‘ Michigan Tradesman. Publish: Veekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. ; $1 Per Year. . Wig : | VOL. 30. GRAND RAPIDS, MARCH 22, 1893. NO. 496 a » f a “ ’ 5 é : ; After many attempts by others to r produce as goodJa scale, the, rapidly , increasing demand for the “PERFEC- TION” tells its own story. For Sale by Hawkins & Company. Hf | ee ii Every Druggist, Eyery Grocer, « - ‘ye al | Drops? a — €or = 4 We have made the handling of Potatoes a ‘‘specialty” for many years and have S tar : ieeey Conteetieans 4 ‘% rz shi > iv o > > i a large trade. Can take care of all that can be shipped us. We give the best ser ids euste 46 Aeiie Che Baek eemaeeeie { vice—sixteen years experience—first-class salesmen. as i cu least money. Manufactured by - Ship your stock to us and get full Chicago market value. eC A. E. BROOKS & CO., ¢ Y » (hire Reference—Bank of Commerce, Chicago. 46 O tawa St.,Grand Rapids, Mich. WM. H. THOMPSON & CO., Commission Merchants, a 166 So. Water St., Chicago. . TELFER SPICE COMPANY, See seCron >ENBERTHY, INJECTOR CO. MFR'S, DETROIT, MICH. hott 9 MANUFACTURERS OF ws | . Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers oi ae Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. : 7 = £ , é ' P j ; 1 } and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS y = , eer e/ V

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HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO, GRAND RAPIDS AGENTS. Pressed Ball Calk > 36 per ee $2 65 a. 2 80 . Heel . Ps Ce 4 00 Shoulder —_ per Mm... ce 2 Hee Me 2 50 A. J. SHELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monroe Street. Eyes tented for spectacles free of cost with latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. ESTABLISHED 1841. EAC SORENSEN SERENA OER THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to — United States and Canada Darin RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, “MARCH 22, 1893. THE END INEVITABLE. The temptation to break a good resolu- tion nearly always increases in direct ratio to the length of time that one has kept it. For ten years I have kept the Major’s story a secret. Upon this tenth anniversary of his death I feel tempted to give his story to the public—the un- thinking publie that cares little for the tragedy of human life in the delight of a new sensation, that accepts an occasional sermon solely for the sake of an epigram. Tragedy is common enough in our everyday lives. Comedy equally so. To give to the former anew zest, to add to the latter the breath of novelty is to gain fame. Such fame as is given by the plaudits ef the multitude, as light as thistle down; as transient as summer lightning. It was on an evening in February that I first saw the Major. Business duties had temporarily placed me in Chicago, and it was in a semi-genteel boarding house that. our first meeting took place. It was the second night of my stay there, and during the monotonous inter- val that lies between the joint and des- sert my wandering eye fell upon him. Nature, who adores contrasts, had given the Major a semi-military appearance. Anything of a less martial nature than his occupation could hardly be imagined. A modest position in a railroad office at | that time engaged whatever business abilities he possessed. In appearance he was of the medium height, and inclined to stoutness. A thin fringe of gray hair still lingered in the neighborhood of his neck. Under the influence of violent emotion little waves of color mounted to his forehead and rippled to the back of his neck. He had the prominent eyes and apo- plectic cheeks of Lever’s military heroes. A tweed suit of a doubtful pattern, which, from constant wear, had assumed the outlines of his rugged form, was his week-day wear. On warm Sunday morn- ings a blue and white striped linen blazer was his favorite costume, but upon win- ter nights he assumed a gorgeous quilted satin smoking-jacket, a present from a fair acquaintance. To the ordinary observer the Major, with his stubby gray mustache, his some- what aggressive tone of conversation, his passion for sauces and peppery condi- ments, his familiar way of addressing the waitress, and his general freedom from any of the conventional restraints of society, would not have proved inter- esting. To me, weary of the petty airs of dry goods clerks, and tired of the du- bious charms of the young ladies that compose the bulk of the guests of a cer- tain class of boarding-houses, the Major came as a new revelation. Our regard for each other was to a certainextent mutual, and many an even- ing have [ spent in the little prophet’s chamber on the third floor that he called his own, smoking the pipe of friendship, and occasionally indulging in the stronger and less transient delights of malt liquor. The Major was ahost in himself. A fund of anecdotes was always at his dis- NO. 496 posal, and acertain degree of wit, per- haps not entirely free from a suspicion of vulgarity, flavored his reminiscences. Twice a widower, his only child was a little sharp-featured woman who paid him annual visits, and described herself vaguely as being in ‘‘millinery.’’ Our acquaintance had lasted several months with every sign of becoming per- manent when an incident occurred that threatened to end it. Not finding the Major in his room one evening I commenced to make inquiries and found to my astonishment that he had taken to playing poker. My sur- prise was unbounded. Here was a man who had passed the sixtieth milestone of life unscathed, suddenly falling into the embraces of the gambling goddess. I found the Major on the top floor of the house. He flushed and looked a lit- tle ashamed as he met my eye. There was a half apologetic tone in his voice as be said, “Sit down, take a hand.’’ I begged to but stayed for a little while to see the Major’s luck. The party was made up of five per- sons, mostly boarders in the house, and it was evident, even to my inexperienced eye, that the Major was getting the worst of it. Despair sat solemnly on asthe game progressed, and gradually but surely his small stack of blue and and excused, boy, be his features red chips dwindled away and his op- ponents’s stacks grew larger. It must have been five in the morning. An un- healthy ray of returning daylight stole into the room, giving the gas a sickly hue, discovering worn patches in the shabby carpet and discolored smears in the cheap paper on the walls. It was a back room. The only window looked out upon a dismal yard where an early- rising, villanous-looking eat stole softly over the fallen A light breeze shook the window frames and blew feathery flakes of snow against the panes. SHOW. The Major’s face looked haggard; the pouches under his eyes heavier and more pronounced; the dull red of his complexion had faded into a dull drab and his lusterless eyes followed the cards as they were rapidly dealt with an eager- ness that was almost painful. An hour later the party broke up. It was then six o’clock on Sunday morning. Snow had ceased to fall and the ray of sun- shine, multiplied several times, stole in- to the room. A couple of sparrows perched on the sill and an- nounced the arrival of day by a number of excited chirps. The major was the window last to go. He had lost all he had. His unsteady footsteps echoed along the passages to his room. I heard him shut the door and lock it, then I went to bed. When the passion of play seizes a man there is only one slavery that can be com- pared to it—the slavery of drink. The Major was fairly in its toils. I said good-by to all the pleasant little evenings spentin his stronghold. I sat alone on the steps in front of the house 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. during the warm summer months that succeeded winter and spring. The fall came and business compelled me to leave the city, the major came to see me off. As the train pulled out of the de- pot Il saw him standing on the platform waving his adieux. He had aged great- ly. The bright morning sun revealed and heightened the shabbiness of his clothes, and wrinkles in his cheeks, the thousand and one characteristies that mark the rapid advance of old Twice again 1 saw the Major. what circumstances? You shall see. Two years later I returned to Chicago. Winter again had the city in its icy grip. I was living then three miles from town, and was glad on returning home to ex- age. change my wet overshoes for a warm pair of slippers and an easy chair in front of a blazing fire. I must have dozed off and slept a great deal later than I expected, for I awoke with a start to find the fire almost out, and the lamp very low. I was not alone inthe room. Seated in achair by the expiring embers of the fire was one of the most pitiable objects that 1 have ever seen. In the thin-pinched cheeks, the shrunken form and the shabby garments I had difficulty in recognizing my quon- dam acquaintance, the once jovial Ma- jor. The melting snow ran in little rivu- lets from his clothes and formed pools upon the floor, and his bristly gray mustache. glistened on One shaking hand held a battered brown Derby, the other was thrust into the semblance of a pocket in his seedy great coat. He explained in a rambling he happened to be there. By icicles way how some in- stinct he had found out where I lived, and, finding the door only partially closed had made his way in and had sat patiently there waiting for me to wake up. His of the old thread- bare type. The story, old as Adam. of a man’s weakness, of a general descent in- to the pit of degradation from which one gambler in athousand is digged. evening games of poker had been ex- for the open and more deadly fascinations of the professional gambling-house. story was changed more His face had become as familiar to pa- trons of Hankins’ (then in its zenith) as that of the City Hall. last too penniless and shabby to be granted Becoming at admission even there, he had drifted from one to another of the smaller and | less reputable gambling-houses that When when she frowned he flourish in Chicago. smiled he dined, starved. Possessed always of one idea. Following the same will-o’-the-wisp that has lured thousands to destruction, the hope of making a lucky coup that should enrich him at a stroke, he lived cut his miserable existence. His wretched story was followed by an appeal for money, just enough to give him another start, as a loan tobe repaid | when he brought off his coup. He left the house an hour later with money in his pocket; once only I saw him again. * cs * It was Christmas Eve; late as the hour still filled with an exceptionally mild winter, anda drizzling rain fell. The sidewalks, sticky with half-melted snow, made walking anything but pleas- ant. Quite as much asa matter of pre- caution as anything else, for I was in streets were people. It had was, the been Under beside it. The | fortune | | one of the lowest and most dangerous parts of the city, I took to the middle of the road. I had arrived at a quiet and | little-frequented street; not a soul was | in sight. | the sloppy stones was the only sound | that broke the silence. A sudden turn! brought me close to the river. | | } | I joined them. | dripping with water; a policeman |ed I pushed my way to the front, and | Saw that the object was a body just tak- |en from the river. | |the face of the corpse. Swollen | bloated beyond description, were the features; sodden with water and reeking | with the river slime; ‘‘dead for several days,’’ said the policeman as he allowed | the head to fall back and rose from the |ground. The friendly darkness hid the body from view. The glance [ had had was sufficient, I had taken my last look ‘at the Major. 8 | Improvement of Public Roads Would Benefit Everybody. Written for Tuk TRADESMAN. | Probably no one matter or thing at- tracting the attention of the people of this country at present, is being so thoroughly aired, and the vital import- ance of whichis so generally conceded by all classes, as this question of the im- provement of our public roads. In no country on the face of the earth are public roads found so contemptibly bad as in this country of ours. Our country is still new, it is true, as compared with the old, long-ago developed countries of Europe, yet we truthfully boast of our superiority in pretty much everything else, which proves that youth is no valid excuse in this matter. The American people of all classes and in all business avocations are beginning to realize this fact and hence this universal agitation. We see it in the editorial columns of our great dailies; in finely written essays in our leading magazines, and in the dollar and cents columns of our trade journals. Everywhere is heard this demand for the improvement of our public roads, given with such urgency, and supported with facts so incontrovertible, that our Legis- latures are beginning to show signs of giving it effect by passing the necessary statutory enactments. In our own State la highway commission, composed of | three members, was appointed last Aug- | ust by the Governor with instructions to | report to the next Legislature. This re- port was submitted by Governor Winans | to the present Legislature, but it con- tained no plan of legislation. The com- mission found that our present constitu- | tion was a bar to the legislation needed | to solve the question of public road im- provement, and so they prepared and | submitted an amendment to the consti- |tution. If the Legislature submiis this amendment to the people in time to be | voted on at the April election, and it is | approved; and if the legislative session | continues Jong enough beyond the April , election so that a bill may be passed | agreeable to the amended constitution ‘and the recommendations of the com- | mission, this question of the improve- |ment of our public roads would be set- 'tled, so far as Mich‘gan is concerned, at | any rate. The noise of my footsteps on A small crowd had gathered there, and | In the center of the| group lay a dark indistinguishable mass | knelt | As the crowd slightly separat- | At that moment the policeman raised | ; his lantern and the light fell full upon | and | F. J. DETTENTHALER, WHOLESALE OYSTERS, FISH and GAME, LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY. Consignments solicited. Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed. 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. CHAS. A. COYE, Manufacturerj»f AWNINGS ann TENTS HORSE AND WAGON COVERS Jobbers of Oiled Clothing and Cotton Ducks. Send for Price List. 11 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. SC(UDLEY & BARCLAY, 4 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We Lead in Reduced Prices. Our Motte: “New Styles,” VV E CARRY a full line of all patterns of Ladies’ and Gents’ Bicycles, and can supply at once upon receipt of order. We are agents for the Victor, Columbia, Clip- per, Western Wheel Works, and other lines, and live agents are wanted in every town. A full line of sundries. Our price list will be out early in January, 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. Lemons, Oranges, Bananas, Dates, Figs, Nuts. WE SELL THEM! GET OUR PRICES. THE PUTNAM CANDY Co. Unlike tre Dutch Process No Alkalies — OR-- Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of cull! JW Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. Hest Six Cord — FOR — ' A description of the chocolate Machine Or Hand Use. plant, and of the various cocoa and chocolate preparations man- ufactured by Walter Baker & Co. will be sent free to any dealeron application. | W. BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass. FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions » j « ~ 2 } as -, a 7 f oa Fs he why & columns of this journal, to discuss the various legislative methods suggested; but itis the duty of every man who writes for publication in a trade paper to advocate anything and everything that will improve business conditions. Such is the nature of the question under dis- cussion, and it matters not so much by what particular method our roads are improved, so long as they are improved. Different systems are in vogue in differ- ent countries and, in fact, in the differ- ent States of our own country. The formulating of a system rests with our legislators—the results are what business men are after, and any system that is just and equitable and will serve the purpose will be acceptable. When this agitation first started, the mossbacks said: ‘‘Oh, it’s those ‘wheel’ fellows who are making all this noise. They would like to have our country roads graded and paved just for their recreation and amusement.’’ But these ‘twheel’’ agitators have multiplied until, to-day, they include every man who is interested, directly or indirectly, in a ‘‘wheel’?? of any kind. The _ business men in every market town are interested in good roads, because they depend upon customers for the sale of their merchan- dise, and they know that ‘‘wheels” bring customers and that the free, regular and unobstructed action of wheels demands, necessarily, good roads. When the frost goes out of the ground and the wheels stop running for a few days, cus- tomers become scarce and business takes arest. During these business lualls I have met business men who tried to con- vince themselves, by way of a little sickly consolation, that. people had to eat aboutso much, and wear about so much clothes, anyway, and when kept back for a few days by bad roads or un- favorable weather, they would have to make up for it when things took a more favorable turn. Butthey don’t do it; it is only an old ‘‘granny” idea. A man will never buy to-day to satisfy the de- mands of last week’s appetite; neither will he buy a pair of mittens in May be- cause he didn’t have a chance to buy them in March. Many years ago I lived on a farm in a blue-clay section of coun- try. Our little market town was only eight miles away, but there were times when it might as well have been fifty miles. There were times when, if we ran out of flour we had to stay out, for it was impossible te ‘‘go to mill.” (By the way you see that even the fellows who own the ‘‘wheels” that turn the mills are interested in good _ roads). Sometimes weeks would pass before the roads would bein a condition to haul even a small ‘‘jag” of anything to market, and during this time farmers’ produce would become searce in town. There is nothing more destructive of the true, legitimate operation of the law of sup- ply and demand than bad roads. It will shut off the supply of farmers’ produce from a market town, and create a famine in some certain article when, as a matter of fact, the surrounding farms are bur- dened with asurplus. A majority ofthe townspeople buy their table produce from day to day, and their wood, hay and straw by the cord and ton; and when the supply is cut off, consumption is cur- tailed. Prices are affected fictitiously, and when the ‘‘wheels’”’ start again the market is glutted, and down go the prices. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. { It is not within my province in the! The isolated farm is related to,the vil- lage merchant in this respect pretty much the same as a railroad trade center is re- lated to a manufacturing or mining point. When the wheels of the cars are stopped by an unfavorable condition of the road, like that occasioned by the snow blockades this winter, we are treated to a coalfamine. Manufacturing is curtailed; hundreds of men are re- duced to half pay; the ‘‘wheels’’ of the street cars stop and hundreds of people are forced to remain at home who would otherwise attend the theatres and other places of amusement, and business gen- erally throughout all of its ramifications falls into a noticeable decline—all this because the roads were temporarily ob- structed. Is there a man so stupid as to imagine that these losses are retrievable, that the people of Grand Rapids will now ride oftener on the street cars to make up the loss sustained by the com- pany on account of this coal famine, and that the workingman will now eat two steaks for supper to make up for the steakless suppers had while working on half pay? These losses are irretrievable and the effect on trade is a dead loss in consumption, which can no more be re- claimed than spent time can be recalled. In railroading this inexorable law of trade is recognized, and, consequently, every appliance that scientific invention can devise is made use of to keep the ‘“wheels” moving continuously, and regu- larJy. Mountains are tunneled, chasms are spanned, and the most difficult engi- neering feats accomplished in order that these ‘‘wheels” may be unimpeded in their revolutions. The stopping of wheels means busi- ness disruption and trade stagnation; and the ‘‘wheels’’ which act as feeders to the larger wheels of commerce, and like the little streams which, unitedly, form the volume that keeps the mill grinding, are the wheels under farmers’ wagons, and every obstruction which re- tards their free action shculd be _ re- moved. E. A. OWEN. >. <—- Spare Moments. From the Stockman. If there is one thing in this world that is more precious than all else, in a worldly sense, itis time. And there is nothing else so recklessly squandered. We often say we have not time to devote to study and the improvemant of our minds, when we are spending hours of each day, if all our spare moments were added together, in idleness and loafing. There is no lesson so important for boys and girls to learn as systematic work. It is surprising what can be accomplished in a year in any line if even a half-hour a day is devoted to it. A story is told of a college professor whose wife always kept him waiting a few minutes for din- ner. He was an industrious man, so he began to use this time in writing, in- stead of idly waiting, as most of us would have done. In three years he published a volume from which he real- ized many hundred dollars. Try to set apart a few minutes of each day to study some useful subject and see how much you have accomplished in a few months or years. A systematic use of time is of the highest importance to those who would make the mostof themselves. The learned blacksmith, Elihu Burritt, divided his day into three equal parts. He worked eight hours, studied eight hours, and slept eight hours. There is nothing in the way of any of us to pre- vent our becoming learned too, if we have the energy to try. ——— > + Bangor—C. C, Phillips has purchased the interest of A. B. Lee in the general firm of A. B. Lee & Co. and will con- tinue the business in his own name. the best in the land. SANBORN, Jewell’s Arabian Mocha Weaver’s Blend. Santora. Ideal Golden Rio Crushed Java and | M It you sell the following line of coffees, you will have All roasted by GHASE & Sold in cans only. Old Government Java. Jewell’s Old Government Java and Well’s Java and Mocha. Mocha. GiaRrk (Grocery (o. buy NKDIGOR'S WIP KLLING HOKS MANUFACTURED BY SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, DETROIT, MICH, Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. Cadwell, 682 Jefferson ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine [nstraice G0. Organized 1881. DETROIT, MiCHIGAN, BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overall Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO.,, Mirs. DETROIT, MICH. Gro. F. Owen, Salesman for Western ;Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Co., ine . For Terms and Agencies address Columbus, Ohio. ystal Washing Mach a — Our machine has a reversible rotary motion of both upper and lower washboards, giving the true hand-rubbing principle. Clothes neve bunch while washing, common fatlt with others necessitating rearranging; not a pleasant task. Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Pieced aud Stamped Tinware Phone 640 260 S. Ionia St... GRAND RKAPIDS. NET PRICE LIST,OF SAP PAILS PER 100. IC Ix 16 quam... ...-.......... Se $17 12 | ee 18 15 “ 19 22 50 i gal Ic Syrup Cans, per 100. *. 10 25 These goods are full size and are guaranteed not to leak.gjThe pails are made almost straight, flaring enough to pack conveniently. In lots of 5CO we will jallow 5 per cent. off above prices. Terms, 30 days net. Send for price list of general line of tinware AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Hartford—M. Place has opened a meat! market here. Eckford—J. N. Smith has sold his gen- eral stock to Samuel Fox. Kenton—Jacob Mahnsen succeeds G. C. Townsend in general trade. Coleman—S. A. Hurst & Co. John Mason in general trade. succeed Cedar Creek—W. J. Lance succeeds D. | L. Northland in general trade. Middleville—Frank Otto has hardware stock to F. D. Pratt. sold his | Will continue the business at the same ; location. Big Prairie—F. L. Tolles has sold his general stock to Henry Forward. who ' will continue the business at the same location. Wiliiamston—Lounsbury & Phillips, dealers in agricultural implements, have | dissolved, A. M. Lounsbury continuing the business. Stanton—Lew Steriing has opened a branch implement store at Blanchard. Joseph Wilkinson will have charge of | the business. Lawrence—l. F. Whiteman has opened | a dry goods and clothing store. Muskegon—S. Casciui succeeds Paris & Co. in the fruit business. Detroit—Oldani & Bruce succeed Chas. Oldani in the boot and shoe business. Saginaw—Henry C. Weil sueceeds Weil & Holst in the grocery business. Detroit—Bogue & Gillam succeed Mrs. G. C. Borradaile in the drug busiuess. Nessen City—Wm. Woodhead succeeds Wm. Woodhead & Co. in general trade. Detroit — Robt. L. Peddie Peddie & Reed in the tailoring business. Northville—C. A. Sessions sueceeds J. B. Wilcox in the boot and shoe business. Manton—Isaac Byers and L. W. Gates have purchased the Hubbell meat mar- ket. Norway—J. B. Brasseur has removed L. succeeds his drug stock from Stephenson to this place. Stockbridge—Chadwick & Hall have purchased the grocery stock of Fred Walton. Addison—H. E. Howd will succeed Howd & Brooks April 1 in the clothing business. Burr Oak—A. C. Ganschaw is succeed- ed by B.E. Seavers in the business. Coldwater — Lewis Fred L. Drury in the business. Detroit — H. A. Schmook Schmook & Pokriefka in the tailoring business. Elk Rapids—J. hardware Dewey succeeds grocery and meat succeeds W. Baleom has sold Kalamazoo. Calumet—John Ekman man & Co. in the grocery shoe business. Ek- boot and succeeds and lronwood—Wm. L. Pierce is succeeded by Mrs. Mary E. tionery business. Detroit—John H. Hebblethwaite ceeds W. E Cheever & Co. the and feed business. Ircn Mountain—Stein Bros. & Co. sue- ceed Stein bros. in the dry ing and boot and shoe business. Chelsea—Sparks & Lane, millers, will dissolve partnership April 1, suc- in tlour goods. cloth- Sparks continuing the business. West Bay City—Me Laughlin & Magill succeed Emery & McLaughlin in the coal, wood, lime and cement business. Montague—E. L. Dodge has Bickford in the confec- | Leman E. | [drug stock to H. P. | consolidate it with his own. sold his| hardware stock to A. A. Alien, who has | clerked several years for L. G. Ripley. | R. Kendali—J. Merchant has bought the | grocery stock of Houser Bros. and will continue the business at the same loca- tion. Leslie—M. Small & Co. have sold their grocery stock to G. C. Failing & Co.. who will continue the at the same location. Eastport—Daniel Blakley has sold his general stock to Frank M. Harris, who business | devote his entire attention | on the 8th about the firm of J. M. Fowler & Co. ; son street. has decided to re-engage in his drug stock to Jeff & Murphy. late of | | years with John | days depart for Howard City. where will Christian Bertsch Boston and will spend weeks in and around that orders for fall goods. Central Lake—Lawrence Doerr and a leaves to-day for the city, next two placing | ; gentleman named Goodman have formed | acopartnership and will embark in the hardware business here. Stanton—E!i Epley has purchased the interest of F. R. Messenger in the grocery stock of Eli Epley & Co. and tinue the business in his own name. Battle Creek —Samuel W. McCrea. who conducted the grocery business here over | twenty-five years, retiring a few months ago. died March 14 as the result of an attack of apoplexy the day before. Winchester Station — The Mecosta Lumber Co. has purchased the drug stock of Barry & Co..at Rodney. and removed it will con- | to this place, adding largely thereto | through the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug | Co. M. elevator business here Shelby ville—W. Briggs. who has conducted an for several years, has purchased the Wheeler building and the reception shoe stocks. Kalamazoo—A._L. severed his connection is fitting same of grocery and up for boot and Blumenberg has with B. berg & Co. and is now a partner of the Hanselman Candy Co. Mr. Blumenberg has been connected with the former house for the past twelve years. Muskegon—E. A. who con- ducted a dry goods store several years at the corner of Western avenue and Jeffer- Desen- Worden. the same business in the store soon to be vacated by F. G. Neumeister. Big Rapids—Ernest Hallock, for three Hansen, will ina few be launched the new boot and shoe firm | of Hallock & Toan. the junior partner being Clyde Tuan, but who will remain in Big Rapids. Eaton Rapids—O.e of the ‘‘meanest men in town’’ recently spent two hours beating a druggist down 10 cents on some horse medicine and, as the horse had recovered in the meantime, the man took the medicine himself to save it. He came near going where they don’t have spring freshets. Mulliken—B. I. Whelpley has sold his } French, who will Mr. Whelp- ley has leased his building and sold his hardware stock to A. L. Cogswell and C. French, who will continue the business under the style of Cogswell & French. Mr. Whelpley will hereafter to the manu- facture of brick. Kalamo— J. M. Fowler writes Tue TRADESMAN as follows: ‘1 would like to have you rectify the mistake you made L. R. Cessna misinformed you about it. I bought out Mary J. Cessna’s | | cular rig. | Northern Railroad THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. interest in the firm of J. M. Fowler & Co. and have taken my brother, Wm. Fowler, in as a partner. The style of the firm wiil remain the same as before, | which is J. M. Fowler & Co.”’ MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Coleman—The St. Louis Stave & Hoop last week. rest of the year, a full stock having been secured. mill began operations mill will run steadily the Manistee—The Manistee Maple Floor- ing Co. has made contracis for its build- ing and machinery, and will begin oper- ations at once, and hopes to have all in running order by June i. Saginaw—F. B. Wiggins, who has been engaged in the hardware business here, has disposed of move to Cleveland where he will engage his in the lumber and planing mill business. Saginaw—A year ago John G. Owen put a band saw outfit into his sawmill at Owendale. The timber did and he has taken it out and put in a cir- | Saginaw—Bliss & Van Auken have! purchased 40,000,000 feet of timber on the Twin Lake branch of the Mackinaw | ef the Michigan Central at $5 A portion of the timber is It will be cut and railed to their mill here. St. Ignace—John A. | seventy acres improved. | Thos. Skelton, Big Rapids. division stumpage. Norway and the rest white pine. Jamieson has be- | gun repairs on his sawmill and proposes | to have itin the best of shape for the coming season. He building a brick addition to his boiler house, and making changes in the carriage for the sawing of bill timber of all lengths up to 60 feet. He has already in his booms a large amount of logs that are coming in by rail, and he says that his mill will be in } a position next season to take care of anything that offers. Saginaw—The Gay Co. purchased a body of timber of E. Hall, of Detroit, located on Chippewa River, atributary of the Tittabawassee that drains Isabella county. Itis estimated to cut 20,000,000 feet of pine, 40,000,000 feet of hemlock, 20,000,000 cedar, and frown 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 feet of oak. is Lumber has The | stock and will re- | | Rapids. Mich, not prove | Suitable to operate a band saw profitably, | | | | clean and oldest established trade. | location; brick building; FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion, No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. ; Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. BOUT %,c00 CASH WILL BUY ONE OF the best money making businesses in the city of Grand Rapids. Centrally located on Mon oe street. Trade established twenty-two years. Reason of selling poor health. Address H. B. Huston, agent, «99 South Division street, | Grand Rapids, Mich. 689 WOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS IN good location, doing paying business In- ; Voice #700. Liberal discount. Excellent chance for man with small capital. Address Medics, carrier 27, Grand Rapids, Mich. 692 OR SALE-STOCK OF GROCERIES FOR cash; also store building and lot, including | two dwelling houses, on time. Address No. 691, ; Care Michigan Tradesman. 691 | Fork SALE—CLEAN GROCERY STOCK and fixtures. Will sell together or separately, as desired. Cheap for cash | Carrier street, Grand Rapids. re SALE—GENERAL STOCK OF chandise, doing a nice business. for selling. health Chas. E. Williams, 60 693 MER- Reason Address New Home Division street, Grand OSS failed. | Machine office, 541 N. qiOR SALE OR PRADE FOR CLEAN STOCK groceries—Handle factory. Plenty of cheap | timber. Good shipping facilities. Good chance right parties. Address No. 683, care Michigan Tradesman. 683 |fWYO EXCHANGE—FOR STOCK OF CLOTH. ing or boots and shoes, two good hard timber farms of eighty acres each. Thirty-five and Title clear. Address 680 =< r OFFER—IT’sSs NO TROUBLE TO find drug stocks for sale but you generally “find a nigger in the fence.” I have an elegant drug business forsale; stock about $4,000; bright, Prominent stone waik; rent mod- erate; City 30,000; reasons for selling made known. Suit yourself about terms. Address quick, John K. Meyers, Muskegon, Mich. 670 OR SALE—WELL-SELECTED GRUCERY stock, located on a mainthoroughfare. One | of the oldest grocery establishments in the city, which has yielded good returns every year For full particulars as to stoek, terms and location, call on or address Amos S. Musselman, President Musselman Grocer Co. 659 Pee SALE—GOOD, CLEAN, SALABLE stock of drugs, groceries and hardware, or will exchange for desirable chattel property or real estate. Arthur Mulholland, Jr., Ashton, Mich. 645 SITUATIONS WANTED. Vy JANTED — SITUATION BY A REGIS- tered pharmacist of twenty years’ exper lence. Good references Address, stating wages, A D Carpenter, Clarksville. Mich. 684 ANTED—POSITION AS BOOK-KEEPER by steady young man, with family. Un- exceptional references furnished and satisfac- tion guaranteed. Address C. E. Weaver, Adrian, Mich. 690 MISCELLANEOUS. (ee NTRY MERCHANTS ARE INVITED TO inspect our stock of dry goods, clothing and boots and shoes, which we propose to close out at a great sacrifice. People’s Store, 333 Canal street, Grand Rapids. 685 The company has erected a band mill at what is known as the old Hall dam, and | Detroit, Lansing & | with a spur from Re- | The mill has a capacity of 75,- 000 feet daily, is lighted with electricity, and will be operated day and night. It started about a week ago. The company has 4,000,000 feet of logs in the river. connecting with the mus. > ©. —-> The Drug Market. Gum opium has advanced, on of higher prices in Smyrna. Quinine is steady at unchanged prices. Cocaine muriate has advaneed 31 acconnt per ounce, owing to anew ruling, making the duty higher. Bromide of potash, bromide ammonia and bromide sodium have all been ad- vanced. Turpentine is higher. Bucha leaves have declined. -_———— > 2 <> -_____ From Out of Town. Calis been received have at TRADESMAN office during the past week | from the following gentlemen in trade: J.C. Tracy, Custer. C. C. Phillips, Bangor. Frark Hamilton, Traverse City. W. M. Briggs, Shelbyville. Henry C. Auer, Cadillac. B. 8S. Runnels. Big Prairie. THE | \YILL PAY CASH FOR STOCK OF GRO- ceries or general merchandise. Must be cheap. Address No. 657, care Michigan Trades man. : 657 wee RENT—STORE WHERE THERE IS A good opening for a druggist. Rent low. Enquire at Michigan Tradesman office, 686 NOME VALUABLE FARMS AND FINE LAN- WO sing city property to exchange for merchan dise. Address 222 Washington ave., N., Lansing, Mich 687 PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Russets, $2.50 per bbl; Baldwins $2.75 to 8; Spys, $8 to $3.25. Beans—Buyers are paying 31.50@1.60 for coun try picked, holding city picked at #2@2.10. Butter—Choice dairy is in demand at 18 to 20c, being held at 2’c; creamery, 22 to 24¢. Cabbage—75e to $1 per doz. Still plentiful and quality good. Cider—13@l15c per gal. Cranberries—Cape Cods and Jerseys $3 @3.50 | per Crate. | Eggs—The market remained stationary for the | week. On account of the cold snap, the antici- pated drop failing to materialize. Handlers pay | 16e. holding at 17 @Is8e. Green Stuff—Lettuce. ise per lb; rhubarb, 4c per lb; radishes, 4ue per doz. | Honey—Clover stock, 13e. Onions—#1.15 to $1.20, holding at $1.40 to $1.45. | Parsnips—40e per bu. Potatoes—Have not changed, enough coming jin tokeep the market steady. 65¢ is still the | buying price, and held a trifle higher. Strawberries—New berries are in market at 35 | @40e per qt. The worst feature of the market is that the prices and the bottoms of the boxes are both up proportionately. Turnips—35e pu. bu. mA Z American Steam Laundry a 60 horse u a / Wm. B. Edmunds, who has covered TO THE power engine. oe : : : 1 ; = » ba 2 Western Michigan the last two years for CWISs Villa Mixed Paints RETAIL DRvUGGISTS Cook Bros. have sold their grocery Thorp, Hawley & Co., of Detroit, was in| i | AND i Fy stock on Madison avenue, near Griggs town one day last week. Mr. Edmunds GENERAL STORES. avenue, to John Price. now resides at Bangor; but still retains | Have been used for over ten years. Do You Sell ee - —— oe i. 3 ave in é 2ases Ziv satisfaction. yey C. H. Walbridge has opened a grozery his Coit avenue residence property in | ‘ ave in all oa pier OEM Cit i ie este Are unequalled for durability, elasticity | store at the corner of S. East and Sher-| this city. een gi ne | ) a ae 6 > witn 4 o cme 4 mance eal i ‘ é 2 r $ man streets. Hawkins & Company fur- My wife and I,’ says atraveling man, | _ _— a, - — i i ahs nished the stock. ‘were once ina hotel where we couldn't | We carry a _ stock of this well known i a ae | getany boiling water. After we had | brand mixed paints. | We want one live dealer in every j Kendall & Hane have opened a grocery | gicoussed the situation, my wife asked | Send for sample card and prices. city and town to handle and push ~~. s : a auto ‘ - ee ne ae | the sale of Diamond Tea, the ¢ store and “me market at Remus. BBG) a Get had an envelope in my. satchel. | _o a. i Se oe Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished , sar ae P oe | 1 got one out, when she told me to fill it » he stock at 152 North Division street to | . i ae , fe us an order for 3 doz. 25¢ size Frank A. Winsor, who clerked for Ira | moment. ut it didn’t biaze. he packages of Diamond Tea at $1.90 | C. Hatch seven years. | envelope took on a little soot, but that | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. per doz., which amounts to only $$ —____—— was all. The water boiled in time, and = = peo - av free = —_— J. Pettingi : arlv of 5 an additiona doz. packages, be- " : L. J. Pettingill, formerly of the arn | the envelope was as good as ever when oz. packag : : | the experiment was at an end. I don’t sample your whole town. By a store at Petoskey. The Olney & Judson}, ow the chemistry of the process, but | stamping your name on each pack- qG % ’ “NIC »@ ake | i i L i i ave ve ri s receiv an- rrocer Co. furnished the stock. i try it yourself and see if it will not age you will thus receive full ben oN j 2, . nt Kk.” efit of the advertising. ? Jobn Allgier will close out his grocery | WOrK. It will pay hustlers to take ad- stock at 160 Claney street and embark in en enn vantage of this offer, before their 4 the boot and shoe business at 196 East Purely Personal. competitors get ahead ef them. ‘ a Bridge street under the style of Allgier| Leonard Kipp, the West Broadway GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. The Hester Machinery Co. has sold the | the grocery stock. Jas. W. Carukin has sold his grocery of Pettingill Bros., has opened a grocery & Pritchard. N. H. Walbridge has sold his general | will be covered in | with water and hold it over | His route | the meantime by M. | inflammatory rheumatism. M. Mallory. the it, gas jet. | I hesitated, but finally did and ex- | pected to see the envelope blaze up every grocer, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia for four weeks, is now thought to be on the road to recovery. T. H. NEVIN CO.’S Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co., STATE AGENTS 5 INDUCEMENT Headache and Liver and Kidneys and we offer the following induce- ment: To every dealer who will send sides sufficient sample packages to DIAMOND TEA C0., DETROIT, MICH. stock at 360 S. East street to O. W. ee i : a GE ai : sy 4 apt tien ' Wm. G. Brummeler. Jr., and Miss Jen- | Diamond Tea is sold by all whole- Pettit, who has removed it to his double] nije Smith were married last Thursday. | sale drugpists. : re ne lain fie 7e 1" : : | ae ne store at the corner of Plainfield avenue / The happy couple will take up their res- KALAM AZOO PANT k OVERALL C0. and Quimby street. idence i aj on home ag | ots ¢ ee idence in their own home on Jones | 221 F. MainoSt., Kalamazoo, Mich. ’ Jones & Babeock succeed Stickney & | Street. ei sy i / a Vv | | Chicago salesroom with Silverman & Opper, +2 Jones in the grocery business at the cor- C. A. Vanden Bergh and Alex. Denton, Corner Monroe st. and Fifth ave. « « ms : ? ner of Wealthy avenue and Henry street, | the Howard City merchants, were in Ha oe . ce : E : _ | Our specialties: Pants from $7.50 to $36 per doz, Mr. Stickney having exchanged his in- town last week for the purpose of secur- | warranted net to rip. Shirts from 92.50 to 35 terest for Mr. Babeock’s interest in the|ing plans fora pair of brick buildings ee now ready. Samples sent « Pv} * . - = Grandville avenue box factory. they propose to erect as soon as the ; AN : | | N Toca a spring opens. 30th buildings wil! be | A. Norris J. L. Norris ane oo ne ’ ‘ = : i 25x80 feet in dimensions and Mr. Van- FRANK Fi. WW HITE, } Blanchard have organized a stock com- . ‘ a a den Bergh’s building will be two stories o | « pany under the style of O. D. Blanchard Manufacturer's Agent and Jobber of Co. and engaged in general trade at Casnovia. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods and the I. M. in height. _ ~~ > <> na New List on Rubber Goods. On April 1 an entirely new list on rab- Brooms, Wasiboards, Wooden ND Oh! bright cigar; I love thy wreaths of smoke so dimly curling, I love thy murky cloud above me whirling; While, like a star, Amid the smoke thy brilliant tip is shining, ~ x ; : a . aed : “ A ee Clark Grocery Co. the groceries. ber boots and shoes will go into effect, all ‘And bids me east all care and sad repining Ci the manufacturers having agreed upon | i : From me afar. > last meeting of the Grand Rap- : Urat ls & Tub _ At the last wmcoting of the Grand Rap ‘ic oe oe ee es 0 Ge ll fa B al §, Companion dear! ids Pharmaceutical Society, the follow- i : : When weary of this world, its empty pleasure, m 2 tact Gremeinta were clected to member change is to bring the list of prices more Its ceaseless toil, its cares without a measure, sts w lec ape ft cae a | Fanckboner, Dykemea Bros nearly to the retail selling figures. At oe —— a —_ —— Then fancy saeuceeaa thy bright cloud waving s : no. ry. ¢ VK a Ss. i aa ins, Ste adders, ashing Ma- : ae eit Pilani do oo P. T. Williams, G. T. Haan & Co.. Ste ry present, with discounts of 50 per cent., chines, santas, Bushel aa The far off — — — 7 — is — ° . ams, ° . “ JO, o> K= : : i i. = An¢ gs them near. zg, , . |the list is no guide for the retailers, — aoe Ena = / etee & Baker, F. A. Sanford, Edmund : ' i _ Paper, Wrapping And when in sorrow eo ae a1 i Stek ame and they have nothing in the shape of a Paper, Sacks, Twine and Stationery. My heart is bowed and all is cold around it, Sinz, H. Hennika and Steketee & Hoede-| — : ee oo And dreary thoughts and weary cares surround it, wakes standard for their selling prices. The Sat aiid tl basa 2 . ‘ . Sac Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish: | F . solace, while de eviving ake . ‘ ) , rom thee a solace, while dear hope reviving, . : eg _ ge a — _- ing to be represented in this market are request | Brings to my view, the mist before it driving, ul i T. J. Nixon, grocer at 418 South Div-| $1 on boots, 50 cents on arctics and 10 ed to communicate with me. A bright to-morrow! ision street has voluntarily relinquished his stock to the Ball-Barnhart-Putman cents on sandals, with other lines in pro- portion. The selling discounts will then 125 COURT ST., —|(The Smoker, All First-Class Dealers Sell Ben-Hur Cigars. Co., which held a first mortgage on the] be reduced, and instead of 50 off, for ex- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. nin: «ils, ~ \ goods. E. J. Gillies & Co., who held aj} ample, a discount of say 30 off will be second mortgage, and proceeded to| given, which will make the net prices to ~ take poesession of a horse kept in the | retailers 5 to 10 per cent. advance. The Geo. H. Reeder & Co., stable of Frank E. Hodges, but that| discount will then represent a fair mar- te E . > 4 | gentleman claimed to have a lien on the} animal by reason of an unpaid board bill and sent the horse away where the officers | original intention when a uniform price gin for the retailer’s profit, as was the list was adopted. The new list will be Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. MANUFACTURERS, BDETRO. | | ee could not find him. Gillies & Co. in| adopted by all the companies, including State Agents for upon begun suit against Hodges in | those outside the combination, and the | a a trover and obtained a judgment for $60 exact figures will soon be announced. 2H } H G | \ Important to Commercial Trav- and costs. : —— in U pos 8 a} Merch ee 1 elers and Merchants. i « ——__.-- > | New Commission House. ee de 6) de. | Vv ole a ap j | er tS | “e, The American Casualty Insurance and Securi- Gripsack Briga | L. L. Wood, formerly connected with | : tg Buy @ je, ty Co., of Baltimore City, Maryland, sells the - & + Valda Johnston, who has resided at| Beebe & Co., of Minneapolis, but more | 7,i7F LS Rw’ or Se most liberal accident policy issued in the United . " iu | bel ‘ | i - A States, furnishing more absolute protection than Bangor during the past winter, will re-| recently associated with Tucker, ¢ apg, es : any other. Its policy is short, plain business a Ste ive nex 100 , Parker has e ark i he ec io contract, free from all objectionable clauses and | turn to the city to live next week. & Parker, has embarked in the commis | conditions. In 1892 it paid losses to policy hold- Burt Ema has taken the position of | sion business at 115 Monroe street, under ers and their beneficiaries amounting to $1,103,- a : : oe ‘ - : a 964, and had $2,607,675 in assets Jan. 1, 1893. The city salesman for Hawkins & Company McGowan’s meat market. He requests } premium to merchants not handling’ goods and j artake 7@ ‘ “ti | dealers ive hi ‘ then j > e | commercial travelers is @ for each $1,000 in ee and will undertake to cover that portion dealers to give him a call whe a in need of Surance with 8 per week indemnity during dis of the trade not visited by Jas. B. Me- | anythingin his line. He will carry a} ability, not exceeding 52 weeks, and pays one- * os ss : a half instead of one-third for loss of one hand or ~ & 4 Innes. | general line of produce, giving especial |one foot, as paid by most other companies Byron S. Davenport has gone to! attention to butter, eggs, cheese, veal | | Foebens No. 1,003, for best policy issued, or address W. R. FREEMAN, Agent, 373 Crescen | avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. | 158 & 160,Fulton St.,Grand Rapids.— Mt. Clemens to-obtain relief from the | and poultry. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. POLITICAL UNION WITH CANADA. PAPER Il. Written for THE TRADESMAN. After a eareful review of the political differences between the two countries, the writer is prepared to admit that they are neither so many nor so great as he had thought them; but, be they many or few, great or small, they must be met and arranged to the satisfaction of both parties. It will be necessary for both parties to make concessions, which, how- ever, will involve no surrender of prin- ciple and result in no loss of dignity to either. Atthe same time, itis to be hoped the United States, being so much the stronger of the two, will meet her ‘‘little sister” more than half way. It must be borne in mind that the pop- ulation of Canada, with the exception of the French section, is composed mainly of Englishmen, who are, naturally, in- tensely pro-English in their sympathies. The loyalty of the Briton to the flag and institutions of his country has passed in- toa proverb. No matter where he goes he never for a moment forgets that he is an Englishman. Abroad, travels with a ‘‘chip on his shoulder,” his only fear being that it may not be ‘knocked off.”’, First among British institutions, and first in the heart of the Briton, is the Crown. The present wearer of the erown has ruled so wisely and so well, and has so endeared herself to her peo- ple, that it is impossible for an English- man to separate the system from its head, the monarchy from the monarch. ‘“‘The monarchy’? is much more to him than a systam of government, it is a woman, with a woman’s heart and a woman’s sympathies; she has shared their sorrows and their joys; loving her people and being loved in return, and to- day the strongest bulwark of the throne of England is the hearts of the people. Go where he may the English emigrant loyalty to believes, he affection for and This, the writer retains his his will prove to be queen. the political union of Canada and this | country. It may seem strange to an| American that loyalty toa flag can be} | Grand Rapids..... 3,000 miles of water, | more than stretched across bat it is loyalty—it is love for the person of the best sovereign Eng- land ever had. Let it be remembered, too, that the Union Jack, ‘‘the flag that braved a thousand years the battle and as the Briton proudly sings, waves over the Dominion, constantly re- minding him of his allegiance, recalling scenes of home and country and reviv- ing soul-stirring memories of many ‘‘glo- by sea and land. Incase his allegiance must be transferred from the Union Jack to the Stars and Stripes; and not only this, but Canada, ‘‘the fairest jewelin the impe- rial crown,”’ be given over to this the breeze,” rious victories” of annexation, > would country, the flag of Old England hauled down, and the American ensign raised ‘‘to the fore.’”’” This may be laughed at as sentimental nonsense, but it will be found to be afactor against annexation, all the same. The ernment of Canada is differently consti- tuted to thatof this country. This is the strong feature of the Canadian tem, and one of which Canadians are justly proud. lice magistrate, the judges are appointed | and hold office ‘‘for life or during good | behavior.”? Politics has very little, if| sys- anything to do with appointments to the! Clifton, K the greatest obstacle to| | American —-- 5 judicial department of the gov-| From Chief Justice to po- | Dry Goods Price Current. are COTTONS. — eee oe Arrow Brand 5% ».. .... 6 “World Wide. 6 Aten Se Bes oe 4% Atlantic = oe Sala se on 6% i. Gi Georwa A.......... © - Pe 5ig|Honcst eee... ..... 6% _ _ 6 erties ......... 5 = i1.......... 5 Paes Pee........ 7 Aue... |... 6% nee a... 6% en... . Chen CCC........ Seeeer.......... 6 {Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS ae. - 84%/Geo. Washington... 8 Seem .........-... 5 Gaon eae.......... 7 Sc To Y iGold Medsl......... 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D%) ' Lo. _ x. 10% - z.. 11 iO. ...... 21 Pr . 14% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white.. ...18 |Integrity colored. ..20 colored ...2)9 |White Star.......... 18 as ......... 1 “ * colored. .20 DRESS GOODS. Bamilton .......... 5 hae... ..... 20 e eee CS 25 a a 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 | ge 30 Rao ... ....... ' . _ ae SS 1 Se 35 CORSETS, Coraiies.........- & 50|Wonderful . - . Schilling’s. - SOR ereeeon.. ........ | Davis Waists 9 GO Bortree’s .......... 5 oD 4 50/Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. Ares ............. 6% Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Androsco a. om eee... . -... 6% ————— |Conestoga ee = Brunswick. ...-. : 8% awe ..... -... 6% PRINTS Allen —— reds.. 6%4 Berwick fancies.... 5% 6%|\Clyde Robes........ ' pink : purple 6%/C aioe Oak fancies 4% _ _ 654! DelMarine cashm’s. “ pink checks. 6%) ' mourn’g 6 _ siaples ...... 6) | Eddystone ia - 6% - shirtings 5 hocolat 6% American fancy ... 5%. _ oar. Oy Americanindigo... 6%) e sateens. - 6% | Hamilton a Argentine Grays.. .. Anchor Shirti _- 6 ¥ i 2 stnateatan ancy. : Arnold a eh 6 ¥| new era. 6 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6 Arnold Merino “long cloth B. 10% Merrim’ ckshirtings. 434 “se us “ cc. 8 “ ——. ‘ 8% ‘century cloth 7 Pacific boat 6 ‘gold seal. ....103 ——._...... 6% “ green seal TR 10% Pectaesedhn robes... 6% ** “yellow seal. Ta Simpson mourning.. 634 “ soe.. . greys ...... 6% “ urkey red. “108 ‘solid black. 6% Ballou solid black Washington indigo. 6% . “~~ golors. . rkey robes 1% Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robes.... 7% red and orange... 6 c plain Tky x % = Berlin aolids........ 5%) “ “ofl bia a * —— = ~ oe .... oe ie... ....,... 6 ‘“ FPoulards ... 5% Marton Washington * see.. 7 Turkey red X%..... ™% ss ~ © ees ye Martha nang ' - a8... Turk — co icl as 9% ' ' eet 2 Riverpoint robes.... 5% Cochece fancy. ? Windsor fancy...... 6% madders.. . ‘old ticket - XX twills.. Oi indigo blue....... 10% “ eollis...... Sig (Heaxvmony......... / TICKING, Amoskeag AC - ae OT Bi on es en 13 | Hamilton 4 |Pemberton AAA....16 Po 8%) Yor ork. | - Awning.. . |Swift Rie Th eee eee ee Pearl River.........12% Fae Prise pee 105 PR hoo icine 13% | Tene Bie ........ 18 |Conostoga 16 COTTON DRILL. Aen Bl oxiNo N a betes us ceive ue coos ........ *% bi od of oo AER _s DEMINS. Amoskeng...... ...- 12%{Columbian brown..12 " -..... 13% Everett, eran aeeeee 12% . brown .13 rown. ....12% Aner 11% Haymaker Slee oes 7% Beaver Creek a2 10 brown... 7% . 2 pare. | ae . Ge. Leacoeee........... 12% Boston Mtg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9oz...... blue 8% . No, 220.... * d«& twist 10% ' No. 250.... Columbian Za = 10 - No. 280.. Zak B.D GINGHAMS. Amoskeag ...... .... 14 Lancaster, staple... 7 * Persian dress 8% fancies . 7 " Canton .. 8% " Normandie 8 . BYPC...... ‘10% Lencesnire.......... 6 c Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 5% Angola..10%/|Monogram.......... 6% ° Persian.. 8%|Normandie..... .... Th Arlington staple.... 634/Persian............. 8% Arasapha fancy.... 4%/Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 8%|Rosemont..........- 6% . staples. 6%|Slatersville......... 6 Centennial......... 1044/Somerset...:........ z eee ayers ....... 00. 7™% Ganvertent staple. oie Toll du Nord....... 10% Cumberland.... .... eee... ......... 7% — 4 ‘“ seersucker.. 7% a ewe... .-.... 8% Everett classics..... 8%/| Whittenden......... 6% Exposition .......... 7 Y heather dr. 8 hee en ne! 6% ' indigo blue 9 Gienarven.... ...... 6X%|Wamsutta staples... - Gienwood........... 7% Westbrook Lee ete Haepeem.... . ...... ee 1 Jobnson Vhaloncl %/Windermeer.... .... o Indigo blue S4iYork .... .......... ox c zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag.. -.-1644| Valley City... -15% ee ee 18%|Georgia... . -15% Aeecreeen..... .....- eee ..... ..--.... THREADS. Clark’s Mile End.,..45 |Barbour's..........- 88 Couy, 2. aFr....... (Marenalre.... .....- 88 Peesees........ 22% ENITTING COTTON, White. Colored. White. Colored Re 66. Le os We. i.......07 42 _ fe a 43 _ 35 -F OB 39 44 oe 36 41 = 45 CAMBRICS, ee... ... ...-.... S (eewerds..........- 5 White Giar......... 5 (Lockwood...... ... 5 mie (ove .......... au iWeows............ 5 Newmarket......... > Brunswick ........ 5 RED FLANNEL. aE OE eee Ry Croedmore.........- ge 32% Tere 2 a......... - Ber, 2ee......... 35 Wamesess........... or puckeye............ 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% eee EE... 22%4| Western W ......... 18% eeeee...... .--... wae ee..............-. 18% 6 os Western ........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% coe S........... Seg MOMICODA.... ....... 23% DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless on ; @9 a 9 @10% a %@10 * a 12% =e AND PADDIN Slate. — Black.|Slate one. Black. 9% 914|10% 0% 10% 10% wwe 10%4/11% 11% 1\ 11% 11% 1144/12 12 12 12% 12% 1244/20 20 20 DUCKS. _ Severen, 8 oz........ 9%|West pm, : >. ..10% Mayland, 8o0z....... 10% Zz ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% ee, 1002. eae nT 13% Greenwood, 8 oz. “11% beet eee 13% Boston, 8 os,........ 10% a ee... .... 12% WADDINGS. wae Ge... .....- 25 |Per bale, 40 dos... .83 50 Colored, Gos........ -_ jComrea ~ .......; 7 SILESIAS, Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10% a BS .. ee ms ss —s......... ..10% peerere.... .... .... . Best eA..... = — —...... 103 a 10% EWING SILE, 8 Coctioslii, Gos....... 85 twist, doz. .4¢ 50 tees doz.. Corticelli knitting, per oz ball 30 8 AND EYES—PER GROSS No : Br. & White. = « ; “ “B “ 10 “ 25 PINS. No 2—20, M C....... 50 _ 4—15 F 3%...... 40 . B-26,58 C....-... 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & Bl’k..12 |No 8 White & Bl’k..20 “ 4 “ oon “ 10 ity ae . 2 ” 1" se ' i 8. os eh cue 28 _— eee oe 36 DLES—PE z. OI cence 40|Steamboat........... 40 Crowerrs....... .... 1 35/Gold Eyed as eee 150 Marshair's........... 1 00 No 4 BI’k & ‘White.. = TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—A....2 5 Ia" 195 6—4...2 9% —— ve Be N TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine. "S TO ee a 18 a 12 Rising ree. ae ee ..........- 18% 3-ply.. ae ST i ert Sie... .....: a... .. ae 13 |Wool Standard 4 plyit we voy ...... = Powhattan PLAID OSNABURGS Aes... .........- 6% wad Pleasant.... 6% Aiomeee........... ee 5 ee ™% ces eae 5% Ar sapha.. +. 2 [oerenn......... 6 Georgia... de a 614| Riverside........... 5g caeee ....-........ sity. agpim, hho ec 6% ow Beeee......,.. 5 |Toledo . OE Bisse eis ccc ie Excelsior Bolts Wanted? I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excelsior Bolts, 18 and 36 inches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths as above. For particulars ad- dress JW. FOR, Grand Rapids, Mich. 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. 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. “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, — i ~~ yp tan i - fh o »_~— — eae eS THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. judiciary, the Government choosing men of the highest legal talent from both po- litical parties. Onee appointed to the bench, a judge is removed entirely from the political arena, and is unconcerned about a change of administration .as he is appointed for life. If the political union of the two countries is consum- mated, Canada must of necessity accept the American system, which makes the state and municipal judiciary elective and the judgship a reward for faithful service to ‘‘the party.” It is greatly to be feared that, in too many instances, ward-heelers and wire-pullers have the naming of the candidates for judgships, and this of itself is sufficient to cast a suspicion upon the integrity and efficien- cy of the judiciary, in so far as it is e‘ective. At least, itis an objection to the system. It would be such to the Canadians, who can ‘‘point with pride’’ to a judiciary whose absolute integrity has never even been questioned. They might well hesitate before surrendering a judicial system, which they claim, and with some show of reason, it must be confessed, is the best in the world and the crowning glory of Canadian institu- tions. The parliamentary systems of the two countries are widely divergent. The British system has, with a few modifica- tions, been adapted to the legislative needs of Canada. Under this system the sovereign is a constituent branch of the Legislature, though it should be not- ed that this function of the monarchy has not been exercised for many years, the law-making power being permitted to remain with the two branches of the Legislature. In imitation of the British House of Lords, members of the Canadi- an Senate are appointed for life. This is conceded by Canadians themselves to be a glaring defect, since the Senators, being practically appointed by the party in power (though nominally by the Queen’s representative), the Senate has become nothing but a creature of the party which created it. Members of the House of Commons are elected for a term of five years, and are responsible directly to their constituents. The Cabinet, or Ministers of the Crown, as they are officially called, are all regular- ly-elected members of the House, and it is customary for a member, when called toa Cabinet position, to resign his seat in the House and go back to his constitu- ents for re-election, giving them an op- portunity to endorse or reject the policy of the Government, of which he has been called to bea member. As to which sys- tem, the American or Canadian has the advantage over the other is an open question. Canadians believe that they have true representative government, but that the American system, by reason of the fact of the Cabinet being chosen by the President, and not directly re- sponsible to the people, is not truly rep- resentative in character. As to which system is the better, itis hard to say; both have their excellences, and both their defects, and both will have their advocates. It may be, after all, a matter of opinion. As the publie schools of the Dominion are in the hands of the Provincial Legis- latures, education may properly be called afunction of government, and the dif- ferences between the Canadian and American school systems may be termed political. These differences are many and great, but want of space forbids an enlargement upon this, the most im- portant, and, perhaps, the most interest- ing, feature of Canadian institutions. The union of the two countries is sure to come in good time, and when the time arrives these differences will vani-h as the dew beneath the morning sun. This broad continent shall yet be one nation, under one flag, leading the van in the march of civilization, her ‘‘victories of peace” greater and more glorious than any ever won upon the ‘‘tented field.’’ Speed the day. DANIEL ABBOTT. a Organization a Necessity. Mr. H. H. Roberts, speaking recently before the Wholesale Grocers’ Associa- tion, of Boston, Mass., on ‘‘Influence and Benefit of Trade Associations,’ said, among other things: Trade conditions formerly for trade organizations. Now, sharp competition and new methods have changed all this, and combination is nec- essary to life. Combinations are the outcome of changed conditions. Wecan- not make our influence felt singly, but, combined, we are a power, and so organ- ization is demanded. Few members of legislatures understand all the modern details about freights, interest, deprecia- tion and other charges. I think it will not be many years before Washington will harbor a Secretary of Commerce, who will pay attention to trade condi- tions, necessities, ete. Another speaker said that business was no longer an adventure, it was a science. The old fogy merchants could not do much with their ancient methods employed against present circumstances. oo 2 Tomatoes Do Not Cause Cancer. The London Times says that there is an opinion very prevalent in that coun- try that tomatoes are an exciting cause of cancer, and that having been deluged with letters asking for information on that point, it has procured the expert opinion of the medical committee of the London Cancer Hospital. The commit- tee says that tomatoes neither predis- pose to or excite cancer formation, and that they are not injurious to those suf- fering from the disease, but, on the con- trary, are avery wholesome article of diet, especially wher cooked. This is a very comforting piece of information, for they are certainly very palatable. a did not call Use Tradesman Coupon Books. the eee ze. Fxcels or Incubator, ple, Perfect, Self-R if Thousands in ssc : operation. Guaran - se to hatch a larger per- F4 centage of fertile eggs at} h less cost than any other . Lowest priced first-class Hatcher mnie. STAHL, Quinc ‘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. 4 GEO. i. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGUBS AND BITS, dis. Ms 60 ee a ean ee ee 40 em wee ks 25 Jennings’, imitation . - -50&10 AXES. First eee So 2 prome. $7 00 , B. Bromee...... a 12 00 ‘ S Be See... .... 8 00 ‘ b. a) a a 50 BARROWS. Monee ._..........-........c..-c... ee... 8 i ‘00 Ceoeee ........ ..... bet 30 00 BOLTS. dis. SNe, Seep cg ae oa ce 50&10 Carriage ee - 75&10 eee 40&10 Sleigh ee 70 BUCKETS. eaves... $350 We seen... 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cone Teens Fro, Geuved........ 2... s-c0.- Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 664.0 ——— — Pin.. — —_— | HAMMERS rought Table........ met | Maumee 60... 8... dis, Wrought Inside Blind....................... £0810 ‘mee ert teen etatee a os Meee Re | Yeones ls dis. 40&10 Cn EE 70410 ee, Ee ee Blind, Shepard’s | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand... Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... . .80¢ list 60 -80e 40&10 a HINGES. BLOCKS. mea Clark’s,1,2,3.. .dis.60&10 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... Se ee “pe r doz. net, 2 50 CRADLES. ‘Screw = and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and lomece oo 3% — ..... .............. dis. 50&02 | | Screw "Hook and Bye, % 10 CROW BARS. r i a 8% ee pr® 5 | «4 a ue te CAPS. | Strap and T.. ue . 50 Ely’ 81- CE perm 65 | "HANGERS. dis. eee CP. ll , i" 60 | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. 50&10 G.D oa | Champion, anti friction... 02.0000... 60&10 Poa 60 | | Kidder, wood 42008 _.............. i 40 CARTRIDGES. e HOLLOW WARE. ai im Fue... ee 59 | Pots. .........----. weresees ees OOEIO eT dis, ee CHISELS. dis. | Gray enameled... .... 40810 Socket Pirmer......... eee 70&10 | HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Socket Frammung............ ee 70&10 | | Stamped Tin Ware, _new list 73 eee 70&10 | Japanned Tin Ware.. i ee ew ee 70&10 | 40 | Guasas Iron Ware ..... “new list singaio Butchers Tangea Firmer..:......... ...... WIRE 600DS, COMBS. dis. | Bright.. Lee a ogo Cume Lawrasede 40 | Screw. Byes... .c cs. ae --- OO 25 | Gate Hooks and Hyes............... 70410810 CHALK. | LEVELS. dis.7¢ White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 | Stanley Rule and Level Oe ia baa isal, 4% inch and 1 gu 9 Planished, 14 oz cut to aize... .. per pound 238 ne i a arger LTTE 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ................ 26 oT ‘s@vans. thet terete cola Rolled, 14x56 ane a oo) Stogliand Fron... i 5 a ae ee Se 23 | Try and 1 Bevels. ee. cee eee ee eee 25 Mitre . : a Ue ox DRILLS. dis. SHEET IRON. OO 50 Com. Smooth. Com Taper and straight Shank................... OO Mee 100 te $405 8295 Pe i) iNee iste i... 405 3 05 DRIPPING PANS. = 18 to 21 De eee ey oe ee 4 05 . 05 oe Oe 4 05 15 Smisitaises ser pause 206, ai: a oe z Large sizes, per pound... 2022020010. ae hdl COC ELBOWS. All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Com. 4 ploge, Gi... dos, ag 7% | wide not less than 2-10 extra Cone cs, SAND PAPER. : RE eile iseenin as eu conus aie 40610 | List acct. 19, °86 ......... 2... see eee eee dis, 50 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis Silver Lake, Whit iN cr list 5 Clark's, small, $18; large, 826...-........... “0 le” Ce ieee ven’. 1, GtG: 2 Get: Gee ................... 25 6 White B cls Bi FiLes—New List. dis. a Se 55 I 6010 “ See 9F New American ..... ................... ---6010! Discount, 10. gal eee oe secre sees se. we SASH WEIGHTS. ere wes 5 La... HeHer's Horse Haspe .. ......---.-......... 50 | ee SAWS. a” os - GALVANIZED IRON. | ' won eae) i as a 20 29 on ag | ver Stee a rats, per foot,.... 70 _ _y —" = =; = = 26; 16 = . ire Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 Discount, 60 i ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 GAUGES. dis. Y c ampion and Electric Tooth X Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 59| Cuts, per foot. epee: a KNoBs—New List. iol 6od10 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ............... 55] Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55| Oneida ae. mowigy &Norton’s.... 7% Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 | Mouse, choker .18e per a Door, porcelvin, trimmings ... -- 55] Mouse, delusion... .....+. -$1.50 per doz. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 7 WIRE. dis. LOCKS—DOOR. ci | Bright Market... 00000... ... Ee Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... | dpncslea Markee 70—10 Mallory, Wheeler G Co.'s... ............... 55 Coppcrea Maree...) ae Branford’s De as a ai cia ages a ds Wie lo ok ce cl alle or 55 Teno eres... Ce 62% Norwalk's......... oa: z ee 55 Coppered Spring Stecl...................... 50 CKS, Bar ed P@nCe, GAIVANINOG........+.......5. 2% 6D 0 $16.90, dis. 60 ee 2 40 Hunt Eye Cael a as asa alee ers tae eel a sy aoe 815. 00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Pueee...... ee $18.50, dis. = Au wae... a | a em. ...... dis. 05 Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled da cael aia ole dale al Northwestern..... | dis. 10&10 4, 5, MILLS. dis. WRENCHES. dis. om, Forecms Coe... 5... 40 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 PF. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’ oe 40 Coe’s Genuine .... cL 50 “Landers, Ferry & Cle:k’s............ 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, a 75 ” Enterprise ee ee 30 Coe’s Patent, malleable... 75410 MOLASSES GATES. dis. MISCELLANEOUS. dig. Stebbin’s Pattern.. eee Te 50 Stebbin’s Genuine....... Pumps, Cistern 0.0... cee vee TE&10 Enterprise, self-measurin Screws, New I ist...... -0e16 Casters, Bed a d Plate.. - BOE 10610 NAILS Dampers, American a Steel i — SS ee ee aa = Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... 6F &10 Ci Advance over base: Steel. Wire. _ Base | pig Large... CO e = Pig Bars.. oo oe . 28¢ o “ZINC. 25 Duty: Sheet, ee a" — = 600 pound a ea 6% z Per pound.. cs a ‘ SOLDER, rod a 15 60 — ee: i5 . The prices of the “many other. qualities of 90 | solder in the market indicated by nrfvate brands 1 20 | vary according to composition. 1 60 ANTIMONY FE Een per pound Se 5 TIN—MELYN GRADX. S/ sexs 10, Charosal.....-.-........-..--..---. 87 75 | 14x20 IC, ee a 90) joxi4IxX, 9 25 Fe eee ee nT 9 25 Clinch; ee oo. 70 | Rach additional X on this grade, 81.75. en 00 80 TIN—ALLAWAY SRADE. ee 115 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal ..... Ce ee EE —————— 1% 1% TN 6 75 PLANES. dis. |, | 10x14 eT 8 25 nae Tom Cas Serey....-................. @*) | 14x20 IX, ‘“ ) 9 2k Sciota Bench .................-es cece seeeee 60 | Rach additional X on this grade 81.50, Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................ Ore ROOFING PLATES OE ———— @s0 14x20 IC, ‘* “Worcester.......... 6 Bu Stanley Rule and —o vs. G10} 44x99 Tx, “ Te was ic, * Ce 13 50 Ce EE dis.60—10 14x20 IC, ‘“ Allaway Grade.......... 6 00 Common, pele’ ee aa a ai a al oa ae dis. 70 14x20 IX, 66 ‘ec _ 5 BIVETS. dis. 20x28 IC “ i ‘ 2 Dee Oa Vinee... .........-.......... .._: 40 20x28 Ix: ‘“ ‘i ‘“ Copper sagan ee 50—10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. TENT FLANISHE: 14x28 _ ae Wood's j ait planished : on. “4 to - 7 ee ee i “B™ Wood's pat, planished: Now. % to st. 9 30| 14x36 LX, for No. 8 Boilers, aire shal 1” Broken fc per pound extra 14x60 Ix, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — ae 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 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. je When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1893. The ease of Carl F. Kux vs. The Cen- Lansing, recently decided by our Supreme Court, facts and shows how careful banks and depositors should be in order to save all chance of difficulty. Kux had been a depositor of defendant for some years and on November 19, 1889, claimed to have deposited with it the sum of $405. balancing this pass- to have result tral Michigan Savings Bank of is a somewhat novel one in its their dealings in Some time after, on was shown been but this reached by the Bank treating the deposit of the 19th as $105. After an unsuccess- ful attempt to adjust the matter Kux commenced an action to recover the dif- 3405 and $105, and the book. his account overdrawn, was ference between the was successful in the Circuit Court. judge leaving to the jury the question of fact as to the true amount of such de- On the was given tending to show that the fig- posit. trial expert testimony ures enteredin the pass book were $405 The taken to Court, where the judgment in favor of case was the Supreme the plaintiff was affirmed, the Court holding the to have been properly submitted to the jury, and that the pass book, being the original book of entry, was entitled to as much as the books retained by the disputed question credence Bank. Shortening the Hours of Labor. GraNnp Raprps, March 17—This move- ment is a grand movement of right against custom. A few years ago we kept our stores open until 9 and 10 o'clock. Some of our merchants were under the impression that if they closed earlier the result would be the loss of a good deal of trade; but, eventually, we got the hours shortened to 8, then to 7 o'clock; and | wonder how many mer- chants, after a year’s trial, would like to go back to the old time. I am afraid they are few and far between; but we have not yet arrived where we want to be, or where we have a right to be. summer months are fast and, for a large number of us, that means to turn by 4 o’clock in the morning and work until 7 at night—a fifteen hour day—pretty nearly double Alfred the Great’s theory of eight hours’ work, eight hours’ play, and eight hours’ sleep. The ball has begun to roll, and I trust we shall have better success with this movement than with previous ef- forts that have been made. What out The | approaching, | esl our hours to be? From 6in the morning to 6 at night, during the winter | and spring months; during the vegetable |} and fruit season we are open by 4o0r5o’clock in the morning. | The present mode of buying our fruit | | and vegetables makes that unavoidable, | | but we can avoid it at the close of the| |day. All we want is united effort| | throughout the trade, we want to stand | iby each other and we can make the jhours to suit ourselves. Artisans of | |every kind are constantly agitating for | }aneight hour day—what is there un- | | reasonable about the idea of a grocery- | | man’s day of from 6 to 6—a twelve hour | ; day? I hear some one say, ‘‘Your work | |is not so laborious as it isin a shop.” | | We say try it, and if you have a chunk |}of the worry thrown in it would far | overbalance it, I have suggested to close our stores at5 o’clock one night a week | during the summer months, that is sim- ply the thin edge of the wedge. I want | | the half holiday, and the sooner the bet- jter, and we can do just as much busi- |ness then as we do now, and, instead of i business being adrudge,it will bea pleasure. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. E. WHITE. —_— > << Bank Notes. Beginning March 22 the Plainwell change Bank will do business under the ownership of Soule, Hicks & Soule. The change was brought about by the recent death of Joseph W. Hicks, of the some of the leading business men of Te- cumseh, Adrian and Blissfield. The fol- lowing are the directors: C. A. Slayton, B. C. Knapp, John D. Shull, H. W. Conk- ling, Joseph Russell, I. C. Wolcott and C. R. Miller. John D. Shull will be President and Joseph H. Smith Cashier. The bank will open for business about April 20. The Adrian State Savings Bank will be organized with a capital stock of $100,- 000 to sueceed to the business of the Commercial Exchange Bank. ~ ~—. ee Like the Murray Stand. JENISON, March 16—The Jenison Man- ufacturing Co. recently placed one of its switch stands, invented by John W. Mur- ray,on the G. R. & L, and another on the C. & W. M. Railway. Asa result of the trial each of the roads has placed an order with the company for a number of the stands. — >< The Grocery Market. | Coffee—Ali grades of Brazilian coffees | are weaker, in consequence of which the | manufacturers of package goods have reduced their quotations ge. Kerosene—The Standard Oil Co. has advanced Eocene and W. W. Headlight each ‘4c per gal. i Novel Store Sign. In these days, when poetry figures so largely in advertising, the following | posted outside a country store may be ; commended for its pathos if not for or- | thography: Here Pize and Kakes and Bier I sell, And Oisters stooed and in the shell, And fried ones tew for them that chews, And with despatch mends bntes and shews. ae >. <> Jas. A. Anderson, manufacturer machine carvings for furniture, is | | | j Ex- | firm of Soule & Hicks. The new firm is | composed of Geo. G. Soule, Mrs. J. W. Hicks and R. L. Soule. A new bank to be known as the Te- cumseh State Savings Bank has been organized at Tecumseh. There are thirty-five stockholders, representing | | compelled to | | our purchases. of | about | to remove to the Comstock factory, corner | Canal and Newberry streets. | son issued a handsomely engraved cata- | logue of his ’93 designs and, although he has used but a small part of his edi- tion, the increase of orders has more than | doubled his force in the old faetory and made it necessary te find more room. Mr. Ander- | Its Cheap! Not Coal, but Molasses. |We bought at the right time and will give you the benefit of We brand them (GOLD \[EDAL The quality is right, the price is right, and it’s dollars in your pocket to handle them. all arnhart PatmanCo. MUSKEGON BRANOH UNITED STATES ;BAKING/CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. GRAGKERS, BISCUITS: SWERY GOODS, MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! HESTER MACHINERY CO., 45:So. Division St... GRAND RAPIDS. It Pays Dealers to sell FOSFON because there are but two sizes, Five Ounces at 10 cents, Sixteen at 25 cents and it pleases better than Baking Powders. See Grocery Price Current. THe BREAD SUPPLANTS BAKING POWDER Fosfon Chemical Co., Detroit, Michigan. SOLD BY ALL RELIABLE GROCERS. = a = a > - =» ae = ! a | ~—_ ~~ | = a vy a - @ a ™~ ¥ ~ ~ ~- * pe ew - ~ es — — ee Sw “a | \ -_— fee o THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 ARE THEY WHITE LIES? Question asto the Accuracy of Certain Statements. The Grand Rapids Democrat of arch 12 contained the following interview with Representative White: “None of the old established and rep- utable commercial agencies object to my bill looking to eeeee a tax on them,”’ said Representative At. S. White yester- day. ‘‘Itis only the nee con- cerns that are kicking and they are the very ones | am after. Dun’s manager in Detroit assured me personally that he was well satisfied with the bill. In most states these concerns are taxed and in Massachusetts a tax of $500 is paid. A certain journal is trying to make capi- tal out of the thing for the purpose of injuring me. No one who is doing a legitimate business need fear anything from my bill.’’ If Mr. White is correctly reported— and he has failed to set himself aright since his attention was called to at least one false statement in the interview— the interview contained at least two state- ments whose truth may well be ques- tioned. ‘*Dun’s manager in Detroit assured me personally that he was well satisfied with the bill.”. The Detroit manager of R. G. Dun & Co. is Geo. H. Minchener, who has filled that position for a quarter of a century. That gentleman telegraphed THE TRADESMAN: ‘“‘White’s statement that I approve of his bill taxing mereantile agencies is un- true. 1 entirely disapprove of the bil! and it is not in the best interests of sub- seribers or the publie.” The same gentleman subsequently wrote THE TRADESMAN as follows: DeTROIT, Mareh 14—I do not under- stand what White means by such mis- representation, unless it be to aid his weak cause. Youcan readily see that any such tax wonld necessarily be added to our present rates and thus come out of the merchants, whom it can readily also be shown are opposed to any legislation against agencies. Thanking you for call- ing my attention to the matter, I am Very truly yours, Gro. H. MINCHENER. In the light of the above prompt and emphatic denial—and considering the financial, social and moral standing of Mr. Minchener—the business publie will draw its own conclusions as to the identity of the individual on whose head rests the imputation of inaccuracy of statement. Another questionable state- ment is as follows: ‘*None of the old established and repu- table commercial agencies object to my bill placing a tax on them.”’ There are two such agencies in the country—R. G. Dun & Co. and Brad- street Co.—both of which have their headquarters in New York City. The heads of these great institutions write Tuk TRADESMAN as follows: New York, March 17—In response to your favor of 14th. inst., we beg to say that we do not approve of Mr. White’s bill, nor that of Mr. Butler. The Brad- street Company, or its predecessors, has done business in Michigan for nearly thirty-five years. The writer of this obtained the original information and formulated the primary reports of the State prior to 1860. As aproof of the sincerity and the general correctness of the information then and since obtained, it seems sufficient to say that no action at law has ever been brought against this Ageney, for any reason, during all these years; while we have received dur- ing the same period the unwavering sup- port of the best merchants, manufactur- ers and bankers of the State. We have no rights in Michigan that are not ac- corded to every citizen, and we have no exemptions, and ask none. Why should we be hampered with special laws? If we do right, the citizens will need no protection from us; if we do wrong, the present laws are ample to punish us. Irresponsible agencies—like irresponsi- ble persons—have neither standing or influence in any community; their words and acts, therefore, cause no real em- barrassment or loss to any solvent mer- chant. Yours very truly, CHARLES F. CLARK, President. New York, March 16—Your letter of the 14 inst., informing us that a bill had been introduced in the Michigan Legisla- ture, providing for the taxing of mercan- tile agencies, which Mr. White, the in- troducer of the bill, asserted had the hearty support of the manager of our office at Detroit, is before us. In reply to your question, we can only say that these measures are almost en- tirely prohibitory, and would result in obliging agencies to quit business in the State if enacted; they are also contrary to the best interests of the trading com- munity, whose rights are fully protected by the courts, a fact, we think, pretty generally reeognized. We have always opposed special legis- lation of this kind as not only inimical to ourselves, but to them, and we feel satisfied that Mr. White, the introducer of your bill, has no authority for his statement that our Detroit manager is a hearty supporter of it, or that it would be approved by any of the old and re- putable agencies, which you state he says it would be, Truly yours, R. G. Dun & Co. In addition to the above authoritative communications, the following letters have been received from Michigan repre- sentatives of the agencies: SAGINAW, E. S., March 17—I am not familiar with the full text of the bill to which you referred, but 1 remember of seeing a brief mention of it in the news- papers, and if the purpose of this bill is correctly stated by the press, I have no hesitation whatever in saying emphat- ically that it does not meet the approval of established mercantile agencies and will not have their endorsement. Truly yours, C. N. MCWHORTER. GRAND RaApips, March 18—I think that Mr. White should have taken the trouble to have made some investigation, before making sucha broad assertion that all reputable mercantile agencies approve of his bill. He should also have talked with some of the prominent business men of his district, the majority of whom are agepcy users, and a number of whom have been supporters of his. I disapprove of the bill for the reason that it is not in the best interests of the business community, whose welfare we have at heart. Thanking you for the interest you are taking ina cause of such importance, I am, Very truly yours, A. W. FERGUSON. The originals of the above communi- cations are on file at this office, where they may beinspected by any one at any time. Apparently, ‘‘some one has_ blun- dered.” The people will draw their own conclusions. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLop@eErttT, President. Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. Wma. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. Jno A, Seymour, Ass’t Cashier, Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS, D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W.’Gay. C. Bertsch. A. J. Bowne. Wm. H. Anderson. Wm. Sears. S. M. Lemon. G. K. Johnson. A. D. Rathbone Sp Re Be Bode fe ofp coed oho ode code fe of ofp fe fe ofp choco op oh WALL PAPER Merchants can make 30 to 50 per cent. selling wall paper on our plan, which is to 3 cll From We Ship Goods same day order is received, so you need buy only ; what you Samples. sell and make = NO INVESTMENT. . * c= $3,000 to Ag ial + + + : paid for Our Sample samples and Rack. Merchants. ALFRED PEATS, Wall Paper Merchant 30=32 West 13th St., NEW YORK. $6,000. Refund the Toney : 136-138 W. Madison St., CHICAGO. 300ks contain over 400 patterns and represent a stock of We ask $5.00 for sample books including a nice dis- rack and when you have sent orders amounting to $50.00 we We will send a few samples from these books free, with full particulars to You can make $6.00 to $12.00 every day this spring selling our wall paper. oe hb hh Bp cto oe ole flo oe fp offo Gots of of offo ofp off & : Fb 4446454066655 544445545415 05504408 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. Five Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Vice-Presidents—I. H. L. Dodd, Buchanan; F. W. R. Perry, Detroit; W. H. Hicks. Morley. Treasurer—Wm.H. Dupont, Detroit. Secretary—C. W. Parsons, Detroit. Executive Committee—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo; Jacob Jesson, Muskegon: F. J. Wurzburg and John E. Peck, Grand Rapids; Arthur Bassett, Detroit. Local Secretary—James Vernor. Next place of meeting—Seme resort on St. Clair River; time to be designated by Executive Committee. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, John D. Muir; Sec’y, Frank H. Escott. MR STOWELL TO MR. OWEN. Any one who read Mr. Owen’s in THe TRADESMAN of last week, headed ‘‘The Cry and his previous article, headed ‘*Paternalism or Commercial Tyranny,” is probably won- dering where (Mir. Owen) “is at.” I thought I faint idea of meaning, his answer to my article of Commune,’’ also he had some until he criticism of article. Now, however, I seem to be farther from his meaning than ever. I am his wrote his previous in donbt, also, as to the wisdom of attempting a reply. Besides, it tuous, almost like Providence, to attempt a reply to one who writes inspiration of a prophetic spirit.” What makes it all the harder is my firm belief that Mr. Owen actually did under the in- spiration of a prophetie (or some other) spirit. Nevertheless, lam glad to know that the gentleman is not to be held re- sponsible for his utterances. Now, if he will us whether he ‘‘laboring’’ under plenary, or ation, we will weight to attach to absence 6 may seem presump- fiying in the face of “under the write tel! was merely verbal, inspir- just words. know much In the information, I fear Mr. Owen’s utterances how his such must be judged by the same standard, and subjected to the same those who are criticism, as are the utterances of not fortunate enough to possess his prophetic gift. The subject under diseussion is ‘Pa- ternalism or Commercial Tyranny.”’ At least that was the heading to Mr. Owen’s article in Tue TRADESMAN of March 1. (And, by the way, it was the heading to my former letter, at least, when the man- uscript left my possession). Now, as to the meaning of the term ‘‘paternalism.”’ Notwithstanding Mr. ‘““*home- grown, home-made” definition of pater- nalism, it is simply and solely what I said i was. It attached to itself no American signification whatever, and, if the spirit which operates so powerfully upon Mr. Owen taught him that it had, he should his brand. Not for Mr. Owen’s benefit particularly, but for the information of the general reader, let me give the Century Dictionary’s defi- nition of the term. Austin Abbott, L L. D., had charge of the department of political terminology of this great work, which ought to be a sufficient guarantees that it is correct up to date. The Century defines paternalism as ‘‘exces- sive governmental regulation of the pri-| vate affairs and methods and Owen’s has change and business interests of the people; undue solicitude on the part of the central government | for the protection of the people and their | interests, and interference therewith.” | The point of this is that government is | something entirely distinct from “the | people.” It is ‘government by the few, It is monarchism and aristocratism (ex- euse the word) gone mad. The Czar of Russia is the father of his people. He claims, and, through his au- thorized agents, exercises the right to enter and search the homes of the people at any hour of the day or night; he reg- ulates their conduct in every walk of life, enforcing a rigid censorship not only over the acts of the people but over their words as well. The lives of the people are his to do with as he pleases. The Czar’s willis, in fact, the only law of the empire. This is paternalism, ‘sand what more striking illustration do the people want of the beneficial results of paternalism’’ than is afforded by the condition of the Russian people to-day? Mr. Gladstone, in his work on ‘‘Church and State,” claims for government the right to exercise the functions of pater- nalism, but Macaulay denies this right “until the government shall love the people as the father loves his child.” Government and the people—the one distinct from the other—-this was the thought in the mind of Gladstone, as it was in the mind of Macaulay. venture to suggest that Gladstone, and Macaulay, and Austin Abbott are almost as good authority on the definition of terms as the spirit which moved ‘my friend’? Owen, and (with some hesita- tion, I admit) also that that gentleman depend less upon (prophetic) spirits, and upon lexicons? Mr. Owen said he made the term, paternalism, “synonymous with governmental con- trol.” It is the thing itself, not a synonym ofit. This misuse of words and ignorance of their true meaning is inexcusable and intolerable in a man who writes for the public press. Now, while it is a matter of some diffi- culty to determine just what Mr. Owen does mean. | still hold that the system he descrived, and which he thinks will be the condition of the future, was com- munism, not the French brand, but com- munism, pure and simple. Here are his own words: “Some day the people’ (the italics are his) will have acquired a sufficient amount of intel ligence to take care of themselves. They will not always remain as they now are—mere dupes and tools of selfish and designing demagogues who serve the money kings for pelf. * * * * There is no reason why governmental control of railroads, telegraph and telephone service, and in fact, the entire field of transmitting inteili- gence and transporting the fruits of industry among the people, would not prove as beneficial. proportionately, as the postal service. These surface questions are already agitating the minds of the people and just underneath are the banking and loaning questions, and below these lies the great problem of all—the indus- trial question. When this is reached, there will be a mighty revolution.” This is communism (not socialism, which is something entirely distinet), though, possibly, the ‘‘spirit’’? has given Mr. Owen no revelation on the subject, which I sincerely hope it may do before he again appears in print. It is Mr. Owen who does not know what he is talk- ing about. Of course, I am aware that a few hair-brained cranks, who professed to be under the influence of prophetic (?) spirits, have tried to abolish marriage, and law and government; but they were not communists—they were fools, and they died as the fools die. Mr. Owen should think more and, pos- sibly, read less, and then he will not blunder ina matter that a ten-year-old school boy would be punished for not knowing. He should study other writ- ings than Owen’s, for, though Owen is inspired, he makes some inexcusable blunders. Perhaps, with the kind permission of more very for the few, at the expense of the many.”’ | the editor, 1 may, sometime, have some- May I} thing to say about ‘‘The Object of Gov- ernment.’’ It is a subject that will bear enlarging upon,and one which, no doubt, will be of interest to the many readers of THE TRADESMAN. FRANK STOWELL. Empress Josephine Face Bleach HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO., Granpv Rapips, MIcH., Jobbers for Western Michigan. La Grippe may attack but cannot overcome those protected by frequent use of CUSHMAN’S MENTHOL [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, snuffing, coughing and headache. Continued use com- pletes the cure. Sold by all druggists 50 cents. Registered mail 60 cents from H. D. CUSHMAN, Patentee and Mfr., Three Rivers, Mich., U. S.A. The Lansing Woodenware C0. will open up about Aprib 16, in the City of Lansing, Mich., and would like to correspond with all manufacturers of goods in that line. Address F. P, MERRELL, Ithaea, Mich. 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 1 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. Oysters ! Season closes April 1. We have done our best to supply first-class stock, and our endeavors seem to have been appre- ciated, as we have been favored with orders from every direc- tion. We thank you for them and trust you have made money by handling the best brand put up—the P. & B. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Gum opium, cocaine, bromide potash, bromide ammonia, bromide sodium, turpentine. Declined—Buchu leav es ACIDUM. ee ...... ...... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 7 Boracic .. : 2 Carbolicum 27 36 Citricum .... 50@ 52 Hydrochior .. 3@ 5 N — a 10@ 12 Coe ............. 10@ 2 sein ae... Seer ........... 1 30@1 0 Sulphuricum.. - I@ 5 eee... 5... 1 40@1 60 Teptericum.,.......,.. 30@ 33 AMMONIA. 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(po. 30) 25 German. 15@ 2 oe s............ 20@ 24 mer 7.......... W@ WR SEMEN. Anfisum, (po. 20).. @ 15 Sea (graveleons).. 1F@ 18 ee. 4@ 6 Carul, oe, Te) .....-... 8@ 12 Cardamon.......... -»-1 00@1 25 Cormngram........... 10@ 12 Cannabis Sativa....... 34@4 seem... .......- 75@i 00 Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 22 £0 Poemowins........... @ 15 Foenugreek, po....... 6@ «8 i i @ 4% Lint, | (bbl. a: -4 @4% PharlarisCanarian.... 6 @ 6% eee... 6@ Sinapis i 11 @13 rere... .... 11@ 12 SPIRITUSB. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 «“ D. F.R.....1 75@2 00 sig an 25@1 50 Juniperis Co. 65@2 00 - . 1 75@3 50 Sasacharum N. .-1 75Q@2 Spt. Vini Galli 1 75@6 50 ini Oporto... 1 25@2 Vint Albe..... . -1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool Coreee............; 2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool oceteo ....,......- 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ Garrsame....:...-.... 85 Grass sheeps’ wool car- eS 65 Hard for slate use. vis) Yellow Reef, for slate Ol hea eee 1 40 SYRUPS. ee 50 oS 50 oe 60 me ie. 50 Aurant Cortes.............. 58 eee Avo... 8... oe... 50 Similax Officinalis.......... 60 - ' co... 50 meneee fe... 50 BON ee ee cee 50 ~ ..........:.2.... 50 ome ee 50 Praeee soe.... ............ TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 S - 7... 50 oe 60 7. S66 Wn... 60 BOR ng i oe. occ ccc. 50 0 ee 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Benzoin ee 60 ee cect eee eee 50 Seporseore. 50 Berea ....... Dee eee 50 oe a... ..stdsti«‘i‘(‘a#CKj 50 - Gane... ............... & he Mt eee eee vis] Come... 1 00 ane, 50 Comemiee .... el. 50 . Reece ae ee 60 foams. ...... ....,....... 50 ——-— =... .... 50 Rate... ................ SB eee... 50 ieee Ce... 50 Geosaian ..................... 50 - O................... @ Gusees ........... ......... 50 . & LL 60 meee | 50 Eeyoeeyersws ................ 50 ss... ........... ....-. z ' ‘Coleriows............. 75 Werrl Chioridum............ 35 nn 50 Lobelia 50 metre... 50 Bae Voorn... tit. 50 ee 85 ' Campiorsied........... 50 (| SO 200 Buran Cortez...... ....... 50 ee 50 as... 50 a... 50 Cassia Acutifol. . . Ce 50 MOrpOmEMEen -................ 50 ore. 60 i 60 ——.l.t:trtsti satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. NS Dawe oy, HAZELTINE & PED Send a & Usia. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE 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 Aurora | . . = 6 00 Castor Of). . .. - = 9 ¢O ee 5 50 i, 83 9 00 oe... .......... 75 8 00 Pasco «|. (Cj....... & 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme lg lb. cans, 3 doz | 45 \%& Ib. 2 poeecuue 85 i- i a 100 ee Arctic. 1g bb cans. : ' 60 Pp * : 1 20 _ 2 00 > ......... 9 60 Fosfon. 5 02, cans, 4 doz. in case 80 16 ‘ 3 r . 2 00 Red Star, \% b cans 40 _ % b a £0 . 1b to Telfer’s, I. cans, doz 45 “ “ 85 i = 1 50 Dr. Price's. Dime cans.. 90 4-02 ie 1 33 6-0z 1 90 S-OZ 2 7 12-02 i 3% es «| 4 75 2t4-lb ** 11 40 t1b « i223 5-Ib _ 2 11-1b 41 SO BATH BRICE. 2 dozen in case. English i . 90 Bristol. .. ue / 80 Dowrstic....... | a 70 BLUING, Gross ctic, 4 oz ovals 400 i SO ieee 7 00 “ pints, round... 10 50 No. 2, si ifting g box 2 No = : 400 rh No. 5 ' 8 00 las .... . 450 BROOMS, _ 2 Buri eee : 1% a5 2 02 No. 2 Carpet. 225 No.1 2 50 i Gem.. 2% Common Whisk. 99 Fancy a 1 15 Warehouse... 3 2 BRUSHES, Stove, No. = 1 on 1 50 . B.. _- - oe Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3 row 1 25 Palmetto, goose........ 1 50 BUTTER PLATES. Oval—250 in crate. os . . 60 a oa oe A ee me eo |, CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes oe Star, 40 i... S Paraffine .... | _.. Wicking .. " a OARNED GOODS. Fish, Clams. Little Neck, 1 1b. 120 . _ 2. 1 90 Clam Chowder. eer. Sr......... 2s Cove Oysters. Standard, i1Ib...... 95 ' __—..... 1% Lobsters. a ee 2 59 rr oe, 3 50 Picnic, 1 1b 2 00 " 2 ib. 2 9 Mackerel. Standard, __..... 5 Ib 10 Mustard, 31 os Tomato Sauce, 2 1b 2 25 Sonsed, 2 Ib. . 2: Salmor. Columbia:River, flat.. 1 a... Alaska, Red.. / Lok a pink .. = Sardines. American _—.-... @5 AB... 64G 7 Imported 2s ce --10@11 a Mustard “e. - = Bonelees ....... 21 Trout ae ch... .... -& 8 Fruits. Apples. . 3 lb. standard... ' 1 05 York State. gallons . . 3 25 Hamburgh ' Apricots. Live oak....... . : 1 7 Damen Cras....._. 17 a 1% Overland ! 1% Blackberries. sce... 95 Cherries. a...) hl 1 10@i 20 Pitted Hamburgh . 1% 1 50 Bele . Damsons, Egg Plums and Green Gages. =e... 110 California. ........ 1” Gooseberries. Common .... 1 20 Peac nen. ~~. 12 —............ 1 8 Shepard’s .... 2 00 California 2 20 Monitor 1 8 Oxford a Pears. Domestic. a 1 20 Riverside........ 210 Pineapples. Common.... _.... 1 081 @ Johnson’ R sliced... 2 50 grated... 2% — Common ! 1 10 Raspberries, aee 1 30 Black Hamburg.. 150 Erie. black oo 130 Strawberries. ee 13 Hamburgh (= oo. 12 een 1 10 = Blueberries .... 00 Meats. Corned beef, Libby’s....... 210 Roast beef, Armour’s...... 2m 1 Potted ham, he a e -—. tongue, % a 1 chicken, 4 Ip eee 95 Vegetables, Beans. Hamburgh stringless.......1 3 pe style. one 2 25 eee 1% om ae i ' kee 75 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Day State Baked............ 135 World’s Fair Baked........ 13 Feu caked... ......_.. 1 00 _— Hamburgh .. -140 Livingston Eden . -1 2 ra .......... a Dew... 1. Morn bd ag: ACE eer CnnnGne NE 75 Peas. Hamburgh merrofat........ 1 3 early June...... Champion Eng..1 50 os pom....... 7 ancy sifted....1 90 iones ener cee ees. 75 Berrie senderd............. % Vance amp’ 8 marrofat.. I. early June.. Lo Archer’s Early lossom....1 35 Powe... .-— Mushrooms. Preaee ..........,.. 17Q22 Pumpkin. ee 95 Squash. ae... 1% Succotash. ees... 1 40 Soaked — ac oo Dew....._....... a Tomatoes. scctenaeaucaagd Ee Coe on nen Excelsior bh el le ca Eclipse ek Lt 140 ee... : 3 25 CHOCOLATE. Baker's. German Sweet.. .......... 23 ee 3? Breakfast Cocoa.... 43 CHEESE, —ey..-.....-....... @ poe... «see @ Riverside @i2% one Metal .......... @ oe ........-...- 9 @ll ae... 11 ae 1 00 Leiden oo 23 Lambureer ....... i @10 ee i. @25 Roquefort.. ; @35 Sap Sago. Q22 Schweltzer, imported. @24 domestic .... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand, _ pint, 25 bottles 2 2 nt . - nal 1 doz bottles 3 50 CLOTHES PINS. Sere bores .......... 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, 35 lb. bags. . @3 Less quantity ae @3% Pound packages. . 6% @7 COFFEE. Green. jo. Fair . . a0 Good » eke ee... _.--- ae ee. a Peery... —— Santos ae. 21 ee 2% Pree 23 Festerey ........ on Mexican and Gessteniin. io Ee 21 es . 22 ——........ Cle Maracaibo. ae... a a. Java. are 5 Petvace Growtn..........+. 97 eee ocha, Tmitetion .......-. . eee 26 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package, McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 23.80 ———............,.. Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... Extract. a City % BTOBS........ %% oe Hummer’, a. gross... lib cone ET .. CLOTHES LINES, Cotton, on....... per dos. 1 2 a. 140 . 60 ft a 1 60 e os... .... . 1% 2 ...... - i ol OS. . i 90 _ ee ...... - 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. — 7 40 RO esccc ue. - 6 Genuine Swiss. _2. American Swiss. . coe 6 7 2 0 2 50 . 800 . 800 400 _ 5 00 “Superior.” Oe 2 50 2 * ' isl 3 00 $ 3, 3 50 $ 5, - 400 $10, 5 00 $20, 6 00 ‘*Universal.”’ 8 1, per hundred.......... 83 00 $ 2, ee 3 50 8 3, ll 4 00 8 5, ' . 500 $10, a 6 00 $20, + 70 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: So) or OVer........ 5 per cent, 500 “ oo ' 1000“ 20 . COUPON PASS BOOKS, Can be made to represent any enomination from #10 down. | hone... ............ 810 ee 2 004 — = |... 3 00 25 ok — 10 00 ae ee 7 50 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ ..... $3 00 000, \ 5 00 —”" & et sg = Steel poock . C#. CRACKERS, Butter. Seymour XXxX.. 1 2 ee — cartoon..... 6% ee a Pamntiy eee cartoon. 6% Salted XXX. ——.. Salted XXX, ‘cartoon ...... 6% Kenosha : ' . ™ Boston. .... Butter biscuit . Soda. ce. poe tee, Th Soda, Duchess.... .. BK Crees Seer... . tL, . 10 Long Island Wafers ....... 11 Oyster. S. Oyster XXX.. a City Oyster. ce a 6 Paring Oyster... 6 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly —............ Telfer’s Absolute.......... 3) Croce... ise DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples Sundried, sliced in bbls. 7% uartered ‘ ™% Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @10% pricots. California in bags...... 16% Evaporated in boxes. .. 17 Blackberries. neers... Cl. @9 Nectarines. ect eS a 15 io. Ores... ........ 15% Peaches. Peeled, in boxes bed ces 16 Cal. evap. ao. . 14 . fa bags. eae 13% Pears. ——— in bags..... tted Cherries, ie eee epee cies 50 Ib, boxes os eee sa Prunelles, ih bewes............. Raspberries. eee... 22 oer. pomes.............. 23 eee oe 24 Raisins, Loose Muscatels in Boxes, 2 crown ee 1 50 a Se ans) 65 Loose Muscatels in ~~ 2 crown eee eee, oo 3 - 6% iditiiens Currants. 7", 7 Oelroe......... 444 i eee... 44 4% " in less quantity .. Peel. Citron, Leghorn, o boxes 20 Lemon is 10 Orange . = ’ * 11 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. @ 8 Sultana, 20 : @10 Valencia, 30‘ @i Prunes. Cc alifornia, eae... 19% 90x1 00 25 Ib. bxs. — ' 80x90 12% ' 70x80 + ae . 60x70 _ 14 ok... 7 —— ... ' Sultana . 9% ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. ee ee 1 75 ee lle CURR Tt Be ie 1 65 Be 2,6....... .... baceess toe XX wood, white. Oe ee. 135 Bate .-.............. 123 C4 bee ies sees 1 00 ... 4... 95 in. Mill No. 4 ees 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 100 tb. kegs. ............ 3% Hominy. oo 3 00 oe... 3 50 Lima Beans. eee... oe 4% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 lb. box.. 55 eres... 10 %@.-% Oatmeal. Barrels 200.. 2 ooo Half barrels 100.. _——. = Pearl ea aa. 2% Peas. — ..CClCt:t«;tCtC 1% ook wer... ........ 2% Rolled Oats. Barrels 160... ........4 S5@3 00 Has bbis®......... 2 55@2 65 Sago. ee 8, 4% eS 5 Wheat. ueeeee..... ......... 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. oe ee 1 40 Cod. Qo 3% Whole, Grand Bank.... 5% Boneless, bricks.. ..... 7 * Boneless, strips. . Halibut. a 10%@l11 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg ve) " " Ws bbl 12 00 “ “ “ “ 9 50 perro ............... 12 00 Round, % bb! 100 Ibs ee 8 0O _a” _... 1 45 oe 18 Mackerel. mot, Weee........,. ....1 met, oe................ 5 05 ee 13 Family, te 8 = ee... Sardines, Mumion, bees.............: 65 Trout. Ro. 1, & bbis., 100ibe. ......- 6% mo, 1 16 bel, &) ie... ...... 3 00 eo, 2, Reem, ee... ....... 85 mo, 4,00) Bile.......,...... 70 Whitefish. Family 1 moe ¥% bbls, - Ibs. 2 75 $8 25 $5 25 - 3% 355 2% ia. kits. . 16 98 68 ieee s Ss os FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. doz oo i Regular Vanilla. doz fe 20z ....81 2 mn, 40Z..... 240 XX Grade Lemon. XX Grade Vanilla, o..... $1 75 ..... 8a Jennings’ D C. men Vanilla 2 - folding box... © 25 3 0: 00 50 4 os . 1.1 50 2 00 6 oz " 2 00 3 00 $ oz f 3.00 4 00 IN 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 GUNPOWDER. Austin’ 8 Rifle, kegs... 3 50 \y ke egs. ae 290 = Crack Shot, kegs ..3 50 ' % kegs 2 00 ° Club Sporting ‘* 450 ‘ “ uo 2 5D HERBS. ee ee ee eee 15 ———————— 15 INDIGO, Madras, 5 lb. boxe 55 S F.4, "Zand5 Tb. bene. 50 JELLY. 17 Ib. pails wee ae beens 7@ 7d _—hlUrCLU 1 00@1 05 LICORICE. Paes... 2. 30 Calabria bese e ete e pees eee 25 aoe... ........ ......... 12 LYE. Condensed, : = seaee eles ;: = MATCHES. 0. © Saeetae...........-... 1 65 Apeuer PAriOr...........,... 170 Bo Shoe. ...:......... 4... @ epee pieer...........=.. 400 MINCE MEAT. 3 or 6 doz. in Gase perdoz.. 95 MEASURES, Tin, per dozen. as ..................8 & ae oe... 1 40 Ce 70 se... ce a eae 45 Half pint . 40 Wooden, he vineene, ai doz. toe... ke C8. 7 00 oe Pao ................ 4% ON ccs as cece pees 37 —......... 23 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Buger howse...........-... 14 Cuba Baking. aes... 16 Porto Rico. Pree... ys ces.,, os ne 20 eke es ese 30 New Orleans. ee oe 18 We eke . 20 Extra good.. beeeeees ee 25 Cotes ...... ne 30 Fancy.. 40 One-half barrels, 8ce extra, PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @b 0 Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 %5 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 8 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 50 PIPES. Clay, a wee... ....,.. 2... 1% 7. @. fullcouns........ 75 CT ee 1 2 POTASH, 48 cans in case. a 4 00 Pema Galt Co"e.......... 3 2 RICE, Domestic. Comeiien Heee..............:. 6 " a ee | _ — 1s ae Broken.. mse Looe 8 Imported. Japan, No.1... i e so... ee | oe ke oe. 2 3 2 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. SPICES, Whole Sifted, Ae... ” Cass a, China in mats...... Batavia in bund... 3 io Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna........... oe _ Zamerees............ 12 ace Detarm....... ....... 80 a a 5 ‘se Pepper, Singapore, —_- _.. 1 white... .20 - me. 16 Pure Ground in Bulk, PS i Cassia, Batavia. . and ‘Saigon. 25 . roe a5 Cloves, ia ee eee 2 Zanzibar. . ni Ginger, African.. ~< Comin ............ 20 . ee mace Halavia............... % Mustard, eA _ Trieste. .22 Trieste........2....25 Nutmegs, we > ea 75 Pepper, Singapore, black. ...16 white..... 24 . Cayenne.......... 20 Gee... 20 “Absolute” in Packages. 148 Ys Aiiepion .....-...... ae Comes. ........-... 84 155 oe... 84 15 Ginger, Jamaica 84 155 : Breen ....... 1% ee 84 155 CE 84 1 55 a 84 SAL SODA. cow... 1% Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SAUERKRAUT. Gold Medal.. @8 25 SEEDS. Sree ................- @12% Canary, Smyrna,...... 6 Caorawer ........3.<... 10 Cardamon, Malabar.. 90 Hemp Russian ucses 4% Mixed Bird ......... 5Y% Mustard, white 10 oer Sede semua 9 eee. 6. 6 Cuitle Ree oc, 30 STARCH. Corn. Scie boner... .....:...... 6 a .. 5% Gloss. Pip paceaaee................ 3-lb ' 6-Ib - 6 @) and 50 Ib. bexes.......... 4% ee 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars. ....43 SODA, elec duels eens s eae a. 5h ae eanglish ee oie dea ed 4% SALT. ——— sacks.. .- 82 eee 2 00 28 ie ib. sacks eee ets 1 8 ee 22 243-Ib cases. oo 56 lb. dairy in linen. bags. 32 = drill 16 18 Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 28 lb. oe “cc oe 18 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56)», dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. 56 lu. saCkS....... - .....- 27 Common Fine. See ....s. a 90 Maio ......... -:..... 95 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Cpmmenes .... _...-...,.... $3 30 Pies... 3 15 ee 3 30 or s.....-. ..._.,...... 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 90 1-Ib........ . Good Cheer, 601 Ib.........-. White Borax, 100 %-lb...... 3 80 Proctor & Gamble. Comeard.................-.. 3 45 Tyveey, 10 G8... ............ 67 i ea 4 00 Len Mottled German. i a Sn . 3.50 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..$4 50 plain... 4 44 N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands. a 4 %5 Brown, & bare............. 2 85 Y oem... .. -..... 00 oe Bros. & Co.’s Brands. tee ose eu ec aee 3 65 Cotton Oil.. 5 75 Daisy ....-- Ws eed eu oes eee 3 10 Marseilles... i ‘uae 4 OO EON eee sicipecseces us 4 00 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 dog 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’ — Cut Loaf. .85 31 Powdered . 494 Creare .........-...... 4 56 Fine Granulated........... 4 56 Extra Fine Granulated.... 4 69 Cues ...... 3 XXXX Pow dered.. a. Confec. Standard A.. .... 456 No. 1 ColumbiaA. oo No Simpwe 4 ..... ..... 24 no 6... 4 37 ee 4 31 Boe i 4 25 No, 9.. _1. No. 10. .o Te Ue eel. 4 00 me mo... 3 87 No. &&.. aes hae 3 31 SYRUPS. Corn. ee Hele pee... 26 Pure Cane. a 19 OO ps] coace.... 30 SWEET GOODS. Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Sager Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers.... 8% VINEGAR. en ce. en 7 @8 a ee 8 A) #1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Pak, pergal ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 7 YEAST. Mase... 1 00 oe... . ..--..... 1 00 Fs ............. 1 00 ee ee @ Movar .......... 2... 90 TEAS. jaPan—Regular. Pe... @i7 Goon ...........__... @20 Came. ............,.. 2 ae Choicest.. ee cee sane Cues 32 @34 te... 10 @12 SUN CURED. ae... @17 Goon. ..........--..- @20 Crrce. ........... 24 @x eee 32 @34 Dost........ os --10 @12 BASKET FIRED. ae 18 @w ee @25 Choicest @35 Extra choice, Wire leat @40 GUNPOWLER. Common to faii....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fanty........75 @85 OOLONG. @26 Common co fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HY8ON. Commor. to fair.......18 @26 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. a... 18 @2& Cones... 24 @28 a 40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Pails unless otherwise noted Hawes .......-....- 62 McGinty . eee seas cue. 27 % bbis —_— 25 Danas dim... ........ 29 Torpede ... ..-. .--... 24 Kay in drums.. 23 Tome Tee .....-...-- 28 te... M 23 ~ Cree... oc. 22 Plag. Sorg’s Brands. a eee ee 41 ence es 39 Nobby wet... ------- 40 Seotten’s Brands. Hyle...---..-< et tie gina 26 a 38 Valley City ....... a 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 40 eee eer... ws 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. Bin Gee... ............ ioe Golden Shower............. 19 Taewe ... |... Meereememmes......-......... 29 American Eagle Co.’s Brands. Myrtle Navy..........-..... 40 SE Sn 30@32 Gonueias Dee eee. 15 elec epee eters es 33 Banner Tobacco Co.,’s —— ee Banner a oe . 38 Go Cee. ................. 28 aE Brands. Jo, ee 16 money Pew ............... 25 Goa Sek..... 30 F, F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, roe 26 Ora Fee... ee. 18 Standard.. a Globe Tobacco Co.'s Brands. Manmesde.................. 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. ow tioyr...._....... Sue c ee 26 Unele Saim..i........... 28@32 Med Claver.. ce 32 Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and JGrry.......-. 2.5... 25 Traveler Cavendish........38 Boenw Worm. ......... ae iow Boy... ...... 32 16 a (eee... OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes | as follows, in barrels, f.o0. b Grand Rapids: peers, ......5........ 84 Water White, old test. @ 7% W. W. Headlight, 150° z Waoter White ........ @ 6% pS @i Stove Gasoline........ @ 6% (yirmaee .............. 27 5 Engine 13 @21 Black, °5 cold. test. @ 8 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Green . -24%@3% Part Cured... @4 ee @ 1% ee. 5 @5 Kips, — ee ce oe 2%@ 3te cas ie @5 Calfskins, green. ..... 4 @5 eurca ..... 7 @8 Deacon skins...... ...10 Ga No, 2 hides \& off. PELTS Seeeres............. 10 BD Pema oc. 25 @i 50 WOOL. Weeoed . ............ 20 @23 Unwashed ...... .10 @20 MISCELLANEOUS. Teno 8.8... 4 @5% Grease butter ........1 @2 Swieues.............. 1%@ i. Grae 2 00@2 7 FU Outside prices eal No. 1 only. Oger... 5... 1 00 Boe... 15 00@25 00 Denver ......-......... 3 0U@7T 00 Cas wild............-. 40@ 50 Cal Bove ............ 10@ 25 ene 4 00@6 00 Mom tod.............. 1 00@1 15 oe, Ghote. -..........- 3 00@5 00 Fox, grey. 50@1 00 Eee... 2 ‘oo 00 Martin, dark.......... 1 00@3 00 ° pale & yellow. a 00 Mink, —_ ee ie @2 00 Muskrat.. ee 030 17 Oppossum.. Dette ee ea 5 ior, GOEm....... .... 5 00@ 8 00 ee B3@ a 4 00@1 25 Wor .................. :.1 00@3 00 Beaver castors, ib....2 00@5 00 DEERSKINS—per pound. Thin and green......... 10 Long or dey... |. 20 Gray, dry ........----. 25 Red prs Blue, "> 35 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 63 No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 63 MEAL. Se 1 40 Grangiated............ - 18 FLOUR. Straight, in sacks......... 3 60 “ =“ terom........ 3 80 Patent ~ saces......... 4 60 - Dervess, ....... 4 80 sacks.. 1 70 Graham “ Rye ’ oe. 2” Buckwheat, Rising Sun....5 Walsh-DeRoo & Co's Pere.............- 4 25 MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Bren. ......... — 00 $17 00 Screenings .... 14 00 14 50 Middlings..... 17 00 18 00 Mixed Feed... 18 50 19 50 Coarse meal .. 18 50 19 50 CORN. ow 45 Less than car lots.......-.. 50 oOaTs. Car ie... .......-...... Lease than car lote........... 42 HAY. No. 1 Timothy, car lots....13 £0 No.1 ' ton lots ..... 14 50 FRESH MEATS, Beef, carcass.......... 6%@ 8 = ind quarters. . .« @s “ fore ... 5%@ 6 loins, No. 3.. -@10 _ Tee .-........, 8 @9 " ToanGs........; 6%@ 7 | | | | Bologna eveece ese ceas @ 6% SHELL GOODS. | Pails, No. 1,two-hoop.. . 1 3 Pook ioioe ........... @\1\% | Oysters, per 1 ...... 160@1 75; ‘* Noi, threehoop.... 1 @ - enous ..... Si 8 6h t—=... 1 00@i 25 | Clothespins, 5 gr.boxes.... 40 | Sausage, — or head a : BULK. Bowis, - Inch.............. 80 woeee ‘| Counts, per gal. 2 20 we eeee es - 100 i Frankfort _, @ 94 | Extra a. +e [= @ - 160 Mutton ......... ...... “ng me Spee 1 70 | a - 225 Veal...... eee. eee eee ( @o | Standards ............. 1 20] = : aa Cras el ll, 1%} a 3 00 FISH and OYSTERS. Seallopa 1.10... 2 (9 | Baskets, market... | oe F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as| Shrimps ......... 1 25 | met: yt bushel... 25 follows: FRESH FISH. PAPER & WOODENWARE | full | 100D willow cr ths, 1 1 No.1 5 6 a 2 Wescnes ............ @2 PAPER. a = Sat... Sao (Sitaw 1% | splint No.1 3 50 Hae @15_ | Rockfalls ae cai Noe 4s Cixcoes or Herring.... @iz2 | Rag Se 2 | “Nos 5 0 Poe que | Hatcwaero................... 256) INDURATED WARE, Fresh lobster, per Ib “. ee a mn Cod.. .10 @iz | Dry Goods............. 5 @8 |tubs, ydoz.... |. No. 1 Piekerel. @9 | Jute Manilla.. @5% | i @8 | Red Express No. 1-.-.......5% | POULTRY. Smoked White ... .. @i2% | Ma 2......... 446 | : aa : i Finnan Haddies........ 10 | TWINES. Local dealers pay as follows: Red Snappers .. 12 | 45CoGon................ 0 l. a Columbia River Salmon 15 | Cotton, No. 1. 17 | Turk -+-.10 @ul Mackerel... ........... | - Fe. Ae ao 15 @lb OYSTERS—Cans. | Sea Island, wasorted Se il 1¢ @15 — Counts. @37 ‘| No. 5 Hemp a Ll ilap | Chicken sites 12 GIS F. J.D. Selects.. @30 | No.6“.... ie i BEV E. So ES @% | WOODENWARE. | Chickens, ..10 @l1 aoe . @23 j Tubs, No. 1. i ..... 7 00] Fowls 8 @o Standards ............ aun | | —. - _ 6 00) Purmeys >. 12 @13 Favorites .... 36 | Nes. 5 00; Duck... 11 @i: PROVISIONS. ve Cresimg.......... .80@90 ec ; : The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | i a — a > quotes as follows: | Burnt Almonds... .. alae PORK IN BARRELS. | Wintergreen Berries.. .. .60 a... 19 09 | CABAMELS. Sliarteue 21 50 — 1, wrapped, 2 Ib, boxes... 34 Extra clear pig, short cut. | — My oS ee ea 51 Extra clear, heavy.. ae ws Se 28 Clear fut back... .............. ....... 22 50 | No. 8 q f 3 Lee Boston clear, short Cut...................++- a3 09 | Sand up, 5 lb. boxes.......... Clear back, short cut. - 300), BANANAS, Standard clear, short cut, best... 24 00 | Medium bets eees sausagE—Fresh and Smoked. Large .... iy Pore Sage... .....-__..................., 1) i. : ORANGES. Wan Gangage,................. .............. 9 | Bloridas, fancy bee eee @3 50 te 9 | Messinas, :200s..... as Peeoetcr coueere | 86 hts tCi‘C‘(C¥¥#...-.. 9% | re Pe. Higuera. ew. et LEMONS. Bolgeus caraient.. 8... 6 Messina, choice, 30... .. 3 25@4 00 Hoes Cee ee aney, 3600...... @i v0 Hosgcnees Cee 7 | choice 300.. @3 75 | fancyao ...... 4 00 Kettle Rendered... ........ OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Granger .......... Beare eee ieee eects eee Figs, fancy — @l2 Family i... ........... 1034 10m... i Compound ................ -. 4 ‘extra ==. @15 50 Ib. Tins, 4c advance. iy - oe. @i6 20 Ib. pails, we is Dates, Fard, 10-1b. box... @i% 10 Ib. Ke ‘ Ee @6 Sib, % me “ . hedan 50- =. ........... 44@ 5% om ‘* tle . NUTS. BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, Tarragona..... = Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs....... . $30 “ California........ 1 Extra Mess, Chicago packing. 9 50) Brastia new, eine Boneless, rump butts. . SOO Gipere Qu SMOKED wears—Canvassed ¢ or r Plain. Walnuts, Grenoble @14 Hams, average 201D8.............2666 sss. ees 11% L aa a pi g Ce eee ibe 2220S | Fable Nuts, taney ae ee Me te mahal, . :s | i nl ov ‘ 2 ke een ee ao Cocoanuts, full sacks......... : @4 69 Breakfast Bacon, boneless. seossseeeT# | paney, HL. P., PEANUTS. 1, Dried beef, ham prices.................. rs a ee @i% Long Clears, heavy.............-...-+ bebe Fancy, H. P., FI Oasted.............. @? Hisccm modem |... y, Ho. rae cetes eatin @ 7% ‘ ee Mt lo oaste @9 oice, H. Ps Extras.. : @ 6 Roasted........ @ 7% CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. California Walnuts a 12% The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE, STICK CANDY. a lana lee Cases Bbls. Pails. oe 8 —. een: o% 7 Haif Gallons... beg e ee ae Boston oo 8% 1% | Rubbers. . Ca eae i 8% | wo.08 LAMP BURNERS. Bena H...... 8% Nott. eee S MIXED CANDY. Ne? “ Lae di — _ Tubular. ‘LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. _ Sameer =... ‘ ee é 7 soos in box. a Bee 6% 7% so Soest saan - 180 Nobby 8 = Sanaa +18 90 English Rock.. eo Fir gee --2 90 CO i 8 in 08 qua re te ig Mroben Waly... baskets | 8 No.1 un, Crimp top.. 2 25 Peanut Squares............ 9 ae SL es ees ae 2 40 Wecneh Croamag. 8. Ls... 10 Ox i" 3 40 Valley Creams.. ... S igie int, : Midget, 30 lb. baskets.. aeeo-nos Tae Sun, crimp top... 2 60 eae 8 No.2 Le eas eas : = Fanoy—In bulk Pearl top. Pails, | No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled bebe cereeceee: 37 Lozenges, OO ee 10 —sa -.lUelrmlmrmlmUmUCUCUSmUULUDTC 47 ee 11 No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . ..4 88 Chocolate Drops. . ee ca eee - 11% La Bastle, Chocolate Monumentais. i . ie No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, perdos. .............. 1 2 Gum Drops.. Sera 5% | No. 2 - 1 50 oes eee... tw... .... --.- § | No.1 crimp, per doz.. 1 35 Sour —— Fea tates eee meee cee: ...--. S61 ™No.2 : 1 60 Imperials.. i. ia. a AMP WICKS. | pancy—In 51b. boxes. Per Box | _ per Bross. .-..- = ee 5 | we 2 CO 38 ee 55 No.3, CC Th Peppe nt ae. 60 | Mammoth, per doz. 7 Chocolate Drope.......... ----+-----.----eeeee = STONEWARE—AKREON. H. M. Chocolate Drops.. tee Butter Crocks, 1 to 6 gal...... Gam Pigs...) |... ....-. 8. ign , gal. per doz mu 60 ee Oe eee oS i tees eee... «2... 5 80 - te gal., per os . o7 Lozenges, = ce se | Miik se per doz Lee cee a 60 ae a oe aca a " me ETE eee 70 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. eee A 55 Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal.. Lecce: OF oe. C............ Mi Uk Pans, % gal Sle eee es en eee duces 65 Hiaes Made Crosses. ................--...- a a, %8 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. FILLING THE BILL. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The Legislature of Missouri has taken the lead in many reforms called for by a long-suffering people. There seems to be a clear, well-defined opinion among the radical members of that body that legislators were originally intended for and specially adapted to the work of re- dressing public grievances. Whether, therefore, those grievances were of a moral, social or financial nature, some one has always risen to the occasion with aform of statute to fit each peculiar emergency. The last one introduced seems so well calculated to establish a useful prece- dent, and one that may become world- wide in its results, that it deserves more than passing mention 1n a trade journal, and fair consideration from all who be- lieve in square dealing. The title of this novelty is ‘“‘A bill to compel circus companies to exhibit what they repre- sent on their posters.’’ This Missouri enthusiast echoes the desire of millions, old and young, who depend each year upon the educative influence of that moral, historical and zovlegical school whose prospectuses are distributed like leaves of the forest— each a promise to pay at atime mentioned, value received at the ticket office, a ertain amount of moral instruction, ‘magnificent pageant, feats of daring, ide-splitting jokes,’’ ete., all of which ire specified in detail on bills and large posters. The assertions made in wood- cuts and letter-press of brilliant colors are stupendous and positive in promise. The human mind is led by successive de- grees of comparison to a point where miracles of mirage become material ob- jects to an imagination that sees all the interests of this earthly sphere pale be- fore the approaching consummation. To the small boy who crawls under the canvas and for the first time in his life views the gorgeous magnificence equal- ing the famed stories of Arabian splen- dor with emotions that can never be du- plicated this side of eternity, the cry of “false pretense” and ‘‘not filling the bill,” set up by the grumblers who have paid cash appears selfish and ungrateful. But older heads are critical and view the glittering performance from a different stand-point. They have an instinctive feeling that the law of compensation should have its full and free develop- ment in an aggregation of such magni- tude. They insist that neither words nor figures, nor even brilliant pictorial promises can take the place of the actual wonders named in the bill. Having so often compared promise with perform- ance, they are accustomed to consider one lion or tiger less than is portrayed on the pictorial bill of fare as a default in contract; and a failure of the star- spangled rider to sail through the allotted number of hoops as fraud with malice prepense. It is on behalf of such cold- blooded critics, who cannot take the will for the deed, that the bill alluded to is struggling in the womb of legislation to reach, if possible, a legal existence. Let us hope that it will succeed, and in course of time champion the cause of the people against those immense aggrega- tions of capital that deal in amusements and instruction by wholesale, compelling them to deliver to the last joke or ani- mated natural curiosity the value speci- fied in the contract. A law like this once enacted and suc- cessfully applied to the evil, there would be no difficulty in extending its range of application so as to cover all the mutual obligations daily assumed in ordinary commercial transactions. If carefully drawn and faithfully executed, a statute of the description might bring the glad millennium so anxiously awaited by us all. Even if the reform reached only theatres and similar places of amuse- ment, the results would be worth all they could cost; for most people cannot purchase their bits of recreation as they do silks, by sample, but must buy each tempting morsel solely on the evidence of surface indications as displayed on dead walls in the glare of electric light. It would, no doubt, by degrees decimate the personnel of the dramatie profession to a point where it would pay those who were left to give full value for the box- office receipts. Perhaps we might also be spared the superabundance of scenery and realistic machinery that now-a-days takes the place of acting, and absorbs capital that should have been used to encourage the highest histrionic excel- lence. Itis too much to hopethat any law would compe! political parties to honor the promises made inconvention, after their bids were accepted by the people at the polls, when the time came to: fulfil their part of the contract. Yet if in other matters the spirit of fairness should leaven society, the moral effect on of- ficials would not be inconsiderable. In the day of fair dealing enforced by statute and public sentiment, the terms “best tea,” ‘‘best chocolate,” ‘‘best bak- ing powder,”’’ etc., will, if used, mean an actual superlative and not, as now, an empty boast. ‘‘Warranted to suit or money refunded’ will convey a clear and exact meaning to the buyer. The exaggeration of terms in advertising household supplies will become a thing of the past, and both seller and customer find comfort in the change. So, too, will the promises of patent medicine proprie- tors, innumerable as the sands of the sea, be reduced at least to the level of probability. This would save a fearful strain on the credulity of patients al- ready weakened by hope deferred, and thus lessen the danger of future disap- pointments. To aman who, in addition to the evils of sickness, is compelled to read almanacs and other professional works to qualify himself to diagnose his own cases, the reform spoken of will be of invaluable service. Relying on the medical advice of his text books and the promises therein contained he has often filled himself with incompatible compounds that have sown the seeds of disease instead of healing. If all pur- veyors of such goods were bound by the law of contracts to the very letter, the literature of these public advertisements would be greatly modified to the advan- tage of all and the injury of none. Per- haps law might even be successfully in- voked to collect the immense rewards so freely offered for a failure to cure. Our British cousins have set'us a precedent in this respect. But, above all and be- yond all, our eyes would be spared the daily and hourly observation of hideous abertions of portraits, staring at us from the columns of our favorite newspapers that, like phantoms, follow us into the quiet hours set apart for mental and physical rest and there breed insomnia with all its train of kindred evils. In the good time coming merchants ~~ r+ 4 ESTABLISHED 36 YEARS. ie i wy Michael Kolb & Son, a Wholesale Clothiers, _ Rochester, N. Y. a i | ~~ em A It 1s a pleasure to acknowledge that through advertising herein we constantly receive mail orders giving universal satis- al faction, and our Michigan representative, William Connor, il frequently receives letters from merchants requesting to look through our line. He also attends periodically at Sweet’s ~ Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., and will be there Thursday and Friday, 23d and 24th March. Merchants meeting him there are ~ - allowed expenses. If you desire him to call upon you address William Connor, Marshall, Mich., and he will soon be with you. VOORHEES Pants and Overall Go, -~ Lansing, Mich. Having removed the machinery, business and good will of the Ionia Pants and - Overall Co. to Lansing, where we have one of the finest factories in the country, giving us four times the capacity of our former factory at lonia, we areinaposi- | ’ ° tion to get out our goods on time and fill all orders promptly. A continuance of L L 2 the patronage of the trade is solicited. E. D, VOORHEES, Manager. HENRY 8S. ROBINSON. RICHARD G. ELLIOTT. « a» H-S-ROBINSON“SPCOMPANY- _ Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in vee hh aA 99, 101, 103, 105 Jefferson Ave., —_ e we Detroit, Mich. «+ State Agents for the Candee Rubber Co. oa Medivm Priced but Strictly High Grade Bicysles. X. e 9 READ TBE LIST. + or ‘Eclipse, $185 ~~ New Mail, me. OUT Majestic, ~_— Ne anwiy Waverly, m0 Tt” We fully guarantee every one. We want acents in unoccupied ter- «| ritory at liberal discounts. Write us for a free ticket on a Majestic bi- y cycle which we will give to the holder of the 101st ticket out of the box ~ if at a drawing to be held May 30th, 1893. » &4 PERKINS & RICHMOND, 101 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. will advertise, no doubt, as liberally as they do now; but the discounts offered to increase the sale of slow-moving stock will represent to the buyer a definite concession from a certain price, and not, as often in the past, a hypothetical de- lusion of numbers. The bankrupt stock that now competes with legitimate local enterprise will find a market, if at all, only by virtue of an honest presentation of its merits in detail, and not by the wind power of the salesman; even the ‘‘fresh roasted peanut” will, to the sur- prise of everybody, be a glorious edible reality instead of a warmed-over abom- ination, while ‘ice cold lemonade” will be no longer an insipid fiction, buta frozen palatable fact, certified to by senses that can never be impeached. When, after all the beneficent results of legal suasion shall have compelled every company that caters to the public tastes or necessities to fill the bill in every particular, then will the country mer- chant bring forward his claim to a share in benefits too long deferred. He will ask for a law that shall induce a certain portion of the public to fulfil con- tracts solemnly made with the indivdual, that have heretofore been more honored ‘tin the breach than observance.’’ It isa poor rule that fails to secure justice when turned in any direction. So the dealer in the rural district, who meets human nature in so many exasperating aspects ‘‘on the level,” but finds it sel- dom possible to part ‘‘on the square,” may take heart and feel that he is not neglected in the new dispensation. The young man who obtains goods by repre- senting that he is in the employ of Farmer Jones at a certain rate of wages and that there is due and unpaid more than enough to secure twice the value of his purchases, and hereby on his honor agrees so to do—will no longer be al- lowed with impunity to commit petit larceny by second intention. On the other hand, he will be foreed to ‘‘fill the bill” and once more justify one’s faith in humanity. Any scheme which lessens the risks of bnsiness enhances the profits. With the class who say, and do not, eliminated from his list of customers, the average dealer could once more smile at fate and bid farewell to every fear of failure. All hail, then! and good luck to our Western friend, who, like a second Co- lumbus, has started out to discover a new Utopia, though it may be visible only to the eye of faith, aided by the glass of imagination. We bid him ‘‘God speed’’ as he sails away on the ocean of untried experiment in the direction of something not yet attained, but longed for by all who deem honesty the salt of the earth. S. P. WHITMARSH. ~~ 9 < Dudes Buy in Their Bills. The Merchant Tailors’ Society, of New York, held another sale of bad judgments the other day. This society was organ- ized for the purpose of protecting its members against people who do not pay their bills. The members get judgments against customers who fail to settle with- in a reasonable time, and once in a while they are sold at public auction in the Real Estate Exchange. The tailors do not suppose that the judgments will bring very much, but they proeeed on the idea that the shame of having their debts exposed will drive customers to pay up. It is said that in many cases the shame counts for very little, and it is quite the thing among a certain set of impecunious dudes to let their bills go to auction and then buy them up for a trifle. | ought never to have forgotten, THE _MICHIG TAIN TRADESMAN. THE NATIONAL BANK PANIC OF 1881. It looks now as if the flurry in the money market which was started by Secretary Foster a month ago had about done all the mischief it could, and that people in Wall street had nearly recovered their composure, if not their courage. They are beginning to remember, what they that the United States not on the verge of bankruptcy, and that with over $100,000,- 000 in gold in its Treasury itis able to meet all of its obligations likely to be presented, legal tender and silver bul- lion notes included. Even if it actually possessed not a dollar either of gold or of silver, its credit would remain intact and would enable it to carry on its busi- ness until Congress met and voted the measures necessary to provide it with eash. The absurd delusion which has so generally prevailed that $100,000,000 of its stock of gold had been by act of Congress put into afund where it could not be used, has also been dissipated, and the talk about selling bonds for ad- ditional gold has nearly died out. This whole matter of setting up this $100,000,000 of Treasury gold as a sort of ealf to be worshipped without ever be- ing put to use, and the fright which has resulted from the threatened encroach- ment upon it, reminds me of what hap- pened just about this time of the year in 1881, twelve years ago. Then we had a real up and down panic, considerably worse than the flurry we are now pass- ing through, and it proceeded from a misconception of fact very much like that which has caused the present dis- turbance. is To ~rovide for the refunding of the bonds of the United States which ma- tured and became payable in 1881, a bill was introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives in December. 1880, authoriz- ing an issue of new bonds bearing inter- est at 3 per cent. per annum and redeem- able five years and payable ten years from their date. One section of the bill also made the bonds the only ones which, after a future day specified, should be accepted from national banks as a basis of circulation. The bill was fiercely contested in the House, one point of dis- pute being the rate of interest, which many thought should be 3!¢ per cent. per annum, instead of 3 per cent., in or- der to insure the success of the loan, and another being the section limiting the national banks to the deposit of these bonds, exclusively, as security for their circulating notes. Finally it was passed and sent tothe Senate. There the con- troversy over the rate of interest and the bank section was renewed and carried on vigorously for a long while, but on Feb. 18, 1881, the Senate adopted the bill with afew slight amendments and re- turned it to the House for concurrence. During all this time the bill had at- tracted no special attention and excited no alarm, and the prospect was good that it would quietly become a law. For a few days even, after it had passed the Senate and gone back to the House, the same calm in regard to it prevailed. Suddenly a little country bank president took it into his head that the bill, if it became a law, would compel the nation- al banks to surrender at once their 4 and 41g per cent. bonds deposited as security for circulation and accept the proposed new 38 per cents. in their place. communicated his fears to other Bhs ASPHALT FIRE-PROOF ROOFING This Roofing is guaranteed to stand in al places where Tin and Tron has failed; ior to Shingles and much cheaper. is St The best Roofing for covering over Shingles on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, et: rill not rot or pull loose, and when painted wit! our FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Will last longer than shingles. dersigned for and circulars, re Roofing and for samples of Building etc. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, @er. Louis and Campan Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. Wayne Gounly Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to 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 3 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., “aust Raise" IGHIGAN AN CENTRAL “‘ The Niagara Falls Route.”’ Write the un ative t« a rs, prices (Taking effect Sunday, Nov. 20 1892.) Arrive. Depart wG@pm........ Detroit Express ..6 56pm 4 pm....._.. . Mixed 7 00am a m.... .Day Express \ 12)pm 6 00am.....*Atlantie and Pacific. ....10 45 pm 10pm...... New York Express ..... 5 40pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:40 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:00 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) Tickets on sale at Union Ticket Office, 67 Mon- roe street and Union Depot. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Ave. & UMIL- EASTWARD. Trains Leave \tNo. 14/tNo. 16)/tNo. 18 \*No. 82 Gd Rapids, Ly| 6 50am|10 20am) 3 25pm/11 00pm Romie 1... .. Ar| 7 45am|11 25am| 4 27pm |12 42am ’ St. Johns . --Ar| § 30am 12 17pm)! 5 20pm) 2 00am Owoss)...... Ar| 905am| 120pm) 6 05pin| 3 10am KE, Saginaw..Ar |10 50am] 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 4am Bay City..... Ar/|11 30am] 4 35pm| — 7 15am a Ar /|10 05am} 3 45pm) 7 05pm | 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pin| 550pm) 8 50pm| 7 7 30am Pontisc ...... Ar |10 53am) 3 05pm) 8 25pm | 5 37am Deo, ...... Ar |11 50am} 4.05pm} 925pm| 7 0am WESTWARD. Trains Leave +No. 11|tNo. 13 ee 81 iy. Degot....- ......-- \|10 45pm} 6 50aum|{10 50am G’d Rapids, Lv... ce 7 05am} 1 VOpm) 5 10pm G@ataves, Ar.......- || 8 25am} 2 10pm) 6 15pm Lei a HL a Mie cco ~ ....... “|| Chicago Str. ‘ .... ---I| *Daily. t+tDaily except Sunday. Trains arrive from the east, 6:40 a.m., 12 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:45 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet | ear. No.18Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. 14 Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 { 60 a.m., 10:10 a. m., 3:15 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. 15 Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect January 29, 1893. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going Sout North. For Traverse City and Saginaw 6 ‘Sam 7:2 poral is For Traverse City = Mackini aw 0 1:10pm For Cadillac and 8 4:15pm For Petoskey & Macki 10:10 pm From Chicago and Kalamazoo. 8:35 pm Train arriving from scuth at 6:45am and 9:00am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. Pow Ofacianast................. 6:30 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Ct . 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the E . 11:50am 2:00 pm Por Concinasi,......... .. 5:16pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 pm 11:20 pm From Saginaw............. soon SLC Pres COeaw. i... .... 10:40 p m Trains leaving south at 6:00 pm and 11:20 p. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 7:20 a m train Cc ‘ity. 1:10 p m train has parlor car Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:10 p m train.—Sleeping ca Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw, has Parlor Car to, Travers Grand 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 PR m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 11;20 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to » Chic AZO. Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 pm 10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:20 pm 6:50am 11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Ly Chicago 7:05 am 3:10 pm 11:45 pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:20 pm 8:35 pm 6:45 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:45p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 6:55am 10:00 am 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:30 pm 9:05 pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 9:05 a m, ar- riving at 10:20 a m. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:45 pm. Through tickets and full information can be had by ealling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Oo. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND WEs! MICHIGAN NOV. 20, 1892 v R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv.GR’D RAPIDS......8:50am 1:25pm *11:35pm Ar. CHICAGO..........3:55pm 6:45pm *7:05em 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 Ly. @ K.... ... G:oam 12pm Ar. Gi .-*6:10am 3°55pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON iv. G ik... 8:50am 1:25pr Ar. G, .... . _..... 10:45am TRAVERSE CITY MANISTEE iv. GE... Ar. Manistee . Ar. Traverse City Ar, Charlevoix .. Ar Petoexey ....._.. Ar. from Petoskey, Traverse City 11:50 a m, THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Wagner Parlor Cars Leave Grand Rapids 1 pm, leave Chicago 5:25 p m. Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 pm; leave Chicago *11:15 pm. Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:35 p m. *Every day. Other trains week days only. Ly. . *11:35pm 10:45pm & PETOSKE i‘. from ete., 10:00 Pp mm. 10:00 p m. DETROIT, a LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. 22, 1893 GOING TO DETROIT. iy.G EK ... 7:10am *1:25pm 5:40pm Ar. DET... ..11:35am *5:30pm 10:35pm RETURNING F ROM DETROIT. iy. Dr -...- : 30pm 6:05pm AnG K...... : : opm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. G R.11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. RB. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:25pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell...... _.12360m 5:25pm... .. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn- ing train *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at... a. m. and 1:00 p, m. Ar. Toledo at ..... 12. 12:55 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. VIA D. © M. Lv. Grand Rapids at.... 0 . m, and: Ar, Toledo at.......... "12:55 p. m. and 10:3 Return connections equally as good. *H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 225 p. m. 20 p. m. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. presidents, the panic among them spread and on Feb. 23, the next day after} Washington’s birthday, a considerable | number of them began depositing legal | tenders in the Treasury and withdrawing their bonds. Precisely what profit the | proceeding was going to yield them, or | plenish its supply. The curious thing | manufactured by us vou get full value for your money and is that while nobody could point to any | h 7 what loss it would prevent, neither they | nor anybody else could expiain. All they could say was that they wanted to get hold of their bonds so that they might sell them. This withdrawal of legal tenders from circulation and the locking of them up | in the Treasury compelled the banks of this city to curtail their loans, and this | again alarmed borrowers, and set them to slaughtering their stocks. The result was that on Feb. 24 and Feb. wildest sort of excitement prevailed on the New York Stock Exchange. Money went up to 1 percent. aday. The sales of stocks were, for that time, enormous, amounting, on one of the days tioned, to 625,000 shares, and prices fall- ing in some cases 10 points and more. Thus, between Feb. 21 and Feb. 25, Can- | dropped from 85 to 72, from 171 to 160, Hannibal and St. Joseph pre- ada Southern Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ferred frem 105 to 94, Lake Shore from 129 to 120, New York Central from 148 to 140, Chicago and Northwestern from | to 56, Union Pacific from 120 to 108 and Western! 130 to 118, Reading from 72 Union Telegraph from 116 to 101, cor- responding declines taking place in oth- er stocks traded in at that time. All this mischief was caused by paying into the Treasury the comparatively small amount of less than $19,000,000 in green- backs, aided by the fears of the public. The panic lasted some two or three days, and then subsided in a measure, partly because its absurdity was seen and partly because the Secretary of the Treasury came to the relief of borrowers by buying bonds for the sinking fund. Congress, nothing daunted by the agony of Wall street, went on, and on March 2 passed the bill which had caused the trouble. It was instantly vetoed by Mr. Hayes, and then the whole disturbance ended. Within six months the same bank presidents, who were ready to throw the financial world into convul- sions rather than accept a 3 per cent. bond having five years at least to run, meekly took from Secretary Windom an extension of their matured bonds at 314 per cent. interest, leaving the principle payable at the pleasure of the Govern- ment, and a year later their clerks were standing in line at the Post Offices all over the country to secure the first of a new issue of bonds bearing 3 per cent. interest and payable at the Government’s pleasure. It will be observed that in 1881, as on the present occasion, if the men who control the national banks had taken the pains toinform themselves of the facts of the case by personal inquiry, instead of accepting as gospel the erroneous misconception of an ignorant leader. they might have spared themselves and the community a great deal of loss and anxiety. The funding bill of 1881 con- tained no such provision as it was almost universally believed to contain, and yet | hundreds of bank presidents, without ex- amining it themselves, went ahead and | scrambled for the rescue of their bonds | as if the safety of their institutions de- pended on it. In like manner it has | been repeated on all sides for the past | |} somebody else had once said there was. 25 the | men- | : four weeks that the law required the Treasury to keep $100,000,000 of its gold | N Bl k intact at all hazards, and that as soon} O an SS. as its stock of the metal ran down to | that limit it must either suspend gold | payments or sell bonds for gold to re- | act of Congress establishing the sup-| posed $100,000,000 gold limit, everybody | asserted there was such an act, because | Not one of my business friends whom I attempted to enlighten on the subject, | had ever seen the act, and yet every one of them insisted that I must be mistaken |in denying its existence, because so | many of their friends believed it. At} last an opinion which Solicitor Aldrich | |had given to President Harrison was made public, and, I hope, has settled the question. Mr. Aldrich declares explicit- ily what I have been saying for weeks, that the $100,000,000 limit to the gold |reserve is a purely arbitrary Treasury |invention, and that no law forbids the | use of any partof this gold, whenever its use becomes necessary. He fails to add, what he might have added, that in- asmuch as $95,500.000 of the metal was | obtained by the sale of bonds for re- |demption purposes, it ought to be ap- plied only to those purposes: and not to the general expenses of the Government. As tothe sale of more bonds to pro- cure gold when this $95,500,000 shall have been exhausted, the necessity for it is still a long way off, but when it comes I think it will be found that the continu- ing authority supposed to be conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the resumption act of 1875, to sell bonds to provide for the redemption of the legal tenders, is by no means so clear as most people think it is, and that addi- tional legislation on the point will be needed. The redemption authorized by the act was to be in silver as well as gold, and it involved the cancellation and retirement of the legal tenders, partly by destroying them as they were paid in for taxes and dues prior to Jan. 1, 1879, and partly by paying coin for them after that date. It was ‘‘to pre- pare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required’’ that bonds were to be sold, but the act of May 31, 1878, by directing the reissue of the redeemed legal tenders, rendered the redemption authorized by the act of 1875 impossible. Redemption, as now made, | is quite another thing from the redemp- ition intended by the Resumption act, and the provisions of that act do not, on their face, apply to it. The most discouraging feat ure of the financial outlook, at present, is not, how- ever, so much the danger of an immedi- ate suspension of gold payments result- ing from the operation of the Sherman act, as the nearly assured certainty that the act will not be repealed during the life of the present Congress, and must, therefore, bring about suspension event- ually. The Senate is, beyond question, more strongly in favor of silver than it | was prior to March 4, and Mr. Harrity’s | canvass of the House must have shown so great a preponderance of silver men | as to put the calling of an extra session to repeal the Sherman act out of the question. For the next two years, there- fore, and perhaps longer, we shall con- tinue to drag on, seeing our gold cur- rency slowly displaced by paper and sinking gradually to the silver level. MATTHEW MARSHALL. When you purchase CONFECTIONERY ave the satisfaction of knowing that you are handling PURE GOODS made by the most improved methods. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. PERI i ns & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY 4 STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. slaw Handle Garpet Tacks SS oes ita NS eanET tacns. 2 ND GROSSING, CHICAGO. Pees ts HALF GROSS - — esttrT APPLIED Foy “SELYER | <> 3_LLcAtie’” EX ATW ERE. ES <240>> VF fav uw wv ls e ,A RPE ET TAGCKIES 6 = 10 #° GRAND CROSSING TAGK CO. iz 26 24 y GRANAS CROSSING GMIGAGS ALLELES Sa THE GREAT 5c SELLER. All consumers using carpet tacks will save their case knives and jack knives, their screw drivers and scissors, their time and temper, by buying Claw Handle Carpet Tacks. This claw is the best ever yet invented. It has a double ful- crum that lifts the longest tack clear out of the wood, It works so easy that the children will be erazy to take up car- pets just for fun. The hollow handle encloses a big nickle’s worth of su- perior carpet tacks. You pay your money for tacks and get the claw for nothing. These tacks come one-half gross In a box. Price, $4 a gross. For sale by prose TEVENS & GC: MONROR ST. ' “es “Y é , aa J 2 y om, e 4 agg {wv od { — + x ~ ee OF So a “ol v * sal ~ aa we ” * ~ _ t as ly » Ny F If you have any beans and want tosell, Pa we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any 5 quantity up to car loads, we want 1000 . ¢ bushels daily. WHOLESALE ~~. 7. LAMOREAUX CO. i tn Goods, Garpets and Gloaks, =" terse ros oe We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live (rackel Chests, Glass Covers for Biscuits Geese Feathers. re Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. = OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. » i» *~ < Voigt, Herpolshemer & C0, “* Grand Rapias. ‘+ S§pring & Company, - Ee IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN A Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, , Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, “2? Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, a Prints and Domestic Cottons, oe chests will soon UR new glass covers are by far the Uae ! pay for themselves in the | handsomest ever offered to the +. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well breakage they avoid. Price $4. | trade. They are made to fit any assorted stock at lowest market prices. of our boxes and can be changed from 7 fw one box to anotherina moment. They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay nud ® for themselves... Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. Spring & Company. NEW NOVELTIES. at We eall the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: B A RC [ S BROS CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. : 7 CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. §s MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAK | / i i a NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is bound to be one of the best selling cakes we ever made. ~ 4 4 “ THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO.,, { > S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. ( ~- fF - THE W. BINGHAM (CO., Cleveland, 0., + é ~ Equalled by few and excelled by none. All our saws are made of the best steel by the mose me liful workmen, and all saws warranted. Burnt saws made good as new for one-fourth the a list price of new saws. All kinds of p Saw Repairing Done as cheap as can be done consistent with good work. Lumber saws fitted up ready for use 4 } 3d without extra charge. No charge for boxing or drayage. Write tor prices and discounts. i" e » MUSKEGON, - MICHIGAN. We Have 50, 65 and Tac Overalls to be yy T B had in Grand Rapids. 4 he Best ae => ¢ “yy @ Pants, Jackets, Hunting Coats, Rubber Coats, and Caps at r prices ranging from 75e to $4.50 per doz. Ladies’ oat Mes's Straw Hats—our line is complete from a t. de to a D0e straw hat, Outing shirts for men and boys from $2.25 to $24 per doz. - ey » hg FAST BLACKS IN HOSE AND SOGKS. Have oii such flattering seadaid in sida our eta that mao bought our entire output for 1893. They have taken up all negotiations pending for the ly purchase of cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends. fe i Y i k h SUNG THE YOST MFG. CO., > &4 ’ TOLEDO, OHIO, H. LEONARD & SONS, 134 to 140 East Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. IMPORTERS AND SELLING AGENTS FOR NS NoLIOA WaT , lh D SEM PORCELAIN. We have just received 100 crates from the Meakins’ Potteries, among which are the following crates: A. Meakins’ No. 1607, Dove Spray on Semi-Porcelain. 24 doz plates—6 doz 5 in; 2 doz 6 in; 12 doz 7 in; 2.doz8in; 2 doz 7 in. deep. 6 doz fruits. 6 ** ind. butters. 36 sets hdl teas. . ‘+ coffees. 2 doz oyster bowls. 2 * 3S in. nappies. 20 only dishes—3 8-in; in; 6 12-in; 2 14-in. 4 only 8 in. covered dishes. s “ 6 “ eaanerole. 4 ‘** sauce boat. 36 ** seollops—6 5-in; 12 6-in; 12 7-in; 6 8-in. 2 only pickles. 24 only jugs—3 6s; 6 12s; 3 24s; 6 30s; 6 36s. ~ only 30 bowls. 3 * 24 tea pots. Gc “ 234 sugars. 4 ‘** eovered butters. 6 ‘* 9 ewer and basins. 4 ** 9 covered chambers. > ~ 2epen 11 ‘** rd soap slabs. 3 9-in; 6 10- FELD ENG. Ca A. MEAKINS’ DOVE SPRAY ON ROYAL SEMI-PORCELAIN. A. Meakins’ No, 1606, Dove Spray on Semi-Porcelain. 28 doz plates—6 doz 5 in; 4 doz 6 in; 15 doz 7 in; 3 doz 8 in. 2 doz plates 7 in. deep. 6 ** trite. 6 ** ind. butters. 2 ** 30 oyster bowls. ** oatmeal. ‘¢ 63 in. bakers. ‘* 5 in. oyster nappies. 20 only dishes—3 8-in; 3 9-in; 6 10- in; 6 12-in; 2 14-in. 12 only bakers—6 7-in; 6 8-in. 12 ‘* seollops 6 7 in; 6 8-in. 2 ** satice tureen. 6 ** covered dishes. 6 ‘* casseroles. 6 ‘* sauce boat. 4 ‘* pickles. 18 ‘* jugs—6 12s; 6 30s; 6 36s. 4 ** covered butters. 3 ** 24 tea pots. 6 *« 24 sugars. 6 ** 624 creamers. 2 * SO bewis. 36 sets hd] teas. 416 sets hdl coffees. www A. Meakins’ Asst. Toilet Sets No. 10510. 5 6-pce sets bro Melbourne. 3 7-pcee 5 6-pce ‘* pearl si > 7-pce ad ee 5 6-pee ‘“ ‘* Westmeath. Toe lhl na 5 6-pce ‘* bro - eee A. Meakins’ Asst. Toilet Sets No. 1580. 3 T-pee sets bro Melbourne. ) 7-pee ‘* pearl 67-pee *“* ‘* Westmeath 6 7-pee ‘* bro si 45 sets hdl teas, 44 Daisy, 1 St. a A. Meakins’ Enameled and Gold Arizona, No. 1100. 22 doz plates—6 doz 5-in, 4 doz 6- in, 10 doz 7-in, 2 doz 8 in. 1 doz plates 7 in. deep. 9 ** fruits—6 doz 4-in, 3 doz 5-in. 6 ** indiv butters. 14 only dishes—3 8-in, 3 9-in, 4 10- in, 3 12-in, 1 14-in. 12 only scollops—6 6-in, 6 i in. 4 ** easseroles—2 7-in, 2 8-in. 4 ‘* eovered dishes—2 7-in, 2 8- in. 4 only covered butters and drs. S ** jugs—s 12;6 36. 2 teapots 24s. a “ SUES 248. 6 ** bowls 30s. 24 only oyster bowls 30s. 24 only bone dishes. “* bread tray. ** pickies. ** sauce boats. 24 sets hd! Juno teas. . = = ** coffees. — mw w ALFRED MBAKINS WHITE GRANITE. No. 15168, Henshall Shape. 5 doz plates, 5 inch. 2 ee ee 13 *s sé 7 oe go 6 ee“ a ** soup, 7 inch. 6 ** fruit saucers, 4 inch. ** indiv. butters dishes, 8 inch. oat 9g ee ss 10 ee ae ii oe oa) 12 ae ee 14 ae scollops, 3 inch. ew en re) m= 09 w oo ov se 6 ‘ “sé x fh ek et ew Ww W 6 ee * = covered dishes, 7 inch. és 6 g “6 sauce boats. pickles. casseroles, 7 inch. se 2Ww ww ye covered butters, 5 inch. tea pots 24s. sugars 24s. jugs 6s. 12s. os ” 2. Ss * sos Co He bo bo 6 ao S68. 6 bowls 24s. s * 206, 2 36S. 6 ewers and basins 9s. 6 covered chambers 9s. 12 uncovered chambers 9s 101g set hdl St. Denis teas 10%¢ ** * Minton teas. 21 set unhdid St. Denis teas. Save this list and write for prices or ask ovr agents when they call on you, No. 141910, Henshall Shape. 6 doz plates, 6 inch. 20 ee es qT 3 oe ee § a7 6 bakers, . 6 ec 8 ae 6 bowls, 24s. 2 Yc lUe i 36s. 12 open chambers 9s. 6 covered chambers 9s. 12 scollops, 6 inch. 12 a : 2 ee x es ) doz fruit saucers, 4 inch. ; doz butters indiv. 15 set hdl St. Denis teas. 15 set hdl Daisy teas. 21 set unhd! St. Denis teas. 24 oyster bowls 40. 6 prs ewers and basins 9s. 6 dishes, 9 inch. . ee 2 aa sé “6 Mi 161210 Henshall Shape. 9 doz plates, 5 inch. 3 ee ee 6 oe 30 s +e 7 a7 6 ‘* fruit saucers, 4 inch. 1 ** bowls 24s. 1 oe 1 _ 2 368. 15 se t hala teas Daisy. 15 St. Denis. 30 ‘* unhdld teas St. Denis. 6 seollops, square: 5 inch. 12 ws 6 12 oe oe 7 ot 13 oe oe 8 +e 6 oe sé 9 «ts 3 jugs 12s. Ss * See. oS * 20a, 6 ewers and basins 9s. 6 covered chambers, 9s. 6 unevd “ 9s. A. Meakins’ Laster Band Henshall Shape. No. 15101. 26 doz plates—10 doz 5 in; 4 doz 6 in: 12 doz 7 in. 6 doz round fruits. G * square ~ 3 ‘* 3in. cup plates. 15 sets hdld teas. is ' + Daley. = ee ee coffee ee 5 doz 30 oyster bowls. 18 only dishes—6 9-in, 6 10-in, 3 11-in, 3 12-in. 39 only seollops—6.5-in, 6 6-in, 12 %-in, 12 8-in, 3 9-in. 1 only sauce tureen. 4 ecovd dishes— 4 ** easseroles—2 6 ‘** sauce boats. 6 “ pickies. 24 ** jugs—2 6s, 6 12s, 4 24s, 6 30s, 6 36s. 3 only tea pots 24s. ¢ “* sugare 34s. 6 ‘** creamers 24s. 4 ‘** eovered butters. ‘* 9 ewer and basins. 4 ‘* 9 covered chambers. 27 ** bowls—3 24s, 12 30s, 12 36s. A. Meakins’ Bro. Westmeath, Crate 100 Pce Dinner Set. 7-in, 2 8-in. -in; 2 8-in. 2 . = 15 100-piece dinner sets, composi- tion as follows: 1 doz 5 5-in plates. : 7-in ie L “* ¢in : : ** tears. 1 ** indiv butters. L * i teas, 1 only 10 in dish. 1 13 oe 2 ‘** bakers. 2 ‘** covered dishes. 1 ‘* sauce boat. 1 only pickle. 1 ‘** geovered butter. 1 1 ‘* sugar. ‘* cream. e