0 FPS RE A N oA 1S Wo pees 5 oe = AR. Ds de (Sf 4 2 _ - nr enn (oF Ae OE SarcNS GMS Nt 2 do BE OR: OT Oe RN) aS JOE arr a7 Ge & F EG CA ee AGE LY REN SP EERTAALN epee US T= Na men = LL *2sPUBLISHED WEEKLY (GANS “oe ace COMPANY. , PUBLISHERS: STP SESS a “eo : Soa yz NS ~S Ez cs SIG ONO ean IE Se eZ ys Sans VOL. 3, MUSKEGON BAKERY UNITED STATES BAKING Co., CRACKERS, BISCUITS, CAKES. Originators of the Celebrated Cake, “MUSKEGON BRANCH.’ HARRY FOX, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICH. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OF A Full Line of Confectionery, Extensive Handlers Of FOREIGN NUTS, DATES, FHS, ETC. THE Pe! CANDY COPIPANY. 7 PENH ATATITN ott PAU GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH COMP'Y, BRUSHES - Our Goods are sold bv all Michigan Jobbing Houses. MANUFAC FACTU R GRAND | RAPIDS, i Before yuu purchase, wait and see our Spring ‘iin of the Latest Styles in Fine and First Grade Goods, which are Unexcelled. Please Send Us Your Mail Orders. Agents for Wales~Goodyear Rubber Co. oand7 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. MOSELEY BROS., . : JOBBERS 01 OF . - ‘Seeds Beans, Fruits and Produce If you have any BEANS, APPLES, POTATOES or ONIONS to sell, state how mapy and will try and trade with you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa Street. ‘GRAN D RAPIDE, MARCH 14, 1894. CANDY. To increase your Sales Buy ABSOLUTELY PURE GOODS OF A. BE. BROOKS & CO. OYSTERS. ANCHOR - BRAND Are the best. NO. 547 All orders will receive prompt attention at lowest market price, KF. J. DETTENTHALER. A Large and Well Assorted Line ofs,jem_ps Prints, Outings, Percales, WASH GINGHAMS, INDIGO WIDE PRINTS, SATINES (in plain biack and fancies), COTTONS, COTTON, FLANNELS and STAPLE GINGHAMS (both Amoskeag and Lancaster), at low prices. SAMPLES SENT ON AP PLICATION. P. Steketee & Sons. To Clothing Merchants. ——— » The wholesale clothing manufacturers have made up light stocks this season, but we made up about our usual Spring line, in the Newest Styles and Patterns, Long and Medium Frock Skirts regular, cutaway and Double-breasted Sack suits. Elegant Spring Overcoats, cut long. See our splendid Tine of imported Clay Worsteds Frock and Sack C oats, Vests and in Suits, from $7.00 up. Our Staple line, so well adapted for Barmced’ trade, is fully up to the st ands rd. No better goods made and pr ices in reach of all. Write our Michigan agent, WM. CONNOR, box 346, upon you at any time, or meet him at Sweet’s Marshall, Mich., to call Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday and Friday, March 8th and 9th. Customer’s expenses allowed. Mail or- ders promptly attended to. Established 37 years. e Wholesale Michael Kolb & Son, ,, “wii: 9 Manufacturers. ROCHESTER, N. Y. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO, LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, WHOLESALE [IMPORTERS AND Dry Goods, Carpets and Cloaks, #) www m= Wholesale Grocers OVERALLS OF OUK OWN MANUFACTURE. Toh, Herplshimer & Gu, *®-8°.,82 Quewe St, ee eee PERKINS & HESS, HEYMAN COMPANY, Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, sanitasturers of Show Gases of Ruery Descriptio . Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. H. E. GRAND GIRARD BELDEN REAGAN, M. D. Grand-Girard & Co. Manufacturing -:- Pharmacists, DRUG BROKERS AND MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS DRUG STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD. DRUG CLERK’S EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS PORTER BLOCK, GRAND RAPIDS Correspondence Solicited. " Promptness Assured. AGAIN REDUCED. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. ‘P. & B. OYSTERS. 868 and 68 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. WRITE FOR PRICES. The Lenten season will soon be here and this class of goods will be just vue: PUTNAM : CANDY : 60, STANDARD OIL CO, PLR CRS | ee SS [lluminating and Lubricating Are now in their prime : and are being sold at very close prices. Order of us and we will guarantee to please you. Tue PUTNAM CANDY CO. Spring & Company, |~_ OLlLLS-— IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, NAPTHA AND GASOLINES > Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, iMlice, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave 7 Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, a a a y ; Prints and Domestic Cottons, ‘RAND RAPID: MUSKEGON, MAWNISTEE, CADILLAC, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well Le . iaaereae PETOSKEY, ene . J assorted stock at lowest market prices. : AIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR ~~ err Spring & Company. {MPTY CARBON & GASOLIN’ BARRELS sa x Cin e ' 4 ae ae a . Ne * \~ me y ‘ ae > , j et A 4 Buy Direct of the Manufacturers. ARTH UR G . G RAHAM ’ | Written for Taz TRADESMAN, { Manufacturers’ Agent. PAPER, TWINKS, ROPE. 3 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Samples and Prices on application. HATCH & WILSON, ' Lawyers, wJOMS 23, 24, - - Widdicomb Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. , edo a general law business throughout West ern Michigan. Refer to any Bank or Judgein the city. | 9 AND 7 PEARL STREET. ESTABLISHED 1841. SRA NE CNA TRE THE MERCANTILE AGENCY m.G. Dun & Go. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United “ oStates, Canada, the European continent, } Australia, and in London, Engiand. Girand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE ST., Successor to Cooper Commercial Agency and Union Credit Co. Commercial reports and collections. Legal ad- vice furnished and suits brought in local courts for members. Telephone 166 or 1030 for particu- lars. L. J. STEVENSON C. A. CUMINGS, Cc. BE. BLOCK. CHEAP SAP BUCKETS. Wee a $10.50 per 100 re 7 ee at..-. -- ---.-- 12.00 per 100 H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS. CRACKER BAKERY TO LEASE. 2 Reel Ovens, Engine, Boiler, Shaft- ing, Pulleys, Belting, Office Furniture, Safes, etc. This is the best opening in the State. The only Cracker Bakeries in the city are operated by the Trust. For particulars address Robert Morton, care Morton Baking Co., Detroit Mich. P E . K ? S HEADACHE POWDERS Pad the best{profit.. Order from your jobber. THE REDUCTION IN WAGES. From all parts of the country come reports of sweeping reductions being | made in the wages of working people. This means, of course, a curtailment of purchasing power and a consequent falling off in the demand for such goods as working people have been in the habit of buying, not so much of the nec- essaries of life, which they must have in any event, but of the luxuries and re- finements—the things which constitute the visible evidences of American civili- zation. In this connection itis pertinent ard timely to enquire whether the re- duced wages are to be considered a_per- manency, for, if so, then the great body of the American people must make up their minds to dispense with much that has contributed to render American home life peculiarly attractive, the American working man the most intelligent and the most’ skillful in the world, and American civilization the most elevating and most comprehensive in the history of mankind. Before we can conclude as _ to the per- manency or otherwise of the present re- duced wages, we must inquire the reason why wages in this country are so much higher than in any other part of the civ- ilized world. Knowing this, we will know, also, why American working people are surrounded by so many of the comforts and luxuries of life while their brethren of other countries are still living in a semi-barbarous state, possessing only enough knowledge to enable them to supply their mere animal wants, with few aspirations after any- thing higher. It is often asserted that trades and labor organizations are to be given credit for bringing wages up to the altitude which they have attained in this country. That they have agitated for higher wages is certain, but even if they have succeeded in forcing employ- ers to pay more for labor, they could be considered merely as a secondary cause. Labor organizations are not even the seconda y cause of high wages, but have stood as an obstacle in the path of ad- vancing intelligence and_ refinement. The methods by which they have sought to enforce their demands have been the reverse of humanizing in their tendency and effects. The use of physical force (the chief weapon of labor organiza- tions) no matter what its justification, is a relic of barbarism and betokens the lingering savagery of our nature. Any resort to force, even when apparently dictated by necessity, is retrogression. Reason, enlightened by the experience of the past, has discarded force as de- structive of the elements of progress, and has sought for some better means for the settlement of disputes, whether between man and man, or nation and na- tion, and that individual, or that organi- zation, or that nation which resorts to force will find itself opposed to all that goes to make up the sum of human pro- gress. That labor organizations have, in some instances, succeeded in having DAY, MARCH 14, 1894, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNES the wages of a certain class of working- men “‘raised’’ is readily admitted, but it is equally true that the financial loss, to speak of no other, has generally been greater than the gain. The time lost, the money expended, and, in many in- stances, the property destroyed have more than offset the gain from increased wages, and the brutalizing effect of the methods employed time can hardly efface. Viewed from the standpoint of reason and human progress labor organizations must be accounted a failure, and they certainly cannot be given the credit for raising wages to the present high stand- ard. Nor does the credit for high wages be- long to the employers of labor. Though there are exceptions, yet it is true that, asa class, they have persistently and determinedly opposed higher wages, and have only granted an increase when they could no longer refuse it. It is meant by this that they have given it grudgingly; far from it. The same in- fluence, the same force that made in- creased purchasing power a necessity for all the people, led employers at least to recognize that necessity, and meet it by increased wages to their employes. What, then, has caused the great differ- ence in wages in favor of American working people as against their less for- tunate brethren in older countries? How is the fact that the laboring classes in this country are surrounded by com- forts and luxuries, which belong only to the rich in other countries, to be account- ed for? It is due to the greater advance- ment which this country has made inciy- ilization and the arts of peace. The farther the race progresses from the bar- barism of the past andthe more intelli- gent and enlightened it becomes, the more complex will its social and political life become; more and more will it lay tribute upon both nature and art to sup- ply its ever increasing necessities. Not only so, but as its intellectual life broad- ens and deepens, the animalism of the past will not suffice it, and rudeness and barbarity must give place to luxury and refinement. And here it must be noted that only in a country where all men are politically free and equal can the bighest civilization be developed. The _ possi- bility of political preferment is a great spur to ambition, but in a country where the political offices are held by a privi- leged few there can be no suchspur. In America the humblest citizen may aspire to the highest position, the attainment of his aspirations depending upon his character and intelligence. He must have knowledge, for knowledge is power, and with it he may achieve his ambitious desires. As all the offices are open to all the people, all demand the privilege of fitting themrelves for the offices. This makes educational facilities an absolute necessity, and so we have in this country the most complete and cheapest educa- tional system in the world. As a conse- quence no people in the-world have ever reached as high a plane of intellectuality and refinement as the American people. not Books, and magazines, and papers, NO. 547 and will, even luxuriously, furnished homes are the possession of all the people. Comforts and conveniences abound and all that goes to make life well worth the living. But these things cost money; they would have been utterly out of the question with wages where they were even fifty years ago. An increased pur- chasing power was, therefore, an abso- lute necessity, and almost without con- scious volition on the part of the recipi- ents of the benefit, wages have been keeping pace with civilization and en- abling the people to make provision for their ever-increasing wants. Here, then, is the reason for the high figures which wages have reached in this country. But wages have been materially re- duced in many sections, and fears are expressed that the reduction may become universal. In view of this, the question is asked, will the reduction be permanent. or may it be expected that wages will be raised again when times improve? It is utterly impossible that low wages should ever again obtain in this country. What the people enjoy of ‘‘good living,’ with all the comforts and conveniences which constifute good living, are the natural concomitants of our civilization, as in- dispensable to civilization as air is to life—they are the expression of the higher life enjoyed by our people and the proof of it. The abandonment of these means a relapse into barbarism just to the extent that they are abandon- ed. The refining influences of a pleasant, well-furnished home can hardly be over- estimated; and if the American home, which has no counterpart in any other country, is the expression of American civilization, it is equally true that the home has contributed much to eciviliza- tion. But these homes cost money, they cannot be sustained on the prevailing in other countries. must have American wages to sustain American homes or they must be given up, and with them will go the chief civi- lizing and refining influence of our day and country. Thisis not even in the range of probability. ‘The backward track’? will never be travelled by the American people. On the contrary, with faces firmly set toward the rising Sun of Progress, they will not pause until the highest pinnacle of civilized and intelligent manhood and citizenship is reached. No, we will never again have low wages in this country. Rather will they increase to meet the increasing de- mands of our American civilization. DANIEL ABBOTT. Se Indiana Items. Jonrad & Truesdell, general dealers at Shipshewanna, have effected a settle- ment with their creditors on the basis of 40 cents on the Among the Grand Rapids creditors who settled on this basis are Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., Musselman Grocer Co. and Hawkins & Co. E. A. Metz succeeds Welt Bros. in general trade at Wolcottville. low wages So we doliar. 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Thoughts on Trade Topics in Job Lots. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Goods outside of one’s dear at any price. The percentage is always against the seller when he has to use the machinery of the law to collect a bill. One dead beat can dry up the milk of human kindness that else would afford an abundant sup- ply. None but cash buyers have any right to demand discounts, or to ask ‘‘What is your lowest price?”’ There is a class of people who almost live on samples. But it is the lowest form of animal life, and but above stealing. Look out for the customer who volun- teers the statement that he never failed to pay any debt he ever contracted. He is banking on your credulity. The man who seldom pays, or does it grudgingly, is the one that finds fault with the goods. A dealer who has never fully collected a claim by law from a hard customer can- not know the supreme joy there is in bringing one sinner to repentance. Never show surprise when an account of long standing and classed as dead is unexpectedly paid in full by the debtor. Let him be the one to be surprised when he again asks for credit. But you may offer him a cigar to soothe his feelings *‘Not to-day; Some other day, regular line are gallons of a grade most as you perhaps.”’ If a man having a long unsettled ac- count stands you off with soft promises, spends his cash elsewhere; when you get a Jawful cinch on him, don’t let up to spare his feelings. He has none to be hurt; and he is quite as likely to be a cash customer in the future. 1 have noticed that when a man who has never been a regular customer comes say, and in and begins to complain of some other dealer who has overreached him, there is a cat in the meal, or thereabouts. Heis, no doubt, filing (in his mind) an appli- cation for a change of venue. If this should prove to be so, it is best either to declare the case beyond your jurisdic- tion, him give security for ‘ or make costs. A man’s reputation is only the shadow east by character on the scene of human activities. If the latter is built up in harmonious proportion, the truthful rays of God’s moral sun- light will reveal a worthy picture of the man. Butif faulty in outline, in proportion, the resulting shadow will faithfully follow copy. For the may as well try the natural law governing visual angles as to expect a different result. his personal or false builder to reverse Those who need credit the most are the slowest toask for it. The hard-working, debt-fearing economical customer will suffer hardship rather than run in debt. But his standing is better than many of his neighbors, who often keep a balance in bank, and lend money on short time and rotund interest. At the same time they run a store account from January to December, which is never settled in full till administrators are appointed adjust their earthly estates. to Those who trade freely without exam- ining goods or asking prices often prove in the end unprofitablecustomers. As a rule they never seem to know the value of money. in hearts | ification. Butspendthrifts never make reliable customers. Some day they will want a short credit for a small amount, givinga most plausible reason. If the dealer weakens here he will be after- wards at the merey of one who seldom has a quarter and therefore can give none. It is strange how the average customer fails to realize the value of discounts, when offered for cash or punctual pay- ments. Out of twelve or fifteen regular buyers who had monthly incomes, that never failed to arrive in time, the offer of five per cent. discount on full pay- ments each month did not secure com- plete settlements in more than one case out of five. The habit of taking no thought for the morrow is socommon with the average customer that a premium for punctuality is scarcely considered asan object worthy of attention. He prefers the “‘catch-as-catch-can” scheme of one-third or one-quarter off fre- quently used to tempt the cupidity of buyers at the expense of their judgment. There was a time when most people would resent the charge of being penni- less. Now it is common to hear men in stores and other public places expose their poverty without shame or embarrass- ment on the least provocation. In fact, they will even with each other in bragging of empty purses and business losses. Whether this is done to stand off ereditors who may be within hearing, or from mere wantonness of a diseased im- agination, it is not always easy to dis- cover. But the old adage is still true, ‘The proper study of mankind is man.”’ Some dealers are apt to suspect competitors of attempting to injure their commercial records. They forget that a business character is established only by deeds. Men who pay as they go, or as they agree, need never be anxious about what is written or spoken of them mali- ciously. If the receipts for remittances equal the invoices in amount, nothing can hurt their standing on the books of any reputable commercial agency. In other words, a dealer who is rated in the A. B. C. column can afford to be D. E. F. to whatever may be said regarding his credit. S. P. WHITMARSH. a Growth of the Coupon Book Business. One of the marked tendencies of the present business depression is the great number of merchants who are abandon- ing the pass book and other antiquated charging systems and adopting the spot cash system absolutely, or a combination of the cash and coupon book system, which isa happy medium between the oldtime charging system and absolute eash. This is practically the same as the cash business, as it enables the mer- chant to put his business on a cash basis, the coupon book restricting the time and line of credit, which is almost impossible in the case of the pass book. The Tradesman Company was the pioneer in introducing the coupon book system in this country and has kept pace with the growing demand by the adoption of fre- quent improvements and the introduc- tion of special machinery, so that its output is now greater than that of all its competitors combined. Among its cus- tomers are included merchants in every state and territory in the Union, all of so vie | whom are strong in praise of the system, as its use enables the dealer to avoid all So long as it supplies their|the losses and annoyances incident to wants they spend freely; and while it} the pass book and all other charging sys- lasts there will be wants calling for grat-' tems, FINE COPREES. Royal Java, Royal Java and Mocha, Aden Mocha Mocha and Java Blend White House Mocha and Java, Golden Santos, Ex. Golden Rio, No. 37, Blend. coffee business since we have been 0. We have handling these brands, and any dealer can do the same. OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER Agents Western Michigan, Grand Rapids. trebled our shea Ming, Co, J) : a Proprietors of the sik ABUVE BRANDS, Royal Patent, Crescent, White Rose, Are sold with our personal guarantee. If you are not now handling any of our brands, we solicit a trial order, confident that the ex cellent quality of our goods and the satisfaction of your customers will impel you to become a regular customer. VOIGT MILLING CO. Correspondence solicited. ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader. SOLD ONLY BY TELFER SPICE CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 4 Wi f es ~ > — S— — © = © -F ~~ FE Ck re ee OL ee ee oe a a a SS a le CS = ———— a oe aa THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 THE WHBAT SITUATION. Written for Tak TRADESMAN, Nothing of special interest has oc- curred during the past week. Millers report a little more activity. Prices ad- vanced during the week 2 cents, then re- ceded 1 cent; thus the market keeps see- sawing, as either the bear or bull news is predominant. However, should there be afew more such heavy decreases as there were last week, it would soon be- gin to tell on prices. On March 5 we had 75,599,000 bushels visible against 79,088,000 one year ago—a decrease dur- ing the week of 1,688,000 bushels, or very much more than during a number of weeks previous. This official visi- ble supply is what the boards of trade count on in the wheat centers, which are Chicago and about twenty-four other points. Chicago holds about one-third of the visible supply. The invisible amounts to about 39,000,000 bushels which is in places like Grand Rapids and mills and elevators throughout the wheat states. Then there is about 90,- 000,000 bushels in farmers’ hands and 10,000,000 bushels in flour unreported, making a total of 214,000,000 bushels, against 282,000,000 bushels last year; and then another matter comes in, and that is the amount that fed to stock, ground with oats or corn, and the great amount ground for feeding hogs, as the farmers claim it makes pork fast. If it does, Ido not see why the farmers of the Great Northwest have not caught on and taken to raising more pork. Now, tak- ing all these matters into consideration, it really is a wonder where so much wheat comes from, as the Northwest con- tinues to pour in constant supplies and the general daily receipts are from 300 0 350 cars at Minneapolis and Duluth. ix months ago the report came that country elevators were being emptied, out that process has been going on ever since and still the wheat keeps coming. In the winter wheat belt there seems to be a lull in selling at present, owing to the fact that the farmers are waiting to see how the winter wheat will come on when spring opens. Should the plant come on healthy, with a good promise for another fair crop, farmers will be want- ing to sell and prices may be lower. Of course, wheat is cheap and that seems to be the only fact or bull argument for higher prices, but we here do not make the prices. The foreigners make them for us, for the price of this staple is made by what we export, a nd, unfortun- ately for American farmers, there are several wheat growing countries, as the Argentine Republic, Australia, India and Russia—whose ports will soon be open now and she will be putting her wheaton the market, taking the other countries along the continent—and the United Kingdom seems to be able to get what wheat they need independently of America or the United States; so, taking everything into consideration, I really do not see whence much higher prices can be obtained. Had our speculators not driven wheat so high two years ago and let more of it out of the country when they were anxious to buy it ata fair price, we should not have seen the low level we see now, but our wheat dealers got it into their heads that we could ask any price and that foreigners would be com- pelled to take our wheat—and that is where weerred. The foreigners had to get a cheaper commodity to use in place of wheat, and since then the world has is had fair crops of wheat and we are carry- ing some of our surplus yet from 1892. Western farmers will have to diversify their farming, not raise wheat alone, but raise more flax, as barley is not a good product in the northwest, as the soil con- tains too much lime, which is not what barley needs, and as there seems to be plenty of corn raised in the Corn Belt the Northwest cannot go into that, also, ow- ing to the climate being too cold for corn, so they should raise more oats, flax, potatoes and those kinds of produce which will pay better than wheat. There is only one thing more in con- nection with this. I think the govern- ment makes an error when it claims that the consumption for food is 4°4 bushels per capita. Supposing we have 66,000,- 000 population, we would consume 313,- 500,000 b ushels. We have exported up to this time about 100,000,000, then there is used for seed about 55,000,000;for chem- icals 15,000,000,making a total used from this crop to this time, to say nothing of what has been used for feeding stock and pork, of 479,000,000 bushels. Now the question arises, where does this im- Mense amount come from—that shown in the visible supply and amounting to about 214,000,000 bushels when the gov- ernment makes our harvest only about 400,000,000 bushels? There certainly is something wrong somewhere. To be sure our crop year does not end until July 1 or thereabouts, but while our out- shipments are quite large at present they will have to be augmented some and kept right up to the maximum to reduce our large amount of wheat on hand in order for the grower to get a more re- munerative price. C. G. A. Volar. - 2 << - Pointers For Salesmen. A great many buyers judge of the character of the house by the appear- ance of its salesmen. Good salesmen seldom ask a manif he wants to buy goods; he doesn’t come at him that way. The successful salesman is a man who knows how to talk, what to talk about, and, more especially, when to stop talk- ing. A salesman is the firm’s representative and should, therefore, be a gentleman. When trade is brisk, the good salesman pushes all the harder. A common fault with salesmen is that, as arule, they too often give a merchant credit for knowing a great deal more about goods than he really does. No matter in how much of a hurry the buyer is, when you fairly get his atten- tion, proceed coolly. Hurry is contagious, and if you go too fast, even to save time, you will notdo justice to your cause and will inspire him with a feeling that he, also, must hurry to get through with you. We never knew a natural salesman who was not a good-hearted fellow. Try to make a man think that, if you were the buyer, instead of the seller, you would jump at the special line of goods you have to offer him. an What the Country Needs. Labor Agitator—Do you ever stop to =" sir, on the condition of this coun- tr Citizen—I have thought much upon the subject: thought long and deeply. ‘‘Ah, Lam glad to find there is one be- sides myself who has given this great subject attention. What, in your opin- ion, does this country most need at the present time?” “A fool killer.” Boot Calks--- 9 | ue & < | : mn ’ j a 3 ence i \ i a < _ 4 ' 3 = 4 td | m hu z Ye + - < : s: 42 u y= a , a Ball per thousand - - $1 25 Heel “ “ - - - 1650 Order Now. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., 12 & 14 Lyon St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Owing to the general desire of merchants to buy late this spring, we will continue to manu- facture all staple lines up till May 1. thus insur ing you a complete line to select from. Our Goods Are Perfect Fitters, THOROUGHLY MADE,:LOW IN PRICE. Hu. H. COOPER & CO. Manufacturers of Men's, Boys’ and bhildren's Clothing, UTICA, N. Y. Write J. H. WEBSTER, State Agent, OWOSSO, MICH. OD POS (Od YTD ONS. Paper Packed Serew. er WRITE FR PRES. NIMELER 6 SUNG, Manufacturers and Jobbers of PIECED AND STAMPED TINWARE, 260 SOUTH IONIA 58T., Telephone 640. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH = “A LADY'S GENUINE : VICI : SHOE,| Plain toe in opera and opera toe and C, S. heel. D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather tip, $1.55. Try them, they are beauties. Stock soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send for sample dozen. REEDER BROS. SHOE CO, | Grand Rapids, Mich. GU Nd MEMEMET Ths. Before You Buy SEE THE SPRING LINE OF FINE GOODS MANUFACTURED BY INEDIGOR DETROIT, MICH. 0 A FEW OF OUR NEW SPECIAL TIES IN OXFORDS ARE: The Juliet Bootee, Three Large Button Newport, Southern Tie and Prince Alberts. ee (anne Dealers wishing to see the line address F. A. CADWELL, 67 Terrace Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. “ 3 TRADEMARK. ¢ : \ fe : “t Nee oe, = Sue Pap = i edeponeerd: & ws ee : 2 hae © ti: PCL kee tae ~ Lemon & Wheeler Company, Agents, Grand Rapids. BUYS’ BENCH BARREL TRUGK Patent Applied For. The Simpliest, Most Substantial and [lost Satisfactory Barrel Truck ever invented. For Prices, Terms and Illustra- ted Cireular, call or Address, A. BUYS aasr FULTON ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Yale—D. MeKeith succeeds J. McKeith in general trade. Wacousta—R. G. C. Brisbin in general trade. Oscoda—Elmer G. Rix, of the grocery firm of Rix Bros., is dead. Traverse City—C. W. shortly open a bookstore here. Lake Linden—Jos. Bosch & Co. is suc- ceeded by the Bosch Brewing Co. D. Mason succeeds F. Calumet—M. Sterk sueceeds M. Sterk & Co. in the meat business. Benton Harbor—Rowe Bros. succeed 2owe & Hill in the meat business. Houghton—Alphonse Cote, black- smith, is succeeded by Cote & Wier. Blissfield—Lamb & Balner succeed F. D. Lamb in the grocery business. Northville—C. E. Smith has purchased the boot aud shoe stock of Stark Bros. Homer—Geo. Sanford has sold his hardware stock to Snyder & Tillotson. Bay City—Jennison & Son are suc ceeded by the Jennison Hardware Co. Muskegon—The Michigan Drug Co. has dissolved, Geo. W. King succeed- ing. Hastings—Fleming-& Son succeed A. C. Carpenter & Co. in the grocery busi- ness. Manistee—Awald Krempel has closed out his meat stock and retired from busi- ness. Battle Creek—Chas. J. Austin eeeds Austin & Co. in the grocery bus- iness. Breckenridge—L. Waggoner & Co have sold their general stovk to Chisho m & Sons. Crystal Falls—Burder & Co, have re- moved their hardware stock to Rock Isl- and, Ill. Hudson—E. J. chased the boot and Richards. Crystal Falls—Burder & Co. have re- moved their millinery stock to Rock Island, Lil. Wexford—The general stock of Geo. M. D. Ciement has been closed under chattel mortgage. Port Huron—McFarlane, Haywood & Co., grocers, have dissolved, Akers & Haywood succeeding. Beaverton—The Seeley Cooperage Co. suceeeds Seeley & Howard in the manu- facture of hoops, ete. Steiner—B. F. Rauch succeeds Rauch Bros. in general trade and the implement business. Bay City—The Ueberroth Crockery and Wall Paper Co., incorporated, suc- eeeds Ueberroth & Co. Jonesville—D. L. Powers & Co. succeed D. L. Powers in the clothing and men’s furnishing goods business. suc- Southworth has pur- shoe stock of F. S. Wayne—Steers & Kingsley, general dealers, have dissolved, C. H. Kings- bury continuing the business. Albion—Bullien & Tucker, dry goods dealers, have dissolved, Austin & Tucker continuing the business. Ludington—J. H. Mathews is suc- ceeded by Loren Louden in the restau- rant and confectionery business. Grand Ledge—Geo. A. Youngs has purehased the grocery stock of E. E. (Mrs. H. E.) Ressigue at this place. Detroit—The Hodgson & Howard Co. succeed Hodgson & Howard in the hard- ware and house furnishing business. Vandalia—John N. Curtis, hardware dealer has failed, owing about $11,000. } THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The assets have not yet been appraised. Montague—Brooks Bros., who have | peddled meat through this section for | several years, DeZoete will! have opened a market here, Grand Haven—Boer & Bolt have re- papered and repainted the interior of their store, adding greatly to its appear- ance. Lawton—J. H. Hall has been admitted to partnership in the grocery firm. of Mitehel & Hall, the style remaining the same. Traverse City—A. Goldfarb has bought the dry goods and clothing stock of 8. Yalomstein and will continue the busi- ness in the same store. Lakeview—M. J. Huntley has closed out his confectionery business and _ re- moved to East Tawas, where he will re- engage in the same business. Clarksville—Geo. E. Marvin has pur- chased the furniture stock of Joseph Post and has fitted up the second story of the grain elevator for a showroom. Freeport—C. G. Stone & Son have de- cided to close their dry goods store at this place, in order that they may devote their entire attention to the Lowell es- tablishment. Clarksville—Chas. W. Williams has sold his drug stock to H. P. French, the Mulliken druggist. The purchaser will conduct both stores hereafter, dividing his time between the two towns. Detroit—Mayor & Isham, who have conducted the produce and commission business here for thirty years, on West Woodbridge street, have dissolved part- nership. The business will be continued by Chas. S. Isham and C. S. Isham, Jr., under the style of Isham & Isham. Athens—The general stock of Ethan Allen was sold at chattel mortgage sale March 7 to satisfy a $900 mortgage held by Wm. H. Taylor, of Chicago. The stock was bid in by Mrs. Allen for 80 cents more tkan Taylor’s claim, thus cutting off unsecured ciaims amonnting to $1,200. Detroit—Taylor, Woolfenden & Co. have merged their dry goods business into a corporation under the style of the Taylon—Woolfenden Co. The capital stock is $200,000, with $129,000 paid in, of which the directors hold 8,600 shares as follows: A. W. Wright, 5.856; F. D. Taylor, 1,000; J. B. Woolfenden, 1,000; W. H. Perkins, 750. The officers are: President, A. W. Wright; first vice-pres- ident, F. D. Toylor; second vice-presi- dent, J. B. Woolfenden; secretary and treasurer, Wm. H. Perkins. Manistee—A. H. Lyman has merged his drug business into a stock company under the style of the A. H. Lyman Co. The authorized capital is $50,000, of which $35,000 is paid in, being held as follows: A. H. Lyman, $15,000: R. R. Blacker, $10,000; Mrs. Nettie L. Rams- dell, $5,000; F. H. White, $2,000; Geo. A. Dunham, $1,500; C. D. Grannis, $1,000; W. D. Barnard, $500. The officers of the corporation are as follows: President, A. H. Lyman; Vice-President, Geo. A. Dunham; Secretary, Frank H. White; Treasurer, R. R. Blacker. MANUFACTURING MATTERS, Niles—Two-thirds of the $3,000 neces- sary to establish a canning factory here has been subscribed. Beaverton—E. O. Eastman and M. C. Phipps have purchased a two-thirds in- terest in H. Seelig’s hoop and stave fac- tory here. | Manistee—The State Lumber Co. has started its sawmill on 3,000,000 hardwood, | which it will saw before beginning the season’s work on pine. Kalamazoo—C. S. DeWitt and A. H. Berry have made the necessary arrange- ments and will start a new steam laun- dry under the firm name of Dewitt & Berry. Manistee—The Union Lumber Co. has an option on a group of timber on Por- tage lake of about 750,000 feet of fair lgrade pine and will probably purchase at the price asked, $4,000. Middleton—J. F. Shultz and C. H. Schultz have purchased the plants of the Michigan Stave and Barrel Co. The former will manage the business at this place and the latter will have charge of the branch at Ola. Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Sled Co. has purchased of H. P. Kauffer a tract of land adjoining the G. R. &1. Railroad for $15,000, on which it will erect a factory building, 60x100 feet in dimensions, ata cost of about $6,000. Muskegon—The shingle mill of the Gray Shingle Co. is being removed from North Muskegon to a site near Sault Ste. Marie. It will be located on the line of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway, and will be even a better mill than it is now. The mill last season made a cut of 7,000,000 and has an an- nual capacity of 20,000,000. Cheboygan—It is now pretty definitely settled that the Alpena & Northern Rail- road, built last season from Alpena to Lake May, Presque Isle county, will be extended to Cheboygan the ensuing sea- son. It will open up one of the finest hard and soft timber belts in the state, and logs and other forest products can be handled both ways, to Cheboygan or Alpena. Lakeview—John S. Weidman has pur- chased of E. Hall, Whitney & Remick, the Wells-Stone Company and others, 4,000 acres of stump land in Isabella county. He will build a saw and shingle mill, and has a contract with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad to extend its line from Hall’s dam on the Coldwater to the new mill town of Weidman which he will build. Cadillac—E. F. Sawyer, assignee of John G. Mosser, has made a report of the assets and liabilities and will ask March 15 for an order from the Circuit Court authorizing him to pay a dividend of 15 per cent. to the creditors. Labor claims to the amount of $758.99 have been paid in full and the indebtedness upon which the 15 per cent. will be paid amounts to about $10,000. Lansing—E. D. Voorhees is organizing a stock company with a capital of $25,- 000, to be known as the Lansing Pant & Overall Co., to succeed to the busi- ness of the Voorhees Pant & Over- all Co. which recently went into liquidation. Itis his intention to dis- tribute stock among as many members of the retail trade as possible an@ it is understood that he is meeting with ex- eellent success in this direction. Manistee—There is often a difference in the estimates on pieces of pine lands, and it looks as though that kind of work had not yet been reduced to an exact science. This is illustrated by a piece of pine land that Louis Sands bought last summer on an estimate of 13,000,000 feet for which he paid $74,000. It is now con- ceeded that this tract will eut 16,000000, and yet some good estimators that looked it over with a view of purchasing could not find over 6,000,000. ee More on the Bread Question. A letter has been received from H. P. Whipple, of Belding, complaining of the incompleteness of my figures as to the expense of bread making. I gave merely the chief items of expense, presenting the whole matter in the simplest manner possible. Mr. Whipple wishes me to give ‘“‘the entire expense of bread mak- ing, including flour, lard, butter and sugar.”? As to flour, it costs the bakers from $3.70 to $4.25 per barrel; a barrel of flour makes about 300 loaves of bread. Any one can figure out for himself how much the flour in a single loaf is worth. As to butter, lard, and sugar, however, no separate account is kept of the amount of these ingredients used in the bread, as much more of each of them is used in other products of the bakery than in bread. Mr. Whipple says that “$50 worth of milk should make 20,000 loaves of bread; at 6 cents per loaf this would be $1,200 for the week.’’ I do not know how much milk Mr. Whipple would usein bread if he were making it, but I think he will readily see that the amount of bread a certain quantity of milk will make will depend upon how much is put into the bread. He must either use all milk, or all water, or part water and part milk; the more water used, the smaller the milk bill will be. The bakers mentioned in my former ar- ticle make all the way from 1,200 to 1,800 loaves of bread a night, using from 4to6 barrels of flour. It takes consid- erable milk, or water, as the case may be, to moisten such a quantity of flour— more, perhaps, than Mr. Whipple and a good many others imagine. Then, too, the grade of flour used by bakers ‘‘takes’? more moisture than that ordi- narily used. Mr. Whipple’s criticism was a perfectly legitimate one. DANIEL ABBOTT. mr 8 Lower Prices on Lard. The quotations of lard in the advertise- ment of the Musselman Grocer Co. on the third cover page, should read as fol- lows: Butcher’s, 80 pound tubs, 94¢c. Butcher’s tierces, 9}¢c. Choice pure, 8¥¢c. These brands are meeting witha large sale, due to their intrinsic merit and the effective advertising being done in their behalf. ~e- oe << — Tolman’s syrups are desirable. ‘‘Catch on.” *Phone J. P. Visner, Bridge St. SEEDS! Everything in seeds is kept by us— Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Ete. If you have Beans to sell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We are headquarters for egg cases and egg case fillers. W. Y, LAMBREAUX CO, w:Seriage st, GRAND RAPIDS, MiCcH. fi F os « - i ” ” - 2 4 + { - - a ~ « ~ * % ie < | | | d ‘ < — © y ¥ THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Wm. VanHemmen has sold his grocery stock at 310 West Leonard to Folgersma & Dekker. The Musselman Grocer Co. recently furnished a grocery stock for A. Alvin, the Manton general dealer. C. Fisher has removed his grocery stock from 433 East street to the corner of East and Sherman streets. A. De Vos has re-opened a grocery store at 176 Baxter street. The Mussel- man Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Samuel Adams, dealer in crockery and glassware at Bellaire, has added a line of groceries. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. W. I. Pitcher, formerly engaged in the confectionery business at 7314 Pearl street, has re-engaged in the same busi- ness at 117 West Bridge street. F. M. Wood, local representative for . E. Alden, the Lake Odessa butter and egg dealer, has changed his location from 25 Fountain street to 76 Island street. . 1, Kent t will shortly open a grocery store at 692 Cherry street, the former lo- cation of Cole & Chapel. The Mussel man Grocer Co. the order for the stock. has M. J. Dykstra has sold her hardware stock at 64 West Leonard street to A. VanBree, well known through his former connection with the Widdicomb Furni- ture Co. J. Leff has moved his grocery stock from 346 Fourth street to 161 Turner street, corner of Fifth street. The change enables him to enlarge his stock and increase his line of customers. Gilbert T. Haan has purchased the in- terest of Albert Stonehouse in the firm of G. T. Haan & Co., druggists at 130 Canal street, and will continue the busi- ness under the style of G. T. Haan. H. Sehultz, who has conducted a gro- eery at 9 Grandville avenue for the past three years, has sold his stock to Henry K. Lanning, fermerly engaged in gen- eral trade at Gitchel, who will continue the business at the same location. Marshall Moore, formerly engaged in general trade at Lamont, the remnants of the Walling stock and the Walling store building, at that place, and re-engaged in trade there. ney & Judson Grocer Co. for a new grocery stock. A movement is on foot among many of | the stockholders of the Grand Rapids Loan, Building and Homestead Associa- has purchased | The O1- | has the order that be a fact, then orders will not reach { | { | tion, which is winding up its affairs this ; month, to organize a new association on! old | practically the same lines as the organization—a single series association in which all the stockholders go in at one time and are retired at one payment. Such an organization avoids the detail incident to associations with several series and precludes criticism on the ground that discrimination is exercised between the members of diffirent series. oO The Drug Market. Gum opium is a little easier. Powdered opium is unchanged. Morphia is steady. Gum camphor has declined. Corriander seed is scarce and higher. Sugar of milk has declined. | | | The bulk of the demand is, The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is strong and steady and an advance is likely to come at any time. The Senate schedule is said to be unsatisfactory to the refiners, one of whom has declined to fill further or- ders at present. Pork—Barreled has dropped 50c and will, in all probability, go still lower. Fresh pork is also down 1g to 1c per Ib. Beef—There is no change except in ex- tra mess (barreled), which is up 50e. Oranges—The Florida growers report their groves well cleaned up. It was es- timated that there were only a half mil- lion boxes in the entire producing dis- trict on March 1, and four-fifths of these were of the large and undesirable sizes, and even these are now held at $1.40@ $1.65 f. o. b. Florida. Anyone can see from this that Grand Rapids quotations are just high enough to cover cost, allow= ing hardly anything for possible arrivals in bad order. California oranges are finding their way to interior towns quite rapidly, owing to the the fact of their being offered below Floridas. They are improving in quality every day, and be- ing absolutely sound, the dealer takes but little risk in Buying. A car of Catania fruit in full boxes and flats, or half boxes, will be offered the last of this week. Prices will be about $2 for flats and $3.50 for full boxes. Lemons—The local market is steady at last week’s quotations, although there was a sharp advance Friday at the New York sales. The weather is favorable to carload shipments and doubtless many wholesalers will avail themselves of the opportunity to stock up with low priced fruit. Bananas—The pleasant weatber of the past week has awakened a lively in- terest in the banana market and outside dealers have been sending in their orders freely, which for the most part, have had to be turned down by local shippers up to Friday, when two cars came to our market from which back orders were filled as far as possible. Arrivals will be limited until April 1, however, as more or less cold weather may be ex- pected, and as Jong as there is considera- ble risk of freezing while in transit i wholesale dealers will go slow. a= ~~ oe The Wool Market. It may fairly be assumed that manu- facturers have received the bulk of their orders, although there will be contin- uous ordering on a small scale. If | more than 25 per cent. of usual business. It is certain that manufacturers will not run whentheir orders are completed, and unless stocks are unusually heavy clothiers may expect to come out short. so far, on all-wool lines, perhaps because the great reduction in the price of wool has made all-wool goods “‘dirt cheap.” The market is in a waiting attitude—the un- certainty regarding the outcome of the tariff debate being the chief cause of de- lay. Though wool seems to _ have reached a free trade basis, wages have not, and they are the chief item of ex- pense in wool goods manufacturing, as in many other lines. Reports from Boston indicaate slight falling off in sales for the week as com- pared with the previous week, the total for the week being slightly in excess of 1,500 000 pounds. The finer lines have been almost uncalled for, the demand being on fine and fine medium territory, coarse and low braid combing, 14 blood and unwashed combing,and unwashed and unmerchantable. There has been no speculative buying, but merely for orders. New York reports business unusually dull, a condition not altogether unex- pected and ocecasioning little surprise. Pulled wools have been asked for fre- quently, but prices are unchanged. Sales for the week were less than a mil- lion pounds. The situation has per- ceptibly improved in this market, and from now considerably more business will be done than has been done for months. Philadelphia reports increased activity although some lines which have been held firm for months show signs of giv- — ay Sales for the week foot up to 1,228,300 pounds. It is not expected that there will be any great improvement in the wool mar- ket for months, possibly not at all. If the duty is taken off wool and woolen goods (and even that may be done by Congress) it means the death of the woolen industry of the country. This is not an assertion made for political effect, for the tariff has ceased to be a party question. It a certainty, because American manufacturers cannot compete with the Europeao manufacturers. If in this connection free trade means cheaper clothing, an assertion that lacks confirmation, it means also lower wages for workingmen. Already has the tariff discussion in the House and the threat- ened danger of free wool completely de- moralized the woolen industry, curtailed business fully 75 per cent, and thrown thousands of operatives out of employ- ment. The actual enactment of a free wool schedule will destroy the industry altogether. is <> Purely Personal. H. B. Rice—better known as ‘‘Bert’’— who has served the Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. as shipping clerk for the past three years, succeeds to the position of house salesman rendered vacant by the resignation of Geo. T. Williams. The vacancy thus made in the shipping de- partment will be filled by Chas. Zylstra. Geo. T. Williams, who has been iden- tified with the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. for the past nine years in the capaci- ties of shipping clerk and house sales- man, severed his connection with that institution Saturday night and will take an extended trip through the Pacific Slope, with a view to locating there if the proper opportunity presents itself. Ee The Dry Goods Market. Bleached and brown cottons are still low in price and large sales are made on them at present prices. Spring dress goods are moving at prices ranging from 10/¢ @40c. Indigo and shirting prints are sold way ahead of the mills, a large trade being done on the goods at the low price of 4g and 3%e.
INO. eee Cc
ZIN Ne Pe 84c
Or we will assort you a box each
of Nos. 5,7, 9 and 12, at 524%c aver-
age, and you can select yourown
colors.
We make a specialty of Ribbons,
and you will find that we have the
largest and most complete stock of
these goods in the State.
We solicit your inspection or
mail orders.
Corl, Knott & Co.,
20-22 No. Division St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, (ICH.
THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
Daniel Viergever, The Clancy Street
Grocer.
Daniel Viergever, of D. Viergever &
Sons, was bornin the town of DeRuyster,
Province of Zeeland, Holland,
ago.
and important event in his history the
family emigrated to the United States,
coming direct to Grand Rapids. When
old enough Daniel was sent to school,
His scholastic career was terminated
when he was 13 years old, however, and
he went to work ina stave mill, where
he remained some three or four years.
While running the engine in the mill
managed to learn wood-turning, putting
in his spare moments at the lathe when
the regular turner was absent—stealing
the trade, so to speak. This trade
followed for about thirteen years,
years of which period was passed with
the Widdicomb Furniture Co., and the
remainder of the timein the Oriel factory.
He spent one year on the police force,
but being ‘‘one the finest” did
satisfy his ambition, he resigned,
purchased a team and wagon and began
buying butter and eggs from
He prospered in this undertaking and
about three years ago opened a grocery
store at 157 Clancy street. By the exer-
cise of diligence, economy and honesty,
he has built up agood business, some of
the credit for which must be given to his
two sons, Martin C. and w.,
former assisting his father in the store
and the latter taking his father’s place
**on the road,’’ purchasing butter, eggs
and produce.
Mr. Viergever is a member of the K.
QO. T. M., and alsoof the Grand Rapids
Retail Grocers’ Association, of which he
is the present President. He was mar-
ried in 1870 to Miss Mary Klink, and is |
the proud father of four children, two |
girls and two boys.
ten
of no
so
farmers.
James the
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What She Wanted.
A certain floorwalker in one of
large dry goods establishments in this
city is noted for his severity to those
under him in business. One day he ap-|
proached a junior assistant from whose |
counter a lady had just left.
‘You let that lady go out without her
making a purchase?” he asked severely.
“Yes, sir—I—
‘“‘And she was at your counter fully |
ten minutes?”’
“Doubtless, but then you see—”
“Exactly, | saw that, In spite of all
the questions she put to you, you rarely
auswered her, and never attempted to}
get what she wanted. '
*Well, but—”
**You need not make any excuse. I
shall report you for carelessness.’’
«‘**Well, I hadn’t what she wanted.’’
**What was that?”
“One dollars and fifty cents! She’sa
book canvasser, getting subscribers to
the ‘Life of Pope Leo.’”
The fioorwalker retired crestfallen,
amid the audible titters of all the as-
sistants in the department, who greatly
enjoyed his discomfiture.
the
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A Terrible Twist.
A story is told of two Irishmen who}
were caught asleep one night in the loft |
of a burning building. One of them |
hastily drew on his trousers and jumped |
from the window. In his fright
the garment wrong side foremost, with
an effect which, when he recovered his | H
equilbrium after the jump, excited his |
profound consternation.
**Pat! Pat!’ called out his companion,
still in the loft, ‘‘air ye kilt entirely?”’
**No, Moik,”’ replied Pat in hopeless |
tones, ‘‘its not kilt Oi am, me bye, but Oi
fear me Oi’m fatally twishted.
43 years |
Three years after this interesting |
he |
he |
and |
hurry he had unconsciously pulled on }
Dry Goods Price Current.
UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
“
— se oon eons 7 Arrow Brand 4X
Ne cece ee 5% “ Word vo 6
aca ee 6 ee. — a
| Atlantic ee ane 6%/ Full Yard Wide..... 6%
oa Cirermen A.......... 6%
. i 5 |Honest Width...... 6
- <6... 6 erties ......... 5
ee 4%4|Indian Head........ 8%
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Archery nee .. 4 |KingEC.
Beaver Dam AA.. 4%/Lawrence Coe a
| Blackstone * ou ... 5 |Madras cheese cloth ox
Black Crow. — | Newmarket —
peace Mock ........ 5%
et | a
eee A. 4
Cavanst V..... Nel _
Chapman cheese cl. 3a Noibe R.. *
iaeen © E......... = Our Level Best..... 6
eee sires ........... 6
Dwight Star......... a NS 7
| Clifgon CCC........ ae 4... 6
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
ROC. 44. .. 84|Geo. Washington... 8
| Avene ie Nasost Make. ......... 7.
Ss sc ce 6 |Gold Medal......... 7%
[A Comorc........ 10 jGreen Ticket....... 84
| Blackstone AA..... 7%/Great Falls.......... 6%
ees Oe... . oee................ 7
ree 12 |Just Out..... 4X%@ 5
| Cabot.. . 6% King Phillip ies cles 2
(Pebek, Be or... 7%
| Charter Osk....._.. 5s |Lonsdale Cambric. .10
Conway W..... . 74! Lonsdale...... @8
Cioveieme....... ... 6 |Middlesex.... .. = 5
Dwight Anchor. 8 |No Name.. erases OD
shorts 8 |Oak View........... 6
are .- -....... 6 or Own............ 5%
eee .... 21 7 |Pride of the West...12
Farwell... . 7%%\Rosalind...... a T™%
| Fruit of the Loom. 8 Buntieet............. S95
| Fitchville ..... 7 tice Mie......... 8%
| Pircet Prine...; ...... Si” Nonpareil ..10
| Fruit of the Loom 1% T4IV. ives... cess 8%
| Fairmount... 414| White ae
[els Vere..... +00. — m=-..
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
ee 8, 6% | {Dwight Anchor..... 8
Farwell.. 7%
CANTON ae
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife A........33¢ é| Housewife ae ou 61%
” B. mene Recs y eee .
' a _ a... 7
| ' a... 6%) a... 8%
‘ ee : id a
| ' Pe The} i ice ecle 10
| - Po Ty) ' , -10%
| “ a. 73%! - a 11%
| LC 8} “ Yr... 12%
| os 8%) : Pe. 13%
| \ 944)
| L oe |
| : 2 10%]
va N. 1
‘ oO... 21
| ” Fr ... 1444)
| CARPET WARP.
| Peerless, white... ....17 ao colored. ..18
colored....19 |White Star.......... iy
| Integrity .. ——a ** colored .19
“DRESS GOODS.
| Soon: .
.s if — bese ce oueee
“
|G G@ Cashmere..... “
| Nameless oe oe “16 |
De semen etn 18 | *
| CORSETS,
| Coraline ..-.++-89 50/Wonderful . . 84 50
[Scoumaee........ SU een. .... 4%
| Davis Waists..... 9 00|Bortree’ SS 9 00
| Grand Rapids . 4. 50|Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
a 6%|N one ag satteen.. 7%
| Androscoggin....... pt 6%
| Biddeford.......... 6 |Conestoga.......... - %
Brunswick. .... . 64%|Walworth ...... - 6%
PR INTS.
Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.... 5%
TroUes.....--- 5% (Clyde Reoe........
ex = & purple 5% Charter Oak fancies 4
| ' se... 544 | DelMarine Cashm’s. 5%
' pink checks. 544) mourn’g 54%
' staples ...... & |Eddystone fancy... 5%
- shirtings - 3% - chocolat 5%
| American fancy.... 5%| . rober.... 5%
| Americanindigo... 4%) sateens.. 5%
American shirtings. 3%|Hamilton a --». oe
| Argentine Grays... 6 ss aple.... 5%
| Anchor Sbirtings.. _ ‘Manchester 1 ancy.. 5%
Arnold coos © new era. 5%
| Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 534
- long cloth B. 9 |Merrim’ckshirtings. 4
ss C. T% - Repp furn . =
‘© century cloth 7 Pacific = nT
° ee... ee lee... ¥
‘* green seal TR 10%) Port aE. 5 robes... 6%
|
| * “yellow seal..10%|Simpson mourning.. 5%
a a cae oe na greys 5%
| “ urkei; red. -10% . rol a black. 5%
| Ballon s solid black.. | Washington indigo. 6%
| “colors. “ Turkey robes.. Hi
| Ben ee blue, green, “India robes...
| and orange... 6 - plain Tky a & 24
Berlin e........ 5% *
| oil blue...... 8 ‘* Ottoman a
66 ~ oo... & hoe ree. ......... 6%
| “ Foulards .... 5%/Martha Washington
i = red %... 7 | Turkey red X.....
ss %........ 9%) Martha Washington
| - 44.. 10 | ZUemoy fee........ 9%
. 7 ‘3. 4X XXX 12 /Riverpoint robes.... 5%
| Cocheco Com -. 5 |Windsorfancy...... 6
ers... 5 | . goid ticket
- XX twills.. 5 indigo blue.......10%
= ak...... 5 ary... . +
i TICKINGS.
[Ame ACA... TA A... 8... 11%
amilton 2 ee : |Pemberton AA
“ Awiiing, a lacie River
Lae... |Pearl River..
| First Pee ‘one NINN ooo ae econ ss 12%
| Lenox Mills - «ee Perens .......... 16
“COTTON DRILL.
ae 3.4. GX|sterk A. ........
a Maino Mame........ 7%
| Clifton, aE Roe 7 [Roper Heap........ 9
DEMINS.
ie -. noeaee wees 12 {Columbian brown. .12
aes 14 |Everett, blue........12%
' po 14 " brown. ....12%
are... 11% Haymaker blue..... 7%
Beaver Creek AA...10 brown. on
oe... 9 Werrey......,.....-- 11%
cc... Lancaster. .......... 12%
eine Mtg Co. br.. Lawrence, PO es =
blue 3% No. 220..
“* d & twist ag ' No, 250 “HK
Columbian XXX br.10 ” No. 280....10%
XXX b1.19
GINGHAMB,
Auaoekoes ...... -... 5 |Lancaster, staple... 5
“ Persian dress 64 na fancies .... 7
c Canton .. 7 ' Normandie 7
_ BPG isis &%|Lancashire....,..... 6
_ Teazle...10%4|Manchester......... 5X
- Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
. Persian.. 7 i[Notmandis......... 7
Arlington staple.... 64%|Persian............. 7
Batos Wai fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... 7%
Bates Warwick dres 744/Rosemont........... 6%
staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6
Centennial......... 10% |Somerset............ 7
Criterion ..... eee ™
Cumberland staple. 5% ace) Gu mord....... 8%
Cumberland.... .... _eeeee........,.. 7%
ES a ‘© geersucker.. 7%
meee, Ta ereren.... ...... 6
Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... 8
Expoaen.......... 7% . heather dr. 7%
NEED, face oes cs 64 ” indigo blue 9
Glenarven. 6%|Wamsutta staples. . ws
Glenwood.. .- Westbrook ede ea oe
ieee... ....... 5
Jobnson Uhaloncl %
_ indigo blue 9%
. zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS,
Amoskeag.. ecuskee POROMWIEML...- .--... 2. 13%
Stark. .........0e0. 18 | ae
MREIOONN «2-4 conse ee .
THREADS.
Clark’s ey nd....6 (Barbour's..-.. . ....%
Coats’ Fo — (‘Mermbars.... ...... 90
as GRE RE 22%
KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored
Be, ©... 38 O i, Ot 42
~ 6 hh 34 -— i> me... 43
a. 35 40 a ........— 44
- we ae 36 41 ee 40 45
CAMBRICS,
ee 4 {Edwards...... _ 2
Were Geer......... 4 |Lockwood.. .4
aoe ee... <...- 4 |Wood’s. 4
Newmearket......... 4 Brunswick . 4
RED FLANNEL,
ea 32% - = ed ed eee R2%
Creooimore.........- oe B2%
Talbot XXX. ; J R recs e eee 35
Nameris...... .-..- 27% Buckeye Mtoe orca oeee 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%
J 224%|Weatern W ......... 18%
Windsor....-. eo ee
6 oz Western... -20 |Flushing XXX......23%
Union B -206| Mamitobea.... ....... B%
DOMET FLANNEL
9
Nameless ..... 8 @
ca 8%@10
’ A 9 @10%
CANVASS AND PADDIN
Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black.
9% 9 914 /10% 10% 10%
10% 10% 10%/11% 11% 11K
11% 11% 1144/12 12 12
Be 12% 1244 |20 20 20
DUCES.
Severen, 8 os........ 9%|West Point, § oz....10%
Mayland, 8oz....... 10% «“ 1 12%
Greenwood, 7% o4.. 9% Raven, Pee i, 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz.. 11% i 13%
Boston, 8 0z.......-. "740% |Boston, Wee.......- 12%
WADDINGS.
Waite, Goa........- 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....88 50
Colseed, Gos........2 omerea ™ ....... 750
SILESIAS,
Slater, Iron a. -s Pewee... ...... 10%
Red Cross.. Dundie...... Sedu 9
. Bam. ........, Seater... .... .... 10%
“ Hee aA. 12%|Valley City......... 10%
i es de eee 10%
i oe ours ues ones 8
SEWIN
Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli ae.
twist, doz..4C per %oz ball...... 30
50 eco doz..40
KS AND EYES—PER GRO:
No ; BY ¢ & ‘White.. _
No 4Bl’k & White. 15
8 -20
“ : a "2 “ 10 “ =
PINs.
No 2—20, M C....... 50 oo 4—15 # 3%...... 40
* 3—18,8C........ 45
COTTON TAPE.
No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
“a 4 “ oe “ 10 “ oe
“5 - ae 1"? ia «26
SAFETY PINS.
ee 28 _ beets oueae 36
NESDLES—PER M.
A. a. paces eeeme 1 40/Steamboat........ a
eee e....... -... i Beene Beee.......... 150
Marsha Vs bea 1 00|American....... ose OO
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....175 6—4... 5—4....165 6—4...2 30
COTTONT WINES.
Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 14
Nee so 12 Rising Star4-ply....17
ae... 18% . Pils eh
Bees i... re 1eerte Bie... 20
ES 13
— Valley...... >
IxL 18%
Wool Standard 4 plyi7%
Powhattan .........
PLAID OSNABURBG
See... oss 6% {Mount Picesant.. . 6%
Aiomenee,.......... ie 5
See... 25... es Nt SET 5%
Ar sapha.. octee A SE ow ccs Si
Georgia... Ne eeiiecee nes 6% nog es
Gramies .......... ou 5% |S - cee eaes eek oa
ow Biver......... a pd cei ae
BO Bie cece cncsas 5 Otis po iedaneo 7%
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Prevents and cures
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On cars or boat.
The cool exhilerating sensation follow
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
THE TURN OF THE TIDE.
The Long-Continued Business Depres-
sion About Ended.
The indications of returning prosper-
ity are increasingly apparent. There
can be no doubt as to this. The signs
may not be so highly colored as some
might wish, nor so hurried as men less
wise or patient than Job are prone to ex-
pect, but, that a revival of business is
certain, no man who is not a tank of bile
or a blind pessimist can for a moment
doubt.
It is true that business has been in the
dumps, and that depression, like Exgyp-
tian darkness, hasfor atime halted the
march of progress; but, as this is by no
means a new experience, it is not neces-
sary to give up the ghost and die.
Neither are we alonein this calamity.
Other nations with less recuperative
powers are being dosed with the same
medicine and languish in the same tor-
pidity. The wave of depression is world
wide, and has left no country, however
richand great, without its cold bath.
Where stagnationis the result of ex-
hausted resources, or of financial or me-
chanical ability to use what it has, it is
needless to say that faith in a dead tree
is thrown away in expecting apples
where they can never grow. In the en-
terprises that constitute business, and in
the monopoly of markets that have made
it asuccess, it is possible that some na-
tions have reached their noon and are
leaving it behind them. Where this is
the case, commercial decay, if slow, is
inevitable, and its supremacy, if a bright
chapter in the past, will be but a mor-
tuary paragraph in the future. In such
conditions depression is but the feeble
pulse of old age and exhausted vitality.
No such inference is possible in the
American instance. We are not in
dotage but in youth. Our resources are
comparatively untouched, and for many
proximate decades are practically un-
limited. In all the essentials of growth
and prosperity the Western Hemisphere
is prodigiously endowed. In area and
population the margin for development
and expansion is broad enough for the
march of centuries. In products and
climate we are in possession of the gifts
of every zone. In breadstuffs and min-
erals, in cotton and fibres, and in nearly
all the requisites of a self-sustaining na-
tion, the American nation is unique in
modern history. On such a basis the
superstructure of commerce and indus-
try cannot possibly be a sandhill ora
mushroom. We cannot flatten the Andes
as wecanamolehill. In this light the
folly of measuring prosperity on the
lines of a local watermelon is transpar-
ently sarcastic.
In the present—or, rather, the past—
erisis of business affairs, it is a misfor-
tune that so many men who are weak in
the knees are sitting in sackcloth and
ashes, and, like Jonah of old, are pre-
dicting the fall of Nineveh in forty days.
These forecasts of calamity do no good.
They not ouly announce what never hap-
pens, but deter other men from bracing
up to the duties and opportunities of the
hour.
We are not lacking in the vital factors
of recuperation, and the cessation of
their exercise may be postponed; it may
also be true that the publie confidence is
still suffering from a weakened spine,
and that idle money prefers a stocking
to immediate investment in dormant en-
terprises. No sane man expects busi-
ness to leap from green grass into a well-
filled hay mow, though the reaction from
depression is frequently graphic and
swift.
Public confidence is sometimes as ec-
centric in its revival as it is inits re-
lapse, and money is spread at the same
pace with which it was hoarded. In this
instance it is an encouragement to a
rapid return to its sober senses that idle
capital is in abundance for every pros-
pective enterprise.
It may be true that tariff uncertainties
are handicapping production and trade.
These, however, at their worst, are but
temporary.
As to tariff uncertainties, it is not
probable that suspense will be of long
duration. It is more than possible that
whatever may be the policy of the ad-
ministration that pessimistic fears wili
have to be revived. It has yet to go
through the sieve,and what survives the
process be less hurtful than popularly
supposed.
Be that as it may, the sooner the fact
is determined the more immediate the
accommodation of business to new con-
ditions. It is in our favor that whatever
obstructions may be in the way of busi-
ness, the energy and enterprise that have
hitherto characterized the nation will re-
peat the old story of overcoming them
all.
There may be justifiable apprehension
as to the result of this or that, but the
basis and scope of business are on so
broad and permanent a foundation that
the men who face the situation with
faith in the future are those who will
garner the heavier sheaves in the harvest
of coming prosperity, the date of which
is certainly nearer than some suppose.
ai
The Business Outlook.
The third month of the year opens
with better promises of improvement,
and, although the depression is by no
means over, business men are better able
to judge of future probabilities and dis-
count them than they were thirty or
sixty days ago. The worst is over, and
we have now to do mainly with conse-
quences.
Legislative deliberations have some-
what to do with the hesitancy to push
forward in business circles, but, apart
altogether from this more or less decep-
tive there are at work
which will continue to act until they ex-
haust themselves; and, when exhausted,
the resulting or following improvemen}
willcome. Years of extravagance and
inferior management have brought their
fruits. Inflated and abnormal values
have prevailed until a reaction came,
and we are now ‘“‘in it.”’ The corrective
agencies have already done much good.
The volume of idle money is increas-
ing, but this is only a result of condi-
agency, causes
tions last year. We are not suffering
from any blight. The foundations on
which we have builded are sound. There
are money, brain and energy enough to
make up for past slothfulness and the
recovery will come in its own time.
While there is distress and complaint ap-
parent everywhere, there is yet a spirit
of faith and confidence, and even deter-
mination, to overcome what has crowded
us down. Capitalists and bankers are
waiting for spring. Builders do not
doubt but that there will be even more
building than last year. Stores, ware-
houses aud factories everywhere
small stocks,
have
and bank borrowers have
been scaled down within safe limits.
The readjustment of values has done
vast good for all, and makes possible a
prolonged period of profitable activity,
the setting in of which cannot be very
much longer delayed. CuaAs. J. REED.
Hardware Price Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Re i a ee 60
Me ee ae oe si eee ee eo =
agenniees gorvamne ..... -..................
eeniaws , Weneie ...... 6... 65c.. ss. ce 50&i0
AXES.
First Quality, =, B. romee..................8 9 OG
' D. B. Bronze.. me teas 1x 00
' om eeeen 8 00
oe... 13 50
BARROWS. dis,
Moles .....:..............._..._......
Crees. ss pet 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
ewe 8 50&10
Carrlige Bewie .:.. 75&10
Bicigh REN 70
BUCKETS.
wen, wae... ntaccesee oe Oe
Ween ee ae 400
BUTTS, CA8T. dis.
Cast tdose Pin, flgnred........ ........... -70&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 604.0
We Ot ROS 60&10 HAMMERS.
MI cn ee ecco are Maydole & Co.’s..... Deesees asec eves 2
Mi 60&10 | Kip’s i heal cea ce oS
Wrought = a nS 75 | Yerkes & Plumb’s....... << - 40816
Blind, Clark’s. -70&1% | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. aes tnt =... cee ee Oo
Blind, Parker’s...... ..-70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast S Hand... .30c 40&10
Blind, Co 70 | HING
eee | Gate, Clark's, 1, 2,3 ...... ..........,.. dts, 60610
a . ee eee per doz. net, 2 50
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60410 | | Serow Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
CRADLES. eel 3%
ES ESE na SE vane dis, 50&02 | | Screw Hook and Eye, s- —
cRoW BARS, [es 6 coc nM
Coe eee... perb 5 _ . . es ccc... | «oe
CAPS, | StrapandT........ dia. 5
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