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The blow was so well placed and so vigorous, that at first it stunned him. Then he became unrea- sonably angry. He resolved to strike back. The review of his book inthe Argus was vigorously severe, and perhaps what maddened him more than anything else was the fact that, in spite of his self- esteem, he realized the truth of the criti- cism. If his books had been less suc- cessful, or if he had been newer as an author, he might possibly have set him- self out to profit by the keen thrusts given him by the* Argus. He might have remembered that although Tenny- son struck back at Christopher North, calling him rusty, crusty and musty, yet the poet eliminated from later editions all blemishes which musty Christopher had pointed out. Streeter resolved to strike back with something more tangible than a sarcastic verse. He quite admitted, even to him- self, that a critic had every right to criti- cise—that was what he was for; but he claimed that aman who pretended to be an author’s friend, and who praised his books to his face, had no right to go be- hind his back and pen a criticism so seathing as that which appeared in the Argus, for Streeter knew that Alfred Davison had written the criticism in the Argus, and Davison had pretended to be his friend; and had pretended, as well, that he had a great admiration for Streeter’s books. As Streeter walked down the Boule- vard des Italiens, he saw, seated in front of a cafe, the man whom he hoped to meet; and, furthermore, he was pleased to see that the man had a friend with him. The recognition of author and critic was mutual. ‘*Hello, Streeter!” cried ‘‘when did you come over?”’ “T left London yesterday,’’ answered Streeter. “Then sit down Davison; and have something with us,” said Davison, cordially. “Streeter, this is my friend Harmon. He is an exile and a resident in Paris, and, consequently, likes to meet his countrymen.” ‘In that case,’’ said Streeter, ‘‘he is probably well acquainted with the cus- toms of the place?” ‘Rather!’ returned Davison; ‘the has become so much of a Frenchman—he has been so contaminated, if I may put it that way—that I believe quite recently he was either principal or second ina duel. By the way, which was it, Har- mon?” ‘Merely asecond,’’ answered the other. “T don’t believe in dueling myself,’’ continued Davison; ‘‘it seems to me an idiotic custom, and so futile.” ‘J don’t agree with you,’’ replied Streeter, curtly; ‘‘there is no reason why aduel should be futile, and there seem to be many reasons why a duel might be fought. There are many things, worse than crimes, whieh exist in all countries, and for which there is no remedy except ealling aman out; misdemeanors, if I may so term them, that the law takes no cognizance of; treachery, for instance— a person pretending to be a man’s friend, and then, the first chance he gets, stab- bing him in the back.” Harmon nodded his approval of these sentiments, while Davison said jauntily; “Oh, I don’t know about that! It seems to me these things, which I sup- pose undoubtedly exist, should not be made important by taking much notice of them. What will you have to drink, Streeter?” “Bring me a liqueur of brandy,’ said Streeter to the garcon who stood ready to take the order. When the waiter returned with a small glass, into which he poured the brandy with the deftness of a Frenchman, filling it so that not a drop more could be added, and yet without allowing the glass to overflow, Streeter pulled out his purse. ‘“*No, no!’ cried Davison; ‘‘you are not going to pay for this—you are drinking with me.”’ “| pay for my own Streeter, surlily. ‘“‘Not while I invite you to drink with me!” protested the critic. ‘I pay for this brandy.’’ ‘*Very well; take it then!’’ said Street- er, picking up the little glass and dash- ing the contents in the face of Davison. Davison took out his handkerchief. ‘*What the devil do you mean by that, Streeter?” he asked, as the color mounted to his brow. Streeter took out his card and penciled a word or two on the pasteboard. ‘There,’’ he said, is my Paris address. If you do not know what I mean by that, drinks,” said ask your friend here; he will inform you.” And with that the novelist arose, bewed to the two and departed. When he returned to his hotel, after a stroll along the brilliantly-lighted boule- vards, he found waiting for him Mr. Har- mon and a Frenchman. ‘T had no idea you would come so soon,” said Streeter, ‘‘otherwise I would not have kept you waiting.”’ “Tt does not matter,” replied Harmon, ‘‘we have not waited long. Affairs of this kind require prompt action. An in- sult lasts but twenty-four hours, and my friend and principal has no desire to put you to the inconvenience of repeating your action of this evening. We are taking it for granted that you have a friend prepared to act for you; for your conduct appeared to be premeditated.’’ ‘You are quite right,” answered Streeter; ‘‘I have two friends to whom I shall be pleased tointroduce you. Come this way, if you will be so kind. The preliminaries were speedily ar- ranged and the meeting was to take place next morning at daylight, with pistols. Now that everything was settled, the prespect did not look quite so pleasant to Streeter as it had done when he left London. Davison had asked for no ex- planation; but that, of course, could be accounted for, because this critical sneak must be well aware of the reason of the insult. Still, Streeter had rather ex- pected that he would perhaps have pre- tended ignorance, and on receiving en- lightenment might have avoided a meet- ing by apologizing. Anyhow, Streeter resolved to make a night of it. He left his friends to ar- range for a carriage and see to all that was necessary, while he donned his war- paint and departed for a gathering to which he had been invited, and where he was to meet many of his countrymen and countrywomen in a fashionable part of Paris. His hostess appeared to be overjoyed to see him. ““You are so late,”’ she said, “that I was afraid something had occurred that would keep you from coming alto- gether.’’ ‘Nothing could have prevented me from coming,” said Streeter, gallantly, ‘‘where Mrs. Woodford was hostess!” “Oh, that is very nice of you, Mr. Streeter,’? answered the lady; ‘‘but I must not stand here talking with you, for | have promised to introduce you to Miss Neville, who wishes very much to meet you. She is a great admirer of yours and has read all your books.”’ ‘“*There are not very many of them,’’ said Streeter, with a laugh; ‘‘and, suchas they are, I hope Miss Neville thinks more of them than I do myself.’’ ‘Oh, we all know how modest authors are!’ replied his hostess, leading him away to be introduced. Miss Neville was young and pretty; and she was evidently pleased to meet the rising young author. ‘“‘T have long wanted to see you,”’ said, ‘‘to have a talk with you your books.’’ ‘“‘You are very kind,” said Streeter. “but perhaps we might choose some- thing more profitable to talk about?’”’ ‘fam not so sure of that. Perhaps you have been accustomed to hear only the nice things people say about you. That is the misfortune of many authors.” ‘It is a misfortune,’”’ said Streeter, ‘“‘Whata writer needs is somebody to tell him the truth.’’ ‘‘Ah!? said Miss Neville, ‘‘that is an- other thing I am not so sure about. Mrs. Woodford has told you, I suppose, that I have read all your books. Did she add that I detested them?’’ Even Streeter was not able to conceal the fact that this remark caused him she about 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. some surprise. He laughed uneasily | opened, and that I have learned a lesson and said: to-night which I will not soon forget. 1 “On the contrary, Mrs. Woodford led | hope I may have the pleasure of meet- me to believe that you had liked them.”|ing you again and continuing this con- The girl leaned back in her chair and versation. Perhaps some time I may looked at him with half closed eyes. | tell you why I have to leave.” “Of course,’’ she said, ‘‘Mrs. Wood- Streeter found his friends waiting for ford does not know. It is not likely that | him. He knew it was no use trying to 1 would tell her I detested your books | see Davison before the meeting. There while I asked for an introduction to you. | was a long drive ahead of them, and it She took it for granted that I meant to| was gray daylight when they reached say pleasant things to you, whereas I| the ground and found the other party had made up my mind to dothe exact re- | waiting. verse. Noone would be more shocked! Each man took his place and the pistol than Mrs. Woodford—unless, perhaps, | that was handed to him. When the it is yourself—if she knew I was going! word ‘Fire!’ was given Streeter dropped to speak frankly with you.” his hand to hisside. Davison stood with “TI am not shocked,’’ said the young|his pistol still pointed, but he did not man, seriously; ‘‘l recognize that there | fire. are many things in my books which are} ‘‘Why don’t you shoot, George?” said blemishes.”’ | Davison. “Of course you don’t mean that,’ said; Harmon, at this point, rebuked his the frank young woman; ‘‘because if you | principal, and said he must have no did you would not repeat the faults in | communication with the other except book after book.” through a second. “A man can but do his best,’’ said “Oh!? said Davison, impatiently, ‘‘I Streeter, getting annoyed in spite of | don’t pretend to understand the rules of himself, for no man takes kindly to a| this idiotic game!” eandid friend. ‘‘A man ean but do his Streeter stepped forward. best, as Hubert said whose grandsire ‘*‘| merely wished to give you the drew a longbow at Hastings.’’ opportunity of firing at me if you “Yes,” returned Miss Neville, ‘ta man | cared to do so,” he said; ‘‘and now I de- can but do his best, although we should | sire to apologize for my action at the Temember that the man who said that eafe. I may say thatI did what I did said it just before he was defeated.|under a misapprehension. Anything What I feel is that you are not doing| that I can do to make reparation I am >t 7 9 your best, and that you will not do your ——— “Oh, that’s all right!” said Davison; best until some objectionable person | “nothing more need be said. I am _ per- like myself has a good serious talk with |fectly satisfied. Let us get back to the you.” city. I find it somewhat chilly out here.”’ ‘*‘Begin the serious talk’’ said Streeter; ‘“‘T am ready and eager to listen.”’ “Did you read the review of your lat- est book which appeared in the Argus?” ———_ <_< “Did 1?” said Streeter, somewhat A Reprehensible Practice. startled—the meeting that was so close! From the Conf€éctioners’ Journal. and which was coming closer, and which| In this pushing, driving age, many he had forgotten for the moment, flash- practices are often resorted to to pate L ie “Yes. I did: : trade which are entirely at variance ing over him. es, I did; and I had the} with the golden rule of doing ‘“‘to others pleasure of meeting the who|as you would wish them to do unto you,” wrote it this evening.” besides being unprofitable from a purely Miss Neville almost jumped in selfish point of view. One of these prac- ‘ tices, and not the least pernicious chair. either, is that of dividing profits witha “Oh, I did not intend that you should! customer in order to secure the trade of know that!’ she said. ‘‘How did you|acompetitor. Besides accustoming peo- know it? How did you know that I ple to a scale of prices which is entirely eee i incompatible with reasonable profit, thus wrote reviews for the Argus: demoralizing trade, it is the baneful ‘“You!” cried Streeter, astonished in| source of competitive strife which often his turn. ‘Do you mean to say that you| leads to the most extravagant limits, wrote that review?” and ultimately to all kinds of adultera- eng il i tions and sophistications, from which Miss Neville sank back traders and customers are alike sufferers. with a sigh. In all classes of business, especially in “There!” the large cities and towns, are found pic- ia ayune dealers and manufacturers who yg : have no reputation at stake, and very away. After all, you did not know that I was the writer!’’ ‘‘] thought Davison was the writer. I had it on the very best authority!” ‘Poor Davison!’ said Miss Neville, “And yet,” said Harmon, with a sigh, *-Englishmen will have the cheek to talk of the futility of French duels!” RoBERT BARR. person her in her chair she said, ‘‘my impetuosity as the Americans say, given me little money, but are willing to do busi- ness on asmall margin, or even at cost or below. These guerillas are to be found every where, and are pests wherever they are, but it is a great mistake to fight them with their own weapons, as you en- laughing, ‘‘why he is one of the best and stanchest friends you have; and so am I oo te consent to oe their : : ead. is undercutting is rarely re- for that matter—indeed, I think ' am | sorted to except by men who have neither even more your friend than Mr. Davison, |capital nor reputation at stake, whilst for I think you can do good work, while} you have both to protect. As arule it is Mr. Davison is foolish enough to believe | always the best thing to ignore these : i i : | trade intact by keeping up the quality of At this point in the conversation the goods you sell and prices in harmony Streeter looked hurriedly at his watch. | with that quality. This kind of com- “Ah! I see,” said Miss Neville; “this | petion is never very long-lived, and it is conversation is not to your taste. You always the most profitable course to let are going to plead an appointment—as if you simply look on. You may suffer anyone could have an appointment at/ some loss for the time being, but it will this hourin the morning!’ be far less as a soe spectator than as pal ent oa _.,|an actual slugger. This is one of the Nevertheless, said Streeter. Ihave; | many deans diane the 688 bien eons and I must bid you good-bye. 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For it is not to be denied that the fear of re- payment in silver hinders the flow to this country of European capital, which would both supply the demand for money and furnish means for carrying on many useful enterprises now sus- pended. In itself, indeed, the Sherman act is not so mischievous as most people think it is. Its primary tendency is to inflate the currency and drive out gold, but this, just now, is more than counter- acted by the shrinkage of credit going on, and is not, therefore, harmful. The purchases of silver which it requires also do no more than furnish the silver min- ers with a market for their product at high prices. Still, the indications are that the repeal of the act will be made the test of the strength in Congress of the eause of free silver, and the vote upon it will be to that extent significant. The fall in the price of silver, which was produced by the announcement that the free coinage of the metal had been suspended in India, and the further fall which our American silver miners so passionately declare will follow the re- peal of the Sherman act, have demon- strated that the struggle on behalf of sil- ver is no longer astruggle for its admis- sion to coinage in conjunction with gold, but one for the exclusion of gold from use as money altogether. For with the increase of the production of silver in the world from 63,000,000 ounces in 1873 to 152,000,000 ounces in 1892, and witha consumption of the metal in manufactures of only, at the utmost, 25,000,000 ounces a year, itis impossible to coin it at the ratio of 16 tol and retain gold in circu- lation. In spite of all the assertions about the high cost of mining silver, the fact remains undisputed that in the face of a steadily declining price the quantity produced has steadily increased since 1877. In that year the world’s product was 62,648,000 ounces and the average price was $1.20 per ounce. The next year, although the price declined to $1.15 per ounce the product increased to 73,- 476,000 ounces. The price went on fall- ing year by year till it was $1.05 per ounce in 1890, but the product had con- tinued to increase until in that year it reached 134,380,000 ounces. In 1891 the price was 99 cents per ounce and the pro- duct 143,994,000 ounces. In 1892 the price was between 80 and 90 cents per ounce and the product was 152,000,000 ounces. Now that the price is 72 cents per ounce, there is, for the first time, talk of reducing the production. It needs no prophet to foretell that when 151 or 16 ounces of coined silver shall have been made by law equal to one ounce of gold the coinage of gold will cease. It was suspended in this country from 1790 to 1834 merely because we made one coined ounce of it equal to but 15 coined ounces of silver, whereas Europe was giving 1514 ounces of coined silver for one ounce of gold. The coin- age of silver likewise ceased in this country in 1834, because we then began to require 16 ouncés of it as the equiva- lent of an ounce of geld, whereas Europe would give an ounce of gold for 1534 ounces of silver. So long, there- ‘ously. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. fore, as the gold miner can sell his gold in Europe as he can now for a price equivalent to thirty ounces of silver or thereabouts, coining it at a ratio of 16 to one is out of the question. It is idle in the face of this simple truth for the silver men to assert that a conspiracy has been formed against sil- ver. It is they, on the contrary, who are conspiring against gold. The real, though not avowed, object of their con- ventions, their speeches, their resolu- tions, their addresses, and their frantic appeals to the avarice of debtors, is to substitute silver for gold as the single standard of value. Much of what they say is indeed so extravagant that they must know that it will not be taken seri- When Mr. Warner asserts that the present monetary stringency has been made artificially for the purpose of creating a public sentiment, under cover of which the single gold standard may be established, and the closing of the mints of Indiais ‘‘part of the same great con- spiracy’? we are in doubt wether to re- gard him as a lunatic or as a wilful liar. To “establish” the single gold standard in this country neither a panic nor a con- spiracy is necessary. It is already es- tablished and has been established since 1834. All through the war the Govern- ment received only gold for customs duties and paid in gold the interest on its bonds. It wasin gold, and not in sil- ver, that we undertook in 1875 to resume specie payments, and the coin which we procured for the purpose was gold coin and not silver coin. At this very mo- ment gold is the universal standard of value all over the country, as the silver men themselves complain. They advo- cate the free coinage of silver because, being cheaper than gold, prices meas- ured in it, they say, will be higher than they are now. If this is not so, the argu ment they address to the cotton and wheat growers, that with the free coin- age of silver the prices of their products will rise, is based upon a falsehood. Still more absurd is the assertion in the address adopted by the Silver Conven- tion at Denver, that the repeal of the Sherman act is ‘‘the consummation of the conspiracy organized at the close of the Franco-Prussian war to destroy one-half of the coined money of the world,’’ and even this is outdone by the the following paragraph in the same address: Itis idle to hope that reducing the value of silver to the lowest stage will force Great Britain to seek international solution of the dilemma. The home of the single standard is in her islands. Its members have fully anticipated the low degree to which silver will descend. They have discounted its disturbance of her Indian trade and steeled their hearts against their Indian subjects. The power that could plot for seventy-seven years; that could force its yoke upon Germany, the Latin Union, Austria and the United States: that could gain to its use the daily press of the country; that could control for twenty years the Na- tional conventions of the great American political parties—granting in their plat- forms professions of bimetallism, but al- ways securing Presidential candidates unalterably opposed to it; that could change an overwhelming sentiment among the people for bimetallism to a feeling of enmity or indifference, can never be induced to relent; for it has counted the cost and has learned its power. This reminds one of nothing so exactly as of the letter written on behalf of the Watertoast Association of United Sympa- thizers by Gen. Cyrus Choke, and re- corded in the veracious pages of Dick- ens’ *“‘Martin Chuzzlewit.’’ ‘‘In free- dom’s name, sir,’’ says the General, ‘‘I advert with indignation and disgust to that accursed animal with gore-stained whiskers, whose rampant cruelty fiery lust have ever been a scourge, a torment to the world. The naked visit- ors to Crusoe’s Island, sir; the flying wives of Peter Wilkins; the fruit-smeared children of the tangled bush; nay, even the men of large stature anciently bred in the mining districts of Cornwall, alike bear witness to its savage nature. Where, sir, are the Cormorans, the Blunderbores, the great Feefofums named in history? All, all exterminated by its destroying hand. I allude, sir, to the British Lion.” Still crazier and more violent is the talk of the Governor of Colorado about an appeal to arms, and threatening that ‘‘blood shall flow to the horses’ bridles’’ if the single gold stand- ard is maintained. Of the 58,000,000 ounces of silver pro- duced in the United States in 1892, Colo- rado contributed 24,000,000 ounces, Mon- tana, 17,500,000 ounces; Idaho, 3,000,000 ounces; Nevada, 2,500,000 ounces, and Utah, 7,750,000 ounces; making in all 54,750,000 ounces. The aggregate popu- lation of those States and Territories, ac- cording to the last census, is 888,408. This little handful of people, to uphold the price of their product, demand legis- lation the inevitable effect of which will be to abolish the gold standard and sub- stitute silver in its place. They have conspired for the purpose with the spec- ulators and landowners of the West and Southwest, and threaten toresort to war. Their success would reduce to half their present value the wages of 10,000,000 laboring men, the deposits of 5,000,000 savings bank depositors, and the life in- surance of 1,250,000 policy holders, as well as the investments of unnumbered owners of railroad and municipal bonds, of shares in moneyed corporations, and creditors generally. Thata scheme so monstrous should have even a chance of accomplishment is impossible. and the sooner it is knocked in the head the bet- ter. MATTHEW MARSHALL. ——_—_——>>- + <—_—_—_——— It is popularly believed that bank checks and drafts cannot be raised in amount, without easy detection, where the amounts for which they are issued are punched out with perforating ma- chines. This, however, is a mistake, as recently two drafts for $20 and $25 were raised to $2,000 and $2,500 respectively by the skillful punching out of addi- tional ciphers, thus making the figures correspond with the amounts written, as they were changed. Care should there- fore be taken in using perforating ma- chines to cut out some character before and after the figures punched, which may prevent any further figures being punched without showing the alteration. Impious and unholy Bob Ingersoll has lately expressed himself freely on the silver question now agitating the coun- try. He said: ‘‘This is a bankers’ panic. The bankers have been predicting a panic for years, and have done all they could to fulfill their prediction. They tell us that the Sherman law has done all the damage, and they point to the pres- ent price of silver as one of the results of the Sherman law. Certainly silver did not fall in price because the Sherman bill made a market for 4,500,000 ounces amonth. You cannot put prices down by buying. Silver has fallen because it was demonetized. The value of a thing depends somewhat upon its use, and the main use of silver has been destroyed. Suppose gold had been demonetized in- | stead of silver, what would worth?” gold be > -_+ Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons, and | - MOCCASINS. — | i - Meant What He Advertised. A merchant at Skagit, Wash., thus an- nounces his intention of retiring from business in a local paper: I am going to close out my entire stock of dry goods, clothing, hats, boots, Also blankets, com- forts, lamps and glassware. Hundreds of useful things that everybody needs. I don’t want ’em. Come and get ’em. They will be sold at a price that will lift ’em from my store. 1 don’t want ’em and won’t have ’em. Have been keeping store for forty-five years, and its long enough. ‘Nothing init.’ Goin’ to raise hogs. —_— i — i elt i Elmer Thompson, book-keeper for Per- kins & Hess, goes to Kinderhook Friday to spend a week with his brother. He will be accompanied by his family. “The Proof of the Pudding is Ask- ine for More. SMOKERS ONCE SMOKERS AL- WAYS OF THE CELEBRATED Ben — Hur, The great 10¢ Cigar, and FRecord BRreaker, The Great 5e Cigar. “aotearoa me Made on Honer. Sold on Merit First-Class Dealers Everywhere. GEO MOKBS & OO pe TRQoiT., Quick Sellers. THE NEW FALL SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, LINE DETROIT, MICH, All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. ~——————()——————— State Agents Woonsocket and Lyco- ming Rubber Co. -O Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. Cadwell, 33 Park street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE QUESTION OF ANCESTRY. The people who are striving to prove that they are descended from beasts in- stead of from ancestors who, according | the most an- | to the most ancient records, cient human remains and from positive testimony of the most ancient descrip- tion, agreeing with existing laws of na- ture, were always of the human species, propagating after their kind, are seri- ously put about to find arguments to sup- port their theories. All their arguments are built upon meie fragmentary sug- gestions, and are built upon theories, not upon facts. Here is an example: A writer in the Chicago Open Court finds great comfort in the fact that when people walk rapidly they swing their arms. To him this is the plainest sort of proof that man was once a quadruped, going upon four legs, but that by a long course of evolution he learned to stand on his hind legs likea bear or a monkey, and, finally, to use only his hind legs in the process of locomo- tion. Another partisan of man’s beastly origin asserts that to the pernicious habit of walking erect must be attributed many of the diseases peculiar to women. If they had only remained quadrupeds they would have been free from many complaints to which they are subject. This is, of course, mere assertion, as there is not aparticle of proof in any such assumption, and noneis possible. The women of savage tribes walk as con- stantly erect as do those of civilized races, but they are seldom, if ever, af- flicted with organic displacements and disturbances to which their civilized sis- ters are liable. Disorders that may be attributed to modes of dressing have nothing to do with the standing posture. But the writer who sees in the swing- ing of the arms of the human pedestrian a relic of the four-footed gait which men are assumed to have oncecommonly used is confounded with the fact that the bear standing or the monkey walking on his hind legs, does not swing his fore- legs as if he were actuated by the quad- rupedal instinct. On the contrary, is forced to balauce himself, to adjust the altered center of gravity to suit the new conditions, and this, not by swinging his forelegs, but by moving them, as does a tight-rope actor his pole, merely as is required to preserve his equi- librium. The joints of more akin to erect, he so he does the human arms of a bird’s wings. The ostrich when he runs flaps his rudi- mentary wings to help his progression, and that is why a man when he walks fast. likely to be descended from a four-footed beast. The conformation of man is not fitted for four-footed progression. His knees should bein his arms and his elbows should be in his legs to suit such a mode of locomotion. The missing link which connects the ape with man has never been found, and, until he shall be, he must be regarded as purely an imaginary creature. Of course, there are some men so beastly in their natures as to sug- gest a beastly origin; but when human are those swings his arms Man is quite as from a bird as beings have achoice of ancestors, it is} strange they should choose an ape in- stead of a man made in the image of God. FRANK STOWELL. The United States has more merchant vessels, including those oninland waters as well as those on the ocean, than any other nation. The figures are: United States, 24,: Great Britain, 21,543; France, 15,047; Germany, 3,639. 383; Dry Goods Price Current. rr COTTONS. Rees... 5... .,.. «Arrow Brand 5 eee. 6 ss World Wide. 6 Asinnta AA......... 6 ee 4h Atlantic oe 6%| Full Yard Wide..... 6% Se 6%|Georgia A.......... 6% Georgia 5%/ Honest Width... -. 6 |HartfordA .. . 5 |Indian Head.. Amory 6% Archery Bunting... 4 te Beaver Dam AA.. 54 Lawrence Be 5 Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% pieck Crow......... 6 | Newmarket = 5X pee Mee... .... 6%) 5 a ' | ’ 7... 6% Capital A.... _e...... 6 * Ottoman = = * oom.... © —e............ 6% - _ ards ... 5%/Martha ee - red -.. 7 es os 7 . ¥.- “os Martha pauinasin - " Tere ree........ 9% . . S4X¥XK 2 Riverpoint robes.... 5% Cocheco fancy...... 6 Windsor a 6% - madders... 6 gold pen? es Xx twits... 6 | atin ESS 10% ng eolida...... Si¢(iarmony......... _ os ae Aeeons At A... a A ..., cc ccsunn Hesatton M......... 7%|Pemberton AAA.. “ >... 8 — 2 “os ' Awning. <= Swift eee... .. 7% a. .. Peari River...... a Pos Pee... .... 10% EE onan oon an Lonox Miles ........ Bic ——.......... 16 COTTON DBILL, om, 2 oe A ...,...- 8 We es 6%\|No Name.. «o-oo Ciifton, fc... 7 iTopof Heap.. bine aa ie B DEMINS. Amoskeag ae 12%(Columbian brown. .12 Sen, .... 13%| Everett, blue........ 12% o brown .13 ' brown. ....12% Aueorer. .........,.- 11% Haymaker ae. oie T% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7% BS...9 eeeee........ 11K ng OC.. eeeeer. ...... 5. 12% Boston Mfg Co. br.. Lawrence, 902...... 13% blue a c No. 220....13 ‘* 6d & twist 10% sa No, 250....11% Columbian XXX br.10 ™ No. 280....10% XXX bi.19 GINGHAMS. Amoskear .......... 6% Lancaster, staple... 64% ‘Persian dress 8 fancies .... 7 . Canton .. 8 ' Normandie 8 ' BPC nnn 110% Lancashire.......... 6 - Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5X . Angola..104%/|Monogram.......... 6% e Persian.. 8 |Normandie......... 7% Arlington staple.... 614)Persian............. 8 Bates Wa fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... %% Bates Warwick dres TH mosemont..........+ 6% staples. 6%4/|Slatersville ......... 6 C vine eee ae 10%|Somerset....... en —_ OO Me TP eComes ..........2- 7% Cumberland staple. 5% i Ge word....... 10% Cumberiand........ ee ™% Peer... ..... a “ geersucker.. 7% ee Tel EI... <2 0. 7 Everett classics..... 84%|/Whittenden......... 8 Mxposition........-. 74 heather dr. 7% OR io 6% . indigo blue 9 eer vem.... ...... 6% |Wamsutta staples... 6% eg ™% Westbrook oie ueeues 8 ee a : Jobnson Vhaloncl %/Windermeer.... .... _ indigo bine SiTORR..... ......-... 6x . zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag. . -16%| Valley oa eo a See 19% |Georgia .... ...... ..19% Rien... 6. TORE Pte onc cs o-+ sss THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....@ (iBarbour's....... .... &6 cor, 5. er ....... -_— (ieeeelrs.... ...... 81 OT 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. —— me. 6... - me HM... . t+. ag Ee 8 ~ Oa 35 et ee 44 > ot 40 45 CAMBRICS. ET (4ieewards........... 6 White Star......... A pekweod...... ... 4% mee GUOUO........-. 405 LW OOes.... ......+.- Newmarket......... 4%/Brunswick ........ 4% RED FLANNEL, PENA we. one ae oe 2% Creedmore.......... ae ee ee ES 32% Weleet cae......... m ae, ERE......... 35 ee wee renee... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW.... ees cn. oc. 22%|Western W . ee oe oe ............... 18 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% a. 2............ 224|Manitoba........... 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless ..... 8 @% eee 9 @10% oe 84%@10 a 12 CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black. 9% 9% 94/1044 10 10% 10% 10%) 11% 11 % 11% 11% 114/12 2 12 12% 12% 1244120 20 20 Severen, 8 oz........ 0% 1 West Point, Z 0oz....10% Mayland, aon....... 10 oz ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% tin. ai Leelee 138% Greenwood, Sos... 11% ie A 13% Boston, § Ox......... 10% |Boston, 10 oz........ 12% WADDINGS, Waite, Gee.......-.- 25 |Per baie, 40 dos....88 50 Colored, dos........ yee «CWi«...... 750 SILESIAS. Slater, Iron Cross... 8 :Pawtucket.......... 10% Re Dundie.... oon d Cross.... 9 ss i? Dinos G.. “SEWING SIL Corticelli, doz....... 85 Corticelli knitting, twist, doz. .40 per oz ball...... 30 pee doz. .40 OKS AND ZYES—PER 6 No 2 Bret & White. = No 4 Brr & ‘White.. - “ 3 “ "Be * 40 “ 25 PINS. No 2—20, M C....... 50 4—15 F 3%...... 40 ~ 316,58 C........ 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 {No 8 White & Bl’k..20 = © - oan - c - 23 “u 6 tay 18 oe 12 “i ae SAFETY PINS. ex....... « Ee 36 NEEDLES—PER &M. 2. oes... .... 1 40|\Steamboat.... ... —- Te 1 35\Gold — ese oes 1 50 Real s........,.- 1 OOjAmerican...........1 00 TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—4....2 2 9 --195 6—4...2 95 “26 9° Jo COTTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua............. - Ce 12 Rising Star fly... ee eee ace 18 3-ply.. er - ers Go... 3 Bristol -.- +13 [Wool — 4 ply17% Cherry ‘Valley. be abee 15 |Powhatta: 18 IXL 18 PLAID OSNABURGS Bepemee... .......... 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% a ee ce io 2 “seein ees 5 I oe were ee 7 OE etree 5 ey coe ns 6 (eeneoen......... - eee... 614 oa Sec eee 5g OE oie is ection ox “wee eel wees ope Big _— _ desea on Bigg ee Leds eeekaee ae ‘ AYLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- creased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. pople’s pewriter Retail price, 8®2O each. Agents wanted in every town in the state. EATON, LYON & C0. Booksellers and Stationers, 20 & 22 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cuas. B. ee E. B. S—ymour, Sec’y HANNEN, Supt. OOK INDING co. “Chicago” Linen Hinge and Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. SPECIAL BOOK BINDING. Telephone 1243. 89 Pearl street, Old Houseman Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. Directly Opposite Union i) pot. AMERICAN PLAN RATES, $2 PER DAY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS FREE BAGGAGE TRANSFER FROM UNION DEPOT. BEACH & BOOTH, Props. r ‘ > re~> j i ee yx 2 vi? : << * ¥ + t ? * — r . er S v * 4 ~ ° * a 2 i ~~ “ } ~}o &. - | z= r I 7 - ‘ - ~~ * x 7 ‘ 4 ' > 3 7 “— 27 \ 4 -« P < | = ' ~ a 5 -_ & ° « 2 hae acl \ - - THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ~ 7 Cohesion as Applied to the Retail Gro- cers’ Association. Cohesion, as every one knows, is one of the fundamental laws of nature. There could be no order, no harmony, nothing but direst confusion and dis- aster without the law of cohesion. It is more than law; it is foree—force so pow- erful that it will hold the body, upon which it is operating, together, though all its kindred forces be in opposition to it. Itis the force by which all bodies, whether solid or liquid, are bound to- gether, and is an absolute necessity in all organisms and organizations. Na- ture would go to pieces but for this law. All organizations, whether of matter or of men, depend upon the force of cohe- sion for continued existence. How long would this great Republic hold together but for this wonderful law, which, stronger than all individual or local in- fluences (forces), binds the seventy mil- lions of atoms into one harmonious whole? What is true of the Nation is equally true of the state and of each community in the state; is true of every organization of men for any purpose whatever. Certain conditions must ob- tain if this law is to have its full effect, and its effect will be seen in varying de- gree as these conditions are or are not found in the body in which it is operat- ing. Its fullest effect is seen when the particles of the body are like, and when the particles of the body are in apparent contact. Let us see how this will apply to the Retail Grocers’ Association. The organ- ization could not live a day but for cohe- sion, and the full operation of the law of cohesion, here as elsewhere, depends upon the conditions named above. The particles (members) are like, that is, they belong to the same class, or are en- gaged in the same calling. In nature, particles of matter which are like have a mutual sympathy, attraction, each for the other. Retail grocers have, or ought to have, mutual sympathy, for they have identical interests; what, in business, will be beneficial to one, will be beneficial to all; what will injure one will injure all. Then, again, in nature, the full opera- tion of this law can only be seen when the particles of matter which it unites are in apparent contact. The retail gro- cers must get together; they must come in contact one with another, or the inti- mate relation in which each stands to the other will never be recognized. It is the mutual sympathy of the parts for each other which makes it possible for the body to ‘‘stick together,’? and there can be no such thing as sympathy, one for the other, unless the parts are ‘‘in touch.” It will readily be seen that no law could be made, no force putin operation, which has so much depending upon it as has the law of cohesion, without the ex- ercise of judgment and will based upon intelligence. There is so much at stake, so much that is vitally necessary to man’s existence and well-being, depend- ing upon the constant operation of this law that one does not care to believe that it was simply a development of nat- ural circumstances, or, what is worse, that it came by chance. One naturally prefers to believe that it was intelligence which recognized the necessity for such a law, and that the same intelligence still sees the necessity and will continue to keep it in operation. So with the operation of the law of cohesion as applied to the Retail Grocers’ Association. Intelligence must recog- nize the necessity for ‘‘sticking together,” for only as itis seen that there can be nothing done which will benefit the grocers as a class so long as each grocer is a distinct and separate ‘‘atom,’’ hav- ing no sympathy for the other “atoms,” each having a separate exis- tence and separate interests, will there be any tendency on the part of the indi- viduals to ‘‘come together” in a body. Grocers must think, and think beyond the confines of the four walls which en- close their stock. Their thinking must comprehend all the members of the class to which they belong, for, when all are thinking towards a common end, and not each for himself alone, then will be gen- erated that mutual sympathy, or attrac- tion, without which there can be no ef- fective or permanent organization. A recognition of the relation of the parts to the whole, of each individual grocer to the grocery trade, will tend to bind all together into a solid, compact body, pre- pared to resist every disintegrating in- fluence which can be brought to bear upon it. There are many reasons why the retail grocers ought to be united as a body, moving together as by a common impulse, unified by common interests and mutual sympathy; there is absolutely no reason why they should remain as scattered atoms, each living for himself alone, warring not upon the _ forces which are opposed to the business, but upon those who are engaged in the busi- ness. DANIEL ABBOTT. ~~ + Good Report from the M. C. T. A. Derxort, July 20—At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of the M. C. T. A., the death proofs of Lucius A. Ran- dall, who died June 10, was presented and ‘ordered paid in the sum of $2,500. The Board also ordered Advance Death Assessment No. 2 for 1893, which will close August 21. We have so far this year admitted thirty- -nine new members. D. Morris, Sece’y. 9 PECKHAMS Pec k ha m sy Croup Remedy the Children’s Cough Cure. Pleasant-Safe-C ertain. Get a —, today: you may need it tonight. One C oO dose will rove its value. Save r u p the C Mhildr ren! WHOOPING-COUGH, CROUP COLDS, COUGHS, quickly yield to its use. Keep it at hand. Large Re med 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,:a tablet’ of 9x12 white wrapping paper, cut from 40-pound book, bear ing dealer’s card neatly printed thereon. Order PECKHA M’S cRouP REMEDY of your jobber, and send your label to Peckham Remedy Co., Freeport, Mich. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. i cele e went e cen bes anew ee sas 60 CN eee cee ce atic din enw wns oss 49 Jennings’, genuine. . 25 Jennings’, imitation - ee 50&10 AXES. First Quality, S B. Bromsc.................. % 7 00 iD PF eee ........-.----. ix 00 ' SE ee 8 00 ' Ty We Bh tea coe ns cee wis oo BARROWS. dis. PRTG on ng na oe ee ew nc ee rec ae 8 14 00 Garten... ...... net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Stov Carriage eS Sleigh shoe...... -.------s eee sete eee tees BUCKETS. Well, plain .......-.--.--c eee oer es csee ee coon $350 Well, swivel.......-..---seeceeeer cree ee erees 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured........ .-.-.:++++++- Od Wrought Narrow, Spright Sant joit.......... 60&.0 Wrought Loose Pin...........6..eeeeeeeerees 60&10 HAMMERS. Wrought Table............ see. sce c cee ee ee 60&10 — PO eee ~ = Wrought Inside Blind...........-...---..+++ 60&10 | K See reece eee Wrought Brass..............2.0e eee ee eeeees 7% | vaches Aa ‘as “40810 Blind, Clark's... .....00. 2-00. scence crores 70&10 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..............-.. 80¢ list 60 Blind, Permors............ Dee eee cea eae na 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30c 40&10 Blind, BBGOORER .. 222... 12.21. ee ene ss eee 70 | HINGES. BLOCKS. Gate. Clark’s, 1, 2,3 ..........--.-......-. dis. 60610 Ordi Tackle, I! 299 egy | State. 22. sere ese et ete tte ae per doz. net, 2 50 rdinary Tackle, list April 189%..... .... C0410 | Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. TK 14 and CRADLES. | JOMGOr .....--.- eee eee ee ere eer sc eter cceeens ee ee dasmehinnne dis. 50¢&02 | screw Hook and Eye, %..-.-------+-++- net 10 CROW BARS. ioe oe UU Ue Cost Sioa... .........-...-........-..- per b a . ' = ...........,.... net 7% CAPS. | Strap and T..........-..--- 2. esos eee eeeee dis. “ 50 eee HANGERS 8. ne Z sm “~— . | | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50é&10 Se a 35 Champion, anti-friction...............---.- 60&10 a EE “ Kidder, wood track ........--.---e-e.essseee 40 CARTRIDGES, ee spcesiunlbaa meee 60&10 Bigs Wee... .........................,..... 58 | a ek eet ce item te ens 60&10 ere) Were. ee i se Gime, 9H | BPROEN 22. nnn en ow eens cece eee o seen ace 60&10 it dis. | — ee: FURNISHING “@ooDs. —— Riek A 70&10 | Stamped Tin Ware.........0.-..c0 0+ now list 70 Socket Framing.........-.+-:+++sseseereeeees 70810 Sepmme Tie Weed... ..-. 005 5--- es 25 Fe — settee cree een en treeee renee cnes al Granite Iron Ware .........--..-- new list 384 &10 ee WIRE 6 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer....-...-.-. -++++- ee es cu Pg zos10810 COMBS. dis. peewee Eyes : a , eee -70&10810 Curry, Lawrenoe’s...-+---c-crrrvrrcrrrr) $3 | Gate Hooks and iiyes.-....-........ 7010810 ii a a LEVELS. dis.79 White Crayons, per gross....-....- 12@12% dis. 10 venmunnnise OSnOP ES. HRD COPPER, Sisal, is inch and ——- Lu eeee eet ceeuasee we Pianished, a ox cut to size... .. per pound 28 Manil foe ae aaa aa ea nine es saan 13 . oe ee.........,..... a rer om Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 2..oscl. le ton... tmseccctsoncencererstens TM Cold Rolled, 14x48.............-.++65 oe at er rere ts 6 Se he yl hs 20 DRILLS. dis, senna ~ h Moarsc'e Bit Stecks................-....-... i Mos Wie 14............. — ao : a Taper and straight Shank................-+. ON wid eta mer 3 05 Morse’s Taper Shank..............----+++: . Stee Pee 4 05 8 05 DRIPPING PANS. = oc io ee 4 05 8 15 Sivall slacm, aor pound 00.00.0002... ee Ebsco ot la al a + 4% 3 25 No. 27 4 45 3 35 Large sizes, per pound...... ......... .-.... 6% All pheets we i8 aud lighter, pli bs ELBOWS. wide not less than 2-10 extra Com, 4 piece, 6im..................- dozs.net 75 SAND PAPER. Ce atau dis «4 | Lint acct. 19,0... dis ww OT UMERII, oo is ee eo ts woe dis. 40416 SASH CORD. il iia ili pi Silver Lake, Wie A... ...........,.... list 50 Clark’s, meal, OG: tarce, Ge... ... 30 “ as dient eaee a o Ives’, 1, $18: $24: ee wee ee eee 25 ‘“ ab B / “ 55 ” FILes—New List. dis. “ nae rr 25 ee a ee eae neo aia 60£10} Discount, 10 AL r New American ..... .-..-eeeeeeeeee eens cee 6010 ” gash WEIGHTS. a et ~~ NE ee aay La per om - Heller’s Horse Rasps .. ...-..+++++++-+---++ Pi ss Hana ' ssc a GALVANIZED IRON. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. 28 a a Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 tit as 14 15 1“ 6s iu clal Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 Discount, 60 C ampion and Electric Tooth Dil GAUGES. dis. Cute. pee fot... 30 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............-. 50 | steel, Ga TRAPS. dis. neo, wt) Seem Liat ais, | Snelda Community, Newiouse’y 00 Se... CU ee eee Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 wea é iY allan FAL RELA 18¢ per dos Door, porcelwin, tri a. 55 ouse, delusion ..............-...-.. $1.50 per doz Drawer and Shutter, eet See coe 70| Bright Market eer = a aa in ean aah uae a ese Were eae oe me cue a as Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 | Goppened Market ............... “60 Mallory, Wheeler & C0.’8......--.----+++++- 55| Tinned Market.......... TAAL ABP a ae ee uaued aoe oe = Coppered Spring PE 50 ee ye Barbed Fence, galv a eee ey aa ecs 2 80 i “ “* . 2 CES ae Cesena 816.00, dis. 60 Passe renee ote - Munk Bee..........................-. 5.0 Gis Olan Gable r dis. 40&10 et 813.50, dis. 2410. Putnam ee el is 8. Ne dig, 10&10 Sperry & Co.'s, Post, pe bec cedee cous a a WRENCHES. dis. Coffee eatin ate MILLS. 8. ” — 5 Aauable, Wiebiled oo. o.oo, ee eee EE a 50 a r> W. oe ~ ———,-. = Coe’s Patent Agriculiural, wrought, . La 75 o. a = ae et aneinnnsiss $y | Coe’s Patent, malleable. . ees - T5G10 nterpr - ene ~- ced MISCELLANEOUS. dis, aie ....,..-..— fe oo, RRR RNR RAI wane Sisbhine Genuine. scl --G8&10 Screws, New List......---.-- : a ee Enterprise, self- measuring............ . Cantor Hed @ df Plate ",50&:10610 NAILS Dampers, AmeriCan...........--+eeeseeeeeee 40 Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... 6F&10 Steel malls, DASE........0.20 ceeee ee ever eee 1 50 METALS Wire mails, DABC...... . 60. cece eee: coeee 1 G1 380 r et seas Base Base Fi@ TIN. ' CN ee ee eet 10 | Pig Large........-.---eeeeeeere reece rec eeee es 266 ees acess eee oe See fe ANP ess) elas ean skis sii ais es ae vec “8¢ eee tees aieeey 25 ZINC. ee eae 35 | Duty: Sheet, 2\4c per pound. Te 45 | 600 pound CasKS.......----2.02+0--2eeee se ee 6% ee eed 45} Per pound.......-.----------eerrer ener en sees 7 Ne eee ab alsees 50 SOLDER. Ce ee eal BL I ccc tenet eee cea cttanme nats sansa acca eas 16 Se eee a al 75 | Extra W a tet teseeeeee reas 15 te ucadaie a ae 90| ‘The prices of the many other qualities of ae 1 99 | solder in the market indicated by private brands oe ea aE RN A ND 1 60 | Vary according to composition. CN eae TOOT a es ANTUEONY. per pound ee +. | ee. ----...--- NT eee 90 ee ee eta 7 | 10x14 IC, charcoal. resteen rise eeens LE go | 14x20 IC, ee iy udowounds 1 10 10x14 TX, tL Stee eaten ees — 70 | “Bach additional X on this grade, #1 oe i 90 10x14 IC, Ch en GRADE. s @ ALCOA ....-.+- sees eee oss er eres 6 75 meee +--+: oa an isi tg Fo eeay rescmmpeteecoeetieney 6 % Ohio Tool Co.'s, faNCY .....-..-seree eee eees O40 | 4x ss 9 25 Sciota Bench............ eles ceeees 50 a ka | a Sandusky Tool Co.'s, faney..............0- O40 Hach h additional X on this grade 81.50. Bench, first quality.............-ecseeee eee @! son tc, oe 6% Stanley Rule and Navel Co.’a wood. 50&10 14x20 ; ia a a 2 50 ck oor enc cwee Cewacwes dis. g | 20x28 IC r iy wevewsesseesreees 13 50 fanans ice cunssncnes on 20 14x201C, ‘ Allaway Grade........... 6 00 ae dis. 14x20 1, . [ tb seeeeeee eens 7 50 ea ed 40 a a? i he no tanneeeeeees 12 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.........------++++- 50—i0 ’ BOILER SIXE TON PLA PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ro) ee “A” Wood's —— planished, Nos. _— 10 20 1éudt TT...........2 220. oon ‘*B” Wood’s oa Nos. 25 to 27... 9 2 14x56 Ix, for No. 8 Boilers, | per pound. 10 00 Broken + ¢ per pound extra 14x60 IX, . sy 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. M ichigan Tradesman 4 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. (2 When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tue MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1895. TOO MUCH EDUCATION. There is an excessive supply of highly educated men in Germany. Every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45 years is liable to mili- tary duty in the German Empire. Not only is he liable, but he must serve. He must enter the active service and gradu- ate through the entire course until he comes intothe reserve. The laws of ser- vice are very strict, nevertheless they favor the educated classes, since univer- sity students have privilegs which en- able them to reside at home and complete their studies, while professional men of all descriptions enjoy certain exemptions from the drudgery of a soldier’s life. One large result of these laws is that young men who desire to escape the hard- ships of military service have entered the universities and educated themselves for professional pursuits. This sort of thing has gone on until men with uni- versity education are largely in excess of the supply and find it difficult to earn a subsistence in following their profes- sions. In order to remedy the evils growing out of this state of affairs an effort is be- ing made to ship the excessive supply of professionals to foreign countries. A circular letter addressed to prominent parties in this country, forth the situation. It says, in effect, that especi- ally in the learned professions a super- sets abundance of forces and talents is con- tinually increasing and impelling its possessors to seek fields and opportuni- ties for their application in foreign lands, being led by the same impulses that drove men from the fatherland to dis- tant climes. The missionary spirit from time immemorial sent forth the clergy- men, but now physicians, pharmacists, chemists, engineers, jurists, teachers and others would be willing to seek their for- tune abroad if anyone call them, or at least instruct them about the places where they might display their talents and utilize their education. Aimless and aidless this surplus of forces will waste at home, aidless and aimless it will exhaust itself abroad, unless it be rightly informed and guided by special agencies and organizations established in its behalf. Education in the German univer- sities is considered and many Americans yearly go to Germany for the purpose of extending their studies in those celebrated institutions of learning, and when they return to their own country they have no difficulty in securing posts of instruction in our best schools. But would it be desirable to encourage the wholesale immigration of these univer- sity men? How would it affect our home supply of teachers and professionals? The American theory is that it is impos- sible to have too many educated citizens, and, if it were possible, every citizen should be given a university education. In one sense this is all right. Ina re- publie every citizen should have an op- portunity and the best facilities possible for doing his best work and developing his talents to the highest point. It is by competition that the best results are se- cured in any department of life. Not all can reach the summit, but each can advance as far as his abilities will carry him, and each individual should be stim- ulated to put forth his best efforts. Unfortunately, there is a notion, too commonly entertained, that education unfits men for manual work. It is impos- sible to dispense with hand skill. Hand- icraftsmen are precisely as necessary as are brain-workers. If education has the effect of unfitting men for handwork, there is something wrong in it. But THe TRADESMAN does not take any stock in such anotion. Itis only a lit- tle learning that is dangerous. It is the smatterer who is accurate and well- informed in nothing that is undesirable for any sort of work. Thoroughly edu- cated men, provided they are all right in character, habits and health, are good, no matter where they are placed. Their education is no bar to any sort of excellence. The more of them the bet- ter it will be for our great Republic. very thorough, THE WORLD’S MONEY. The history of modern finance dates from the discovery of America. Then were opened to Europe the rich gold and silver mines of Mexico, Peru and other parts of Central and South America. The spirit of discovery and foreign adven- ture having been aroused by the voyages of the great Genoese, other nations, such as Portugal, Holland and England, imi- tated the example of Spain in colonizing and conquests in the Indies, both East and West. It is estimated that in 1492 there was in Europe a total stock of coined money, both of gold and silver, of £34,000,000, equal to $170,000,000 of our money. The total population of Europe was 40,000,- 000, making to each head of population, $4.25. Up to 1492, and long afterwards, busi- ness was done for cash in coin or for barter. There was no paper money and foreign bills of exchange were not in use, The chronic state of war which existed in all countries since the fall of the Ro- man Empire had produced a state of na- tional disquiet which had impaired all national credits, and no loans were made save on pledge or pawn of valuables. National and personal credit are the re- sult of long periods of peace and of ex- tensive commercial intercourse and gen- eral prosperity, and of confidence begot- ten by such conditions. Paper money and banking are the fruits of civilization. To-day the commercial nations of Europe and America can no longer be separated from the rest of the world. Trade embraces every country and brings them into business relations. Once there was atime when India was thought of only as a country to be plun- dered. Now it isa commercial power, and the shutting of its mints against sil- ver makes at once a most serious impres sion upon every other trading nation. An estimate, recently made by the di- rector of the United States Mint, of the total amount of gold and silver coin and paper money in the world, gives, gold, $3,632,000,000; silver, $3,968,000,000; paper money not covered by deposits of bullion, $2,285,000,000, making a grand total of $9,885,000,000, while the earth has a population of some 1,200,000,000 people. What a contrast compared with the condition of the world’s finances in 1492, as shown gbove. In the statement of the world’s money the chief nations are credited as follows: Countries Gold Great Britain... ....... $550,000,090 Pree... ....._...... 800,000,000 oe 6°0,000,000 United States......... 654,000,000 Silver $100,000,000 709,000,000) 210,000,000 75,000,000 eee. 65,000,000 55,000,000 ee 93,605,000 50,200,000 Sestcerteand .......... 15,000,000 15,900, 00 CO eee 2,000,000 4,009.000 a 100,000,000 125,000,000 ee 40,000,000 10,000,000 Austria-Hungary...... 31,330,000 90,000,000 Netherlands .......... 25,000,000 65,000,000 Seandanavian Union 32,000,000 10,000,000 me oc 190,000,' 60 60,000,000 UE oe ce 59,000,000 45,000,000 Bares... ......... 107,9€0,0'0 7,000,000 Beyee................. eee 15,000,000 meee. 5,000,000 50,000,000 Central America...... ee oe 500,000 mouth Amserica........ 45,000,000 25,000,000 ae " 90,000,000 50,000,000 as. lL 900 ,€00,000 Re a 709,000,000 Cameos... .......... 16,000,000 5,000,000 Cuba, Hayti, etc...... 20,009,009 2,000,000 Weta $3,632,935,000 &3,938,700,009 It will be observed that the silver countries in the order of the quantities held as money are India, China, France and the United States. The gold coun- tries are France, the United States, Ger- many and Great Britain. France has an immense stock of silver, but is also largely provided with gold. The United States should have no difficulty in han- dling the present stock of silver, pro- vided it be put into circulation and kept there and a gold supply for the Treasury be secured. OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNTERFEIT- ERS. The present price of silver presents an unexampled opportunity for counterfeit- ers. Pure silver can be bought at 71 cents an ounce. An ounce of silver con- tains 480 grains troy. Take of it 37114 grains of pure metal and 4034 grains of copper and coin into a dollar of the proper fineness and weight. Of course, in stamp and external appearance it must be an exact imitation of the genu- ine. It will be of precisely the same weight and value. It will contain about 55 cents’ worth of silver. It will be in every way as good as the genuine, save that it is made without the sanction of the law, and will, therefore, be a coun- terfeit, and those who make it will be subject to the penalties of the law. Nevy- ertheless, if perfectly made, the mint and treasury authorities will be unable to detect it from the genuine. Such a coin, containing 55 cents’ worth of silver, can be manufactured in large quantities at a cost not exceeding 10 cents apiece. It will cost to its manu- facturers 65 cents, and can be put upon the market without fear of detection, for 100 cents, leaving to the counterfeiter a profit of 35 cents. Of course, the coun- terfeiter would require dies and, a coin- ing press as good as those in use by the United States, but the unlimited oppor- tunity for business, the large profit and security from detection invite to the en- terprise. Counterfeit coins are com- monly made of base metal, but when a money metal becomes so vastly cheaper than its official stamped value as that counterfeit coins can be profitably made of it, then some readjustment of values is necessary. THE CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA. The results of the financial crisis pre- vailing in Australia are now beginning to become manifest. The recent advices from that country report the prevalence of widespread distress as a sequel to the stagnation to general business resulting from the immense shrinkage in values, the shaking of confidence and the disas- ters to so many of the Australian banks. The great number of bank failures have tied up the deposits of a very large number of persons and have withdrawn alarge amount of money from circula- tion. Asa result, a general process of contraction has followed, which has put a stop to manufacturing enterprise, par- alyzed trade and thrown large numbers of people out of employment. All these disasters are directly trace- able to the extraordinary expansion which took place in Australia a few years ago. During the boom period all sorts of enterprises were overdone. There were investments in real estate to fabulous limits which absorbed vast sums of money. The actual expansion of the business of the country was not commensurate with the vast investments made, and, as a result, there has been a steady contraction, culminating in the recent panic. The crisis in Australia is one of the most conspicuous instances of the inevi- table reaction which must always follow undue inflation, and should serve as a lesson to those sections in our own coun- try where there is a tendency to inaugu- rate fictitious booms. THE TRADESMAN gives place, this week, to an interesting description of the recent cheese poisoning cases at Mans- field, Ohio. Such cases are of frequent occurence, Michigan having had her due share of such troubles, although of re- cent years she has been singularly free from poisoning cases. It isa peculiarity of poisoning by cheese that no one has ever died from this cause. This state- ment is made on the authority of Dr. Vaughan, the discoverer of tyrotoxicon, who bases the statement on scientific re- searches covering a period of more than 200 years. From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: E. W. Pickett, Wayland. Geo. H. Smith, Pearle. J. C. Neuman & Co., Dorr. A. W. Fenton, Bailey. N. Bouma, Fisher. Thurston & Co., Central Lake. E. E. Hewitt, Rockford. Seymour Hunting, Rockford. E. T. Coombs, Edgerton. Jackson Coon, Rockford. R. B. Gooding, Gooding. H. C. Carpenter & Son, Woodland. Geo. 8. Curtiss, Edgerton. B. 1. Whelpley, Mulliken. John Marin, Reed City. J. Cohen, White Cloud. T. J. Jardine, White Cloud. John Kinney, Kinney. os Hyperbolical Bombast an Evidence of | Such a man is dubbed a plodder. He Enterprise. |clings to antiquated ideas and is looked Written for THE TRADESMAN. * . : : _ ., | upon, in this bombastic age, as a sort of I do not wish to be understood as inti- | "> i = : jab og. mating that hyperbolical bombast is en- pa ee S08 ! Gi : traffic what a cherry pit is ie—i | }it, but not of it. locks the way to true prosperity; but I) i that he is compelled to occupy space, no | one would know that he was in existence. do say thatitis a sure evidence that those | who indulge init to t r st ex enn tin li oie doe are nce ei A merchant who cannot be honest with- il 8 out confining himself to dry, hard, stale : : er |facts, and who cannot tell the truth We Americans of the present genera- tion ha b : i | We do sea ae ann ec gains sis | are, was born into the world at too late jan ee ad .? a c ak aa |a date to ever win distinction as an en- ci oe : . — ee | terprising business man. He is of too highly seasoned; and we are constantly lold a pattern to be made over, and will demandi iet. iges- | : i nding a change of diet. Our diges have to peg out the remainder of his days tive organs are all out of ‘‘whack,’’ ne : : _ | under the old superstitious notion that a being no longer able to masticate and di- oo. Ce business man can tell a lie if he wants to gest good, old-fashioned, salted-down i i f i as easily as a man who is not in business. facts. Thereisa sort of mold on them a ciiak dea « ith at Funny, isn’t it? Still, it must be re- , s s . siboieisea “— " - membered that they are the relics of a only way we can get one down is to di- ae i i by-gone age, perfectly harmless, and lute it in about nine times its bulk of| _. i ae ae will soon have disappeared entirely. pure fiction and sugar-coat it with sensa- He E ae : ( i The enterprising merchant is a differ- tion. We have been fed on invention so : . . ; : i ent kind of fellow. He is hyperbolic- long that nothing but the most startling i . / mental i cheun will ath ally bombastic and is never caught pos- re oe ee re 7 - ing asa roost for flies. Like the enter- tention. This hyperbolical bombast is ws . prising newspaper man, he humors the not confined to the mercantile world—it | : : , i i ee : : whims of the people, keeping plenty of Ss y Ss i » aS ¢ Q ee . : ee ~~ ee bait on hand, so that the public is never are found where the most sensational : . . i | permitted to tire of one kind before an- pulpit orators hold forth and the most 1 ee i (other is thrown out. He is in it up to successful revivals are those under the|,. , : : his neck and if there be any game in the leadership of evangelists who are strik- | , : a a a i : puddle he is going to have his share. He ingly original in declaration and novel. a f i : : iis enterprising in the modern sense of in method. The fakir on the street) the term, and, therefore, not amenable corner who catches the greatest number . : to any code of morals. According to the of suckers is the fellow who can invent , : £o the bi a to if t a with latest improved ethical standard, he is ' — me er oe ~~ 100 Givorced et vinculo from his own con- a twitch or a twinge. In the literary : : , oe _ science, and invention, unlimited and world the writer who can hug the border : : oe : / Y universal, is placed at his disposal. of forbidden territory the closest without . . : ul / : ae i It is no evidence of enterprise to ap- falling into it is the one who wins re- : : a i pear in a four-inch space and modestly nown and gathers in the shekels, whether his iia auaadaae h |announce that you have good, clean, ve er ee are intended for the peri-| erosh family groceries for sale at mode- odieal, the library or for rehearsal upon : 4 . i : on a Th tied atthe rate prices. There is nothing startling =. : i. d es igse — en about this; it sounds too much likea oT tips a ; By eigenen wari fact, and, whether it be one or not, the ao ” pe a a aa public looks upon it as such and turns it sag bees tie aia we re or pera! down. The public, nowadays, can be use of expletives and explosives, and a oe i , to aie -dli od actuated only with a spirit of enterprise, an m ” oe a asp: a 7 “\and if aman feels as though he can’t do Bere nee wa om i een business without springing a fact on the . _ a ae pie e e — eT people every now and then, he will have —— a ++ What Makes a Good Clerk? Clerks need to be live, energetic, oblig- ing and original. At no time in the his- tory of business was this more impera- tive than to-day. And no matter how well qualified a merchant himself may be he has little chance of success if his staff of clerks are not of the desired stamp. Here one meetsa clerk who is little better than amachine. He shows the customer just what he wants to see and just what he asks for, nothing more and nothing less. New goods his em- ployer may have in stock, but he appar- ently Knows nothing about them, no matter how desirous it may be that they should be introduced. The only differ- ence between the mechanical clerk and the nickel-in-the-slot machine is this: you drop a word in the ear of one and a nickel in the slot of the other. The ad- vantage, however, is rather with the lat- ter, because it is cheaper. And if the principle of the nickel-in-the-slot ma- chine goes on extending in the future as it has in the past, itis probably but a matter of time before the metal machine will supplant the automatic clerk. You can already get acup of coffee, a cigar- ette, and in fact numerous other things by dropping a nickel in the slot, and why not a pound of tea or sugar, ora ean of fish, meat or vegetables? A clerk, to be of any value, must be live and energetic, a man prolific in ideas and that has judgment to turn these ideas to account whenever a favorable opportunity offers. It is the only road to success. If one employer does not recognize your services it is only a mat- ter of time before another will. Merit will meet with its reward in the long run. Push goods at every opportunity, and if you have a new or desirable line in stock be sure and acquaint each cus- tomer of the fact. But tact is as essen- tial as any other qualification. It would be infinitely better for some clerks, and too, for that matter, if they never undertook to induce a customer to purchase something in addition to what he or she may have entered the store for. In their anxiety to sell they over- reach themselves. It is not advisable to be too pressing; and here is where a good many make a mistake. Never force goods. To state that you havea nice line of such and such an article in stock, to point out its peculiarties as to quality or cheapness, and to politely ask it is practically all thatis necessary. When they give a negative answer do not per- sist. People do not like to be bored. {Some people are particularly difficult to really, | approach; and this suggests the idea of the advisability of all clerks making a study of human nature in general and of the peculiarties of their customers in No two are constituted alike, and the man who fails to realize | this will neither make a successful mer- and stars; and were his experience a hun- | chant nor a successful clerk. Learn the and the! likes and dislikes of your customers and ‘how youcan best handle them. That is| the foundation of success; and there is ceeded that of a devil fish’s arms, no one | no other. | JAVA OIL RAW AND BOILED. A substitute for linseed, and much less money. 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Besure d get Organized 1881, LOM, oe Hirss.’ phi: ss DETROIT, MiCHIGAN MICHIGAN MERCHANTS And business men who contemplate a visit to the World’s Fair would do well to communicate with the MAGA -- HOTEL, which offers the best and cleanest rooms and the cuisine to be found in Chicago for a reasonable price. Every- thing new and _ first-class in every respect. Un: inimously chosen as headquarters of National ‘Press Association, Michi- gan Press Association, and many other organizations. Ho RUOMS, ELEGANTLY FORNID Bath with every suite. Permanent structure of stone and brick. Location (midway between World’s Fair and business center of city) Lorner 34th, State and Dearborn Streets. Conducted exclusively on the European plan; splendid cafe in connection with the hotel, with unexceptional cuisine and appointments; service, table ad’ hote, breakfast, 50 cents; dinner, 75 cents; service a la carte; nice meals may be had by ordering from bill of fare at 25 cents and up. Beautiful Rooms, with Bath, Single, $1 to $1.50 Double, $2 to $3 pr Day. Elevated station only one block away; £¢ A2s cent package makes Five ° choicest L dle ; per Day; Cable cars pass door. WM. H. HOOPS, Prop’r. 11 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. of Brink Bros. Wm. John Brink was born July 1835, in Rotten, Province of Drenthe, Netherlands. His father was a farmer. He early manifested a desire and apti- tude for study, entering the public school at the extremely early age of 4 years, and at 5 years of age he was con- sidered one of the best readers in the school. He continued in school twelve years, when he took his place as one of the ‘‘bread winners” of the family, working with his father on the farm. At 25 years of age he married, continu- ing to work as a farm laborer for three years longer, when he began peddling dry goods, at the same time conducting a small grocery store. He was 35 years of age when, in 1869, he took ship with his family for this country. Arriving here he went first to Illinois, but, after a short stay, came to Grand Rapids. Soon after his arrival he purchased the lot, now known as 34 Grandville avenue, where his present place of business is located, for $400, paying $80 down and erecting a small dwelling house. Securing a few necessary tools, Mr. Brink began work as a carpenter. After five months he entered the Widdicomb furniture fac- tory, where he remained seventeen months. He then purchased the grocery business of M. Witter. on Monroe street, selling his property on Grandville ave- nue for $800. The business on Monroe street was a partnership, the firm being known as Brummeler & Brink. The firm continued in business for seven years, Mr. Brink then retiring and en- gaging in the flour and feed business. After an experience of only four months in that line, he again went into the grocery business, this time with C. Quint, at 46 Grandville avenue. This partner- ship continued for one year, when Mr. Brink once more purchased his old prem- ises at 34 Grandville avenue, re-organiz- ing the firm as Brink Bros. & Quint, Adrian Brink being the new member of the firm. Mr. Quint remained in the firm thirteen years, when he retired, and now conducts a store at 460 Grandville avenue. Since Mr. Quint’s retirement the firm has been known as Brink Bros. When Mr. Brink made his first invest- ment in real estate on Grandville avenue, there were but two houses on the street between what is now known as Ellsworth and Wealthy avenues. He has seen that section of the city develop until now there is very little unoccupied land to be found. Indeed, the growth of the whole city during the period that Mr. Brink has been in business has been phenomenal. To say that the business of the firm of which Mr. Brink is the head has been successful, is but to state a fact well- known to anyone at all acquainted with» the commercial interests of the city. Starting in this country twenty-three years ago, without money, with only a very limited knowledge of the language, he has with his ‘“‘bare hands’’ wrought out acompetence. Years ago he gained, and has ever since retained to a remark- “able degree, the confidence, not only of his fellow countrymen, but of all with whom he has had business relations. Rigid honesty, sterling integrity and un- flagging industry, as life principles, not business policies, have won success for him, as they always will for the man who puts them in practice. Mr. Brink is a member of the Spring Street Holland Reformed Church, of which he is also an Wm. Brink, Senior Member of the Firm elder. He is the father of eight children, seven of whom died in early childhood. g, | One only child remains, a son, who is now a student in the Holland Reformed Theological Seminary in this city. He will enter the ministry of the church on | his graduation. It is but just to Mr. Brink to say that he objected to the publication of any sketch of his life, on the ground that it savored too much of boasting, something to which he has the greatest repug- nance; and it was only after much persua- | sion that he consented to furnish the necessary data to make the sketch com-) plete. er emteceeronne What Becomes of the One-Legged | Man’s Odd Shoe? From the Boston Transcript. Just what becomes of the shoes which should adorn the missing foot of a one- legged man is a matter of some interest, and should furnish food for thought to minds of a speculative tendency. the number of men who actually have but one leg is not large, there are many who from one cause or another wear but one shoe, or from some discrep- ancy in their feet have to have one shoe of an especial pattern. There are also the men with artificial legs, who, al- though they wear a pair of shoes, tread much more lightly on the artificial leg than on the natural one, making one shoe last about three times as iong as the other. There are some shoe stores which, buying their goods directly from the manufacturers, are willing to sell a one- legged man a single shoe, sending the other back to the factory to be mated: but almost the universal custon is to sell only whole pairs. The question then arises, ‘‘What becomes of the large num- ber of new shoes which are bought in this way, and which are entirely useless to their owners?’’ The solution of the problem seems to be at present veiled in obscurity, and to be known only to the one-legged shoe wearer himself. None of the local shoe dealers who were ques- tioned couid give any information on the subject which was in any way tinged with probability, nor could they tell where such information could be had. ——__ —~ 4 < Self-Made Men. The self-made man is always an inter- esting study. There is always the dan- ger that he will think too much of him- self; that being self-made, as the world goes, he will worship his maker; but when agood job has been done, the maker is entitled to some credit. Men who were poor boys, who educated them- selves and became great men, are the best types of self-made men. To have accumulated a large fortune is some- thing, but money does not make a man. The getting of it often makes a mean creature of the young man who has no other aim or ambition than that of be- coming rich. Young men who inherit riches may become useful citizens. The chances are against them. They will be eareless of all things save their own pleasure. A story is being told of a rich Hebrew of this city. He is a good man, kind and considerate of others, like one who knows what it isto be poor. He has two sons who spend all they can get, and may be called rapid. Father and sons buy cigars at the same store. The boys pay 25 cents apiece for their cigars; nothing is too good for them. The rich old man, reared with habits of economy, takes his modest 5-center in the morning. “Jiook here,’? said the curious cigar dealer, one day, “how is it that you pay so much less for cigars that your boys pay?” “Got in Himmel, mien friendt!” said the considerate parent. ‘Dose boys uv mien haf a rich fadder; I haf none. | Dat is now it vas!” While | ~ Unlike we Duteh Process No Alkalies 37 -OR-—- Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of oi)... Baker & Co’ Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and cf the various cocoa and chocolate prepzrations man ufactured by Walter Baker & Co will be sentfree toany dealeror application. W. BAKER & €0., Dorchester. Mass. DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! WESTER MACHINERY 60., 45 So. Drvision St.. GRAND RAPIDS. hy, ROOT BEER Easily and cheaply made at home. !m- proves the appetite, and aids digestion. An unrivalled temperance drink. Health- ful, foaming, luscious. One bottle of extract makes 5 gallons. Get it sure. This is not only “just as good’? as others, but far better. One SOLD trial will support this claim. EVERYWHERE Williams & Carleton, Hartford, Ct. F. H. WHITE, Manufacturers’ agent and jobber of PAPER AND WOODENWARE, 125 Court St., Grand Rapids, Mich. HEADACHE LPECK’S POWDERS Order from your jobber. Pay the best profit. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. ‘Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. | GEo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. cree Has ate IM Test ea eat i KALAMAZOO PANY & OVERALL C0. 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich, Chicago Office: 305 Central Union Block. Milwaukee Office: Room 502 Matthew Build ing. Our fall line of Pants from 39 to $42 per dozen are now zeady. An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound ee of entire line sent on approval to the trade. REEDER BROS. SHOE C0,, 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. Covopg, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. VerpiER, Cashier. K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T J.O’Brien. A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno. W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, J. A. S. Verdier. ——— Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeett, President. GEo. W. Gay. Vice-President, Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. Jno A. Szymour, Ass’t Cashier, Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS. Geo. W. Gay. S. M, Lemon. A.J. Bowne. 4G. K. Johnson. Wm. Sears. A. D. Rathbone N. A. Fletcher. | D. A. Blodgett. | C. Bertsch. | Wm. H. Anderson. | John Widdicomb. 12 THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. Proposes to Retire from the Grocery Business. Deacon Prodder in Kalamazoo Telegraph. Any man who attempts to run a little one-horse, half-baked grocery and oecupy the position of church deacon at the same time is taking a big contract on his hands, and if he holds out faithful until the assignee gets hold of his stock (which is generally about six months after he receivss his first consignment of codfish and white beans) he is a corker; he is also entitled to a full-grown crown and a harp with a million strings. There probably isn’t any business on earth that will take a plain, unvarnished every day citizen and conyert him into a ruffled and ornamental liar as quickly and effectu- ally as the grocery business. The dea- con business, if run properly and ona paying basis, conflicts with the watering of oysters and the mixing of browned peas with eoffee to such an extent, that the profits of the business are seriously interfered with. I was busily engaged in pouring about a gallon of water upon a quart of sorry and disappointed !fooking oysters the other day, when my pastor appeared upon the scene, and | realized at once that in order to hold my job in the church I had got to do some pretty tall figuring right away, so I stated to him that I had contracted these oysters to a hospital, and they required me to water them as in their natural state they were too strong for the patients. He tumbled but I caught him, and he said, ‘‘How thoughtful of you, deacon! A_ great many worldly dealers would have sold these oysters without watering! A pa- tient might have swallowed one and died! Whata boon religion is to the business world! If you get through watering your oysters in time, deacon, come out to prayer meeting tonight. A woman drove up infront of my store last night, crawled out of the back door of the wagon and entered my office. When I say office, | perhaps ought to ex- plain. Some men in business like to make a great show, and have a little room all partitioned off, with a carpet on the floor and sometimes a table, some even going to the expense of having it varnished. This to my mind is all vanity, and shows a very weak and debilitated mind. My office is on the top of a cracker barrel; that is the place where I transact all of my official business, where I keep my books and look intelligent. As I was saying, a woman drove up in front of my store last night, crawled out of the back door of the wagon and en- tered my office. The look of determina- tion in the eye of the advancing female warned me of the fact that she was about to paralyze me. I had, being a married man, seen a similar expression before, and knew it meant business when worn by a female woman. Just as she was about to open up and flood me with her eloquence, her representative of a horse fell down, and it took our combined efforts to get him into a sitting posture. I suggested to the female that she put corsets on him, as 1 thought they would stay by him longer than anything he had taken internally lately. ‘I did not come here to be insulted, Deacon Prodder! I came down here ten miles toinform you that I bought six eggs of you last week and that three of them were bad! Now, sir, do you expect to hold my trade by any such treatment as that? I was recommended to come here and trade because you were an honest man and a deacon in the church, but I have found you out, sir, and if you don’t make this matter right with me, I will publish you to the world and your name will be Dennis.” I could see the trade I had nourished, cherished, and worked so hard to keep, slipping from my grasp. 1 knew I must make one mighty effort to vindicate my- self, and placing one of my most expen- sive and fascinating smiles in a comfort- able and reclining position upon my countenance, | said: ‘*Madam, I think I can explain this to your entire satisfac- tion. First, let me inquire, did you, upon the day in que: tion, convey the eggs to your mansion with the festive horse who is now resting so peacefully at the door?’’ “Yes, sir, that is the identical animal.” “Then, my dear madam, I think I can ease you mind of any lurking suspicion you may have of my honesty. Eggs be- ing largely animal matter will decay sooner than sawlogs or many other vege- table condiments; conveying the eggs in the way you state explains the whole matter—they were perfectly fresh when they left here, but spoiled in transit.’’ The woman was satisfied, and regained, in a measure, her shattered confidence, and before she went out I sold her a quarter of a poand of tea and a 2-cent yeast cake. This shows how necessary it is to be honest and candid with your customers. I am a little undecided what to do; the deacon business is fearfully overdone in this vicinity; they are about as thick as generals and majors were right after the war. They make a deacon out of a man nowadays that they wouldn’t have thought good enough to pass the platter fifty years ago, so I have not decided to go into that for a regular business; the grocery business is practically played out and I have about decided to give up both and gointo the Christian Science business, which has the advantage of being fresh, at least. _ <> LAZY MEN. An exchange puts in a word in defence of lazy men by saying that ‘‘we are in- debted to them for most of our labor-sav- ing inventions.” This may be true, as we have not a full history of all such in- ventions and inventors, but we do not believe it. All that we know of, or have any authentic account of, were invented by active, energetic men, who could not accomplish as much work by the slow process and imperfect machinery they had, and set themselves at work to find a method by which more work could be done in the same time. We have seen some so-called labor-saving inventions, patented by lazy men, but never saw one that was worth the room it occupied in the shop, field or house, any more than was its inventor. A man is not necessarily lazy because he stops to think about his work while he is doing it, or because he may at times desire to change his occupation for a few hours, and exercise a different set of muscles, while the man who works a specified number of hours each day at a certain regular rate of speed, as steadily as the clock ticks, may be too lazy to run down hill unless running is easier than walking. They have not energy enough to change their habits, or even to think about any possible improvement in methods. They do not really live, but they exist, and continue to do so because itis too much trouble to do anything else, and are as useful and reliable in their day and generation as the sun dial, and for the same reason. Wherever they are put they are always there. 2 The true secret of success in life, the agency whereby others are made to as- sist in your advancement, is tact, says the Boston Transcript. Without it, even the best intentioned are forever meeting with obstacles and hindrances, while he who possesses it has hundreds who are ever ready to help him on his way. It has been said that honesty is the best policy, but honesty can never compete with tact. Tact is the true savoir faire, whether it be in business, in politics, or in social affairs. It is the attribute which hides one’s motives, as the bitter components of a pill are secreted within their environment of sugar; and, while smiling upon and making himself pleas- ant and agreeable to everybody, the man of tact is all the time getting in his work. It accords with one’s idea of cleanliness when the grocer places a sheet of brown paper in his scale to receive the butter one is purchasing, and one looks upon the act approvingly, and will come again. Cleanliness, it is said, is next to godli- ness; but in this instance it is only tact. DEALERS WILL FIND AND SATISFACTOI SELL WHAT WILL TANGLEFOOT THE RY FLY PAPER. PLEASE YOUR TRADE BEST. MOST PROFITABLE | =e! MADE BY TANGLEFOOT SEALED Sticky Fly Paper. NEW STYLE. IN NEW PACKIN Each box of Tanglefoot will | contain 25 NEW PRICE. _ WITH NEW HOLDERS. | double sheets of The price for Tanglefoot in the United States east of the Rocky Moun- tains: ee ee lee ee ee FO Oe ee ee 3 7d Dee Ae CNN le per case, 3 65 7) ere eOne Pereneee, oe o kr | o 00 | Each double sheet of Tangle- foot our Wax Border, which, while it permits the easy separation of the sheets, abso- lutely prevents the sticky com- position from running out over | notice. the edges. serves each sheet independently and indefinitely until used and| your trade. | prevents all loss and annoyance | will appreciate the new pack- | to the dealer. 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 It will increase your sales of Tanglefoot by encour- /aging a more liberal use among Your is separately sealed with and ready This Border pre- customers | age and will seon ask for it. Pe hy ° } v r a rhe a. |. ren i i im r \ i. fe } - \ ria ~ eg; 71°F 4 » ~~ - Y " 9 é a »| Pee { ma a. we + — 4 rin 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. No Permits Must Be Issued. Now that the fact has been established that the peddlers must take out licenses or pay the penalty of the law, a number of Russians have conceived the of going before the Committee on Poor of the Common Council and rehearsing their story of aileged poverty and dis- tress, threatening to become city charges in case the Council refuses to grant them free permits to peddle from door to door. In a recent hearing before the Commit- tee, Joseph Houseman and Max Tyroller appeared and championed the cause of the peddlers. These gentleman cer- tainly know little about the actual cir- cumstances of the men for whom permits are asked. So far from their being de- serving cases, the fellows deserve to be arrested and punished for their attempt to impose upon the people. S. Weiss, one of the applicants, who lives on Stocking street, is in better cireum- stances than many men who make an honest living without begging or asking for exemption from payment of taxes. He owns a horse and wagon, selling dry goods in winter and vegetables and fruit in summer. He disposes of as much goods as many a man in legitimate busi- ness. The man Cohen, for whom alsoa permit was desired, is a common drank- ard, and though he has been started in business several times by friends, he professes to be penniless now, and wants the city to give him another chance; at least his friends do, as they are tired of supporting him. The city has a place where it sends such of the pooras are unable to work and cannot support themselves, but _ its business is not conducted in the interest of paupers, and no one has aright to expect a remission of taxes because of poverty. Many hard-working men, mak- ing an honest living for themselves and families, paying taxes for the education of their own and neighbors’ children, and for the support of the municipal and State governments, have undergone ex- traordinary privations to meet their taxes, rather than ask the city to remit them. There is a hundredfold more reason for remitting the taxes of the in- dustrious poor in circumstances than in permitting these men to peddle without paying the license fee. They pay no taxes, and have no interest in the city beyond the making ofa living. In the case of the man Cohen, he not only pays no taxes, but because of his intemperate habits, is a detriment to the city, both morally and materially. Of course family must live, but it would be better to support them from the poor fund than that such aman should be permitted to en- ter a business which comes into direct competition with legitimate trade. A per- mit is also being sought for a peddler named Farber, who, only a short time ago, purchased a horse and wagon. It hardly seems possible that he is a pau- per, although, morally, he appears to pos- sess the necessary qualifications. Permits were sought for two others, rag peddlers, who are not even residents of the city There can be no reason for granting per- mits to non-residents. They are outside the city and the townin which they re- side should support them, if they cannot make an honest living. The people of this city do not care to be burdened with the support of paupers from other places. Mr. Houseman has the reputa- tion of being a large-hearted, charitable gentleman, whose benevolences are as such his idea | | Mr. Houseman, when he hears the actual widespread as the necessities of the poor, and, without doubt, the reputation is de- served; but the cases brought before the Poor Committee are not of the sort which ealls for the exercise of much charity. facts, will, probably, withdraw his sup- port from the impostors. —_—_—>-2 <> Weekly Report of Secretary Mills. GRAND Rapips, July 24—During this week a large proportion of our members have remitted for assessments Nos. 3 and 4, but, as a number have failed to re- ceive the notice which was mailed to every member upon our old list June 3, I am authorized by the Board of Directors to mail a duplicate notice in a sealed en- velope, with return card, to every mem- ber who has not paid these assessments previous to July 25, extending the time for payment of same to August 25, which will be considered a legal notification, and prevent any member from becoming delinquent unjustly, as it is our desire to retain every old member, as well as to add the new ones. As there has been no statement of our financial condition presented to our members for some time, and 2s some er- roneous ideas are prevalent regarding the probable number of future assess- ments, | would say that we now have over $700 in our general fund, and that when the assessments now being collect- ed are all in, there will be a surplus in our death fund of from $1,000 to $1,500, after paying all claims now on file in this office, which, in all probability, will make any further assessments for this year unnecessary. During the months of January and February our losses were equal to that of any entire year previ- ously, owing to the prevalence of pneu- monia and similar diseases, so fatal to our profession, and the experience of our Association is only that of all simi- lar organizations, and if each member will use discretion in soliciting new members, the extraexpense of incorpora- tion and medical examination will be unnecessary. Certificates of membership have been issued to the following new members under date of July 22: 3267 G. W. Weatherwax, 3268 Gustavus Meyer, St. Louis. 3269 H. E. Graham, Mason. 3270 Richard Tell, Milwaukee, Wis. 3271 Thos. H. Baker, Shelby. Seott Woodward, Traverse City. Ed. C. Mangold, Grand Rapids. Walter R. Whiting, Chicago. C. C. Burbank, Lapeer. Elba H. Boyd, Clio. 7 F. F. Hedden, Traverse City. 0 Geo. W. Bearss, Armada. 1 H. S. Williams, New Lisbon. » 4 Ludington. a] =} =} «} =] =) = So Oth OF Ww Re L. Perrigo, Allegan. W. H. Parsons, Chicago. Jas. W. Sleight, Chicago. 5 W. H. Pierce, Grand Rapids. L. Langland, Muskegon. 7 Sam J. Litt, Chicago. 3 Chas. E. Hall, Grand Rapids. H. M. Harrington, St. Clair. H. B. Fairchild, Grand Rapids. M. E. Stockwell, Grand Rapids. Alfred S, Witherbee, Kalamazoo. Henry N. Hawkins, Toledo. L. M. Mis, Sec y. i The Financial Situation. The past week has witnessed a decided relief from the financial strain which has prevailed for many weeks past. Itis true that the improvement has been but mod- erate, but it has been none the less marked, and at the present moment there are symptoms of gradually return- ing confidence. The semi-annual settle- ments, dividend and interest payments, are now over, and with such disturbing influences which for a time tied up large amounts of money out of the way, there has been a gradual easing up of money rates in New York, which indicates that the extreme pressure of a month ago no longer exists. No one looks for an immediate return toa healthy state of things, norfora permanent removal of financial uneasi- The appointment of Ralph Stone to ness, until the Sherman law has been re- | the position of attorney for the Michigan pealed; but now that the extra session of | Trust Co. is a worthy honor, worthily Congress is known to be but a fortnight | | | | bestowed. Mr. Stone is recognized as a off, and that the prospects of repealing | rising young man whose mental endow- the Sherman law are good, there is a dis- | ments are in keeping with his ambition position to regard the situation more | to climb to the top. cheerfully, and, as a consequence, tendency toward contraction has been checked. Locally there has also been an improve- | ment noticed in the monetary situation. | The searcity of money apparent a month ago has given place to a more comforta- ble state of things, and the confidence always felt that the disturbance in other sections of the country would be without evil results in Grand Rapids has been immensely strengthened. Noone actually looks for cheap money until the crops begin to move, but the pressing needs having been in a measure supplied by the recent dividend and interest disburse- ments, the merchants are in a condition to go ahead steadily until harvest. While, therefore, money may rule firm for some little time to come, the outlook far a plentiful supply next winter is most excellent. ee i a Bank Notes. F. E. Turrell succeeds Turrell & Sprout in the banking business at Bel- laire. C. W. Chapin & Co., bankers at Stan- ton, have suspended payment, and in all probability will retire from business. H. R. Wagar, the Stanton banker, pub- lishes a sworn statement of his assets and liabilities, showing total assets of $297,722 and liabilities of $30,235, mak- ing his net worth $267,487. Included in the schedule is pine land in Alabama, Mississippi and Washington, city prop- erty in lonia, Mobile, Stanton and Aber- deen, stock in the Wagar Lumber Co., Ionia County Savings Bank and Lake Odessa Savings Bank, notes, mortgages and cash. E. J. Mather, the Lakeview banker, suspended payment July 15, promising to resume on the 18th. The promise failed to materialize, and the people who were so unfortunate as to have deposits inthe defunct institution talk strongly of summary treatment for the author of their trouble. The bank never should have had the confidence of anyone, as it was conducted in his wife’s name by a man who was himself a bankrupt. The liabilities are $24,300 and the assets about half the amount of the liabilities, the deficiency having been squandered by Mather in mining schemas and other wildcat investments. Having reached the end of his rope, he lays down on his friends witha view to making his de- positors bear the burden of his bad man- agement. THE TRADESMAN exposed the questionable character of this insti- tution something like a half dozen years ago, and, if the people of Lakeview had profited by the exposure, they would not now be in the position of mourners who refused to be comforted. - i > The Country Druggist * When a request came to me lately from your Secretary that I appear to-night in response to one of the toasts on the list it had all the suddenness and part of the effect of a dynamite explosion, for I have always lived outside the whirl, far from the busy haunts of men, and the thought of discussing any question off-hand in the presence of the learned members of this Association was enough to appal one who makes no claim to keep step with the front ranks of scientific inquiry. Like many other rural dispensers, I came into the profession by sheer force of circum- stances, and remain by grace of the Legislature, and an annual permit, a registered druggist without passing the ordeal of official examination. This makes us naturally humble, and though we enjoy with others the feast of reason and interchange of sentiment on an occa- sion like this, we cannot be expected to do more than report ourselves present and ready to listen to business. 1 therefore appear to-night to answer for the country druggist, and to say he is still on deck, doing his duty to the best of his ability, and earning a reward that no one is disposed to question more than they would any other deferred dividend. At other times and places, I have called public attention to the peculiar hardships of the country druggist, that are not shared by his brethren in cities, but it would not be in harmony with the joy- ous nature of our present gathering to rehearse the tale of woe one might truly tell; nor would it be a fair return for your indulgence. Let us rather look on the bright side and cherish every hopeful feature of a calling that fur- nishes many opportunities of usefulness, and sometimes is a school from which a few graduate to more ambitious enter- prises. One thing can be said of the country druggist, compared with others and the chances he has had, he makes fewer mis- takes in dispensing. He is conservative, lacking, perhaps, push and perfumery: but he is cautious, and therefore safe. There is but little danger of mixing pre- scriptions behind his cabinet, since they come to him like angels’ visits, and one never treads upon another’s heels. He keeps good drugs, beause that is the only way to maintain the confidence of a custom that is not transient and will brook no imposition. He keeps full lines of both staples and patents at the risk of accumulating much dead stock. He upholds the hands of the local phy- sian by commending his work whenever called to express an opinion thereon. He even orders new’ pharmaceutical products as fast as they are suggested by each new practitioner. He knows no pathies or school of medicine; but makes the best of what trade he can secure, al- ways treating them with true business and professional courtesy, whether it is reciprocated or not. He never prescribes, but gives advice, and sells his medicines to those who insist on diagnosing their own ailments. He tries faithfully to obey the spirit and intent of all laws passed to regulate his relations to the public, and thus se- cures both the confidence of the best ele- ments of society and the respect of the worst. Living where his whole life is open as daylight to public criticism, and people have time to notice all he says and does, he is often misunderstood, even while having the best intentions. Some- times he will nearly break his neck try- ing to keep his mouth shut, when there is an inward impulse in the opposite di- rection almost irresistible. But the dis- cipline is wholesome, strengthening both mental and moral vertebrie. Country druggists, as a rule, do not make the most of their privileges. They are too apt to let routine lessen their en- thusiasm, and so donot keep up with the progress of the times. This is unavoid- able, because their drug business is not large enough to fill one’s whole time and attention, and must be supplemented by other liness of trade. They constitute, however, an element that if properly directed and encouraged will respond to the aims and purposes of the State Association for a better organi- zation that shall develop, to the fullest extent, pharmacy as a profession. *Response by S. P. Whitmarsh at the annual banquet of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. ——_—_—-- <> Criticism of the Policy of the M.S. P. A. Ayr, July 8—I notice in THE TRADES- MAN that the eleventh annual meeting of thd Michigan State Pharmaceutical As- sociation was not well attended and that the cause is attributed to invitations not having been sentto allmembers. What! Members of a society have to be invited to attend their own meetings! That seems strange. The only and legitimate object of the M.S. P. A., as 1 contemplated it when I sought membership, is to promote the efficiency of pharmacy and to secure needed legislation. While it has accom- plished something in that direction, it has whipped off on to banqueting and other expensive social features, so that the druggist of moderate means cannot avail himself of the benefits of the meet- ings. Hence his indifference, no matter how much he is interested in developing the true interests of pharmacy. I cherish the social amenities of life and feel that, if they are properly cared for in the home and immediate surroundings, their good effects will crop out in business life and association. An impairment of the success of the Association is found in too often chang- ing officers, particularly that of Secre- tary. The pseudo-political scheme of giving one man not over two terms of office, with the view of holding the other fellows in the party in the hope of get- ting an office, won’t work in the practi- eal affairs of life. A faithful, efficient man should be retained in an office just as long as he will consent to serve, and, in proportion to the eare and responsi- bility, ought to be compensated. GIDEON NOEL. The criticism of Mr. Noel relative to the desirability of the members receiving invitations to the meeting is not well taken, as the inivtation embodied the only notification of the place and date of the meeting the members received. The convention of 1892 adjourned to meet a year hence atsome point on the Detroit River, to be thereafter designated by the Executive Committee. The members were, therefore, in the dark as to the place and date and were compelled to wait the official notification from the Secretary. It is a matter of regret that in some cases the invitations failed to reach the members, so that a consider- able number who ctherwise would have attended the convention were deprived of the privilege. It is due Ex-Secretary Parsons to state that he insists that he mailed a notice of the meeting to every member of the Association. It is unfor- tunate that so many of his communica- tions should have been miscarried by the mails, but if the invitations left his office in good condition his _ responsibility ceased and he should not be held ac- countable for the miscarriage. In Memory of the Late W. N. Ford. The J. G. Butler Tobacco Co. has is- sued a very appropriate announcement of the death of W. N. Ford, including portrait of the deceased and the follow- ing memorial: Sr. Lovuts, Mo., July 13.—We have sad news, indeed, to announce the death of Mr. William N. Ford, our General Agent in the Northwest, who was stricken with peritonitis and passed away Wednesday, July 5, at his home in Chicago, and was interred at Lafayette, Ind., July 8. In making this announcement we feel the sad news will be received with uni- versal regret by his trade in general, whose hearts his manly, straightforward ways could not have failed to win as they won ours. William N. Ford was born in Mays- ville, Ky., August 17, 1851, and was an only son. He leaves a wife, a baby boy a few months old, and six sisters. When he was a mere infant his mother died and he was thus deprived of that great blessing, a mother’s love and care. When 8 years of age his father moved the family to Indianapolis; young Will- iam received his education there in the public and high schools under the care- ful direction of his sister Eliza, who raised him from the time of his mother’s death. His first lessons in business were given him by Mr. Lee in a fancy grocery store in Indianapolis, where he laid the foundation of the vigorous, systematic and original business methods for which he was so noted. On June 28, 1882, he married Marcella Cox, of Lafayette, Ind., at which time he was engaged in the spice business. In 1883 his father died, after which he engaged in the tobacco business with Robert Hamilton, by whom he was theught most highly of. In 1886 he came to this company and became its ablest, truest and most be- loved agent, remaining with us until his death, faithful to the last. The many admirable qualities dis- played by Mr. Ford during his long and brilliant career with his company, en- deared him to the hearts of all its officers and employes, and makes his loss most keenly felt. His uniformly kind and generous dis- position, coupled with a most courteous and affable manner under all circum- stances, made him a prime favorite with all who knew him. Mr. Ford was a man of indomitable en- ergy, boundless resources, at all times alive to his surroundings and fully abreast of the times, which, with his ac- tive brain and broad views, particularly fitted him for the important position he so creditably filled, and made him one of the brightest lights in his chosen calling. At a special meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Jas. G. Butler Tobacco Co., held July 10, 1893, a resolution was passed that this memorial be spread up- on the records of this company, and that a copy of the same, accompanied by our tenderest sympathies, be mailed to his bereaved widow and sisters. Also a copy be mailed to each of his friends in the trade. As afurther token of sorrow and re- spect, the board directs that the annual banquet tendered the general agents at the close of each year be omitted for 1893, and that in its stead the same even- ing in December be set apart for memor- ial services by his colleagues, our gen- eral agents, now so widely separated, when they can unite in common privi- lege, testifying their love and sorrow at the loss of their leader, William N. Ford. ee a eeiaenerreee To Erase Ink Stains. GRAND Rapips, July 22.—Druggists are very often called on to prepare some- thing to erase ink stains. I have been experimenting and found the following to be a fine thing: Mix thoroughly equal parts of alum, amber, sulphur and saltpetre and keep the mixture in a well closed bottle. By sprinkling some of the powder upon an ink stain or recently written characters and rubbing with a white linen rag, the stain or writing will at once disappear. If amber can not be obtained, rosin will do, but not so well. J. DE Bor, Chemist Hazleton & Perkins Drug Co. 4 4 —- @ a abe * ’ = > ‘+ a > & }2 -g= se > 4 a Cd 7 i ? i " 4 i f s 4 & }2 ~ * o « - THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced— Declined—Acid Citric. Acid Carbolic. Gum Opium. Gum Opium Po. Nitrate Silver. ACIDUM. ren ees er owes @ 3 00 TINCTURES. Lo . xecht a ee % Se German... ae = ——. bei ee wens 2 00@2 10 Aconitum ns a = enn ‘ mauitheria ............3 OO@2 160 saves ee Oe 2 = Geranium, ounce..... @ is] Aloes asia eles es Se Cane ose 60 Citricum ............. 523@ 55 a Sem. gal..... 7@ 75} a enica ee WAVER = » ae eoma beso coca cs. 2 10@2 90 POCO COKE CHC E COOE SOOO Oe 3 — Deere ton a coke oo a a 50@2 00 Asafctida ee ee ae eee wale 0 Oxalicum .:-2...../... 10@ 12] Lavendula ............ sog@ oo | ftrope Belladonne.......... 60 é I ee, 2 40@2 60 a iano ssmeagaen 1 30@1 70 | Mentha Piper. -.. 11.22. 2 Toep3 50 fone nes aa 1%@ 5| Mentha Verid:..°...) 2 20@2 30 | Sanguinaria TN Morrhuae, gal.........1 00@1 10 | Barosma aaa 1 40@1 60 Myrcia ounce 50 Cantharides eeeneeeee 30@ 33 hea ®, OWNER... ase 5 Capsicum AMMONIA. Pils 8 Liquida, (gal..35) , 102, 12 | Ca damon eee ese e. 22 28 ae ee Htosmariai ae * Tea 00 arn Se 00 1 EE ¢ Osse, OULGS.........6 5008 80 — a@ 14] Sueetal....22207 4o@. 45 | Clnchona 00 | 5 meeee 2.4... 90@1 00 ANILINE. Santal a 3 50@7 00 SS ; 2 Se 2 00O@2 25 | Sassafras.............. OFT Ganebal |. { tubeba... 50 Cee - 00 ee ¢ = Digitalts 30 CG . @ = oe __-- Werle 0 2 50@3 00 i er eaaeearon no w Gentian 50 BACCAE. Onromegs..... 1. |. etter sss a Cubeae (po 40)...... 3@ 40 POTASSIUM. “—— aa = wees... 5... OO er teens ; i 30 -—........ ne wine ......... ....... 50 Xanthoxylum ... 2 ne ieee. ou = - —- Peewee. 50 | tee... .... oe oe Cinieiaiaie RT 2@ 45 vinlag ee en re ih h—lCOCeee.. 5 CU Chlorate (po 23@35).° 24@ 26 | Fert! Chloridum 22. 22....2. 35 Terabin, Canada :...° 45@ 50 | Yedtde Beret Se a 5 Tolutan ............... Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 27@ 30] Myrrh........ 50 correx Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15|Nux Vomica. 50 i Petass Nitras, opt eee 8@ 10 Opti Meets ie eas tere, a Abies, Canadian............ 18 | Potass Nitras.......... 7@ 9| ‘* Camphorated....... 0... 50 — ceeameerre**tn=* Prue mn 0 Dele 2 00 ee ers ee 3p | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18/ AurantiCortex............. 50 ee cee ae — = mini aaa 50 aa Contes o6......... SC ee Pramas Virgini. Cy 2 | Aeonmttam ols. 2@ MLANY -....-..- 0. eee see, 50 iniaee, we 1 Ateee 22@ 25| Rhet......... eee. 50 RT TU 12) ApOhase 12@ 15| Cassia Acutifol............ 50 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 | Arum, po.............. @ Co.......... 50 GShns... 20@ 40} Serpentaria ................. 50 EXTRACTUM, Gentiana (po. 12)..... s@ 10} Stromonium................. 60 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 2% | Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 19] Tolutan.............. ...... 60 NT 33@ 35 Hydrastis Canaden, Nee ee Haematox, . Ib. box.. 11@ 12 Go. a @ 30| Veratrum Veride............ 50 : is. eT 13 14 —— Ala, pe... 13g 20 MISCELLANEOUS, “ \¢s.. —« wae cape a a gt ao a Aither, Spts Nit, e2~ BOQ = FERRU 35@38) RO welape, pe... ... ei onenen........ | ete gs 50 py aranta, ga sed eal “_ | ground, (po. — vitrate and Quinia..... @s 50! Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18] 1)................. Citrate Soluble........ @ 30 — HC tO! 00 Ao beeen aS 60 FerrocyanidumSol.... @ 50] oent............... @1 7% | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5 Solut Chloride........ em ee 75@1 35 et PotassT. 55@ 60 Sulphate, com’l....... ‘9@ 2) Spigelia .... 20.00.00... 35@ 38 Antipyrin St @1 40 pure... @ 7) Sanguinarta, (po 25).. @ 20| Antifebrin............. @ B FLORA oe ee deh ee oe = — Nitras,ounce @ 55 aie neg . 4 ae ying 7 sees ....ee-.- ee. 18@ 20 Similax, Officinalis, “HH @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.. * go 40 EE B@ 35 M GC Sitiemin ke. 2 W@2 25 Matricasia lt. ss 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 85)........ 10@ 12] Calcium Chior, 1s, (48 FOUA. Symplocarpus, Feosti- aes 8, 14)... 2... , 11 Baro 18@ 50 + . ead (pi e Cantharides Russian, sleriana ens. po MO @1 00 —— “acuilfol, “Tin- . Oonvelly an eee 2@ 281 in fost ss German. 3 = Capsici Fructus, af.. @ 2% “« Alx. 35@ 50 g ; : @ 2 Salvia officinalis, 148 Zingiber j.. oe 18@ 2 ‘“ “ @ 20 ONG YS.....esereeee 25 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (po. P5) 10@_ 12 Ura ee oo, 10} Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15| Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 GUMMI. — (graveleons).. 15@ 18 ye Alba, 8. i tenes 50@ : Acents, ist picked... @ | Carat 1 too. 18520220022 0 12 eerie o #0 7 s £2 alee......-...-. oS Si ; > Sosmnaiens ee 10@ 12} Centrari @ 10 —«Mifted sorta @ = | Cannabis Sativa....... 4@ 5 Cetaceum . @ 40 Aloe pad, (io 9 32 on 60 | & tation. 731 00 Chloroform . See “, = Cape, (po. 20). @ 2 eee a -*---¢ S, 12 | cusocal Hya Coat. 11 BOI Oo ocotri, Pa ie @ Toeisans .......... @ 15 ——. .........., 20@ 2 one. 1s, (48, 14 4s, @ 1 | Foenugreek, po..2.."! 6@ 8 Cinchentaine, &. & W :"s = ese in Ce La ae erman Ree .....-...... 55@ 60 Corks, list, dis. er Assafostida, (po. 35).. 3@ = —— oe as “ Cant .... - Bensoiaul....----.--- i PharlarisGanarfan.. oS 2 beet oe seer eerste 7 ae Sinapis Alba... 1 @13 , q 7 re 4 30 SPIRITUS. $ 15 2 é Frumenti, ‘<- Te eae : ; eas = @ 40 “ sca seue as sk a 2 = 65 | Juniperis Co. O T : — = f Eo vi - 83@ 35] Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Tragecenin ........... 40@1 00 = be ee oa ee : 75Q6 io] F a k i ni Gporio .. 3... 25Q@2 = os | Vint Alba..2222222211 25@2 00 = SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ — 28 arti 2 ch 0@ 60 weg ., 2 50@2 75] q) 23 Nasnan “sheep seal = canware Ani, v box 70 & 10, - 80) Velvet aeua aaa Glue, Brown.......... 9@ 15 22) wool carriage....... 1 10 White........... 13Q 2% 25 Extra yellow sheeps’ (Gayeerue ............. 14%@ 20 qomrisge « ee ee ae = rasssheeps’ woolcar- §—~—~—SY|| Humulus.............. Garbonste, Pai... -— eo 65 | Hydraag Chior Mite.. “@ 8 Carbonate, K.& iM... 20@ 2% | Hard for slate use. 5 vl @ 80 a 36 | Yellow Reef, for slate Ox Rubriim @ Carbonate, ad ng5.. 35@ an ' 1 40 . Ammoniati.. @1 00 ee RM anc eeerecineen eens : fnguentum, 45@ 55 itn. ee ssiw ee 50@4 00 SYRUPS. x drargyrum .. @ 64 Amydaiee, Amara bates 45@ = Acme bocce lee sdeee esses ae ot — i mat a0 ae, Amarae. 00@S8 + Oeteee i ee ie seu aeas ss enue ; Meee | Coeees.................-..,... Ol lodine, imi salae eas Cortex....... 2 30@2 er RO. cg es ee | Some @4 70 Bergamil ............-. 3 25@3 50 ——_ = ed ee aoa SO | ae @2 25 Cees 2 on oe Co +i het Avom. kl. 50 | L —— eae aes 65@ 70 Cervomnyil ........... ae = Similax Oficina: eee = a 8 nt: oe W@ % eet ees sero das 5 suc. uor Arsen et Hy- Ceeoeeee ........... er Oe Bees ...... i, 50 dr Wee TO ce. ee @ 27 Cemmeeeeetl ........... WOE GF re cote 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Coes ............. @ 4% ok ee 50 | Magnesia, Sulph (bbl Cates mee.......... oo Oe) Peres i... to .. Olt fae... i. eo 4 Cope ............... Soe Ooi Prunes siee...............,. 60 t Mannia fs. F.......... 63 Morphia, 2P.&W. 220@2 45/ Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 20} Lindseed, boiled . 54 57 ‘ NYS & Sinapi eo @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter ©) Co. Ss tog@e 36 opt Ce @ 30|_ strained........... 80 85 Moschus Canton...... Snuff, Maccaboy, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 34 38 Myristica, No 1 .. ... 65@ 70 Veece .-..... @ 3 Nnx Vomica, es 2).. @ 10|] Snuff, Scuidin, De. Voces @ 35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. On Reete. 22 | Soda Boras, (po.i1). . 10@ 11| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Pe eae Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30} Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 ee ede oe Ge OO | Soda Carb............ “1%@ 2 Ber... ..1% 4 Pleis Liq, N.C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5/| Putty, commercial.. 4 24@3 Ca @3 00 | Soda, Ash.............3%@ 4]_“ rca 4 Ure... .24% 24@3 Picls Liq., oat vl @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2| Vermilion Prime Amer- Pate... @ 8 | Spts. EtherCo........ SG) OG eee 13@16 Pil Hy drary, ro a... @& wi myreie Dom ae @2 25| Vermilion, English.. 65@7 Piper Nigra, (po. =. @ 1 * Myreialnmp... .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular owes TO@i5 Piper Alba, (po g5).. @ '_ vo ak bbl Lead, eG ees ss 6%@7 rete ll a CO Ce 2 19@2 2 Wares oo 6%@7 Plumb Acet ........ |. Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span.. @io Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10 20 Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 whites Gliders’ ...... @Q% Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Sane. 24@ 3 White, Paris American 10 & P. oe Co., dos. .... @1 2 * MO @2 Whiting, Paris Eng. 5 megeeiode .......... Se 10; cee... 1 40 eer, Ps = = Terebenth Venice... BO 30 Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 uinia, 8. P.& W..... 29@ 34| Theobromae .......... 45 @ Swiss Villa eee 8. German.... 20@ 30| Vanilla............... 9 o0gt6 00 Paints ............... 1 00@1 20 2@ eel Sale... ........ 17@ 8 VARNISHES, No. 1 Turp — -1 10@1 20 OIL. Extra Turp.. 1601 70 Bol. Gall Coaeh Hoay. _...._. 2 75@3 00 Whale, winter. - oo ‘| No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 -110 115) Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ._ 70| Japan Dryer, No. ig Linseed, pure rayw.... 3! 54 ure. ....... CL. 70@75 HAAEL TINE & PE Importers and DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils % Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebrated SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. a ee er a or Fall Line of Staple Drnggists’ Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly's Michigan Catarrh Remedy. AINS DRUG CO. Jobbers of We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line ci WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarante? satistaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. “ HAAELTINE & PERKINS Dattr C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. a trial eof Cia & LY1al Craor #0 <2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROC! ay | Peer! con uP Lyre ONT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those “a below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of pure hase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the To greatest possible use to dealers. j ~a e AXLE GREASE. Fruits. 2 go. @22 | 81, per hundred.......... 83 00 | No. 1, 6.. 1 65 GUNPOWDER. eg? doz gross Apples. ° weltzer, imported. 24 | 82, a a a 3 50 | No. 2, 6. 1 50 Rifle—Dupont’ —s.....-.---.-.. @ 6 00 | 3 lb. standard......... 85 domestic 14 $ 3, >. 40 Xx. a, white K - Hi Castor Oil. 60 7 00| York State,gailons.... 3.00 CATSUP a oe) ‘ow... + eee ; aS ee Diamond... 50 5 50|Hamburgh, “ Blue Label Brand. 810, ee ‘oe =| Guster an saad oil eset a ee e......------ 7% 8 00 Apricots. _, | Half pint, 25 bottles........ 2 75 | 820. 7 aie ee ae 1 Ib cans......... Leas ae ee .-- 6 7% 50|Liveoak...... eee ee ...450| Above prices on coupon books | 1, ( a 18 / 7 Paragon .. 55 6 00 | Santa ee 1 75 | Quart 1 doz bottles 350| are subject to the following], 0°07 227727022 0 95| °° Choke Bore—Dupont’s. BAKI NG ‘POWDER. — eee 17 Triumph Brand. quantity discounts: ce Coin ie, al ae riy i 1b. cans, 3 doz. "“Giiien "oreo ee eee eee + aii a cs. s 3 7: ' so oe ah ag ene ones does me. 5 2 Cherries % | Quart PP OTHES PENS. | 1000 ‘ 20S FARINACEOUS GOODS. | 1 1b cans . 34 role Ege Aeleoeoee 10 ae - sabi a et 20 | 5 gross boxes... 40@45 COUPON PASS BOOKS. Posten. sen agle Duck—Dupont’ a cin r | ee Le lM 1 00 | > . _.. 55 | White u - a 1 50 35 Ib ogg A — ~— @3 {Can be made to represent’any | 100 Ib. Kegs...-.-------- Om eeee See ow... s.. 5% poe” 4 on aden eer 1 10 | Erie. a 1 20| Less quantity. @3% denomination from $10 down. | ed I 3 00 j * = ‘ 9doz * Js Damsons, Bee Piums and Green | Pound packages... ... ‘6x@7 = books... ...-------+--8 : = “hae nS HERBS, . ~ a em “ tao “* se tages. COFFEE. 5 ee ee ee we 2 aa. Erie ween sete eeestetecee 1 10 Green. 100 C eee 3 00 Lima Beans. BAPE. ... ccoves bkk be keen eeu 15 { 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 80 ee — ne 1 70 Rio. pen ty a = ee ie A ue cueame ces eu 15 7 Z “ .2 00 sooseberries, Pair... Leek er ae 17 7 Maccaroni and a INDIGO. } * 8 Oe ee Big - ee ee ea 17 5O Red Star, 6, - cans. 7 eee ee. ee = r Domestic, 12 Ib. box.. Madras, 5 ib. boxes....... 55 ang =e oo 82% Raspberries. soe naaggggaeba senna — ii Al ——" a 5 | Anchor aa 1 70 10-lb “ 41 80] Red.................-- 1 30 Mocha, Soda. Cracked............ ue 5| No.2 home..............4--- 1 10 7 1? Black Hamburg.. Pe i Export parlor..... AER 4 00 } —— Erie, black .. [Mika oo | pode, Ciy........-.-.... 51 a4 FISH--Salt. BATH BRICK. Strawberries. eeuuhaal, Soda, Duchess .. 8% MINCE MEAT. wie 2 dozen in case. Lawrence . 125! ‘To ascertain cost of roasted | © rystal Wafer.. a Bloaters. English .........------ .... 90| Hamburgh . ol 1 2 | coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-| Long Island W afers. ‘11 | Yarmouth................-- Bristol. . sreeeeccesseess+ SO] Erle... ......----++- . 1 25 | ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- Oyster. Cod. ree Domestic. . i 1 10} age. S$. Oyster XXX... woeceee OC COO Lie etre eek 3% BLUING. Gross Whortleberries. Package. City Oyster. XXX.. eee eee 6 Whole, Grand Bank..... 54% | Arctic, 4 oz ovals... 3 69 Blueberries i : 1 00} MeLaughlin’s XXXX.. 23 30 Farina Oyster.............- 6 Boneless, bricks.. ...... T@s | ce ee ie 7 001- Meats. Bunola.. . 2£S CREAM TARTAR Boneless, strips.. ....... 7@9 | as ints, a 9 00 a SS ee wee se es : 75 | Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 23 45 Strictly pure ce Halibut. hoon se o* vOCL + bie la cc asl ee es htt”: 7 m rT — 2 sifting box. a = Potted ham, #6, lb one a 40 Valley Cit ty 44 Bross. 25 Telfer s Abeoite.......... sox BS) 1 emoked ............... 104%@11 } ee nr . e.. 85 _ Pee oe ee te: . Herrin No. 5, 80 . : Felix . 1 15 a. g- “Loz ball i - 450 soya a 1 oe i = Hummel’s, _ gross. nto 1 = PE Domestic. Holland, white hoops keg €5| 30r6 dos. incase perdoz.. 95 ¥ s —— - _ - - oz. : a chicken, % Ib....... 95 GuICORY. He &“ “ “ ps MEASURES. . : — Bulk.. Sundried, slic pe = bbls. . BROOMS, u . r Morwogien...,....+-...... fe. 2Huri........--.-.----- 1% se gs | Bet. qusreeeee Round, % bbl 100 Ibs... 2 85 ee No. 1 2 00 Hamburgh ae Poms. ......8 oo Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes “ 49 1 45 eee eens $1 75 ; v le Ee ae aay f ih _ 2 Carpet. = inom — 1 2 Cotten, California in a Sane aa ' ” = laa eweonal ' 7) rpc eas Lo e Gh a : ° Lima, NT 1 40 Evaporated in boxes. "Mackerel. Pint . ! 45 a a 2% “ ‘s po ns fetes ies anes . we eeeeee.........-....- 7 in Blackberries. 2 00| Half pint ee 40 ° ¢ — = ' 1 . Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 ‘ In boxes.. 05| Wooden, for vinegar, per doz Warehouse. TS 25, Bay State Baked........... i Nectarines. 35 eee . i ---- 325] World's Fair Baked........1 35 | Jute 0 1 HA g 95 | Lgallon ...........2. +6 70 «| 3 BRUSHES. _ | PieneBaked..............-- 1 00 meh, DORON. oll. 95 Half gallon ........+.-.+.- 4% Stove, No. 1.. vo 1B Corn CONDENSED MILK. Peaches. aciice QUAEE «o.oo vee eoee ene: 3 7% cA ng 130) Memboreh .... 2... 1 40 4 doz. in case. Peeled, in boxes........ , ' a. | Pint.. 2 25 , ‘ - a : cl : : cs Russian, kegs.............. 65 i *5 | Livingston Eden .......... 1 2% Cal. evap. ae MOLASSES oo — Serub, 5 z TOW... ‘<2 Purity eens con rte raeenin «"” In bags...... . Trout. i - 3 to 1 & puer Dew.............--. 150 Pears No. 1, & bbls., 1001t | am Blackstrap. ohe Paimetto, goose....... 1 580] Morning Glory............. amet in bags... No 0. 1 as bbl ws tp rot ; 00 Sugar house.......- P i. 14 BUTTER PLATES. Se 7 Pit ted Cherries. No. 1, Kits, 10 lbs............ 85 oY ‘ Oval—250 in crate. Peas, i Barrels...... No. 1,8 1b kits.. i 70 | ora Cuba Baking. hi}? Hamburgh merrofat........ 1 35 50 Ib. boxes ec ea Whitefish Ordinary .....--.-.0+-++++ 16 early June...... RES | 2 ' : Porto Rico. Champion Eng..1 50 CORE nist P Family . ” , ranelles. PAY TPM i concep acon n ees 20 ee . petit pois....... 1 %5 parable || oe? i cA. fancy sifted....1 90 prac e| 20 Ib. boxes % bbls, 100 Ibs.. 87 60 83.7 Peney ...... pebe eee oes 30 I Soaked beet eee v Raspberries. % 40 i New Orleans. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes......... 10 | Harris standard............. 1 In barrels........-.-+--- Pe We a ee 18 a, 2 we eceees 2 VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10 7 bOXeS.......--.---- si, 4 : 25) SA a 22 . io. " early June.....1: cna ie : : eee " oo § *) Wicking 24 | Archer's Early Blossom 21 35 | N-¥-Cond’ns'd Milk Co's brands Raisins, FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Cholee -- ae = ’ CANNED GOODS. French... lg 15 | Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 740) — Loose Muscatels in Boxes. Souders’, Ns cee ec aed 40 iain French Mushrooms. 17 ogee Hea a at 5 3 ee 1451 oval Bottle, with corkscrew. One-half barrels, 3c extra, 4 ’ i Clamr. a **"" bumpkin. ae — Poeeeee.............--..- 4 50 Loose Muscatels In Bags. Bestin the world for the money. PICKLES, Little Neck, 11b............1 20] pte » 95 | Magnolia .......... 4 25| 2 crown... .....-+++- 5 “ } * “""""4 gg | Brie------+- grvsscscseeese s+ Hl Hine. ee eee EL 6 Medium. a Bi Squash, wa ceseeses eee D eee " e stanaar it howaer. nig NE cree 125 COUPON BOOBS. Foreign. Regular | Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 toveOyien Succotash. Currants, tne Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 00 Re Standard, 11b....... _..1@ nena saa a eT a . = Patras, “gs “680k 4 doz Small. 2 ib “4 95 | Soaked ......----------- 22. 8? in 8 _. a 2 OZ 8 %5| Barr 2,400 eat ee . ‘ = . els, 2,400 count. 6 00 Star, 1 Ib creed 2 50 Erie... usin “+ a 35 sas sear 8 be 4oz..... 1 50) Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 er Boe "3.50 | rramcoce Tomatoes. ase aS Reguls « Piente, 1 1b.. so emon ae tegular PIPES. A : oT Orange ‘“ 35 ee Vanilla, Le ce hs iow = 8 1 ¥ 9 y oo pkerel, ——— Sa Raisins. doz we. 216. ... 2... sees eee 17 Standard, ib. oe 195 | Hamburg...........000...... Tradesman.’ Ondure, 29 lb. boxes. @8 20z.....81 20 D, fullcount......... 7 es Le ee 2 19 | Gallon... .................. 181 per hundred | (ge) Beteeee, 20 “ .. 8%@ 9 a... 88 Cob, No. “ie Mustard, : - a a 25 CHOCOLATE. 8 2) ( 250] Valencia, 30“ POTASH Tomato Sauce, 2Ib.. 12 25 Baker's. es, ° 3 00 Prunes. XX Grade | Ts 7 Soused,2 Ib.......... "9 os | German Sweet.. ......... 23185, “ te 8 uc | California, 100-320. eae 10 i. Lemon. 48 cans in Case. c Imor. POONER... oes site 37 | 810, * “ cs 40 90x100 25 Ib. bxs. — =fos.....61 60) Babbitts.......... .. oe Columbia River, flat.... ...1 99 | Breakfast Cocoa........ . 43} g20, “ “ ee _ s0x90 ' cos..... 3 00| Penna Salt Co.’s......-... 32 ~F< ae... 17 CHEESE, “Superior.” : 70x8 : 4 Alaska, Red. ..-..0..000., 145 AMBOF 0. e0 soos vere @10% | 8 1, per hundred...... oe 14 XX Grade RICE. . pin Lio ec i 9 _ ” . paceacesce 2 OO) SiMtMtOE (++ res nee wees 7% Domestic. « * Kinney’s, flats.......... ah ieee... ee oo ‘. = 3 50| Silver ...........-.---.- be 2 Bi a 75 | Carolina head....... A Sardines. , Riverside ...... ...... 9% |85, * Sultans . ‘ 40x. .... 3 50 esi 46 merican %48............ @5|Gold Medal........... @8%| 810, ‘ French, 60-70... 8 * Woe Theo eS 6@7 | 820, * PT ead seca e ss 12 Jennings’ D C, SE ns NNN eae : Imported 348...2.200..0... 10@11 | Brick.. 11 80-90... 20 11 iia Va ee ee Seas | a... es cso ee 1 00 7 90-10). ...--. ee eee ee 10 {2 - celding bex.. 75 1 20 Imported. Pee Oe... .-.... ss. @8 | Leiden ................ 23 ENVELOPES, “1 40 2 00| Japan a Bice cud eee ces 5% Boneless . “tout 1 Limburger ..-........ @10 XX reg, white. @ oz " “ee tal” ee... 54 neapple............. @Q% - | No. 1, 6%.. Le SEE ees ua. oe 2 00 ee Ceeies ce 5 ee a ek cnn S 0 * Roeuerort...... .. ... @35 “Oniversal.”’ a 1 60] 40z taper ..... coo. 1 OO Bt POG... sea dec ieey 5 4” ’ « » CR. «< A” < 2 THE MICHIGAN Root Beer Extract. Williams’, 1 dos... .. 3 doz...0..... 0s. Hires’, 1 doz.. “ SoeM.. SPICES, Whole Sifted. Ce es Cassia, China in mats...... o Batavia in bund. ” Saigon In _— bata e 32 Cloves, Amboyna.. . MOE 2 Meee Mate... .. 8 80 Nutmegs, Somee..... vis) et 70 : ee et 60 10 Pepper, Singapore, black.. white. ' shot Pure Ground in Bulk, eee 15 Cassi a, Batavia Te 18 and Saigon .25 . ere ...... 1. ...- 35 Cloves, iaae -........... 22 Tepesoer........... 18 Ginger, ya Bad es cael 16 cede aus 20 . perth ieee oo 22 meen Peeeyen............... 7 Mustard, Eng. _ Trieste, .22 eee 2 Nutmegs, ie > Se haee sass 15 Pepper, Singapore, black... .16 “ ' white. ....5 e Cayenne...... en Absolute” in Packages. 4s 48 BOS ...55.---..,. OF Toe Cieeeee,............ oS tees. ......-.--..--. 84 1 55 Ginger, a a 84 155 : African. a ole etre. .............. 84 1 55 Cc ae 84 155 Saee...... 84 SAL ‘SODA. Eee 1% Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SEEDS. EE @12% Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Corewer ........-..... 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian.. 4% Mixed Bird........... 5% Mustard, ee acess 10 Pee... cc... 9 a 6 cueere bone........... 30 STARCH, Corn Cee 6 WU ee a 5% Gloss. Pip peackeeee...............- 5% 3-lb ce oe a 5% 6-lb ee 6 4) and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 4% eee ec 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars.........:. 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, Dt eeiceeeet ee cackasae Shy Kegs, English ae ee de oe 4% SALT. 100 3-Ib. sacks Do ieegreas . 82 25 60 5-lb. Spiaseevsss @ OM 28 10-lb. sacks.. Lees eae 1 8 ee 2 2 a) Copee..........-.... 1 50 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 Sib, ** cn * 6 & Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 ch ** ‘ a Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 )h, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. eS 27 Common Fine. Barina ........-- 1... 70 woes... «=... 70 SALERATUS. Packed 60 Ibs. in box. OO ows cctv e ete noe 5% ee 5g Dwieees.... .. oe 5% Tier e....,......--..,..... 9 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s pene. Old Country, 80 1-Ib........! 8 4 Good Cheer, 6) 1 ib.........-. 3 85 White Borax, 100 3%-lb...... 3 9% Proctor & Gamble. eed. |... 3 45 Ivory, 7 oe... ............ 6 %5 SO Gf. .......-........ 4 aoe. ... te Mottled German... ....... si es! a 32 Dingman Brands. Single box... ..---.......-- 3 % 5 box lots, delivered... .2e 10 box lots, @elivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..$4 00 oo plain. N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands. eee 4 00 Brown, ee 2 40 MOM cine ceeds 32 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. a Sls oui 4 00 Caan: ..... .......... oo ee ae 3 95 Mafter 435 Thompson & Chute Brands. BRO es cece eae. 3 eS 3 35 Savon —" OG ice ewe 2 50 PRI OWO? .... 065s sccccee, oO a ee 3 21 ee 2 25 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 o hand, Sdos....... 25 SUGAR. The following prices repre- sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the act- ual costin New York, with 36 cents per 100 pounds added for | freight. The same quotations will not apply toany townwhere the freight rate from New York is not 36 cents, but the local quotations will, perhaps, afford a better criterion of the market than to quote New York prices exclusively. ee a #6 30 POW ccc nese ee se 6 11 Cranmiaied ..............., 5 67 Extra Fine Granulated. > 80 Capes ...... a 1 XXXX Powdered.......... 6 42 Confec. Stancard A.. .... & Gi No. 1 Columbia A......... 5 54 No. 5 Empre A...... .....5 @ ee Oe ee 5 69 No. 7.. oe ae S iy No. 9... . Bal No. 10. . 506 mo 4 98 — ee 4 92 No. 18. _ 46 N 4 36 Corn. ae 21 Halt bbie..................-- 23 Pure Cane. ee, 19 og ST 25 Chotee......... 30 SWEET Goops. Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Suger Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers..... 8% VINEGAR. oe... kk... 7 @s OO ——————o 8 @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, pet gal ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75 YEAST. Maste,....... . 10 Werners ................... 1 00 veo Poem .........,...... 1 00 aaa . 2 Rove .........,....-... 90 TEAS. jJaPAN—Regular. Pete .........:........, @i7 ae @20 24 @26 Creheedt.......... ...- 32 @34 a 10 GE SUN CURED. Wee os, @17 Goan... @2 Chelee........-.....-.. 24 @re Cuoieom’........-......22 Gos eee cc 10 @I12 BASKET FIRED. Por.............._.... 18 @2v (Cheice........... nS @2 Choicest. . @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to faiz.......25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @é65 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5 OOLONG. @26 Common to fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 2 G26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commior. to fair......- 18 26 Superior to fine.......30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ie ce cea 18 @22 a 24 @28 ee 40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Pails unless oe noted Bazoo. @30 Can C an.. eee oe gaee ae @27 Woellie Biy............. 27 @2 Uncle ben......--,..-.2. Gee Hiawatha ............ 60 Sweet Cuba......... ‘ 34 McGinty ceed ec ou ce 27 . oe bbie..-..... 25 Dandy Jim Cs 29 Torpedo .. oe 24 ' in drums.. 23 Vom Yum ........... 28 ——...........-... Q 23 ~ Qe. ...,... 4... 22 iain Sorg’s Brands. Spearhead ............ 41 ee 29 Nobby Twist............ 41 Seotten’s Brands. a 26 Hiawatha de uece epee 38 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands, Old Honesty.......... 40 SOLS BOE. hae neces ee 2 | Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, Min driee...........:.... 17 Gorden Shower............. 19 Huntress Ls 26 Meerschaum . SN American Eagle C ‘o.’s Brands. meviile Mavy.. ............. 40 Stork a — Geruaain . or .......... ‘3 Java, ve _- Joe Banner Tobacco Co.’s s ieeeii ae 16 Banner Cav ‘endish. Lea aa 38 ees Ce ee cee 28 Seotten’s Brands. WeOrpet es 15 ey ew... 30 Gen Bigem. 4... .1......... 26 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, Peerless. . hese ase 26 0 18 Standard... ‘ . Globe T obace oO Co 0.’8 Soni Mandmade.................- 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. On Boe... yee. 26 Uncle Sam..... ee, 28@32 ae 2 Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry. .......uceues 25 Traveler Cavendish.. 38 ack bor. ........._......- 30 Plow Boy.. HOGS? Corn Ce OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: Eocene. oe 8% xxx W. W.. Mich. Headlight ........... TM Ape... @ 6% Stove aerne- : @ is oo 1.27 @36 Hogioe ..... ....... 13 @21 Black, “8 cold teat. ... @ 8% HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Green ............,....; 223 Part Cured.. @ 3% ree @ 3% Ce 5 @5 Kips, — eee eeu as 2 @3 @4 Calfskins, groen...... 4@5 Gured,..... 4 @5% Deacon skins. . 10 @2 No. 2 hides % off. PELTS. SHGATHNER,............ 10 @ 20 ae 1 @ ®D WOOL Weenea .......-......122 @is Unwashed ...... _... 2 ge MISCELLANEOUS. be 3 @4 Grease butter......... 1 @2 a 1%Q Pi Cegene............... 2 00O@2 5 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 58 No. 2 Red (60 1b. test) 58 MEAL. Bolted . 1 40 Granulated. 1 65 FLOUR. Straight, in sacks......... 3 60 . “ Derred........ 3 85 Fetont © aacxe........- ri S *” barrem....... 4 80 Graham ‘ sacks.... 1 70 Rye a 1 90 MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Dien.......... Gin oo 3 50 Screenings .... 13 00 13 00 Middlings.. ees 14 50 14 50 Mixed Feed... 18 00 18 50 Coarse meal .. 17 50 18 00 CORN. Car lee 45 Lees than car low@.......... 43 Oats. Car iote. .... so Less than car lots.. ae HAY. No. 1 Timothy, car lots....13 90 No. 1 ° ton lots... .. 14 00 FRESH MEATS. Beef, carcass...... -5 @7% sel hind quarters. . -% @ se . oo & OM o loins, No. 3... 9%@I11 ‘ i... 74%@ 9 \ rounds.........6 Gis Doieeus............... @ 6 Paw eee .....,...... @10% TRADESMAN. i ghoulders.... @8 BULK 6 7 1 60 Sausage, blood or head @it PeemOns...-............. 2 co e mF 22 liver @7 sl... .... 1 50 ' 19 2% : Frankfort @ 8% ae 3 00 Mutton oe 64@ 7% PAPER & WOODENWARE Baskets, market. . = PME, cic e ee cue 6 @i% shipping ‘bushel. _ i120 . PAPER, ful hoop . 1 35 FISH and OYSTERS. Straw ee sh willow c I'ths, No.1 6 25 F. J. Dettenthaler quotes a8} R§ckford Le en ‘ No.2 7 50 follows: ee 216 i ‘‘ No.3 8 50 FRESH FISH. eaewars TT 234 splint oe 3 = Whi ee 8 a a —— e s | Dry Goods...... 5 @6 : No.3 5 0€ | Brook Trout se 2535 Jute Manilla.. a @b% a INDURATED WARE. a Black Bass...... spi | Red Express No. 1...... 5% | tans, Noot. Ta 50 NN sss. @i5 NO, B.....-.+0- 44 a. ee Binedeh. - ae o8 TWINES. Tube, Nos.) *.10 50 Fresh lobster, per Ib : 39 | #6 Cotton..... - 20 POULTRY. Cod 11 Cotton, No. 1. na Ee i a ‘Picker. - : @8 os Local dealers pay as follows: Mme @ §_ | Sea Island, ak tees ee DRESSED. ee Wile... @8 No. 5 Hemp ee Fowl CS Red Snappers .......... 9 | NOG... ee ae River Salmon 20 WOODENWARE. Ducks ................ Meekerer, .. ........., 25 ae LIVE, cli i Tubs, _ Seeman weeeees ; = Live protien ra %1bs. to 2 lbs. Fairhaven Counts... @40 SR 5 00 | vice hector tens ini aes * 3.D. Selects |... ego | Pais, No. . — hoop.. 1 6 ihe Gael per doz No, 1, three-hoop.... 1 60) ci pinc : i i“ gg Fiicuemsr unehrapne Clothespins, 5 er. boxes.... 40 oo _ ‘ hickens bees Di ox Oysters, per 100 ...... 1 50@1 75 | Bowls, 11 inc wine s++ sees 9 @IO Wie, EL mOh.............. 80 > | Clams, a 25@1 80 a 13 100 | purkeys.. Ce @i1 serseeeees see 100] Spring Ducks.. ..11 @12% PROVISIONS. | Plain Creams. .. -80@90 iD », The Grand Rapids Packing end Provision Co. | § ecorated Creams. soit a a i | String Rock.. .65 quotes as fouows: | Burnt Almonds... TNT ‘1 00 PORK IN BARRELS. | Wintergreen Berries... . ..60 mess. |... s. eee ea, De CARAMELS, ee ee ne | a 1, wrapped, 2 Ib, boxes.............+.4. 34 Extra clear pig, short cut.................. 20 00 _. 1, : : : ane a ea BI Extra clear, heavy............ Ee No.3 25 eee x8 Cigar tal bagel... 18 50 | No. 3 a enter: tanta Boston clear, short cut...... ti sesss see 18 50 | Stand up, 5 Ib. boxes beet eeee es Cicer Geen snorteads. ......... 19 60 | BANANAS. Standard clear, short cut, best.... _.. 2a | Small... 1 50@1 % sAusAGE—Fresh and Smoked. | Cea bee aa 2 00O@2 50 Ce eee | Large ....- 0. eee eee eee ee eee ey Ham Sausage.... | ORANGES. EE 9 | California Riverside Seedlings AQ B/ Sanit Seeanes piebaRlnenmee alifornia Riverside Seedlings........ 3 00@3 50 Bigs Se neeee 7 LEMONS. EE EE 6 Messina, choice 360.. eee seus 5 00 Boles tniee. 6 ' fancy, 360.. eee cues @5 50 Mose Cece ow 8... 7 ehace soe @5 00 LARD TOnOy oe 5 50 Kettle nerne Ee OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Granger ...... Oe eke eee cee ecu ease Cee Figs, fancy layers, 6b. a @l2 eee 8 «0b... @i2 Compound . eee T% extra ee @14 50 lb. Tins, ige advance. eo a @15 20 Ib. pails, 4 ae Dates, Fard, = ib. box. a ee aks @7z 10 Ib. % . ' 50-lb. oe @ 6% Sin, ‘“ ee C . wiasiier 50-lb. box. 44@ 5% win, * fe _ NUTS. BEEP IN BARRELS. Almonds, oe ee cies eke aues @19 Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.. Lewes « OO “ Caltforiia AE A Extra Mess, Chicago — Bees eet es oes 8 00 | Brazils, new. a Boneless, rump butts... ae... SMOKED uzaTs—C ‘anvassed ¢ or r Plain. Walnuts, Oe ED Hawa averago MWe 12% Hf M =o tees eees ‘“ “ 6 lbs. lll _ Ca alit .. ns 6 ‘c 12 to 14 Ibs. a ae 13 Table Nuts, fines i. sé icnic a co . 10% choice St ee “ est boneless... 14° | Eecane, Nemee BP Shaniders CC 10% Cocoanuts, full sacks...... 002.002.0000. @4 2 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................-. 14 FRANUTS. Dried beef, ham prices................. 10% | Pangy: H. P-,Sqme. a --n---ne-ne--e OS Tdi ClOmre OU F onlied sn. @ % Bikes ict ancy, H. P., Flags....--.......-.....6. @s Ve, 11 naa - @Y% _ Choice, H. P., Ex hia dues doe @ 6% " [ . a Le @8 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. Standard, per Ip........- 6% 1% ' wee SL. s.... 6% 7% . i ee 6% 7% Boston Cream............ 8% Cut tear. ................ 8% Exira H. H........ i 8% MIXED CANDY. — Pails ee 7 eee 7 Ro. = eee eee 6% 7% No by Daal alia ot ia aa ee | ee a 7 8 Ee 7 8 ee 7 8 Deon Teey.......-...... mr 8 PoanutSquares............ 9 French Creams.......... 10 Valley Creams... .............. 13 Midget, 30 Ib. baskeis.... voitereetisreeee § Mogan Soh. ju... ae FraNncy—Iin bulk — Lozenges, OME Se eS a it Checoiata treme. ...................,. 11% Choéolate Monumoentals..................... 13 (Gums Prope... st ee ee 5% eee eee 8 TT eee 8% Bparinieg. ..... 5... 10 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box Demon Orape.......... 4... .8.... ce. 55 Sour Drops . ee eae oo Peppermint Drops. ee al 60 Chocolate Dropes.......... eee 65 i. BM. Obocolinte Dropas................ 2 sence 90 ets TPE. 0. we we we os 40@50 TieiGa rere... .......-.-.-...........-...- 1 00 A. B. Licorice Drops. oe 80 Lozenges, EE 60 eee es 65 OO — —————————————————— 60 ee 70 (yew eer. ....... 3... 4... 252... ic peeeee 55 oes ee... ......:......... .. 55 Hand Made Creams..... CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. FRUIT JARS. Fise ............. $6 00 ee 6 50 Half Gallons Sa 8 50 Caps. i A a ke i 2 %5 Rubbers.. a 45 LAMP BURNERS WO OSE 45 Bey 7 50 moe ee, 5 oe... ststsi‘#‘N¥. 5 LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. 6 doz. in box. ee eee 1 80 Mee oe, 1 90 Mae ........... ieee ce es oe First quality. No. oe crimp top Hee ee eee eee cal ae 2 2 a ss eee 2 40 2 Sg we teneeeuceaee es. 3 40 NOK Filnt, No. 0 Sun, crimp top Desc se ge etem ieee eee ss 2 60 aber c ee ete es 2 80 Noe “ - Teese eee cee eee 3 86 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled eee eee cae 3 70 OE ee ae 47 No. 2 Hinge, . . ° ce taneusces® Ge La Bastie No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per doz. a 1 25 No. 1 crimp, per, Co8.... 2.0... 1 35 OE OO 1 60 LAMP WICKS. Wo @ ner creme... 2 Nee .. 2 No. 2, “ eects eters toga 38 io. &, ee dy dee eau 75 Mammoth, per doz. aaa Th STONE WARE—AKRON. Butte rc Toc ks, i ta G wal... 06 4 gal. per doz. 60 Jugs, 4 gal., i. eo 70 1to4 gal. ot | OF Miik Pans, * &al., per OS. 6. .5 0 eoseaces = STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal... os woe oss o7 Milk Pans, % gal eee 65 Sete beeeee secceuccuiacciss 78 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- | tion. Committee was instructed to investigate |the matter and make complaints to the The regular meeting of the Grand Ra- | police department, in case the reports pids Retail Grocers’ Association was /| proved true. held at Protective Brotherhood Hall, | The special Committee on Entertain- Monday evening, July 17. President) ment made a report, which was accepted, Elliott presided and Chaplain Viergiver | tended door. Chairman Herrick, of the Municipal Committee, reported progress in the ped- dling question, citing the victory ob- | tained over the cohorts of pecdlerism in police court and predicting a similar re- sult in the three cases appealed to the Superior Court. } Daniel Abbott was called upon by the | chairman for some remarks upon the | subject, and described in detail the work undertaken by the Committee, closing | his half hour’s talk substantially as} follows: Now, Mr. President, if you will permit | me, there are some things I would like | to say to the members concerning the | work of the Association. It is true you | have a Municipal Committee, to which | is committed thejtask of looking after the | enforcement of the laws made in the in- | terest of trade, and various other com- mittees; but these committees can do only a very small portion of the work that isto be done. In fact, the func- tions of all these committees combined forms but a small portion of what is to be done. The great task that confronts this Association is the creation of a sen- timent in favor of itself, and the elimina- ting from the minds of the grocers not now members, the false ideas concerning it and its work which so many hold. This can only be done in one way—by each individual member becoming a mis- sionary and doing what he can for the conversion of those who still remain on the outside. This is your work, a work which should not—indeed, cannot—be left to the officers, but must be done by the membership at large. It is your work as much as is the work in the store, a work which, if necessary, you should take time todo. Until the retail grocers are a unit on the principles which this Association was formed to establish there can be little reform of the abuses which now so largely prevail in the busi- ness: and unity can orfly be attained in one way. It can never be reached by meeting on the street corners and talk- ing about it, for such meetings usually result in nothing but talk. It can be at- tained in but one way and thatis by band- ing together as an organization and being governed by, and faithfully abiding by, its laws and requirements. Law is the very foundation of order, and if ever the principles which are fundamentally nec- essary to success in your business, as in every other, if ever the identity of inter- ests of the retail grocers is to be recog- nized, and their emancipation from the thraldom of false ideas and customs ac- complished, then there must be law, obe- dience to which on the part of all inter- ested, shall unify you as a class, and bring about an orderly arrangement of the differences which for so long have militated against your success. To this end, I repeat, each individual member must work, must become a missionary, disseminating the principles of the Asso- ciation, and persuading those not now members that itis to their interest to join the organization. The following resolutions, introduced by E. A. Stowe, were unanimously adopted: Resolwed, That the thanks of this As- sociation be tendered Mr. O. A. Ball for | introducing and championing in the) Council the resolution prohibiting the | Mayor from issuing permits to peddlers. | Resolved, That the thanks of this As- | sociation be tendered Assistant City At- | torney Carroll and Superintendent Carr | and the police department for their ac- | tivity and agressivenes in enforsing the present peddling ordinance. i E. J. Herrick and A. Brink reported | cases where peddlers were running two wagens on one license, and the Municipal with thanks. The question of the annual picnic was then presented and E. White moved that the stores be closed allday. D. Vier- giver moved as an amendment that they be closed one half day, the same as in the past. The amendment was adopted. Peter Schuit moved that the picnic be held on Thursday, August 17, which was adopted. The same gentleman moved that proper signs be printed and furnish- ed each grocer and meat dealer in the city, announcing the closing of the stores for the afternoon in question. E. A. Stowe then introduced the sub- ject of the official inspection of weights and measures, advocating the abolition of the fees now assessed the merchant by the inspector. He closed by intro- ducing the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Wuereas, The people of this city in- sist upon the inspection of weights and measures; and WHEREAS, such inspection .is for the benefit of the public at large; therefore Resolved, That, in our opinion, such inspection should be paid for by the peo- ple, instead of the expense being saddled upon the merchants of the city. It was decided to co-operate with the Coal Dealers’ Association and any other organizations in bringing about this re- form. The meeting then adjourned. The next meeting of the Association, which will be held on August 7, will be the annual meeting, at which time officers will be elected for the ensuing year. It is hoped that every member will attend this meeting, as matters of vital impor- tance to the Association are to be pre- sented for consideration and action. President Elliott announces the follow- ing special committees to make arrange- ments for and superintend the annual picnic: Executive—E. J. Herrick, C. Stryker, Phil. Graham. Sports—Fred H. Ball, James B. Mc- Innes, Dick Warner. Badges—James A. Morrison, Sumner Wells, C. C. Bunting. Programme—Henry Vinkemulder, J. Geo. Lehman, H. Liesveld. Judges—W. L. Freeman, Musselman, Wm. C. Wood. Tables—Thos. H. Hart, C. J. Seven, Julius J. Wagner. Amos S. a The Drug Market. There are few changes to note, in the absence of all speculative movement, on account of the financial situation. Citric acid is higher abroad and is tending higher in this country. The demand for carbolic acid has not proved to be as large as was anticipated and holders have reduced prices. Opium is dull and weak. The amount of this year’s crop will soon be known, | when the price will be more steady. Morphia is unchanged. Nitrate of silver has declined, on ac- count of the low price of the metai. German quinine is weak and lower. The Major Cement Co. has reduced the price of its cement from $1.20 to $1 per dozen. 9 — According to areport by the French Minister of Finance 148,808 families in France have claimed exemption from cer- tain taxes recently voted by the Cham- bers, on account of having seven or more children. MICHIGAN AED Git f aN wa Bea it A Pe ESMAN st gag UBER CO. 18 and 19 Widdicomb Building. it Weare now ready to make contracts for the season of 1893. Correspondence Solicited. E ARE MAKIN Special Low Prices On eee: 'd Write Us for Price If in Need.—_—=wy & 6: M we TEVEN ONROQ ST. R »? ds * 4 ~}\o, rien “i = ia =e “4 ~ i a) ~~) + 7h a . wit . ! « * | 8 Mt ‘ is ‘2 pel? THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 WAS IT TYROTOXICON? Full Statement of the Mansfield Cheese Poisoning Cases. MANSFIELD, Ohio, July 19—In reply to your favor of July 17 in regard to the so-called *‘cheese poisoning’’ in this city, I beg leave to say that the reports in the newspapers in reference to it were very much exaggerated, as usual. It is true that we had some fifty or sixty persons who had eaten a certain make of cheese who took suddenly and some violently sick, but with no fatal results. The cheese in question was made by Mr. Mabee, who lives about five miles from this city and who has manufactured cheese for some thirty years and sold it in this city, without any bad results, so far as we have any knowledge until this occurrence which you refer to took place. On investigation, we learned that Mr. Mabee purchases milk from the farmers in his immediate vicinity, and, as a rule, makes three cheese a day, which weigh from twenty-four to twenty-five pounds each. The cheese of each day’s make is numbered the same, and on this occasion each of the three cheese, which were all made from one curd, were numbered 55. One of the three was sold to a grocer by the name of J. P. Hering, who retailed the entire cheese within twenty-four or thirty-six hours after he received it. On investigation we found that every- body who was taken ill with this pecul- iar sickness had eaten cheese, but that everybody who had eaten of the cheese did not get sick; but the sickness all oc- curred among those who had bought and eaten of this particular cheese, which was very spongy and moist, two pounds of which | obtained from those who had bought and eaten of the cheese, and were taken sick shortly after eating it. Those two pounds were sent to Secretary Dr. C. O. Brobst, of the State Board of Health, who turned it over to the State Dairy and Food Commissioner, Dr. Me- Neal, who, with an expert cheesemaker, Mr. Hurd, visited this city and examined into the character of the symptoms of those who were taken sick, together with the process employed in the manufacture of the cheese. The second cheese was sold to a grocer by the name of P. P. Ford, with the same results following as in the former case, except that he did not sell more than half of his cheese before he learned of the poisoning resulting from the use of it, and stopped the sale of it immedi- ately. It is only just to say that the first grocery man, Mr. Hering, had sold all his cheese before he learned that it was making any person sick. In this investigation it is interesting to note that the two grocerymen who bought the cheese live in widely differ- ent sections of the city and that the num- ber of cases of sickness corresponded with the amount of cheese sold; in other words, there were more than twice as many cases of sickness in the Hering district, where the entire cheese was sold, as there werein the Ford district, where only half a cheese was sold. It is also interesting to note that the degree of sickness depended largely on two par- ticular factors: First, the amount of cheese eaten; second, the physical strength of the person who ate it. In nearly every instance where old persons or children who were feeble had eaten the cheese they were affected much more seriously, and, in some instances, they were so prostrated that their lives were despaired of, especially the aged, whilst others who were strong and hardy and ate of the same cheese in the same quan- tity, were not made nearly so sick, if sick at all, whilst others were more or less affected, according to the amount of cheese they had eaten and the physical strength they had to counteract the ef- fects of the alleged poison. One very interesting case occurred in which the mother was taken sick from eating the cheese and shortly afterwards her nursing babe, which had nursed her, was taken sick with the same symptoms, although it had not eaten any of the cheese at all, showing that the poison which produced the sickness was not only a local irritant to the intestinal tract, but also assumed a constitutional character and was eliminated through the lacteal glands. The symptoms were those of marked prostration in the more serious cases, which were modified according to the amount of cheese eaten, and the strength of the person who ate it; consisting of a marked reduction of the pulse force, showing atendency to cardiac or heart paralysis, some of the cases being en- tirely pulseless, with cold hands and feet, cold perspiration, accompanied by vomiting and later by purging and gen- eral prostration. These symptoms at- tained in a greater or less degree in every case so far as we were able to learn from the patients and their attend- ing physicians. As to whether the poisoning was the result of Dr. Vaughan’s tyrotoxicon re- mains to be determined by the chemical analysis which will be immediately in- stituted by the State Commissioner, Dr. McNeal. These cases of so-called ‘‘cheese poison- ing,’’ the result of eating certain cheese, have been of frequent occurrence in this vicinity. In 1888 and 1889 samples of cheese were sent by me to the State Board of Health from this city which were supposed to contain tyrotoxicon, but, on investigation by Professors How- ard and Webber, of Columbus, and Prof. Schweintz, of the Bureau of Animal In- dustry of Washington, they were unable to find Vaughan’s tyrotoxicon in a single instance, notwithstanding they followed the directions given by him for its detec- tion. Experiments were conducted by Prof. Webber at that time by feeding an- imals with the extracts of the poisonous cheese with no results. These experi- ments are very questionable and uncer- tain, as we are all aware that animals ean eat decomposed organic matter with- out any serious results, whilst, on the other hand, if eaten by the human, it would produce serious sickness, if not fatal terminations. The fact that tyro- toxicon was not found in the cheese was no evidence that a poisonous compound, the result of fermentation, was not the eause of the sickness; and especially is this true, as Prof. Vaughan has found, since his discovery of tyrotoxicon, other poisonous substances in cheese, which he claims are sometimes, under certain circumstances, the cause of sickness. In this same investigation which l have referred to and which was conducted by the State Board of Health in 1888, bac- teriological examinations were made by Prof. Demers with negative results. Of course, we may have fermentative pro ducts of an alkaloidal character which could not be detected by bacteriological examinations. The bacteriologist would only be capable of determining a fungus or microbic toxicant, if such existed, but with alkaloidal products his investiga- tions would prove futile. Sinee these investigations by our State Board of Health, all of which proved negative results so far as Vaughan’s ty- rotoxicon was concerned, the State Board of Health considered it useless to con- duct any further investigations for that poison. Yet, at the same time there is no question but what there is a poison of some kind which occurs in the manufac- ture of certain cheese, which is evidently the result of fermentation, and whilst it may not always be tyrotoxicon, it is pos- sible that under certain circumstances it is; and under others it is certainly some compound analagous to tyrotoxicon which as yet has not been discovered, and which will be sought for in the chem- ical analysis to be instituted by the Ohio State Dairy and Food Commissioner, the result of which we will watch with great interest, as it is to be hoped that he will be able to discover the cause, origin and composition of the substance which pro- duces these perplexing outbreaks of so- called ‘‘cheese poisoning’? which usually oceur in this section of the country in the summer and fall, and so far asI have been able to observe, much more fre- quently in the cheese that is made dur- ing the hot weather. That itis the result of fermentative changes is certainly quite evident: First, for the reason that brands of cheese which are made of pure, sweet milk, and are made without any fermentatiod, ex- cept that peculiar kind produced by the use of rennet for curdling the cheese, does Nor produce ‘‘cheese poisoning;” second, that ‘‘cheese poisoning,” so far as I have been able to ascertain, has oc- curred in those brands of cheese which are subjected in their manufacture to certain fermentative changes, either pur- posely or accidental. R. HARVEY REED, Health Officer. —————>_+- The Hardware Market. There is no special change to note in prices or the general volume of business. For July, trade is nearly up to the aver- age, but, as a rule, dealers are only buy- ing as their wants demand. The closing down of all the iron, nail and glass fac- tories has a tendency to prevent any lower prices being made. Collections are only fair, dealers claiming the low price of wool, wheat and other farm pro- duce makes it very hard to collect in what isdue them. The result is they are, as arule, refusing to trust out their goods to anyone, unless they know the pay is prompt, whether they sell any- thing or not. This, we believe, is the proper course to pursue. The one great trouble with this country to-day is the ease with which people can run in debt. If this was, in a measure, curtailed, the distress would be much less. We do not look for any marked changes in prices of hardware until the fall trade opens, which will, undoubtedly, be later than in former years. CHICAGO =e AND Weer MICHIGAN R’Y. }0ING ‘TO CHICAGO. Lv.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 *11:55pm Ar. @’d Rapids.1:20pm 3:55pm 10:55pm = *6:10am t 25, 1893 VIA ST. JOSEPH AND STEAMER. Ly. Grand Rapids....... : i :25pm =+6:30pm ior. Chicege.................. 8:30pm 2:00am Lv. Chicago 9:30am...Ar. Grand Rapids 5 TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. :25 pm Lv. Grand Rapids...... 8:50am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 10:45am 3:55pm 5:25pm TRAVERSE CITY CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. ly @ H..... 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. Charieyoix...... *3: 15pm 8:20pm 2 Ar. Petoskey 45pm 8:50pm Ar. Bay View....... *3:55 pin 8:55pm _=s: 8: “0K am Trains stop at Traverse ity for dinner and supper. Arrive from Bay View, etc., 6:00 a. m., 11:40 a. m., 1.6 p. m., 710: :00 p. m. OTTAWA BEACH. Ly. Grand Rapids as 1m (C#«t..... Lv. Ottawa Beach... 7:00am 3:50pm 9:40pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m., leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:30 p. m. PARLOR AND 81 EEPING CARS, To Chicago, lv. G. R.. 1:25pm *11:30pm To Petoskey lv.G. R.. 1:40pm 11:15pm ‘To G. I. ly. ee ‘ am *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 & WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av2. MIL- EASTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 14\tNo. 16\tNo. 18 \tNo. 82 G’d Rapids, rid 6 45am|10 20am| 3.25pm) 7 40pm Meme 5... | 7 40am uw 25am} 4 27pm) 8 45am St. Johns . “Ar 8 25am|12 17pm] 5 20pm) 9 42am (ween. ...... Ar| 9 00am 1 20pm! 6 05pm} 10 25am E. Saginaw. -Ar |10 50am + Som 8 00pm)... Bay City..... Ar|i1 32am] 4 35pm) 8 37pm| ee Pe 3.4 su. Tr }10 05am 3 45pm| oe ete uas Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pm| 550pm) 850pm)........ Pontiac .... .. Ar |10 58am 3 05pm| 8 25pm}... Detroit..... .- Ar {11 50am] 405pm)| 925pm}........ WESTWARD. +No. 81 |tNo. 11|tNo. 13./tNo. 15 Trains Leave G’d Rapids, Lv Gd Haven, Ar Milw’kee Str ‘ Chicago Str. ‘* | 400pm)........ +Daily except Sunday Sunday only train leaves Grand Rapids at 8 a. m. for Spring Lake and Grand Haven; and at 7p. m. to connect with Sunday night steamer at Grand Haven for Chicago. Trains arrive from oe east, 7:20 a.m., 12:50 p.m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 Trains arrive from “the a. 6:40 a. m., 10:10 a, m_, 3:15 p.m. and 9:35 p ‘ace No. 14 has Ngeuuer Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. Westward—No. 1 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas, CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 7 25am) 1 00pm) 4 55pm/10 20pm 8 30am) 2 10pm cone 11 26pm Sie ech wee us |s 20am} 6 30am 6 00am| 23 Monrce Street. Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect June 25, 1893 TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. No a For M’kinaw,Trav. City and Sag. 6:50 a m a 20 For Traverse City & Mackinaw 1:10pm 1:20 p i For Cadillac and Saginaw...... ..... 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw...... $:10 p ‘m 10:30 pm From Balamaeoo. ............... 9:10am From Chicago and Kalamazoo.. Trains arriving from south at 6:5 daily. Others trains daily excep Also train leaving north at 7 does not run to Traverse City on Si TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going 9:40 pm 50 a m and 9:10am This train North. South. oe Cent ie oe ee. 6:30 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chics ‘ 8:00 am For Fort Wayne and the . 11:50am 2:00 pm Mow Cluctemats,............ 5:15pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago 10:40 p m 11:20 pm From Saginaw . 11:50 a m Brome Hegeeew 8. 10:40 pm Trains leaving south at 6:00 pm and 11:20 p. daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. m. runs SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 7:20am train has Parlor Car to Mackinaw City. 1:20 p m train has parlor cars Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. m train.—Sleeping cars Grand o Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 8:00 am train.—Runs solid with Wag- ner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 2:00 p m train.—Parlor car Grand Rap ids to Fort Wayne. 6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. :20 pmtrain.—Through Coach and Ww — Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chi- __cago 0:30 Rapids Chicago via G. R. &, rf R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 8 :00 am 2:00 p m 11:20 pm Arr Chicago 25 pm $:10 pm 6:50 am 8:00 a m train runs solid with theaien Wagner Par- lor Car. 11:20 pm me daily, Sleeping Ca Lv Chicag o ; 15pm 9:50 pm Arr Grand Rapids 40pm 6:50 am 4:15 p m solid train with through Ww agner Parlor Car. 9:50 p m train daily, through Coach and Wag- ner Sleeping Car. through Coach ani Wagner i Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 6:55 am 10:15am 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:45 pm 9:10 pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45 a m, ar- riving at 9:15am. Returning, train leaves Muske- gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:50 p m. Tnrough tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Station, Telephone 606, Grand Rapids, Mich. C. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “« The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 23, 1893.) Arrive. Depart 10 20 pm ..Detroit Express ..6 55pm oa m...,...... Day Express......... | 305m 6 00am.....*Atlantic and Pacific. .... 10 45pm [Opm...... New York Express...... 5 pm *Daily. AU others di nily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic 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. DETROIT, LANSING & and Pacifie ex- M AY 28, 1893 NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO). DE TROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids :10am *1:45pm 5:40pm mr. POU ............ 11:35am *5:50pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit............. 7:43am *1:45pm 6:00om Ar. Grand Rapids... 12:55pm *5:40pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BST. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. GR.11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. BR. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:45pm 5:40pm 55pm 5:40pm ‘Ay. from Lowell..........12 THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlorcars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. TOLEDO PNORTH MICHIGAN RAILWAY. Lansing & the Detroit, 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. In connection with VIA D., L. & B. af. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:10 a. m, and 1:25 p. m Ar. Toledo at ......... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m VIA D., @. H. & M. R’Y. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p. m AY ‘Volede a6. ......... “4:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m Return connections equally as _ H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. New York, July 22—The average price of wheat in New York in January, 1893, was which was the highest point, as the average for Febru- ary was 78.35; March, 75.39; April, 75.93; May, 76.98; June, 71.86, which price has been about the average so far in July. For corn, the highest point was in Feb- ruary, when theaverage was 52.82 cents; the average in June was 48.14, and that is the average so far for July. Flour has shown very little fluctuation, the average for January on Minnesota straights being about $3.57, the same for February. $3.52 for March, $3.48 for April, the same for May, $3.50 for June, and the same so far for July. Pork averaged $17.67 4n January, $19.52 in February, $18.91 in March, $18.04 in April, $20.76 in May, $19.76 in June, and $18.50 so far for July. Granulated sugar in January averaged $4.87!¢, 34.84 in February, $4.85 in March, $5.14 in April, $5.40 in May, $5.51 in June, and 6 cents so far in July. Coffee was sold at an average price in January of 17.19 cents, in February, 18.03, 17.71 in March, 15.85 in April, 15.72 in May, and 16.68 in June. In canned goods, there has been no great appreciation except in the case of toma- toes, which began to rise soon after the new year, and have steadily gone up at 78.97 cents, the rate of 2'¥ cents a week, until they are now worth $1.40@1.45, and even $1.50. N. Y. State corn has averaged almost exactly $1 a dozen since January 1, while peas have fluctuated from 90 cents to $1.25, with almost every fraction between—these prices for marrows. Peaches started in at $1.75, and declined to $1.40@1.50 for Eastern pack No. 3. Columbia River salmon, tall tins, have averaged $1.1714 since January 1, and Alaska about $1.47. From all these figures it will be seen that while there has been a decline in nearly the entire list, it has not been very great—in fact, no larger than we might have anticipated, for January is, as arule, atimeof higher prices than is July, when everything is fresh in the markets. Dun’s report, just out, says that it is astonishing that business has been so well maintained with so little evidence of unsoundness. But it is rather dis- couraging to read of 467 failures in the country the past week against 168 last year, two of them exceeding $500,000, and 101 others exceeding $5,000 each. Last week the failures were 374. On Wednesday the stock market reached the lowest average since 1884, but since then there has been some recovery. The clos- ing of some big cotton mills has been the subject of much regret, but it was inevi- table in consideration of the unsettled state of affairs. Wheat has fallen 2 cents, corn 1 cent, pork products and oil lower, and even sugar has gone off a peg, notwithstanding all expectations that it would show an advance. On the whole, the report is not exceedingly cheerful reading. Stray Congressmen are registering daily at the hotels, and gradually the eyes of the Republic are turning Wash- ingtonward. The hot weather will not abate a particle of interest in the situa- tion, and as the time of the gathering of Congress draws mear, all sorts of prog- nostications are made as to what ‘‘they will do with it.””. Itis hardly probable that Colorado will be set up as an em- pire by itself, though to read some of their papers it would seem that such was their desire. To an unprejudiced observer it would seem that Michigan has more to ‘‘kick’’ about than Colorado has, for her output of iron is almost, if not quite, as valuable as the silver pro- duct of Colorado, while the miners have had much smaller wages than the silver operators. There is nothing of importance in gro- cery circles. Business as good as could be expected, and everybody is in a sort of ‘‘waiting mood.” No changes have taken place during the week of any importance, and not many out-of-town buyers are in town. Prices of the sta- ples are about as given last week, coffee is selling at 17 cents for No. 7 Rio, with a very dull trading. Canned goods are moving slowly and buyers are not tumbling over each other to be first purchasers. Tomatoes are not held quite so tenaciously as a week ago, and, with new goods almost in sight, the holders are willing to part with what they have at $1.40. Some Maine gallon apples are being offered at $2, with scarcely any sale. Dried fruits are in the ‘‘slumps,’’ and with the combination of vast quantities of fruit and tight money, there seems to be every chance for a continuation of low prices. California prunes in boxes are worth 914 @12e¢, as to size; bags, 837 @10e. Apricots, 10@13c and California peaches, unpeeled, in bags, 9@10e. Butter is about as it has been for sev- eral weeks—18@19e for Western seconds to firsts, with 21¢ the outside for Elgin. Cheese has had a hard struggle during the week, and is worth 8% @9c. It has got to be extra to bring the latter quota- tion. Fancy Michigan eggs are worth 141¢@ 15e. Market dull, except for strictly faney, which, of course, are scarce, and selling at 21c. A movement is on foot to ‘‘keep’’ the World’s Fair open next summer. Of course, if Chicago can stand it, the world at large will make no objection, but it seems as if it would bea big undertak- ing. However, to the Windy City all things are possible. JAY. $$ On the Inside. The insides of a man are about as im- portant an affair, especially to the man himself, as any other that can be men- tioned. The subject has been studied diligently from the days of Esculapius down, but to the average man still the most important machinery in the world to him is the most mysterious and the farthest beyond inspection until the time for a post mortem examination has come, at which time his own interest in his in- ternal machinery has probably ceased. New light has been thrown on, or rather in, the subject by the use of electricity. A few days ago Dr. Wendell Phillips, of New York, delivered a brief address be- fore a meeting of other medical men on the use of electricity in making a diagnosis. The subject was one of such interest that the newspaper reporters got hold of it, and much to the dismay of the doc- tor, whois nothing if not strict in his adherence to the rules of the profession, he was the next day given columns of free advertising, a liberty which we also beg his pardon for taking. Briefly, the use of electricity to which he referred consists in putting an electric lamp in- side a man, turning on the current, and illuminating his interior as the candle illuminates the pumpkin jack-o-lantern of our boyhood days. Placed in the mouth, the veins and arteries and mus- cles of the face and the circulation of the blood become visible to an observer. Placed in the corner of the eye light is shed upon the interior of that delicate organ. Inserted in the stomach, that human laboratory, which turns meat and potatoes and bread into human flesh and blood and bone, becomes revealed, the light shining through the walls and muscles. Inserted in the bladder, the same transfiguration takes place. The importance of sucha use of electricity in locating certain forms of disease such as a tumor or cancer, or in determining the extent of a trouble, can be readily seen. The electric lamp used is of course exceedingly small and can be used but an instant ata time because of the heat generated; but a flash of lightning inside a man, even if it lasts but an in- stant or two, must be a highly interest- ing thing to observe and still more highly interesting to experience. -_ eo <> —~— Association Picnics. Three of the grocers’ associations of the State have decided on the dates of their annual picnics as follows: Jackson—At Bawbeese Lake, Aug. 10. Bay City and West Bay City—At Bay Port, Aug. 17. Grand Rapids—Aug. teed’s Lake. 17, probably at MICA IS THE STUFF. In These Days the World Could Hardly Worry Along Without It. From the Chicago Inter Ocean. Mica fills the interstices of modern progress. A few decades ago we were seeking practical use and market for the output of mica mines already found; now we are seeking new mines to supply the multifarious uses to which mica can be applied. Thus the law of necessity changes in its relation to all things. Mica is now as essential to the various uses of electricity as this great force is necessary to human progress. In all ap- pliances for electrical lighting and power the most important reciprocal agent en- tering into their mechanism is mica. All armatures are built up with its insulation, whether for dynamos, motors, genera- tors or transformers. Without its use as an insulation the core of the armature would burn out with a flash. But by placing sheets of mica between the thin sheets of iron, which are secured to the shaft that runs through the drum of the armature, insulation becomes perfect. Thus armatures of even the largest gen- erators can be run for twenty-four con- tinuous hours without heating them more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit above the temperature of the surrounding air. By this use of mica the lines of ferce are | dissipated, but do notlose any of their electrical energy. In all electrical safety appliances mica also performs an important part as an insulator. To its infusible and inde- structible nature much of the success of the rheostat can be ascribed. This won- derful mechanism, which is applied as a} motor starter, a governor of speed, a re-! versing switch, and an automatic safety switch, is absolutely fireproof, and can be subjected to a red heat without me- chanical injury. This is rendered possi- ble by making the resistane of thin plates of iron packed closely together, but separated by mica. Thus the lines of force operate on the same principle as in the armature. Aside from these important uses of mica in electrical apparatus, it is also applied to a thousand minor ones, which make it the constant and willing servant of the greatest power that man has turned to intelligent subjugation. Mica is also an important factor in many branches of manufacture and art. Owing to its peculiar elasticity and toughness, qualities in which it is not excelled by anything natural or artificial, itis used as an absorbent of nitro-gly- cerine, and when so used explosions by percussion are rendered almost impos- sible, while at the same time nothing is taken from the energy of the nitro-gly- eerine when exploded by fulminates or similar device. For such purpose the plumose micais used, or that in which the seales are arranged in a feathery form. The prismatic or foliated mica is also used by passing it through amill. This vastly increases the mica’s bulk and forms masses of bran-like scales, trans- lucent and beautiful. The French silver moldings are also made with this ground mica. The unalterable nature of mica and the fact that it entirely resists the action of corrosive acids, smoke and dust, make it a valuable material for edificial decoration. It can be readily colored or metalized, and its transpar- ency preserves in allits pristine beauty anything to which it is applied. This ground mica is also used as a lubricant and axle grease, and for such purposes has no superior except plumbago. Coarsely pulverized it is also used for roofing material and as a fireproofing for iron safes. The cleavage of mica is so perfect it is estimated that it can be split or di- vided into leaves 250,000 to an inch. Much of its commercial value depends upon this wonderful property of lamina- tion. The largest plates of mica with such foliacious structure are obtained from Siberian mines, and they sometimes at- tain a diameter of five and seven feet. Crystals over two feetin diameter have been found in Pennsylvania, eighteen to twenty-four inches in New Mexico, and fourteen inches in North Carolina. Blocks of crystals weighing over 100 pounds are frequently mined. The North Carolina mines are supposed to be very ancient. Mica plates found in them when first discovered were trimmed to particular shapes, and it is supposed they were used for windows, mirrors and orna- ments. The number of the mines and the magnitude of these ancient opera- tions excite wonder. Some of the mines are tunneled to a considerable length, and distinetly show marks of chisel- shaped tools. Mica in some form exists all over the earth, but notin quantities of any commercial value. It can be found in granite and quartz rebellite, green tourmaline, feldspar, lepidolite, and other minerals, also in granular limestone, gneiss and slate. It varies in eolor from white through green, yellow- ish and brownish shades to black. Its chemical composition is silicite of alu- mina and potash, with a small amount of iron, magnesia and soda and about 5 per cent. water. _—_ OS The Wool Market. There has been considerable enquiry for wool during the past week, much more than at any other time since the season opened, but have not proved much. This increased enquiry means something, however. Manufac- turers know that, if dealers are going to buy goods at all, they must very soon place their orders, so that the time is drawing near when wool must be pur- chased. Whether prices will advance or not, remains to It is hardiy likely they will, but sales at any price are preferable to the present stagnation. There has been no improvement in the local market, prices remaining about the same. Dealers are not looking for wool, but are taking what is offered, but in so listless; a manner as to leave the impres- sion that they are not very particular about purchasing. The Bank of England will be 300 years old in 1894. sales im- be seen. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Astricans from [linois are beginning to arrive, commanding 75e for 14 bu. boxes. Beans—Handlers pay $1.75 for country-picked and hold at $2. City hand-picked are quoted at 10@25c above these figures, Beets—15e per doz. Butter—The market is strong, with indications of higher prices in the near future. Dealers now pay 14@l6e for choice dairy, holding at 16@18e. Creamery is in fair demand at 20ce. Cabbage—Home grown, $3 per 100. Carrots—15¢ per doz. Celery—Home grown has put in an appear- ance, commanding 20c per bunch. Cherries—Red command black go at 2c per bu. practically wind up the crop. Corn—Green, 10¢ per doz. Cucumbers—15@18e per doz. Currants—Red command #2.25 per bu. crop is disappointingly light in amount. Eggs—Firm and strong. Dealers pay 13%c, holding at 1434¢. Green Beans—Wax, 30c per bu. Green Onions—10Q@12¢ per doz. bunches, Green Peas—30c per bu. for marrofat. Honey—White clover commands 15¢ per Ib. dark buckwheat brings 12%c. Onions—Dry stock commands $1.25 per bu. or $3.50 per bbl. Both red and yellow danyers are in market, Plums—California command $1.50 per 4 basket crate. Potatoes—Home grown are beginning to come in quite freely, in consequence of which the price was dropped to 55@60e. The quality is not very good yet, owing to the greenness of the crop. Raspberries—Red command about 8c per qt. and black about 5c. This week will see an end of the crop. Squash—4c per lb. Tomatoes—#1 per 4 basket crate. Turnips—Home grown, 15¢ per dozen bunches. Watermelons—The Georgia crop is coming in freely, commanding 15@20c apiece. 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