chigan Tradesman.
Published Weekly.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. _
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VOL. 10
GRAND RAPIDS, AUGUST 2, 1893.
NO. 515
Fall Overshirts and Underwear
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THE INSPECTION OF THE TRADE 1S SOLICITED.
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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. @
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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
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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
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If you want good, light, sweet Bread and Biscuits use
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Superior or Universal Coupon Books. If you have never used the Coupon
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HEYMAN COMPANY,
Manufacturers of Show Cases of Euery Description.
FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY.
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WRITE FOR PRICES.
AGENTS
FOR
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Can make money by buying some
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Agents wanted for the most complete line of Wheels in the State.
Repairing and changing wheels a specialty.
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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
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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.
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soon
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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.’”
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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.
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Don’t confound this old reliable
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he numberless so-
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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-
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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
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“RAGLE
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all the principal and successful stores.
It will pay you to sell it if you do not.
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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.
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Correspondence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 —_:
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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 —
Level Best..... 6
| Comet.......... .... Surourera &.......... 6
| Dwight Star......... Sate CemOL............_. 7
| Ciiten COC........ Soe... .......... 6
| |Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
}ABC............... 8¢/Geo. Washington... 8
} Amazon............. S tien waum.......... 7
es * jGeld Medal......... ™%
| Art Cambric........10 {Green Ticket....... 814
| Blackstone AA..... Ta Maree Pails.......... 6%
| Beats All............ 444\Hope................ 7%
———————E > wae Ous.....- 4%@ 5
eee 74 | King Phillip bike conc 7%
oo 5... el 7
| Charter Oak........ 54% |Lonsdale ee, -10
Conway W.......... T4|Lonedale...... @ 8%
{taoverand ........... 634|Middlesex.... .. @
j Dwight Anchor os 8% eee ss
shorts. 8 (Odk View...........
ore... 6 he,
ae... .,. 7 |Pride of the Wes
Pare 7%|Rosalind....:.
| Fruitofthe Loom. 84/Suniight....... .
| Fitchville .... 2 aoe ee... 8%
| rook Pee... ........ 7 - Nonpareil ..10
| Fruit of the Loom %. 7%/Vinyard........ as oy
Palreeum.......... 414) White a eee
Pal Voalwe.......... x “ Rec 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
eet. aa lates Anchor..... By
Farwell....... 8
a FLANNEL.
Uabionthed. Bleached.
Housewife A........ bly Housewife g oo oe 6%
na B — «sh oe LDF 7
' va 5 ace. 73
' . oe 8%
oe ‘ Ts i 9g
. e 7 4. 10
ag a -10%
’ . — 11%
ag ' z. ..12%
. se cag 13%
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white......18 a colored, . .20
a colored ....20 | White s e.......... 18
Pntensily.......-.. .. "..18%| ** colored . .20
DRESS GOODS.
Hamilton ee asec S fee... 20
“o .
a ee
GG Cashmere...... 2 - ee 30
Nameless eee 16 . - .d2%
ee oe 18 ve si;
CORSETS.
Cocsees............ = bay Woadertul ...84 50
Schilling’s. “ Cprtienion.. ........ 475
Davis Waists..... “7 00|Bortree’s .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50/|Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
Ate... ....... 2. 634 () . %
Androscoggin....... ve Roe ckport. . 6%
a \Conestoga... ee eich 7%
Brunswick. .... "S| Waleorn eee ee 6%
PRINTS.
Allen turkey reds.. 6 |Berwick fancies.... 5%
ees... ..-- 6 \Cly de Robes........
' =: & purple 6 ICharter Oak fancies 4%
o — 6 |DeiMarine peed 8. 6
- pink checks. 6 : mourn’g 6
- staples ...... 6 | Eddystone pene 6
* meres... 6 | hocolat 6
American fancy.... 5%) . ae a
Americanindigo... 6 | ‘*sgateens.. 6
American momenes. i) Hamilton —. 6
Argentine Grays.. aple 6
Anchor Shirtings.. a ‘Manchester fancy.. 6
Arnold es new era. 6
Arnold Merino..... 6 | Merrimack D fancy. 6
_ long cloth B. 10%) Merrim’ckshirtings. 4%
_ C. 7 Reppfurn . 8&
ss 6century . a [Peete fanoy...... —-
. Soeeee..... —......... +
‘* green seal TR 105 Portsmouth robes... 6%
“yellow seal. .10%/Simpson mourning.. :
- _......... 11% ss
“Turkey red..10% . sola black. é
Ballou solid black.. Washington indigo. 6%
‘colors. - ‘key robes.. %
Bengal blue, green, ** India robes. .
red and orange... 6 ‘* plain T’ky x x ae
Berlin solids........ Sui * _ -
_ oti b eeee.....- : _ = Tur-
- [ oe ..-.. se ene soe
| . a 54) ‘Marina 4 Seinen
. = r %
| . i x. eee | Marthe ashington
| . - 7urkey red........ 9
| . a Pd xxx 2 |Riverpoint robes.... 5%
Cocheco — oe. 6 | Windsor aor. ..... 5
| ers. . . gold ticket
i ” XX twills..6 | indigo blue....... 10%
- solids...... 54¢/Harmony......... - -
gp ‘ sen ——_—.
moskeag , re Oo. .. o... 3
| Hamilton N Li ate 73 Pembertas AAA.. .16
ie Serre Cae
- Awning. ‘"t ae. River.. eae. T™%
or .....-. ee S ironel River......... 12
j | Firat ree... 10%| Warren....... peers 13%
| Lenox Milis ........ mic ee 16
COTTON DBILL,
| sae, Ia 6x — Ao...
bee oo ee Mino mame........ . 7
| Garton, Bo 7 |Topof Heap........ ‘
———
Amoskeag Soke. oe 12%/Columbian brown. .12
om, .... 13% Everett, Diae.,...<..00
. brown .13 brown. ....12%
Aner... 11% Haymaker = does 7%
Beaver Creek ase own... 7%
" 2 pee 11%
° ce. Lancaster een 12%
Boston. 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
But when they buy at retail, it costs just
as much to sell to them as to individual |
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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 |
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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
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|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.
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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- |
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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When aman is hungry he never com-
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lf there were no men to cook for, some
women would almost starve themselves
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Sulphuricum.... ..... 1%@ 5| Mentha Verid.........2 20@2 30) poe 50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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. |
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_ 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.
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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.
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HARRY FOX, Manager. |
Mail orders a specialty.
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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
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Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY . STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE |
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——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.
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FULL CREAM CHEESE
GRAND RAPIDS, 2
MICH. |
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QUALITY WINS!
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And you can depend on the best qual-
ity when you buy this Brand.
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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
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