— Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. $1 Per Year, ens VOL. 10 o vcianisini os DE UES ees 28, 1892. NO. 484 So a TELFER SPICE COMPANY, Alaskas, Green Bays, Esquimeaux and Portage Socks, Knit and Felt Boots. Dealers are cordially invited to send in mail orders, to which we promise our prompt and careful attention. -g- HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. * — & ais MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO.,, Successors to a MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., ee HARRY FOX, Manager. CRACKERS, BISCUITS « SWEEY GOODS. % MUSKEGON, MICH. : SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. BEANS W. T., LAMOREAUX CO., If you have any beans and want tosell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity up to car loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries, Land 3 Pear! Street, GRAND RAPIDS See Quotations. To call on or address A. E. BROOKS & CO., Mfrs, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. « c i ‘ c . - ¥ 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Salish uidilike Seilicens welt dvate caches: E - WHOLESALE - ‘ a Is the Most Desirable for Merchants to Handle because FRUITS, SEEDS, BEANS AND PRODUGE, a8 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa St, Grand Rapids. - Black Bass Cigars NEVER GO BEGGING. ‘1, G. F. FAUDE, IONIA, MICH THE NE PLUS ULTRA OF A NICKEL SMOKE! 3 DODGE J ~ Independence Wood Split Paley. THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! Made only by “ 7 THE BEST! -P? HESTER MACHINERY CO, a: * 45 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. S ea Ws TR LU N K MARTIN MAIER & CO, MANUFACTURERS be, 113-115-117 Twelfth St., DETROIT, MICH. ! BEST MADE, BEST SELLING GOODS. ?_ — PIONEER HOUSE. . LOWEST PRICES. y LARGEST ASSORTMENT. Fs eee IT IS STAPLE AND WILL FIT ANY PURCHASER, Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. send Your Wholesaler an Order. OUR HOLIDAY CATALOGUE NOW READY. Send for it!? Rigs, Hassocks, Blacking Cases, Foot Rests Carpet Sweepers. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St, Grand Rapids, — m. BAP & Coo. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE =FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. VOORHEES Pants and Overall Go, Lansing, Mich. Having removed the machinery, business and good will of the lonia Pants and |‘ Overall Co. to Lansing, where we one of the finest factories in the country, giving us four times the capacity of our former factory at lonia, we are in a position to get out our goods on time and fill all orders promptly. A continuance of the pat- ronage of the trade is solicited. E. D. VOORHEES, Manager. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Tiluminating and Lubricating —-OlTLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Offic., dawkins Block. | | Works, Butterworth Ave BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, 1.UDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY GARBON % GASOLIN’ BARRELS. It Pays Dealers to sell FOSFON because there are but two sizes, Five Ounces at 10 cents, Sixteen at 25 cents and it pleases better than Baking Powders. See Grocery Price Current. THE BREAD SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan. SOLD BY ALL RELIABLE CROCERS. F. J. DETTENTHALER JOBBER OF OYSTERS Salt Fish POULTRY & GAME Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See quotations in another column CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED Who urges you to keep Sapolio? The Public ? By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers create a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchasers to the store, and help sell less known goods. Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. BALL BARNHART PUTMAN CO | ‘Wholesale’ Grocers. > eA oe a “ss feo J e-¥ te wk, ew robe o> = » MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. VOL. X. nicest ecient hollered I anit 28, Mei NO. 484 FIRE INS. co. CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. Stewart WuirtE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBain, Sec’y. Our Fancy Goods Trade Has been larger than ever before in the history of our house, Ripe PROMPT, Come in and see our samples of Albums, Comb and Brush Sets, Dolls, Books, Kt, EATON, LYON & CO. FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Wasiboards, Wooden AND Indurated Pails & Tubs, Wooden Bowls, Clothespins a Rolling Pins, Step Ladders, Washing Ma- chines, Market, Bushel and De- livery Bas’ ots, Building Paper, Wrap ping Paper, Sacks, Twine oa 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. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO., Mtrs. DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. OwEN, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. “The Kent.’’ pare conducted the above named hotel two months on the European plan, and come to the conclusion that we can better serve our patrons by conducting same on the Ameri can plan, we take pleasure in announcing that our rates will hereafter be #2 perday. As the hotel is new and handsomely furnished, with steam heat and electric bells, we are confident we are in a position to give the traveling public satisfactory service. Remember the location, opposite Union Depot. Free baggage transfer from union depot. BEACH & BOOTH, Props. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency, The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London. England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. SNM Oks eaed se hast) wie PHILA. PAT.FLAT OPENING BACK an SS Caabebieed UL Peale eae COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. Successor to Cooper Commercial Agency and Union Credit Co. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Office, 65 Monroe St. Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J. STEVENSON, Cc. A. CUMINGS, C. E. BLOCK. OYSTERS Solid Brand Cans. / ce 8 25 . .. ...... .....,..-,- 20 Ve LO 18 Standards in bulk...... Leica ce es a ee Daisy Brand. ee $ 2 CO , 14 eee... ee. eee aes eo... ........... 1 00 Mince Meat---Best in Use. —— Ss Se 5X a.) ec. 6 oie pais. See eee to = lb pails ee 6% ee ee 6% a cans, usual weight, per doz ee $1 50 ee Ee ee 3 50 es eae. ule ll ae rent... 21 Pure Sweet Cider in bbls.. be bete eeee ee ee - Vinegar.. a 10 Choice Messina Lemons...............- 4 00@4 50 Fancy Florida Oranges. ..... Choice Lemons, 300 and 360 . New Pickies in bbls, 1200.... . half bbis, 800... Peach preserves, 20 Ib. pails. . . EDWIN FALLAS, Prop Valley City Cold Storage, 215-217 Livingston St., Grand Rapids. A (jas Fo — 100 LEAVES BARLOW Pat. Manifold TRACER (for tracing delayed Freight Shipments UBARLOWS FELEGRAMS “WESTERN UNION'OR POSTAL LINES Sent Prepaid for above Price. or will Send Samples. BARLOW BROS..GRAND RAPIDS,MICH. Lt SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street. — — 50 ! 5 50 Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles ESTABLISHED 1541. NAL” Ne A aOR TRS NAT AES THE MERCANTILE AGENCY MH. G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada 2 MISDIRECTED. A Ruined Life the Result. Written for THz TRADESMAN. ‘‘Be what nature intended you for, and you will sueceed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” The above words of Sydney Smith were brought quite forcibly to my mind not long ago. I wasinone of the hustling Western cities of our republic, and, hav- ing accomplished the object of my visit, I found myself with an evening of leisure at my disposal. Being a stranger in the city, I resolved to remain at my hotel and give the rein to my favorite old pass- time, that of taking notes in the obser- vation of human life and its infinite variety of phases. Did you ever sit in the window of a hotel office in a strange city and think of the dear little tots at home, while you watched the counter currents in the restless stream of hu- manity as it went jostling, swirling and rushing by? Wonderful panorama! One brief glimpse of each face, then gone forever! But, brief as it is, each face tells its story, and leaves an impress on the mind of the thinker. In these facial expressions one may read cool defiance, self-sufficiency, despair, determination, purity, timidity, nervous imbecility, va- eaney, self-condemnation, dissipation, pain, hunger, want, ete., or the opposite of these characteristics, and one won- ders if he has caught a glimpse of the future faces of the little tots at home, after they shall have gone out from the home nest to battle with the stern reali- ties of life. One has, no doubt, caught such a glimpse, but which? Ah, thank God that is for time alone to reveal. And so we dismiss the subject from the mind and wander over to the cigar stand, where we deliberately and ruthlessly de- stroy all the good impressions made by our sentimental reverie, by telling the clerk a wicked story which he has al- ready heard nine hundred and ninety- nine times. In my ease, on the occasion mentioned, after the clerk had humbly begged my pardon, with tears in his eyes, for not being able to smile at my simple story, I lighted a cigar and proceeded to take an inventory of the oceupants of the office. The irrepressible drummer came and went with the arrival and departure of every "bus, and the incomers, after in- seribing their autegraphs, immediately went out into the city to shake hands with their old customers, or disap- peared up the elevator with a bell-boy and pitcher of ice water, after holding a short consultation with the clerk. The drummer is never idle. He is never eaught sitting in a dumb doze in a hotel office. He comes and goes at all times of the day and night and never com- plains. He reads the morning paper in the dining room while the cook is trying to build a fire with which to cook his breakfast, and he picks his teeth in the smoking car while en route to the next town. But why itis that he disappears up the elevator with the always accom- panying pitcher of ice water so early in the evening, or remains out for four hours after his customers have all gone to bed, is a question irrelevant to this subject. It may be that his early retir- ing is the result of a desire to take ad- vantage of opportunity and steal away to his own room and read a few chapters in the little testament which his mother or his wife put into his grip the last time he was home; but his late hours, prob- ably, will never be accounted for. Every hotel lobby has its regular quota of loungers who also come and go. The lounger, however, takes a seat and fixes his gaze on some imaginary object and looks awfully and mournfully wise— unless some fellow lounger asks him to take a drink or works him up into a po- litical squabble, and then what he knows would not be enough to strain the in- telligence of a lamp-post. My attention was called to a middle- aged man who sat apart from the others and who appeared to beastranger. He was neatiy but plainly attired, and his general appearance indicated that he was no chronic hotel lounger, whether he was a stranger in the city or not. I have al- ways given myself credit for possessing a kind of ‘‘sizing up faculty’’ that en- ables me, nine times out of ten, to place a stranger where he belongs, but here was a case which completely baffled me. The more I studied the man, the more Iwas ataloss to decipher him. Nota move was made that escaped the sharp, quick, nervous glance of his eye, and not a word was spoken but that his move- ments indicated that he heard it; and yet he seemed to be perfectly oblivious to his surroundings and not in the least concerned with anything that transpired. There was a sorrowful, careworn ex- pression on his face, and even the quick glance of his eye had a peculiar tinge of sadness in it. My curiosity was aroused and it had to be satisfied. I crossed the room and, seating myself beside him, made some casual remark about the weather. Before this per- sonage completed his version of the weather, the sad expression had disap- peared from his thin and prematurely- furrowed face, the nervous, hungry look in his eyes had changed into a sparkle of good humor, and I had discovered a most agreeable companion in disguise. We conversed on the social, political, moral and religious topics of the day and I found my comrade more than a match for me. He was open, frank and confi- dential; yet 1 failed to ascertain his busi- ness, while he had drawn me out without the least apparent effort on his part. At last, I gave up, beaten at my own game, and put the question direct: ‘‘What business or profession do you represent?” 1 shall never forget the expression of pain that crossed his face as he assumed the old look and nervously glanced around him as though afraid that others might hear his answer to my question. “Oh—at present—I am writing some for the Bungtown Bugle.” After replying to my question, he re- lapsed into silence and gazed out of the mysterious 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. window with the old hungry look. 1 was | the world to take my chances with the more nonplused than ever. It could not | mighty struggling multitude, armless, be possible that my logical reasoner and | aimless and purposeless, with a forced ! versatile conversationalist of a moment | before was devoting his time, energy and | talents in scribbling cheap dribble for a | little back-alley unknown sheet: and I began to suspect that he must be some sort of a private detective of high degree. So, to put my suspicions to asti]l further test, I ventured the remark: “‘As your city has taken on a wonder- ful growth during the past few years, and as its real estate has rapidly ad- vanced in value, I suppose you have been reaping a share of the harvest?” ‘‘No,”’ said my friend in a bitter tone, “I did some sowing, but I was not per- mitted to participate in the reaping. In fact,” the tone became more bitter and the scowl deepened on his forehead, ‘I even lost the seed I had sown.”’ Divining my look of surprise, he hitched his chair around so as to face me, and then in a low tone. with one hand resting on my knee and with his clear dark eyes looking steadily into mine, he repeated the quotation which stands at the head of this paper, and then made the following statement: “Tama living example of the truth- fulness of that quotation. Never were truer words uttered by morta! man. You say that you live in Oberlin, that you were born and reared there, and that all the associations of youth are centered there; and yet, although I never saw the place, I doubt very much if the mention of that name stirs you with emotions as intensely as it does me. From the time when my youthful soul first began to Swell with aspirations to be and to do, my mind was fixed on the study of the law. I was left without a mother when but six months old, and was earried away by an uncle and adopted into his new home inthe forest. The tall pine trees disappeared as I grew up intoa stripling, with an intense aversion for farm life anda passionate love for books. My uncle was of the old school, bitterly opposed to ‘‘book larnin’,’”? and was de- termined to bend everything to his will and the advancement of his personal in- terests, regardless of consequences. I inherited a nervous temperament and was very impulsive and extremely sensitive and emotional. I led all my classes in the little country school and generally carried a book secreted under my “‘smock’’ while engaged in my labors on the farm. I had a cousin about my own age whose father resolved to send him to Oberlin College for a literary course pre- paratory to taking a university law course; and I, being filled to overflowing with the same desire, begged my uncle to permit me to accompany him. But it Was no use; scheme after scheme was de- vised and threats and promises were in- dulged in to beat back and kill the de- mands and promptings of my innermost being, until, at last, my high-strung, sen- sitive nature succumbed to the strain put upon it, and 1 became reconciled to the inevitable. The effect of this cruel, erushing blow to my soul’s aspirations, on the very threshold of my manhood, has followed me all through life. It has put a blight upon all my best endeavors. It broke my heart just at a time when it was reaching ont for life, and it left me a wreck on the great ocean of life, chart- less and rudderless. My proud, sen- sitive young nature was broken, sub- dued, cowed; and, when I went out into training in that only which I detested and loathed, it was to drift with the cur- rent. Ihave tried many kinds of busi- ness in many different places. My des- tiny is to drift, drift, ever drift, and a divinity seems to frown on my best en- deavors. I think it is the ghost of shat- tered hopes, and that it will keep me drifting until I drift into the haven of rest.”’ Without another word he arose, bade mean adieu and hastily went out into the night. Was ita peculiar case of insanity, or was it a case of broken-heartedness caused by a collision between two na- tures—the one coarse, brutal and power- ful, the other sensitive, refined and of delicate fiber? I had heard of cases where the spirit and will of high-keyed, delicate organisms had been broken and crushed in youth so completely that they were never, in after life, able to reassert themselves; and I came to the conclusion that this was a similar case. It is not an easy matter, as a general thing, to dis- cover for what Young America is es- pecially adapted. He is ready for any- thing that may turn up and feels about as much at home in one place as in an- other, providing it pays. There are ex- ceptions, however, to this general rule. Sometimes nature presents even a Yan- kee organism with a singleness of pur- pose, and crowns it with the requisite talents, and endows it with the necessary attributes for the accomplishment of that one purpose; and, should some cir- cumstance intervene to thwart nature in her design, the condition of that per- son becomes, indeed, “ten thousand times worse than nothing.” In conclusion, permit me to allude to the fact that the festal season is at hand. The Christmas bells are once more peal- ing out ‘‘Peace on earth, good will to men.” The frosty air is rife with friend- ly greetings, and dear ones, long absent, clasp the hands of dear ones at home. Christmas bells! What a magic sound in those words! What an inspiration to memory! How they recall the dead and silent Past, and what a flood of recollec- tions goes rushing through the mind— the old “Yuletide” backlog, the plum pudding, the dear old stocking stuffing tricks of that jolly, shaggy old god of childhood, Santa Claus; the sports and games, the anticipations and aspirations of vigorous youth, the ever changing re- unions of middle life with their new faces and vacant chairs. At the family reunion, while good cheer prompts the heart to good intentions and good re- solves, what more opportune time to carefully consider the talents, tastes and inclinations of the younger members of the family, with the view of ascertaining what part in the great drama of life na- ture has assigned them. An effort of this kind, inspired with a sincere desire to help those for whose well-being par- ents and guardians are largely responsi- ble, would avoid many a shipwreck on the shores of time and secure to the world the benefits and blessings nature had intended. OBSERVER. _ OOS The Commercial Credit Co. employs only competent and experienced colleec- tors and can always be found at 65 Mon- roe St., when you wanta report or set- tlement. tf WOMEN IN BUSINESS LIFE. The mark of distinction made between man’s and woman’s work is rapidly dis- appearing. The main factor that is re- sponsible for the present condition is that woman has risen to a realization of the fact that no man has aright to pro- scribe what her work shall be, and is dis- regarding man-made restrictions, and both asserting and proving her right to choose and do the kind of work for which she feels best adapted, and in the proportion that she shows her ability in her chosen work, will the way be further opened, both for herself and her strug- gling sisters. There is a beautiful and touching story written by Olive Schreiner depict- ing a woman lying bound upon the sand, with a man standing beside her, he being powerless to help her rise without her also making an effort to do so. The same thought may be applied to the re- lation of man and woman to-day. Until the woman shows the desire and ability to help herself, man will not extend a helping hand. When a woman enters a forbidden and untried field, she should aim not only to equal but excel the work of man in the same field, thus proving her ability and right to the vocation chosen. There are various kinds of work to which woman seems peculiarly adapted; in medicine her sympathy and nursing ability would be especially valuable, as would her in- tuition in law, her spirituality in the ministry, her tasteand skill as an artist, decorator and designer. Bear in mind that by being an un- skilled worker you not only injure your own prospects, but the cause in general of ail women. In investigating the condition and wages of factory women in the East, it was found that while women received lower wages than men, their work was not the same, but that which required less ability, strength or skill. If you desire men to make no distine- tion between you and themselves in business, you must expect to stand on the same footing as they, not ask for mercy, but simply justice; ask to be only considered as a human, not as a woman. Expect no favors, no exemp- tions on account of your sex. Be inde- pendent, self-reliant and business-like; feel that as far as manly qualities go you are as much a man as they, and as far as womanly qualities go they ought to be as much a woman as yourself. Soputa N. Reppin JENKINS. —>-.<.__.. Timely Hints for Travelers. From the Sample Case. A successful traveling man must have perseverance, patience and, above all things, tact. Without them he might as well give up first as last. Traveling men must conform to the highest rules of integrity, gentility and fair dealing if they wish to be successful. The fast type of traveling men is passing rapidly away and a few more years wiil make him invisible on the road or in the house. The representative traveling salesman of to-day reflects all the higher qualities of the true gentleman. He is quiet and modest in his manner and dress, and does not depend upon the auxiliaries of whisky. wine, beer and tobacco to dis- pose of his goods; but, rather, upon his personality and those rare business qual- ifications which are essential to success in his profession. << ——_$_$_$_$_$__ Eaton Rapids—Gillette & Miller have removed their hardware stock from Bat- tle Creek to this place. ASPHALT 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. The best Roofing for covering over Shingles on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, ete.; will notrot 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, ete. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, Ger. Louis and Campan Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. Send in your orders for MASKS to the New York Baby Carriage C., 47,49, 51, 53 Canal St. Best Assortment and Lowest Prices, TYPE FOR SALE One hundred pounds of this non- pareil. Extra caps, leaders, figures and frac- — included. Will sell the entire lot for Fifty pounds of this brevier, containing double allowance of caps but no small caps. Will sell font and one pair cases for ten dollars. Eight hundred pounds of the brevier type now used on the ‘‘Tradesman.” It is of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler make and has been in partial use for only four years. Will sell entire font for 18e per pound, or 50 pound fonts or upwards at 20 cents per pound. Cases, a dollar per pair. We also have a choice assortment of second hand job and advertising type, proof sheets of which will be forwarded on application. THE TRADESMAN Oo, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, - ae = BI — Pp. ff 4 HOLIDAY GOODS. Then After Effect on Trade. Written for THE TRADESMAN. In using the term ‘holiday goods,’ I mean all goods and wares placed on the ‘> - market especially for the holiday trade. eed oe This class of merchandise appears in the Store windows and show cases and upon the counters of our merchants in the “ month of December and disappears dur- & . ying the month of January. : Bu re, He Oi i It appears to the greatest advantage and makes the ‘~Mmost tempting display about one week before Christmas. At this time, an ob- ¥ervant stranger from some other planet, who had never heard of Christmas time and the hallowed associations connected with it, would conclude, after a ramble about our streets, that the inhabitants of earth were the most extravagant and most foolish of all created beings. If # ~\—-+eur strange visitor were to take a look at ¥~oTV te comply with those conditions, his a » & our homes and acquaint himself with the conditions of our human life, and learn the fact that the most of us were uuable wonderment would be increased, and to his former verdict of ‘‘extravagance” and ~‘foolishness” he would be inclined to add ‘‘idiocy.’’ During this week pre- 4s) ceding Christmas, wtility and necessity , are put out of sight, and costly trinkets es a. re — and useless trumpery are spread out be- fore us at every turn. If we were all utilitarians, or if a love for the beautiful, or a philanthropic desire to assist the merchants in unloading were the only incentive to purchase these gewgaws, they would never be manufactured. But there is an incentive to purchase these things ingrafted in the heart of every y4- denizen of every Christian land, that can- Sete { (--. d- «trade of the country is nearly suspended _not be resisted. So strong is this incen- tive that the regular legitimate retail for afew days, and an additional tem- + porary force is made necessary in many 4 ps a) of our city stores, in order to meet this demand for holiday goods. Step into one of our city bazaars on “Christmas eve and look around you. ( _— " _ you will see a crowd of customers com- posed of every shade and degree of social standing from the hod carrier who has selected a jumping jack, a tin whistle «4 #2and a rubber ball, all the way to the wife of the banker who has purchased - Dresden china and silver and gold ga- y 417 lore. Why this unusual rush of trade? Why ee this feverish impatience? What mys- a pe great movement terious influence is at the bottom of this impelling men and women to disgorge their scanty earnings ~—+— for these trifling trinkets when they lack the common necessities of life? Why do = = “they linger in their eagerness to pur- —t- we be 4 a J , a chase these things until the hour is un- usually late? Why? Ah, to-morrow is Christmas! They were once innocent little heathen, firm believers in the big- ~ hearted, generous old god, Santa Claus, 7 = and now they have dear little heathen of “their own. And then, somehow, the vi- brations of the church bells on the frosty air at this time of the year revivify our better natures by reminding us of the birth of Him who said “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”’ But what kind and how much of these < . « holiday goods shall I purchase for my Ls + front the retailer. trade? are questions which annually con- This difficult task is not confined to the bazaar and novelty dealers—it enters into the management of every retail business to a greater or THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. lesser extent. chandise is expected to add something to his stock to meet this holiday demand; and the larger portion of this something, if not sold at this time, will have to be earried over to the next holiday season when, perchance, it may be worked off at some price. This holiday contingent is a very unsatisfactory element in a retail business. In selecting holiday gifts, the public demands something novel and unique, and the retailer is thus placed ata great disadvantage. He may have afew novelties which ‘‘go off like hot cakes,” as the saying is, but he dare not duplicate them next year, for the public will expect something new; and so, from year to year, he is compelled to run this department of his business experimental- ly, buying at a venture and relying upon a capricious public, a fickle climate and a mysterious Providence for success. The margin of profit on holiday goods is a good one, and it should be; but it is doubtful if any retailer, outside of the regular bazaar and novelty store, ever realized margin enough on the actual sales of purely holiday goods to balance the loss on the unsold portion. During several years’ experience in the boot and shoe business, the writer never succeeded in making any money on holi- day goods, although confined almost ex- clusively to as useful an article, appar- ently, as a pair of slippers. But holiday slippers, like holiday everything else, are made to be sold to a retailer, then purchased at a fancy price by a gener- ous somebody and presented to another somebody as a Christmas gift. But the trouble was that the generous somebody very seldom knew just what size the oth- er somebody wore, and so, sometime along in January, those elegant, high- priced slippers were quite apt to be re- turned fora different size, and, if the re- quired size was not in stock, then that fancy price would have to be returned, as they were sold subject to that priv- ilege—indeed, they could not be sold otherwise. Whoever saw a genuine hol- iday slipper that would fit the foot of a civilized human being, anyway? If the donator would bring the donatee to the store to try them on, he would see at once that no one on earth could wear them, and, consequently, the merchant would be spared the little unpleasant- ness of buying them asecond time—at an advance of 100 per cent. Any man who wishes to purchase a pair of slippers to wear, and who has had some experience in a shoe store, will never buy the holi- day variety. He knows that they are in- tended only for Christmas gifts and everybody ought to know that Christmas gifts should never be vulgarized by be- ing turned to any practical use. As a country grocer, the same difficul- ty was experienced. The unsold por- tion, one year with another, exceeded in value the profits realized on the portion sold. In the confectionery line the spe- cial Christmas goods were positively worthless if not sold during the holidays. If the so-called Christmas ‘‘candy’’ toys were made of candy instead of some vile, worthless composition, the unsold portion might be disposed of. There seems to be a disposition on the part of everybody to take advantage of everybody at Christmas time, when everybody is generous and tender and off his guard. No wonder that, after the New Year is christened and everybody Every retailer of mer- | determination to replenish his empty pocketbook by practicing rigid economy, the merchant gathers up the remains of his holiday stock and puts them away out of sight. The spirit of emulation has much to do in magnifying the difficulties in the management of these holiday goods. An attractive window display of Christmas notions is a good advertisement, not only for the goods displayed, but also for the general business. This holiday window decorating has become an art, and the window displays made by our city mer- chants have reached such a degree of artistic merit that the public has come to look upon them with wonder and de- light. Hundreds of people cometotown during the week preceding Christmas more to witness the window displays of holiday goods than for any other pur- pose. This appreciation of a_ critical public engenders a spirit of rivalry among the merchants, and so each tries to out-do the other, not only in artistic design, but in extent and variety as well; and this tends to additional expense and an overstocking of holiday goods. Two evils result from this condition of things, one of which affects the dealer and the other affects the general public. The former, prompted by a desire to out- shine his competitors, quite often over- loads himself with this stuff, thereby en- tailing a considerable loss which reacts injuriously upon his regular business, by eonverting more or less of his working eapital into dead stock. The general public, on the other hand, falls into the temptation, which is so profusely and so alluringly spread out before it, to squan- der more money than is necessary for such useless things, and much more than they can really afford. It is all very well for the wealthy to spend their money lavishly for these things. These novelties, many of which are gems of art, represent a vast industry which furnishes the means of livelihood to thousands of human toilers, and, if the fruits of their labor did not find a mar- ket, they would be driven into other fields which are already overcrowded. When the wealthy spend their money freely in this way, they not only gladden the hearts of all who are remembered by them, but they are helping to turn the great drivewheel of industry which has made this nation foremost among the nations of the earth. Oh, no, no evil ever resulted from the over-generosity of the wealthy; but the masses are strongly tempted, and they do yield to this temp- tation, and they do injure themselves, and sometimes they injure their creditor neighbors, by squandering their scanty means in buying trash that does not add one jot or tittle to their worldly comfort or well-being. This is the second evil. Is there a remedy for these evils? I don’t know. It is the writer’s special fort to find fault with everything on gen- eral principles and ery ‘‘wolf,” and some- body else must find out whether there is a wolf prowling around, and, if so, how to dispose of him. E. A. OWEN. —_—_— Oe The Jolly Limburger. From the Erie, Pa., Globe. Matthew Byerly, of Le Boef township, a German, forty-five years or over, has the only limburger cheese factory in this part of the State. He makes every year 25,000 pounds of cheese and finds a mar- ket for it allin Erie. He ships weekly five or six hundred pounds to the city in one to three pound packages, wrapped in tin foil, which sell at 13 cents a pound and the people of this German town smack their lips over the strong smelling gets down to stern business again with a/ stuff. 8 ~ Unlike ste Dutch Process No Alkalies pie il Other Chemicals , are used in the preparation of iW. Baker & Gu’ Breakfast Cocoa, which is absoluteiy pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and of the various cocoa and chocolate preparations man- ufactured by Walter Baker & Co. will be sentfreetcoany dealeron application. W. BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass. GEL (Vea ba Best six bord Machine or Hand Use, FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions ATLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- creased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. le Xnstenntbennuitcatenenedemalnnanaiadianaementaistansiacnsce’ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Marion—Jas. Hixon succeeds Desmond Bros. in general trade. Durand—aA. H. Taggert succeeds C. W. Allison in general trade. Detroit—Robinson Bros. succeed Oliver S. Bell in the drug business. Clifford—Mrs. J. Kenneda Wm. Ahrens in general trade. Copemish—Gibb & Co. succeed Gibb & Clark in the drug business. Plymouth—Lynden & Holmes succeed F. B. Park in the hardware business. Saginaw—L. J. Booth succeeds G. H. Middlesworth in the grocery business. St. Louis—Supphin & Rose succeed A. L. Buchanan in the grocery business. Croswell—W. Tyler has purchased the harness business of Graham & Straffon. Lapeer—Edward Miller is succeeded by John P. Roberts in the meat business. McCord—D. W. Calkins has removed his general stock from A!te to this place. succeeds Ontonagon — Jas. J. Vincent succeeds Van Schaick & Vincent in general trade. Otsego — Marcus McGregor has pur- chased the general stock of N. W. Mills. Lansing—J. C. Giltner & Son have pur- chased the grocery stock of F. C. Bris- bin. Marquette—L. W. Toles succeeds the L. W. Toles Drug Co. in the drug busi- ness. Pontiac—J. S. Stockwell succeeds J. S. Stockwell & Co. in the dry goods busi- ness. Alpena—F. B. Franks has sold _ his boot and shoe stock to Mark C. Bostwick & Co. Tecumseh—W. B. Darling has _ pur- chased the confectionery stock of H. L. Jones. Fenton—W. M. Blackmer is succeeded by McLeod & Halladay in the wall paper business. Hubbardston—Homer Sturges & Son have purchased the meat market of Worthy Bros. Ludington — Mrs. H. Gustafson sue- ceeds Miss Jennie A. Grove in the mil- linery business. Central Lake—Geo. B. Sanderson has opened a dry goods and boot and shoe store at this place. Nessen City—F. C. Wilson has re- moved his dry goods stock from Cope- mish to this place. Eikton—Hirzel & Wittwer succeed Vogel & Weber in general trade and the furniture business. Flint—Goodes & Hall will succeed J. K. Van Tine Jan. 1 in the agricultural implement business. Detroit—Wm. Mueller succeeds Don A. Lochbiler in the hat and men’s fur- nishing goods business. Ironwood—The firm of Selk & Dear, plumbers, has dissolved, Fred C. Selk continuing the business. Bay City—H. E. Meeker & Co. are suc- ceeded by H. E. Meeker in the whole- sale and retail grocery business. Cadillace—Newark & Drury have pur- chased the hardware stock of J. W. Cum- mer and will consolidate the stock with their own. Edmore—Purple & McDonald, agricul- tural and hardware dealers, have dis- solved, Purple & Cronkhite continuing the business. Eastlake — Rothschild & Co. have | leased their meat market to Louie Heaf- | ner for the term of one year with the | privilege of three. ' son’s output was shipped by rail. Charlevoix—Aleck Ross and W. H. Cooper have purchased the grocery stock of O. E. Wilbur and will continue the business at the same location. Detroit—James F. Clough has retired from the firm of the Clough & Warren Organ Co. Geo. P. and James A. Warren continue the business under the same style. Blissfield—The Blissfield Grocery & Provision Co. has purchased the grocery stock of Warren & Glazier, also the gro- cery stock and meat business of Frank D. Lamb. Mancelona—W. M. Simons’ shoe stock was completely destroved by fire on the evening of December 25. The loss is estimated at $3,000, one-half covered by insurance. Ypsilanti—The hardware stock of Rob- bins & Edwards, one of the oldest busi- ness houses in the city, has been sold to Frank I. Carpenter, of Baltimore, Md., who will take charge at once. Sunfield—E. M. Snyder has removed his drug stock from Dimondale and sold a half interest in the stock to Dr. Chas. N. Snyder, formerly of Shaytown. The new firm will be known as C. N. Snyder & Co. Allegan—R. Rizhards, senior member of the firm of R. Richards & Co., dealers in general merchandise on the 3 per cent. profit plan, has gone to Earlton, Kansas. The business will be continued by the junior partner, O. R. Johnson, who has come on from Kansas for that purpose. Detroit—Seligman Schloss has been appointed receiver of the firm of Schloss, Adler & Co. The firm is perfectly solvent, having $165,000 in assets to meet $100,000 in liabilities, but the partner- ship expired a month ago and the part- ners could not agree on a division of the property. Allegan—S. S. Dryden & Sons have sold their hardware stock to W. Abell and Geo. J. Phillips, both of Linesville, Pa., who will continue the business, tak- ing possession Jan.1. The Drydens have been leaders in their line for many years and their retirement from trade will be sincerely regretted. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Leroy—J. C. Corbin is about to remove his sawmill from this place to some point where timber is more plentiful. Saginaw—The J. M. Thompson Co., incorporated, succeeds J. M. Thompson & Co. in the manufacture of lumber. Clare—J. J. Wilcox has purchased a tract of hardwood timber near here and will erect a sawmill to manufacture it. Charlevoix—Geo. Bates has sold his stock in the Charlevoix Lumber Co. and retires from the management of the bus- iness. Bay City—The E. S. Fiteh Co. has changed its name to the Michigan Phos- phate Co. and removed its fertilizer fac- tory to Saginaw. Clare—Ballentine & Clark are engaged extensively in buying cedar poles and have 9,000 on the skids. They will handle 25,000 during the season. Saginaw—L. P. Mason, one of the old- est lumber dealers and forwarders in the valley, having located here in 1869, has bought and shipped about 50,000,000 feet | the past season. Saginaw—C. L. Grant & Co.’s sawmill manufactured a little over 5,000,000 feet the last season, all of which has been | sold, and nearly every foot of the sea- i { j , white pine. Lake George—The Church sawmill! has There are too many dead-beat beggars shut down owing tothe assignment of , going about skimming the milk from hu- Nathan Church. All the lumbering op-| man kindness and leaving humanity to erations of the firm which were extensive, have been sus- pended. Saginaw—John C. Brown, for many years one of the most extensive lumber jobbers in Michigan, and who met with financial reverses last spring, has trans- ferred his base of operations to Arizona, where he is interested in a body of tim- ber, and a crew of 30 men leave here to- morrow for Arizona to work for him. Manistee—The sawmill of the R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co. is the only one in operation here, but itis not thought that they will run very much longer, al- though they have a stream of exhaust steam coming out at the foot of their log slide, that keeps things thawed out pretty well. Manistee—Considering the cost of elec- tric lighting for sawmills, andthe great difference in the safety of that mode of lighting over the old style of oil lamps, it is a wonder that there are not more of them in use than there are at present. The Canfield & Wheeler Company put in a small plant this season, capable of Swinging about 60 lights, the cost of which was about $500, but they say they would not be without it for twice its cost. Detroit—The Diamond Match Com- pany has purchased the plant of the only competing match factory it had in Michigan. The Detroit Match Co., whose works are located on Twenty- fourth street near the railway, and which have been in operation about fifteen months, were sold to the Diamond Company for $75,000, a Chicago agent named Purcell negotiating the transac- tion. The company was stocked for $30,000, of which $21,000 had been paid in. About nine years ago the Diamond Match Company purchased the factories of D. M. Richardson and Schmitt & Schmittdiel, located here, and subse- quently a small factory at Grand Haven, since which time they have had no com- petitors in the State until the Detroit company entered the field a little more than a year ago. The Detroit’s goods were chiefly the acme parlor match, which were mostly sold in St. Louis, Mo. It was running two ‘‘gangs’? of work- men. One of the sellers says he pre- sumes the works will be closed down by the purchasers within a short time. Ludington—J. S. Stearns, of this place, and Fred Herrick and J. H. Cushway, of Custer, have purchased of the United States the timber on the Lae du Flam- beau reservation in Oneida county, Wis. The reservation embraces 62,000 acres, including the lakes on it. It is estimat- ed that the pine on the area amounts to 200,000,000 feet. The purchasers pay a certain price per thousand, and have twenty years in which to cut off the tim- ber. Camps have been established and active work in logging is being prosecut- ed. During the winter a band sawmill and shingle mill will be built on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Rail- way, thirty miles from Rhinelander. 'The mills will be ready to start up next spring. The logs will be dumped into | the lakes, which are connected by float- | able streams, and towed to the mills by atug tobe built for the purpose. The timber is said to be a good quality of Mr. Stearns will be general superintendent of milling and marketing, and Mr. Herrick will manage the logging operations. in that section, | sour on the world. > 2 <> Calls for public meetings are not much : ‘ Ww heeded; but when Gabriel issues his *+< n trump eall for the resurrection, thous- ands of people who have not been seer! for years will suddenly turn up. 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. RUSINESS CHANCES. OR 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 OR SALE—I HAVE FOR SALE TWO WELL- 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 usiness. In both case- the gentlemen own the lots, and rents will be cheap and every encour- agement given. Addressin first instance, Wil- liam Connor, box 346, Marshall. Mich. 619 ONT HESITATE! STEP RIGHT INTO A good business! $12,000 stock of dry goods, shoes and groceries, located in a live railroad town in the best county in Eastern Kansas; monthly sales over 34,(00; good profits; if taken atonce Can step right into a good business; no trade; must have cash or cash and bankable paper. Address Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank, Scribner, Neb. 633 OR SALE—OR EXCHANGE FOR LARGE - stock of merchandise. Will pay cash dif- ference. Six hundred acres hardwood timber land in Emmet county. Good soil. One half mile from railway station, by road or waterway. For particulars address E. F. B., Grand Blane, Mich. 637 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. 6 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 ANTEv—TO EXt HANGE $1,0W CAPITAL stock in company paying 10 per cent. divi- dend and acre property and lots in 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 SITUATIONS WANTED. OSITION WANTED—FOR A YOUNG LADY who is experienced in commercial and bank book-keeping, accustomed to cash and general office work, an exce lent stenographer and Rem- ington operator, five years’ experience with late employer. Valuable, competent help, a lady of © refinement and ability. Owing to change in business, parties are assisting to secure a posi- tion Address Late Employer, care Michigan Tradesman 638 AY ANTED — POSITION AS SUpERINTEN- dent of large first-class canning factory, orin canned goods department of large whole- sale grocery house. Well upon packing in tin. First-class references. Correspondence solicited. Address Lock Box 23, Farnham, Erie Co., N. Y. 630 MISCELLANEOUS, ANTED—PARTNER WITH SMALL CAP. ital to engage in established and good paying manufacturing business. R.N. Thomp- sou, So. Boardman. Mich. 634 E HAVE 8,000 WORTH OF VACANT lots located at Detroit, Muskegon and St. Johns, and $500 worth of good paying factory stobk, which we would trade for a drug stock located in Michigan. A stock combining wall paper, paints and oils Se Address, stat- ing particulars, Lock Box 145, St. Johns, Mich. 635 OR SALE—TWO-STORY FRAME STORE building and dwelling in thriving Northern Michigan town. Property well rented. Will sell cheap or exchange for city property. A. M. LeBaron, 6» Monroe St. 636 OR SALE—CLEAN sTOCK OF GENERAL merchandise, located at Sumner, six miles south of Riverdale Building is 22x88, with storehouse 20x90, all in good shape. Trade amounts to $15,000 per year. Excellent opportu nity. Address No. 632, care Michigan Tzades- man. 632 OR SALE—TWENTY-FUUR DRAWER LET- ter file, nearly new and used but a short time. Have no use for it, as we took it on a debt. W. T. Lamoreaux, 128 West Bridge street. 631 ; ANYED—TO BUY STOCK GROCERIES or general merchandise. Box 1,015, Des Moines, Iowa. 626 ie a f ~ wesw rw | vy-\y — he “afe- I V is * t+ S- Sls aida 1Y e~ywW is ad‘ a, S. Sy to ‘ GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Geo. B. Wilson has purchased the hard- ware stock of Bentley & Cornell. Anderson & Johnson succeed Mrs. Han- nah Anderson in the grocery business. E. A. Henry has opened a grocery store at Alto, the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnishing the stock. Barry & Co. have resumed the grocery business at Rodney. ‘The stock was pur- chased at this market. A. L. Jennison, grocer at 144 West Fulton street, has closed his doors and will retire from the business. D. W. Calkins has opened a grocery store at McCord. The stock was fur- nished by the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. J. M. Frost has arranged to open a drug store at Mattawan. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has the order for the stock and fixtures. Edwin J. Gillies & Co. have foreclosed their mortgage on the grocery stock of John Burrows, but it is doubtful if the _ goods amount to the face of the mort- gage. As Burrows is not supposed to be possessed of a superabundance of any- thing but political ambition and trades union doctrine, the unsecured creditors will probably get no nearer a realization of their claims than the old man got to the Legislature. The offer made by Peter Schuit to ex- hibit at the next meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association a cur- rant cleaning machine which can be con- structed at nominal cost will probably attract every member of the organiza- tion; and those grocers who have not yet put in their applications for member- ship would do well to do so, in order to take advantage of the opportunity above presented. >_< Purely Personal. James b. MeInnes was called to South Bend, Saturday, by the death ofa relative of his wife. Harm Timmer, grocer at 233 Seventh street, has the sympathy of the trade ia the death of his wife. O. P. DeWitt, the St. Johns grocer, was in town one day last week to attend the annual meeting of the Lemon & Wheeler Company. Geo. L. Thurston, of the firm of Thurs- ton & Co., general dealers at Centra! Lake, was in town a couple of days last week, invoking the assistance of an occulist. Cc. E. Ramsey, formerly engaged in the stationery business on South Division street, Grand Rapids, but now engaged in general trade at Central Lake, will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends inthe death of his wife and the serious illness of his daughter. oo The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is steady. The adoption of the equality plan by the wholesale grocers of the State, which goes into effect next Monday, will neces- sitate a re-arrangement of the schedule of prices to conform to the prices now in effect in other states. Oysters—The cold weather and limited demand have made stock scarce and prices have gradually advanced from day to day until they now stand 10@12% cents a gallon above former prices. Oatmeal—The market is a Jittle lower. Pickles—Strong and advancing. High- er prices are looked for. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Industrial Theory of the Socialists. In view of its most distinctive feature, the present age has been defined as the capitalistic era of history. In former ages the peasant and the artisan owned the means of production, and, after sup- plying themselves and their feudal chief, sent the surplusto market. Each owned the rude implements he used in his work. The collapse of feudalism toward the close of the Middle Ages led to the break- ing up of small holdings, the conversion of large tracts into extensive sheep rans, and to other changes of a similar ten- dency, and the consequence was_ that multitudes were driven into vagabond- age or forced to seek a livelihood in the towns. Various causes, at the same time, as, for example, the discovery of America and of the sea route to the Indies, built up a class of capitalists. The development of new markets creat- ed a growing demand for the products of industry. That demand was met by me- chanical inventions of increased com- plexity, and finally the adoption of steam as a motive power and the establishment of the factory system effected a complete industrial revolution. The capitalist now owns the means of production. The proletarian has noth- ing to sell but labor, and his wages are determined by the fluctuation of the la- bor market—usually they are not much in excess of the actual necessities of him- self and family. The profits of the bus- iness are retained by the capitalist who employs him. A minute division and sub-division of labor has rendered him still more hopelessly dependent. He is no longer a shoemaker, for instance, but is confined to the manufacture of a part of a shoe—perhaps he stitches the up- pers or hammers the soles. If he loses his place he must find another in that branch of shoemaking which he has learned. Moreover, handicraft is a word that is fast losing its etymological sig- nificance. Things are made by machin- ery, and improved machines are constant- ly throwing men out of employment, either because they are operated with less labor, or because they lead to over- production. Meanwhile important changes are tak- ing place in the capitalist class. Just as the ownership of the means of production passed from the artisan to the capitalist, the control of production passes from the small capitalist to the millionaire or multi-millionaire, then to a company, and at last to a combination of companies. The tendency of concen- tration is due to what we may call nat- ural causes. The demands of trade call for more expensive means of production. The large establishment undersells the small one. Rival companies combine to avoid a mutually ruinous competition. The movement is towards consolidation and monopoly. And it is not merely the artisan or the day laborer who has cause for complaint. The proprietor of a small establishment is often forced either to sell out or to encounter acrushing op- position. But sinee these changes have been brought about by natural causes, and since they seem to be inevitably in- cident to the world’s progress, the ques- tion is how this modern form of despot- ism can be overthrown. One thing, at least, may be regarded as certain, and that is that the majority will not always endure the present state of affairs. The masses have been accustomed to organi- zation in their workshops, in armies and in political parties. On the other hand, they have been taught to read, and to think at least to some purpose. And the disparity of condition between the prole- tariat and the wealthy class is less easily tolerated when there is not a proportion- ate difference in point of intelligence. It is true that the hardships suffered by the laboring poor are sometimes exaggerated. It is, also, true that this class enjoys more comfort now than ever before in the history of the world. Butit remains a fact that the poor man lives a life of anxiety, because he depends upon a pre- carious employment. But, as we have said, the restlessness which disturbs so- ciety is not confined to people who are employed by the day or by the month. There is a general feeling that there is something radically wrong in our whole industrial system. A certain school of sociologists hold that society is a vital organism, passing, like a tree, through successive stages of growth under a fixed law of development. The concentration of industry and of capital is simply the inevitable result of an organic process. Discovery, inven- tion, competition and combination have taken place in an unavoidable order of suecession, and all the lines of progress have converged towards monopoly. We have had first a number of small monop- olies, and then a smaller number of large monopolies. The tendency is toward the inclusion of all industry under one or- ganization, but the time is nearly ripe for placing that organization under pop- ular control. The people are conscious of their power, and they may be forced to exert it to achieve an industrial eman- cipation, as in times past they exerted it to achieve a civil emancipation. We state this theory without indorsing it. It is interesting to us asa speculation which has come to be gravely discussed by sociologists and advanced political thinkers. Unquestionably it is a part of the general scheme of socialism, but it does not necessarily involve the whole socialistic programme. In any ease, it must be admitted that its adoption will long remain impracticable. It is most objectionable, as it seems to us, as a menace to freedom of individual devel- opment. FRANK STOWELL. —————_—-- Investigate Before Investing. From the American Dairyman. How strange it is that a community of staid business men and farmers will al- low a slick-tongued rascal to talk them into putting thousands of dollars into creameries when a boy fifteen years old should know that one-third the money would purchase all the machinery and buildings the cows in that neighborhood would require, Jay Gould said ‘Capital is timid,’? but when we see the fool schemes which moneyed men are all the time entering into with the recklessness of a ‘“‘road agent,’’ we are inclined to think there is neither timidity nor reas- onable carefulness about capital. How easy it would be for any one of a dozen men interested in starting such an enter- prise to write to half a dozen creameries, inclosing stamps ‘for reply, asking for information as to probable cost of creamery building and fixtures for the number of cows which could probably be depended on the first two years, for it must be remembered that no creamery pays a dividend—and few of them pay actual expenses—the first two years. ———_ 2 Bank Notes. L. E. Parsons, for many years teller in the Farmers’ National Bank of Union City, goes to South Haven to assume the eashiership of the new Citizens’ State Bank which is to open January 1. W. L. Hammond, who has held the position of Cashier of the First National Bank of Traverse City for nearly five years, has resigned to accept a similar position with the Commercial and Say- ings Bank of Ludington. 18938. Happy New Year. With compliments of the sea- son we suggest that you com- mence the New Year right with a good supply of our famous brand of Bee Hive Chop Japan Teas. f2CO 1889X 890 Kdwin J. Gillies & Go., NEW YORK. J. P. VISNER, Agt., 167 No. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Teacher—What is the best Cigar sold in this country to-day? Class (in chorus)— Ben Hur! 10c or 3 for 25c. Made on Honor ! Sold on Merit ! ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER. GEO. MOEBS & GO, Manufacturers, DETROIT. CHICAGO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Little Interrogation Point. Somebody has noticed the resemblance between the interrogation point and the corkscrew, and wonders whether this in- quisitive little point was not so formed because it was intended to draw out knowledge. The small boy, who is a veritable Gatling gun of interrogatorie, has been written up many times, but he never will be suppressed, and it is well that he cannot be, for questions indicate the thirst for knowledge, and the boy who never asks questions is not likely to develop character. The writer recently noted the follow- ing conversation between a little boy and a maiden aunt, while en route to Buffalo a few days ago: “What is that, auntie?” the little boy commenced, pointing to a stack of hay in a passing field. ‘Oh, that’s hay, dear,’? answers careworn lady. ‘‘What is hay, auntie?” ‘“‘Why, hay is hay, dear.’? “But what is it made of?” *‘Why, hay is made of dirt and water and air.” ‘“‘Who makes it?” ‘“‘“God makes it, dear.’’ **Does he make it in the daytime or in the night?’’ ‘In both, dear.” ““And Sunday?” “Yes, all the time.’’ “‘Ain’t it wicked to make hay on Sun- day, auntie?”’ “Oh, I don’t know. Id _ keep still, Willie, that’s a dear. Auntie is tired.” After remaining quiet a moment little Willie broke out. ‘“‘Where do stars come from, auntie?” **I don’t know; nobody knows.”’ “Did the moon lay ‘em?” “Yes, I guess so,’’ replied the wicked lady. ‘Can the moon lay eggs, too?’’ “IT suppose so. Don’t bother me.” Another short silence. when Willie broke out: ‘‘Bennie says oxins is a owl, auntie. Is they?”’ ‘Oh, perhaps so.”’ “I think a whale could lay eggs— don’t you, auntie?” “Oh, yes—l guess so,’’ said the shame- less woman. ‘Did you ever nest?”’ *““Oh, I guess so.’ ‘“*Where?” “I mean no. Willie, you must be quiet; I’m getting crazy.” ‘“‘What makes you crazy, auntie?” “Oh, dear! you ask so many ques- tions.’’ “Did you ever see a :ittle fly eat sugar?” “*Yes, dear.’’ **Where?” ‘‘Willie, sit down on the seat and be still, or I will shake you. Now, not an- other word.’’ And the lady pointed her finger sharp- ly at the little boy, as if she was going to stick it through him. If she had been a wicked woman she would have sworn. There are eight million little boys like Willie in the United States and from this number must come a generation of Pres- idents, judges and men to guide the ship of state. Later in the evening the lad was put to sleep by his father and about 1 o’clock a. m. the following dialogue ensued: “Papal? “Well!? “You ‘wake, papa?”’ gg Nile **So’s me.”’ “Yes, [hear that you are,” with cold sarcasm. ‘‘What do you want?” “Oh, natin.” “Well, lie still and go to sleep, then.” ‘“*T isn’t s’eepy, papa.” “Well, Iam, yonng man.” “Is you? I1 isn’t—not a bit. papa, papa!”’ *“Well?”’ “If you was wich, what would you buy me?” “I don’t know—go to sleep.” **Wouldn’t you buy me nuffin’?” “I think so; now you—’”’ ‘“‘What papa?” ‘Well, a steam engine, maybe; now you go right to sleep.” the see a whale on his Say, “Yes, yes; now you—’”’ “and would the wheels go wound, papa?” “Oh, yes’? (yawning). eyes, now, and—” “And would it go choo, choo, choo, papa?” “Yes, yes; now go to sleep.” ‘‘] say, papa.”’ No answer. ‘**Papa!” ‘“‘Well, what now?” “Is you ‘f‘aid of the dark?” **No”’? (drowsily). “Tisn’t either. Papa!” ‘“*Well?”’ “If I was wich I'd buy you sumfin’.” ‘Would you?”’ “Yes; I'd buy you some ice cweam, and some chocolum drops, and a toof brush, and knickerbockers wiv bwaid on like mine, and—”’ “That will do. “Shut your You must go to sleep, now.’’ Silence for half a second, and then: “Papal FapaY’ ‘“‘Well, what now?’ “IT want a jink.” ““No, you don’t.” “h @0, papa.” Experience has taught that there will be no peace until you have brought the “jink,’? and you scurry out into the bath- room in the dark for it, knocking your shins against everything in the room as you go. “Now, I don’t want to hear another word from you to-night,” as he gulped down a mouthful of water he didn’t want. “Then I'll be a good boy, won’t I?’ he says. ‘*Yes; you’ll be the best boy on earth.” “Papar’ “Well, well! What now?” “Is I your little boy?’’ “Yes, yes; of course.”’ “Some mans haven’t got any little boys; but you have, haven’t you?” Ties,” >. Qualifications of a Good Salesman. J. G. Powers, for many years one of Wanamaker’s lieutenants, in an after dinner speech said: ‘*‘To be a good salesman is the same, so far as it goes, as to be a good merchant, and the great majority of both merchants and salesmen mistake what is to be either. For instance, isn’t this the prevailing notion of a good salesman: To be bright and clean looking, to have a good face, a pleasant manner, to be modest but confi- dent, ready and self-possessed, cheerful, cheery, polite, to take pleasure in giving pleasure, to adapt oneself to his customer; to carry the whole of one’s stock in his head, to catch the customer’s want or notion or whim in a minute, and go to a dozen sorts of goods and surround that want ornotion or whim with so many satisfactions as to narrow it into a choice between them; not to be afraid of work; to welcome service, to make a business of being ready with many expedients for every emergency; to seem to have noend of strength and time and patience; to spend them all without stint in the effort to please; to come from the last transac- tion with buoyancy and with anticipation of equal success in the next one; to de- vote oneself to a dozen, twenty, forty customers, one after another, never weary, with forty different manners of forty different customers, all marked by adaptation to the one in hand; taking suc- cess and failure with the same complai- sance;helping other salesmen; taking help from them; being devoted to business, the business of selling and helping others sell and being helped to sell, as if selling were what the world turns on? I believe that both merchant and salesman, to ex- cel in their respective capacities, must add to these blandishments the hard, cold, stern virtue of sincerity. Of two equal salesmen side by side, the one who sincerely makes his customer’s money go as far in satisfaction and gratification as the store affords him opportunity to do, will distance the other just as surely as of two equal stores side by side, the one that counts not the cost of faithful, ade- quate service will distance the other. Store and salesman must work together. A faithful salesman is out of place in a faithless store; and a faithful store de- ‘‘With a bell that would wing, papa?’’' pends on the faithfalness of its sellers.’? Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Saree 7 ‘Arrow Brand 5% SS le 6 “World Wide. 6 a 6 ee , Atlantic Ae 6%|Full Yard Wide..... 6% es 6%\Georgia A.......... ” ag AEROS 544| Honest Width....... 6% “ B...... ---. © peeruores ......... a 5 |Indian Head........ 7 a GXising A A........... 6% Archery Bunting... 4 |KingEC. ou oe Beaver Dam A A.. ox Lawrence LL...... Blackstone O, 32.. Madras cheese cloth ox Diack Crow......... ‘3 Newmarket a 5% peck Hock ........ 6 isc. on z - a. 6% Capital A.. oe cu He 4 DD.... Cavanst Vo... - a 63 Chapman cheese cl. 34 meoeee Mh... . 3.2... 5 Ciro ©... ..... 544/Our Level Best..... 6% eee Shourore &........... 6 Dwight Star......... Ceeroemee. ‘ Con COC........ Sercoee. .. 8 6 Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. -+++++-. 84|Geo. Washington... 8 Gien Milis.......... 7 Gold Medal.. - ™% Green Ticket . 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Peerless, —_ as 1859 wares colored. . .20 — a ec . 18 inate. + oe me a colored . .20 — @oops. — eee : Nameless ee > oie cena ET 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 Fee c e 30 Nameless oe ec 16 _ + 32% ee 18 “ one CORSETS, (meeene........-.+- #9 50|/Wonderful .... ....84 50 Senin s......... 2 Oerereon.. ........ 475 Davis Waists..... 9 OiBortree’s .......... 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50j/Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS, emer. oc, 6%| Naumkeag satteen.. 7% ean oggin nine oe oe 6% ee Conestoga........... 7% Brunewick. .... .... 6% —— oda 6% Allen turkey reds.. caret fancies.... 5% eee. ....... Clyde Robes........ “ sink &purple 6 |Charter Oak fancies 4% ss a 6 DelMari ne cashm’s. 6 _ pink checks. 6 mourn’g 6 ” staples ...... 6 Eddystone fancy... 6 ¥ shirtings... 4% chocolat 6 American fancy.... 5% ° rober.... 6 Americanindigo.... 614 sateens.. 6 American shirtings. 5 Hamilton = aoe Argentine Grays. . 3 taple . 6 Anchor —.. 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No 2—20,M C....... 50 “ 4—15 F 3%...... 40 « 2-10 8........ 45 COTTON TAPE, No 2 White & BI’k..12 {No 8 White & BI’k,.20 “4 ig —o 1° " 23 “ 6 “ in oe 12 “cs soe SAFETY PINS. es coe 28 -~ Bi cheien cesuse 36 eneee sae M. A. Cee... .. 0... 1 40|/Steamboat........... 40 COWIE, oe cc code ; Gold vOR: 3. oi: 150 Marshall’s........... soe k CLOTH = in 9 6—4...2 95 —- Sail Twine. 73 shone eaves ae 18 Rising § Star oa. ae ar No oo 20 13 Wool —e 4: Plyit% = Powhattan ......... a OSNABURGS De. oi a Pleasant.... 6% Bee, 5s... son poe EA CSE ORR BNR q SS a \ — 4 4 ‘ f emi THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TOLD BY A TRAVELER. An Old Hand Tells Some Interesting Reminiscences. Among the old-fashioned notions enter- tained by the house 1 traveled for so many years was the idea that bills should be paid as contracted andas due. Some- times this absurd conceit occasioned me no little discomfort. Perhaps my people could in some cases have smoothed the matter over and not lost anything by it. As it was, [had to dothe smooting—and nature didn’t make me very oily. I had a customer in Lubricopolis whom 1 never knew to pay a bill when due, though he always paid. He wasa free buyer and a free talker—too free for the comfort of his listener, if matters weren’t pleasant with him. Our terms were thirty days. One morning I drepped in- to his store before he arrived. He came in with open letters in his hand, and to my cordial greeting gave but a grunted “Good morning.’’ Presently he burst out with: “TI suppose I’ve got to go to the bank this morning and pay a draft of your house, blank it; I don’t more than get the goods in the house before they draw on me.’’ My folks kept me supplied with a col- lection sheet, a relic of the time when they sold goods by means of wagon drum- mers. I never collected anything unless the customer offered me the money, be- cause I thought dunning had a bad effect on trade. Well, I pulled out my sheet and found that Mr. Man’s bill was sixty days old and so advised him, incidentally remarking that our terms were thirty days ‘‘you know.” His only reply was: “I can buy all the goods I want at four months, and [1] be blanked if I buy any more from a blank house that draws on me before I get the goods in, blankety, blank, blank ” and a blue streak followed him as he stalked down the store. Next time round, Mr. Man was in bet- ter mood, but adhered to his four months’ ultimatum. 1 couldn’t meet him and went my way, until a more convenient season. Next trip I landed him for a good order and kept it up for about a year. Then the arrival of adraft in an inopportune moment again upset these agreeable conditions, and there were no orders for three or four months. So it went on, with competitors, of course, doing their best to permanently supplantus. Mr. Man took from sixty to ninety days. That was wrong, but the folks would send one or two state- ments, say at thirty and sixty days, and then draw. If they had taken pains to write him a frank and friendly letter now and then I believe it would have saved him. Finally, our folks thought there was no use waiting so long to get ready to draw, so they drew at the endof thirty days. I was in Mr. Man’s store when the notice of draft came in. That set- tled it. he never bought another cent’s worth of the house after that. My in- genious supposition that it ‘‘must have been a mistake,’”’ ete., availed not. He expressed friendship for me, but blanked the house. When I changed houses I secured his business. I had fora side customer in a small New York town a nice old gentleman whose purchases of me amounted to about $15 a trip. He always said the goods were put in the windows, lost their freshness, and he had to give them away. One season he owed us three or four bills, some $67 all told, and the house drew on him. He paid the draft, and when I came round again he told me of it in the jolliest way, and said: “Now, I wish you would tell your folks that I sometimes declare to my cus- tomers that I am going to draw on them if they don’t pay me, and they tell me to draw and be deuced, or something like that.” For several years I sold moderate bills regularly to Mr. Jones in Smithtown. There was much uncertainty as to his resources and some doubt as to his char- acter, so that many travelers dared not sell him. He was the only party I could get hold of in his town, and I felt loath to drop him. I could frequently sell him in the evening, and so lost no day- time. But he had one bad habit. He bapa — a — HAMMERS. would take sixty days on his bills and Wrought Inside Blind ac "60810 mee treet Hse > ’ then deduct 5 per cent. Our folks wrote | Wrought Brass.... 5 ee See 4 tin + agate him that they would not allow that, and Bling’ pace an Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. list 60 he promptly suggested their notifying | pimda’ paws cones 1 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.. Be 40410 me not to call on him. Of course, I ' BLOOKS HINGES. Sa ie i : —_ es dis, 60410 called and sold him just the same, but | orainary Tackle, list April 1992..... ..... 50| State...) r doz. net, 2 after that had been going on for a year or CRADLES Screw i Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and . two I got from our bookkeeper a state- OE eae mainly Ce is, 5002 | qt Om BOE «== w= esse eter ee ee ee cee ee eee eae % ment of his improper discounts, which ies iia. screw Hook — enemies! ay was really 1 per cent. on his purchases | cag gteal ts a - ee net 7% ee ee ee | OME UN cess cece cee cscs oe perb 5 ‘ for that time. In the next trade I over- aie ee on _— - charged him enough to cover the whole | Bly’s1-10.............. -_perm 65 cian ai enaY Vihee dis. amount and a balance beside to provide a C.F........ cg : Barn a Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. .. .50&10 > e . oA . ampion, an CR cece este wea for future settlements. Poor fellow! He Muasket ...................... ase ° 60 Kidder, wood ee 8 thought he was doing asharp thing in cool- CARTRIDGES. HOLLOW WARE. ly muicting us Of these petty sums. Heipw. pea eee aaealeea eu 60&10 knew we wanted to sell him, and by| Central Fire.........-....-.-----------e. dis, 25 a wt eeeeeeecsccssetereecesnvesees cece. oe threatening us with the withdrawal of CHISELS. dis. | Gray enameled.................. ae 40&10 his trade he compelled us to yield to his | Socket Firmer................... 70&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. unjust exactions. He never knew that eae a Stamped Tin Ware................... new list 70 he himself footed the bill. Socket Slicks . a i detente ae At one time we heard a rumor about | Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..... . £ WIRE GOODS. dis, him which, if true, would render him a COMBS, dis. | Bright...... a 70410610 very shaky risk. Calling soon after, I | Cur pp LAWEENCE'B..20 2. eee eeeeeeceeseeees 40 Screw iiyea tote ecet eee eeter eens cece ee --- ee stood leaning on his stand-up desk and Hote ki eo. ale cid ia ae Selseidcetsuaeaas jeu 25 Gate Hooks and Byes... : in ce "70810810 chatting with him, and in off-hand K. EVELS. dis.7 a ae : White Crayons, per gr0ss.......... 12@12% dis. 10 | stanley Rule and Level C0.°8.............-. : s s . ROPES, ‘Say, our folks heard that you were in eee Sisal, 4 neh aud larger .................... 9 he a, Se 0 ee ee ee OF ee 13 entered against you. Is that so?” Cold Rolled, 14x56 and ea PF ich aie ti oo dis. He denied the story emphatically, pro- Cold Rolled, IGRM...-----n00e-eoneee-eornnes 7 eee ee testing that there was no judgment | “C“OM®---:-:---- + Oo ee aaa te, cen 20 against him. I reached out lazily Over | Morse’s Bit Stocks...............ssceesee0e 50 ~— Vee Smooth. Com. his desk, picked up a scrap of paper, | Taper and straight Shank................... SO} Woe, 100240000 ee gag gear and addressing it to our firm, wrote out Morse’s Taper S. ee 50 Nos. 15 to 7 Le oe ba eee od 405 3 05 briefly Mr. Jones’ statement. I shoved it a — ane i 7 = : _ over to him and said it might be well to | Small sixes, ser pound ...................+-. en 7a ous... ee sign that. He glanced over it, hesitated s a - ae NO. BT oe an “tiga see a i" : Fl i , over inches a minute, then dashed down his —_—- I Onn 4 vices GH... dos. net 75} Wide not less than 2-10 extra treated the matter with no formality or oe el nn EE dis 40 SAND PAPER. seriousness, but took care to forward the | Adjustable......................0..eeeee Gin. 40410 | List acct. 19, 86 ......... 0.22.22... eee dis. 50 scrap of paper to be filed in our office. I : EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. | Silver Lake, White oe Met 50 afterwards learned that ‘the judgment Clark a, small, $18; — oo: . . 30 ee 55 did exist, but was lifted soon after the | !ves’ 1, 818: 2, eee: So ~~" mn aoe wet e eet e tetas eee ees ea signing of the statement by aid Of @| Disston’s ..................cccc cece ecee ee cee 60&10 «“ ae CC = friend. Eventually, Mr. Jones went the oo Sein eee we mee ceca ween cae 60£10| Discount, 10. way of 95 per cent. of those who attempt | felers none 00 | gotta Bye ———— to buy and sell and get gain. Heller's Horse Rasps .. ......---..0....00.. 50 aires a. — “a A GALVANIZED IRON. . ec ew ce ue, A Nebraska traveling man is responsi-| Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 26; 27 28] ,, es ono a = ble for the following effusion: ‘‘Back- _ = 14 5 “= * f cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 30 ward, turn backward, O time, in thy UGES. dis. ca ee x i ny Stanley Rule and Level a 50 apg a le hhh flight, feed me on gruel again, just for ee dis. | steel, Game TRAPS. = 10 to-night; 1am so wearied of restaurant a, — Ss - Ped al 5s Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 steaks, petrified doughnuts and vulean-| Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 toca ooo gpg ee per on ized steaks, oysters that sleep in a watery | Drawer and Shatter, poreelai............. 9 | Mouse» delusion... -........, a bath, butter as strong as Goliath of Gath; LOCKS—DOOR. Cm | pete Mere 65 . Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... OO | Anneuled MOPEOG 70—10 weary of paying for what I can’t eat, Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’8.................+. SS Ganperad Markee ae chewing up rubber and calling it meat. Seana Ah ac TL = eed aes a te ett tee tree tees ee eres ~~ Backward, turn backward, for weary I}, 4. Eye. name Barbed Fence, galvanized.......0..00 00. 2 85 weeeee 9 am! Give me a whack at my grand-| Hunt Bye. 815.00, dis. 60 ’ HORSE aA — mother’s jam; let me drink milk that has HGUS............000- -oceeeeee $18.50, dis. — = = eee dis. as never been skimmed, let me eat butter | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, , handled sett eeeereeees ia. OU) NortweMiGrd. 6.0.0... dis. 10d10 . f° ES. whose hair has been trimmed; let me Coffee, Parkers Co.’8........ --...-.--- sees 40 | Baxter’s Aditi, niickeled as aah : . 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s > 40| Coe’s Genuine ...... ee ie but once have an old fashioned pie, then 7 Landers, Ferry & Clerk’s........ 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 15 I’ll be willing to curl up and die: I have Enterp _ agama rete eeeeeee —" Coo’s Patent, malleable....... 0.0... 205... % 10 been eating iron filings for years—is it a pee a eas ecw cues — Bird Cages .... enn rere ee ” ; * ROUCNENE WO GHCMMAEIIIO ooo oes oc oss cee wees ese Pumps, Cistern.. %5&10 wonder I’m melting in tears?” Enterprise, self-measuring............ a ane New List. ..20&10 WATEA = a a Ss Plate. —a s mnapere, American... .... 6.65.0. 5. When You Get Tired Sect nae, cone. a — 5 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... es&io PO MALIB, DABE... 0.0 coos cecesee. coves META . Buying rubbish, send for our catalogue of win- Advance over bas Steel Wire. Pie — dow Screens, Screen Doors, Etc. Goods well | 60............sseesseeee essence een es Baa | ORC) Die erg 260 made from best materials, OS ie: Base de a eT ED 286 Prices seldom higher. = 2 ee Ee ae = = ZINC. ek PR ne oa cas se tease sete eesisie + asia «ane out : Sheet, 2%c per pound. A. J. PHILLIPS & CO., > A TAD RAT 15 Saas 6% Fenton, Mich. = sent e tt ee tee e eens eee sent eeeeee eee = = Pee Ba ea : SLIT Rg REAL EID a 20 50 — Hardware Price Current. —| 8-.-2 0. cece cect ee ecce eet eeeete eee tees 25 60 FG. ooo eee cee wne cesses corse cess = 2 = nD Toes of ca many other qualities of Reem meee eee Heme e en. wee w ew eeeeeee oe solder in e market indicate y pr vate bran 8 These prices are for cash buyers, who et eeeteers sees erect = : = vary according to composition. pay promptly and buy in full packages. | #inog.. ILL 8 160 | cooxson esc ne ae (Cee ee 60 Gimties oo i? 13 Snell’s.......... 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GIO} jax TK, eee 8 50 Games aad walk Reset eae tucwee C leeee ume cu 75&10 PANS. 20x28 IC, ' “ pide ches cie cca s ae ee ee Fry, ACmO............2..2..+2++-2++ +++» Gis.60—10 | 44x99 “All ee Sleigh sites 000° 0000200000. 0S | omimon, polished 2202200. dis. |iaolx, ey me 50 BUCKETS. ee eet i kak ccc noes “inoue C ‘ aa ee ee $ 3 50 | Copper oe and eo tn Lieuek ee Ace cmueleeus 50—10 Well, Ce EE EEE EE 400 i 00 aa OasT. dis. “ar Wood's } aaeae siedaneed, i Jos. 34 to - 10 20| 14x31 Ix 15 Cast Loose Pin, figured.'.....2 0............ 708 | “Br Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 3 Non a5 to xt... 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, t per sonia 10 Wrought eee bright 5ast joint.......... 604.0 on poke 14x60 4x60 IX, 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO TEE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, - Poastage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. G@ When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tae MicHicaN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1892. THE TRUE AMERICAN KING. Republican as is our form of govern- ment, democratic as are our national in- stitutions, and notwithstanding the fact that titles of royalty and nobility are for- bidden by the constitution, the American people seem to have a profound regard for the titles which accompany the pos- session in Europe of social rank and precedence. The American people be- ing by the force of their own laws the sovereigns of the country, are unwilling, when they assume foreign titles, to take any lesser rank than be- longs to sovereigns, consequently our titles run into the realms of royalty. Our people, when they attain pre-emi- nence in any condition of life, become kings. Of this sort of royalty we have many examples. A man who attains great riches in any branch of trade becomes a king. As a consequence, we have kings of the stock market, railway kings, min- ing kings, eminent pork packers, who become kings of hogs, boss herders of live stock on the plains of Texas and Colorado, who are cattle kings. One of these money monarchs died a few days ago. He was both a railway king and an emperor of the stock market. He was ‘‘Wizard,’’ because perhaps the wonderful success which he had in overcoming all opposition to his speculations sometimes termed seemed to savor of magic, his methods being considered often tor- tuous and sinister to those who so se- verely suffered by them. He was one of those kings who rule by inspiring fear, rather than love, and the wreck and ruin which fell upon so many who opposed his schemes, testified to the strength of his resources and the greatness of his power. But kings die like the rest of mankind, and when they have passed away men may impartially take their measure and reckon up their claims to be installed in the niches of fame and to have their names inscribed on the records of human grati- tude or the contrary. The man, be he prince or peasant, king or commoner, who lives or rules solely for his own ad- vantage, without regard for others, can have but little claim upon the gratitude questions when he dies are: ‘‘What good cause of his having lived?” It is an inex- orable law that men are judged by their deeds, and no man who has not done any good to his fellows is entitled to their favorable consideration. He may have possessed all the power that riches can give, his entire life may have been a ca- reer of unbroken triumphs in the course in which he marched—it is necessary that he should have been a benefactor to merit remembrance. Thedestruction which he has wrought may secure execration and cause men to rejoice in his death. It ean gain no other honor. How often is it that men of moderate fortune, with hearts bearing malice to none, but with charity for all, go through life dispensing in their little circles the good disposition and doing, as far as it may lie in their power, good works where they are needed. They gain no great notoriety and no loud applause, but when they die they are truly mourned, because the poor have lost a helper, the community has lost a useful and good citizen, and their family and friends have lost a worthy and admirable mem- ber of the sacred circle of love and re- gard. Is this not better than to be a dread- ed and unloved king of finance? When millions were mourning the death of General Grant, they felt that as a soldier and statesman he had many claims on them, but the whole world recognized that the crowning act of a great career was his splendid magnan- imity at Appomattox. It was this grand act of noble generosity which, above all his battles and above all his civilian services to the country, put him in the first rank of publie admiration. Todo good is the highest kingship. Henry Clay, one of the grandest of Americans, declared he had rather be right than President. One of the noblest of poets wrote: _ ““*Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets ” Nothing can be more true. The man who is truly loved in life, and truly mourned in death for his good acts, is the true American king. THE TORREY BANKRUPTCY BILL. One of the measures which was in- troduced at last year’s session of Con- gress and failed to pass was the Torrey bankruptcy bill. This measure was al- so introduced in the Fifty-first Congress and passed the House of Representatives, but reached the Senate so late in the second or short session that the session came to an end before an opportunity was found for considering the bill. The measure was introduced early in the first session of the present Congress, but owing to the pressure of other im- portant bills, it has not yet been acted upon. There new seems to be a disposi- tion in the House of Representatives to fix a date for its consideration, and efforts are being made to secure the fixing of a day by the committee on rules. Owing to the fact that all business nowadays is interstate in character, there being no distributing centers whose mer- chants do not sell goods ina half dozen or more States, it is held that the regu- lation of bankruptcy proceedings by the Federal Government is strietly constitu- tional under the general provision which gives to Congress the regulation of inter- state commerce. or love of posterity, and the most obvious The main aim of the Torrey measure is to protect merchants from fraudulent has he done to his kind? Have people | debtors, and thus surround the credit been made any happier or any better be- | system, so essential to modern methods | of doing business, with additional safe- | guards by narrowing the opportunities | for fraudulent failures. It is believed that only a federal statute can effect this, as the radical differences in the laws now existing in different states are taken advantage of by the dishonest to evade the payment of their just debts. The Torrey bill has received the en- dorsement of nearly all the prominent boards of trade and commercial exchang- es of the country, hence it is before Con- gress with about as strong an indorse- ment from the country asa bill could possibly have. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the House of Representatives will fix a date for the consideration of the measure, and that, too, at a time suf- ficiently early in the session to permit of the Senate acting before adjournment. The measure has been before Congress for over three years, and it is as well that it should be now definitely disposed of. Without being accused of dabbling in politics, Tok TRADESMAN can refer to the Senatorial situation and advise its readers to insist on the selection of a business man—one who stands close to the people and is in thorough accord with the business interests of the State. Great wealth and the ability to make lib- eral contributions to campaign funds should no longer be considered the sole passport to the United States Senate; the aristocracy of wealth should give way to the aristocracy of brains; familiarity with the various business interests of the State should be considered of more value than the ability to give grand dinners and dispense hospitality with a lavish hand. THE TRADESMAN, having always maintained a neutral position in politics, does not now propose to suggest any name in connection with the Senator- ship; but it hopes to see the business men of the commonwealth show their hand in the coming contest and insist on the selection of a man who would reflect credit on the position and at the same time be ambitious to serve the best in- terests of his constituents and be broad enough to judge of their needs. ee! A veteran dairyman writes Hoard’s Dairyman as follows in regard to an individual who is quite promiscuous in Michigan at the present time: The Dairyman says the “‘creamery shark’’—meaning thereby the man who puts up a five thousand dollar creamery in a twelve hundred dollar community— always operates in acommunity where the people do not understand anything about a creamery. There is a heap of truth in this, and the question still re- mains, how are we going to circumvent the aforesaid shark? If the community is rich enough to contribute all that money for a purpose about which not one of its members is posted, then it looks as though the lesson they get is pretty well deserved. The agricultural press generally is helping along the good work by exposing the iniquitous methods of the sharks, and the Experiment Sta- tions would do the people valiant ser- vice by telling the dry, undisputed facts in a “Bulletin,” giving the names cf the houses which are so unmercifully plun- dering the people. <> Key West Equator: A drummer now visiting Key West, when on his way north last spring, bought a scalper’s ticket belonging to some doctor. Asa matter of course he was so registered by the purser. The first night out he was awakened by the steward calling ‘‘doctor.” At first hecould not remember why they should call him that name, but remem- bering the ticket he answered. He was told that the captain wished to see him immediately. Posting to the captain, he was informed that there was a lady on board who was quite sick, and, as he was the only doctor, would he call on her? He made a virtue of necessity, and did so. Looking as wise as an owl, and fumbling at his watch, he pretended to count her pulse beats. Not knowing whether she was sick or not, he seriously stated that her case was simply a nervous affection and recommended three bottles of champagne aday, which was taken. The lady recovered. >_>. <<. A change will occur in the city sales department of the Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. next week. Arthur Fowle will retire as a salesman and enter the book- keeping and receiving departments. Sam Evans will take new territory out- side the city. Martin Vanderveen, formerly engaged in the retail grocery business on Madison avenue, will look after the wants of the city trade. ee \ " ee \—~ re NL en e *« oaeam ESC £49542 AIN Se aed ceeepat eal dates oneatecinscisancoevanduasiashaccnnasentisamumanassians TRADES NLA N. 9 ARE BUSINESS PROFITS TOO LARGE? There are four essentials to any sue- cessful busine: s—eapital, labor, skill and opportunity. The first three of these must be paid, and our quest on relates to the proportion of compensation to be awarded. We must start by considering the cir- cumstauces of the case. If we take an ordinary country village, we will find several boys with the capacity to labor, but without capital and skill to conduct a large business; from necessity they be- come laborers. Then we find two or three, perhaps, with business ability, but no capital, and if they cannot borrow capital—and most of them cannot at first —they become laborers, also. Oceasion- ally one is found like W. U. Vanderbilt, having both capital and skill, and he steps to the front and dves business enough, or more than eneugh, for several villages. His wealth increases rapidly and his power to accumulate gains all the time. Now the laborer looks at Vanderbilt as a capitalist chiefly, and. knowing that labor is just as essential to business as capital, naturally asks why it should not be as well rewarded. The answer always must be that it should, but this does not answer the main question as to the prop- er proportion of profits to be divided. Three things being essential, and each able to command pay, the portion of pay must be governed by circumstances. In the case of our village buys, ouly one can startin business, and nine start as laborers, so that there are in the begin- ning nine competitors for the rewards of labor aud but one for the rewards of both capital and skill in management. On the law of competition, which cannot be evaded in the long run, this seems to put labor at a great disadvantage, but is is a disadvantage imposed by nature, and so need not be discussed. The actual fact is, that there are three things equal- ly essential and to be paid for the con- duet of business. If we had $30 to di- vide as the result of an enterprise, and should say that, as all three of the things were essential, each of them must have a third of the emolument, we would shoot wide of the mark. In that case, one individual would get $20 and nine would get only one dollar and eleven cents apiece. That would be absurd. But the poor man, looking to the owner of a hundred millions, imagines that the division has been something very much like it. The poor man, however, is mistaken. There is no business of recognized legit- imacy that pays labor only a third. There is no business that gives to capital and skill combined even ten dollars out of thirty. Labor gets more than two-thirds of the income of most undertakings, and of many gets the whole, while the entire capital not only obtains nothing, but is itself lost in the venture, and its owner relegated to the ranks of labor. Noman, employing ten hands at wages of $3 a day each, expects to make $5 a day; but that sum would only give him $3 for his time—the same as his men get—and $2 for his skill and the use of his capital. This is a case where the employer is possessed of ability to manage the ten men as laborers only, and for such a man $5 per day for the necessary study, anxi- ety and responsibility, cannot be deemed | larger commissions, so long as the men out of proportion. earned only a living, they taking the, When the man of fifty looks at his boy | living as the proper measure, and then associates and their careers, probable he’ they wanted to apply the same measure | will tind that only one in ten has reached a handsome competence by his own ex- ertions, and that one because he was energetic, faithtul, competent, and thor- ough systematically from the start. If fora time he served under another, he was careful to do a little more than was expected of him and did it well. This created confidence and desire on the part of his employer to see bim prosper, and a disposition to assist him. Inthe course of time his employer lends him capital, or makes him a partner in the business, and then his furtune is assured. Why did not the other ten boys do the same? Ovviously because there was but one chance in ten of that kind, and the one got it, so the others had to be content to serve in less profitable callings. The regiment has but one colonel, the company but one captain, the State but oue Governor; and any great business has limitations to the number of busses it can find use for. There must be oper- atives as well as managers; and, gen- erally, capacity finds its way to the front, and incapacity goes to the rear, as a wat- ter of course, or according to the law of gravitation. When one finds an opening, and leaves the operative class for the managing class. the value of his service itself in some way that commands recog- nition. Thus, in the early days of agri- culture, farmers send their produce to market by aman who makes a business of marketing for others. Hecan handle the product of ten farms, say, and hence twenty farmers give a living to two mid- dle-men. After a time aman turns up that is smart enough to sell the product of twenty farms and obtain better prices for the producers, by taking off a little from the commissions, and soon he gets all the business, and his two rivals are obliged to retire from the field. When they are out, the profits which were di- vided between two are taken by one, less the small discount that he made to the farmers to secure their custom. Now, doing the work of two, he saves the time and the expenses on the road of one, and so, while they just made a living, he rapidly accumulates, and makes money faster than the farmer who raises the produce which he only sells. In a few years he is the richest man in town, and the farmers, looking only at the result, are dissatisfied, and though he has done the selling for them for less than they could possibly have done it themselves, and also for less than any other man had jever done it for that community, they complain of him as an extortioner, or robber of the poor men who have done all the hard work. To state it mildly, he is a non-producer who has eaten up the farmers of the town. And what has happened to the farmers has happened to all others. The compe- tent manufacturer has come in, and by doing a much larger business has re- tired several incompetents to the ranks; the competent trader has done the same, the banker has done it, the expressman | has done it, and all others have where | there wasachance. From what has been said, itis apparent that the cost of liv- | 1 shows ing to the middle-men is not the prime} factor in measuring the pay for their | services. In the first class named, the | farmers were satisfied with paying the | Why Not Keep the Best? We want an agent in every town and city in the State to handle our Fancy Roller Patent “SUNLIGHT” In miny cases we can arran_e to give exclusive sale for .h > locality All flour is n w so ch:ap that every consumer can afford to buy THE BEST Lift you se f out of the rut of competition by handling a superior article. THE WALSH-DEROS MILLING C0, Proprietors of the Standard Roller Mills. Daily Capacity 400 Bbls. HOLLA N D, N ICH, Correspondence Solic ted. SILVER | SilverSoap Manufactured by THE THOMPSON & CHUTE SOAP CO,, TOLEDO, OHIO. Why have the sales in- creased 25 per cent. dur- ing the past year on FIRST.—High Grade of Quality! SECOND.—Its moderate Cost! THIRD.—The Successful Line of Advertising Matter giveneery wer-hant who handles it! Send your order to any Wholesale Grocer or direct to the factury fur prompt shipment. See that this Label appears CER EN TUR é on every opackage, as it is a COMPRESSED YE 407 MFT'D BY x arantes of tt i - 7 MFT'D BY SE RIVERO pisTIues guarantes of the genuine ar RIVERDALE pistives CHICAGO — CHICAGO Y Y FERMENTUM The Only Reliable CUMPRESSED 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, Mich, : Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. wy EN FERMEN TUR Tye MFr'p BY ST ra RIVERDALE DISTIUE a See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a guarantee of the gennine article. NTy; ME Fetes} aged ERIVERDALE DISTIUSS CH ~ Go ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADHSMAN. to the better man, and leave out of the! | traveling to and fro, and in waiting, and | better service and manage- lower commissions. They dawdlers account his ment, and Were more content with two and inefficients, ergetic, and go-ahead fellow, them in better fashion. It is found, after a term of years, the one efficient man has saved a hand- some property, and has money to lend to Others to increase business, and that somehow his portion of taxes and public burdens very large, and a material help to town expenses, while it is certain that the two men he displaced do not lend money or pay any taxes of conse- quence, and probably never would had they retained the business which he took from them. The inefficients would have allowed matters to run along in a care- less fashion, and they would have con- than with one brisk, en- who served is in many ways made it more convenient | }all round, so that it is cheaper for cus- |tomers and better for the workman to | have the new system. that | Later on the kitchen workman had to abdicate in favor of a man with a shop, a grindstone, shelves, better light and heat, and numerous appliances impossi- ble to a farmer’s kitchen. When this man held the fort for a while the regular | manufacturer, with a large building for sumed their commissions in living ex- | penses, so that nothing would have been added to the general stock; but the new | and vigorous man having come in, the community, instead of having two poor persons who can pay no taxes for high- ways and schools, has a capitalist who | does pay, and who also has money to lend to men who need. The common people in these days decry the richest man in town, and think him a detriment, asort of incubus or dead weight which money has been made out of them by craft, and they imagine that had the laws of right and justice prevailed, their burden would not have existed. They do not for a moment dream that his cap ital would never have existed had the old dawdlers kept on to the end. Nevertheless, they do believe in ca- pacity, and they vote for the competent man for Governor, and town clerk, and assessor, hand or market-man they employ best for the money, after the service has been performed. They know that the best heip is the cheapest all the time, save at the mo- ment when they look at the aggregate re- ward in the lamp. They know thata good hand is more profitable than two half hands, because the board of one can be saved. Now, the men who manufac- cutting, sorting, storing and earing for goods, put in an appearance, and the man with the small shop and comfortable loafing quarters stepped out in the same way and for the same reason that his predecessers had. The new-comer could do service for less money; the manufacturer came because the world knew what it wanted and sought him. The world wanted someone capable of stopping the en-:1mous wastefulness of the old system. The newest man has made the old cobbler and his ways ap- better | pear ridiculous, and the operative of to- day than the well-to-do If the old way is better, there is nothing in the way of returning to it, only the one fact that people cannot afford to. Let him whothinks the old lives better farmer of 1786 | plan the better start out with his bundle | of lasts and kit and try to earn a living the people are compelled to carry, whose | and when they want a farm-| the | and only grumble} ture or engage in trade are the servants | of the people as certainly asthe Govern- | labor; in the good old way. Attempts at co-operation thus far have generally shown a strong if not fatal tendency to failure because of the diffi- culty of commanding the requisite skill and faithfulness in management. Co- operators are not willing to pay the price for service which their business needs in order to succeed. They always stand on the theory that the men who conduct great enterprises get too much for doing the business and the operatives too little. Inecourse of time, and usually not very long time, their scheme goes down. This is because in the nature of things no hired person on a salary of fixed amount will all the time keep his wits alive and study into the small hours of the night devising ways and means to make moncy for other people. They propose in their constitution to take from capital and skill a portion of the profit that has usu- ally been accorded to them and give it to but after thousands of experi- | or of the State or the county clerk. |; ments during forty or more years of good They combine materials and exchange | business in this cuuntry, there is hardly goods for others simply because the |asingle case of such undoubted success | others find it for their advantage to have them do it. cause the merchant compels me, but be- cause it is not profitable for me to keep store myself. By getting the manufac- turer to take my wool and turn it into cloth, 1 get more cloth. I create the manufacturer by asking him to help me to get the most cloth. shoemaker went from with lasts, leather and tied up in a sack and siung over his house his In early times the | to house | patterns, | shoulder, and made and mended in the} family kitchens. That kind of shoe- maker long ago disappeared, and is no} longer here to be laughed at. He was succeeded by one who stayed at home and worked in ris own kitchen. The 'tent with other went out of business because he | came in. He drove the other out, and out to stay; he will never return; he demonstrated to peeple that the old cob- plain the old |as to warrant the 1 do not buy at the store be- | The combined skill of all the co-operators | assertion that demon- stration of feasibity has been attained. in half acentury has produced no con- cern of magnitude. The almost uniform failures seem to prove that great man- agement must have great compensation, and in endeavoring to get the skill with- out the pay the co-vperators’ dream has come to naught. Now, this is equivalent to saying that the world finds its business ean be done at less cost than by The latter fails because it undersold and unable to compete with such skill as gets the better pay. co-operation. is Had Commodore Vanderbilt been con- | the salary of a steamboat | captain, he would never have developed | into a great business man and railroad) manager. The prospect of great emuolu- | | ment brought into exercise great powers, bler was not the best resource for foot-| gear, and the moment this was made / astonishing degree and yet made money system went under; he | to an astonishing amount. so that he cheapened transportation in an The people saved time in packing and unpacking, in! who saved $4 or $5 in a round trip be- OY OL eras THE P. & B. BRAND WILL PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMERS —INCKEASE YOUR TRADE—AND MAKE YOU MONEY— THREE FEATURES THAT COMMEND THEM TO YOUR NOTICE. SULD BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS— PACKED BY THE PUTNAM CANDY C22. 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. | - The W ie Hl oe Self-Measuring 4, ® a Oil Tank. a — Measurin,fOne Qt, and Half Gallon at a Single Stroke. rev. Manufactured by the WAYNE OIL TANK C0,, FORT WAYNE, IND. First Floor Tank and Pump. Cellar Tank and Pump. ree We Lead, Let Others Follow. RT PiTTsFiELD, Mass., Oct. 5, 1892. | Wayne Oil Tank Co., Fort Wayne, Ind . ~~ Gents—The tank we bought from you has now been in our use two months. Weare more then pleased with it. It works easily, accurately and rapidly Would not do without it for many Sa a ROCKER WASHER CO., Fort Wayne, Ind. ethan ree _rak, MICHIGAN DLRADESMAN. eae naea ere tee asin 2 No Man Likes to See His Name Mis- spelled. -*As good a piece of advice as 1 could give a young man starting in business,’’ said an old and merchant, “would be to get his customers’ names right. Of course, everybody means to do this, but I don’t think everybody at- taches to it its full importance. The fact is that almost every man is proud of his name, whatever it may be, and he dis- likes tu see it misspelied or incorrectly There are plenty of names suceessful written. which sound alike, but which vary in the | spelling, perhaps by only a single letter; and, too, in taking a man’s name it is not so difficult as one might imagine to make a mistake in the initials, for there are letters which sound very much alike. When you get anew customer get his name right to start with. No man likes to receive a package or a bill or a com- munication of any sort with his name misspelled; however modest and good natured he may be, he is pretty sure to be annoyed by it.” > Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. P. STEKKTEK & SUNS, HAVE A WELL ASSORTED LINE OF Windsor and Scotch Gaps FROM $2.25 PER DOZ. UP, ALSO A FULL LINE OF LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN'S aves, Mitts and Mutflers HANDKERCHIEFS, WINDSOR TIES, GENT’S SCARFS, AND A FRESH STOCK OF Dolls, and Christmas Novelties for Holiday Trade. Michael Kolb & Son, WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, New York. Established 36 Years. Roche:ter, Have still on hand a nice line of Ulsters, Overcvats and Winter Suitings. All mail orders receive prompt attention. Our Michigan representative William Connor wil! call upon you, if you write to his address, Box 346, Marshall, Mich. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARR? A STOCK GF CAKE TALLOW FOR MiLt CRE GUNFEGTIONERY. THERE'S MONEY IN IT PROVIDING LOWEST FIGURE. OUR TRADE 1S YOU BUY THE BEST AND AT THE BOOMING, WHICH IS PROOF THAT THE TRADE THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN AND ADJOINING STATES KNOW FROm WHOM TO BUY. WE FIRST-CLASS GOODS AND EXECUTE MANUFACTURE A COMPLETE ORDERS PROMPTLY. LINE. OF THE PUTNAM GANDY 60. GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH CO, Manufacturers of BRUSHES. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. SCHLOSS, ADLER & G0, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls ——AND—— Gents Fornishing Goods. REMOVED TO 23-28 Larned St., East DETROIT, MICH. Dealers wishing to look over our line are in- vited to address our Western Michigan repre- sentative, Ed. Pike, 272 Fourth avenue, Grand Rapids. PWR iF b re 3 12 THH MICHIGAN ‘TRHADHSMAN. Needed Changes aws. I desire to present the su>ject of ex- emption laws and to consider the proper steps to be taken to the end that such laws may be amended so that no injustice may be done to the debtor and ereditor. The amendment which I shall propose to the exemption laws of the State will be in the interest of justice and equity, will be designed to keep pace with the progress and advancement of the great State of Michigan, in development, in prosperity and in wealth. 1 hold that a law which does not keep pace with the progress and advancement of a state is not only an unjust law. but in time becomes positively mischievous. As a changed condition of things takes place in the mercantile world, so the laws pertaining to such business should Keep pace with such change. The exemption law upon our statute books to-day is practically the law as it was passed more than forty years ago; aud who can say thatalaw which was applicable to the wants of our people forty years ago is to-day in keeping with the progress and development of our State? The law that was necessary for the pioneer who was building him a home in the forests of our State—when warkets were miles away; when friends and neighbors were miles apart; when rail- roads had not penetrated these forests: when the currency of the country was scarce and nearly every transaction was barter—would not be a law that to-day would be either necessary or beneficial. It is not the honest, toiling masses who refuse or neglect to pay their honest debts, but the dead-beat, who will not earn his bread by the sweat of his face. *‘They toil not, neither do they spin.” For such, no law can be too strict nor too | Nor would I | rigid in its requirements. advocate the passage of a law which would be a burden or hardship upon the; laboring classes of this State. would I say thatif favors are to be shown, let it be to the honest, toiling masses whose brawn and brain have made the} wilderness blossom iike arose. I would make a law which would be applicable to every class and individual. legislation has been the bane of our country—it has made paupers and mil- lionaires—but a law which places the debtor and creditor on an equal footing cannot fail to be both equitable and just. The present law exempts a homestead worth $1,500; also, 1. Spinning wheels, weaving looms and all stoves kept in a dwelling house. 2. Seat, pew or slip in house of public worship, ete. 3. Cemeteries, burial. tombs and rights of 4. All wearing apparel of every person or family. 5. Library and school books of every individual, $150. 6. To each householder, ten sheep with their fleeces; two cows; five swine; pro- vision and fuel for family six months. 7. To each householder, household goods, furniture and utensils not exceed- ing in value $250. 8. Tools, implements, stock, and so forth, to enable any person to carry on his own occupation, etc., not exceeding in value $250. 9. Sufficient quantity of hay, grain, feed, etc., to keep the animals exempted for six months. | in Our Exemption | Rather | Class | by individual or family. 11. Twenty-five dollars | labor. | The articles which | have mentioned are exempt from levy and sale for any and all debts. except debts contracted | for personal labor. These articles, in the averegate, ata fair valuation, amount to upwards of $3 800. The lawyer, the mechante, the preach- er, the doctor, the farmer or any other persou can gointe your store and pur- 10. One sewing machine kept for ie for personal chase the groceries to save his family from starvation, a coffin for his loved one, clothing and boots and shoes to pro- tect himself and family from the storm, and be the owner of nearly $4.000 worth of property, and you are powerless to touch a single article of such property. { would not destroy or take away all exemption laws, but | would so frame them that a debt contracted for the actual necessaries of life would be collected without first setting apart as exempt sufficient property to enable a family to live in luxurty and not pay an honest debt, contracted, perchance, for the clothes that they wear or the food they eat. 1 would make a law that would say to the lawyer, ‘You cannot go into the tailor shop, order a $50 suit of clothes, put them on, promise to pay for them in ten days and walk out, go into the dry goods store on the next corner, order and take home a $75 silk dress for your wife with a promise to pay for it in two weeks, and when called upon to pay, to be able to snap your fingers in your creditor’s face and say, ‘If you get it before I do, let me know.’ ”’ I shall not undertake to present a per- fect draft of a law upon this subject, but will only point out the detects and prac- tical workings of the law as it now ex- |ists. I would frame a law that, after a final judgment had been obtained, the | judgment debtor could be cited to appear before the court and show cause why, if any, his property should not be applied jin payment of such judgment, and in such inquiry the debtor be compelled to | disclose fully and fairly his cireum- stances, the cost of living, the expenses jactuaily necessary fur the maintenance of his family, and the amount he was earning from his profession, occupation or employment from all sources, and the | amount any members of his family were able to contribute towards the support of the family, and then I would authorize the court, after considering al! such facts, to make an order that such judgment debtor pay into court, to be applied upon | the judgment, such amount, weekly or |monthly, as in the discretion and judg- ment of the court could be done without | distressing the family. I do not know what pleaor objection | an honest man could make to such a law. | 1 would not have it apply to any one | class of individuals, but to every one, no matter what his occupation might be. I can sit in my store with more than | $3,000 worth of property which I can have the use and enjoyment of, my part- ' ner with the same amount, and together | we can do business on a joint capital of |upwards of $6,000, from which we can | derive a comfortable income, and go in- | |to our neighbor’s store, buy furniture, | fine clothing, etc., and not one farthing | | can be collected by law; but if we were | compelled to appear before a court and | | disclose the amount and source of our | li. | Income, an order could be made that we STUDLEY & BARCLAY. 4 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We Lead in Reduced Prices, Our Motte: « New Styles.” WE CARRY a full line of all patterns of Ladies’ and Gents’ Bicycles, and can supply at once upon receipt of order. We are agents for the Victor, Columbia, Clip- per, Western Wheel Works, and other lines, and live agents are wanted in every town. A full line of sundries. Our price list will be out early in January, 1898. Wait for us: or, if you cannot, then write and get our prices before you order. Our prices will be as low as the lowest, 12, 14, 16 Pearl St., Manufacturers Jobbers of BOOlS & Shoes Spring lines new read for inspection Would be pleased te show them, Agerts for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. FALCON No. 1—Gentlemen’s Road Wheel, 11500 FALCONESS—Ladies’ Road Wheel, eo FALCON J R.— Boys’ and Girls’ Road Wheel, 50.00 All fitted with Pneumatic Tires. Finest Ste 1 material. Best work manship, WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. THE YOST MANUFACTURING CO., YOST’S STATION, TOLEDO, OHIO. FLORIDA ORANGES, We have made arrangements to receive regular shipments direct from the groves and shall bein a position to make close prices. We have the exclusive agency of the favorite “Sampson” brand and will handle the ‘‘Bell” brand largely, which will be packed in extra large boxes and every orange will be wrapped in printed tissue. PUTNAM CANDY CoO. Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the Hi Of} (0) § Country and Save Money. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids \ ' —-., ‘ & pala v . e 3 ont yi v j + Ph b > . 2 “en fe = . 2 — ° ——— ANS lhl apply a portion, at least, of such income to the satisfaction of any judgment we might owe. Would there be hardship in such alaw? Would there be any injus- tice in such a law? I answer, no. Under the law as it now stands, I can have around me nearly $4,000 worth of property, have an income of $100 per month and, if [am careful not to allow more than $25 to be owing me at a time, I can defy my creditors, and not one cent ean they collect. But, under a law sim- ilar to what I have outlined, an honest creditor could collect an honest debt and the whole matter be within the disere- tion and control of the court, so that no oppression could be practiced. Another subject of equal importance, and closely connected with exemption laws, is the rights and liabilities of a married woman. While I would not make the wife liable for her husband’s debt, neither would I make the husband liable for his wife’s debt, except for supplies for the family, and in such cases I would make the prop- erty of both husband and wife charge- able for family expenses, and authorize them to be sued jointly or separately. As the law stands in Michigan, a family may have around them $10,000 in prop- erty, the wife be the nominal owner, and her husband buy her a $1,000 cloak, give his note for thirty or sixty days and she sign it as his surety, and the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan says she will not be liable; that under the stat- utes of this State a married woman can- not be surety for her husband. This law is a relic of barbarism, and is no more founded in justice than the old law of wager of battle, which was once in actual practice, when disputes were settled by the parties to the controversy going out and fighting a battle to de- termine which one was right upon the suppositional idea that the one who was in the right would prevail. I hold that such laws are stumbling blocks in the way of progress and ad- vancement. The laws of our State and country should be in the van of progress, development and education. It is time the business men of this country turned their attention to these stumbling blocks, that an effort was made to weed out the old musty laws that have come down to us burdened with the relics of barbarism, and that such laws be enacted that the rapid race of advancement in the com- mercial and business world will not be constantly obstructed and held back in such development. lam glad the busi- ness men of Michigan are beginning to take hold of this matter. Wise and equitable laws must be the _ business man’s protector. A law which enforces the sacredness of a contract must and al- ways will be a just and equitable law. And I trust that class legislation will find no place in the next Legislature, but that every member of both branches will be made to see some of the glaring irreg- ularities of our laws, to the end that ab- solute laws may be repealed and more equitable measures enacted in their stead. WALTER S. PoWERs. a From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: D. W. Calkins, McCord. O. P. DeWitt, St. Johns. Audrey Walker, Bailey. Thurston & Co., Central Lake. Gripsack Brigade. E. A. Withee, traveling representative for the Toledo Spice Co., was in town several days last week. Ed. F. Bush, traveling representative for the American Eagle Tobacco Co., was in town one day last week. James street appears to be an excellent thoroughfare for traveling men to reside on, judging by recent results, Harry Gregory having lately been placed in possession of a 91¢ pound girl and Geo. C. Bonnell assuming the guardianship of a9 pound boy. Some of the Lemon & Wheeler Com- pany’s travelers are widely scattered this week: Hub Baker has gone to Lockport, N. Y., to visit his mother and sisters; Will Jones is visiting his mother in Ontario; Manley Jones is at Vernon, where his mother resides. The wife of Thos. Ferguson, who had been a patient sufferer from bronchial troubles for fifteen months, died at the family residence on West Bridge street Dec. 17, aged 49 years. The funeral was held on the afternoon of Dec. 19, the body being deposited in the vault in Valley City cemetery, pending the selec- tion of a permanent resting place in the same necropolis. The deceased leaves a daughter, Anna L. Ferguson, who will be a comfort to her father in his declin- ing years. The veteran traveler has the sympathy of hosts of friends in his be- reavement. He requests THe TRADES- MAN to return his hearfelt thanks for the beautiful floral piece sent by the Grand Rapids traveling men. John H. Millar was born in Charleston township, Kalamazoo county, May 27, 1857, and two years later accompanied his parents to Detroit. From the age of 5 to 16 he attended school, when he entered the candy factory of Ames, Nay & Co., where he remained one year. The next two years he sailed the Great Lakes summers, occupying the positions of lookout and watchman, and working winters in the candy factory of Thorp, Hawley & Co. He then returned to Kal- amazoo county and spent three years on the farm. Tiring of rural pursuits, he came to Grand Rapids in 1879, entering the employment of the then firm of Put- nam & Brooks within an hour after reaching the city. He worked a year in their factory, sailing on the lakes the following summer and returning to his former position in the fall. A year later he took to the city wagon, selling oysters winters and doing general delivering sum- mers. In 1885 he became city salesman for the house, which position he still holds, varying the monotony of city work with alternate weekly trips outside. Being one of the oldest men with the houses, he is looked upon as a general utility man and usually takes the place of any of the men called away from their regular trips by iliness or otherwise. Mr. Miliar was married April 25, 1886, to Miss Mattie Turner, sample room clerk for Putnam & Brooks, a fine lad of 5 years being one of the results of the union. Mr. Millar resides in his own home at 509 North College avenue, sur- rounded by all the comforts he craves and heartily appreciated by all who are so fortunate as to possess his friendship. —t—-o-< It is easier to make a tree grow straight than itis to straighten a crooked one. It is easier to avoid bad consequences by means of a good education than itis to overcome bad habits. 0 You Want a Gut of eee four Store For use on your Letter Heads, Bill Cards, Etc.? We can furnish you with a double column cut similar to above / boa é Me cree 4) ie eS» / hiss 3 of psempeenioes fal % iL ccstibent = a . . Or asingle column cut, like the above for $6. Tn either case we should have clear photograph to work from. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Expiring Jan 1—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. retary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Next meeting—Saginaw, Jan. 11. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Stanley E. Parkill, Oworso. Vice-Presidents—I. H. L. Dodd, Buchanan; F. W. R. Perry, Detroit; W. H. Hicks, Morley. Treasurer—Wm. H. Dupont, Detroit. Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit. Executive Committee—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo; Jacob Jesson, Muskegon: F. J. Wurzburg and John E. Peck, Grand Rapids; Arthur Bassett, Detroit. Locai Secretary—James Vernor. i Next place of meeting—Some resort on St. Clair River; time to be designated by Executive Committee. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Chronicle of Drug Store Errors. German newspapers record two pecu- liar mistakes in the dispensing of drugs, one resulting fatally, the other causing most terrible agony and the loss of one limb to an innocent little child. Inci- dentally, medical men have been taught the lesson that lysol—a 50 per cent. solu- tion of cresol or soft soap—is not as harm- less in its concenterated state as claimed by the manufacturers of this and other | similar preparations of cresol. It will be remembered that in Germany | there is besides the regular apothecaries second class, termed ‘‘druggists,”’ who may sell certain drugs, chemicals, and house- hold remedies, but are prohibited from compounding. Now, a physician in Bre- man had told a mother to procure for her child, whose leg was scalded, some iodo- form gauze at a druggist’s, and to take a prescription calling for ‘‘Sol. Lysol. 7.5 (750.0)? to the “apotheke.” However, the woman exhibited the prescription to the drug-shop apprentice, who, in his ignorance, persuaded her that he had a right to sell the article, and thereupon gave her 750 grams of pure lysol, he not perceiving that a 1-per-cent. solution was in reality prescribed. The common people, by the by, prefer trading with the druggist, because the latter likes to undersell his more hightoned competitor, the ‘Herr Apotheker.” When the mother applied the liquid furnished her, the child, who was setting up in bed, instan- taneously fell back unconscious and ex- pired in a very short time. At the in- quest the blood was found to be nearly clear, violet in color, and very thin. Cresol was detected both in the blood and urine. The absorption of cresol and its action on the blood was held to have been the cause of death. Besides, the denuded surface was found actively cauterized by the contentrated lysol. The second case exhibits a most won- derful concatenation of circumstances, combining as it does in an unusual de- gree chance, carelessness, and stupidity. In this instance solution of caustic soda was by mistake dispensed in place of silicate of sodaium or waterglass. With this the leg of a two-year-old babe was dressed for an entire night, in conse- quence of which this member had to be for the principals in both cases. | Berlin instance the proprietor of the | pharmacy voluntarily gave the prescrib- was to examine the goods went out on a picnic the next morning; the vial in ques- tion had been placed on the prescription and the prescription clerk in charge was informed that the contents were solution of sodium silicate; the bottle is labeled as per prescription and sent out; the physician personally applies the dressing; the caustic liquid attacks the hands of the physician, but, not minding, he goes home and to bed; the pain in hands con- tinuing to increase during the night, this disciple of sculapius “thinks” something may be wrong with that dress- ing and—tucks about his learned head; after breakfast he pays a visit to the poor little sufferer whom he finds at death’s door from pain; to save the child’s life the leg now had to be amputated. his feather-tick closer A short term in jail has been decreed In the ing physician 3,000 mares to be handed to the father of the injured child, but the worthy doctor pocketed the money and fled the country. ———>_+ a Holiday Trade the Dealer’s Boon. Written for Tuz TRADESMAN. To those who are chained to the wheels of business from year to year, the monot- ony of routine must seem like the mangle of Dickens’s celebrated character, Manta- lini, ‘‘a demnition grind.”’ The dull de- tails of buying and selling, the sharp watch kept to detect imposition, the duns, worries and unavoidable disap- pointments make mercantile life at times almost unendurable; and one wishes often for a change, without regard to whether it would be for the better or the worse. The fact is that mankind cannot live anywhere, or in any occupation, without the spice of sentiment. Even the Chinese, who are a race of plodders, toiling through the wearisome days like mere machines, and with not a particle of humor in their composition will once ina while drop the implements of labor and give themselves up to enjoyment, as in the celebration of a new year, in which, forgetting the pursuit of money, the bow is unbent for a short season, and they rush to the extreme of profuse expendi- ture, noisy rejoicings and lavish hospi- tality, and mirth and festivity rule the hour. To us, also, who boast a higher civili- zation, the holiday time comes to freshen the weariness of bargain-making solely for profit’s sake and give us an oppor- tunity to sandwich in a stratum of senti- ment flavored with the spice of good will and kindly greeting to everybody. The habit of associating with the ameni- ties of social life an event in history that makes all civilized nations akin, appears to render the activities of business un- usually significant. stores are decked in gay attire to welcome the inspection of purchasers, appealing Accordingly, the A Berlin physician prescribes “Liquor Natrii Silicici;’’ the prescription clerk orders by this Latin name 500 grams at the drug house by telephone; it is seven o’clock in the evening and the employes at the latter place just ready to close: in the meantime the messenger from the apothecary’s appears with his container and the order is filled in great haste; the proprietor happens to be out of town, and the “defectarious’? whose duty it to their taste by suggestive novelties, or offering bargains in goods which the frugally inclined may consider more ac- ceptable in the eyes of those who expect to be remembered in the universal dis- tribution of gifts. Though the profits on some lines of holiday goods may be large, there is a generous rivalry in overstocking for the benefit of buyers who delight in a pro- fusion from which to choose their lists of presents. And so the dealer finds that the sum total of his holiday profits | will not, in the end, prove to be an aver- age of his usual emoluments. Since the surplus must be closed out at a later | period at much smaller figures, his con- tribution to the general fund of happiness may be reasonably calculated. The coming of Christmas time gives a delicious flavor to the closing days of the year. As December grows apace, the social atmosphere changes to a more genial temperature, as when the traveler, nearing the tropics, on his way from northern rigors, feels, with asense of un- speakable delight, the balmy southern air fan his cheek. To the overworked and harrassed merchant, the gayeties that crown its closing days help to sweeten the bitterness left over in the year’s experience. The past may have been a year of hard luck in business, with many attendant losses and disap- pointments; but in the glow cast by the approaching holiday, with all its sacred and tender memories, these recede and are, for the time, forgotton. The heart is callous, indeed, that eannot respond to the gentle influence which the season exerts on old and young. Westrengthen the ties of kindred and bind up many broken friendships; in short, the business world needs the elevating and emotional effects of the holiday season for the bet- ter ordering and conduct of next year’s business. The new acquaintances made among those who thronged to inspect Christmas goods will add to the hope of increased trade. The active charities provoked, in a competitive spirit, among all who, in this season, remember in the only practical way the destitute members of community will brighten for the givers the severe months winter still has in store for the dwellers in our northern climate. Heis happiest who can earry the most of Christmas with him into and through the year so soon to open up a renewal of the same old business cares and responsibilities. S. P. WHITMARSH. ——- + Trade--Its Various Meanings. Written for Tug TRADESMAN. I wonder if many of us stop to think of the different shades of Meaning in the word “Trade,” as it is used to-day. We say, speaking of a mechanic, ‘‘What is his trade?” That is, ‘‘What branch of work does he perform?’? Each of these branches pertains to different work; SO we have masons, boiler-makers. car- penters, carvers, and others too numerous to mention. The interchange of differ- ent commodities is also called trade. One merchant, Speaking to another, wishing to know whether or not he has sold to advantage, during a certain time, the goods he handles, says, ‘‘How is ‘trade’?”? Speaking in a general way, all buying and selling is incluced under the general term “‘trade’’; yet there are branches or divisions of trade. To il- lustrate: A few days ago, anitem in a paper, spoke of a gentleman who, hay- ing purchased a stock of groceries with the intention of engaging in that busi- ness, said that he had had large exper- ience in the “trade,” and hence would be apt to sneceed. The following are a few definitions of the word not in common use: ‘a track,”’ “‘trail,”’ ‘‘a way,” also ““passage,’’ ‘“‘tray- el or resort.”” Again, we have ‘‘course,” “custom or practice.” Shakespeare uses “‘trade,’’ meaning “‘passage,’’ in the following quotation: “Or I’ll be buried in the king’s highway, Some way of common trade where subjects’ feet May hourly trample on their sovereign’s head.” j | In some parts of England the refuse or rubbish from a mine is ealled ‘the trade.”” This above is only a partial review of the word in its various uses. Is it strange, then, that, when such a | Simple word as ‘‘trade’’ has such diverse meanings, foreigners—yes, our own peo- ple—find so much trouble in writing anc speaking our language correctly? AL iT —_—_——_—_—_>_9.— John’s Composition. From Comfort. “Say, father, I’ve got to speak an or- iginal composition and I have made this one. Will you hear it?’’ “Yes, John, go ahead.” “Well, the subject is ‘Two Shoes.’ Last night, when I took off my shoes, both of them grumbled at the way I threw them into acorner. In one voice they ex- claimed, ‘After we have carried you around all day you ought to let us down easy. Weare tired all out. You don’t care a rush for us.’ I smiled and stood them up side by side near the open win- dow so they might breathe freely while I slept. About midnight I was awakened by hearing two voices in my room, and discovered that they came from my shoes. The right said to the left, ‘Don’t bother me. If youdoVilhityou. I’m stronger than you and bigger. You never will be as important as I, so don’t crowd or be ambitious, butgotosleep,’ The left shoe replied, ‘You’re my big brother, ain’t you? I felt cold and was snuggling up to you a little. You ought to be kind, since LL though smaller than you, have to bear the same burden all day, the same weight that youdo. I am prettier than you— my toe is not worn out and my heel is square. Come, be good, won’t you” For a moment the right made no reply; final- ly it spoke up and said, ‘All right, beauty, we'll trudge through life together and take things as they come. You do the pretty and I'll fight the battles and do all the kicking.’ I laughed so loud at this dialogue that thé shoes gave a quiet squeak and I heard no more from them. In the morning, when I put the shoes on, I found the strings all tangled up, and |! concluded that this was the way they paid me up for laughing at them in the night. ‘Will that do, father?” “Yes, John, the ideais a good one; we should always be kind to weak ones; the left shoe is as important as the right in this world of struggles.” lA A The Drug Market. Opium is weak and lower under favor. able reports of the growing crop from Smyrna. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is steady. Foreign is a trifle weak. We failed to note an adyance in glass- ware last week. There is a combination of manufacturers and prices are very firm. Linseed oil has been advanced again by the pool and higher prices are looked for soon. Gum assafeetida is scarce and higher for prime goods. Trash loaded with stones and dirt can be sold at any price Gum camphor is very firm and an ad- vance is looked for daily, crude having advanced again. Carbolic acid has advanced, on account of a combination of coal tar producers. Very high prices are looked for in the spring. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address PECK BROS., Wholesale ee GRAND RAPT Empress Josephine Face Bleach Is the only reliable cure for freckles and pimples. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG co., Granpv Rapips, MIcH., Jobbers for Western Michigan. ‘ ~y «;@ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 2 Oo or ; i “ Wholesale Price Current. Morphia, SP. dW. 1 701 95] Setdiite Mixture...... 77. * 2 Cee 1 69@1 85 ee @ 30) mratnod 00000) 50 «60 ial Advanced— ee ware, flasks, carbolic acid, linseed oil. Moschus Canton...... @ 4 — Maccaboy, De SpiritseTurpentine.... 36 40 ag Declined—Opium Myriatics, No.1....... 6@ 70 Voes . @ 35 cia bbl. Ib se Nux Vomics, (po 20) .. al 10 Suu, Scoich, De, Voes 03 = was tees 8. on +) ae a = - pee. 2 22 | Soda Boras, (po. 11). . 1 Oe... 2@3 '\ — sc os "9 ses . — Pepain Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Ochre, yellow = - 1% 2@4 ‘se i e Bootie... ...... 8@ 10 a 2 25@2 50 Aconitum Napellis a oc... .. Ge 06 | Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Bee... 2 ; ~< Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 a 2 Ce ee 50 — Liq, NuC., gal Soda, Bi-Carb 5 | Putty, commercial. - 234 24@3 20- i poe i 20 Geranium, anon 4 @ % ee ol cs... @2 00 Soda, —— _... SQ 4 . ay _ a 24% 2%@3 ne Carbolicum . ........ >@ 3 | Gossipii, Sem. gal... «ae mage 60 Picis Liq., quarts . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas..... 1). @ 2/ Vermilion Prime Amer- ' Citricum ...... tue ees 50@ 52 Hledecena renee 2 25@2 50 ee 50 ma 85 | Spts. Ether Co ........ 5O@ 55 Vo 13@16 Hydrochior ........... 8@ 5 ae 50@2 00 ianteattia a 0 | Pil Hydrarg, ( (po. 80).. @ 50} ‘ Myrcia Dom..... @225| Vermilion, English... 65@70 meoeum «...,.;...... 10@ 12 0 eae &s | Atrope Belisdonne.... 77.7” 60 | Piper Nigra’ (po. 22). @ 1 “ * nt i. .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular... _ 0@75 Oxalicum . ees Te Se 2 50@3 00 | Benzoin...........0 00020010! 60 | Piper Alba, (po ¢5) .. @ 3 inl Reet. bbl. Lead, red.............. 7 @7% Phosphorium m.. Mentha Piper......1..” 2 75@3 50 ee 60) Fie Borgen z --. 2 S82 65 ag iain 7 @i% Salicylicum ........... 1 i 79 a a 2 20@2 30 uma ca ea 50 | Plumbi Acet .......... 15 ions Se gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. @70 Sulphuricum.... .. i ©) Sheen — 1 00@1 10| Barosma .....-. a 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et opt. i tog 20 | Strychnia Crystal.....1 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’. GH ‘ ey ae 1 60 Myrcia, Bea @ 50| Cantharides... 202200770277: 25 | Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Saar... 24@ 3% White, Paris American io - Tartaricum........... a 75@2 75| Capsicum ......0..0 000. 2...! 50| &P.D. Co., doz..... @1 2 a Ro Oll.......... 24@ 3 Whiting, Paris Eng. ‘a is eee oe ae sree eee Ce amarinds ............ a etre cance tetany : AMMONIA. ae Liquida, (gal..35) 1: ae 1s es ee LA z Pyrethrum, pv... ae = S ee ci wo 30 emai Prepared Paint! 20@1"4 Aqua, oer... 84Y@ 5 os corte ee eee 100 Guinta apaw 27@ 32| Theobromae .......... 40 @ 45/| Swiss Villa siesta ae en... .5..... 5%@ 7 Rosae, ounce eee 6 S0@S 50 ene 50 Kh German....20 @ 30 Voors... a 00 | as..... 1 00@1 20 3? CORDOUME 05... 03.5. ae = — Cinchona a 50| Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 | Zinct ee 7@ 8 VARNISHES, 'S, veriaamicdinons tanta stesaaa mga 90@1 00 Co.......... - 60) Saccharum Lactis pv. 23@ 25 No. 1 Turp Coach.. a 10@1 Ww ANILINE, SRG 3 50@7 00 | Columba . Se Selec 1 75@1 89 on Extra Tur 160@1_ 70 | Black 2 000: Sapekteae 60005) 50@ 55/Confum................. 50 | Sanguis Draconis... . 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal/ Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00 - a ere Sinapis, ess, ounce @ 65} Cubeba.. mt Wem O..... 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 70 %0|No.1Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 yu gedaan semnaaaieis ig Te _ @ % Digitalis .. te sete eeee eee seen a ee 10a 12 | Lard, extra. es, 76 80 Eutra "Sr Damar....1 55@1 60 — me.. 50 = a a i . — ae oe oe f.......... a 8 | Japan r ” _ 1 = Yellow ............. z Sama = 60 | Gentian ........... ol, 50 Linseed, pureraw.... 49 52 Torp. . ‘ - 2@S Vt BACCAE. Theobromas........... 15@ 20 i reo etrmen = ’ Cubere (po 60 5g 60 POTASSIUM. . Se n- Juniperus .... 8@ 10/ Bicarp................ WO 18) Bingibee 50 ] Xanthoxylum .. 2@ 30) Bichromate ........." 13@ 14] Hyoscyamus............... 50 d a edad tees pee oo S lodi as : ss 1 2 ee ee ee nr 5 " olorless. 5 id &@ 50! Chlorate (po 20@22).. 2@ 2 Ferri Chloridum... 35 S, Per +: ot OO Ovanide ee Sie 50 ar Terabin, Canada... Oe or eas 2. sos 2 90@3 00 | Lobelia... 1201227. 50 Wore es 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. %7@ Sivek 50 4 or ae Potassa, Bitart, com... 15 Nax Vomica...... 50 ye 7 Petass Nitras, one... ee ae 85 . abe, Canadian............ = Potass Witrags 000000 ™7@ E. Re ‘Gia horated... 50 f REBIAO .. ~~ eevee cere en cree SS cL mt Hd nl > Ae Cinchona Flava ...........- Sita fio i. Importers and Jobbers of 1? ee pas cceae = sie Se ee noone = rica Corifera, po......... ee " Pranus Wien 12 | Aconitum ............. 20@ 2% en rte ee ete eee ee ees = I, Gaittaia, geass 10) Atenas 2@ 25 Cassia ‘Koutifoi’ bette tees sees = 18 4 Seer ee 12 — ee 12@ = WtLO ce 50 t | a ene se - | Gatemuss 222277777002 anf 3 Serpentarta ....°°: ee i EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po a. 82 10 ee ee = . ey hiza — A@ 25 ye rr za, (pv HH MHOC es - weeee = , ee 33Q@ 35 areas Canaden, Jo ae’ sees BO Tr Haematox, 15 box.. 11@ 12 (Po. 35 a @ 2| ¥atrum Veride............ 50 s 4 - << @ ican ue - se lebore, Ala, po.... = = MISCELLANEOUS. , . MR ic cee nul Tern ee edeeu cle ry ‘ aE 36 7 | Ppecne ge... ......... 2 30@2 40 Aither, Spts 2 z.. 30 G ol go Ii a ga Benen sg Ne HEMICALS AND e : 2onee, me Sabon... . 2%@ 3 fi Carbonate Precip...... 15] Maranta, \s.......... @ 3 “* ground, (po. Citrate and Quinia.... 3 50 | Podophyillum, po...... 10 Oe 3@ 4 s Citrate Soluble........ Ie iss oe 70g 00 | Annatin 0. 55@ 60 t FerrocyanidumSol.... @ 50) « eye @1 7% | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5 ar Solut Chloride........ @ 15] « PY reece eeeececens 75@1 35 et PotassT. 55@ 60 5 Sulphate, com’l....... -9@ 2] spigelia 20 217.77.°7" 35@ 38 Antipyrin cya @1 40 i “ pure.. @ 7 Sanguineria, GoD)... @ WM Antiicivin..... @ B I ~ aah ; a oe Seid eeee ae a 32} Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 60 7 ison 3eneg: 65@ 70] Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 DEALERS IN y ET 18@ 20 Stmilax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud. 38@ 40 ded Anthemis .. - R@ 3 M CG Si biensth sv... 2 W@2 26 Matricaria 40@ 50 | Sefllae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (%s a 8 Bug a Symplocarpus, Fosti- ie, ee) @ il g — 40@1 00}. dus, po......... @ 35|Cantharides Russian, YO 3 Brose ~~... ------- Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) Ce po es @1 00 oY cnn “acuiifol, Tin- Ge 15@ 2 fg . ae... @ 23] , erman. 13 | CaPelet Fructus, at... @ 25 j i: 35@ 50 as add cover cess 4 = @ 28!- Salvia officinalls, — mien 7... ... “ “ @ X ON GB.......20000. 15@ 25 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, » Poa) 10@_ 12 — Ura Ural. So hn teenie 8@ 1] anisum, (po. 20). @ 15| Carmine, No. @3 75 ae Apium (graveleons) -. 12@ 15 ao Alba, 8 GF - 50@ = Sole Agerts for the Celebratea 2 Acacia, ist picked... @ 7% aia 13] Coccus........ ‘2 a «|... @ 50 ; . y Cassia Fructu el @ 2 L “ “ 40 Cardamon.... 1 00@1 25 3d + @ ©) Coriandrum.... 10@ 12 oe: - @ 10 ow * “sifted aan. @ 2 | cannabis Sativa 36 Cetaceum . - 2 @ ' “ 60@ 80) Grdonium : 75@1 00 Chloroform . -- 60 68 \ Aloe, Barb, (po. $0). 50@ 60} Chenopodium -......) 10@ 12 squibb @1 2 Vy4 Cape, (po. 20 @ 12 | Dipterix Odorate......3 00@3 25 | Chloral Hyd Crat......1 3591 60 er rn } Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50 Foontoulum ee @ is) Cuondras.. 20@ 25 Catechu, 18, (8, 14 8, a Cinchonidine, 7 W 8a 20 T: ° ; e "ef ee rman 2 ‘ oun We 55@ 60 —_ list, dis. per J a Assafostida, (po. 35)... 39@ 35 ent 60 5 es Benszoinum............ 50@ 55 Guan @ 35 i Song L , Cam a ee ees 55@ | Eh Creta, (ool 75) . 3 2 Euphorbium po ...... ‘ 5 oo ee eg cs... @2 = . %@ i Gasspers, oo.......-.. q 7 ‘ nt : ) Guaiacum, (po 30) @ srmmirus. ee 3Q z f poe Kino, (po 50)......... 45 | Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50| Grays Tote 2: Beseiie Pgetee SE aes sacs @ v0 D. F.R.....1 75@2 00 Cupet St a 5@ 6 ~ Peer O3 Se ne 1 santpera Gi’ St | Bane 0G 2 's Michigan Gatarrh Remed et 0 3 8 0B? 12 | Funpperte i 6.2. Bas Eee aia: Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy, a 30@ 35] Saacharum N. £...... 1 75@2 00 ee % Tisgeeean ........... 30@ 75] Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 | Ergota, (po.) 75.0...” 70@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. ini Oporto ........... ‘ 00} Flake White.......".: 12@ 15 y | | gs) Vint Alba............. 1 Gale @ 3B ‘ - 20 SPONGES. Gelatin, Cooper rnc 7 $ We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of * J z Florida sheeps’ wool ae sae 23 jarriage............. 25@2 50 Glassware: flint, by box 70 & 10, , Nassau sheepe” wool Less than box 6637 DIES - @ Carriage 2 00 > > ay = Velvet ~ A shbo Glue, we peaeeeeece we = \ | ettce yelionshcspe °° | Giyoerina ee GINS, WINES, RUMS. wee MAGNESIA, ArEANO ce 85 es gaa sete eees 2 = Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 ae wool car- 65 | Hydraag Chior Mite. “O & A ‘ Carbonate, Pat........ U@ Ww and tos cas we sees cone % Cor @ 80 oe Carbonate, K.& M.-.. 0 25 | Hard for slate use. * Gunmen & & : Se a ee 1 40 ‘* Ammoniati.. _@1 00} We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. to Ae sienna cadiias ‘aise - i Unguentum. 45@ po We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. Sais . oe 7 : i : . : ane iin oe 350 Net Rs, 50 | Te thyobolla, Amn. 1.8 2591 50 | All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order. _* Amydal alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25| Zingiber .................... Seite %5@1 00 ie ia eee eae 1 80@1 65 TPOOBR. «+ - 20-002 coe coos ene 60 | Iodine, a ------- ae nT aes anes Cortex......,. = eee OO ered tog... 50 | Iodoform.. Een @4 70 b * ee 3 25@3 50 ——_ ap sees cee 50 — eg ees ohms ca 112 1@1 25 ; Cajiputl See ie Cay ees 60@ 65} Rhef A / oa. gana oad coo 60@ 65 ed Caryophylli ........... 70@ 7% Similax ‘Oficinalis. a OO) Mace 75@ 80 i r iy — 35@ 65 aa 80 | Liguor Arsen’ et iiy- ean Sone seneeee 0 oni senege Weve eek getid ces eb cae = “ oe fee. Baas : of = mamonii ........... ee quor Po 8 Citronella 2.222 000002: eM Aas nc anaes: 60 | Magnesia, Sulph (bb! RAND RAPIDS, MICH Conium Mac.......... OP ONIN ae Set Se ue ag 5 G R S, C oni a te bala evs 1 00! Prunus virg................. 50! Mannia, 8. F......2.) (63 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROC! The prices quoted in this list are for the trade onl going to press and are an accurate index of the local below are given as representin those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE doz gross Aurora... . 55 6 00 Castor Oil hes 9 0 Pere... 50 5 50 ———s............ 9 00 —............ © 8 00 rarer «.......... SB 6 BAKING POWDER. Acme ty Ib. cans, 3 doz 45 % Ib. see 85 i. * 1 1.2 Buik.. nna = Arctic 14 i cans Looe 60 %b * i= ee . 200 ee Ce a ea, 9 60 Fosfon. 5 0z. Cans, 4 doz. in case... 80 16 m6 “ "2 00 Dr. Price's. per doz Dime cans.. 90 4-0Zz rT a ae 6-0z 1 90 8-0z a ae 2 -0Z 3 75 6-02 475 24-Ib “ 11 40 41b “18 25 Sib 6 32 8 ib * 41 80 Red Star, 44 & cans. . 2 “ Se £0 a hh 1 50 Telfer’s, 4% lb.cans,doz. 45 “ oo es 85 2 -~ * * 12 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. ree . » ae... $0 oC 70 BLUING, Gross Aretic,4o0n ovals.......... 400 “ § 7 00 : -10 50 ee _2o N . 400 No. 5, . 8 00 ‘—.......... oe BROOMS, No. 2 Hurl). . -_ io oot ” van - 20 No. 2 Carpet... . 22 it 2 50 an... eer. 99 Fancy e 1s. Warehouse........ es BRUSHES, Stove, No. 1... oo 2 a ca -i18 : ee 1% Rice Root Scrub,2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Paimetto, goose 1 50 BUCK WHEAT. —————— 100 Ib. cases, 2 & 5 Ib. pkgs #4 50 CANDLES, Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.... _o Star ad en 9 Paraffine ..... ce ene ae CANNED GOODs. Fish, Clams. Little Neck, 1 Ib. 6 as oe ee Clam Chowder. so... ee Cove Oysters. Standard, 1 Ib.. . = e -s)........ oo Lobsters. oot, i: t..... ee cee oe ee [2 -....... ee eon a ee nell as Tee 290 Mackerel. ee 1 05 - oe 1 90 an. Si... 2 2 Tomato Sauce, 2lb......... 2 Soused, ......, oe Salmor. Columbia River, flat.... ... 1 85 = a... 1% Seca. Co 140 - OR eee 19 Sardines. American \s.... ie . ae.......... Sa 9 more we. -11@12 - os . - 1E@16 aoe oO ae... Boneless .... ee 20 Trout. Brook, 3 |b 2 50 Fruits. Applies. S ib. standard ....... York State gallons 3 60 Hamburgh 2% Apricots. ive oak... : cs 2 00 Sante Cros........ 2 00 —- 2 00 rine 1 90 Blackberries. oc... 95 Cherries, . ete cee ee 1 20 Pitted Hamburgh .. . 1% —.. - 1 30 — ... 1 20 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green ages. ae... 12 a 1 70 Gooseberries. eon. 120 Peaches. —..... . 1 30 eee... 2 00 Pern... 1 85 (Sere... 210 Monitor ee el 1 85 Oxford... L Pears ae. 13 eee. 2 10 Pineapples. ee 1 30 Johnson's sliced...... 250 . grated..... 2 7% Quinces. ———a 1 16 Raspberries, ce 1 30 Black Hamburgz....__. 1 50 Erie, black is Straw berries, Lawrence ...... i is Hamburgh 12 ee 1 39 Sree 1m Whortleberries. on... ce 1 10 ae... 115 Blueberries ...._... 110 Meats. Corned beef, Libby’s.......1 90 Roast beef, Armour’s...... 1 75 Potted bon ch. = ‘ " 50 HERBS, Ps eee tl 15 ee 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes. . 50 JELLY. oe... ._........ 90 — cee eee ce 1 50 LICORICE, EES Ise 30 ee 25 eee 12 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz........... 12 . oon... ....... 2 2% MATCHES, Oo. eevee. 12 Ano Oereee............ 17 ee ee a 1% eOE VEEIOE............... 400 MINCE MEAT, 3 or 6 doz. in case per doz.. 95 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. [oe $1 75 Bae ween... 1 40 ee 70 a 45 Bae pine ........... 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. Ce aS . orale NO 475 Quart .. Pi eccneee cua, Of Pint oe MOLASSES, Blackstrap, Sugar howes............ oo. Cuba Baking, rey 16 Porto Rico. ee cc - 20 ae ed on 30 New Orleans, ee. 18 Oe cee . 20 Co 26 ON iis ce cee ce 30 rancy..... — TO 40 One-half barreis, 3c extra PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @7 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @4 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 8 00 Half bbis, 1,200 count 4 50 PIPES, ey, Pe eee 1% — 2. 2 oe Oem... %5 Con, he €.............. ee POTASH, 48 cans in case, Peres .......... 2... 4 00° Penna Sait Co.’s.......... 3 25 RICE, Domestic. OCarorinn WOO oo... 6... ine _ WW Beer e cea ole 5 - eG Bae ce 4% Rg ic csc ay,- 3 Imported, MN, WO Bie ck ica 6 e Peek oy besos ing 5 os ie 4 coe ou ay 5 RN ci tare laces 5 ) ‘ ! W ¥ © tn * + 7 » cone a Oe W ¥ { tu * + ” » 4 \ ‘ [ ja’ SPICES. Whole Sifted, PO 8 Cassia, China in mats...... ? ' Batavia in bund....1 - Saigon in — .30 Cloves, an. a Maneneer...... 1... 10 Ce EE 80 Nutmegs, a 75 _ _ De ele sees. 70 . wee 60 Pepper, singapore, — co white... .20 ' moe. 15 Pure Ground in Bulk. IO ces. 12 Cassia, Batavia.............2 and Saigon .22 . PN 30 Cloves, Amiboyna........... 22 ' ZGneIper.........., 18 Ginger, Aree... i, 6 oi. 5.. 14 : Me coe, 7 Oe MOR cece | 8 Ce Tw! Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .16 Triest ee. 18 Nutmcen Mo. 2 ............- 60 Pepper, Singapore, gg 18 iO. ues 2 e Cavemme.........,. 1 Mee 14 “Absolute” in Packages. 48 48 Aiiepiee ........ ee 1 55 Comeemon....... & 155 Ceevee ... ..... 84 155 Crecer cam........... & 155 be a... S4 1 & oe , 84 155 reper -c : 84 155 Seee...... oe woe Oe SAL SODA, OR siecle. lee 1% Granulated, Niet... <0. 1% SAUERKRAUT. Gold Medal...........7 26@7 50 SEEDS. eee oes... @i2% Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Coeney .......,...,.. 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp. Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird .......... 4% Mustard, white....... 6 ee eS SE 9 ee Ces 6 Came DOne........... 30 STARCH. Corn 20-Ib boxes eee etlese lias, 6 ee 5X Gloss, 1-1b packages Deedee eae e ie 5% ee 5% é: lb aaa eo 6 40 and 50 lb. boxes meerem.... 8s. 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccahoy, in jars........... 35 french Rappes, in Jars..... 43 SODA, Soe... Shy Reon, Co 4% SALT. — 3-Ib. sacks yc ce eens . 82 3 ee. 2 00 8 10. Yb, sacks oe ae 1 85 a | 2% 1 56 1b. dairy in linen bags.. 32 si. * on - = a Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 = . ° oo 8 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 }4, dairy in linen sacks. 7 Solar Rock. O68 lk. GaGee....... . ...... 27 Common Fine. NN on tee eee oe 90 aeeeeee ......-... ...... 95 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box, NO oc wc eee 83 30 Delsaee ....,.-... 3 15 Deere... ol 3 30 Tepsor se. :......- 3... 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib....... 3 20 Good Cheer, 601 Ib......... 3 9 White Borax, 100 3%-lb......3 60 Proctor & Gamble. meeeee ... 2.0... oe 2 80 we ee 6 7 ™~ © O68 oa. ss... 4 00 ine... C.........- 3 65 Mottled German........... 3 15 ea 3 U0 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands, American Family, wrp d..%3 30 plain... 3 24 " “ Se size.. 4 2 N.K. Fairbanks & Co. a. Rese Cree. |... «ss sess Brown, OF bars............. 2 10 S oo here... ...... 3 2 Psa Bros, & Co.’s Brands. : Cotton bit epee ee cscs. a Gidd ous ce tac ce ee 400 SE ee Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 ” hand, 3dos....... 2 50 SUGAR. 1 ............. @ 5% | Cubes -- 54@ 5% Powdered yk i @ 5% ' Standard.. @ d% Granulated, medium.. 5 @ 5% ooo...... 5 @ 5, eer AL... 4%@ 5 Soft A ee @ 4% White Extra G........ 4.56 mare Cs @ 4% C. . i. @ 14% Gongon i @ 4 Yellow .. = @ 3% Less than bbls. % 4c advance SYRUPS. Corn. POPP O cop pace uese ae og a | 2 Pure Cane. er. 19 Le eS a 25 Chores 0... 30 SWEET GOODS Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Bager Croams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers... 8% VINEGAR. ee 7 G8 So ee @2 81 for barrel. WET MUSTARD. Boe pera... 30 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 %5 YEAST, Magtic,.... ee ie Warners ..... Li aaestceee OO a 5 Moree 90 TEAS. yaPpan—Regular. ae @i7 eed .......... ‘ ‘ Chetee.................23 Gis Cieleest...-...... ... 22 Gat Dee. ee 10 @l2 SUN CURED, ror ............... "@17 Good .. ... ideede cel. @20 Oe ck, 24 @x6 ee 32 @R4 ee. 10 @i2 BASKET FIRED. Pate Sud ecyaceeectees este MONG, 60s ce ' Choicest.. Extra choice, wire leaf GUNPOWDER, Common to fair.......25 @3i Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........ 7% @ss OOLONS. G26 Common to fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair.......2 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair.......18 @26é Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, CO 18 @2z Chree ---24 G28 mee. ................ 2. oe TOBACCOS. Fine Cut, Pails unless otherwise noted eee 62 Sweet Cuba.. i 36 McGinty betes yee 27 AG Uis-.-.... 25 Dandy Jimn............ 2g oo es 24 . in drums.... 23 Sim Vem <.......... 28 Cs 23 © See..., ..,.:. 2 Plug. Sorg’s Brands, Bnesenead ............ 41 ORer oc io .., 29 Noppy Twist....-....... 40 Seotten’s Brands, Bvie................... 24 Piewatee,........ -.-. 38 Valley City .........-. 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 4 @otle Tae... i... 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. Bin Geed.............. & Golden Snower,............19 Pippirees oii oe MCerac en os. cs. 29 American Eagle Co.’s ae Myrtle Nav y. Pee eehsaerens ee = German . ce a Lg eae 33 Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands. TOOL ee ce ose es 16 Banner Cav endish 0 38 Oh a one 28 Scotten’s Brands. POO icc eek i core es see 16 money Tew... .........-.~- 25 Gold Bloek. ..... 660.0. 30 . F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Se ee ed FISH and OYSTE! KS 3 > | Baskets, 1 | Fe a market 35 ae, 7 J. D | Seall nt eo ettenthaler quotes as | EN eee ay ay shipping bushe a] oe, oe eo oe follow q GI 0 full hoop 1 35 Seen 20 FRESH FISH. | | PAPER & WOODE NWARE willow el’ths, } 6 Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands. | Whitefish ...... @e2 | PAPER, i Monduude. 41 oo witeeees 8 @9 | Rocks: fas ee arte ee 1% ‘i a Leic dersdorf s Brands base ri @15 | sahioggral al 1% “ eT oe ee | ee Herring. 2s ieee 4 “ Wile Sai ae@se | ee 1 1 @12 | Hardware a a Red Glover. |. a0 | Fresh lobster, ‘per Ib.. me) emere 214 Pail INDURATED WARE. Spaulding & Merrick. | a per gal . 1 00 | — =. ede eee cas 5 @s Tubs ood . ; = Tom and Jerry. dooce N > -..10 @iz_ | Jute Manilla... ++ 1 i AI Oe ha ee" : | No. 1 Pickerel......... @8 | Red Express No. i. deals -. 3% ‘ Traveler Cavendish...... Di ic Bo _ POU RY aa | Bake i. ea @7z | No.2 |.) aug SULTRY, | Plow Boy...... ........30@32 | ace —: 7 ie Local dealers pay as follows: Corn Cake .......... -:r+-:16 | Finnan Haddies....__.. 10 | Cotton, No. ce Fowl ae Poee se Ss Fs... OW!....... ttereenes 5 OILS. OYSTERS—Cans, | Sea Island, agsorted....... 30 Turkeys The Standard Oil Co. quotes | Fairhaven Counts. @37 | No.5 Hemp . — 15 | Ducks i as follows, in barrels, f.o. b.| F. J.D. Selects....... ee ee TT ae LIVE Grand Rapids: Selects ...... on @23 | WOODENWARE, iieienne ce y > Eocene. ................ ee gage Tubs, No.1..............04. 1Ola eh ee FS Water White, old test. @ 73} Standards ............ @iz 2 OG Beri 6 00 | Fowls Ss ee W. W. Headlight, 156° 6% | Favorites a 15 No. figoaag 2) Smine back, ---Il @ie ee neeeees: 26 6% | in weak. Pails, ; No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 35 | pring Duck.... .....10 @il Naptha................ a i >, No. 1, three-hoop.. 1 tO — ae ue @ 6% a” per 100 ...... "a 20 | Clatneeyin _— bozés.... finder .............. aa owls MCh..........2+4. § Engine io 13 @21 | . BULK. ae. UL 1 = Biack. 16 cold test... @ 8% | Counts, per gal.. .... .. 220 *o 6 @ i 1 60 | exera Selects... 0... 1% ee 2 25 | HIDES PELTS andl FURS USeieems: 000000) oC 1 50! ta ee 045 | Perkins & Hess pay as fol- | Standards............... oe 3 00 | ows: HIDES. er ene ce — Green... 2%03% PROVISIONS. a —. Se ee ea ess ue ce art C QD ¢ ao : ured... Ea 3% The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | String lock ec. — aT 5 @5 | Wotes as follows: [Beret Aone Migs preem __......__. Steen xe PORK IN BARRELS. Wintergreen Berries. ee ee * Cure... cl. . © 456i Messe. .....:. 5 ARAMELS, € Calfskins, green...... 4@5 " Shastent 0 4 No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. Pomee. cured...... @7 Extra clear pig, short cut. ‘.. 18 00 | No. 1, “ 3 ss ee Deacon aking: .... 30 ia | Mxtra Gloar heave. 0000 18 00 | No. 2, nH 2 be Yo. 2 hides ¥ off. CU NOME. 300) No.3, ° . PELs. Boston clear, short cut..... veveeensessssee 18 00} Stand up, 5 Ib. boxes.. ane Shearing... 10) qm) | Clear Daek abort ent 18 00} il BAN ANAS. bene oo. 25 @ 90| Standard clear, short cut, best........... 18 5O | SMa... . eee eee eee wee . Lh ET TiN vOOL, SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Lave |. Warmed... ........... 20 Giza Pork Satigage Lo ae ee 8% 7 Le a ce eT a Vaweenee 8. sO) ee a 9 | Ploridas, fancy RARERE 00@3 2 MISCELLANEOUS. ae AMBABG. se eee ess teen e-ceacevenuse 9 ‘ a Sampsons a e. 3 oa3 eee eee, 3 3@3 ive, ae a na gaa eee : LEMONS. Grease butter ........ 2 Ce eel eee te Messina, choice, 360 Gi 2 Sieh 14@ 2 ea thiee Cor ee ee seer en areces i a ee) poy Lees ee la @4 50 Cimesns 2 Wr? 75 Head Patece Vi ea nl oa al 2 . CuGrce Ome... @ FURS ee eed eater ee ens en teeras seeee esas ‘“ fancy 300 ...... Outside prices for No. 1 only. LARD. Pst ae. it nt ieenen tn ae OO eins: IRE ee erties 10% 0m tte @12% peaver.. |... "3 OL @7i 7 OO C aaa teeee ‘te oa ahs ed ds oo howe a L extra 5 = |. @i5 ee 40Q@ 50 ba che gh 2 a hl al tat ica al ~ eee, @lé Oat, MOUNE ooo 10@ 25 a pails — Dates, Fard, 10-Ib, box.............. @ 8 WORE. esses sss, SOOM ae ae lw 50-Ib. @5 Woe; fea |... 2... 1 00@1 60] “Sy, = ‘ . Sentee 50-Ib. box.. @5 Fox, €roes,............0 (gno OO 3 1b. ‘ ve . NUTS. pace grey.. 4 ones = ie iy ' ii ies is Almonds, OR @19 es 2 00G “ . ee, 7% Martin, dark .. 1 00C@3 00} Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs........... _.1@ Carornis ................... Siske « "pale & yellow. 50@1 00 | Extra Mess, Chicago packing............-... 7 00 | Brazils, new...... G1i% ot = oe. : . oa = Bonciess, rump Buti... 10 00 | Filberts . i Qu% a a B@ 12 a aA i" Walnuts, Se Te D1 Oppossum -) We iieares Droge 80 | Butter Crocks, 1 and 6gal...............005 06% woee tore... .... @10% Lozen 8, plain 60 Jugs, Fe gal., per, doz %5 “ ahoulders. w@ 8 ee DIE ARASH Sausage, blood or head @ Bae ey 60 . Oe aa eee ae ay 1 80 i a cag! a - Mottoes. . eee Ca 70 Mik Pans, % 8 gal., per, os aul $5 Mutton ......... ...... Oe iis secs fe oe ES Ceeerelaisneme cae Veal...... .......+++++-7 @ T4| Hand Made Creams..............00.000+ - 86Q9S ee gee ee ae OU 90 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Trusts and Combinations. From the American Grocer. Ex-Senator Edmunds who, during his official capacity as Senator, reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee what is known as the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, has recently expressed the opinion that the provisions of that bill are constitu- tional, and if enforced, would put an end to all trusts and combinations. We con- cede the point made by ex-Senator Ed- munds, but laws, even if new, are some- times unjust and inequitable. We be- iieve the Sherman Anti-Trust Law a menace to the prosperity and advance of the commercial interests of America. Present economical conditions are very different from those of thirty years ago, owing to the revolution wrought by steam, electricity, the division of labor. steel rails and other modern inventions. Most of existing law was framed to meet former conditions and therefore calculated to secure to the people the full benefits of the newer economy. cent laws failto take economic value of modern invention. Ex-Senator Edmunds fails to note that open competition is unfair competition, that it means bankrupt manufacturers, poorly paid workmen and a check upon the expansion of new industries. Trusts and combinations tend to regu- late competition and place it on a fair and equitable basis, so that industries are made profitable. If wages are no higher, they become stable, and employ- ment is given to workmen for a longer average time than under free or unfair competition. Ex-Senator Edmunds admits that the result of the Sugar Trust and the Standard Oil Trust has been to give the people cheaper sugar and oil: he might have gone farther and said given them better sugar and better refined oil. Trusts make stable markets and afford | distributers an opportunity for getting a profit, whereas, under the old regime of independent organizations, there was an irregular product, solid at all sorts of prices, with the result that scarcely one out of a hundred who handled these products made any money. What the country needs is a revision of such old lawson the statute books as stand in the way of progress, and new laws to regulate trusts and combines in- stead of wiping them out of existence, as Senator Sherman and ex-Senator Ed- munds think desirable. Great legal minds may know existing iaw and whether new acts are constitutional or | not, but sometimes they are lacking in a practical knowledge of trade and com- merce, such as would give them a very different idea of the measures which they advocate. We believe that any law framed to prevent the combination of capital is not for the good of the masses. The evils which are launched against trusts and combinations are largely imaginary, and the war which is con- stantly waged against them is kept up by enemies and those who seek to make cap- ital by posing as reformers. We regard it better for the interests of the United States at large that great cor- ae such as the Philadelphia and eading, that are engaged in mining and distributing coal, should be allowed to regulate their affairs so as to receive a fair return for their services. The prop- osition made by Mr. McLeod, of the Read- ing Co., to undertake the distribution of coal direct to the consumer, means a Saving of 25 to 50 cents per ton. The distribution of iron by consolidated capi- tal is one of the greatest economic bless- ings that this country ever received. By it crude iron and steel are manufactured into structural! iron and steel ata profit to makers of $1 per ton, whereas if the work were dependent upon small shops it could not be done for $10 per ton, which would practically be prohibitory over a large portion of the country. At one time there was a tremendous hue and cry against the meat packers in Chicago. of the states forbidding the sale of their is not | Re- | into account the | | class and of both sexes, these dagos are Laws were passed by several | | and others one-tenth of 1 cent per pound, (or 75 cents to $1 per bullock profit for slaughtering and distributing the pro- ducts. The individual butcher could not afford to supply the market at any- thing like the profit sought by the pack- ers in Chicago. | people of one of the greatest blessings they have is a mystery we are unable to solve. in their first view of new questions. All reforms come slowly and foment opposi- |tion. We realize that abuses may grow }up under trusts and combinations, but they should be reached by law in the same way as the state supervises the operations of the banks and insurance companies, oe we Hard on the Dago. | GRAND Rapips, Dec. 19—As a member of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ As- sociation, | feel like enquiring what steps | the organization proposes to take to | abate the dago gang which hang around | our markets and commission houses dur- jing the summer and autumn months. | This market gang is not the only one of the kind, for other cities are infested with the same sorts of organized bands |of criminals. But there is a remarkable fact about these gangs which should have attention. The men who compose them, depraved as they are, do not con- form to the ordinary type of professional criminals, who commonly confine them- selves to particular sorts of crimes. There, for instance, are the burglars, the | highwaymen, and the confidenze opera- tors. Each one of these classes forms a sort of brotherhood or corporation for the prosecution of its special crimes, and for disposal of the booty. They are not ordinarily disorderly when they ap- pear in public places and they do not often resert to violence, save in the way of their business. The various classes of robbers are always armed when on business, and they are ready to kill if it be necessary to carry out their designs, or to escape capture, but they do not murder for the fun of it. In this they differ vastly from the market gangs. These ruffian gangs are the counter- part in great cities of the desperadoes territories and infest the mining camps of the Rocky Mountains. They do not ;devote themselves to any classes of crime, but hesitate at none, as opportu- nity offers. They arefond of riding on horseback into the streets and public houses of the new settlements, and of making times lively by shooting at peo- ple and things indiscriminately. They delight in showing their utter contempt for all law and authority, and their chief ambition is to be considered ‘*bad men’’ and desperadoes. These fellows com- monly have very brief careers, for the people soon tire of them, and then there is a general lynching bee, in which the “bad men” make their last appearance, each at the end of a rope, with a squad of enraged citizens hauling on the other. What the “howling wolves from Howlersville’ and the ‘bad men from Bitter Creek’”’ are in the Western mining camps, the dago gangs are in the cities. | They are criminals by choice; they are | as ready to murder a man for the fun of | it as for the sake of his money; they pre- |fer to outrage women even if com- | plaisance were assured, and they delight in creating disorder and in committing violence wherever an opportunity offers. Always hostile to the law and its min- isters, they have become emboldened by long immunity from punishment, so that | they fleece the farmer and consumer with equa lcomplacency, and with entire disre- gard of the consequences. Consorting in organized bands and | acting together for a common defense; |intimate with criminals of the lowest able to secure harborage when that is needed, and testimony of any description product within the borders of the state This proves that legislation is sometimes | wrong, for these laws were quickly re- pealed. The people are now satisfied | that they are getting better beef. with | quality more uniform, so that they are willing to give Messrs. Armour, Swift that may be required to secure their es- cape from punishment. Taken altogether, | the dago is the very worst type of crimi- nal which modern conditions have de- veloped. He is a savage in the midst of civilization; he is the human wild beast who finds his lair in the side streets and Why Senator Sherman or ex-Senator | |Edmunds should strive to deprive the | The people are frequently wrong | who flock on the frontiers of our Western | alleys of a city, and is ever ready to /emerge to commit some act of inexcus- | able and wanton atrocity. These are the public enemies with which society has | now to deal, andit should show them no |merey, but hunt them down as it does other worthless and venomous beasts. GROCER. ey | Better Cheese for Country Consump- | tion. From the Da'ry World. Who among our readers are fortunate enough to find good cheese at the stores? We do not mean in the stores of the large cities. but in the towns and in cities of ordinary size. We confess, not only with a great deal of regret but with con- siderable indignation, that we have tried it a great many times, but we have invariably failed to secure the desired article. Weare not by any means either too critical or too exacting in our tastes, | but we hunt in vain for something even in the ordinary run of cheese. We sample the article at the time of purchase, en- deavor to persuade ourselves that we shall like it when used as arelish with other food, and accordingly carry home asmall parcel of it. But it is the old story over again—the cheese is at times ust passable but never good or palatable. We have given the product of some factories reputed to turn out a good ar- ticle a trial, but itis no use, We have finally given up the task of looking for prime goods at country stores, and now whenever we want something good we buy right from the stores in Chicago. Why is it that country merchants will persist in keeping the article on their counters is only to be accounted for on the hypothesis that there is more money in it or good cheese is not offered by the local manufacturer. In any event, the practice is not caleulated to benefit either the maker or seller. Just consid- er how the demand might be increased if a cheese of appetizing quality were only offered the public. Under the ex- isting system few venture into regular purchases. Give them something good and they will come often and raise no particular objections if the price is a trifle higher than the market quotation. But the goods now offered are dear at any price. There isno doubt good cheese can be made, but we recognize the up- hill business in trying to convince the general run of manufacturers as well as storekeepers of increased home demand and profit in an improved quality of cheese, but we shall never despair of seeing, in time, the situation wholly changed. There may be the excuse of inability to keep a good article in a prime condition pending sales, but once a repu- tation is established for keeping such goods and there ought not to be a week before more than one whole cheese has been cleared from the counter. WHITE KID SLIPPERS. $110 PER PAIR. Send Your Orders to BIRTH, KRAUSE & CO, 12-14 LYON ST. GRAND RAPIDS, Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 0 JOBBERS OF Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeert, President. Gero. W. Gay, Vice-President, Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a-specialty oficollections. Accounts of country merchants solicited. MICHIGAN Firé & Marine [nstrance C0 Organized 1881. DETROIT, MICHIGAN How to Keep a Store By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages written from the experience and observation of an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, ete. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. THE TRADESMAN CO., Ag’ts. Grand Rapids, Mich. vice—sixteen years experience—first-class G. R. Mayhew, Grand Rapids, Mich., JOBBER OF ro wi SS3-101) pase ke eee y as Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Woonsocket Rubbers, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. 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- 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. Si ea a a ee nie + ye em pee exh em mete bed bed Oe ee ete et et OM et ot } ; t t qa se Y ~~ ¢ Qgvew ort 4a BD OP eee eo t i. YANKEE INGENUITY. All Styles of Foreign Cheese Now Successfully Imitated in the United States. From the New York Sun. Simple folk who pride upon their gastronomic taste are some- times heard to speak scornfully of Amer- ican cheeses, but perhaps in nine cases out of ten they eat and praise as an ex- cellent example of the foreign product a cheese that never crossed the ocean. Camembert and Brie are the only soft cheeses that are imported in considerable quantity, and even they are manufac- tured in the United States. One may buy at this season a so-called Camembert cheese with an elaborate foreign label, but, as a matter of fact, little, if any, of the imported article is sold here between May and October. Camembert usually reaches the New York market ten or twelve days from the factory and some of it spoils on the way if the weather be hot for the season. It comes over in the swiftest ships from Havre, and what is brought in one ship is pretty well con- sumed before another arrives. It is con- fessed that the native Camembert and Brie are not so good as the foreign article, but the cheesemakers of New York and New Jersey have come at length to pro- duce admirable Roquefort and good imi- tations, if they may be so called, of many other famous foreign cheeses. The French cheesemakers, with the conservatism characteristic of the rural a Europeans, have neglected to adapt their products to the American market. The Brie cheese from abroad, for example, comes in a large disc that puts it beyond any but those who consume it in large quantities, whereas the native Brie is made in small cakes that may be pur- oe chased for family use. The sale of Gorgon- zola cheese, which is still imported, is much smaller than it would otherwise be if made in smaller parcels. Only two or three English cheeses are now imported in large quantities, and the so-called English dairy cheese is a native product. Meanwhile enormous quantities of Amer- ican cheeses are exported to Great Bri- tain. Some English cheesemakers have taken to putting up their products in jars ~ pey* instead of bladders, in this way making them more easily preserved. The German and Swiss cheeses are im- itated here, though less successfully than sume others. As to the Italian cheeses, they are made without pretense of con- cealment wherever there is a considerable Italian quarter, though the imitations are not liked by the Italians themselves, » -r @ and cheap Italian cheeses are imported in large quantities. Parmesan is a favorite with the Italians, since it is cheap and in various ways useful. Limburger is imi- tated here, as is Neufchatel. According to local tradition, the earliest maker of foreign cream cheeses in this region was a Frenchman, whose first customers were a few fashionable restaurants. He pro- « ® » duced in small quantities almost perfeet imitations of French cheeses and deliv- ered them tohis customers himself. The manufacture of these cheeses is now so extended that many grocers make no effort to keep astock of foreign cheeses, and probably the larger portion of the cheese consumed, even in the French table @hote that established the fashion w of cheese eating among all sorts of New Yorkers, is of native manufacture. As yet, however, the conservatism of the commercial world makes it necessary to stick to old names and foreign labels. a Personal Interest in Business. yt x D. T. Mallett in Business. Business life, especially with the re- ** tail storekeeper, is too often a monoto- nous round of daily routine month after month and year after year. The same hour each morning finds him entering his store to attend to the same circle of duties which have occupied his time and attention for many years. ‘The weary waiting for customers, the exhibition of goods to the possible buyer, the tedious recital of their merits, the final tying of the parcel, and the familiar phrases of common-place conversation, are the same, yesterday, to-day and to-morrow. The goods on the shelves seem never to change. If a package is sold another takes its place, and the surroundings THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. take on a sameness which only serves to} complete the atmosphere of monotony | which surrounds the dealer and colors '! his thoughts. into ‘a rut of action difficult of escape. There may be times when he partially realizes his posi- Little wonder, then, if he | soon becomes an automatic, machine-like | dealer and settles down themselves | tion, but instead of causing him to stem | the tide of habit, it only serves to em- bitter his thoughts and sink deeper the narrow wheel into the rut he continually travels. That such a business life is not to be commended as an element of com- mercial success is self-evident, and that it is a waste of life and its opportunities is equally apparent. That such a man may strain a living out of his trade and| wealth to} even accumulate sufficient cause a quarrel among his heirs is not an impossibility. We all know of cases where men of narrow lives have died leaving estates of great value, but it only serves as a striking contrast to the pov- erty of their lives. It does not always pay, in a mere money sense, to be enterprising. Some of the brightest merchants in America have often been sorely pressed for money to carry out their enterprises, but their lives have made an impress on business methods for which the world is indebted. Success cannot be satisfactorily measured alone by the dollars it controls, nor can a business man be said to have a proper conception of life who finds his sole sat- isfaction in the contemplation of his sav- ings. The dealer who operates a small store has in his field just the same set of opportunities as has the merehant who manages the largest enterprises, and he may, if he will exert himself, rise above the round of daily duties, and turn the current of his affairs into the broad highway of modern progress. The old style counters and shelving may be as strong as finer ones, and hold as many goods, yetif he will put in modern fix- tures it will freshen his surroundings and very likely improve his trade. At- tractive showcases cost more than time- worn styles, and require more attention to keep them clean and bright; but the dealer who has a few handsome cases in his store feels a pride in their appear- ance, and that sort of pride is what keeps men alive and makes life worth living. When he has the new counters and cases he will notice that the windows need some attention, and he will begin to find a pleasure in arranging them for better effect. Tne former routine of duties will lose their barnacle of monotony, and as- sume an individual importance and in- terest which before had seemed impossi- ble. The man has found a source of satisfaction which will develop as his business views widen. All his associates notice the change in his actions; the irk- some regard which he formerly possessed for his vocation has vanished, and in its place there is a mild excitement of spec- ulation in his eye, and a briskness in his thoughts which are traceable to his brighter surroundings. He studies the methods of progressive merchants, reads about them, visits their stores, asks the traveling salesmen for new ideas, and is on the constant outlook for better ways of carrying on his business. No detail is too insignificant for his careful con- sideration. He wants his books of ac- counts kept in the most approved man- ner. He is particular as to the form and appearance of his bill-heads, and is edu- eating himself in a thousand business matters which he had before ignored. Before long, so earnest are his efforts, he becomes a pattern for other business men, and serves as an example of what a small storekeeper may achieve if he will only make the necessary exertion to get out of the old ruts, which have made his ex- istence monotonous. eel An Accommodating Storekeeper. From the Utiea Observer. Some of the storm-bound passengers at one of the depots near here were tell- ing stories the other day, and a traveling man was relating his experience in a country store in a small town in Jeffer- son county. He said he was there near- ly the entire forenoon, and had occasion to notice the peculiarities of the store- keeper, who carried a genera! stock, but a pretty small one. Every little while a customer would come into the store and | inquire for some article that the mer- chant did not happen to have in stock. For instance: ‘‘Have you any dried beef, Mr. Cashdrawer?” ‘No, we have no dried beef to-day, but we have some nice eodfish. John, show this lady the ecod- fish.”” ‘‘Do you keep any such thing as wicks for those big, round lamp-burn- ers?” ‘‘We generally do, but happen to be out just now. We have some fine cot- ton clotheslines, though. John show the gentleman the clotheslines.’”? ‘‘My gals want me to bring home some confection- er’s sugar. Have you got any of it, Cashdrawer?” “Sold the last ounce about an hour ago, Henry. We've got an excellent quality of toilet soap, though. John, show Mr. Adams the soap.’ ‘Do you keep ready-made flannel shirts?’’ “Have had them all winter, and sold three to a lady yesterday, which cleaned the stock out. But we have a large sup- ply of overalls. John, show the lady the overalls.” a Deafness Cannot be Curea By local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way tocure deafness, and that is by econstitu- tional remedies. Deafdess is causec by an in- flamed conditiod of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have arumbling sound or imperfect hear- ing, and when it is entirely closea, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored toits normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be eured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circu lars; free. F J CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O. "Sold by Druggists, 75e. WALTER HOUSE Centra! Lake, Mich., E. Walter, Prop. Fourteen warm rooms, all newly furnished Good table. Rates, $1. 50 per’ day, The patron age of traveling men especially solicited. MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, Nov. 20 1892.) Arrive. Depart _ enm....... Detroit Ex — ee 6 55pm Sapte... Mixec / . 70am 1 ce am.........: Day Express - --. - oop 6 0 am.....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 10 45 pm Opin ..... New York Express...... 5 40pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 a m; re- turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:00 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) Tickets on sale at Union Ticket Office, 67 Mon- roe street and Union Depot. FRED M. BRIGGS, General Agent, 95 Monroe Street. 0. W. RUGGLES, G. P.& T. Agt., Chicago. TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. DETROIT seo ANA EASTWARD. |tNo. 14 _ 16|tNo. 18|*No. 82 Trains Leave Ly, Onidsge....1........ Coat ee Ly. Milwaukee. ‘ 6 50am|i10 20am| 3 25pm /}11 00pm 7 45am/11 25am) 4 27pm/12 42am 8 30am}12 17pm; 5 20pm) 2 00am 9 05am} 1 20pm) 6 G5pm} 3 10am 10 50am} 3 45pm) 8: 0pm) 6 4am 11 30am] 4 35pm) 8 37pm) 7 15am 10 U5am| 3 45pm) 7 05pm} 5 40am 12 05pm) 5 50pm) 8 50pm) 7 30am 10 58am} 3 05pm) 8 25pm} 5 37am 11 50am] 405pm) 9 25pm) 7 00am WESTWARD. *No. 81 |tNo. 11|tNo. 13 iy. eet... -....... 10 45pm) 6 50am/10 50am Gd Rapids, Ly... .... 7 06am} 1 00pm) 5 10pm G@a@tiaven, Ay....... 8 25am} 2 10pm) 6 15pm Cg a ee ee Chicago Str. “ . : *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a, m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet ear. 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, Trav. Pass. Agent. G’d Rapids, Ly tome ........ Ar St. Johns ...Ar Owoks)...... Ar E. Saginaw..Ar ~~ i) 5 vo = 2 ° " Desroit,...... Ar Trains Leave 10:10a, m., 3:15 Jas, CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect November 20, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going h. North. Sout For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 6:45am 7:20am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:00am 1:10pm For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:20pm 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ..... 8:10 pm 10:10 pm ‘rom Chicago and Kalamazoo. 8:35 pm Train arriving from south at 6:45am and 9:00am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive ag a Poe (ec... sss, 6:30am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago.. 0:05 am For Fort Wayne and the East... a :50 a m 2:00 pm For Cincinnati... ....... 6:15 pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chica 11:00 p m 11:20 pm Mromi Sagtaaw. oo... 11:50 a m Prom Sagtiaw. :00 p ii: Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m an 11:20 p. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH P m train has parlor car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:10 p m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10: 05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand ood to Chicago. = train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand apids to Cincinnati 11;20 pm Sone. Wraaeiew Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 pm il: Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p m 6:50 10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:20 pm ee daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicag 7:05 am 3:10 pm 11:45 p m = Guaal aa ids 2:20 pm 8.35 pm 6:45 am m cometh Wagner Parlor Car. 11:45p m :10 p “nie dele. through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive : 10:00 a m 55 am oo 4:40 pm 5:30 pm 9:05 p m Seiden train leaves for Muskegon at 9:05 a m, ar- riving at 10:20 a m. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:45 p m. Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Leg Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, M aL LOCKWOOD, ‘C. General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO — AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y. NOV. 20, 1892. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.GR'D RAPIDS...... 8:50am 1:25pm *11:35pm Ar, CHICAGO. ......... 3: 55pm 6:45pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAG@.......... 9:00am 5:25pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS.....3:55pm 10:45pm = *7:05am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, AND ST JOSEPH bya... ... Boca 1:20pm ...... *11:35pm Ar Ge... *6:10am 3:55pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM MUSKEEON. Ly. GB... 8:50am 1:25pm 5:35pm 8:45pm a &. H..... --10:45am 3:55pm 5:25pm TRAVERSE CITY MANISTEE & PETOSKEY. in, GE... . -cooee 6:008M §:35pm ie ede 12: 15pm 10:29pm Ae. ‘Travorse Clty ............. 12:35pm 10:59pm Ar. Charlevoix ..... od SO Ax Teteemey ........ ... oor... Ar. from Petoskey, etc., 10:00 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 5:45 p m. *Every day. Other trains week days only. DETROIT LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. NOV. 20, 1892 GOING TO DETROIT. In. G@ BR ... 7:10am *1:25pm 5:40pm Aw DMF... 00..... 11:30am *5:25pm 10:35pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. LV. Dee ok... 7:50am *1:35pm 6:10pm ar. G@ H........... -12:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. GR.11:50am 11:00pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:25pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 3:56pm 5:25pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlorcars 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. Lv. Grand Rapids at. .... 7:15 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Ar, TOleOGe G6. ........ 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. ,@. HL. & M Ly. Grand ‘anne oro 6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p. m. Ax. Toledo. at._........ 12:55 p. m, and 10:20 p, m. —_— 7 foe equally as sae . BENNETT, General Pass, “Agent, Toledo, Ohio, pein tng Bh J Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asseciation. President, A. J. Elliott; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. Official Organ—MicuiGan TRADESMAN. Next Meeting—Jauuary 16. Jackson Grocers’ Union President, D.S. Fleming; Sec’y, N. H. Branch. Next Meeting—December 29. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held at Protective Brotherhood Hall on December 19, two applica tions were received and the applicants elected to membership—Daane & Witters, 163 Monroe street and Stickney & Jones, 6(6 Wealthy avenue. J. A. Smits presented a paper embodying the suggestions of Wm. E. Kelsey the Ionia mer- chant, recommending an amendment to the present exemption laws, providing that delin auent debtors be allowed only #1 per day exempt from execution, instead of a lump sum of $25, as is now the case, The Secretary introduced a communication from R. C. Eaton, of Bravo, stating that he pro posed to introduce a biil in the coming Legisla- ture abolishing the entire list of exemptions. The matter was made the special order of busi- ness at the next meeting, at which time Mr. Smits will present another communication on the subject, setting forth the inequalities and incongruities of the present law. C. G. A. Voigt was then introduced as the honorary guest of the evening and presented an address to the members on the subject of flour. He stated that the miller as a flour maker is very much misunderstood; that the prevailing idea that a miller must be first of ali a money maker is based on wrong conclusions. The miller must be a philanthropist, inasmuch as he must give good flour, good weight and sell cheap. The retail trade is not getting the profit on flour to which it is legitimately entitled. Some grades are sold ata profit of only 2 cents a sack, which is altogether too small compensation for the investment and labor involved. No city makes flour which stands higher in the markets of the world than Grand Kapids. Let a Michigan mil- ler go East or South and the first question asked him is, ‘Will your flour grade with that of the Grand Rapids miilers’’ Consumers may Claim that they get flour of the milier cheaper than they can of the dealer, but itis not so. The milier, as arule, gets a very much better protit than the retailer W. K. Munson, secretary of the Grand Rapids Fruit Growers’ Association, then addressed the members in the interest of a public market and a uniform package for peaches and grapes The fruit grower now has to rise at 3 o'clock in the morning, rush to market to secure a stand, then walk up and down the streets a cou; le of hours, look at the fruit offered forsale and speculate | as to what price to ask, before the regular buyers | put in an appearance, a litle after daylight. There should be some regular market, either by private or public enterarise, as 1: growers stand | ready to pay annually #5 apiece tor the use of | eight feet of curb. form package and a uniform system of packing. It is an unfortunate fact that there are dishonest fruit growers who stuff their fruit, but the reput- | able grower looks upou the retail grocer as his and treats hi pack their fruit honestly secure the best returns, riend 1 accordingly, but many times the buyer dves not use proper discrimination between good and poor fr it. Mr. Van Anroy asked if a ba ge could not be adupted for use by the members of the Grocers’ Association and an arrangement made with the fruit growers by which they would seil only to those having badges, this course being taken to shut out the huckster and consumer Mr. Munson stated that it was possible that an arrangement of that kind could be made and he | would, at the proper time, lay the matter before for He invited the As- sociation to be represented at a joint meeting of the Grand Rapids and the Grand River Valley his Association action. Associations and the Secretary was appointed to act in that capacity. Peter Schuit the retail grocer in Holland and time would not be far distant when the grocery trade would be conducted in the same manner described business of the in this country, i.e.,the dealer in vegetables | himself y the will be a trader by instead of those goods being sold by regular grocer. Mr. Schuit referred to the wide difference in the price of cleaned and uncleaned currants and offered to bring tothe next meeting a machine he had constructed at nominal expense, by means of which he could clean currants for less Z than % cent per pound. The offer of Mr. Schuit was unanimously ac- cepted, and the exhibition of his machine will be made a special feature at the next meeting. There should also be a uni- | Tho-e who | predicted that the | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. On motion it was resolved to give no Christmas presents to customers this year. On motion of Mr. Smits, Mr. S. M. Lemon was invited to address the next meeting of the As- sociation on a subject of his own choosing. The question box was then opened and the following questions were introduced and dis- cussed: How many grocers in the city know how to run a good grocery? What would be the result to our Association if we would all change to the cash system, and not take orders? To what extent can a Michigan Business Man’s Association meeting help the interests of our local Grocers’ Association? Is it a universal custom to give a Christmas present to each customer? Do grocers, as a rule, give treat to a customer each time he pays his account—say weekly? Can bakers be made tostop selling to private families or to sell bread at one-half cent less to dealers than at the present price? Is it profitable for dealers to take orders? Are all dealers to close at 7p. m., or only six months, and the balance at 8 p. m. in fruit sea- son? What makes cleaned currants worth from 3 to 4 cents per pound more than uncleaned? What benefit does a grocer derive from cutting prices? As the date of the next regular meeting falls on a legal holiday, it was decided to adjourn until January 16. 2 Meeting of Jackson Grocers’ Union. Ata meeting of the Jackson Grocers’ Union, held on December 15, all the officers were pres- ent except the President Two applications for membership were received and accepted. The business report of the Superintendent of the Bureau of Collections and Information was received, accepted and placed on file. The special Committee appointed to consider the various abuses set forth in a reeent report of the Committee on Trade Interests agreed with ail the recommendations of the Committee, with the exception of that relative to crackers. The Committee recommended that all members of the Union use crackers made by a company out- side of the combine, as the only means to bring about the desired results. The report was laid on the table for two weeks. The o We Makea ae of Blankets, Quilts and Live a , oa Geese Feathers. ———— nn : ; | “a mer eT eed Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks | it: " OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0, “° Grana Rapids >” 4 ' " Grand Rapids. Pe. BARC J S Faris. Puss chests will soon | UR new glass covers are by far the MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAR pay for themselves in the | handsomest ever offered to the i breakage they avoid. Price $4. | trade. They are made to fit any { of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherinamoment They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. { q NEW NOVELTIES. ' We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: i Sear . i te peta — by os and a by none. Bagg os saws are —_— = the best steel " a CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. kil: york 2 $ rt t t saws de zg f - t t +i cutee oF maw aaah. thtache e¢ urnt saws made good as new for one-fourth 2e CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY J UMBLES. e 2 * NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is bound to be one of Saw Repairing the best selling cakes we ever made. av oe as cheap - ean —— aaa with — es Lumber saws as up ready for use “ ‘i mn i i sharge. N xe boxi yage. Writ: ices and discounts. NT r WZ wy 1 " without extra charge o charge for boxing or drayage rit: or prices and discounts TH EK N E W Y O RK BISC U IT ( ., a l MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. " Spring & Company, | IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons | Shawls, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. % ia ee & Company, ‘ aa decipiens zc SOW Cases -- 4 ee : First-Class Work Only. WRITE FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS i i ee I} 63 and 68 Canal St.. «CHOCOLATE GOOLER GO, . Manufacturers of Combination Store Yables 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. Whenin the city call at the office and see sample. Office 315 Michigan Trust Building. Factory 42 Mil! St. You can take your choice OF TWO OF THE BEST FLAY OPENING BLANK BOOKS In the Market. GRAND RAPIDS BOOK BINDING CO., 89 Pearl St, Hovseman Blk. Grand Rapids, Mich. Cost no more than the Old Style Books, Write for prices. Assorted Packages of Holiday Goods, Send for our Holiday Catalogue No. 109, for illustrations and prices of Dressing Cases, Iron 2 Wood Toys, Albuns, 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 cata- 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, ev erything being new goods especially parca’ 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 Nov elties, Austrian Glassware, Fruit Plates, New American Glass, Ete. ASSORTED 92 Fancy Goods. Half doz. Holland ptd teas ‘4 bl 14 bn....8 808% 40 One Chil@’s deed teas...... oo 90 45 Half open dec cups and s sauce em 2.2: 1 40 70 ce ug gs ee 208 1900 ae ie - eS eee} eso 443 set us gilt ate calles amy os 2 i 62 Qr. ss re 425 1 06 One ABC child’s s plts-pictures .. 50 Haif doz asst 3 color plate sets........... 1 60 80 Qr. ‘* luster plate sets ce 2 50 62 - a 3 ANA Aad te Suen GT er 425 t 66 bread and milk.......... 450 1 e or — ee 73> | @ Half Ct pire mars... 50 25 - peer eee... 85 42 partn shaving mugs.. + 2 oe 2 0 fancy decrd mugs......... ome oe 2 Ts moustach decrd coffees......... 2 25 1 12 r ng * ee. >oo It SO ae ee ee ee £400 1 00 wl eee ee ooo 150 One doz. fruit plates, asst Ll 30 rr - ' ~ ohn : 1 00 L, RSGt wines beskets..... ........ 2 25 75 ath * aa re see ek ee 4 25 71 Half deerd vases... a, 85 43 Sixth ** ee 2 25 oa Three doz asst china toys and Ww +histle a8 40 1 20 One toothpick hoiders............ 80 ees te gee. $3 ~ Ce ee eae od ee Sa Bg 40 (jr. doz toy deerd tea sets 1 40 60 Sixth yea 4 00 67 ee toy Geer’ G66 ee 55 Une doz dressed enipa babies... ..:. 45 fees eee. cs 90 Hal f doz bisque dresse d dolls us 223 118 Ww ashb! poe LBS '50 233 ne Oe perraiwie. sk. 2 15 8 14 10 per cent. discount. . > $1 24 33 Package and cartage... oe ie 50 34 835 se ASSORTED Lint TOYS. Oe Cor Tram es $ 35 igi uae ee 80 ee 35 ee ee 15 CS ee 40 | i 85 ‘c wee Wee 45 ' oe We 15 oO ae 80 i See ee 2 50 One mechanical express wagon .......... 1 io 15 Ot paaeieel toys. ee. 85 Cwortth Gov tim train. ok 2 25 18 st ‘* mechanical engine..... 4 75 40 ee " (fee Care 2 00 17 Oot Ghat OAPs ee 75 Hait * stables ee 300 1:00 a 4 00 66 One twelfth doz kitchens Poe a ee ye a 4 25 35 a ee 215 18 Ce ee 42 2 = twelfth clowns.... 2. oe 16 circus riders. he eee 1 85 15 eis half Wee SONG i> 3 ' * mechanical clowns...... 1 50 75 Ye ek POR 35 10 per cent. discount..... Package and cartage free. Assortment No 25 12 69 1 26 11 43 GAMES TO RETAIL FOR 25c. One dozen in a Package. Game of Tommy Towns visit to the C ountry. i Fortune Telling. When My Ship Comes In. Army Tents and Solniers. Cuckoo. Base Ball. King and Queens. Steeple Chase. Luck. Jack Straws. Tiddledy Winks. Fish Pond. Net per package of 1 doz 2 Assorted Package DECORATED CUPS and SAUCERS. One doz deerd teas, flowers and mottos... 75 sé ae oe oe be 1 00 oe . tr a ae 1 50 sd tf “*. Sands dnd gilt... ...: 2 00 Halt - | ODpee Comees set... . 22... 2 to 2 88 “6 nt - - ee 400 2 00 Ctr. * af ng . eG oe 6 00 1 50 Sixth doz ‘‘ - tg ac ec ae 900 1 50 Hait. * bea moustach coffees Bees. 2 00 1:00 Qtr o fe a . 3 00 75 Wo . ha re ice Pee eee 6.75.1 @¢ 15 07 ae 25 15 $3 Assorted Package Dolls, One doz white china babes ........... 47) 30 = (*S ia ao ae eee a. 65 33 One ~*~ areesed Git 88 | ee oak ae 200 1 00 re washable dolls, me iO tone |. 2 00 1.06 Lg . ae ee 600 2 00 iia twelfth doz dressed fancy itd dolls. . £265 33 - 6 6 50 te * “ee ee . se a 8 50 zt Quarter kid body bisque dolls. ‘os © oo 2 Oo One-twelfth * 1) 8 oe 63 Half china limb jn a 90 One-third - ate re a ee 425 1 42 11 02 aa 20 “i 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. Old Maid. ‘ We Found McGinty. Dissected Picture Puzzle. Net per package of 1 dozen.....75c. ee H. LEONARD & SONS, . 134 to 140 Fulton St.,Grand Rapids. we * /