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Send in your order now for FoR val —E BABY SS ULIETTA Childie:’s #vo Wet, Uverguiters, Lambs- wool Soles, Shoe Laces, Brushes, Dressings, Blackings, or any other Shoe Stere supplies you may need. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., 12-14 LYON ST. GRAND RAPIDS. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1892. AA THE STORY SHE TOLD ME. ‘*You’re looking at that pretty thing, | | see,’’? said the girlish creature. as she came toward me with a beautiful baby in her arms. I had been attracted by the charming appearance of the little cottage, at the door of which I asked for some water. Being bidden to enter, I sat now at the tasteful, tiny bay-window, covered with flowering vines, and drank my glass of cool, sweet milk. This home-interior was a picture in it- self. The furniture, though made by skillful fingers, had felt no touch of the fashionable upholsterer. The homely walls were decorated with simple pict- ures, dried grasses and ferns. The floor was painted and varnished and made beautiful with pretty rugs and mats. Not the least attractive of its ornaments was that little mother, a mere girl yet, it seemed, with her wonderful wealth of golden hair coiled round a perfectly- formed head, her soft eyes and gentle, womanly ways. The baby on her knee was a study; no hoarded wealth of art in classic marble could surpass the beau- ty of this lowly-born child. We were friends from the first, this little girl-woman and I. Someway she seemed willing to pour into my elderly ear little confidences that might have justified a maturer friendship. Soas I moved about the dear little nest, and happened to spy a choice piece of work- manship, she said: ‘**You’re looking at that pretty thing.” ‘*Yes,’’ said I, ‘‘itis even more than pretty, it is exquisite.’’ ‘So it is, everything that’s Ben’s taste is justly so,” she replied with aglow of pride. ‘‘Ben went to the fair; 1 couldn’t go well, for baby was ailing, but that was no reason he should stay at home; I eouldn’t be as unreasonable as some women. I didn’t expect he’d bring me more than a cushion for pins, or some neat little fancy—but no, he must buy that or nothing. I’m sure it’s only a lady should have such things, not a poor mill-hand’s wife; but you see Ben thinks differently.’’ How it was this dear little woman came to tell me her story, I won’t repeat, only give it to you in her own direct, pretty, artless fashion. So no more of me. This was the way she began it: ‘“*You’re looking at me, I see, and say- ing to yourself, which is true, there’s nothing at all taking about this plain little woman. Ben says there is; he laughs at me and declares that 1 under- rate myself, foolishly; but bless your heart, can’t I see? My eyes, you take notice, are light and gray, sometimes quite colorless, and as I look at them when I comb my hair, I think to myself that Briston, our tortoise-shell cat, has a deal more beautiful ones; but there again Ben declares that my eyes are my great- est beauty—and—oh dear, how can the man talk so. ‘““My forehead is low, and in summer the freckles will come, though now, deep in September, of course it is white enough; and my hair would be that hor- NO. 482 rid color, red, only sometimes there’s a tinge of brown in it that is rather pretty, Vil allow. Stili, altogether, nobody would think of calling me handsome, even though Ben does say my profile is quite perfect. “If you care to hear it, I have fretted badly, ever since I was a child, because people called me plain. Why I should have minded, I hardly know myself; there were but few of the elements of beauty in the homesurroundings where I grew up out of childhood—l ‘esthetic beauty,’ as Ben calls it. ‘‘My mother was poor, my father al- ways weakly from ahurt he got when quite young; my brothers and _ sisters were more numerous than | thought they needed to be. ‘One of the little ones, her name was Matty—the dearest little human blossom that ever made the world brighter and sweeter—this boy favors her—had glori- ous eyes. Everybody who saw _ her turned to look again to see her eyes, they said, in which one could look down into her soul and read it like an open book. Dear little angel! That made me take more notice when people called me a plain little thing. Ido believe I wor- shiped beauty for beauty’s sake. It nevy- er entered into my little heathen head to trace God’s hand in it, or love Him for it. We learned little of Him through hu- man means, on that wild sea-shore where the waves sometimes crept quite close up to the clumsy hut we ealled home. ‘‘Now you see how really plain I am, and whatI truly think of myself—home- ly, short, ungraceful; and yet Ben, the foolish fellow, stands to it I am hand- some. ‘‘Ben, the great, glorious, noble fellow, I hope you’ll pardon me, madam, he’s my husband, but I can’t help praising him. He has made me all I am for good. I wish you could see him; you would smile at the contrast between us, for Ben is as handsome as 1am homely. I don’t care where he goes, Ben would be noticed, even in his rough clothes, above many and many a man of fashion, and I am proud to say so. His hair is the real, rich auburn, and curls enough to turn and wave and shine against his temples, and his eyes are the real hazel, so large and soft and tender. The finest gentle- man might envy him his silken mustache and the beard that ripples over his chin. “Ben an orphan. When father moved into Hilbro’ he had an easy place offered him in the largest cotton mill. Ben, seeing him there, took a fancy to his quiet ways, because he thought he was like his own father, who was killed by a frightful accident. Whoever Ben liked, liked him; he was the most covet- ed piece of humanity in the Hilbro’ mills; the girls were always talking of him, and long before-I saw him, I wondered about him and tried to think how he looked. ‘Father was determined to keep his girls out of the mills as long as possible; he thought them a bad place for young people, so mother and I did plain sewing. ‘Four of the children died—little Mat- ty was the last. It seemed hard to shut mean is Taha eal Aeon & es (eho Sib WAPOA OM Ret BOE i GA ep — ST Rrra Nib’ nen aaah P] THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. down the coffin-lid over those glorious eyes, but we did, and I often think how beautiful she must be in heaven. There was a baby; John, my oldest brother, worked in the mill, and little Annie, who had been lamed by a fall, had to be helped about more or less by mother and me, for, poor child, she would never walk like the rest of us, the docior said. ‘IT shall never forget the day I met Lot- tie Hill and Ben Munsen. It was strange I should have seen them nearly at the same time, and recognized them both without knowing either. “If ever you see Lottie Hill, you’ll see a perfect beauty; she’s not Lottie Hill, now, but ['m coming to that. I was dragging little Annie in a queer box on wheels, when this girl, this ‘bit of mar- ble faintly flushed’ (I’ve seen that some- where, being a great reader), stopped close to my poor sister, who was leaning back and smiling up to the blue sky. ‘““‘Dear little thing! she’s sick, isn’t she?’ she said in such a tender voice that my heart warmed to her. *““‘She is lame,’ I answered, saying to myself, ‘You are Lottie Hill.’ ‘‘A tiny creature she was, dressed ina pretty spotted muslin that made her look pure and sweet. One or two little rings of pale gold hair trembled on her fore- head under her hat. Her eyes were large and sunny, though there was a sadness in her smile, but that only made it more bewitching. “**Poor little birdie! what a pity!’ she said again, and gave the child a rose. You can’t think how it made me love her. “I had just turned the corner after she had gone, when somebody came hurry- ing by with a quick, light step and jostled the carrriage as he passed. ***And you are Ben Munsen,’ | thought, as he turned back tv apologize. “There stood I, staring with all my might; and I shouldu’t wonder if he had read my thought in my face—‘You are Ben Munsen, and you love Lottie Hill.” ‘“*He has often said since that I fell in love with him just on that spot. Maybe idid. If feeling strange and lonesome after one is goneis an indication, why then I fell in love; but you see 1 was so busy putting it this way—thata girl as beautiful as Lottie Hill, and a young man as noble and handsome as Ben, even in his dusty mill-clothes, must of neces- sity be in love with each other, that, if I did fall in love, it was after a queer fashion. I was from that time always putting myself in her place. I believe 1 never thought of him at first, but I imagined I was Lottie Hill, I, plain gray goose that | was. ‘Would you believe—that very even- | ing father brought Ben to the house. ***Now, you are the one I need,’ he said, splendid teeth. ‘You hada child with you in a sort of cradle.’ “It wasn’t a cradle,’ spoke up poor little Annie, eager to defend her father’s taste, ‘it's a wagon, and daddy made it hisself; didn’t you daddy?’ smiling, showing such **Papa smile! his tired smile, Ben fold- | ed his arms, tilted back his chair and | ever I thought of her and Ben. made himself quite at home, while I hur- ried to help mother with the supper. Pa- | that she was dead. | mother! So I made her sit down and take the baby, though she didn’t want to, for I had been at it all day, washing, and my hands were red and tender. ‘Well, I put on the company-cloth—I was always proud of that—we had two handsome linen covers that my grand- mother left us. ‘Twasn’t much we had else, to be sure, but even a bit of cold corned beef tastes good to hard working people. I took my few hoarded pennies and bought a treat of cakes, and I couldn’t help being ashamed of the children, who showed plainly enough, poor things, that they seldom had any- thing of the kind. ‘‘When supper was ready I took the baby, and waited upon table, too; mother seldom had any rest except at her meals, and that I was always deter- mined she should have, and she knew it. ‘* ‘Jessy dear, you’re tired,’ mother said, putting her arms out to take the child, but | wouldn’t let her. ‘“‘Jessy’s my darling girl, and the mainstay of the family,’ said father, looking at meas I never saw him look before. That was enough for me. I don’t know when he had spoken a word of praise like that before, and it was sweeter to me than meat and drink. ‘‘Let me see, I was little over sixteen then, though such atiny thing. Ben is five years older, but I never should have taken him then for twenty-one. ‘| had never had a lover—that is a real one. To be sure I had had my fan- cies, as all girls have, and so it made me feel strange to see Ben’s eyes on me whenever I looked up, for, though 1 didn’t know it, to be sure, until after- ward, he was more to me even then than my life. ‘‘T never saw such a sensitive, passion- ate creature as lalways was. I think time and trouble have somewhat sifted me, but if I loved anyone, or anything, it was as if I were swallowed up by it. Even the thought that father or mother might die sent me almost into spasms of trembling terror. So now the love got hold of me with a strong clutch, though 1 didn’t realize it until afterward. All that evening, and days beside, I felt the haunting of his looks, and still was sure that he loved Lottie Hi!l, and she loved him. ‘‘Many of the mill girls were rude; others were as true ladies as the world holds. One of these was Mary Lawrence, who sometimes came to our house. She told me often about Lottie—of her charms and her lovers, and how old Vassat, the proprietor of the mill, had sent his son to Europe for fear he would marry her. ‘But it’s my opinion that now she likes Ben, and Ben her,’ she added. ‘They’re often together. ’ve seen them down by the Lover’s Walk myself, many a time; wou’t they make a splendid couple?” “Then I knew what ailed me, and what the dull pain meant in my heart. Why did he come to our house so often? What right had he to speak to me so ten- derly? I began to feel strangely toward Lottie Hill, and cried angry tears when- It would have made me happy any time to hear This feeling grew pa never seemed to think it was any mat-| stronger and stronger until it seemed as ter that we were poor, when he invited | if Lottie and Ben were in my thoughts | folks, but mother worried. ways tender of mother. was wouldn’t stay with us very long, and she Someway there a feeling came to me. that she| I was al-| from morning until night. ‘‘At last the trouble affected my health. Mother saw how changed I was, and I think she suspected. She always sent had worked hard all her life— poor'me away when Ben came, and I was too proud to let her see I knew why. But Ben was sure to wait until I came back, if it was only to say good night; and that in such a tender sort of way that it sent the blood to my face as if it would burst throuzh. So I went on suffering until father got sick, and 1 was given his place at the mill. There I saw Lottie Hill every day, and she tried to be friendly, but I am ashamed tv say, the sight of her beautiful face made me wicked and spite- ful. I tried not to feel so. 1 often laid my head on my hand when I was work- ing, and begged and prayed the Lord to give mea better temper, and sometimes I conquered, and sometimes I didn’t. But there had sprung up in my hearta bitter feeling—Hate! “It is an ugly word, but I was sure hate had crept into my bosom, and, like a venomous serpent, had stung me until I was full of poison. But oh, thank God that He saved me from knowing that awful ending that might have been. ‘One day, when 1 had worked in the mill a monfh, and Ben had been very kind in showing me my duties, and I had been a silly little fool while he did it, standing there, awkward and red, my heart beating so that he must have heard it—I had a test that I shall never forget, no, not to my dying day. ‘Lottie Hill stood at the window near her frame. How beautiful a picture the girl made! She had trained a bit of flowering vine in one corner of the sash, which she was dusting now, taking off the dead leaves. The mill-works had stopped for some reason. I stood watech- ing Lettie out of the corner of my eye when, without_looking that way, I saw Ben come in, saw her turn round, saw him make a sign to her, at which her face grew radiant. Oh, how sick I felt! Ny teeth came together hard. Then Ben went up to her loom and leaned over, and admiring the vine, said something, his eyes fixedon hers. If there wasn’t love, almost worship in her face then, there’s no such thing as love. Her eyes shone like diamonds. Then he looked round and slipped something in her hand—a love note, of course, and left her, smil- ing to himself. ‘‘Thinks I, and that’s the way you play with hearts, Mr. Ben! and whena mo- ment after he came round to me, | never looked up. ‘* ‘Sumething’s the matter,’ he said. ‘In my silly anger I thought he was bantering me. ‘**You are mistaken, Ben Munsen,’ I said hotly, ‘nothing is the matter with me.’ ‘**But I meant the mill,’ he answered laughing; ‘the machinery has stopped.’ ‘***Oh;’ my face was aflame, but I wouldn’t look at him. *“‘It isn’t often that I get a chance to chat with you lately,’ he said, smiling right into my eyes in a way that made me angry. ‘“**Why didu’t you stay with Lottie Hill?’ I asked,and my voice sounded un- natural to myself. ‘**Well, I reckon little Lottie has got something better to do than to talk to an idle fellow,’ he made answer. ** ‘So have I,’ I said shortly, for at that moment I hated him. 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Address all communications to THE FREE PRESS Co., Detroit, Mich, Nothing worth (a 4 Ll i, te ~~ ~2 "Fo ee rs a * 4 + a YW e& re nie ow +e but suddenly cried out, ‘Oh, what splen- did color!’ “Tt was my hair, catching the sun. I thrust my hands over it wildly. My tem- ples throbbed, the tears were hot beneath my eyelids; I wanted to scream, to rave at myself for being such a fool that I never could hide my feelings. ‘“‘At that moment the overseer called him, and I looked over to Lottie. An evil spirit had taken possession of me and was raving for some outlet. Lottie stood with her back towards me, her light dress touching the frame, her cheek just showing the deepening dimples as she read. It made me furious to see her attitude of perfect grace—‘Let her be do- ing what she would, the spirit of grace and beauty pervaded all her motions,, I thought bitterly. ‘‘Suddenly, slowly, so slowly one could hardly see them move, and going by jerks, the great belting began to slide round—just a little, then stopping, then gliding a little more—then at a stand still, all the smaller bands and wheels and gleaming shafts keeping it company. I saw now. Ah, that wicked, unseen devil at my elbow, I saw that her dress was touching one of the wheels fastened to the great central shaft. Horror cur- dled my veins, but I was silent. Again the wheel revolved—stopped—she never stirred—she never knew it—nobody knew it but — the terrible iron fingers had gripped her by half a breadth of calico. Any moment, I knew now, breathless as I stood and watched, any moment, I knew, all might be going swifter than l could think. “If I kept still, Ben would never mar- ry Lottie Hill, would never torture me by careless courtesies. That was the top of my hate. Just then, in my heart, I was a murderer. “God mercifully kept the works low until-I saw a vision—that fair, sweet face and form crushed beyond all possibility of recognition—then my sin-paralyzed energies asserted themselves. I dashed across the intervening space, reckless of my own life, creeping under the low, crawling gearing until I reached her—I was very strong—threw my arms around her and pinned her, as it were, to the window sill. ** ‘Don’t move,’ I cried—took the sharp knife which I used in my work, and with one or two rapid thrusts severed her dress from the belting justin time. A minute—half a minute more— ‘She turned deadly white as she saw the piece of her dress rapidly lifted and rolled up, up, until it reached the mur- derous iron teeth, and then she gave a great cry, turning as white as a ghost. ‘*As for me, I had fainted, and when I came to myself I found one pair of eyes gazing down upon me, whose thrilling passion made me tremble again. ***You brave, beautiful little girl!’ he murmured—‘my own, brave, brave dar- ling!’ ‘‘How stange that was—too sweet to THE MICHIGAN 'TRADESMAN. hear. I turned my head away as I half sobbed. ‘**T saved her for you; don’t talk that | way to me.’ “But I will talk that way to you,’ he | cried, and bending down, kissed me. | ‘You didn’t think I cared for little Lottie! | Bless your true, loving heart, Lottie has | been married these six months to Ned | Vassar, and the young scamp sent all | his letters to me, and [I’ve had to go | crawling about to meet her in by-places, | so that nobody should suspect. And yesterday I gave her the last letter, thank | God! telling her that he is on his way | home—and he’s struck a vein of good | good luck, some way, so that he need not fear to own her—and everything is com- ing out right.’ “Do you see what I came near doing but for God’s merciful intervention? I laid there, white and shivering, and then I told Ben the whole, from beginning to end, not sparing myself, and then I tried to tell him to leave me, for I was too wicked for any good man, but he wouln’t. ‘* ‘Why, didn’t you save her life at the risk of your own, you precious darling?’ he cried, and held me close in his arms. **Well, 1 never can think or speak of it without crying a little, but you see it made another girl of me. Come what may, I daren’t be angry or jealous now; and as for dear Lottie, I confessed every- thing to her, too. It seemed asif I want- ed somebody to punish me, but Lottie said she only loved me the more for con- quering my great temptation, and though she is Mr. Vassar’s wife and lives in splendid style, we are two close, good friends, and many’s the time she brings her baby here, or I take mine there, to visit and talk of old mill time. ‘““And madam, though the trial left its sear, it left a blessing too.’’ That was the story she told me. M. A. DENISON. Send in your orders for MASKS to the New York Baby Carriage Co,, 47,49, 51, 53 Canal St, Best Assortment and Lowest Prices, DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley. THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! WESTER MACHINERY 60., 45 So. Drviston St., GRAND RAPIDS. WE ARE THE PEOPLE Who Can Sell you an A No. 1 Article of Pure Buckwheat Flour At a Moderate Price. A Postal card will bring quotations and sample. A, SCHENCK & SON, ELSIE, MICH. POTATOES. We have made the handling of Potatoes a ‘‘specialty” for many years and have a large trade. Can take care of all that can be shipped us. We give the best ser- vice—sixteen years experience—first-class salesmen. Ship your stock to us and get full Chicago market value. Reference—Bank of Commerce, Chicago. WM. H. THOMPSON & CO., Commission Merchants, 166 So. Water St., Chicago. wy MENT, See that this Label appears MEN EeRncssyi f on every (package, as it is a ees AP FT'D B t f th enui - Fr'D B al RIVERDALE pISTIUSS — ee of the genuine ar E Rivesnais BETIS oT ee ar FERMENTUM The Only Reliable COMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years. Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. JOHN SMYTH. Agent, Grand Rapids, Mish. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. MENT; See that this Label appears MENT; EER ney MAP on every package, as it is a EE Racca SAP Fr'p 8 Frio B SE RIVERDALE pistiuss — of the gennine YE RIVERDALE pISTILLes CHICAGO eileen CHICAGO + ¥ THE P. & B. BRAND WILL PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMERS —INCREASE YOUR TRADE—AND MAKE YOU MONEY— THREE FEATURES THAT COMMEND THEM TO YOUR NOTICE. SOLD BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS— PACKED BY THE PUTNAM CANDY CO, Raia Sait at padelded wade bet oh Dian ds Pete tac hae oats Cyc aod THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Bethel—Geo. Lobdell succeeds W. H. Chase in general trade. Wasepi—A. H. Honeywell succeeds C. D. Waldo in general trade. Algonac—D. W. Dana sueceeds G. D. Dana in the drug business. Frankfort — John Lockhart succeeds Jas. Gallagher in general trade. Hillsdale—G. W. Meyers has purchased the grocery stock of F. J. Bates. Eagle—Geo. Dayton succeeds Snyder in the hardware business. Ishpeming—Dan. J. Sullivan sueceeds Lage & Moll in the drug business. Marquette—Geo. Stonebraker succeeds Wm. Dorais in the meat business. Hillsdale—Ferris & Singer succeed L. A. Smith in the furniture business. Eagle—Huntoon & McCrumb have opened a grocery and hardware store. Petoskey—John Foley has retired from the grocery firmof S. A. Wilson & Co. Charlotte—M. Daron succeeds Daron & Smith in the boot and shoe business. Kingston—H. S. Mitchell has pur- chased the grocery stock of J. O. Patten. Ovid—Fred Burt succeeds W. N. Hart in the grocery and restaurant business. Gladwin—H. E. Blodgett succeeds See- ly & Blodgett in the hardware business. Saginaw--C. E. Ludovici succeeds Dam- bacher & Ludovici in the grocery busi- ness. Mayville—Lawrence & Dawson succeed N. R. Schermerhorn in the boot and shoe business. Belding—E. E. Van Fleet has removed his jewelry stock from White Cloud to this place. Sebewaing— Herman & Co. are sue- ceeded by Herman & Howell in the cloth- ing business. Bad Axe—The drug firm of Donaldson & Pettit has dissolved, Donaldson & Kew- ley succeeding. Constantine—Henry E. Lintz is suc- ceeded by A. E. Caldwell & Co. in the grocery business. Tecumseh—W. B. Darling succeeds H. L. Jones in the confectionery, and res- taurant business. West Bay City—Frank M. Van Liew succeeds Gregory & Van Liew in the crockery business. Charlotte—Spaulding & Brackett suc- eeed Spaulding & Thomas in the boot and shoe business. x © Saginaw — Fred G. Newell succeeds Newell & Robinson in the book, station- ery and wall paper business. Marquette — Dorie Fountain has pur- chased the confectionery and fruit busi- ness of William H. Marshall. West Bay City—Frank M. Van Liew succeeds Gregory & Van Liew in the crockery and wall paper business. Lansing—Rouser & Conklin are put- ting plate glass windows and introducing other betterments in their drug store. Alpena—The grocery firm of MacLel- jan, MacDonald & Carr has dissolved, Wm. Carr & Co. continuing the business. Dowagiac—Mrs. E. E. (G. S.) Howard is succeeded by J. H. Shroyer in the grocery, bakery and restaurant business. Traverse City—L. E. Swan has re- moved grocery stock from White Cloud to this place, where he has re- engaged in business. Kent City—W. G. Hastings is shipping his hardware stock to Mable, a new town in Grand Traverse county, where his he will continue the business and operate a sawmill in connection therewith. Sears—A. Pierce, of the grocery firm of A. Pierce &Co.,recently removed to Min- nesota, leaving the stock in the hands of his partner, W. D. Clapp. The latter recently abandoned the business, when Partridge & Co., of Flint, took possession of the stock on a chattel mortgage. Big Rapids—F. Fairman has leased to E. C. Newcombe the two stores now oc- cupied by himself for drugs and dry goods respectively. As soon as possible after the hollidays, the Newcombes will move their bazar stock into the now dry goods store, and then Mr. Fairman will remove his drug stock into the store va- cated by the Neweombes. The other store will be occupied by the Newecombes with a line of millinery and faney goods. Hillsdale—Louis Beckhardt stepped in- to his grocery store a few nights ago and, as he went behind the counter to get some tobacco, he saw a form crouching close to the floor. The athletic trades- man was upon the burglar in a jiffy and quickly escorted him to jail. The thief proved to be Horace Nufer, of Osseo, re- cently released from the Reform School at Lansing. He was after tobacco and cigars, gaining an entrance by removing a pane of glass from the rear window. He had an accomplice on the outside who ran away when his partner was nabbed. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Newberry — M. Glass, Jr. succeeds Glass Bros. in the cigar manufacturing business. Altona—Eli Lyons has retired from the sawmill firm of Hafey & Lyons. The business will be continued by George Hafey. Bay City—The work of tearing down the sawmill and salt works of Nelson Holland and the removal of them from Saginaw to East Tawas is in progress. Cheboygan—W. & A. McArthur have purchased 130,000,000 feet of Canada tim- ber in one block, and have made other investments, the consideration amounting to $273,000. Vassar—C. F. Phillips has sold his sawmill and timber lands at Crystal City. He has a shingle mill and planing mill at Vassar ready for operation, and will also put in sawmill machinery. Ithaca—The Clarence Lumber Co., to manufacture lumber, shingles, ete., has been organized by Nathan Church, C. N. Church, Helen Church, Alma; Fred Chureh, Ithaca. Capital stock, $30,000. Saginaw—The Michigan Salt Co. has advanced the price of salt ten cents a barrel, fine salt being quoted at sixty-five cents. The company has 300,000 barrels less on hand at this date than one year ago. Killmaster—A. Backus, of Detroit, has put up asmall hardwood mill here and started a camp of thirty men to cut logs for it. The mill can cut 20,000 feet a day and has timber enough for a five years’ run. Manistee—Babcock’s shingle mill shut down last week, after a very successful season’s run, and this winter extensive repairs will be made. This concern has almost a corner on the cedar tributary to the Manistee. Detroit—Geo. L. Sampson has retired from the firm of Stanton, Morey & Co., manufacturers of men’s furnishing goods. The business will be continued by the remaining partners under the style of Stanton & Morey. RN Te RE RS a a Owosso—The Estey Manufacturing Co. | The Commercial Credit Co. employs has purchased of Whitney & Remick, of only competent and experienced collec- Detroit, tracts in Clare county, principally hard- wood. The company will cut the timber and ship it to this place by rail. Coleman — This place is developing rapidly as a manufacturing town. The old Cooper mill has been fitted up and will manufacture shingles, basswood heading and oak staves. Mason & Wil- lis will manufacture shingles, George Cooper, staves, and Force & Dickinson, heading. Grand Ledge—The Grand Ledge Brick & Tile Co., which has lately put in ma- echinery for the manufacture of sewer pipe, made its first run of sewer pipe on Dec. 9, the experiment being entirely satisfactory. The stockholders are nat- urally very jubilant over the profits they are likely to make in connection with the new departure. Manistee — The Manistee & Grand Rapids Railroad has completed its ex- tension to the mill of the State Lumber Co. and is delivering logs into the boom at that point. By means of this extension they get a great deal more dumping ground than they had last winter, and will be able to hold more Jegs and will not be forced to start up early to take eare of their stock. Manistee—The Manistee & Northeast- ern Railroad is now completing an ex- tension to the mouth of the River, and will soon have a force of men at work building docks, so as to complete im- provements at that point. They now have their track laid all the way round, and have made arrangements with the government to use part of the docks for the present, if it is needed. Manistee—There seems to be a well- founded belief that R. G. Peters will soon have his affairs in his own hands again. Not that he will have all his in- debtedness wiped out at the end of this season, but it is thought that he will have made such a good showing for the past two years, that he will be able to get backers who will advance the neces- sary money to clean up the remaining in- debtedness, and give him control again. Sidnaw—G. A. Bergland’s sawmill has been closed to prepare it for the winter run, which begins December 15. This mill cuts timbers up to sixty feet in length. He is building another band mill with shingle and planing mills in connection, and expects to manufacture 25,000,000 feet of lumber annually for the next few years. In addition to Mr. Bergland’s operations here, he manu- factures 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet an- nually at Cadillac. —_—— -6 Meeting of Post E. An adjourned meeting of Post E, Michigan Knights of the Grip, was held in the parlors of the Morton House, Saturday evening. Vice- President Hanna presided. The Committee on Transportation reported that the best possible rate obtainable to Detroit to the annual convention of the Michigan K. of G., Dec. 27 and 28, was $4.50 for the round trip. The report was accepted and the Committee dis- charged and a vote of thanks tendered the mem- bers for the efforts made to secure a lower rate, It was unanimously decided to present the name of Jose A. Gonzales for the presidency of the parent organization at the Detroit conven- tion. W. F. Blake, J. B. McInnes, J. A. Gonzales, C. L. Lawton, J. B. Tanner, J. L. Strelitsky and W. H. Jennings were appointed a special committee to dispose of tickets to the Detroit convention, the rate not to exceed #4.50. The meeting then adjourned for one week. L. A. Caro, Sec’y. the timber on 22 forty-acre! tors and can always be found at 65 Mon- | ~ | Toe St., when you want a report or set- | | tlement. tf FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this | head for two cents a word the first insertion and | one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. KUSINESS CHANCES. WOR SALE—I OFFER MY STOCK OF GRO- ceries, drugs, hardware, etc., together with my beautiful store building—the finest finished in Northern Michigan—and in a good location, at a remarkably low figure, or will trade for desirable farm or city property. Address A. Mulholland. Jr., Ashton, Mich. 623 established clothing and men’s furnishing goods buisnesses—one in Northern Michigan, the owner of which can influence a large steady trade and is a gentleman of the highest reputa- } tion; a rare chance for some one of enterprise. The other is in Southern Michigan thirty-five years established, the owner retiring from the yusiness. In both case- the gentlemen own the lots, and rents will be cheap and every encour- agement given. Address in first instance, Wil- liam Connor, box 346, Marshall. Mich. 619 OR SALE—DRUG STORE—LOCATED ON a good street and doing a nice business. Good chance for a man with small capital. Ad- dress “Buchu,” care the Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids. 618 OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS and groceries, invoicing about $3,000, in good town of 1,000 inhabitants. Good reasons for selling. Address No. 620, care Michigan Tradesman. 620 RUG STOKE FOR SALE—THE UNDER- signed wishes to retire from the drug busi- ness and devote his entire time to the manufac- turing of his family remedies. I have a com- plete and clean stock of drugs and everything belonging to first-class drug store, good location, a paying business, will give easy terms or a big discount for cash. Apply at my store, 142 Ells- worth avenue. Geo. G. Steketee, druggist. 615 So EXUHANGE $1,000 CAPITAL stock in company paying 10 per cent. divi- dend and acre —e—r and lotsin Grand Rap- ids fora well assorted hardware stock inven torying $3,000 or less. Pennock & Goold, 719 Wealthy avenue, Grand Rapids. 621 OR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF hardware in a booming city of 5,000,in the center of the finest farming country in the State. Stock will invoice about $9,000. Can reduce on short notice. Reason for selling, other business, Address No. 60:, care Michigan Tradesman, 604 SEITUATIONS WANTED. J ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED pharmacist, five years’ experience. Would prefer a good opening for veterinary work in connection. Address 628, care Michigan Trades- man, 628 WAnrap —A PERMANENT SITUATION « by a registered pharmacist of nearly twen- ty years’ experience. Best of references fur- nished Address Box 26, Clarksville, Mich. 624 BGs ORTIOR WANTED—AS CLERK IN GRO- cery store by experienced young man. Good reference. Address Box 7%, South Bordman, Mich. 629 MISCELLANEOUS, GENT WANTED—TO SELL ARTICLE used in every office having a letter press. Office furniture agents will find a soft snap. Big commission, Address A. Anderson, Box 2373, Moline, Il. 625 O YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? TF SO, DO you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. re SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer cantile enn. 8. 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 locality, only 20 feet from electric street car line. Will sell for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay- ments tosuit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 1354 WASTED—PRACTICAL PRINTER WHO IS familiar with job work and capable of editing a country weekly, to start a newspaper in alive town. No competition Applicant must have at least $500 cash or its equivalent If you mean business, address No. 605, care Michigan Tradesman. 605 Wy AS tee — 70 BUY STOCK GROCERIES or general merchandise. Box 1,015, Des Moines, Iowa. 626 New DRESSING ECORATING., xX MAS Everybody can dress his show windows and decorate his store for the Holidays with the aid of my Xmas Pamphlet, muiled on receipt of 7% cents. HARRY HARMAN, Window Dresser, Decorator and Window Supplies, Room 1204 The Temple, Chtosgo, Til, hs ~~ ua 4 a = \ 2 ' sie we é- tof # witty ry ? 9 wid - Py a THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ym GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Other changes which have been made are In Chicago. ri . i : in reference to the body of a message The buildings are the tallest Ed. Wykes has purchased the Vander-| where dictionary words, initial letters, In Chicago; + ¢ «hayden meat meat market at the corner |surnames of persons, names of cities, a 1 of East street and Fifth avenue. towns, villages, States or Territories or The wits are always keenest, “a ee names of the Canadian provinces are The pavements are the cleanest, ye — | — —— - .. : * . , 20, ; adic r 3 . name is of as much importance as any a aggro urs for oa — sa First Floor Tank and Pump. Cellar Tank and Pump. es other. This was exemplified in a recent a age” ~ Wasp ig ig “ : u “ a ° ° . INE Oo. ease in which a writ was served upon a J We Lead, Let Others Follow. 1 bank endeavoring to control the funds of Meeting of the M. B. M. A. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Oct. 5, 1892. one William J. Motley. In the writ, A gentleman who has taken a leading | Wayne Oil Tank Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. : ‘ Tes . Log " s Gents—The tank we bought from you has now been in our a a however, the name of William G. Motley | part in the Michigan Business Men’s As-| use two months. We are more = penned =“ . It ——— 3 us > s0ciati 25 ‘ : : . in ily, accur y d idly. Would not do without it for was used, and though the bank held | sociation since its inception suggests —_ its — e take pleasure in recommending it as the eT funds of but one man of the name of| that the next meeting be held at Grand | cleanest and best machine for handling oil we ever saw. You ‘ + . 7 may refer as many as you like to us, we have only words of pA Motley, and at least some of its officers | Rapids on Feb. 8 or 15, 1893. In com-| praise for it. G. T. & W. C. Manpieo. . r knew personally that it was the funds of | mon with many other members of the or- Britton, Mich., June 15, ’92. illi ains hi _ i ras j i _ es ; Wayne Oil Tank Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. ( iy William J. against which the writ was| ganization, he believes the meeting Gee aus. | cae a aad are bound to be a seller, for intended to be directed, yet it was insuffi-| should be called in time to have its ef- | in the thirteen years I have been selling oil I never have seen z : 4 : theirequal. Yours truly, . C. BaBcock. oe cient to hold those funds. It is impor- | feet on the coming session of the Legis- ii tant that business men should remember | lature, as many matters are likely to PRICE LIST. aia that this old theory of the law has given | come up at that time which will require | First floor Tanks and Pumps. Cellar Tanks and Pumps. bis place toa more practical policy and that| prompt and _ decisive action. THr/|1bbl.................... Ee $14 00 a iditi 1 ehristi , 3 f l on : Bee. 1G) F oer... 7 00 additional christian names are of equal| TRADESMAN would be pleased to hear} 3pp10000007222 722222007! 18 00 3 bbl ee 21 > i ance wi 2 firs ssociati Se Sn 8 4hee 25 “he legal importance with me first. from other association men on ee a. a1... 30 00 ee ject, with a view to ascertaining exactly Pump without tank.... 9 00 ’ Changes in Telegraphic Rates. what the sentiment of the business men Compare our prices. a and save agents -é- Several changes in the rates for tele- |. a TT ‘i : : is on this subject. graphic messages made by the Western cia ' . Y “ . . i. im i bom ¢ . Union Co., which went into effeet Oct. 1, Purely Personal. have escaped much notice except among 8 tees dee Sees Sa eal those who have considerable telegraphing oe er t ee ’ to do, and to whom the slightest reduction | cer and clothier, is in town for a few ~ in rates meaus great saving of expense. | days. The most important change which has | Amos. §. Musselman was called to Get- i been made is in the manner of charging kid a S d : : * 9? for numbers. Formerly, in a number, | YSburg, Penn., Saturday morning by the every figure was counted as one word, but under the new system figures, letters, commas, points and bars of division, or any combination thereof (as in cipher messages), are counted three figures, let- | death of a brother, whose funeral oceur- red on Monday. He is expected home again the latter part of the week. Two pill pounders are rejoicing over We have made arrangements to receive regular shipments direct from t a position to make close prices. he groves and shall be in We have the exclusive agency of the favorite ‘‘Sampson” brand and will handle the ‘‘Bell’’ brand largely, which will be packed in extr a large boxes and every me ters or signs to the word, and any group | the advent of nine pound daughters—J. inated ti ; thereof of _ than — figures, -.. | Howard Green, proprietor of the Health CEE OEE Se wrepyes & pelted Shene. or signs is also counted as one word. To} ce A 4 prevent liability to error, numbers and Home Pharmacy at Battle Creek and Pi ) f ] ‘NAM CA ND % CO. ‘ Harry Hunter, junior partner in the firm amounts should be written in words, and | of Hunter & Son, the Lowell druggists. this makes no differenee in the charges. ta Sate a Sah a cae 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CAUSES OF HARD TIMES. Written for THE TRADESMAN. If | were asked to name one of the gloomiest conditions of human experi- | ence, I would suggest a foggy day in London. There is as much light in the world for the use of the millions inhabit- ing that great city, as on other days; but | the rays thrown off from the sun are in- tercepted by the opaqueness of a mist that is more terrible than Egyptian dark- ness, in that it cannot be overcome by artificial light of any kind. Men may move about in it, and perform all the functions of life as usual, but only as blind men, groping their way—all sens- es under control except vision—that fail- ing, nothing is left but confusion, help- lessness and a long record of aczidents. Above this intense atmospherie funerial canopy nature smiles in gladness. Be- low all is gloom, demoralization of busi- ness and hard times for everybody until the sunlight again breaks through the intervening obstacle. In this country we have no fogs which can compare with those of the English metropolis. But we have some mental fogs which are fully as undesirable; and they often seriously impair business ac- tivities. Some of our fogs have their origin in the scheming brains of certain men who are politicians for revenue only and are used to bewilder the minds of many who would otherwise see clear- ly the relative value of policies offered for their approval. By exciting the imagination of the voter through appeals to his fears of evil, and then by repeated assertion convincing him that such evil is both real and imminent, the victim be- comes, in a measure, hypnotized, and can see nothing but a pall of gloom set- tling upon and depressing business ey- erywhere. Thisis one feature of mod- ern hard times which is most prevalent; and it originates altogether in the imagi- nation. But it does not end there. of mind are as inexorable as those of | matter. A false alarm may do as much and, perhaps, more mischief than a true} one. Like a little fire kindled in forest leaves or dry prairie grass, it is almost sure to spread far beyond the limit first intended. A breath of suspicion, when once fairly started, may cause the sound- est commercial house to totter and fall, burying many lesser firms in its ruins. So the cry of calamity first set up to ex- cite the prejudices of the unthinking and selfish for ulterior purposes often over- leaps the bound fixed by the promoters and brings about hard times just as sure- ly as fear of the cholera produces condi- tions favorable to the spread of that dreaded disease. 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ABC..........__._ Bagieg. ee _o ae... .8 (Glen Mi _ 2 ee * paola Megel......... ™% Art Cambric........ 10 \aooen capket |_|. 84 Blackstone AA..... 7 |Great Falls.......... 6% Beats _ ee cee 4% {Ho ee ee Tq Boston . 5 Cabot... ae Cabot, << " Charter Oak. -- Si [Lonsdale Cambric. -10 Conway W. - Dal Lonsdale. . @ 8 Cleveland . 2 |Middlesex.... .. . es Dwight Anchor - Sine Neme........... 7% shorts. 8 (Oak View 6 Edwards. ..... - 6 |Our Own. -. OE Empire.... .. 7 |Prideof the West. a ree... .... 74 Rosalind..... . Fruit of the Loom. 8% a 4% Fitchyille ..... . 5 youn Bis....., 34 erm Pree... ig . Nonpareil . Fruit of the Loom %. 7%|Vinyard............. 8% Fairmount... ..... 414)White Horse........ 6 Pell Vaiee.......... 6 = mom.... - 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. [eee ......-. 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 8% Parwe....... ..... 8 | CANTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. oe Housewife A.... 4| Housewife _ 5% e B 2... 6% ‘ Cc “ 5 |. Ulla v D ' ete ee ce 8 si E : D... 2... 8% F o os 9% . G ~ -10% C H f x... - E.. Kea ry. 12 e J z ..... 13 : :... ity L ‘ “ee M e a... iO. . :..... CARPET WARP. Peerless, white......174%/|Integrity colored. ..20 _ colored. . 19% 7 are Geer... .. ...; 18 Ebert 18%| “ “ geolored..20 DRESS GOODS. Benen ...... _. : Nameless eteel eo 20 Ce 25 _ i 1034 eee 27% GG Cashmere...... - oe The laws} Nameless Le ae 6 TE 32% ee 18 ' eves ae CORSETS. | Coraline............89 50/Wonderful. .. ...84 50 Seance s......... S ORereeem.. ........ 4% Davis Waists..... 9 @iBorivee’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50j|Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS Aree... 6% Naumkeag satteen.. x inaeae oggin ———. Te mockpors...... . .... 6% Deeeeere.....,.... S heoeeem.......... 6% Draeeeck. .... .... OG Walworth ...... .... 63% PRINTS. Allen turkey reds.. 6 |Berwick fancies.... 5% Ciyde Robes........ ” ink & aie © 6 Charter Oak fancies 4% — ....... 6 DelMarine cashm’ 8. 6 - pink checks. 6 mourn’g 6 _ staples ...... 6 Eddystone aes 6 - shirtings ... 4% hocolat 6 American fancy.... 5% . coher cn Americanindigo.... 6 | . sateens.. 6 American — 4%4| Hamilton ester om 2 Argentine Grays... 6 ....8 Anchor Shirtings.. Manchester 1 ancy. _s Arnold _ | 2 new era. 6 Arnold Merino. ... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6 * long cloth B.10% Merrim’ ck shirtings. 4% = ' r oe Re en 8% ‘© century cloth 7 Pacific oa. ~- = pseine..... 10% re 8% ‘green seal TR10% yellow seal. an Portsmouth robes... 6 Simpson mourning. .s ae a " en " ~~ — —.h lc lc ke 6 ty-five years we have passed through no Key red. "10% “ a NY biack. g period which could justly be considered Ballou pola lack.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 a : a . ** colors. 5% Turkey robes.. 7% as hard times in general. Each section Benge ta blue, green, be " pists Pay 4 A ‘ ' and a. %| ‘* plain y « on of the union, in turn, may have had acci- Berlin alia | . dents by fire or flood, bad harvests, visit- of} blue...... * Ottoman Tar. it il o ‘* green .... 6%/| key red ations of disease, earthquakes or cy- “ Fou ards .... 5 Maris Washington g tie * wee rkey red &% clones; but these evils have been local oe s ae 9% Warthe cma and partial, and, whenever causin u- ela 10 urkey red........ % ° . ee oe _ ‘“* 3-4XXXX 12 /|Riverpoint robes.... 5% sual suffering, willing hands from more | Cocheco fancy...... ‘ Windsor fancy...... 6% ie P ne madders. . " old ticket fortunate communities have given of + We teilis.. * See indigo blue....... 10% their abundance to relieve distress. a mickiNes.. steeeeeee -_- as In spite of all such calamities, we have, | Amoskeag AC A 6A CA..... ........ 12% » sitter Hamilton N......... 7%|Pemberton AAA....16 as a people, been generally improving in yo a 10% material conditions, each census record- nei, ve Pearl Hever 02g" ing a constant increase not only in aggre-| First Prize..... . AITEN.....-...-++0- € : y ag sere Lenox Mills . COROSLOES .......... 16 gate wealth but in the average income COTTON DRILL. . : s¢ | Atlenta, D.......... ek A of those depending on labor for subsist ae 6%|No Name... hy ence. Besides this, both public and! Clifton, K........... 6%4|Top of Heap........ DEMINS. Amoskeag Seg wale 6 12%/Columbian brown. .12 aa... 13%| Everett, blue........ 12% 3 brown .13 o brown. ....12% Seer... pe Haymaker Dee. .... 1% Beaver Creek AA.. brown.. “108 Be... 7 OR css oe case " CC.. Leancaster........... Be Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence oa... .- 138% blue 8%| “ WNo.220....13 “ d & twist 10% No. 250.... Columbian XXX br.10 No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS, Amoskeag...... .... 7% Lancaster, staple... 7 ‘* Persian dress 8% si fancies . 7 e Canton .. 8% ' Normandie : a ano... 104%|Lancashire....,..... . Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5x . Angola..10%/Monogram.......... 6% e — 8%|Normandie......... 7% Arlington staple. . := Pore... 5... Bates Wai fancy.... 4%|/Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 8%/Rosemont........... 6% staples. 6%/|Slatersville ......... 6 en pee ec 104 |Somerset............ 7 (eer ....... ., oes ............ Th Cumberland staple. He Toil du Nord.......10% Cumberiand.... .... abe... .......... 7% a... : “« seersucker.. 7% =... ......... 7 Week... ...... 8% Everett classics..... 844; Whittenden......... 6% xposition.......... 7% 8 heather dr. 8 — 6% . indigo blue 93 Goemarven.... .....- 6%|Wamsutta staples. . - Gaemwood........... 7% Westbrook oe eeeeee ee... a 10 Johnson vhalon el % inaitieaiai Pec cee 5 . iedigo Sine SGVork..... .......... 6% _ zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Armoskeag......... 16% /Valley ~~ 15% Stark... --- 19%/Georgia .. - 15% Avecrices..... ...... 16 |Pacifie ed oe eee cue 13 THREADS, Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 ioe, 2.27... Moarsneils.... .....- 88 Moivoke. 0) 2246| KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored Bo. 6... ..2 23 ite. M.......37 42 Me oe = :hlUcS. Le 43 Derm oer Bristol . bat oll Cherry Valley. tae 15 IXL 18% Wool — 4 apis % Powhattan . PLAID OSNABURGS Aes... 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% — be pec ores 8% een ele eee ee ca 5 eee... Me WO oe 5 5 Ar sa te ile oe 6 |Randelman......... s ree. ......., 5 Ogi Riverside........... 54 Gran te ee ea eee 5%|Sible: Ag ee - Clg Raw Miver......... 5 |Tol Os oe eae oe .............. 5 G. R. Mayhew, Grand Rapids, Mich., JOBBER OF Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Woonsocket Rubbers, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. USE MILE-END Oo “001 COT Se Best Six Gor Machine or Hand Use. FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions. SCHLOSS, ADLER & 00, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls Gents’ 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- — Ed. Pike, 272 Fourth avenue, Grand apids GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH C0, Manufacturers of BRUSHES, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing | Houses, *tea a me ~ 74 ~ +4 ' ne aes > i= ar ee oe » 4 mm i A ¥uo Lo At oe a» Lome « Mis . +e dtp » ' a > 4+ wry » ¢ % . wea fy Lore e~ ~4 v4 > = eo oe » ® % private eleemosynary enterprises have kept pace with the increase of popula- tion and thus provided help for the poor- est and most improvident classes, so that, in using the term ‘hard times,” it is only intended as a figure of speech, except as it may be applied in a limited way to in- dividuals and localities. And yet, go where you will, in this land of golden opportunities, there can be heard always and everywhere the dis- mal croak of the croaker croaking his croak. It is audible every month of the year, no matter whether the complainant be loaded with pecuniary obligations, or is free from them and possesses a large balance to his credit in the bank. It is the grim humor of the American people seeking an outlet for inward impatience, and is no more relevant to existing con- ditions than the harsh croak of thesam- phibious harbinger of spring. Because we, as Americans, only live to achieve, we have no time or inclination to enjoy what has been gained. In hope of the better future, the past seems tame, and the present contemptible; and we take no comfort in all our labors under the sun. We never have good times to-day They are just ahead, and, until we over- take to-morrow, we spend our time be- littling or complaining of the present. Mark Tapley was not a typical American. It is doubtful if he lives in any of his descendants in this country, especially among those who till the soil. One would think that those who live more immediately upon the bounty of Providence and are for that reason near- er the heart of the Infinite Father would naturally of all men be best satisfied with the present. But observation tells me that it is not so. The mercantile class, whose dependence on Providence is, as it were, by second hand, are, as a rule, more cheerfully resigned to the hard vicissitudes of life than the former; although statistics show that fifty mer- chants fail in business ventures to one of the agricultural class. Those who have the best right to plead hard times waive their opportunities to say the least. The pesimism of to-day finds more frequent and bitter expression among those whose material prospects for the future are brightest. The man who to-day croaks of hard times is in most instances one whose recollection does not antedate the late civil war. His memories extend only over the period of falling prices follow- ing an inflation of values never before known. The older citizen, who once lived in a log house with puncheon floor and secant furnishing—who seasoned his daily meals with the sauce of self-denial —who allowed imagination to be his sole provider in mental and material luxuries—he is the one who never owns up to hard times, because his desires were never allowed to anticipate his needs, and, therefore, he wonders at the complaints and unrest of this generation. Hard times, no doubt, come to individ- uals everywhere, even in this land of plenty, from causes which no ordinary foresight can prevent. But they mostly spring from improvident habits, and are confined to no one class. It is because men allow the luxuries of yesterday to become the necessities of to-day, which grow in time so exhorbitant in their de- mands that whoever consents makes him- self a slave to caprice and lives thereaft- er alternately cringing to those who are more prosperous or railing against THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. his own fate. Those whose labor is their sole capital need only compare the present with the past to find reasons for solid content. But instead of doing so they seem to make every upward advance in condition afresh cause of complaint against the times. The men whose wa- ges are the highest, onaccount of being most skillful, are the first to demand an increase of wages or shorter hours under threat of a general strike. The true grievance is not that they are falling be- hind in the race for material good, but that some are far ahead of themselves. They forget that in a land like ours, the equities of civilization are sure in the end to bring about an equilibrium of prosperous conditions; but that result eannot be hastened by hostile and de- structive conflicts, especially when in the court of public opinion there is ad- judged no sufficient cause. At the best, they leave labor where it began—no vital question settled, and, in most cases, nothing to show but serious loss to both labor and capital. If class rails against class, seeking to equalize conditions by legislation, the good time coming will re- cede as does the mirage of the desert in the eye of the hopeful yet ever deceived traveler. Our happiness as a people does not lie so much in catching up with those who are, or seem to be, ahead in the race as in making the most of the present. The inventions of this age have cheapened the means of living for the poor as well as for the rich. Butif aman’s wants in- crease in a greater ratio than the cheap- ening process, the road to prosperity will be a hard one totravel. Many are eco- nomical in trying to get the most for the least money; but seldom think the wisest economy consists in buying only what one really needs—choosing the best and pay- ing whatitis worth. False economy ends in extravagance and complaint of hard times. If we are careful to avoid im- providence the future will present a cheerful aspect, hard times will vanish as do in time the fogs of London, and each one can say for himself in the words of the old song, “This world is not so bad a world As some would choose to make it; But whether good or whether bad, Depends on how you take it.” S. P. WHITMARSH. GINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PEAK RROaS : Wholesale Druggiste GRAND RAPTOS WALTER HOUSE Central Lake, Mich., FE. Walter, Prop. Fourteen warm rooms, all newly furnished Good table. Rates, $1. 50 per: day. The patron age of traveling men especially solicited. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash bwyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. 60 ee = Jom Worm... 8 commen, TG 50&10 AXES. First ae 8. > igeme.. $ 7 60 \ Ernie... ce 12 00 * Bis Stea 8 00 ‘i BE. Sicer..............4..... 13 50 BARROWS. dis. neweee 8 8 14 00 Cee. net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Stov he epee eye ce es so cuus. Oe Guanes RO 75&10 raon.....-.. ee 40&10 Sleigh Oe ee 70 BUCKETS. Wel, nae... Se ce pede $3 50 Weel Waive 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis, (Cant Lieee Fen Gearen 70& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 604.0 Wrought Loose Pin Wrought Table...... Wrought Inside _— . Wrought Brass.. vis) Blind, Clark’s -70&10 Blind, ST 70&10 Bie Ce 70 BLOCKS, Ordinary Tackle, Hat Apri] 1892..... ..... 50 CRADLES. Cee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. CRG eee perb 5 Ely’s 1-10 bios ee. perm 65 teks C.F... bed eeeeeee see 60 cr... . 35 eee : 60 CARTRIDGES. Roe Pee 50 Cepteele Pre. cc... dia. 25 CHISELS. dis. Sormee Warmed 70&10 OCMC G PAIN 70&10 Cote et 70&10 Bote bw = useners Tange@ Pirmoer............ ...... COMBS. ry Cary, lmwrenees ...... 40 ee a 25 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, ms - cut to gize... .. per — 28 i4x m Pees Pee... 26 Cold Rolled, nase ana teen 23 Coie Motled fau@). wll. 23 eee ee 25 DRILLS, dis. Morse’s Bit Stocks...... 50 Taper and straight Shan 50 Morse’s Taper Shank.... 50 DRIPPING PANS. Samide Since, Sor pout ...................... 07 Dargo wives, por pound...... ............... 6% ELBOWS. Com 4 piece, 6ie................... dos. _ 5 Comme 40 Reaeeeeee din 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITs. dis. Clark’s, small, on: lovee, Sy... 30 Iven, 1, Oia: 2 Ses. Sow... 2 FILES—New List. dis. eee 60&10 New American ..... ............. -60&10 ieee... 8. .60&10 ane 8 50 Rioller’s Horse Haspe .. .......--.--........ 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. * oe 22 = * mo = List 13 16 17 mises: 60 AUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Local Cem. 1... KNoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. t ee 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings...... 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain 70 LOCKS—DOOR dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’ 8 new list : 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.......... 55 Brentoras ..........- 55 Tree. 55 MATTOCK! AGee Wee... _—- 00, dis. 60 Bunt Bye....... -815.00, dis. 60 ween... ....... | 813. 50, ‘ite 204610. MAULS. dis. Sperry & Co.'s, Fost, handied............... - 50 ILLS. 8. Coffee, Parkers Co.’s 40 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s = 40 ‘¢ Landers, Ferry & Clerk’s....... 40 “ eteepeme .:........... He 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Steppin Pattermn.............. -60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine.......... -60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 25 NAILS eee: Mel, DENG... ..... .. <7 8 Oo GC ————— 1 30@1 90 Advance over base: Steel Wire a Base Base Eee Base 10 OO 25 ee 10 25 ae 15 35 Eee 15 45 ee ee ae 15 45 eee 20 50 eee 25 60 a a 5 eee cee, Socceu ceases. ce 60 90 ee ee 100 1 20 EEE 1 50 1 60 Pies... 150 1 60 OC ———————— 60 65 . 7 % e . .¢..... 90 90 Pete 85 vis) my Oe oes 1 00 90 Oe 115 110 oe 85 70 - eee eee 1 00 80 . Ge 1 15 90 Oe 1% 1% PLANES. dis. Ohio Tool Ces, fancy...................... @w ae 260 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. @40 ee ee @60 Stanley Ruie and —_ —* weed. ..... aie re, Ae dis.60—10 Common, pallaied See eee ee eke wc cs wa BIVETS. dis. on ene Temes... 40 Copper — oe oor... .......... 50—10 TENT FLANISHED IRO: SAW patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 bia Wood's t. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken rs Re ea per pound extra, "7 HAMMERS. ——— @ces............ oo fa. = See dis. woreen & Piomwe. = 40 10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............ . We list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢c 40&10 HINGES, os: i dis.60&10 r doz. net, 2 50 Some Hook and Strap, to 12 in. vi} 14 and oy ea 3% Screw Hook and Bye, -_......... —- 10 ' Me net 8% . " ct ee. net 7% _ ‘ . S., net 7% eee -, 50 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. 0839 Champion, antifriction. 0600006) 60& Migeer, wood Wer ......................... HOLLOW WARE. CE 60&10 Meee... 60&10 Seige 6010 Gray Cnameled.... -- 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Reemaped Tin Ware................... -new list 70 Japanned Tin Ware.. Cae Granite Iron Ware ............... -new list 3334 &:10 WIRE GOODS. dis. Mrteee 8... 8. Lk 20&10&10 wero Myce. 70&10&10 Roe - 70810810 Gate Hooks and Eyes.. ee 70&10.810 LEVELS. dz.79 Stanley Rule and — cn o..... OPES. Sisal, ene larger eee 9 Manilla ...... eee eee eeea a | “SQUARES. dis. Steel and Iron..... pede sacs e ee, %5 Try and — Dee ogee 60 Mitre . . ees. 2 " SHEBT IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Non tee... 84 05 82 95 EE 405 3 05 Woe 18to ee. 4 05 3 05 Ge Sete... 4 05 3 15 Nos. 25 to 26. eee ee £m 3 25 We we 8 4 45 8 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. ra seen 19 OE dis. 50 SASH CORD. Silver Lake, h cry Bee. list 50 Pray A... Se . White Te ' 5 bp ae. . 55 ' Wrecc..... ........... _ 35 Discount, 10. 8ASH WEIGHTs, Sona Even el . per ton 825 SAWS. dis, f CO 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 - — Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 - cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foct.. 30 . @ ampion and Electric Tooth X Cats, pee fom... 30 TRAPS. dis. Steel, Game.. - 60610 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s . 35 Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s. 70 Mouse Gigker. .. 18¢ per doz mouse delusien. $1.50 per doz. WIRE. dis OO 65 Aumeeicn Marece.. | 70—10 Coppcrca Green 60 aiumee MOeeee 62% = iexea Soutee Shee... 50 Bar ed Wenee, ealyaniwed............._._.. 2 85 eae 2 40 HORSE NAILS. An Sele... dis. = eee... dis. GrtnrOneer dis. 10a10 is Baxter’s Adjustable, 1 ssckuied eed ae eu ae Coen Gomme ...... sl. . S Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ Coos Patent, malicahie.............. ...... 75810 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Pere Came ee, 50 Pups Comer TE&IO penowe ew Fue. 70&10 Casters, Heda d Piste.................. er Hemperm, Amorlcam.... 8 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... er&10 METALS, Pie TIN. lo ieee 26¢ ——— 28e¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. Ge pound Camen .... 6% en OO 7 SOLDER. Be ee cceeee neces erent ea xtra i ee ces of the many other qualitios a aan n the market indicated by nrivate brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY CO per pound EE 13 -—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 - Charcoal SS 87 14x20 I toxi4 1X, a 4x20 IX, Each S adttional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 ay Charcoal Meets meme tie Cmcee gsc. 86 7% ae ce 6 % bra y _ oe 8 25 4x20 IX, Se ae 9 25 each aditional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES oor 86*lsC Weare... 6 50 14x20 IX, o a let ee ea 8 50 20x28 IC, c RF eee ee ce 13 50 14x20 IC © 6Allaway Grade........... 6 00 ui 7 50 20x28 IC, . - ce ee 12 50 20x28 IX, - * ee 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. Oe ae = 00 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mafling 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. = When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tue MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1892, GOULD’S MYSTERY OF FINANCE. In the death of Jay Gould the world parted with one of the most extraordinary characters financial circles have ever known. From a position of poverty and obscurity this remarkable man rose to the point of being the absolute autocrat of American financial affairs. He amassed a fortune of a hundred millions of dollars, and although his methods earned for him the enmity of many of his associates in the busy world of Wall street, his power was such as to make him universally feared. Backed by his millions and the control secured over many of the most impor- tant corporations of the country. Jay Gould put values up and down at will, wrecking and destroying those who stood in his path, and making the for- tunes of his friends. The ‘‘Wizard of Wail Street’ was certainly a person to be feared, but it must be admitted that his peculiar methods were not such as to make him a popular hero. The power weilded by this remarkable man in Wall street was so perfectly ab- solute that his attitude towards every deal engineered in that busy center for many years past was always the most im- portant calculation that the operators had to consider. How Gould stood with respect to the market was always a lead- ing factor and when he took an active personal interest it was but seldom that anyone dared op- pose him, some few experiences having convinced everybody that such opposi- tion meant certain destruction. While it is asserted that Mr. Gould crushed with an iron hand all active op- position, it is not claimed that his opera- tions were purposely planned to destroy weaker trades in securities. So perfect was the control of the market possessed by this master of finance that of recent years his schemes have encountered no opposition, and he has been permitted to develop his vast plans of railroad con- solidation without hindrance. But, while Mr. Gould’s speculations made him enemies, it cannot be denied that he deserved the distinction of being the foremost financier of his time. To his manipulations more than toany other cause are due the vast railroad consolida- in determining prices, ‘Seine which have taken place of late years, and that the railroad systems of | the country have assumed their present perfection is, in a very large measure, due to his ability. His name, more than that of any other single individual, is identified with the great trunk lines which control the transportation of the country, and, in that peculiar sphere, he rose high above the level of those who, like him, amassed millions in Wall street. Such a power had this man grown to be in the financial world that it was pre- | dicted that his death would precipitate a | panic in the stock market. Ever since it | became known that his health was im- | paired there have been periodical rumors | of his death spread for the purpose of | manipulating the market, and so fre- | quently had this ruse been made use of jthat it had almost lost its influence; | hence, when the event actually occurred, it was at first discredited. and, instead of | becoming panicky, the market was but little influenced. That the anticipated financial dis- | turbance did not follow Mr. Gould’s {death is more than probably due to the | foresight of the great financier in putting |his affairs in order, in anticipation of | his end, and to the general impression that the disposition of his property had | been so wisely made as to permit of no |immediate or violent fluctuation in its | value. POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN EUROPE | It cannot be overlooked by any one | interested in international affairs that | the political aspect of Europe is far from |reassuring. Aside from the ever present danger of a general war, growing out of the ambitious longings of the leading powers for supremacy in European affairs and the state of practical preparation for an outbreak which is maintained, nearly | all the powers are confronted with more or less serious internal disorders and complications which hold out anything but an encouraging prospect. Russia, for instance, which is at the present time the power the most menac- ing to the peace of Europe, has to con- tend with serious internal discontent and a condition of publie finances which is simply chaotic. It is an open secret that the Czar’s advisers favor war as much from a desire to silence the mutterings at home as from a wish to increase Rus- sia’s dominions. In Germany, while the vast military system maintained occasions much dis- content, there are fewer alarming symp- toms of dangerous domestic trouble than in most of the other continental countries of Europe. Nevertheless, the govern- ment is at the present moment in a de- cidedly precarious situation, owing to the hostility in the Reichstag to the proposed increases in thearmy. The least danger that could result from a defeat of the government on this question would be a cabinet crisis, which might eventually prepare the way for the return of Bis- marck to power. France is at the present moment in the throes of an acute ministerial crisis, |and each day the complications of the | situation increase and the difficulties of | forming a new ministry multiply. It is | hinted in the European dispatches that jthe crisis may yet bring about the re- | tirement of President Carnot. It is cer- |tainly very apparent that no ministry which may be formed can hope for any extended term of office with the Chamber of Deputies split up into a number of groups, among which there are no ele- ments favorable to a ministerial coali- tion. Although since the recent elections in Italy the aspect of affairs in that country has brightened, the financial difficulties still remain, and may be expected to bub- ble to the surface again at no distant date. Austria is probably worst men- aced from without than any of the other countries of Europe, while, internally, the empire is torn with race jealousies. Although Great Britain is confronted with no such serious menaces as to either internal or external peace as menace the continental powers, there are not want- ing even there elements of anxiety and political excitement. There is, for in- Stance, the constant menace of the Indian Empire by Russia and the ever-increas- ing necessity for welding the widely separated parts of the British Empire into a closer union. There is prospect also of an exciting political warfare during the sitting of the next session of Parliament. The government majority is small and lacks cohesiveness, while the opposition is for- midable, because of perfect discipline and the possession of leaders of more than ordinary talent and resources. There is also a promise of a decisive tiit on the long-vexed Irish problem, coupled with a strong probability of a government de- feat and the necessity for another appeal to the electors. While, therefore, on this side of the Atlantic we are preparing for a long term of freedom from political agitation, our friends across the ocean are menaced with an era of serious unrest, if not of absolute danger. AN AMERICAN POLICY. Great Britain has conquered and colo- nized more strange peoples and in more parts of the globe than have all the other nations of the earth in the same period. Her sails whiten every sea, her keels plow every bay and river, her flag floats from more mastheads than do the colors of half the other seafaring peoples put together. There is scarcely a country on the face of the earth whose hills and valleys, whose plains and mountains, whose deserts and jungles have not been the scene of British warfare, and yet there are no more peaceable people on the planet than these English-speaking isl- anders. They do not fight because they are quarrelsome; they do not make war for any sentimental love of glory. Their sole object in view is to advance their commercial interests, to push and pro- tect their trade, to make customers and find markets for the products of their workshops. People who refuse to trade with them must fight. Commerce is the keynote of British statesmanship, and it is persistent de- votion to material interests that has made the British nation the richest on our globe. This is pre-eminently the age of com- merce, and the American people, if they are not a trading race, are nothing. If they are to accomplish what seems a most plain decree of destiny, the people of the United States must dominate the commerce of their hemisphere as Eng- land has done that of the Old World. And there is no time to lose. It is to be accomplished by the piercing for naviga tion of the American isthmus, and by the establishing of reciprocal trade be- tween all the American republics. Such are the great problems to which our statesmanship must address itself; such is the work that our enterprise, aided by science and money, must under- take with courage and zeal. Entrenched behind the paramount rights and duties of self-protection; fired by the noble am- bitions that should, by virtue of their responsibilities as masters and keepers of a hemisphere, inspire a great and powerful people, let the people of this grand union of republics, acting together and for the good of the whole, march for- ward to accomplish the mighty destiny that calls them. PESTILENT AGITATORS. Evolution is one of the fundamental laws of life. It means unfolding as the opening of the bud into the perfect flower, the progression of the acorn into all the stages until it becomes an oak. It is as if the full flower or the giant oak were all contained in the bud or the seed cup, and by a system of unfolding the larger and more complete development was secured. Evolution is then a proper function and a gradual and progressive one. It brings about results when the time is ready and circumstances have prepared the way. Thereis nothing sudden or un- expected. All that happens in such a case was looked for, because there had been due forewarning. If our social and political institutions could be left to pass through the pro- gressive stages of a normal evolution the earth would have been the scene of few wars and revolutions. But while nature ever waits patiently, man will not, and seeks to produce results by sud- den force and violence. Alexander was unwilling to attempt the legitimate loos- ing of the Gordian knot. He wasin a hurry, and so he cut it with his sword. That is the human rule. Man seems to delight in disorder and revolution. This feeling carried to excess makes anarchists and nihilists. This haste is the curse of our civiliza- tion. Many are hastening to become rich. They are not particular as to the means, so that the end is attained. This class has raised up an intense and bitter opposition, and the opposing class is only desirous to thwart the other, to overthrow it. These class feelings de- velop in force and energy until we have conflict between the two classes. Each endeavors to strengthen itself by organi- zation, and so there results the spectacle of money monopoly on one side, opposed by socialism on the other. Both are wrong, and their existence portends vast evils; but one is a conse- quence of the other. If there were no despots there would be no nihilists. If there were no powerful combinations of capital in trusts and great corporations, there would be no socialism. But they are both here, and are gathering strength all the time for the great struggle, which is inevitable. The great trouble is that they are forcing the entire population to take sides on one or the other issue of the dis- pute. If there is any principle which is obviously sound it is that the interests of capital and labor are identical. One can- not operate without the other. One can- not properly exist without the other. should be intimate and Their union e »* w . 9 . e- --'« hr or a > i= S- 2 * Ja ne Me <> ~ -! - ~~ -« A a . = Pp re i pee Wier a. 4 @ - »* w~ > by te ~ ae Cg xa es >= o+4 . on ne Me 4 ~$ fa, 4 all - < A - i a - <{ friendly, but tremendous forces are at work to set them in opposition. The employer, in his haste to get rich, does not in too many cases scruple to do so at the expense of hisemployes. These, in turn, feeling the injury, become dis- satisfed, and then angry. Before any rational and wise reconciliation can in- tervene the agitator comes along, and while advising the employers to invoke the forces of money and oppression, counsels the working men to resort to revolution and violence. The agitator pours his poison into the ears of both parties to the controversy, and every- thing is done to create hates and bitter- ness. It is the agitator, wherever he may be found, who is the prime cause of all the trouble. But for his pestilent and poisonous suggestions every such differ- ence could be peaceably and equitably settled. Every settlement which is made at the cost of the surrender of one party or the other will produce hates and jealousies that will rankle until the next outbreak, and then they will aggra- vate the situation. Admiral Semmes, in the record which he has Jeft of his naval cruises, declares that whenever he discovered that he had an agitator or a ‘‘sea lawyer’? among his crew, he made haste to put him ashore at the first port. If the industrial and social agitators on shore could be got rid of a vast catalogue of troubles, present and future, would be impossible. The agi- tators are not all among the working men by any means, but wherever they are they are dangerous to our social sys- tem and our proper development. PRECIOUS STONES IN THE UNITED STATES. The United States is the foremost pro- ducer of valuable minerals of all the countries of the world. In gold and sil- ver, iron and coal, copper and lead, it is pre-eminent. Its yield of other metals of economic importance is considerable, and in building stones of all descriptions it is inexhaustibly rich. When it comes to gems and precious stones, however, our country makes but a poor show. In the census report on minerals for 1890 will be found an interesting section on American precious stones, by George F. Kunz, the eminent expert of the house of Tiffany. From Mr. Kunz’s statistics it is learned that the total production of precious stones in the United States for 1889, the year in which the census enu- meration was made, was to the amount of $188,000, after being cut and polished to the extent of $107,000 used for jewelry, and $81,000 sold to museums and collect- ors of curiosities. Of these stones few were of the finer sorts. There were no diamonds and. no rubies. There were sapphires to the amount of $6,700, but very deficient in color. There were turquoises to the ex- tent of $24,000 worth. The rest were stones of commoner varieties. The sap- phizves were all found in Montana and all the turquoises in New Mexico. Plainly, our country, as a producer of precious gems, is far behind India, which has fur- nished diamonds, rubies, topazes and beryls in the greatest numbers from the earliest times. It is far behind Brazil, which has for a century past afforded large numbers of diamonds. It is far be- hind South Africa, which is now the chief source of diamonds. It is far behind the Russian region of the Ural Mountains, which has long been an important source of supply of sapphires, rubies, topazes and beryls, Some pretty emeralds and other stones, but in small quantities, have been found in North Carolina, but | in statistical tabulation they cut but a small figure. In reference to diamonds, Mr. Kunz reports that while a few have from time to time been obtained in California, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Wisconsin, the finds have been rare and always accidental. No indications exist which would justify any systematic search for them, although the circum- stances and conditions under which they have been found resemble those existing in the diamond regions of India and Brazil, but utterly unlike those of the South African diamond district, where the gems are obtained from a blue clay which seems to have resulted from the decomposition of a bluish voleanic rock. The Indian and Brazilian stones are found in gravel of agate, jasper and other quartzes, which are the debris of crystalline rocks, and it is in this sort of gravel that the few American diamonds have been found. The entire finds of these stones are summed up as follows: One octahedral diamond of good quality weighing 24.75 carats, and when cut 11.34 carats, at Richmond, Va., in 1854; about 100 diamonds, weighing from one- fourth of a carat to 5 carats, in the North Carolina and Georgia localities; about 200 diamonds of from one-half to four carats each, in California; 2 diamonds in Indi- ana; 7 small ones, none as heavy as one carat, in Pierce county, Wisconsin, and a few isolated stones from Idaho, Arizo- na, Arkansas and Adair county, Ky. This is a very meager showing, but it demonstrates that diamonds exist in this country. But it is evident that we are too far north for any prolific yield of the chiefest of the precious stones. The fact seems to be that all the northern diamond fields have either been covered up or swept bodily away by the vast and potential influences of the Arctic drift which is so great a puzzle to the geolo- gists. It wrecked or buried all the solid lands of the Northern Hemisphere, and so diamonds are only left untouched in regions south of the equator, beyond the reach of the terrible invasion of moving ice and rock which marked the glacial age. ‘Financial Notes. The Northville State Savings Bank has begun a corporate existence, with a capi- tal stock of $25,000, divided among forty- five stockholders. The product of the Diamond Match Company for eleven months this year shows an increase of 14 per cent. over the product for a corresponding portion of 1891. This will make the valuation of the total output of this year $5,827,000 gross, against $5,111,417 last year. The total net earnings in 1891 were $802,816, and itis thought that this year it will reach fully $1,000,000 and _ possibly $1,100,000. A new issue of stock will be made. > ©

> <> Use Tradesman Coupons, Rmpress Josephine Face Bleach Is the only reliable cure for freckles and pimples. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO., GRAND Rapips, MICH., Jobbers for Western Michigan. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St., Grand Rapids. FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden AND Indurated Pails & Tubs, Wooden Bowls, Clothespins and Rolling Pins, Step Ladders, Washing Ma- chines, Market, Bushel and De- livery Bas’.ets, Building Paper, Wrapping Paper, Sacks, Twine and Stationery. 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. Ur Fancy Goods Trade Has been larger than ever before in the history of our house. Come in and see our samples of Albums, Gomb and Brush Sets, Dolls, Books, Kt, BATON, LYON & GO. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeett, President. Gro. W. Gar, Vice-President, Wu. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, OAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make azspecialty ofveollections.j Accounts of country,merchants solicited. e- ~4 ss -—e THE MICHIGAN TRADES MAN. 114 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Chloral hydrate, aleohol, sulph. ethe Declined—Castor oil. chlorate potash, gum galbanum T, spirits nitre, gum opium, lupulin, sage. ACIDUM Aceticum ...... . 22 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 7% Boracic ... ' 20 Carbolicum . 22 38 Citricum . ae oo oe Hydrochior . betas acs 3@ 5 Nitrocum etccceee SOU Te Crees ...........,- 10@ = Phosphorium 4dil...... Selicyiictmm ........... 1 — 70 Sulphuricum.... . 1%@ I eee at 40@1 60 Tartaricum.. + oa & AMMONIA. Aqua, 2 pe beee tesa oe 34@ «5 a 54@ 7 iii. etl et etae ee. 12@ 14 Chlovigum ....... -. to ANILINE. Me gcc see es eee 2 OO@2 25 80@1 00 asso-, 45@ 50 Verow ...... a 2 50@3 oe BACCAE. Cubeae (po 60). 50@ 60 CUMIperUs .......-.. + oo 10 Zanthoxyium......... & 30 BALSAMUM, Comsiba............... 6 @ eee rene | Ol oO Terabin, ee a 45x 50 Tolutan . a... =. CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.... ......-. 18 IN occ yo oes. il Ciachone Fieve .......-.... 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Pree Vareet...........--. Cries, arc...........- ... Sassafras .. 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 15). 15 EXTRACTUM. ] rrhiza =: A@® . 7 eieee 33@ 35 Haematox, 15 ib. box... Tia & NB can ose 13@ 14 " iBs.. 14@ 15 lga.. 16@ 17 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 Sout Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, com’]....... .9@ 2 " pure... oe i FLORA. Arnica oo ee 20 Anthemis..... 41@ 35 Matricacria 40@ 50 FOLIA, Barosm \ 40@1 00 Guan” “acuiifol, “Mn nivelly ele Cllale. 2@ 2 Alx. 3@ 50 Salvia nnn 148 i and a " «-+--- 156@ 2 Ura Ursi.. : 8@ GUMMI. * Acacia, ist picked... @ CL ae : es “6 osifted sorts... @ SB “ee po : WD 80 Alce, Barb, (po. 60)... 56@ 60 "Cape, (po. 20). @ 12 Socotri, (po. 60). @ Catechn, ta, (48,1 14 348, 16) . ie Ainmoniae | 55 60 Assefostida, (po. 3). M@® 35 Benzoinum.. Ss 55 Camphorss....... . oo Euphorblum po ...... 35@ 10 Garpanem.,........... ml 2 50 Gambere, po.....-.... 10@ wD Guaiacum, (po 30) .. @ % Hine, (po B......... @ 4 Mastic . Doey is @ so ae (po 45) . ee @ 4 Opii. (po 2 80)........ 2 10@2 15 Shellac .. . ae 35 " bleached. Pease 30@ 35 Tregacanth .. ~~ ae oo HERBA—In ounce e packages. Absinthium ................. 25 20 5; 23 23 25 Terecetem, V......-......-. 22 en 25 MAGNESIA, Carcined, Fat.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat........ 2@ 22 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. —— ae se ta 3 50@4 00 gees eae 1. a = alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 Be cs ee i 80@1 «5 Auranti eee Sees 75Q3 00 Bergamii ... ri 3 23@3 50 Cajiputi ..... H@ 65 Caryophyllii .. 0@ 7% Comer... 4... 35@ 65 Chenopodii ....... @1 60 Cinnamonii ....... .-1 CO@1 10 eee... ......., @ Conium Mac.... BQ Gopaiba ........ 90@1 00 CURCree........,..... 6 eo Bxccnthitos.......... 2 50@2 75 meee 2 25@2 50 Geena ............ 2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce..... @ % Gossipil, Sem. ..... 60@ 75 egos |... i... 2 25@2 50 Ones... 50@Q2 00 Davonauin ............ 90@2 00 Somes cL... 2 50@3 00 montane Piper... ...... 2 75@3 ! Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 Morhuse, cal......... 1 00@1 10 Myreie. ounee......... @ Ww OVO ll. T5Q@2 75 es 4 wae (gal..35) 10@ 12 eee eee cea. 14@1 18 eee eee 75@1 00 Rosae, ounce......... 6 50@8 50 See 40@ 45 Seeeee 6. 90@1 00 Santal ...... a = Sassafras. .... 50@ 55 Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65 ee @ 9 Thyme a 40@ 50 r on ......... @ 60 TMeObraMman........... 15@ 2 POTASSIUM. Cee i. a ae bichromats ~. Io if Mroeeoe.............. 33@ 35 Carb.. 12@ 15 Chlorate (po. 20@22 20@ 22 Cyan... ............ 50@ 55 Ey 2 990@3 00 Potassa, Bitart, -_ - 20 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Petass Nitras, ene..... 8@ 10 Potass Nitras..... Zz 9 Prussiaie..... + oo 2 Sulphate po eee ae 15@ 18 RADIX. Aco ..... 20@ 2% Althae... creversas See oe AGRA .......... i. oe Ae HG... .... @ B Catemus............... 20 40 Gentiana (po. 12)..... &@ 10 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 eae Canaden, sRebor @ 2» He on. Ala, po.. 15@ 2 ee 15@ 2 Ipecac, po -2 30@2 40 Iris plox (po. '35@38) .. 35@ 40 ones OF... 50@ 55 Maranta, \4s.. meee @ 3 Podophyllum, po. ee 15@ 18 aoe 75Q1 00 © Cee... @1 75 TM ccc y cue cree ce Cue Oe Spivette 35@ 38 Sanguinaria, ~ asses @ 2 Serpentaria ne 30@ 32 Seneg .- Cn 2 Similax, Officinalis, ‘HH @ 4 M @ 2 Seiliae, (po. %)........ 10m 18 Symplocarpus, Foti- am... @ 3 Valeriane, Eng. (po. 50) @ B German... 15@ 20 ingiber a.. --. on Pinaibor {00000 18@ 2 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). ' @ 15 Apfum (graveleons). Re 1 Bird, 1s.. ee = 6 Carul, (po. 18). ee 2 Cardamon..... sree 00@1 25 Corlanérum. 10@ 12 Cannabis Sativa.. 344@4 Cryaeniam.... ....... Hs 06 Chenopodium ....... 12 Dipt erix Odorate..... 3 sigs 25 Foeniculum....... 15 Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 8 Lini . . £4 @4% Lint, gra, (bbl. BH) 4@41% Lobelia...... 40 oo anarian.... 6 @ 6% Bee... 6@ Sinapis ar ........ 11 @13 Nigea......-. 1@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 "D. ¥. R.....1 %5@2 00 eee 10@1 50 Juniperis Co. Go. T....1 Mal @ cf 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 Vini — tL oeeeees ees 1 25@2 00 We Aree... ....... 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool eeee.......-.-.., 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool Carriage . 2 00 Velvet extra ‘sheepe’ wool Carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ OT coc eo ce 85 Grass sheeps’ wool car- WON ck oe es 65 Hard for slate use.... 5 Yellow Reef, for slate ieee 1 40 SYRUPS. Beceem... ............... . = Pee oe 50 Teetee........ ee 60 a 50 Aurentt Covtes............. 58 Bes Avom...... ce 6... 50 Similax Officinalis.......... 60 - ‘ Co... 50 ce ee cc ee 50 POE... eo. os, eee ures 50 a Oe. 50 Toten ........ 50 Prunus virg.... 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 . " FP... 50 mee 60 oo wee... 60 Oe 50 Seateioa............ 0 Atrope Belladonna. 60 Denson. ........... 60 ’ Co... 50 Sanguinaria.. 50 Paes ....... ....... ._ = Comthertaes................. % OOOO else lle 50 Ca damon... eee %5 Co. ae 5 on. 100 eeeecee.............. ..,... 50 Cemenoms ................... 50 “ ce... Comme... ae Co 50 Cee 50 Digitalis 50 ee ee 50 enue... 50 cf. 60 oi 50 _ aoeeoe.............. 60 Zingther ....... ee cee, myponcvemiie 50 Iodine %5 co %5 — eae 35 ino 50 Ropeia........ 50 yrrh 50 a ate. = OP Camphorated........... 50 Ce 200 AurentiCostex...... ....... 50 spn Moe eu ee ee eee 50 —— ee ete ence eres. 50 eee ee ee eee 50 Cassia Acutifol.. 50 Ce 50 Serpentaria . ects eees se Stromontam 000000000000) 60 ooleuen ............. _..... 60 Ce a 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Aither, § ts Nit, ? _* 2@ = P R@ ee . 24%@ 3" ' ground, (po. 7... 3@ 4 eee... ........... 55@ 60 Antimoni, ze ete ee @ 5 et Potass T. 55@ 60 Antipyrin oo @1 40 Amiieprin......,...... @ Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 60 Areomenm ............ oe Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40 Ce is 2°Q@2 2 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s in; ae, 2S)... 11 Cantharides Russian, Oe ................... @1 00 Capsici Fructus, - @ 6 “ “i @ 28 “ Ty po. @ 20 ereierine, i 14) 10@ 12 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Cera Alba, 8. é v..... 50@ 55 Comms Wiava............ 38@ 40 coo... @ 40 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 Comarenim.............. @ 10 Cetaceum . neers @ 4 Chloroform - ES 60@ 63 sais @1 25 Chioral Hyd ee... iN 351 60 cmonargs............. 2@ 2 Cincbonidine, P.& W 15 2 German 3 @ 12 “— list, dis. per OMe 24... 60 oun Oeeee ........... @ 3 Creta, —— ey ..... 0. & 2 leuea ues one 5 a 9@ il _ precip. @ 8 (2oGen................ So 3 Gadhsar @ wz Cupri Sulph. lee eee eee 5@ 6 Dextrine . scacececs Sn oe Ether Sulph........... @ 75 er numbers. . . . ae Ly @....... W@ 75 ta a.) i 122@ 15 Bees ae @ B sai Bee eee cc. 7 g . elatin, Cooper....... French........ 40@ ——— flint, 75 and 10, by box 71 Glue, ae ea es ae 9@ aee.......,... 13@ Giyeertas ............. 15%@ Grana Paradisl........ @ ee 25, Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ . Oo... @ ‘ Ox Rubrum @ - Ammoniati. @1 : Unguentum. 4:@ Hydrareyrum ......... @ Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 eae... T5Q@1 Iodine, Resubl........ 3 89@3 oo @A a etree cee. 12°@1 apa Lee ce 60@ acis . 15@ Liquor “Arsen. et Hy- ware fod............ Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ =. Sulph (bbl 20 Bg ess cee sean moma, GF... 60@ Sa DN SREXSESSE MSSSRARERD —, 8S. P. & W...1 70@1 95} Seidlitz Mixture...... @ ®% a. ¥. = a a @ 18 ic Co. wcouek COQ & - eT @ 30 Moschus Canton... .. @ 40 — accaboy, De Myristica, No.1....... 6@ 70 von... @ Nnx Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10 snuff, ‘Sania, De. Voes @ 35 Sema... 22 | Soda Boras, (po.1t}. . 10@ 1 Pe ay Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 a i 00 2 Picis Liq, N.-C., % gal 5 _— .......,......... @2 00 4 Picis Liq., — @1 00 @ 2 pinta... @ 8% BO@ 55 Pil Hydrarg, on 80).. Go wi “Myrcia aia . @2 25 Piper Nigra, (po. “vue @ 1 e Vint bop... .. @3 00 Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 © Vint Rect. bbl. Pix Burgun..... ae 7 2 45@2 5: Pine Ace... 14@ 15 nd 5e gal., cash ten days. Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Sub - 24@ 3% Pr. B. Co., das..... @1 25 - = on... ..... 24@ 3 SINGEINGA ............ 8@ 1 ee ~~ eS Gah Veuiic aah @ uinia, CSPaw |. 27 go | Theobromae .......... 400 @ 4 S. German....20 @ 30 Vee... ........_.. 9 — 00 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14) Zinci Sulph.......... 7@ 8 Saccharum Lactis pv. 23@ 25 ae 1 756@1 89 Ors. ——s Draconis..... 50 Bbl. Gal 77S WwW 14 Whale, winter........ 7 70 a2 | Lard, Gxtra........... 7 80 e S|) tard, Ne 1........... 42 45 Linseed, pureraw.... 47 50 Lindseed, boiled . 50 53 — afoot, winter ———........... 50 60 Seemataamiian. 36 40 PAINTS. bbl. Ib, Hed Vencetian.......... 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow a 4 — Putty, an aos “ ‘strictl are. .... 24% 2%@3 Prim ™ Vermilion me Amer- ican . 13@16 Vermilion, English _. 65Q7 Green, Peninsular..... 70@5 roan toe. 7 a nan Wie |... 7 @i* | whiting, white Span. @i Whiting, Gilders’...... @% White, ‘aris American 1¢@ Waiting, Paris Eng. 14¢ oon Prepared Paint1 20@1"4 Swiss Villa —— Paints . 00@1 20 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp —, --1 10@1 20 Extra Tur ..160@1 70 Coach Bo y. 2 7T5@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar.. --1 55@1 60 eo anne _ i ' 70@75 HAELTINE & PE Importers and KINS a t Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils “> Varnishes, Fall Line of Staple Drug: Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. We are Sole Preprietors of mists Sundries 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. HAL Send a trial order- HLTINE & PERKINS DiG GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PHICE, CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE —— E, 0z gross —..- .-........ 55 6 00 ee oe.....--.... we 90 eee........ 50 5 50 aes... 89 9 00 ——............. 75 8 00 aa «(.. .. 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. cee ao....... ... & ON i ib. . .* .. 1 60 aK... ae 10 Arctic oe 60 oe 1 20 -_ . 200 >» - ......... oa Fosfon. 5 02. cans, 4 doz. in case. 80 i * 2 2 00 Pr. Price’s. per doz Dime cans.. 90 4-0Z ee 133 6-0z ‘i 1 90 8-0z a ro ~*~ 2 16-0z = 12 ep * 12 41b 18 25 5-lb 21 60 10-Ib 1 80 Red Star, 4 bi) cans........ 40 es” (Ck. £0 i= - ...... 1 50 Telfer’s, - _ cans, doz. = “oe . 4 “sé “ a i 50 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. ' English . ee . = Bristol. . oO Domestic. . \ -_ = BLUING. | Gross Arctic, : = ovals.. 4 = bas ee c pints round....... 10 50 . oo 2, sifting box... 2% “ No. 3, .. _= “ No.5 ’ -.. oo ' 1 oz ball cect eee BROOMS, No. 2 Hurl ee ee 1% No. 1 ; oo No. oe E ea No. pe ee — eneetes oe Common Whisk -------. . = Fancy ; eeoceeee ey oe Warehouse... cee pee RUSHES, ere oe. 2... 1 2 . go 1 50 “ eo ae 1% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 8row.... 1 25 Palmetto, goose............ 1 50 BUCKWHEAT. 100 1b. cases, 2 & 5 Ib. ee #4 50 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 lb. boxes ek 10 — tC 9 eg a Wicking 24 CANNED GOODS. Fish, Clams, Little Neck, 1 Ib.... 15 - a Clam Chowder. ee eee 2 00 Cove Oysters. Stangerd, iib...... —. o ........ is Lobsters. Star, [me .., See = 30 Piente,1 > a 2 00 ee .-290 iciieies — tc. ... ........ 1 05 o eo 1 90 a 2ee.......... 2 22 Tomato Sauce, 2l1b......... 2 Soused, 2 Ib........ 22 85 5 Sardines. American ae... eee g 4%@ 5 AB. Importe 4% 448 Mus ard X%s....... Boneless = Brook, 3 Ib App 3 Ib. standard York State gallons a 3 00 Hamburgh, : 2% Apricots. Eiveosk....... - _ 2 co i... 2 00 Lusk’s.. i. 2 00 Overland — 1 90 Blackberries a 95 Cherries. d se 1 20 Pitted Hamburgh - . 1% ae 1 30 — i 1 20 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green =... 125 es. ........ 1 70 Gooseberries. a... 120 Peaches, Pie . dec eee 1 30 ewe 2 00 aacoeeeee 1 85 eee... 20 Monitor 1 8 ee. Pears. Posse... 1 20 Riverside... 210 Pineapples, ee... .... ..... 1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 . ae... .. 2 % Quinces. Common... 1 10 Raspberries. Red... 1 30 Black Hamburg. 150 Erie. black 12 -aneshommmans Lawrence . 12 Hamburgh | 1 Erie.. 1 30 Terrapin ae 1 2% Whortleberries a... 1 10 = w.. i. 1 15 Blueberries ........ 110 Mea Corned beef, Libby’ .. 190 Roast beef, Armour’ o.. 1. 1% Potted ham, 34 Ib Lea 1 eee ee 80 c tongue, % Ib.. ta e co... . chicken, ¥ Ib....... 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringiess....... 13 French style..... 2 2 eS 1 40 Tama, ae 13 ee... 80 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked........ 13 World’s Fair Baked........1 35 recuse Baked..........,. 1 00 Corn Hemburenh ......... oo. Livingston _— te Purity -. a. oo Honey oe 150 Morning Glory............. eee 1 15 Peas, Hamburgh measroras......_. 1 35 early June ..... ao Champion Eng..1 50 : = oo... 1% ' ancy sifted....1 90 eee. 65 etre stenderd............. %5 Vance amp" S marrofel..... a early June. 1 30 Archer's Early Blossom....1 : 1 ae... 80 ‘Mushrooms. ee... 15@20 Pumpkin. ei ee oon © Squash. Hubbard ...... ieee say, 12 Succotash. eee. 140 ti oe . Honey Dew.. 1 60 a... 1 35 Tomatoes, ee 1 6 eemter ee 10 Ecli . eo] 10 peteaaeecs 30 Ham on ‘ Gallon CHOCOLATE, Baker's. German Sweet... .......... z oe 37 Breakfast Cocoa.......... 2 CHEESE, Se. 12 @12% ae... oS erase @12 oe... 1244Q@12% Sosa Medal .......... @i1% eee ck 6 @9 —..... il es 1 00 — 23 oe ........... @10 Peaceeeme.. @23 ares... @35 Sap Sego... @2 Set wala, imported. @24 domestic ... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. —_ pint, 25 bottles <> nt 4b al 1 doz bottles ~ 3 50 CLOTHES PINS. a ........... 40 COCOA SHELLS, 35 1b bags.. —. . oe Less quantity . @3% Poun packages. ade ae .. 6&@7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. a... ...... —-.--......... |... .... —... 18 —.... 20 ar... ...........,. ae Santos. —_—................ | Good .. Pelee cue ee as... 18 Peeberry ....... a Mexican and Guatamala. LL 20 Good.. oo 2 Fancy... 23 " Maracaibo. ee 19 Milled . bee ee ‘Javea, ree... ee, Exivete Growie............_ 27 Mandehling . = Mocha. Imitation . Seas Arabian.. bee Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 23.80 Bunola..... . 23.30 Lion, 60 or 100 1b. case. - 23.80 Extract. yaier City % STOBs.. .... 75 lix 1 15 Hummel's foil, gross... coe 1 50 ee 2 50 CHICORY. ee 5 a oe CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per doz. 1 25 C es....... _ 1 40 . o o...-... a 1 60 “ wees ' 1 75 ' =" eees sa 1 90 Jute —, ” 90 _ 72 ft. oe wis 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. ——. 740 botrd.—— e 6 2 Genuine Swiss............. 8 00 DE OO ee 7 00 St, ber bondeed........... 200 8 2, Ty 2 50 oa * ea 3 00 ss, * ea 3 00 $10, * Ce 40 —_—, * CS 5 00 “*Superior.”’ $ I, per hundred a ee 2 50 a. USDC 3 00 .s, * gg NOSES 350 Ce 4 00 — * Ce 5 00 $20, * ye cs 6 00 “Universal.” $1, per hundred.......... = = $ 2 a SE ce ; a tL STN 4 00 5, ee eo 5 00 $10, CC 6 00 $20, Ee 7 00 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 21K) OF OVEr......... 5 per cent. 50 i. " 1000 as COUPON PASS BOOKS, Can be made to represent any enomination from 810 down. | 20 books... $100 ae 2 00 — ......... 3 00 ee neta, eee ra ee, 10 00 ee one 17 50 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ a $3 00 nn a ld 5 00 — Ue ee 8 00 Crock pameh ...,........... 75 CRACKERS. Butter. Seymour XXX.. 8 Seymour XXX, cartoon. ne 6% Pauiiy X2x...... 6 Family ag cartoon. - 6% ——s ............ fe Salted REX cartoon - 6% Kenosha Lele - a .......... ........ ~~ 2 Butter biscuit... . 6% Soda. meme, Oe. _ oe oe 7% Soda. Duchess.. _ . 8% ae Wee... ee, :.10 Long Island 1 es 11 yster. 8. Oyster xx ee 6 Cay yer. EEE............ 6 Perens Oyeier.........,.... 6 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly ae... 30 Telfer’s | Absolute eer eeee 35 ee 205 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples Sundried, sliced = bbls. 6 quartered “ 5% Evaporated, 50lb. boxes @9 Apricots. California in bags...... 16% Evaporated in boxes. .. 17 Blackberries. In boxes. . 4% Nectarines. oe 15 ey ek eos cuca ys 15% Peaches, Peeled, in boxes........ 13 Cal. evap. “ oe 121% = i ees... 12 Pears, Californiain bags .... Pitted Cherries. eee ee. gy boxes leon coe Prunelles, pm ceee..........., eansapeene In barrels.. . oe ee.............. ht. i Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes, 2e rown eine ede i bse bel gaat 1 50 3 Loose Muscateis’ in 1 Bags. > OUR... .. one OM - oe . 6% Foreign. Currants, Patras, in barrels 4% ‘In %-bbls..... 5 ™ in less ow 54 Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib. boxes 20 Lemon . = 10 Orange “ — _ 11 Raisins, Seen. 2. boxes. , @ 8% Sultana, 20 . @10% Valencia, 30 ‘ @ 74 Prunes. “an, he California, 100-120.......... . 90x100 25 Ib. bxs. “ 80x90 cay TH x80 “ o 60x70 . i oy. ................ 13% ee eee 9% ENVELOPES, XX rag, white, rote... $1 7 Ce Ee le i 60 mots... ..... 2... 1 65 ie ae —— 1 50 XX wood, white, WO FO ce ee ee oe 1 35 No. 2) 6% ea eeee cee eee us 13 Manilla, white. Oe 6 00 ee 95 Coin. ee Sot. 2... 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. oe wees. ............ 38% Hominy. PO 6 ccntccpcsccnccoccces BD Me ce eee cee vis 3 50 Lima Beans. eee i. 4% Maccaroni and Vermicellt. Domestic, 12 Ib. box.... 55 Peperted.............. 10K%@. % Oatmeal. er Me a 5 45 Half barrels 100........... 2 85 Pearl mney. oO ee a 2% Peas een, O. ...., 1% ae ie 2% Rolled Oats. Barrels 180.. 5 45 Half bbls 90.. 2 85 Sago. OORT oc sree sees siete sec 4% ee ts, 5 Wheat. Coen. 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. | En ascites Cod. Pollock . re Whole, Grand Bank..... 6% Boneless, bricks.. ...... T% Boneless, eee.. ....... 7% Halibut. Pee ............... 12 ae Her: Gibbed, % bbl.. eeaek Holland, aoe thease heroine “a keg Round shore, % b bbl... Scaled Lesa hed oe ortane. Sardines, Russian, kegs..... Trout. sg 1, % bbls., 100lbs Ca eeed 6 00 No. 1, kits, ithe 80 Whitefish, No. 1, % bbls., 100]bs........7 50 No. 1, kits, ae. 90 Family, \% bbls., 100 Ibs.... 3 10 ” kits 10 Pe........ 45 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money, Regular Grade Lemon. doz _-—...8 -.... 1a Regular Vanilla, XX Grade i Lemen. ma 2O8..... $1 50 res 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, won...-:, . 75 On. oc, 3 50 It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the Jennings’ D C. a Vanilla 1 2 202 folding Dex... % 3 02 00 1 50 402 . ..1 50 2 00 6 oz r 2 00 3 00 $ oz ‘ 3 00 4 60 GUNPOWDER. Austin’ 8 Rifle, Sees... ...... 3 50 % kegs...... 29 ne Crack Shot, kegs . 3 50 % kegs 2 00 i Club Sporting ‘* 4 50 ‘ “ % “ 3 50 HERBS, Sage.. S ecoe es 1. Hops. . eee eyes ae 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 Ib, boxes....... 55 8. F., 2,3 and 5 1b. oma. 50 JELLY. 2 Ib. pails ea 90 teks een 1 60 LICORICE, oe ..........-.......--,,- 30 Calabria ele et bey een ce 25 eee e tec eee ue 12 LYE. Condensed, : = bese ee 1 2% eee ae bees 2 2% MATCHES. eo. eee ........-.... 12 Bocner pericr............... 170 eee 1 10 Export parlor..... oleercuou 400 MINCE MEAT. 3 or6 doz. in case perdoz.. 95 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. a ae $1 75 err Gere... .... 1 40 = aoe q hele eeheee os Le, 45 Half mee 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. ee 7 00 Half ‘apnea eee eh epee 4% uart . oe 3 75 Oe ee eo ee 2 25 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Cuger bewee............... 14 Cuba wenden, Ceeeey wo, is 16 Porto Rico. ee eka 20 New Orleans. oh ib cde dee ete auuse 18 Extra good.......... ae 25 OO ita 30 ON tee aoe. oulee 40 One-half barrels, 3c extra PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @i 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @4 00 Small. Barrels, 2.400 count. 750 Half bbls, 1,200 count 4 25 PIPES, my o. We 1 = 2D, tell eounst........ Cob, No. TE aR i 3 POTASH, 48 cans in case, OEM alee e sie iaes tees 4 00 Penna Salt Co,'s.......... 8 25 RICE, Domestic. I BO. oi es nee 6 om aaa 5 “ a , 4% RR or cass.. oc... ewes 3 Imported. J apan, re 6 co ee eee: 5 ee 5 I. ne eee oe ccee 5 Ab Yn ¥ ae ro a» et ae > 4 mga . T- 1 , , im a) _— THE MICHIGAN TRADES* SPICES, Whole Sifted, OG 8 Cassia, China in mats...... 2 ' Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... 22 o eee 10 Mace Batavia... 8. Nutmegs Taney... 75 ae 70 ' Oe 60 Pepper, Singapore black a “ mae... 15 Pure Ground in Bulk. Se 12 Cassi a, Batavia eS 18 and Saigon .22 Ce — neal 30 Cloves, Zz oyna eee, Ginger, Aereee............, Omen... . Jamaica . / -18 mace Batavia. .............. 7 Mustard, ae - Trieste. .16 Bee scecu ce 18 ‘Seti: No . eee ce ucs 60 Pepper, Singapore, bieck....16 white. .... 24 e Cayenme........_.. 18 ee. 14 “Absolute” in Packages. 4s Ys renee 8... <<. of 1 oS Crmmeenom............. 84 155 Coewen..... 84 155 Ginger, Fam..........- & 155 ca a... 84 1 55 eee... & 155 Poe, & 155 Sage...... cee SAL SODA. i 1% Granulated, enee.......... 1% SEEDS. See... @12% Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Carnes .............. 8 Cardamon, Malabar.. 90 Hemp Russian ae 4% Mixed Bird........... 4% omewall g “aa a 6 ]. oo 7 Oe issue oc. Celso bone........... 30 STARCH. Corn > Ib boxes a 6 eS 5% Gloss. 1-Ib packages eee cris eon oe 5% 3-lb eds eda ee Sh 6-Ib a 40 and 50 Ib. boxes.......... tN eres... 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in fars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, eee deet oh odes bbe dpee pa Sy Rone Reet. .............., 4% SALT, 100 3-lb. sacks.. 82 Ca 2 00 fe team, OOGNE............. 1 85 Oe 2 2 =e Coe... 1 50 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 =i «| i * .. Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 28 lb, “ce oe “ L 18 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. ie, oes... . ...... 27 Common Fine, Saginaw ........ eu olde be 90 meeeeeee ......... ....... 95 SALERATOUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Church’s 83 ooo eee dee is ce 3 15 Dwight’s. ee as -. oo ee 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. = 8 Brands, old es mt... 20 Good Cheer, 60 1 ag eas 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-lb...... 3 60 Proctor & Gamble. et, 2 80 Ivory, me Oe. a. o... 6 75 oe 4 00 Leones. ... beicee Mottled German.. -2- <> aw A Paris furniture dealer recently bought from an architect an old writing table, in overhauling which he found a packet containing 1,600 francs. His honesty in at once informing the former owner of his find was rewarded by an equally honest declaration on the part of the architect thatithe latter knew nothing whatever about the money and would not accept it. ——— i a eee Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE AT THE FRONT. The fine literary illustrated magazine of Boston. Able critics say itis one of the most interesting magazines published in America. A great favorite with New Englanders, and they are everywhere, Local only in name. It is the people’s favorite. To see this magazine is to want it. Its circulation has doubled the past year. It is unique, containing American Legends, Traditions, History and Poetry. A conspicuous feature of the magazine, the treatment of the GREAT AMERICAN CITIES, will be continued. SOME OF THE ATTRACTIONS FOR 1893. Harvard College Fifty Years Ago. New England Towns Forty Years Ago. By Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Vassar College. Society Life in Amherst College. Manual Training in America. Rhode Island in the Revolution. Brother Jonathan and His Home. Whaling and Fisheries of the United States. Each number contains several interesting stories and poems, Price, $3 a year. 25c a copy. Sample copies sent to any address FREE. Agents wanted. Address NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE, Boston, Mass Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST, Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. promptness | the property | ae FIRE-PROOF ROOFING This Roofing is guaranteed to stand in all places where Tin and Iron has failed; is super- ior to Shingles and much cheaper. AS The best Roofing for covering over Shingles on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, ete.; will not rot or pull loose, and when painted with our FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Will last longer than shingles. Write the un dersigned for prices and circulars, relative to Roofing and for samples of Building Papers, H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, Ger. Louis and Campau Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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. For catalogues apply to the Director, Houghton, Michigan. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE PROGR Oe EO ccc 6:Fam 10:00pm naa 7:00am 4:30 pm Dew Eeeem....................... 1:20pm 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific Express........ *10:45 pm *6:00am =o oe 10:00pm 10:00pm * y Taking effect Nov. 20, 1892. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. | Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at 6:55 a. m., returning leave Detroit 4:40 p. m. arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m. FRED M. Briaas, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rueetes G.P. & T. Agent., Chicago. > GRAND HAVEN Tate ee TN NOW IN EFFECT. EASTWARD, Trains Leave |tNo. 14\/tNo. 16/+No. 18)*No. 82 | | 1 Ev. Ciieaee..- 1... ey. Milwaukec.|........1........ G’d Rapids, Ly} 6 50am/160 20am louie ........ Ar) 7 45am/11 25am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 30am/12 17pm Owosss ...... Ar| 905am/} 1 20pm E. Saginaw..Ar|10 50am} 3 45pm 11 30am] 4 35pm 3 45pm 12 05pm] 5 50pm 10 58am} 3 05pm 11 50am} 4 05pm WESTWARD. | *No. 81 | oy, Petrois..... ........ lips 45pm @d Rapids, Lv... .... 7 06am Gd Haven, Ar....... Mihw keane “ ........ Chicago Ser, “ .... ..-|) *Daily. t+tDaily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Eastward—-No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward— No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. JOHN W. Loup, Traffic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. Monroe Street. 3 25pm 4 27pm 5 20pm 6 05pin 8: 0pm 8 37pm 7 05pm 8 50pm 8 25pm 9 25pm 11 00pm 12 42am 2 00am 3 10am 6 49am 7 15am 5 40am 7 30am 5 37am Detroit, ...... Ar 7 00am Trains Leave +No. 11|+No. 13 6 50am/}10 50am 1 vOpm 2 10pm 10:10a. m., 3:15 Grand Rapids & indiana. Schedule in effect November 20, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrivefrom Leave going Soutb. North. For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 6:45am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9 00am For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:20pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10 pm From Chicago and Kalamazovu. 8:35 pm Train arriving fiom south at 6:45am and 9:00am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. 7:20am 1:10 p m 4:15pm 10:10 pm Wor Ciseinaati.. |... 2:30 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the Hast.. 11:50am 2:00 pm wow Ciraciumag 5:15pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 11:00 p m oa cane aes 11:50 a m cm Segiiew 11:00 p m Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m and 11:20 Pp. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. 11:20 p m SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 1:10 m train has parlor car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:10 Pp m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand apids to Cincinnati. 10:05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand pids to Cincinnati. 11;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 3:55 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. Lv Chicago 7:05 am 3:10pm 11:45 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:20 pm 8:35 pm 6:45 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:45 pm train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. 11:20 pm 6:50 am Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 10:00 6:55 am 10:00 a m 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:30 pm 9:05 pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 9:05a m, ar- riving at 10:20 am. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:45 pm. Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 0. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND WESr MICHIGAN R’Y. NOV. 20, 1892. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.Gh'D RAPIDS... .. 8:50am 1:25pm *11:55pm Ar. CHICAGO.......... 3:55pm 6:45pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. iv. CHICAGO ..... ... 9:00am 5:25pm *11:15pm Ar. GUD RAPIDS. .... 3:55pm 10:49pm *7:05am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, AND 8T JOSEPH iv.Ge.... ... 8:50am 1:25pm - *11:35pm ar. GH ....... *6:l0am 3°SSpm ...... 10:45pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Lv. G. R........ 8:50am 1:25pm 5:35pm 8:45pm ar. GR... ..... 10:45am 3:bopm 6:25pm TRAVERSE CITY MANISTEE & PETOSKEY. iy. Gu... . . 7:30am 5:35pm Ay, Manistee |... ..... ... 12:15pm 10:29pm ay, Traverse City ............. 12 Ar. Clharieyvom =. .............. 2:ti Ae, ECMMEEY sa... .... Ar. from Petoskey, etc., 16:00 p m.; from Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Wagner Parlor Cars Leave Grand Rapids 1:25 pm, leave Chicago 5:25 p m. Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 pm; leave Chicago *11:15 pm. Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:35 p m. *Every day. Other trains week days only. DETROIT, = 282 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. opm 10:59pm GOING TO DETROIT. by GB... 7:10am *1:25pm 5:40pm Fo) 11:30am *5:25pm 10:35pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. ll 7:50am *1:35pm 6:10pm ay G x... -12:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar, G R.11:50am 11:00pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R, R. Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:25pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 2:55pm 5:25pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....7:15 a. m. and 1:00 p. m. Ar, Toledo at......... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. VIA D., @. H. & M, Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo at. ....:.... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. Return connections equally as good. W. :H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Gripsack Brigade. The traveling man whose shoes need half soling oftener than the seat of his pants is the one who will secure the most orders. The traveling man who can gain and hold the respect and confidence of his trade can always be sure of retaining the respect and confidence of his employers. The traveling man should refiect the standing of the house he represents, as a country dealer often measures the charac- ter of the house by those who are sent out by it. All traveling men who wish to go to Detroit om the morning of Dec. 28 can se- cure one-half fare tickets by obtaining an order from any one of the members of the Transportation Committee of Post E. Did you ever notice in reading the an- nals of crime that the proportion of traveling men who have gone wrong is less than that of any other vocation in which equal opportunities are afforded? Yet men of other professions sometimes speak of traveling men as a doubtfuland suspicious class of people. No one thing will do more to build up and retain a hotel trade than furnishing the incoming and outgoing midnight guests with a cup of hot coffee and a sandwich. Such a lunch, just before starting or upon arriving at the hotel, is highly appreciated by the boys. A traveling man jumped from a train as it was about to collide with another one. He escaped with a few slight bruis- es and went to the assistance of the wounded in the wreck. He found a pious individual who was badly injured. The latter asked the traveling man if he did not think he had cause to thank an all merciful Providence for holding out its watchful hand and saving him from destruction. ‘Oh, I suppose so,” re- plied the traveling man, ‘‘but don’t you think I was pretty cute myself?”’ A Kansas City farm implement house will next season try the experiment of sending out a woman drummer—not that the departure will be so very much of an experiment, for the modern woman, when she takes up a thing which has hereto- fore been regarded as outside her sphere of usefulness, usually attains the object of her ambition. ‘‘It is really not an in- novation,’’ says the head of the firm, by whom the woman has already been en- gaged, ‘‘for it has been done in lines of trade as far removed from ours as that of milliner. A young Swedish woman has for several years traveled tor a Scandi- navian firm of machinists. She travels all over Europe, and next year will ex- tend her territory by a trip to Australia. A large manufacturer of electric supplies in the east receives some of his best or- ders through a woman expert who is in hisemploy and began life for herself as a telegraph operator.”’ Biela’s comet was not on time. It did not show up as adyertised. It had sent out its route and date cards and asked that orders be held until it arrived, when it would be able to make a startling dis- play of samples. Everybody waited and now people are disgusted with that comet. It need not send out any more advance eards. The public has lost confidence in it. If it has been “called in’? the house should notify expectant people. If de- layed by a snow blockade the telegraph wire should have been used. Bradstreet and Dun should have notified the com- mercial world. There is no business in | such a transaction. When a commercial traveler makes a date, he is expected to be punctual and prompt. There is no good reason why a comet should not be as punctual as a traveling man. The comet is liable to censure and so is the house which sends out such an unreliable representative. People cannot afford to sit up all night, burn coal and gas, and then be disappointed. The people will now be inclined to look around for a more reliable comet house. Jose A. Gonzales was born at Cardenas, Cuba, Aug. 2, 1845, being the son of a wealthy and influential sugar planter. He attended school at Cardenas, and sub- sequently began the study of law with the intention of pursuing the legal profes- sion. In 1868 he joined the Cuban in- surrection, which was put down by the Spanish government, and, in common with the other insurgents, saved his life by fleeing the country. Hecame to Port- land, Maine, subsequently removing to New York City, where he lived four years. In 1872 he went toChicago where he opened several cigar stores, at one time conducting five establishments. In 1877 he removed to this city and pur- chased the cigar stand in the Morton House, which he conducted ten years. In 1887 he went on the road for the Ala- bastine Company, with which he was connected a year and a half, when he en- gaged to travel for the Moneypenny-Ham mond Cigar Co., of Columbus, Ohio. Two years later he engaged with the Owl Cigar Co., of New York, with which he is still connected, covering the States of Michigan and Indiana, calling on the trade every sixty days, and the larger trade in the cities in his territory every thirty days. Mr. Gonzales announces himself as a candidate for the Presidency of the Michigan Knights of the Grip and will probably have the solid endorsement of the Grand Rapids members of the or- ganization. He has served the Knights as chairman of the Hotel Committee and member of the Executive Board, which positions have rendered him thoroughly familiar with the work of the associa- tion. ———_—-s- +2 If you have gota sound body, a clear censcience and an honest purpose, you have more to be thankful for than the millionaire. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Baldwins and Spitzenbergs command $2.75 per bbl., while Spys are held at $3. Local dealers are handling more New York and New England apples than Michigan fruit. Beans—Choice country picked command $1.60 @31.75 per bu. Butter—Searce and next to impossible to se- cure adequate supplies for home demand. Deal- ers pay 20@22 for choice dairy and hold at 2c above paying prices. Creamery has sustained a very marked advance, readily commanding 31 @33e. Cabbages—Dealers pay % per 109, holding at $6. Very scarce. Celery—Choice home grown commands 20@25¢c per dozen bunches, Cider—13c per gal. Cranberries—The market is without material change, crates now being held as follows: Cape Cods and Jerseys, $3; Waltons, $3.50. Eggs— Dealers hold limed and cold storage goods at 2ic, while fresh would readily com mand 23@24c. Grapes—Malagas command $6.50@37.50 per keg. Honey—Dealers pay 14@15c and hold at 15216ce. Onions—Firmer and in better demand. Hand- lers pay 75c and sold at 90c per bu. Potatoes—The :market is the same as a week ago, handlers paying 55¢c here and 50c at the principal outside buying points. Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes—All varieties are scarce. Jer seys readily command $4.50 per bbl., Balti mores bring $4 and Virginias $3.50, Turnips—30c per bu Why Not Keep the Best? =» We want an agent in every town and city in the State to handle our Fancy Roller Patent “SUNLIGHT” f In many cases we can arrange to give exclusive sale 4 for the locality. Po All flour is now so cheap that every consumer can \ afford to buy THE BEST. Lift yourseif out of the rut > of competition by handling a superior article. = pal f " Proprietors of the Standard Roller Mills. Daily Capacity 400 Bbls. HOLLAND, MICH. Correspondence Solicited. You Hit the Bulls Eye every time as to HIGH QUALITY LOW PRIGKS When you buy the Lina atk oe Kaen an GHTNING HAY KNIFE ov ' IP nw | WRITE US PRICES ST. OSTERZATEVENS & GC: MONROg <3 a Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. Cloaks, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. sak ors & Company, Manufacturers of SHOW (A585 Of Every Description. — First-Class Work Only. WRITE FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS VOIGT, HERPULSHEIMER & tl, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voll, Herpolshelmer & (0, “° Grana Rapids Grand Rapids. RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO.,. 12,14 & 16 PEARL ST 63 and 65 Canal St. - * | If you have net bought your holiday slippers, come in and We have a NICE LINE at prices we know will please see us, you.. Our spring samples are now ready. Would be pleased to have you call and see them. We also have a good steck of winter goods. Agents for the Boston Rub- ber Shoe Co. and Lumbermen’s Sols | CHOCOLATE GOOLER 00, Manutacturers Combination Store Tables and Shelving, | The most complete knock down tables and shelving ever offered: to the trade. The | salient features are uniformity of construction, combining strength and neatness, economy of room, convenience in shipping and setting up. It will be to your best | interest to correspond with us. Prices reasonable. When in the city call at the | office and see sample. Office 315 Michigan Trust Building. Factory 42 Mill St. You can take your choice OF TWO OF THE BAST FLAY OPENING BLANK BOOKS In the Market, Cost no more than the Old Style Books, GRAND RAPIDS BOOK BINDING CO., 89 Pearl St, Hovseman Bik. Grand Rapids, Mich. Write for prices. lass Covers [or Biscuits. Cracker Chests. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from aE one box to anotherinamoment They socla flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay Price, 50 cents each. | ‘ | ‘HESE chests will soon | pay for themselves in the | breakage they avoid. Price $4. will save enough goods Try them and be convineed. NEW NOVELTIES. the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: ORANGE BAR. MOSS HONEY for themselves. CINNAMON BAR. CREAM CRISP. NEWTON, arich finger with tig the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CoO., S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. J UMBLES. tilling. This is bound to be one of Assorted Packages of Holiday Goods Send for our Holiday Catalogue No. 109, for illustrations and prices of Dressing Casés, Iron & Wood Toys, Albums, Work Boxes, Children’s Furniture. Notice carefully the assorted packages of the most staple lines of Holiday Goods, not possible to be properly shown by eata- logue. These assortments are similar to those we have sold for so many years in the past, and contain only the best selections from every line of Christmas Goods, everything being new goods especially purchased for this season’s business. If possible, call and see our display—our unequalled display of Dinner Sets, Lamps, Banquet Lamps, Library Lamps, Parlor Lamps, China Cups and Saucers, China Novelties, Austrian Glassware, Fruit Plates, New American Glass, Ete. ASSORTED <* AS 92 Fancy Goods. Half doz. Holland ptd teas 44 bl 4 bn....$ 80$ 40 One (eee eee Re... 90 45 Half ‘‘ open dec cups and saucers...... 1 40 70 co ° ae wa iG 2oO 1 @ ee eS S2o 1 is ' it ag ss os 20 1 62 Qr. ae ee Se oe One A BC child’s pits-pictures 50 Hialf doz asst 3 color plate sets........... 1 60 80 (dr. hasber plate sets)... 2 50 62 - decrd _ oe eso 106 breac and milk......._.. 450 114 _ Ha ee om 2¢ Gt Half C. peerere mines... ....... 50 25 _ deerd mugs...... we 85 42 partn shaving mugs ic. See oe rency Gecra mies. ........ w..: 8 88 LAs moustach decrd coffees........ 22> 1 13 ia aa ay ole (oo i a. C ig oe 400 1 0 1 és és “6 6 00 150 One doz. fruit plates, asst i 50 oe ‘i. hi 1 00 ; SSst pies ba ia » dolls 90 Halt de ris tres-ed dolls 22 tf it ‘ vashb 290 1 25 a £50 2 2 Or oz perfume Bp 15 38 14 0 pe ent. discount 3 51 34 33 Package and cartage 50 o4 85 Hh. LEONARD & SONS 140 134 to Qtr Half ie _— ASSORTED TiN 2a &. One do: Tremipets. oo $ oo a oe ee so —.............. 35 i i... i. 7 ee 40 Deetiggs (oe . 85 a 45 Cee 75 re a SO M5Ge Sts... 2 00 50 One mechanical express wagon .......... i 5 15 Gon musics! toys... 85 Cweitth doz tin train............... 2 25 18 ' ** mechanical engine..... a 75> 40 cCanle Gare. 0. 2 00 li a@oz asst carts ..... ee ee eee. io meee 200 1 00 ike ** sti a 4 00 66 Une tweitth dor kitehens. 0000, 4 25 35 igs - cs 2 15 18 - hat ae Ce 42 21 ** twelfth comme... lo. a 16 ‘ ti " Ceus PeGers oo... 1 85 15 ‘* half Mate COWR es, 75 38 ee vi ‘* Mechanical clowns...... 1 50 15 aot drum banks... so 12 69 me per Cent, Miseoune. 8. 1 26 xackage and eartage free. 11 43 Assortment No 25 GAMES TO RETAIL FOR 25c. One dozen in a Package. Game of Tommy Towns visit to the Country. Fortune Telling. When My Ship Comes In. Army Tents and Solniers. Cuckoo. Base Ball. King and Queens. Steeple Chase. Luck. Jacek Straws. Tiddledy Winks. Fish Pond. package of 1 doz Net per -2 00 Assorted Package DECORATED CUPS and SAUCERS. One doz decrd teas, flowers and mottos... 75 we se . oe es +e. 1 00 eee te mc ebes 1 50 bands and gilt...... 2 00 Half << open. coflees asst.... ...... 2% 1 36 ee _. _- Oe ar eae gs 400 2 00 | | Wie - a ee 6 00 1 56 Sixth doz ‘*‘ ‘ ' ee. 908 tS ait “* moustach coffees asst...... 200 1 00 eee ee 6 “ ee 3 00 15 cig - . ' oe 6 ja 1 69 15 07 PO 25 15 32 Assorted Package Dolls, One doz white china babes ....._..... .-. 30 Hif e ee 65 33 ihe " erased Golesi 88 Hit. ** . a 200 1 00 washable dolls, 21 in long...... 200 100 g Co is re a 6 00 2 00 One-twelfth doz dressed fancy jtd dolls.. 4 25 35 a. - sa c su ; 6 00 50 ee . oe oe. . * a 8 50 at Quarter ** kid body bisque dolls.... 4 00 1 00 One-twelfth * a . ‘ ee oe 63 Half china limb dolis......._ 1 80 90 One-third is . ee 425 1 49 11 02 eC 20 11 22 . Assortment No. 10 GAMES TO RETAIL FOR 10c One Dozen in a Package. Game of Matrimony. Authors. Peter Coddle’s trip to New York. Tiddledy Winks. Familiar Quotations. Hippity Hop. Cricket on the Hearth. : Round the World Joe. - Kan Yu Du It. 2 Old Maid. We Found MeGinty. Dissected Pieture Puzzie. Net per package of 1 dozen. ....75e. Fulton St., Grand Rapids. VF Se ‘Ss _ “< « Pr < eo 2 ‘eo — rn be “ “ “ * | bad i? ae ri - « Sa 4 Asp - 4 yar 4 ~—— 4