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GRAND RAPIDS, JUNE 21, 1893.

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THE BANKER’S BURGLAR.

Billy Haven was no ordinary burglar.
His theory was that if a man wished to
make a success of his profession, he
needed to use his brain rather than his
muscle. It was all right enough, when
starting out to commit a burglary, to take
a knife with you, or a loaded club, ora
pistol, but Billy claimed that the doing
of this showed a lack of mental ingenu-
ity. Any muscular fool can bludgeon
the senses out of a half-awAakened house-
holder aroused from his first deep sleep
by the noisy entrance of a thief through
the kitchen window, but bludgeoning
Billy looked upon as clumsy and unnec-
essary. The consequence was that Billy,
by strict attention to business, and the
endeavor to please customers, soon be-
gan to build up for himself an enviable
reputation among the police. They
never caught sight of Billy or his pals,
but they always recognized his handi-
work by the neatness and dexterity of it.
They did not even know his name, but
they called him among themselves Billy
Haven out of respect for the memory of
a detective of that name, who was espe-
cially good at tracking crimes of a kind
whose origin was obscure, and the clue
to which was not visible. They said
among themselves, when their attention
was first directed to the kind of burglary
the new burglar was doing, that this was
a job Billy Haven would like the un-
raveling of if he were alive, and so they
drifted on, never getting a sight of the
burglar, until the crimes were called
Billy Haven jobs, and finally the un-
known cracksman came to be called
Billy Haven.

As a general thing, where Billy Haven
was at work, the inmates of the house
never knew a robbery had been com-
mitted until next morning. Billy and
his gang left almost no trace of their visit
except the disappearance of the most
valuable things in the residence.

At last these neat burglaries ceased, and
there were no traces of Billy for years.
It is probable that the authorities would
never have known any particulars about
Billy’s career, if it had not been that a
convict, dying in one of the prisons, told
about Billy’s last and successful coup,
which enabled Haven and his gang to re-
tire into respectable, but monotonous
private life.

Billy, it seems, had long looked with
hungering eyes on a large mansion that
stood in a lonely part of a lonely suburb.
It was entirely surrounded by a high
brick wall, and Billy felt that if he and
his mates ever got inside that mansion
they could work in uninterrupted secur-
ity.

Inquiry showed Billy that it was the
residence of Mr. Slider, the well-known
banker, a man intimately connected with
numerous prosperous companies, and a
man of great reputed wealth. The name
of Slider was a power in the city. Billy’s
investigations led him to the knowledge
that Mr. Slider was a most careful man,
who had arranged every electrical appli-
ance then known for the discovery of a
burglar. He appeared to realize that if

 

once a burglar got entrance into the big| his wife, who were certainly very much

house, the family would be, compara-
tively speaking, at his mercy; and so it
was that every window was protected by
half a dozen different devices. The
door-mats and windows were so arranged
that after everybody went to bed the
lightest footfall on any of them would
light all the electric lamps in the house;
would ring a large bell in the tower;
would telegraph a warning to the nearest
police station, and would set more gongs
ringing all over the place than a burglar
who was at all nervous cared to hear.

Billy realized, then, that the ordinary
methods of a burglar would have a ten-
dency to fail if applied to the big house
standing in its own extensive grounds,
and so he resolved that when he and his
pals entered the house it would be by
the door, and not by one of the windows,
and it would be ata time when the family
had not retired to rest.

Billy’s plans, when matured, were
very simple. He obtained the costume
of a police inspector for himself and the
clothes of an ordinary policeman for each
of his four pals. He got, likewise, a
very good imitation of a warrant of ar-
rest, made out in the name of Mr. Slider.
Billy was the man of brains in the gang,
and the other four, realizing this, did
exactly as he told them. They were ina
perfect state of discipline and had the
utmost confidence in Billy’s ingenuity.
The plan was this: They were to obtain
entrance into the house at about 9
o’clock in the evening, in perfect legal
form; the inspector was to arrest Mr.
Slider, who might, of course, be indig-
nant, but the conspirators expected that
the respect a banker has for the forms
of law at least insured admission under
protest; and while the inspector stood
guard over the arrested man, two of the
alleged policemen were to be posted so
that no one could leave the house, even
if Mr. Slider wanted to send a messenger
away, which was not likely, because of
his certainty that this was a mistake
which could easily be cleared up. The
other two alleged policemen could then
search the house under the protection of
a bogus search warrant, and quietly se-
crete all the valuables and money that
they could lay their hands on. The in-
spector then intended to tell Mr. Slider
that, because of his protests, he would
uot take him to jail, but that he must
understand that he was under arrest,
and that he might have to report to the
head officer when called upon to do so.
Billy imagined that the time which must
intervene before the news of the unwar-
ranted arrest reached the real police
would give him all the opportunity he
wanted to cover his tracks and secrete
his spoil.

This plan worked admirably up to a
certain point, when Billy and his pals
were treated to a stupefying surprise.
The man at the porter’s lodge trembling-
ly admitted the officers of the law into
the grounds. He was then ordered to
lock the gates, which he did, and one of
the policemen took the key and remained
in the porter’s ledge with the man and

 

frightened. Another policeman was left
to guard the entrance of the house, while
the bogus inspector and the remaining
policemen rang at the front door. The
person who admitted them was also ter-
rified at the sight of their uniforms.

Billy asked if Mr. Slider was at home.
and was informed that he was in the
drawing-room. Hethen asked that he
and the officers might be shown there
without being announced.

Mr. Slider was sitting in an easy chair
surrounded by his family. He turned
his head round, and when the door
opened without the customary knock,
and when he saw the uniform of the in-
spector a ghastly pallor came over his
face. Before the inspector could speak,
he held out his hand and said:

‘One moment, please.’’ Then turning
to his wife, he remarked to her in a low
voice, ‘‘Take the children to your own
room, and stay there till l come. I have
some business with this gentleman.
Don’t be alarmed. Everything is all
right. I had an appointment with him,
but forgot to mention it to you.”’

The pale woman and her frightened
children withdrew, and Slider stood
alone confronting Billy and his two pals.”

‘‘T am sorry to say,’’ began Billy, ‘‘that
I have here a warrant for your arrest.
All the entrances are guarded, and, of
course, you understand the futility of
making any resistance.”’

“Quite so; quite so,” said Slider, husk-
ily. ‘‘I appreciate all that.’’

*“T have also a search warrant here;
and, while I stay with you, my men must
have a look over the premises. Do you
wish me to read the warrants to you?”’

“It is not at all necessary,’’ said Slider,
in an agitated voice. ‘‘I have no doubt
they are quite correct. As for search-
ing, [have no power to prevent that; but,
before you begin, I would like to make a
proposal to you, inspector. You look
like a shrewd man. How many police-
men have you with you?”

**] have four,’’ answered Billy.

‘*There are five of you altogether,
then?”

**Exactly.”’

‘“‘Now, inspector, Iam aman of busi-
ness, and, as you know, a man of great
wealth. I would like to have a few
words with youin private. Would you
kindly ask these officers to step out of
the room for a moment?’’

‘“‘That is hardly regular,’’ objected the
inspector.

“TIT know, I Know:’? answered the
banker hurriedly; ‘‘butI think I can
make it worth your while to do what I
ask.’’

‘“*Rogers,’’ said the inspector to the
policeman beside him, ‘tyou and Ben-
ham just step out for a moment into the
hall and come at once if you hear me
call.”

Rogers and Benham _ saluted and
withdrew without a word. When the
door was closed Billy stood with his

back against it and Slider remained
standing near the fire.
“Tf I had happened,’’ said Slider, ‘‘not

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to have been at home when you came, ; the room, and their eyes opened as they ii il PO
what would you have done?” | saw the glitter of the gold. The in- |

“I presume,’’ answered the inspector, |spector brietly detailed to them the | i i A
‘I would have tried to find out where | points of the bargain, while the banker | Grand Rapids, Mich. ea
you were without arousing suspicion, | looked from man to man and listened | eo a

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andif thatcould not be done I yrould | anxiously. D. A. BLopeeEtt, President. —
have had to come some other time.”’ ‘“*You agree to this?’’? said Billy, and | Gro. W. Gay, Vice-President. n

“Precisely. Now, what will you take | each of the men nodded. Wu. H. AxpEnson, Cashier.

inane 4 ilk a id ; Yy <<. in a Jno A. Seymour, Ass’t Cashier, He
0 go back to the station and re-| ‘You wi nave no further trouble

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port that you have not been able to find! from us, Mr. Slider,’’ said Billy Haven, Capital, $300,000. res)
me?”’ politely, ‘tat least for 24 hours.” DIRECTORS. his

“That would be a dangerous busi- The banker drew a deep breath of D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay. 8. M. Lemon.

i ee : C. Bertsch. A.J Bowne. G. K. Johnson. can
ness,” said Billy quite honestly. relief as each man took a bag of gold DODGE Wm. H. Anderson. Wm Sears. A.D.Rathbone | |

‘can make it worth your while to | and quietly departed. : John WRidicomb. N. A. Pletcher. eal
run the risk,’’ said Slider. A few days after the papers were Independence Wood Split Pulley “a
ic ie nig ete of = — and that ee pasistin nearer THE LIGHTEST! = i BR ROP! a
isa ask. Now how much? a r. lider, the we nown vanker, THE STRONGEST! “ee “ie

Billy hesitated and pondered for a/|had absconded, and that an enormous THE BEST! a tr ie mi
moment. ‘‘Whatdo you say,’’ he said | amount of money was missing. Inves-
at lust, to °°$5,000 for me and $3,000 | tigation of the books showed that he had HESTER MACHINERY CO ’ Genuine Peninsular Fasteners, in lots of 10 whe

: 9.) m ee : ‘ i . TIS 5 } ; Gt. Gross.. Te
apiece for each of the men? been preparing for flight for over a year, | 45 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS Genuine Feninsular Fasteners, single Gt. If 1

“That would be $17,000 in all,’? said | and rumor has it that he is now living OR ee ce 75e

oe : Heaton Fasteners same as above. ert;
the banker. somewhere in South America. But that . k ] l rs rie

‘*Well,”’ said Billy, ‘‘suppose we make | is one of the things about which nobody ulc € € e — crea rng
it $20,000 as a lump sum; or rather as | knows anything definite. PRICE IN LOTS OF 100 GT. GROSS QUOTED tha
you wish 24 hours, I think, as time is RosBert BARR. a ON APPLICATION. if
valuable in a case like this, $1,000 an ee ee WHAT: ? <<
— would not be exorbitant. If you oe — Occupations. —_—Baa== oh
say $24,000 in gold, its a go.” “ sre —_ a ' i se : sci Elliott Wire 5 Cents Less Than |.

“That is a large amount,” said the ee oe 2 Peninsular Fasteners. :
banker at a little town one Saturday about noon, THE NEW FALL LINE pri

“Oh, very well, then,” replied Biily intending to remain there until Monday cei
“We eis only te de cut duty. Youre morning. The proprietor of the hotel Manufactured by coy
not absent; you are here. The amount —- geny-hahrod fellow, well preserved : =

g > , , Tl Va Al ‘ ay
is large, as you say, but you must re- and apparently full of energy. I was SNEDICOR & HATHA WAY, 5 . not
member that the risk is tremendous.” consequently not very greatly surprised cov

“Yes, I admit that.” said the banker when he informed me that he was also a DETROIT, MICH, T H NEVIN CO 19 ger

“9 : - 2 . r sa ° e s . j

iach: “tek see ld yon woul lawyer. He had a big, stout wife, and it _

take $20,000 or even $17,000 a moment struck me that he could very well leave All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. “ . ‘i - sio

ago the hostlery to her while he practiced oar - WSs | d Xe alts the
. .. . i Dealers wishing to see the line address

‘“‘There are four men to square, be- 80 ee —— ae _— — F. A. Cadwell, 682 Jefferson ave., Grand
sides myself,”” answered the inspeetor, |* * arted out to see something of the lit-| Rapids, Mich. “

tle tow i. needi llar. s Have been used for over ten years. to |
‘‘and if one of them objected of course| “© °W2, and, needing a collar, stopped e : 3 : .
th nld be I shall not take|i2 Ome of the two or three dry goods Have in all cases given satisfaction. of

. ee roe spi ca ‘| stores to buy one. I must confess that I Are unequalled for durability, elasticity gu:
the risk even of mentioning it to them | was somewhat staggered when I found and beauty of finish. “a
for anything less than $24,000, andif I | that the hotelkeeper, besides being a a i : i :
think any longer about it I shall raise | !@wyer, was a clerk in a dry goods store > - — en ote
th sce to $30,000.” —for it was he who smiled blandiy at me brand mixed paints. acc

eS " ” : over the counter. I extended my walk Send for sample card and prices. wh

“T agree to the $24,000,” said the | until night was falling, and as 1 ap- WI
banker hastily. ‘Can you make sure of | proached the hotel, who did I see light-
your men—of their silence?”’ ing the oil lamps in the main street but of

io : aa warad Pilly | the hotel proprietor! The next morning, H | ; i] pri

Reasonably _— answered Billy. which was Sunday, | enquired of him the daze tine er Ins rg C0., bu

“The only question is, can we have the | way tuchurch. ‘Come on,’ said he, ‘I’ll fai
money in gold here and now?” show you.’ He took me into the church PATER AQTNTS

“Iam not sure that 1 can give you all| 4nd showed me to a seat, after which he STATE AGENTS an
that ti ld. but I think I can.” disappeared, saying he must go and ring a

at amount in gold, _| | the bell. In a few moments it was peal-| K I, AMAZOO PANT k OVERALL C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. bre
He consulted a pocketbook he had with] jing forth its pleading, and soon the con- mi
him and added some figures together. | gregation had gathered. I was prepared 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. |
Wen? be enkd “I oon do it.” for anything almost. after what I a sa ae 5 aia How to Keep a Store. tee
a a had seen of mine host’s versatility, and| Chicago Office: 305 Central Union Block. _ By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages no
Very well,” said Billy. It’s a bar- was not much surprised when he as- oo Office: Room 502 Matthew Build-| Jon Spaan the experienc and shameeaniee’ ot sa

gain.”’ cended the stairs of the pulpit and| Our fall line of Pants from $9 to #42 per dozen | #2 0ld merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi
. — : 2» services. The > +) | are now zeady, An immense line of Kersey | 2©88- Location. Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- pr

Billy called his pals, and together | ope ned services. Then he came down Panta, every pair wareented not to tin Saat tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of

they accompainied the banker to another again and manipulated the keys of the/| swatches of entire line sent on approval to the great interest to every one in trade, $1.50 at
i wa ae which | Wheezy little organ while the congrega- | trade. THE TRADESMAN CO., Ag’ts. na

room that contained a large safe, wh tion sang. He then took up the collection, Grand Rapids, Mich ely

Slider opened. He took out several] after which he again resumed the pulpit

bags, and, taking down a pair of scales| and preached as fine a gospel sermon as | -

from the top of the safe, said, ‘*You may I have ever heard. When services were | HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE (0 en

: a oe ; over and his flock had been dismissed y thi
weigh this, and you will find it correct.| with a fervent prayer, the preacher th
There are five bags here and they each] closed up the church.
contain $5,000.” ***What sort of a man is Mr. So-and-so, WHOLESALE ch

“Open all of the bags,” said Billy, anyhow? I asked of a lawyer, In

‘ a : : ***O,’ he answered, ‘he runs the town th
cautiously. The banker did so, and} punerally. He’s killed a dozen men, | i
Billy ran a handful of gold from each of | more or less, and is the best shot with}
them through his fingers and found| revolver in this part of the country. | aK
everything correct He’s the best poker player, too, I ever - be
q _ oan” a 7 the great temperance a

‘How much does $1,000 weigh?’’ ——_—~. «+ — | inc ™ & P ’
he asked the banker, and on receiving; The Union Bank of Richland was re- iH »Root br
his answer, placed one of the bags in| organized June 1, and will hereafter be | |

. P . . Beer 5 and 7 Pearl St., de
the scales. conducted under the style of Whitney, .

“It is a pity to break bulk,” said| Gilkey & Co. The stockholders areN. S. ATt gives New Life to the Old Folks, GRAY D RAPIDS, MICH. =
Billy. ‘I think we will call it $25,000.’ | Whitney, P. H. Gilkey, W. F. Doolittle, | Pleasure to the Parents,

7 ” oe a : oh | Health to the Children. br

‘Very well,’? answered the banker. | A. B. Barnes, Ira M. Peake, Geo. A. Bar- | nae 4th is eden een te ie eh ee fo
“Suppose you call your men in. Ij] ber, W. W. Dewey, E. G. Reed, D. R. | Good for All—Good All the Time, or

: : re 7 * ce . or um goods, made from the most select in
wish to be sure that you will keep your} Whitney and W. A. Watts. W. F. Doo- | A 2s5cent package makes Five

. : , gallons. Besureand get stock. pr
part of the compact.’’ little will act as President and W. A. Rp Hirss.’ th

The four men were speedily inside | Watts as Cashier. i Orders by mail given prompt attention. hi

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

POWERS AND DUTIES OF BROK-
ERS.

A broker is an agent employed to sell
the goods or merchandise of his princi-
pal, which are in his possession, for a
commission. A broker differs from an
agent in several important particulars.
He may buy and sell in his own name,
and he has the goods or merchandise in
respect to which his agency is created in
his possession, while an agent, as such,
cannot ordinarily buy and sell in his own
name, and has no possession of the goods
sold. The test as to whether a repre-
sentative is merely an agent, or is a
proker, is to be found in the question,
whether he has any possession or special
property in the subject matter of sale;
for if he has, he is in so far a broker, al-
though he may unite the two characters.
If he have no possession or special prop-
erty, he is merely an agent, and his
rights, duties and liabilities are different.
In respect to his commission, the rule is,
that a broker is always entitled thereto,
if he has properly performed his duty.
But if he is guilty of gross misconduct,
or if he executed his duties in sucha
manner as to prevent any benefit to his
principal, he will not be entitled to re-
ceive his commission. Nor can he re-
cover the difference when through his
negligence the proceeds of the sale are
not equal to the expenses; nor can he re-
cover expenses occasioned by his negli-
gence. Whether, when the purchaser
fails, he is entitled to receive a commis-
sion, is a question which depends upon
the usage of trade in the particular
place and in the particular business, and

in respect to which there does not seem |

to be any distinct and independent rule
of law. Whenever he undertakes to
guarantee to his principal the payment
of the purchase money, he is usually en-
titled to an additional compensation, on
account of the risk which he assumes,
which is called a guaranty commission.
When the broker assumes this contract
of guaranty he does not render himself
primarily responsible for the principal,
but only secondarily, in case of the
failure of the buyer to fulfill his contract;
and he is entitled to the general rights of
a guarantor as to notice. But a
broker under a guaranty com-
mission is only understood to guaran-
tee the payment by the purchaser, and
not the safe remittance to _ the
principal. In virtue of his special
property in goods consigned to his care,
a broker may buy and sell in his own
name, as well as in the name of his prin-
cipal; and, in such case, if he be the sup-
posed principal, the purchaser will be
entitled to the same rights as if he were
the real principal. Payment to him by
the purchaser will discharge the pur-
chaser from all liability to the principal.
In such case the purchaser may consider
the broker as the principal, and set off
any debt due from the broker to him
against the price of the goods. Yet, if
before all the goods are delivered, and
before any part of them is paid for, he is
informed that they do not belong to the
broker, he cannot set them off against a
debt due from the broker in an action
against him by the principal. Whenever
the broker sellsin his own name, he can
bring an action against the purchaser
for the price, and prosecute his remedies
in like manner as if he were actually the
principal; and will also be responsible to
the purchaser for the performance of
his part of the contract.

 

ever, the party dealing with a broker
gives exclusive credit to him, he cannot
aftewards have recourse to the principal.
But where the broker contracts in his
own name he is entitled to sue the pur-
chaser personally and to enforce pay-
ment from him, yet his rights in this
respect may be superceded»by the con-
signor, and he may bring -his action
against the purchaser, although the pur-
chaser dealt with the broker, as owner, in
good faith; but in such case the purchaser
will have the same rights as if he were
sued by the broker,”and may treat the
contract in all respects as if the broker
were the sole principal. If, however,
exclusive credit is given to the broker,
the principal could not interfere.

In the absence of express instructions
the powers of the broker depend upon
the usage of trade.

Where a broker with orders to sell for
cash, sold and delivered the goods, but
according to usage did not send in his
bill until the next day, before which
time the purchaser had become insolvent

 

 

 

 

 

and did not pay it, the sale was binding |
on the principal. But where he is duly |
authorized to sell on credit, and takes a |
promissory note payable to himself, he |
takes it in trust for his principal, and |
subject to his order, and he would not be
personally liable in the event of the in-|
solveney of the purchaser before pay- |
ment. The broker has possession of the
goods and a special property in them: |
and in virtue thereof he has a lien there-
on, and their proceeds, and the securi-
ties given for them, not only for his ex-
penses and commissions, but for the
balance of his general account. In_ this
respect usage has enlarged his rights
beyond what is generally allowed to
agents, as the ordinary lien of an agent

is a particular lien, but his is
a general lien. Where a_ broker
makes advances or incurs _ liabilities

upon a consignment of goods he may
sell them in the exercise of a sound dis-
cretion, and according to the general
trade usages, and reimburse himself for
all liabilities and expenses out of the
proceeds of the sale; and the consig-
nor cannot interfere, unless there is some
existing arrangement _ between them
which controls or varies the right. If
no advances have been made and no lia-
bilities incurred by the broker, he is
pound to obey the exact orders of the
consignor, and the consignor has a right
to control the sale according to his pleas-
ure from time to time, Ifa broker takes
a security payable to himself from a pur-
chaser of goods, and gives his own secur-
ity to his principal without giving the
name of the purchaser, he cannot com-
pell the principal to refund the money
paid him on failure of payment by the
purehaser. For he thereby induces the
principal to intrust to the security, and
assures him of the solvency of the pur-
chaser.

 

—————> + >
His Application Was Successful.

Merchant—‘*You want a place in my
store, you say?”’

Applicant—‘‘Yes, sir.”

‘Ever worked in a store before?”

“Yes, sir’

“Let me try you. Suppose a lady
should come in with a piece of cloth and
want to get a number of yards to match
it, what would you do?”

“Pd send her to the next counter.”

“J guess you’ve had experience.”’

—_-—>

When we get to heaven we will all

 

 

find that we have had something to do

R (many

Corner Ottawa and Lyon Sireets,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

AGNES

STATE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
3 :

 

BOOTH CIGARS.

WE CARRY ALL SIZES AND SHAPES.

This world-famous brand is for sale on the World’s Fair Grounds in the only buildings set

apart for smokers.

No advance over regular retail prices.

 

if VOU WANT ss

NEW
JAPAN
TEAS

WE HAVE THEM, BUT

 

 

DO NOT
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HURRY

 

Where, how-} with building it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To buy your season’s stock. We can give you just as
good Tea, for less money, about July 1.

— 9. ——_ ———

Jark~w

Grocery
As CO.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE,

AROUND THE STATE.

Sault Ste. Marie—Price Bros. succeed
Fred R. Price & Co. in the drug business.

Detroit— Kinsley & Reid have removed
their boot and shoe stock from Alpena to
this place.

Dundee—J. W. Smith succeeds J. W.
& J. D. Smith in the elevator and coal
business.

Greenville—Kemp & Edsall succeed O.
C. Kemp & Co. in the book aud station-
ery business.

Gobleville—E. M. Bailey & Co. suc-
ceed W. S. Crosby & Co. in the drug and
grocery business.

Hillsdale—M. G. Faulkes has pur-
chased the news and stationery business
of Geo. B. Whitney.

Charlotte—Jacob L. Collisi
moved his men’s furnishing goods stock
from Menominee to this place.

Hastings—F. P. Wilcox has purchased
the interest of Henry Mead in the meat
market of Mead & Wilcox and will con-
tinue the business under his own name
hereafter.

Port Huron—Fred A. Beard has been
admitted as a genera! partner in the firm
of Beard, Goodwillie & Co., wholesale
dealers in iron, steel, carriages, hard-
ware and wood work.

Marquette—The wholesale and retail
hardware firms of A. O. Jopling & Co.
and the Manhard Hardware Co. have
merged their business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Manhard-
Jopling Co., Limited.

Evart—Davy & Co. have leased of W.
Wolsky his brick store building on the
best business corner of Clare, and will
open a branch store there Aug. 15, car-
rying lines of dry goods and clothing.
The new venture will be under the direct
personal management of Elton Davy.

Marquette—L. W. Toles writes THE
TRADESMAN thatthe statement in last
week’s paper to the effect that G. E.
Blodgett had purchased a half interest
in his drug stock is untrue. Mr. Blod-
gett has entered his employ as clerk, and
has not yet acquired an interest in the
business.

Kalamazoo—Dr. J. B. Sayles has sold
his drug stock at the corner of Main and
Edwards streets to Dr. N. E. Leighton,
formerly of Hopkins Station, who will
continue the business at the same loca-
tion. He has engaged as prescription
clerk Guy Lockwood, who formerly
acted in the same capacity for J. M.
Frost at Mattawan.

has re-

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Saginaw—Farmer, Brown & Passmore,

carriage manufacturers, have dissolved,
Wm. Farmer continuing the business.

Manistee—The McKillip sawmill has
been standing idle for the past two
weeks, as the logs do not come from the
river fast enough to keep them sawing.

Beaverton—H. Seely has added stave
machinery to his hoop mill and now man-
ufactures hoops, staves and heading.
He has 3,000,000 feet of logs afloat, and
a good market for his output.

North Muskegon—The new factory of
the Standard Box Shook Co. is expected
to begin work next Monday. The com-
pany has been granted exemption from
taxation for a term of years.

Lake George—The St. Johns Lumber
Co. has begun peeling hemlock logs and
the logs will be loaded on the cars as
fast as peeled. The company has nearly

'

| 500,000 feet ready to peel and will put in

| more.

Harrison—P. Cory, for many years en-
gaged in the lumbering business at Har-
rison, has purchased an interest in a
shingle mill at Chassell, Upper Peninsula,
and left Harrison last week for Chassell.
He will have charge of the mill there.
| Manistee—The Union Lumber Co. is
sawing principally hardwoods and hem-
lock frem logs which were put in at
Freesoil during the winter and which
are being hauled by rail from there to
Stronach. The hardwood is all sold, and
the hemlock is disposed of about as fast
as cut, in small lots to Milwaukee yards.

Beaverton—The Harris & Patterson
sawmill has started up for the season.
A steam feed has been added to the mill
equipment, and a two-block machine
added to the shingle mill, increasing the
capacity to 100,000 a day. The greater
portion of the stock for the plant is fur-
nished by Brown & Ryan, of Saginaw.

Manistee—White, Friant & Co. are
only operating their shingle mill at pres-
ent and are sawing cedar shingles which
they are piling on the dock, as_ there
seems to be no market for that class of
stock. Stokoe & Nelson are also sawing
cedar shingles and are accumulating
quite a quantity, as the price offered
does not seem to suit their ideas of value.

Alpena—The Gilchrist sawmill will
soon be operated day and night. Mr.
Gilchrist has a good stock of logs in the
river, and is bringing over upward of
25,000,000 from Georgian Bay, which
will give the mill all she can do until
snow flies. The mill is in good shape,
having been overhauled and a band saw
put in, and it is expected more lumber
will be cut this season than in any former
year.

Manistee—The Rietz sawmill plant,
which had not been operated yet this
spring, started up last week. They have
a few old logs on hand and have pur-
chased a few million pine on the Manis-
tee & Luther Railroad, in which they are
now running a good sized camp and
bringing in logs by rail that will keep
the mill operating for sometime. The
salt block is not operating and will not
be ready for two weeks.

Muskegon—F. Vanderwerp, formerly
of Vanderwerp & Hudson, has purchased
a 50,000 feet capacity mill, formerly lo-
eated at Bitely, on the Chicago & West
Michigan, near White Cloud, and has
moved it to Houghton, where he has a
four years’ contract with a Grand Rapids
firm for sawing. There is an abundance
of timber around the new location, and
Mr. Vanderwerp has been promised work
for several years after his present con-
tract expires. The mill is now being
made ready for work.

Saginaw—The Supreme Court has
handed down an opinion in the case of
the New York Lumber & Woodenware
Co. vs. People’s Fire Insurance Co., in
which it is held that when a fire insurance
policy has been issued by the company
and forwarded to the local agent, it may
be recalled if, before it is actually deliv-
ered, a fire occurs which destroys the
property covered. In other words, not
the mere issuance of a policy is enough
to make the contract; it must be deliv-
ered. Judgment for the defendant was
affirmed with costs.

Saginaw—The solidity and legitimate
business methods of lumbermen and
business men generally in the Saginaw

 

valley is a source of much satisfaction.

 

The banks are solid and abundantly able
and willing to take care of their own
customers; there have been no failures
and collections are good. The head ofa
large manufacturing concern, the entire
product of which is handled by rail,
stated on Saturday that not only did his
trade hold up in volume and prices, but
he had yet to have his first customer ask
for extension, and his business covers a
wide area of country.

~~ <<

Death of H. F. Hastings.

Henry F. Hastings, the well-known
and widely respected merchandise
broker, died at the family residence on
Jefferson avenue early Monday morning.
The deceased was born on a farm near
Lagrange, Ohio, March 2, 1845. His
early advantages were very meager, Ow-
ing to the poor circumstances of his
parents, so that he was able to start in
life with merely the barest common
school education. At the age of 16 he
enlisted in the army, rapidly rising in
the ranks until he was promoted to the
position of Captain of Company H, 3d
Regiment. He was discharged from ser-
vice July 13, 1865, and embarked in the
sale of lightning rods in the Buckeye
State. He then traveled on the road, sell-
ing Thomas’ inks, after which he kepta
hotel at Pentwater for several years. He
subsequently traveled for Boies, Fay &
Conkey, wholesale grocers of Chicago,
and on the failure of that house, in 1875,
he came to Grand Rapids and embarked
in the merchandise brokerage business,
being the second man in the field. His
geniality and knowledge of goods soon
placed him in a commanding position,
which he maintained to the time of his
death.

The deceased was a 33rd degree Ma-
son, having been Past Commander in
Chief of DeWitt Clinton Consistory and
Past Eminent Commander of DeMolai
Commandery, K. T., Chancellor of Eu-
reka Lodge, K.P., Brigadier General of
Michigan Division Uniform Rank, K. P.,
Chairman of the Board of Managers of
the Pythian Temple, Director in the
Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
and first Vice-President and Director of
the Peoples Savings Bank. He was also
a member of the G. A. R., Veilved
Prophets and several other secret and
fraternal orders. The deceased carried
$10,500 life insurance, $5,000 in the Mu-
tual Benefit of New Jersey, $2,500 in the
Northwestern Masonic Aid Association
and $2,000 in the Masonic Mutual Bene-
fit Association of Western Michigan.
The deceased leaves a wife and one
daughter, father and mother, and hosts
of friends to mourn his untimely demise.
He was a man of generous impulses and
strong attachments, holding his friends
by the power of his strong individuality
and good fellowship. The vacancy in
the trade left by his death will long be
felt.

 

_ o>
The Hardware Market.

There is but little to say this week
concerning the market, as everything
remains the same in price. The outlook
for any higher prices on nails, barbed
wire, bar iron, etc., is not encouraging.
While the volume of business keeps up,
there is a conservative feeling prevalent,
buyers manifesting a disposition to pur-
chase only for immediate wants. While
we do not look for any general demorali-
zation, we believe careful action at pres-
ent to be the best.

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market has advanced a
sixpence during the last week, and is
still strong and firm. The strike of the
firemen in the Havermeyer refinery came
to an end on Thursday, so that cannot
be set forth as areason for higher prices.

Pickles—Lower, the warm weather
causing a scramble among jobbers and
packers to unload stocks on hand.

Currants—Cleaned bulk goods are '4e
lower.

Cheese—The market continues to de-
cline, and will probably be downward
during the remainer of this month.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion and
one cent a word for each subsequent insertion.
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

4 hee EXCHANGE—SIX HUNDRED ACRES
first-class farming land, free and clear of
incumbrance, forty miles north of Grand Rap-
ids, to exchange for a stock of general merchan-
dise. Address for particulars C. E. Herrington,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 742
OR SALE—DRUG STORE, SMALL STOCK.
Doing nice paying business. Present
owner has other business. Address, ‘‘ Antidote,”
care of Michigan Tradesman. 739
OR SALE—WELL. ESTABLISHED GRO
cery business in one of the most rapidly
growing sections of Grand Rapids For partic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

ulars address No. 740, care Michigan Trades-
man. 740
STUCK UF ABOUT

et ee DRUG
#2,000 in a good, thrifty, pleasant village
of 1,000 to 2,000 inhabitants, and doing a good
business. Address M. C., care of Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 741
OR SALE—YUST TYPEWRITER, USED
but a few months, and practically as good
as new. Send for sample of writing. Trades-
man Company, Grand Rapids. 736
OR sALE—STOCK OF MEN’S, WOMEN’S
and children’s shoes at a discount for spot
cash. No exchange of property wanted. Stock
all purchased new since April 1. 1892, of eastern
factories, and no jobbing house lots. Will in-
voice $1,:00 or $1,300. Good reasons for selling.
Address E. M. Fletcher, Leslie, Mich. 737
OR SALE—SMALL BAZAAR STOCK, ALSO
store building in good railroad and manu
facturing town. Address P. O. Box NO. 93,
Thompsonville, Mich. 738
OR SALE—IN A DESIRABLE LOCALITY
of the beautiful city of Kalamazoo, a gro-
cery and meat business, situated on a corner.
Brick veneered building and dwelling, 4x8 lot,
small cottage of seven rooms on rear end; also
barn, carriage house, smoke-house and _ice-
house All new, and in first-class condition,
doing a good and prosperous business. Stock
all new and fresh. Store and market fixtures
all new and first-class Only reason for selling
is the proprietor’s failing eyesight For infor-
mation inquire of Chas. Sharron, corner Parsons
and Edwards streets, Kalamazoo, Mich. 734
ANTED -A PLACE BY THE MONTH OR
year _— a farm by a steady married
man, or would rent a small place in a good
neighborhood for days’ work. Address, Noah
Rice, No. 33 Livingston street, Grand Rapids,
ich, %35
OR SALE—ONE OF THE FINEST AND
best selected drug stocks in northern Mich
igan, er located for business; in live
town; brick building; steam heat and all modern

 

 

 

 

 

 

pe ag ese Rent moderate; terms reason-
able Address J. W. Balcom, Tawas City, Mich-
igan. TS

 

OR RENT—THE NEWLY FITTED STORE
at 88 Canal street. Suitable for a hardware,
stationery or clothing store. First-class location
in center of business part near court house, next
door to best paying drug store in_ the city.
Twenty-four feet front and 100 feet deep, high
ceiling, etc. For terms apply to 239 Jefferson
avenue, Grand Rapids. ‘<a.
OR SALE OR RENT—STORE BUILDING
at Sparta. Tip-top place for hardware.
Address No. 726, care Michigan Tradesman. 726
OR SALE—TWO-sTORY FRAME STORE
building and dwelling at Levering,a thriving
Northern Michigan town. —— well rented.
Will sell cheap or exchange for city property.
A. M. LeBaron, 65 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. 702
OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES FOR
cash; also store building and lot, including
two dwelling houses, on time. Address No. 691,
care Michigan Tradesman. 691
LEGANT OFFER—IT’S NO TROUBLE TO
find drug stocks for sale, but you generally
“find a nigger in the fence.’’ I have an elegant
drug business for sale; stock about $4,000; bright,
clean and oldest established trade. Prominent
location; brick building; stone walk; rent mod-
erate; ~ 30,000; reasons for selling made
known. Suit yourself about terms. Address

 

 

 

 

 

 

quick, John K. Meyers, Muskegon, Mich. 670
MISCELLANEOUS.
ANTED—I WANT A BOOT AND SHOE

stock in exchange for a sawmil, camp out-
fit, 400 acres of land and 1,500,000 hardwood and
hemlock timber. James McDonald, Benton
Harbor, Mich. W225

 

fFor CASH FOR WOOD—SEND FULL PAR-
ticulars as to price and kind of wood. Ad-
dress M. E. Lapham, 481 East Bridge St., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 704

 

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

C. W. Hall, meat dealer on West Ful-
ton street, has closed out his business
and retired from trade.

John Wickham, meat dealer on Plain-
field avenue, has changed its location to
117 Butterworth avenue, the former lo-
eation of John Kern.

Thos. Price has retired from the firm
of McKay & Price, grocers and meat
dealers at 670 and 672 Cherry street.
The business will be continued by the
remaining partner, Fred B. McKay.

 

W. M. Briggs has embarked in the gen-
eral merchandising business at Shelby-
ville. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.
furnished the groceries, Rindge, Kalm-

bach & Co. the boots and shoes and
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., the dry
goods.

Two weeks ago, in giving an acount of
the suit brought by W. J. Gould & Co., of
Detroit, against John Giles & Co., of
Lowell, THe TrapesMAN did Judge
Brown, before whom the case was tried,
an unintentional injustice. It stated
that, in giving his judgment on the tea
objected to by the defendents, the Judge
said it was worth from 1 to 2 cents a
pound more than the tea which was to be
tbe standard of quality. What he did
say was thatit was worth !;@%* cents
more. This may seem like a small matter
tosome, but, be it remembered, it is nota
mere question of the value of a chest of
tea, more or less, but Judge Brown’s rep-
utation is at stake. He was for four
years in the tea business, and is known
far and wide as an expert in matters per-
taining to tea; therefore, to quote him as
saying that one sample of tea was worth
fromito2 cents a pound more than
another sample, when in reality the dif-
ference in value was but 14 a cent, is to
say, in effect, that his judgment, in such
matters, is not to be relied upon. It was
not an« intentional misstatement, how-
ever, at least on the part of this journal.
It is more than suspected that the attor-
neys from whom THE TRADESMAN re-
ceived its information, purposely, with
malice aforethought, envying Judge
Brown his well-earned reputation as a
jurist and a judge of tea, misstated the
facts. In giving this correction to the
public, Tur TRADESMAN assures His
Honor that it is not given because of any
fear of injury to his fair name and fame,
but simply to give the actual facts in the
ease the same publicity received by the

misstatement.
7.
Purely Personal.

W. H. Willard, formerly engaged in
the drug business at Manistee, but now
engaged in the same business at Battle
Creek, is happy over the advent of a boy.

David Holmes, buyer and manager of
the mercantile department of the Elk Rap-
ids Iron Co., was in town last Saturday.
Mr. Holmes looks as though the Antrim
county air agrees with him, and reports
increased sales in the company’s store
since it has been under his management.

Chas. M. Norton (Foster, Stevens &
Co.) started for Springfield, Mass., Sun-
day noon, being called there by the sud-
den and unexpected death of his mother,
who passed away Saturday evening. Mr.
Norton has many warm friends among
the trade who will deeply sympathize
with him in his great affliction.

Charles Young, the Kalamazoo drug-
gist, has surprised his friends and him-

 

 

self by developing into a pugilist of the
first class. Mr. Young has, until lately,
leased astore building belonging to an |
elephantine German, who formed a dis- |
like for his tenant and abused him on}
every opportunity. Toward the last he}
frequently boasted that he proposed to
thrash the druggist on the first provoca-
tion, and on the occasion of a recent
visit to the store proceeded to carry the
threat into execution. Young confi-
dently expected to come out of the melee
second best, but sailed into his opponent
to the best of his ability and succeeded
in punishing the portly landlord so se-
verely that friends had to intercede, or
Young would have converted the fellow
into sausage. Young subsequently
caused. the arrest of the aggressor for
assault and battery, and there is a well-
founded rumor in Kalamazoo that he
proposes issuing a challenge to Jim Cor-
bett.

—_—__ ><
From Out of Town.

Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentlemen in trade:

Geo. S. Curtis, Edgerton.

John P. Fetz, North Dorr.

Thos. Van Eenenaam, Zeeland.

A. B. Shumaker, Grand Ledge.

Stone & Hemingway, Sheridan.

L. A. Knowles, Stetson.

Geo. Schichtel, North Dorr.

F. N. Cornell, Sebewa.

H. Van Noord, Jamestown.

Frank Smith, Leroy.

Rockafellow Mercantile Co.,
City.

R. B. Gooding & Son, Gooding.

Chas. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids.

Tucker, Hoops & Co., Luther.

J. W. Milliken, Traverse City.

Bates & Trautman, Moline.

Henry Meijering, Jamestown.

Geo. Schichtel, North Dorr.

A. Denton, Howard City.

N. F. Miller, Lisbon.

Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.

Gripsack Brigade.

The Reader Bros. Shoe Co. has en-
gaged two new meu—M. M. Manley,
formerly on the road for Ferris & Co., of
Chicago, will cover the territory of
Northern Indiana, and F. M. Schults
will work the trade in a portion of Wis-
consin.

Edwin Mortlock, traveling salesman
for Samual Williams, jobber of woolen
goods at Boston, was in town over Sun-
day. Mr. Mortlock has been on the road
for thirty-three years—twenty-two years
in this country and eleven years in Great
Britain, all of the time in the woolen
goods line. It naturally follows that
there are few things connected with
his line with which heis not familiar.
Mr. Mortlock resides at Detroit, and cov-
ers the larger towns of Michigan, Ohio
and Indiana.

—_———_—__—>- >

Advantages of Handling Good Cutlery.

Carson

 

 

It is undoubtedly true that there is no
department of the hardware trade which
responds so quickly to good management,
combined with quality, as that of cutlery.
It is the best advertisement, especially in
country towns and small cities, to be
known as ‘“That’s the best store to get a
pocket knife, shears, or table cutlery;
his goods hold an edge and will cut.”
This is, of course, greatly aided by the
neat and attractive display made of his
goods and must be given proper atten-
tion if he wishes to get reasonably profit-
able returns for the money invested in
this department. This, together with
a catchy card in his local paper, which
should be frequently changed to meet
the various seasons, will ensure a fair
amount of trade, providing other things
at the store receive an equal amount of

 

attention. Try it.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

News from the Metropolis---Index of
the Markets.
Special Correspondence.

NEw York, June 17.—Every day be-
comes more interesting politically, and
tue much discussed question of placing
a tax on sugar and coffee is again being
debated. There seems to be a pretty
widespread belief that a small tax will
be placed on sugar and quite likely on
coffee also, and a reduction made in cer-
tain lines of woolen wearing apparel to
offset this.

The coffee market is practically life-
less. The statistical position certainly
warrants high prices; perhaps they are
high already, though, and no one knows
it. It seems almost useless to talk about
the ‘‘statistical position’’ of anything. Is
it likely that the man with a hatful of
statistics regarding wheat could have
foretold that 63c would be the top price
therefor in Chicago? So with sugar or
with coal. As long asthe entire product
is controlled by ‘‘gentlemen” who meet
every month to adjust the schedule of
what use are statistics? At present Rio
coffee No. 7 is quoted at 161¢¢c, while
last week it was about 174¢c. The crop
to come is admittedly from 1,000,000 to
2,000,000 bags short, and yet markets all
over the world are dull and lower.

No interest is manifested in the canned
goods market—at least so far as old goods
are concerned. A good many new peas are
being sold, and prices are as numerous as
the cases. Early Junes are quoted at
80@85 ¢ @ $1@$1.20; sifted, $1.15@1.40.
Tomatoes are no higher, and $1.27¢ is
the mark now, although some are still
held at $1.30. Salmon, $1.45@1.60 for
Columbia River, with Alaska held at
$1.15@$1.20. Some interest attaches to
the statement that there are 300,000
eases of California canned fruit in first
hands, one-third of which is held here.
This, added to the enormous amount now
in process of being canned, is an import-
ant factor, and when we add the huge
fruit crops to be packed at the East, it
certainly seems as though the consumer
during the coming winter could have
canned goods at his own price. It will
be a tough experienee if the fruit groves
of California do not return to their own-
ers the usual $300 to $1,000 per acre they
seem to expect as a matter of course.

In foreign green fruit, lemons are in
better demand, and since last week
sales have been picking up daily, though
prices are hardly any higher as yet.
Fancy Sicily, $3.75@$4.50 for 300s, and
for 360s $3.50@$4.25. Oranges, also, are
selling more freely, and are worth $2.50
@3.25. Bananas arearriving freely, and
can be purchased from $1 to $1.50 for
best.

In the line of domestic green fruits,
apples are still seen that are of last
year’s growth, but they are growing
scarce, and prices are low and demand
slack. Peaches are yet too high to cut
any figure in general reports; cherries
plenty, and worth from 4 to 8 cents;
huckleberries, 10@12c; muskmelons,
$3@5. per bbl.; watermelons, $25@$30
per hundred.

Butter is in moderate receipt, and
prices about as last week—20!ge for
extra State tubs and the same for Elgin;
other grades of Western, 15@19c. Cheese
is unchanged, selling for every fraction
between 81¢ and 9% c.

Potatoes are selling well, but prices
are weak and will not be maintained
long. For new Southern rose the ex-
tremes are $3@3.50; seconds, $1.50@1.75
per bbl.; Bermuda onions, 75c@$1 per
crate; quite a quantity of Egyptian are
here at $2@2.25 per bag, which holds
about 110 pounds. Fresh tomatoes, $1.25
@1.75 per crate.

For something good and cheap, take
rice. It is way down, and never is so
high as to be out of reach. Market is
unsettled and buyers are purchasing lit-
tle and often.

Talk about molasses being slow in
January—it is slow enough in June.
Market is ‘‘unsatisfactory’’ and this has
been the condition for years. N. O. or-
dinary, 13@14c; fair, 18@20c; prime,

22@24c; open kettle, from 30c for good,
prime, 32@34e, and fancy, 36-38¢ syrups
selling slowly at a range of from 10@24c.

| 3
| Spices are slow of sale and low in
|price. Singapore pepper, 514@5Ke;
icloves, 71¢e for Zanzibar; 13@14e for
; Amboyna. Pepper is atabout the lowest
| point ever reached.
| ‘The Michigan crop bulletin is always
|of interest to the trade, and the an-
inouncement of a good celery crop in
| prospect is very satisfactory.
| The grocery market at the moment is
jin a fairly satisfactory condition. Out-
| of-town collections are slow in some sec-
| tions, and credits in all parts are being
| carefully watched. Purchases are small,
}as a rule, and not made except to supply
immediate wants. Stocktaking time is
close at hand and stocks of goods being
reduced as much as possible. JAY.
i > tip
The Drug Market.

‘There are no changes to note this week.

Opium is rather unsettled in New
York, some holders asking more than
others, on account of higher
abroad.

Morphia and quinine are unchanged.

Paris green is in large demand. Some
manufacturers are out of stock and
higher prices are looked for.

Blue vitrol is tending higher under
large demand.

prices

 

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Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia,

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| Have You
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. First in-

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stops sneezing, snuffing,

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This relief is worth the

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(s~N use will — the cure.
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— 7. Prevents Sickness. The

cool, exhilarating sensation following its use is
a luxury to travelers by rail or boat. /
Th 8 } R dl for COLDS and SORE
8 Best KMeOll wuRoar. it is a
dainty pocket piece. It cannot get out of or
der; does not require renewing; there is no
liquid to drop or spill; lasts a year, and costs 50¢
at druggists. Registered mail 60c, from

H. D, CUSHMAN, Manufacturer,
Three Rivers, Mich.

(2"Guaranteed satisfactory.

 

“The Proof of the Pudding is Ask-
ing for More.”

 

SMOKERS ONCE SMOKERS AL-
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The great 10¢c Cigar, and

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Made on Honor. Sold on Merit
First-Class Dealers Everywhere.

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6

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

How Shall I Improve My Financial |

Condition?
Written for THR TRADESMAN.
How often does the disappointed, strug-
gling retailer ask himself this question!
At this very moment, when the business

ae eee '

situation looks so gloomy and forebid- |

ding;
lections are so very difficult to make;
when the season is so backward and the
weather so fickle; and when the big Col-

umbian Fair is beckoning so temptingly |

—who can number the thousands of re-
tail merchants all over the country who |
are ransacking heaven and earth for some |
solvent that will free them from

when bills are maturing and ceol- |

|

their |

present entanglements and better their |

condition financially. They have looked
at the situation from every possible
standpoint. They have run over their
ledgers until figures have become obliter-
ated by finger marks, and each debtors
name has become a standing menace to
the future welfare of their souls. Bills
payable, which have been renewed once
or twice already, are rapidly approaching
maturity again, and this time something
will have to be done about it. What
will it be? Those personal accounts
cannot be relied upon. They have been
Squeezed two vor three times already,
and the result has demonstrated the fact
that immediate relief cannot be obtained
by way of collections; in fact, the very
thought of these personal accounts sends
a cold wave up the vertebral column and
extracts great beads of cold,clammy sweat
from the troubled brow. Heretofore
they could be relied upon in cases of
emergency, but now they are. barren.
They are not only barren as_ personal
accounts, but they are not a certain
remedy even when converted into bank-
able the
banks’ refuse to discount it. Sev-
eral retail grocers have mani-
fested a disposition to shut off all credits
business to a spot cash

commercial paper, as

and reduce their
basis asa means of relief from present
but before making a
move of this kind, the retailer should
thoroughly understand the situation.
He should remember that the country is
in a bad financially, and that
money is hard to get; that the unpre-
cedented number of bank failures
cently has produced a stringent
upon the banks of the country at large,
causing them to withhold funds and cur-
tail While money is thus
locked up what would be the use of shut-

entanglements;

shape

reé-
effect

discounts.

credits as a means of obtaining
money? A cessation of
present time, would mean a cessation of
There would be no apprecia-
cash receipts, and

ting off
credits, at the

business.
ble increase in ready
the means for meeting pending obliga-
tions would, therefore, not be improved.
On the other hand, a stoppage of credits
would drive away good customers and
depreciate the value of accounts already
eontracted. Our exemption laws in this
State are of such a nature that the re-
tailer is compelled to handle his cus-
tomers with a great deal of caution. To
abruptly refuse aman credit would be
equivalent to a big discount on the debt
he has already contracted; and if he be
entirely within the exemption laws, the
chances are that he would refuse, abso-
lutely, to pay his accumulated indebted-
ness.

Would a reduction of prices and a
more tiberal use of printers’ ink increase
cash -Teceipts? Hardly.

A demand for | j

Dry Goods Price Current.

hanes Ux COTTONS.

 

   

Arrow Brand 5

meyao .. ....-.-.-. 6 “World Wide. 6
Aileen Ao 6 - 4%
Atlantic Be * Full Yard Wide..... 6%
H GyiGeorgia A.......... BM
- BY Honest Width....... os

e . 6 |HartfordA . ‘

ou ul -. 5 |Indian Head........ oe
aes ere A. 6%

Archery Bunting... 4 “| King EC. elec
Beaver Dam AA.. 544/Lawrence L Tt
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth oy

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

| Biack Crow......... 6 | Newmarket |.
| Binck Mook ........ 6%) ae Hos
(ea, 3G......... . 7 . es 6%
Copteal A... ......-. ro _ DD.... S&
oe Fv... oo 6%
Cc ae cheese cl. 3a, mores M. ....4..-...- 5
nck... 514/Our Level Best..... 6
| Comet. a. --+ i A... 6
| Dwight ee Ox Pogue... 7
Ciitten CCC........ aoe 6
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
ASC. .............. 844/Geo. Washington... 8
a 5 eee... 7
ia .... ...... 7. Soe eee... .... ™%
Art Cambric........ 10 Green Ticket....... 8%
Blackstone AA..... 7% reat Palis.......... 6%
| moe An... ee ..........._ 7
Fe 12 Just Ont..... 4%@ 5
ooo... 74 \King Phillip econ 7
Ce 6% or... ,
Charter Oak........ 5% Lonsdale —. -10
Conway W. -.. T4|Lonsdale.. @ 8
Cleveland ...... -- 6% Middlesex... .. @5
Dwight Anchor . Sino Mame............ 1%
—— 8 a bc eae 6
iii. = 2a On. ..._..... 5%
mae... 7 Pride of "the West...12
een. EN 2
| Fruitofthe Loom. 84/Suntight............. 4%
Pischyilie ..... ... 1 (Odea Miim......... 8%
Piet Pee... ...... 7 - Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom %. 74%|Vinyard............. 8%
Palrmeournt.......... 414) White Horse........ 6
Pull Yatus.......... —  -... ._
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS,
a a Ancor... . 8%
Fereg....... ..... |
pert FLANNEL.
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife A........ 5y Housewife 2 oe 6%
- 1 oe F :
. i... .e 6 c
‘ Dp... 6% '
' s........ 7 .
‘ eo 7, “
“ S.C ™% “
. a... 73% _
Co 84 “ 2
’ a 8% ~ 2 13%
a ce
i. . )
' ye... 10%
a N. —
. - 21
_ ern 14%
CARPET WARF
Peerless, wiite......18 Integrity colored. . . 20
. colored....20 |W hite s er... 18
Integrity .. ho 18%] ** colored. .20
DRESS GOODS.
aaeon......,..... : Pemclem...... ..... 20
' Le ee 25
oe ee “10s ee 27%
GG Cashmere...... CS 30
Nameless i. ie | e - 32%
oe 18 | - oe
CORSETS.
LL — 50/Wonderful . ... 84 50
Schilling’s . - Serene... ........ 4%
Davis Waists..... 9 00) jBortree’s ..... a
Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
Aa n,m gg satteen.. 7%
Androscoggin....... pag mm a 6%
peeaetors.......... Conestoga. . <ocee
Brunswick. 6x|Walwecee Le me
PRINTS.
Allen turkey reds.. 6 |Berwick fancies... 5%
- robes........ 6 |Clyde Robes........
" = & purp le 6 |Charter Oak fancies %
. — ..... 6 |DelMarine cashm’s.
. a checks. 6 | mourn’g
o staples ...... 6 |Eddystone fancy..
ehirtings ... 6 | chocolat
American fancy... 5H = rober....

 

4

6

6

6

6

6

Americanindigo ... o sateens.. 6
American shirtings 2 My ‘Hamilton —- ©
Argentine Grays... 6 | 6
6

6

6

4

8

6

Anchor Shirtings... - | intnaieaniins , ae

 

 

Arnold _ oo. new era. 6
Arnold Merino _6 | Merrimack D fancy. 6
<4 cloth . a Merrim’ ckshirtings. 4%
“u“ oe ‘ r ~
‘* century cloth 7 os
- see..... 19% bi 6%
‘* green seal TR 104) Portsmouth robes... 6%
‘yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning. =
- —— ee 11% 1 os ...... 6
- ey red..10% . solid black. 6
Ballov qoltd black Washington indigo. 6%
colors. ‘* Turkey robes.. 7%
— dlue, green, ‘* India robes.... 7%
and orange... 6 » plain Tky x « oh
Berlin solids. 54; *
oii blue., 6 “ Ottoman —
“ - green - 6 oe... 6%
‘“ Fonlards ... 5% Martha Washington
- os... 7 Turkey red X.....
“ - =... 9%|Martha Washington
- “44 10 Turkey red........ 9%
. “ 34XXXX 12 Riverpoint robes.... 5%
Cocheco fancy. . 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6%
- madders. .. : . gold ticket
o XX twills.. | Indigo biae....... 10%
_ eee... Sig |Harmeny eben _.
TICKINGS.
Assoekoes ACA....reGIACA..... ........
Hamliton a 7%| Pemberton AAA..
ii ee 8%| York. .. “40%
' Awning..11 |Swift River... 1%
ee gg. eee S Pear River......... 12
Pee Feeee.......s., 10%) Warren....... — 13%
Lonox Mills ........ 18 jC oe... 16
COTTON DRILL,
sents, D. . 6 |Stark A
pee ~ No Name.....
Sopot Beap........

 

 

   

 

  

 

DEMINS.
Amoskeag ee 12%/Columbian brown. .12
os. .... 13% Everett, beno........ 12%
brown .13 brown. ....12%
Andover... ep Haymaker pine. .... T%
Beaver Creek AA.. rown 7%
BB.. eee... 11%
r , Teer. .......... 12%
Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, a... 13%
blue 8% No. 220....13
« da twist 10% _ No. 250....11%
Columbian XX br.10 ' No. 280....10%
XXX bi.19
GINGHAMS.
Aes... 6% Lancaster, staple. . 86
‘* Persian dress 8 fancies .
. Canton .. 8 . Normandie &
. ek 104|Lancashire.......... 6
. Teazle...104%|Manchester......... 5X
e Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
' a: S iMormandic......... T%
Arlington staple.... 64|Persian...... i. 2
—— fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... 7%
Bates Warwick dres 7% Rosemont eb eb eee 6%
staples. 64/S
Centennial......... 10%
Coie ........... 10%
Cumberland staple. 5%
Cumberiand.... .... 5
oe. 4%
a ™
Everett classics..... 84| Whittenden......... 8
Bxpesteon.......... D4 ' heather dr. 7%
ere........... 6% ‘indigo blue 9
Cicnerven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples. . =
Gienwood........... ved Westbrook ee oe
ee 10
Jobnson Vhaloncl %/Windermeer........ 5
” indare bine SLIT eee..... .........- 6%
> zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS,
ae. etme a (eoncie a ee 15%
Stark.. . - -19%
American........... * al IPscitic. eee deta eeek
THREADS,
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... &6
ae, 2. ee ....... © iMarsaelle.... ...... 81
Peayeee............. 244
KNITTING COTTON.
— Colored. ete ——
me 6. 38 IN
" a 39
—o 40
- . a 41
CAMERICS
, 4%
White Star......... 4%
oe... 4
Newmarket......... 1K
RED FLANNEL.
Pees. 82%
Croommare.... ...... 2THIFT
eee oe... 30
Timeeiom...... ....- 27%
MIXED FLANNEL,
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%
ee 22%) Western W ......... 18%
ee... mee ee... 18%
6 oz Western........ 20 tne he 22%
Cos. 226i Manmitoba........... 23%

 

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Nameless ..... 8 o°% . ae

a | 8%@10 ee. 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.

 

 

Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black.
9% 9% 914|10% 10%
10% 10% 10%/11% 11% 11%
11% 11% 114/12 12 12
12% 12% 1244/20 20 20
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 oz........ 9%|West ‘Point, 80z....10%
Mayland, 80z.......10% 10 0z ...12%
Greenwood, ™% oz.. 9%/|Raven, 100z es 13%
Greenwood, ‘<=... Be
Boston, 8 02......... 10% |Boston, 10 0z........ 12%
WADDINGS.
weeks, Gos......... 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....83 50
Coleco, Ge. ......2 Hee ~~ |... 7 50
SILESIAB.
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10%
mea Crom.... 9 (Dumdio.............. 9
. oe... ...... 10% meee... 8. LL 10%
# Best AA..... ” a Ce......... 10%
SE ee 10%
oe
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz....... 85 [Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz. .40 per %oz ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. .40

HOOKS AND EYES—PER GRO

 

 

 

No 1 Bl’k & White.. 10 No 4Brk& ‘white, 15
“ 2 12 8 -20
“ 2 ay -.12 * © - +125

PINS.

No 2—20, M C.......50 a ee ceeae 40

‘oe eC.......: 45
COTTON TAPE.

No 2 White & BI’k..12 {[No 8 White & BI’k..20
“= @ _ _—. -* @ “ --28
“ 6 “ss in “ 12 as -

SAFETY PINS.

Deoe.....,....5.53., me ores... 36

NEEDLES—PER &M.

EOE 1 40|/Steamtoat.... ...... 40

Coes... 1... 1 35/Gold Eyed.......... 150

el 1 00|American....... eseol 00

TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....2 i 6—4...2 %
a2 6 6*hU oe
a.

Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nash ae

(vewe .............- 12 Rising § Star 4ply.. ——

pemeeeee ......-..... 18% 3-ply..

a ..... .. 4.  isorth Gir... ....; “3
Bristol . -+--.138 |Wool Standard 4 ~—
Cherry Valiey. are = rowneeen .........

sia ae

eeee............ 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6%
Alamanos........... 8% metan....... ae

   

 

Cuas. B. Ketsey, Pres. EE. B. Szymour, Sec’y

J. W. HANNEN, Supt.

   
 

  

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ll

 

long run, as a bar to the receipt of cash.
A slaughter of prices very seldom proves
satisfactory, even as a temporary expe-
dient for commanding ready money, when
times are ordinarily good; and, at the pres-
ent time, when the money market is suffer-
ing from a severe stroke of paralysis, a
resort to such practices would be simply
ruinous. It would destroy the profits
arising from what limited cash trade the
retailer now enjoys, without adding, ma-
terially, to the gross cash receipts. This
loss in profits would be still further mag-
nified by the cost of extra advertising;
and advertising, even under the most
prudent management, is a big item in
the expense account of any business con-
cern as every retailer knows. To adver-
tise a reduction of prices at the present
time, I repeat, would be a mistake. The
people are fot withholding cash on ac-
count of prices; they haven’t got the
cash to withhold; it is the bankers who
are withholding, and they show no dispo-
sition to let loose while the present pan-
icky condition of the money market con-
tinues. What little money the people
do control is being withheld from the reg-
ular channels of trade for the purpose of
swelling the enormous sum that will
concentrate at Chicago during the big
Columbian Fair. In this concentration
of the at present limited supply of the
circulating medium, the portion which
Michigan is expected to contribute is es-
timated at $10,000,000. No reduction of
prices, or any other scheme on the part
of the retailer, can extract a single dol-
lar from a bank vault, or retain a dollar
which has been laid aside for the World’s
Fair, the retailer, himself, expects to

visit the World’s Fair, and as he schemes
and plans, denying himself this luxury
and that pleasure, in order to save up
and lay aside a sum sufficient to enable
him to realize his expectations, he should
do a little soliloquizing after this fashion:
“Now, this sum of money which I have
laid aside for World’s Fair purposes, has
been cut out of the regular, ordinary
flow of traffic and trade. Were it not
for this World’s Fair, every dollar of this
sum would pass into the hands of the
jobber, or be spent at home for supplies,
improvements or pleasure.’? He should
then ask himself this question: ‘‘After
all of this fond anticipation; this serimp-
ing and economizing, would a reduction
of prices, or any other inducement on
the part of a jobber, or a home dealer in
some other line, tempt me to disgorge
that money and forego the pleasure of a
trip to Chicago?” In solving this ques-
tion, the retailer would be convinced,
(1) that the World’s Fair cuts no smail
figure in the present money tightness
and its resulting evils; and (2) that a re-
duction in prices, or any other induce-
ment, would have but little effect in
helping matters.

Is there no way, then, of improving my
financial condition? That depends alto-
gether on the nature of your case. You
may have neglected a proper treatment
for so long a time that your case is a
hopeless one. You know that in times
of ordinary health nineteen out of every
twenty cases of reiail fever prove fatal,
and in times like the present the per-
centage of collapses must be very much
larger.

Assuming that you have not yet passed
beyond the possibilities of redemption,
there are some things which might be
done to strengthen your condition and
help you to ward off danger until the

 

malady has runits course. In the first
place you might do as the bankers are
doing—preserve your vitality by curtail-
ing credits. Plug up every leak-hole
and stop every drain. Bad debts are the
big leak-holes which drain the vitality
out of so many retail concerns. Scru-
tinize your list of customers’ names care-
fully, and cut off every one that your
best judgment pronounces bad. Don’t
be afraid; you might much better err on
the side of safety than incur dangerous
risks. Never mind the $10 or $15 already
leaked out. Plug up the hole at once;
you ean better afford to lose $10 than
$20. True, you can never regain what
has leaked out by driving in a plug, but
by leaving the leak open you run a
pretty certain chance of losing more.
Discharge all superfluous help. After
the ‘‘clouds roll by’? you may again be-
come charitable, but for the present you
must cut down expenses in every possi-
ble way. Buy just as little as you pos-
sibly can without doing irreparable in-
jury to your trade; use printers’ ink
sparingly; hug the shore closely, and,
finally, carry your best trade just as long
as you can stand up under it.
E. A. OWEN.

— >>> oo

Population and Currency.
In all countries there is a_ cor-
respondence between the amount of
eurrency and population but the
correspondence is different in dif-
ferent countries. The amount of
currency is proportioned to the business

of the country, and the business corres-
ponds with the development of the people
in civilization. In France more business
is done for the amount of population
than in any other country of the world,
but it is of a domestic kind to a very
great extent, and of little profit to the
people each year. In other European
countries the business is about the same
in amount for the cultivated portion of
the people, and it is all the present sys-
tem of government and society permits.
The people of the United States have the
most profitable business of any country,
and because of the opportunities, and in-
telligence and freedom of the people.

In Denmark the people have more
money for the population than
in any other country, but it

is all owned by aclass of wealthy persons
who have no fellowship with the poor
class beyond a degree of humanity.
—____ >_<
The woman who paints her cheeks and
the man who dyes his whiskers never
fool but one person.

 

When You Cet Tied

Buying rubbish, send for ou r catalogue of win
dow Screens, Sereen Doors, Etc. Goods well
made from best materials.

Prices seldom higher.

A. J. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Fenton, Mich.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
dis.

    
 

AUGURS AND BITS.

ae... he 60

TET ee 49

Jennings’, ZenUINE...... .....-- see sees eee 25

Jennings’, {mitation . .. ..50&10

AXES.

First Quality, SB Be... -. $7 00
‘ 2 [_. ......,........... sx 00
' B a ee 8 60
“ D. Se Stee .................. 13 50

BARROWS. dis.

ete... occ sk. s..... ss $ 14 00

eee ee ce cence a tet ac uae net 30 00

Stove.

Carriage new lis

Gieiet MROG...... <6 o-oo een ees soe 70
BUCKETS.
Well platy ..,.5.... 2.2.00... e es won = 8 8 ’ -
Well, a ec wee ee nee
— CAST. a
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ -0... seeeeese &

Wrought Narrow, priaht Gens Joins. .....-..- 604.0

 

Weegee oe rae... 60&10 |
Weaumet @80te. ............................. 60410 |
Wrong eo rene. |... 6010 |
Wiredees Wises... 1... s,s...

pusee Gone... 70810 |

 
 

 
 
 
 

HAMMERS.

Maydole owt... Ck ....... = 25
oy ae ie 25
| pormoe @ Prmilpe....................... ‘ate. “40&10

Mason's Solid Cust Stoel................. 80c list 60

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30c 40&10

HINGES,

Geto Clare s. 1.2 8..................... dis.60&10

ae. r doz. net, 2 50

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. i 14 and

aoe. 3%
Ser ow Hook and Bye, net 10
Peet de decceeuee.s net 8%

- - . : eT = 7%

se . = ............... Th

Seepoana?. die 50

ANG dis.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. ro “Wood track....50&10

Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10

Migacr wood Geen... 40

HOLLOW WARE.

roe... ....--...... bee corte cuvse 60&10

toa 60&10

fee 60&10

Gray enameled... .-.- 40&10

Blind, Parker's. ee eee ok .-70&10
Blind, Shepard’ a 70
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892. ... ... C0&10
CRADLES.
—__—————————_—eeeee . dis. 50&02 |
CROW BARS.

peri 5
CAPS.
Oe per m 65
eC. F.......... Se ec Ne 60
on... . 35
Musket " 60
CARTRIDGES.

Boe ee...
GComaear Wise....... .....................
CHISELS. L
SOON MOE cn ee ern ce ae 70&10
ee Ee 70&10
Socket Corner.......... melas cs cca. Ce
EE 70&10
Butcher’ Tanged Firmer............ ......
COMBS. dis.
Cire, Leqremees........................ . 40
OEE p+]
CHALE.
White Crayons, per gross..........12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished, be - cut togize... .. per pound 28
= reo tenee................ 26
cola Rolled, aaa aoe Cee 23
Cold Rolled, See 23
eS a a 25
DRILLS. dis.
Maes Seems... ..................... 50
Taper and straight Shank.. eee eesas 50
ee . 50
DRIPPING PANS.

Seoul) See, Oe pou or
Lateo eon, por pound...... ......... ..... 6%
ELBOWS.

Com 6 wees. 6m..........._....... dos. poy 2

CO ee ee
RO din 40810
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, $19; lareo, @6._............. 30
Tyee’, 1, Oi: =, St; 3a... 25
FILES—New List. dis.
ee 6010
ae ie... SC 60&10
Mren@lcgivy ........ .. 2.0.1... Oe
eS ee es 50
Heller's Horse Haspe .. ......-.---......... 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 2%; 27 28

List r 13 14 15 16 17
Discount, 60

  
 

GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50
KNoBs—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............- 55
Door, porcelain, Jap. (rime... . ........ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcelsin, Oe 55
Drawer and Shutter, poreciaim............. 7
LOCKS—DOOR dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55
eestaee 55
CO 55
MATTOCKS,
Base Bye... ....... Lee $16.00, dis. 60
Phas Bye... ....- . 815.06, dis. 60
OE 18.50, dis. 20&10
MAULS. is.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled...............
MILLS. dis.
Coffee, oa Co.'s Beene wee 40
P.8. & W. Mf. Co 8 Malleables.... 40
. Landers, Ferry & Cera 40
6 Enterprise . i 30
MOLASSES GATES. Gis.
eee 60410
Pr CGE, oo oe  .  ee oe ea
Enterprise, self-measuring............ Lae

NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

 
 

SiGe! MAIS, BENG... ck eee ee cet ws 1 50
Wire nails, bane...... .... ......-. ..... 1 75@1 30
ee ee Base Base
ee 10
eee 25
en 25
eee ss. een 35
[ee  ... . 45
eo 50
60
256. 5
ee . . 90
SL 1 20
oS 1 60
eee 1 60
I 65
Be 5
" Me eee, 90
Finish 7. Se 7
SS 90
en 1 10
Ce eee, ole. 70
. 6 eo... i... 80
Ee 90
hors... 17
PLANES. dis.
Ohic Tool Co.’s, fancy . au
Sciots Bench.. ea eee es 250
Sandusky Tool Co. ‘a, fancy. Bete eee alae @40
Bench, first quality... ......0...-0---seecee- @40
Stanley Rule and — Co.’s wood - S10
Wry, AGMO......-... 2.0... --2- cone ans dis.60—10
Common, saaed.. i oo. oe
RIVETS. dis.
eg 46

Copper Rivets and Burs........-----+-+--++ 50—i0
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to - 10 20

“B” Wood's pat. planished, ‘Nos. 25 to a... m0
Broken packs 4c per pound extra

 

 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware.. bee

 

 

<< -new list 78
Japanned Tin LL LNT %
Granite Iron Ware ............... new list —
WIRE 600D8.
ie 70410810
Seraqe tyvew............._........ |... ee
ieee. .70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Byos............... 70&10&10
LEVELS. dis.79
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............
ROPES.

Slee 56 tee aed larger 5... 5... 9

ee... 13

SQUARES. dis.
ee 7%
Ory ad eves. ==. 66
ae 26

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.
Woe Wie 405 48682 %
eee 405 3 05
Woe Tete... 4 05 8 05
O_O eee 4 05 3 15
ag a 4 25 3 25
TE 4 45 3 35
ait sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

 

Eeiace: 12 0 |... dis, 56
SASH CORD.
Silver Lake, _— ee list 50
ee eget een ce 55
" White eee ' 50
f eae ................- oe 55
. Whtec..... ............... . 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
Sond Byee... per ton 825
SsAWB. dis.
. Meee e....
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 7
e Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
Me Champto Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
. ion and Electric Tooth KX
Cuts, per Toot ee eae ee ce 30
TRAPS, dis.
Steel, Game.... a . 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s. 76
Mogse Gomer... ........|......._.. 18¢ per dos
Mouse, delusion.......-...-......... $1.50 per doz
WIRE. dis
Bright Market.... ... ae
Annealed Market | 70—10
Copperea Market............. ee see, 60
Minne Beeeee. 2%
Barbed ee
Barbed Fence, galvanized. 2 86
Wereeen ....... 5... 2 40
HORSE NAILS.
eee dis. =
eo
Worth womters...................... dis. “Gato
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..............
Coen Gomme .........._.......-..... 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75
Coe’s Patent, mallieabie.............. -75&10
MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Bee Cacee ose 50
Pome Come dss. ee 75&10
Movawe mew bW0.....,.................. . - 70&10

Castors, Hea & ¢ Fiafe................ 50410410

Dampers, Bee 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... 6®&10
METALS,

PIG TIN.
re toe
NE 28¢e
ZINC.

Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound,

690 pound casks. Leet ce eaee 2... Oa
Per pound.. “ eek eee. 7
BOLDER.

4O% a eee eee eee ot ceny oe -16
Extra Wiping ..... 15

The prices of the “many ‘other qualities of
solder ~ the market ind!caied by private brands
vary according to composition.

 
 

ANTIMOKY
Goaneem........................., pee pomee
eee a ss
TIN—MIELYN GRADE.
10x14 _ ee. eee eee ee cet as cues 87
TE hate nae wues «<= 48
ioni4 2, : 9 26
a lChltC<Ci«CSC‘C(‘C}N( 9 25
Each additional X on this grace,
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
eae —- bee notes
Cooter orceeccoes seeeoee 40
loxis IX, - oe
x20 IX, i 9 25
each additional X on this grade $1.50,
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, « Wereeier.................. 6 5u
14x20 IX, ' SE 8 50
20x28 IC, Y ee 18 50
14x20 IC “« <Alinwey Grade........... 6 00
ee 7 50
20x28 IC, . e a 12 80
20x28 IX, - ' i 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
eee $i4 00
eee ee id

ixeo x, > 8 Botlers, t per pound.... 10 00

 

  

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

M ichigan Tradesman

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

 

Best Interests of Business Men.

Published at
100 Louis St., Grand Rapids,

— BY THE —

TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance.

 

ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION,

 

Communieations invited from practical busi-
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ye" When writing to any of our advertisers,
please say that you saw their advertisement in
THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN,

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1893.

 

 

PARTIY OF GOLD AND SILVER.

A correspondent writes that he hears
a great deal about the parity of gold and
silver, and he wants to know what it
means.

It means making a gold dollar anda
silver dollar equal in value. According
to the United States mint standard, one
ounce of fine gold is worth $20.67.18, or,
to drop the decimal, $20.67; while one
ounce of fine silver is placed at $1.29.29,
or, more simply, $1.29. A gold dollar
contains grains of the yellow
metal: a silver dollar has 371.25 grains of
silver. The alloy that is mixed with the
precious metals has no value.

It will be seen from the above that,
according to the standard, gold is about
sixteen times as valuable as silver. But
since the Sherman silver law, which re-
quires the Government to purchase
every month 4,000,000 ounces of silver,
not to be coined, but to be stored up in
vaults, has been in operation, silver, in-
stead of increasing in value, has declined,
so that an ounce of fine silver, instead of
being worth $1.29, has sold in the mar-
kets of the world as low as 83 cents an
ounce, and never since July, 1891, has
the price been as much as $1 per ounce.

Now, when an ounce of silver is worth
$1, a silver dollar coin is only worth 77
cents: but when an ounce of silver gets
down to 83 cents, then a silver dollar
coin is worth only 64 cents. Thus it
will be seen that a silver dollar is no
longer worth as much as the mint stand-
ard, and, therefore, a silver dollar is not
equal in value to a gold dollar. That is
to say, the parity or equality of the two
metals is not preserved. Instead of gold
being only sixteen times as valuable as
silver, weight for weight, it is twenty-
four times as valuable, and, therefore,
in order to preserve the parity of thetwo
metals, the quantity of silver in a dollar
coin would have to beincreased from 371
grains to 457 grains.

It may be contended that all that is
necessary to give money a value is for
the Government to fix its stamp ona
coin, and that settles it, so that when the

Government makes a coin and proclaims
it to be a dollar it is a dollar, no matter

25.8

which it ismade. Sucha statement may
| do well enough for the people who are
| forced to obey such laws, but such arbi-
trary regulations have no effect in for-
eign countries. European nations do
not pay the slightest regard to our coins.
American metallic money abroad is
worth just what the amount of gold and
silver contained determines it to be.
No attention is paid to the stamps, but
coins are simply sent to the mint of the
nation where they may happen to be and
are melted and coined into money of the
foreign realm. It is easy enough to pass
a 60-cent or an 80-cent dollar on our own
people, but in foreign countries this is
impossible.

If the United States had no business
with any foreign country we would not
care what foreigners think of our money,
but when we are buying and borrowing
to the extent of hundreds of millions
abroad every year, it becomes absolutely
necessary to pay attention to how for-
eigners value our coins. They will not
accept our silver, and hence we must
pay in gold. The result is that our
country is being stripped of the yellow
metal, and the National Treasury no
longer possesses the gold reserve re-
quired by law. Gold is becoming scarcer
every day, while silver is getting to be a
drug. The parity of the two metals is
practically destroyed now, and if this
state of things continues some time
longer gold will be held at a premium,
as it was during the civil war and up
to 1877, before specie payment was re-
sumed.

 

THE SHERMAN SILVER BILL.

Now that itis known as a certainty
that the President will endeavor to se-
cure the repeal of the Sherman silver
purchasing bill by Congress at the extra
session to be called for September there
has naturally arisen much speculation as
to the probable course of Congress in the
matter. It is true that many people have
confidence in the ability of the President
to secure the repeal of the act, but
there are still others who feel much anx-
iety as to the probable course of Con-

gress.
Thus, for instance, it is feared that

the silver men may endeavor to make
the necessity for the repeal of the aet
serve as an entering wedge for more rad-
ical silver legislation. It has even been
claimed by some that the Sherman act
will not be repealed except as a prelimin-
ary to the passage of a free coinage law.
In other quarters there is a well defined
intention to demand something in the
way of an expansion of the circulating
medium as an equivalent for the repeal
of the Sherman act.

There certainly can be no strong ob-
jection to any measure which will afford
asound and safe increase to the circulat-
ing medium, but it is manifestly im-
proper and wrong to retard the repeal of
a thoroughly bad law by endeavoring to
force upon the country some untried
substitute which would be calculated to
still further complicate matters.

The necessities of the present financial
situation make it imperative that the
Sherman silver purchasing law should
be repealed as promptly as possible,
hence it is highly injudicious to make its
repea: dependent upon the acceptance
by Congress of other measures called
temporary substitutes.

It is quite clear that the repeal of the

 

' Sherman act will not prove a final settle-| multo-branding measure

 

gradually appealing with more strength
than formerly to the great powers of
Europe. It is probable that the Brussels
international monetary conference will
be called together next spring for the
purpose of renewing the negotiations
broken off at the time of adjournment
this year.

There is a growing demand in the
countries of Europe, as well as here in
the United States, that some settlement
of the silver question should be arrived
at, hence it is considered probable that
the President will call the monetary con-
ference together again early next spring.
By that time the sentiment of Congress
will have been ascertained, and it will
be known whether or not this country
can venture to suggest a plan for the
employment of silver which can be gen-
erally adopted.

The proper way of working for the
betterment of the silver industry is
clearly to promote an_ international
agreement which will secure to the
white metal general recognition. The
disasters attending the Sherman law
prove that an attempt to settle the silver
problem for ourselves irrespective of
foreign action, is suicidalin the extreme.

 

It affords THE TRADESMAN much pleas-
ure to commend the efforts made by the
friends of Hon. E. N. Bates to secure for
him the position of State Food and Dairy
Commissioner, a new office created by the
last Legislature. Mr. Bates is essentially
a business man, being interested, indi-
vidually or jointly, in a farm, two cheese
factories, a creamery and a general store
at Moline, and enjoys the confidence of
his friends and acquaintances to a re-
markable degree. He is a man of wide
experience and excellent judgment, hav-
ing served Allegan county two terms in
the State Legislature, and having been
connected with one of the asylum boards
most of the time for the past half dozen
years. Being a man of education and
discernment he would, if called upon to
fill the office, discharge the duties de-
volving upon him in such connection
with impartiality, executing the laws
justly and establishing for the office the
respect of the people. On the other
hand, if the appointment is given to a
man of meagre mental caliber, it is not
unlikely he will execute the laws so par-
tially as to array the commercial classes
of the State against the office, and thus
secure its abolition at the hands of the
next Legislature. Governor Rich has
the good will of the business interests of
the State at stake in this appointment,
which he can discharge in no better way

than by naming Mr. Bates as his ap-
pointee.

Elsewhere in this week’s paper will
be found a copy of the new cheese brand-
ing law enacted by the last Wisconsin
Legislature. It will be noted that any-
one in the State manufacturing skimmed
cheese must stamp each cheese and the box
containing same with the words, ‘‘Wis-
consin Skimmed Cheese,’’ but anyone
making full cream cheese may or
may not, as he sees fit, stamp his
cheese and boxes in like manner with
the words, ‘*Wisconsin Full Cream
Cheese,’”’ together with any suitable de-
vice, motto or trade-mark of the factory.
The TRADESMAN believes the factory-
men of Wisconsin will find the new law
preferable, in every respect, to the
formerly in

what may be its weight or the metal of | ment of the silver question, which is now | vogue in_that State.

 

Last Monday Morse & Co. sold ten
pounds of granulated sugar for 50 cents.
The sugar cost them 5714 cents; adding
10 per cent., as the cost of doing busi-
ness, they sold for 50 cents what actually
cost them 6344 cents. As a means of ad-
vertising the scheme proved a flat fail-
ure. It brought a considerable number
of people to the store, but they took
their 50 cents’ worth of sugar—and
Morse & Co. will see them no more until
another bait is offered. Buyers who
know how to buy and have minds of their
own are never attracted by such dodges,
which are traps set to catch trade, and
sensible people are not so easily caught.
A good business cannot be built up by
such means. Fair dealing, courteous
treatment of customers, giving always
full value for the money received, close
attention to business—these are the
foundation stones of a successful busi-
ness, and he who, discarding them, hopes
to sueceed by adopting some such clap-
trap methods as the above, or any of the
thousand and one schemes resorted to by
a certain class of dealers, may draw cus-
tom for a time, but can have no lasting
success.

 

Tuer TRADESMAN has devoted consid-
erable space lately to the peddling ques-
tion, and is pleased to note that every
point contended for has been attained,
and nothing is wanting now but a strict
enforcement of the ordinance to relieve
legitimate trade of an incubus which was
as unnecessary as it was unjust. The
question as to whether the ordinance is
constitutional or not is no bar as to its
present enforcement, as it is law until
the courts decide otherwise. <A decision
will probably be reached this week.
The attention of Judge Haggerty is re-
spectfully called to the statement made
by Jas. E. McBride, attorney for the ped-
dlers, that he (McBride) ‘‘had talked the
matter over with Judge Haggerty and
knew exactly how he felt about it.”
While there can be no doubt that the
statement was wholly unwarranted, yet
it is calculated to give the impres-
sion that His Honor is in the habit
of giving out beforeband the deci-
sions he will render. The mean-
est justice in the land could not afford
to rest under such an imputation, much
less a jurist occupying such a position
as Judge Haggerty’s. Tar TRADESMAN
is doubtful as to the truthfulness of the
statement, but calls attention to it in
order that His Honor may know what is
being said and how he is regarded in
certain quarters, and act accordingly.

Wisconsin cheesemakers are deter-
mined to outdo their Canadian brethren in
the manufacture of a monster cheese for
the World’s Fair, the Muscoda and Lone
Rock dairy boards having arranged to
produce acheese weighing 25,000 pounds,
which is 3,000 heavier than the Canadian
cheese. It will be made at Richland
City, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway is putting in a branch
track at that place and will furnish a car
at the factory for the cheese to be built
upon.

 

The failure of Brown & Co., who did
business under the style of the Bank of
Charlevoix, appears to be worse than
was at first apprehended. The assignee
found less than $240 in cash when the
bank went into liquidation, although de-
posits had been received almost up to
the hour of insolvency. This conditiou

may possibly result in criminal proceed-
| ings against the partners.

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UNWORTHY BUSINESS METHODS.
Written for THE TRADESMAN. if sold at a price corresponding to that

Commercial ethics, in the minds of, asked by jobbers (which is the same to
most men, nowadays, is getting so badly ‘all purchasers), would leave the usual
confused that it is neither intelligible | margin of profit to dealers, and full
nor consistent. Once it hada purpose |v value, campared with like goods, to the
and ameaning. Once dealers respected |consumers. But a few greedily com-
its rules, founded as they were, like | menced a cut of 20 per cent., to draw
common law, on justice, approved prece- | trade to themselves, and by degrees sub-
dent and honor. In fact, itis only about | stituted goods of inferior price under
twenty years since the influence they ex-| the same name. Others were compelled
erted on business customs began to show to lower their price to the same level,
signs of weakening. The financial re-|else lose trade. The result is a few are
vulsion of 1873 commenced a demoraliz- | selling the real article at what they can
ing process, continuing to the present, | get, being beat down often enough to
that has never been checked for any | lose a fair profit; but the most are selling
length of time, but, instead, has steadily | the cheap article in place of the one
grown worse. To-day it has reached | called for, and are getting a profitable
such alimit that mereantile men have} sale for the real article, which takes the
lost all the esprit du corps formerly be-| place of brands that bear a higher price.
longing to them as a class, and are but a| The customers generally do not observe

number of independent sellers bidding, | the difference between the real and the
without thought or reason, for a trade | substitute. So everyone is sailing under
that is every year becoming less profit-| false colors, and gaining nothing by so
able to those who retail directly to con-| doing, and all because a few so-called
sumers. enterprising hustlers sprang what they

There was a time when concert of ac- | intended as a ‘‘scoop” on their competi-
tion could be secured; not in the selfish | tors; in reality it was but a trick of mer-
and arbitrary way common to trusts, but} cantile prestidigitation. It does not af-
by holding and maintaining certain prin-|fect the manufacturer, who cares not
ciples of fair dealing that tended to uni- | how much done by the re-
formity in prices. These mutual under-|tailer after the goods are sold and paid
standings, rather than rules to be en-| for, so long asit does not lessen his sales.
forced, served to make the business of The practice of peddling groceries by
buying and selling in a permanent loca-|a country dealer having a permanent lo-
tion the fairest method for all parties|cation is a subject on which there is
for conducting business. In like man-|much comment in certain quarters, and
ner, wherever possible, different lines of | a corresponding laxity of opinion. How-
trade were kept distinct, and were, con- | ever it may be viewed by interested par-
sequently, bought in larger quantities | ties, judged by the ethics of the past, it
and better assorted, thus more fully |savors more of greediness than of fair
meeting the public demand. To-day we | commercial enterprise, once so common,
are confronted by a condition of trade|now so rare. When two or more busi-
that ignores ethics of any kind and sim-| ness men attempt to supply the wants of
ply allows His Satanic Majesty to cap-|the general public in a town having a
ture the stragglers or rear guard. The| fair supporting country trade, they com-
present way of doing business reminds! pete for such trade on equal terms, if
one of an experience in the early life of | each receives the custom to which he is
General Grant, whereit is related that he | entitled by keeping up the quality of his
took a horse to town to sell for his father. | goods, anticipating the natural wants of
On being asked the price, he replied that | customers, and giving each a full equiy-
his father told him to get $100if he could, | alent for every dollar received in cash or
but to take $90 rather than lose the sale. | produce. This is all fair and above
Of course, the horse was sold at the op-| board, and whoever wins more than his
tional figure. To such a pitch has the|share of trade may justly claim that it

and in good demand everywhere, which,

jockeying is

competition of to-day brought mercantile} was done by honorable competition
business that scarcely any seller fixes on|alone. But when a dealer drives out

a price below which he will not go, for
fearsome one will make an under cut. | tomers of his neighbors in business, to
As a natural consequence, buyers are| try and get some advantage over them
more like bidders at an auction sale, and| by special inducements, the practice
thus, to a great extent, fix their own! may rightly be called by another name.
prices to articles of daily consumption. | It is not illegal per se; neither are many

In many lines of trade the retailer has| other practices illegal that honorable
been but an agent to distribute, for noth-| men scorn to use. A Chatham Street
ing, the specialties of certain. manufac-
turers. I venture to say that the coffee
trade of the last few years has not real-
ized to the most of the retail dealers in
Michigan a wholesale margin of profit.
On grades most in demand I have known
rival dealers to sell, for a year or more,
at aloss of from 2 to4 per cent. The
lower prices have dropped to consumers
by these methods, the more concessions
have been demanded of dealers. There
is scarcely anything, especially in the
grocery line, that has not been reduced,
by competition, toa price quite unre-
munerative, unless one uses unfair means
to inerease sales. Many have, without
seruple, adopted this course, and thus
forced better men than themselves to
choose between loss of trade and the
loss of approving conscience. I have

among the people and canvasses the cus-

 

furnishes the only precedent in a busi-
ness way that can be quoted in support
of such a course. The reputable mer-
chant who carries a first-class

utable touters that stand in front of the
store of the former to solicit custom and
who secruple at nothing to secure trade
that cannot be attracted by fair and open
competition. He should scorn to keep
even a gentlemanly class of solicitors for
the same purpose and in the same place,
simply on grounds of pure business cour-
tesy.

Peddling by local merchants in small
towns and villages may, therefore, be
considered a Chatham Street practice re-
vived in the West. Though it may be
shorn of its more repulsive features it
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| dealer in second-hand or bankrupt stock |

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would be ashamed to employ the disrep-

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rigid scrutiny of true

The outfit is not to be compared to a city |

delivery wagon. Local
depend on advertising their town and

building up diversified industries there-

dealers rightly

in, to call people from all quarters. That
is legitimate enterprise.
outfit is intended as a flank movement on
competitors. If all the

practice would soon become obsolete, be-

The peddling

should use it

cause unprofitable, since it could add
nothing
Whenever it is profitable, it is at the ex-
pense of another, and does not, in the
outeome, increase the prosperity of any
town. Municipal governments do not
consider peddling from house to house
by anyone as consistent with the inter-
ests of local trade, and although it is not
actually prohibited, in justice to those
who stand the brunt of the
public by carrying large stocks at heavy
expense, such

to the sum total of business.

service to

floating trade

taxed proportionately by

is usually
compelling a
license fee to be paid for the privilege.

There a State law of the
same nature in force, but it has either
been repealed or become a dead letter.
And, perhaps, it is just as well that it
should, for when, among any class
intelligent citizens so numerous as the
retail dealers of a state, a disposition is

was once

commercial ethics. |

|
|
|

j

;}money affairs,

shown by some to succeed at the expense |

of the rest through means that are usually

| which will benefit the whole people.

adjudged unfair no law can be depended |

on to arrest or control such selfish action.

Human nature, if evilly disposed, more

readily succumbs to healthy public sen- |

timent than to law witha ‘shalt not”

| job.

and a penal club in reserve for the vio- |

later.

atrocious and offensive to

sense of right, the power of law as a re-

everyone’s

forming element will be invoked in vain.

The object of this article is not to ven-
tilate a personal grievance, since the
writer has none, nor to criticise business

Unless the act complained of is |
the Supreme Court,

|} in the

of

Merchants More in Public Affairs.

We shail need to be wide awake to
keep the best men at the top in public
affairs. There is a tendeney—it must be

smothered—to lift into oftice indifferent
honest men

for the

men. The ablest and most

now mere than ever are needed

multiplying places in State and Federal |

Government.
chants the throne. The
prime minister has always a ready ear
for the mercantile classes. Probably
that’s what made Napoleon the First
stigmatize them as a nation of shop-
keepers. In from the
foundation of the Republic, the first in
activity and patriotism have been the
merchants and bankers—the one with
their ships, the other with their cash.
When our boards of trade and chambers
of commerce in all the States address the
Administration, then, on trade and
they should have prece-
dence Tammany. The merchants
whose vessels are on every sea are big-
ger and wiser men than Senators chosen
by the machine. When they speak let
no mouth. We_ bespeak
then for a larger sprinkling of merchants
halls of Congress, for when the
questions of tariff and currency are up

are very near

our own wars,

to

dog ope his

for discussion they can throw some light
on the subject, and lead to enactments

In

Over in England the mer- |

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pubiie affairs the need of the hour is}
more brains and less cheek. Can we
elevate the one above the other? No

doubt of it if wetry. Let us begin the
We feel ashamed—those of us who
love our country more than party—that
so many of our laws, when they reach
are thrown out as

unconstitutional laws, written and advo-

|eated by persons of great pretence but

| little

methods for the sake of provoking argu- |
ment, but rather to call general attention |
to some evils at large that are impairing |

the best interests of all classes, buyer as
well as seller.

integrity the
not benefit himself
ety in general,

Business courtesy
on part of the dealer do

alone, but also soci-

gious; and

with his associates in business

he who is fair and honorable |
will be |

; and good
aut not be allowed to crowd them out.
< ai

| than
for the effect of a good |

a. : | work.
example is, to a certain degree, conta- |

likely to actin the same spirit towards |

customers. A higher tone of
cial ethics should be reached and main-
tained among all who recognize the vir-
tue and power of unwritten law to en-
force justice or harmonious action, and
to this unorganized mercantile guild I
would appeal. Each in his
own way and in his own locality, exert
an influence to lessen the evils men-
tioned, and each one may, by seeing and
doing the right, help to work a change
that shall be both wholesome and perma-
nent. S. P. WHITMARSH.
<a meine
Should Pay for What They Get.

Mrs. Growler: Now, grocer, you have
charged me with things I’ve never Had.
What do you mean by such items as one
handful of
almonds,
sugar, eh?

Grocer: It
ladies what bring their children
with them when they do their marketin’
has got to pay for all they gets.

one may,

raisins, one

mouthfuls

pocketful of

two of brown
means, Mrs. Growler, that

will

—_ -_- 2. > -
The best time to reform is before you

commence to go wrong.

Give these
officious persons a back seat and let us
do our best to encourage and prepare
men for office whocan tell us whether
the moon is made of green cheese or not.
As the nation grows the
men grows.

knowledge of things.

need for great
Mediocrity must
Let
the time coming be greater in great men
the past has been. And we are
proud of the past.

The voters and thinkers must do the

Geo. R. Scorr.
a ty tt
Quality the First Consideration.

It may be generally accepted as a cold

fact that the country hardware merchant

 

ecommer- | who pays attention to the quality of the

| goods he sells, is ordinarily patronized to
|a greater extent by the community than

}

| certain class of carpenters’

the one who does not. Thus there area
tools which
can be bought at absurdly low prices.

They look just as good as the high grade

| article, but when put to the test of ac-

| to
| further.

tual use are found to be worthless. A
mechanic being tempted by the low price
to purchase these goods will not be apt
return to that store for anything

lf amerchant should be told

| by acustomer, ‘tl can buy a hammer like

this at Mr. Brown’s for so and so; why
should I pay you 25 cents more?’’ the
merchant’s answer would be, ‘‘Quality
sir; that hammer is fully warranted; if
the face cracks or is soft, which will be
shown by its battered appearance after
use, return it at once and I will replace
it. Ihave sold that brand for ten years
and during that
one returned.

When

 

period have only had |
Here it is, and shows evi- |
dence that it was imperfectly tempered.” |
a mechanic hears such argument |

and talk as this, he is not going back to}

the cheap store, providing he has good

horse sense, and, if he has not, he is no}

mechanic. The
chisels,

the

same may be

trade we

sideration be quality.

said of |
plane bits, drills, ete., so to all!
say buy your goods as|
cheaply as you can, but let the first con- |

MICHIGAN MERCHANTS

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And business men who contemplate a visit to the World’s Fair
would do well to communicate with the

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Frank A. Rockafellow, President of the |
Rockafellow Mercantile Co. |
Frank .A. Rockafellow was born at}
Lodi, Seneca county, Ohio, September |
14, 1848, and lived there with his parents
until he was ten years of age, when he |
removed to Republic. Here he lived six |
years, during which time he attended
public school. In February, 1864, he en-
listed in the 25th Ohio Infantry and went
to Port Royal, where his regiment did
duty, subsequently taking part in the:
Sherman campaign, which culminated in
the capture of Savannah. He remained
in service until June, 1866, when he was
mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He
then returned to Republic, where he at-
tended school and worked on a farm for
about a year, when he removed to Fair-
bault, Minn., and spent two years in ac-
quiring the harness making trade. He|
then removed to Toledo, where he worked
at his trade two years, afterwards spend-
ing a year at Charlotte in the same man-
ner, whence he removed to Grand Rapids
and pursued the same calling for a few
months. In 1872 he removed to Carson
City, subsequently buying the harness
shop of his employer, which he con-
ducted four years. He then sold a half
interest to T. D. Dixon, and engaged in
business under the style of Dixon &|
Rockafellow, and a year later entered
the employ of Burgderfer & Bartholo-
mew as book-keeper, continuing in that
capacity two years. He then returned to
the harness business, which he continued
a year, and atthe end of that time he
sold his interest to his former partner,
and in company with H. C. Gage pur-
chased the Bartholomew general stock
and conducted it under the style of Rock-
afellow & Gage. This copartnership
continued three years, when Mr.
Gage sold his interest to John
Ladue, of Saginaw, when the firm
name was. changed to Rockafellow
& Ladue. Three years later he pur-
chased the interest of Mr. Ladue, subse-
quently selling a half interest to R. Cul-
ver and Root, Strong & Co., of Detroit,
when the firm name was changed to F.
A. Rockafellow & Co. The failure of
Root, Strong & Co., in 1888, placed the
firm in a very embarrassing position, as
it was compelled not only to purchase
Root, Strong & Co.’s interest, but was
also called upon to pay the assignee a
large amount owing the firm for goods.
Things looked dark for several weeks
and many predicted disaster for ‘‘Rocky,”’
as he is familiarly known, but he proved
to be equal to the emergency, and,
greatly to the surprise of everyone but
himself, succeeded in paying dollar for
dollar and emerging from the crisis with
credit unimpaired and character un-
seathed. This he wasable to do through
the organization of a stock company
known as the F. A. Rockafellow Mercan-
tile Co., which has a capital stock of
$40,000, all paid in. This corporation
not only conducts the largest general
merchandising business in Montcalm
county, but owns and operates two ele-
vators, handling grain, seeds, wool and
produce in large quantities, and also con-
ducts a well-equipped lumber yard. Mr.
Rockafellow is President and General
Manager of the corporation, but of late
years has given the lumber and elevator
business more attention than he has the
store, which he has turned over to the
competent management of Mr. Culver.

 

 

Mr. Rockafellow was one of the incor-

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

porators of the Carson City Creamery Co.
Carson City State Bank and the Carson
City Electric Light & Power Co., in all
of which he is interested to a considera-
ble extent, and he has always been fore-
most in every movement tending to the
betterment of the town and the upbuild-
ing of the community. He was married
in 1875 to Miss Nellie Carpenter, of
Portland, and two daughters, now nearly
grown to womanhood, grace their
home. He is a member of the M. E.

iehureh and the A. O. U. W. and stands

high in every respect in the estimation

of his friends, associates and acquaint-

ances.
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The New Cheese Law of Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Legislature has re-
pealed the cumbersome cheese law en-
acted four years ago, substituting two
brands for four, as follows:

Section 1. No person shall offer for
sale, sell, ship or consign cheese labeled
with a false brand or label, as to the
quality of the article.

Section 2. The state dairy and food
commissioner is hereby authorized and
directed to issue to the cheese manufac-
tories of the state, upon proper applica-
tion therefor and under such regulations

as to the custody and use thereof as he}

may prescribe, a uniform stencil or
brand, bearing a suitable device or motto
and the words ‘‘Wisconsin Full Cream
Cheese.’’

Section 3. Every brand issued shall
be used upon the side of the cheese on
the bandage thereof also upon the pack-
age containing the same, and shall bear
a different number for each separate
manufactory and the commissioner shall

keep a book in which shall be registered |

the name, location and number of each
manufactory using the said brand, and
the name or names of the persons at
each manufactory, authorized to use the
same.

Section 4. It shall be unlawful to use
or permit such brand to be used upon any
other than full cream cheese or package
containing the same.

Section 5. Every person who shall, at
any cheese factory in the state manufac-
ture skimmed cheese, shall distinctly and
durably stamp upon each and every such
cheese, and upon the box, the words
‘*Wisconsin Skimmed Cheese.’’ All
cheese not manufactured as in sections
1, 2, 3 and 4 of this act, shall be deemed
to be skimmed cheese under the provis-
ions of this act. The brand herein pro-
vided by this section of this act, for des-
ignating the grade and quality of cheese
provided by this section, shall be such
as to produce an impression not less than
three inches in width and five inches in
length, and shall be in full-faced capital
letters of as large size as the space here-
by provided for will permit, and the
whole to be ineluded within a plain
heavy border. Ordinary stamping ink,
either red, green or violet in color, and of
such composition as not to be easily re-

moved or wholly obliterated by moisture, |
shall be used in stamping as provided by |

this section.

Section 6. Whoever violates the pro-

visions of this act shall be deemed guilty |

of a misdemeanor and for each and every
package so falsely branded or
omitted to be branded as herein pro-
vided, shall be punished by a fine of not
less than twenty-five nor more than fifty
dollars, one-half of which shall be paid
to the person or persons furnishing the

evidence upon which such conviction is |

made.
Secton 7. All acts or parts of acts in-

consistent with the provisions of this act

are hereby repealed.
Section 8. This act

shall take effect

and be in foree from and after its publi- |

cation.

Approved April 17, 1893.

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The Smyrna Raisin Trade.
From the London Grocer.

The representative of the French Goy-
ernment at Smyrna, in a recent report to
his Government, says that the demand
for Smyrna raisins is constantly increas-
ing, and Smyrna, Tchesme, Vourlah, the
valleys of Meandre, Caistre, and Her-
mus are now covered with vineyards.
Nearly all the raisins produced are ex-
ported, only a small portion being re-
tained for home consumption. The cul-
tivation of the vine does not present any
peculiar features: the soilis of itself pro-
ductive, and by its natural richness com-
pensates for the absence of intelligent sys-
tem of cultivation. Itisonly of late years
that the introduction of certain European
systems ef cultivation has been effected,
and this is due partly to the develop-
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initiative of foreign growers, more par-
ticularly of a German company owning
large vineyards in the province.

The gathering of the grapes com-
mences usually in August, and the dry-
ing is effected by spreading them on the
ground, where they remain for eight or
ten days, and during this period it is of
considerable importance that the season
should be a dry one, as rain, by the pre-
judicial effect it exercises upon the
grape, is greatly feared; fortunately,
however, for the process, the month of
August is usuaily fine and dry. This
primitive treatment is the only one to
which black raisins are subjected with a
view to drying them, but for the red
raisins it is necessary to take greater pre-
cautions as the latter are more easily
spoiled. These are dipped in a compo
sition of water, cinders, potash and oil.
Dried raisins according to quality, na-
ture, and origin, are divided into differ-
ent classes. The sultanas, which are
consumed as table fruits, and used also
for confectionery, are chiefly exported to
England, America, Austria and Ger-

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red raisins
France, and used by grocers
lers, and these again are divided
two classes—large and small fruit.

There are the black raisins for eating
and for wine-making—for the latter they
are much sought after—and the white
muscat raisin, which has a good appear-
ance, and of which considerable quanti-
ties are sent to Germany for use in mak-
ing vermouth. The small fruits are
comprised under the generic term of
Thyra. The Thyra raisins, to use the
generic term, compose the bulk of the
exports to France, and these are black in
color with a slight bluish tint. In con-
nection with the shipment of these rai-
sins no previous manipulation of any
complicated character is necessary; they
come from the interior in bags, and as
they are generally mixed with earth and
other foreign bodies, the bags are emp-
tied and carefully examined with a view
to removing the extraneous matter, and
also to see if the raisins are of the de-
sired quality. In the latest year for
which statistics are available, the value
of the exports of dried raisins from
Smyrna amounted to 708,000l.; in this
amount England was represented to the
extent of 300,0001.; France, 300,0001.;
Austria-Hungary, 40,0001.; Germany,
20,0001.; America, 12,0001.; and Russia
about 8.0001.

For some time past a considerable fall
in the price of raisins has been observ-
able, and this fall is as much as 40 per
cent. in the case of ordinary raisins on
the average prices of past years. For
raisins of superior quality, which are
much in demand, and the prices of which
should consequently remain pretty firm,
the fall in price has reached as much as
50 per cent. Dried raisins have
many uses; they are employed as table
fruits, in pastry making and in confec-
tionery, and in the manufacture of wine

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Switzerland and Austria for the making
of vermouth, while the sweet wine,
which is sold under the name of Samos
wine, is made with the dried raisins of
this particular district. The residuum
of the manufacture of dried raisin wine
—the lees—have also their uses, as from
these is made a kind of brandy known as
mastic, which is much appreciated by
the inhabitants of the Smyrna district.
In the interior the lees are sometimes
used for feeding cattle and poultry. In
France they are employed in the manu-
facture of the carbonate of potash, and
in the departments of Midi, Herault,
Gard, and Aude, by introdueing thin
strips of copper in the masses of lees a
subacetate of copper is formed which is
used in industry. Vinegar made with
lees is considered excellent, and, finally,
they contain all the elements necessary
for making a good manure.
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Habits of Thought.

Habit reigns as supreme in the region
of thought as in that of action. We
often see persons whose lines of thought
run mainly in the same groove, be it art,
or science, or polities, the accumulation
of wealth, or the desire of fame. Their
thoughts become as truly fixed habits as
anything which they are accustomed to
do with their hands. There are some peo-
ple whose minds drift hither and thither
with every passing wind of circum-
stance; for so long a time has such been
their practice that it has become a men-
tal habit. Others have acquired the habit
of self-control, not only in their active
deeds, but also in their silent thoughts.
By frequent practice they have attained
the power of concentrating their minds
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heard peicaciad ia those to whom he
looked up with respect. Whenever he
heard any of their ideas criticised by
others he resented it, and clung firmly to
them. These opinions have come to be
settled habits of mind with him. He re-
gards them ascertainties, and looks with
suspicion upon those who do not share
them. Yet, if challenged to defend
them, he is utterly at aloss. They are
his only by adoption; he has never earned
the right to call them truly his own by
the hard mental work of investigation.

This is the history of many of our
most cherished notions, the foundation
on which thousands stand in polities, in
science, in the problems of the day, in
social observance, in ethics, in theology.
This practice of thinking from habit, if
universal, would put an end to all prog-
ress. Happily, there are always some
men and women who are resisting this
tendency—the leaders of public opinion,
the pioneers in the march of intellectual
progress. Their effort should be, how-
ever, less to impress their own views
upon other minds than to help every
man to form his own ideas in an intelli-
gent way.

—<—
The Baker and Undertaker.

Within a block of houses, our town’s pride,
That fronts upon a growing business street,
Are stores well fitted up, ornate and neat,

With signs outside desiring buyers to guide.

One store was filled and honored by a baker,
With a fine show of cake and bread baked
brown:
Next door to him, the fanciest front in town
Was the fine outfit of an undertaker.

For want of trade, and seeking better clover,
They moved their business both fo other quar-
ters,
For the convenience of sons and daughters,
People who eat, or those whose eating is over.

On being questioned why they moved away,
The baker said: “Few persons now lived
there.”

 

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they enter

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The undertaker said, with looks of care:
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many: and these sultanas comprise seve-|into the composition of ordinary wines, Again, if we could examine the ideas EDWARD S. CREAMER.
ral varieties, known by the names of the} andin the preparation of fresh grape| which men hold, we should perhaps be a ce
places in which they are produced, as, | wine they help to enrich the must, thus | surprised to find how many of them are nd ~~ = atime with —.
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for example, Carabournon, Vor rd ah, fulfilling the duties of s ugar. : Distillers | due to habit rather than logic. In child He had dropped a tear for the heroine's woes,
Tchesme, Phoce and Yerkli. Black and | use them in large quantities, and the | hood man took for granted whatever he And found it a medicine ad,

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contain double sheets of
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Holders---15 loose double sheets
and two packages each consist-
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double sheets.

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your family trade, they will all
buy itifitis brought to their
notice. It will increase your
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More About a Canning Factory.

Form the interviews held with jobbers
and others, full reports of which were
given in last week’s TRADESMAN, it will
be seen that the concensus of opinions is
in favor of the establishment of a canning
factory in this city. Further interviews
have been had, reports of which are
given below:

W. C.Granger (Grand Rapids Packing &
Provision Co.): I have heard this matter
talked about for the last five years, and
have heard opinions expressed pro and
con. My own opinion is that it is per-
fectly feasible, and would be a profitable
enterprise from the start. I do not think
there can be any question about sup-
plies. Vegetable and fruit raising have
always been vastly more profitable than
general farming, and would continue to
be so, even at largely reduced prices.
The establishment of a cannery would
be just the incentive farmers need to
devote more of their land to vegetables
and fruit. In your last issue | see the
jobbers you interviewed are not only in
favor of it, but promise to take from the
factory what it seems to me, would be
almost its entire product. If that is the
case, its success would be assured from
the start. We ought to have such an in-
dustry here and I believe we will. I will
do what I can to promote it.

George R. Perry, merchandise broker:
Certainly, I believe the establishment of
a canning factory in this city to be feasi-
ble. I thought at one time that a small
country town would be the place for such
an industry, but I have changed my
mind. To my mind, it is not a question
of supplies, though this might for a time
be a difficulty. It would adjust
itself, however, as the enlarged market
would induce farmers to go more into
fruit and vegetable raising. This fact
alone would be a great benefit to the
whole city, as it would have astrong ten-
dency to reduce the price of ‘‘garden
truck’? and fruit. Some years ago, when
I was in the wholesale grocery business,
this thing was talked about, and an effort
was made to organize a company and es-
tablish a cannery. We made the greatest
mistake of our lives when we abandoned
the enterprise. That was years ago, and
where there was advantage then in
having acanning factory here there are
ten now, and it would be a success from
the start. You may say that 1 am heart-
ily in favor of it, and will do what 1 can
to help it along.

Thos. S. Freeman, merchandise broker:
No, I don’t think a canning factory
would succeed in this section. The cli-
mate is too variable and we hardly have
two seasons alike. The result is that
one year we will have a good crop and
the next year it will be almost a total
failure. A canning factory cannot be
run sueecessfully or profitably on such
uncertain crops as we have in this vicin-
ity. I don’t believe it can be done. [
wouldn’t put a cent into such an enter-
prise.

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The Wool Market.

There has been absolutely noe improve-
ment during the past week. Its condi-
tion is worse, if anything, than a week
ago, as buyers say they do not want wool
at any price. Advices from the East are
to the effect that manufacturers are buy-
ing only for immediate needs, and that
there is no speculative buying to speak
of. In the West, the stringency in money
has driven many buyers out of the

 

buying to just snfficient to keep the mar-
ket alive. In our own State the market
can hardly be worse than it is. Wool
brings just what the buyer is pleased to
give. Asone buyer puts it, ‘‘we are of-
fering an unreasonable price, but we get
the wool.’? The best that the most san-
guine dealer says is that there may bea
slight improvement when manufacturers
go into the market for wool for their
spring orders. The tightness of money
has compelled the manufacturers to do
some pretty close figuring. Not a dollar
is being spent that can be avoided, and
as the banks are chary about accepting
almost any kind of paper, dealers are
left in poor shape to buy even at the
present ridiculously low prices. On one
side of the market is the devil of finan-
cial stringency, and on the other the
deep sea of free wool. Between the two,
wool is having a hard time of it.
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Weekly Report of Secretary Mills.

Granp Rapips, June 19—Certificates
of membership have been issued to the
following new members during the week
ending June 17:

3212 Frank E. Chase, Grand Rapids.

3213 William B. Downey, Benton Har-
bor.

3214 Moses A. True, Chicago.

3215 A. W. McElcheron, Grand Rapids.

3216 J. W. Findley, Concord.

7 H. E. Sprug, Riley Center.

A. W. Coffinger, Grand Rapids.
E. W. Monroe, Warren, Pa.

H. H. Decker, Concord.

W. D. Healy, Detroit.

E. C. Hausner, Detroit.

W. H. Downs, Grand Rapids.
H. J. Ringold, Grand Rapids.
C. Fallrath, Milwaukee.

A. P. Holmes, Brocton, Mass.
Wm. R. Foster, Grand Rapids.
Wim. H. Rea, Grand Rapids.

}} Wetzel, Grand Rapids.

0 C. W. Collins, Philadelphia.

1 D. C. Tillotson, Muskegon.

3 J. J. L. England, Detroit.

3 Chas. J. Karg, Toledo.

W. O. Chapman, Salamanca, N. Y.
3235 A. P. MeKee, Grand Rapids.
Certificates have also been issued to
the following as honorary members:

H 29 Geo. S. Foster, Everett House,
Saginaw, E. 8.

H 30 D. McGee,
ledo, O.

H 31 Jesse
Mich.

H 32 Martin Conaton, Bad Axe, Mich.

The Junction House, at Durand, has
been added to our hotel list.

A number of letters of inquiry from
members cannot be answered until the
books of the former secretary are bal-
anced, after which every one will receive
attention. L. M. Mru1zs, Sec’y.
—— 2 <->

PRODUCE MARKET.

Asparagus—20@z5e per doz.

Beans—Handlers pay $1.75 for country-picked
and hold at $2. City hand-picked are quoted at
10@25e above these figures,

Butter— Dealers now pay 1°44@14e for choice
dairy, holding at 14@16c. Creamery is in fair
demand at 19c.

Cabbage—Cairo stock commands $1.50 per
crate, while Louisiana is in fair demand at $3.25.

Carrots—20ec per doz.

Cucumbers—40e per doz.

Eggs—About steady, dea’ers paying 12%4c and
holding at l4c.

Green Beans—#1.50 per case; wax, $2 per bu.

Green Onions—8@12¢ per doz, bunches,

Green Peas—#1 per bu.

Honey—¥ hite clover commands 15e per Ib.
dark buckwheat brings 1244c.

Lettuce—6ec per lb., according to quality.

Onions—Mississippi stock commands $1.50 per
bu., while Bermuda stock is in limited demand
at $2.25. Egyptian stock from Tennessee com-
mands #2 per bu.

Pieplant—1c per lb.

Pineapples—81.50Z%2 per doz., according to
size and quality.

Plums—Tennessee Wild Goose command #2
per 24 qt. case.

Potatoes—On account of the stiff condition of
the market on new potatoes, old stock is strong

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per bu. New stock is firmly held at $3.75 for red
and #4.50 for white.

Radishes—17e per doz. bunches.

Spinach—Summer, 20¢ per bu.

Squash—4e per Ib.

Strawberries—The market is well supplied
with home grown, mostly of the Wilson, Cres-
cent and Jessie varieties. The quality is excep-
tionally fine, the wet weather having given the
crop size, and the recent hot weather having
given color and flavor. The price this week
will probably hover around 6c per qt.

Tomatoes—$1.50 per 4 basket crate.

Turnips—Mississippi stock, 25c per
bunches.

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9

The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. Excur-
sion.

The first World’s Fair excursion of the
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. left via the
regular C. & W. M. train Monday after-
noon. Among those included in the ex-
cursion party are the following:

Jno. G. Steketee and wife, Grand Rap-
ids.

F. C. Lentz, Cadillac.

R. W. Massie, Cadillac.

Mr. Chittenden, Cadillac.

G. C. Baker and party of four, La-
Barge.

Geo. Sherman, Sisson’s Mills.

S. M. Vinton and party of three, of
Leetsville.

M. D. Bunker and party of seven, Sul-
livan.

J. McLennan, McBride’s.

Wm. Renkema, Grand Rapids.

Cc. S. Comstock and party of five, Pier-
son.

‘, Squires, Dickenson.
. H. Bitely, Casnovia.

J. F. Reed, Paris.

F. N. Cornell and party of eight, Se-
bewa.

J. S. Gordan, Reed City.

S. N. MeGowan, Grand Rapids.

E. L. Merritt and party of five, Mulli-
ken.

G. K. Platt, and party of three, Hart.

H. C. Ward, Chippewa Lake.

M. W. Staples and party of three,
Lakeview.

Wm. M. Bale and party of twelve,
Fennville.

A. MeMullen, Temple.

C. S. Withey, Grand Rapids.

W. D. Smith and wife, Keno.

John Neuman and sister, Dorr.

L. E. Mills and wife, Grant.
>< 4

According to statistics and estimates
compiled by the New York Sun, the num-
ber of bushels of wheat that will be re-
quired for consumption by the import-
ing countries of the world this year is
1,139,650,000. The domestic product of
the same countries will be only 771,750,-
000 bushels. They will, therefore, have
to import about 368,000,000 bushels of
wheat in 1893, and as their populations
are increasing at the rate of about 1 per
cent. per annum, it seems possible that
the imports will increase from 10,000,000
to 11,000,000 bushels each year hereafter.
The aggregate wheat crop of the export-
ing countries of the world is figured out
at 1,531,100,000 bushels, and the domes-
tic requirements of the same at 1,236,-
600,000. On an average yield, therefore,
the export surplus is only 294,500,000
bushels to meet a demand of 367,900,000
bushels from the importing countries.
In short, the world will need this year
73,400,000 bushels more than can be
raised, and the prospects are that this
need will increase from year to year.

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———__—~ 2.
The Dry Goods Market.

The American Printing Co. has made
its price on Indigo blue and gold print
6¢e and light prints, 4c.

Cambries are firm.

Cottons are lower in browns and
bleached.

Prints are now quiet and low prices
prevail.

Lawns, challies and organdies are in
good demand.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

President, A. J. Elliott; Secretary. E. A. Stowe.
Official Organ—MicHiGaAN TRADESMAN.

 

Jackson Grocers’ Union.
President, D. S. Fleming; See’y, O. C. Leach.

 

 

Grand Haven Retail Grocers’ Association,
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.

 

Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association.
President, D. Christie; Secretary. F. B. Aldrich.

 

 

Meetings of the Jackson Retail Gro-
cers’ Union.

At the regular meeting of the Jackson Gro-
cers’ Union held on June, a large number of
the members were present. The subject of hav-
ing an annual excursion and pienic was dis-
cussed, many of those who attended the excur-
sion of last year being anxious to go again. It
was decided to hold an excursion during the
summer, the time and place to be decided at a
future meeting.

The annual election of officers resulted in the
unanimous choice of the following:

President—D. 8S. Fleming.

Vice-President—E. W. Swick.

Secretary—W, H. Porter.

Treasurer—F J. Helmer.

Directors—C. G. Hill, H. Eddy and L. Pelton.

W. H. Porter, Sec’y.

REPORT OF LATER MEETING.

Ata meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’
Union, held June 15, an invitation was received
from the wives of the grocers, inviting the mem-
bers to attend an informal reception to be given
by them at the A. O. U. W. hall on the evening
of June 29. The invitation was accepted, and
the Secretary was instructed to extend an invi-
tation to the members of the Grand Rapids As-
sociation.

The matter of an annual excursion and picnic
was discussed, and, on motion, the whole matter
was referred to the Committee on Entertain-
ment, with power to name time and place and
make all arrangements for holding an excursion
and picnic. It will probably be held at about
the same time and place as last year

The committee desired me to ask if you have
any copfes of your handbilis and other printed
matters of your last year’s excursion that you
would send to us, so that we could get ideas of
the features of your day

W. H. Porter, Sec’y.
~~

Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association.

The Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association has
elected the following officers:

President—D. Christie.

Vice-President—W. G. Smith.

Secretary—F. B. Aldrich.

Financial Secretary—L. C. Mangold.

Treasurer—H. Hanson.

Executive Board—D. A. Bolkens, A. Towl, D.
Kampenga, J. Lasser, Howard Shaw.

It was voted to continue to close early.

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Which Is the Better Way?

Yabsley—‘lf I had a hundred thous-
and dollars 1 would go around the world.

Mudge—*‘If I had a hundred thousand
dollars I would sit down and let the
world go round.”

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The world is full of people who want
to do good but they are in no hurry to
commence.

REEDER BROS. SHOE CO.,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Boots and Shoes,

 

 

 

Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

State Agents for

   

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14

THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Drugs # Medicines.

State Poard of Pharmacy.
One Year—James Vernor, Detroit.
Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Five Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit..
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

 

 

Michigaa State Pharmaceutical Assa’n.
President—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vice-Presidents—I. H. L. Dodd, Buchanan; F. W. R.

Perry, Detroit; W.H. Hicks, Morley.
Treasurer—Wm. H. Dupont, Detroit.

Secretary —C. W. Parsons, Detroit.

Executive Committee—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo;
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon: F. J. Wurzburg and John
E. Peck, Grand Rapids; Arthur Basgett, Detroit.

Loeal Secretary—James Vernor. i
Next place of meeting—Some resort on St. Clair

River; time to be designated by Executive Committee.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

President, John D. Muir; Sec’y, Frank H. Escott.

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN PHARMACY LAW.
8. P. Whitmarsh in Pharmaceutical Era.

Many years ago the druggists of this
State carried on business free from un-
usual legal complications; and, while
serving fairly the interests of each com-
munity, received in turn a compensation
fully corresponding in value to that ser-
vice. No doubt, with a few exceptions,
they conducted sales with as intelligent
appreciation of their customer’s wants,
and dispensed the medicines ordered by
physicians as carefully and promptly as
they now do under different conditions.

In time there came a pressure on our
Legislature to enact astatute that should
more directly set forth the metes and
bounds of pharmacy as a profession.
The reasons assigned for the passage of
such a law were urged primarily in the
interest of the general public, in the firm
belief that without some legal supervi-
sion the business of dispensing drugs
would drift into the hands of incompet-
ent persons, and human life or health be-
come each year more and more endan-
gered. Undoubtedly other motives may
have influenced its supporters: all of
them worthy, though not entirely unsel-
fish. It was certainly argued with rea-
son that as the business of dispensing
powerful drugs involved a responsibility
to the public, that responsibility should
be plainly defined by law, so that all who
assumed it might do so with full and fair
warning. Again, it was considered de-
sirable to make the practice of pharmacy
something higher than a mere commer-
cial routine of buying and selling, by
raising the standard of qualification for
those who were permitted to assume its
duties. By State supervision and a rigid
examination of applicants, it was de-
signed to make pharmacy a profession
equal in dignity and usefulness to that
of the practice of medicine, and thus
further protect the public health.

It is uncertain how much of this opin-
ion and intention was shared by those
whom the law, as finally passed, actually
aifected. They certainly did not make
any serious opposition, and all have tac-
itly admitted the claims and arguments
urged in its behalf by respecting and
obeying it. With afew amendments, in-
tended to add to its efficiency, our Mich-
igan pharmacy law has therefore for al-
most a decade been in full operation,
aud thus had an opportunity to develop
ail the good results promised by its
friends from the beginning.

At this stage it may be pertinent for all
who feel an interest and pride in the pro-
fession of pharmacy, to examine the
practical operation of the law and see if
it has answered the expectations of its
friends—whether it has failed in any
particular—and what, if any, is the net
gain to the profession or the public. There
is no denying the fact that much good
has resulted from the careful exclusion
of incompetents from the ranks of prac-
ticing pharmacists. While schools are
turning out each year an increasing num-
ber of graduates who seek admittance to
the profession, the wise and firm admin-
istration of the law by the examining
board has increased the standard of ex-
cellence among those admitted. So far
then as the law has affected the profes-
sion of pharmacy by making it more effi-
cient in serving the public needs, the
hopes of its framers have been fully jus-
tified.

But if the law was intended to retain
the sale of drugs in competent hands,

 

and at the same time reward the enter-
prise of all registered pharmacists in
proportion as they proved efficient in
their calling, the results as seen to-day
are far from encouraging. No law is
ever likely to pass the gauntlet of legis-
lative criticism without being shorn of
some material feature. And so our
statute, like many of the rules in the old
Latin grammar, has been emasculated
by exceptions till it is of little use in
protecting either the profession or the
public from the very evils it was especi-
ally designed to cure. Every portion
draws the plummet and level on the
druggist’s actions, and in the ninth sec-
tion menaces him with the terrors of fine
and imprisonment if he by omission or
commission becomes liable. A conscien-
tious druggist must feel doubly braced
by such a penal straight-jacket. But
while he is thus tied down by legal tech-
nicalities, there is no balm to his wounded
feelings in seeing outsiders grasp the
cream of his business with practically no
restriction save that contained in section
eleven, which forbids them to deteriorate
the quality of drugs or sell such as have
been adulterated.

By grace of the exceptions of the stat-
ute, any man who chooses can put on
sale every identical drug usually kept by
pharmacists by simply observing certain
forms as to poisonous medicines. Every
thing that a pharmacist may legally do
he is also allowed to do, except the put-
ting up of prescriptions and advertising
himself as a registered druggist. He
may cut prices to suit the cupidity of a
certain class that would like to have
medicine for the body as free as medicine
for the soul (if they have asoul). Buta
druggist is estopped from competing in a
commercial way by the dignity of his
profession, which cannot be lowered;
and while one element of opposition is
attacking him in front, the physician in
the rear is withholding prescriptions and
filling them himself—leaving the honora-
ble profession of pharmacy like a ship
aground on an ebb tide, supported only
by law from careening to her gunwales
in the mud.

While the druggist is in this uncom-
fortable plight, receiving a flickering
support from a few sensible customers,
an army of quack druggists graduated
from some livery stable, having nothing
but the blind instinct of unblushing ig-
norance to guide them, and scouring the
land like Jew peddlers and reaping
golden harvests by supplying nostrums of
every kind to people in their homes. It
is surprising how easily intelligent per-
sons can be gulled by strangers into buy-
ing medicines at exorbitant prices, when
they would suspect the word of their
local druggist should he give them an as-
surance of price or quality born of long
experience. These peripatetic dealers
unite two professions in their travels,
and diagnose customers’ ailments before
prescribing and delivering their wares.

I might allude, in passing, to another
link in the chain of causes that have out-
flanked the well-meant efforts of law to
make the profession of pharmacy self-
sustaining and of the greatest benefit to
suffering humanity. This consists in
numerous so-called medical works, that
are pushed by canvassers into every ham-
let and cross-road settlement, and are de-
signed to teach common people how easy
it is to be a physician ana heal one’s
self. This book occupies a_ position
in the household equal to the Bible.
In acute diseases they forget the ex-
istence, or distrust the ability, of
their medical vade mecum and run
at once for the doctor; but for chronic
cases they consult the pages of their
‘‘Family Physician’? with its well-meant
efforts to tone down scientific language to
the level of average minds, and pin their
faith on formulas that are about as defi-
nite in statement of quality, strength
and proportion as the recipes of Aunt
Sally’s Cook Book.

If, under such discouraging conditions,
the profession of pharmacy retains the
semblence of vitality, it is owing en-
tirely to the law of ‘‘the survival of the
fittest,’ and not to the actual workings
of our pharmacy law. It may well be
questioned if any law could produce
better results than the present one, were
it even amended by taking away its

 

weakening exceptions. The guerillas
who easily circumvent existing statutes,
are as hard to reach by the arm of the
law as the guerillas in the time of war
are by military force. As long as science
of drugs was confined to trained minds
constantly employed in studying and de-
veloping the healing secrets of nature’s
laboratory, mankind had some assurance
of enjoying the benefit thereof and were
willing to sustain, by their confidence
and support, those who thus intelligently
administered to the public health.

But now that the modern educational
craze has resulted in giving everybody a
little smattering of information on every
conceivable theme under the sun,
whether practical or otherwise, a change
has come that is not wholly desirable,
though it has the merit of being in har-
mony with the law of progression. It is
as true now as it was generations ago,
that ‘‘a little knowledge is a dangerous
thing,’’ when applied to the science of
materia medica or to the practice of the
healing art. What little is known by the
many has weakened confidence in the
few whose special business it is to be
fully and correctly informed on any sub-
ject, and this partial knowledge embold-
ens not a few to take risks with them-
selves and others that were once con-
sidered hazardous, if not criminal.

The pharmacy law has, after all,
worked as well as the law that regulates
the practice of medicine. Neither has
protected the people from confidence
games played by charlatans. But the
weakness of the former has affected
druggists more seriously than the de-
fects of the latter have injured the prac-
tice of regular physicians. ‘‘In their
hours of ease” and health, many people
take delight in berating both professions,
illuminating their sentiments with
ghastly jokes at the expense of the doc-
tor, and facetious remarks about the
high tariff of the druggest and allusions
to his ill-gotten wealth. But ‘‘when
pain and anguish wring the bones” and
the services of either is required, they
seek only the aid of competent, well
educated men for advice or medicine.

The fact is, human nature is inclined
to be most respectful to what is least
understood. The value of a physican’s
service consists in advice which eannot
be weighed and measured by the mind of
the layman. Neither can it be seen,
handled and shewn to have a definite
market value. But the stock in trade of
a druggist is of a different nature. It is
material, visible, tangible, and has a
certain money value before it is dis-
pensed. When the thoughtless public
obtain but a partial insight of its nature
they hasten to invoice it according to
a price list of their own, placing scarcely
any valuation on the druggist’s time or
the dearly earned experience necessary
to the proper compounding of medicine.
In this mood the charlatan, or selfish
general dealer, attacks them on their
weak side, and by every possible means
maintains acompetition with the drug-
gist that is unjustifiable by any rule or
standard of honor recognized by men of
respectable antecedents.

In closing I wish to assure the readers
of the Era _ that, in traversing
the merits and results of our present
pharmacy law, I have not intended an
unfriendly criticism on a measure that
was supported by the wisest men in the
profession, from the best and most pub-
lie spirited motives. With them I de-
plore the defects that are inherent in all
legislation that aims to make science
respected and self-sustaining. The
evils referred to are such as can scarcely
be reached by penal statutes; and those
not penal would be void per se. The
future hope of pharmacy lies in organ-
ization and an esprit du corps that shall
maintain enthusiasm and unity in the
ranks, rather than in legislation that
develops in this age either cunning sub-
terfuge or a quiet, sullen resistance.

A Telegraph Decision.

A message filed with a telegraph com-
pany at a city in Texas, addressed to the
sender’s agent in California, read as fol-
lows: ‘Close the trade. I will come
soon.”? On his arrival the sender dis-
covered that the message had not been
delivered, and that the deal had failed,

 

thus requiring him to return to Texas.
The court held that his expenses to and
from California were proper items
of damages against the telegraph com-
pany, but losses resulting from the sale
of his property at a sacrifice before
starting were not. The telegraph com-
pany having received full pay for trans-
mission of the message to its destina-
tion, without any contract limiting its
liability to its own line, was bound
to deliver the message to the sender’s
agent, even though it had to be
sent part of the way ever the
line of another company. The sender’s
testimony showed that the message was
not written on a blank contract of the
telegraph company, and that, when he
returned from California, he examined

the original copy, which was
not then attached to one of such
blanks. The company’s agent testi-
fied that when he_ received the

message he immediately attached it to
a blank contract form, and that he was
not authorized to receive or send a mes-
sage unless on such blank. The testi-
mony justified the court in finding that
the message was not attached to a blank
contract form when received by the
agent.

—_— +2
Rained Elephants in Kansas.

Everybody in the smoking compart-
ment of the sleeper had told a story ex-
cept one quiet, inoffensive sort of a man
in the corner, and the drummer eyed
him with suspicion as he finished what
he considered the corker of the entire
combination. As the drummer con-
cluded the quiet man poked his head
cautiously out of his shell and coughed
slightly as men do who have lain dor-
mant awhile and rouse themselves to ut-
terance.

‘I remember,’’ he said, without further
preliminary, ‘‘a queer circumstance which
happened to me during a summer visit I
made some years ago in Kansas. Iam
reminded of it by the story our friend
here’’—nodding towards the drummer—
‘tells of a shower of fish falling from the
sky. Ican readily believe his story’’—
the drummer looked grateful—‘‘and [
hope he will believe mine. One after-
noon we were sitting out in front of my
friend’s house, some three or four of us,
noticing the peculiar shape, color and
movements of the clouds, when, all at
once, as true as gospel, gentlemen, an
elephant, alive and kicking, dropped
right down in front of us out of the sky,
and a more astonished looking brute I
never saw.”

The drummer sat spellbound and
everybody else choked up, speechless.
The quiet man looked around on his au-
ditors.

“It’s as true as preaching, gentlemen,”
he went on; ‘‘and though, as a rule in
Kansas, it doesn’t rain elephants, it did
on that occasion, and is accounted for by
the fact that a cyclone had struck a cir-
cus twenty miles to the west of us, and
furthermore it was raining lions and
tigers and horses and hyenas and monk-
eys and tent pins for a week afterward,
the biggest things, of course, coming
down soonest.’’

‘‘My dear sir,” gasped the drummer, as
the quiet man was about to continue,
‘don’t say another word. I travel fora
liquor house, and if you want a barrel
of cocktails give me your address and I'll
send it to you by the first cyclone that
passes our place.”

_ 0.

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Pec k ha im S Croup Remedy

the Children's
Cough Cure. Pleasant-Safe-Certain. Got a
—— today: you may need it
tonight. One C oO dose will prove
its value. Save r u p the Children !
WROOPING-CoUGH, CROUP COLDS, COUGHS,
quickly yield to its use.
Keep it at hand. Large

bottles 25c. All druggisis Re med y
PRICE TO THEGTRADE:

$2 a dozen; 5 per cent. with 3 doz. order, 10 per
cent. with 6 doz.

On receipt of dealer's printed address we will
forward, free of charge, atablet of 9x12 white
wrapping paper, cut from 40-pound book, bear
ing dealer’s card neatly printed thereon.

Order PECKHAM™’S CROUP REMEDY of
— jobber, and send your label to Peckham

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Wiiatnasic Peees Current.

 

 

 

   

 

   
   

    

 

 

 

   
 
 
 

  

    

Advanced— Declined—
ACIDUM. poorer ae ui e; 60 TINCTURES.
Arctionm |... ...... 8@ 10| #xechthitos.......... 2 50@2 7 i N
Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 ra weet ee sence ee 2 25@? 50 Aconitum > - SaSoH no
Boracic  ......-...+++- ee weces-* a 2 a. 60
Corpeticum .......... 27@ 36 aoe i, 8 oe “a @ oc - and mere... .... 60
CE sts. -s = ie ee a... 50
Hydrovhior ........... a See ttt aa... 0
Nitrocum a - i tiesto ea ps Atrope Belladonna A 60
Phosphoriam ati..." eenene Wiis: eS CS
Caevnoum ........... 1 30@1 70 ioeain Verid.. S ae a) | COTRURI 50
Sulphuricum....... .. 1%@ 5 ae nt i | aaa fh | 50
Tannicum............. 1 me 60 Sesame a a en... Se
Tartaricum.. i: 33 —” #, OUNCE. ....-... oo > 7 coeeee 50
AMMONIA. — Liquida, (gal..35) 1 Bt 12| Ce maar tt tee eee eens =
Aqua, 16 deg.......... Ae) See ts Cate
an 39 de ae 54@ 7 Hosmaciai teens 6 50@8 1 ee Ee ND 30
mean eee eee ae 12@ 14 —e al uo 45 EE 50
Ciietaos ............ 122@ 14 aa ne! ‘ Ce es
ANILINE. omer oo. 8 50@7 i Ce i. =
9° assafras.....
Brows c22.c...02002222" agg O0 | Sinapis, ess, ounice.... ” @ tS =
aT 45@ 80 | a8. ote tt et eee eres sees + @ a 50
OE 2 50@3 00 ?, "a ara @ 60 50
BACCAE. Theobromas........... 15@ 2 =
Cubeae (po 40)...... EE 40 POTASSIUM. ammon 60
ee a Sina. ee Wh emer... 50
Xanthoxylum ... 2@ 30] bichromate ........... 190) 14] Hyoweyamun................ 50
BALSAMUM mreeoe.............. Se Sitcoms... C#, 75
. ere. ......... 1.6... 12@ 15 C Carrcee. %5
Copaiba ........-.+---- 0] Chlorate (po 23@25).. 24@ 26| Ferri Chioridum........./)) 35
ae Gl Si Cranide 00 Ee 50
Terabin, Canada .... S0@ Wijlodide ............. 5 Omen GO bobei 50
TIN esses 35@ Potassa, Bitart, a. . San See 50
CORTEX. Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15) Max Votes ............... 50
Petass Nitras, One..... oe ioe... ... 85
—, Canadian............ 18 | Potass Nitras.......... "% 9} “ Camphorated........... 50
ow we TTS een aaaaa te = Pressiate ee 28@ = a 2 00
ponone Milage ............ Wiphdts no... 1 a
Euonymus atropurp........ 30 P goon 5@ — Cortex...... ....... =
Myrica Cerifera, po Ee 20 . / a hatany eee emma meme enone seer 50
Prunus Virgini.............. 13) Acontiom ............. -— a 50
pee, Ged... ...... tp Ree 22@ 2% Cassia Acutitoi:. te 50
See 12 —- teaser none ence 2R@ 15 50
Uimus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 Gala 20220707 ag 2 Serpentaria ........ vet eeaees 50
EXTRACTUM, Gentiana (po. 12).. 8@ 10 = ... =
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... %@ 2 oe (py. 15). 16@ 18 a ns 50
i = = —- Canadien, Veratrum Veride............ 50
Bosepen, © = bez... 0G 2 = Sees taee @ 30| Yeratrum Veride........ lee
a 1 14} He hebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 20 MISCELLANEOUS.
“ “es oe 14@ 15 —, = ee eee ey 15@ 2
Se cl jig 17 | Epecsie, po... 2 20@2 30 | Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30
ou Tris pioe ( (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 4F.. 2@ M&M
eae Jakapa, pee 40 45| Alumen............... . 2%@ 8
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15/ Maranta, \s.......... @ 35 ground, (po.
Citrate and Quinia..... @3 50] Podophyllum, po...... 3@ 4
Citrate Solubie........ ee Teen OO | Annatio. 0... 55@ 60
PerrocyanidumSol.... @ Si “* eut............... @1 75 | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5
Solut Chloride........ @ 15 py. se 15@1 35 et Potass T. 55@ 60
Balenete, Gomt....... OR Siteioate 35@ 38 Antipyrin @1 40
“ pure.. @ 7|Sanguinarta, (po 25).. @ 20] Antifebrin............. @
Bereta. ........... 30@ 32| Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60
FLORA. ee EN 65@ 70] Arsenicum............ 5@ 7
Aes... .....--.- 18@ 20 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40] Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40
Sunes ...........-- @ 35 M @ | Bienuth & W......... 2 2W@2 25
ee 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 Calcium Chior, 18, (Ks
FOULA Symplocarpus, Fosti- 4123 ae 18)... ii
50 aus, pd......... @ 3 Cantharides Russian,
Bar 7" en  cciies in: 18@ § Valeriana, Eng. (po. 50) 235) be @1 00
Cassia “Aci 28 ee - 15@ 20 | Capsic! Fructus, af... @ 2
nivelly sn 25@ ingiber a. 13@ 20
«" Alx. 35@ 50 &: 1 eee ee @ 28
Salvia officinalis, 8 Zingiber j.. i « Boo 20
‘and \6 ee a it 15@ 2% SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (po. 18) 40 15
ae 8@ 10] Antsum, (po. 20). @ 15| Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75
@UMMI. Apium (graveleons).. 15@ 18 | Cers Alba, S&F 50@ 55
Acacia, ist picked o Sina oo : Coccus aorta “— 40
cr ae ee @ 45 Carul, (po 18) oot os, | Cagsia Fructus. @ 2%
“ eee) GO i nae 10@ i2| Centraria...... @ 10
‘ = sorts. . @ 21] GannabisSativa....... 34@4_ | Cetaceum .... @ 40
“ _...... ---.- 60@ 80 oe Chloroform . . 60D 63
ee 75Qi 00
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] Chenopodiam ||... .|. 10@ 12 squibbs.. QI 25
Cape, (po. 20) . @ 12) Dipterix Odoraie....._ 2 25@z 60 | Cloral Hyd Grat..-.. 1 35Q1 60
Smile), S 8) Ren ee ee gw as 8
atechu, 1s, (48 ’ : 0 ne, ‘
—. 2 3,|u ae mg «Bas eon at dre @ 12
Ane 5 30 | 1 are cage ‘ : Yorke, list, dis. per
Assafostida, (po. 35)... 30@ 35] yond ey ss *). ae 8 cent ee ty 60
Deere... .......- 3O@ 55 Pharlaris Canarian . | 4%@ 5 | Creasotim .. @ 3
Camphores...... oe i 6 7 Creta, (dbl. 75) @
Euphorbium po 35@ Stnapis A 11 @13 , Prep... 5@ 5
aelanaan ounce Nia 11@ 12 . recip. . 9@ 11
Gamboge, po . ubra.. oe @ 8
Guaiacum, (po 35) ee Cee 0@ 7%
Kino {Po 1 10) Frumenti, 4 Co..2 00@2 50 | Cudbear..............- @ 2
Mes ' D. FL. R.....1 75@2 00} Cupri Sulph.. 5@ 6
Myrrh, (po. 45) rc site 1 25@1 50 | Dextrine .............. 10@ 12
Opi (po 4 Jun{peris Co. 0. T....1 65g 00 Ether Sulph @ %
EP ook coves c “+ a. , n e
“bleached 33@ 35|Saacharum N. &......1 7@z 00 | "M27 nme
Tragacanth ...... 40@1 00 | Spt. Vini Galli........1 75@6 50 sarin ee 70@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages. ni Oporto ........... 1 2@2 00] Flake White.......... 12@ 15
Te Be 1 eee OlGaia i @ 2
Sees ........ ss... -- 25 po 7 @8
Bupatorium ............:-..- 20 SPONGES. Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 70
eneoems ae = Florida sheeps’ wool, A . Se 40@ 60
Menthe ne Piperiie. 000..." 23 wee 7 50@2 75 | Glassware ‘Aint, by box 70 & 10.
Vir 25 cues sheeps’ woo oo | Less than box 663¢
ee dss Miva ts aaa Oe. eee... 9@ 15
enero 7 .........-.....- 22 woo! carriage 1 10 " Fa 18@ 2
(ee 25 1 heepr’ Glycerina wscuee Oe 0
y ’ Extra yellow sheeps’ Grade Pucadind @ 2
MAGNESIA, Carriage ............. aia 25@ 55
Calgen, Fat.......... 55 60 = sheep wool Car- 65 Hydraag Chior. Mite. @ 8%
Carbonate, Pat........ W@ 22 Ha eset tae % Cor @ 80
Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25 ¥ i Re ? ter sini “ Ox eokene @ W
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 ae on 1 40 “ Ammoniati. @1 00
ee ee ' Unguentum. 45@ 55
Saito i oe SYRUPS. Hydrergyrum ......... @ 64
a pe,..... 45@ 75 a meee ee ceeds eesuecd - —— Am... ..J ron =
alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 MT oo ieee ccc etac cess 5 moles. .......... 3
— 1 70@1 89 Ipecac... 2 oe. eee ee, 60 | Iodine, Resubl. -3 80@3 90
Cea Cortex....... : ee Oh) Perms log................... 50 | Iodoform.. - GA 7
coon s caves 3 25@3 50] Auranti Cortes.............. 50 | Lupulin ...... G2 25
Campus.......-....-.. Cie Gil Rael Avom........... 52... 50 | Lycopodium ... 65@ 70
Caryophyiii ........... 85@ 90] Similax Officinalis..... . o ke 7@ %5
oe ok es es 65 " ” OG, ..... 50 | Liquor Arsen et Hy-
eee... 1... Oe OT OO ioe oc cs ccc ee 50 rarg Iod.. @ 27
Cinnamonii .. ‘ UE ORF oe once coe c sci ese 50 | Liquor Potase Arsinitis 10@ 12
CUPOUEIES .........04.% @ 4 “ ee - — Sulph (bbl
Conium Mac.......... Ree et eee ec cc. Oe Pe...
Copaiba ............... 80@ 9M Prunus virg.............--- 50! Mannia,_8. F......... 60@ 63

 

Morphia, 2P.&W. - W@2 45
8. N. ¥.Q &

Cc. Co... --- 2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton. as @ 40
{ Myristica, No 1 .. 65@ 70
ge erga (po 20). 20g =

Oe. : 22

Pe “35 Saac, H. & P. D.
Se . @2 00

Picts Liq, N..C., % gal
ee @3 00
Pics Lig., = ioe @1 00
pant ....... @*® 8
Pil detent ae 80) .. @E50
Piper Nigra, (po. _- @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5).. @E3
fis Burgun..-........ @ 7
Frome AGO .......... 14@ 15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20

ns boxes H
&F. t. Co.,dos..... @1 25
Fyrethrum, py........ 15@ 25
Wneeee .... ....... 8@ 10
Quinia, - Fr. &W..... 2 34
German.. 20@ 30
Rubia Semon a 12@ 14
Saccharum Lactispv. 20@ 22
eo 1 75@1 80

Sanguis _— Sees 40@

Sapo, W... --. De 1
i. 10@ 12
mG @ 15

 

 

 

Seidlitz Mixture...... @ w
Sinapi me @ 18
7 “. @

— accaboy, De
Ween. @ 35
Snuf? fiaiaic De. Voes @ 35
Soda Boras, (po.i1). . 10@ 11
Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30
nome Carn. ........... “1%@ 2
Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ &
en, Ae... ......... 3%@ 4
Soda, Sulpeas......... @ 2
Spts. ‘Ether Co ........ 5HO@ 55
* Myreia. Dam..... @2 2
* Byres Imp... .- @3 00
' ini Rect. bbl. -
2 2¢

2
cash ten days

Pa 5c gal.,
chnia Crystal..... 1 at 45
ufphur, ao Seen 244.@ 3
eee ecu. 2 @ *%
‘a, a
Terebenth Venice.....
Mneouromiae .......... 45
Vauem............... 9 DOOns 00
met Gulp... ........ 7 §
OILs.
Bbl. Gal
Whale, winter........ 70 70
bard, Gxira........... iv iss
ora, We f........... 65 7
Linseed, pureraw.... 51 54

 

Lindseed, boiled . 54 57

Neat’s Foot, winter
as .......

SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40

PAINTS. bbl. th,

Hed Venetian.......... 1% 2@3

Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4

Der... 1% 2@3

Putty, commercial....24% 2%@3

“ ‘atrictly pure..... 2% 2
Vermilion Brim np thn _—

$CAN ce ce. 1... 13@16
Vermilion, English.. 65@70
Green, Peninsular..... 70@%5
Teae rea... ...... 6%@Q7

. me... %@7
Whiting, ae Span. @70
wane Gilder ...... @%
White, Paris American 10

Whiting, Paris Eng.

-
Pioneer agen Paintl 20@1 4

Swiss Villa —,
Paints . ‘ 1 00@1 20
VARNISHES,
No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Beare Tore. ..........- aoe >
Coeen Nody........... 2 75@3 00

No. | Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10

Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
— Dryer, No. iq
ee 70@75

 

 

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Importers and

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KINS DRUG CO.

of

DRUGS

CREMICALS AND

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DEALERS IN

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Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We Have 1n Stock and Offer a Full Line of

WHISKIES, BRANDIES,
GINS, WINES, RUMS.

 

We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only.
We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarante? satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them.

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Aurora. ete 6 00

Cc. astor Oil. a 9 00

eee... 50 5 50

_s............. 3 00

eee le, OO 8 00

Tereson .. 55 6 00

BAKING ‘POWDER.

Acme.

4¢ lb. cans, 3 doz ee ees 45

1b ne -_ =

ilb. “ i . 1 60

ee 10
Arctic.

4 > cans 6 doz case....... 55

4 doz og CG

r D sant * nes 2

5 ® ion * i oe
Fesfon,

5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in ¢ ase 80
— 2 00
Red Star, lg “b cans. 40

%® 75
Se eee 1 40
Telfer’s, : ib. cans, doz. =
ing 4 ib, ' 150
Our L eader, 14 lb cans 45
ib cans...... ~
1 lb cans 1 50
Dr. Price's.

per doz
Dime cans. 95
4-027 ‘1 40
6-0z oT 2 C0
8-0Z we .2 €O
Ro ~* 3 90
soa 6U6*lUL OOS
i>“ Roe
t-Ib 18 25
5-Ib 22 7
10-1b 41 80

BATH BRICK.

2 dozen in case.
ea. 9
Bristol.. a 80
Domestic. . 70

BLUING. Gross
Arctic, 4 oz ovals.. 3 69
c 8 Oz go oe 700
oa round : 9 00
2, sifting oox... 2%
No. 3, 4 00
No. 5 . 8 00
1 oz ball oo...
Mexics an Liquid < > 3 60
— 2 oo
BROOMS,
0 8 ee......... wae
—. cues 2 00
og : Carpet. ns 22
No. bee ce eee 2 50
Parlor —-.........._.... . 23
ae Whiek............ 90
Fancy . oe
_ee....._....--..- _ so
BRUSHES.
ore, wee e........ -18

C —_

. a. 1%
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 8
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row. 12
Palmetio, goore. 150

BUTTER P LATES.
Oval—250 in crate.
MO ee eee cs 60
No. 2 70
No. 3 .
—.................. ee
CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes i
Star, 40 ae
ree 4.1...
oo _ =
CANNED GOoDs.
Fish,

Clams.

Little Neck, : a 1 20

1 90

Cl sae oe

Standard, 3ib.. ve
Cove Oy asters.
Standard, > oe 1 00

Ib..  _e

aia
Star, 1 > Leese a oe
21 »- ee oD
Picxic, It TB: -2 00
2ib 290

Mackerel.
Standard, i 7." oe "
- _-............,
meee. S.......... ..

20 0 tO tO
9

 
  
 

Tomato Sauce, 2 Ib 2

Soused, 2 Ib. : 2
almox..

Columbia River, oo... 1 90

talls. ot

Alaska, eal 145

pink.. on 123

Kinney’s, flats.. 1.
Sardines,

American Ris one see ne @5

fa.... .6%@ 7

Imported a... a 10@11

ee 15@16

Mustard %s.......... @s

Boneless ....... i 21
Trout.

ei eee oe 2 50

 

 

  

 

  

Fruits.

Apples.
oe 95
York State, gallons. . 3 00
Hamburgh, - :

Apricots.

Itve oak....... = 1%
oe ce... ... 17
ft 17
Overland evice 1%
Blackberries
oy... ...... : 95

Cherries
—.... 10@1i 20
a Hamburgh . 1%

. 1 50
mae eee ee ee 12
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green

Gages.
Se 1 10
—............. 1 70

Gooseberries.
—.. 13

Peaches.
~_—.. ....... 1%
eee...
peceeree......... 1 65
rr. 2 20
Monitor 1 65
eee

Pears.
ae... 1 2
ree 210

Pineapples.
ae. 1 00@1 30
Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50

e grated..... 2%
Booth’s sliced.... : @2 50
. grated .... @2 75

Quinces.
—_———————— 10

Raspberries.

Red... . 1 30

Black Hamburg.. 1 50

Erie, black _ 1 30
Strawberries.

Lewremte ........2... 1 25

— 12

ee 12

Terrapin . os in
Whortleberrics.

Blueberries . 00

site.

Corned beef Libby’s. at 2

Roast beef Armour’s....... 1%

Potted ham, %, - le. <i

—_........... 80

. tongue, % Ib 1 35

. ik oc. 85

Chicken, & ib....... 95

Vegetables.

Beans.

Hamburgh stringless....... 123

rench style..... 2 2

——............ 1 35
Lima, — .. a 14

cote etee seer sa 75
Lewis codon eee... 135
Bay State Baked........ oo
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 35
oe en 1 00
wists
Hamburgh ..... a
Livingston Eden . hecee ne
Purity . : eee a
Honey EE 150
Morn ae eee.
Soaked %
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 35
e early June......
Champion Eng..i 50
tit pois....... 17
i ancy sifted....1 90
RN oe ee as 7
errs stenerd............. vis)
VanCamp’s marrofat.......1 10
. early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35
oe... ....... ..2 15

Mushrooms.
Pee 17@Q22

Pumpkin.

BO oe snidee sss cere cove
Squash.
ee 1 2
Succotash,
eee. 140
Soaked . 85

— ; Dew..
Erie. i"

" Pomatecn.

ee, ee
Excelsior

 

CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s,
German Sweet........ es 23
a, ne 37
Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43
CHEESE,
ee... @i9
Acme... a @10
Lenaweo.............. CieeK
mevenee ...... ....., @10

 

io oem... @ 9%
Cg 7 @9
Brick. : 11
ee, 1 00
Leiden . oe 23
Limburger Soe eee @10
Pee. ............ @25
Roguefort. .  . @35
Sap Sago. @22
Sc oleae, imported. @%4

Pr domestic .... @i4

CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, 25 bottles ae 2 7%
Pint ae
Quart 1 doz bottles | 3 50
Triumph Brand.

Half pint, per doz..........1 35
Pint, 25 bottles... NT
Quast, per Gox ..... - 3 75

CLOTHES PINS.
Seress bexcs............ 40@45

COCOA SHELLS.
ee...

    

Less wy @3%
Poun packages.. ne . 6% @7
COFFEE.
Green,

Rio.
es 17
——............ .....
Poee............. i ae
Golden.. : 20
Peaberry _ ee ee

Santos.
fl ae
Good s , -
oo) .......... 21
Peaberry ... 22
Mexican and Guatamals.
—. 21
a 22
ae 24
Maracaibo.
SLL 23
Milled . . oe

" Java.
oe... SC 2
Private Growth. a
Mandehling . ee

Mocha.
Imitation ..... ey
Arabian.. 28
‘eetes.

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 23 30
ee

Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case....
Extract.
er City % STOSS........ 7
ix 2.
Hummel's, a. gross. bone 1 50
ec es 2 50
CHICORY.
—. _. 5
—. 7
CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, #ft....... per dos. 1 25
ee _ 1 40
_ 60 ft " 1 60
- oe... " 1%
' a... ss 1 96
Jute r....... - 9
es oo... . 1 00
CONBENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.

ee... 2... 7 40
on 6 25

Gennine Swim.............
American Swies.. ........ 6 70

COUPON BOOKS.

 

“Tradesman.”
St, pet bemeee........... 2 00
ss * Se 2 50
. ” CS 3 00
_—_ * _— 3 00
a, * Ce 4@
— ~ [ ke 5 06

“Superior.”’
St, por benered........... 2 50
zg 2, “o co 3 00
$3, ‘ 3 50
oo 4 00
ao, * 5 00
$20, ‘ 6 00

 

“Universal.”

 

$ 1, per hundred.......... 83 00
$ 2, Se a 3 50
8 3, | 4 00
8 5, Ce 5 00
$10, gg ee : 00
$20, “ . 700

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following

quantity discounts:
——— eee
—_— ” pe et
1000 * > ‘
COUPON PASS BOOKS.

Can be made to represent any
enomination from %10 down. |

Z per cent,
“a

tiecks... ............ 81
Se ee 2 00
ee 3 00
ee 6 25
SS. 10 00
— 17 50
CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’ 2... $3 00
1000, a 5 00
—" ro oes 8 00
Steel eee kk 7

CRACKERS.
Butter.
Seer ee............... 6

Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6%
a. et 6
Family XXX, cartoon...... 6%
Pee Bee... 6
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6%
es. 7%
te ee 8
Butter Dietwit............. 6%

Soda.

Soda, XXX 6
Soe cee... 7%
oes, erems............ 8%
iCrymtnt Waerer............... 10
Long Island Wafers ....... 11

Oyster.

Seer 2ae.........:.... &
Cay Ovmer.2a5............ 6
Parina Opeter.............. 6

CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly pure.. a =
Telfer’s Absolute.......... 3)
ee ce 15@25

DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.
Apples.
Sundried, sliced in bbls. T™%;
" quartered ‘‘ 7%
Evaporated, 50 lb.‘boxes @11
Apricots.

California in bags...... 16%
Evaporated in boxes. .. 17
Blackberries.
ie DOE... ........ 8 @9
Nectarines.
ot 15
me TD. DORSE.... .......... 15%
Peaches.

Peeled, in bexes........ 16
Cal. evap. eee 14
. in Pe ‘ 13%

ears.

California in a cee

Pitted Cherries.
ee eee ce nese

= boxes . ‘a

Prunelles.

mm heee.............

Raspberries.

eee... 22
oo Peees...........5... 23
OT ae eo 24

Raisins,

Loose Muscatels in Boxes,
2 crown “— 1
3

 

1 80
Loose Muscatels in bie
2 crown is 5
“ST gen NG
Foreign.
Currants.
Patras, e DerrOs......... 4
‘in i 4%
_ in less S-.-. 4%
Citron, Leghorn, zo boxes =
Lemon °
Orange “oe = se oc =
Raisins.

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes. @8

Sultana, 20 . 8%@ 9

Valencia, 30 ‘ @7?
Prunes.

ieee cee 10

California, 100-120
= oS bxs. a
.12

. ar is “ig
Y 60x70 ues .14
eR. ia . 7%
Peer os, .. —
I ie si
French, 60-70.. 3
“ 90-00... . | | me
~ a... 11
” a 10
ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white.
Me esc oes 81 75
No. 2, 6%.. ieeepeece. 2 oe

 

oe, 1, 6... 1 65
eae... cee. 1 50
XX wood, white.

re Le
se. .............,... 13
Manilla, white.
i ae 00
S.. 95

ma wa ¢.. ..... ........ Eee

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

 
 

Farina.
100 Ib. Kkega............- 3%
Hominy.

BR oo ceccecscesecncecses 3 00
RO eee ce ecuee ceca s 3 50
= Beans.
eee 4%
Maccaron! and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box..

Imported. eee cone 10% %@- .

a

re ae... ........ >... 4 50

Half cues _......... 2 40
Pear! Barley.

——— 2%

Peas.

oe, OL. 8 2 00

pee perle ........... 23;@3
Rolled Oats.

Dercete 230... ........ @4 50
mee bbe e.......... @2 40
Sago.
ence n ae hehe oe ue 4%
oat India............ i.e

heat.

Ne kl 5
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
OE 1 40
Cod.
a, / 3%
Whole, Grand Bank..... 5%
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 7@s
Boneless, strips.. ....... 7@9
Halibut.

eee 104%@l11
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg €5
“ “oe “ee bb] 10 00
“ as se “ 7 50
Or weren .......0.-...... 12 00
Round, Me bbl 100 Ibs seen 2 85
- i. 1 45
eee 19
Mackerel,
1, oee.......... .... 12 00
No. mi We ee ee 5 05
et. ee......... 1... -
Family, 90 Ibs... -. 62
' ee g
Sardines.
Mustien, Reee.............. 65
Trout.
Bo. 1, 4% bbis., ie. ....... 6 %
No. 1% bbl, 40 Ibs Leashes. 3 00
TOO, 7, RE, OB ise esinnse 85
No, 1, Ser See... 70
Whitefish.
. Me + raped
% bbls, 100 Ibs... 8 Pr 83 25
ce oe 3 2 150
in cee... 90 48
-  ..... ..... ~” «
FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders’.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Bestin the world for the money.

Grade

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
20s8.....81 Q
mon. c, 2 40

XX Grade
Lemon.

XX Grade
Vanilla,
Oe... $1 75
co..... 3 50

Jennings’ D C,

 

Lemon. Vanilla

— ae. 75 1 20
1 40 2 00

. " .2 00 3 00
3 oz taper .........1 35 2 00
405 CODEr .... 0002.1 50 2 50

 

  

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee ie ci, 3 50
ET ee 2 00
oer wee ..............8
te coee............... 6... 30
a! 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
—————————a—— 4 50
ee Wee i. 250
eto woee.. .... 4... 2
1 1b cans. 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’ 8.
ee... .,.......- en 11 00
air Bere .......... ee oe 5 %
Carter SOen............... 3 00
[cons 60
HERBS,

Me rae cee or eee ee 15
Te erties ye 15
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes. . 50
JELLY.

1 7. roee........... @ 55
i @ %
LICORICE.
eee 30
Calabria ee 25
Ps occ. 12
LYE.

Condensed, 2 oe 1 2

WO ee 22
MATCHES.
me, © eee... 5... 1 65
AmGnor parer............... 1 70
Te 2 eeee.............. 1 10
Mxport parlor........... 4 00
MINCE MEAT.

 

3 or 6 doz. in case per dosz.. 95

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.
oe $1 75
Half ee 1 40

EN 70
|. 45
Half pint c 40
Wooden, for vinegne, on doz.
ee 7 00
Pee Gees... ........... 4%
ee ke
ok 2 2
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar howes......... oc. On
Cuba Baking.
COrGeeery .....».... uae cee k 16
Porto Rico.
ee 20
Oe. ce uoe Ae cc eeteeee 30
New Orleans.

—_ ee oe he cee nee cock 18
yeep see 22
co good...... aekeses > 27
Ee 2
BE ci ccees chicos s caer 40

One-haif barrels, 3c extra,

PICKLES,
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00
Half bbis, 600 count.. @3 00
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00
Half bbl 8, 1,200 count 3 50
PIPES,

Clay, oe. 1%

r. ror Oeens........ 7%
Cob, No. 8.. secu week oe

POTASH,

48 cans in Case.
eee... 5... se 4 00
Penna Sait Co.’s.......... 3%

RICE,
Domestic,
Carolina isc cee eine 5

ee 8 i 4%

’ = EE 4
pees. ..4..---. oc... 3
Imported.

Japan, yes wo
ae oi
ee ce vise ease risa. case

PO rncne snes coinechiee 5

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

Root Beer oe

  

Williams’, 1 doz.. 1%
"3 doz.. | 50
Hires’, WOO ek 1%
3 doz . 500

CES,

Whole Sifted.
Brie... . s,s 10
Cassia, China in mats......

' Batavia in bund....15

" Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Areeeves.........., 22
Pee 12

meee Palevin....... ....... 80
Nutmegs Pee... 75
No. 1 Ce 1a

' me. 2... ...... . .60
Pepper, singapore —_—-, i.
“'20

’ shot.. 16

Pure Ground in Bulk.

  

 

   
 

 

 

  

Aieaeoe.............,..- 15
Cass! a, Batavia Las eee 18
and Saigon.25
. en... 35
Cloves, Amboyna........... 22
ee 18
Ginger, Berecee,..........,. 16
ene... 20
» aeeeeres. ........ 22
menos Haters... ........ Hh
Mustard, oe and Trieste. .22
aod ted ec uss 25
Natmegs, No. 2 a bia
epper, Singa ~ - hac ne
. ipo nite. ....24
. Cae eee, 2
ee
“Absolute” in Packages.
8 4s
Bitice ........-.. a. on fo
8 155
eevee ................ 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155

Y Atricam ........ 4 135
meee... 8&4 155
a 84 155
Sage...... 84

SAL SODA.
ee ee oo ce a i. Ae
Seeeeiaa’ Demee.........- 1%
SEEDS.
Bees ............--... @12%
Canary, Smyrna....... .
ee (
Cardamon, Malabar 90
Hemp, Russian.. 4%
Mizec Bird ......- : 5%
Mustard, white....... 10
Pee 9
oe ......... ....... 6
Case bene........... 30
STARCH.
Jorn
eee Pewee... 2... .... 6
Te 5%
Gloss.
1p pacenges................ O96
3-Ib _ as . 5%
6-lb a. . 6
40 and 50 Ib. bexes.......... 4%
eee... oe 5%
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maceaboy, In jars........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SODA,
Sede e estate ce cen tee. 5h
Kens, Sangiish eee ee ce 4%
SALT,
yt sacks.. .. 02
eo 2 00
23 io. Ib. sacks eee esa pens 1 85
ee LL. 2%
Se Coe. ............. 1 50
56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32
on drill 16 18
Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy In drill bags... 32
oi *  .
Ashton.

56 Ib. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins.

56}, dairy in linen sacks. 75
Solar Rock.

o .. seems... |... .. 27
Common Fine.
Saeteey .. 5... ............ 70
———— eee 7
SALERATUS,

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Cees... 5%
eS ee 5%
Dwieers.... .. a
Oe 5

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb........ 84)
Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90
White Borax, 1 &1D...... 3 9%

Proctor & Gamble.
ee... ... .-.. 3 45
Ivory, - —... ... |... 6 7

Se 4 00
iceil a. eoteceeee, Oe
Mottled era 3 60
tee! 3 2%

Dingman Brands.

Single box.. ... ee
5 box lots, deliv ered. oa ees 385
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.

American Family, wrp'd. .84 00
plain... = 04
N.K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands.
ee 475
Brown, © PArs.......-.-... 2 85
. oS eee 4... cee, 3 50
_ Bros, & Co.’s Brands.
Ne ie ce ee cl 4+ 00
Cotton ol... | - 6 00
ee ee 3 95
ee - 435

donee & Chute ——-

Berver ......... bepeeens eons
aa cee eee de 3 35
Savon Improved........... 2 50
BUMMOWGer -............. oo, oO
Golden ...... ll. 3 25
Economica: ............... 2 2
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50
hand, 3 oe. 2 50
SUGAR.

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.

 

 

 
 

 

 

  

Om beet..... ....... 1... 6 36
Powdered .................. 6 23
CTeneIeee . ow. 5
Extra Fine G nee -.. » Oe
Cubes .... ... 6m
XXXX Powdered.......... 5 54
Confec. Standard A.. .... 5 67
No. 1 ColumbiaA..... . sa
No.5 Empire A ..... ..... 5 48
mo 6. 5 36
No. ? uae pees cet accu cole 5233
No. 8. . oi
ee 5 05
ao. 8. 4 98
me Fe 4 92
ee 4 86
Bo ea 4 63
__ oo 4 36
SYRUPS.
Corn.
Derce. _........-.--....-.. a0
ets Oe ee... . 23
Pure Cane.
Wee 19
ee fc. 25
Cronos. ..... ...-.......-.... 30
SWEET GOODS.

Ginger Snaps.......... 8

Suger Creams......... 8

Frosted Creams....... 9

Graham Crackers..... 8%
Oatmeal Crackers..... 8%

VINEGAR.
Ea 7 @8
ee 8 @9

$1 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD,
Bolt, pergel ....... ..... 30
Beer mug, 2 dozincase... 1 75

YEAST.
meee... 1 00
Wares ....
Yeast Foam 1 00
Dismond.......... . =
oa ..-........- 90

TEAS.
JaPan—Regular.
a @17
Gam ........... 1 ....: @20
Cees... 4... 24 @26
Coteee. ......... ..., 32 @34
Mee ek tee 10 @12
@17
@2
@xe
ee ee 32 @34
fae 10 @12
BASKET FIRED.
oe 1... 18 @20
eee... @25
Chaoscent........-... @35
Extra choice, wire leat @40

GUNPOWLER.

Common to fait....... 2 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5

OOLONG. @26
Common to fair... ...23 @30

IMPERIAL,

Common to fair....... 23 @26
Superior tofine........ 30 @35

YOUNG HYSON.
Comamor, to fair......- 18 26
Superior to fine.......30 40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

NE oo oe ci coe cso e nes 22
ee 24 @28
We 40 @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless _—_ noted
Bazoo . io
Can Can.. uss eee eens @27
Nellie = eeisease. 27 @24
Uncle ben. vicseesee Ge
eae ......-.....- 60
Sweet Cuba......... 34
MeGingy ..-..-...---.. 27
. a ...... 25
Dandy J im ee oda cp 2
Torpedo be oes occas 2
. in drums 23
Wie Yee -:......... 28
es ae . 23
ee eerie 22
Plag.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead ........ 41
GORGE «5-00 29
Hobiy Twist............ 41

Scotten’s Brands.
cece ees ce ress 26
Hoawatha......... one 38
Valley City .........-. 34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old Honesty.......... fu)
JOLY TAR. ... <2. 10840 32

  

Smoking.

Catlin’s Brands,
iin Geled............ Lowes ie
Golden _— er. se
uneress ... ae
Weecrscuanin .............5.. 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
— OOOO 40

a 30@32
eae a
ree 33
Java, } gg foil.. 32

Banner Tobacco Co.” 's Brands.

  

 

Mepeer....... 4... 16
Banner > seamen elec eee ae 38
Core Cae... 28
ener s Brands,
ee 15
HMeney Pew... .. 1... 30
Gia Pidee..... 3. 26
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Brands,
Peerless. . Se ee eee 26
Ole a =
Standard.. ' i
Globe Tobacco Co." 8 andi
Handmade. ......... oo 41
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
Rob Roy
Uncle a.
mee Clover...
Spaulding & aoe lay
‘Tom and Jerry.............- 25
Traveler Cavendish. oo
Mien Tern. .......... 2... 30
Fiow oy.............. Saga
Corn Cake.... a

OILs.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes
as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b.
Grand Rapids:

oeene ............-... 8%
Water White, old test. @ i%
W. W. Headlight, 156° 7
Water White Mich.. @ 6%
eee... @ 6%
Stove Gasoline........ @ Ts
CO ae 27 @36
meee... 1... 1... Ge
Black, 15 cold test.... @ 8%

HIDES PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-

lows:
HIDES.
Green .................. 2
Pere Cured......-.... 3%@ 4
CC @ 4%
ee 65 @5
Ree groom ........... 3 @4
. Gerec............ @5
Calfskins, ereen...... 4@5

cured...... 5 @6

Deacon skins.......... 10 @30
No. 2 hides \ off.

PELTS.
Shearlings....... ~eeeee 10 @ 20
Eee |.............. 145 @ 30

WOOL.

Weeeee.. .....-..... 12 @l7
Unwashed ...... --- © @ilb
MISCELLANEOUS.
pe 3 @ 4%
Grease tutter.....:... 1 @2
WIGGON ...........+.- 1%@ 2
Grease... ........... 2 00@2 50

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WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 62
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 62
MEAL.

i cee... 1 40
Greamulased............ 1 65
FLOUR.

Straight, in sacks......... 3 60

big = perree........ 3 85
Paiot see... 4 60
.  Dercem..:..... 480
Grahew, “ Sheen... ..- 1 70
Rye . oo. 1 90
MILLSTUFFS.
Less
Car lots quantity
Bean ......... oa 4 00 $14 00
Sereenings.... 13 00 13 00
Middlings..... 15 00 15 00
Mixed Feed... 19 00 19 50
Coarse meal .. 18 50 19 00
CORN.
oe SO 45
Lees than car lots.......... 48
OATS.

Car lots seule
Less than car lots.. . 38%
HAY.

No. —, car lots....13 ©
No. ton fois ..... 14 00
FRESH MEATS.

Beef, carcass.......... 6%@ 8
. hind quarters. . . 854@ 9
fore . 54
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‘* shoulders @ 9% BULK. im 1 60
Sausage, blood or head @z SesmOne.. ........... 2 2 00 - 2 | ...........,.. B 2
ee oe ~ @e Serpe ........ 1... 1 2 . gee ta ott se. ae
ite Frankfort core @ SK ef, 3 00
me es 8 @9 PAPER & WOODENWARE | Baskets, market. -_ =
Wee « @& - shipping ‘bushel... 1 25
PAPER, r full hoop “ 1 35
FISH and OYSTERS. age ‘willow ci’ths, No.1 6 25
Rockford ... ee 2 : ; 50
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as} Rag sugar ................... 2% ik i ‘No.3 8 50
follows: Saree 23% ‘splint i 13 50
FRESH FISH. — ak tt teteeeeee "$, a ie i Noa z 2
Wooten ............ @2? | Jute Manilla... 0. " WY INDURATED WARE,
Trout 8 @9 | Red Express No. 4. : . 5% | Pails.. : +. 315
Pees... -:.. @15 No. 2 4% Tubs, No. :... i oo on
Ciscoes or Herring... Ce Tubs, No. 2 12 00
ue @10 TWINES. Tubs, No. 3 10 50
——" lobster, per Ib. = aE Cotton oe POULTRY.
i np ek Cott N ae a 40C 2 4 ) : re +
No. i faa @9 on, No. 1 “ = Local nn DRESBED. as follows:
cnaecrseearsreees @8 | Sea Island, Le oe.
Smoked White... @10 mma ee = <=
Red Snappers .... 2 ee eee "
Columbia River Salmon 20 i oe Chicken | ae eat
Mackeran dl. 25 WOODENWARE. pinnae en
oysTERs—Cans. Tube, _ i... : 00 | Live broilers 1%]bs. to 2 Ibs.
age Counts,. @40 “ No.3... -5 00/7 heater per dog.......
2. D. Selecta... @33 | Pails, No, 1, two-hoop.. 1351 “ihe eae fe
Ne, 1) three tiedp.... 160 aca apiteena | 4a) Gabe
Kaa SAR Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes... 40 aL suameupinenier -e°
Oysters, per 100 ......1 50@1 75| Bowls, 11 inch.............. “hed ae
ms, 1 00@ “wag 1 00 | purkeys.-........-.
Spring Ducks... 6 @18
PROVISIONS. | Plain eee —
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | | oo) °° apna RR QOS IEEE a
quotes as follows: (Burt Almende -.1 00
PORK IN BARRELS. Wintergreen ee 60
ee CARAMELS.,
Short cut . a a 1, es Fi, GOMER... .... 8... 34
Extra clear pig, short cut. |S No 2 a eat atu anil 51
Extra clear, heavy........ oe No.3 3 L “ eels sits veeeeeee OR
Cider fat back, ses seas nene: ae 3 FT Ate ee dk ws wel
Boats leew RCRE CU 22 00; 8 tand up, SIb.DOKES..........0 0... eco
Crease PACE Gnercut........................ 22 50) BANANAS,
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 22 50 | Re a TED 1 50@! 73
saAusagEe—Fresh and Smoked. Ce 2 W@2 50
Pen ee : LATQe .. 2.2... ee eee eee eee eee eee ee
eee eee ; ORANGES.
Tongue Sausage............. — ‘alifornia Riverside Seedlings 3 aa
ad 8% California Riverside Seedlings.........: 3 T5@4 00
EE EE q LEMONS.
Bos eee. 6 Mcasinan, Ghetee 260............... 4 50@4 50
epee Wee. 6 . fancy, 360.. ee ae ee @5 50
eee Cee ee 7 . Poesia 300... deel ee ee i @4 50
LARD. C a ee 6 00
Bewie engeree... ...- 3... 1144 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Granger ......-... ee Al Figs, fancy lay ers, = a 12
Family 8% 10 eine
tl te Ce
50 lb, Tins, 4c advance. ‘ c ._ eee @15
20 lb. ails, ye Dates, Fard, 10-1b. box ed a 7
10 Ib . 3c [ -1b. 3 ee
5 Ib. “ ie i" “ Persian, 50-Ib. box............... 4@ 5%
a. e : NUTS.
BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, ee eer eee @19
ead eed ceu ve ee Noe ee 18
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 850 6 ; @i1s
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 8 50 | Brasils, — erent =.
Boneless, rump butts..............--...---+- ee TN @11%
SMOKED MEATs—Canvassed or Plain. Walnuts, Grenoble. @13%
Hams, average 20 IbS............--2620--20 00+. 13% i ae ‘.
ee tome abe Ig |Table Nuts, taney 007 a
Ce ee ee e i. * ~ “Hae @i2
“i ‘ ecans, Lexas te dee sis --12 @l4
a ee” ae
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 13% | H. P., PEANUTS. P
Dried beef, ham prices.................... ...10% | F800y, fog rte Bersted Qs
ae CC ee OEOT ene so se a @ %%
ey Fancy, H. P., Flags. vee @8
ye eR a 1 “Roasted . @ 9
ee Choice, H. P, Extras.. @ be
Roasted. . @8s8
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY “— GLASSWARE.
STICK CANDY. FRUIT JARS.
Cases Bbls. Pails. cence aoe
oe, x eaguennene 6 wn Tat Gallons... 19 00
ME coe on 6% 7i4 | Caps. 3 00
Boston Croaim............ 8% Rubbers... tt a ll A i ll 50
LAMP BURNERS.
- a. eee dee ces yes ms 8% No.0Sun es
ie ee on . ee ee
r No. 1 eT
MIXED CANDY. ES —Xa ae oo
Bbls. Pails, | Tubular.. a
Standard “LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box.
a 7 |. 6doz. in box.
—— ee et 6% os =

Hee ceee re Cosseavouns ‘

Rae " No. Sige
Bnglish Hoek 000 $ | _First quality, :
Brokon Tette.............. baskets 8 _ :-" crimp top................ rete eree ee 5
Peanut Squares............ 8 si my Laelia terete test aeee eB 40
French Creams a 10 Q. <i Fit ‘ treet teen ee eee eee 3 40
Valley Creams.. .............. | 13 ar yp saabagpees to “
Midget, 30 lb. baskéis cece ee eeu nee 8 No 1 aes crimp top. 2 60
Pe TT 8 We 2 Se eee ae al aaa ao aislan ag ; =

FaNcy—In bulk Pearl top.
No. Z Sun, wrapped and labeled Chee e eagle 3 70
Lozenges, —_ ee ee cents vase gs a
eo No. 3 Hinge, ** . " ---4 88

Chocolate vee a a 11% La. Bastie.
Chocolate Monumentals....................- 13 No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. ee
en ieee ae GS TF 1 50
eee... 8 No. i crimp, per, den De ee ee 1 35
OO oo OOO EEO 1 60

eee cee ieee tee cece ee tae 10 i LAMP WICKS.

FPaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box _ . &, per BTOSS. eee eee cee ee ee tee eee eens me
ee EE 55 | No z “ coseeetees a es
OO 55 No. 3, a:
Penpocemrec tegen... 60 a, per au 7
ee o_o 65 STONEWARE—AKRON,

H. m. Chocolate eee. 90 Butior Grseks (to6 eal 000. 06
Gum Dro 40@50 epee i | oo ae

I sk nh i a s &“ 44 gal. per doz... Cl lUwe
TNO 100 Sues, 4 Gl DER 70
A. B. Licorice Drops.. wetter eee eee BO ee 07
Lozenges, oa eee eee de ete aeae . Miik Pans, % gal., per | Ca ee

sr ereeeesecece Ee ese uses dae 72

ee 7 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
ee 55 Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal.... iz
eoemeee Hee. 5... ..-.......... .. 55 Mis Pans, 4enr... 65
Hand Made Oroaiie. 85@95 “ " 7 7

 

 

 

    

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EXPECTED ACTION OF CONGRESS.
The force of all the arguments I present
ed last week in favor of applying to Con-
gress for financial legislation, instead of
throwing upon the Executive the res-
ponsibility of assuming doubtful and
disputed powers, had evidently already
been considered and recognized by Presi-
dent Cleveland, for before my contribu-
tion was in print he announced his in-
tention to call an extra session of the
national legislature at the beginning of
September, or earlier if it should be nec-
essary, to deal with financial measures.
In the meanwhile, we are also assured
on trustworthy authority, he will not
permit the sale of bonds for gold, nor
will he resort to any of the questionable
expedients which, from time to time, his
subordinates and others have suggested
for the relief of the national Treasury.
The decision by the President removes
all necessity of a further discussion of
the meaning of existing statutes and of
what may or may not be done under
them. Having been enacted under
other conditons than those which now
prevail, it is manifestly proper that Con-
gress should have the opportunity of
reconsidering these statutes and of
amending or repealing them before re-
course is had totheir provisions. Besides,
the foolish talk about what the Presi-
dent might and ought to doin the present
emergency without the sanction of law,
can be suppressed only by public debate
in the appropriate forum. A Jarge number
of citizens, it would seem, entertain the
idea that our Chief Magistrate is a sort
of Russian autocrat, and that his duty,
instead of being that of administering
the law as it is, is first to make law
by his own ukase and then administer it.
lt seems to be agreed on all sides that
the measure most urgently needed and
the one most likely to be taken up by
Congress in advance of all others is the
repeal of the Shermanact. To the oper-
ation of this act is undoubtedly attributa-
ble much of the outflow of gold from
the country which has been going on
since the beginning of the year, and
which is supposed to be the sole cause
of the present stringency of the money
market and all the financial ills result-
ing therefrom. The idea of replacing
the gold which has been exported with a
fresh supply obtained by the sale of
bonds under the Resumption act has
now, it appears, been definitely aban-
doned, notwithstanding the positive
assertions made only a few weeks ago
that the Secretary af the Treasury could
and would obtain gold in this way, and
notwithstanding the depletion of the
reserve of gold in the Treasury far below
the imaginary $100,000,000 safety line,
the passing of which, it is vehemently
asserted, would surely lead to a fright-
ful financial convulsion. Whether calm
consideration has convinced the Secre-
tary that his authority to sell bonds
for goid is so doubtful that it would no
be safe for him to attempt to exercise it,
or whether he has been brought to see
tke folly of paying away millions of dol-

lars in interest every year for a series of |

years upon bonds sold for gold which he
could not keep one year, is immaterial.
It is enough that he and the President

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from the reserve.’’? This clearly indi-
cates his wish for the repeal of the Sher-
man act, and, since it is not accompanied
by any expression of desire for legisia-
tion authorizing the sale of bonds for
gold, it shows his belief that the repeal
will render such a sale unnecessary to
the continued maintenance of gold pay-
ments.

Upon the other subjects affecting the
financial affairs of the country to which 1
referred last week as demanding equally
with the repeal of the Sherman act the
attention of Congress and a definite ex-
pression of its purposes in regard to
them, namely, the repeal of the tax on
State bank circulation and the revision
of the tariff, the President has as yet not
declared himself. All that is known so
far is that he intends to call Congress
together by the middle of September or
earlier, and to urge upon it the repeal of
the Sherman act. Whether Congress
will or will not repeal the act, and if it
does repeal it, upon what terms it will
do so and after how long a delay, remain
unsettled. Before any other business
can be undertaken the House of Repre-
sentatives has to elect a Speaker, and
the Speaker has to appoint the standing
committees. This will consume time,
and perhaps a good deal of time. Then
itis uncertain whether the majority of
the House favors repeal, or, if it does,
whether it is strong enough to put down
the resistance of the minority without
making concessions which will very
much impair the beneficial effect of the
measure. Then, again, the action of the
Senate cannot be predicted. All efforts
thus far made to obtain in advance the
views of enough members of either of the
two Houses to forecast the result have
failed to show a decisive majority for
unconditional repeal, or even for a re-
peal with conditions. There may be a
reversion to the old Bland-Allison act,
and there may be a repeal of the pro-
hibitory tax on State bank notes, and,
for all we know to the contrary, there
may be a bill passed for out-and-out free
coinage.

Yet, notwithstanding this drawback,
the mere announcement by the President
that he intends to call Congress together,
three months hence, and recommend it
to repeal the Sherman act, has had a re-
assuring effect upon the public. It has
quieted alarm and inspired cheerfulness,
and, coming as it did after the first
spasm of depression had spent its force,
it has stimulated the usual reaction
from despair tohope. Any great mental
excitement speedily wears itself out.
The ineonstancy of lovers is notorious;
violent anger quickly exhausts itself; the
more intense any pleasure is the sooner
it palls; and so, in business affairs, panics
and extreme depressions are never of
long duration. In the present case peo-
ple are tired of expecting disasters, and
are getting back to their usual state of
mind. The President has given them
something to think about and look for-
ward to, and they forget to be fright-
ened.

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system there does not seem to me to be!

much reason to hope. The delusion that

and that the only thing which the Presi- abundant supply of money to every one
dent specifically mentions for the consid- who wants it is still far too prevalent to

eration of Congress is ‘‘the merits of a

permit of the putting upon paper issues

financial policy which obliges us to pur- | of the restrictions which sound principle
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eals are full of articles complaining that
there is not money enough in the country
to meet the wants of trade. Senators,
Representatives, and other public men
continually make speeches inveighing
against the fetters imposed upon indus-
try by the scarcity of the circulating me-
dium, while the staple argument of the
free silver and bimetallist agitators con-
sists of the assertion that all our busi-
ness troubles proceed from the fall in
prices produced by the diminishing sup-
ply of gold. Many of our otherwise sen-
sible financiers assume that one of the
essential requisites of a good currency is
elasticity, by which they ‘mean the ca-
pacity to expand and contract in volume
according to circumstances, regardless
of the fact that a currency once expanded
is never voluntarily contracted, and that
when in spite of the efforts made to
maintain its volume it is contracted, the
contraction produces disasters like that
we are now experiencing. .The same
men who demand the repeal of the Sher-
man act because the notes issued under
it have assisted to drive gold out of the
country are willing to accept in its place
legislation which would permit the issue
of an unlimited amount of State bank
notes, and thus displace gold to a far
greater extent than the Sherman act does.
The fundamental principles of finance,
that an increase of the volume of cur-
rency reduces its value, and that cur-
rency of less value tends to drive out
that of greater value, will have to be
much more widely taught and accepted
than they are at present before our leg-
islators will act upon them. They must
do what their constituents demand, and
the demand is now, as it was during the
prevalence of the greenback craze, for an
abundant supply of circulating medium
regardless of consequences.

Fortunately the country is rich enough
and strong enough to endure without ir-
reparable injury the severe but effectual
process of learning wisdom by experi-
ence. In fact, our very success in re-
sisting and overcoming the mischievous
tendencies of bad financial and econom-
ical legislation delays our progress
toward a true system. As a strong,
healthy young man can for years defy
the laws of health and the warnings of
his physicians, and in his eating, drink-
ing, and course of life can do with im-
punity many things which, according to
precedent, ought to kill him, so we have
been going on in financial matters disre-
garding the experience of other nations
without as yet incurring the natural pen-
alty of our sins. But this immunity
cannot be expected to last forever.
Sooner or later the laws of finance, like
those of health, will vindicate them-
selves, and our people are intelligent
enough, it may be presumed, to learn
from results, at least, what they cannot
be taught by warning and prophecy.

MATTHEW MARSHALL.
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“Leaders” in Trade.

In the retail business nothing seems to
have taken possession of the minds of
merchants like the above word ‘‘leaders.”
Whether it be in the grocery, dry goods
or boot and shoe business, each merchant
thinks he must have a leader of some
kind. Some merchants use cheap goods,
some use anew article, some use rem-
nants of different lines of goods, but each
feels that he must be equal with his
neighbor in this matter. Now if good

judgment is used in selecting a leader

 

and in pushing it, it is indeed a benefit
to the merchant; but in many cases it is
no benefit to him at all, for he does not
take the right article or does not use
good judgment in pushing it. We know
a merchant who thought he would be
smart and put out a leader that would
beat allof his neighbors. The story is
as follows:

An agent for a soap manufacturing
company was showing a very nice soap,
put up in a package of three handsome
cakes, and our man, who wanted a
leader, bought five boxes, and when the
soap came, placed an open box outside
the door with a large card attached, with
the price at just what it had cost. His
two competitors over the way also bought
five boxes each, but as the man who
liked to have a leader put his soap out at
cost, they very sensibly put theirs into
the cellar, and patiently waited for their
enterprising neighbor to thoroughly ad-
tise it before they offered theirs for sale.

This he did, for he soon sold out the
five boxes, and when his customers
asked for more of the soap, he was
obliged to confess that he had sold it as
a leader and that it ought to have sold
for a much higher price than they had
paid, and that he should not get any
more of that soap. Imagine his surprise
when, a few days later, the same soap
appeared in the windows of his two com-
petitors across the street at the price
which he should have sold it for, and as
many people had used the soap and rec-
ommended it to their friends, the
two men who had held their soap soon
had a lively trade on this one article and
made their regular profit thereon.

We think it is not good policy to sell
any article for cost or less. Each mer-
chant should strive to hold his trade by
honest, square dealing, and not by sell-
ing one article at cost and charging an
extra profit on another to make it up. It
is right to have a leader, to have many
leaders which are well bought and which
can be sold cheap and still leave a profit
for the merchant; but never sell goods
that are regular saleable goods at cost, or
less, for the sake of having a leader. It
ean Only end in doing harm to the mer-
chant and in giving him the name ofa
swindler. RoBert W. ALLEN.

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Finish the Trial Balance Early.

The first of the month brings a rush
of work to every bookkeeper—books to
be closed, statements to be sent, the trial
balance to be taken off and_ innumerable
other things, that seem toof themselves

to select this particular moment in the
bookkeeper’s life as the time when they
ean bother himthe most. At this time,
more than at any other, it is necessary to
take advantage of every legitimate means
to shorten the work.

The posting should always be kept up
to date, and during the last day or two
of tbe month any spare minutes that
come may be ultilized to post right up
to the last entry. The statements should
be started by the 20th of the preceeding
month, and be gone over again two or
three days before the end of the mo th;
while in the mean time the envelopes
can be directed and stamped, care being
taken to keep the piles of statements
and envelopes in the same order, to avoid
confusion and mistakes in mailing.

As soon as the last posting for the
month is done the statements should be
finished and mailed, and this will take
but a shorttime. If statements are sent
to every account the ledger will now be
all’added, ready for the trial balance,
but if some accounts are omitted in send-
ing statements, those accounts should be
added before the last of the month, and
after the statements are sent the items

 

posted after the account was first
summed up should be added.

In taking off the trial balance it is
quicker and safer to take off the total
footing of each side of the account
rather than subtract one side from the
other and take the balance. By so do-
ing the time necessary to make a large
number of subtractions is saved, and it
takes but little time to enter and add
the extra figures in the trial balance—
besides there is vastly more liability of
making errors in a large number of sub-
tractions than in the other way.

Still more time can be saved if the
names of the accounts are left off the
trial balance—simply putting the ledger
folio of the first amount in each column
at the head of the column, and using
every line—this method saves the time
spent in writing the names and in find-
ing the names, to put the amount down
on the same line—it condenses the bal-
ance, making fewer columns to add, as
there are no blank lines that were saved
for accounts that balance or for blank
pages in the ledger. If it is necessary
to find any amount the ledger folio of
the first amount, which is put at the
head of each column, will be sufficient
base to work from, and any account can
be found in the ledger inside of one min-
ute. <A trial balance with the names and
folios of the accounts on it should be
taken off whenever the books are bal-
anced, but this can be done after the rush
of the work is over, if the regular one is
taken first.

All of the work should be done care-
fully and accurately, for in bookkeeping
everything should be sacrificed to accu-
racy. Nowhere is the truth of the old
saying that *‘Haste makes waste’? more
apparent than at the bookkeepers’ desk,
and if work is done hurriedly more time
will be lost hunting for errors than it
would take to dothe work well in the
first place. Remember, also, that more
errors are made in taking off one trial
balance in a hurry than are made on the
books in several month’s work.

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.)

 

 

Arrive. Depart
10 2 pm........ Detroit Express ........6 55pm
16 Oam.......-.. Day Express .... ... | Wpm
6 00am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 10 45pm
1 00pm ..... New York Express ..... 5 40pm
*Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex-
press trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 am; re-
turning, leave Detroit 5 pm, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 p m.

Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains east over the Michigan Cen
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

A. ALmquist, Ticket Agent,
Union Passenger Station.

TOLEDO

 

   
   

RAILWAY.

the Detroit,

In connection with
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee

Lansing &

R’ys offers a route making the best time be-
tween Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Time Table in effect May 14, 1893.
VIA D., L. & N. B’Y.
Lv. Grand Rapids at..... 7:10 a, m. and 1:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at ......... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m.
VIA D., @. B. OM. R’Y.
Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m
Ar. Volede af, _........ 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m.
Return connections equally as good.
W. H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent,

DETROIT,

LANSING & NORTHERN R, R.
GOING TO DETROIT.

 

JAN. 22, 1893

 

in GH... 7:10am *1:25pm 5:40pm
ar Teer... 11:35am *5:30pm 10:35pm
RETURNING FROM DETROIT.
Pe 7:45am *1:30pm 6:05pm
ao M.... 12:55pm *5:25pm 10:30pm

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T, LOUIS.
Lv. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. @ R.11:50am 10:40pm
TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. BR.

Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:25pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell.......... 13:Shpen G:20pm .......
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap
ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn-
ing train.

*Every day. Other trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Schedule in effect May 28, 1893.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrivefrom Leave going

South. North.
For Traverse City and Saginaw 6:45am 7:20am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:00am 1:10 p m
For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:20pm 4:15pm
For Petoskey & Mackinaw..... 8:10 pm 10:30 pm
From Chicago and Kalamazoo. 8:35 p m

Train arriving from south at 6:45am and 9:00am
daily. Others trains daily except Sunday.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from Leave going
Nort 8

 
 
 
 

South.
Pow Cinetnnat............ 6:30 am 7:00 am
For Kalamazoo and Chica a 10:05 am
For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm

Wow COMCtIMOSE. oo. ccs cess 5:15 pm
For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 p m
Prom Sagmiaw............... 11:50am

6:00 pm
11:20 pm

| From Saginaw..............c0++ 10:40 p m

Trains leaving south at 6:00 p m and 11:20 p. m. runs
daily; all other trains daily except Sunday.

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.
NORTH

7:20am train has Parlor Car to Traverse
City.

1:10 p m train has pawor car Grand
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.

10:30 P m train.—Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.

SOUTH--7:00 am train. —Parlor chair car Grand
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:05 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11:20 pm train.—Through Coach and

Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chi-
cago.
Chicago via G. R. & 1. BR. R.
Lv Grand Rapids 10:05 a m 2:00 pm
Arr Chicago 4:10pm 9:10pm
10:05 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:20 p m train daily, through Coach ani Wagner
Sleeping Car.

11:20 pm
6:50am

Ly Chicago 7:65 am 3:10 pm 10:10 pm
Arr Grand Rapids 2:20 pm 8:35 pm 6:45 am
3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p m

train daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive

6:55 am 10:00 a m
11:25 am 4:40 pm
5:30 pm 9:05 pm

Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 9:05 a m, ar-
riving at 10:20 a m. Returning, train leaves Muske
gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:45 pm.

Tnrough tickets and full information can be
had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at
Union Station, Telephone 606, Grand Rapids,
Mich.

0. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

CHitaaa = - “= 53

 

NOV. 20, 1892

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Ly.GR’D RAPIDS.....-. 8:50am 1:25pm *11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO..........3:55pm 6:45pm *7:05am

RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.

Ly. CHICAGO..... ..--9:00am 5:25pm *11:15pm
Ar. GR'D RAPIDS.....3:55pm 10:45pm + *7:06am
TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, AND 8T JOSEPH
Ly. G@ B.... ... 3:50am 1:25pm . *11:35pm
ay Ge........ *6:10am 3°55pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

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Ly. G. E..... 8:45pm
Ar G&. H.... : oc 5:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY MANISTEE & PETOSKEY.
ae 7:30am 5:35pm

Ay. Manistee ............-.
AY. Traverse City ........
Ar Chavieverm..............
ae Pou, ..................... 3:
Ar. from Petoskey, etc., 10:00 p m.;
Traverse City 11:50 a m, 10:00 p m.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

Wagner Parlor Cars Leave Grand Rapids 1:25
pm, leave Chicago 5:25 p m. “

Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *}1:35
pm; leave Chicago *11:15 pm.

Free Chair Car for Manistee 5:45 p m.

*Every day. Other trains week days only.

 

~
-».--12:15pm 10:29pm
.....12:35pm 10:59pm

from

 

GRAND HAVEN &
WAUKEE Railway.

Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av 3,

MIL-

 

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave |tNo. 14jtNo. 16\tNo. 18/*No. 82

 

G’d Rapids, Lv) 6 45am/10 20am) 3 25pm/11 00rm
homie... Ar| 7 40amj11 25am) 427pm)12 42 m
St. Johns ...Ar § 2am) 217pm)| 520pm)| 2 00am
Owoss> ....../ Ar| 900am} 1 20pm) 6 05pm) 3 15am

E. Saginaw..Ar \10 50am} 3 45pm) 8 00pm} 6 40am

  

 

Bay City..... Ar /11 32am} 4 35pm) 8 37pm| 7 15am
Pitas ........1 Ar /1005am| 3 45pm) 7 05pm] 5 40am
Pt. Huron...Ar |1205pmj 550pm) 8 50pm) 7 30am
Pontiac ......Ar |10 58am} 305pm) 8 25pm) 5 37am
Detroit, ......2 Ar |11 50am] 405pm) 9 25pm| 7 am

WESTWARD.
Trains Leave |*No. 81 |tNo. 11|tNo. 13.|+No. 15
|

 

| }
Gd Rapids, Lv} 7 00am} 1 00pm} 4 45pm) 10 20pm
@d Haven, Ar} 8 25am) 2 10pm) 6 00pm)11 26pm
Oe eee | 6 20am} 6 30am
Chicago Str. ‘‘ | ie canes ss © COUN
*Daily. t+tDaily except Sunday
Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50 p.m.,
4:45 p. m. and 10:00 a. m.
Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10
a, In, 3:16 . and 9:45 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
ear. No.18 ParlorCar. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.
23 Monrce Street

 

 

  

20

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

PEDDLERS ON THE RUN.

 

Their Operations Considerably Cur-
tailed by the Council.

THE TRADESMAN is inclined to indulge
in self-gratulation over the passage
of the following resolution by the Com-
mon Council at its session on the 12th
inst.:

Resolved, That His Honor the Mayor
of the city of Grand Rapids be, and he is
hereby requested to cause no more per-
mits (so-called), or extensions of time of
existing permits, to be hereafter issued
to dealers in fruits and vegetables; and
also, to grant no more licenses to that
class of dealers for a less time than that
fixed by the license schedule.

Ever since the passage of the license
schedule, this journal has done its utmost
to the end that practical results might
follow from the Council’s legislation.
From its knowledge of the character of
the people engaged in the fruit business,
THE TRADESMAN was sure they would
endeavor to evade the provisions of the
license ordinance, and escape the pay-
ment of the license fee. And so it
proved. At first they demurred at the
amount of the fee, claiming that it was
exorbitant. Then, as attempts were
made to enforce payment, they grew
frantic, and appealed to everybody who
had any authority to help them out.
They besieged the Mayor in his office,
whining about their poverty, and bring-
ing friends to testify to their pauperism,
until life was made a burden to him, in
their efforts to secure the privilege of
selling without paying the license fee. In
some instances they succeeded in convine-
ing the Mayor of their inability to pay the
fee and that the peddling business was
their sole dependence for a livelihood.
They were granted permits accordingly.
The result was soon seen. Those who
were willing and able to pay refused,
because, they said, free permits were
being granted to others in the same busi-
ness. And so the city has received
only $20 from fruit peddlers’ licenses
when it ought to have received several
hundred. This was neither a desirable
nor profitable condition of affairs, and,
without egotism, THE TRADESMAN
claims the credit for removing the chief
cause of the evil. In conversation with
Mayor Stuart THe TRADESMAN asked
His Honor how he would regard the pas-
Sage by the Council of a resolution put-
ting an end to the granting of free per-
mits. The Mayor replied that he would
most heartily favor the passage of such
a resolution, as it would remove a pro-
lifie source of annoyance, and release
him from a responsibility which was be-
coming more and more irksome every
day. It was determined, upon the
Mayor’s expression of approval, that a
resolution prohibiting the granting of
any more permits should be introduced
into the Council and, if possible, passed.
The result of that determination is seen
in the resolution which appears above,
and which, for some time to come, at
least, will stop the granting of permits,

- = +

THe TRADESMAN acknowledges the
debt which the entire retail grocery trade
of this city owes to Ald. O. A. Ball, head
of the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. The
fact that Ald. Ball introduced the resolu-
tion before the Council, accounts, ina
large measure, for its passage, and
shows the respect in which he is held by
that body. This is but one of many
instances of the consideration which the
retail grocers have received from Mr.

Ball. Both in the Council and out of it, he
has proved his willingness to advance,
by every means in his power, the inter-
ests of the retail trade.

* * *

THE TRADESMAN called on Mayor
Stuart after the passage of the ‘‘no per-
mit’? resolution, and asked him what he
thought of the situation. He replied
that he was satisfied with the resolution,
and that he should grant no more per-
mits. At the same time, he wished to
state that, in granting permits, he had
but exercised a privilege which had been
accorded to all his predecessors in office.
As to most of those to whom permits had
been granted, for years they had been
allowed to sell without paying the license
fee, being given permits every year for
the full term. He (Mayor Stuart) had
in no case given a permit for a year, but
only for a short time. He thought that
was a vast improvement over the system
followed for so many years by his pre-
decessors in office. He did not feel at
liberty to say to these men that he would
not give them a permit, but thought it
best to allow them to sell without a li-
cense temporarily and at the same time
give them to understand that a license
must be taken out. As to the short term
licenses, he believed he had the same
right to issue a license for three months
that he had to grant free permits; in
fact, they were granted for the same rea-
son and in the exercise of the same priv-
ilege. There was absolutely no reason
to speak of a conflict of authority. The
Council, in eliminating the short term
clauses from the license schedule, had
certainly laid down the general rule that
no license should be issued for a shorter
time than one year; but there was no
rule without an exception, and he be-
lieved he was fully justified in issuing
the two three months’ licenses in
question. There need be no further con-
troversy on these points, however, as the
resolution passed by the Council took the
matter entirely out of his hands. He
would endeavor to carry out its instrue-
tions, and in the future should refer all
applicants for permits to the Council.

-— «= *

There will be no more permits granted,
that is certain; but, in the meantime,
the fruit peddlers are not taking out li-
censes. As a consequence, several have
been arrested, and the cases are now
pending in the Police Court. The at-
torney for the defense, Jas. E. McBride,
upon whose advice, in the first instance,
the refusal to take out licenses was

be convicted under the license ordinance.
Because, in the first place, the fee is ex-
orbitant, being out of all proportion to
the profits of the business. In the sec-
ond place, the amount of the fee makes
it prohibitive and not regulative, and
everybody knows that regulation and
not prohibition is the purpose of li-
cense. ‘No, sir,” said Mr. McBride,
“you haven’t a leg to standon. There
isn’t a judge in the city who will convict
under the circumstances. I know Judge
Haggerty won’t, because we have talked
this matter over, andl know just how
he feels aboutit. Whatif the case is ap-
pealed? It won’t make any difference to
us. Adsit and Grove both believe that
;a license fee for such a business should
a exceed $10. Why,” exclaimed Mr.
| McBride, waxing eloquently indignant
'as he thought of the terrible wrong at-
tempted to be committed upon his clients,

 

based, is confident that hisclients cannot |

 

|

“don’t you know that this whole busi-

‘ness is nothing but ad—d anti-Semitic

war, a dastardly attempt to drive the
Russian Jews out of the country? That’s
what itis. It’s un-American, sir. It’s
opposed to the constitution, sir. But it
won’t succeed; mark my words, sir’—
pointing his index finger at Tor TRADEs-
MAN, who ought to have had the grace to
quail before the stern demeanor of the
champion of the dagos, “it won’t suc-
ceed. It’s an outrage that won’t be tol-
erated in thiscountry. It’s just a scheme
of the retail grocers,’’ continued the at-
torney, flying off at a tangent, ‘‘who want
the whole business to themselves. They
are a lot of hogs, and I wouldn’t buy even
a banana from them for any considera-
tion. LIalways buy from the peddlers.
Why, some of them livein my houses and
I don’t want better tenants. Yes, sir,’’
—as THE TRADESMAN rose to go—‘‘we’ll
beat you, and just remember that I told
you so.” THe TRADESMAN departed,
wondering why Fame had played sucha
beggarly trick upon a man who cherished
such lofty sentiments and was gifted
with such masterly eloquence as to leave
him in the obscurity which at present
seems to enshroud him.
* % *

The ordinance has been amended by
the addition of two more sections which
will inerease very materially its effec-
tiveness. They are as follows:

See. 8. No person or persons so li-
censed by the Mayor or Common Council
of said city, shall sell, expose for sale,
or offer for sale in any public market, or
at any place within the limits of the city
of Grand Rapids, any unsound, stale,
rotten, fermented, nauseous or unwhole-
some vegetables, fruits, berries or other
articles of food or provision by them
sold under their license, or any unwhole-
some bread, cake or pastry, or any
bread, cake or pastry manufactured in
whole or in part from any unwholesome
flour or meal.

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the
health officer of said city to inspect all
vegetables, fruits, berries, cakes, bread
or pastry as shall be brought to him for
inspection, or to which his attention
shall have been called by any person or
persons; and for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this ordinance the
said health officer shall have the power
and it shall be his duty to enter in and
upon the premises of any person or per-
sons and detain any and all fruits, vege-
tables, berries, bread, cakes, or pastry
and examine and see that the same are
of good and wholesome quality.

It will be seen that the latter section
provides for the inspection of fruits and
vegetables. It was claimed that there
was nothing todo under the ordinance,
previous to the introduction of the
amendments, but to issue the license, for

| which reason it was claimed that the fee,

 

which was supposed to cover the cost of
enforcement, was excessive. Though
the amendment was not added for the
purpose of providing a way to expend
the money collected for fees, it will be
acknowledged that, if the inspection
clause is honestly and fully enforced, the
fee will not only not be excessive, but
will fall short of meeting the legitimate
expense.

There was a general feeling among
those who had any knowledge of the
matter that the ordinance was defective
in that it did not provide for the inspec-
tion of the fruits and vegetables offered
for sale by peddlers. From the fact that
their goods are constantly exposed to the
heat and weather, it is impossible but
that they must in a few hours deterior-
ate and become unfit for use. This will

be more especially true in connection |Grand Rapids,

with the softer fruits. Then, as a rule,
an inferior quality of fruit is usually
sold by this class of ‘‘traders.’’ There
is hardly anything more dangerous to
health than the eating of diseased fruit
and vegetables. These facts made in-
spection an imperative necessity. 1t was
in response to this necessity that the
amending clauses, providing for inspec-
tion, were added to the ordinance.
* * *

In the meantime, those whose business
it is are doing their utmost to enforce
the ordinance. Assistant City Attorney
Carroll is determined to punish violators,
and is confident of securing convictions;
the police force is active and vigilant,
and it begins to look is if the end of the
license muddle was not far off.

BUY THE PENINSULAR
Pals, Swirls, and Overalls

Once and You are our Customer
for life.

 

 

Stanton & Morey,
DETROIT, MICH,

Gro. F. OwEn, Salesman for Western Michigan,
Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids.

 

Your Bank Account Solicited.

Kent Conmiy Savings Bank,

GRAND RAPIDS ,MIOCH.

Jno. A. CovopnE, Pres.
Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres,
J. A. S. Verprer, Cashier.
K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings
Deposits,

DIRECTORS:
Jno, A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox,
T. J.O’Brien. A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema,
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. MeKee, J. A. 8. Verdier.

 

Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars.

 

MICHIGAN

Fire & Marine Insurance C0.

Organized 1881.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Established 1868.

HM. REYNOLDS & SON,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

 

Building Papers,
Carpet Linings,
Asbestos Sheathing
Asphalt Ready Roofing,
Asphalt Roof Paints,
Resin, Coal Tar,
Roofing and Paving Pitch,
Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool
Elastic Roofing Cement,
Car, Bridge and Roof Paints,
and Oils.

Practical Rooter

In Felt, Composition and Gravel,

Cor. LOUIS and CAMPAU Sts.,

Mich.

 

 

 

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‘x Hides, F' W ool & Tall
| ides, Furs, Woo allow, |
“Fs NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, | pe
> WE CARRY =A STOCK GF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL CSE. 2s
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sha Geese Feathers.
‘ Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks.
OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE.
L Vole! Her jisheimer k Hf 48, 5O, 52 Ottawa ot, Have had such flattering succes in handling our Bieycles that they have bough
) << ey Grand Rapids. our entire output for 1893. They have taken up all negotiations pending for the
q purchase of cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends.
¥ THE YOST MFG. CO..,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
he
“a + > F. “Fs DETTENTHALER,
¥ 7
[ LB WHOLESALE OYSTERS, FISH and GAME,
» be — QUOTATIONS. LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY.
M k Br: h Consignments solicited. Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed.
usKkegon anc
117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
4s UNITED STATES BAKING Co.,
a oe Cracker Chesis l Covers for Bisculls
> Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” ) . ib) ne l ISCHIS
Write for samples of New and Original Crackers and Cakes, before = on
_) 2 purchasing for your Spring trade. IIT
Mail orders a Mail orders a specia ialty. _ HARRY FOX, Manager. :
~ ' *
-- §pring & Company,
™
~ IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
* ie Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks,
~|-s Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
o Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
| Prints and Domestic Cottons,
Y ft &
We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well mn
- 4 ‘ HESE chests will soon | UR new glass covers are by far the
® assorted stock at lowest market prices. pay for themselves in fhe t Sidesenias ene, aluaial tes thin
ts breakage they avoid. Price $4. | trade. They are made to fit any
t e of our boxes and can be changed from
oi & T1Ing & “a Com an Vv one box to anotherinamoment They
Dp F z Pp ® will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay
. for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each.
+ -BANANAS:- a ere
i ia Me a We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties:
. L B h CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR.
~ ea 4a Pge unc es, CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES,
VAT } NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is bound to be one of
« > * e | O eh u mM p . ru ! t r the best selling cakes we ever made.
—— $$$)
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P C N DY c THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO.,
U I I lz . M £% 7 O . GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

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H. LRONARD & SONS,

134 &140 E. Fulton St., a

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan, ; f,

 

Do you know how te BOOM trade and keep up your sales’? It is the easiest thing in the world. Just remember to always keep en hand a good line of Seasonable * 4 +
Goods. It is Now the Season fer Summer Goods, for which we are headquarters.

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BAMM™MOCK HOOKS.

No. 98 Plate Hoo

 

Ne. 88 Screw Hook oe
Ne. ee ook, ike tet............. 90
( ss BS ect liscount

   

FRUIT JARS, PACKED.
One dozen in a box.
NO BREAKAGE SAVES PAPER.
NO STRAW. SAVES TIME.
NO DIRT. | SAVES ROOM.
The Jars are made of the best Flint Crystal
Giass. Write for quotation on Fruit Jars.

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This line of close woven Hammocks excels all other lines in
ity, and comfort.

 

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GEM CLOSE WOVEN HAMMOCKS

—_——$$$ $$ 9)

We have the following numbers in stock:

Per Doz. | Per Doz.
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no, Ol ati... 27 C0 | No. 801 at cciacp a ie te, OOF as
No. 2 at.... oo OO No. Wf at... --. op OO) No. Sat...

to a discount.

Class B subjec

 

 

 

Every Boy Wants an Air Rifle

in the summer. How is your stock?

Markham Air Rifle.....

 
 

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New Daisy Air Rifle (like cut).... a. ao
Columbia Air Rifle ..... Te a

These prices are subject to a good liberal discount,

they come under Class Bin our
regular catalogue.

 

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ENTERPRISE CHERRY STONER.
The above cut illustrates our Enterprise Cherry Stoner which we
particularly recommend to those desiring rapid work. It can be
adjusted by thumb screws to adapt it to the different sizes of
cherry stones. it will be found rapid in its work, and a decided
improvement over others of this class.

ORG IN, OE OO a a eo $14 50
bawme, Japanhed finished, per doren. i.+. o>. > Naceseue ~ 11 50

Class B subject to a discount.

   
   
   

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We keep four sizes

List each.

 

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No. 3, height 32 in. oo 12 00

NO. 4, RGIBHE 49m... ess cle ee Oe ¢ m
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