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He walked back and forth upon the broad hotel piazza and looked at the town, which he had not been able to see in the darkness on his arrivel the night before. The hills were all about, and broad intervales stretched away on either side. It was a beautiful view, and Richard was not wholly unresponsive. He threw away his cigar and walked down the street. He noticed with ad- miration the large yellow and white, square, strongly built, pleasant old man- sions, surrounded by acres of green grass and well-kept lawns. He could see that the village never had been desecrated by capitalists; its very air proclaimed its scorn of manufactures and the populace. It was a New England town, pure and simple, with its very shops in the side streets. It was impossible for Richard to clas- sify the people who lived in such sub- stantial old houses, so suggestive of mahogany and old silver. He had met only one country girl, and he could hardly consider her a type of the country girl, for she had spent so much time in town and in foreign tfavel. He had read a few stories of country people, but the provincialism and rustic dialect offended his good taste. As he sauntered along, one house in particular attracted his attention. It was a delightfully picturesque old home- stead, with its wide piazzas supported by heavy columns. It was far back from the elm-shaded street, with trees and vines and flowers all about it. Like all the lawns this was green, velvety, and well kept. Powdered wigs, silver buckles, knee breeches, brocades, courtesies, and min- uets were everywhere sug gested. Richard wondered what sort of people were left to keep up the old-time aris- tocracy. It would be iconoclastic to imagine them rustic, yet— Ah! that might be a Dorothy coming out the door. She paused to gather a few of the climbing roses, then moved on among the other flowers. She was dressed very simply ina quaint gown of white, yet it was allin the fashion of the present day. He could not see her full in the face,. but the oval and bloom of her cheek, the light curls about her forehead, the low coil of hair on her neck, the modeling of the upraised arms, the outline of her figure, emphasized his first impression that she was beautiful and suggested that she might grace other than a country house. Richard walked on through the village until he came to a road that led to the grove beyond. There, warm and tired, he threw himself down under a tree to rest in the shade. For a little while all was quiet; then the sound of hoofs, the barking and bounding of dogs, and a horse and its rider passed by him. He had recog- nized something familar in the figure of the woman in the saddle. By and by, as he turned his steps to the village, he came to the bend in the road, and saw, standing there, the young girl who had ridden past him, trying to tighted the saddle girth. Richard walked a little faster, lifted his hat and asked if he could be of service. He had soon straightened the saddle, buckled the strap, and was left walking. toward the hotel. ‘‘A truly rural incident,” he laughed to himself. ‘‘Those straps are always breaking in the country—that is, if Ican trust to the story writers who are always constructing plots about them—but they are a little hackneyed at present, thongh.” He wished that Guy Stuydevant were with him, though he would not in the slightest be interested in a country girl. Richard had a clear mental photograph of the girl whom Guy would marry. She would be tall, and dark, and proud. She need not have money, but she must have irreproachable connections. Richard sometimes wondered about the girl he himself would marry. Not that he had ever been in love, or was in haste to wed. His batchelor apartments at the club were as comfortable as they were expen- sive—and he knew that three thousand a year was a beggarly income for one, much less for two. In his boyhood he had decided that beauty would win the day; a little latter he had thought that a fortune—with or without beauty, if it must be so—would go along way in her favor. He needed no one to help him establish a social position—that was done for him years before he was born. And, besides ancestry and a coat of arms, he had height and breadth, and asufiiciently attractive face and manner to insure a ready smile from all women. A week had passed Richard tightened the saddle girth, and the pretty figure on horseback was quite familar to him. In fact there seemed nothing to do in Hillsboro’ but ride or walk. There were a few people at the hotel, but Richard did not find their society espe- cially enlivening, so he was thrown upon his own resources for amusement. Inthe morning he walked in one direction, in the evening, in the opposite. It was be- coming unbearably stupid. The season at Newport was an unusually brilliant one, his friends wrote. That very night Mrs. Wheeler was to give a great ball. He thought of Harriet Wheeler. She since was undeniably plain, but would inherit such a fortune—and she had long been sighing her heart away for Richard. Well— Just then Richard glanced up to see a young woman saunteriug along before him, in the pleasant twilight. Twodogs were leaping and running through the bushes on either side. Then the trees hid the girl from Richard’s sight. The next time he glanced up, he saw a rough looking man _ stopping her, evidently begging or demanding money. She tried to pass, but the tramp seized her wrist. Richard’s college sports and record as a swift runner stood him in good service. The tramp saw Richard bearing down upon him; he hesitated a moment as tak- ing a mental inventory of the young man’s strength, then made a dash for the woods. Richard’s offered escort to her home was eagerly accepted. Her half-breath- less, tremulous manner, her cheeks flushing and paling, made him feel very chivalrous towards the defenseless crea- ture by his side. She even started nerv- ously when the dogs came crashing out the thicket. ‘‘I am sorry,’’ she faltered; ‘IT never dreamed of danger—I always walk or ride at sunset—and nothing ever happened before. I am so grateful to you—what should I have done’’— Her voice was low and pleasant, and she had none of the disagreeable man- nerisms that Richard had read about. She was almost childlike in her sim- plicity—another phase of country life, Richard theught. And it was not un- pleasant after the laissez aller of the New York bred girl. They found her mother sitting on the piazza, while the daughter, not yet self- possessed, told, in a breathless way, a tale that horrified her mother and gave the impression that Richard had behaved like a hero, dispersing an army of so- cialists. After being warmly thanked for his gallant behavior, Richard left his card, and called the next morning—after the conventional precedent in books—to in- quire for the health of the young woman he had rescued. In the brightness of the morning light and the less excited state of her daughter, Mrs. Alger was in- clined to look upon the young rescuer’s part with less enthusiasm than the even- ing before. However, she was suffi- ciently grateful, after finding that he was to be in Hilisboro’ several weeks, to in- vite him in a way that might or might not be accepted, to call again. This was a courtesy not usually given to people who came to the Hillsboro’ House. It. Richard found it very pleasant to go to the Algers’. He used to wonder, as he and Ethel talked, if she would not open her innocent blue eyes at the world—at his world. Not that the Algers were even provincial, nor that the women of his set were better bred, more gra- cious, and surely few had the sunshine and charm. Yet there seemed a wide gulf separating the simple people of or 2 “Vi RADEHS MAL a. | Hillsboro’ from the fashionable life of New York. He used to feel that perhaps he ought not go to see her quite so often. It would be such a natural thing for Ethel to fall in love with him—more experienced ones than she had been and he would be sorry gentle heart. After all, so often that went there. walked by the house Alger and Ethel sitting and he would them Then tea would be served on the piazza, so indiscreet, to wound her it was not he Sometimes as he he would see Mrs. the for an hour. on piazza, join and both mother and daughter made him welcome. When sacrifice, long. And it really was a great pleasure to sit the Algers on their great shaded piazza. Richard decided he would his conscience demanded self- it never spoke very loudly nor with not commit any indiscretions, as so many young men and surely his sufficiently marked to think he himself with to him- used to go once to see often did, in the country; attentions were not Ethel either serious her, though he self that where he to give reason was or amusing acknowledged her, it was now twice, and thrice. It was surprised that stay in a he had mentally con- demned before there. He knowledged, in a faint-hearted way, that he had reached the point where he must either run He thought less and less about how the girl would feel, but more and more how he was going to bear it now September. Richard was he could se contentedly place coming ac- away, or stay forever. himself. His own state of mind was quite absorbing. He had he made his way up the wa! AS k, he missed decided to say good-bye. the familiar figures he but house he heard some one singing. He had that Ethel sang. There was delightfully sym- pathetic about her voice, and cultivated, too. That might accounted for at poarding school, though usually the re- sult of those lessons was not so pleasant. usually found on the piazza, as he drew nearer not known something be The outer hall door was open and Richard went in. He drew aside the} drapery and softly rapped. Ethel came forward. He thought he had never seen any one half Her little flushed, her eyes a sentimental grace all about her—perhaps so beautiful. cheeks were a from the song—perhaps from his pres- | ence. His heart leaped wild!y. He felt a] gentle jonging, a delicious thrill that | heart melt determined to made his lips tremble and his within him. But he was do nothing he would regret left among old when Hilis- and he was again He steady himself by wondering if he would boro’ was behind associations. tried notice the difference between Ethel and other young women in a New York draw- ing room. to present her to would adapt herself to the artificiality of the set. He would not like the club men to inquire for his Hillsboro’ Phyllis. He wished there to see her. all the with a word that expressed tae whole. Ah, Ethel! Richard begged for a song, then an- other, and sat like He admired the wonderful colonial harmony of the furnishings of the room; the old mahogany, the bare and polished floors, his friends smart Guy were shortcomings one dreaming. the | little dewy, a} to} Whether he would quite dare | ; how she! Guy always gathered together | the faded rugs and tapestries that spoke of other days and other lands; the inlaid desk and tables, the quaint chairs and sofas. There were a few jars and rare curios, a Japanese screen, old lace draperies be- hind the wooden shutters, which swayed in the light breeze; clusters of roses, whose perfume filled the room, were in Sevres vases. There were many books about; indeed, the large carved table in the center of the room was a confusion of books and magazines—English, French, and German. Could it be that Ethel had taught in some seminary! His heart sank within him. The walls were tures, pictures he was in Hillsboro’—etchings copies from the old masters, and unfin- ished sketches. Now he remembered that Mr. Alger was an artist, and, as he clearly revealed to him. country gentle- | the old man- evidently married some man’s daughter, sion was left. Now he thought it strange that in see- | ing the Algers so much he knew so little | about them. Hedid not know what they | had al! talked about those long summer he had done most of afternoon, to whom days—he fancied the talking. This he was quite distrait and silent. Miss Alger who talked, and if he had not however been so pregecupied, ticed that she talked very well. As it was, afternoon had gone, that the shadows were long and slanting, and that the time Ethel. heart cried for sympathy. he was sorry for her. It was so difficult to when tbey were so frank—yet being a country girl, and inexperienced Still, in his selfish sorrow he began to think he would feel a cruel satisfaction 'in seeing her long lashes droop and her |eolor fade when he should tell her he was to leave Hillsboro’. And Ethel— the same thrill, that something | made her presence unspeakably heaven- ly, then his heart grew like lead, and when he found voice to speak of going away, not meet her eyes, but looked out over the lawn to the spot | where the dogs were lazily stretched out he could in the shade. He did not dare look Ethel in the face. He knew her sweet lids must quiver; if he should behold her pain he would be utterly lost. 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IMPORTED AND CLEANED BY Grand Rapids Fruit Cleaning Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 { He failed in this, and began going over the same mental ground he had been traveling the last twenty-four hours. He had made no mistake—there could be no complications. He thought of his income. Three thousand dollars! It would take that sum to dress a wife properly—dinner gowns, evening, walking, driving, recep- tion and ball costumes; jewels, laces, bonnets, wraps, shoes, gloxes, parasols! Ethel seemed to have simple enough tastes now, but in the whirlpool of fash- ion she might lose her head. He had often pictured to himself the sort of establishment he would like to own. There must also be.a country house, a yacht; then the dinners, the flowers, the horses, the wines. He ’must give up all these ideas of matrimonial bliss if he were to marry Ethel. Stocks had so depreciated that the income on his father’s property amounted to searce- ly three thousand dollars. It was mad- ness for a man in his social position to think of marrying a girl without a for- tune. Yet he could not bear to think of her marriage. It would be a country lawyer, probably. He wondered how Ethel would carry off the responsibilities of hostess, how she would Jook in an opera box. After all, his club apartments were delightful. What if Ethel should not regard the cus- toms of the Wyndhams? She seemed to take guidance from a sort of revolution- ary spirit, probably the same that led her mother to ignore tradition and marry an artist. Ethel used, with a sweep of her pretty hand and aturn of her stately neck, to renounce some of the very things that were indispensable to the people he knew. Sometimes he used to fancy she was not a novice in social matters. Yet they had never talked of the fashionable world, for he had not wished to embar- rass her about that which she had never seen. He could imagine how she would open her pretty blue eyes at the merry-go- round of society. At such times he felt he could forego everything, and take Ethel by the hand and livein an Arcadian spot. But he was afraid that piping to sheep might become monotonous after the first flush of springtide was over. As the weeks went on Richard loathed the city. He longed to go back to Hills- boro’ where he could once more sit on the old piazza and look into the face that haunted his dreams. It was on these keen autumn mornings, when the sun shone brightly and cleared away the mists, that walking or riding would be so delightful. Ethel would call her dogs —he could see her now, erect in the sad- dle, galloping over the country, Don and Duke bounding on before. The impulse was strong upon him. He would fling up everything and go back to the dear voice that was calling him. But everything seemed to conspire to keep him in New York. The autumn was growing late. Familiar faces were again upon the streets, and houses were once more inhabited. The Stuydevants were at home, and Richard was about to look up Guy, when he received cards to a ball, and a note from Guy telling him it was to be given in honor of his be- trothed. O80 Guy was engaged! Richard was quite unprepared for that news—he was not so anxious to see Guy after all. He felt a cold despair creep over him, with the conviction that after seeing Guy’s| fiancee he would postpene his visit to Hillsboro’. Guy was engaged. And unhappy Richard did not try to find him to con- gratulate him and wish him happiness. He was very unresponsive to his friend’s happiness. He heard his aunts speaking about the size of the girl’s fortune, her beauty, her honorable and ancient family name, her distinguished connections. Richard listened with a sigh. was a lucky dog— Ah, Ethel! Richard paced up and down Lis room some time atter the hour appointed by the Stuydevants to receive their guests. He regarded his reflection in the mirror, face to face, and felt a certain satisfac- tion that would not be put down. As he drew near the Stuydevants’, he Guy WE rIAVE POUND IT. saw carriage after carriage roll up and away, its occupants passing under the canvas canopy that extended from the curbing to the door that was continually opening and closing. The brilliantly lighted, the vestibule set with plants and palms. Strains of music floated out upon the night air, yet Rich- ard dismissed his coachman, and decided to walk a little.before going in to see Guy’s betrothed. An hour later he entered the swinging door, and caught glimpses of shining jewels, white shoulders, a mingling of black coats with rich silks and dainty laces. He breathed the perfume of flowers, and heard the seductive refrain of ‘‘A Thousand and One Nights’’ waltz. When he came down stairs the rooms were a little less crowded, for the dancers had sought the ball room, and Richard more easily made his way to Mrs. and house was Miss Stuydevant. They murmured something about his meeting Guy’s fiancee. He was listening in only a dreamy sort of way, for he sawthe dark tall creature standing near Guy—but his gaze was riveted upon a beautiful girl near Miss Stuydevant. The blood mounted to his face, he looked at her with his soul in his eyes. She stood calm and smiling and well dressed, but with the same simplicity as last summer at Hillsboro’. Now he saw it was that very simplicity which gave her distinction, and she seemed to belong as much to this scene as to the great house in the country. How came she here! Whatif she had not a queenly fortune—he loved her! He cared not for poverty. He would follow the guidance of his heart and will. What if the woman by Guy’s side were radiant in glitter and jewels—his dear one carried only flowers. The other was tall and dark and proud—his dear one was fair and sweet and gentle. With her any spot were paradise. How had he lived these few months away from her? Bah! Society! What did he care for that? It was selfish and hollow. He went swiftly toward Ethel while she smilingly advanced a few steps. Her manner was as sweet and gracious and frank as ever. She looked at him with her face radi- ant, and her eyes shining with a softly illuminated brightness. Richard ceased wondering how she happened there—such was his joy to greet her. *‘Ah, Miss Alger!” he cried in an im- passioned tone. ‘‘It is such a delight to 80-pound OO nee an a Tierces .. WHAT ? That which we and the trade have been looking for. A FANCY BUTCHER’S LARD. (ee me WESTERN MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR GH HAMMOND COS SUPERIOR BUTTERINE Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go, VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & U0, WHOLESALE Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks, We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. 48, 50, 52 Ottawa St. Grand Rapids. 63 (Continued on page 7.) HEYMAN COMPANY, Manufacturers of Show Gases of Kuery Description. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. and 68 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. WRITE FOR PRICES. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE, AROUND THE STATE. Rockford—Chas. H. Krantz has opened a meat market. lonia—A. E. Shelley has sold his cigar business to G. A. Sherwood. Negaunee—Oscar Field bit & Field in general trade. Sheridan—M. Gray, grocer, is ceeded by the Cash Grocery Co. Decatur—H. S. Crane succeeds C. H. Crane in the grocery business. Marquette— Mack & Gibson succeed J. F. Mack & Son in the meat business. Amble—G. C. Ward has opened a gro- cery stock in the postoffce building. Woodland—Schantz & Co. are sueceed- ed by Schantz Bros. in general trade. Hartford—Riegel Bros. sueceeds suc- suceeed L. W Riegel! in the grocery and bazaar busi- ness. Detroit—J. T. Hurt succeeds J. T. Hurt & Co. in the boot and shoe busi- ness. Jonesville—Louis Strauss has removed his clothing stock from Sturgis to this piace. Maple Rapids—Otto Crawford & Bullis in the boot and business. Grayiing—Hansen & Braden, general have dissolved, Braden & Forbes Bullis succeeds shoe dealers, succeeding Owosso—Daniel L. appointed receiver for of Hogan & Carmody. Stanton—C. E. Howell will to partnership Jan. 1 in store of J. N. Crusoe. Belding—F. Murphy has been the grocery firm be admitted the general Palmer has opened a grocery in the building recently vacated by Lamb Bros. Dunn Mine—Max Berlowitz & Co., dissolved, A. L. business. store gen- eral dealers, have Bach continuing the Marquette—H. H. Stafford & Co. ceed H. H. Stafford, Son & Co. in wholesale and retail drug business. Secor has been ad- mitted to partnership with J. M. Markle, dealer in groceries and confectionery. suc- the Ludington—Louis Kelly & Bowen, hardware, Lawrence stove and agricultural ers, Hastings—Ed. Schuman has purchased the meat market of F. L. and will the same Beaverton—M. Blumenthal has sold a implement deal- are succeeded by Kelly & Rowland. Fopias, #f., continue business at the 1 ; Y iocation. part of his stock of general merchandise to Jos. Gettelson and removed the bal- ance to Standish. Jackson—Riggs & Winslow have de- cided to sell groceries for cash only here- abandoned the long credit system Dee. 1. Middleville—M. M. Hodge half interest in his grocery stock to Frank Lee. The own as Hodge & Lee. after, having formally has sold a his son-in-law, new firm will be ku Richland—J. R. Hogg & Co. have doubled their capacity for business, hay- ing putastock of general merchandise OV. O. F. store building. Marengo—H. M. Evans has purchased | a stock of goods and again into the new L. embarked in business at the old stand that previous to 1883 he occupied for twenty-four years. Allegan—H. H. Cook has purchased | the interest of his partner, John W. Stegeman, iu the furniture and under- taking tirm of Covk & Stegeman, and Will Coutinue the business at the same location. Cor- | | Stanton—The Alice McFarland millin- ery stock was bid in at foreclosure sale | by Macauley & Co., wholesale millinery dealers of Detroit, who will continue the business under the management of the | former owner. Mattawan—The drug and grocery stock | of J. M. Frost was sold at chattel mort- | gage sale by B. Desenberg & Co., of Kal- amazoo, being bid in by Moshier Bros., late of Paw Paw, who will continue the business at the same location. Traverse City—Owen Schoolcraft, for many years engaged in general trade at Bellaire, has formed a copartnership with Jobn Kurts and Walter Truax and embarked in the grocery business under the style of Schoolcraft & Co. Hart—E. S. Houghtaling, earned the title of * reason of the large business he has worked up in that line, handled only forty-seven bushels this year. The crop was choice, but not so plentiful as usual. Ishpeming—A. J. Austin, the meat dealer, is a philanthropist in his way. In- stead of throwing his waste meat away, he puts it into a big cauldron, adds ecab- bage, rice and other vegetables, pours in water, and thus produces an excellent soup. Mr. Austin has kept a number of families from starvation in this way at an expense of about $1 per day. Stetson—A. J. Felter, who has been engaged in general trade here for several years, has formed a copartnership with John De Vore under the style of De Vore & Co. for the purpose of handling lines of crockery, glassware, notions, wall pa- per and stationery in a new store build- ing, 20x40 feet in dimensions, adjoining Mr. Stetson’s establishment. Mr. De Vore has clerked for Mr. Felter several years and will probably reap the reward of faithfulness in his new undertaking. Saginaw—E. St. John has given Charles H. Green a mortgage on his book and stationery stock and real estate as trustee for creditors whom he is owing $45,608.37. Those who have endorsed his paper are made preferred creditors. All of his private property, with the ex- ception of his homestead, is turned over to his creditors, including several houses and lots, which are the private property of his wife, who insisted on paying every dollar so far as their joint property would do it. Montague—Wm. Peck closed the store of the Peck Mercantile Co. and filed a bill in the Circuit Court to who has 3eechnut king’’? by foreclose a chattel mortgage given by the company to himself. The amount of the chattel mortgage is $2,526.28, which Mr. Peck claims was given to him to cover five notes given at different times. He also asked for a receiver and John H. Chap- man was appointed, with bonds of $8,000, with E. M. Ruggles and J. C. Lewis as sureties. Mr. Chapman is now in pos- session of the stock and is taking an in- ventory. The liabilities are given as $4,600. The assets are $5,000 in goods and $2,300 in accounts. The closing of j the store by Mr. Peck was done to pro- | tect his own interests in the stock from |existing judgments against against the | Peck Mercantile Co. MANUFACTURING MATTERS, Marquette—Palmer & Hopkins are cut- | ting road and will shortly begin hauling | ‘the logs recently purchased by them in | the Escanaba River. The logs are to be} loaded on cars at Paimer for shipment to this city. |and are reported to have closed a deal | for 100,000,000 feet of timber in Canada, |} and enough logs will Saginaw — Wylie Bros. wiil change | their shingle mill into a bandsaw mill, be cut thereon to stock their mill next season. Sidnaw—An extension of the Nester estate logging road from this place to Baraga is contemplated, and surveyors will begin work there shortly. The dis- tance is about twenty-five miles, almost entirely through a heavily timbered country. Manistee—The Canfield & Wheeler Co. hasaman along the river buying logs and is picking up quite a lot of hemlock and a few lots of pine. Al- ready 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 feet have been secured, to be put in on The balance of the company’s cut comes in by rail over the Manistee & North- eastern. Menominee—The two sawmills of the Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Co. cut 45,000,000 feet of lumber, besides the usual large amount of other mill prod- ucts. About 6,000,000 feet of the lumber cutis piled in the yard. The company now has twelve camps in operation and will bank about 30,000,000 feet of logs this winter. Menominee—The Bay Shore Lumber Co.’s sawmill has cut 31,000,000 feet of lumber for the season. Of this amount 12,000,000 feet is piled on the docks and in the yard. This lumber is owned by Holland, Graves & Montgomery, of Buf- falo. The company is operating three camps on Sturgeon River, about nine miles from Norway, giving employment to 125 men and sixty teams, and already has 8,000,000 feet of logs skidded. Muskegon—In accordance with the agreement entered into by the Muskegon log owners with the Muskegon Booming Company, a dredge is now on its way up the river. Itis experiencing unlimited difficulty in endeavoring to get to the places in the river where its work must be done. The probabilities are that the work will be quite expensive, and as it enters into the cost of next year’s drive, log owners, of course, are interested. Menominee—TheKirby-Carpenter Co.’s two sawmills, which are the largest pro- ducers on the river, close the season’s operations with 96,288,284 feet of lum- ber, 23,147,000 shingles and 16,848,650 lath. It is estimated that 48,000,000 feet of lumber remains in the yard at this writing. This company now has twen- ty-one logging camps in and expects to bank upward of 75,000,000 | feet during the winter. The late fall of | snow has greatly improved the roads, and 10,000,000 feet of logs are now on} the skids. Manistee—The sawmills are gradually | shutting down. The Buckley & Douglas | | | sleighs. nm operation and the Peters mills will run for some time—the Peters concern as long as they can get logs and the Buckley & Douglas all winter. The latter will saw hemlock and hardwoods, as usual, expecting to} put up about 4,000,000 feet of hardwoods | | before spring. They want about a month | for repairs and are undecided whether | they will take it in December or March. |The Manistee Lumber Co. closed down | last week, leaving only Louis Sands, Filer & Sons and the Canfield mills be- sides those above mentioned. Manistee—There has been a very free | | movement in salt, and the blocks are 4. ing their best to get all packed an, shipped before navigation closes, as | their blocks are ' shipment. | after that time they either have to hold | their product or ship out by rail, and the latter they do not take to very kindiy, as not arranged for rail Filer & Sons have about 16,- 000 barrels in bulk in their bins. The State Lumber Co. is tearing out some of its grainers and putting in new ones. A few years ago nothing but the best white pine was thought good enough for this purpose, but now hemlock plank is used entirely, and to obviate the splintering and wear under the shovels used for lift- ing the salt, the grainers are lined with maple culls, one inch thick, of which there is ore a surplus. _-.-—_ na The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is still weak, the decline of a week ago having failed to induce any rallying movement. Jobbers are buying only for immediate wants, being still sore from their recent expe- rience in attempting to anticipate the wants of thetrade. Retail dealers would do well to buy sparingly, as the present indications are that the staple will go We lower before many months shall have elapsed. — > A shoemaker down in Maine has just completed the payments for a piece of land which he bought over a dozen years ago, and for which the seller agreed to take his pay in work. The deed says that consideration for the land was “cobbling.”’ POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows: DRESSED. ee 7 @i% Turkeys -124%4@13 ite, d¢00 -10 @12 Chickens.. ide art biveetisasusince, © OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: BARRELS. eee. i 8% XXX W. W. Mich. Headiieht... ...... 4 Naptha.. ee ee cee ee. @ 6% Le SEES ENTS ia Sih aiaa @ 7% Cylinder ...... oS ee 27 36 Me a i i 13 @21 OE @ 8% FROM TANK WAGON. Eocene Sere bee se poe aeel ee 7 aux W.W. Mich, Headlicht...... 5% DO YOU WANT A LAMP ? We Want Money, And offer Lamps this week at prices that break all previous records, $1.50 Lamps at . W3e $250 Lamps at . ee renee. 148 wer OOOO. 1 63 | $4.50 Lamps at . Lee 248 eo ea oe . 2 98 $6.00 Banquet Lamps at . 3 7 | 825 Banquet Lamps, eut glass ‘founts and onyx stand at.......... 15 00 Come and See what an Upset we have | given Old Prices, May’ s Bazaar, 41 and 43 Monroe St. a a ? qs THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8 Gripsack Brigade. W. Ralph Wagers, of Fremont, is now on the road for the Darling Milling Co., of the same place. Geo. F. Schumm (Hawkins & Com- pany) submitted to a third operation on his left arm Sunday, which will keep him at home several days. Geo. H. McWilliams (Olney & Judson Grocer Co.) now makes his drives from this city with his own team—a pair of spanking bay colts which whisk him around at a 2:40 gait. John H. Payne, formerly on the road for Hawkins & Co., but more recently en- gaged with the Drummond Tobacco Co., of St. Louis, in Colorado and the Far West, is now ill at a hotel at Los Angeles, Cal. Frank E. Chase has signed with A. C. McGraw & Co. for another year. On his return home from the Elk’s banquet, a few evenings ago, he was unable to tell whether he had been with his house fif- teen or sixteen years. Geo. Gane, who traveled several years for the flour and feed department of Hannah, Lay & Co., at Traverse City, but who has lately embarked in the bakery business at Traverse City, pro- poses to resume the profession of com- mercial traveler in he can form a desirable connection. case Geo. W. Stowitts will on January 1 en- ter upon his fourth year with the West- ern Suspender and Neckwear Co., of Mansfield, Ohio. He will leave about Dec. 10 for the factory to get spring samples, combining business and _ pleas- ure on this trip. Mrs. Stowitts will ac- company him and spend the holidays with her brother, returning home Janu- ary 20. The regular monthly meeting of Post E, Michigan Knights of the Grip, will be held at Elk’s Hall Saturday evening, when every member is expected to be present, as arrangements will then be made to attend the annual meeting of the organization in Saginaw. All traveling men who expect to attend the convention are invited to be present at the meeting, whether members of the Post or not. It is hoped that the number who go to Sag- inaw will be large enough to make ample amends for past lapses in this respect. The members of Post C, Knights of the Grip, held a meeting at the Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Saturday evening, to learn as far as possible how many mem- bers would attend the annual meeting of the Association in Dec. 27. There members in Post C, and, from the number who signified tention of going to Saginaw, Saginaw are 335 their in- it is thought 200 If a party suitable in that an excursion party of members zan be formed. size ean be excursion rate lower than the half fare rate already ac- organized an corded will be granted by the railroad. —_ 2 <-> The Hardware Market. General trade has been good the past week in all lines of hardware. The snow storm seemed to have been quite very general in Western Michigan and to have had a good effect trade. Very few lines of however, show any im- provement in prices and the seems to be lower. Wire Nails—At the low prices which are being named on carload shipments from mill for future, many orders are being placed. We quote $1.20 at mill for January and February, which does | not indicate any prospect of higher | on goods, tendeney prices; $1.60 for stock is the average | market. Sleigh Bells—The demand, owing to} the snow, has started up with a good | deal of briskness. are soon broken, as jobbers purchased | sparingly, fearing an oven winter. We quote string bells at 90c@$2 a string. Snow Shovels—The demand being large and stoeks very low, all the manufac- turers are sold out, and cannot promise to fill orders for at least fifteen days; and, as no one can tell what the weather will be in that time, jobbers hesitate about placing an order. Hand Sleighs—In sympathy with bells and snow shovels, the demand for sleighs has not been so good in many years; and, as we have had three bad winters, all manufacturers have been pursuing a conservative course and are caught with very light stocks; and as jobbers do not stock up ahead as they did years ago, somebody will have to go without. Crosscut Saws—Are moving nicely. The Atkins, Simonds and Lumberman’s Pride seem to take the lead. Should we have a good, old-fashioned winter, we may look for a good demand. We quote Atkins at 30c per foot; Lumberman’s Pride, 30e; Simonds 6-foot, $4.80; foot,-35. —— less 25 per cent. Window Still in a demoralized condition, and prices seem to be moving downward, 80 and 10 by the box seeming to be regular. As a result, stocks | i 0% nr Card from the Valley City Milling Co. GRAND Rapips, Dee. 4—In the pub- lished proceedings of your meeting, held Nov. 20, you quote Mr. Peter Schuit as saying, ‘‘Lily White appears to be sold at all kinds of prices,” and Mr. Daniel Viergiver as saying, ‘‘That the Valley Jity Mills retail from one to two tons a day.” Both these statements are incor- rect and do us great injustice. The facts are we have only one price (discount, if any), based upon terms and quantity, as in every other line of business. As for our asking all the way from $1.50 to $1.75 per 100, we can say that since Nov. 13 we have asked no more than $1.65 in small lots, on usual terms, and no less than $1.55 in large quantities on a cash basis. Mr. Viergiver has not favored us with his orders, nor have we had any dealings whatever with him, and he is not, therefore, in a position to talk about how we do business. We desire to state, distinetly and once for all, that we do not do a retail business, but, on the con- trary, have referred scores of people to their nearest retail grocer. Sinee the hard times began we have made free de- livery of flour to the poor and needy when asked todo so by some generous citizen desiring to relieve distress, and to our own employes who help make the flour and do our business we always have furnished and always expect to fur- nish flour at wholesale price. Referring again to prices, no retailer can say we have sold him, or even offered him, ‘‘Lily White’? flour for less than $1.55 per 100, and if there is one who can say we have, we invite him to do so. We have been decidedly misrepresented, and, no doubt, unintentionally, by the gentle- men referred to, and would suggest that members of your Association investigate grievances of all kinds very carefully before making publie statements harm- ful either to a jobber or a manufacturer. Sincerely yours, VALLEY City MILLING Co. Rowk, Mgr. A From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: A. J. Felter, Stetson. O. D. Blanchard & Son, Casnovia. B. S. Reed, Hart. Parkhurst Bros., Nunica. C. F. Sears, Rockford. De Vore & Co., Stetson. A. Purchase, South Blendon. | wy. Pr SALE OR E} | general merchandise. Purely Personal. A. W. Niblock, who opened a tailoring establishment at Saginaw about a y ago, but was taken ill shortly afterwards, recently died at the Pontiae insane | asylum. Dr. C. P. Parkill, senior the- drug firm of Parkill Owosso, died last week from of a kidney trouble. im Lewiston, N. Y¥., in been engaged in the Owosso since 1865. cle of friends and the spent life. member of & Son, at the effects Deceased was born 1820, drug business at and had legacy of a well- i i ell E. E, Bisbee and G. W. Bisbee have formed a copartnership under the style of Bisbee Bros. and opened a_ general store at Paris. The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. supplied the groceries and Swartout & Downs the furnishing goods. ~~ —<- The Committee on Trade Interests of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation has promulgated the following schedule of prices on granulated sugar: 5 cents per pound; 5 pounds for 25 cents: 10 pounds for 50 cents; 20 pounds for $1. ALSATIAN Every sensible man you meet will ad- mit that he was a foot last week. Seme men who start out to set the world on fire give up at the first thunder- clap. PRODUCE MARKET Apples—The market is almost entirely bare of stock, ordinary Russets commanding $1 per bu., while selected Greenings, Spys and Baldwins bring $4 per bbl. Beans—Lower and dull. Handlers pay $1.25 for country cleaned and $1.35 for country picked. Butter—-About the same as a week ago. Deal- ers pay 18@20c for choice dairy, holding at 20@ 22c. Creamery is slow sale at 28c. Cabbage—Home grown, $5 per 100. Carrots—20c per bushel. Cranberries—Cape Cod are a little weaker, commanding $2.25 per bu. and % per bbl. Jer- seys are in moderate demand at $5.75. Celery—Home grown commands 15@18c per doz. Eggs—The market is about the same as a week ago. Handlers hold fresh at 2Ic and pickled at 20¢c per doz. Grapes—New York Concords command 15c per 8-lb. basket. Catawbas bring 25c, while Malagas in 55-lb. kegs bring 84@5. California Tokays are the cheapest ever known at this market, com- manding $2.50 per 8-basket crate. Honey— White clover commands 15c? per Ib., dark buckwheat brings I8@l4e. Lettuce—Grand Rapids forcing, 12% Nuts—Walnuts and butternuts, Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu. Onions—Home grown are weak and slow of sale owing to the large amount of stock thrown on the market. Handlers pay 40c, holding at 50e per bu. Spanish are in small demand at $1.25 per crate. Potatoes—The market is about the same as a week ago, handlers paying 45c here and 40@42¢ at outside buying points. Squash—Hubbard, 1%c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command $3.50@4 per bbl. Baltimores “re out of market. Turnips—25e per bu. ec per Ib. per bu. jae FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. A ’{ GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN A GOOD business. XCHANGE—FOR GRAND real estate, a ne w stock of clothing and nishing goods, invoicing from $5,000 to Ad cers No. 815, care Mic igan Tradesm iw MILE. NEA ne Ww, c apable of cutting 50000 feet to-mor- Must be sold soon. Big bargain for cash buyer. For particulars address, Holmes & De Goit Tustin, Mich. 814 LS age SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF groceries paints, oils, sundries, I ratus, etc..in a live, growing manufacturing town of 2,000; will invoice about 4 000; two other drug stores; good business: increased; best location; three years’ trade. Reasons for selling wish to outdoor pursuits. Address Lock ville, Mich. S11 | ae SALE—CITY DRUG STORE. GOOD location on prominent business street. In- voice $1,+00. Good business. Investigation so licited, Address Castoria, care of carrier Wells, Grand Rapids, Mich. 803 Per SALE—83,500 STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise and two-story building. Rail road, 50) population. Established strictly cash business. Center of town. Best farming see tion of Michigan. Bargain. W. H. Pardee, Freeport, Mic h. 804 A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS. bo ts, shoes and groceries to exchange for Lansing e ity property or improved farms. Ad dress F.C Brisbin, Lansing, Mich 824 V ANTED. -TO EXCHANGE A VALUABLE farm of 160 acres for merchandise or per sonal property. The farm is located near a thriving town, 45 acres oo balance heavy ily timbered. Address No. 805, care Michigan Trade man. S05 \ JANTED—TO EXCHANGE, DESIRABLE Kalamazoo real estate for merchandise. ( Jalvin Forbe 8, , Kalam: izoo, Mie h 806 _ SITU ATIONS WANTE D. W ANXTED- SITUATION IN A FIRST-CLASS drug store, with view of purchasing a business after six or eight Address No &28, care Michigan Trades 828 TRIM- Discarded because Lamoreaux S16 RAPIDS fur 36 O00. row. DRUGS, soda appa lease; no engage in Box 5, North- half or whole of months. man W: ANTED—POSITION AS WINDOW mer, book-keeper or salesman, by young man of five years’ experience in general store. References if desired. Address No. 829, care Michigan Tradesman. £29 W: ANTED--A practical druggist, with some capital, to take charge of a first-class drug store. Address C. L. block, Muskegon, Mich. 756 HARRY HARMAN’S | SCHOBL OF WINTON DRESSING AND) PECORATING, A monthly publication. Displays line of business. HOLIDAY EDITION 25 CTs. (No stamps.) 1204 Woman’ 8s Temple, Chicago. Brundage, opera house for every @ Dri ve IN ALL aK ¢ (SMT. EDGE) RIBBONS. Having purchased a large lot of All Silk Ribbons at the great per- emptory sale in New York for cash, we are enabled to offer you the fol lowing bargains: oe Na ¢................ 68c /|\ NO 84c assort you a box each and 12, at 524%c aver can select your own Or we will of Nos. 5, 7,9 age, and you colors. We make a specialty of Ribbons, and you will find that we have the largest and most complete stock of these goods in the State We solicit your inspection mail orders. Corl, Knott & Co., 20-22 No Division St, or 'GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE MICHIGAN CRANBERRY. In the early days of Michigan history | it was very common to hear the remark, ‘**The marshes are red with cranberries,” and among the early settlers the berry became a very winter supply, at the established price of 2 bushel. From numerous sources of informa- tion, lam Jed to believe there were as many or more wild cranberries in Michi- gan in the early days as in Wisconsin, but so negiectful have the later settlers of our State been of this gift of nature that I doubt if the value of the Michigan crop has ever been as much as $50,000 in one year, while many cropsof Wisconsin have probably been sold for as much as $500,000. A great share of the lands that were by nature cranberry lands have been turned to less profitable uses, some of them possibly to better purposes, such as the celery lands of Kalamazoo and other points. There are yet many pieces of waste land in our S ate that can be made valuable for this fruit, but care and ex- perience are needed to select the places having the right conditions. Cranberry without expert experience, is like the In- dian’s terse description of the white man, water condi- 5 cents per growing, something and unless soil, from frost the business is ‘*heap uusartin,’ supply and freedom tions are all favorable, risky and uncertain. There are some plantations about the Traverse Bay region that are very suc- cessful, and others scattered about the State. I do not know of any having more perfect frost protection than the “Grand Mere’? farm near St. Josepb, where we have lost but one crop in four- teen yeurs from frost. This land ic practically a ‘‘bayou” alongside the great lake, with just elevation enough for drainage. The average Michigan native are not as dark colored as are those from Cape Cod, and the superstition has be- come well established in many that the superior to berries minds cranberries are light colored ones, but this has proven fallacious, over and over again, and the superior fine fruity fiavor of the Michigan berry acknowl- edged after most careful tests by disin- terested parties, and already some buy- ers seek for **Michigan Bugles’’ to satisfy their customers. The the among the all has not yet had the attention it deserves, but offers an interesting field for study and experiment. The prices of the cranberry have been quite materially reduced by the large product, but they are yet too high to be as stapie as they should be for economi- eal buyers. A lower price will no doubt largely increase the demand, and foreign markets take them when they are com- paratively as cheap as apples. S. H. Comines. _ Food of the Ancients. The ancients had dating stomachs; dark colored been the best varieties which are found where the berry selection of seedlings, marshes on grows, induce them to eat cuttle-fish. Garlic and cheese made the sword-fish a deli- cacy; the rhombus floated into Greek stomachs on a sauce of wine and brine: the ladies of Rome ate onions with the muzil, and pine-nuts with the pilehard. The more refined Greeks, on the other hand, would not touch the pilechard: and the same difference of taste existed with regard to the loach; while, again, both Rome and Greece united in admiration of the gudgeon. cran- | staple article of purchased of the Indian | strangely accommo- | a sauce of honey could | Dry Goods Price Current. DEMINS. Amoskeag ..... Columbian brown. UNBLEACHED COTTONS, . as... . | mverett, bine........ 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But no success is} and power, are actuated by the force that ~ é at of promised, much less guaranteed. Life,| creates modern civilization and moves only under conditions of competition, is a| forward the whole of human society. & h is struggle in which the strongest relatively | Socialism, in any form in which it is pre- nda € to the conditions of the struggle will win| sented, means not leveling up, but level- @ oun- the highest place, and al! the others will ing down. The right rnle is to give fall into the places to which they gravi-| every man a chance to rise to the highest tate. point in life to which his capabilities C y for In consequence of the operation of! ean carry him. If every man would do Ee O own. forces which create conditions of social] his best, there would be no complaint = _— life, some rise to high places, while oth-| about inequality. eng ers fall into the lower. Some are rich _- - —~ ? who and others are poor; some are learned| PUBLIC HONESTY IN OLD TIMES. DA VV V SON S y by and others are illiterate. If the poor, The statement has often been made ‘ides the lowly, the illiterate, are enraged at| that public men of 2 generation ago were -ars. their humble stations, and are aroused to} vastly more honest than they are to-day, Pear! 1 V h Ca t Fla kes hostility to those who are above them,}and that the corruptions which are i i 3 they are complaining of conditions for| charged on popular representatives and which they are themselves largely re-| public officials in this age would have THE Fil NEST BREAKFAST DISH. ‘iit. sponsible. Wealth, wisdom and social| been impossible fifty vears ago. Boe a mers 1 the a Fe distinction are not to be got save by the use of intellectual forces and physical exertions, and commonly persons must be specially endowed in order to obtain particular supremacy. The idle, the profligate, the ignorant, who are embit- tered because they themselves have not reached positions of wealth and distine- tion, and are enraged against those who have, are socialists of an aggravated type. When they go to the extent of seeking to destroy those who are above them in the social scale, then they be- come nihilists and anarchists, who are socialists of the worst type. But the large bodies of socialists are a good sort of people, who, brooding on the inequalities of social condition, de- sire to even up or level down society, so that all may be equal in wealth and con- dition, a situation utterly impossible un- tilfall human beings are made intellec- tually, morally and physically equal. The differences of individuals have brought about existing conditions of so- ciety, and these will remain until the end of the world, and after it, if such contingencies may be figured on. In an autocratic country, where the law declares that some are better than others, and are entitled by the mere ac- cident of birth to rule over others, there is some excuse for the popular dissatis- It must be remembered that fifty years ago this great nation had nothing like the population, the aggregated wealth and the representatives in State and na- tional legislatures that exist to-day. In 1840 there were only twenty-eight States with a population of less than 18,000,000. There were fifty-eight Senators and some 135 Representatives in Congress. To-day forty-four States with a population of more than 65,000,000, represented by eighty-eight Senators and more than 300 Representatives, not to speak of State and city governments, furnish vast hordes of officials who handle thousands of millions of public funds, and neces- sarily, in the same proportion, the more officials there are, the more dishonest men there are among them. But itis ex- tremely doubtful if men to-day are, as a rule, any less honest than they were half a century ago. True, since the civil war, a point in American history from which an entirely new era of American politics must be dated, there have been many examples of publie corruption, not only in Federal, but in State and municipal public life. Nevertheless, it cannot be held that ear- lier generations were entirely guiltless. A very striking picture of public life in an earlier day is seen in the annals of Case. the political situation at the time of \ Guief ye | PREPARED BY vo DAWSON BROTHERS ‘ S|; MILLERS & es 0 Hf A iy CEREAL FPONTIAC, MICHIGAN. CLEAN, WHOLESOME, Free from Dust and Broken Particles, Put up in neat Cartons of 2 pounds each, 36 Cartons per Case. Sells at 15 cents per package, two packages for 25 cents. Try it! Envy it! Use ta Sold by all jobbers in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. MANUFACTURED BY DAWSON BROTHERS, Pontiac, Mich. Price $8.50 per 10 HH MICHIGAN | President Jackson’s war upon the old | United States Bank. he bank, after having dissolved, was re-chartered, and it has been shown that it had secured its | lease of life by making large loans to! Congressmen. It was given out, and the! charge is doubtless true, that this loan business figured up as follows: In 1830, to fifty-two members , to tifty-nine members , to forty-four members. In 1833, to fifty-eight members In 1834, to fifty-two members 374,766 238,536 $1,605,781 At the dates mentioned the bank, with $35,000,000 capital, took direct measures to secure the favor of a major- its of ity of Congress and to retain that favor. Suppose these amounts charged as loans were genuine loans to Congressmen, and itis very doubtful if they were, the en- tire transaction must be looked upon as corrupt, and the result of it was that the United States Bank, then a gigantic money monopoiy, did actually control the votes of a majority of Congress until President Jackson, by an aggressive war upon it, drove that great moneyed mo- nopoly out of existence. That happened rather more than half a eentury ago, in an age which is often now referred to as one of Roman justice and Spartan sim- | plicity, but all same, public men were tainted with bribery and corruption much as they are to-day. There have always been good and bad men. there | have always been honest and dishonest | public officials, and there always will! be. | | wine. the CHEESE AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD. | Every now and then a new outbreak of cheese poisoning gives rise to a discus- the dietetic properties of this | much used article of food. Since Prof. j Vaughan’s discovery of tyrotoxicon, the poisonous substance to which cheese poisoning is in most cases due, the mys- | tery of these frequent outbreaks has | been solved. The studies of modern | bacteriologists have developed the fact | that not only tyrotoxicon. but also the peculiar flavors characteristic of cheese, | are products of decomposition and fermentation. These facts are gradually | becoming known to the public, and ao) doubtless given rise to a falling off in sion of the The writer of persons | the of | cheese as a food, on becoming acquainted Prof. | Vaughan has shown that all cheese con- | the consumption of cheese. is acquainted with hundreds who have forever renounced use with the effects above referred to. i tains more or less tyrotoxicon, and tyro- | toxicon can be produced in poisonous quantities at any time by simply mixing | a quantity of cheese with milk and put- | away for ting it some time in a closed | this and other facts relating to cheese very natur- | vessel. An acquaintance with ally leads many people to question the | | propriety of using it as an article of diet. when iarge a variety of wholesome and wholly | nature has supplied us with so innocuous foods. The cheesemakers seem to have be- | come somewhat anxious lest cheese should fall into such disrepute as seri-| i nterfere with yusly to their business. | They cannot dispute the fact that cheese is produced by a process of fermentation | ‘ : ; . | and putrefaction, the evidence of which the cheese, but is to be found not only in accurate by | the presence of *‘skippers’’ and ‘mites,’ | flavors produced in the and larve of flies, which are led by in-| stinet to deposit their eggs in masses of | decomposing matter. j Prof. Henry, of Wisconsin. has re- | makers with the following argument: | “In regard to cheese being a fermentative | |Wwith him in his view of the digestive | is sometimes called a fermentative pro- | cess, but it ; Which organic matter is changed froma | solid to a liquid state by a process of hy- | dration, | wholesome, and toothsome bread with- | of which Prof. Henry seems not to be | cept to eat yeast bread, or bread made TRADESMAN cently come to the rescue of the cheese- product. I have no defense whatever to | offer. Digestion is a fermentative pro- | cess to a considerable degree, and I do. not know why it should be essential that | no fermentation should start previous to the food entering the stomach.” With all due respect to Prof. Henry as a sci- entist, we find it necessary to disagree it is true he finds some small foundation for his theory in the views | which have been advanced by some mod- ern bacteriologists, but a careful study of the digestive process under normal process. | conditions shows it to be, not a fermenta- | tive or putrefactive process, but a cata- lytic change induced by organic sub- stances improperly called ferments. since they agree in respect whatever with | the living organisms which give rise to; the processes commonly known as fer- mentation and putrefaction. Digestion no is in an entirely different sense from that by which cider is econ- verted into vinegar or grape juice into The digestive process is a change by and without any destructive change, and without decomposition prod- ucts. The fermentation which takes place in cheese is a process in which poi- sonous products are formed and destruc- tive processes take place. It is impossi- ble to believe that any such process is essential te the digestive process. Fer-/ mentation, properly so-called, is the re- sult of the action of germs. It is possi- ble to conceive of a person’s being born under circumstances in which germs might be entirely absent. Would Prof. Henry undertake to assert that an indi- vidual born under such happy cireum- stances would be made_ better by intro- ducing germs into his stomach, or that he would be likely to die of indigestion because his food was entirely free from germs? On the contrary, every physi- cian knows that the freer the stomach is from foreign microbes the better, and the more perfect is the digestive process. The writer has made a careful chemi- cal study of over 2.500 stomach fluids furnished by nearly 2,000 different per- | sons, and has found a constant associa- tion between a multiplicity of microbes in the stomach and a deteriorated diges- tive product. In the treatment of dis- ordered digestion, it has many times been | found necessary to suppress altogether foods containing microbes, including yeast bread, unless the latter has been previously sterilized by conversion into zwieback. It is possible to prepare light, out either baking powder or yeast, a fact aware, as he gives us no alternative ex- | from baking powder, or sodden bread. Although eschewing each of the three kinds the writer largely supplied with an abundance of most palatable bread made of bread mentioned, finds himself | | | without yeast or baking powder, and yet |} as light and toothsome as the most fas- | tidious palate could require. While anticipating no sympathy for | | | | | our views on the part of cheesemakers, we do not hesitate to express our most decided opinion that cheese as an article Socks, Felts, Kit Boots 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- creased facilities for manu- factering we are well prepar- | ed to fill orders promptly and | at most reasonable prices. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. CovopE, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres, J. A. S. Verprer, Cashier. ; K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r, Transacts a General Banking Business, Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox T. J.O’Brien. A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A.S. Verdier. Jwo. A. -0-<—-——— A New Mineral. An American chemist has recently dis- covered a new mineral which, in hard- ness and beauty, is only second to the diamond. The discovery was made quite accidentally. He was experimenting iu the manufacture of diamonds, and was using the aluminum smelting apparatus of a Lockport, N. Y., firm, where elec- tricity is employed and an enormously high temperature produced. By mere chance he put into the crucible together a lump of clay and a piece of graphite, and the result was some small wine-col- ored crystals of rhomboidal form, which proved to be harder than sapphire. Chemical analysis proved that the erys- tals were composed of carbon and silicon in a combination hitherto unheard of. it does not occur innature. The process above described, repeated again and again, produced the wine-colored rhom- boids every time. A company has been formed to manufacture them for polish- ing all sorts of things, even diamonds. They are crushed to powder like emery and made into wheels with a cementing compound. The demand for them is al- ready greater than the supply. The new mineral has been named ecarborundum. tn You must hunt opportunities—they won’t hunt you. MD. { | ithe Detroit River. to have a signification vastly more far- reaching than was probably intended. The decision was made to settle juris- diction over a case where a crime had been committed on a steamer lying in A State court of | Michigan took cognizance of the matter | cover quickly with a bell-glass—a glass | effect of the great court’s decision, then and proceeded against the criminal, who, | however, Court, holding that the act mitted on the high seas, and, a State court could not have jurisdiction over it. This claim was sustained by the high- est court, which decided that the lakes are high seas and subject to all the regu- lations as to all acts done upon their waters just as if such acts were done upon the ocean. Of course, nobody is going to callin question the sufficiency of this decision, but it is not amiss to inquire as to what may possibly result from it in an international controversy. It has always been held that, so far as the lakes are boundaries between the United States and the British dominions, the line of international demarcation was drawn through the middle of the great bodies and of the connecting streams of such waters, on its own side of the dividing line. Butif these waters are high seas, they are not to be divided or allotted to any power, but any country has jurisdiction only over the accustomed maritime league from shore, and inside a line from headland to headland, at the mouths of rivers, inlets and bays. If it is to be held from such a decision that the United States does not claim control beyond the maritime league on the lakes, but that those waters are the same as the ocean, free to every ship and every power that sends its ships upon the ocean, it may prove a serious matter. But does the British Govern- ment make a like surrender as to the waters on its side of the line? It is not likely. A power which excludes American fishing vessels from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and from all the bays and inlets from the Bay of Fundy to beyond Labrador, is not likely to give up voluntarily control over an inch of the land or sea which it holds. But an interesting question comes up in the case of Lake Michigan. Every foot of its coast is in the United States, and where it joins Lake Huron the line from headland to headland units two | shores of the State of Michigan. Is Lake | Michigan also a part of this free fresh- | water ocean? Is Chicago only separated by a league of water from the open sea, where the warships of every nation may cruise at pleasure? The United States, not many years ago, set up the high claim that Behring Sea, an integral part of the Pacific Ocean, was an American lake. This has, however, been long ago abandoned, and now it appears that an American lake, a fresh-water lake at that, wholly inclosed in United States territory, is a high If this be the was sea. there is an immense descent from the arrogant claim upon Behring Sea to the | voluntary surrender of ownership of a! fresh-water inland lake. FRANK STOWELL. >.>. Use Trademen Coupon Books. appealed to the United States | com- | therefore, | | ing its useis a luxury to travelers. | to carry in the pocket; | lasts a year, and costs 50c fas > Menthol Inhaler _ Ca i. Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Sore Threct, The first inhalations stop sneezing, snufting | coughing and headache. This relief is worth | the price of an Inhaler. Continued use will | complete the cure. Prevents and cures j Sea Sickness On cars or boat The cool exhilerating sensation follow- Convenient | no liquid to drop or spill; | at druggists. Regis- | | tered mail 6c, from | HK. D. 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PHREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Is the Profit on Bread Too Large? Written for Toe TRADESMAN. Five thousand destitute people in the city and one and four ounces of bread cost eight cents! What will these destitute people do for bread this win- ter? pound it would seem as though cruel cir- cumstances would compel them to forego this great luxury and confine their diet to cheaper food, such as pies, cakes, tarts, roast pig. stuffed turkey and cran- berry sauce. Eight-cent bread was all right in war times when everything was dear, work plentiful and wages high: but now, when wheat is a drug in the market at 54 cents per bushel, and labor so overwhelmingly abundant that it will | not command any price, such extrava- gance would be almost criminal. Somebody said that bread was the staff | of life, but he didn’t mean the kind of bread that and two-fifths cents a pound, when wheat is worth only | nine-tenths of one cent a pound. Oh, no; | it would be an insult to the memory of | the author of this familiar saying to cali} eight-cent bread made from fifty-four-| cent wheat the ‘‘staff of life.”” A ‘‘staff” | of life is something that life may rely upon for a sure support when everything else passes beyond reach: but a pound | and a quarter of bread at eight cents is| not even among the possibilities for those who are fairly able to help themselves, and as to those who are entirely help- less, it is simply preposterous to think of it. The bakers say they feel the effects of the hard times. No one disputes them. Indeed, if this were not the case it would be impossible to make any sane person believe that the times are hard. If the quantity of eight-cent bread sold did not show signs of diminution it would cer- tainly be an indication that the times are good and people had more money than they know what to do with. By way of justifying themselves before the publie, and of pacifying their own troubled con- sciences, the bakers claim that. sells at six owing to the great falling off in the demand for their goods, they are not more money than they But what has caused great falling off in demand? Other trades also suffer adiminished demand such as making any are entitled to. this for their goods, the confectioner, the fancy gro- cer, the jeweler, the merchant tailor and scores of others; but in their cases the falling off in trade is a di- minished consumption made imperative by the stringency of the times. In the baker’s case it is not so. The direct ef- fect of this stringency is to increase the consumption of bread which is the staff of life, and decrease the consumption of luxuries and even many of the se-entied | necessaries not indispensible in the maintenance of life. The cause of the falling off of the baker’s trade is a less- ened demand for the eight-cent article which is a luxury of the luxuries, and one that is altogether dispensible in the question of domestic economy. the result of The bakers have made an egregious blunder in this matter. In their greedy persistency in maintaining the present extortionate price of bread, in defiance of the stringency of the times and in ut- ter disregard of the principles of justice and common sense, they have invited a large number of domestic (home-made) bread makers all over the city to enter the field and compete with them in gath- ering in the golden harvest. They have | cents. vited a new class of competition to step | in and secure a share of the portion that still remains—and, during all this time, the consumption of bread has been stead- ily increasing. Surely the bakers made an egregious blunder. have This domestic bread is peddled all over | the city. and is found on the counters of } every grocery store by the side of baker’s loaves. The price is the same. You pay eight cents and take your choice: | but when you take the domestic loaf you | get—according to a test recently wit- nessed in adown town grocery store— six ounces more bread for your eight If weight be a proper basis upon which to estimate relative values, then | the baker’s loaf ought not to cost more than six and two-thirteenths cents to be on @ parity with the domestic loaf at eight cents. On the basis of weight. therefore, the baker’s loaf is thirty per cent. dearer than the domestic loaf, a| respectable margin of profit of itself: but let us see what the profit is on the domes- tic loaf. One of these domestic or home- made bread bread occu- pies a prominent place in the bread case | ' makers, whose j|loaves from a | telle when, presto! | sixty of the aforementioned down town gro- cery, says that she makes twenty-two twenty-five (or twenty- four, rather) pound sack of flour. She | pays the grocer fifty cents for the flour, puts it through a little chemical! process, adding a ‘‘pinch” of this or a ‘‘pinch’’ of that, at a cost which is a mere baga- twenty-two delicious, **home-made”’ loaves of the staff of life are taken from the oven, weighing thirty- five pounds twelve ounces in the aggre- gate. or one pound ten ounces each. Fifty cents for the flour and ten cents for the ‘‘bagatelle’’ represent the cost— cents for twenty-two loaves, or about two and two-thirds cents each. |The baker’s appliances for baking are much better. He buys his flour at whole- | Sale prices and possesses other impor- | tant advantages which will warrant the Statement pound for that his bread costs less, pound, than domestic bread; | but we will let all that pass and base the percentages on the cost of the domestic article. It will be seen from the figures | given, that the domestic loaf. selling at eight cents, represents a nice little mar- zin of profit exceeding 294 per cent. Adding to this the 30 per cent. advantage already pointed out, it gives the baker a profit of 326 per cent. Remember, the above calculations are based on the gro- cer’s retail price of flour, and represent the baker’s part in accounting for the wonderful discrepancy existing between eight-cent bread and fifty-four cent wheat. E. A. OWEN. —_> > -_ The Potato Crop of the World. The potato crop of the world amounts to the enormous sum of 2,850,000,000 bushels, by far the largest proportion of which is grown in Europe. Germany is the largest potato producing and con- suming country in the world, with the average production of nearly 900,000,000 bushels per annum, and in years of the largest production exceeding 1,000,000,- 000 bushels. Russia comes next with a crop of 464,000,000 bushels, closely fol- lowed by Austria-Hungary and France. The crop of the United States is small in comparison with that of Europe, aver- aging only about 170,000,000 bushels, which is considerably less than that of the United Kingdom. This crop does not largely enter into the foreign trade of any country, the supply being mainly for home use. The President ‘SREETING: CTONS, 1 sa of the United States of 2 HENRY holding through en represented to us in our Circuit ROCH,. your clerks, attorneys, saliesimemnm Court of the Zlmeric qa, ager and workmen, and all claiming or or under you, United States for the District of lost a good share of their trade and in the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY. Complainant, that t has tely exhibit S d Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District ef New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH. Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY 9 Complainant, is entitled to the eaclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap, low , Cher cfore, .. do strictly command and_ perpet ally enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your . attornevs, a ts, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under uader the pains and penalties which may all upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO.” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced ¥ or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainants said manufacture, and from in any Way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” jn any false or misleadiny , Man Wi itt “858, », re honorable MELVILLE W. FuLier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the d States of America, at the City. of Trenton in said District of New ha this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord ‘one thousand, ght hundred and ninety-two, [SEAL] [SIGNED] 5. D. OLIPHANT, Clerk, ROWLAND COX ar CMH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 MICHIGAN KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP. OFFICERS: President—N. B. Jones, Lansing. Secretary—L. M. Mills, Grand Rapids. Treasurer—Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw. Weekly Report of Secretary Mills. LANSING, Dec. 4—Certificates have been issued to the following members since my last report: 3340 M. B. Price, St. Joseph. 3342 E. H. Povah, Detroit. 7 Geo. W. Corson, Detroit. 8 W. J. Deppen, Grand Rapids. B. W. Schram, Milwaukee, Stephen E. Kirk, Muskegon. 3352 A. J. Elliott, Grand Rapids. J Wis. 3370 J. F. Umphrey, Yale. 3371 G. T. Lindermann, Saginaw. 3372 E. H. Voorhees, Detroit. i. S. Davis, Detroit. W. I. Biles, Saginaw. D. S. Menasco, Milwaukee. J. B. MeInnes, Grand Rapids. W. H. Pipp, Chicago. 8 W. J. Jones, Grand Rapids. A. B. Gibson, Grand Rapids. 0 Geo. F. Schumm, Grand Rapids. 1 » o> 0 O QA AOMNPRwWWRS = ao C2 OG oo OG om ¢ Frank E. Novak, Chicago. John Glass, Cadillac. 3 H.C. Piper, Detroit. 4 L. B. Davis, Mt. Clemens. 5 D. W. Dugan, Chicago. 3386 J. P. Patton, Detroit. Wm. Reid, Allegheny, Pa. 3388 R. G. Dilley, Saginaw. 3389 E. A. Blankman, Dayton, Ohio. 3390 C. A. Stebbins, Creston, O. Elmer E. Stanton, Grand Rapids. Wilbur F. Warner, Grand Rapids. 3393 Frank A. Cameron, Detroit. J. H. Rogers, Columbus. 5 M. L. Horning, Albion. 3397 M. S. McKee, Thorp, Wis. 3398 C. L. Weaver, Toledo. H. E. Flach, Saginaw. 3400 J. H. Laing, Saginaw. 3401 E. D. Henderson, Saginaw. O. J. Hutton, Grand Rapids. 3403 W. H. Rouse, Grand Rapids. Ed. L. Hughes, Grand Rapids. 3405 J. B. Josselyn, Grand Rapids. 3406 C. A. Ricord, Saginaw. 3407 P. Z. Smith, Almont. 3408 C. F. Reinke, Buena Vista. 3409 J. B. Lull, South Haven. Sam K. Beecher, Grand Rapids. H. R. Putnam, Grand Rapids. 3412 W. T. MeNaull, Berwyn, III. W. B. Haight, Cleveland. 3414 T. C. Hammill, Detroit. 3415 C. E. Brown, Detroit. 3416 W. Henderson, Detroit. 3417 P. McDuff, Detroit. 3418 G. A. Clifford, Detroit. 3419 A. R. Thayer, Saginaw. 3420 R. P. Stericker, Saginaw. 3421 L. C. Stage, Shelby. 3422 E. P. Andrew, Grand Rapids. 3423 D. E. Tillotson, Muskegon. 3424 F. B. Potter, Detroit. 25 Sam Wile, LaPorte, Ind. SL ae ward of $20,000. 3426 F. S. Brewer, Detroit. 3427 W. W. McKean, Grand Rapids. 3428 S. C. Smith, Jackson. The following honorary members: H38 G. S. Farrar, Cass City. H39 W. B. Kinyon, Caro, Mich. The third regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held in Lansing, Dec. 2, with a full attendance, except Director Northrup, who is quite ill at home. The Secretary was instructed to en- close in the notice to members, of the convention, a certificate of membership as required by the railroads, entitling them to half fare rate for themselves and families to the convention at Saginaw, Dec. 26 and 27 Proofs of the death of Brothers Geo. H. Boehnlein, J. W. Button and R. T. Scott were presented and orders were or- dered drawn for the first two. The Sec- retary was instructed to defer payment of the latter claim until the proofs of the Probate Court are submitted. The Secretary’s report showed bal- ances in the general fund, Nov. 30, of $344.57, and in the death fund, $972. Orders were drawn for the following amounts: Mileage of Directors to present meeting.. $28 63 D. Forbes, 1,0.0 grip tags and rubber stamps ...... 76 75 Ss Goodman, ‘expert work ‘on “books... 34 75 Tradesman Company, printing and sta tionery. | —_— Post F, Saginaw, postage on invitations.. 50 00 Swinton «& Reynolds, one mimeograph.. 18 09 Postage fordt@ieerm. 84 00 . Mt Bilis. salary aceount................ 150 00 An adjourned meeting of the Board will be held at the New Livingston Ho- tel, Grand Rapids, Friday evening, Dec. 22, at which time it is expected that a final report of the accounts of the former Secretary will be made. Fraternally yours, L. M. Mins, Sec’y. A Gone but Not Forgotten. GRAND LEDGE, Nov. 28—M. Rosen, clothier and gents’ furnishings goods, mysteriously vanished from this city sometime between Saturday night and Monday morning. Recent developments show that his stock is also gone. Dili- gent search and inquiry reveal nothing, only that fora week past someone has come to the alley back of the store about 8 o’clock each night with a chestnut horse and express wagon,-and about 11 o’clock would leave with a load of boxes and trunks. Which way or where he went no one knows. To-day there are creditors on the ground representing $3,000 to $4,000. Notice was left on the door saying: ‘*Will be back in two days.’’ The boxes are all left on the shelves, making it look as if the goods were there, and the store was already to open, and not until the door was forced open and the boxes examined was it found that the goods were all gone. _ —_— > > none A gentleman who just returned from Gray’s Harbor City, Wash., states that there are upward of one hundred build- ings there, but they are all deserted. A few fishermen dwell near the shore in their own rude shanties. Some of the deserted buildings are handsome struec- tures, one business block having cost up- i cise posh pe Suitable for advertising papers, or use on NG, stationery. 0 Half-tone for the finest printing, or line work for general printing. e oy) wae No pains or expense should be ; spared to have finest engravings, as a poor cut will prevent the success of patent. a We make the finest plates for the money obtainable. —-- 0 Our method of making ll these is a surprise for 9 a its fine results and low price. 0 em eee Furniture, Machinery, Carriages, Agricul- tural Implements or Specialties of any kind The most elaborate or the cheapest and most econom- engraved and printed complete. finest and eal. The best results in either case. Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. pyem Ae) 8] UN ONE? If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using our improved Coupon Book system, you are making a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the coupon book plan and are the largest manufacturers of these books in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business) SAMPLES FREE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, [ICH. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. jear—Jame Grand Rapids Pharma THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. lighter. and Finally, when the weight coins had been so reduced that ings contained no more silver than eleven or jess ought to contain, the evil aroused the Government into seek- At first it ut notice a prolama- ing a remedy for it. was pro- to issue witho higaa State Pharmaceutical Aas’n. at the clipped coins should at cepted in payment of taxes ; iia toiices not by count, but by y is project was aban- ceutical Society. D. Wale Se ction of Parliament licity as matter, mentions only that when the Government, being at war with France and in dire need of what was then the enormous sum of two hundred thousand pounds, not in notes but in hard coin, i for the Sir John called a meeting of applied to the bank of England loan of it, his shareholders and made them a speech soliciting them for authority to grant the There first a little murmuring, but the ques- Government’s application. was tion being finally put to the vote, it was | unanimously decided in favor of lending the money. It may also be presumed, PRA am desir sok We iolait A year’s subscription to ScripNer’s | MAGAZINE will bring into your home | twelve monthly numbers, aggregating lover 1,500 pages of the best and most in- | teresting reading, and more than 700 | beautiful illustrations. Announcements. | George W. Cable will begin in the January number a romance entitled “John March, Southerner.” Two other important serials have been engaged: J. MM. 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NOW IS THE TIME TO ORDER A SUPPLY OF PECKHAM'S CROUP REMEDY, 25¢ a Bottle, $2 a Dozen, 5 cff with 3 bozen, 10 off with 6 Dozen. rh Y 7}. One Ream 9x12 White Wrap- W E GI\ i ping Paperin Tablet form cut from 40 lb. book, for each dozen ordered, also ; @supply of Leaflets containing Choice Prescrip tions, which the druggist can compound with a good margin of profit. All advertising bears dealer’s imprint on front side Advertising mat- ter sent free on receipt of label. Send order to your jobber, who will notify us. rest. 3 We will do the PECKHAM’S CROUP REMEDY Co., Freeport, Mich. The following appeared in the local column of the Salina, Kans., Herald, Oct. 20, 1893: “Our sales of Peckham’s Croup Remedy, ‘‘The children’s cough cure,” have increased rapidly | ever since we began handlingit in the year 1888, | Without an exception it is the best and most RELIABLE remedy of its kind we ever sold. Parents once knowing its merits will never be ; Without it in the house. We recommend it above all others for children. We notice that in each instance where we have sold it, that same party calls for it again. This notice is not one paid for by the manufacturers of this medici e, but | is our own, prompted by past experience with, and ever present faith in Peckham's Croup Rem edy. Get a bottle of it, you may need it any The Bank of to give some holders of the depreciated | from the inscription on the tankard pre 7 ent coin an advantage over others. Finally, | sented to Mr. Tappen, that during the Dp 4 Galia in Janusz t was passed ‘time of extreme difficulty” to which the Ne w York, b : ing the owing as tt t |} directors of the Bank therein refer. Sir ( mittee the Clearing H 2, was | date uy -d money should | John was the master spirit and the guid- as gracef te as it was de- | be payable nment ing hand of theinstitution. Thus, when S The identical silver tankard In order to prov the fil the great rivals and enemies of the bank, w near wo centuries ago, had j good crowns and sh zs of the vacuum | the Lombard street goldsmiths, seized the b given to Sir John H t rst} to be created by the withdrawal of the opportunity afforded by the reform of the Goverr f the Bank of F s} bad, the mint was at once set to work at currency to gather together, on the 4th directors I ke Sg its utmost capacity. But its machinery | of May, 1696, all of the bank’s notes that industry strict uprightness at a time | Was antiquated, and its management in- they could lay their hands on and de- of extreme Its as 1 sient, and when the fatal 4th of May | mand their immediate redemption in ag edasa ark - and a flood of the old coins poured | egin. hoping thereby to break the insti- ¢ of similar qua ao te ' the -hequer to be melted down, | tution, it must have been at his instiga- dent. e ited in similar circur was a scarcity of the new coinz tion that the directors defied them, while | The pre tions taken by the ded to take its place. The distress paying other creditors who asked for House Associat y last summer,| that ensued and the expedients adopted | their money in good faith. For this lat- inder Mr. 7 s lead loubtedly | to relieve it were notably like those | ter purpose they called upon the proprie- I t tig the severity of the} WOich marked our recent currency | tors for a 20 per cent. contribution, and 1 , subsequently pre- | famine Employers could only with €X- | gave every creditor applying for pay- vaile all the bank presidents had ulty pay their workmen. | ment 15 per cent., in new money, of the u g their S ons as wisely as men discharged their debts|amount due to him. Still, the notes of he fuifill ed t with promissory notes, which passed the bank, as well as its shares, fell to a tions positors as from hand to hand as money among those | jarge discount, and one can well imagine we € spared who knew them. The new Bank of Eng- | how severely, for the period of ten| g 4 er land and the money changers of Lom- | months during which the crisis lasted, a r ire } to brokers] bard street issued their notes and put | Sir John’s ability and patience must have ta t ¢ payment of them | them intocirculation. The Government. been tried. MATTHEW MARSHALL. Was ‘ yy the banks on which they | also, fortunately possessed authority, and | CO — — — we " | made use of it to emit interest-bearing | New Treatment for Diphtheria. T Wee. i ring| notes of five pounds and upward. In| A French medical journal announces a oo ae on so conducted | order to hasten the prodaction of the | New and successtul treatment for diph- ' ; theria, discovered bya country doctor, sf sto v rom his directors the} He€W coins Sir Isaac Newton was ay |M. Frederic Flahaut, who lives near €fui recognition of his merits, which | Pointed Warden of the Mint, and, by the | Rouen. Last year a malignant diphtheria ine bil ty en his fel-| introduction of improved machinery and | broke out in his village, and he treated ' a nn , | it in the usual way, losing, to his disgust, 10% mittee mn more respects | Se Cstaviishament of branch mints, he | a considerable number of patients. Know- than I t s known like ours | iMmensely increased its coining capacity. ing the antiseptic qualities of petroleum. of last sumn Both were brought on These measures and the use of so much he determined to try it on some of his by depreciation in the value of the cur-| of the old coins as had escaped the shears poner rota Hig ster ceae ~ sy Sag on which he experimented was a little rency, both were no ed vy a general | of the clippers tided over the emergency, | girl whose recovery he despaired of. prostration of credit, both were aceom-| and by August signs of improvement in He proposed to her parents to make the panied by a it press for a de-| the condition of things were manifest. peseang _ last resort, and they bas standard of value: and Nevertheless, a complete relaxation of Saas Gad a ee as t sis ended, in the course | the monetary stringency was hindered physician’s surprise, a marked improve- of a hs, with a restoration of DY an agitation for a reduction of the ment was noticeable after the first appli- confide prosperity, | weight of the new crowns and shillings, jcation. The treatment was continued i ce we|so as to make them of no greater value | 2@4.the child recovered. He at once : : j used the treatment with his other pa- are no than the old clipped coin, and very much | tients, with the result of saving every | W he was estab-} the same arguments were used in favor ;one. The present year he has treated | ished dispute in| of the proposition as those now advanced tic co on ee i i : | In order to be s » disease was — 7 =o on behalf of the silver standard. Pend- really malignant diphtheria, he had the avout the relative values of gold ing the settlement of the controversy the | expectorated matter analyzed by the ex- ver, nor was there any fear of an over-| new money was hoarded, because no one | pert of the Rouen College of Medicine, issue of paper money, because no paper| who could help doing so would pay it out | ay sagen ce eee | wae in circuiation and the currency con-| ata valuation which might be ultimately ponte little difficulty and no danger. rhe sisted almost exclusively of silver coin. | increased by its recoinage into smaller | swabbing is done every hour or two, ac- Nor were there any banks, properly | coins. The House of Commons. however, ‘nla to the virulence of the attack. speakin; custodians of other] stood firm, and, late in October, 1696, de- = being taken to shake the swab, after people’s m the London gold-| clared without a division that the stand- | @/PPing into the petroleum, to prevent | . : ci ; any drops falling into the respiratory smiths, who, in a crude, primitive fash-|ard of British money should not be ;channels. The patients experience im- ion, did all the banking business that] altered in fineness, weight or denomina- | mediate relief. The disagreeable taste was done. What the nation suffered!tion. This turned the tide, the hoarded | Of the petroleum lingers in the mouth from was the clipping of its silver coin coins came out into circulation, the for- ee enna >> by dishonest s and j juent/eign exchanges improved, the public | Toots From Ram’s Horn. depreciation. fast as the Govern-| credit revived. and by March, 1697, the! It is hard to convince a dyspeptic that | ment could turn out from the mint new] crisis was completely passed. | the world is growing better. half crowns, shillings and sixpences of| Precisely what Sir John Houblon did,| There is no place in the Bible where full weight, they were either melted during this crisis, to earn the praise be- | God nae promised to make s loafer| down or hoarded, thus leaving the field | stowed upon him, I have been unable to | happy. ii eg entirely to the light weight. clipped| learn. Lord Maeaulay whose ‘History | Pare : riggs — ee ys , * | with his talk, the less he has to say the coins, which every day were made lighter of England”’ gives a long account of the better. ain night.”—O. C. Tobey & Co., the 3d Ward Drug Store, Salina, Kans. a eran 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. & Morph P.& W. 210@2 35] Seidlitz Mixture...... 20} Linseed, boiled.. .... 43 46 : Wholesale Price Current. orphia, SP. fe W. | 2 10@2 35 —— eee ? C. 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German 21 nai 17 8 ‘ian *@* Chioridum............ 129@ 14] 2UCCIM...... ......... ¢ go | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 eee @1 59 | Saccharum Lactispv. 2 22 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 ANILINE. Santal ...... ......... 3 50@7 ce cate 2 00@2 10 OILs. | Extra —_-- --160@1 70 Be 2 00@2 25 | Sassafras..... 50@ 59 | Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ Bbl. Gal| Coach Body........... 75@3 00 ' OE cick $0@1 00 | Sinapis, ess, ounce.. @ Be ioe cece neces 12@ 14] Whale, winter....... 70 0|No.1Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 eaeaapannaaae 45@_ 50] Tiglit........-... 00+, 8 oe ee 10@ 12) Lard, extra.....-..... $0 85 sagen "Br Damar....1 55@1 60 “ae |= Wellow 0 ‘ MO --- ooo eee seeeee Se ij iter Net. 2 5 | Japan ayer 0. Te 2 50@3 00 Ce @ 50 @ Sota. 2 = CO BACCAE, Theobrommes........... 15@ 50 + Cubeae (po 36)...... 2@ 30 POTASSIUM 1 geno 0 | 2 —_—$—$—$—$ —$ cumeoeray ............- a oC 1 Wismeiber 50 Xanthoxylum.. 25@ 30) bichromate ......_.... ie 14) Hyoneyamus.... 50 ‘7 . Bromide... a 40 Sloat %5 anna ON AAR Carb.. in 6) 6Caloribgs 5 Copaiba . 45@ 50| Chlorate (po 2@25).. 2@ 26 i Caladium... |. | 35 # Feru.... fees oe mae ee ee 50 Terabin, Canada .... — POU iieecccssss., 2 99@3 00 Lobelia TT ET ED 50 Wereren ....-...-_.._. 50 | Potassa, Bitart, ae _ oe eae. 50 a "0 ee a on... € 7 Nan Votes = : : , | Potass Nitras, opt..... Oe Witte... LL... Abies, Canadian............ 18 | Potass a a q o| * Camphorated. |. 50 * Cassiae ............-26e2 eee, th Promiete a ae 6dr 2 00 er ees 30 | Sulphate po.....-..... 18@ 18} Auranti Cortex... i Importers and Jobbers of ‘ Euonymus atropurp........ 20 RADIX uae! a 50 “+ Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 i ‘ ° Hhatany Ee ea 50 Prague Voeni.....-........ 12] Acomitem ............. x 25 on .:......... 50 a A Ehenopodi deere cas 1: 2 ieee 10@ 12 CORPONIOR ecco cic ia @ agnesia, Conium Mac.......... jodie a a 24 4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “eeeree..........-.... 80@ 901 Prunus virg............ 50 Masia. ay ....... _63 | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ‘2 GROCERY rPruCe, CURRENT. tT The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. ‘They are prepared just before «4 going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is impossible to ” quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than ‘ those who have poor credit. Subseribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the ~~ wy greatest possible use to dealers. 7 ee 7 i co TT a ’ min : a oe i CT ¥ AXLE GREASE. i Fruits. | Sa eee mel (81 books, per bnndrod . 6 00/ No. 1,6.................... 1 65 HERBS. i doz gross | Apples. Schweitzer, imported. @24 {82 ‘ . 3 50} No. 2,6....... 1 50 <> Aurora ‘ © 600/13 ib. standerd........ 1 00 = domestic .... @14 |83 - “ ‘ 4 00 xx weed, aie ee 15 ‘ Castor Oil. ... 60 7 00; York State, gallons - 2 90 CATSUP. so 6 . ---- 500] no. 1 6% 1 os Diamond...... oe 5 50; Hamburgh, °- Blue Label Brand. 310 “ “ 6 OlNe : 2 eit ae . - i. Fraver’s............ 7% 800} Apricots. Half pint, 25 bottles...._...2 75| 820 7 00 | N° % oe INDIGO. + sk. 65 7 £0 ave Gak....... . 1 75 | Pint . (etna a hie sites on nein books 6% een Sa 1 00 i rasmsoa ... S&S 6 Santa Crus... 1 75 | Quart 1 doz bottles - 850; are subject to the following|,¢* """ | 95 Madras, 5 1b. boxes..... 55 + By BAKING POWDER. — ae ; 1 cas ae Brand, a quantity discounts: Coin S. F.,2,3and5lb.boxes.. 50 p Acme | Overlan 7 a pint per doz 135] on . 5 s > : lg Ib. cans, 3 doz... 45 | saw Blackberries. a Pint, 25 ogg oe oe = — a - afte an sas enuhenn ana a JELLY ‘ ae 90 | Quart. per doz .. 375} oe oe. "ARINACEOUS DS. pe —. os al aire duornes Pins. | 1000 20 FARINACEOUS GOODS aaa . ae : 10 | Red -.-. 1 10@1 20 | 5 gross boxes -40@45 COUPON PASS BOOKS, Farina 3 eee aae @ 79 m Arctic. | Pitted Hamburgh 1 7 Coco: 4 “SHELLS. il a i . oo Qi a ® cane6 dos cons =x | White 1 50/351b bags.. @3 = an be made to represent any | 100 1b, kegs......... , 3% aoz case 92 | . as + " “— . * ta. = ee mee [gpa uantity " @3 enomination from #10 down. | flominy. LICORICE. im “ 8doz “ ....... 2 09) Dameons, ‘Egg Plums and Green | Pound packages 6% G7 20 books . cic Ce 3 00 4 — ® “ tdos “ .. 900] anges. COFFEE. 50 cial, bocca Oe nee 3 50 PUT... -. 0-2... eee ee ee ee 30 Fosfon. | Erle eae 1 10 Green. 100 geet tect ee ees 3 00 Lima Beans. ON : 2% a 5 oz. Cans, 4 « doz. in case go | California......-.. 1 60 Rio. tte ces aeee ae eee .. 38% @t| Siefly... .-..---.-.-. tees 16 ig 4 - 2 00 | i Gooseberries, Fair. se wie . me | 500 i i fe a ha el il 10 00 Maccaroni all Vv man Red Star, % b cans 49 | Common imiaane. ll eee eee eee 17 50 Domestic, 12 lb. box. 5 LYE. # % ca Peaches. eS CREDIT CHECKS. Imported... ‘"jo%@il : i. |. 140) Fle ........ 100 Golden... oo 500, any one denom’n.....88 00)" "7" "77" Condensed, : om.... ee 1 2 Telfer’s, % Ib. cans, doz 45 | Maxwell ...... : ree en ee 5 00 Oatmeal. a 2 25 we (4 ae “ 85 | Shepard’s ... Santos. 2000. - = se _... 21 eee Oe... ....... i. lib 1 50 | California... CPO eee cele el eB MRE NNN Uo || 75 | Half barrels 100... 2 59 "Erie 45 | Monitor . — oe CRACKERS MATCHES. ex % | vane elles Prime -..-...-.--..2.. 2-220. 21 Butter. ti — — 2 =o. 9 coer... ... 1 65 wo 150] Pears. _ ee ......... 7 | Sepmewrksr........ ete -- ®% 1! anchor parlor.............-. 1 70 en ear a : . F Mexican and Guatamala. Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6% Peas. Me Rema 110 %* %» e ne cat. 02 seas 2 Fair... Sue eer a oe Family XXX... 2 [eo Be . 1 45| Export parlor............... 4 00 ‘se ae, 1 00@1 30 Fancy... Cea Came" eevee SS ‘cartoon...... cet oerle.........- 235@3 4 pF « ‘9 ¢9| Johnson’s sliced... _. 2 50 Maracaibo. aa cee ca Rolled Oats. MINCE MEAT. + 2 Oat i grated...... zo... sae rtoon ...... 2 | Barrels 180. CREAM 2o2 ** _3 901 Booth’s slic “on oo @ ST = ihn . -- nae % Half bbis 90 i aul . Js ' Ereeou..... . 2% Java . . ao ~. ra Mg tb * "12 00 Quinces. eh eienn ee se biscuit... FT ees Sago. tit ‘* 18 25 | Common .- 1 10] Private Growth... ee ~, soda. ee PoWwpER|: : - oe Raspberries. Mandehling ... ....28 | Soda, XXX.... ee : + 0 60 ee 1 30 Mocha. : Soda, City . ™ whee. S5i0 ony mm case | Black Hamburg oh 1 50 | Imitation i gs | Soda, Duchess. es 8% | Cracked.. cee ‘i 4 : | Erie, black 125] Arabian... __.. 2h | OCryee Waeler........ .. ae BATH BRICK. | Strawberries. Roasted. Long Island Wafers ......11 FISH--Salt. # dozen in case. ao, | bawrence .... . 125] To ascertain cost of roasted Oyster. . ¢ h a 9) | Hamburgh oe 1 25 | coffee, add \c. _ for roast-| 5. Oyster XXX. li Bloaters ie wots oe 1 20 | Ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- City Oyster. XXX... 1... -+- 6 u ve 3 doz. case: a oo a} as pone 1 10 | age. Farina Oyster...... : _ Yarmouth. ..... ney a eee 5 5 BLUING we Whortleberries. Package. Cod. ae ee 11 00 Arctic, 40z ovals 2 1eberries gee 1 00) MecLanghlin’s XXXX.. 24 45 Strictly a — . R. mire... ne — " 6 75 | Corned beef Libby's 1 95 i wai a oe = Telfer’s Absolute......... is 3) Whole, Grand Bank.... 5@5% MEASURES. ta” ee Ct oe beef Armour’s 1 80 ite Grocers’ 15@25 | Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6@8 No 4 0) | Potted ham, % Ib -1 40 Valley City a... * DRIED FRUITS. Beneens, CiES.. ....... GBS Tin, per dozen. s No.5 8 00 2 & 2/2 crown... ....--..--. -$ [10 Ib. Kets.....0020 0 90° 45 Medium. | ee i 50} é vee H : oo ole % f Lattie Neck, 1 1b 120] oy Pumpkin. Sleetantae can” in ee scree 75 401 Barrels, 1,200 count... @500 ¥ * Es iil A ll seh =} eee rr ae a - i t 1 90 | Brie 85] Dire oe Foreign. Half bbis, 600 count. @3 0 Clam * a ames | Squash. COUPON BROOKS.” ” Currants. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. ~ s+ Standard.3lb.... 225 Hubbard aoe coos oo —, in tng bbe ocs o. 3 Small. ™ Cove Oysters. uccotas of. o.......... 3% Jennings, 1 2 1 Stunted % ib. _ gp | Mambars............--....-. 1 40 ** {n less quantity.... 3% caren gy ewes ; = av . 2 1b. 1 60 | ee ow . cleaned, bulk... 6 Lemon. Vanilla 8, count 3° : " Lobeters, ws decile nT : 50 So 6% tus regular panel. a 5 1 = PIPES tar, ty 2 45 | pa my — ‘6 2 00 Ls. | 8501 Tomatoes Citron, Leghorn, on boxes 20 | 6 oz r oo 3 00 Cl N 16.. 17 P a Plenic, 1 Ib Seo) Mamcock ............ 1 10 Lemon | ee he, See 1 35 200) “a9 % full 2b. 9 99 | Bxcelstor ............... Orange ss = se “ 11 | No. 4 taper... ‘1 50 2 50 re ull count Mackerei sc = i Raisins. Cob, No. 2..... 125 » 3 Standard, 1 1 Ib. : 1 Bl Hamburg ht ete ened es Los on : ‘Tradesman.’ Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes @ is GUNPOWDER. i . .m...... ....2 19 | Gallon . : 00} 8 1 books, per hundred 206} Sultana,20 ‘ . @ 8 POTASH, bi on Mustard, 21..." 2 25 | CHOCOLATE, ee ee 250| Valencta,30 Rifle—Dupont’s ? Tomato Sauce, 2 Ib 2 oF | Baker’s, 23 “s “ “ 3 00 Prunes. ' I . 48 cans in case. Soused,2 ib...... 2 95 | German Sweet.. ...... 23185 ‘ ‘“ “ 3 00| California, 100-120. i Kegs..........-. ............3 25] Babbitt’s .......... ou. 4 00 = Salmoz. Premium ee 37 | 810 ‘ ‘“ rr 4 00 ee 90x100 25. ib. bx 7, | Half kegs................... AO) Penne Salt C6.s.......... 22 Columbia mice flat.. 1 99 | Breakfast i 43 | 820 ‘“ s ‘6 ise ss 80x90 8 ere wees... ...........% 10) a a 1 65 } CHEESE. “Superior.” ‘ 70x80 ‘ &% 1 44 CO ee bei eee cee daa, sy 30 | RICE i ° Alaska, Red.. ...... a ie Te @13% | % 1 books, per hundred.... 2 5 ty — * ee oe ig pin 1 10 | Acme oo : fceniss 6*lUlUlCU* _. Si .eeeey..__.--.... Choke Bore —Dupont’s 8. Domestic. Kinney’s, flats 195|Lenawee............. @i2%|/83 “ “ « .... 359] Silver .................. Me@s.......... ........ .....4 96 | Candlins head oS a Sardines. Riverside 13% 185 ce ‘i --. 400] Sultana ......... 06. see... eee 2 40 ao eet oc oe American _ . @ 5| Gold Medal........... gizyj#io “ ‘ i .. 5 00| French, 60-70........ ...... Quarter kegs Le ae ie St ee ee AE 6%@ 7|Skim......... e@i0 ~~ Se 6 S FO-80...- 2. eee, . haa EE hs oe Imported is. . @10 | Brick bee Su : { “80-90... : . .-15@16 | Edam . 1 = ' a... Eagle Duck— ean 8. Imported. Mustard un _ a ieee... 23 ENVELOPES, meek... Maen cea, Ph Ot Pee) OO 7k oe 5% a eee... 21 1 | Limburger pace ee 10 : xe rag, white. Half Ee 5 % a ee i j Trout. reeeeeene. ; ‘ Be a ag UE as Seanter kege. eee ee 6 eee 250|Roquefort....-- 0°91): = @as Universal.” No. 2, 6%... Lee ce Pa oe | “4 4 THE MI CHI G 7 ‘TRAD ES MA N. All _srros 8 0 " 2 a a le Sifted ‘6 eet T re | . “ Batavia Phi ae s J — & 3@ ~ loves, Saigon vin id - | & Chute Br 0 0 a ands in ; Mace ime ssi 38 ids. 1e ntmegs, fant oo . c 5 fancy... Heaney 12 Si Smoki . Pepper No Dees sane ~ LYE. Kiln Pegi = ne ; Sings ceeteeeeee sees, 75 iX Gold : ried s Bra . “ po b oo 70 | $8 K Hun en sh oa nds, 4 A Pr sho lack!" “10 Pp meer wee... = ar’ --10 Si chaun .. : wd : Cassia, o Ground ta ie 20 a ee i i. | eucmean ae R ee y " Batavia... x4 sai me Savon Fas rong Na a= 26 | M si oa P atORS ‘ Si I ork v ‘O.’s + RD e v8: ac Clov sai cite aoa Suntlower .... Germ |. s Bran ‘mere a. + king az - + e as i — a seis a na iota ds. 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There was once a customer who bought a big bill of goods, allowed the clerk to make the selections, asked no questions as to cost or quality, paid spot cash for everything and took the goods away from the store himself. But that is another story,* and the man is now dead. Let us hope that he rests easily in his grave, and that the flowers of spring bloom unceasingly and spread perpetual fragrance above his tomb. Requiescat in pace. It is often a pleasure to supply infor- mation to those whe seek knowledge and who go about obtaining it in a be- coming manner. The writer is acquaint- ed with one such, and the penstock to the fount of wisdom ever responds read- ily to her magic touch. “Mr. Thurston, have you any sugar?’’ “We have.” ‘‘What kinds do you keep?” ‘Well, several. What kind would you like?’’ “Tl hardly know. The last light brown sugar I got tasted smoky—I didn’t get it here—and I don’t like that kind very well. Does yours taste smoky?” ‘I think not. Never heard that it did. However, here it is, and you can taste for yourself.’’ “No, I don’t think that tastes as smoky as the other did. It seems quite nice; but that was so smoky | think per- haps I had better take some other kind. Is this all you have?’’ “0, no. Would lated?’’ “I don’t Know about that, either. I gotsome granulated at Charlevoix this Summer that wasn’t sweet at all. Is yours sweet?’ *“O, yes, ma’am: ours is sweet, I’m sure. At least I never heard anyone complain of it.”’ “‘Are you sure it’s sweet?” “*Yes, ma’am; very sure.” “Il think I had better look at it, any- way. I saw some granulated sugar that a neighbor had that was so coarse that it wouldn’t hardly dissolve, and, of course, sugar that won’t dissolve isn’t just the thing for coffee. That looks quite good. Yes, it tastes sweet at first. ar pure?” “I suppose it is.’’ ‘‘Ain’t you sure, then?” ‘‘Why, yes; I am pretty sure. only the best we can get.” “Don’t you think the brown sugar more pure than the granulated?” ‘““No, ma’am; I don’t.’’ ‘‘Well, I am sure it is. of brown you like granu- Is this sug- We buy is Sugar and how Sweeter it is than the granulated.”’ “I know that, but it is because there is a certain amount of water in the dark Sugars, and they dissolve much quickly than the hard grains of the dry white sugar. see much that dark sugar cannot be pure, and to purify or refine brown sugar the dark particles of coloring matter must be re- | moved. That is my idea, though I may be wrong.” ‘‘Well, that doesn’t sound very unrea- sonable. What is the price of the gran- ulated?” * Kipling. You just taste | more | As the pure sugar crystals | are themselves white, it stands to reason | THE MICHIGAN ‘‘Fifteen pounds for a dollar.”’ ‘Did you say fifteen?” ‘Yes, ma’am.’’ ‘*‘My! that’s awful high!” “20s a” ‘‘That’s more’n it was last spring!’ ““Yes’m.” “Or last winter!’ | “Yes m.”” “Or last fall!’ ‘“‘Yes’m, considerable more.” ‘‘Well, but it’s terrible dear.’’ “I know it.” **They don’t charge so much as that at Torch Lake!” ““Don’t they?’’ ‘‘Nor at Eastport!’’ *‘Indeed!’’ **Nor at Atwood!”’ “ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Alfred J. Brown Co,, - SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED ‘a sTETSON 5 HAT BRAND ORANGES PEGISTERED ioe : ORAN GES \ HORSE: ERED “Me & ® i. i We guarantee this brand to be 1 as fine as any pack in the market. +e Prices Guaranteed. Try them. Alfred J. Brown Co., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 7 va” Why Not Use the Best? se ee oe 7 a “Sunlight” * FANCY PATENT FLOUR Is unsurpassed for whiteness, purity ar ei” strength. Increase your trade and place your self beyond the competition of your neighbors , # ~ by selling this unrivaled brand. Write us for price delivered at your railroad station . . > The Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co, .°, HOLLAND, MICH. > ~ $ u* = SOCIETIES, F CLUBS, + iY CONVENTIONS, r OT DELEGATES, >») > COMMITTEES. " The Largest Assortment of Ribbons oye and Trimmings in the State. TRADESMAN CO. en ur ors or ., Ls os & ~ ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. gets toward fall, and buy at once of one dealer all the shoes you will need for, say, six months, he will sell them to you for less money than any Montgomery | Ward & Co. dare name in their cata- logues.” “I don’t see why you can’t sell one pair at a time just as cheap as a dozen.”’ “It is because it often takes as long to sell one pair as it does to sell six. Mer- chants are like farmers in one respect— they like to see money coming in in large sums. Supposing | make a profit of 25 cents on a pair of shoes that it takes me fifteen minutes to sell—” “I think that is an outlandish profit to make on a pair of shoes!’’ ‘Well, but I mean by way of illustra- tion. Now, if in half an hour I could sell five pairs more to the same _ per- making pairs in all, there would bea profit of a dollar and a half. Well, then, why couldn’t I throw off enough on the lot to make it an object to the customer?”’ “Oh, I suppose you could. You mer- chants make big enough profits anyway. I’ve heard that you don’t get less than a hundred per cent. on anything, and from that up. I know a man that used to be a clerk in a store, and he says they always made just half profit on sugar, and [ think you ought to sell sugar cheaper. Can’t you?”’ ‘No, ma’am, we can’t. Sugars are up and we are giving you the best possible price.”’ *‘What made sugar raise?” “The war in Maracaibo.”’ “My! Is thatso? Whatis the matter there?” ‘Why, the king’s lima beans in the queen’s oyster bed. Then the sowed a few rows of field corn in the same place, with the hope of blending the two and raising suec- cotash. This, of course, didn’t work, for the oysters climbed the bean poles, and they were cooked whole for string beans, the king eating so many of them, shells and all, that it made him dreadful sick. The queen was mad because the king ate her oysters, and so they have gone to There are lots of mountains steep in that country that wagons can- not be used on them, and, now that the war is on, they cover the hills with sugar and everybody sleighs. Fanny, isn’t it?’’ “No, I don’t see as it’s very funny. It’s just queer. But I’ve heard that they do strange things in those foreign places. Then most likely there won’t sugar at all after a little.’’ ‘Not if the war keeps on.” “Do tell! And how much would you charge for a barrel of granulated?’’ “Couldn’t make any better price.”’ ‘**How many pounds of the light brown for a dollar?’’ ‘Sixteen.” ‘“‘How much by the barrel?’’ ‘Same price.”’ “Do you think that the sweet taste will evaporate after a while?’’ “No, ma’am, I don’t think it will—that is, not for years and years at least.’’ “Then it would evaporate sometime?”’ son, six me gardener planted red queen war. So uses be any “IT don’t know—it might, but I never heard of such a thing.”’ ‘‘Well, if you’re not sure, Ll try twenty-five cents’ worth of it to-day; and please put two papers around it so it won’t break open on the road, and I wish you’d hurry, for I promised to be home in time to get supper for the threshers.”’ Gro. L. THURSTON. Points for Clerks. Of all the allurements which beguile the steps of youth, probably not one is so powerful and so fatal as false friendship. And it is ‘‘false’’? in every sense. The ‘honor among thieves’? is only in the name. The bund between them is one of fear and hate, rather than confidence and love. However fair and flattering promises of those who tempt others do evil, they are at heart hollow. When a ‘tool’? has served his purpose he cast off with contempt. A certain Frenchman named Dentz had betrayed a party who was considered is taunts and jeers or silent | 7 | | | | the | to} dangerous to the government for 50,000 | franes. The information he had to give was gladly received, and the arrest promptly made, and a secretary commis- sioned to pay traitor. As the hour approached, the secretary sent a messenger for his son. When he came he said; ‘Look well now at what passes, and never forget it. You will see what a traitor is and the method of paying him.’’ Dentz entered the apartment and ap- proached the desk behind which his pay- master was standing. A sign was made for him to atop. On the desk lay two packages of 25,000 franes each. With a pair of tongs each package was picked up and dropped into the outstretched hand of the other, and then he was pointed to the door. A dog would have been treated with more respect and consideration. One rather wonders what were the feel- ings of the man as he retired with such gains in his possession. The love of money must have been very strong to have given much pleasure without that which gives money its chief value, the respect of his fellows. When one has made money at the ex- pense of his reputation, he has lost ground he will hardly be able to recover. But the loss to himself from the moral standpoint is far greater than any disadvantages that may arise because of ‘‘what people may say about him.’’ What you are is far more important than what folks think you are. Said Macaulay: ‘‘One foolish line of a man can do him more harm than the ablest pamphlets against him by other people;” and the same is true of one evil act. Just a forged signature to a paper can blacken aman’s whole prospects for life, and bring disgrace and ruin on all associated with him. There have never been better cautions and directions given than those which Solomon wrote down, though his observa- tions of life were made from the stand- point of a palace, and one would sup- pose he had seen life mainly on its pleas- ing side. Yet the old world goes on much in the same pace. Evil workers say now as then to those they would lead astray: ‘“‘Castin thy lot among us; let us all have one purse. We shall find all precious substance; we shall fill our homes with spoil.” Well does he add the caution: ‘‘Walk not thou with them; refrain thy foot from their paths.” There is not a crooked way of getting money that does not bring ‘ta wound and dishonor;”’? and the wound to the spirit of the too trusting, deceived youth is often the hardest of all to bear. —_ > —_- ‘““To-Morrow’”’ Never Comes. Longfellow has said that ‘‘Our unfin- ished tasks wait like mendicants at our gate.”? The shiftless man expects to ac- complish to-morrow the work of yester- day, and wastes to-day in vague plans for the future. The satisfaction of be- ing abreast of his work he has never His office table an avalanche of ters, unchecked accounts, and documents of every kind. everything and nothing in its place is his idea of order. write twice or more before he _ replies, and then he never answers their commu- felt. under unanswered over the money to the} | and, when the day is over and nothing of is always buried | let- | unsorted | A place for | Correspondents have to | I complains, ‘‘no time to do anything.’ He is always afew minutes too late to catch the train, or just misses an import- ant appointment. His position is like that of a person who would attempt to climb a ladder with both hands full of packages. A step forward means the loss of balance, and the shiftless man spends all his en- ergy in recovering his own possessions. What he did yesterday slips from his grasp as he reflects on to-morrow, be- cause his plans do not provide for the necessities of to-day. He resolves at night to accomplish the unfinished task to-morrow, but when the sun rises he discovers that it is simply another ‘‘to- day,” and delays the purpose for a more | leisurely occasion. | From Chicago and Kalamazoo. The prospector digs among the rocks and washes the sand in search of gold, yalue has rewarded his efforts, buoys his courage with dreams of the glittering nuggets which the shovel of to-morrow will bring to the surface. The miner’s to-morrow may serve some useful pur- pose and cheer his heart, but the busi- ness man who puts off the present duty will never find a to-morrow to which he ean intrust the demands of to-day. A — AI ft Use Tradesman Coupon Books. pany the Dutch Process ome OR Other Chemicals 1 W. Baker & Cu’ Breakfast Cocoa, which is absolutely pure and soluble. A description of the chocolate plant, and of the various cocoa and chocolate preparations man ufactured by Walter Baker & Co will be sent free toany dealeronr application. W. BAKER & C0., Dorchester Mass. TOLEDO NORTH MICHIGAN RAILWAY. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R? ys offers a route making the best time be tween Grand Rapids and Toledo, Time Table in effect May 14, 1893. VIA D., L. 4. B’Y. Lv. Grand Rapids at.....7:10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m. Ar, Toledoat......... 1:15 p m. and 10:4 p. m., VIA D., G. H. 4M. BY. Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo at. 1:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. Return connections equally as good. H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent Toledo. On} Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect Nov. 19, 1893. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For M’kinaw,Trav. City and Sag. 7:20 a m 7:40am For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:15 pm 4:50 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ...... 8:10pm 10:25 pm Cetecsetecees 10am 50 p m From Kalamazoo. Trains arriving from south at ’: 20 am and 9:10am fn : : : daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. nications fully. Asto paying accounts | TRAINS GOING SOUTH. i : : se a D on the date due, that is an act he is never Taegan een guilty of. He intends to be honest, but | For Cincinnatt.........................-.. 7:05 am : es oe sa ¢ | For Kalamazoo and Chicago... .......... 10:40 am he delays the doing of it until it is too For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:40am 2:00 pm > y Habit. | For Cineiimatl............... - 6:15pm 6:00 pm late. The man w ho, through mere he For Kalamazoo & Chicago..... 10:55 pm 11:20 pm has fallen into shiftless methods and dil- | From gaginaw............ | ae Prom Sagimaw............ . 10:55p m atory ways seems to himself to be over- whelmed with business. He has, Trains leaving south at 6:00 Pm and 11:20 p. m. run he! daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. 19 Chicago via G. R. & I. KR. R. Ly Grand Rapids 10:40 a m 2:00 pm 11:20 pm Arr Chicago 4:00 p m 9:00 pm 7:05am 10:40 a m train solid with Wagner Buffet Parlor ar. 11:20 pm train daily, Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago 6:50 am 4:15pm 11:40 pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:15 pm 9:50 p m 7:20 am 4:15 p m through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car and coaches. 11:40 p m train daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car. throngh coach and Wagner Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 7:35 am 9:40 am 5:40 pm 5:20pm Sunday train leaves for Muskegon at 7:45a m, ar- riving at 9:15am. Returning, train leaves Muske gon at 4:30 p m, arriving at Grand Rapids at 5:50 p m. O. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO NOV. 19, 1898 AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y, GOING TO CHICAGO. LY. Gd Rapids... .... ar am 1:25pm *11:°0pm Ar. Chicago ‘ pm 6:50pm *6:30am RETt RNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. Chicago............7:45am 4:55pm *11:30pm Ar. Ga Mapids......... 2 30pm 10:20pm *6:10am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:30am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 10:55am 2:30pm 10:20pm TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids 3:15pm Ar. Manistee,....... iz: 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City a 8°45pm Ar. Charlevoix 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey 11:40pm Arrive from Petoskey, etc., 1:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. j Local train to White Clou ids 5:45 p. m., connects for leaves Grand Rap Big Kapids and Fre mont. Returning, arrives Grand Rapids 11:20 A. In. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS ToChicago, lv. G. R.. 5 :3°pm tetamien ek : eee. To G. R -lv. Chicago. :30pm ToG. R. ly. Petoskey . “3 *Every day. Other trains week DETROIT, NOV. 19, i893 LANSING & NORTE HERN R, BR, days only. GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. Grand R — 7:00am *1:20pm 5:40pm Ae, DCRR... 11:40am *5:25pm 10:25pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit..... 7:45am *1:45pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids......12:45pm *5:40pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:40am 4:50pm Ar. G R.11:40am 10:55pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Rapids 7:00am 1:20pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell ..........12:46pm 6:400nm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. GEO. s week days only. , Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. Other trai DEHAVE MICHIGAN eases “The Niagara Falis Route.’’ (Taking Nov. Arrive. 10 20 pm omam ... 19, 1893.) Depart . Detroit Expr ss ae oe *Atlantic and Pac oo -..1t 20pm 1 30pm New York Expr 59 40pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantie and Pacifie ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:0) am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. Atmquist, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. gore, GRAND HAVEN WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av, effect Sunday, & MIL- EASTWARD. |tNo. _— 16|tNo. 18) T rai ns Leavy e *No. 82 G’d Rapids, Lv 10 45pm Oe ...... Ar 12 27am st. Johns ...Ar 8 25am)| 1: 2 17pm I 1 45am Owoss) .Ar| 900am| 1 20pm) 6 05pin|} 2 40am E. Saginaw..Ar |10 5Can 3 45pm) 8 00pm} 6 40am Bay City Ar }11 3% 4 35pm) § 37pm} 7 15am Flint Ar 10 05am} 3 45 pm! 705pm} 54 am Pt. Huron...Ar 12 05pm] f »50pm) 8 50pm) 7 30am Pontiac Ar |10 53am] 3 05pm 25pm) 5 37am Detroit. Ar |11 50am] 4 05pm opm} 7 00am WESTWARD. No. 13. (*No. 81 |tNo. 11 Trains Leave G'd Rapids. ...... Gd Haven a | 4 55pm : AT} 8 + 2 dam| 2 10p m} 6 00pm +Dail y exc ept Sunday Trains arrive from the east, 6: p.-m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:15 a. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner *Daily. 35 &.m., 12:50 10:10 a. m., 3:15 Parlcr Buffet ear. No. 18 Parlor Car. Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T*cket Agent. 23 Monrce Street. 20 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. New York, Dec. 2—We are entering the last month of a year the departure of which no business man will regret. It has been full of disappointments and, although a revival of confidence has been predicted for so long, the fact remains that the present volume of trade does not justify the assertions made a month agoormore. The charitable associations are crowded with applicants for relief, and mendicants are more numerous than ever. These are rather gloomy views, to be sure; but, when the situation of business during the past summer is remembered, it will be seen that it is very hard to find a ray of cheerfulness. The strike onthe Lehigh road came at an unfortunate time, and the strikers, who seemed to have justice on their side, seem now to be forfeiting the good opinion of the people by resorting to violence. This strike, and the stopping of hat factories at Danbury, are two disquieting elements. They affect many consumers and, in turn, the retailers, jobbers and manufacturers. The sugar market remains steady and prices are unchanged. With prospects of an oversupply in Europe, there seems no reasonable chance of any advance; in fact. it is predicted that the consumer will buy granulated sugar before next summer for 4 cents a pound. Indeed, it is now retailing here at the rate of 16 eents for 314 pounds. Coffee excites no attention and the buy- ing is of amoderate, everyday character. For Rio No. 7, 173¢e prevails. For mild coffees—Mochas, Javas, Mexicans, etc.— the inquiry is about of an average char- acter. Affairs in Brazil are watched with eagerness, but the supply of coffee in Europe is so large that no great change is looked for, whichever side wins. Dullest of all things are canned goods. The big dry goods stores which have grocery annexes are advertising special bargains in ‘‘tinned’’ goods, and they offer well-known brands at almost job- bing prices. In the whole line there is nothing which brokers handle which at- tracts more than passing notice. Toma- toes are said to be doing very well in Baltimore, and no fears are felt about the supply beinginsufficient. California canned goods are meeting with some favor for holiday goods. Lemons are in ample supply, but are selling indifferently. They are worth $3.25@4.50 per box, with some fancy Serrentos selling as high as $6@7 per box of 300. Florida oranges have the eall, and have driven the foreign out. Bananas are moving slowly at from $1@1.25 per bunch. Butter does not reach the 30c mark and the finest Western is selling at about 26ce. Cheese is moderately active at 10@ 12¢, as to size and quality. Eggs are selling well, fresh arrivals bringing 25@ 27c. ‘‘A dozen of eggs for a pound of butter” now is the rule. Rice, molasses and syrups are all sell- ing at a slow rate. New Orleans mo- lasses, 33@40c; Porto Rico, 23@30c; sugar syrups, good to choice, 17@22c. The meeting of Congress is awaited with a good deal of interest and discus- sions over the tariff wax hot and heavy. Government reports of the wheat sup- ply are being severely criticised and it is felt that they are about as inaccurate as can be; in fact, worse than none. Returns made to raisers of poultry must show about the most unsatisfactory returns imaginable. Good turkeys have retailed at 12}¢c a pound. Where the profit is at such prices no one can tell. The supply was tremendous, and buyers had it all their own way. The number of pilgrims going home to Thanksgiving was remarkably small. The financial stringency is felt all around, although 45,000 people went to see the football game and the theaters are well patronized. No statement of the affairs of the Thurber, Whyland Co. has yet been made, although itis promised within a few days. It is said that Mr. Thurber feels greatly encouraged over the pre- liminary figures, and everybody hopes he may soon be ‘‘on top’’ again. Jay. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Saginaw Fishing Season. Sacinaw, Dec. 1—The fishing season is about finished in Saginaw Bay. The eatch has proved exceptionally large and is considered more profitable than the season of 1892. There is plenty of fish in the market, and since Sept. 15, 30,000 packages of 100 pounds each of herring have been salted down and shipped from the valley. The floating ice which is driven by the wind cuts the nets, other- wise the fishing season would continue longer. As soon as the bay freezes over, the ice as far as Tawas City will be dot- ted over with about 300 fishing shanties, each with two occupants, and the work of catching the finny tribe through holes in the crystal surface will continue until the ice breaks up in the spring. — Al nn Reduction in the Price of Bread. Detroit, Nov. 29—The Master Bakers’ Association held a meeting last night at the Russell House, at which the price of bread was discussed. At the conclusion of the discussion, it was decided, in view of the low price of flour and other arti- cles used in the manufacture of bread, to reduce the price as follows: For two- pound loaves, heretofore sold at eight cents retail, now seven cents; for one- pound loaves, heretofore sold at five cents, at four cents; Vienna bread to re- main the same, at five cents per pound loaf. 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The sharp edge of oval-tined forks will bruise pota- toes and beets, and the ordinary points will stick into them. It has 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 of uses. & GC: prosren TEVEN ONRQ M ST. R 7* f. C. G. A. VOIGT & CO. Gracker Chests, Glass Covers for Biscis ¥ ( { é a -~ 3 ri Sy i ' = | i iq j < i } = ne | HESE chests will a | UR new glass covers are by far the ' pay for themselves in the handsomest ever offered to the i breakage they avoid. Price $4. trade. They are made to fit any ly of our boxes and can be changed from one box to anotherinamoment They ly 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. 4 ~ i : NEW NOVELTIES SS ee GP hepninns e We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: = S | A R R O ER M ] \ S CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. : CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. OUR LEADING BRAN I ; " . oa nis. eee NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is bound to be one of > Our Patent, Gilt Edge, Star, Calla Lily and Go-den Sheaf**'"""""""" "==" Pk ci-aiheee ioeuses aie THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO., C. G. A. VOIGT & CO., S. A. Sears, Mgr. GRAND RAPIDS. o Write for Quotations. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 4 Ake O M A LT If You Want Good, Light, Sweet Bread and Biscuit, | | FERMENTUM . ASK | aes | THE ONLY RELIABLE SEND COMPRESSED YEAST { BOYS | FOR + ABOUT | A ee | H MANUFACTURED BY pS TheFermentim Company CHICAGO, 270 KINZIE STREET. MICHIGAN AGENCY: vy arnhar t | GRAND RAPIDS, 106 KENT STREET. sue 7 PutmanCo. hdiiens all communications to THE FERMENTUM CO. feadquarters. for Crockery and Holiday Goods NO, 999 German (€ ‘hi na 456 plec< TT en Ses. write for discount or Jook on page 20 in our NO. 111 catalogue. NO, 1178-2: mt olen s _ — lai 1 100-piece Dinne Set. Penci eolor List price $17 60 We also keep this pattern in open in assor oe crates For page 10 in : LORENCE PATTERN « gold stipple “i decoration, jars are pail List price rs. LEONARD & SONS, NO 430 Haviland French China 98 piece Dinner NO. 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All pieces are v: Hab Ma gh Set y wis VN Write us for composition and discount, or look on page extra large with handled slop jar. 23 in our No. !11 Catalogue. List price / $15 50 R12 5 a a 2 . S12 List price cae R42 00 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ABSOLUTE TEA. | poner ineniinHARHTR TELFER GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOLD ONLY BY PRONOUNCED: THE BEST PEANUT WARMER IN THE MARKET. S PP | . E . [> is CHEAPEST BEC AUSE IT 18 MOST DURABLE. AGENTS WANTED. ANDREWS, BROWN & CO.., 413 Mich. Trust Building.