— eee, Published Weekly. VOL. 10, SEEDS! Everything in Seeds is kept by us—Clover, Timothy, Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Hungarian, Red Ete. Millet, If you have Beans to sell, send us sampies, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We will sell Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers. No. 1 Egg Case, complete(in lots of 10), 35¢ each. No. 1 Fillers, 10 sets in a No. 1 Case, $1.25. No. 2 Fillers, 15 sets,in a No 1 Case, $1.50. W. Y, LAMOREAUX CO., 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St, Grand Rapids, Mich. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND en JULY 5, 1893. $1 Per Year. NO. 511 PUBLISHERS. - MOSELEY BROS., JOBBERS OF ~ mre ~ Clover, Timothy, Millet, Hungarian, Field Peas, Ete. Green V egetables, Oranges, Lemons, Banan: as, and Fruits of all kinds EGG CASE FILLERS, Ten sets No. 1, with Case, $1.25. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. SEEDS MILLET, TURNIP SEED, HUNGARIAN, RUTABAGA, BUCK WHEAT, MANGEL WURZEL, SEED CORN, CARROT. Write us when in want of anythingin the line of Seeds. We carry the largest line, and are always prepared to fill orders on short notice. ALFRED J. BROWN, Seedsman, 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. LAGS, IREWORKS, IRECRACKERS, All the best makes at lowest prices. Send for catalogue and price list. COMPLETE LINE OF 4TH OF JULY GOODS. A. E. BROOKS & CO., 46 Ottawa 8t., Grand Rapids, Mich. Sugar is Advancing! — —THAT MEANS HIGHER PRIGKS FOR GONFEGTIONERY. Order in Round Lots Now. PUTNAM CANDY CO. WE. KEEP... ALL - SIZES OF All Wool Bunting Flags. Cotton Printed Bunting Flags. Cotton (323) Printed Bunting Flags. FLAGS ON STICKS FROM NOS. I TO 12 AT LOW PRICES, AND PLAIN COLORS RED, WHITE AND BLUE, FOR DECORATION, IN 27 AND 36 INCH. _ STRKRTER & SUNS Manufacturers of BRUSHES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our goods are sold by all ates Jobbing Houses. CHAS. A. COYE, Manufacturer of AWNINGS and TENTS HORSE AND WAGON COVERS Jobbers of Oiled {Clothing and Cotton Ducks. er 11 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. } and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS RINDGE, KALMBACH _ OO. Mnnufacturers and [Wholesale Dealers in Boots, Shoes aud Rubbers. 12, 14 and 162Pear] Street. Our Styles, Qualities and Prices are Right. Give us a trial. We carry the best Tennis Shoes made. Agents for the Boston Rubber ss Shoe Co. STOP AND CONSIDER How you can obtain a Pack of A. DOUGHERTY’S Celebrated World Renowned —_———_——0 If you want good, light, sweet Bread and Biscuits use FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. oe Save the Tin-Foil Wrappers and our White Diamond Labels, and when you have TWENTY-FIVE send them (or fifteen cents), to our agency and they will send you a full deck of “FERMENTUM” PLAYING CARDS. For Purity and Excellence FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST is superseded by none. It is made from selected Corn, Rye and Malt. It does not contain any acids or chemicals to make it white, being sold in its natural state, the color of Rye. Try it, and you will always have good Bread. Follow directions. Ask for and insist upon having FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST. Manufactured only by THE RIVERDALE DISTILLERY, THE OLDEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WEST. 264 to 270 Kinzie St., Chicago III. 106 Kent Street. Genera! Offices: Grand Rapids Agency: No. PLAYING CARDS FREE!) AGENTS FOR , LZ) BICYCLES 1 yi j Can make money by buying some of the wheels we are offering at Special Prices to clean up our stock—Many 1893 Model High and Medium Grade Wheels will be sold at less than Cost. ao ‘ , aT eS: A caine a es tte Agents wanted for the most complete line of Wheels in the State. Repairing and changing wheels a specialty. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 101 Ottawa Street LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Tiiuminating and Lubricating -OLlLLsS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MARISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR RMPYY GARBON & GASOLIN® BARRELS 4 CHAWIN3 ne DONT PROVE To Prove the Pudding, you must send for a sample order of Tradesman, You only Chew the String when you read this advertisement. Superior or Universal Coupon Books. If you have never used the Coupon Book System, and wish to investigate it, sample books and price list will be mailed free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. HEYMAN COMPANY, Manufacturers of Show Gases of Every Description. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. 63 and 65 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich, WRITE FOR PRICES. > j e di a dijo i . a \. | ‘ | Geo, W. eo cae there’s only the women at the boarding | Every moment she seemed to understand Lia | : =. Rueenoew, Conmier. - @ > house. And they don’t care much for| these pictures better. She began to no-| 4 Sabi thirst-satis- | —— me on account of my doing typewriting. | tice how marvelous was color! How full| 4/228 beverage. A Capital, $800,000, + Not that | mind.” of wonderful gradations! Were shadows| + ‘-™perance drink for DIRECTORS. “Of course not,” said Ingersoll with’ like that? Were they ever so purple?| z‘-mperance people. \. 2 D. A. Blodgett. Geo, W. Gay. 8. M. Lemon. ve co ‘ =—— = C Bertsch. A.J Bowne. G.K Johnson conviction. Was light on plains and deserts white as| ¢ -\- °¢- package makes 5 gallons. nage Wm.H Anderson. Wm Sears. A.D. Rathbone a By the end of the first day they had | those pictures showed them to be? Were “ cld and Enjoyed Everywhere. John Widdicomb. N. A. Fletcher. r done agood part of the Liberal Arts| women so beautiful? Was love so poet-| ~~ oe Building. ical that painters painted it always, and | “It would take a week to doit prop-|with such passion? How fast life I ROP | ~@ 4 erly,”’ Ingersoll explained, ‘but we’re | seemed to be unfolding! ———— i adapting ourselves to circumstances,| Her startled mind showed her suddenly 1 ” don’t you see.”’ the interior of the office where she had “Pm so much obliged to you,” cried|sat for three long years, and she felt Oe Startins Penne, in lots of " valle, (Re Miss Stuart. “I don’t know what I again the silence—not a silence such as Genuine teninsular Fasteners. single Gt. would have done if I hadn’t met you—or | Corot had painted, which might at any i a arenes ra some one like you.” moment be broken by the wind of dawn 1 ! a So ended the first day. rushing up through the meadows, but Te The next morning was dull and cold. the silence imposed upon slaves! She PRICE IN LOTS OF 100 GT. GROSS QUOTED — Beyond the peristyle the gray waves| saw the immovable, dull, yellow face of ON APPLICATION. dashed sullenly. The sky was like a|/the man she worked for—the man who i Mer) All ( nha Wh determined not to makea spectacle of caaeem there a a wave of warmth, Qu ick Sel le To. 5 ia FF herself again—that is what she told her- | delicate and touched with a sentient joy, ap self in the night she had been doing. |and passed over her body, and seemed Catarrh, > They went to the picture gallery. He| someway to bring with it a perfume and WHAT? S aps got her catalogue for her, and took one|a song, and all the pictures swam for a = Hay Fever, from his own pocket. They looked at! moment in a golden haze fairer than that A 4 the pictures silently. When she mo-| any of the artists had put on their moun- Headache, tioned to move on he obeyed her. She | tain tops. THE NEW FALL LINE . + r wanted horribly to ask him about some} Youth is an alchemist. He will make Neuralgia, Colds, Sore Throat. of the pictures. gold for one any moment, if he is only Manufactured by : 5 | Why should those Frenchmen insist | given the right materials. a on making their women purple? Who es £ « SNEDICOR & HATHA WAY, ae Continued use will ever saw a@ lavender woman? They are,| To follow the evolution of a soul—who Prevents and cures SEA SICKNESS on cars ia at least, scarce. Altogether there was | can do that? DETROIT, MICH, adr? py ng way mes sayy edna an astonishing lot of canvas, considering} One day came when these two people to carry in the pocket; no liquid to drop or spill; ee i . ' lasts a year, and costs 50c at druggists. Regis- the scarcity of clothes. Mary accused | were saying always: All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. | tered mail 60c, from Ingersoll of boing positively indecent to “It is the last day.” | Dealers wishing to see the line address 1. D, CUSHMAN, Manufacturer, & put her chair before some of the pic-| Anyone who could have heard these | F. A. Cadwell, 682 Jefferson ave., Grand Three Rivers, Mich. tures. But everyone else appeared to be; unspoken words, and the sorrow of | Rapids, Mich. (2 Guaranteed satisfactory. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8 them, would have supposed that on the morrow creation would be destroyed. That day whatever they said was flip- pant. They did nothing but jest. ‘‘Has anyone ever been over there to the south end of the grounds?” Mary asked. Ingersoll shook his head doubt- ingly. “IT hear they are thinking of sending for Stanley,’ he said. ‘‘They want to know if he wouldn’t be willing to pene- trate them.’’ They got endless amusement from the people. Mary could tell whenever she met anyone who was on his ‘‘first day.’’ They did the Midway Plaisance that day. The four ends of the earth seemed to have been swept together and dumped here. It was wonderful. It swept down little patriotic distinctions and all nar- row thoughts of locality. These men from the Soudan, these mighty women from Dahomey, these dancers from Asia Minor, these sallow men from the spice perfumed isle of Java, these Eskimo women who held their babies close in their arms, these dreamy eyed Bedouins, these languid Turks—were they not all the same? To live, to love, to laugh, to hope, to weep, to die—what difference? ’Tis the same from Martinique to Mada- gascar! Someway, Mary had never thought of that before. The world was getting very large to her. And it was the last day! That night she stayed on the grounds, instead of leaving at 6 o’clock, as she had previously done. She wanted to see the great basin lit by electricity. Inger- soll invited her to supper, and they ate together in the Polish restaurant, though since they had an Irish stew, they might as well have eaten anywhere else. But they didn’t much notice what they ate. The light was not yet quite out of the sky, when 100,000 persons stood together in silence around the still lagoon that runs from the Administration Building, waiting—waiting for a thing so much a part and parcel of this century that never can the one be spoken of in ages to come and be disassociated from the other. The sky was a cold blue. Against it the exquisite building with dome, and sloping lines, and statue and tower, out- lined themselves clearly and delicately. Beyond the peristyle the blue lake gleamed, and in the east there hung a star. The great white mountain poured its musical streams of water down the gleaming steps. The gondolas drifted back and forth noiselessly on the lagoon. Schubert’s ‘‘Serenade,’’ of all things in the world, came softly down through the space, throbbing with passion. Suddenly there was a transformation. From white dome and peristyle, from colonnade and water’s edge, from pillar and freize, gleamed out in one startling second innumerable points of fire, bright as gold, piercing in their intensity. It was the climax! This was the best the century had done. This magic thing, born in the clouds, harnessed, tamed, trained, subjugated, made man’s best messenger, his illuminator, his intelli- gencer, his motive power—electricity— the material triumph of the age! Whiter than ever looked the buildings, colder and bluer than ever the arching ‘sky. And like a million near familiar stars gleamed the incandescent lights, and from the heart of the lagoon poured the waters, lit with fire and tinted like the rainbow. If it had been any other time it might not have meant so much to the two peo- ple who stood there among the throng in silence watching it. But as it was—well, as it was, the beauty and the throbbing serenade, and the marvel of it all, and the subtle, thrilling magnetism of the great crowd brought about an emotion no more to be restrained than the falling of the green waters over the Niagara. Ingersoll stood beside the chair and dropped a hand on that of Mary. She did not look up. She had known he was going to do it. ‘sHow long could you be patient,’’ he said softly, ‘‘a year?’’ ‘A thousand years.” It was hard that there should have been a hundred thousand persons pres- ent. Though, come to think of it, one spectator would have been just as bad. “I won’t mind the old curmudgeon,” she said. She meant the man she worked for. “Pll write every day,’’ he said. He instinctively offered a compensation. The people on the great porches of the Administration Building were shouting their applause of the scene below. The torches flamed around them and made them look like brownies, as they threw up their arms and waved their hats. In- gersoll and Mary watched them, with their hands clasped tight. “Jt’ll take me a year to finish college,” he said. ‘‘You know what I told you about my prospects. I think I’m a very fortunate fellow.’’ He wasn’t, in comparison with a good many other men. But it’s all in the point of view. Good fortune is merely a matter of opinion. Later on he wheeled the chair toward the gates. The crowd poured along to- ward the Illinois Central train. Inger- soll said some wonderful things then. Mary wondered how mere words could seem so beautiful. He felt himself thrilled by his eloquence. It gave him courage to think he might be a great man when he got inthe pulpit. What he was really saying was: ‘‘I love you.’’ When the sky is blue enough and the summer wind blows, and the night is present—these words may come to seem like the lyric of the greatest poet. * +* * “J suppose you found the Fair very educational? said Mrs. Van Doosen, wife of the local jeweler at the dinner table, when Mary had got back to the boarding house. Mary’s red brown eyes swam suddenly with a sort of mist. “Yes, I did,” she said softly. She waited for Mary to say something more. But Mary had nothing more to say. “What a stupid little thing,” thought the jeweler’s wife. ‘‘What good does it do people of that sort to go to the Fair?” ELLA W. PEATTIE. —_—_——_>—_—_——- Tact in Salesmanship. Tact is important in the sale of goods. There is seldom a woman—and women are the purchasers—who enters a store who has a definite idea as to what she wants. She must be suited, and many times it requires tact to please. The articles must be shown in such a way that the lady will believe that her taste is _ suited. There should be no misrepresentation in doing this. Misrepresentation is not tact. Have you this faculty, or do your customers leave you many times without buying simply because you have not been able to make them believe that the goods shown were what they desired? It is born with some, but if you are not born with it, you can acquire it to at least a certain degree—to a degree that will be well worth while to strive for. Corr IGAR (OMPANY Corner Ottawa and Lyon Streets, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. STATE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED AGNES 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. Po: NOT :. DELAY ifr YOU Wah A arvard Leather Bag WE ARE GIVING THEM TO OUR FRIENDS. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. oO Clark, ~ yarocery Ko Co. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Charlevoix—C. Barry succeeds Barry & Chaloupka in the cigar business. Leesville—C. E. Mitchell succeeds W. J. Cooper in the grocery business. Caro—Charles W. Reynolds sueceeds Wilson Reed in the meat business. Saginaw—D. E. Miller is succeeded by | M. Carter in the grocery business. Bloomingdale—-M. Wiggins & Co. have sold their general stock to S. Peck Croswell— Cook & Hurley succeed Cook, Hanson & Co. in general trade. Grand Junction—G. A. Bates & Co. succeed R. Dobson & Co. in general trade. Big Rapids—Manon & Ogelsby ceed W. business. Morenci—The Crockston has mortgage. Iron Mountain — Anderson strom succeed Mrs. Wm. general trade. Marquette—A. M. Bigelow succeeds Vannier & Bigelow in the jewelry and news business. Gagetown—A.E. Hebblewhite has pur- chased the agricultural implement stock of T. J. Finkie. Grand Ledge—Streeter & Shadduck, grocers, have dissolved, A. Shadduck continuing the business. Flat Rock—McBride & Co. succeed S. F. Smith & Sons in general trade and the agricultural implement business. suc- G. Manon in the confectionery stock of F. L. on chattel grocery been seized & Sund- Sundstrom in Ludington—Mary (Mrs. Hans) Jensen has given a chattel mortgage on her grocery and meat stock to Morris Kief. Carleton Center—J. N. Covert has sold his general stock to Ira Hawes, who will continue the business at the same loca- tion. Greenville—D. Longnecker and Henry Leroy have formed a copartnership and purchased the harness stock of John Baker. Mt. Clemens—C. A. Boehme, manu- facturer of rope and cordage, is ceeded by the Boehme & dage Co. sue- Rauch Cor- Plainwell—John Crispe has sold his meat market to Kurtz & McKibben, both of Hastings, who took possession of the business July 3 Ludington—Hemlock bark is begin- ning to arrive freely and brings $5.25 a cord. This is 50 cents higher than the price paid last season. Cedar Springs—Mrs. M. Bertrandt has opened a stock of dry goods and ladies’ furnishing goods and notions in the store recently occupied by E. Bassett. Lake Odessa—B. gaged in business at opened a grocery Cohen, formerly en- Hesperia, has store here. The stock | Co., Arthur B. Clark representing Mrs. Atwell’s interest. Shelby—S. Kohler has sold his inter- est in the meat market of Kohler & Lacey |to Hart & Son and Will Lacey, who will | combine the two markets and continue the business in the stand occupied by | Hart & Son’s market. The new firm | name is Hart, Lacey & Hart, each having | a third interest. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Bay City—H. E. Sanford, who operates a shingle mill at Essexville, will erect a planing mill and box factory on his premises. It is proposed to have the plant ready for operations Oct. 1. Bay City—James McLennan & Son, of this city, have purchased nine acres of land at Essexville, and will at once begin the erection of a sawmill for the manufacture of hardwood lumber. Tawas City—J. W. King, who operates a sawmill in Plainfield township, has added shingle mill machinery, and ma- echinery for cutting long timber. The shingle mill will turn out 30,000 a day. The mill starts this week. Ludington—The sawmills here are re- ceiving about double the quantity of logs over the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad of any previous time in their history. The Danaher & Melendy Co. is receiving forty carloads daily, T. R. Lyon 35 ears and the Cartier Lumber Co. twenty-five cars. Saginaw—Within the year Ed. Ger- main manufactured 80,000 doors for ex- port, at a figure that would astonish manufacturers a year or so ago, and yet he did the work ata nice little margin of profit. His new planing mill and fac- tory will be equipped with the best ma- chinery that the genius of invention has devised to turn out products at the ut- most speed and lowest cost. Bay City—The work of erecting the new planing mill of Ross, Bradley & Co., in West Bay City, isin progress, and is being pushed vigorously. Notin several years has there been as much building of new industries at this end of the river in progress and in contemplation as at the present time. The work of remov- ing the machinery of the Ross, Bradley & Co. plantin this city to the new site will begin this week. Rogers City—F. D. Larke and Paul H. Hoeft have contracted with Eastern par- ties to cut and deliver on docks at Rogers City 125,000 hop poles and 25,000 grape poles. These poles must be of sound cedar, cut twenty-five feet long, from three to four inches in diameter at the butt and terminating at the top of the tree. This opens anew market for the forest products of Presque Isle county, and promises to be a profitable one. was furnished by Andrew Wierengo, of | Muskegon. Wolverine—The special partnership existing between Samuel Simon, of this place, and Charles W. Ballard, of North Branch, has been renewed until June 1, 1894, Mr. the common stock. The firm name re- mains the same as before, S. Simon & Co. Gobleville—Ed. M. Bailey chased the interest of W. the drug firm of W. S. has pur- Crosby & Co. S. Crosby in | The business will be continued by Mr. | Bailey and Mrs. Lucy E. Atwell, of Law- ton, under the style of Ed. M. Bailey &| seen. | Manistee—There is a better feeling in the market than there has been in the past two weeks. Buyers do not take hold with much more vigor, but they are |acting as though they want lumber and are willing to buy it provided manufac- turers will furnish it at a figure they can stand. The tightness of the money mar- |ketis easing off somewhat and aman Ballard contributing $5,000 to | ' . will soon be able to buy a thousand dol- lars’ worth of lumber without having that amount in coin to put down before he sees the lumber. ~- 2 <— The Wool Market. The demoralization still continues, with not a ray of hope, so far as can be The easing up of money has not benefited wool, as it was expected to do, because there is no demand for it. Man- ufacturers report the lightest orders in the history of the trade, clothiers throughout the country carrying over a large portion of their stocks from last year. Another feature of the market is the small advances on consignments, showing the want of confidence in the market on the part of dealers. Wool is “cheap,” but, contrary to the usual order of things, the price has not tempted even manufacturers into buying any more than is needed for present use. No one has any money to speculate with— especially in wool. Prices are a trifle lower than a week ago. _—_— Se -O<_— GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. NEw York, July 1.—Not much change is to be noted in the grocery market. It is said that the recent sus- pension of banks in California has upset the calculations of the coast canners to quite an extent. No great degree of in- terest is shown in California canned goods, and from ail appearances, the driers will have to take care of an abun- dance of fruit and next winter will wit- ness such low prices for dried fruit the demand will beenormous. That is what “they’’ say. Just who ‘‘they’’ are we are not informed. Notwithstanding the great profits alleged to be made by the California packers, they always seem hard up. They ought to grow olives. Mr. Elwood is said to have netted over $800 an acre from hisolive grove, and this is not to be sneezed at, even in California. For foreign and Pacific dried fruit the demand is very small and prices are nominal. Some Calafornia bag raisins have sold at 4°¢¢e; kegs, 51ge. Prunes, eurrants and puts are all lifeless. Lemons are selling well, and really fancy stock brings $5@6{per ‘box for 300s, although very good ones can be had for $3@3.50. Sicily oranges, $2.75@3.25; Rodi, $3.50@4. In the line of domestic green fruit, the arrivals are large, but, as yet, no great amount of good apples has been received. The small fruits, cherries, grapes, berries, currants, etc., are abund- ant. Cherries are worth5@8ec. Straw- berries command 8@10c. Watermelons are blocking both sides of the street, selling at $12@20 per hundred. Early Harvest apples are quotable at $3.50 per bbl.; currants, 7@9c per tb.; huckle- berries, 10@13c; gooseberries, $1.75@2 per bu. In dried fruits nothing is doing. A few blackberries and cherries have ar- rived from the South. Fancy evaporated apples, 8@S8ise; peaches, Georgia peeled, 12@14¢; apricots, 13@16e. Beans are tending downward, although hardly quotable at lower prices than have prevailed, viz., $2 for both pea and marrow; choice foreign pea, $1.75 Butter remains at former figures—211¢ @22e for Elgin and other extra Western as well as for extra State creamery. Western creamery, firsts, 19'¢@20Ke, and from this down to 161@l17ce for Western factory. For strictly fancy colored cheese, 914 @9%¢cis paid, and the market asa whole may be said to be firm. White is quotable at 8%@9c. Eggs, quiet; but receipts are light and prices firm. Faney Michigan, 16c; other Western, 15@15}g¢e, and these prices prevail for all good stock. Potatoes are arriving freely, and prime Rose are quotable at $2.50@2.75 per bbl; Chili, red, $2@2.50. Cauliflower, $2.50 @3 per bbl. Green peas, $1.50@2.25 per bag. Tomatoes, $1@2 per carrier. Dressed chickens, Western, are worth 18@20e and the demand is. good, al- though, perhaps of asortof a holiday character. Above quotation is for young chickens, suitable for broiling. For the birds of ‘‘uncertain age’’ 12@13c is top. Sultana raisins promise to be a short crop this year, or, at least, it will proba- bly fall below last year’s—when it was 35,000 tons—by 10,000 tons. They are worth 7@9c. The Ceylon Tea Planters’ Association, which has struggled against fate for three years with a capital of $1,000,000, is in trouble, and an attachment for $23,- 000 has been issued against it. Ceylon tea can’t make much headway here just yet. Itis about a generation too previ- ous. Production of gold throughout the world last year was $130,816,000, and it is thought this year will see this amount exceeded by $10,000,000, as great finds are reported from Southern Africa. The steamer Freiburg will take from here in afew days 1,900 tons of hay to Havre. Please take notice of this, be- cause itis sumething almost unheard of heretofore. JAY. ~ot settled, besides his personal statement as to his worth and that of the various mer- eantile agencies. If there has been any trouble with Mr. A or he has been delinquent, the facts will be on record. Credit is getting to be an exact science with the larger houses. A first-class credit clerk must have tact, perfect self- command, shrewdness in asking and answering questions, keen perceptive faculties, thorough knowledge of the laws of trade and finance, be quick to read character and swift to make a de- cision. Said one of the most expert credit clerks in the city: ‘‘Any man that is honest, has ability, and is indus- trious, can get a credit with us, if he has not much capital. We are simply allow- ing a thoroughly trustworthy man to hold our goods and save us the insurance and cost of storage. There is little risk in trusting merchandise to that sort of men.”’ The right sort of character is quite as good a recommendation for credit as money. When both are combined, the risk is beyond question. And rest as- sured those granting credits keep per- fectly posted about their creditors, even to the relation of personal habits and personal expenditures to business career. or Catchy Window Displays. Harry Harman in National Grocer. If you want to attract the attention of the passersby and at the same time in- troduce some special article, take that article and arrange it in the center of your window into some artistic design, with a background made up of the same. Forexample: If your have a certain brand of soap you would like to display, build it upto represent a high wall. Make a derrick, and havea dollon the top of this wall in the act of pulling up a bar of soap, which represents the stone. Display a placard to read: If you wish at any ion to make a special fruit display for your window or inside the store, build a high pyramid from any old lumber. Take wire net- ting and secure it to this pyramid leaving sufficient space in between to show your fruit. Youcan then start by filling in so much space with apples, then oranges, and so on with fruits in season. The ice cream season ishere. Why not place a freezer in your window arranged on top of a pyramid of boxes, and the various articles used displayed on the boxes with cards calling attention to the same. Special attention should be given to the show window for the Nation’s great holiday, and a distinctive Fourth of July window should be made up appropriate for the occasion. Your store front should be decorated with flags and bunt- ing, and while some little expense may be attached to the getting up of the ar- ticles necessary to produce the desired effect, it is one of the best paying adver- tisements to a dealer, for the public ap- preciate the go-ahead merchant of the present day. oh 2 a Use Tradesman Coupon Books. D oods Price Current. DEMING. ry G C Amoskeag.......... 12%{Columbian brown. .12 UNBLEACHED COTTONS. me om..... 13% Everett, i 12% ee ALE 7 Arrow Brand 5 - brown .13 brown. ....12% I oe inp ee ween 6 “ Word Wiese. 6 | Andover............. 11% Haymaker blue. soe 7% At on oe... 6 es 4% | Beaver Creek --% brown.. ‘aa Atlantic A.. . 6% |Full Yard Wide..... 6 - . 9 |Jaffrey 11% o e - 6%|Georgia A.... : CC. Lancaster 112% - r.. 5%/| Honest Width. Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9 oz 13% es Hartford A ... blue 8%) +13 eee 5 |Indian Head........ “« daetwist 10% - -11% Ses... kk 6%|King A A Columbian XXX br.10 ' -10% Archery Bunting... 4 ng EC. : XXX bil.19 Beaver Dem AA. -. oe ee Bt.. sicae 8 ex GINGHAMS. ackstone ras cheese clo Black Crow......... 6 Newmarket G...... 5% Aeneas... -.-. Sepang, Saene.-- Black _— io a Browene 5 “ Canton .. 8 “ Normandie 8 Boot, AL.. 7 : a. 64) « AFC......10%|Lancashire.......... 6 Capital A. . oi c DD.... 5% es Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5% Cavanat v.. i Ce 6% “ Angola. 10% Monogram.......... 6% Chapman cheese cl. 32 EE s= se rsian Normandie... C en... 5%4/Our Level Best..... 6 Arlington a : be Persian....... —————— Curomress K........... 6 Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress. Dwight Star......... or oes... 022... 7 | Bates Warwick dres 7 ae Clifton CCC........ a, eS “ staples. 6%/Slatersville ......... 6 Top of the Weap.... 7 | Centennial......... 10%|Somerset............ ee Criterion 10%|Tacoma ............ - 834|Geo. Washington. 8 | Cumberland staple. 5%4| Toll du Nord....... 10% - 8 {Glen Mills.......... 7. | Cumberland... .... —— i + Gold Medal......... 9% | Besex.... ......2.000 4y| * seersucker.. 7% enn ne 110, |Green Ticket. | senatceaenenapaies 74|Warwick.... ...... Blackstone As... 7%|Great Falls.......... 6% Everett classics Whittenden......... — BRE ese ence 4% vee Lene airecechmne TM Exposition..... “ heather dr. 7% = 5. | Glenarie........ “indigo blue 9 Glenarven.......... 6% |Wamsutta staples... ex Cee wOOd........... ™% Westbrook soe eee ee SEE ee 10 Jobnson Vhaloncl % Windermeer. hae ores 5 . indigo bine O4iYork..... .......... GX ~ zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Aeeemnoee........... 16%| Valley City.......... 15% 7%\R a gee een cee vie 19% | Georgia ; - 19% Fruit of the Loom. 8 Suniight a 4% | American........... 15% |Pacific...... ........ cco i ae [eo . ee es 13” THREADS, rst SC npareil a " . Praltof the Loom &. 14|Vinyard ent. Sore ..< eee?.----- ---S Pairmount.......... 434|White Horse........ 6 | Hol ag pay os andy coneeey Full Value.......... 6%| “ Rock......... 8% Pn non: HALF BLEACHED OCOTTONS. ENITTING COTTON. ok eect ee. ~~ Anoher..... 8% White. Colored. White. Colored Farwell....... ..... 8 Mo 6... 8 iNo. 4.......97 42 CANTON FLANNEL. - ii St) 6. 43 Unbleached. Bleached. pink &purple 6 |Charter Oak fancies 4% “ Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie. - ~*~ 6 DelMarine —— “ ee SEE 10% ord... 19 “pink checks. 6 urn’g t " Betas... 12% Valley rN 10% ‘“* ‘staples ...... 6 |Eddystone fancy oc Ur 10% “ _ghirtings ... 6 ocolat 5 ee eeuc ye back eS meat — canindigo. sateens.. Corticelli, dosz....... 85 Corticelli knittin American shirtings. 1% Hamfiton fancy..... 6 twist,doz..40 | per os ball a, iconee teases. 4 cheste ofan ‘6 ee nchor ngs... an r fancy. Arnold w era. : ee ae : Arnold Merino..... Merrimack D fancy. 6 No : BI’r ¢ & & White.. - No a Brk & | ‘White. — “long oes. 10% Merrim’ ‘Hepp furs - ix “ ; “ "2 | © 10 “ "85 ‘ J PINS. : po ge ee * by, | No2-20, MC....... 50 [Ne 4-15 F 8%......40 “green seal = ee. robes. .. oH 3-18, 8 C..... sand earn . sree NA gree eg |No 2 White & BI'K.12 [No 8 White & BI'k..20 “ red.10%_ folidbisck 6 | [| 2 ioe. se oe Ballou ‘poud oe” Wie Turkey —- 6% cs [ . ey robes.. SAFETY PINS. on bine, ‘ereen, i an eri oe ee ees Be once cces ccvcn Ee and orange... Berlin — eee 5% : je as wae ns a — ae... ‘ =” eee . ‘ .s oreen............. CeOWelre....... <0. 1 35\Gold Eyed.. ~. -” Foulerds 5% Martha i | Marshall’ ME oe tcces fod 00) Ammexioom Pouca se 7 oo * 28%.... .. 7 | Tames... TABLE OIL CLOTH “ pee 9%|Martha Washingto -22% 6—4.. —_ 1 95 6—4...2 % . * ee... 10 beaver es 9% a-— > “ “ -3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes 5% COTTON Twins. Cocheco nae a 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6% | Cotton Sail Twine.. MN oe oe wines oa 8 +s 6 . = cket Crown Rising * Star si: oe ss a — 6 —, — 10 cl a, 3-pl 2.17 ~ SOtIGS...... OGIATMORY......... . 5 | Anchor .............16 [North Star.......... Amoskeag AC A lA ae ’ ‘ii sition N= Pemberton AAA’.* ee eo ie es on ie NABURGS “ Mount Pleasant.... 6% Oneida 5 ame 7 Top of Heap........ 9 Cuas. B. Ketsey, Pres. EE. B. Sz—rmour, Sec’y J. W. Hannen, Supt. OOK INDING “Chicago” Linen Hinge and Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. SPECIAL BOOK BINDING. Telephone 1243. 89 Pearl street, Old Houseman Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. “The Kent.’’ Directly Opposite Union LD pot. AMERICAN PLAN RATES, $2 PER DAY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS FREE BAGGAGE TRANSFER FROM UNION DEPOT. BEACH & BOOTH, Props, os lAYLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- creased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. We are state agents for the People's Typewriter, Retail price, 820 each. Agents wanted in every town in the state. EATON, LYON & CO. Booksellers and Stationers, 20 & 22 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ba: {= THH MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. 7 Deplorable Condition of the Canadian Canning Industry. Written for THE TRADBSMAN. As the canning factory question is being discussed in the columns of THE TRADESMAN, the thought occurred to me that a communication from one of the original promoters and principal stock- holders of one of the oldest and largest canning factories in the section of On- tario whence I came might throw some light on the question, I accordingly wrote to Roger Crysler, Esq., general merchant and one of the promoters and leading stockholders of the Delhi can- ning factory. Mr. Crysler is ex-warden of the county of Norfolk, and a repre- sentative Canadian business man. In answer to my enquiry the following com- munication was received: DELHI, June 26, 1893. DEAR Str—My experience in the can- ning business would not recommend it to others. If I had never had anything to do with it, nothing would induce me to in- vest in that direction. We have opera- ted for fourteen seasons and have never seen one dollar in dividends or interest. To start a factory able to compete with old, established organizations, you would require building and plant at a cost of $30,000, dead stock—should you ever have occasion to quit—besides a working capital of, at least, from $50,000 to $100,000. We required, last year, about $135,000, and the profits merely paid expenses of extra plant and actual discount. This year will be the toughest ever experienced in the canning business in Canada. Goods are being offered as futures, at prices at which they cannot be produced; and if the raw fruits and vegetables can be obtained, half of the factories must go to the wall. ~° Fruit of all kinds is very plentiful this year, and the prospects are excellent for vegetables. The pack will be enor- mous unless something unforseen turns up. The farmers and fruit growers are always sure to make money in supplying the factories, for the prices received by them must be satisfactory or they will not grow the stuff. Our schedule of prices this season is as follows: Corn, $6.50 to $10 per ton; peas, 14¢ cents per pound; tomatoes, 20 to 25 cents per bushel. We do not import anything but peaches from the United States, and but few of those. This year we shall import none; having a factory at old Niagara, we shall have all the peaches and plums we require. We sell very little canned goods in the United States, and even if the American duty of 60 per cent. were removed, our surplus would go to the old country. The canning business is like lots of other enterprises, wherever there is a dollar in ita hundred others will spring up to get it. I cannot say a word for the encouragement of starting canning fac- tories. My experience is all against it and, under the financial panic which has struck the United States, the promoters would, most likely, find themselves in deep water. Yours truly, RoGER CRYSLER. This is not a very encouraging report for those who advocate a canning factory for Grand Rapids, Still, after perusing the above letter, the reader may justly infer that the writer’s mind is slightly tinged with prejudice. Mr. Crysler ad- mits that ‘‘very little’ of the canned product is sold in the American market, yet he thinks an advantage of 60 per cent. would not add to this ‘‘very little,’’ and that the surplus would still finds its way to the markets of the ‘‘old country.” Mr. Crysler, as a business man, will agree with me whenlI say that a home market is always preferable to a foreign market. Itis preferable for many rea- sons, all of which, however, are based on one consideration—profit. The re- moval of this 60 per cent. duty would give Mr. Crysler a home market for his canned product and would go a long way in developing a ‘‘dividend” which, he says, has never yet appeared. A canning factory in Ontario, depend- ing upon the American fruit grower toa greater or lesser extent for supplies,sub- ject to Canadian duties, and cut off from marketing its product in a natural home market by the imposition of a 60 per eent. American tariff, thereby forcing its product into foreign markets thousands of miles removed from the base of sup- ply, must surely be less promising as a lucrative investment, than would be such a factory in any small town in our own Michigan fruit belt. We have thousands of acres of cheap lands close to the lake shore, especially adapted to the growing of fruits and vegetables. A canning factory at one of these lake towns would be in the midst of abun- dant supplies of all kinds. In market- ing its products, it would have water communication with scores of cities, studding a coast line of thousands of miles. In addition to this, the markets of the boundless, intermediate West must always depend upon external sources of supply; and what section of country is more favorably situated or more especi- ally adapted by nature to supply this vast region with fruits, green, canned or dried, than the famous fruit belt of Michigan? It is quite apparent that some of the difficulties, at least, which eonfront the Canadian canner would not exist here. The Michigan canner, if lo- cated in a lake town in the fruit belt, would have home-grown supplies, easy and cheap transportation of the product, and a free, unlimited home market to sellin. It would certainly seem that a eanning factory so situated, possessing such advantages, would, under judicious management, pay the stockholders a ‘‘dividend” if a canning factory ever did pay a dividend anywhere. The question as to the feasibility of operating acanning factory successfully in Grand Rapids is a debatable one, if we may judge by the varying opinions expressed by some of our leading busi- ness men. I do not think such an undertaking would prove _ satisfac- tory in Grand Rapids. One prime condition of success in the canning busi- ness is cheap supplies. This means a small town and cheap lands remote from large centers of population. The raw material is worth more in our city mar- kets, in the green state, than a canner could afford to pay for canning purposes. This means either no business, or a los- ing business. E. A. OWEN. a A The devil, like the quack doctor, charges nothing for advice, but makes you pay dearly if you follow it. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. = ee So ee 60 ee 40 ee. ee 25 Jennings’, mttation ..................... «- 50&10 AXES. First Quality, So eeee........ .... $7 00 @ oeenee.......-.......... ix 00 . o Go Seeee............ . S HORSE NAILS, eee Oe a Re a. $18.50, dts. 2n&10. a -— 2 8. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, oo ‘i Se 2 OO ———— dis. a MILLS, fe ’ Coffee, PAEKerE C028 aa 40 bezier Ajanta cl cee 8 7 & W. Mfg. > 8 oo. 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,. ea i Lae Peery & Cipriw............ 40 | Goe’s Patent, malleable. ae " anne Enterprise ... eee sone 30 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. MOLASSES GATES. oly oe ha TT a 50 Stebbin’s Pattern......... CMe) Pine CHM 75&10 Stebbin’s Genuine........ «.--O0Gue | Sevcwe New Etat 70&10 Enterprise, self-measuring..... : ---- 25] Casters, Bed a d Plate.............--.-- 50610810 NAILS Perepers Aveeiean..... 8... saves over base, on both Steel and Wire. | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods Heed. er&i0 Stoel nails, DASC.......02202 seoes ee coves 4 METALS, = re ee. we i, ok. 75@1 380 ae in a eT en _ RN ea 260 6 | Pig Bars..... .... 22... ceeeeceeeee nsec ones. 28¢ = Duty: Sheet, 2%c per vane. Be I II oso os sansa esos 6% 45} POT POUNG..............seeeeeeee cece ee renee 7 50 SOLDEB. e = en Wipe 90 ces of the many other qualities of 1% olin n the market indicated by private brands 1 60 | Vary according to pp ea = 1 60 ee per pound ES RS 18 90 —MELYN GRADE. 75 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal Leute cc elemecapeuse caay 87 go | 14x20 Je 7 @ UR elena 9 25 70 14x20 rx, a 9 26 80 Each additional X on this grade, $1.75. co ERR SE UE CANAD 90 — a. a ee ono a PLANES. dis. 10x14 Ix, ao eee 8 25 rang Tool 2 Tee... Bea ee ee 9 25 eee toed eee anes cee ee ee Te gandusk~ Tool Co.'s, fancy.....-...----..-. Hach sdditional = this grade $1.50. Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood... 588 14x30 10, {;, Woroemter.....---.--------. § a 14x20 : ft anes eeeereee arenes atts tenses ain.60—10 | 70x28 Ic, cache ee ie ue Common, polished Ce ee dis. 70 1, “| Allaway Grade........... : . RIVETS, dis, IC, a ‘ ee ese 12 50 I NE Tce cele ceas cece esas 40 anu IC, ui u ns aes 15 50 Copper Rivets and Burs................-.++ 0—10 | 20x28 IX, nimeamente. . PATENT FLANISHED IRON. is cae [sie #14 00 “A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to - 10 = I i es uae “Br Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27... 9 20| 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, \ per pound... = a Broken packs c per pound extra 14x60 Ix, . 9 " 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEELY 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. Communications invited from practical busi- ness men, Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. (When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1893. INDIA’S ACTION ON SILVER. The stoppage of silver coinage by the Executive Council of India marks an epoch in the history of financial legisla- tion. That a country of 250 millions of inhabitants, the great bulk of whose cur- rency was of silver, should take such a step is remarkable. It should be borne in mind, however, that this action was taken by, not the nation, but the mem- bers of the Executive Council, of whom the Viceroy, Lord Lansdowne, is the head, and is claimed by them to be an absolute necessity in the interest of trade and commerce, and because of the fall in the value of exchange. Whether or not this is to be the permanent policy of the Indian Government, remains to be seen. The shock to the world of finance is the greatest ever experienced, and what the ultimate consequences will be no one can predict. It has already resulted in a serious decline in the market value of silver in all parts of the world. What the course to be pursued by our own gov- ernment ought to be it is hard to say; probably by the time Congress meets in August the full effects of India’s action may be seen and so our policy be deter- mined. At present opinions vary widely as to what legislation will be necessary or what the policy of this country ought to be. The advocates of a single (gold) standard declare that this action of the Indian Government makes the repeal of the Sherman law and a return to mono- metalism imperative, as the continuance of the silver policy will drive gold out of the country and so weaken our credit abroad, which has already suffered from the withdrawal of so much of the yellow metal. On the other hand, free silver men urge the passage of an absolute free coinage bill, which, by providing a mar- ket for silver, will have a tendency to keep the price of the metal somewhere near what it ought to be. There is an- other class of men, called bimetalists, who want to see both metals kept in cir- | culation. They declare that the time is eome for this country to assert its finan- cial independence of England and the rest of Europe, and have a policy of its own; that America has too long followed England’s lead in money matters, and not follow; that this country is rich enough and strong enough to not only stand alone on this question but to say what shall be the world’s financial pol- icy. The adoption by India of the sin- gle standard is a bold step taken with the purpose of forcing this country also to abandon the coinage of silver. England must have gold, because her business is largely with foreign nations, her internal trade being small in comparison. On the other hand, while our business with other nations is enormous, it must be remem- bered that we are the greatest consumers in the world, and that, therefor, the mon- etary necessities of this country are alto- gether different and very much greater than those of other countries. There are but 600 millions of gold in the country, which is not sufficient for even the in- ternal needs of the country, saying noth- ing about our business with foreign countries. The amount of money in cir- eulation is now nearly a billion and a balf, or about two and a half times as much as all the gold in the country. To stop the coinage of silver entirely would mean such a curtailment of the circulat- ing medium as would completely par- alyze the business of the country. There- fore, a financial policy that provides for the use of both metals as money, as nearly on a par with each other as possi- ble, would seem to be the wisest and safest for the United States, because it will provide money for both home and foreign business. In the meantime, the business of the country will go on much the same as if India had never repudiated silver; and as soon as the present scare is over, and business confidence is re- stored, the financial strength of the United States, its ability to run its own financial affairs, without any reference as to what other countries may or may not do, will be fully demonstrated. THE CATTLE SCARCITY. There is a growing agitation among the cattle and live stock interests of the country in favor of the Government pro- viding means for obtaining more accu- rate statistics of live stock and cattle. It is proposed, for instance, that a new bureau be created in the Department of Agriculture, to be known as the live stock statistical bureau, for the purpose of furnishing statistics of the production and movement of cattle, sheep, hogs and live stock in general. It has been claimed that, owing to in- complete information, there has been a reckless marketing of cattle, and that, as a consequence, the country is threatened with a scarcity similar to that now being experienced with respect to the hog sup- ply, which it will be impossible to over- come except after several years have passed. It is thought that a proper dis- semination of statistical information about the production and movement of live stock would prevent reckless mar- keting calculated to unduly cut down the supply. The high prices for hogs which pre- vailed a year ago directly induced a very free marketing, so that since then the hog supply has shown a surprising fall- ing off, both in the total number mar- keted and in the average weight and condition of the supply. It is stated that the present heavy marketing of cat- tle will produce identically the same re- sults. It seems that a bill was introduced during the last Congress, which it is pro- that from this time she should lead and | posed to again introduce in the next Congress, providing for the creation of a special bureau of live stock statistics. This bureau is to compile and publish as widely as possible all information relat- ing to live stock. This purpose of the bill Tue TRADESMAN can cheerfully in- dorse, but there is a clause providing for the establishing and maintenance by the Government of a number of exchanges throughout the cattle-raising country which does not recommend itself to gen- eral approval. While the Government should furnish all useful statistical in- formation, it has no more right to estab- lish exchanges for the cattle interests than for any other branch of industry. ICED DRINKS AND SUNSTROKE. The use of ice for the preparation of cooling beverages and for preserving perishable articles of food is almost wholly modern. It was but little known to the ancients. The luxurious Romans earted snow from the ravines of the Appenine Mountains tocool their wines, but this was a luxury possible only to the wealthy. It was not to be dreamed of by the masses. The extensive use of ice for domestic purposes is wholly modern, and the ben- efits that have accrued from the general introduction of refrigeration processes are incalculable in amount, but it must not be concealed that the excessive use of ice, like any other sort of excess, has been productive of much damage to the health of the people. The fatal effects of heat are greatly ag- gravated by an imprudent use of iced drinks, a fact which is established in the history of the introduction of iced bever- ages into all hot latitudes. Heretofore all the cases of insolation or sunstroke were in cities where ice was abundant. In the country, men working in the fields under the direct rays of the sun are com- monly untouched. Nine cases out of ten may be properly attributed to the impru- dent use of iced beverages. If would be most beneficial if people could be made to understand the danger from the ex- eessive use of iced drinks, but it seems difficult to impress upon people swelter- ing under the torrid heat of summer any prudence or wisdom. They are very warm and they resort at once to the use of very cold drinks for relief. The re- sult is too commonly a dangerous condi- tion of congestion which involves almost every important function of the human system. If thereis ever atime when a most sparing use of iced beverages is re- quired, it is during the prevalence of summer heat. The danger is not so much in the beverage as in the excessive coldness. Iced water is just as danger- ous as iced liquors of a stronger nature. It is the sudden refrigeration of an over- heated human body that does the mis- chief. There is good regson to attribute to the excessive use of cold beverages the growing frequency of kidney disease, which has taken its name from that of the physician who first made it the sub- ject of special study—Dr. Richard Bright. It is the disease of the nine- teenth century; it is the disease of those localities where there is a general con- sumption of iced beverages, and since it is claimed that ice is used to greater ex- cess in the United States than any other country, this dangerous and most alarm- ing disorder promises to be, more than any other, the American disease. Sun- stroke is more common in the cities of Asia. Are we coming to a like record with regard to Bright’s disease? A lead- ing medical authority, Dr. Austin Flint, of New York, in 1869 stated that Bright’s disease was five times more frequent in London than in Paris, sixty times as fre- quent in London as in Bombay, India, and nearly ninety times as frequent in London as in Genoa. Here seems to be a direct connection between Bright’s dis- ease and the use of ice. In London it is more general than in Paris, while in Bombay and Genoa some twenty-five years ago the use of ice was but little known. America was not then included in the statistics, but to-day the great cities of the United States must figure prominently in the statistics of mortality from kidney disease. Our sanitary sci- entists will do well to consider whether or not an excessive use of ice is destroy- ing the vitality of the American people, and give warning accordingly. Contrary to expectation, Governor Rich deigned to disregard the almost unanimous sentiment of the wholesale and retail grocery trade and the dairy interests of the State in selecting the first State Food and Dairy Commissioner, having named for that position Mr. E. C. Storrs, of North Muskegon. Mr. Storrs isa gentleman of no experience in mer- cantile or dairy affairs, his knowledge of food and food products being confined to the production of grapes. While it is to be regretted that the Governor was unable to rise above the slough of party politics in making this appointment, now thatit is made, it behooves every one interested to give the new officer hearty support in all wise methods he may adopt toward the betterment of our food supply. The law is intended to benefit the honest farmer, merchant and manufacturer and to circumvent the dis- honest practices now indulged in by some representatives of all three classes. The farmer who buys corn syrup and resells it for genuine maple syrup should be prosecuted as vigorously as the manufacturer who puts a cider vine- gar label on a barrel which never saw a drop of vinegar made from apples. It is to be hoped that the new officer will take a broad view of matters, as his ac- tions will necessarily form a precedent for the future, and the opinions enter- tained of the office at its inception will be apt to be cherished a long time. Serious mistakes in the enforcement of the law at this time would be quite apt to create so much antipathy to it as to secure its repeal at the hands of the next Legislature, and it might take many years of active effort to obtain its re- enactment. The druggists of Sioux Falls, S. D., appear to have grown very weary of the red-tape provisions of the prohibition law. It requires the issuance of a per- mit and the filing with the county judge monthly of a report of the sales made. These reports have grown to be a great farce. Twenty saloons in the town pay no attention to the law. The best way to get American gold back from foreign countries is to send Americam wheat after it. This will be brought about in the course of time. There is not much consolation in the saying that lighting never strikes twice in the same place, It doesn’t need to. America than in those of Europe and| Once is sufficient. BR} < THE MICHIGAN 'TRADEHSMAN. 9 A Plea for an Old Friend. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The village blacksmith is a figure fa- miliar to literature and the arts. The poet has sung him into universal celeb- rity; the painter has immortalized him and his Rembrandt colored surroundings on canvas, and the sculptor has also touched the subject with the fire of his genius. Romance has pictured him standing by his forge, rough and un- couth, massive in form, with brawny arms and broad shoulders, yet graceful in pose, on whom the fitful light of the forge fire flashes and disappears, alter- nately revealing and concealing the hero as he stands framed by the open door of his shop, a character never to be effaced from the observer’s memory. But neither poesy nor art nor romance has ever faithfully represented to the lovers cf sentiment a certain quaint and worthy product of a past civilization Known as_ the village shoemaker. Whether old or young, married or single, he was an important feature of every village or hamlet in the land. His voea- tion brought him into as intimate rela- tions with the people as did that of the doctor or the minister. He may not have entered so heartily into their joys and sorrows, but he cheerfully and honestly ministered to their material comfort. He was ever the delight or terror of small boys according as they were companion- able or mischievous; the friend and gos- sip of every joyial wight who had an hour to waste in small talk or wanton idleness. He knew the history of every family, and the coming and going of every visitor. With one set of eyes on his work, his mental vision took in all the incidents occurring within his terri- torial limits, which were discussed with as well-meant freedom as the daily jour- nals of the present treat the news that is constantly flying to them from all parts of the world; in fact, tosum upina single sentence his relation to the pub- lic, he took the place of a village sewing society holding perpetual session. His shop was small and low; oftener than otherwise it stood disconnected from other buildings, out of the way of more pretentious structures, though on the main street. Sometimes there was a projecting sign in front, on which an ob- ject or two—painted with more or less fidelity to reality—took the place of a word denoting the calling of the proprie- tor, whose name appeared below in plain or shaded letters. A pile of terra cotta eolored rubbish in front always marked the locality as a place where weary and worn understandings were kindly taken in and in due time tenderly heeled. There were always one door and one or two windows in a front that stood with gable tothe street. Perhaps, if on the sunny side, an awning of wood or cloth served to protect the patient worker whose position was close to the window, through which his eyes roved to observe every passing object that could be used to ‘‘point a moral or adorn a tale.” The interior was even less inviting than the exterior. Kough walls, whitewashed and marked with rougher patches, and wooden wainscoting guiltless of paint and yellow with the stains of time, were features that attracted the attention of one entering, for the first time, this den of a follower of the worthy Saint Crispin. To a casual visitor there would seem to be nothing in this dingy room to draw the crowd of loungers that at all times and in all weathers haunted the place and remained with a zeal equalled only by a devout Hindoo in his favorite tem- ple, so that to find the proprietor alone was a rare exception. There was a box stove usually occupy- ing the center of the room. It some- times stood on its original quadrupedal integrity. but oftentimes a pile of dilapi- dated bricks took the place of a leg lost while at the post of duty. A rusty pipe, rising from a rustier and firecracked up- per casting, essayed, in a half-hearted way, with many a sag and many a wob- ble, to reach the crazy chimney that stood on feeble stilts against the rear wall, into which chimney it finally dis- appeared. The stove was originally Gothic in design, but time and accident had left signs of vandalism not to be mistaken. A door balanced on one hinge, and without a catch, that made an iron brace necessary to keep it in an up- right position, stood guard in front of a fire that sometimes cheerfully blazed, and as often tearfully sputtered and went out. On one side of the room stood a ease of shelves that never developed a right angle in any part, but subtended a wall surface it seemed ever disposed to climb. It never succeeded, however, in making the effort anything more than a mere pretext for some other undivulged pur- pose. It was loaded down with a large assorted collection of lasts tawny with the wear of contact with leather, and bearing the marks of awland hammer on their unprotected soles. They often excited my youthful curiosity after I was informed that they were all turned out in alathe. How that could be done as I understood the ordinary work of a lathe was a question that ever appealed to my imagination as a feat bordering on the miraculous, and I often furtively ex- amined the wooden marvels toseeif | could discover the marks of said lathe. It was wonderful, too, how my hero of the lapstone could distinguish between them whenever he selected a pair for any purpose, since [ saw no more differ- ence, save in size, than I could ina lot of pressed bricks. I finally reached a solu- tion of the last mystery by assigning to the shoemaker an instinct like that of the mother sheep that never fails to rec- ognize her offspring amid a bleating crowd of facsimiles. My adolescent in- terest in the mysteries connected with building up around a last the conglome- rate product of a shoe, fashioned within and without with a marvelous adaptation to the shape of the human foot and its necessities, made me a frequent visitor and a great stayer at the village shoe- shop. I never tired of watching the gradual development of a perfect shoe from the raw material, except as I wished it would not be so often delayed by mak- ing each stage of construction in one of a pair wait the completion of a corre- sponding stage in its counterpart. The process of making a waxed end, as it was called, often beguiled me from the path of duty when sent on an errand to which a timetable was attached. On a shelf quite out of easy reach were sundry bundles and rolls of upper leather, while a pile of sole leather occu- pied the floor in one corner, on which loungers reposed when chairs and boxes were full. 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On all things else time has worked changes, whether improvements or not, but the pattern of a shoemaker’s bench remains the day and forever with all the marks, stains and abrasions, as also the medley ot tools and material thereon. He who sits on this throne of labor is, for the time, the central figure among those as- sembled in his domain, the arbiter in disputes that daily arise; and, if aman advanced in years and one who has seen a ceal of the world, he is also an oracle to whose wisdom many disciples pay wi'ling if unconscious tribute There is a certain class of men who are disposed to undervalue or despise services they cannot imitate. It has been intimated by such maligners of their race that procrastination is a synonym They gloat over and make sport of what they pre- tend to assert are the usual shortcomings of these servants of the public in rela- tion to time contracts with customers. On behalf of the village shoemaker I un- hesitatingly affirm that, in for ‘‘shoemaker’s promises.” com parison with the man who runs a threshing out- | fit. the former is a man of perfect and unadulterated truth in all his dealings. Things in this world must be judged by comparison in order to determine true value. 1 do not deny that, once in a while, my hero of the last and hammer tires of the dull of bench compelled, for the sake of his health, to stretch his legs by taking a short recess. He may, perchance, under the tortures intlicted by some visiting bore—there are a tew in obliged to like Simon Peter, Accordingly, be to that effect on monotony every town—feel shut up shop” and, ‘og afishing.”’ pins a the door, and, with the proper tools, While thus “and notice equipped the nearest cut to the river. envaged, the world forgot,” is it times lingers too long amid the sweet se- d.activeness of the occupation, and occa- sionally disappoints the expectations of out of world by the strange if he some- some testy customer who does not realize | the universal rule of business men that allows days of grace on promises to pay? Whether they be ‘‘promises to pay’’ coin for notes of hand, or to deliver goods, dees not matter as to the principle in- vulved. This, then, is the ‘thead and front of his offending.” Can those of other and less humble callings who deal as often with a censorious public show a cleaner record ? The man who wastes our grain in the straw stack, and keeps ” insult to injury, and with less excuse than the shoemaker who, in addition to the manual service he renders as a me- ehanic, is also the friend and adviser of everybody, and is, therefore, subject to as many contingencies as the doctor. festly unkind and unjust to make a cast- iron rule to guide his actions, and to hold | him up as a sinner above all men if he | fails to comply with it literally. Asa servant of the people the manifold bene- fits he confers on society should condone same, yesterday, to- | work, and is} takes | his engagements | from one to two weeks behind time, adds | interruptions and unforeseen | It is mani-| even worse shortcomings than have been | tala to his charge. ‘Let him who is | without sin cast the first stone.” If the spirit of this reproof were observed, my | client and friend would be forever safe from the showers of critical brickbats that have been so often thoughtlessly thrown at his unprotected head. The village shoeshop is not only a place for the idler, but many a thinker | has learned therein lessons that are usu- ally taught in lyceums or other institu- | tions for higher culture. Mind acting on mind by debate, dispute, yossip—if you will, so that it is not malicious—or polit- ical or religious discussion (this last gen- erally unwisest of all) receives benefits that cannot easily be reckoned in dollars and cents; something is gained, though it be only polish from the attrition of op- | posite opinions. But it is also a place for the interchange of social amenities; for visiting, while one waits some job to be completed, and, while compelled to wait, no other place seems so comforting and restful to all the senses as this quiet haven, where work and talk can go on with the slightest interruption from ex- ternal causes. Besides, there is some- thing in the deft manipulation of tools and material required in the details of making and repairing all kinds of foot- gear that the attention of every spectator, old or young. Each the process, though it may have been repeated scores of times before one’s | eyes, never loses the charm of noveliy by repetition. This is one reason why even a cobbler has an audience ever re- sponsive in interest to the merry sound | |of his hammer on the lapstone, and im- | patient to see the changes going on under his skillful hand. This, too, explains why, when one gets a comfortable seat in the village shoeshop, and is attending, | by proxy, to the details of manufactur- | ing a “‘thing of beauty” like a woman’s | gaiter, fixes either step of nothing less than a fight or a run- | away can distract attention from the im-} portant matter in hand. As, in a sewing circle, talk / animated in proportion as the hands are busy with ‘‘seam, gusset and band,”’ or | the intricacies of quilting, so in the} village shoeshop, all work harmoniously on the same job—one actually and the | rest by proxy, each taking a personal in-| terest therein, and all being | doers, but hearers and speakers as well. Thus, gossip runs away, or themes of! importance are discussed until they are} worn threadbare. Many in law | that have puzzled the brainiest men of | the Supreme Court have been argued ex- | haustively within the humble walls of | the village shoeshop long before they be-} came tangled in a knot of absurdity to | be unraveled by minds of the highest, culture. It strikes me, too, that much of the logic displayed in that moot court of | | original and independent jurisdiction is, when judged by the strict rules of meta-| physics, equal to what is often echoed in | prouder halls, into more learned ears in | |appellate courts. The conclusions | reached among the scents of calfskin | and sole leather, without a chance to) | consult precedents, emphasized by the) comments of him who occupies a cob- | bler’s bench, are quite as likely to be in| becomes | | not only | cases | harmony with the first principles of jus-| tice as those that are adjudged to be gov- | erning law in the higher courts, through | citations from reports bound in like calf- | seed and musty with the odor of anti- quity. Some worthy heroes of lowly | \ MICHIGAN MERCHANTS And business men who contemplate a visit to the World’s Fair would do well to communicate with the MEGGA -- HUT Es, which offers the best and cleanest rooms and the choicest cuisine to be found in Chicago for a reasonable price. Every- thing new and _ first-class in every respect. Unanimously Michi- chosen as headquarters of National “Press Association, gan Press Association, and many other organizations. 50 ROOMS, ELEGANTLY FURNISHED, Bath with every brick. 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His work is always done to order, at the re- quest of customers, by measure and con- tract, if new; if the work is repairing, then by mutual understanding, or ac- eording to the needs of the case. Should he desire to go further, and, coming into possession of larger capital conclude to | enlarge his building and putin a stock | of ready-made goods, the romance of his | calling ceases. Like Samson, shorn of | his locks, he becomes at once like other } men. With his apron off and dressed in | attire befitting his new occupation, he | steps down and out of the position cus-| tom and tradition have made peculiarly his own and descends at once to sheer eommonplace. Nor can the employe who | becomes his substitute, in a little stuffy closet at the rear of a genteelly furnished store, take up or continue the reputation of his illustrious predecessor—that has gone with all its pleasant memories. The substitute is, at best, only a hired cobbler who is unsocial and often given to dissipation that, in times of gloomy reaction, causes him to growl at every job brought in, and he is as chary of his gossip over village happenings as though he sat on a bench in a State prison, and an overseer kept watch and ward to see that he did not transgress the rule en- forcing silence. The village shoemaker of the olden time is fast disappearing as towns grow to the dignity of cities; and villages de- velop unquiet yearnings for something yet to be gained in advanced civilization. Good hand-made work is growing less in demand, while much ready-made stock is never worth the cost of mending. So, sinee there is no call for boots and shoes made to order, the village shoemaker seorns the idea of remaining where he can expect only transient jobs of cob- bling that are likely to be grudgingly thrown at him in charity. And, unless some fortunate circumstance makes it possible for him to become a merchant, he quietly shoulders his kit and goes, either to some frontier town or to some mining camp in need of his peculiar ser- vices, or with a sigh accepts the disagree- able alternative of a seat in some large city factory. What matters it if the sentiment that keeps alive old memories fades with the lapse of time? As the old people who once sustained institutions of the past are no longer with us to appreciate them, the institutions themselves may as well disappear. Yet, while we bid good bye to the genial village shoemaker, memory reealls his virtues, and, for old friend- ship’s sake, the virtue would commend him to the favorable judgment of pos- terity. Heit was who gave us the cir- cular disk of sole leather which, affixed to astring in the center, and saturated with water, taught an elementary lesson in philosophy. How often we attached the little disk to a smooth pebble, with naked feet pressed on its surface, and, with the pride of a Hermann, showed to wondering comrades the mysterious power of suction! And, when, after reading of the sling with which David slew Goliath, we sought his help to pro- eure the means of verifying the power of trajection, he it was who gave us the piece of leather that illustrated the theme. and we who went forth accoutered | as David was will ever remember the} kindly hand that armed us for an imagi- nary fray and gently cautioned’ us | against injuring the song birds or break- ing windows. Dear, kindly heart! The prosaic tem- per of the present forbids lingering over a sentimental past. That must give way to the practical details of to-day—every | man for himself—no consideration for | others—an all-pervading determination | to get tothe front in the shortest pos- | sible time. The village shoemaker, no longer serving a useful purpose for this | generation, must retire with other worn- out relics of the past, to live hereafter only in legend and tradition. S. P. WHITMARSH. a One Way to Secure a Lower Berth. ‘**A short while ago | got on the night train at Chicago, on my way to Detroit, | and purchased aticket for a lower berth FREE CRAYON PORTRAITS in the sleeper,’’ remarked atraveler. ‘‘I was reading a paper, when, happening | to look over to my right, I saw a frail, | delicate-looking woman, whose hacking | cough made me think her in the last stages of consumption, and I at once} felt a warm sympathy and pity for her. | A few minutes later the porter came to| me and asked me if I would exchange my | lower berth for an upper one to accomo-! date the poor woman, who, getting on; the train also at Chicago, was to late to| secure a lower berth. I assented cheer- | fully, and soon afterward climded up | into my roost and went to sleep. Just | before reaching Detroit next morning 1} got up and hurriedly dressed, and as I} was on my way back from the dressing: | room what was my surprise to see a big, stout fellow getting out of the birth which [ had given up. I was angry at first, but on thinking it over I concluded he was her husband, whom I had not no- | ticed the night before, and who wished | to be near her so as to hear her calls dur- | ing the night, but very soon I saw her come out from another lower birth fur- ther down thecar. I noticed he did not go near to her or speak to her, and when we reached Detroit was on the lookout and saw that he and she took different vehicles. I at once suspected something and called to the porter. He tried to dodge me but it was not to be done, and, grabbing him until his ivories rattled, demanded an instant explanation. The now frightened negro said: ‘‘Well, boss, Pll tell you the truth. The big gentleman, who got on at Chicago, could only get an upper berth, and he gave me a quarter to tell you thatthe poor woman had no lower one, and I done as he axed me.’ | I was surprised, and asked him if he had ever done this trick before. ‘Oh, yes, boss. Dare’s several old traveling men who works dis trick.”’ ——_. | It Takes Time. From the Kingston Freeman. There are many merchants who over- look the importance of persistency in advertising, It is not too much to say that this quality is far more valuable than unlimited genius in writing an- nouncements. We have observed that in the case of our weekly edition when we advertise a new clubbing offer, no matter how attractive, it is often two or three months before we get any responses at all, and that the number of such re- sponses is almost always directly propor- tionate to the lenght of time the notice has been running, We were recently informed by one of the leading firms in this city of the curious fact that they had advertised a special sale of a certain article for one week, withdrawing the offer at the end of that time, and that they did not secure one customer during the week, although there were many ap- plications when it was too late. It was evident to this firm that a week’s adver- tising is necessary before any results can be expected. It costs you It makes every sale cash and ights your patrons. o premium ever offered draws trade equal to this plan. A. WALTER, 358 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 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Where poison has been used to consummate the crime, an investigation of the stomach and other vital organs may give developments which may lead to the perpetrator. It should be pre- mised, however, in the case of poisons, that much depends on the nature of the substance used. Mineral poisons, such as preparations of arsenic, mercury, cop- per and iron cyanides, leave substantial traces which may be secured and verified at long periods after the death of the vic- tim; but when death is caused by vege- table or animal preparations, the body must be examined very soon after death in order to afford any useful information. Sometimes a person murdered under circumstances of violent assault and des- perate struggle will tear off from the assailant portions of clothing and of hair, and these may be still retained in the stiffened grasp of the dead, but this is most seldom. Soon after death the human body gives up every gesture and expression of form and feature which characterized the last struggle for life, and no trace of the passions, of the hor- ror, desperation or other feeling which attended the death agony remains. There was nothing in the gesture or ex- pression of the murdered Bordens, hus- band and wife, that revealed the mystery of their death, save that the wounds themselves suggested a hatchet, which was never found. Many years ago a theory was presented that there remains photographed upon the human eye a picture of the last ob- ject upon which its gaze was directed, thus the perpetrator of many mysterious murders could be discovered; but beyond figuring in one or two evanescent works of fiction, this wholly gratuitous and false supposition about the human eye dropped from notice. More lately there has been advanced a theory about peo- ple who were killed under circumstances of great excitement still occupying posi- tions and maintaining the attitudes after death the same as those before death. In this connection, George L. Kilmer, writing in the June number of the Popu- lar Science Monthly, presents a number of cases which he claims occurred in some of the battles of the American civil war. The writer referred to quotes from the observations of Dr. J. H. Brinton, a sur geon in the Uudited States army, who, it appears, has written on the subject. After the battle of Antietam, in the corn field near a sunken road,where the fighting was very hot, Dr. Brinton re- ports having seen the corpse of a Con- federate soldier semi-erect, one foot on the ground, one knee against a bank of earth, and one arm stretched forward on a low breastwork. His musket, with rammer in, lay on the ground, and the appearances indicated that he had been killed while rising to load and fire. He was shot through the center of the fore- head. In the field adjoining the doctor counted nearly forty dead Confederates, some with their arms rigidly in the air, some with legs drawn and fixed, and many with trunks drawn and fixed. The positions were ‘!not those of the relaxa- tion of death,” but were due to “final muscular action at the last moment of life, in the spasm of which the muscles set and remained rigid.’’ The wounds were chiefly in the chest, though some were in the head and abdomen. His ob- servations were made thirty-six hours after death. There was also a corpse of a Union soldier with his right arm raised above his head and rigidly fixed,his hand still holding the cap with which he had been cheering on his comrades. The first cases that came to the eye of Dr. Brinton were at Belmont, Mo., Nov. 1861. One wasa Union soldier kneel- ing by a tree, in the act of firing, and shot obliquely through the head, front to back. His warm body rested on right knee and leg, left leg bent, with foot on ground; the left hand firmly clinched the barrel of his musket, which rested with the butt on the ground. The sol- dier’s head drooped to the chest and rested against the tree. Attitude gener- ally forward, jaw fixed, rigidity perfect. The doctor supposed him to be alive,and could searcely believe that death rested upon a statue so lifelike. Another Un- ion soldier, shot near the heart, mounted a straying mule and rode beside the doc- tor some distance. Soon the glazed eyeballs gave unequivocal signs of death, but the body rode on upright. After a time the mule was needed for a live vic- tim, and the bedy of the other was so firm and rigid that it required force to loosen the knee-grip on the animal’s shoulders. Some such cases are reported of Euro- pean wars, showing that it is not impos- sible that a corpse should retain atti- tudes assumed before death, but such rare cases do not offer any rule for use in examinations in the field of medical jurisprudence. What is most needed is information to be secured from!the corpse itself that will assist in the discovery of the criminal.& Fvery case must be stud- ied by itself. Most commonly so little is gained from the corpse itself that the fact confirms the stereotyped*maxim of the murderers: ‘‘Dead men tell no tales.’’ FRANK STOWELL. a ne Didn’t Bring It Home. After the return of the drummer from his travels, his young wife explored his grip with an expectant face. Failing to find that of which she was apparently in search, she turned to him and said: ‘“*Where is the jag?”’ “The what?’ he asked in astonish- ment. “The jag. Mrs. Laces says her hus- band saw you in Chicago with a lovely jag on. Whatever it is, you are not wearing it, and it isn’t in your grip.”’ “Oh, that’s all right, I left it at the office. By the way, I saw a handsome hat ina milliner’s shop down town. If you care we will go down town and you ean look at it, and if you like it you can have it.’’ 2 Unsuited for the Grocery Business. Grocer—‘‘What have you been doing in the cellar so long?” Grocer’s Apprentice—‘‘I have been cleaning out the molasses measure; it was so clogged up that it didn’t hold mor’n half a quart.” Grocer—‘‘O, that’s what you’ve been doing! Well, you take your hat and go home and tell your father to send you to the theological school. You ain’t fitted for the grocery business.” rr Economy All One Way. Mr. Billus (looking over the grocer’s bill) —*‘Four dollars worth of strawber- ries in one week! Suffering Job, Maria, do you think I’m made of money?’’ Mrs. Billus—‘'Don’t agitate yourself, John. You'll shake that $25 meer- schaum out of your pocket.” = | DEALERS WILL FIND TANGLEFOOT AND SATISFACTORY FLY PAPER. SELL WHAT WILL PLEASE YOUR THE MOST PROFITABLE TRADE BEST. AGS &, 4 Tor PRP Shen me we Aue y | TANGLEFOOT SEALED Sticky Fly Paper. NEW STYLE. IN NEW PACKING. isnt, | NEW PRICE. WITH NEW HOLDERS. MADE BY tains: Ce atk alle Wii ia Mill wile: Wii all oa 1 Case (10 | te chb aba ees eee 3 75 ; een Oe ee ee, per case, 3 65 eee eee ...... ,. _ 3 55 | Each double sheet of Tangle- foot is separately sealed with our Wax Border, which, while it permits the easy and ready separation of the sheets, abso- lutely prevents the sticky com- position from running out over the edges. This Border pre- serves each sheet independently and indefinitely until used and prevents all loss and annoyance to the dealer. Each box ‘of Tanglefoot will contain 25 double sheets of Tanglefoot and two Tanglefoot Holders---15 loose double sheets and two packages each consist- ing of a Holder containing five double sheets. Push the new package with your family trade, they will all buy itifitis brought to their notice. It will increase your sales of Tanglefoot by encour- aging a more liberal use among your trade. Your customers will appreciate the new pack- age and will soon ask for it. 4- 4 A - _ - » I - - - | i ' ” , j ¥ b ? AY - a ae ] ~ - oe | sn t @ é v } - t ro. {> ars | } . o a - \. *- » 7 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 The Critical Period of a Boy’s Life. It takes a lifetime to make a man; it takes, however, but a fraction of time to spoil him. The spoiling timeis not at the end, but at the earlier stages. A bent sapling means a crooked tree; it may be oak or it may be basswood, but the timber makes no difference in the erook; in both cases a straight plank is impossible. In proof of this we find that education or genius, while making a difference in the material, make none in the culls that go into hog lots or the wood pile. No science on earth can make anything out of a tadpole buta frog, but with human nature itis pos- sible to cut a marble angel out of a chalk block. There is so much in a man that is latent and undeveloped, that every- day life is full of remarkable instances that was unsuspected of greatness, and goodness has been hidden in a_ speckled egg as an embryonic eagle. The fact is that most of our bad and worthless men are but spoiled samples of what, under other circumstances, would have been the peers of the best. It is spoiled material we dump into jails, and men who might have been something better that we lock up for getting drunk, picking locks or pockets, or making holesin their neigh- bors’ safes and anatomy. Some are spoiled in their childhood, others after- wards. Child-spoiling is simply a rudi- mentary form of man-murder. It is not necessary to cut a throat to kill a life, or to administer arsenic to close a biography with a tragedy. A parent may damn a child long before he goes to the devil, and if we mistake not there are lots of dead souls perambulating in pantaloons and boots to-day that were choked by those who loved them best. This is sad, but it is true. It is not, perhaps, so frequent as we might suppose, when making a census of the population who are parents as well as fools, who really suppose that a spoiled child can make an all-around good man, as a dairyman who expects sweet butter in a churn from what was sour milk in a crock. There is, however, a period of self- redemption in every life, when what cracked in the egg shell may not perma- nently damage the fowl, and what was bruised in the acorn may not prohibit the maturing of an oak. The gravest danger so far as our observation goes, lies in the transitory period intervening between the schoolboy and the man. We know of no period of human life that comes closer to human sympathy and solicitude than that when an unspoiled boy leaves the kindly safeguards of home to face the world as it is and make his own way upor down the ladder. In nine cases out of ten his destiny is shaped in this transition stage, the end of which may be a tear on a mother’s cheek or a glow of pride, which, if rightly read, has no like glory on a painter’s canvas or the face of an angel oramidnight star. It is the crucial pe- riod in a young mau’s life, out of which evolves a character either the better or the worse for the process. The mind is plastic, the character unformed; impressions are easily made, and habits, good, bad or indifferent, slowly shape themselves out of the relaxed and yield- ing material. The stone on which the sculptor works is soft. What is known as moral backbone is but a string of spinal jelly in the raw youth who, in erossing the plank from boyhood to man- hood, needs more than ever a guiding hand and a warning voice. It is, however, a fact that at this crit- ical time the less protection is afforded to the youth who may make a man or a fool of himself—a bright mark on the page of life ora dismal blot on the paper. It is to be contessed that in the world of work men are none too many who care for the moral outcome of a boy’s train- ing. In how few instances can any man of, experience recall the time or the friend who took an interest in his moral training. On the other hand, is it nota cold fact in nine cases out of ten, that an unspoiled youth who reddened in the face at hearing an obscene joke, who kept his tongue from blasphemy, his feet from forbidden paths and kept the love of home and parents with the dew of life on its undried leaves, is ridiculed, ban- tered and practically ostracised from his fellows? This is true, from a medical college to a coal pit, and from a_ univer- sity to a stone quarry. Society is dipped from head to foot in the same vat, and hence the danger of youth. We hold it to be a sacred duty both of employers and parents to keep a watchful eye on the boys being made into men or fools. FRED Weoprow. es PRODUCE MARKET; Beans—Handlers pay $1.75 for country-picked and hold at $2. City hand-picked areZquoted at 10@25e above these figures. Beets—25c per doz. Butter—Dealers now pay 1244@l4¢e for choice dairy, holding at 14@16c. Creamery is in fair demand at 19¢e. Cabbage—Cairo and Louisiana stock is about exhausted. Kentucky and home grown are in fair demand at 75c per doz. Carrots—20c per doz. Cherries—The market is fairly well supplied with both sweet and sour fruit. The crop is large and the price may drop to #1 per bu. before the end of the week. Eggs—A little lower and weaker, dealers pay- ing 124@i3c and holding at 14c. Green Beans—#1.25 per bu.; wax, $2 per bu. Green Onions—10@12e per doz. bunches. Green Peas—50c per bu. for marrofat. Honey—White clover commands 15c per Ib. dark buckwheat brings 12!4¢. Lettuce—A bout out of market. Onions—Tennessee stock commands $1.50@ 1.75 per bu. Pieplant—ic per lb. Pineapples—$1.25@#1.50 per doz., according to size and quality. Plums—Tennessee per 24 qt. case. Potatoes—Old stock has entirely disappeared from the market. New Rose from the South command &2.50@3 per bbl. Some of the finest stock which has come to this marketis from California. Radishes—ie per doz. bunches. Raspberries—Home grown are beginning to come in, red commanding 10¢ per qt. The crop is large, and the price will probably rule low after the first flush of arrivals. Squash—4c per lb. Strawberries—The home crop is about at an end, but consignments from Northern Michigan will probably continue for a couple of weeks yet. Tomatoes—#1.50 per 4 basket crate. Turnips—Home grown, 25¢ per dozen bunches. Watermelons—The Georgia crop is beginning to arrive, commanding 18@25c apiece. It is re- ported that the crop is exceptionally fine this season. Wild Goose command #2 —_—___—~>- << From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: Sands & Maxwell, Pentwater. Bates & Troutman, Moline. M. Minderhout, Hanley. T. H. Pittenger, Ferry. C. E. Mills, Slocum’s Grove. E. E. Hewitt, Rockford. Thos. Kinney, Grove. W. R. Lawton, Berlin. R. D. McNaughton, Coopersville. T. H. Atkins, West Carlisle. tl — lnm, Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. AMIBOY CHEESE Costs more to produce, is worth more and makes you more money than any other. Don’t confound this old reliable brand that has steadily grown in favor for 25 years with the numberless so- called full creams that flood the mar- ket every season, There is no compar- ison OLNEY & JUUSON GROCER CO. SOLE AGENTS. MILTON KERNS’ Fl Puritano Cigar. . x o ay dey 2". THE FINEST 10 Gent Gigar on Earth Se TRADE SUPPLIED BY BATEMAN & FOX, Bay City. B. J. REYNOLDS, R, OPPENHEIMER, Grand Rapids. East Saginaw. Detrroir Tosacco Co., Detroit, Mich. REEDER BROS. SHOE CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. Covope, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. Vernprer, 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, TT. J.O0°Brien, > THE PRESENT STANDARD. How the Standard Oil Co. Meets the New Law. GRAND Raprips, Micu., July 1, 1893. To Dealers in Illuminating Oils: The Michigan Legislature, at its last session, passed a law changing the test of illuminating oil from 125° fire test to 120° flash test, taking effect July 1, 1893. To comply with the new law, which requires a much higher test than has been legal for the past two years, we have been carefully preparing for this change, and are now ready to supply the trade with a brand of oil stencilled as below: We guarantee this brand to be an ex- tra Water White Refined Oil, manufac- tured from selected crude and by the best known processes, and do not hesitate to recommend it as giving a uniform light and a free burning oil. From this date we will fill all old or new orders for ‘‘Water White” or ‘‘Headlight” with the above brand, and continue to market our trade mark paper label brand of EocENE Oil. STANDARD O11 Co. J. C. BONNELL, Manager. —————» 2a British pharmacists have disputed con- siderably among themselves as to whether to use the white or the yellow vaseline when vaseline is prescribéd in making ointments, the other ingredients of which are white or colorless. It has been the custom to use the white, thus altering the color of the product as little as pos- sible. The members of the Glasgow Pharmaceutical Conference recently in a meeting voted, after some discussion, to employ the yellow vaseline in such cases, using the white only when directed by the prescriber. This establishes some- what of a precedent, the outcome of which will not be long in forthcoming. As the law dissolves all contracts without a valuable consideration, soa valuable consideration often dissolves the law. Peckham’ Cough Cure. PECKHAM'S Croup Remedy the Children’s Pleasant-Safe-Certain. Get a bottle today: you may need it dose will prove tonight. One ( its value. Save ro u p the Children! WHOOPING -COUGH, Crove CoLps, COUGHS, quickly yield to its use. R d Keep it at hand. Large bottles 25c. All druggists PRICE TO THE TRADE: #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 sy dealer’s card poy poe e thereon. rder PECK HAM’ ROUP REMEDY of your jobber, and send your label to Peckham Remedy Co., Freeport, Mich. OSS a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Bromide Ammonia, Bromide Potash, Sodium. Declined—Carbolic acid. Bal sam Capaiba. Balsam Peru. Gum Opium. Gum Opium Po. Oil Cloves. Oil Cubeb. Oil Erigeron. Cloves. Saffron. ACIDUM. eee ee eee eee: @ 3 00 TINCTURES. Aceticum . = So 3 cogs ia Aconitum Napellis R Bee 60 Benzoicum German... 65@ 75 SETON ..-...---. 6... fade go | Gaultherla ............ “7 ee areas 50 Siedionen 2@ 35 as ounce ie) (2 = Oa aes ol = eee ge ce. 52 O8sIp: em. gal..... qu Se inert innrentccs Hyaroenior 2202002 BE S| ReapOmR ween * a semen % moe cs, sj) ms gee a dat ld peg CAPPS ae ol i la Oxalieum 2220200011! 10@ 12 Lavendula ..........°. a SS Phosphorium dil...... eee ns, 2 402 60 a Salicylicum ne 1 30@1 a Mentha Piper Se 27 50 We eae, 50 oa Mentha Verid......._. 2 ORR IR 50 Sulphuricum.... ..... 14%@ 5 Barosma 50 iia A 40@1 60 Morrhuae, gal......... 1 00@1 10] ati acacia 30@ a3 | Myrcia, OUHEe..... |. 50 Capsicum *-. Ore eae dem nen = re 2 7 JOPBICUM .......--. 222022006 AMMONIA, Picls 6 Liquida, (gal. 5) 10@ 15 Ca damon.. = s 16 os ee thon i 2 SS ee Castor eoaaaas Se 1 TRG OD treceees 00 ne eee 54 a sueefii se ie ey {ars pe “ = Chioridum ele bame dey 12@ 14 a. ‘ 90@1 00 “ 60 ANILINE. Santal ‘3 50@7 00 nara a = 9s ren. ......... Om Sin. “+--+ - os -- nana vteteeeeeeeeeeeees 3 oni oD Sinapis, ess, ounce me ree. 50 ee ere 250 — @ % 7 50 os cided ewes senees oe eee — ee ll Se 50 BACCAE. ‘Theobromas........... 15@ 20 einai aes ase 60 Cubeae (po 40)...... 2 2 POTASSIUM. ee = Juniperus ............. ee. — ee... le Xanthoxylum .. 25@ 30] Bichromate ......_.. 7! in $4) Hyoseyarmus........ 50 — te Wee dec me eos. (5) BALSAMUM. ‘ ibzi co ws 2Q 45 i ee 12@ 15 Cece. vis) —— ee c lorate (po 23@25) .. = = kg Chloriddim.... 2.0.2... > Terabia, Canada .... 50@ 60 a... .ae ee UII osc peetecas ss 35@ Potassa, Bitart, pure.. Si SO 50 conrex Potassa, Bitart, com.. - = men VOUNes. 50 etass wo One..... Ge tie 85 ie, Gustin: rete seeeeeee _ roams Nitras.. : i 2 ' Cam ernie tt se settee cer ences ssiate - 2%@ . weeer................ 2 6e Suonymas siropurp........ a9] Supbste po.....-.... 18@ 18] auranti Cortex... =... 50 Ce ifera, i... 20 RADIX, meee... 50 a Sy 12 aneetomn Cee 20@ 25 — Tish ecee sees seee ree | Rn 10 iiss alias 22@ 25| Rhel.........-... — el Anes... 129 15 Canela Acutifol.-....... ... 50 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 a, a Po ecneul cue @ = dean Co.......... = EXTRACTUM,. Gentiana (po. 12)... — ig) oerOmentame 60 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 25] Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 — EE 60 ee 33@ 35 a Canaden, —-— |... ... 50 Haematox, 15 1b. box.. 11@ 12} | (po. 3)... -........ @ 30| Veratrum Veride............ 50 ' = Le eee = 2 pelicbore, Ala, po.. - 2s 20 MISCELLANEOUS, $ os ee “s Se... cc. FO STP eens Me, 2 aoe Aither, Spts Nit, 3 F.. 2@ 30 Tris plox ( —- 40 4F.. R@ BM oo Jalapa, = ce 400 45) Atomen | . 24%@ 3 Carbonate Precip...... @ 15|Maranta, \%s.......... @ 3 “ground, (po. Citrate and Quinia..... @3 50} Podophyilum, po...... ee 8 3@ 4 Citrate Soluble........ Rae 75@1 00| Annatto......00 0.2052) 55@ 60 ney 2 ne ¢ : BBB secererersanes QI 7 Antimoni, po ies as 4@ 5 olu r . ‘ Fee ue ea 75@1 : et Potass T. 60 Sulphate, com’. Le -9@ 2] Spigelia............... 35@ 38 Antipyrin © eae a “a pure. @ 7|Sanguinaria, (po 25)/. @ 2] Antifebrin.....1 1171! @ oe oe eee 30@ 32] Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 60 ¥ . Peedee 65@ 20] Arsenicum............ a 7 soniee wesereses sess es 2 2 Similax, Officinalis, iH @ 40 Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40 ME occu esos cs é @ 3 mon Ss 2... 2 W@2 25 Matricaran lt... 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12) Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s FO}A Symplocarpas, Foti- Te; ie, Te)... @ i 50 . re i a noes fe ae $ = Cantharfdes Russian, @1 0 hep lg chang 8. riana, ng. (po. . 2 oe ada eee bea a ole Caan, Aci Tin- -_ = German... 15@ 20 Cinced Dime on es nive T orsee Ale. 35@ 50 PARIer eG... ......, 18@ 2 se ‘“ an @ Salvia oftcinalis, a 15@ 2% ae oo — Cnsumie ( Pe, 10 is a TE Sie ee @ 15| Carmine, No. 40... «22 eumar. | Spinm, (graveleons).- 1s@ 18 | Core five, 8. & F- 38@ 40 Acacia, ist picked... @ 7 “ge he aaa OS 19|Cocous.......2222. @ 40 . 2a eo @ 4 oe ee... 1 2 Cagsia Fructus @ 2% : 2 2s Corlandram,........ fae 1o | Comiatla......... 0... @ 10 1. _-eifted sorta... Cannabis Sativa....... Cetaceum ............. @ 0 Ee eS 60@ 90) Gedonium.... 1. Chloroform ........... 60@ 63 i‘? nn... ot ee Choral Hyd Gat 11 354 @ terix Odorate 2 te ose Socotri Pipe. 60). @ 50| Dip OH 20@ 25 ——. 1s, (68, 14 48, as os Ua Cinenoniaine, FSW is@ 2 betas ionse ewes ees ssp 60 PMN oe econ gece: 4 @4% corks, st, = = Ansafcotida, (po. 35).. 3@ 35 a ~ on oe ‘oh bs SG eee 60 Bensoinum............ 50@ 55 Parana 4@ 5 Creasotum .2.01202.21 @ 3 - none etecescsecese = #5 | Ra eo 6@ 7 | Creta, Bang Pee. @ 2 Sree BO----.+- , 10] sinapts = deadianin 1 @18 | ,, DFeP..-.-.-...... 5 5 Galb ~ fe es 11@ 12 2 precip oes ccccee 3 . a Se Frument!, W.,D. Co..2 o0@2 50| Gudbear.. 1. “YS D. F. R....:1 75@2 00 | Gupri Sulph ' 5a ns ee... 2... 5@ 6 eatenits eae ty 25@I = es ets seey as 10@ 12 --1 65@2 TT N@ % TS 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. B......1 75@2 00} “Mery al numbers.. @ dates te een we @ 6 TYMERCANED ........... 40@1 00} Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50] gy i ‘gota. LD een ee W@ 75 od kages Vint Ceerte ........... 1 25@2 00 oo HERBA—In ounce packages. Flake .......,. 122@ 15 i g5 | Vint Alba............. 1 25@2 00] Galia.............000! @ 2B Bupatorium ................. 20 SPONGES. oe a soceeeees 7 2 ‘. bie ss cise genes = Florida sheeps’ wool, rp “ion -uataet 40@ 60 33 | __carriage...... wn 2 50@2 75 | Glassware flint, by box 70 & 10. "os a wool 2 09 | Less than box 663 = Velvet oxtra sheeps’ a Glue, —— steteeeees we = wool carriage....... 110). Wilte........... % Extra yellow sheeps? . asa “ie = Carriage............. 85 | G@rana raradisi........ 60 | Grass sheeps’ wool car- a Hydreag Chior sia = = 20@ 22 eceereccccseoeceoe 80 25 | Hard for slate use. %5 i @ Carbonate, Jénnings:. 35@ 3 | Yellow Reef, for slate =|, Ox Rubrim oo ‘anus Cee iL Ungesnten. Gab Ss Spee. 4... ... 5. 3 50@4 00 SYRUPS. Hydrargyrum......... @ 64 Amygdalae, Dulc...... oe ) Ace ..................8 ». 50|Ichthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 = er eee — iad beeuetieeotal . —— aac attt rere , ae ale lsece aces os 7 f Ms es ica cue odine, Resubl........3 80@3 2 oe ee @4 70 Aurremtl Cortes... .......... Oo | Se. @2 2 Rhei Arom.. ee — bale ne os 65@ 70 Similax Officinalis. aac 60 oe, W@ %5 5 Oe... = eee Arsen et Hy- ORE ce piaecsseueecc cds EM Nb ccc cies chinecesens 50 Liquor Fotnas Asiutia 10@ 12 Oe ke hau cet jee awe 50 | Magnesia, Sulph (bbl TOE kg oie hice ee Be ee cece cancion 4 Seen Oe. ou ee cack. 560 | Mannia,£S. F.......... 63 Morphia, 2P.&W. a 45 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 20/| Lindseed, boiled . 54 5? SN.Y.Q & Sinapl..w...e ees. @ 18| Neat's {foots winter Cee. 2 10@2 35 opt A @ 30| strained........... “5 er —_ eee at = —— accaboy, De we apaertenpandian. 35 40 ono... GH Mi Vou. Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes g 35 PaINTs. bbl. Ib. a 20@ 22 | Soda Boras, (po. it a: 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% Pe ain Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30} Ochre, yellow Mars... .1% Beg oc el, Ge 0G Soda Carp... "1%@ 2 Ber Bin aE 2Q@3 Piels Liq, N..C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5) Putty, commercial.. r 2% eee cea c pase cee. 4 200 | Soda, Ash........ -8%@ 4 strict] ~, ure.....2 2% Picis Liq. “a martes 2... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas.. @ 2 — rime Amer- no... @ 85] Spts. Ether Co . son on tee 13@16 = Hydrarg, (po. 80) . @ si “ — = @2 Vermilion, English .. 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. 2). @ 1 se «Mia @3 00| Green, Peninsular. N@ ca An, (po g5).. @ 3 ini m4 bbl Lead, a ‘ rie Berea... TE ae 2 19@2 29)‘ vt e Plumbi cet a 14@ 15 in Se gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... bons Pulvis Ipecac et opt. .1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... 96 Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl......... 24@ 3 | White, ‘aris American 10 & P. D. Co., dos... .. @1 2 ai pou Ee 2 @2% Whiting, Paris Eng. s Bernese... 8@ WG ieee cule Pyrethrum, p.... 11 QQ 38) Terebonth Venice... 28Q | Ploneer Frepared Paints 2gi'4 uinia, S.P.& W..... 29@ 34| Theobromae .......... 45 48 | Swiss Villa —, "S$. German.... 20@ 30| Vanilla... 000.22, 9 00@16 00 Paints ............... 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14| Zinci Sulph.. ........ 7% 8 VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispv. 20@ 22 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Sele 75@1 80 OILS. Extra Ta. 7h oat 70 } seme Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal} Coach Body...... -2 753@3 00 po, _....... ....... 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 70| No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 gt 10 Si Lerd, cetra........... 20 185 sete Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 OE @ 6 ited, Not... 6 70| Ja Dryer, No. 3 Linseed, pureraw.... 51 54 io... «son | ee HACELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes. SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Druggists’ Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly's Michigan Gatarrh Remedy, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order: HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GROC! The prices quoted in this THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. greatest possible use to dealers. Sy PR list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. a, es CURREN!. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GRE: ASE. doz gross ——s..lU...,e 6 00 ae O........... me 900 ee... 50 5 50 Soe e........-.... Oe 9 00 eee ao § 00 Paragon a 55 6 00 B AKING P OWDE R. cme. %% ~ cans, 3 ‘doz. oe 45 cee one 85 at - 1 1 a. 10 Arctic 34 cans 6 doz case . 55 cee eee ee ee 1s “~ 280: “ ....--- eo a idox “* Fosfon. tg cans, 4 doz. in case so sig ae 2 00 Red Star, % “Db caus 40 4 ib 75 % b veo 2 Telfer’s, 1g Ib. cans, doz 45 a a. * ig 85 im 6 . f Our Leader, 14 lb cans.... 45 a i i> CANS...... 2 1 lb cans _18 Dr. Price’s. i per doz 4 Dime cans. 95 4-0Z 2 b OZ 2 S-0Z 2 60 12 ©z 3 90 16-07 _. 2%-l 12 00 22 75 O-1k 41 80 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in Case. ree 5... 90 ee so Cee he BLUING. Arct! c,40z ovals ian round . ©O fti ng box i 4. R i) o a. ~- & a Mexican Liqt uid "a > 2 ai . -2es......- 6 80 BROOMS, ado, 2 Hur i. i® a : 2 08 ae Sree... ....-.. No. 1 eee ees 23 Parlor Gem. ; 2 Common Whisk... 90 Fancy — 1 15 Warehouse ee 33 BRUSHES. Stove, Xo. 1. . 1 25 ; 10 1 50 e . i ie Rice Reot Scrub, 2 — 86 Rice Root Scrub, 3 ro 12 Palmetto, goose..... 1 50 BUTTER PL ATES. Oval—250 in crate. a 60 ee . 70 me By ck... . = ee Boo. ass 1. CANDLES. Hotel, 40 lb. boxes 10 Star, 40 : beac 9 Paraffine 10 Wicking —: 24 CAARNED Ge ODS. Fish. Clame. Littl le Neck, i ib. 1 20 2 ib. 1 & Clam C howder. Sesion. 3 Ib. / 2 25 Cove Oysters SiamGerd, 1 ib...... 1 00 ” .... 1 &5 Lobsters. Star, 1 > oo. i 2 50 1 iL al 3 ey veenee. 11. 2 i ' Sm.. 2x Mackerel. Standard, | i i Ib. “ Sm. Mustard, 2 2 Ib bo tO ROM a Tomato Sauce, 2 1b 25 Soused, 2 I ve 2B Salmor. Columbia River, Get.... ...1 8 = -=e.. i. Alaska, ~— ‘ ‘ — k ue ak oo Senne, flats .. _. = ardines. Anherican —s...... 25 a . 64@ 7 Imported RE cae wees -»0- ADIT Ms ets wn 15@16 Mustard -- - si @s Boneless . 21 “Trout. ee Ne 2 50 Fruits. \ Apples. iS th, standard. ........ gd | York State, gallons.... 3 00 }Hamburgh, ‘* i — ‘iive oek....... 1% |; Santa Cruz. 1% | Lusk’s ee 1% | Overland i. 175 | Blackberries iB ys 95 ; Cherries. ee. 1 10@1 20 Pitted ee 1% ane ......: ee 1s meee ..... 1 20 Dameons, Egg Plums and Green —_— Erie. ee 1 10 Cal lifornia. 1 70 Gooset berries. Common ... 12 Peac hes. Pie . : ' 13 Maxw ell . oe ae... 1 65 | Californian. ....... 2 20 eee ee 1 65 Oxford... cue Pears. CO 1 20 Rivensee......-.... 2 10 Pineapples. Common.... 1021S Johnson’ ~ sliced. oa 2 50 i grated as 2% Boot! ru cuced. ..._... @2 56 eretod..... @2 er Common ..... 1. Raspberries. mee... ee 1 30 Black Ha smburg. i 1 50 Erie, black _.. 1 30 Strawberries. | Lawrence ...... 1 3 2 h 12 1 1 Whor tieberries. Blueberries ... 10% Me ain. Corned beef Libby’s. 90 1 Roast beef Armour’s uk we Potted ham, ly lb a 4 Ib. a tongue, % lb. ee . se i... 85 chicken, i ip....... 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringiess.......1 3 French style. .... 2 2 Sioee............ 1 35 kan, green. 1 40 . soaked... heocc ee Lewis Boston ieee 1 35 Bay State Baked. oe World's Fair Baked.. Ls Picnic Baked. La oe Corn. Hamburgh .... i 1 40 ivingston i 12 es ..:....- a —— PE i ee eee twee, "150 eee Grery............. I eee 75 Peas. Hamburgh marrofat beebe. 1% ' early dune...... Champion Eng..1 50 petit pols....... 1% fancy sifted....1 90 meee. a. . o Herris standard. i = } Van ‘amp 8 marrofat.. Leeee 110 ' early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35 French .. | 2 a 1722 —————— — Squash. OO — 13 Succotash. Oe ee eae 1 40 ey Dew. 1 50 Tomatoes. Paeeeen-................ Excelsior . oee.........- ee Gallon ... 8 9% CHOCOLATE, Baker’s. Sones PE. Lon oe one : 23 en 37 Breakfast =a / 43 CHEESE, Ree @2x Ao... .. @2% Lenawee... 9 Riverside . @4 cee Mode... ......- @® 94 a 6@ 7 ae... 11 a 1 00 ee 23 Limbureer....... @i0 Pineapple ...... @25 Roqguefort.... \ @35 Sap Sago.... . @22 Schweitzer, imported. 24 domestic .... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pint, 25 — a 2% "Pint ——-- oe Quart 1 doz bottles | 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz.....-.... 35 Pint: 2m Seles. ...-..... 2... 450 Quart, per doz ..... ..3 1 CLOTHES PINS. 5 grows DOKOS...........- 40@45 COCOA SHELLS. OE 3 oo ee ee eae @3% Pound packages........6%@7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair. eee ee Good _——- Prime _ Golden 20 Peaberry cele ease 22 Santos. a... ee... ee Peaberry -....- — Mexican and Guaiamala. Pe... | a “22 ae ee Maracaibo. as. ae 2 Java, es “ 25 Private Growth i 2d Mangehiing .......-. 28 Mocha, a. Ce Arabian... .28 ae. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add ec. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 23 45 Bunola . BS Lion, 60 or 100 Tb. case.... 23 45 Extract. Valley City % GTOSS........ Felix Hummel’ 8, foil, Bross. in weer SSaa CHICORY. sg 5 Red.. 7 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per doz. 1 2 " es 1 40 " or....... - 1 60 an We ise = 1% " oes... .... ” 1 90 Jute —e.....-. ss oO Re .. C 1 06 CONDENSED MILK, 4 doz. in case. ee... .....-......-...... Fe CI, intestine n sc wcnc son . 6s Genuine Swiss.......-.....- 77 American Swiss.. ........ 67 COUPON EBOOKS. 8 28 $ 2, oo ss * ' .- 8300 . .. 3M — ul oo a, “ ' : . 500 “Superior.” $ 1, per hundred eee 250 Se nA A 3 00 g 3, “ 8 5, “ —_, * -, * “Universal.” St, per benered.........- $ 2 “ 8 3 oe 8 5 Bi > “ 5 “a aie prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 or over......... 5 per cent, 500 “ i 10 “ {000 cay a ot COUPON ‘PASS BOOKS, {Can be made to represent’any denomination from 810 down.| 22 books. ........2....... on oe — - 6 2 00 ee 3 00 ee 6 25 — -. 10 00 — * = ol... 17 50 CREDIT CHECKS. _. any one denom’ a... $3 00 1000 a. 5 00 2000, “ oe ga ees nn 8 00 Steel punch. ......-..-..... * CRACKERS. Butter. Seymour XXX..............- 6 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% Pamuy £2e...... --...-. 6 Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% Salted XXX.. a Salted XXX, cartoon Lee 6% Kenosha i. eee 8 Butter biscuit... 6% Soda. Se Be. Hoes (iey............-...-.. Th a Pee... ....... 6... 8% Crystal Wafer.............-- 10 Long Island Wafers ....... i Oyster. S Oyster SRE........-.-... 6 City Oyster. X2X....... —s Farina Oyster...... ee 6 CREAM ere Strictly pure.. ie 3u Telfer’s Abesbate ll... 3) POOREW .. .. 0 noes ven ess. 15@25 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, Apples Sundried, sliced - bbls. quartered ‘“ Evaporated, 50 1b. boxes Apricots. California in bags...... Evaporated in boxes. Blackberries. Nectarines. Oe 25 i>. DOKES.... ....-.----- Peaches. Peeled, in boxes........ Cal. von. ~ a ' in bags...... Pears. California in bags a tted Cherries. In boxes. 30 lb. boxes Raspberries. Th DOPION,...... 5... 4.5. BO ib, oes... .......--- nib. ~ Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes. 1 2 crown beth tees Couches 45 i 1 6 Loose aes in — 2 crown Le ce . 5% ete eee ey 6 Foreign. Currants. rene, * in — aise ee 4 4% 4% Citron, Leghorn, _s boxes 20 as in less quaniiiy Lemon 10 Orange . 25 * " 11 Raisins. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes. . @s8 Sultana, 20 a 8%@ 9 Valencia, 30 ‘ Prunes. California, ae ae 10 90100 25 Ib. bxs. 11% rey 80x90 12% 70x80 . "13% - 60x70 ' 14 ok eben wet ane eee, OP ses CL 13 “ a A nn 80-90... ohn a Oe i oeec eee es 10 ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. me tO.......:--.-..<,- $1 75 We i ek eee ec 1 60 me. 7, 6.........- sce ie ce 1 65 meee... -........... 1 50 XX wood, white. No. 1, = es 1 35 aS ee...........-..---- 1s “Mantua, ‘white. Be ee ce 1 00 Se 95 Coin. Min No.4. .............. 1 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 100 Ib. kegs...........-- 3% Hominy. BOrrels ..ccccsccsscsesecsce - 800 oc concedes consdes 3 50 Lima Beans. RE. cess sees... 4% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 1b. box.... Imported 1 arrels 200 Half barrels 100........... Pear] Barley. Been. oe, Peas. Gees, O... -.....4-.... 2 00 Sei, perib........... 2% @3 enon | Oats. Barrels 180... .. @4 50 Half bbls 90.. @2 49 Sago. 2% wee e eres eoeresesees Germ East =r eee 5 Wheat. Ceacked.......... bee cones 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. ( Cod. a Whole, Grand Bank..... Boneless, bricks.. ...... Boneless, strips.. ....... Halibut. PR een es od 104%@l11 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg “ se “oe bbl 3% 5% 7@S i@9 €5 “ “ce a“ ow Rorweren ................ Round, % ‘bbl 100 Ibs Veuaes 2 85 {= 1 Mackerel. No. 1, 100 1bs.. a ee mo te ee es... 5 05 Mat Wie... .. ls 8: 13 Family, Oo te... ee... 8 3 . 10 Ibe ..... we 95 Sardines. Russian, kogs.............. Trout. No. 1, % bbls., 100]bs........ 6 % No. 1 4. bel, 2) te...) ! 3 00 Wo. & ee. Ue... ...... 0; 1,6 Weee..........6,,6 70 Whitefish. 65 on . ¥% bbls, = Ibs eee aT 50 $3 S cre 33 1% 10 Ib. kits oe 90 58 Se oe. ie 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Grade Lemon. Regular Vanilla. Jennings’ D C. Lemon. Vanilla 2oz foldingbox... 75 1 402 = 8 6 oz ” 00 3 00 5 on taper ........53 oe 2 00 40z taper .........1 0 2 50 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. ee 3 50 aoe eee. 2 00 Quarter kegs... = 1 Jb =. Lace ceee 30 Cio Gene... 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. ee 4 50 Half eee... ee Quarter kegs.. ............1@ 1 1b cans. 34 Eagle Dueck—Dupont’ s. — . isuope.c. cn Om eS en 5 Quarter kegs............... 3 00 ee ee ae 60 HERBS. ee 15 GOS... 2. see. 2 15 a Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 Ss. ¥.,2 "3 and 5 1b. bomen. 50 JELLY. te . yele...........- @ 55 30 ye ES @ 8 LICORICE. eee a. 30 Calabria ee eee cae 25 Ree fo. 12 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz..........- 1 25 Oe ie aes 2% MATCHES. Me. 8 eeieher...............- 1 65 Anchor ns 17 Re teeeee.............-..-. 1 10 Export TIO. 45. en ss .-4 00 MINCE MEAT. 3 or 6 doz. in case perdoz.. 95 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. 7 oe... $1 75 Half Pere orene => a. 1 - live ice 70 Sse 45 Half MOMS oe ee pass nn esse 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. cae... 2. 8 7 00 Half ee: Hace oe MONG 0 6s. esc... en cei cc 4 —. 2 MOLASSES, Blackstrap. Sugar house.............-- 14 Cuba as aE air 16 Porto Rico. Pees... ss es. oe 20 Rene ...... — oe 30 New Orleans. eee 18 ooG ......- pet ee setae oe 22 —— er ee es cues 27 > Fan coe 40 One-half barrels, 3e extra, PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 00 Small. Barrels, 2,40C count. 6 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES Clay, No. 216.............++. 17 +. DB, full opens. ...-... 15 Om. Oe 8... ......... 2. 1 26 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Bape es... ............. 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 2 RICE. Domestic. Carolina gp ee uee cess 5 ee a ce 4% ~ No. : i. 4 Nou aes cede - Imported. Japan, Ze : ek weep wieaa ees 5% a sneered od oo oh keen wes eee POR uc sian css css cont 5 mo 4ye wa a mo 4ye THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Root Beer en. Williams’, oo _.7 > om...... a 5 00 Hires’, 1 doz. sccke. 2 Som... :. 5 00 SPICES, Whole Sifted. Aes... .... 10 Cass a, — in mats...... 7 Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... 2 Cloves, Amboyna........... 22 - Zanzibar Mace Batavia... “a e cy. . ee 60 Pepper, Singapore, a -10 white... .20 ° ng 16 Pure Gaaii in Bulk, Allspice Cassi a, Batavia eee eee eee 18 and Saigon. S 5, bey are... Cioves, Amborns........... - Beeeseer........... 8 Ginger, African Seed wee ie en. 16 TOON ou tt 20 " 22 mace Peters... 5... 7 Mustard, ses — Trieste. .22 Tene 25 aot No. 7 clad lea a 75 Pepper, Singapore, bl —*~ eb 24 . Ce... Lisetee sees 20 Oe cn 20 “Absolute” in Packages. 4s 8 eee... ck, 84 1 55 84 155 84 155 Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155 ie Atrican........ 8 155 usore.... 84 155 Ferece ..........,._... 84 155 Sese...... 84 SAL ‘SODA. meee Granulated, Mewes... . 24... 1% SEEDS. VO @12% Canary, Smyrna,...... 6 Comewey .............. 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird . 5% Mustard, white 10 — eke : Cuttle bone.. es 30 STARCH. Corn. oe) bowen... 6 ol lh. 5% Gloss. 1-lb packages Bede cy ee eaw ect ee 5% 3-lb ee... 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, ile see iodaiies oe Shy — Raee.............,.- 4% Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 28 1b. “ " ae Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56Jh, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. SS tL. Seems. ..... _.-.... 27 Common Fine. Bestaaw ....-..-......- +. 70 Beene ......... ..--.... ql SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs. in box. _ ee 5% ES 5lg Dwieees.... .. be cues cteee Soe eee wet sk... 5 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, $0 1-Ib........ 3 43 Good Cheer,6011Tb.......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-ID...... 3 95 Proctor & Gamble. eee 45 eee 2) Om... ............ 6 7 S o............ 4 00 ioe. Cc. 3 90 Mottled German ........... 3 60 ee ee 3 2 Dingman Brands. Peete ee. i... 3 9 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, = da. .$4 00 plain... 2 94 N.K. Fairbanks & Co.’ eBrands. Seuts Coaue.....,-..-...... 475 Brown, ie anc 2 8 im Bere... .. -... 3 50 _ Bros. & Co.’s Brands. SS bee. +00 Cotton Oil. Cees cae © Oe Marseilles....... pace ce way 3 95 TI ars os Se ti cn 4 35 Thompson & Chute Brands. ke. gan TEES can sconces & OO ome is. 4, 3 35 Savon Improved deed eeee 2 50 pmo 2 rece... 3 2% MOomamica: ............... 2 25 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 doz heeeucs 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 toquote New York prices exclusively, Cut Loaf.... Powdered ... Gramiiaiod ................ 5 Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 86 Orme... ck 6 ll See Powdered.......... & Confee. Standard A...... 5 G7 No. t Colomoisa......... 5 61 No. 5 —" Reece cess 5 48 vO. 5 42 5 30 5 & Sr 5 05 4 48 448 .£e 4 42 SYRUPS. Corn. BPAPPOS. ... 565 -ocne eee 21 Malt peis................ 2 Pure Cane. PE oi rec cee cece eee ects 19 Ga .... 3... 25 Gugiee 30 SWEET GOODS, Ginger Snape.......... 8 Suger Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers..... 8% VINEGAR. fe 7 @8 Seer...... .....-...- 8 @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, per gal eae panes 30 Beer mug, 2 2 doz in case. 1% YEAST. Moce,....... .... nn ee ae woe ees 1 00 Eee 1 00 ee a S 6) Bowel .......-...-.5-+s- 5s TEAS. JaPan—Regular. Pete .......... @17 oem ..........5........ @20 notes. ©... ......._ 24 @26 Oheieem........-. -... 32 @34 Bo... 10 @I12 SUN CURED. seem. .....-...-.... 32 @34 eee 10 @12 BASKET FIRED. ES 18 @20 Cpaied..............-... @2 Choicest. @35 Extra choice, wire leat @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to faiz....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5 OOLONG. Q26 Common to fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 @2 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 @2é Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ME tes ec ae 18 @22 Oe 24 @28 i ee ae 40 @50 TOBACCOS, Fine Cut. Pails eer a noted Bazoo. : @30 Can Can. occ a @27 Meme Bly............. 27 @24 Uncle pen... ......-.- 21 22 Biswas. .......-.... 6U Sweet Caba......... / 34 McGinty pecees oe 27 % bbis.. 25 Dandy dim. ......-..-- 29 Torpedo ee 2 ' in drums. 23 Vom Yum <.......... 2 ee ‘ 23 “drums — 22 Plag. Sorg’s Brands. Spearnead ..........-. 41 ————————oOO 29 Wopuy Twiet......-..... 41 Scotten’s Brands. Beye ie een sc... 26 Hiawatha......... -+-- 38 Valley City ....... . 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 40 Joly Tar.......; ones ee 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, Kiln dried.. eae na | Golden Shower............. 19 Eenepene 2... ...... ae Meccrnenanin |... ...... 8... 29 American Eagle Co.’s os Myrtle Navy CE i088 German a ' Frog . ce “3 Java, } és foil. age lca Banner Tobacco Co. *s Brands. Deere 8 8 cle 16 Banner Cayendish..........: 38 Geet 2 28 Scotten’s Brands. Wee... 15 nope, bew............... 30 Geoid Bicek......_... ae cee 26 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands. Peo 26 i a = Standard.. i A Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brant aa Miomaweee.... 3... 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. CO ea 26 Uncle Sam.. -28@32 Med Clover. ..... 1... 32 Spaulding & Merrick. om and OOrry.............. 25 Traveler Cavendish.. . 38 Bee Horn... ios 30 Plow Boy.. —— y om Gake 0000... .16 OILs, The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: moeene. |... 8% Water White, old test. 6 zyx OW. OUW.:.. $ Mien. ren sence cane q Napeha.......... 1. | Gk Shave Gasoline........ @ Us Cylon .;.. 27 @36 gg ee ua @21 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Crees. ...... |... .... 223 Fart Cured........... 3 @3% Fu . @ 4 ay ............,...... 5 @5 os aa 3 @4 ~ Gored........-... @5 Calfskins, green...... 4@5 cured...... 5 @6 Deacon nen eee ce cess 10 @25 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. —o Lele clee as 10 @ 20 ee 15 @ B WwooL, Wamea 8... 122 @18 NIWORROG 4.0... ..... & @l4 MISCELLANEOUS. Wemow oot... 3 @ 3% Grease butter......... 1 @2 Beeeemes .............. 1%@ 2 % Gunseng...............2 Glgee 50 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 60 No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 60 MEAL. Wonton... ca... 1 40 Gramma... .......... 1 65 FLOUR. Straight, in mene... ..... 3 60 Darrels........ 3 85 Patent ~ smees......... 4 60 a ~ Gorree........ 480 Graham “ sacks.... ... 1 70 ye ee 1 90 MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Bran.......... Ga op $13 50 Screenings .... 13 00 13 00 Middlings..... 14 50 14 50 Mixed Feed... 18 00 18 50 Coarse meal .. 17 50 18 00 CORN. ee 44 Lees than car low.......... 43 OATS. Cee 35 Less than carlots........... 38% HAY. No. : ip car lots....13 90 No ° -oo...... 14 00 FRESH MEATS. Beef, carcags.......... @7% hind quarters. . he 5 “ fo ore ‘ee 5% i = No. 3.. 10 “aul . a ; g *% SS @ 6 Porm ine .......,... @10% STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. | Pails. | «© shoulders. ..... @ 8%! BULK 15 a Sausage, blood orhead @7 Memos... 2 UO 17 ne _..... . @& Pepe jd. 1 50 19 = Frankfort .... @ 8% 21 ue leleue. — Le wae ee 8 $ 9 PAPER & WOODENWARE Baskets, market. a | WGNE ee ci le 8 shipping bushel. PAPER. full hoop FISH and OYSTERS. SE el willow el’ths, xsi 5 25 Mocerord |. ..... 1... ip F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as| Rag sugar ................. iy ' foliows: Hardware plin i FRESH FISH. ee wen cweaes : _ 7 Good ..... .... ) ee Lee ce eee $ 8 Jute Manilla i INI ATED WARE } Sromt............. ans 8 Red Expr No, 1. . | Halibut...... oe a ee bs, No. 1 | Ciscoes or Herring. — @ 5 ) TH ibs, No. 2 Biaeeen............... @l0 TWINES, | Tubs, No. 3 a Fresh lobster, per lb.... 2) | 48 Cotton , |x C OM... . 6. eee -OULTRY COG... ees. 11 | Cotton, No. 1 ee oa d Piekerel......... @s8 | Local dealers pay as follows: eee @S8 | Sea Island, ‘ARBO ad. )RES6E] Smoked White.. @8 | No.5 Hemp assorte Fowl nC Red Snappers... 12 | No.6 « a ‘Tirvkovas 00 Columbia River Salmon 20 Hicks - | ol. enCwered 25 | WOODENWARE. a ON OR Boson EO gee peeeiaas carts OYSTERS—Cans. a: No, > ee 00 | Live broilers 1%1bs. to 2 Ibs ae Counts.. @io | es , i F.J.D. Selects.. @40 Pails, No 1, two-hoop.. 1% * No.1, three-hoop.... 4 sez aR Clothes spins, 5 er. boxes... ) ag Oysters, per ie ...... 1 50@1 75 | howe Hie: 80 |; . 7 i Ciems, Fe OE ee eT a eal nae eek Cee | ; Spring Due ' ale @i4 PROVISIONS, | Plain Creams.............. .80@90 Decorated Creams........ i. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, String c Roc! ok eam Ty - ee quotes as follows: | Burnt Almonds..........._ ae PORK IN BARRELS, | Wintergreen Boreiea 00001 Lo. ue ee ae a eA ee CARAMELS, aeeet cat eu 20 50 | No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes....... uae Extra clear pig, short cut....... 22 00 | a 1, Si veereeees BT Extra clear, heavy.... ay l “~ 28 Olbar, fag back an on os ; samedi aati aiaal a Boston clear, short cut...............-...... 21.50 | Stand up, 5 lb. boxes Cleas Back. Snort Gat. ......................- 21 50! BANANAS, Standard clear, short cut, best... om OF Small... .... 1. Wee ee cee eee, Oe oe SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. ioc... ........... 2 Of @ 2 50 Peek Saneoee ! | Large .... teeteee ress a ORANGES. OO 9 California Riverside Seedlines AQ Frankfort Sausage |..........sssccescsccoo, 8 | alifornia Riverside § ox. a . 23 50 Blood Sausage....... a LEMONS. Bologna, — ee 6 | Messi 1a, Choice 360. fe eee tee cee 5 00 sey poo thick ee. Haney, 36...... 1... 5 50@é6 00 Head Cheese. hous yee lcueee ee % C Cnetee Me @5 00 LARD ee 6 00 Metle Mendered,.. 2... 3.68 | OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS, eee 8... 1U% | Fis gs, fancy layers, 6b. . @12% Family . ee ee @li125 Compound . ee 7 4 | extra 1... eae @14 50 Ib, Tins, 4c ady ance. | eee Le @15 20 1b. pails, 4c | Da aes, Fard, 10-ib. box.... @iw% i “ Me | ee @ 6% Sih © me i “ Perefan, 50-lb. box... 44@ 5% om © fe i NUTS. BEEF IN BARRELS. Almouus, oe oe @19 Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . § 50 6s eee ll @18 ¥ California........ 18% Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 8 50| Bragtis, new. co @ 9 BOnelens, rump UUMIE..-. |... 14 00| wyiperts ........ @11% SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Walnuts, Grenoble @13% Hams, average 20 1bB......-. 0... 062-0000. 018 3 TO. 1344 : “ “ , W2to 14 Ibs. ae y @13% “ icnic . a ml oe a eae cage @i2 “ o 13% | Pecans Cxae & ©, ........_.........% ae EE og boneless... ee 10% | Cocoanuts, full sacks............. @4 25 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 1314 the H. P., Suz PEANUTS. Dried beef, ham prices... See 10% ancy, 18 con serine ates Qs Fane Clear Heeger Fat H. P., Fl OG ee cece eee ee @ % re anCY; oe @s | ne 0, Ln 7 i Roasted. @9 " Catan Choice, H. P., Extras... @ 6% bey " Roaste¢ @8 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, | The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. FRUIT JARS. PYeGe wk eee eee ec ecu es ee. OO Oe p Quarts. eee ee en ee eee ee eee eee ae a oo... ae _ ao 6% a Dea uy eee. a ae ” Ls ipbe a eo 0 Boston Cree. ........... 86 nh an shia OE eee 8% ea OR a Butta. H..:...... ... She [Not “ weet teen cece ees . MIXED CANDY. | No PASE 75 Bole. Pails. | Tubular tee igtetetseestsees ~ LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. ee ; 7 | 6doz. in box. Teecee. ....... .......... 8... 8 i Si l Ro = aE 6% 7% | xo 7" WM eee eee eee ete teen tee tee e ee eee 7 - eee eee cee came q S [- +i t h Rock... 7 EE 2 90 Baglivh Rock bee = | Conserves .......... i Ly : ee an, eri a a Broken Taffy..... ‘ ‘baskets | g | No ce crimy top. < 25 Peanut Sauares............ > | No. A ih : vee 40 French Creams......... aa 10 ie Flint. 3 40 Valley Creams.. ... ee 13 PB as ; imp to ! Midget, 30 lb. baskets. LS \No un, Crime F tenet eee eens 2 60 Modern, cip ~~ = -...<...............5..... 8 | No.2 na in io 80 | be rancy—In bulk Pearl top. Pails, | No. 1Sun, wrapped and labeled. Leta. 3 7 Lozenges, CO 10 | No . ..47 ee a No. 2 Hinge, ..4 88 Chocolate Drops. . ee La Bastie, Chocolate Monumentals.. Meet eey eee No. 1Sun, plain bulb, per oe 1S Gum Drops.. eee ete ae 5% | No. 2 : Le eae ee 1 50 ee ee 8 | No. 1 crimp, per doz... 1 a es og eee ee ee eee S4iNo.2 “ ee elas ceeueaececae Ge Imperials.. ——. co, ef LAMP WICKS, iw ) “Py oF Qs os Pakee—ie bik boxes. Per Box aoe PET BTOSS.--- eee ieee eee eee ete eee ees = Ce ee coe a ots eee ag Se PO ee S&S ings « es Peppermint Drops......-.-.----s--22eee e+ --++ 80 | meee OP ee ee, 7h Chocolate Drops .......... ee ececeeeceeeees 65 | STONEWARE—AKRON, H. M. Chocolate Drops............ wseee+eee-9) | Butter Crocks, 1 to6 gal...... ee Ce ee 40@50 | & ‘“ ee 60 TNGOMIGO DOM lO feo ginal pe Mam 70 A. B. a we... ae Sete E eee ee eee TT 07 Lozenges, (one = 19, 5 9 a a a ‘gp | Milk Pans, % gal., per doz......... -.+..++. 60 ee we ti 1 Le "2 fpr. seoee ee og | STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. ee ee ee 55 Butter Croche, 1 ON FGA)... ww cc cece, OF ees Oe ee 55 ye ee ee 65 Hand Made Creams. wack ce on - ee : . eee eag eeu e eep sans 78 i 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. P COMING DOWN TO SOLID GROUND. The curtailment of credits goes on with unabated severity, and the number of debtors forced by it into liquidation has considerably increased during the week. The most conspicuous instances have been those of unsound Western banks, the failures of private mercantile firms having been as yet comparatively few, though, as omens of more possibly to come, they add largely to the general disquietude. Itis now plain that the process of sifting and weeding out must continue until every weak spot has been exposed and business is re-established upon solid ground. Fortunately, noth- ing like an unreasoning panic prevails. Creditors and money lenders are, indeed, more than usually cautious and exacting, but, thus far, no debtor who could de- monstrate his substantial solvency to the satisfaction of his creditors has been obliged to suspend payment. Those to whom an extension of credit has been refused have, in most cases, proved to have been undeserving, for a long time, of any credit at all, and the present stringency has merely precipitated catas- trophes that were in the nature of things inevitable. The longer they were de- layed the more complete would the wrecks have become, and little as will be saved from them, itis more than would have been saved by and by. In the face of these demonstrations of the real origin of the trouble, it speaks badly for the intelligence of our people that so many of them are deluded by the false explanations of ill-informed theo- rists. In the Eastern section of the country the Sherman act has been set up for a scapegoat, and its repeal is de- manded as a sacrifice which will at once restore confidence and prevent further bankruptcies. To the act are attributed the exports of gold which have so alarmed our banks, and from its repeal is expected a return flow of the metal, which will at once tranquilize the public mind and enable every debtor to borrow all the money needed to carry him along in his business. It is not considered that the act has added to the stock of money in the country an amount of paper equal to the gold which has been exported since it took effect, and that, although it is still in full operation, the exports of gold have stopped, and small quantities of it are even coming this way again. Certainly nobody will pretend that the numerous defalcations and losses by bad speculations which the present strin- gency is bringing to light were caused by the act, nor that it is responsible for the unwise management of the banks which have failed through having locked up their funds in loans upon land, in ad- vances to unsuccessful railroad and manufacturing corporations, and in other illegitimate ways which made it impossible for them to pay their deposit- ors. Unless the repeal of the act can undo all the mischief of this kind which has been done, it will help very little to mend matters. At the West and the Southwest the Sherman act is viewed as extremely ben- eficial so far as it goes, but as not going far enough. There the country is said to be suffering, not from exports of gold, but from a curtailment of the supply of the same silver, which at the East is re- garded as the chief menace to our finan- cial safety, while the maintenance of the gold standard for which the East has praised President Cleveland so highly is there charged with being the cause of the financial stringency. Curiously enough, this doctrine is espoused by a number of British politicians, particularly those who are land owners, and who, like our own agriculturists, are losers by the low prices of the products of the soil. It looks, indeed, very much as if the Tories, in their eagerness to defeat Mr. Glad- stone, who has committed himself to gold monometallism, might take up with bi- metallism as a good cry against him, es- pecially as the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Ireland has declared against the gold standard as oppressive to Lrish tenants. Besides these two opposing theories another has been put forth by the ultra Republican protectionists, who, al- though the McKinley tariff is still in full force, ascribe to its prospective repeal, which is supposed to have been assured at the last Presidential election, the present collapse of mercantile credit. It is true that coming events cast their shadows before, but business men do not usually change their methods until they have good reasons for doing it. Nobody is going to import goods from Europe a year in advance of a possible demand for them, nor to cease manufacturing them in this country because a year from now imported articles may undersell the home product. Besides, it is quite uncer- tain whether a tariff for revenue only, which the Democratic platform demands, will ever be passed by Congress, much more one framed on absolute free trade lines. It is, indeed, true that the Sherman act, by the volumeof paper money which it has been pouring and which it is still pouring into our circulation, has greatly facilitated gold exports, but its effect would have been small in this respect but for the unexpected and unusual de- mand for the metal by Austria-Hungary for the purpose of establishing her cur- rency upon a gold basis. Nearly every dollar of the gold shipped from this country during the past twelve months has found its way directly and indirectly to Vienna and Buda-Pesth, and more will have to go to those cities before the drain upon our stock ceases. It is also true that during the past few years, under the reign of the gold standard, the prices of agricultural products have fallen, but this has been accompanied by an increase, in this country at least, of the quantity produced, and by arise in wages which makes the low price of food and clothing a benefit to working- men. It is, further, possible that some branches of manufacturing industry have been unfavorably affected by the uncertainty of the country’s future tariff policy, but this cannot seriously be set up as causing all over the country such an_ extraordinary demand for currency and the failure of so many banks and of railroad corpor- ations. All these three agencies com- bined are inadequate to account for the phenomenon we are witnessing, and we must therefore conclude that it results from something else. Since the beginning of our history the dominant financial heresy of this country has been the belief in the efficacy of an abundant currency tocreate wealth and business prosperity. Observing that rich countries have more circulating me- dium than poor ones, it was illogically inferred that all that was needed to make a country rich was to give it plenty > Fa MICHIGAN BARK AND LUMBER GO. 2° CTS sis oo ; Ms 3 18 and 19 : sy Widdicom) Building. 4% Weare now ready to make Lit = ‘contracts for the season of 1893. Correspondence Solicited. a S JUSTICE a Great “{ * Constitutes the Real Good Man, so Should in Measure & » it be invariable Practice -+- Never to deviate from the Minut- our = A } v Actuated by the feeling, we 7, est Principles Thereof. — take our pen in hand to tell you ~ - f > Ih praise bestowed upon them are $s the JEWRY? WAYER COOLERS. -: Justly made of wrought iron body and base, cor- rugated galvanized iron reservoir, plated self-clos- ing faucets. Too much stress cannot be laid upon the fact that at all seasons of the year and particularly just now a Water Cooler is as nec- essary to your comfort, happiness and health as a house to live in or food to eat. The price of these Coolers is within the reach of all, and none can have an excuse for not having cold pure water every day this summer. fees TEVENS — how justly deserving of all the * ‘ ST. & GC: MONROg °.' a ~ a + THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 of money, no matter of what kind. This was like inferring that because the mer- cury in the thermometer rises in warm weather, a rise in the mercury pro- duced by warming it over a fire will raise the general temperature. Before the Revolution the thirteen original colonies went through various phases of this de- lusion and emitted such quantities of paper money that the shilling sterling at the close of the war had fallen to one- sixth of adollar. As for the money of the Confederation it ended by going out of sight altogether. Since then the coun- try has had to endure numerous finan- cial collapses, all preceded by an exces- sive use of paper currency. Coupled with this delusion has been a mania for borrowing money and doing business on credit, which, while it has undoubtedly facilitated the efforts of enterprising poor men to develop our natural re- sources, has also afforded an equal facil- ity for reckless speculations, to the fail- ure of which, more than to any other cause, the revulsions which we have ex- perienced before, and that which we are experiencing now, are to be attributed. At present the currency of the coun- try, which is declared by so many to be insufficient for our wants and as needing a further increase, comprises $346,000,- 000 in legal tenders, $135,000,000 Treas- ury notes, $175,000,000 National bank notes, and about $400,000,000 of silver certificates and dollars, which, like paper dollars, are kept at par with gold only because they are practically inter- convertible with gold. This makes $1,- 056,000,000 of credit money for 60,000,000 people, and all the gold available for its redemption, when redemption is called for, is the $93,000,000 in the Treasury and the $175,000,000, or thereabouts, in the National banks, making altogether $268,000,000. Contrast with this England and Wales, which, with a population of 29,000,000, have only about $135,000,000 of paper money in circulation, nearly the whole of which is issued by the Bank of England, and is secured by $135,000,000 of gold; France, which with a population of 38,000,000, has $700,000,000 of paper money secured by $340,000,000 gold, and Germany, with a population of 50,000,- 000, having $235,000,000 paper secured by $220,000,000 in coin and bullion, of whieh a small portion only is silver. In view of these figures talk about the insufficiency of our currency for the wants of business is justi- fied only by a condition like the present one, when general distrust of the sol- vency of debtors is creating a demand for the payment of their obligations in the obligations of the Nation. In ordinary times its volume is not only ample for all needful purposes, but its abundance, like the easy giving of credit to specu- lators, has a pernicious effect. The crisis through which we are pass- ing, much as it is to be deplored for the suffering it inflicts on a few individuals, is a legitimate result of the abuse of credit, and, as I began by saying, is a se- vere but wholesome process of re-estab- lishing a healthy state of affairs. If, in the course of it, inflated values are re- duced, if chimerical enterprises have to be abandoned, if firms whose liabili- ties exceed their assets and whose part- ners have been for years living upon the property of their creditors are compelled to acknowledge themselves insolvent, if so-called banks, which have proved to be mere devices for locking up the money of their depositors in unavailable assets, are forced out of business, and if gigan- tie corporations, the resources of which have been used by unprincipled schemers for their own benefit, are brought back to their legitimate fields of operation, surely the public at large has no reason for lamentation. A good work has been begun and must be completed, no matter what efforts may be made to stay its course, MATTHEW MARSHALL. > ——___ The Locomotive Fireman. It is doubtful if there is a man on the railroad train who is less appreciated than the fireman, and this little article is devoted to showing that he is a hard worked and unappreciated individual. The public shakes hands with the con- ductor who has charge of the train, thanks the brakeman for many little courtesies, bows to the baggage master who looks after its baggage in transit, trusts its valuables with the express messenger, and talks long and loud of the ‘‘brave engineer.’? But the fireman —he who bends to his work and feeds the fire that makes the steam—is never mentioned. Sometimes a purse is made up for the engineer. No one ever heard of a fireman getting a purse, but the ree- ords show that he has performed as many deeds of valor as the engineer. Again, if the train leaves the track or goes into another train, the fireman has fewer chances to escape than any man on the train, except perhaps the mail clerk, shut up like a rat in a cage. When the fireman is at work, and that is nearly all the time when the wheels are turning, he stands, stooped over, shoveling in the fuel, or raking the coals in the firebox; his view ahead is obstructed, and he can- not see the danger that may be dashing upon him. “The rattle and roar of the machinery may drown the engineer’s warning call—a crash—the tender pins him to the boiler-head and he is dead. Standing in the narrow gangway, peer- ing ahead, a sudden lureh around a curve may throw him off. Instances have been known when the coup- ling between the engine and the tank parted, and the fireman dropped between them to be_ ground to pieces. The records show that more fireman than engineres are killed in rail- road wrecks. About the only time the fireman has a little leisure is when the train is running down grade. Then ‘‘she is shut off,” steam is saved, and the knight of the shovel climbs up to a eush- ioned seat and takes a breathing spell. Even then one eye is ahead, his hand on the bell cord, and the other eye fastened on the steam gauge, whose little black hands, fluctuating back and forth, gauge his labor as well as the steam. There is a science in ‘‘feeding’’? an engine that is not understood by one not in the bus- iness. There is a way to throw in the coal, and to empty the shovel and close the furnace door, at the same time it re- quires nice calculation that tells how many ‘‘scoop-loads’’ are needed to send the hands on the gauge to the proper figure, deft handling to keep the deck of the cabin clean, and a hundred other little things that go to make a skillful fireman—one that saves money for the company by husbanding the coal. In the old days the fireman on the ‘*wood- burners’’ had a hard time of it, and cer- tainly earned the small money he re- ceived for his services; but he had a sin- ecure compared with the man in blue overalls and jumper who ‘‘stokes up” one of the huge ‘‘moguls’”’ of the present day. These engines haul freight and eat up coal as if it were greased paper. The fireman is at work continuously, and about the only time he has tu rest is when his train ‘‘takes a siding’’ to let a more aristocratic passenger train pass. -_—_o -9 — - The Law as to Cancelled Orders. So much has been written and said on the concellation of orders and the return of goods once purchased that the rights of both seller and buyer are becoming more clearly defined under the law. Both parties have certain rights, and the suits that are occasionally growing out of the infringement of these rights are having a good effect, at least in the way of defin- ing precisely what one can or cannot do under the law. Many retai) merchants have an idea that they can refuse to accept goods at any time after ordered. Such would not seem to be the case under the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia, in the case of McCord vs. Laidley, wherein a firm bought a carload of goods to be shipped and paid for on delivery. The seller shipped the car and forwarded a draft. The draft was presented before the car arrived, and payment refused, andthe buying firm notified the seller that he had violated the contract by de- manding payment before the delivery of the goods, and that they would not ac- cept the goods when they arrived. When the car arrived it was tendered to the buyers and they refused it. It was then sold for what it would bring, which was much less than the contract price. The buyers were held by the court to be liable for the deficit. The decision is not only good law, but sound common-sense, and would un- doubtedly be cited as a precedent in all similar cases. —_—-—~-2 Knew What He Wanted. Farmer Oatbin (to shoe clerk): ‘I wan’t to look at, good solid calf shoe that’ll wear, young man.” Intelligent Shoe Clerk (up in the tech- nical names): ‘‘Yes, sir. Do you want a veal calf?’’ Farmer Oatbin (with emphasis): ‘‘Wy, you gosh-blamed idiot, you don’t s’ pose Vd ask ye for a lamb ealf ora pig calf or amutton calf, do ye? I may be green young feller, but ye can’t fool me on calves.” CHICAGO AND WEST? MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly.G’d Rapids. 7:25am 8:50am 1:25pm *11:F0pm Ar. Chicago ...12:20pm 3:55pm 6:50pm *6:30am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. Chicago....8:25am 9:00am 5:45pm 11:35pm Ar. G@’d Rapids.1 20pm 3:55pm 10:55pm = *6:10am VIA 8ST. JOSEPH AND STEAMER. iy. Grand Rapids......_.. --. 1:25pm 16:30pm Ae Coteae@o. 2... 8:30pm Jam Ly. Chicego 9:30am...Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm JUNE 25, 1893 TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Lv. Grand Rapids...... 8:50am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 10:45am 3:55pm 5:25pm TRAVERSE CITY CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly.G R..... 5:45pm *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm Ar.Manistee.10:44pm 12:10pm 6:10pm 4:50am Ar.Trav.C’y.11°10pm *12:40pm 6:00pm .... .... Ar. Charlevoix...... *3:15pm 8:20pm 7:20am Ar. Petoskey -. 3:45pm 8:50pm. 7:50am Ar. Bay View ...... *3:55pm 8:55pm 8:0(am Trains stop at Traverse City for dinner and supper. Arrive from Bay View, ete , 6:00 a. m., 11:40 a. m., 1.05 p. m., *10:00 p. m. OTTAW4 BEACH. Ly. Grand Rapids.:. §:50am 5:45pm ......... Ly. Ottawa Beach... 7:00am 3:50pm 9:40pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m., leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:3 p. m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS, ToChicago, lv.G.R.. *7:25am 1:25pm *11:30pm To Petoskey lv.G. R.. *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm To G. R..ly. Chicago. 8:25am *5:45pm *11:35pm ToG. R..lv. Petoskey 6:05am *1:30pm_ +8:20pm Free Chair Cars for Manistee 5:45 p m. *Every day. +tExcept Saturday. Other trains week days only. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av2. EASTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 14|+No. 16|tNo. 18\*No. 82 G’d Rapids, Lv| 6 45am|10 20am) 3 25pm/i1 00-1 i fonts ........ Ar| 740am/11 25am} 4 27pm |12 42 m St. Johns ...Ar/ 8 25am/12 17pm! 520pm| 2 00am Owoss)...... Ar| 900am| 120pm] 6 05pm} 3 15am E, Saginaw..Ar |1050am/| 3 45pm) 8 00pm} 6 42am Bay City ....- Ar /11 32am) 4 35pm)! 8 37pm) 7 15am Pit Ar }10 05am} 3 45pm) 7 05pm] 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar |1205pm| 5 50pm) 8 50pm| 7 30am Pontiac ...... Ar |10 53am] 3 05pm! § 25pm} 5 37am Detrott....... Ar |11 50am] 405pm! 9 25pm] 7 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 81 |tNo. 11 {tNo. 13.\tNo 15 G’d Rapids, Lv} 7 00am) 1 00pm) 4 45pm)10 20pm G@’d Haven, Ar/ 8 25am 2 10pm) 6 00pm)11 20pm Milw’kee Str ‘‘ | 6 20am} 6 30am Chicago Str. ‘ Gam) ...._... *Daily. +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 &.m , 3:15 p.m. and 9:45 p. m. Sa 14 has Wagner Parlicr Buffet car. No. 18 ParlorCar. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 1 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monrce Street _ Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect June 25, 1893 TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrivefrom Leave going : Ce i South. North. For M’kinaw,Tray., City and Sag. 6:50am 7:20am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 1:10am 1:20 p m For Cadillé: and Saginaw...... ...... 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ...__. 8:10pm 10:30 pm From Kalamazoo. .. . 9:10pm From Chicago and Kalamazoo... 9:40 pm Trains arriving from south at 6:50am and 9:l0am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday, Also train leaving north at 7 20 a. m. does not run to Traverse City on Sundays. TRAINS GOING SOUTH, Arrive from Leave going This train ‘ : North. For Cincianad 6:30 am Tatas For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 8:00 am For Fort Wayne and the East. - 11:50am 2:00 Pm = Em all i ial gle 6:15pm 6:00 Pm or Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 3 From Saginaw 11560 tH re — Sige 10:40 p m rains leaving south at 6:00 p m and 11:20 daily; all other trains daily except Sunday basal SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH ae : i o a city. m train has Parlor Car to Mackinaw 1:20 p m train has pari sae a Petoskey and oma — : m train.—Sleepi r Rapids z Petoskey and ‘Seki, — SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chai ae to Cincinnati. vianicnaes : &m train.—Runs solid with Wag- ae oe - Grand Rapids to Chena, 2: P m train.—Parl f - Ont to Fort Wayne. ee eee :00 m train.—Wagner si Grand Rapids to ¢ incinnati, sy ie 11:20 pm train.—Through Coach and Ww —" Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chi- cago. Chicago via G. R. &I. BR. R. Lv Grand Rapids 8:00 a m 2:00 p m 11:20 pm Arr Chicago 1:25pm 9:10pm 6:50am ‘ nae am train runs solid with through Wagner Par- or Car. 11:20pm train daily, throu Coac Pi an yt y @h Coach ani Wagner Lv Chicago Arr Grand Rapids aan Pm 9:50 pm 9:40 p m 6:50 am 15 p_m through Wagner Parlor Car. 9:50p m train daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car. ll _ Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For ae —Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 55 am 15 : 0:1: 11:25 am pire 5:45 pm 9:10pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45a m, ar- riving at 9:15 a m. Returning, train leaves Muske- gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:50 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. MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) Arrive. Depart woapm |... Detroit Express ........6 55 pm weam.....,.... Day Express ........ 199 pm 6 OOam.....*Atlantic and Pacific.....10 45 pm 1pm ..... New York Express...... 5 40 pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantie and Pacifie ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 a m; 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. DE TROIT, MAY 28, 1893 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:10am *1 45pm 5:40pm Ar. Detroit .............11:35am *5:50pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit............. 7:45am *1:45pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids......12:55pm *5:40pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BST, LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. G@ R.11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R, RB. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:45pm 5:40pm (Ay. from Loweil........-. 22:56pm 5:40pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. TOLEDO NORTH MICHIGAM RAILWAY. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’ys offers a route making the best time be- tween Grand Rapids and Toledo, Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. VIA DL. 4 M. BY. Lv. Grand Rapids at..... 7:10 a, m. and 1:25 p, m Ar. Toledo a§......... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. VIA D., 6. H, 4M, BY. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p, m. By, Wore a6... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p, m Return connections equally as good. BrEnnett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Some Peculiarities of the City Sealer. Enquiry among city grocers concern- ing the manner in which the inspection of weights and measures is done by the officer appointed by the city to do the work develops an astonishing condition of things. Scales were found ‘‘ap- proved’? which would not balance the day after they were inspected; others balanced, but the weights were light; in other cases both scales and weights were wrong. In one instance the sealer ‘‘ap- proved’’ a Howe platform counter scales, notwithstanding he was told by the pro- prietor of the store that they were unfit for use. Not a store was visited in which ‘‘dry’? measure was used for any- thing under half a peck, the ‘‘wine” measure being used for pints, quarts and and half gallons. With the single ex- ception of Gaskell & Goss, however, who appear to have fallen under the displeas- ure of the official sealer, no one has been complained of. Is it possible that these short measures escaped the vigilance (?) of the sealer? Does he not know (what he should have known long ago, if he does not) that not one grocer in fifty in the city knows that wine measure is not to be used except for measuring liquids? There is nothing in the city ordinance about it, and one must look in the State statutes to find it. The sealer appears to know which measure should be used for ‘‘dry” and which for ‘‘wet’’ goods, but it seems not to have occurred to him to mention it. Perhaps the mul- tiplicity of his duties may have been the cause of his not saying anything about it; or, perhaps, it is not his duty to give in- formation on this or any other matter connected with his office; but _ it would seem to be necessary that the grocers should know what is the legal measure, if they are to conform to the law, and some people will be inclined to imagine that the sealer is the one to give them the information. Some have been mean enough to insinuate that he has no information to give, and others even go so far as to say that he knows very little, if anything, about the duties of his office. Ture TRADESMAN is not prepared to dis- pute this, but if the sealing of scales and measures be a part of the sealer’s duty, then it unhesitatingly asserts that, as a sealer, he is a conspicuous success. He may not know how to properly inspect, or be able to say when the scales are what the Scriptures say they ought to be; but, when it comes to sealing, no one will be so mendacious as to say that the sealer neglects this function of his office. Everything is sealed that bears the slightest resemblance to a scales or a measure, and always with the ‘‘ap- proved” slip, too, until one wonders if there are such things as incorrect scales or measures. The dealers who are find- ing fault with the sealer of weights and measures, and charging him with ineffi- ciency, appear to have forgotten, what everybody ought to know, that a public officer is never expected to perform the duties of his office with the same assidu- ity and efficiency, or to use the same de- gree of intelligence, as he would if the office were a private one. If this is borne in mind, it may, perhaps, suffi- ciently account for the manner in which, it is alleged, the sealer of weights and measures in this city performs his duties. Tue TRADESMAN has no desire to criticise harshly or unjustly the work being done by the city sealer | of weights and measures, but so many complaints have reached this office about the manner in which the work was being done that to investigate the matter seemed the only course to pursue. The results of the investiga- tion, so far as it has gone, are given above. If the facts so gathered be deemed a criticism of the sealer’s work, certainly this journal is not to be blamed, and if it is claimed that they are one- sided, then Mr. Bush is himself to blame, for a representative of Tur TRADESMAN offered to accompany him for the pur- pose of seeing how he performed his work, note the results and the reception accorded him by the dealers. This offer was most emphatically refused, the officer asserting that all the journal wanted was to find evidence against him. The real purpose was to get at the exact facts of the case and publish them, with- out any concern as to who might be in- jured or benefited by the publication. If the desire was merely to secure evi- dence against the sealer, then he has himself furnished the most damaging, as his refusal of THE TRADESMAN’S very natural and proper request may easily be construed into fear of the conse- quences. His refusal has not put an end to the investigation; he has only made it a little harder to attain the end sought, which will be attained, no matter at what cost of time and labor. The sealer seems to have the idea that the ‘‘fight” is against him, personally—and it will be if it is found that heis not doing his work as it ought to bedone. At present, how- ever, it is simply an investigation to find out whether it is ‘‘inspection that in- spects,’’ or not. ——___-+-—~.-. > - To Compel the Consumption of Cheese. One of the most foolish and clannish enactments ever effected in this country was a bill which was passed by the last New York Legislature, prescribing for the forced consumption of cheese, as follows: The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The agents and wardens of the various State prisons within this State and the officers in charge of all other penal institutions therein, shall cause to be furnished to each inmate of said institutions daily, American cheese as a part of their food rations. See. 2. The Adjutaut-General of this State shall cause to be furnished daily to each member of the National Guard, while on duty at the State camp at Peeks- kill, American cheese asa part of the rations furnished by the State. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect imme- diately. Governor Flower very promptly vetoed the bill, accompanying the veto with the following pertinent reasons for such ac- tion: 0 This is an act to promote the consump- tion of cheese. It compels the agents and wardens of the various State prisons and the officers in charge of all other penal institutions to furnish to each in- mate of these institutions daily rations of American cheese. It alsocompels the Adjutant-General of the State to furnish daily to each member of the National Guard, while on duty at the State camp at Peekskill, American cheese as part of the rations supplied by the State. No other reason has been advanced for my approval of the bill than that it would increase the market for American cheese. If I should give it my approval, I could not well refuse to sign a similar bill next year for the producers of honey, or another for the benefit of potato raisers, or another for the advantage of bean growers, and so on. Such legislation, enacted in the interest of any particular class of workers and to increase the con- sumption of any State product by artifi- cial means, isa gross reflection on the manliness of the workers in that indus- try. Our natural resources and the in- telligence of our farmers have placed the Empire State in the lead of all other States in the production of butter and cheese, and I have too much respect for our dairy farmers to think that they would approve of any such ridiculous measure as this, which, if enacted, would justify almost any kind of similar legis- lation in the interest of particular indus- tries or occupations. — <2 <_--—-—— Woman and Business. That business is the part of life work man should perform is generally con- ceded, but that woman should be dis- couraged from attempting to take part in, from lack of capacity, is an ancient notion unworthy of any but such men as would suffer from a comparison of their efforts. Interesting to our readers is the influence which brought success of some women in business in lines in which they are interested. The husband was a hard worker, and yet when the daughter grew up it was necessary that she should sup- port herself. The mother being an in- telligent woman, had taught her thrift as well as to be gentle and womanly. Employment was secured ina large es- tablishment manufacturing ‘‘rag wheels” for polishing purposes. She learned about all parts of the manufacturing, cost of materials, the amount of labor, and the selling price. In talks with her mother, she convinced her*that she and her father, with her brothers could do the work, with some machinery. With the aid of a friend, who was a machinist, an improved machine was originated, and by hard saving, money was accumu- lated to secure the machines. After the machines were ready, the mother ap- plied to a large dry goods house for the material, and on her statement the nec- essaries were secured and the first wheels made. These wheels sold by the mother taking them with her to places where such goods were used. She stood by the quality, and held out for price in a true, business manner, so that to-day the little establishment is fixed and growing. The acquaintance of the mother with the dry goods merchant led her to ask fora line of credit on a stock of haberdashery, as the other materials were purchased for cash. That she was successful in her request is foreseen, and to-day she has as well equipped a notion store, in the cheaper and more useful line of goods, as can be found, and the outstanding bills against it are small and could be paid if necessary by cramping foratime. Here are two separate busi- ness enterprises whose starting and suc- cess are entirely due to women, though men do a large part of the work to-day. The number of women who have taken a hand in the matters of business that barely make ends meet is better known to traveling salesmen than to any other class of business men. That mechanic who was always behind in his promises, his work and his bills, who is to-day abreast of the world and progressive, owes a balance that would swamp him to a mother, wife or sister. Sweeter, more womanly women you will never meet than these same business helpers, and they possess all the winning airs and graces of their sisters who never had business experience. Give woman the credit due her and don’t magnify her peculiarities. You wili find after an in- ventory and trial balance comparison of “hers”? and “hims,’? that the value placed on woman is too low. A few words to young men might be said here with propriety. When you come in contact with young women in busi- ness, be very careful to bemanly. Don’t belittle yourself by attempting to patron- ize, or exact more than is fair, or take advantage by technical talk, and still worse, attract attention by a gallantry which is at once an insult. They are entitled to the same honest, businesslike consideration and treatment as men, aside from what might be suggested by good breeding. Any act that is distaste- ful to them, or brings them into unnec- essary prominence, is discreditable to you, and you can’t afford it. Women have benefited business, though as a rule its details are not pleasing to their tastes and nature, consequently their sacrifices and worth should secure them respect and honor. W. ANDERSON. —___—-<———_—_—_——— Work a Horse Will Do. A horse will travel 400 yards in four and one-half minutes at a walk; 400 yards in two minutes at a trot; 400 yards in one minute at a gallop. The usual work of a horse is taken at 22,500 pounds raised one foot per minute for eight hours per day. A horse will carry 250 pounds twenty-five miles per day of eight hours. Anaverage draught horse will draw 1,600 pounds’ twenty-three miles per day on a level road, weight of wagon included. The average weight of a horse is 1,000 pounds, and his strength is equivalent to that of five men. The greatest amount a horse can pull in a horizontal line is 900 pounds, but he can only do this momentarily; in continued exertion probably half of this is the limit. He attains his growth in five years, will live twenty-five, average sixteen years. A horse will live twenty- five days on water without food, seven- teen days without eating or drinking; but only five days on solid food without drinking. — nner The object of education is not external show and splendor, but inward develop- ment. A man’s accusations of himself are al- ways believed, his praises never. JAVA OIL RAW AND BOILED. A substitute for linseed, and sold for much less money. Purely Wegetable, adapted to all work where a more eco- nomical oil than Linseed is desired. Free From Sediment, has better body, dries nearly as quick and with better gloss than Linseed Oil. Especially adapted to priming and min- eral painting. This Oil is a Winner! Try a sample can of five or ten gallons. Write for prices. 0 H. M. REYNOLDS & SON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, q oo a a t NX y =) MTR NNINGS EXTRACTS ANIL SEE E QUOTATIONS. Muskegon Branch UNITED STATES BAKING CoO., Muskegon, Mich, Originators of the Celebrated Cake, ““MUSKEGON BRANCH.” Write for samples of New and Original Crackers and Cakes, before purehasing for your Spring trade. HARRY FOX, Manager. Mail orders a Mail orders a specialty. _ Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOJ.ESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons, Cloaks, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. Glass Covers for Biscuits. Cracker Chests. : | YHESE chests will pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. eT UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherina moment. They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES. Price $4. We eall the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is bound to be one of the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. — BANANAS:- Large Bunches, Yellow Plump Fruit. Oe PUTNAM CANDY Co. PHREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY 4 STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & UU. WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Garpets and Gloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0, *° Grana Rapias. THE W. BINGHAM CO., Cleveland, 0., Have had such flattering succes in handling our Bicycles that they have bough our entire output for 1893. They have taken up all negotiations pending for the purchase of cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends. THE YOST MFG. CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. F. J. DETTENTHALER, WHOLESALE OYSTERS, FISH and GAME, LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY. Consignments solicited. Chicago and Detroit market prices guaranteed. 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. LEONARDS ~~ CRO@EBT aBT.. | CLASS B DEALERS DISCOUNT. Note the Change in Price from Last Year. Per Set. ae $1 12 ee ee 1 40 ee 1 60 ae A. Bee (CL... ee ae 1 60 ee 2 20 Ne, 6. Four CRECRCRROONER, Cee) ee 2 40 ea Rn OE ee nnn nO GS ee miu nn ie a 2 50 ee en 4 00 Ro. 8. Four (PPR RSIOA ERED ee 4 50 Patent Tee Cream Disher, ———-0 Don’t fail to sell an ICE CREAM DISHER with every freezer. If you haven’t them in stock, and sell freez- ers, be sure and have a sample line, if no more, shipped. with your next order. "he make 10 Gishes to the auart, et perder... 20.2. eo $7 75 'e mece & Ginees & Cee gners, 1st. perigee... ee 2 20 a Wee 6S Gtcbes te tbe acer, ict Orr GOEL ee. 11 25 Te meee 4 erbes be ibe cnet, Peer ee... Le: 12 00 CLASS B SUBJECT TO A DISCOUNT. STONES PATENT PAPER JULIP STRAWS. -——$ ——<——)) ————$ These straws are made of paraffine wax of 140° M. P. taste or odor, and are not af- drink. The size has recently now much larger than natural straws. Instead of furnishing three or four straws with each drink, one will always suffice, and the drink can be imbibed with as mach ease as if taken directly from the glass. Paper straws are never ‘‘musty,’’ and every one is sweet, clean and perfect, which makes a saving of over half. Manilla paper and hard white They are entirely free from fected by anything used as a been increased, and they are Per M. ee ARE Ea AE ARE AEA eA OCA a Wc an a ec ee a $1 50 CLASS B SUBJECT TO DEALERS’ DISCOUNT. LEMONADE AND SODA GLASSES. No. Capacity. Size. List per doz. 301 che Of... ....35 SS O- ONAN ee $1 40 650 -—ki Of .-...33,ueutn mm. thie biown.... 1 56 1120.» kee Oe RO MS eo. 1 40 See see OE... . Be ee Ps 1 40 307 ac, ee. ot Oke 6% WOO. 1 50 308 Ll Of... Si xor> in... L We 900 <¢+5288 OC... .: S56 Roe wore Pe eG 1 50} | THIN BLOWN BELL SHAPE 918 S OZ. BO ee oi Oe i wee 76 | 918 5 OZ. OR ee ee 80 | 918 . 2: Pra Meee GS le 90 wis 6... 0 oe. Pe ee ie ae oo 1 10 918 18 0 31¢x244x4 1 50} 918 oe OL Ok oe Bele ccc 1 90 | CLASS B SUBJECT TO A DISCOUNT. | ICE CREAM FREEZERS. IRE a few weeks ago destroyed the factory of the Lightning Freezer Company, so we are unable to get any more of their make this season. But we have already secured the sale and have in stock now THE FAMOUS PEERLESS FREEZER on which we will be pleased to quote you prices. Sizes we will have in stock for the bal- ance of this season: So Comart Feeress 2.8. i ie Oe OPA Feeees ee ee 5 50 6 Orart Peeriees.. ee, 7 00 Sieeere Peers a 9 00 Write for Discount. Glass Lemon Reamer or Squeezer. The best article ever offered to extract juice from a lemon. lt fits over a glass as shown, and the lemon is placed on the top and turned back and forth, thus extracting all the juice and pulp which runs through the openings made for that purpose into the glass below. Packed, }¢ doz. in neat cardboard box, per doz...... $1 50 CLASS B SUBJECT TO A DISCOUNT. FLORAL OR GARDEN TOOLS. CLASS B SUBJECT TO A DISCOUNT. . 55 is a wrought steel set, new this season, and the best one ever offered nO meeke so tron on fer Soe, Lisk wer ager.) 660g $4 00 No. 60 is made of wrought steel witn polished blades and varnished handles. A nice set for children or for ladies to use around flower beds. List Ree ee cen ay s 00 - 70 is made of wrought steel and is intended for ladies to use. The blades are polished and the handles are extra long and varnished. List per ee at ean Eee 17 00 HOW 13 YOUR STOCK OF MEXICAN HAMMOCKS ? Lowest prices for same quality ever offered No. Kind. Length of body. Length over all. Price per Doz. |1250....Gray Hemp........ oe TR a ee ce - $12 00 Sho. ... Wane Sisal... . Ce Pete Oe 13 00 o0....