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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
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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.
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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
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| 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 |
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| 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.’
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‘In grandmother’s old china teapot?” |
His wife shook her head. He had!
used up all the fingers
he changed about.
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satchel?’’
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“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-
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for that miserable $500! How many peo-
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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.
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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.
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The editor wrote ‘‘political swim,’’ the
compositor set it up ‘‘political swine.’’
It was an error only in a typographical
sense.
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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sin. i 782
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window dresser and
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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.
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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.
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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.
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” shirtings... 4 | chocolat 5%
American fancy.... 5 n rober ... 5%
Americanindigo .. 5 | - sateens.. =
Aierican shirtings. 4 |Hamilton femey. ... 5%
Argentine Grays... 6 staple .... 5%
Anchor Shirtings... 4 Manchester ancy.. 5%
Arnold . new era. 5%
Arnold Merino 6 bineceuaat D fancy. 5%
Merrim’ck shirtings. 4
“« Reppfurn . os
Pacific = : 5%
re robes. .
a mourning..
5%
' eritd bisck, Sat 5%
Washington indigo. 6%
! by
5%
-- 10
° plain Tky X %, oH
. Ras
* Ottoman =
ey red 6
ees
%|Martha Washington
es a. eee 0 7 oe........ 9%
: “ 34xXxXxx = 2 |Riverpoint robes.... 5%
Cocheco comey...... Windsor rgd — 6
madders. . 5 oo ticket
XX twills.. 5 | in@igo diue....... 10%
>. ao... Ss ee.....,... . 4%
——
Amoskeag ACA.. a Rae. 8... $7 00
ft l......-....... sx 00
. Ss. 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. Ԥ Boilers, | per pound. 10 00
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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that our contemporary is one of the most
ably edited exchanges on our large list,
and that it is quoted extensively and ex-
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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- 16@ 17 | Ipecac, po............ 2 2@2 30 | Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30
p Iris plox (po. $538) . - 8@ 0} - * 6e., 2a Be CH EM ICALS A N I )
alapa l 0 5} Alumen.... 24
oe Fructus, af... @ 26
nivelly settee oes = i ere 18@ 20 a @ =
Salvia officinalis, 4e - | Zinetber j.--...... Bo 2] «+ “ — Bpo. 20
7 po Ks : 15@ 2 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (por 15) 109 12 a
Ura Ural 8@ 10} Antsum, (po. 20). @ 15 ina ae a a — aa
a @UMMI, Bhanis (graveleons). 1°@ 18 | Cera Flava............ 38@ 40 Sole Agents for the Celebratea
Acacia, ist picked... @ 60} Carat (po ig) 2.21, nas... @ 40
_ = @ 2 jatamen 1 00@1 25 | Cassia Froctusg........ @
“e rs - a . @ 30 Conandrvam.......... 10@ 1 a @ 10
“gifted sorts.. @ 2] GannabiaSativa....... ae gp Commecm @ 40
wl ie 0@ Vigvdontum.... ......”. 75@Q1 06 Chloroform tee ce 80@ 63
ia 4 « Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 ou oho 10@ 12 quibbs .. 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.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
aE 3 50
OE 2 00
oereee Kee... . i 15
Co 30
Ae Te cs eae. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
eee 450
ieee Weeks... 5. kee 2 50
Quarter kegs.. .. 1 40
oes ............... 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’ 8.
ioe... ..... .11 00
Half kegs ..
Quarter kegs
i > came..........
7 15
Poee............ See eee oe 15
INDIGO.
Madras, Sib, bomes....... 55
&. F., 2 3 and 5 lb. boxes. . 50
JELLY.
= Ib, pails seeeenseeees @ 50
Ss ae @P75
LICORICE
a... 30
camaaia. 25
oer... .. 12
LYE.
Condensed, oo. 12
oe...,.....:. 2 2
MATCHES.
PO 1 65
AUER PETIOL......,......,. 1 70
a 10
Export parior..... he eck os 400
MINCE MEAT.
GOR, CONG onc is ne ceveenas( 2 GO
oo. o................ >
oo Oem. Cate... . 6... 11 00
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
. oes... $1 75
eS . +a
— ee ee ae 70
Peet... s,s i noe 45
Halt oo .......-...... 40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
toe... Cf 7 00
fit oetiom ............... €0
es...
es oe
MOLASSES,
Biackstrap.
Sugar house... ............- 14
Cuba Baking.
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... The Gra ISIONS.
._— pa a 7 BL aoe ceeee 3 25 | Huntre hower....... cer. ky | eS ind Rapids Pack 18
a Saigon 1 in bund....15 | S@Poli couring, 325 | Huntress... ee... 1-. 19 ollows: ing and Provi
Cloves, aed und rolls......32 o, kitchen, 3 d ees ann... Se = le . stein a. ee one
Zan YTB. ooo BR hand, 3 de oz... 2.50 | 9 dies Waans Ca %s Mone 29 eae IN BARREL Standard
Mace "Zanzibar. eed aa 19 SUGAR. i 2 50 — rtle Hers gle Co.’s Brands ete Sa 8. ee --+--- Bois 4
—— 80 ee . | Extra clear pig, short cut. ne sean LeRder.....- esos seeveecreesees cose ails,
escfeney cc | Gi g, Setoning gelere suse Gerad 20 She Extra clear, heavy. oo Ie" ~~ seteanieeaaeaneeme p 1
‘ a. 70 trand R. se ling er 15 B Lear, MEAVY .... 0.0 cee. cies cee ceees glish Ros ‘ Pole 6% é
Pepper NO. 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....... Le os Cc
pper, Singapore, black ..-16 No.1 Columbia A A.. .... 7] Handmade acco Co. i edie. Sa weceeeisie seteeseteanceess one - a Shee NaH eae: SH
“ Ww. see No. i we A 56 sca sal 20 we ad’ a oe [sins tasintomm be 3
age... —_ - No. ? aes a eC 2 5 Rob cn Brands 10 Ib. pails, ‘Ke vance. aaa 8 —s Drops raxcy—In 51b. boxes. Per
BO ee : NO. Toei cesses sees 5 4810 a = [_- = oo Per B
Wangs tas paeaan i ee 5 30 Uncle Sam. ....2.°22...:28@ 31b. * se « Feapccutes i cto retesteeeeereesess ox
Allspice = No. “a 5 23 Red Clover. Ser eeee - sa@ae le “ oe it Drops. i Cee oe
Allspice ......... a chee ae pc menaiee re 5 17 eh ERIS soe 82 M. Cho ~ ome certs ereeeeey wee BB
eee eee | ee cms cc | emi eae Ee ea be :
inger, Jama sasvaes NO. Bees ee eee cee 5 05 | 13a eITy....-.. ra Mes nted 200 ' TOPS. «wees ee eese ee ceetee cent ee ood :
‘6 ger, Jamaica ... 84 155 No as 4 98 on Cavendish... 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... Hel Briskets ra, heavy. aes Se 14 Burt ‘aaa ow
a omen 2202) ’ co eee oa n a Ae
Hemp, us sieisiag” . 2 Seas Gene oo Ss. — i = ” light . 1a i La a % i ergreen Berries. i : “j 65
Mix ssian... F ee 8 CE cs _| Bu ene oe 0. 1, W OB oan eee ee eee 00
Mixed Bi ae Dee, £4 ee =. Hae 8 oe LN 4 g 3x Dz genre a SALT MEATS. oe No. 1 1 rapped, 2 2 Ib. boxes. veeeeees 60
ea te ™ pet e" Oatmeal oo. oe a Calfskins eee teee " 33 Fat $ Bellies... 20.0 .e se scsees + ee a = 0:3 . : . strteee sees seee. pe
Cr eee ee c me 9 i Loree au ’ o.. 3 B ‘ PICKE! LN Stee ee eee 12% Stan 3 ee a te 51
ne Wl s on VINEGAR. Deacon aa Ce 4 $ mn — a ge on a. 28
ae a oO. § hides 36 of. 10 ie TT 2 | Small. TTC
STARC BT 7 @8 es \¢ off. @25 agra a Medi oo ANAS,
20-1b Corn. 81 for barrel. 8 @9 Kits, honeye qeceneesrststeetten cae: 8 CO —e ———
2. WET arrel. east PELTS. 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 ......... ES aa 3 GS. | Pecans, T erga cote niet
9 dairy in drill air . ASKET FIRED. 12 | Straight, 1 ‘won wooo renee: Sama = —
[= “ bags.. _ gg | Choice. . ig @2v an anche eae 35 ——— ae AUSAGE. ..- 54@ 7% s, fullsacks........ Pa @l2
56 Ib. dai Ashton, aeons R @% or 4 mee... 828 teem, = ame APE TY _ | Fancy. H. P-, — = ae
ee ai ' : La eT ay a ae a
yinlinensacks.. 7 choice, wire leat oa Graham oe A at a 6 | Fancy, H. P oe ee ce
56 Jn. d — * © Common ao 7 “ BlOOd oo eee ce eeeeeeieeeee ig eT » Flags...... LT LY @é
. dairy in linen Extra fi a 25 Summe Re... 84 Choice, . 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
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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.
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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.’’
—————> +>
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try the people are now suffering capital
punishment.
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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
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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.
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THE MODERN AMAZON.
From the earliest times the woman |
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ments, the humiliations, the mortifica-
tions, the temptations, the rebuffs, the
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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 .
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_ 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.
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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
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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
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HESE chests will soon |
pay for themselves in the
breakage they avoid. Price $4.
UR new glass covers are by far the
handsomest ever offered to the
trade. They are made to fit any
of our boxes and can be changed from
one box to anotherinamoment They
will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay
for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each.
NEW NOVELTIES
We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties:
CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR.
CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES.
NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling.
the best selling cakes we ever made.
THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO.,
This is bound to be one of
S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS.
1 A
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FULL CREAM CHEESE»
GRAND RAPIDS, 2
MICH.
QUALITY WINS!
-———$—-— ) — ———
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
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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.
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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,