chigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. _ $1 Per Year. VOL. 10 GRAND RAPIDS, AUGUST 2, 1893. NO. 515 Fall Overshirts and Underwear SS THE INSPECTION OF THE TRADE 1S SOLICITED. a (Qe P. STRKETER & SUNS WHOLESALE DRY GOODS: NOTIONS SEEDS! Everything in Seeds is kept by us—Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Ete. If you have Beans to sell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We will sell Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers. of 10), 35¢e each. No. 1 Fillers, 10 sets ina No. 1 Case, $1.25. sets in a No 1 Case, $1.50. W. Y. LAMOREAUX GO., 128, 180 and 182 W. Bridge St. Grand Rapids, Mich. PUTNAM GANDY GU. Wholesale Manufacturers of HIGH. GRADE. GUN EG TIONERY, And A. B. GUM GOODS, PUTNAM CANDY CO. REAMS. @ QA ARAMELS. HOCOLATES. SPECIALLY FINE LINE FOR RESORT TRADE. No. 1 Egg Case, complete(in lots No. 2 Fillers, 15 Orders given us for Oranges, Lemons and Bananas will receive careful attention. A. E, BROOKS & CO., 46 Oitawa 8t., Grand Rapids, Mich. "THIRTY-SIX YEARS established business bespeaks itself the perfectness and solidity of the eminent firm of MICHAEL KOLB & SON, WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, ROCHESTER, N. Y., MR. CRAMER, clothing merchant of Kalamazoo, Mich., remarked: ‘It’s quite true when I have failed to fit a man in other lines [I have got a 36 coat of Kolbs, fora man who takes a 36, and it is sure to fit.’ Then again Mr. Tripp, a clothing traveler, remarked: ‘‘Mr. Connor, you may well sell so many goods, for Mr. Kolb’s clothing is as staple as flour, always reliable, well made and ex- cellent fitters."’ Mr. Mercer of East Saginaw, clothier, says: ‘Mr. Connor, don’t leave Kolb, for his goods cannot be beat, besides Mr. Kolb is a good, square dealing man, and no one can find fault with his prices.” I am in my eleventh year with Kolb & Son. Write me for printed references, or send for me, and I will soon be with you to show you my samples. Address, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich. Please note that I shall be at SWEET’S HOTEL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, on AUGUST 9, 10 and 11, the week of the races. Customers’ expenses allowed. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. J} and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO., Mnnufacturecrs and {Wholesale Dealers in Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. 12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Our Styles, Qualities and Prices are Right. Give us a trial. We carry the best Tennis Shoes made. i Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. MOSELEY BROS., JOBBERS OF a AS Clover, Timothy, Millet, Hungarian, Field Peas, Ete. Green Vegetables, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, and Fruits of all kinds EGG CASE FILLERS, Ten sets No. 1, with Case, $1.25. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. STOP AND CONSIDER How you can obtain a Pack of A. DOUGHERTY’S Celebrated World Renowned PLAYING CARDS FREE! If you want good, light, sweet Bread and Biscuits use FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. ——— —$—$$—— Save the Tin-Foil Wrappers and our White Diamond Labels, and when you have TWENTY-FIVE send them (or fifteen cents), to our agency and they will send you a full deck of “FERMENTUM” PLAYING CARDS. For Purity and Excellence FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST is superseded by none. It is made from selected Corn, Rye and Malt. It does not contain any acids or chemicals to make it white, being sold in its natural state, the color of Rye. Try it, and you will always have good Bread. Follow directions. Ask for and insist upon having FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST. Manufactured only by THE RIVERDALE DISTILLERY, THE OLDEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WES7. 270 Kinzie St., Chicago III. No. 106 Kent Street. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. General Offices: 264 to Grand Rapids Agency: DEALERS IN Iiluminating and Lubricating — —-OLILS-—- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY EMPTY GARBON & GASOLIN" BARRELS es IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. CHAWIN: path: ane as To of Tradesman, You only Chew the String when you read tbis advertisement. Prove the Pudding, you must send for a sample order Superior or Universal Coupon Books. If you have never used the Coupon Book System, and wish to investigate it, sample books and price list will be mailed free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. HEYMAN COMPANY, Manufacturers of Show Cases of Euery Description. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. 63 and 68 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich, WRITE FOR PRICES. AGENTS FOR BICYCLES Can make money by buying some of the wheels we are offering at Special Prices to clean up our stock—Many 1893 Model High and Medium Grade Wheels will be sold at less than Cost. “Ie Lanai ea se it AOE 4 na sais Agents wanted for the most complete line of Wheels in the State. Repairing and changing wheels a specialty. PERKINS & RICHMOND, 101 Ottawa Street. ¢ * ‘ eae —p~ a ~a -~ « _ a - 7 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ESTABLISHED 15841. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY i. G. Dun & Co. Fieference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London. England, Grand Rapids Oe, Rem 4 Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. THE FIRE , INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. STEWART WHITE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBany, Sec’y. Te Ue ‘THe PHILA. PAT. FLAT OPENING BACK = eens) eae ese COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. Successor to Cooper Commercial Agency and Union Credit Co. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Office, 65 Monroe St. Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J. STEVENSON, Cc. A. CUMINGS, C. E. BLOCK. Ad. SHELLMAN — Oplician, G0 Monies Eyes tested for spectacles free of “a wiht latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. Wayne Counly Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Offic ers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply tothis bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention, This bank pays 4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually. 8. D.ELWOOD, Treasurer. VOUT VVIEY We are Fishing FOR YOUR TRADE. wean 800K" Made to Orde: AND KEPT IN STOCK 4. ali ae s” —_— Send for §: 0 oi i | our new Ma ‘ity 2 + yy 4) ¢ — Lolerram Lj nd Tracers. be ® BARLOW BROTHERS © ae HAVE MOVED > To 5 and 7 Pear! st, Near the Bridge, ¢ GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGU ST 9 , 189: 3. POPPINGHAM’S PERIL. Napoleon B. Poppingham was an in- ventor. From his boyhood the major portion of his time had been spent in planning and perfecting various contri- vances for lightening the labors or other- wise ameliorating the condition of his fellowmen. Thus far his inventions had not brought him the full measure of fame and worldly prosperity which his genius undoubtedly merited; but now he had hit upon an idea which could not fail, not only to make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, but to send his name down through the ages along with those of Gutenburg, Stephenson, Morse and Edison. “‘Yes, Maria,’’ he remarked to his wife in a high-pitched, nasal tone, which be- trayed his Yankee origin, ‘‘l’ve struck it at last, an’ it’s very simple when you once get the idea. Men have been a-try- ing all these ages to navigate the atmos- phere, but they have failed because they either depended on a bag filled with hot air or hydrogen gas, or on mechanical wings. Now, a balloon is unwieldly, dangerous an’ mighty oncertain. You start in a balloon to go to’ Jimson’s Cor- ners, an’ jest as like as not you'll fetch up in Bellbuckle, Maine, or Kingdom Come. You can’t steer one of ’em any more than you can steer a cyclone, and ; when you get ready to come down you’re jest as liable to land in the middle of an alder swamp as on a cushion of roses. As for wings, there ain’t no man got stiength to work a pair that’s big enough to raise his weight. A_ bird’s lighter’n a man in proportion to his bulk, an’ muscled different.{ More’n half a bird’s muscle is in his breast, an’ the muscles acrost a man’s chest ain’t only about one seventieth of the whole. Of course he can’t work wings big enough to h’ist hisself. Now, my idea is to com- bine the balloon an’ flyin’ machine. Make a small balloon, say, big enough to raise the wings an’ one hundred and forty pounds besides. Now, ’f the operator weighs one hundred an’ forty-five pounds, he’s only got to exert enough foree on the wings to h’ist five pounds. See? Mrs. Poppingham saw. After several weeks of arduous labor the flying machine was completed. It consisted of a cigar-shaped silk bag in- flated with hydrogen, beneath which were a pair of immense wings, with a rudder attachment and an ingeniously contrived harness by which the adven- turous navigator was to be held in place during his aerial voyages. The labor of constructing the machine had been ear- ried on in the privacy of Mr. Popping- ham’s workshop, a large, barn-like struc- ture in the rear of his residence, and no one save his wife had any hint of the mighty addition that had been made to the world of invention. Mr. Popping- ham had guarded his great secret well for two reasons; first, because he wished to avoid the ridicule of his neighbors, whom he regarded as very obtuse and unappreciative people, and secondly, be- cause he feared that someone might steal his idea before he got it fully perfected and his caveat filed at the Patent Office. 7 But now this wonderful piece of mech- anism was complete in every part, his application fora patent had been duly made, and he was ready for his initial trip. With beating heart he com- pleted his preparations for his first ex- cursion through the air, while his wife, in a state of great excitement, fluttered around the back yard from which the air ship was to be launched, and offered cau- tionary suggestions until he was nearly in a condition to fly without the aid of wings. ‘*‘How high d’ye s’ pose you’ll go, Napo- leon?’? she asked as her husband buck- led the straps around him. ‘**! dunno—two or three mile, he answered carelessly. “Oh, Napoleon, what if you should fall?” ‘“T’would jar my system a good deal, I cale’late,” he replied, grimly, as he loosed the ropes that held down the cigar shaped bag. ‘‘Oh, Napoleon!” shrieked his wife be- tween her sobs, ‘‘don’t goso high! If you love me, promise me that you won’t go up more’n a mile! The required promise was given, and a moment later Napoleon Boneparte Poppingham with a great flapping rose, so to speak, upon the wings of his own genius. Reaching a height of six or eight hundred feet, he sailed gracefully over the turnip patch and on, on toward the far off western hills. As Napoleon mounted upward and gazed upon the world beneath him his heart swelled with triumph almost to bursting. At last those who had always ridiculed him and sneered at his inven- tions would be compelled to acknowledge the powerand value of that wondrous inventive faculty with which kind nature had so generously endowed him. How easily this marvelous air carriage was propeiled! A single stroke of the broad pinions lifted him many feet in the air, and then sweeping in gradual descent he was borne without effort over field and forest, hill and vale. How perfectly the steering apparatus seemed under control! A slight movement of his foot, and he could change his course and sail in ma- jestic circles high above the heads of those poor puny human worms who were content to crawl upon the surface of the earth. How pure the air seemed! Every inhalation was like a draught of wine. His blood coursed through his veins as it had never done before, and a strange, wild exhilaration thrilled him to his fin- ger tips. It seemed that he had but just begun to live. The world was his! As he swept over the brow of a hill near a beautiful lake he heard a loud noise, and, looking downward, saw a venerable colored man kneeling on a rude platform surrounded by hundreds of dusky faces. He had come upon a negro camp meeting and, seized with a sudden fancy to hear the prayer, he circled on noiseless wings above the sable throng and listened. mebbe,” eome down!” “Oh, bressed angel, prayed the old man, in wavering accents. ‘Come now! Spread dy broad pinions an’ fly tous! Tote along dy sickle, for we am ripened grain, ready for de har- vest!’ Just then there was ashriek from a colored sister as the strange object hang- ing above their heads came within the range of her vision, and a moment later, with discordant yells of fearand wonder, the congregation broke for the adjoining woods and left the deaf old preacher with only two visible auditors, Mr. Pop- pingham and a crippled darky, whose crutches had been knocked out of. his hands in the scramble, and who now lay flat on his back, with an expression of more than mortal — on his face. “Oh, Mars’ Angel!’ he shrieked, stretching his hands toward the supposed supernatural visitor, ‘‘don’t min’ dat ol nigger! Don’t min’ him, I say? De grain ain’t ripe. Dat ol’ fool orter know hit’s de mos’ backward nigh on fohty year!” Leaving the camping ground, Mr. Poppingham skimmed across the lake, flying quite near the water, and watch- ing his reflection on the smooth and shining surface. Just as he reached the further shore two sportsmen emergea from a clump of trees not far away, and one of them with a quick exclamation of fear and surprise, raised his gun and fired. Napoleon felt a sharp, tingling sensation in one of his legs, and at once began widening the distance himself and the gunners. A few mom- ents of rapid work and he was well out of range, congratulating himself that, al- though he had been stung by fine shot, the balloon attachment had not been punctured. “It?s dangerous flying too low until these durn fools with guns gits used to seein’ men travel in this way,” he solilo- quized. ‘‘1’ll keep up higher after this.’’ It was well he did so, for in the course of a few hours he came across several hunters and nearly every one of them shot at him once or twice for luck. He kept out of harm’s reach, however, al- though two or three times he heard the swish of birdshot through the air. He had been traveling for some hours in a westerly direction, and did not no- tice the storm cloud which had gathered in the northeast, until a sudden gust of wind caught him up like a feather and earried him along at a greater rate of speed than he had before attained. Some- what alarmed he essayed to turn about, but found to his consternation that he could make no headway against the wind. A few moments later the storm burst in allits fury. He lost entire con- trol of his airship, and was whirled about like a bit of thistledown and borne through the air he knew not whither. He had once been at sea during a terri- ble storm, but that experience, as he now remembered it, seemed like a mere bit of holiday diversion in comparison with the terrors of his present situation. One moment he was hurled aloft like a splinter upon the waves of an angry sea, and the next he seemed to be going season in between 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. down, down, down into a fathomless abyss. An indescribable feeling of gid- diness and nausea seized him. Soon the darkness of night was added to his other horrors, and still he went on his devious | way through the trackless skies, faint, sick, frozen with fear, tossed hither and | yon by the demons of the storm, the shuttlecock of the elements. But amid all the dangers and uncertainties of that | awful ride on the winds, whether borne above the clouds or hurled downward toward his mother earth, he carried with him one thing that was as firm and im-| and that | movable as the eternal hills, was his determination that, if kind Prov- idence allowed him never invent anything again—not even an excuse. By and by, during an unusually heavy gust of wind, he suddenly realized that the straps connecting him with his air ship had parted, and that he was falling. A second later he stopped with a terri-| ble jerk, and became dimly con- scious that he was suspended between | the heavens and the earth by some ob-| ject which had evidently caught in the} back of his coat. He felt a sensation of | thankfulness as he remembered that the | garment was of unusually strong mate- | rial, and then lost consciousness. * soon * = The residents of the quiet village of Ridge, Tenn., were somewhat surprised one morning to find a man hanging by the coat tails to the weather vane which surmounted the steeple of their only church, like a ripe persimmon waiting to be plucked. After some dis- eussion ladders were procured, and a committee of two went up and harvested him. He remained insensible for a long time, but vigorous rubbing, alternating with occasional generous potions of new- ly distilled applejack, finally restored him. He persistently refused to divulge his name or place of residence, but very plausibly explained how he came to be in the position in which he was found by saying that he calc’lated he ‘must ’a’ walked in his sleep.” A few days later a and dejected looking genus homo was and painfully up the walk in front of the Poppingham mansion, and moment later there was a shriek of joy as the lady of the house recognized her lord and master. ‘‘Where on airth have you ben, Napo- leon?”’ asked Mrs. Poppingham, after the first tender greetings were over. ‘“‘Well, I’ve been on a little pleasure excursion from Ballyhack to breakfast and return, my dear,” replied the wan- derer. ‘“‘I have flirted with a cyclone an’ waltzed with a tornado; I have jos- tied agin the tail of the comet, played tag with the Ursa Major, an’ bathed my throbbin’ brow in the Milky Wy, b’gosh! It was very interestin’, from a philosoph- ical point of view, Maria, an’ at times it was excitin’ an’ even thrillin’, but it made me yearn for the quiet joys 0’ home as a country minister yearns for a square meal. You can tell your folks, Maria, an’ likewise the neighbors an’ in- qguirin’ friends, that your husband has discontinood aerial navigation, either for pleasure or business, until he gits to be a seraph with wings manufactured by somebody as thoroughly understands the trade. You can further inform a most Possum particularly limp of the hobbling slowly specimen seen a to escape from his} present predicament, he would never, | partner is now a free moril agent, so to speak, havin’ sworn off on the inventin’ habit forever an’ eternally, world with- ;outend. Amen!” ‘‘What are you goin’ todo now, Nap- | pyr’ “If I pull through this, my dear, I’m | goin’ to study an’improve my mind with | the one idee of tryin’ to pass the civil service examination for admission into the National Retreat for Busted Balloon- atics, Wapple Jawed Imbeciles and Dod- | derin’ Idiots.” ‘“*You look awful, Napoleon.’’ ‘“*Yes, Maria, I s’pose Ido. I feel aw- |ful. If 1 do not survive my injoories—” | ‘Don’t talk like that, Nappy.” ‘Don't you interrupt me, old lady. J | say, if l happen to elevate my toes as | the result of my brief, but tempestuous experience as apprentice in the sky | serapin’ line, I don’t want you to let the | parson go into the harrowin’ details at the funeral. Just notify him that he can dish up consolation to the bereaved friends and relatives for all he’s worth, but that when he has to allood to the late lamented he must stick to glitterin’ generalities, and stick clus. An’, Maria, you hear me; when [’m duly planted ac- cordin’ to law an’ gospel, don’t erect no towerin’ monyment, no costly marble urn, no - “Oh, Napoleon!’ “Jest a plain stun slab will do, Maria, wiih no frills or filigree, an’ bearin’ this simple but techin’ inscription: ‘Sacred to the memory of a dumb fool.’” ———»2. 2a __ Feature Advertising. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. There are methods and methods in ad- vertising as well as in anything else. A number of prominent advertisers have lately introduced regularly into their newspaper advertisements extraneous features which they thought would cause the public to seek for their announce- ment upon opening the paper. An ex- ample of this is the course pursued fer some time by one of the largest dry goods houses on State street, this city. They havea regular space in several of the morning papers, and each morning, beneath the name of the firm which headed the advertisement, but before the description of goods, appeared, under the caption, ‘‘What is going on to-day,’’ a list of the various society events, asso- ciation meetings, private entertainments and such occurrences as are not gener- ally grouped together in a daily paper. The idea was a good one and undoubt- edly attracted the attention daily of many people who would not have taken the trouble to look at the advertisement otherwise. A prominent soap manufac- turing concern is attracting a great deal of attention by a series of bright car- toons on timely topics, mostly of a local character, in the advertising columns of the daily papers. The cartoons are ac- companied by brief and witty descrip- tions which, of course, make mention of some of the merits of the firm’s especial brands of soap before theend. Both of these methods have much to commend them. Merchants in small towns and cities may find the following plana good one, especially for use in weekly papers. Each week besides your regular display advertisement compose a bright conun- drum, the answer to which shall refer to your business or the goods which you handle. Have the editor insert the query in his local notes, and state that the an- swer will be found in your regular ad- vertisement in the same issue. The an- swer should appearin small type above the first line of the display ‘‘ad.” If this is made a regular feature and the conundrums are sufficiently bright and witty, they cannot fail to make your ad- vertisement sought after. Of course, the question could be printed in the ad- vertisement of one issue and answered in that in the next, but the former plan lovin’ an’ anxious public that your life would probably prove the best. } AMBOY CHEESE Costs more to prod uce, is worth more and makes you more money than any other. Don’t confound this old reliable brand that has steadily grown in favor for 25 years with t called full creams t ket every season, T ison OLNEY & JUDSON he numberless so- hat flood the mar- here is no compar- GROCER CoO. SOLE A GENTS. TRADE’S DULL! OP COURSE IT IS. He is simply stocked up with all kinds of unealled for, un- known and unsaleable goods under the delusive idea of a greater profit ; has recommend- ed them to customers in place of tried, reliable and_ staple brands. Result—questionable customers of doubtful credit; the best trade is soon dissatis- fied with the ‘Unknown” brand of goods and gives its patronage to reliable dealers. You will find that the Gail Borden “RAGLE Condensed Milk is the leading one in all the principal and successful stores. It will pay you to sell it if you do not. PREPARED BY THE New York Condeised Mik Co iT HAS NO EQUAL. BRAND” Penner i anette ANd foe, PESERVEDMILK WINE sill Penal pet aganstinr | i Signatore, : i . eva coamENS 71 Hudson Strect New Yor y h iwi 4 ” f | 7 - ‘ THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. 3 BUBBLE-BLOWING. Written for THE TRADESMAN. An American who cannot stretch him- self to seventeen times his true size has no right, title or interest in the great ex- pression known all over the world as American enterprise. No other nation on earth can show such a record of reg- ularly recurring bubble-bursting periods as ours. The reason for this is obvious. We are the most elastic people in the world, and, when we begin to stretch, we are too enterprising to let up on the tension until we do violence to our ana- tomical adhesiyeness. Bubble-blowing is common the world over, but no other nation posseses wind enough to blow up such enormously large ones as we do. This is characteristic of us. Other peo- ple, owing to their advancing age, I sup- pose, are shorter winded and less flexi- ble than we are, and, while they halt oc- casionally to ‘‘block-up” and ‘‘stay-lath,”’ we keep right on blowing and stretching just as though there was no limit to ex- pansion. Statistics show that it takes about two decades to blow up our big bubbles to the bursting point. We area nation of blowers. We blow everything beyond its true proportions. Everything is stuffed more or less with wind and appears several sizes larger than it really is. We have drawn so heavily on the ethereal regions for wind that vacuums are eaused, producing at- mospheric disturbances which result in what is known as an American cyclone. Blow? Why, what other country on the face of the globe can produce such a wind that can blow the pin feathers off a rooster without dislodging him from the roost, or blow a baby out of the cradle and deposit it in a crow’s nest in the top of a pine tree three miles away without waking it up? Canada may boast of her big pile of pressed curd at the World’s Fair, and Spain of her Infanta, but when it comes to real windy wind Uncle Sam is the only able-bodied competitor. What great, beautiful bubbles we do blow up! What a pity it is their stretch- able possibilities are not unlimited, as wind is so plentiful and cheap! It has been demonstrated, time and time again, that the business of the country cannot be enlarged by stuffing it with wind. It may be inflated and take on the appear- ance of solid meat, like a bloated, distil- lery-fed hog, but it will only be an ap- pearance—the genuine article will re- main the same. Real business consists in adequately supplying a healthy de- mand and is materially the same in all countries. If business in our own coun- try assumes a more pretentious garb, it is because it is wind-bloated. We create sickly and fictitious demands for streams of supplies flowing from unnatural sources which are opened up by hot- house processes of stimulation. We build cities on paper, originate and carry on great business enterprises on credit, and shout prosperity when we don’t know where the next meal is com- ingfrom. Wind! Wind!! Wind!!! It is our natures to blow, but the trouble is that about every so often we blow everything chuck full. We reach the limit of pressure when our largest and most inflated bubbles burst, and then we all stop blowing and wonder what the matter is. Here we show our short- sightednes. We fail to recognize the fact that the business of the country has reached its limit of inflation, as it has frequently done before, and that for its own salvation, it is necessary to stop and let the wind off. We can’t get the idea out of our heads that blowing bub- bles is doing business, and we imagine that the business of the country is para- lyzed, and every conceivable thing but the right thing iscensured as being the cause of it. Of course, the escape of gas naturally depresses the real business of the country, and while the bubbles are being pricked and the artificial props are being Knocked out from under the fictitious business concerns, the people are given such a taste of wormwood and gall of hard times which our more con- servative neighbors across the border have never experienced. But their ways are not our ways. They may look down uzon us with glee at the present time, while our beautiful bubbles are being pricked, but after the humili- ating ordeal is over with we will give them another decade or two of bubble blowing which will rob them of the bright- est and shrewdest sons they have reared in the meantime. E. A. OWEN. i Five in the Hundred. Of all those who enter trade, that’s about the number who end up witha sur- plus; the ninety-five sink by the way. And the ninety-five who dropped out were pretty sure at the start that they could work the oracle, but they had the conceit taken out of them in due time. Wonder if it may be said that the five who reached the goal with something over stepped along more tremblingly year by year, too scared to take big risks! That was probably the case. Those who lay off tue harness are a very different set of men from those who are putting it on. But wait a bit: they’ll be like the old fellows towards the end. And this holds true in every branch of business. The big crowd is in the rear. The few only at the front. How comes it that he is the best farmer in the county; the best doctor in the city; the ablest man atthe bar? Is it wholly because of merit or foresight? Was the success due to qualities inherited or acquired? Any- one able to answer these questions? These are times when man feels humili- ated if he can’t answer any and every question connected with all things, both celestial and terrestrial. Howisit that more names are not on the roll call of effecti ve, successful men? Is there a deterrent power hindering the ninety- five and helping the five? That’s the question and thought. Solomon himself owned up that there were some things which he could neither explain nor un- derstand, but then he hadn’t the advan- tage of the modern professor in this col- lege and that—fellows who say they don’t know the origin of life, but they know it isn’t from above. Be careful where you send your boys. We are en- veloped in mysteries. There is a man who didn’t amount to shucks at school. See him now, a leader in human affairs and a material success. The brilliant school-boy has now to ask credit of his tailor or wear kilts. There are things inexplicable in everything, and nothing more inexplica ble than this, that often the man who steers comes out like the man who drifts, at the small end of the horn. Yet no wise man would be guilty of counselling his friends to drift rather than steer. I am unable to solve the problem and leave its solution to shrewd- er brains and sharper pens than my own. Gro. R. Scort. WE ARE MAKING Special Low Prices on LAWN -- MUWKRS wp Write Us for Price It in Need.--——"=sy ee Prasren TEVENS ST. & C- MONROg 18 and 19 Widdicomb Building. We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1893. Correspondence Solicited. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. St. Clair—D. B. MeNair succeeds Me- Nair & Lewis in the ciothing business. Negaunee—Muck & Thomas succeed Thos. Muck & Co. in the meat business. Bay City—C. D. Richardson succeeds Richardson & Nash in the grocery busi- ness. Adrian—Martin Palmer succeeds Cla- rence Frost in the art goods and grocery business. Benton Harbor—Rudolph J. Baushke succeeds Baushke & Root in the harness business. Paris—Davenport & Co. are succeeded by J. L. Davenport & Co. in the grocery business. Ludington—J. M. Mastenbrook has re- moved his drug stock from Muskegon to this place. Muskegon—W. J. Partrington has pur- chased the stock of the Houck Furniture Co. and is disposing of it by retail in the building next to the factory of the Kelly Bros. Manufacturing Co. Muskegon—E. A. Worden is fitting up the storeroom at “41 W. Western avenue, formerly occupied by Fred Neumeister’s drug business and about September 1 will open a new dry goods store. Mr. Worden will leave in a few days for the East to purchase an entire new stock. Belding—The grocery stock formerly owned by L. W. Loveland has been sold by M. B. Divine and the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. to Thos. Welch, Edward Belding, E. R. Spencer and C. C. Eddy, who will continue the business under the style of the Welch & Belding Grocery Co. Orange—Henry Jordan has sold his half interest in the general merchandise stock of Tew & Jordan to Charles and Ed. Tew. The business wili be con- ducted by E. C., Charles and Ed. Tew, under the style of E. C. Tew & Sons. The combination is a strong one and will, undoubtedly, meet with deserved sue- cess. Mattawan—J. M. Frost has uttered a chattel mortgage on his general stock to the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co. and the Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co,, whose claims are $311 and $227, respectively; also a second mortgage to B. Desenberg & Co., whose claim is $147. He subsequently secured J. F. Halladay for his claim on a of horses. Mr. Frost attributes his embarrassment to having too large a stock of goods, coupled with the slow- ness of collections since the times began to harden. span MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Beaverton—Howard Seely has started his new sawmill, and his hoop and stave mill will be ready to start before the end of the month. Cadillac—Two locomotives, which were supposed to have been about ruined by the burning of the Thayer Lumber Co’s round house in Missaukee county, have been rebuilt here, and are as good as new. Saginaw—G. B. Wiggins has down his saw and shingle mill at Higb- wood, Gladwin county, having cut 1,000,- 000 feet of lumber and 2,000,000 shingles. He is stocking the Cambrey & Co. saw- mill here and is operating a shingle mill down the river. Bay City—The Michigan Central Rail- way has awarded the contract for the extension of its line from Midland to! Hubbard, a distance of ten miles, and the work is to begin at once. There are shut | | two sawmills located at Habbard, and | the road when finished will receive a | large quantity of lumber freight. | Bay City—Lumbermen here are taking | the financial depression philosophically. It is affecting trade some, as people in want of lumber are only buying for im- mediate necessities and what they can | see their way clear to pay for. In the eud this will work to the advantage of all. Saginaw—A large operator in pine lands states that any quantity of stump- age is being offered. He says thereisa more general disposition to sell timber than has been the case in the last two years, but there is no weakness as yet to the price of stumpage. The closeness of the money market has called off pur- ; chasers and no transfers are reported. |For aman who has ready money to in- vest it is considered an opportune time | to purchase pine timber, but the diffi- culty is in finding the man with the cash. West Bay City—It is confidently ex- pected that on September 1 the big plant of Ross, Bradley & Co. will be in opera- tion. This firm began operations here twelve years ago. The first year they handled 4,000,000 feet of lumber. The members of the firm are hustlers, how- ever, and from this small beginning the business was extended to proportions that have seldom been attained by any individual concern. Last year in their business they handled 42,000,000 feet of lumber. The present year, owing to the interruption caused by the removal and erection of the new plant, the firm will handle only about 25,000,000 feet. new site will afford more ample facilities for the conduct of the vast business of the firm. The new industry will cover an area of twelve and one-half acres, with a front on Saginaw River of 2,500 feet. <>< Grains and Feedstuffs. Wheat—Dropped to 51 cents almost without warning, and the end is not yet. All the indications and predictions point to still lower prices. Here, as elsewhere, the stringency of money has had its ef- fect. There is almost no speculative buying, and only the mills are *‘in it’ to any extent. The market is chilled through, and no one appears to want to do any business. It is not expected that the incoming crop will change the con- dition much, if any. Flour—Unchanged. Corn—Brings a good price, and is un- usnally firm, though not much business is reported. Oats—In car lots are a trifle off, with a tendency towards improvement. Millstuffs — Bran, middlings, mixed feed and corn meal are lower, and not much doing. Good pasturage has inter- fered to a considerable extent with busi- ness, and will for some time to come. Hay—Dull, with prices on the down grade, the new crop having begun to move. The price will undoubtedly go much below to-day’s figures. —_— The Wool Market. It is the same old story—Dullness, re- lieved only by small buying on the part | of manufacturers. The season is nearly at anend, and there is little hope for | wool growers. Local buyers are listless, taking what is brought to them; but they ; will not go after it. Prices are un- changed, and have been for some time, | which, perhaps, indicates that the bot- | tom has been reached The | GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. New York, July 29—Not for many years has there been such an army of unemployed men in this city as at pres- ent. The printers are talking of send- ing some of their surplus workers to other sections, althoughit is very doubt- ful if this plan will bring relief. There are said to be over 2,000 of them here without work. This number includes the men who will work if they have it to do, and does not embrace the ‘‘tramps and bums’? who work for whisky only. This is only one trade, and by no means the largest one. If we consider the tex- tile factories of New England, we have a veritable army. Of course, these peo- ple must eat, and for that reason the grocery trade is not suffering as are some other lines. Probably most of the work- ers have laid up enough to last a short time, and, if confidence is restored with- in thirty days, the grocery trade will not have lost much. But if this stringency is drawn out until the money of the workers is entirely exhausted and credit begins to be asked for, then will come the blue day for the ‘‘food purveyor.”’ At the moment there actually seems to | be a more confident feeling among tradesmen and bankers, but the reason thereof is rather shadowy and intangible. One report tells of quite liberal ship- ments of gold from London hither and probably this is what inspires the ‘‘con- fident feeling.””’ Then the report comes of the closing of factories and the throw- ing out of work of hundreds of workmen, and this is where the ‘‘shadow’’ comes in. Many of these shut-downs are of course only temporary, but they are all noted and made the most of by those rumor mongers who are working the present for ‘‘all itis worth.’’ As an instance of the manner in which stocks have gone down, take one of the very best in the whole line—sugar. In February the common stock of the Amer- ican Sugar Refining Co. sold as high as 13434. Next month a reaction set in which has steadily continued tothe pres- ent. On July 1, the quotation was 81%, and Friday 69 was reached. If a man has money your correspondent really thinks it would be better to buy sugar stocks at present rates than to ‘put his trust in princes.” It certainly must prove a good investment, even if it goes still lower, for the tide is bound to turn, and then—‘‘here are yer nice, fresh profits.” It is rumored that the United States & Brazil Steamship Co. is about to be re- organized with C. P. Huntington as President. This company had five fine steamers in commission two or three years ago; but was obliged to ‘give up the ship” owing to the claims against it by a multitude of crediters. The ves- sels, which cost $1,500,000, were sold for $200,000. Thenew management will begin making trips about October 1, and it is sincerely hoped that enough encour- agement will be found to make the ex- periment one that wiil be profitable. The Government of Brazil, if that country can be said to have a govern- ment, has stopped the sending of cipher messages into its sacred precincts, and our coffee men have had noend of trouble. The charge per word from New York to Brazil is $1.66, and, as the cipher word often means a complete sentence of some length, it will be seen that the prohibi- tion thereof is the cause of a good deal of complaint. The coffee market, by the way, is down another fraction, and 161¢¢ is now the mark for Rio No. 7. Asan instance of the rapidity with which goods can be converted from the raw material into marketable products, afirm in Havre de Grace, Md., recently received two carloads of tomatoes at 7 a. m., and at 9 the same morning a carload of tin. They made the cans, packed the tomatoes in them, processed the goods, labelled them, put them on the cars and started them for this city all before night. Itis doubtfulif this record can be beaten. Canned goods are ‘‘marching on,’ but the rate of progress is slow. Tomatoes are not as firm as at last quotations, and, while quotations may be made at $1.40, this is ‘‘shaky.” as new goods are making their appearance. Nothing else in the entire line is wanted, and enquires as to futures are nil. No recent changes have been made in refined sugars, and trading is of very limited character. Light stocks are being carried by all hands, and there seems no disposition to ‘load up.” Granulated is quoted at 5 3-16@53¢e. Butter has not been so low in two years as at present, and there seem no reasons for an immediate change for the better; 20¢ is the price for very best, but there is no great demand, and the supply is ample. Dairy butter, 17@17%ec for Western firsts. Cheese is firmer, as the market is pretty well cleaned up. Nine cents is the ruling quotation for large size full cream state, colored, while white ranges 8@8 xe. Eggs are in rather light supply, and strictly fresh, near-by are worth 17e. Western, 144¢@15}¢e. Potatoes are in light supply, and the market rules firm at $2.50@3 per bbl. for Long Island. Peas and beans are also well held and firm. Pea beans in good demand at 32; marrow, $2.50@2.60. Prime hay is worth about $19 per ton and the market is steady, but supplies are large. Exports promise to be large. JAY. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion, No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. IVE TO SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS will purchase a half interest in one, or the entire business of another clothing and gentie- men’s furnishing goods house, both well situ- ated in Michigan, and doing excellent business. None but those seeking such an excellent op- portunity need apply to William Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich. 765 OR SALE—A FIRST CLASS OLD ESTAB- lished meat market; best position in the town; fully equipped; also a smaller market; satisfactory reasons for selling. C. A. Brown, Ypsilanti. 766 ANTED—A SALESMAN FOR A GEN- eral store, and one particularly adapted toclothing. Want nothing but a first-class man. Give age, experience and wages wanted. M. S. Keeler, Middleville, Mich. 764 OR SALE—COMPLETE Al MEAT MARKET outfit, including a fine 10x12 Birkenwald Refrigerator. A bargain for someone. Address Lock Box 685, Ludington, Mich. 76 OR SALE—THE STOCK OF SHOES OF THE late A. Foster. Address Foster Brothers, Port Huron, Mich. 760 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES in well settled residence locality in this city Rent, reasonable. Living rooms con- nected with store if desired Reason for selling, ill health. Address No. 761, care Michigan Tradesman. 761 OR SALE—SQUARE MARBLE SODA Fountain, complete. Good as new. Cost $125. Will sell for $75. No trade is the reason for selling. Address P. M. Cleveland & Son, druggists, Nunica, Mich. 762 i to consolidate stock of $3,00) to $10,000 with me in a No. 1 loca- Large store, doing a heavy and strictly cash trade. The very best references given and expected. Address No. 750, care Michigan Tradesman. 750 SITUATION WANTED BY A REGISTERED pharmacist of three years’ experience, Ref- erences unquestionable. Address No. 751, care Michigan Tradesman. 751 OR SALE—Drug stock in business town of 1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib- utary to large farming trade; lake and rail freights; only two drug stores in town; rent, $200 per year; stock will inventory $2,500; sales $20 aday. Reason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman. T52 ANTED—A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug store. Address C. L. Brundage, opera house block, Muskegon, Mich. 756 AYING SHOE STORE FOR SALE—IN BEST town in Michigan of 5,:00 inhabitants, loca- tion fine, clean stock, invoice $6,500, sales $17,000. Best of reasons for selling. Good bargain. Ad- dress Boots and Shoes, care Michigan Trades- man. 749 | USINESS HOUSE AND STOCK OF GRO- ceries for sale on Union street. Will sell Address box 634, Traverse —_: 74 tion. at a bargain. Mich. OR SALE—YOST TYPEWRITER, USED but a few months, and practically as good asnew. Send for sample of writing. Trades- man Company, Grand Rapids. 736 OR RENT—THE NEWLY FITTED STORE at 88 Canal street. Suitable for a hardware stationery or clothing store. First-class location in center of business part near court house, next door to best paying drug store in the city. Twenty-four feet front and 1:0 feet deep, high ceiling, etc. For terms apply to 239 Jefferson avenue, Grand Rapids. 731 OR SALE OR RENT—STORE BUILDING at Sparta, ee place for hardware. Address No, 726, care Michigan Tradesman. 726 Pannen GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. John P. Fetterly succeeds E. B. Ste- vens as local representative for Swift & Company. - G. C. Bonnell, who has been connected with the house of Spring & Company for the past twelve years, most of the time in the capacity of traveling salesman, has embarked in the bakery business at 307 Jefferson avenue. The feature of the week in trade cir- cles has been the failure of Van Every Co., the Canal street grocery house. Chattel mortgages were given several preferred creditors for alleged borrowed money, whereupon the Lemon & Wheeler Company repleviaed several hundred dollars worth of goods in satisfaction of their claim of $900. A. J. TenRaa & Co., grocers at 200 Watson street, recently sold their grocery stock to Noah C. Diamond and Mrs. Harm Timmer, who continue the business under the style of Diamond & Timmer. TenRaa & Co. owed Hawkins & Company several hundred dollars and that firm has garnisheed Diamond & Timmer and attached all the real estate owned by the members of the firm of TenRaa & Co. Wm. Rowe, formerly engaged in the drug business at Scottville, Manistee, North Muskegon and Ravenna, but for the past three months engaged in the same business at Custer, died recently as the result of paralysis. The Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., whose claim against the stock was secured by a chat- tel mortgage for $450, foreclosed the mortgage and the sale takes place this week. The Cincinnati Merchants’ Sentinel re- produces the resolutions of thanks to the Assistant City Attorney and police de- partment, adopted by the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, accompany- ing them by the following editorial ob- servation: ‘‘We publish these resolu- tions merely to show our Cincinnati gro- cers that there is at least one town in the country where the officials are favorable to the interests of legitimate merchants.” ——— —~ -6 << Gripsack Brigade. The commercial traveler charges up his washing bills under the head of ‘‘sun-dry” expenses. Edwin C. Stone, traveling representa- tive for the Richardson Silk Co., of Bel- ding, was in town a couple of days last week. J. Price Slauson, who has acted as salesman for Gardiner & Baxter for sev- eral years, has gone on the road for the cigar department of the Thurber-Why- land Co., of New York. His territory includes the entire State. He will con- tinue to reside here. John M. Moore has gone on the road for Spring & Company, taking the posi- tion rendered vacant by the resignation of G. C. Bonnell. Mr. Moore has been in charge of the Cedar Springs branch of the house for the past nine months, and would probably continue in that capacity but for the closing of the store and the removal of the stock to this city. J. C. Watson surprised himself this year by taking a full month’s vacation, which is four times as long as he has rested before for a dozen years. He put in one week at the World’s Fair, in com- pany with his son, Harry, and spent the remainder of the time with his wife, vis- iting friends at Bay City, Saginaw and THE MICHIGAN other points. He headed for the Upper Peninsula Aug. 1. Albert C. Antrim, the veteran travel- ing representative for the Alabastine Co., is back from a five months’ trip through the Pacific Coast and the South. The death of his son, Fred., occurred while he was at Los Angeles, which will be his home for some time, as his wife, son and daughter are all pleasantly located there. Mr. Antrim will spend a week with his parents at Whitehall and an- other week fishing near Ludington, when he will be in trim to cross the continent in pursuit of business. For a man who has traveled almost continuously for forty years, he is remarkably preserved, both in health and strength. > Purely Personal. A. W. Morrison, formerly engaged in the drug business at Constatine, died last week. The wife and daughter of Geo. H. Seymour are at Frankfort, in hopes the change of air will benefit Mrs. Seymour, who is sorely afflicted with bronchial asthma. Warren Y. Barclay and wife have gone to Trenton, where they will be the guests of Mrs. Barclay’s father, Mark Jaqueth, Esq. They will take atrip around the lakes before returning home. Theodore Karmsen, for the last two years pharmacist at the Michigan Sol- diers’ Home, has been engaged by John Avery &Co., of Greenville, to take charge of their drug stock during their absence at the World’s Fair. Frank C. Sampson, whose shingle mill at Boon was destroyed by fire a few days ago, was in town Saturday for the pur- pose of purchasing machinery for a new plant, which he expects to have in opera- tion within 30 days. His boiler and en- gine were not materially injured by the fire. DeWitt G. Ray, representative of the Boot and Shoe Recorder, of Boston, was in town last week and favored THE TRADESMAN wWithacall. Mr. Ray is one of those men whose trade journal career was preceded by a quarter of a century’s experience as reporter and editor of daily newspapers in the leading cities of the country. This experience has given him an amount of tact and the ability to read men possessed by few other trade journal workers in the country. Mr. Ray is a man of broad intelligence and keen discernment, and richly deserves the success he is achieving in connec- tion with the Recorder. <> The Grocery Market. Sugar—Refined grades above No. 6 suf- fered adecline of gc on the 24th and a similar decline two days later. The de- mand is light and the market weak and unsettled. Coffee—McLaughlin has put XXXX on the equality plan, so far as Michigan is concerned. Teas—New Japans are beginning to arrive. Someof the wholesale grocers at this market have adopted a new plan in connection with their tea sales. In- stead of billing the goods at four months, they propose to make the time sixty days and increase the ten-day cash discount from 4 per cent. to 6 per cent. This ar- rangement appears to be in the interest of both wholesaler and retailer, as it eurtails the credit accounts of the former and increases the cash discounts of the latter. Provisions—Pork in barrels is in brisk TRADESMAN. demand, and prices are firm; lard, ditto; smoked meats are a trifle off, in conse- | quence of increased receipts of hogs and slow sales. Fresh Meats—Firm, with good business reported. Poultry—Fowls are firm; spring chick- ens are easy at good prices; other ‘lines’? are unchanged and quiet. Oranges — Scarcer, with stationery prices. The quality is retrograding, ex- cept St. Michaels, which are of excellent quality and quoted at $5. Lemons—The better grades are kold- ing firm. It pays to handle only the fancy marks, their keeping quality being good. The poorer qualities are likely to spoil on the dealers’ hands. Bananas — The supply is variable. Last week the market was stripped bare, with only the usual demand; this week the indications are that the supply will be ample. The price is according to quality and size of bunch. et at The Drug Market. Gum opium is unsettled, but the price remains the same. Morphia is unchanged. Gum arabic is lower. Senega root is in better supply and lower. The Lyon Manufacturing Co. has raised the prices of its remedies, which are now as follows: Mustang Liniment, small............ Ln eou oe $ 2 00 . : meCGtgie................ 4 00 . ise... 8 00 Evens Eatharion .......................... 4 00 Megan's Salm. os... 6 OD Pramteiiom Hitter. ........ 2... 8 50 Darley s Heave Powders...... ............ 200 er Merged Into a Corporation. Alfred J. Brown and Geo. S. Brown have merged their business into a stock company under the style of the Alfred J. Brown Co. The capital stock of the cor- poration is $25,000, of which $13,000 is paid in, being divided among three stockholders in the following amounts: A. J. Brown, $8,300; W. G. Osborn, $2,700; G. S. Brown, $2,000. The officers of the corporation are as follows: President—A. J. Brown. Vice-President—G. S. Brown. Secretary and Treasurer—W. G. Os- born. A A Heel Remedy. From the New York Herald, ‘‘Please add a half an inch to the heels and make me another pair of shoes as per last measure.’’ It was in the store of a well-known shoe dealer, and he read the above sentence from an order just received by mail. ‘‘It is strange how things have changed in the last few years,’’ he mused, and continued—*‘For- merly the women were much _ shorter than the men. and they (the women) liked it, and the men did, too, for a man always likes a woman smaller than him- self. But now this is entirely reversed. I do not know whether it is that the men have grown any shorter, to use a para- doxical statement, or whether’ the women have grown taller, but certain it is, there are now apparentjy more tall women than formerly, A man does not like to walk with a woman who looks down on him. He wants her to look up to him and admire his superior height. A half an inch on the heel makes a big difference in the apparent height ofa person, and hence it is that where such orders formerly came from women it is now the men who appeal to us to add tothe majesty of their appearance, while the women ask for low heels on their shoes.’’ 5 OO Abuse of a Postal Privilege. As is well known, a letter insufficient- ly stamped is carried to its destination, where the balance due is collected—that is, if itis provided with a 2-cent stamp, its destination being anywhere in the country. Thisis undoubtedly a matter 5 | | of considerable importance in many in- stances, as where, through haste or care- | lessness it does not have sufficient value iin stamps affixed. But as, in the in- | stance of many other concessions, it ap- pears that this is abused to such an ex- tent that there is some probability of its | withdrawal, in which case a letter will | not be forwarded unless sufficiently pro- | vided with stamps. One way in which | this concession is said to be abused is in sending heavy packages purposely un- derstamped on the chance thatin the haste at the office it will not be noticed. Another is said to be in the small offices, where the incumbents are quite gener- ally country merchants, and receive a good many packages by mail with post- age purposely underpaid. nonin el —
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Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, DOR, cies 13% blue 8% No. 220....13 . & twist 10% - No. 250. ‘tae Columbian XXX br.10 ’ No. 280....10% XXX b1.19 — Aue... 5...» Lancaster, staple... 644 “Persian dress 3 fancies . , ' Canton .. 8 _ Normandie 8 a... 10%/Lancashire.......... 6 ' Teazle...10%4|Manchester......... 5% " Angola..10%/Monogram.......... 6% e Persian.. 8 |Normandie......... 7% Arlington staple.... 614)Persian............. 3 Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 7%/|Rosemont..........- 6% _ staples. = Sintersville ......... 6 Centennial. ........ om oo ae ed ee. 7 Ce ek a oes .......... Cumberland —. 5M Toil du Nord.. Cumberland.. Wihem.......... ae... ........ - “ seersucke: ee " Warwiex.... .. / Everett classics..... 84|Whittenden......... 8 Exposition.......... Tq . heather dr. 7% Ceemere........... 644 . indigo blue 9 Glenarvyen.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 8% Gienweed........... 741 Weatorook........-- Peeeaeeoe..... . ...... 6 ee ee 10 Jobnson Uhaloncl %|Windermeer.... .... 5 = Indigo blue Sgivark..-.. .........- 6% ' zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Azmoskeag......... -16%| Valley City.........- 15% i ee ee eee sc. 19% American.... ~ Seen «--.. -.--.-.- THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's....... ....&6 oer, 2. &P....... |Mersnalls.... .....- §1 Homens............. 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored Ho 4... mo ino, .......37 42 - 8... 34 rw --38 43 = 30 Sit .....- 39 44 ~~ 36 = oe. 45 CAMBRICS, ae... 4%(Edwards........... 4% Waite Ster.......-. < Lockwood...... ... 4% eee eee .:.......- a Woods.... ......... 4% Newmarket......... 4%|Brunswick ........ iny RED FLANNEL, oo ar W...-............. 22% Creeamore.........- a ge B2% Tapes 2A ......... = Uae, eee......... 35 Bessel... .......- Se poreere.... .......: 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... %% Deen ©. ..... ...... 2214 Western W ......... 18% Weeeee...... .....- ioe a F............... 18% 6 oz Weatern........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 234% ee! 22%|Manitoba........... 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless ..... 8 @9 ee 9 oie 84%@10 - . 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black. 9% 8% 914 /10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 104%/11% 11% 11K 11% 11% 1144/12 12 12 12% 12% 1244/20 20 20 DUCES. Severen, 8 oz........ 9%|West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, 8oz....... 10 “ 10 0z ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 944|/Raven, 100z......... 13% Greenwood, 8 oz.. ‘11% — ween Bouton, § os......... 10% |Boston, 10 ea 12% WADDINGS, Whie, Go8......... 25 |Per bale, 40 dosz....88 50 ‘Colored, dos........ - ee «Cw#«.... 7 50 SILESIAS, Slater, Iron Crome... 8 sPawtucket.......... 10% Red Cross.... 9 a en eddee ee 9 aE ,.10%|Bedford........ .... 10% _ Bost AA..... es: Valley a 10% ee re 10% See chee eeens te gale SEWING SILE,. Corticelli, doz....... 85 twist, doz. = 50 yd, doz.. Corticelli Se, per %oz ball...... 30 HOOKS AND saci @R0s No 1 BI’k & White..10 “2 " 12 No 4Bl’k s “White. 15 8 20 “ 3B “ 2 | « 10 “ “25 No 2-20, i - y No 4-15 F 3% oe ae 40 S-—18,86 C........ No 2 White & BYrK.12 “No 3 White & BI’k..20 “ ~ " 2 i’ = en a “s ' et"? 2 e — SAPETY PINS. OG. os oe 28 _— Deke ee cree eeudee 36 NEEDLES—PEBR XK. A. James.... ook SNORE... 0... Crowely’s.. ook 35|Gold ee. 1 60 Marshall’s........ on-k Ob AUUCTICAN........ coool OO TABLE OIL CLOTH. 1 eee —o 6—.. a --195 6—4...2 % OTTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine. -28 | Nashua. ..18 A 12 Rising Star 4 Ply. — eee... 5. 18% 3-ply....17 —- bese ihe Seu 16 |North Star.. 20 Bristol . ..13 |Wool Standard 4 ply17 % rT Valley... ce eseg SS |Powhatten ......... 18 Cee, 18% PLAID OSNABURGS Aen... ..... 6% —— Pleasant.... 6% iremeee........... &% ie weds ory 5 EE on 7% Prement bes dct ee cu. 5% ae eee. ......... © [Randolman......... 6 Nos 64 ooo alee kieas 5g oe hn --. 5 |Sibley A.. -. 6g Haw : wees wep eb ens B geeeeee............: Haw J.. ones Peoples Typewriter Retail price, 820 each. Agents wanted in every town in the state. EATON, LYON & CO. Booksellers and Stationers, 20 & 22 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cuas. B. Kesey, Pres. E. B. Szymour, Sec’y J. W. HANNEN, Supt. OOK INDING “Chicago”? Linen Hinge and Mullins Patent Flat Opening Books. SPECIAL BOOK BINDING. Telephone 1243. 89 Pearl street, Old Houseman Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. “The Kent.’’ Directly Opposite Union !: pot. AMERICAN PLAN RATES, $2 PER DAY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC BELLS FREE BAGGAGE TRANSFER FROM UNION DEPOT. BEACH & BOOTH, Props, AYLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. >| For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- creased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. A MW 4 > + « é > <\ © r ~ ar he oe ~ o> < * » ia sgh & THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 Are They Anarchists? The labor unions of this and several other cities have endorsed the action of Governor Algteld, of Illinois, in pardon- ing the anarchists who were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for participation in the Haymarket riots in Chicago, several years ago, which re- sulted in the murder of several police- men and the maiming for life of as many more. The Central Labor Unions, by adopting resolutions commending Altgeld’s action, have become accessor- ies after the fact to that wholesale and most cold-blooded murder—a murder for which the men implicated, and doubtless many more, had been preparing for months. They had preached the doc- trines of anarchy, declaring their inten- tion of using dynamite in order to de- stroy the Government. It was generally known that they were making bombs to be used ‘‘when the proper time came,” and although, perhaps, they did not intend them to be used on the occasion of the Haymarket meeting, yet the intention was to use them, and, sooner or later, bloodshed would have resulted. Murder was committed, and these men were identified with the crime by evidence as clear and positive as was ever submitted to a judge and jury. If ever men de- served the extreme penalty of the law they did. Declaring their intention of destroying the lives of those in lawful authority, they deliberately made and placed in the hands of men inflamed by passion and liquor some of the deadliest explosives ever manufactured. The slaughter of the policemen followed, and followed as naturally as effect follows cause. Perhaps they did not throw the bombs, but they intended them to be thrown; the bombs were used for the purpose for which they were made; and, as they destroyed the lives of those men, so they intended to destroy the lives of all in authority. There was no muzzling of free speech. They had held their meetings in the open air, in halls, wher- ever they pleased, without molestation, until after that disastrous meeting in Haymarket square. And though the authorities could hardly be blamed if they suppressed such meetings entirely, yet, as a matter of fact, no anarchistic meeting since then has been interfered with, except that the carrying of the red flag has not been permitted. No sur- prise need be felt at Governor Altgeld’s action. Heisa foreigner himself who belongs to the class from which the an- archistic ranks are recruited, and, with- out deubt, is in full sympathy with them in all their vicious and destructive doctrines and purposes. He has utterly failed to grasp the true significance of liberty, which to him and his class means unbridled license. Such men do not know, and never can know, that the en- joyment of true liberty is only possible to him who practices constant self-re- straint; and that liberty for all the peo- ple depends upon the self-restraint of the individual. The labor unions of the country, so far as they have endorsed Altgeld’s folly, have declared, as he did, that the Supreme Court of the United States, the most eminent judicial body in the world, is unworthy of confidence—a most outrageous assumption. Altgeld, indeed, assumes to know more of law and equity, and to be a better judge of evidence, than the judzes of the highest legal tribunal in the land. The labor unions, by their endorsement of his ac- tion, assert as much. Men known and famous the world over as jurists of the highest class, declared these men guilty of murder, and their trial eminently fair and impartial; Altgeld, by accident the Governor of Illinois, by nothing known beyond the confines of the city where he resides, says they are not guilty, and that their trial was a farce and a trav- esty upon justice. The labor unions agree with Altgeld. Is it true, as has been so often asserted, that unionism is strongly tinctured with anarchism? It would almost seem so. The unions are dominated to-day by an element which had its birth under the tyrannous conditions of the Old World. These men were not patriots in their own country, neither are they reformers in this; they are demagogues of the most vicious type, who influence a cer- tain class of workingmen by appealing to their passions and prejudices. Take the foreigners out of the trades unions and there would not be enough left to fill the offices. Americans do not take kindly to the kind of unionism that ob- tains to-day, and every loyal American, who may be a member of a union, will unhesitatingly and unreservedly de- nounece Governor Altgeld’s action in pardoning the anarchists, and equally with that, the endorsement by the Central Labor Unions of the Governor’s action. In the meantime, until the unions repu- diate the action of their representatives, the Central Unions, they must rest under the imputation of holding anarchistic views and sympathizing with anarchistic methods and purposes. DANIEL ABBOTT. A clerk in one of the big department stores of Chicago went to the superin- tendent of her department the other day, and said: ‘“Mr. ——, it’s 3 o’clock. I guess that cloak had better go back into stock.”? ‘Certainly, put it right back. I knew she wouldn’t come for it,’’ said the man. Then he added to an inquirer: ‘‘Lots of women come here and ask us to keep things for them—one day, two days, a week. If they are buying anything, or look asif they would buy something, we are always willing to do that, but you’d be astonished to see the amount of stuff that is piled up here and never called for. In this case we only agreed to keep that cloak for a day, but we don’t let our best customers rough it on us. Once amonth we pull out every- thing that has not been claimed, and put it back into stock.”’ We have not yet learned the art of fly- ing, but money has. We presume the eagle on the dollar signifies that it is hard to catch. It is a wise man, indeed, who so regu- lates his affairs as to judiciously mix business and recreation to the prejudice of neither. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURES AND BITS. dis. ee ee 60 eR ec cae ee ne = Jennings’, GOMUINE...... ....- eee eeeeeeeeee Jennings’, imitation eee eee ee cece es coe a s0d10 AXES. First es, — Ueeeee.........-.... $7 00 O_o 1x 00 ' a 8 00 . Ee 13 50 BARROWS, Hegeead |... .... $1 eae net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Sede ee eee . .50&10 Plo Sleigh meee ..... .c<..---- BUCKET Well, plain ........... Well, wivel......-- Cast Loose Pin, figu Od Wrought Narrow, eoebt Sent toint.......... 60&.0 Wrought — ee ae ST 60&10 o| HAMMERS. Wrceet fee.......-.....................- 60&10 | Maydole & Co.’s.......---+- --e eee eee eee dis. 25 Wrought Inside ee eee. te eT dis. 2B ET % | Yerkes & Plumb’s. . is, 40410 Blind, Clark’s. 70&10 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . .80c list 60 Blind, Parker's. 70&10 | Biacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30¢ 40&10 MOG, SOTO on ik ee cece ce eee ccc eece HINGES, BLOCKS. | Gate, oy eS dis.60&10 Orai Tackle, st April 1892 wine | noha ns nn ara a per doz. net, 2 50 nary Tackle, list Apr Be... 2s. COd Sues Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and CRADLES. Ce 3% Cee es. . dis. 50:02 | serew Hook and Eye, Worverereevere veces net 10 CROW BARS. o 2. 2 Coat Siem... rere S | * . " eo. net 7% CAPS. | Sees ‘dis. es 50 1 HANGER: 8. ee go S| eee Dowe Eae Mite. Ca, “Wood track... .50&10 TTT ae Suet triceron....... 60&10 0 “ 60 | Kidder, wood track ..............-......-..- 40 —. = =: aa ieeadanbiuacge Ime 60&10 Him Vivre. ....-. a MT ce 60&10 Cone Pre. ee. dis. 2 | Spiders ... ..-...--2..- sees ee eee cece ee ee eens 60&10 CHISELS. dis. | Gray —, = Fons a ix dee -.-. 40&10 Ss ISHING GOODS. ee ee i 70&10 Stamped Tin Ware.. eee ak oa asec a Lede ok ace oes ceca ssee me cate aie —— Japanned Tin Ware... Se aie 24 Socket Sick ac 22200000J0UIIIUIIi imag | Grama Ho WN gona, aa Butelieore Tauged Firmor............ .-..... “ | Biight.. co : manne COMBS. ot ——. Eyes... . .70&10&10 > ee .70&10&10 SO os 5 | Gate Hooks and Byes. <3. =o. 7Oss10810 LEVELS. 8.79 CHALK. Stanle Rule and Level Co.s............... White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 7 ———— COPPER. a, if inch and ——— ee i Planiehed, 14 oz cut i —— ne ihnosing ae armed {x0e, 14x56, —- &x@ SQUARES. dis. Cold Rolled, 14556 and 14x00... ...0.. 0. 1 Soe sgt gerd netiettetan ates saat ant v% ieee ON PR enna ae a. serraitinetnaeanentetiegt aa Te ec iete su ialani ns geen a5 | Mite - + tenetaneaiess | am DRILLS. dis, SHEET TRON. aa On Meracre Gee Seoees Situs tio... HA $4 05 82 9 Taper and straight Shank.............0.... Sa aan... ea Moree's Taper Suank................-.-... . SOi Nae Mie 4 05 2 05 DRIPPING PANS. Nos. 23 00 24 ............. Lola OOS 3 15 Small sizes, ser pound ................2. 000 07 a $0 26 ....--. esse ee +4 = 3 2 re rrr me reso m= eterna anes 6% | Noi scotia No. 18 snd lighier, over 90 inches ELBOWS. wide not less than 2-10 extra Coan. 4 peeee Gis.......... v6) SAND PAPER. Corrugated ..... ml Dest eect 16 SG dis. 50) Adjustable......... ee eee a die. 40&10 SASH CORD. Silver Lake, —— B...........e. ltst 56 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Drab A 55 Clark’s, small, a8; laree OG... 5... 30 “ White MIRA A na ‘ 50 Ives’, 1, $18: 2) $24; 3, ) eee ee cree recs ensore 25 “ Drab B ee ae “ss 55 FILES—New List. dis. “ ee ee 35 Ce ee ee 60£10|} Discount, 10 i ei : New American Oe eee ee cee ce eee wee 6010 -" gagH WEIGHTS. oe gla aa aot ol tal ala ale per ton $25 O1er’s.-.. 2. ese eee eee reece ee eee ee eee econ 50 SAWB. dis. Heller’s Horse Rasps .. ......------.-..---+ 50 ‘“ ee 20 GALVANIZED IRON. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 26; 27 28 - — Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 List 12 13 14 i 15 ' 16 17 Kal — Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 Discount, 60 ‘ ampion and Electric Tooth X GAUGES. dis. Cate, Fe ee ua a 30 J ee a ek TRAPS. 8. <—enioues ee ae dis ee. ity. Newh 3) - 60620 es . meida Yommun ty, ewhouse’s........... 35 Door, st trimmings .....-......-. 55| Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's. 70 aoa som 4 n > Jap. perme steereeeeece oO | Mouse, Goober. 18¢ per doz ey ae poeta — sreectores = Mouse delusion) 0. $1.50 eee an Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. ain 0 | Bright Market... ... pike ERENT 5 LOCKS—DOOR. B. ’ ” Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 cae aa. AL ARTA A ARH ware ee re ee ----- Oe RE OE ices cere ce ne oo PB see cece eee ee nese ners ersten scenes 55 | Coppered Spring Steel..............-....055 5 orwalx’s A aaa ameerir intent tee 55 | Barbed Fence, » Selvantaed te 4 Ce 2 4 Bose mee... ...... 2... — 00, dis. 60 Hunt Bye........-.-.-- sees eee -815.00, dis. 60) an Sable......... ee ae. dis. 40&10 Hunt’s..........+-+++- aoe 818.50, ats 208510. RE ee iat * din. 05 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, oe eT ve -_.| Northwestern...... saat t+ dis. — MILLS. 8. | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. * 30 a waited seeeee . Ce eR eee 0 . fo Pere & vie tk cables. 40 | C288 Patent Agricultural, wrought, a 7 + fae ssanreemaeaaaies $} | Coe’s Patent, malleable. --.-..... .... Ta10 ee ieee 8 ite tee ene = 10 | Bitd Cages .......-. iil _ any * 50 (oh te a “69810 | Screws, New List elo Enterprise, self- ee cece scee cece see % | Caaters, 9 a s Plate es sog108&10 NA ampers, American.............00s--scesees ———— over —* on both oo and ™ Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... 6r&i0 Seal NAS, DANE... 2.2... 2.0. woees--. 1 5 METALS, a jase - Pio TIX. ee 10 | Pig Large........-..- sees ee eeeeeeee erence ee 260 7 a an | Pig Bars..... ..2. cece eee ee rece te er eeee ee 28¢ ‘ ZINC. . a5| Duty: Sheet, 2} per pound. ‘es en COMM saan = ea as . ee I ce 7 10... 50 a SOLDER. 7 a: 16 A < ee 15 es 90 The prices of the many other qualities of eT 1 20 solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands AR 1 60 | Vary according to composition. Dual oeeueee oes eda esa . eee 1 2 Coeneee....................... per pound “ ves on) 5 Oe Se 13 Loa 90 TIN—MELYN GRADE. Finish 10.. 5 — IC, Charcoal..... 2... -.--eereeeeee eres 87 : cheek nen sins mene tedaeendion é - +. Pe t0xis TE, nets greeneerntaaee 9 25 ee 4x20 eee ouetheedde ge coneeea owas *” Clinch, . cee be Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. ne cl _-Auneuae onaiel. ten econ one sa 10x14 10, Charcoal «on-.------eeon-s secreee 86 7% PLANES dis. 4x20 eeoeersesee ee seseoercoose coeeoee pei oo ag -~ fancy a aera oe 14 10x14 xi 1X, i ooo ener esccceseossocencoooes 8 = TI are ran aia teers Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fan @40 “Bach additional - eet $1.50. Bench, first quality .....--.-;-----.- @40| saxo IC, “* Worcesier..............-++. 6 Bu Stanley Rule and _— _ 8 wood. 50810 14x20 IX “s 8 50 cee ened a t 20x28 IC. “ CO 13 50 Fry eles eae ela dis.60—10 ; cen polished TE dis. 70 oan _ “ Allaway Grade........... : S saa s. | 14x: a p Iron and Tinned......... a a x ni i i arene ees a - Copper — = . on a . 50-10 a BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS. a HED ee) a a a vous es —-= == " - —= = a aaa ee hee eo 15 00 " oo t. ab os. 25 to or No. oilera, Broken onan ide per pound extra 1 mm“ "6 * } per pant... WE 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEERELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, 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 malling address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as secend- class matter. Ge" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tue MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1893, NOT SO BAD AS IT APPEABS. It must not be supposed from the large number of failures among the banks of the West that the financial institutions of that section have been less carefully managed than elsewhere. It is true that there have been instances of reckless management, but by far the greater num- ber of the institutions which failed were not only conservatively managed, but were actually in a prosperous condition, showing assets several times greater than their liabilities. The undermining of confidence has been so rapid and com- plete in the West that the banks have had no leisure to dispose of their collat- eral, to provide the cash to meet the drain upon their deposits, hence they have found themselves unable to go on, although possessing in their vaults an abundance of what are considered gilt- edged collateral. As a matter of fact, by far the greater number of the bank casualties are not absolute failures, but mere suspen- sions until such time as the in- realize sufficient upon their resources to meet the demands of depositors. As soon as confi- dence is restored, and the securities the banks hold can be disposed of in the market without depositors, sO as stitutions can sacrifice, nine times in ten, receive the full amount | of their claims, and the banks are able to resume business as strong as ever and possibly benefited by the experience they have passed through. in the great majority of instances the troubles of the banks have been caused | by the senseless and entirely unjustifi- able course of depositors themselves. In | many places in the West these depositors | have become crazed by the prevailing | withdrawn | This | money pressure and have their money and hidden it away. course was entirely unwarranted, as in nearly every instance the published bank statements showed that the banks | were not only thoroughly solvent, but in | a flourishing condition, and a most sub-| stantial proof of this is found in the fact that many of them, after a brief suspen- sion, have so arranged their affairs as to be able to resume. acter of the panic that has prevailed When it is remem- | bered that the depositors have the first claim on the assets, the ridiculous char-| can States | py among them in the West will be appre- ciated. The reports to the Controller of the Currency recently made by the National Banks of the country prove that the financial institutions of the principal | cities are in splendid condition, and it is especially worthy of note that Michigan banks occupy a particularly prominent place in the matter of resources. EXPORTING CORN TO MEXICO. It is not generally known that the neighboring republic of Mexico imports from the United States a very consider- able quantity of Indian corn. Mexico possesses every variety of cli- mate, from tropical to temperate, and the soilin the numerous valleys is ex- tremely fertile. Mexico in general is able to produce every desirable article for human food, and its prolific soil would feed its simple rural population, as well as the people of the cities, with the greatest profusion and abundance were it not for the frequent and serious droughts with which the country is af- flicted. Close along its Gulf coast ex- tends a range of lofty mountains, some of the peaks being covered with perpet- ual snow. This mountain wall, with its cold, overlying atmosphere, is able to condense upon the eastern slope most of the vapor of water which is driven in from the warm Gulf sea, and, as a conse- quence, the moisture which should have been transported into the interior is stopped on the way, and drought in the internal valleys results. Occasionally, the Gulf vapors are able to cross the mountains in unusual quantities, and then occur the disastrous floods which are now and then reported from the in- terior States. For several years past, for lack of rain, there has been a scarcity of food in some of the States of Mexico, and it became necessary to import from the United States a food supply, the chief of which iscern. The report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture of the United States gives some interesting in- formation on the subject. The Mexicans of the rural districts are a people of primitive and frugal habits. The total population, according to the returns of the Mexican National Bureau of Statis- tics for June, 1892, was 11,642,720 souls. Their chief food is Indian corn, indige- nous to America and found by the first white settlers to be in use by the natives from the capes of Virginia to the table |lands of Peru. It is commonly eaten in | the form of tortillas, or ‘‘hoe cakes.” The process for making tortillas is, | briefly, as follows: The shelled corn is | soaked in weak lime water until it is softened nearly to the consistency of un- ripe corn. It is then rinsed and ground into a paste upon a stone or hard-wood instrument, called a metate, upon which a stone roller is operated by hand, the operation and position being something like those usual in the use of a wash- board, supposing the lower end of the board to rest upon the ground and the operator upon her knees. The paste, when evenly reduced, is worked with water into a large, round, thin cake, and baked on both sides, without being browned, upon a smooth, hot iron or earthenware surface or griddle, and served hot or cold. The corn crops of many of the Mexi- failed in 1891 and 1892 reason of the drought. The { | | i | prices of this necessary rose from $1.15 to $1.40 per bushel, exor- bitant figures where the masses of the people are poor. The difficulties of the situation were aggravated by the difficulty of transporting supplies through the mountains on the backs of pack animals. The railways from the United States proved to be great blessings in this emergency. The Mexican Government suspended the tariff on foreign corn of 6.4 cents per bushel of 56 pounds, and in 1892 nearly 6,000,000 bushels of Ameri- can corn were carried into the sister Re- public by rail. Mexico is fortunate in having so ready a source of supply for the staff of life. WEIGH YOUR LARD. About three years ago THE TRADEs- MAN advised the grocery trade of the State to count their pickles. The result was somewhat surprising. It was dis- covered that, in almost every instance, the pickles in wood ran several hundred short. This ‘‘defect” was remedied by the agitation, and honest count has, in all probability, been given since. Now the watchword is, ‘‘Weigh your lard.” If this is done, it will be found that full weight is rarely, if ever, given. The net weight of a fifty pound package of lard will be found to be nearly always from forty-seven tv forty-eight pounds. There is no reason why retailers should put up with such an imposition, and the remedy is in theirown hands. Weigh your lard and report result to this office, giving in every case the name of the packer, and, also, the name of the jobber from whom purchased. Agitation of this question will have the same result as with short-weight pickles. The action of the Central Labor Union of this city, in adopting resolutions com- mending the pardoning of the Chicago anarchists by the Governor of Illinois, places the seal of anarchy on every union man whose organization is affili- ated with the central body--and every union of importance in the city is said to be so connected. Tur TRADESMAN does not believe that any considerable number of menin any union are anarchists at heart, but the action of the representa- tive bodies of unionism in this and other cities commits unionism squarely and unequivocally to the principles of an- archy, and union men who are not anar- chists have now no alternative but to abandon their organizations. If they continue to maintain union relations, they must candidly admit that unionism and anarchy are one and inseparable— that the test of loyalty to unionism is an enthusiastic belief in and adherence to the principles of anarchy. If everyone would work and act as if he expected good times to come, the good times would come. The way to create confidence is to be confident. Go to the devil in your private life and your business will follow you. The worst trust at the present time is distrust. Brains Wanted. From the Manufacturers’ Gazette. Everything has not been invented. There was never, since the days of chaos, such a demand for brains and genius as there is to-day. All the so-called great inventions and discoveries of the world are incomplete, and everywhere there is a crying need for someone to finish them. There is only one Edison, but there is room for a thousand. Meeting of the Jackson Grocers’ Union. JACKSON, July 29—At the regular meeting of the Jackson Grocers’ Union, the minutes of the previous regular meeting, and those of the several com- mittee meetings were read and approved. The committee sent to Hillsdale in the interest of the second annual excursion and picnic, to be held Aug. 10, reported that they found the grounds and build- ings in good shape and that they had called upon all the grocers of Hillsdale and invited them to join with us and enjoy the pleasures of the day. The Committee on Badges reported that they had ordered them and would have them on hand. They were ordered to procure official, committee and ladies’ badges. The following resolution was unani- mously adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of. this Union be tendered to E. A. Stowe and THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, for their kindness in printing the report of our Committee on Trade Interests, and fur- nishing us with extra copies for distri- bution to non-subscribers; that we most highly appreciate the kindness and will endeavor to repay the courtesy when op- portunity shall occur. A letter was received from the Secre- tary of Grand Rapids’ Retail Grocers’ Association, inviting the Jackson Union to attend their picnic on Aug. 17. On motion, the invitation was received and as many as can do so were requested to attend. A letter was also received from E. A. Stowe, of Grand Rapids, in regard to their success with peddlers. The good results reported by Mr. Stowe were re- ceived with a cheer by the members. Communications were received from the Secretary of the World’s Fair Retail Grocers’ Convention, inviting the grocers of Jackson to the convention Aug. 30. Received and placed on file. Letters in relation to the excursion from the Standard Oi! Co., H. J. Heinz Co. and others were received and the Secretary was instructed to answer. The Committee on Trade Interests re- ported in regard to the petition regard- ing peddlers. On motion, the matter was laid on the table. The Committee on Tickets reported that they had them ready for distribut- ing, and on motion, they were ordered to put them on sale. W. H. Porter, See’y. —— 2 <—— No Tyrotoxicon Found in the Mansfiela Poisonous Cheese. MANSFIELD, Ohio, July 29.—Your es- teemed favor of July 25 at hand, together with copy of the MicHiGAN TRADESMAN containing the report I made you, for which I am very much obliged. I also appreciate the courtesy you have extend- ed me in the editorial column of the MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN. I have this day mailed you a copy of my last year’s re- port of the Board of Health, in which you will find marked an article on ‘‘Slaughter Shops” which may possibly interest you, indirectly, at least. I will consider it a very great compliment to have my friend, Prof. Vaughan, make a reply to my arti- ele, as I consider him the highest author- ity on subjects of this character in this or any other country. I would be very glad to have him analyze some of this cheese which has been causing sickness, and compare it with the analysis made by the chemist in our State. 1 was very much surprised when they (our state board of health) informed me they could not find tyrotoxicon in the samples I sent them, for there is no question but what the eating of this cheese produced sickness, although, as I have already said, so far in my personal experience I have never known a case of death to oc- cur from eating so-called poisonous cheese. 1 will be very much pleased to read Dr. Vaughan’s reply, should he decide to make one, and, when the report of the Ohio State Dairy and Food Commissioner is made, I will be glad to furnish you with the result of the chemical analysis of the same. R. Harvy REEp, Health Officer. _ 9 Suspect and watch the man who never makes a mistake. HH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 THE SLOW RETURN OF CONFIDENCE. The stock market, as well as financial |by a prostration of enterprise, The collapse of 1873 was followed, too, | from | and business affairs generally, seems to| which a recovery did not begin until | be in the condition of the sick man who, in answer to an inquiry about the state | pear until 1879. of his health, could say only: 1877, and which did not wholly disap- That we are going to ‘‘My dear | drag on in the same way now there is no fellow, I am dying of a hundred excel- ground for supposing. ” lent symptoms. thing in his case betokened a speedy re- covery, while he himself felt that he was growing worse. In the same way, prices of many stocks have fallen heav- ily in the face of the encouragements of a better supply of money, of an increase of goldin the Treasury, of imports of the same metal from Europe, of larger ex- ports of cereals, and of an improving prospect of the repeal of the Sherman act. The list of failures of corporations and private firms receives, tco, every day fresh accessions; factories at the East are shutting down, and west of the Missouri bankruptcy is the rule and not the exception. All this is decidedly unpleasant, but it is not unnatural nor unprecedented. The destruction of credit, which has been effected within the past two or three months, cannot be repaired in the same short space of time. This is in ac- cordance with a universal law from which there are no exceptions. A man’s leg may be broken in a second, but week’s must elapse before the bone will knit together again. The woodsman with his axe can in an hour fell a tree which it will take years to replace, and Sir Isaac Newton’s dog, Diamond, merely by upsetting a lamp, destroyed the fruit of lifelong labors. So, when this im- mense fabric of interlacing and interde- pendent credit which constitutes the framework of the country’s business re- eeives a shock like that to which it has recently been subjected, we have no right to expect it to recover from its in- juries as speedily as they were inflicted. To many people, especially those who are not old enough to remember the earlier financial catastrophes through which the country which we are now experiencing seems the worst that ever happened. It is, perhaps, more severe than that of 1884, and even that of 1890, but it is nothing as compared with that of 1873, or even with those of 1857 and 1860. As to the distressing period which began in 1837 and continued with more or less severity until 1848, sofew of the men who were in business then are still alive, that it belongs rather to history and to traditiou than to the chronicle of current events. Besides, itis a peculiarity of human na- ture that contemporary occurrences 0oc- cupy a much larger space in the mind than those of bygone times; just as ina landscape objects near the eye fill a lar- ger space than those which are remote, and often completely hide them. Conceding, however, that the catastro- phes of 1884 and of 1890 were of less magnitude than that of this year, and were more speedily followed by a recov- ery than this one is likely to be, no one acquainted with the facts will deny that the crash of 1873 was far more wide- spread and destructive, and that its ef- fects endured for a much longer period than we have any reason to expect at present. Thus far, at least, compara- tively few large banking houses have suspended payment, the exports of pro- duce have not been suspended, nor has the collection of debts been impossible. His physician dec] red | has passed, this one Nor are we suffering now, eostly war which impoverished the Northern two-thirds of the nation and ruined the Southern third. The enormous destruction of property which took place in both sections was repaired by borrowings in Europe, and by a fe- verish activity in every department of industry, and it thus escaped general ob- | servation. The flood of paper money which was poured out to meet the neces- sities of the government had also stimu- lated speculation and carried the prices of labor and of all kinds of commodities to an extraordinary height. For a year or two after the war ended the impetus it had given to business still continued and only gradually died away. When it was finally spent, and when we set our- selves seriously to the work of paying the national debt, of preparing tora re- sumption of specie payments, and of go- ing back to the occupations of peace, we discovered how much our resources had really been depleted, and how much it would cost to repairthem. As the pre- mium on gold fell, the prices of commod- ities, railroad stock and real estate fell with it, and the panic of 1875 was the re- sult. The panic of 1884 was entirely local to New York City, and was produced by the illegitimate speculations of Grant & Ward, George I. Seney, John C. Eno, and other men like them, which involved in ruin the Marine Bank and the Metro- politan Bank, and robbed the Second National of millions. The panic of 1890 was only a distant echo of the Baring collapse in London, and its evil conse- quences soon passed off. It may, there- fore, safely be said that we have enjoyed substantially uninterrupted prosperity since we resumed specie payments in 1879, and that the present troubles indi- eate no profound and extensive rotten- ness, but are a passing epidemic, like the grip and the cholera, from which we are destined to emerge with compara- tively little loss. This being so, it naturally be asked: Why does not confidence return more speedily, and why, inspite of all the favorable indications which haye manifested themselves during the past month, de the prices of stocks and secur- ities continue to fall and failures con- tinue to multiply? Tae question has al- ready been partly answered by a refer- ence to the slowness with which in the course of nature all injuries are repaired, but it may also be said, by way of fur- ther explanation, that the return of gen- eral confidence, indispensable to a re- turn of general business prosperity, is also purposely hindered by the acts of men who find their profit in prolonging and intensifying the public alarm. It would be a waste of time to denounce the wickedness of the attacks will upon the credit of corporations and of individuals which have caused the declines in stocks and_ bonds and the many failures of the past month. As to the wild talk of the Colorado sil- ver miners and their allies in other states, the object of which is to defeat legisla- tion unfavorable to their interests, that as we were | that he was going on well and that every- in 1878, from the exhaustion of a four! | years’ | | | | | | If you are ever troubled with Piles in any form, itching, protruding or bleeding, do not forget that the safest and surest, ‘as well as the quickest ad cheape st remedy is the PYRAMID Pllst GURK The best known, the most successful and satisfactory of any remedy known for the cure of these annoying and oftentimes serious troubles Your druggist will tell you it gives comple te satisfaction and immediate relief on the first ap P lication and ace omplishes a complete cure without pain or inconvenience, and in most cases in a remarkably short time. It is pe rfe ctly harmless, bei Ing composed entire ly of v ege table ingredients, and contains not a particle of mineral poisons. ‘Last, but not least, it is so chea» as to be within the re — of every sufferer, and enables anyone to give it a trial at a trifling cost. All dr uggists sell it. HE SILVER BILL as the enactment of the Sherman law of 1888, much complaint, but the PURITY, is causing SUPERIOR WASHING QUALITIES, and QUICK SALES of PLEASES EVERYBODY. Now is the Time to Buy. Prices Are Low Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. MANU THE THOMPSON & CHUTE SOAP CO., Toledo, Ohio, FACTURED BY YHE PUTNAM GANDY 60, _JOBBERS | OF “ORANGES, ” LEMONS =. FOREIGN NUTS. THE PU TNAM CANDY CO. The Largest Assortment of Ribbons F — and Trimmings in the State. CLUB THE TRADESMAN CoO. CONVENTIONS, DELEGATES, COMMITTEES. 10 THE MICHIGAN ‘TRA DHS IMAIN Are We a Patriotic People? Are the American people patriotic? Questions are never asked when there also may be left to public reprobation for its punishment. Nevertheless, it} cannot be denied that these causes count | for a great deal in creating the alarm in | are no doubts or suspicions concerning the minds of alarge number of people, the matter inquired into. Since the ques- | and, until their hollowness is exvosed so | tion has been asked, it is well worth an} that the world perceives it, they will | answer. not, as we see, fail of producing an in- jurious effect. | Patriotism does not consist in loud lt is a contemptible way | professions nor in the noisy and sulphur- of making money, both for gold ‘“‘bears”| ous detonations of fireworks on the and silver conspirators, and it is wonder- | Fourth of July. Many people love to ful that decent men should resorttoit. | brag. They will boast of their dogs, There is alsoa well grounded appre- hension that for political reasons the ac- tion of Congress in repealing the Sher- | man act willneither be so speedy nor su emphatically decisive in favor of main-| ness and readiness to serve one’s coun- taining the gold standard as it ought to; try. The only personal service a citizen be to produce a reassuring effect. The | can render to his country is to pay taxes, silver miners and the debtors who ex-; perform jury duty, respect and obey the pect to profit by the reduction in the | laws, and, when required, fight for the value of the dollar, constitute indeed a | public defense. minority of the voters of the country, There is no war, and for nearly half a but they are numerous enough to com-| century there has been none, with any mand consideration from both Senators | foreign power, so there has been no op- and Representatives who are more desir- | portunity to test our people’s love of ous of retaining their places than of de-/| country, but if we are to judge from the serving them. Already alarming rumors | evasions and mental reservations when come from Washington of a probable | citizens are tackled by the tax assessors, compromise which will either leave the} or are called on to perform jury duty, silver question open for future settle- | the average American can scarcely be ment, or provide fox an inflation of the | cansidered to be running over with pa- currency which will be as mischievous | triotism. As for the civil war, that can as free coinage. At best it is still a week | not be considered, because all the patri- before Congress assembles. The first | otism exhibited then was devotion to in- business of the House of Representatives | dividual states, or to aggregations of will be to elect a Speaker, and the | States, and not to a country that had Speaker will have toappoint the stand-/| long been existing under an organized ing committees. This may all be done | government. the first week of the session, but it may Patriotism, like religious zeal, does not be done for several weeks. Then! not flourish under unbroken conditions will come the introduction of the neces- | of presperity. The stress of foreign war sary bill and the debates upon it, and | is as necessary to develop love of coun- how much time will be consumed in get-| try as are persecutions to create the con- ting to a decisive vote no one can pre-| ditions which make martyrs. Probably dict. After the pasing of the bill by the | of the peoples of the modern world, the House the Senate will take it up, and’? most magnificent spectacles of patriotic here the silvermen boast that if they can- | heroism have by the not defeat any measure to which they | Swiss and the Hollanders. History is are hostile, they can at least delay action | full of their achievments in defense of upon it indifinitely. their liberties and independence. In viewof all these considerations it But it makes little difference whether is not surprising that the return of con- | men fight in wars of defense or of inva- fidence is as slow as it is. The only | sion and conquest. Patriotism, like her- thing to be done is to exercise patience | oism, is only developed under heavy and wait for events to take their course. | blows and a white heat. The British it is immensely to the credit of the bank-| Isles have not been invaded since the ers of the leading cities of the country | time of William the Conqueror in 1066, that they have in every way, by their} but there has scarcely been a decade example and by their moral power, |in all the history of the island empire sought to quiet alarm anil to promote a| when its people were not engaged in a better feeling. Ifthe public will co-op- | war somewhere, and however they may erate with them, and discourage efforts | brawl and quarrel among themselves in to create and increase anxiety, they will | time of peace, the first blast of foreign do much to pring about the result which | war brings them together, and English, they desire. MATTHEW MARSHALL. Irish or Scot, it is impossible to say ) Te which is the more devoted patriot or the Commercial Axioms. more faithful to the call of duty. They cae ary um tne me | Are all born fighters, and have proved it in their wars in every quarter of the sults. If you would establish credit, first globe and with every race of men under the son. ereate a confidence in your honesty and The Americans, doubtless, would prove ability with your creditor. It o a ee, - everyone to! devotedly patriotic if they were placed consider his neighbor’s business more! | bas is : congenial and profitable than hisown. | under conditions soquiced to develop ls el aan that most desirable virtue, but at pres- is like a stove without fuel; he lacks the | ent little can be said for them. They warmth of purpose necessary for success. | 8T@ a brave people; there are none braver |in the world; but they have done little It isnot how much a man sells nor the| fighting outside of their own country, per cent. of profit he makes which deter-| and but for the fighting among them- mines his gains, but the relation which selves they would have had no opportu- the expenses bear to the receipts. | nity to keep their “hands in.” No, the It is not the man who himself accom-| patriotism of the American people must plishes the most work, but the one who} be taken on trust. They have had no possesses the faculty to use the ability | opportunity since the country became so of others who attains the broadest suc-} great and powerful of giving any proofs cess. | on the subject. FRANK STOWELL. | their country, or of anything that | make talk, while few are too old to take a hand at firing rockets or popcrackers. The only test of patriotism is willing- been presented | will | MICHIGAN MERCHANTS | And business men who contemplate a visit to the World’s Fair ‘would do well to communicate with the MEGA -- HOTEL, ‘which offers the best and cleanest rooms and the choicest cuisine to be found in Chicago for a reasonable price. Every- thing new and first-class in every respect. Unanimously chosen as headquar ters of National Press Association, Michi- gan Press Association, and many other organizations. 4 050 ROOMS, ELEGANTLY FURNISHED Bath with every suite. Permanent structure of stone and brick. 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COYE, Mantfacturer of AWNINGS and TENTS HORSE AND WAGON COVERS Jobbers of Oiled Clothing and Cotton Ducks. 11 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for Price List. wy 4 > <5 a is ij <-+S & o - it Mm ele - cts ~ > c ~ | ee le Wy hn - ~ - yy » < ° j — - } < > PP THE MICHIGAN ped He TRADESMAT. SPECIAL DISCOUNTS. Argument Against Their Allowance by a Practical Merchant. J. E. Miller in Dry Goods Economist. No discounts should be given to any retail customer, or class of customers, which are not given to all others. We assume, in entering upon this discussion, that only one-price establishments are considered; for where business is done upon the ‘‘get-what-you-can’’ principle, adiscouut means nothing, the customer who drives his own bargain faring, as a rule, better than the one who is innocent enough to think he is getting a discount. Taking conditions as we find them, we would not hold all merchants under all circumstances, to the high standard given above. ‘‘One price to all” is un- doubtedly the true principle; but the merchant who departs from it in dealing with particular persons, or classes of persons, is, perhaps, doing no moral wrong, providing he uses no deception either to the persons favored or to those not favored. The tender conscience, however, will find this delicate work. The merchant pays just as much for merchandise which he selis the clergy- man, the clerk, or the dressmaker, and just as much for handling the same, as for that which he sells the farmer, me- chanic, or the day laborer. The dis- count, then, of five or ten per cent. or whatever amount it may be, must, of necessity, be regarded as a donation or a bribe. Some one may say, not bribe, but advertisement. Let such a one care- fully weigh the meaning of the words. If the clergyman, in consideration of the discount given him will acknowledge that he is the paid agent of the merchant, he is as justifiable perhaps, in using his influence for him as any other employe would be; but the clergyman, or anyone else not an acknowledged agent, who uses his influence for a merchant because of a discount given him, is consciously or unconsciously bribed, and no other term i380 well describes the transaction. Let the merchant who would be honorable be no party to such a scheme for secur- ing business. Clergymen should receive fair salaries, like other men, and not be subjected to the humiliation of receiving donations from people of all sorts and conditions, whether they happen to be or not to be in sympathy with the clergy- man and his work. In the country and country towns, and often in small cities, one of the chief reasons why ministers of the gospel are so poorly paid is be- cause of the understanding among those who should support them, that the mer- chants from whom the minister makes his purchases will contribute by means of a discount, to his living. When the clergyman receives a fair salary, he should certainly be above accepting donations; and when he does not, the merchant should not be taxed to make it up. How can the conscientious merchant say to the wife of the laboring man who earns onedollaraday: ‘‘lam selling you this at the lowest possible price,” and then to his next customer, who happens to be the wife of a clergyman, whose salary is perhaps three to ten times as much, give a discount of 10 per cent. on the same article? Why should he lie, why give a donation, why offer a bribe? Aside from the principle involved— which should be sufficient to decide the matter with fair-minded men—we are certain that in very few instances will a merchant lose by taking a firm stand upon the question of discounts to clergy- men. In certain sections of the country, and among some denominations, where men without education or refinement are still commissioned to preach, and some- times among those who should know better; clergymen are found who will turn their backs upon the merchant who has the courage to treat them as men; but the average clergyman is an educat- ed christian gentleman, who, while he may not have thought of it before, will appreciate the position taken by an hon- orable merchant. The question of what shall be done for the dressmaker presents on its face far more difficulties, but the same gener- al principles are involved. When, as is now a general custom, a dressmaker earries a stock of dress furnishings, she is in that line a wholesale customer, and the retailer who buys that class of goods as he should will compete successfully with the class of jobbing houses so anx- ious to supply such trade. But when it comes to retail sales, if the dressmaker is entitied to a commission it is due her from the customer for whom she makes the purchase and not from the merehant. We think in no way is the average mer- chant so imposed upon, and in no other way does he throw away so large a por- tion of his legitimate profits as through the medium of discounts to dressmak- ers. Clergymen are comparativly few in number in any community, but the regular, occasional and semi-occa- sional makers of dresses swarm every- where. If a discount is given to one, why not to another, and where wil! you draw the line? Give it to the woman who runs a regular shop, em- ploying twenty or thirty girls, and who is a wholesale customer on goods she earries in stock, and how can it be consistently denied to the woman who employs an equal number of as- sistants, and who because of the very fact that she does not carry a stock of linings, ete., is a better retail customer? Grant the discount to the woman who has twenty employes and why not to the «woman who has ten, five, or less, or the one who has no help and possibly does not work very regulary herself? The fact is, that unless all are treated alike, you offend all who are refused the discount, and as many customers are lost as gained. The custom in some estab- lishments of giving discounts only for purchases for personal use, and in oth- ers only on goods purchased for custom- ers is open to the same criticisms and to the additional objection that it is an in- centive to the dressmaker to impose up- on the merchant. We do not wish to cast any reflection upon dressmakers as a class; a harder-working, more deserv- ing body of women cannot be found; but among them is the average number of unreasonable and unscrupulous persons, who, in various ways, impose upon the merchant who is trying todo them a fa- vor or to use them in advancing his own interests. We have known a dress goods salesman to show dressgoods for half an hour, piease his customer, give a sample so that the dressmaker might be con- sulted in regard to quantity of material, trimmings, ete., and then in a day or two have the dressmaker come in, order the goods and demand a discount. Asa re- sult, the salesman has done all the real work, and the dressmaker, who has done nothing, at least for the merchant, gets all the net profit. Anyone acquainted with the business where discounts are given, knows that this is by no means an imaginary or even an exceptional case, but one that occurs almost daily in any moderately large dressgoods department. We can see no more reason in giving a discount to clerks than to dressmakers or clergymen, and think there is an ad- ditional argument why they should not receive it. The majority of the em- ployes of a large establishment are of necessity uninformed in regard to either the gross or net profits of the firm for which they work, and their confidence in the vaiue of the goods offered, and therefore their success in selling the same depends largely upon general im- pressions. Every merchant knows that after the customary 10 per cent. has been given, the average net profit totally dis- appears; and the most forcible way to impress that fact upon the mind of the salesman is by denying him the conces- sion. Better advance salaries enough to compensate for the customary discount, and the result will be no loss to either | the conscientious clerk or to the mer- chant. The only one to lose by such a change is the salesman, who, under cover of his own requirements, has sup- plied all his family and friends with their merchandise ata discount. Religious, charitable and social organ- izations, when they buy goods in whole- sale quantities, so that the expense can be figured on a wholesale basis, are enti- tled, of course, to corresponding prices. 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Pay the best profit. 12 customers, and there is no good reason: up with without a murmur. why they should not pay the same pri-! or seems to be, but one price to the com- ces. | mercial traveler—the outside one. Those | As we said before, there are circum-| who establish themselves in business | stances under which we think it exeusa-! solely for transient trade usually have a/| ble for a merchant to conform to the! seale of prices to justify them for wait- | custom of his competitors in the same| ing for such trade to call, and the scale | city. For instance, it is the custom is 50 to 100 per cent. higher than that | among retailers in some cities to give charged where they have regular trade. | discounts on saies made to each other, But is the traveleratransient? In one and in such acase, a house not particn-| sense he is. He may call once in thirty larly prominent would find it unpleasant | days, or once in six months, but there is | not to conform tothe rule. Of ecourse,| enough of him to make a steady trade, | when a discount is given a competing| and there is no good reason w hy he house, it cannot well be denied the same Should be required to pay the same prices establishment’s employes, and it follows) a tourist pays and double what home that what is done for the employes of | transient trade pays. others must be done for your own. If he has the nerve to make a bargain | In conclusion, the whole discount sys- | beforehand he can do as well as any, and tem is contrary to sound business prin-|the sooner that is adopted as a rule the} ciples, and totally inconsistent with the! sooner he will highest code of business morals. That| bling sensation which sometimes attacks | it should be abolished, none, we think, can deny; and it is. therefore, the duty of all true merchants to give their influ- ence in that direction. We are persuaded that nine merchants out of ten regard the discount custom as an imposition, be relieved of that trem- | him when he hands in his expense ac- | count. | We are considered legitimate prey bya lot of hotel, baggage and other cormo- | rants, and the writer has often been told, when demurring to an overcharge, and only continue the practice because | ‘*What difference does it make to you, their neighbors do, but will hail withde-| your house pays it, you don’t.” This light any plan which the Economist, in| idea had its birth with a class of travel- its laudable crusade against abuses in| ers who, to make themselves appear im- business practices, will devise for their portant, blow in their money carelessly relief. and follow the blow with the remark that Such a reform, to be universal and they don’t care a d—n, the house pays it. abiding, must originate where it will re- | Such men don’t last long, and are getting ceive the influence of the leading houses | Scarcer daily. I say we are ‘‘suckers” in the trade. For instance, let half a_ for submitting quietly to any overcharge, dozen of the great houses of New York} however small, when we know it, and it city agree to discontinue the discount | Shows either poor business qualification s system, and the merchants throughout | 0r_a woeful lack of nerve to do it. the land, who naturally look to them as|_ The writer once asked his employer leaders, will enthusiastically follow | how much of a raise of salary he would | their example. |give him. The answer was, ‘‘Two dol- | eS | lars for every one you cut your expense j ta, » | account down.” —. re ee The merchant knows just what per | To this question I answer, in many | onnt, Se eae sees te eee Se eee eases he is. There is no man, or set of goods sold, and what it costs is the man’s men, who are up to the ways of the antaty S006 to his expense ercouns, ann | world as the commercial traveler. He | there are a great many men who do not | visits more towns, sees more poopie, and | know that a dollar saved in the expense more kinds of people in a year, than a| account is a dollar added to their sala- | person in the ordinary walks of life ries, but such is the fact nevertheless. dk obitt os ane tn & Wile teen. Deal out your employer’s money with | There is not aclass. from the lowest * nae Aaee — your slaty will be thug or bum to dukes, princes and the! ae one. : ae espinal gy dagen to yourself and your house and | : : ably highest types of American manhood and | | : coe a ! womanhood that he does not meet and your employer will soon see it, and some | : a. ; |day you may be a partner in the house. mingle with in hotels and on trains. ae 3 oe | His business brings him in contact er with the shrewdest men and closest cal-, Governor Flower on Runs on Banks. culators of our land. and discounts, often getting down to sixteenths and twentieths before he closes a bargain; yet when he comes to} spending his own money he spends it re- gardless of price. illustration or two: Our traveler arrives in He figures prices While a disastrous run was in progress on one of the Watertown, N. Y., banks a couple of weeks ago, and promised to. spread to the other banks of the place, | Governor Flower, who happened to be in | Let me give you an/the city at the time, stepped into the | midst of the excited depositors and made Hightown |them a little address as sensible as it ; (5,000 inhabitants) and handing his; was pointed. Among other things he | checks to a drayman, wends his way toa jsaid: ‘Ll would advise you not to with- hotel. He cannot open up al! his sam- | draw one dollar unless you actually need | ples in the stores of his customers, and, | it. therefore, asks the hotel clerk for a sam- when | you by: In panicky times like these, the people all want their money, ple room. Ordinarily, the room sup-| your actions force the banks to keep a) plied is an unoccupied bed room. fur-!| larger amount on hand than usual. To | nished with a pair of trestles and a| get this money the bank officials have to | rough board top. Perhaps the weather| refuse to loan money on mortgages, and | may bea little cool, so he orders a little|also refuse to loan it on commercial fire built to take the chill off. He opens| paper, and therefore you restrict trade up his goods and arranges them as well | and thereby throw labor out of employ- as the limited space will allow, then! ment. To illustrate what this bank is, rushes into the hotel barber shop for a/ picture that each of you have $20. You shave and a shine before dinner. Hej place it in abank. With it the banker then works his trade and is off next day, | buys good bonds, or discounts a note for having been a guest of the hotel for one| some merchant, or takes a mortgage on day only, for which he has to pay $2,/some farm. Afterward youdemand your while the town fellows who sat beside; money from the bank. By your ac-} him at the same table pay but 25 cents / tion you force the bank to foreclose on | ameal. Then he pays 25 to 50 cents for | the mortgages held by it. Themerchant a bucket of coal, or four or five sticks of | is compelled to pay his note or suspend wood, and oftentimes, as some landlords | business, and the bank is compelled to have bristles on their necks, he has to/|disposeof its bonds. Thus by your ac- pay for the use of the unoccupied, un-/ tion in this instance in demanding money furnished bed-room, which is known on/ which you do not want you are forcing many a hotel card as ‘ta large and com-/ the foreclosure of mortgages and driving modious sample room.” men from their homes and causing the He pays 10 cents for a $30 per M. ci-| suspension of business interests gener- gar, or 5 cents fora $16 one, and—says | ally.”’ nothing. He pays 15 centsforhisshave,| Governor Fiower’s while the ‘‘town folks’’ get it for 10.| ceive the thoughtful The drayman charges him 50 cents for | merchants and everyone who has money his baggage, whereas he gets but 25/in bank, no matter how small the sum cents for hauling a whole dray load of | jmay be. During the last month or so freight from the same depot. | very many perfectly sound institutions All this, and many more things he puts; have narrowly escaped serious embar- consideration of | cure. |ten his purse. |a@ careless use of it, words should re- There is,'rassment on account of unjustifiable | runs which, after they were over, were | found to have have been started in the | first place by the smaller depositors on | the most vague and general rumors. ~~ -9- <2 Respect Your Signature. How often the merchant or business man is asked to sign his name to a peti- | tion or give his endorsement to an enter- prise of which he has little knowledge, or give a recommendation to some one | ; whose check he would not cash or whose ‘ bond he would not sign. {tis remarka- | ble how careless most business men are | in such matters. Letters of introduction commaud little attention or respect in this country, for they are so easy to pro- | But Europeans are far! | more careful than we are in the adi such letters. Who has not signed a document or pe- In Europe a letter of introduction | | opens a man’s home to a stranger and of- | KALAMAZOO PANT k OVERALL 60, 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 305 Central Union Block. Room 502 Matthew Build Chicago Office: — aukee Office: Sr fall line of Pants from $9 to $42 per dozen /are now zveady. An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound swatches of entire line sent on approval to the | tition simply because he was asked todo | trade. so? > - i- nd ) rT “te = ~%~ | | _—— a SSS SS SS SS SSS SS SS SS ——— SR ~~ acetylene ‘ ‘ ' ? t y 3 ag a i pee . , ¥ - Sel ignite § a ely ‘ t t v a ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ’ ‘ THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. CAUSES OF BUSINESS DEPRESSION. What is the cause of the business de- pression? Is it the tariff, or is it the silver question? These are questions that are being constantly asked and cannot be properly answered if any categorical reply be at- tempted. The serious financial situation was not directly caused by any one oc- currence or fact, but by a combination. Some causes helped to precipitate it and others to increase and aggravate it, but it grew out of a succession of circum- stances. Some two years ago, when the failure of the bread crops in several of the countries of Europe was announced, a remarkable activity in the grain mar- kets of the United States was the result. Business of all sorts was stimulated and speculation soon became rife. The ex- citement was greatly increased by the enormous preparations that were being made in Chicago for the Columbian Ex- position, upon which alone quite $20,- 000,000 has been expended. This spirit of speculation and the resulting inflation were felt throughout the West, while the money markets of the East were busy lending money to the West for the forwarding of all sorts of expensive schemes. There was a fair show of prosperity in some parts of the country, neverthe- less the great labor strikes and business depression in England had reduced the price of American coiton to an amount which searcely paid the cost of produc- tion, while silver dollars bearing the stamp of the United States were worth in gold less than 70 cents. Despite the activity in the grain markets of the Northwest, it is a remarkable fact that the price of wheat never did rise above, even if it ever touched, the price of $1 a bushel. Here, then, notwithstanding the activity in speculative business, there were few signs of actual healthful prosperity. Prosperity means a condition in which labor is fully and actively engaged in useful occupations at fair wages, while commerce is selling the products of the country freely and at prices which give a reasonable profit to all concerned, but it is necessary that this condition shall be general, It was not general through- out the years 1891 and 1892, for there were many labor disturbances during that period, while American manufac- turers held generally excessive stocks of their products and Southern cotton was still low, and Northwestern grain did not enrich the farmers as had been ex- pected. But everybody was hoping for better things, while speculation kept up its feverish activity and the inflation bubble constantly grew bigger and more transparent. The people of the West, where the greatest amount of the inflation existed, had in the meantime become profoundly dissatisfied. Instead of growing rich, they were getting deeper in debt. There never had been so much money in circu- lation, for Congress was paying it out at the rate of $500,000,000 a year, or a bil- lion dollars to each two sessions. Ney- ertheless it was not in the hands of the farmers and working people, because agricultural products were scarcely pay- ing for the cost of growing them, and there was no general and steady employ- ment of labor. Stocks of most sorts of manufactured articles were in excess of the demand for them, and, asa conse- quence, prices were very low, but what are low prices to the people who have no money? It is necessary to understand the situa- tion which existed just previous to the breaking out of the financial storm. A bubble requires only a very slight shock to burst it. The shock came from Asia. In April, 1893, came a tremendous finan- cial crash in Australia. The people of that country had been booming their re- sources. This boom commenced after 1880. In that year the Australian banks were able to carry on the business of the colony with their own united resources. After the boom commenced the number of banks increased and they borrowed largely from London. In 1892 the Aus- tralian banks owed England in borrowed money $215,000,000, while the business of the banks whichin 1880 was $280,000,- 000 had increased in 1892 to $700,000,000, while the business of the colonies with other countries had only increased from $153,000,750 to $220,000,000. Thus it will be seen that the financial inflation in Australia had grown vastly greater than the real solid business could war- rant. The crash came and it was felt around the world. A financial thrill at London makes a corresponding thrill at New York. When London tightens the purse strings and the rate of interest on money, New York responds with a like action. The bursting of the bubble in Australia -aused the collapse of the bubble on the opposite side of our globe, in the West- ern States of the American Union. Lon- don is the world’s money center. It is the chief depository of the world’s wealth. It is for this reason that the silver question comes in as a factor in the situation. London commonly has large investments in United States rail- way and manufacturing stocks, many of these enterprises being backed chiefly by foreign capital. When money is scarce oris locked up in London, it is eustom- ary to send Lome American stocks, and, forcing them on the market, carry the proceeds of the sale out of the country. The foreign creditors will not accept silver money, but only gold, and thus we realize that our silver money is under a If we had no foreign trade and no foreign creditors it would make no difference what sort of money we have. The Greek Spartans, who had no foreign commerce of any sort, used iron money. But when we have foreign creditors to pay, then the ques- tion of the worth of our money is not de- termined by any stamp our Government may put on it, but by the value the cred- itors place on it. raises ban. From the observations made above it is plain that neither the tariff, nor the silver question, nor any single cause has produced the present financial situation. It is the result of a combination of causes, anda general loss of confidence in all financial business has been the consequence. To restore confidence is the great problem which is to devolve on Congress at the session which convenes next week. FRANK STOWELL. If you want to know what your friends really think of you, get into a quarrel with them. The clerk who attempts to live beyond his means will soon be obliged to live beyond the reach of his friends. Wishing to become rich without worthy effort is wishing that others may be im- poverished without an equivalent. 1é Chocolate Cooler Ca. MANUFACTURERS OF 7 ey ee Ee and utilized by the next tenant. This enables the merchant to move his more quickly and easily than he can tion without loss of valuable time. line on exhibition at office, 315 TRUST CO. BUILDING. send for catalogue. KNOCK DOWN TABLES AND AND MANUFACTURERS AGENT FOR Koch Adjustable Shelving ! This combination renders the furniture of a portable—not fixtures, to be retained by the landlord arrangement store furniture move his stock, thus enabling him to resume business in a new loca- Samples of each MICHIGAN If you cannot visit office, fy hes f EPI ef ’ Ne NCS nae Ee Te & store —s Menthol Inhaler . 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WIRTH, KRAUSE & 60,, Children’s Shoes and Shoe Store supplies. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. How to Keep a Store. By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages written from the experience and observation of an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi Selling, Credit, Adver- ness, Location. Buying, tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. THE TRADESMAN CO., Ag’ts. Grand Rapids, Mich. 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Five Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Next Meeting—Marquette, Aug. 29,9 a.m, Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. _ Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, John D. Muir; Sec’y, Frank H. Escott. Cholera and Modern Remedies. When it is considered that a year ago cholera was raging in many seaports of western Europe, and had been imported into New York harbor, where a number of ships bringing immigrants lay swel- tering in the sun and having on board numerous patients aftlicted with cholera, it is truly astonishing that this disease, so fatal and so dreaded, has not again been brought to our shores. It must be admitted that the strict reg- ulations recently put in force with re- gard to the introduction of steerage pas- sengers into our ports have been produc- tive of good. It is also true that cholera is not so prevalent in European ports as it was last year, a fact possibly due to better sanitary measures which have been adopted since the visitation of last year. Nevertheless, while there is no occasion for any special alarm, there is every reason to maintain an attitude of the strictest vigilance and readiness to treat vigorously an appearance of the disease. In this connection it may be interest- ing to know something of the latest theo- ries and the methods of treatment most in favor as they were brought out by ex- perience with cholera last summer in Europe. Probably there was no locality where the disease was more carefully studied than at Hamburg. There were tried the methods of inoculation with the cholera germ as taught by Ferran, of Spain, and Haffkine, a disciple of Pas- teur, of Paris. There were tried many new and old drugs. Among the new medicines given inter- nally was salol, an antiseptic, or pre- servative against decay, uniting the properties of salicin, the active principle of the willow, and phenol, one of the al- most innumerable products of petroleum, and both well known before their capa- bilities were combined. Common salt dissolved in distilled water to the extent of one-half of 1 per cent. and warmed to blood heat, was injected into the veins. Salt, of course, is a preservative against decay. All these methods of treatment found more or less favor and were de- clared to have attained success as cura- tive agents. A medicine for internal administration which has been much vaunted is peroxide of hydrogen. Water is the oxide of hy- drogen, its composition being one atom of oxygen united to one atom of hydro- gen and represented in chemical formula by the letters H. O. Peroxide of hydro- gen is composed of two atoms of oxygen united to two atoms of hydrogen and represented by the symbol H2 O02, and said to be a powerful antiseptic and germ-killer. It is given mixed to the ex- tent of 2 per cent. in water in cupful doses every two hours, and appears to have many advocates and admirers. Another treatment which may be used in conjunction with that last mentioned is that of irrigating the intestines with copious injections of hot water, well soaped. Dr. Elmer Lee, an American, who visited Hamburg last year when the cholera was raging there, is a warm ad- voeate of this method. He holds that cholera is a disease of the alimentary eanal. This is po new opinion, but one generally received. Its incited cause is believed to be a germ taken into that canal through the medium of food and drink. According to Dr. Lee’s views, the first symptom produced by foreign invasion in the intestines is diarrhea, which may precede vomiting from one to three or even four days. If this be true, the bow- els must be the seat of disorder, and the most direct method of reaching them by medication must be the best. If the stomach could be emptied of the foul material before the poison has passed further there might be speedy relief. After it has passed into the intestines, medicine administered through the stom- ach may be slow in reaching the seat of the disease, and even then can only min- gle with the poison, holding out the hope that the one will be neutralized by the other. This hope, in truth, is seldom realized. But if the poison can be re- moved from below, the course is left clear for nature to recuperate itself. The diarrhea is an evidence of the great ex- ertion put forth by the organism to rid itself of the death-dealing agency, and probably it would be effectual in the great majority of cases were it not that the nervous forces of the system are ex- hausted by the terrible strain before the required evacuation of the bowels is com- pleted. These conditions seem to indi- eate the necessity for the irrigation or washing-out treatment, which, it is de- elared, has not only been attended with remarkable success, but is not exhaus- tive of the patient’s strength and energy. Cleanse the bowels, wash the stomach, feed the sick, keep them warm if cold, and reduce excessive heat by the cool bath rather than reliance upon drugs, using anything in an emergency that is the easiest and most accessible to pro- eure, is the injunction. lt is gratifying to see, from what is given above, that the tendency in cholera practice is to abolish complicated meth- ods and excessive drugging, and resort to more simple remedies and processes. Doubtless the new treatment is as effi- cient as the old, and more reasonable. > 4+ Beauty Physicians. It is truly remarkable in an age when sanitary science boasts its triumphs that so little attention has been paid by con- scientious and capable medical men to the preservation of human beauty and to the cure or removal of manageable blem- ishes. The demand for such medical skill is certainly very great, as is evidenced by the enormous sale of lotions, complexion powders and other such preparations, the furnishing of which is commonly left in the hands of persons who, if they be not unscrupulous, are commonly ig- norant of the operations of the bedily functions to which they undertake to prescribe. It is also too commonly the ease that the beauty medicines are com- posed of poisonous substances, as is the case with many hair dyes, hair bleaches, face lotions and complexion tablets, in which salts of lead, preparations of bis- muth and white arsenic most frequently figure. A beautiful complexion requires that there shall be, first, a beautiful skin, which is itself peculiarly a badge of health. The skin has extensive and most important functions in absorbing from the exterior, and in eliminating from the interior, of the body matters of which it is necessary to be rid. The skin cannot be considered apart from the body itself. It has intimate relations with the digestive system and respiratory organs, besides its special faculty of re- moving moisture and other fluid and vaporized matters. No practitioner is properly prepared to treat the skin unless he is fully in- structed in the relations of the human exterior envelope to all the rest of the or- gans it encloses. The same statement is true as to the hair. It will, then, be readily seen how dangerous it is to trust to the medicaments of those persons who do not know the physiology or functional operations of the human body, and who only attempt an external treatment with agents whose qualities and character they as little understand. Considering how important a concern is physical beauty, and what a potential factor itis in human affairs, one cannot help wondering that it has not been made the special study of scientific physiolo- gists and medical practitioners as well as of artists. There is no question that much may be done in the way of improv- ing the skin and complexion, and it is not out of the reach of possibility to dis- cover nature’s secrets concerning the hair. Beauty means health, and the pres- ervation of health is the highest duty of the physician. Why, then, should not the capable and conscientious medical man undertake a branch of his profession so plainly in the line of his duty and so worthy of the highest consideration? Some advertiser making known the claims of a face lotion has declared, in parody of the celebrated line of Keats: “A skin of beauty is a joy forever.’’ Certainly it is a joy to those who pos- sess it and to those who look upon it. The subject is, then, commended to the care of the honest medical men who de- sire to extend the domain of the healing art into a region which is largely occu- pied by charlatans and iguorant persons. A Good Advertisement and a Good Salesman. A friend of mine some time ago on go- ing into a business office where he was acquainted found the proprietor in most earnest conversation with a stranger. It was necessary to wait some time be- fore the proprietor dismissed his friend and was ready to sit down for a conver- sation. Then something like this took place: ‘Did you see that man who just went out?”? l answered ‘‘yes.’”’ ‘‘He is one of the most interesting men I know, I always listen to everything he says with the deepest interest and with great respect.”” 1 asked, ‘‘Who is he and what is he?” ‘He is one of the best salesmen that I know, thoroughly posted in every branch of his business, includ- ing all the details of manufacturing.” ‘Did he sell you anything?” | asked. ‘No, not this time.’”? ‘‘Well,’’ I said, ‘‘your opinion of the man and that of the home office are likely to differ consider- ably.”? ‘Oh, you mean he should have sold me a bill of goods.’”’ ‘‘Yes,’’ said I, “that was his business, and while he may be interesting and attractive he did not accomplish his work unless he was a good salesman.’’ Now there are a great many advertise- ments which are in precisely the condi- tion of this salesman. They are inter- esting. They are attractive. They show artistic things. They are everything in the world except good salesmen. It makes little difference how much notice your advertisement attracts if people look at it, laugh, and don’t buy your goods. It is pretty safe to say that all adver- tisements are read; they are seen by everybody. The only fault to be fonnd with them usually is that they are not good salesmen. They omit the selling point. They may have a halftone repro- duction of the handsomest woman in England, and the little portrait will be cut out and the advertisement thrown away. They may have half a dozen funny points in them, a lot of puns, original turns of language, or they may contain your own portrait in a very prominent position, but unless they con- tain reasons, selling points which will induce the reader to buy, the art, the funny things, your portrait, and the ad- vertisement itself, are entirly wasted. What you want is to sell goods, and if your advertisement does not do that work for you, you had better keep your money in your pocket and the copy in your desk. W. E. PARTRIDGE. —————~». > —__— Pharmaceutical Equivalents. The following table, compiled by John DeBoe, chemist for the Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co., will be found of sufficient interest to the retail druggist to give it a prominent place in his scrap book: To convert— Multiply by eee 0.9493 EOE eee 1.0417 B, Of. 1000 THOP OF... coe -scsnsoe..... 0 9495 areata tnt Mims... .............-... Eeoe eve, On, 000 0: G8 ............:......:. Tee ‘Troy Oc. Inte. O%.....,....... — oo 1 055 avoir. oz. into Troy OZ...... ........... 0.9115 Troy 02, into avoir. 02 ....-.....+--++++- 1.097 imperial minims into grains ......... 0.911 imperial fi. oz. into wine fl. oz ......... 0.961 erkine Tito Minis. .............. ...... 1.099 wine fi. ox. into bap. & oz.............. 1.041 wine pints into imp. pints.............- 0 833 cubic centimeters into minims......... 16.23 cubic centimeters into fl.oz... ........ 0.0338 ee 2.113 cubie centimeters toimp fl. oz 0.0352 liters into imp. pints.......... -. grains into grammes... avolr. oc. Into premmes................. 2 Troy oz. into grammeS..........+.-..+4- 31.1035 fl. oz. into cubic centimeters............ 29.572 wite GO eee sw... se. 6.4731 imp. fl. oz. into cubie centimeters...... 28.397 imp. pinte Into Hiters..............-.-... 0.5679 grammes into grains..............-.-+- 15 432 gramines into Avolr. of. ................ 0.0352 grammes into Troy Of .....-.....-....-. 0.0821 a Toots From Ram’s Horn. The devil would have to go out of business if he couldn’t use whitewash. The devil sees to it that a scolding woman never gets hoarse. When aman is hungry he never com- plains that his wife is a poor cook. lf there were no men to cook for, some women would almost starve themselves to death. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. Covone, Pres. Henry IpEema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. VERDIER, 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.0’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. 8. Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, RETAIL DRUGGISTS! PLEASE BEAR IN MIND that we mean just what we say when giving you the privilege of returning all of our goods you find unsaleable after four months from date of shipment. Peck- ham’s Croup Remedy SELLS and GIVES SATIS- FACTION is the reason why we can afford to make this offer. WE take all the risk and shall protect your interests by REFUSING in the fu- ture, as in the past, ALL ORDERS from CUT- TERS, DRY GOODS and BAZAAR STORES. You need not wait until cold weather to send in an order; Peckham’s Croup Remedy sells sum mer and winter. SPECI 1 L—We give one dozen COURT PLAS TER TABLETS and one ream 9x12 WHITE WRAPPING PAPER (cut from 40 Ib. book) in tablet form with each dozen Peckham’s Croup Remedy ordered on this blank and GUARAN- TEE ITS SALE! Youraddress, street and num- ber neatly printed on tablets and all advertising. We will send a supply of advertising with your rinted thereon free on application. ECKHAM REMEDY CO., Freeport, Mich. eard »~ ” 4 m» ~ r a at - « » fi” > wi«te wm - i - -< »~ ” } a at - « » — bo = - ~ | m « oa +} pn De - -< o - - ~ ros » i } j | wore = ~ — - THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced— Declined—Gum Arabic. Senega Rt. ACIDUM, ee: a @ 3 00 TINCTURES. ee 8@ 10} Exechthitos 2 50@2 75 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 7 Erigeron ..... 2 o0@? 10 Aconitum es ee = lease 52 | Geceaiaoes Guwsas A AN nnn no 60 ia ae ; : on 75 | AlO@B.-- eee eeee sees orertoua 520 55 | Gossipii, Sem. gal...... 70@ 75 Paty myrrh............ = Hydrochior ........... = Sic * ia Nitrocum ............ 10@ 12 [aa Ae 90@2 00 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 ETS 10@ 12 teteccoeecce ‘a J Benzoin 60 Phosphorium dil...... 29 | Limonis ...... inca el RR ah 50 Salicylicum ........... 1 30@1 7 een. -- . — 75@3 50 caieiaien i nae 50 Sulphuricum.... ..... 1%@ 5| Mentha Verid.........2 20@2 30) poe 50 ates 1 40@1 60 Morrhuac, gal......... 1 00@1 10 Gaibeace 75 Tartaricum........... 30@ 33 a ounce......... 2 = sete crecesccesees: fe a eee AMMONIA. Fics Liquids, (gal. 35) io 2| Ca a tote etee eee eeees . Aqua, 16 deg.......... 384@ 5] ticinl.........2...... Oe ee em ratte 4 me dor. 54 7 Hosmer oo 1 ae 00 pr eg eee ee 1 = cumenan a en See Oe ea 50 Chloridum ............ -— “i =, = er ANILINE. Santal verte sereeeeeed 3 ag" 00 ——— ttt e eee eens eee eens = aero -+e.-2 00@2 25 | SA88afras.... . Sees > embers angi 00 | Hinazte, cee, ounce... Boe Digtialla oS ieee PR aon » eaeoarapemae BACCAE. Theobromas........... 15@ 20 jie Serene et see seas = Cubeae (po 40)...... = . POTASSIUM. ee 80 Juniperus ....... Sea BiCert ish 18) Zinethee a Xanthoxylum ... 25@ 30] Bichromate ........... io 14) Hyoseyamus BALSAMUM. — ae . ig . Iodine Be = a oO we ewww cece cc esescee+s LA 194 NLULUTIOCBS. 220 eccee cece é Copaiba ...........-... 42@ 45] Chlorate (po 23@25 24@ 26| Ferri Chloridum............ 35 OP ce eee ces nte | | ON COL Oaniag | 50@ Rie a 50 Terabin, Canada .... 45@ 50! Jodide................. 2 96@3 00 Lobelia... 2.2.22 .eeen 50 Tolutan ..............- 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. Sy SUM 50 CORTEX Potassa, Bitart, com. @ minex Vomten .......... 50 i " Petass Nitras, opt coc. 8@ 10 Opit Ree ieee eae Solus. 85 Abies, Canadian............ 18 | Potass Nitras.......... “2 9) “ Camphoratod. 0.1. 50 aa sete etn ne 11 Prussiate aT we St | Bebe 2 00 ‘inchona Flava ............ 1 \ Euonymus atropurp........ 30 SUIPRMS PO.......---. 15@ 18 — a 50 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 RADIX, hata a. 50 Prunus Virgini Lo aD = Sm Se 20@ 1K DY + reese nese e eee eee = uillaia, grd................ 0 | Aiiee....... J... 22@ 3 esr es esa Tomeon apa ONES 43) Anohuee 000000005007, 12@ 15 Casta ae ceteteee one 50 Uimus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 oe PO.............. @ = ee 7 ‘ oT ETT ona 40 | Serpentaria ........ SL EXTRACTUM,. Gentiana (po. 12)..... — 10 Stromonium eee e crew ere ccene 60 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 2 |Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)... 16@ 18 | Polutam .............. -..--. 60 ee 33@ 35|Hydrastis Canaden, bh erian ae tr 50 Haematox, 15 Ib. box 4 a A ah 2 80 iGratram Veride............ 50 en ellebore, Ala, po.... 1: s ee 14@ 15| Inula, PO. es esteeescn . 15@_ 20 a ss ae. 16@ 17 Ipecac, p Se 2 20@2 30 | Ather, Spts Nit, 3 F.. 2 3 FERRU Iris sie a 35@38).. 35@ 40 ‘ 4F.. RQ & earaee, of. .......... im 2) Alpen ............... 24@ 3 Carbonate Precip...... @ 15! Maranta, Xs.......... @ 3 “ground, (po. Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Podophylium, ee. 1 2 8B 4 Citrate Soluble........ O She at OT Annatio 55@ 60 FerrocyanidumSol.... @ 50 “ aa a @1 75 | Antimont, po.......... 4@ 5 Solut Chloride........ @ 15 P De ae 75@1 35 et PotassT. 55@ Sulphate, com’l....... ao SP eRegele 35@ 38 Antiperin @1 40 “ pure. -- @ 17] Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 20] Antifebrin............. @ B® a Serpentaria............ 30@ 32] Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 55 . on | Benega -. Goae GO; Araenioum............ 5@ Aveiee 8. 18S@ 20 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40 Authemia ............. BW@ 35 M @ 2%} Bismuth 6. N......... 2 2O@2 25 Mawicatia lise 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12] Calcium Chlor, is, (%s on a... @n0neene * * Barosma ............- 18@ 50] yoieriana Bus. (00.30 ‘ ren pee a cana, Tin- Valeriana, a oom .30) ae = ae @i 00 nivell ee aT 2@ 28 eae 18@ 20 Capsici Fructus, _ @ % is Alx 35@ 50 Suater 3 eee tee eee 18@ = : rT} 28 Salvia officinalis, \8 aR ca MRE if ‘pO. @ : ene 68.........----- 25 SEMEN. Gare ae (po. 15) 10@ 12 Tie ............. 10} Anisum, (po. 20)...... @ 15 — 2 n oe mtone @3 75 uma. Aptum (graveleons).. 158 18/088 Flava. Sa Acacia, ist picked.... @ 60 Gueal ¢ (po. 18) ae tod Oe @ 40 o 2d eae @ 40 ates 1 00@1 25 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 ss os oon @ 30 Seana ae 10@ 12 I ae eae cence @ 10 ‘sifted sorts.. @ 201 GannabisSativa....... 4@ 5) Cetaceum............. @ 40 oo 60@ 90] Gyaonium.... ........ 7%@1 00} Chloroform ........... 80D 63 Aloe, Barb, i 60)... 50@ 60] Ghenopodium |... 10@ 12 ‘s quibbs . @1 25 Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12) Dipterix Odorate......2 25@2 50 | Chloral — ‘Crat ee “1 35Q1 60 Socotri Pipe. 60) . @ SO Foeniculum......... ' @ 15 ore... 20@ 2 Catechn, 1s, (4s, 14 448, @ 1 |Foenugreek, po.....). 6 8 Cinchoniding, a ay 20 seoaannwer eats RIE wictateinsivssiness One erman Ammoniae ...........-. 55@ 60 Corks, list, dis. r Amatostida, ( po. 35).. ae = re ~ ee ‘no “ = t we oe 7 2 Benzoinum..........-- 0 ‘ & } Creseourm ........... @ Camphorm......-.-.--- 2. eee Crete, ‘ — @ 2 Euphorbium po...... 35@ 10 tenn in Albu enn 11 @13 | | prep............. 5@ 6 Galbanum.........-.-- @2 50 . oo 11@ 12 precip tens tee e en 9@ 11 Gamboge, po.......... vl J i . RE ve ccc as @ 8 Gualacum, (po 35) @ 2 ciao CHOOO 40@ 50 Kino, (po 1 10)....... @) 15} Frumentt, W., D. Co. 72 Cudheme @ x ieee 4... a.--.--++-- @ Dee. 1 75@2 00 | Cupri Sulph.. a Myrrh, (po. 4 anes eee ee 1 25@1 50 | Dextrine..... ... 10@ 12 - (po % 7B ica ae 2 c 65 Juntperis Co. Go. ¥... 3 wees oo 00} Ether Sulph...... 0@ 7 cei ce tenes a Q6GOS SO l wenaee af) nineho | “bleached... 33@ 35|Saacharum N. ......1 75@2 00] BMY Bo! numbers.. @ Tragacanth ..........- 40@1 00 | Spt. Vini Gallf........ 1 75@6 50 Ergota at )% 70@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. viet yay steteeeeees ; 25Q2 00} £ Flake hie. 122@ 15 Absinthium .............-... 25 rete sees ca ah ae MM sss @ Eupatorium ...........-...-: 20 SPONGES. Gambier os 7 @8 a een eee 7 Florida sheeps’ wool, ela “oo «Ss = ieee aoa : Age.............2 50Q2 %5 a Mentha Fiperite. De i 23 Nassau sheeps’ wool eee ware: yy box 70 & 10, ee cad Sl vane Gua aes | | Gee, Deen... 9@ 15 Tanacetum, V.........------ 221 " wool carriage....... 1 10 mG. ........-. 183@ 25 Themas, V.......--.-.+.---- 25} ext 7 heer Cayectie 6... 14%@ W oe sew eee Grana Paradisi 22 MAGNESIA. Cartes ss, 85 | Humulus ME. - one ose 5 Calcined, Pat ;....... SD 0 ae 65 | Hydraag Chior ifite.. @ 8% arbonate, Pat........ 22) _ Tiage ..............+. 6 Carbonate K.& M.... 20@ 25| Hard for slate Use 75 i ai eens $ = Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 Yellow Reef, for slate a & Ammoniati.. @1 00 sa gear aia ial cca ing Unguentum. 48@ 55 Abeinthiom . ......... 3 50@4 00 SYRUPs. Hydrargyrum......... @ 64 Amygdalae, Dulc...... me am heres... 3. i...... 50 | Ichthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 — alae, Amarae.. - ae OO | POE wd. ce ec. es te oe 75@1 00 a . yee OO eee 60 | Iodine, Resubl........ 3 80@3 90 Saal Content .....4. a GO | dogerora.............. @4 70 Se oie o eeeree. 3 25@3 50 —— — Sees eek cece ee Se | Lame... ........... @2 25 ee G66 Gi Biol Aram... 50 | Lycopodium .......... 65@ 70 Caryophylli..........-. 75@ 80 Similax ‘Ofticinalis oo 60 — ......... a %5 OI oc da cach cca d ss 35@ 65 Ce... 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- Chenopodii eae aoe on Or Oe sl 50 Wane MOG. 4 s,s 27 Cinnamoall ........... nt 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Citronella ............. @ 6 OO ec dwesc cea sean cous 50 =. Sulph (bbl Conium Mac.......... ee Ge Va ke. Or Pe 24%4@ 4 QORGEOE osc cece cess. SO Oi Frames Cre..:......2.2....: 60! Mannia ts. F.......... 60@ 63 Morphia, & P. &W. 220@2 45 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2/| Lindseed, boiled . 54 57 a BNY.Q. & SinApiBs. eo. eos. oss. @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter cas 2 10@2 35 lg ae eee 85 Moschus Canton...... 40 | Snuff, Macias, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 34 38 Myristica, No 1. 0 a @ 35 bbl. Ib. Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 snuff “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. 1. Oe Sapte 20@ 22| Soda Boras, (po. 11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Pepa Saac, H. & P. D. sone et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 @2 06 | Soda Carb. ........... 2 Ber. 1% 2@3 Picis Liq, N.C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... 5| Putty, commercia 14 24@3 ee ae @a 00 | Soda, Ash... ........ Seg 4) vee | pure.....24% 2%@3 Picis Liq., — Lo. @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 = rime Amer- pani. @ 8 | Spts. Ether Co........ 55 ca ---- Lapis Pil Hydrarg, ne 8).. @ 50| “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 2 Vermilion, English 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. 22) .. @i1 ‘¢ Myrcia Imp... .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular. QT Piper Alba, (pog5).... @ 3 “ ini Rect. bbl. Lead, red)... 6%@T Pex Bare... ea i ...27....... 9@2 29} ‘ white 6%@7 Prom Acet....... |. 14@ 15| Less 5c gal., cash ten can Whiting, white Span @70 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 40@1 45 White Giiders’...... @% Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl......... 246@ 3 | White, Paris American 7¢ & PD. Co., dos..... @1 2 . “ . Roll Daa 2 @ 2% Whiting, Paris Eng. a ¢ oe 8@ 10; Cill .................. ace aaa "33 io | Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30 | Pioneer Prepared Paint 2@1 4 Quinia, 8. P.& W..... 29@ 34| Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48| Swiss Villa Prepared « "§” German.... 20@ 30| Vanilla............... 9 00@1é 00; Paints............... 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14) Zinci Sulph.. ........ 7@ 8 VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispv. 2@ 22 No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 AMON 1 75@1 80 OILS. Weta Tare... 160@1 70 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bol. Gal! Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00 Sapo, me 12@ 14} Whale, winter........ 70 70| No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 _ 10m 12] Leed, Gutm........... 110 115] Kutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 . 2... @ esi Lard, No. t........... 7 Linseed, pure raw.... 51 54 7 —. Dryer, No. 1 led eceeues cuas TO@75 HAAELTINE & PERKINS DRUG ¢ Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CREMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils Varnishes. Sole Agerts for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Droggists’ Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly's Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satistaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order HAAELTINE & PER A NS Dats 60, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY Puc! The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. on a CURIE af. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE. doz gross oe... |... 5 600 eer oe.......... 60 7 00 Diamond...... -— 5 50 Frazer's. 7 8 00 — ....... 65 7 50 Paragon 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. _ cans, ; doz i... = 1 ™ i - te ee _ = Arctic. 14 cans 6 doz case....... 55 —e.!”06hlU hC«#....- 110 7 * Sau “ ...-... 2 00 [a ite * «C....... OR Fosfon. 5 02. cans, 4 doz. in case. Red Star, is ‘> cans. . * b ee 1 Telfer’s, ‘iP. cans, doz. “ * 4 “ “a uh 1 Our Leader, 4 ib Cans. .... iD cams...... . Libeams......1% Pr. Price’s. “gg ga per doz a BEA Dimecans.. 95 4-0z 1. 6-02 2 ce 8-0Z 2 60 12-02 ' 22 16-02 ..5 ® 2%-lb “ 1200 t-lb r 2 ¥-1b . 22% nb * 2B BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. ae. —. —- ..... 80 as... 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic, . Oz ovals... 3 69 sl 7 00 C nts, round... 9 00 . 2, sifting box... 275 _ No. 3, . 40 r No. 5, si . Se e 1 oz ball eh += Mexican Liquid, - oz. . 3 60 . 6 80 BROOMS, to. eee ee 1% —s hl 2 00 No. 3 —— 22 i. Clee ae se Common Whisk ee. 90 Fan Leceees oe Le Warehouse........ oo BRUSHES. Stove, No. = -1s ie 1 50 6 ' iS 1% Rice Root Scrub.2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, ‘Brow... 125 Palmetto, goose....-. 1 50 BUTTER PLATES. Oval—250 in crate. a t........ 60 sk... 70 as. |... 80 =. 6............ .... .....32@ CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes...... 10 tar, 40 254 a. 2 eee ...........,., 10 eee .......--...-.... 24 CANNED GOODs. Fish. — Little Neck, a 1 2 ».. oe on Chowder. Standard, 3ib.. ne ab Cove Oysters, Standard, a. “ b. Lobsters Star, 1 me, 2 Ib } Picnic, 11b.. ‘ ) ZIb.. oe Mackerel. tS . 2 Se | 2 10 peat eS oe Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 25 an 2 .......... 2 almor.. Columbia River, —. oe. ...--..1 ow Alaska, _- .16 ee 1B Kinney’s, fai ns ardines. American - “u a” Imported ys “ yes Mustard Xs. a Trout. Brook, 3 Ib...... Fruits. Apples. 3 th. steanderd......... 95 York State, gaJious.... 3 00 Hamburgh. ‘ — Live oak....... 17 a oes... 17 Lusk’s _. ae 1% eee 17 paneeree ak... 95 Cherries. ee es 10Q@1 20 Pitted ae - = Whit 1 50 — ............... 1 20 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green Gages. me... 110 as. ........... 1 70 Gooseberries. ae. 1 3 Peaches. -_.............. 13 ae... ........ Seeescee ............. 1 65 Caaes............. 2 20 Monitor 1 65 a rae aa... 20 Rivensse.....-....... 210 Pineapples. Coon... .... ..-..- 1 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 v erated...... 2% Booth’s eliced......... @2 50 . erage. ...... @2 Quinces. oe. 1 10 Raspberries. pee... 1 30 Black Hamburg.. 150 Erie, black 1 30 a Strawberries. Fg al 13 Hamburgh ee | a... . 12 ee 110 Whortleberries. Binueberries ........ 1 00 Meats. Corned beef = i Roast beef — ...... Potted ham, 11 / = — & C tongue ¥ Ib 135 - : —»....... & ' chicken, & Ib......- 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamb: irgh seat. geo — 13 French style..... 22 y I aoc oe 1 3 Lime, — .............. 68 or ...._....... — - Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked......... 1 35 World’s Fair Baked........1% Pree waned................1 Jorn. es ......... oe Livingston Eden ........... 1% ge Morning Glory............. OO rts) Peas, Hamburgh marrofat...... 13 early June...... ' Champion Eng..1 50 - sens oo......- 1% se ancy sifted....1 90 eee... 7 Merrie Mendard............. a VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10 is early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35 ree... on " . Mushrooms. i 17 Pumpkin. - ae... — Squash. eee... 1% Succotash, oe ee all ES moueee....... ee ee psieieeh aces on i ee 3 %5 CHOCOLATE, Baker’s. German Sweet.. ...... . 23 oo manag fe en eS 37 Breakfast Cocoa........ i. 43 CHEESE, eee. ee cs @10% —-......-... ...... @i10 caeeeee......... ...... @10 Riverside .... oes 1 ioe Boe .......... @ 9% Ne 6@ 7 eee 11 Edam 1 00 Leiden . bce. 23 Limburger .......... @10 mes la cal as @25 Roquefort.. i @35 Sap Sago.. Set weitzer, imported. CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. _— pint, 25 bottles — @2z @24 @14 02m to aSR S8a nt eee 1 doz bottles Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz..... Pint, 25 bottles. Quart, per aon. ... CLOTHE 09 fe pili 5 cress bears. ...__.....- 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, ir) Seee.....-.... @3 Less quantity....... @3% Pound packages.... ..6%@7 COFFEE. Green, Rio. Se oe. ._.......... ......... a a oe... ey... ........ ..... ee Santos. Fair. as _ Good at “Mexican and Guatamala. Fair. iS 21 oT 122 a. LC .. 24 Maracaibo. es. 23 —— ..... 24 Java, ee B Private Growin... ....... -. 27 eee... 28 Mocha, ae. ——— 33 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Pac ano XRXX. 23 45 ee 22 $5 Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case. 23 45 Extract. —— City % gross “5 elix 115 Hummel's, - BTOSS....-- 150 2530 CHICORY. Bulk.. 5 Red , CLOTHES LINES. Catton. zt - . 14 _ 1 €0 . 1% “ i 200 Juie 20 ro Se cond 2t- CONDENSED MILK, 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagie..... ... 7 40 RA pe 6 25 oe A A OO I 4 50 Magnolia ec ee ee ci 423 3 Qn ‘Tradesman.’ $1, aes. 2 00 8 2, o 2 30 ss * ae 3 00 eee 3 oC a aoe 4 Ov — “Superior.” wig Si. per beeeee.............. 250 . ae 3 00 s * ide eee 3 50 +. — 4 00 _— ~ 00 #20, “ “Universal.’’ 8 1, per hundred. 82 . : 3 ry crm 0 8 fo qe 6 00 7 00 eo sites on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 or over......... 5 per cent, oo “ a oe - 1068 “* oh - COUPON PASS BOOKS. Can be made to represent’any enomination from 810 down. {| Apples. Sundried. sliced in bbls. ” quartered ‘ Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes Apricots. Californiain bags...... Evaporated In boxes. .. Blackberries. In boxes. . Nectarines. ere baee................ OO ae Peaches. Peeled, in boxes........ Cal, evap. “* Loupe eee ws i beee...... California in bags..... on tted ae ee, a 50 Ib. boxes ese ee. 25 ‘ . : Prunelies. Site, bowee.....-......- Raspberries. Se, oe. Somes... ae aisins, Loose Muscatels in Boxes, 1 2 crown ek ee 5 = - JC ok. 5 Loose Muscatels in sso = Crown... ........... . 5% .: = ........ .6 Foreign. —— Patras, in barrels.. . r mn Sees... ....... 4% - in less guy 4% Citron, Leghorn, _o boxes - Lemon Orange C = Y ’ i Raisins. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. Sultana, 20 . Valencia, 30.‘ : Prunes. California, ee @8 8%4@ 9 90100 25 Ib. bxs. 14 - 80x90 : . 70x80 - arth c 60x70 ° 14 ere... 7% a TS eee French, 60-70 .13 _ 70-3)...... ie 12 " the a. tO EN | . eae 10 ENVELOPES, = rag. —_— No. 1, 6%.. $1 75 ee Ee 1 60 eke... ............ oe i ee 2 ee 3 00 eT eee 6 2 eT ee eee 10 00 ae el 17 50 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ ‘co $3 00 eS ee 5 00 — = _ 8 00 Boe ee CRACKERS. Butter. Seyvmoura es .......... . Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% Pee Bee... 4... 8 cg ae cartoon...... 6% ones... 6 Salted xe, cartoon ...... 6% Kenosha oo : 7% eS 8 Butter biscuit ... .. 6% Soda. ae 6) ee tee... se. Th ae. Peee............., 8% eo 10 Long Island Wafers ....... 11 Oyster. © Oot 5as..-. City Oyster. — oe 6 Farina Oyster.. — .s CREAM TARTAR. Sica pere.......... 30 Telfer's Absolute.......... 3} a ES EN i5@25 > DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. No. 1, 6 1 65 Re. 2, 6....... : —. XX wood, white. mo te... 5... 1 3 No. 2, 6% .- Nea el 1s Manilia, white. ee 1 00 Coin. moe wet. ..... 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 200 Ib. kogs.......-..- : 3% Hominy. BI . ecco ceca e ee 3 00 SS 3 50 Lima Beans. ted. .... ee 4% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 lb. box.... Eepereee....... 10%@. % Oatmeal. pees Oe... 4 60 Half barrels 100.. 2 40 Pearl Barley. mee... is 2% Peas. Cee, Oe... 8a... 2 00 boos perip 2@3 Rolled Oats. Barrels 180... ... @4 60 Half bbls 90. as @2 40 Sago. oes .................... 4% ae SE 5 Wheat. Coe ...... |... 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. pO ea Cod. Pollock .. i ee 3% Whole, Grand Bank.... 5% Boneless, bricks.. -. 700 Boneless. o,. _...... ae Halibut. Smoked ............... 10%@11 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg €5 “ “ “ee bbl Or wore ........+.....- Round, % bb] 100 lbs...... 2 85 oa coe 1 45 een 7 Mackerel. No.4, 100 0be. 00 op De. 1, ee ............. 2... 5 05 met ee... 2... 1 35 Fami ly, o1pe. ..._........ 8 25 —............ Sardines. Rupes, Beee....... 5... 65 Trout. No. 1, 16 Dbis., 10Gibs. ....... 6 00 No. 1% bbl, sO Tbe... S 70 mo. © meee, PORE... ....... 80 No. i Sie ie.............. 68 Whitefish. on % bbls, bg Ibs Sheek. “a0 co $2 75 ieee 310 140 10 Ib. kits Suekceaue 65 90 48 8 lb. 75 42 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. Regular Vanilla, doz 205 .....01 con...,.28 XX Grade ; Lemen. 20z.....81 50 oe... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, Jennings’ D C. Lemon, —_ 2 * folding nox... 1 20 40 111 40 2 00 So ' ..2 00 3 00 3oztaper........ tm 2 00 40z taper ......+-.1,50 2 50 GUNPOWDER. Rifie—Dupont’s, a ee 3 50 Half wore... cee 2 00 Quarter kegs 115 1b —- 30 eS 18 Choke ae ee Halt Rees... ..... Quarter kegs.. ... 1 cam .... Eagle Duck—Dupont’ Ss. Kegs 00 Half kegs 7 Quarter keg 06 1 ® came...... 5 HERBS, EE ee i, INDIGO. Ma dras, Sib. bomes....... 55 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes. . 50 JELLY. 17 Ib. pails aed ce @ 50 ~~”. UC. @ 7 LICORICE. — .|...............,.... 30 ee 25 ae 22 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz........... 12 . en... 2 2 MATCHES, oe. 9 eee... ...-....... 1 65 Anchor or... .. ee 172 eo See... .......,.- 1 10 Export See... . «2... 4 00 MINCE MEAT. 8 or 6 doz. in case perdoz.. 95 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. i ee $1 75 ar Sereee.............. 1 40 ae. ce, 7 Ties. ....... 4. Le eee 45 ee eenk ...........:-,,. 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. teelee .......-...-. +... 7 00 Half gallon i. 2 oe Pee. ic. i 2 2 MOLASSES, Blackstrap. Sugar house............... 14 Cuba Baking. Orgieery .....-....-5 16 Porto Rico. 20 a0 18 cae 22 ee 27 oar, Ocoee eee cores 2 Co Ee 40 on half barrels, 3c extra, PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Half bbls, 600 connt.. @3 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES. wt 216.. ee D. fullcount.... ... 75 Cob, Nos. ee POTASH, 48 cans in case. ee 4 00 Pema Ga O08.;.......-. 3B RICE. Domestic, Caroline head eae ee lode cual ee. ft... .... 2... 4 i , Bveron...............-.---- 3 Imported. Japan, No. ; ee eee eee cee 5% ME ie ae ceen eden aM re ce ceuee eel eee PGR... . . t ko se sss e4 ire +++ pee | mn “a @ { ai} » -_ ~ ) t.- > ol | | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Root Beer Extract. Williams’, ido. ..... "3 doz.. Hires’, J ae eek SPICES, Whole Sifted. Bee 10 Cassia, China in mats...... q Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... 1.32 Cloves, Ambeyaa......... 22 . eS ie 12 TT 80 Nutmegs Ee . No. De 7 : SS EN EN Pepper, Singapore, black.. 0 white... .20 . me... 16 Pure nese in Bulk, eee ws 15 Cass ja, aaerm.._..........28 and Saigon .25 _ Solem 35 Clover, Amboyna. . Zanzibar.... . Ginger, — ee cee ee 5 ore... 20 . jaune oo i meee Beles... TH Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22 Trie este ae 25 Bepoces, Me. 2 ............. 5 Pepper, Singapore, oo 16 He. .... _ Cayenné.........- 2 ee “Absolute” in Packages, 4s Biaeee |... 1 ae 84 1 Cee... 84 1 Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155 " Arriean .....4.. 1% aoee............ 84 155 Peeper .............-.- 84 155 Sage...... 84 SAL SODA. ae ele eae ee. 1% iad: Oe... ....... 1% SEEDS. Aes... @12% Canary, Smyrna. ...... 6 oreo ...........-.. 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% ee 5% Mustard, white. ...... 10 oppy epee ese eeess 9 Bee... 6 Cultle bone.. 30 STARCH. Corn 0 6 oe * |... 5% Gloss. 1-Ib packages Le eng es ce ee 5% 6-Ib LL: 6 40 and 50 lb. boxes..... 414 as... 5% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders. 37 Maccaboy, fn Se... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, es Shy a. *angiish oie lee cca uted 4% SALT. 100 3-1b. sacks.. - 82 60 5-Ib. -. £00 93 10-Ib. sacks. Dea ee comes 1 85 ie 2% “Se Gopce...........-... 1 50 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 28 Ib. drill i6 18 Warsaw. 56 1b, dairy in drill — 32 28 Ib 18 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 Jh, dairy in nen sacks 75 Soiar Rock. 56 lv. sacks.. LL ceeee Oe Comme Fine. Saginaw ........-.«-.--..- 70 Manmtee ......... -..---- 7 SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs. in box. Chimeras... -. 8... ee 5% DeLand’s ...............---- 54 Dwight’s.... eo oe ‘Tavioes...-.......-,--..--.. @ SOAP. Laundr ry. Allen B. W ges s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 ¢ 2 Good Cheer, 60 1 1 ib Sede ian ee 3 83 White Borax, 100 4% Ib.....- 3 % Proctor & Gamble. L ee 3 & Ivory, 10 OZ... ---- ++ e+e 6 75 i eae e 4 00 Lenox cae 3 65 Mottled German. eaeoeus aes $6 — aaa 3 2 Dingman Brands. Single box.. ....-.....---- 95 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. §. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..%4 00 plain... 2 94 N.E. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands. Sante Claes, .......-+.- Brown, 60 bars.. el a 80 bars ..... a. 2 — Bros. & Co.’s Brands. ee 4 60 iene Onl... a oe Mi PUCNTI ON. ois vos 5 ose aan oo 3 95 TANNO co keen see ene 435 Thompson & Chute Brands. 3 Saver .......... 65 i a a 35 Savon Improyed........... 7 SUEMOWGE ............205.. 3 Oo age 3 2 Economical . sa, 220 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 dog ue, 2 50 SUGAR. The following prices repre- sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the “a ual costin New York, with ¢ cents per 100 pounds added Ps fre.ght. 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. Cut Loaf. 17 > Powdered pescaeesca.-. = se ............... 5 of Extra Fine ere Lone ee Cutes ...... a: 98 XXXX Powdered. i Confee. Standard A.... . 1 Columbia A. 1. | Oo eeptre 4 ..... ..... 30 ee oe ie ie OT OT OT ON Or oT gr otc oLgr 2 SYRUPS. Corn. WM, oe ewe ees oo 2 ee en 23 Pure Cane. SWEET GOODS. — Snare... ....... 8 gar Creams........-. 8 Peened Cresam......- 9 Graham Crackers. 8 Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 VINEGAR. “er.... lee. oe SO er... 8 "$1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, per gal . Beer mug, 2 doz. in case. 1 YEAST. Mage... 1 00 Warners .................9 veo Foam ................ I Dinmene .......-...... 1. ova, ........... TEAS. JaPaAN—Regular. a Geoc .................. ene Choteess.......... ... 32 G3 Dust ........ SUN CURED. Goo Choice esc 24 ae 32 —............... 10 “BASKET FIRED. eae 18 Onelee ............-..- Choicest. Extra choice, ‘wire leat @QUNPOWLER. Common to faiz....... 25 Extra fine to finest. ...50 Choicest fancy........ % OOLONE. Common io fair... .. IMPERIAL. Common to fair.......23 Superior to fine........ 30 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 26 Superior to fine....... 30 ¢ ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ae 18 @2z CUGIOO, 46. c- nceee ot ee 24 @2%8 PO ee cee eee 40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. 23 Pails unless —r — Bazoo . oo @Q3l Can C an.. oi Se @27 Weltte Biy............. 27 @24 Uncle ben.....-....--- 21 Y22 Hiswaethe ............. 60 Sweet Cuba.. 34 McGinty ..-..-. 27 . 46 Dbis....... 25 Dandy dim..........-. 2 Torpedo ... ..-. ..--.. 24 He in drums.. 23 You Yue ......-.... 2 1... . 23 - @ree......-...s 22 Plug. Sorg’s Brands. Spearhead ..........-. 41 | JORGE ...-..-- on ee ee 29 | Nobby Twist........-... 41 Scotten’s Brands. Kylo.......- ee sada 26 Hiawatha... ....... oo. 38 Valley City ....... 4s 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 46 Jolly Tar.......- nase 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. Mine doe... cl Golden Shower............. 19 Meee 8 Mecracnaum .......,...... 29 American Eagle Co.’s Brands, Myrue Navy... ............ 40 oe =< German . ec eeee ee Prog ..... cues 33 Java, 138 foil.. oo Banner Tobeceo C o.’8 Brands, Beeeer 16 Banner Cavendish..........38 i ee ee 28 Scotten’s Brands. Waereth. 0... 1... 15 Honey Dow........_....-... 30 Gold Mioee. ... 26 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, aes... ae ae 18 Standard... a _. oe Globe Tobacco Co.’ s Brands. en duane... 1. 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. Mom Moy................ 26 Dies Gein......_...... ae ee ee 32 Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry......-...++-- 25 Traveler Cavendish....... 38 es. ................ 30 Plow Boy. —— Corn ee OILS. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: Bocere .__............. 8% Xue W. W. Mich. Headlight .........- 7% Weapons... @ 6% Stove Gasoline........ @ Ts ooo Se aes 27 @36 Magne ..... .... .. 13 @21 Black, 15 cold test... @8% HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Green . 2G Part Cured.. @ 3% Cea @ 3% ies... . 5 @5 Kips, green ........... 2 @3 - ooe............ @a4 Caifskins, ereen...... 4@5 cured...... 4 @ 5% Deacon sking.......... er @25 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Shearlings.............00 @ BW Peamee 7... 15 @ BD WOOL Wasece . ............ 12 @I18 Uswasned .........-..- 2 @l4 MISCELLANEOUS. (aoe 3 @4 Grease butter ........ 1 @2 Sener ............-. 1%4%@ 2 aaa 2 00@2 50 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 51 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 51 MEAL. Ce 1 40 Granulated............ 1 65 FLOUR. Straight, in sacks ........ 3 60 ' - Bacon. ...... 3 85 Patent “ eacks..... : 4 60 - < Dercem........ 4 80 Grahem ‘** sacks.... ... 1 70 ye ee 1 90 MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Bran. ......... $13 00 $13 00 Screenings .... 13 00 13 00 Middlings..... 14 00 14 00 Mixed Feed... 17 0 17:00 Coarse meal .. 18 0) 18 00 CORN. Cos lie... 44 Less than car lots.......... 43 OATS. oe 1 ................. 34 Lees than ear lots..........- 38 HAY. No. ——, car lota....12 90 No. 1 ° ton lots ..... 14 00 FRESH MEATS. Beef, carcam.......... 5 @T% ee: - 7 @8% o ore - B4@ 5% a ia No. 3.. . 94@il ‘ ae... 7%4@ 9 rounds. .......- 64@ 7% Boloens............... @6 Pee ene 22 ......... @10% * shoulders... a8 BULK. — a, Sausage, moe or head @7 Beamer... ._..........- 2 00 “ Ag eS iver ...... . @7 Mae 1 50 - TD OF ome ee cece. * Peenkton 4 Ge ae metiome «8... 18. 6 @%7%| PAPER & WOODENWARE Baskets, Ln Lamb a. 74@ 9 gos ‘bushel... 1 25 You... 8 6 @i% PAPER. a full hoop ‘ . 135 FISH and OYSTERS. | SHAW o----- ve veere eens: 134 i. = ef ths, No. 72 ‘ = J. Dettenthaler quotes a8| Rag ensrtdh oy : _ ao No.3 72 ollows: Hardware ‘splint ‘ No.1 3 25 FRESH FISH Bakers Le RN 25 i i in won : . Whitefiah ............ Ty Goods... -5 @6 er tone rt ci g : Jute Manilla... : @b% : INDURATED WARE, | Brook Trout ......... 25@35 | Red Express No. : settee 5% ee - 3 15 Black Bass...... 8210 No. 2...... -- 44 | pubs No. 1. a See 15 , ews.) )l6Ulllll ll ee Ciscoes or Hosting... 2 5 See TWINES. i Tune, No. 2..... 10 50 og , ra ee eee J y Fresh lobster, per lb.. on en ea Local oo follows: ee 11 if ei f i F 3 Sea Island, assorted. DRESSED. ee .: — 5 Hemp Seeds cuss a, +. 50 row:....... pane ise White... @ 8 ee 15 a tee ed Snappers. ....__...- 12 UCKB .....-.....-..-. Columbia River Salmon 20 : hi uniadnNe LIVE Mackerel a5 | Tubs, No.1................. 7 00 | Live broilers 1%1bs. to 2 lbs. en —— cts 2 6 00| “each, per dose ri. a 0 Pails, No. 1, two. hoop... 1 35 Baa — ee chatting, —— 22 1 [= Spring Chickens...... 1z @14 2 asters, per 100 ...... i 50@1 75| Bowls, 11inch...... 80 —Scor oe oto ams, ol oe 0 ‘ "Fa a a a aly em es @1 6 13... eee ee. -1 00 | Spring Ducks 2.8 GH PROVISIONS. | Plain Creams... eee cede settee se. a5... nn The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, | | Decorated Creams... CA DOEEADONEL | quotes as follows: eee tt i'00 PORK IN BARRELS. Wintergreen Berton a ag CHA, 4-5... 17 00 CARAMELS, Pepa pel Te ew ea ee wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes............-..+4 34 Extra clear pig, short cut.................. 200@|No.1, ft 3 La aia ia al i 51 Extra clear, heavy.. ee bo ; ip “2 Ratt tttsssresese: 28 Cina ta bee NT 3; ST aaa Cosesencvees Boston clear, short cut...............-....-. 18 50 Stan up, 5 1b. boxes.. : ET 19 60 BANANAS. Standard clear, short cut, best............ IO 1 50@1 % sausaGE—Fresh and Smoked. eas iy ce cues es ee Large .... 2... eee eee eee eee eee eee ees sr er i 9 ORANGES. Onmuc sausese............. ied cet tcegeccceye 9 California Riverside Seedlings - Frankfort Sausese cee page ntl gue Seedlings......... 3 “— = EE EE Ee q . 0 eae ia Bologna, straight Ee 6 LEMONS. Be eu 6 | Messina, choice 360....-............... 4 50 ee % i ec pepe sso-+¢ 0 ; Lec meeedsceagcsc, & Ge Oe t ' LARD fee ee ' 3 50 Meme Henderca, . 11 cs a AE OT Cee lu { GN FRUITS. wae oe . Ee um Figs, fancy ee eid aces y oe @12% Compound . ee 7% ; : a @12 B0 Ib. as igo advance.” i% i, extra i fon eesti na oe aa sees we oe 20 i % ‘ i oa sel she wcelg dae io aa. a Dates, Fard, 10-Ib, box... OTH —_ * =e « " Ce Tet @ 6% om 6 16 ct [ note ae, POR. 44@ 5% BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, Tarragona annie ee @19 Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs............. . 8 00 i_ace.... |... ee. @18 Extra Mess, Chicago packing........... oe 4 a0 | . Culernia |... @18% Boece: rome Vatee...................... ..13 50 | Brazils, new. eee @ 8% SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Filberts . untae a neg fe Walnuts, Bee @13% Hams, average 20 — eae 1214 Marbot ee 12% ‘i 2Hif.. 2 ies ea iy 1! 13 y “told ibe. sarnenet++ cae aa Nuts, ee @13% ee 14 choice, “9 OF eG a eel suc Pecans, Texa . nn oe oro Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................-..14 PEANUTS.” Dried beef, ham prices.................... ...10% Fancy, H. P., Suns i @8 Long Clears, a Ce eae co Roasted. @ 2% Briskets, medium. " ee. Fancy, H. P, Flags. ee . @83 ” eee 11 a - ?, - Roasted. nee @% oice, xtras. (eee gee. @ 6% CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. “ Roaated............ @8 The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. STICK CANDY. FRUIT JARS. Cases Bbls. Pails, | Pints . Sees ee es ae g cca ee ese ol Oe Standard, per ip... ..... 6% 7% ee 6 50 HH os Pn oog | bene Gallons... .... ...... ss ee - Oe ce Be Ce... 2% Boston Cream ............ 84% Boers... 8c 45 Cae Teee............... : 8% LAMP BURNERS. Beuaeh G@.......... ... a _ OSUN.... 2... cece cece cee ceee cent cues seen es 45 MIXED CANDY. Noe « coieeeseeteeeeeteneae ceases coes ‘Lo Bbls. Pails, Tubular Le ee ee cee ieee eae ee an cee. 5 6 q LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. TiGGGe ee 6 7 6 doz. in box. —e Le uaa eo ee eae cet eeuyee ce 6% Poin ean. |... | 1 ( = es eee ew ae 1 8 Ral * ues 1 nglis ee. a 8 eT 2 90 GComecrves.................,........ 7 8 First quality. Promen 7eay........-..... baskets 8 No. 0 Sun, erimp COP. ee eee eee eee eee eeee eee 2 25 Peanut Squares............ 8 9 No. 1 ee 2 40 French Creams...... ice cee ec ee 10 Nas * ; -_ oe Valley Creams. eee cee 13 XXX Flint. oy pi baskets. a 8 oo crimp top..... asd ees deedce sai sce ar ee 8 ee eee tee mone aa 2 80 Fancy—In bulk i gl top. 7 Pails. | No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 70 Lozenges, a ee ttre ict 10 No 4 70 ee 11 sa 9 ts i ‘“ pa Chocolate Prope... ..... 5... 0.5... see 11% nS pm Esa : ee Chocolate Monumentals............--.+--++- 13 | No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. ...........+.. 1 2 Gel Oe. oc eee ee st 5% | No. ena Ve" MOSS DrOpS......---+++sssseecsee cere sc ee renee 8 | No. 1 erimp, Per;dOz.... ....-.00 see sseeeeeees 1 35 Se Gee... SU 1 60 pense... 10 LAMP WICKS. Francy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box | No. ¢@ 1 POT BTOSS.---- ee eee eee eee eee eee ees 23 NN teu 55 (| No. 1, ssa e ai ta - 28 Sour Drops ....- ee ats No. 2, LL nth tttesteeteterecees cceece 38 eppermint Tops. eee eee SS es. l.LlLlLlULlUlUrDU eee = Chocolate — ees eer :..65 | Mammoth, per aie [one tose. v8 H. M. —— a ersten ae = Butter Crocks, | 1 toG eal.......... oe 06 NE ae 40@50 eee ee eT 1 00 y % gal. per doz.............-. 60 i A ioe rae go | Jugs, % ga per doz....... ET 60 "1 to 4 gal., per gal..... ss Ee 65 | Milk Pans, % gal., por doz....... a ee tat 60 a i a .> Forty Dollars Saved the Bank. From the Kargsas City Journal. Old-timers tell the story of how T. J. Kelley, a contractor of this city, by a very clever ruse, stopped a run on a bank and prevented its going to the wall way back in 1871. At that time the Kansas City Savings Association, now the National Bank of Commerce, was located at the southwest corner of Fourth and Dela- ware streets. Mr. Kelley was then secre- tary and cashier of the Corrigan Street Railway Co., and the company’s account was kept at this bank. The much despised penny was not then in general use here as now. Peo- ple were ashamed to pay for any article with pennies, except, perhaps, postage stamps, and the old-fashioned ‘‘fare-box” in the cars became a dumping ground for them. From $3 to $5 in pennies would be found in the boxes by Mr. Kelley every day. He usually dumped them in sacks and stored them away in the company’s vault. During the crisis of ’71 the people be- came very much excited and flocked to the banks in droves to withdraw their de- posits. Runs were made on nearly all the banks in the city and several were forced to suspend. One day a run was made upon the Kansas City Savings Bank, and the people were lined up wait- ing their turns to reach the tellers, who were paying out money by the basketful, when a happy thought struck Mr. Kelley. He went to the police station, secured three policemen to guard his treasure, loaded eight sacks of coppers upon a wheelbarrow and took them down to the bank. The sacks had originally con- tained gold and were labeled on the out- side **$5,000’? in great big black letters. Arriving at the bank, one old colored woman, who had come to withdraw her small savings, called out: ‘‘Why, Mistah Kelley, wha’ fo’ yo’ put all that money in here when we’se a-drawin’ our money out?” Kelley replied: ‘‘That’s all right. This bank isn’t going to bust. I can put more money in herein one day than all you people can draw out in six months,” as he trudged into the bank with the last sack. | rent. This display of confidence on the part of the street railway company had a quieting effect upon the crowd and they rapidly dwindled away. The sacks contained just $40, but it saved the bank. —~o- —_————>- _o——————— A Successful Pian. “When I went into the grocery busi- ness,’”’? said a retailer to the Canadian Grocer, recently, ‘‘I had not much capi- tal, and I determined to save my cash discounts every time, even if by so doing I was only able to do a small business. That rule [ have carried out, and what I get from my discounts just about pays my Another thing I decided upon was to refuse to give long terms of credit, and this, too, I have carried out. Of course, a fellow sometimes hardly knows what todo. By refusing to give a customer any more credit until he has paid up may mean the last of the whole account, as well as the customer, and a fellow has to use a little tact now and then, but, as arule, 1 stand firm and I find it pays. The fact of the matter is, if I didn’t I wouldn’t be in business very long, for not having a big bank account, I could not stand many losses. Asit is now, I am doing a comfortable business and am making a decent living.”’ >_< ———_$_$___—— A shiftless man loves to talk about his bad luck. The President of the United States of America, GREETING: To HENRY KFROCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager_s;, salesmen. and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the it has lately exhibited its said the complained of, and that the said of New Jersey, against you, HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that sill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United said District therein States for the relieved touching the matters ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, . . . . c . ° . ~ ” o Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark -for scouring soap. The Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY z niall a eee el ia a. ue :. : KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you and penalties wh ee NE nt a2 under the pains CC MI absolutely desist and r substantially similar therci soap not made or produced by or ae icn sand or appearance, in connection with for the Complainant, and from directly may fall upon you and each of you soe Ee) from in any manner unlawfully using the wor the in case of disobedience, that you do 1 Ll " SAPOLIO,” or any word or manufacture or sale words of any scouring or indirectly, By word oi mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as r when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, “SAPOLIO,” that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any + ] ? 7 " " é false or misleading manner. 4h ii ° Ayi ness, The honorable Metvitte W. FuLver, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in tl year of « ! 1, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two, [SEAL] [SIGNED | » DD. ObIPRANT . . < . Clerk. ROWLAND COX, Complainant's Solicitor, FH » Indifferent to Civic Duty. Right Honorable James Bryce, a mem- ber of the British Parliament and occu- pying a subordinate position in the Brit- ish Cabinet, has written, in the July number of ;the Forwm, a paper on the teaching of civic duty, that is, the duty of citizens. He finds the people of the United States more than any others in- different to the duties of citizenship. This indifference is the worst foe of American liberty. The average citizen does not wish to be troubled with the cares of government and political matters except for a salary or for personal gain. He wants to have public affairs carried on by those appointed to attend to them, so that he can have all his time to devote to the private concerns of business or pleasure. Says Mr. Bryce: ‘‘Indiffer- ence to public affairs shows itself not merely in neglect to study them and fit one’s self to give a judicious vote, but in the apathy which does not care to give a vote when the time arrives. It is a seri- ous evil already in some countries, seri- ous in London, very serious in Italy, seri- ous enoughin the United States, not in- deed at Presidential, butatcity and other local elections, for some reformer to haveproposed to punish with a fine the citizen who neglects to vote, as in some old Greek city the law proclaimed penal- ties against the citizen who in a sedition stood aloof, taking neither one side nor the other. For, unhappily, it is the respectable, well-meaning, easy going citizen, as well as the merely ignorant citizen, who is apt to be listless. Those who have their private ends to serve, their axes to grind and logs to roll, are not indolent. Privateinterest spurs them on; andif the so-called good citi- zen, who has no desire or aim except that good government which benefits him no more than every one else, does not bestir himself, the public funds may become the plunder, and the public in- terests the sport of unscrupulous adven- turers.”’ Everybody recognizes the existence of this great evil. The question of prime importance is how to remedy it. Mr. Bryce thinks that it must be met by teaching patriotism and civic duty to the boys in schools. Something is to be hoped for by training their youthful and ardent enthusiasm in the direction of an interest in the duties of citizenship and a desire to take partin the direction of publie affairs. But the difficulty, the main difficulty, lies in the vastness of the population. There never was before a republic with 60,000,000 of inhabitants. Before many decades it will have 100,- 000,000. But while the population is in- creasing so rapidly the people are get- ting all the time further from the govern- ment. Leaving out of sight the fact that the public offices are not increasing in number in proportion to the growth of population, each individual, in respect to his influence in public affairs, is con- stantly growing smaller. He is apt to feel that whether he votes at the pri- maries or attends mass meetings or casts his ballot in the general election will make no difference in the grand result. Thus, the greater the population, the greater the indifference of citizens to public affairs, and the more certain those public affairs are to be left to party managers and self-seekers. When the Roman republic reached a point of great- est population and the largest individ- ual indifference to civic duty, then it be- came a despotism in which the people gave up all civic functions. be tke fate of all republics? Is this to AS. Oe Henry J. Vinkemulder, the South Di- vision Street Grocer. Henry J. Vinkemulder was born April 4, 1866, at Grandville, Kent county, Mich. His father, who is a wagon-maker by trade, came to this city from Holland in 1856, going to Grandville the following year. Henry attended school in Grand- ville until he was 17 years of age, when he came to Grand Rapids and went to work for Phil. Graham, the South Divi- sion street grocer, for $3 a week. Having only such education as a country school affords, he set himself diligently to work and in a short time had mastered the sci- ence of book-keeping and was placed in charge of the books. Every spare mo- ment was utilized in the acquirement of knowledge which would be useful to him in his chosen calling, and so useful did he make himself to his employer that in the five years he was with Mr. Graham he rose rapidly from $3 per week until he had reached the handsome salary of $20 per week, and finally, when he had determined to start in business for him- self, he was offered $1,200 a year. Be- lieving that he would conduct business one else, the firm of Vinkemulder & Bor- rendamme opened a grocery at 447 South Division street in 1888. This partner- ship lasted but five months, when Mr. Vinkemulder bought his partner’s inter- est in the business, and took his brother, Derk, in with him. In six months time the business had grown to such an ex- tent that it became necessary to move the business into 445 South Division, which gave them much more room than they had at the former number. A meat market was opened at the former loca- tion, which was subsequently sold. In March, 1890, the firm opened a store in Grandville, which has been equally suc- cessful with the store in this city. In addition to the grocery business, Mr. Vinkemulder does quite an extensive business in wholesale produce and fruit, the premises at 418 and 420 South Divi- sion being devoted to that purpose. About a year ago the firm bought the property in which their business is car- ried on, and also the dwelling house in the rear. Extensive alterations will be made to meet the growing demands of ten to fifteen clerks to handle. Mr. cient clerks. for himself as successfully as for some- the business, which now requires from Vinkemulder’s strong point is the fac- ulty he possesses for securing only effi- He is not afraid, either, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. { | REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. to pay all that a man is worth, good wages being the rule and not the excep- tion. During the years when Mr. Vinkemu}- der was ‘‘only a clerk,’’ and while other young men in the same business were wasting their time and energies in the pur- suit of questionable pleasures, he devoted the time not required by his duties in the store to the improvement of his mind and to the acquirement of a knowl- edge of the details of the business. The consequence is that now he is at the head of asuccessful and rapidly expand ing business, while most of his former associates are still holding subordinate positions. There is much in his life that should stimulate other young men, who, as yet, are at the bottom of the ladder, to do their best, and shun, as Mr. Vinke- mulder did, the evil courses which al- ways end in disappointment and _ fre- | quently in disaster. Suecess is sure to ‘him who strives for it in the right way, and the short, but highly successful ca- | reer of Henry J. Vinkemulder is a strik- ing exemplification of that assertion. | > —_—_——— | Mis-spent time is a greater misfortune than mis-spent money, because money |may be regained, but a day lost is lost | forever. i — om Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. ‘CHICAGO AND WESC MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv.G’d Rapids. 7:25am 8:50am 1:25pm *11:°0pm Ar. Chicago ...12:20pm 3:55pm 6:50pm *6:30am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO, Ly. Chicago....8:25am 9:00am 5:45pm *11:35pm Ar. @’d Rapids.1:20pm 3:55pm 10:55pm *6:10am VIA ST. JOSEPH AND STEAMER. Ly. Grand Rapids..............i-2opm 16:00pm eee . 8:30pm 2:00am Ly. Chicago 9:39am...Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Lv. Grand Rapids...... 8:50am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 10:45am 3:55pm 5:25pm TRAVERSE CITY CHARLEVOLX AND PETOSKEY. JUNE 2, 1893 Lv. G@ R..... 5:45pm *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm Ar.Manistee.10:44pm 12:10pm 6:10pm 4:50am Ar.Trav.C’y.11°10pm *12:40pm 6:00pm ......... Ay. Charicyvoix...... *3:15pm 8:20pm 7:20am Ar. Petoskey ..- .. 3:45pm 8:50pm 7:50am Ar. Bay View....-. *3:55pm 8:55pm $:0cam Trains stop at Traverse City for dinner and supper. Arrive from Bay View, etc , 6:00 a. m., 11:40 a. m., 1.06 p. m., 10:00 p. m. OTTAWA BEACH. Lv. Grand Rapids S-50em 5:45pm -......-. Lv. Ottawa Beach... 7:00am 3:50pm 9:40pm Sunuay train leaves Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m., leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:30 p. m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. To Chicago, lv.G.R.. *7:25am = 1:25pm *11:3¢pm To Petoskey lv.G. R.. *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm To G. R..lv. Chicago. 8:25am *5:45pm *11:35pm ToG. R..lv. Petoskey 6:05am *1:30pm = +8:20pm Free Chair Cars for Manistee 5:45 p m. *Every day. tExcept Saturday. Other trains week days only. Tee GRAND HAVEN & WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av>. MIL- EASTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 14|tNo. 16\tNo. 18\tNo. 82 Gd Rapids, L v| 645am|10 20am) 3 25pm} 7 40pm Tonia ......_. Ar| 7 40am/11 25am} 4 27pm) 8 45am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 25am|1217pm| 5 20pm) 9 42am Owoss)......Ar| 9 00am} 1 20pm) 6 05pm/}10 25am | E, Saginaw..Ar|10 50am| 3 45pm) 8 00pm | Bay City.....Ar|11 32am] 4 35pm) 8 37pm)........ Pint 3... Ar |10 05am S 450m) (pm)......_- Pt. Huron...Arj1205pm| 550pm) 850pm)........ Pootiac ...... Ar |10 53am) 305pm) 8 25pm)........ Detroit. ...... Ar|1150am| 4 05pm| 925pm!........ WESTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 81 |tNo. 11 [tNo. 1IS.|tNe. 15 G@’d Rapids, Lv| 7 25am) 1 00pm) 4 55pm) 10 20pm G’d Haven, Ar| 8 30am) 2 10pm! 6 00pm)11 20pm MitwkeoSa “}.....-.. a 6 2am) 6 30am Chicago Str. ‘' | 400pm).......- G@vam)........ +Daily except Sunday Sunday only train leaves Grand Rapids at 8 a.m. for Spring Lake and Grand Haven; and at 7 p.m. to connect with Sunday night steamer at Grand Haven for Chicago. Trains arrive from the east, 7:20 a,m., 12:50 p.m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10 a. BL, es and 9:35 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner 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. 23 Monrce Street 19 Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect June 25, 1893 TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrivefrom Leave goin South. North. For M’kinaw,Trav. City and Sag. 6:50 a m 7:20am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 1:10pm 1:20 p m For Cadillac and Saginaw...... .......... 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw...... 8:10pm 10:30 pm Bromus Ralamasoo, ............... 9:10am From Chicago and Kalamazoo.. 9:40 pm Trains arriving from south at 6:50am and 9:10am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. Also train leaving north at 7:20 a. m. This train does not run to Traverse City on Sundays. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going outh. North. bh Vow Cineimead.................. 6:30 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 8:00 am For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 11:50am 2:00 pm Wor Ciacrmuece ................. 6:15pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 pm 11:20 pm rms ee 11:50am ie SN oo a wenn 10:40 p m Trains leaving south at 6:00 pm and 11:20 p. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH ian am train has Parlor Car to Mackinaw Yity. 1:20 p m train has parlor cars Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:30 Pp m train.—Sleeping cars Grand Rapids to 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. 11:20 p mtrain.—Through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chi- cago. Chicago via G. R. & 1. KR. R. Ly Grand Rapids $:00 am 2:00 p m 11:20 pm Arr Chicago 1:25pm 9:10pm 6:50am 8:00 a m train runs solid with through Wagner Par- lor Car. *11:20 pm train daily, through Coach anid Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago 4:15pm 9:50 pm Arr Grand Rapids 9:40 p m 6:50 am 4:15 p m solid train with through Wagner Parlor Car. 9:50 p m train daily, through Coach and Wag- ner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive :lba 6:55 am 1 m 11:25 am 4:40 pm 5:45 pm 9:10pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45a m, ar- riving at 9:15am. Returning, train leaves Muske- gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:50 pm. Tnrough tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Station, Telephone 606, Grand Rapids, Mich, Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. MICHIGAN CENTRAL ** The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) Arrive. Depart 10 Dpm........Detroit Express .......:6 GS pm 10 Cam.......... Day Express 20pm 6 0O0am.....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 10 45 pm 100) m_...... New York Express. ..... 5 pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 a m; re- turning, leave Detroit 5 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. Atmguist, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R. R. MAY 28, 1893 GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids . 7:10am *1:45pm 5:40pm Ar. Detroit .............11:35am *$:50pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit............. 7:45am *1:45pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids......12:55pm *5:40pm 10:30pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. G R.11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:10am 1:45pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell..........12:55pm 5:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor cars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. RAILWAY. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’ys offers a route making the best time be- tween Grand Rapids and Toledo, Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. VAD, L428. HY. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m. AY. Tolede mt ......... 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. Ar. Toledo at.......... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p, m. Return connections equally as good. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE LAST APPEAL. Pauper Peddlers Routed at Every Turn. The applications of the pauper ped- dlers for permits to peddle without a li- cense, referred to the Committee on Poor, were investigated and considered by the Committee, and at the regular meeting of the Common Council on July 24 the Committee recommended that no permits be granted and that no licenses be issued for a less term than one year. The re- port of the Committee was adopted. This ought to put a quietus to the grant- ing of permits, and should teach the beg- | ging gang that the Council meant busi- ness when it passed the peddling ordi- nance and fixed the schedule of fees. Three of the men have evidently come to | the conclusion that poverty present Council, whining about their nothing with the having taking out li- counts for censes through the assistance of friends. | Houseman called at THE TRADESMAN eciously announced Joseph office last week that he conceded the Tne TRADESMAN of last week, in objecting to the granting of said grounds taken by free permits. He he had helped many of the Russians, personally, and | would probably continue todo so. He could find no fault with the grocers for | their activity in protecting their own in- terests. In speaking of the matter, Mr. Tyroler | said: ‘‘The only party named by TRADESMAN Wiess. This mended by THE whom Cohen Alderman man Was Damsky, do with him. I do not biame the Gro- cers’ Association for looking after their own interests. These Russian fugitives are, certainly, a very undesirable class of citizens, but theysare here and we are trying tomake the best of them we ean. Wiess has been reduced to his present condition by a long siege of sickness. His horse is of class and his wagon stallment plan.”’ CARD FROM MR. OWEN. GRAND Rapips, July 28—In last week’s is bought on the in- TRADESMAN under the head ‘‘No per- mits must be issued,” a statement was given of the appeal made by Joseph Houseman and Max Tyroler to the Com- mittee on Poor of the Common Council, in behalf of certain would-be peddJers, who, it was alleged, were too poor to pay the required license. The character of these applicants, as published in that statement, shows that unworthy of the privileges asked for. As a justification for championing the | cause of such unworthy clients, it was | stated that Mr. Houseman is a large-| hearted, he will, probably, withdraw his support from these alleged imposters learns the actual facts of the case. article in and, in addition thers that Max Tyroler is also a large-heated, question is, no charitable gentlemen of noble impulses, | whose hand is always extended in the good work of aiding the unfortunate re- gardless of faith, nationality, or kindred, so far as his means will permit; and whose sense of justice would never lead him into championing the cause of any man whom he considered unworthy. E. A. OWEN. -_—————- +4 -<— —_—— Worry is the great fertilizer of troubles. It produces them and it makes them grow. It is a great mistake in addition to add to your income without giving an honest equivalent for it. Smoke a cigarette and thereis a double combustion—the cigarette itself and the brain of the smoker. and gra- | I recommended is | recom. | Mr. | Houseman and myself having nothing to | the seventeen shilling | they are utterly | charitable gentleman, and that | when he} The | doubt, true, | to, | wish to state | | MEN OF MARK. | John Shirts, Manager of the Grand | Rapids Brush Co. John D. M. Shirts, Manager of the |Grand Rapids Brush Co., was born in | Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, Decem- ber 20, 1854. His father, who was a con- tractor on the L. S. & M. S. Railway, ;moved to Lansing when John was 10 years old. He attended school in Lan- | sing for six years, and at the age of 16 entered the grocery store of J. Esselstyn | & Son, where he remained about a year. | His father then opened a grocery in the same city and John entered his employ jas aclerk. This business was moved to | Shelby, Oceana county, in 1872, and was | ithe first store started in that village. Three years later the business was sold | out, Mr. Shirts remaining with the new | proprietor as manager for two years. He then went to Montague as head clerk |forS. H. Lasley & Co., general mer- |chants, where he remained four years. |Soon after resigning that position, he |; came to Grand Rapids and took charge |of the books in the cigar and tobacco | jobbing house of Eaton & Christenson, | later going to Lincoln, Neb., and open- i ing a branch house for the same firm. Eaton & Christenson failed in the fall of 1887, and Mr. Shirts returned to Grand Rapids and accepted a position with the 3rown Milling Co. as book-keeper and | cashier, remaining until the Brown Mill- |ing Co. was merged into the Valley City Milling Co. Atthe annual meeting of 'the Grand Rapids Brush Co., held in | 1890, Mr. Shirts was elected manager, | and at the next annual meeting the du- ties of Treasurer were added to those of | Manager, which positions he still holds. He is also a Director of the company. |Mr. Shirts modestly declined to make any statement concerning the condition | of the company under his management, but a stockholder of the company who, three years ago, was inclined to doubt the wisdom of the directors in placing so | large a business In the hands of a man without previous experience in the man- ufacture of brushes,assures THE TRADES- |MAN that Mr. Shirts has developed a | wonderful amount of executive capacity and demonstrated his ability to increase the volume of business nearly 50 per | cent., with a corresponding increase in | the profits. In addition to the payment | of three annual dividends of 8,10 and 8 | per cent., respectively, he has increased | the surplus account from $7,000 to $38,- 000 and augmented the working force to | } j | | 225 persons. This remarkable record has been achieved in three years by means of patient and persistent effort, without the adoption of bandwagon methods or the bluff and bluster which too often accompany business success. In 1881, John D. M. and W. H. Shirts opened a grocery and crockery store at Shelby, under the firm name of Shirts Bros. This business still continues and is highly successful. Mr. Shirts is a member of the Masonic order, and also of the Northwestern Traveling Men’s Association. He is President of the Y. P. A. of Park Congregational Church, of which he is a member. He was married Dec. 20, 1874, to Miss Celia Austin, of Edgerton, Ohio, and has a son, 17 years old, who is so large for his age that he is talking of having his trousers cut down for his father. Personally, Mr. Shirts is one of the most companionable of men. His quiet ways and lack of ostentation and display uaturally enable him to attract and hold the friendship of careful, thinking men, many of whom enjoy his companionship and confidence. He is not mucnu of a society man, preferring the family hearthstone to the glitter of the ball- room or the stilted life of the club house. A 8- < A Contemptible Fatuity. Some one has called it the Ananias policy of keeping back the half. Some- one else has said that the trait is natur- ally in the bone and practice of every citizen, rich and poor, learned and un- learned, far-sighted and _ short-sighted. We are all tarred with the same black stick of not only clutching and hiding in a napkin all of our own, but holding on to that which belongs to others and which should be out and in use. There never was a period in our history when there was as much money in existence among us as now. There never was a time when money was harder to get. What an indictment is this against our intelligence and our human nature! We are, indeed, a poor lot, seemingly inca- pable of doing the right thing at the right time. And whatisthe right thing? This and nothing else: Buy and invest, invest and buy, all you can right away, as individuals, banks, insurance com- panies and trust associations. Don’t keep back a dollar. Pour out all your dollars quickly at full interest on collat- erals whose cheapness at present is be- yond question. A little while ago bank- ers and others were loaning out their cash on securities 20 per cent. higher than they are to-day. No oneruns any risk now in placing loanable funds on good, low-priced bonds and stocks at the usual margin of 25 percent. That man isn’t a banker, whatever else he may be, who now refuses to loan at 7 per cent. for the next six or eight months. He will wake up some fihe morning to know that he has missed his opportunity. The savings banks are excellent institutions for utilizing the driblets of the poor, but as some of them have been run the last thirty days as much can’t be said. The managers of some of these banks, by getting scared, have added to the ruin of tens of thousands of people engaged in trade, their hoarding process making money so scarce that people in excellent credit, couldn’t get their usual accommo- dation. This unwise holding back and hoarding is stupid and culpable, every way one looks atit. Itis a breeder of panics, and the same is true of too many other banks and institutions where money lodges to be distributed and loaned out. Spurzheim once asked if all the fools would ever die, and answered his own question by saying: ‘‘No, there will bea bountiful crop of them in every genera- tion, to the end of time.” Yes, and they are here, some of them at the head of our banks. These are times when every dol- lar should be on the wing, oiling tne busi- ness machinery—near and remote. Once upon atime a panic was under way in New York. A stranger stepped into a large Broadway concern and asked for the head of the house. This was his lit- tle talk: ‘‘I was once a scholar in your Sunday-school class. When 1 was going West you put your hand on my head and gave meyour blessing. I have been prosperous, and here is $50,000 which you can perhaps use in this emergency.’’ It saved the house from going down. Thus let your oil drip on rusty places, of which, at present, there are too many. Be neither Annanias nor Sapphira, hoard- ing nor holding back. Help just a little and be quick about it. Gero. R. Scott. —_— 2 <> The First Patent. The first patron of our patent system was Thomas Jefferson, who, during three years, gave his personal attention to every application fora patent. He used to call the Secretary of War and the At- torney-General to examine and scrutinize with him, and they did it so thoroughly that in one year—the first—they granted only three patents. The very first patent of all was given to Samuel Hopkins, in 1790, for pearl ashes. Mr. Jefferson held that the patent system was not one for creating revenue, but for encourag- ing production of that which is to be of benefit to the whole people. In the first twelve years a single clerk in the State Department and a few pigeon holes were all that the business of the office re- quired. Then a Dr. Thornton took charge of it and devoted himself to it as a hobby. PRODUCE MARKET, Apples—Home grown Astricans are beginning to come in, commanding 75c per bu. The quali- ty is poor and the size inferior. Duchess will begin to come the latter part of the week, prob- ably bringing #1 per bu. Beans—Handlers pay $1.75 for country-picked and hold at $2. City hand-picked are quoted at 10@25c above these figures. Beets—50c per bu. Blueberries—Receipts are gradually increas ing, the price ranging from %2.50@2.75 per bu., according to quality. Blackberries—Lawtons command 8@10c per qt., but will probably go lower before the end of the week. The crop is large in size and fine in quality. Next week will be the flush of the crop. Butter—The market is higher, with indications of still higher prices in the near future. Dealers now pay 16@18e for choice dairy, holding at 18@2Cce. Creamery is in fair demand at 22c, Cabbage—Home grown, $3 per 100. Carrots—20c per doz. Celery—Home grown has put in an appear- ance, commanding I8c per bunch. Corn—Green, 6¢ per doz. Cucumbers—50c per bu. Eggs—Firm and strong. holding at 14%c. Green Onions—10@12¢ per doz. bunches, Green Peas—30c per bu. for marrofat. Honey—White clover commands 15¢ per Ib. dark buckwheat brings 12%4c. Onions—Dry stock commands $1.25 per bu. or $3.50 per bbl. Both red and yellow danvers 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 50@55e. The quality is not very good yet, owing to the greenness of the crop. Squash—3ec per Ib. Tomatoes—4c per Ib. Turnips—Home grown, 50c per bu. Watermelons—The Georgia crop is coming in freely, commanding 15@20c apiece. Dealers pay 13%4c, = t Pa oa 44a _\s i J Uy Spring & Company, ae IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN - E Dress Goods, Shawis, Cloaks, — Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, | _ Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, “Ts Prints and Domestic Cottons, | ' | We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well TS assorted stock at lowest market prices. | te ® _ Spring & Company. P. MILTON KERNS’ : = Puri tano Cigar. | Ve THE FINEST | | “i 10 Cent Cigar on Earth] ' E TRADE SUPPLIED BY "T BATEMAN & FOX, oe 1 Bay City. B. J. REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids. R OPPENHEIMER, Kast Saginaw. Tosacco Co., Detroit, Mich. ~ VOUGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & C0, WHOLESALE - Dry Goods, Carpets and bloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. . Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Vic a i i, 48, 80, 62 Ottawa St. Grand Rapids. DeTROIT SEE coarse a Muskegon Branch | | UwnitED STATES BAKING Co. ala Muskegon, Mich, | | ¢ Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” | ' Write for samples of New and Original Crackers and Cakes, before ib purchasing for your Spring trade. | HARRY FOX, Manager. | Mail orders a specialty. eee 17 MONROE STREET, 4,000 Live Poultry 4,000 Wanted Weekly. DETROIT AND CHICAGO MARKET PRICES GUARANTEED. DETTENTAHALER, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. lass GOVErs or BISculls. F. J. Cracker Chests, HESE chests will soon | pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. Price $4. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherina moment They from flies. dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES. will save enough goods for themselves. We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. This is bound to be one of THE W. BINGHAM (C0O., Cleveland, 0.. Have had such flattering succes in handling our Bicycles that they have bought lour entire output for 1893. They have taken up all negotiations pending for the purchase of cycles, and we respectfully solicit for them the good will of our friends. THE YOST MFG. CO.. TOLEDO, OHIO. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN e | Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY . STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE | | ——FOR—— MASON FRUIT JARS B—4 the prices advance, which they are sure to do a little laterin the season. We will hold the following quotations open until the next issue of THE TRADESMAN: One pint Mason Cans, parked, G6 dow. In a eagse.... 8... $6 00 (ne quart Mason cans, packed, & dor. im &ense....-....-.--........-..... 6 50 fone haelt pal: Macoe Gans, peeled, 6 Goce. i A GASG....... -.......-......-.- 8 50 Qnue.pint Mason Cans, packed, i Gor. maAGase...... .....:-...-.---.. es i % Qne quart Mason cans, packed, i doz. in a case................... oa 8 25 One-half cal. Mason cams, packed, 1 doz in acase............... -...:..--. 10 25 Don’t delay but send your order at once to H. Leonard & Sons GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. % FULL CREAM CHEESE GRAND RAPIDS, 2 MICH. | } } QUALITY WINS! Oe And you can depend on the best qual- ity when you buy this Brand. | ex; IGAR (omPANY Corner Ottawa and Lyon Streets, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. STATE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED WE CARRY ALL SIZES AND SHAPES. This world-famous brand is for sale on the World’s Fair Grounds in the only buildings set apart for smokers. No advance over regular retaii prices. DO..NOT..DELAY iF YOU WANT A jarvard Leather Bag | WE ARE GIVING THEM TO OUR FRIENDS WRITE FOR PARTICULARS Clark. aS, Gro Ccery ZS aa Co. « - j - . Y - * «+ - > ~ < S 4 a > s ‘ bi + ” e i 7 nm a » “| 5 ren. -. un ve ~ a * 5 mt 4 < »