ichigan lradesman. : Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. , oe VOL. 10. GRAND RAPIDS, MAY 10, 1893. NO. 503 Di a CHAS. A. COYE . x Candy Largest Variety Manufacturer of : i a A " NINGS AND TRNTS a made in this country and will make HORSE AN D WAGON co VERS | ' . «Can dy SS Jobbers of Oiled Clothing and Cotton Ducks, omg a : i 7 46 O tawa ine, ania ia, en ie mihm eee 1 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. * “i Lemons SILVER : Have you Use for a High cid Grade Laundry Soap? ur. cs ae SOAP reels - ade Expressly for > 4 Buy them of Oran Qes. i Washing, x Cleansing au Me Puritying a) THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. of, Grain Bags. 4 SILVER SOAP, Burlap in 64 and 8 oz. Wadding. MANUFACTURED BY « All Grades in Sacks Twines. * From I to 20 Ibs. Feathers.|THE THOMPSON & CHUTE SOAP 60., Toledo, Ohio, ‘ ‘4 Peerless Warps in All Colors. 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No. 2 Fillers, 15 sets in a No 1 Case, $1.50. W. ¥, LAMOREAUX CO., 128, 130 and 182 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. o “~ o $ eZ y Z ia E , @ 4 : < a : : ee < PLANTS, | @= ol TOOLS, he ETC, ¥ we, For 1898 Manufacturers of a | NEW CROP SEEDS per oe Se ae By Every article of value known. You will = oo —g make money and customersif you buy ou" s : Lvs Se —— crm mee 4 seeds. Send for wholesale price list. = a it ee Ld CLOVER and GRASS SEEDS, ONION S&TS and SEED Sir : \ POTATOES. All the standard varieties in vegetable seeds eee | ail i i x 24 and 26 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. sone * Our goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. - ALFRED J. BROWN, Seedsman, | gpanp RAPIDS, MICH. FERMENTUM The Only Reliable COMPRESSED YEAST Far superior to any other. Endorsed wherever used. MANUFACTURED BY RIVERDALE DISTILLERY, CHICAGO, [hk Main Office, 270 Kinzie St., Chicago, Il AGENCIES. 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Having removed the machinery, business and good willof the Ionia Pants and Overall Co. to Lansing, where we have one of the finest factories in the country, giving us four times the capacity of our former factory at Ionia, we are in a posi- tion to get out our goods on time and fill all orders promptly. A continuance of the patronage of the trade is solicited. E. D. VOORHEES, Manager. Y 4 t vs « ¢ 4 r a Y A dn a 1 > e a vo ~- = - ; bi } —i- e + a + ot io.) * ak 4 we ‘ a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1893. NO. 503 Calks. Shoulder eo Pressed Calk, HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO, GRAND RAPIDS AGENTS. Pressed Ball Calk 56 per a te mee eee 82 65 “ Heel “ 9-8 XN saa ae. = per*M See ieee ceo 2 — Oe Ad. SLA Sclenlific Optician ae i, Eyes tested for spectacles eae of cost wiht latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. V¥VYY VY We are Fishing FOR YOUR TRADE. 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Send for Samples. 75 Monroe St—Wholesale, 32, 34 and 36 Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO, WHOLESALE ’ 5 and 7 Pearl St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. All the leading styles in fine and medi- um goods, made from the most select stock. Orders by mail given prompt attention. 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! hat! a ASS Skins Sees aed eee Pe receding ears, ee eee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 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.’’ perfume | , 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!”’ = @ * * There is no need to finish the story, 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. 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A gentleman was their first patron. Willie’s sign read: ‘*‘Lemonade 4 cents a glass.’’ Johnny’s modest announcement was: ‘‘Lemonade 2 cents a glass.”’ Being aman with an eye to the fact that *‘A penny saved is a penny earned,’’ the customer bought a glass of Johnny’s lemonade, paid the 2 cents due and casu- ally inquired, ‘‘Why is yours cheaper than your brother’s?’’ “Cos mine is the lemonade that the puppy fell into.”’ 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.’’ i ~ + 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. ee 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 ee... 22 00 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 / a 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, Ee FS 07 S., 6 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% “ K . i. as M “ N i" ' iD. a“ P. : 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. — —— e sateens.. Hamilton fancy. e e AXAARVWAAIMH A wm Manchester oe... new era. Merrimack D fancy. Merrim’ck shirtings. . Reppfurn . Pacific —— eae ro eneaaa Portsmouth robes, . Simpeon mourning.. : ae. a solid biack. Washington indigo. * Turkey robes. . * India robes. . c plain T'ky x , en ARMAAN RR RK 09-3 ere RRS Berlin eee. ......- 5% . Coe.....,. oe ~ Sanit ey = ™ green .... C6 Revved 6% “* FPoulards 54| Martha mp ington - 7 .. 7 Turkey ™% ee Foe 12] Marthe on eesan 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 = OE OEE 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 Buying rubbish, send for our catalogue of win dow Screens, Sereen Doors, Ete. Goods well made from best materials, Prices seldom higher. Circulars free. Send 6c. for § Nilus. Catalocue. a 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 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, - Postage Prepaid, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness Men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of heir papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE Michigan TRADESMAN. 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. CT 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. MICHICA Gant: N BARK AND LOMBER C0, oa } ae — * yr ; * 18 and 19 Widdicomb Building. We are now ready to make = = contracts for the season of 1893. Saad eel Correspondence Solicited. We Garry Complete kine of Fishing Yackle, | Our Catalogue | { f Now Ready, Send for One. ST. frasmen TEVENS & C- MONROR 10 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 Gasoline Stoves The Famous QUICK MEA The Most Popular New Process Stove Made. Secure the’ Sale. 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NATIONAL BOOK & PICTURE CO., CHICAGO. ws ee <= ae » ~ a te i a 4 THR MICHIGAN 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. lined, frame leather bound, latest improved patent fastening. We will make you a present of one. TRADESMAN. © 11 Going to the W orld’s Fair? If so, you want this Harvard Leather Bag. Leather Write for particulars FREE CRAYON PORTRAITS. No premium ever offered draw nereases your business, It makes every sale cash and 8 trade equal to this plan. It commands the trade and deligh It costs you ts your patrons. allow me to sebd you sample portrait ©° — « Ss a = a oO a o A, & ~ mn aa Ss - = i = == = 2 I = i be = 2 o ad = oe © et 2 oe [Dy m =a -_ ssa - Me ~~ * ; as a So 3 +o as Me. = a = o- n Res = . Ss ed ~ SS 4 an = 5 2 =o 3 =u °o ~ 2 oo bx 2 é= + <7t A. WALTER, 358 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. BANANAS! Large Bunches. Clean, Plump Fruit. THE PUTNAM CANDY3,CO. 12 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. (a nn 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. 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It is the surest, safest and cheapest Pile Cure sold. {t has come to be an established fact that this is the best Pile Remedy on the market, and every live druggist has it in stock. aEnoULBS, THE GRKAT STUMP AND ROCK ANNIHILATOR,. Agents for Western Michigan. Write for Prices. SOCIETIES, CLUBS, CONVENTIONS, DELEGATES, COMMITTEES. For The Largest Assortment of Ribbons and Trimmings in the State. THE TRADESMAN CoO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 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. ~ oO ee 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, Will do you good, brighten you up, put new life in you and give you new ideas. Leaving A Week's Recreatio GOLUMBIAN EXCURSION TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. ao. GRAND RAPIDS al}(] MEDAL CIGARS JUNE 19th. assscors on nero Pack yoUr Valise and Come with vs, We'll Give you a Good Time. all arnhart PutmanCo. ee (OF Sihonery i‘ “ Tolutan .............-- 35@ 50] Potassa, Hitart, pare.. ee ee 50 ki . someer Potassa, Bitart, com. @ a es 50 & > i Petass Nitras, opt oo, ae ee a5 ah Aion, Canadian............ 18 | Potass Nitras.......... ‘™ S| * Camphorataa |. 50 ee tenn eee Prussiate SMe cud 280 BO] Deodor........ 0.20020. 2 00 nchona Flava ........ * Uipeete POL... ( i + § + Knonymus stropurp........ a0 pas ee = Importers and Jobbers of Gan Ce ES ee ‘ Pranus Vir eial.. Deavesuuunies 12] Aconitum ............. 20@ 25 Re tate tseyaeeescee sony 50 ‘> of uillaia, grd.. i oo. Althae.... : 22@ HHO ON COO CV OSe nee eons we — 12| Anchusa . 120 Cassia Acutifol.. 25 deca sd eeeuich i 15 Go = 2 x ‘. — ‘Po (Ground 15)...... 15 ae = a Sensei eT tag eo % EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)... aS 10 Stromontam Lees in 60 %y Glycyrrhiza Glabra... %4@ 25} Glychrrhiza, foe 1s).. te a staan * po “ 33@ 35 ae Canaden, @ Veratrum Veride 50 “ ls 5 ue Vi (oe. m)... ......... @ My Yaastam verde............ 13@ 14 monchecs Ala, - ees oe ; 14@ 15 Inula, po... 1g 150, 20) a ese sess J6@_ 17] Ipecac, po............2 20@2 30 | Alther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30 Tris lox (po. 35@ ‘ i " ' <2 .. Se Se oF ee Jalapa, pr... 400 ANE os ou 3 CHEMICALS AND Carbonate Precip...... 15|/ Maranta, \s.. @ Citrate and Quinia.... 50 Fodophyllum, | 1 BO. he eh @ @3 i 3@ 4 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 -. | 7 OP PAnnatio |. 55@ 60 ro. FerrocyanidumSol.... @ 50) ggg) CC @i ne Antimont, po.......... 4Q 5 Solut Chloride........ @ p.. 75Q1 35 et Potass T. 55@ 60 Sulphate, com’l....... : Spige ia . 3) 88] Antipyrin .... 2... @i 40 o pure... .--- @ 7 Sanguinaria, (po 5 25)... So Aeon... ..... @ % @ %@ 2 @ = _— ete yee ae é 32 | Argenti Nitras, ounce 60 aca gatamt op 800 20| Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 m Wi on sisi cats 18@ 20 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud." as@_ 40 DEALERS IN Aes |... .... HQ 3 @ %/| Bismuth 8 2 W@2 25 . | Bee 8. 40@ 50] Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12} Calefum Chior, ‘ts, ss & # FOuAA, Symplocarpus, Fott- a oe @ il 4 Pn a 50 | y at 48, es lacee < @ 35 Cantharides Russian, Dy pen, vitif 1, ‘Pin: 2 erlang ng. (po. » 2 Te ee ase. @1 00 ING 7 cae 3 a 281 ingiber a German... 150 20/Capsict Fructus, af... @ x 5 o’y 2 “a Alx 35@ SVE BD... . eee wees g = Ss ib Salvia officinalis, 14s Zinetver 4... .. 18@ Ww “ “ ny @ 0 ONE 48...... 2.02000 156@ 2% SEMEN. Cartes Bg (po. 13) 14 ze ee 8@ 1¢] Anisum, (po. 20).. .. @ 15] Carmine, No. 40....... 5 —, Brat (graveleons).. = * Sore five, 8. nes 30 ri Sole Agents for the Celebrated L Acacia, 1st picked.... @ 7 aon ee ae: 7 son... 40 ee ee ee a a Noa $ = Dacha "1 00@1 25 comme Fractus........ QD * ctedeorts.. & 2) Comandram... a vrseee @ 10 we 7 = a 60g 80 | Cauthable Satly S404 oe: vesees oo : : eaceoe evcee onium ne 7 ” - 1 Wd wi sa Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60) oft ‘ O 12 quibbs.. @1 25 «* Cape, (po. 20). @ 2 sare! Sees le nae 2 Chlorsl Hyd ‘Cont Seis “1 35@1 60 50 Pp ma y,, | Chondrus . 25 > Socotrl, to. @ Foeniculum........... @ 15] cinchontdi Paw ta a. is, (468 , “~s Foenugreek, po. te ° x, on ne, Sl °@ = : : ee ee RE) F AGAALS seve er eveses scenes a be ammonia SQ 60 Cita, YG ‘i. “4.@ 46 5 list, ae. Per - j q ’ oO J aa o- ° ‘ jy See Bees etotees Sg SET LING OF SANG UMoNs Me > @ a aang 35@_ 10 _—— i aba 1 y Ot MS bbe a os 5@ 5 a ace owe a @2 50 rr Nigra . 11@ 12 G — Se lc 2@ li YS Gamboge, po.......... 100@ : sine ae. Mp @ 8 : Gualacum,\(p¢ 5) =, 4 umenti, W., D Co . ‘a Crem... ee Be 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 hotary. — RD | « u rling fron ities. 243 per thousand........ 40 ssa ices oan aes “9 Brushes. | No. 2 fron . 70 | 217 ee exe ere eee cae tees 1 00 34) Shoe | Common sense........... 88 | 213 ce 50 | 1X9 Fancy..............-... 1 00 10 | Princess......... Le (Sree 60 | Pot Wall. .......-.......... 40 166 | Aleohol : 1 60 nu a 79 100 | Cups ond “Mngs. Markham ....... 810 Jumping Ropes. ne 064 os £nt. Piecec ... 19 ee Q 00 | 4 veseee tere eter eee eee ee ees ‘9 a a ee | 1 pt. Stamped a a ee . 9 00 Key oe — i pt. Pleced........ 22 | Columbia ..... .10 50} No 0 i 12 No.55 Daubers Hammered or 53 ws TM. Serre. zi ie Pe ee x — O Gem 30 OO 30 34 Nail ; a ae neers bee 14 i ri rown -- a K ee 30 Key Chains. 1 Cover . Lifter. Ww ood Handles............. 36 | 1006.............- ee 40 5 302 Coppered.... : 24 o 2. 7% | 1002 Asst.................. 80 | Beek Benes... Si Vietoe 7D Watch Keys. Me. tacos... cs 60 Rajah.. _- lll. CC 22 | Cork Screws. Mardware Gundivian. i Beene ve) Garden City. . 0) Tinkene emer... .... .. 5. 64 Knife Boxes. No. 4050-23.... 4) | Cabinet Clamps............ mol Weed. oi, %D No. $00 ¢ on card. 44 camne Culters......,....... 42 Renonee cc 90 ie, Stn OMI Oo WA ee 2 00 | 90 Cage PeeImes.... 050... 1. =o | ee Covered.......... oc, s 4 00 } . opt ee ee 223 1 60| Gas Cleaners T | ser Ladies. _ Ce Ce hee 1 7%515in Pincers............... 24) 2 ") Retinned- Fete teen eee ees 39 i 24 Williams ....... 1, OO Veg. a oe 34 - oi om eee iis oe 63 No.7 Dust Coffee Mile. heen te chai ee 34 | ~ ets ‘so henna tn 135 Wall Jap’ Ce a ee eee 28 Lead om. Gro 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 a feo Sim = | te Forks............... 28 | 547 Heraid............ - 22 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 is nes 4 ee Gas Burners.. lle es ae 3 2 Tampico. 4@\ White School.............- 1 0 Hitching Rings. ce caliea 60 ted Gan ee... 3... Doe 2 If you are strangers to us, and Urder Sheet. to a house with whom you have credit. Sign your name here... ......... TOME incr cus Sat Via. ic “Tear off page ‘and mail to H. KEONARI & SONS, Grand aisle, Po please give reference it Carpencers.........:° "ae Police Ween 90 PS Asst BOx..........-. - 1 50] 2 Jack Stones Cece ecko 25 Match Boxes. 1% ie 20 me = onl Dust Pansco 6 1 00 DO. 20 Om ee oe Picture Wires. Pay Vee 40 | No. 1 Tinned Like een ee ra pion 33 One Paney ee. ves) a pase ke core. a, ee $0 264 Fane Fo ects ce eee ees 1 35 Picture Hangers, PEL he teen eee e ee ee eee 115 x Brass.........+.+...... 18 it ee a 7) Ee 2 00 | 5 ee a 25 BUI eee eee ee eee 200) 9 ie, 2s Magnets. li LS sneha cnt STG 30 ee Re oe L>~a ee 30 BE es beers a ow ie Ne os .. 12 32s F.. ow Potato Mashers. a eee ees cee . 20 No. 11 Wire cee 21 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 ce sa ewan Ms et eer ee. ce 35 _ sa i. ot, tcc 30 . 4 Glass be Dom.... 8. OE Rec as oc. lk 75 i 9 ™ 0 (eae. 10 Cee ee ee, 1 95 7 A Ib Plyers. ae cate x0 | 5 in Steel vies Plyers...... 90 Ne Tt ET a at we 6 oe ee ] v5) a : 45 | ¢ Joavbiinatiien steel “ ||... 2.00 “1 Flint 25 box.......... = Cant Pater oo. 24 ‘ 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 ee ot ROY ee 90 ee eee 21 per doz ‘4 50 DOX........ 13 | 8x9 plain.. +e a a 25 | 6% x 10° BN ate seeeceeesoes. 30 ‘6 ts ‘95 bee 20, 8X12 oo. ene eee eee 40 “dg Figured 12 box... apt oe Single Cova: 63 a re ea ete 88 9 ee ee oe 1 $5 White Ballots 100 box..... 15|6X9 Double Cov'd........ 1 50 ee ee SE St as 1 85 0 Glazed 300 box......:... 60 | 8X 12 sinsteeees BU 1 oe 60 Slate Pencils, 2 100 box... -........ 60] 5% e Painted... .5.... per. box 3 ede 60 on fe 18 4 6 Bek 60 : 2 Gi ae vette ees “ = bl ewes pergro & reg Knives. Soap Stome....././. ber box 25 ». 3 4 Double. bint ba wen 34 Tack Puilers. 4 Double...... ‘ 65 | 8 in. Retinned............ a Oe * 8 Single.. 2 50] 6 in. Cast. 37 Double Gem. tooven, COTA Be ta 63 eee ceeke eee es eee, 1 50 A fee oe 88 Mouse Traps CS Giene ee ieee... 2 Tape Measures. eee 3 ca, 4015 Foot Tailor....... ela ao 6 20 EE A hoo eceee wecer.... .... 35 Dorm... 5 tro roe Con... 46 ‘Pails eo ss50 8 00 Sit Tin 60 : Foot Spring. eee 1 %5 ge. 4 ce ee me de cere au ae 2 00 ee ny re ee sh | 2 80 Me ee 1 4 Tea Pot stands. 10° “4 Wey. ko. ce 2 7% | No. 17 Coppered........... 23 as 6 lrUmrmrCOCCCOCC CC 350 3 Wi ire recede a 34 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 % 3 “ Square ‘“ “ 325 Ge Pet Nee pe eee gc oe og ee 110 ‘ “ 4 30 3 Arm ee 75 3 Tray ‘Nestable fe j cto AQ WAGs 5 4 33 |6U = cen seeds etl e al 68 Pendosaes: singlesren Wheels. per = ee 7 ec es 15 Moe ee a - 2 ; 3 Suet Bp eesendOomee. c.g 0303 Fancy........- nae! 331° Bowl............---.. 4. 4 ied ous ewes. Misawa fc. Sr ° Ae hee eo ae - Hdl oe = oe Arrow... e215. TI ee 6) Automatic 6.5.0.2... 79 : Coffee 00d... sees ee ee 1 10 oO Peni ic 1 50 - G > 00 __ 12 Gravy 30 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 4 048 Esterbrook. . oo a ae ee cee LOUSY Pencil Boxes. ee 1 60 Red Wood..........per gro 1 00 : Sponge Ree... Lt: 1 65 ( pi a Secreta perdoz 35 seeeeee cess 210 heen 45 2 : ‘* See cans, 2 80 read Toasters...... ——. Penny Goods. Gro 7 Gin. Ves. Bollers.......... . 89 ; Crest... a> See * . cou 1 10 oa Renae 100/8 “ een shell Whistles............. 6019 “ Te Raine . eae ees we os £0 hs ete 1% * PORE Wi 4dn. Pocket. oe... WD 3 in. ‘Trumpets........... L 00 5 in: Polishes... ce , oe 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 POY Mees ost. sos. 8016 “ oe Cie | , —