a2 “ . Oe 3 40 xx Flint. — : Sun, crimp COP... - eee cece ceeee eee oes 2 60 Lee wee cee eter ee ceed 2 86 No. 3 ei ° Meee eee ee ee 3 80 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled eens 3 70 mas hhlhmhUlUDlU ll DF 47 No. 2 Hinge, . " a ee 488 La Bas No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per a: No. 2 Lo. No.1 crimp, per’ —.... 2... No. 2 LAMP WICKS, eee. 23 No. 1, Oe 28 No 2, eel 38 No. 3, ' tee etecemtes tke leccus ce Oe Mammoth, per NT 96 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, /andGeail................. 06% oe, 0 oe eee %5 a. ee gc 90 . - RE oes aes 1 80 Milk Pans, * gal., per doz. SS a sat ° PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Red Astricans and Harvest apples from Ohio command $3.50 per bbl. Home grown fruit will be in market before the end of the week. Beans—Dry stock is in small supply and active demand. Dealers pay $1.30@1.35 for unpicked and hold city handpicked at $1.65@1.75 per bu Beets--New, 25¢c per doz. bunches. Butter—The market is fairly well maintained, all offerings of choice finding ready takers at 12@13c, while jobbers hold at 14@15c. Tabbages—60c and 75e per dozen, according to s1ze Celery—Choice home grown commands 25¢ per dozen bunches. It is no longer necessary for local dealers to depend on Kalamazoo growers | for this staple, as home grown is ample for the needs of this market. Cherries—Very scarce and high, manding $2.50 per bushel. Dried apples—Evaporated is firmly held at 8@9c; sundried is weak at 34%@4c. Eggs—The price is well maintained, dealers paying 14¢e and holding at 15¢ per doz. Honey—14c per lb. Very scarce. Lettuce—A bout out of market. Musk Mellons—Osage, #1.6) per dozen; meg, $1.25 per dozen. Onions—Green are in fair demand at 10c per dozen bunches. Illinois is firmly held at #1 per bushel. Peas—Marrofat are in large supply, command ing 40@50c per bu. Potatoes—New stock isin good demand at $1 per bushel or #2.75 per bbl. readily com- nut- Raspberries—Black; are in ample supply at | 7@c pergt. Red are not very plentiful, com- manding 10@12c per qt Radishes—10c per dozen bunches. Tomatoes— Mississippi stock is in fair demand at $1.25 per 4 basket crate. Watermelons—Higher and scarcer, owing to the drought in Georgia. Whortleberries—In ample supply and fairly good demand. Dealers pay $2.50 per bushel and hold at $3 per bu. Wax Beans—$1@#1.25 per bushel. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. mee eee ce ec 123 a i 13 £0 Deacon Coeer wie, Goork cat.............---.-- 25 00 ee Oe ks eee Oe 14 50 nee Geen, eee eis... ...., ..-. c... 15 00 reine BR OS OE a ee 15 00 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 15 00 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pee eee... a, |... ™% ———_— O_O 9 ee 9 Preeerers peemeee .... |... 7% eee... 5 Fieseeae Serres... 5 | eee Te 5 ee ee eae 5 LARD. Kettle Com- tendered. Granger. Family. pound. Tierceas ......8 734 o 5% | 50 lb. Tins...814 3 64 5% | 201b. Pails.. 8% &14 6% 64 | 10 mb * .. o&% 844 6% 634 om ~ -. os 856 6% 6% to. ht 8% q 654 BEEP IN BARRELS, Extra Mess, warranted 200 ibs............... 630 extra Moss, Chicavo packing............... 6 50 | Bomeiees, ramin bOt.................... 2... 9 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 dons bee eee eee coon eel oe pg SS ane 1 . . 2 oe 13 - woe... ae _— ae... Fennel. il, Sie | Breakfast Bacon, boneless. . as a | Dried beef, ham prices ........ eee a . 9% | Long Clears, mene ......,.... Le Cae Briskets, medium. Se “ TO a ec cee, CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. — Pails, ne per Ib..................... 7 sees eee é r Twist 6 : Bosten Cream .......... "20 lb, cases 8% ome eee: 7 8 (OI ee cases 7 8 MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails ——— es. trCtCti(“is;ws 7 ioe... se : eee ee 6% 7% Nobby.. Ee 8 English Ce 7 8 MO te ee, 3 8 Dreeee eeey........-... baskets 8 Peanut Squares...... ke 8 9 French Creams. Se eee ce 10 Walley Cremms.................... 13 Midget, 30 1b. baskets... 8 es eh” Ci... .................... @ PaNcy—In bulk Full Weight. Pails Lozenges, ere. 10 prrmted...... en (Checoelate Drops............ ee 11% (Checolate Monmumentals....................- 13 oe ea 5% aes... 8 ee 8% a oo FaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box ——Se...hlU..l . 00 er Te 55 OE 60 ceerenee tipo. 65 BD eee Pee. 90 ee Pere ln ke — ee ee... A. B. Licorice eee eke eee a Lozenges, plain... ey ee printed . ee ee 65 Imperiais.. ee Mottoes.. ee ee 55 Molasses Bar.. Cees ee Hand Made Creams. . 85@95 Plain Creams...... -80@90 Decorated Creams -.. © ites loan, (A 65 Burnt Almonds... node eure etka dene s Ae Wintergreen ee Le ee MR 60 CARAMELS, a 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes eed es belch eue, 34 3 ee ere 51 No, ey : Se 28 3, Te 42 aad we 5 Ib. a of oS oe BANANAS. ———.. lr, 1 W@i1 2 i ee a 1 50@1 7 nS died ete css Oe © "ORANGES. Cortornins OF... eee ee ces @ _ Me fee 450 : oe epee cess wees 5 00 Messinas, choice 200... 2. eee eee ce eee @ LEMONS. Messina, We, OO. 5. ee a cc, @5 00 fancy, ee @5 50 r ie a, @5 00 . mmr ee. ee 5 50@5 75 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS, Figs, fancy lay ers, att @13 10 d @14 e extra . 14 Lelaey @l5 “ ae... @i8 Dates, Fard, 10- - box oucbeeeed ieee cice > &% ss Persian, 50. i 4%O $3" NUTS. Almonds, ae on oe @17 ee. @15% ' Caltfocuia hl 17 a, ee @ 8 tue SE @11% Walnuts, Grenoble. whee dug Gere cees @13% ee . a 10 Table Nuts, Toney. ..... a @12% Oe oa @ii% recems, vomes ©. F.. .........-....4.. 11 @l4 Cocoanuts, full a EY @4 50 PEANUTS. Fancy, H. P., Pee... @5% a @t™% Fancy, BR. P., Pie. i. i... @ 5% * Rossted...... ieoee ee @7™% Choice, H. P, Extras.. en @ 4% “ Roasted.. ae @ 6% California Winans ee ee 12% ON THE GOOSE CHASE. A Drummer’s Painful and Expensive Visit to East Liverpool, Ohio. James A. Braden in N. Y. Daily Recorder. The little town of East Liverpool, Ohio, was, up to within a very few years, a decidedly bad place, almost its sole in- dustry being the manufacture of pottery, and a majority of the men employed in the works were possessed of a degree of recklessness that might have done credit to a Texas cowboy as he is generaly sup- posed to be. In a word, they were a pretty rough lot. It was a bright Sep- tember afternoon that a natty young “knight of the road’’ struck that village. He represented a Philadelphia cigar house, but his experience was not un- limited, and he had not yet gained to any great extent that characteristic which traveling salesmen are usually credited with possessing, which the im- mortal Dickens has named ‘‘preternatu- ral sagacity.” Nevertheless, he was anx- ious to succeed and expressed a desire that evening to go out with ‘‘the boys.’’ No sooner was his wish made known than he was invited to go with the gang to a clambake to be held ‘‘a mile or two up the Goose Chase.’’ The Goose Chase proved to be a nar- row, rough country road, skirted on either side by scrubby bushes and tall weeds that circled around and abouta high hill, at the foot of which the town stood. As they plodded up the incline much sport was made of our hero’s silk hat and patent leather shoes, but he took their jokes good-naturedly, and while the crowd smoked his prime cigars he re- galed them with the very best yarns with which his mind was filled, and felt sure that he was ‘‘standing in,’’ and as there were several ‘‘buyers” in the crowd, thoughts of the long bills of goods he’d sell on the morrow were constantly loom- ing before his imagination. They had proceeded a mile and a half from the town in this way, when sud- denly the man in the lead, who carried a lantern, for the night was rather dark, gave vent to an unearthly yell, and dropped the light, extinguishing it. When our representative recovered from the fright this sudden action had given him, he saw in the road before him a monster gander flopping his wings and sereaming hideously, and much greater was his alarm when a second later he realized that he was alone. Where his companions had gone he knew not. For asecond he pondered on what it all meant and what he should do, but a flash and shot ten feet to his right was of inestimable value in hastening his de- cision, and, turning, he fled precipitately down the grade. Shot followed shot, and as he flew along, his coat tails streaming out behind, his hair flying in the wind, for his tile lay in the road some distance back, sharp sticks held in unseen hands in the bushes at the roadside prodded him on. Never had he dreamed that he was possessed of such extraordinary speed, and a constant surprise was in store for him from this source, as at every new assault, such as an antiquated egg or decayed vegetable, his limbs moved the faster. So great amomentum had he attained that when he came to the foot of the hill where the road made a sharp eurve he could not stop, but plunged headlong through the window of a store that stood at the corner. Nearly paralyzed with fright and com- pletely exhausted, he lay on the floor puffing and panting. A rough hand drew him to his feet, and a voice said: ‘* Come along. You have made enough dis- turbance for one night.” In vain the wretched fellow pleaded and tried to tell his story, but the ‘‘copper” only said: “Don’t convict yourself,’? and dragged him along. He was taken into a poorly furnished room in which was a rude sign that read ‘‘Mayor’s Office,’’ that told him where he was supposed to be, and a very sorry looking ‘‘Mayor,” with pottery clay cov- ering his clothes, seemed to be expecting him. *“‘Drunk and disorderly, your Honor,”’’ said the impersonated policeman. ‘‘Any witnesses?’’ asked the chief of- ficial. ‘A few, I guess,” leered the cop, and ters entered the room, and being duly sworn affirmed that they had seen the de- fendant drinking and intoxicated. “Yer general appearance alone con- victs yer, young feller; else, why is your close all torn? Jest shet up or it’ll go all the harder on ye. The sentence of this here Court is ten dollars and costs; all together, thirty-eight dollars, and yer | have jest a half-hour to leave this here | town.”’ The unfortunate ‘‘knight of the road’’ came down with his last cent, but could only raise $31. This, however, was ac- cepted, and the ‘‘copper” led him out of court. Taking him to the depot he said: ‘“‘Take my advice, young feller, and don’t come back here, for the gover’ment is mighty strict here in this locality.” An hour later and the ‘‘Mayor’s Office” was the scene of revelry. Forty men were drinking to the ‘‘health and long life of the Goose Chase.” The misused ‘‘knight’”? never returned for his samples, nor has he lately been seen in those parts. If he reads this it may be well to say that he would be per- fectly safe now. i 2- +—__—— Big Rapids—D. Hamilton has pur- chased the meat market formerly con- almost immediately a half score of pot-! ducted by 8. O. Littlefield. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect June 12, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For Traverse City & Mackinaw 6:50am 7:20 am Brom Halsmazoo .............. 9:20 a m For lraverse City & 1:50 p m 2:00 pm For Traverse City. 4:15 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw 8:10pm 10:30 pm | From Chicago and Kalamazo 8:35 p m For Saginaw.. co 7:20am For Saginaw . 4:15pm Train arriving fro outh at 6:50 am daily; all seas trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from a h. South. Nort wor Cinctined. .. ....k 6:20am 7: 00 am | For Kalamazoo and Chicago.. 10:05 am | For Fort Wayne and the East.. a 50am 2:00 pm Wor Ceoemeatl, oo... 5:20 p m 6:00 pm Wor €paeeee.... 10:40 pm 11:20 pm roe Re. oc 11:50am Proms Sagimaw. wks we 10:40 p m Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:20 p. m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 7:20 am train.—Parilor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse City and Grund Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 2.00 p m train has parlor car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. — 30 p m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw, SOUTH--7: :00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grana Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 1;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 am 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 3:35 p m 9:00 p m 10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. 11:20 pm 6 50am Lv Chicago 7:05 am 3:10pm 10:10 pm Arr Grand Rapids 1:50 pm 8 35pm 6:50 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and full information can be had by ealling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. C0. 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 « offers a route making the best time betwe : Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m. Av Toledo at....._... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. AD.,@. H. & M. Ly. Grand Rapids ak... 6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m Ax. Toledo at. ........ 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m Return connections equally as good. H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio CHICAGO =—- XE #8 AND WESC MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.GR'D RAPINS.....- 9:00am 12:05pm *11:°5pm AY. CBM AGC .......... 3:35pm 5:25pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAGO .........¢ 9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GRD 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 .. : . 8:30pm 2:00am Ey Ceicewe ................. 9:30am Ay Geand Hapids............ 5:20pm TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, ST JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS. Lv. Grand Rapids. ... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:35pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... *6:10am 3:55pm 10:10pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, iv. 6h... 10:0 am 12 05pm 5:30pm 6:30pm Ae G.H...... 10:t0am 3 iSpm 5:20pm .-..--.- TO AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK RAPIDS. ly, Grand Hapids..... .-........ 7:30am 5:25pm Ar. Grand Gapids............ .ti:4am 9:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago Mh agner 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 4345 p m. +Except Saturday. DETROIT 3 LANSING & NORTHERN JUNE 12, 1892 R. R. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. GR’D RAPIDS..... 7:30am *1:00pm 5:40pm Ay DETROIT .........- 11:50am *5:16pm 10:40pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. iv, DETRORE......-.-. 7:05am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar. GRD KRAPIDS..... 12:00m *5:i5pm 10:10pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS, liv, Giand Rapids............... 7:20am 4:15pm Ay Grand Tagids............... 11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:30am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... S2:00m 5:15pm ...... THROUGH CAR SERVICE Between Grand Rapids and Detroit — Parlor ears on all trains. Seats 25 cents Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:20 am; arrives in Grand Rapi? .7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents, *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. 19 MICHIGAN CENTRAL “The Niagara Falls Route.’ DEPART. ARRIVE DeGrott Memrose...................,.. 7.00am 10:00pm Mixed 7:05am 4:30 pm é es Exorcoe.... 2... oe. 1:20pm 10:608 m "Atlantic & Pacific Express.... . 1:00pm 6:00am New York Expross............ 5:40pm 10:45pm All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Elegant parlor ears leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at7a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 p. m. arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m. FRED M. Briggs, Gon’l Agent, 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. MUNSON, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Ru@cies G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. eee TIME TABLE Scns) MILWAUKEE NOW IN EFFECT. aa EASTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 14/+No. 16/tNo. 18)*No. 82 Lv. Chicago.... 7 30pm| by. Milwaukee | hip G’d Rapids, Ly| 6 50am/19 20am! 3 25pm/10 55pm Tonia ........Ar| 745amj11 25am) 4 27pm/12 37am St. Johns ...Ar) 8 30amji2 17pm) 5 20pm) 1 55am Owoss)......Ar| 905am| 120pm) 6 ¢5pm| 3 15am E. Saginaw..Ar|1045am| 35pm! 8 Opm) 6 45am Bay City .....Ar|11 30am] 3 45pm) 8 45pm) 7 z2am Flint ........Arj|10 05am} 3 45pm) 7(5pm/ 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar|}i 55am] 6 00pm) 8 00pm} 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar|10538am| 305pm) 8 25pm] 5 37am Detroit.......Ar]i1 50am] 4.05pm} 925pm/] 7 00am WESTWARD, Trains Leave by. Detroit.....j1 Sp m/1 50am! 4 05pm G’d Rapids, Lv} 7 0jam} 1 V0pm) 5 10pm 1)20pm G’d Haven, Ar} 8 35am} 2 10pm! 6 15pm/11 20pm Milwkeese *) .-| 6 30ain| 6 30am Chicago Str. “ | ‘6 OOam 6 Ovam] *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 3:00 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 ear. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 582 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffete ar. JOHN W. Loup, Traftic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. *No. 81 |tNo. 11|tNo. 13)#No. 15 Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive. 6: 700 a m 4:40 pm 9:05 p m SHORT LINE YO CHICAGO. Via the Detroit, Graud Haven & Milwau kee Railway and the Goodrich Line, 25 am 5:30 pm The Magnificent New, Fast Steamships, “Atlanta” aud “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 pm daily except Saturday, via Goodrich Line, arrive in Chi- cego at 6:00 am Norse—Saturday trips resumed on May 14. RETURNING—Leave Chicago daily except Sun- day at 7:30 pm. via Goodrich Line and ar- rive in Grand Rapids at 6:45 a m daily. Note—Sunday trips resumed May 15. $3.90 Stateroom Berth GRAND RAPIDS TO CHICAGO, ONLY And for the round trip. %6.! included Through tickets can be had at the city office and depot of the D, G H & M Ry, Grand Rapids; also at all siations on the D, G H & M Ry, D, L &NRR,GR&IRRandT,S & M Ry. JOHN SINGLETON, Gen’l Pass. Agent, C hicago. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Addross PECK BROS., “Gkanp RAviDs” i ene Sse eae ee ner sett adet = Lens faeeetrnasestetneaaty peatennntteh A ses tr 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. DISCOURAGEMENTS TO ENTERPRISE if I had not lived as long as I have, and had so much experience of the in- consistencies of human nature, I should | be astonished at the way in which men | in high as well as in low positions, pro- fessing to seek the material prosperity of take the most efficacious | means for impairing if not destroying They complain that business is pros- | the country, it. trated, that labor is unemployed and that enterprise is dead, and yet by the very | remedies which they propose for the evil they prolong and increase it. Nothing is more essential to business prosperity than a confidence that existing conditions will remain unchanged. When men can see just what risks they are running they can take the necessary. precautions against them, but when the dangers they have to encounter are unknown and un- certain they hesitate and act timidly. There are chances and changes in busi- under the most favorable cireum- stances, but familiarity with them robs them of their terrors. It is the novel and the untricd that most powerfully af- fect the imagination and produce the most deterrent effect, and of these ele- mischief the most fruitful source is legislation. Wetan reckon up- on the weather, the crops, and even upon the caprices of fashion, with a tolerable assurance of safety, but the hazards of legislative action baffle calculation. A lawyer who was very celebrated in my younger days, Mr. George Wood, used to say to those who consulted him: ‘I can tell you what the law is to-day, but I can- not tell you what the Supreme Court will decide, as that tribunal is partly com- posed of lawyers of little ability.’’ Most of our legislators, unfortunately, are equally undeserving of respect as re- gards financial and business questions. Even those who are really well informed and competent are too much given to considering the unenlightened preju- dices of their immediate constituents up- on whom they depend for their places, and are too little regardful of the needs of the country asa whole. The recent passage by so wise a body as the United States Senate of the Free Silver bill would be accountable except upon the theory that the Senators voted not ac- cording to their convictions but accord- ing te what they believed to be the re- quirements of personal interest. As to the numerous wild measures introduced into the House of Representatives, they are notoriously presented and supported on political grounds, without reference to their consequences if they should be enacted into laws. This, it is true, is only a roundabout way of saying that the people themselves are, at bottom, the cause of this meddling and tinkering legislation, and that the only permanent cure for itis popular in- struction andenlightenment. Yet, when Isee how long the world has gone on abandoning one error, after it has been proved to be an error by bitter experience, only to flounder into another error not yet exposed, I have no hope that in my time, at best, this slow and painful proc- ess of education will accomplish its final result. As children disregard the warn- ings of their parents and want to see for themselves the folly of each particular piece of foolishness, so every genera- tion, I presume, will insist on trying over, under a new form, to be sure, ex- periments which have already been tried by its predecessors, and found to fail. ness meuts of | j i ; Tracing the origin of the mischief still further back, we find that it lies in the | discontent of the great mass of mankind | with their lot in life, and in their irrita- tion against those who are apparently | better situated. From the day on which Cain slew his brother Abel because Abel found more favor with the Almighty than he did, down to the present moment, prosperous and successful men have al- | ways had to incur the secret, if not the open, resentment of those less fortunate. Their success, from want of practical familiarity with its basis, is attributed to oppression or dishonesty, and even where it is plainly due to personal skill, enterprise and industry, it provokes a desire to limit it and check it as if it were detrimental to the nation at large. Thus, only a few weeks ago, the Omaha Convention solemnly declared that ‘‘The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few,” that ‘“‘The supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and enslave indus- try,’ and it demanded the taking of measures to remedy ‘‘the grievous wrongs of the suffering poor.” This is only a fresh expression of a sentiment which has long been at work producing meas- ures like the Granger legislation in the Western States, and the acts of Congress against the aggregations of capital known as Trusts. The mere fact that any man or set of men have acquired large wealth and use it skillfully to gain more wealth is accepted as conclusive proof that such wealth is the fruitof injustice and its ac- quisition a crime. The troubles at Homestead, Pa., have given occasion for the expression, from various quarters and in various forms, of this sentiment of hostility to accu- mulations of wealth. The conduct of the Carnegie Steel Company in seeking to regain the possession of its works from a body of men who were obstructing ac- cess to them has been widely condemned, and the determination of the unlawful occupants neither to work for their for- mer employers upon the terms offered to them nor to permit others to take their places, has been as widely approved. Senator Palmer of Illinois went so far as to advance, in a formal speech, upon the Senate floor, the doctrine that large amounts of capital, once invested in manufacturing plant and made to furnish employment to numerous workmen, be- come in a manner public property and cease to belong to their owners in sucha manner as to give them the right to man- age them as they think best. The Sena- tor asserted that when aman has once secured employment from a large manu- facturing concern he has a right to in- sist on being employed for life, or dur- ing good behavior, like a public official, and is justified in resisting dismissal by force, if need be. In his opinion the dis- charged workmen of the Carnegie Steel Company were entirely right in occupy- ing its works and in opposing the admis- sion to them of new employes. It is quite possible that Senator Palm- er’s views will yet have to be adopted and acted upon as the only effectual means of preventing in future the great contests between employes and employ- ers which have so often heretofore par- alyzed industry and resulted in great losses of both property and life. With the dominent public sentiment which I have mentioned favoring the earners of wages against the payers of wages, it may well be that the manage- ment of manufacturing enterprises on a} FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this large scale by private citizens will ulti- | head for two cents a word the first insertion and mately become impossible, and that if | one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. they are to be established and maintained | Advance payment. at all it must be under the protection and under the supervision of the Govern- ment. in legislation against corporations and against trusts, 1 have frequently called attention. No one can surely forecast the future, and I do not pretend to say how soon and how far the views of which Senator Palmer is the spokesman will become embodied in law. NordolI say that their supremacy will cause the ruin of the country. - But I have no doubt that the enterprises which would assist in devel- oping the resources of the country and in promoting that business prosperity the decay of which is so greatly deplored. Capital already invested in such enter- prises cannot, of course, leave the coun- try, but with the prospect that future in- vestments of it are tobe controlled not by its owners but by those whose interests are adverse to theirs, we must expect them to cease to be made here. They will be made in other places where they will be free from such burdensome con- ditions. MATTHEW MARSHALL. es oe dealer, offers handsome Japanese nap- kins for the use of picnics, parties, etc., without charge. He invites his patrons to call at 88 Monroe street and get them in any quantity desired. WHY NOT DRINE WILLIAMS OOT BEER {T 18 DRLIGIOU LY MADE AT HOME. SPARKLING TRY IT. HEALTHY. TAKE NO OTHER, BEST TEMPERANCE BEVERAGE KNOWN. A POINTER: Our Extract is not only just as good as others, but FAR BETTER. One trial will support this claim. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO.,, Mfrs. DETROIT,{MICH. Gero. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. This is what the Socialists have | * ; : — \ ; the best city, of seven thousand, in the U r been always demanding, and to the re-| th y ae waintete oF Goud cousin: s j inions, as shown | ‘ive Y : cent spread of their opinions, a | ern Michigan. The house is a substantial eleven |}room house, good cellar | houn county, Mich. | grist mill, located at Cadillac, Wexford county, i i y are receiv and | A favor with which they bus received, an | wanting to run a grist mill and feed and hay the consequences to which they have al-| . " | pieces of farm and timbered lands and some city ready led are extremely discouraging to | °S°%s : “sh fl ; BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—I WILL SELL or exchange my house and lot, located in Peninsula, for good property of equal value in a good live town of two to five thousand in South- 18x40, water works, good barn 18x26, good sheds, poultry yard, etc. House and lot cost $2,500, value at $2,200, mort- gage $600 will exchange for a house and lot of equal value or less, or fora good grocery busi- ness; also, we have a good meat market and grocery we will exchange Located on the best | corner in the city; can reduce stock down to $1,000 if necessary. Either or both the above we will exchange or sell for cash. Address No. 458. care Michigan Tradesman. 458 OR SALE ORK EXCHANGE FOR A STOCK of merchandise—A good hotel and furniture located at the thriving village of Homer, Cal- Price, 86500 The Banner Mich ‘This is a desirable property for someone business Price. $4,000. I also have several and village lots that I will sell cheap, or will trade for a good mercantile stock, as Iam over- stocked on real estate. Albert E Smith, Box 1123, Cadillac, Mich. 547 OR SALE -CLEAN NEW STOCK OF DRY goods, notions, clothing, furnishing goods, shoes, groceries, cigars, tobaccos and confec- tionery, located in one of the best business towns in Michigan. Doing over $2,000 per month spot cash business. Not a dollar of credit. Stock will invoice about $6,000. Address No. 549, care Michigan Tradesman. 549 OR SALE—CIGAR AND TOBACCO STORE, invoicing about #1,000,in the best town in Michigan and the best locationin the city. A fine opening for confectionery in connection. Can give good reason for selling. Will want two-thirds cash. Address Derby Cigar Factory Belding, Mich. 550 — SALE~SMALL STOVLK OF GENERAL merchandise for sale cheap for cash. Ad- Albaugh, Middleton, Mich. OR LE—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 OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS which will invoice $709. $500 cash, balance on time, °92 sales, $1600. Will rent or sell resi- dence to purchaser. Rare chance for physi¢ian or young man. Address Doctor, care Michigan Tradesman. 544 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF STAPLE dry goods, clothing, furnishing goods, mil- linery goods and boots and shoes in one of the best villages in Michigan. Stock will inventory $3,000 to $3,500, Liberal discount for cash. For particulars, address No. 530, care Michigan radesman. 53u OR SALE— HALF INTEREST IN GOOD paying drug store in Grand Rapids. Rare opportunity for young man. P. V. Finch, Grand Rapids ~ 524 OR SALE—GROCERY STOCK AND FIX- tures in corner store in desirable portion of city, having lucrativetrade. Best of reasons for selling. Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades- man. 504 dress MISCELLANEOUS. J O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. J ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR PHYSI- cian and small drug store in railroad town. Address No. 643, care Michigan Tradesman. 543 OR SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer cantile companies. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 370 OR SALE — BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- ed with native oaks, situated in gooi residence ns only 200 feet from electric street car line. Will sell for $2,500 cash, or part cash, pay- ments tosuit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 354 WANTED | LUMBER RED OAK, WHITE OAK, BLACK ASH, ROCK ELM, GREY ELM, BASSWOOD. A. E, WORDEN, 19 Wonderly Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, q i i ‘ } 1 ‘ ARK & LUMBER CoO., , = =, Successors to N. B. Clark & Co. We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1892. Correspondence solicited. Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons We invite the attentyon of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. Summer Goods. LAWNS, CHALLIES, INDIA LINENS, ORGANDIES, WHITE GOODS, MULLS, FRENCH CAMBRICS, GINGHAMS AND PRINTS, STRAW HATS, HAMMOCKS. lags. BUNTING FOR CAMPAIGN USE—IN ALL WIDTHS Grain Bags, Burlaps and Twine. P, STEKETEE & SONS, RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO, 12, 14, 16 PEARL SC. Grand Rapids, Mich. ay * would call the atten- tion of the trade to our lines of walking shoes. We ean show you all the novelties at popular prices. We also carry good lines of Tennis Goods at low prices. We want to sell you your rubbers for fall. Terms and discounts as good as offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. ENUYCLE DS! We Control Territory on the Finest and Largest Line of Cheap, Medium and High Grade Machines in the State WRITE US FOR TERMS AND DIS- WE WANT COUNTS TO AGENTS. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. VOlGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Gloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. “° Grana Rapias ” ASTORE run one: If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using one of our improved Coupon Book systems, ou are making a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the coupon book plan and are the argest 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, MICE H. LEONARD & SONS’ Complete Lines of Crockery, Glassware and House Furnishing Goods, Store Lamps and Parlor Lamps in Every Variety. Catalogue No. 108. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Free to Merchants. ®*THE ¢ BITC HOU RI iv Vins fr ie The Now Famous Gasoline Stove “‘ New Process.” a GREATEST SUCCESS OF THE AGE. Good stock of Nos. 3, 5 and 6 on hand, so that all orders from Grand Rapids will be shipped on receipt. Send for price list and terms. The Rochester Mammoth ‘I4SIT [[eH pus 104g Write to us for special rates for stores, halls, or churches, for all the mam- moth lamps made—Rochester, Banner, Ansonia, Pittsburgh, Incandescent, B. & H. Mammoth. Grocers’ Glass Door Refrigerator. You can increase your sales aud preserve sour goods by using one of our own make glass door Refrigerator. We are the Leaders in Parlor and banquet Lamps. — ” 7 F a ~ Men ad wo a , oo f Ep hi ‘ oe J JAX\k > «J id Réeo Ene, Be Send for our Lithographed sheets showing our Lamps illustrated in colors, just as they appear. We can save you freight, time and money.