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BRIDGE. 4066084448 ESTABLISHED 1841. ASMA ANE MES ROR Mn iS THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. * Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada THE LOST WILL. Jacob Beeson was a farmer, worth about $70,000. I was a law student in the office of Henry Platt, of Little Falls. Twice during the last six months Beeson had dropped in to talk about a will, and his visits were of peculiar interest to me. The old man was a widower, and Mary Thompson, his niece, had lived with him for several years and was likely to be handsomely remembered in the will. I was 20 years old and Mary was a year younger, and we were engaged, though the old man knew nothing about it. One of his sisters was his housekeeper, aad his only child had grown to manhood and left home long ago. Bill Beeson, as his son was familiarly called, had made the father no end of trouble and was even then serving out a sentence in State prison. On the 21st day of January, 187-, Beeson entered the office, and as he removed his overcoat, comforter and yarn mittens, he said: ‘Bill has been a drefful bad boy, as you know, Henry, but I can’t forget that he is of my own flesh and blood. No- body would blame me if I cut him off with a shillin’, but I’ve made up my mind to leave him ’nuff to start on when he comes outer prison. I want it fixed about this way: Say $30,000 to my niece Mary; $20,000 to my sister Polly; $10,000 to Bill; $5,000 to build a Baptist meeting house, and the rest, if thar should be any, to fixin’ up the town graveyard and buildin’ a free bridge across Cedar Creek. I calkerlate ’m wuth between $70,000 and $75,000, but we can’t tell how much of a shrinkage thar may be.” The will was drawn as he dictated, and I went out and got witnesses to sign it. Mr. Platt had been the old man’s lawyer for years and had kept all his papers in the office safe. This will, when duly signed, was placed in the strong box by my own hands, and I felt like shouting when I realized how generously Mary had been remembered. When all was over the old man, the lawyer and the witnesses went out to have a drink to- gether, while I remained to care for the office. They had not been gone two min- utes, when I got a call from a tramp. He had an unusually pathetic story to tell, and as I had no change I stepped out to get a bill broken. He was not left alone over three or four minutes, and I knew that the money drawer of the safe was locked. He went away blessing me, and the incident soon passed out of my mind. On the 18th day of March, almost two months later, Jacob Beeson was killed by his team running away as he was driving into town. Within an hour of the calamity his son, Bill, arrived home, having served his time. The funeral was to be held on the 21st, and the will was to be read after the ceremonies. Mr. Platt asked me to go out with him, and it was noon of the 21st before we went to the safe for the will. We had half a dozen wills in a certain pigeon hole, and Jacob Beeson’s had been placed on top of the pile. We were not at all upset when we failed to find it there, but fif- teen minutes later, when every piece of paper had been overhauled and the will was still missing, we were in despair. Burglars had never touched the safe, nor was any other paper missing. The law- yer remembered seeing me deposit the will, and when I ran out and brought in the witnesses they also remembered the fact. Mr. Beeson had not been in the office since, and there had been no occa- sion to look at the will. We hunted high and low, but it could not be found. We couldn’t believe that it had been ab- stracted from the safe, for no opportunity had offered, and no one outside of the four of us knew that a will had been made. Beeson had not said a word to his sister or niece, and Mr. Platt, who knew of my love affair with the latter, had cautioned me to drop no hint. We concluded that the paper had somehow been mislaid, and this was the explana- tion made after the funeral. Bill Beeson had come home to tell his father that he had reformed and was re- solved to be a better man. The father might have believed in him, but no one else would. He was regarded by the public as a thorough-paced scoundrel, and no one was deceived by his hypocrit- ical demeanor at the funeral. He was no doubt secretly glad at the death of his father. He was probably hoping that no will had been made, for a look of sur- prise and disappointment was noticed when the announcement was made. Later on he wanted to know how the property had been left, but, of course, we gave him no satisfaction. We re- turned straight to the office and began a search which lasted the night through. Everything was investigated and in- spected, but when daylight came the will had not been found. We were certain that it had been abstracted from the safe. But by whom, and at what time? Bill Beeson was in prison at the time, and could not have known of the making of the will. We sat down to recall the past day by day, and neither of us could remember of any stranger visiting the office since the will was made. Three men were positive of seeing me take the paper from the lawyer’s hands and step over to the safe with it. I was positive thatl placed it on top of the other wills ina pigeonhole. It had disappeared. Fig- ure and theorize as we might, and as we did, we could come to no satisfactory conclusion. I was sent to the prison where Bill Beeson was serving his sen- tence, but no letter from his father had been received for a year previous to his discharge. Therefore he could not have known of the will. Had he suspected its existence and conspired with some con- viet about to be discharged to steal it? Only three men left the prison during the two months, and none of those had come in contact with Beeson. Bill Beeson waited a month for us to find that will, and he then naturally con- cluded that it could not be found. Then he ordered the aunt and cousin off the place, and took the necessary legal steps to be placed in possession. There was no getting around the fact that he was the legal heir, and after atime the law declared him such. He was told of the provisions of the will, of course, but he refused to make any sort of divisiun, and settled down to the enjoyment of the entire estate. The lawyer realized that his reputation had suffered, and, aside from feeling cut up that Mary had been done out of her fortune, I felt in a sense responsible for the disappearance of that valuable document. I spent hours and hours in trying to figure out the mystery, and one night as I sat thinking over it I got the first glimpse of light. For the first time I remembered the visit of the tramp. He had been left alone in the office for three or four minutes. The idea that he would go to the safe and select that one paper from all others was far-fetched, but in spite of Mr. Platt’s arguments to the contrary I felt certain that he didit. He would goto the safe in search of money. Not finding any, he might snatch at a paper, hoping it would be valuable enough to bring a reward. Standing by itself the theory was all right, but when I asked myself why, if it was the will, he hadn’t com- municated witb us, I could make no answer. If he gotit, he would be just as likely to negotiate with Bill Beeson as with us, even moreso. I began an inquiry, however,and soon discovered sev- eral people who remembered my caller. He had been hanging around town for a couple of days before I saw him, and af- tera bit I settled the fact that he left the day after. No one knew which way he went, and my investigation had to cease there. July had come, and Bill Beeson was in full swing, and we had given up the will as lost forever, when 1 happened in the Mayor’s office one day. He was looking through his mail, and as he opened a cheap and badly soiled envelope contain- ing a half sheet of note paper written over in pencil, he laughingly observed that he had a large correspondence with tramps. He glanced at the letter, utter- ed a ‘thumph!’ and was about to throw it away when I reached for it and re- marked that 1 would take the treuble to answer itin his name. It had been writ- ten with a hard pencil, and the chirog- raphy was scrawly and the spelling a regular puzzle. I took it to the office and went over it word by word, and when { had finished I startled Mr. Platt by uttering a cheer. The Mayor’s name was William Benson. The letter was directed to William Beeson. The supe:- scription was so poor, however, that no blame could be attached to the distribut- ing clerk. When translated into decent English, it read: ‘‘Was Jacob Beeson your father? Did he make a will? Is the will worth anything to you? How much?” The writer was in the St. Claire county jail and anxious for a trade. Now we had a clue for sure, and that night I started for the county seat of the county mentioned, which was 100 miles away. The date of the letter was ten 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. days’ old, and it had probably been given to some prisoner to post when discharged. | I made sure of getting possession of the | will, but was doomed to disappointment. The letter had been signed ‘I. J. White.” A prisoner of that name, and no doubt the writer of the epistle, had died the day before of consumption, and the body was in the coffin ready for burial when I ar- | it as the! rived. 1 could not identify face of my tramp, but believing that it was he 1 exhibited the letter and asked for a search of his effects. He had been sent up about the middle of May on a three months’ sentence, and had arrived at the jail without acoat. The search was brief and fruitless. It was about a month after this episode when I set out on what the lawyer called a wild goose chase. It was a conversation with Mary Thompson that caused me to make the | trip. “This J. White probably took the will from the safe,’’ she said, as we talked it over. ‘‘Where he kept himself from Jan. 21 to the middle of May we do not know, but ought to find out. bly put in the time between here and St. Claire county. You learn the circumstances of his arrest. If he had the will, he carried it in his coat. How did it happen that he had no coat when arrested? You should try to locate him.”’ I drove to the west for two days with- out hearing anything of J. White. Plenty of tramps had passed over the great high- way during the winter, but if he was among them he could not be identified. On the morning of the third day I crossed | the line into St. Claire county. o’clock in the morning, crossroads, a farmer hailed me to drive into his yard for safety. I came to a as was the owner of a bad-tempered bull | which had escaped from the field into; the highway and was menacing all trav- | elers on the road to the west. Half a} dozen men men were then trying todrive the animal back into the field. “JT expect Pll have to shoot the critter | or see him kill some observed the | farmer as sat the fence and} watched animal. ‘‘He’d keep the road clear of tramps if | allowed his liberty,’’ I replied. “Sartin he would, Ha! ha! ha! I was'| thinkin’ of suthin’ that happened last; spring. A mile fields thar’s a one,”’ we on to cross road. Heaps clover field. I wasin the orchard over thar, and the bul! was in the and racing around, when heard a great yelling. making the short cut, and the bull was} He | but the way a caution. after him. That chap was asurprise. looked seedy and broke up, he did let himself out was Fur about forty rods he went like greased | lightnin’. D’ye see that lone cherry tree | thar?” “ao.” ‘See a scarecrow on a lower branch?’’ “Yes, 1 see an old coat swinging there.”’ ‘“‘Waal, the feller made fur that tree was so clus after He peeled off his coatand flung it down, and that’s what saved him. ped to toss it, and the tramp reached the road. Jim Wheedon, our constable, as he run, but the bull him that he didn’t stop to climb. He proba- | must take a horse and} buggy and drive over the highway and | the movements of the furious | the north over them | oO’ | tramps cut across right here, and you’ll find a reg’lar path along the aige of th at | clover lot | I suddenly A tramp was} The bull stop- | happened along, and him and the —— | had some words, and Jim run him in.’ “Do you know if the tramp was sent | up?”’ “I never thought to ask.”’ ‘“‘But the coat was never called for.” “No. It lay on the ground till two weeks ago, and then | hung it up fora secarecrow.’’ “Did you examine it?’’ “No, sir-e-e! 1 ain’t handling coats tramps have lived in for two or three | years.”’ I told him I'd like to go down and have |a look at it, and he laughingly replied |that he had no objections. It was old | and ragged and ready to fall to pieces, 'and I found nothing whatever in the | pockets. I had gotit ona stick ready to ihang up again, when I decided on a more thorough investigation. Stitched | between the lining and the cloth in the back of his coat 1 found Jacob Beeson’s will, much the worse for long exposure, but still in fair condition. If my sur- prise was great, that of the farmer when he came to hear the whole story was | far greater. All he could say was: ‘“‘Waal, by gosh! Just think of a scare- crow worth $60,000!’ Bill Besson had to step down and out, | and the property was divided as intended. Mary Thompson got her $30,000, 1 got | Mary, and according to the best of my | knoweldge and belief everything turned out for the best, and everybody ought to have been happy. —_—_————»> i THE BROKEN BANK. When Mrs. Doane told her husband, | some months ago, that she had no faith |in banks and intended to take her own About 9 | | little nest-egg out of the Prudential Sav- iings Bank and keep it at home, he laughed at her. More than that, he took |some time and pains to explain to her me and told | He | | the principles upon which banking busi- | ness is done, and advised her seriously |to leave her money where it was much |more likely to be safe than in her own | possession. “Oh, you think I couldn’t take care of it,” said Mrs. Doane, ‘‘because I am a | woman and have no business experi- | ence.” ‘Nothing of the kind, my dear. But | there is always danger from two sources —thieves and fire.” ‘But L should remember to save it in | ease of fire, and would hide it | burglars could not possibly find it.” “It would bea sieid responsibility on | | your mind, dear.’ “Not at all. Iwould hide it in a safe | place and never think of it unless a crisis | came, such as you mention.” ‘*Where would you hide it?’’ “Guess. If you guess correctly I will | tell you.”’ | Mr. Doane began to enumerate the pos- | | sible hiding place of his wife’s nest-egg | —500—upon the fingers of his left hand. ‘The bottom of the hall clock?” “No.’? ‘‘Under the edge of the parlor carpet?” ‘‘Never.” “In the grate in the front room up-| stairs?”’ | **No, indeed.’’ *‘In the silver coffee urn?”’ **‘Nonsense, Hugh.’ ' ‘In grandmother’s old china teapot?” | His wife shook her head. He had! used up all the fingers he changed about. | **¥You would pack satchel?’’ it away in an old; Don’t Take Chances = CONDENSED MIL ae = i Thad ys EM Co: “ea oftheNewYo ORK cong stn Vw: << SS | Seater einer 7 Mapa ae tional prion a5 ” | bearthe signature, Bor de “c0-| : FKEWYORK connenseouet ~_tBudsonStreet Ne New Yorh- 1 v IT HAS NO EQUAL. And risk your reputation by recommending some other brand as being equal in quality to the Old Pe shiable «Gail Borden Eagle Brand” Condensed Milk. Make no mistake. The Branu has no equal. 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OR) Wenediiaaencaaen! | | | | | | ¥ he -“ | oi 2 - = ei ii e ? THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 “Not much.” “Oh, I know. The piano? Burglars would never think of looking there.’’ ‘‘Wouldn’t they? It isn’t there.’’ ‘‘Marion! You don’t mean to say that you really have that money in the house?”’ “IT really have it in the house, Hugh. And have had it for a month or more un- der this very roof.” ‘Good. heavens! We'll be murdered for that miserable $500! How many peo- ple know you have taken it out of the bank?”’ “Oh, nobody. That is, nobody that would say anything about it. I told our grocer because he does his banking there, and our Hannah. She had $25 in the same bank. They both left their money there. I think they were foolish to take the risk, don’t you?’’ **No,’’? said her husband with a groan, “] wish you’d left yours there. It isn’t much to have in the bank, but it’s a millstone around our necks in the house. Why, Marion, there are men in this very city who, if they knew we had $500 in this house to-night, would not hesitate to take our lives in order to get it.’’ “But I tell you they couldn’t find it, Hugh.”’ *“Couldn’t they? How long could you bear having your feet roasted over a hot fire, or your thumb nails pulled out with pichers before you would tellthem where you had hid it?”’ ‘‘H-u-s-h! You make my blood chill. Was that someone at the door? Non- sense. Who’s afraid? You didn’t guess where it was, so [ won’t tell you. And you needn’t worry about it, either. If it doesn’t draw a paltry interest it isn’t going to enrich the pockets of dishonest speculators.’’ Whether it was the excitement of this conversation or the responsibility of the money in the house cannot yet be known, but that night Doane was awakened by his. wife’s groans. She told him she had a terrific headache, and begged him to run to the nearest drug store and get her some camphor. He wasup ina moment, end though only half awake, seized one of the fancy bottles on the dressing-case and, half dressed, rushed off to the drug- gist’s. At the corner of the street he collided with a strange man who was skulking in the shadow, and the pretty fancy bottle was shivered on the pave- ment. The man took to his heels and Mr. Doane looked ruefully at this wreck of what ad been one of their wedding presents. ‘I wonder if she would like the stop- per—it’s cut glass—pretty well cut.” He stooped to pick up the ribbon which held the glass stopper, and jumped back.” ‘Hello! This is jolly! One—two— three—four—five one hundred dollar bills! DPve guessed a dead sure thing this time. I wonder if Marion will miss the money before I get home?” Thus prompted, he put the bills in his vest pocket, hurried into the druggist’s and bought a pint of camphor in a plain glass bottle, and went home. Marion had not moved, and was still suffering intensely from her headache. Her hus- band did not disturb her by mentioning the little episode of the bottle and in the morning she did not miss it from the dressing-case. At the breakfast table Mr. Doane read an account of a burglary committed in a neighbor’s house and told her of the man he had seen skulking. Then he suggested that she should give him the money to bank, but she smiled serenely and said no burglar would ever dream of | looking for it where she had hidden it. Mr. Doane was so struck by her) woman’s faith—obstinacy, he called it— | in hanging to the money, that he went | down town with it, and was much wor- | ried by its presence in his vest pocket. | He expected every moment to see his wife rushing distractedly into his place of business to tell him that her bottled for- | tune had been abducted, bottle and all. | But when he went home at noon she talked of other matters. The dressing- ease had beendusted and rearranged, and no discovery made. That afternoon he banked the money in his wife’s name, and carried the bank book home in his pocket. She had made no discovery. He could only guess that the safety of her money was so ingrained in her faith, that she had not once thought of it. She was covering an old hat frame with some new material, and wiring a couple of birds from last year’s nest to trim it jauntily, and she asked him about the effect. But not a word of the money. And that is the situation of affairs to- day. He, feeling that a crisis is always impending when she discovers her loss, and wondering where he can hide that blamed bank book so that it won’t let the eat out of the bag too soon; and she, smiling and satisfied that if all the banks go to eternal smash, she has her money safe, andis a woman who knows how to keep a secret. “And won’t Hugh be surprised when he knows where that money has been kept all this time?”’ Yes, won’t he? Mrs. M. lL. RAYNE. —_——__—>-o-<>—___—- It has recently been announced from Washington that the national banks which recently took out fresh cirecula- tion, under the provisions of the na- tional banking law, were already begin- ning to reduce their circulation, and sev- eral of the New York banks had given notice of the withdrawal of a good pro- portion of their notes. The national bank circulation was increased about $40,000,000 during the recent panic, and, as under the law the withdrawals can- not exceed a fixed amount per month, nearly a year must elapse before the cir- culation outstanding can be reduced to its old proportions. It is very clear, however, from this prompt desire to re- tire recently issued circulation, that the national banks do not find their cireula- tien profitable, and, consequently, only an extraordinary circumstance like the recent panic can drive them to issue ad- ditional notes. A moreconvincing illus- tration of the inelasticity of the national bank currency under existing laws could searcely be imagined. It is very clear, therefore, that some change must be made in existing laws if the country is to be provided with a sufficiently elastic currency to meet all tradeneeds. While the granting of permission to the na- tional banks to issue notes to the full par value of the bonds deposited would help matters to some extent, the restora- tion of State bank circulation under rea- sonable restriction offers the only perma- nent and sufficient solution of the prob- lem. a The editor wrote ‘‘political swim,’’ the compositor set it up ‘‘political swine.’’ It was an error only in a typographical sense. Oil Neaters WE ARE AGENTS FOR YHE WILGOX HEAT LIGHT GO. AND THE GLAZIER STOWE 0. eee 0—_--—_——_———— THE NO. 9 MODEL, AS WELL AS THE PRRFERGY Olb PRATER ARE THE BEST OF THEIR KIND. & GC: pragma TEVENS WRITE US FOR A CATALOGUE. MONRO ST. R Our Specialty ! CHILDREN, SHOES HIRTH, KRAUSE & 60,, 12 & 14 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Quick Sellers. WHAT? THE NEW FALL LINE Manufactured by SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, DETROIT, MICH, All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. ——_9————— State Agents Woonsocket and Lyco- ming Rubber Co. 0 Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. Cadwell, 41 Lawn Court, Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE, AROUND THE STATE. Stargis—Oliver sagt has purchased | the grocery stock of F. S. Packard & Son. Union C ona s inten Newman & Stanton in the meat business. Big Rapids—Chas. Raper has sold his news and stationery business to Chas. Wiseman. Whitehall — Mead & Cowley have moved their general stock from Lansing to this place. Ypsilanti—Mack & Mack Cook & Brown Furniture Co. niture business. Kalamazoo—A. F. Woodhams has pur- chased the flour, feed and produce busi- iness of W. E. & H. H. Mershon. Charievoix—Connor & Marshall, and shoe dealers, have dissolved, Connor continuing the. business. Grand Haven—Boer & Bolt have been compelled to build an addition to their grocery store twenty-five feet in length. Crystal Falls— The dry goods and clothing stock of C. (Mrs. M.) Frankel has been closed under chattel mortgage. Port Huron—DeStieger Bros., in musical instruments, have dissolved, Geo. DeStieger continuing the business. Whitehall—Wm. L. Forbes has sold his meat market to Herron Bros., continue the business at the same tion. Hastings— W.H. Goodyear has moved into the three-story brick purchased during the succeed the in the fur- boot John dealers who will loca- his drug stock building which he recently and overhauling past summer. Kalamazoo—R. L. the book and Kalamazoo for a number of here and will re- has been Parkin, stationery line in years, has who has been in closed out his business tire from business. Homer—W. J. Wilcox has retired from the firm of W. J. Wilcox & Co., general dealers. The business will be continued by the remaining partner, M. under his own name. Bailey—A. W. Fenton & Son have moved their druy, hardware and grocery stock into their new brick building, over J. Rowley, which they are as proud as a boy with his first pair of boots. Homer—Geo. L. Woodard, who a few weeks ago removed his of dry goods from this place to Tekonsha in the hope of doing a larger business, has re- turned and is again doing business at his old stand. His expectations as to an in- erease of business were not realized. Detroit—J. H. Biack & Co., furniture and capets at stock dealers in Wood- 154-158 ward avenue, have given a chattel mort- | as | gage for $32,000 to W. I. Robinson, trustee for their creditors, of whom there are 126. The largest amount is that owing to the Detroit Home Savings Bank, $6,790. MANUFACTURING Detroit—B. J. Ell Elliott & Stock in the manufacture of lubricat- ing oils. Lansing—Gassenmeier & Davidson suc- ceed Tron in the manufacture of show cases. Benton Harbor—Thayer & Adams have established yard here and will forward feet of lumber from the South Shore Lumber Co.’s mill, Washburne, Wis., to this point. Menominee — The Co.’s three sawmills are cutting 14,000,- 000 feet of lumber a month. MATTERS. iott succeeds Jacob a wholesale 8,000,000 | Co. has finished rafting logs sueceeds | | | 1 shipments amounted to 10,000,000, which | may be considered a good showing for an | off season. Saginaw—The Saginaw Lumber & Salt across the lake for the season, having brought over 35,000,000 feet. This company will put in the usual stock of Canada timber the coming winter. Saginaw—C. Eddy & Sons, have about 3,500,000 feet of lumber on Lake Superior unsold, nearly all of which was eut last year. They sold a large quan- tity to a Buffalo firm, but when the panic came on and the money market tightened up they took back 2,000,000 feet that had been sold to the concern re- K. / ferred to. Bay City—The Kern Manufacturing Co.’s mill is running a day and a quarter time, which is encouraging, as indicat- ing renewed activity. The Green & Braman mill has started up witha full crew. The Hargrave company has re- ceived araft of Canada logs and another is expected. The mill will run until navigation closes. Bay City—In lumbering circles there is a manifest improvement, and even conservative manufacturers and dealers regard the situation as in much better shape than since June, and look for rea- sonable activity during the fall and win- ter. The volume of business is yet small, but mills are starting up again and lumber products are moving more freely. Ludington—The sawmill of the Pere Marquette Lumber Co. will shut down October 15 unless there shall spring up a demand before that time. It is said to be doubtful if the company will do any logging the coming winter. It has several thousand feet of lumber on hand in excess of any previous accumu- lation in its history. If logs are needed next season they are well situated for summer operations. strong Saginaw—The railroad logging busi- ness, or rather the hauling of logs direct to this river by rail, will be much re- stricted this winter. Of the large con- cerns that have furnished the Flint & Pere Marquette with so much business the last ten years, only two, or three at the outside, will bring logs down this winter, and the business of the Michigan Central is likely to show a marked fall- ing off. Last year there came by rail to the Saginaw River 311,000,000 feet. It is believed that 200,000,000 feet will more than cover the quantity hauled the present year. _> + Minnesota has fifty-three cheese fac- tories, which produced 1,574,555 pounds of cheese in 1892. The legal standard for cheese in that State is that 40 per cent. of the total solid matter of the cheese shall be butter fat. In the case of milk skimmed from 3.50 to 2.75—a re- moval of over 20 per cent. of the fat— over 40 per cent. of the total solid matter of the cheese was butterfat. In another which the milk fat, case in 2.80 per cent. total solid matter in the cheese was but- ter fat. In the case of normal milk test- ing 3.50 per cent. fat, over 50 per cent. of the totai solid matter was fat. The 'fats in full milk cheese should always | exceed the casein, since there is always 'more fat in the milk than casein and al- Kirby - Carpenter | September | bumen, and a larger per cent. of the fat recovered in the cheese than of the casein and albumen. was skimmed to} over 40 per cent. of | GOTHAM GOSSIP. |News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. NEw York, Sept. growing old and no one will be sorry when it is ended. The high hopes cher- ished by many as 1893 was ushered in have been shattered and many merchants who would have been solvent to-day, had business continued as it was during the first three months, have been forced to : fornia, 30—The year is| tne wall, and thousands of others are hanging on by the eyelids, hoping for relief before they are compelled to give up. Of course, every mill which re- sumes work is an encouraging sign, but a deep feeling of unrest still abides among business men, and they do not feel like branching out until the august Senate has talked itself out and voted and gone home. Thereis a feeling that the repeal bill is sure to pass, sooner or later, but what we want to know is, How much later? Local politics will soon become interesting, though all that is necessary to know as to who will be our new rulers is to learn whom Tammany will nominate. Its will is law. Of | course, it might be worse. We might | live in Brooklyn. The grocery trade is active. Many goods are changing hands and prices on many things are firm and exhibit an up- ward tendency. This isthe case with cof- fee, canned goods, dairy products and provisions. The trade report collections easier to make than a fortnight ago. There is no great demand for money at the quoted rate of 6 per cent., but deal- ers seem to have enough of the ready ar- ticle to pay promptly for what they buy. The sugar refineries are running con- stanily to catch up with orders and are reported as likely to succeed within a fortnight. About 35,000 tons of raw are being refined weekly, and if the profit is but 4c a pound, it will be seen that the refineries are in high feather. They are ‘‘pointing with pride’ to the fact that they have not advanced the price of refined sugars lately, notwithstanding the rise in raws; and they will use this as a reason for maintaining the price on refined long after raw has declined toa point which will allow them to double their present profit. Rio coffee No. 7 is held at 18¢c on the spot. Stock here is extremely light, being only about 75,000 bags, and in the entire country 105,000 bags. Rice is firmly held, and is attracting a great deal of attention. It is cheap enough in all conscience and no one will complain if prices advance 50 per cent. more. Canned goods, as intimated, are well held, and advances on one thing or an- other are being continually made. It is hard to meet the demand on some ar- ticles, and, as the cold wave we are ex- periencing will practically put an end to the packing, dealers are anticipating the future by making quite liberal pur- chases. This is a refreshing change from a month ago. Foreign green fruits are selling very slowly and at low prices. Lemons are meeting with searcely any demand, and are quotable at $1.75@3 and higher, as to size. Sicily oranges, $2.25@2.50 and not inquired for. Bananas, pineapples and the rest of the line are moving slowly. Raisins, dates, currants, citron and fruits generally are meeting with more inquiry and holders are feeling encour- aged. Valencia raisins are held at 7i¢¢ and this seems to be about as low as they can be obtained. Currants are worth 214 @23¢¢ and firm. Prunes are selling Ye for four sizes. | Butter and cheese are very firmly held, 29¢ being-paid for best Elgin and State, | and from this the price ranges down to | 232¢¢. Cheese, 914@10ec. Eggs, 22@ {25 Dressed poultry is in active de- | mand, light arrivals encouraging freer |purchases. Dressed turkeys are worth |12@16e for prime. Chickens, 16@20e. Potatoes and vegetables are quiet, the 16@7 ; dress Box 46, former being quoted at $2@2.40 per bbl. | Dried apples, |erop. Dried peaches, 8@9e for California. 7@9e. Cherries, Apricots, Cali- 10@12c. Evaporated peaches, 151g @16¢e. A new refinery at Philadelphia will start up some time in October, and one in Yonkers about Jan. 1, 1894. The for- mer will have a capacity of 2,000 barrels refined sugar daily; the latter 1,200. gay. PRODUCE MARKET, Apples—All varieties of eating apples com mand $2.50@2.75, fancy Wines and Kings bring- ing $3. The latter varieties are the only ones which are up to the average in quality, the gen- eral run of fruit being the poorest ever market- ed in this state. Beans — Dry stock is beginning to arrive. Handlers pay $1 for country cleaned and $1.10 for country picked. Butter—Searce and strong. Dealers pay 23@24ce for choice dairy and hold at 2%@2é6c. Factory creamery is in moderate demand at 30c. Grocers are beginning to take out butterine licenses, and the sale of butterine will, undoubt edly, put an end to the present stiff demand fo the genuine. Cabbage—Home grown, $2@3 per 100. Carrots—25c per bushel. Cauliflower—#1.50 per doz. Cranberries—Early Blacks from Cape Cod have put in an appearance, commanding $2.25 per bu. crate or @& per bbl. The quality is fine, being large in size and richly colored. Celery—Home grown commands 15 @18c per doz. Cucumbers—Pickling stock, 12@15c per 100. Ezgs—The market has advanced 2c per doz, dune to the fact that stocks on hand have been cleaned up, and arrivals are:not coming in fast enough to supply the demand. Handlers pay 17c, holding at 19¢ per doz. Egg Plant—$1.£0 per doz. Grapes—Concords and Wordens command 12@ l4e per 8 lb. basket. Niagaras bring 16@18e, and Delawares 18@20c. Honey—V hite clover commands 15¢c per Ib, dark buckwheat brings 12%c. Peaches—Late Crawfords are firm at #2. Smocks command $1.75, while small pickling stock ean be had at 75c@#l per bu. * Pears—-A few Kiefers are coming to market, commanding $1.:0@1.7> per bu. Quinces—#1.50 per bu. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $3.50 and Baltimores $3.25 per bbl. The latter stock is the finest of the kind which ever came to this mar- ket. Tomatoes—60c per bu. Turnips—30c per bu. FOR SALE, WANTHD, 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 OB 4 NCES. GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE wanted, $3,000 to $5,000. Will pay cash for good stock and business if price is oo F. H. Van Dorsten, Litchfield, Mich. OR SALE—THE THEODORE drug stock and fixtures street. Paying investment. Will sell at half real value. For particulars, enquire of Henry — Kent County Savings Bank, Grand a ids. oo A PARTNER, EITHER ACT “a E or silent, in a paying retai] shoe business on one of the principal streets in Grand Rapids. Object. to increase capital commensurate with demand of trade. Address, 784, care Michigan Tradesman. 784 OR SALE—Drug stock in business town of 1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib- utary to large farming trade: lake and rail frelghts; only two drug stores in town; rent, $200 per year; stock will inventory $2,500; sales $20 a day. Reason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman. T52 Vy ANTED—A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug rr K on West Leonard store. Address C. L. Brundage, opera house block, Muskegon, Mi ch. 756 STOCK OF GRO = cot HOUSE AND ceries for sale on Union street. ata bargain. Address box 634, Mich. Will sell Traverse City, TAT SITUATIONS WANTED. ws ANTED—POSITION AS DRUG CLERK by a young lady, graduate, registered in Michigan. Good references furnished. Ad- dress Box 46, Brooklyn, Green Co., Wiscon- sin. 790 ANTED—POSITION AS DRUG CLERK by a young lady, graduate, registered in Michigan. Good references furnished. Ad- i Brooklyn, Green Co., Wiscon- sin. i 782 sh pAsuans Class in Window Dressing,” a monthly publication, giving illus- trated window displays for dry goods, clothing, 8@10¢ for evaporated, 1893 | furnishings and shoes and ideas for store deco- —- man, Membership fee $3 a year. Harry Har- window dresser and decorator, 1204 Woman's Temple, Chicago. ~ - aie ‘y — _ re Ye te - ay - 7 a - GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Cameron & Co. have opened a grocery store at Ovid. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. Spaulding & Amon have opened a gro- cery store at Caledonia. The Mussel- man Grocer Co. furnished the stock. L. L. Launier & Son have opened a grocery store at 418 West Bridge street. The stock was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. F. H. Austin, meat dealer at South Grand Rapids, has added a line of gro- eeries. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. E. H. Foster, formerly engaged in gen- eral trade at Fife Lake, has opened a grocery store at Alden. The Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co. furnish the stock. David P. VanEvery and George W. VanEvery have opened a grocery store and meat market at 1 Stocking street under the style of the VanEvery Cash Store. The Reeder Bros. Shoe Co., is moving from the Cody block, on East Fulton street, to the Brown, Clark & Co. block, on North Ionia street. Belknap, Baker & Co., who have oecupied this store for the past two years, have removed to the Harvey & Heystek block, on Louis street. i > + >. Gripsack Brigade. Caulfield visiting Hub. Baker’s trade during the latter’s absence on vacation. Geo. H. Seymour, have Geo. B. is wife and daughter, to the World’s Fair, which they expect todo in the course of a week. B.S. Davenport leaves Thursday for the World’s Fair, where he will spend a week orten days. He will be accom- panied by his wife. gone W. F. Van Heusden, general salesman for the Franco-American Food Co., of New York, was in town last week in the interest of Blooker’s Dutch Cocoa. W.F. Blake and family leave Friday for Chicago, where they expect to main a couple of weeks, taking in the World’s ve about half the time. Chas. E. Watson, who ceased traveling for Eaton, Lyon & Co. June 1, has en- gaged to cover Northern Indiana for the Fe Lartz Wall Paper Co., of Chicago, the engagement dating from Oct. 1. Scott Swigart, formerly on the road forthe Olney & Judson Grocery Co. and the Globe Tobaceo Co., but for the past two years on the road for the Miller Cas- ket Co., of Belding, has been ealled to Denver by the serious illness of his wife, who sought that climate several ago in hopes the change would relief from pulmonary trouble. > Grains and Feedstuffs. Wheat—While there is no change in price from a week ago, yet the market is not as strong as it was, with the pect of a decline. expressed weeks bring pros- The hope of a rise, as last week, was not unreason- able, all things considered, but decreased exports and increased stocks with millers buying light, buying at all, have hada very depressing effect upon the market. Exchanges have advanced, in sight, | aud some not whieh suggests the adh port buying. The receipts at primary | markets were about 100,000 bushels | larger than a week ago, and the exports smaller, and on this basis the visible supply shows an increase of about 1,250,- 000 over a week ago. Export clearances were 1,237,000 bushels less than a week ago. English cables were steadier, but continental markets were’ generally lower. In the loeal market there has been no change to speak of, movements have been active, and everything offered has been taken at the price quoted. The mills are running at their full capacity with plenty of orders. Flour—No change. Business is active. i -2- . Relative Position of Husband and Wife. Little Dick—Papa doesn’t have any fun. He has to go to business every day. Little Dot—That’s to get money, ’cause he’s a provider, mamma Says. **A what?’’ ‘*A provider.’’ ‘“‘Well, if papa is a—provider, I wonder what mamma is?’’ ‘*I guess she’s a divider.’ Sm New York Merchants’ Revie Ww: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN celebrated tenth birthday Sept. 13 with a sketch of its beginnings and history, as weil as a review of the progress of Grand Rapids during the past decade. Tue TRADEs- MAN is a welcome visitor at this office and we are glad to hear that it is con- stantly extending its field of usefulness and prospering as so sterling a journal deserves to prosper. THE | its . “ey >t 9% ‘century cloth z “< sleocei.... ‘* green seal TR 10% “yellow seal. .10% - ooe......... oe « toe red. 10% Ballou solid black.. “ golors. 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B a 8 00 z eS 13 50 BARROWS. dis. ee Ee $ 14 00 Garden eee net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Stov Se Carriage a Te TE Plow ot .... . Sleigh shoe oa ee eee 70 BUCKETS. Well, pin .....:........... oe 8 : 50 Well, WWE eee ees pete ns oo 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cust Loose Fin, Ggnred........ ..-- ------- 70& Wrought Narrow, bright Bast ‘joint. eee 60&.0 Wrought — ie. 6010 roger Teme................ eee eee ce 60410 | Wrought Inside ae... 60&10 | Wieden hea... 75 | Hee Claes... 70&10 | OO 70810 | [oem feces |......-_..... 70 | BLOCES. Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892. €0&10 CRADLES. Gas... 8. CC... .... . dis. 5002 | CROW BARS. Cast Steel...... . perm 5 CAPS. ere... ... per m 65 heer cy... 60 Musket...... ee . 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim ¥Fire.... oe 50 Conta: Fire i... .. .. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Roemct Wivusee....... 5... ..... ee 7O&19 Bocmorcerece..._..............-...........-- 70&10 Socece meee... —"— Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.. ao COMBS. Pi Cures, lawroneen ................_...._... 40 Here el... 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.... . -12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to gize... .. per pound 28 i4 oe, Pe, eee... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and —: ee a ao ee oe ee 23 Se 14x48. . : oo . 23 Bottoms . 4 25 “DRILLS. dis, OE 50 Taper and straight Shank........... oo. 50 Morse’s Taper Shank.......... os ; 50 DRIPPING PANS. Seaell sieee abe poema ...................... 07 Laewe sinos, per pound............... ..... 6% ELBOWS. Com: € pleco, Gh.................. Gam, nee % ee ieee ne ae + 40 AG... _..... |... ..... Gis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; a —........... 30 Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; 3 OO ce ence nee 25 FILEs—New List. dis. ss 60&10 Mow Areortean (4... .........1......... .. Gale Nicholson’ eee — Honera =... Heller’s Horse Rasps .. ......-.----- 50 | GALVANIZED IRON a 16 to @: Bt and MM: % and M; 2 28 List 12 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... KNoBs—New List. dis, Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............- 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 7 LOCKS——DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55 Groetaere..._....... 55 55 MATTOCKS. TT ee $16.00, * = Hunt Eye.......... -815.00, d ee De Sei ate mai. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ienaee be dae uc 50 a = Coffee, a Co. 40 P. 8. & W. Nite. Cos Malleables.. 40 . Landers, Perry G@Ciaree............ 40 _ Enterprise ee 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Ce Oy ..60&10 Stompin @ GGngime................---- ones — Enterprise, self-measuring............ wwe NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and "To Gtaol name Fase. ......-. Wire patie bese. ......... .......- ... 1 61 oe eee ecw wee we Base 75 a oni 8 ik _ Clinch sd... Fe seeeeee en eeecae Bae s........... oe i "PLANES. dis Obie Toul Co. fener ....-.-.-...-......... eee B50 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy...........--- - O40 Bench, firat quality... ......c.--seecse ee eees @40 Stanley Ruie and Level Co.’s wood. 50810 PANS. Biv. Acme.........-.....-...-..---.---. dis.60—10 fae polished le dis, 70 RIVETS. dis. OO 40 Copper Rivets and Burs..........---------- 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 | ““B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27. 9 20) Broken packs 4c per pound extra. | HAMMERS. | eee Cee dis. 25 Kip’ dis. 25 dis. 40&10 . 80¢ list 60 . .80e 40810 Worles & Piambs...............-..... Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............ ' Blacksmith’'s Solid Cast Steel Hand. HINGES | —. Clark’s, 1, 2,3 . — a“ Der ‘doz. 2 50 | 1OMger ......- 2-22. eee ee eee ee eee ee eee ees 3% Screw ‘Hook and Eye, a... net 10 i ce se ee | is ° _ ek ae " . ee A ec asses... Ais. 50 | HANGERS. dis. | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 | Champion, anti-friction.. ie 60&10 | Kidder, wood track ................ 40 HOLLOW WARE. Meee . 66&160 Rane ..............-.......... 1... Ee ee 60&10 Gray enameled.. 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODE. Siumned Tin Ware................... -hew list 70 sepeneos Tin Ware... |... 2 Granite Iron Ware . .new list — WIRE GOODS. tian... 708108810 peroew Gees. - 70&10&10 ee ee, 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Hyes............... 70810810 LEVELS. dis.7 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... Loo, ROPES. eel, 46 Teh od larger .......-............ Mantie.......... ee SQUARES. dis. Meeeiand trom..... ......-...... ise cues % yy and Heves..... —- 6 nee. a SHEET IRON, Com. Smooth. Com. VY mos to 14... $2 95 men totot. ae 3 05 moe integ.. |... 4 05 3 05 Nos Sige... 4 05 S 15 1 2oe................. 22 3 2 es 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter. o wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. List acct. 19, "S86 .... dis. 54 SASH CORD. Silver Lake, White A....... . list 5¢ Paes ' 55 . Were ©... ................ . 50 ' Ce 56 . Te nes 35 Discount, 10. SA8H WEIGHTS. Sola Byes... pér ton & ' SAWS i . ee 20 Silver Steel Dia, X Cuts, perfoot,.... 70 “© Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 . : — Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30 mpion and Electric Tooth X Cuts, ar TOOG 30) TRAPS. dis. Steel, Game...... oo . 6010 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......... 35 Oneida SS vee & ieee” .... 70 Mouse, choker.. : .18¢e per doz Mouse, delusion. | is 50 per dos ‘WIRE. dis. rignt Meee 65 meee MeOteee. 70—10 eee... 60 Sianea Moree ........ | Commered Spacing Steeh...................... Barbed | Renee, euivarnined.................. 2 a Pomer.. 2 40 HORSE NAILS. a oe... ttt‘ ‘NL. #........ ..... . Cr =O i dis, 05 De din. 10410 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coe’s Genuine 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . 76 Coe’s Patent, malleable.. ; 75810 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Bird Cages . ol _. 5G Pumps, Ce -.- Teale Serowe, mowlwe................ ae ZO&10 Comtcen Beda GO Piste... S080 Dampers, (EE Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... eraio METALS, PIé TIN. OO 26e CO —————————————— 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. pean come. 5% Per youre... Reece sctasce | OO SOLDER. ee 1 ee t The oem of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY Cogmnee...... cs . +. DOr pound ae cscs... 13 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 1, — Dee se cee ema peu ee aoe 7 14x20 x20 IC, ee 7 6 10x14 1x, EEE 9 25 eT 9 2k Rach additional X on this grade, 81.7: TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal ee ey a, 86 75 eee Ce 6 75 — 1X, oh 8 25 CS : 9 25 : g Pedditionsl X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, - Weoeer............. .- 6 5 14x20 IX, r ' eee ee en ae Sasi, “ CS . 260 14x20 IC, ‘* Allawsy Grade 6 00 ee 7 50 20x28 IC, c . yo 12 50 | 20x28 1X; “ “ oe 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. Ce re ia et 814 00 (ice ie ee 15 00 laxce 1X, f for No. ‘§ Boilers, | per pound. 10 00 Fa Ty A Micncaveavesuaw | A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY TRADESMAN COMPANY. THE — One DoUar a Year, Payable APPLICATION, an practical busi- ADVERTISING RATES ON ted Communications invi ness men. C OTTrespor nts must give their full name and 1ddress, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. apers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. <=" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN, a x WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER A. STOWE, Editor. 4, 1893. LAW OR LAWLESSNESS. No thinking who newspapers can this country, our hemisphere, there is a rapidly grow- ing tendency crimes and to punished at all, Many of the countries particularly in South il America, suffering from and civil war while in our own favored republie person reads that throughout fail to observe throughout to violent their punishment, if by popular violence. the continent, and Centr: of are insurrections shocking murders, robberies of by bands of highway- ts and murde and outrages against women, trains and banks men, rit rous Outbreaks, are while lynch law of the regular statutes and judicial tribunals for the avenging of both publie and _ pri- reported from all sides, Seems to have taken the place vate wrongs. It eonditions of lawlessness shown state of facts should exist in this boasted | age of civilization and enlightenment. The world many too hopeful has been lately optimists that this is the era of peace and rea- son; that arbitr Subscribers may have the mailing address of | 2 | the Government. by this _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | quire deliberation and reason. Peo- ple will brook no delay in anything. | This is pre-eminently the age of haste, | of unreasoning, imperious haste. and electricity annihilate space; There are railway accidents which are unavoidable, where, by the operation of | Storms and other weather vicissitudes, Steam the roadway is suddenly washed out, or the | bridges are damaged, or landslides cover | wire and the rail bridge seas and con- | up the tracks before information can be | dense continental distances, and all the given to approaching trains, or where a | magical potencies of science are called wheel breaks, or, with criminal intent, into requisition to give man immediate the road has been obstructed or the rails in Advance. | achievement and gratification. | displaced. But a bridge structurally Is it this spirit of haste which is the | weak or out of repair, or a track in bad cause of the excessive outbreaks of | order, a locality known to be dangerous | Violent crimes? What man wants in this | | ieft unwatched, are faults that are inex- wonderful age he wants at once—now. | He cannot wait to accumulate wealth by slow degrees and time-honored processes. | therefore, he speculates, |He must have it without delay, and, he gambles, he embezzles and steals where he may. A j few weeks ago a trusted employe in the | Stealing { | | | | | | the | Philadelphia mint was caught robbing He had commenced by an ingot of gold each year. Then he hastened his operations to the stealing of one a month. Finally he took one nearly every day, when his crimes came to light. Not satisfied with accum- ulating a dishonest competence, and, under the influence of the demon of haste, the robber abandoned all caution | and sought to become rich in a moment. This spirit of haste has come upon the people as a besetment. It is almost a | delirium or madness that has seized upon eously. | tility to all law and restraint. is astonishing that the remarkable | ation has been enthroned | than this, the population. They refuse to wait. They demand gratification, fortune, re- venge, everything, as it were, instantan- The law a restraint, and every restraint is unbearable: then the law is to be brushed aside whenever it is in the way of some selfish demand. The law prevents the man who has not, from taking from the man who possesses. [It was not the law which made one man poor and another rich, but it protects the rich man’s property; therefore the law must be violated. The lawis in the way of every lawless desire, and so men band together to violate and overthrow it. Thus there is growing up a general hos- This vio- iation of law is not confined to any class. It pervades all, and is almost as much the rule with many sworn officials as with the criminals they are set to keep is told by in check No wonder that lynching and lawless- ness are rife through the country. Worse the epidemic is growing. in the place of war for the settlement of | There seems to be no stopping point in international disputes, that authorized atives of all the religions in the re now able to meet together ina parliament, and if they upon a common and and rule of faith, at least they have of general amity and interseectarian telera- represent world : grand agree do creed established terms arranged a code of In illustrated the light of such statements, tion. by remarkable examples of and the of re- international arbitration. in presence of an actual congress ligions, one mig that the millenium is really at hand. not | universal | | character. ht be disposed to believe | But he who indulges in such a pleas- | ing dream will soon be most rudely | awakened by the roar and rage of the} lawlessness that is abroad in It millenial consists most discordantly dream. However men may and make conces- questions and be willing to reason sions upon international old-world religions, no manner the slow ment, or they and no of of use processes patience for judicial settle- | for any methods that re- the land. | with the | | ous, or they appear to have | | sight, and when an official, at the risk of his life, stands to his duty and meets vio- lence with violence, he is condemned and proscribed by public opinion, when he should be regarded as a grand and heroic But this state of things ecan- not last long in this age of haste. A change must come soon. There will be a great uprising. It will be to deter- mine whether a majority of the people are to be governed by law or by the will of a mob. On which side will you be found? RAILROAD CASUALTIES. The recent frequency of fatal and ex- tensive accidents to passenger trains on great trunk line railways is taking on a frightful complexion. They have been attributable either to failure of bridges or trackway at points specially danger- | have been due to the ineffi- | | ciency or carelessness of train hands or | other employes. | casualties have lately been upon routes | which are commonly traversed at high | | rates of speed. Most of these shocking | leu sable, as are also the inefficiency or misconduct of employes who hold im- | portant posts with which the safety of trains is largely concerned. All serious railway accidents involy- ing loss of life ought to be investigated by the railway commissions, as well as by the local coroners’ juries and other au- thorities. It will come sooner or later, that fatal accidents on interstate rail- ways will be investigated by special ofti- cials, as are now those occurring to vessels carrying passengers and crews upon the navigable waters uf the country. The railways ought to have every possible protection against wreckers and robbers. They are entitled to sympathy for mis- fortunes from unavoidable causes, but they should be held responsible for those which come from neglect and misconduct of their own servants, or from using a trackway and machinery known to be in an unsafe condition. UNIVERSAL MONEY. An able financier, in a recent magazine article, makes a strong plea for an inter- changeable, universal, international coin- age or system of money which would be current at an established value in every country. Such an arrangement would require an international agreement. Our gold dollar, worth 100 cents, has a coin approaching it in value in several countries, and it might be made the basis of a system of international money. For instance, there is the gold peso of the Argentine Republic, worth 96.5 cents; the gold peso of Chili, worth 91.2 cents; the peso of Cuba, worth 92.6 cents; the goude of Hayti, worth 96.5 cents; the yen of Japan, worth 99.7 cents; the dollar of British American States, worth 100 cents; the gold dollar of Mexico, worth 98.3 cents; the silver dollar of that country, like ours, varying with the price of sil- ver, worth somewhere about 60 cents. The Austro-Hungarian gold crown is worth 20.3 cents; the Belgian frane is worth 19.5 cents; the Finland mark is worth 19.3 cents; the French france is worth 19.3 cents; the Greek drachma is worth 19.3 cents; the Italian lirais worth 19.3 cents; the Spanish peseta is worth 19.3 cents; and the Swiss frane is worth 19.3 cents. These coins would corres- pond to two dimes of our money. Subdivisions and multiplied amounts of the coins mentioned would bear some relations to American money, but there is no money system now existing that can be made universal, because there are no common values, exceptin a few instances. As a result of this variation, foreign travelers are compelled to pay 1 per cent. of the $500,000,000 spent annually | by tourists to money changers, which amounts to the enormous tax of $5,000,- 000 a year, simply because the various nations choose to have their respective ; money systems. The world is daily growing to be a field of commerce com- mon to all the great trading nations. It would be of enormous advantage to busi- ness if transactions could be carried on in universal money. In any city which does much foreign trade, the trouble of converting United States dollars into francs, marks, sterling and the like in- volves a great deal of labor. A common money unit would be a great conven- ience. One of these days the necessity for an international standard of money will be so imperative that such a system will be agreed on by an international congress. The need for it is already apparent. THE SENATE’S DISASTROUS DELAY. The commercial history of the past week proves very conclusively the im- portance which the business interests of the country attach to the passage of the repeal bill. During the early part of the week there was a decided feeling of de- pression, not only in the great specula- tive centers, but in all branches of trade, based upon the belief that the Senate would talk the repeal measure to death. The steadily reviving activity which commenced with the passage of the measure by the House of Representatives was checked, and many people began to fear a return of depression. During the past few days the letter of President Cleveland, followed by reports from Washington that the prospects for a vote being reached in the Senate were decid- edly more favorable, caused a decided change. Speculation at once became ac- tive, there has been a greater demand for investments, and all the markets have been favorably influenced. There can be little doubt that failure to acton the part of the Senate world be productive of the most disastrous con- sequences, Confidence, which is begin- ning to revive, would be again shaken, and money, which is commencing to re- appear from the hiding places in which it was stored during the recent panic, would again be drained from the chan- nels of trade. All the best financial authorities are now agreed that the Sherman silver pur- chasing law was one of the main causes of the financial disturbance of the pres- ent year. Itis also a fact generally ac- cepted that the recovery from the ex- treme depression of August which has since taken place was partially due to the action of the House of Representa- tives, and to the belief that the obnox- ious law would be repealed. Should the popular expectation be disappointed, confidence would unquestionably receive a rude shock, and a return to the depres- sion from which the country has been lately rescued would have to be looked for. A POLITICAL OFFICE. The new Food and Dairy Commis- sioner has struck a snag, which com- pletely disconcerts him. The law creat- ing the office provides for the ap- pointment of a clerk and also for a State Analyst, but expressly states that the expenses of the office, aside from the salary and traveling expenses of the Commissioner, shall not exceed $1,000 a year. The chemist of the Agricultural College is made State Analyst, and Dr. Kedzie refuses to serve in that capacity for less than $1,000 a year, which leaves the Commissioner without a clerk; or, rather, without available funds to pay a clerk. Of course, it is very necessary that the Commissioner should have a clerk, for r ical office, and political offices are created and maintained for the purpose of fur- nishing loaves and fishes to the faithful. To the unprejudiced observer, however, it would appear as though the Commissioner could get along without aclerk—and pos- sibly without an Analyst—for a couple of years, during which time he could make his influence felt, and inspire re- spect for the food laws now on the stat- ute books, among the people by enfore- ing those portions of the present laws which do not require the assistance of expert testimony. Political offices, however, require a certain amount of | machinery which the present Commis- sioner will be unable to create until the Legislature deals more lavishly with the office and its administration. « Those smart storekeepers who hit ona happy idea of advertising their business by sticking little wafer pasters on coins, like labels on pill boxes, have been called down by the Treasury Depart- ment, which pronounces the practice il- legal. The scheme worked well so long as it lasted, as it secured for the mer- chants who adopted it a sure and wide circulation for their advertisements. The Grocery Market. Currants—Local jobbers are offering new crop for November delivery as low as 2)¢e per pound by the barrel. Sugar—The market is unchanged, so far as price is concerned, and the sear- city of some grades is as great as ever, with no immediate prospect of better- ment. While some houses have man- aged to keep their customers supplied, most of them have been caught short by the inability of the refineries to fill or- ders promptly. — —_- 32 = —- The Age of Maturity. Statistics are said to show that young men do not, on the average, attain full physical maturity until they arrive at the age of twenty-eight years. Professor Scheiller, of Harvard, asserts, as the re- sult of his observations, that young men do not attain the full measure of their mental faculties before twenty-five years of age. A shrewd observer has said that “most men are boys until they are thirty, and littse boys until they are twenty- five,” and this accords with the standard of manhood which was fixed at thirty among the ancient Hebrews and other races. i — i Provisions. Pork—Short receipts and active de- mand have stiffened the market and raised the price. Business is generally reported good. Beef—Also a trifle higher, both packed and fresh. 2 When the employes in an Indiana fur- niture factory operated by a German re- cently struck for eight hours’ work a day he granted it; but when they wanted ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work he called them up and said: ‘‘My frien’s, maype I do as you like. I haf an order from Shecago for ten dozen. shairs. Vhill, Pll shoop him eight dozen and bill him for ten. If he doan kick on me, it shows me dot der rule works both vhays, und ve vos all right.”” It is need- less to add that the idea didn’t work, and that the men are receiving eight hours’ pay. i nea Plainwell Enterprise: Tur MicnHiGAN TRADESMAN passed its eleventh birthday two weeks ago. It has reached the proud position of the leading commercial paper of the State and that despite the fact that many papers in substantially the same field have bloomed for a brief period and died without a struggle. _ MTORIGAN A MODEL MICHIGAN STORE. From the American Grocer. In the beautiful and growing city of Grand Rapids, on Monroe, the leading business street, It is located at accepted as a model. Nos. 116 and 118 Monroe street, and oc- | cupies for its main room a space 32x70 is located a grocery | store, which, in many respects, may be | TRADESMAN. | candy department the space is devoted engraving No. 2. Near the extreme end }to eanned goods, of which there is a! of the store, in front of the platform and large and well selected assortment. A soda fountain and confectionery depart- | ment are attractive to customers, and| are calculated to induce frequent visits. View No. 2 shows a section on the north side of the store and how the space two lines of counters between the is oe NO. 1.—SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING FROM MAIN ENTRANCE. feet. Mr. E. J. Herrick, the proprietor, is one of the older of the successful mer- chants in Grand Rapids. He has intro- duced several new features, two of which—a soda fountain and candy de- partment—are prominently brought out in view No. 1, showing the south side of the store looking from the entrance to- ward the rear. The case which occupies Shak iaiis SPORE >) Lee Titec NO. 2.—NORTH SIDE, LOOKING FROM MAIN the foreground of the picture on the left, is a very pretty piece of cabinet work | with plate glass doors, and is used for the storage and exhibition of flavoring extracts in fancy bottles. is a very prettily designed soda fountain, over which is alarge mirror, adjoining which is the confectionery department, Next to that} | utilized. To the right of the main en- | trance, on the north side, is, first, a glass | | case for the display of toilet articles, in- | cluding fancy soaps. Next to that isa space devoted to the sale of tea and cof- | fee, adjoining which is the spice depart- ;} ment, with a second section for tea and | coffee next in order; the coffee mill [stands opposite this latter. Beyond ENTRANCE. | that, and in harmony with the opposite | side, canned goods are displayed. The |engravings show the general character | of the canisters, seales, and also the ar- rangement of the shelves. Across the |rear of the store is a raised platform, | reached by means of astairway from the | main floor, and which is utilized for of- where there is a large assortment of fine | fice purposes and the storage of goods. ee ee ee nee | Pes r as T } eee ri ¥ De Ge) a ee os MOTELS Sie ee a Oe 28 « 10*°6 > = Q Sow CounreR Tea Couwr, = J (o | 5 ow Co EQ c Fa COUNTER, | $ q ‘ees SvGar COUNTER 48" «@ : 2 , %) EL EVAN : | Hot} © fro a Urensizs $ | . OFFICE o £L£vaTeEO _ yl > Sift From 8 FLOOR = Swow COUNTER Confrecriowany COUNTER « 9 @° = Door | j i | i | Sona fountain COUNTER s q & Stee viene Swe.vine : { ] f- + a t{—+ +——++ — + Soa Founrain [erracr a0 DIAGRAM SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF MAIN ROOM. candy. It will be noted that in front of It will be noted that circular shelves this, and beyond the counter which ex- | tends from the entrance to the end of the soda fountain, are handsome glass show- cases, used for the display of the choicest sorts of bon bons, ete. Beyond the surround the pillars supporting the ceil- ing, and which are used for the display | of bottled and other fancy goods. The cheese counter, protected by glass, |faney groceries, and stands just beyond the settee shown in in the center, is a beautiful revolving glass refrigerator for the storage of but- ter. It will be observed that there is con- erable space between the cornice over the shelving and ceiling, which is enliv- ened and decorated with neat and prettily framed pictures. The store, besides be- ing lighted with gas, is also supplied with an electric lighting plant. Settees and bent wood stools are provided for the convenience of customers. The wood- work and trimmings of the store and counters are in light colors, thus giving to the room a light, airy and cheerful appearance. In the rear of the main salesroom is a large storage room. It will be seen that here we have a store with ample floor room, permitting of a varied display of which takes upon itself the form of a beautiful perpetual exposition of food products, thus mak- ing it an object of attraction for visitors, so that housekeepers, instead of delegat- ing the providing of supplies to servants, prefer to visit the store in person, thus making admirable subjects for tempta- tion in the line of. self-gratification. Evidently Mr. Herrick believes in a per- fect service, and in introducing every line which can be legitimately intro- duced, and which will tend to increase the average of profits. This store is the leading grocery in Grand Rapids, the proprietor having won his present high position by eatering to the desires and tastes of the citizens of one of the most prosperous cities in the United States. Never-failing courtesy, genial manners, tact, added to a thor- ough knowledge of his business, has given him pre-eminence in his line of trade. The cuts are from the engraving es- tablishment of the Tradesman Company, of Grand Rapids, and were made from drawings by their special artist. 3 —<———_—_— Denver Commercial Tribune: Tue MICHIGAN TRADESMAN has just cele- brated its tenth anniversary. While we are not an admirer of trade essays, jour- nalistic cander compels the admission that our contemporary is one of the most ably edited exchanges on our large list, and that it is quoted extensively and ex- ercises a potent influence in the commer- cial world. Its contributors are men of ability, and seem to possess practical knowledge of the subjects treated. The Commercial Tribune tenders its very sincere congratulations to Editor Stowe and wishes him long life and ever in- creasing prosperity. POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows: DRESSED. i . 8 OEOUe 1244@13 Lo -t2 @ig Ciackeng............. el 9 @10 LIVE, Live broilers 1% lbs. to 2 Ibs. each, per oe Live broilers less than 1-1% lbs. each, We Oe ttt... 8 @9 Howls. ..... ee arate CCE 10 @12% Sprig Suces. 8 @9 OILs, The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in barrels, f.0. b. Grand Rapids: OC ee. 8% Sax W. W. Mich. Headlight .......... 7% Nee hes ca @ 6% pee CO @ 7% Come 27 5 eee 13 @21 Dadee tocold tot @ Bg Buildings, Portraits, Cards, Letter and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Pians. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Three Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Four Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Five Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, [onia. Michigaao State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretary—S. A. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, John D. Muir; Sec’y, Frank H. Escott. VICTIMS OF COCAINE. Sada Examples Furnished by a San Fran- cisco Dentist and His Wife. From the San Francisco Examiner. Dr. William Cuthbert Harding, who appeared before the Commissioners of Lunacy shoeless, ragged, unkempt, is the same man who a few years ago was one of the most successful dentists of this State. studious, gentlemanly and _ re- spected. The change was brought about by cocaine. Mrs. Mina Harding, nerv- ous, draggled and forlorn, a beggar from the streets, is in a ceil in the city prison charged with vagrancy and thrown into the companionship of the offscourings of society. Not long ago she was a happy housekeeper, devoted to her husband, proud of her six children, eourted by her neighbors. educated, refined and gen- erally beloved. Thechange was brought about by cocaine. There are now living in the lodging and boarding houses within the central portion of San Fran- cisco over 2,000 victims of the cocaine habit in whom the drug has worked, or is working, the same change it brought the Hardings. The habit has grown to such proportions within the past six years. Itis still growing, and rapidly. The homes, asylums and jails are con- tinually receiving victims of the habit. and the police seem powerless to check its progress. The Hardings are merely types of the great class, their promi- nence calling particular attention to the spread and dangers of the use of cocaine. Dr. Harding is an Englishman who came to this country more than a quarter of a century ago. He wasa skillful dentist and atireless investigator. In Pennsyl- vania he met and married the woman who is now behind the prison bars. Twenty-one years ago the two came to California and settled at Vacaville. Thence they removed to Suisun. The doc- tor had a lucrative practice, and as a cit- izen was highly esteemed throughout Solano county. Like many other investigating den- tists, he spent much of his time in the search for an anesthetic which would make tooth extraction and the general operations of dentistry painless. Some six years ago he came to San Francisco. At last he secured a combination of drugs that seemed less harmful and more ef- fective than anything known to the pro- fession. He was elated with the discov- ery, but soon found there was one stum- bling block in the way. The anesthetic was valueless for commercial purposes because it would not keep. It lost its effectiveness almost immediately. So he continued experimenting in the hope of curing this last defect, and the subject of his experiments was himself. In the the anesthetic was cocaine, and as the doctor continued his experiments his anesthetic, like the monster of Frankenstein, worked his own undoing. It became the master, he the slave. His wife had some bad teeth. He adminis- tered the anesthetic to her. She found exhilaration in the effect, and, unknown to her husband, began to administer the drug to herself. Soon she, too, was com- pletely under its mastery. Before long Harding became unreliable. A _ wild look came to his eyes. He neglected his attire. The perfection and self-applica- tion of his anesthetic became the one passion of life. He lost his position and his professional standing. Slowly he passed down the social ladder, his wife bearing him company. They be- came nuisances. Their children were taken away fromthem. They were ex- amined as to their sanity more than once, | | and were on one occasion, at least, com- |mitted to an asylum. They came out, made a short struggle to regain position, oo then sank down lower and lower still. The husband could no longer work, so | the wife went out upon the streets to | solicit money. He sat almost naked in a | little room while sbe asked passers by at all hours of the day and night to lend her small sums—asked for loans so the po- lice could not arrest her for begging. The money was spent for the bare neces- sities of life and for cocaine. With the drug they danced and sang amid their squalor, forgetful of the past, happy in the present, hopeful for the future. Without it they were nervous, maniacal, morose and even dangerous. The hus- band administered the drug to his wife and the two lived like wild beasts. When the supply of the drug was gone they hunted among the rags of the carpet for the precious grains—hunted like eager simians more than like rational beings. They had a little room on How- ard street, with one window opening on a small patch of light in a cramped area. The doctor rarely left hisroom. It was never cleaned. If clothing was given them by those charitably inclined, it was pawned and cocaine purchased with the proceeds. They became so dangerous that the landlady was compelled to drive them out. At the city prison Mrs. Harding fin- gered the bars of the woman’s cell with the nervous, meaningless action of an animal. Crowding the cell with her were women from the slums, the social debris left by the receding tide in the stream of life. Yet this woman, who a few years ago had been a leader in the society of her surroundings, seemed as squalid and degraded as the worst. “TI want to get out of this,” she said in a plaintive, uncertain tune, as she kept up her ceaseless action. ‘‘I] don’t know why they put me here. I don’t ewe any rent and I didn’t beg. I only borrowed, because we had to live. 1 wish they’d give me alittle of the cocaine now—just alittle. Ask them if they won’t give me just afew grains. I don’t know what they’ve done with my husband. They had no right to take him. He’s a sick man—a very sick man.” “How did you acquire the cocaine habit?” “I think I began about five or six years ago, but I’ve hadepilepsy recently, and I don’t remember things very well. My husband gave me some of his anes- thetic when he worked on my teeth and I liked the sensation. Then I took some of it when he was away and didn’t know anything about it. It braced me up like and made me feel better in every way. It isn’t true that my husband got me into the habit, though afterward, of course, he administered cocaine to me. He doesn’t use it himself like Ido. He uses something else mixed with it.” ‘“‘What does his anesthetic consist of?’’ ‘“That’s his secret. I wouldn’t tell if I knew. The dentists ought to support him for that, but they don’t. He uses hypodermic injections, but it’s only be- eause he’s sick. He has an affection of the joints, something like rheumatism, and another local disorder. So _ he’s really a very sick man. Oh, I wish they’d give me afew grains of cocaine. It’s awful to have it stopped right away like this. It don’t seem as if I could stand it.’’ “Is cocaine expensive?” “Yes, it costs 5 cents a grain—but I had to have it.” ‘‘How much did you use?” “IT used to take twelve or fifteen grains a day; but I couldn’t do that now. I’ve been trying to stop it lately. How did it make me feel? Oh, it gave me cour- age and made me feel well.” “Did it supply the place of food?’’ “No: 1 had agood appetite with it, and I could go without much sleep.” ‘‘Where are your chiidren now? they taken from you?” “No. I put them away myself when I found I couldn’t support them. My old- est boy is nearly of age. He’s a waiter at Suisun, and ought to support his poor old mother, but he doesn’t do it. Oh, I want to get out of here! Won’t you ask them if I can’t have a little cocaine? Were Just a very little! I must have it or I must get out!’ Dr. Harding is confined in the Home for the Cure of the Inebriate pending further investigation into his sanity, and during his confinement no one from the outside world is permitted to see him. ‘*I really think there is hope for him,’’ said Dr. Samuel O. L. Potter, Superin- tendent of the Home. ‘‘Notwithstand- ing his condition and the fact that he has been here before, I think that if he were kept quiet for a month or two and denied all drugs he might again become a valu- able citizen.”’ “Is the cocaine habit growing?” “IT should say it was. Why, about six years ago cocaine was 85 cents a grain. There was none of this widespread habit then. It has all grown up in recent years. Now the drug can be purchased at retail at 3 cents a grain, and three or four drug stores in this city sell it to its victims in quantities to suit. Most of the reputable drug stores will not do this, notwithstanding the fact that the tradeis very profitable. They don’t care to have such aclass of customers about them. But the habit grows and grows and grows.’’ ‘Is it very degrading?” ‘“‘Dreadfully so. Now, here is a hypo- dermic syringe I recently took from a West Point graduate, the son of an old general of the army. When he was brought here I added it to the collection there in the case. Look at that syringe! The point of the needle has been broken and filed down, because the victim couldn’t get money enough to buy a new one. Why, it’s enough to poison a man’s entire system to inject that dirt into his blood. But this West Pointer told me the last time he used the sryinge he took a penknife and gashed his arm, and then stuck the syringe into the wound. That’s the condition they get into.” ‘‘How is the habit generally acauired?” “In the effort to cure the morphine habit by using the cocaine to counteract the effect of the morphine. Butit has just the opposite effect from the one de- sired. The man whois using, say, three grains of morphine a day and starts in to take cocaine, will find that before a fort- night elapses he is using ten grains of morphine and ten of cocaine. The eoeaine breeds adesire for more mor- phine, and the morphine calls for more and more cocaine to counteract it. One patient who came in here was in the habit of taking forty-eight grains of co- caine and twelve grains of morphine daily. That was the worst case, as re- gards the quantity taken, that I have had experience with.”’ ‘““‘What is the effect of cocaine?” “It has a local effect of numbing or paralyzing the tissues immediately around the place where the injection is made, so you can cut those tissues with- out the patient’s experiencing the slight- est pain. Soitis used in small surgical operations. But in addition to the local effect it has a general effect of exhilara- tion. People under its influence can do a great deal of work and go without sleep. But the effect wears off in about a quarter of an hour, requiring addi- tional injections to maintain it. Mor- phine, on the other hand, has an effect lasting from six to eight hours. “Cocaine as sold to the victims gener- ally comes in bulk in boxes like anti- pyrine. It is a white powder, and the ‘fiends’ make their own solutions by dis- solving it in water. Then all they re- quire is an ordinary hypodermic syringe. Cocaine is also put upin tablets, which come in long thing vials. But in this form it is used by physicians and sur- geons, rather than by the victims of the habit. “The cocaine as we get it is the active element in the leaves of a small shrub, erythrorylon coca, which is indigenous to Peru and Bolivia, and extensively cul- tivated in those and other South Ameri- ean States. The leaves resemble large tea leaves, two inches to three inches long, and oval-shaped. They have a tea- like odor, are aromatic, and have a bit- ter taste. Coca should not be confounded with cocoa, the seed of the chocolate tree. “Though the general use of cocaine is comparatively recent, its qualities have been known for some time. | | | | Dr, Lane! Puities, Druggist, Girard, Kansas. told me he heard a lecture on the drug at Vienna in 1857, in which all the quali- ties now known were spoken of at length. It sprang into its present prominence be- cause a German or Austrian surgeon be- gan using it in operations on the eye. lt is a valuable medicine when properly used, but the spread of the habit of using it is alarming.” — ~. —_ He Had Stolen Rides. The receiver of the Erie Railroad was a good deal surprised the other day at receiving a money order for $3.45, ac- companying a letter stating that the writer, a minister, some seventeen years ago had stolen a ride on the cow-catcher of an engine of seventeen miles and back over the road. The writer said that his conscience had troubled him about the affair ever since, and that he was anxious to quiet it by confessing his wrong-doing and making restitution. The Erie peo- ple say thatif all the stolen rides were paid for at the same rate, the road would soon be out of the hands of a receiver. i i Alpe Use Tradesman Coupon Books. PECKHAM’S CROUP REMEDY CROU is the Chil ren’s Medicine for Cotds, Coughs, Whooping-Cough, Croup, Pneumonia, Hoarseness, the Cough of Measles, and kindred complaints of Childhood. Try Peckham’s Croup Remedy for the children and be convinced of its merits. Get a bottle to- day, you may need it tonight! Once used al- ways used. Pleasant, WHOOPING COUGH Sarg, CERTAIN! “My customers are well pleased with that in- valuable medicine—Peckham’s Croup Remedy. I recommend it above all others for children.” H. Z. Carpenter, Druggist, Parksville, Mo. ‘“‘Peckham’s Croup Remedy gives the best sat- isfaction. Whenever a person buys a bottle I will guarantee that customer will come again for more, and recommend it to others.” C. H. sr? THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. at ~ ; Wholesale Price Current. Morphia, S. 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Ol 25 © Cape, (po. 20).. @ iz Dipter x Odorate...... 2 25@2 50 | Chloral Hyd ‘orst oo. 1 35@1 60 ee Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50 Tanaheubeen oe @ 15|Chondrus............. 25 aig Catechu, 18, C48, 1 14 “8, Foenugreek, DOL LL 6@ Cinchonidine, P& W 15 2 oui * ge Gol Me, 4 O98 | cons a man 3 @ 12 ® 3 4 “ in mmoniae . 5@ 60 orks, lis 8. per ow Bee see" Sel Rall Line of Stale Dmogisis’ Sundries enzoinum.....-...... f suq@ 4u% | Creasotum ............ i Camphorm............. 50@ 55 =e 4e crete, (DEL. a @ 2 Ss ¥ _ < Euphorbium ” isc. oo 10 Sinapis Albu......... 8 @10 BeeP......4.. ode 5 5 Ga omega @2 du ¢ Mist... ee aay — ay 9@ 11 Gamboge, | oo @ ubra Lae S@ 8 ~ ee Guaiacum, oo BB). — @ 30 SPIRITUS. - Kino, (po 1 10).. @) 15 Frument, W., D. ~~ 24 We are Sole Preprietors of eee @ 80 D. FR. 7 a Bo s.....-- Soe 60: 6:8. i 12 pit (po $ 85)........ 2 Qe Junlperis Co. G Mther Sdiph,.......... 0@ 7 ’ - 28 mee aa hScUhUh "1 75@3 50 ais W th | M h ( t h R ( ~ ‘© bleached..... 33@_ 35 nein N. me 1 75@2 00 “ae _* ae. : $ 6 ba br | 8 IG | all d arr bme 4 Tragacanth ........... 40@1 00 | Spt. Vin! Galli........ 1 75@6 50 | Ergota 9. a, 0 5 os ‘got ) ” 70@ HERBA—In ounce packages, Vini Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00/ Flake White.......... 12@ 15 vic seleiiees Te OE ses Oe @ B eee 20 SPONGES. COMer i 7@8 2% v - Calcined, Pat... ...... 55@ 60 | Grass sheeps’ wool car- Hiydraag Chi a “SS ~ ~~ Garbonate, Pat........ a oe eee oe ee te.. 3 S Seats Focaigs. BG e| tlw katte dds | oxtubria @ © ’ ’ : mmonia ¢ - : ~—: Hl ---7 4 oxaen. UBC -...--- 020s ee eee 140 “ Unguentum. 45@ 55| We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. Absinthium. .........3 50@4 00 SYRUPS. eta ag ce @, 64 We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. ne, = Bates Dale. 7 = en ean senr ster ere = ee : se wel = All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order. ee. lotto, oeuee.......- 3 80@3 9u - Auranti Cortex....... 2 OE yo @4 70 uu ee oo @2 2 Catiputl...... on ae A Lycopodium .......... 65@ 70 \ i Coevceege......:.... acis . 70@ 75 CAME eee cea esses ; 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- L. "4 Chenopodii eee ceases @1 60 iii earls be ie eres. 50 ware fod..........:. 27 i> Cinnamonii ........ - Or COP Orie 50 | Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12 Ce a a , Sulph (bbl nee tee. ae eS ee 4@ 4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Sopaiba . _.. 80@ 90] Prunus ¢irg 50 | Mannia, S. F THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE, doz gross 55 6 Sa... 1... 00 s.r 7 00 ae... 50 5 50 ae 7 8 00 — .............. 65 7 50 ce a 55 6 00 —— oo POWDER. =. cans, 3 doz. ce oe = me 5+. a... 10 Arctic. - . cans Gon caee....... 55 4 Gon ° ———- - y D = tom - 200 j=” 1 — |... 9 00 Fosfon. 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case. nL - 5 28 Red Star, %. ® cans. -. 4 “ oe Telfer’ 8, x Ib. cans, dos. = “ a ib. sg e. 1 50 Our Leader, ) 115 Hummel" 8, foil, STOSS...... 1 50 tip —- oo CHICORY. SLL 8 Red z CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per dos. 1 2 ' 50 ft oe _ 140 a i - 1 66 _ ee... _ 1% . —o...-.-s. ai 1 90 Jute h.... sl 90 _ 72 ft _ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK, 4 doz. in case. Rene a >, caer Maw York, N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 PR eee cece oon. 6 3 a - Champion. —— 2 —.... .......... -.. 3 35 ‘GouPRON BOOKS. “Tradesman. ’ 81, per hundred a 2 00 ._- = 2 50 & 3, “ “ee : 3 00 . ees oe _— * Se 4 Ou — C 5 00 a. i $ 1, per hund a 2 50 ee eS 3 00 ‘. * ee 350 ss * eeu ce 4 00 — i 5 00 — e . 600 Universal.” 8 1, per hundred eee $3 00 --_ 2 6he.,rtrtC se 3 50 8 3, | 2 $5, Ce 5 00 810, TE 6 00 820, “ 7 Above prices on coupon ‘books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 or over..... 1000‘ nee COUPON PASS BOOKS, = be made to represent’any oo from $10 down. | : per cent. + 100 « S|. ee 6 me ea 10 1000“ 17 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ 2... $3 1000, Steel peak... 75 CRACKERS. Butter. er eee... 6 once agg = cartoon..... 6% Family 8 ae ets cartoon...... 6% Salted XXX 6 Salted XXX, cartoon ...... % ——— . 4... oe Ses... Butter biscuit . 6% Soda. ——— boxes 26 Lemon - c 10 Orange se = - " 11 Raisins, Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. @ 8% Sultana, 20 - Valeneia,30 ‘“ i Prunes. California, 1 ee... ...... 90x 100 25 Ib, bxs. oi 68 80x90 “ 70x80 . a 60x70 ' es eee eee a French, 60-70. « 80 ' ee. ~ Woes eee em ae ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. No, 1, 64.........-...2.06. $1 75 OO, Bei ee ccs. 1 60 ee © &......,,.5.-4-<-.-- 1 65 a e...... ............ 1 50 XX wood, white. Pee 1, a... s,s 1 aA ee... 1 Manilla, white. _ edge ceca eh bee cee es H et Mil. .No.¢.. .. oe oo FARINACEODS GOODS. Farina. 100 Ib. kege.....-......- 3% Hominy. Barrels ........2eseeccceeees : 00 SS 3 50 Lima Beans. ne Macearoni and Se Domestic, 12 lb. box. 55 Imported. es eee ae 10%@. % Oatmeal eee Oe... 2.4... .,.. 4 60 Halt barrels 100..........- 2 40 Pearl Barley. aS... 2% Peas. oon, ta... Lk. : 1 45 oon oem... 22. @3 Rolled Oats. Barrels 200... ....... @4 60 Half bols90.......... @2 40 Sago. Ce 4% a 5 Wheat. bc ortecaiy fn cnc nT Ae 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Wee... cL Cod. a. 3% Whole, Grand Bank..... 5% Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6@8 Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@8 Halibut. eee 10%@11 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 2 rh iL a bbi 97% oe ee Round, % bbl = Ibs Kees 2 90 ane 1 50 ee. 17 Mackerel Wa. bt, Se.......... ...; 11 00 No Se os 4 70 No 4. ae... 1 30 No. 2, 100 lbs.. 8 5 No 2 all ES 3 70 ee e................ 1 05 Family, . by eee 6 00 Pee... 6D Sardines. Rumen, kees.......... 65 Trout. No. 1,% ae. eee... 6 00 No. 1% b 1, 40 } ee... 2% No. 1, tits, ite 80 moO. 2,00) Bie.............. 68 Whitefish. se ny % bbls, » =. ( a 00 $2 75 + Ore Le 10 Ib. kite oe 90 48 c~ =* ce. ae >» FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. Regular Vanilla. doz 20s.....81 & o..... 3 XX Grade Jennings. - Lemon. Vanilla ‘- regular penal. vi5) 20 Ls moe 2 00 3 00 2 00 2 50 6 oz ia . mo. 5 taper........ mo, € taner........ 150 ro Se RES GUNPOWDER. 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Craeery.................. 16 Porto Rico. meee 20 Pe oon cs5- es 30 New Orleans. a 18 ae 22 ee 27 eee ........-.....-..... 2 ee 0 One-half barrels, 3c extra, PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 00 Small, Barrels, 2.400 count. 6 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES, Clay, ae 2... sd "TD. fullcount _ 7 cee, m0. 2....... 8, 1 25 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s .. a“ 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s ..... 3 25 RICE Domestic. Carolina aeee........-... 6 No. i : No. 2 el ‘ Imported. Japan, _ i ee ee 5% Ce Se ea wes 5 ee sic ieee aon 6 CO cae 5% ae a reg Beer Hatract. | Tag THE MICHT ms’ 4 — ixtrac . a Hires’, 1 ~< — “30 —— & ne Br GAN TRAD Adee 1 | en Eapeoned — 5 ESM AN. SPICES. 5 00 | Suntie eo : = Smoking. o- Whole _. Sunflower aaa Catlin’s e é spice..... ted. a ce 50 | Kiln dried s Brands. weinwia assia, China in mats...... 10 Economical ....271"" : 3.05 | Golden Shower... 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Bevo nee ual apids, based prices in | Java, } cee 5 lear, fat DACK «sees cee Cuan ee a , Singapore, black eek 60 cost in Ne don the ac 148 foil.. . 33 «| Clea cain netcenee conven = gael eeee neseneeld % - oe w York, t-| Banner Tobacco Co.’s : Clear back, sho oe 24 00 ONSEFVEE --- veeee eevee anne. ” ' white a freight. t 100 pounds with 36 er Tobacco Co.’s Bra 32 | Standard el rt cut...... tet eeee eee eces 21 00 | Peanuts ‘bh ABET 7 8 A sear emma iis -2 Gitacien: aeons —— oe ee : ear, short cut. oni yee 21 00 French Squares... hast HAGA yal 8 spice .. din Bulk, the frei pply to any to ions | G ner Cavendi |... 16 P a ae rea aS em 210 Valley Cr 3 : a 3 c assia eet 15 fa not . rate from ge Fold C NG — Sausage esh and Smoked 21 00 | Midget, 20 Ib. be, H . ; a 36 cent fork Se --38 shen aa M , ask a 2 eee quota s, but _ . a. SAE... a eaneed ea Cloves a Saigon’ 25 a better eriterie *perhape, alford | Mouby'E viioa's Brande.” | Hrambktort Saba ee — 3 , Amboyna..-.. 222... 35 sere n of the ma aw... _ | Bloods ausage cee tetnenceeeeees ca 9 EeePC -. 8 Ginger, A — 2 exclusively. @New York prices |p, foe oe See ee conmiaanasbe 9 | Lozenge aNcy—In bulk 8 g frican ape ~ foot FRA CT ES Bologna. SES cosas tpeeemeeanemmnenies 8% ges, plain | Gochin eee is Powdered .2000000000.00001 $6 30 . Adams Tobacco C ee 7" | Chocolate Dr inted.. Pails — animale EE A non eon wae ees 6 23 | Peerless Brands, 0,8 MOK... eee cece eect ee tee g Chocolate Monti a AA A 10 es 22 ine G ee Se - i. Coe ns cea a ustard, rene. ae te Cubes . a 1¢ Granulated. eS = Old Tom... eo eT “a Kettle Rendered oC 7 Gum Drops... inne a ‘Sani Ties a. 22 C - Peedeead | 623 = A aD aS 18 Fam: 2 _ Sour D ps.. ee Pe as... 25 onfee. Stand a 6 4 Globe Tob: via ‘oe |e SD ceveeesee ee eee]O rane TOps....... 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Boneless, : Chicago packi lbs.. i An Teen tka oo a saeco st POS) NO 14... ieee 4 36 | Plow — st "38 H ae butts. ae. -- $ oo | Lozenges, plain a ~ pare eaes 155 ae : Oy... teres ee BO a then eu sen os a oe te on a ion Lanne AER aR 84 1 = SYRUPS. . 436 Corn Cake. Pie TIGER '30@32 ms, average 20 he isan + 50 Impertals. Plain esses ceiee seeeteee cones s a a 155 | Ba Corn oe “ DIbG....-.---------0+ i mperials......-..-.0.... ee - 84 ee..... . a —— 6 ee 11% Cream GUT GORE IAIN es Kegs. .. SAL SODA. Half bbis.......... NED as HIDES PELTS and FU -~ foe Sea = eats 65 oo ee etteeeeee 6 : seen eee voters nese TO enulated. boxes........ : Pure Cane. . 8 Perkins & Hes RS Shoulders. ig —. eee cae Made Bannan necee cc scecsenene soonead bs ie ae ™ a s pay as fol-| Dried fast acon boneless... us eeeiniellt ecemagiacidains. ae Canary ei : 25 HIDES. Tareas ham prices cna 8% String Hoek. . eams. 859 Caraway Seere, @12% “ SWEET GOOD 30 — toured... 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Kits, a —. | Hp eee re ee ey ee a ie . : bab ae 6 els ela Ee SL : sé oo ee cor aaa — 10 @ 2| Barrels BEEF eee su UR 65 | Messina, a Ge 50 1b Ib sme .. 5% | Beer mug, 2 ae le oa 15 @ B Half barrels Sees uL. ONGUES. cou...) ee —— * 360.. ONS. eae co 7 case... 17 Ww WwooL. Per pou boca aa w cece aeccunsewe. ‘“ y, 360 Ocoee. lb & a 53% | Magi YEAST. . 175| Washed. .... TEEIS eos oee cose eine seesteeecees cee -22 00 “ fancy, 360....0. 000+ vee ees 3 50 40 and 50 Ib. erecta Warner's Oe ee Unwashed 2002 e Gls sittttitieesrteceteaes ee meee i. 4 00 trels.. Re 5% | Yeast F tet ee re see eee —l —aeee 4 iC i tee Fi i a 4 00 : SN Sees 3a Diamond: secu nee ceeseves i = Tallow ee ages ceeeeeees varie ema igs, fancy aa. a FRUITS 5 00 Sco NUFF tees Yiamond..... 2... seee eee vos 1 cucaes balies. H eae eerie vie by soe 7 a ss AR ncaa oe ene ieee 7am en mene @ 55) 5" —_— a ——- a ee aga ‘ coe eS 2 La... eee eee coeeee —<° , . ¢ _< @i2 french — Jars..... 35 TEAS. Chime Lae 2 oe Bicseeseteeeceeesetesetees oe - Dates, Fard, 10-Ib. Dox. gia” tli ee a ¢ . weveitee fel teseseesecesenescess . og ‘ ou —. = JaPan—Re ——— a 4011 2) 1 ee 3 ‘air gula: «s : @ sian, . @ Keen, english eeccececes Good ee pe ce ee cae rt GRAINS and F | Brates LE — 514@) [ Al 50-1b, box... dear: @ on BIR nana eeas ri ae EEDSTUFF: Deed Doce ye aig ae liea 34@ 4 — ao 14 554 Goeeae 4% poe ‘'§ | Dress FRE _....... 3 B 4% agons.. % 100 3-lb. sacks — ore x WHEAT, — oe SH PORK. . 314@ 4 a C7) aeaehataaaet 28 1016. sa eects e2| ee Shoulders Meyers dene aricsttte , eae an ee 43 ib ~~ 1 ioe 12 Red (0b. test) = aoe 11% Walnuts, Giaepig gir" oe ee 9] eg Te EAS L eee 56 anno Nee beg : 25 — TAT OU Bolted MEAL. — Lt ea re 2 . » Grenoble. @i0% or - Beg fame afm . a6 oe 281b. ‘ — bags.. - Pi sees eee: 24 Granulated.............. 140 aT sae Table Nuts, fee seveceeeete sete eenecees 56 Ib Warsaw 16 18 ust... ae aaase oe "ors gs | Carcass ......... 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P, ee @ 7% So sacks. 75) C ne to finest... @35 MILL Frank Teseece sees serene <== i Extras os encese @o6 56 In. a. — Choteent Samos a aruree. ee ERR % “"Roasted........ mi s 7% war Rock. =| common to ot 7S @8 Cc Less SIR AGN SAR eS 13 : Roasted.........-.. 5 socio a 27} C OOLON Bran... oA = in a a CROCKERY il +9 Saginaw mmon Fine. ee oe — 3 @26 Sereeuinan .... $13 — st FJ FISH AND OYS 8 KERY AND GLASS 6% Memtaies -- =. 8s. ao | oman & IMPERIAL. | @30 | Wisea mone i a0 13 00 - J. Dettenthaler quo oe Pinte - FRUIT J SSWARE, settee eee nee on we Superi iO fon....... 23 : Mixed Feed... 14 50 re Sl ARS. SALERATU: 4 or tofine.... 30 po Coarse meal .. Ig 00 4 - FRESH FISH. 8: 7 en gan epesetlanin i : iia ' Va ee can : Commor. to oe . ” 19 00 RD ea oo ue s. in box. Superior to _——< is @2s | Car lot CORN. @ 9 ee a te + 6 00 oc ag baer nga 5 Se eee 30 a8 Bee SS flere = DeLand’s -....0...-.-00.00 54 | Fa eee a ae tag | No.0 oon cncen oreceenn 2 50 Parte. ae ts us ee 5% Mil nce | ne eee ~ ais No. ip pee P BUBNERS. = 45 a i I tcc 24 @es | oaTs a ieee a. ee ce 40 @50 es. . No. i Pioke ee @12% Tubular ct TR 4 a oa Lon ROE RMS URED ni wonee 0 once B. Wristey's B TOBACCOS. antear lots........ ier as sete Levee ee cere iene 10 6 doz. in — CHIMNEYS. Pe ECE EN i Good Cheer 801 bib wae 2 Pail Fine Cut No. i 7 HAY ih Red an og Dee eee @ 8 7 1 Sun ss L | Perbe 071) 7 Ww angie ha 2/) aii . i . 2 | ae a ‘ No. 0Sun............ hite Borax, 100 "ib Saal 3 go | Bazoo . — otherwise noted No. en car lots....11 ee onngp era SMR RARIAT Os fees 6 Conco ~* spac &Gamble. ™ Nell nk nn sncne @30 on lots .....13 00 = erel......... ie 12 its a | i 33 , ra..... eo. N Wee go I ga 20 ee ‘ oa “haar ¥..-...-- S DRT patrnaven Comer ™—ee ong: un, crim oe 2 Ory, 10 OF... 2. oes on- gs | Uncle bev. eee 1 Gu WOODENWA yar DY sel cone TEE Cane. - 2% | No.2 Pp top.......... 7 honor’ es 8 45 | Hiawatha -.0.....-.-. 21 @22 | Tub _ Selects Ps gaa ae RE e2 ee 2 10 Mottled Ge Spl 6 75 | Sweet Cuba....-.... - 60 #, No. 1..... elects een eens cet secsecececeeee QAO | N X Flint. Ha sevcieitiateee eed 2 ed Gen Ja. 2 eGint fa ce --—Sanmeniees ox "% 0 Su ee —s man... z ee = BNO Bere PE (Ss aie Reon SER 3 | N i 32 ee 3151p 5 bile....... ” IP a Peet 5 ai 2 Davseeseiee ie cincatencecaneees 2 o. io... 2 ; Dingm oe reer cene 3B andy Jim alaaanalimntete 25 ails, No. t tw ee sceececece 4 50 andards........ Le 2 No. 2 * a. ee ee ° a mee le. 29 | Bowl No. 1, a "1 30| Ext oe verre QR Seis " vests eeee coer eeenes "112 go 5 bo eee eee as " _ © in drams.... 6 0 ma = Se Y nt eae 2 10 a hate, delivered ae : % Yum ean drums oo 8, 3 inch.. ce oe . 150 a i — Bole @20 No. ile [= 8, delivered... .. cate : ME sete Selects «eee ec eeeveeterecceeiee a. bau Jas. S. fvered...... B85 | OR onceon noose 98 : “ NeCtS «eae eeeeeeeeeeceseceeeceetes oes 4 fg ‘ American Family, v ak 75 drums..... aa ; 23 . u oe 1 25 = Ce ; - a ‘“ a 2 20 cos Brands] lg. 22 LTS tae tetas 1 80| Shri pe a ET TD 1 20|N un, plain b - Pl es aan enSAO 20 | No. ulb, per d N. K. Fairb: plain... 2 94 3 “ ae 2 40 Bea niente sah rcen cnet 2 20 | No. a oz. Santa Cla ank & Co.'s Brand Spearhead = s Brands. a markets i eee i 2 09 | No.3 rimp, per, Path oo P a Joke Cc pane per 100 SHELL G0oDs "7 12 a “ . aa bb ddeunes Oonuee aes “ Pe a a ~ No. Hpisaennnenn bea oe 2 obby Twist.. 29 willo a ee , No. 0, per, gro Sas Sassen ae iereks Lauts Br . se a. ans 41 ‘ iw cree, s, Noi 5 25 ae aint ..15@1 50 | NO} Ns Ac os. & Co.’s Brands. . eo s Brands. a rr a ag 6 25 CANDIES, FRUI @1 00 a 2 Pr aa ceetesevetetereeee i fees. Oil ft * a aah eco akg ace : ee secenube: me 26 ' — c nae 72 The Putnam C: TS and NUTS, Mammo h, “see | : i i i ut! a ai i ey 28 cae ca Nas 0 ey City ... i 38 _ & 7 Naz 4 a ‘andy Co. quotes as fol : eta 38 ee a ee aida ‘ \ i oO : , eer es, a 3 £5 old ‘oan. Brands. 34 | Pails online 475 | Stand a ge — — . ane wi Ra i . 4 | Jolly Tar.. ” eek “0 Tubs, aoe c Sia fa -“ = i. Cases Bbls, Pail Jugs, % gal i. gal. per acres 0 cE aa. miter ‘“ en ce me oz... SH a RAAT 32 Tubs, = x Ay 13 50| Boston Twit oi 7% Mik Ale Le POE GO oon eoneeseseessesoees 60 hee 12 00] Cut L ae Pe 1% + es 8, 4 gal., per dos......... . mc « @ teens 10 50 Cut Lost. nec... 8% % ™%% 7 * ; a0s.. EEN 07 Ce ak ' cere Butter C STONEWARE—BL ” E a EN 0 8% 8% Milk Pane, seals ~ ia GLAZED, i ND patente sores coeseetcneeeeceneceeeaeens or eG 65 ' _ 2 14 ! THE APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM. | Written for THE TRADESMAN. In noting the evolution of methods | which have affected the condition of la- | bor in the present century, one needs to | take more than a superficial view, in or- der to decide whether, on the whole, such conditions show a gain or loss. Progress is often mistaken for improve- ment. gress is, one should take a wide range in | To determine what true pro- | his compilation and comparison of facts. | Those who are personally familiar with | those facts can reach the most intelligent | eonclusions. While in general mankind | is benefited by the changes that are con- | stantly taking place in methods of pro- | duction, and enlarged opportunities for | material development, some of those | changes have, no doubt, worked mieten! disadvantages. Among the old methods which have | been almost entirely superseded by the new is the apprentice system as it once ex- | isted in this country. It was never so harsh and arbitrary as that which pre- vailed in Europe, because it was modified by the spirit of ourinstitutions. Nor did our laws regulating its details ever give such excessive power to the master as those in force in other lands. Our practice allowed shorter terms of service, and more liberal conditions concerning hours of labor, compensation, and personal freedom from harrassing restrictions. As we applied the system to the differ- ent mechanical trades, or to the allied arts which almostranked as professions, the results were certainly valuable in furnishing a constant supply of qualified artizans who honored their respective callings by performing more effective and uninterrupted service than is now done by the system of labor which has taken its place. Though a mercantile educa- tion was not always secured by actual apprenticeship, our merchants of olden time, having no business college ways to unlearn, acquired a practical knowledge of every detail in their business by a ser- vice similar to the apprentice system. Their safe and successful methods may well command the respect and imitation of many merchants to-day, who, despis- ing them as old fogies, find the modern mercantile route often the shortest cut to bankruptcy. Though trade unionism may have been ‘responsible in some degree for the decadence of the apprentice sys- tem in trades requiring manual dex- terity, yet the improved methods of manufacturing by machinery were, no doubt, the main cause. The impetuous march of new inventions has left many worthy mechanical trades in the back- ground. It is a question whether or not they have left a balance of profit to com- pensate society for what has been taken. We may think the resultant gain in cheapness of construction, with the in- creased use and demand, makes an equiv- alent for all the waste involved in the change. That depends, however, some- what on how one views the ends and aims of human activities. We can give due credit to the so-called march of im- provement, while at the same time we are just to the methods and customs of a past generation. The old is not to be altogether condemned because it has been outgrown; nor should the new be overvalued on account of its novelty. One does not need the wisdom of Solo- mon to perceive the merits of past meth- ods, the apparent practical advantages of those now in use, and the strong probability that the present must yield to the future, just as the past has yielded to the present. In justly estimating the value of the | apprentice system, financial conditions | Should not wholly prevail. | merit lay in its influence for good over | the youth controlled by a quasi-paternal | restraint. An especial By it they were guarded from |the power of evil associates and idle | habits until the time when years added | manly instincts and purposes to strengtb- | en good resolutions. Life to them be- came real and earnest. because it was | conidered in the light of a time contract. The years so many spend in foolish pleasures or ill-directed efforts to find a profitable yet pleasant vocation were under the control of wiser heads. returned in time with cumulative inter- est, so they placed the few precious years preceding early manhood as a val- uable treasure in hands whose experi- ence could be depended on to manage it profitably and return to the depositor full compensation for the investment. Unlike the ordinary lender, however, they became themselves hostages for the success expected in the future; for, in proportion as they fulfilled the terms of their contract, was the measure of that suecess. Contrasted with the present system of an arbitrary division of labor in nearly all trades and industries that contracts for employes in wholesale lots, one may well regret the decadence of the once safe, sure and healthy methods of the apprentice system; though one may at the same time accept the inevitable necessity. It would seem as though there might still be some use for it in certain lines of skilled labor. But in the adjustments of means to an end, cap- ital has decided to secure such labor by a different method; and so the power of organized industry has displaced a worthy system just as agriculture by wholesale on the wide prairies of Dako- tah has lessened the profits of hard work- ing farmers in older States, who submit to it as they do to other unavoidable evils, while deploring the wasteful and | extravagant means by which such changes are brought about. The youth of to-day has not such a bealthy stimulus to exertion as those of fifty years ago, notwithstanding all the educational advantages of the present age. If he wishes to apply himself to an occupation requiring skilled labor he finds himself hedged in by industrial | customs that sacrifice everything to one | inflexible purpose: viz, to manufacture | the largest amount of products at the least cost. By this system each work- man becomes as it were only an intelli-| gent part of acertain division of machine | power. If he satisfies his employer, he continues to repeat forever with dreary | monotony a series of operations he has But all ambi- | longings to know more must be | given up if he wishes to hold his position, He has | proved himself too useful to be allowed | to go higher in his mechanical aspira- | learned to do perfectly. tious and the means of livelikood. tions. The demon of organization does not treat him as a person, but onlya part | of a material force that turns out profit | for capital. There thinkers among the workers; as, in an army, only a small proportion can be officers, and so promotion does not follow ambitious merit. is no room for ! TRADHSMAN. Established 1868. HM. REYNOLDS & SON, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Building Papers, Carpet Linings, Asbestos Sheathing Asphalt Ready Roofing, Asphalt Roof Paints, Resin, Coal Tar, | Roofing and Paving Pitch, | Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool Elastic Roofing Cement, | Car, Bridge and Roof Paints, ‘and Oils. As} | oeescnss2 PPAClCal HODES In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor. LOUIS and CAMPAU Sts.. Grand Rapids, Mich. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. BLopeeETt, President. Gro. W. Gay. Vice-President. Wm. H. ANDERSON, Cashier, Jno A. Seymour, Ass’t Cashier Capital, $800,000, DIRECTORS. D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay. S. M. Lemon. C. Bertsch. A.J. Bowne. G. K. Johnson, Wm. H. Anderson. Wm Sears. A. D. Rathbone John Widdicomb. N. A. Fletcher. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pails, Shirts, aud Overalls Onee and You are our Customer for life. Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Gero. F. OWEN, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Unlike tre Dutch Process — iOR—- Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of " W. Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. | | A description of the chocolate | plant, and of the various cocoe and chocolate preparations man | ufactured by Walter Baker & Co | will be sentfree toany dealer or application. | W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester. Mass. ia KALAMAZOO PANY & OVERALL CO, 221 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Our entire line of Cotton Worsted Pants on hand to be sold at cost for cash. If interested write for samples. Milwaukee Office: Room 502 Matthew Build ing. Sint fall line of Pants from $9 to $42 per dozen are now ready. An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound swatches of entire line sent on approval to the trade. PECK’S Pay the best profit. HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber. Menthol Inhaler o Catarrh, Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Sore Threat. The first inhalations stop sneezing, snuffing coughing and headache. This relief is worth the price of an Inhaler. Continued use will complete the cure. Prevents and cures ° Sea Sickness On Cars or boat. The cool exhilerating sensation follow- ing its use is a luxury to travelers. Convenient to carry in the pocket; no liquid to drop or spill; lasts a year, and costs 50c at druggists. Regis- tered mail 60c, from H. D. CUSHMAN, Manufacturer, Three Rivers, Mich, (2 Guaranteed satisfactory. ND Wholesale Boots = Shoes, 5 and 7 Pearl St., a Sis. GRAND RAPIDS, Agents for Wales-Geodyear Rubber Co. Orders by mail given prompt attention S. A. MORMAN, Wholesale Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LIME, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick and Clay. WRITE FOR PRICES. 10 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS. v » < yp tir k THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Is it strange, then, that so few youth of to-day begin their life work with a definite end in view? How many, alas! have no apparent purpose or place in life, and are like waifs of the ocean that drift to and fro with the tides. Is it strange if thousands drift into the crim- inal ranks—not with vicious intent—but for want of some strong stimulant of a system that compels to habits of industry when young, and opens up a vista of profitable and congenial employment for the future? Does it pay to waste the most precious years of one’s life in aimless effort, or hopeless inactivity, and be compelled to learn in later manhood at great sacrifice practical knowledge that could have been secured at far less cost? In the large army of youth con- tinually growing larger, how many who never had the opportunity to learn a trade, nor even habits of industry, come to the age of manhood wholly unfitted for its duties and responsibilities. From such the ranks of criminal life are re- eruited. Men who study statistics assert that the criminals of this generation average much younger than those of the past. Conditions do sometimes make the man. Not all can fight and overcome adverse circumstances. Once in a while an exceptionally ambitious and perse- vering individual reaches a point of van- tage whence he can look down on his fel- lows. The rest occupy a common level. Among the most intelligent class of workmen there are comparatively few who secure permanent and profitable employment. At each change over which he has no control he has to learn a new trade, or new branch of what used to beatrade. The next industrial convulsion may find him helper in a liv- ery stable or driver of a street car. His best opportunities are often checkmated by conditions arbitrarily imposed by societies of laboring men, who assume powers not granted by the constitution and laws of the land. Sometimes, from sheer force of ad- verse conditions, a few lose heart till they become willing to accept the pre- carious rewards of those who prey on so- ciety as fakirs or as agents for disreput- able schemes. Others develop from a chrysalis of misery into professionals, and either attempt ballooning, or ride into notoriety as specialists of some medical fad to treat the chronic ills of despairing humanity. This class com- bine the eagerness and rapacity of 2 Jer- sey mosquito at a period when his prow- ess has ripened to its fullest extent. In summing up comparisons between the old an the new industrial systems one conclusion seems quite apparent, and that whatever changes have taken place from the old to the new, they have come to stay. Unlike fash- ions, that come and go with the whims of a class whose sole occupation is to in- vent novelties; and which sometimes re- appear like comets at irregular intervals, the changes in industrial conditions are not in the line of an orbit that gives hopes of areturn. When we bid good- bye to what the age has outgrown, we bid it a good-bye forever. Noastronomer ean obtain any data on which to calcu- late the period when it may be expected to revisit us. So let us in taking leave of the ap- prentice system, remember to say noth- ing but good of the dead past. To the present system that succeeds we can say in the words of Hamlet, ‘‘To this com- is, 15 plexion you must come at last.” The world moves, and time moves also—each overturning, destroying, and restoring, in new forms. But neither stop to bury their dead nor mourn for them. S. P. WHITMARSH. i —-2- <>-_$_$—_———— Pay Your Small Bills. From Kate Field’s Washington. If there is one sight more dreaded than another at the present time it is a bill, especially when the amount exceeds one’s bank deposit. That such bills are not paid at once by men and women whose hatred of debt is only exceeded by hatred of dishonesty, is because their debtors, either from necessity or choice, do not meet their obligations; thus the failure of Jones forces Smith to ask for exten- sion from Robinson, and so on until the whole nation is embarrassed almost be- yond endurance. Impossible as it may be for many to draw checks for large amounts, it is the exception when persons in tolerable cir- cumstances cannot pay the small bills of daily life; to ignore them during this ter- rible stringency is to violate every Christian precept. Thoughtlessness, far more than heartlessness, is the cause of incalculable mischief. Well-to-do men and women—especially women who never earned a penny in their lives and who would starve if thrown upon their own resources—do not appreciate the value of a few dollars. Knowing they are ‘‘good for thousands,” they disregard insignificant debts as of no importance to their creditors because they are so readily paid by themselves. They do not put themselves in the creditor’s place. They are too engrossed in their own af- fairs to consider the necessities of trades- people; hence a great wrong is done to the whole community. The tradesman ean’t pay his employes, and commercial wrecks strew the country in consequence. Seated at breakfast recently in the house of a rich man, I heard a charming woman exclaim petulantly: ‘‘That’s six times I’ve received this miserable bill for seventy-five cents. I won’t pay it until I get ready. The idea of drawing a check for seventy-five cents; it’s ridicu- lous. Some time when I’m driving past that woman’s shop I’1]1 settle with her. She knows I don’t intend to cheat her.’’ If I had not heard that speech, Il should have believed it impossible for those pretty lips to be capable of such apparent heartlessness. ‘*‘Has your creditor much capital?” I asked. ‘*Really I don’t know; “Then she is poor.” ‘“*Yes; but what difference can seventy- five cents make?” **You say you have received that same bill six times?”’ “Yes; did you ever hear of such im- pertinence?”’ “I don’t admit the impertince. Let us see what those six duns have cost that poor woman. Six letter postage stamps amount to twelve cents. Twelve cents from seventy-five leave sixty-three cents. Add time, labor and writing materials, and you have deprived that woman of her small margin of profit.’’ The pretty woman looked astounded. *“T never thought of that,’’ she mur- mured. “Of course not. Had you done so you would no more have postponed paying a just debt than you would be guilty of murder. You are quite right in think- ing seventy-five cents of little conse- quence, but multiply that amount a hun- dred times, and look at the sum total. You may be one of many who are in- debted to this same woman and who have failed to pay their bills for similar rea- sons.’’ Tears stood in my friends eyes as she replied, ‘‘Thank you. Will you go with me this morning and see that I pay my bill?” “With pleasure.’’ The carriage was ordered, and off we drove to the out-of-the-way part of a town that shall be nameless, until we stopped before the shop of a woman who is an expert in a certain trade. Looking up from her work, the woman smiled faintly as she stilled the cries of a small boy tugging at her skirts. probably not.’’ ‘Don’t say a word, dear Mrs. Y——,’’} said her debtor. ‘‘Il owe you a thousand apologies for so long neglecting to pay my bill. It was small you know, and | | didn’t think. I hope you have not been | inconvenienced.”’ “Oh, it would not matter if yours were | the only bill, but you see ‘mony a mickle | maks a muckle’ and ladies don’t pay up | this season; so ’ve been obliged to dis- charge my girls and doall my own work. I haven’t been able to pay my rent, and I’m afraid the landlord will turn me out. Then God knows what will become of me and my children.’ | At this point the poor woman broke | down, and a more conscience-stricken face than that of my friend I never be- held. Before we left that shop the} debtor paid her bill with interest plus 12 | cents; what is more, she became secur- | ity forher grateful creditor’s rent until hard times cease. God bless her for her generous amend. ‘Tell me,’’? asked the pretty women, as the carriage turned toward home, ‘‘what made youthink of what had never occurred to me?” ‘““A fellow-feeling that is said to make us wondrous kind. I am a working woman.’’ —————> +> For locking up the capital of the coun- try the people are now suffering capital punishment. A Photographic Trip Around the World. Superb Photographs of Famous Scenes, Wonders of Architecture, Historic Build- ings, Beautiful Scenery and Curious Sights in all parts of the world, with descriptive text. A magnificent book, printed on enameled paper, a wonder af the printer's art. Size,8x 10%. Try it as a premium for cash trade, costs only $15.00 a dozen, with 500 cards and a punch free. Retails at $5.00. Sample sent on approval. NATIONAL BOOK & PICTURE CO., CHICAGO. Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect Aug. 27, 1893. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For M’kinaw,Trav. City and Sag. : 50 a m 7:20am For Cadillac ‘and Saginaw...... 2:15pm 4:15pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw +. Sep me 10:50 pm Prom Kalamasoo. ............... 9:10a - From Chicago and Kalamazoo.. 9:40 p m Trains arriving from south at 6:50 a - and 9:10am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. Train leaving north at 7:20 a. m. daily. does not run to Traverse City on Sundays. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from ——— ut This train For Cincinnati. ................. 7 For Kalamazoo and Chicago.. 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. : 11:50am 2:00 pm Poe Cimcimmast... 2... 15pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... = 40pm 11:20 pm Prous Segemaw..................4 1:50am Prete SARIBAW. o.oo ccs ccne cess 10; 40pm Trains leaving south at 6:00 pm me 11:20 p. m. runs daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids = 05am 2:00 pm Arr Chicago 4:10pm 9:10pm 7:05 am = :05 am train through coach and Wagner Parlor Ca: + :20 pm train daily, through coach and Wagner r. Lv Chicago 4:00 pm 10:00 p m Arr Grand Rapids 9:40 pm 6:50 am 4:00 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:00 p m —_ daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Cai Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From ee Arrive 7:00 am . 40 p - §:25 pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45a m, ar- riving at 9:15am. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand —_ at 5:50 p m. Oo. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. TOLEDO RAILWAY. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’ys offers a route making the best time be- tween Grand Rapids and Toledo. Time — _ effect May 14, 1893. ,b. 2%. BY. Ly. Grand A oe - Cee 7: 10 a, m. and 1:25 p. m. Ar Toreee a ......... 215 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. VIA D., G. H. & M. R’Y. = Grand Rapids at... ee 50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m mr. Toledo as... ...... 215 p.m. and 10:45 p. m "ia connections eee as good. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, ‘CHICAGO 3 SEPT. 24, 1893 AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv. @ @ Rapids......... 30am 1:25pm *11:*0pm Ar. Chicago . i: ‘55pm 6:50pm *6:30am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ey. Chicage......._ .__: 7:45am 4: — *11:35pm | Ar. G’d Rapids. *6:10am VIA ST. JOSEPH AND STE AMER. Ly. Grand Rapids.......... ... 1:23pm 16:30pm Be. Cile€aeo _... . 8:30pm 2:00am Ly. Chicago 9:30am...Ar. Grand Rapids 5:25 pm TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Grand Rapids...... 7:30am 1:25pm 5:45pm Grand Rapids...... 9:20am 2:30pm 5:25pm TRAVERSE CITY CH ABLE VOIX AND PETOSKEY. Lv. Ar. Ly. Grand Rapids .. opm *11:35pm ToG. E..ly. Petoskey 5:00am 1:30pm .-....... *Every day. t+tExcept Saturday. Other trains week days only. DETROIT LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. JULY 30, 1893 GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. Grand ae aoe 7:00am *1:45pm 5:40pm Ar. Detroit . -11:40am *3:50pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Lv. Detroit... ... 7:45am *1:45pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids.. ..12:45pm *5:40pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:20am 4:15pm Ar. GR 11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Hapids........ 7:00am 1:45pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:45pm 6:40pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE, Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- | ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. MICHIGAN CENTRAL “€ The Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 28, 1893.) Arrive. Depart 10 Ao m.......- Detroit Express ........ 6 55pm 6 0am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 10 45pm Op m...... New York Express...... 540 pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 6:55am; re- turning, leave Detroit 5 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALmQuistT, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av2. & MIL- EASTWARD. \tNo. 14|tNo. 16|tNo. 18/tNo. 82 Trains Leave | Ly | 645am/10 20am) 3 25pm| G@’d Rapids, 7 40pm louie... .... Ar| 740am]11 25am} 4 27pm! 8 45am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 25am/}12 17pm} 520pm) 9 429m Owoss) Ar| 900am} 1 20pm $ OSpan! 10 25am E. Saginaw..Ar |10 50am} 3 45pm! 8 00pm}........ Bay City....- Ar }11] 32am] 4 35pm 8 37 pm| ae Flint ........Arj10 05am/| 3 45pm 7 05pm | Meee Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pm| 550pm| 850pm|........ Pontiac . LAr |10 53am 305pm| 8 25pm]........ Detroit.......Ar IY 50am| 405pm| 925pm]........ WESTWARD Trains Leave |tNo. 81 |tNo. 11 [tNo. 13./tNo. 15 Gd Rapids, Ly| 7 2am 1 vopm| 4 4 55pm/10 20pm Gd Haven, Ar| 8 30am 2 10pm) 6 00pm/11 20pm Milw’kee Str ‘ = ae 6 Wam} 6 30am Chicago Str. “| 400pm)...... i i. +Daily except Sunday Sunday only train leaves Grand Rapids at8 a. m. for Spring Lake and Grand Haven; and at 7p. m. to connect with Sunday night steamer at Grand Haven for Chicago. Trains arrive from the east, 7:20 a.m., 12:50 p.m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10 a.m, 3:15 p.m. and 9:35 p. m Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. Westward—No. 1 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Parlor Car. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T*cket Agent. 23 Monrce Street. 16 THE MODERN AMAZON. From the earliest times the woman | | ments, the humiliations, the mortifica- tions, the temptations, the rebuffs, the THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. j | | . . | ca : | question was decided as it is to-day in| insults, the heart-rending, soul-wrench- | ing and bodily agonies which have been | Oriental countries. The women were | the ‘‘keepers at home,’’ or of the home; the men were the bread-winners. This | idea is strongly expressed in the old Anglo-Saxon terms, ‘‘husband,”’ bond, the gatherer of the gear and main- tainer of the estate; ‘“‘lord,” or laford, or hlaford, the provider or furnisher of | the loaf or bread; “lady,” “‘lafdig or hlafdig,’’ the divider of the loaf; ‘‘wife,” ‘“twif,’? the weaver; while the unmarried women were the spinsters, the word ‘‘spinner’’ being masculine, while ‘‘spin- ster’? is feminine. All these words ex- press a signification that men are to protect or to provide for the women who are to take care of the home and perform such household duties as properly fell to them. Doubtless this is the natural state of the human race in every age where the people have not been changed by exces- sive civilization. The universal effect of civilization, when carried to a _ high degree, is to increase enormously the house- | habits of luxury and _ self-indulgence. Every discovery of science is called into requisition to make labor easier and to multiply the comforts and lux- uries of life. The working classes en- joy these benefits as much as the rich. The laborer no longer is forced to walk long distances to and from his work. A carriage transports him at a cost of a few cents. Public places of resort are fiited up with fans, brilliant lights, and often furnished with music, where he may spend his evenings with as much comfort as can the rich man in his splen- didly appointed club. These are only a few items of the remarkable increase in personal luxury and opportunity for in- dulgence in this age; but all goes to show that with the growth in opportu- nity for self-indulgence the men are cor- respondingly less willing to work. And so the women have gradually been driven to push themselves into men’s places. This has not been the result of any noisy demands by women for political equality or recognition, but it is the irre- sistible force of fate which is pushing women into the places of men. Hus- bands, fathers and brothers are loafers, hoodlums, drunkards and _ otherwise worthless through self-indulgence. They, so far from supporting the women who are naturally dependent on them, change the rule and prey upon their women. Thus the softer sex is driven by a force it did not create, and which it cannot resist, to cease to be keepers at home, and to sally forth to seek the means of a livelihood. The philosophical thinker will give credit to the ancient stories of the Ama- zons, nations of women who monopolized all the business of war, government and commerce, because it is entirely possible that the men of such nations have been endured by killed off in incessant wars, leaving the women to protect themselves and to per- | form all the duties of citizenship. Such an event may have occurred without re- fiecting any discredit on the men, but every Amazon of modern times is a re- proach upon some man who has failed to | do his duty. It is hard for women who have been | carefully nurtured to be forced to battle | with the world for subsistence. No| mere aggregation of figures can repre- | sent the vast accumulation of disappoint- ithe modern Amazon. | stances. | with a handsome women who have been | driven to labor in the places of men. | Their necessities have compelled them to | accept lower wages than were formerly igiven to | cheaper males, and the demand for labor has resulted in many cases in the displacement of competent men, because women would work at lower rates. In this connection women have found it necessary to provide them- selves with a knowledge of book-keep- ing, type-writing and other pactical pro- fessional information which can be use- ful in business situations. Women who possess no such stock in trade must fall back on their more elegant, but often less appreciated accomplishments. Just here is suggested the sense of helplessness of the elegant and accom- plished women who hope to make a liy- ing in the departments that have always been considered open to the sex. The New York World, speaking of the great numbers of these classes, reports that at the New York Exchange for Women’s Work there are 100 addresses of gentle- women, with the very best of references, willing to accept positions in respectable families and make themselves useful as nursery governesses, traveling compan- ions or chaperons for a comfortable liv- ing. Six months before the World’s Fair opened the enrollment of applicants desirous of accompanying pleasure par- ties of dependent women and young ladies to Chicago was suspended for the reason that the supply already booked was thought by the Board of Directors to exceed the possibilities of demand. These women were recommended by pbhysi- cians, ministers, judges, school superin- tendents, college professors, statesmen, and men and women prominent or infiu- ential in the community to which they belonged. There were artists, teachers, doctresses and musicians among the pro- fessional class; there were ladies in re- duced circumstances, whose very names were letters of introduction; there were widows of famous men, whose culture and broad intelligence eminently fitted them to chaperon young ladies and make the journey profitable, educationally and socially, for wives and mothers not born in the purple. What a pity these women are forced to such precarious callings, and how much greater pity that there is not an immediate demand for their services! But the social forces of the age are against them. The tendency is to the creation of a modern Amazon, who takes the places of men through the failure of men to do their duty of taking care of the women. Much as such a state of things may be deplored, it is a condition, notatheory. The forces which are be- hind this movement are most potential; nothing can restrain them. The move- ment is not swift, but it is not slow. There has been immense progress in the present generation. When carried to its legitimate conclusion the result will be If there is any blame anywhere, it does not fall to her. She will be only the creature of circum- FRANK STOWELL. Wayland Globe: Tur MICHIGAN TRADESMAN came to our table this week new heading and is otherwise improved. Tur TRADESMAN is a first-class trade journal. YOURS FOR THE . & _ ASKING. Write your name and address upon a postal card, mail it to the Trapesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., and you will receive by return mail samples and price list of its several styles of coupon books, which are the most comprehensive, concise and convenient system ever devised for the handling of credit transactions in any mercantile line, or for reconciling the unrest of cash customers where both cash and credit sales are made indiscriminately. These books are now in use by over 25,000 retail merchants in all parts of the country and in every case they are giving unqualified satisfaction, as they enable the dealer to avoid all the losses and annoyances incident to the pass book and other antiquated charging systems. We were the originators of the coupon book system and are the largest manufacturers in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business. If you wish to deal at headquarters, you are our customers. Tradesman Gompany, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Badges SOCIETIES, CLUBS, CONVENTIONS, DELEGATES, COMMITTEES. For The Largest Assortment of Ribbons and Trimmings in the State. THE TRADESMAN CO. MOSELEY BROS., - - -« JOBBERS OF .. Seeds, Beans, Fruits and Produce, PEACHES furnished daily at market value. If you have any BEANS, APPLES, POTATOES or ONIONS to sell, state how many and will try and trade with you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa Street. - ae r ak y - » oe . ek \ a vg iN 7 . aa ~_ + 7. - 7 % -_— ~ VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & UU, W HOLESALE Ury Goods, Carpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. * Voigt, Herpolshelmer & 00, “° Grana Rapids” Grand Rapids. SEE QUOTATIONS. MUSKEGON BAKERY UNITED STATES BAKING Co.,, CRACKERS, BISCUITS, CAKES. Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” HARRY FOX, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICH. Tree hi Na & BESs DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN WE CARRY SA STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW SOR wits Te ASAFE INVESTMENT An order placed with us for goods of our own manufacture. Our fac- tory is one of the largest in the State, and its products are trade winners wherever sold. SIDE ISSUES: Oranges, Lemons, a and Oysters. OUR SPECIALTY: | HIGH GRADE GONFEGTIONERY. | THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. Your Bank Account Solicited. Ket COM Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. | re A. CovonE, Pres. | Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. | J. A. S. VerRv1iER. Cashier. K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Buriness, Interest. Allowed on Time and Sayings Nuts Deposits. DIRECTORS: | Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox iT. J.O’Brien. A.J Bowne, Henry Idema, | Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee. J. A..S, Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, ARE THE TIMES HARD? THEN MAKE THEM EASY BY ADOPTING THE COU PON BOOK SYSTEM FUR NISHED BY THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. A LADY’S GENUINE : VICI : SHOE, Plain toe in opera ‘a opera toe bie cs. aad Dand E and EE widths. at $1.50. Patent leather | tip, $155. Try them, they are beauties. soft and fine, flexible saad elegant fitters, for sample dozen. REEDER RROS, SHOE CO, Grand Rapids, Mic bh. Stock | Send 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’ FE Puritano Cigar. THE FINEST 10 Gent Cigar on Earth o——_-— ee JEL Punrranoli | 4 ix Pe Rib TRADE SUPPLIED BY BATEMAN & FOX, Bay City. B. J. REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids. R OPPENHEIMER, East Saginaw. Derrorr Tosacco Co., Detroit, Mich. Cracker Ghesis. Ulass (Overs Or BIsclls eg er — i Mee eT = eo HESE chests will soon | pay for themselves in the breakage they avoid. Price $4. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherinamoment They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. NEW NOVELTIES We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., This is bound to be one of S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. 1 A ¢SC TOR” % FULL CREAM CHEESE» GRAND RAPIDS, 2 MICH. QUALITY WINS! -———$—-— ) — ——— And you can depend on the best qual- ity when you buy this Brand. GRAND RAPIDS, _— COMP’, Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. REDU CED PRICES ——FOR—— MASON FRUIT JARS B—4 the prices advance, which they are sure to do a little later in the season. We A, cas hile 5 soul AG “ | I YOu Want t Gon, Light 1 Sweet ‘Bread ad Biscuit, USE FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. —_—_0-——- —— MANUFACTURED BY The¥ermentUm Company MAIN OFFICE: CHICAGO, 270 KINZIE STREET. MICHIGAN AGENCY: GRAND RAPIDS, 106 KENT STREET. os Address all communications to THE FERMENTUM CO. The Following ———< Is the best line of Coffees in the State. All roasted by CHASE & SANBORN. IF YOU WANT THE BESY THESE ARE THE COFFEES FOR YOU YO BUY. 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. will hold the following quotations open One pint Mason cans, packed, 6 doz. in a case...........- One quart Mason cans, packed. 8 doz. in a cas€... ....---+-+-+-++ 225+ + +e 6 00) One-half gal. Mason cans, packed, 6 doz. in a Case....... --- ++ e- eee ee eee ee 8 00} One pint Mason cans, packed, 1 doz. in a case......-...-+-+.+++-+5++ ie A 7 50) One quart Mason cans, packed, 1 doz. in @ Case....------. eee reer eee eee eee s 00 | One-half gal. Mason cans, packed, 1 doz. in @ Cas€........----- +2 cence cece: 10 00 | Don’t delay but send your order at once to H. Leonard & Sons GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. until the next issue of THe TRADESMAN | _. $5 50| Above are all in 50-pound cans ideal Java and Mocha in one an id two pound cans,