. Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. — , $1 Per Year. GRAND RAPIDS, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893. = WORD WITH YOU! Do you keep your Show Cases and Candy Jars well filled up? It pays to do so. Then the goods attract attention, That done, sales follow, and the profit makes you happy. We are turning out tons of new fresh goods daily. Send us an or- der. THE PUTNAM GANDY 60 STOP AND CONSIDER How you can obtain a Pack of A. DOUGHERTY’S Celebrated World Renowned PLAYING CARDS FREE! If you want good, light, sweet Bread and Biscuits use FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. —___ 9. Save the Tin-Foil Wrappers and our White Diamond Labels, and when you have TWENTY-FIVE send them (or fifteen cents), to our agency and they will send you a full deck of “FERMENTUM” PLAYING CARDS. For Purity and Excellence FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST is superseded by none. It is made from selected Corn, Rye and Malt. It does not contain any acids or chemicals to make it white, being sold in its natural state, the color of Rye. Try it, and you will always have good Bread. Follow directions. Ask for and insist upon having FERMENTUM, the only reliable COMPRESSED YEAST. Manufactured only by THE RIVERDALE DISTILLERY, THE OLDEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WEST. General Offices: 264 to 270 Kinzie St., Chicago Ill. Grand Rapids Agency: No. 106 Kent Street. NO. 520 PEACHES. If you are in the market for PEACHES, PLUMS, PEARS, GRAPES, Ete., correspond with us. Prices quoted by letter or wire daily. WRITE US. ALPRED J. BROWN CoO., Seedsmen and Fruit Commission Merchants, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. J and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS We make ‘en. You buy i, Your trade like ‘em. ALL GENUINE HARD PAN AND LINING. Rindge, Kalmbach & Go. Agents for THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOK COMPANY, HAVE OUR NAME ON SOLE Fall Overshirts and Underwear, THE INSPECTION OF THE TRADE 18 SOLICITED, —_—_—_o—O--—- P. STRKRTER & SONS WHOLESALE DRY GOODS: NOTIONS SEEDS! Everything in Seeds is kept by us—Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Ete. If you have Beans to sell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We will sell Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers. No. 1 Egg Case, complete(in lots of 10), 35¢ each. No. 1 Fillers, 10 sets in a No. 1 Case, $1.25. No. 2 Fillers, 15 | sets in a No 1 Case, $1.50. W. T. LAMOREAUX GO., 128, 130 and 182 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich, 4,000 Live Poultry 4,000 Wanted Weekly. DETROIT AND CHICAGO MARKET PRICES GUARANTEE). BF. J. DETTENTHALER, 117 MONROE STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. STANDARD OIL CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Tiluminating and Lubricating -OLlbLsS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. #ffice, Hawkins Block. 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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- Many ‘an in a simple case of fort, or it may be the beginning of serious rect al disease. cases of Fissure, Fistula, and Ulceration beg Piles. At any rate there is no need of autite ring and taking the discomfort, the chances of something more serious when you can reliable cure. secure at a trifling cost a perfectly safe, —_——: THE :——_ RAMID PILE CUR has been before the public long PPI ITIT 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 medicines on the market none PYRAMID PILE CURE. mineral poisons or any injurious substance. In mild cases of Piles, one or two applications of the remedy are sufficient for diate relief. gives better satisfaction than the It is guaranteed absolutely free from a cure, and in no case will it fail to give imme- bo — —— > > —— > > > — » > — > ee > — ee | ~~ | > | >— >— — —— —— > > > ~~ > >— — Pp > — ~ ~~ ~~ — ee > “4 Se WOU Manufacturers of Show Gases of Every Description. - 1 - { > me % > ~ wii + é , + Pe oY \ aed ° } it | A & . MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. VO, &. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893. 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. ffice, 65 Monroe St, Telephones 166 and 1030. L. J, STEVENSON, C. A. CUMINGS, Cc. E. BLOCK. 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. VOR OV YNVOS We are Fishing FOR YOUR TRADE. BLANK BOOKS Made to Order AND KEP. IN STOCK — Bend for Samples ¢: | our new Manifold ©-t; | Receipts, Telegraus jee a | and Tracers ® BARLOW BROTERS ¢ *- HAVE MOVEL @ To 6 and 7 Pearl St, Near the Bridge. of ESTABLISHED 1841. THE MERCANTILE AS ENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Fieference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the eee cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. as FIRE e INS. CO. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T.LSTEwaRT WHITE, Pres’t. W. Frep McBar, Sec’y. Rosca en nase eae Te VA 8 Vee aac ea ee THE Seno FOR PRICES GRAND RAPIDS,MICH. (ins ROOD & RYAN, ATTORNEYS aT Law. GRAND Rapips, MIcH. WIDDICoMB BUILDING. Attorneys for R. G. DUN & CO. References—Foster, Stevens & Co., Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co., Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., H Leonard & Sons, Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Peck Bros., National City Bank, Olney & Judson Grocer Co., R. G. Dun & Co, Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co., State Bank of Michigan, Trades- man Company. WHY HE LEFT THE ISLAND. People said I was very foolish when I bought a ten-acre island three miles from the shore and built my summer house on it, but I laughed and said quiet was what I sought, and there I would have it, far from the madding crowd’s_ ignoble strife. Being a bachelor, with few wants, I took with me only my man Henry, who was an excellent housekeeper and cook. I don’t think I ever enjoyed myself more than the first four weeks I spent on the island. In the morning I took to the water, or took a walk for an hour or so; then I wrote for three hours, and the afternoons I read and loafed, and at night I slept. Some days | would row over to the mainland, and every day Henry went over after the mail, unless it was stormy. Sometimes | had a friend or two to drive with me, but no woman was allowed to come ashore there. I was rigid in my determination on this point, for had not one Isabella Vent- nor told me two weeks before I bought the island that she did not think Ll was the kind of man any woman ought to marry? She had, and for that I had forsworn all women. As l say, I was supremely happy all by myself, excepting, of course, the hurt Isabella had done me, and [I think that was healing slowly, when one night the entire scheme was overthrown. That night wasa dark one, but quite still, and I went to bed feeling fairly comfortable, as a couple of my friends had been with me until 7 o’clock and were to return early in the morning with a sailboat for a fishing trip out to deep water. About 1 o’clock, or perhaps later, | was awakened by hearing a dis- turbance of some sort down stairs, and before I had my eyes fully opened Henry rushed into the room, slammed the door and locked it. ‘“‘What’s the matter?” I exclaimed. ‘“‘For God’s sake, major,’’ he gasped, ‘‘get up and help me. There’s burglars in the house and I’m done for.” Then Henry went down on the floor in a heap, and [ lit a lamp, as there came a terrific hammering on the door. The light showed me Henry covered with blood, his throat slashed, lying there dead or dying, as I supposed. What to do I did not know, for the only arms inthe house were across the hall and the burglars had me shut off from that direction and were rapidly demolishing my door. They swore and pounded, entirely re- gardless of the ordinary rules of burg- lary, for they knew that so far away from the shore they were perfectly safe. “Go down stairs and get that axe,’ lL heard one of them say, ‘‘and we’ll have this d door out of the way in a minute. We’ve done up one of ’em, and now we've got to do up the other; so there won’t be any tellin’ tales out of school.” Then he laughed, and I heard foot- steps down the hall and stairs. I knew there was no help for me there, and only a chance anywhere, and I took that. One window of my room opened out on a back roof, and from that it was only a short distance to the ground. Once out of the house I had one chance in a million of escape. In a minute I was out of the window, over the shed and on the ground. I had on only my pajamas, and the sharp stones cut my feet cruelly, but I did not think of that. It was life, and life is very sweet to us, even though some fair Isabella may have slipped a drop of bitter into it. Over the rocks and stones I flew, going I knew not where, thinking of nothing but escape. What brought me to my senses some- what was my rushing into the water, and at first I thought of swimming out and trying to reach the mainland, but I was only a poor swimmer and 1 knewI should be drowned or caught and knocked on the head in the water by the burglars as ahunter might knock a muskrat in the head, and the horror of it drove me back. Then I thought of my own boat, but before I started that way, I remem- bered that my friends had moved it over to the mainland to return at daylight with the sailboat, leaving me only my rockets to signal the shore in case of need, and what were signals now? Only a means whereby the murderers might discover me. One thinks rapidly at such moments, lL fancy, and all this took place in much less time than it requires to tell it; but there was time enough for the burglars to learn I was not in the room, and with their quick eyes see the window through which I had escaped, and I heard some of them coming along the course I had taken, and one going down towards my boat landing to cut me off there. Then aimlessly again and _ utterly dazed, I began to circle the little island, running on the beach. They could not see me and my bare feet made no noise in the sand and I rushed madly ahead, when all at once I went down with a ter- rible crash over something on the beach. They were near enough to hear my fall and one of them shouted: ‘*Here he is, Bill; we’ ve got him; d—— him for giving us so much trouble, we'll fix him now.” I thought about as the burglar did, but as I tried to get up I found 1 wasina boat drawn half way up on the sand. I almost shouted with joy when I made this discovery. It was their boat and once in it andon the water I was safe! By this time I could hear their footsteps along the shore, which was quite rocky and rough here, except the little bit of beach where the boat lay, and they could not make such headway as I did as they did not know the way through the rocks. But they were coming fast enough and cursing at every step, and with the energy of despair, 1 caught the boat in my arms and with a wild strain I tried to shove it into the water. Again and again I tugged; the blood almost burst- ‘ing through my ears by the exertion and the skin tearing from my hands and bare arms. So near I thought to safety and still the danger increasing every second, then as I heard an oath, more wicked than the others, as one of the burglars fell over a stone, I felt the boat move, and a little wave rolled in and lifted it, so that with one more push it slid off into deep water. I jumped in, caught the oars and as the burglars dashed down through the dark- ness to where they heard the noise, the boat shot out into the water and I was safe. They might have shot me from the shore, but they had either left their re- volvers in the house or had none, the revolver being too noisy a weapon for burglars as a rule. O Whatever the cause they did not fire, and | did not wait for it, at least that close. A hundred feet out, I began to be myself once more and I stopped row- ing. “Why don’t you come on?’”’ back, half hysterically. **Hold on,’’ they yelled, and I could hear them running up shore in the darkness. “Oh, youre all right,” I laughed shrilly. ‘‘V’ll come back and take you off in the course of afew hours,” and then, fearful that they might get their guns, | rowed away as fast as I could for the mainland. I think I made that three miles in half the record, and when I found the first policeman, I shouted and down the he was for running me in as a lunatic or a sleep walker, but he knew me, and as soon as | told my story, aforee of ten men boarded atug and we returned to the island, By this time the first gray streaks of dawn were showing in the summer sky, and as we cautiously ran up to my wharf, it was almost light enough to see the house. We saw no burglars, however, nor any signs of them, though 1 knew I had them penned up on the island and escape was impossible. We waited until daylight, and then, deployed as skirmishers, the policemen move the island, expecting any moment to flusha burglar or get a shot from ambush. As we came up to the house one of the burglars appeared in the doorway and was covered on the instant by a dozen guns. “Come in, gentlemen, he said cheerily. began to across come right in,’’ ‘We were expecting you and we’ve got a nice breakfast ready.”’ The man’s coolness almost gave me the hysterics, for I knew by the sound of his voice that he was the fellow who wanted to ‘‘fix” me. But he was uttering the truth—they did have anice breakfast for us (out of my larder), and not that only, but they had found that Henry was not dead, and they had washed him and done what they could in caring for him, and had done it so well that he is alive to-day with only an ugly scar on his neck as a memento. There were four in the lot and we soon had them handcuffed, and then we sat down to breakfast and enjoyed it, though I must confess that by this time the condition I was in physically was not pleasant. 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. *“*You’re a queer gang,’’ said the lieu- tenant of police to the leader, who had invited us to breakfast. ‘‘What did you do this for?” “The breakfast, you mean?” ‘“‘And all the rest of it,’’ said the of- ficer. “Well, cap’n,” he replied, ‘‘It’s like this: We wuz here fer de swag, kill er no, and we thought we had killed the fust one, and, of course, the other one had to go, to stop talk. Then when he got away and had us penned up like rats we came to the conclusion that we had better git out the best way we could. The one we thought was dead only need- ed repairs, so we repaired him, and we knowed you’d be here bimeby to look fer us, and probably comin’ ont so early in the morning you might be hungry. So, beggin’ the gent’s pardon fer trespassin’, we turned in and fixed you up a nice breakfast. Now, wasn’t that about the white thing to do?’’ I had had enough to put most men ina bad humor, but this candid statement struck my funny-bone somehow, and IL laughed until the tears ran down my cheeks, and even the policemen smiled. Of course, the burglars had done the best thing possible for themselves, and the very unique plan they had adopted of necessity was in their favor, and they only got ten years apiece, Henry testify- ing so earnestly to their politeness and care that that part of it was not taken into the count at all. But I can assure you that I did not go back to the island again. I gave it to Henry, as it stood, and he lives there with his wife, respected and admired, I do believe, oy every burglar in the guild, for he holds them in the highest esteem. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. When this story came out in the papers, and my part of it was set forth, as only reporters know how to do such things, Isabella, of course, heard of it, and one moonlight night she said to me: ‘*Major, I thought once you were not the kind of a man for a woman to marry, but lve changed my mind.’’ I feel under obligations to those burg- lars myself. W. J. LAMPTON. OO TO UNLOCK THE MONEY. Comptroller of the Currency Eckels has | been trying to figure out how much money has been drawn from circulation since the financial trouble commenced. It is, of course, easy enough to learn the condition of the national banks, for they are under the control of the Government; ithe guarantee. /all the forces of depreciation an unceas- but to find out what has been done in the | savings and difficult. The Comptroller’s report shows that from May 4 to July 12 deposits decreased in the national banks to the extent of $193,000,000, and from May to the mid- die of August the net withdrawal of de- posits from the national banks is placed, on good authority, at $275,000,000. It is believed that nearly as much more has been taken out of savings and private banks, making an aggregate of more than the country, —st h6UctlhCUs simply locked up—taken out of the channels of business. A great deal of gold, about $30,000,000, has come into this country from abroad since the panic commenced, but it has not increased the amount of money in sight. That, too, has been gobbled up and hidden away. Let us consider what an enormous private banks was more} ino line drawn for declaring the extent of $500,000,000. +: © mi shrinkage there is in business when $500,000,000 of actual money has been withdrawn from investment and lies hidden away. Its owners are volun- tarily giving up interest and possible profits and are hoarding it like misers. One-half a billion dollars in cash rep- resents five times that amount of busi- ness in a month. That much money locked up for thirty days means a shrink- age for the month of $2,500,000,000. It is impossible to calculate the far-reach- ing effect of such a condition. It means a stoppage of wages, a decline in prices, products not marketed, loss of business by transportation companies and a gen- eral stagnation to the amount of the im- mense sum computed above. To get the vast industries and com- merce so interrupted to running again is the grand problem of our statesmanship and philanthropy. How to revive trade and start up the wheels of industry is the most momentous question that ap- peals to the wisdom of our day. But one thing is necessary. That is to re- store confidence, so that the hoards of money will be unlocked. The longer the question is considered the more ob- vious becomes the wisdom of the demand that the silver purchase law shall be annulled. This will assure the world, American citizens and foreign peoples, that the United States is able and deter- mined to maintain allits money at its face value. The United States is pledged to maintain the parity between silver and gold. Itis able todo this with the silver and gold it now possesses, but it is not able to guarantee in gold an indefi- nite and constantly increasing amount of silver. The capacity of the United States, financially, is very great, but it is limited. Itis notinfinite. Its power has bounds beyond which it cannot op- erate. It can make a certain amount of depreciated silver dollars as good as gold by backing up each with a gold dollar, but it cannot back up all the silver in the world. Under this law the Govern- ment is able to guarantee that up toa eertain limit its light weight silver dol- lars and its paper promises are and shall be as good as gold, but it cannot guaran- tee unlimited issues of silver and paper. These are facts which all financial authorities in every part of the world know. They see no limit established, What they do seeis a law which is operating to bind the United States to absorb and maintain against ing, indefinite and infinite flood of silver. What is necessary is to cut off all in- definiteness and uncertainty and estab- lish certainty in its finances. This is necessary to re-establish confidence and unlock the money. It is all in the coun- try. None has been lost. It is sufficient for the needs of business. The only way to get at it is to change the indefi- niteness and uncertainty about silver to) certainty, definiteness and precision. (te A customer bought half a dozen cigars | and, adding ten cents to their cost, said: ‘Take one yourself, Sam.’’ ‘*No, thank | you,” said the dealer. ‘I’m not smok- | } ing.’’ **That’s a poor advertisement for | | your stock when you won’t use it your- | , | portable—not fixtures, to be retained by the landlord self.”? ‘*‘Can’t help that. In this busi-| ness it’s pretty easy for a man to smoke | too much, and that’s what I’ve been do- | ing. My stomach has been out of gear for three weeks, and I attribute it to! that. The trouble I’ve had all my life, | 'or as long as I’ve been in the trade, has! been to get tobacco that is light enough | for my own use.”’ } | more quickly and easily than he can move his stock, GROCERS sell Staple Goods. ee o-| ema Sih * is ai aKW sera a oo — Stata ti | Willbearthe signature, Orr Sak Bort c0-| A SEN nero Saenc Va ‘HudsonStreet, New Yor= - There are a number of new brands of Condensed Milk being put on the market that are experiments. The Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk long ago ceased to be an experiment. It has been on the market for more than 30 YEARS. You cannot afford to take into stock goods that he on your shelves until spoiled and that are never safe in recommending. We are aiding the sale of the “EAGLE” Brand by advertising it to consumers in your section. That will help you. Also, proprietors of CROWN, DAISY & CHAMPION BRANDS of Condensed Milk. Chocolate Cooler Co., MANUFACTURERS OF Seeasemenen, 1 Ce cceeed ia ' : Gosetetenmeamene(* | \ fa C-—..' —} aa ~ | = © i ee ai ' a) KNOCK DOWN TABLES AND SHELV AND MANUFACTURERS AGENT FOR Koch Adjustable Brack- ets for Shelving. This combination renders the furniture of a store ; and utilized by the next tenant. enables the merchant to This arrangement move his store furniture thus enabling him to resume business in a new loca- tion without loss of valuable time. Samples of each line on exhibition at office, 815 MICHIGAN TRUST CO. BUILDING. If you cannot visit office, send for catalogue. ~ ie ke ~i- ~ . i. > Dos fl « - Mit. > Abe yy ~~. *\|-. ~ | ~ - + | - a. - * a > &» 4 eo . - = < ~ a - ~~ ot~= “8 , ” Tite c 7 a — ~i- ~~ rr i. ~ he Mid. - Abo s+ » wh *\|-. ~ 1 ~ 4 y}° ir 7 i " iA fe - i ¢ @ & 4 New Thoughts on An Old Subject. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Don’t bea clam. Of all pitiful sights this vale of tears affords, the most pitiful is a man, endowed with backbone and brains, playing the part ofaclam. How can &@man be a clam? Easy enough, if he doesn’t try to be aman. A clam has no bones; so that his muscle, if he has any, is of no usetohim. Hecan’t climb, but must stay always on the same level. Because he has no bones, his powers of locomotion are exceedingly limited, con- sequently he gets only what drifts his way; he can’t ‘hustle for business’’ for himself. Many so-called business men are clamsin this respect. They started years ago, and there they are yet, just where they started. They have made no progress whatever, and what business they have is what ‘blows in.” They couldn’t originate an idea to save them, but are doing business, as they phrase it, on methods which were antedated years ago. They loaf about the store, day in and day out, year after year, taking what comes their way, not even aware that there is a better way than the one they are pursuing. A clam is at the mercy of winds and waves, tossed hither and thither, without the slighest power of resistance. So with the class of men we are speaking of. They never dream of standing up and fighting for their place in life, but the first wave of adver- sity which strikes them lands them high and dry upon theshore. The only reason the wave struck them was because they were in its way, and it couldn’t get past without striking them. They hadn’t ambition enough to get out of its way. Do they ever get back into deep water again? Sometimes. Just like a clam. Prosperity comes in waves just as adver- sity does, and the first wave of prosperity which rolls far enough up the beach to reach them bears them back again, if not to the old place, at least to the old way of living, if living it can be called. Did you ever see aclam in the water? The ‘ground swell” imparts just enough motion to make it pleasant. Like the ceaseless swaying of a pendulum, back- ward and forward, all day long, ‘‘rocked in the cradle of the deep.” It’s all right ence out of which men are developed. And for the clam, of course, for it is only a clam; but it is hardly the kind of experi- yet there are men, in business, too, or think they are, who are living just that kind of life. The ground swell of life, the ‘‘ceaseless rise and fall of human events,” moves them backward and for- ward, now here now there, without the least exertion on their part. They know nothing of the rush and roar of the rest- less, hurrying, hard-working world about them; if an echo from the heaving, noisy sea of life ever reaches them, it is only an echo, wordless, meaningless, and they go on their sleepy, trackless way undis- turbed. If aclam lived for a thousand years, it would never be anything but a clam; so there are men who, no matter how long they live, never learn anything. Though the plaything of the elements, they remain stationary; though always moving, they never progress. The end of life leaves them just where its begin- ning found them. Only, they began life with the shape and many of the characteristics of manhood; its end finds them still with the shape of a man, but with the characteristics of—a clam. Don’t be aclam. Bea man as nature THE MICHIGAN intended you should. Use your back- bone. Stand upright on your feet, and though you must stand on the ground, remember that the bones which are a part of your ‘‘anatomy” are levers by which you may raise yourself if you will, and by which you may resist both the winds and the waves. Don’t stay on the ground all the time. Climb. You have no ladder, you say? Make one, then. The world is full of the material out of which ladders are made. Men are making them every day and using therm, too, and you may do the same. When adversity comes your way, as it is almost certain to do, get out of its way if you ean; if you can’t, grapple with it, and if it throws you, don’t lie on your back and wait for some one to come along and pick you up. Get up yourself, and then, when prosperity comes, you will be ready to meet it more than half way. The struggle may be long and hard and wearying, and you will undoubtedly re- ceive many hard knocks, but a man does not mind such things. They would be the death of aclam, but they tend only and always to the development and per- fection of manhood. It is one of the anomolies of nature that though the ‘‘lower orders’’ of ani- mals can never be anything but what nature made them, that is to say, the clam is always, and never can be any- thing but, a clam, a man may acquire many of the characteristics of any of the species beneath him. What they are physically he may become mentally and morally. Al!l that is necessary is that he neglect to use the powers and poten- tialities which are his proper endow- ments as a man, and he will be—a clam, if he is not something worse. But don’t be a clam. You don’t have to. Bea man. You mayif you will. DANIEL ABBOTT. Good Advice to Depositors. The Toledo Commercial gives the fol- lowing sensible advice to depositors who are inclined to become timid: If you have money on hand, first pay your debts; then if you have something left lend it to some one who can secure you against loss—your neighbor, your employer ora bank. In this way it will earn you interest and put the wheels of business in motion. The person who draws his money out of a bank in Toledo and hides it away ought to be driven out of the city to find a home in some locality where the seal of the city is: ‘‘Every one for himself and the devil take the hindmost.” Many a man is out of a job to-day because he and his wife hurried to the bank a few weeks ago to draw out the few dollars they had there. The next week his employer was made to pay up a loan and forced to shut up his shop, and the first man to be discharged was this panic-struck depositor. Weare knit and bound together so closely that even an ignorant woman may in saving her few dollars bring hardship on hundreds and herself lose many times the amount of her deposit. To you who have given your confidence to your banks in spite of the whisperings of fear the public owes respect and gratitude. But for you not a wheel would be turning in Toledo to-day, not a bell would call men to work. And those who owe you the most are they who were so cowardly as to think only of themselves, and who have suf- fered but little simply and only because you refused to follow their selfish and suicidal guidance. —_——~- A Peculiar Position. “We won’t give credit even to an old customer in a town where a bank has failed. If country merchants can’t hold up the hands of their local financiers in this crisis, they can’t have favors from us.” This is the attitude taken by a prominent New York wholesale house. TRADESMAN. 3 PPLE PRESSES Ne LAVAR PRESS iS conceded ly ttl to be the best. WS ‘ Si 4 = @= Aj \'\\x aS \ Y, prasren TEVENS Be Co: MONROR ST. We have decided not to carry over any of our CLOTHING fall stock. MERCHANTS! ready-made clothing of every description; none place us lowest of all, as every vesture must be closed out. It will pay you well to see our line of better, few as cheap; and these reduced prices Write our Michigan representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., and he will soon be with you. MmiGtiAGL KOLB & SON, WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Notice—William Connor will be at Sweet’s CUSTOMERS’ Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday, Sept. 20, 21 and 22, West Michi- EXPENSES ALLOWED. gan Fair week. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Negaunee—Anthony Brand, of Perry & Brand, general dealers, is dead. Detroit—Bruno Kobylinski has his grocery stock to L. Jaenichen. Detroit—Wm. B. Somerville succeeds Geo. H. Seely in the cigar business. Mecosta—Watkins & Dickout succeed Watkins & Chudley in general trade. Ogden—The general stock of Fred Wilcox has been closed on chattel mort- gage. Manistee Crossing—Frank Eagles suc- eeeds Frank Eagles & Co. in the grocery business. Durand—F. A. Sensabaugh is suc- ceeded by J. W. Barnard in the grocery business. Marlette—Shields & Dawson, general dealers, have dissolved, T. U. Dawson continuing the business. Allen—Benje & Wagner succeed F. A. Roethlisberger in general trade. The latter continues the banking business. Otsego—E. J. Rose has retired from the management of Mathew Barton’s grocery and will be succeeded by Arthur Barton. Thompsonville—The report that Mrs. E. C. Keyes has sold her grocery stock to A. Ward and E. Wareham is denied by the former. Manistee—L. N. Roussin has leased M. Ciechanowsky’s meat market at 275 River street for a term of years and will resume the meat business. Saranac—”. M. Van Drezer and T. S. Barber have formed a copartnership and sold will open a wholesale fruit and produce house at Owosso. Detroit—Chas. E. Fox has sold his . stock in the Mabley & Company corpora- tion and will engage in the merchant tailoring business on his own account. Lamont—Elihu Walling has bought the grocery stock of Marshali Moore and the drug stock of M. L. Squires, and re- engaged in business in the Hedges build- ing. fothbury—L. W. Davis has leased his store building to Charles Robinson, and will retire from business Oct. 1. health is given as the cause of his retire- ment. Harietta—The hardware store of S. J. Doty was broken into on the night of August 27. The burglars escaped, get- ting nothing for their trouble except a few knives and razors. Plainwell—Geo. T. Antrim has the Graham factory plant to Robert Richard & Co., who will probably utilize it in the manufacture of bowls and other articles of woodenware. Marlette— W. H. Ellis made a ship- ment of 31,000 pounds of cheese last week. It was consigned to London, Eng- land, and was the product of several fac- tories in this vicinity whose cheese Mr. Ellis handles. Allegan — Peter Caulkett, who has caused the meat dealers of Allegan con- siderable concern by running a meat wagon without taking out the prescribed license, has leased a store and concluded to conduct business legitimately here- Poor sold after. Traverse City—The City of Grand Rapids has abandoned the excursion business and resumed her former route between Traverse City and Escanaba. She leaves Traverse City every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning's, making aday run, returning from Escanaba on alternate days. | front and piled there. | Tonawanda. It M. | dusky. Otsego—Three weeks ago Mr. Gordon, of the grocery firm of Mitchell & Gordon, traded his half interest for the half in- terest of Charles Vaughn in the livery business of Vaughn & Wiley. Now Vaughn claims that Gordon misrepre- sented the grocery business and has com- menced attachment proceedings against him. The suit will be heard Sept. 5. In the meantime the village marshal has possession of the livery business. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Boon—Frank C. Sampson’s new shin- gle mill, to replace the one burned a few months ago, is now ready for business. The new mill has a capacity of 40,000 shingles per day. Menominee—The new system of pay- ing off sawmill hands meets with favor, asarule. The 60-day drafts are eagerly sought for by brokers who cash them for areasonable discount, while the time checks are utilized by men of families in exchange for articles of household use in lieu of cash. The paper is as good as gold at maturity. Manistee—The Buckley & Douglas Lumber Co., which shut down its saw- mill at night about a month ago, has started up on the night run again and will run the double shift the balance of the season. If necessary part of the {umber will be taken down on the river The cheap insur- ance would about offset the extra cost of handling. Oscoda—A long timber raft of 2,500,- 000 feet left Oscoda last week for belongs to the H. Loud & Sons Lumber Company, and is the tenth and last raft sent down the lakes by this company this season. In the ten rafts there has been taken away 20,000,000 feet, go- ing to Tonawanda, Port Huron and San- The lowest priced timber in these rafts has brought $14 and $15 in the log delivered at its destination. Bay City—The genera! outlook of im- provements imparts a feeling of hopeful- ness among lumbermen, and the action of the House of Representatives in pass- ing the Wilson billis warmly commended as tending to aid in restoring business confidence, a commodity that has been decidedly scarce the last two months. The mills are nearly all in motion and manufacturers are put to their wits’ end in affording piling room for the lumber and meeting pay rolls. There is a gen- eral impression that within thirty days there will be a radical change, and that lumber will move more freely. Muskegon—For the time being Muske- gon is apparantly out of the lumber business, for there is no demand for lumber. All of the manufacturers here would be pleased to dispose of their stocks, but they cannot do so for money, and papemdoes not amount to anything in these days. The Thayer Lumber Co. has in both its yards about 15,000,000 feet of stock, pine and hemlock, and both the mills are idle with no prospects at present for resuming work. Hackley & Hume are sawing and the mil: of John Torrent is cutting, with lumber piles spreading in all directions. There are but five smokestacks around the lake giving evidence of work. The booming company has had trouble again with its main rafting channel and has been idle for several days. Saginaw—The stringency of the times will effect a notable reduction in the lumber output in Michigan this year. Under ordinary conditions there would have been a decrease in the product, ow- ing to the exhaustion of timber supplies, but the stringency has accentuated this and shut down many mills, while others have been reducing operations to the lowest possible limit. The limit of pro- duction was reached in 1889, since when there has been a steady decrease, and when the figures of this year’s cut, both in lumber and shingles, are compiled, it butcher, and perhaps his next door neighbor, the druggist, calmly buying dry goods at city prices. When they see him they greet him cordially, but there isa sly twinkle in their eyes that pre- vents him asking why they do not ‘‘pat- ronize home institutions.’”? If that dry goods merchant is not an absolute fool he sees a great light then and there. He goes home and proceeds todo less preach- ing but considerably more practicing. >. > - The value of the honey and wax pro- duced in the United States during the is safe to predict a marked contrast to, past year has been estimated at $20,000,- those of previous years. If the output of this State this year exceeds 3,000,000,000 in lumber and 1,700,000,000 in shingles the writer will be greatly surprised, and the figures may not be so large. Saginaw — Lumbermen in Eastern Michigan are standing up before the financial gale nobly. Thus far none have laid down, although it has made some of them sweat to keep their pay rolls up and mills in operation, with the banks not disposed to discount paper. The banks are helping the firms on their pay rolis, but gilt-edged paper cannot eoax a dollar out of a bank. One na- tional banker, who is also a lumberman, stated that he would not lenda dollar on a Government bond, but he would help a mill man to meet his pay roll. While the general situation is improved, in that there is a good prospect that money will soon be reasonably plenty and discounts will go on, there is not much change in the situation in lumber. There were a number of Eastern buyers here last week, and the lumber seems to be wanted aud will go as soon as the money can be had to move it. Some mill firms have been forced to shut down on account of lack of piling room and scarcity of currency to meet pay rolls, although on this Kiver these are the exception, as the greater number of the firms handle a portion of their stock in the car trade and are thus enabled to make room for accumulating stocks. << Of Course This Does Not Describe You. From the Dry Goods Reporter. Consistency is not such a common jewel after all. At least, itis not to be found in the possession of every mer- chant. ‘Take the retailer within reach of a large city, forinstance. Unless heisa little out of the usual run of retailers you can find him, especially during times of financial stringency, prating volubly about the desirability of patronizing home industries and he not only talks, but frequently writes window cards in the same vein. Onceina while he works a few choice phrases into his newspaper advertisement. Does he practice what he preaches? Watch him. Some fine morning he leaves instructions with his clerks regard- ing the management of his store and starts for the city. When he gets there he attends to what business he has on hand and then gocs ‘shopping’? for his family. Evenif he is a dry goods man he is generally loaded down, when he starts for home, with groceries, fruits and ‘‘bargains” in every line. After several hours’ hard work he has proba- bly saved 15 cents on the prices he would have paid at the stores in his own town. Not only that, but he has probably met a number of his townsmen, who have shrewdly reached their own conclusions regarding his sincerity in advocating the patronizing of bome industries. Of course, he tries to sneak home from the depot without anyone seeing him; he may even send bis goods to his house by a messenger boy, but his sin finds him | out just the same. Some day he will saunter into one of the city dry goods stores to see what they are selling and study metropolitan methods. While there he will see one of the grocers of his own town, his former | | 000. PRODUCE MARKET, Apples—Duchess command $2.75 per bbl. and Pippins $2.50. The cropis short, but nowhere near so short as the winter crop will be. Beans — Dry stock is beginning to arrive. Handlers pay $! for country cleaned and $1.10 for country picked. Butter — Unchanged. Dealers pay 20c for choice diary and hold at 22c. Factory creamery is in moderate demand at 25@26c. Cabbage—Home grown, $3 per 100. Carrots—25e per bushel. Celery—Home grown commands 14 @ 16 per doz. Corn—Green, 6c per doz. Cucumbers—50c per bu. Eggs—Unchanged. Dealers pay 13c, holding at lde Green Onions—10¢ per doz. bunches. Honey—W hite clover commands 12%c per Ib, dark buckwheat brings 1c. Melons—Watermelons command 12 @15e for Indiana and 38@5c forhome grown. Osage bring 75e per doz., and Musk 4'@50ce per doz. Peaches—Early Crawfords, Barnards and Hon- est Johns are in market this week, commanding $1@1.5) per bu. Barnards are small in size this season, owing to the drought. Price are likely to rule low. Pears—Bartletts and Flemish mand $1.51@1.75 per bu. at $1 25@1.50, Plumbs—Lombards and Blue Damsons com- mand §2 per bu. Green Gages are in moderate demand and supply at $1.75 per bu. Potatoes—Dealers pay 45@50e per bu., holding at 55q@60c. Squash—2c per Ib, Tomatoes—50e per bu. Turnips—Home grown, 30c per bu. Beauties com- Clapp’s Favorites go 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, ANAGER OR CLERKSHIP WANTED—BY pl a competent, sober and industrious phar- macist, ten years’ experience. Address No. 781, care Michigan Tradesman. 781 YO EXCHANGE—A STOCK OF MERCHAN- dise for unencumbered farm or city prop- erty. Address 222 Washington Ave. N., Lan sing, Michigan. G78 ANTED—A NO. 1 RETAIL SHOE SALES- man, one who can furnish No. 1 refer- ences, and a good stock keeper. Address J. F. Muffiey, Kalamazoo. Mich. T79 ye REGISTERED DRUG CLERK, young man preferred. Enquire of J. Hanselman, Manistee, Mich. 780 OR SALE—General stock of dry goods, gro- ceries and boots and shoes. oe: y $2,000. New stave mill to be erected and on store in town. Cause for selling, to settle up an estate. Inquire of Thomas Bromley, Jr., admin- istrator, Alvin Shaver estate, St. gan. PAYING MILLINERY sale at Ypsilanti, Mich. 232 Congress st., Ypsilanti, Mich Ox SALE-THE THEODORE KEMINK druz stock and fixtures on West Leonard street. Paying investment. W. H. Van Leeuwen, Room 33, Porter Block, Grand Rapids. G44 OR SALE—SMALL «LEAN DRUG STOCK for sale or will exchange for stock of gro- Johns, Michi- ae BUSINE3S FOR Cc. A Hendrick, T71 ceries. Located on South Division street, Grand Rapids. Address No 775, care Michigan Trades- man. V5 OR SALE—Drug stock in business town of 1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib- utary to large farming trade; lake and rail freights; only two drug stores in town; rent, #200 per year; stock will inventory #2,500; sales #20 aday. Keason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman, 752 JANTED—A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug store. Address C. L. Brundage, opera house block, Muskegon, Mich. 756 Soe HOUSE AND ceries for sale on Union street. at a bargain. Mich. STOCK OF GRO Will sell Address box 634, Traverse a ‘ A - | Pro 5 ok - - yt 4.1 me ~ | ‘ke | hs la 4 ' dhe wT i ~ ¥ ) ff 4 - - + | ‘ “iu ~ - } a > os on eu * } \ ~ = - - ~~ - ~ li { - 4 - o- » 2 2 ec - = A - | Pro 5 ok - - yt 4.1 me ~ | ‘ke ~|- | hs oe 4 ' dhe 71 i ~ ¥ ) 43 ~ - THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. J. G@. Jackson has purchased the gro- cery stock of D. Rebentisch at 265 Straight street and will continue the business at the same location. Dr. M. Crane, general dealer at Bon- anza, has sold a half interest in the stock to Martin Cox and the business will here- after be conducted under the style of Crane & Cox. The new firm proposes to add a line of drugs and the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has the order for the stock. There is unquestionably a better feel- ing in the air ‘respecting financial mat- ters. Merchants speak more confidently of the outlook and trade is beginning to pick up. The banks also show indica- tions of a rapid return to normal condi- tions, and all indications promise that the improvement will be steady and un- interrupted until affairs have fully re- sumed their normal condition. The Grand Rapids Herald publishes an alleged interview with ‘‘Wm. Olney.” Unless the reporter saw double, Mr. Judson must have exchanged surnames with Mr. Olney or Mr. Olney must have swapped given names with Mr. Judson. As Mr. Olney is in Connecticut and Mr. Judson declines to be interviewed in the . matter, the reader is compelled to draw his own conclusions. Business was partially suspended Monday, in consequence of the reeur- rence of Labor Day. Wholesale dealers were loath to close their doors, but as no freight was received or delivered by the railways, the idleness was enforced. There was no concert of action among retail dealers, some closing at noon, but most of them keeping open as usual. The parade of the various unions dis- closed a great falling off in numbers, as compared with previous years, showing either that the unions are losing their members or that the members are losing interest in the celebration of so senseless a holiday. I ct The Grocery Market. Rice—The price has advanced 14e on account of the destruction of a consider- able percentage of the new crop by the storm in the Southern States. Oranges—Scaree and prices about the same. ' Lemons in better supply, but good stock is hardto get. Most of the new crop is hard and small in size. Bananas — Plenty and reasonable. Peanuts—Lower, in consequence of light demand and nearness of new crop. Confectionery—Prices steady and de- mand fair for this season of the year. es Purely Personal. prices very H. P. French, the Mulliken druggist, was in town Sunday. Alfred J. Brown has been commis- sioned by Chairman Weston to select and forward daily choice specimens of Kent county fruit for the horticultural display at the World’s Fair. ' Charles Gregory, formerly engaged in business at Fennville, has taken the management of E. Hagadorn’s store at Fife Lake, Mr. Hagadorn devoting his entire attention to the management of his lumber business. 9 The consumption of oleomargarine in the United States last year is estimated at 58,000,000 pounds. A New Yorker’s Impressions of Grand Rapids. Frank N. Barrett, editor of the Ameri- can Grocer, thus records in his journal his impressions of the Valley City, gleaned during a half day’s visit to this market: Grand Rapids is a young American city, and one with many attractive fea- tures. There is an air of solidity and yet of grace and beauty about this city, not common to cities in general. It boasts of 100 miles of improved streets, those devoted to business being wide and splendidly paved, some with brick, others with asphalt. Thero are fifty miles of electric street railway, and we are pre- pared to believe tie claim that it is the most perfect of any electrie system in operation in this country. The cars run ata speed of from seven to ten miles per hour, and make no whirring or whiz- zing sound, such as make life on the streets of Boston and other cities hid- eous, and which tries the nerves of the strongest. The streets and avenues of Grand Rapids are notably clean and smooth. In the residence sections the avenues are lined with artistic homes, some of great beauty, surrounded by well-kept lawns, and shaded by fine trees. As is well-known, Grand Rapids is noted for the manufacture of high-class furniture, refrigerators, carpet-sweepers and, by no means least—fly-paper. Time only permitted of a visit to one of these great establishments—the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co.—of which Gaius W. Perkins is President and Chas. J. Reed is Secretary. This business was started seven years ago, and to-day its output is larger than that of any similar factory in the United States. It manu- factures all sorts of church, theater, bank and school furniture. The huge factory is built of light, yellow brick of local make, which gives the buildings a bright and attractive appearance. This great factory is equipped with automatic fire sprinklers besides which other precau- tions are taken against fire. Dull as are the times, orders enough are in hand to keep the works in operation for sixty days. Its operations, however, are hind- ered by stoppages of other factories, which are relied upon to furnish veneers, tapestries, ete. Where contracts are made to deliver furniture at a specified date, with a heavy penalty for every day of delay, this becomes a serious matter. This factory has fitted several of the finest churches, theaters and opera houses in New York and other prominent cities. It has in hand orders for Abbey & Grau’s new theater and other large buildings. It has been a very profitable enterprise from the start. One characteristic of Grand Rapids is that its industries and other business en- terprises are largely owned and con- trolled by young men, many of whom have made a fortune between 30 and 40. Young men have enterprise, courage, dash, style, push, and we see what it can accomplish when we note that Grand Rapids has 500 factories, 400 smaller coneerns, turning out $32,000,000 of produets. It is the greatest producer of gypsum; first as to carpet sweepers. It has sixty-two furniture factories, em- ploying 9,000 hands, and producing $12,- 000,000 of furniture annually. In five years its bankclearingsdoubled. Taken all together, it is one of the most attrac- tive cities in the United States. With so much enterprise and thrift, it is no wonder that there are no evidences of squalor; that the death rate is rela- tively low, and that everywhere the city presents an inviting appearance. We made time to visit the leading gro- eery store of the city, on Monroe street, owned by E. J. Herrick, a subscriber and warm friend of the American Grocer and of THe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. And that is a hint that every grocer should take, along with the American Grocer, his local trade paper. He needs both, and the more both are read the better equipped will the man be for bus- iness. It pays to keep posted. We re- serve for another issue a description of this store, in many respects a model. It was also our pleasure to visit the large and elegant office of Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co., grocery jobbers, and to go through their extensive warehouse, su- perbly adapted for the rapid handling of heavy goods. The office of this firm would make a New York jobber envious. | There is an abundance of room, hand- | some fittings, freedom from disturbing | noises, thus reducing the wear and tear | of nerve inseparable from lifein Gotham. | EK. A. Stowe owns the controlling in- terest ina very complete printing, book- | binding and engraving establishment, of which he is the founder. He is a bunch of concentrated energy, and, as was said of the late Jackson S. Schultz, of this city, a ‘‘steam engine in breeches.’’ This plant enjoys a large patronage, and is one of the very many profitable indus- tries of the city, in many of which Mr. Stowe is interested. Being a man of strong character, great energy, marked enthusiasm and superb executive ability, he is sought for as stockholder and di- rector in various industrial enterprises. It is sueh men that have combined to make Grand Rapids a large and prosper- ous city of 90,000, and the center of a population of 500,000 within three hours’ travel. eR Price Cutting a Boomerang. From the Retail Grocers’ Journal. The minute a merchant begins to cut prices he demoralizes the trade of his competitors and at the same time lays the foundation for his own ruin. Some storekeepers imagine that the public will consider them as enterprising busi- ness men, because their prices are below eost. In that they are wrong, however, as the public has before this been taught that the laborer who works for nothing and the merchant who sells his goods at cost both require watching, as they will geteven at the first opportunity that is offered. Good Report from Bay City. Bay City, Aug. 28—We held a very enthusiastic meeting last Thursday even- ing at Ellsworth & Son’s commission house. We appointed a committee to get up by-laws and a constitution, and also one to procure a hall. We have en- gaged a hall and will hold a meeting on Thursday evening of this week. By that time we hope to have the by-laws ready to submit to the Association and then we will tackle the peddlers. We would consider it a favorif you would forward us a copy of your ordinance for peddlers. Sam. W. WATERS, Sec’y. ———— From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: L. T. Kinney, Woodville. Shook & Son, Coral. Friedrich Bros., Traverse City. Vaughan & Thomason, Albion. Jos. Raymond, Berlin. E. C. Sunderlin, North Muskegon. E. E. Hewitt, Rockford. —_———_ >_< —_—___—— Making Rapid Progress. From the Minneapolis Northwest Trade. The coupon book system is making rapid progress among the retail grocers. They find it easier to introduce, more practical and more helpful than they had supposed it was. at tp The Drug Market. Opium is excited and Higher prices are looked for. Morphia is unchanged. Linseed oilis lower and dull. mn > Some idea of the value of walnut may be obtained from the fact that a man in Monona county, Lowa, was recently of- fered $25,000 for a number of walnut trees that he planted around his yard about thirty years ago for the sim- ple, homely purpose of making the space in front of his residence shady and at- tractive. There is no way in which a man could more easily and inexpensively provide a competence for his children than buying a few acres of land and planting them in this way. It is an in- vestment that needs no thought or care after the first planting; nature will do the rest. advancing. | UWE ey COMPANY a Buildings, Portraits, Cards, Letter and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Plans. TRADESMAN COPMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance C0. Organized 1881, DETROIT, MICHIGAN BUY THE PENINSULAR Pauls, Suirts, aud Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Geo. F, Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH,. JNo. A. CovopE, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. VeRpiER, Cashier. K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business, Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T. d.O'Brien. A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee Jd. A. S. Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, A Solace Sweet and best by far, in these quiet times smoke a Ben-Hur Cigar. GEO. MOEBS & CO. Make them, All leading dealers sell them. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. How He Missed It. Dry Goods Price Current. What an interesting and instructive ce : : ee CcOTTONS. topic is the review of the things we have | —— oe i ‘* Arrow Brand 5 missed and how we missed them. He is| | Atlemta Aa 00000020) 6 i — Wide. 6 oo oe ee snecess | At antic eee ee 6%/ Full Yard Wide a wise man and likely to be successful rere a + who for every slip he makes or blunder | o Sc 54) finds and applies aremedy. So used, the “ os : Hartford A past is full of assistance when one rises and says to himself, ‘‘That’s not to be repeated.” No doubt we are safe in say- ing that the most of our misdirections come from the want of thought—the sober second thought hasn’t been used. It is well when one has been well trained in the nursery and school to think well. A young fellow once lost the best girl upin the country where we were schooled because of a remark he once made which wouldn’t bear repeat- ing. It was repeated all the same. Moral: Never say anything to friend or foe that won’t bear frequent telling. One’s thoughtless gab is pretty sure to upset his apple cart and scatter the fruit. Be very careful what you say and more careful what you do. And be clear: don’t be saying or doing things that need apology or explanation. Webster missed the presidency of the United States by his timidity in the presence of the slave power. Lincoln goes high up in human history because of the finish- ing blow he dealt it. Get for your boys the life of Lincoln with the hope that they may imbibe his spirit and man- hood. We have told you before of how a young man of our acquaintance lost a splendid situation because of his bad spelling. This smart man isn’t like- ly to make many misses. We read this of him the other day. Isn’t it good? A Brooklyn manufacturer paid a bill with- out a murmur the other day, simply on account of the way it was worded. His engineer found that the hot water pump would not work and sent for a machinist. The latter bothered with it half a day and said it must come apart. This meant the stoppage of the factory for a long time. It was suggested that a neighbor- ing engineer be sent for, as he was a sort of genius in the matter of machinery. He came, and after studying the pump a while he took a hammer and gave three Sharp raps over the valve. “I reckon she’ll go now,” he quietly said and, put- ting on steam, she did go. ‘‘The next day,” said the manufacturer, ‘I received a billfrom him for $25.50. The price but when I examined the items I drew a check at onee. The bill read this way: For fixing pump, fifty cents; knowing how, $25. Had he charged me $25.50 for fixing the pump I] should have considered it exorbitant. But fifty cents was reasonable—quite so —and I recognized the value of knowl- edge; so I paid and said nothing.” Great head. Let’s have more of them and so stop missing good things through the years. In ahole because you won’t be advised and won’t learn how to do things. Gero. R. Scorr. me _

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Ye be +|> 2 rie ¥ a it ey — a ni | ae & ¢ 4 / 4 - - &... 3 fe le Bee) saad e > hg \ why | | ‘3 “ w 9 ~ yp THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 The Panic of 1837. The great financial panic of 1837 was, perhaps, the most momentous financial crisis in the history of the country, save that now in operation, and in much the same manner it was the combined result of excessive speculation and over-trad- ing, and of gross political mismanage- ment and vicious legislation. It will be interesting to take a glance backward to the events of fifty-six years ago. A writer of that period has spoken graphically of the speculation of that day. It was speculation in land. Real estate was held to be the of all wealth, and people became afflicted with a craze to own land. The poorer classes were all struggling to get possession of a little of ‘‘God’s footstool.’’? The rich got all they could of it. The speculation be- gan with town lots and ended with rash operations in wild lands. The ruggedest mountains and the most impenetrable swamps were marked off on paper into cities and farms, and were sought and bought with avidity. The speculative craze pervaded the en- tire Union, and was, in America, a repe- tition of the John Law Mississippi Land Company craze which had prevailed in France in 1720. oe 9 25 14x20 IX, Fe eee ee cea ece ca cas 9 25 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. re 40 1G Charcoal gee eee ea es ouaa cca z . 7D ee eas oe Gentes seen ecuu acc 6 75 joni 1x, Bases oben cece eee ecu ce 8 25 14x20 IX, ee 9 25 Each additional X ou this grade $1.50. ROOPING PLATES 14x20 IC, © Wena 6 Bu 14x20 IX, . Geb he peemea ete ae 8 50 20x28 IC, _ Obes ade easy ee 13 50 iit, “ Allawey Grade........... 6 00 Ne 7 50 20x28 IC, ‘ _ ee 12 50 20x28 IX, - ee 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. Occ cc ct cua eae oa 08 14x31 IX.. as - 15 00 ioe ms for No. § Botlers, }per asian. . 1000 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman A WEEELY 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. (Ss When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893, A BAD TIME FOR IMMIGRATION Some weeks ago it was announced that considerable numbers of Italians, who were thrown out of employment by the elosing of the mines in Colorado and uther parts of the West, had at once de- parted for the East and were intending to sail for their native country. It is now stated that many foreigners who had but recently arrived in this country work, and finding the present condition of commercial and industrial depression, were anxious to return home, but lacked the means. Numbers of these persons recently applied to the Commissioner of Immigration at Phila- del phia, expressing their anxiety to leave seeking have the country, and begging to be sent back to Europe at the expense of the Govern- ment, for fear that they will not be able to find employment and may become a publie charge. there is deportation of these people, must stay here and take the chances. At the same time, when an army of our own Of course, no money for the and they people are out of work, foreign laborers, probably but little better than paupers, are cuming in by the thousand only to complicate the situation. This country is no longer the promised land it has so long been to the excessive populations of European eountries, but still they come. Our own population is suffering for lack of employment on account of the stoppage of all industries, but, neverthe- less, European pauperdom is pouring its teeming swarms upon us. When the im- migration was confined to people from the British Isles, from Germany, France and Scandinavia, those persons were wel- comed. They readily assimilated with American institutions and adopted Amer- ican ways, and became most important components of American citizenship. But immigration did not stop with races that have long held to principles of lib- erty and constitutional government. It has extended to many others, until all the ancient despotisms are pouring out their people upon us, and, in late years, most of the social disorders and anarch- ical disturbances have been attributed to these foreigners. While there should be no desire to dis- criminate against nationalities or races, it is necessary to discriminate against in- | dividuals and to exclude the unworthy. It would even be wise to discourage and even to stop the influx of pauper labor in atime like this. In this connection the Washington Post makes the following pertinent suggestion: The President has power to suspend immigration entirely in the event of a widespread approach of cholera. Should he not have authority to order the same suspension under circumstances like these? If itis not the visitation of an epidemic that threatens the country, itis a visitation fraught with almost equal horrors. Might nut the Executive prop- erly enough issue a proclamation of warning and counsel to the grand army of intending immigrants, setting forth that, in the present situation of the coun- try, all persons not having ample means or definite assurance of employment here will consult their own interests by re- maining where they are until prosperity be re-established and our overstocked labor market be relieved. Such a precaution would seem to be wise, and should commend itself to the attention of Congress. PRIVATE AND CORPORATION DEBTS. The indebtedness of a people, as of an individual, is the chief factor to be con- sidered in making up an opinion of their solvency. If this indebtedness be not great in comparison with the energy, in- dustry, honesty and material resources of the people they will have credit in proportion. Butif their burden of debt be unduly great they must suffer the con- sequences in many ways. The indebtedness of the American peo- ple becomes an interesting problem in any discussion of their finances. That must be known before any intelligent system of financia! relief can be formu- lated. Immediately after the repeal of the Sherman silver law steps must be taken to frame a system of finance and furnish a money supply. In seeking to make a statement of the indebtedness of the people the private and corporation debts must be considered as well as State and national debts. The most interest- ing problem is to reckon up the private debts. There are two principal sources of information. These are the United States census reports on real estate mort- gage indebtedness and the railway corpo- ration obligations. The mortgage burdens which encum- ber real estate are enormous. These are the loads which the farmers carry. In the great cities improved property will usually afford a reasonable income, but the farmers, whose profits are never large, cannot afford to carry heavy bur- dens. It is shown in the census reports that in the twenty-one States for which the mortgage indebtedness has been tab- ulated, the aggregate amount in force at the close of 1889 was $4,547,000,000, with the great States of Ohio, Texas and Cali- fornia and whole groups of lesser states yet to be heard from. The grand aggre- gate will, it is estimated, be no less than $6,300,000,000. The aggregate in 1880 was only about $2,500,000,000. Last year, after turning the scale at $8,000,- 000,000, the mortgage indebtedness con- tinued its upward flight, not being con- tented with an increase of 220 per cent., or nearly four times the increase in the true value of real estate. As for the funded debts, those of the railroads increased from $2,392,000,000 in 1880 to $5,463,000,000 in 1892, accord- ing to Poor’s Manual, an increase of 129 per cent., while the current debt has nearly doubled in the last seven years. The funded debts of other companies were very small in 1880, but many of them have since assumed magnitude, es- pecially during the last few years; as, for instance, those of the telephone, tele- graph and street railway companies. During the same time the loans and over- drafts of national banks increased from $994,000,000 to $2,171,000,000, while those of other banks, exclusive of private banks and of real estate mortgages, in- creased from $378,000,000 to $1,189,000,- 000. But the funded debt of the railway corporations is only about one-half their real indebtedness. In 1891 the unfunded debt of railways in the United States was more than $345,000,000, with a large annual increase, shown by the fact that in the past year and the seven months of the present, some of the most extensive lines in the country have been put into the courts by creditors. Here is a vast sum of indebtedness due by the American people. Distrib- uted even among the 67,000,000 of the population it is heavy enough to bank- rupt them allif it were not for the ex- traordinary resources of this the richest country inthe world. But thisis not all. There are the State and national, country and municipal debts. They will count up a vast sum, but they will not be con- sidered here. It is this mountain of debt that will have to be considered in making up a final account for the preparation of a money system for the country. NEED OF LABOR INFORMATION. What would be of extreme value to all the commercial and industrial interests of the country is a complete and regular monthly report of the condition of the labor situation and the labor market of the United States. The General Government has estab- lished a bureau to make weekly reports of the weather, acreage and all other in- formation necessary to determining the condition and yield of the most impor- tant agricultural crops in the country, while commercial exchanges and the press spend a great deal of money in securing daily and even hourly reports of the markets for all sorts of mercantile articles. But there is no regular, relia- ble and complete information given to the public concerning labor. Labor is precisely as important a factor in the making up of reports of the pro- duction, prospects and condition of the industries of the countries as are the material articles produced, but nobody knows anything reliable about the labor element, while the greatest pains are taken to know about the products them- selves. The consequence of this igno- rance is that it is impossible to make any intelligent calculation on the future of any important product because we are totally at sea about the labor concerned in making it and the laborers who are expected to consume it. Suppose, for example, that the bread crops in Europe have largely failed, and America must be called on to furnish a great portion of the supply. The dealers, armed with detailed information of the amount of the shortage in Europe and of the stock in this country from which supplies are to be drawn, immediately begin to figure on the prospects and to discount the supposed situation long in advance. It is found, however, after the flurry shall have passed away, that the calculations made in advance were not fully realized, and that in many cases results did not conform to expectations. Miscalculations in such cases have cansed many disappointments and losses. Now the reason for all this was plain. The labor element of neither the pro- ducing nor the consuming countries was taken into consideration. The cost of production is a most important factor in figuring the profits, while the power of consumers to buy is another. Sup- pose, for instance, American breadstuffs were made with higher-priced labor than usual, and suppose, further, that the masses of the people in Europe, on ac- count of severe and long-continued in- dustrial depression, had been able to earn but little and were poorly provided with the means of buying foreign bread- stuffs. As a consequence, the consump- tion would not be as great as had been calculated on, the prices would be lower than the actual supply would seem to justify, and the American producers and shippers would not make anything like the money that the situation, as they saw it, had induced them to expect. All this brings us to the point that, in order to have a just knowledge of the prospective business to be based on the production and marketing of any agricul- tural or other industrial article in this country, we must have just as detailed and accurate information about the labor as about the weather andcrops. Tothis end it is necessary to have a labor bureau. The Government takes pains already to gather certain statistics as to wages, hours of labor and other matters pertaining to employment in the differ- ent trades; but this does not reach the ease. Something regular and complete, like the reports on the weather and crops, is needed. Let us suppose that a regular monthly report could be obtained concerning each leading industry—of how many people are employed; how many belonging to that branch of industry are idle; how many, if the mills were worked to their full capacity, could be employed; prices; hours, and the like. That would be in- formation worth having. Getting these reports regularly, we would be able to know the industrial conditions all over the country; we could see where opera- tions were flourishing and where they were languishing; which industries were prosperous and which were not, and have a good idea of the unemployed peo- ple throughout the country. Suchinfor- mation would be of enormous value to the merchant, the manufacturer, the workingman, and also to the statesman and philanthropist. The French Govern- ment has already established in Paris a national labor exchange, while the Brit- ish Government issues the Labour Ga- zette. It is not known that the exchange in one country and the Gazette in the other have reached the perfection of development, but they are evidences of an appreciation by two of the greatest industrial nations in the world of one of the most pressing of modern social needs, and of an effort to supply the demand. A great majority of the people of the United States do and always will com- pose the working classes. It follows, then, that their interests should be care- fully considered, conserved, fostered and advanced in every proper way. Their eare should absorb a large share of American statesmanship, and the policy of the country always must be, as far as is consistent with honesty and justice to all, to provide for the prosperity of the working and producing classes. A proper conservation of their interests will mean prosperity and beneficence to ali classes. dw. - ~~ ’ j -_- '*> ~ ~ ) ~~. a a i \. {| %-'S?P THE MICHIGAN TRADES» . 9 COMMERCIAL INDEPENDENCE. Sometimes our people get on a patriotic high horse and demand that this country shall at once assert its commercial inde- pendence of England. It is certainly possible for a great and rich country like ours to do, but it will cost something. There are two principal items of ex- pense that will have to be encountered, and they will be no trifles. First, the people of the United States must pro- vide their own ships to carry the ocean freights between their own and foreign ports, which are now carried in foreign bottoms, chiefly English. There are some 40,000,000 tons of these freights, which will require several thousand steamers, besides sailing craft. These ships would cost a mint of money, but they would earn the vast sums now paid annually to English and other for- eign ships; but they could not compete in prices with the foreigners, and so such a piece of independence would cost our people a good round penny’s worth. While providing the ships, it would be necessary to lay a couple of dozen ocean telegraph cables. Recently France be- came aroused over the ocean cable busi- ness, and on inquiry found that of the twenty-eight ocean cable telegraph com- panies, nineteen are English. It has re- cently come out that all the dispatches from Siam during the recent trouble were known at the Foreign Office in Lon- don before they were received in Paris. France has no telegraph connection with her colonies, except over English lines, and pays $60,000 a year subsidy to an English company controlling the line to Tunis. It is stated that of the nine cable companies not owned in England, two are French, one Danish, three North American and three South American. Three-quarters of the 125,000 miles of submarine telegraph lines in the world are in English hands. Certainly let us be independent by all means. It is only a question of money. Who will put up the money? The surrender of Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the payment of $2,500 and costs to the receiver of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railway for declaring a boy- cott on the road, sounds the death knell to the favorite weapon of unionism. This is an admission that the weapon is an illegal one and that any one who in- dulges in its use is a common criminal, unworthy of confidence or respect. Co-operation in the United Kingdom. From the American Grocer. There are 1,471 distributive co-opera- tive societies in the United Kingdom, composed of 1,143,962 members, for the purpose of meeting their household wants. While the main part of the busi- ness carried on by the societies is distrib- utive (through retail stores managed by committees elected by the members), many of these stores have productive deparments attached to them (e. g., for baking, shoemaking, tailoring, farming, etc.). In addition there are 170 ‘‘Pro- ductive Societies,” with 24,056 members. These are managed by committees elected by the shareholders, who are sometimes workers in the employ of the societies, sometimes outside individuals, sometimes delegates from distributive societies which have invested capital in the societies. The sales of the two classes of societies named, in 1892, were about $160,000,000, returning a gross profit of about $30,000,- 000, and a net profit of $20,000,000, the exact figures showing 13.6 per cent. on the sales, or 31.5 per cent. upon the share capital, loan and reserve of about $70,- 000,000. The productive societies return a profit of 9.9 per cent. on sales, and 4.8 per cent. net, and 11.1 on capital includ- ing loans and reserve. It cost the distributive societies 6.1 per cent. to transact business, or nearly one-half of the percentage on sales, which is about the cost in the States, that is one-half of the gross profits are re- quired for the cost of the service. The average gross profit here is about 16 per cent., and net 8 per cent., which is near- ly 2 per cent. higher than in the United Kingdom. This is due to grinding the help, both as regards homes and wages. This is confirmed by the resolution passed at the recent Congress of the Co-oper- ative Societies, viz.: ‘That, in the opinion of this Congress, the long hours of labor and the small re- muneration paid to employes in a large number of co-operative stores are discred- itable to the movement and opposed to the principles and aims of co-operation; and that the Central Board are requested to take immediate action with a view of bringing the subject prominently before the different sections of the Union.’’ The societies return a gross profit on sales of 191g per cent., which is very liberal and large enough to make the big distributive stores here green with envy, for it nearly doubles the gross profit of the large department stores. Referring to the huge profits of the co-operatives in England, the Produce Marl:ets’ Review says: ‘Individualism surely comes well out of this ordeal, and self-interest and the division of labor are triumphant. Everyone could doubtless make his own boots or weave his own shirts, but soci- ety ages ago learned the lesson that it is best to have the shoemaker at his last and the weaver at his loom. The latter- day return to the ages of barbarism, im- plied in the co-operative idea of abolish- ing the middleman, is surely not a suc- cess on its own showing. Society could be regenerated a good deal more cheaply by contract.” The 1471 distributive societies with cap- ital of $70,000,000, sell $160,000,000, thus turning it over two and one-third times in the year. Here better results are ob- tained, particularly in the exclusive gro- cery trade, where the capital is rolled over five to seven times per year, and in exceptional instances oftener. It is apparent that the members and patrons of English co-operatives pay lib- erally for their service which would be Shake off the Dragging Chains 4 ye more satisfactorily rendered, were the trade wholly in the hands of private in- dividuals, or great department stores. 2 Don’t Kiss Cats and Dogs. It is said that an Italian savant, having noticed with some disgust the habit that many ladies have of kissing their pet eats and dogs, has made a careful exam- ination of the saliva of these animals, which may be interesting to those indulg- ing in such osculations. ‘The saliva of the cat is especially rich in all sorts of minute bacilli and contains a new form seldom absent, and so fatal that rabbits and guinea pigs inoculated with it died in twenty-four hours. The dog’s saliva contains an even greater number of bacteria, some of them of a particularly disagreeable character, plus occasional flukes and the eggs of intestinal worms. Nor is the horse free from these death- dealing organisms. For among the diverse ‘bacilli, streptococci and sprillia,’’ in its saliva were three forms of a noxious description. of Credit By discarding the pass book and other antiquated charging systems and adopting the cash and coupon book system, which has stood the test of a dozen years and is now in successful operation by thousands of progressive dealers in all parts of the country. We are the originators and sole manufacturers of three kinds of coupon books, samples of which will be cheerfully sent to any dealer on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (JUR WALLEY GITY Has been completely reconstruc M own convenience, and see what can be done in a modern flour mill. Our plan has been, and ever will be, to give the people in “LILY WHITE” and “SNOW FL best grades of wheat, milled by the most approved methods, will produce, attest. THE FAMOUS badhee t Wy x (TE FLOUR Will now be Finer than ever. To those who desire a StraigutT grade of flour we guarantee our “GOLD MEDAL” or ‘HARVEST QUEEN” to give perfect satisfaction. position to offer the very best grades of spring and winter wheat flour. Our “street car feed” has a wide reput»tion and is absolutely pure corn und oats scoured and cracked. a trial order, to compare quality as well as price, and we are confident you will be pleased to have you past favors, Very truly yours, ted this summer with a full line of the latest and be When you need flour, feed or millstuffs get our prices before buying elsewhere. ir name added to a long list of regular customers to whom we hereby extend thanks for many st flour mill machinery known, and it will afford us great pleasure to have you call, at your AKE” flour the very best possible productions that a careful combination of the How well we have succeeded the wide reputation and steadily increasing demand for these brands OUR ROLLER For a Fancy Patent has no Equal. With three well equipped full roller mills we arein a Give us VALLEY CITY MILLING CoO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, 10 aa MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Dru gs 2 Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Yoars—George Gundrum, Ionia. rs—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan. t. Parkill, Owosso. ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Staniey E. Parkill, Owosso Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Lonia. Next oe’ Marquette, Aug. 29, 9 a. m. “Mile higaa State P harmacentic al ‘Ass’ 2. President—A. B. Stevens Vice-President i Treasurer Secretary President Ann Arbor . Parker, Detroit. W. Dupont, Detroit. S$. A. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Ph: armaceutical Sc Society. John D. Muir; Frank H. Escott. President, See’y, The Treatment of Consumption. Consumption,after having been deemed for centuries an incurable disease, has again been taken up by the physicians, who are making a courageous and praise- worthy effort to meet and master its de- structive powers. *robably, the general adoption of the germ theory of disease has given a great impetus to the new the not onslaught on has attempts at eure, but revival of interest in consumption is , +r } - til r Tha confined to the germ-killers. The +} a een tne tLuUoercui us monster aroused practitioners of ether schools of treatment. The dreaded disease is being attacked all along the lines and in front, flank and rear. “here is reason to be and somewhere, will lieve that its assailants, somehow penetrate the mys tery of consumption’s fatal power and be able to disarm it of many of its terrors. Man appears to have many minute mi- foes. Bac microbes, or We em with our croscopie microphytes, pervade space. eat them with our food, drink th necessary beverages and take them i Man ca the air we breathe. a microscope al- Ways at his eye, plugs in his nose and germicidal drugs mixed with his food and d k. Qn the contrary, while exer- cising a asonable precaution, he must meet his microscopic foes wherever they may be If he be in vigorous health, in all probability he may bray em witl tive impunity i is uy the weak and the debilitat é that Sease ay make an easy jang s ig- me ° In connectic wit he Ww Theo- ries of re tor S Is & prope Sition to develo; Zz apparatus and rer rit 2 somewhat the same pr ple wl S use y the athiete in training a Strengthening Dis muscies. With t gs vigk s conditior 1@ danger fri nfus in- fection will be lesse rhe breathing paratus is tained nder t 0 ee ‘ it this inclosure is rig r unalterable sine. ft is e of z largely mpress t wer part, or as large- Ly a ie pos t xereise and ex] the zs ease ft r breathing power ar r stness, s ey may r withstand e ass of foes nV after zs e Deen attack f avages of the disease be ai tt xX = ve, ¢ pr ms re at tT r The least readily inflated part of the lungs, the upper or apex, has no exercise, and, consequently, becomes weaker. The savage has a larger lung surface than civilized man, and is comparatively free from pulmonary affections; but as soon as he is confined to reservations his idle life renders him liable to this disease. A high and rarefied atmosphere is rec- ommended for some _ patients whose lungs have suffered by being too little used in a dense atmosphere near the sea. By placing them on a mountain eleva- tion, where the air is thinner, these pa- tients find it necessary to use the whole power and exert every portion of the lungs in order to get a good, full breath, or a sufficient quantity of air, just as the denser atmosphere of a low elevation is necessary for those whose lung power has been permanently disabled. Men who work in chambers of condensed air, in the construction of bridge piers and foun- dations for submarine buildings, are variously affected according to their physical conditions, some favorably and others injuriously. Some are stimulated and invigorated by the increased amount | of oxygen supplied to them. Others are overpowered by it and suffer apopiectic symptoms. So, also, persons visiting high altitudes in the mountains are vari- ously affected, some being unable to find oxygen enough in thin air, and their ex- ertions to get their lungs full of air un- der a reduced atmospheric pressure pro- | whiie | ducing dangerous hemorrhages, others are benefited by having every part of their apparatus into play. Now, breathing brought in order to meet the demands of various patients, it lish, by means of chambers in which the air will all the varying conditions of atmosphere that are to be found in low and in high altitudes, and others that are not attain- in nature. With facili to any desired densi can be condensed or rarefied at ties for bring- ing tbe air i } I i et ' i ' if | i | enciai to ty or rari- any temperature required, to any noisture or dryness demanded, patient can be reful regard to the necessi- ties of his condition. f it be found | eee ben- any medicinal agent in hambers, that can be expedient which is at Nature’ provided and ipon mditiens which exist only in widely i are brought mmediate ci without the grand discovery in th to be expec l authority, in a re- >. BP ue . ; 1 ena the Boston Medical and l, maintains proposed to estab- | ‘ ated with s . } treated With accu-} tific and thoroughly in} Ss own cura-j} improved | e Almost any/ d JHE THE ABOVE BRANDS, Royal Patent, Crescent, White Rose, Are sold with our personal guarantee. | = you are not now handling any of our brands, we solicit a trial order, confident that the ex | cellent quality of our goods and the satisfaction of your customers will impel you to become a j re gular customer VOIGT MILLING CO. Correspondence solicited. AR Ee A EAN a AB ER Ret i A I | M OSELE Y BROS., JOBBERS OF .. Seeds. Beans, Fruits and Produce PEACHES furnished daily at market value. APPLES, POTATOES or ONIONS to sell, i try and trade with you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa Street. If you have any BEANS, state how mapy and will ad Gtamp before a blast : Pay tia after & blast. “STRONGEST and SAFEST EXPLOSIV mown to the Arts. POWDER, FUSE, CAPS. Electric Mining Goods. AND ALL roots FOR STUMP BLASTING, ALE BY TH HERCULES. POWDER "COMPA Prospect Street, € ae ve J. W. WILLARD, Managers Oo: AGENTS FOR Western Michigan. Write for Prices. my * ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Tie Current. Advanced—Opium, Declined—Linseed Oil. ACIDUM. ana ‘1 | ae = Acoteem ...... |... 8@ 10} #xecht tos. . +++ 2 2 75 ng | ePOPOR ...... 8. 2 OO@2 10 oe a iGutinta 2 00@2 10 Carbolicum......... 5@ 35 Geranium, ounce.... @ 7? Cite 2@ 55 | Gossipli, Sem. gal..... W@Q 75 Hydrochior ........... a 6s Hedeoma ttt eeteee eens 2 10@2 a trees... 5S0@2z Oxatioum 22020702002 JOG. ig] Lavenduia «2022227777 902 00 Phosphorium dil...... on | Lem a 4Dz 60 Salicylicum ........... 1 30@1 70 | Mentha Piper.......... 2 75@3 50 Mentha Verid.. 2 20@2 30 Sulphuricum.. - ee G Wenge 1 40@1 60 Morchuse, gal... tiene ees 1 4 10 Wertaricuin..... 30@ 33} Aytcia, ounce......... c ye 85@2 7 AMMONIA, ra apie (gal. .35) 1 sont = 2a SQ | Roomarini 22007." Set Op Siete re 12@ 14| Rosae, ounce.......... 6 50@8 50 Chloritim 0.000000... 12@ 14 Succint tree ee see eeee ee ges = ANILINE, Santal es SOB? 00 See Brownc2ss0c000070.” Sg op | Sinapls, ess, ounce: @ sae <2 en 0 % BACCAE. Theenaa. eee ae 15@ Cubeae (po 40)...... 3E€ 40 POTASSIUM, Juniperus ............. ro I ec 15@ 18 Xanthoxylum . 2@ 30) bichromate ...... 11)" 13@ 14 romeee...... 3f 2 TREATS RTA i a La NG . ie 15 a gga fee ue ea 7 be Chlorate (po 23@25) .. 23@ % CTU. owe eee ee nec e eens ee venG cs 50@_ 55 — Canada .... eo - seat TE 2 90@3 00 Olutan ............... Potassa, Bitart, — 27@ 30 CORTEX Potassa, Bitart, com. ‘@ 15 : . Petass Nitras, opt.. 8@ 10 See. Canadian............ = Potass Nitras.......... 1™7@ 9 RO os eee eee ok [i Prussiete 28@ 30 Saas cei teeeeees = Sulphate po...... boot i |e uonymus atropurp........ Myrica Ceriters, Og. ........ 20 RADIX. Prunes Viren. ............. 2) AComium 20@ 2 eee eee... 1 Aes R@ WB Sassafras ... coe A OC 122@ 15 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 a, Beer tennattnss aon = omen ee eee ENaC 2 EXTRACTUM. eee (po, 12)..... 8@ 10 labra... 24@ 25 | Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 — aie 3@ 35 ae Canaden, — 15 lb. box 11 i Gos... ...... er el 138 14 wckebars, Ala, po.... 15@ 20 6s ee 14@ 15 a me. 15@ = - cas ween SG 171 etcee pe... 2 2@2 Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 FERRU eerare OE... 45 Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Maranta, es ee 35 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Podophyilum, PO... 15@ 18 Citrate Soluble........ SS SiRhe ee 75@1 00 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ WO ie oor @i %5 Selat Chioride........ @ 1 a 75@1 35 Sulphate, — ees 9@ 2 Spigelia ee ee 35@ pure.. @ 7] Sanguinaria, (po 2).. @ FLORA a Medd ceeeue =e = i ssnega | ain Ne ~ = Similax, Officinalis, H @ S ee ES ‘ 35 2 acer lt... 50@ 65 a. (po. gee 10@ 12 i y™mplocarpus, cati- a ites: oa... @ 3 Canin Asuiitel, ‘hn. oo Valeriana, — 30) re = nivelly ...... ae > = ws ce 18@ 20 Salvia officinalis, \s Paneer 3...... .. 18@ 2 Me 8, icc. 15@ 25 SEMEN. a Gee ............. 8@ iC} Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15 @UMMI. A ea (graveleons).. LE@ . Acacia, int picked... @ Go| BTA Wiser A 8 a 2d . ¢ 30 Cardasaon ee 1 el = "ms P SOTIGRGrUM........... 2 * sifted sorts... eo = Cannabis Sativa oe ae 5 aa , DT Aloe, Barb, - ig “a = Chenopodium ........ 10@ 2 Cape, UB 50 | Dipterix Gdorate: ..:. 2 25@2 50 Socotrl,( (Po. )- 2 Foeniculum........... @ 15 Catechu, 18, (168, 14 Jas, @ 1 | Foenuareek, po..... “ 6@ ‘ c. naan CD 55@ 60) Pins... eee, Assafctida, (po. 85)... 3x@ 35 | Fhe oo. *@ “2 Benzoinum............ W@ 55 er a a a 4@ 5 Camphore....... te De sc 6@ 7 Euphorbium po =, 2 Sinapie Alba. .212.7. 11 @13 ee -*~ “a 7 Nigra... 1. 1@ 12 Saeco BP: Zu SPIRITUS. 15 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 30 D. F. R....-1 %5@2 00 oe 8 1 25@1 50 . = Juniperts Co. 0. f.. “a po Oi : 35 Sascharum N. E......1 75@2 00 TrASACENIA ......-..... 40@1 00 Spt. — Gant Cc. | T5@E = at kages. ce en a an 1 25@2 00 MEE ooo os 5 oe 20 SPONGES. enero Pade oe EPEC OS bse e 606 ve a Florida sheeps’ wool ss Mentha Piperiia.. | nasean caticepe' Woot Vir Coceesccee coos = carriage i. 2 00 B00. ‘ie ciee deen ae ou Velvet extra ‘sheeps” a eo ee oe wool cCarriage....... Thymus, ee 25 Extra yellow sheeps’ MAGNESIA. Grau ae eee ia c 85 Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 | Grass sheeps’ wool car- + 6 ee a asc ah tl se lit Carbonate, Pat........ 2@ = aon 7 a a ee 75 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ flow neat, ? tana Carbonate, Jenning5S.. 35@ 36 — eef, for 8 . orm | RR wwe eee ee tee ens Abenthin ot... 50@4 00 SYRUPS. en oe .. te or) ROOM 50 — alae, Amarae. “a vont = —— eee ele cc ab cone iG = hee eecs iueeesea { ee Auranti Cortex....... 2 30@2 40 Wet WOG 50 Berg Me 2s 50} Anrantt Cortes.........-.... 50 oo Coe Gi Riel Arom. oc... cl. 50 ore ee cig seus bm | 2 Similax Te . eae 2 Pinhead dee deueue < 6 seceee Coenopedt ........... “61 soil a 50 Cinnemontt ....:...... Geet CC! Seitiag........:.............. 50 erent @ ge, Seen ee EEN AA gn 50 Contam Mac.:,....... oe oe eee 50 ee SS Wi Franses eirg................. @ TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis . eae 60 bee le 50 Aloes.. : Sheet “and myrrh... a 60 BOON 50 Seren 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Pe 60 ee 50 Saag ct ENO 50 Peete 50 Cumsnericgs.......... 75 Coe Ca damon bee eee coal, 7 a Se ¥ (J Cee 100 eee 50 Cinchona ete eee cece ca cs cy 50 Peed eee 4. 60 Cegmne 50 ee 50 hea, 50 eee 50 Me 50 Gentian ee 50 ee 60 Guaica a 50 Seoeeen:. 8. 60 Pee 50 yeecveinee 50 ee 5 ' Coberiome. 7 Perr Chioridum........ |... 35 i 50 ere 50 eee 50 max VoRne 50 eRe oe 85 | Bede ne ao 50 eee deer ce esc. o 2 00 Auranti Cortex.. co. —— We tee eee nek. 50 a oe 50 Rhei. oc. a Cassia Acutifol.: pec ones s 14. 50 ce... 50 iieeene Se cea. 50 POMC 60 TO 60 Wee 50 Verstrum Voridé........ |. 50 MISCELLANEOUS, Atther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30 ‘ " £2... oe Ss AO 24@ 3 _ ground, (po. Se - 2. 4 Annatto..... 55@ 60 Antimoni, ~~... . 4@ 5 et Potass 55@ 60 oo @1 40 AMGrCnIE............, @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 55 i fo 7 Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40 Bein 8 ON... is 20@2 25 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (%s ia, Ae, ee. 11 Cantharides Russian, ee eee ee, @1 Capsici _—-- @ = @ “ Lay @ Caryophyllus, oo 15) 10@ Carmine, No. 40....... @3 Cera Alba, 8, eF eee 50@ ee Pree 7. . BQ Coe @ Cassia Fructus........ @ prea @ Commeeim ............. @ Chloroform lala aie aie oe Chloral Hyd a moses is 351 200, Cinchoniding, ®. &W a UTES olawKS BBRSRSSSRSSRALBEY S erman 3 “cent list, dis. per ie Crete, ob MN 6 soe cca @ Nees ees eeu. 5@ e Same eles ce 9@ _ @ Ce 10@ Coen @ Cart Sain... ....... 5@ a 10@ or Sere, 70@ a ee. = . Ergota, (po.) 7%5....... 70@ 75 ae x esa. 122@ 15 ot @ B Gelatin, G el eee ani es 7 g ‘. elatin, Cooper....... French....... 60 ch 0Q Ghaaeeiae flint, by box 70 & 10, Less than box 66% Glue, PrOwe........,. 9@ 15 Meee... 18Q@ 2 rvOGreie .... 51... 14%@ 20 Grana Paradisi........ @ 2 Paes... ... ..... 55 Hydraag —. oe: @ & @ 80 . Ox aia @ 9 . Ammonfati.. @i 00 “ Unguentum. 45@ 55 Hy@rargyrum ......... @ 64 Tchthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 RU eo. 8 75@1 00 Iodine, Resubl........ 3 80@3 90 Togoromm............,. @4 70 Tees... ........... @2 2 Lycopodium .......... 65@ 70 a 7@ 75 Liquor Arsen et Hy- og ee 27 Liquor see 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph (bb: ia 4 1 ais SF... Morphia, 8S. P..& W. 2 2 45 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2} Linseed, boiled.. .... e S. N. ¥.Q & _— Sinapis................. @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter Cc. Co - 2 10@2 3% = ee eee seas @ Mi Sea ........... 85 Moschus Canton...°.. aw 40 — accaboy, De os SpiritsTurpentine.... 31 36 oon wo)... a Veen... 2... Wax Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 sna “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. On. Serie | 20@ 22] Soda Boras, (po.i1).. 10@ 11| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Pe sn Saac, H. &P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 | Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 lL @2 00 | Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Ber......1% 2@3 Pieis Liq, N..C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carh......... @ 5 Putty, commercial... .244 2%@3 en, @2 00/ Soda, Ash... 3%@ 4 lion Prime Aime eed 2h 2%@3 Picis Liq., — Le @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 — eee @ 8|Spts. Ether Co........ 50@_ 55} ican ............ 13@16 Pil eden (po. 80) . @ 30; “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 25 Vermilion, English... 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. =). @ 1 * Moyrcia Imp... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular a 70@75 Piper Alba, (po g5) .. @ 3) * Vini Reet. bbl. Lead, red.............. 6%4@7 Pix Burgun........... St 2 19@2 29 ee - 647 it Pinmbi Acct. 14@ 15 er 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. @i0 Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20] Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 Lay Gilders’...... @% Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphar, 8 Sab Oe 24@ 3 | White, Paris American 1¢@ &P.D. Co, dos... as Bae 2 @ 2% | Wh haiting, Paris Eng. ¢ antes ee eae Sm 10; CMe ......-.-......... ao ad a ™3 = Terebenth Venice... B@ 30 Pioneer Prepared Painti 201 “ Quinia 8. B&W 29@ 34| Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48 | Swiss aan Prepared "S. German.... 20@ 30| Vanilla... 2.022020.) 9 00@16 00} Paints............... 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 Zinci Sulph.. ........ 7@ 8 VARNISHES, Saccharum Lactispv. 20@ No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Salgee 1 %5@1 8 Ors. Extra Turp....... .-160@1 7 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal} Coach Body.. -2 75@3 00 po, _........._..... 12@ 14} Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn. --1 00@1 10 NM. 10 isi Lard, extra... ....... a 10 1 15| Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 7 Ce, @ 15 Lard, Ne. f.. 65 7 “he Dryer, No. 4 Linseed, pure raw. 42 | Fore... C.. 70@75 HAABLTINE & PRI DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN Paints, Oils 2% Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Druggisis’ Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order: HACELTINE & PERKINS DRUG C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PHICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE, doz gross ae... 55 6 00 oo e.......... oo 7 00 o_O 50 5 50 ce ote ee 7 8 00 i 65 7 SO ae .. ..---.-- 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. 6 IP cans, 3 doz a oon 45 :- 85 1 Ab - § * ............ 1 60 —...........-.--- 10 Arctic 4 > cans 6 doz case....... 55 - on eT r > = 208 * .....-- 5 oO ce = tau * ....... 9 00 Fosfon. 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. a 16 © wo = Red Star, is 2 cams........ 4 oe oc : a 1 = Telfer’s, sf cans, doz. 45 “ an 85 “ae * ~ “ “ ne 1 50 Our Leader, 14 lb cans. 45 1g 7 —s...... 75 tibecans..... .1 0 Tr. Price’s. per doz Dime cans. 95 4-0z m 4 40 6-02 ’ 2 00 8-0z ee Cea * ow Ba * .378 2 ib “ 1200 4-1b - we 5-lb r 2m 10-1b 41 80 ee BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. a .- ee ce 80 NT! 70 BLUING, Gross Arctic, 402 ovals Ts 3 69 oe Ct 6 75 ints, reund........ 9 . Vo. 2 , sifting box... 2% * No. 3, __ -_ = mao . ... se 1 oz ball ———o Mexican Liquid, 4 02. 3 60 ene 6 80 BROOMS, wo. — ea ee 17 No ol = 2 Carpet. ee 2 eh 2 50 Parlor IN ite anny eens 2% Common Whisk............ W Fancy i eeece 1 EE 3 25 BRUSHES. Stove, No. De eee 12 See ee 1 56 ce ‘s 1 q5 Rice Roct ee 2 row. 85 Rice Roct Scrub, 3 row. 13 Palmetto, goose. 1 50 BUTTER PLATES. Oval—250 in crate. i ee ae 60 Eo 70 ————— 80 as... Ck ee 1 00 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes. 10 — = Ch lL 9 oe oo 16 ae 24 CANNED GOODS. — Clame Little Neck, tg _.. 2 eee ee 10 Clam Sie: ——— ~ eo 22% ve Oysters. Standard, ‘Tib eee 1 00 21ib ee Lobsters. Star, } ace 2 50 Oe 8 50 Picnic, : me... 2 00 Oe ee 2 90 Mackerel. Standard, 1 lb ek 12 Dc ichewsavouca 2 10 Mustard, 2 i 2 DB Tomato Sauce, 2lb......... 2 25 ee. © .......... ~~ Salm: Columbia River, fiat hee es 1 80 ee 1 65 Alaska. ome. eee 1 45 OO ee 14 ieee as, See..........-... 1 9% Serdines. American eee cee @5 Pe ne ncn ee Imported OM cece 10@11 ee 15@16 Mustard xs Cheek ee me @7 Boneless . oo 21 “Trout. Beek, 3 &....... .-- .-2 50 Fruits. Apples, 2 ie. cheiere......... 95 York State, gallous.. 3 00 Hamburgh, * Apricots. Live oak. . \ 17 Santa Crus........ ... 1 7 ee. 1% Cerne............- 17 Blackberries. ay... ......... 95 Cherries. a... 1 10Q1 2 i Hamburgh . 1% aes 1 50 Erie cs 1 20 Damsons, Ege Plums and Green a ...... ._...... 1 10 eres. 4... 1 70 +ooseberries. oes... 13 Peaches. ee 13 ae .............. re 1 65 Cee... ......... 2 20 ee 1 65 eee Pears. a 1 20 eeee.....-..,..... 210 Pineapples. Cn ee te 1 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 . ereted...... 3% Booth’s sliced. “ @2 5) ug grated...... . @2 5 Quinces. ee .............. 1 10 Raspberries. ae 1 30 Black Hamburg.. 1 50 Erie. black 130 Strawberries. Rewremce ............. 13 Hamburgh . = ee : 1m Te ee 1 10 Whortleberries, Blueberries ........ 1 00 Meats. Corned beef vse ade ae Roast beef Armour’s. i. Potted ham, ee 1 40 _ 85 tongue, % Ib. 1 35 “a 85 chicken, iy nn 9 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringless....... 123 French styie..... 2 2 Y Sie... 1 35 RN, i oe eee 1 : rT ieee cee 75 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked.. i World’s Fair Baked : = eee... .......... — ae... ..... ee Livingston Eden « eee 1% Purity . os oe a Rae "1 40 Morn ng Glory. a ee 75 Peas. Hamburgh a. Sede 13 early June i — Eng. -1 30 = . oo... 1% _ ancy sifted....1 90 eee 75 ee 75 VanCamp’s marrofat..... t= ie early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 35 French.. +. io eeneh Mushrooms. Frenc seceeseccceconcs cok tpn Pumpkin. eee... —. Squash meee ...... os... 1 2 Succotash CO 1 40 ed 85 Tomatoes. ae Ee ieee ee Hamburg a eeeee eens ee , CHOCOLATE. Baker's. German Sweet.. .......-.- 23 ee 37 Breakfast Cocoa.. 43 CHEESE. aeee..............-. @i1% ae @1l% PB bec sence @ii eee et 5, 11% iGomt Metal........... @i1 EE OTE EES 6O 7 en 11 I ee ie Leaps 1 00 ee 23 Limburger a @10 eS QS Roquetert...... .. ... Ss an Se... .... : Seb olen, imported. @xA domestic .... G@i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. — pint, 25 bottles acl oe 2% +... oo eons 1 doz bottles - . ...8 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per Gon........:. 1 35 Pak we Soles... 4 50 Quart, per doz --0 10 CLOTHES PINS. Serocs boxes...........- 40@45 COCOA SHELLS, aol) bees......... . Less — ac eseeess @3% Poun ee . 64 @T FEE. "as. Rio. veer... ee ee | ee ......-. 4. 5 20 eT 20 TN 22 Santos. a... Ce 18 Good... a See... a Poe 5. 22 Mexican and Guatamala. i... 21 —......... 22 ee 24 Maracaibo. EEE 2 meee .......-......... 24 Java. ees 25 Private Growth.. ae Mandehbling . a Mocha. aaa 25 Bee 28 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 22 45 Bunoks...... 21 95 Lion, 60 or 100 Tb. case.... 22 45 Extract. ees City *% STOSB........ 7 Felix a 115 Hummel’s, boxes 20 Lemon 10 Orange “ > “ec os 11 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes... @ 6% Sultana, 20 i. @8 Valencia, 30 ‘ . Prunes, California, nee ae eees 9 100 25 Ib. bxs. 3” . ey oe 7 x80 oe 10% - 60x70 ui i Turkey. bee River .... ae ne “ “ ENVELOPES, xx _: white, Ie es $1 75 No. 2) east ee —<—- to 1 65 1 50 1 3 % L 12 Manilla, white. a 1 00 ... Seve esos 95 Coin. et He.4.. ..... 1 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 Ib. kegs. ..........-- 3% Hominy. APP OES oi cccesecceccccccsces : . NN oo ee idee Lima Beans. ct ceca 4% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 Ib. box.... 55 Tepereed.............. 10%@. *% Oatmeal. oe eee... ..........-. 4 60 Half barrels 100........... 2 40 Pearl Barley. Reese... ....... 2% Peas. meee, O.... 5... es 2 00 Gout por ..........- 24%@3 eee Oats. Barrels 180.. is @4 60 Half bbls 90.......... @2 40 Sago. ee 4% ame eee... .........-..... 5 Wheat. ree. 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Oe ee Cod. ee 3% Whole, Grand Bank..... 5% Boneless, Sree. ...... 6@8 Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@8 Halibut. eee 104%@l11 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg €5 (ee errors 2... es. 3 ss Round, 4% bbl 100 Ibs...... 2 85 ° re cee 45 a... 17 Mackerel. | a I 8 50 a 3 70 Bt, ce ine aL = Family, oo... chee _ oma... a Sardines. eens, ees... <......... 65 Trout. No. 1, ae. — No.1 ¥4 bbl, 40 Ibs.... No. 1, Kits, 16 tha... No. i Sie See cs 68 Whitefish. Family No. 1 % bbls, = Ibs Leas ud 87 CO $2.75 ce 3 » 140 a ib, xits occ 48 eae 7 42 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money, Regular Grade Lemon. Vanilla. XX Grade Vanilla, so... $1 75 on, .... 3 50 Jennings. Lemon. Vanilla 2ozregularpanel. 75 1 20 -_— r re 2 00 oz “ No. Steven... 8 00 35 No. 6 taper........ 150 www S88 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s, ee i 3 50 ee ee 2 00 Outer kegs ............... 5 . Te vee te 30 4 |b cans. . & Choke Bore—Dupont’s. TN ee eee es wee 4 50 Half a 2 ww Cumerter BOGS... .... .. .... 1 40 aaa | Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. -— ee 11 00 7: oo... 5 7% pareer mene..............- 3 00 a 60 RBS, Sage..... eee ee hes aoe 15 i reas os 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 JELLY. ry . eeee............ @ 50 a ee @3:75 30 25 12 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz........... 1 25 SOee 2 25 MATCHES. Ba. 8 seeker ........-...... 1 65 Bone parhe............... 1 70 ie 2 eeeee........-......... 3 10 Export parlor..... ec. 400 MINCE MEAT. DOOR. CANO... ce weseoses 2% OO oe Gee Geme..............-. 11 00 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. [oe Bi 75 Half ees seeds uc saee 1 40 — esas ogee cts 70 45 Half pint . belle tueebedsy 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. OL 7 00 eet wali... ..-... . ee ee eeu on 3% a a os 2 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Sugar house...........«..- 14 Cuba Baking. CO 16 Porto Rico. We cease ck, 20 Paney ....... ees eee eee 30 New Orleans. ee ce 18 eeeee eee ee 22 Bae weod................ 27 one. eee eae 2 NE cc cheee netcuses One. half barrels, 3c extra, PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Half bbis, 600 count.. @3 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00 Half bbis, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES. Clay, No. ee fs Tt. D. fall count. .. . = Com, Me. S............. 1 2 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Perea e ........-...---.- 4 00 Peuns Salt Co.’s.......... 3 2 RICE. Domestic. Carolina — eee ee uaae eee 6 wo ts 5% ’ No. 2 es cee Seen 5 ee 4 Imported. Japan, No. : bead ees hel dneee 5% je I ee ee 5 eee cteec ses... 6 NS re onc cose wok n ee —— os ot Nii re ' ok | -\ > ‘ ) A. ‘ - “4 ) < | e - 4 -l'> > THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Root er Extract, Williams’, Yor, nice 3 doz. Hires’, oe. ee SPICES, Whole Sifted. Ae 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 7 . Batavia in bund....15 nn Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, moe ge pees ce eae. 22 Zanzibar. . RT Mace Batavia....... ....... 80 Nutmegs ee 75 No. TA 70 . ee eee cle Pepper singapore a 10 -20 . shot.. -16 Pure Ground in Bulk. Ae 15 Cassi a, Batavia. . 48 and ‘Saigon. 25 . eS 35 Cloves, Amboyna...........22 ' Sonera. ..... 18 Ginger, ito. eee 16 Cochin.... = fe Jamaica .. 22 mace Balers |... 7 Mustard, a. gy Trieste. .22 25 > Nutmees: No. een Lg epper, Singapore, blac _ R “po white..... 24 . Cayenne........... 20 ‘A bsolute” in Packages, 148 Ks Bree... eceee OF 155 ee oa 1% Core... &4 155 Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155 r Arrican........ 84 1 55 met 84 155 a oscsace OB 1G Se 84 SAL SODA. oe . Genaminied: penes........,. 1% SEEDS. Ae... @12% Canary, Smyrna. . 6 Ceeerey .............. 10 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp. Russian — 4% Mixed Bird ......... 5M Mustard, white ...... 10 i 9 oe... 6 Cattle bone........... 30 STARCH, Corn 20-1b boxes eee cea. 5% oC 5% Gloss, Sip peckages 3... oe 3-lb ee ey 54% 6-lb ee 5% @ and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 33% ee 3% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jarg........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, Lo Si ee «Shy ay MG 4% SALT, 100 3-lb. sacks ee eee $2 25 eon 2 00 28 10-1. sacks ae 1 85 a | Ca. 2 wasn COOC8.............,. 1 50 56 lb, dairy in linen bags.. 32 oe Ga “" 16 is Warsaw. 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags.. 32 28 Ib. . 2 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56)», dairy in linen sacks. 75 Souar Rock. oS th. GG0Ne 27 Common Fine. on oe vi a 70 SALERATUS. Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Coe, 5% i aah 5g Dwight’s.... .. 54% Taylor’s.... Se Le 8 OAP, Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s 8 ~~. Old ones i be... 3 2 Good Cheer, 601 .......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-lb...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble, ge 3 45 Ivory, 10 . Coe ate ee a 6 75 .o........ . <2 Lenox bees 3 65 Mottled German. .8b wows cee... 3 2 Dingman Brands. Single box.. ... ue locas 3 95 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..$4 00 plain... 2 94 N.K. Fairbanks & Co.’s Brands. ee SO 4 00 Brown, i eere........... 2 40 Go Dare ..... om Lautz Bros. & Co.’s ‘Brands, ee i 400 Ce POON. co ones tone 3 95 Me oe 4 35 a & Chute ane. Biever oe one Webi ee tees ceuee 3 35 Savon Improv ed... . 250 Peer -. oo Ceres 3 25 Meonomiiea) 0 2 2 Scouring. Sapolio, ae a 3 dos... 300 hand, dae 2 50 SUGAR. The following prices repre- sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the act- ual cost in New York, with 36 cents per 100 pounds added for freight. The same quotations will not apply toany townwhere the freight rate from New York is not 36 cents, but the local quotations will, perhaps, afford a better criterion of the market than to quote New York prices exclusively. mn toe 86 30 Poweerea 0.0... 6 23 Grenuiitoa ........ 5 73 Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 86 een (633 ZERX Powdered.......... 6 42 Confec. Standard A. 5 61 No. 1 Columbia A.. 5 54 No. 5 ee Oeics oe 5 42 oe 5 26 No. ? a 5 30 ee 5 2 ae 517 ee 5 ll No. 11 - 56 a en 4 98 MO 4 61 Ae 4i1 SYRUPS., Corn. PEC a Pe OR 23 Pure Cane PO ee 19 oe, 25 Choice ‘ 30 SWEET Goops | Ginger Snaps.......... 8 Suger Creams......... 8 Frosted Creams....... 9 Graham Crackers..... 8% Oatmeal Crackers.... 8% VINEGAR. er...... 7 @8 -.............. @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Balk pereal ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 dozincase... 1 75 YEAST, Magic, . : 1 00 Ce a a 1.00 Team Woam ..............s. 1 00 CO ee 75 CO TEAS. JAPAN—Regular. me @i7 eee. oe @20 eee 7 @r% ee 32 @34 me ....... . 10 @i2 SUN CURED, roe... @17 So @20 Ee 4 @x COON oc ccc ika, 32 @34 ee. ....,.. oe oe BASKET FIRED. —............ 18 @20 Cree... @25 oe @35 Extra choice, wire leat @40 GUNPOWLER. Common to fah....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fantcy........ 7 @s85 OOLONe. @26 Common co fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH oe a TOBACCOS, Fine Cut. Pails “ae ——— noted Bazoo . a. @30 Can Can.. oe Q27 Mollie By. ........,... 27 @u Unie Hee............. 21 @22 Bree Wetee ............. 60 Sweet Cuba......... . 34 McGinty ......... 27 o“ 25 Dandy dim............ 29 Torpedo ce ee ee oe 24 r in drums.. 23 Yun Yum ....,...... 28 oe tae eee ° 23 ~ GPOe ile 22 Plag. Sorg’s Brands, SpeOermenG ..... 1c... 41 a. 39 oooe Twist............ 41 Scotten’s Brands, Re. .5....... Satna oe 38 Valley City .....0004-. 34 Finzer’s Brands. ld Honesty.......... 40 ony ver. .........-.-.. 2 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, ee Gee 4 Golden ean eee ca. 19 a Mecemncmami. ol. 29 American Eagle Co.’s —— Myre Navy... ............. Stork eM 30 German . ele 15 Frog .. es -s Java, “es te 82 Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands, ae 16 Banner * Cavendish eee 38 tts. 28 sido Brands, We 15 Money MOM 30 Ged Sioek.. 26 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, Peerless. . ea 26 OTe 18 Standard.. oe oe Globe Tobacco Co." 8 Brands. Pemieaees 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. mow Mov... |... noise 26 Uncle fam... 28@32 med Clover... oe Spaulding & Merrick. Wom and Jory... 0.00... 25 Traveler Cavendish.. ..38 Bucs fern... ....... ae Plow Bo i. Corn Cake. oe OILs. The Standard Oil Co. — as follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapi ids: meee 5. on the earth; but time has not yet rendered judgment as to the value of that precedent. The experience of forty years is now ripening to a crisis that must be met. But the unwisdom of the past should not be duplicated by proceeding to an oppo- site extreme in a policy that may justly be called by the same name. Once the empire of China was weak as compared with any other civilized nation, though having the power of numbers in the ratio of five to one. To-day, having come in contact with and adopted the improve- ments and inventions of later years, it is able to maintain its sovereignty against any one or more of those nations that once bullied it into submission to serve their own selfish purposes. We have many hestages there to secure good faith and fair treatment of Chinese subjects temporarily among us. It will not do to invite a conflict of material forces by in- sisting on carrying out the unjust terms of a law that was passed to appease the angry passions of men who have nothing to lose if we get into trouble on their account. While conceding the Chinese to be undesirable asa part of our population because they cannot be assimilated, we have noright to violate either the letter or the spirit of treaties in order to relieve ourselves of a self-imposed burden. We invited them against the protests of their recognized government, and such invita- tion gave them rights if it did not make them equals or citizens. It is wise now to modify national policy with China, as well as with other countries that have given us so undesirable an influx to a population that increases with fear- ful rapidity. The measures to be used should be wisely preventive, not cruelly exclusive like those of Russia that thrill the sympathies of all civilized races. We are like a spendthrift who has come to his senses before his patrimony is all spent—the past cannot be recalled but the future may be used more wisely, and in this lies our strongest hope. All governmental policies have a com- mercial bearing and nearly or remotely affect the prosperity of a people. We have been, heretofore, so surcharged with sentiment that we have overlooked the true interest of a land we all profess to love. If for the next fifty years we should not gain 1 per cent. in population there might be a better chance for gain- ing a larger per cent. per capita in the sum of individual happiness. Until we get to be more homogeneous we shall, as a nation, gain only weakness from num- bers. We have made some mistakes with the Chinese that can be partially remedied. But if wedo not reverse or modify our policy in reference to immi- gration generally in the future, we shall be likely to meet the fate of the snowball that, gaining too much weight by accre- tion, finally breaks to pieces for lack of cohesive qualities. S. P. WHITMARSH. i > Version of the Mansfield Cheese Poisoning. Another THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CoLuMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 24—The article from R. Harvey Reed, Health Officer - Mansfield, on the Mabee_ poisonous | cheese case, which was investigated by | Dr. McNeal, State Dairy and Food Com- | missioner, and myself, is very mislead- | ing to the general public and a curiosity to practical cheesemakers, making the | whole thing look like a farce. | It is very evident that Dr. Reed under- | takes to write about a subject of which|Many dealers who were opposed to the he has no practical knowledge—that of | movement and did not even think well in his article that cheesemakers allow— in fact, require—their curds to develop acid, with a view to making their cheese | porous and light. This will be an en- | tirely new idea to cheesemakers who are burning their fingers with hot irons, finding the acid which is generally con- | sidered necessary to make a cheese firm | or solid, anything but porous. | The lesson Dr. Reed has learned, that | cheesemakers should be compelled by | law not to ferment their curd, therefore | comes to naught. The lesson that they | Should not receive bad milk has been | taught as long as cheese has been manu- | factured. I am sorry to say, however, | that mach carelessness exists among | cheesemakers in this respect. Mrs. Mabee does not allow her curd to ferment, but, on the other hand, fol- lows in the footsteps of our dear grand- mothers by making a sweet curd cheese, with a view to quick curing for home use. Dr. McNeal and myself investigated the ease as carefully as possible and found everything in first-class order at the Mabee dairy. We investigated every dairy separately, and could find nothing wrong, except in two instances: First, we found that one patron might have putin milk to soon from a fresh cow, having had one fresh about that time; second, we found one cow which was sub- ject to fits of a very severe character, frothing at the mouth, falling down, stiffening of muscles, ete. This cow’s milk was used. We have never claimed these facts to be the cause of the trouble, but spoke of them as possibilities. The general appearance of the cheese, how- ever, would indicate that the milk was in a state of decomposition, or fermenta- tion, which amounts to the same thing. The cheese is in process of analysis by several chemists. One completed by Prof. Kauffman, at the instanee of Dr. MeNeal, was furnished by Dr. McNeal to Dr. Reed, Health Officer of Mansfield, at his request. Dr. McNeal will investigate all the cheese poisoning cases which come under his notice in the State, and make a com- plete report when his investigations are ended. W. E. Hurp, State Dairy and Food Inspector. —————> ©

__. Gripsack Brigade. D. E. McVeaan, who has covered South- ern Michigan and Northern Indiana for the past five years for Hawkins & Com- pany, has transferred his allegiance to the Musselman Grocer Co., taking the same territory as before. Owing to the fact of Wm. R. Roome & Co., of New York, having withdrawn all oo | their Michigan salesmen, O. M. Benedict, of Ionia, has secured a similar position with H. C. Fisher, tea importer of Chi- cago, and will continue to call upon the Michigan trade. E. E. Hewitt, the Rockford merchant, claims that the letter describing the Blake fishing excursion, published in THE TRADESMAN two weeks ago, was unauthorized by him. The statements contained in the letter remain uncontra- dicted and the joke still remains on Blake. Frank E. Chase has returned from Charlevoix, which port he cleared a week ago on the yacht Marion with his full complement of samples. The Boston Boot and Shoe Recorder of Aug. 18 con- tains a full account of his experience with clam fishing and clam bakes on Cape Cod. Hub Baker has gone to Chicago, where he will put in a week at the Great Fair. He will putin a week at Niagara Falls and a week in the interior of New York, when he will go to Howard City and spend a week fishing. He claims this is the first vacation he has taken in eleven years and he proposes to make up for lost time. Wm. Connor, traveling representative for Michael Kolb & Son, of Rochester, paid his usual monthly visit to the Grand Rapids market last week. He notes a considerable improvement in business all along the line, many of his customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota who cancelled their June order having renewed their en- tire order. Mr. Connor was in excellent spirits but somewhat weary from the ef- fects of a presentation speech delivered at a wooden wedding a few evenings be- fore. Cornelius Crawford and F. R. Miles recently visited the World’s Fair, in com- pany with their wives, and Mr. Miles volunteered to pilot the party through the Midway. Instead of going down the Plaisance, the guide took the party out a turnstile, where they discovered they were outside the grounds. It cost Miles $2 to rectify his mistake, but it has prob- ably cost him several times $2 to keep his friends quiet since the joke has be- come public property. Mrs. Adele M. Graef, who comes to Grand Rapids regularly in the interest of a New York manufacturing house in the pharmaceutical line, recently called at the office of the New York Sun and asked to see the reporter who had writ- ten her up as a successful saleswoman a year before. What she had to say is of interest because it shows the alacrity with which some women take advantage of every opportunity to go into new branches of work, and also the readiness of business men to employ women in competition with men. ‘Since that ar- ticle appeared in the Sun,’’ said Mrs. Graef, ‘‘l have traveled all over this country, and everywhere I have found evidence that the story of my work had been read. I couldn’t tell you how many women have applied to my own firm. They all said they never thought of that way of earning money until they read the article in the Sun. The firms themselves took up the idea. One that I know right here in New York engaged five women on trial, and some of them are still at work. Another firm in this city sent out a woman who has proved very successful. On the road I met two women traveling for St. Louis firms. Both secured their places as a di- rect result of the influence of that article. These women, you must remember, are all traveling for the same line of goods that I carry, drug- gists’ specialties. There are others in other lines. There is no reason why women should not find commercial trav- eling a source of good income, but very few of them understand that it is ex- tremely hard work, and that a woman who would succeed at it must have a good constitution, a stout heart, and a clear head. Given those requirements, there is no reason why women should not compete with men in this profession, as they have in others, and come off witb a good share of the profits and the honors.’’ The commercial traveler of the United States illustrates the growth and exten- sion and improvement and elevation of the world and humanity. Genealogically he is descended from the bagman of the last century, who figures in so many good stories; he who first traveled on horseback selling goods by sample, as distinguished from the peddler who sold the articles themselves. The bagman, deriving his title from the saddlebags, represented the extension of commerce and the growth of manufactures. He | effected the direct connection between | the wholesaler and the retailer, between the port and the interior, between the centers of commerce and manufactures and the widespread country. He was the ambassador, the missionary, of trade. With the coming of railroads and steam- boats the horseback traveler and his sad- dlebags gradually disappeared, and so the name bagman gradually went out of use. The original labors of this dissem- inator of trade were greatly increased in this country, and from the fact that his business was to vigorously solicit busi- ness with an energy like that of the “alarming drum’’ came the appellation “drummer” still in use; but with the in- creasing magnitude and, as may be said, the increasing dignity of his operations came a yet more comprehensive designa- tion, and the bagman of old became the commercial traveler of to-day, as much greater than his commercial ancestor as a locomotive is in power than a horse, and as the colossal sample trunk of the nineteenth century is to the saddlebags of the eighteenth. The commercial traveler, mustering by thousands, is now a great factor and fea- ture in American business and social life. The value and necessity of the commercial traveler have been so fully demonstrated that there is no longer any talk of dispensing with him. As every religion must have its preachers, so com- merce, trade, business must have its speaking ministers and agents, its “‘stumpers,” solicitors and orators. The spirit of organization which distin- guishes the century has reached the commercial travelers. They form a great society and they have divided and subdivided the land among them, inces- santly traveling, they have directly and indirectly regulated lines and facilities of travel. Every railroad line has felt their influence, and they have raised the hotel standard of the country. The commercial traveler, being an American citizen and usually a voter, is necessarily a politician, and if he does not control elections (and he has been known to do that), he becomes a good judge as to how the election is going. He moves about among the people and becomes a ‘‘peo- ple’s man;’’ he is an authority on popu- lar events and questions; he connects distant communities, fosters the ex- change of ideas, carries the news and fosters the brotherhood of man. Bis naz DICTIONARY ‘gd Over 1200 Large Quarto Pages, Durably Bound in Cloth. Twenty-five copies for $16.25. 30 days net, 3 per cent. 10 days. NATIONAL BOOK & PICTURE CO., CHICAGO. JAVA OIL RAW AND BOILED. A substitute. for linseed, and sold for much less money. Purely Vegetable, adapted to all work where a more eco- nomical oil than Linseed is desired. Free From Sediment, has better body, dries nearly as quick and with better gloss than Linseed Oil. Especially adapted to priming and min- eral painting. This Oil is a Winner! Try a sample can of five or ten gallons. Write for prices. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. MILTON KERNS’ El Puritano Cigar. THE FINEST 0 Cent Giger on Earth OQ--- -- TRADE SUPPLIED BY BATEMAN & FOX, Bay City. B. J. REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids. R OPPENHEIMER, East Saginaw. Detroit Toxsacco Co., Detroit, Mich. VOICE, HERPOLSTEIMER & C0, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolshemer & Go, “°: Grana apis MUSKEGON BAKERY UNITED STATES BAKING Coa., CRACKERS, BISCUITS, CAKES. Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” HARRY FOX, Manager, WHEN YOU ARE READY TO BEGIN HANDLING THEM REMEMBER THAT OUR P. & B. BRAND RANKS At, ‘TRE PUTNAM CANDY CO. PHREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL [er Cracker Chests. Glass Covers for Biscuits, SSS = aaa ’ I ‘HESE chests will soon | pay for themselves in the Price $4. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They. are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherina moment. They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. breakage they avoid. NEW NOVELTIES. We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. CREAM CRISP. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mer. ORANGE BAR. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. This is bound to be one of GRAND RAPIDS. a | KALAMAZOO PANT k OVERALL CO. a LADY'S 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Our entire line of Cotton Worsted Pants on GENUINE ; VICI ; SHOE, hand to be sold at cost for cash. Lf interested Plain toe in opera and opera toe and C. S. heel. | "4y\¢ carbene oe > Matth Build : : Pee el. Milwaukee Office: Room 502 Matthew Bui D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather ing. r tip, $1.55. Try them, they are beauties. Stock : : : Our fall line of Pants from 89 to #42 per dozen soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send are now zeady An immense line of Kersey for sample dozen. hy MUSKEGON, MICH. Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound REEDER BROS. SHOE CO, swatches of entire line sent on approval to the Grand Rapids, Mich. trade. GRAND RAPIDS, BRUSH GOMP'Y, BRUSHES | Our Goods are -old by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. pes a TYE MANUFACTUR ERS uF sRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FRUIT JARS B—4 the prices advance, which they are sure to do a little laterin the season. We will hold the following quotations open until the next issue of Tar TRADESMAN One Dim Mason cams, packed, 6. Ger inaecace:.....0.0. 0 $6 00 One quart Mason cans, packed. 8 doz. in acase.................. 6 50 One-half gal. Mason cans, packed, 6 doz. inacase....... ................. 8 50 One pint Mason cans, packed, 1 der ingecase..:... ... 00.0. 1 Une quert Mason cans, packed, 1 doz. in a case......................... 8 25 One-half gal. Mason cans, packed, 1 doz. inacase....... ...... 10 25 Don’t delay but send your order at once to H. Leonard & Sons GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, a 4 ‘<¢ CTOR> FULL CREAM CHEESE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Io QUALITY WINS! mel) And you can depend on the best qual- ity when you buy this Brand. C dex IGAR (Company Corner Ottawa and Lyon Streets, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. STATE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Ze ; AGNES BOOTH CIGARS. WE CARRY ALL SIZES AND SHAPES. This world-famous brand is for sale on the World’s Fair Grounds in the only buildings set apart for smokers. No advance over regular retail prices. The Following —_____—-<<_ Is the best line of Coffees in the State. & SANBORN. IF YOU WANT THE BEST THESE ARE THE GOPPEES FOR YOU TO BUY. All roasted by CHASE Jewell’s Arabian Mocha, Jewell’s Old Government Java, Jewell’s Old Government Java and Mocha, Wells’ Perfection Java, Wells’ Java and Mocha, Weaver’s Blend, Santora, Ideal Golden Rio, Compound Crushed Java. Above are all in 50-pound cans, Ideal Java and Mocha in one and two pound cans.