Published Weekiy. FUL 1. A Happy New Year WILL SURELY COME TO THOSE WHO USE *Tis worn and dull, Besides "tis one requ PERFECTION §CALES. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, JANUARY 4, 1893. "Tis clearly wrong To use that ancient scale so long, chigan Tradesman. PUBLISHERS. $ 1 Per. ‘tee NO. 485 My Grocer FRIEND: You ean’t afford such seales to use, The more you do, the more you lose; For profits are at best but sma ll, You give down weight, there’s none at all. turns hard of late, ires down weight. Far better throw such scales away Than keep on losing day by day, For what you lose on each month's sales Would pay for us, PERFECTION SCALES. HAWKINS & COMPANY SELL THEM. MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. GRAGKERS, BISCUITS # SWEET GOODS. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. See Quotations. /A ij CL Y Y ~ ESTABLEAED 187. o eda = TES 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 tocar loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. BEANS W. T. LAMOREAUX CO., 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MOSELEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SEEDS, BEANS AND PRODUGK, 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa St, Grand Rapids. Don’t Forget when ordering ns nos O AND To call on or address A. E. BROOKS & CO., Mfrs, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Special pains taken with fruit orders. —. @ MAF & CA), 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. NUTS UTS, FIGs, DATES, ETC, No Brand of Ten Cent CIGARS Gn G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. COMPARES WITH THE We now have a full line of Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Boots and Shoes, 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. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. l and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS VOORHEES Pants and Overall Go,, Lansing, Mich. Having removed the machinery, business and good will of the fonia 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 Ionia, 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 Tiuminating and Lubricating -OILs- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. BULK WORK3 AT RAND RAPIDS, BIG RAPIDS, ALLEGAN, MUSKEGON, GRAND HAVEN, HOWARD CITY, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, LUDINGTON. PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR KMPYY GARBON % GASOLIN’ BARRELS, Works, Butterworth Ave. | DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley. THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! WESTER MACHINERY 60., MARTIN MATER & C0, TRUNKS “noes. 113-115-117 Twelfth St., DETROIT, MICH. BEST MADE, BEST SELLING GOODS. PIONEER HOUSE. BAGS ~ Who urges you to keep Sapolio? a LOWEST PRICES. The Public !? LARGEST ASSORTMENT. 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. 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 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 [RAISER SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan. SOLD BY ALL RELIABLE CROCERS. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers © Grand Rapids. Vo. r a t re a & r4. 4 a lh L ¥ r{- 4 » dex $ r 7 s \ 1 na > . ae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. VOL. X. GRAND nsiali oe JANUARY 4, iid NO. 485 FIRE — Gino Z CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. Stewart WHITE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBars, Sec’y. Our Fancy Goods Trade Has been larger than ever before in the history of our house, Come in and see our samples of Albums, Comb and Brush Sets, Dolls, Books, Ets. EATON, LYON & C0. FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden AND Indurated Pails & Tubs, Wooden Bowls, Clothespins and Rolling Pins, Step Ladders, Washing Ma- chines, Market, Bushel and De- livery Bas’ ots, Building Paper, Wrapping Paper, Sacks, Twine and Stationery. Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish- ing to be represented in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pauts, shirts, aud Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO., Mfrs. DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. OWEN, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. “The Kent.’’ AVING 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 82 per day. 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 Bradst treet 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. TONE Sas OCs eats) Te WO NATE Vet dace ea ian We ea OR ae 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, Cc. E. BLOCK. OYSTERS. Solid Brand Cans. 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Manifold TRACER (for tracing delayed Freight Shipments BARLOW S tei eeRaMs “WESTERN UNION’OR POSTAL LINES Sent Prepaid for above Price, or.will-Send Samples. BARLOW BROS..GRAND RAPIDS.MICH Ab SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street. Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. ESTABLISHED 1841. ARIE YE FON RA NAPS THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Rh.G: Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada POOR MRS. POTTER. For many months 1 had lived close alongside of Mrs. Potter, occupying the other half of what, in our community, is called a tenement house. The walls were thin and most of the floors bare, so that I came in time to know the his- tory of the Potter family, with a minute- ness of detail that would have rendered me an invaluable gossip had the Potters only occupied a position of distinctionin high society. “Not that I care,’? Mrs. Potter would sometimes say as scornfully as lips could frame anything. ‘‘Don’t I know this one we bought milk of in my young days, and that one we bought candles of, and t’other sold us bread? But you needn’t say anything, Miss Mary! I’m an aristocrat. [ am a _ thoroughbred. All my tastes and inclinations are gen- tle and superior.’’ Mrs. Potter was what you might calla woman with ambitions. Often, when she was borrowing a drawing of tea over the back fence or giving me a cup of custard, whose chief merit lay in the intention, she would detain me to relate what was in her. ‘I feel it here, Miss Mary,” she would say, laying a pudgy, ineffectual palm over the region of her liver. ‘‘I feel it here that my destiny is high. I was born for art. I was born for literature, [ was born for science— for the advancement of my sex. Why, at school I always wrote all the girls’ compositions! But what amI now? A borrower of butter and an accumulator of babies!’ True enough, there was a brood. Nine or ten in all, perhaps, although, except on the occasion of the funeral, I never saw them still long enough to count them. They went on like an alarm clock that could not be stopped. I remember once Mrs. Potter, pen in hand, called me to the back fence to get my views on ‘‘The Evolution of the Civilized Husband.’’ “Being an old maid,’’ she confided frankly, ‘*I look to you for an unprejudiced opinion. Of course—you poor thing, I know in your mind you are married to some ideal man —so is every wife in her mind,for the matter of that—but the ideal husband of areal, old maid must be thevery quint- escence of civilization.”’ All this time she held on her left arm alittle brown morsel of humanity. It looked, with its wrinkled little face, like a scorched petal dropped off that saffron rose called the Richardson, and to my inexperienced eyes it didn’t seem any bigger than a Hop 0’ My Thumb. ‘*What a dear, wee baby, Mrs. Potter,’’ said I. “Yes,’? she answered, ‘the is little. He’s the dreanings. He is alsothe tenth. Hypatia herself would have succumbed to the enervating in- fluences—sweet as they are—of ten.” Sometimes at night, when I sat simply resting from the heartaches and humil- iations of the day—being abook agent by profession—lI used to catch myself listen- ing to the family nextdoor. One of Mrs. Potter’s boys was named Chauncey, an- thoughtfully, other Reginald Cecil; a girl was called Hildegarde and another Ethelfreda. ‘‘Classie names are such a comfort,’’ she would say. And to Chauncey and Reg- inald and Hildegarde and Ethelfreda she used, while rocking the tenth, to ex- pound Tennyson or tell the story of Joan of Are, or Thomas a Becket or Mary Stuart. Or she read her poetry to them; or, better still, recited her essay on ‘‘The Mission af Women.’? The young ones listened dully. Loften thought them a brutal brood; and when she had finished they guyed her in the funny fashion of nineteenth century young Americans. ‘‘Another poem, Emmy?’’ Chauncey would say, genially. ‘‘That’s all right, Emmy. Some day we will all be found dead in our beds, each with one of our Emmy’s poems in his hand.’’ I would have thought this dreadful if I had not become used to the facetious familiarity with which the children of to-day treat their parents. Poor Mrs. Potter! Sometimes called me in to have a look at her branches.’’ They sat about the big, old- time mahogany table eating bread and molasses. They were, it seemed to me, one vast smear, sticky of hand and mouth—gobbling food—grinning, crack- ing jokes and calling their young mother “Emmy,” like so many young lordlings. ‘‘Reggy is my chevalier,’’ she would say, ‘my knight of the Legion of Honor, my Hugeonot lover,” and Reggy would kick his heels against his chair and call out half impudently, half affectionately, ‘Rats, Emmy.’’ Mrs. Potter’s own room was next mine, and at night I could hear a clicking as she unfastened her stays, hear her draw along breath and whisper ‘‘What a re- lief?’—the formula I believe with which every woman releases herself from the environment of a corset. One day I asked her why she wore them. ‘Oh, my dear,” she said, ‘‘why, just for the luxury of taking them off.” She would sit in her camisole rocking and sighing, and perhaps reading alcud her own poems to herself, and occasionally I could hear her say, evidently as she was about to get in- to bed: ‘‘There laid his head upon the lap of earth: a youth to forture and to fame unknown.” ‘‘Alas, I, too, am a mute, inglorious Milton, and must someday die with all my sweetness in me. You, Reginald Potter, quit kicking your brother.”’ It was really Mrs. Potter’s habit of talking aloud that kept me from remem- bering how solitary I was. ‘Tt wish you were married, Miss Mary, and had children,” she would say. ‘I always think of a woman who never has had children as carrying a stone in her heart that only mother-love can melt.” It wasn’t very flattering, but then Mrs. Potter had a faculty for saying the thing she should have left unsaid. One day Mr. Potterdied. He had been an inoffensive, hard-working grocer. ‘“‘He was a-working his finger nails off for us, Miss Mary,’’ said the widow, as we stood by the sofa where the shrunken little dead form lay, like a tired child’s; she ‘olive 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ‘“‘but there were so many of us, I most have itin me to think his courage gave out and he just let himself die on pur- pose. We were as thick and hungry as leeches. Many’s the night I’ve watched him plodding home, dead tired out, all the love worked out of him, all the am- bition worked out of him, with nothing on earth so important as the house rent, and nothing in life so valuable as the price of potatoes and pork, and when he’d fall asleep I’d lean over him and listen to him snore and say that line of Gray’s about a mute, inglorious Milton. Ah, Miss Mary, he had to die to give me my lover back again.” The whole family was in an uproar of grief. Mrs. Potter drenched all her sympathizers with tears. Her grief em- braced temporarily the whole human race. When old colored Lucy brought in clean clothes and said to her: ‘‘Honey, black heads and white is all gut to bend under the little dark door,’’ Mrs. Potter took her hands. ‘I know, I know, Aunt Lucy, it is that ‘one touch of nature makes us all kin.’” Mrs. Potter thought it strange her cor- ner neighbors, who were grand and fash- ionable, had not been in. ‘‘How could they stay away at such a time?’’ she asked, bubbling over. And then, ‘Don’t mind what I ask of you now, Miss Mary: we are up on the high pedestal of grief. It isa distinction like that of Golgotha. I hope you may never reach it.” Yes, the whole neighborhood forced into tribute. The simple egotism engendered by that crape on the door was pathetic and more humbly natural than most of us would care to admit, Things were borrowed right and left, and when everything was over a card of thanks published in the obituary eol- umns of the daily papers included—l dare say to their horror—the svlicited courtesies of the swell family on the cor- ner. was Inever shall forget a scene that hap- pened about ten days after the funeral. it seemed that the swell lady at the eor- ner had also recently lost her husband, and on a Sunday afternoon when I went with my little widow to carry those first industrious flowers of regret that always blossom on the new-made graves of hus- bands, met the rich widow at the great gate of Greenwood. She was a shape, a symbol of expensive grief. So black and draped she looked, that I, in my old maid bitterness, wondered if she were not an undertaker’s block weeping on commission. She carried a cross of tuberoses, fresh, or rather dead from the florists. My little widow wore a challis gown; a yard of flimsy crape floated be- hind her black bonnet. Her swoilen red nose, and wet. red eyes attested to her grief. and in her hands she helda tight wad of chrysanthemums bound about with confectionery paper, and of which she was very proud. we Mrs. Potter stopped. She put out her hand, covered with a black cotton glove. They had been bought but proved too small. ‘‘Never mind.” said the widow, ‘‘they needn’t go to waste. I can wear them and think the sad, sad truth that I am even gloved with grief.” for the corpse, Mrs. Potter put out her hand, as I have said, to the other widow. She looked in at the grave-dotted sward. “This is level land,’ she said, simply. for each other, for ourselves. queens crowned with the iron cross.”’ On her death bed Mrs. Potter will get off speeches like that. They sound sen- timental, but somehow the other widow seemed to know she was trying to say that death is the great leveler and that a common grief may make sisters of the rich and poor. The rich widow put back her veil. Under her kalsomined face glowed a real feeling. Her soft suede touched the cotton thread that had not gone to waste. The two social opposites for one moment knew only a common woman- hood. Mrs. Potter had been left with a thriv- ing grocery store, but she absolutely re- fused to keep it. ‘‘It sickens me,” she said; ‘‘all revolts against salt meat anda nickle’s worth of butter and a can of sardines, please,” she confessed. *‘What’s that line. Miss Mary, about imperial Cesar dead and turned to clay might stop a hole to keep the wind away? Well, all the imperial Cesar in me revolts. I am going into literature.” And so the gro- cery was sold out and Mrs. Potter’s little fortune went into a news shop. She kept books and magazines, papers, pens and ink, and her violent ambition was to make her place the rendezvous for au- thors. The more impecunious, the better. She persisted in calling the small thoroughfare where she tempted fortune “Grub street”? and in thinking every seedy individual who came along a mod- ern Charles Lamb or Oliver Goldsmith, or some ‘‘mute, inglorious Milton.’’ What quotations and sweet sentiments she wasted on red-eyed deadbeats, I can- not tell, but Ido know how they worked her. Human spongers and deadbeats naturally gravitate to their victims, and poor Mrs. Potter never was proof against a poem, a quotation or the semblance of a sorrow. ‘Take it home and read it,” she said one day to a seedy tramp in a gray hat aud with a red nose, thrusting into his hands a copy of Ruskin’s ‘King of the Golden River.’’? She kept only the highest and best literature, for which there is no sale in Grub street. He took it as far as the first pawn shop, I told her. ‘A leaf in the storm,” she said, sentimentally. ‘Who knows what babe in the wood it may help to cover? Who knows what a lute it may be to help some singer find his voice?’’ At this time I think Mrs. Potter gave away enough of her stock in trade to en- able a raseally beggar to set up arival stand a few blocks down the street. It was about now that Mrs. Potter got hold of the idea that her mission in life was to help women. On the spur of the moment she joined all sorts of societies. Rich women made her do all the disa- greeable begging that has to be done— they used the shop fora convenience, and it became, as it were, the loafing place of all the philanthropic deadbeats in town. They used her stationery, say- ing it would advertise her store; they borrowed her best books to lend at asy- lums; they filled her small show-windows | with their placards, and whenever a sub- | seription was needed to fil! out a list | they readily induced her to put down her name. “I get very lonesome,” said Mrs. Pot- ; ter one night. ‘‘Itis talk, talk, talk all | day, but always about somebody else’s affairs. I just wish there was somebody We are. knows I ain’t selfish, and the children always come first, but it does daze me to bring myself to realize there is not a soul in the world who really cares to hear how Il am getting on. You listen polite enough, Miss Mary, but I know it is only a second-hand interest. A woman like me must be a bore. Sometimes I just beg the children to kiss me and get in my lap, but they aretoo big. They say, ‘Oh, ma, don’t bother.’ If I should die, Miss Mary, I’d be lonesome all the while I was dead, because of not getting those kisses. Miss Mary, did you ever sort of stand off at one side in your mind, and watch yourself hurrying across the mud- dy streets, with stains of it on your draggled dress and the rain on your face, and you not pretty or nice enough or prosperous enough to be a pleasant sight, and nobody caring for you but yourself? Why, I feel all the time like a sort of hu- man Pike’s Peak.’’ Well, this news shop was a flat failure. “I failed from being made a convenience of,’’ Mrs. Potter told one of her cred- itors, ‘‘and also because I seem to havea presentiment that whatever I do will fail; whatever I touch will be unlucky.”’ There wasn’t much money left, and the small Potters were reduced to the simp- lest fare. Often at dark, as I let myself into my bleak rooms with that symbol of my solitude, that emancipator of my sex, a latchkey, I would hear the mother’s brave voice ringing out, ‘‘Eat it like he- roes, my lads. Many a great man had only bones to gnaw in his childhood. You might just as well begin to be great over bread and molasses as to wait for something better.” And I knew very well her tragic attitude, a spoon waving like a banner in her work-stained hand. I think about this time Mrs. Potter be- gan to haunt newspaper offices trying to sell her poetry. ‘*Nobody successful can understand what it is to try and sell your brain work to buy bread,” she said. *‘] read my poems over and over, aloud to myself. They say what I feel and what lam. I’ve put all my sweetness in them. I summon up courage and take them to an office. ButI never sell any. Icome away and hear the comfortable, well-fed men laughing. They’ve nodebt at the baker’s, no children hungry at home.” I need not add that Mrs. Potter gave up poetry and turned her attention to some- thing else. As her next venture she started a sewing bureau. ‘‘Just think of the women working their hearts out, Miss Mary, for the sweaters, making petticoats at 25 cents a dozen, and shirts at 5cents each. I shall have more pa- trons than 1 can supply who will give their work to us on principle.’’ ‘*WVhere are they to come from?” I asked cynically, for a 50-year-old book agent is not to biame for having lost some of her faith in humanity. “It breaks my heart to think you have a flaw, Miss Mary, but you have. Don’t be so hard on the poor rich people. Why, you might have been rich yourself. It’s just a mere accident that we are poor. The glad will smile on the sorry. The rich will comfort the poor. The strong must pity the weak—not sneer at them.” We were in the sewing bureau, pilesof linen were everywhere, forthe best rose- wood bed had been sold to start this ven- ture. Mrs. Potter waved her shears. ‘‘I amas brave as a Spartan mother,” she cried; ‘‘I can cry, ‘On, Stanley, on,’ and ‘Here we are sisters in sorrow—sorrow| who wanted to hear about me. God sing the song of the ‘Light Brigade.’ ”’ Send in your orders for MASKS to the New York Baby Carriage Co., 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- tions included. Will sell the entire lot for aU. Fifty pounds of this brevier, containing double allowance of caps but no small eaps. Will sell font and one pair eases for ten dollars. a Kight 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 joband advertising type, proof sheets of which will be forwarded on application. THE TRADESMAN Co, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, SCHLOSS, ADLER & CO, MANUFACTUREKS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls —AND— Gents’ Furnishing Goods, REMOVED TO 23-25 Larned St., East DETROIT, MICH. Dealers wishing to look over our line are in- vited to address our Western Michigan repre- ee Ed. Pike, 272 Fourth avenue, Grand apids. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeert, President. Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, - $300,000. CAPITAL, - - ey Transacts a general banking business. Make a2specialty ofscollections. Accounts of country,merchants solicited. Fr ‘to a A v —l ' f 7 4 7 ‘ A % =i at A THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. And then I had to listen, trembling, for fear she would be inspired to shut up the bureau aud go on the stage. Just then there came in two old women —dgray of face, of eyes, of hair, of gown— a weather-beaten grayness that prosper- ous people do not like to see. Mrs. Pot- ter’s cheerful brow darkened abit. ‘I most wish you hadn’t been the very first,’? she said vaguely. ‘‘It would have been better luck had our first customers been rich and prosperous.”’ The pair were an old mother and her old daughter. ‘‘We have grown gray to- gether sewing for the stores,” one said, simply. Mrs. Potter put a bundle of linen in her hand. She fumbled for her pocket- book and from its thin side drew out a flatly folded five dollar bill that had a pin in it. ‘I pinned it for good luck but it makes no difference,’’ she said. She gave this with the work. Her ugly face was red, the tears trickled off the end of her nose. ‘‘Oh,” she whimpered, ‘don’t Iknow? It’s the way I see Ethel- freda and me. I see usin my sleep. I see us in the streets hurrying to keep a wolf free from our heels. I see us thin, hungry and my child growing gray over ugly work. Don’t I know now I ain’ta Spartan, 1 ain’t a hero? I am just a frightened failure. Don’t you suppose any mother like me knows better than all the priests how Mary felt when she first saw in the carpenter’s shop the shadow of the cross on her son?” The old couple went out and a man came in. Mrs. Potter owed him money. ‘T had it for you, but there was an old mother and her old daughter needed it for bread, and I had to give it,’’ she ex- plained. ‘“Nice sense of honor you have,” he answered. ‘It?s very grand to give away money when your debts ain’t paid. Some people call it generosity, but some others call it thieving.”’ Something was killed in Mrs. Potter’s heart then. That night she said to me, “Tt was stealing, wasn’t it, Miss Mary. Think of seeing your own baby, that had leaned on you for comfort, that had sucked at your breast, wanting food. Wouldn’t you defraud or lie or steal for her? Still—’’ and she looked about her at the ten young faces like a halo about the frugal table, ‘‘it would be difficult to steal for ten, wouldn’t it?’’ ‘*Haven’t you arich uncle somewhere, Mrs. Potter?” | asked. ‘“*Yes, indeed. They are very swell people. They live on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Oh, they say they are as grand as the Vanderbilts. Last year they sent me a beautiful Christmas ecard, all white satin, and it had onit, ‘Cling to the cross of Christ.’ ’’ Of course, the bureau was a failure. “T’m identified,’? she would say. ‘My other names are ill-luck and failure. People hate me for being so unprosper- ous. I have nothing to tell but my grievances.’’ We got her a place ina store, but she lost it through trying to entertain the customers. She talked poetry to them, and philosophy and society. ‘‘I only in- tended to make them feel at home,’’ she said, defensively. But one night I heard a great shout, a ery and a fearful uproar in the little tenement next door, mingled with cries forme. I ranin. Mrs. Potter stood as she afterward said, like Ajax defying the lightning. Her head tossed She waved a telegram. “J always told you children to be mighty careful how you talked about rich people. You might berich yourself one day. Read it, Miss Mary.” I read aloud: “Your Unele Lloyd died last night. He wills you one hundred thousand dol- lars. BARBER.’’ The first thing Mrs. Potter did was to pay her debts. The next was to give superbly. ‘largess to all the struggling women she knew. Her third act was topublish a volume of verse. CATHERINE COLE. 2 < . BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. EJECTMENT FROM RAILWAY TRAIN. The Appellate Court of Indiana held, in the recent case of Lake Erie & West- ern Railway vs. Cloes, that one who is wrongfully ejected from a train some distance from his destination without other means of reaching his journey’s end, who continues his journey afoot, is acting as common prudence would dic- tate, and is entitled to have theinjurious consequences of his walk considered in fixing his damages. PARTNERSHIP—ACCOUNTING SUIT. The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in the recent case of Douthit et al. vs. Dou- thit, that the rule that one partner cannot sue another for profits or to recover his share of the assets where the partnership is unsettled without suing for an account- ing, does not apply where there is an agreement adjusting the partnership af- awards to one partner a fairs which specific sum or creates a specific duty in his favor, but that in such case he may sue upon the breach of duty or promise. DAMAGES—INJURY TO BUSINESS. In the case of Swain vs. Schieffelin et al., recently decided by the New York Court of Appeals, it appeared that the de- who were druggists, sold to fendants, the plaintiff, an ice cream manufacturer, a bottle of coloring matter known as *‘searlet red,’’ to be used for coloring ice cream, and which was represented to be A num- ver of persons who ate ice cream colored with this matter were taken sick with symptoms of arsenical poisoning, and an analysis of the scarlet red showed that it contained arsenic. The Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff was entitled to re- absolutely pure and harmless. cover the value of the ice cream destroyed, together with damages for injury to his business through loss of trade due to the circumstances. STORE ORDERS. The Supreme Court of Missouri recent- ly, in the case of State vs. Loomis, held constitutional a law of the State declaring it to be unlawful for any corporation, person or firm engaged in manufacturing ormining to issue for the payment of wages any order, check or other token of indebtedness otherwise than in lawful money, unless the same was negotiable and redeemable at its face value in cash or in goods, at the option of the holder, at the store or other place of business of the corporation or firm. The court said: “The statute in question does not deny the right of the manufacturer or the operator of a mine to engage in the mer- cantile business nor to pay the wages of labor in merchandise, but it simply pro- hibits him from issuing a check or other evidence of debt in payment of such wages without at the same time making it negotiable and redeemable at its face value, without discount, in cash or mer- chandise, at the option ofthe holder. In other words, the statute is not prohibitive of any right, but regulative of it, and there is a wide difference between regu- lation and prohibition, between prescrib- ing the terms upon which a right may be enjoyed and a denial of that right alto- gether.” ——————i 9 Use Tradesman Coupons. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St., Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH CO, Manufacturers of BRUSHLS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. WHITE KID SLIPPERS, $1.10 PER PAIR. Send Your Orders to HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO, 12-14 LYON ST. GRAND RAPIDS. EATON, LYON & CO’S Full force of travelers will soon be out with complete lines of new goods in Stationery —AND— Sporting Goods 20 & 22 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS. 3 re SS MILE-END: SEEN ZOOL COTS Best six Gord — FOR — 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. Established 1868. HM. REYNOLDS & SON WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Building Papers, Carpet Lin- ings, Asphalt Ready Roofing, Tarred Roofing, Felt, Coal Tar, Roofing and Paving Pitch, Resin Asphalt Roof Paints, Mineral Wool for deadening purposes, Asbestos products, Pipe cover- ing, car, bridge and roof paints. Elastic roofing Cement, Ete. Practical Rooter In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Warehouse and Office Cor. LOUIS and CAMPALU Sts.. Grand Rapids, = Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. McBain—G. W. Storry succeeds S. B. Ardis in general trade. Sturgis — Woods & Hawley succeed Woods & Zent in the meat business. Stembaugh—M. Coreoran succeeds M. & J. F. Corcoran in general trade. Corinne — Harry VY. Pieree succeeds Chandler & Pierce in general trade. Tecumseh—Mrs. Mary Bice succeeds Frank 8S. Bice in the baking business. Lennon—H. Countryman _— succeeds Cronin Bros. in the hardware business. Detroit—W. A. Keyes succeeds Kings- bury & Keyes in the grocery business. Ishpeming — Robbins Bros. succeed Nelson J. Robbins in the undertaking business. Shelbyville—Meredith & Harris suc- ceed Meredith & Deuel in the lumber business. Columbiaville—Elson Wait is sueceed- ed by B. E- MeDermid in the hardware business. Crystal Falls—The Crystal Falls Lum- ber Co. is succeeded by Robbins & Bosanco. Port Huron—R. Woodruff succeeds Mrs. R. A. Harrington in the grocery and provision business. Otsego—E. Bonner is succeeded by E. E. & Nettie Smith in the restaurant and confectionery business. Grand Ledge—Babeock & Whitmore are succeeded by N. M. Van Ator & Co. in the hardware business. O Muskegon Heights—Andrew Olson has purchased the confectiovery and cigar stock of Charles Harrison. fronwood—C. Anderson & Co. are clos- ing out their dry goods and carpet busi- ness and will remove to Oconto, Wis. Middleton—J. H. Salisbury has sold his hardware stock to Frank Isham and H. M. Kelly, who will continue the busi- ness. Mason—Bates & Henderson are suc- ceeded by Henderson & Huntington in the clothing and men’s furnishing goods business. Vermontville—A. Alderman has sold his meat market to James Mahar and Will Hickey, who will continue the busi- ness under the style of Hickey & Mahar. Muskegon — Kampenga, Bertrand & Co. have closed out their clothing stock to A. P. Conner & Co. and have gone out of business. to the Conner store last Friday. Coral—LaDu & Baldwin chased the hardware stock Taylor, which will be moved to their present place of business. They also purchased the building occupied by Mr. Taylor, into which they will move some- time during the coming summer. Allegan—O. R. TRADESMAN aS been misinformed as to my being a partner of Mr. Richards. Lam not now and never have been in partnership with him. Iam Mr. Richards’ successor, hav- ing purchased his entire stock of general merchandise and shall continue the busi- ness at the old stand on the 3 per cent. plan.’’ Battle Creek — The indictment pre- sented by the grand jury against M. E. Brown was quashed by Judge Swan in the United States Court at Detroit last Tuesday. The basis of the charge was that Brown sent a postal card to a Chicago firm, notifying them that the firm of George Eggleston & Co., of Battle Creek, have pur- o Ff. A. writes THE “You have Johnson follows: The goods were transferred | had dissolved and that the business would be continued by himself. Below the printed announcement was written the following: ‘‘Learning of some irregu- larities, I wish to caution the trade against giving credit to any firm calling itself George Eggleston & Co., on the strength of the old firm, as Mr. Eggleston is no longer connected with me in the wholesale jewelry business from this date. A word to the wise is sufficient.’ Eggleston felt aggrieved and reported the matter to the United States authori- ties. District Attorney Shepherd pre- sented a bill to the grand jury, charging Brown with a publication on a postal card through the mails, which obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the character and conduct of Eggleston. Judge Swan, however, held that there was nothing in the publication which re- flected upon Eggleston or which was in violation of the postal laws. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Byron—Wm. H. Showerman sneceeds H. H. Rosenkrans in the flouring mill business. Mt. Pleasant—Gorham Bros. & Co., manufacturers of baskets, boxes, ete., have been incorporated under the style of Gorham Bros. Co. Charlevoix — The Charlevoix Lumber Co. has contracted its output of hardwood for 1893 to David Dake, of Manistee. Manistee—Louis Sands is making good progress with the frame of his planing and shingle mill and will have it in good working order when navigation opens in the spring. Newaygo—Chas. Kernan is at the head of a movement to organize a stock com- pany toembarkin the manufacture of the ‘‘Columbia” folding bed, which isthe invention of a Newaygo man. Dodge—The Lansing Lumber Co. has bought of the Rusts and others of Sagi- naw, about $6,000 worth of stump lands in Gladwin county, on which is a good picking of shingle timber, hemlock and hardwood. Wyandotte — The Upper Peninsula Hardwood Co. has purchased twenty acres of land near this place and it is said the company, which owns valuable | hardwood timber tracts in Upper Michi- gan, will erect a factory on the land pur- chased, for the manufacture of veneer and similar products, and will employ several hundred men. Muskegon — Last fall Hovey & Mce- Cracken purchased the Daniel H. Waters tractof pine in Croton township, New- aygo county. The tract will scale 15,- 000,000 feet of logs. The timber is now being cut and put into the Tamarack creek by Darrah & Cornell, of Big Rapids, at the rate of 75,000 feet a day. A hundred men are employed, and a nar- row gauge railway is used. Manistee—The output of salt at this point has increased steadily year by year, since we first embarked inits manufac- ture, and we now easily hold the first place in the point of product, and as far as the output of individual plants is con- cerned, we are so far ahead that the others can hardly be said tobe ‘‘in it.’’ Take, for example, the Peters plant, which has a daily average for the time it runs of about 2,000 barrels, and there is nothing in the State that can compare with it; and out of a total for the State of about 3,000,000 barrels for the year, Manistee contributes 1,294,139. always been noted for their fighting quali- ties, especially when in court, and the insurance litigation of the Michigan Shingle Co. was no exception to the rule. The mill of the company burned in Sep- tember, 1890, the flames spreading to and destroying a large amount of lumber stored on docks leading out into Lake Muskegon. The companies holding the insurance on the lumber fought the pay- ment of the policies, on the ground that the conditions named as to the clear space between the mill and lumber piles was not maintained. The Shingle Com- pany held that the agent of the insurance companies was well aware of the actual condition of the ground when the policies were written, and that at the time of the fire the space existing when the insur- ance was written had not been en- croached upon. All the companies were sued in the Muskegon Cireuit Court, and judgments secured in severalcases. The first case appealed to the Supreme Court went against the company, being reversed, and a new trial ordered. On Saturday the second one appealed was decided for the Shingle Company, and the judgment of the lower court for $1,565.75 was affirmed. Several other suits were vir- tually settled by the decision. >.> Bank Notes. C. W. and M. W. Chapin have bought Oscar Webber’s interestin the bank of Webber & Chapin, at Stanton, and will continue the business with the same management under the name of C. W. Chapin & Co. C. A. Hammond, who was the first eashier of the First National Bank of Traverse City, will return from the West and resume his former position now made vacant by the resignation of his brother, W. L. Hammond. The directors of the Merchants’ National Bank of Muskegon have ordered $10,000 to be taken from the undivided earnings and added to the surplus fund, making the latter $50,000. The Union National Bank has declared a 4 per cent. dividend and increased its surplus ac- count to $16,300. Paul S. Moon has been elected a director of the Muskegon Savings Bank, and, on account of two va- ‘eancies having occurred during the year, | the Board now consists of fifteen instead of seventeen members. ‘The directors have declared a 4 per cent. dividend and ordered $500 carried to the surplas fund. —-_»_- > | From the Chief Clerk of the Auditor 1 General. | LANSING, Dee. 30—I gladly respond as | one of those favoring a February meeting 'of the business menof Michigan. I shall |return to the ‘‘ranks” very soon and will , pledge you my support in an energetic ‘campaign by our State Association. | The local Association of Lansing has long been dead, or succeeded, rather, by the Board of Trade. Now it would please me to see this annual meeting of business men made a representative body, made up of any who may desire to unite _the interests of Boards of Trade, local associations and business men generally. Leta meeting be held next February and |@ permanent organization of the com- | bined interests of business men be _ per- |fected and maintained. Should this ‘sentiment prevail and such a meeting | be held, I will assure you now that Lan- sing business men will heartily respond and urge those interested to hold their first meeting here. The central location, the legislative session and the oppor- tunity of furnishing an attractive and in- structive entertainment would thus be | guaranteed. Let others respond promptly. Yours respectfully | Geo. B. CALDWELL. | Muskegon—Muskegon lumbermen have Just Out of Press. The Commercial Credit Co.’s new ad- vice book for 1893, containing the names of consumers unworthy of credit, is now being delivered to subscribers. It should be in the hands of every dealer, as the information conveyed is invaluable, ~~ -6 Y. Berg, stock clerk for H. Leonard & Sons, leaves this week for Holland, Europe. He will be accompanied by his family and will remain abroad until March. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—STOCK OF MERCHANDISE, consisting of groceries, drugs, hardware, crockery, notions, etc., situated in a live North- ern town on railroad, surrounded by a good farming and timbered country, also on a navi- gable river one half mile from lake. Proprietor is also postmaster. For price, terms, etc., ad- dress No. 641, care Michigan Tradesman. BAKGAIN FOR SOMEBODY—AN $8,000 stock of clothing, hats and furnishings in as good a 2,510 town as there is in Lower Michi- gan. Address No. 640, care Michigan Trades- man. 640 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 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 34,000; good profits; if taken at once can step right into a good business; no trade; must have cash or cash and bankable paper. Address Farmers’ and Merckants’ Bank, Scribner, Neb. 633 OR SALE—OR EXCHANGE FOR LARGE - gtock 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. ¥. B., Grand Blanc, Mich. 637 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 yy... EXCHANGE $1,0(0 CAPITAL stock in company paying 10 per cent. divi- dend and acre property and lotsin Grand Rap- ids fora well assorted hardware stock inven torying $3,000 or less. Pennock & Goo 719 ld, Wealthy avenue, Grand Rapids. 621 SITUATIONS WANTED. JOSITION WANTED—FOR A YUUNG 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 \ ANTED — POSITION AS SUpERINTEN- dent of large first-class canning factory, orin canned gocds department of large whole- sale grocery house. Well upon packing in tin, First-class references. Correspondence solicited. Address Lock Box “3, Farnham, Erie Co., N. Y. 630 MISCELLANEODUS., ANTEvD—A YOUNG MAN WITH ONE OR two years’ experience in drugstore. C. F. Powers, Portland. Mich. 639 oo WI1tH SMALL CAP- ital to engage in established and good paying manufacturing business. R. N. Thomp- son, So. Boardman, Mich. 634 OR SALE—TWO-sTORY FRAME STORE building and dwelling in thriving Northern Michigan town. Property well rented. Will sell cheap or exchange fcr 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 2x90, all in good shape. Trade amounts to $15,000 per year. Excellent opportu nity. Address No. 632, care Michigan Tiades- man. 632 OR SALE—TWENTY-FOUR DRAWER LET- ter file, nearly new and used but a short time. Have nouse for it, as we took it on a debt. W. T. Lamoreaux, 128 West Bridge street. 631 OR SALE—PARTLY UsED DULUTH, SO Shore & Atlantic mileage book. Will sell cheap. A. T. Hoxie, Traverse City, Mich. 642 MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Go Organized 1881. DETROIT, MiCHIGAN THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Eble & Hext succeed John G. Eble, Sr., in the meat business at the corner of South Division street and Tenth avenue. Williams & Klosterman have opened a grocery store at Kalamazoo. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. A. W. Seymour succeeds Seymour & Babcock in the box manufacturing busi- ness at the corner of Third and D streets. D. P. Clay has purchased the water power at Croton and announces his in- tention of building a manufacturing city there. The Lemon & Wheeler Company has moved its cigar room back into the store room, thereby enlarging the sample room very materially. John Burrows has satisfied both mort- gages onhis grocery stock—$187 to Ed- win J. Gillies & Co. and $135 to the I. M. Clark Grocery Co.—and resumed busi- ness at the old stand. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. sent out to its customers one of the most handsome New Year’s greetings ever isssued to the trade. It was from the press of the Tradesman Company. 8 The Grocery Market. Sugar—As referred to elsewhere, all sugars made by the American Sugar Re- fining Co. will be sold on the equality plan hereafter, so far as the wholesale grocers of this State are concerned. Pork—Hog packing at Chicago has been nearly 50 per cent. less since No- vember 1 than during the same time in 1891, and but 60 per cent. as large as in 1890, and has not been less but once in a decade—that was in 1888. The packing at all points is but 60 per cent. as large as last season. There seems to be agen- eral belief that it will fall short of last season more than 25 per cent., or over 300,000,000 pounds. This condition has allowed the three different speculative cliques or parties in pork, lard and ribs to easily control prices and put them up from 25 to 40 per cent. the past few months. Live stock men_ generally claim that when the December receipts of hogs are very light it is a proof that the country has but few for sale at any price. Other operators assert that many farmers have been feeding more cheap corn to hogs than usual, knowing it was worth about 75 cents or more made into provisions at prevailing pric- es. January and later months will like- ly witness larger hog receipts at packing points and heavier average weights. There is a great ery of scarcity after a 25 to 40 per cent. advance, but under similar circumstances it has often proved there were enough hogs if prices were made high enough. Farmers, like spec- ulators and others, often sell their hold- ings more freely on a declining market than on anadvancing one. Perhaps they have been holding back, and, should the market halt a while round these prices or decline a little, receipts might in- crease, stocks increase, and consumers take a notion to wait to stock up after a decline rather than while the market is declining. >.> Fred E. Hall has returned from Olean, N. Y., where he surprised his mother, who is now over 80 years old. Mr. Hall has been with the Putnam Candy Co. and its predecessors over twenty-five years, fifteen years as shipping clerk. COUNTY VS. CITY BUSINESS LIFE. PAPER I. Written for THE TRADESMAN. I wonder whether this will catch the eye of some man who has made the foolish mistake of closing out a nice, self-supporting little business in some quiet, pleasant country village, and has gone into the city, with his small capital and his little family, and then dug_ his own grave? If there be such a man, he will find no comfort in this article, or in any other which may follow this bearing on the same subject; he is probably past redemption and incapable of retracing his footsteps. But, if the attention of the man who is contemplating such a move be drawn hereto, then such a man will be ‘‘wise in his day and generation,” if he carefully read and ponder well be- fore he takes such a step. There are times in the life of every business man when to act, or to refrain from acting, will be ‘‘the casting of the die’? which will indelibly stamp the future, fixing the bounds of possible suc- cess and the degree of pleasure and satis- faction attainable. The writer is aware of the fact that there are a few great minds in the business world who seem to be the especial favorites of the fickle god of fortune, and who seem to be all-power- ful in breaking down all opposition in the attainment of their goal. If their moorings relax by reason of adverse forces and they drift down the current, they reverse their engines and, in de- fiance of the turbulent current of events, with its tossing, rushing mass of drift- wood, force their way upstream and are safely anchored. These giants in the commercial realm are few and far between. They are all included within the infinitesimal 5 per cent. of business successes, and are so far removed from the experiences of com- mon humanity that no writer can touch a sympathetic chord in the breast of the massess without utterly ignoring the yery existence of this little company of “the elect.” The average mortal is simply a creature of circumstances floating down the wind- ing stream of time. At best, this little bark is a frail one, and the utmost he can do is to steer clear of the driftwood all around him and avoid being dashed to pieces by the innumerable rocks which beset his course and drop his anchor at the right time and in the right place. The current is swift and the underlying sands are constantly shifting, and it is very difficult to secure a safe anchorage; but, when once secured, this same aver- age mortal never succeeds in regaining the vantage ground’ so _ foolishly abandoned. Business life in the country is as differ- ent from business life in the city as roads in the country are different from streets in the city. The business qualifications essential to financial success are one thing in the country and quite another in the city. And so aman may be a bril- liant success in the country and a dismal failure in the city. This may strike the theorizer in the field of business ethics as a strange idea; but any man who has sat at the feet of bitterexperience knows it to be true. 1 have in mind a man who was brought up ona large farm in another state. The family of which he was a member was one of the leading ones of the local- ity, and, during all of the years in which his habits for life were being formed and his character molded, he moved among the highest and the best in the little rural world in which he lived. He was natur- ally proud-spirited, very sensitive and independent in bearing. He had been reared ina puritanical atmosphere and held high notions of personal honor and business integrity. Not finding the occu- pation of farming congenial to his tastes, and having a fair business education and some practical experience as a clerk, he finally opened up a retail store in a country village. His uprightness of character and gentlemanly deportment secured a place for him in the best social circles, and his general intelligence soon placed him in positions of trust and honor. His honesty and business integ- rity brought him customers, but not im- mediately. In these times, when con- fidences weigh lighter than they ever did before, it takes years of patient, careful effort, even in a country village, to con- vince a much gulled public that one is not a fraud, a cheat, and a liar. And so it required years for this man to work up his trade to a point where it was a pleas- ure to do business. Ambition, when not guided by reason, becomes simply the demon of unrest; and when this demon is stimulated and aroused by a craving desire for ‘‘the root of all evil,” it is the cause of more ship- wrecks than any other one thing. This man got an idea into his head that his field of labor was too limited. He thought that the city was waiting to em- brace just such a person as he was. While in the city, he had often stood on the street corner and looked down the broad pavement on the long, seething, jostling line of humanity and thought to himself, ‘‘Ah, justlook at that crowd of people! Every one of them has some money, and they are rushing up and down these streets to find some place to squander it. If I were here, I would not have to wait an hour to see someone go by on the sidewalk; and, after this mul- titude of people found out that I would treat them rightly, they would pour right in and buy something, and it would be all spot cash, too. Down there in the country there is only about so much at the outside, and one is compelled to sit down and wait until it comes along and be satisfied with what he may get; but here in the city afellow like me who can get right up and dust; a fellow who has some ambition and is desirous of getting on in the world; a man who will do the straight, square, honest thing can just scoop up all he wants, and enjoy the blessings of civilization and the advan- tages of city life to boot, while he is do- ing it.” Modest reader, did you ever talk like this, or hear anyone else do so? Of course, you have. This man is not the only one who allows himself such thoughts, and not the only one who has put his opinions to a practical test. Grand Rapids is full of them, andin an- other number the writer will introduce them to you. E. A. OWEN. lll nnn The Unknown. Unknown, the golden way to win Is ever nigh, yet fading fast; Unseen, the thing that might have been Is lost forever in the past. Not every rose that bloometh fair Is warmed by beauty’s smile, I trow— Not every one has for his share To wear a star upon the brow. Yet this is truth that all should know: There is some honor for each state, And should we rule or plow or sow, ’Tis doing duty makes “oo —W. A. HAVENER. 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 & GU, Manufacturers, DETROIT. CHICAGO. 1895. 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. es we SEAT Kdwin J, Gillies & Go, NEW YORK. J. P. VISNER, Agt., 167 No. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, 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, etc. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. THE TRADESMAN CO., Ag’ts. Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Supreme Court Affirms the Leo Austrian & Co. Verdict. Few legal conflicts of a commercial character have attracted greater attention than the case of Leo Austrian & €o. vs. Nathan Springer, which was tried in the Kent Circuit Court a little over a year ago. The law points involved are as follows: Plaintiffs are furniture manufacturers at Chicago. Defendant a manufac- turer of German mirror plates at Fuerth, Bavaria, for importation into the United States. In March, 1890, defendant’s soliciting agent took from plaintiffs a written order addressed to ‘‘Nathan Springer, Fuerth, Bavaria,” for about $3,000 worth of glass, ‘‘to be shipped as soon as possible and not later than May 15, terms f. o. b. Chicago, net 60 and 90 days, freight to be prepaid to New York, and duty and freight from New York to be paid by consignee and deducted from invoice.’? On taking the order, defend- ant’s agent gave plaintiffs’ a paper signed by the agent, commencing with the words, ‘Leo Austrian & Company ordered from Nathan Springer, Fuerth, Bavaria,’’ and containing description of sizes and amounts of glass ordered, with statement of prices and terms same as in order. The agent sent the order to the defendant by mail. On April 15 de- fendant wrote plaintiffs a letter, acknowl- edging receipt of plaintiffs’ order and ex- pressing regret at being unable to fill it within the time specified. This letter was claimed by defendant to have been an unconditional refusal of the order. Plaintiffs received this letter about May 1, and two weeks before the time fixed by the order for making shlpments, but did not construe it as an absolute refusal to ship the glass. The glass was never shipped. By May 15 the price of glass had not very materially advanced. By July 1a ‘*‘combination” was consummated among the glass importers, for the pur- pose of controlling the market. During the latter part of May and during June, importers pretended to be ‘‘short” and discouraged sales, thereby causing gradual advance in price. On July 1 the combination was made public and the price of glass advanced about 33 1-3 per cent. above prices in March and April. Plaintiffs did not know of the combination until a day or two before July 1 and could then get no prices, be- ing told to wait for the new schedule. On June 30 defendant signed a contract to sell his product to the combination for aterm of two and one-half years. On July 1 plaintiffs brought suit in the Cir- cuit Court for Kent county, to recover damages for defendant’s failure to ship the glass. The case was tried in Novem- ber, 1891, before Judge Adsit and a jury, the plaintiffs being represented by Stuart & Knappen and the defendant by Taggart, Wolcott & Ganson and John T. Miller. Plaintiffs recovered judgment for about $1,100, being the difference be- tween the contract price of the glass and it market value in Chicago, at the time when the glass would have reached Chi- cago, in the regular course of transit, if shipped May 15, it appearing that from 30 to 60 days would be required for the transportation. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, defendant insist- ing (1) that the agent in question had no power to accept plaintiff’s order, his authority being limited to soliciting and forwarding orders for acceptance or re- is there was not sufficient proof of the agent’s authotity to justify submitting the cause to the jury; (2) that the writ- ings referred to did not in themselves constitute a contract; (3) that there was no evidence that defendant knew of the custom testified to by plaintiff’s witnesses for soliciting agents to accept orders from customers; (4) that it was plaintiffs’ duty to protect themselvesby buying glass elsewhere on May 1, when they learned that defendant would not ship as contract- ed;(5) that by the terms of the contract the place of delivery was Fuerth, Bavaria, and not Chicago, and, therefore, that the market value at Fuerth on May 15 must be taken for the purpose of determining the amount of plaintiffs’ damages, if any. The decision of the Supreme Court was rendered December 24, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court and hold- ing (1) that the evidence of the agent’s apparent authority to accept orders was sufficient to justify submitting that ques- tion to the jury; (2) that the order signed by the plaintiffs and the paper signed by the defendant’s agent together constituted a contract, and that the act of the agent in soliciting and receiving plaintiffs’ order was in itself an acceptance of the order; (3) that the custom testified to by plaintiffs’ witnesses for soliciting agents to accept orders for glass, at the time of taking orders, was shown to be a general custom and, therefore, admissible as tending to show the apparent authority of the agent; (4) that the defendant could not, by electing to repudiate the con- tract before the time provided for its fulfillment, require the plaintiffs to recognize such repudiation, before the full time for performance had elapsed; (5) that by the proper construction of the contract, Chicago, and not defendant’s factory location in Bavaria, was the place of delivery, and, therefore, the time for taking the market value in estimating plaintiffs’ damages should be the date when the glass would naturally have reached Chicago, if shipped when the contract required. —-_ > <> Buying New Goods. It is the business of every retailer to handle goods superior to those on the counters or shelves of his competitors. In the general lookout for new goods of course somebody gets left; but it is the popular and wise merchant who keeps on the topmost wave of popular favor. New goods are launched upon the mar- ket unceasingly. There are some deal- ers who buy their goods as they buy their books, adhering strictly to the old and well-established products, and ignor- ing the new untilit has established for itself a reputation. They are too con- servative, and their trade undoubtedly suffers. There are other merchants who stock up with the latest novelties regard- less of merit just as some people are con- stantly thirsting for the latest novel. They are too hasty. The golden mean is the proper course. It is the duty of every merchant to closely watch the mar- kets for new and improved goods. If he failsin getting the latest and best, his sales will surely shrink. But before he displaces the old by the new he should be reasonably well satisfied that the lat- ter is the more desirable. A test of the goods, and his judgment and his knowl- edge of the tastes of his customers will help himin making the decision. Ina measure he is a molder of public slides, which are seemingly as uncontrollable as they are surprising, and it behooves the dealer to keep abreast with the trade. Every new device is worthy of careful examination. Those that stand the test should be adopted; those that are defect- ive should be rejected; those that are doubtful should be handled gingerly un- jection by defendant in person, and that til their standing is determined. Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. eee cd Arrow Brand 54 eG 6 ‘World Wide. 6 Atianta AA.. a. * ..........,. 4% Atlantic a... 6%|Full Yard Wide..... 6% Bo G\iGeorgia A.......... 6% _ P..4..., 5% Honest WaGee........ 6% - eis © eettoeg A ......... 5 De cee wes 5 |Indian Head........ 7 eS ee © A... ......6 -—o Archery oe . 4 |KingEC.. i Beaver Dam AA 544| Lawrence 6. Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 0% Black Crow... .. Newmarket : . 5% Black Rock .. r. * 5 Boot, AL.... -@ ' R eee 6% Capital ee a e DD.... 5% CC a ° 2... 6% Chapman cheese cl. 3a te 5 a 544|)Our Level Best..... 6% eT Circe B........... 6 Dwight Ster........- 6% — Bs uae eek 7 Ciitten OCC........ MN oes oe ce wee 6 . Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. ee... 84|Geo. Washington... 8 ee Ee cen wo.......... 7 Beer... . ...... 7. Seen eeee......... 7% Art Campric........ 10 jGreen Ticket....... 8% Blackstone AA..... 7 |Great Falls.......... 6% Dees ATL... 2... sass 4% — Lele ue ben ee meen 74 eee... i Woe Oat. ....- 4%@ 5 eee. is Ming Fiiiip........ 7% NS! 6% . o..... 7 Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..160 wer W.... +545... 74|Lonsdale...... . @e Cleveland ..........- 7 teladieeex.... .. @5 Dwight Anchor..... Si No Name............ iH . «shorts. 8 |Oak Roa Leuee eee on Beare. ..:........ S ar Own............ ou anew. CCEA OU 7 Pride, of t the West...12 oo, Te ORO... ocs00ee 1% Fruit = the Loom. 8% PEE ses oan s- 4% Fitelville ..... .... Uties” _—s......... 8% First Prize eee Nonpareil ..10 Fruit of the Loom %. 1% I i accu as o% Pelee... 4% Whi So Moeee........ Pett Veleo.......... 6% Se 8x HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. Ss 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 8% ee 8 NTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. Bleached. Housewife A........0¥i Housewife @.... ... 6% B 5% ' z.. ae “ Cc 4 6 “ _ D.. --6% _ " E. iz “ yo The “ " se % - ae -10% ' Bi 7% ' : 11% " Dea cae 84 . Fie. ee " a 8% . | ree 13% co E.On : L. -10 " We essen 10% " n:. kt . sn 21 . Pi ssuein 14% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... a colored. ..20 ' colored....20%| White 8 ieee ee. 18 Reteeriey.......... 18% on colored. .20 a eooDs. Remeeee............ eeeeom...... ..... 20 ss oo fe 25 - 1 icocesse ee 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 Oe ee eee 30 Nameless Lele ae eae ice 16 " - 32% i oe ° “oe CORSE’ Comee............ $9 50 omieitel . .-. 84 50 Senior s......... 9 Onereeen.. ........ 475 Davis Waists..... 9 @iBortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 450 — pieces 15 00 CORSET JEA: eee eee ae 6% emekong satteen.. 7% ee oggin. “ Dornees...... . -... 6% Biddetora........ Oe Th% Brunswick. Warwortn ...... .... 6% — NTS. Allen turkey reds.. Berwick fancies.... 5% TObOs........ b Clyde Robes........ . pink. apersio : Charter Oak fancies 4% . -...... DelMarine cashm’s. 6 + pink checks. é 3 mourn’g 6 ’ meee ...... 6 Eddystone fancy... 6 _ shirtings . 4% chocolat 6 American fancy... - 5% e roper.... 6 Americanindigo... 64 ni sateens.. 6 American shirtings. 5 Hamilton —. — Argentine Grays... 6 e146. © Anchor —.- 2 Manchester ancy.. 6 Arnold — new era. 6 Arnold Merino... i etatinaaiel D fancy. 6 = long cloth B. 10% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4% - C. 8% - Repp —- 8% “century cloth 7 Pacific —- . 6 « oeeee..... — h Ulu .......... ~ 8% ‘* green seal TR10% esteaee robes. . “« “yellow seal. oo ~_s mourning.. 8 ~~ ae eee i 6h Uct.lUe.. .... 6 ‘“ Turkey red..10% _ a G binck. 6 Ballou solid: lack.. 5 Washington indigo. 6 - colors. 5% Turkey robes.. 7% mage blue, green, India robes.... 7% and orange... 54%) ‘' plain T’ky x % 8% Berlin — opeee le 5% ** ng - -...- ofl blue...... 6 “ se een “ Foulards “ red % 44.. . . « g48KEX 2 Riverpoint robes 5% Cocheco a as Windsor fancy...... % ers. . 7 . = ticket “ XX twills.. 6%] indigo blue....... * eones...... 534|Harmony......... TICKINGS. Aoekeesp ACA....1% (AC A..... .......,. 8 Bemiiton W......... 7%|Pemberton AAA....16 ss y......... TE 0% - Awning..11 |Swift River......... T% Pare... . a Weert tiver......... 12% Pies, Peie.......... 10%) Warren....... Cee cee 3% Lenox Mills ........ 18 jConostoga .......... 16 COTTON DRILL. aoe, ...,....2 rr Bune. sce 8 ee es cl 6%iNo Name........ - 1% RO Mi aes penn nas oper Hemp,.....:. 9 DEMINS. Amoskeag ict ee 12% (Columbian ree 12 om... 13% Everett, biu onde ' brown .13 a Aaeere........--... 7" Haymaker blue..... Beaver Creek AA,. brown... 7% =” wamrrey.....<.. 11% . Lancaster..... .12% Boston. Mfg ce. “oe 7 |Lawrence, 90z -.13% blue 8% C No. 220....13 “ d& twist 10% - No. 250....11% Columbian XXX br.10 ' No. 280....10% aac 01.19 GINGHAMS, Amoniees ...... .... 7% Lancaster, staple... 7 ** Persian dress 8% fancies . 7 . Canton .. 8% ies Normandie : . Bs ces ‘10% Lenceshire.......... e Teazle...1044|/Manchester......... Sac - Angola..104/Monogram.......... 6% - Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... Th Arlington staple.... 64%|Persian............. 8% Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... % Bates | arwick dres 8%|Rosemont........... 6% staples. 83 MIMGCINVILIC ......... 6 éosmenn Ladce pee 10% — Ce ee 7 Cerra ..........- 104|Tac a. Cumberland staple. 5% Cumberland.... .... 5 |W Wg bic ce eee 4% RR i cieaiteesenns 7\4| Warwick Everett classics..... 8%! Whittenden......... 6% mrpoution.......... 7 “heather dr. 8 earn... ......... 634 Te indigo blue 9 Giegarven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples. . - Glenwood...... . Westbrook eee ae enes Ee ee ieee tue 10 Johnson Vhaloncl % Zameen. Link eeee 5 - indigo blue 9%/|York ... cress ce, OE “ zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Amoskeag......... -1614| Valley oor ae ix a Se Ce... 1.4... -- 15% Aieerieee...... .....- We Pree i, ons... 13 THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 coer, 2. aF...-... -— (wereers.... ...... 88 Hol lyoke. eee ue 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored Re, §.. ..- me F.......2 42 Ba 34 eit 43 ee os. 4 ° 2... a 45 CAMBRICS, ee eee 5 White Star......... S ihockwood......... 5 Be IO. osc os os > mroeee.... ........ 5 Newmarket......... 5 (Bronswick......... 5 RED FLANNEL Prremean...... ....- es i BR Creedmore.......... aire ....... « -B2Y% saeee Rae... - Wee ae ......... 35 eee 27% Buckeye aaa 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% eS 22%4| Western W ......... 18% reee...... ...,.. a 18% 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... as Unten ©............ 22%4| Manitoba........... 23% — FLANNEL. Nameless ae Ee 9 @10% eee Suol0 _ eae 12 ANVASS AND PADD Slate. ceenen. Black.|Slate i Black. 9% 9% 934/10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10%/11% 11% 11% 11% 11% 114%4}12 12 12 12% 12% — a 20 20 Severen, 8 oz........ 9% 1 West (Point, Sos....10% Mayland, eon....... 10% 002 ...12 Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% eine a 138% Greenwood, 8 oz.. ‘11% Me cee cee 13% Boston, $ om......... 10% |Boston, 10 oz........ 12% WADDINGS. Waite, Gos. ........- 25 |Per bale, 40 me a 50 Oolored, Gos........ = roommead * ....... 70 SILESIAS. Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10% eo Cree... © teee.............. - Pet... ...:.. Meeieodrord.... .... .... 10% - Best AA “a — Coty......... 10% o.. ae Lk, 10% a SS en “oe SEWING SILKE. Corticelli, doz....... 85 (Corticelli knitting, twist, doz. .4¢ per %oz bell...... 30 50 sit doz. .40 OOKS AND EYES—PER @ No 1 Bre & White. = PL No 2—20, M C.......50 ee a 0 45 COTTON No 2 White & BI’k..12 - oT a No a BrkS ‘White.. 15 8 20 _ o 25 NB. No 4—15 F 3%...... 40 TAPE. No 8 White & Bl’k..20 “ 10 “ 23 “ 6 “ ..18 | * 12 te 26 SAFETY PINS, Pee... 4 28 a cc sdecee aesay 36 NEEDLES-—-PER M. A. James.. --1 40|/Steamboat........... Crowely’s.. +11 35|Gold ee nc se ose 1 50 Marshall’s..... ones k TABLE OIL CLOTH. S28 «.-3 26/5—4....195 6—4...2 95 i066 COTTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua............. = et 12 Rising Star 4-ply.. Poon 2... 18 3-ply.. oe — cede ey oe . (eorte Gear... Se Wool Standard 4 piyitis 3 rowneenn ..,... 0. % PLAID OSNABURGS See. ............ 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% Alamance.. oe Oneida..... 5 Augusta Prymont . Ar sapha Randelman Georgia 644| Riverside. . G ee Sibley A... ‘ Haw River De Fromeee...::.... 1... binned ss 2 iA d's , A THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 THE FAIR AND BUSINESS. If the results of the Columbian Expo- sition at Chicago next year were to be measured alone by the momentary grati- fication of the throngs which will doubt- less crowd into its gates, the play would not be worth thecandle. This, however, is not said in the way of reflecting up- on the artistic merits of the Fair, nor do we mean to intimate that, in all those features which are necessary for an ex- hibition of its kind is not to be a suc- eess. All that is taken for granted. It is universally acknowledged to be the grandest affair of its kind, it ever held in the history of the world, and that it is to be an honor not only to American in- dustry and enterprise, but to modern civilization as well, goes without say- ing. The millions of dollars of the public money which have been and are to be spent upon it, however, are only to be justified by its indirect results, which are to be far more numerous and much more far-reaching than areits immediate and direct results. It is not possible to refer here to all the numerous secondary effects which will follow the opening of the gates, some of which are to be of much more importance than perhaps is generally thought. There is, for in- stance, the general stirring up, as it were, of the people of our own country. The Fair will act as a stimulant upon them, and thousands upon thousands of them will set out upon the long journey to Chicago, who but for it would have re- mained at their homes. This means the spending of vast sums of money upon railroad fares, hotel bills, ete. It also means much more than that; it means the purchasing of thousands of new dresses and suits of clothes, of traveling bags, and of almost every other article of merchandise, for such journeys of a lifetime are not made without much be- ing bought at home, on the road, and es- pecially at the point of destination. This stimulation to the retail trade will have its complement in the wholesale trade, and increased business in the lat- ter will, of course, react directly upon the manufacturers. A step farther and we have reached the makers of machin- ery, and beyond these are the foundries of iron and steel, and beyond these the laborers. Thus it is easily seen that what affects one branch of trade, will, by acting through the endless chain that unites all the various industries, affect all the others as weil. The educational value of the exposi- tion is not to be forgotten. Such fairs are wholesale civilizers, and could we have distributed them at suitable inter- vals throughout the preceding centuries, there can be no doubt that the advance- ment of the race would have been great- ly accelerated. All who visit the Fair will have an advance look, so to speak, of the next decade. They will not only see what the world has accomplished, but much that is to be brought, during the next few years, into general use. Theic tastes and their ideas will be ele- vated, and they will no longer be satis- fied with the imperfect implements and conveniences with which they have la- bored in the past. On their return they will ask for, demand and buy the new and improved machines and devices, and this will result, if other conditions do not materially change, in a stimulation to all kinds of industries which will be felt for many years. Of the artistic, esthetic and intellectual value of the Wrought — PUM... 200. --cceecsecescresese — : HAMMERS. Exposition we need not speak, except to} Wrought Paste Bind 200000000 000000010. ana | ne _ oo ——_ 2 recognize its importance as related to the | Bind” Clark's o-oo toad | Yerkes & Plumb’s. a indirect result it will have in increasing = gheperd’s weet ener teen tee ee cnet ences es — Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40&10 : : Tr RIE ann onsen ween st nnnescnnee Su the purchasing desires of all those who BLOCKS, Gate Claw 288 dis.60&10 are affected by the works of art and the | Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... a r doz. net, 2 50 other educational exhibits, of which CRAPLES. a —. papell e = "e414 and 3% there are to be such a great profusion. Cee dis. 50&02 | Screw Hook and Eye, %.. net 10 cl gil : CROW BARS. 5g... net 8% As great as will be the indirect influ-| Cagt gteel................ 006.000. ceeee per 5 a ag ; %.. net 7% ence of the Fair in the directions we have CAPS. ae _ — 2 Ely’s 1-10 on « Ce EE dis. 50 mentioned, its greatest indirect result is| Hors CR 60 | Barn Door Kidder Mfe. Co., Wood track.. >. to come from its character as a gigan- » EAR se teteet en ecee ee et teen tees ee ecees iT = Champion, anti: friction Le eT 60610 ' f TMK... eee eee een ne Se, WO re tic advertisement to the peoples abroad CARTRIDGES. nee HOLLOW WARE. of what we are and what wecan do. If) Rim Fire... 2) |e arnt a ahh bs a A 60&10 ice DT Gis, 5 | Hettlew..........-....-0eseeeeeeeeer eres erers 60&10 the steamboat and the railroad compan- iniiiad dis . ae ies cet rears ttrereste — vo ; a . . wae CUMMING sau ies do a. by a toe parsimonious and DO 70&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, greedy policy, seriously interfere with vnc nie ema riteeceeeeaesserenererececeees Lome et Fae eG. ------ = +--+ ---- Hint 70 " gg | ROCROUCOPMEL.... 06. eee eee ee cece ee ere en enee apann ee the great tide of travel that will in the eee? Venged wiemes ae —_ ae 2 new list 3834 610 asi ! J | Beene? Sanged Mirmer 2... 5. WIRE GOODS. sgag Sng ts Rew toward Amarin, © comss. i 70a108:10 will be impossible to estimate the thou-| curry, Lawrence’s..........2:.cs.ssseeee ot b= aa aeannanie ee Les re sands of persons from abroad, who will, | 2otchkiss ........... 2 sean %5 | Gate Hooks and Eyes............... 7g 10810 . ae . . LEVELS 8.7 during the summer, visit America for | white Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 | stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... ” the first time. Many of them will be- COPPER, Steel. 16 Inch aid ler — 9 manufacturers and merchants, and near- | Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. per pound = 28) Wanflia.............. a ly all of them will bring with them a lib- | Cold Roted, 16x56 nd 2646000002000. 8) seetand tron... me eral supply of money. At the Exposi-| Bottoms .......--. ..ccccccceeecce,, B Sea Se RS S tion they are to discover that during the rasan a SHEETIRON. More's ee O00NN.... 2... 5... 50 Com. Smooth. Com past few years we have made a progress | Taper and straight Shank................... SO Wom Ota Se 84 $2 95 in the mechanical and other arts of ees Teper seme... ; 50 = = - ee eee eed a 463 =< NOs, i which they have had no conception. | gjen sixes, ser a a 7 | Nos. 22 to 24... 22. eee eee eee 4 05 3 15 They will find that we are manufactur- | Large sizes, per pound...... ......... -.... Cae 44 «33 " Sg . — ELBOWS. All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches siti er 8 =" nee ee Com) 4 ees Gin dos.net 75/| Wide not less than 2-10 extra in workmanship, finish and precision any | Corrugated ............ 0... .0..ceee ee eens is 40 ieee ee SAND PAPER. “ - others in the world. They will also EE EE dis. _— » 1d, vec eit ec auecau as 8, realize that if our mechanics are boast- Clark’s, small, “a aa a . Silver Lake, _—. Ce ee aaa ae = ful, as they affirm that they are, it is be- | fves’, 1, 318: 2, a seals es rte a * White B ea 50 cause they have done and are doing so oe a re —o “ Wh ‘ * ° Ne oo ee x much of which they may justly be proud. | Nicholson's .....--. -. ve ee ; CO 50 : To keep up with the advance of mod dn 50 Soe Bvee............ east tersees per — 825 ern progress they will see that it is nec- GALVANIZED IRON. s“ i 2 essary to purchase American tools and = "eS 7 22 —] 2A; 25 “= a a “ Spocial Steel Dex oon ok... 50 American machinery and, as a conse- I 60 , = i Special Steel oa eae = a 7 30 : : C on an ectric Too quence, we predict that during the next] s:.niey Rule and ———. .. ~~, Cae er Te Uy Summer, Fall and Winter our manufac- xNoBs—New List. Oe lee. ee > turers will be in receipt of orders from to ie ba es ica Saami . <= SS ee Hal 35 all parts of the world. The time when Door, porcelain, — trimmings.......... 55 | Mouse, —— per jon * : oor, rceisin, tr dees dodec awe America is to be the market of a large oer aaa eee sareniin oT . 70 Mouse, delusion...... wae $1.50 a lat lh | i li al htc OORBON 2.0. cc ccc cocccccsccscovcee POL un AUSURS AND BITS. dis. Case Oe 60 a ee LE i Snell's eee eee et f 41. Sree ORREE ROBIE = a Chere MEE TH CRADE. Jennings’, genuine. 2020202000000 Bs | Pinte 102000 . ae Jennings’, imitation .......--...--c-..+++ «+ 50810 6 Biseeceeeeeeteeeeneeeetenecees 1 00 90 | 10x14 oe 9 25 ce cutnenss NS 1 15 1 20 ee 2 9 25 First re ee ee 100 go| mach additional X on this grade, $1.75. B. Bie s o9 A Aa a A TIN ALLAWAY GRADE. 1... asain EEE nent 1 15 90 | 10x14 TO, Charcoal «......2.--.eee seeesen 86 7 i np Soa 33 I eer ces ee 1% or 14x20 oF ase nanenenonenen cane waranes 6 75 a BARROWS. st oo hte Tool Ogre tangy Len . OM ix TX, ieee ieasrneoena thats cz EE Clota Bench... 2... cece cceccccessccsceee- QO} Bach additional ¥ on this eradesiso. ae et 30 00 | Sandusky Tool Go. a. sadttional X oi tts grade 81.0 a Gesuat an eoniieg Wh caens ,, BOOFING PLATES il ica 50&10 — Rule and Level Co.*s, wood. aoe 6 ss PANS. Germiagn ewe 75&10 ai cies dis.g0—10 3 50 a 40&10 6 00 Sleigh ee cal tinie enue nas 70 Common, polished... ae dis. oi 70 7 50 BUCKETS. i et nse sens ass “40 - We $ 3 50 | Copper — ee =a Fee le doch eee ma 50—10 I 4 00 1 00 agen” Cast. am, {A Wood's } atean Planiahed ed, Non. 34 to 27 10 20 5 Cine COOP Pin, eres. i. wn ws wee oe 10& 7 Wood's nieces ae. 9 2 Wrought Saaeee prleht Saat joint.......... 66a ..0 on packs c per nae. 1 ees THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical busi- ness mer. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. = When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. = WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1893, RAILWAY BUILDING. There has been very little public com- ment on the matter of railway extension during the year now drawing to a close, and, as a consequence, the addition of mileage to the total amount of track in the country has attracted little attention; but that there have been a fair amount of work for the track-layers, and an average sale of steel rails, are shown by the fact that, during the year 1892, 4,062 miles of main line have been added to the railway mileage of the United States. According to the Railway Age, which is the authority for the above figures, forty-three out of the forty-eight States have added to their railway mileage during the past year, which proves that railroad building has been quite general all over the country, even if the develop- ment has in no single case been large enough to attract special notice. There have, of course, been consider- able relaying of old track and a large amount of double tracking, building of switches and other track-laying not com- ing under the head of new main lines, so that the actual work done by the track- layers and the consumption of steel rails are not fully represented by the 4,062 miles of new track reported. The new State of Washington leads the list asthe principal railroad builder during the year, that State alone being credited with 421 miles of new main line. This comparatively large increase in railroad mileage in Washington is due to the influx of settlers and the develop- ment of the resources of that far-distant section of the country. None of the other far-western States figure to any great extent in the table of increased mileage, although as we have already stated. nearly all are represented. The other notable increases in mileage were in Pennsylvania, with 257 miles, New York, with 236 miles, and Michigan, with 220 miles of new road. In the South, Texas leads, with 211 miles; West Vir- ginia follows with 204: while Florida and Louisiana also show up well, with 146 and 121 miles respectively. Including the mileage of 1892, the total railway mileage in the United States has now reached seven times the distance around the world. The largest amount of main line built in a single year was in 1887, when 12,983 miles of track were censtructed. Since that year of phenomenal develop- ment there has been a gradual falling off, the present year showing a loss of 409 miles compared with 1891. During the past ten years 53,000 miles of track were built, and during the past twenty years 104,000 miles were built. These figures show a phenomenal development which would appear to more than justify the more moderate totals of the past few years. In fact, the wonderis that there should be any need at all for new track. TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES. Tue TRADESMAN heartily endorses the proposition to hold a general con- vention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association in February, as two very im- portant matters demand the immediate and continued support of every Michigan business man. One is the enactment of a law provid- ing for the creation of a new office in this State—that of Food Commissioner. Our statute books contain many excellent laws relative tothe sale of articles of food and drink, but, in the absence of a proper officer to enforce their provisions, the laws are practically dead letters. The necessity for such an officer is recog- nized by the Michigan Business Men’s Association, Michigan Dairymen’s Asso- ciation, Michigan Fruit Manufacturers’ Association, Patrons of Husbandry (grangers), Patrons of Industry, and other organizations of both producers and consumers, all of which have put themselves on record as favoring the en- actment of a law creating the office re- ferred to. But for the fact that the Winans administration was pledged to retrenchment, the office would have been established two years ago, as a majority of the members of both honses of the last Legislature recognized the necessity of the measure, but were deterred from giving the matter active attention on account of the warning of the Governor that he would veto any bill creating an additional office. The situation is some- what different now and there is every reason for believing that concerted action on the part of all interested will secure the result desired. Another subject which demands prompt and decisive action is the exemption matter. For the first time in over twenty years a constitutional convention is tobe held, during 1893, and concerted effort should be made to expunge from the con- stitution of the State every vestige of the exemption feature. It will require no small effort to accomplish this result, but the game is worth the powder and _ busi- ness men should not be dilatory in acting on this suggestion at once. Other subjects would, of course, be discussed and passed upon at a meeting of business men, but Tue TRADESMAN is strongly of the opinion that the objects above outlined ought to be sufficient to attract representatives from the most re- mote portions of the State. STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT. Elsewhere in this week’s paper is given a brief description of the ‘‘Equal- ity Plan,” so-called, adopted by the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association for use in connection with all sales of 174,663 miles, or nearly ; plan is said to be in successful operation sugar at wholesale after January 3. The in fifteen other states and there is every reason for believing that it will work well in Michigan, so far as assuring the jobber of a uniform profit is concerned. Whether it will work to the advantage or disadvantage of the retail trade, remains to be seen. The plan ison trial; and THE TRADESMAN does not propose to approve or disapprove the plan until it has been given a thorough trial. The new method is certainly a step in advance in one respect, inasmuch as it assures the jobber of a very reasonable profit on a staple which comprises from one-quarter to one-third of his entire transactions. Selling sugar at a loss, for the sake of securing an order for goods on which the jobber can make a profit, is no longer necessary under the new system. The wholesaler’s position is secure and no house in Michigan is able to undersell any other house, so far as sugar is concerned. The new plan takes this great staple out of the realm of un- certainty, so far as yielding any profit is eoncerned; and it will be interesting to note what staple article, if any, takes its place as an incentive to trade by cutting and slashing. i The new movement is assuring to the retailer, as it proves beyond a doubt that thorough organization will enable the re- tailer to secure the same concesion from the wholesaler that the latter obtains from the refiner. The backbone of the move- ment is strong and the retailer has no: one to blame but himself if he fails to take advantage of the situation. The jobber is not going far out of his way to assist the retailer in this matter—he has his own business to attend to and his own organization to look after. THE TRADESMAN has, however, almost in- variably found the wholesaler ready to co-operate with his retail customer in any movement looking toward an im- provement in trade methods, and the time is certainly now ripe for the retail dealer to show his hand by affiliating with his fellows on a common basis and organizing associations for the same purpose which called the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association into ex- istence—the maintenance of a decent profit on sugar by some system which will be so strongly entrenched in the jobber as to render variation next to impossible. Will the retailer strike while the iron is hot? TORPEDO BOATS FOR THE NAVY. While the vessels already completed, building and contracted for to increase the navy, furnish a fair number of all classes of cruisers and fighting ships, scarcely a beginning has been made in the work of building torpedo boats, al- though a]l naval experts hold that a con- siderable fleet of torpedo vessels of all sizes is an essential auxiliary of the fight- ing fleet. Up to the present time the United States navy possesses but one first-class torpedo boat, the Cushing, and one tor- pedo cruiser is building. If to these is added the Vesuvius, the dynamite cruiser, the country possesses but three vessels which could be classed as torpedo boats. How small this strength is may easily be appreciated by remembering that Great Britain has several hundred torpedo boats and the other leading European naval powers more than a hundred each. It would, therefore, seem to be about time for a beginning to be made in the work of constructing a torpedo flotilla of sufficient numerical strength to fully meet the needs of our naval service. It is evidently the belief of the navy de- partment that Congress will at no dis- tant date make some provisions for the construction of torpedo boats, as designs have been prepared at Washington for a new style of first-class torpedo boat which will be provided, in addition to the usual torpedo tubes, with dynamite guns like those on the Vesuvius, which will enable the vessel to throw shells charged with high explosives from a much greater dis- tance than it is possible to operate with the ordinary torpedoes, the regular tor- pedo tubes being reserved for use should it be expedient to approach close to an enemy. It is believed that with a dyna- mite gun it would be possible to fire at an enemy at a distance of nearly two thousand yards. Now that a fair proportion of the large ships needed for the new navy are being constructed or are already completed, it would seem proper for Congress to au- thorize the building of a fair proportion of the torpedo vessels needed, so that by the time the country possesses a respect- able fleet we will not be entirely deficient in the matter of torpedo outfit. AN INCOME TAX. One subject which will engage the at- tention of the Committee on Ways and Means of the next Congress will be the widespread demand for an income tax. Congress must find means for raising a revenue in case it reduces the tariff on many foreign products, and the project of a tax on incomes is being much dis- cussed. It may be remembered by many that an income tax was in force for a few years immediately after the civil war. At first the tax was laid on incomes as low as $1,500, and in 1866 this tax fur- nished $73,000,000. But it was soon taken from the smaller incomes and laid on larger, and thus falling chiefly on wealthy people, became unpopular, and Congress, not being able to withstand the influence brought againstit, repealed the law. At that time there were no great for- tunes in the country as there are to-day. Millionaires were not common. Men with ten millions were rare, and of men with twenty millions there were probably but ascore orso in the entire Union. Since the repeal of tha income tax, enormous fortunes have grown up. So great has been the growth of wealth in the hands of a few, that it is estimated that to-day one-half the wealth in the United States is concentrated in the hands of 25,000 persons, and three- fourths of it in the hands of 250,000 per- sons. When we reflect that these small fractions of the population hold three- quarters of the entire wealth of the Re- public and the other sixty and odd mil- lions hold only one-fourth, the situation becomes startling, indeed. At the rate at which wealth is being concentrated in the hands of afew, we may well look forward to the day when the small frac- tion of the people will own everything and the millions of the masses will be slaves as they were in Egypt under the Pharaohs and in Russia under the serf system. The depositors in Church, Bills & Co.’s bank, at Ithaca, have been paid a 50 per cent. dividend and the assignee asserts that the other 50 per cent. will be paid in a short time. | 4 yt x ¥° THE CONSULAR SERVICE. There has recently been a demand from some of the New England manu- facturing centers for a change in the American consular service. It is asked that American consuls representing the United States in foreign countries be re- quested to give a larger share of atten- tion to the promotion of American trade in the countries in which they take up their official residence, with a view of establishing better trade relations be- tween the country to which they are accredited and the merchants of the United States. This desire that our consuls abroad should become, in fact, commercial agents as well as quasi diplomatic representatives is not a new thing by any means, as the annual reports from the different consuls to the State department prove that the gathering of trade statis- tics is an important part of the functions of the consular service. Great Britain, some years ago, realizing the usefulness of this system of consular reports on trade matters, decided to adopt it, and now the British consulates give consid- erable attention to the duties of pushing British trade interests in the localities in which they are. stationed. Other European countries have adopted the same system. The demands from New England, therefore, call rather for an improve- ment of a long established custom than for the inauguration of aninnovation. At a recent banquet of the Boston merchants a good portion of the speechmaking was devoted to this subject. According to the ideas of one of the prominent speak- ers, the American Consul should make it his constant aim to promote the lawful trade of the United States by every fair and proper means, and to uphold the rights and privileges and promote the advantage of American merchants. As a natural and logical correletive he should be fully posted as to his own land, know its resources and products, and their adaptability to the people among whom he has his official home. It should be his duty to acquaint the people with what the United States can supply. He is a quasi partner of the American mer- ehants, and should be in full sympathy with them and their interests. If Con- gress willhave the courage and patriot- ism to make more stringent and protec- tive immigration laws, saving us from imported ignorance, pauperism, crime and disease, we shall have to rely for the beneficent enforcement of such laws very largely upon the vigilance, intelli- gence and integrity of our consuls. These important duties will require of- ficers of high qualifications and energy, and it will require no small amount of research on the part of the incoming ad- ministration to secure men fitted by edu- cation and experience to answer these requirements. GRAND INTERNATIONAL CHARITY. Probably in the whole history of the world the vastest and most far-reaching | charity, accomplished on a scale of grandeur colossal and magnificent to the highest degree, is to be credited to the people of the United States in the year 1892. Thus duly chronicled in the an- nals of the great Russian famine of 1891- 92 are the extraordinary measures of re- lief so promptly put in operation by the American people. The events of this most interesting history culminate in the glorious spectacle of the free citizens of the world’s grandest republic feeding the starving subjects of the most titanic imperial despotism on the face of the earth. It would be needless to attempt to re- produce the harrowing and revolting features of the Russian famine of 1891- 92. There had been a succession of poor crops, and finally a total failure of grain in provinces that contained twenty millions of the people of the Empire of all the Russias. Heartrending accounts of suffering crossed the ocean and moved profoundly the great pity of the Ameri- can people. ‘‘We have bread enough and to spare,” was the general and gen- erous expression, ‘‘and we will help to feed the starving.’’ And what the Amer- ican people willed in the way of this charity they accomplished, and in a man- ner that challenges the admiration and astonishment of the world. The report of the Russian Famine Committee of the United States, under the presidency of Ex-Governor John W. Hoyt,of Minnesota, has just been published, showing that the united contributions of the Ameri- can people to the starving Russians amounted to five ship loads of bread- stuffs, weighing about 23,000,000 pounds, besides more than $100,000 in money. In addition to these, supplementary shipments of provisions to large amounts were sent in the cargoes of several other vessels, besides more than $100,000 in money in addition to the amount above referred to. These charities represent- ed not merely the value of the flour and grain, but free railway transportation, free ship freight, free service in han- dling and loading freights and ships. This magnificent benefacticn was thus made the act of millions of the American peo- ple, from the great capitalists, millers, merchants, railway corporations, ship owners and the like, to working people and laborers of every class. They all participated, and whether they gave of their abundance or of their poverty, they alike were joined in giving this glorious charity. There never was anything like itin the world. Let us hope there may never again be occasion for such an event, but if it should be required, the Ameri- can people will, without doubt, be equal to the grand emergency. The coffee-producing section of Mex- ico is preparing to send a large exhibit of coffee to the Worid’s Fair and will, be- sides, make preparations to distribute gratis samples of the finest grades grown in Mexico to the visitors to the exposi- tion. As everybody knows, Mexico has made rapid strides in the production of coffee, and has risen to high rank among leading coffee-producing countries. Mex- ican coffee is of very fine quality, and, because of its mild flavor, is becoming more generally used every year. An ex- tensive exhibit at the Fair would, of course, greatly assist the development of the Mexican coffee industry by making the merits of the bean more widely known, thus increasing the consumption. The United States is the principal con- sumer of this coffee, but there is ample room for amore extensive development of the demand. When men have their an of state they always toast the ladies. When women banquet together they always roast the men. > o-<——_--——- Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. wy See that this Label appears CERN ap on every ‘package, ac it is a Ait, Mi BY - _-. Heyer BY ssn guarantee of the genuine ar Pe yen re eS THIEN CHICAGO tiele. Y FERMENTUM The Only Reliable COMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years. Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. JOHN SMYTH, Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a guarantee article. of the genuine Ug of VERDALE 5ST usr as 0 ance Bos Sic We have ious a oa -operative Butter & Cheese van aa for five years. 1t was built by Davis & Rankin Bldg. & Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ills, Ad- dress them for information if you wish a factory, and how to get it. OUR HOLIDAY CATALOGUE NOW READY. Send for it? Rugs Hassocks, Backing bases, Feat Rests Carpet Sweepers. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. Farming isa ale success. lai tint Ti Se ne aerated eens eee ea eee 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TAXING PERSONAL ESTATE. This antagonism of interest, in respect of taxation, between the owners of real estate and the owners of personal estate is of long standing, and has frequently led to legislative investigations, like the one now being conducted by a special committee of the New York Legislature, followed by the enactment of laws in- tended to enlarge the taxation of personal estate, and thus reduce that upon real estate. All these attempts, as the present condition of the matter shows, have failed of complete success. The great bulk of the taxes, for city and county purposes at least, continues to be paid by the owners of real estate, although State taxes, owing to the new corpora- tion and inheritance tax laws, fall lightly on both real and personal estate alike. The owners of real estate insist that if justice were done the owners of personal estate should pay at least as much as they do, and the owners of personal es- tate naturally combat every attempt to compel them to pay more than they are now paying. That those who clamor for an increase of taxation upon personal property do not fully understand the case and are not well acquainted with the facts con- nected with it, is pretty evident from the arguments which they employ to support their views. Most of what, in conform- ity with the legal fiction, they call per- sonal property, is personal only in name. A bond secured by a mortgage upon a house and lot or upon a farm is personal property in the eye of the law, because the owner of it can carry it about with him wherever he goes. Bonds and mort- gages are. however, mere evidences of part ownership in the real estate by which they are secured, and, frequently, the money given for them helps to pay for its purchase. In like manner rail- road bonds and shares of stock in rail- road companies and in other corpora- tions are, technically, personal property, but, as a matter of fact, they represent only beneficial interests in real estate, or in investments of capital which are taxed in their entirety. To tax both real estate at its full vaiue, and then, besides, to tax the mortgages upon it, is & double taxation, the injustice of which is admitted, and the remedy which has been proposed for it is te tax real estate only for the excess of its value above the mortgages upon it and throw the rest of the tax upon the holders of mortgages. This, however, would so evidently put an end to all lending upon that kind of security that it has never yet been adopted. In like manner, the taxing both of the property of corporations and | of the shares of their stock is recognized to be unjust by statute, and where cor- porations are taxed their stock in the hands of its holders is exempt. With these facts before his eyes it is | surprising to find a man like Comptroller Campbell, of New York, declaring that as Jay Gould owned $70,000,000 of per-. sonal property in his lifetime and paid | taxes upon only $500,000, he defrauded | the people of New York of the taxes upon $69,500,000. Equally surprising is | the assertion made by ex-Assessor John | D. Ellis that there is $4,000,000,000 of personal property that ought to be as- sessed in New York which is not now on | the books, from 60 to 65 per cent. of which | is in New York City. Mr. Campbell | evidently assumed that Mr. Gould’s $70,- | 000,000 were in his pocket or in his safe, | ; point where the and, therefore, within the jurisdiction of the State and city authorities, whereas, in fact, except his household furniture and cash in hand, they were scattered all over the Western and Southwestern states, and were represented by railroads, bridges, mines, town and city lots, and various other objects over which the State has no more contro! than it has over the possessions of Queen Victoria. So, when Mr. Ellis spoke of the $4,000,- 000,000 of personal property in New York which ought to be taxed he had in mind, undoubtedly, property similar to that owned by Mr. Gould. He added to- gether the reputed fortunes of men like the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Rocke- fellers, and other millionaires, and as- sumed «that their possessions were all actually situated within the boundaries of New York and enjoying the benefits of its government. The truth is that the only cpersonal preperty which can be reached by assessment, either justly or unjustly, is that which can be seen and be laid hold of by the hand. That which is personal only by fiction of law, and which, whenever its owner goes out of the State, goes with him, will necessarily slip through any tax law that can be framed. Besides this error of fact, the advo- eates of increased taxation of personal property tacitly assume that a man should pay taxes in proportion to his wealth, and not to the state or country where that wealth is invested and where it receives the benefit of the expenditures to meet which the taxes are imposed, but to that upon whose territory he resides. In other words, they contend for the tax- ation, not of property, but of the person owning it, and for taxation in proportion, not to benefits received, but to ability to pay. The foundation of the idea is evi- dently that sentiment of communism which is everywhere latent in the human mind, and which demands that the ac- quisitions of the thrifty aud the success- ful shali be taken and bestowed upon the unthrifty and the unsuccessful. No one pretends that a man worth ten mil- lions of dollars shall pay ten times as much for his clothes, his marketing and his fuel as the man with one million, and yet, when taxes are in question, it is practically asserted that the man with one million, no matter where it is in- vested, shall pay a thousand times as much as the man with only a thousand dollars. Nevertheless, the conviction that rich men ought to be taxed in proportion to their wealth is so generally prevalent that itis in vain to try to overcome it. Those who frame tax laws must recog- nize it and defer to it, and those who suffer from these laws must make up their minds to submit to them up to the exaction becomes in- tolerable. They always have the resource of putting their persons beyond the reach of a government which imposes on them a burden greater than they choose to bear, and short of this remedy, their in- genuity will always be able to devise other means which will partially relieve them. MATTHEW MARSHALL. A A man must believe in himself when he concludes that all who do not think as | he does are either fools or knaves. a te Some way has been found to make cakes without eggs. In time cheap res- taurant butter may be found without hair. WE ARE THE PEOPLE Who Can Seil you au A No. 1 Article of Pure Buckwheat Flour At a Moderate Price. A Postal card will briog quotations and sample. A. SCHENCK & SON, ELSIE, MICH. The Wayne Self -Measuring Oil Tank. Measuring One Qt, and Half Gallon at a Single Stroke. Manufactured by the First Floor Tank and Pump. WAYNE QIL TANK G0. FORT WAYNE, IND. Cellar Tank and Pump. We head, ket Others Follow. 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 moreth»n pleased with it. It works easily, accurately and rapidly Would not do without it for twice its cost. We take pleasure in recommending it as the cleanest and best machine for handling oil we ever saw. You may refer as many as you like to us, we have only words of praise for it. G. T. & W. C. Manp.e6o. Britton, Mich., June 15, °92. Wayne Oil Tank Co.. Fort Wayne, Ind. GenT: EMEN —I think your tanks are bound to be a seller, for in the thirteen years I have been selling oil I never have seen theirequal. Yours truly, W. C. BaB. ov. Kk, PRICE LIST. First floor Tanks and Pumps. Cellar Tanks and Pumps. ee $13 00 ll $14 00 Stee...) Se, 17 00 ee ee ee el 21 co 4 bbl eos ot ae... 25 60 eee ee es mos See... 2 ) 00 Pump without tank.... Compare our prices. Order now and save agents’ commission. POTATOES. We have made the handling of Potatoes a ‘‘speciaity” for many years and have a large trade. Can take care of all that can be shipped us. We give the best ser- vice—sixteen years experience—first-class salesmen. Ship your stock to us and get full Chicago market value. Reference—Bank of Commerce, Chicago. WM. H. THOMPSON & CO., Commission Merchants, 166 So. Water St., Chicago. OS 1 ES THE P. & B. BRAND WILL PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMERS —INCREASE YOUR TRADE—AND MAKE YOU MONEY— THREE FEATURES THAT COMMEND THEM ‘TO YOUR NOTICE. SOLD BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS— PACKED BY THE PUTNAM CANDY CO i, 7x ptt ~*q Pex Pex PHH MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. THE VALUE OF GOLD. The chief point in the discussion of the silver question is as to what should be its ratio of value to gold. According to the standard of money, it is held to be in the proportion of about one ounce of gold to sixteen ounces of silver, but the heavy decline in the market value of sil- ver has for some time past much deranged the adjustment of relative values. According to the standard in use for our money, an ounce of fine silver is rated at $1.29. But the market price has fallen far below this, and within the past few days silver has sold in this country for 823Z cents per ounce, and on the same day the price in London was about 76 cents per ounce. Thus it will be seen that our standard ratio of values is much at variance with the current market rates, so that when silver sells at 46 cents per ounce less than the standard ratio, the relative values of the two precious metals are most seriously de- ranged. The values of the precious metals are, to some extent, governed by the con- siderations of supply and demand, but not to the extent that obtains in the traffic in other commodities. Gold, in- trinsically, is of little use. There are few economic purposes to which it is applied. Practically the world could get along well enough without it. If it were not for its beauty of color and its exten- sive employment for purposes of orna- ment, for all practical purposes it might be left out of human economy. The entire progress of the human race is largely dependent on iron. Without it our civilization would be put back for thousands of centuries, but the loss of gold would make but little impression on society. But for the curse of gold men would have been more honest in every generation, and as for business they would have adopted some con- venient method to adjust exchanges. Gold to-day has really but little to do with the internal commerce of this vast country. It never appears in ordinary business. When we come to consider the value of gold in reference to the cost of pro- duction, no estimates are of any real reliability. Gold, from the earliest times, has been the prey of every robber nation. No matter who dug it out of the earth, other nations never ceased to make war on those which possessed the yellow metal for the express purpose of taking it by force, and, consequently, it has al- ways been the case that the strongest nation has the most gold. Interminable and destructive wars, accompanied by every horror and atrocity that the human race can suffer, have been the price of gold. There is not an ounce of it that bas not cost its weight in human blood and human sweat. It is the one inani- mate material thing that has the power to convert men into devils. All the slavery in the world is justly chargeable to gold. The Spanish con- querors of America, after destroying the lives of millions (the number is esti- mated to be 30,000,000) of American natives in searching for gold, imported negroes from Africa to work in the mines. But for this there would have been no slaves in America. Elaborate efforts were made to determine the cost of the gold mined in California and Australia, the first mines ever worked by free labor. The estimate for California is that every dollar of gold gathered there cost five. When we consider the privations ana | sufferings of the men who went to Cali- fornia in the early times, the actual cost of gold was much greater than five for one. In Australia the commissioners who attempted to ascertain the cost of producing gold officially declared that every ounce of the metal there had been mined at a decided loss. But if gold has only a fictitious value in reality, it has been made the standard of worth by the money lenders, who dic- tate to all the debtor nations. It has pleased them to require that their debtors shall pay gold, and that fixes the law. Gold is the standard of value and will be until some universal socialistie revolu- tion shall destroy the worid’s financial system and wipe out all national debts. Silver has become relatively plentiful and has fallen into disesteem. Nothing but a revolt against the world’s money lenders can restore silver to its old rela- tions to gold. FRANK STOWELL. —— i Strictly Fresh Eggs. From the Chicago Produce Trade Reporter. Itis often a matter of surprise to some people in large cities who are willing to pay almost any price for a good article, that more attention has not been paid to the egg trade for table use during the midwinter months. The prices obtain- able by the family grocers during the months of November, December, Janu- ary and February for new-laid eggs ex- tend from 40 to 60 cents per dozen, and they are not always procurable at the higher price. There is no reason why, under proper conditions and surroundings—shelter, food, ete.—hens may not lay during these months. Those who have entered into the business in the neighborhood of Montreal are reaping handsome profits from it, and anyone who is anxious to make money may, with the outlay of a very small capital, begin this profitable business for himself. The leading gro- cers brand all their boxes ‘*New-laid Eggs,’’ with instructions to the custom- er to ‘‘Keep this slip and return at once, if the eggs are not strictly fresh.” The supply during the present month is the smallest for years. There is too little care given by farmers and others who supply eggs for shipment to the gathering of them in order to secure the best possible results. Eggs, other than those we have specified above, and sold for purposes of mixed dishes, omelets, ete., are not in demand by consumer or retailer; the low price obtainable for them renders them of little value to the eountry suppliers. | nmin ~~ > <> Tne Careless Clerk. From the Dry Goods Gazette. There are some employes in stores OUR SPRING LINE is now in the market, and, as we are informed, confirms the high reputation the senior member of our firm has earned for himself, that for elegance, style, fit, make-up and lowness in price he stands unequalled—a thorough, practical clothing manufacturer, established thirty-six years in the city of Rochester, N. Y. William Connor, our representative in Michigan, whose address is Box 346, Marshall, Mich., will gladly call upon you if you will honor him with a line to show you our samples, and buy or not buy, we will thank you for the honor of inspection. The mail orders we are constantly re- ceiving, especially for our elegant fitting Prince Albert coats and vests, are marvelous. Those merchants contemplating putting in ready-made clothing this spring will best consult their interests by sending for Wm. Connor, who put in four new lines for customers this last fall and will gladly give them as references. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y¥. Why have the sales in- creased 25 per cent. dur- ing the past year on ilverSoap Manufactured by THE THOMPSON & CHUTE SOAP CO. TOLEDO, OHIO. FIRsT.—High Grade of Quality! SECON®,—Its moderate Cost! THIRD.—The Successful Line of Adyertising Matter giveneery Merchant who handles it! Send your order to any Wholesale Grocer or direct to the factory for prompt shipment. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL CSE GUNFEGTIONERY. l'THERE’S MONEY IN IT PROVIDING YOU BUY THE BEST AND AT THE LOWEST FIGURE. OUR TRADE !S BOOMING, WHICH IS PROOF THAT who, though not really dishonest, are | pip TRADE THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN AND ADJOINING STATES KNOW equally dangerous to merchants. are the careless ones. not actually steal, still they are as crim- | inalas the thief. The losses incurred | through the carelessness of employes | often escape notice, for it is a species of viciousness the results of which are not always apparent. Yet the merchant suf- fers, all the same. Perhaps we are wrong in deeming this trait vicious. At worst it is a deplorable weakness of character, often not latent, but acquired by an unwise training. For the posses- sion of this drawback in character, peo- ple invariably have to lay the blame with those on whom their early training depended. The boy who learns his ear- ly lessons from the man who conducts his business in a slipshod or haphazard manner cannot help possessing a disre- gard of order in his later years. Habits are easily acquired, but it is wofully hard to rid oneself of them, especially if they are bad habits. The clerk who is careless in even the most trivial things never will be success- ful. Business, like life, is a series of in- cidents; on the attendance to each item depends the success of the whole. The man who shirks, disregards or ignores trifles will be unsuccessful in the main, for great things are but an aggregation of little things. Those | FROm WHOM ‘TO BUY. Though they will | piRsT-CLASS GOODS AND EXECUTE ORDERS PROMPTLY. WE MANUFACTURE A COMPLETE LINE: OF THE PUTNAM CANDY C0. P. STBKETER & SONS, AVE A WELL ASSORTED LINE OF Windsor and Scotch Caps FROM $2.25 PER DOZ. UP, ALSO A FULL LINE OF LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S oes, Mitts and Mutflers HANDKERCHIEFS, WINDSOR TIES, GENT’S SCARFS, AND A FRESH STOCK OF Dolls, and Christmas Novelties for Holiday Trade. THE STORE LOAFER. An American Institution Decidedly a | Nuisance and of No Benefit to Anyone. Fred Woodrow in Age of Steel. The store loafer is a distinctly Ameri- | ean institution. His shingle hangs out | in every country. Times or seasons | make no change in his habits. You find | him in summer ventilating his person | and opinions astride a barrel or in spinal | proximity to the surface of a dry goods! box. In winter he is only visible when! mud or snow blockades the road, but | where a rabbit can walk or a squirrel | escape interment, the foot of the loafer, | after finding its sock, approaches the | village store. Here he whittles and ro- | tates tobacco, evaporates what little| steam is left in his anatomy and adds} the alleged knowledge of his neighbors’ business to what he has forgotten of his duty and his debts. He absorbs caloric from a stove burn- ing another man’s coal, the tobacco he reduces to ash and nicotine is largely gratuitous, while for the corner he oc- cupies he pays no rent, except in spots on the floor and observations made on sugar, beans and politics. It is needless to say that, as his eyes are innocent of a bandage and his ears not blockaded, what he imbibes through both mediums makes him an expert as a social critic and a scandal artist. It is from such gentlemen at ease that 90 per cent. of town gossip finds its in- sidious way; he oscillates from store to store and takes his notes. Under his hat he registers the sale of a stove and the objections raised to the price of a pair of shoes or to the sanitary eondition of last year’s eggs and delin- quent butter. He keeps a census of} customers and old debts, and he has as! accurate a measurement of the village | finances as he has of his own. Of horse trades and missing poultry, | the preacher’s faults, and errors in mail delivery, he is a wholesale warehouse. He enjoys the news as he dves his pipe, and he generally manages to have even a newsboy or a sewing society in the rear when he unloads bis memory and un- corks himself on the publie ear. it is not to be supposed that a man ad- dicted to this kind of pastime has much ambition to wet his own skin with hon- est perspiration. As a rule, he cares more for slicing watermelons than for | cutting wood, and he has a gift of} grumbling when his wife fails to recon- struct the stovepipe or misses connec- tions with the coal house. | In the field or inthe mill he is general- | iy speckled with the same complaint, | wud, as au artist in loafing, work is but a | stern necessity or a thorny path to Sat- | irday nighit. | | In a personal and social sense, the store loafer is nothing less delicate than a public nuisance. Everybody but himself is cognizant of | this three-story fact, and we know of} nothing that can make him so, excepting | conversion or admenitory shoe leather. Few menin business but would rather | tolerate a white-faced hornet than a chronic loafer. It goes without saying that. in lan- | guage and manners, there is no danger | of the store parasite ever being canon- ized as a saint or an educator, his local atmosphere being generaliy redolent with obscene jokes and fragrant socks. It is certainly one of the missing planks in modein reform that store loaf- ing should escape criticism and slow death and be allowed to associate itself with dry goods and groceries, to the hindrance of business and inquiry, to say nothing of the scandal and gossip | that has an artesian well in the wrinkled vest of the lounger. There are but few evils in a country town, excepting a want of sidewalks and sewerage, that, by weight or measure, ean discount the nuisance of store loaf- ing. >_>? - Retail Grocers Taking a Hand in the Combine Business. From the Columbus, Ohio, Journal. There has for some time been a breach between the wholesale and retail grocers in this city, which has, by what the re-| tailers call arbitrary action upon the!cerning the disposition of his property. | part of | men | wholesalers are | pose to embark. | afford. iis not | compete THE MICHIGAN TRADES. MAN. the wholesaiers, become so widened that a reconciliation now seems | impossible. As claimed by the retail boarding house keepers in job lots at little over wholesale prices, thereby shut- ting the retail merchants out of this class of trade to which they claim they are en- titled. The retailers allege also that the combining to control prices in their own favor, and that they are declining to sell, or boycotting, pop- ular brands of goods which, owing to their having become standard articles, are ordinarily sold at small profits, in order to force the retailers to make a market for other brands, upon which the wholesalers and jobbers can make larger profits or are themselves interest- ed as manufacturers. This action, the retailers claim, compels them to go to the manufacturers direct for many ar- ticles, and they have found that by com- bining and buying in large quantities they can save the middlemen’s profits and besides procure at all times the brands of goods which they want and which are the most salable. Several meetings of the retail grocers have been held for the purpose of de- vising some means of protection against this alleged unfair action of the whole- salers. The result is that the retailers have decided to organize a joint stock company, each grocer who goes into the organization to contribute $1,000 to the capital stock, the capital to be double the number of subscribing members. They propose to buy their own goods of all kinds direct from the jobbers and manufacturers from whom the wholesal- ers get them. Thev argue that the per cent. charged them by the local whole- sale men will more than sustain the gi- gantic enterprise into which they pro- Sixty of the leading grocers have subscribed $1,000 each to | the capital stock, which gives $60,000 to The capital stock of the or- | start on. ganization will be $150,000 and the re- mainder, it is expected, will be taken by other grocers who wil! want the protec- tion which the combination will Subscribers will not be lim- ited to this city. but will embrace re- tailers in every section which can economically draw its supplies from | Columbus. itis stated that combinations of this kind have been effected in other states and have been immensely suecessful. It unusual for a wholesale house, | with no larger trade than is required to supply a combination of 100 retail gro- cers, to make a profit of $50,000 to $75.- 000 a year. Tothis the retailers made no objection so long asthe wholesalers supplied them with such goods as their trade demanded, and did not attempt to interfere with their legitimate customers. | If. however, they argue, they are com- pelled to send to the manufacturers for some brands of goods which the whole- salers are trying to boycott, and also with them for trade with the consumer, they might as well enter in- to competition ali along the line. Those most enthusiastic in the movement favor it as a money-making scheme, as well as one of protection against all sorts of pools and combinations. Property has been procured southwest corner of Third and at the Main streets for the erection of a large jobbing | | house for the reception and distribution of goods. The reporter was informed that the organization would be complete in a few days, and that the company would be in full operation shortly there- ;after, with temporary quarters some- where until they could erect their own building. 2 < ‘Beniey Sarcasms. The best dressed man is the man who | wears clothes that are paid for by honest labor. There is It is not much in a name. generally the Bank of Fidelity that fails | to return money to depositors. it is impossible for a millionaire to make a will to suit the thousand and one | people who have plans of their own con- the wholesale grocers have been | ‘selling goods to restauranters, hotel and RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO., 13, 14. t6 Peari St., Manufacturers and Jobbers of BOOS & Shoes Spring lines now read for inspection Would be pleased te show them, Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. FALCON No. 1—Gentlemen’s ae Wheel, FALCON ESS—Ladies’ Road Whee All fitted with Pneumatic Tires. WRITE FOR FALCON JR.—Boys’ and Girls’ toad Wheel, Finest Ste’ 1 material. CATALOGUE. THE YOST MANUFACTURING CO.,, YOST’S STATION, $115 00 100.00 50.00 Hest workmanship. TOLEDO, OHIO. We have made and will handle the FLORIDA URANGKS. arrangements to receive regular shipments direct from the groves and shall be in a position to make close prices. exclusive agency of the favorite ‘‘Sampson” brand Bell’? brand will be packed in extra large boxes and every orange will be wrapped in printed tissue. PUTNAM CANDY CO. We have the largely, which Govpon Books Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in tbe Courtry and Save Money. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids Our Motte: it New Styles.” WE CARRY a full live 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. } STUDLEY & BARCLAY. 4 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We Lead in Reduced Prices, ee - So | nn roo er, Le 7 " ote ' eit? « &ae 1 ~~ - | { — ms um 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 18 Gripsack Brigade. Geo. Amiotte, traveling representative for Snyder & Straube, the Muskegon zonfectionery house, was recently mar- ried to Miss Hattie Flaggert. G. R. Paris, who has acted as office assistant for the Owosso Casket Works for five years past, has engaged to travel for the Kalamazoo Casket Co. R. B. Orr, who was the first man to carry a carpet sweeper out of Grand Rapids as a regular salesman, having gone on the road in 1878 for the late M. R. Bissell, is now on the road for the Goshen Sweeper Co. Kendall W. Hess, who has traveled through the South the past eighteen months for the Filer & Stowell Co., of Milwaukee, has resigned his position to embark in the machinery supply busi- ness at New Orleans. THE TRADESMAN has now in prepar- ation its tenth annual list of the travel- ing men of Grand Rapids, divided, as usual into two classes—those who repre- sent Grand Rapids houses and those who represent outside houses. Any informa- tion tending to render the list more com- plete will be thankfully received. During the seventeen years of istence, only one death claim has not been paid by the Michi- gan Commercial Travelers’ Associ- ation—and that because no beneficiary of the deceased has ever been found. The $2,500 is not included in the re- ported assets of the organization, as it has been placed in a special deposit. pay- able to the heirs of the late C. D. Herrick, in case they ever turn up. The annual convention of the Michi- gan Knights of the Grip, which was held at Detroit last Tuesday and Wednesday, was largely attended. The report of the Secretary showed an increase in the membership during the year from 336 to 1,463 and abalance of $110.23 in the treasury. The reports of the committees and vice-presidents were excellent in character and were well received. Elec- tion of officers resulted as _ follows: President, N. B. Jones, Lansing; Secre- tary, J. L. McCauley, Detroit; Treasurer, Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw; Board of Directors, A.C. Northrop, Jackson; J. A. Gonzales, Grand Rapids, for three years; C. E. Cook, Bay City; George E. Bardeen, Kalamazoo, for two years, and E. P. Waldron, St. Johns, and George DeForest, of Detroit, for one year. Robert E. Frazier to the Michigan Knights of the Grip: ‘You, gentlemen, are a very strong and active factor in civilization. You are the lifeblood that flows through the arteries of business. In business you are the active and chief exponents. Traveling men are every- where at all times, like the Great Cre- ator, sumper ubitque. I give it to you in Latin because you will all understand it. (Loud laughter). In the vernacular, lL am told, it means, ‘always everywhere.’ I never met a traveler in my life whom I would call a modest man. Heis an ani- mal of various acquirements; he will tell you the best hotel to stay at; he is a di- gest of time tables; he will tell you of the latest prima donna and of the best preacher in every town he visits. While on the road he will play with you a game of pedro; and I am informed that a num- ber of them here would not turn their backs on a game of draw. To the tender- foot I would say ‘‘follow the traveler and you will land in Heaven, if there is a Heaven anywhere.’” (Loud laughter) its ex- The eighteenth annual meeting of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Asso- ciation was held at Detroit last Friday. D. Morris, Secretary-Treasurer, reported amembership of 562 and a balance of $13,751.71 in the treasury. Election of officers resulted as follows: President, John McLean, Detroit; Vice-Presidents, W. H. Baier, Detroit; Hubbard Baker, Grand Rapids; W. F. Ninneman, Muske- gon; F. H. Bowen, Jackson, and George Crawford, Big Rapids; Board of Trustees, Samuel Rindskoff, J. L. McCauley and T. J. Chamberlin, all of Detroit; Trustees of the Reserve Fund, Eugene Baffey, J. W. Ailes and John A. Murray, all of De- troit. An amendment to the constitu- tion was submitted by Mr. McLean and unanimously adopted, which adds to the eligible membership proprietors, book- keepers, managers and superintendents of legitimate manufacturing and whole- sale concerns, in addition to the travel- ing men and buyers, who were heretofore the only men eligible to membership. Under this arrangement, President Mc- Lean confidently predicts an increase of the membership to 1,000 by the date of the next annual meeting. Chas. G. MelIntyre, son of the late John H. McIntyre, was born in this city Aug. 28, 1866, and attended the ward and grammar schools on the West Side. In 1882 he entered the employ of E. S. Pierce as clothing salesman, remaining there a year, when he transferred his allegiance to Scott & Williams. On the failure of that firm, three years later, he went behind the counter for Houseman, Donnally & Jones, with whom he re- mained three years. He then affiliated with the new wholesale dry goods and notion house of F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co., which was subsequently changed to F. A. Wurzburg & Co. During a two years’ service with this house, he put in six months for Wm. Taylor, Son & Co., Cleveland. He then traveled a few months for J. Steinfeld, jobber of cloth- ing and men’s furnishing goods at Cleve- land, when he engaged to go on the road for Swartout & Downs, with whom he has just engaged to travel during 1893. His territory includes allthe good towns in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula north of the F. & P. M. Rail- way, and he manages to call on his trade every five weeks. Mr. McIntyre was married Aug. 29, 1887, to Miss Carrie E. Tracy and two little daughters complete the family circle at 79 Clancy street. Mr. McIntyre is young and energetic and has many years of usefulness ahead of him. tt The Drug Market. Quinine is steady and unchanged. Opium remains easy but is a little firmer abroad. American saffron is very scarce and has doubled in value. Gum tragacanth continues to advance and higher prices will rule. The National Lead Co. has reduced its price 44 cent. Chlorate of potash has advanced. Caster oil is higher. a tp Purely Personal. Frank A. Stone has returned from England and resumes his former posi- tion with H. Leonard & Sons in the course of a day or two. N. B. Blain, the Lowell dry goods dealer, was in town one day last week, brightening the offices of his friends with his sunny presence. | )o You Want a Gut of ee © Your dtore Building? For use on your Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Etc.? We ean furnish you with a double column cut similar to above For $10. Or asingle column cut, like the above for $6. In either case we should have clear photograph to work from. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS. 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. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Next meeting—Saginaw, Jan. 11. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. 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. Local Secretary—James Vernor. . 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, A New Scheme to Draw Trade. Written for THz TRADESMAN. History repeats itself. All movements are cyclical. Business tactics, every- where, and at all times, are nothing more nor less than a perpetually recur- ring series of these cyclical movements. This is an advertising age. To catch the eye and ear of the fickle, gullible public is the great desideratum. Novelty fol- lows novelty, and each completes a cir- cuit on an orbit of itsown. The ingenu- ity of man is so nearly exhausted in sup- plying this ever-increasing demand for novelty that it has come to pass that the man who can invent the biggest adver- tising lie is supposed to make the biggest haul of ‘‘suckers.” Men pay big money for trade-drawing novelties, and the de- mand was never greater than at the pres- ent moment. A long time ago there lived a man who said, ‘‘ ‘Honesty is the best policy’ on which to run a_ business;’’ but, after a while, the people got tired of it and de- manded achange. This so grieved the old man that he took passage on Biela’s comet and went off on an extended trip through the universe. Generations have died off since the old man took his de- parture from earth, and, of course, no one now living ever saw him. No won- der that, when our wise men announced, ashort time ago, that this old comet, with her solitary passenger, was ap- proaching the earth, the people became excited. No wonder that every old tele- scope was brought down from the garret and denuded of its cobwebs and dust; and that the people gathered in groups and stood out in the frosty night air and breathlessly watched fer just one poor dim glimpse of an honest man. But they were doomed to bitter disappoint- ment. When the old man saw the true condition of things on earth, he said it was no use and told Biela to turn the comet around before the people on earth should have a chance to catch a glimpse of it, and then make for some more friendly port. It is very doubtful if this generation will ever come so near seeing areal, genuine honest man. But, seriously, I believe that the times are ripe for a few retailers to make a big scoop by adopting this homely old-fash- ioned policy. Don’t laugh, gentle read- er—I actually mean it. You say that there is no such thing as an honest man any more, and that I’m only talking through my hat. Wait, please, and give me achance io explain my scheme. I know, just “as well as you do, that our brilliant age has outgrown such old fogy notions as ‘‘Honesty is the best pol- icy,’’ and I know, too, just as well as you do, that the last honest man was starved to death ever so long ago; and that is the very reason I present my scheme. The man whocan hit upon a novelty that was never heard of by his customers, and one which he can monopolize in his own town without fear of competition from any of his rivals in trade, is ‘‘cock of the walk” to-day. This is just the very thing for which every wide-awake retailer is striving. To no longer keep you in the dark, I will explain: As a novelty, there is noth- ing on earth to-day that will beat honesty. Any man who will adopt itas a policy can build up asure and lucrative busi- ness. It used to be said that honest men could not make a success as mer- chants. That was true at that time. There were too many honest men in the business, and, consequently, competition was too brisk to make success possible. Times have changed, however, and now itecan beas truthfully said that the oth- er fellows cannot make a success of it, and for the same reason. The retailer who will adopt honesty as a business policy and a trade-drawing novelty need never lose any sleep through fear of competition. There would not be an iota of danger of his competi- tors breaking their necks in a wild scramble to steal away his increased trade by adopting his policy; he would have it all his own way—there is not the least doubt about it. His competitors for ten miles around him would keep right on trying to fool the people as they now do, by false advertising and decep- tive representations. They would keep right on hatching out little lottery and prize gift schemes, and devising tricks and inventing novelties, all for the pur- pose of humbugging the dear people and making them believe that they are get- ting something for nothing. No, the honesty policy retailer would have nothing to fear from his competi- tors. He would have ‘‘a soft snap” and his success would be assured from the start. Why, if it should get out once that there was a real flesh and blood hon- est retailer of merchandise in actual busi- ness somewhere, the people would find him if they had to search for him through the attics, basements and back alleys of the entire city. Of course, it is generally understood that the people are fools; yet they have sense enough left to recognize a falsehood, whether it be presented in the form of an adver- tisement, a misleading statement, a de- ceptive representation or a square-toed, flat-footed lie. They still have enough sense to distinguish between right and wrong, and they have good dollars for the retailer who will treat them right. This novelty of which I speak differs from the popular ones in common use in that it takes months—aye years—to realize its advantages as a drawing card; but when they are once practically gained, all the commercial convulsions in Christendom cannot destroy them. They are constant and permanent, and, so long as the policy is strictly ad- hered to, there will be no lack of cus- tomers. Dear reader, if you are about to be- come a retail merchant, with the inten- tion of remaining one the balance of your life, or until you are able to retire successfully, and especially if you de- sire to accomplish your work in one cer- tain place, then adopt this now new pol- icy of honesty if you can. I say if you can, for, if you lack the long-suffering required in laying your foundation, and the sterling, uncompromising traits of character which are absolutely neces- sary, you had better not undertake it, you would surely fail. You see, I ad- dress you as one about to enter the mer- cantile business. I do this because the chances are that, if you are already in business, you have already established a record that would forever disqualify you from making a success of the policy I advocate. Now, as toa few simple instructions, and thenI will leave the matter with you for careful consideration. In the first place, decide upon a strictly one- price, spot-cash basis. Don’t say that a spot-cash basis is impossible I know better—it is possible. Adopt your rules and regulations in the start, and then never deviate from them for friend or foe. Show no partiality in your place of business, but treat with the same attention and courtesy all who enter. Answer every question asked by a customer, and in which the customer is concerned, promptly and truthfully, and never, under any circumstances, whatever, defraud, deceive, mislead, ca- jole, banter or humbug him in any busi- ness transaction. Never tell a lie. (If your constitution can’t stand the strain, steal away quietly and lie to your mother-in-law till you are black in the face, but never lie to a customer.) If you can’t sell your shoddy without call- ing it something else, then don’t sell it. Burn it up, if need be, but never tell a lie about it. If your customer asks you for a genuine calfskin shoe worth about $2, tell him you haven’t such a thing. Show him your veals and buffs and ex- plain the difference to him. Of course, he will not believe you and will go some- where else and pay $2.50 for the same thing. You see he is so used to paying merchants for lying to him that it will take him some time to get overit. Don’t get discouraged. The poor fellow will learn, after a while, that he can buy his shoes of you without being compelled to pay a little extra for a lie thrown in. He will learn, first, that his money will not tempt you to lie; second, that he can get along just as well without being lied to. If your customer asks for pure cider vinegar, tell him you haven’t it. Of course, he will go somewhere else and buy, but sometime he will learn that it eame out of a barrel just like yours. Never abuse a customer for doubting your word and going to another store to make his purchase. Remember how he has been educated and, when he goes away, pity him; if you are of a religious turn of mind, pray that he may be speed- ily delivered from his enemies. Follow these instructions and ‘‘keep a stiff up- per lip,’? and, sooner or later, you will come out on top as sure as fate. E. A. OWEN. a A Paper Match. A Swedish engineer named Frederick- son, after several years of study and ex- periment, has produced an ingenious substitute for the ordinary match. His invention is a paper match, described as resembling in its general construction the coiled tape measure used by tailors. The coil in this instance is a roll of par- affined paper inclosed in a metalic case, one end of the paper projecting after the fashion of the tape measure, and at reg- ular intervals on the paper are small points covered with an igniting sub- stance. One has only to give the end of the paper a smart pull, bringing the igniting point in contact with a small steel plate, and a light is struck which burns slowly and evenly. When the roll is exhausted a fresh one can be in- serted in its place. Twenty men and eighty boys can make, it is said, a mil- lion of these matches in an hour, and it is confidently claimed that this useful and not very costly appliance of civiliza- tion will be both cheapened and simpli- fied by the new invention. a The Dog Ate the Money. An Italian laborer of Detroit was paid some money the other day, $23 in all, and took it home to his wife. After count- ing the money over together they laid it on the table for a moment while they ad- journed to the corner grocery to celebrate their wealth. Returning in a few min- utes, they found the money gone. There was nobody in the house but a mangy yellow cur, and after looking high and low for the funds they concluded that he must have stolen them, especially as on examination they found a bit of green paper adhering to his teeth. According- ly the dog was sacrificed and a post mortem held on his remains, with the re- sult that all the money was found in his stomach. It was torn into pieces, but these were carefully fitted together and forwarded through a bank to the treas- ury for redemption. T. H. NEVIN CO.’S Swiss Villa Mixed Paints Have been used for over ten years. Have in all cases given satisfaction. Are unequalled for durability, elasticity and beauty of finish. We carry a ful! stock of this well known brand mixed paints. Send for sample card and prices. Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co., STATE AGENTS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. La Grippe may catch but cannot overcome those protected by frequent use of GUSHMAN'S Menthol Inhaler. It destroys the microbes lodged on the mucous membranes and arrests progress of the disease. Recommend it to your customers for colds, sore throat, catarrh, headache and neuralgia. Show them the inhaler, they will appreciate it by buying one at 50 cents. Attractive Advertising. Druggists sending me order for one dozen Inhalers at $3.75 to be shipped by their jobber will receive, by mail prepaid, 250 Japanese napkins with their name inserted in the advertisement therein, also cards and circulars if desired. Order early so as to receive the Inhalers in time for the demand. H. D. CUSHMAN, Three Rivers, Mich. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. ‘Address PEK BROS., "cists Brsipis GRAND RAPIDS Empress Josephine Face Bleach Is the only reliable cure for freckles and pimples. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO., GRAND Rapips, MIicu., Jobbers for Western Michigan. FREE TO F.A.M. A Colorcd Engraving of Chinese Masons at work, also, large Catalogue of Masonic books and goods with bottom prices. New Lilustrated His- tory of Freemasonry for Agents. Beware of urious Masonic books. REDDING thes & CO.. Pubiishers and Manufacturers of nic Goods, 731 Broadway. New York, Maso: ae ww «a < { THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Saffron, gum tragacanth, chlorate potash, castor oil. Declined —White Lead. ACIDUM, Acoeewm ..... |... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 a an Carporeum . ........ Be Crp toum ............. 50@ 52 yarechior ........... Se Ss Po 10@ 12 Ceetienee ............. 10@ 12 Phosphorium dil...... 20 Salevucum ........... 1 30@1 7 Salpouricum.......... 14@ 5 eee ae 1 40@1 60 Wartercum........... 30@ 33 AMMONIA. Aqua, | oe.........- 34@ 5 - G@ee.......... “an z nie Soya eeeeges 14 Chlomiawn ....,....... 12 14 ANILINE. iii cee eens 2 OO@2 25 ee 80@1 00 Mee... .-. oo oo Wollow ...............-2 S0@iS BACCAE. Cubeae (po 60)...... 50e@ 60 aroers ......--..... 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum......... %@ W BALSAMUM. Copeiba ............... 45@ 50 ee @1 30 Terabin, Canada ..... 45@ 50 Was... .........- 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.... ......- 18 —— il Cinchona Flava ............ 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Prunus Virgini.............. 12 Quillaia, grd..............-- 10 ook oe ae ioe coe 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 EXTRACTUM. hi Glabra... 4@ — aa RR 3@ = atox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12 —— . . 3@ 14 a 14@ 15 _ s......... 16@ 17 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. @ 50 Solut Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, com’l....... 9@ 2 " pure eo t FLORA. Avedes ............-+-- 18@ 20 Autperes ............- %@ 35 Maticare = wen es 40@ 50 FOLIA Barosm ; 40@1 00 Genta *scuiifol, “Tin- nivelly Wecees asa cees 25@ 28 ae 35@ 50 lvi oftctnalts, _ a 1b@ 25 Ura Ural. De ge eae eee 8@ @UMMI. icked.... 75 “eS” CUR “ “ aC @ 40 ei = —- @ B Aloe Barb, (po. 60) . “’ Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12 Socotri, (po. 60) . @ Ww Catechu, 18, (48, 14 48, e1 . .. | Ammoniee ............ 55@ 60 i aaae. (po. 35).. WO 35 a aee..........-- HKD 55 Camphors®.. -re-.- 55@ 58 Eu horbium po. —“ 35@ 10 Galbanum. .........-. i @2 50 Gamboge, po. + oo @ Guaiacum, (po 30) ne @ % Kino, (po 50)......... @ 4 Mastic ... os @ we oe (po 45). a @ 4 Opii, (po 2 80). .-2 00@2 10 I ok on ce nce 25Q 35 - bleached..... 30@ 35 ‘Tregacanth ........... 40@1 00 HERBA—In ounce packages. Absinthium ................. 25 Bupatorium ................. 20 Lobelia..............-..--0-- 25 Majorum ...............-.... 28 Mentha oo ee eee 38 Ru 1 Pe ackeenlened am 30 Temeeres, ¥............... 22 Thymus, ee ee A 25 MAGNESIA. Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat........ 20@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM, Abeingnigm. ......... 50@4 00 Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 45@ 7 Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@S 25 nisi Auranti Cortex.. Berga: pte eae oe a MN ices cease ays Ghanepeai . Cinnamonii . Citronella... Co mil .............3 25@3 50 ; 5 Caneeae............. - @40 Exechthitos.......... 2 50@2 75 Co E 2 25@2 50 Gaultheria ...... -2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce. @ %& Gossipii, Sem. gal 60@ 75 Hedeoma aes 2 25@2 50 Juniperi 50@2 00 Lavendula 90@2 00 Limonis . 2 50@3 vo Mentha Piper. 2 75@3 I Mentha Verid. 2 20@2 30 Morrhuae, gal. 1 no, 10 a ounce. Picis sLigiutda, (ea. 35) i, ie Rici 18@1 24 eeaial See ee 1 el 00 Rosae, ounce......... 6 50@8 50 En 45 RIN le 90@1 00 PORE 4... 6c... 3 — 00 Sassafras...... 55 Sina > ess, ounce. “—_ 65 aie. @ 9 hyme Side eee seca a 40@ 50 : om ....... @ 60 THOODTOMIAS......<.... 15@ 2 POTASSIUM. Di Care... 18 Bichromate ... he 14 Bromide..... . 35 (—<.................... Be Chlorate (po 22@24).. 22@ 24 Cyanide ............... 50@ 55 tee. ............. 2 90@3 00 Potassa, Bitart, =_— 27@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com.. @ 15 Petass Nitras, opt eee 8@ 10 Potaus Witrag.......... a & oe 28@ 30 Sulphate po..........- 15@ 18 RADIX. APooree 25 a 22Q@ 25 BmOntee .......... 1... 12@ 15 Arn pe... .......... @ 2 ae... 2 40 Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 Glychrrhiza, (pv. .. te a Canaden, o. oor... @ 30 Hellebore, Ala, po.... = 20 Inul a - eee. 15@ 2 Ipecac. o6.._..........- 2 30@2 40 Iris et (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 Jere pe........... 50@ 55 Marans, Ws.......... @ 3 — oO... 2. 15@ 18 ea 75@1 00 ~~ _ oe cree cee ee @1 7: >. _ 75@1 35 Sores .............. 35@ 38 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ @ SOrpentarea.........,.. 30@ 32 BOMeO nw. 8.8. ow 65@ 10 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 . M @ 2% Seilias, (pe, %)........ 10@ 12 Syepincerpan, Feti- es @ 3 Valeriaue, Eng. (po. 80) @ German... 15@ 20 ingiber @........ 1. ne 20 Zingiper j.......... 18@ 2 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 — (graveleons).. 12@ 15 i 4@ 6 Carus, Ge. 18)......... 8@ 12 Cardemon eet dereeces 1 bes = Corlandrum.,.......... 10@ Cannabis Sativa....... 3% a POON ce 75@Qi 00 Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 Foentculum pes tee ae @ 15 Foenugresk, po.. 6 8 in ........... 4@4% Lini, . (bbl. 6) | -4 @4% ee eee 35@ 40 “gue ain aan ace -6 @&% ae a 7 sinapis Alpe... 11 @13 Nigra........ 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W...D. wie -2 00@2 50 D. F. R.....1 75@2 00 La ee wee oe 1 25@1 50 Juntperts Co. O. T....1 65@2 00 lesen. 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@z2 00 Spt. Vin Gall........ 1 75@6 50 Vin Oporto ..........- 1 25@2 00 Vint Alba............-. 1 2@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool Onrviege. ..... 4.5... 2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool carriage Velvet extra sheeps” wool Carriage....... 1 10 Extra — ae Carrer .........., 85 = mah wool car- “ Hard: Sas slate use. vis) Yellow Reef, for slate a 1 40 SYRUPS. Borers ........ 50 50 60 50 50 50 60 50 50 50 50 50 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis : ne < CO Atrope Belladonna. . sa Benzoin Behe e eee oats eee Ce. Since Pass pee eee ues oom es Cousnersies.... Copeeoem ................... Ca Gene... ..........,.. %5 Columba . Conium ... Suenee.............. See Pyoscvame...........,.... ie. ney Colariess — Ciiouiaum............ SSSSSSSSSSS SSRSSSSRAARST eC ORION... 2.1... meee... aoe ee... Cassia Acutifol. . enineignias fous. Lee Serre eee... Vora... Veratrum Veride............ MISCELLANEOUS. Ather, Spts =a 7 28@ 30 : -- oa 2 A 24@ 3 . ground, (po. cee 3@ 4 Aneeie... 55@ 60 Antimont, me... <— 6 et Potass T. 55@ 60 —— oo @1 40 PorCRrIe............. @ 6 Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60 AtHCHICOM ........ 2... Sm 7 Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40 Bismuth & N......... 2 W@2 26 — Gnix, 1s, (48 se @ il caninsriaes Russian, eee ese aya css @1 00 capste Fructus, af... @ % @ 2% it ‘“ @ 20 Caryophyllus, (po. Po) 10@ 15 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Cera Alba, a ar..... 50@ 55 Ocra Piava............ 3@ 40 Coceus .............., @ 4 Cenain 2 gga Leese. @ 2 Comer... @ 10 Catecou ee @ W Chioratorm .......... 60@ 63 a @1 25 Chloral Hyd = epee i 351 60 CEOnGrue ............. We 2 Cinchonidine, PR&W IQ WD German 3 @ 12 —_ list, dis. per eo. en 60 oaunias @ 35 Creta, Bs 7) oo 2 eae 5@ 5 . precip. . ce 9@ 11 . meee @ 8 Creme oo... |... 60@ 65 Creer... ........... @xz Capri Sulph........... 5@ 6 eeeriee.............. 10@ 12 a W@ 7 eo a" @ ‘ @ aon ) i 15 eel eS cca a. @ Gambier. Oe eee oes un @8 atin jooper.. 70 «"Prench....... ot 0@ Glaseware flint, by box 70 & 10, Less than box 6635 nt: ee Liquor Potass Arsinitis 1 Magnesia, Sulph (bbl Gine, Browm.......... 9@ 1 ~ | Wess... 8... 13Q@ 2 Giveering .. 3... ..... 15%@ 2 Grana Paradisi........ @ RR eee 2%@ 55 Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ Cor. @ 80 e Ox Rubrum @ 9 i Ammoniati @i 00 hi Unguentum. 45@ 55 Hydrargyrum @ 64 Tehthyobolla, 25@1 50 Le 75@1 00 Iodine, Resubl 80@3 90 Iodoform.... @4 70 Eupulin ..... 20@1 25 Lycopodium 60@ 65 ee 15@ 80 Liquor a et Hy- 27 12 1 Mannia, 8. F.......... OQ Ba Morphia, S. P. & W...1 70@1 95] Seidlitz Mixture...... @ Ww ie om. ¥. Oe Sinapis Se oe @ 18 _ SS ee 1 69@1 85 — a @ Ww Moschus Canton...... @ 40| Snuff, Maccaboy, De Myristica, No. t....... 65@ Wace cg @ 3% Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35 On Sen... 20@ 22] Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11 Pe a Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 eee Ci hedaCarh............ Keg & Ptels Liq, N..C., % gal Soda, bi-Carb......... @ & Dee aes @2 00 _ -........... ee « Picis Lig., quarts ..... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 yeaes....... @ 8 | Spts. EtherCo........ 50@ 55 Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50 ~ myrem Dom..... @2 25 Piper _— (po. =). @ 1 * Myreia fap... .. @3 00 ge Mo ba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 . - Rect. bbl. Pix Burgun........... ee 2 55@2 65 Prom Aeet.......... 14@ 15 mn 5¢ gal., cash ten — Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia oe ae rng 45 Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, ‘nn dal cuales %@ 3% &F.D. Co, dos..... Oe a See 246 3 ‘amarin - etme coe cues 8@ 10 Pyrethrum, pv... “11: 53@ 3 | terebenth Venice... 28@ 30 uinia, S. P. & W..... 27@ 32 — eee 40 @ 4 “cc Ss. German... .20 @ 30 eee evceseceees a Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 Zine! ‘Suiph i@ Saccharum Lactispvy. 23@ 25 Cae, 1 76@1 80 OILS. Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal Sapo, ay... 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 70 ql - ee... 10) 12) Lard, oxtra........... 76 80 YG @ ii lard, Ne 1........... 2 48 Linseed, pureraw.... 49 52 Lindseed, boiled .... 52 55 Neat’s Foot, winter eer ........... : 60 SpiritsTurpentine.... 36 40 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. mea Vonetian.......... 1% 2@38 Ochre, yellow Dogg 7 2@4 Ber...... 1% 2@3 Putty, commercial....2% 24%@3 * atrictl are. .... 2% 2% @3 Vermilion Prime Amer- an... 13@16 Vorutiiea, English. . 65@7 Green, Peninsular Lae 70@i5 beaa, 1G... |... 6%@7 . Wake ........... . 64G7 Whiting, white Span. @70 Whiting, Gilders’...... @% White, Paris American i ¢ Whiting, Paris Eng. cHf . 1 4@ Pioneer Prepared Paintl 2@184 Swiss Villa — Pees... 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES, No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 2 Rye Vue... — 70 Coaen Body........... 75Q@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furn...... : 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 T0@75 HAMEL TINE & PERKINS DRUG Importers and Jobbers Ul. of DRUGS CHEMICALS A ND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils “= Varnishes, SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Drnggists’ Sindries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HAZELTINE & PERKINS Send a trial order: DRUG GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY FRMicle CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, a It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than s it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE —— oz gross aa... ee 6 00 ee 75 90 .......... 50 5 50 ge 8) 9 00 eee 8 % 8 00 reregon .. ...-.... 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. ig Ib. cans, 3 doz....... ..-. 45 ee ee — 1 60 10 Fosfon. 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. 80 =" -.2 00 Dr. Price's. per doz Dime cans 90 4-02 33 6§-0z i 1 90 8-0z 2 Ros * 3 75 So 6 U6”™6CUCC b> * ie 4-lb 18 25 5-lb * oe 10-lb ' oo Red Star, is b cans......-. > 4 on 1 50 Telfer’ 8, % Ib. cans, doz. 45 % Ib. _ -— - * ib: aig 1. BATH BRICK. 2 masse in case. English . _.-- = Bristol. . a Domestic... a. 70 BLUING, Gross Arctic, 4 - 4 ? . = round... oe "10 50 _ sifting —_—- _23 - =e 400 “ No. 5, . 2 ~- Teco ........... © BROOMS, No. 2 Hurl ee pa 1% ss - ................ 2 00 No. 2 Carpet. ee No. 1 ee Pacec Geom. ............ .23 Common Whisk.. 90 —— = ....-..-... 1 15 Warehouse. + oo BRUSHES. Stove, No. . Na 125 ss eee es e ng B. ones 1% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 Rice Root Serub, Srow.... 125 Palmetto, goose............ 1 50 BUCKWHEAT. 100 lb. cases, 2 & 5 1b. pkgs M 50 CANDLES, Hotel, © I. bomes......... 10 Star, 40 ee e 9 eee... ee rr 24 CANNED GOODS, Fish. Clams. Little Neck, : -.. .. 115 --...-........ 90 Clam Chowder. ee 2 00 Cove Oysters. oe ie. 90 ss ee. 70 Lobsters. Star, [oe 2 40 eee cess 3 30 Picnic. eee ee 200 o -........- genet 290 ee ee 105 > c........... 90 Ee 40 Tomato Sauce, ......2 2 40 oe A ee ee cons 2 40 Columbia River, fist a. aoe : 85 ae vt] Alaska, AD. ieee ciebaces 140 ardines. CHOCOLATE. American ss one en 3 : Baker’s. Importe 348......--+++++- 11@12 | German Sweet.. ...... ee .) Be ee 13@16 | Premium.... -.........-.- 37 Muse’ 2rd xs ee 7@8 | Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43 Boneless . ee 20 CHEESE. ce... Cf Oo —————— 124%. @12% Fruits. Bees ee we ps motes Apples. eee... 12%@12% 3 Ib. standard........ — — he cee 9 York State gallons 3 60 Brick. sl GG ag Hamburgh. 2 75| 8 eo a Apricots. — oo = Live oak....... cp el ot aaa aaa Santa Cruz. 2 00 oe... @10 as. 2 00 on = ececceceseces os venene 190) sep Sago Be B 95 | 8 weitzer, imported. @24 r ' domestic .. G@i4 120 CATSUP. Pitted Hamburgh 1% Blue Label Brand. i" oe ee een a aie : 3 | Bi Half pint, 25 bottles. a ooo ee e008 2800 © o00 « Pint hr bil Damsons, Egg Plums and Green | Quart 1 doz aes oo Eri 135 CLOTHES PINS. C Saecia. ei ile 1 70 | 5sross eee ee 40 Gooseberries. COCOA SHELLS. Con... ee Peaches. Less eS . one oon gO 1 39 | Poun packages. a --64@7 Oo 2 00 re oe a 1 85 COFFEE. eee 2 10 ME cle cs, 1 8 — Oxford.......--.+.-. - _ 18 Pears. — sn: 19 Domentic.............. ee eres are 20 Riverside........-...-- a = Pineapples. iad ae a er aM 1 30 canee Johnson's sliced... 2 60 | Fair........---..---. ----+: 18 “ grated _ 2% =: Ls eA le el a i i ih > — -_— ” Raspberries, Mexican and Guatamala a. 1 20 ee ed oe ede ce 21 Black Hambur 1 50 ‘ coring eo gy g.- i= maameee” a = oe 23 Strawberries. Prime ener 19 Sammees ....-........ ean 20 Seeperen ............ a = 2 lta Java. ra eee... ga ema hl ain A cel poesat hd Private Growth............. 27 Whortleberries. es. ............. 28 a 110 Moch 7+... ... 1 15 | Imitation iy 23 mane ™ neces ol Meee ee Corned beef, Libby’ = 1 90 Roasted. Roast beef, Armour's AO 175| To ascertain cost of roasted Potted ham, th. _...1 39 | Coffee, add ec. per Ib. for roast- ‘ ee go | ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- - tone ce......: 1 35} axe. a fa a 85 Package. r chicken, % Ib....... 9% MecLanghlin’s XXXX.. 23.30 Vegetables. = | Bunola.................... 22.80 Beans. non ‘0 or 100 lb. case.... 23.30 es ~~ 12 Extract. : rence — 2 2 weieew City % gross........ %5 Lima oe » -14 e . 3 , om... | > Hummels, foil, gross. cme 1 50 Lewls Beton ake gn = oe - ay cose Bekee.... 1 35 , World’s Fair Baked....... 1 35 CHICORY. ee ‘ai ee........ . a ‘ Corn ae. _7 oe is IS Livingston Eden... 1 20 en ae eee Cotton, Oe ts.-..-.. per doz. 12 Honey oy 150 eons, 1 40 Morn ing ec . SS... 6l6UlUlUlULe a 1 15 e ——...... ss 1% Peas. a a... ss 1 90 Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 35} Jute —...... _ 90 early*June...... o a ...... ' 1 00 ' Champion Eng..1 50 - — _- i CONDENSED MILK, ane Seehed et eet...1 4 doz. in case. Harris standard............. 7 ae. senate atoll gan : : VanC ‘3 marrofat.......1 19 | CtOW2-- ihc leet acess ee es er... 8 00 Archer's Early Blossom. ...1 35 | American Swiss.. ........ 7 00 French. ‘ie -1 80 COUPON BOOKS. eee 15@20 Pumpkin. BN ied cscduie 90 Squash. Eee. 1 20 Succotash. ee EN ee 140 a aaa ee 1 60 Se 13 Tomatoes. ES 106 Excelsior - ‘eck clipse..... -1 10 Hamburg .-130 SN ndedty sda cue pouees 2 60 00| Valencia,30 ‘“ “Superior.” 8 i, peor bundred........... 2 50 ‘. ~ . " 3 00 $ z “ 50 so * 00 — 00 Sm, ** 00 “Universal.” $1, per hundred ice $3 00 --. «ee 3 50 $ 3, a 4 00 8 5, a SN 5 00 $10, ee 6 00 20, . . 7 00 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: per sun. oe s per cent. 500 ity 1000 ** 2 COUPON PASS BOOKS. —_ be made to represent any enomination from $10 down. | i eoome... $100 SS. 2 00 — 3 00 ee 6 25 a oe 10 00 — lk. 17 50 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’n..... $3 00 — @ oe 5 00 y 4 “ ac ee 8 00 ee, CRACKERS. Butter. pee Eee... 6 ache sage Zan, Cartoom..... 6% a ee 6 ae nor cartoon...... 6% ee 6 Salted SER, cartoon ...... 6% —- ass ver eee) cee tee ee 8 Somer ee... 6% Soda. eee, Bee... 6 oon cee. % Soda, ees... ss, 8% Ceyece: Weter............... 10 Long Island Wafers ....... 11 Oyster. So ee 6 Cie Opec. BEE... ........ 6 Farina Oyster.............. 6 CREAM TARTAR. Ceres were... ..........., 30 Telfer’s Absolute.......... 35 eee 20@25 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples. Sundried, sliced in bbls. 6 me uartered ‘ Evaporated, 50lb. boxes @9 Apricots. California in "haan cease 16% Evaporated in boxes. 17 Blackberries. ie bores. ............. 4% Nectarines. oe ee... 15 ee 15% Peaches. Peeled, in boxes ee 13 eke ee 12% - . tn Deee...... 12 Pears. California in bags..... Pitted Cherries. ees 50 Ib. boxes . = * cau Prunelles. re. weeee..........,.- Raspberries. Oe I ose as ces ee I ee cece es ee, ees i: ‘Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes, 2 crown ek ak ie eee 1 50 1 65 Loose Muscatels in Bags. 2 CLOWN... -. es sees eee e eee 5% Se oe 6% Foreign. Currants. Patras, in Barrels... 4% ‘in %-bbls.. 4% s+ 1n less quantity .. 4% Peel. Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib. boxes 20 Lemon 25 ' 0 Orange ‘“ = * , 11 sins, Rai Ondura, 29 ib. ye. Sultana, 20 - Prunes. ia DC. California, => Looe ce cee 1%% Lemon. Vanilla x100 25 Ib. bxs. pi 20z foldingbox... 75 12 cu ‘S0x90 a 3 0z " 08 0 1 50 c 70x80 C “img 40z * 10 2 00 ‘ 60x70 a -14 | 602 ..2 00 3 00 I on cn ween sean aes T1802 “ 3 00 4 00 Se a ne a A 9% —_ GUNPOWDER. =NV cs. el ) XX rag, white, Austin’ 8 Rifle, bg “aN : = mo. 1,055 ..---..-.....-s:, $1 75 ‘“ Crack Shot, kegs ..3 50 — 4 - cece eee ee eee ee ; : “ ‘“ kegs 2 00 ln by Denne wee we ener evnnee oe “ No. eee 150 ‘ Club a “c ; = ae HERBS. No. 2, ee ee 15 Manilla, white. ee ee ne 15 oe i 1 00 INDIGO. So... cna eee eens 95 Madras, 5 lb. boxe es nD wes a4... 1 00] 8: F-.%,3and5Ib.boxes.. 50 JELLY. FARINACEOUS GOODS. | 17 Ib. pails.......... eee 90 “o “ Farina. 30 1 60 200 th: hoes... .......... 3% Hominy. i inlae 3 00 | Pure er eee ee 3 50 Lima Beans. eee. 4% LYE. Maccaroni and Vermicelli. | Condensed, 2 __ = Domestic, 12 Ib. box... ein Tmaported.............. %@.-. * MATCHES. css No. 9 aulphar............--- 13 Ce eee al 5 25 | Anchor parlor -170 Half am NE 2 7% | No.2 home..... -1 10 Export parlor.... ..4 00 Pear! Barley. a 2% MINCE MEAT. Peas. r 3 as, oe. 1 %5 Sere perils ............ 2% Rolled Oats. Barrels 180 , +. Bae Half bbis 90.. oe a Sago. TE oo cc eten ees... 4% eee ." Wheat. Cree cw 5 8 or 6 doz. in case per doz.. 95 FISH--Salt. MEASURES. Bloaters. Sie. 1 40 Tin, per dozen. Sel 81 75 Pollock ...... " on a ae Shee... 1 40 Whole. Grand Bank..... 5M AMEE 22. oe occ ce rose cnees 70 Boneless, eres ...... 7 eal ee Ce 45 Boneless, strips. So 6% Half pint i gui il mk 40 Halibut. a for vinegar, per doz. Pemones ....6.. 5... 10 _ ate gall elec see eee 7? Herring. a _ on. : 3% —— a ee vo 288 ee 12 00 Round Shore, % bbl...... 60 ae. . a 1 30 Blackstrap. a 16 | Sugar house........-+--+++ 14 Mackerel. Cuba Baking. eo, 6 Oe ee... Ot Cire .....o 5.5 a . 16 No. 1, 40 Se 4 00 Porto Rico. = 1, rk ee 115 e 20 amily, RN 5 25 rae ee oo. oe --- oe ae Sardines. New Orleans. Reumian, kees.............. eee. 18 Tron Good .. as ee ci eaneee = 1, bla, Holfbe........6 09] Buea sOOdesveeereccoseses No. 1, Kits, 10 Ybs....222200.- ee 40 No.1, % bbe ioclbe, ‘Oar: half barrels, 3c extra oO. Ss ieee No. Sty 10 Ibs...... PICKLES. val 5 Mesto : Barrels, 1,200 count... @z7 00 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | Half bbls, 600 count.. @4 00 Souders’. Small. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. | Barrels, 2,400 count. 8 00 Best in the world for the money. | Half bbls, 1,200 count 4 50 PIPES, Clay, i 1 75 T. D. fallooent........ v6) Cob, No Ue 1 25 POTASH, 48 cans in case. ae 400 Penna Salt Co.’s.......+.. 3 2% RICE, Domestic. Carolina og ee : se oO eee 3 Imported. ON ai ase ee une 6 Ke was... use Se ee ee Poin p ee canes th esos 5 SPICES, Whole Sifted, Ailageee: .. 55... 8 Cass a, China in mats...... - Batavia in bund.. . Saigon in rolls...... “8 Cloves, Amtowns........... ' Peer... 21... 0 Wace Daleyis....... ....... 80 Nutmegs foney...... 40 No. 1. 20 . 0. .60 Pepper, Singapore, black. —. 0 . white -20 - shot.. mea ce oes ee Pure Ground in Bulk, Sreeee....... 12 Cassia, Batavia.............28 and Saigon.22 . arom 30 Cloves, smnakat one. = African.. ochin... ‘ - Sa Meee cees cn “18 Beeee Matyis............... Mustard, ‘Telesie and Trieste. . 18 Lees ceee a. 18 Nuleas, No.2 ............. 60 Pepper, Singapore, ——- ~.10 ees 24 . Cue. eS 18 eee 14 “Absolute” in Packages. 4s Aes 2: .. 84 1 55 Clipmamon............. 84 155 eevee ...4..........., 84 155 oe 8 155 ee 84 1 55 Masteed.............. 84 155 Feeper ................ 84 155 Sane...... ors coos ON SAL SODA. Ree ee... . Granulated, Rie Uo 1% SAUERKRAUT. cole Moder... ...: 7 25@7 50 SEEDS. eee 6... @12% Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Coriway ............ 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp. Russian....... 4% Ce 4% Mustard, white....... 6 reeee .............,... 9 Ee 6 Cuttle bone.. i 30 STARC H. Corn - = boxes Se 6 5% Gloss, 1-lb packages ocd ee seen ccc. ae 5% I bi SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders.........37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, owes... 1... ... Bees, Bogten................4§ SALT, 100 3- * sacks.. -82 3 ieee ane k aa, 2 00 28 OI. sacks eee ee eaceegs 1 85 eee 2% er Geese... 150 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 i>. “ on *- |. Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 na 6 ie . = Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 J», dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. oh. seen... ...... 27 Common Fine. Samia ....-............. 90 See .......-. .----.. 95 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box. pages... 1... 83 30 ee a 3 15 WE... ww. tone tee 3 30 Paeser es ..<...2.... 2... 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1Ib........ 3 20 Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-Ib...:.. 3 60 Proctor & Gamble. eT ees, We O08... 5... 2.54... 6 75 a esac gees 4 Coe 3 65 Mottled ere. 3 15 ee eee 3 00 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..33 30 plain... 3 24 5¢ size.. 4 2 N. K. Fairbanks & Co. ioe. Suate (Wees.............-.- “ce oad Brown, dt 3 to oe ..... ...... 3% —_ Bros, & Co.’s mente > Mie ebb ec ses cewuee 5 oten Onl.,. 5 75 WD non sace sseveecossceys 3 10 Marseilles........ ap aecees 400 PN oictsiicicrace -au. OO BROR Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, doe 2 50 SUGAR. To ascertain the cost of sugar laid down at any town in the Lower Peninsula, add freight rate from New York to the fol lowing quotations, which repre- sent the refiners’ =n Cut Loaf. i Powdered Granwiated ........ Fine Granulated........... Extra Fine Granulated.. OR ee ue ete XXXX Powdered. Confee. Standard / 7 = 1 Columbia A. --. 406 No. S Empire A ..... ..... 444 Dy 4 37 No. 7 . 431 EE 419 No, 9... . 400 Na te ... ... C. 3 94 No £ff........ 3 69 a 3 56 Mo 3 31 SYRUPS. Corn. Rercce............... eee Oe 24 Pure Cane. 19 Cootes ........ 30 SWEET GOODS Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Suger Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers..... 8% VINEGAR. as... 7 @s —_ OOO 8 @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD. Bulk, per gal ....... -...- 30 Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1% YEAST. Macie. MWierncres ................... 1 00 vo Poe ...._........... 1 00 ee ee we vi) Heog@k .......-.-- 4... 90 TEAS. JaPan—Regular. Pet ................,.. @17 ee @20 ————————— 24 @26 ee 32 @34 a 10 @12 SUN CURED. Oe ce ca eae @17 Good . ‘ @20 Choice........ 24 @% Cholecat...... .. -382 @34 a... 10 @I12 BASKET FIRED. ee 18 @ pease ..............., @25 Clore. ......_.... .. @35 Extrachoice,wireleaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5 OOLONG. @26 Common to fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior to fine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Comamor. to fair....... 18 @2s6 Superior to fine.......30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. oe 1... ... 18 @22z Meee ee 24 @2s8 BE occ oes ce nee ...40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Pails unless otherwise noted eS 62 Sweet Cuba......... . 36 27 25 24 23 2 23 : po. 24 Plug. Sorg’s Brands, — eee ete 41 Nobby Me oi occn ins 40 Scotten’s Brands. ay —_— 24 Ce a 38 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty...... oe 40 BOs TOE. 6... - occ ae 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. Ce a i 16 Golden Shower...........-. 19 eee Mee ees | oc... c. ee 29 American Eagle Co.’s Brands, —— TROY as eee 40 eed s ceaewe cops teccy 30 i eset ised nc pwedeeec cee beebesa es dcccusicces OO THE MICHIGAN Banner ‘l'obacco Co.'s —- Bee. es, Banner Cavendish.......... 38 Gold Cat. .................. 28 Scotten’s Brands. Warpete 16 mosey Dew... 3... 25 oe eee... ......-.....20 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, Peerseee i. 26 Ce Pom... 18 Standard.. 20 Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brands. Handmade.. On Me. Uncle Sam....-... 2 Red Clover....._.. ¥ ’ Spaulding & Tom and Jerry...... Traveler Cavendish.. ' Bock Mom. ............ ee Plow Boy...... Corn Cake.......... OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: Metene. ....-........... 8 Water White, old test. @7% W. W. Headlight, 15c° 6% Water White .......- 6% epene............ 8... @7 Stove Gasoline........ @ 6% Cylteaer......_......- 27 @36 Basie ..... ......... Gal Black, 15 cold test.... @ 8% HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- Ws: HIDES. eo 24.43% Part Cured @ 4 rar “ : @ 1% .......... .-S @S Kips, green - 24@ 3% + eured....., a 4% Caifskins, green...... 4 @5 Gured...... @7 Deacon skins.......... 10 @30 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Shearlings..........-.- 10 @25 ee 2 @ 9 wool. Waenee.. ............20 Ge Unwashed . ose GW MISCELLANEOUS. iow ................ 3%@ 4 Grease butter ........ 1 @2 Se ncnee...........-.. 1%@ 2 Craseee............... 2 00@2 75 YURS. Outside prices for No. 1 only. eer 50@1 00 a 15 00@25 00 Co 3 Ov@7 00 Cus wild_............. 40@ 50 Cat, house ......-...-. 10@ 25 wiahee 4 00@6 00 Pox, rod.............. 1 00@1 60 Mom Gfoes........,.... 3 00@5 00 ox erey............. 50@ 80 lene en cde 2 00@3 00 Martin, —_ Sas 1 00@3 00 ' pale & yellow. 50@1 00 Bioe Gere........-... 40@1 40 Maer 8. = 12 Oppossum............- 30 Otter, Gatk........ ...- 5 003 . HAGCOON .2....-5- «0s Bewee 1... ........ 1 W@!1 3 Wolt .............. .-1 00@3 00 Beaver castors, Ib....2 00@5 00 DEERSKINS—per pound. Thin and green......... 1 Long gray, ary.. : 2 Gra 25 35 aa foe Ate ; dry. GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 64 No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) b4 MEAL, Mommie .. 2... 2... Granulated.,. LS Straight, in Patent ‘ ity “ Graham “ a Rye Buckwheat, st Sun.. 47 h-DeRoo i & Co’s eon eal oie 42 MILLSTUFFS. hi Car lots quantity pean, ........ — 00 B14 Screenings .... 14 00 14 50 Middlings..... 15 CO 15 50 Mixed Feed... 19 00 20 v0 Coarse meal .. 19 50 20 00 CORN. car ie... 43 Less than car lots.......... 52 OATS, eee teen se cae 32 Less a car i Se 41 No. 1 Timothy, < eat lots....12 00 ot! ' ton lets ..... 12 50 FRESH MEATS. Beef, Corcem.......... 5 @6 hind quarters. 6 @t «tou ..- 3%4@ 4 . loins, No. 3... 84@ 9 ' e.......:....8 @g - reands.......- 5 @5% TRADESMAN. peecens .............. @5 SHELL G0oDs. Pails, No. 1, two- hoop.. 1 35 Pore Pes... @10% | Oysters, per 108 ...... 1 25@1 50 * No.l, threehoop.... 1 ce ~ snoulder........ Sat icam «| ~—sC....... 75@1 00 Clothespins, Ser.bexes.... @ Sausage, — or head ' 3 : BULK. Bowie, 11 en... ........... 30 wert eee Counts, pergal........ 220 i BO ceeee eee es cee 1:00 fi Frankfort @8 | Extra Sees... a 1% a - 10 Mate el ee TT CE 2 25 Veal...... @ 74} Standurds.............. 1 20 7 ope : : 7 Co 12 ceccescee, & OO FISH and OYSTERS. | Scallops 20 1 75 | Baskets, market... 20-1... 35 F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as| Schrimps................ 1.00 ar bushel.. 1 25 follows: il ful hoop 1 3 FRESH FISH. PAPER & WOODENWARE i willow er ths, No. i 5 75 @2 PAPER. és ts No3 .. SA ee ‘ . Bee 8 BS | Rockfalis. — e — lee Ciscoes or Herring. a @6 Rag sugar.. en 2 st 4 “ Se 3 : = ete @ie | Hardware................ “12% INDURATED WAT soc Fresh lobster, per Ib.. 20| Bakers . --214 | Pails ai 4 05 Shrimp, per gal......... _ 1 .00| Dry Goods... 6 | Tubs, % doz... Cs OG ie are | aate Manilla.. | @oe Cl _ No. af a! @8 | Red Express } 0. ‘1. .-. 5% POULTRY. ee @t NGS... 4% Boeald i: Smoked Wha @8 TWINES. ocal dealers pay as follows: Te 11 WO oe eee cen... 20 DRESSED, Finnan Haddies........ 10 | Cotton, No.1...........-..., howe .8 @9 ee. See eee senate 10 | Wurkeys. |. @12 YSTERS—Cans. Sea Island, aorta eee 30 | Ducks ... cesses @12 Fairhaven Counts.. @37 | No. 5 Hemp . ' F. J.D. Selects... ... @30 | No. 15 ve Selec ........ @23 WOODENWARE. Cilebene ............. 7 @s EE @19 Tubs, _ 1 ee ee ia cues 7(0| fowm..... 7 @8 Siindirda ||... |... TT 6 oo | Turkeys.. Linea se ie Gale Pavorties ... ........ 15 No. 3 Sea aaa 5 00 | | Spring Dee 10 @i1 PROVISIONS. Som Creams...... --80@90 The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. Decucsted Crease... Sa nh enen a nae eaten atl quotes as follows: a 4 a PORK IN BARRELS. Wintergreen Berries...................... ae Le ae CARAMELS, ee Ce 17 00 by 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. — ee 34 Extra clear pig, short cut............-.-..-- 18 00 No 2 1, mn 3 TT 51 RRERCIOSE CRU 2 ; i 28 CE 18 25 Sta a ee eee 42 Boston clear, short Cut................-0006 1g 50 | Stand up, 5 Ib. boxes.......... 90 Clear back, short Cut.........0.-00.cs0cceeee 1900), ul BANANAS. Standard clear, short cut, best. . a 1900/*° mat OO Meee sausaeE—Fresh and Smoked. Ce Pash Sage Ce 9 i Ham sausage... 9 Floridas, fanew) 10) et | 2 85@3 25 Tongue Sausage............ ee 9 Sampsons......... 3 O5ap3 i) Wrasetort Someeee ... 8 ‘ss 0 0 oe § NO 5 Messina, choice, 360 400 Hologna Mamet. 5 fies o 25 YT eT a 5 eo oa erent @4 25 SN eae 5 ‘ aa @ LARD. a ms 11% | Figs, faney layers, ll i EN @1x Se a oe" 7% ss “ “ 20m ee € 18 50 lb. Tins, 4c adv ance, Dates, Pard, 10:1b hex = 8 20 0 1b: pails, 4 a ss. es haga a a wp greet ett cete setae 5 a oo %c a Cretan Si, Dee, @5 am “* te . NUTS. . Almonds, @19 BEEF IN BARRELS. veces. @17% Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 00 iy ear @18% Extra Mess, Ciieage packing................ 7 00| Brazile, new......... @10% Hencloss fame patie........................ 10 00 | Filberts . @1% SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Walnuts, gis @14 Hams, average 20 Ibs ST a. “ a Sis a ded cae a ae a 6 sma aie Table N in, £ “ Se a 124% 2, aan O14 : pepe ae ccc aiaicliel isha! alsa a) siden wae ft Pecans, , Texas, H. P . i @i4 ce a9 Oe a Le ocoanuts, full sees eee a ul. ca peer sang a ee ror 3” — aie 7 @5 0 eskfaat Bacon, boncloms.................... 2 \. Dried beef, ham prices...........-.......0. 0. gy | Fancy, H. P., Suns. cette eet t teen cree e ees @ 5% Tae Clonee NOG Fancy, H. P., Fl oasted . @ 7% Briskets, medium. ag Cy, » Flags. .... reese @ 5% ; eT 3% Reoted............. ie ’ Choice, H. Ps Euwres.. @ 4% ‘Roasted. . i. @ 6% CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Caltfornmin Walnuts...) .. ...... 1... 2% The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. Standard, _ ....... 6% 7% Be 6% 7% C Twist .......... 6% 7% Boston Cream ......... 8% Cut Loaf............... : 8% Beira H. H........ . .. oe MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails. a 6 eS 6 7 ee 6% 7% Ee < 8 Mngtien Hock..................... a 8 RM con se ie hn eo a 8 Broken Tacy........--.... baskets 8 Peanut Squares............ 8 9 French — es 10 Valley Creams.......-.-. ed 13 Midget, 30 lb. baekeis Oe oe a oe eee etn uae 8 Modern, 20TH * . ence ee en ee ee 8 Fancy—In bulk Lozenges, a... 8... So ee ii a Wiomaentals. .................... OO ON i eee ences cece anes "a Wins Prope 8. 8 Sour Drops... .... esse cces ene cece cece eres 8% Trperiala. ..... 2.00 cons eee cceeeecceceeseecee 10 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box Lemon DEODe. 2. 2... 0. ee ones ne eee e+ conse 55 Gear eae... wes 55 Pepperm a EE 60 Chocolate Drops..... oe bode seaeeeas aecaca ae Hl ME Chosalase Droos...................-.... 90 eee EEE ee 40@50 Licorice Drops... .. .....--.---- sees ce ccscese- 1 00 A. B Licorice Drope.........-..-..-----..-.-.. 80 Lozenges, plain...............00. eseceeeecceees 60 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. FRUIT JARS. Pie 86 75 uarts odode ees co a Half Gallons. . ....... .... 2 ae. ........ 275 Boece... 40 LAMP BURNERS, No. 0Sun Dee esis eee dee ade cueecuecaes ee 45 Mee 7 8 50 ee 24 Decatur—Chas. Criffield is succeeded by Criffield & Dewey in the clothing and men’s furnishing goods business. The Equality Plan. As stated by Tae TRADESMAN of last week, the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association has adopted the ‘Equality Plan” for the sale of sugars, the new scheme going into effect on Tuesday of this week. The method in question is one which is designed to benefit both the retailer and wholesaler, inasmuch as it equalizes the difference of geographical location and places all small dealers on precisely the same relation to the prim- ary markets of the country; in other words; the retail dealer really buys direct from the refiner, the jobber merely act- ing as a broker or go-between. A mer- chant at Traverse City, for instance, buys his sugar at the New York price on the day of purchase, plus the freight rate from New York to Traverse City, the freight paid by him for transporting the goods from purchasing point being re- bated to him in the shape of an allow- ance on the invoice. Every other retail merchant in the State does precisely the same thing, whether his distributing point is Grand Rapids or Detroit or Jack- son or Saginaw. Thus it comes about that the equality is extended to the re- tailers, who have the same relative ad- vantage of the New York market as the wholesalers. No matter in what market he buys, the sugar is laid down to him at the same price, leaving him free to throw his trade to the house or market which treats him best and is most convenient to order from. The plan is now in use in fifteen other states—in some of them as long as three years—and in no case has the plan been abandoned wherever it has been introduced, proving pretty con- clusively that the agreed price arrange- ment gives satisfaction to all concerned. Oe From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: W. D. Struik, Byron Center. W. A. Lovelace, Lilley. Thos. Van Eenenaam, Zeeland. H. Van Nord, Jamestown. F. E. Campau, Alaska. N. B. Blain, Lowell. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Baldwins and Spys command $2.50@ $3 per bbl., according to quality. Beans—The market is not quite so stiff. Han- dlers pay $1.35 1.50 for country picked, holding city picked at #1.75@1.85 per bu. Butter—Scarce and next to impossible to se- cure adequate supplies for home demand. Deal- ers pay 20@22 for choice dairy and hold at 2¢ above paying prices. Creamery has sustained a very marked advance, readily commanding 31 @33c. Cabbages—Dealers hold %@%6 per 100. scarce. Celery—Winter stock is much inferior to fall stock, commanding 18@0c per doz. bunches. Cider—1244@13c per gal. Cranberries—The market is without material change, crates now being held as follows: Cape Cods and Jerseys, $3; Waltons, $3.50. Eggs— Dealers hold limed and cold storage goods at 22c, while fresh would readily com- mand 24@25c. Grapes—Malagas command $7.50 per keg. Honey—Clover is plenty, offerings have been free during the past month. The price has ac- cordingly declined to 12%@13c. Onions—Unchanged. Dealers pay %5e and hold at 90¢ per bu. Parsnips—40c per bu. Potatoes—The market continues weak and un- satisfactory. The seaboard cities are getting their supplies mainly from Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces, depriving Western growers of that territory. Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes—All varieties are scarce, Very | Jer: | 8eys readily command 4.50 per bbl., Balti | mores bring #4 and Virginias 33.50, Turnips—36c per bu ————— —_ ————— You dont need a timmy nor a Dark-Lantern to open the eyes of the public. But when snow comes you must have Snow Shovels We have them with Long and D handles in wood. In steel we have long handle only. OSTERZOTEVENS & GC: , ‘STC S lig avy 1. WELL! How did the Year’s business Foot up? Push it harder for ’98. Get your printing done by the Tradesman Company. pA a aang oo 4 | ~ BARCUS BROS. MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAR Equalled by few and excelled by none. Al) our saws are made of the best steel by the mose skillful workmen and all saws warranted. Burnt saws made good as new for one-fourth the list price of new saws. All kinds of Saw Repairing Done as cheap as can be done consistent with good work. Lumber saws fitted up ready for use without extra charge. No charge for boxing or drayage. Writ>-or prices and discounts. MUSKEGON, ~ MICHIGAN Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. | - CHOCOLATE COOLER 60, Manutacturers 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. When in the city call at the office and see sample. Office 315 Michigan Trust Building. Factory 42 Mill St. You can take your choice OF TWO OF THE BRST FLAT OPENING BLANK BOOKS In the Market. Cost no more than the Old Style Books, Write for prices. GRAND RAPIDS BOOK BINDING CO., 89 Pearl St, Hovseman Blk. Grand Rapids, Mich. ee eee . co ce i E Manufacturers of A Stoy [4585 Of Every Description. i J First-Class Work Only. WRITE FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS 63 and 65 Canal St.. - VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & UU, W HOLESALE Dry Goods, Garpets and Gloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. | OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go, *® 2.82 Qttawe s+. Grand Rapids. Cracker Chests, Glass Covers for Biscuits. | | ' | ‘HESE chests will soon | pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. Price $4. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from 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. NEW NOVELTIES. We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. | THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., is A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. This is bound to be one of BLAGK GLAZED AKRON STONKWAKK. =} To the Grocery Trade: ' We call your special attention to our UNEQUALED GRADE OF FINE STONEWARE, for which we are exclu. * J * sive selling agents. This quality far excels any ware previously offered in this State and the price is no more than for + ordinary Akron ware. The output of the factory is limited and after a certain number of carloads are sold we shall have no more to offer for early shipment, therefore orders must be placed at once. If you have not received a card from our agent regarding his arrival at your town, we trust you will write to us, when we will be pleased to quote best possible prices for » < this important line. FLAT BOTTOM ROUN) BOTTOM MILK PANS. MILK PANS. STEW PANS. MEAT TUBS—%, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 gals. FLOWER POTS—Pat. shoulder. CHURNS. BUTTERS—All sizes. H. LEONARD & SONS, Selling Agents for the Best Factories. 93-New Process Vapor Stove-’93 Cooking Made Kasy. A stove that lights like gas. A stove that makes no smoke or smell. A safe stove. An economical! stove. A stove calling for no skill to operate it. A stove that never gets out of order. A stove that pleases the user, satisfies the dealer, and stays sold. THE STOVE that has revolu- tionized the vapor stove business. Has a sight feed—needle valves silver plated. The burner drums are brass— heat collectors cast iron—never will rust. The grate and burner caps can easily be removed. The only stove correct in prin- ciple, ‘*evaporates,’’ does not ‘‘gen- erate,” and is absolutely without any of the complicated and annoy- ing devices used on all vapor stoves before its introduction. If this stove is not sold in your town, write to us for the agency. Only one dealerin atown. Prices guaranteed. Send for catalogue and discount. Agents for Junior Gasoline stoves, ovens, oil stoves, oil heating stoves. etc. Be Up with the Times. By actual test during the past three years, it has been proven that the **New Process’? consumes less gasoline for the amount of heat given than any other style or kind of vapor stove. It is made without a ‘‘sub-fire,’’ which de- vice has proven very uncertain and unsatisfactory, causing trouble and giving off a disagreeable odor. How does the ‘‘New Process’’ operate? The fluid drips, drop by drop (never runs), upon a brass evaporator (which is always visi- ble) mixes with and carburets a current of air, descends to the burner, where it lights like gas. How simple! and yet that’s all there is of it. All parts are made interchangeable and can be re- placed. The oven is made of asbestos— metal lined. is a most even, per- fect baker and roaster, made on our patent ‘‘reflex” principle, ar- ranged in semi-cabinet form, locat- ed on a comfortable working level. This oven can be shipped knocked down (the only oven made having = this feature), and can be put to- gether by adjusting six bolts, in five minutes. Any part can be supplied at a reasonable cost when necessary.