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Myra, Mrs. Hunt’s “hired girl,” was kept busy ail the afternoon vibrating be- tween the kitchen and the front door, to admit the members of the sewing circle who could not be prevailed upon to ar- rive punctually, it appeared, for they strayed in singly or by twos and threes in the most casual manner possible, and not at all as though they had heard the minister announce from the pulpit the preceding Sunday that: “The Ladies’ Sewing Circle of this church will hold its regular weekly meet- ing at the residence cf Mrs. Thomas Hunt on Tuesday afternoon at half-past 3 o'clock. On Tuesday afternoon! at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Hunt! At half-past 3 o’clock! The ladies are es- pecially desired to arrive promptly at the hour named, and a full attendance is earnestly solicited. The Ladies’ Sewing Circle—at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Hunt—at half-past three—on Tuesday.”’ Mrs. Hunt herself grew a trifle irritable at last, for it annoyed her to see the daylight fading and so little work being accomplished. But she was one of the energetic sort who not easily to be daunted. She would light the lamps, if it came to that. Myracould bring in the Argand burner, and that, with the stu- dent’s and the center hanging-lamp would give light enough, she guessed, even for their fine sewing. They needn’t think, if they did straggle in late, that they’d get out of doing what there was to be done. “Oh, Mrs. Downs, I’m glad to see you. Won’t you lay off your bonnet? It’s too bad it’s so late. The days are consider- able short, and it comes on dark dretful early now. Seems to me 1 never did know the days so short. Set right down, do, an’ Vil give you—”’ **‘Mercy, not for a minute, please, Mrs. Hunt; not till my fingers get limbered up some, I can’t sew. It’s nippin’ cold out- doors, and havin’ to hold the lines ’s made my fingers ’s stiffs dry twigs. 1 guess we’re goin’ to have a tolerable hard winter; it?s set in cold so early. Mrs. Lawton, are you goin’ to make room for me there by the stove so’s | can thaw my hands and begin sewin’ ?”’ “Why, yes. Come right along. Here’s a nice little rocker, just the size for you. Grace, just you shove along some, so’s Mrs. Downs can draw up her chair ’long side of me.” At last it seemed that all the ladies were assembled, for the bell ceased ring- ing, and Myra was permitted to rest from her labors for the time being, and give her entire attention to what of the la- dies’ conversation she could distinguish by leaving the pantry-door on the jar and herself sitting close to the crack. It seemed to her too bad that just Miss El- len Fuller and Mrs. Deacon Brian Kent should be the nearest stationed to that convenient door. They were proverbial- ly close-mouthed, and perhaps wouldn’t say two words the afternvon through. Now if it had only been little Mrs. Sam- my Frost or young Inez Hayes— is = Mrs. Hunt, seeing that all the ladies had been provided with work and were stitching away at it with more or less as- siduity as the case might be, herself sat down with a substantial canton-flannel garment in her lap and commenced set- ting a gusset, while she added to the gen- eral buzz of conversation by entering into it with her nearest neighbor, Mrs. George Cole, on the subject of winter squash. She was a notable housekeeper. A large, portly woman, who moved ponder- ously and was always moving. Her hair was parted in the middle and drawn back smoothly over her head to a com- pact little wad at the back. Her neck was too fleshy to permit of her wearing acollar, so she pinned about her throat a spotless white kerchief and secured it at her bosom with a coral brooch, upon which her stout chin rested comfortably when it rested at all. Generally it was moving. Mrs. Hunt was a ‘famous talker.” She was a famous listener, too, if her information on the subject of her neighbors’ affairs be taken as evidence. She often knew as much of these as they did themselves, and sometimes even more. For instance, she knew why Nellie Up- ton, the pretty girl there by the what- not, looked so pale and large-eyed. It was because her ‘‘beau’’ had suddenly stopped ‘tkeeping company’’ with her, and she did not know the reason. Mrs. Sammy Frost, the aunt of the young man in question, had told Mrs. Hunt all about it on Sunday coming home from meeting. It seemed that Nellie Upton’s brother had gone into Royal Hayes’ (the young man’s) store one morning a couple of months ago to get the mail, and while there he had bought of Royal something or other for which he paid the full amount lacking one cent. This he prom- ised to make good the next time he should come to the store, and this he failed to do in spite of Royal’s daily re peated references to the subject, until a few days since, when he had ‘squared up” fairly enough, to Hayes’s entire sat- isfaction. But it was scarcely so grati- fying to Royal to learn later that the whole thing had been carried on in a spirit of fun by Upton, who ‘‘wanted to see how long he’d dun for that cent,’’ and to know that he had earned for him- self the title of Pennyroyal, which would cling to him always, for such an apt sou- briquet is not easily shaken off. “Of course, | must give in, Rol is close,” said Mrs. Sammy in conclusion, ‘but you can’t expect him to keep com- pany with Nellie any more when her brother’s treated him so dretful mean— holdin’ him up to ridicule an’ all. Nat- urally he couldn’t explain it to Nellie (it would be too mortifyin’), an’ naturally Bennie wouldn’t want to make mention of it, it havin’ turned out as it has. But wouldn’t you o’ thought he’d o’ known an’ not spoilt his sister’s prospects like thai? Rol’s got money, an’ he’s reel good au’ steady, if he isa mite near. I like Nellie, an’ i mean to try to patch matters up, but I guess itll take a sight o’ con- nivin’ before Roll ’1l come round. When a fellow ’s made the laughin’-stock like that, he don’t get over it for one while, ‘less he’s some of a But I am sorry for Nellie. She’s a reel pretty-ap- pearin’ girl, an’ I just hate she should look so hagworn.”’ Mrs. Hunt knew also precisely how many jars of fruit Mrs. Kent had ‘‘done up’”’ that fall and exactly how few Mrs. Hoyt had, and why. She knew where- fore the Lawton girls had not gone to school that year. It was either a ques- tion of their going to school and relin- quishing a visit to Boston and a gown apiece, or having Boston and the new gowns and doing without school. They had just returned from Boston, and Grace had worn her city-made frock at meeting on Sunday. Now, as Mrs. Hunt glanced up from her work, it gave her a sense of subtle satisfaction to feel that there was scarce- ly one in that room with whose most particular affairs she was not personally acquainted. It warmed her heart with a feeling of general intimacy and immedi- ate concern. She always insisted she wasn’t ‘‘a mite curious, only dreadfully interested.”’ ‘‘An’ 1 do think when a body pretends to have friends she’d ought to be proper concerned ’bout their affairs. Now, for the life o’ me, I can’t feel reel kinder easy with those sorter folks who hold their tongues between their teeth like they’d nip the ends off, an’ act’s if they’s mortal afeared you’d come nearer’n a mile of °em. Now Mrs. Fosdick—! she’s just like that. She never’s much’s opens her head about her own affairs, an’ it always softy. new makes me feel like I was a mite provoked with her. When she first came to Avonia to live an’ hadn’t no husband nor no men-folks o’ her own, nor nothin’ but just them two children, I did feel con- siderable concerned to how she meant to get along, an’ I went to see her, as one naturally would. know But law sakes! [ never seemed to feel called to go since. She ain’t the kind | feel free witha mite. She acts stiff’s can the minute you put the least little question, an’, for my part, Lain’t no notion o’ goin’ be to any- body’s house to be froze out like [ was a woodchuck.”’ Mrs. Fosdick sat somewhat apart from the rest. She had drawn her chair close up to the window and was holding her work very near her eyes, never raising her head once, nor pausing to take arest as the others occasionally did, but stiteh- ing on with a sort of stern determination and in resolute silence. Her figure stood out in sharp relief upon the dingy gray the November afternoon that was pressing close against the window panes. A tall, spare figure, high of shoulder and lank of limb, clad in asomber gown that, of though obviously old, was scrupulously nice. Her hair was gathered back tightly from her forehead, leaving it so bare that it almost seemed nude and impressed one unpleasantly. Her eyes might once have been fine (deep blue beneath black lashes), but | i ) i 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADHSMAN. they were faded now and her temples were sunken. Her complexion was thick and coarse, her cheek bones high and her jaws wide and firm set. Physically, she was not prepossessing, and she had the airof deliberately wishing to diseour- age any advance of a familar nature. If she were addressed she made acknowl- edgment in a word or a nod that was un- accompanied by smile or any change of expression whatever from of stern immobility. so ever since she Avonia first, with to live. They had been small children then; “great girls’ now. They drilled in their mother’s art of They attended the district but were not popular, though their mates had no other cause for complaint against them than that they stood aloof and seemed to ‘‘ecarry their heads so dretful high.”’ Ida Frost told her mother one day that she thought Mrs. rid mean.’’ “Why, do said, {t had always been came to her two daughters, reserve. school, Fosdick must be ‘thor- know, mother,’’ *‘Louise and Helen only earry lunch to school every other day. I day it an’ Helen ain’t got none, ’less Louise choose she shall have a mite o’ Helen carries it Louise’s got to go without. They don't know we know, but we found out. An’ one day I asked Helen if she didn’t wish for a slice o’ my pie, an’ shoved it away an’ the other way just like she didn’t you she mean one Louise earries then her’n, an’ the next an’ she looked want to see it, an’ said ‘no’ short’s pie erust.”? Mrs. Fosdick attended church regu- larly but she certainly must have been mean,’’ for she rented contributed a **some pew and to the church’s support or to any of its chari- ties, and ance invariably she’d ‘‘just as lives if that’d answer.’’ As the light faded Mrs. to get Myra to lamps. For from the room the no never eent assist- saying some’s not, for respouded by work when called upon Hunt went out help her carry in the the moment of her absence ladies let their work drop and gave themselves up to chatting. “Well, Mis’ Hayes, how along?” inquired Mrs. with an impulse of re-invigoration. “Nicely. thank Most finished this skirt. You got any fifty eotten over there?’’ “Loads. you gettin’ Sammy Frost you. By the Seem’s way, where's this next box goin’? as if we must have almost enough things done by now, i haven’t we: *“Sakes, yes. Enough an’ over. Stacks. An’ if any of you ladies know of any one’s in need of ’em 1 wish you'd have the goodness to speak up. You know just about what we got. Those canton flannens we made up, along in the spring, an’ all the fall. Good warm winter stuff, nobody things we’ve done so far this all of it, need feel ’shamed to wear. reely a cryin’ pity it should go beggin’, An’ for the savin’ of where to send it.’”’ me I ean’t **] don’t seem to feel called,’ said Mrs. Hunt, as placed a lamp at Mrs. Sammy’s elbow. ‘I to feel We've pervided them with clothes long ’nough, to my way o’ thinkin’. As long’s we'll pervide they’ll be satisfied to letus. An’ that ain’t ’xactly accordin’ to my idea. pesky proud [I wouldn’t land sakes, he won’t she don’t seem called to s’ggest those Anderson’s. If they wasn’t so a word, an’ say do this she her usual one | ; your Ida, Mis’ won’t do that, an’ between ’em both the children run cold. An’ lazy! It’s just | about all they'll do to take the things | when we give ’em to ’em. | o’ man! ; caution to An’ he! Laws D’you ever see him, Mis’ Frost? He’s got red hair an’ he’s too pesterin’ lazy to shave, an’ so his chin looks like it was rubbed over with damp ginger- bread most o’ the time. I declare it’s a thieves how shif’less those They just ’bout the size o’ Frost, an’ not a day’s have they had. Too lazy to girls be. sehoolin’ | gO, an’ their mother’s too slack to make they were | i were well- | | an’ } are, an’, O Lord, lus how to act right towards ‘em. No, I, for one, motion we let the Andersons shift for themselves a season see how it strikes ’em.” ‘*P’raps ’twould be as_ well,’’? assented Mrs. Hayes. ‘‘l’m mighty glad its only the folks’s lacking and not the clothes. Last year we used to lag ’way behind sometimes.’’ Yes, we do seem to be uncommon a an’ forehanded this year. But p’raps it’s a mite early to crow yet. New brooms, you know.’’ joked Mrs. Sammy. Everyone joined in the laugh except Mrs. Fosdick. She sat with the lamp- light falling full on her rigid face and gaunt figure, and sewed on indefatigably. **Like’s not there’s plenty right here in Avonia’d be glad of these things,” said Neilie Upton gently. ‘Don’t you s'pose there’s plenty ’d be glad to get them if they only knew just how to go about it?’’ | “Ves, “an’ I do,’ acquiesced Mrs. Sammy, 1 only wisht 1 knew how we could opon a way for ’em.’’ Then with a sudden resolution and a note of solemnity in her voice she said; **Ladies, let’s juin in prayer that the Lord will lead us in the right way todo good with these things. Let’s pray for light to see where they’re most needed.’’ The women laid aside their work. There was a@ moment of murmurvus movement, and then they Knelt upon the floor before their chairs, bo wing their heads upen their seats. “OQ Lord,’? began Mrs. Sammy, trembling, faltering, frightened *‘O Lord, we have heard Thy words about clothin’ them that hunger. O Lord, pray Thee to guide us to some of needy onet. O Lord, we them with the love of ina we Thy waut tv warm our an’ clothe them with the work of onr hands. O, Lord, we want to Know where they we pray Thee to teach them, hearts they won’t shut us away from them, feelin’ | like i close to them, | the sight o’ the world as in Thy sight, O Lord, no matter how we're | under- | | placed. we're Strangers, but’il let us draw same ’s we sisters in We are sisters Was them to is to receive, an’ let O Lord, make stan’ how blessed it |them make us to know the jvy o° minis- | terin’ to them. ’s | Thy servants have done, but accept of it > show us tothem of Thy own who will | It’s |} an O Lord, despise not what | accept of it, for Christ’s sake. Amen.” Mrs. Sammy’s voice had sunk to the |! think | what this s’ciety’s for, | but | softest cadence of devout supplication. voice, | a0 "s | Condensed Milk occupies an For an instant after it ceased there was silence in the room. Then, before any one could rise from ber kneeling posture | another voice was raised. A voice that! seemed to be struggling to make itself audible through shuddering breaths of anguish drawn from suffocating lungs. ““O Lord,’’ it moaned hoarsely, ‘*L will, I will. Vill stand it that my chiidren who are naked should clothed. I won’t hold out against it no longer. be Let | them give me the things, if they will. IL can't feel like it’s blessed to receive. It hurts dretful hard, but Ill bearit. Vil doit. For my children’s sake I'll do it, an’ for Christ’s who told us to be meek. O Lord, give me strength to tell’em what I’ve tried to keep hid all these years. I’m poor—poor—poor!’ The voice rose to almost a shriek. When the astonished women regained their feet they found kind little Mrs. Sammy, her face tlooded with tears, fold- ing her arms about Mrs. Fosdick’s con- vulsed, still kneeling figure. Her wet cheek was pressed against Mrs. Fosdick’s dry burning one. Noiselessly they withdrew and left the two together alone. JULIE M. LIPpPMANN. a a He Distrusted Banks. Benjamin Deitz, of Dayton, Ohio, be- came distrustful of the banks during the panic, and withdrawing his money to the amount of $3.800, bid it in a stove in his cellar. Not long ago he went to Chicago for a few days’ visit to the World’s Fair, and during his absence his partner, who forgot the money, sent one of the em- ployes of the establishment to polish up the stoves in the cellar. The man was not in the cellar very long, when he came up, and, putting on his hat, went out, and has not been heard of. since. Mr. Deitz came home the other day and the first thing he did was to inspect his hoard in the stove. He could not find it, and now regrets very much that he did not leave it in the bank. et Itinerant Fakirs in Nova Scotia. From the Halifax Critic. The traveling tea merchant is the lat- est annoyance to our country farmers. The agent is by no means always a fake, but it so happens that a number of dis- honest men are at the present time mak- ing the rounds of the country. The scheme, as worked by the sharpers, is to induce farmers to test sample tea and to order a chest like the sample to be de- livered. The teais then paid for in ad- vance at what appears to be an extremely low rate. Whenthe chest arrives the agent is far away, and the farmer, who finds that the chest is short weight and almost worthless in quality, is helpless to obtain redress. We advise our read- ers to beware of the traveling tea man, unless he comes well accredited. i a el . His Arithmetic. The boy was taking his first lessons in arithmetic. “If you vat one apple now, and one ten minutes later, what will that make?’’ asked the teacher. *T wo,” responded the young mathe- matician. “Then if you eat two more what will that make?” our.” “Then make?” The boy hesitated a moment. “Green or ripe?’ he inquired. ‘‘What difference is that?’ asked teacher in some surprise. “A good deal,’’ responded the boy; ‘if they’re green three more’ll make me have a pain.”’ three more, what will that the - 3S i- n 9? 1 ¢ > AL Ww ‘af oe n ( 4 n . 1 I a 3. , oe A ? s* wt ” ’ 6* «* > : *¥ i edLIN: MICHIGAN "‘TRADHSMAN., 3 PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED. From the St. Paul Trade Journal. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN is one of the best of our many exchanges, and un- der the above head in its latest issue, takes a rather pessimistic view of the so- cial conditions now existing. seeming to think that we have already more human beings inthe world than ought to exi-t. Its editor we know to be able, and be- lieve him to be amiable and desirous ot all that can benefit and ennoble mankind, but we must take issue with him when he seems to adopt the opinions of Mal- thus, who, from very imperfect data, several generations ago, thought that battle, pestilence and tamine were nec- essary restraints on the fecundity of the human race, and that the earth could not eontain her children should the terrible carnage of great wars, the horrible mis- eries of epidemic diseases. and the awful suffering and destruction of famine and its attendant fatalities cease from among men. lt would seem, if these things are in- deed true, that the teachings of Christ and the millenium of which He prophe- sied, must simply prepare the way for greater sufferings and a more general and fearful period of death and sorrow than the world has ever known, and that our only hope as citizens of the world, is in a prompt return, every generation or two, to those benign hostilities which have hitherto kept the greater part of our planet unpeopled, uncultivated and un- productive. Wedo not believe that this is true; that our contemporary really means what he has writtera, or that he, in truth, believes that ‘‘peace and good will toward men’? means a few genera- tions of prosperity and happiness, to be foliowed by a general massacre, univer- sal anarchy or world-wide pestilence. Noone who has studied the economic conditions of mankind can doubt that, on the whole, it is better fed, clothed, sheltered and educated to-day than in any preceding generation. Want exists, great suffering is still the lot of many in- dividuals, and there is still an infinitude of work to be done for the practical ame- lioration of the evils inseparable from human existence. But we contend that in the very nature of things humanity, unecnecked by great calamities, can and will always be able to provide for its real needs, and be able to find a home and a grave upon this planet. Certainly it is not wise for us of the new world to borrow trouble in this line while grain, hides, wool, iron and many other great staples are so plentiful that we do not dare to add to the surplus already created, Nay, more. While we know that irrigation, better methods of farming, improved processes in almost every line of industry will give better results, we do not feel the spur of an ac- tive demand, nor any incentive from premonitory symptoms of that actual want which our contemporary seems to think threatens an inconvenient surplus of our population. We have not begun, even in the most thickly settled portions of the old world, to develop anything like the enormous results which the splendid laboratory of nature, aided and directed by human wisdom, can accom- plish. Nor have we as yet fairly divided the fruits of the labors of mankind. We do not wish to be misunderstood on the latter point, and would further say that as the basis of all life is vegeta- tion, as produced and cared for by the agriculturist, so the real prosperity of a nation depends upon the progress of this most important class. They must feed the world, with its non-producing armies, navies, artisans, merchants, professional men, idlers, criminals and sharpers, as well as themselves. They and their fel- low producers of the mine, forest and fisheries earn all they get, and should get all they earn, but from various well known causes do not get their just dues. Thus they too often remain poor, ignor- ant and unenterprising, impoverishing nature over vast areas, wasting valuable material from want of knowledge, capi- tal and enterprise, when under fairer conditions and treatment their sections would increase in fertility and value. From these conditions largely results that tendency to herd in cities and to seek callings which afford under present conditions greater social, intellectual and political advantages. The progress of the future we apprehend willdo much to lesson this disparity, to increase the earnings and profits of the producing class and to reduce the numbers of those | who now exchange the independence and generally sure rewards of producing in- | semi-servitude of the | factory, or the uncertain and trying com- | petition of mercantile, professional and dustries, for the political life. The ocean, thirds of the habitable globe, given food and has many luxuries to In its depths lies untold treasures, and a wealth of animal life incalculable, with vegetable resources which as yet are but littt® known to mankind. All the mil- lions which now swarm upon the planet could find homes upon the islands of the seas and support from their products and the tribute of the ocean. But this isola- tion is not necessary, although the exten- sion of commerce, the development of the fisheries, the immense economical im- provement which will ultimately be made in this searcely touched field of natural production, will in the near fu- ture add wonderfully to the comfort, prosperity and concord of the human race. In years to come the same intelligence, enterprise, sagacity and ambition which has built up kingdoms, established hier- archies, founded colleges, evolved repub- lies, created manufactures,, and done so much to utilize the vast forces of nature in certain lines, will find new fields of effort and success in the development of primary production by both land and sea. Human needs will, to an extent not yet even dreamed of, lay under contribution every section of the globe, and lines of transportation, swifter and more econom- ical than anything yet organized, will further annul the limitations of time and distanee, and bind in the bonds of com- mon interest all races and realms. As the pirate and contending navies of the past have disappeared in our age from the seas, so will the barriers of hostile taritfs zo down before the extension of mutually beneficent commerce, common necessities and a wider reeognition of the folly of ancient feuds and unworthy race prejudices, and with this change will inerease the general comfort of humanity in the mass. And as the terrible strife for existence grows less bitter, the bodies of men, no longe: turned to war, will possess less of that savage virile strength which “spawns warriors, by the score,” and has relegated woman in paSt ages toa condition which sacrificed all to the lust of manand the grim necessities of con- stant warfare. Fewer buds will bloom npon the rose trees of the future, but they will be highest types of beauty Of mind and body, the perfected excellence of ages of development toward that un- attainable excellence in whose likeness and image the parents of humanity came from the hands of God. Davis & Rankin Again Defeated. From the Pentwater News. A ease which has been of especial in- terest to a number of o ur farmers and citizens, in which the Davis & Rankin Building and Manufacturing C>, after collecting about $2,400 in cash from sub- scriptions to the North Weare creamery, filed a lien on the building for the collec- tion of the balance of the subscriptions —about $1,000—has been finally decided in favor of the farmers and against the company. The lien was filed in January last, and suit was brought in chancery for the enforcement of the lien, and tried at the August term, the court holding the case under advisement until the present term of court, and finally enter- ing decree dismissing the bill of com- plaint and taxing the whole costs in the ease against the sureties for said costs. The defendants and their attorneys are to be congratulated on the result, and the decision is of especial interest from the fact that a number of other cases of the same nature have been brought by this concern against creamery companies throughout the State. which covers nearly two- | long | the | human race and a livelihood to millions. | BUY THE BEST core PP a? oe tt | Crore The Ci rewa WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE L. “CANDEE” & CO., New Haven, Conn., “MEYER” RUBBER CO., New Brunswick, N. J., Celebrated Robber Foot Wear. Order while our stock is complete, and save annoy- ance which will come when the season opens and stocks are broken. Socks, Felt Boots, and all kinds of water- proof clothing. Grand Rapid Rubber Store, Studley k Barclay 4 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. Stanton & Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Geo. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids TLAS SOAP Is Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, Saginaw, Mich. For general laundry and family washing purposes. Only brand of first-class laundry soap manufactured in the Saginaw Valley. Having new and largely in- ereased facilities for manu- facturing we are well prepar- ed to fill orders promptly and at most reasonable prices. JAVA OIL RAW AND BOILED. ‘A substitute for linseed, and sold for much less money. Purely Wegetable, ; adapted to all work where a more eco- |nomical oil than Linseed is desired. Free From Sediment, has better body, dries nearly as quick and with better gloss than Linseed Oil. Especially adapted to priming and min- eral painting. This Oil is a Winner! Try a sample can of five or ten gallons. Write for prices. —— H. M. REYNOLDS & SON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Unlike tre Dutch Process — OR: Other Chemicals | 4 are used in the i.) \ preparation of i | 4 Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and of the various cocoé and chocolate preps rations man ufactured by Walter Baker & Cc will be sentfree toany dealer or application. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester. Mass. Company, Agents, Grand Rapids. 4 THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE 8TATE. Wayland—Chas. Pallett, of Yeakey Pallett, meat dealers, is dead. & & Rising in the hardware business. Grand Junectioun—W. H. Smith suc- ness. Reading—F. L. Potter succeeds Potter bess. Gobleville—Speicher & Moir succeed ' solved partnership, this year, | Say that a large portion of this They place it at $90,000, and amount Baldwin—Goehrend Bros. have dis- ~ | rend removing to Reed City to embark ceeds Halladay & Smith in the drug busi- | | has in the meat business. been The grocery stock sold to Thos. Heffernan, who | will hereafter conduct the grocery busi- & Taylor in the tinware and notion busi-| | hess. Daniel C. Higley in the dry goods busi- | ness. Manistiqae—A. S. Putnam succeeds | Thompson & Putnam in the drug vusi- ness. Brown City—A. E. Weed is succeeded by Vannest & Blake in the drug busi- ness. Saginaw—Jobn W. Batton, of the dry guuds firm of Button & Cou,, is | dead. Chippewa Lake—J. treasurer | [. Moore has pur- chased the shingle mill of A. R. More- | house. Tecumseh—Boyd & Root, millers, have dissolved, Jas. A. Boyd coutiauing the business. a W. Bliss & Co. are suc- ceeded by Schrock & Hall in the grucery business. Lulu—Jas. Murphy & Son have re- moved their grucery stuck from Samaria to this place. Lake Linden—Jos. ceeded Poult general trade. Wayue—Clarence Carpenter Bosch is suc- Mercantile Co. G. by the in succeeds J. E. Phillips in the notion and confeec- tionery business. Iron River—J. F. Bronoel has pur- chased the grocery and crockery business of W. W. Hunter. Fennville—R. G. his drug stock from where he will resume business. Brooklyn—The Bank was opened Managed by W. 8S. C is moving Beckwith this place to Mears, Ex Thursday. Brooklyn last lt is ulver, a leading mer- chant of the village. Belding—J. W. Kester have removed lnd., business Lowman and W. L. to aol embirked the Warsaw, and Lowman & Kester. Gilbert—John G shoe under style of Carlson has formed a Mrs. Olaf partuer, copartnership with Carlson, widow of his late and by will continue the lumber dising Bros. u & Co. Detroit — Williams, business established Carlson nder the style of John G. Carlson Davis & } | | | | | | | | | | jury | promptly gave them ; amount named, ness, in connection with his drug busi- The clothing, dry goods, notion ank confectionery business will be con- | tinued at the old stand by A. F. Goeh- rend. Flint—Forrest Bros. recently sued the Western Union Telegraph Co. for $64.85 in satisfaction of a loss incurred by a mistake on the part of the octopus in transmitting a message. It appears that the plaintiffs shipped a quantity of hay to Fredrick Braasted, at Ishpeming, ata price supposed by them to be $16.50 a ton, but which Braasted claimed was $16.15. Braasted paid at that rate and refused to pay the difference, claiming A Genessee Circuit Court a verdict for the with costs. Detroit—On July 1891, Ezra Croft purchased two pounds of spiced bacon the telegram received quoted $16.15. in the ~ fy | from Parker, Webb & Co., and, after eat- *-hange | city, this place from | in the boot | | variety as they are now. and the two} merchan- | subject to shading, a half dollar or so. ing some of it, he was taken violently ill. He was confined to his bed for two weeks, and his body became covered with ugly He claimed that the meat was responsible for his condition, and brought suit against Parker, Webb & Co., for $10,000 The case was tried and a verdict rendered for the defend- ants. It was appealed to the Supreme Court and the action of the lower tribu- Now a sec- ond trial is in progress before Judge Hos- mer. blotches. damages. nal reversed and set aside. MANUFACTURING MATTERS, & Cooper, of this and hemlock in county tuis winter and se- their mill. It is said build a shingle mill there to cut the shingle timber on lands owned by them. Muskegon—There uever was a time in the history of Muskegon lumber yards when they were as well supplied with Most any kind of an order can be filled here. Good lum- ber holds its well Saginaw—Brigzs will lumber pine tuscommon cure a stock for that they will own but common is Manistee—Nearly all the sawmills are | still at work and it looks now as though Brooks | shipped a consignment of sulpburie acid | failed The case on the steamer Badger State and to label it as the law requires. was reported to United States Commis- held the firm for trial on a charge of violating the naviga- tion laws. Prairie E. member of the firm of Cairns, Co., name was changed has erected a ing, 26x100 new firm of Cairns & B opeh up a sioner Graves and he ville—J. Cairns, who Temple & until last February, when the firm to Temple & Nelson, two-story frame store build- feet in dimensions, and the rown will shortly new and complete general stoek. Union Cits ehants have been figur —Several Unien City mer- ing for a few days upon of money spent by people of this town at Chieago the probable amount | for dock room have they would continue sawing through No- vember, as those that were most crowded recently been ship- | ping quite heavily and made all the pil- | ing space they are liable to need for some itime to come. was a} to see how things look in the spring. | the 11,000,000 feet cut at Ludington Muskegon—W. G. Watson & Co. not intend to do any lumbering this fall. They are well stocked now and will wait Of for them this season they have on their docks here all but 4,800,000 feet. Their yards contain about 12,000,000 or 15,000,- 000 feet, a large percentage of which is | select. Manistee—G. W. Hill, State Salt In- spector, came in last week on his monthly round-up among the salt blocks at this point. He reports the sait industry, do | what depressed, but says that Manistee ' producers do not seem to be suffering | was expended by people who now have, | to get trusted at the stores for the actual | necessaries of life. Allen—Hamblin Bros. sueceed Bishop | Will and A. Goeh- | mucb in that respect, and are turning out nearly as much daily as they used to do in the flush times. Manistee—A lumber buyer who was here last week said that at most other points he went to the docks were crowded . for the first two weeks | | ever like a good many others this year, some-| The present year it is estimated that! | eeiat COPY with lumber, but that at Manistee we only had a comfortable stock on hand and evidently had peen shipping out as fast as we made lumber. One thing is certain, if we keep on shipping lumber in November as we did for the last two in October we will make the piles on docks look @ery small and will not go into winter quar- ters with even our ordinary amount of stock on hand. Menominee—Lumber shipments last week were largely in excess of any pre- vious week since the opening of naviga- tion. Three large Buffalo fleets cleared during the week, carrying away over 8.000.000 feet. Present indications are favorable to a much longer sawing sea- son than was anticipated a week ago. Two more of the river mills started saw- ing nights last week, and all of the twenty-one mills now in operation will run as late as possible. Several new camps have been started and a large number of men sent to the woods. Ad- vantage is being taken of the prevailing low wages and the probabilities are that the usual heavy cut of logs will be made this winter. Oseoda—The sawmills of the H. M. Loud & Sons Co. and Penoyar Bros. have shut down, never to resume business ub- til their employes renounce all claim to unions and unisn methods. The Loud Co. had one non-union man in its em- ploy. The unemployed union men kicked on this, and, when the company refused discharge the man, they marched in a body to the mill and_ per- suaded all the union men to stop work. Then they went to Penoyar’s mill, with similar suecess. The mill owners were waiting for them and presented a solid front, refusing to listen to their demands. The union claims that it was contending for a principle, but it is a contention in this instance that is likely to work hard- ship to a large number of men who can nét afford to remain long idle in such times as these. to i The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market has declined 7-16 during the past week, a slump of 4c oe- curring on Monday morning of this week. The market is still weak, and the probability is that still lower prices will prevail, as it is evidently the intention of the Trust to forestall unfavorable tariff legistation by holding the price of refined goods to the cost of raw sugars. - Oranges—The new crop Flioridas are now well on the market and are fully up to the standard. The price able, all things considered. Lemons—Saies slow and close is reason- the rule. The new Messinas will reach this market about Dee. 1. Prices are un- | changed. Bananas—Local stocks are light, and business is slow. Price according to size 'of bunch and quality of fruit. Peanuts—The Virginia crop is slightly less than last year, when it covered | about 100,000 acres, the largest acreage planted to that crop in the State. | small orders there are 90,000 acres planted to the crop. The average yield last year was 30 bushels per acre, equal to 3,000,000 bushels. >. >_ — Meeting of the Jackson Association. At the regular meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Associaticn, beld on the evening of Nov. 2, the Committee on -rinting By-laws reported that they had procured 200 copies. The report of the committee was accepted, and, on motion, a warrant was ordered drawn for the amount of the bill. The matter of giving holiday presents to customers was discussed. On motion, the matter was referred to a committee to canvass the stores and ask them to stop the practice. The resolutions in regard to whole- sale bakers peddling bread to the retail- ers’ customers, which was laid on the table at the previous meeting, was dis- cussed and referred to a committee for investigation. On motion it was decided to hold an adjourned meeting Nov. 16, to consider the holiday present and bread question. W. H. Pees See’y. ip Ai i - A wise man will make more oppor- tunities than he finds. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements wil] 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 BUSIN Ess CHANCES. alee SALE—tIRST-CLASS +OU0K AND 5sTA tionery stock in one of the best towns in Michigan of 3,5 ( ‘nbabitants. Good reasons for selling. Address No. 802, care Michigan Trades- man. 82 NOR -ALE—CITY DRUG STOKE. GOOD location on promi:ent business street. In- voice #1,-0. Good business. Investigation so- licited. Ad« Be “ss Castoria, care of carrier Wells, Grand Rapids ' 3 R SALE— " OF GEN K tAL merchandise and two- story building. Rail- read 50) popu lution. Establishe® strictly cash ‘usines-. Center of town. Best farming sec- tion of Michigan. Ba gain. W. H. tardee, rreeport, Mish 804 A VALUABLE Wa: AN TED—10 EXCHANGE farm of 16: acres fo: merchandise or per- sonal preperty. The farm is jiocated near a thriving town, 45 »cres improved, balance beay- ily timbered. Address No. 805, care Michizan Trade man. 805 \ JANTED—TUO EXCHANGE, DESIRABLE Kalamazoo real estate for merchandise. a'vin rorbes, Kalam zoo, Mich 806 NT: ANTED—LARGE SECOND-HAND COAL ‘ stove, Capable of heating a room 25x10J feet. Must be in goud order Address D. ar- diner, Luther. Mich. 807 . sALE-—FIkSt CLAS: HARDWARE business clean stock, in one of tne best cities in southwestern Michigan. Other inter- ests to look after. Address 808, care Michigan Tradesman *08 | pg seagate LEAN DRUG STUCK, ENJUY- ing profitable trade, in one of the best towns in Western Michigen. Established sev n- teen years, stock and fixtures inventory #35 0, but $3,000 cash will buy it Good reasons for selling. Address No 8uv9, care Michigan Trxdes- man. 89 OMPARATIVELY NEW GROCERY sToCK for sale cheap. Locxted in best manufac- turing city in Central Michigan. The purchaser will step right into a good paving business, Ad- dress No 80',e re Michigan Tradesman. 80 NOOD OPENING FOR A DRY GooDs Store for one wishing to change location or start new; splendid store nicely fitted for rent. Addre-s P. O. box 69, Mason, Mich. 799 NOR SALE THE THEODORE KEwINK drug stock and fixtures on West Leonard street. Paying inves ment. Will se!l at half real value. For particulxrs, enquire of Henry Idema, Kent County Savings Bank, Grand Rap- ids. 787 VOR -ALE—Drug -tock in business town of 1,200 inhabitants in Eastern Michigan, trib- utary to large farming trade; lake and rail freights; only two drug stores in town; rent, $200 per year; stock will inventory $2,500; sales $20 a day. Keason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address No. 752, care Michigan Tradesman. T52 JANTED—A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug Address C. L. Brundage, opera house | block, Muskegon, Mich. 756 SITUATIONS WANTE bs. bg dag beret cheers BY A REGISTERED | Assistant Pharmacist of four vears’ ex pe- rience. References unquestioned. Address No. | 800, eare Michigan Tradesman JANTED—POSITION As REGISTERED | pharmacist by man with sixteen years’ | experience. References furnished, if desired. | Address, stating salary, No. 798, care MICHIGAN | TKADE*MAN. 798 6 } ARRY HARMAN’s SCHOOL OF Window Dres-ing and Store Decorat- m: a publication, SEND FUR | store. Yeman’s Temple, Chieago. THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. N. V. Henderson & Co. succeed Peter VerHage in the flour and feed business at 20 Ellsworth avenue. Geo. H. Cobb & Co. have removed their grocery stock from 780 South Division street across the street to No. 825, corner of Home avenue. The change in location affords the firm larger and better quar- ters. J. C. Coade, of the former firm of Tucker, Coade & Parker, has opened a grocery store on the corner of South Lafayette street and Highland avenue. The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock. J. E. Cairns and H. G. Brown have formed a copartnership under the style of Cairns & Brown and will shortly open a general store at Prairieville. The Mus- selman Grocer Co. furnishessthe grocer- ies and Rindge, Kalmbach & Co. supplies the boots aud shoes. Jas. W. Randall, who has been identi- fied with the general merchandise busi- ness at Wa.ousta for the past twenty-five years, twelve of which he has conducted a store of his own, has purchased a one- third interest in the Eagan Shoe Co., at 54 Canal street, and will hereafter devote his entire attention to that business. The firm name will hereafter be known as the Eagan & Randall Shoe Co. J. P. Visner has come out un top in his legal tussel with his would-be partner, L. N. Lakin. The motion to dissolve the injunction obtained by Lakin was argued by ex-Judge Hatch before Judge Adsit Thursday, and Saturday the latter issued an order dissolving the injunction and placing Visner in possession of the stock, with instructions to close up the business as quickly as possible and turn the proceeds into This order meets the hearty approval of Mr. Visner, as it enables him to wind the present business up in short order, when he will resume business at the same location, the lease of the store running to him _ indi- vidually. court. ~~ Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides—How it is possible for hides to go lower than they are at present does not readily appear, yet such is the ex- pectation. There is not likely to be any improvement for some months. The local market with little or no demand. Pelts—‘‘Extremely dull and not wanted at any price.”’ Furs—The market has opened from 10 to 40 per cent. lower than last March. Little business is being done as yet as the season is not far enough advanced. Tallow—Steady, without change Wool—Holds its own, which is saying considerable for it, considering the con- dition of the market for several months past. The prospects for the future are not very bright. however. The most that is hoped for it is that it may con- tinue to hold its own for a few months longer, when there may be a rise. a Jackson Jottings. C. E. Bartlett has built a new store and filled it with a clean stock of grocer- ies from the Jackson Grocery Co. Mr. Bartlett is starting out on the C. O. D. plan. An attachment has been placed on the stock of groceries owned by L. I. Blash- field by Johnson & Wheeler, of Detroit. is slow, EFFECT OF REPEAL. How Local Business Men Regard the Matter. ‘“‘What will be the effect of the repeal of the Sherman act an the business of the country?” This question is asked oftener and by more people than any other to-day. There is no class of peo- ple who are not interested in the answer, but who shall answer it? Extreme par- tisans and those who are specially inter- ested by reason of their connection with a particular industry know all about it, of course, but their prejudices are against them and the people place little reliance in their statements. Tur TRADESMAN has interviewed a number of business and professional men who are supposed to have a knowledge of the business affairs of the country, and who, without doubt, have given honest expression to their views on the subject. Their stand- ing In the business world will ensure them a respectful hearing: Capt. Chas. E. Belknap: ‘One effect of the repeal of the Sherman act will be to stop, in a large measure, the outflow of gold from this country to Europe. European bondholders will now be as- sured of the payment of the bonds in stable money, which they can have any time they ask forit. It may also result in the return of gold to this country. Heavy borrowers, such as the great roll- ing mills and others, will have less diffi- culty in securing what money they want, but it won’t help the small borrowers very much, if any, because it is a ques- tion of security with the banks. In my opinion the repeal will have little effect upun the general business of the country. Particular localities may be affected. Take the Silver States—there can be little doubt but that they will be injured by it, as the Government was a heavy buyer of silver, and Washington was a good market for the product of the silver mines. As to the country at large, it can only be affected by a revival in trade. Repeal may restore the confidence of the people, but what the people want is work, and they cannot get work until the factories startup. The factories will not start until manufacturers know what are to be the conditions under which they must put their goods upon the market. If they must compete with foreign goods made at the prices of foreign labor, they want to know it, and be prepared to meet foreign competition on even terms. Our manufacturers would be foolish to buy stock and make up goods under protec- tien for a free trade market. They will wait until they can buy their raw mater- ial free of duty, for which no one can blame them. No, the repeal of the Sher- man act, in my opinion, will not help the people any. Let present trade con- ditions alone; this will ensure the manu- facturer a market for his products, give his workmen work at good wages, and ‘the revival in trade’ will take care of itself.” Cc. G. A. Voigt: ‘The country will be indirectly benefitted by the repeal of the Sherman act, because it will show the world that the United States are not committed to a dual standard of money, that gold is the standard here as it is in other civilized countries. Then repeal hss stopped the purchase of silver by the Government, which demanded an enor- mous outlay of money every month. This money will now stay in the treas- ury. The coining of the seignorage, which I see the Secretary of the Treasury has authorized, will be another big help, as it will, in a large measure, provide for the currency needs of the country until Congress provides the necessary financial legislation; but the repeal of man act can, of itself, cause of business. There are many causes for the present depression. The Sherman act was only one of many causes. country must work itself out of trouble. No government on earth bring good times by legislation. help matters but that is can do.”’ Cc. W. Black (Manager Oriel Cabinet Co.): ‘‘Unquestionably the repeal of the Sherman act will improve business con- ditions. It will restore the confidence of the people, make money easier and help business generally. But to- ward full recovery will necessarily be exceedingly If repeal had been accomplished sixty days ago, as ought to have been the case, recovery would have been much more rapid. As for money, you will see it going begging for takers before spring. There is not much at present to create a demand for it, and holders will let it go at the bor- rower’s own price. the worst of the depression, and the action of Congress in repealing the Sherman act is the first step, and a long one, to- ward better times.” Sidney F. Stevens (Foster, Stevens & Co.): ‘*We can’t help but be benefited by the repeal of the Sherman act. Whether the evil effects ascribed to that act be real or imaginary does not matter, it was one of the operating causes which produced the depression . by destroying confidence, and its removal from the statute book will goa long way towards restoring confidence. We won't feel the good effects of repeal for some time to come, however. It came too late to help us with our November and December trade, but I think spring trade will be stimulated. The policy of the Govern- ment in buying silver and storing it away in Washington was a bad one; it was a good thing for the silver men, but it gave silver a value which did not be- long to it, which, sooner or later, would have worked disaster to the country. In addition to this, it shook the confidence of other nations in our money. which eaused the withdrawal of so much gold. This country must have money which is equal in value with that of every other nation, and this could never be the case with silver. Weare bound to be bene- fited by the repeal of the Sherman act.” J. S. Hirth (Hirth, Krause & Co.): If it were not for the fact that the Treas- ury is coining the seignorage on the sil- ver purchases, the repeal of the Sherman act would be detrimental, rather than otherwise, to the business interests of the country. The Sherman act provided the best means for meeting the require- ments of an expanding commerce. The coinage of the seignorage will do this so long as there is any silver left in the Treasury tocoin. I have yet to find any- one to point out just how the Sherman act injured us, and, so far, no one seems to know just how we are to be benefitted by its repeal. In my judgment, what is required to revive business and restore prosperity is permanency in tariff legis- lation, and, preferably to let present fis- cal conditions alone. As it is, no one no revival It may some, all it progress slow. We have seen knows what is coming but is afraid of | and tariff | ; Rapids, Mich. the worst. If our financial policies could be separated from parti- the Sher- ! The} the ean ! a sound recurring zan politics and placed upon business basis, the constantly periods of business depression would soon become mere reminiscences. Henry Idema (Vice-President Kent “The beneficial have already been felt, , to some extent, especially in New York, the great of the United States. The fear_was that silver would supplant gold as the standard of County Savings Bank): effects of repeal money center money | value. the Sherman act | destroys the possibility of this, and con- fidence in the stability of money is restored. There is no objection to silver The repeal of our circulating as money with gold, so long as gold is the standard. late to help us much this winter, how- ever, though it will help to some extent. Repeal] came too | The results of a change in financial legis- |lation are felt | city like New York than in a place as much sooner in a great |}small, comparatively, as Grand Raidsp, — oe -<———-- Sudden Death of a Detroit Traveler. Saainaw, Nov. 2—F. A. Brinkerhoff, traveling salesman for Jenness & Me- Curdy, Detroit crockery merehants, ar- rived at the Hotel Vincent Tuesday morning and was given room No. 14. Mr. Brinkerhoff was observed about the hotel Tuesday night, but last evening the chambermaid told the clerk that she could not get into No. 14, it being locked and the key on the inside. As the porter could get no respouse to his loud raps upon the door a boy was helped into the room by way of the transom, and when the door was opened Mr. Brinkerhoff was found in bed in the calm repose of death. A ecoroner’s jury was immediately im- pannelled, and a post mortem examina- tion revealed the fact that death was due to fatty degeneration of the heart. Will- iam Staggs and C. F. Moore, of Detroit, brothers-in-law of the deceased, stated that his father and sister both died in a somewhat similar manner. POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows: DRESSED. (Oe 8 oo, ee 1244713 eee oc --10 @ilz Oe eee tae 6 ae LIVE. Live broilers 1% Ibs. to 2 Ibs. each, per doz teed oe ue eet a eee ere cose Live broilers less than 1-14 lbs. each, perdee |... oe ss More Chickens. ........,.....-.... 42. 6 @7 POWs. ..... ..... i 5%4@ 6% Npring Curke@ys.........++.«+.... . § Ge Spring Ducks........ Lies o OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: BARRELS. Moeone |... a RS W. W. Mich. Headlight.......... Naptha Stove Gasoline........ i Cylnder...... | Engine Black, cold test . ....... -......... @ 3% FROM TANK WAGON, Eocene oe oe a Sx OW. W. Mich. Headilight.... .. 5% Cjuick Sellers. WHAT? THE NEW FALL LINE Manufactured by SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY, DETROIT, MICH, All the Novelties in Lasts and Patterns. emcee) went State Agents Woonsocket and Lyco- ming Rubber Co. 0 Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. Cadwell, 41 Lawn Court, Grand 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. James A. Stratton, the Gold Street Grocer. Jas. A. Stratton was born St. Lawrence county, N. Y. His father, Samuel Stratton, a native of Vermont and of Scotch descent, was a farmer, and, until he was 17 years of age, James lived on the farm, working in the sum- mer and attending school during the winter months. Ati7 he engaged with Judge Wm. C. Brown, of Ogdensburg, as coachman and gardener, remaining with him six years. In 1861 he went to De- eatur, L1l., and tound work as a machine agricultural implement fac- remaining only three He lowa, and took in 1838 in hand in an tory, then went to Des Moines, a contract for grading on the Des Moines Finishing his contract he returned to his old place in the implement factory at De- eatur, Ill., until July, 1866, when came to Grand Rapids and engaged with the Grand Rapids Manufacturing Co., serving as superintendent of the shop when he left and agricul- months. Valley Railroad. in six months, he for about eight years, engaged with Luther & Sumner, tural implement makers, with which firm he remained but six months, when fail- ing health compelled him to relinquish his position. ‘“‘Keeping a grocery” seemed to Mr. Stratton to be an easy way to make a living and especially suited to the capabilities of a man in poor health. He has changed his mind somewhat this last pvint, although he certainly has no reason to find fault with the measure on of success which has come to him. He began business in a room 14x17 feet in his dwelling house on Gold street. On the day he began business he sold goods tothe amount of $1.50. years ago he erected the building he at present occupies. Mr. Stratton literally built his dwelling “in the twenty-one years ago, having able difficulty in locating his lot, there being nothing but a ‘‘profile’’ guide him. He is a member of the Masonic being *‘made’’ in 1863, and also of the I. 0.0. F. While not liberal supporter of the Mission Wood Presbyterian Church, of which he is a By virtue of his Scotch descent Seven house woods”’ consider- to order, a member, he isa trustee. he was some years ago made an honorary member of the Caledonia Club. Mr. Stratton was married in November, 1872 to Miss Edith A. Chilvers, died fif- teen months ago, with two children, a boy of 9 and a girl of 7 years. On Oct. 30, of this year, Mr. Stratton put his business down to a cash who leaving him basis. The results so far have been eminently of his cus- grumble, but Mr. Stratton has no doubt of the sue- satisfactory, although some teumers were at first inclined to cess of the new system and believes that in a few weeks all his customers will see the benefit of ‘‘paying as they go. From his Scottish ancestry Mr. Strat- ton inherits a rugged honesty and dog- ged which, coupled with the quality Known as Yankee shrewd- ness, has made him successful in a neigh- ” perseverance, borhood where many other men, these qualifications, tainly have failed. a A i Business in Hand. “Yes, sir; this young man can take your business right in hand and—”’ Merchant—Weill, that’s enough. The last young man of that kind I had took my business in hand and went over to Canada. wanting would almost cer- Dry Goods Price Current. CRSLEaAc! HED COTTUNs, Adriatic .. ‘Arrow Brand 4X Argyle ikea ces 6 “World Wide. o Rete AA... 6 ee oo 4h, Atlantic A.. ne o% Full Yard — cues 6% _ iH. Suruooreia A.......... 6 en :. iS Honest Width a. 6 e -.. 8 eres ......... 5 r 12... > Hne@tan tHesd........ 5% ete ee ~ Sree 8 4........... 6% Archery a Ree. 4. 5 Beaver Dam A A. 2% Lawrence LL...... 4% Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth = oo Coee......... 6 | Newmarket -. 5% ack Bock -........ _: - 2... tm 2 . > ..... Capital A : mi ' DD.... S& Cavanat V a Zz ..... 6% Chapman cheese el. 3%| Nolbe R. eee eae 5 Cire CR......... 544/Our Level Best..... 6 —. Omron & .......... 6 Dwiemt Ster......... 6%) Pequot.. > 4 Clifton CCC. - Soar ..... 6 */Top of the Heap.. 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. ABC. ............. Bgi@Geo. Washungton... 8 Amazon.... - B aor nee.......... 7 Soe 8, 6%|Gold Medal......... ™% Art Comeese........ 10 |Green Treees......, 8% Blackstone AA..... 7% |Great ee... 6% Beats _ ee ee eee... 7 Boston . . bi "Just Out..... 44@ 5 Cabot. i. ia|King Phillip aii 7% Cabot, a ha 6% | ci 7 Charter Oak. ' 5% |Lonsdale Cambric. 10 were .......,.. 744|Lonsdale.. - @ 8% Ceewwneied ..... ... 655) Middlesex... .. @5 Dwight Anchor. S4ine Mee... 7% . Shorts Ss fee veew........... © Edwards. . _. \Our owe. ......... 5% E —« . ° [Peigeo the ponent m3 F A 7%|Rosalind.. eT Fruit of the Loom. Sse .......-..- 4% Peeves .....--. 8 |Utica Mills.. 8% First Prize. 7 . Nonpareil . 1) Fruit of the Loom %. sive... ...... % Petreaount..... ..... 44 White aoe... ... 6 ror vale.......-.. 6% Rock. - 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS a oa Dwight Anchor. 8% Parwell....... a FLANNEL. ne | oe Housewife A. on Housewife g " 6% _ a... « gf... 7 , c... 2... 6 | _ 5 oe 7 “ a 7 “ eo on “ eo . 7 “ U on “ YL Thq| “ | Se 10 va . 744) - . «i. ' a 7% Bice ieee ' i , 0%! - 7....... 1 ” oo Sx» ' =. a a K 9» . aL. . 10 . M 10%} eo ee “ Oo... 21 ‘ , 14464) CARPET WARF Peerless, white.. ...18 (Integrity colored. ..20 re colored....2. |White Star 18 nee. isk; “ “ eolored..20 DRESS GOODS. eee... 8 {Nameless ioe. 20 ' oe - hones ce Te 110%] es . 27% GG Cashmere...... Qu “ ae Raenees ... ....... 16 . - 82% a eo | - 35 CORSETS. ee... .. <— &'|Wonderful 4 50 Senin s.. ...... 9 Corum... ........ 4% Davis Waists %.. 9 00|Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50/|Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. Arey .....-.--.... 6% | NaumEeag satteen. % Androscoggin ....... Tigi Roekport...... . .... 6% eer. i _eeeees.........., ™% Brunswick. ... . 6%|Walworth ..... _-. PRINTS. Allen oe reds. °'%|Berwick fancies.... 5% robes... - Eon o%) 5h “ iClyde Robes Charter Oak fancies 4% By! |DelMarine cashm’s 5% . pink checks. :%| : mourn’g 5% memiee ..... & | Eddystone fancy 5% ” shirtings . ' chocolat 5% American fancy 5 = rober 5% Americanindigo .. 5 . sateens. 5% American a $ |Hamilton fancy. 5% Argentine Grays... 6 staple FE Anchor — 4 ‘Manchester ancy 5% Arnoid c 6 new era. 5% Arnold Merino . 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5% ' long cloth B. 9%4|Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 _ oe ” Reppfurn 3% ** century cloth 7 /|Pacific fancy oo “gold seal. 10% “robes 6 green seal TR10%|Portsmouth robes. 6% si yellow seal 10%/Simpson mourning.. 5% - oe... 11% . greys .. 5% “« Turk. ved. 106 be solid black. 5X Ballon solid viack Washington indigo 6% “ Golors. Turkey robes 7% Bengal bine. green, “* India robes ™* red and orange . 6 " plain Tky : & 8% serlin eolids : 5 ' 10 “« gi biee.. 6 Ottoman Tar “ ‘* green 6 ey red 6% “ Fonlards 5%/| Martha Washington - wae 7 Turkey red % ™ - ' 9%/| Martha a + ™ a6 10 Turkey red.. . 2% " “ 34X XXX 12 | Riverpoint robes.. . 5% Cocheco fancy. 5 |Windsorfancy .... 6% madders... 5 “ gold Tucker “ ZX twitis..S | tedigo bine....... 10% —...... 5 Paaneeey......... - 4% So. eee AA... PA A... kts 13 Bemtiton KN ....... Ts ae AAA....— eee 10% ts a. iT *lewift River.. . % SOE. nes os “a ireert Miver......... 12 Peek Pees.......... Wu Wurrem ........,-... 138% Lenox Bilis ....... - fo eee .......... 16 COTTON D S (oe, O......... 6% [Sta PD uice uy 8 Boot.. ; a i | Clifton, a Top Of Heap........ 9 DEMINs. Amoskeag Columbian brown..12 _ 9oz ae Everett, blue.. .- 12% | ' nrewn ..... brown. +++ 124% Andover .... oo Haymaker See... 7% Beaver Creek AA.. brown... 7% Bo... ee 11% . __... oe .......... 2% Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, os. ..... 13% blue 8% No. 220....13 “* d @ twist 10% 66 No. 250 ...11% Columbian XXX br.10 - No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. ameeekeer ..... .... 6% Lancaster, staple.. 6 ‘“* Persian dress 7 fancies 7 ay Canton .. 7 - Normandie 8 . APC ....¢iLancashire.......... : . Teazle...10%|Manchester......... . Angola. .10%/Monogram . Persian... 7 |Normandie.. Arlington staple ... 64/Persian.... oe Arasapha fancy . 4%/Renfrew Dress...... Bates Warwick dres 74%4|Kosemont ......... . staples. 6 (Slatersville ......... Centennial. . 10%/Somerset Criterion irre =... Cumberland staple. on Mawes du Nord.. Cumberland.... .... Wabash eee 8. on . seersucker.. Ee 7%|Warwick . Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... Exposition. ......... TM . heather dr. 7% ee 6 s indigo blue 9 Gremerven.......... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6% rene ........., T™ Westbrook ee ee 8 ee .... ...... — |... 10 Jobnson “haloncl %/Windermeer.... .... 5 ' Pee Ole Sivas ..... ...-...-.. 6% ' zephyrs 16 GRAIN Bags, Avorreons......... 14 ene --14% he etice ou mee - Beerieen...., .....- PM ee ec . THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's ...... 7 Coaw, 7. &?....... 4 iMarehall’s.... ..... 61 Holyoke eee 22% KNITTING COTTON, White. Colored. White. Colored he 6... = ino. M...... 2 42 ' 5. .....08 3e 2... ee 43 _ =... Ue — i =... 44 . 2... 41 ~~ 2... 4F CAMBRICS, or. ............. iewiede _..... 4% oree Seer......... 4% |Lockwood.... 4% moe owe .......... 44 | Wood's 4% Newmarket........ 4%/Brunswick a RED FLANNEL. ee R%|T W By» Creedmore... - 2KIFT oe. By Tee eae ....... m War, 7k%.... 35 Nameless .... 27%|Buckeye 2% MIXED PLANNEL. Red & Blue, igi 4 |Grey SRW -17% Union . 224%| Western W 18% Windsor ... .... .-18%|D R P ..... 6 oz Western ..-.20 |Flushing XXX . 23% Union B.... ..224%|Manitoba..... 23% DOMET PLANNEL. Nameless. ... 8 9 . 9 @10% “ _.--. Sein . 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black |slate Brown. Black 9% 9% lal li & 10% 10% 10% 1% 104)}11% 11% lik 11% 11% 1144/12 12 12 12% 2% 1244|20 20 20 DUCKS Severen, 8 oz... .... a West Point, 8 oz 10% Mayland, 8 oz. . 10 oz 12% Greenwood, bp os. vi cia, moe. 13% Greenwood. 8 114|Stark " i 13% Boston, § o4......... 10s, (Boston, 10 o8........ 12% WADDINGS, White, dos 25 |Per bale. 40 dos 8i Colored, doz 20 |Colored “ 7. SILBsias. Slater, Iron Cross 8 jPawtucket. ... 10% ed Cross.. 9 |Dundie g ” Best 10% | Bedford - 10% _ Best AA 12% Nalley City ........ 1 eee ee ce a 10% o> : a% SEWING SILK, Corticelli, doz. 85 {Corticelli knitting, twist, doz. 4f per %oz ball 30 50 yd, doz. .40 HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS. No 1 Blk & White..10 No 4 Bik a White..15 se 2 ry 12 8 . 20 = - A ‘ss . “125 PINS. No 2—20, M C SU |No4—15 ." 3% 40 * 21,8 C... 45 COTTON TaPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20 “ee 4 oe i 77 10 iad 23 oe 6 “oe a “ 12 “ | SAFETY PINS. Mc ec 2% |No3 36 NEEDLSS—PER M. A Cemees............ 1 4)|Steamboat.... ..... « Crowely’s....... .... i BiGoid Eved.......... 1% Marshall’s OOO _OE—_—____—_— ee 1 00 “TABLE Oc oe 5—4....175 6—4. --165 6—4...2 30 COTTON T WINES, Cotton Salli Twine..26 iNashua......... ... 18 A ieee cs 12 Rising Star4-ply....17 Poeeeeo ............ 18% ply. 8 I ive db eae es SS iene... Bristol . ...-.13 |Wool Standard 4 piyi7 ” Cherry Valley. ane 1 Wowhetien ........: 18 De eee ee 18% PLAID OSNABURGS ae cs 6%|Mount Pleasant.. -™ Alamance,....... bas 6% pie lohan Be... cosas, 7%|Prymont .... Ar sapha. a Georgla.... Granite aw mrver......... re ae BOOTS, SHOES, ann RUBBERS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Eaton, Lyol & C0, 20 & 22 Monroe S&t., OUR FULL LINE OF Holiday -'- Goods Now ready, including a large assortment of ALBUMS, TOILET SETS and NOVELTIES. THE LARGEST LINE OF DOLLS SHOWN IN THE STATE, RATE REDUCED FROM $2 To $125 peR DAY AT THE Kent Hotel, Directly opposite Union Depot, GRAND RAPIDS. Heat and Electric Bells. thing New and Clean. BEACH & BOOTH, Prop’rs. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. Steam Every- D. A. BLopeetTt, President. ‘Gro. W. Gay. Vice-President. Wm. H. ANpERson, Cashier, Jno A Seymour, Ass’t Cashier Capital, $800,000. DIRECTORS, D. A. Blodgett. Geo. W. Gay.” C Bertsch. A.J Bowne. Wm.H Anderson. Wm Seurs. John Widdieomb., CROU PECKHAM’S CROUP REMEDY is the Chil ren’s Medicine for Colds, Coughs, Whooping-Cough, Croup, Pneumonix, Hosrseness, the Cough of Meastex. and kindred complaints of Childhood, Try Peckham’s Crou; Remedy for the children and be convinced of its merits. Geta bottle = day, you my need it tonight! Once used al ways used. Pleasant, WHOOPING COUGH Sarg, CERTAIN! ‘My customers are well pleased with that in- valuable medicine—Peckham’s Croup Remedy. I recommend it above all others for children,” H. Z. CakvEnTeR, Druggist, Parksville, Mo. “‘Peckham's Croup Remedy gives the best sat- isfaction Whenever a person buys a bottle I | will guarantee that customer wil! come again | for more, and recommend it to others,” C. H. PHILiIPs, Drugeist, Girard, kansas. S. M. Lemon. G. K Johnson. A. D. Kathbone N. A. Fletcher. “= ~? SR ww & ~? HH MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN. THE CURSE OF INSTABILITY. Written for THz TRADESMAN. ‘‘Unstable as water, thou shalt not ex- cel,” was the prophecy of Jacob concern- ing his son Reuben, uttered nearly 3,600 years ago. Human nature is the same in all ages. The characteristics which made men successful in that far-off age are what will make them successful to-day. Sim- ilarly, what made success impossib!e then will make it impossible now. Among the causes of failure, and the most prolific, is instability. The unsta- ble man never ‘‘sticks.’? He is at one thing to-day and another to-morrow, so that what knowledge he acquires is never of any benefit to him, for he follows no business long enough to put into prac- tice any knowledge he may have gained connected with it. What he knows about one business is of little value to him in any other. If he manages to save a little money, which will be very doubt- ful, it all goes when he strikes his next “bonanza,” for it costs him much more to start a new business than it would have cost him to remain in the old. He knows of more “‘sure things” than any other man living, except some other un- fortunate as unstable as himself. He tries them all, too. Somehow he man- ages to get a start, but he never gets be- yond the starting point; for he fails, of course, as he has always failed, and al- ways will fail, no matter what he at- tempts. Why? Because he lacks moral stamina, business sagacity, foresight— every qualification that is a part of the ‘“*makeup’”’ of the successful business man. He dishonest, for no honest map will borrow money unless he sees his way clear through to a settlement, and the unstable man borrows right and left from anybody who will lend him a dollar. He borrows while still in debt for previous loans, which he says he in- tends to pay, but which he was never known todo. Then, everything he does is done ina slovenly manner. There is nothing neat or tidy about him; his char- acter is stamped upon his personal ap- pearance. Neatness is a prominent char- acteristic of nearly all suecessful men. A striking trait of the unstable man is unpunctuality. Did you ever know such aman to keep an appointment? Never. He is all the way from half an hour to half a day behind time, utterly regard- less of the annoyance and loss it may oc- easion the man he has disappointed. This is just as much stealing as if he had taken money that did not belong to him. Time has a specific value to the man of business, just as much as a dollar, or an article of merchandise, has, and no man has any more right to take your time without giving value for it than he has to take your dollars or your goods. A little thing like keeping someone wait- ing, or disappointing someone with whom he has made an appointment is a matter of no consequence to the unstable man. If you venture to utter a remon- strance, he either airily informs you that he forgot all about it, or was busy at the time appointed, or else regards you with an injured expression of countenance as though he were the aggrieved party and not you. He grows more and more un- reliable and more shiftless as the years go by. Even his best friends lose confi- dence in him after awhile, and acknowl- edge that he is a hopeless case. He has tried everything under the sun and failed always. He has disappointed everybody is that ever trusted him and, when old age comes, he reaps the natural result of his instability. The county house, or some other charitable institution, is his only refuge. From first to last he is a dismal failure without one redeeming feature. There is one thing, however, he can do better than any other man on earth—he ean give advice. He knows better than you do how you ought to conduct your business; he can give the lawyer points on law, and teach finance to the banker; he can tell the merchant how to draw cus- tom, and knows more about agriculture than the farmer; the financial problem is no problem to him and, as for the hard times, knows their cause and has an infallible remedy. Science, reli- gion, polities, he is at home in them all; in fact. he knows something about every- thing and is always ready to tell what he knows. The trouble he knows too much. If he knew nothing at all about a good many things, and more about some one particular thing, he would be much better off. Hear him when old age has put an end to his puttering attempts ‘‘to do some- thing!” How he rails at the world and at fortune, bemoaning his hard luck and want of success! If he had only had So-and-So’s chance he would have done much better than So-and-So did, albeit So-and-So was regarded as a conspicuous suecess. if it had not been for such and such a circumstance, on such an occa- sion, he would have been all right. Things took a very unexpected turn, on another occasion, and evidently got away from him before he could get around the corner after them. It never occurs to him that he isin the slightest degree to blame for the failure he has made of life, or that the direct cause of bis failure is in himself. He goes down to his grave in the potter’s field at last, fully per- suaded that he was the most ill-used man who ever lived. All his life he was a constant cause of annoyance and discom- fort to everyone with whom he had any dealings, and an object of pity and dis- gust to all who knew him. Now that he is dead, write as his epitaph, and put it upon the wooden slab at the head of his pauper grave, to be read and pondered over by every passerby, ‘‘Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.’ DANIEL ABBOTT. A Retail grocers in England complain that the Government is lending assist- ance to their most dangerous enemies, the co-operative stores. The school books used in the ‘‘evening continuation schools,’? that are under tho control of the Government, contain complimentary allusions to the co-operative system, and the grocers are trying to bring the mat- ter before Parliament. he is Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITS. dis. eS a a ee 60 eee ee 49 Ss oe... Citi... 25 ore, Meee... 50&10 AXES. First Quality, m © tees... ....... $7 60 D. B. Bronze.. poe oeets Me i SB a see 8 00 . Dm tee... 13 50 BARROWS, dis. eee eee... oes 14 Garden Lelcy ee ue ee net 3000 BOLTS dis. ee ct 10 Carriage ae 75&10 ee cade cee oc ins cues 40410 Sleigh Mei hehe cena ceinc ee Leela oes 70 BUCEETS, Wee, Oe ee $350 Well, onrc:......... 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cost toces Pin Seurs. et. 0& Wrought Narrow, eorlght Saat joint.......... 66.0 Wicushttoeserin 60&10 | HAMMERS. Wereamee Tae ec, 60&10 — a hee dis. 2t Wrought Boer Eee... - 4... 60&10 | Kip’ Dee eee. dis. 25 Wrougns Hrass............ La % | Yerkes re dis. 40810 Blind, Clark’s. IE . -70&168 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... 30¢ list 60 Blind. Parker's.......... ..70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand Be 40&10 Sere Cra 70 HINGES. BLOCKS. | Gate, Clare, £ 2s... dis.60&10 lo ate. per doz. net, 2 50 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892. €0&10 1 — Hook ‘and ‘Strap, ‘to 12 2 in. mm 14 and CRADLES, Oe 3% —— ............. .. dis. 50&02 | screw ‘Hook and aye, - ae ae ag net 10 | eee | le CROW BARS. | se “ i ee en ae eee ee . ° 2... net 7% CAPS. | Strap and T.. ‘ a 50 ly? a | ‘HANGERS. dis. 5 Pr = ae a eee = Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 an. Ts rt gs | Champion, anti-friction..... 60&10 be Rea eG ay “ go | Kidder, wood track . See aca : 46 | HOL Low WARE. CARTRIDGES Cee ema i . 66&10 Rim Fire. .. 56 | Kettles. . ee eee cee, 60&10 eae! Pino... . .. ie. #5 | Spiders Oe ee eee eee cue, CHISELS. dis. | Gray enameled .... io. 40&10 Ha | HOUSE FURNISHING ‘eoops. ee terssteeesseresssressssse- ++ T0810 | Stamped Tin Ware..... a -new list 70 ree ae 70&10 | Japanned Tin Ward. ' aoe oo mggieeaag Peete teeter ees ore | Granite Iron Ware SO ala lint 285810 x o ms JED see me seeer ere sere eeeteos oe f | WIRE eo Da, af Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.... ....... 40 | Bilght.. a sain uname COMBS. dis. | Se —_, Eyes... -T&10810 * , | ee TO&10&10 [on "Tyg ayaa ee = | Gate Hooks and Hyes.......- 20810810 Pe aa ae ad ea LEVELS. dis. 7; White Crayons, per gross.... . - 12@ 1246 dis. 10 et pgrestcid iia COPPER, Sisal, % inch aud larger ...... ' 9 Planished, 14 On cut to size... .. per pound gg} Manilla.......... sau lla 43 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 .......... 26 | s st note maa Gold Rolled, 14x56 and 4x00... ll Try end Bevele see ee entity , ee ee Mier crertnen ints ate nae 6 CO 25 Os eee of DRILLS. dis, Simin mee nl Mcwec & Bit Heceka. i... _........ : 5G | Noa tints Te ‘Te eo Taper and straight Shank..... : < Oe Nee (tee 4 05 3 OF More's TaperShank................ a 50 | Nos. 18 to 21 465 2 OF DRIPPING PANS. Noe aa 4 05 3 15 Sriall ieee ser pound 00 07 ay a to 26 ............ ie = = eug | NO. 2% 3 35 Large sizes, per pound...... oy ney % All sheets ‘No 18 and lighter, over 30 Inebes ELBOWS. wide not less than 2-10 extra ome, 4 proce, Gin. .........._...... des. net vis) SAND PAPER. Comrmcewa ......__...... Reese ce ae 40 | List acct. 19, °86 . - dis. 5 Ateeeree.... . .. dis. 40&10 "SASH CORD. i i dis Silver Lake, Write A... list Ss Clark’s, small, Sr: Taree, See ‘30 “ aa CC F = Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; 3.93) Hi ep ‘ aaa aia eae — FILEs—New List. dis. “ as 35 EE 60&10 Discount, 10 cs oe he a a ee a 60K 10 - gasH WEIeRTs. eelaaanngs eee ORR) | Old Byes... essen cee ceees per ton 625 Heller's Hiorse Rasps... 0000072" 5 | TOT canst ea Ont “s GALVANIZED IRON | Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 2%: 27 28, © = Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 tt 6 iS 14 15 16 17) ° Special Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot.. 30 Discount, 60 Champion and Electric — x @AUGER. dis. Cute, per roeet.....- 30 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... . 50 | steel, ¢ TRAPS “Gis. D 1 i eng a ie List. dis. Gastha Camaaiaias,: Newhouse’s........... Sh pene ae oe caauatedn sent ee cece = — ida choker Hawley « Norton’s.... 70 : . | toring. |... Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 ous’ 1 - bag ae sen ne See Door, porcelvin, trimmings ................ me . 81.50 pe er dos Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 | Bright Market. . LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Aemesied Masia. Ce eae et Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55| Coppered Market.............. aan mevory, waco & Cos................... SO | tinned Market. Se Ce 55) Giviared) Geueie dias “EN “— N 1k? Coppered Spring Steel. 50 Norwaiks...... sep nee a 55 Barbed Fence, galvanized... 2 80 wane. sun 816.00, dis. 60 enone Na ea = Hunt Bye. oe. - 815. 00, dis. 60} an Sable : ..dis, 40&10 a ace $18.50, dis. —" Futoam. a . dia, 05 . - Gree wCneem. | 8. 10&10 Sperry & Co.'s, Post, — ed i at WRENCHES, dis. Coffee Parkers 8 Cos 18 ‘0 —— aie, nickeled. 30 ¥ ~ D i 'P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables... 40 Goe’s Patent sai ‘wrought, | 75 i Landers, Ferry & Clerk's... a 40 | Coe’s Patent. malleable r W&i0 — "wouasss ath eas ie tia SNCAEAANSOTe. ats. ° ° ra Cages ........ bas bu Stebbin’ 8 Pattern. Coe reeeeecocceneces«sen . 60810 Pumps, aN J... T&10 Stebbin’s Genuine... See eee detdoeoouud __ Screws, New I Ist... ie ces a 0&10 Enterprise, self- —— Se ee cna ce Casters, Beda d Plate.. . .5O&10&10 NAI Dampers Amocrican. ......... 40 oe over base, ray Seth Steel and Wire. | Forks, hoes, rakes and ail steel goods..... 6E&10 OE 1 50 E Wire nails, base......--.. s-cssc. wees i'75@1 30 ” on ee Base Base FI¢ TIN. i ve 10 | Pig Large.............-........ 26 on, | Fig Bars..... ... oe 28¢ 25 “ZINC. 35 | Juty: Sheet, : mae ™ — 45 | 60 pound casks. eo etueoe ee) Oe 12.. 45; Per pound.. oo ce 7 ' SOLDER, - pho BIaE CA pean aaa Be . Mt Ce ee a ey ee in ct nant nina u ( 90 The prices of the many other qualities of ei ee oN Ne 1 20 | solder in the market in ndicated by private brands Ree 1 @0 | ary according to composition. ANTIMONY a. * 65 | COOKBOn.....-.-- oes eeseeee ss OF Pound “ 75 | Hallett’s “ 13 ‘“ 90 7 os eat GRADS. Le eee a eed eee es ae 9 | sox14 IC arcoa cae “— See ee miconees 90 | 14x20 IC, ak 7 0 eens cea cy uae 119| 10x14 1X, pees te sea ae aan Cte ese ons 70 | 14x20 1X et rent nese teat ace ane 9 25 80 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. - £..... 90 10x14 IC, Ch “ taaaneae GRADE. ae 17 1 arcoa. streeess 86% ous ae dis. | 14x201C, Dou 6 75 Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy ............6. 025. eo 10x14 1X, Me Tet itt ttt estes ten ener sess. MN Se ee eT 50 , 1420 et teens ---+ 92 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................- @40: Bach additional X on this grade $1.50. eric ral em @40 1 SUOEING FLATES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. 50810 14x20 Ic, Lu Worcester ee 8 Bu poi 14x20 i, S| ates aeentotntes 8 50 ee eee ena asusouee ene: dis.60—10 | 20x 18 80 can Bee dis. 10 14x90IC, “' Allaway Grade........... 6 00 RIVETS. dis, | 14x20 IX, Ce 7 50 Mens Wie os ...5 52. .... 5... ca eee 4 a4 a eeeeseeeees za Ee ee 5 50 Copper Hivets and Burg.................... 50—10 ’ sbeuttaiae win ane we. cole, PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ee og 00 “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20| 14x31 I[X..... ee . 15 00 ‘“B*’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20; 14x5e IX, for No. 8 Botlers, bper sarin: 10 00 Broken 8 4C per pound extra. om" *s * seal THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. SOs MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Q Sass A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One DPollar a Year, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subseribers may have the maftling address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. 72" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1893. CREAP SILVER DOLLARS. The news comes that the Mexican Cen- tral Railroad Company is having all its burn wood, by the locomotives altered so as to the heavy discount on silver. Here is an interesting fact for the peo- ple who are affected with the silver craze. change being necessitated Mexico is one of the great silver produc- ing countries. . [ts annual output of sil- ver is avout $48,000.000, while the yearly prodsct of gold is not much over $1.000,- 000. Mexico, with allits mineral wealth, has no coal, and the coal which bas here- tofore been used on the Mexican railways had to be brought from Texas and Cali- fornia. This coal has to be paid for in silver. and, although Mexican silver dol- lars are in every respect equal to ours in weight and fineness, they are only worth from The their money is so great that the Mexican railways are forced to abandon the use 55 to 57 cents each. loss on of imported coal. ‘his is only one fact out of many ethers which show that a country whose money is on a Silver basis cannot do business with the outside world without an enormous loss of values. dollar, which will pass for 100 cents in Mexico, will only go for about 55 cents in the United States. The only relief is to do its business eut countries for a silver country exclusively at home. If it can all communication with other and live upon its own resources it makes no difference what sort of money it has, only provided the money will circulate, but let its depreciated notes or coin once get into some other country, and at once it is real Our own 57 cent silver brought down to its doliars are good enough at home, so jong as the Govern- ment guarantees that they are as good as gold, but once try to pay debts with them in Europe, and even guarantee will not help them. half of what their coin stamp calls for. We may shout out American contempt | for European money standards as much as we like, but all the same if the Uni- ted States has any trade with Europe, European standards of money will rule. That is all there is of it. A Mexican | off | valine. | the Government | They are |} only so much silver bullion, worth about | THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. While the Senate wasted valuable time discussing the repeal bill, the House en- | gaged in considering several measures of more or less importance to the country. Among these measures was the bank- ruptey bill, which is practically a resur- rection of the Torrey bill, which has been kept so persistently before Con- gress for a number of years past. Un- fortunately, the bill made little progress during the special session, the House ad- journing before taking a final vote on the measure. A disposition developed ip the House to load the bill down with objectionable amendments, some of them of a character to destroy the entire use- fulness of the measure. It is said that the promoters of the bill are willing to accept almost any amendment, so as to bring the measure to a vote, trusting to the Senate to afterwards restore the bill to its original shape. Tue TRADESMAN trusts that no such policy will be at- tempted, and that the bill will be per- mitted to go to a vote on its merits. The business interests of the country indorsed the Torrey bill, and urged its passage before the last Congress, because it was believed that it offered the means of se- | curing better protection to trade inter- | ests by making credits more secure. It also promised to do away with the con- | fusion and arising from the wide | differences existing in the bankruptcy | laws of the various States. While the business interests of the |country continue willing to accept such a bill, they are not prepared to indorse | the acceptance by its promoters of every | senseless amendment that the opponents i of the measure seek to saddle upon it. | Either it must afford the advantages out- loss |lined in the original Torrey bill, or it must forfeit the support of the mer- chants. There has been no response, as yet on the part of the business of the country to the action of Congress in repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman The opponents of that measure it- act. erated and reiterated the assertion that. onee the Sherman act was wiped from the statutes, business would immediately revive. That measure, it was asserted, was the cause of all the trouble, and de- nounced in unmeasured terms those who | opposed The ‘from the President down. exerted all their influence to ‘*persuade’’ both Repre- sentatives and Senators to vote ‘tin the interest of the country and for the re- vival] of trade.” Now the Sherman act is ja thing of the past, and. so far as can be repeal | ounce of impetus to business; repeal. administration, ascertained, its has not given an not a fae- tory has been started, not a workman has been given work. The depression is as widespread and the outlook as uncertain as when the Sherman act was in full op- eration. The fact is, the Sherman act had little to do with causing the panic. It may have alarmed the laboring classes and the traders, but these are not the people most affected by legisla- tion. The miners and great manufac- turers, wko employ thousands of work- men, and who have all but suspended op- erations, thus throwing their workmen | out of employment. are the ones who, the public was told, would, by repeal, be en- abled to resume operations; their work- men would again have plenty of work at | good wages, and business would boom again; but they are no nearer resuming | Operations than they were before repeal smaller was accomplished. Even so able a man and so good an authority as Henry Clews confesses that he was mistaken in saying the Sherman’‘act was the prime cause of | the trouble; that the prevailing uncer- tanty as to what Congress will do with the tar:ff is the chief, almost the only, cause of the depression. Let manufac- turers know, once for all, what shape the tariff is to take, so that they can adjust their business to the changed conditions, and resumption of operations would be- gin atonee. At present, the only thing that is known is that the present House and administration are pledged to tariff reform; but, as no one knows just what tariff reform means, that knowledge is of little avail. It won’t help business. The Supreme Court of Miunesota has decided that the city of Minneapolis ‘thas no right to exact a license from a street peddier and then refuse to allow him to sell his wares at the best advantage to himself as to loeation.’”? It seems that 4 peddler named S. D. Rayantis was ar- rested for violating a city ordinance which made it uniawful for a peddler to remain half an hour in one place for the sale of his goods. The decisiou appears, at this distance, to be in the interest of justice and equity. A municipality ought to have some sort of control over this irresponsible class of trades, and have some method of regulating a traffic that in many cities has become a decided nuisance, and licenses with a good round fee attached seem to be the best way to reach the end desired. But it is little short of persecution to grant a mana license to peddle and then refuse to per- mit him ‘‘to sell to the best advantage.” So should not be than to see that the provisions of the ordinance are complied with. long as peddlers are licensed they interfered with, further New Enterprise for Grand Rapids. Tue TRADESMAN paid a visit to the Grand Rapids Glass Co.’s factory, on North Front street, recently, and was shown through the works apd had_ the of making plate glass mirrors The clear plate fin- process fully deseribed to him. is taken, and, after the operation is ished, is that article considered so essen- tial and so useful by the ladies, a plate glass mirror of the finest description. The plate is first applied to the ‘‘rougher,” a solid iron wheel horizontally at a speed of 370 revolutions a minute. A hopper above allows a fine stream of the the The glass to be beveled is held revolving wet sand to run upon face of wheel. upon the bevel gradually ground it is next applied to the ‘‘em iron ator, and upon it. ery wheel,” also of horizon'ally, upon which the finest qual ity of Turkish powdered emery is placed. | This wheel grinds off much of the rough- ness left by the *trougher.” Next der is the ‘‘smoothing stone.” in or- does not supply astone of proper “grain” | for the work. It must to do the work, so glass are compelled land, for what they want. The glass is not finished when it leaves the **smooth- | ' of 150 000,000 bushels last year, against er,” but is next applied to the *tpumice wheel,’’? which is of wood and revolves laterally. stance used on this wheel. lateral wheel, covered with English felt specially prepared for the purpose. the face of the wheel by the oper- | and revolving | America | be of very fine | grain, and at the same time soft enough | | s avy ae aj ‘ * ie manufacturers | °245* heavy receipts from the Canadian ip a il sive " — . to go to Newcastle, Eng- | Provinees with consequent falling off in ' prices. The conclusion is justified that the Pumice is the smoothing sub- | | ero cord. Next comes | crop on record the ‘‘buffer,” or polishing wheel, another | Polishing rouge is used on this wheel. It is an oxide of iron of the same quality as is used for polishing gold and silver. When the glass leaves this wheel it is ready for the polishing block. Both sides of the plate must be ‘‘blocked,’’ as the slightest imperfection in the glass is readily seen and mars the beauty of the finished article. The ‘block’? is an ob- long piece of wood about eight inches long by two inches wide, covered with felt and ‘‘pushed” by band. Oxide of iron is used in connection with the “block.” A second block, larger than the first, covered with a softer quality of felt, is applied to the glass. Putty pow- der, composed of oxide of zine, is the polishing substance used with this block, and the last suspicion of an imperfection rubbed out. The glass is then taken to the silvering room, thoroughly cleaned with distilled water, and placed upon the silvering table. The topof this table is of heavy sheet iron, covered with two thick- nesses of woolen blankets, over which is drawn a covering of unbleached muslin. The table is, in reality, a water reservoir, the water in which is heated by steam. The glass is heated by the heat pene- trating through the covering. The glass is placed face downwards upon the table and a solution of nitrate of silver poured upon it. The heat assists the precipita- tion of the silver upon the glass. From half an hour to an hour is required for the silvering process, atmospheric condi- tions and the amount of heat applied making the difference in the time. The glass is then shellaced and painted, and the vrocess is finished. The factory is equipped with a full of machinery, and, while possibly not so large as some others, its product will compare favorably with that of any concern in the country. eomplement its busi- ness is constantly on the increase, and the prospects for the future are exceedingly bright. Joseph Hosey, who has charge of the mechanical part of the business, was for six years superintendent of BL. Ander- His that and other son’s plate glass works in Ch cago. in factories peculiarly fits him for the posi- in the Grand extended experience tion he oecupies Glass factory. Rapids
  • , EON j | BEE SS) |SSUEDTD Price per Hundred Books. of coupons to a page, and the ™ BOOKS PRICE books contain twice as many TE EER en ae se leaves as the Tradesman book, a 3 00 necessitating a slight advance in ea ee the price; otherwise the denomi- ae a 4 00 nations are the same, and the censeseece«eeceeese. MERCHANT. me ge. ee book meets the same require- ee ee 6 00 SEE QUANTITY DISCOUNTS. ce LANE AN CN aN) THE UNIVERSAL COUPON BOOK. This Coupon Book was introduced by us about five years ago, to meet the demand for a book containing all coupons of smal] denominations, Sa | As each leaf of | cent coupons contains 25 cts., it will be seen at ‘ PS Sm FES} Ste ZS Ee ZETA NG me Eg. Price per Hundred Books. a glance how readily change can i PRICE be made. In the larger denomi- a $3 00 nations we bind in some 5 cent : 50 coupons, unless otherwise ordered, 4 00 making the book less bulky. The 5 00 price is a shade higher than our - 6 00 other styles, but the books are » 00 fast coming into general favor, on account of their convenience. a] TE a = so SEE QUANTITY DISCOUNTS. mM Diaeah f SS ; a 7 oe THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 SEeCIAL COUPON BOOKS. Many large concerns prefer to use their own books exclusively, and we have a long list of customers in this class. Where parties order 1000 books at one shipment we print a special front cover, like E. G. Goddard Lumber Co., using either Tradesman, Superior or Universal coupons, as customer prefers, basing charge on kind of coupon used, and according 20 per cent. discount. On orders for 2,000 books at a time we accord specially designed and engraved cover, like Ste:ling Manufacturing Co., using any cou- pon desired, basing charge on kind of coupon used, and aecord- me ZO per cent. discount. . tf pm (f¢ (©) Where 5,600 books are ordered one time we furnish specially designed and eneraved cover and coupons, any grade desired, charg- 1 ing list on vrade selected, iess 2O per cent. discount. | : PIT T* EFFI T ZG LEE I EP EE FE LPI I TID i ¢ 1/1/1/2/2;2/5|5/5/5)10/ 10] 10] 10{15)15)25)25/50)50 Steel Check Punch. The Tradesman REI i EE EES Flee OREDIT GHEGK. EC PSS. Any devomination 500. . oe... Se ao , Wye H. Any Pe nigh aA SUa a ten s K ! Loo.) 6. oo OO See 2,000, ee _.. 8 Go aR am A Payable in Merchandise by JOHN SWANSON, IRON MOUNTAIN, MICH. SONI OA Gea ee es NOT TRANSFERABLE. RABABBARAARASRA AD i i he Me ie. ic | f° oO OUR FACILITIES UNSURPASSED. No other establishment can compete with us in quality, price or rapidity of execution, as we do our own engraving, printing and bind- ing—giving every order careful scrutiny from the time it is received until the package is delivered to the transportation company. Since engaging in the business, ten years ago, we have spent thousands of dollars in perfecting the system and bringing it to its present high standard of excellence, having put in special machinery for nearly every department of the work, and keeping constantly employed a force of skilled workmen who have had many years’ experience in the coupon book business. TERMS OF SALE. All firms having an acceptable rating with either Dun or Brad- street will be accorded 30 days’ time. Those who have not an ap- proved rating are expected to accompany their orders with a remit- tance sufficient to cover same. QUANTITY DISCOUNTS. Onder for 200 OF OVER 5 per cent. “ via 500 “ CO ee “ s¢ §1000 re Cee ces.: ~. 20 66 515/5/5/10(10/10/10/15 [15/25 (|< j A ED Bs BE PB PPB PPE 25 |i 2 5 Price, 75 cents, net. TRANSPORTATION. Unless otherwise directed, orders for Coupon Books are for- warded by mail, express or freight, whichever would be cheaper, time and distance considered. Where cash or draft accompanies order transportation charges are invariably prepaid. WARNING TO THE TRADE. The trade are warned against using any infringements of our coupon systems, as the manufacturers will protect their rights and the rights of their customers, and will prosecute any infringers to the full extent of the law. In conclusion, we trust the reader will bear in mind that we are the oldest and largest manufacturers of Coupon Books in the country, and send his orders for anything he may need in our line to TRADESMAN GOMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich., U. S. A. 12 VALUE OF AN IDEAL IN BUSINESS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. {in whatever occupation one may be en- gaged, whether as proprietor in charge or employe, a half-hearted man has little chance of ultimate success. If one drifts into a business, or accepts it as a mere temporary expedient for making a living until something else shall turn up, it will hardly bring out the latent energies of the individual. not be likely to pursue the calling witha force and a purpose that can command | prosperous conditions. be carelessly laid—no effort wili be made | te anticipate accidents or emergencies; and unless unusual good | luck attends, he will soon figure in the list of failures. This, in fact, is one of the most com- mon causes that prevents success in so | many enterprises. The majority take up new occupations at all periods of life | with no design or expectation of per- manence; and so do not study the nature and requirements of tbe one thus chosen. They think it something any one may learn; but find out their mistake by sharp experience long after the time when such experience would be of the greatest value. Comparatively very few lay early plans to prepare themselves theoretically and practically for a contin- uous life employment. It is, therefore, no uncommon thing to hear men complaining that the business they followis unprofitable, speak of it with disparaging comment, and wish they had chosen another. Of course, they ean have no pride in it—no thought of how to dignify it before the world by showing how effective it may be made in supplying the wants of acommunity. In tact, they have no proper ideal to incite them to efforts to make it worthy of pub- lic appreciation. A man who does not love his occupation, and maintain its in- terests against all others, might as be a slave without hope or purpose, and is only fit to execute the will of another. In this free land where al! may decide how they shall use their powers and cap- itul in life’s various enterprises, one should gladly make a choice; and ever after prove its wisdom by doing his best to make his chosen calling a success finan- well cially, and loyally support every effort to make it respected by the public at large. ln commercial operations, especially, in addition toa fair knowledge of details, well defined governing purpose should regulate one’s conduct in order to secure even a moderate measure of In the absence of such a pur- pose can be traced most of the uncertain- ties and perils of ordinary business life. And when we consider the kind of mo- tives that control certain dealers, it is easy to account for many results that otherwise appear mysterious. some success. Some fail from lack of perseverance, others for want of capital at the time it is most needed; while not a few lose the opportunity of alifetime by hesitation in not taking 2t the flood ‘‘the tide that leads on to fortune.” Many are not sat- isfied with moderate gains at first; and so launch deeper into lines of trade they do not understand in hope that increased sales will carry them through to a pros- perous future. Some leave a location if fortune does not at once smile on them, | and seek for a more favorable point to| make a new venture—repeating this ex- | perience at last from sheer inability to' |; Or unworthy and debasing. In such case he will} His plaus will | unforseen | THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. stay long in one place. It will be fortu- | nate for them if they do not wholly dissi- pate their capital, leaving no fire-side comforts for old age. An ideal that governs the conduct of any business may be of an elevating nature, | The world | is full of both kinds, and will be, so long | asthe right and wrong struggle for su- |premacy in the hearts of mankind. | Some hustlers appear to think that ‘‘Get | there, Eli” is a terse and ambitious motto With a certain class | it has aring that appeals to their dash ' for business men. |and energy; and under its inspiration they enter the race for wealth. Their ideal is to make money at all events, without regard to the how orwhy. It is |nut a very lofty nor worthy one, taken by itself. The majority of hustlers who {use it have no modifying principle to | qualify their ideal, or to give it a wider ; range and higher aim. | Consequently they are often found | Over-stepping the rules honorable men eonsider binding. The fierce competi- tions of trade drive them to schemes that are mean and cowardly; and in time per- haps to others that are clearly dishonest. In following their ideal, they take little thought of what may be called the equi- ties. Others’ rights concern them not. They take no pains to disguise the deter- mination that whoever stands between them and their personal interests wil] be pushed aside or run over. ‘‘No friend- ship in business” is acommon expression among men of their class; and in putting friendly feeling for all competitors out of the way, they put themselves outside and beyond every genial and honorable ambition that makes a business life worth living. For acts that are false or mean they feel no sense of shame. They gloat over a successful trick played on some com- petitor, who, trusting to their honor, left a weak spot unguarded. They not only outreach and undermine honest men in their own line of business, but trespass on the lines of dealers whose goods have no reasonable connection with their own; and, while cutting prices on this stock at a reckless rate, pose as enterprising mer- chants trying to serve a publie which they assert, has been heretofore robbed by extortion. They are not above the vile practice of sending spies to the stores of competitors, in quest of infor- mation on which to base plans that are not compatible with square dealing. As guerillas in trade, they carry out the character to the letter by never making an open fight in daylight, nor at any time when chances are likely to be equal. One such dealer in a town will do more to corrupt the morals of a community than any dozen men who are not in busi- ness. He breeds distrust of every honest merchant in the minds of his customers, and by means of that distrust rides into popular favor. By lowering the stand- ard of trade to his own ideal, he makes it harder for other business men to ac- quire or maintain & reputation for fair dealing. Even their own commercial life does not last long, nor end prosper- ously. But the fact that as one of this class disappears from the stage of action another takes his place, renders the con- dition of the dealer who adopts a differ- ent ideal one Jong struggle against un-| propitious circumstances. Notwithstanding, in the light of all re-| corded experience we may safely con- | clude that it pays every business man to have a worthy ideal, as a guiding star, always before him. If he is faithful to it the world will know, and be the better for it. False lights may deceive fora time; but to the true light ever upheld men will turn at last. Whatever virtue that ideal may represent—whether honor, excellence, justice, liberality, courtesy, truthfulness, industry, or any other quality that is an object of worthy ambi- tion, its reflex action will stimulate to methods that never fail to secure in the long run enduring sucess. No matter how small is the sphere of one’s operations, so long as the business is carried on in the glow of an honest purpose to maintain at all hazards the jewel of integrity, the man and his work are both ennobled therepy. Every use- ful employment, however humbly rated, is dignified or disgraced according to the ideal that governs” the methods used therein. The resolve, to make excellence’ the standard, to give always value for value, to punc- tually fulfill every business obligation, to treat competitors within the strictest dines of courtesy; in short, to make hon- orable dealing the end and aim in all business methods, lifts one with a small capital, in all that con@titutes true merit, to a level with the merchant of large means and wide renown who deals in ear- goes and signs checks for tens of thou- sands. Every day’s record, showing as it does additional lapses from true business in- tegrity among men who have risen by merit to positions of large financial re- sponsibility, proves how useless are all the qualifications that make a business man successful, without the guiding star principle, that keeps him true to the only conditions leading to ultimate success. With a worthy ideal, and a plan of con- duct arranged to meet its requirements, one may be armed against all the tempt- ing allurements that bring so many well meaning men to the brink of disaster, and some even to crime and lasting dis- | honor. Inspired by such a purpose he is secure from the frequent solicitations to dabble in ‘‘puts and calls,” or launch out into speculative enterprises of doubtful morality that are set before the country dealer who tires of plodding (though it may be never so safely) in a beaten track. Sentiment is not business, it is true, but business is none the worse for a per- centage of sentiment paid as premium on a policy of insurance against commer- cial disaster. It may not wholly prevent calamities to which the best business men are subject, but it will lessen their frequency, furnish a buffer for the shock of adversities that may come, and prove a reserve force tu retrieve the losses one may not entirely avoid. S. P. WHITMARSH. — Information from the Slot. ‘‘A year or so ago,” said a@ young man toa Pittsburgher. ‘‘I spent a few weeks in New Orleans. One day I sawa ma- chine which bore the inscription: ‘Drop a nickel in the slot and Jearn how to make your pants last.’ As I hadn’t a great deal of money,I thought an invest- ment of 5 cents to show me how to save the purchase of a pair of trousers would be small capital put to good use, so 1 dropped a nickel in and a card appeared. What do you suppose it recommended as the way to make your pants last?’ “Don’t wear ’em, [ suppose.” **No,’? ‘“*‘What did it say?”’ ‘*Make your coat and vest first.”’ RN Menthol Inhaler CURES = Catarrh, * Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds Sore Threat. The first Inhalations stop sneezing, snufling coughing and headache. This relief is wort the price of an Inhaler. Continued use wil! complete the cure. Prevents and cures “© Sea Sickness On ¢ars 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 KR. D. CUSHMAN, Manufacturer Three Rivers, Mich. ¢2"Guaranteed satisfactory. FROM Lamonenut © f ny SEND US YOUR BEANS, WE WANT THEM ALL, NO MATTER HOW MANY. WillAlways Give Full Market Value ADESMAN Dyan " Zo LaF 6 M/ iS 4: CN Oke: Buildings, Portraits, Cards, Letter and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Plans. TRADESMAN COTPIPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. PECK’ Pay the best profit. HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber. ie KALAMAZOO PANT & 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 602 Matthew Build ng. ; Our fall line of Pants from $9 to #42 per dozen |are now zeady. An immense line of Kersey Pants, every pair warranted not to rip. Bound swatches o trade. entire line sent on approval to the we ee ee n ne eu THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 MEN OF MARK. Thos B. Perkins, Senior Member of Perkins & Richmond. Thomas B. Perkins was born in Wiil- jamstown, Mass., in the year 1848. Shortly after this most important event in his life his parents removed to Dun- kirk, N. Y., where he attended school until his 9th year, when the family re- moved to a farm in Allegany county, N. Y., where he remained until he was 16 years of age. From this time on he made his own way in the world, never having received a dollar for which he did not give a full equivalent. He went first to Pithole, Penn., where oil had just been struck, and ‘“‘struck a job” as engineer at$6aday. At the time Mr. Perkins first saw Pithole there were not more than 500 people there. In less than two years it had a population of 10,000. It was a_ veritable ‘‘mushroom’ town,” springing up in an ineredibly short time, and disappearing almost as quickly. Mr. Perkins remained in the oil country but two years and then came to Ionia, Mich., and began the manufacture of drag saws. This business he followed for a year, when he returned to his old home in Dunkirk, N. Y., to visit his parents and renew old friendships. He then came to Grand Rapids and worked at carpentering for about two years, and then spent a year learning photograph- ing with Warren Wykes. He next went to Bloomington, Ill, bought a gallery and started business for himself. He sold out after two years, however, and went to Fort Wayne, Ind., and organized the Perkins Engine Co., engaging in the manufacture of steam engines. Two years later the business was removed to Toledo, Ohio, and shortly afterwards Mr. Per- kins sold his interest and returned to Fort Wayne. His next venture was the manufacture of tobaccp pails, but he dis- posed of this business in ashort time and returned to Grand Rapids. engaging in the photographing business with Mr. Wykes. He remained with Mr. Wykes | four years and then bought the old Hor- | ton galiery. The teariug down of the building in which his gallery was loeated led to the formation of the firm of Avery & Perkins, wholesale dealers in photog- raphers’ supplies. They were located on Fountain street in the Hartman block. Two years later Mr. Richmond entered the firm, the style being changed to Per- kins, Richmond & Co. Later Mr. Avery sold his interest in the business to his partners and the firm became, as at pres- ent, Perkins & Richmond. In January of this year the business was moved to its present location at 101 Ottawa street. The business has been very considerably enlarged since Avery & Perkins started on Fountain street, and, though photog- raphers’ supplies still constitute the chief feature, the firm are large dealers in bicycles and picture frame mouldings. An extensive and constantly increasing trade bespeaks the favor in which the firm is held by the publie. Mr. Perkins is a member of Eureka Lodge, K. of P., and is financially inter- ested in the erection of the new Pythian Temple. All — Ae a Purely Personal. A. Shook, junior member of the firm of Shook & Son, general dealers at Coral, was in town over Sunday, the guest of Byron Stockbridge Davenport. R. T. Scott, who has traveled in this State many years for the Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co., died at his home in Fenton last Thursday as the result of pneumonia. J. E. Cairns, senior member of the new firm of Cairns & Brown, general dealers at Prairieville, was a welcome visitor to the Grand Rapids market last week. C. F. Walker, the Glen Arbor general dealer, was in town last week on his way to Milwaukee, where he proposes to lay in a winter’s supply of the amber foaming fluid for which that eity is famous. Dr. Chas. S. Hazeltine and family leave the city Saturday for New York, whence they sail for Milan next Thursday. Chas. E. Olney and family leave Thurs- day for Hartford, Conn., meeting the same vessel at New York. F. S. Cashion, senior member of the firm of Cashion & Son, general merchants at Baldwin, bas returned from a thirteen ' mouths’ stay in Oklahoma, during which time he secured a patent on a quarter section of fertile land near Hennessey. His son also homesteaded 160 acres on the Cherokee reservation. WE HAVE FOUND IT. WHAT ? That which we and the trade have been looking for. A FANCY BUTCHER’S LARD. OO-poaad Tube.......... eee. FST FC Ue a 114 “ WESTERN MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR GH HAMMOND GUS SUPERIOR BUTTERINE — Vy =) a} “ a WILLING GO, GLAND, MICE Why Not Use the Best? . OUR “Sunlight” FANCY PATENT FLOUR Is unsurpassed for whiteness, purity and strength. Increase yo } tr»nde and place your self beyond the iti of your neighbors by selling th's unriv . Write us for price delivered st your railroad station The Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., HOLLAND, MICH. MILL (UR VALMRY CITY Has been completely reconstructed this s»>mmer with a full line of the latest and best flour mill machinery known, and it will afford us great pleasure to have you call, at your own Convenience, »nd see - hat can be do ein a modern flour mill. Our plen has teen, and ever will b . to give the people in bes' grades uf wheat, milled by the most upproved methods. will produce, attest, THE FAMOUS us | hg WY FIL TE PLOURM Will now be Finer than ever. AS ROME YK WGe LILY WHITE” and “SNOW FLAKE” flour the very best possible productions that a careful combination of the How well we have succeeded the wide reputation and steadily increasing demand for these brands OUR ROLLER CHAMPION For a Fancy Patent has no Equal. To those who desire a StrRaient grade of flour we guarantee our ‘GOLD MEDAL” or “HARVEST QUEEN” to give perfect satisfaction. With three well equipped full roller mills we are in a position to offer the very bet grades of spring and winter wheat flour. Our “‘street car teed’ has a wide reputeticn and is absolutels pure corn and oats scoured and cracked. When you need flour. feed or mi!lstuffs get our prices be’ore buying elsewhere. Give us a trial order, to compare = uxlitr as well as price, and we aie confident you will be pleased to have your name added to a loug list of regular customers to whom we hereby extend thanks for many VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. past favors. \ ery truly yours, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 14 Drugs # Medicines. | State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Cttmar 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 Seeretary—Stanley E Parkill, Owosso. freasurer—Geo. Gundrum, I a. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asa’n. Stevens, Ann Arbor A. F. Parker, Detroit , Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, John D. Muir; Sec’y, Frank H. Escott. THE COST OF LIVING. While the debates upon the Repeal bill | : . | were prolix and exhaustive beyond pre- | cedent, particularly in the Senate, no} new facts elicited by gard to silver, and were them in re- no new arguments adduced. It was a repetition over and over again of the story with which we | have been made familar in the intermin- able discussion of the subject by writers | and speakers both in this country and in The silver at this Europe. point upon which the ad- vocates of session of Con- have has been the alleged increase of the purchasing power of gold and the resulting fall in the gold gress most insisted prices of staple commodities, which, they charge, works injustice to debtors by re- the fruits of their labor for the payment of their debts. in addition, it is contended that the fear of a further fallin prices from the con- juiring a larger amount of tinued rise in the value of trade and the in- vestment of capital in new enterprises. gold discour- ages the expansion of As to the fact that, measured by gold, the of many important staples have en and are still falling, there can oe no controversy. It is a matter of undisputed record that the gold prices of wheat, cotton, beef, tallow, leather, iron, sugar, and similar articles are from one- half to two-thirds of what they were twenty years ago, whereas, if their prices were measured by silver, they would remain substantially unchanged. At the same time, it is also a fact which eonsiderably impairs the force of the argument drawn from these lower prices, that, while they have been wages, salaries and falling, the emoluments of professional men have steadily risen. and, what is more import- ant, iving has greater the cost of 1 increased, in of food, clothing, life. Although beef, bread, sugar, tea, cotton and woolen cloth, leather, oil, gas, that kind can be had fora gold dollar now than could be had twenty spite of the cheapness and other necessaries of more and things of years ago, it takes a good many more dol- lars than it did then to pay housekeep- ing and living expenses, and, of course, the dollars must be earned or they could not be paid. If the appreciation of gold has caused the fall of prices in the case of some articles it should cause it in the should affect labor as well as the things which labor produces. ease of all, and it In the matter of house rents, to begin | pensive. with, a notable rise has within twenty years. pation of a the large cities a luxury which numbers of refined and well educated people have to forego, contenting themselves instead with parts of houses, or with what are ealled flats, or sets of rooms in huge buildings inhabited by a number of fam- ilies. The rents of the tenements of the poorer people have likewise risen, while those paid by the rich have soared into taken place In fact, the occu-| whole house has become in the thousands of dollars annually. The rise is due partly to competition for resi- dences in localities eligible from their nearness to centers either of business or of fashion, and also to the superior ele- gance and luxury of the accommodations furnished. Even tenement houses, un- der our new health laws, are more costly both to build and to maintain, and there- i fore bring higher rents. While the raw materials of food are | confessedly much cheaper than they were | formerly, the process of preparing them for consumption has become far more ex- The wages of plain cooks have reached figures which would be thought fabulous by our grandfathers and grand- mothers, if they could be told of them, while the more pretentious artists who have come to lately from France and from Sweden demand compensations equal to those of many competent school teachers. Apart, too, from cooks’ wages, the bill of fare no longer in any but the poorest families consists of plain bread and potatoes. us beef, Fruits, fish and veg- etables, of all kinds and at all seasons, are freely consumed, while in the depth of winter canned goods supply the tem- porary lack of the fresh articles. In the matter of drinking and smoking, the number of liquor saloons, beer shops, cigar shops and soda water fountains, and the millions paid for taxes on liquor and tobacco, demonstrate the immense expenditure of our people for this kind of refreshment. The tendency toward employing great numbers of servants in housework, al- though it is most marked among people with the great fortunes which have come into existence since the war, has not been without its effect upon families of less means. Our homes are so much hand- somer, are so much more nicely fur- nished, and are adorned with so many more objects of art and beauty, that more care has to be taken to keep them in the condition of neatness and order so dear to every woman than was required in the days of painted walls, horsehair covered sofas and chairs, Brussels muslin-curtained windows. The wages of house too, like those of cooks, have advanced at least one-half within twenty years, and, added to their increased numbers and the cost of their board, constitute a serious item of the household budget. Clothing, like food, has become more expensive, notwithstanding the fal! in the materials cut of which it is manufac- tured. When the sewing machine was first introduced great apprehension was felt that it would deprive of employ- ment a vast number of men and women who made their livings by the use of the needle. The work that they were doing could be done by the aid of machines op- erated by a comparatively few hands, and the rest, it was supposed, would have to starve. The result, however, has been to make work, not only for all who had work then, but for many more. carpets, and servants, | Garments, as a rule, are cheaper, but people wear more of them, and many de- mand finer goods, costlier trimmings, and more artistic shapes. Fashionable tail- ors and dressmakers, in spite of foreign competition, charge enormous prices for their wares, and their example is imi- | tated as far as possible by the less emi- nent members of the trade. The amount of money paid for amuse- |ments of all kinds is immensely greater than it used to be. The prices of theater tickets, which were advanced during the suspension of specie payments to meet the depreciation of our greenbacks, were not reduced when gold came down to par, but remain at paper money figures. Notwithstanding, theaters have multi- plied throughout the country, all of them well patronized, and we hear every few days of the opening of a new one. Vocal and instrumental concerts find patronage, them remunerative, large sums from the pockets of those who love music and, sometimes, when the performer is a favorite, like the pianist Paderewski. to reward him hand- somely. The same scale of increased expendi- ture is found in doctors’ and dentists’ bills, in lawyers’ fees. in clergymen’s salaries, and in those of teachers both in private schools and in homes, in the purchases of newspapers, magazines. and books, and in pleasure travel. It is a great mistake to suppose that the 100,000 passengers wealthiest of our citizens. On the con- trary, nine-tenths of them are people to whom the cost of the trip is a serious matter and who deprive themselves of many other pleasures in order to provide for it. How ready, too, are to spend their vast numbers money for travel in their own country the statistics of our railroads show, and the multitudes who, at great expense, visited the Chicago Ex- position are evidence to the same effect. It may be objected that what is true of the population of a great and wealthy city is not necessarily true of other parts of the United States, and that the luxury of a metropolis is, perhaps, confined to its limits. The testimony of all who are familar with the facts goes to prove, however, that the mode of living in large cities is not exceptional, but substantially the same as that in most cities and towns of importance, and that the rural districts have adopted it as far as they can. On the prairies of the West and the plantations of the South there is, indeed, not the same opportunity nor the same means for lavishness, but all agree that the condition of Western far- mers and Southern planters has become much more comfortable, to say the least, since the days of log huts and board shanties. own Without going further into details, I think I have shown enoughto prove that the shrinkage of prices attributed to the influence of the gold standard, though it has affected commodities for the produc- tion of which only the rudest and most primitive kind of labor is required, has not extended to products which are the result of great mechanical and intellect- ual skill. While the recent extensive building of railroads in this country and abroad has immensely increased the area of cultivated land within reach of the world’s markets, and consequently has in- creased proportionately staple agricultural has not. been crease in the beings able to ries demanded civilization. The so-called ‘iron law,’’ according to which the tendency of wages is always to the lowest limit at which | labor can be supported applies only to |}countries like India, the population of which is content with a mere subsistence, and has none of the expensive habits of the products, there a corresponding in- supply of human create the luxnu- not always, to be sure, enough to make | but enough to draw | who annually cross the ocean for a tour | in Europe comprise exclusively the very | supply of | by our ever advancing la people like ours. Here the bottom limit of wages is that at which men and women earn what they think is sufficient to enable them to live in the manner in which they are living. When wages fall below that limit the supply of labor will | gradually decrease, through the decrease of marriages and the births of children, |until the demand for it brings wages up again. In the same manner those among the growers of wheat and cotton who are least able to endure the prevailing low prices of their products will give up the ‘business and go to work at something |else, leaving the field to those who are better situated. In any case the lower- |ing of the money standard sought to be | obtained by the free coinage of silver |! would benefit only those of them who | happen to be in debt, and when their | debts were paid they would be in no bet- i ter condition under the silver standard 'than they are now under that of gold. MATTHEW MARSHALL. A A ello Use of Arsenic in Prints. The very considerable uneasiness which not long since prevailed in the publie mind from the supposed free use iof arsenic by manufacturers in the preparation of cotton prints has, it would | seem, been generally quieted, and, though lit is true that a large proportion of such | goods contain arsenic, the quantity is so ismall as to be practically harmless. | Many of the anilines, it is asserted, such as ceruleine blue, aniline greens, ete., and many of the vegetable colors, are fixed on calico with a salt of alumina and a solution of white arsenic in glycerine or in a_ borax solu- tion. The reaction that takes place on steaming the goods is adoubie compound of arsenic, alumina, and coloring mat- ter, or, briefly, double arseniate of alum- ina and dye. This compound consti- tutes the insoluble “lake” which colors the fibres of the cloth with a moreor less insoluble and fast color; this at once re- moves any danger in the wearing of the material. Indeed, it is asserted as a mat- ter of fact that aniline colors contain a considerable excess of alumina, and this is a preventive against the possible pres- ence of uncombined arsenic. In extract alizarine colors the soluble arseniate of alumina is in some instances added by manufacturers for the purpose of giving to the colors a greater degree of bright- ness, but, on steaming, the insoluble com- pound is obtained, as before described. Ce OO ent. See aaa @)1 75 m. ...1.........) tae oe Spigelia .... 35@G 38 Sar iguinarta, (po 25) . @ 2 Serpentaria........... IQ 32 ee 55@ «60 Similax, Officinalls, H @ #0 M @ Beilee, (po. )........ tg Sympilocarpus, Feeti dus, po @ % Valeriana Eng. (po. 80) @ B German. 18@ 2 ingiber a... os. J 2 Singiner 7 ....... l@ w SEMEN. Antsum, (po. 20) @ 15 Aplum nen F@ 18 Bird, 1s 4@ 86 Carul, (po. 18). 10g i2 Cc Yardamon 1 vU@1 25 Corlandroum ee 10@ 12 Canuabis Sativa 4 5 Cydonium T5Q1 Ov Chenopodium 10@ 12 Dipterlx Odorate 2 2@z2 £0 Foeuicalnm @ 15 Foenugre i po 6t@ «68 Li... 4 @4X% Lini, gra, ” (bbl. Ss) .. S46 4 Lobelia 35@Q 40 Pharlaris Canarian.... 3 @4 apa —.. Gn fF Sinapis Albu. 4 @e Nigra.. Loe, 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 ‘ D. F.R....-1 75@2 00 " Cheescaccsh SL OF Juniperis Co. O. T....1 65@2 00 ot io ....1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 aoe. Vind Ganl....... 1 7T5@6 50 Vu Oper ....... ~o+0) Sape 00 Vint Alpe...,.........1 Saas © SPONGES. Fiorlda sheeps’ wool carriage -2 50@2 75 Nassau sheepr’ ‘wool Carriage .. 2 00 Veivet extra sheeps” wool Carriage... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ carriage Se ecerases 85 Grass sheeps’ wool car- riage : 65 Hard for slate use. 7 Yellow Reef, for slate ue... ... 1 40 SYRUPS. 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Aether, Spts Nit, 3 F.. 2@ 30 ‘ ‘ « 4F &@ 34 AMOR ............,. 7 Sean " ground, (po. 7... Lee 3@ 4 Annatto..... Lic. on oe Antimont, Po, aaa << & sihevsse TT. te @ Anti i eee. @1 40 Antena @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 54 Arsenicum ... ce 7 Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40 Biemuth & WN....... -2 W@2 26 Calcium Chior, 1s, (45 re; WA, 4)... 11 Cantharides Russian, me @1 00 Capsict Fructus, oe @ 2% C " i @ 2 “a “a a. @ 20 Caryophyllus, 1s) eo Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Cera Alba, 8. &F eaee 50@ 55 Cera Flava............ 38@ 40 Coceme |... .:...... @ 4 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2% a... ...,...... @ 10 Commoecum ............. @ 40 Chigroserm® ........... 60@ 63 “ rg @i 25 Chioral Hyd Crat...... ig 35@1 60 Chondrus .... 2W@® 2% Cinchonidine, Paw 15@ 2 German 3 @ 12 Corks, list, - = cent 60 Creasotum . @ 3 Creta, — Weyl... G@ Ft Pee deucs 5@ 5 aoa Mdeese 9@ il ° ere, ..,.. @ 8 Crocus ........ 40@ 50 Cuciear....... @ w Cupri Sulph... Se 6 Co 10@ 12 Benes Sain... ....... 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Gal Whale, winter........ 7 7 Lard, extra......... -_ = SO nora. me f....... 42 45 Linseed, pureraw.... 39 2 Linseed, boiled.. .... 42 45 Neat’s Foot, winter mee % 80 SpiritsTurpentine.... 33 40 PAINTS. bbl, Ib. med Venetian. ......... 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow — - 1X 2@4 1% Putty, wenn -. 2g 2% @3 . iiton Pode i Lae 2% 2%@3 — me Amer- 13@16 Veemiiion, English. 65@Q7 Green, Peninsular.. 70@75 eeG tog... |... | €%@7 . Wane ........... - 64@7 Whiting, white Span.. @70 Wai Gilders’...... @% White, Paris American 1 6 Whiting, Paris Eng. chi . 1 4c Pioneer. Prepared Painti 20@1 4 Swiss Villa er Paints 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Bare Tare... 160@1 70 Coach Body 75@3 00 No.1 Turp Furn..... @ 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 ee T0@75 Mt Ni & PERKINS DRUG CO. importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES Paints, Oils % Vai DEALERS IN rnishes, Sole Agents for the Celebratea SWISS WILLA PREPARED PRINTS. Fall Line of Staple Droggists’ Sundries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly s Mishigan Gatarrh Remedy. WHISKIES, BRANDIES, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. HACELTINE & PERK’ NS Send a trial order. DaUG C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICE CURRED? The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They wg eS * going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions o — ase, — oa j below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit _ y. pd : ange _ those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the ole greatest possible use to dealers. ia AXLE GREASE Fruits. Sap Sago.... @21 | 81 books, perhundred . $3 00] No. 1,6..........---------, 165 GUNPOWDER. is ee gi - P 9 a ‘“ No. 2.6 1 50 Rifl Dupont’s. » doz gross Apples. Schweitzer imported. @24 $2 S Soi No. 2, 6....... tifle—Dupon - Aurora... . . 5 60013 ih. etanderd..... 1 00 . domestic. @i4 |33 " . 400 XX wood, white. oe. ee. 32 5 Castor Oil. ... .. 60 70] York State. gaJions 2 90 JATSUP. oh : eee ae hee 0 4 iemond............ 30 S50|Hemberrh, ~ Blue Lave! Brand. — ’ 6 90 | No. 2) 6% .. 1%] Quarter ~er ae oe "3 er’s / 75 8 00 Apricots. Half pint, 2 bottles 2 75) 820 [ 7 06 Manilla, white. 1 Ib cans. Recta ed eeee en an aa fica i : 65 7 to ive oak. i. 1 7%} Pint 4w Above mene on coupon books ae 1 00} % Ib cans. ‘ 18 ah Paragon .. 55 6 00 | Santa Cruz.. 1 75 | Quart 1 doz bottles Bi ere subject & Ge folowimecis.............. a 95 a Choke Bore—Dupont' 8. oo 4 y Leeks... . 175 Triumph Brand. quantity discounts: Coin. a 4 25 i Bz AKING POW DER. Overland....... 1 75 | Half pint, per os. ....... 135] 20 books or over.. 5 per cent | Mill No.4.. .... 1 00| Half via, shee podas ee pee scnes ; = * bu lg Ib. can 8,3 a..-.-- $5 a Blackberries. mn a, —— eee “2 501 sou “ 6 * FA RINACEOUS Goops. eo eg appt a ; ‘ 25 ce... g ork, per Gok ...-. ....... 2 i. ‘“ ») “ ‘ ‘ a, Cherries. Quart LOTHES PINS. |‘ : Farina, Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. 4 Bulk ; 149 | Rea ... 1 10@1 20] 5 gross boxes . 40@45 COUPON PASS BOOKS. | 100 Ib. kegs..-...-. SM | Kegs ......----e2eee- +e 11 00 eee \reti ' ~ | Pitted Hamburgh 175 COCOA SHELLS. |Can be made to represent any Hominy. Ball kee ....... et hae ee 5 7% j “Arctic. nan Wr a 1501351b bags @3 a 8 00 Quarter kegs. J. se \% tb cans 6 doz case 55 a . 1 25 | Less ht tity , @3% denomination from 810 down.! | Grit. : . 35014 1b cans. 60 > KD “ 4doz a on = i +s ai ee eo a 2 00 eames, ‘Ege Plums and Green | Pound packages 6%G7 20 books... - vsroee OE = Lima Beans. ‘HERBS. 2. ee 9 00 Gages. COFFEE. 50 trees teres esesee 2 001 Drted.. 34@E Sage . “KS x se ~ S _ . ee Erie 1 10 iaiceun 190 oo 3 00 Maccaroni aie Vermiceill. ae ole osfon. : oe : ea on Ot Lech scastomess i ie | Meet reebeemee ote n> ++ ; if ) * 5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case... 50 Cali fornia 1 6 Fair _ | n 500‘ a 0 00 | Imported............-- "10%@i1 INDIGO. yi tea Star, a cans ~ (9 | Common eee a TE onal a i Oatmeal. Madras, 51b. boxes....... 55 7g0Y ip 7 Peaches. | : Prime ... ae CREDIT CHECKS. Soe... 4 60 S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes, . 50 : 1amiPi ce an 20 ne 2 40 : . > 1 4 aha a 1 C0 ee hes o 500, any one denom’n... _.83 00 | Half barrels nee. JELLY. Telfer 8. % Tb —_ doz = Shepard's Santos. ' 1000 --+-> oo Pearl Barley. 7 th oat... @ 50 > «1 5p | California 1 75 | Fair. a 1g |S," 7 Lo Se mem ee a es 4 ‘ 3 - i 35 | Monitor Good ‘op | Steel punch............... © Peas : r Leader, % ib cans 5 | osford rh 7 scans f ; LICORICE. ee Pears. — ee ae saga oi secrscagaaay ee ae rae: ee Os 30 as as Pric es. «| Domestic . 1 20 Mexican and Guatamala. mutter. : Split ‘per Ib"... _— Ce eis ; wi - i er doz | Riverside. 2101] Fair. : 21 Soper ik ae...... : 6 Rolled Oats. ia s. ,. 12 une A Dime cans “95 | Pineap pies. Good.. 22 | Seymour XXX, cartoon 6% | Barrels 180... ........ @4 60 ; ‘i 4 ae : 1 40 [ieee ....... ......1 Oo a Fancy oo , 24 Family =... nei 6 Balt phils W......... @2 49 LYE, ai "3 Go| Johnson’ g slicea .... 2 50 Maracaibo, Family XXX, cartoon...... 6% Sago. Cc ondensed, 2 dos en 1 25 al 2 ea} ' grated. 275] Prime .. es 2 Reltied EEE... 2 oe 4% ae 2 25 12-02 3% Booth’s sliced @2 5)} Milled ee. 24 Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6% | Hast India.................. 5 16-02 5 90 | erated... .. 2% Java. Kenosha ..... a Wheat. MATCHES. 2%.1b “ 1200} Quinces. as, ss Boston. .. : a 51 No.9 ae ne 1 65 2 4.1b 4a ox | Common 1 10] Private Growth... 7 ouler biscuit . 8% FISH--Salt. Anchor eel 1 70 iN | 5-Ib : 75 | Raspberries. ne: 28 Soda. Wal eheme 1 10 10-1b ‘“* 41 80} Red............ 1 30 Mocha. Soda. XXX 6 Bloaters. coort parior............... 4 00 ay ae | Black ‘Hamburg... 1 50 | Imitation : 25 ee ' - 2. | Yarmouth.. ne | Erie. black 1 25| Arabian... ro nyh o nee a on a eer. BATH BRICK. Strawberries, Roasted. a Ba ol patente ie o ad 9 dozen in Car j 21) CO 1 25 N sce 208 ne Lhe el ee F En: sith ee 90 | . : si zh i soe c a eee ae a Long Island W afers. i Whole, Grand Bank.... 5@5% Sees aca i. + Sel crack ce ek Se Oyster. Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6@3 $ esc ent 70 | Terr coe Oper See... 8 | Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@8 : —...........- | Ter apin 1 10] age. 2 : BLUING ue Whortleberries. Package. City Oyster. XXX............ 6 Halibut. oe a ~ 9 aq | Blueberries .... 1 00} Mckaughlin’s KKXXX.. 21 95| Farina Oyster..-.-. -------§ Joi ove... ... ....11@12% we Arctic, 402 ovals coe Meats. Bunola .. 34 45 CREAM TARTAR. Herrin SOs aren 6 © | Corned beef Libby's ..1 95 | Lion, 60 or 100 1b. case... 24 95 Strictly pure. 30 sd i ae sifting d » on | Roast beef Armour’s 1 80 Extract. Telfer’s Absolute........ 3) | Holland, white hoops keg i0) ye No. 2, sifting box 4 vt Pe otted ham, \% Ib 1.2 Valley City % gross... .. 31 Grocers’. ee “ il “" ber 9% : No 5 ss itt ip... -... -. & | Felix 1 15 TITS, re . . : Bank Cae... |i. 2%5 No. 7 2 tongue, . Ib. -1 35 Hummel’ 8, ggg econ... 1 50 DRI ED FRU 17s Norwesiem ............... 6 doz. case ...........-.... 5 St “ 7 A bal a ---. 4 ni Wg i... + ; 2 50 woe Round, 4% bb1 100 Ibs...... =O) ie Gee Gass... 8... 11 00 Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... 3 6 hicken ic i....... @ DORY. App 2 ee 1 25 ce ne tox... 6 oo " oxen, Tb. : Bulk CRICOR 5 | Sundried, sliced in bbls Siete uo 17 MEASURES. BROOMS, B : : : : > . quartered ‘ 6% Tin, perdozen, 40. 2 Hari. 17 on sguggige our Ciel ogee ‘is ted, 50 Ib. boxes 11 Mackerel. foi ° a ee CLOTHES LINES. yee re Apricots No. 1, 100]bs.......... see OD] LEROOM. += s 000-5 -2>-*- a No. 2 Carpet 2 2 Limas 1.1 35 | Cotton. 40 ft... ...per dos. 1 25| California in bags..... BO SIN ioe sce 47 — tetee ee eeee ees ‘2 ay as le x hieaiais green ae ; SO ft... .. ‘| 140) Evaporated in boxes. .. No.1, 10 lbs... ........ + ii ee ParlorGem.... ee ee ae : 60 ft... a Blackberries. No. 2, 100 Ibs. tees cses BRO] MO ec ett tee a } Common Whisk... S” | Lewis Boston Baked........1 85 i S-*: « 23 In boxes No. 2, 40 Ibs.. ee “i Fancy ae . 100 Bay State Baked CS 80 ft...... 1 90 "Nectarines. No. 2, 10 Ibs................ 105] Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. Warehouse... 3 00| World’s Fair Baked....... 1 35 ute oo , ©] Wilh. bags.............-.. Family, 9 Ibe... 020222. Oi 7 00 ota BRUSHES. Picnic Baked...... com 1 00 eft 07) ib Gomes... -.......- 10 10 Ibs ............ 70| Half galion .............. 4% ; Stove. No. i ne Corn. CONDENSED MILK. ee Sardines. eer ees 0 1 50} Hamburgh ... . 1 40 4 doz. in case. Gal. evi in boxes.. ar Naieg Meee ee + = : 1 75 r a Ya a ~ tees . Rice Root 5 oa. lt ae Eden . ee io in bags... 10% Trout. MOLASSES. . Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25! Hx mee Dew H Pears. : No. 1, % bbis., 1001bs........6 00 Blackstrap. Lae Pa.metto, goose..... 1 50] Morning Glory. eee ona ae 8 — : 4 bbL, 40 SB oe. to = Sugar house......... a 14 ° i ‘a a, r Pe 8 BUTTER I LATES Soaked .... ‘eae al an ten gag ae = Cobe Deltne. r a Oval—250 in crate “ Hambureh on to 50 Ib. boxes «. Latics Whitefish. CORGERARY .. 5... oo ens.. 16 : a 70 early June.. 2 Feet teen ees Famil Porto Rico. q . 80 ' Champion Eng. ‘1 50 unelles. y Pri esas 20 ie ‘hamp! 5 Prunell N ¥| prime a ET sees "ettted — a 39 ib. boxes. ¥% bbls, 100 Ibs...... 0 g2 75 | Fancy...... sees cose CANDLES. aren y - ome Raspberries. ; io i 310 130 New Orleans. . Hotel, 40 lb. boxes . » | HB arris hale ... CS %B a ayes i eee i Kits . aed a ie a 90 ie 18 a +— Star 40 9 |VanCamp’s marrofat..-.- ‘110 ob boxes...... en 8 Ib > 22 : Paraffine at early June.....1 34( aa) ‘Raisins. FLAVORING EXTRACTS, 2 ie 3 > = | N.¥.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brs ands Raisins. > " ggg geo GOODS. " | ——_ # Early Blossom . ‘ Gail Borden Eagle..... __2 Loose Muscatels in Boxes. Souders’, Fancy.. = ¥ + Pees r a n B 5 iii iba le ie el “ ag Mushrooms. ee oe erent Cree 1 59| Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. | One-half barrels, 3c extra, Clams. | French... aa 16@21 | Champion.. 4 5 Loose Muscatels in Begs. Best in the world for the money, PICKLES, Little Neck, 4 1 20 | pric aT 85 — 2 25 : CTOWN... .-.-- +--+: oe eas 3 ss 2 > [or gt in ile aa 4 > € eeeecres ecosces eee 4 Re ular . 4 Gen Chowder. Hubbard —— 1 15 Foreign. Geaae Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Standard, 3ib... 223 /] cca cate che ly Currants. Lemon. Half bbis, 600 count.. @3 00 Cove Oysters ee 1 40 Patras, in barrels......... 3% doz Small. 7 her Standard, 3 lb : ‘ i Souked C

    =>. bepes . pamaior PIPES. + 1h > an | AMROOCE .........206 0 . ; iE Janilla. Pientc, 1 Ib oot Excelsior . .....+2.......... Orange =" u doz | Clay, No. 216.. i 4 Tg i ti . Pees han . 2c... «TD. fullcount........ 7% ' Mackerel. it Eeateene: Caml aa -"rrade@smati. Ondura, 29 lb. voxes @ &% 4 Po a ee ee wa Standard, 11b...... --125 1) Ganon a $ 1 books, per nundred ... 2 0¢| Sultana,20) © @10 a , 2 Ib 2 oO} CHOCOLATE. R2 ; a “ 259} Valencia, 30 * cn POTASH, bd mrereirat Menage aol Baker's se of. 8 00 Prunes. XX Grade 48 cans in case : a » Sauce, 2ib 2 25 | ' : ‘ : 7 ; Lemon . ' a Tomato Sauce, 21 -2 25 | German Sweet. 23185 ‘ “ ss 3 o¢ | California, 100-120. z : ‘ $ ” Soused. 2 Ib "2 25 oes Dae ais : 40 ts 90x 100 2 5 ib. bxs. 7% Son... #1 50} Babbitt’s .. weteees 4 4 00 ms Salmo. j = o yo v “ x90 “ 40z..... 300} Penna Salt Co.'s... a \ | Breakfast Cocoa...... Sies « * ‘ .5e 80x90 . 8 a Columbia Ri yer, flat 1 80 | CHEESE “Superior.” “ 7 x80 “ RY RICE \ 4 “ ‘alls ol ne : 5 . ae) 7 7 XX Grade é Aiaghs. Bed ctchie tee eee reer tone rey well 3 2 —— i 3 00 Be --- ~~~ 2+ Vanilla. — ? a ; a > pee oo ee ieee ss 66 it __.. B go] Sliver .............--. POs... 4. $1 75} Carolina head........... ...6 ' Kinney’s, flats... rik 28 ee i ea a os” as “ “ eee Sultana... 402.. 3 50 a : sardines. a aera ae : i |so ‘ “ 5 00, French, 60-70. eae as 5 & American \s........ _@ 5 | Go edal.......... A. % 220 ae 8 00 a Jennings. eee ee 4 ’ aa 64@ 7 | aon : ee = BN ame ee ane e Lemon. Vanille I oa Imported a -- @10 Edam naire 1 00 si ok ead ea oe 202 regular pene. 5 1 20 mporte ra Bie Leiden oe 8 ENVELOPES, 4 OZ 1 50 2 00 Joqen. ¥ Me, i. a kp 5% > wae Mourta Pa a in ‘aan @i0 XX rag, white. 6 of “ +s oo See | ee ee, ae phen eae 5 Boneless seals ogy (Emeny = oe 5 ee eut 81 75| No.3 taper........ 1 35 Ce ea ee Brook,8 Ib......... .......2 50 | Roquefort...... Le aes Universal.” eee 1 601 No. 4 taper........ 1 50 Set 5% eae ae ~~ — = AwVSow AOO 5 > ee 0 0 25 Root Beer Extract. { { THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ne & Chute Brands. | Williams’, 1 doz............ 1% | Silver. i 2 aen. istraesess OE on ae 3 35 Hires’, 2 a08..... «++e-ees- & 0 | DOVON Improved. ..... . 250 * Saoe.. | 600 | Santiawer 00 3 05 SPICES, oo ................... 3 25 Whole Sifted. | Reonomics! ..... ......,.. 225 | Caste Chi or ae | Scouring. | Jassia na in mats...... 7 | ; i | ‘* Batavia in bund....15 a i wee > ** Saigon in rolls......32 oe Cc loves, Amboyna...... 22 SUGAR. Zanzibar..... Looe The following prices repre- Mace Batavia. : -80 | sent the actual selling prices in Nutmegs, fancy ....--75 | Grand Rapids, based on the act ih Po. t........,...,., 70 =| ual costin New York, with 3¢ mo 2.4... .60 | cents per 100 pounds added for Pepper, Singapore, black ....10 | fre ght. The same quotations | white... = | wili not apply toany townwhere | oe | the freight rate from New York | Pure aki Bulk. |is not 36 cents, but the local ee es 15 | quotations will. perhaps, afford Cease, Batavia............. 18 | a better criterion of the market T “and Saigon .25 | than to quote New York prices . saigon . \ 35 =| exclusively. | Cloves, aeeree | .....-... 2 | Cat Loaf. # 67 Zanzibar...... 26 | Powdered ................ 5 48 Ginger, ppniee ee is | Granulated ..... oe [ ERE es 20 Extra Fine Granulated... 5 17 " Soames | ni = | Cubes . 548 Mace Batavia.. 3 | XXXX Powdered.. .. 58 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. Confec. Standard A.. . 498 ‘Trieste...... No.1 Columbia A.... . 236 Nutmegs, No. 2..... "798 No. 5 Empire A ..... 4.2 Pepper, Singapore, plack....16 oS... . 4c white. ....24 No. 7 . 461 ° Cayenne. ‘ 20 No, 8 454 BO. eee eee ee eee eee ee mo f......., ,<._< “Absolute” in Packages, No, 10.. 44 448 mime. 11... £8 Allapice ........ se OF LOINe 2 4 21 Canmiamon........ ~~ OF TO i Na 15. 2 =: os -v... 62 1 501No 14 a nger, amaic a a 84 155 “— © r ¥ ‘african 84 155 SYRUPS. Mustard.. _<.... of © oo Corn. rouse... ea, $4 156| Barrels........ ene 2 Sage.. 84 Half bbis.. Pe eno 20 sure Cane. ‘SAL SODA. 134 | Balt sees eecee cece. 19 ik be - Soe ...... Seeeeccce se ae aeemeiii: SEEDS, bec 1% bis ae Ave ......--.... : @12% SWEET GOODS Canary, Smyrna....... 6 Ginger Snaps...... 8 NO coat ues 10 Suger Creams......... 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Frosted Creams....... 9 Hemp, Russian....... 4% | Graham Crackers.... 8% Risen Gira ........ 5% | Oatmeal Crackers.... 8% Mustard, white....... 10 INK ee 9 — a Rape 6 es .7 G8 Cuttle bone........ 30 OO RT...... . 2... eee 8 @9 oeance 81 for barrel. Corn WET MUSTARD, 20-1b boxes Se Bulk, per agar ....... ..... ‘ 40-1b Beer mug,2 dozincase... 1 75 Gloss. YEAST. Snes os Gu, | Magic,.... a 10 3-1 a 54% | Warner’s 1. 6- 1b rn .-e-. 68% | Yeast Foam ..1@ 40 and 50 Ib. boxes.. . 3% | Diamond..... 75 Barrels. . . Old Country, 80 1° a5 ea ors unless — = Good C heer, Oot le.....-.... 3 90 Can C an. ae @27 White Borax, 100 %-Ib......3 65 | Nenie Bly oe Proctor & Gamble. Tage ben ....... 21 @2 Comoe ....... ... 345! Hiawatha 6u Ivory, 10 oz. 6 75 | Sweet Cuba....... 34 © Of.......... 4 00 McGinty besees 2 Lenox : “: . 3 My bbls.. 25 Mottled German... = i>} Dandy dim..........-- 29 Town Tak...) .... ... 325 | Torpedo . . 2 Dingman lien : in drums.... x Swe bee 39 | Yum Yum .......... 3 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 | 1892.....-.-- eee ee eee 23 10 box lots, delivered...... $i drums... 2 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands Plug. a Family, a 90 Sorg’s Brands. plain 94 Seat - 39 , &., Patepenk & Co. erinds, | Joker ............-.-- 27 rte Coens ......,..---.-.. 4 oe Nobby. Twist. . 39 Brown, 60 bars.. eure 2 Scotten’s Brenda. yo oer ..... a ee 26 Lautz Bros. & Co.'s Brands. | Hiawatha............. 38 Ac Valley City ...... 4. 3 BE eek cceeds soar ppecee 4 fi Coen 6 00 Finzer’s Brands. Marseilles. L pwavercves On| One Bonesty....,...-. 4 a 485 | Jolly Tar..... R Smoking. PROVISIONS. MIXED CANDY. Catlin’s Brands. | The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | standard... vag | Kiln dried.... 17. | quotes as follows: te a : | oe Shower 19 ‘ PORK IN BARRELS. | Moval........ 6% 7% iiavitvess .2... 6 a Nobby. i S Meerschaum ...... oe Deore Gut ......... 19 00 English Rock. 8 American Eagle Co.'s Brands, | Extra clear pig, short cut. SO COmseINGe ll. 4 8 ae tle Navy 0 Extra clear, heavy.. Broken Taffy...... Tea : | Stork N&V} "*"geggo | Clear, faG BACK... 19 06 | Peanut Squares..... s 9 | Ger co - = Boston clear, short cut 19 0) | French Creams.. 10 Frog , ‘sr o7+ -22 | Clear back, short cut. 19 00} Valley Creams.. 13 Java, \s foil. i 39 Standard clear, short cut. best... : 20 60 | Midget, 30 Ib. bask ts 8 oa Tob cco C 10."s B as savsaon—Fresh and Smoked. ssasenamenatiuns . j )} . bs oba 0.'s brands. | pork Sausage. ' 8% FaNcYy—In bulk Oe 16 | Ham Sausage a eeu o | : Pails Banner Cavendish.... ..... Se . | Lozenges, piain 10 ‘Gord Cut ........... 28 Frankfort Sausage (2 4 s ie a rh Se n’s ; Blood Sausage....... cs 6 nocoiale Drops 11% a : otten’s Brands. malcaee, oe ve a Chocolate Monumentals i3 ao ; Reena nls --16 | Bologna, thick...... 6 | Gum Drops.. 1 Gold ‘Block a “an [Pee Coecee .. ks... 7 _— —— . Se ee Sour Drops >} i a. LARD. abies Fr. F. so ee 0,8 Kettle Rendered... Wd Imperiais atria nas i i srandar, j Granger a a ee 103, j a } x im oid xe . oe } DB. wen cee Decrees. .-....... -....... mo | Panitly........ 8% | Sour Drops Old —— ae m 6} C SE S ip eppermint Drops.. "60 Standar¢ mae ---ae | SO1b, Tins, *4e advance. Ch O ocolate Drops...... 6 Globe Tobacco Co." 8 Brands. | 2 20 _ pails, 4c H. M. rte Drops "99 Fandyaade.......... oe | ‘ ib, ee Gum iroee ...........- 10G@X Leidersdorf’s Brands. oie ie ie , a 18g i = Rob Roy..........--++ -.- 2-26 | BEEF IN BARRELS. | Lozenges, plain... 60 U nele SaM....-+. ..+--- aa | Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. 8 00} se printed 65 Red Clover............-....- 32 | Extra Mess, Chicago packing............ 7 Su; Imperials....... Spaulding & Merrick. | Boneless, rump buits..... 1; 50 | Mottoes.... Tom and Jerry a, | SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. | Cream Bar. tea oe Hams, average 2 apa... it Molasses Bar Traveler Cavendish....... 38 | : ‘ i Buck Horn. 3) 56 tba..... 1144 | Hand Made Creams iow Boy : 308! a ' . 12 to 14 lbs ilv | Plain Creams...... 2S Qin Cake ’ 16 i ' mecniG............ .. 8% | Decorated Creams ( ' ae | « Cbest boneless a“ 11% | String Rock. t : | | Shoulgerm............ s | Burnt Almonds... .. 1 00 HIDES PELTS and FURS Breakfast Hacom boneless 15 Wintergreen Berries. 60 Dried bee am prices 10% CARAMELS, Perkins & Hess pay as fol-| Long Clears, Boave........ | No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes 4 lows: Briskets, medium. No. 1, B : 51 HIDES. ” light . “ 4 11% | No. 2, 2 23 i DRY SALT MEATS. ORANGES Part Cured os” i i a 9 | 128, 138. 2 75 Full @ 3% | D. S. Bellies. eG 3 0) Dry a @ 5 =) Wal Biches ........._ .....- bee 10 =| 176, 200, 216 cc eee. 3 25 . fae | PICKEED PIGS’ FEET BANANAS. Kips, green a : g 7 Barrels..............--2se+eeeeeee 8 00 | Small 1 50@1 7% Calfskins. zreen |S @4 ee teem towne. Large . 2 W@2 5v “ Gured 5 @ 6 hina ec / oo un | Kits, honeycomb | Messina, extra fancy Maiorias, 360 60 Deacon skins...... 10 @s at es : 2 hides 3 off Kits, premium es. occas fancy .60 4 60 an : BEEF TONGUES. fancy 3) PELTS. oot nt os: ete ce eas Lea. _ oo aires 360 3 50 . n~ x a barrels. eS ee ate 00 | choice 300 cone. aa. 4 OO a cee oe 2B wv rorpeee..... .. -:. 2... 1| ee ee ae Sa ae | OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. | Figs, fancy layers, 6b...... 12% WOOL. FRESH BEEF oe ee eters S % Washed .. ............12 @18 | Carcass........ 0-00. sees eeeeee eres 44@6 | « extra ee @is Unwashed ...... .. 2 @lt Fore quarters......... resteeeeeeerns @ AK Dates, Fard, 10-lb. box @ 7% l Hind quarters........... seeesses --+e5 6 QT | ey @ 6% i came a (a : S4Gn 1 « Persian, 50-lb. box 4@ 5% oe 8s. eo. eo 21 eit... _ ©aa | sh Grease butter ........ i @ 2” | Rounds ... .54a@6 | NUTS Swiecnes .........- . 1%@ 2 Ee 4 @ 4%} Almonds, rr... @16% Gienene.......... 2)... 1 75@2 60} Plates....... os @ 4% | ' — @15% . CC ’ California. O17 Dressed ... 8 | Brazils, new. @li% GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS | Loins 934 | Filberts @11% Shoulders cae Tye Walnuts, Grenoble @ WHEAT, Leaf Lard.. = | Marbot @ 2 | : Calif @i3 No. 2 oe Ib. test) 54] Carcass ........ 5 @ 5% | Table Nuts, fancy @13 No, 2 Red (60 lb. test) 54) Lambs... . 544@ 6 ' choice. @i2 Pecans, Texas, H. | 3 Bolted... ube 1 40 Carcass .... 54@ 7 tae eee. @4 00 : 7 E. Hickory Nuts...... 41 Granulated.....2... FO ee Si4 | Cocoauuts, full sacks.. @4 0v ; o_O —< 6 P o FLOUR = | BANUTS, Dieee. og cess ... ces ..... cous 2 | i. : Strateht in OOO ....... SSR Monae 8% | Fancy, H. oe 2 . oe Rare Se aia nT 7 eT oasted.............. Don Patent “ gees. ....... 400) Wash ehcene ........, a ? Fancy, H. P., Flags yee eee. @ 6 . " Berra. ....... 4 | Summer. ........... 12 cna Roasted... @i% Graham ‘* sacks... : = Frankfurts....... Seas g | Choice, H. P., rae ete @ : | ye " _ 7 " @ 6% MILLSTUFFS. FISH AND OYSTERS. i ae _ Less F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. a — ~T FRESH FISH LAMP BURNERS. FAN........-- 3 at 14 WW} Whitefish ..... dae oe @9 . : Screenings... 1300 18 00| rout ee Ue ee becceseeneeenenes 45 Middlings..... 14 50 15 00) Black Bass. 12% No.2 a Saas ae 75 Mixed Feed... 1- (0 18 (0O Oe ae ce @15 Ponta nt Ce aoe en 75 Coarse meal .. 18 0J 19 00} Cisecoes or Herring.. ee acces te. @5s | co ae eee @12%| , H Fein CHIMNEYS. er beim Fresh lobster, per lb. . 20 | 6 doz. in box. ; Car lots.. .-43 Cod Ll _ ae No.0 Sun.... -1%5 Less than car lots. --45 | No. 1 Pickerel. Te eee. @9 | na i --+1 88 Pie ee @s |No.2 geccetes 27 cane SiGed We et Oe laren qualiis. i i Car lots ... --32 | Red Snappers ... ao 12 | ot 0 Sun — ee eee tas ae aes 2 10 Less than car lots.. -26 | Columbia River Salmon. 12% | N 1 : ‘ais ue Mackerel... . ée 2@25 | OrxI Flint, oe O¥YsTERS—Cans. ae ' No. 1 = car lots....10 90 | Fairhaven Counts. a Le eeea as @35 | No. 0 Sun, c rimp top... 2 60 No. 1 ton lots 13 00| F. J. D. Selects Dade ia ee Se ee TL a ras ane sala as ast sala sini 2 80 ee ee ie on @s | No. oo -3 80 i ied. ... ee @23 luc sac ws apped and labeled os WOODENWARE. Anchors..... os _. @20 No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled =m 7 SGN B ee eee @18 | No. : : ene, oo Tubs, No.1................. 6 00] Favorite........-..--.000 -- +--+ -+0--+- @l6 | No.2 _— : --4 88 Ce as . 5 50 ‘OysTERS—Bulk. _ | ba Bastie. belgesel ede dh a ‘“ Wa S._............... € G00 tutes Soledta. a ot. 1 75 | No. 1S Sun, pla bulb, per doz as ; = Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. i DD) Selecta ........ a / 1 50} eq il ‘ aut - doz ee a 1 No 1, three-hoop eee 1 so y “te owis, NCD... .+--.- +++ ee Ee 2 290 | No. = wesc cease «ik " ol, a. 20) Scaillopa. ........... ee 2 LAMP WICKS. ig ee 2 20) Sirinipe ......-.. ed ieee eae 1 2 ee 2s os ee 1 80} Clams ee i: CE 2 = i 77 Ne ee eS uae Ca 38 ot? oe | Ceeors, per a 5 2 ‘ ' 75 Baskets, market... 35 1 00 | 8 sale: 1 doe...... i or shipping ‘bushel. 1 15! | Clams. oan fammoth, pe LO C full hoop ‘“ 12 oe STONEWARE—AERBON, " willow er ths, No. 1 5 25 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Butter Crocks, 1 to 6 gal...... eee aay eee 6 7 No.262%5! ‘The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: i «Me gal. per doz 60 ' “No. 3 7) , ' i: e i dey ota | | Jugs, ig gal., per Na 0 . splint “ Neil 323! se cen “ 1 to 4 qgal., per gal...... Liege en 07 s ‘ “ No.2 4 60| Cases Bbis. P ails, | Mii k Pans, % Bal., per OM 8. ia ee 60 “ e “ Nos < 7% | Standard, ner i: = an d lavceamawwes 72 INDURATED WARE. j ' aes o {A | —RLACK GLAZI Pails Set “ oe Bm 7% ee srosawant BLA @LA?Z : | ‘Tubs, No. 1.... .13 5u: Boston Cream ... 8% Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal O7 ee OO a ee 12 0] Oe COR ices 36 | Milk Pans, 4 gal..........-... 65 | Pubs, No. 3 10 Soll ete le C ° . 78 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Former Criticises the Conclusions of the Latter. There are some things in Mr. Owen’s article in last week’s TRADESMAN, under the heading, ‘‘Evil Results in Good,”’ to which I must take exception. While the general idea sought to be conveyed may be (i not say is) correct, yet the method of statement is open to grave ob- jection, since it states an untruth. But the language is so vague as to be suscep- tible interpretations. The fact is, as stated by Mr. Owen, that good and evil are coexistent. do of several But coexistence and inseparability are by no means neces- sary qualities of the same thing. Water and oi! may coexist, butthey are by means inseparabie. and evil, while no So good certainly coexistent, are not necessarily inseparable; indeed, we would not know them as good and evil if they were not separable. They are opposite opposing causes. They are entirely dissimilar, both in their origin and in their results. A bad man may do a good act, but it cannot be said that the good was a result of the bad, rather, it would be did good notwithsianding he was a bad/| man. Evil comes from evil and results| in evil. Take the many terrible railroad | wrecks which have occurred recently as anexample. That they are evil no one will deny. They were accidents, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, at least; but as every effect must have an ade- | quate cause, so there was a cause for | these so-called accidents, if we could but find it; but, whether it is found or not, it exists just the same, and unless it can be | shown that the terrible loss of life, the | mangling and maiming of so many per-| sons in so horrible a manner and all the} suffering and sorrow are good and not} evil, then it must be admitted that they are evil, as they must be one or the other; | and, if the cause is ever discovered, it| will be found to be of the same character. | Carelessness, or disobedience of orders, or a blunder on the part of someone, are | among the causes of railroad and other | accidents; they are evils and the result | that follows is certainly only evil. It| may be said that one result may be} to make railroad officials more careful | and exercise greater vigilance, which, of | course, is good; but there should be no} room for increased care or vigilance—the evil is in the lack of these and the re-| sults are known. So with the present! business depression. It is evil in its re-| sults, that is certain, and, as the cause is effects, produced by but, said, he very generally known by this time, we know that it had its origin in evil. Ifa single individual goes hungry this win-/| ter asa resultof the depression, it is an evil, and proves its origin to have been evil. If the business community, learn- ing their lesson by bitter experience, are | more careful and businesslike in the) future, it will be a good thing for them- selves and the community, but it is what they should have been ali the time. If, | by my carelessness, I burn my finger, | the result of my carelessness is evil, and the application of proper remedies to the | injured member, while it may alleviate | my suffering (which is good) does not | ehange the nature of the injury, which is evil and only evil. Because of an in- jury to his limb, a man is under the necessity of having it amputated. The amputation isa good thing, because it} may save the man’s life, but it is an evil, none the less; indeed, it is called good because it is a lesser evil, the loss of his life being the greater. So with the ‘‘cut- ting off’? of the unsound concerns con- nected with the business of the country. | They are an evil,though perhaps for years | their true nature may have been unsus- pected and their amputation, though an country, is an evil, and results in evil, though the purpose of it is good. The origin of the trouble was evil in the first | place, and so, all the results which fol-| low are evil. There no union, indissoluble or otherwise, of good and evil. They are as distinct one from the other as light and darkness and as_ widely separated as heaven and hades. They are at continual war with each other, and the conflict will never cease until one or the other triumphs. is |finally and completely triumph. This should be our ‘‘beacon star of hope when evil is upon us,’’ the-wisp as believing that ‘‘good comes out of evil.’’ found together in the same thing proves be found in the same person (in all per- | sons if you please) since good and evil are acts, or their results, of but that is to be deplored, and not re- garded as a consolation. Mr. Owen’s fling at the United | Senate is in poor taste, to say the least of it. | men who have made a success of busi- ;ness and have been chosen to their pres- i | j | ent position because of their success. It is their misfortune, perhaps, that they | differ from Mr. Owen as to what is best for the business interests of the country, Furthermore, though good can never) but some people may be foolish enough come out of evil (‘‘can a good tree bring | to regard that difference as distinctly in forth evil fruit, or an evil tree good fruit?”) nor in any real sense result from it, the fact that we can see the good when the evil has passed away, is an earnest of the time when the good will It is to be pre- }sumed that the memvers of the Senate ifavor of the Senators. | |have studied the situation as closely, | |and have as good facilities for obtaining | pertinent information, as has Mr. Owen; | and not such a will-’o- | That good and evil are| |no more than that good and evil are to) absolute necessity to the trade of the} & person; | States | United States Senators are, asa rule, | and that they are as competent to reach intelligent logical conclusion may also be presumed. Even if it be true that a great majority of the people wanted repeal, that was not of itself a | sufficient reason for the passage of the an and measure by Congress, because the great majority of the people are not in a posi- |tion to know what would be an effectual | remedy for the great evil of depression which afflicts the country. Now that | Congress has passed the repeal measure, lit may be asked why this conclusion was not and the answer would be that such a measure should not be passed without the fullest and freest A mistake in legislation at | this time might easily cause even more widespread disaster than has already be- fallen the country. Mr. Owen’s at- tempted witticism at the expense of the sooner reached, | | discussion. | Senate may please some people, who, like himself, have studied only surface indica- tions, but will not affect the situation to any remarkable extent. DANIEL ABBOTT. li — Alm Use Tradesman Coupon Books. he resident of the Mnited States of America, GREETING : Whereas, «... Ne.s Jersey, in the Third Circuit, To HENRY KOCH. salesmaem and w ur Clerks, attorneys, ager ., rkmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the r the on th United States for the District ot part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein J } g ’ , , g complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY 5 Complainant. is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. P ’ g g Pp. Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and ll clai Lik Ciadl ming or he through or under you, vader the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in cas lience, that you do absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawf using word ‘‘SAPOLIO.” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in co! th manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produce i by or for the Complainant, d ly or indirectly By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Compiainant’s s t ture i from in any way using the word “SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading mann Bare Wi “RY yee The honorable MELVILLE W. FULL Chief Justi f the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at t C Trenton n said District of New Jerscy, this 16th day of December, V Lor me thousand, eight | ir and ninety-two, [sEAL] [SIGNED] » 02. OLIPHANT. Clerk. ROWLAND COX, Complainant ad 4 > or 4 g + e - te sa ee ¢ ks. . 4 ~+ UNCLE SAM’S ILLNESS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Our Uncle Sam is sick. The flutter of his pigeon-tail coat is not heard in the passing breeze. His dear, familiar trousers of many stripes are not seen in our public thoroughfares—they are hang- ing, limp and motionless, on a peg in the closet. That dear old hairy hat, so tall and angular, stands on its own broad- brimmed foundation in a dark corner un- der the bed, for there is no one able to wear it—our Uncle Sam is sick. Jong months his agile, lain prostrate upon a During all this time family physi- cians have been diagnosing the case. They have convened, consorted and con- voked. They have consulted, conferred, connived, consideree and confabulated. They have contended, contradicted, con- troverted, conjectured and confounded. They have conjured, consoled and con- doled, beside a long list of other ‘*cons,” but they don’t know tient. Our Unele Sam is awful sick—and that is all the doctors know about it. Some say he is debilitated through a lack of silver in his system, while others find too much silver in his circulation, For six manly form has bed of sickness. his what ails the pa- caused, they claim, by overindulgence and dissi- pation, and they say that the only remedy is an injection of chloride of gold. A good many assert that it is a clear case of indigestion, brought on by a sudden change of diet, which oecurred about a year ago; and still others—and they com- prise the larger portion of the medical staff at present entrusted with the care of the patient—admit the fact of indiges- tion, but deny that it was caused by the late change of diet. They say our ven- erable Uncle has been leading a fast life for the last score of years; that he gay old sport and a high kicker, and that his growth has been pitched into him faster than he could mow it away. They would have believe that our Uncle Samuel hasn’t gone to bed sober for more than twenty years and that the refusal of his vital organs to perform their duty at present simply the result of a breakdown of bis over-stimulated system. is a us is Some of them are mean enough to insin- uate that our poor, languishing Uncle is not as sick as he pretends to be; that he is mulish and vindictive, and that, when a change was made a year ago in the management of his household affairs, he became morbidly despondent through fear that his toddy—without which, owing to long continued and excessive indulgence, life would be intolerable— might be reduced in quantity, or cut off entirely. To advance this theory is a mean thing to do fortwo reasons: First, it is mean to insinuate that Uncle Sam is not as sick as he pretends to be when I knew, you know, and everybody knows that he is almighty sick, helplessly sick, and sick all over from the crown of his bald pate to the soles of his broad feet; and, second, it is a vile defamation of the intellectual character of Uncle Sam to insinuate that he mistrusted the inten- tions of his new domestic servants (not- withstanding their previous threats) to! such an extent that it caused him to lose confidence in himself and turn up his toes, when every numbscull knows that his new help were only talking through | their hats and had not the least idea of scaring our Unele into petrifaction. These quack doctors don’t know what they are talking about. Uncle Sam is not the kind of fellow to shut up shop and go to bed while the sun shines, un- less something is really the matter with him. When he feels all right he cuts a wider swath and dips in farther than any other fellow in the universe, and it takes something more than the dumb ague to hang him on the fence. He’s a corker when he gets a move on, but he’s having an awful sick spell at present. He has been under the weather for some time, and the family is getting into a bad fix. When the head of the house is laid up, everything stops, and when he is knocked out for a whole season like Uncle Sam has been, winter is apt to set in with a scanty supply of fodder and a big accum- ulation of doctor bills. In Unele Sam’s ease it begins to look as though he would | either kick the bucket or get well before the doctors find out what ails him. His only chance for recovery is that the fam- ily doctors will keep on wrangling over the proper remedy to be used, until he begins to mend, for he is too low at pres- ent to stand any kind of treatment with any degree of safety. There is nothing serious about the case, if they will only leave him alone and give paturea chance. The vitality of Uncle Samuel something wonderful, and he _ will be around in due time to start things going again if the quack doctors will only keep their nands off him. There cause for alarm only in the difficulties which we will have to encounter in get- ting through the winter. The fact is, Unele Sam’s physical en- durance, great as it is, is inadequate to support his prodigious ambition. His eyes are several sizes larger than his stor- age capacity, which will account for his great proneness to bite off more than he ean chew, chew more than he can swal- low, swallow more than he can digest, and digest more than he knows what to do with. About a quarter of a century ago Uncle Sam had a fuss in his family. Several of his hot-headed boys left home and set up for themselves. Uncle Sam went after them and flogged them all the way back home again. This family rum- pus him considerable time and money beside a lot of blood, and when peace was restored he rolled up _ his sleeves and pitched into work to make up his losses; but his ambition was too much for his natural strength and he commenced to take stimulants. This made him see double, and straightway he set up a tariff distillery of his own. Im- pulsive, nervous, ambitious and exceed- ingly ‘‘smart,” this stimulant produced an effect on him which was _ perfectly amazing. It limbered his joints, har- dened his muscles and sent the current of life coursing through his veins at a high rate of speed. It gave him super- natural strength, and a voracious, abnor- mal appetite. Everything he touched turned into money. ‘To start up and de- velop any new undertaking, it was only necessary to take a vigorous pull at his favorite beverage when, presto! it was | accomplished. For twenty years our) Uncle Samuel led a fast and furious life. The growth of his business was phenom- enal. It assumed gigantic proportions and the demand for hired men became So | great that every human and inhuman | abode in the earth, above the earth and | beneath the earth was drawn upon to| meet it. The old settlers were astound- ed at his marvelous success. The idea our is is no eost |of an upstart like Uncle Sam, after one- | | half of his family had tried for four long | jat last decided upon a gold cure, and let | From Chicago and Kalamazoo.. 9 40 p m | For Cincinnati...............-.. 6:30am 7:0 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:05 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm For Cincinnati.............+0..- 6:15 6:00 pm | For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:40 pm 11:20 pm From Saginaw...........sceesss. 11:50 a m From Saginaw. .........-s+-s+<+: 10:40 p m THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 years to tear him and the other half into pieces, suddenly springing into promi- nence and for 25 years develop more business and aceumulate more wealth than they and their forefathers ever dreamed of, seemed more like the recital of a fairy tale than the accomplishing of a veritable fact. It was a giddy whirl of excitement. It was a mighty overreach- ing—a violent overstretching. wild plunge of business Our Uncle’s appetite knew As the stimulant spurred his digestive organs on to greater and still greater ef- It was a intoxication. no bounds. forts, it only caused his ecapacious jaws to wag the faster, increasing the physical strain and hastening the of collapse. No wonder our Uncle Sam is sick. wonder that is feverish brain inevitable day No has lost its cunning and his jaws refuse to wag. It is no wonder that his digestive organs have no present use for raw material. It is only the legitimate result of a career of dissipation; a calling to account by outraged nature; a snapping of the chords long kept keyed up at high ten- sion; a bursting of the flues from a pres- sure unreasonable, unnatural and unpar- alleled in intensity. The doctors have us all hope that our dear old Uncle will speedily recover, sign the pledge and lead a more natural, temperate life in the future—but the mighty horde of for- eign help that will be left to shift for themselves and encroach upon the rights of his own legitimate children will re- main as one of the unavoidable evil re- sults of his past intemperate life. Moral—Nations are not unlike individ- uals in many respects. BE. A. OWEN. So Couldn’t Fool Her. Precise Maiden Aunt (trying to amuse Kate, who has come to spend the day)— Oh, see pussy washing her face. Infant (with scorn)—She’s not wash- ing her face; she’s washing her feet and wiping them on her face. —— 2 As it Should Be. ALMA, Oct. 31—I have received a marked copy of THe TRADESMAN, in which I see that Hayt & Viiet succeed L. H. Hayt in the book and notion business. This is a mistake, as I still carry on the book and bazaar business, but I have formed a partnership with W. C. Vliet and opened up a grocery in the next store west of my book store, and the gro- cery business is under the name of Hayt & Viiet. Yours truly, i. A. Bayt. } PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Carefully selected Greenings, Spys and Baldwins command #2.75@3 per bbl. No.2 stock is held at 22.50 per bbl, Beans — Dry stock is coming in freely Handlers pay $1.40 for country cleaned and $1.50 for country picked. Butter—Hardly so strong as a week ago owing to the large amount of butterine thrown on the market. Jobbers pay about 23c for choice dairy, holding at 25ec. Creamery commands 30@3-c. Cabbage—Home grown, #2@3 per 100. Carrots—2:¢ per bushel. Cranberries—Early Blacks from Cape Cod have put in an appearance, commanding $2 per bu. | crate or #6 per bbl. The quality is fine, the col- | oring being superb. Celery—Home grown commands 15c per doz. | E gs—The market is about the same as a Handlers pay 18c, holding at 20c per | week ago. doz. Grapes— New York Concords command 20c pe 8-lb. basket. Catawbas bring 25c, while Malagas in 55-ib. kegs bring 85. r Honey— White clover commands 16c per Ib, dark buck wheat brings l4c. Onions—Home grown are weak and slow of sale owing to the large amount of stock thrown on the market. Handlers pay 4c, holding at 50c per bu. Spanish are in small demand at $1.40 per crate. Potatoes—The market is still weaker and lower than a week ago, dealers paying 45c here and 40c at the principal outside buying points. With the Boston market glutted with the Maine crop, and western markets glutted with the Minnesota crup, Michigan growers must take 40c or wait for a more favorable turn of the market, Should the new tariff reduce the duty on Cana. dian potatoes, the price would not only be like- ly to go lower, but would, in all probability, de- cline to the level of the Canadian basis. | Squash-Hubbard 1c per lb. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $3.75 and | Baltimores $2.50 per bbl. i Turnips—25c per bu. WILLIAM CONNOR will be at Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids, Customers’ expenses allowed wao meet him there. KD MINTER 193 It will pay merchant. to +ee our samp'es and learn our reduced prices of the balance of our stock of READY MADE CLOTHING. Having been established for thirty-six ye»rs is. we trust sufficient pr» f of our statility. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO, or you can write our Michi an representative, MR WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call upon you, and buy or not buy, we will thank you for the compliment. “MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Cloifing Manulocturers, ROCHESTER, N. ¥. Mich.. on FRIDAY, NOV. 10. Vegetable Scoop Forks. ows H i , Rea lease CRE NF = = aN. 5 Hl 6 EOE ee ae In shoveling potatoes or other vegetables from wagon box or floor with the forks as they have been made, either the load on the fork must be forced up hill sharply, or the head of the fork lowered as the push con- If the head of the fork is lowered the points will be raised and tinues. run into the potatoes. The sharp edge of oval-tined forks will bruise pota- toes and beets, and the ordinary points will stick into them. These difficulties are entirely overcome by our SCOOP FORK. round tines and flattened points. OUT RAISING THE POINTS. work. It has 1T WILL LOAD TO THE HEAD WITH- It also holds its load and hangs easy to The superiority of our SCOOP FORK over the wire scoop is in its much greater durability and handiness. and will last for years. The utility of this fork is not limited to vegetables. it is all made from one piece of steel It will be found excellent for handling coal, lime, sawdust, fine manure and a great variety OSTERZAT EVENS of uses. & G: ONRQ v ST. R ¥ ~ t. * e ca 4 - « A. E. BROOKS & CoO., Manufacturing Confectioners, have a specially fine line for the fall trade—now ready RED-'- SYAR -:- COUGH-- DROPS They are the cleanest, purest and best goods in the market. Cracker Chests. Glass Covers for BIsCUlts. i VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & UD, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Garpets and Cloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Voigt, Herpolsteimer & C0, “> Grana Raps Grand Rapids LAMB’S WOOL SOLES. Erg OO Ny nt wpa SEATS ads: Nothing is more comfortable for tired and sore World's Fair feet then acrochet slipper. Holiday trade is near. Be prepared. We now have acomplete assortment in colors and sizes at bottom “" HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. MUSKEGON BAKERY UNITED STATES BAKING CoO,, HESE chests will soon | ' UR new glass covers are by far the pay for themselves in the handsomest ever offered to the breakage they avoid. 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. This is bound to be one of the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. { Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. Covong, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. d. A. S. Vernier, Cashier. K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Buriness. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits. DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T. J.O'Brien, A.d Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. 3S. Verdier. Price $4. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, A LADY’S CRACKERS, BISCUITS, CAKES. Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.” HARRY FOX, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICH Lene ARE THE TIMES HARD? THEN MAKE THEM EASY BY ADOPTING THE COU PON BOOK SYSTEM FUR NISHED BY THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. ‘GENUINE : VICI : SHOE, | Plain toe in opera and opera toe and €, S. heel. ' Dand E and E E widths, a: $1.50. Patent leather tip, $155. Try them, they are beanties. Stock | soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send | for sample dozen. | REEDER BROS, SHOE Co, Grand Rapids, Mich. F &. B. OYSTERS. Equalled by Few, Excelled by None. o---——- - PACKED BY THE —- CANDY -- COMPANY. BARGAINS IN The Following _—§—— & Model Oak sS to ves, | is the best line of Coffees in the State. All roasted by CHASE . Bis & SANBORN. The best air tight Oak Stove on the market, at the lowest price. A ‘ ok IF YOU WANY THE BEST ; SQUARE BASE WITH LE ROUND AIR TIGHT OAK, THESE ARE THE COFFEES FOR YOU TO BUY. ASH PAN. Qa) Serew Dampers, = -—- a EE ——— ROAR Wi “ : : rs : : ane! i!l hold fire 48 hours. : ; sapiuaae LORROG |: Jewell’s Arabian Mocha, a a ae a Gecwenss wre cde List, each. a ace pecagee Jewell’s Old Government Java, 15 im .....-...--- +++: it 00 eee ce ee aa, 12 85 Jewell’s Old Government Java and i 17 im .......-...----- so ia Mik 14 50 Mocha, ie i ae Ch... ae Wells’ Perfection Java, = => sn kai —== = Wells’ Java and Mocha, WRITE US (egg FOR DISCOUNT. Weaver’s Blend ~ J ’ Santora, A: : F Ideal Golden Rio, This oak is as well made as any of the highest priced goods. The doors and vmrs dampers have ground edges. It has a nickel ring on top, nickel foot rail, door Compound Crushed Java. plates and latches, and is a very good looker. The screw air tight damper on round ¥ base is a great selling point, and most valuable feature. The base is one casting, Above are all in 50-pound cans, and the body heavy boiler iron. If you want to make money on oak stoves, order Ideal Java and Mocha in one and two pound cans. i before our stock is broken. H. LEONARD & SONS, MClark |: J. Grocery |. Ze ae CH, |} > \\ If You Want Good, Light, Sweet Bread and Biscuits $ ucutam™2) FERMENTUM | = a USE we MICH. THE ONLY RELIABLE ’ ‘h COMPRESSED YEAST | | SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. ‘ & QUALI 2.2 WINS ! MANUFACTURED BY ; > And you can depend on the best cont LB Fermentum Company . ity when you buy this Brand. | MAIN OFFICE: . Sr one CHICAGO, 270 KINZIE STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, ; y . . ee | MICHIGAN AGENCY: | BRUSH GOMP'Y, mmm | GRAND RAPIDS, 106 KENT STREET. oe B RU S H EB; a ———— ' Sek ais ans ek 0 kt We Oe | Address all communications to THE FERMENTUM CoO.