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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1893. » MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. NO. 516 The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F, CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London. England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. UNO PROMPT, FIRE INS. co. CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T. STEWART WHITE, Pres’t. W. FRED McBain, Sec’y. sBARLOW BRO'S"sBLANK BOOKS beeen Te Ae VMs) a4. cn) Vel THE = aetna Lat Matus COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. Successor to Cooper Commercial Agency and Union Credit Co. Commercial reports and current collections receive prompt and careful attention. Your patronage respectfully solicited, Office, 65 Monroe St. Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J. STEVENSON, Cc. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. hd SHELLAAN Scenic Onlin, 65 Ho noe St ~ Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost wiht latestimproved methods. Glasses in every style at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of every color. Sign of big spectacles. COOVYVYNYNY We are Fishing FOR YOUR TRADE. BLANK BOOKS Made to Orde: AND KEF. IN STOCK » " | —_ & | Send for Samn's : —— cur new Ban: ® BARLOW BROTHERS © oo HAVE MOVED e& @ To 5and 7 Pearl St., Near the Bridge. & ESTABLISHED 15841. ester TDL SA ET THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada ARE THE YIMBS HARD? THEN MAKE THEM EASY BY ADOPTING THE COU- PON BOOK SYSTEM FUR- NISHED BY THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. IMPRISONED IN A CAVE. A Man’s Strange Adventure with a Fish. Everybody called him ‘‘Jeff,’’ although his real name was Jefferson Walton. He was the oldest man in camp and had been through hundreds of strange exper- iences. What he hadn’t seen of Arizona wasn’t worth seeing, and the stories he could tell would keep a printing press busy the year round turning them out in book form. But it was hard to make Jeff talk, and the crowd had to watch their opportun- ity to bring up some subject that would hold his interest until he had told all about it. One night he had made up his mind to go to bed early, and one of the boys, watching him undress, saw that some of the toes of his right foot were missing. He felt sure there was a story in those missing toes, so he said: ‘‘How did you lose th ose toes, Jeff?” Jeff was silent for a long time, but no- body paid any attention to that, as Jeff was always that way when making up his mind to relate some of his experi- ences. Some of the boys used to say that he was making up the yarn, but it was always noticed that those were al- ways the best listeners. On this oeeasion, however, Jeff thought a little longer. than usual, and when he spoke at last it was to tell the crowd that he would relate the yarn some other time. But this only made everybody more anxious for the story, and with the amount of encouragement fk. egot there was no backing out. ‘*Well, boys,’? he began, ycu have most of you seen these big pct sup in the canyon?’’ “Yes, yes,’’ all cried at once; on with your story.’’ “*f can’t go on with this story until I explain things to you, or you won’t un- derstand it,” said Jeff, firmly, and there was comparative silence. ‘‘As I was saying, you have all seen the pools—al- ways full of water in the dryest season, and no water coming in from any place. You have most of you seen big fish in some of the pools; but did any of you ever think how they got there?’’ Every body had to acknowledge their lack of thought on the subject, and Jeff continued: “You all know, too, that whenever a freshet comes down it just cleans those pools out and rolls great big bowlders through them that would grind all the fish in the country into mincemeat if they were there. Butif you goto one of those pools an hour after the freshet has gone down you will see fish swimming around just as if nothing had happened. Now, { want to ask if any of you know how the thing happens and where the fish come from?”’ Of course, nobody knew anything about it and remained quiet, so Jeff went on: ‘You don’t know? Well, I do, andI will tell you at the same time that the biggest fish you ever saw in those pools ain’t a patch to what I have seen.’’ buigo This was considered interesting, and there was not a voice heard for fear something would be said to make Jeff change his mind about telling all he knew of the big fish. He was silent again for a long time, but, after he had put a fresh load in his pipe and blew such clouds of smoke around his face that it could not be seen, he went on: ‘You remember, boys, when I was prospecting in Bear Canyon, up in the Calabasas? Well, that’s the time I lost my toes; but those toes were the price of my life. If those toes hadn’t given way I would have fed one of the biggest fish lever saw, and nobody would have known anything about it. ‘It happened one morning early before I had any breakfast. Just after I got up I made a fire and then went down to one of these pools that I have just spoken of totake a bath. I had bathedin the same place plenty of times and knew there was plenty of water there, so had no fear about diving. I took a couple of plunges, and then it struck me to dive down as deep as I could. “You fellows all know I am a good swimmer, and always have been; so it was easy for me to go down pretty deep. But somehow I didn’t strike the bottom, so I tried again and swam down as hard as lcould. It wasn’t any use, and when my breath was about gone I let myself come to the top. “But 1 was surprised and frightened when I got there, I cantell you. I felt my head splash through the surface, but when I looked around everything was black. It was a most peculiar feelng, and I will remember it as long as I live. I didn’t know what to make of it, and thought at first that some terrible storm must have suddenly come up and shut out the sun. Then I wondered if I had not beaten my brains out on the bottom and that it was really my spirit that was floating on the dark and cold waters. A thousand such thoughts ran through my head before I struck the right thing, and that was that when I dove I must have gone through a hole in the bottom of the pool and come up on the other side, which was in a large cave. **As soon as this idea came into my head I knew I must be right, and began to think of a way to get out again. It may strike you that this would be easy enough, but I found out different. It was so dark I couldn’t see my hand be- fore my face, and there was no telling which way I had turned around. I dove down once or twice, but couldn’t find anything. Then I commenced to swim for a place where I could crawl out and rest. But I must have swam away from the place where I came in, because I was about tired out before my hands struck anything solid, and then it was only a smooth wall of rock that I couldn’t get a hold on. I worked myself along the sides, but it was a long time before I found a place where I could get out, and Ihad just strength enough left to pull myself to a dry place. “It was not until I got there that I be- gan to realize the horror of my position. The more [ looked at it the more hope- less it seemed. Things were pitch dark and I had not the least idea of where I came in, and even if I had it was hardly possible I could get out the same way. There seemed nothing to do but die, and I made up my mind not to drink any water, so as to hasten the end. Butin less than an hour I was down at the edge of the rock drinking all I could hold. ‘Fortunately the cave was warm—so warm that the lack of clothes was no discomfort to me. I lay down on a rock that was covered with a fine, soft sand, and began to think of the strange end to which I was coming, and also what my friends would think when they found my empty cabin. Of course, they would think I had been killed by the Indians; or, if they came soon enough, they would find my clothes and think I had gone in swimming and been drowned. Then they would drag for my body, and in the end give up and wonder what had become of me. “It may be that I slept, because I had no idea what time it was; but when I opened my eyes I was conscious of a lit- tle light, and looking up saw a faint gleam coming through a fissure in the roof of my prison. “But that faint gleam was a ray of hope, and no sunrise ever looked as bright as that small, pale ray. In a lit- tle while the light grew stronger and 1 was able to see things around me. Be- fore the light commenced to fade again it got very bright and I saw that I was in an enormous cavern and wondered if there was a possibility of reaching that place in the roof and getting out that way. “IT then commenced to walk around, just to keep my hopes up, and was a long distance from where I was when the light first came. Soon a _ sound of running water caught my ear and I went in that direction, it all the time growing stronger. I thought that if there was a way for the water to get in there must be a way for me to get out. “But when I found the waterfall, which was a large one, I was doomed to disappointment, for the water percolated throug a gravel bed and fell into a pool beiow, when it again passed into the large pool below by the same process of percolation. The water in this pool was very cold, and when I went to get a drink something struck me in the face. I, of course, jumped, but at once came to the conclusion that it must have been a fish. An investigation proved the pool to be just alive with the finny tribe, and there was no way for them to get out. This was my chance, and, in spite of my resolution to die as soon as pos- sible, 1 was soon in the pool, and suc- ceeded very easily in catching several with my hands. I devoured them, as I was very hungry, and I will tell you that raw fish is pretty good eating. “IT was now supplied with food and water, and as the temperature of the cave was most pleasant and free from draft there was no possibility of my dy- soon 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | i ing very soon. The thought of this did not comfort me very much, and I re- solved not to eat or drink any more, but to let myself starve to death, and the sooner it comes the better, | thought. But whenever I got hungry 1 forgot my resolution and was soon making another | meal of raw fish. “T was in the cave for several weeks, and had it not been fora big fish want-| ing to eat me, I would very likely have been there yet, unless my stomach ob- | jected to the fish diet. “The days and nights seemed awful long, as all but a couple of hours were darkness. Howl passed the time I don’t know, and it is strange that I did not kill myself, so terrible was the endless monotony. I used to lie on a bed of warm sand most of the time, and when I got hungry go to my fish pool and get a meal. I also used to swim a good deal, and would spend hours diving to the bot- tom in the hope that I would find the way out. I suppose I became very ex-} pert and got used to being without air for a long time. ‘Several times during the hours of darkness I had heard splashes in the water of the large pool, but always] thought it must be something dropping | from the roof, and wondered if it would be my fate to be crushed by some of the falling rock. Then I wished it would, but somehow I managed to eat the* fish and drink water, although I was geiting very thin. But I kept my strength, or I would not be telling you this story now. “One day, when the through the crack, I was edge of a rock, with my feet in the water. Suddenly 1 heard water and saw a large the surface. head of a large fish come above the water, and a moment later firmed my suspicions. I creature, which for it sportive light came in sitting on the the over 1 looked again and saw the a movement in body move and tail con- the playing, in a a fin vatched seemed to be the was a jumped surface manner. It monster, shaped something like a carp, with the head of a pike, and was over five feet long, with white stripes around its body. over *“‘I was considerably frightened at my discovery and resolved to be very care- ful about my swimming and diving, al- though all the time I was wishing I were dead. I never went into the water now except when the light came in, and then was careful to keep near shore. *-One day I had waiked a considerable distance away from where I1 usually passed the time and just for something | to do sat on the edge of the large pool and put my feet the water. While sitting there I saw a ledge running along one of the side walls that [ had never no- ticed before. There was plenty of light, so I started to walk along it just to see where it wentto. It didn’t go anywhere, but came to a sudden end, and I turned around to go back, but as the ledge was very narrow my foot slipped and I fell | into the water. in ‘This did not bother me, and I started to swim ashore, as the ledge was so high | that I could not craw! back. I had made many strokes when a feeling of | horror came over me, and 1 was startled | by a terrible splash behiud me. I looked } not | back and there was one cf the big fishes 1 had seen, coming for me as fast as he| could. I quickened my strokes, but the} monster was behind me in a moment | and I gave myself up for lost, sient | | was dragged beneath the surface. | kept kicking with ! 1 commenced to kick as soon as it got near. ‘“‘The creature did not seem to have much control of its jaws, but it snapped them furiously very close tome. I kept | it off for some minutes, but at last I felt acrunch of jaws in my right foot, and I still the other foot and made the descent to the bottom as easily as leould in the hope that I could get hold of a stone with which to strike a | blow that would make the creature re- | lease my toes so I could go to the top | again. ‘But when I got to the bottom I was surprised to see a belt of emerald colored light, and knew that there must be a hole to the outside. ‘*] had only been beneath the surface a few seconds when I saw this, and felt that 1 was good for awhile more. My kicking compelled the fish to keep his |hold of my toes, and I dragged myself toward the hole and soon got hold of a rock near to the opening and pulled for the hole as hard as I could. In a few seconds more I had my head outside, and could look through the clear water until it seemed as if I could see the sky. l was kicking and pulling for what seemed ages, when, by an extra effort, I felt my foot slip from the creature’s mouth, and I slipped through the hole into the clear water outside, and had to paddle to the top, as my breath was about gone. “Oh, how beautiful the world looked, and how fresh the first gasp of air that I drew into my lungs. A few strokes took me ashore, and 1 looked around to see where I was, and the first glance told me it was not the same place as where | went in. *“‘It was some minutes before I was satisfied that 1 was about half a mile above where 1 went into the cave. I stood up and attempted to walk, and then was the first that I discovered that the fish had kept my toes; but as it got me out of the hole I did not mind that. ‘“‘The sun was so hot and the road so rough, as well as my being very lame, that I could not start back to my cabin until night. ‘I found my clothes just as I had left them, except that bears had been exam- ining them to see if a man was inside. In the house things were unchanged, and 1 soon had my foot ina sling. But it was a long time getting well, and none of you fellows came to see me. If you had you would have heard how I lost my toes a long time ago. WILL SPARKS. — >.< Making Postage Stamps. From the Washington Post. Every part of postage stamp making is done by hand. The designs are engraved on steel, 200 stamps on a single plate. These plates are inked by two men, and then are printed by a girl and a man on a large hand press. They are dried as fast as printed, and then gummed with a starch paste made from potatoes. This | paste is dried by placing the sheets ina steam fanning machine, and then the stamps are subjected to a pressure of 2,000 tons in a hydraulic press. Next the sheets are cut so that each one con- tains 100 stamps, after which the paper | between the stamps is perforated, and | |after being pressed the sheets are filed away. Ifa single stamp is injured the whole sheet is burned. ——_ <> : | : : It is hard for a woman to remember ; more quickly and easily than he can move his stock that economy is a virtue when she into a millinery shop. When a preacher becomes a politician sled to the Lord’s chariot. goes thus enabling him to resume business in a new loca- Don’t Take Chances z ca : _=wls Rade Maye Sein xC>"| ofthe New YorK CONDENSE? | | 4 | ‘@RILBORDEN) Pe a < — , ‘any PRESER ED Mik wile See | bear the signature, | he \ hie . odes { the gi I Opp 7c0-' ENEWyonn GaDENSEDMIE | i ORK CONDENSED 2 Se tudson treet. New YO" — gf) WMineae ha IT HAS NO EQUAL. And risk your reputation by recommending some other brand as being equal in quality to the Old Peliable “Gail Borden Fagle Brand” Condensed Milk. Make no mistake. The “Kagle” Brand has no equal It has been on the market for more than thirty years. You cannot afford to place in stock goods that lie on your shelves until spoiled, and that you are never safe in ree- ommending. The New York Condensed Milk Co. is aiding the sale of the “Eagle” Brand by advertising it to consumers in your section. That will help you. Chocolate Cooler Co.. MANUFACTURERS OF KNOCK DOWN TABLES AND SHELVING AND MANUFACTURERS AGENT FOR | | Koch Adjustable Shelving | | This combination renders the furniture of a store | portable—not fixtures, to be retained by the landlord }and utilized by the next tenant. This arrangement lenables the merchant to move his store furniture | tion without loss of valuable time. Samples of each jline on exhibition at office, 315 MICHIGAN ; send for catalogue. \ 5. BUSINESS ADVICE. Offered by Many But Accepted by Few. E, A. Owen in Shoe and Leather Gazette. The world is full of precepts. Preach- ers are aS common as practitioners are rare. It is much easier to give advice than to act upon the receipt of advice. Even writers for trade journals some- times set themselves up as sages, and at- tempt to point out a sure and certain way to the delectable gardens of success for the benefit of others; and yet, simple as they make it appear, itis a way which they, themselves, have never succeeded in finding. A man may squander the best years of his life in evil doing; he may serve the devil until his strength gives out and he commences to descend on the shady side of life, yet, if he repent of his folly and set himself up as a guide in pointing out to young men the path- way of life which leads to honor, happi- ness and long life, he will command the attention of the world at large. In fact, the admonitions and warnings of such a man would be far more effective, and he would command a larger following, than would be the case of aman who had found the true pathway early in life, and who had never departed therefrom. Do not misunderstand me. The point I| wish to make is not that the wanderer would be given extra credit for having failed’ to follow the true trail himself, but that his instructions to others would have greater weight, and would be more highly valued, than those of the man who did find, and who had followed, the true way. In the business world, this rule is re- versed. The way that leads to financial success is supposed to be known only to those who have reached the coveted goal. Hence the clumsiest maxims or the most bungling precepts are seized with avid- ity, if they are the utterances of men who have acquired fabulous wealth, and have a bearing on the secret of financial success. ‘‘A prophet hath no honor in his own country,” and the scribe who would write up conditions necessary to business success, but who is unable to furnish the business world with a prac- tical demonstration of the efficiency of his own rules and precepts in his own experience, must send his productions to piaces where he is unknown, if he would command the attention of business men. There is a striking similarity between these two phases of human activity; yet the world in its judgment places an en- hanced value upon one, while it casts the other aside as a thing utterly un- worthy of notice. A man may blunder through life, failing to strike either the trail that leads to financial success, or the one that leads to moral success, yet he may be entirely competent to point out either way for the guidance of others. When he opens his mouth or takes up his pen as a moral guide, the world rec- ognizes this fact; but when he assumes the role of financial pilot, the business world exclaims: ‘‘Away with him; he is not a financial success himself, and, therefore he is a fraud.”’ Indeed, [ believe as a rule that the man who has honestly striven all through life to win financial success, but, owing to a pilotless ambition or some other cause, blunders have been committed, making success very difficult to obtain, or perhaps altogether impossible is, of all persons, the most competent to ten- der advice to new beginners. Such a man feels his position keenly. He has been outrun in the race by many who started in with him, and, spurred on by a feeling of bitter disappointment, he undertakes a minute analysis of the sit- uation. He compares notes with suc- cessful rivals. He thinks, compares, reflects, digests, and arrives at conclusions. He discovers his rival’s strong point and is made pain- fully aware of his own weak points. He looks back over his life and sees now very clearly where he has made foolish mistakes. Surely such a man is compe- tent to point out the dangers which beset the retailer’s pathway, and give him proper instructions which will enable him to avoid them. Prudence is an essential quality, as it means wisdom practically applied. A ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 prudent man knows how and when to act and he possesses the will power to give his knowledge practical effect. Providence, therefore, would appear to cover the whole ground, including every qualification necessary for successful business management, but to act wisely and promptly for the present, will result in present good only; and, therefore, is no guaranty of an ultimate financial suc- cess. To reach the goal and win the prize, one must not only act wisely and promptly, but he must continue in well doing. This means perseverance. Of what avail the most brilliant dash if the advantage gained be not held? And yet among business men we find this a very common occurrence. This lack of stick-to-itiveness so prevalent among the retailers of this country, is what keeps so many struggling at the foot of the ladder. No wonder that so few reach the top. A man may start right, obstacles may be surmounted and difficulties overcome; progress, sure and certain, may be manifest, and indications may all point to future success, but the instant he loses his hold upon the rounds of that ladder, he drops to the ground where he will have to commence over again. Looking at this simple illustration from a literal point of view, it would be difficult to conceive how any sane man could ever expect to reach the top of a ladder within a certain allotted time, by repeatedly climbing a few rounds and falling back to the ground. Such a per- formance would be looked upon as being simply idiotic, and yet the illustration, figuratively, represents the operations of business men to the very life. Man’s opportunities are few. His av- erage years, all told, from the cradle to the grave, are less thanthirty-five! One- half of these are dreamed away in the budding springtime of childhood, and then one-half of all that remain are used up in preparing for life’s work! Is it any wonder that so few born into the world succeed in having their names in- scribed on the roll of fame? But taking a more practical viewof this law of aver- ages, we find that the average age at which aman settles down to begin the real work of life is about 30, and that, at the end of another thirty, plus five, he is ealled upon to render an account of his earthly stewardship. It will thus be seen that the average man, who reaches the real starting-point in the race of life, has only about thirty-five years in which to build up some branch of busi- ness, and pursue it until he makes a financial success of it. The years of a man’s active life are too few in number to devote much time to experimenting. Life is to short to even catch a glimpse of everything, and the man who flits from one thing to another will end where he began. The price of ultimate suecess in any branch of busi- ness is perseverence, and that means not only time, but all the time that is al- lotted to man. It means a concentra- tion of mind that cannot be easily di- verted; it means an application so close that the smallest details are never ne- glected; it means work, early, late and all the time; and sometimes it means long-suffering patience. My brother retailer, look not behind you. The ladder you are climbing is just as safe, and just as easy to climb as any other. It may be that you are mak- ing slow progress and feel very much dis- couraged: but remember this: You are nearer the top now than you would be were you to surrender your business for another. In losing your hold you would fall back to the ground. You would thus surrender the experience you have already gained, for the difficulties over- come in the shoe trade would be of little value to you in the grocery or hardware trade. And, finally, remember that the greatest dolt may reach the top by cling- ing to his ladder, while you, with all of your brilliant qualities, will die at the foot if you squander your life in flitting about, changing from one to another. — o- <-—— If grumbling could be exchanged for gold, how many of us would soon be rich. The good time is here, but it gets no recognition because everyone is looking past for the good time coming. MICHIGAN BARK AND LUMBER 60. Hin is andi Widdicomb Building. Correspondence Solicited. of PUST HULK DIGGERS INCLUDING The Little Giant. The Hercules. The Sheidler. The Champion. The Vaughn. prasnen TEVENS line We carry a full & GC: . ‘CT. ™ AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Owosso—N. Goodyear has opened a new meat market. Bay City—G. Blaser succeeds Draper & Blaser in the furniture business. Lacota—Gould & Croswell have pur- chased the grocery stock of M. Young. Coleman—Simons, McFarland & Co. succeed T. B. Simons in general trade. Standish—John A. Rankin & Co. suc- ceed J. M. Groat in the grocery business. Valley Center—The general stock of H. A. Cook & Co. has been destroyed by fire. Ada—Parker & Smith succeed C. O. Tinkham as proprietors of the flouring mill. Detroit—C. G. Granacher has pur- chased the drug stock of Jos. Schulte, M. D. Alba—Koons & Westervelt, grocers, have dissolved, Geo. Koons, continuing the business. Constantine—A. E. Caldwell & Co. are succeeded by Raup & Lintz in the gro- ecery business. Newport — Clemens Labeau succeeds C. Lebeau & Son in the grocery and dry goods business. Kalamazoo—The clothing stock of Kahn & Hecht was bid in by Marcus & Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y., for $12,500. Musk2gon—Southland & Kweekman, boot amd shoe dealers, have dissolved, John Southland continuing the business. Owosso—P. P. Beswick has purchased an interest in the agricultural implement business of Knapp & Goodale. The new firm is Knapp, Goodale & Co. Montague—John Jager and Bert But- endorp have formed a copartnership under the style of Jager & Butendorp and embarked in the meat business. Kalamazoo—The firm of J. B. & W. H. Cobb, wool dealers, bas been changed, Carlos M. Cobb having been admitted to partnership, the firm name now being J. B., W. H. &C. M. Cobb. Eaton Rapids—Pilmore & Tears will open anew clothing and men’s furnish- ing goods store here on Aug. 19. The business will be under the direct per- sonal management of Dan. Pilmore. Armada—Theodore Meyers has opened a drug store at this place. Mr. Meyers resided in Saginaw twenty-four years prior to his removal to this place and has an established reputation as a pharma- cist. Bay City—Arrangements for the ex- cursion of wholesale and retail grocers to Bay Port have been perfected and the date, August 17, has been agreed upon. Last year the excursionists filled twenty- two cars and this year they expect to fill thirty. Port Huron—Dr. Parker’s drug store was closed Saturday under a chattel mortgage. Last February the doctor gave a chattel mortgage for $1,067 to Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co., one to Lambert & Lowman for $850, and a small one to E. J. Rodgers, of this city. Sazginaw—The retail clerks’ union has determined to bring about the 6 o’clock closing movement and committees have been appointed to stand guard in front of those stores who refuse to join the movement and argue those who persist in stores. and assault patronizing such with MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Detroit—Ross & Watson succeed An- drew Ross in the lumber business. | Port Huron—Frank D. Jenks succeeds | Smith, Jenks & Co. in the lumber busi- Detroit—J. Wolf & Co. succeed H. | Joseph & Co. in the cigar manufacturing business. Rose City—The French Lumber Co. has broken ground for a new shingle mill which is to have a capacity of 100,- 000 daily. Saginaw—The salt and lumber firm of C. K. Eddy & Sons is succeeded by C. K. Eddy & Sons, Incorporated. The capi- tal stock of the corporation is $200,000. Manistee—Henry Ward is having his sawing done at the McKillip mill. All of his good lumber goes through a yard at this point, and all that he markets is the coarse products and hemlock and timber. Bay City—The planing mills and fac- tories are fairly active, a number of them having booked orders early in the sea- son that will carry them through. There has been a falling off in new orders to extent, but the depression has touched them lightly as yet. Detroit—The time for which the De- troit Bridge and Iron Works was organ- ized expired July 1 and the company has filed new articles of association for a corporation with a lifeof thirty years. The stockholders are the same as in the old organization and the authorized ecap- ital stock is $300,600, the whole of which has been paid in. Saginaw—The A. W. Wright Lumber Co. is not hurrying forward the logs put in last season. The mill has in sight logs enough to keep it in motion until the middle of next season, and the com- pany will not cut any logs on its lands in Clare and Gladwin counties until toward next spring. The mill will probably be operated during the greater portion of next winter. Bay City—A railroad company has been organized to construct a road from some point in Alcona county on Lake Huron, west through that county. It is ealled the Lake Huron & Western Rail- road. The line will be thirty miles long. It is said that the work of construction will be delayed until next year. The ob- ject of the road is to develop a large belt of hardwood timber land in that section. Ann Arbor—A. P. Ferguson, the road cart manufacturer, has been forced by the cancellations of large orders to give a trust chattel mortgage for about $10,700 to John R. Miner to secure a large num- ber of claims. He gave four previous chattel mortgages to David S. R. Uund- wood for $3,153; Mrs. Catherine M. Fill- more, $1,253.45; Albert M. Gasser, $827,- 63 and the American Varnish Co., $231,63. Mr. Ferguson is reported to have over $15,000 of stock on hand. Saginaw—The Saginaw Box Co. does not particularly feel the dull times. The company manufactures boxes, bed Slats, step ladders, ete., and is putting in machinery to manufacture barrel and nail keg headings. The company has been in operation a year and a half and occupies a brick building 60x100 feet in area and four stories high, withan L 69x67. The dry kilns are two stories, aid 56x72 feet og the ground. Employ- ment is given to seventy-five men. Hillsdale—The committee appointed by the citizens’ meeting to solicit snb- scriptions to stock in the Hillsdale Man- ufacturing Co., recently burned out, to enable them to resume business, have succeeded in raising only $2,500 of the some TRH MICHIGAN LRADESMAN. | $8,000 necessary, and have given up the effort. The gentlemen who own the patents have packed up their effects and one of them has taken his family to De- troit, and the others are ready to go to any place that will give them a bonus sufficiently large to start them in busi- ness. It was the only manufacturing in- dusty Hillsdale had, and now there is not one remaining. Saginaw—So far the monetary troubles have not affected the operation of the sawmills and they are making fairly good records with no great complaint on the score of the scarcity of piling room, the firms being pretty well provided for in that respect. There have been no labor troubles and none are expected, as there is not a firm on the River that would need much crowding to induce it to shut down if it came toa pinch. The relations between capital and labor have been cordial and there has been no re- duction as yet in the wage rate, and there is likely to be none if manufactur- ers can dispose of their stocks. Bay City—Bay City is all right, finan- cially and industrially, and there is every reason to predict that she will remain so. The lumber manufacturers are among the most conservative and _ financially solid class of business men in the com- monwealth and are able to withstand a financial cyclone. While trade has slack- ened, no one would suppose that there had happened anything unusual in busi- ness channels, as the mills are all run- ning and there has been no reduction in the hours of running or in wages of em- ployes. Logs are being received in lib- eral supply, and everybedy is weather- ing the storm under close reefed sails and riding it out safe and snug without shipping a sea. — << -—+__—_ Prof. Vaughan on the Mansfield Cheese Poisoning Cases. ANN ARbor, Aug. 3—In rega:d to the communication from Dr. Reed, Health Officer of Mansfield, Ohio, in a recent issue of THE TRADESMAN, relative to cases of ‘cheese poisoning which have re- cently occurred at that place, I wish to say a few words. In the first place, no one who has kept posted concerning the chemistry of pu- trefaction would now expect to find the same poison in all the samples of cheese which have produced deleterious effects. This fact | have emphasized repeatedly, and, as Dr. Reed admits, I have isolated more than one poison from cheese. The exact nature of the poison present will depend upon the kind of germ produc- ing it, the period of putrefaction and the presence or absence of air. Tyrotox ican is only one of the poisons which may be present in cheese. I have found and isolated poisonous proteids and have published the results of my studies upon these substances. In the second place. a chemical analy- sis alone is not suflicient to detect any one of the poisons arising in cheese from putrefactive processes. I have repeat- edly stated that the chemical! tests for tyrotoxican are in nowise characteristic or distinctive. The same tests are given by other substances and the presence of impurities may so mask the reactions hat the tests are not responded to even when this poisonis present. The amount of cheese usually tested for tyrotoxican is altogether too small. I obtained only a few grains from thirty-eight pounds of cheese; the samples of cheese usually sent out for examination do not weigh more than a pound, and often only a few ounces. Itis useless to attempt to iso- | late the poison from quantities so small. A large amount of cheese is necessary, | and a physiological test must always be made. The animal best suited for this | physiological test isa young kitten. The | cat may eat large quantities of poisonous | cheese without showing any effects. But | door to best paying if tyrotoxican or poisonous proteids be present and if these be obtained in ex- tracts by the methods which I have dem- onstrated, and these extracts be admin- istered to kittens, vomiting, purging, and, in many cases death, result. Respectfully yours, Victor C. VAUGHAN. cena i elm “ The Hardware Market. Owing-to the closing down of nearly all the iron, nail and wire mills, there is no change in prices to speak of. As everything had already touched bottom, and in many eases less than cost, the manufacturers preferred closing down, rather than make any lower prices. A change for the better is looked for in September, and, if it comes, the mills will again start up. Barbed wire seems to be in good demand and prices remain as last quoted: a $2 30 ORV OOO ceoe 30 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. \OOD 160 ACRE FARM, 20 ACRES EN AP- ple orchard, in Van Buren County, for sale or exchange for stock of merchandise. Address Box 510, Gobleville, Mich. 769 OR SALE—PHYSICIAN’s PROPERTY IN town of 1,500 in central Michigan; house and lots. horses, carriages and office fixtures; city water in house «and barn; price $2,500. $1,800 cash, balance time. Address No. 770, care of Michigan Tradesman. 770 _— YOUNG MAN WITH FOUR years’ experience in groceries, wants po- siion. Is capable of taking charge of retail business. Best of references Address C. J. Munton, Box 513, Greenvii:le, Mich. T67 WISH TO EXCHANGE FARM OR TOWN property for a stock of goods. Write me what you have. Address No. 768 care Michigan Tradesman 768 IVE TO SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS will purchase a half interest in one, or the entire business of another clothing and gentile 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 4WUR SALE—COMPLETE Al MEAT MARKET outfit, including a fine 10x12 Birkenwald Refrigerator. A bargain for someone, Address Lock Box 685. Ludington, Mich. 763 OR SALE—THE STOCK OF SHOES OF THE late A. Foster. Address Foster Brothers, Port Huron, Mich. 760 OR SALE—C: EAN 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. [61 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, drugzists, Nunica, Mich. 762 YR AStSS-Sanaer to consolidate stock of #3,00' to $10,000 with me in a No. 1 loeca- tion. Large store, doing a heavy and strictly ‘ash trade, The very best references given and expected. Address No. 750, care Michigan Tradesman. 750 ct WANTED BY A REGISTERED pharmacist of three years’ experience, Ref- erences unquestionable. Address No. 751, care Michigan Tradesman. 751 OR SALE—Drug atock 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 a day. Reason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman. ° WD \y 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. 156 . HOUSE AND STOCK OF GRO ceries for sale on Union street. Will sell Address box 634, Traverse City, Mich. T47 OR SALE—YUST TYPEWRITER, UsED but a few months. and practically as good asnew. Send for sample of writing, Trades- man Company, Grand Rapids. 736 (On at a bargain. | FOR 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 drug store in the city. Twenty-four feet front and 100 feet deep, high ceiling, etc. For terms apply to 239 Jefferson avenue, Grand Rapids. 731 | ee SALE OR RENT—STORE BUILDING at Sparta. Tip-top place for hardware. Address No. 726, care Michigan Tradesman. 726 il t.~] hm al io ae. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 eich GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. had settled down to the conviction that | Lemons—The stock of old fruit is| ing to run as many trains as necessary to Tt : the peddling business s , 3) 2 , ic left is| ray 2 : oe -dem- Dupree & Nevitt succeed John Dupree | i " g siness had been settled | nearly exhausted, and what is left is | convey the people to Ottawa Beach on imin- in the planing mill business at 329 Tay- | for 1893, Joseph Houseman appeared be- | withered and shrunken. Still, they are) the day of the seventh annual picnic, , and, Jee uheeet fore the Council on July 31 and asked | preferable to new goods, which are hard, | Aug. 17, and make a round trip rate of 7 Tn ne |for three licenses for nine months at |rather juiceless, and somewhat coarse 75 cents for adults and 40 cents for in A. Schuitman, grocer and meat dealer | three-quarters of the regular fee. The/and green. They are excellent keepers, | children, according the Association a re- ‘acai 2 , rp > a > la a. . . . | a Ht uP at 818 Wealthy avenue, has closed out|Council refused, very properly, to go | however, and no danger of shrinkage | bate of 25 cents on adult tickets and 15 his stock and retired from business. back on its record, and the request was | need be feared. Prices are downa trifle. | cents on half-fare tickets. A verbal early Geo. W. Hickok has opened a grocery not granted. Mr. Houseman’s threat Bananas—As predicted, last week was | proposition was also received from the ere is store at Reed’s Lake. The Lemon & that, if licenses on the proposed terms | the off week, there being but little fruit | landlord of the Hotel Ottawa, offering the . «AS Wheeler Company furnished the stock. were refused, these men would be thrown |on the market, what was offered was | Association a 10 per cent. ‘‘rake off?’ on ttom, P.J.P aks aoa a on the city for support, was without ef- | very green and small. This week there | his total receipts for the day. As the tL, the t ee ce recently sold ee a0 TY | fect, the motion to grant the licenses be- |is likely to be enough, and of a better acceptance of these propositions involved lown, — a ae tue tto. sg pias ing defeated by the decisive vote of 16 to| quality than last week’s supply. Noj|achange in the programme froma half- yl en Be 7 ‘si er has since sold the stock |g [¢ these men are paupers, they should | change in prices. | day to a all-day event, the Committee de- hae tes to D, &, Lozier. uy be provided for so long as they remain on a 2. aa | cided to accept the propositions, con- u Lo ae a F i ‘ a u i. Lo . mills Diamond & Timmer have sold their|in the city, but it can hardly be consid- The oo. chaiidio a a a | ditional upon the approval of the Asso- | s ouly, as Fre} oo. : eems rrocery stock at 200 Watson street, for- ered fair to throw the whole burden of B / — |ciation at the regular meeting on Mon- eems § ' ry a : ported by the local Clearing House, show | : i : main merly owned by Ten Raa & Co., to Ed-| their support onto the retail grocers of pie Miia ten nes ae ecnene ta te | day evening of this week. In all proba- win H. Church. the city, as would be the case if they diel ans h an a a susie | bility the arrangement will be approved * * ve associate é cS ca i fi R2 30 i were given permits to peddle, because a 6 : ee by the Association, thus turning into the 2 270 J. M. Wolcott has sold his drug stock | the business they would do would be so = © | treasury from $200 to $500, to be used in em au : i re ae : * S $521,517.98, which represents a loss of a Cg He ue i on Wealthy avenue to D. N. Knapp. He} much taken from the business of the re- aaa — — a —. prosecuting the work of the organization 27 > “a a 2 a : ry : : . M i oe ee has removed the stock to the corner of | tail grocers. The city is not averse to i, a on: 4h weit aoe during the ensuing year. The people at , snry Ss ue Le I e ex ed for a e a n and Wealthy avenue and Henry street. providing for the actual necessities of einen al = a ae wee Reed’s Lake have heretofore raised rtion, cea : : : : y £ se creas y B : a : / cents, Wm. Young has opened a grocery store the worthy poor, but — paupers shown, but that the decrease is only 13 about $100 annually as an inducement to at the corner of Seventh street and Al- 7 be — care of in another way. per cent. is very gratifying, as it proves hold the picnic at that resort, but this Gr pine avenue, the former location of |” r. Houseman’s efforts on behalf of is a Ghd Sees kes een nt year they declined to contribute a cent; hese o irelv 7 : pe mn ehs a a oy vr sale Harm Timmer. Hawkins & Company these people are onainety commendable, nitely less than anyone would have dared — the change in the programme. idress a ! no doubt, from his point of view, but i i The following resolution was adopted: 169 furnished to stock. | ! , | to expect. The figures must, therefore, i | | Y IN there is such a thing as mistaken philan- b ae i o RE Resolved, That all entries for prizes — C. C. Chick and C. E. Sherwin have|thropy. This seems to be a case in oo z ane ae panne = be confined to wholesale and retail gro- ures; sider acts nas aSicers 4 é palers ¢ 2ir em- 52500), formed a copartnership: under the style | point. er the rem in the ener — . meat dealers and their em , care of the Universal Extract Co. and em- 2. indicating a very fair volume of business, | Ployes; that all entries from employes be A all a en eee a The Grocery Market. notwithstanding the immense drawbacks endorsed by employers of same; and that OUR barked in the manufacture of extracts . ue Vi oe ne : all entries, which must be made to the Sugar—Raws are slightly stronger in| arising from the financial pressure and ; . : i its po- and essences at 491 Turner street. no an EG sing press : chairman of the Committee on Sports, oe TEN the European markets, but refiners have | the disturbance of confidence due to the | close at 6 o’clock p. m., Aug. 15. 767 M. P. Gale and Chas. D. Crandall have made no further purchases lately, aS|preat number of failures in many sec-| The Committee on Sports has arranged appt formed a copartnership under the style they are well Stocked. notes grades | tions of the country. an elaborate programme for the enter- — of M. P. Gale & Co., and opened a gro- | #T steady, with no indication of higher} [t was but natural that the local mer-|tainment of the excursionists, including res cery store at Bundy, near Remus. The | PTICeS until the demand is more active] ehants should have been extremely con-|some new features not heretofore en- or the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished than it is at — servative in selling goods and that they | joyed in this part of the country. gored the stock. Prunes—California are lower, OWiNg| should have scrutinized credits much a _—— iness. aa Ra a to a determination on the part of jobbers | more closely than there is any necessity The Drug Market. gs Frank Klaiber, meat dealer at 447]t 9 close out old goods before the new | for in ordinary times. The scarcity of There is no speculative demand for 165 South Division street, has closed out and | ergy pegins to arrive. money and the fear that money accom- any articles in thi lines and, in the ab- TAB- retired from business. The store has : ' ia die , . a , i sence of same, there are no changes of n the ee a ws r Cheese—The price is gradually advan- | modations might not be forthcoming when | . f r — _= been leased by Drew Bros., who will re-| ing, due to the shortening of feed usual | needed have prescribed general retrench- importance to note. 766 | move their meat market from 774 South | at this time of year. The Utica Herald| ment in business enterprise ak aes Opium is dull and unchanged. as Division street to that location. thus refers to the situation in the East: | stricted operations to smaller proportions Morphia is steady. a Ie o 3 we ‘ik 2 Quinine is firm. _ H. K. Gleason, formerly a member of | “/f cheese were ~~ ou dependent | than usual. isan THE iit teeth tC, a oS market, it} That the trade totals should have made | — Use Tradesman Coupon Books. — Ponaville, will shortly. open snother | WOuld fare poorly this summer. The | as good a showing as they have under the | == RIES drug store at that place. The Hazeltine ey of wer must mene i" EMA] circumstances is eminently satisfactory. |““The Proof of the Pudding is Ask- 7 — & Perkins Drug Co. has the order for the in the quantity a kind sala ign While it is true that they do not indicate ing for More.’’ —, stock, making the second time that house chased, and cheese is an article w hich iD | that we have experienced an active trade, rg =a 7 as ageilw a dis 3e. 7 i : . - igs i ies Gisieieek thn as oath -_ comming can easily be dis poet with. they certainly show that there has ex- SODA ae oa But, fortunately, at this time of year, | jsted no such profound depression as has oan M, S. Goodman, Secretary of the Hazel-|the bulk of our cheese product g0es| prevailed in so many other cities, and . > s ‘ : / * ran I TO ~ > ~ ES Son, tine & Perkins Drug Co., went to Custer | abroad, and the high price of our bacon, |the almost total absence of failures SMOKERS ONCE SMOKERS AL re) a i _ Hl am TAWS Yn Vv 7 > rn we last Tuesday and bid in the Wm. Rowe] which seems to be the natural rival of | proves that local merchants have care- WAYS OF THE CELEBRATED loca- drug stock at chattel mortgage sale for|cheese in England, turns the scale in| fully prepared themselves to meet all the pe! $300. He subsequently sold the stock to| favor of cheese. Hence there is a g00d | necessities of the situation. aa J. P. Williams, of Manistee, for $400. Mr. | demand for it by exporters, who find the Under the circumstances, therefore, B — I ) com H | ] fe : . . RED Williams formerly clerked for J. Hansel- | supply rather short than otherwise.’’ Grand Rapids merchants should feel en- 9 an. He has removed the stock to Man- Provisions—Pork came down with @/¢oyraged from the results of the past The great 10¢ Cigar, and istee, locating it in a building on the | dull thud last week, on account of the| »onth tolook forward with confidence to North Side formerly occupied by W. A.|culmination of the scrap between AT-| peing able to pass safely through the exist ee mour and Cudahy. It recovered some-| ing financial crisis with no more serious FRecord BRreaker, Herman Liesveld, the Cherry street are aE yes aks pss prepares inconvenience than a temporary restric- . ive sed a full dollar o io es : ; : ‘ 4 a ae grocer, was somewhat annoyed last Fri- sae : nee = me eae a tion of trade. With splendid crops in The Great 5e Cigar. The market has been 0 e dec Us : i ~~. day over a report that he had uttered a 1e e ' dl sight, and with the assurance of an : : co s > a n oO i ‘ : > 3 drug chattel mortgage on his stock. The re-|S°metme ig 7 oc cca abundance of money when the crops , : ne : pauses may go s e ; ig ea port started from the filing of a mortgage oe : — y & i £0) begin to move freely, we should be : ee :RO by a man named Esveld, and was repeat- there is no certainty about It. able to bear with equanimity the incon- | Made on Honor. st on Mem oe Ne eh lh i ‘resh Meats—Are down in sympathy Se ; i i ! First-Class Dealers Everywhere. — ed to the jobbing trade by one of the Fresh cae aay ea ' oe me veniences of the present, light as they s S y mae" : i a i x » decline bein x ; ac 7 axperiences ‘4 mercantile agencies, resulting ina shower haan ogni " & i are in comparison with the experiences a f of undue bills and telephonic condolences i comt per». of other centers of trade. eee i : i Pountry—Has dropped from 1 to 4 a . ot gl § at the Cherry street establishment. Mr. (36 : nt / cents. Arrangements for the Seventh Annual ORE : Liesveld was at Macatawa Park the day me aaa : | i rave the report was pat into circulation, and Oranges—The California crop Is about Picnic. . as 2 ale , anc : i . oe ; E enti J i ition um : al ' . : a t cleaned up, what is left being juiceless At a meeting of the Executive Commit- a. oe a ae ae r Fs a and puffy. Price is slightly off in conse- | tee of the Retail Grocers’ Association, e i ‘ius “s ; rata ." ne eaeigae es quence. The late Messinas, or Rodi | held at the rotunda of the Morton House en =. Oc fruit as they are called, will be on the | last Wednesday afternoon, a proposition MANUFACTURERS, — The pauper peddlers, like the ghost in | market in a few days. They are a fancy | was received from the General Passenger HET ROLT . i . : A y i 7 fer- 726 Hamlet, will not down. After everybody | fruit, and bring fancy prices. Agent of the C. & W. M. Railway, offer ° 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Uses and Abuses of Credit. Credit is trust, confidence in its nerie sense. It is applied dependence and mutual helpfulness. In the affairs of life it is reliance on the in- ge- in all mutual ; tegrity, energy and skill of one’s fellow- | men, and the extent to which it may be | safely carried is one of the highest tests demands | of civilization. Commerce more and more as the years go by that men should have confidence in each other in a business way. Credit is neither wealth nor capital, but it helps to turn wealth into capital and thus make it productive. The instruments of eredit are numerous, as book accounts, notes, drafts, bonds, postoffice orders, ete. The uses of credit are manifold. It enables men of ability without capital the needed money. It puts money that has been held in banks or elsewhere into circulation, and thus makes use of the small sums aggregated in banks. Without credit many of our great enterprises could not be under- taken. Finally, credit economizes the use of metalic money, thus setting a large amount of it free te be used for other purposes; butin every use to which credit is puta basis of the value of money is indispensable. The excessive use of eredit raises prices, encourages reckless speculation and leads to general distrust and commercial disaster, for credit has purchasing power like money, and when it is freely given men are apt to pur- chase beyond their ability until finally someone refuses to give more credit, and the crash comes. The course of a business crisis is in general this: First, a state of quies- cence; next, improvement; then growing confidence, prosperity, excitement, over- trading, convulsion, stagnation, distress, ending again in quiescence. Chief among the fallacies which cluster about the subject of credit is the belief that evidences of debt are wealth. This can- not be true, for all such evidences of debt may be destroyed without in the least altering the amount of wealth in the country. Many legislative bodies have fallen into the error above men- tioned. They not only tax mortgages, but the mortgaged estates for their full value as well. Itis in cennection with the currency of the country that credit has its greatest influence for good or evil. A large percentage of the total volume of the business of the country is carried on by use of instruments of credit, as, for example, where 95 per cent. of all business is done with these instruments, while money is used in but 5 per cent. of all transactions. It is im- portant that the greatest faith should be had in these credit instruments. These are simply promises to pay. It is real or value money alone which pays as it goes. Credit instruments are dangerous if not properly guarded, simply because they take the place of value money. They may increase in volume without to secure any real foundation and thus cause trouble. Let it be known that credit in- struments have no real basis for their value and they sink to the value of waste. Nocredit instrument can fully meet these requirement. If once we ig- nore the distinction between value money and credit instruments, the floodgates are open to all sorts of money, and all sorts of notions about money. JOHN PARKINSON. >< An ounce of put off will produce two ounces of regret. Dry Goods Price Current. ee COTTONS. Aree. (oe. 6 |} Atlante AA... Atlantic A... - ox es, 6% ii Pr. 54 . >. 6 ees coc. 5 ae 6% | Archery Bunting... 4 Beaver Dam AA Shy Blackstone ro 5 ‘“« Arrow Brand 5 “ World Wide. 6 “ LL 4% Full Yard Wide..... 6% peoereees A... 6 Honest Width...... 6 Derroreg A ......... 5 indian Head........ 5% Se - &% ae. ........- a Lawrence L L...... |Madras cheese cloth oy or (aoe ......... 6 | Newmarket conus Biack Mock ........ ce. ee | 7 se a 6% on ia gett i 5% _ P.... Gt Avene ¥ .n.......5 544) - Riu. 6% Chapman cheese cl. 3 Noibs BR... 5 ereon <> ...., 54%4/Our Level Best..... 6 —... ......... Swromrors ®........... 6 warms Gier......... er nS. we 7 Ciiftea CCC........ eee... 4. 6 |Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. Ree. oo. cae Washington... 8 ——e I ne 7 a 6%) \Gold aaa ae Art Cambric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... 834 Blackstone AA..... 74 Greet Palis.......... 6% ee... 4% — a 7% OE oo ciie ceca. 12 jJust Out..... 4%@ 5 eee D4 King Phillip be cce T™% or, &..... ...... Se SS 7% Charter Osk........ 5%|Lonsdale namees” "10 (mae W.......,.. 74|Lonsdale. . - @&X Ciovetand ...... ... + Middlesex.... .. @5 Dwight Anchor. . So wenee.....,...... Th shorts 8 |Oak View..... ..... 6 ee, ........... oe Sy eT 5% _eee.............. 7 |Pride of the West...12 Slaggtt nigger ciceperastgaga ttt en ~ Fruit of the Loom. 8%|Suntight............. a PicerEe ...., ... < (0ios Mime......... 3 Pak Freee... ...... 7 ai Nonpareil . Fruit of the Loom %. 7%| Vinyard............. ‘8 Paro... ..... 4%4| White —-- fan cee Pan Yoiue.......... om ~~ Rock... : 3 HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. i a4 Dwight Anchor..... 8% —..... |... ANTON FLANNEL. U nbleached. eet. Housewife . ee os Housewife _ 64% ttt ee cc iV ‘ om eo “ 7% ' a 6% . .. 8% - ....... 7 - 0 - 91g “ F 7 a 10 ' eee 7% ' ea -10% * a... 7% . ee 11% se CL 814 “ . 12 - a 8% ' : eis 13% ' x... . 9% a i. .10 . - 1 10% 2... ar ' gt 21 ' Bo aa 14% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 18 (Integrity colored. ..20 ' colored. ...20 | White eee 18 Eateetifg. 8. 18%4| ** colored . .20 DRESS GOODS. ae... 5 (Momelees.........- 20 - a Se 25 a -10% a 27% GG Cashmere...... 20 CS 30 Pees ... ....... 16 i 32% Se 18 el 35 CORSETS. aes... 89 50|Wonderful. .. ....84 50 See e.....--.. © ee... ... 475 Davis Waiets..... 9 GOinortrec’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. IE oo oe oon os 6%| Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Androsco; oggin ee a ce, SE 6% Beeeererd........... Conestoga...... s.. o Brunswick. .... 8% onwenre ...... ..... 6% ee Allen turkey reds.. ne robes 3 pink. & purple 6 a 6 “pink checks. 6 c eapies ...... 6 shirtings - 6 American fancy.. ay Americanindigo.. American shirtings. 44/Hamilton —_— Argentine Grays.. * | Anchor Shirtings.. Arnold bee "6 Arnold Merino..... 6 * long cloth B.10% “s “ . cc. © century cloth 7 = ee ee..... 10% “green seal TR10% “yellow seal. t Berwick fancies.... Clyde Robes........ Charter Oak fancies Del Marine cashm’s. < mourn’g Eddystone fancy.. chocolat . rober.... - sateens.. % a Manchester fancy... new era. Merrimack D fancy. Merrim’ck shirtings. * Repp — Pacific —* meee robes. . Simpson mourning.. 6 . Shh GOAN AKARAR ES RR RR ~ es — 6 “ =6Turkey red. “oe . solid black. 6 Ballou solid black.. Washington indigo. 6% “ golors. Turkey robes.. 7% Bengal blue, green, * India robes.... 7% and orange... 6 a plain Tky i x% s” Berlin — ee 5%; ooee...... 6 *« Ottoman Par s “ con .... 6 i 6% © Poulards .... 5% Martha Washington ~*~ ae... 7 Turkey red - . 2... 9% | Martha ashington tie - 24... 10 Turkey red........ 9 ” “* 3-4X Xxx . Riverpoint robes.... 5% Cocheco fouer...... Windsor ae ae 6 madders, . 6 a icket * XX twilis.. 6 indigo ony oe 10% - eotids...... 544|Harmony......... _ oo TICKINGS. ae ACA... ene A. LL 13 Hosiiten M......... “TK — AAA ....16 ” S..... .. ee no oes, 0 ’ Awning..11 Swift aeee......... T% OO S meet Bever......... 12 Poe Fee... I cine ner ee os 13% Lenox Wiis ........ 3 ic ON oc ees 16 COTTON DEBILL, Ate, 2... ....---. eee Bac, 8 Beene coun wie Sumo Mame........... 1% Coen, B.. .24.., 7 Propet eap....;... 9 DEMINS. Amoskeag eee ...12%/Columbian brown. = oe... 13% Everett, ee a brown .13 brown. --.. ee ane... 11% Haymaker bine. .... 7% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 10 BB... NE occ os cana e CC.. Dame... ih Boston Mtg Co. br.. 7 pn a... 13% blue 8% iO. m0. ...18 ‘* da & twist 10% be No 250. . ..11% Columbian Z2X br.t0 . No. 280....10% XXX bil.19 GINGHAMB. Aone... +... 6%4|Lancaster, staple. . 644 “Persian dress 8 - fancies . 7 C Canton .. 8 - Normandie ; AFC......10§ Lanceshire.......... c Teazle. ..1044|Manchester......... 5x . Angola. .104%|/Monogram.......... 6% = Persian.. 8 |Normandie.. ——. .o. Arlington staple.... 614/Persian.....- ws 8 Arasapha fancy.... 4%/Renfrew Dress. ..... 7%, Bates Warwick dres 74%|Rosemont..........- 64 . staples. 4 Slatersville ......... 6 Combeommial......... eh ommerses............ ¥ Criterion ....... reese .........5.. 7% Cumberland staple. 5%/Toil du Nord....... 10% Cumberiand.... .... ae... ™% eee il. 4% “* seersucker.. i cee aoe eee... 2s... ¢ Everett classics..... 8% Whittenden a eee 8 Exposition. cus Oa heather dr. 74 eneree 64 “Indigo blue 9 Glenarven..... '.... 6%/Wamsutta staples... ox bce cer cig ge Ee ia T™% Westbrook a OE... ins ee ee ri Jobnson Jhalonel %/Windermeer.... .... rg inGioe Bind SiC vern..... .-.......- 6x - zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag. . ee - 15 oe... ioe — Ameren... 15% | THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... &6 oer, 3. a F.....s & iMaerenaiPe.... .....- 81 Holyoke bale ace g RY KNITTING COTTON. —s Colored. White. Colored No. 38 oO. 14. -37 42 = 3. oe ee ge an 38 =e et 39 44 ~~ we 36 i” Sf... 40 45 Peer. ...... 4% White Star.. - 4% Kid Glove... 4% Newmarket. 4% TO cae eee Oo R2u% Creedmore.......... i B2% Taree REk......... m wer, cee......... 35 Meamsiews........... Shemeneve.... ........ B2% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & ee plaid. -40 iy oe Ww ......... 17% ee 2244| Western W ......... 18% eee... 18% Oe ee 18% 6 oz Western........ Fiushing XXxX...... ms iin &....-...-.., 2K eee... 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless .....8 @ 9% oS 9 @10% a oe 8%4@10 cl i 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black. 9% 9% $14|10% 10% 10% 10% 10% ~— 11% 11% 11K 11% 11% 114/12 12 12 12% 12 12% ~ . 20 20 puc Severen, 8 oz........ 9% West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, Ces....... 10% 10 oz me 3 Greenwood, 7% 0Z.. 9% Raven, 100z fee ee 13% Greenwood, 8 oz....11%|Stark ) 10.01.12! 13% Basten, 6 os........- 10% Seen: S008... -- ——- — Four Points for Grocers. Shamus O’Brien in National Provisioner. Don’t rebuke your assistants in the presence of customers. If you desire to draw customers, by all means have an attractive front to your store. A nice, cool awning, neat fly screens, artistically painted signs, and suck like, invariably create favorable comment, and ultimately draw custom- ers. lf a mereantile agency calls upon you for a showing of your affairs, don’t hesi- tate to give the requisite information. Your exact standing as to credit and promptitude can be placed anyhow, so it is better that you yourself are as explicit as you can be. Be straightforward in all your deal- ings and you will soon find out that such a course is one of the great stepping stones to suecess. The trader who is frank and honest, though his capital be comparatively small, stands better in the trade and can easier get credit favors from the wholesale houses than one who has $10,000, butis slippery and known as a prevaricator. Honesty counts every time and tells in the end. +4 It is a popular impression that live fish may be frozen stiff and readily re- vived by carefully thawing them. To test the accuracy of this impression, a New Haven ice manufacturing company recently placed five live perch.in water and froze the water solid. The freezing process took about sixty hours. As the water congealed from the outside in- wardly, the fish continued to swim about as long as they had room to move. The eake of ice containing the perch was left in a solid state for a day or two and then cut open, and the fish taken out and placed in water to thaw. They were earefully watched for a long time, but none of them exhibited any sign of life to the observant watchers. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ee ey 60 eee 40 Jouningn,g@enuime...... ................... 25 Jonnines, triitation ..................... .. 50&10 AXES. First Quality, ee 8 7 00 " D. B. Bronze z ' 8. B. S. Steel. ' D. B. Steel... BABROWS. > ito... $1 Guadee. .......... ne net 30 00 BOLTS. ais. Eee on 50&10 — OE TE i aa an. OL a BUCKETS. CE a 7s Well, —— ES ea BUTTA, CAST. Pa Cent tooss Pil, Seareg........ ..........4.. 0& Wrought Narrow, Spright Geet Joint. ......;. -60&.0 7 TE 60& HAMMERS. VRININIIEE, Os os css oe eet cue 60810 | mesace GU. 6............ ..........., dis. 2% Wrought Inside Blind Co ee eee Ais. 25 Wrought Brass....... 75 | Yerkes & Plumb’s : ..dis. 40410 eee, Ge -70&10 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . . .B0e list 60 poe, Sees 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .30¢ 40&10 Pie Seeeeree 70 | HINGES, BLOCKS. | Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...................-. dis.60&10 en Ordinary Tackle, list April 1592. - e0&10 | Screw Hook Wiiwhnmnuae CRADLES. j _ LOBEL ..-. 1.0 oe een ee twee econ ee eee ees 3% OE dis, 50402 | Screw Hook and Eye, ¥4 2 ee net ne CROW BARS. ise se SCC Cant Steel.........- Se prs 5 | " " % ea Det 7% CAPS. | Strapand T........ eee oe ae dis. 50 1 or | ‘HANG dis, meee GA a $ nara Door kiager fe Co. Wood track... .50&10 OE Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10 clo ag a | Biager, wood (ack ................ oe 40 ., ee as CABTRIDGES. Sen 6010 Rim Fire.. eee es cee ee 5@ | Kettles. . . 60&10 comees Bere 2 dis. oO 60&10 CHISELS. dis. | | Gray Geemieree. 6. ss 2... 40&10 Z HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Socket Firmer ...............00ce+cesee+ s+ TOE10| | Stamped Ta Ware 00000000 -new list 70 Socket Framing.............:-see esses eeeees 70618 | | Japanned Tin Ware........ ..0.........-.. Socket Corner..........---+ ++ -s-+ ee eeee ee eee 70&10 | Granite Iron Ware .............-. new list 88% 410 Soeket Siicks ..............-.....-..._-..... 70&10 | WIRE GOODS. Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ...... ee a woe 10g10 COMBS. dis. a Meee ee ’ a ill liad i 0 Bothkdes IL, «33 | Gate Hooks and tyes. 7010810 CHALE. Stanley Rule and I Level Gor 8 — White Crayons, per gross.... ,.129@12% dis, 10 aa COPPER, Sisal, % inch and larger . Planished, 14,98 cut to size... .. per pound 28 Manilia.......... ao mom, Aaaoe, ae... 26 r ling Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ..........- oo Cold Rated teres 23 | wit “Tgp uC MA De es ea peers —— - Com. Smooth. Com. Morse Bit Stocks... ss... Mi Nos tii. $405 82 95 Taper and straight Shank. Se eee 40 = 3.05 Morse’s Taper Shank..................-+.. Se te 4 05 3 05 DRIPPING PANS. _— = = a a a Z 05 : 15 ae eee Soe you a 4% 25 : Nee le 8 35 Large sizes, per pound...... ......... --... 8% | “All sheets No. i8 and lighter, over 30 Inches ELBOWS. wide not less than 2-10 extra Com 4 weee, Gim................... dos. net 7 _ SAND PAPER, a Pe: dig at Eee neces, 1, Se .......... dis, 50 Ate. dis. 40&10 stl L ke. Whi SASH CORD. k CN én. ver Lake, ea ee. list = Clark's, amall, $19; large, @6._............. 30 “i ame a ‘ 50 Tyen"! 1) S18: 62. See 25 « nana nt “o B5 FILES—New List. dis. « aaa ee ah li... 60&10 Discount, 10, Le i 60410 "gash WEIGHTS, Nicholson’s . se LE Ee Tee ut per ton 825 ot I 50 | SAWS. dis Heller’s Horse Rasps .. ......:--+--....0005 50 | ts Hand. “20 GALVANIZED IRON. Silver Steel Dia. x ‘Cuts, ‘per “foot,. _ = Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; 2 and 2%; 27 28 —— Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50 List 12 13 14 15 ' 16 17 ins a ecial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foct.. 30 Discount, 60 [ pion and Electric Tooth X GAUGES. dis. Cuts, per f toot isa seal e Ge wiciw awlaleu ae ae 30 2 a : TRAPS. dis. Renieg Seleont stig ie i GO&10 s KNoBs—New List. dis. | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 oor, mineral, a. trimmings ........ 55| Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 oon aun Jep. trimmings. = Mouse) chokes 18¢ per dos ir rimmi y. : . _ Door, porcelwin, trimmings.......... cc oa — we 0 — ais, Drawer and Shutter, poreelain Deere eed - 70| Bright Market.... ......... 65 ee a seeeeree seer eeeeereee, 65 Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new Hist ....... 55 Annealed Market ea Nie “10 a Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s..........---2.24. Sma Branford’ ne ae Sh] Coppeted Spetig Steel 50 Pe ee 55 Barbed Fence, galvanized i... 2 86 ante MATTOCES. aa 00, aie pen 2 ee eee cae veya HORSE NAILS Hunt Bye. .........-- 2+ seer ee genes 815.00, dis. 60 ee eT uy dis. 40&10 ee $18.50, dis. 20461 Pee dis. 05 AUL dis. d Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled............... PT ro sais ase _— MILLS. dis, ie i : Coffee, Parkers C0.’8.... 2... 20.0... -s sees 40 : sae ew —, ie 2 i PLS. & W, Mfg. Co.’s — 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, ea 75 " Landers, Ferry & Clerk’s............ 40} Coe’s Patent, malleable... ore BEMGCEPTING oo ose eee tone en senses 30 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. MOLASSES GATES. OM | Bird ac 5u Sieur PRer €0&10 | Pumps, Cistern. 1.1.22...) .eo ee TE &10 Stebbin’s Genuine............. see eeee serves 69410 | Screws, New L st.. eae Knterprise, self- nage sete teeeeees ---- %5| Casters, Bed a d Plate................. s0&10&10 NAIL Dampers, ee... Advance over base, on oth Steel and Wire. | Forks, hoes, rakes and all sieel goods..... 6r&i0 Steel nails, pase I METALS Wire nails, base. Li i es alten NG ERE ee 26¢ se rena HS EI A eT me SE Ee: ee 25 ZINC. DN 35| Duty: Sheet, 24c per pound ee a ee OO. 6% OG EN Cn 45 | POF POUN.......-.. 0... cece ee ee ee eee ee ee es 7 Siete ae OSEAN = ee see eas an On DANE RESIBODR ee I ia vice oo ian dian ss sanmen scans nnn pane dies 16 ee aa $0 | fixtra Wiping . 1 Re ee TT g99| The prices of the m: any “other | qualities of “Mac nD 1 29 | solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands | ke S 1 20| vary according to composition. Sa tea Se AA 1 60 ANTIMONY Case 10..... 1 @5 | COOKBOD...... 2.2 eee sere eee ee ees per pound ‘ I a qs | Hallett’s......--...-.--------- +--+ 13 oe 90 TX—MELYN GRADE. Finish 10 Le aE 5 — IC, Charcoal Re eee eee aces cu ce 8 : # Cer trian a nemateress ett: 1 30 | 10x14 ix, ‘ee 2 25 tere 25 Clinch, 10. tn a Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. “ * ieee gece aon 90 TINT ALLAWAY GRADS. Barrell %.. a ee P 5 oa Charcoal . we se yea) -, tb sete aeee ee eeeeeeeree teen ees 7 Obie Tool Co."s, fandy ...-------2----------- Q4 —- i se eee et remrrrnin ine = a oar agen ge ou 1 "Hach additional X on this grade 81.50. Bench, first quality........ ; @40 14x20 IC u wou eae i sa Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s woed. - 50810 | ayonTx’ ra a 8 59 aaa) TT ____ ais.60—10 | 20x28 IC, . ts ne ae a oe a —— «1 oe = aguaal dis. 4x20 : Meee etee tees ou a 40 — Ix’ ‘ a a. 7 15 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.................+:. 50—10 ’ tn PATENT FLANISHED IRON. Se eu $14 00 “a Wood’ : patent planished, Nos, 24 to 27 10 2 | 14m31 TX... eee ee eee eee res 5 00 “B” Wood * planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20| 14x56 [X, for No. 8 Boilers, per pound... 1000 Broken 3 4C per pound extra 14x60 1x, ~ =< ‘ . 8 Michigan Tradesman 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year. Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. (= When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1893. ILLY TIMED CRITICISM. THE TRADESMAN is proud of its con- tributors and does not often find occasion to seriously differ with any of its writers, but the contribution of Mr. Owen in this week’s paper is certainly unworthy the man and the occasion. The heated ha- rangue against the bankers of the coun- try for refusing to loan their funds more freely is unjust and uncalled for in view of the fact that most of the money with- drawn from the banks belongs to people of small and moderate means, and that the pinched condition of the banks is due entirely to this cause. lf ever there were a senseless and un- warranted proceeding, it is the with- drawal of money from the banks and savings institutions to hide it away until the present financial flurry passes. There is no good reason in the world why this money should be withdrawn from circu- lation. It is true that certain well-known causes have somewhat disturbed the equilibrium of values and affected the circulating medium, but nothing has happened which can in any way be con- strued as permanently affecting the pros- perity of the country or crippling its re- sources. The disturbance to the circulating me- dium by the exports of gold is being now corrected, at least for the time being, by the return movement of the yellow metal and by the liberal exports of Amer- ican produce, and before Congress ad- journs it is probable that a more perma- nent corrective will be adopted. The disturbance to values caused by the liquidation which has followed undue in- flation in some sections of* the country, and over-speculation in Wall street, will THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. longer able to allow the factories the | money needed to carry on their business. | As a result, the factories, on which the prosperity of New England depends, have been forced to close Consequently, the very people who withdraw their | money from the banks to hide it away will find their source of livelihood stopped, and will be compelled to use the savings which, had they not become fool- ishly alarmed, would have remained safely in the bank, while the mills would have continued as usual, enabling them to both live and add to their accumula- tions. The senseless withdrawal of de- posits, therefore, causes a loss both to the general business interests and to the depositors themselves. How people can be so foolish as to lose sight of these facts is a mystery. A STANDARD OF VALUE. Gold and silver have not always been money. They are only so used by civilized nations. When the Spaniards came to Mexico and Peru they found the precious metals used for adorning the temples of the gods, but they were not in any use as money. The American Indians who roamed over the hills and valleys of California, Colorado and Montana knew of the existence of gold in their country, but they esteemed it to be worthless for any purpose of their daily life, and they treated it with contempt. Among all primitive peoples barter was the ordinary rule of business. One man gave his labor or his products for the labor or the products of another, and all standards or adjustments of value were between the parties toa transac- tion. The inconveniences of such a practice are too obvious to need pointing out, and when civilization had reached a sufficient condition of development it be- came possible to establish a certain agreement upon some measures of values, so that exchanges between people of dif- ferent countries and communities could be satisfactorily conducted. It would be interesting to trace the history of money and to show the various articles that have been in use for pur- poses of exchange, but the matter is too voluminous for treatment here. It is not out of place to mention that among ancient nomadic peoples flocks and herds were articles generally desired, and they became special objects of exchange. The Latin word ‘‘pecus,’? which means flock, gave rise to another Latin word, ‘*pecunia,’?’ which means money, and from which comes the English word ‘‘pe- cuniary,’? applied to what relates to money matters. But since flocks and herds are only applicable to the traffic between crude and barbarous men and communities, it was plain that something more generally desirable, more easily handled and possessing a stable and in- trinsic value under the ordinary condi- soon be corrected. These causes, have in no way impaired the condition of the repu- table banks of the country, nor injured the securities held by savings institu- tions which, owing to the stringency of | the laws, are all gilt-edged. It is, there-| fore, senseless to withdraw money from | the banks simply to hide it away. The absurd and damaging character of | this withdrawal of funds is shown by | the condition of affairs in New England. | Owing to the hiding away of money in that section by the withdrawal of de-| posits and savings, the banks are no} however, tions of traffic must be adopted. The civilized nations agreed upon gold and silver, establishing an absolute standard in the first place and relative values be- tween the two. After some two thousand years of gen- eral use, in which the ratio between the two metals had to be several times ad- | justed, another such emergency of dis- cordant values has occurred, and it has become necessary to secure another re- adjustment. The people of the United State find themselves in a _ situation where they have two standards which they cali dollars. Oneis of gold and is worth 100 cents. The other is of silver, worth about 54 cents, but with daily fluctuating value. How to reconcile these differences between two sorts of dollars is the question. One proposition is to abolish the silver dollar. Another is to increase the weight of the silver dollar until it shall be equal in value to the gold dollar. To-day a gold dollar is worth 100 cents in every civilized coun- try, while the silver dollar is worth but little more than half that amount. It would not make much difference as to these discrepant values if we had no foreign commerce, but when, on the con- trary, our foreign commerce is very ex- tensive, requiring, besides merchandise exported, some $70,000,000 to pay our debts abroad, and those debts must be paid in gold dollars, because foreign creditors will not accept our silver dol- lars, the tendency is to drain out our gold to foreign countries and leave the silver at home. Thus the time may come when we will have no gold and only sil- ver. Hence the necessity for some ar- rangement that will save our gold. The relations of our gold dollar to the gold standards of other nations has been re- cently succinctly stated by the statisti- cian, Edward Atkinson, in the August number of the Engineering Magazine. It is worth reproduction here: The unit of value of the United States is a dollar, weighing 25.8 grains, nine- tenths fine. The quantity of pure gold in it is 23.21997 grains. The unit of value of Great Britain is a pound sterling. The coin which corresponds to a pound sterling, when of full weight, is named a ‘‘sovereign,’’ weighing 123.270 grains, eleven-twelfths fine and containing 113.0016 grains of pure gold. The unit of value of the United States is, therefore, 23.21997 grains of pure gold. The unitof value of Great Britain therefore, 113.0016 grains of pure gold. The ratio of one dollar to one sov- ereign is 1 to 4.866. The ratio of each grain of gold in either is 1 to1; that is to say, each grain of gold in American money is worth each grain of gold in British money, and the same rule holds good with the gold money of France and Germany. This constant equality is not true of the silver money oft the several nations. Our silver dollars call for more than they are worth, hence foreign na- tions will not accept them. All our trouble consists in having two sorts of money of the same denomination but not of the same value. A dollar must be a full dollar, as good as every other dollar. To arrive at this is the problem. is, A BEEF-EATING THEORY. England has conquered and colonized around the globe more than all the other modern nations combined, which proves the extraordinary enterprise of the race, but it does not testify to its quarrel- some disposition, although it does to its fighting qualities. It was not commonly supposed the English were an ill-tem- pered people until a statement was made to that effect by Ernest Hart in the Lon- don Hospital. Writing in praise of an exclusive vegetable diet, Mr. Hart says: “In no other country, not even except- ing Ireland, is home rendered so un- happy and life made so miserable by the ill-temper of those who are obliged to dine together as in England. I am strongly of opinion that this ill-temper is caused in great measure by too abund- ant meat dietary, combined with a seden- tary life. In less meat-eating France urbanity is the rule of the home. In fish and rice-eating Japan harsh words are unknown, and an exquisite politeness to one another prevails, even among the children who play together in the streets.’’ Surely a people with many great qual- ities should have some defects. The achievements of the Ehglish-speaking races in history, in letters, in science, in morals and all that goes to make up an enlightened civilization stamp them with a grandeur not attained by any other modern people. Possibly meat- eating had something to do with that. The Wool Market. The tendency during the past week in the Eastern market has been toward firm- ness, with prices unchanged. Buyers have all the wool they want and are only taking bargains in the finer grades. Manufacturers are waiting, possibly with a hope that the price will go still lower. It cannot do so, however, without knock- ing the bottom out. The hand-to-mouth policy isthe wisest course for makers, all things considered. Then, too, it is always safest to buy on arising market. There are some dealers who say that the market has appreciably hardened during the week. This is good news, if true, and everybody sincerely hopes itis. A feature of the Michigan clip, so far mar- keted, is the small per centage of delaine wools sent forward, the quantity being placed by those in a position to know at about half what it has been in former years. Several reasons are given for this, but it is more than probable that it is due to the fact that the larger clips are still in the hands of the growers, only the smaller ones being brought in. Lit- tle change is to be noted in the local market as yet. Buyers are indifferent and growers discouraged, and the only sellers being those who must have money. When the sun rises it will bein the East, as usual, and many eyes are anxiously looking in that direction, waiting for daybreak. a Grains and Feedstuffs. Last week the price given was 51 cents. This week it is 54 cents. Last year’s estimate of the amount of invisible wheat seems to have been away off, the fact be- ing that the crop exceeded by several million bushels the amount recorded for any previous year. As this fact became apparent the price declided, culminating in the unprecedentedly low figures given last week. There is no doubt that the outlook brightening. The crop in Europe is considerably below the aver- age, and even the yield in India has fallen off, so that, if this country can show even an average crop, prices must rise, as every bushel of surplus can be readily marketed. Flour—Is down, of course, as was to be expected, remembering the big drop in wheat. How long the reduction will last is uncertain. Millstuffs—Are unchanged, the market being dull even to dreariness. Hay—Old hay still holds its own, not- withstanding that new is coming in freely. But the stock of old will soon be exhausted, and then the new cut will move in earnest. is ~~ T. L. Bunting, President of the Ham- burgh Canning Co., of Hamburgh, N. Y., is in town for a few days, the guest of his brother, C. C. Bunting. Git MICHIiGAIN ‘PRA DHS NLA *s 9 SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR BUSI- NESS. Business is something of a game—not of chance, but of skill—based on special knowledge and acquired facility in its use. Other things not materially differ- ing, he who is best trained will win. It is generally conceded that special | training is requisite to success in the | professions. No one doubts tbat the} lawyer must not only havea good gen- eral education, but a course in law be- sides. And more and more it is de- manded that after college the minister must have the further advantage of a course in theology. Thereis no business ealling, no department of human activity in which mep would not profit from a course as nearly similar as circumstances render possible. Natural gifts and gen- eral culture do not of themselves fit a man for business. The unskilled are constantly exhausting energy and wast- ing an immense aggregate of money in attempts todo business for which they have not had proper preliminary train- ing. Ihave often seen men of fair en- dowment and some capital embark in a commercial venture new to them. Il have watched their painful struggles, have looked sadly on until the collapse came. Men who with more patience in preparing for business life might have attained to some eminence are constantly joining the bankrupt army of broken- down, dispirited men. Some there are who in the experiment acquire the knowledge for lack of which they suf- fered wreck. They possess much courage and determination, and have so much energy, that they are able to profit by their experience and afterward secure victory on the plains of defeat. They have already learned by experience, at great cost, what might have been more cheaply acquired. It is an old saying that ‘‘Experience is the best of teach- ers.” The proverb must have been first uttered by some wise man who had prof- ited by the experience of others. An- other saying, perhaps old as the former, is that ‘‘Experience is the teacher of fools,’? and this must have been uttered by a sage observer of those men who will not learn from the experi- ence of others, but who persist in a de- termination to find out for themselves, untaught by others’ lives. It often happens that success or failure depends upon the knowledge of some seemingly insignificant fact. In every business there are many things a knowl- edge of which is requisite to success, but of which those who know them and use them would hardly think to mention in a lecture on the subject. There are many lectures on oratory, but all taken to- gether, they omit many things quite as important to be known and observed as any that are much enlarged upon. And the same remark might be adapted to every kind of business. A young man from the city of New York, visiting a summer resort where there was much water and many boats, determined to go sailing. Why should he not? True, he had never touched a tiller, nor did he know much about sails, nor the queer ways of ‘‘cranky” boats. But he could see for himself that it was easy to handle a boat, for even the boys were masters of the art. In all his glory of dress he set sail. His little craft skimmed gaily over the water until he wanted to change her course. There so as was a stiff breeze, but no matter, he *“jibbed all standing,” with the result that, to his surprise, the boat capsized. | He could not understand it, and said so to his rescuer, to whose explanation he indignantly replied that it was not true, for ‘the was setting down all the time.’’ It was asmall matter, the occasion of much amusement to his friends, and, after a little, to himself also. But it illustrates a more serious thing. It is more of a disaster when an ambitious man loses all his money, and, besides, loads himself with debts that can never be paid, filling all his future paths with obstructions in the shape of judgments and ‘‘executions.’?’ And men are doing this more dreadful thing daily for want might have been more cheaply acquired. Very much of the poverty, misery and despair existing in our great cities has resulted from ill-advised efforts to start in business without the necessary special knowledge. Under the old system, in the slower times of a third of a century ago, the necessary knowledge was acquired by a long apprenticeship, commencing so early in life that no time was left in whieh to secure a general education. The boy went early to the store, or office, or factory, and slowly through the years, as he grew in stature, climbed up, gradu- ally acquiring a perfect knowledge of all the details of the business. Knowledge thus acquired is too costly, and is not the best after all for these times. Such a training is likely to make & man very mucb set in his ways, and indisposed, if not unable, to adapt himself to the ever- shifting conditions of business life, which, like baffling winds, test the re- sources of the modern business man. Generally it is neither desirable nor possible to learn a business wholly after the old plan exclusively. Business meth- ods have been revolutionized and only a few conservative houses work along the old lines. Business is now conducted on such a vast scale, so much attention i given to detail; division of labor has been developed to such perfection that but little place is left for the boy appren- tice. Business now requires a higher degree of general intelligence than was possible under the old methods, and far better discipline of the mental powers. | There is now more of science in success | and less of chance. skill, not of mere force. It is a contest of | The fotere victor on the arena where strong men | contend for the prizes must have more time for schooling than the old plan al- lowed. He must secure a better cul- ture— amore symmetrical development of his mental powers. The pressure under which much of the business of the day is carried on makes it necessary that those who are employed in the office shall bring some skill with them. The office is no longer a primary school in which elementary knowledge may be imparted gradually as the boy grows in his capacity to receive it. The new boy must be able to go to important work at once, for the work must be done, it can- not wait. Hence the business school has comeinto existence, and is as much of a necessity as the schools of design, law schools, or theological seminaries. It is of incaleulable service to the whole business world, as well as to young men and women who are fitting for business. Here are taught the principles of com- mercial law, the theory, and to some ex- tent, the practice of business. THE PUTNAM GANDY CO, NZ —— AWW _+ JOBBERS OF | ORANGES, LEMONS =. FOREIGN NUTS. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. GRAND RAPIDS, of knowledge that was within reach and | BRUSH GOMPY, * MANUFAC TUR- = nae Badges CLUBS, For BRUSH: Our Goods are sold bv all Michigau me GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ES Jobbing Heuse-~. SOCIETIES, CONVENTIONS, DELEGATES, COMMITTEES. The Lergest Assortment of Ribbons and Trimmings in the State. THE TRADESMAN CO. Unik the Dutch Process No Alkalies r ae —OR—- Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of DW Bakr & co’ Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and of the various cocoé andchocolate prep2rations man ufactured by Walter Baker & Cc will be sent free to any dealer or application. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester. Mass. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. aa ASPHALT FIRE-PROOF ROOFING This Roofing is guaranteed to stand in all places where Tin and Iron has failed; is super- tor to Shingles and much cheaper. The best Roofing for covering over Shtngles on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, ete.; will not rot or pull loose, and when painted with our FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Will last longer than shingles. Write the un- dersigned for prices and circulars, relative to Roofing and for samples of Building Papers, ete. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, Gar. Louis and Campan Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. MICHIGAN DETROIT, 10 PHH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN There remains, however, a kind of knowledge that no school can impart and that can be learned nowhere but in the school of actual business. It might | be said with propriety that every busi- | ness has its own techniques which only practice can enable one to acquire. This includes knowledge of material and of methods as well as of the special mar- | ket. This peculiar skill can be safely acquired only in some subordinate posi- | tion. Hence it is as important now as it ever was that anyone who hopes some day to manage any given business should | commence at the bottom and, if possible, | see the whole business to the top. With the proper, previously acquired, mental outfit, this may be done by a bright youth in a comparatively short time. | To fill subordinate positions well, to/| do what is commanded, to execute plans prepared by more competent superiors is | not a difficult task and does not call for | the highest order of genius, but to be at the head, to manage the business and to} carry the responsibility of success or | failure demands abilities of the highest | order. This kind of success does not de- pend upon mere shrewdness. Adroit- | ness is not a good qualification. viet ning is a positive disqualification. This larger success, which every man should covet, involves the managing of men. |} In the highest degree it requires the| ability to control in some measure the action and to win the adhesion of masses. The successful business man is a leader of men. His ability to lead is the secret in large measure of exceptional suc- cess. Leadership results from an aggre- gation of qualities, some of which may be acquired and all of which may be de- veloped. Some of these qualities are of the head, some of the heart, and others of the body. In cultivating this power of control, this executive force or admin- istrative ability, which make one man a many mau-power man, one must first of all secure control of himself—self-mas- tery most absolute. The aspirant must become able to command at will and at all times and under all circumstances every natural and every acquired fac- ulty. All his energies must be ready to serve him without hesitation and as nearly as possible perfectly. Thus en- dowed and trained and held in handa man is qualified to succeed in any busi- He will have but to master the technical knowledge, an easy task for such as he, in order to be able to carry apy enterprise forward to success. Formerly men wore themselves out in the dull routine of a relatively small business and often broke down in middle life as a result of the profitless drudgery of minor details. Now properly pre- pared men manage a great variety of affairs and prosper in them all. _ It would seem sometimes that these ‘hus- tlers,’’ as they are called in the West, are the only men of leisure. Apparently doing the work of many men, they al-| ways have time for a new call upon their | energies. The explanation of the para- | dox lies partly in the fact that all their} ness. culture of mind and heart has been of | the nature of special training. They | live wholly in reference to business. | As some see only the humorous or the} grotesque or the pathetic, they see chiefly the business aspect of all things. Such preparation includes the perfect | control of the power of attention, the | ability at any moment to concentrate all} the force of mind he possesses on the | |acy in | characterized by matter in hand, completing it, thinking it through, and laying it aside a fin- ished task. The habit of promptness to such a man is second nature. Hence there are no accumulations of neglected Another part of the train- ing of such acharacter is in the direc- tion of accuracy. What he knows, ke knows exactly; it is, without glamor or mist of any kind, from habit always. In like manner, and measures its exact meaning as if by a kind of second sight. What he does, bowever unimportant, he does with the! ; | same conscientious attention to accur- every detail. Moreover, he is what to others seem almost unnatural mental activity. But he is not restless. He never frets. He is always well-poised, cool and self- | possessed. Hence he is able, when a task is done, to forget it, to stop the wear and tear of his mental machinery until new grist is ready. Success is no accident. Those who hope to wear the crown have much work on hand, and but little time to waste in frivolities. Gro. K. Morris. a How the Second Store in Oil City Started. Thomas Martindale in Philadelphia Inquirer. Provisions and groceries were high then, but nobody seemed to grumble at $20 fora barrel of flour (when it was bought in small quantities), or 50 cents for a can of peaches or tomatoes; and at the same time the purchaser carried the goeds without complaint from the store to his ‘“‘shanty.’’ I myself gave the mat- ter no thought until one day when I was trudging over the mountains with a heavy basket on my shoulder loaded with eggs, a few vegetables and some groceries. Isat down to rest on a rock on the summit, and having a copy of the Pittsburg Commercial with me, 1 read and reread it, until the news was al! de- voured. Then I pored over the adver- tisements, and being attracted eto the market reports, was struck with wonder when I saw the quotations for groceries and green vegetables in the ‘Smoky City.”’ 1 pondered over the apparently low prices, considered the distance from Oil City to Pittsburg (139 miles), and fin- ally decided that if the freight rates were not immoderate and the quotations (which seemed preposterously iow) were correct, my Opportunity had come, that opportunity which we hear so much about ‘‘coming to every man but ence,” and it he fails to seize its, etc., etc. felt that my opportunity was to take what little money I could scrape together and start a grocery store; how, or where, I did not at ali think about, or the fact that 1 was an absolute novice in the business; did not know one kind of tea or coffee from another, nor syrup from molassess. 1 only knew that the prices then current in Oil City were fabulous, that people must eat, that money was plenty and oil was high; and that 1 was wasting time and losing ‘‘my opportun- ity’? by continuing my occupation of en- gineer or pumper of ‘‘No. 1 well.” I there and then determined that I would make a venture as a merchant just as soon as I could find a location and get enough information on the subject of the average grocery store of the oil country to prevent me from falling into fatal mistakes. So for three or four weeks af- terward my mind was full of plans as to oo | how to make the start, how much money it would need, how to gain the necessary knowledge to buy goods (my whole edu- cation up to this point having been to |develop my ability asa salesman, with no experience whatever as a buyer), and in this condition of mental activity lL found the cure for sleeplessness. I may as well admit that my venture was a suc- cess, but I have never found it necessay to resort to narcotics since engaging in | the grocery business, the long hours of the grocer rendering sleep a balm. what he sees he sees as | | duties rising like mountain obstructions | | in his path. he | | hears without mistake just what is said, | must , Stump before a blast. | Fras Praements after a blast STRONGEST and SAFEST EXPLOSIV mown to the Arts. = POWDER, FUSE, CAPS, Electric Mining Goods, AND ALL a FOR STUMP BLASTING, SALHB BY THE HERCULES sore COMPANY, Prospect Street, Cleveland, Onie. “a WILLARD, Manage?fe AGENTS FOR Western Michigan. Write for aunouULUns, THE GEMAT STUMP AND ROCK ANNIHILATOR, sffA@ NS OS Stee CHAS. A. COYE, Manufacturer of AWNINGS anv TENTS HORSE AN} WAGON COVERS Jobbers of Oiled Clothing and Cotton Ducks. en ee il Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN MERCHANTS And business men who contemplate a visit to the World’s Fair would do well to communicate with the MEGA -- HOTEL, which offers the best and cleanest rooms and the cuisine to be found in Chicago for a reasonable price. thing new and first-class in every respect. chosen as headquarters of National Press Association, gan Press Association, and many other organizations. 050 ROOMS, ELEGANTLY FURNISHED) Bath with every suite. Permanent structure of stone and brick. Location (midway between World’s Fair and business center of city) Corner 34th, State and Dearborn Streets. Conducted exclusively on the European plan; splendid cafe in connection with the hotel, with unexceptional cuisine and appointments; service, table d’hote, breakfast, 50 cents; dinner, 75 cents; service a la carte; nice meals may be had by ordering from bill of fare at 25 cents and up. Beautiful Rooms, with Bath, Single, $1 to $1.50 per Day; Double, $2 to $3 per Day. Elevated station only one block away; Prices. choicest Every- Unanimously Michi- Cable cars pass door. WM. H. HOOPS, Prop’r. «$d ots pr 7 ® «5 ots pr 7 ® LHH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 114 THE DUTY OF SERVICE. | The obligation to serve is now more} generally recognized in the world than ever before. There was, perhaps, never atime in the history of our race wholly destitute of noble exemplars of heroism and humanity; but patriotism became a eontrolling sentiment long before there was any popular conception of philoso- phy. The fierceness of ancient interna- tional rivalries, the insatiableness of the ancient greed of conquest, advanced de- votion to fatherland in the common esti- mate and checked the developement of a wider range of sympathy. The accounts which we have of the destruction of Car- thage, of Tyre, and of Jerusalem, reveal an almostincredible degree of inhuman- ity. The pleasure taken even by the culti- vated class in the brutal contests of the gladiatorial arena, when Horace and Vir- gil were composing exquisite poetry and Cicero was writing moral philosophy, is something now almost inconceivable. Then it was the highest distinction to serve the state, and the foreigner, if not hated as an enemy or despised as a bar- barian, was at best regarded with indif- ference. A cynical critic of the modern world might adduce some striking instances of the abuse of power by great nations in our own age to show that there has not been a decided change in that respect, as is ordinarily supposed. The dismember- ment of Poland; the absorption of Schles- wig, Holstein and Lauenburg by Austria and Prussia after their victory overa gallant but weaker people; the conquest of India, and the so-called opium war, might be made to lend some show of plausibility to this view, and it is cer- tainly true that national governments have been slow to apply the common rules of morality in the conduct of their foreign affairs; but beyond the sphere of politics and diplomacy a recognition of the universal brotherhood of man has been growing more and more distinct and has found expression in many forms of service. This feeling has become, in some measure, triumphant not only over the mutual suspicions and jealousies of the nations, but also over the prejudices of classes. The old idea that the masses were of right subject to a privileged few, and that it was their highest civic duty to be loyal to the persons of their here- ditary rulers, has almost everywhere in Christendom yielded to the doctrine that no man should rule who does not serve, and that authority is lodged ultimately in the body of the people. This concep- tion of the obligation to serve has been | logically extended to persons whose power and influence are not due to offi- cial positions, but to wealth and other controlling means acquired by and de- pendent upon the labor of others. Pub- lic opinion demands that the rich man shall serve, first, his employes, and then the society which defends him in the possession of his property. He who takes advantage of the necessities of his fellow-men to exact an undue amount of labor is as open to censure as he who raises the price of bread in a time of famine. But a growing sense of the duty ot ser- vice is observable, more than ever now, on the part of those who have the most power to serve, the rich and the culti- vated. The more fortunate classes ac- knowledge this obligation, not merely because it is asserted by the general pub- lic, but because they feel that it is just. They share that conception of the in-' herent dignity of manhood which has become common in our time, and they understand that their own dignity, as well as that of others, demands that they should serve the cause of humanity. In| the highest social rank there is contempt | for the frivolous egotist who lives merely | for amusement, and disgust for the ty- rant who acknowledges no right which | cannot be enforced by power. We refer here to a tendency illustrated by many beautiful examples; we are aware how far away the world still is from a com- plete supremacy of philanthropic motives in every condition of life. But tendency is a kind of prophesy, and despite the pessimists, who speak of the end of this century as a climax of heartlessness, vanity and despair, it seems to us that the outlook is bright, and that, though the era ‘‘when each man shall find his own in all men’s good’ may be distant, | we are drawing nearer that golden year | of which the young Tennyson sang. FRANK STOWELL. i The Telephone Situation. The telephone situation is becoming an interesting one. Coincident with the expiration of the various patents on the telephone, the enjoyment of which has been for so long exclusively in the hands of one company, there comes abundant evidence that many other concerns in tend to engage in the telephone business as soon as they can safely do so. With the expiration of the patents on the Biake transmitter came an extraordinary call for these instruments from all quarters, and when the patents on the Bell receiv- ing instrument terminate, not only will a great demand for receivers spring up, but the event will in all probability sig- nalize the birth of competing telephone companies all over the land. There is every promise of lively times ahead for the telephone business. In the enthusi- asm that will ensue there is danger of going to extremes. The business will thus become demoralized as far as rates and profits are concerned, then an era of consolidations will dawn, and the result will be the formation of trusts and com- binations. This is one way of looking at the matter, and as the tendency these times is to consolidate like interests and carry on the business under one manage- ment. there appears to be no reason why the telephone should be exempt from the operation of the rule. These are matters, however, that time alone will settle, and those who wish to ingage in the tele- phone business in any capacity whatever need not be deterred from making an ef- fort to succeed simply because of what may happen. <0 A Grocer’s Experience. “Is this celery fresh?’’? questioned a lady. ‘“‘Yes’m,’”’ answered the dealer. ‘*Real fresh?” ‘Vou m’” ‘Just inc” “V eg) m.”” “tis it crisp?’ “You ma.” ‘Are you sure it’s all right?”’ “Yos’m.” ‘Where did you get it?’’ “From a market gardener.’ ““To-day?” ‘*Vex’ m.”’ ‘“*How much is it?” “Ten cents a bunch.”’ ‘‘Isn’t that rather high?” “Not at this season.”’ “ve got it here lately for less.” “That was rather small and green.”’ “Can you send it up?” “Voom.” ‘In time for dinner?’’ ‘Oh, yes’m.’ “Just break off a piece and let me try | it.” ‘“‘Yes’m. Here is some.” “Humph! That isn’t nice at all. Itis, withered.”’ ‘Well, ma’am, it’s a good while since you asked if it was fresh.” Menthol Inhaler Catarrh, - iH ay Fever, ‘Headache, Nenraleia, Colds Sore Threat. The first inhalations stop sneezing, snuffing coughing and headache. This relief is worth the priee of an Ivhaler. Continued use will complete the cure. Prevents and cures a. Sea Sickness On ears or boat. The cool exhilerating sensation follow ing its useis a luxury to trav elers. Convenient to carry in the poc ket; no liquid to drop or spi!l; lasts a year. and costs 50¢c at druggists. Regis- tered mail 60c, from H. D. CU*HMAN. Manufacturer, Three Rivers, Mich. t=" Guaranteed satisfactory. DODGE Independence Wood Split Pulley THE LIGHTEST! THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! WESTER MACHINERY 60, 45 So. Drviston St.. GRAND RAPIDS, Wholesale Boots 2 Shoes; 56 and 7 Pearl St., AND GRAND RAPIDS, Vtneregretiy? Agents for Wales-Geodyear Rubber Co. Orders by mail given prompt attention MOCCASINS. 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ROOT BEER Easily and cheaply made at home. Im- proves the anpetite, and aids digestion. An unrivalled temperance drink. Health- ful, foaming, luscious. One bottle of extract makes 5 gallons. Get it sure. This is not only 10 st as good” as others, but far bette ee ane tri al will supp. ort this claim. Williams & Carieton, Hartford, cu S. A. MORMAN, Wholesale Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LIME, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stuceo and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick and Clay. SOLD EVERYWHERE WRITE FOR PRICES. 10 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopertTt, President. Gro. W. Gay. Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, Jno A. Seymour, Ass’t Cashier Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS. D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay. S. M. Lemon. C. Bertsch. A. J. Bowne. G. K. Johnson, Wm Sears. A.D. Rathbone N. A. Fletcher. ~~ Wm. H. Anderson. John Widdicomb. F. H. WHITE, Manufacturers’ agent and jobber of ‘PAPER AND WOODENWARE, Grand Rapids, Mich. 125 Court St., HEADACHE PECK’S POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber, 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ELECTRICITY AND THE FEET. Good Health a Result of Electrical Con- tact With the Earth. George Quarrel in New York World. When a man by wearing dry paper in- soles in or rubbers over his shoes causes irritation to his eyes and other less di- rectly noticeable disorders, such as bald- ness, toothache, etc., or when he lacer- ates his foot sole and soon after has lockjaw; or coughs from cold to his feet, | he interrupts or cuts off, or injures a cer- tain circulation between his body and the earth, the effects of which interrup- tion or injury make their appearance, not at the point of attack, but at various parts of his organism, often the most distant from that point. And it is con- tended that not only do such abnormal conditions of the feet injuriously affect these various organs, but that our ordi- nary shoes are the unsuspected cause of much disease to mankind. That this should prove almost incredi- | ble to the great bulk ef people is not the least surprising, for the simple reason that the prime operating cause of the trouble is an utterly neglected subject— a@ subject of which most people almost boast complete ignorance—viz., static or natural electricity. Science has fully established the fact that the life-action of the body is a true chemical decomposition of combustion; wherefore, as this decomposition cannot proceed without a transmission of cur- rent electricity (Faraday says, ‘‘One can- not happen without the other’) our bodies, especially during active exercise, must continually discharge more or less electricity. But what places the matter entirely beyond doubt is the practical proof of it, which has been very simply and effectu ally done by placing a man on an insula-| ag reW ; feces alte | s, however, we cannot dispense a’to | hatter of selling goods at the Fair. |sale and delivery of goods from ex- | hibitors’ ted stand and having him briskly exer- cise in that situation. A conducting wire is run from his foot soles to earth, and by an electrometer fixed on this wire it has been found that electrical currents pass from his feet to the ground so long as he goes on exercising. Now, if we examine a man’s feet—es- pecially of a man who has gone all his} life barefooted—we find a very striking and marvelous cluster of nerve endings, brought out into the papillae of the skin, so that if left free as nature provides for | they would have intimate contact with | the earth as he walks. This, taken with the result of scientific | natural | research, which identifies the nerve force of the body and electricity as practically one and the same thing—in so much that muscular movements have been actually produced by mild currents of electricity, exactly as movements are ordinarily communicated from nerve to muscle—this, it is said, when all consid- ered together, is strongly suggestive. Bearing these facts in mind. does it not forcibly appear that man as well as all health, should retain the free and unim- peded use of this electrical highway be- tween his body and the earth—viz., through the soles of his feet? The general effect of this free circula- tion would naturally be that the body would maintain, under all changes, an equal electrical level with the earth, which is the state nature plainly indicates we should strive to maintain. The earth we know to be the great electrical reservoir of nature to us; for any amount of electrical force or cur- rent escapes into it, while it always re- mains our zero. A highly scientific physician, who has devoted many years to the critical invest- igation of electro-therapeutics, recently said: “One of the most fundamental and cer- tain facts in physiology is that the active state of a living tissue is marked by a live animals, to have his physical | internal | writhed with toothache. gear; and that he had from boyhood worn most elaborate silk-lined sandals— an instance of princely magnanimity, certainly, where their king bore in his own person the full brunt of introducing the blessings of civilization to his sub- jects! Coolie laborers on plantations never wear any shoes, and they are about equal | to the unclothed savage in their splendid | physiques and freedom from our eivil- ized diseases. They are never bald, or have defective sight, even down to old age, and we all know their teeth are a | proverb of whiteness and perfection. | Horses’ iron shoes are good conductors |of electricity, but in Europe they are | sometimes fitted with large slippers of |leather or rubber, when employed in | mowing large ornamental grounds. i has been found that | shorter time than seems credible. |food, singularly healthy and robust; | while tenderly nurtured children, even |in the same locality, are well-known to | be more and more subject to toothache, | neuralgia, rheumatism, etc., things to- | tally unknown to the former. gether with shoes and go barefooted, our | best alternative course is to adopt some simple plan by which we may secure through any shoes we may wear. This is easily done. And in the years the practical | comfort to the feet and benefit in a va- riety of ways to the health of individuals who have tried it (among whom may be sicians) are so numerous and emphatic as to remove the question completely be- yond theory or doubt. Perhaps the greatest number reporting beneficial results are those who have tried it for the eyes. But for better blood circulation in the legs, and conse- quent comfort to the feet, also, a great number of vit may at first appear, the assistance it | affords in this direction promotes warmth |in the feet in cold weather, while it un- questionably prevents that abnormal heat and swelling of the feet and ankles le : 'in hot weather which many people suffer | from. | These effects as to immediate comfort ;of the feet are much sooner apparent | than relief to organs more remote; but | we should remember that discomfort in | the feet and legs is but the first physical evidence of nature’s protest against in- sulating our feet from the earth, and that refiex effects, though slower in de- | velopment, are not any the less certain, | notwithstanding. | The writer has directed a great many | people scattered over almost every State | |in the Union how to make a simple little | | attachment to their shoes, which is quite scrubbed. It is hardly possible to keep | unnoticeable, and provides perfect elec-|a place cool unless it is kept clean. | trical earth contact for the feet—a good | this is done the floor can be easily scrub- | substitute, if not the full equivalent, of | bed. | walking on their bare feet; and he will | methods, determined by the surround- | continue to assist others with any infor-|ings, may be adopted to secure the de- | mation they may require. | out of the shoe anything already there in electrical ati i he ound | : : : oo connection with t eee | regulations; but in this case a New York : \firm that was exhibiting cheap watches last’ few | round a demand for th i matitwtiim «ai * ee SO | menced taking pay from visitors, giving ; in The plan he bas adopted is first to pull } | blind: and, besides, his teeth were dis- | tened by a little ordinary paste. colored and fast decaying, while he often the shoe has driven through the sole from It comfortable nora healthy one. daily employment be at such work very soon ruined horses, | @ copper or brass gauze insole most per- |some becoming lame, some blind, in aj fectly secures, and with it much comfort Little urchins in the country who run | acting as a good conductor of electricity | bare-footed are, even with the poorest of | between the body and the earth. | | | | | } ;ehinery man ‘tion, said duplicate to be shipped at once persons of both sexes have | from the factory, | found it invaluable; and, paradoxical as | #0008 from his space and could be pre- | vented from doing such business. /named many well-known New York phy- |liver a similar watch, this order being | valid ata storein the city outside the Then the outside very small copper shoe nails, | This trouble of the sable monarch | which must clinch on the inside. quite | greatly interested the historian, for, to jeven with the surface, against an iron, the latter’s astonishment, he could not | last or other hard substance. find a single similar case throughout all | made through the heel of the shoe with | the country; but, on the contrary, the | a small gimlet; through which two cop-| usual brilliant eyes and teeth of savages. | per nails are driven, one from within, It transpires, however, in the detailed one from without, so as to meet or pass description of the habits and clothing of ‘ each other, thus filling up the hole quite the tribe, that the king alone, by royal ' tightly. The soles are then inserted like edict, was permitted to wear any foot- | any other insoles, keeping the metal side A hole is | downward. It is sometimes necessary to fasten them in place by a few small tacks. This is alf that is necessary to in- sure perfect electric connection of the feet with the earth. Some persons ask whether the stocking itself is not aninsulator. To this it is only necessary to reply that immediately any foot rests on this metallic insole, the foot sole become just a little moist, and this moisture—the natural exudation from the healthy footsole—makes even the purest wool or silk perfectly conduc- tive to electricity. This moisture is hardly perceptible unless after brisk | walking, and even then is never more | than what we should call not — dry. A perfectly dry foot sole is neither a| It should just naturally moist, and thatis what and benefit to the wearer, through its —_——_>->_- Splitting Hairs by World’s Fair Offi- cials. What seems like a very strange deci- sion has been reached by some one of the numerous World,s Fair authorities in the The spaces during the exhibition has very properly been placed under return therefore not one of the watches on exhibition but an order to de- grounds. The authorities of the Fair decided that this was equivalent to de- livering goods, which, it seems to us, is absurd. By sucha rule as this a ma- who should take an order for the duplicate of a machine on exhibi- would be delivering This and a pumber of other incidents which have occured make one inelined to wish that the world had progressed in civilization far enough either to have something better and more comfortable than any large exhibition can possibly be, or have the business of carrying them on developed into a regular profession with professional exhibition managers to run them. Se Make the Store Inviting. Keep your store clean and cool. Noth- ing adds more to the attractive qualities of a store at this season of the year than to have itcool. The summer heat, act- ing on perishable goods, is apt to give the atmosphere a close, disagreeable ; smell. The floor should be frequently If Awnings are an aid, and other sired effect. —__ Care in filling orders is necessary in fall of electrical level; in other words, an | the shape of an insole, and to substitute |every business, but more especially to electrical depression is the most safe,|foritan insole of very fine wire gauze, | the grocer. A housewife when she gives most delieate pbysical sign of physiolog-| or cloth, of copper or brass. This me-|an order expects to have it filled as or- ical action.”’ talliec insole may be covered over its up- dered, and usually gets provoked when Many speaking facts might be cited in| per side—the side next the foot—with | any article is substituted. Her temper support of this theory, such as the case of | very thin leather (say chamois) having |is not apt to improve either when she the King of Dahomey, in Central Africa| small holes cut in it under the ball and | goes to the cupboard for an article that (Brown’s ‘‘History of Man”), whom the | heel of the foot, through which the foot| has been ordered and finds that it has traveler found suffering and in miserable | comes in contact with the metal. The)| been forgotten. As a rule she remem- plight from bloodshot, painful and | leather is cut so as to fold about half an | bers these little errors, and after awhile REEDER BROS. SHOE Cu., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Boots and Shoes, Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton St., Grand Rapids. THE BEST SWEEPER MADE For the Money. Strictly first class in all its details, with all latest improvements If givenasa premium with $35.00 of Purchases, it will sweep trade your way. $18.00 per dozen, 30 days net, 3 per centiodays. 5oocards anda punch free. NATIONAL BOOK & PICTURE CO., CHICAGO. Whether quaffed @), from a vessel of | tin, glass or gold; | There’snothingso 4 — 2 good for the young ———— or the old—as Hires /, delicious, health- 4 thirst-satis- \¥ ‘friag beverage. A A ; iomperance drink for ‘temperance people. Dol athe Pea nc Nea la le taal a et qciving, > A 25c. package makes 5 gallons, = , Sold and Enjoyed Everywhere. a POPPE P FPO OP POV OTP OV OOOO O|™ KALAMAZOO PANY & OVERALL CO, 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Chicago Office: 305 Central Union Block. Milwaukee Office: Room 502 Matthew Build ing. Our fall line of Pants from $9 to 842 per dozen are now veady An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound watery eyes, which rendered him half!inch under the metal, where it is fas-| transfers her patronage. swatches of entire line sent on approval to the trade. r °" ‘THR MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TEA TIME. How the Proposed Change Is Regarded by Local Jobbers. THE TRADESMAN last week noted a departure on the part of some of the wholesale grocers in relation to tea sales. Instead of billing teas at four months, as formerly, the time has been reduced to 60 days, and, at the same time, the cash discount has been increased from 4 to 5 per cent. Thinking that the reasons for this departure would be interesting to the trade generally, THe TRADESMAN interviewed local representatives of the wholesale grocery trade, with the follow- ing result: Heman G. Barlow, of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., said: ‘‘We adopted the plan of billing teas at 60 days instead of four months, as formerly, because we could see no good reason why four months should be given on teas, any more than on any other article. We think, also, that the increased 10-day discount, from 4 to 5 per cent.—not 6, as you stated last week—will be an extra in- ducement to the retailer to meet his bills promptly. There is no reason why we should be compelled to earry a four- months’ account when it can just as well be paid in two months or even less. Then, too, the tendency in business is to shorten credits, and this tendency will eventually carry us to what will be practically a cash business.”’ Fred H. Ball, of the Ball-Barnhart- Patman Co., said: ‘‘The margin on groceries has been growing finer for some years, and we are compelled to shorten credits, so that we can better afford to increase the discount and get our money than we can to carry the account for four months. The increased profit to the retailer, in this particalar item, will show him what he can make by dis- counting his bills, and in the end induce him to do acash business. Then, times are hard and we forced to shorten credits as much as possible. We are working slowly down to the bed-rock of cash business, which must come sooner or later, and the sooner the better for both wholesaler and retailer.’’ are Samuel L. Lemon, of the Lemon & Wheeler Company, said: ‘That is notu- ing new. We have been doing it fortwo years, at least, to a certain extent. Our plan has been to bill all orders for teas of less than five chests at 60 days or 4 off for ten days, and I don’t think the 5 per cent. discount will work. The mar- gin on teas is close enough now, without cutting it still finer. It isn’t possible to make any iron-clad rule regarding time or discounts; we must know our trade, and, what is more, in many cases accommo- date ourselves to its necessities, keeping in view all the while the tendency of the times, which isin the direction of shorter credits and, in time, no credit at all.” W. L. Freeman, of Hawkins & Com- pany, said: “I have given the matter little thought, but do not believe it will work advantageously. in my opinion, it was a foolish thing for the wholesale grocers to diyide groceries up into 30, 60 and four months’ goods for the reason that it complicates the book-keeping and enables an occasicnal retailer to put his property out of his hands while the job- ber is waiting for the bills to become due.’’ “ Prank Jewell, of the I. M. Clark Gro- cery Co., said: ‘Selling tea at 60 days with 5 off forcash? ‘This is the first I have heard of it. I am sure I can’t see what their object is. Thetime will come, perhaps, when such a scheme will work, but it won’t do now. Their customers who have always taken the discounts may take advantage of it, but those who want time will get it if they have to go somewhere else to get their tea; or they may give an order fora small package, asa matter of necessity, and when the New York fellow comes along give him a good big order on the old terms. If the people in the East would adopt the idea, we would have some show; but until they do, we can’t afford to do it; at least that is the way it seems to me.” Amos S. Musselman said he had given the matter no thought, and would reserve giving his opinion until he had time to consider the subject in all its bearings. —— “> _- 6 REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. H. M. Liesveld, the Cherry Street Grocer. Herman M. Liesveld was born in this city October 16, 1863. His father, a Hol- lander by birth, but of German ancestry, came to this country in 1840, dying in 1878, when the subject of this sketch was but 15, years of age, leaving to his family the priceless legacy of an honest and honored name. During his father’s lifetime, Herman attended school, finish- ing all the lower grades, but not attend- ing the high school. His father’s demise put an end to his schooling, and he was compelled, not only to earn his own liv- ing, but to contribute to the support of his widowed mother. The children of Hol- landers are trained to habits of industry from early childhood and Herman was no exception tothe rule. From kis 8th year until his 14th he ‘‘earried papers’’ for the daily papers of the’city, when the support of the family devolved largely upon him. The way in which this duty, which he owed as much to his dead father’s memory as to the living, was performed showed the stuff of which he was made. Every week for seven years he carried his wages home to his mother, taking what she pleased to give him as “spending money.” Then for nearly a year, with a salary of only $11 a week, he paid his mother $5 a week for his board, and managed to save $125 out of the remainder. His first situation was with Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. as parcel and delivery boy, remaining there about one year. He then entered the employ of Nelson, Matter & Co. and served a three years’ apprenticeship at cabinet making. Not yet satisfied that he had found his place, he dropped cab- inet making and entered Ed. Killean’s grocery store on East Bridge street hill. He remained in this store for four years, and during his stay the establishment had four different proprietors. It was during his last year on the hill that he saved the amount before stated, $125. With this small capital he determined to embark in business for himself, and, with A. Bartholomew, opened a store at 559 Cherry street. The firm of Barthol- omew & Liesveld lasted for two years, when Herman bought his partner's in- terest and continued the business alone, finally moving to his present location at 563 Cherry street. Success has attended him in business, so that now, at 30 years of age, he is in fairly comfortable cir- cumstances. Mr. Liesveld was mar- ried in 1888 to Miss Cornelia Van Dyke, of Hudsonville, and is now the father of a lovely baby girl, which, Herman de- clares, is, without exception, the finest child in the State; and he is a tolerable fair judge of baibes, too. Mr. Liesveld is a member of the First Reformed Hol- land Church. He holds membership, also, in the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Henor. Bnt not even the fascinating pleasures of the lodge room ean keep him away from that wonderful baby, and so, except during the time de- voted to business, he is to be found at his beautiful home at 71 Lake avenue. Personally, Mr. Liesveld is one of the most companionable of men. He is a close buyer and a sharp payer, being what is known as a ‘‘discounter’’—that is, a dealer who discounts every bill which is subject to a discount for cash. He has made a number of fortunate real estate investments, and is generally re- garded as one of the rising young men of the city. mt Gripsack Brigade. J. P. Visner, local representative for E. J. Gillies & Co., is spending a week or ten days in Chicago, taking in the World’s Fair. The Traveling Men’s Club of Hillsdale held their annual picnic at BawBeese Lake last Saturday afternoon. The club has a large membership, and with their families and invited guests made a large and merry party. The festivities closed with a dance in the pavilion in the even- ing. Joe F. O. Reed has returned from his month’s vacation, which he spent at Fort Collins, Colo., and Sioux City, Iowa. He reports business very quiet at the latter place since the collapse of the boom and returns to Grand Rapids with an en- hanced appreciation of the stability of his own city and State. “Ah yes,’”? said an old commercial traveler to us the other day, ‘‘I’ve quite conquered the idea that my services are indispensable to my firm. The notion took complete possession of me once, years ago, but the experience resulting from it cured me forever. I had a good trade, and, like many other young sales- men, fancied that I owned the house, and made demands that were altogether unreasonable. Not being granted, I threatened to leave the house and go to some other firm, and, tomy surprise, was told to go. Smiling in derision at my principal’s shortsightedness, and confi- dent that the old concern would fail very quickly without my service, | went out. And then 1 began to experience other surprises. I applied for a good position in vain. They were all filled. The old house did not recall me, and seemed to run right along as usual. I was put to sore straits, but found a cheap situa- tion at last with a poor commission firm and was glad to get it. Time passed. Instead of going to the wall the old house appeared to be doing better than ever. It didn’t break worth a cent. One day the principal met me on the street and asked me how I was prospering. I told him frankly and acknowledged my fault. He took me back, and I’ve been with that house ever since. It was a needed lesson and will last for a lifetime. Many men are valuable, but no man is indis- pensable.”’ i From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: Carrington & North, Trent. Wm. Rademacher, Wright. C. T. Hartson, Eaton Rapids. Cc. S. Comstock, Pierson. C. E. Lessiter, Grattan. Dr. Peter Beyer, Woodbury. Holley & Bullen, No. Aurelius. M. P. Gale & Co., Remus. A. Mulder & Sons, Spring Lake. N. Bouma, Fisher. Cc. K. Hoyt & Co., Hudsonville. i The Dry Goods Market. Wash goods are being closed out at low prices to make room for new fall goods of every kind. Cotton goods are lower in bleached and unbleached: cambrics and prints have dropped ec. Piles. At any rate there is no medicines on the market none PYRAMID PILE CURE. diate relief. Lavevoevenvevevevenvevevevenevrovevenverevevenenys: IF YOU SUFFER FROM PILES In any form, do you know what may result from neglect to cure them? It may result simply in temporary annoyance and discom- fort, or it may be the beginning of serious rectal disease. cases of Fissure, Fistula, and Ulceration began in a simple case of and taking the chances of something more serious when you can secure at a trifling cost a perfectly safe, reliable cure. ——: THE :— has been before the public long enough to thoroughly test its merit and it has long since received the unqualified approval and endorse- ment of physicians and patients alike. Your druggist will tell you that among the hundreds of patent gives It is guaranteed absolutely free from mineral poisons or any injurious substance. In mild cases of Piles, one or two applications of the are sufficient for a cure, and in no case will it fail to give Many need of suffering the discomfort, PILE GU better satisfaction than the | remedy imme- TIDILLAALLAAL AAA AAA mm ddd > > ~ > > > > > p> — > ee > > > » — > >— > —— > > — > > > > > > > > > es > »— > ~ >— > > > p> 4 WUUUUTAU TUT A 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Five Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, lonia. 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. Concerning Drug Adulteration. S. P. Whitmarsh in Pharmaceutical Era. The question of how best to detect or prevent adulteration in drugs has been the burden of much of tne literature in pharmaceutical journals, and at meetings of state associations. Many varied opin- ions have been expressed as to the surest method of protecting the public from evils affecting the general health by im- purities or false substitutes in both med- icine and food. Some have insisted that eternal vigilance on the part of the retail druggist is the only security. They claim that he should, in addition to the usual qualifications of a dispenser of drugs, be an expert in ail the scientific processes necessary to determine the character of every product on his shelves; and carefully test them by microscope or qualitative analysis before putting them on sale. They argue, I suppose, that as he stands nearest to the public consuming those products, as a sentinel most confi- dently trusted, he should be the one most vigilant to guard against every pos- sible contingency, which through his stock in trade might endanger the public heaith. But those advocating this course little think how much of a burden they are placing on shoulders least able to bear it. No retail druggist, doing a living busi- ness, can find time to test each purchase as made. He cannot afford to keep an analytical chemist employed out of his scant profits; and if he himself should attend tothe work, his whole life would be darkened by the suspicions engendered by his calling. Besides, the routine of continual testing would be the ‘‘fly in his ointment” to any man naturally disposed to have confidence in human nature, and desirous to receive like confidence in re- turn. You might as well ask him to make an assay of every coin he receives through the day in the line of business, to determine its fineness and weight. Again, if it is thus necessary to test what one buys of a jobber, who is by both interest and principle wedded to honest dealing, the consumer may as justly entertain doubts of his druggist, and blind suspicion alone would rule the hour. I am sure the retail druggist was not designed in the economy of nature to be au everlasting seareh warrant, obliged to spend the largest part of his time carrying on investigations that have been paid for, and should have been satisfactorily performed by the firm of whom the goods were purchased under a guarantee—leaving the regular work of dispensing and sale of goods to his clerks, which would be the result if he assumed to be the tester in detail of every article in his store. It seems to me that adulterations, both of drugs and foods, should be treated on the same basis as the counterfeiting of coin, bills, or bank checks, and dealt with promptly by law. There is always in either case one party primarily re- sponsible for the wrong committed. Others may be accesssory thereto; but efforts of detection and prevention should be directed mainly to the fountain head. The manufactory is the place where all the testing and analyzing should be done: because nowhere else can it be done so thoroughly, surely, and cheaply. If the spring is pure there is no need of a thousand filters in the hands of con- sumers. Where a drug is made and prepared for the market is the best place to inspect and certify to the in- tegrity of what is to be distributed in a thousand channels among the uncounted multitude who cannot spend time to doubt or investigate the small multiple each one alone controls. If the public health becomes endangered by the adul- teration or careless methods of manufac- ture of any product, a legal officer may properly be placed where he can oversee the processes and certify to the character of the finished drug. Asa secondary precaution the whole- saler, who is supposed to employ expert buyers, or calls in the chemist of the firm to settle every uncertain point, should keep an eye on the quality of his goods for his own benefit, if no more; since no druggist can afford to buy of one who, by carelessness, suffers un- wholesome or imperfect drugs to evade the scrutiny of his agents. Buying as they do in very large quantities, there is every inducement to secure goods that are true to name, and of a'quality guar- anteed in the sale. But unless inspection is made at the manufactory, inferior or adulterated goods are likely to escape occasionally the notice of the wholesaler or jobber. In the matter of paris green this is some- times done; and the effect produced by one bad lot cannot easily be computed in dollars and cents. It is impossible al- ways to exchange for a better stock in time to save a crop from insects, even if the true character be known before a sale is made. A guarantee to be perfect must leave no chance for loss during the process of exchange. No one can guar- antee an article to the full satisfaction of the buyer if it costs him money or loss of trade to make that guarantee avail- able. “I meant to have told you of that hole,’’? said one friend to another who was to be his guest, as the latter fell into an excavation while crossing the front yard. ‘‘Never mind,’’ was the good-natured reply, ‘‘l1 have found it easily myself.” In spite of the best intentions of others, such may be the fate of the druggist as he discovers at his own expense the er- rors or intentional frauds that have reached him from first hands, But it is not his duty to sit astride every hole left open, either by design or accident, to prevent some one falling therein, when there is a law which should be enforced against leaving such traps in the way of the careless traveler. The retail druggist already has to keep his eye peeled in so many directions, as to threaten him with chronic strabismus. He meets the opinionated customer, who is hard to be convinced that his order is properly filled, because the same article bought of another dealer had a different appearance. He also encounters the predjudices born of ignorance in men who believe powdered goods are de facto fraudulent, but that crystals of the same are, in comparison, ‘‘gems of purest ray serene.”’ Itis hard to convince them that the former may be C. P. and the latter comparatively N. G. Let, therefore, the manufacturing chemist see that every product of his la- boratory is of certain strength, and true to label both in whole andin part. Let the wholesale distributor check every article that passes his hands to see that it is in the best possible condition. Let the jobber who breaks original packages see that commercial and C. P. are fully understood on the invoice, and that special products have the merit of being true to guarantee. That will leave the the druggist who sells staples and com- pounds chemical products in dispensing, as much as his hands can well accomp- lish, or his conscience oversee. And his customers will from time to time bless him for his care of their interests, as he stands between them and the hierogly- phie manuscript of the occasional physi- cian that, without his skill in decipher- ing, might ‘‘bite like a serpent, and sting like an adder. After all has been said, thereis still a necessity for such oversight and inspec- tion of a retailer’s stcck as none buta competent druggist can be depended on to give. Many drugs develop new com- binations through light and air, while some become inert from long keeping. He should be able to detect such as are in that condition, and also how best to pre- serve those most susceptible to deterior- ation from all destructive agencies. He should in general be competent to know when all staple drugs in common use are fresh and saleable. He should know, too, the usual tests that affect the con- dition of compounds; and, so faras books ean instruct, the character, uses and therapeutic effect of every drug carried in stock. All more intricate investigations he may well leave to those fully trained to search the hidden secrets of nature, un- less he wishes to pursue it as an outside study. The duties of the retail druggist are mainly practical; but while they are varied, extensive, and ever developing some new feature, there is a limit—and I would fix that limit at a point where those of the analytical chemist begin. As tothe adulteration of food prod- ucts, | consider it equal in enormity to the corruption of youth—a premeditated erime, deserving no quarter wherever discovered. As Scripture has it, ‘It is impossible but that offenses will come; but woe unto him through whom they come! It were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.” Let him who will pollute the food or drink of a nation meet the fate of the Borgias, and be to posterity forever an eternal shame. —_—-~> -¢ <> Don’t Be Too Positive. “Don’t be too positive. I used to be. I am now not quite so sure about things. You would naturally think that one’s life—in business and other avenues of its devious course—tends to make a man careful, not to say conservative; but it does notas a rule. To most men ex- perience serves as a_ sternlight rather than a headlight. ‘Take acase of recent occurrence. A friend of mine recently thought he had made adeposit of $115 in his bank. Il say ‘thought,’ because he was cock-sure he had made it. **His bank-book had been left with the bank for settlement, and my friend merely made outa slip and handed it to the teller. A few days later when he received his bank-book ‘settled up,’ be- hold you, that deposit was not entered! He at once took the book tothe young man who was teller on that day and said: ***You have not credited me with $115, my deposit on such a day.’ “The teller obligingly looked over his slips and book, and said: ‘I have no entry of it; neither do I remember a deposit of such an amount.’ “Then arose a dispute. My friend was positive that he had made that de- posit. He was going to have it credited or he would know the reason why. He felt aggrieved; in fact, his feelings were venomous. “The bank held a special board meet ing to consider the matter. They de- cided they could do nothing. The teller had always borne a good reputation. Could my friemd remember whom he saw in the bank on the day he made his de- posit? ** ‘Oh, yes,’ he said, ‘1 will swear I saw so-and-so as | entered the door.’ ‘**Hunt him up, then,’ said the bank people; ‘see if he remembers seeing you.’ “The person could not recollect such an event. “Said the bank people: ‘Can you recollect who else was near the teller?’ ‘* “Oh, yes,’ said my friend; ‘that young man (pointing) there,’ “But that young man merely smiled, aud suavely said that he had no remem- brance of the occurrence. ‘‘My friend was angry; he grew war- like. He consulted a prominent lawyer. The man of law said laconically: ‘““*You have noredress. The bank’s word is as good as your’s. Go slow. Are you sure you made the deposit? We men do queer things at times. Look about your desk and office.’ ‘Suffice it to say that the $115 did not turn up. My friend, in the interim, grew still more positive. ‘Some two weeks elapsed. One day, going through an old overcoat hanging in his office, he found the deposit—slip, money, and all. Imagine his feelings! Retractions were in order. He went to the bank and explained all in a very crestfallen manner, and vowed contrition to the teller. ‘‘Now he bemoans the sad fate that should have caused him, a shrewd busi- ness man, at his time of life to lose confi- dence in himself and his actions. His favorite aphorism to-day is, ‘Don’t be too positive.’ ” ——— ~~ +4 A Valuable Waste. It has been discovered that the slag which is thrown out as waste from iron furnaces possesses great value as a fer- tilizer. It is especially rich in phos- phates, particularly the slag which is formed from the ores used ’in making iron and steel by the basic process, in which lime is extensively employed. This ore contains a large percentage of phosphorie acid, which, after the action of the lime, forms a phosphate of great strength, and when ground to a powder is a rich fertilizer without further treat- ment. Itis especially valuable in that it contains no weed germs, and because its steel particles have a deadly effect on the cut worm and ground mole. A steamer sailing recently from Philadel- took out a eargo of 2,200 tons of the slag phosphate to Dantzie, Germany, which country is a heavy buyer of it. Orders for 50,000 tons are now on hand at the Pottstown [ron Works, where the piles of slag are being reduced to powder. i — Alo A Meek Man. A demure looking little man approach- ed the haughty clerk in a grocery store and meekly asked if he had any coffee to sell. ‘““Cert,’? said the young man. have ground coffee.’’ ‘No other kind?” ‘Nope. This is the best ground coffee on the market.”’ “But I don’t want it,” and the little man braced up. ‘‘I got some sugar here the other day with sand in it, and [don’t want coffee with ground in it. You must think I want the earth.” “We _—- ~o > ! r ‘ enh 4 4 f 4 ' ii eee ‘ ¢ > 4 i r HL ~~ s or y — ‘ 4 \ t 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced— Declined— ACIDUM, CrOOMee. oc. @ 3 00 TINCTURES. ‘9 Ld Aceticum . 8@ 10 oe ae 2 5 oe 7 Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 Benzolcum German. 65@ = ri pe oa 0@2 10 . ° ¥.... 50 OPAC ese Oat en " ON ie 60 Se Gossip, Sem. gal... oO t5| and myrrh...) 22) 60 a -— 2 1o@e 2 | Arnica... eee ee 50 Nitrocum ............ ae doce 00 | Atrope Beliadonna.......2.. 60 Oxalicum ............. @ 12) 7 i "lig ange 60 | Benzoin........ 0... oe, 60 Phosphorium dil...-..° | 20 ae oon a 50 ylicum ........... 0 i ee "5 sne2 39 | Sangul so A SU Sulphuricum.... ..... 1X%@ 5 oe aoa access : a = Senguineria i = Tanicem |... |. 1 40@1 60 | 45 oe oat... = - “ee @, 30 Cantharides 75 ‘Turtaricum....,...... 30@ 33 Olive 8, OUNCE. -....... Capsicum . 50 AMMONIA. —_ Liquida, (gal..35) a. iz Ca damon -.. a eu oes ee ae 2@ " Aqua, 2 + Cee eee ote : eccics a 7@1 00 a. eee 100 ae 14 | Rosae, ounce..........6 50@8 50 | Catechu........ 50 iene Cercle 12@ Suceins 40@ 45 | Cinchona ...... 50 Comorirae ............ 2@ 14 Sabie SRNR 90@1 00 “ a. 60 ANILINE. Santal en 3 aa 00 — neeeie es - ‘ Seeearee.............. Gee wet. --** amet A 2 = Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65|Cubeba..... ... 50 a eee eel ees, oe oO | Tiglit @ Pierre... 50 Sse kb il sl col sot ll ‘ Oe ee - —. ,. as 50 Cae 9 BOGS 00 | PRYME onan vooenvee | 7 oe 50 BACCAE, Theobromas........... 15@ 20 dau i Co........ = Cubese (po 40)...... 3@ 40 POTASSIUM. ‘ ammon. 60 Juniperus ............- a ED eom................ Tae 1S Sinetbee 50 Xanthoxylum . 7H 30 Bichromate Se 13@ 14 Hyoscyamus ... La 50 Beogeeed.............. an Sl eee... 75 ener ec leea 12@ 15|_“ Coloriess.. 5 — settee cess eeees 3, = Chiorsie (po 23@25).. 24@ 26 aod Chloridum. 35 vettessceee ees eeres : a ee ee Terabin, Canada .... 45@ 50 lodide.. ee 2 9003 ST 50 _ ieieseatcint i 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. Se 50 ones Potassa, Bitart, com. @ milus Vomtes.. |... 50 Potass Nitras, « - baie ee 85 Abies, Canadian............ 18 | Potass Nitras.. i OT Cumneeiteg tte n 11 Prussiate..... serene gm ee es cote dns 18 Sulphate po........... uonymus atropurp........ Myrica Cerifera, po......... ; RADIX. — Freeney = Prunus Virgini.:............ 12} Aconitum ............. S.-C MG a... a... ao 50 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 | ATUM, PO.......... 0... aoe 33 | seepentaria ee 2 EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)... 8s@ 10 a bees cys wea 2 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... %@ 25 | Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18] POvWAN ---.-----.000. sees 50 a 33@ 35 — a Canaden, Veratrum Veride........7."" 50 Haematox, 15 1b. box.. 11@ 12 {po a ee ar ere ea eee alain 2 a fe _ nelicbore, Ala, po.. He 4 = MISCELLANEOUS. - 16@_ 17 | Ipecac, p ry 2 mn@2 | Aither, Spte Nit, 8 F.. 28@ 30 ris plox 35@38 35@ 40 FERRU ies, oe si $e am Alaa som 3 Carbonate Precip...... OG i Maranta, us... ||... @ 35 ‘© ground, (po. Citrate and Quinia.... @350/ Podophyllum, po...... oe 2) De 8@ 4 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ce Toe) OO Anndite...... 55@ 60 FerrocyanidumSol.... @ 50) © out ll. @1 7 | Antimont, po.......... 4@ 5 Solut Chlorideé........ @ 15 i ee 75@1 35 et Potass T. 55@ 60 Sulphate, a oe = ; Spi nai, (po oe 350 33 Antearte. | Q1 40 -- nguinaria mo | AMireurin............. re onl WER... cat. 30@ 32) Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 55 mii a NI 55@ 60] Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 ee 18@ 20 Similex, Officinalis, H @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40 Ame ........-...- lk M @ | Bismuth & WN........- 2 W@2 25 eas l..-e. 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12} Calcium Chior, is, (4s FOUL Symplocarpus, Feeti- Te: im, 4)... .... 11 18@ 50 Gon, po....... @ 35| Cantharides Russian, — ‘Acutitol, Tin- Veleriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ = —. @1 00 nivelly ....-. --....- 25@ Za Sinan , Corman... ie 20 Capeict Fructus, af... e = Alx. 35@ 501 7ingiber j.......... 18@ 20 «s ee -— af Salvia officinalis, 148 Ht Citeeun 15) 1 2 and s = 6 SEMEN. Geruian y Noa i. ) e. s Ura Ural Anisum, (po. 20).. 2 15 p Alba, 8 &1 50@ 55 @UMMI. ‘ ~_g (graveleons).. “E@ = na 38@ 40 Acacia, 1st picked.... @ 60 oak oa 1 12 @ 40 7c 2 2 ee. 1 00@1 25 @ % 3d ig @ ae | CORUIGrE..........- 10@ 12 @ 10 sifted sorts... @ 20! CannabisSativa...... 4@. 5 @ 40 FPO sere geet? 60@ 80) Gydonium.... ........ 1 00 60 68 ry 60 THB 6g Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60) Chenopodium |...) 10@ 12 @i 25 Cape, (Po. 20) @ 1° | Dipterix Odorate.... 2 25@2 £0 1 35@1 60 Socotri, (po. @ Foeniculum......... ee 0@ 25 — 18, (8, 14 Ne Foenngreek, po.. | @ 3 Cinchonidine, P&W 15@ 20 16).......205++ a BO ie, 4@4% a. . Aes ._.......... : 0 a L 4 4 ania is os” S| Hs wit sas 1B w Benzoinum..........-- a oo Pharlaris Canarian... 5 @ % Camphor®.........-..- Sie 7 @ 2 Eu horbtum ” eseeee 35@ 10 Sinapis Albu... i 5@ 5 Ga. a wees | @2 50 “ Nigra........ %@ 11 Gamboee, pO.......... 0@ 7 paolo: @ 8 Guaiacum, Kpo 35) .. @ 30 e 40@ 50 Kino, (po 1 10)....... @i 15 Frumenti, Ty Ce. . @ 2% eT @ 80 a 1 32 00} Cupri Sulph........... 5@ 6 Myrrh, (po. 45)........ ee ai ieee ante e 1 25@1 50 | Dextrine ...........2.. 10@ 12 Geel Goo S 75) ........ 2 = 65 Juntperts Co. oF... woas . Riiersah W@ 7 Shellac sa sl el a Ce TG Or dl i aM gl ‘ E e q be ‘“ Mesehet ie 4 = ee Dee ee : ae : Te Ananaponas $ 6 Tragacanth ........... ip n se ...... DOC Ergota ae 2@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. he — stet sees ees : aoe 00 | Flake via be 12@ 15 ee eA 25 pao a esas seem in 7 $ 8 HBupatorium ................- 20 SPONGES. Gelatin Cooper ie @ % EE = Florida sheeps’ wool —. 40@ 60 Majorum .........-.-.--.0++ s Cees 2 50@2 75 Olesen on by box 70 & 10, Mentha — eevee eae = Nasean sheeps’ wool re Less than box 66% ryaden ses Carrere 0... —. .. ................. 30 Velvet extra sheeps’ Giue, a eee eeu es 9 = eaooemie, ¥..........-.-.. a woo! cerriage....... 1 10 : a ee mo. | = Thyreas, ¥.......-......-.-. 25) Extra yellow sheeps’ = yce Pci ee 14%@ = MAGNESIA. carriage «5... | Howmius....-.... sp oe Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 Grass aheops wool car- gs | Hydraag Chior, Mite. @ %& Sartore ig.) aM [Herd for siatg usc) =| GL CO B® Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36 | Yellow Reef, for slate 140 “| Ammoniati.. @1 00 <<< of. iia ° Unguentum. 45@ 55 cece as 3 4 00 8 . HyGrareyrum ......... @ 64 en bi eae 400 Coe Ee 50 | Ichthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 ‘Amy daine, Amarae.. % aug = — eee eee anes pease ies = — Sean ‘ aaa ie todenkene esd oe 70 § EN Ea fee Tee oe \ as aa a rai Cortex....... 2 pp 40 | Ferri Tod. ieee oe Oe) SOGORGMM. 25.2 ........ @4 20 POOUAITE oo ss oss « 25@3 50 | Auranti Cortes.............. 50 oe Cte ceessseeess @2 = EE ooo ss * 00 Chi ues Arc... os boo. 50 — eet 65@ Z Cevegewie) ........-. + 75@ 80 Similax Officinalis Seecaaeeee 60 MO 0@ 7 Cedar siies sornato=s=* a - einen Co... .. = Li = — et Hy- @ an se S Liquor Poiass Avsinitis 10@ i pang seas sirret a> ae = elena aes erence lee = — Sulph (bb ee ee... 45 Se er ee Sopaibe See cece e tutu poe Sh | Feu dhe... 60} Mannia’§s. F.......... — Fr. & ww. a W°W@2 45 Oe es, 2 10@2 ~ Moschus Canton...... @ 40 Myristica, No 1 .. 65@ 70 Nux Vomica, (po 20). @ 10 Of fene.... 22 Pepaitt Saac, H. & P. D. me... 5. se... Picis Liq, N.«C., % gal oon... @2 00 Picis Ligq., — Love @1 00 ees @ 8 Pil ne "a. 80) .. @ 50 Piper Nigra, (po. ~~ @ 1 Piper Alba, (po g5) .. @ 3 Pix Burgun aa eo 7 Elum Aces... .... 14@ 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes H &P. Dd. Ca, dou... .. @1 25 Pyrethrum, 8... 2@ 30 eee 8... 8@ 10 cals. RE aw..... 29@ 34 8. rman.... 2G Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 Saccharum Lactispvy. 20@ 22 eee 1 75@1 80 Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ 50 Sapo, a ae 12@ 14 , 2... 10@ 12 * £..... 1.1... @ °15 Seidlitz Mixture...... @ Ww “ae Peden d cl sees @ 18 = So @ 8 ~_— accaboy, De eae @ 35 snuff “Scotch, De. Voes @ 3 Soda Boras, (po. Dy. . Oe i Soda et Potass Tart... 7 @ Sede Cary... ........ “1%@ 2 Sods, BrCarn......... @ 5& Bode Aen. ........... 3%@ 4 Soda, Sepoas......... @ 2 Spts. "Ether Co ......., 50@ 55 “ Myreia Dem..... @2 2 . ' Myreia ia... .. @3 00 i ini Rect. bbl. ee 2 19@2 29 Less 5e gal., cash ten. days. 1 40@ Strychnia Crystal..... 1 4 Sulphur, aes 64@ 3 ao... @ 2% ners. 8@ 10 Terebenth — “_ 2@ 30 Theobromae . _..<. @ @ Waste... ‘9 00@16 00 Zinci Sulph. 17@ 8 OILs. Bbl. Gal Whale, winter........ 70 70 Tere, Gxua........... ie” 1% Lard, Ne. 1.. —. oo 70 Linseed, pure raw. 51 54 Lindseed, boiled . 57 Neat’s Foot, winter raed ........... neiesiida 34 38 PAINTS. bbl. Ib, Red Venetian.......... 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars.. a 2@4 Ber. ..... Putty, commercial... oe 2%@3 . + —_ aes 2% 2%@3 r —— me Amer- 19016 Veumael English.... 65@70 Green, Peninsular... 70Q@75 Lead, ie... 6%@7 wae 0... - 64@T Whiting, white 8 an. @70 Writes Gilderm’...... @% White, Paris American Zz ¢ waiting, Paris Eng. Ce 1 4c Pioneer Prepared Paint1 20@1 4 Swiss Villa en Paints . 1 00@1 20 VAENISHES, No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Mxtee Tarp. ........... 160@1 70 Cosen Boay........... 2 7% 00 Noe. 1 Turp Furn.... .. 1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. t ee 70@75 HAGELTING & PRK DRUG CO Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CREMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes. Sole Agerts for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. ne of Staple Druggists Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. WHISKIES, BRANDIES, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantes satisraction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HAZELTINE & PERK Ni Send a trial er raz DavE Ub, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE, CURT 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 those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE. doz gross ——..lt;..... UO 6 00 ee ee... + - 60 7cO0 Oe 5 50 Toeers..........-. & 8 00 — LL. COU 7 50 Paragon : 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. , cane, S Gos....... -- 45 et gg — = £2. 1 60 —. ...... 10 Arctic 4 . cans 6 doz case....... 55 Se: 468 ..... 1 10 [= oe - 2. ee coe h6tee Cl 9 00 Fosfon. 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. _ = 16 oo Red Star, . ® cans. 40 cease 75 - +3 eee 1 40 Telfer’s, i Ib. cans, doz. 45 - \% Ib. . - in “ -.i@ Our Leader, 44 lb cans... 45 1) Cans...... v5) . 1lbcans 1 50 Dr. Price's. ig doz Dime cans. 95 4-02 .1 40 6-0z 2 ce 8-0z ..2 oO 12-02 ed 16-0Z 0 9 2%-lb 12 00 4-1b 18 25 5-Ib - 2. 10-lb 41 80 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case, ae... . wo ee ee ee sO eee. . 70 BLUING, Gross Arctic, 4 oz ovals.. 3 69 Y 8 oz 7. ints, round........ 9 00 No. 2, sifting box... 275 saa No. 3, «es - -_S : sn + tobe 450 Mexican Lig uid, . ~ . oo -_ ao BROOMS, ao. 2 Hurl.. 1 7% No. 1 22 No. 2 Carpet. . 2a 0.1 tee cone . 280 PeaterGem._ 20 Common Whisk... -_ = Fan 1 Warehouse. = .3 BRUSHES. peeve, Me. 1....... 12% ' a... 1 50 o =. 1% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Pa.metto, goose........ 1 50 BUTTER PLATES. Oval—250 in crate. mek a 60 ae 2. ........ . 70 No. “ee 80 —......,........ ee CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes. 10 Star, 40 9 Paraffine 10 Wicking 24 CANNED GoopDs. Fish. Clams. Lattice Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 20 - _ s..........318 Clam Chowder. Standard, 31b.. 2 WB Cove Oysters. Standard, > 1 00 ce cae Star, _-.......... ota = .. . i Picnic, 1 iIb.. 21lb Mackerel. Standard, — a 1 2 eed me ag 2 10 Mustard, -— —— Tomato Sauce, 2 1b. a=. poased, 2 iD.......... 22 almorn. Columbia River, ee 1 80 . 1 65 Alaska, mee. 2 145 ce 13 Peers eee. ............ 1 95 ardines. American - oie eee @5 Decee owes ca %4@ 7 nn ae. 10Q11 eke es 15@16 Deere We... ........... @s ee 21 Trout. eee... 250 purchase. ent. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purehase, 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 Fruits. — 3 lb. standard... g9 York State. gallons. 3 00 Hamburgh. ‘ Apricots. a. C; i 17 Santa Crus...... i 1% loam. ..... LL [s Overland. 1% Blackberries. B&W... : 95 Cherries. se ..L.LUL 10Q1 20 Pitted Hamburgh . 1% ase. ............... 1 50 a. ae 1 20 Damsons, ‘Egg Plums and Green ages en 1 10 California. .... 1D Gooseberries. eee 1 25 Peaches. — 12 ee... Seeveras ............. 1 65 Cees... 22 Monitor a 1 65 Oxford ee Pears. aa... sti‘ ‘Cw(C(##CW 1 20 ee 210 Pineapples. ee. 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 a ereted...... 27 Booth’ s sliced . @2 50 grated. @2 7 Quinces. Common .. 1 10 Raspberries. Red_.. 1 30 Black Hamburg. 1 50 Erie. black 1 30 Strawberries. Lawrence . 1% Hamburgh | — = eS 12 ae... 1 10 Whortleberries. Blueberries ........ 00 Meats. Corned beef Libby's. 1s Roast beef Armour’s....... 1? Potted ham, % -.. = aa 8&5 tongue, “< ib.. = le a 85 . Chicken, % Ib....... 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringiess.......1 3 Frenc style. od 2 nee. 1 35 aa ee 14 . eoeeee............... 75 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked...........1355 World’s Fair Baked. | Pare... 1 00 Corn. Hamburgh .... oe Livingston i 16 aa... Honey ee 1 40 Morn ae ee Se 75 Peas, Hamburgh meerrotet...... is early June..... Champion Eng. ‘150 peut pols....... 1. ' maney sifted ....1 90 Soeked........ (ee see. Harris standard. —<—. = Van vamp" s marrofat.. 2 early June. oo Archer's Early Blossom....1 35 French... oe i. . Mushrooms. I oi eon eenet ou 17 Pumpkin, = OE i 95 Squash. Hubbaré . eo Succotash. Tomatoes. Hancock o . Excelsior — eo... eee Gallon en ea i CHOCOLATE. Baker's, German Sweet... .......-. 2 Sees. ik, ca 37 Breakfast Cocosa.......... 43 CHEESE, Anew ...........,.... @10% Acme... Voce @i% pees... os @10% eee... 10% Geet Medal .......... @ 9% Skim .... it 6@ 7 ee 11 eS 16 BOONE ocr e ess buns 23 es... ... @10 Pee... @25 Pees... .. G35 A292 Schweltzer, imported. @24 domestic... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. oo pint, 25 bottles ao. 2 = oe 4 be ancl 1 doz bottles 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per Ooe........... __&_—__ OO 450 Quart, | per doz ... ..3 CLOTHES PINS. Sarems borrs............ 40@45 COCOA SHELLS. ee Less ——— Sele 34 Poun ee .. 6%@7 FFEE. ‘a Rio. ro. 1.3... 17 ee 18 ae ee foe... ee go ee ee Santos. =. .......... — CL Pee 21 Peaberry ..... = Mexican and Guatamala. Fair.. . | TN oe) ee 24 Maracaibo, ae... 23 oe... ae Java, ere... oe Private Growth............- 27 Mandehling . : _ Mocha. Imitation . oe oe —............... 28 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per 1b. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX. 23 45 Bunce ..... . 22% Lion, 60 or 100 1b. case.... 23 4 xtract. — City *% TOSS. i = Hummel’ 8, foil, STOSS...... 1 50 tin 2 50 CHICORY. a... .. 5 —. |... 7 CLOTHES LINES, Cotten, @ir....... per doz. 1 25 - ....... . 140 . a - 1 €0 : _o....... . 1 7% a oe... ” 1 $0 Jnte Gu ft. r $0 72 ft- ' 1 0 CONDENSED MILK, 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle.. 7 40 aoe. la, oo ss... ee eee 4 50 Magnolia . a3 ——...... ........... . +. 83 COUPON ie ‘Tradesman.’ 81, per hundred 2 8 2, oa ss * ag 30 es * C . 3 Ul _, “ a 4m —, * ie _-.. 2 “Superior.” BS i, per hundred........... 3 oo ‘a. . a 3 00 % 3, [ i oo $5, 4 00 #10, 5 00 #20, 6 00 “Universal.” $ 1, per hundred $3 00 | No. 1,6 1 65 3, ie 3 50] No. 2, 6.. . to 8 3, SE eee tera 4 00 XX wood, white. 8 5, Ee ei ate 5 00 | No. 1, 6% es $10, Leen sae 6 W 1 No. 2. 6% 1 25 $20, it 7 Manilla, white. Above prices on coupon books 6% Lh ee 1 00 are subject to the following | ¢’ a 95 quantity discounts: Cilia 200 or over......... 5 per, ont, 1 Mil No.4¢. ..... rf 500 ‘ 10 ee kak eens id FARINACEGUS GOODS. COUPON PASS BOOKS, Farina. Can be made to represent any | 100 Ib. kegs............. 3% enomination from $10 down. | Hominy. 20 books... ............. 859 GD | RMON cweesccen scene seca 8 00 -: eee 100 C ce eee ns 3 00 Lima Beans. PID eee cee eee eee e ee 6 25 | Dried...... ee 4% ae 10 00 M 1000 * a 75 accaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, = Ib, box... 55 CREDIT CHECKS. Timorese, 10%@. % 500, any one denom’ o....: $3 00 ‘Geteees = = + oe 7 SS 4 60 Lee. : ; Steel punch............ 7 Half barrels 100...... 2 40 CRACKERS. a. _o. - Butter. veniea Soymeurkae........... 6 ca Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% = bbls. Norwegian a uartered “© —sisé|CéNOFWegilam ............... / Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes mound, * - > - alaesg i : = Apricots. Scaled. a TE California in bags...... Evaporated in boxes. .. "Mackerel. Blackberries. noi, oe... Le In boxes. ' oe 1, ee... .... 5 05 Nectarines. at ae! 1 35 eee. Par eee... 8 & 25 Ib. ea eats 19% ' me 95 eaches. 2 : Peeled, in boxes...... Russian — 65 Cal.cvap. “ Ss i Gy iS ceil r Ha gal — 9% Trout. ears. No. 1, % bbls., 100Ibs........6 00 California in bags..... 10% No. 1 BY bbl, 40 Ibs 7 70 Pitted Pee No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs.......... 80 50 1b, boxes : . mo. ,606 kite, 68 xes . oF Whitefish. a Prunellcs. e — 30 Ib. boxes. % bbls, 100 lbs... .....87 00 $27! Raspberries. ."- =” Lease im barrels..... Sin cie........... 2 a em ae... .-...... 8lb. * ee eee cree Raisins. FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Loose Muscatels in Boxes, Souders’, 2 5 Sr ces on 2 oped akin, wth eneknenew. Loose Muscatels in wage. Bestin the world for the money. 2 crown... .... ee 5 ee 6 : Regular Comes. — Le Patras, Oereeee......... 4 apes - eoeee......... 4% Soc 8 + jie ee 4% ion... 4a ee Citron, Leghorn, a boxes 20 i" Lemon + paneer Orange “ = “ “ 11 anilila, Raisins. 203 a Ondura, 29 Ib. boxer. @8 a2 Oe .-- 81 au Sultana, 20 vig 8%@ 9 on... 20 Valencia, 30 ‘ Prunes, XX Grade ( ‘alifornia, ae 9 Lemon. ¥x100 25 Ib. bxe. 9% 202.....81 50 . 3290 c 10 oe. 3 00 oe 70x80 e 10% o 60x70 o il i" XX Grade See ......--s- neo 7% Vanilla. BE oo oie ee ee eee 20z.....81 75 Sultana . idee eee ke 4 os "8 50 French, TNR 13 : eke t bee ee Jennings’ D C. a 80-99... .-.-. ..+,-11 hanes Vanilla va i eee 10 202 folding box... 20 ENVELOPES, 402 2 00 XX rag, white, 6 oz . 2 00 3 00 We, EB ied ese ces es $1 8 oz taper . 1 35 2 00 [eS Oe... a 5 4 Ge tae .....-5 +. i £50 2 50 GUNPOWDER Rifle— Dupont’s. noe.... i 0 OO Halt kegs. LU ge quarter —_ ee 1 Ib cans.. a. >) cCane...... 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. s. a 459 Hee weee.................. 2 oe Quarter kegs. -1# Lip cams .... 34 Eagle Duek—Dupont’ Ss. ES a 11 00 Hisar bees |... 1... oe +g capiosl kegs.. 2. ee 60 ‘HERBS. PN ceuae secs oh eee cee 15 ee 15 INDIGO. Madras, Sid, Domes. ...... 55 oy. ’3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50 JELLY. a oo Oe @ 59 _ ge @ 7 LICORICE. Pore... 30 [aera 25 oo 12 LYE. Condensed, 2 = eee eae 125 i. , 2 2 MATCHES, No. 9 sulphur.... 1 65 Anchor parlor..... 17 mo emome lL... 1 10 MEDOrt DATIOR............... 4 00 MINCE MEAT, OOOk, O8Ne................ 2 iD G doz. Gase................ 5 oe. Gime... ........ it © MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. los .........,........ $1 75 oar sone. 1 40 J. , ae 70 Prat . ea 45 Half pint —— : 40 Wooden, for einieien per doz. oe. 7 00 Half gallon a 4 = eee... ls... ee Pint ae . 2 3 MOLASSES, Blackstrap. moeee DO... ............. 14 Cuba ae. i 16 Porto Rico. rreee ..... ess 20 rae... e+e 30 New Orleans. AEE pecan un 18 Good... sah eee “- 22 Extra good Se 27 c — hee eee anew eens 32 MOY. ui wnes ccec.... 40 ‘Gan half barrels, 3c extra, PICKLES, Medinm, Barrels, 1,200 count.. @5 00 Half bb!s, 660 count.. @3 00 Small, Barrela, 2.460 count. § 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 50 PIPES, Clay, No. 216.. * full count: nl a Cob, No. 2. oa 1 25 POTASH, 48 cans in case, Perea. 4 00 Penna Sat Co.’s......._.. 3 25 RICE, Domestic, Cc Parolina NE, sss. 5. 5 N C No. mes meee a. — Japan, No. i i. POO Bec ce crew te eee 3 cask gen udes Coe Cg eee! —— : Root Beer vee Williams’, 5 dos... 1% -. x s 00 1% 5 00 SPICES. Whole Sifted. es... 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 7 ‘ Batavia in bund....1 . Saigon in rolls...... 2 Cloves, — oe 22 — isc. oe Mace Batavia.. —— Nutmegs, fancy. beets 75 No. rer ese 70 " 2... 69 Pepper, Si ngapore, —— = c white -20 . shot 16 Pure a in Bulk. CO 15 Cassia, Batavia eee eee 1g : and Saigon .25 ° a a5 loves, Aeros. .......... 22 Pansipas. |... 98 Gage, 4 African.. en ' tocar... ...... 2u . gamueece........ .22 mece Daley. ....... 7% Mustard, a. and Trieste, .22 Tries te a 25 Nutmegs, No. 2... eo Pepper, Singapore, black. -16 white. .... 2 ” Cayenne. ....,...; 20 ee... ‘Absolute’ in Packages, 4s Vs Avieiece ........... s<- of 1 Cinnemion........ 84 155 oovee.......-.-... - of 1 Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155 . Avrican........ 84 155 mere... 84 155 POMDOE .004.000000 2... 84 155 Sare...... 84 SAL ‘SODA. Kegs. oe 1% Granulated, Pomee 0. 1% SEEDS, I @12% Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Conewey .... 1... 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian. _. 4% ere Sore. 5M Mustard, waite. 10 So ee 9 Rape a. 6 Cuttice bone........... 30 STARCH Corn 2- - boxes eee eden 6 tt 53 Gloss, 1-lb packages ...... Loe 5% 3-lb _. 5% 6-1b Ce . <0 and S0 Ib. boxes.......... 44 aoe. Lg SNUFF Scotch, in bladders. ........37 Maccabor, tn jars...........% french Kappee, in Jars.... .43 SODA, eed chen ees eee ol Shy Res. English + 3 ae SALT. = sacks... _. - a 2 . -~2o 28 0. sacks. anes 2 ieee 23 24 3- > (eee 150 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 2. * a “* i¢ 8 Warsaw. 56 lb, dairy in drill bags.. 32 hh ha . 18 Ashton, 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56!», dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. OG lk. weeke....... . .....- 27 Common Fine. aoe... eT. 70 mea ......... i 7 SALERATUS, Packed 60 ibs. in box. coerce es ...- .. 5% DeLana@’s . 2. ag Dwight’s.... 3s. ee TestGrk.......)...... 5 SOAP. Laundry, Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1/Ib Good Cheer, 601 1b..........3 90 White Borax, 100 %- a Proctor & Gamble. ree. «4... ....- 3 45 Ivory, 10 oz. ee Ce... 8 io. ... Mottled German.. : are Tee... ......-. .. 3D Dingman Brands. Gieete HOT.. ...+...5..... 3 % § box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..$4 00 plain... = 0 N. K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands, Santa Claus.. : . 400 Brown, 60 bars.. dante eden aes 2 40 os ..... - 3 25 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. a 4 00 Ce Marseilles....... Cabecuueeus 3 95 We icin ss Oe ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Thompson & Chute Brands. Te is 3 65 Mono .... 35 Savon Improved........... 250 Sommerer... Se ono... |... Reonomical 6000000107. 2 2 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 doz.. _ 266 SUGAR. The following prices repre- sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the act ual costin New York, with 36 cents per 100 pounds added for fre'ght. The same quotations will not apply to any townwhere the freight rate from New York is not 36 cents, but the local quotations will. perhaps, afford a better criterion of the market than toquote New York prices exclusively. Cut Loaf. Powdered Granulated . he Extra Fine Granulated... E Cubes ... (seels. Oe RNEN Powdered...) 6 30 Confee, Standard A.. .... 5 48 No. 1 Columbisé......... 5 42 No. S Hmpire A... ..... 5 36 No. @ ... 1.2... _ta mo. 7.. - 523 No. §. .. oi No, 9... . oi No. W. -- 2 OF No. fi. . 498 Me W........ eo: 4 92 No. i. 473 MOU i... 4 36 SYRUPS. Corn. eee a. 21 Mert hhie.... 23 Pure Cane. ee 19 ON ee oh ede ce 25 MONS nc 30 SWEET GOODS. Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Sager Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers... 8% Oatmeal Crackers.... 8% VINEGAR. eae 7 8 mee. Ss oe $1 for barre}. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, per gal ee 30 Beer mug, 2 doz in ¢ ase. 1 % YEAST. Mace... .... .-..... ..1 Warner’s 1 cect Poem ............... 1 00 Ce owt lr TEAS. JAPAN—Reguiar. ae... Good . Cuotee..-........ Ceoneem......-... -... “ Dust a... Ge. ....-......-.. ee 24 S ee Ss 32 @34 a... . -10 @I12 BASKET FIRED. Pele ...... ..-.....-.. 18 @20 eee... . @25 Choicest. . @35 Extra choice, ‘wire leat @40 GUNPOWLER. Common to fah....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5 OOLONG. Mx Common to fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL, Comaon to fair....... 2 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor to fair....... 18 @2s6 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ee, 8 @% WO ieee es 24 @28 a. 40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Pails unless er noted Bazoo. : @30 Can C an. leaned cee oy @27 Welle Biy.............2¢ Ge Unele ben........ ce 22 Hawai ........... 60 Sweet Cuba......... i 84 McGinty | ieee o 27 4 bbls 25 Dandy om eas bee 29 Torpedo i os 2. . in drums.... 23 Vom Yum ........... 2 We i ° 23 “ @rom.. ua 22 Plug. Sorg’s Brands. Spesrnead ............ 41 ee 29 Nobby ae 41 Scotten’s Brands. BV. ww eeee es... 2... 26 Hiawatha ea ees 38 Valley City ..........-. 34 Finzer’s Brands, Old Honesty.......... 40 eae ar. ......: ie 32 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, Bila Ged. ......... ... .4% Golden Shower............. 19 moms 1... ...,....... ae Meerschaum . a American Eagle ( Co."s iene. | Miyctie Waeyy.. ............. 40 ed - 30@32 GCrmgal ....... Leveceecc: an Frog a Java, 1s fs eet Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands. Pemee |. 16 Banner Cavendish. oe One Cae 28 Scotten’s Brands. Waren 15 oe 30 Gold Bieee................. 6 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, Peerless...... eye ed bese uae 26 Ole Wee... ec... 18 Standard.. e on Globe Tobacco Co." 8 Brands. eee 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. Rob Roy.. ee 26 Weld Sams, 28@32 Mead Clover... 2... 32 Spaulding & Merrick. ‘Tom and gerry. ............. 25 Traveler Cavendish........38 Ce Plow Goay......._.......dug@oe Comm Cabe................0. OILs. The Standard Oil Co. —_— as follows, !n barrels, f. o. Grand Rapids: moceno .............. Sh 22. OW. UW. CO OMien. HMeagignt .......-... T% Oe @ t% Stove Gasoline........ @ 7% ( — eee 27 36 Engi 13 G21 ieee °5 cold. test @B 84 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Green . 223 Part Cured. @ 3% Full @ 3% ee @5 Kips, green ........... 2@3 Cure... 4... @i Calfskins, oo Le 4@5 o4...... 4@5% Deacon a. ....10 G2 No. 2 hides V4 off. PELTS. Siceriineg............ 10 B@ @ ee 15 @ @ WOOL Weenee .. .... 12 @18 Unweehee ............ 2 @4 MISCELLANEOUS. TO ie ee we 3 @ 3X Grease butter ........ 1 $ : Swieceen.............. 1% Ginseng... 2 Bg. 50 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFSs WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 54 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 54 MEAL. ee 1 40 Granuiated............ 1 65 FLOUR. Straight, in ences... ..... 3 30 Uaeereis........ 3 55 Patent “ saene........- 4 30 ' “ Darter. ....... 4 55 Graham sacks... ia Rye ee. 1 90 MILLSTUFFS., Less Car lots quantity Pree... |. $13 00 $13 00 Screenings .... 13 00 13 00 Middlings..... 14 00 14 00 Mixed Feed... 17 9 17 50 Coarse meal .. 18 09 18 00 CORN. Car tots,..... oe Less than car lots.......... 43 OATS. Car lots .. ee Less than car lots........... 38 Hay—Old No. — ear lots. ...12 ton lots .-14 00 New hay on the market .. .8@10 FRESH MEATS. Beet, carcans.......... 4%4@ 7 " hind quarters. . -7 @S% ~ tone .& @5 . loins, No. 3...8 @i1 . We as see 7 @9 Toes... ...... 6%@ 7% a @6 Poem aes... @ 8% “ seepldes ...... @ 74 BULK. © Sausage, aaa or head @i Poamoee .. ....... 2 00 ," mea es - Gt Peres 6... 0) ° ° eadea @ 8 21 Sededee as eae 6 @7%| PAPER & WOODENWARE Baskets, andl. Le 35 | Lamb Deedee cele, 74@ 8 Te bushel.. 1 25 Weel... ............. 6 @i% PAPER. . will — ; io Straw ..... assaaseeasaaear ‘| willow el’ths, No.1 5 25 —otermmme SC No® 6 25 F. z ——— quotes 88/ Rag sugar ...................2% i ‘ No.3 7 25 follow Hardware . ee tee splint No.1 3 25 FRESH FISH cough Oe cea i : “ ry Goods..... i. 5 ae ' + 0.3 47 cee Qo | dute Mantlia..2 20.12) @6% |... INDURATED WARE, Brook Trout .-....... 25@35 | Red Express No.1...... -- 56 Log Nod oe Black Bass.. 8210 i No. 2........--494 | mips’ No. | ceed = Halibut. vee QU TWINES. Tubs, No. 3 10 50 Ciscoes or Herring . @ 5 : Bluefish ee POULTRY. F a lobster, per Ib... 7 ce a "45 Local dealers pay as follows: = J Pickerel. . : @10 Sea Island, assorted....... 30 DRESSED. No Shemp. .......... _. 10 Fowl ... : @& INoe« 5 ee seamen White ... 8 nO ol. 3 15 Turkeys... Red Snappers .... “2 WOODENWARE Ducks Columbia River Salmon 20 Tihs. No. t ‘ un LIVE, Mackera).. ....,.... 25 rn aig, "No 2 oe eee 7 00 | Live broilers 1% bs. to 2 lbs. OYSTERS—Cans. i. No: z eee eee a ne 5 a each, per goa o.oo = Pails, _ 1, two- hoop.. sal | Live broilers less than sien ce «No. 1, three- hoop... 1 60| spring CE ken ‘an SHELL G00D8. Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes. 40 | Pow! MCRCNS.... ai Oysters, per 100 ......1 50@1 25| Bowls, ilinch.............. oo S10 ae vs 4 ‘c ml A i al ale 4 al Clams. 1 25@1 50 13 Lee 4 §) | Parke Ducks........110 @it PROVISIONS. enue Creams. : . .80@90 The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, | genta Ea . Np 5 quotes as follows: | Burnt Almonds.. eo 1 00 PORK IN BARRELS. | Wintergreen Berries. . ee ; CARAMELS. ceo Og : TT 18 90 | NO- wrapped, 2 2 lb. boxes... 34 Extra clear pig, short TE 17 59 | No. i é ce oo 51 Extra clear, heavy.. ey ae a0 : i tteeeeeecseereees 2B Cigar fat peaem | St 3; i ae eens Boston Clear, short cut. | Stand up, 5 Ib. boxes wate eeeeee (lene Pace. Soot Cut. ..2..............._.- 17 00 | BANANAS, Standard clear, short cut, best... ....... ET 1 50@1 75 sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Meme 2 OUL@2 50 Pie Same. ‘ Large settee eee eee eee cen aes = EE ee : ORANGES. eee ge California Riv le S Pa oe 5 Peatimrors SOMEOEO 6. 8% St Michael rt nner: < — - els. Leese eeu eu ee 4 °0@5 00 ee. C¥ 7 ilies tae’ geet ee : iin: — es Pi oo na, went eee teieceae en nsneenssacenee G oe soso -~ pam * saaee Head Cheese. ........ roo ese 7 ; chat Sen Hk ir = = es i ss —— =o ravine, 3 25 oa LTE on Figs, fancy layers, 6b.. ec @12% Family ..2-.-2-+-020e05 eres vs a — Sim Tins, igeadvance 7 ee 2B ois” a a 2 = ‘“ Dates, Fard, 10- ib. box. a 7% a ac “ 50-lb. 6% 3 Ib. ' ie " ne Feneten. 50-Ib. box. om 5% BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, — wees ol Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. _7o Oe @18 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 50 . Caltfornia ee 18% Boneless, rump butts. .............-....--.-. 13 00 ioe ct @ 8% erts . ced aa ee @i1 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Walnuts, Grenobie. ve NT ora Hams, ——s- ee i “ Marbot.... Ls a a a c Cc ee et me @13 " . See se Table Nuts, fancy.. @13% Ce dea ee choles a a ” 1; ee Ee 13 iecnad Texas, H. P.. i i i : i i 12 oi se... 9 Cocoanuts, Milas Breamtest Bacon, bonciess.................... 14 oe ks. ANUTS. i G1 0 Dried beef, ham prices....... vee --10% | Fancy, H. P.,Suns...................... @s8 Tre Salas Lea @ % Briskets, GN ND Shieny, tH ee ee @s ul ee 11 “ ‘ Roasted @ %% Choice, H. Pa Extras.. @ 6% CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, Roasted .. @8 The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. STICK CANDY. FRUIT JARS. Cases — Pails. | Pints . wee eee e ect ee ee $6 00 Standard, per Ib.. Le i* uarts. eee et eeeee ee sc. 6 . H.H a 6 7% Half Gallons. eee a . wwe... 6% 7% | Caps.. ee Boston Cream............ 8% Rubbers... 45 Gm tet... 8% : Extra H. H........ : 8% oo . 45 No. Cc MIXED CANDY. Nao * |. - Bbls. Pats | Taboies.....-- .-.._..-.... 75 OO, 6 7 LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box, eS 6 7 6 doz. in box. Ro . Fee ee eee me ee as ieeae 6% 7% ae os eee cece ores 4 No oe 8 o. CS ii Bogle Rock.. Se 8 i Oe Ee ee 2 90 Ceeeergee a 8 First quality. oe .............. —, 8 No. 0 Sun, crimp top. Beeees due 2 25 Peanut Squares...........- 9 mot. TF 2 40 French os bees e ea oo .. 10 Naz ‘ ’ ..8 40 Valley Cream —.. 13 XXX Flint. Midget, 30 Ib. baskets. Ee eae e el eae 8 | No.0 Sun, crimp -- +2 oe Modern, 20 lb. doce beete ceases. OF ae 7 i ---8 80 Fancy—In bulk eas top. -+-B 88 Pails. | No, 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled... 3 70 Lozenges, Ne ee ee 470 oc eee da cae e ctu cos AD No. 3 Hinge, ‘ “ "4 88 Chocolate Drops. ....-...--.+....-.-. «s+ 1161 La Bantic. Chocolate Monumentals. - 13 | No.1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. ..............1 25 Gant... eee - 5% No. 2 ' ro i 1 50 Moss Drops......----------+---+-+-++++++ > &) | No. 1 erimp, per doz.... -.-.--..--..---e esses 1 35 a — sete ecettte scene eee sete sete seen eens a ee 1 60 ee EE LAMP WICKS. FANCY—In 5 1b. boxes. Per Box | No.0, per QrOss.............c.0-.seeeeeeeeeees 2 “ om ee EE 55 |No.1, | ee eh al ha ay i neg No. 2, Se 38 eo ee 55 No 3 3, ee : Peppermint Drops. . Se al ¢ Chacala twos 0c ne aa 65 Mar nmoth, Pe moni settee sees TE H. M. Chocolate Se: . | ether Cocke, 1104 eal 06 Gum Drops.. oo . di | PubLer Uroe li a Licorice rops.. eee ui ieee. eae 4 & PCr GOZ........sseenes : A. B. Licorice Drops. ee 30 Jugs, Y% -.7 aa sl ka ic ea a Lozenges, = ey Mii ri Pat 4gal., per ga oP ERR AR ORME - nted Le en eT a ik Pans, % gal, per dog......... +. aces Imperials. ee oo ‘0 se st eece seree TR NT EEE 7 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED, eee EE Cee ene ine cine SS | Batter Crocrs, | and #eal................2, ov oeeees DAF... ....... ey 55 | Milk Pans, % gal... cies - & Hena Made Cratmes..... ................. Se ._ ca 78 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WAYS OF WOMEN CLERKS. Incidents Observed on a Shopping Tour of Some Down Town Emporiums. From the Detroit News All large dry goods stores are, for the most part, very much alike in general appearance. The long rows of well-stocked shelves, the smooth counters and glistening show cases, the seats at regular intervals for the accommodation of customers, the rushing to and fro of cash boys or girls, or the shooting back and forth of cash boxes overhead like shuttles through the loom, the constant ebb and flow of shop- pers, and the busy clerks present to the eye of the uninterested looker-on a scene of tiresome confusion. One wonders how the clerks endure it day after day, month after month, especially the girl clerks, some of whom look pale and deli- cate and much in need of out-door exer- cise. But there are many things which ap- pear like that, on close inspection, dis- close individual yeculiarities; so each store is run according to its own system of management. There are alsu times when there is alullin trade, when cus- tomers are few and far between, and when the clerk finds time hanging heavy on her hands. When every scrap of stock is in order, every speck of dust brushed carefully frow show case and counter, and there is really nothing to do, how then does she fillin the time? The most natural con- clusion arrived at by the outsider is— gossip, and this is true to a great extent, buteven gossip palls after a time to many, and other amusements are resorted to. Dropping into one of our large dry goods stores afew days ago, the News leaned against the ribbon counter, and looked, with a speculative eye, upon the young woman clerk stationed back of it. This clerk was driving a pin into a bolt of ribbon with the intention of fastening it down to the counter, and was using a very large spool for a hammer. She raised a very quiet, serious face, and po- litely asked: ‘‘Did you wish to look at the ribbons?” The News replied in the negative and added: ‘I only want to wait here a fewminutes.” ‘Very well,” was the pleasant rejoinder, and she re- turned to her hammering. But without very much success, for the pin doubled up, and her visitor remarked: ‘“*That spool doesn’t seem to make a very good hammer.” Perhaps she caught a note of sympathy in the speaker’s voice; at all events she looked up quickly with a gleam of mis- chief in her fine gray eyes, and said—al- most as if in answer to the unspoken question in mind: “Oh, ’m just nailing down the other girl’s things. I belong at the glove counter just across, but sometimes tend to this one a minute or two while she is somewhere else. There now, that was a better pin and I’ve nailed that ribbon down pretty fast. Now fll nail down her book. I often do that, and do you know she never suspects me, but accuses all the rest of the girls.”” She laughed a little, low, rippling laugh. Remembering the demure face she had presented at first, her listener did not wonder that no one suspected her. “I suppose that the time sometimes drags, and you have to amuse yourself someway,’’ was ventured. “Oh, yes, its always dull for a spell after the Fourth.”’ ‘“‘Are you allowed books to read?” “Well, we have been, sometimes, but the trouble is, so many girls get absorbed in reading and neglect their customers. Of course our employer don’t like that, and one can’t expect himto. We used to do different kinds of fancy work when times were dull, but that had something the same effect as reading, and it was shut down on, too.” ‘I suppose you had rather be busy than idle,’’ was remarked. “Yes, indeed. Of course, I don’t like tobe so driven that I can’t keep my stock in order, but I’d much rather have a steady run of trade, then I can show a good ‘beok’ when it comes night, and feel that I have earned my bread and butter, and not stood here all day for nothing,” Just then a lady paused before the glove counter, and with a nod and a smile, the gray-eyed clerk stepped quick- ly across to her own place, leaving ‘‘the other girl’s things’’ nailed to the counter, and no clue that would throw suspicion on herself for the harmless trick. Another clerk, finding a few minutes of leisure on her hands, showed com- mendable pride in her personal appear- ance by applying a wisp broom energetic- ally to the black dress she wore. Having brushed off all dust and lint, she ar- ranged her hair before a small mirror, hanging back of the counter. Then she retied her sash, and surveying her im- proved appearance with satisfaction, was ready for business again. A couple more clerks were gossiping about a party that one had had the good luck to attend, and still another, with elbow resting in- dolently on the counter, was actually sucking her thumb. In another store—one of the most ex- tensive in Detroit—a young lady was clearing up her counter and in order to replace a box on a high shelf, she climbed on top of a stool which stood behind the counter. Just then the floor walker came along and made some bantering re- mark about her ‘‘elevation in the world.” She turned around, and taking hold of the tramway that carries the cash boxes, rested her chin on the wires and looked down coquettishly. ‘*What’ll you give me to hang by my teeth on this wire?’’ she asked, showing two rows of pearly ones that looked sound and _ strong enough to assist her in this acrobatic performance. She made a pretty picture standing up there between the shelves and a line of belts with shining buckles, but the floor walker knew his business too well to stop to admire it, so he only cast a smile at her over his shoulder, and passed an without making a bid. The vroung lady gazed about for a few sec- onds, but finding no other victim upon whom to exercise her wiles, descended from her perch. By passing over to the other side of the store, the News discov- ered that none of the clerks stood in any awe of this floor walker, some laughing at his orders, others ‘‘talking back” and making fun of him straight to his face. “I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself,” called out one lady clerk to one of the opposite sex. ‘You haven’t accomplished anything today.”’ ‘*Ho!”’ was the retort, ‘‘you have been here six months, and haven’t done a day’s work in all that time.’’ “Oh, 1 consider where that comes from,” she replied, and then quickly ad- ded, before he could get the start of her, ‘‘and I consider where it goes to.”’ “Miss W wants a hat pin,’ de- manded the cash boy, presenting himself before the notion counter. ‘Oh, dear,’’ cried the clerk, ‘that girl is always bothering for something. Here, take her this with my love, and tell her not to hurt herself with it.” ‘With what?” asked the boy, ‘‘the pin, or your love?” ‘‘The pin, of course, smarty. All the love lve got for her won’t hurt any- body.’’ The boy skipped away, seemingly not overburdened with hat-pins or love, and the girl turned to wait upon a customer, feeling a little cross that her leisure mo- ment had been taken up by accommodat- ing another—under protest. The reporter next called at a large wholesale and retail grocery store, where toilet articles, candies, ete., are also handled, and attempted a chat with a clerk at the candy counter. But she looked nervously about, and finally said: “We are not supposed to have any leisure, and—why—you see, Mr. —— don’t like us to be talking with anyone except strictly on business. He repri- manded me a few minutes ago because a friend of mine came in, shook hands with me and talked a little. I hope you un- derstand my position, and will not take offense.’’ It was late in the afternoon, the girl looked tired, and it was observed that no seats were allowed behind the counter. With anod of sympathy to the weary clerk, the reporter said good bye at once, sincerely hoping she would not get scolded on account of the call. ‘Yes, there are stores in Detroit where no seats are allowed for the girls, though | the majority of proprietors are not so | cruel,” said a pretty, blue-eyed girl in a {dry goods store on Woodward avenue. “m happy to say we have seats. I don’t know how I’d manage if we didn’t, because I'll tell you, confidentially, that Il am pestered to death with corns, and I’d have a hard time of it standing on my poor feet all day long. Yes, this is a good place to work. Once I was sick three weeks and my employer paid me my wages just the same as though I’d been here every day. No, there are no restrictions on our chatting with people when we are not busy.” The girl in the candy department of the store before mentioned was now re- ferred to, and.the clerk said, with some indignation, “I don’t know why Mr. need be so hard on his clerks. He was a clerk once, himself, not many years ago, either. But Il suppose it is like some of the poor girls who get married to rich men. They get so hightoned at once that they forget they ever lived any other way.” Looking in at one store and another it was observed that where seats were al- lowed, the girls looked less weary and did not seem usually to neglect custom- ers on account of being obliged to rise. In one store, however, the floor walker spoke quite sharply to a tall, indolent ap- pearing, vacant faced girl, who surrepti- tiously slid a book under the counter, and turned languidly to wait upon a lady who had been standing for some little time, unobserved, looking at thimbles, ete., which were arranged upon the show ease. A lady stepped asked: ‘*Have you any ‘lady fingers?’ ” “Yes,” replied the girl clerk, without offering to move. ‘*Do you want some?”’ “I do not know whether | do or not, until 1 have seen if they are fresh,” re- plied the lady, in a perfectly polite tone. The girl looked out of the window and drummed on the show case with her fin- gers. ‘‘I think,’’ said the lady, ‘‘that I will go somewhere else and buy some lady fingers.” The clerk offered nO objection and the lady passed out of the store. Such a clerk as this must be a profitable invest- ment. One of Detroit’s shoe dealers has taken a new departure by placing a lady clerk in each of his stores, and the exper- iment seems to be quite successful. La- dies call and inquire for the lady clerk, evidently preferring to have their shoes fitted by feminine hands. Said one Jady, “*] don’t mind so much telling a girl that Il have a corn here or a bunion there and she is so patient, too, and anxious to please one.”’ The girl looked tired, but ‘‘what would you?” The weather is exhausting, and ladies are hard to convince that a No. 5 foot will not go into a No. 3 shoe. If patience is required anywhere it must be in a shoe store. There is another sort of clerks upon whose patience constant demands are made, and those are the ones who work in the departments of ready made wraps and dresses. Fora lady to see a piece of goods she fancies, and buy it for a dress, is one matter—maybe her dress- maker has to catch it then; but to buy a readymade dress, insisting meanwhile upon unbecoming styles and colors be- cause they are pretty, is quite another. If a fat woman does not look well ina dress ruffled to the waist with additional flyaway bretelles at the shoulders, why, of course, the clerk is to blame, and she is expected to make it becoming. Speak- ing of fat women, the reporter watched with interest a demure-faced little clerk in the millinery department of one of the large bazars, while a ecustomer— weighing not less than 200, and with a face broad and rosy—tried on all the small, rolled up, cocked up, twisted up ‘shapes’? intended for small faces or at least delicate features, gazing meantime at her reflection in the mirror. The girl quietly passed up one hat after another, and as patiently received them back again, with never the gleam of a smile at the grotesque panorama going on in that mirror. Finally the woman gaye it up, into a bakery and and witb a sigh ‘‘for something better than she had known,’’ replaced her own hat (a brown straw loaded with red roses), and waddled away. “What do you think of such custom- ers?” was asked. “We are not supposed to have any thoughts,” was the reply, accompanied by the gleam of appreciation the reporter had been watching for all along. Then she turned to the flower counter and be- gan to arrange the many-colored blos- soms more artistically. “Did you wish anything?” asked a girl in a crockery store. “Only to look at the pretty dishes. I suppose you see dishes until you get tired of them?” to which the red-iipped maiden replied: “That’s about the size of it.” There is a well-known store in this city where the clerks are evidently in- structed to watch and follow every one who enters therein, with the supposition that possibly every one is a thief. Per- haps this isa mistaken idea, but it in- trudes itself into the mind when, upon saying: ‘I don’t want to buy anything. Iam only looking around a little,’’ the clerk still follows and eyes one suspi- ciously. Presently the most innocent person begins to feel guilty, and is glad to escape to some store where she can wander about at her own sweet will and gaze unmolested upon the pretty goods her pocketbook will not allow her to buy. It cannot be very pleasant forthe clerks, either, and gaves them next to no leis- ure at all. The clerks in this store are never idle when the floor walker is in sight, and are meek, and obedient even to servility. There isa girlin one of the bazars, with soft brown eyes and hair, pink cheeks and gently rounded chin, who puts in her spare time posing in pretty attitudes, evidently for the appreciation of the admiring public; possibly for her own satisfaction. She never seems to laugh merrily like the others, but casts up her eyes in Madonna-like style, or droops her eyelashes in pensive medita- tion, leaning gracefully this way or that, ° or, if a customer claims her attention, displaying the wares with majestic con- descension. Perhaps she has mistaken her vocation, and is pining to become a model for some artist. Although the girls, for the most part, seem to keep up a comparatively bright appearance, still there are times when the long hours and the exhausting heat tells upon them. One girl, very pale, was suffering from a raging headache, but either she could not be spared to go home or she could not afford to lose the time, so she continued her work. Whiz! Whir-r! Click! The cash box stopped short just above her head. She took it down, opened it hurriedly, tipped the change into her hand, when a frisky dime fell overboard and rolled gaily under the counter, where it hid itself beyond recall. In vain the girl hunted, pressing a slender hand to throbbing temples. No use; it was gone; and, fin- ally, in desperation, she replaced the coin from her own purse. “Anything to-day?’ asked a pretty clerk, as the reporter dropped into a chair beside the corset counter. ‘*‘We have something very nice in cor- sets,’’? she continued. “Oh, yes,” murmured a young man clerk standing next to her, ‘‘l know you have something nice in corsets, and that is yourself.”’ The young lady tried to look daggers, but the compliment was too pointed, aud she was forced to smile instead. From all these places the reporter strolled into a book store. A girl stood leaning her elbows on a showcase. It was nearly 6 o’clock, and she looked tired and worried. The corn- ers of her mouth drooped and her eyes were dull and heavy. She came forward wearily, to her supposed customer. ‘‘I do not want anything,’’? was remarked, “only I cannot pass a book store without coming in.’? A sudden brilliancy flashed across her tired face, all dullness vanish- ing. *‘T see that you understand that feel- ing,” continued her caller. ‘Yes, indeed,” she answered ‘energetic- ally. The reporter meant to get that =~ + » ye n+ ied be 4 > <> he ie a “ +-4 =~ + » ye r\+ ied be 4 « > <> he ie bo wi td THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 girlto say more, but the proprietor of the store engaged her in conversation concerning some business of their own, the clock pointed its hands to the hour of 6, and closing up time had come. But it was obseryed that the brightness did not again fade from the girl’s face. Evidently, here is the right girl in the right place. She will handle books ten- derly and think of them almost as she might of living companions. From the book store to the public li- brary was an easy and naturai transit, and here the ever-accommodating clerks, when not busy, were, for the most part, reading. Itis not strange, that here, of all places in Detroit, clerks should read. And there are certain hours in the day when they have some leisure, although there are many duties connected with the position besides reeeiving and giving out books. To those who love books, the library is a good place to work. A semi-religious light pervades the place, and all the bustle and confusion of the dry goods storeis missing. If the writer must be a clerk, please find a vacancy in Detroit’s public library. It is, I do be- lieve, the sinecure of clerkships. — 2 A LITTLE PLAIN TALE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. A short time agoa fire broke out be- neath a theater. A play was on and the theater was filled with people. When the fire broke out the star actor quietly stepped cut in front of the footlights and calmly announced to the people that, for reasons which could not be explained at that time, the play could not proceed further. The people quietly vacated the theater and did not learn the cause of the abrupt dismissal until they had gained a place of safety upon the street. A panic, with its resulting losses and pains, was thus avoided. How? to theirown fate? No. Safety depended upon immediate action. There was a means of escape and something must be done to enable the people to make use of this means. It was done and the people were spared; and it was done by one who possessed the ability and understood the situation. It was a noble act. There isa grander theater where all the people are actors. It is the great in- dustrial workshop of this country. This great structure is fireproof, yet it is ap- parently on fire. It is only the combus- tible, gas-inflated execresceneces which are being consumed, yet the stage man agers act as though they thought the en- tire edifice was doomed to destruction. They are locking up the means to avoid apanic. They are retiring within their own fireproof compartments and leaving people to take care of themselves. They are acting the part of selfish, cowardly sneaks; and, sooner or later, if they do not prove themselves men, a panic will occur among the people, which will ke infinitely worse than a panic among the managers. The Government controls the supply of money. About so much per capita is required to be kept in circulation, in order that the business machinery of the country may be kept in motion. It is the great lubricator. When it becomes searce through any cause, friction makes the wheels squeak, and, finally, they re- fuse to turn round. There never was a time when the per capita supply of this lubricator was greater than at present; yet it is so scarce that the wheels of in- dustry are gradually coming to a stand- still all over the country. Money was never so plentiful and at the same time never so scarce! What a humiliating condition of things, and what set of fools are responsible for it? By what By | closing the doors and leaving the people | authority do these weak: knved, cowardly, | panic-stricken vault owners lock up the | circulating medium of the country, | thereby stopping the wheels of industry and preparing the way for a period of desolation and ruin? There surely must be something wrong in our system of money distribution when such a condi- tion of things is possible. Gentlemen of the money bags, what are you afraid of? Do you really think there is danger ahead and that the country is going to the ‘‘deminition bow-wows?’’ Your ac- tions are breeding a mighty distrust in the minds of the people. Can you blame them? The number of dinner pails which are filled every morning with fac- tory dinners is growing less day by day, and the only explanation given the la- borer is that ‘‘money is tight.” This ex- planation is tendered the grocer in pay- ment for groceries or as payment on ac- count. The grocer accepts it because he knows itis the only legal tender in cir- culation. The grocer passes it over to the jobber and the jobber hangs on to it as long as he can, for he knows that the banker holds the key. Gilt-edged com- mercial paper and solid rock collaterals knock at the doors of these strong vaults in vain; and wheat, the great staple it- self, goes begging at 50 cents a bushel because there is nomoney to buy it with. ‘*As good as the wheat” has lostits force, for it is not ‘‘good” enough to command money at the present time. The great bulk of the crop will be stored away on the farms, thus shutting off millions of dollars which would otherwise flow through the regular channels of fall trade. The locking up of the country’s cireu- lating medium has paralyzed the coun- try’s industry. Keep it locked up, and, as sure as money is money, a panic will prevail before next winter’s coal bills are paid. Remove that miserly clutch from those money bags and show the people that there is no cause for alarm! Allay their suspicions by discounting good paper, granting loans on gilt-edged securities, and by making the usual and customary investments! Refuse to dis- count paper endorsed by men who are sound financially and the most natural inference arising from such refusal is that you have lost confidence in every- body and everything. To refuse a loan on good collateral security, is equivalent to a confession on your part that the country is on the eve of a general col- lapse and that present prices cannot be depended upon. The banker may have some excuse, but it would bea merciful act at the present time if every depositor would withdraw his money from the bank, relieving them of this flimsy ex- cuse. Private capitalists and money loaners have no such excuses. They are not subject to ‘‘runs.’”? Their money is their own. When they invest it freely they show their faith in the future wel- fare of the country and inthe mainte- nance of values, and everybody says the times are good; but when they crawl into their shells and bag up their money in old stocking legs and pack it away in de- posit vaults, it is the handwriting upon the wall, pending doom. The summer is speeding jaway and another long winter is ap- proaching. The demands of cold and hunger must be met whether the Mc- Kinley bill, the Sherman bill, or any other bill is repealed or not. Pending accounts must be paid and groceries and " | |} a.m. for Spring Lake and Grand Haven; warning the people of their im- clothing must be sold and paid for, or the doors of thousands of retail stores must be closed before the winter is over with. This means work for the laborer and employment for the mechanic. It means cash for wheat. It means the turning around of the factory wheels. It means the buying of homes, building houses and improving streets. It means a resumption of business on a sound, safe, substantial basis. It means the exercise of alittle patriotism and a de- termination to prove to the world that the business life of our country is suffi- ciently vigorous to withstand the opera- tion of having the wind pricked out of it without being placed under the influence of an anesthetic. It means a disposition on the part of every man who commands money to let loose of it at once, not in wild speculation and foolish ventures (this has been our curse), but in making substantial improvements; in aiding and relieving sound and solvent manufactur- ing concerns, and in buying gilt-edged securities at their legitimate market value. Finally, it means the placing of the means of escape within the reach of the people and the avoidance of a disas- trous panic. Any man who thus refuses to act—and that without delay—is a hater of mankind and an enemy of his country. E. A. OWEN. >. <> Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. CHICAGO AND WESI MICHIGAN R’Y. JUNE 2, 1893 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 paren FROM CHICAGO, Ly. Chicago. . 25am 9:00am 5: 45pm *11:35pm Ar. G’d Rapids. 1 cop 3:55pm 10:55pm *6:10am VIA 8T, JOSEPH AND STEAMER. Ly. Grand Rapids......... .1:25pm_ 6:30pm a Cee ee. . 8:30pm 2:00am Ly. Chicsgo 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 CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. iy. @ ER... 5:45pm *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm Ar.Manistee.10:44pm 12:10pm 6:10pm 4:50am Ar. Tray.C’y.11°10pm *12:40pm 6:00pm ......... Ar. Charlevoix. ..... *3:15pm 8:20pm 7:20am Ar. Petoskey 3:45pm 8:50pm 7:50am Ar. Bay View..... *3:55pm 8:55pm 8:0i.am Trains stop at Traverse City for dinner and supper. Arrive from Bay View, etc , m., 1.66 p. m., *10:00 p. m. OTTAWA BEACH. Ly. Grand Rapids... 8:50am 5:45pm ..... Ly. Ottawa Beach... 7:00am 3:50pm 9: 40pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m., leaves Ottawa Beaeh 6:30 p. m. PARLOR AND 8LEEPING CARS. ToChicago, lv.G. R.. *7:25am 1:25pm *11:30pm To Petoskey lv.G. R.. *7:30am 1:40pm 11:15pm To G. R..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 *Every day. tExcept Saturday. week days only. ETROIT, GRAND HAVE WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av2. 6:00 a. m., 11:40 a. m. Other trains cIN & MIL- EASTWARD. \tNo. 14/tNo. 16|tNo. 18; \tNo. 82 | | | Trains Leave Gd Rapids, Lv| 6 45am/10 20am ai 7 40pm OG0S .. 2.2... Ar| 7 40am/11 25am : 27pm! 8 45am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 25amj12 17pm) 520pm| 9 42am Owoss)...... Ar} 900am| 1 20pm) 6 05pm)}10 25am E. Saginaw..Ar |}10 50am Bay City..... Ar |11 32am 3 45pm) 8 opm | beac. 4 35pm| § 37pm|........ Flint ........Ar|10 05am] 345pm| 705pm)........ Pt. Huron...Ar |12 05pm 5 50pm) Soepas........ Pontiac ......Arj10 53am} 305pm) 8 25pm). . Detroit....... Ar }11 50am| 405pm} 925pm}........ WESTWARD. Trains Leave |+tNo. 81 |tNo. 11 G’d Rapids, Ly Gd Haven, Ar Mircea “1... Chicago Str. ‘‘ 4 00pm! Ve. +Daily except Sunday Sunday only train leaves Grand Rapids ats and at 7 p.m. to connect with Sunday night steamer at Grand Haven for Chicago. Trains arrive from the on 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. m., 3:15 p.m. and 9:35 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. Westward—No. 1 Wagner Sleeper. No. il Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas, CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monrce Street. tNo. 13.|#No. 15 72am 1 00pm 4 55pm) 10 20pm 8 30am 2 10pm} 6 00pm} 11 26pm 6 20am} 6 30am cian ........ Grand Rapids & Indiana, Schedule in effect June 25, 1893 TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For M’kinaw,Trav. City and Sag. 6: 30 @ m 7:20am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 1:10pm 1:20pm For Cadillac and Saginaw... 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ...... "8:10 D ‘m 10:30 pm From Kalamazoo. ............... 9:10am From Chicago and Kalamazoo... 940pm Trains arriving from south at 6:50am and 9:10am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. Train leaving north at 7:20 a. m. daily. does not run to Traverse City on Sundays. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from L — This train North. nth. Wow Olsctmiass. ... .. 6:30am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 8:00 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm Wor Cinemas... 6:15 pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:49 p m 11:20 pm From Saginaw. . o- IES a From Saginaw....... . 10:40pm Trains leaving sout p mand 11:20 p. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 7:20 a m train has Parlor Car to Mackinaw City. 1:20 p m train has parlor cars Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. :30 Pp m train.—Sleeping cars Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand apids 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. :00 m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand apids to Cincinnati. 11:20 pm train.—Through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chi- __ cago. Chicago ‘via Gc. R. & zr, x. R. Lv Grand Rapids i -— : _ pm 11:20 pm Arr Chicago pm 6:50 am , 8: = . m train runs solid with wucuck Wagner Par- or © ll: ov train daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car. Ly caleeas 4:15pm 9:50 p m Arr Grand Rapids 9:40 pm 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 oo —Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 6:55 am 10:15am 11:25 am 440 pm 5:45 pm 9:10pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45 a m, ar- riving at 9:15am. Returning. train leaves Muske- gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:50 p m. Tnrough tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Station, Telephone 606, Grand Rapids, Mich. ©. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) Arrive. Depart 72pm. .....- Detroit Express 4 55 pm a em....,.... Day Express .... 2pm 6 Oam.....*Atlantic and Pacific... ~ 45 pm 1pm ..... New York Express...... 5 40pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55 am; re- turning, leave Detroit 5 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALMquistT, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. DETROIT, a r 28, 1893 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:10am *1:45pm 5:40pm Ar. Detroit .............11:35am *5:50pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ig. Detrait............. 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. GR.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. Parlorcars to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. » TOLEDO NORTH MICHIGAN RAILWAY. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’ys offers a route making the best time be- tween Grand Rapids and Toledo, Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. VIA D., L. & H. BY. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo ” eels 1 m. and 10:45 p, m. i, @. HO RY. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a, m. and 3:25 p. m. Ar. Folcdes.......... 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. Return connections equally as good. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 20 | LOWERING THE LEVEL OF PRICES. The occurrences of the past few weeks compel the admission, against which we | have all hitherto been struggling, that | the present financial troubles proceed from a deeper cause than a mere spas-| modic and unreasoning panic. They are so severe and widespread, and have now lasied indications of passing away, that they can no longer be regarded as superficial They must rather be viewed as the whole- some, though painful, process of transi- tion from an unnatural speculative infla- tion to a soberer state of feeling, and as destined to end in a readjustment of prices upon a lower level than that which has lately prevailed. A great deal is said about the influence of the currency upon prices, and it is un- doubtedly true that, in a general way, increasing the volume of currency in a country tends to increase the prices of commodities there, while decreasing it tends to.lessen them. An increase in the quantity, also, of commodities offered for sale while the volume of currency re- mains unaltered, tends to reduce prices, and the advocates of free silver coinage are quite right in saying that the produc- tion of wheat, cotton, pork, iron, and other staples, has, during the past few years, so far exceeded the production of gold that the power of gold to purchase them has been immensely increased, and that their prices measured in gold have therefore falien. The production of sil- ver, on the other hand, having kept pace with the increased production of these staples, its purchasing power has not in- creased like that of gold, and, therefore, if their prices were to be measured in silver instead of gold, they would be higher than they are in gold. What the advocates of silver fail to perceive is, that while higher prices for wheat, cot- ton, and similar things would give the producer of them more units of money for his products, he in turn would have to give the seller of other commodities more of the same units for what he buys, and that the workingman could not buy so much with the same wages under the silver standard as he can buy under the gold standard. Debtors now in debt wouid profit by the substitution of silver for guld as a standard of value, because they would pay their debts with smaller quantities of commodities, but this bene- fit would be only temporary. Future debts contracted under a silver standard would not be diminished. The efficiency of a depreciated cur- rency in swelling prices is, however, trifling compared to that of the craze for speculation which periodically takes pos- session of masses of men and lifts them off the ground of sober sense into a whirl- wind of wild imagination. As we all know, the most obvious and natural form of gambling is betting upon success and not upon failure. While the professional bookmaker takes the odds against a horse, the public puts its money on his winning. Of the gamblers on the Stock Exchange, the great majority, especially the amateurs, invariably buy for a rise, so long without and only a few of them, mostly profes- | sionals, regularly sell short. Indeed, selling short, in times like these, is ex- and temporary. | the tendency of prices, in what are called good times, is always upward. One man buys, and after he has bought sells ata small profit to another, who, in turn, sells to another, who also gets another profit, and so on, until the article dealt in, whether it be stocks, bonds, wheat, cotton, oil, or anything else, has risen in |the market so high that the last buyer cannot sell at a further advance and has to let go. Then comesa reaction and the sellers for a fall have theirturn. The market drops until fresh buyers for a rise are tempted to come in, and the pro- cess begins over again. Ordinarily these fluctuations are small, and the losses and gains resulting from them so nearly balance one another that they dono great harm beyond wasting time and mental effort. Ithas been com- puted that a man who plays cards stead- ily for any length of time usually comes out at the end, if the game is an honest one, a winner or a loser for but a small sum, no matter how large his interven- ing losses or gains may be. Inthe same way a gambler in stocks or produce may win a great deal on one operation and lose a great deal on another, but upon striking a balance at the end of the year he will be neither much ahead or much behind. It is only when, after a succes- sion of years, prices have been pushed up, little by little, far above their true level, that a heavy fall comes, and then those who are caught in it have to suffer. One of these periods of small fluctua- tions, the total result of which was a large advance, extended from the col- lapse of 1873 to the inflated epoch which preceded the assassination of President Garfield in 1881. During that period the rise in stocks was in the aggregate enormous. Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, which sold for 78 in 1873, rose to 180 in 1881. Northwest was 311 in 1873 and 136 in 1881, Rock Island rose from 63 to the equivalent of 297, St. Paul from 2114 to 133, Lake Shore from 57 to 139, New York Central from 78 to 155, Union Pacific from 15 to 130, and Western Union from 44 to 137. The coal stocks suffered a severe depression during 1876 and 1877, but they, too, ul- timately, netted an advance, Lackawanna rising from 80 in 1873 to 129 in 1881, Delaware & Hudson from 99 to 115, and New Jersey Central from 85 to 112. From 1881 to 1884 prices declined again, but not with any suddenness except in May, 1884, when the Grant & Ward fail- ures occasioned a_ short-lived flurry, from which the market soon recovered. The Baring collapse in 1890 gave an- other check to the rise, but this cause, too, soon ceased to operate, and specula- tion, aided by the enormous disburse- ments which the Government had made for bond purchases in 1889, and by the steady pouring out of currency under the Sherman act of July, 1890, carried prices up and up until during the first three months of this year Atchison touched 3614, St. Paul 8344, Northwest 116, Delaware & Hudson 139, Lacka- wanna 156, Lake Shore 132, Long Island |118}¢, Manhattan 174, Missouri Pacific 60, New York Central 11114, General | Electric 114, Cordage 75, Pullman 199, | Chicago Gas 94, Consolidated Gas 144 tremely unpopular and exposes those | and Western Union 101. All this went who indulge in it to unpleasant com- | on, it must be remembered, while Great ments. They are looked upon, and on Britain was suffering from her enormous some accounts with reason, as enemies of the public welfare deserving of general reprobation. The consequence is that losses in Argentina aud in Australia, France from the waste of millions on the copper corner and the Panama canal, Germany from a collapse of building and manufacturing speculations, and Austria from the efforts she was making to re- sume specie payments in gold. The in- flation was not confined to stocks. Mer- chandise was imported from Europe to an unprecedented amount, corners in wheat in Chicago involved millions, the output of silver was stimulated by the purchases required under the Sherman act, and in all branches of industry there was a feverish activity. The re- cent numerous stoppages of mines and manufactories in various parts of the country show how production was pushed toa point far above the demand for consumption, and must now wait for consumption to overtake it. Here in New York real estate shared in the ad- vance, and the demand for labor main- tained wages at the highest point they ever reached. Looking back from the present mo- ment to last winter’s mad inflation, it seems wonderful that nobody perceived the imminence of the catastrophe which has since overtaken us. The explana- tion probably is that each individual be- ing occupied with his own ventures, was unaware of what others were doing in the same line, and especially was ignorant of the mismanagement and fraud which have since become known. When the Reading Railroad borrowed in February the money to pay the interest due Mareh 1 on its first preferred income bonds, who suspected that it had lost a million in an attempt to control the railroad system of New England, and in a week would be in the hands of a receiver? Who wasin- formed that the National Cordage Com- pany was a borrower from every bank in the country that would lend it money? Who had any idea that the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Com- pany was in danger of a receivership? Who knew of the rascalities of Francis H. Weeks, and of the embezzlements of dozens of bank officers which have lately come to light? A few persons here and there had an inkling, undoubtedly, of these elements of mischief, but to the community in general they were a pro- found secret. Now that they are reveal- ed we are all aghast at the extent of the rottenness which existed, and fear that there is more of it still covered up. Consequently, the vast crowd who, ear- lier in the year, were eager buyers, now either stand aloof or are compelled by their necessities to sell for whatever they can get, and the downward course of prices thus caused is assisted by opera- tors for a fall, who offer for sale what they do not possess in the expection of buying it for delivery at a still lower point. How long this process of liquidation will last, and precisely where it will stop, it is impossible to predict. All kinds of schemes have been proposed for arresting it, but they are on their face as futile for their purpose as they would be for arresting the fall of an avalanche. The decline must continue until bottom is touched, and where bottom is can only be told by its furnishing a solid resting place. A great deal is said about a scanty supply of money being the cause of the collapse, and it is true that the volume of bank loans in New York has been reduced from $496,564,000 on June 18, 1892, to $406,481,200 last Saturday; but, on the other hand, it should be considered that on June 13, 1891, or two years ago, these loans were only $383,034,600, or $23,446,- 600 less than they are at present. With- in these two years, also, $80,000,000 in spe- cie and legal tenders have passed from the vaults of the banks and of the Treas- ury into the possession of the public, the Sherman act has added over $100,000,- 000 to the country’s stock of currency, and the exports of gold have not greatly exceeded the production of our mines. The monetary searcity complained of is, therefore, only a searcity of confidence, and the revulsion supposed to be due to it is simply the reaction from an extreme elation of feeling to an extreme depres- sion. The repeal of the Sherman act will do something to quiet alarm, the importations of gold now beginning, and which promise to go on increasing, will relieve the stringency of the money mar- ket, and the failures of insolvent individ- uals and corporations, will, little by lit- tle lesson the demand for loans, but that it is possible immediately to restore prices to anything near the level at which they stood a few months ago there is no ground for believing. MATTHEW MARSHALL. —_—_— Purely Personal. Miss Lillian Giles, Secretary of the W. T. Lamoreaux Co., is spending a couple of weeks on the Detroit River resorts. H. Rosser, of Toronto, Ont., was in town a couple of days last week, looking for a suitable location for a drug store. He has gone to Chicago to take in the World’s Fair, and will reach a conclusion as to location on his return. Frank N. Barrett, the veteran editor of the American Grocer, has accepted an invitation to be present at the seventh annual picnic of the Grand Rapids Re- tral Grocers’ Association and address the members on a subject to be selected by himself. PRODUCE MARKET, Apples—Home grown Duchess and Astracans are coming in freely, commanding #2@2.25 per bbl. The quality of the former is better than that of the latter. Peaches—Alexanders are coming in in large quantities, commanding 66@75¢e per bu. It is expected that Haie’s Early will begin to arrive before the end of the week. Beans—Dry stock is so scarce as to be practi cally unquotable. Beets—25c per bu. Blueberries—Receipts are gradually increas- ing, the price ranging from %2@2.50 per bu., according to quality. Much of the receipts are damaged by being wet, due to heavy rains which recently fell in the berry sections. Blackberries—Lawtons command 7@8e per qt., but will probably go lower before the end of the week. The crop is large in size and fine in quality. Butter—The market is higher, with indications of still higher prices in the near future. Dealers now pay 17@18e for choice dairy, holding at 19@2ic. Creamery is in fair demand at 23@2Ac. Cabbage—Home grown, $3 per 100. Carrots—10c per doz. Celery—Home grown commands 14@l6e per doz., according to quality. Corn—Green, 5¢ per doz. Cucumbers—50c per bu. Eggs—Firm and strong. Dealers pay 13'%¢, holding at 14%¢. Green Onions—8@10c per doz. bunches, Honey—White clover commands 15e per Ib, dark buckwheat brings 12%c. Onions—Dry stock commands $1.15 per bu. or $3.25 per bbl. Both red and yellow danvers are in market, Plums—California command #2 per 4 basket crate, Potatoes—Rose and Hebron are the favorite varieties at this market. The price is stronger and a little higher than a week ago, choice stock commanding 60c per bu. Squash—3c per Ib. Tomatoes—4e per Ib. Turnips—Home grown, 30¢ per bu. 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