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ESTABLISHED 1841. | RESIS «I AES ANA THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada SCV Saale Pe Buildings, Portraits, Cards, Letter and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Plans. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in wed gy gy cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. Ways FIRE (le INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. T.iStewart Waite, Pres’t. W. Frep McBawy, Sec’y. ‘money. - GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY READS LIKE A ROMANCE. After twenty years of hard labor and rigid economy, my Uncle Dan, who was a farmer in Story county, Ia., found him- self about to be sold out on a mortgage. It’s that way with some men, you know. They may work as hard as they will, but things grow worse instead of better. I was there on avisit one October day when the holder of the mortgage called to say: ‘“‘I am sorry for you, Dan Curtis, but I’ve given you the best show I could. I know how hard you’ve worked, and I know how hard it’ll come for you to be turned off, but 1 can’t afford to lose my You owe me, principal and in- terest, $800. I could have foreclosed six months ago, but I was in hope some- thing would turn up. I’m going ‘to give you another month. If you can’t raise the money, I'll have to take the farm.’’ Two or three days later it was decided to make an appeal to a cousin living about twenty miles away, and my Uncle Dan and Aunt Martha set out in the old quill-wheel buggy, drawn by the family Dobbin, to make the journey. As they were ready to start Uncle Dan cast his eyes around and said: ‘It won’t be no use, Martha—I feel it in my bones that it won’t.’’ ‘Daniel, hev you got done trustin’ the Lord?” asked my aunt, who was a very religious woman. “No.” “Then drive on, and remember that He works in mysterious ways.’’ My cousin Will and I were left in charge. Neither of us was yet 15 years old, and my uncle did not keep any hired help. We put in the day at cutting corn, and were doing up the ‘‘chores’”’ after supper when Mr. Roberts, the county Sheriff, came along and called us out to the highway fence. He asked if we had seen any strangers passing along the road or skulking through the fields, and went on to relate the particulars of a crime which had occurred in Hardin county, to the north of us, two days be- fore. A farmer had not only been robbed of about $7,000 in bonds and cash, which he was foolish enough to keep in the house, but in resisting the robbers had been almost killed. There were two men engaged in the crime, and they were sup- posed to be tramps. The alarm had been sounded so quickly and the pursuit had been so vigorous that the fellows were supposed to have been driven to hide themselves in the fields. The Sheriff cautioned us to keep our eyes open and told us where to give the alarm in case we made a discovery, and he rode away leaving us in a very unpleasant state of mind. The idea of sleeping in a house which might be visited by the despera- does during the night was not to be thought of. The barn was full of fresh hay, and before dark we carried out some quilts and made our bed on the mow. There wasn’t a door in the house which could be locked from the outside, and not a window had a catch on it, and if the fellows came they could walk right in. My uncle being a poor man, there wasn’t much in the shape of plunder around his house, but, as Aunt Martha was a good housewife, she had the cellar pretty well stocked with jellies and pre- serves. We reasoned that if the men got into the house it would be to satisfy their hunger, and they would not leave the cellar unvisited. Hanging up in the corn-crib was an old bear trap which Uncle Dan had become possessed of years before, and we got that down and set it at the bottom of the stairs. It wasa stiff old trap, red with rust, and we had to use a stout lever to spring the hinges down. Uncle Dan and the Sheriff and others referred to the trap as ‘‘boy non- sense,” and I don’t think we had much faith in it ourselves. It was just fairly dark as we left the house for the barn, and after we got to bed on the hay we talked for an hour or two before looking out of a crevice to see if the house was all right. We looked out on the kitchen part, and while saying to each other that the murderers were probably fifty miles away, a light suddenly appeared in the kitchen. The curtains were up, and the barn was not so far away but that we could make out the figures of two men passing to and fro. We must go two miles te get word to the Sheriff, and we got down from the mow and outof doors, intending to start right off. We were making across the barnyard, when Will suggested that we ought first to get a closer look at whoever was in the house. It might be the fugitives, or it might be neighbors who had some word for us. After a bit we began approaching the house, and when we had crawled up among the cabbages in the rear of the kitchen we had a pretty good view of what was going on inside. Wehad made asupper of bread and butter and cold meat, with a pitcher of milk to drink. There was plenty left, and we had not cleared away the dishes. There were two men in the room, and they shoved back from the table just as we looked in. From the first glimpse of the men we knew them to be the criminals, but, in- stead of hurrying away, we waited tu see what they would do. They must have been sure that there was no one at home, for they took things very coolly. As they shoved back from the table one of them rose up and took down the family shears, which hung on a nail under the clock shelf, and he put in the next ten minutes clipping off his companion’s hair and beard. Both had long hair and more or less beard, and were as tough-looking fellows as you would find in a month’s travel. It was turn about with the clip- ping process, and when they had finished we could hardly believe them to be the same two men. Only candles were used in the house, and they had lighted only one up to this time. A second dip was now brought out of the pantry, and one of the pair used it to go upstairs. He was gone about ten minutes, and when he returned he had a hat, a cap, two coats, and other things belonging to Uncle Dan’s wardrobe. They made use of the 31, 1894. NO. 544 clothes as far as they would go to re- habilitate themselves, while they made a bundle of what they cast off and placed it on a chair to take away. Will and I dared not approach nearer than ten feet to the window, and, therefore, caught only a word now and then of conversa- tion, and that was pretty sure to be an oath. They must have argued that they were pretty safe from pursuit, as they took their time about everything and seemed entirely at home. When they had made the change of clothes, I thought they would be off, and wanted Will to come along and give the alarm, but he whispered in my ear: ‘I don’t believe they’ll go without something more to eat, and I want to see how our bear trap works.” I don’t know whether the fellows hun- gered for more supper or wanted food to take away with them, but three minutes after Will had spoken one of them was rummaging in the pantry and the other was on his way down cellar. He halted in the door and snuffed and sniffed as if he smelled the preserves, and, as he started to descend the stairs, he said something to his companion which we could not catch, though we saw his lips moving and a grin on his face. That grin couldn’t have lasted over fifteen sec- onds. I expect the fellow must have held his candle in such a way as to cast a shadow on the bear trap waiting for him, for he stepped fairly into it as he reached the bottom of the stairs. We were holding our breaths when we got the signal, and the signal was a series of yells which made the hair curl. The fellow upstairs had just come out of the pantry with the tea canister in his hand, and the yells almost lifted him out of his old shoes. Instead of going to the assist- ance of his companion, he dashed for the door, and as he came out and rushed away inthe darkness he passed within five feet of us. There was a creek running across my uncle’s farm, and at a certain spot it widened out and flowed over a bed of quicksand. This spot was fenced off to keep the stock away. When the man came running out we thought he was af- ter us, and while he took one direction we flew in another, and had gone half a mile before we realized that he was not pursuing us. We were skulking back to the house when we heard shouts and yells from the direction of the creek, and when we had crept up to the fence we made out a man struggling in the quick- sand. The fear that he would get out prevented us from revealing our pres- ence, and, as we neared the house, we expected to find that the other one had released himself from the trap. He hadn’t accomplished the feat, however. He had been caught by the right leg, with the jaws of the trap gripping him just below the knee, and the first we heard of him as we crept up to the open door he was trying to get up the cellar stairs. He was fifteen minutes in ac- complishing this, and the way he did eurse and take on was something awful. P] THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. There was a light on the kitchen table, | and we could see him plainly. He backed up the stairs, drawing the trap after him, but on reaching the kitchen the pain took all the pluck out of him, and he lay down and cried like a boy | taking a switching. When we saw that | he was pretty safely captured, we started | off to arouse the Sheriff, and an of his deputies. The fellow down at the ereek was uttering a yell while the victim of the bear trap managed to get out doors and was trying to pry the jaws open with the ax. If he had whimpered under the pain an hour before he made up for it now by defying the officers. They didn’t want to shoot him, and he kept them at bay with the ax, crippled as he was, until the Sheriff finally knocked him over with a club. It took a good half hour to open the trap, and the fellow’s tongue kept going all the time. When we got the lantern down to see the situation of the other prisoner we fonnd that he had sunk into the quicksand up to his armpits and occasionally, had and went then rested, probably because of his feet | striking a log or stone. He wasn’t suf- fering any bodily pain, though his teeth were chattering with eold, but he was as safely caught as if he had a bear trap on each foot. Instead of being defiant he| was inclined to joke. When he learned | that his comrade had been caught in a} trap he laughed heartily and added: ‘The old snoozer who owns this farm must keep a regular assortment of b’ar | traps and quicKsands and boys and Sher- | It has all come about He iffs around here. on account of Bill’s stomach. I told him not to go down cellar, smelled more. but he said he and was vound to git it. something good He now I hope he feels a heap better. be he blames me fur not stoppin’ what was the matter, but from the way he yelled I thought he’d been grabbed by forty ghosts.” If you have an idea that the man ought | clear of the you that we had to to have worked himself sands, let me tell make a platform of rails and then get a/| stout rope under his arms and haul him | It was over two and he was out an inch at a time. hours before we landed him, then so used up that we had to carry him | to the house. Aunt Martha’s kitchen presented a beautiful spectacle daylight came. The fellowcaughtin the trap had lost considerable blood, and the other one was covered with mud, and, with the rest of us tracking around and sloshing about, it seemed as if hog-killing time had arrived. The Sheriff readily‘identified the two men as | the perpetrators of the crime in Hardin county. The one called Bill denied the accusation, but the quicksand victim re- proved him for lying, and added: **William, old boy, as to be a common liar. him handling them, and we shouldn’t have hurt him in the least if he hadn’t been so pigheaded. Luck is agin us, William. We shali go over the road fur this, but let us go as gentlemen.’’ The fellows had been removed to jail and Will and [ had finished mopping the kitchen and setting things to right when uncle and aunt drove up. failed to raise a dollar, and Aunt Martha burst into tears as she got out of the old hour | later were back with that officer and two | ate ‘nuff fur any two men and then wanted | got it, and | May- | to see | when | i slime and | don't be so vulgar | We didn’t know | that the man had any bonds until we saw | They had | buggy at the gate. The story of our ad- venture put a different look to matters, | as you may believe. There was a reward | for those robbers, and if Will and I had not earned it who had? We were willing | to give the Sheriff something, but the | bulk of it certainly belonged to us. It | took the old folks about an hour to get it through their heads, but, when it had finally been made plain, Aunt Martha | burst into tears again and sobbed: “Boys, do you know what ailed me when we drove up the gate? For just |about a minute 1 lost my faith in the Lord, and yet this surprise was waiting for me and our troubles had all been cleared away.”’ There was a reward of $1,000 for the | criminals, who received long terms in | prison, and of this Uncle Dan got $700. | Later on the man who had been robbed | presented him with $300. But this was |not all the good luck. Down cellar, three or four weeks after the capture of | the men, my aunt found a bundle of legal | papers which the trapped robber had | thrown away. They were deeds and | contracts and notes of hand which had been stolen from aman in Des Moines, | and he insisted on Uncle Dan accepting $200 as a present for their return. The | mortgage was not only cleared off the | farm in due time, but Aunt Martha got | money enough to buy a new bonnet—her first in fifteen years. Uncle Dan felt so | rich that he wanted to invest in a silver | wateh, but when he timidly broached the subject to his wife she rose up and replied: ‘Dan’! Curtis, don’t you think of such |athing! After all that Providence has done for us, you want to walk around as meek and humble as a cat, and be mighty thankful that we’ve even got a kitchen | clock to tell the time o’ day by.’’ > | Output of Canned Tomatoes for 1893. The fourteenth annual report of the | American Grocer makes the output of canned tomatoes in the United States and Canada, for the year 1893, 4,395,543 cases, an excess over 1892 of 1,028,814 eases. The total output is equivalent to 105,493,032 tins, a quantity sufficient to |give each family of five persons eight |tins per annum. The total is a larger |quantity than ever before reported. Had it not been for the long summer | drouth, which cut off the yield of toma- } toes in New York, Ohio and other West- |ern States, the pack would have reached 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 cases, or fully | 1,000,000 cases beyond the annual re- |quirements of the United States and Canada. The year was a good one for | the packers, as the sales for future de- | livery during the first half of 1893 were unusually heavy. High prices for canned | tomatoes during May, June and July last | stimulated the industry, and led to the | planting of a largely increased area. | Fortunately the crop was short in some sections, and thus an overstocked mar- | ket was prevented. The market at the | beginning of ’94 was firm at $1@1.10 for | No. 3standard tins. The highest price, } in 1893, was $1.45 in July; the lowest 95 cents in September. j tt Mathematics and Money. Husband—According to your own fig- ures, you spent over $100 this year in | cheap fripperies which had to be thrown away after once wearing. That $100 | would have bought a piece of lace that would have lasted a lifetime—in fact, could be used by your descendants for generations. Wife—Well, give me $100, buy the lace for next year. Husband—Um—never mind; I—I don’t think lace is very becoming to yourstyle of beauty. Here’s 10 cents for another | ruffle. and I will neem ieee Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. C. G. A. VOIGT & CO. STAR ROLLER MILLS OUR LEADING BRANDS ARE Dur Patent, Gilt Bdge, Star, Calla Lily and Go-den Shear. WE GUARANTEE EVERY SACK, C. Write for Quotations. G. A. VOIGT & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALBERT N. AVERY, MANUFACTURERS’ AGENT FOR CARPETS ald DRAPERIES, 19 So. Ionia 8t., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Special Sale of Lace and Chenille Curtains. Merchants visiting the Grand Rapids market are invited to call and inspect my lines, which are complete in every respect. In placing orders with me you deal directly with the manufac- turer. BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer C75 PE od life. C4 ean ncaa Stanton $& Morey, DETROIT, MICH. Geo. F. OWEN, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence 59 N Grand Rapids. - Union St., Alired J. Brown Co. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED cle > ON S HAT BRAND ORANGES PEGISTERED ORANGES We guarantee this brand to be as fine as any pack in the market, Prices Guaranteed. Try them. Alfred J. Brown Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 THE VALUE-OF MEDITATION. Written for THE TRADESMAN. One great redeeming feature of the times is that we have plenty of time for meditation. Meditation aids mental di- gestion; it is as necessary to mental health as thorough mastication is to physical health. The American people are chronie dyspeptics, both mentally and physically. They do not take the time to read and eat which the laws of their being demand, and the result is in- digestion in either case. The American mind is always in action, being kept con- tinuously under the relentless spurs of a spirit that knows no rest. No time to read understandingly; no time to digest what is carelessly and hurriedly read by applying a little concentrated thought or meditation—no wonder that we are a na- tion of mental dyspepties. But the laws which govern our mental and material growth cannot be violated with impuni- ty. If we will not take the time to read understandingly and aid our mental di- gestion with intelligent thought, we can- not hope to escape the penalty. The American spirit of enterprise is anymph of the New World. It has rescued a wild, unbroken continent from innumer- able tribes of savages and peopled it with the best blood of the Old World, lifting it from a state of crude barbarism to a higher plane of civilization than that ever attained by any of the nations of the earth. It has spirited away forests, cob- webed the land with railroads, and dot- ted it with prosperous cities. By the touch of its magic wand workshops have sprung up everywhere, giving vemploy- ment to the world’s surplus of workers, by whose labor it has accumulated wealth in such vast proportions as to cause all the rest of the world to stand aghast with amazement. Our growth and develop- ment have been so phenomenal in their nature that this spirit of enterprise was supposed to be omnipotent. We had cause to believe that all we had to doin order to keep right on growing, expand- ing and accumulating wealth, was to blindly follow wherever this feverish, restless spirit of enterprise pointed in its ceaseless flight. It had, led the way to speedy success in the past, and nothing could stay its progress in the future. It was thought to be equal to any emer- gency. -Its blind and devoted “followers depended upon it to overcome all changes in conditions and the laws which govern supply anddemand. All that was necessa- ry in order to keep the great industrial ball rolling was to push, pull, stretch and hustle, regardless of cause and effect, the law of supply and demand, the certainty of limitation or the rules of common sense. When the blind leads the blind, sooner or later both will fall into the ditch. That time has arrived in this country. The spirit of enterprise and the country’s industries are laying in the ditch. The laws whicb govern our ma- terial welfare have been flagrantly vio- lated and we are suffering the penalty therefor. We had no time or inclination to devote a little thought to cause and effect, and now we are made to suffer the evil effects of causes which might have been averted if we had been more cau- tious and not so recklessly greedy. Our workingmen received good wages, and they were led to believe that such would continue to be the case as long as the product of foreign pauper labor was kept out of the country by a sys- tem of high taxation. The work- | ingman was. satisfied, and employ-} ers continued to pile up wealth. Both were too busy to stop and do a little thinking. If they had done so they would have realized the fact that our free lands were rapidly diminishing; and, that, although the fruits of foreign pauper labor were not allowed to come into com- petition with the fruits of American labor, the foreign paupers themselves were pouring into the country by hun- dreds of thousands. They would have seen that the time was rapidly approach- ing when the last acre of our free lands would have passed away forever, when this mighty influx of foreign pauper labor would flood this country and de- moralize and completely undermine and ruin the American workingman. I say, if they had done a little thinking they would have seen a limit to these things, and prudence and common sense would have dictated remedial measures. That limit has been reached. Every desirable acre of Uncle Sam’s free lands has been taken up and we have a surplus of labor of such vast proportions that it has be- come a standing menace to the peace of the country. Wages, relative to other values, will never be as high in this country as they have been—in the ab- sence of war or some other unforseen national calamity. This is a time for meditation. Idle- ness is a terrible thing. It is said to be the ‘‘root of all evil.’? It is no less an evil when voluntary and well fed; but when it is forced and accompanied with destitution and want, it is simply appall- ing. This is the condition of millions of American citizens to-day. This great army of idle, unemployed men and women certainly have time to read, think, and meditate on life and the con- ditions which are best calculated to in- crease the sum of human _ happiness. Let us hope that they are improving their opportunity, and that the higher degree of intelligence thus acquired will be made use of by them in bettering their condition and in guarding against like calamities in the future. How is it with the retail merchant? Does he find time during these alms-giv- ing times to doa little thinking? Does he not at times, while sitting on a nail keg waiting for the cash customer that never comes, fall into a meditative mood and try to think out the causes which have brought about the present condi- tion of things? The merchant who says he has had no time to ‘‘giveitathought,”’ when asked for an opinion as to the effect of legislation on the business of the country, passed away with the close of prosperity. The man behind the counter to-day has given it a thought. The paralysis of the times has caused a shrinkage in the volume of trade varying, in the different branches, all the way from twenty-five to fifty per cent. Upon the hypothesis that the retailer’s time was wholly occupied in his busi- ness previous to the present depression, he is at present spending from one-fourth to one-half of his time in enforced idle- ness, or else he has cut down his working force correspondingly. Itis only in the larger establishments, however, where the merchant is thus enabled to keep himself busy by curtailing his help, and the fact remains that the great majority of retailers find an abundance of time to read and digest. Meditate? Why, we ean’t help it. Trade is demoralized; Continued on page 6. How it Has Grown. Summarized History: ISSS - - - - Business Established 1SSS - - $Special Machinery Introdvced mao - IS9A - Remowal to Larger Quarters Largest Covpon Book Plant in the World In which we produce more Coupon Books than all the other manufacturers in the country combined. These facts speak louder than words and prove that our books must have been the best in the market for the past ten years in order to secure this de= mand. Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS, [ICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE, AROUND THE STATE. South Haven—W. J. Viail has opened | a new retail grocery store. Clio—J. K. Frost has purchased the drug business of Huyck & Conlee. Lawton—T. R. Smith & Co. sueceed McKeyes & Smith in general trade. Ypsilanti—Jos. King succeeds Francis King in the boot and shoe business. Marquette—Manthei & Gibson succeed | Mack & Gibson in the meat business. Hesperia—G. 8S. Seymour has sold his harness business to Charles Crawford. Zeeland—D. Aldershof has sold his grocery stock to E. Prakken, of Grand Rapids. Bay City—E. O’Connor is succeeded by G. Washington & Co. in the grocery business. West Bay City—Birchard & Talbot, dealers in paints, ete., are succeeded by . A. Talbot. Kalamazoo—John R. Hunter succeeds Cobb & Hunter in the crockery and glass- ware business. Parma—Hodges & Warner, druggists and grocers, have dissolved, Hodges & Dean succeeding. Alpena—W. H. Davison & Co., cloth- iers, have dissolved, W. H. Davison con- tinuing the business. Midland—W. D. Marsh has retired from the firm of Anderson Bros., dealers in drugs and shingles. Tekonsha—A. M. Powers & Johnson in boot and shoe business. Yale—Waring & Wells, grocers and druggists, have dissolved, G. W. Waring continuing the business. Gobleville—Churehill & Parker sue- ceed C. A. Lamberson & Co. in the agri- cultural implement business. Saginaw—W. F. Tweivetrees succeeds W. F. Twelvetrees & Co. in the station- ery and fancy goods business. Big Raplds—Wm. Hangstorfer & Co., meat dealers, have dissolved, Wm. C. Hangstorfer continuing the business. Coieman—l. Saperston & Bro., dealers in clothing and boots and shoes, have dis- solved, I. Saperston continuing the busi- ness Detroit—Loomer & Hawley, dealers in lumber, lath and shingles, have solved, G. W. Loomer continuing the business. South Haven—Geo. B. merged his business into a stock com- pany under thestyle of the G. B. Pomeroy Implement Co. Nashville—R. J. Wade has drug stock to F. Feighner, who will con- tinue the business, removing the stock to the Yates block. Johnson suceeds the clothing and dis- Pomeroy has sold his Detroit—Parke, Davis & Co. have in- creased their capital stock from $1,000,- 000 to $2,000,000, and of the latter sum $1,200,000 has been paid up. West Guinness Bay City—Staudacher & Mce- succeed Lambert, Staudacher & McGuinnes in the hardware business. Petoskey—C. C. Hamill has admitted O.S. Hayden to a partnership in kis gro- cery business, which will hereafter be conducted under the style of C. C. Hamill & Co. Perrinton—F. E. Durfee, proprietor of the Perrinton Mercantile Co., bas sold the general stock to Chas. W. Christler, of Lansing, who wil] continue the busi- ness at the same location. Galesburg—Carson & Hawley, book and stationery dealers, have dissolved. Mr. Carson will continue the business jand E. A. Hawley has bought the gro- | cery stock of O. L. Evans. Nashville—Harry G. Hale, who has been engaged in the drug business here for the past seventeen years, has sold his | stock to Dr. John Ball, who will continue | the business at the same location. | Tustin—G. Rasmusson, of Cadillac, has made the largest potato purchase of the season, having acquired 10,000 bush- els in a single lot at 40 cents per bushel for white stock and 42 cents for red Rose. Cadillac—L. L. Freeman has about 17,- 000 bushels of potatoes at Boon, Hobart, Gilbert and in this city now ready for shipment. Up to this date Mr. Freeman has shipped this season about seven hun- dred carloads. Wayland—E. W. Pickett has sold his store building and stock of general mer- chandise to his brother, Frank E. Pick- ett, who will take possession April 1. The former will continue his banking business at the same place. Manton—The Elevier stock of general merchandise was bid in last Monday by Burnham, Stoepel & Co., of Detroit, and afterward sold to Mrs. W. Elevier@After an inventory of stock the store was re- opened with Mr. Elevier in charge. Cadillac—The Fred C. Lentz grocery stock was sold at foreclosure sale last Menday, being bid in by Will C. Lentz, subject to the first mortgage held by Mrs. John Lentz. The purchaser will con- tinue the business under the style of Will Lentz’ Cash Store. Lisbon—T. H. Condra and F. J. Pome- roy, merchants at this place, have made an exchange of merchandise, Mr. Condra taking Mr. Pomeroy’s stock of groceries, and Mr. Pomeroy taking Mr. Condra’s stock of hardware. It is reported that B. Gooding & Son hardware stock. Eaton Rapids—W. D. Brainerd has withdrawn from the drug and grocery firm of Brainerd & Co. and the business will hereafter be conducted by W. E. Hale and F. J. Brainerd, under the same firm name as formerly. Mr. Brainerd began his mercantile career here thirty- eight years ago and has been connected with business affairs in our city since that time, twenty-five years of which he has been in business for himself. Detroit—William R. Roper was for- merly agent here for the wholesale meat house of Nelson Morris & Co., of Chi- cago. In August, 1892, he was arrested at the instance of the firm charged with jembezzlement. The case was never tried, | although Roper insists that he was always ready. After dragging for over a year, Roper has finally become desper- ate and recently began suit by attach- ment against the firm with damages at $5,000. MANUFACTURING MATTERS, Pinckney—The creamery building at | Pinckney was sold again Friday morning | to Richard Clinton, a hardware merchant | of this village. This property has been |a losing game ever since it was built. It | is believed the losing is at an end. Saginaw—There seems a little better | feeling in lumber circles, due to a few transactions in the wholesale market and ; Some increase in yard orders. The im- provement is slight, however, with no immediate prospect of anything like ‘old-time activity. Mr. Pomeroy has also purchased the R. Joppa—Those who subscribed stock te the proposed creamery to be erected here by Burnap & Burnap, of Toledo, at a cost of $4,000, have since ascertained that another firm will erect one of the same capacity for $2,600. About $2,100 of the $4,000 was pledged, and at a meet- ing of those interested it was decided to contract with the firm who made the lat- ter offer. Manistee—There begins tobe some inquiry for lumber and shingles; a good many want to know what prices are going to be for spring shipments, so as to get a basis on which to build their next season’s business. One inquirer for about 1,500,000 feet of hemlock of different grades was informed that prices would not open any different from those at which the market closed last fall, and might be even a little higher. This, of course, will depend somewhat on the winter. If we do not have much good logging weather from this on, there will be a shortage of hemlock as well as other forest products, and those who have them on hand will be pretty stiff in the bit; but should good logging weather prevail for a month or more, things will be different. There will not be nearly as much hardwood got out in this region as has been the case for the past two winters, and this ought to be of great benefit to the trade in general. The associations decided to voluntarily curtail the cut this fall, and the state of the weather has done more in that respect than all the associations could possibly do. Hardwood logging is differ- ent from pine, as most of the logging is done in winter on sleighs, very little of it being done by rail. Alpena—Our people are pushing the project of accepting the proposition of Alger, Smith & Co. to remove their busi- ness from Black River to Alpena. Last week Gen. Alger and others interested visited Alpena and conferred with our business men on the subject. The situ- ation at present is that Alger, Smith & Co. have a temporary contract with the Detroit & Alpena Railroad for hauling their timber to Black River, and this contract will be continued if no better advantages can be secured by transfer- ring their business to Alpena. There will be no trouble in securing the bonus of 35,000, but those owning property along the proposed right cf way must do- nate it. If the deal goes through, Alger, Smith & Co. will build a 600-foot dock and build a track from the present ter- minus to the banking ground above Avery’s mill. This work will require a force of 200 men for two or three months, when the rafting plant would be ready. ‘They would also have enough short logs to keep one or two mills in operation. They employ 100 men in their rafting operations and have sufficient timber in Presque Isle county to last from five to seven years. Sonn anscettii dite cae The Quotation Was Correct. From the Grand Traverse Herald. An up country merchant was buying a bill of goods at the store of the Elk Rap- ids Iron Co. the other day, and when he came to the matter of spices—cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and such—he protested against the price charged, saying that he had seen in Tue MicuHiGANn TRADESMAN, only the week before, that all spice was quoted at only 10 cents a pound. The | U. C. M. had evidently forgotten how his | mother used to flavor her dried apple and | pumpkin pies with just plain, common ; every day alispice. The march of civili- ' zation is truly something wonderful. Financial Matters. Some months ago the creditors of the Widdicomb Furniture Co. endeavored to effect an arrangement by which John Widdicomb would exchange his stock in the Furniture Co. for the stock in the Widdicomb Mantel Co. held by C. H. Hackley and John’ Bonnell. This deal fell through, owing to the re- fusal of those who held Mr. Widdicomb’s stock as collateral to agree to the ex- change. It is now reported that John Widdicomb has succeeded in getting his creditors to sanction his exchanging his stock in the Mantel Co. for Harry Wid- dicomb’s stock in the Furniture Co., which will give him sole control of the Widdicomb Furniture Co. and enable Harry Widdicomb to assume the man- agement of the Widdicomb Mantel Co. S. E. Young, the Lakeview druggist, is offering to settle with his unsecured creditors on the basis of 40 cents on the dollar. Andrew Gerber and Fred Reynolds have purchased interests in the banking firm of J. T. Reynolds & Co., at Fremont, the firm name remaining the same as be- fore. J. R. Odell retires from the posi- tion of cashier, which he has filled for the past eight years, but is compelled to relinquish on account of failing eyesight, being succeeded in that capacity by Mr. Gerber. 2 2+—->..- _ State the Price. A fact will outrace a theory any time, therefore I will state a couple of facts: A while ago I wanted a library appliance, and at about the time the want was cre- ated a page ad. of the article appeared in a magazine. Now, there was a chance for cohesion at once. I wanted the arti- cle, and the man in New York wanted me to have it—provided I paid forit. [I eagerly read what little was said about it, and was disgusted because the price was not stated. I did not feel disposed to write to New Yors and await a reply to learn what the manufacturer, [ thought, ought to have told me in his ad. Had the price been stated, and had it been a reasonable one, a check would undoubtedly have gone off by first mail: as it was, a half hour’s hunt in the fur- niture stores on Wabash avenue made it possible to buy at home. Another case: A furrier in this city not long ago broke out in an advertising fit and filled pages of the daily papers. He ran illustrations of his garments, and under every article asked the reader to ‘‘write for pices.”” The attention of a friend whose wife was so fortunate as to have presented to her a seal sacque, lat- est Columbian style, with sleeves as large as a big ham, was called to this ad. He laid the paper down with the remark that he had no use for a house that dare not state in an ad. the price of the article it advertised; that a wide-awake, up-to the-times house would not hesitate to face the music of competitors by giving its prices in print. Asa consequence he bought elsewhere. MET L. SALey. Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED ——. oe ¥ ‘* Arrow Brand 4% Argyle. — ° a — 6 Atlanta AA - 4% Atlantic A | 6% Full vend Wide. - 6% ni H - Sige A.......... 6% ' r 5 |Honest Width...... 6 . D © MieriivegA ......... 5 - i. - 4% Keen — — 5% ey... - See A A... 6% Archery Bunti a Ring 2 é ee 5 Beaver Dam A 4%|Lawrence L L...... 4% Blackstone O, 32.... : |Madras cheese cloth ox Black Crow.... i Newmarket 2 5X Black Rock . ox | 5 Best, At...... 7 _ y... 6% Capital A - Be as DD.... 5% ives 7... ee 6% Chapman cheese cl. ax Nome ai 5 com CER... 5% Our en Best. .... 6 ——... _- oe 2... 6 Dwight Star.... - 6%) Pognat ee q Clifton CCC... —aa 6 |Top of _ Meap.... 7 anes COTTON ASC... - Bae. Washington... _a ee eoeeth SE... 7 ee lL. Gold Medal te cues T™% Art Cambric........ 26 jGreon Tickst....... 84 Blackstone AA..... 7% |Great Falis.......... 6% ona. ee ve a. 12 |Just Out..... 4%@ 5 ee 6% /King Phillip hee a 7% Cees, I......-..... ae Cearter Ook... ___ 5% —— Cambric..10 ase 744|Lonsdale...... . @ 8 Coreen... _.. 6 Middlesex —. @5 Dwight Anchor.. _es..llLULULU T% “shorts 8 [Oak wee... 6 ee... 6 oe... 5% see... 7 |Pride of the West...12 ee... eee... ....... 71% Fruit of the Loom. 8 eee. gs 4% Pitekville ...... ... 2 (Utes Mitis......... 8% Poms Pree........ .. 6 ” Nonpareil ..10 Fruit of the Loom %. 7%/Vinyard............. 8% Poet... 4%4|White Horse........ 6 wall Votuo.......... -_— ~~ or... . . HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. aren, tt _ee Anchor..... 8 | ™ ANTON FLANNEL. U nbleached. Bleached. Housewife A........ 5% Housewife g —e 6g e as... ae lume lh 7 oS 6 - 5 actos 7% “s Do 6% ‘ en 8% . as ’ . oe... 9% . y.... Th - 7.2... 10 “s eo ™% Mg w.... a ' a... 7% - | 11% “ Co 84 ‘s 2 12% ie ae 8% s SL 13% . x. - De ' A. -10 - -....._.. 10% . a. en io oo 2 ' r....... 14% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 17 |Integrity aen.. -18 colored....19 | White —..... 17 eee 8 4 ' eae DRESs GOODS. oe. bee ee ee ; a oe lai a —. rc i. G G Cashmere... 20 _ Nameless ob eee 16 ' oe 18 | ™ CORSETS, ae... 9 50/Wonderful. .. ... Schilling’s. -. 9 00/Brighton.. . Davis Waists..... 9 00/Bortree’s 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal 00 CORSET JEANS. hehe eee 6% a satteen.. 7% 6% % % Armory ‘aadeunen a ee Deaecios.......... 6 cones. Brunswick. .... -- 6%| Walworth .. RINTS. Allen turkey reds.. "544i Berwick fancies.... 5% —..... 6 lyde Robes........ “es a & purple Si Charter Oak fancies - DelMarine cashm’s. . pink checks. oe ' mourn’g 5% - staples ...... 5 |Eddystone fancy... 5% _ shirtings . 7 chocolat 5% American fancy.. 5h!) . rober.... 54% Americanindigo.. 5lg - sateens.. 5% American shirtings. 3%) Hamilton = ‘— oo Argentine Grays.. | — . 5% Anchor —-- Manchester ancy.. 5% Arnold .. "8 new era. 5% Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5% * long cloth B. 934|Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 “ss “se “ 7 “ss a - 8% ‘* century cloth 7 Pacific oe... .* * oid ecal..... 10% WE os bis green seal TR 10|Portsmouth robes... * bx . wiew seal.. rf Simpson mourning.. = . —— a i, ee . Turk J red..10% ' solid. black. oa Ballon walla black... Washington indigo. 6% ‘colors ‘“* Turkey robes.. a Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robes.. and orange... 6 sie plain Tky x % os Berlin ——........ . ofl blue.. 6 . — — rea Hi ‘een . a. ‘ Foulards 5% Marthe ee - 22s .. 7 ees bas % ‘ : =... 9%/| Martha adkaaes - “ J sees 0 2orey 18... 9% - — _ Riverpoint robes.... 5% Cocheco a Windsor a ete ee 6% madders. . 8 = ticket an XX twills.. indigo blue....... 10% 1 aes... .. 5 I ee oe = TICKINGS, fname 2 ACA... eae s 12% Hamilt —o. ........ 7 |Pemberton AAA.. y...... ae. 104 . Awning..11 [Swift River......... 7% eee S [rear River......... 12 oo Fee.......... as... 1% Lenox Mills ........ - roonemtom ........ |. COTTON DRILL. Stents, Pe ree F.8d ots, 8 Boot.. + -0 e e...... |. % Clifton, K.. coe § [ROD OE Hoap........ 9 DEMINS. Amoskeag i. --- 12 {Columbian brown. .12 o-.... Everett, nee, 12% aig brown .14 brown. ....12% aeeover. 11% Haymaker seal cas 7% Beaver Creek -2..-8 bro . 1 . 2 See... . CC. Lancaster > Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence oes... 13% blue 8% “ No. 220....13 “ d& twist 10% “ No. 250....11% Columbian XXX br.10 _ No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. Auoaikoes ...... .... 6%|Lancaster, staple... 54 ‘* Persian dress 644 . fancies 7 ' Canton .. 7 ' Normandie 7 e are...... &4%4| Lancashire. . _s ‘i Teazle...10%|Manchester . 5% ™ Angola..10%/Monogram. .. a ee. 7 |Normandie © Arlington staple.... 61%/Persian.... = Arasapha fancy.... 4% Renfrew Dress, . % Bates | arwick dres 744|Rosemont.. - 6% staples. 6 |Slatersville cs Commun bees. 10% Somerset... i.” aoe... 10%|Tacoma ..... . Cumberland staple. Me Toil du Nord - 8% Cumberland.... .... ee... 7% er : “* seersucker.. 7% —_ ee 75 ear... ...... : Everett classics..... nm Whittenden......... mepouen........., . heather dr. 4 Creare... oa ‘* indigo blue 9 Gaenerven.......... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6 caomwoer...... zs Westbrook. . i 8 ote... .... 10 Jobnson Vhalon cl 5 ““ teas ** indigo blue 9%/York 6% . zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Seng: a 2 —— see ae 14 a. - Ce THREADS, Clark's Mile End....45 |Barbour's..... .....95 ow. 2 aF. (Marshails.... ...... 90 Meee... ......... 22% KNITTING COTTON. — Colored. White. Colored aes 42 No. 6 38 |No. 14. 37 - ++... Ce a =... -—. 6... 39 44 ~ ....... 36 a. =. LS 45 CAMBRICS, es cia neg © mewerds........... 8 mane Sonr......... © ocewoed...... ... 4 Boe taes........... 4 |Wood’s. 4 Newmarket......... 4 |Brunswick . 4 RED FLANNEL. Fireman...... 22% Cresdmore.......... 27% |F 32% Zee ae......... 30 |J R PB, Zax 35 Nameless.. ..27%|Buckeye.... . -B2% MIXED FLANNEL, aon spe plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% nee Mo .. 22\%4|Western W ......... 18% Windace ee ee oe aw, ee EE 18% 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% Ce 22%|Manitoba........._. 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless ..... 8 @9 a 9 @10% ee 8%@10 _— 12 CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black. 10 9% 9% 944 /10% 4% 10% 10% 10% 10% 1138 11% 11\ 11% 11% 114/12 12 12 12% 12% = cl 20 DU Severen, 6 on........ 9% TWest Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, 80z....... 10 100% ...12% Greenwood, 7% oZ.. 9% Raven, 100z. e. -13% Greenwood, 8 os. “11/8 -13% Boston, 6o8......... 1034 Boston, Wee... 12% WADDINGS, White, Gon......... 25 ed bale, 40 dos....88 50 Colored, Gon........ ~ (Colored * ....... ¥ SILESIAS, Slater, Tron Cross... 8 Pawtucket... 16% R ‘O88 9 ame. .. . 9 SEWING SILE. Corticelli, doz....... 85 twist, doz..4¢ 50 ie doz. .40 OKS AND EYES—PER @ No : BI’: & ,White.. - per 4oz Corticelli knitting, all 30 No 4 BIk 4 & White, 15 20 “ ; . i | _- 125 No 2—20,M C....... 50 No 4~—15 # 3%...... 4 * 8-18, 8C........ 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20 “ 4 “ me 4 “ 10 ia] 23 “ 6 " .18 | * 12 _ - Bes cece ease, 28 = ees 36 NEEDLES—PER K ie oees.......... 140 40\Steamboat. fe 40 Crowel ee 1 35|Gold Eyed --1 50 aneeire........... .oneeerionn, _. 00 TABLE OIL CLOTH. -4....1%3 . 5—4....165 6—4...230 TTONTWINES. Cotton Sail Twine. — ee. 4 a. 12 Rising Star4-ply....17 eS 18% ply.. ae ao ee oth Ger... Valley... 15 |Powhattan 18 PLAID OSNABURGS 20 Wool Standard 4 plyi7% ae. 6% — Pleasant.... 6% en -- ae 8% ——, eee 5 ae... ——. 5 ar e........... ." Randelman......... 7 Georgia ive seas ee ec 614|Riverside........... 5g ee Sapeeeer A... 614 maw Biver......... . ee... We Mise es S jOtiachecks......... 7% RU | BOOTS, SHOES, anp RUBBERS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RATE REDUCED FROM $2 To $1.25 PER DAY AT THE Kent Hotel, Directly opposite Union Depot, GRAND RAPIDS. Steam Heat and Electric Bells. thing New and Clean, BEACH & BOOTH, Prop’rs. Menthol Inhaler CURES Catarrh, eS Hay Fever, es Headache, Newralgia, Colds, Sore Threat. The first inhalations stop sneezing, snuffing coughing and headache. This relief is worth the price of an Inhaler. Continued use will complete the cure. Prevents and cures Sea Sickness On cars or boat. The cool exhilerating sensation follow- ing its use is a luxury to travelers. Convenient to carry in the pocket; no liquid to drop or spill; lasts a year, and Costs 50c at druggists. Regis- tered mail 60c, from H. D. ‘CUSHMAN, Manufacturer, Three Rivers, Mich. GS" Guaranteed satisfactory. Every- SHAN'S In large or small quan- tities. Guar- anteedright in every re- spect. Tradesman Company, EATON, LON & 0, NEW STYLES OF Bk Slory 20 & 22 Monroe S$t., GRAND RAPIDS. a Sn ey es V4 » ° THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. : Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect Dec. 24, 1893. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going out North. For M’kinaw,Trav. City a Sag.7:20a m 7:40am For Cadillac and Saginaw...... 2:15 p 4:50 pm For Petoskey & aekinens” 10:25 pm Pees Meee, From Chicago and Kalamazoo.. - 950pm Trains arriving from south at 7:20a m and 9:10am daily. Others trains daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave cae North. uth. er eee 6 ‘50 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... .......... 10:40 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:40am 2:00 pm or eae, 6:15pm 6:00 pm For Kalamazoo & Chicago. . 10:55pm 11:20 pm From Saginaw........... 11:40am From Saginaw........ - 10:55p m Trains leaving south at 6: 00 P m and 11:20 p. m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:40 a m 2:00pm 11:20 pm Arr Chicago 4:00 pm 9:00 p m 7:05 a m 10:40 a m train solid with Wagner Buffet Parlor Car. il: 20 pm train daily, throngh coach and Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago a 4:15pm 11:40pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:15 p 9:50 p m 7:20 am 4:15 p m solid with Waar Buffet Parlor Car and Dining Car. 11:40 p m train daily, through Coach and Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For ee Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive 40am é 40 > m 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. oO. L. LOOK WOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND west MICHIGAN R’Y GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv. G'd — aa 7:30am 1:25pm *11:20pm Ar. Chicago . ---- 1:45pm 6:50pm *6:30am RE’ TU RNING FROM CHICAGO. NOV. 19, 1893 iy, Coleees............ a 45am 4:55pm *11:30pm Ar, Ge Rapids.........2 2 30pm 10:20pm *6:10am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:30am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 0:55am 2:30pm 10:20pm TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Manistec........ oe 8:15pm Ar, Traverse City.... 12:40pm 8°45pm Ar. Charievorr...... oo ........ 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey onan «(......- 11:40pm Arrive from Petoskey, etc., 1:00 p. m. and 10:00 p.m. Loeal train to White Cloud leaves Grand Rap- ids 5:45 p. m., connects for Big Rapids and Fre mont. Returning, arrives Grand Rapids 11:20 a. m. PARLOR AND a CARS, ToChicago,lv.G.R.. 7:30am 1:25pm *11:3¢pm ToPeteskey,lv.G.R.. 7:30am S:lipm ........ To G. R..lv. Chicago. 7:45am 4:55pm *11:30pm ToG. K..ly. Petoskey 5:00am 1:30pm ........ *Every day. Other trains week days only. NOV. 19, 1893 DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, kf, GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand nants ae 7:00am *1:20pm 5:40pm Ar. Detron...... -11:40am *5:25pm 10:25pm RETU KNING FROM DETROIT. Ey. Detroit. ............ c :45am *1:45pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids.. 2:45pm *5:40pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:40am 4:50pm Ar. GR 11:40am 10:55pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. K. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7 00am 1:20pm 5:40pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 2:45pma 5:40pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE, Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t, ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & WAUKEE Railway. Depot corner Leonard St. and Plainfield Av> MIL- MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “‘ The Niagara Falis Route.’ (Taking effect Sunday, Nov. 19, 1893.) Arrive. Depart Nepe........ Detroit Express ........ - 00 am 7 30am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... ' 20pm 1 30pm ..... New York Express ..... 5 40pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00 a m; 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. ALmQuisT, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. Of Interest to Book= keepers. l will teach my system of Ly- FALLIBLE PRooF, whereby an error in posting or in trial bal- ance can be located in the ac- count in which it has occurred. No book keeper should be without this system, as it saves weeks of labor each year. No new books or slips required. it can be taken up at any time without change of books. Also my system of keeping ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNT, which saves opening an ac- count on the ledger of those from whom goods are bought. Price for both systems $5.00. WM.:-H. ALLEN, Grand Rapids, Mich. PECK’ Pay the best profit. sf V8 slay NO CURE, NO MUSTACHE, NO PAY. NO PAY. DANDRUFF CURED. I will take Contracts to grow hair on the head or face with those who can call at my office or at the office of my agents, provided the head is not glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. Where the head is shiny or the pores closed, there is no cure. Call and be examined free ot charge. If yon cannot call write to me. State tho exact condition of the scalp and your occu- pation. PROF, G. BERKHOLZ, Room 1011 Masonic T. mple, Cuicaco HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber. EASTWARD. Trains Leave |tNo. 14/tNo. ane. 18/*No. 82 G’d Rapids, Lv | 6 45am/10 20am) 3 25pm 10 45pm coe... -. Ar| 740am}11 25am! 4 27pm/12 27am St. Johns “AT 25am} 12 17 tpm} 5 20pm | aan Owoees ....-. Ar| 900am 1 20pm| 6 05pm} 2 40am E. Saginaw..Ar |10 50am 3 45pm fe om 6 40am Bay City.....Ar|11 32am] 435pm) 8 37pm] 7 15am Pees Ar |10 05am} 3 45pm! 7 05pm 54 am Pt. Huron...Ar |1205pm| 550pm| 8 50pm| 7 30am renter ...... Ar |10 53am] 305pm) 8 25pm/ 5 37am Deo, ..... Ar }11 50am] 405pm/ 925pm/} 7 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave |*No. 81 |tNo. Set oan 13. a Rapids......... Lv} 7 00am} 1 vdpm| 4 55pm Ga Haven......... Ar} 8 20am] 2 10pm)! 6 00pm +Daily except Sunday *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50 p.m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p. m Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 9:15 a, m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner 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. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITS. dis. ee 60 J 40 mommemee DOG... 5... a. 25 oe oe... Ck... CL 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 3 ......... 87 00 . D. B. Bronze. . 1x 00 S. B. S. Steel 8 00 . Be eee. 13 50 BARROWS. dis. Ree... 8 14 00 aoe... net = 00 BOLTS. Tee 50810 aces Sow 75&10 ee i 40&10 Sleigh eee 70 BUCKETS. CO ee $350 Well, eee 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Com Loone Pin, Gwored........ ..........._. Wrought Franaing bright 5ast joint.......... Le ee 60410 | | HAMMERS. ee 60&10 | Maydole & Co.’s..... Oe eee cs ws Wrougmt Inside Biind....................... —_ ape... i... eee ea a 25 holon one, Seren & Piuwibw................ -dis, 40416 aoe ore 7&1 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. ..80¢ list 60 Blind, Deere cw. 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .800 40&10 Blind. OT OE 70 HINGES, BLOCKS. | — Ciark’s,1,2,3...... a - 118.604&10 | a er doz. net, 2 50 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .... 60&10 ee Hook and Strap, to 12 in Pee 14 and CRADLES. IGBNe 3% an dis. 50&02 | Screw Hook and Eye, % ---net 10 CROW BARS. “ou ees net 73 eee perm 5 . . x... net 7% CAPS. | Strap and T ee eee ae. -- Gis. 50 1 HANGERS. dis. 2 nga Haan aANTHANRE perm & | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10 ap. aie ss 95 | Champion, anti-friction................... 60&10 nae Oe go | Kidder, wood track ............... ' 40 ee . | eae we CARTRIDGES. ee ee OO EEE EE 50 | Kettles. . 60&10 Contra fie... a 25 Spiders ........ eee er CHISELS. Gia | Grey GCueincicg. 40&10 j HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. — brace wc tet cette este ence ceeenn cee form Stamped Tin Ware. 0 new list 70 Sacviti Oo 70810 Japanned Tin Ware.. ee 25 esa in 7oa10 Granite Iron Ware ...... .. Dew list —— MRI sans see ns eon ne ae WIRE GOODS. 8. Buteucrs Tanged Wirmer............ ...... Bilght.. | | eG COMBS. — | ae Eyes eee. oe ! ‘aioe , con s..... -70&10&10 oO $ | Gate Hooks and Byes. a , 70410810 ee ae dis.7 CHALE. ’ White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 hea — riicsag nnn ans COPPER, = % Inch and lenner Bee elect ce, 9 Plantshed, 14 ox cut to size... .. r GQ 2g Manila... ee eee e eee teees 13 4x52, 14x56, a8 a —— 2 SQUARES. dis. Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ........... | On RE SHO --- -------nonn--n- orananans 7% Cold Rolled, 14x48................... os ao 60 NN Mitre . 20 DRILLS, moma es BE Sioeks. 23 25 dis. 50 Teper and straight Shank................... 50 50 07 4 De : DRIPPING PANS. Sell Stee See pom .... 8... Large sizes, oo ee ELBOWS. Com 4 eles Gi... dos. net : mae dis Sone ain, 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, — oe farce, oo... 30 ives’, 1,010. 40: Sie... 25 piLes—New List. dis. Daeirs ............... eee d et ey 5, 60&10 Mow AMmernean 8 60&10 Le 60&10 Saas... 50 Hemera nine Came 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; a> = 6 |6U Lat 2 1B 14 16 17 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s. _" 50 KNOBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, Jap. trimmmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelsin, Bees... 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 LOCKS—DOOR, dis, Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 ealiony, Wheoler & Co.'s... ............... 55 Ce 55 awe ee. 55 MATTOCES. ROMO Ree. $16.00, = 60 erm ee. 815.00, dis. 60 Bane $18.50, dis, mai. Sperry & Co.'s, Post, ‘iaamee eee esc ec: * 50 MILLS. -= Coffee, Parkers Co.’s....... 40 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables.. 40 * baepders, Ferry GClerks............ 40 " meets os. 30 MOLASSES GATES, Stebbin’s Pattern........ Oe a eeee acc er ec. sosi0 Precrnte CAGE 60& 10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ wou NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. econ ee BRM i. cous... 1 50 Wie wee wees... 8 1 75@1 80 60 Base 10 25 25 35 45 45 50 60 7 90 12 1 60 _ oe 65 %5 90 7 90 1 10 70 80 90 17 PLANES. dis. Cmte Teel Ce.'s, famey ........... 5... ow eee ee 250 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancoy................- @40 Momo moe G0erey.... @40 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. . ....50&10 PANS. ae, AO dis, ~s Common, pained Cee gee ees dis. RIVETS. o-_" Eeom Onn ee 40 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A” Wood’s a planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “B” Wood 08. 26 to 27... 9 W "s pat, planished, Broken packs ifo per pound extra, “SHEET. IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Non tio. eee $2 95 Wad tte . 405 3 05 moe ee... 4 05 8 05 Coe. 8 15 Nos. 25 to 26 . ec, -_.._2 3 25 OO EE 4 45 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. eo dis. 50 SASH CORD. Silver Lake, Wits A list 50 Drab 5 . White B : 50 . Drab B " 55 “ Wh e 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. ee eee per ton $25 SAWS. dis. . Cs 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 “ Special Steel Dex X C uts, per foot.. 50 . 7s saeese Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 ' ampion and Electric Tooth X Cam pect 30 TRAPS, dis. oer Ce 60810 Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida —— — & Norton’s. 70 Mouse, choker.. _-. per dos Mouse, delusion. . . 81.50 = agg "WIRE. Bright Market.... ..... Meee ean, “e eee ‘70—10 Coppcwee merece 60 umea Maree 52% Coppercd Serine Siegs. 50 Barbed Weonee, Galvanined...... ... |, a oe POnee 2 40 HORSE NAILS, Au = Se dis. 40&10 Poe. dis. 05 Northwestern Meee sere eee 1... dis. 10810 RENCHES, dis, Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. auc. 30 cues Genuine ...... i. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, .. . 75 Coe’s Patent, malleable.............. «+. «-- see — dis, Bira Cages .......... .. 50 Pea, CO 75&10 Screws, New List..... tia eueu ce 7010 Casters, Bed a d Plate.................. 5010410 Dampers, MeO 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..... BE &10 METALS, PIé TIN. Ce ee ue 26¢ ee 28¢ uty: Sheet, 2c per ak ao Oe Cee, 6% Fee Oe T SOLDER. ee aie eee od oe aces ees occu cl. L. 2 gon bei mg Re ee eo es cheeee unsure. The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY eee... |. per pound CO IN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Chareoal.. ce 87 14x20 IC, Sbeice 7 6 10x14 Ix, Te ee 9 25 14x20 ee 9 2€ Each additional X on this grade, $1.75, TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal . ae 75 Te a 6 75 ixi4ix, = * Sas 14x20 IX, . ... a2 Each additional X on this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, “ Werctier...|......_.- ‘ 6 Su 14x20 IX, . sy he deeetecey 8 20x28 IC, - " tees eee ae 14x20 IC, ‘* Allaway Grade... 6 14x20 IX, . . - q 20x28 Ic “ ee “ 2 20x28 Ix, “eé ity ity BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS. Re eae aoe $14 00 OE ee 15 00 14x56 [X, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x60 IX, wg 6 t per pound.... 10 00 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. crIGAN fRADESMAN A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. | tha: would be required of them? | bit of it. | upon the balance of the population by | raising prices Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, | yearly revenue than $4,000 it will fall | only npon 87,000 of the 65,000,v00 of the American people. But does any sane | person suppose these 87,000 payers of income tax intend to carry on their own shoulders the $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 Not a They will simply unload all of rents and necessaries — BY THE — | upon the great masses of the consumers, TRADESMAN COMPANY. | One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. | ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and | address, not necessarily for publication, but as | a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of | their papers changed as often as desired. | Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- | class matter. | <= When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THe MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1894. WHO PAYS THE TAXES? it has long been a favorite notion with persons who are wholly ignorant of the} ordinary principles of political economy, and with demagogues who have no regard for principles of any sort, that taxes can be laid entirely on the wealthy classes, and the masses of the people be enabled to escape from any payment to- wards the expenses of the Government. There never was a more mistaken notion in politics, and it is worth while to present, for the information of the masses, a few the sub- ject. The matter comes into prominence in connection with the proposed tax on observations on incomes. The notion is commonly held that if a tax be laid on persons with | they alone will feel the | burden, while the masses of the people! will be entirely relieved of it. One | proposition is that an assessment of 2 per cent. be made upon al! incomes over | $4,000. Another is that there shall be} laid upon incomes a graduated tax as! follows: On incomes from $2,500 to $10,- | 000, a tax of 1 per cent.; from $10,000 to | $30,000, 2 per cent.; from $30.000 to $60,- 000, 3 per cent.; from $60,000 to $100,000, 4 per cent.; from $100,000 upwards, 5 per | cent. In each case the intention is to | tax only people with incomes. | It is generally conceded that the men} with incomes, and particularly large in- | comes, own al! the factories, all the great | commercial establishments, all the rail- | roads, ships and steamboats. They own all the houses and lands, and conduct all | the business enterprises. Whenever a tax or other financial burden is laid on them they immediately proceed to get the money back out of those who do | business with them. The result is that the | prices of goods, of transportation, rents and other charges made upon the great masses of the people are higher, or wages large incomes, are lower, or higher costs and lower wages | that the They pay them come together. The result is masses pay all the taxes. in the increased costs of rents and living, | or in| or in their decreased earnings, both. Is not this plain enough? Ithas been estimated that if the income tax shall be! laid upon persons who have a larger | nothing at all but submit. and what will the consumers do? Why, They have nothing to sell but their labor, and, ina | time when there are hundreds of thou- | sands of unemployed people begging for | work, those who are so fortunate as to | have employment will take no chances of losing it by demanding higher wages. | They will shoulder the load of higher | costs of living and struggle —_ under | it as best they may. HATCH AND HIS ANTI-OPTION BILL. In the interest and excitement attach- ing to the tariff agitation, and the various financial measures which have come be- fore the present Congress, the anti-option bill has been forgotten. It must not be argued from that, however, that the busi- ness interests of the country are to be spared that additional cause of irritation. Mr. Hatch, the promoter of anti-option legislation, has announced that, immedi- ately after the ending of the tariff bill, he will introduce a new anti-option measure. The cause assigned for not introducing the bill at the present time is the fear that it would be referred to the Ways and Means Committee, a body known to be unfriendly to the measure. During the continuance of the tariff debate it would be impossible to move the suspen- sion of the rules for the reference of the bill to the Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Hatch’s own committee. When the tariff is out of the way. however, an ef- | fort will be made to have the bill so re- ferred by motion, and the vote on this will enable Mr. Hatch to show the strength that an anti-option measure can count upomin the House of Representa- | tives. The author of the bill states that the new measure will differ radically from the bills introduced last Congress and the Congress before the last. Both the former bills were prohibitive, the tax provided for being a mere pretext to give s the appearanceof revenue meas- ures, so that they might thus escape the danger of being declared unconstitu- tional. The new is to be so drawn up as to shut out the small bucket shops, at | least so says Mr. Hatch, but to enable the larger dealers to transact business by the paymentof a liberal, but by no means prohibitive, tax. In this way it is pro- posed to regulate speculation, and at the same time provide revenue to the Gov- ernment. Mr. Hatch announces that he does not propose that his new bill should be con- | Sidered an agricultural measure, but a revenue bill, pure and simple. He hopes in this way to overcome the opposition of many thoughtful men in Congress whose opposition last year defeated the measure, and also to meet the objections that President Cleveland might have to approving the bill. Until Mr. Hatch announces the char- acter of the tax that is to be levied on transactions in futures it cannot be stated whether or not the measure can That on | be considered a revenue bill. its merits it is not calculated to recom- mend itself as a revenue producer pure and simple is shown by the unwilling- ness of its promoter to trust it to the Ways and Means Committee. To that committee properly belongs the consid- eration of all matters intended to produce revenue, and Mr. Hatch’s solicitude to keep his bill for the consideration of the Agricultural Committee indicates that he has no confidence in its merits as a reve- nue producer. Fortunately for the business interests of the country, Congress is likely to be kept so engaged with pressing matters, such as the tariff, internal revenue laws, financial and currency reforms and the like, that little time will be left for the handling of so highly a controversial measure as an anti-option bill. THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS. The existing industrial and agricul- tural depression in Germany has greatly aided the socialist propaganda in that country, and the socialist organs are becoming more aggressive. While the Government still pursues the policy of non-interference with meetings, there are evidences of more jealous espionage of the movements of leading socialist agitators, and there are also signs that fears are entertained of possible dis- turbances. An incident recently occurred which indicated both the unusual vigilance of the German police officials and the eager- ness of the socialists to take advantage of every point in their favor. Itappears that a meeting of unemployed working- men was scheduled to take place in Ber- lin under socialistic auspices. The po- lice refused to allow the meeting to be held owing to the absence of a permit, and proceeded to eject the people from the place of meeting. This proceeding resulted in a riot, which assumed im- portant proportions, a number of people being more or less injured. The police are accused of having been unnecessarily brutal, it being claimed that sufficient time had not been given the crowd to disperse and that the police not only charged but used their clubs freely. It is also claimed that a permit had actually been obtained, but that the Government, fearing the possible results of the meet- ing, had the bearer of the permit ar- rested, and thus, through the absence of the document, was able to find a pretext for breaking up the meeting. It is reported in the cable dispatches that the socialists will call up the in- cident in the Reichstag, and’‘in that way the entire socialistic problem, as now affecting Germany, will begiven promin- ence. The threatened strike of union print- ers has evidently been averted by a humiliating surrender on the part of the typographical union, which now permits its members to work beside non-union men in offices in which cards are con- spicaously posted announcing that the offices are ‘‘open”—which means that employment therein is open to any com- petent printer, white or black, Catholic or Protestant, union ornon-union. This is the basis on which THE TRADESMAN has been conducted since Jan. 1 and will be conducted so long as it continues under its present management. As the policy of the local typographical union of late years has been founded on decep- tion, bad faith and treachery, the readers of THe TRADESMAN need not be alarmed if the paper is a day late sometime in the future, due to the fact that the unscru- pulous strike committee of the organiza- tion may seize upon a critical opportunity to order its members to cease work. THE TRADESMAN’S union employes are not in sympathy with the policy of the union, but some of them are so thorough- ly terrorized by their oath-bound organi- zation that they would probably walk out of the office in the event of their be- ing ordered to do so by the union. It has been clearly demonstrated that the severing of all relations between the local union and the employing printers has been caused by lazy, unscrupulous agitators—of which, unfortunately, the local union has an undue proportion— who are working (the only way they are willing to work) for astrike, hoping thus to be placed on the strike roll, where they will receive enough from the union to support them in idleness. A few weeks | ago some , of the retail merchants of the city started an agitation in favor of cheap excursions from towns contiguous to Grand Rapids. Some of the newspapers of the city took up the matter, commenting favorably upon it, and asserting that it meant large acces- sions to the business of the city, as the excursionists would undoubtedly leave considerable money behind them. Some of the places from which excursions would come have become alarmed lest, by this means, trade be diverted from their merchants to this city, and the business men of one town, at least, have gone so far as to declare that they will boycott Grand Rapids’ wholesale houses if the agitation is persisted in. The threat to boycott the jobbers of this city for something in which they have abso- lutely no partis unfairin the extreme. They are not in favor of these excursions and would much rather that none might be given, as they send traveling men to every hamlet, and anything which tends to take the merchant away from his regular place of business, so that the traveling man fails tosee him, is asource of loss and annoyance. The little trad- ing done by excursionists is, as a general thing, in lines which are not bought at wholesale in this city. Butlittle trading is done, however, by excursionists. That is not the purpose for which they come to the city. They come for a holiday, and to visit the many points of interest in and about the city. Reed’s Lake, the Soldiers’ Home, North Park and other summer resorts, together with the great factories and industrial establishments, of which the city has so many, are attractions sufficient for excursionists and leave little time for anything but sight- seeing. The trading they do is merely incidental. Restaurant and hotel men and street railway companies make money, of course, but they are the only people who do. Decline of King Credit. From t he Mancelona Herald, The credit system of selling goods at retail is rapidly growing in disfavor all over the country. Merchants offer many reasons for doing away with it: namely, tardy payments; the small reliance to be placed upon promises; extra capital re- quired, and the annoyance and injustice of the practice of those who, having been favored with credit at one store, do their cash trading elsewhere. A a el J. P. Visner (John A. Tolman Co.) and Chas. R. Visner (E. J. Gillies & Co.) have changed their headquarters from 129 Canal street to the Bridge Street House. q:.¥ brim: MICHIGAIN RAI HAMA 9 ABOUT BANK CHECKS. Laws and Limitations Regarding Their Use and Abuse. From the Financial News. Bank checks possess many advantages in conducting business, and are used to a proportionately great extent. They are in nature but orders for the payment | of money, and are payable in the order in which they are presented, not acecord- ing to that in which they are drawn. As given in the usual course of business, they do not constitute payment of the in- debtedness for which they are given un- | til paid. Nor will the concurrent re- ceipting of the debts for which they are | given change this. If they are not paid on proper presentation, resort may be had to the original claims. The rule is, however, different in this respect as to} certified checks. certified constitutes payment as to the persons drawing them. Checks should be dated. If not dated at all, and they do not contain any state- ment as to when they are to be paid, they are never payable. They may be ante or post-dated as well as dated on the day of delivery. By being ante- dated they may be made to cover prior transactions, and in a measure deter- mine the relative rights of the parties to them provided that no fraud is intended ordone. Post-dating in the main deter- mines date of payment. When post- dated so as. to fall Sunday, they are payable on the following Monday. Checks dated or maturing on legal holidays should be presented the day following. | When post-dated checks are paid before the dates mentioned the money paid on)! them can be recovered. If blanks are left for the dates, the holders of checks | are thereby authorized to insert the true dates of delivery, but no other dates, and if they insert any other dates it makes the checks void. Changing the | date of checks without consent of the | drawers will do the same. The presumption is that when the chesks are drawn funds will be provided at the banks on which they are drawn to meet them; but presentation for payment | must be made within a reasonable time. If not so presented the holders will be charged with any consequent loss. Where _—persons_-_srreceiving checks | and the banks on_ which they| are drawn are in the same place, they | should be presented the same day, or, at ; the latest, the day after they are re- ceived. Where they are in different | places the checks must be mailed to some bank or persons at the place where | payable befors the close of the day fol- lowing the receipt, and the latter must present them before the close of banking hours on the day following the receipt there. No extra time will be gained by holders depositing checks in their own banks for collection. After duly presenting checks it is also} the duty of the holders, if they are not paid, to notify the drawers before the close of the next secular day following the presentation and dishonor. No par- ticular form of notice is required. It may be written or verbal. The princi- pal eases in which losses occur from failure to use due diligence in the col- lection of checks are where the banks on which they are drawn fail in the meantime. If the banks continue solv- ent the drawers will remain liable to pay their checks for months, at least, after they are drawn. Presentation and no- tice of dishonor will also be dispensed with where there are no funds to pay checks, and where the banks on which they are drawn suspend payment before they can be presented, using proper dili- gence. After receiving checks they must be presented for payment, unless such presentation would be useless, before the original claims can be sued on, for, by accepting checks, there is an implied agreement to use that method of procur- ing the money for which they are drawn. Where checks are negotiable and pass by endorsement or delivery, the same de- gree of diligence will be required of each person to whom they are indorsed in or- der to hold those indorsing them, as is required of original payees to hold orig- inal drawers of checks. But, by putting So the having of checks | due on | post- | | checks in circulation, the liability of ~ea | drawers cannot be prolonged. They | must be presented within the same time | | by indorsees as by payees. Still, where | checks are passed from hand to hand, j | one or more of the latter indorsers might | | be held where earlier indorsers and the | | drawers would be released, as by failure | of the bank drawn upon. with pen and ink, or pencil; also be printed or stamped. only required to see that the they may Banks are names of | the drawers of checks correspond pre- | | cisely with those of the persons to whose have been made. | Who should sign the checks of corpora- | tions will be determined by the State laws, by the charters, by-laws, or by the } usage of the particular corporations. | Every partner has the right to sign his |credit the deposits | firm’s name to checks, unless prohibited by its article of copartnership. So, also, can agents sign | press or implied authority. As.usually drawn, payable to certain | persons named or order, checks are ne- | gotiable. A valuable consideration for | them will be presumed. able to bearer, by mere delivery. holders. >_> . <> Don’t Fuss. From the American Storekeeper. There are a good many storekeepers | who borrow trouble. These are the men | Of variable temper. To-day they are in a state of fussy good humor; to-morrow they are unreasonable, morose, snappish and disagreeable. Such men never be- /come great in any walk of life, for such variation of temper betokens a weakness of mind. Employes never find pleasure in working for a man of this April-day temperature. Such aman is never well served, for his fussiness to-day creates confusion, of which mistakes are a natural consequence; his irritability to- | morrow makes people around Fim nerv- ; ous and impatient. In the store owned iby such a man there is none of that |smoothness which is an essential to a proper performance of duty. The character of the employer is gen- | erally reflected in his clerks. If a store- keeper is of a smooth and even temper, | there is a certain ease in the manner of | conducting his business. He good nat- | uredly corrects the errors of the inex- | perienced. If, on the other hand, he be- | comes childishly passionate over matters | which may, perhaps, be insignificant, his irritability is extended to his help, for such irritability is wofully contagious. This courting of worry should be ; avoided by people in all walks of life. The man with responsibilities. which are part of any commercial undertaking, should in all cases preserve a calm and even temper. That is nerve. a -e < Help Yourself. Fight your own battles. Hoe your own row. Ask no favors of any one, and you'll succeed a thousand times better than one who is always beseeching some one’s influence and patronage. No one will ever help you as you help yourself, because no one will be so heartily inter- | ested in your affairs. The first step will | be such a long one, perhaps; but carving | your own way up the mountain you make each one lead to another, and stand | Men who have made fortunes start with, but boys fair with a well-earned dollar or two. paid for, or given in friendly and touched the public heart. one who induced his affectionate grand- mother to speak a good word for him. Whether you work for fame, for love, for your hands and heart and brain. Say “‘I will,’? and some day you will conquer. Never let any man have it to say: ‘I have dragged you up.’? Too many friends sometimes hurt a man more than none at all. Signatures to checks may be written | them, when given ex- They may be} | transferred by indorsement, or, if pay- | De- | | fenses to them existing between first par- | ties cannot be raised against subsequent | firm while you chop out still another. | are not| those who have had $5,000 given them to | who have started | Men who acquire fame have never been | thrust into popularity by puffs begged or | spirit. | They have outstretched their own hands | Men who} win love do their own wooing, and 1} never knew a man to fail so signally as | money, or for anything else, work with| ;% READY FOR | USE. Our Process of Cleaning Retains the Strength and Flavor A Case: 36 Packages. | 36 Pounds. FULL WEIGHT. OS — QUALITY UARANTEED Also in Bulk: 25 Ib. Boxes, IMPORTED =. AND CLEANED BY {SIND WSIYS ANNE GRAND RAPing 00 Ib. Boxes, and Ry orn co.. El 300 Ib. Barrels. | RA @ , See . { tliat ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER IMPORTED AND CLEANED BY brand Rapids Frvit Cleaning Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & C0 W HOLESALE 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. Volt, Herpolsheimer & Co, ** GBF Qitawe S& Grand Rapids Hard Times 4", "2 Easier by NEIL’S O1-TANKE OUTEITS, cause they stop waste. They save oil and be- save time! It isn’t a question whether you can afford to lay out the money for such a convenience and Inxury in storekeeping; it’s a question whether you can afford to continue the waste! An outfit will TRIAL 30 can ship it back if not found convenient, Find this out by trying. be sent you for days. You clean and a means of saving its cost. Write direct to the manufacturers. 10 CANADA’S VICTORY. Why Dominion Cheese is Superior to | the Product of this Country. At the great Columbian Exposition held at Chicago the past season, our | brethren across the Lakes ‘‘got away | with us” in great shape in the matter of | cheese. For instance, in the June ex-| hibit, out of 138 awards. Canada took 129, leaving the great American Republic a beggarly nine. In the October exhibit the total awards for cheddar factory cheese made in 1893 were 414, and of these Canada took 369, leaving the proud republic forty-five. Out of 275 exhibits of cheese made in Ontario, 200 awards | were secured, and of these five lots! scored 99! while in the United States not a single cheese scored 991g points. In making} this statement let it be remembered that | the exhibits of June and October were the only eccasions during the Exhibition when Canadian and came into competition. These are facts, it seems to me, which ought to bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of American cheesemakers, and to arouse American pluck and American | genius to immediate and determined ac- | tivity. Our steel cruisers, our locomo- tives, our watches and thousands of oth- | ers of our manufactured products are | the best in the world—why not our} cheese? Our climate, our pastures and | Our waters are as sweet and wholesome, and our makers as intelligent, as those of our Canadian neighbors, but, for all that, when brought into competition with them, it seems that we are ‘‘not in it.”’ In the light of the developments at the | ¢ points out of a possible 100, | American cheese | World’s Fair, perhaps a page or two of | the history of Canadian cheesemaking, disclosing the means by which this grand result has been accomplished, may be of interest to the readers of THE TRADEs- MAN. Thirty-three years ago Canada export- ed only $13,675 worth of cheese: in 1880 she sent out $9,372,212, while for the year closing March 1, 1893, she shipped $13,687,851. Canada now sells in the! markets of Great Britain more cheese than any other country in the world. She ieads the United States by several long laps and seems likely, in the near to distance us in the race. In this was not the case. During the ten years commencing with 1870, in which the Canadian export made a leap of over $6,000,000, I think I am safe in saying that more than two factories in Eastern Ontario made ched- | dar cheese, and that 75 per cent. of the | cheese then and there manufactured, if | offered in the markets of to-day, could searce be sold at any price. In Western Ontario the case was somewhat different, but even there an investigation of the facts would disclose that much of their improvement was made in the years 1878 and 1879. The position which Canada holds in the cheese world is due almost wholly to a well-directed organized ef- fort on the part of its people to the pro- motion of this industry, and to a unity of thought and action for the accomplish- ment of a definite purpose, unalloyed with politics or avarice. Let us go back to the year 1868. In that year it chanced that I visited the factory of Thos. Ballantyne, M. P. P., for the purpose of purchasing his cheese. At his suggestion we visited two factor- ies in that county seventeen miles dis- | tant. The ride gave me an opportunity future, 1880 not | suggestion seemed to | modern maker. | that time, an excellent judge of cheese, ee ee MICHIGAN _ and I said to him then that | | the county of Perth held in itself vast | possibilities for The strike him nia | cheesemaking. | to gain an impression of the character of , the country, bly, and, as he has many times since de- | | clared, awoke in him a resolve which has since materialized into a very substantial From that time un- | and important fact. | | til the year 1879, | was there nearly ev- ery season, and together we rode thou-| ; sands of miles, visiting many factories, | he as a cheese buyer, I as a vendor of | factory supplies. preaching what we considered the es- ing, and, whenever the opportunity | | offered, taking off our coats and demon- | Strating by example the faith that was in us. At that time there were but few factories where now there are many, and | those were doing business after a fashion |that would provoke the laugh of the | Mr. Ballantyne was, for and we were both of the opinion that a | change was to be we had no definite idea. In the year 1879, Prof. L. B. Arnold, under a call from the Dairy Association the province, for the purpose of giving instruction in cheesemaking. He was college bred, a good chemist and a cor- respondent for several agricultural dairy papers, but, at the time, as the During these tripsiwe | |did what we called missionary work, ; sence of the whole gospel of cheesemak- | and facts proved, did not know how to make. cheese. month, he returned home. Shortly after, and in the same season, Mr. Ballantyne, having great confidence (which confidence was not misplaced) in Professor Arnold, He visited Western Ontario and | | began his work, but his products did not | | give satisfaction, and, after a stay of a/ recalled him and at his own expense set | him to work. At the Black Creek fac- tory, in the county of Perth, he experi- mented for several days and there his genius triumphed. in cheesemaking at this time, but that, by repeated trials, he so adjusted his methods as to produce the exact quality of cheese demanded by the market. On leaving the Black Creek factory, the pro- fessor commenced a tour of instruction, early in which [ joined him, remaining We do not mean to) | insinuate that he made a great discovery with him during the balance of the sea- | son. Although I had been a cheese- maker for many years, it was on trip and under his instruction that I re- ceived my first ideas of scientific cheese- making. It was on this this | trip that | learned how vast a store of knowledgein the domain of milk and milk manufac- | ture the professor had acquired, and that I learned to rank him in the dairy world | as the Grand Old Man is ranked in states- | manship. The benefits accruing to Western On- tario from the work of Arnold becoming immediately apparent, the people of Eastern Ontario were aroused to decisive | action, and, accordingly, in the month of | | April following (1880), their convention | | resolved to employ an instructor, and || had the good fortune to meet the choice | of the directors. I accepted the call and | on May 3, 1880, began my labors. And now, as the pronoun I will cane’ quite frequently in the balance of this i paper, 1 hope that the reader will notice | that not here through egotism. it is practically unavoidable and is | HE _DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE Halftone Engravings From and those from other We can convince quirers of this, Tradesman Company, : GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. the Tradesman Company houses in Western Michigan is in the fact that they give the best pos- Sible results from radical change was necessary in the hap- | the photo- graph or other copy every time, hazard methods and slovenly practices | there in vogue, but exactly what this | Instead of once in two or three times. |of Western Ontario, visited that part of | in= Acme Hand Potato Planter SIMPLE, DURABLE, PRACTICAL. —_——_ 9) —_____ Works perfectly in Clay, Sod or New Ground. Plants at any and uniform depth in moist soil. 0 Makes Holes, Drops and Covers at One Operation. nen) sen As necessary to Farmers as a Corn Plan‘er. SURE TO SELL... PLACE ORDERS EARLY WITH— FLETCHER HARDWARE CO, & FOSTER, STEVENS & CO, DETROIT, MICH., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., PRICE $12 PER DOZEN. LIBERAL Discounts TO DEALERS. Gravel or Sandy Soil, A DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS. lt would require more space than I have at command in which to clearly de- scribe the peculiarities of the conditions under which I commenced work. There was, however, one circumstance in my favor, and that was, wherever I went, I was received as one having a right to come and not as an interloper. This feel- ing prevailed more through a_ general recognition of the fact that improvement was a crying necessity, and that the ef- fort put forth was well intended, than from any belief in its ultimate success, or any particular faith in me as the man for the place. I have said that Cana- dian improvement has been wrought through unity of thought and action; this, however, did not exist when I be- gan, but their want of faith in me I was at length enabled to overcome. For a great number of my pupils the system I taught had at least one serious objection, namely, whereas, before, the eurd was in the hoops by 1 o’clock, p. m., now we did not go to press untill 4 or 5 p.- m. This, of course, was asking a great deal, especially as the benefits were not at first so very apparent. But under Professor Arnold I had lain down as the basis of my philosophy a few very im- portant facts, without which no cheese- maker can succeed, and to which I had resolved to cling under all circumstances, and one of these was that a batch of milk must not be spoiled through nig- gardly use of time. Then, too, I en- countered no little opposition to the in- troduction of what many regarded as newfangled notions, a reluctance to lay aside time-honored practices, and in many instances it was with much diffi- culty that | was able to induce a trial of my system. For instance, at that time most of the factories obtained their ren- net by soaking the skins in whey, a prac- tice against which I arrayed myself in determined opposition. In the light of our present knowledge of cheesemaking it seems almost incredible that there eould ever have been any considerable number of intelligent cheesemakers who would persist in corrupting 5,000 pounds of wholesome sweet milk with six gal- lons of a putrifying compound consisting of sour whey and the disintegrated walls of a calf’s stomach; but it was the fact that I found any number of such, and they clung to the practice as to a religi- ous creed, and fought over it, and finally relinquished it with sorrow and regret. Wherever I went I was confronted with this difficulty. 1 could devote but one or two days to each factory, and this was the material 1 always found on hand. Extracts were not then in use in that part of the country, and, as I was advo- eating the use of pure water in obtaining rennet, I had no time to prepare a suit- able extract, and so, many times, was compelled to hold my nose and dash in the filth. The benefit of an olfactory demonstration of the difference between the use of sweet rennet and carrion was, therefore, wanting, and in that season’s work I succeeded in accomplishing but little in this sadly needed branch of re- form. With regard to the quality of milk, I, was in the condition of the mariner on the deep without compass or helm. I had no instruments for testing its qual- ity, and so, in a sense, abandoned myself to the winds, with the hope and the prayer that I might finally drift into port. I very soon became what is known in THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — our slang as a ‘‘kicker,’’ When I found an old rookery of a factory, with a hog} pen under the floor and only one worn | out pail with which to manufacture 9,000 pounds of milk, | would kick; and when I found the floors wet and slimy and the winds whistling through the walls and | dirt and filth everywhere, | kicked: in| fact, I believe it was by kicking vigor- ously and often that a great reform was brought about in the matter of buildings and tools and that now Eastern Ontario | has as well made and well equipped fac- | tories as can be found anywhere. It is unfortunate for me, as a chron- | icler, that I am the proprietor of a curd mill, otherwise I might have something | to relate of interest upon the subject of mills and their introduction into Eastern | Ontario. As it is, 1 shall dismiss the | subject by saying that when I began my labors there were not more than a half. dozen mills in use, whereas now there is not a factory without one. With regard to the methods of making | cheese and the gradual revoiution from | the old go-as-you-please to the new sci- entific standard process, we have not the | space to go into details, but will say, in | general, that from the commencement of the season the work went on by partial reformation, many factories adopting me only in part, while some embraced the | new doctrine complete; but I had the) satisfaction afterwards of hearing the buyers say that the dates of my visits were plainly indicated on the factory shelves by a marked improvement, be- ginning with that day and running through the balance of the season. Within a period of about seventy-eight days | visited as many factories, in fifty- three of which, by actually manufactur- ing the cheese under the eye of the maker, 1 proved by demonstration the superiority of my system. In many cases it was at first resisted and denied, and in many cases I have reason to believe it would have been totally re- jected had not a final and more convinc- ing argument—the verdict of the buyer— settled the question. At the convention which met at Brock- ville in February following I read a cir- cumstantial report of my work and listened to the discussion which followed. With one envious exception entire satis- faction was expressed, one of the direct- ors declaring that the money expended upon me had been returned a hundred fold, and the result was that I was en-| gaged for another season. I began this season’s work (1881) under | auspices very much improved. Begin- | ning at Belleville, | went over a circuit embracing 100 factories, and including my old territory, without encountering any of the old opposition; indeed, the old makers watched my approach and welcomed me with undisguised satisfac- tion. I hailed this circumstance with delight and recognized in it the har- binger of victory. While not flattering myself that I had reached the highest point of excellence in my product, I saw that the result would be a uniformity of quality—a point not to be despised in the cheese industry. I also recognized in the spirit manifested by the makers an irresistible force which must ulti-| mately overcome every obstacle, and | saw at once that my mission was simply | to give this power direction and point out, as it were, the breach and watch the | assaulting column go through. More- over, the buyers came upon the field and | 11 ' Michael Kolb & Son, folesale-:-Ulothiers, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Full line of spring goods now ready; also a few lines of ulsters and overcoats, which we are closing out at a considerable reduction. MAIL ORDERS PROMPT- LY ATTENDED TO and samples sent on approval, or our Michigan representa- tive will be pleased to wait on you if you will address him as follows: WM. CONNOR, Post’s Eureka OVER 20,000,000 SOLD. These Spouts will not Leak Highest Award of Merit from the World’s Industrial Exposition. ————— $$ J Spout No. 1, actual size, with Heavy Wire Hanger, that does not break like hangers cast on the spout. PATENT IMpRovED— Sugar makers acknowledge a very large increase in the tlow of Sap by the use of the Self-Sealing Air Trap in the Improved Eurekas, as claimed for them. GET YOUR ORDERS Write for prices. prosnen TEVENS IN AT ONCE so as not to get left. ST. & GC: MONROR 12 THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. their triumphant and encouraging voices lent an influence which gave impetuosity to the charge, and so the siege began with vigor and went bravely on through | the whole season. As nothing of particular interest to the reader occurred during this season, we will pass on, pausing only to remark that at the Provincial Fair, Guelph that fall, in which the Eastern and Western Dairy Associations came into competition, the East carried off the gold medal and a majority of the lesser prizes—and these with cheese of the new system by my pupils. It so happened that the next spring (1882), at the time for employing an instructor for the com- ing season, I was in the State of Iowa, engaged in the promotion of some pri- vate creamery enterprises, when some one, through selfish motives, deceived the directors with the gratuitous state- ment that I was not available, whereupon Prof. Arnold was invited te take my place, and he accepted the invitation. A life devoted to experimeaot and investi- gation had so fashioned the professor’s | character that it was next to impossible for him to adopt one set of methods and | stick to them. Experiment had become a second nature and he could not resist the temptation to reduce to practice ev- ery new theory suggested by his invent- ive genius. The professor had some new ideas, and he embraced the oppor- tunity to put them in practice. The re- sult was failure. The professor believed that he could dispense with the mill and that by dipping the curd into the sink and adding one-half the requisite salt, stirring until ready for the press and then adding the balance of the salt, he could secure the requisite maturity—a result which he always failed to reach, | and so his product had a soft, mushy texture. In the month of July he went home and for the remainder of the season his duties were successfully performed by a home maker, Marden of mine. Bird, a pupil It very soon became known that the report which had been circulated with regard to me was untrue, and I was en- gaged, at private expense, to renew my | labors in the Provinee. I began in the month of May and visited about forty | factories, which were in Quebec. In contract some of Province of July, the my having been in Western Ontario. this I continued to making, a give circumstance which lead to Vestern Ontario for the next season. While engaged in buying and instruct- ing, as | have said, I discovered what is known as the Rennet Test, and from that time forward exhibited and advocated its use wherever I went. From the East a good report had gone before me into the West and my coming was everywhere greeted with very flattering signs of approbation and hospitality and my work was made pleasant by the willingness with which | my scholars applied themselves. I took with me a German, Pioskop, and at once | and at my own volition began testing the | milk. At the second factory | visited I discovered a batch that had _ been skimmed and watered, a discovery which led immediately to the punishment of the culprit. Thus encouraged, I consti- tuted myself a sort of official milk in- | spector and from that time made it a to reach the factory part of my duty held at) com- | pleted, | was engaged in buying cheese | While engaged in| instructions in| | early and examine each batch of milk as |{t was delivered. I have often driven ten miles by starlight for the purpose of making my inspection. I have every reason to believe that my work was the first of the kind on this continent. In my report to the Association for that season (1883) will be found an ac- count of my work in this particular more in detail than I ean here give, but I took occasion then to recommend a system of milk inspection and suggested that the instructor be clothed with this authority and be supported with the dignity of the law. This suggestion, I believe, was subsequently adopted. The dignity and importance which Canadian cheese suddenly assumed in the English market did not escape the notice of the Scotch dairymen and _ in- quires were made as to the cause. This led to correspondence which re- sulted in my accepting a call from Scot- land, where I remained during the sea- sons of 1884 and 1885. In my absence the Provincial Associations employed a corps of home instructors and inspectors, | the majority of whom discharged the Che P | ne | GREETING: | New fersey, in the Third of New jx omplained of, rsey, against you, the that the said and the month of | Complainant, is entitled to the under the pains and_ penalties absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO.” substantially similar thercto in sound or appearance, in connection Circuit, on said exclusive which duties of the office with marked success. The seasons of 1887 and 1890 (six in all) terminated my labors in the Province, as it must also this statement of what 1 know about the rise and progress of cheesemaking there. I have briefly stated the leading facts within my per- sonal knowledge to show how an or- ganized and persistent effort has resulted in the case of our neighbors beyond the Lakes. Their efforts have been met with a large and substantial reward and they are pushing forward with an ener- getic and united action which cannot fail to accomplish yet much more in the great work. From henceforth the road to perfection is a comparatively broad and even one. The pioneer work has been done; the forests have been swept down; the stumps have been drawn and the swamps drained, and it remains for them to con- vert the fields into gardens and the gar- dens into beds of flowers. The old prejudices have gone; the old tools are gone: and in their places have come in- tellects that reach out for new ideas and tools the best that modern ingenuity has produced including the Babcock tester. Let the good work go on and may the American makers settle down to a good square trot and come under the wire abreast with them, at least. J. B. HARRIS. ¥., Jan. 10, 1894. i 2 Se Cortex.. 2 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 1x. a es Prunus ee eae ud 2 Aconitum a = 2% ~ Vivseeceee cree sees sees 4 oe ee Meee eeu i a ees Q We ee ie ete neni eas ae.” CO CO NON: Ane 12@ 15 | Cassia Acutifol.. o - Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 Siam. 9. ene een ere mt = Sersenterin .... 50 EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 Stromontime 1 60 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 25 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 a 60 hina 3@ 35 — rastis Canaden, Vorat cl Haematox, 15 Ib. box.. 1@ 18 - (po. 35) va ets : 2 30 ratrum Verlde.... 2... 50 Tires sues ellebore ja, po.. 2 . 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German.... 25@ 31 Te, cscs, 8 wots 00 aints . 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum.._.. 12@ 14 Zinci Sulph. i: 8 VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispy. 2@ 22 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 eee 2 00@2 10 Ors. Extra Turp....... : 16001 70 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ Bbl. Gal} Coach Body. : 00 Wipe. W............... 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Fur... | 1 00@1 10 ' =. Me 12] Lard, extes........... $0 85 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Mm Gece tae @ io we f........... 42 45 | Japan ee No. 1 Linseed, pure raw.... 50 53 uty. .... ee as 70@75 HAAELTINE & PERKINS DRUG Cf. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CREMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES DEALERS IN aints, Oils “> Var SWISS ZILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Druggisis Stndries We are Sole Preprietors of Weatherly s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. rishes. We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantes satistaction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them. Send a trial order HAAELTINE & PERKINS Dave: GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERY FH The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. *y Lica CURRENT. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE. doz gross eee. kL oe 6 00 eee co... 60 7 00 ee eee............ 50 5 50 ee s........-.-. 75 8 00 —— , 65 7 50 Paragon .. .. 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. 1g Ib. cans, 8 doz ee ben 45 — 2... 7 -_ * i og 1 60 — .... 10 Arctic. 4 cans 6 doz case....... 55 Se ” édoe * ee r a a i sm * tae Cl 9 00 Fosfon. 5 oz. Cans, 4 doz. in case... 80 B” ao .- 2 00 Red Star, is > CANS........ 40 7 _ "> ' 12 Telfer’ 5, - oa cans, dos. = . oo f +. Our Leader, % ~— cans..... 45 6 1D Cams...... id _ lipen.....1e Dr. Price’s. T doz Dime cans.. 95 4-02 .1©@ 6-0Z 2 00 8-0z . .2 60 12-02 .3 90 } 16-0Z 5 99 2%-lb ‘ 12 00 4-ib 18 25 5-lb : 22 % 10-1b 1 80 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. Se. _. = Ee —— 70 BLUING, Gross Arctic, 4 oz ovals.......... 3 60 _ oo Lk. 6 75 . ints, ee. c 9 00 No. 2, sifting ook... 27 _ No. 3, to wi _ 8m . oe... As Mexican Liquid, 4 02. . Soo Soc. ...... 60 BROOMS, —eo.... ee 2 00 No, 2 ee 2 25 —s hc mt«<(CSOSSCSCS 2 50 Parlor Gem.. 2. Common Whisk .. SSeS 1 00 _ee................ BRUSHES, Stove, J 1 - 12 a 1 50 See eee 1 7% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Paimetto, goose............ 1 50 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes oe 10 — Sh 2 woe os 10 wane .....-.-. _- ase GOODS. Fish. Clams Little Neck, 1 i 1 @ 21 1 90 Clam Chowder. Standard, a oo 22 Cove —— Standard, 1 1 ib.. ae 75 D.. : 16 Lobsters Star, (>... 2 45 2 D.. ..8 50 Picnic, 1 > eee 2 00 - 2 90 "iiiitiaad ete... 1 10 Ks 2 ehiscccece. i oe a 2 25 Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 25 | .......... 225 Salmor. Columbia River, —.... ..20 ae. 1 65 a ee. 2. 13 ae LULL Kinney’s, i. 16 jardin pee US............. 44S] 5 o 6%@ 7 rere Me... aw " Sa 15@16 eee oe... 7@8 Boneless ..... oa 21 Trout. ee... 250 Fruits. Apples. 3 lb. standard. in 1” York State, gallons . 3 10 Hamburgh, ~* — Live oak....... 1 40 names (ee........ 1 40 _——......... 130 ore .........-... 1 10 Blackberries _av....... ..... 90 Cherries —..... 10Q1 25 Pitted EE - 1 75 White 1 50 Erie . 1 30 Damsons, ‘Egg Plums and Green Gages. Pee... 12 Cali inca. i 1 40 Gooseberries. ee... 13 Peaches. —_... . 90 ae... 1 3% aes... ......... eeeereee............. 160@1 75 —hCl Oxford... . Pears. Domestic . aS 13 ee... .......-. fe Pineapples. tO 1 00@1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 ' grated. 2% Booth’s sliced......... @2 5) ” erated..... @2 75 Quinces. Common .. 1 Raspberries, Red 1 10 Black Hamburg. 150 Erie, black 1 20 Strawberries. Lawrence . 12 Hamburgh . _ iz rie. oT 1 20 Terrapin - . 1 05 Whortleberries. Blueberries ... 85 Meats. Corned beef Libby’s.......1 Roast beef Armour’ ... 1 80 Potted ham, %, » —. 1.2 eece. 85 a tongue, : ID... 13 . “Se 85 " Chicken, i ib....... 95 — ns. Hamburgh oie a... ..... Frenc style. ~.-8 20 ae.......... 7 Lima, ——.... ——............,.. 65 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked. i=. oo World’s Fair Baked........ 13 Paoteeekor......._...- 1. Corn. Hamburgh . 14 aetna Eden . 2 Purity a“ " Hea Dew 1 40 Morning Glory............. aoe. 75 Peas, Hamburgh a a 135 early June...... Champion wae .1 50 petit p pois.. . % a si ted. ...1 90 Soaked . 1 7 Harris standard... oo Vanc amp’ S merrore.......1 early June.....1 30 Archer's Early Blossom....1 25 a 2 15 . . Mushrooms. ae... 19921 Pumpkin. —.......... : 85 Squash Hubbard. tee Succotash. Hambu oo 1 40 Honey | Dew. ee eee 1 50 Erte . ‘ oo. Hancock . Excelsior - Eclipse. oo —s.................. a CHOCOLATE. Baker's. German Sweet.. ...... 23 Premium. ' oe 37 Breakfast Cocoa........ 3 CHEESE, ae 13% some... ae — 12% ee 13% a oee.......... @11% a 6@i0 a 11 ee 1 00 SS 23 Limburger....... @i0 eS Ea Os Pees... «6 os... 221 Se weitzer, imported. @24 ’ domestic ... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pint, 25 bottles oe 27 Pint ee . 4 Quart 1 doz bottles Triumph Brand. .-3 50 Half pint, per vos ie eeee ok ae Pint, 25 bottles.. ‘+. oe Apaeet per Gon... 3 7 CLOTHES PINS. Serocs DOReS............. 44@45 COCOA SHELLS, ee... @3 Less quantity a @3% Pound packages....... ..6%Q7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. —............ ..... ... a ——.. 21 Toseerry.-. ........ .....-.28 Santos. aS... 19 — —— ................... .. 22 Peaberry ..... 23 Mexican and Guatamala. Fair. , oo Ce 22 Maney ee Maracaibo. a... Le Milled . a 24 — interior ..... eee Private Growth. oo Remsen ................28 Mocha. Imitation . Se Arabian.. Li a ‘Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 24 45 ——. 23 95 Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 24 45 Extract. Valley City % gross : 7 Felix o 7 Hummel’s, foil, gross...... 1 50 ' tin . .... CHICORY. oe... 5 ....... 2 CLOTHES LINES, Cotton, 40 ft... - dos. 1 2 . oer..... 1 40 . 60 ft.. - 1 60 S 70 ft... oa 1% _ 80 ft. - 19 Jute 80 ft. - 8 ig 72 ft° 1 OO CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle. . ho eee 6 B Daisy. ae ee Champion.. eee Magnolia is ook oe EVAPO! —— aM’ Swe eTENED % Peerless Evaporated Cream. COTPON BOOKS. ‘Tradesman.’ 2 1 books, per hundred ... 2 00 8 2 ot “ce ee ca 2 50 g 3 “oe ow e oY 3 00 % 5 as “ “ Hn 3 00 nel Ga A -- 40 ees -. 5 00 “Superior.” $ 1 books, per hundred ... 2 50 $2 . " a gz 3 a oe “ i 3 50 85 ig ' ” -. £€@ $10 . _ - 00 820 . o . . 600 Universal.” $1 books, per hundred... 83 00 82 _ Ks «+. oo g 3 “ce se 400 & 5 a“ “ 5 00 810 - ” 6 00 a0 i 7 00 Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 books or over.. 5 per cent 500 “oe ae ni 10 ‘ee 1000 “ “ 20 oe COUPON PASS BOOKS, {Can be made to represent any denomination from 810. down. | oo hoeees........ 201 @ * cee eee eee —_— - .............. 3 00 Sh 6 25 ee 10 00 — - |. 17 50 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ a... 883 00 —° « FF 5 00 — - = - 7. 8 00 Steel ee % CRACKERS, Butter. Serer ees..........--..- 5% Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6 Peeeer See...... .....+. 5% Family XKyY, cartoon...... 6 Bee eee. 5% Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6 Kenosha. ... ated .,, 7 Butter a .............. © Soda. Soda, XXX.. te. cee. Soe, eee... 8% aes Weaeee,......, ....., 10% Long Island Wafers........ 11 Oyster. ee 5% coe Cyeter, 2 ae............. Sh Pee Ooeee............... CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pure.. ae . Telfer's Absolute.......... 39 Oe. 15@25 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic, Apples Sundried, sliced in bbls. 7 quartered ‘ 7, Evaporated, 501b. boxes 11 Apricots. California in bags.. ... 14 Evaporated in boxes. .. 14% Blackberries. oe... 5 Nectarines. ce 10 me Boe... 3c. cc. Ws Peaches Peeled, in boxes bade eee Cal, evap : 10% " in beme..... 10 ears. California in bags 10 Pitted ensneamves Barre 4 Ib, boxes . Prunelles, Sele. Deee............ 15 Senplerstan. ares. ............. We oo eas ues =m «C«W«..... ee Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes. 2 crown a sl j 1 Loose ¥ Muscatels ‘in 1 Bags. 2 crown. Foreign. Currants. Patras, i oarre........- 2% i 3 oem.......... 2% C in less quantity .. 3 cleaned, bulk...... 5 cleaned, package... 5% Peel. Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib, boxes 20 Lemon . = * 10 Orange ’ -_* [ 11 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes.. @%% Sultana, 20 ' @s Valencia, 30 “ Prunes. California, mee... . 90x 100 25 Ib. bxs. 03 oe 80x90 " 70x80 " ay . 60x70 . _ Pere. peer... ...... ee hl French, 60-70 oe 7 sence teeeecese ie a... ' =... ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. ee ee $1 75 No. 2, 6% 1 60 mee 1 65 Bee e.. 1 50 XX wood, white. ae. o..... 1 35 me ae.... 12 Manilla, white. ee 100 Coin ae eee... FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, om kee... 3% Sominy. pee... ere ........... Lima Beans. a... @4 Maccaroni and pea Domestic, 12 Ib. box. Imported...... 10%@.1 Oa tmeal. a ee... 4 25 ee 2 26 Pearl Barley. ae. 2% Peas. ——- -.. ........ as oer ........ "ses Rolled oo Barrels 180... .. @4 2 Half bbis 90.. cae @2 % Sago. ee... erescee ess 4% a. 5 Wheat. A 5 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. 7aronie.................. Cod. es ................ Whole, Grand Bank..... 5@5% Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6@8 Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@8 Halibut. es 11@12% Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 70 c th c bbl 9 50 Norweren................ Round, % bbl > lbs ee. 2 40 8 13 Beated.............. bones 20 Mackerel, No. 1, = ee 11 00 Sardines. Reston, Rees.............. 55 Trout. No. 1, & bbis., — shies ame 60) Wo. tf % bbl, Yee. 2 75 No. 1, kits, 16 ne. Lee daa 80 No. 1,80 3% bbls, 100 lbs........ 87 oe 40 ‘ ork EOM......... ., 5 a a, 7 45 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. doz =o ...% 2 -on..... 1 50 Regular Vanilla. doz jm 2 0Z.....81 2 me) 4 0Z..... 2 40 XX Grade Lemon. coe....; $1 50 fos..... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. 2os..... $1 75 acs..... 3 50 Jennings. Lemon. Vanilla 2ozregularpanel. 75 1 20 40 . --.k oo 2 00 6 oz . 2a 3 00 0. & wper........ 1 35 2 00 mo. € Giper........ 1 50 2 QUNPOWDER, Rifle—Dupont’s, EE 3 25 eee 1 90 reese Keee............... 110 Ce 30 en 18 ee Bore—Dupont’s. ee 42 Half Ree 2 40 Quarter kegs.. 1 35 Tibcams ............... + Eagle —— 8. Kegs 1 Half kegs Quarter kegs 116 ch HERBS, RO eee caus ol ac. cee. 15 a 15 INDIGO. Madras, 51b. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 JELLY. 17 Ib. “_- oe. 30 7 30 25 eee 12 LYE, Condensed, 2 oes......_.... 1 25 “on... 2 2 MATCHES. mo. 9 ehigher............... 1 65 Anonet parior......,......., 17 Ce Ee 1 10 ee 4 00 MINCE MEAT. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie preparation, 3 doz. in ome... 3 00 MEASURES, ” Tin, per dozen. oe... $1 75 Halt —_—- epee es Geceese 1 40 =: i 7 Half’ pint. a. 40 Wooden, for ‘vinegar, per doz. i wollen ..... 7 00 Half gallon 4 7 ne ected scans | — - oo MOLASSES, Blackstrap. eet oe... . 14 Cuba Baking. Creieees ............ 16 Porto Rico. 20 30 18 22 or oo One-half barrels, 3c extra, 8 Ld " e THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 50 Half bbls, 600 count.. @2 75 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 50 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 23 PIPES. Clay, No. mee... 1 70 7. D. reloouns........ 70 Cob, No 2. 1 20 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Danes ...: 3 75 Frenne Sai (o8.......... 3 00 RICE, Domestic. Carolina eee 6... oo. me f.............,.. 5% . No. a 5 I ie. 4 Imported J apan, mot... ol: 5% Co 5 aane............ cccccccccece 6 ——.............. acteseen OG SPICES, Whole Sifted. Me sg... 9% Cass a, China in mats...... 8 Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... ..82 Cloves, Amoegyne..........- 22 Pamoeer...,......., 1% Mace Peiayis....... ....... 80 Nutmegs a bet de ee ser ca. 7 « He. era 00 Pepper, Singapore, black... .10 white... .20 og shot 16 Pure anak in Bulk, See. 15 Cass Ja, Batavia. . 28 and ‘Saigon. 25 oh ies aa 35 Cloves, a 22 Panereer..........- 18 Ginger, _ eee cet eoees- 16 eee. 20 . Ses Kies | ee weaee Nateyie.............. 65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22 Tri teste eae ees 25 Matmers, No.2 ............ %5 Pepper, Singapore, black. ...16 white. ....24 = Cayenne........... 20 ee. “Absolute” in Packages. 8 yes Alingeee .......... —.- 1 55 (ooeoes............. Oo 1 ero. ......---..-... 84 155 Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155 ° Biecan...,.... 84 1 55 ieee .............,. 84 155 Peeer ..2.... i oe to Bage...... oe. 84 SAL SODA. oe eee oe Senna Dowes.......... 1% SEEDS. Bveee ......_.......... @15 Canary, Smyrna....... 4 Cree... .......... 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp. Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird ......... 5@6 Mustard, white....... 10 Pees ...-...--......, 9 Ree... ....... 5 Cuttle bone.. i. 30 STARCH. Corn. = boxes De eee tee 5% . 5% i: ‘ Gloss. packages...... Coes e 5g a ae 54 6-lb oe, 5% 40 and 50 lb. boxes........: ~ 3% ee 3% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders.........37 maccancy, in tars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, eee ccs taee sae cseb ee Shy 4 *Rngitsh Meese ceue cues 4% SALT. phi sacks.. wne- ---O2 a Bs io ib. sacks. es 1 8 ieee ae 2 3 24 sib Neer nT 1 50 56 lb. dairy in linen bags.. 32 =i drill “ i6 18 Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 32 Si. * " . 2 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 Jh, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. ot, ee. 27 Common Fine, ee... vi) a... C.... 5 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box, Cares... Le. 5% BN oo ccs es ates 5 ee cs. TOO ads cides cc cccee ess 5 SOAP. Laundry, Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 90 1-Ib........ be Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-1b...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Cemeere oe. 3 45 Ivory, 1 oe, 6 7 .-........... 1.) 400 ee 3 65 Mottled Germen........... $15 Vown Talk................. 3 Dingman Brands. pamgee box. =... 3% 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp'd..84 00 plain... 2 94 N. K. Fairbank & Co.’ Brande. Ree Chee... 4 00 Brown, i Oe... 2 40 So Dee. 3 25 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. AOS. 3 75 CotwonOi..... . .......... 68 Miareeroos........-......... 400 ee 400 Thompson & Chute Brands, SILVER a 3 ud mene 3 35 Savon Improv ea... 2 50 Benmnmower ................. 2 66 omen... 3 2 meonomical 2 25 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 hand, 3 doz eee eae 2 50 SUGAR. The following prices Tepre- sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the act- ual cost in New York, with 30 cents per 100 pounds added for freight. The same quotations will not apply toany townwhere the freight rate from New York is not 30 cents, but the local quotations will. perhaps, afford a better criterion of the market than to quote New York prices exclusively. ee % 48 POWAREOG oc 4 92 Granulated - 455 eae Fine Granulated... 4 67 oe 4 92 Sark Powdered.......... 5 30 Confec. Standard A....... 4 @ No. t ColumpinA......... 4 36 No. : mre A... 4 30 No. 43 : 4 4 3 SYRUPS. Corn. OTIO. ccc coer cccetccou 1a og 19 Pure Cane. Mase ........................ 19 CT 25 Cueeee. 30 TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ oe, latnee ...... 47 moeiL...... 2 7 Halford, ss ............. 3 7% ee... 2 5 Salad Dressing, large ..... 45 email ..... 2 65 TEAS. JAPAN—Regular. ee @i7 Meee i... @20 Ceeee 24 @26 oo a 32 @34 Peet. ....... .-...-..- 10 @12 SUN CURED. Deere ..........-........ @17 Ce @20 Crotee ................ 24 @2e Crteene. .............- 32 @34 Pee: 10 @12 BASKET FIRED. ware. ..4............,.. 18 @20 Cyieiee.............-... @25 Choleeat............ @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Chotcest fancy........ 75 @S5 OOLOoNe. @% Common to fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL, Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair.......18 Superior to foe. 30 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. eee ae EE ee era rar 24 QB Oe ei. 40 @50 TOBACCOS, Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Russet.. .. Ce io ee 31 D. Scotten & Co’s Brands. Higwatnea............. 60 me... .......... = MOGROe 8. 8) oes css Spaulding & Merrick’s Brands, ———.. Private Brands. a @30 Com Cam... .......... @27 Mere Bay............. 24 @25 Unele Ben,............28 Ges McGinty ....-. ee 27 i 2 Dandy Jim...... 29 Torpedo ae : 2 ' in drums 23 Zum yum |... 28 —.................. : 23 * @rome.... ....... 22 Plag. Sorg’s Brands. Spearhead ............ 39 OME oie oh ine as. 37 ours Twist............ Scotten’s Brands, Rave... 2 rpawete._....... ...- 38 Valley City ........... Finzer’s Brands, Old Honesty......._.- 40 sie ier Cit. -. 32 Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (8 0z., 41c).... : Green Turtie.......... 30 Three Black Crows... 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. 38 Something Good...... Ontot Sir. ........ 26 Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands. GCald Hene .......... 43 Happy = . 37 Mmenenie.... ........ 32 NoTax.. 31 Sp Go.. e ‘i Catlin’s Brands, Mom Grieg... —— Golden Shower............. a 38 Moecrecuaum .. ......... 29@30 American Eagle Co.’s Brands, Myrtic Navy.. ..... Lo. a Sie -30@32 German . ee. 7... oe 3 Java, 148 foil.. Se Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands, Ce 16 Banner ~aeaeeNE . 38 Gold Cut a Scotten’ 8 ‘Brands, were 15 money DOW................. 26 Gols Bioee.... 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, Peerless... ea -26 Ol Pen = Standard.. . . Globe Tobacco Co." 8 ante Memes... 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. Rob Roy............-......- 26 Uncle Sam..... eee. 28@32 Hee Clover. ............-..-. 32 Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry........--..« 25 Traveler Cavendish....... 38 Ce é Fiew Doy...... ........d0oe Com Cane..............,.. 16 VINEGAR. ke. 7 @8 et 8 @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, ie, per ael ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 dozincase... 1 75 YEAST. a ....... ..............3 oe Weaeere ...................3 Meet Voom ...,..........., 1 00 Ee 5 moves ....................... 90 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Green... ... |... 202% @ 3 @ 3% 4@5 2 @3 es @4 Calfskins, green...... 3 @4 Gured...... 5y@ 7 Deacon skins.......... 10 @B o. 2 hides 3 off. PELTs. = @ w tiohe 15 @ 50 WooL, Woe ............... 12 Ge Unwaeaned ............ &@ @i2 MISCELLANEOUS. Oo 4@5 Grease butter.........1 @2 eon ..........-.-- 1%@ 2 Ginsene...............2 Ge FURS. CO 80@1 00 ee ee 15 00@25 00 ee 3 K@7Z 00 Y eee seem eee S0@ 7% Cal DOUEO .......--.;- 10@ 25 tous sass 8 OOS OO Pim, ved..............1 Ghat ae Pox, €ross.............8 @@5 © ow 7 aged . 50@ 7 Eva... :......... 1 00@2 50 a. GRE. .....<... 1 00@3 00 “ pale & yellow. 75@1 00 Mink, dark 25@1 00 Muskrat.. lowe... Q@ Oppossum.. Pees eeee aes Oe A Otter, dark... ‘5 00@10 00 mcetn ............ Se Skunk Le. -1 00@1 25 | 1 00@2 00 Beaver castors, in... @5 00 Above prices are for No. 1 furs only. Other grades at cor- responding prices. DEERSKINS—per pound. Thin and green......... 10 hoe pray Gry... . : 10 ey Gry ........... \ 15 Red and Blue, dry...... 25 WOODEN WARE, Tubs, No. 1 a 6 00 es 2. a. oO OO 3 Desa nee .. 4a Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 30 ** No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 50 Bowls, 11 inch r ao 90 5b * _i2 oe a ee 1 30 oa es 2 40 oa Baskets, market. ........... 35 — bushel.. 1 15 o fall hoop “ 1 25 [ willow cr’ ths, No. 1 5 25 - No.2 6 25 e * Noa? _ splint “ Nels _ . ~ WNo2z<¢2% “e ae “a No. 3 4 75 INDURATED WARE, Pais. . ' 3b Tubs, No. i. be toepcueele OO cae, WO. 2... __....... Too Wo Z.................10 © Butter Plates—Oval. 20 1000 ho t................. Of 2m Pt a eS OW 24 NG. @................. 9 260 No. 5.. _... 100 S00 Ww siiainieia-eis gle. Cac ..... ........... 2 No. Queen . \ Lee, 20 Peerless Protector.......... 2 40 Bosinaw Gione............. 1 % Double. Wer When... ...........23 Wilson . - Se Good tae 2 io Pegriess.... 2... |. ... 2 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFEFS WHEAT, No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 53 No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 53 MEAL. Motee .................... a Granulated oe. _ 16 FLOUR IN SACKS. *Patcuwm.............--...- 2 15 oor... .......... eo Operates... 1 55 ober os. 68 a ee Rye. . ol . 1 60 *Subject ‘to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. MILLSTUFFS, Less Car lots Sa Bren. ... .... 014 OO 15 00 Screenings .... 13 00 "12 59 Middlings..... 15 00 16 00 Mixed Feed... 16 00 16 50 Coarse meal .. 15 50 16 50 CORN, Car lots.. (i... . ee Less than car lots.......... 42 OATS. Car lots.... i -- 32% Less than carlots...........35 HAY. _ 1 Timothy, car lots... i © No. 1 [ ton lote...... 12 50 FISH AND OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. Witches ............ @9 OE nec cece oes @9 Black Bass.......-.... 12 Halibut @15 Ciscoes or Herring... @5 aaa @15 Fresh lobster, per lb. 20 Cod...... ee else 10 No. 1 Pickerel......... @10 Pike eee @ 8 Smoked White.... ... @10 Red Snappers........- 2 Columbia River Sal. wan 12% Mackora)....... 2@25 orsTans—Cans, Fairhaven Counts. @35 y.¢. 0. Selecw....... @30 Soleo 8 @23 een... ......... @z ANCHOFPS...006..0-000:.- @2 MeemG@aras............. @i8 rir .............. @16 OYSTERS—Bulk. Extra Selects.. “_ gal 1s Selects . ee 1 40 Standards............. 1 00 Commie... 2.2.2... 2 20 Scalione...-..... a 1 50 ore .............. 1 2 EO ae 13 SHELL —, Oysters, per a. ...... 1 25@1 50 Clams, |. 75@1 00 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. mens ......... ace .......... oto... ........ oe , 14 % Extra clear pig, short cut. otc. Extra clear, heavy. Clear, fat back.......... ' a. Be Boston clear, short cut. Leas. ‘ -. 15 50 Clear back, short cut.. Hi. oe Standard clear, short cut, Be 16 00 SAUSAGE. Pore eee 7 eee ; 5% Laver... 2... OS 6 aweeeee ............................,. 8% Blood . : eee sed gee ede ol 6 Bead Cheese 6 PtTOR. 6. cc. 54e ee ee ees 10 Preaomefarts.......... wccussse..- Lede ne 7% LARD. Mestie Gondeea............. 1... ae Granger. eae ee Compound . Cottoline.. 50 ib. Tins, Ye advance. 20 lb. pails, ee 10 Ib. we ain. * xe . om ‘* ie “ BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 7 50 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 00 Ionciems rip WR... 10 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Hams, average 20 lbs. Beet e esc, ee Oe ' TR Tt 1u : . 12 to 14 lbs.. Cee oe, — ptenie.. ee ol, “ best boneless.. be eet ote oes ee. @ Shoulders..... teeee oe. 6G Breakfast Bacon’ boneless. ae 1 Dried beef, ham prices.. ea cane eee .10 Long Clears, heavy.. De cea ng patemcee Wecasry .......-.................. 8 i“ Beet... ! L 8% DRY SALT MEATS. —-..... ccotgacecese. © D. 8. = ee 24% EE 10 " PICKEED PIGS’ FEET. DOtrCrs. 8... e se. 8 00 Been 1 90 TRIPE eee 65 aes... Ct... Oe BEEF TONGUE i ee ee 22 00 ll he 11 00 Per pound...... .. Peer tee sees ee.) OM BUTTERINE. Deiry, cots pacneG. Dairy, rolls...... 2.2.10. eee cee scene eee eens 144 Creamery, solid ~_ Kea... 18% Creamery, rolls.. os a FRESH BEEP. Coreen 5 @7 Fore GQUarers. ......................... 4%@ 5 Hing guartems........... ............... 6 @ G6 ee eS - 8 @l0 Meee, ec. 7 @i RO oc eceeeee ae. ee 5 @6 oe @ 4% ae... eed eee ae @ 4% FRESH PORK. Mec .. 2. 64@6% ee 8 (CO 6% OO 1% MUTTON. eee. 6 @ ig Lambs.. . eee eka @é6 “VEAL. Careme 2... @i7 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. LAMP BURNERS. nota... 45 a ee i 50 Nas * ee etree ccc ewersa cece, aca fl Tubular.. ae miter eacescerscoe ae LAMP CHIMNEYS "Per box. 6 doz. in box. Mo GS............ eee cee ee ee Leica. oe eg First quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top Pe taa dc ccuuueasccegeea.. 2 10 No. 1 ss eee ee 2 25 No.2 * “ Oe 8 25 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, =o: eet cee ce No.2 “ : eee ee tcer esses. Oe Pear! top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled ee 37 ee 470 No. 2 gover omy se big ae 488 La. Bast No-1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, a Dede sees cel 2 No oe oOo No 1 crimp, per, doz. 1s No.2 epee es .1@ LAMP WICKES, No. { a See cena eee eee scee- soe No. i, _ ee Dedeeccecee OO 7 2 Oe 38 a per % STONEWARE—AKRON, Butter Crocks, = con...... 06 . . Moet per Gon... ........... 60 Tune eer OO 70 m tte aoe) vere... ov Mik Pans 44 ea). por Gos......... ........ @ = ' , ee ae T STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 -. ee” Milk Pans, oe. a 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE GOVERNMENT BOND OFFER. The prominent event in the financial world has been Secretary Carlisle’s offer to the public of $50,000,000 ten-year five per cent. bonds to be issued under the Resumption act of Jan. 14, 1875. In order to reduce the rate of interest on the bonds to three per cent. or less, their price is limited to a minimum of 117.223, and they are to be paid for in gold coin. The bids for them will be received up to Feb. 1 at noon. Although the act referred t the Secretary authorizes the bonds to be sold only for coin with which to redeem the old legal tenders, it is commonly understood that the pro- ceeds of this issue are to be devoted to meeting the deficiency in the public revenues for the current fiscal year. That the whole $50,000,000 of bonds offered will be taken at er above the price asked for them is highly probable, but how much more will be subscribed for, and by whom and at what rate, is stilla matter of conjecture. Not many of them are likely to be wanted by the army of small investors who during the war and until the resumption of specie payments were liberal subscribers at par for the yarious Government obligations. If they take the bonds now offered at the premium put upon them, they will have to keep asort of sinking fund account with them, crediting, every time they receive interest, a part of it to the reimbursement of their capital and only the remainder te income. Thus, supposing aman to pay the Secretary’s upset price, $1,172.23 for one of his $1,000 bonds, he will get $50 per year in interest, but at the end of ten years, when the bond is paid off at par, he will lose 172.23. He must, himself as income out of the $50 only three per cent. on $1,172.23, or $35.17, and lay by the other $14.83 to make up the $172.23 at the end of ten years. Even then he will have, unless he reinvests the $14.83 year by year, which in the case of so small an amount is very troublesome if not impossible, only $148.- 30 to offset the $172.23 premium invested at first, and will be out of pocket $23.93. For this reason, and because of the dis- like which most people have to keeping accounts of the kind required, the bonds will not be favorites with the public at large. Whether the national banks will sub- scribe for many of the bonds in order to use them as security for circulating notes is doubtful. As the law now stands only $900 in notes can be issued against each $1,000 bond deposited. leaving, in the case of these new bonds, $272.23 as a margin. Possibly some banks may take them for the sake of getting interest on their present unemployed stock of money, but against this must be set off the risk of loss when the bonds have to be sold. Savings banks just now have not much idle money to invest and are getting for what they have 43¢ per cent. on loans on bonds and mortgages. The same may be said of insurance and trust companies. A demand for the bonds in Europe can- not be counted o by issues of therefore, allow on, since money can be invested there at nearly 3 per cent. as/| well as here. Thus, British 2: per cent. consols are a shade under par and the French Government is offering even 4 to extend for eight years, at 34 per| cent., its past due 414 per cents. All kinds of municipal corporation bonds in Great Britain are also selling on very nearly a 3 per cent. basis, and, besides, ,| venting their presentation. owing to the bad business of recent country any great surplus of uninvested capital. Then, again, the bonds offered are payabie, silver as well as in ture legislation favorable to silver. not fail to consider. lators, who remember that five years ago the Government 4s were selling on a 214 per cent. basis, and that, therefore, a considerable profit is in sight on bonds bought on a 3 per cent. basis. Against this must be reckoned the possibility of further issues by Secretary Carlisle, which may poorly not find a ready sale. lle needs to-day $30,000,000 with which to make up his $100,000,000 gold reserve, $5,000,000 and more for sugar bounties, and he hasestimated the average monthly deficiency in the national revenues to meet ordinary expenses at $7,000,000. The proceeds of his present issue will, therefore, carry him on only for a few months, and then he will require more money. The amount of gold coin wanted to pay tor the bonds when they are allotted will be upward of $58,000,000, the greater part, if not the whole, of which will probably have to be furnished by our New York banks; but, as they had on Saturday $123,630,100 in coin, mostly gold, and $114,700,000 in legal tenders convertible on demand into gold, and needed only $135,576,550 for the reserve required by law against deposits, it is evident that they could spare a great deal more than $58,000,000, without having to eall in any part of their loans. The transaction ought not, therefore, to have a depressing effect upon the stock mar- ket, but why it should cause a rise in prices is not clear. The remarkable fact attending Secre- tary Carlisle’s announced intention of using the proceeds of the bonds for cur- rent expenses is the complacency and even approbation, notwithstanding its palpable illegality, with which it is viewed in this section of the country. Nobody can have the audacity to main- tain that the resumption act of 1875 was passed with the intention of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain money for any other purpose than the redemption of the old legal tender notes, and the perversion of it into a means of providing for a deficiency in the public revenue can be justified only by an im- perious necessity like that which, during the war, justified the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. abetting the Secretary in this high-handed assumption of unlawful power, our Wall street financial magnates are striking a blow at the respect for law which is the great safeguard of property. The first step toward this latest per- by Secretary Sherman in 1878, accumulated in the Treasury $100,000,000 |} and more in gold, not for the purpose of redeeming the legal tenders, but for that |of preventing their redemption by pre- He soned, sagaciously, that when people saw | as fast as they offered them they would | | not want them redeemed, but would hold | them with confidence in their value. | The years, there is not at this monent in that | principal and interest, in | gold coin, and are, | therefore. liable to be depreciated by fu- This | is a poipt which Eurepean investors will The purchasers of the new bonds will, therefore, be mostly dealers and specu- | In aiding and | version of the Resumption act was taken | when he/| rea- | | that he was prepared to redeem the notes | ‘next step was taken by Secretary Man-! fa DING. URTRAITS. stationery. No NESS GARD, PS, PLANS lh Furniture, ical. SEED engraved and printed complete. SN MAN Suitable for advertising in papers, or use on ——_——0 Half-tone for the finest printing, or line work for general printing. 0 pains or expense should be spared to have finest engravings, as a poor cut will prevent the success of a patent. We make the finest plates for the I money obtainable. 0 its fine results and low price. Our method of making 4 these is a surprise for 0 Machinery, Carriages, Agricul. tural Implements or Specialties of any kind The finest and most elaborate or the cheapest and most econom- The best results in either case. Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Our “Oak’’ Grain. GUARANTEED SOLID THROUGHOCT. Heel or Spring, E and EE, 6 to8, at. 65¢ | Heel or Spring, E and EE, 8% to 12, at....... 75e SEND FOR A SAMPLE DOZEN. -HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO.,, 12 & 14 Lyon &t., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. AYLAS SOAP MANUFACTURED ONLY BY HENRY PASSOLY, SAGINAW, MICH. — This brand has now been on the market three years, and has come to be regarded as a leader wherever intro- duced. See quotations in Price Current. » THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 ning in 1885, when he converted Sec- retary Sherman’s personal device into a Treasury regulation which soon came to be regarded and has ever since been re- garded by most people as an act of Con- gress, fixing the amount of the gold re- serve fund at $100,000,000. Now comes Secretary Carlisle and asserts his right both to maintain the $100,000,000 gold reserve by the sale of bonds, and to de- plete it at pleasure when he needs money for pensions, salaries, river and harbor improvements, or any other Government expenditures. That he should be sus- tained in this course by partisan politi- cians is not so very surprising, but that he should be sustained by solid and re- spectable citizens is a symptom of a cor- rupted public conscience. The Senators, who by their factious opposition to the legislation which Sec- retary Carlisle asked for in December, and again a week ago, to enable him to pay the nation’s expenses, have given him the excuse for his present threat- ened violation of law, also deserve con- demnation, and it is much to be re- gretted that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, to whom the Sec- retary last appealed, did not introduce the bill he suggested and let the country see who was really to blame for the fail- ure of the Treasury to meet its obliga- tions. This, however, does not justify Secretary Carlisle in what he proposes to do. He is bound to obey the laws as he finds them, and if obedience to them re- sults in temporary national insolvency, he must submit toit. If he carries out the purpose with which he is now credited, and diverts the gold he is at- tempting to procure to any other use than that for which alone the law gives him even the color of authority to pro- cure it, he should be treated as a crim- inal by all right-minded citizens. It has been suggested that he can accomplish the diversion without violating the letter of the law by the device of a collusive redemption with gold of legal tenders to any amount he desires, and then paying out the legal tenders in place of the gold. The futility of a trick like this to shield him from the charge of disregarding the law is apparent. What cannot lawfully be done directly cannot be done by indi- rection. Nor could the trick be prac- tised on a scale large enough to make it practically serviceable. Getting together the amount of legal tenders which would be necessary for the purpose would de- range all the business of the country and would speedily be stopped by those who have the power to stop it. MATTHEW MARSHALL. ~~ <> Jackson Jottings. James Greenwood has reopened the Junction Store with a line of groceries, which he will try to sell on the C. O. D. plan. H. M. Smith has purchased the stock and fixtures from Mr. Seward, corner of Oakhill street and Stewart avenue, and will try his luck in the grocery business, Grant L. Dunlap has leased the store lately occupied by Q. Walker, corner of East Main and Van Dorn streets, and will open a full line of groceries, which were purchased from Phelps, Brace & Co. and other houses in Detroit. ——_— Touching a man’s conscience does not amount to much. When you touch his pocketbook there is business to attend to. When people have only a little religion they are apt to be ashamed of it. MEN OF MARE. C. G. A. Voigt, the Miller Who Turns Grain into Gold. C. G. A. Voigt was born in the Prov- ince of Saxony, Prussia, in the year 1833. In 1847 the family emigrated to America, settling in Michigan City, Ind. The boy had little liking for his father’s calling, which was farming, so he soon quit it and went into a grocery store as ‘‘boy of all work.” As a boy he gave little evi- dence of the remarkable business sagac- ity which hus since made him so success- ful in business. As illustrating this Mr. Voigt tells this story on himself: On one occasion while in the grocery store, his employer, Colonel Taylor, gave him | before the firm began looking about for anew and larger field. Grand Rapids was finally decided upon as the new lo- cation, and so, in 1870, Mr. Herpol- sheimer came here and started adry goods store. This establishment has since grown to magnificent proportions, and has for some years transacted both a wholesale and retail business. Mr. Voigt remained in Michigan City until 1875, when the firm, having purchased an in- terest in the Star Flouring Mills, the business in Indiana was closed out, and Mr. Voigt came to Grand Rapids to take the active management of the mills. The miil firm was known as Mangold, Kus- terer & Co. until 1877, when the name 25 cents and sent him out to buy a fish |was changed to Voigt, Kusterer & Co. for the family dinner. He soon came! Mr. Kusterer was a passenger on the ill- across a fish peddler, and asked the price | fated steamer Alpen, which foundered of a fish of rather large size and was told ,in a gale on Lake Michigan in the fall of it was a quarter of a dollar. The ped- dler showed him another kind for which he only asked 25 cents a dozen. This was a bargain not to be despised. A dozen fish for the price of one! He took the dozen. Hastening back to the store, he triumphantly displayed his purchase. The Colonel looked at them, then at the boy, and uttered the one word ‘‘suckers,” and the lad was sent back, somewhat crestfallen, to buy a fish that ‘‘a gentle- man could eat,” and was told not to at- tempt any more bargain making in the fish line. He remained in the grocery store about two years, when he conclud- ed that dry goods was more to his liking. He soon secured a situation in a dry goods store, where the first article he sold was a grindstone. It was while in this situation that he made the acquaint- ance of Wm. G. Herpolsheimer, with whom he has been for so many years as- sociated in business. Mr. Voigt remained as a clerk in that establishment for twelve years. In 1865, with Mr. Her- polsheimer as a partner, he embarked in the dry goods business in Michigan City op his own account. The venture pros- pered from the start, and it was not long 1880. Allon board were lost. Shortly after this terrible event the firm of Voigt, Kusterer & Co. became C. G. A. Voigt & Co. and this has been the style of the firm ever since. When Mr. Voigt assumed charge of the Star Mills, it was a ‘‘stone’’? mill, having seven run of burrs and a daily capacity of 150 barrels. It is now one of the best equipped roller mills in the State and has an average daily capacity of 350 barrels, and its various brands are known all over the country. To be first a successful dry goods merehant and then a successful miller is the record which Mr. Voigt has made for himself, andit is to his busi- ness foresight, enterprise and energy that the success of the milling interests of the firm are due. In 1882 the firm purchased the Crescent Mills, the aver- age capacity of which is 350 barrels per day. This mill has, also, prospered since becoming the property of the Voigt Milling Co. Mr. Voigt is a member of the Michi- gan State Millers’ Association and Vice- President of the Michigan Millers’ In- surance Company. He is amember and vestryman of St. Mark’s’ Episcopal Church. He was married in 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Wurster, of Michigan City, Ind. Of the children born to them six are now living, the oldest of whom, Frank A., has been for five years mana- ger of the Crescent Mills. Personally, Mr. Voigt is one of the most peculiar men in the city. Gruff in manner and severe in statement, he im- presses a stranger as being the inecarna- tion of discourtesy, but a slight acquaint- ance mellows the gruffness into gentle- ness, and those who are well acquainted with him forget the reception he invari- ably aceords the stranger. He is a man of marvelous discernment and intuition, reading men at a glance as easily as many people read a book and forming conclusions of men and methods which invariably prove to becorrect. Whether his advice is asked on matters pertaining to the dry goods or the milling business, politics or religion, his reply is always pertinent and his conclusion sosweeping as to admit of no argument. He is a strong friend and will goto any extrem- ity to serve one who has done him a favor. On the other hand, heis a good bater, and has never been known to go out of his way when there is an enemy to punish. Taken as a whole, Mr. Voigt possesses an individuality that is unique in the extreme, and his life presents many features which can be taken as patterns by the young men of the day. ali — The man goes to bed tired who spends the day in looking for an easy place. WALTER BAKER & C0, The Largest Manufacturers of COCOA and CHOCOLATE IN THIS COUNTRY, from the Te eH have received Judges of the World’s Columbian Exposition The Highest Awards (Medals and Diplomas) on each of the following articles, namely: BREAKFAST COCOA, PREMIUM NO. {| CHOCOLATE, CERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE, VANILLA CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, For “ purity of material,” “excellent flavor,” and ‘uniform even composi- tion.” SOLD BY CROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & Co., DORCHESTER, MASS. CAVEATS, TRADE MARKs COPYRIGHTS. 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News from the Metropolis---Index of} the Markets. Special Correspondence. New York, Jan. 27—New York job- bers have no cause for complaint in the trade that has come to this market dur- ing the past week. While it is true that there has been no particular rush, still | trade has been very good, and what im- provement has transpired is of a charac- ter that has great possibilities of lasting, because it is based upon an increase in demand. An encouraging feature of the| week was supplied in a further increase in both the volume and heaviness of out- side orders, which bespeaks more active business. The distribution of grocery staples for the week compares favorably with the corresponding period of year, which couraging when it is remembered that trade was remarkably good at that time. Deliveries of coffee and sugar are some- | what lighter, but they do not show any | marked shrinkage, while both raw and refined have advanced. Tea is rather in- active, but canned goods, especially to- matoes, are doing a fair trade for future delivery. One cause for the improve- ment of the week is supplied in the fact that the stock of groceries throughout | and that | the country is extremely low, many of the orders have come from sec- tions where buyers have heretofore held back purchases until the last possible | moment, awaiting a more favorable out- look. In reality, this holding back was unprofitable, for throughout the grocery trade the effects of the ‘thard times’’ has been more sympathetic than actual and has not been as pronounced as generally | but this feeling of sympathy ; pictured; has been strong enough to withhold or- ders, until the stocks throughout the} country have gradually dwindled down | to almost nothing; lower, in fact, than | have ever been known. The general condition of business} throughout this section has now changed, however, and the people in general are talking less about hard times, dull trade, | ete., and are getting right down to their Retail mer- | old-time business hustle. chants are having a much better trade than during the last few months and are experiencing less difficalty in getting in collections. One feature of the week was the presence of more buyers in the market than at any time since the reign of the panic, and the cheerful tone of the market was pronounced. It is, therefore, not strange that, coupled to these conditions, the influx of a considerable number of good buying orders should have had a stimulating ef- fect upon the market. It was of the na- ture of a revival of demand after a period of inactivity and depression, and, as a large portion of the business was from out-of-town buyers, it bespeaks a general brightening up all along the line. In the opinion of the leading houses here the policy of buying from hand to mouth, which has been so extensively practiced by jobbers since last, July is rapidly ter- minating, and will soon cease altogether, as buyers are now awakening to the fact that, unless they are prepared to carry stocks, they have but little chance in participating in the advantages of a rise in prices which is almost certain to come with the increased activity. Owing to this and the low prices at which the majority of staples are selling, dealers are beginning to stock up again, and the depleted stocks throughout many sections of the country are thus being replenished. In the matter of prices, much the same conditions exist, and no important change has transpired in the quotation of any of the principal staples during the week. The prominent houses of this market report a few prices slightly above those of a year ago; but, in the main, general prices are lower than the ruling quota- tions of last year or the previous one. In the majority of instances, however, prices are hardening and the strength displayed indicates a general advance attendant with a revival of activity. Collections, as a rule, are reported fair in the wholesale line and are improving. Good pay buyers are making settlements promptly, but those who are naturally slow are holding off payments, evidently for the purpose of accumulating funds. last | is rendered still more en-| Business in refined sugar was fairly | good during the week and reports were | generally of a cheerful nature, with indi- | cations of larger orders on the way. The | market for raw was quiet, but holders were firm and prices closed strong, with | a possibility of hardening. It is reported that a new influence has | sprung into the market which may prove as powerful as the Trust. It is to the 'effect that Cuban planters were much | pressed for money with which to handle the enormous crop and that the Roths- | childs took up the entire loan and now | practically control the whole Cuban crop. | It is also rumored that Spreckels has contracted to ship raw sugar around | Cape Horn to New York, to be refined } j | |; here and returned West by rail, this arrangement being calculated to prove more profitable than refining at San Francisco. Should this plan be carried out, it is probable that the loss to con- cerns on the Pacific coast will be enor- mous. Coffee has been dull, with demand light, and jobbers are unable to dispose of the stocks on hand. Roasters have ceased to purchase packages until they actually come upon the market. No.7 Rio spot has suffered fractional decline. The visible supply is only 60,000 bags below that of last year, although the difference was more than twice this amount three weeks ago. Compared | with a year ago, however, the month of January has so far been a very dull one in this line. The stock of Brazil coffee in New York is 206,804 bags, and in the | United States 247,958 bags, making the | American visible supply 529,958 bags, |} against 514,710 bags at the same time last year. Business in the tea line has been only | fair during the week, with a slow move- ment predominant. Jobbers do not | report any quickening of goods moving |into consumption; hence do not seem | disposed to invest heavily in invoices. | The general condition of trade is quiet. A fair demand prevails in all lines of | domestic rice, but transactions are limit- ed to immediate requirements. The spirit of conservatism is not only due to that general disposition which has pre- vailed for months past, but also toa lack of confidence in regard to the future of the market. Anyone with a short memory can recall the sharp advances made within the last six months and this, together with the knowledge that foreign of better grade is obtainable at equal prices in domestic, makes buyers inde- pendent and free of apprehension in the matter of forwardsupply. Present high prices are said to be due to manipu- lation and the moment that the parties thereto are full or weaken, more or less recession is likely to occur. Asa matter of fact Rio is grown about as cheaply as wheat and as the yield is three or four times greater, it can be seen at a glance, even the prices of last summer could not have been unremunerative, foreign moving freely, dividing honors about equally with the domestic. {n spices, the marketis quiet. with prices generally steady. In canned goods, very little is doing, with the exception of a moderately active trade in tomatoes for future delivery. Prices,however, have remained steady, and there appear indications of a better demand coming; hence the outlook bids fair to advancing prices. + ‘Taking the week as a whole, business may be described as fair, with prices generally firm, and a feeling of cheerful- ness predominent. JAMES. — oo Grains and Feedstuffs. Wheat—The cereal touched the lowest point in the history of the crop last week, going to 581¢c in Detroit and 52c in the local market. Buying for the week was mostly speculative, and the amount small. | Holders were shy and offerings small. A firmer tone prevails this week and the price in the local market is back to 53c. | le i ee H. R. Savage has engaged to travel for | the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., taking the Lake Shore towns, including Traverse | City, Manistee, Ludington, Frankfort, Pentwater and Muskegon. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. Standard, ee TR, oi sss 6 7 “I . 6 7 ' co a ees 6 7 Reston (ream...........-. 8% ee ee 8% Ree G. @........ 8% MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails. aoe. 5% 6% eS ee 5% 6% Ro c eee 6% ih (Ee 7 8 Buglieh ee ee 7 8 IN i cs eens eee cane i. 8 Broren Teas ............-: baskets 8 PeanutSausres............ iM 8% French Creats.......... ao 9 Vee Cee... .............. . 13 Midget, = _ baskets. Luce eee ee eden eu ee 8% ee eee 8 rancy—In bulk Pails Lozenges, ee ee ee 8% a 9% —_ O_O ———————————————— 12 Chocolate Monumentals..............00. ++ 12% MN ic i en teeter eee te eee 5 (Oe 1% Sour 0 i Lee ened eee eu a ee 8% Imperials. . 10 pancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box EE 50 eee 50 Peepers PrOOe..... .. os ee es 60 CO —————————— % E. O. Ceoeotasw Drope...................--..- 80 Oe cee 40 OE ——————— 1w Oe a ye rc ese eee eeu 80 ee) oe - Deere... s04.... -65 ae, -60 a 7 eee 55 Molasses Bar.. le ee Hand Made Creame..... eo C—O 80 OO 90 a 60 eee Ree... Wintergreen ey 60 CARAMELS. No. i wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes ee ee ee cee 34 No. 1, 3 oe ot oe 51 No. " 2 eee 28 ORANGES. re 2 Russets, 126 eS ee ee annie, ae oe 2 2 ee EE re, Pe Oe re es 275 BANANAS, Bell. .......... lee eae 190 coeee .............. een an ee eee 2 50 ‘LEMONS. Extra choice 300. oo . 450 Extra choice 360. ' a Extra fancy Nee ees Fee ee... 5 00 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Pies, Canty tapers, GP.................. @13 “ as — ws.. . on « eco _ oe. @15 Dates, Fard, 10- _ box Leeda ce ceae cee $ Th ee 6 " enh. oe. Te cae @5 NUTS. Almonds, ane ea @16 eee eee @15 _ California ie eee eet eee cue @ OE @i0% Filberts . @il Walnuts, Ce @13% . a, @lu . Ee @12 Table Nuts, ee eu wu @12 GROIGG..... ....n0+- @i1 Pecans. Texas, H. P., @ 7% _——_—_————————_Ooe Hickory Nuts per bu.. ve 1 3 CE, FEE GROEN. . we eens tenes 4 50 ANUTS. Fancy, H. P., oe a ee ee @5 r Roast he cna dehy en @ 6% Fancy, H. P., FlAgS---- eee eee eee ener es @5 e Roasted eae eer ceeee @ 6% Choice, x. Pe ieiie @4 “Roasted. . @ 5% OILS. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: BABRELS. i 8% XXX. W. W. Mich. eneEee .. tose Vf ————————————————— @ 6% these ara ie @ 7% = eee 27 @36 i ee ie ey ae ee ato ke fet ————_—_—_—_————————— @ 8% FROM TANK WAGON, TO ok cee ee et te ee os as an covcee 7 aaa Ww w. Mich. * Headlight si hek owes 5 POULTRY, Local dealers pay as follows: 1 LIVE. ON ie as, 8 8 CO ee | +. Bice ees es ie, oo oe a 8 @9 OE ee Se DRAWN a oie oe de ee ae. 10 @ll ica eee che eee ae ae eee on 9 @10 Te Sieh 10 @ll EN ikl cde oes cease ee UNDRAWN. I hc ew ec es occas @9 > ——————————ee 74S & fine ee 6%@ 7 _ ee nnn cnn e 8 @9 \ Goons Ee 8 @9 FROME “7 Lamonenuk YS | SEND US YOUR BEANS, WE WANT THEM ALL, NO MATTER HOW MANY. WillAlways Give Full MarketValne wv Lemon & Wheeler Sines, Agents, Grand Rapids. Before You Buy SEE THE SPRING LINE OF FINE GOODS MANUFACTURED BY 9 DETROIT, MICH. o--—-—— A FEW OF OUR NEW SPECIAL- TIES IN OXFORDS ARE: The Juliet Bootee, Three Large Button Newport, Southern Tie and Prince Alberts. O Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. CADWELL, 67 Terrace Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. a LADY'S GENUINE : VICI : SHOE, Plain toe in opera od opera toe ys 4 Me 4 & : y I Gl. sii ~o Re: c = 1 gag a 2 ae a » <= a DAWSON’S -'s Pearl Wheat Flakes, < THE FINEST BREAKFAST DISH | al — = r = La “2 } Ne le | Mt a\ Dy Lae W/ it & it. : : : Fasrased oa “a, ih WS! he SS) uae. CLEAN, WHOLESOME, Free from { Ust and Broken Particles, VR Put up in neat Cartons of 2 pounds each, 36 Cartons per Case. Price $3.50 per we Case. Sells at 15 cents per package, two packages for 25 cents. > 6S iio UU It Try it! iy it! Se it! v ; Sold by all jobbers in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. / ¢ MANUFACTURED BY DAWSON BROTHERS, Pontiac, Mich. Cracker Ghests. Glass Covers for Biscuits. UR new glass covers are by far the handsomest ever offered to the breakage they avoid. Price $4. trade. They are made to fit any of our boxes and can be changed from EES eRe one box to another ina moment. They will save enough goods from flies, dirt and prying fingers in a short time to pay for themselves. Try them and be convinced. Price, 50 cents each. & Sapemep chests will soon pay for themselves in the | NEW NOVELTIES. We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties: CINNAMON BAR. ORANGE BAR. CREAM CRISP. MOSS HONEY JUMBLES. NEWTON, arich finger with fig filling. This is the best selling cakes we ever made. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO.,, S. A. Sears, Mer. GRAND RAPIDS. bound to be one of [F YOU WANT THE BEST ORDER 2k? ONLY BY if puck . Chee Ch Y Pv a¢a@ If You Want Good, Light, Sweet Bread and Biscuits USE FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST SOLD BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. 0 MANUFACTURED BY TheFermentUm Company MAIN CHICAGO, 270 KINZIE STREET. MICHIGAN AGENCY: GRAND RAPIDS, 106 KENT STREET. OFFICE: Address all communications to THE FERMENTUM CO. H. LEONARD & SONS, : y MANUFACTURERS AGENTS FOR a 66 99 £ " ? e 5 The Original Evaporating Vapor Stove. That lights like Gas. , _ That Makes no Smoke or Smell. - Calling for no Skill to Operate It. b That Never gets out of Order. That is Safe for a Child to Use. s That Pleases the User, Satisfies the Dealer, and STAYS SOLD. * BEAR IN MIND - WeGive That the Standard Lighting Co. New Process Stove is the Original ‘‘New ge 9 9 Process’’ Stove, and all other manufac- The agency of the New Process stove to turers pay a royalty to ‘this firm. Soin 4 but one dealer in a place. If there is handling the New Process Stove from us ’ ne mor y No Agency in your town and you will you not only have the original but THE ' : BEST New Process stove on the market give us your order for a sample stove : to offer your customers. and place an order for three or more stoves after receiving the sample, we will give you the exclusive sale of the New 7 wt Process Stove in your town. § ON’T BE IMPOSED UPON by buy- ing other makes ot New Process eine Stoves, whose agents tell you theirs are just as good as the Standard Lighting HIS IS THE FIFTH YEAR for the Co., when we offer you the Original New Process Stove. Over 3.000 New Process at the same price you would ' suld in Michigan last year. and where pay for an imitation. Our price to you : they are once sold they never come back. is ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED, and i this article is one of the few things on 7 which a dealer is sure of a fair profit as . x : no one can buy them cheaper. : STYLE OF THE NO. 3 NEW PROCESS STOVE FOR ‘94. . . pe = 2 “a — z HE CORRECT PRINCIPLE is used in the New Process Stoves, they EVAP- GREAT IMPROVEMENT has been made this year in the OVENS, they are ORATE the gasoline, do not GENERATE, and are absolutely without any of now made of PLANISHED STEEL, ASBESTOS LINED, on the patent ‘‘Reflex’’ & the complicated and annoying devices used on all vapor stoves before its introduc- | principle, arranged in semi-cabinet form, and are guaranteed to be a perfect roaster tion, and by actual test during the past four years it has been proven that they con- | and baker. , sume less Gasoline for the amount of heat given than any other style or kind of Our Cabinet Ranges have the largest oven ever used on this style of a stove. vapor stove. | GIVEN AWAY me y ¥ With every one of our New Process Stoves this year we send a 300-page copyrighted Cook y Book, handsomely bound in White Oil Cloth, full of valuable receipts and information for the housekeeper. This book retails at any book store for $1.50, and is a strong argument é for a dealer to use in selling the New Process Stove. i as , : se 7 . ” Be up with the Times and Write us at Once for the Agency of this Wonderful Stove. et ELE ae Sea DON’T MAKE A MISTAKE IN BUYING UNTRIED EXPEKIMENTS BUT SECURE < STYLE OF THE NO 4 NEW PROCESS : i : en i - r ¥ STOVE FOR °94. THE AGENCY FOR THE *NEW PROCESS. STYLE OF THE NO. 8 NEW PROCESS CABINET STOVE FOR ’94. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; w