kn | Michigan Tradesman. {2 a ‘GRAND RAPIDS, FEBRUARY 22, 1893. NO. 492 < i~ < , Five Fuinty Facts. 4 FIRST TRIED AND PROVEN. FULLY STANDING THE TEST, ‘ FAR AHEAD OF ALL RIVALS. FAST INCREASING IN DEMAND. For Sale by Hawkins & Company. 9 =a sais - MUSKEGON BRANOH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., . ~ Successors to D Tt Ops? : MUSKEGON CRACKER CoO.,_ |wWho Sells Couch —_ HARRY FOX, Manager. Every Druggist, - GRAGKERS, BISGUITS s© SWERY GOODS. ce { on v. ] n j MUSKEGON, MICH. Red ou —— a Manufactured by ' ’ . . Sa leg SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. 46 Oitawa 8t,,Grand Rapids, Mich. 4) s -— See Quotations. Grand Rapids Brush Co., MOSELEY BROS ‘ — Sree) - WHOLESALE - BRUSHES = dy Pye FRUITS, SEEDS, BEANS AND PRODUGE, | 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa St, Grand Rapids, ; GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEME ELENA WEES Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. CHAS. A. COYE, Pi ea Black Bass Cigars | We VW NING ann TENTS NEVER GO BEGGING. 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LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. Boots & Shoes RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO., 12, 14, 16 Pearl St., Manufacturers and Jobbers of Spring lines new ready for inspection Would be pleased te show them. Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Who urges you to keep Sapolio? The Public !? By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers create a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchasers to the store, and help sell less known goods. Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders. ONFECTIONERY ! Don’t think just because it’s a little dull after the holidays that it will be best to “run close.” Now is just the time to clean up the odds and ends—push them to the front and fill up with bright, fresh goods and be in readiness to tempt a half-hearted customer with an attractive display. 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It was Tuesday, of course, or she would not have been iron- ing, and though the month was July she was not much to be pitied on account of her warm occupation, for her stove had been removed to the summer kitchen, a shed adjoining the room in which she worked, and a light breeze was playing over her ironing-table. Seated the doorstep between the two kitchens was her half-grown daughter Lodilla, shelling peas. The only sounds in the room were the occasional thump of the iron as it was set down on its stand, or the hiss of a fresh one as Mrs. Ciay applied her wet finger op to its shining surface to see if it were hot enough for use. Under most circumstances Lodilla would have been singing at the top of her voice, but this afternoon she had been kept in to shell peas when she had wanted to go berrying, and sullen rebel- lion is not a mood in which one sings. She flicked the pea pods over the edge of the pan set to receive them, enjoying this little breach of order though she herself, having to pick them up afterward, would be the only sufferer. Mrs. Clay herself, though she had vin- dicated her authority, was not in a hu- mor for conversation. Her triumph was mingled with resentment that a struggle should have been necessary, and she set her lips firmly together and said nothing when she saw the seattered pods, taking care only not to step on them as she passed. Asshe wentand came in her ex- change of irons, she took oceasion to glance through the window before her at a charming prospect which, lacking the human element, had no charm for her. Her house was at the end of the village, and from the north windows no other house was visible except the corner of old Martin Banks’s cottage up the lane tothe right and nearly hidden*by willows. The village road dipped into a hollow notifar beyond her house,and the presence of a clump of willows on each side the hollow was fair evidence of a stream somewhere in its depths; from this the road mounted again in curves, only here and there visible through the trees, until it reached at last a far-off summit which was to the village children the end of the world, except, of course, to those who had been to Sunbury—they knew better. Fields of grain, alternating with pas- ture and bits of woodland, bordered the road, harmonizing with perfect blending and contrasting of color as nature’s com- binations always do. But Mrs. Clay had no eye for nature or nature’s colors, though she said she knew better than to trim a blue dress with red, which was ‘“‘more than some of the summer boarders did.” About 3 o’clock, however, this despised prospect took on a human inter- est, for Martin Banks’s daughter Sarah, the divorced wife of Jim Wingford, came running down the lane from her father’s house, first looking from side to side under her flapping sunbonnet, and finally catch- ing it off her head in order to see better, NO. 492 either wringing her hands or wiping them on her apron, Mrs. Clay could not tell which, though she had seized and mounted her spectacles at the first glimpse of a human being, and was now giving her whole attention to the sight. When Sarah Wingford, or Sarah Banks, insisted now being called, reached the road she turned back first to the hollow, from emerged and came on tractedly toward the village. as she was within hearing made out that she was Mart!’ ““Humph!” said, measure of disgust. ‘‘Might ’a’ that was it. Perfectly youngun gets out of her sight a minute. Then, her voice softened a little, ‘‘l don’t wonder, though. Jim Wingford’s p’rate ’nough for anything, and he was set on havin’ the child. Lodilla, yourun out an’ meet her, an’ tell her Mart’s gone berryin’ with the other children. Do you hear?’’ stopping with suspended iron, for Lodilla had not moved. “Yes. maam,”’ Lodilla slowly finishing the last pod and begin- ning deliberately to pick up from the floor the scattered evidences of her rebel- lion. Mrs. Clay turned back to the window. Sarah was evidently in great distress, for she was running faster, wiping her hot face, while her hair was blowing down around her “Its all right, Sarah,” called Mrs. Clay reassur- ingly, and again turning to Lodilla, ‘‘Are you going? If you ain’t, say so, an’ I'll know whatto do!” ‘I’m goin’.’’ Lodilla arose and shook her skirts over the pan of pods, picked up first the dish of peas and then the pan and put them away, went to the hook and got her bonnet and put it on carefully and took the longer way around the house to the road. By the time she reached it she heard her mother calling out to Sarah Banks, who was now quite near, ‘‘Are you look- in’ for Mart, Sarah? He's all right. The Crawford boys and girls come past here and they had him goin’ berryin’. 1 s’posed they’d ast you.’’ Sarah Banks had been a pretty girl once and a girl of spirit, but the terror in which she had lived by day and that was reflected in her dreams by night had tak- en away from her both good looks and high spirit, and it was a trembling, nerve shaken creature that sank down on Mrs. Clay’s doorstep and burst into hysterical tears. Mrs. Clay stood still, embarrassed, aft- er she had taken Sarah’s bonnet and laid iton the table and puta glass of water to the woman’s lips. She was not by nature a consoler, and she seldom at- tempted a part in which she felt herself so awkward. Lodilla had come back and stood in the shed door looking on with unsympathetic curiosity. Mrs. Clay vented her feelings angrily upon the girl. ‘‘You can go now, Lodilla Clay, berryin’ or anywhere you please. I’ve seen enough o’ your peskiness for one aft’noon. Do you hear me? Start!’’ And as she made a motion forward, Lo- as she on which she swiftly soon and dis- As soon Mrs. Clay ‘*‘Mart! with a knowed if that 2? ealling, she crazy des- answered, shoulders. 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. dilla thought best to start, though her pace slackened, once over the doorstep. ‘‘Always the way,” she muttered to her- self as she went, the’s anything goin’ on outside and sends me away when the’s anything goin’ on at home.’’ | ;not seem to be worth much when it ‘‘won’t led me go when | ; to reach Sarah’s first and hardest burst of tears | being over, Mrs. Clay time to use reasoning. **‘Sarah,’’ she said testily, about that child. Why, this way you'll bein old ’nough to take what good’d that do? *nough that the’ thought it was} ‘*vourre silly if you keep on} care of himself, You know well a’sylum before he’s | | keep her anger warm until fit occasion i an’ | in the village but what looks out for him, | an’ you'd hear fast was any danger. We’re Why, his father couldn’t get him with all of us watching out.”’ Sarah wiped her eyes, but her face did not brighten. ‘You do’ knew Jim Wingford’s well’s I do,” was all she said. “TIT know he’s adesp’rate man, but he has respect for the law, I reckon, an’ the law give you thechild. An’ more’n that, the last I heard o’ Jim he goin’ to Californy, I reely don’t s’pose you'll ever see him agin.” **He give cut that,” *noughif the’ allon your side. was an’ said Sarah, mean- | ingly. “Oh, well, now, Sarah, do give him} some credit! Don’t be so everiastin’ly if he Mebbe you was a s’picious. The’s some good in him, did treat you mean. little to blame.”’ The lurking pleasure with which Mrs, Clay thus expressed a long-held convic-|admiration. ‘No, I ain’t any kin to tion escaped Sarah, absorbed in one|them. My name’s Clay.’’ ‘Oh, yes, in- thought. deed! Mrs. Clay’s daughter. She owns “It’s too late to think o’ that,” she|that pretty cottage next to old man said despairingly. ‘‘We’re nothin’ to/| Banks. His daughter lives with him, each other now, an’ the boy’s mine, an’ | don’t she? She’s a widow with one he’s a bad man to torment me so.” | child.” “She ain’t a widow. She’s di- ‘Why, Sarah, he ain’t you’re tormentin’ yourself. never tried to git the child.’’ “NO, an’ “Well, he’d know better’n to try to git him by foul means, git a taste o’ the lawif he did. If 1 was| you, I'd be more afraid o’ the courts than I would o’ kidnappin’. Jim’s a smart man, he might git the law twisted some day so’s to give him a claim.”’ A new fear but some consolation in re- minding herself that tormentin’ you; He but he said he would have him what Jim says he means.” for he knows he’d | an’ tore heart, poor Sarah’s she found Judge King county seat was her uncle. putting on her strings ‘Mebbe I her lips quivering I got, an’ I used to She rose from the step, bonnet and tying with trembling foolish,”’ said, again, he’s all be so happy.’’ had to wait for could say, ‘‘If you see the children coin- in’, tell’em to hurry, will help feelin’ anxious even now ’t I know he’s safe.”’ The village people did not thank each other in words for services of any kind, though their gratitude spoke in other ways; and Sarah’s, as she left the house, expressed itself in down some of the currant jelly just been making. Mrs. went up the road made diff’rent,’’ the hands. am she “but composure before she you? she had followed her as she slowly. ‘I mus’ be she said to herself. “If her case was mine, I’d be so mad ’t Jim Wingford dassn’t come ’ithin three counties o’ me. scared to death, ’stid o’ scarin’ him.’’ Clay’s eyes | vorced,” ain’t | Pity! | girl. | tied to her apron string.” |cyr to Lodilla as strange that the man though the stranger himself bit his tongue for vexation at his mistake. She was not usually communicative with | | Strangers, | gave a contemptuous at the | slowly | Her voice broke and she | | I can’t } | said he was going to be late for his train | politely drove on at a good pace, leaving | he came out into the road again it looked to She jes’ lets herself be} | she would be ashamed to sing on a pub- ain’t a man or a woman | | sound and said to one another that ‘‘that | cation of Simpson’s Patch, the number | Lodilla looking after him and wondering if she had not been more gracious than} | was quite proper. the offer to bring! Lodilla’s permission to go berrying did came, but as she walked down the village street and turned off into the road by | which the berrying party must have gone Simpson’s Patch, her spirits rose gradually, and when she had made up her mind to get even with her mother | in cold blood, provided she could offered for venting it, she cast off her sul- lenness and began to sing. She hada clear, high voice, and had not yet reached the stage of self-consciousness at which lic road; and as she went along the farmers in the fields looked up at the little gal o’ the Widder Clay’s had a real good voice—prob’ly the choir some day.” sing in A strange man ina high buggy, who had turned into the road some minutes after her, looked up at the sound, said to himself: ‘*‘There’s a chance; perhaps she’d know something, and urged his horse on to overtake her. He drove a trifle past her, then slackened his pace as if by an afterthought and said: ‘*‘Want to ride up the hill, little girl?” Lodilla looked up at him suspiciously. ‘No, sir,” The | she said, walking on slowly. [stranger kept pace with her. ‘You're | Lawyer Case’s daughter, ain’t you? 1} you | your older sisters.”’ Lodilla was flattered. Lawyer Case lived in the best house in the village, and his young lady daughters were her especial was sure of it when | looked at you; look so much like said Lodilla. ‘Oh, is that so? 1 remember her as a very pretty Only one child, eh? I suppose she thinks so much of him she keeps him It did not oc- should know that the child was a boy, or, indeed*with any one, but aremnant of spite over the afternoon’s humiliations remained with her, and she account of Sarah’s fright over the little boy’s supposed loss, The stranger seemed much interested— he put several questions, rather irrel- evant, it seemed to Lodilla, as to the lo- and size of the children in the party, and the appearance of little Mart Wingford. He seemed to miss entirely the point of the joke as Lodilla saw it. Presently he appeared to lose interest in the subject, looked at his watch and at the county seat, and lifting his hat At the top of the hill he seemed to turn to one side toward the woods and stop or almost stop, and when Lodilla as if there were two heads showing over the lowered buggy-top, but it was a long way off, and she could not be sure. What difference did it make, anyhow? There was an answer to this question later on, when she reached When it comes to spices, the;best is none too good. Gold Medal @ Spices are the best goods money will buy and they are all packed in fiber pails, One trial will make you a friend of them. all arnhart PatmanCo. wv See that this Label appears E on every (package, as it is a FERNY Me guarantee of the genuine ar- ligt Al wre ticle. VERDALE BST re CHICAGO - FERMENTUM The Only Reliable COMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years. Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. JOHN SMYTH. Agent, Grand Rapids, Mish. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St. WW ME See that this Label appears ENTG FET nessedy, Ny on every package, as it is a FERN re Hah wey guarantee of the gennine TS MFT'D RIVERDALE Be er article. gHIgAGo CHICAGO 7 ? t | { { THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8 Simpson’s Patch and found the Crawford children, four of them, scattered far and wide, the girls searching and crying, and the boys searching and accusing each other, all nearly distracted over the loss of little Mart. ‘“‘He was so tired when we got him here,”’ said the elder gir), **’t I set down *n let him goto sleep in my lap, but I couldn’t set there. all the aft’noon when I had berries to pick, ’n so I spread my apron under his head ’n Jeft him there asleep, ’n I stayed right near him, didn’t I, Jenny?” *“Yes,’? said Jenny, with a will to help but a blundering tongue: ‘tyou only went away once, to the other side o’ the patch.” “Well, I thought Harvey was right there.” “That’s right. Blame it all onto me!” exclaimed Harvey, much offended. ‘‘1 didn’t want him to come; I knowed he’d git tired out, but the girls would have it, an’ they didn’t ask his mother, either, *ecause they couldn’t find anybody any- where ’round the house but Mart.” Lodilla’s naturally suspicious, began to put things together. “Did you leave him where anybody could see him from the road?” “Why yes; why not?” asked Jenny. “Did you see anybody goin’ by?” ‘There was a oxceart,’’ said the younger boy slowly. | ‘Yes, an’ abuggy,’’ said Harvey. ‘‘But the’ couldn’t anybody git him ’thout climbin’ the fence, an’ we'd ’a’ heard that.” “The’s a teeny, little place where he could ’a’ got through by himself,” said the elder girl, beginning to sob again. ‘*He’s sech a little feller an’ as quick’s a squirrel!” “Shut up!” said Lobilla, lips together as if for an example. go see.” The four Crawfords led the way, look- ing down onthe ground and indulging in mutual recrimination as they went; but Lodilla did not hear—she was look- ing right and left for signs of a struggle. The gap in the fence was a ‘“‘teeny” one, but the mark of the small shoes in the damp clay beneath showed that the four- year-old boy had squeezed through there and got out into the road. They traced his footprints in the dust, and at one place, under some pokeberry stalks, they decided he had sat down upon a stone to rest, for they found at the base of the stone two little holes dug by his heels in the grass. The footprints went only a few steps further, and these, alas! led out into the middle of the road, where they stopped. Some person or some vehicle had taken him up, that was plain. ‘Didn’t he ery?” asked Lodilla, sharp- ly. “Didn’t none o’ you hear him screech?” Noone had. If he had been carried off by a stranger, Lodilla rea- soned, that would have happened—the second man whom she had thought she saw in the buggy must have been Jim Wingford, and the child recognizing his father, had probably gone with him will- ingly. She turned upon the Crawford children savagety. ‘‘You’d better be gittin’ home an’ hide in the cellar,’’ she said; ‘‘you’ll all be hungif you’re caught. You’ve let Jim Wingford kerry off little Mart, and his mother’!] have the law on you.”’ The girls and the younger boy burst into wild lamentations, beseeching her not to tell on them, but Harvey, who was mind, snapping her **Te’s old enough to know that Lodilla did not know everything, hushed them fiercely, using words that, being duly reported to his mother, had to be washed off his tongue with soft soap and water that | evening at bedtime. Lodilla now ran down the road and| resistance. To people who would have | spoke twisted like—the mouth of one in his chin in his hands and that wild aan | in his eyes, as if he had been murder- | ing someone? And where was Mart? | This last she managed to gasp out as she | stood above him. She tried to ask it | sternly, but she could not, for the man | was suffering. into the village asif the air offered no | stopped her, seeing her excitement, she | only gasped out, ‘‘Somepin’ awful! Wingford’s ran on. The word went from mouth to mouth. kerried off little Mart!’ and Jim People gathered at their front gates, and | by universal accretion the story of the kidnapping was soon perfected, and only two or three bright souls thought to fol- low Lodilla home and get the correct version. There was the usual mounting in hot haste and chase after the fugitives, but it drew toward sundown and there was no news. -— = * There was no one in the Banks cottage but Martin Banks and his daughter, and Mrs. Clay inthe kitchen getting a per- functory supper. People had come, but old Martin was never a genial host, and he had coldly sent them all away, declin- ing their offers of companionship and cheer. ‘‘What ye kin do towadd findin the child we’ll thank ye for, but the’s noth- in’ any one kin do here,’’ he said grimly, and their sympathy, adulterated with curiosity, turned sour. ‘‘Let him find his own grandchild,” they said as they turned homeward. The clock had struck seven, and Mrs. Clay had just signified that supper was ready for whoever felt like eating. Old Martin stumbled out into the kitchen, saying, ‘‘Come, Sarah, better eat somepin’ an’ keep up your strength,” but as she lay tearless and exhausted on the lounge and made no motion, except to shake her head, he went out and closed the door. The straight rays of the sun lay across the lane between the willows and the locust trees. The tree toads had begun their croaking and the far-off sound of water falling over a dam lent the last drop of lonesomeness and desolation needed to fill the wretched cup of which poor Sarah Banks was being forced to drink. She shut her eyes, but she could not shut out the sight of little Mart, as she had seen him last feeding himself bread and milk and scattering what was left for the ‘‘chickies.” She should nev- er see him again, for, though Jim would be good to Mart, he would never let the boy come near her against whom he was so bitter. Perhaps if she had been more willing to let him have his privileges as afather she might have expected more now for herself. I1f she only knew where they were she would write, would beg, plead, promise anything—there was no anger, no desire for revenge in her terrified, bereaved heart. But Jim would not believe that, he would be as afraid of her now as she had been of him. ‘Sarah!’ She heard her name called softly. Wasit areal sound? She lifted her head and listened. ‘Sarah!’ There it was again, and it seemed to come from beneath the window outside. She sat up, saying breathlessly, ‘‘Well?” A face appeared at the window—a wretched, despairing, stricken face—a face that pitied and that asked for pity— was it Jim’s face? ‘Come out here, Sarah,’”’ he whispered, and she obeyed. Was that Jim sitting on the porch with |a horrified look came into her eyes, “Sarah,” he said, and his mouth as he torture, ‘‘Little Mart ain’t yours an’ he ain’t mine—we quar’led over him an’ we ain’t good enough to have him—I ain’t anyhow—an’ God’s gothim. ‘‘But,’’ as a wan’t my doin’s. Iloved him an’I’d a kep’ him out o’ harm’s way at the risk 0’ my own life. I meant to take him an’ I did take him but—oh, Sarah, the Lord’s mark was on him then an’ he died in my arms! We couldn’t git to a doctor quick enough. Come an’ see.” He led her down to the end of the lane where a bug- gy had driven in fromthe highroad. Be- side the stranger who sat there and who got down and went to his horse’s head as they drew near, turning his back to them, was something lying on the seat under the dust-robe. Sarah flew toward it, waving behind her the man who had been her husband and who was Mart’s father, and who now fell humbly and miserably back, acknoweledging her greater right. Little Mart lay onthe cushions, with dust on his shoes and berry stains on his little frock. There were stains of a deeper color around his mouth and he held in his stiffening hand a spire of poison berries, the berries nearly gone. That Jim Wingford still loved his wife was plain from the way in which he watched her face when her long gaze was satisfied and sheturned away. ‘‘You don’t blame me, Sarah?’ he almost sobbed, reaching out for her hand as she went past him. ‘No, you ain’t to blame,” she said, wearily. ‘‘I do’ know who’s to blame. Al! I know is I shan’t be uneasy about him any more, an’ ’m mos’ wore out frettin’.’”’ A sleepy look was settling upon her face, and she slept through the next four days, even miss- ing the funeral, for the doctor would not have her wakened. The neighborhood, already scandalized at this, should have been prepared for what happened some months later when Jim Wingford came and took Sarah Banks away as his wife a second time. ‘*He was dreadful keerful of her,” the people said who saw them drive away from the parsonage to the station. ‘‘An’ she seemed to take it ’thout noticin’. She won’t ever be the same agin.” Mary W. PLUMMER. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., WHOLESALE BOOTS AND SHOES. Wales Goodyear Rubbers, Boots, Shoes, Alaskas, Green Bays, Esquimaux and Portage Socks, Knit and Felt Boots. Dealers are cordially invited to send ir mail orders. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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AMONG THE TRADE, AROUND THE STATE. Durand—Perry & Winans succeed EI- mer Barlow in the meat business. lronwood—Geo. Brewer succeeds S. J. | Roberts in the furniture business. Harbor Springs—G. C. Adams succeeds Barber Bros. in the grocery business. Cheboy gan—E. O. Penny sueceeds Pen- ny & Frost in the dry goods business. West Bay City—John Taylor & Co. are succeeded by the West Bay City Shoe Co. Mt. Clemens—F. P. Hale sueceeds Wm. Schwegler in the confectionery business. Central Lake—Zeran & Atwood will shortly open a boot and shoe and grocery store. Potterville—Clarence Laverty succeeds C. C. Fast in the agricultural implement business. Alpena—Samuel Greenbaum H. & Son the business. succeeds Greenbaum in clothing Butternut—J. S. Dennis succeeds Den- nis & Boyer inthe grain and produce business. Lake Haffer Mary (Mrs. Nick) Kirchen in the grocery business. West Bay City—A. Linden—John sueceeds EK. (Mrs. J. W.) Morris is succeeded by Keiley & Co. in the grocery business. Saginaw—John Otto, Jr., succeeded by L. H. Genn in furnishing goods business & Co. the men’s Blissfield—Benfer & Houghtby Bros. | succeed A. C. Bartholomew in the furni- ture and undertaking business. Petoskey—C. C. Hammil has removed to the new Coburn block and will earry a full line of groceries and meat. East Jordan—Coulter & Jamison have solid their grocery stock to H. W. King, who has removed it to his own store. Hubbardston—F. A. signed his drug stock to O. C. Townsend. who will close out the stock at auction. Houghton—Ransom B. Sheldon has sold his drug stock, conducted under the style of Sheldon Bros. & Co., to Ruhl & Barry. Mt. Clemens—Moore & Etchell, dealers in women’s furnishing goods, have dis- solved, Squire J. business. Moore continuing the Owosso—D. L. Murphy has purchased the paint and wal! paper stock of James_ M. Tobin & Co., and wil! continue the business. Pewamo—John Simons has sold his dry goods stock to A. Fox and exchanged his grocery stock with Webber & for a farm. Detroit—Porteous, Hunter & Co. have dissolved, and are succeeded by Hunter, Glenn & Hunter in the dry goods and | millinery business. Mancelona—J. D. W. Stewart in the dry goods and bazaar business—not dry goods and clothing, as was stated last week. Lewis sueceeds Lewiston—The Michelson Lumber Co. has agreed to present a court- | house and jail tothe county if the county seat is moved to Lewiston. Petoskey—H. A. Easton, who has been | associated with the Brackett Hardware Co. for several years, has opened a hard- ware store on his own account in the new Coburn biock. Petoskey—Harner Bros. have pur- chased the Freeman boot and shoe stock and will continue the business in con- nection with their hat and cap and furn- ishing goods business. | are | Holbrook has as- Ruel | L. | ! & Hanson | East Jordan—John Boosinger recently | purchased the interest of D. C. the firm of F. E. Boosinger eral dealers, since which time the firm kas been known as Boosinger Bros. East Jordan—Dr. F. C. Warne will re- move his drug stock about March 1 to the new building of J. C. Glenn. The store now occupied by him will then be opened by the Giant Clothing House. | Grand Ledge—Moulder & Lockwood have sold their grocery stock to Streete: & Shadduck, put will continue in the boot and shoe business. Mr. Streeter was formerly engaged in trade. at Wacousta and Delta. Plainwell—The firm of Case & Balch, shoe merchants, has been dissolved, W. D. Case having sold his interest to John | P. Forbes, of Pensacola, Fla., who come here to live. The business hereafter be conducted under name of Balch & Forbes. Muskegon—V. H. Yost, who for the past two years has been connected with the grocery house of A. Tow], E. West- ern has gone to Charlevoix, where he enters the retail meat business in his behalf. His position | Mr. Towl is taken by Henry Walde. will wil! the firm avenue, own with MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Lake Linden—Mrs. E. P. ceeds Berry & Hollopeter in | manufacturing business. Ludington—Butters & Peters are buy- | ing hardwood logs at the rate of 100,000 | to 150,000 feet a week. They mostly | come from farmers’ cuttings. Bay City—The Folsom & Arnold saw- ; mill will not go out of commission, as Berry sue- the cigar ‘has been reported. but will be operated as usual to saw the company’s logs com- ing from Canada. Detroit—The Cabinet Cigar Co., not has. dissolved. > Sweeney continues the wholesale and retail business and W. D. Healey con- tinues the manufacturing business, under | the same style. | Dunean City—Thompson Smith’s Sons ‘have closed a deal for 70,000,000 feet of Canadian pine on the Massasauga river about 25 miles north of Thesalon. This firm owns 200,000,000 feet of pine in the Georgian Bay district. Ludington—The Danaher & Melendy Co. is putting 85,000 feet of logs daily into Tallman iake, that district, from whence they will be taken next season and loaded on Flint & Pere Marquette railway cars for transportation to Lud- ington to be sawed. Muskegon—The hardwood tracts in Muskegon territory are coming into use and the cut year by year will increase. Last season Monroe & Brinen floated down the Muskegon river 1,000,000 feet of ash, which brought a good return. They also had one lot of 2,000,000 feet of ; pine, which brought more by the mill run, itis said, than any other choice / stock manufactured here. Bay City—Capt. James Davidson has sold five schooners during the last three /months at $35,000 each. He has two more on hand and is getting out a large quantity of ship timber in northern Mich- | incorporated, igan. Captain Davidson is building a steamer for the Lake Superior lumber trade, 240 feet long, 37 feet beam and 13 | feet depth of hold, to cost $70,000. It has a capacity to carry 1,000,000 feet of | | lumber. —"63© 2a | Use Tradesman Coupon Books. | | PATRONS OF INDUSTRY. Hurd in| Rise and Fall of the Order--Its Founder & Co., gen- Now a Grocer. From the Sanilac County Republican. | | : is ; Afew days agoa gentleman in Sani- | | lac Centre entertained at his home over | } night one of the most notable ceptional characters in the Sanilae county. Five years ago he was known and talked about throughout Michigan and mary other states of the Union. Now he is practically forgotten and his name is rarely mentioned. We refer to F. W. Vertican, of Port Huron, the founder of the P. of I. Formerly he was a preacher inthe U. atthe time he became known to fame was successfully cultivating a small farm in Moore township. There, through dis- content and brooding over his lot, was greatest furore ever known in the State. With his plans he went to Port Huron and by the assistance of some old organ- izers perfected them, came _ back ordinate lodge of the P. of I. in the Unit- ed States. The scheme was popular, spread rapidly, and within two years near- ly every county in Michigan was thor- oughly organized, besides large numbers in Ohio, New York, Indiana and other Western States. In this State alone 80,- 000 members were claimed and in Sani- lac county, between 3,000 and 5,000 were actually enrolled. The Grand officers re- ceived princely salaries and Vertican himself married a prominent society lady and lived in regal state at Port Hu- ron. Couscious of the power of the new society, a few designing ones saw a mag- nificent opportunity for the use of its in- fluence in polities. Vertican was de- posed and the P. of I. went into the campaign of 1890 with some of the State’s most experienced ringsters at its head. From that moment the order began to crumble and to-day the State’s member- ship is but a handful. In Sanilae coun- ty, where it was nurtured and cradled, it is practically extinet. The first lodge instituted by Vertican in the little log school house at Urban is about the only one now in active operation with dues paid. ‘The annual meetings of two years ago were the greatest days in Sanilac Centre. The county convention called for last Wednesday was attended by three of the county officers and not a sin- gle delegate. Vertican now keeps a small grocery in an obscure quarter of Port Huron. Recently he applied to Grand President Partridge for a com- mission to revive his dying offspring and offered to do it at a salary of $40 per month and expenses. He was offered his expenses only and may not accept. Mr. Vertican is certainly a man of consider- able genius and native energy. Under conditions not of his own creation, a luminous product of his brain has sunk into dark and deserved oblivion, but he may be heard from again. Timely Caution to the Diamond Match Company. From the Insurance World. If the worthy gentlemen who control a monopoly of the trade in matches in the United States will give ear to reason, they willimprove the quality of their product, even if in so doing they have to sacrifice a tithe of their present profits. Some of the matches now sold are a nuisance because of their unreliability, while others are a constant source of danger to property, if not to life, even in the hands of careful people. A portion of these latter drop a portion of the in- flammable composition invariably, and if it happens to light on combustible material a fire is pretty sureto result. Much clothing has been ruined in this way, and no end of profanity provoked. Another class of dangerous matches is the kind so highly charged with explosive that when struck a part of it flies through the air to a considerable distance, and is likely to do harm to whatever it happens to reach inits flight. At least one in- stance is known where the sight of eyes was lost through material from one of these percussion matches, to say nothing | of less serious hurts and annoyances fol- | lowing their use. The match plays an | important part in increasing the fire | losses of the country, and wiil no doubt and ex- | history of | P. church, but | evolved what subsequently created the | to} Mooretown and organized the first sub- | continue to do so until human ingenuity }evolves a substitute for it. But the | match makers could decrease its harm- ‘fulness in this as in other respects if they desired to do so. ee Purely Personal. Stephen S. Schantz, the Woodland gen- eral dealer, wasin town one day last | week for the purpose of being sworn in ‘as a deputy revenue collector. His sole iduty as aservant of Unele Sam will be | to weigh the maple sugar presented to | him for the sake of the bounty. S. B. Calkins, the Central Lake drug- gist, was in town several days last week. | Mr. Calkins has recently patented a dis- | play rack for legal blanks, which he will shortly place on the market. The device is so simple and so manifestly essential | to the sale of this line of goods that it will undoubtedly meet with a large sale. |; Hull Freeman, the Mancelona grocer, was in town last week and purchased Manley Jones’ half interest in Hub Bak- er’s rafiled-off-mare. | No one would sus- | pect Hub of practicing such deception, |but he attempted to palm off on his | friend Freeman a horse slightly affected with the heaves, glanders, spavin, spring j halt and pink-eye. Freeman was too | sharp for him, bowever, taking from the stable a horse worth easily twice what he paid for him. i O- The Grocery Market. Sugar—The American Sugar Refineries Co. reduced the price of all grades, ex- cept the five lower grades, last week. The change was not made to meet com- petition, but encourage buying and cause a movement in the surplus stocks. Coffee—The raw market utterly featureless. The action of Arbuckle in relieving the jobber from the contract price has been followed by the other manufacturers of package goods, so that the price is now open all along the line. The list remains the same as before; but there will probably be no attempt to absolutely maintain it. Local authorities are of the opinion that the limit will be put on again after a vigorous campaign of cutting. Spices—All grades of gingers are higher, on account of scarcity. Other varieties are unchanged, except pepper, which is firmer. to is _>-- <—>—_-—___ Slaughter in Pickles. To close out my stock of mixed pickles, I quote them at bargain prices: Sour mixed pickles per half barrel $4. Sweet mixed pickles per half barrel $5. Special prices for job lots. Five per cent. discount for cash with order. These goods are guaranteed not to scum or ferment and to give perfect sat- isfaction. Cuas. W. SHEppD, Pickle Manufacturer, 860 Madison avenue, Grand Rapids. > - 2. <> Energetic solicitor wanted to fill agen- cy position, representing the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J. Good territory. Commission and renewal contract. Excellent opening for business man or traveler. Address, con- fidentially, H. R. Whitman, Supt. Michi- gan Agencies, Grand Rapids. Wayne County Savings Bonk, Delrol, Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds wiil find itto their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 8 per cent, on deposits, compounded semi-annually. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. >< * € « , - » S 9 > ~< * € « » ye « rm ww - s « 7” “ ~~ « . GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. F. C. Woodin has opened a grocery store at Petoskey. The Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. furnished the stock. C. C. Comstock, who has conducted a grocery store at 333 Canal street for the past twenty years, closing out the stock and will retire from the business. Dallavo has purchased the Wyman property, at Wyman, and will shortly embark in general trade. Olney & Judson Grocer Co. has the order for the grocery stock. is John Johu W. Cazier has opened a dry goods and grocery store at Conklin. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods and the Ball-Barnbart-Putman Co. supplied the groceries. C. Ainsworth has closed out business and given up the store at the corner of South Division and Oakes streets. He will re-engage in the wool business as soon as the season ——“—>-e Gripsack Brigade. A. 8. Doak and Valda Johnston have so far recovered from their recent attacks of illness as tobe able to resume their regular routes again. his seed opens. ‘*] never tell any stories,” remarked a genial traveler. ‘‘I find that business men will deal with a drummera great sight quicker if he has no yarns to spin. You see he is at once impressed with the great novelty of such a salesman, and while he is trying to discover how such a thing as a silent traveling man can ex- ist and sel] goods, he buys a big. bill. That has been my watchword of success —never tell a story.”’ The boys have a good one on Charley Robinson now. He made no end of fun of Herbert Baker because Hub stood on the depot platform at Reed City several months ago and let a train he proposed taking slip away without him, owing to the animation of the conversation he was conducting. Robinson repeated the experiment up at Newberry one day last week, being compelled to get up at 2 o’clock in the morning in order to get into the Soo in time to keep his engage- ments with his customers. “The life of a commercial traveler,” says a Knight of the Grip, ‘‘is not one long poetic dream, let me tell you. The pilgrim’s path does not lie ever through a Vale of Tempe. He must be able to eat anything and sleep anywhere. He must have sufficient muscle to play dray horse for his own baggage in towns that have not reached the dignity of ’busses and express wagons, and cheek enough to get to the front, no matter who trots in the procession. One day he takes his dinner at Delmonico’s, and the next he stands up in a comfortless shed and stores his internal economy with leather pies and slumgullion, whose alias is cof- fee. He reposes cne night on a spring mattress with pillows of eider down, and the next he bunks with a rank stranger, who snores like a diphtheretic fog-horn and insists on taking his half of the corn- cob mattress out of the middle. One day his meals are brought to him by a pretty lass, whose cheek looks like a ripe peach and whose voice sounds like a bulbul warbling in the gardens of Cashmere; the next a big cornfield negro pokes his head into the dining room and inquires in stentorian tones: ‘Hamerliver, salt pok- erbiled aigs?’ It’s a grand transforma- tion scene, and the man who cannot The | | But my ideas of happiness have had a} a |; which have appeared in your paper from time | severe shock within the past ten years. | PE M pe THE MICHIGAN | | for he will find it a hard one to travel.” ‘ Stove and Hardware Reporter: When la boy I always had a great desire to be-| 70 r sling salesman. They see | : | come a traveling salesman. They _ CR cane Gaba Bons of times, | to me to have the finest kind les might just as well get off the road, | ed ; | | riding on the cars, seeing so much of the | |} country, and living off the fat land. LIthoughtif I could only get on | the road and make the money they were |making I should be supremely happy. | | I have attained the place | coveted when | a boy, but, alas for my childish hopes! | all. | appear to like | scene, but when one gets right down to i the question I believe the majority of them would say they were tired of the life. There are desirable things about it, but the most desirable one is the money to be made out of it. Salesmen, as a rule, are paid well for their success—in fact, a house has no use for a salesman who does not command a good salary. If he a large salary on the road he had better go into another businsss. Itis this one matter of salary that keeps many men on the road. They say they can’t make as much money in anything else, and their hope is to be able to retire and go into business for themselves later in life, to get a position with the house in the home office. Traveling men, asa rule, are a healthy set and are usually con- sided good risks by the life insurance men. Those who stay on the road get used to the changes and take care of themselves. Still itis not the pleasant- est thing in the world to start out one of these cold days and strike a town where one has to ride a mile to the hotel, and have to sleep in a damp, cold bed. Some service in the country is fine, while there is much which is wretched. One has to put up with much discomfort, and the eonscientious salesman earns every cent of his salary, however much it may be. To be successful on the road a man must be especially fitted for his business. There is nothing easy about the work. It takes keener business men to succeed as traveling salesmen than as merchants. But it may also be said that some travel- ing men would not be successful at the head of business concerns no matter how efficient they may be as salesmen. Much ean be accomplished in training, but without natural aptness a man had bet- ter not travel. or — i i Wholesale Grocers Unite on the Trust Plan. Four of the largest wholesale grocery houses of St. Louis are about to perfect a consolidation of interests on the trust plan, under which the four establish- ments will be operated as one, and all expenses and earnings will be pooled on an agreed basis. Three of the four are already incorporated under the Missouri law—the Goddard Peck Grocery Co., the Greeley-Burnham Grocery Co. and 1. W. |Seudder & Co. The forth, E. G. Scudder & Co.,isapartnership firm. Twothings are first to be satisfactorily settled, the value of the stocks of the respective con- cerns, and the basis of representation for each. Whenthis is done, anew company will be organized which will proceed to buy the stock of the four concerns, and pay for them with stock of the new com- pany. Itis intimated that possibly the other leading grocery jobbing houses in St. Louis may join in the combination, but the consummation of the movement named does not depend upon the consent | or co-operation of the other houses. It is true there are ] sally true there are men who rea y | that we can take care of our interests and make the constant change of} u |} and our just dues. | ple that we are not dead. can’t do good enough work to command | of the | the laws revised on that vital point TRADESMAN. ; : l | ; adapt himself to all the lightning chang- | Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association. President, A. J. Elliott; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. Official Organ—MicuiGaAN TRADESMAN. Jackson Grocers’ Union, President, D. S. Fleming; Sec’y, N. H. Branch. xrand Haven Retail Grocers’ Association. Secretary, Peter VerDuin. Grand Haven Grocers in Line on Or- ganization. Granp Haven, Feb. 13—I am speaking for the grocers of Grand Haven. We have an organiza- tion of our grocers, about seventeen in number. We want to let you know thit we area part of the people, and that we are in favor of having We have all read, with great pleasure, the masterpieces to time in defense of ourinterests. I cannot add anything else tothe sound logic of those men, but we must have protection, and it can only be | brought about by the strong arm of the law. | | lue : : : | I think that now is the time that we should rise | 1 found it was not such a fine thing after in all the strength of manhood and prove to the business men of this State and the dead-beats the rascals come to time. ” Our motto is “Justice We have to show the peo We ought to have a | convention, and we should come well prepared, filled with enthusiasm and push, and see that we get laws made which are just and which pro- tect our honest business men from rascals. Let every organization send a certain number of delegates to the convention—men of backbone and principle—-to consider the best way to go to work. Would you please inform me what is necessary for representation there? On what date will the convention be held? What subjects will be discussed there? Can or will laws be passed by the present Legislature which will look toward remedying present evils? We would like to hear from you on these points as soon as possible. J would very much like to know by Thursday night, if possible, so I can report at our meeting. Why don’t we see something in your paper about Grand Haven? We feel that we ought to have a more generous recognition in your paper? Ever your friend, PETER VER Duin, Sec’y. Proper replies were made to the above en quiries, when Mr. VerDuin responded as fol- lows: Granp Haven, Feb. 17—We had an association of all the business men of the town, but it didn’t work very well, soit broke up. We believe in an association where all of the men are of the same occupation and in the same line of work. We heartily favor the idea of a State league of grocers’ associations and we are already pre pared for a convention, as we know it would be a good thing and that it would benefit us all. We have already appointed a committee of three to represent us at the convention, consisting of John Boer, Peter VerDuin and Egbert Holle- stelle. Weall think that a convention onght to be held and the sooner the better. say March 1. Our association is prospering nicely and we have already made hundreds of dollars by our organization. Hoping our cause will prosper and that we may hear from you at any time on any subject akin to the retail grocery trade, we are Yours truly, PererR VER DUIN, Sec’y. i 2 Jackson Grocers Favor a State League. Jackson, Feb. 12—At the last meeting of the Jackson Grocers’ Union, I read your reply to my 5 questions in regard to the sugar matter. The answers were so explicit and satisfactory to the members that they passed a vote of thanks to you for your courtesy. Your letter in regard to a grocers’ league was received and a motion was passed favoring the organization. Icannot send you this as official, but for fear that our Secretary has not found time to write you, I thought I would advise you privately. I see that the Grand Rapids grocers have tackled a little end of the exemption laws. Can we not get a few good heads among the business men and the help of some of the members of the Legislature and revise the laws, so that they will be more reasonable than they are? I find by talking with some of our State law-makers that the grocerand merchant are looked upon as bloated bond holders and a common prey for all classes of people torob. I wish that some of them had to tackle business for a few weeks this winter, on the same terms as the average grocer. I think they would come to the conclusion there was something the matter with their spectacles. With regards to THE TRrapESMAN, and thanks for your kindvess, I am tespectfully yours, W. H. PortER, Chairman Committee on Trade Interests. the More Made iMore sold Ore NILOKet Than any Other Cigars Michigan GhU. MOBS & OO. Celebrated Brands, Made on Honor ! Sold on Merit | Quality Sterling Durability Guaranteed a Finish Finest Price Satisfying > Ow Aw No Wheel Competes with Them! ao SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ue / YOST MEG. GO., Toledo, 0. a Detroit Cycle Co., Sole Agents for State of Michigan. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TWO TENDERFEET. The ‘“‘old timer” in Colorado has a su- preme contempt for tenderfeet—or new- comers. This feeling is gradually dying out, but it will never be wholly extinct until the last old timer has passed ‘‘over the range.’’ There was a time, however, when the old timer looked upon the ten- derfoot as an interloper and usurper. Less than ten years ago two bright young fellows from New York arrived in Colorado, bearing letters of introduction to the most prominent and wealthy men in Denver. They were young meu of ample fortunes, and announced their in- tention of engagingin mining. They did not desire to purchase a mine. They wanted the excitement of prospecting. They were hale and hearty and were anxious for the experience of roughing it. Among others to whom they brought letters of introduction was Uncle Billy Golden, an old timer, who had struck it rich in‘ Leadville, and was rated finan- cially at $3,000,000. ° Uncle Billy had all the pioneer dislike for tenderfeet, but these young men were such manly, independent fellows that they soon found favor in the old man’s eyes, so that one morning when they came to him and announced their inten- tion of going to Leadville to prospect fer “carbonates,” the old man gave some very valuable information. He told them of a locality where he was confident they would find mineral. He shook them warmly by the band at parting, and they promised to take his advice and never to forget his great kindness. “Those boys have the right kind of Stuff in them,” said Uncle Billy. A month later he received a letter from the boys. They had located a claim in the exact spot suggested by him, and had named the claim the ‘‘Uncle Billy” in his honor. They were very sanguine of striking mineral, and as Uncle Billy had given them a ‘‘pointer” on this promising location, they felt that they ought to show their appreciation in some sub- Stantial way, so they had sent him a deed to a one-third interest in the **Uncle Billy”? mine. Two months passed by and Uncle Billy received occasional letters from his young tenderfoot friends. They had not struck mineral, but they were expecting to do so any day. A few weeks later Uncle Billy received the following telegram: New York, July 10, 1892. To William Golden, Denver, Col : What will you take for the “Uncle Billy” mine? Spot cash. Answer quick. J Mapison Wateut & Co. This telegram set Uncle Billy to think- ing. He reasoned that the boys had struck it in this mine and had acquainted their New York friends with the fact, He had been purposely kept in ignorance so that they could buy him out cheap. It was all clear to Uncle Billy. He had been through a number of mining trans- actions, but he had never yet been ‘done up by a tenderfoot,’’ as he ex- pressed it. He wired back: Denver, July 10, 1892. J. Madison Wright & Co., New York: I cannot make a figure without consulting my partners, who are now in Leadville. If you want my one third iuterest wire me and I will came price. Wicitam GOLDEN. That night came the answer: Must have the entire property. See your part- ners and fix lowest possible price. English cap- italists waiting. J Mapison Wricut & Co. The next night Uncle billy arrived in Leadville, and early the next morning started for the mine. He _ had little trouble in finding it, for the fame of the “Uncle Billy” had quietly spread throughout the camp. “ait?” This challenge brought Uncle Billy to a sudden standstill. It came from a miner standing infront of the ‘“‘Uncle Billy’? shaft house. Ashe gave the com- mand he lowered a Winchester rifle to ey- force it if necessary. A parley ensued, Uncle Billy learned that the mines had been closed and left under an armed guard. No one was al- lowed on the premises. *‘] am one of the owners of this mine!’ exclaimed Uncle Billy. “IT can’t help that,’? was the reply. **You can’t come any further. I’ve got my orders and now you’ve got yours. Keep off.’’ | ‘“‘Where are young Jackson and Mil- ler?” *‘In Denver.’’ Uncle Billy managed to get a handful of the dirt on the dump when the sentry was not looking and made a dignified re- treat. ‘I see how it is,’? he said, ‘“‘these young tenderfeet are trying to do me up. Ill show ’em a trick with a hole in it.”’ He hurried back to Denver and found young Jackson, one of the co-owners of the ‘‘Uncle Billy” mine. ‘“How much do you and Miller want for your interest?” asked Uncle Billy. ‘‘We are not anxious to sell,’’ replied Jackson. ‘‘We think we have a pretty good thing, but if you want our interest you can have it for $100,000 cash.’ ‘Come in this evening,’’ replied Uncle Billy. og at once wired J. Madison Wright & Will take $500,000 for ‘“‘Uncle Billy” mine. The answer came promptly: Terms satisfactory. Will leave for Denver to night. This telegram was signed ‘‘J. Madison Wright. That evening William Golden gave James Jackson a check for $100,000 and received a quit claim deed to the prop- erty. Then he waited for J. Madison Wright. Four days passed. J. Madison was due to arrive. A week elapsed and no J. Madison came. Then Uncle Billy telegraphed the firm of J. Madison Wright & Co. and inquired about the delay. He received an answer that they did not know to what delay he referred. Explanations followed and Unele Billy learned that no telegrams had been sent him by the firm of J. Mad- ison Wright &Co. “If any such were sent they were forgeries,’ the telegram concluded. ‘‘Buncoed!” exclaimed Uncle Billy, “‘and by tenderfeet, too.’’ * + # James Jackson and John Miller were sitting on the veranda of a quaint little hotel in the south of France in the early summer of 1884. A bottle of wine and a box of cigarettes were onthe table. Mil- ler was laughing uproarously. “You ought to have seen the look on the old man’s face,”’ said Jackson, as he lighted a cigarette, ‘‘when I gave him the deed. He actually thought he was doing us up in great style. I would have liked to have seen him when he got into that sand bank, which we called a mine.” “I suppose he has found out by this time that 1 sent those telegrams,” said Miller as he raised a glass of wine to his lips. ‘Oh, well,” he continued, when he had drained the glass, ‘‘it was only $100, 000, and he has more left, while we will soon have to goto work again, for we have only $15,000 left. Why, what is the matter, old man?’ he suddenly asked, as he observed his companion gaz- ing at a London paper, his face pale and his hand trembling. ‘‘What is the mat- ter, old man? Are they after us?” ‘Read it,’ replied Jackson. Miller picked up the paper and read: ‘The Denver Tribune records a wonder- ful mining case. William Golden, the noted Colorado millionaire and mine owner, has just sold the ‘‘Uncle Billy” mine on Fryer Hill, Leadville, to an English syndicate for £1,000,000. Dur- ing the past two years this mine has pro- duced £300,000.” Miller’s face was white. trembled as he said: buncoed, er A Sensitive Paint. It is reported that a chemist has in- vented a paint which is sensitive to changes of temperature. At ordinary temperatures it is a bright yellow, but as it grows warmer it begins to assume an orange tinge, and at a temperature of 220 degrees it becomes a bright red. As it cools it assumes its original color, and it may be heated over and over again with the same effect. It is suggested that this paint may be used to great advantage on parts of machinery liable to become heat- ed from friction, where it would at once report any abnormal rise of temperature by its change of color. His lips “We've been Hr Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. — bueebe ta uce 7 Arrow Brand 5% ene 6 ‘World Wide. 6 aaeax Mees 8 6 Me es ees Atlantic Bo 6%|Full Yard Wide..... 6% occ ee ee 6% com 4... 5. 8 ' r...4.,... 5%/|Honest Width....... 6% . _ Ee G6 errors ......... 5 - Ae 5 indian Head........ 7 ee Smee es A. 6% Archery Bunting... 4 |KingEC. ve. 2 Beaver Dam A 534|Lawrence Ee 4% Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth oa Deeck Crow......... 6 Newmarket : beuacd Deeck Mook ........ er UD Uhm. ss Doe, Bhs... ......., 7 x cces 6% Capeeee AL. 5% a BD... Cavenss ¥.......... 5% . Me est 6% Chapman cheese cl. 3x mee @...c 5 Coe CR... 544;Our Level Best..... 6% NE i ccc, eee 6}..|Oxford R 6 Dwient Star......... 6% 7 Clifton CCC........ 64% /S _... Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. Bee. ........4,.... 814|Geo. ee: _. Amazon. Glen Mills.. : Are... ww Gold Medal.. ™ Avt Campric........ 10 |Green Ticket 8% Blackstone AA..... 7 |Great Falls... 6% Beate AnN............ SIG OO o.oo 74 eee 1 jJust Out.....- 4%@ 5 ees. 74 |King Phillip eee 7% J — UCU ™% Charter Oak........ 54%4|Lonsdale Cambric..10 Conway WW. ........ 744|Lonsdale...... Cleveland ...... ... 7 iMiddicsexr.... .. Dwight Ancher..... 84%/No Name... ‘* s shorts. 8 [Oak coi Rewards. ........... 6 |Our Ow eee. ...........- 7 |Prideof ro West Peewee... 2c. 7%|Rosalind..... - Fruit of the Loom. $% Suntight .... 4% Pees ..... .... Utica Mills... . 8& Pies Priso.... -.... . Nonpareil ..10 Fruit of the Loom %. tM Vigerd.......... Panmouns........:. 4%4|White Horse. Pall Velue.......... x! 60s Rock... HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. Cenee.. 2... 7 |Dwight Anchor..... 8% Parwct....... ..... 8 CANTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. ae Housewife A........ 5% Housewife ©... - B.... 5% i. cf .. 6 - Ss uaa DB. ...... 6% ne 7. “e = ......, 7 - ius - yr... Th, " Vv . ....... 7% - ee 10% . fr . 7K = - Lo bly - z.. . 8x = .. “cc K 9% - i. . —— i S 10% ' i. oe a . i 21 - r. 14% CARPET WARF. Peerless, white.. o va. meas ae colored....2 coe Whit a 18 Beeeetrey. 18% . " oolewed. 20 DRESS GOODS. Peeeeee............ 5 emeem...... ..... 20 ' aes cease ec ae 25 ss tierce: ee eee 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 ss esas ese Nameless ot cee 16 - --oe% eae elie 18 “or oe CORSETS, Coreen. ....... 2.2 «= 50|Wonderful .... ....84 50 Schilling’s. «os @ Olena... ........ 4% Davis Waists..... 9 00 porerees .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50j|Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. Bee cs... 6X ene satteen.. a Androsco: oggin aseas ae oe 6% eS CUROMOER. ...... 2... T% Eeauewiek. .... .... o% Melworem -......... 6% ‘— INTS. Allen turkey reds.. Berwick fancies.... 5% oe... .... Clyde Robes........ . ink & purple 6 |Charter Oak fancies 4% - — ...... 6 DelMarine cashm’s. 6 ss pink checks. 6 mourn’g 6 - staples ...... 6 Eddystone fancy... 6 _ shirtings . 4% chocolat 6 American fancy.. 5% - rober ... 6 American indigo.. " 61% . sateens.. 6 American shirtings. 5 Hamilton a - _s Argentine Grays.. 3 - e.... © Anchor —-- Manchester ancy. 6 Arnold ee 8 new era, 6 Arnold Merino.... Merrimack D fancy. 6 long cloth B. 19% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4% Cc. ° Rep ns 8% “century cloth 7 Pacific taney . oe = soeoe..... 10% ae 6% ‘green seal TR10\ meaaneuee robes... 6 ‘* “yellow seal. _ Simpson mourning.. 6 . —— ae nae 11% r — os oe 6 “ a red. 10% es solid black, 6 Ballou wold lack Washington indigo. 6 “colors. 5% ‘* Turkey robes.. 7% Bengal bl blue, on, ‘* India robes.. Hi and orange... 5%} ‘ plain Ty XX om Berlin RE won no ss 5% p a ot Bine...... 6%| “ Ottoman Tur $ - Gem .... i bere... “ Foulards 5% Martha Washington ~~ 22 ........ Turkey red %..... ™% ss ~ wo 9%| Martha Washington ss = 6h........ 10 Turkey red........ 9% ” “ 34XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes 5% Cocheco a ees : Windsor ae or % et - be 4 twills.. i indigo — ian ol, 10 . ee 544/Harmony......... TICKINGS, Amoskeag ACA....i3 A. 4. 2 ee. 7%| Pemberton AAA....16 6 D...... ieee... 8.8, ” ' Awning..11 |Swift River......... % eee ws ook a S ree Biver......... 12% Pie Pre.......... 10%| Warren....... ec 13% Lenox Mills ........ hoes... 16 COTTON DRILL. Soom, ois 6% ~sg- a eres 8 esas shee cine Me MEO 2 o. - 7% outton, es icuics Top of H Heap ssun dons 9 DEMINS. Amoskeag es cece 12%/Columbian brown. .12 705... 13%| Everett, blue........ 12% - brown .13 ~ Oeewn. ....12% emower. 2k. 11% Haymaker pine, .... 1% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown.. “an . Be... 0 Wate... ... |. 1 % _ .. Lancasiér ede: cae 12% Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 — e eae 13% blue 8% ake * d«& twist 10% . No. 250. 11% Columbian AX br.10 ' No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS, ATROREe . 5... »..- 74 Lancaster, staple... 7 ‘* Persian dress Bia fancies . % - Canton .. 8% o Normandie 8 eS APC...... “10% Lancastire.........- 6 . Teazle...104|Manchester......... 5% . Angola. .10% Monorram.......... 6% . Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... T% Arlington staple.... 64%/Persian...... a. oa; Arasapha fancy ... 4%/Renfrew ‘Dress...... ™%, Bates Warwick dres 8%|Rosemont........... 6% . staples. 6%|Slatersville ......... 6 Centennial......... 10%/Somerset............ z Criterion ..... ee ecoeem ............ % Cumberland staple. 5% on du Nord. ...... 10% Cumberiand.... .... Wereem.... 7% eek... 2. a4 ‘* seersucker.. 7% mee Vac Wwarwiee.... ...... Everett classics..... 844; Whittenden......... 6% so aga es 7% re heather dr. 8 Glenarie. . Lewes ae ° indigo blue 9 Glenarven.. a 63% |Wamsutta staples. . — Glenweed........... 7% Westbrook ee. Heapenn.... . 1... a 10 Jobnson Vhalon cl 4%/Windermeer........ 5 . indigo bine SGiVorm .... .......... 6% a zephyrs 16 GRAIN BAGS, Amoskeag......... 16% Pyatios City.........- 15% MORE. 0... ses ce ene SOM IGOOTEIS ae 15% Arpereeen..... ... 1.4 7 [Pace ....... 13 THREADS, Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 Coa ,.7. &P.......45 (earnais.... ..-... 88 Holyoke Le ete cy 22% KNITTING COTTON, White. Colored. —_. Colored =. 66... oe a ino. M.. 37 42 _ S34... a Soe eel ee 43 , ee oi 6...... 44 ' a... oo Hf 45 CAMBRICS, eee o mevers.......... & White Star...... + O OCnwOGd.... Roa Gove .......... > wees... S Newmarket......... > erunewitk ........ 5 RED FLANNEL, eee. 82s 32% : a eons es Creoeeeee......... Baer 4.00... , 2... 32% Paiset REE... 30 J R P22 n......... 35 Nemelos...........8°% Buckeye a 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid. 40 cooeey OW ........ 17% Caen He... wo... mea Western W ......... 18% ree. La. CO a 18% Gos Weatern........ 20 Flushing Sen... 23% Union B. .-.+-22%]| Manitoba. . .. 23% ‘ DOMET eo Nameless ous : a de 9 @10% oe “on” C neuen 12% ae AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black. 9% 9% Sigil %&% 10% 10% 10% 10% 1044] 11% 114% 11K 11% 11% 114%]12 12 12 12% 12% 124%]20 20 20 DUCKS. Severen, 8 os........ 9%|West Point, 80z....10% Mayland, 8oz....... 10% On -..12% Greenwood, 7% oz... 9% ais. 1002 eed cogs 13% Greenwood. 8 oz... isgisterk( 13% Dowson, 6 On......... 10% |Boston, 10 oz........ 12% WADDINGS. i 25 |Per bale, 40 doz... $3 50 Colored, dos........ _ wooeorca CL... 7 50 SILES1as, Slater, iron Cross... 8 (Fawineket.......... 10% Ree Crom.... 9 (Dungis ............. © ee 10% Pome. cl. ce 10% oon SEWING SILK, Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli knitting, twist, doz..4¢ per oz ball...... 30 50 yd, doz. .40 HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS, No 1 Bk & White.. e~ No 4Bl’k & White..15 2 -20 = 2 _ ee ~ - ».25 No 2—20, a a 50. a 7 2...... 40 a0, 6 U.......- No 2 White & Br 12 No 3 White & BI’k..20 “ 4 “as a “ 10 oe L 23 “ 6 oe 8 a 12 ity cee SAFETY PINS. i = ihod.... «se NEEDLES—PER M A. a. ee : 40 Steamboat Lous we ww 2 Crowely’ . := on Myed.......... 1 50 Marsh: Vs. ; “TABLE ‘on . am, «8 BS 3 --195 6—4...2 95 “210 "310 OTTON an. —— Sail Twine. a oes... 18 ae 12 Rising ' Star4-ply....17 Secon Lee ae 18 3- ply... ‘17 ee oe a. peorth Gier.......... 20 MIME oe. 13 [Wool Standard 4 plyl7% Cherry Valley...... 1 Powhatan .......-. oe... 1 PLAID OSNABURGS mene 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% Alamence,..:....... 6%/Oneida........ 5 ED ow. sec ce os 7%|Prymont . - OM Ar 8a _ ished mele 6 |Randelman Geor: Gran be ce Haw River aw J ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. q BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. TELEGRAM—NECESSITY—SUNDAY LAW. The sending to a daughter of a tele- graph message informing her of her mother’s dangerous sickness and improb- able reeovery is a work of necessity, ac- cording to the decision of the Appellate Court of Indiana in the case of the West- ern Union Telegraph Company vs. Esk- ridge. Inthe same case the court held that a demurrer would not lie to a com- plaint upon a contract which on its face was regular and lawful because it ap- peared also on its face to have been exe- cuted on Sunday, but that the question must be reached by answer. TRADE NAME — MEDICINAL TIONS. The Supreme Court of Minnesota held in the recent case of Watkins vs. Landon et. al., that any person lawfully acquir- ing a knowledga of the composition of any medicinal preparation, not patented, has the legal right to manufacture and sell the same, if, by reason of the man- ner in which such knowledge is acquired, that would not constitute a breach of confidence or good faith; that he may also publish the fact that his product is made in accordance with the original formula therefor, butthat when such a prepara- tion has come to be popularl, known by the name of a person, another person engaging in the manufacture has noright to appropriate that name to his own ex- clusive use as a proprietary trade-mark or trade name. PREPARA- BANK CHECK--CERTIFICATION--LIABILITY. In the case of Meridan National Bank of Indianapolis vs. First National Bank of Shelbyville, where it appeared that a per- son sold stolen property and received for it a check in an assumed name or order on appellant bank, whicb was not paid for want of identification, but was certified by the appellant bank and afterward paid by appellee without identification to the payee, who indorsed it in his as- sumed name to the appellee, the Appel- late Court of Indiana held that the drawer had no power to countermand such check after its certification; that the certifica- tion created a direct liability from the certifying bank to the payee and the ap- pellee bank his indorsee; that the certifi- cation operated as a payment by the cer- tifying bank of the drawers’ account to the amount of the check: that the appel- lee bank, a bona-fide indorsee for value, took the check freed from any equities existing between the original parties, and that the indorsement of his assumed name by the pay was valid and passed the title to the check. LOTTERY—AUSTRAIN PREMIUM BONDS. In the case of Horner vs. United States, the Supreme Court at Washington lately held that certain ‘‘Austrian premium bonds,” for which the appellant was agent, were “‘lottery” bonds within the meaning of the recently passed anti-lot- tery law which prohibits the mailing of matter relating to any lottery, so-called gift concert. or other similar enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance. The bonds in question, which were issued to raise a loan of 40,000,000 gulden, were to be each of the value of 100 florins, and to be redeemed whenever a number corresponding to the number of the bond should be drawn, a certain number of drawings each year being pro- vided for, and during the first year each bondholder whose bond was redeemed was to receive 135 florins, this amount increasing five florins per year up to the maximum of 200 florins, the last of the bonds to be redeemed in fifty-five years. On the part of the appellant it was con- tended that the plan, which had for its primary object a loan, was not trans- formed into a lottery simply because of the presence of an element resembling the lottery plan of distribution as a sub- sidiary feature. The court held that the bonds came within the inbabitions of the law, whose denunciation is no longer against an illegal lottery, but against any lottery,so-called gift concert, or other sim- ilar enterprise offering prizes dependent on chance, adding: ‘‘Although the trans- action was an attempt by Austria to ob- tain a loan of money to put into her treasury, it is quite evident that she undertook to assist her credit by an ap- peal to the cupidity of those who had money. Every holder of a bond has an equal chance with the holder of every other bond.”’ Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Phone 640 260 S. Ionia St.. GRAND RAPIDS. NET PRICE LIST_OF SAP PAILS PER 100. ic 1x = QUaTE. 02-6. vee ee eee eee sree $i4 $17 Ss ae 18 i ee 19 22 50 1 gal. IC Syrup Cans, per 100... 10 25 These goods are full size and are guaranteed not to leak... The pails are made almost straight, flaring enough to pack conveniently. In lots of 5°0 we will. allow 5 per cent. off above prices. Terms, 30 days net. Send for price list of general line of tinware. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OFS Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for s KO A f HATCH CHICKENS BY STEAM gow improved Fycalsior Incubator. Simple, Perfect, Self-Regu Thousands i in suc-} Circulars free. i" Send 6c. for §& filus. Catalogue. % first-class Hatcher made, GEO. H. STAHL, Quincey, IL When You Get Tired Buying rubbish. send for our catalogue of win- dow Screens, Screen Doors, Ete. Goods well made from best materials, Prices seldom higher. A. J. PHILLIPS & CO., Fenton, Mich. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITs. dis. ie eee eek eee 60 Oe ee ac. Saale bile ea cog 40 aeurnes, forme... 2... .............. 25 densioge , Watesitom ..................... .- 50&10 AXES, First + acai SB Beanies 8 7 GO 1 D Sreee................ 12 00 x Ce 8 60 ' Ce 13 50 BARROWS. dis. eS ei $14 00 cee ee ae. net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. EE eee 50&10 Cantus mew re... 75&10 We ee cc Le 40&10 Sleigh i 70 BUCKETS. Well, plain........ ee eudeua ce EE es eam COAST. - Cust Looee Pin, Geured........ ......--..... 0& Wrought Ranrow bi bright bast joint.......... 66&.0 ee Cece rie... 60&10 | HAMMERS, WOMENS TOPIC ee ORES | Mawdalo Bb C%s............ ccc occ 2 Wroumns tngige Bind... a | Eageete rr nneiess cree my — - Wrought Brass............ ttt ee eats en eeeees i | Worked & Plumb'a. 0000000000000 0000. dis. 40410 Blind, Clark 8 de tee ee 780 | Mason's Solid Cast Steel................. 30e list 60 Blind, Parker 8 Se ae eee ess eae eeu 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand... .30c 40&10 eS 70 a BLOCKS. | Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3........ a dis.60&10 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... OO] See er doz. net, 2 50 CRADLES. | ae _— and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and ee ee 3% eee dis. 50402 | Screw "Hook and Bye, ll net 10 CROW BARS. 1 L ih i oe... -net 8% I ee he heian wee 61s 2 “Det A CAPS, SE Ee ea sO Ely’s 1-10 Dette tent eee e ee eeen ee eeenes per m 65 P @GERS ” dis. Hick’s C. i ..................--...-.-8. i 60 | Barn Door Kidder Miz. Co., Wood track... .50&10 De ee _ 35 Champion, anti-friction 5 Te CO) Widiar woodtaek CARTRIDGES, HOLLOW WARE. ai re ee. 56 | Seas Herre yrattennnitanss anton £10 Coed es................. ie dis. 25) a oa CHISELS. dis. | Gray enameled. 0000) 40&10 ne 70&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Gree ee i 70&10 Stamped Tin Ware.. ee ue esse cco, HE 70 nee oo les oh hn a Japanned Tin Ware.. ee 7 ite Ware 0 Butchers’ Tanged ierer....-... 2. 5... 40 | a a GOODS. “new lst iaeaio COMBS. dis. | Bright te roat0g10 , Roce Eee. one gg iaegaieatn maak acetate rtrneenee oe 70410410 eo. Gate Hooke aud Byes. anh 70&10610 CHALE. VELS. dis. 79 White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10| Stanley Rule and heal ow... COPPER, ROPES. Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28 ait inch aud larger ..............+. +... o i4x ot a)... Se a dis Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ..........- 23 | staal and fron 8 i ra Cold Rolled, we... rc (Pe nbs eee nec TN 60 ewan 2 Mitre sina ee x Morse’s Bit Stocks a ra en ae h cg a Cc . Smooth. C Waper aud @tratent Shank................... Ooi Nee ito 4... api cl Bs 05 82 95 Moree s Tere: Greme...................... SGl Mem ihigis 4 05 3 05 DRIPPING PANS, a aoe Lael ulead wale ¢ ous aa nate es : = : ¢ Small sizes, ser pound ...............2.0008: Cee reer coy er Cae asin sinininisinis asinine : & Large sizes, per pound...... ......... -.... 6% sc yada ae ai ea ee 2 ELBOWS. All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Com 4 piesa Gta dos. net 75 | wide not less than 2-10 extra Citraeeeee dis 40 i SAND PAPER, : EN dis. 40410 | List acct. 19, °86 .... sseeceee Gig, 52 EXPANSIVE BITS dis Sil L ke, Whit — CORD. ae Clark’s, small, =. —_ EE 30 vant oat iy va BB Ives’, 1, $18: 2) ee 25 “ White B. oy ‘ 50 aon List. dis “ ane. “ 55 OO 60&10 ‘“ Wee. 35 ee ee 60&10|} Discount, 10, a eee ee aerate cee eee ere es | SASH WEIGHTS. et ee rte Mellor s Hore Haape... ......-............. 50 | ” — SAWS. per a ” GALVANIZED IRON. | ° “a Nee aera eee bane gees 20 9, > 28. oF > Silver Stee a cuts, per foot,.... 70 — nS ~ 2 “_ 4; % -“ 26; 16 . ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 i eieeosnt 60 ‘¢ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 ' GAUGES. dis ‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s................ 50] Cuts, per foot.... arr inte “ate 30 KNoBs—New List. dis, Steel, Game..... : . .80&10 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............- 5| Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55| Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... | Mouse Chokee 18e per doz Door, percoluin, trimmings ................ So) Mouse delusion... (0.000.000.1000. 81.50 per doz. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. “ 70 WIRE. LOCKS—DOOR,. 8. OO eee 6 Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new - stteeee 55 Annealed TT EE — Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s - Oe | Copperas Markee 60 Branford’s Se Oe Se ee ee 62% Norwalk’ .......--- eee cece eect eee eee 56 | Compered Spring Steel...................... 50 MATTOCKS. Barbed | Wence, sabvenised. ................. 2 8 $16.00, dis. 60 See 2 40 Hunt Eye ai gs aie: kee ale aialeiw aia lalla a a 815. 00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. eT 818.50, dis. 20&10. EE dis. 40410 i AUL a dis. 05 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled... stent eens 80 | Northwestern......--------s.ee.. dis. 10410 ,, MILLS. dis. ENCHES. dis. — oa eee 40 Baxter’s Adieenie, ieekee Co P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s — 2 Cael ee = 7 Landers, Ferry & Clork’s............ 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ Enterprise ........--00 esses eee ees 30/ Coe’s Patent, malleable.............. ...... 75410 MOLASSES GATES. dis. MISCELLANEOUS, dis, poe Og ope oo Oe 50 Stebbin’sa Gentine... ..........2s eee ssseees a Pipe, Caer — Enterprise, self-measuring............ * Screws, New List............ a. Casters, Bed a @ Fiete.................. s0s10810 NAILS Demers Amevingn se 40 Steel neti, ame a ue me = Forks, hoes, rakes ‘and all steel goods...... 6E&10 Wire nails, base..... METALS, Advance over base: Wire Pig ong = Sain a anal esis ne sears amtiaislyaiains Base ~— Pig Large.. SS 26¢ Ee ey . aia Be Oe ee ae 25 Duty: Sheet, 2%c per ae BD... 0. nn eeeeeneesrensecereeeercee Cob paundleamka 6% Rae naam siis nae sits cin aaimacasisite = Der pee aa, 7 a 45 oy WO... seeeee eee eee eee tere e eee eens Se Te ee ae 16 oye a ig lh al @ ie Wielee -... 8. ee 40 %| The prices of the many other qualities of Beree eee eeee eee ee es cee ee cere es oe 60 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands Oo as ek mca aee mcs cma wn 1 00 1 20 vary according to composition. Ne ee eee ee a 1 50 1 60 Laaeuiae —eee......... ..... 1 50 TO cl per pound 60 ieee bichuesrousseuunesis 13 5 IN—MELYN GRADE. 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal. [SRO ATE 87 5 | 14x20 IC, ‘ 90) jox14IX, “* 6 110) y4x201K, Clinch: " eee ae eecan 85 70 Each additional X on this grade, § = ime cece eee cou aa 1 00 = ae reoad GRADE. ae 1% 1\ienie PLANES. dis. 10x14 Ix, “ — a = ee... + #4 4x20 1x, ss OER HOMO... 8. cc ee cece cece sees ee , ‘dditional X hi d tl Sandusky ‘Tool Go.'s, fanay 0000000000004, — errs his gra¢ —_— ee @60 Waa fi Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s, wood. G10 | 4550 rx’ — ese PAXs. 20x28 IC, . Eo dis.60—10 14x20 IC, “ Allaway Grade........... Common, polished Be ee sat Cees eeuces dis. 70) 14x90 Ix, BIVE' dis. 20x28 IC ‘6 “ a oe Pee... 40 | anx98 Ix, ‘“ “ Copper we — so Le celia ston cone 50—10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. Sees Ee... 8... opens beeue ere waa $14 00 wee ~ Wood's j patent Pianished ery 24 to - OO Wet ee Lc 15 ‘*B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20| 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bollers, t Broken packs fo per pound extra. 14x60 Ix, ee per pound.... 10 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of heir 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 MicHiGgaN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1893, AMERICAN BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. The February number of the Cosmo- politan Magazine has a very interesting article on beet sugar culture in the United States, in useful information is furnished the general reader on a subject of which comparatively little is known outside of those directly interested in sugar culture. The article in question is accompanied by illustrations depicting the methods of cultivating the sugar beet and manufacturing it into sugar. Too much cannot be said and written on the subject of beet sugar cultivation in the United States, because that indus- try, but lately introduced, is capable of being developed to an extent which will in time enable the United States to pro- duce at home the two million or more which tons of sugar now annually consumed, and in payment for which many millions of American money are yearly sent abroad to enrich West Indian sugar pro- ducers and the beet sugar factories of Europe. Altheugh but a few years have elapsed since it was first demonstrated that sugar beets could be grown and profitably man- ufactured into sugar in the United States, the industry has already taken firm root in several of the Western States. and from experiments which have been made in more than a dozen states it has become | known that fully half the area of the United States affords climatic and other conditions propitious to the growth of sugar beets. Speaking of the establishing of beet sugar factories in the United States, the | Cosmopolitan says that “there are now in this country six of these plants, the locations being Alvarado, Watsonville and Chino, in California; Grand Island and Norfolk, in Nebraska, and Lehi, in Utah, the last four of which were estab lished in 1890 and 1891. All have been able thus far to cope with the disad- vantages that lie in the path of the in- dustry in the way of solution of the agri- cultural problem, and the business may be said to have gained already a very strong foothold.” According to reliable information from California it appears that the three beet factories which last season produced be- tween them about 8,000,000 pounds of sugar, have this season turned out 23,- 000.000 pounds. This rate of develop- ment is really astonishing, representing an increase nearly three-fold within a single year. The first beginnings of the beet sugar industry in Europe were even more mod- est and unpromising than they have been a century later in this country. The great Napoleon, in his eagerness to over come the difficulties experienced in im- porting cane sugar from the West Indies at atime when British cruisers were on the alert to cut off his ships, liberally subsidized the producers of beet sugar, and to this state aid, a policy pursued by the various European governments ever since, is due the splendid development the European beet sugar industry has now attained. lished elsewhere in this week’s paper, the measure introduced in the Legis- lature by Representative McKinstry, pro- viding for the dating of all canned goods, consequence, no one who lays any pre- tentions to a knowledge having given the proposed statute the least measure of approval. The bill appears to be one of those illy-advised creations, which owe their existence to ignorance and their advocacy to stub- bornness. There is no demand any- where for the measure and no reason why it should ever come before the Legis- lature, except to gratify the ambition of its father fora little cheap notoriety. Mr. McKinstry is a cigarmaker and would probably resent a statement that cigars are not fit for use after they area month old; yet he boldly announces that all canned goods deteriorate after they are a year old, thus putting his opinion against the united opinions of chemists and others familiar with the subject, who assert that the contrary is the case. In the light of these facts, the best thing the Muskegon gentleman can do is to permit his measure to die a quiet and ignominious death, for if he attempts to foist such a senseless law on the people, the people are pretty likely to be heard from. of the subject ORGANIZED TYRANNY. Dictatorial Attitude Assumed by the Trade Unions. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. A curious phase of the labor question is developed in New York City, where certain of the labor unions are aiming to form a trust of the workers, with a view to dictating in the matter of wages. A ease is reported of a brewer who was in great distress and said he could get no work because he was a non-union man, and the union refused to take him in. Another case was given of two carriage painters who could not get work because they did not belong to the union, and when they tried to join they found that the initiation fee was the prohibitory one | of $25. We have had labor unions demanding | almost everything else, but it is some- | thing of anew departure to find them | undertaking to make close monopolies of the organizations and refusing to take in new members. Still it isin line with what we might expect, and is only an- other illustration of the fatuity with which the average workmen act directly jin opposition to their own interests. | Suppose that- this principle was carried lout generally by the labor unions, what | would be the result? The number who |could work would be limited and the , humber of idlers increased. There is no | telling where the line would be drawn Judging by the expert opinions pub-| is without a friend or champion of any | and the movement stopped. But every restriction of employment and every in- crease in the number of idlers must cut off the demand for the products of the union workers, to say nothing of the dis- tributions, either voluntary or by tax- ation, which must be made for their re- |lief.. If the unions remained at present membership, therefore the condition of the members must gradually become worse, for with less demand for the pro- ducts there must be less employment even | for the members of the union. It is only another example of the radi- cal blunder of the trade unions in assum- ing that employment is a fixed quantity, and that by controlling the supply of laborers wages can be changed at will. It seems impossible for these people to understand the simple business princi- ple that demand is the important con- sideration in fixing all values while supply must always be seeondary. If there is a demand for brewers or carriage painters, for example, there will be little trouble about securing good wages with- out a union, while if there is no sale for the product on the other hand, all the unions that were ever organized would be powerless to fix or maintain any rate of wages. Business prosperity in any branch of industry depends on the num- ber of peovle employed as wage earners. When employment is general and the laborers who form the mass of the peo- ple are earning good wages, we have | prosperity in all lines because from the earnings comes the demand for all pro- ducts. If any proof of this were needed it would be found in disaster or depression which cuts off employment in one section is quickly felt in the diminished demand for products in all other sections. It is of the highest importance, therefore, for all who de- pend on wage earnings to have the greatest possible number of laborers em- ployed at some wages rather than to have any considerable number idle. There is all the difference between profit- able custumers and dependents who must be supported in idleness. Because the sale of goods is made by the em- ployer the effect is none the less direct and positive than it would be if each workman were operating for himself in a separate shop. In spite of all this we find labor unions almost without exception doing every- thing in their power to limit the number employed. The proscriptive measures against non-union men and the rule against apprentices all have this aim in view. It may be said that each union acts only for its particular branch, but. when the unions and the branches are multiplied, we have the general effect in all lines, rendering employment more difficult to obtain and thus increasing the number of idlers. Even in cases where unions succeed in forcing advances in wages it almost invariably results in in- creasing the number of idle members who must be supported by those who continue at work. Another example in the same line showing how measures often turn out directly the opposite from what was in- tended is found in the contract labor law passed at the demand of the labor unions. This law was intended to prevent em- ployers in case of strikes from sending to European countries and bringing over a force of laborers who might replace the strikers. The law on its face ap- pears reasonable and practical, but the effect is to prevent the coming of the better class of industrious productive workmen in the different industries while admitting the dregs and least de- sirable classes. As long as we are importing European made goods it is certainly an advantage to bring over the workers and make the goods here. This could not interfere with the employment of any laborers here because the new workmen would practically have the same work they had on the other side and their earnings here would make so much extra demand for the products of all other workmen here. It is admitted that the quality of the |immigration of late years is much in- | ferior and there is a demand for more stripgent restrictive measures. But | the really desirable classes, the in- tress of the unemployed and the con-| the fact that any | dustrious workmen whose skill and ability add to the wealth of the nation and who make the best citizens, will not give up a reasonable certainty for an un- certainty, and remain at home. We have an abundance of capital and business enterprise to suecesstully carry on many branches of manufacturing which we now depend on Europe to supply. If employ- ers were free to select the best workmen from the European factories and offer them an assurance of employment at good wages those industries would be quickly established here and we would have the cream instead of the dregs of industrial Europe. Would not immigration of this class be vastly better for our work men as @ whole than the result of their well intended but sadly dissappointing contract labor law? No intelligent busi- ness man would think of paying the passage money for the majority of immi- grants now being dumped on our shores by the steamship lines. He would cer- tainly makea better selection if he were contracting to offer steady employment. The skilled workmen who would naturally be engaged moreover would be the least likely to work for wages lower than the American standard, while the herd of semi-paupers now coming are forced by their necessities to accept any employment at any wages that may be offered. Labor unions undoubtedly have their uses and their benetits to the workmen as wellas to the industry, provided they work along legitimate lines and do not attempt the impossible. Itis absurd to suppose that combinations for monopo- lizing labor and arbitrarily fixing wages ean succeed in doing something that com- binations of capital have never been able to accomplish. The idea of cornering the supply of a commodity is always an attractive one and it is usually easy to find men willing to go into such a scheme. Occasionally there is a temporary success with some gains, but the rule is certain failure. The law of supply and demand overrides all calculations, and the greed of the combination must meet the greed of outsiders equally anxious to get an ad- vantage. The first gains of sueh combi- nations are eventually over-balanced by greater losses. So it must be with labor combinations whenever attempted, and the unions in adopting such a policy only invite the certain retribution. What we all want and the line in which effort should be directed is more employment with more wage earners. Capitalists want this to insure interest returns quite as much as laborers want it to insure wages. The interests of both are identical; neither can prosper at the expense of the other. Noone branch of industry can hepe to prosper when other branches are depressed, and no one set of workmen can possibly main- tain high wages when there is an in- creasing number of unemployed in other industries. Labor union leaders may ignore these fundamental truths but ean- not escape the Inevitable results of mis- guided actions in opposition thereto, > eo From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: W. J. Barnum, Velzy. B. S. Runnels, Big Prairie. Lamoreaux & Beerman, Fruitport. Schantz & Co., Woodland. R. B. MeCullock, Berlin. S. C. Peterson, Alaska. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. S. B. Calkins, Central Lake. —32-4 = The Grand Traverse Herald, which comes as near to being a representative local newspaper as any publication in the State, has donned 2 new dress of type throughout and now presents as handsome an appearance, ty pographic- ally, as it always has editorially. —_——_—--—>-+2 Hirth, Krause & Co. have secured the agency in this territory for the ‘‘Little Soldier’? shoes, which are manufactured by Kollock, Logan & Co. _ 9 Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. oe ” ~~ + Ps ao + - PHI MICHIGAN TRADHSMAN. 9 WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? Written for THE TRADESMAN. This is a paramount question. It is the question of the hour. The greatest minds of our country are discussing it. The National Congress is grappling with it, and, surely, every business man in the land should give it careful and seri-| ous consideration. Every man who has been engaged in business for the past twenty or thirty years knows that, during that time, we have drifted far away from the old land- marks; and he knows right well, too, in what direction we have drifted. And he knows, further, that the propelling forc- es which underlie this movement gain in strength as the years roll by, and that, consequently, we are moving more rapid- ly, to-day, in a certain direction than ey- er before. So obviously apparent is this tendency of the times that every novice in the business ranks perceives it. We all realize the fact that these forces are constantly merging, unifying, con- solidating and centralizing human en- ergy and neutralizing individualism. What will the end be, and to what de- gree of industrial centralization shall we attain? But before we attempt to speculate on the future, let us take a retrospective view and note some of the changes brought about through this ever- increasing tendency toward centraliza- tion. Thirty-five years ago individual- ism flourished like a green bay tree. Every country village was a trade center by itself and, comparatively, independ- ent of every other trade center. That great leveler, the railroad, had not yet cobwebbed the country with its thread of steel, breaking down old-time individual advantages—both commercial and in- dustrial—equalizing values, and destroy- ing the many small trade centers and cre- ating fewer and larger ones. Every vil- lage trade center had its cabinet maker, its wagon maker, its tinsmith, its cooper, its pump maker, its harness maker, its shoe shop and its tannery; and many of them possessed a distillery. These lo- cal shops and factories created a home market for the farmers’ surplus timber and other supplies, and the local manu- facturers represented the manufacturing interests of the country at that time, and were individual, pure and simple. Every shop or factory was controlled by the in- dividual owner or owners thereof, inde- pendently of any outside interference, and success or failure depended alto- gether upon the business capacity and in- dustry of the individual. The building of railroads broke up this condition of things. Transportation facilities generalized the extraordinary advantages possessed by favored local- ities—such as water power, cheapness and abundance of material, etc. — by easy and rapid distribution. This tend- ed to the cheapening and equalizing of prices. It also opened up the whole country as a market for each favored lo- cality where trade centers developed rap- idly at the expense of the numerous iso- lated points already referred to. These larger trade centers were, in turn, out- done by still larger centers, as the build- ing of railroads progressed. As the fields widened and the railroads extend- ed the markets, competition was en- gendered among manufacturers, and they soon began to pool their interests. The small combinations soon found them selves as closely driven by competition as were the individual manufacturers, | and still larger combines were ef- | fected; and these larger combines pooled "Sinus ar neamen [+ S* ROBINSON «D(C OMPANY: Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in lies. Now, in view of our past commercial | record, and the signs of the times at present, it is safe to predict that we are speedily approaching a time when every a huge monopoly, governed and con- trolled by some delegated, centralized body, few in number but autocratic in power. Some interests have already reached this point, and others are rapid- ly approaching it. Preponderance of wealth in the hands of the few makes monopoly possible, but where the capital employed in any certain industry is too widely distributed, or in too many hands, the next most effective means is made use of, namely, organization. When or- ganization accomplishes its objects, it is as destructive of open competition as monopoly. If this were notso, then organization would be mere child’s play. But the spirit of the times, born of this all-pervading tendency to monopoly, de- mands it and any interest, whether la- bor, agricultural, mercantile or manu- facturing, is justified in organizing for its own protection. Some time ago, the wholesale grocers organized in the Kast and adopted what is known as the Equality Plan in han- dling sugars. This movement has ad- vanced, taking in state after state, until it has absorbed seventeen states, and it will continue, probably, until every state in the Union is included. I mention this simply to show whither we are drift- ing. A few men engaged in one line of industry, allin one city, meet together and perfect an organization. The move- ment is extended, and soon it embraces the whole state. It next reaches over in- ’to an adjoining state, and on into anoth- er, until every state is organized, and then it becomes a national combine, with a delegated, centralized head which adopts rules and makes laws for the guidance of its members. What is this but monopoly? The coal combine is said to be a monopoly, but what difference does it make whether a score or two of men regulate the price of coal and com- pel you and me to pay this price or freeze, or whether a thousand or two men regulate the price of sugar and com- pel you and me to pay the price or eat sand? I have no fault to find with the sugar movement. Ionly mention it as an il- lustration to show the general drift of all organized efforts, and to strengthen the prediction heretofore made, that the gen- eral tendency is toward monopoly—or, to make it more palatable, centralized control. E. A. OWEN. Sonat ieee Cannot Find One. Itis related that a man who was writ- ing a history of New York employed an expert to find out for him how many speculators in Wall street succeeded in the long run. After a laborious investi- gation the expert reported that the only instance which he could discover was a man fiom Rhode Island, named Smith, who had actually won $30,000 in a@ speculation in the street and carried the money away to speculate no more. It was the single bright instance in along line of wrecks, and was written down in the book to hand the name of Smith down to immortality. Unluckily for his repu- tation, however, hardly was the book published before Smith turned up on the street and put his $30,000 into another speculation. He never heard of it again, and the sole instance of a successful speculator was ruthlessly destroyed. industrial interest in the country will be) BOUTS, SHOKS and RUBBERS, | 99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. State Agents for the Candee Rubber Co. HENRY S. ROBINSON. RICHARD G. ELLIOTT. See Grocery Price Current. [CAISER THE BREAD 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. SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan. SOLD BY ALL RELIABLE GROCERS. BEANS If you have any beans and want tosell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity up to car loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. W.T. LAMOREAUZX CoO., 128, 130 and 182 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1 and 3 Pearl Street, TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries, GRAND RAPIDS you for the honor of inspection. as references. OUR SPRING LINE is moving fast, 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 William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday and Friday, March 2d and 3d. Customers who meet him there are allowed expenses. 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 Michael Kolb & Son, Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MEN OF MARK. Ben. W. Putnam, President ofthe Put- nam Candy Co. Benjamin W. Putnam was born Feb. 1, 1843, in a historic old farm hotel near Orange, Mass., located on the stage line between Boston and Vermont. father sold the farm and hotel and re- moved to Warwick, Mass., to engage in the general store business. Mr. Putnam entered his father’s employ, and after the first year was in general charge of the business, buying the goods and act- ng as book-keeper and general overs eer. At the age of 21 he went to Springfield, Mass., where he kept books for two and one-half years for Hopkins, King & Co., wholesale flour dealers. Here he first heard of Grand Rapids through the firm of Sweet & Barnett—Martin L. Sweet and James M. Barnett—who at that time conducted a flour mill business here and | shipped large quantities of flour into the | Eastern States. In the fall of 1865 Mr. Putnam decided to make his home in the Great West, and, after visiting Chicago and several other places in Michigan, he came here and entered the employ of E. F. Ward & Co., who at that time con- ducted a sash, door and blind business on Mill street. In the spring of 1866 he formed a copartnership with his brother, Joseph D., under the style of Putnam | Bros., and purchased a small confection- | ery stock, which was located at the foot of Monroe street, where Miner’s hat store now stands.* The stock was small that it conid have been all wheelbarrow, but the business increased so rapidly under the energetic adminis- tration of the Putnam Bros. that they were soon compelled to move across the so street, where they fitted up a handsome |! store room in the old Irving Hall build- ing, where they remained several years, | in | the | Their | the re-| store took subsequently occupying a the new block which place of the Hall building. next move was to abandon tail business and open a wholesale and manufacturing business street, subsequently removing to Kent street, where they did yuilding now occupied by the New York Biscuit Co. Butterworth building, on Huron street, where they remained until their removal to Canal street, where the firm of Put- nam Bros. and Putnam & Brooks did business about a dozen years, acquiring a reputation for enterprise and agres- on business in the They next moved to siveness which was the pride of the mar- | ket in its early days as a jobbing center. The establishment was completely gut- ted by fire on one occasion, but the firm quickly got its feet again and was soon doing business at the old stand, ap- on parently none the worse for the singing | it received. Five years ago the firm re- moved to its present quarters in the Blodgett building, on South Ionia street, and three years ‘ago the firm was dis-| solved by the°retirement of Mr. Brooks and the organization of a stock company with $75,000 paid up capital under the style of the Putnam Candy Co. business has gradually increased under the management of Mr. Putnam, who acts as President and Manager of the corporation and has a general oversight over every detail of the business, until it is the leading business of the kind in the State. Personally, Mr. Putnam is a man of There he | lived until 14 years of age, when his| loaded on a} Waterloo | The | few words. He has but two hobbies— system in business and horses outside of business—and both receive the proper {amount of attention at the proper time. He has comparatively few friends, but those he has are bound to him with bands | Of steel. Those who enjoy his friend- ship cherish it as a rare privilege and such a thing as his breaking witha friend is seldom witnessed. He is a liberal con- | tributor to public enterprises—especially | turf meetings—and in every respect may | be said to be a model citizen. His only |fault—if fault it be—is that he earries | fidelity to business to that extreme that | he is almost aslave to his business, and | but for his innate love of horseflesh and exercise outside of business hours he | would long ago have gone to his reward. et Oe Some Problems of Poverty. | From the New York Tribune. | Inthe course of a sermon the other Sunday Dr. Rainsford declared that no- where in the world is the retail trade more unfavorable to the poor than in this |country. That there is a large measure of truth in this statement will be denied by no one familiar with the life of the very poor in the tenement-house districts. | } j | | BEN. W. the | For, partly through necessity and partly through ignorance, they habitually make | their purchases from day to day, and | often from hour to hour, the resuit be- | ing, of course, that they pay enormously high prices for everything. Instead ot | buying a ton of coal for $6 or less, they buy it by the scuttle or bushel at the cor- ner grocery, sometimes paying at the rate of $15 or $20 aton. Besides which, j the coal for which they pay this mon- | strous price is often of the poorest qual- ity. Flour, which they could get at about $5.50 abarrel, they buy in the form of baker’s bread at about $15 a bar- rel. So itis with all the other staples of life. The well to do are able to get everything at bottom prices, because they are so situated that they chase a large quantity at once. But the very poor, who can least afford it, pay two or three times as much for similar articles, which are often inferior in qual- ity. The same thing is true of the few luxuries which the poor sometimes allow themselves. When they wish to pur- | chase these luxuries—a watch or a bit of | jewelery, may be—they almost invariably | patronize some little shop in the neigh- | borhood, getting an article for which, as as a rule, they pay 50 per cent. more than | they would for the same grade of goods in a large establishment. Evidently something should be done to remedy this state of affairs; but it is not leasyto say what. It is useless to ap- can pur- peal to the retail dealer, for he is simply doing what all business men do—getting | as much profit as he can out of his busi- ness. We may think that it would be to his interest in the long run to be content with smaller profits; but so long as he does not think so the question is settled, so far as he isconcerned. Theonly rem- edy lies in soimproving the conditions of life of the poor that they will be capable of looking out for their own interests. Even the poorest family ought to have enough room to store away at least a ton of coal at once or to keep a barrel of flour. At present few cando so. This opens up the great question of tenement-house reform—a question which cannot be much longer ignored, because it vitally affects the well-being and prosperity of the whole city. If we not only allow, but force, thousands of people to live under conditions little better than those of wild beasts, we must not be surprised if many of them show themselves to be as little amenable to law as wild beasts. No matter how we explain it, there is something wrong with a social system that is content to let so many thousand human beings live in tenements that are themselves prolific breeders of ignorance, hopelessness and crime. But improved tenements would be of no avail, unless the poor are themselves improved. The most helpless aspect of their condition is that they are contented withit. They | | PUTNAM. ; want nothing better, because they intellectually conscious of nothing bet- j ter. Any city missiouary will testify | that there are families which would vio- jlently resist a compulsory law of cleanli- jness. For instance, if they were forced | to take a bath habitually they would feel ;that sense of shame that most people would feel in the commission of some | foolish or disereditable act. | Itis absurd to suppose that anything | can be done with such people until they pee morally regenerated. They must be educated, and the whole horizon of their | life enlarged. At present they are not | properly a part of modern civilization at all, but lie almost wholly without its in- jfluences. Before their condition can be | materially improved they must be put in | right relations with the progressive ideals | of human suciety, so that, ina measure, | they will think its thoughts, and strive |in their own lives to advance the inter- ests of the whole community. When they have been thus rehabilitated the ter- rible problem of poverty will largely solve itself through the orderly evolution of human society. are ent i ns FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden AND IndUrated Pails & Tubs, Wooden Bowls, Clothespins and Rolling Pins, Step Ladders, Washing Ma- chines, Market, Bushel and De- livery Bas ets, Building Paper, Wrapping Paper, Sacks, Twine and Stationery. Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish- ing to be represented in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. le KALAMAZOO PANY & OVERALL CO. 221 #. MainsSt., Kalamazoo, Mich. Chicago salesroom with Silverman & Opper, Corner Monroe st. and Fifth ave. Our specialties: Pants from $7.50 to $3° per doz. warranted not to rip. Shirts from $250 to $15 per doz, i line now ready. samples sent on approvai. 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, MICH. “The Kent.”’ Directly Opposite Union Depot. AMERICAN PLAN RATES, $2 PER DAY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS FREE BAGGAGE TRANSFER FROM UNION DEPOT. BEACH & BOOTH, Props, A Chicago man recently saved his life by carrying a roll of $100 bills inside his vest when a bullet came that way. Yet: there are people who neglect so simple a precaution. is MS <3 Sk SHNNS: ie : he 2 - AN 2M oat attend vee rau . is P cM LER, relieved by the use of a ains os 3 7x . Purely Vegetable Remedy. Used YS LLM ‘“ y a prominent physician in regular ax practice, Price 50 cts, Send for testi- ay monials, Aetna Co. Cd. Rapids, Mich vey IN. ZETIA AVA UAWINUIAN INU IAN FALSALS ALS a ZOALS SLM ALLA LN ALS PVN EZ NSA NSS ARN RO IN VRS > NOS: ' PZ AAS x a \ a INGS ALA Slee - Veo ‘THE MICHIGAN 'TRADESMAN. 11 Bookkeeping as a Profession. The casual observer who standsin a great retail store and watches the con- tinuous flash of the cash carrier, and listens to the sharp click as the return- ing vehicle reaches its destination with the proper amount of small change, does not usually think of the busy fingers at the other end of the line, or of the cen- tral intelligence which controls all those radiating lines. The bookkeeper’s office is like areservoir into which all these| little streams flow together, only it is a} reservoir of a strange and highly sensi- tive kind so that it feels and responds instantly to any improper variation in the flow of the little tributaries. The wiles of the salesman are seen and noted of all, but the art of the bookkeeper is rarely thought of by the general public or is considered a dull and mechanical occupation. Most people doubtless think rather slightly of the work of the record- ing angel until he opens his book. His task is doubtless somewhat mechanical, and still he has occasion to make some remarkably interesting entries and so has the bookkeeper, dull as his routine of work may be. That it at least does not produce dullness in those who pursue it the Essays of Elia area sufficient proof. There is a great difference in tastes, of course. Some men loathe a counting- room as heartily as Frank Osbaldistone and turn with a relish to a sonnet, while others, like the clerk in ‘‘Hard Cash,” find the romance of their lives in figures, devour columns of sums as other men devour novels; dream:of trial balances by night and are not happy until they begin again in the morning. That the figures represent money that belongs to some one else does not diminish their pleasure in the least; their interest is for the figures in the abstract. They take a sort of romantic interest in the marvelous completeness and orderliness of the little science they pursue, and the astronomer’s delight when a new planet swims into his ken at the precise pcint indicated by his calculations, is not greater than that of the born bookkeeper when a month’s work shows the place where a two-cent piece was wrongly deb- ited to ‘‘cash.’? The greatness and small- ness of things is purely relative, and to a mind of aturn for mathematical nice- ties the search for a missing figure is as thrilling a pursuit as a search for a new world. Itis as natural for some men to love aruler and red ink and a book with neat and orderiy rows of figures as it is for others to serawl verses or pictures on loose seraps of paper and scatter everything to the four winds of heaven. In this mereantile age the art of book- keeping has assumed an unprecedented importance as the chief portal to the mercantile life. When the spirit of un- rest seizes the country lad and he feels the craving for city life, his first step is to enter a commercial school and study bookkeeping. He may discover before he has mastered the subject that he has missed his calling and that he belongs on the farm, but if he finds that he likes the work and perseveres until he has learned all that the school has to teach, he will probably succeed in getting a place where he has all the work he cares to do and enough hay to keep him alive. Nowis the crucial time. If he thinks he knows it all heis lost; he will never rise any higher; if he sets to work earnestly to convert theory into practice, he will in due course of time come to be worth any- where from $1,000 to $2,500 a year. But the number of expert accountants is amazingly small when one considers the great number of those who are engaged keeping books. Is the life of a bookkeeper a desirable one? That is the question that is often asked by young people starting in life, and the question was put to an expert who had spent many years in active book- keeping or inthe instruction of others. **Yes, and no,’’ he said. ‘‘It is a hard question to answer; it is a wearing profession and a hard one. If one is given to worrying he had better be dead than go into the business, for mistakes will happen and sometimes it will be mouths before things can be straightened out. Now, I enjoy the work; they can’t put too much work on me. My head gets tired, but I am just as fresh the | next morning. The way I do it is by! |mental exercise. If 1 went to bed when | |I got through work I would see figures | jall night and could not sleep a_ wink. | |So Ll take something very light—I don’t | jeare how silly it is—Arabian Nights, | Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Optic, Beadle’s }dime novels, anything to distract my ;mind from the figures. Then I sleep | like atop. Butif one sets to worrying ; about mistakes he had better go into | some other business at once. Ii was/| called not long ago to hunt up a mistake | jin the accounts of a bookkeeper in this | city. She was overworked, and had/ worked for months extra hours trying to discover the trouble. There was a short- | age of $1,000, and she worked over it so | she could notenjoy her vacation. Ispent } 98 solid hours of work and at last I found | it. A substitute had added up some col- | umns and had made a mistake of $1,000 | on eath side so that the totals balanced | and the mistake could not be found till the separate ledger entries were gone over.’’? ‘‘I suppose you find a good deal of carelessness as you examine other people’s accounts.’’ ‘Oh dear yes, there | are some very capable merchants who do not seem to appreciate the importance of bookkeeping; keep their memoranda on old envelopes, or loose slips of paper. I knew a man who kept his accounts in his hat; one day on the prairie his hat flew off and his ledger was scattered over | about 20 square miles.’’ | ‘‘Has the bookkeeper many chances | for dishonesty?’’ **Not in a small way: not so many as the salesman. When he takes anything at aliit is usually a big haul.” ‘‘is it hard for an expert accountant to cover up his thefts??? ‘‘That depends on the system. If the accounts are thoroughly kept and well looked after he has no chance to steal a penny. If he is left to his own devices and is allowed to be the only one who understands the books the amount that he can take is almost un- limited. I believe in getting good men, paying them enough so that they can af- | ford to be honest, and then in following them up with a sharp stick. The reason that there are soimany dishonest book- keepers is that employers do not realize the value and responsibility of the ser- vices that they render and cut down their pay to the lowest margin, and then leave them to run the books as they honest when temptation is thrownin their | way.” ‘‘Have you found many dishonestly ‘cooked’ in your experience | as an auditor?’ ‘‘Not many; most of them were the result of carelessness.’’ “The hardest work that an accountant has to do, by the way, is in auditing ac- counts. There is often a complete lack | “f system. The vouchers for payments are not arranged so that one can get at | them, and often all that one ean do is to} audit the cash account and see that it | balances with the cash on hand. One, who does auditing will find some fearful and wonderful specimens of bookkeeping done by men who claim to be experts.”’ ‘**What are the chief requisites for a suc- cessful bookkeeper?” ‘‘In the first piace {he must have a talent for arithmetic, a mind that works rapidly and surely. Then he must have good health and the capacity for a great deal of very hard work.’’ ‘‘Isthere any difference between young men and young women in capacity for this work?” ‘‘The young women pick it up more quickly, but lam _ not sure that they have more ability. Itisa very good profession for women. It gives a good deal more freedom than clerking. The work sometimes bunches up but when it is got out of the way there is often a considerable time when one can get off easily.’’ ‘‘How long are the working hours?’’ ‘‘How long are the working hours of a housewife? ‘Till the work isdone. That is one great trouble with the work. Employers do not ap- preciate the labor involved and pile on outside duties till it is impossible to at- tend to it properly. Of course, it gets behind, then there are mistakes, worry and dissatisfaction. If employers want their work done in a satisfactory way they should see to it that their book- keepers have no more work than they can do with comfort and ease.”’ like. | Most people want to be honest, but not | all have the force of character to remain | books | POTATOES. We have made the handling of Potatoes a ‘‘specialty” for many years and have a large trade. Can take care of all that ean 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. 1898 VHEELS! 18985 Agents Wanted } In unoccupied territory for RAMBLERS, NIAGARA, ROCHESTER, ARIEL, FOW- LER, RALEIGH, AM. SANSPARIEL, STEARNS, NEW MAIL, ECLIPSE, WESTERN WHEEL WORKS, FEATHERSTONE, ee ee ee Best Goods Best Styles Best Prompt deliveries Prices Catalogue on application. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 101 Ottawa St, Grand Rapids, Mich. HEYMAN COMPANY, Manufacturers of Show Gases of Euery Description. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. 63 and 65 Canal St, Grand Rapids, Mich, WRITE FOR PRICES. ST TUDLEY & BARCLAY, 4 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Our Motte: ti New Styles,” E CARRY a full line of all patterns of Ladies’ and Gents’ Bicycles, and can supply at once upon receipt of order. Weare 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, 1893. 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. We head in Reduced Prices. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and i124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 12 THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. JIM ALLSPICE. A Few Hints to the Boys on Expense Accounts. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The mystery is finally solved. I find where Iam now poor and still behind with the house, I have been asleep all these years. The old saying of the new suit of clothes in the expense account is no longer a myth—it has turned out to be a fact; in fact, as plain a conundrum as was ever solved, and to you, fellow travelers, whoare not ‘‘onto the racket,” I will divulge, with the understanding that ‘‘mum is the word.” When I look back at my long con- tinued struggles for years to keep even with my landlord, my coal and wood man, the groceryman and the short- weight man who forgets to take his hand off the scales when he weighs the meat, I say to myself, ‘‘Too bad I wasnot ‘on’ before.” While on one of my Northern trips, I chanced to make the acquaintance of a young and dudish looking salesman who seemed to be very pert and right up and posted fully as to all prize fights, horse races and general athletic sports. He smoked cigarettes very freely; he had a very fine and polished easy way and, for some reason, became quite confidential as to his sales, salary and general business life. Our first stop found us at Cadillac. We both went to the same hotel. After supper, while I was busy with my mail, getting my orders copied, he put in his time figuring, which I afterwards found to be his monthly expense account. Aft- er figuring it all out, he made a regular copy of one portion, which he mailed to his house. He was careless enough to leave the original on the desk at my side and my curiosity led me to investigate the find, with the fellowing result: EXPENSE ACCOUNT FOR NOVEMBER. Dr. hee ee #20 00 (Cech for @xpenses.............. . 5006 ae is 22 00 $92 CO Cr. ap Gaye moet Bee... $60 00 Mileage used...... a 14 20 *Bus and sundry expenses.......... 7 50 Cash and mileage on hand......... 10 30 $92 00 RAKE OFF. Dr. eckcee ie “oon”... —. wooo oon Gey ......... ee ee cee ee 5 60 Lunch counter saved ......... 5 CO pees Wee recs... |... | 8 ere eee 8. 3 50 Rebates not paid.......... ones 5 00 828 50 cz. roe moe bem. $12 00 Paid for cloihes..... .._. 16 50 $28 50 After reading it over very carefully, I says to myself, ‘‘It was no joke, after all, about the suit of clothes being in the new traveling man’s expense. Here is the proof, and you fellows who have been in the dark can now see how it isdene. In all probability he does not hold a posi- tion very long.’? This probably will be pleasant reading to some of the boys, but, to me, it was dead news from the way be- yond. Such is life. Ialso notice in connection with this that the salesman with all the trunks and extra baggage, who has the best room and also occupies the sample room at the hotel, generally has a‘‘pull’’on the clerk, dining room girl and the bartender. His money goes farther or else is brighter than that of the average trav- eler who stops only for a meal or night and earries his own grip to and from the train, regardless of how many trips a year. We are all hu- man and some of us keep up a thinking, especially when we ride into a town with our fellow traveler in the same line and have him jump out tothe trade on the fly and quote granulated or Arbuckle’s with a cut or rebate quietly made ‘‘on the side,’ in order to hold trade until he can get around after or with his competitor, who, as a general rule, goes to the hotel, takes a wash, fixes up, eats a good square meal, then goes forth ready to meet all competition and, generally speaking, books the orders. With what pride a salesman labors with beginners and, finally, sells them a_ stock, putting in his years of experience as to quality of the goods and making a selection of the different lines so as to meet the amount to be invested; and, after taking the order, shipping and delivering, what is more embarrassing than to meet them again and find some of your rivals in trade have already called and put in their cold work by cutting your straight and legitimate prices wide open and, in a general way, really tried to belittle you and your house, because they did not buy of them, and first time they meet you are so pleased to see you and cannot help but mention they were so glad you took the order—they were so afraid they would buy in Chicago. Boys, it is all moonshine, and I find, the longer I trav- el, there are tricks in our line as well as others—‘‘The early bird catches the worm.”’ Jim ALLSPICE. a a Mute Advertising. A rather unusual bit of experience fell to the lot of a Cherry street grocery clerk recently. The clerk is on familiar terms with a corncob pipe, and between the twoa vast quantity of package smoking tobacco finds a ready market. A few days ago while loading his corncob from the contents of anewly-opened package, the clerk was surprised at finding a neat little card up- on which was printed acertificate to the effect that, if the holder forwarded it to the office of Blank & Blank, it would en- title him toa watch which would be mail- ed to his address immediately. The brand of tobacco is a well-known staple one, sold in the regular way, and as free of prize gift schemes and lottery fakes as any other standard article of merchan- dise. The clerk was at first inclined to treat the matter as an unexplainable lit- tle mistake of some kind, but he was ad- vised to forward the certificate and seeif anything would come of it. Imagine his surprise when the return mail brought the promised watch, which he is now sporting, and for which he has refused $5. The salesman who sel!s the grocer this brand knows nothing about it and can give no explanation of the matter. Was it a blunder on the part of someone con- nected with the putting up of those pack- ages, or was it an advertisement? If for an advertisement, was it intended for the watch or for the tobacco? Assuming it to bea ‘‘mute’’ advertising scheme, it isa good one. So far as this particular store is concerned, every customer will know that a $5 watch certificate was found in a package of this certain brand of tobacco, and on the principle that what has happened once may happen again, it would have a certain tendency toinduce people to purchase more of it. Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. GINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address PECK BROS., “auawn Rav = the oh oh > Sell From what you er ohooh > HS eRS x. fp oe Samples. We Ship Goods same day order is received, so you need buy only sell and make |NO INVESTMENT. Our Sample Books contain over 400 patterns and represent a stock of $5,000 to $0,000. We ask $5.00 for sample books including a nice dis- play rack and when you have sent orders amounting to $50.00 we Refund the [Money paid for samples and Rack. SSS SSS S OOS + > OS > $$$ > SSS SSE SSE SSE WALL PAPER Merchants can make 30 to 50 per cent. selling wall paper on our plan, which is to We will send a few samples from these books free, with full particulars to Merchants. You can make $6.00 to $12.00 every day this spring selling our wall paper. ALFRED PEATS, Wall Paper Merchant 136-138 W. [ladison St., CHICAGO. 30-32 West 13th St., NEW YORK. + a af & > Oe oe eo of Bo ole oooh ofr of he & OSS SSS $G$ $$$ $ $54 $54E6SES44E44H | ae ~ ~ a “ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | 18 A PLEA FOR FRUGALITY. Did you ever know an American who avowed that he refrained from incurring any expense because he could not afford it? Ican recall no instance of such frankness. An English Duke, a Russian Prince, will say this, meaning that there are other uses to which he devotes his income more satisfactorily to himself than would be the outlay suggested; but one of our countrymen who prefers a humbler to a more pretentious hotel, and frankly avows that he does it to save ex- pense, is exceedingly rare. Steaming down the Rhine over twenty years ago, lsaw many things more im- pressive, but nothing that gave me more satisfaction, than the spectacle of a family, evidently of the middle class, in- telligent and not without refinement, draw together on the open deck, and there, sitting in a cozy circle, eat the dinner which they had evidently brought from home to comfort them on their summer-day’s excursion for pleasure. That they enjoyed this more than a meal in the hot, stifling cabin was doubtless the fact; still, the saving of needless cost was plainly considered also. Who knows an American family of any culture or consideration that dares be thus inde- pendent and rational ? One of my favorite recollections is that of a lady who, thirty odd years ago, was newly married, and was, with her hus- band, a vegetarian, then termed ‘‘Gra- hamite.’? She had a young wife’s visits from those who had been friends when she needed such, well as relatives from homes fifty to a hundred miles distant, each of them scrutinizing with keen eyes her bearing in her new role of housekeeper and hostess, without knowl- edge of or the faintest sympathy with her peculiar ideas of diet. At meal-time, she bade them welcome to such food as she had prepared for her husband and herself—no tea, no coffee, no meat, no condiment but salt—abundant and whole- some, no doubt, but as plain and un- stimulating as that of any hermit in the wilderness, or monk in his cell. Had she explained or apologized, the charm would have been broken; but she simply proffered what she had, and evinced no consciousness that it was other than they were accustomed to, or might have chosen. Her manner implied—‘‘I know you have not come hither for food, for that you have at home; and lam sure you prefer more of my society with such fare as convenient to - sumptuous viands which I must leave you alone to prepare.” If they were tolerably well bred, this pleased them; if not, what matter if they went soon and never came again ? The better minds of the age are ponder- ing a thousand projects which aim to help the needy and assuage the pangs of want. How to make the weekly or monthly stripend of the indifferent toiler go further, is a problem which fitly taxes the attention of the generous and humane. They have studied long and with indiffer- ent success to enhance his means; sup- pose they were to give one year to the problem—‘tHow shall we most wisely and effectively circumscribe his needs ?”’’ Here is a poor family living in a great and dear city on a total income of $600 per annum—hardly able, they say, to as is pay the rent each month, though their rooms will barely hold them, and each member works that can earn a dime; how much of that $600, think you, goes for what they might better do without? Sup- pose they saved and wisely invested what they thus squander, how long would they dread the peremptory knock of the rent collector or turn pale at the thought of a week without work ? How to improve and elevate the con- dition of the laboring poor is the divinest problem of the age. The laborer no more a slave; he is not even a serf; he has renounced tutelage and guardian- ship. ‘Lord of himself, that heritage of woe,” he demands more leisure, more culture, more consideration. He _ in- dignantly asks why, producing every- thing, he should possess and_ enjoy nothing. Heis mistaken every way; he neither possesses everything nor enjoys nothing. The capitalist, who pays for the labor which builds a railroad, as truly a producer as though he toiled daily on the gradually extending track with pick and spade; sois the engineer and the contractor. The rudest track- layer may be part owner of the road when finished if he will devote to this end somuch of his earnings as heinvests is is in liquor, tobacco, ete.; while, if he weekly spends all he earns, he has no right and no claim to property in that road. He may have laid every rail, and yet he owns nothing, if he has eaten and drunk up his wages so fast as he earned them. ‘Shall we ever be able to reduce the usual day’s work to eight hours ?”’ Yes; if the laborer will consent to forego meantime the indulgence of all factitious appetites. Eight hours faith- ful labor per day will provide for all our real needs; while eighteen will not suftice to satiate all our superimposed cravings for sensual indulgence. The young me- chanic in a great city, who earns from $15 to $25 per week, may easily accustom himself to dance and drink it up so fast as he receives it, though he might and should save half of it; and he who saves nothing the first year of his independence of parental guardianship, will rarely be- gin to save thereafter. ‘‘It is the first step that costs,’ in this as in most things. The youth who has saved half his first year’s earnings will seldom cease to save thereafter. I have heard men talk of Benjamin Franklin’s pithy maxims as though they had made his countrymen sordid and meanly parsimonious—a nation of misers and skinflints. I fail to see proof of this. Our charities are munificent, not to say ostentatious—witness those evoked by the desolation of Chicago. During forty years of observation in this city, [have seldom known a fair appeal to her benevolence to pass unheeded. If giving would extinguish pauperism, I think one thousand millions of dollars would readily be subscribed and paid to achieve that end. Alas! we all know that almsgiving would not achieve it— that, after we had raised and disbursed the full billion, there would be more beggars and more suffering from want than there now are. Bailing out the ocean is arational undertaking compared with that of extinguishing pauperism by alms-giving. The great need of our age is manliness —that spirit of self-respect and self-trust which silently says: ‘‘You may have mil- lions; I have nothing; Iam content with what I earn, and do not want your mil-| lions antil I have fairly earned them. 1/ do not seek your company nor value you | one whit more for your millions: I enyy | you not their possession; hate you no more than [love you because of your wealth; should you ever need my services, you can have them by fairly paying for them; that done, we shall stand ona foot- ing of perfect equality, as we now. If you faney I will cringe and smirk to win your favor, when I can find wood to cut ata fair price and thereby live incurring no obligation, profiting by no patronage whatever, that shows that you do not know me.’’ But this spirit is only possible in men of chastened appetites as well as heroic souls. Diogenesin his tub, asking no odds of Alexander of Macedon but that he would no longer interrupt the phil- osopher’s share of the common sunshine, would have been a pretender and a cheat had he pined for the banquets of Apicius, the wines of Cyprus and of Scio. He was the peer of the great conqueror, only because he had long ago triumphed over the appetites whereby the vast majority are led captive and enslaved. Ale: do cord- xander, enthralled by ignoble yet imperious pas- sions, instinctively recognized his master in the eynie who commanded everything because he coveted nothing. Vainly do we, by invention after vention, increase the efficiency of exertions while we see no limit to our desires. The sewing trebles the seamstress’ capacity for execution; sO we cover our dresses all with fancy stitching, and so render them more costly than before. Of what avail is the steam-plow’s marvelous efficiency if the plowman deserts the field, insisting that he will live by sophistry as a lawyer or by quackery as adoctor? Inventand im- prove as we may, we Shall be nowise the gainers so long as we practically esteem it to be the chief end of man to produce as little as he may and consume as much as he can. The poorest artisan to-day consumes luxuries which were once monopolized in- our machine over by the rich and lordly few. Is the artisan benefited by this diffusion? Time was, when he was satisfied with coarse bread and coarser raiment; at length, he achieved the possibility of being drunk a week at Christmas, though obliged to be sober all the rest of the year; should we congratulate him that he may now, if he chooses, reel to bed every night, and that he often improves his privilege? Is it fortunate for him that he may begin to defile himself with tobaeco while hardly yet in his teens, and that he thenceforth snutfs, smokes and chews himself out of all natural purity of taste, and at length into his coffin? To my perception, itis clear that far beyond ability to earn or to secure more of this world’s goods than now fall to his lot, he needs wisdom to guide his appetites and firmness to control them. ow The Hardware Market. There are but few changes taking place in hardware, as during this month things are usually very quiet. Wire Nails—A firmer tone mani- fested with all the mills, and the extreme | prices existing in January are withdrawn. Jobbers have not, as yet, made any ad- vance, but will be compelled to do so, if the mills remain firm. Barbed Wire—Firm in price. many orders are being entered for ship- ment in March. A buyer cannot go | amiss at present prices in buying all he ean pay for. Rope—For some reasou the rope market | 2 | is A great | | use & | time, cannot be kept up to what manufacturers Say is a paying figure. While there has been no change in Sisal, we find manilla is a little lower. Glass—The recent advance made all along the line seems to be maintained by both jobbers and manufacturers, and it is well that such is the ease, as margins still are all too close to eut. Board and Log Rules—A very material advance has been madein all kinds of board and log rules. While there was but three makers, the competition be- tween them was very severe and prices went way below the mark. While there does any combin- ation, a general advance by all has been made. We 40 and 10 discount from list. eost not seem to be quote ‘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 inse rtion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. E! i EGANT OFFER—I I'S NO TROUBLE TO ‘find a nigger in the fence.” tind drug stocks for sale, but you generally I have an elegant drug business for saie; stock about $4,000; bright, clean and oldest established trade. Prominent location: brick building; stone walk; rent mod- erate; city 30,000; reasons for selling made known. Suit yourself about terms. Address quick, John K. Meyers, Muskegon, Mich. 67 4VOR SALE IN ONE OF THE FINEST towns of the State. a stock of clothing and furnishings. Will inventory about $4,800, Only stock in town. Best of reasons for selling. No old stock. Address 654, care Michigan Trades- man, 654 WOR SALE—WELL-SELECTED GROCERY stock, located on a main thoroughfare. One of the oldest crock ry estab’ishments in the city, which has yie ‘ded good returns every year. For full pa’ ticulirs as to stoek, terms and location, call on or address Amos S. Musselman, ee 65S Musse Iman Groce er Co. NOR “FURNITURE STOVE hy siness. Store well business. Undertaking might be added. Barg in on the stock; low rent; great oppor tunity: fine prosperous fa ming country. Ad- dress I k Box 98, Greenville. Mich. 651 Fee -E—GOOD, CLEAN, SALABLE stock i of drug Ss, groceries and hardware, or will exchange for desirable chattel property or real estate. Arthur Mulholland, Jr., Ashton, Mich. 645 SALE croc kery IND ad: a to the \ SITUATIONS WANTED. [;ANTED—POSITION AS BOOK-KEEPER OF Sé sale sman in general store by young man of .0 yea [wo years’ experience in store and short course in commereist college. Good references. Address No. ti2 cn-e Mie higan Tradesman. _ a 658 \ JANTED—POSITION AS SALESMAN BY unmarried man 24 years old; twoand a - ulf years in _ — il store. Good stock keeper. References. idress H., Box 33, Columbiaville, Mich 671 MISCELLANEOUS. ryvO RENT—NEW BRICK STORE 22x100, IN heart of business in this rapidly town of 3,00, having four large flourish'ng fur- niture factories and many other industries. Railroads radiate to six points of compass. Only one clothing, two hardware and three dry goods stores. Grand opening for another of each. R. Ss Tracy, Sturgis, Mich. 656 I RUG STORE TO KENT IN « HARLEVOIX. The store was built in 1875 and has been in sa drug store continually ever since that it has shelving, drawers. counters, dis pensing counters all ready fora stock of goods growing and is centraily located. The opening for a good live druggist is unexcelled in Northern Michigan, and the rent moderate. Apply to @,. Ww. Crouter, Charlevoix, Mich. 655 W: ANTED—GOUD DRI G CLERK. GIVE ‘ references. wages wanted and experience. Drugs, care Tradesman. 672 por SALE—OR EXCHANGE FOR LARGE stock of merchandise. Will pay cash dif- ference. six hundred acres hardwood timber land in Emmet county. Good soil. One half mile from railway station, by road or waterway. For particulars address E. F. B., Grand Blane, Mich. 652 \ JILL PAY CASH FOR STOCK OF GRO- ceries or caeeas merchandise. Must be cheap. Address No. 657, care Michigan Trades- man. 6h7 i OR SALE—TWO-STORY FRAME STORE building and dwelling in thriving Northern Michigan town. Property well rented. Will sell cheap or exchange for city property. A. M. LeBaron, 6 Monroe St. 636 ~~ 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 Tzades- man, oe 4)OR SALE—SYLVAN LAKE HOTEL, ROME City. Ind. Or will sell furniture and rent building, or would exchange for other good property. Address Lock Box 61, La Grange, Ind. 648, 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Expiring Jan. 1—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Next meeting—Saginaw, Jan. 11. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owoeso. 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. Loeal Secretary—James Vernor. i Next place of meeting—Some resort on St. Clair River; time to be designated by Executive Committee. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Concentrated Rations for Soldiers and Others. When Uncle Sam next goes to war the soldiers who fight under the starry flag will be supplied with coffee in a shape so highly condensed that one four-ounce package will serve as a month’s ration for each man. The concentrated prep- aration will be given out, perhaps, asa dry powder, but more probably in the form of small lozenges, resembling small ecough-drops in size and shape. These lozenges wil! be inclosed in tin boxes of 100, each of them weighing a gramme and representing one cup of coffee. For preparing the beverage no coffee-pot will be required, it being necessary merely to put a coffee-tablet into the cup and pour boiling water upon it, when the coffee is instantly made. Sugar and milk can be added to suit the taste. In France such eoffee-lozenges of comparatively large size have been recently introduced, be- ing made bulky by the addition of sugar for sweetening; but everybody does not eare for sugar, and therefore those which have lately begun to be manufactured in this country have been made plain. The processes by which coffee is thus concentrated are very interesting. To begin with, the beans are roasted in an enormous oven and ground in a huge mill. Then they are put into a great iron ves- sel, which is nothing more nor less than a gigantic coffee-pot, holding 240 pounds atatime. Hundreds of gallons of filtered water are pumped into the coffee-pot, which acts on the ‘‘drip’’ principle, and the infusion is drawn off to an evaporat- ing tank. A steam pump keeps the air exhausted from this tank, so that the coffee is in vacuo, being heated mean- while to a high temperature by steam pipes. The water it contains rapidly passes off and the coffee is of about the consistency of molasses when it is taken out. It is poured into trays of enameled ware, and these trays are placed on shelves in another evaporator. When the trays are removed a short time later, the coffee is a dry solid, which is scraped off the trays, ground to powder and moulded into lozenges. There is no reason why the govern- ment should not prepare coffee in this way on a large scale, in the event of war, atavery great saving. By the process described one pound of the beans can be made to produce more than 100 cups. By enquiry it has been ascertained that hotels and restaurants only get from fifteen to thirty-six cups from the same quantity, the minimum being reported by the most expensive establishments and the maximum by the cheapest eating houses. The reason for this is that the usual plan is to make the infusion and throw away the ‘‘grounds,’”’ which still contain two-thirds or more of the original strength of the coffee. Of course, for commercial purposes the lozenges can be made of Rio, Mocha or any other variety of the bean, to suit the taste. From the mnilitary point of view, the advantage of dispensing with bulky utensils for pre- paring coffee would be important. Ex- periments have recently been made with success in the treatment of tea by similar methods, and before long adry soluble essence produced from the leaves will be offered in the market, a tiny drachm bot- tle holding twenty tablets, each repre- senting one cup. Eggs are now sold on the market in a shape resembling sawdust. The chief center for the manufacture of this prod- uct is St. Louis, where great quantities of eggs are bought up in the summer, when the price of them goes down to almost nothing. They are broken into pans, the white and yolks separate, and evaporated to perfect dryness. Finally they are scraped from the pans and gran- ulated by grinding, when they are ready for shipment in bulk. Bakers, confec- tioners and hotels use eggs in this form, which is an important saving at seasons when they are dear in the shell. Itis without doubt a fact that most of the eggs sold in cities during the winter have been kept over from the previous sum- mer by pickling them in brine or lime water, so that people should be thankful for a desiccated substitute. A manufac- tured product of a similar description, ealled ‘‘egg albumen” is imported from abroad. It looks very much like a fine quality of glue, broken into small bits, golden yellow, transparent and decidedly pretty. The eggsof wild fouls of various species are largely employed in making it, the whites, that is to say, the yolks being utilized in Europe for tanning leather. This ‘‘egg albumen” is used by bakers and for glazing prints. It costs 55 cents a pound retail. Condensed jellies are becoming an im- portant commercial article. They are made in the shape of little bricks, each weighing three ounces and with an in- side wrapper of oiled paper. According to the directions, the brick is tobe put in one pint of boiling water and stirred until itis dissolved. The mixtureis then poured into a mould or other vessel and putin acool place. In afew hours the jelly is ‘‘set” and ready for use, a pint and a half of it. It never fails to ‘‘jell,” which point is the cause of so much anx- iety to amateur jelly-makers. The bricks are flavored with various fruits, currant, raspberry, grape, etc., and some are of pure calves-foot jelly, to which wine may be added for wine jelly, preferably Sicily Maderia. Fifteen cents a brick is the re- tail price. Concentrated ice cream is put up in tins of eight ounces each. The contents of acan are to-be put in three pints of boiling milk, stirred well, per- mitted to cool and then frozen, produc- ing two quarts of ice cream. Condensed desserts are prepared and sold in cans similarly, such as blane mange. When condensed milk was first intro- duced thirty years ago, the idea was laughed at. The inventor carried the entire daily supply for New York City in a ten quart pail, delivering it personally to his patrons. He died worth $7,000,- 000, made out of the business, which has grown to be agigantic industry. The processes employed are very simple, the fresh milk being put into a great copper tank with asteam jacket. While itis be- ing heated sugaris added, and the mix- ture is then drawn off into a vacuum tank where evaporation is produced by heat. The vacuum tank will hold, per- haps, 9,000 quarts. It has a glass win- dow at the top, through which the oper- atorin charge looks from time to time. He can tell by the appearance of the milk when the time has arrived to shut off the steam, and this must be done at just the right moment, else the batch will be spoiled. Next the milk is drawn into forty quart cans, which are set into very cold spring water, where they are made to revolve rapidly by a mechanical con- trivance, in order that their contents may cool evenly. Many artificial baby foods are manu- factured and sold in concentrated form. For example, products advertised as “substitutes for mother’s milk’ are made from cow’s milk, to which is added a sufficient quantity of sugar to cor- respond with the constituents of moth- er’s milk. The water is removed from the mixture in vacuo, leaving a fine white powder, which is put up in pack- ages. Finely powdered wheat flour and other nutritious vegetable elements are added in more elaborate preparations. ee Detroit—The Hay & Todd Manufactur- ing Co., of Ypsilanti, has leased the upper story of the Hull block, where it will manufacture jersey silk fitting underwear and equestrian tights. The factory will employ about forty hands. INDUCEMENT TO THE Rerai~m DRvuGcGists AND GENERAL STORES. Do You Sell DIAMOND TEA? We want one live dealer in every city and town to handle and push the sale of Diamond Tea, the great remedy for Constipation, Sick Headache and Liver and Kidneys and we offer the following induce- ment: To every dealer who will send us an order for 3 doz. 25¢ size packages of Diamond Tea at $1.90 per doz., which amounts to only $5.70, we will send free of charge an additional 1 doz. packages, be- sides sufficient sample packages to sample your whole town. By stamping your name on each pack- age you will thus receive full ben- efit of the advertising. It will pay hustlers to take ad- vantage of this offer, before their competitors get ahead ef them. DIAMOND TEA (C0., Diamond Tea is sold by all whole- sale druggists. Empress Josephine Face Bleach Is the only reliable cure for freckles and pimples. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO., GRAND Raprips, MIcH., Jobbers for Western Michigan. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine {nstrrance C0. Organized 1881. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, Unlike te Dutch Process. No Alkalies — OR: Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of which is absolutely pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and of the various cocoa andchocolate preparations man- ufactured by Walter Baker & Co. will be sentfree toany dealeron application. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. La Grippe may attack but cannot overcome those protected by frequent use of CUSHMAN’S ENTHOL [NHALER. It destroys the microbes lodged on the mucous membranes and arrests progress of the disease. Unequalled for COLDS, SORE THBOAT, CA- TARRH, HEADACHE and NEURALGIA. The first inhalations stop sneezing, snufiing, coughing and headache. Continued use com- pletes the cure. Sold by all druggists 50 cents. Registered mai! 60 cents from H. D. CUSHMAN, Patentee and Mfr., Three Rivers, Mich., U. 8. A. PYRAMID PILE GURE. A new remedy which has created a sensation among physicians by its wonderful effects in speedily curing every form of piles. It is the only remedy known (ex- cept a surgical operation) which can be relied on to give instant relief and a lasting cure in Itching, Protruding, Bleeding or Blind Piles. Briefly stated, it has the following advantages over a surgical operation or any other pile cure: It is absolutely painless; it contains no mineral poisons nor in- jurious substance; it gives immediate relief from the first application; it can be carried in the pocket and used while traveling or anywhere without the slightest inconvenience or interference with business; and, last, but not least, it is cheap, costing but a trifle. The following letters speak for themselves and need no comment except to say we have hundreds of similar ones and could fill this paper with them if necessary. GENTLEMEN—Your Pyramid Pile Cure is without an equal; it cured me in 30 days or a much shorter time. I waited 15 days or more to be sure I was cured be- fore writing you, and can now say I have not the slightest trace of piles and am much surprised at the rapid and thorough effect of the remedy. Truly yours, J. W. Rollins, Marmaduke Military Academy, Sweet Springs, Mo. From J. W. Waddell, Zulla, Va.—I am acured man. I only used one package of the Pyramid Pile Cure and | can state to the whole world that it has cured me, and I had them so bad I could hardly walk and I would have them now if my wife had not insisted on my trying it, and I kept it some time before she could get me to use it, but I now thank God such a remedy was made, and you can use this letter in any way it will do the most good. Mrs. Mary C€. Tyler, of Heppner, Ore., writes—One package of Pyramid Pile Cure entirely cured me of piles from which | have suffered for years, and I have never had the slightest return of them since. Mr. E. O’Brien, Rock Bluffs, Neb., says—The package of Pyramid Pile Cure entirely removed every trace of itching piles. I cannot thank you enough for it. Ask your druggist for the Pyramid Pile Cure, and a single trial will convince you that the reputation of this remedy was built up on its merits as a permanent cure and not by newspaper puffery. It is the surest, safest and cheapest Pile Cure sold. Any druggist will get it for you as he can obtain it from every wholesaler in Detroit, Chicago or Grand Rapids. —_— = Co y= -—— 2. a eta Ww THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Gum opium, morphia, Malaga olive oil, cloves, oil cloves. ACIDUM, Ace 8 os 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 7: ee a 20 iCecpoticum .......... 27@ 36 NE oes co esc une 50@ 52 a - & eee 10@ 12 i 10@ 12 Phosphorium dil...... Salevicws ........,.- i — 7 Sulphuricum.. " %@ 5 eS a ion 60 Tereerscans........... 30@ 33 AMMONIA, Aqua, 16 icy 34@ 5 oo one 7 aan Since ueceeee 12@ 14 Chioeidum ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE. Se 2 00@2 25 de cia 80@1 00 WO gc eee ee 45@ 50 Yellow . -2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po 50)....-.. 55 Juniperus | ie 10 Zanthoxylum ......... BALSAMUM. eee 5@ 5B Peru . @1 30 Terabin, ‘Canada ..... 45@ 50 eee... 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian............ 18 ee 11 Cinchona Piaya ............ 18 Euonywmus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Prones Virgimt.............. 12 Gules, orc............-.-. 10 eee 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 2 33@ 35 Haematox, 15 Ib. ‘pox... 11@ 12 1s 13@ 14 . 14@ 15 ay 16@ 17 Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble ....... @ wv Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Soint Chioride ....... @ 15 Sulphate, com’l....... < Ff " pure... @ 7 FLORA. Arnica aacces 1 oe sree ............- a@ 3 Matricaria io. 50 FOJAA es LC... J 00 Cassia eae tol, Tin- nivelly / “ Salvia a we hat & One We......... 25 a 1e @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @ % Ce ee ae se a“ @ 4 e sifted sorts @ B ‘ = b@ ww e, Barb, (po. 60) 50@ 60 ~ OCepe.c 20 @ i Socotri, (po. 60). @ 80 oe 1s, (48, 14 48, a1 aimed 55 «60 sendetee. (po. a5). HQ 35 Benzoinum..........-. W@ 5b Camphors............: 55@ 58 Euphorbium ” i. 35@ 10 ————————oo 2 50 Gamboge, po........-. q To Guaiacum, (po 30) ... @ & Bio, (pe O)......-.. @ 60 8 idsie eta es 8e Myrrh, (po —........ 40 Op (po $0)}........ 2 ase? 30 Cee | ease. 30@ 38 * pleached..... 338@ 3 Tragacanth ...... —-s S10 HERBA—In ounce packages. I ogc cone cous. 25 ARON «oo. 5005 ss ces 20 RT ic od hess cuss eudws 25 ee ee 28 Mentha Piperita............ 23 Vir 25 ie ences ae 30 NOE VU ocho cece oscars 2 THOME, Viscecsscerccertees MAGNESIA, Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pee ones 2@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... W@ Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Absinthiam. ........- 3 50@4 00 Amygdalae, Dule...... 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarac....8 00@8 25 i ete eee 1 75@1 85 Auranti Cortex....... 2 40@2 59 RE isons soos 3 25@3 50 Ceeeee -.....-.:....e 60@ 65 Caryophyiif So vee cums 85@ 90 ee cece oa 35@ 65 ah os @1 Cinnamonili . 1 CO@1i 10 Citronella . @ Conium M: 65 Cunceed............. - @400 Exechthitos.......... 2 50@2 75 SOWIE 2 2 25@2 50 Gaultheria ....... .-2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce : @ Gossiplii, Sem. gal BQ 85 Hedeoma 2 10@2 2° Juniperi.... --- SO@Z 00 Devomaue ............ 90@2 LE 2 50@3 00 Mentha Piper.......... 2 75@3 50 Mentha Verid......... 2 2@2 30 Mormngac, gal......... 1 00@1 10 a Ones. ........ @ 80 Oliv 95Q@2 75 Picis s Liquida, ‘gal. 35), 10a 12 oe... 21 = eal Lede ites 1 TO OG Mosee, GUMOG.......... 6 50@8 50 | ee ee en 40@ 45 Seceee ......._...- voce Me OO RO - 50@7 00 Sassafras...... 50@ 55 Sinapis, ess, ounce... @ 65 eee... oe @ 9 Thyme beat dd ates section 40@ 50 me @ 60 Theapraman........... 15@ 2 POTASSIUM. Swe... 15@ 18 bichromaie ....... 1. I 4 eee. 35@ 39 via. 07 12@ 15 ee (po 22@24).. 22 24 ee 50@ 55 iain. a 2 9@3Z tn Potassa, Bitart, =. 27@ 30 Potassa. Bitart, com. @ 15 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Fotaes Nitras.......... 7@ 9 Piaeeees._............ 22@ 30 Salpeete po........... 15@ 18 RADIX. i 20 25 Aye ..._............ 22 25 a 12@ 15 aoe e.............- @ 2 Cement... ll. 40 Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 Siiycherisien, 4 (pv. 15).. 1 18 oe Canaden, =. * bee eee @ 3 He eta Als, po.... a @ es on ae oe 15@ 2 Ipeeen, 66.00. 30@2 40 Iris ead (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 Pe 50@ 55 Maranta, is......... @ & Podophyllum, pe...... g 5@ Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ W 6 ag fe leueelee s 32 ee 40 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 M 25 Seiliae, (po. %)........ 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- an po........ @ 3 Valeriana, — (po. 30) @ B German. 15@ 20 ero a... 18@ 20 Eingepest j.......... 18@ 2 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. @ 15 Shoots (graveleons).. 12@ 15 eee taee | 6 Carat, 1, (po. 7... 4. = 12 eee bee ee ‘= 2% Secon eee eee 12 Caunabis _— os eae Crgeniam.... ........ Tee G enopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix E Geri wea, 3 00@3 25 Pocmieuiem..........- @ 15 Foenugreek, po...... 6@ «68 Peet i... @4 peo ged, (bbl. ~ -. 4 @ 4% eaten 6 @ 6% EE 6@ Sinapis Aloe......... 11 @13 ier. ....... 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 D. F. R.....1 75@2 00 bec etua eas 1 25@1 50 Juntperts Co. C.F 1 65@2 00 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E 1 75@2 00 Spt. Vini — -1 75@6 50 ini Oporto .. ---1 2@2 00 Viet Alte. .........,.. 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool Cerne |... 2 25@2 50 — sheeps’ wool ee ce cases 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ CUPTURN cies. 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- Ee 65 Hard for slate use. vis) Yellow Reef, for slate o.. .... 1 40 SYRUPS. eee 50 i ee ae es Ce ee ey uo caucus 60 i 50 Aurenti Cortes.............. 50 fomer AYO... 8. 50 Siatiax Officinalis.......... 60 . - Ce... .. 50 Sees ... 50 Scillae.... 50 - /. 50 Tolutan .. 50 Prunus ¢irg 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 Saeed 50 wipes. 60 Oe ere 60 I 50 (eeeoeeee... kt ... 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 ee 60 Ge... 50 Sengiinaria ............ 50 Baroemin _.....- i 50 Cantharides......... vis} Capsicum ... 50 Ca damon... 5 Co. _ = coer... .. Ceeeene ll oe oo 50 ee... 60 ct Comme ...........-........ 50 aoe 50 Digitalis 50 ae 50 Goauee 5... 50 caf 60 oi ee 50 . Seeeon.............. 60 ee 50 Hvoscvenme ................ 50 ene 8. 5 . onernome .. 75 Worrt Ciiloridum............ 35 a 50 OS 50 Ce ee 50 mom Vous. ....-....._... 50 Opii eS i so monet... ......- 50 ‘ 2... 2 00 oa. a SS 50 ON 50 Meee. ce 50 Cassia Acutifol.. 50 Co 50 Serene ................. 50 eres 60 eee, 60 Li ot ee 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. AXther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 29@ 30 “47... Sa ms A 4.541... 24%@ 3 ‘** ground, (po. WP eee ce ivedes acl. 3@ 4 Seen... ........... 55@ 60 Antimoni, oo.......... 4@ 5 et PotassT. 55@ 60 —— pice ctu cee @1 40 Anerersin. ............ @ & Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60 Aeon... ....... 5@ 7 Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40 Bismuth & W......... 2 W@2 2 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s ue ss... 11 Cantharides Russian, Vd eee eae oe 1 00 Capsici Fructus, af... @ % a coe @ 2 “ ac @ 20 Caryophbyllus, (port 18) 14@ 15 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Cera Alba, 8. é FF... 50@ 55 Cera Wiava........ 38@ 40 Cente lL. @ 4 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2% COMSIOEEM. 1... 11... @ 10 Creneomm ........... @ #0 Chloroform feeee eae 80@ 63 uibbs . @1 25 Chioral Hyd ‘Crat eeeees is 35@1 60 ees ............. W@ 2 Cinchonidine, P& W 15Q 20 German 3 @ 12 — list, diz. per hes ceeeuccnene 60 eae eae ves cee @ 3 Creta, —— ........ @ 2 ae ete c cua 5@ 5 ‘precip eee tea ee 9@ 11 a ee @ 8 Co 75@ 8 Ceeer..., 1... 5... @ 2 Cue) Suiek........... 8@ 6 Teens... . 4 . 5... 10@ 12 Benet Sh... ......- 0@ 7 Emery, = nee. @ . @ ¢ Ergota, > a 70@ 75 —— a, bee oe. 12@ 15 Leeds eee cece teed ce @ B ane ated ea eas cues 7 @8 Gelatin, eee ese ues @ 70 French........ 60 Glareware flint, by box 70 & 10. Less than box 663 Glue, rown.......... 9@ 15 oe 183@ 3 Glycerina ...... deaieee 15%@ Grana Paradisi........ @ R Ce 55 Hydraag. rn — @ 8 @ Ox aciia @ 9 S Ammoniati.. @1 v0 . Unguentum. 4@ 5 Bivdrarevrom ......... @ 64 Tchthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 ew, Ea 75@1 00 iodies, Hesube........ 3 80@3 9 Todoform 000000000071 70 Se oa ess @2 2 Lycepodinm .......... 65 LO rarg I eeeener Haken Aaiiliae 10@ 12 a Sulph (bbl . 134) ve Mannia, 8. F......... 63 oe, . P. & W...1 70@1 95 | Seidlitz _—— coe. @ 2 | Lindseed, boiled . 52 65 . = €Sé4 Sinapis.. Be ote c cece @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter 2 1 69@1 85 opt ee @ Mi seained .......... 85 Moschus Canton...... @ 0 — accaboy, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 40% 45 Myrintics, No. 1....... 6@ Voe @ 35 Nux Vomica, o a. | a iw snuff. scales De. Voes @ 35 Paints. bbl. Ib. On Sen... 20@ 22)| Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30/| Ochre, y ellow —” . 1% 2@4 @2 00 | Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Se ee 1% 2@3 Soda, BiCarh......... @ 35/| Putty, sanisnnume : 3 24%@3 oz @2 00 | Seda, Ash. ............ 3%@ 4/|_“ strictly pure..... 44 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 —e rim sng ean pete. @ 85] Spts. Ether Co ik She fee 13@16 Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. @ 50 ‘* Myrcia Hon. @2 25) V oa English.. 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. 22)... @ it ‘ Myreia bap... .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular..... 0@5 Piper Alba, (pog5).... @ 3 + Vint Rect. bbl. Lead, red.............. 6% @7 Pie Ee TE 2 290@2 39; _" . white ........... . 64QT Plumbi Acet ........ 14@ 15| Less be gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. @70 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20| Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... @% Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Sub ih a 2%@ 3% | White, ‘aris American ¢6 & PLD. Co., dos..... @1 25 Mem. 4@ 3 Whiting, Paris Eng. Bee rethrum, pv........ 7 Termerings.......__... 8@ 10| cliff .................. 4 Guaingmy PY-----::: 908 9 | terebenth Venice... aa 30| Ploneer Prepared Paints gi Quinta, a ea. 27@ 32| Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48| Swiss Villa _——— S. German... 19%@ 33| Vanilla............... 9 00@16 00} Paints. -+++++-1 0O@1 2 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.......... 7™@ VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispv.. 23@ 2 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Sen... ...... 1 76@1 8) OILs. ExieaTace .... 160@1 70 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bol. Gal} Coech Body........... 2 75@3 00 14 | Whale, winter | No. 1 Turp Farn...... 1 00@1 10 12} Lard, extra. --110 115} Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 oi laee Ne t..........- 70 | Japan hiteaittey - 1 Linseed, pure raw.... 2 ‘urTp. ase 70@75 OAAEL TINE & PERKINS DRUG CO Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHREMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils & > Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PRINTS. Fall Line of Staple Druggists’ Sundries 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 All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HAZELTINE & PER A satisfaction. Send a trial order. IS UaUG GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADES MAN. GROCERY PHICE, CUR The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE. doz gross ee a .......... 9 CO _es............ & 5 50 ——s............ BB oe a 75 8 00 en «Cj... 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. A = cans, 3 doz. 45 % Ib eg 85 in = 1% 18 -— 10 Arctic eo... 60 » * 1 20 -_ - . 200 ~ 9 60 Fosfon. 5 oz. cans, —_ in case . = 6” ' .2 00 Red Star, % t cans.. / 40 ' a * oe a 1 eg —s. oa Telfer’s, 1 lb. cans, doz. 45 se % lb. ss ~~ 85 - im * "_. to BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. oe... 9 ee 80 eS BLUING, Gross Arctic, eg ovals.. vee +--+ 400 Soe 7 00 e a. ae... 10 50 « Noe 2, sifting box... 275 - mes, . 400 ~~ ™o. >, 8 00 1 oz ball io BROOMS, No. 2 Horl.. eS No.1 .. 20 No. 2 Carpet. .. 2 mee : . 28a Parlor Gem.. 2 Common Whisk... . . = Fan e Le 18 Warehouse. 32 BRUSHES. een es. 1 25 we wo... “ ee Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Palmetto, goose............ 1 50 CANDLES. meet, © i. bouece......... — -. rti‘(iwCCC 9 ES ee 11 Wiking ...... 24 CANNED GOODS. esa Clam: Little Neck, ilb.. 1 20 ce 1 90 Clam aie. Sees, 5 e........-.....- 2 25 Cove Oysters. Standard, 1lb — Ce 1 % Lobsters ee SE 2 50 - 2 2. Picnic, 1 Ib ..2 00 - ................. 2 90 ckerel Standard, oe ee : 25 Mustard, 2 1b . Tomato — 21b.. a Soeece. 2 .......... 2 25 Salmor. Columbia River, —... 2 talls i.e OE 45 ‘ pink... on Sardines. American Nese AB....--... “G1 7 Imported oe O56 —.......... ae Mustard X%s.. eae @8 oO Le. 21 Trout. a ce................, oe Fruits. Apples. 2 >. menderd........ 1 05 York State, gaJJons.... 3 25 Hamburgh, ‘* _ Apricots. Live oak,...... oo 1% Bante Crug........ ... 1 %5 SE i eek sbasees 1 75 ———- 1% Blackberries. Lavy... .. .. . 95 Cherries. a... 10@1 20 Pitted Hamburgh 1% eee... 1 50 Erie ... 12 Damsons, ‘Eee Plums and Green Gages. eee 1 California. i. 1” Gooseberries. Common .... 1 20 Peaches. 2 EO 125 oo 1 85 oes... 2 00 California 2 20 Monitor 1 85 co Pears meme... 8 1 20 Riverside... 210 Pineapples. Common.... . ---..1 CO@l @ Johnson's sliced 2 50 o grated.. 2% Quinces. Common .... 1 10 Raspberries. Red . 1 30 Black Hamburg... 150 Erie, black : 1 30 Strawberries. a ............ 1 25 Hamburgh ...... : ix —...... ...... l 1 & Terrapin . . : 1 10 Whortieberries. Blueberries ........ 1 00 Meats. Corned beef, Libby’s...... 2 10 Roast beef, — eo 210 Potted ham, _-..... vounk oe iD. . _ = tongue, ‘ Ib. 1s ose 85 chicken, it Ib oe 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringless. oo Frenc style La 22 ' [s........... 7 Lima, green. LCG” 40 eee... % Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay Siete Bakod............ 1 35 World’s Fair Baked........ 1 35 Paceeeeenes.. 1 00 Corn. Pere .......... 18 Livingston Eden........... 12% oe 4... cs a Dew......... 150 eae ng Glory.. ee ch 75 Peas Hamburgh marrefat ose. 13 . early June...... ic cout nan Eng..1 50 - ee... 1 7 “ ae ‘aaa oO Seen .......... i... 7 Harris standard............. 7 VanCamp’s Beerores....... 1 10 - early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35 as... -..— ‘ Mushrooms. Pee 17Q22 Pumpkin. ee... 95 a. ee 1 26 ounce. NTE oe awe rn ew nae 140 Soaked . ieee 85 Honey be 1 50 ee 1 35 Tomatoes. Rameock ............... 1 Excelsior ..... kh 2 eee... ces ee 1 35 Pe 1 40 a... 325 CHOCOLATE, Baker's, Sas... = 6s Premium 5 37 Breakfast ‘Cocoa........ . 43 CHEESE, Be iis. —— ee... .. Le oe meres... 5s or Gold Medal........... @i2% ee 9 @il a ee 11 oe 1 00 CI oie ccviwe co cecy 23 Limbur » cee ae @10 e............. Roque: = gages os RAARAR Blue Label Brand. _ pint, 25 bottles Pin un 1 doz botties | Sap Gage....... B22 Schweltzer, imported. @2A4 domest! = .... @i4 CATSUP. 00 me to CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes .......... 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, im bees........ oe Less quantity . Pound packages 6%@7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. ae ..19 A eo ae. 22 Golden... 2 Peaberry Ne ao Santos. | 20 een... ow Prime . oe Peaberry ae 2 Mexican and Guat afaala. Fair. ee Gana... 21 Fancy.. ‘ ee | Maracaibo. Prim ie ve ee Milled | a Java, oeer. 8k 25 Exivete Growth... ......... 27 Mandebling . oe Mocha. Imitation ..... . 23 ee 26 Roasted, To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add 4c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 24 30 Bunola . 23.80 Lion, 60 or 100 1b. case. 24.30 Extract. aa City % gross. 75 _ -~F Hummel _s 1 aay gross... oes 1 50 ches 2 50 CHICORY. 5 ee 7 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, oe....... per doz. 12 ar....... 140 1S oe cs... .-. ' 1 60 . e..--.. - 1% . 80 ft. . 1 90 Jute o...... 90 . =e ...... - 100 CONDENSED MILE. 4 doz. in case. COUPON BOOKS, ‘ Rh oie i wo cea ge 6 25 Genuine Swiss lie 7a AmeritenSwimt.. ........ 6 7 “Universal.” 1, per buen. ._......- $3 00 2, a lei 3 50 3, eee 4 00 5, ea 5 00 0, eee 6 00 $20, Ce 00 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 or over. 5 per cent, 500 oe i 10 ay 1006 “ 20 te COUPON PASS BOOKS, Can be made to represent any enomination from $10 down. | ee eoeks.,. ....... 50 oe 100“ 250 “ 500“ me «|C* CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’n..... $3 00 1000, “ * ee 5 00 — * a. 8 00 Rees asic... 5... ... | 8 CRACKERS. Butter. porwr a ee.....,......... 6 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% Family XXX Family XX xX % Salted X Salted XXX, cartoon 6% Kenosha Ye Boston, ..... Butter biscuit .. % Soda. meee Ua. . @ peas, (iy... Soda, Duchess Crystal Wafer. . Long Island Wafers Oyster. B, Over Se ............. 8 Cyycovymer.Eak............6 Pessee Oveter.............. 6 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pure.. i. = Telfer’s Absolute......... 3) oe y DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, Apples Sundried, sliced in bbls. . quartered ‘“ Th Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes @10% Apricots. California in bags...... 16% % Evaporated in boxes. .. 17 Blackberries. In boxes... . @9 Nectarines. we it) Dee... 16... 1... 15 Sih, DOSE... .......,.. 15% Peaches. Peeled, in boxes......°. 16 Cal. evap. * ebro us 14 " in Dage...... 18% Pears. California in bags.. Pitted Cherries. percee........ ........, SO lb, boxes ...... ies 2 * ene ueee Prunelles, my bomes............ ene. In berreis....... i 22 ere Pome... .......,.... 23 oie oo. 24 Raisins Loose Muscatels in Boxes, 2 crown 15 . 1 65 Loose Muscatels in 1 Bags. 2 crow n 3 ce "6% initiate, Currants. Patras, in barrels.. . im SW oee......-.. 4% 4% c in less quantity .. Peel. Citron, Leghorn, oy boxes = Lemon Orange “ = “ “ss = Raisins, Ondura, 29 lb. boxes. . @8 Sultana, 20 sag ‘ @10 Valencia, 30 ‘ @7 Prunes, California, 100-120.. 10% " 90x100 25 Ib. bxs. 11% 80x90 - on r 70x80 C 134% 60x70 . .14 Turkey a. 7 cei tt ae Sultana Pisa eeeae te me seince 9% ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. XX wood, white. Oe See ca coe ; No. 1 MoS —— white. os eee 1 00 Coin. Mill No. 4 a ee 100 FARINACEOUS GOODS, Farina, 100 Ib. kegs. ...........- 3% Hominy. A 3 00 ee - $50 Lima Beans. peied............ Rees pe 4% Maccaroni and gional Domestic, 12 lb. box... epereee..... 2... “0:4 L Oatmeal. Deere a... ..... 4 85 Half barrels 100........... 2 55 Pear! Barley. — ————E— 2% Peas eee, Oe 1 85 om per... 2% Rolled Oats, Barrels 180... .. v.. om Half bbis 90. ee ia 2% Sago. erees .. 1... i. a eee... 5 Wheat, ReGen... .. 4... .. 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. a 1 40 Cod. Pollock . 3% Whole, Grand Bank.... 5% Boneless, bricks.. ...... : @9 Boneless, ore. ... Halibut. eee 10 @il Herring. Holland, = osc 9 50@12 2 oe i 12 00 Round Shore, : bbi — 2 50 a. 1 2 Scaled.. eae — 17 "Mackerel. =o, Bee... ...... .... 11 25 met we ee.........,...... 4 65 oO. t, Oeee......--.... ... 2 oe Family, 90 Ibs.. beaesss Oe 10 Ibs . ee 65 Sardines. Rusdian, Keee............., 50 Trout. No. 1, % bbis., 100ibs. ....... 6 50 Bio. 1, Ree, ie. <....,.S... 85 Whitefish. No. 1, % bbls., 100]bs........7 50 Te, ©, BARN, 10 1 ans vos 1 Family, % ogy 100 lbs.... a 20 Ma, FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. 2c8 ....& = 08. .... Regular Vanilla. XX Grade j Lemen. a $1 50 Os. .... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, BU ics $1 7 o..... 3 50 Jennings’ D C. Lemon. Vanilla 20z folding wigan 5 25 3 0z 2 00 1 50 4 oz " 1 50 2 00 6 oz " »..2 00 3 00 8 oz ” . .8000 4 00 GUNPOWDER. Austin’ 8 Rifle, a odes 3 50 ¥% kegs...... 200 - Crack Shot, hans | 3 50 - Kegs 2 00 _ Club Seentinn e 45 ‘ “ % “ 2 50 mI fF. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the HERBS, ce | ae ;.. 5... INDIGO. Madras, Sib. Demes....... 55 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes. . 50 JELLY. 7 pele 90 ~— Cc 180 LICORICE. EE 30 Cee. 25 eee... 5. 12 LYE. Condensed, : ME eee eae 1 2 ae. |... 2 25 MATCHES. oe. © Wiehee........:...... 1 2 Boner peri... ..;........ 170 ie eee... i” Maport waricr............... 400 MINCE MEAT. 3 or 6 doz. in case perdoz.. 95 MEASURES, Tin, per dozen. 1 galion ... $1 75 Half galion.. ! 1 4 ae Levees q int . . 45 Half pint . ee 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. eee 7 00 Doar eel ................ 635 J a 3 7% Pint... ., l 2 25 MOLASSES Bl ain Sugar howee............... 14 Cuba Baking. RPOGeR 8... sca... 16 Porto Rico. ye es 20 cc eae, 30 New Orleans. OE onc 5s... 18 ae onic es cen : 20 poem OGG... .ce.--.... 25 — Oe ee 30 Fan eee 40 one half barrels, 8¢e extra, PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @7 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @4 00 Small, Barrels, 2,400 count. 8 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 4 50 PIPES, Clay, a 1% 7. ©. tulloount........ és) OR TO Bei eal 1 25 POTASH, 48 cans in Case. Deere ..... 1 .......... 4 00 Penna Sait (o,'s.........- 3 25 RICE, Domestic. Carolina a betes epeuc 6 ee | Wi a4 . +. 256 eg 3 Imported. Japan, No. : ee eee eee 6 hae... i. i... 5 ee ae. 5 TO i 5 ~~ >» < SPICES, Whole Sifted. IG ing ei ess ees. 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 7 ” Batavia in bund....15 ” Saigon in rolls......é 2 Cioves, Amboyna........... 22 “ POneIoer.......... 10 Mace Hatavis....... .... Nutmegs, fancy.. 7 Ne 70 _ No. 2 ue eee tec peg 60 Pepper, Singapore, black....10 white... .20 ' “eek. ...,;........ 16 Pure Ground in Bulk. ee 15 Cassia, ‘s : eieGe ........ oe Cloves, Amboyna........... 22 . Denerer...........10 Ginger, Atria... ......... 16 . enn... 20 _ JOmeica ........ ae Mace Hatevia..............- % Mustard, Eng. and — ~22 - Trieste. . 25 Dusen, NOS .......,..... 5 Pepper, Singapore, ie a .30 124 c — ee ca oes 20 eee. 12. «seu “Absolute” in Packages. 4S 48 Altes . 5... 84 1 55 Cmeeen............. BF ES eee... a 13 Ginger, eemaica ..... 84 155 Y Arvican........ oA 1 & Mustard... . 84 1 55 Poorer ........... 84 1 55 Sage...... : 84 SAL ‘SOD: A. Beet oo... 1% Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SAUERKRAUT. Gold Medal.... @8 25 SEEDS. I ee i ese, @12% Canary, Smyrna,...... 6 MOM 32 es es 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% : 5% 10 9 Rape 6 Cutie bone........... 30 STARCH, 1- = packages bese cca eyes 5% ee 5% 6- ip eae 6 and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 4% i eee 5% SNUFF Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccanoy, in jars...........% french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, oe She — English.. . 4% SA LT. et Ib, SaCKS.......... . . 82 25 5-lb. Set a Oe $3 10-1. sacks.. _1 20 ee TT ces eee 2 25 mew Gopee............... 1 50 56 Ib, dairy in linen — 2 wip drill : 18 Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 28 lb. i: 18 Ashton. 56 1b. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 }h, dairy In linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. me i. Oe... 3... ci, 27 Common Fine. Sn 90 Bees ........., ...<.... 95 SALERATOS, Packed 60 Ibs, in box. ee ee 83 30 oy eS eS 3 15 We ae cs ae .. 330 TE es 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. ro s Brands. Old Country, 80 tib........ 4+ 00 Good Cheer, 60 1 ag Sain decaas 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-1D...... 3 60 Proctor & Gamble. CONCORG.... 6.66.55. 606 + 320 TV OEy 10 OR chs iaaeues 67 _ SO... cc le. 4 00 ee 4 00 Mottled German........... 3 15 ce ee 3 2% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands, American Family, wrp d..84 05 plain... 3 98 N.K, Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands. Sern CMA ws. us... 4 00 Brow Te 2 25 _ ae 3 2 = Bros. & Co.’s Brands, ois oe fasce urea 3 65 Cotton Oil.. 57 Te nas «« & 20 Marseilles.......... sich ee «- £@ WOE onc os secs sieeci duets 4 00 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 ' hand, doz....... 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’ prices: Out Leet. ................. 28 8 eo 4 94 Granuinted ...... 6.1.1... 4 63 Fine Granulated.... . 463 Extra Fine Granulated.... 4 %5 Cees _ 75@3 00 Ce 9 Messinas, 3008 ia > sans OD Frankfort Sausage 9% aa |. co 53 00 Gd d SOae 7 LEMONS, 7 Bologna, straight........ _6 Messina, choice, 360. @3 25 Bologna, thick. eee ee cee eae 6 fancy, 360 : 5 0 RC 7 choice 300...... “o LARD fancy 300 ...... 4 00 Mette MoeuGeres .. |... a OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS ce ag weeees . 13% Figs, fancy layers, 6D...... G aa. .- 10% “© 10% @12% Compound ...... ia. --109 extra “ 141 a. @5 50 Ib. Tins, e ady ance. ‘ SN ean 20 Ib. pails, Ac Da ates, Fard, 10 ib, box oe... @ 7% 10 Ib. ae pe @6 bib, ¢| Ke « _@é Sie 4 ae Paine. BO ae 4%@ 5 NUTS. BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, oe ee @19 Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....... 2 vaca. @138 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............ 8 73 C Calorie i @l8s% Boncices tulap bate 13 50 | Brazils, new..... oo @1s% SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Filberts . @il% : Walnuts, Grenoble ee @i4 Hams, average 20 lbs eee cee eee ce ona ee Marbot.. 16 Ibe 15% A SRD 1! @13 i “12 to 14 Ibs... 15% We Oe es i mt ' ry ME ieee es. coma ee @13% picnic. bees. 44... 12% choice... @12! ac —" boneless........ rh aia, ee he oulders OO rt ¥ : —— Bacon, boneless. . 1 Cocoanuts, full en as -o ried beef, ham prices......... eee eae i = Long Clears, heavy Te Fancy, H. P., Suns ey eee eres et eseee.e @ 5% Biemoee, WOO F H. P. OGMEOG. ws. @ ih% a Moet 2 ancy, : Flags oe @ 5% [ Moemea..... ||... @tT% Choice, H. P. Mxtras....... @ 4% : a8 | ol asted 5 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. California Walnuts. ... os ‘ CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. FRUIT JARS. Pee. Quarts a el a Half Gallons. oat go a a_i... ee eee ae 50 ee 75 Tubular ee ee eee a Keteiet. @ LAMP CHIMNEYS. " Per hen: 6 doz. in box. me eee... ke, kg 1 80 BOE To... 1 @ No De eles eee 2 90 wiret quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top ee 2 2 at We ee eeu. 2 40 2 « ss _ ee ce Le 3 40 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top.. am OO Be 2 80 No.2 * & ce -.3 86 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled ee 3 70 aa i 4 70 2 Hinge, ‘ ' . -.4 88 Ene No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, aa aa Ce tea a 12 No. 2 ec 1 50 No. 1 crimp, per. dor. EO 1 35 No. 2 Secu es 1 60 LAMP WICKS. No. @, per grogs....... 23 net, ee ae aU, 28 ___—_—_—<_ oe 38 No. 3, Th aaah, ; in 75 STONEWARE—AKRON, Butter Crocks, land Geal.............. 06% Jugs, % gal., per doz Lee ues oe cee eas ccues 75 oe ‘ fe 2 oe Miik Pans, % gal., per | OG. ca 85 glazed . 75 . ‘ ee i 73 ' : be . glazed Ciaae pees 90 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE COOPERSWILLE CREAMERY. ALL THE STOCKHOLDERS SATIS- FIED WITH DAVIS, RAN- KIN & CO. A Local Business Advantage. A reporter for THE TRADESMAN was in Coopersville recently, and, meeting Mr. S. K. Felton, the hustling soliciting representative of Davis & Rankin, the creamery building firm of Chicago. he accepted an invitation from that gentle- man to visit the creamery recently built at that place. The factory building, which is located just outside the business center of the village, is 30x48 feet in dimensions, with a wing, 12x24 feet, which comprises tre engine room and office. The factory is well builtin regard to retaining heat, the walls being constructed with two dead air chambers. If there is any one scientific invention of the age that shows the importance of using first-class butter producing strains, it isthe Babcock tester in at this factory. The milk is tested once a week and the record shows a wonderful vari- ation. The four tests are averaged, and each patron’s statement is made out on that basis on the fifteenth of each month. This modern creamery system is said to be a great improvement on the old cream receiving system. The farmer delivers the entire product, just as he does at the cheese factory. The milk is weighed and run into a large vat, whence, after being reduced to a certain temperature, it passes through what is known as the Alexandra Jumbo centrifugal separator, the ‘‘skim’’ milk passing to the right into a large vat and the cream passing into a vat to the left. This separator is a Sweedish invention and is certainly a wonderful machine. To attempt to describe it properly would require more time and space than can be allotted to it. Just think of a little machine, occupying less space than a lamp stand, receiving milk direct from the cow and spinning it around at the rate of 6,500 revolutions per minute, separating the butter globules and throwing them off centri- fugally, and forcing the ‘‘skim’’ milk off in an opposite direction! And it does its work perfectly, too, for the most care- ful tests of the ‘‘skim’’ milk do not show any cream. To view the small openings in this machine when it is not in oper- ation, one could not believe that a ton of milk could be forced through them in one hour, yet such is the case. After being separated from the milk, the cream remains in the vat from 24 to 48 hours, when it passes into a huge churn, which is simply a revolving box 3 feet high, 3 wide and 7leng. The butter is worked on a revolving wooden disk about 6 feet in diameter, by passing underneath two grvoved cone-shaped roilers. This creamery has but recently com- menced operations, yet 27,976 pounds of milk was received in January, and from every 100 pounds of this milk 5.36 pounds of butter was made, or a fraction over 18.65 pounds of milk for one pound of butter. The sales report shows a mini- mum of 28 cents and a maximum of 31.5 cents received. The factory is equipped with a cheese- making outfit, so that, in case of a mis- hap of any kind, the milk can be utilized. The building and plant cost $4,950, and the stockholders, so far as seen, use seem perfectly satisfied with the manner in which Messrs. Davis & Rankin ful- filled their contract. Some slight fric- tion was caused by the Company’s col- lector, but Mr. Felton, the solicitor, settled up matters precisely as agreed upon, and to the perfect satisfaction of all concerned. C. C. Lillie, Commissioner of Schools for Ottawa county, and one of Western Michigan’s representative dairy farmers, is president of the Creamery Company and the largest stockholder. Mr. Lillie was not seen but was reported by Messrs. Oakes, Taylor and Park as follows: “Mr. Lillie is one of our most enthusi- astic patrons. He keeps seventeen cows and formerly sold his butter in Grand Rapids at 25 cents per pound on con- tract. He says that he doesn’t have to do that now because he can get more for it. Where he used to get 173¢ pounds of butter churned at home, he says he now gets 181g pounds at the creamery from the same quantity of milk. He not only gets more butter from his milk but he gets a better price for it. He has sixteen customers in Grand Rapids whom he supplies regularly with creamery butter. Add to this the important fact that heis relieved from all the old-time drudgery of buttermaking at home, and you will readily understand why he is so enthusi- astic in this creamery business.” C. P. Lillie, one of Coopersville’s lead- ing merchants, is a stockholder. Mr. Lillie said: ‘tl subscribed for stock in the creamery because I had faith in it. Our farmers have always sold their butter in the city, and, as a result, they do their trading there. I hold, as a busi- ness man, that, if the farmers can sell their butter at home at satisfactory prices, they will spend more money at home for merchandise. The creamery has given splendid satisfaction so far. We feel proud of it and have the greatest confidence in its ultimate success. 1am satisfied that no other creamery builders would have given us any better value for our money, or treated us any better than Davis & Rankin did. Mr. Felton was indefatigable in his efforts and triumphed in the face of much opposition.”’ D. C. Oakes, the Coopersville banker, is treasurer of the Creamery Company. Mr. Oakes said: ‘I ama stockholder in the creamery and have great faith in it. Of course, we met with some opposition in organizing our company. Some said: ‘Oh, Davis & Rankin are after the big end of it; but Il want to say to you that Davis & Rankin are justly entitled to every dollar they got out of it. Had it not been for the liberal course adopted by them, we would not have this cream- ery to-day. They took a committee of our people over to Illinois and gave them a practical demonstration of the working of the system. Mr. Felton worked hard for six weeks in working up an interest among our farmers and business men be- fore acompany was organized. I have no doubt but what all this cost Davis & Rankin at least $500, and every sensible man knows that itis simply a matter of business ethics for these gentlemen to reimburse themselves for this necessary expenditure. We are perfectly satisfied with the cost of our creamery and with the result of its operations so far. When we get it worked up to its fullest capacity, whichis about 10,000 pound of milk daily, we will, no doubt, be able to manufacture butter the year round at an average rate of 3 cents per pound, and dividend. secure to the stockholders a good paying | a stockholder. We have no fear of a glut in| pressed himself as being well pleased the butter market in the summer time, | for, should the price drop to a non-pay-|the lumber for the creamery, ing point, we could ship our cream into Grand Rapids for ice cream purposes.” W. R. Boynton, hardware dealer, is al- so a stockholder. Mr. Boynton is a live business man and quite enthusiastic on the butter question. He said: ‘‘I went into this creamery business to encourage what I consider a move in the right di-} rection. There is great provement in this butter business. It has always been a prolific source of an- noyance. Itis the cause of much hard work on the farm, and a very large pro- portion of the butter so made, after pass- ing through the grocery stores, is actual- ly not fit for a Christian to eat. And I guess it wouldn’t be much better if test- ed before reaching the grocery stores. Of course, in my business I do not take but- ter in trade, but, occasionally, when a crock of ‘gilt-edged’ is offered in trade by some buttermaker whom I know, I put a ‘corner’ on it for my private use. On one occasion I ‘took in’ a crock of ‘dou- ble gilt,’ and when the supposed expert buttermaker departed, I tasted the arti- cle and found that it had ‘taken me in.’ I carried the precious stuff out in the back yard and buried it where it could never more outrage the refined tastes of agentleman. Theaverage farmer’s wife does not possess the necessary appliances and conveniences to make good butter. Now this creamery system relieves the farmer of this onerous, yet unsatisfac- tory, labor, and, at the same time, it in- creases the income from his dairy and gives him ahome cash market for his product, realizable on the fifteenth of every month. This is an advantage to home business and the very thing that induced me to go intoit. Everyone is satisfied, so far as I know, with the build- ing and plant and with its operations to date.” J. M. Park, adairy farmer living about three miles and ahalf from the village, is a patron and stockholder of the cream- ery. Mr. Park said: ‘‘] have, for sev- eral years, managed my dairy in view of winter buttermaking. I can get more money out of my cows in this way, as the extra price obtained for winter butter more than offsets the extra feed required. I always marketed my butter in Grand Rapids. When Mr. Felton came here to organize a creamery company, I fell in with the idea and subscribed for stock. Iam more than satisfied with the result so far. lIsubseribed for stock with the understanding that I was to pay for it by promisory note at 6 per cent. interest. When the collector demanded money, I refused to settle with him, but Mr. Fel- ton settled up everything precisely ac- cording to agreement. I think I am safe in saying that every stockholder is satis- fied with the building and plant; indeed, IThonestly think that Davis & Rankin have given us a better building than we contracted for. We had some difficulty in organizing a company. So many of our farmers got taken in in the notori- ous P. of I. mill at Conklin that they were afraid that this was another scheme to ‘do them up.’ But this cream- ery is a success and, sooner or later, the farmers will recognize the fact. I tell you, it removes a great burden from the farmer, and no one appreciates it so much as the farmer’s wife.”’ Amos Taylor, of Bavenna, is also need for im-| He was seen and ex- with the result. Mr. Taylor furnished and he spoke in glowing terms of the satisfac- tory business relations had with Messrs. Davis & Rankin and their agents. Everyone interested in the Coopers- ville creamery, so far as interviewed, ex- pressed himself as being pleased with the creamery and the manner in which they were treated, from start to finish, by Davis & Rankin and their gentleman- ly solicitor, Mr. 8. K. Felton. Many thanks are due Mr. Geo. W. Bevins, the secretary and business man- ager, and Mr. Coleman, the buttermaker, for their kindness and courtesy on the oecasion of this visit. Mr. Falton says that his house is doing an extensive business. Three hundred workmen are employed in the works at Chicago, and about 300 solicitors and builders are kept constantly at work in organizing creamery companies and con- structing the plants all over the Union. The report.of last summer’s operations showed that, on an average, one cream- ery company was organized aad the build- ing erected and fully equipped for busi- ness for every working day in the season. E. A. OWEN. Excelsior Bolts Wanted! 1 want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excelsior Bolts, 18 and 36 inches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, lengths as above. dress same For particulars ad- J W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. STRAW BOARD, WE ARE THE LEADERS IN THIS PRO- DUCT AND CARRY A VERY LARGE STOCK. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US FOR PRICES, BUILDING PAPERS, WE CARRY A LARGE LINE OF THE STANDARD BRANDS AND CAN SUP- PLY THE TRADE AT VERY LOW PRICES. CARPET LININGS, CORRUGATED AND PLAIN OF FIRST- CLASS WOOL STOCK. WE ARE PRE- PARED TO QUOTE LOW PRICES FOR CARPET LINING IN ANY QUANTITY. Hs M. REYNOLDS & SON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ww » cann disay of } meas inter no re old ¢ recel Heal ing r LA lette posit Repr cann say t Boar what ject. been althe Ce auth meas eann pres tone CE of F cone one. year good ficia opin beco sum eanr affec ther inst loss old jobb littl mea viev 664 Chri pacl gan fore evel and ing is fe retu cha: ocee the | amo can: only dise any can trol nes: frui ing. mal con out to I wot goo the pro Ho’ for mil to pac to s the THE MICHTIG AN TRADESMAN. UN IVERSALLY CONDEMNED. a et - | Representative. * McKinstry’ s Measure _Finds No Friends Anywhere. ~ J © The bill introduced in the Legislature by Representative McKinstry, of Mus- kegon, providing for the dating of all canned goods, appears to meet with the disapproval of all and the approva! of none. As_ the originator of the measure claims to be acting in the interest of public health, but vouchsafes no reason why canned goods over a year old are unwholesome, THE TRADESMAN recently appealed to the State Board of Health for information, with the follow- ing result: LANSING, Feb. 13—In reply to your letter of February 11, inquiring what position, if any, this Board has taken on Representative McKinstry’s bill to date canned goods sold in this State, | would say that the bill has not come before this Board, and Il am, therefore, unable to say what position it would take on the sub- ject. The subject of the bill has not been formally considered by the Board, although it has been mentioned. Very respectfully, Henry B. BAKER, Sec’y = 2 * Certainly no one is better able to speak authoritatively as to the effect of such a measure than Jack Armsby, the Chicago eanned goods prince. This gentleman presents his opinions in no uncertain tones, as follows: CuicaGo, Feb. 15—Repiying to yours of Feb. 14, would say, that we cannot conceive how the law would benefit any one. If canned goods a year or two years old were inferior in quality to new goods, such a law as this might be bene- ficial, but that is not the case. In our opinion, if it was passed, it would soon become a dead letter. The ordinary con- sumer, who knows very little about canned goods, naturally thinks that age affects such goods unfavorably, and, therefore, would always buy new goods, instead of the old, thus entailing a heavy loss on anyone who happens tu hold any old goods. This would hurt retailers, jobbers and packers. Yours truly, . K. ARMSBY. * The Muskegon grocers appear to take little stock in either the man or his measure, judging by the following inter- views in the Muskegon News: “Only a small percentage,” Said D. Christie, ‘‘of canned goods sold here are packed in this State, and how are Michi- gan laws going to control other states or foreign canned goods? We guarantee everything in canned goods that we sell and the packers have no object in send- ing out undesirable goods, and whatever is found to be so is returned to us and we return to the jobber or packer we pur- chase of. The most reliable packer will occasionally turn out a faulty ean, but the percentage is so small that it scarcely amounts to anything. Of one million cans of different kinds of fruit and fish only one or two cases of bad merchan- dise were reported. We never have had any instance of poisoning from _ the eanned goods sold here. Where there is trouble sometimes itis owing to careless- ness on the part of the housekeeper; the fruit or fish is left in the can after open- ing, and that should never be done. ‘‘In my position as dealer it does not make any difference to me whether it be- comes a law or not, but it would shut out competition, and we would be obliged to handle all Michigan packed goods. It would have the effect of making canned goods more expensive for the people, and they will have to pay for the immaginary protection, if the bill becomes a_ law. However, I don’t think there is a chance for the bill to pass.” ‘““My idea of the law,” said H. Cum- mings, “‘isthat it would be detrimental to the consumers, from the fact that packers will put up a sufficient quantity to supply the demand, and they can get * their own prices and can get such prices;and along the Columbia river to go to as they have a mind to ask. On the | other hand where packers have put up | large stocks of canned goods, both the| jobber and heavy retailers are enabled to buy ata less price because every jobber and every packer who has a large stock on hand is more anxious to sell, and the retailer will be better enabled to give the eonsumer lower prices than he could if | he was at the mercy of the packer or job- ber who had a small stock. | ‘‘Very few cans have ever been com- plained of or returned, and we have never poisoned anyone. [always caution | purchasers not to leave them in the can} after opening. I haven’t any idea that the bill will become a law. I have not| heard the subject agitated among the) grocers.”’ ‘‘My opinion concerning the McKinstry bill,”’ said E. P. Watson, ‘‘is, that if it} should be passed it will be of no benefit | to the consumer and a detriment to the dealer. It does not amount to anything for two or three reasons: First, it would have to be universal to be effective. Two or three states might pass a law for the dating of goods while all the others would have none. As the bulk of canned goods comes from other states it may be seen how useless it would be in protect- ing the people. Not one person in ten would think to look on the can for the date. Michigan herself can’t begin to supply the canned goods necessary for home consumption, and if we can’t sell unstamped goods, who is going to suffer? “Canned goods will keep three or four years if handled properly. In _ cases where canned goods are unfit for use, and it rarely happens, it is because the goods were not fresh when put up. The subject is discussed in the Grocers’ Cri- terion, a Chicago publication, and the Grocers’ Association of that city took ac- tion on the same kind of a bill now pend- ing in the Illinois Legislature. It was resolved by the Association that ‘the bill would be an injury to the dealer, and of no benefit to the consumer.’ I think the bill will not pass as it is too much like the Miner law—it is in the interest of the State, whereas it should be national.” . 2 © Noman in this country has probably made more of a study of sai subject of canned goods than Frank N. Barrett, the veteran editor of that king of trade jour- nals, the American Grocer. In its search for knowledge on the dating question, Tue TRADESMAN naturally applied to Mr. Barrett, receiving in reply the fol- lowing generous and comprehensive response: New York, Feb. 16—Such a law as that proposed presupposes that canned goods that aretwo, three, four, five or six years old are not just as good as those that are one year old. The fact is that any article that is hermetically sealed in a tin can is good for an indefinite period. 1 have seen condensed milk twen- ty years old that was just as sweet and sound as when it went into the army as sutler’s supplies. General Greeley testifies that the canned goods used in his expe- dition contributed to the unusual good health of his men and that, although they were frozen, thawed out, frozen again and earried through two winters, they were apparently as good as when first put up. There were a lot of canned goods taken from a river at Rochester, N. Y., which had been there over twenty years, having been knocked overboard in some way and subsequently fished up. They were found to be sound and in good condition. It is readily apparent, from the cor- respondence which you print and from my own experience, that the popular im- pression is that canned goods more than one year old are not palatable and sound and fit for food; hence such men as Mr. McKinstry think theycan obviate what they regard as an evil by some such bill. He must bear in mind that the State of Michigan does not can many articles of food, and only in a limited supply, and such alaw would be entirely inopera- tive for all meats, fish, vegetables, etc., packed in other states. I wonder if he imagines that by passing such a law he could induce canners of salmon in Alaska FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeEtTt, President. Geo. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wma. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. Jno. A, Seymour, Ass’t Cashier. | Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS. | D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay. S. M. Lemon. i C. Bertsch. A.J. Bowne. 4G. K. Johnson. Wm. H. Anderson. Wm. Sears. A. D. Rathbone AYLAS 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. Use Tradesman Coupons. MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ 20, 1892.) (Taking effect Sunday, Nov. Arrive. Depart Opm....-.. Detroit —— Pesan 6 55 pm Sop... ....... Mixec . 70am O78 m.......... Day Express . 29pm €@am .... + Atlantic ana Faciiic..... 10 45pm 1Opm...... New York Express...... 540 pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 am; re- turning, leave Detroit 4:40 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:00 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) Tickets on sale at Union Ticket Office, 67 Mon- roe street and Union Depot. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Ave. &§MIL- EASTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 14\tNo. 16\tNo. 18| *No. 82 G@’d Rapids, = Ar 6 50am|10 20am| 3 2% 25pm | 1 00pm fonts 21... 7 45am|11 25am} 4 27pm) 12 42am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 30am}12 17pm) 5 20pm) 2 00am Owo08ss)...... AT) 9 05am} 1 20pm) ‘ 3 10am E. Saginaw..Ar|10 50am 3 45pm/ 8 00pm!) 6 40am Bay City..... Ar /11 30am| 4 35pm) 8 37pm 7 15am ling 2... 25. Ar |10 05am| 3 45pm) 7 05pm) 5 40am Pt. Huron. ‘VAr |12 05pm 550pm)| 8 50pm) 7 30am Pontiac ...... Ar|10 58am) 3 05pm) § 25pm| 5 37am Detrott.,...... Ar |11 50am} 4 05pm) 9 25pm} 7 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave ||*No. 81 No, 13 iy. ees ||10 45pm| 6 50am/|10 50am Gd Rapids, Ly........ || 7 Obam| 1 00pm!) 5 10pm Gd Haven, Ar........ | 8 25am) 2 10pm} 6 15pm Milw’kee Str ‘‘ ........ Le ee deean eae ee a ee ee *Daily. +tDaily pe Sunday. Trains arrive from the east, 6:40 a.m., 12:50 a.m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m Trains arri e from the west, p.m. and 9:45¥ p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No.18Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas, CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. 10:10 a, m., 3:15 | Grand 1 Rapids . & Indiana. } Schedule in effect January 29, 1893. | TRAINS GOING NORTH. | Arrivefrom Leave going South North. | For Traverse City and Saginaw 6:45am 7:20am | For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:00am 1:10pm For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:20 pm 4:15pm | For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10pm 10:10 pm | From Chicago and Kalamazoo. 8:35 p m Train arriving from south at 6:45am and 9:00am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going | North. South. ; Woe COnCmiNee 6:30am 7:00 am | For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm | Wor Cemenmee ci... 5:15pm 6:00 pm | For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 pm 11:20 p m | Pram Bagel... 11:50 a m ee 10:40 p m | Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m and 11:20 p. daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. m. runs SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH. :20am train has Parlor Car to Traverse cit ty. :10 p m train bas parlor car Grand zt to Pe ap y and Mackinaw. 10:10 = ain.—Sleeping ca Rapids to wocecmay and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7: 00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10: 05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 11;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand iapiae ¢ to C ain Grand Chicago via G. R. &1. KR. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 p m 11:20 p m Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p m 6:50 am 10:05 a m train through Wagner Paatee Car. 11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago 7:05 am 3:10 p m 11:45 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:20 pm 8:35 pm 6:45 am m through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:45 p m 3:10 train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For oe -Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 10:00 am 1135 am 4:40 pm 5:30 pm 9:05 p m pee: train leaves for Muskegon at 9:05a m,ar riving at 10:20 a m. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:45 pm. Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND WEsr NOV. 20, 1892 MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.GR’D RAPIDS...... 8:50am 1:25pm *11:35pm Ar. CHICAGO.......... 3:55pm 6:45pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. CHICAGO.......-- 9:00am 5:25pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS..... 3:55pm 10:45pm *7:05am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, AND ST JOSEPH bok... 8:50am 1:25pm . *11:35pm ny GW... *§:10am 3°55pm 10:45pm Ly. TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. . §:50am 1:25pm 5:35pm 8 Ly. ‘ ye. 10:45am 3:55pm 5 G. R AY, &. :45pm :25pm TRAVERSE CITY MANISTEE & PETOSKEY. 7 :30am 5: De iy. G R.. Ar: Ar. Ar. cues —...... 55p Ar Pesoumey ............._....._ &: | Ar. from Petoskey, eic., 10:00 p m. Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Wagner Parlor Cars Leave Grand Rapids 1:25 pm, leave Chicago 5:25 p m. Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 pm; leave Chicago *11:15 pm. Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:45 p m. *Every day. Other trains week days only. DETROIT 7 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. 35pm 2:29pm 59pm NOY. 20, 1892 GOING TO DETROIT. iv. G & .............. 7:10am *1:25pm 5:40pm Ay. DET..............-.1) 20am 6:26pm 10-36pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. iy DEPR...........-.. 7:50am *1:35pm 6:10pm an G X..........._.... 2:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. G R.11:50am 11:00pm TO LOWELL VIA LOW a & HASTINGS R. R. Lv. Grand Rapids.....-... :10am 1:25pm 5:40pm Ar. from Loweill........-.. 13: Sop G:fopm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE, Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe n Grand Rapids and Toledo, VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:15 &, m. and 1: = m Ar. Toledo a¢......... 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. VIA D., @. H. & M, Ly. Grand Rapids at. a 50 a, m. and 3:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo a.......... 2:55 p. m. and 10:20 p, m. Return connections aman as —_— W.!H. Bennetrt,;General Pass, Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 20 MTCFIT¢ THE 3 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Fred H. Ball, Secretary Ball-Barnhart- | the expense “of dies in order to — the apes on conned goods? —— Putman Co., thus refers to the proposed a law would keep alive an unreasonable | : ‘ prejudice ahack exists in the public] | dating-canned-goods law: “I see no mind and entail needless expense on | possible excuse for such a law; certainly | packers. You might mention that the/ there is no demand for it on the part of salmon which took the prize at the Inter- | |either the packer, dealer or consumer. national Exposition at Berlin some years | : | We have ;s ¢ ay odd corners of ago was four years old and had been in| ave stowed away in . the Philadelphia Exposition. It was put|Our store small lots of canned goods up by A. Booth & Co. Another thing,! which have been packed from five to there are certain sorts of fruits which | twelve years, and if either House of the | age Setter when two yours im the can; Legislature will accord a hearing on the | for instance, pineapple. It seems that} “*°" a ee 5 the fruit absorbs more of the sugar from | Dill, I will take some of these goods | the liquor the longer it is in the can so} down to Lansing and compare them with | jection to such a bill is that it is a re- | | that pete ade after being canned a goods packed in 1892, If anybody can | years, would be better than when in only | . : : wet is : : . 2rence betwee 1e old and} one. There are some things, like lobster, | tell the difference between the old | for instance, and squash, which become|the new goods, they can do_ better | discolored after several years, but ||than I ean.” | do not know as the dietetic vaiue is at| a me we all affected by age. The one great ob- | The Drug Market. Aa . : striction upon trade and commerce and| The upward movement in opium con-| would work injury to every jobber and | tinues and prices are still hardening in| retailer in the State, because the law] the primary markets. would be entirely inoperative on guods | a : | Morphia advanced on the 12th 10 All restrictive | put up outside the State. legislation is generally an injury and/ Cents per ounce and another advance is makes laws a dead letter. [ have been | probable. | trying to find the argument presented | Quinine is steady. 2 rp 2 New York Legislature when | . a. * | before the New York Legislature whe "| Malaga olive oil is searce and higher. such a bill was introduced here, which a resulted in its being killed. Age has| Cloves have advanced. less todo with the wholesomeness of} Oil cloves is higher, on account of the canned goods than anything else con-| advanceof the buds. nected with them. It might be that a} person would get hold of a lot of goods | | ae : ms freshly packed and find the quality in-| PRODUCE MASE EF ferior to some ten to twenty years old. | Apples — About the same as a week ago, Why, then, discriminate against the | B#!¢wins and Spys are in fair supply and good better goods to the advantage of the demand, commanding #3 per bbl. for No. 1 eat poorer, simply because the latter were |'™& 8"d # for No. 2 or cooking grades. freshly packed? I have just come from | Beans—The price has sustained a sharp ad aluncheon where 1 went to test this | Y@m2¢e: hendlers now paying $1.50@31.75 for | matter practically. We heated first a can | COUP picked and holding city picked at $1.90 | € c i . « ‘ 3S c © | I 2 eth : ng | @¥2.10 per bu. of Printiniere soup, which contains peas, | @ cite nti : a beans and other vegetable It was five Butter—Scarce and almost impossible to se . 5 _ 4 Se c a ss ail i years old and was tested alongside a can | Cure in any quantity. Jobbers pay 24c for choice | ‘ i é ] a Ci of the same sort of freshly made dairy and find ready takers at 2é6c. | : 1e sa So far as the color was concerned, there ap : nn was no difference, nor could anyone de- | a ae © per Son, Demebes. tect the slightest difference in flavor: in | oe orgie ig gal. . : fact, | thought the taste of the vevetables | Canberries—The market is without change, | h te : in the five-year old soup approximated | Cates now being held as follows: Cape Cods . rm 2 i < d per bu. : | lewcning tin nar hs law is the unreasonable prejudice which | Parnips—ie per bu. of abuut one million | Potatoes—The market is without material to bring the matter to | ©h#nge, buyers continuing to pay v5¢ per bushel | Another consideration | bere and 60¢ at the outside buying points. The goods | demand continues strong and the anxiety to fill one consumer out thinks enough of public attention. is that imported would have no . date and, therefore, American goods 4 0'ers bas resulted in a number of frosted cars would be discriminated against. | Aad mode many shippers sick. Squash—So scarce that itis practically out of Another consideration: As you are well | ie ati " —e aware, packers manufacture their cans | ' : } sweet Potatoes—Out of market. during the winter, in order to be in read- a : ‘ seven . ‘ . . ea Turnips—35e per bu iness for the next summer’s crop. The | date must be stamped on the eans at the | time of manufacture. Now it happened | that in Delaware last season the peach | crop was a failure and the packers were | obliged to carry over to another year the | empty cans. If they had been dated | ’ they would either have had to be thrown | away or else used with the date on, giv- | cally WIFY MANUFACTURED BY ing the impvession that the goods really | SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, one year or more older than were. As there are about thousand | DETROIT, MICH, Yours heartily, Dealers wishing to see the line address million tins of canned food used in this | country every year and as no injury has | F.N. BarretT. | F 4, Cadwell, 682 Jefferson ave., Grand | Rapids, Mich. buy they one been proven to have resulted from their use, it is difficult to frame an excuse for such special legisiation. | The bill, if passed, would be a blow at | the retailers, as it would reduce com-| petition, raise prices, the result of less | variety and supply, for packers in out- side states would pay no attention to the law, and thus the few packers in Michi- gan would have the trade. | j j | * * * |BY DRAW IN Is taught in our public schools, but LOTTERY DRAWING is prohibited by law. In non-progressive cities poor old horses DRAW their street cars. All the above drawings are — well provided for, but the DRAWING OF THE BEARD A DULL RAZOR often caused by the want of a suit- able strop, produces excruciating agony. Now. coming to the ‘real gist of our subject, we w ant to tell you that we have in stock "the celebrated 1orse Tail Razor Straps Constructed from tanned horse tail, a material which forms |the facing of Lapadists’ wheels and dises used in polishing and ‘cutting diamonds. Its bei ‘ing used for this purpose is enough ‘of a guarantee that it is the best material for putting an edge ‘on all fine cutting implements. The No. 2 we retail at dUe, the oiled strop at “65e and the leather and eanvas strop at $1. Come in and see them. te & GC: OFS 1 2S) The weather has moderated in Maryland so the dredges can work, consequently the price of oysters has receded to a point near actual value. There are six weeks yet of the regular season and during Lent there is chance for a large volume of business to be done. Send in your orders and reap the benefit. THE PUTNAM CANDY Co. * \ ~ > riywy Fs ‘™ A > ys an. ri et v 7 ~ we? - - ~§- s a ps aw - by ¥ ry a vot { ~ VOIGT, HERPOLSTEIMER & CO, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OURK OWN MANUFACTURE. Harpolsheimer & Co, 2% 82:,52 Quewe St, Grand Rapids. BARCUS BROS., MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAR Voigt All our saws are made of the best steel by the mose liful workmen, and all saws warranted. Burnt saws made good as new for one-fourth the All kinds of — by few and excelled by none. sk list price of new saws. 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. Writ2.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. P. OTRKRYTER & SUNS HAVE RECEIVED A full line of Hamilton, Pacific, Simpson’s Garner, Manchester and Allens Prints, also A F C Toile du Nord, Dresden, Bates and Amoskeag wash dress ginghams and satines, A fresh new line of white goods, Nainsooks in checks and stripes and Victoria lawns. Embroidery from 13c per yd. to 50c Mail orders receive prompt attention. | | DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley. THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! HESTER MACHINERY CO,, 45 So. Drvision St... GRAND RAPIDS. lass LOVES lor Biscuits, me esas’ il{g es My ve a i" a “i ‘ ener. a ren ti An ul i Th HESE chests will soon | 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 anotherina moment. They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES. We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. Price $4. This is bound to be one of S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. p me = : fe : ane — [ cnoce Ries ony Goo05-s wAROWARE —— t) rem ICIDER ES FAKEUANATRADE i —— = SUTRA Bags =} \ ro y | We have a Butter and Cheese Factory that was built fiva Should you need a Butter and Farming is a grand success. : years ago and has made our community what it is now. Cheese Factory in your community correspond with DAVIS & RANKIN BLDG. & MFG. CO., 240-252 W.LAKE ST., CHICAGO. Also Manufacturers of Dairy Machinery and Supplies. Imnortant Reductions iu Indurated Wood Fibre Ware howe:t Prizes Ever Offered, Taking Effect Jan. 25 1893, “Ye eer el te airs 4° | Maltese | P \D» WaASII TUBS. Per doz Real T0 me a No. 0, diame. 233¢ th. 18k im. deep........-. $15 %% S L a a ee ie iM 1 es oe aly tasTE Nom 6 POR 6 12 00 | SLOP JARS. Per doz 2 as. ee eee ee 19:50) |) NOS 18 ab $7 65 PAILS. Per doz NESTED TUBS. Per nest | v ioik wie SLOP JAR MATS. SRIANT TNs: Wd) Ww . | e STYLE OF NO. 46—2-BURNER JUNIOR WITH ILLUMINATING FEATURE AND GLOBE. The Tluminating Feature is thoroughly practical in every way. It is conveniently located back of the cooking vurners, thus affording a brilliant gaslight whenever desired, at a minimum cost. This improvement will be appreciated at a glance and hailed with delight by all buyers. This feature alone gives this stove the preference. Our high stoves are one inch, and our low stoves are three inches higher than any other make of Junior stoves. STYLE OF NO. 31—TWO BURNER AND STEP WITH ILLUMINATING FEATURE & GLOBE. ' This stove is a gem, it occupies but little space, has powerful burners, and in our LKONARD h 80) 8 Grand Ra ids judgment is destined to become the most popular stove of any on the market. 4s ’ ’ Its practical illuminating device, the means for conveniently having at hand at all times a tea kettle of boiling water will be fully appreciated by every house- 184 to 140 E. Fulton St. keeper.