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THE TALE OF A HAT.
An Eastern-bound train on the Northern
Pacific was plunging through one of the
loneliest regions of Montana. On the left
the passengers looked out upon the tawny
current of the Yellowstone, skirted along
its farther bank by the semblance of
ruined walls and battlements of antique
masonry, which a nearer view constantly
resolved into strange formations of min-
gled rock and clay, worn and hollowed
into a thousand fantastic shapes by the
action of the elements. On the right
there seemed no suggestion of human life
beyond the track of the railway itself,
except when the shrill whistle of the
locomotive signaled its approach to some
small station with high-sounding name
and metropolitan prospects.
Perhaps the most populous cities
through which they passed were those of
the prairie-dogs, whose little inhabitants
were wont to sit—each separate house-
hold upon its own roof of sand—gazing
curiously after the thundering monster
of the train. Here and there beside the
track, the bleached skeleton of a buffalo
gleamed white among the purple blos-
soms of the prickly pear. Sometimes a
startled herd of antelopes disappeared
with long, graceful leaps into the dim
distance, or a solitary wolf climbed the
irregular wall of some solitary butte.
But, despite the desolate grandeur
without, a merry company of travelers
inside the Pullman whiled away the
hours with conversation, games or con-
genial books, as the fancy of each di-
rected.
In due time came the welcome an-
nouncement, ‘‘Dinner served in the din-
ing _car.’’
Among those who rose in response to
the invitation was Miss Ellice Gray, a
fair-faced New England girl, returning
with a party of friends from a month’s
pleasuring in Yellowstone Park. But,
alas! just as the door of her own ear
closed behind her, and she extended her
hand to a gentleman who paused to assist
her to the platform of the next, the wind—
that ruthless practical joker of the plains
—lifted the brim of her jaunty traveling
hat with one swift, impudent puff, and
tossed it, buoyed up by its long curling
feather, far into the fast receding wil-
derness. Its fair owner herself barely
escaped a far more serious fate, for in
her frantic grasp for the flying hat, she
so nearly lost her balance, that, but for
the strong arm of her companion, she
might have fallen beneath the whizzing
wheels.
Loud and heartfelt were the expres-
sions of sympathy from her lady friends,
when Miss Gray, with her soft wavy
brown hair much blown about and dis-
heveled, returned to her seat, and her
temporarily irreparable loss was made
known. ‘‘What a horrid shame!’ ‘‘Such
a love of a hat!’ ‘‘What can you do
about it?” were a few of the exclamations
poured into her ears.
The young lady, however, accepted
the situation with great coolness.
“It was a pretty hat,’’ she said, smiling
ruefully—‘‘quite too pretty forme. Per-
‘| him, tingling to his fingers’ ends.
haps some dusky Sioux belle may find
and wear it! Porter,” as that important
official paused with a visage whose woeful
measure was accurately adjusted to the
length of Miss Gray’s generous ‘‘tip’’ at
the beginning of the journey. ‘‘Porter,
I suppose it is perfectly impossible that
anybody else should pick it up?”
“Not quite impossible, lady, nothing
is impossible,’’ rejoined the sable philos-
opher, ‘‘but improbable, in my opinioa
—entirely so.”
‘Then you leave me a hope!”’ she cried
with animation, and drawing a ecard from
her hand-bag, she wrote an address upon
it. Something hard and shining fell with
the card into the dusky palm extended te
receive it.
“Thank you kindly, lady. If the hat
stopped anywhere east of the Rockies,
Ill find it for you, and that’s a fac’.”’
‘I shall expect it! I shall be—let me
think!”—counting deliberately upon her
slender fingers—‘‘one—two—three—just
three weeks in Chicago. You see I am
giving you plenty of time. If it does
not come, I shall buy another on the
very afternoon before I take the eastern
train—not one moment sooner.’’
A gentleman of the party who had
been industriously ransacking his port-
manteau, now came forward with a
pretty embroidered smoking cap. Miss
Gray’s deft fingers soon transformed this
timely offering into a toque, which, once
settled upon her head, proved so _ be-
witchingly becoming that all regrets for
the lost hat were at once banished by
general consent.
Meanwhile, far back in the lonely
country left behind, an engineer, with
his corps of assistants, worked through
the long day with quadrant and measur-
ing chains, and at evening, too weary to
reach the nearest settlement, built their
campfire of dry sage brush, not far from
the track of the railway. Supper over,
the men wrapped themselves in their
blankets and lay down to sleep. The
chief alone was wakeful, and as the full
moon rose gloriously over the vast silent
plain, he walked slowly too and fro,
with folded arms, busy with his own
thoughts.
Henry Lennox was a splendid speci-
men of manhood. Tall, erect, with keen
eye, strong arm and cool nerve, he had
preserved, through all his rough experi-
ences, the clean conscience and tender
heart of his childhood.
Justf now, some inexplicable longing
for home seemed to possess him.
“It is boyishly weak of me,’’ he said
to himself, at last, ‘‘but I would give
six months’ pay to see my mother to-
night.”’
As he spoke, he suddenly observed a
dark object on the ground, at a little dis-
tance. At first sight, he thought it to be
some small animal, but, wondering that
it made no effort to escape, his curiosity
prompted a nearer inspection. As he
bent over it, in the bright moonlight, a
strange, uncanny sensation crept over
Could
Impossible! But it was a lady’s
He lifted it softly as if it had
it be!
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been a sleeping infant, and the long curl-
ing feather clung about his fingers as if
with responsive tenderness. He turned
it over and over in _ his hands,
inhaling the indefinable
which emanated from it. On the
wings of that faint, delicious odor
he seemed wafted back to home and civ-
ilization. Visions of fair faces floated
before him, and strains of half-remem-
bered musie sang to his inner ear. The
narrow velvet nat-band seemed, all at
once, with magical elasticity, to sur-
round the whole world of gay and genial
friendships which he had renounced for
a-life in the wilderness. He half be-
lieved himself dreaming, and the hat in
his hand only a visible fragment of his
strange, homesick mood. But nay! the
delicate combination of chip, velvet and
drooping plume was an all too tangible
mystery.
He slept at last, and an ideal face,
with tender, laughing eyes looking out
under the rolling brim of the magic hat,
smiled on him in his dreams.
His first waking moment verified his
strange discovery. There lay the hat,
prettier than ever, now that the daylight
revealed its delicate wood-shades.
The blank amazement of his comrades
was followed by much good-natured
chaffing, which Lennox bore with ap-
parent equanimity, although with inex-
plicable inward revolt. He would gladly,
if possible, have concealed the hat from
all eyes—even the touch of another
seemed to profane something which wa:
his own pectiliar possession.
His perplexity was short. Arrived at
the the nearest railway station, with his
dainty treasure-trove, he was met by the
enquiring telegram of the energetic por-
ter. Even then, he found himself oddly
reluctant to relinquish it. With his own
hands he wrapped it in thesoftest paper,
and committed it to the snuggest of
boxes, and with the slightest perceptible
tremor, he wrete the address:
Miss Exvvice Gray,
GranD Paciric Hore,
Cuaica@o, It.
He, himself, instrusted it to the care
of the express messenger, and heard,
with almost a sinking of heart, the warn-
ing whistle of the out-going train.
**[ may be losing my mind!’ he said
to himself, as he gazed blankly after the
**but — we shall meet
again!’’
Two months later, Lennox was recalled
to take charge of an important work on
the Eastern seaboard.
Not to a living soul would he have
confessed for what he vainly looked in
railway or street car, orrattling omnibus
or crowded street. Sometimes, for a
single moment, he thought he had dis-
covered the object of his search, but the
likeness melted away, like a mirage, as
he appreached. Neither the pages of
the hotel register, nor the memory of the
clerk afforded the slightest clue to a per-
sonality which was only a name and—a
hat!
‘A pretty name!’ he thought, saying
it over to himself—‘‘Ellice—Ellice Gray!
It suits the girl who would choose those
shades of brown—a tender, proud, fear-
less creature with hazel eyes and hair
bronze in the light! The very girl for a
sister—or a wife!’ Then, lower still—
in the very depths of his own conscious-
ness—he whispered, ‘‘1 will find her.’’
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, soft, clear voice.
But such fanciful dreams in no way
interfered with the practical duties of a
very busy life. The enterprise of which
Lennox was in charge progressed to the
entire satisfaction of all interested. He
was cited as a man rapidly rising in his
profession. Many hospitable doors were
open to him, but his work left him little
time for general society.
One of the workmen whom he em-
ployed was badly injured one day, by the
falling of a timber, and was conveyed to
the city hospital. Lennox was greatly
distressed at the accident, for the man
had been a favorite with him, and sev-
eral times tock occasion to visit him at
the hospital and ascertain his progress
toward recovery.
One afternoon, as he made his way to
the accustomed corner, he noticed that a
lady visitor was there before him. She
was bending over the bed, in low con-
versation with the sick man, and neither
observed his approach. He marked the
delicate contour of her figure, and the
unconscious grace and tenderness of her
attitude. Suddenly his heart gave a
great leap. What was it that crowned
the shapely head and drooped above the
shining coils of brown hair? The cool
young engineer had never had greater
need than now tocontrol his rapid pulse
and school his face to the composure fit-
ting a stranger and a gentleman.
“‘] went to see your wife, yesterday, as
I promised,’’ the lady was saying, ina
‘She was much better,
and the baby—dear little fellow!—was
laughing and crowing in a way that
would do your heart good to hear. And
your wife sent you her dearest love, and
bade me tell you to keep up good heart,
and that she was quite comfortable, and
would be able to come and see you after
a little.”’
“God bless you, miss!’ answered the
man’s feeble voice, as, with one weak
hand, he tried to brush away a tear.
‘You've took a weight off my mind, for
Mary was hard sick the day I was hurt,
and I didn’t know what- mighn’t have
happened. Mr. Lennox—that’s my boss,
you know—would ’a’ seen to it, if I’d
asked him, but he’s so busy that 1 didn’t
like to. Why, here he is now!”
The lady turned quickly, and Lennox
took the man’s hand. She would have
withdrawn with a gentle bow, had not
Lennox interposed, with courteous en-
treaty. ‘‘Do not let me send you away!”
and to the sick man, ‘‘Warren, will
you introduce me to your friend, that I
may be able to thank her for her kindness
to you?”’
“It is Mr. Lennox, Miss Gray! Ex-
ecuse me, but I hada notion that every-
body knew him because I did!’
‘‘Many people do know Mr. Lennox
who have never had the pleasure of a
personal acquaintance,” said the lady,
with a smile, while the young man felt
himself blushing like a school boy, at
the impliedcompliment. ‘I think, how-
ever, that we have a mutual friend.
You know my cousin, Archie Farring-
ton, Mr. Lennox?’’
‘Archie Farrington—your cousin! If
I had but Known! Why did he never
speak to me of you?’’
A slight, surprised uplifting of the eye-
brows recalled Lennox to consciousness
of the amazing incoherence of his speech.
A second time he felt the blood surge to
the very roots of his hair. He could
have beaten bimself in his passion of
mortification.
regained his self-control.
“TI beg your pardon, Miss Gray! But,
if you will trust your cousin’s friend-
ship for me sufficiently to allow me to
walk a litthe way with you, when you
leave the hospital, I will try to ex-
plain.’’
“I forgot that you were a new ac-
quaintance, Miss Gray,’’ said Lennox, as
they gained the street, ‘tin my pleasure
at meeting again your hat and feather!”
For an instant she flashed at him a
look of amazed inquiry, then, with swift
intuition, she exclaimed, ‘‘It was not
you? It cannot be possible that it was
you?”
“But it was!’ There was an exultant
gleam in the frank eyes. ‘‘You could
never imagine what a sweet messenger
that hat was to me! It became a person-
ality, Miss Gray! I vowed to find it
again. Fate has been kind to me!”’
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since the imagination of the sympathetic
reader cannot go far astray. One fact
only remains to be chronicled. When, a
year later, Mr. Henry Lennox and his
bride-elect were discussing the plans of
their wedding journey, the lady might
have been heard to say:
‘But 1 cannot be married in that hat,
Henry! “I really cannot! And with my
lovely traveling dress, too! It is too ab-
surd! Why, even the shape is two years
old!”
“Two or twenty, my darling! what
does it matter? It is as precious to me
as if every thread were spun gold. I
vowed, long ago, that it should cover my
wife’s head! She will wear it for my
sake?’’
It was the crucial test of love, my lady
reader!
The chip was a little faded, the velvet
slightly worn at the edges, the ostrich
plume slightly limp from the effect of
some untimely dampness; but the brave
brightness of the sweet face, on the
bridal morning, might have glorified a
far shabbier hat and feather.
MARY STANSBURY.
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TELFER SPICE COMPANY,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of
Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries.
j} and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS
Purity. Quality. Price.
Three characteristic feature of our good swhich make them
popular and profitable to handle.
W E AR E THE PEOPLE in our line. i
THE PUTNAM CANDY CO.
POTATOES.
We have made the handling of Potatoes a ‘‘specialty’’ for many years and have
a large trade. Can take care of all that can be shipped us. We give the best ser
vice—sixteen years experience—first-class salesmen.
Ship your stock to us and get full Chicago market value.
teference—Bank of Commerce, Chicago.
WM. H. THOMPSON & CoO.,
Commission Merchants,
166 So. Water St., Chicago
THE AGME HAND POTATO PLANTER:
Simple, Durable, Practical.
A Vemonstrated Success,
As NECESSARY TO
FARMERS aS A CoRN
PLANTER.
(PAT. MAY, 185%.)
Works Perfectly in Clay, Gravel or Sandy Soil, Sod or New Ground.
Plants at any and Uniform Depth in Moist Soil.
SALE BY
FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,
Liberal Discount to Dealers.
For
FLETCHER, JENKS & CO.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Price, $24 per Dozen.
THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN.
AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
Morley—Frank Bark succeeds W. H.
Hicks in the drug buisness.
Sparta—Hinman & Miller succeed L.
E. Paige in the drug business.
Akron—Jne. E. Higgins succeeds R.
Mytick in the grocery business.
Ridgeway—aA. J. Sutton succeeds Sut- |
ton & Arner in general trade.
Saginaw—Zarnko Bros. succeeds Fred
Zarnko in the grocery business.
Cass City—T. H. Hunt succeeds C. D.
Striffler in the grocery business.
Plainwell—W. D. Case succeeds J. N.
Hill in the grocery business.
Detroit—Patterson & Spurr succeed
Patterson Bros. in the meat business.
Detroit—Schulte Bros. succeed Jos.
Schulte & Son in the grocery business.
Northville—Rollin A. Purdy succeeds
B. A. Wheeler in the grocery business.
Traverse City—G. A. Johnson has
opened a new drug store on Union street.
Ridgeway—E. Harrison succeeds Har-
rison & Bannister in the meat business.
Clyde—Wood & Goodfellow succeed
Johnson & Wood in the grocery business.
Saginaw—Banghart Bros. have pur-
chased the meat business of Chas. May.
Bay City—W. C. Grisdale & Co. sue-
ceed Samuel Beard in the hardware busi-
ness.
Pine Creek—V. J. Stimson has sold his
hardware and grocery stock to Chas. De-
Bow.
Caledonia Station—Chas. S. Spaulding
succeeds A. W. Stow in the meat busi-
ness.
Hartford—V. E. Manley is succeeded
by Wm. Bennett in the hardware busi-
ness.
Allegan—Cook, Baker & Co. succeed
Cook & Baker in the planing mill busi-
ness,
Plainwell—Reynolds
ceed T. W.
business.
West Bay City—John Frank succeeds
Mrs. Mary Schwartz in the flouring mill
business.
Richville—Horrlein
succeeded by
general trade.
Adrian—Baker & Shattuck, pork pack-
ers and wholesale cheese and produce
dealers, are succeeded by Baker, Shat-
tuck & Co.
Waterviiet—I. L. (Mrs. G. M.) Gardner
is succeeded by Bieldly & Son, of Eau
Claire, in the grocery, boot and shoe and
erockery business.
Detroit—O. B. Cook & Co., wholesale
liquor dealers have removed from Sagi-
naw to this place.
Adrian—The Adrian Packing Co. suc-
ceeds Lambie & Humphrey in the pack-
ing of vegetables.
Marcellus— Moon & Remington are
succeeded by Moon & Mohney in the
hardware business.
Mason—Hail & DuBois, dealers in
drugs, have dissolved, C. H. Hall con-
tinuing the business.
Hudson—Kirkup & Roney, grocery
dealers, have dissolved, John Roney con-
tinuing the business.
Marquette—F. W. Hathaway & Co.,
meat dealers, have dissolved. The busi-
ness will be continued by F. W. Hath-
way.
Marion—Durham Bros. are erecting
a shingle mill here. The frame is up
and aportion of the machinery is in
place.
& Stewart suc-
teynolds in the planing mill
& Hoereauf are
Hoereauf & Sehwab in
Allegan—D. J. Renihan has retired
from the hardware firm of Turner &
| Renihan. The business will be contin-
| ued under the same style by the remain-
ing partner, R. C. Turner.
Cheboygan—W. & A. McArthur have
merged their sawmill, flour mill, lumber
and general merchandise business into a
stock company under the style of W. &
A. MeArthur Co., Limited.
Eastport—Wm. Zeran has purchased
the drug stock of L. E. Bockus, of Cen-
tral Lake, and will remove his drug
stock from this place toCentral Lake and
consolidate it with the stock purchased
there.
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Saginaw — L. P. Mason purchased
1,000,000 feet of lumber last week at
prices ranging from $18 to $21. He also
purehased a lot of selects at $28, and
says the stock was cheap at that figure.
Sault Ste. Marie—Penoyar Bros., of
Oscoda, who own a large tract of timber
in this vicinity, have made the citizens
of Sault Ste. Marie a proposition to lo-
eate a large saw and planing mill here.
Action will be taken at an early day.
Clare—Frank Bracy is building a small
sawmill near Moore’s Crossing, having
taken a contract to manufacture 5,000,000
feet of timber for the Tucker Mercantile
Co. The capacity of the mill is esti-
mated at 25,000 feet daily. The timber
is hardwood and hemlock.
Saginaw—Green, Ring & Co.’s mill will
cut Canada logs largely this season.
This firm was established twenty-eight
years ago by Green, Hardin & Co., since
which time it has undergone several
changes in management. The plant of
the firm covers an area of forty acres,
and about 150 men are employed.
Owendale—John G. Owen’s sawmill is
in operation, although the country being
flatand very wet, has somewhat hin-
dered handling of logs. He has taken
out the band mill putin a year ago and
replaced it with a circular, the logs be-
ing too small to handle profitably with a
band saw.
Saginaw—Reports from interior points
are that all of the railroad sawmills are
fairly stocked, and nearly all of them
are running. ‘The season’s outlook is re-
garded by railroad lumbermen as unusu-
ally favorable, as they do not have to
drum up trade as formerly. A _ large
portion of the stock cut on the Flint &
Pere Marquette and Mackinaw division
of the Michigan Central has been con-
tracted for by yard dealers in the Sagi-
naw Valley.
Manistee—Shipping hemlock piece
stuff green is unusual in the market,
but buyers have beenso urgent that at
most of the mills they are putting it
down in flat pile and getting $7.50 for it
green on dock here for strictly short |
lengths. Hemlock shingles seem to take
well, and those of our mill men who
make them are realizing good prices and
getting a lot of new customers. The
trade on second grade shingles is very
strong, and there is also a heavy demand
for cull shingles.
Boyne City—W. H. White, of the firm
of W. H. White & Co., was in Manistee
last week trying to purchase from the
Manistee & Northeastern Railroad some
rolling stock for their new road between
Boyne City and Boyne Falls, about seven
miles, which will be operated for freight
and passengers, and also for a logging
the largest quantity of hemlock and hard-
wood in this region, and have about fif-
teen years’ run now secured, so that they
are probably safe in any permanent im-
provements they may make.
Rose City—The French Land & Lum-
ber Co. has sold the fifteen year cut of
basswood on its lands near this place to
D. H. Burrell & Co., of Little Falls, N.
Y., and Wyandotte, Mich. The purchas-
ers are erecting mills here for the pur-
pose of converting the basswood logs
into heading. ‘The plant will consist of
three buildings—the mill proper,
feet area, engine house, 30x40 feet, and |
a dry kiln,18x64 feet.
Land & Lumber Co. will also erect a saw, |
shingle and planing mill here this season.
Kalamazoo—The hardware stocks be- |
longing to Edwards & Chamberlin and |
the late C. H. Dickinson will be consoli-
dated and the business merged into a}
stock company under the style of the!
Edwards & Chamberlain Hardware Co.
The corporation will have a capital stock |
of $40,000, all paid in, divided among |
twelve stockholders, as follows: A. K. |
Edwarfis, C. M. Chamberlin, H. B. Peck, |
E. Woodbury, C. A. Peck, G. L. Gilkey,
N. HH. Stewart, J. ©. Cowgill; 0; MM.
Allen, Anthony Hill, George E. Bardeen
and S. A. Gibson. The directors are A.
K. Edwards, C. M. Chamberlin, H. B.
Peck, N. H. Stewart and J. F. Cowgill.
The officers are as follows: President,
C. M. Chamberlin; Vice-President, H. B.
Peck; Secretary and Treasurer, A. K.
Edwards; General Managers, A. K. Ed-
wards and C. M. Chamberlin.
nner tl rence
Twelve Trite Maxims.
The President of the London Chamber
of Commerce gives twelve maxims for
suecess, which he says he has followed
through twenty-five years of business ex-
perience:
1. Have a definite aim.
2. Go straight for it.
3. Master all details.
4. Always know more
expected to know.
5. Remember that difficulties are only
made to be overcome.
6. Treat failures as stepping stones to
further efforts.
7. Never put out your hand further
than you can draw it back.
8. At times bold; always prudent.
9. ‘*‘Men say—what do they say?
them say.”’
10. Make
brains.
11. Listen well; answer cautiously; de-
cide promptly.
12. Preserve, by all means in your
power, ‘‘a sound mind in a sound body.’’
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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.
With a view to securing the co-opera-
tion and membership of a number of
grocers doing business on Grandville
avenue and vicinity, who are not now
members of the organization, the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association will
hold a special open meeting at the hall
on the southeast corner of Rumsey street
and Grandville avenue, Tuesday even-
ing, May 9. All grocers who are not
now members of the organization are
earrfestly requested to attend this meet-
ing, as special efforts will be made to
show the beneficent results of local or-
ganization. The Grandville avenue car
line passes the place of meeting, so that
grocers in every part of the city can
reach the place of meeting for one car
fare by getting a transfer to the Grand-
ville avenue line.
The next regular meeting of the Asso-
ciation will be held on May 15, at which
time brief addresses will be made by F.
H. Barnes, local representative for Sco-
field, Shurmer & Teagle, and C. G. A.
Voigt, who will enlighten the members
on the merits of the scheme now under
consideration by the millers and flour
dealers of the city for the purpose of
maintaining prices.
E. A. Stowe, Sec’y.
See
From Out of Town.
Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentlemen in trade:
H. M. Lewis, Ionia.
G. W. Williams, Kalamazoo.
Chas. F. Sears, Rockford.
Norman Harris, Conklin.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
G. Hirschberg, Bailey.
Wm. H. White & Co., Boyne City.
L. Henderson, Holland.
A. Wierengo, Muskegon.
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Points for Grocers to Remember.
From the Grocers’ Review.
That a dirty store window is a poor
advertisement.
That it costs only the effort to have the
delivery wagon clean and harness bright.
That an errand boy with dirty hands
to handle the articles ordered, is repul-
sive te customers.
That slovenly tied packages require
just as much time as to tie them neatly.
That aclerk who is clean and tidy,
and wears a clean apron, makes a good
impression on a customer.
That familiarity between clerks and
customers is only good uptoa certain
point; after that it breeds contempt.
That a dirty counter and dirty scoops
The | the customer.
market is still strong and excited and, |
and scales are out of place ina grocery
store.
That people, as a rule, are fastidious
about what they eat, and the more invit-
ing the store the better opinion has
That there are lots of odds and ends in
the store that could be gathered in one
-:place and sold off at a reduction—in
fact, every store should have its bargain
counter.
That before articles are allowed to
leave the store they should be charged,
item for item, in order that there may
be no dispute.
That the more system a grocer has in
his business, the more money he is
apt to make and will give better satisfac}
tion to his trade.
That the place for cats to sleep is not
in a box of groceries, and that the edge
of a sugar-bin is a poor stepladder.
That a grocer should bea man of his
word, and when an order is promised at
a definite time it should be there.
Hk WAYNE
SALP- MEASURING
° Measuring one quart
f) 1 l | a nN le cette gallon at a
single stroke.
NET PRICE LIST.
First floor Tanks and
Pumps.
Loe... Sa ae
Sib... 15 00
a 18 00
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Ol... ... 5.2.45. on OO
Cellar Tanks & Pumps.
! 10h... .. .._. eee
+a @Olecsese..-.... Fy OO
AE ty ae... . 21 00
ta fie... 25 00
a b Sie. 30 00
CA , Pump without §
—_—_—__—2 aas.......
First Floor Tank a Pump.
Manufactured only by the
WAYNE OIL TANK CO.,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
>The Proof of the Pudding is Ask-
SS
ing for More.”
SMOKERS ONCE SMOKERS AL-
WAYS OF THE CELEBRATED
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Hen —-Huryr.
The great 10e Cigar, and
Feecord Freaker,
The Great 5e Cigar.
Made on Honor. Sold on M erit
First-Class Dealers Everywhere.
GEO MUEDS & U0
MANUFACTURERS,
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Effect of Inventive Genius on Trade.
Finley Acker in Grocers’ Review.
What has not been accomplished since
Inventive Genius captured the fertile
agencies of fire, water, air and electric-
ity, and forced from them many of their
marvelous secrets! The tale is endless,
the revolution greater than that ever
accomplished by force of arms. Old
methods are swept away never to re-
turn. The ancient landmarks of every
trade and industry are but a memory in
the industrial life of tu-day. But what
more can I do than to again make a few
comparisons?
Take, for instance, the so-called staff
of life—our daily bread; or, rather, the
flour from which it is made. A century
ago the crude old gristmill slowly ground
the grain which the neighbors brought
on horseback, and then patiently waited
for for its conversion into meal. To-
day a single mammoth flour mill at Min-
neapolis, operated by the mighty power of
the adjoining river, replete with modern
machinery for rolling, separating, bolting
and packing, turns out the life sustain-
ing product at the rate of 6,000 barrels
per day, and speeds them over land and
sea.
Take the next importance to the great
mass of people—the meat industry. The
old-time smoke and slaughter house may
still be seen here and there, but the great
stockyards of Chicago, covering an area
of forty acres of ground, and a floor
space of 125 acres, and in which, in one
year 9,000,000 cattle, hogs and sheep are
prepared for market, suggest the mag-
nitude of modern industrial operations.
Recall the raw sugar with which our
forefathers were obliged to be content,
and inthe grinding of which the poor
grocer’s apprentice was permitted to
meditate upon his hard lot and prove to
his own satisfaction the percentage of
sand in the sugar. Compare this old
combination of questionable ingredients
with the beautiful white crystals of pure
granulated sugar of to-day, and which,
like the product of the great flour mills,
is turned out at the rate of thousands of
barrels per day, and is cheap enough to
be used by the very poor.
Glance at the table of Americans to-
day and we see, in the very heart of win-
ter, delicious fruit, wholesome vegeta-
bles, and nutritious meat and fish, many
of which were unknown a century ago
to even the wealthy, but which, because
of the skill and cheapness of the can-
ner’s art, have become a part of the
daily bill of fare of the American me-
chanic.
The old shoemaker and his bench is
even now a comparative rarity, for the
wheels of industry which hum in the
immense shoe factories of Lynn and
Brockton tell the modern story of the
leather as it passes through the hands of
the cutter, then the maker of the uppers,
then the laster, then the stitcher, then
the heeler, then the finisher, until the
simple hide is evolved into a graceful
and serviceable shoe, free from the tacks
and pegs of the olden times, and retailed
at an astonishingly low price.
The tendency of all industrial and
commercial interests is unquestionably
in the direction of concentration and
centralization. That this means cheaper
methods of production there can be no
doubt. The large operator in the stock-
yard will do wellat a clear profit of from
30 to 50 cents per bullock. The large
refiner will make money at one-eighth of
acent a pound on sugar, although since
the formation of the ‘‘Sugar Trust’’ his
profits have been much- larger. The
large miller of flouris content with 10
cents a barrel clear profit. But whether
the ultimate result of concentration, with
its accompanying destruction of indi-
vidual enterprise, will be desirable, time
alone will tell.
a
Had the woman who gave the two
mites been trying to see how many tick-
ets she could sel! for the concert in the
temple to help repair the roof, it may be
that she would not have attracted the
Lord’s attention.
There’s nothing like discipline, but it
doesn’t doa boy any good to make him hoe
potatoes in the back garden while a brass
band is passing the house.
Dry Goods Price Current.
UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
ae 7 ‘« Atrow Brand 5
Ries. Ut 6 ‘* World Wide. 6
Atinate BA 6 Rete ses 4%
Atlantic ae 6%{|Full Yard Wide..... 6%
We G4iGeorgia A.......... 6%
Poi 544| Honest Width....... 6%
- gee 5
A ea 5 |Indian — _'
Ree. rig King A A. 6%
Archery ae King zo... :
Beaver Dam A A. "Bx Lawrence LL......
Blackstone O, 32.. Madras cheese —_ ox
Bisek Crow... ..... | Newmarket o..
Rieck Meek ....-... 6%
ween, Sh... 7 -
Capital fo , 54 -
Cavenest 7.........; 5% -
Chapman cheese cl. 3X%jNoibe R............. 5
— Be oe. ts 54/Our Level Best..... 6%
Ee exiOxtord B........... 6
Dwight UE. cues Ceres... 2... 7
Cite CCC.......: pee 6
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
ie i eee 8%4|Geo. Washington... 8
Dees... -... 2... Renee MASAO... 15, 7
Seeeee.... . «5... 7 old Modal:........ 7%
Art Cambric........ 10 (Green Ticket....... 8%
Blackstone AA..... 7% |Great Falls.......... 6%
eee eee... ......... OG ee a 7%
ee os ust Out.....- 4%@ 5
ee i“ King Phillip eke cate 7%
— 5... oe - *§ BP.
Charter Oak........ sit Lonsdale ee -10
Comey OF .... . 25. 74|Lonsdale...... @ 8%
Cleveland ...... .... 6%{|Middlesex.... .. @5
Dwight Anchor eee 8%|No Poe see a
shorts. 8 |Oak — 2
Powron.......... 0 eee 8 3”
I i eos 7 Pride of t the West...
Ferwell.... .....-..- a OM
Fruit of the Loom. 8%|Suntight............. 4%
Peeve ..... .... 7 oe Bs.....:... 3
Pao Preee.........- 7 - Nonpareil ..
Fruit of the Loom %. 7%|Vinyard............. 18%
aeees.......... 444|White Horse........ 6
Pull Vaine.....<...- = ~*~ oe... . 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
ee ce ce 74| Dwight Anchor..... 8%
oy 8
CANTON FLANNEL.
- Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife or oo Housewife 8 oe oe 6%
oe eee 5% ce
‘ Co “ 5 ed 7%
C : dieses ~ —— 8%
' Se “ Picea 9
' ne. “ W.... iL. io*
G _ Wi smee -10%
' .. ' Bo 11%
' L. . .....- 12%
” J - er 13%
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CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white......18 oe age — _
' colored ....20 | White S Es 18
ae ........... .18%| . cae’. -20
DRESS GOODS.
ape. ek ee eae > eee... .. 20
ce 9 se eee ete ss eae
Oe eee -10% | eeepc ence 27%
GG Cashmere...... 20 ee 30
Renee... ......- 16 ey ee 32%
Se 18 Pe ee ee 35
CORSETS,
ees... #9 50/Wonderful . .. 84 50
Sore s.......... 9 eee... sn 4 75
Davis Waists..... 9 O0/Bortree’s .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50j|Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
ee 6% ee satteen.. a
Androsco ogein oes i Rockport a
NG... 3a cola ee | 7
Brunswick. .... 8 ate ...... -... 6%
—
Allen turkey reds.. Berwick fancies.... 5%
a
. weer & purple :
ma pink checks. 6
e staples ...... 6
“ shirtings... 6
American fancy.... 5%
Americanindigo... 6%
American shirtings. i144
Argentine Grays... 6
Anchor Shirtings... 4
Arnoid o +.
Arnold Merino..... 6
e long cloth B. 10%
“cc
“ Century cloth 7 7
= see... 10%
** green seal TR 10%
“yellow seal. 1
“ oee.. 11%
“ ‘Darkey red. 10%
Ballou solid biack..
we * golors.
~~ al blue, green,
and orange... 6
Clyde Robes........
Charter Oak fancies
DelMarine —— 8.
ourn’g
Eddystone ‘ar.
chocolat
a. — ——
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Hamilton fancy.
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Manchester oe...
new era.
Merrimack D fancy.
Merrim’ck shirtings.
. Reppfurn .
Pacific —— eae
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Portsmouth robes, .
Simpeon mourning..
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a solid biack.
Washington indigo.
* Turkey robes. .
* India robes. .
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ARMAAN
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09-3 ere
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Berlin eee. ......- 5%
. Coe.....,. oe ~ Sanit ey
= ™ green .... C6 Revved 6%
“* FPoulards 54| Martha mp ington
- 7 .. 7 Turkey ™%
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ss a! os ‘Torker veg... ....; SM
- o S4xEXX i2 Riverpoint robes.... 5%
Cocheco fancy oa. : Windsor fancy...... 63
ers. . ' goid —
“ ZA twits.. Oi indige blue.......10%
ee cca. 544 /Harmony......... a.
TICKINGs,
Amoskeag ACA....i2%/ACA.. _-
Hamilton M......... TH Pemberton AAA.. ooke
es sa, Le 10%
- am, “ Swits Wiver......... 1%
Farmer.. ec reart Miver......... 12
First Prize....... “10% brace Tn ESE! 13%
Lenox Mills ........ -.18 |C ER ceidicsu cn 16
COTTON DBILL,
io, » Cees ewe 6%|Stark A ition a
We ccs euee dues ox No Name........ . %
Chitton, i ae ence Top of Heap........ 9
DEMINB.
Amoskeag es fe 12%[(Columbian brown..12
90) 18% Everett, ee 12%
si henien. 13 brown. ....12%
Andover.. — Haymaker me. .... 7%
Beaver Creek AA. brown... 7%
AR oa ‘11%
ge CC. ROAM. ....<.-.-- 12%
Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence ee 18%
“ blue 8 No. 220....13
‘“ d & twist 10% - No. 0. -.11%
Columbian XXX br.1 . No. 280....10%
Ais Gi. 19
GINGHAMB.
Azmosbear ...... .... 6%/|Lancaster, staple. . 2 os
* Persian dress 8 . fancies .
- Canton .. 8 - Normandie :
. ae... 10%/Lancashire..........
. Teazle...10%|/Manchester......... Sx
. Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
_ Persian.. 8 |Normandie......... i
Arlington staple.... 614/Persian.............
Arasapha fancy.... 44%|)Renfrew Dress...... a
Bates Warwick dres 7%|Rosemont....... -- 6%
e er = Slatersville ;s
Centennial. . 10%|Somerset. 7
NE 66s aa 10%|Tacoma 1%
Ye ee
Cumberland staple. 5h ae du Nor et
Cumberland
ee ns cuss “ geersucker.. 1%
Ben... : Ware... 42.56.
Everett classics..... Whittenden.........
Expoton....,...... 7% . heather dr. “6
foe rosy tee EO 6% ‘indigo blue 9
Gileaarvon.:.. ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples. .. 6%
Gaeewood.......... 7%|Westbrook..........
Reece... . ...45. Seeker one 10
Jobnson Vhaloncl %/Windermeer.... .... 5
“ Indigo blue S4iYork..... .......... 6%
- zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Ameeemeeg.......-..- 19g — id ees ee 15%
or... ee es aug ee 193%
Buscreeen..... ...... is Pacit oa cet ora eee
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 81
Coatr, Jd. &?....... 45 |Marshall’s.......... 81
Holyoke: Cece cd 2%
KNITTING COTTON,
White. Colored. White. Colored
6S... oS ime, M...... 27 42
. ££... i ......1
~ ea oe tT a 39 a4
. 2... oe 4° Ms 40 45
CAMBRICS,
I ach cesses 4% (Edwards........... 4%
Waite Star......... i = Lees eae =
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Newmarket......... ri eek. ‘a
RED FLANNEL.
POUR... 2.5 RE ree cree ans Ry
Cyveedmore.... ...... NNN i Sek ae | a pcuce R%
NOG BALE... one eo mm wee, eee..... ae
Bamenem........... 27% |Buckeye............ R2%
MIXED FLANNEL,
Red & Blue, plaid. = omy wW.....-... Hs
ea 2244| Western W .........
(a T -18%|D ar... igi
6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23%
Tae B.......-...- S4i Mamitoba........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless io. Se hee 9 @10%
ee 8%@10 - he 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black.
94 % $14/10% 0 10%
10% 10% 10%|11% 11% 11%
11% 11% 1144} 12 12 12
13 12% 124/20 20 20
DUCES.
Severen, 8 os........ 9%|West *Point, 8 oz....10%
Mayland, 8oz....... 10% és 10 oz BH
Greenwood, 7% 0x.. 9%/Raven, 100z......... 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz. 11% ee oh 13%
Boston, 5 On......... 10% /Boston, 10 oz........ 12%
WADDINGS.
White, Gos......... 25 |Per bale, 40 dos... .83 50
Colored, Gos........ ree 6 C4. 7 50
SILESIAS,
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10%
= Red Cross.... 9 ne ae ec eeeyeweee
- fee... Spieedrard.... .... ....
- Best AA..... -” Vailey ee 103
ae ba ae Te
OE eee ree aes Gee
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..4¢ per Mos ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. .40
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
No : Bre & White, . No “= & White..15
20
- 3 ° “ie "2 o a)
PINS.
No 2—20,M C.......50 |No4—15 F 3%...... 40
3—18, 8 C........ 4
TTON TAPE.
No 2 White & BIR. 12 No 8 White & BI’k..20
- - . —— |" we _ - 23
“ 8 “ well ay 12 “ |
SAFETY PINS.
OE ees oeeae 28 Re 86
NEEDLES—PER &.
2 oe... cia 1 40/Steamboat.... ...... 4
a Lobes a oep 1 3|Gold Eyed.......... 1 80
BT. cs i Oj Amerioan........... 1 00
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
S—4....2 25 saa --195 €—4...2 95
' a r a 10)
ONT WINES,
Cotton Sail Twine, "8 Nashua me
OOO ieee c ac ee 12 Rising Star 4 ply. oe
Domestic eee 18 3 ply 7
Anchor. --16 |North Star.. 20
Bristol . .....13 |Wool Standard 4 4 plyt? %
Cherry Valley. ol as 15 |Powhattan ..
IXL. 18%
PLAID OSNABURGS
BPOOMA. 4.65.65... 6%|Mount Pleasant... . 6%
Ree... s, o. &% Oneida.. So
Been... .....05.5 %4|Prymont . on oe ees 5%
a oe... " Randelman......... 6
= - Debts aos cee Ee Sibley A; ieee cpewes 5g
gaa eee 6
— a ec lee _ “
i i A :
“the Kent.’’
Lirectly Opposite Union Depot.
AMESICAN PLAN
RATES, $2 PER DAY
STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS
FREE BAGGAGEETRANSFER FROM UNION
DEPOT.
BEACH & BOOTH, Props.
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.
We are state agents for the
©
People's
Typewriter,
Retail price, 820 each.
Agents wanted in every town in the state. -
EATON, LYON & CO.
Booksellers and Stationers,
20 & 22 MONROE ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
For Terms and Agencies address
Columbus, Ohio.
Crystal Washing Machine Co.,
Our machine has a reversible rotary motion
of both upper and lower washboards, iving the
true hand-rubbing principle. Clothes nevel
bunch while washing, common favlt with others
necessitating rearranging; not a pleasant task.
’ or twenty-five cash,
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
7
Visit to a Chinese Market.
From 8t. Nicholas.
“Birds of a feather flock together.”
In China, shops of a certain kind will be
found side by side. If you will walk
with me through along avenue in my
native place, you will find the dry goods
siores, where all sorts of silk, woolen
and cetton cloth are sold, at one end of
the street, with possibly a bookstall or
pharmacy spriukled here and there be-
tween, and the shops which deal in food
at the other end.
Let us take our basket and hand-seales
and walk through a real Chinese market.
You will need the scales, if you don’t
wish to be cheated by some of the ras-
eally dealers. Human nature is the
same there as elsewhere, you know; and
you must take away the temptation to
sin. Idare say that very few will give
you short weight wilfully, but itis just
as well to provide against mistakes, and
you see that almost every buyer is sim-
ilarly provided.
The scales are a simple affair, being a
polished and graduated wooden rod, dot-
ted with brass pegs which mark off the
ounces and ‘‘catties” (about one and one-
third pounds), and having two hooks
fastened tothe larger end. The goods to
be weighed are fastened to the hooks,
and an iron weight is put on the
other end, and so placed as to balance
them.
Thus doubly armed, with seales and
alertness, let us follow the crowd through
the narrow thoroughfare. You notice
that the street is paved with long granite
slabs, worn smooth by the tread of thou-
sands of pedestrians for many years. It
is so narrow that you conclude that
horse-teams are not supposed to pass
through. Indeed, there are no carriages
and wagons to be found in Southern
China, except in the foreign settlements.
But occasionally a sedan chair passes
by, to which you must yield the right of
way.
The shops open upon the street, and
all their wares are displayed to the best
advantage. The meat markets are rather
dark-looking and unpleasant within, for
there they not only sell their meats, but
slaughter the animals on the spot and
roast them as well. The butchers stand
behind a long table facing the street,
and sell you lamb, or mutton, or pork,
and sometimes venison, all raw; or roast
pork, roast chicken and roast duck, in
any quantity you may desire.
The way the meats are roasted may be
of some interest. After the animals are
slaughtered and well cleaned, inside and
out, they are hung on iron hooks. The
oven is of brick, very large, and about
four feet high and three feet in diameter
at the top, and is now heated red hot by
a blazing wood fire. The animals are put
in the oven after the wood is burned
down to coals, and suspended by means
of iron rods across the top, which is
then very tightly covered up, as is also
the draft. You would be surprised to
see how quickly the meats are roasted.
It takes hardly fifteen minutes for them
to be thoroughly cooked and ready for
sale. The meats thus roasted are deli-
cious. The skins turn red and those of
pigs are very crisp. Cut half a pound,
ora quarter if you wish, and pay fifty
which, respectively,
eents of American
The mottoes pasted up in this
and other shops are suggestive: ‘‘We
cheat neither young nor old,’’ ‘*May
wealthy customers visit us often,’’ *‘As
fast as the wheels may our goods cireu-
late,” ‘‘May wealth increase in my pres-
ence.”’
Each shop has, usually under the table
or the counter outside, a shrine dedi-
cated to the god of weaith, before which
incense is burned morning and evening,
and on the 1st and 15th of each month,
when offerings of food also are made,
candles are burned before it.
Dried fish of many kinds are sold in
the stores, but fresh fish, and sea-food
generally, are usually sold by men who
bring them from a great distance, early
in the morning or the afternoon in bas-
kets. Behind these they squat, and hawk
their wares in loud tones. Thatis the
reason why a Chinese market is so noisy
and animated. You ask the price of
equal 5 and 2%
money.
shad, for instance, or of crabs, and the| Wronght Nerrow, bright ast jolt
dealer raises the price of an ounce by so
many cash, which you have to beat
down. What Adam Smith called the
‘“thiggling of the market,” exists here in
its perfection. After wasting consider-
able time in talking and splitting differ-
ences, you at last decide to buy, or the
trader concludes to sell. But however
much you may congratulate yourself on
having made a good bargain, you cannot
be certain that others may not make much
better bargains with the same man.
Vegetables are sold by other dealers, and
the same process must be gone through
before you can make a fair purchase.
Grocery stores are plenty, and there you
will find on sale all sorts of sauces, pre-
serves, sugars, and so forth, in fact
whatever is dealt in by grocers in Amer-
ica.
Beef is not often eaten by the Chinese,
on account of their religious scruples,
most of them being tinged, more or less,
with Buddhism, but especially because
the ox is used in plowing. Occasionally
you will find a stali for the sale of beef.
Through the same prejudice, little cow’s
milk is used by the people, and that lit-
tle is made into thin cakes, well salted,
to be taken as a relish.
Buta kind of cheese is made of bean
eurd. The beans are ground in hand
mills and dissolved in water, then
strained and steamed. The resultis a
perfectly white cake, something like
blane-mange. It is eaten with shrimp
sauce. This cake is also dried. There
is also a sauce made from beans.
You perhaps wonder why I have not
described the cats, kittens, and dogs,
which are said to be the common food of
the Chinese people. The reason is be-
cause no such things are to be found in
the market. In fact, I know ef no place
where such articles of food can be had,
exceptin alow part of Canton, where
people who are almost starved will buy
almost anything to sustain life. The
Chinese people live on wholesome food,
as you will learn from good authorities.
They eat rice as you eat bread. They
make cakes of wheat, too.
Potatoes, cabbages, greens, melons,
and the various cereals, are raised in great
plenty and sold comparatively cheap.
He ee BY STEAM
eee Excelsior incubator.
Simple, Perfect, Sel/-Regu-
lating. ousands in suc-
operation, Guaren
a teed to hatch a larger per-
e of fertile eggs at
less cost than any other
HefHatcher. Lowest priced
: first-class Hatcher made.
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, iit.
= a we
When You Get Tired
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A, J. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Fenton, Mich.
F. H. WHITE,
Manufacturers’ agent and jobber of
PAPER AND WOODENWARE,
125 Court St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Hardware Price Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS dis.
eae cess a cp ace eee se ae 60
ices ce yes cute ce ce 40
ee EE ps
wee atioe’, Teepe 50410
AXES,
First Quality, So eee... aT
D. B. Bronze.. oe ax 00
a aa. ics we 8 66
' Th We es ces, ee
BARROW dis.
meee ek... ...8 14 00
Garden i net 2 ©
BOLT: dis.
ee i a a eS. 50&10
Carrere OW FE cs cons ce is oa canal ane
ae eT, 40810
te iia 70
BUCKETS.
we eee $3 50
ED I. i eee cs ee, 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin. figured........ oe
- 664.0
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s........... We eeebeddec ees diz. 2
Kip’s eee ek tee, |
5} Yerkes & Plumb’s............0..- see cee dis. 40&16
Mason s Soltd Cast Stedl................. 30e list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .30c 40410
HINGES,
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2,3 ...... . dis.60&10
| State ee er ¢ doz. net, 2 5d
| Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. ver 14 and
ROWE cc ee 3%
Serew Hook and Eye, Me net 10
_ -net 8%
- “ ’ occ ens net 7%
. . « a. net 7%
eo ee diz. 50
dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. on Wood track... .50&10
Ceempeon, entl-fittion.................... BO&10
Se eee 40
HOLLOW WARE.
oy
Oe ee 60.410
aac ... ... ee ceecacee acces... Seen
Gray Br 40810
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
eee eee Were. new list 73
Wrought — oo vee ere cect tsce.. 60&10 |
PUR ee eo as cece oe 60&10 |
Wrought Inetde Ce G0&10
NOE Ee il lee
oe ee 7018 |
Blind, Oe 70&10 |
Blind, ee oes ean cn eo 70 |
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 50
CRADLES.
Co ee dis. 50402
CROW BARS.
A a ee ee ee perb 5
CAPS.
ey ee ee ee eee oe ae per m 65
a" A cece eu eae. . 60
asia: ee eee eeeeeteceesae | 60
CARTRIDGES,
Co ee 56
Censgrer Piro. ..... 5... ..,.. s.r 25
CHISELS. dis.
Siva icachat i ee ee 70&10
Socket Framing.... 70&18
Socket Corner...... 70&10
Ce coe cee ae ces 70&10
patonerm Tauged Pirmer................... 40
COMBS. dis.
ry. ee 40
Coe ede a 25
OHALE.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@i2% dis. 10
COPPER,
rons 14 oz cut to aize... .. per pound 28
ee 26
Cold Roiled, 14x56 and po) eS a ea 23
Cold Rolled, spelen ee be ducdcgeeuae cosas 23
Bottoms . . ee ae ey 25
“DRILLS. dia.
Meee eG Ge, ca ec ee 55
Taper and Wieigas eoame...........,........ 50
Mune e Teper Baeee..................... 50
DRIPPING PANS.
Suen Winn, SOY DOU... .......,........., o7
Ce a ee th
ELBOWS,
Com. 4 piece, 6in...... Coz. not 5
Corrugated ...... Se 40
POO ee eyo cos Se
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, emall, $18; large, G26............... 30
vee, © Gee! 2 eee: oe... 2
FILES—New List. dis.
Disston’s...... , 60&10
mow Amerean ...-. 8 ... - 60&10
Do 60&10
Heller's. ..... aS 50
Heller’s Horse Rasps” ee eee eel 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 2; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 28}
List 12 13 4 15 16 17
Discount, 6
: GAUGES. Gis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........
KNOBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, Top. tee 8... |... 55
Door, porcelai nh, jap. trimmings.. 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings... 55
Door, porcelvin, Rete ie oan 55
Drawer and Shutter, ONGC MNIM 6 a. ios 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. C x "Snow Hes ....... 55
Mallory, = meee & Ca e.......,........... 55
oy oo 55
Norwalk" . Pied ee cach dea ae ewe eters ee luce. cae 55
MATTOCKS,
Beene, .-Bi6.06, dig. 60
Hunt Eye ogee eect a $15. 00, dis. 60
a ) 818. 50, Giz, 2410.
MA dis,
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled. ' 50
MILLS. dis,
Coffee, Parkers ow 8.
P.8. & W. Mfg. Cos Mall Yeadler.. : 8
~ 3 Landers, Worry & Clerks... .......,
a
MOLASSES GATES,
ai
Recenter ce... cee enn -.. B0G1C
lore COT 8 nk ee we en we
Enterprise, self-measuring............ “oe a]
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Pen Se, OG cs. le weak oe 50
Wire mete Wee es al: i "30@1 G0
i es Base Base
Os a ee eel ede el ca, wee 10
40... 2
ae 25
ae. 35
es 45
2 45
50
60
vs)
90
1 20
1 60
1 60
65
5
eee 7
. ee ea oy 90
ee ee ee, 1 10
eee Wo. .,. Ss oa 70
se Be 80
5 a en 90
ere ee. i" 1 7
PLANES. dis.
Gute Todt Co.'s, fancy ........... . BAv
MO ae ie rtd aes csc es 260
Sandusky Too! Co.'s, fanc caves veneccccces A
Me aig oes wc ac cess oe cca
Stanley Rule ané Levei Co.'s, wood &i0
Pans,
Fry, ON et lel eask us . dis.60—19
Common, polished. . ease teers stcns Ce ae
RIVETS, dis,
Doe eee See... 40
Copper sien ene More... ....... 5... 50—10
ATENT FLANISHED IRON.
“A”? Wood's eaout planished, Nos, 24 to 27
“B” Wood's pat. planfghed, Nos. 25 to 27..
Broken packs %e per pound extra
2
Q 20
Jepanned Tin Ware. Le gue
Granite Iron Ware ...............
WIRE GOODS,
new list 534 &10
eee roa iogio
Sota Ae 7010816
ee TOeI0&10
Gate Hooks and —.. ee 7041010
ELs, dis.79
Stanley Rule and Level. Co.’s. .
ROPES.
Sisal, i inch and a Lede beteeue cues sg
ee TT 13
SQUARES, dis,
a ..hClC x
mae Geo even... si, &
eee... .................... panes a ceue. 4
SHEET (RON,
om. Smooth. Com.
Nos. 10 to 14.. eee a ee ee ee 82
Roe tte teeeeeees & CO 3 05
Ge, Totem... 4 05 3 05
eee... 4 05 3 15
Nos. 25 to 26 . 25 8 26
TO cc eee eee cas 445 3 35
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER,
Kam acct 19 -- Giz 50
ASH CORD,
Silver Lake, White a hee tte me veces wee list 50
fee A... ' 55
' oe... : 50
. Brean ee 55
. Whiwec..... ei eee oma 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS,
BOt yee el. per ton #25
SAWS. dis.
be Ee 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,... 7
rey a Steel Dex X C uts, perfoa.... &
_ cial Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot.... 30
. nampion and Electric Tooth X
om, | per eae a
TRAPS. ais
Steel, Game..... CO&1G
Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s . oo 35
Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton's 70
ae oe. ll... 18¢ per doz
Mouse, delusion.. . 81.50 per doz,
dis.
Bright Market..
65
Annealed Market..... oa TT eer
"WIRE.
Copperee merece... 60
Tinned Market.. eeece esc. . 62%
Coppered Spring Re i
Barbed Penee, salvaniged.................. 2 80
pees... 2 40
HORSE NAILS.
Pe ee a dis. 40&10
Posen oe. dig. 05
Peren women... dis. 16&1¢
RENCRES. dis
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled...... SU
Coe’s Genuine . Seeee ee 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrough! vv
Coe’s Patent, mallesbie.... sees tee 5. nee
MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Pee Cee 50
Tome Cote... c...... ‘ F&O
porowe, mew Lie..............-.., — TO0&10
Casters, Bed a ¢ Piate........... 5010610
Dempers, American. ............... i
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 tt
METALS,
PIG TIN,
a 2e
Pe OE ee 2c
ZINC.
Duty: Sheet, ae th _—
680 pound casks. ie cee ele 8%
Per pound.. 7
ON ee ee 16
Extre Wiping . 15
The prices of the me 2Dy ‘other qualities of
solder {n the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
eee . per pound
Ne oc oe 13
IN—MELYN GRAD.
10x14 IC, Charcoal. 87
oe 7.0
10xi4IX, “ 9 25
14x20 IX, - oo
Fach additional X on this grade, $1.75.
TIN-—-ALLAWAY GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal od ee weeee cs uo, 86 7%
14x20 1c, a el ee de ee ewe le 6 75
10x14 IX, Se 8 25
14x20 IX, ” te 9 25
Rach additional X on thir grade 61.50,
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, ’ —r-. re 6 By
14x20 IX, _ FF .... wie Soe
20x28 IC, " _ sic oe
14x20 IC, Allaway Grade... 6 00
14x20 IX, " - a 7 3
20x28 IC, ' - eS 12 56
20x28 IX, “ - .... 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS.
Ps ree eee aces acc eee .. 814 00
14x81 IX.. . ; pecs OO
ree = tor N No. 8 Bot hers, ; per pou: a. 10 00
8
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Michigan Tradesman
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E. A. STOWE, Editor.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1893,
BAREFACED TYRANNY.
Thereis going on in the city of New
York a labor trouble, a controversy be-
tween employers and employes, that has
already been productive of serious incon-
venience to many people, and threatens,
if carried to extremes, to strike a mortal
blow atthe community in its most vital
spot, its digestive organs. This is the
war between the proprietors of aristo-
cratic hoteis and other eating houses and
their dining-room waiters on the subject
of whiskers.
It appears that in the chief countries
of Europe it is required of butlers and
other men servants in the house that
they shall be cleanshaven. The waiters
are not permitted to bewhisker them-
selves, nor to wear beards like the nobil-
ity and officers of the army. What is
the custom in Europe, and particularly
in England, is the proper thing for the
Anglomaniacs of the American metropo-
lis, and those hotels which are espe-
cially patronized by this important class
must needs adopt the fashion of clean-
shaven waiters. It will not do for the
humble individual who serves at table
the untitled lords and ladies of the
American aristocracy to wear beards
like those of Lord Noodle and Count
Whiskerando, and, therefore, the but-
lers the waiters and the footmen who
attend on such distinguished personages
must shave or lose their places.
This remarkable movement started in
the palatial hotel which Astor built, the
Waldorf, and it next extended to the
Holland House. Now Delmonico’s and
the Hotel Brunswick have taken it up,
and otber high-toned houses of public
entertainment will follow. Of course,
some of the waiters are submitting,
since a man had better sacrifice his beard
than lose his living; but those waiters
who have fine moustaches and majestic
mutton chop whiskers, and who may be
real counts and otherwise distinguished
foreigners, have revolted against the
despotic order. The _ establishments
where common democrats and ordinary
republicans feed have not yet been in-
vaded by this aristocratic craze, and
probably will not be. Many waiters will
not submit to such an un-American des-
potism, and they can still find employ-
ment if they are willing to serve plain
United States people; but if they aspire
to associate with the aristocracy of the
metropolis, and to stand behind the
chairs of those persons whose chief de-
light is to ape the manners of Europeans,
then the beards must go. The alterna-
tive is $35 a month and no whiskers, or
$30 and beards at will. There is mis-
chief afoot and the end is not yet.
“Bare faces” is the word.
THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA.
The revolutionary outbreak in Cuba
appears to have assumed much more ser-
ious proportions than was at first be-
lieved. The force of insurgents, which
at the outset amounted toafew hun-
dreds, now appears to have reached sey-
eral thousand, and the insurgent leaders
appear to have concentrated their forces
in a district difficult of access and
noted for its revolutionary tendencies.
It is, therefore, expected that the re-
volt will be more difficult to crush than
the average of such uprisings. The
Spanish Government is making hurried
preparations to send ships and troops to
Cuba, not feeling secure in the ability of
the colonial force to control the situa-
tion. The Captain General of Cuba has
already mobilized the troops at his com-
mand and has taken the field against the
insurgents, so that there is a prospect
that blood will soon result.
The Government at Madrid has an-
nounced its intention of sparing no ef-
fort to put down the revolt and retain
possession of the last remnant of the
Spanish Empire in the New World. Pub-
lic sentiment in Spain evidently calls
for vigorous measures, and as the Span-
ish Government has ample troops and
ships at its command, while the revolu-
tionists in Cuba have no reasonable hope
of succor from abroad, it is probable that
the revolt will end, as have allits pred-
ecessors, in the suppression of the rebell-
ious forces and the execution or exile of
the leaders.
There can be no doubt that much dis-
content exists in Cuba, owing to the ex-
orbitant taxes levied by the Spanish
Government and the exactions of the
Spanish officials sent to govern the isl-
and in the name of Spain. The vigilance
exercised, however, to prevent filibus-
tering expeditions from landing on the
island, and the large Spanish garrison
maintained in Cuba, make a successful
revolutionary movement practically im-
possible.
In population, fertility of soil and ag-
gregate commerce, the Spanish posses-
sions of Cubaand Porto Rico are the
most important of the West Indian Isl-
ands. All that is needed to make these
possessions the richest for their area in
this hemisphere is good government.
There is really little prospect of this
boon being secured except by the separ-
ation of the islands from Spain. In
spite, however, of the annexation and
revolutionary talk so freely indulged in,
there is actually no chance of such sep-
aration, unless the Spanish Government
should consent to sell the islands, and
that is not likely Spanish public opinion
would tolerate.
THE TRADESMAN heartily commends
the plan of the Grand Rapids Retail Gro-
cers’ Association to hold special meetings
in different portions of the city, with a
view to enlarging the membership in
those localities.
INCOME TAX ON GOLD.
Before the resumption of specie pay-
ment by the United States, Jan. 1, 1879,
the Government paid out gold for noth-
ing save the gold bonds issued by it,
while, on the contrary, it required all
customs dues to be paid in gold. In this
way a large gold fund was accumulated.
Latterly, the rule requiring customs
dues to be paid in gold was relaxed and
repealed, and it now comes about that
the National Government bas no other
means of commanding the yellow metal
save to gointo the market to borrow or
buy it. The exhaustion of the gold sur-
plus has reduced the Government to the
necessity of borrowing, which has been
done in limited amounts, the ‘reasury
being conducted in a sort of hand-to-
mouth style, no efficient steps being
taken to secure any regular supply of the
desired metal. This will have to be
done sooner or later, either by requiring
a certain amount of the taxes to be paid
in gold, or by the issue and sale of gold
bonds, or by the purchase of gold in the
market.
In view of this necessity, it has been
proposed to levy_an income tax on gold.
An income tax has already been much
talked about, but there is no sort of lay-
ing of tribute that has proved in the
past to be more unpopular, for there was
such a tax in force for several years dur-
ing and after the civil war. It was,
however, one of the first, if not the first,
of the tax burdens that was withdrawn.
There being nothing in sight or tangible
by which to assess an income, everything
depends on the honesty of citizens, and
it has often proved the case that the in-
comes reported to the assessors were by
no means so large as were expected.
All the same, it is now proposed to
levy such a tax on incomes of $10,000
and upwards, and to demand payment in
gold. Buta serious objection to this is
that the Government cannot in good
faith demand payment in anything but
its own legal tender money; and so any
sort of money will be receivable for
taxes. Butit is certain that an income
tax will be resisted with the utmost ac-
tivity by all the wealthy classes, and it
will not be imposed if those influential
parties can control Congress. The most
obvious way to get gold into the Treas-
ury will be just as silver is got—by pur-
chase in the market. Either a provision
will have to be made for it in the reve-
nue to be collected, or the Government
will have to borrow money with which
to buy the yellow metal. The wealthy
classes will attempt to force the borrow-
ing process. They long to get hold of
Government bonds, and will have them
if possible.
INCREASE IN SUGAR PRODUCTION.
Although all the sugar bounty pay-
ments have not been completed, enough
have been settled to enable the Govern-
ment to estimate with reasonable cer-
tainty that the total amount needed to
meet the claims this year will be in the
neighborhood of $9,000,000. Already
$8,450,000 has been paid or allowed, and
there are enough claims still unsettled
to bring the total very close to the figure
mentioned.
Secretary of the Treasurer Foster es-
timated at the beginning of the season
that $10,000,000 would be required to
meetall the claims. This was, of course,
an overestimate based upon the applica-
| tions from producers filed, according to
law, in July last, but the actual pay-
ments come much nearer to the estimate
than was the case last year.
The results of the season, as far as
ascertained, show a very good increase
in the production of sugar. The total
crop on which bounty will be paid dur-
ing the present fiscal year is estimated
by the Treasury Department at about
480,000,000 pounds, an increase of about
100,000,000 pounds over the fiscal year
of 1892. The production of beet sugar
has advanced from 12,004,838 pounds in
1892 to 27,083,322 pounds in 1893, and
the applications for bounty on maple
sugar will this year be about 3,000,000
pounds. The sorghum production is
986,900 pounds, and the cane production
about 450,000,000 pounds.
The increase in the production of beet
sugar is particularly gratifying, because
it proves that, with the proper encour-
agement, it is possible to build up a
great beet sugar industry in the United
States. Were it not for the uncertain-
ties that in a measure surround tariff
legislation, a large amount of capital
would at once go into the construction of
beet sugar factories.
The worst feature in the recent wild
flurry in ‘‘industrial” stocks in Wall
street is the bad effeet produced on gen-
eral trade. With confidence already dis-
turbed by the complications of the gold
situation and with the financial institu-
tions cautious and _ ultra-conservative,
mauy worthy enterprises find themselves
unable to secure financial assistance
needed to meet temporary embarrass-
ments or to fill out the intervals that
must intervene between sales and col-
lections. Already a large number of
failures have occurred in different parts
of the country which would not have
happened did normal conditions prevail
in the money markets. This crippling
of important enterprises has had an ef-
fect upon general business, and hasa
tendency to check commercial enterprise
as well as limit credits. Recent experi-
ence with the industrials should teach
the country to estimate the importance
of these shares at their proper value. It
will be for some time to come more diffi-
cult for the managers of such enterprises
to unload‘vast blocks of such watered
securities on a gullible public, and in
that sense the flurry will have actually
accomplished some good.
In appointing Wm. Judson a member
of the Board of Police and Fire Commis-
sioners, Mayor Stuart has honored him-
self quite as much as he has the recipi-
ent of his official favor. The selection
of Mr. Judson is a compliment to the
mercantile fraternity which the latter
will heartily appreciate, especially in
view of the fact that the appointee is
most admirably equipped to discharge
the duties devolving upon him in such
connection. -
Lena W. Atkins, wife of T. H. Atkins,
the West Carlisle general dealer, died at
the family residence May 4, from the re-
sult of a joint attack of Bright’s disease
and pneumonia. A preliminary funeral
was held at the family residence, Satur-
day afternoon, after which the remains
were taken to Allegan, where the regular
funeral was held at the home of the par-
ents of the deceased on Sunday. Mrs.
Atkins was highly esteemed by all who
knew her and her husband has the heart-
felt sympathy of the trade in his affliction.
PERNICIOUS SENSATIONAL LITER-
ATURE.
The recent crime at Scranton, Miss.,
in which a merchant of that place was
robbed and then shot and left for dead
by acouple of youths of respectable
family and well known in the commun-
ity, is an example of the widespread and
growing demoralization among the young.
The victim of this crime, probably
mortally wounded and in expectation of
death recognized his assassins, and when
confronted with them, fully identified
them. After being thus denounced, one
of them confessed the entire affair, cir-
cumstantially relating the details of the
affair. The party upon whom the rob-
bery and attempted murder was perpe-
trated was Joseph Cook, a well-known
and esteemed merchant, while the crim-
inals were James Smith, a lad of 18
years, and Charles Tagert, a young fel-
low of 20, both of them boys of respect-
able parentage and raised in the com-
munity. In the course of his confession,
for Tagert confessed not only the crime
perpetrated on Cook, but the murder of
asailor, he also charged upon William
Clark, another young man of the neigh-
borhood and most respectably connected,
the murder of a tramp about March 1.
Tagert says that he was present when
Clark shot the tramp, and that he was
shot ‘‘for fun.’’ A large amount of
money was secured from Cook, but they
knew the tramp had nothing and they
merely murdered him for pastime. It
appears that recently numbers of rob-
beries and murderous assaults have been
reported in Scranton, which is a small
coast town with some business in ship-
ping lumber, and is frequented by sailors
to whom the numerous crimes have been
imputed; but all the time they have
been committed by a few young men of
the town, youths who were supposed to
be entirely reputable, but who have ex-
hibited extremes of criminal depravity
of the most startling nature.
These revelations show a state of
things which, itis to be hoped, is far
from common, but thereis no question
of the existence of the growing demoral-
zation among the youths all over the
country, and it must be largely attribu-
ted to the pernicious sensational litera-
ture which is purveyed for the entertain-
ment of children. In addition to the im-
moral and grossly impure books which
are turned out from the press in floods
and are displayed without hesitation in
the windows and on the counters of re-
putable dealers, the magazines and pub-
lications devoted exclusively to the en-
tertainment of children are filled with
sensational and improbable stories in
which boys and girls of tender age are
made the actors in the most desperate
and daring exploits in which the killing
of human beings is a common incident.
The result of this sort of corrupting
fiction is a general demoralization of
the youth of both sexes, but chiefly of the
boys. who have the greater liberty to put
in practice the evil instruction they have
recived from their pernicious story books.
Some time ago the Emperor of Germany,
remarking upon the alarming spread of
immorality and general depravity among
the young in his dominions, requested
police magistrates and school teachers to
inquire into the causes, and the general
result arrived at was that vicious litera-
ture was the chief factor in the demoral-
ization complained of.
Formerly, the spirit of adventure in-
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9
herent in most boys was satisfied with
running away to sea, orin going to the
Western plains to hunt the buffalo. Now
that there are no more buffaloes, and
there is no more wild West, while steam
has robbed the sea of its romance, the
youngsters are attracted by vicious
books to careers of crime, and they grat-
ify their romantic aspirations by becom-
ing highwaymen and trainrobbers. Not
only now does every city nourish numer-
ous bands of hoodlums, and youthful
criminals, but even each country town
must boast its gang of incipient outlaws.
The Scranton ease is doubtless an extra-
ordinary example, but other places are by
no means destitute of youthful desper-
adoes.
Pen Picture of the Bill Collector.
Describe him? Why, bless your heart,
Mr. Rudyard Kipling himself could not
do that. He’s avery heterogenous per-
son, you see, and can metamorphose him-
selfinto no end of different forms. To-
day he may be fierce and determined,
with a scowl like an avenging Jove, as
he presents a bill to some old Creesus,
who doesn’t pay just because he feels too
lazy, and to-morrow when he goes away
out back of town to collect a half adollar
from Mrs.O’Callahan Diggs, who hasn’t
seen a half a dollar all in one lump since
the Lord knows when, he has gota ten-
der, almost pitying smile on that queer
versatile mouth of his. If you think
that bill collector whois bolting along
the street over yonder, hot, mad, pers-
piring, stepping on people’s toes and
dodging upstairs and around corners, full
of fight and grim determination, is al-
ways that way you are very much mis-
taken. If you could gather together all
the bill collectors in the world and take
a composite photograph of them, and
then take all their different moods and
dispositions and mix them up into one
disposition, you’d get a very much better
man than the most of us. You’d geta
chap who has had a mighty deep insight
into the hearts of men; a chap who has
learned to read human nature at a
glance; a chap who knows how sweet the
bread tasts that is earned by the sweat
of the brow. Perhaps you have been
there yourself. It’s one of the stepping
stones that a great many men have
passed over in their search after fame and
wealth, and though it may be hard work
yet it opens one’s eyes so to all the
hooks and crooks that are in the world
and shows all the foibles that men have
and all the undignified things that they
can stoop to. The bill collectors have
got a great work todo, and most of them
are doing it well. Some of them are
black sheep, to be sure, and when they
collect a particularly big bill they go to
Canada, but we mustn’t let those fellows
throw a slur on the rest, and because
they have bills against us sometimes we
mustn’t get mad at them and raise a row.
We owe those bills, you know, and that,
by the way, is part of the business that
a great many people are apt to over-
look.
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All Sorts of Dozens.
From China, Glass and Lamps.
The child is taught at school thata
dozen means twelve every time, but when
the child grows into a man he finds that
a dozen is avery elastic term. A baker’s
dozen is thirteen, and so is a publisher’s
or news agent’s in many parts of the
world. In some sections a dozen fish
means twenty-six, and there are other
anomalies of this kind. But, to find a
dozen indicating from two to fifty, it is
necessary to go to the earthenware trade.
Here the size and weight of articles de-
cide how many make a dozen, and in
jugs, bowls, plates and so on there are
two, four, six, eight or more to a dozen.
A dozen composed of twelve articles is a
very unusual thing in the wholesale pot-
tery trade, and, as a result, there are
few clerkships more difficult to hold than
in this line. To have to find the cost of
500 articles at so much a dozen when
that dozen may mean anything, is a very
difficult task until a man gets thoroughly
used to it.
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THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
BRIEF HISTORY OF TEAS AND
HOW THEY ARE NAMED.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
This famous herb has a history dating
so far back into the antiquity of Chinese
annals, which have been handed down
by tradition from 2000 B. C., that we
searcely feel justified in giving it a date
of discovery; and, although it has been
known so long, yet as little of its prop-
erties is known or understood by the
American people as of any production of
the vegetable kingdom, and the opinions
of different writers are so conflicting as
to make one feel that the time spent in
digesting their writings is simply thrown
away. Thus the merchant is compelled
to carry on his trade in the article of tea,
which gives him good returns for his la-
bor, without any certain knowledge of
it. Some writers claim that the discov-
ery of tea was brought about by acci-
dent, and they make it anative of China.
They aver that a certain great Chinese
monarch, who flourished forty centuries
ago, in boiling water over a fire made
from tea branches on which were tea
leaves, allowed some leaves to fall into
the water, and, on tasting this decoction,
pronounced it an agreeable beverage.
Others make it a native of India: still
others of Japan. However this may be,
it is certain that it was known in China
as early asthe time of Confucius; and
we also know that, until very recent
years, China has exported more tea than
has any other country. Some claim that
the Dutch were the first to introduce it
into Europe, in the seventeenth century,
while others claim that it was first used
ip China in the fourth century of the
Christian era; that its use extended into
Japan in the ninth; into Europe through
the Portuguese about the sixteenth cen-
tury, and into Holland by the Dutch in
the sixteenth century, all of which are
notes of uncertainty.
But the remarks which follow may be
taken as absolute facts, and they are of
far more use to an inquiring mind, for
all practical purposes, than would be the
date of discovery, or the name of the
country which was first to give it birth.
The tea plant isa small hardy ever-
green shrub from the various species of |
T. Bohea and T. Viridis and Camilla
Thea. It grows from three to six feet
high, although we have reports of tea
trees in the fertile forest jungles of In-
dia twenty to thirty feet high. It has a
simple feather-veined leaf, quite oblong
or broadly lanceolate, with separate
edges. It grows well 500 to 1,500 feet
above the sea.
The preparation of the leaf is sur-
rounded with some mystery, on account
of the distant countries in which it
grows. New plants are obtained by
planting the seed in circles about two
feet in diameter, using about thirty
seeds, the best soil being virgin, which
should be well drained. The seeds are
gathered in October and keptin damp
earth and sand to keep them fresh until
spring. Tea grows best on the moun-
tains, where it is not too hot or too cold.
The first crop of teais gathered from
plants when three years old. In from
seven to ten years they are cut down,
when the young
masses from the old stump and yield an
abundance of leaves, a single plant pro-
ducing about six ounces, and one acre of
ground about 320 pounds of dried leaves.
There are usually three harvests dur-
ing the year, sometimes four, the first
shoots spring up in|
harvest coming in April, and being a
very small but very fine chop tea, most
of which goes to England and Russia,
except what is used by the rich at home,
and is sold to them at fabulous prices,
sometimes as high as $1.50 and even
3 per pound. The second chop is gath-
ered in the month of May and is of fine
quality, and is sold largely to Americans
as the first chop or first picking. The
third chop is gathered in Juneor July,
and most of it has a good drinking qual-
ity. The fourth chop, when taken, is a
crop in the month of August and is of an
inferior quality. It is used by the poorer
class at home, and also fora coloring
matter. With a Formosa tea this order
is reversed, as the finest Formosa tea is
gathered in August, as, on account of
the wet season, it grows faster in August
and September and contains more sap,
which causes the leaf to ferment quickly,
thus allowing the leaf to cure without
exposing to the sun, which takes its
strength; and, the greater the strength
of the leaf the higher it can be fired,
after which it improves in the dealer’s
bin exposed to the sun, which brings out
the fragrance and destroys the baked
flavor, making the finest tea on the
market. Formosa tea is raised in small
gardens.
Too much sap in the leaves of tea
which is not fermented in curing weak-
ens the infusion. Different kinds of tea
are taken from the same tea shrub, qual-
ity depending up the age of the leaf and
the manner of curing. The name de-
pends upon the manner of curing, age of
leaf and country where it is grown.
| Quality depends also upon climate and
|soil, and all depends upon the tannin
| and theine in the leaf, which, as before
stated, is governed by the age of leaf
and by curing. The younger the leaf,
the more juicy and solid will it be. The
older the leaf, the more tannin will it
contain, giving a bitter taste to the in-
fusion.
Teas are usually designated as black
or green, according to the color of the
leaf, due to the method of curing and to
the age of the leaf.
India teas are black and possess quite
a strong Pekoe flavor, while the Japans
and China black teas have two distinct
flavors, and are classified as Oolong and
Congou.
Green teas from Japan and China are
soid in market places as Japan and China
teas and are known as such by the con-
sumer.
The tea leaf is the flower bud of the
plant, which starts from the nodes of the
leaf, which are alternate and called the
flowery Pekoe. The next leaf is called
the Orange Pekoe, after which may fol-
low several leaves, each being named ac-
| cording to its distance from the flower
|bud or flowery Pekoe. Thus we see
jthateach leaf has occupied the flower
| bud or finest tea leaf; but, as each new
| leaf shoots forth, others must take their
place in rotation on the leaf branch and
jassume anew name and form a new
node for a new leaf branch. It is read-
| ily seen that we have several tea leaves
all on the same fiowering new branch, all
| being of a sameness except as to age.
| We come now to the manner of curing
/and the naming. To illustrate, let us
|take the oldest leaf on the flowering
| branch, which was the first flower bud
|of the new branch, and make it up into
|black tea, which shall be either an
| Oolong or a Congou, as either may be
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made from the same leaf, there being
two distinct flavors depending on the
curing. This curing process depends
wholly upon the time of fermentation
and firing. The teas are first withered
in the sun, after which they are rolled
and twisted. After that they are sub-
jected to fermentation, by which the
leaves lose their disagreeable raw odor
and assume a fine flavor and the desired
tint, after which tkey are fired, the dry-
ing process then taking place.
Oolong teas are highly dried, wiry and
brittle, and are valued according to
strength and pungency and freedom
from dust. They are divided into three
varieties, as follows: Formosa, Foo-
Chow and Amoy, the liquor of which is
similar to an uncolored green. For-
mosa and Foo-Chow rank above Amoy,
Formosa taking the lead as the finest,
Amoy being the commonest of these
three grades.
Scented teas are the Foo-Chow and the
Canton. The former has a weak liquor,
while the latter has a good deep liquor
and is rough to the palate. Scented
Orange Pekoe is a long leaf and draws a
dark liquor with delicate flavor. Scented
Caper tea is a doctored black tea resem-
bling Gun Powder in shape.
Congou or black teaof China, gener-
ally known as English Breakfast, is di-
vided into Moning, Kei-Choo and
Souchong, and Moning is divided into
Ning-Chow and Oopock. Souchong has
a black infusion with large leaf. Kei-
Choo is divided into Ching-Woo and
Pongongs.
India teas are divided into Pekoes,
Pekoe Souchong and Congou, and the
rich Pekoe tips add greatly to the ap-
pearance. India teas used to be charac-
terized by their purity, relying upon
their natural strength for popularity,
but differing in their different climates,
no two gardens producing the same.
They are sold under numerous names,
taking them from the districts in which
they are grown. Assam takes the lead
and is now sold under the Assam Tea
Co. The India Ooyeeling district takes
the lead in quality.
Tile tea is a kind made into a flat
brick. It is made in China and is ex-
ported by way of Keachti, where it is
sold to the Armenians and Tartars.
These tile tea bricks are a mixture of
tea, milk, butter, salt and herbs, making
an article of diet instead of a beverage.
Java tea is very similar to those grown
in British India.
Sweet scented or Orchard tea is called
Lahore. Lahore tea grows as a parasite,
and is said to leave a lasting fragrance
in the mouth and is as good cold as hot.
It is a tea which can be used for flavor-
ing custards, ices, ete.
Holly (Ilex casein) is a species of tea
growing in the Southern States along the
coast, and was used by the Indians.
Natal tea comes from Africa and de-
mands attention. It is not put on the
market until it has matured three or four
months.
As a whole, Congou teas are of two
kinds. One is of large leaf,slittle dust
and fine flavor; the other is of: small
wing leaf with burnt smell. The}Sou-
chong or English Breakfast is made from
the leaf of tea three years old, and from
older trees sometimes when raised in
rich soil. This tea should have a crisp,
dry and unbroken leaf and be free from
dust, and should have a fragrant smell.
Caper Souchong takes its name from
being rolled like a caper. The infusion
is a reddish brown and high flavor.
Padre Souchong or Powchong has a
large leaf slightly twisted and a very
perfect flower.
Ball tea is a kind of black tea made
into balls about the size of a nutmeg.
Black teas should not be fermented
too highly because they will not keep;
but the liquor will be salvy and unpal-
atable, which some think is the trouble
with Ceylon tea, which is grown in a hot,
fertile soil and contains so much sap
that it is hard to drive it off. Others
claim that Ceylon tea is adulterated.
If the season is too dry the tea leaves
will have a red tinge and bright yellow
tips, giving a ruby red infusion.
Green teas are known on the market
as Japan, Young Hyson, Gun Powder,
Imperial and Old Hyson. Green teas
differ from the black by being fired,
without the fermentation, over a char-
coal fire. Japan teas are divided into pan
fired Japan and sun cured and basket
fired. The pan fired tea is fired in cop-
per or iron pans and is more or less
colored. Sun cured Japan is fired the
same as pan fired, but does not contain
asmuch coloring. Basket fired is fired
in bamboo baskets and is not colored
or fired so highly as other Japans. The
finest Japan comes from Kiakhta,from the
famous tea garden Uji. Japan teas are
sometimes sold as colored and sometimes
as uncolored, and it is a question with
many which is the colored and which
the uncolored. Japan Nibs is a large,
loosely fired Japan leaf resembling Im-
perial of second or third quality. When
the leaf of the Young Hyson is shriveled
it indicates age, and those giving a high
eolor to water should be rejected. Old
Hyson is the longer and poorer class of
leaves taken from the Young Hyson;
color, pale green infusion. Young Hy-
son consists of two kinds, Mayone and
Pingong, Mayone being the finer of the
two in flavor but not in style. Both
have alight green color, a strong, aro-
matic smell, and a pungent taste. They
should open clear and smooth, without
being broken, and rolled long. The
Mayone is the finer, as in Young Hyson,
and is the finest green tea to be had.
Gun Powder tea, when in high bloom,
will not stand the breath and, like
fine Young Hyson, is very crisp and
easily crumbled and broken. Imperial
tea is similar to Gun Powder but is not
fired so highly and is rolled larger and
coarser. It has a silvery green color
and bears the same relation to Gun Pow-
der that Old Hyson does to Young Hy-
son. Gun Powder differs from Young
Hyson by being. rolled into hard balls.
Young Hyson and Gun _ Powder
teas, Old Hyson and Imperial differ
only in the way the leaves are rolled, in
curing and in the temperature at which
they are fired. Tunecha and Ty-Chow
are both green teas, asis also Nankin.
The first named is a mixed leaf of in-
ferior quality, clear and short in style.
The Bohea is a small blackish leaf, is
dusty and hasa brackish taste. It is
sometimes mixed with foreign scented
aromatic flowers of other plants.
Tea dusts are of two kinds, siftings
and dust, some of them making a very
good drink, while others are unfit for
use. The better grade is the broken
tea, and, as the finest teas to be had are
the youngest and tenderest leaves, the
dust or siftings obtained from such tea
would make a very fine cup.
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Last, but not least, is the tea now grown
in the United States by Charles V. Shep-
ard, of Summerfield, S. C. It is called
the Pinehurst tea, from the fifteen-acre
‘Pinehurst garden” in which it is
grown, and in which he raised forty
pounds of dried leaves the past season
of a very fine quality of Cengou.
What the future holds for tea raising
in the United States cannot be foretold.
Much will depend on the cost of labor,
and, to compete with cheap Japanese
and Chinese labor, a duty will have to
be put on exported teas. This, of course,
would make tea higher to the consumer.
There appears to be no question in re-
gard to climate, as a tea plant is hardy
enough to become acclimated to our
climate as animals become accustomed
to different localities. The American
people are great tea drinkers, and it
would be very satisfactory to know that
we could produce a fine article without
going abroad. W. M. GIBBs.
Fredonia, N. Y.
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Stores Saturday Afternoons
During ‘‘Dog Days.”
THE TRADESMAN recently addressed a
note of enquiry to the T. Eaton Co.,
which inaugurated the Saturday after-
noon closing movement in Toronto, re-
ceiving the following courteous reply:
Toronto, Ont., April 11—In reply to
your enquiry relative to our position on
the question of closing our doors Satur-
day afternoons during July and August,
would say that we endeavored, for a
number of years, to obtain the co-opera-
tion of our fellow tradesmen, but all to
no purpose. We then resolved, after
holding a council of our own people, to
try the experiment ani close according-
ly. The venture was considered a bold
one by the citizens of Toronto and
eaused quite a commotion, but the result
has been a grand success. Some of the
dry goods houses here tried the experi-
ment for two or three Saturdays, but
weakened and gave it up, claiming the
loss was too great. However, we have
not found it so. We have now closed
four years, and still stand alone, and
every manin the house is proud of our
position, which has resulted in an in-
crease of sales, very largely, each year
during that time. During the remainder
of the year we close at 6 o’clock, except
during the Christmas holidays, which is
a time when eyerybody wants to buy
something for everybody else and very
frequently are unable to buy at sight
from the different varieties of goods of-
fered for saie; consequently it takes a
little longer time to do it.
Yours truly,
THE T. Eaton Co.
The same house also favors THE
TRADESMAN with a copy of a Toronto
newspaper, containing a business an-
nouncement of the position of the house
on the same subject, as follows:
The world has run around a cycle of
years since merchants could afford to be
indifferent to the welfare of salespeople,
or independent of public opinion. There
was a time when nobody closed at 6
o’clock at night, but we always meant to
get tired in ten hours, and the years of
small beginnings echo the sentiments we
now express.
In most relations we practice sincerity
more orless. It mingles in our every-
day intercourse with people; more with
near friends and those who know us inti-
mately, less with strangers and those we
meet in business. There’s no need of
making words about it. We all know
what sincerity is and how to use it.
Early closing is something more than
mere sentiment. It is the application of
sincerity to business—considering the
interests of salespeople in connection
with the best interests of customers.
There is no reason why stores shouldn’t
close early every dayin the week. We
have tested the matter carefully and
fully endorse this conclusion.
Closing
GR SR eine ge ear ea PREY
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Now, isn’t this the prevailing notion
of agood salesman? To be bright and
clean looking, to have a good face, a
pleasant manner, to be modest but confi-
dent, ready and self-possessed, cheerful,
cheery, polite, to take pleasure in giving
pleasure, to adapt oneself to his cus-
tomer, to carry the whole of one’s stock
in his head, to catch a customer’s want
or notion or whim in a minute, to wel-
come service, to seem to have no end of
strength and time and patience, to de-
vote oneself to a dozen, twenty, forty
customers one after another, and to con-
sider the business of selling as if that
were what the world turns on.
And isn’t it the customary notion that
salesmen and saleswomen should work
twelve, fourteen or fifteen hours if nec-
essary—as long as there is trade to be
got.
The means of communication are bet-
ter and quicker to-day than ever before
—apparently about as good as they can
be. Shoppers can do their buying be-
tween the hours of 8 a. m. and 6 p. m.—
if they care to, and nobody will object to
a little inconvenience when the interests
of many thousand salespeople are at
stake.
In regard to early closing, we mean to
lend our whole influence in its favor.
Without any regard to what others might
do, we long ago adopted shorter work
days for this store. And business grows
in spite of it.
— .—<—
Ways Which Win.
From the Confectioners’ Journal.
Itrequires a great deal of mental cal-
iber, and, probably, more than in any
other profession, to be a business man.
There are, necessarily, such qualities
which seldom are born, but which must
be, in the course of time, developed and
nursed in order to make a complete
whole; adhesiveness is one of the facul-
ties which take a great part in business
life. It is necessary that he should
adapt his mind to all stages of life, and
suit himself to the times, and not the
times to himself. But while he is will-
ing to submit any arising questions, even
against his will, and affirms against his
better judgment, his self-esteem must
never be lost sight of, for he is a fool
that does not possess the faculty of man-
hood and respect.
Caution is the mother of wisdom and
has proven a tower of strength to him
who has followed it.
Benevolence, if not overdone, bears
fruit tenfold from the seedsown. Firm-
ness in business is the hand that holds
the rudder which guides into the haven
of prosperity. When you speak let your
words be firm.
Conscientiousness is a high-priced ar-
ticle, rarely found in any market; use it
as it is meant—an influence governed by
the known and supposed rules of right
and wrong.
Hope.. Without it this life would not
be worth living. In business everything
hinges upon hope, and perseverance to a
hopeful future generally leads to success.
Wit is essential in the conducting of
business. A witty man has never been
lost to any question; he grasps the mo-
ment by the hand, and has a ready an-
swer instore at any occasion.
Imitation. Some of our readers may
say, ‘‘We want to be original and not
imitators.” That is true; we do not
wish you to become an imitator of your
neighbor’s articles, or prices, especially
when he is selling below cost.
would be to your benefit if you would
learn from him and imitate his business |
Badges
ways, if they are better than yours. Im-
itate your neighbor’s superiority, his
friendly manner, his politeness, his
kindness, his strict attention to business,
and you will share with him in the prof-
its. Learn, if you can, more ian-
guages than your mother tongue, for,
remember, speaking to a customer in his
own language you touch his heart every
time; by touching his heart you gain his
confidence, and with the latter you get
his business. These are the necessary
faculties required by a first-class busi-
ness man, and any man in possession of
j}them fully developed, will never have
reason toregret his calling of being a
business man.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
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ASSOCIATION VERUS INSOLATION.
“T make it the rule of my life,’’ said a
certain person—a very solemn person—
the other day, ‘‘never to join any asso-
ciation whatever.”’
It would be the rule of my life, on the
other hand, if Ihad any rule, to join as
many associations as I possibly could,
because by association alone can any-
thing be done. But, indeed, 1 mistrust
profoundly the wisdom of any*man who
says he makes this and that the rule of
his life. We allow, to be sure, any man
who pleases to make it the rule of his
life not to kill his neighbors, and not to
do anything forbidden by a certain ven-
erable code. But we do not know the
solemn person who says, ‘‘I make it the
rule of my life never to enter the thea-
ter,’’ or that other who says, ‘I make it
the rule of my life never to read a
novel,’’ or that other solemn person who
makes it the rule of his life never to join
any association. All three solemn per-
sons betray in theirsolemnities the kind
of wisdom which we associate with the
word prig: For to deprive ourselves of
the theater is to cut off the teaching and
enjoynient of a fine art; to read no fiction
is to lose another fine art, and to join no
association shows either contempt for
our fellow creatures or the design to
enjoy the fruits of their labors without
any contribution of our own.
Everything we possess is the result of
association. Everything has been ob-
tained by united effort. The whole of
our social and political freedom comes
from men joining, acting, voting, fight-
ing together. Without association we
are powerless. An army is an associa-
tion, a ship’s company is an association,
a parliament is an association. When
men want anything they form an asso-
ciation in order to get it. There is no
other way of getting it: we must per-
suade the world, first, that what we
want is reasonable and right; next, that
we mean to go on banding ourselves to-
gether until we get it; thirdly, that we
are powerful enough to make our influ-
ence felt. Without association the
world would go steadily down, down,
down. WALTER BESANT.
A A
The Hardware Market.
General Trade—The volume of trade
for the first week of May has not been
up to the standard, but this is, no doubt,
owing to the wet weather. Dealers gen-
erally look forward to a good spring
trade, and there is no reason why we
should not have it.
Wire Nails—But little to note in this
line. Prices remain stationery. From
some points there are indications of an
advance, but the general opinion is that
an advance will be hard to accomplish.
The mill men, no doubt, will be thank-
fulif they can hold it whereitis. We
still quote $1.60 at mill and $1.80 here.
Cut Nails—The demand is light and
mills are anxious for business. In sec-
tions where they are used to any extent,
lower figures could be secured. In this
market the demand is light, and prices
remain firm at $1.50 rates.
Barbed Wire—Owing tothe unsettled
condition of the pig iron and steel mar-
kets and the stringency in the money
market, prices are not as firm as they
have been. For desirable orders conces-
sions can be obtained 5@10c below pres-
ent quotations. The demand is still
large and the best mills find it difficult
to keep up with orders. The regular
quotations are still made ona basis of
$2.40 for painted and $2.80 for galvan-
ized.
Rope—The recent trouble in the money
market and the embarrassment of the
National Cordage Co. have had, as yet,
no effect on the price of manilla and
sisal. Our reports from the large job-
bing and manufacturing centers differ as
to the future price. The general opin-
ion, however, is that there will be no
great decline. We quote sisal rope 9@
8i¢e; manilla, 13@12}¢e per pound.
Wire Cloth—The manufacturers, as
yet, do not seem to have given jobbers
any wire cloth. Reports from all the
large jobbing centers show there is a
general famine existing. Two cents per
square foot is quite generally asked, and
then subject to stocks on hand, but 1%e
is quoted in this market. Very light
stocks.
Screen Doors—In sympathy with the
searcity of cloth, the prices are very
firm; $7.50@8 per doz., for all regular
stock sizes are firmly held.
Bar Iron—The demand is good and
prices are fairly maintained, $1.80@1.90
rates being the usual quotation.
Powder and Shot—Stationary in price
—$3.50 for rifle powder and $1.50 for drop
shot—firmly held.
Galvanized Iron—Is being sold at 65
and 10 to 70 per cent. discount, according
to quantity wanted.
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If you have any overdue accounts you
wish collected, write to Fernald’s Mer-
cantile Agency, Detroit. Michigan work
a specialty. Special reports and collec-
tions made everywhere. Prompt and re-
liable service.
PRODUCE MARKET,
Apples—Weaker and lower. Spys are about
out of the market, but Baldwins and Russets are
in small demand at $2.50 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers pay $1.75 for country-picked
and hold at $2. City hand-picked are quoted at
10@25c above these figures.
Butter—Considerably lower than a week ago.
Handlers pay 22c for choice dairy, holding at 24c.
Factory creamery is firmly held at 28 @ 29¢.
Cabbage—Old stock is practically out of the
market. New Mobile stock commands $1 per doz,
Carrots—25c per doz.
Cider—13@15c per gallon.
Cucumbers—$1.35 per doz.
Eggs—Weaker, but not quotably lower. The
weakness is due to the fact that packers and
cold storage operators have now about all the
stock they want, so that the demand from now
on will be principally of a consumptive charac-
ter. Dealers pay i4¢c and hold at 15c, bnt a de-
cline of at least le per doz. is expected before
the end of the week.
Green Beans—$1.75 per bu. Wax $2.50 per bu.
Green Peas—$1.75 per bu.
Honey—White clover commands 15¢ per Ib.
dark buckwheat brings 124¢e.
Lettuce—Handlers pay 9c for first-class stock,
holding at 12c.
Maple Sugar—Jobbers pay 8@8%c and hold at
10¢ per Ib.
Onions—Old are scarce at $1.25 per bu. Cuba
stock is in ample supply at $2 per bu. cate
and Bermuda stock is in fair demand at $2.25
per bu. crate.
Parsnips—26c per bu.
Pieplant—2c per Ib.
Pineapples—Common, $1@ $2 per doz. The
price is held down by the large amount of green
stock on the market this season.
Potatoes—The market. has sustained a sharp
advance, buyers having raised their buying
price to 60c and their selling price to 65c. A
strong demand appears to have sprung up in all
parts of the eountry stimulated by the fact that
the Southern crop will be from one to two weeks
late thissummer, due to the cold, wet spring.
Some dealers are sanguine the price will go to #1
per bu. before the end of the present month.
Radishes—25e per doz. bunches,
Spinach—50c per bu.
Squash—4@ic per ib.
Strawberries—#3 @ #3.25 per case of 24 qts.
Tomatoes—#3 per 6 basket crate.
Turnips—Mississippi stock, 25¢c per dozen
bunches,
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0, os , Tr . . . --2 00@2 50 | Cndbear.... | 111011277" 2 lei
Bs Mastic ii ‘és @ a D. F. R.. 1 ge 00 Sea es . $ : We are Sole Preprietors of
: Myrrh, (po. So seek mela : eee
, Opi (po 4 50) 222.222. 3 y , Juniperis Co. 0. T....1 — . Rie bk Iph |, we a Nes
* SAMs el, ee en me 5@3 & Emery, all numbers W Hh | Mi h Bat h R (
“* bleached..... 33@_ 35| Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@z 00 ’ — 8. $ 6 Ba Br l § IC ian a arr gme lj.
Tragacanth ........... 40@1 00} Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 | Ereota ipo.) 7 tS ie "5
» “ HERBA—In ounce packages. vs —- sett teeeees ; ae 00| % Flake ite. 12g 15
AN ec 25 TT ie COMM ea ache eae bone a
ate 20 SPONGES. Gambier sane 7 g a
a Florida sheeps’ wool, “4 ome! We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of
233 Nessun shops wos 2 50@2 75 Glassware flint. by box 70 & 10.
yi 25 ess than box
ear cenak aan | Glue, Brown...... . 6 WHISKIES, BRANDIES
> Tanaést Vv 25 v wool carriages ‘” ou eee _ “ "
" waommera, searTigge se gs | Grama Parada... x2 2 GINS, WINES, RUMS.
> a Cosehend, 7. ia ones 55@ 60 Grasa shop wore Hydraag Chior” Mie. @ =
Carbonate, Pat........ 2 22 | _TiBRO ........... 80
: 95, | Hard for use. 5 i
SEEN As BS B[Flowhattrss "|< oxtanin @ &
OLEUM. ee ee “ _Unguentum. 45@ 65} We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only.
ume Sees ee 3 50@4 00 wacannis Hydrargyrum ......... @ 6! We gi 1 attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction.
Amygdalae,Dulc... .. 45@ 75} Accacia seseveeee-e----. 50] Iohthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 We give our eee atte : al Seid haul
‘ my alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 | Zingiber .................... eee 75@1 00| All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order:
| Antal SUWdety ete edtued 1 70@1 80 | Ipecac. seu "I. 60 | Togine, Resubi. 2/222. 3 80@3 90
i — {Cortex ieee : po 40 — 186 ; = BOGORONME secs se ccs = =
a none ean 5 50} Auran or es... ual eue ‘ T T
[me Cafpat.....- Com GS het Arom 50 --- 60@ 65
Cewomeyee ........,. 85@ 90 Similax, ‘Ofticinalis ice ewaeu es 60 7 15
ice cuneeanse ces « 35Q 65 Co...... 3% | Liguor Ea et Hy-
~ Chenoeoet ..........- On OF) Gentes 50 pommel teas @ 7 , 89
E ee seed ae e enn oe - Liquor Fotags Asta 10@ 12
. ee ys ee agnesia, Sulp
« Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65) Tolutan : ee Te); oe. 2%@ 4
bd Copaiba 89@ 90' Prunes virg 50' Mannia, 8. F......... 60@ 63 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
16
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
GROCERY PHICE’ CURRENT.
The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers.
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.
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
AXLE —
Dp
mn
gro!
a... cs 55 6 00
Copter Or. .......... z 9 CO
Peee............ 50 5 50
Frazer's —— 9 00
I oe een 75 8 00
Paragon ... 55 6 00
BAKING ‘POWDER.
Acme.
4 >. cans, 3 doz UES gy inet 45
% lb 2 85
i 1 60
ee 10
Arctic
a 60
gach en MI a A ee 1 20
» * . £0
oe 9 60
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. incase... 80
16“ wg - oes
Red Star, ecans........ 40
” eT eae 78
_ - * Ce
Telfer’s, 1 lb. cans, doz. 45
“ % lb. “se “ : 8&5
a3 i b. “ “ : 1 50
Our Leader, 14 Ib cans.... 45
¥% ‘ib coons.....- 7D
Eipcem......i
Dr. Price’s.
per doz
Dime cans.. 90
4-02 ee
6-0z a
8-0z 7
12-02 me oe
na «67lUUL
2%-lb “ 11 40
4-1b - Ba
5-Ib 21 60
nib “* 4 80
BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
ee ee .
eee.
ee... 70
BLUING. _— Gross
Arctic, 40z ovals.. 400
— 7 00
Ro a 10 50
sifting m_... 2
“= Hoe.3, -.. .@
“ No. 5, ss --. SO
~ See 2....-..-... 450
Mexican Liquid, - - - oo
— 6 80
BROOMS,
= 2 Hurl ee ee ae
wwwror
wo
SRRASK KS SASRSa
bok ek
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row....
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row....
Palmetae, goese............
BUTTER PLATES.
Oval—250 in crate.
os
ee a. 60
Bo. 2.. iy
a oe 80
ee es nes oe
CANDLES.
a. 40 Ib. boxes... —. »
CE 9
eciaee pee oe ieee a 11
I ks vote ese 2
CARNED Goons.
Fish.
Clams.
Eitiie Mock, 1i............ 1 20
“ - oe... 90
in Chowder.
ae! . ey 2 25
ve Oysters.
Standard, ib ia ot OD
2 Ib.. oT
Lobsters.
00
90
B
10
25
25
p-5)
1 90
1 75
Alnaka, Rea. coke caeene 145
pink................. 13
Kinney’s, aa 7.
dines.
American corte acon as @5
PE neces ee
Imported ee 10@11
ae bedded =
ug Be
Boneless .................. 21
Tront.
Pe a a oi cae 2 50
Fruits.
Appies.
= ib. standard.........
1 05
York State, gallons.. 3 00
Hamburgh,
ar,
hove oen,...... : 1%
ee CPN... 17
BE ic co ee dks Fy
ore 17
Blackberries,
es @................ 95
Cherries
See ce eee eed ek 10@1 20
Pied Hamburgh 1%
eee. 150
eS es 20
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
ages.
mae........ 5... 1 10
California. . 1 70
Gooseberries.
Common 1s
Pie . ohh eee 13
ae
Shepard’s . ae 65
Citta. 2 20
Monitor a 1 65
ae...
Pears,
eee ............... 20
eeee.............. 210
Pineapples.
Common. . 1 00@1 30
Johnson’ s sliced...... 2 50
= pleas 2%
Booth’s sliced. @2 50
- grated. elon @2 %
Quinces.
eae... 1 10
Raspberries
ee oc 1 30
Black Hamburg.. 1 50
Erie, black .. hn 1 30
Strawberries.
Lawrence . oo 13
Hamburgh . a“ liz
Oe ce . 12
OE ee 1 10
ee
Blueberries ........ 1 00
Corned oe TTDby" oo. 210
Roast beef, — o. DD a
Potted ham, a Gece as 130
Se 890
c tongue, % ip......... 1 35
. ' ...... 85
' Chicken, 4 Ib....... 95
Vegetables.
Beans.
Hamburgh stringless....... 13
French style..... 2 2
Ee 1 35
ae ee 8... 1
I is Steet ce. 5
Lewis Boston Baked........1 35
Bay State Baked............ 135
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 35
Pg 1 00
—
Hamburgh . ee
Livingston ee 12%
ee
seh i, 150
Morn pg ae
ee a eel aa ge 7
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat........ 13
carly June......
Champion oe -1 530
= tk Oe
ancy sifted....1 90
aeeket Le cee euke ge oe vis]
Merrie Gtanderd............. 7
VanCamp’s marrofat....... 110
early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35
oo. ee ste oo
eile Mushrooms.
oe cape ee 17
Pumpkin. =
PO ccc. ee ae —
Squash,
een. ee 12
Succotash.
coe weuee 1 40
Honey Dew..
Re MSS Ee nina 3 35
Tomatoes,
I ee eee ce
Excelsior ....... eee 1 25
I 1 2
ae nies ene an 1 40
eee eee a 3 50
CHOCOLATE.
Baker's.
German Sweet.. ...... oe 23
I nie aa ccews denies 37
Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43
CHEESE,
PE seco crictinicudec. @i2%
Mick lace Sececs Ql2%
Leuawee she ee @i2,
nes... occ @i2z%
Coe eee ..! @12
oe... 9 @il
Brick 11
oe... 1 00
Leiden eee ee 23
Peer @i0
Peeeeeeee............ 2. @25
hoqued ort.. . @35
Sap Sago. S22
Schweitzer, imported. @2A4
domestic .... @i4
CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, —, -.2 %
Pint ._ a
Quart 1 doz bottles | .. 383
Triumph Brand.
Their eant, per GOR........... 1 35
Pes, So Mostiee.......... 2... 4 50
Quart, pee Soe 8. 3 75
CLOTHES PINS.
Dare eeeee............ 40@45
COCOA an.
35 lb. bags... :
Less quantity
Poun
@
packages....... 6%Q@7
COFFEE,
Green,
Rio.
Fair... a eee: mo
Good.. 18
a 20
ee 20
Peaberry i 22
Santos
ae 18
a 20
eee 2
Peaberry . . ce
Mexican ‘ana Guatamala,
Pee 21
Good. . ee eater e ee
Fancy... eee eee eee 24
a.
»
Milled Joe. ee
dk
ae... 25
Pree COWEN... a
Mandehling . ae
Mocha,
Imitation . ee
Arabian .. Lo. oe
‘acne.
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.
Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 21.80
ees
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case....
Extract.
—~ City % STOSB........ 75
13
Hummel’ 8, a Bross... ae 150
oe 2 50
CHICORY.
Bulk. 5
ae es
CLOTHES LINES,
Cotton, oe....... per doz. 13
oe es es 140
- oP rs....-.. ” 1 60
_ ee... .... - 175
e es _ 19
Jute —.....: - 90
- _—...... ' 1 0
CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. In case.
ee... 7 40
i, 6 2
Genuine Swies............. 73
American Swiss. .
sescccce 6 7
COUPON BOOKS.
81
{82
- *
8 5,
810,
; per hundred :
s
s
a‘
aaanel
BSSesrs
a“ prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:
ep Gr over........-
500“
1000 “ Lee 2 oe
COUPON ‘PASS BOOKS,
—— be made to represent any
enomination from 810 down. |
= per cent.
—- 51@
a 2 00
100 fia. 3 00
vee cee . om
— * cess cca ae
ieee tees 17 50
CREDIT CHECKS.
so, any one denom’ a. % 00
000,
oe 00
2000, “cc ou ed a Re 8 00
Reece PEN................ 75
CRACKERS.
Butter.
Seymour XXxX.. a
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6%
Poems Sae...... ....... 6
Family XXX, cartoon...... 6%
ee 6
Salted KX, cartoon ...... 6%
—— oo ‘ele oe
“te Te ae 8
Butter biscuit ... --, on
Soda.
peee: Tae ......:,... 6
eee: coee.............@..... Te
Some, Tees... .......,., Oe
cayeee eee... 58k. 16
Long Island Wafers ...... 1
Oyster.
BR Oyster Ss...... aa ©
City Oyster. —- Lue leew ce 6
Farina Oyster.. co. 8
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly pure... a... Oo
Telfer's Absolute.......... 39
eee 15@25
DRIED FRUITS.
aoe
Sundried, sliced in bbls. 1%
red 7%
uarte
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes @li
Apricots.
California in bags...... 16%
Evaporated in boxes. .. 17
Blackberries.
In boxes. . 8 @9
Nectarines.
e.g. cs. 15
oi eee... ....-..... 15%
Peaches.
Peeled, in boxes.. we 16
Cal, evap. a ool 14
r - m beee...... 13%
Pears.
California in bags.....
Pitted Cherries.
oe... .... -....
50 lb. boxes . be
2S :
Pranciies.
We. i ee
Raspberries.
ie MOPPOE, ... 5... 5.05. 22
ee OO, ss nn 23
Peek eee ee. 24
Raisins.
Loose Muscatels in Boxes,
2 crown bebbeecds eau wen 1 50
1 65
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2 crown cha end eee . 5%
3 den ioe ees we . 6%
Forei
Currants.
Patras, i Sees... 4
a eee... ...-.. 44
4%
” in less quantity ....
Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, 7 boxes 2
Lemon .
Orange ‘“ i sc sc 7
Raisins,
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes @8
Sultana, 20 . . 8%@ 9
Valencia, 30 ‘“ / @7
Prunes.
California, so .......... 10%
90X100 25 Ib. bxs. ion
. 80x90
" 70x80 - “13e
_ 60x70 ' 14
Turkey .. as 8
cealalge, ES - 14@15
Sultana ..... con
French, 60-70..... 13
a ee oie 12
. 80-99. 11
ee 10
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
TRG ec oan cy 81 75
No, 2, 6% a
ME Bide ceecetiesaieus) ee
Ro. 2,6... 1 50
xx wood, white,
No. 1, 6%.. 1 35
Oe Oe ee ees 1%
Manilla, ‘white.
EE ES en Te 1 00
eee eas ee 95
Coin.
me 4...
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina.
WOO Te, BO oa ees 3%
ne
Lima Beans.
Dried..... ec ceo oe 4g
Maccaroni and Vermicelil.
Domestic, 12 Ib. box.... 55
Tmported........... -- -10%@: %
Oatmeal.
Barrels 200.. ijacetas oe
Half barrels ee 2 50
Pearl Barley.
a ee oo 2%
Peas.
mre, OS ieee 2 00
Pore Oe I 23@3
Rolled Oats.
Barrels 180.. ‘ @4 50
Half bbls 90.. @2 38
Sago.
RR cs ce cc cuee i oe
ee a a i 5
Wheat.
CE ee a 5
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
MG on 140
Cod.
eee cc 3%
Whole, Grand Bank..... 5%
Boneless, bricks.. ...... @s
Boneless, strips.. ......
Halibut.
eee a 104%@i1
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg ®
= - - 2 1h
“ce “e oo ay 9 00
TRON WOMIOR 60.5 oh ans sn os, 12 00
Round, i bbl > ibs oles 2 85
vues 1 45
Seated... 18
Mackerel,
et, See... eee 2 12 00
No 1, 40 Ibs ee ciie chee 5 05
Be. t. e..... 1 35
Family, 90 Ibs. . acess oe
- a ee OTE 95
Sardines.
Russian, kegs...... casos 65
Trout.
Mo. 1, % Dbis., 100ibs........ 6 %
Peo. 5 45 DOE, 20 Te... 3 00
Te De, OO Roses cence 85
OG, 1, Oi) Oe... 25544. 70
Whitefish.
Famil
No. 1
5A bbls, Ibs ad oes 8 00 $4 50
-. 68 3G
10 Ib. kits Piece yee oe 95 60
8 Ib. ia uel. 80 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Souders’,
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Bestin the world for the money,
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
ao ....8 2
eos.....
Regular
Vanilla.
XX Grade
Lemon,
Poe..... $1 50
o...:. 80
XX Grade
Vanilla,
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. —
202 folding me 5 12
aS ede
6 oz “ eo 3 00
8 oz - .--3200 4 00
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Oe 3 50
Oe ROPR. cc ct 2 00
uarter BORA... .......<... 115
Cie Oe ey 30
i ip ee... ......- 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
ac Shea eeu eu 4 50
Re ice t teen ccs. 2 50
eeeees nae viccce cone 2 an
1 1b can 4
Eagle Duck— Dupont’ 8.
Rie |. ce secede +1101 OO
Half PO 5 %
eaereer ROes.........-..... 3 00
eo 60
HERBS,
Sage..... 15
Cee eteeetee oa 15
ao
Madras, 5 lb, box 55
a vt 3and5 1b. pone 50
JELLY.
ty om oe ........... 6@ 70
— ee #H@ 9
LICORICE,
ec clicicgeuis eee le 30
RI eck aaa, 25
eee cs 12
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz........... 12
' Soo8...,....... 2 2
MATCHES,
oe 2 One... ....... 1 65
Anchor parlor...... eee cues 17
a eee...
Export parlor. Lica eeecreces 4 00
MINCE. MEAT.
8or6 doz. incase perdoz.. 95
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
| oe. 8 5. $1 75
Half galion 1 40
WE es 7
en
Half pint .
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
Pee le, 7 00
Half gallon . ws 2
be
oo ee
MOLASSES,
ee
Sugar house.. a+ 08
Cuba Seiten,
Ordinary ..... denen ous 16
Porto Rico.
NE eee sen c caue, 20
Ee os soa es Gad) ocecuey 30
18
22
27
>
Co a ol 40
One-half barrels, 3c extra,
PICKLES,
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... @6 50
Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 %5
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count. 8 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count 4 50
PIPES,
Clay, BP Bcc ew eec se 1 75
‘TD. fullcount........ 7%
ee ee 1 25
POTASH,
48 cans in Case.
a 4 00
Ponms Galt Oo.'s.......... 8 2
RICE.
Domestic.
Cries WO Soc as cos ee
S ees ie
. oS). 2M
a ok ee —
—
Japan, bg = 5%
ae oe aleues 5S
Pc heen a 5
PN ck coh ce eae ees 5
"THE MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN.
poke
“J
Root Beer Extract.
Williams’, — Mee Woes 4 1%
oe 00
meee... Gee... 6c... cs, al?
“3 MO cece 5 00
SPICES,
Whole Sifted.
MN es no cs, 10
Cass a, China in mats...... 7
Batavia in bund....15
- Saigon in _ Loe 32
Cloves, Amboyna.. eae
Peeeeeee..........3. 12
Mace Batavia....... .......80
ee
" TOR, Bei ens ve 60
Pepper, Singapore, black....10
white... .20
m a ee 16
Pure Ground in Bulk,
Bee... ce.
Cass! a, “Batavia Lopes cc wea ou 18
and Saigon.25
“ ST 5
Cloves, Amborua Nae 28
' Zanzibar 18
wage. 2 African a
an. edie sep eae 20
- a ce
Meee MAEIR, ... 5. css. 7
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste, .22
_ eee. .....,......0e
Sens OG. 2 ....... 4... 95
Pepper, Singapore, a 16
Laces 24
' Cayenne. .......... 20
meee. ........ 20
“Absolute” in Packages,
148 es
Pee i... ics 6... .- - io
Cae eenin........-.... 8 155
ee a. 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 64 15
. — 8 155
Mustard.. - 2 1S
Ree es, 8 155
oa... a. oF
SAL SODA.
ee eat eee,
Granulated, boxes.
SEEDS.
TN oe heres asa. @12
Canary, Smyrna....... 6
OR ooo ees, 10
Cardamon, Malabar... 90
Hemp. Russian. : 4%
Mixed Bird...... 5%
maa SACKS.......... ... &2 =
33 io tb. sacks. 85
Sin 25
oA Bib ee. eae 50
56 lb. dairy in linen bags 32
a 16 18
Warsaw.
56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 2
28 lb, oc “ “ee i. 18
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins.
56)», dairy in linen sacks. 75
Solar Rock.
oe oh, Oe. ss ce. 27
Common Fine.
ee 85
ee ee ee ac tein c ee 8&5
SALERATUS,
— 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s
DeLand’s
Dwight’s... .
SO ee ce cys.
Pics
undry
Allen B. TWrisley*. s Brands,
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 40
Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90
White Borax, 1) &iD...... 3 9%
Proctor & Gamble.
oid eros ic cus cee 3
rvory, wr G8... ..:, -... a
Lenox eae ue 90
Mottled MEMNET ooo. 3 60
Pe i ce deen 3%
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, wrp'd..$4 00
plain... 2 94
N.K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
ee CO ovens cee 475
Brown, OP WON... acs leit 2 85
Oe cc fees 3 50
— Bros, & Co,’s Brands.
Gis iwe cee se eee baeayue 4 00
Gotten Oil”. ieiccsese Ge
igo 3 95
ilk bisaedeste stars Soe
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50
hand, S$ dosz....... 2 50
R.
sUG
The following prices repre-
sent the actual selling prices in
Grand Rapids, based on the act-
ual costin New York, with 36
cents per 100 pounds added for
freight. The same quotations
will not apply toany townwhere
the freight rate from New York
is not 36 cents, but the local
quotations will, perhaps, afford
a better criterion of the market
than'to quote New York prices
exclusively.
Oe tee $3 30
PO cece eee... 6 17
Greneiered 2... 5 67
Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 80
Cubes. a. oo
XXXX Powdered. ........! 6 48
Confec. Standard A. -. oo.
No. 1 ColumbiaA. | oe
No. . Ree As ik, 5 42
i Oe, 5 36
No. ? a 5 47
a 5 11
Ce ee 5 95
No ws. 4 98
me Be 4 98
ees a 4 92
ee Wc 4 61
oe ee 448
SYRUPS.
Corn.
ES Ea 2.
mer eee... ..... cs... ioe
Pure Cane.
Pais. :. 19
Good . 25
Choice 30
SWEET GOODS
Ginger Snaps.......... 8
Suger Orcems......... 8
Frosted Creams....... 9
Graham Crackers..... 8%
Oatmeal Crackers..... 8%
VINEGAR.
ee ees 7 @8
er @9
$1 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,
Bulk, per gal ides eceae 30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1%
YEAST.
Magic, . Mein
Warner's .....
wees Poem ........
eee se. i, 8k
ae
TEAS,
sgaPan—Regular.
RE occ cet cee @i7
OO... @20
MOO, oe ea 24 @26
Choicest. . was coseue Goe
TM i i. 10 @12
SUN CURED.
ee ie @1i7
ae @20
RN es cet ce nea 24 @2e
monet... ss. -t 32 @34
eee... -... «10 @i2
BASKET FIRED.
es ae 18 @20
neree. oy cs. ese fs
a @35
Extra niin wire leat @40
GUNPOWLER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @ss
OOLONG, @26
Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.
Common to fair....... 2 @2s
Superior tofine........ 30 @35
YOUNG HYSON.
Commor to fair....... 18 .
Superior to fine....... 30 @d40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
ae 18 @z
OG ok cc cere oye 24 Qe
RB isco os ee @50
TOBACCOS.
Fine Cut.
Pails unless otherwise noted
We ea eee, @30
2 ee @27
Meg Mie... .. oss. 27 @24
mele en... ......-.- 21 G22
ee a
Sweet Cuda......... \ 34
MeGinty ..-.......;... 27
: % bbis....... 25
Dendy Fire... ........2- 29
Torpedo re Coady Seen ee 2
' in drums 23
in See oe 2
Ras her eda wea, . 23
~ dreeme.........c.. 22
Plug.
— Brands,
— 41
ener... 6... 29
Nobby cy ea 41
Scotten’s Brands.
FE iis eee es iss... 26
EN i nos cane 38
Valley City ........... 34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old Honesty.......... 40
Oy TOE. oi cis 32
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands.
ee I ee 17
Golden Shower............ 19
IO cc ce 26
Meerschaum . -29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
MANTO0G NOWY.. 666.555 45 40
se ci ce tale, baeien 30@32
CN ee cc a 15
ee eae 33
Tr
a 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
ee cas 6
Banner i ap arsene Woes eg. 38
ee Crs 5.8. 28
eae 8s Brands.
Wo
mover Dew... 30
eee Goer... 1... 26
F, F, Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Brands,
Peg 26
Old Tom oe
Standard ' 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s B ;rands.
PRIM can cs 41
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
Ce ea 26
Mh WOE ci. 28@32
BO COR con ceo ce 32
Spaulding & Merrick.
owe Soe Derry... <8... : 25
Traveler Cavendish....... =
eee ee...
Plow Boy.. 88
Corn Cake. 6
OILs.
The Standard Oi! Co. quotes
as follows, in barrels, f.0. b.
Grand Rapids:
Meeene. ee... 84
Water White, old test. @ i%
W. W. Headlight, 156° 7
Water White Mich.. @ 6%
Pees... .5........, @ 6%
Stove — Cae ceae Oils
pcan Peer tce wees 27 @36
Engin 13 @21
Black. 15 cold test... @ 84
HIDES PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:
HIDES.
Green .. . .2%@3%
Pere Cisrod............ @4
OT ice cue. @ 4%
a ee 5 @5
aoe Groce ........... 38 @4
- Oprod........-... @5
Calfskins, oe8...... 4@6
cured...... 7@8
Deacon skins.......... 10 @30
No. 2 hides 4 off.
—- QD B®
@i 50
Weened ...............38 Gee
Unwashed ...... -...10 Gis
MISCELLANEOUS.
oo 3 @ 44
Grease butter ........ 1 @2
rruemon .....-., 2.2.5. 1%@ 2
Gimeene.....,.... woos OOS 7
Outside peices ‘tor N No. 1 only.
egeee ui... cu... -.e 50@1 00
ee ae ee, 15 00@25 00
Beaver. .6...-. 45... 3 00@7 00
We We 0@ 50
oo 10@ 25
ee os. es 4 00@6 00
Poe, rea. ............. 1 00@1 a
oo 3 00@5 Of
Fox, | a 50@1 00
ee 2 00@3 00
Mostin. oe eon ak 1 0@3 =
. pale & yellow. po oe
Bink, Gare... ........ 40@2 00
Moree... ... = 17
Cppoeeam............. 30
Meee. GORE. 6... «12. 5 00o8 :
REMOCOON .5.5....-. 4. 25@
WN, ce veces 1 00@1 5
aE 1 00@3 00
Beaver castors,‘ib....2 00@5 00
DEERSKINS—per sound.
‘Phin and greemn......... 10
Long orev yc... 5. 20
TO, GEV ccc... +s es. 25
Red. Ph "Blue, Gey,..... 35
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT,
No. 1 White (58 1b. test) 68
No. 2 Red (60 1b. test) 68
MEAL,
EO ee cece ee cats 1 40
Granulated... .......... _ 1.
FLOUR.
Straight, in ee eee s 3 60
Darras. ....... 3 85
Fetent “ secke......... 4 60
_ Derreis........ 480
Graham ‘* sacks.... ... 1 70
Rye . eee 1 90
MILLSTUFFS.
Less
Car lots quantity
Bree... 5... $15 00 $15 00
Screenings .... 14 00 14 00
Middlings..... 17 00 7 00
Mixed Feed.. . at 50 21 00
Coarse meal .
ee TOR co
Less than car lots..........
at tee... 38
Less than car — edevecess 40
No. ; Timothy, ae lots....13 90
No. on lots ..... 14 00
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, carcags.......... 64@ 8
* Bind quarters. . -% @e
a. 2
’ ore %@ 6
. loins, No. 3...10 @1i1
' cic severe n. @
. wOmeGe......... 6%@ 7
Ce ee 6
Pam doe... ce @12%
“ sheuider........ @1%4 BULK. a ee 60
Sausage, blood. orhead @7 Counts, per gal.. Ga. 22 ee ee ao: 2
Iver .... @7? | Extra Selects........... 1d . eT eee 2%
. wraukian @ 9 acta. 4 2 00 ee el, 3 00
Mutton ......... ...... ..8 mee tote... 12% Baskets, mae Lee olay 35
a 7@8 ont bes bushel.. 1 25
PAPER & WOODENWARE ful 1 35
FISH and OYSTERS. PAPER, Y willow er ths, No. 1 6 25
tate 1% ’ No.2 7 50
F. = pa quctes an) Mockiord |. _................. 2 " ~ Noss
follow en ee 24 ° splint * Rea sa
FRESH FISH. ——- ee 2% i i * Noz4s
Whitetes @2 js oy 25 ' “ -Noad 5 a
ae 8 @9 oy Goods... ... 1. 5 @6 INDURATED WARE,
mie @15 | Jute Manilla........... @6% | Pails.. _ 2
Ciscoes or Herring... @6 Red Express ot... 5% | Tubs, No. 1. Lae
Shee @10 OL2..........446 | Tube, No, ee
Fresh lobster, per Ib... 29 wien. Wepe, WO.y |... 1... .10
OME eeu oil ay 0 @12 | 48 Cotton. ee POULTRY.
No. 1 Pickere......... @9 Cotton, No. z i. Local dealers pay as follows:
Pe oe $ DRESSED.
Smoked White... ... @10 | Sea Island, saul La 30 | Fowl..................12 @l4
Red Snappers... | Me Seem ee ieee, 16 @18
Columbia River Salmon 20 ee 16 @18
MeGe were)... 5.4... 15 oe Ciseken...... ........09 @io
ella aia " _ WOODENWARE. il i
Fairhaven Counts.... @40 ubs, _: Lal et ha alia 7 00} Live broilers 1341bs. to 2 lbs:
F.J.D. Selects....... @33 fe area ae : — _ doz Sn -6 CO@7
BOIOCAs ................ @2 g5 | vive broilers less than
@28 | Pails, ae i, three hoop... a = _llb each, per doz....2 50@3 50
SHELL Goops, Clothespins, 5 gr.boxes.... 40 | PUICKeMs, .......--.-- 2 ORM
Oysters, per 100 ......1 50@1 75] Bowls, 11 neh...........0.. a.
Re ++: on oe oe Se 11 @13
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co,
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
— «ll 20 5@
Bmore Cus ........ Dede crus ccecsccs « oe OO
Extra clear pig, nee ee
NT
Cent, ee ee 22 50
ee 22 50
Creme POGm Ser Gis. .-..................... 22 50
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 22 50
sausaGe—Fresh and Smoked.
or ee -
NN
PO ic ele cen cece uc }
I 9%
EE Ee 7
EE 6
Beers. teree...... tt ..s... 6
EE ——————————— 7
LARD.
Kettle Rendered.. moe
Cregeen... .......... 114
Weegee c.g wee meee tees cee le 9
Compound . ate .
50 lb, Tins, we advance. |
0 Ib. pails, 4c
uh *~ Xe -
to «6 Xe _
1m te '
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 9 00
xtra Mess, Chicago packing................ 9 00
Boneloms, rumep butte. ......................- 15 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average ee 14%
Pele sk, :
" . 12 to 14 lbs
" fenie .....-.
- est boneless
Boulos. .............5..-
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........
riod beet, Hani prices...................
ee)
lee, We
eee... 11
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Cases Bbls. Pails.
Standard, wer Te... ..... 6% 7%
H. Po iihctec acs 6% ™%
' Wiest |... 6.0... 6% 1%
Boston Crega)............ 86
ae : 8%
Riutre 1 H.:....... 3. 8%
MIXED CANDY.
_ Pails.
nie. Deb ee oped dere ccectcceeese 7
ec age le 6 .
eee «ssn 1%
NOnee,...+.- Ss 8
English Roc a 8
Conserves . ee or 8
Broken Taffy. biases sae oy ols baskets 8
Peannt squares. ........... 8 9
Wee Cee cs i s. 10
Valley Creams.. . ca. 13
Midget, 30 Ib. baskets. Dees ee eu ee es cone ema 8
ee ce a an 8
PANCcY—In bulk
Pails,
Lozenges, WEA oo ce nee . 10
ee 11
eee... . 11%
Chocolate Monumentals................. ae ae
CE EE 5%
ee er 8
ee 8%
RIGO cc ae we 10
FANcy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box
ee Ee ea ne ne 55
Sout rere..........-.... aoa 55
Peppermint Drops ee . 60
ee, : =
Re me Coeriane Pre....... 5... 5... se
We ic ee ce cue. yon i0g50
Dies Fee ee ese. ee 1 00
Ae, Pee Se 80
Lozenges, i, esc ee sor eae 60
ce a, 65
eee awe wea 60
ii occa ete wepncee wees 7
Macao a oe te ces ene cee a 55
Molasses Bar.. a oeiwes or yaa pica eee ee
Hand Made Creams. . 85@95
String Rock Se 65
Burs Almonds ............ --k ©
Wintergreen Berries..... .60
CARAME
vO. 1, wiepeod, 21. Heued................. 3
No. 1, _ 3 ite ees 51
No. - ie 2 ss ee
No " 3 eal eae od ne coe
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.. ee
BANANAS,
Se J 50@1 75
Medium -2 WO@2 50
ee
ORANGES
5 pene wae feeey .. sc...
essinas, PE ecco tc acer.) 55. os ee See Oe
300s. . i -
EMONS.
Messina, choice, 360. Dee oe beet ee ey @3 50
fancy, .......... 8. @i v0
o coe Be. 3 50@3 75
" fancy are .................. . 4 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, am @i2
Me cee ws, @i2
« extra a @i4
_ . Me oi ees. @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb. box ee lo mee dee scons: @7
: ee @ 6%
" tear 50-lb. box.. 4%@ 5%
NUTS.
Almonds, oe Meee eee eeu ce aces @19
RV @18s
‘ California ee ee cs @18%
eee Bee... @ 9%
Filberts . eee. @11%
Walnuts, ee @13%
a eee... so
° Cae... i 13
Table Nuts, WON Le, @13%
Cee @i2
Veins po 12 @i¢4
Cocoanuts, foe @4 00
PEANUTS,
Fancy, H. Ps ec ae, @8
od Tisasied pede eee cena. @ 2%
Fancy, BH, PB, ee eg ae @38
" monn... ......... @9%
Choice, H. Ps Extras.. @ 6%
ct omen UU @8
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE,
FRUIT JARS.
Qe a eee
ae Oe ey ee uae ete ce ad
er CO ee
Ne
TO
LAMP BURNERS.
ES 45
No. 1 OT age deemegas sepa cima oc eben luc uae ceases 50
Te i ek at ene a ewe aduc
Tubular De ae eee ete idee ceeds cus. 75
LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box.
6 doz. in box.
Noe. @san............ 1 80
eee ee ee a, 1 90
Eee 2 90
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top eles eeu ii auicewens, oa. e) 2 2
ee ee 2 40
Ras “ - ee 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top ee 2 60
No. 1 Se es 2 80
No.2 . ° MO deed See te ad oe oes a oe 3 80
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ sca ve
No. 2 te “ “ “ec ml i. 70
No. ono oa _ " a EE Tey 4 88
La Bast
No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per doz. sceeipas ca, 12
No. 2 We cede escaccack Oem
No. 1 crimp, per. CT NA as icles a i a 1 3
O_O eee -1 60
LAMP WICKS.
mot Ver ere 8... 23
No. 1, . a
a 2, . 38
No. 3, - ve
Mammoth, Ver Ge 7
STONEWARE—AKRON,
Butter Crocks, SOG Oe ec. 06
Moat per des.... ..........- 60
Jugs, oe ee ee. 70
lto4 gal. ed a eee 07
Mik Pans, * gal., per | WOO ec accae ve .>
Financial Notes.
Julius Berkey has purchased of Geo.
E. Parker, of Boston, the stock he held
in the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
At an auction sale of the effects of C.
S. Hartman, last week, forty-three shares
in the Grand Rapids Cycle Co. were
struck off to S. A. Morman at 145—par
value 100.
It is believed that the proposed Bank
of Commerce, at Detroit, is now an as-
sured fact, $140,000 of the $250,000 cap-
ital stock having been already subscribed.
G. M. Sprout has retired from the
banking firm of Turrell & Sprout, at
Bellaire. The business will be contin-
ued by the remaining partner.
mor
=
a
4 a
DEALERS WILL FIND TANGLEFOOT THE MOST PROFITABLE
AND SATISFACTORY FLY PAPER. , A RB ’ ’ :
SELL WHAT WILL PLEASE YOUR TRADE BEST. ri «3s
|
| SEALED 1
® ' » § *
_ Sticky Fly Paper. ,
ono
NEW STYLE. NEW PRICE. 4 4
IN NEW PACKING. WITH NEW HOLDERS.
“ay
nana Each box of Tanglefoot will i
contain 25 double sheets of
Tanglefoot and two Tanglefoot
Holders---15 loose double sheets >-S
| Each double sheet of Tangle- and two packages each consist- :
| foot is separately sealed with ing of a Holder containing five é
| our Wax Border, which, while it | double sheets.
| g permits the easy and ready! Push the new package with =
| 5 separation of the sheets, abso-| your family trade, they will all -
}: lutely prevents the sticky com- buy itifitis brought to their 7
| position from running out over | notiée. It will inerease your if
| the edges. This Border pre-|sales of Tanglefoot by encour-
The price for Tanglefoot in the United States east of the Rocky Moun- serves each sheet independently aging a more liberal usé among
| 1 Bo ee = and indefinitely until used and|your trade. Your customers > 7°
ee ec oe ed k hehe bee dase des weet uae Oke 5
| 1 Gore (10 ae Phen db ecathwee euadeis «tacuss Susi cues accel 3 75 prevents all loss and annoyance | will appreciate the new pack-
5 C Ce 3 65 : *
ew Gmnae pee... per’ 555 | to the dealer. age and will soon ask for it. » ba
&
See
Pe pe Oe: >
Spring & Company,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks.
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints anc Domestic Cottons,
We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.
Spring & Company.
New Prices
RED STAR
Baking Powder.
ARCTIC MANUFACTURING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
SEE QUOTATIONS.
To Please Your Customers
Order of Your Jobber a Case of
“JAVA LONG GUY SMOKING.
Full Set of Tickets for a watch
with every Forty-Eight Pounds.
MANUFACTURED BY
AMERIGAN EAGLE YOBAGCO GO.,
Detroit. Mich.
Muskegon Branch
UNITED STATES BAKING Co.,
Muskegon, Mich
Originators of the Celebrated Cake, ‘“‘MUSKEGON BRANCH.”
Write for samples of New and Original Crackers and Cakes, before
purchasing for your Spring trade.
HARRY FOX, Manager
VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & C0,
WHOLESALE
Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks
We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live
Geese Feathers.
Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks
OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE.
Volgt, Herpolsheimer & G0, *® 29,83 Sitaxe St
Grand Rapids.
Mail orders a specialty.
Cracker Chass
siaaaiuaadaiaeianeamsti
lass Covers for Biscuits
!
3
oe chests. will
pay for themselves in the
Price $4.
soon
UR new glass covers are by far the
handsomest ever offered to the
trade. They are made to fit any
of our boxes and can be changed from
one box to anotherina moment They
will save enough goody from tlies. dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay
for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each.
NEW NOVELTIES.
We cali the attention of the trade to the following new novelties:
CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR.
CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES.
NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling.
the best selling cakes we ever made.
THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO.,,
S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS.
breakage they avoid.
This is bound to be one of
F. Je DETTENTHALER,
WHOLESALE QYSYERS, FISH and GAME,
LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY.
Consignments solicited. Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed.
117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE W. BINGHAM CO., Cleveland, 0.,
Have had such flattering succes in handling our Bicycles that they have bought
our entire output for 1893. They have taken up all negotiations pending for the
purchase of cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends.
THE YOST MFG. CO.,
TOLEDO, OH10.
If you are not coming to the market at once, 1
mark your order on the dotted lines,
tear off sheet
We have them, and these prices are below any-
thing we have ever offered.
Constant reduction is
“TLeonard’sBbargainPr
j : .
i send to us: we will return a printed copy by | the order of the day. No charge for packages or
s S3 , y y | : ok ‘
_ Te ' ‘i a 7 cartage on anything except Crockery. Glassware
first mail, and ship the goods ordered immediately. | or Lamp Goods. Terms, 30 days on Bargain line
Don’t delay, and don’t fail to keep up your stock, | r 2 per cent. discount for cash ip ten days. If
as it is the little things your customers ask for that | you haven’t our Complete Catalogues, showing
are the easiest to sell. nearly everything we offer, ask for them. —
Base Balls. per doz White Wash. | Croquet Sets. Shutter Knobs Gro 15)
ee $0 42 | Tampico .. a. ieee... Sei 6 Soree Hoees........ ~* 40
Boys’ ‘League ne mien Ree, a 501 113 Serew Hyes........ . 2u
Chhmpion......... Sram ee, en ! 80 | 113 Hook straight i -
Star. EE 25 H e Brushes. ale i 80 10 _ . 4
Melee 2 W0 | 411 Corn pau eG ee ae 4 St Cop Geeks. |... |. mo
itis tiie Rice Root +o 75.. . 1 it Gas Boome... ... perdoz 60
on a fa | coe ee 1 25] Nail Pullers 12 00
4 Sponge ee ee wien so 1 Leather Back......... ea agin oo =
6 60 | Palmetto ”. ae of Ot Oe x 00 Pie ¢ rimpeTs....--...-+-++. 3°
a 48 | 109 Leather Back.... 350/ 8-- 2 Apple C es asl >
5 “ s7 | 445 Leather Back.......... eohl es 3 00 | Insect ea om eo eln oe : 2
hese 135 Scrub Brushes. Crumb Tray and Brush. 1xI “oe ec ens 37
eee «| Holland ; : ne ee =
occldl a - 21x K Corn... 44/4 Sell Ce eee $8
— - 2 °5 | Tampico . _ we we Brees... CO 73
awe ~ oe eer. ES LWlewenucme 62
Rall eatin, mo. 11. aoe ieee... ............,. 6 00] y at ee ea 83
14 Basswood..... “ ‘Rath Brushes. bly coca eos - 9 00 i ittle ee 1
12 Ash... (2) XX Str raight.. ee . 4% | 7 Nickel.................... Ee 1 35
Mri Ach 1 25] Bent. oe ee. por dos 103 Criaipers _,......... 1
_ coeecene. SC 1 a fon ---- 6 00) 1 qt. Stamped............ 231 Globe Fincers......-...... 1
en’s Willow i 2 bod cee we i } vremen Lever.............. 1
Boy’s Reins. - 1112 Clothes Brushes. gs | 2 at- Botineed GO; Chicago Wager............ 1 80
A’S2 in. Long 45 | 645 15129 Fieced........ ..... Se Se se
A ‘é ao i ee . i yes <
o rc > vd 208 ea = IX. eee eee eee : 90) Hammers.
: 7 605 [a1 . : SUT 8¢ ‘oppered...............- 20
Boys Wood Wagenn. 201 $50) 7.9%. Suds............_... 58 | 295 Tae oe 2
XX Daisy Wood Axle. 3 30 | 405. 4 99 | 21 Cup...-..---....-. Po iG hadies 70
x Wood Axle 3 90 | 165 . i 4% i ' Pain, mo | ONO. 87
ee ewer e = 6 3 i oe |... 601201 X .... 1 5u
- c o s. rn : ce reich @ re
ifron Ax le : ot wo. 3 oe a ong — mea SE 80 | Solid ene) So 350
ea 12 00 | Sensible Jap’d 60 ae ae Hatchets. i
4 eee io 2) | Sprague se 72 ctT a e a on ine 35
5 12 00 | NO. 30 Perfee ee 1 35 23x19 es 1 80 — : =
> 1 ‘ - i" ~ 91, x91, jm Aa hole A, to
: a 18 00 No. 200 wie eats 29|” cial derabiakttte setnvhartee 2 Brome 1 50
Se 12 0017 3 Doughnut nen Harness Snaps.
No. *0 oe ate... 20) No. 22 Keve._....... per gr 1 40
"B oeg em Wagons. ee : . 72|3 French. 1 oie eye)... per gr 1 50
gn co 10 00 Carpet Tacés. POI oc, Collars. : *, 25 lig in. eye....per gr 2 65
gga : 2 8 oz. Polished .pergr 96| No. ee LL 79 20 1'2 in. eye....per gr 3
0 10 oz. Turned -pergr 9% No.1 tare . 2 00 Hammock Hooks.
Honest count per box 1 00 ~ --.» 420198 — ee 70
Keg aevtinin. Pee. el. 70
c nat
Steel Wi — ne ate OO ————— $5
55 in. Wic ata . ae Bee 60 Hat Hooks.
30 in : . 1 7 | Dover Spoon SO | 200 34 in. Iron....... per gr 1 00
ea ey O..-- 1. eee eee ee eee ee 841115 2% Wire.........- 1 00
Cage Hooks, _| Genuine Dover.......... 1 20 ie
bee ee Screw eae en aa i 1 50 Hat Racke. im
es ( 887 Swing 25 | Silvers .... ee 4 HOOK... 2... 2... ... ee eee. 43
io fied EE ly arash chad a
Fov’s Veloc epedes. Each | 11x 0 Swing. a 721 No. Skevtine |. |... "10 80 a if 34
No. 1 Japa n. 1 40] 1x8 : i2 Fire Shovels. per doz l ee satp
No.2 .. £06) Ne 1 Ce 32 Nickel Daisy 1 78
No.3 _.1 Chamber Pails. ee 4 Hook Udell Seated oe 3 00 |
No.4 2 15] 10 qt. Painted.............. cl ica ee raven _—
No 5 ue ee CeO cen 85 Harmonicas
i > = oo ‘ -
Bove’ Wheelbarrows, Per dz | a Ae gar -4 30 ae Meier: 133 me o sc cccceesccncccccers |
y 1ishe¢ 2 j a : . > 704-76 50
No. 9 Varnished . 20 | 10 qt. Anti Slop. on ce Flags. ee ena ve
No. 2 400) Lei acu ee ae
No. 3 6 00} Cherry Pitters. ee 5 | S23-10..-- 2 .. wee ee eee 90
No. 1 Garden. 7 oat ee eae « gs | 444 1 lo : 10
No. 2 Garden... 8 °O| E nterprise Se 5 75 ce 4 35 | 300-10......-. cette ce cees 1 50
Boys Exp W agons at Reduced | 7ieeod......... (oleh | “ 300 a ee a 1 =
rices. ' Clothes Lines. 2 = 6 1001.10 a ee. 2 oF,
: ae oa er 2
Basting Spoons. _| 30 foot Jute... = us o> OO) 36-574 Celluloid...... 5... 2%
20-12 in. Iron Hd 2 | 60 80 21 00
o12 iy Flat Hd 2 | 50 foot Cotton. 128 “94 00 _ Harps—trish. i
‘lin. Wood Hd. 34] 120 * Jute a Floral Tools, er re rer ae
1-13 4} 100° Hemp eee 1 €0 “
< 38 | 75 Wire. t 88 Soa pre. .....- 2 00 2
14in. Iron 54] 100 ° i reveeee sees 2 5O ee te + 00 65
16 . 65 Clothes + ins. »-4 pce... 7.2 2
18 cg >| Wood ..per box 40 *0 ee 8 50 ea ‘
2 ir OK 3 J > 33 6 >rur.
i2in w ood. te ;Us -per gross 60 tardies! Trowels., ‘nen ore a
ef Curry Combs. No. 19 Coppered... 28} 14 aa ute :
| ee ee ae owe Fiche Coeeee............. 35
Bisenit Cutters | is Bar See ee cae 35 | 6 Ebony ae ee 60} i8in. Pi ; Hy 60
234 in. Pecd 12} 2 = Gimtets 25 in. Colored 00001). /0 00. 1 30
3in. Peed : 15 | 314 ) Bars. es 1 5 10 Iro oe wy i etree oh a gs 8 aid '
3in. Stamped 20; 8566 * &O N fj iw W a “aia = iron brackets.
Ue en 24 | 407- Fo git eile ee ia ce . tach ood. tS ee | cl. 36
414 in. Scolloped 31| Cattle ¢ Denis. ge a 67 Gum Labels. ox6 nett eee ee eee ce ee es 60
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166 | Aleohol : 1 60 nu a 79
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| Beek Benes... Si Vietoe 7D Watch Keys.
Me. tacos... cs 60 Rajah.. _- lll. CC 22
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Garden City. . 0) Tinkene emer... .... .. 5. 64 Knife Boxes.
No. 4050-23.... 4) | Cabinet Clamps............ mol Weed. oi, %D
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7 Sls) Wall cop lL 3 gs | Door Chucks... 21 et ClGee 29
Se ee Sl shia _Se7) weeding Hooks............ G2 | 100 Periection.............. 85
v Geto 2 Ol a4 eT 2 a) Wace Books... a} 28s Fears. 66 1 90
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DD Window.......... 5 00) i eon a 5 321 Mercantiic.......; 2 90
cz oe . 6 00) Crayon. wl Door Stops.. a NE eee bce te 2 90
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DO. 20 Om ee oe Picture Wires.
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32s F.. ow Potato Mashers.
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Machine Vils. eT 68
1 Oz. _Sperm.. oe <9 | Wood. eke ashen 33
2 Ce ee an oa 46 | Hotel ON a 3 34
. ‘- wet roe Woes... cs. 37
Marbles. per box Pokers.
Gray Ne BOt.......2...... | 18 Retinned...... 36
Polished ees ceo hued 60 OE R2
Fins. oe 70 Police Whistles
No. 1 oo, 100 box — ro 1 GOO: 222... oh! cheese, Sule 35
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‘ I Imitation Agate 100 ah. “hoe Blacking.
2 a5 1 Crown... 40
‘3 ‘“ 45 | 3 o a 90
“ 1 China 100 a og | Continental 80
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1 oe 60 Slate Pencils,
2 100 box... -........ 60] 5% e Painted... .5.... per. box
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4 Double...... ‘ 65 | 8 in. Retinned............ a Oe
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Double Gem. tooven, COTA Be ta 63
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12 ere... Cw. SAit hoses ance seecceeces 6
8 Qt. Galv Iron..... ....... 2951. Fea Steepers
Pens cca 2 40 ligt se Sint a ly ig igi 60
12 Oe a dled alase eel ee OR. 64
2 Qt. Round Dinner Pails 1 7% Towel Holders.
4 2 00 Seeds SS pceh kw cele cl cee %
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Wi allac Boe edes per gro 28130 * 70
44 Attteseese 28 Wire Goods.
Superior Falcon.. 0} Soap Saver... ac _ oo
Cope ist... oy. . 28 | Plate Handles... we v6)
Dem . . 28 | 6x8 Broilers....... - 30
Be lc cw ce ca 49 | 8x9 Pe i ee wee ase Si 4
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Pencil Boxes. ee 1 60
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( pi a Secreta perdoz 35 seeeeee cess 210
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444 Wood Whistle.. 00 | - in. Agricultural.......... 2 15
Monkey on stick. % | Zine WVilers.
Wood Rattles........ 90 | 2-0 Machine oilers.......... 30
Chas Ficheros. cosas: 90 10 “ ee 2
Return Ball...... 5 \2 & Coe cae
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