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TRADESMAN COMPANY, GrandRapids, Mich. zr << GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894. ZEKE CLEGHORN’S WIFE. It was not many years ago—any moun- taineer in that region can still tell you of the occurrence with minute detail—that George Dickson headed a raid upon the illicit distilleries of Habersham and Rabun counties, in the northeastern part of Georgia. He was not eminently successful. Considering the fact that these ‘‘stills’’ abound soin that rocky country where corn is the only thing which can be persuaded to grow, and whisky the most lucrative export into which this product may be converted, and con- sidering, moreover, his native ability, Mr. Dickson’s lack of success was remarkable. By his associates it was sneeringly hinted that he had been too much occupied in ‘‘sparking a cracker girl” to pay the attention to his busi- ness which it demanded. But he completedly demolished one still, that of Jabez Bently on the western slope of Hickory-nut Moun- tain, about six miles from Tallulah Falls. The worm was broken, the tubs smashed, and the contents poured on the ground; while the remains of the worm, together with Bently, were car- ried triumphantly to Atlanta. There these remains were exhibited as spoils of war, going to prove by their pres- ence in the Custom House that the Internal Revenue Law was being ably enforced; and Bently, another spoil, was lodged in Fulton County Jail, to serve out a term of three months in lieu of a hundred dollars fine. Bently was no amiable prisoner. He was a fierce, savage mountaineer of forty or forty-five, with fixed views on the subject of the whisky tax, and de- cidedly original but equally fixed opin- ions concerning the privileges of every free-born American. These he venti- lated, with many oaths, both at the time of his arrest and subsequently. He also declared his intention ‘‘ter let daylight inter that thar low-down, ornary cuss whar busted tha-ar copper worm, jess ez owdacious ez ef hit war common wood-truck.’’ Dickson had committed this deed of vandalism, and it incensed Bently much more than the arrest. ‘“‘Tat-ar whole blessed worm,’ he growled with savage persistence, ‘‘war pyo copper, an’ tuck a dern-sight mo’ money out’n my breeches pocket th’n that thar revenuer’ whole kyarkase wuz wurth, hide an’ taller flungin. An’ I swar,” he howled his wrath waxing fiereer as he dwelt upon his injuries, “IT be blame ef I do’t git even, ef hit teks a yur! I be a-gwine ter bust his sap-haid same ez he busted that thar still! Pll Parn ’im! A _ passel o’ dern, sneakin’, thievin’ cowards, them rev- enuers, nohow!’’ But small attention was paid to these threats. They were attributed to the heat of the moment, and nothing more was thought of them. Afterwards they were recalled with startling distinct- ness. Three months after this occurrence the season at Tallulah Falls was at its height. The little mountain village swarmed with visitors, and the two hotels were overflowing with guests. It was after ten one August night, and at the Cliff House a number of couples were dancing in the dining- room, converted each evening into a ball-room. On the opposite side of the house, the parlors overlooked the falls and rapids of that wild tempestuous little stream which the Indians called ‘*Tailulah,’’? the terrible. ‘*Terrible,’’ indeed, as it rushes on between banks that rise in sheer cliffs of a thousand feet, dashing madly over precipices, and, in impotent fury, beating itself into bil- lows of surging foam against those everlasting rocks. A crowd of young people were in the parlors, and George Dickson was of that number. There had been music, both instrumental and vocal, and Dick- son, seated in one of the open windows, was encoring enthusiastically. Suddenly, above the merry voices inside, above the stringed band wailing out a Strauss waltz in the temporary ball-room, above the roar of the water which, from the still night air without, sounded like the rumbling of distant thunder, came distinctly the sound of a pistol shot. Those in the room, terribly startled, saw, to their horror, George Dickson throw up his hands wildly, and then fall forward heavily upon the floor, lifeless. The red blood trickled from a tiny bullet-hole in the back of his head, and spread slowly upon the carpet like a living, sentient thing. The excitement was intense, Only the day before, Jabez Bently had returned to the mountains, and so certain was everyone of his guilt, and feeling ran so high, that, could he have been found, he would undoubtedly have been lynched. But he could not be found. The mountains in Rabun county are natural fortresses, and men from the city, un- acquainted with their caves, their cliffs, their hollow and coves, stand no chance against one who has been born, reared, and has passed his whole life among their fastnesses. His flight was accepted as a tacit confession of guilt, and the night was passed in search, but to no avail. In the parlors and on the broad ve- randas of the hotel the subject was dis- cussed with heat, and with much calm- ness and deliberation by the natives who congregated around the saloons and stores. In the door of a small building, which did double duty as grocery store in front and post-office in the rear, a crowd of mountaineers were chewing tobacco and venting their opinions with as much ex- citement as ever stirred their lethargic blood. Abner White, a veteran of eighty, the prophet and general authority of ‘Ole Hick’ry-nut,’’ was, as usual, the spokesman of the occasion. ‘Waal, 1 ca-an’t say ez I, fur one, wuz sot back none.’’ He was address- ing his respectful audience in his slow, nasaltwang. ‘‘I’lowed f’um the jump ez Jabez war boun’ furter lay ’m out, ef hit tuck ten yur, let ’lone jess three mont’. The idee what bangs my time air, what in the name o’ Moses the durned idjit kem a-foolin’ ’roun’ these hyar parts ag’in fur, arter Jabez done swo’ fur ter kill’im, ef he ever got ary sort o’ purchase on ’m. Hit jess flus- trates me ter see w’at owdacious fools some creeters kin mek o’ tharse’ves. Dog my cats, ef hit don’t look like the man war jess a-honin’ arter being’ killt!s “Thar hain’t no kind o’reason fur ?lowing’ how ez Jabez kilt ’im yit,’’ an- swered a quiet voice out of the gloom. ‘‘Who’s that thar?’? demanded the old man. “Oh, hit’s you-uns, air it, Zeke? Wa-al, who ye ’low mought ha’ did it thin?’’ *“Pon’t be up ter min’in’ what Zeke Cleghorn says *bout hit,” another man rejoined. ‘‘Him an’ Jabez air sich fas’ frien’s, ef he seen Jabez shoot down the revenuer, he’d ’low the shootin’ irons up an’ went off by tharse’ves.’’ ‘Wall, hain’t nobody a-blamin’ Ja- bez,” Abner responded good naturedly. “Thar hain’t no call fur ter git on yo’ yur, Zeke. Ary man’s got a right fur ter kill a creeter fur bustin’ up his still an’ slingin’ ’im in jail ter boot.” “They ca-an’t never convict ’im 0’ nothin’,” answered the same quiet voice, though with a shade of anxiety in it. “IT dunno. Ev’aence ’pears plum ag’in ?im. An’ they mought find the shootin’ irons on ’im,” ventured some one. ‘“Shucks!” answered Abner White, spitting disdainfully on the ground. ‘*You-uns don’t ’low thar’s a creeter on the mounting what’s got sense ’nough ter holler when he’s dog-bit, ’ud keep a shootin’ iron on ’im this eclost ter Talluly River? W’y, man, gumption? The shootin’ iron what kilt that thar revenuer, no marter who helt it, air a-sailin’ down ’long o’ the river, the whar’s yo’ or else hit’s at the bottom o’ the Gran’ Kassum. Ev’rybody knows the sun never gits anywhar nigh the bottom o hit,” At this point Ezekiel Cleghorn emerged from the darkness where he had been standing, and walked off up the white sandy road where it wound into the deep slope of the mountain, with a nervous air which drew upon him the criticism of his companions, and attracted their attention from the subject of the murder, temporarily at least.” ‘*Zek’s ’peared kind o’ quar ever sence he got married,” one of the men re- marked. ‘‘He hain’t never been the same in nothin’, ’cep’ in his likin’ fur Jabez Bently. Them two wus allus jess like brothers f’um the time they wuz kids.”’ “That thar kems uv a man forty yur ole an’ better marryin’ a slip uv a gal, an’a valley ’oman at that,’’ rejoined Abner White, oracularly. ‘‘l hain’t got nothin’ agin Kit. She’s a plum likely 2 gal, ef she air kind o’ stuck up an’s got her haid sot on warrin’ shoes—we-uns kin kind o’ look over sick, bein’ she’s so well-favored. But ye ca-an’t go agin nater. Hit hain’t nater for a valley gal uv sixteen, whar’s purtier’n ary picter ye ever seed, ter be a-marryin’ uv a mounting man ez ole ez Zeke Cleghorn. Hit hain’t nater.” “They du say,’”? ventured one of the men in a lowered tone, *‘ez her gran’ pap war a Jew-peddler, an’ that kind 0’ sot the valley boys agin her. An’ I hey hearn ez thar wuz a teown chap—’ He paused irresolutely. ‘““Whyn’t ye go on?’? demanded old White, sharply. ‘Spit it out, man.” *‘Wa-al, I kind o’ hated ter tell! it,” the man continued with embarrassed laugh, *’kase 1 ca-an’t tor & fi hearn ez this teown chap, what must ha’ been a or’nary vilyun, wuz plum sweet on Kit an’ him, bat he warn’t a-keerin’ fur ter marry her, an’ went off an swat her on an’ left her tollerble sudden at the een’. Not long atterwardt Zeke Cleghorn fell heels over head in love long uv her, an’ they wuz married in less time hit teks ter tell it.’’ The old man gave a bitter laugh. ‘“*Ef that thar air the true word,’’ he commented, ‘‘l hain’ts’ prised ez Zeke does quare. Zeke hain’t no tame man, an’ he air bodaciously in love long o’ his wife.” The coroner’s inquest over the body of George Dickson, held the next day in the hotel parlors, was crowded almost to suffocation. had arrived by served to swell the Every door and window was blocked by stalwart mountaineers, and their intense, earnest faces, which in their most jovial humors rarely showed a gleam of mirth, lent an added solemnity to the scene. When the verdict had been rendered, and the crowd was slowly thinning, a tall, slender woman, evidently belong- ing to the mountains, was seen gazing intently down at the face of the corpse. In spite of her rusticity, she was a con- *n and officers and Detectives the train crowd. noon spicuous figure. Her coarse and scant; shoes—for, unlike the} other mountain women, she wore shoes dress was her —were coarse and ill-fitting, a dark cal-| ico sun-bonnet hung back off her head | on her shoulders, the strings held loosely with one slender brown her chin. But the head was well-shaped covered with a | mass of curling blue-black hair which | i beneath | hand bare disclosed and ended in a thick braid at her waist: the} face was oriental in its coloring and con- | tour—the oval outlines, the long black eyes, the full red lips, the nose thin-| nostrilled and slightly aquiline, the rieh color which came and went in her ivory- tinted cheeks. Her body was slender and graceful, and she held an air that marked her as very difierent | from the awkward, shambling country women with whom she was associated. So long did she stand gazing down on the face of the dead that the attention of one of the detectives attracted to- ward her. Finally saw two large tears trickle down face and fall softly on the hand holding the bonnet- strings. ‘‘What do you know of that man?” he demanded abruptly. The woman was startled from her rig- idity, but in an instant she turned on him her long narrow eyes, showing little more than two lines of dark brilliant herself with was he her }is worth | whisky, even in | mad currant | against its rocky bed. | the brown. ‘“‘Nothin’,’”’? she answered composedly. “‘Then why were you crying?” ‘I warn’t a-eryin’,—leas’ warn’t a-aimin’ ter. ways 1 An’ ef I war, ary | TRADESMAN. j body kin shed a few tears over a daid | man, I reckon, an’ him shot down sud- | den in all o’ his sins.” The detective regarded her helplessly. He was silenced but not convinced, and turned his attention to a mountaineer who was appreaching the woman. This man was pointed out to him as Ezekiel Cleghorn, who, he was told, was friend and boon companion of Jabez Bently, the man he was expected to hunt down and arrest. **Kem away, Kit,’? Cleghorn said, with a certain gruff kindness. ‘‘Don’t stan’ thar a-makin’ a show out’n yo’se’f. Kem an’ hyur ’em tell how they be a-s’archin’ | fur Jabez.” The woman shrugged impatiently, and leaning both hands on | dead | the rude boards that held the body, gazed down as one looks for the | last time on the face dearest on earth. “Go way, an’ stop pesterin’ me, she said, with same irritability. ‘I don’t keer nothin’ fur Jabez Bently, nor you-uns nuther.” Cleghorn stooped to pick up the sun- bonnet as it fell to the floor, and as he rose to an erect position his eyes showed the gleam of a maniac. ‘‘Mine what you-uns sez,” he hissed, grasping his wife’s arm fiercely. ‘‘Thar mought be mo’ murder ’n this’n. I hain’t a-gwine ter swar thar won’t.”’ The woman gave a sigh, more from weariness it seemed than from any Stronger emotion, and taking her bon- net from her husband without so much as glancing in his face, put it on her bead and turned in the direction of the door. “There is something out of the run of things there,” muttered the detective, as he watched the retreating couple gloomily. ‘That kind of a woman isn’t going to be mooning over a dead revenue officer for nothing. That case looking into. There may be more causes for murdering a man than the mountains. I’ve about made up my mind, anyhow, that women are at the bottom of as much devilment as whisky.”’ The murder of George Dickson oc- /eurred in August, but December came j and no trace of Bently could be found. |He had disappeared as completely as though the river had canght him in its and dashed him to pieces In an easterly murder direction from where was committed, it is only j}about six miles, as the crow flies, to | the | erally South Carolina believed line. It was gen- that Bently had gone that way, and, crossing the Chattooga river, had fled into the Carolina moun- tains, which tower higher and are even more inaccessible than the Georgia spurs. This was theory, and a pretty good one; but in the meanwhile Bently | continued missing. it was the middle of December. The weather wasintensely cold; in the moun- tains traveling was almost impossible on account of its severity, and search for Bently had slackened considerably. 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The little cabin of Zeke Cleghorn was on the westerly slope of Hickory-nut mountain, wot then a_ stone’s throw from .where Bently’s still had been raided. In this cabin, one evening as the shadows had begun to lengthen into the early winter night, the detect- ive who had noticed Kit Cleghorn’s strange behavior at the coroner’s inquest the summer before pulled the latch- string and walked quietly and unan- nounced into the room. He had that day tracked Bently here, and strongly sus- pecting Cleghorn as well, he hoped to shock one of the two men into a confes- sion, and possibly to arrest both. The large room was unlighted, save by the pine knots that blazed in the cavern- ous fire-place, throwing over the scene weird and dancing shadows of the huge rafters and beams. The detective, intending to startle the inhabitants of the little mountain home, was in turn startled. On the bed lay the woman, her black hair thrown over the pillow, her narrow black eyes large and sunken, her face thin to emaciation and pale as though the shadow of death already rested there. By her side, hold- ing one thin hand, sat her husband, his haggard face looking, in its agony, like that of anold man. At the foot of the bed sat Jabez Bently. The two men noticed the intrusion by simply raising their heads; then the sick woman turned, and fixed on the intruder her hollow, black eyes. “What have you-uns kem fur?” she demanded in a weak tone. Then her voice rose to a shriek, and with unnat- ural strength she raised herself on her elbow. “The shootin’ iron!’ she cried excit- edly, pointed one emaciated finger to the detective’s right hand. ‘‘Zeke! Zeke! Look! He’s foun’ the shootin’ iron you- uns kilt George Dickson with—what ye aimed to fling in the river back 0’ the hotel. Hit must ha’ cotch in the bushes.” oZeke Cleghorn gave a glance of amazement at the rusty pistol, and then looking reproachfully in the face of the stupified man who held it, he took his frantic wife in his arms and tried gently to calm her. Bently crossed the room and took the detective forcibly by the arm. ‘Took here!” he said in a low tone. “This hyar ’oeman air a-dyin’, an’ we uns hain’t a-gwine ter have no sich es this hyar a-gwine on round her. You- uns ’ll hatter git out. Zeke hain’t a-gwine ter run off nur me nuther. Ye kin git ary one ye want—atterwards.”’ “JT beg your pardon,” the man stam- mered, moving towards the door. “Ot course, { didn’t know.”’ more ‘Kem back hyar! Don’t ye go,’’ the voice from the bed called. The woman’s manner had grown quiet and her voice was searcely more than a thread. but it was still high-pitched and shrill, show- ing an intense inward excitement. ‘*Kem nigher,’’ she continued, fixing on the detective her burning eyes and mo- tioning feebly. He crossed over and stood near the bed side. “IT want you-uns ter know how hit | war,” she began with an effort. Her strength was evidently deserting her fast. ‘“‘Ef you don’t, ye’ll hang some- body arterwards what warn’t to blame. Hit ca-an’t marter ter me long how much ye knows. Zeke kilt him, but he hed aright ter. He seed me in George Dickson’s arms that thar day, an’ he’d lowed thar was somethin’ wrong long afo’. 1 wuz gwine ter marry George Dickson fo’ | ever seed Zeke, but all the folks kep’ a~’lowin’ es he never hed no min’ to marry me an’ war jess a-fool- in’, an’ I war pow’ful pestered in my min’. Then he went off an’ leff me kind o’ sudden, an’ I went plum wil’. Zeke kem along an’ axed me ter marry him, an’ | done it, right straight off. I hedn’t been married long ’fo’ George kem back. He’d been ordered off on that thar raid, an’ never hed time ter tell me—’cause 1 never knowed nothin’ ’bout him a-bein’ arevenuer. That thar wuz the tale he tole me, but Zeke ’lowed he war jess a nat’ ral vilyun.’’ ‘“‘Revenuers air sich or’nary cusses,’’ Bently interpolated apologetically, as though excusing his friend’s harshness. The sick woman paid no attention to the interruption, but went on in the same strained key. | “T’low | went plum stark crazy then, an’ I hain’t never got my right senses sence. I hain’t got’em now,” she con- tinued, her voice rising suddenly to a frenzied shriek. ‘‘I loved him!—O good Gawd! How I loved him! Zeke hed reason to kill him, furI wuz his wife. But I hain’t never been sorry one bit. 1 hain’t hed no time ter study ’bout bein’ sorry; hit wuz all tuck up in lovin’ him. An’! hain’t sorry now. Ef I hed it ter go over agin, I’d do jess the same way over agin. Gawd hev massy on my wicked soul!”’ Her excitement had exhausted her again, and she sank back on the pillow so white and still that the three men feared that death had already claimed her. But in a few seconds she again unclosed her eyes. ‘Zeke,’ she said, in a whisper. Her husband bent over her. ‘‘Zeke, you- uns desarved better’n ye ever got at my hands. Ye’ve been good ter me, an’ ye’re a good man. But you-uns must’n think too hard o’ Kit. She couldn’t help it.” “QO Kit, my po’ leetle gal!” the man sobbed. ‘Hit don’t marter. Nothin’ marters, ef ye’d jess git well.” There was no answer. ‘The seconds grew into minutes, and the silence was so intense that the detective’s watch could be heard ticking with startling dis- tinctness. Finally the husband raised his head, and, laying down the little hand gently, stood erect. ‘“She’s gone!’’ he said softly. breath’s stopped. Hit’s all over.” —_—————_ i> We have made H. Schneider Co. dis- tributing agent for the old reliable S. K. B. cigar. American Cigar Co. ‘*Her by her husband’s | The Poorest Man On Earth Can afford the BEST salt. | | | | | | The Richest Man On Earth CANNOT afford any other. 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B UYS EAST FULTON ar. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of COCOA and CHOCOLATE IN THIS COUNTRY, have received from the 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, GERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE, VANILLA CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, For “ purity of material,” “excellent flavor,” and “uniform even composi- tion.” SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS_,MIOH. Jno. A. CovopE Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. S. VeRDrEeR, Cashier, K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business, Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T J.O’Brien, A. d. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, J. A.S. Verdier. i Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. , ra ri. | | AROUND THE STATE. | timber, running west from Frederick, on | OTanges show more or less rot upon ar- She Drummed Successfully. ~ | the Mackinaw division of the Michigan |Tival, but, after being put in order, stand H. W. Allen, a — _ popu- e MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. |Central to Alba, a distance of forty | UP better than any other variety and ee a ak ce in . Negaunee—B. Levin has opened a new | miles. The roadbed is finished and Mr. will soon be the kind generally carried Shaidads ecllaliaby 46 setae tie with +t grocery store. | Ward is now laying the track, having, im stock by all dealers. The demand is, | his wife and letting her go out on the a ae Seotts—John Nevison has opened a purchased seventy carloads of steel rails, | 20d will be, light and prices somewhat road to attend to his business, 7 harness shop here. |which are now being delivered at|@asier, as strawberries are coming in ee —— ey ee Sat Sale See oe his | Frederick. The rails are sixty-five|freely and supersede other fruit to &/ an accident which threw his shoulder : grocery stock to Whitney & Bailey. Flint—A. S. Little & Son succeed M. Campbell in the bazaar business. Lansing—Peabody & Peabody succeed out of joint. He was very much wor- ried at his enforeed idleness, as there were some of his best customers that ought to be seen; so his wife proposed that she should take his sample case and | pounds to the yard and it is said that no} great extent. line of road in the west is more solidly| Foreign Nuts—Show no change and constructed than this. Mr. Ward also | Prices rule very easy. The buyer has purchased two 45-ton locomotives, and | the advantage in the present condition Cc. Harlow & Peabody in general trade. Chase—Jennie S$. Gordon has removed her general stock from Reed City to this place. Saginaw—Barrows & Gregory succeed J. F. Barrows as dealers in pianos and organs. Sault Ste. Marie—Perey Shepherd has purchased the grocery business of R. L. Mitchell. Gobleville—E. A. Post furniture and undertaking C. D. Myers. Sparta—Van Wilkenburg & Hastings business of his to has sold business have purchased the lumber S. S. Hesseltine. Montague—Geo. Mindrop has opened a grocery stock in the store room for- merly occupied by John Haan. Petersburg—W. K. Gunsolus moved to this place from Hudson embarked in the harness business. Hudson—John MeNulty has purchased the grocery stock of Wm. Cosgrove and will continue the business at the same location. Eaton Rapids—M. P. Bromeling is mov- ing his hardware stock from Onondaga to this city, where he will be associated in re- and has business with Henry C. Minnie. Detroit—Charies J. Apel & Co. have filed a $1,500 chattel mortgage runuipg to C. F. Funke & Co., covering the for- mer’s grocery stock at 362 Gratiot avenue. Cheboygan—H. H. Packard has sold his drug stock to A. E. Sangster, of Catilies, and D. J. Gahan, of Mi. Clemens, who will continue the business under the style of Sangster & Gahan. Hudson—F. F. Palmer & Son, have been engaged in the hardware busi- 1873, have decided to embark in who ness here since to close out their stock and the wholesale fishing tackle business. Saginaw—Swinton & Reynolds have merged their stationery and book busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Swinton, Reynolds & Cooper Co. The corporation has a capital stock of $25,000, and is oflicered as follows: President, W. T. Cooper; Vice-President, G. A. Reynolds; Secretary and Treas- urer, D. Swinton. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Charlotte—Jerrie Mikesell, in company with his L. F. Mikesell, have formed a copartnership under the firm name of J. Mikesell & Co., and will put in the latest machinery for canning corn, tomatoes and apples. Manistee—Notwithstanding trade lumber is dull and all the yard dealers say they do not want any more stock at present, itis evident that it is time to purchase, and they are beginning to send out feelers so as to be prepared to get what they want when the time comes. We had half a dozen traveling men here last week, all on the lookout for thing, and that is more buyers than we have seen here at once for a long time. son, improved in some- the work of finishing the road for busi- ness will be pushed as rapidly as pos- sibie. Mancelona—The Herald says: The rumor that the Antrim Iron Co., at this place, would soon be compelled to go out of blast, unfortunately proves to be well founded, and all speculation as_ to whether this report [was true or not has been set at rest by the announcement of Manager Duncan that the furnace would shut down the last of this month. While we greatly deplore the fact that evena brief shut-down necessary, at the same time all must admit that it is far better for the employes, at least, that the works should remain idle for a few months now than during the winter when other employment would be very difficult to secure. While the effects of this shut-down will be severely felt by our business men and the town in gener- al, at the same time the employes, and especially those who have no money laid by to meet an emergency like this, will feel it most keenly. However, the company have very generously decided to give the men occupying their tene- ment houses the rent of the same free of charge during the period that the furnace remains idle, and this decision will, we believe, be of material assistance to a great many. is The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is steady and un- changed, quotations being the same as a week ago, except Nos. 6, 7 and 8, which are a sixpence higher. Fish—Trout, Family White Fish Codfish are a little lower. Bananas—Stocks held in this market average light this week and bunches rule small, as latest arrivals have been what is graded as ‘‘seconds.” The im- porters were able to clean up all the best fruit at straight sales and good figures, which accounts for the scarcity of the best fruit here at present. The demand will continue fairly good up to July 1 in spite of domestic fruits. Lemons—The disagreeable cold weather tends to preyent any material advance in lemons, although it is mor- ally certain that sound lines of bright, good-keeping stock will bring much bet- ter prices very soon. There is an abun- dance of November cut fruit scattered throughout the West, which will be run off at reasonable figures, as all of it shows more or less weakness. All that is needed just now to shoot the asking price up several degrees the good warm weather usually with us at this time of the year. Our market is well supplied with all grades from choice to fancy, selling from $2.50@4, Oranges—The California fruit is melt- ing down very rapidly and wholesalers are not anxious to carry iarge stocks. Prices at original shipping points are firm, but the risk in transit is too great and is Alba—For two years David Ward has|to be assumed except when the stock been constructing a railroad through his | can be rushed off at once. of the market. Daies and Figs—Are in ample supply and prices are in accord with the general state of traffic throughout the country. Cocoanuts—Remain firm and the de- mand fairly active. There is no prospect of a decline, and purchases at present quotations are all right. Peanuts—Owing to dullness of trade no advance has been made, although the market is firmand prices will be higher when a change does come. 2 Things You Can Buy for a Cent. ‘The penny store appeals to me now with a fresh interest,’”’ said a young father, and ‘Give me a penny” has a new significance. My youthful daughter has found the penny store, and she has dis- covered me as a source of supplies. It is wonderful the variety of things that can be bought for a penny, and it is as- tonishing the variety of things that she buys. Candies she buys of many kinds that are new to me, and which must have been invented since the not very remote period when I was a child my- self. There are now more kinds to choose from, and they are sold in a greater variety of forms: at two for a cent, or three or four; and some of the stick candies sold now are a foot or so long, though they are more attenuated than their shorter’ sized brothers. And she buys articles of furniture, pianos, and chairs and things like that for a cent apiece; and pinwheel papers, a lot of them for a cent, and all dif- ferent colors; and those little rubber bags that you blow up and that make a funny squeaking noise when you ex- pel the air from them; paper dolls, little blank books and a great lot of things fascinating to the youthful mind. When we walk abroad she runs ahead as we approach the penny store, so that she may have the more time to gaze at the treasures in the window. Of all the shop windows this is the only one that interests her, and as I see her looking intently in and think of the many thou- sands of other children just like her, it is easy to see where the profit on penny goods comes in.”’ iO te Big Eggs and Birds. At a recent meeting of the British Ornithological Society at London the two recently discovered eggs of the great auk is were exhibited, and also the egg of the! same bird owned by Mr. Rothschild, known as the Leipsig egg, from the fact that it formerly was owned by a taylor of that town. The two newly discovered eggs are said to be very fine specimens, one of them presenting beautiful mark- ings, and the other being remarkable for the absence of the ordinary marks. The eggs are for sale, and no little interest is felt among collectors as to who shall get them. At the same meeting were exhibited four life specimens of the euri- ous, frightless birds of New Zeeland, the abteryx. They belong to Mr. Rothschild, who has thirty-five of the birds on his place at Tring. It is feared that this bird, which belongs to a very ancient form, will soon be extinct, and Mr. Rothschild is engaged in making some investigations as to its genus and its The Messina) habits, while yet there is time. go out to see them for him. He doubt- fully consented, and was very much sur- prised to find when she returned that night that she had taken ten pages of orders more than he ever secured in one day in his whole career. He now thinks that his wife is the better drum- mer of the two. There is no reason why a lady should not make a good drummer, as many of them make first-class retail clerks. —_> _ <—-- Chicago Jobbers Say Nay. CuiIcaGco, May 19—My attention has been called to a report of the meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associ- tion held May 7, and published in the May 16th issue of THr MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The gentlemen making the statements as to the position of the Chicago jobbers as to the cartage item, were misinformed. Ali the jobbing grocery houses of this city are members of the Illinois Wholesale Grocers’ As- sociation governing themselves by rules of practice, which like those of Mich- igan, distinctly forbid any such un- merchantlike practices as not charging cartage or allowing salesmen to rebate it when made. HENRY C. CARVER, Sec’y i -o- <-- We Stand Corrected. ALLENS, May 19—N. A. Jackson has engaged in the grocery business instead of the banking business, as your paper states. Joiner & Eaton succeed Winchester & Ellis in the banking business. HNGS ARE COMING 1. Hot Weather. 2. A Circus. 3- Fans. Ot all the past and by-gone adver- tising fakes, none hold their own wi.a the ever present Picture Card. Other ‘“‘fakes’? come and go, and their whiskers sprout, turn gray and fall out, but the picture card ever bobs up serenely, and when it comes to a eard and fan combined, WAY! The children waui them; The old folks want them—for the chil- dren, Grandma wants one, The fat man needs one, The dude has to have one, and Remember All these people are advertising the man who gives away the fan. BUT THEY COST! WELL I SHOULD SAY NOT! Just see vur late samples and lead the procession with an advertising fan on Cireus Day. ———0———- TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vv THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. J. F. Harroun has opened a meat market at 1165 South Division street. J. P. Bohn has opened a grocery store at South Grand Rapids. The 1. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock. P. Phillipsen has opened a grocery store at 717 East Fulton street. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. He Patterson, formerly engaged in the grocery business at 1207 South Divi- sion street, has embarked in the boot and shoe business at the same _ location. Rindge, Kalmbach & Co. furnished the stock. Lewis T. Wileox was purchased, or secured options on, all the capital stock of the Wilcox Heat-Light Co. and will continue the business at the same loca- tion under a style hereafter to be determined upon. Do the inspection clauses of the ped- dling ordinance mean anything, or are they a dead letter? That large quantities of unwholesome fruits and vegetables are constantly being offered for sale by peddlers is indisputable. This, too, in the face of an ordinance which makes inspection not only a possibility, but a requirement. There is not now, nor has there been in the past, any attempt to enforce these vitally essential provisions of the ordinance, and the reason appears to be that there is no one whose duty it is todo the work. The health officer is authorized to examine such articles as are submitted to him for inspection; he cannot follow the men who are doing the selling and inspect the goods as they are being offered to the public. His time is fully occupied with other duties and, as a matter of fact, itis not his place to do it. Neither can the police do the work, their time being taken up with other and equally important duties, How, then, are the inspection clauses to be enforced? There is but one way, and that is by the appointment of an officer whose special duty it shall be to inspect food products. There is certainly great need for such an officer. The amount of unwholesome fooc products, especially vegetables, fruits and meat, sold in all large cities is enormous, and, when there is no one to look after it, itis likely to be much worse than where there is an inspector. Here in Grand Rapids there is no in- spector and the health officer has only inspected what has been submitted to him. There is not likely to be one ap- pointed this year, as the watchword ap- pears to be ‘“‘retrenchment.’’ thing else must give way. The people do not seem to have any idea of the necessity for a food inspector, and would, in all probability, cry out against the ex- pense, but in the interest of public health and morals, such an officer should be appointed. He need not necessarily be a member of the police force, but it would be as well to give him police powers. Heshould have authority not only to condemn a product, if bad, but to order its destruction. If such an officer were appointed and given suffi- cient authority, his work would be of un- told benefit to the people. In no other way, except by the appointment of a regular inspector, can food inspection laws be enforced. and every- An annoying feature of the peddling question last year was the granting of cil. This was carried to such an extent became necessary to ask the Council to put an end to it. tion was introduced prohibiting pelled to take out licenses. came necessary to know how the matter was regarded by Mayor Fisher. Mr. Fisher was called asked for opinion on the ter permits. “I do believe that the Mayor, or anyone else, has the right,” replied the Mayor, suspend the operation of an ordinance passed by the Council. It principle, and, although it may have been customary for the chief executive of the city in the past to grant permits, custom cannot make right out of wrong. I do not think that what 1 have done that direction should be regarded granting permits, | have simply contin- ued a few of last year’s licenses in force until the Council takes action upon the schedule. All the men to whom I granted extensions were cripples, with families to support, who had a natural repugnance to becoming charges upon the city, and, | must say, lLadmired their independence, and did my best to en- courage it; but, as I have told you al- ready, I am opposed on _ principle to granting permits and shall refer all ap- plicants to the Council. At the same time, I do not consider the resolution passed by last year’s Council, prohibit- ing the granting of permits, binding upon me as Mayor of the city. That resolution, with all other resolutions of a like nature, died with the body that gave it being; but as there are sixteen members of last year’s Council who voted for that resolution in the present body, I would not, in any event, feel at liberty to suspend the operation of the ordinance in manner named. It would be poor policy, to say the least, and very discourteous. I shall do all in my power to assist in the enforcement of the ordinance.” upon his of granting is wrong in in | as the “Why is it that, with the 5 prices of al- most all other lines on tne down grade, the price of coal remains stationery?” asked THe TRADESMAN of an attache of the Grant Fuel & Ice Co. last week. ‘That question is a chestnut,’’? was. the reply. ‘‘About two out of every three people who come in here fire it at us. But let me whisper a secret in your ear: There is so little profit in the coal busi- ness now that, if the price dropped 25 cents a ton, we would go out of business. I know that people call us bloated mo- nopolists, and coal barons and other nice names, but we have got used to that and don’t mind it. How many coal dealers do you know in this city who have got rich in the busipess? I have been connected with the business over 20 years and only know of one man whvu ever made any money, and that one was S. P. Bennett; and he made his money when prices were high and competition small. He had only four rivals for trade in his best days. There’s one man who made money selling coal, and I could name a round dozen who have failed. Why don’t we raise prices so we can make some money? What good We are selling now at would that do? and caused such complications that it | Accordingly a resolu-| There is nothing to be done but to go on the | in the same old rut, although we are not Mayor from granting permits to peddlers making decent wages. without the payment of the regular fee. price of coal? For the balance of the year no permits the price to us. were granted and all peddlers were com- operators and is the same to all; But Mayer! | all on a dead level Stuart has retired from office, and it be- | only difference being in freights. to | permits by the Mayor and Common Coun- | the So | course. and | wise. mat- | not ; other. same figure as Detroit and other | large towns, and, if we raise prices, some of those outside dealers would ;step in here and take the business. Who the In the first place there is This made by the we are in that respect, the Then have an understanding, of We couldn’t do business other- The price is made uniform, so po one dealer has any advantage over an- We have given to under- stand that the wholesale price of coal would by dropped 50 or 75 cents a ton in fixes is the retailers been the near future, and, if so, we will give the consumers the benefit. Now, I want to ask you a question: Why is it that people are so hard on coal dealers? Just let aman go into this at once he becomes a robber, tionist and a cheat. We giving short weight and cheating in the quality of the coal. If atl the things said about us were true most of us ought to be in States’ prison.’’ Silently and sadly dropping a tear—it was all he had to drop—over the miseries of the poor coal men, the reporter ncsaites —_ 9 <> Gripeack Brigade. Parmenter is confined to house by reason of an attack of rheuma- tism. His route is being covered in the meantime by Geo. B. Canfield. Graham Boys (L. H. Beals & Son) been drawn as a juror in Superior Court and will, therefore, be unable to visit the trade until the May term of court, unless he succeeds in get- ting excused from the panel. A. A. Sexton, a Chicago traveling salesman, after eight years of litigation, has succeeded in getting judgment against L. J. Lively, another Chicago salesman, for $2,500. It is only one- tenth of the amount that he was suing for, but itis sufficient to vindicate honor, if not to overload his pocket. Some eight years ago Mr. Lively got ona train, bound from St. Louis to Chicago, and sat down beside Mr. Sexton, he had never seen before. They soon fell into conversation and felt good friends by the time the train arrived at Springfield. There Mr. Lively suddenly discovered that his poecketboot, contain- ing $15, was missing, and accused the other of taking it. Sexton indignantly denied the charge, but Lively called an officer and had him arrested. The offi- cer picked up the pocketbook, with its contents intaet, under the seat; but Lively pressed his charge, and Sexton was earried off to jail, being led through the streets handcutfed. The next day the justice discharged him, and he at once proceeded to sue Lively for $25,000 damages for false arrest and imprison- ment. Thecase has been to the appel- late court and has just reached a final decision. and an extor- are accused of business Frank his has the end of the his whom << — -———— Never Too Late to Mend. Little Johnnie having awakened from slumber remembered that while climbing the fence during the afternoon he had caught and torn his coat; seeing a light in the sitting room he jumped from his cot, took the coat, and carried it to his mother who exclaimed: ‘Johnnie, it is 10 o’clock, what on earth are you up so late for?”’ ‘*You told me yesterday ‘it was never too late to mend,’ and I don’t want to go to school to-morrow in an old torn coat.” It costs nothing to be polite to cus- tomers. The writer was conversing with the head of a large retail house a few days ago. Two ladies, one lame, each carrying a heavy shopping bag, stepped off the elevator. They passed a half-dozen clerks and not one offered to relive them of their burdens. The pro- prietor excused himself, aceosted the ladies in an exceedingly courteous man- ner, and, although they protested mildly, he took the bags and carried them to the farther end of the department. After seeing that the ladies were being prop- erly waited upon, he hurried away to at- tend to other duties about the store. As he passed the writer he said, loud enough so several clerks could hear: ‘I wish our salesmen would learn that it pays to be courteous to customers.”’ FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. W' HAVE BUYERS FOR ALL KINDS OF business, whether you want to buy, sell or exchange. W pg to Mutual Business ) cxcnange, Bay City, Micl 628 V TANTED—TO BUY STOCKS OF _ MER chandise of any description. ill pay spot cash. Address Warner & ooh io arma, Mich. 624 N (Y¥Y PARTNER MUST DISPOSE OF HIS 4 interest in our general stock on account of ust be a live man (with stock og his own) to match adver- tiser and location. Correspondence solicited. No. 625 care Michigan Tradesman. 625 ‘NOR RENT—THE STORE FORMERLY Oc cupied by E. J. Ware, druggist, corner Cherry and East streets Also meat market, east end same building, with good ice box. John C. Dunton, old C ounty buil ling. 618 | gee SALE—LARGE-SIZED THR EE KNIFE rotary meat chopper in good order. Cheap forcash. N. M. Wilson, Sand Lake 616 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A $5,000 DRUG stock, also the store building and a good house and lot. Here isa chance tostep into an old established business. Good reasons for sell ing. Chas. E. Mercer, 1 and 2 Widdicomb build- ing. Phone 8$3. PLANING MILL—WE OFFER FOR the North Side Planing Mill, which is first- lassin every respect, or will receive proposi tions to locate the business in some other thriv ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic ill health. or without Purchaser m 617 SALE ited. Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613 ] RUG STORE FOR SALE. INVOICING about $2,(0% Good business, low rent, small expenses. Address — keeper 4 and 6 Pear] S trand Rapids, Mict 615 NOR SALE—WELL SSTABLIBNED MILLI nery business in the finest location in Grand Rapids. Arareopportunity, Real Estate taken for part payment. Address J. W., care Michigan Tradesman. 611 OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS with a small line of groceries, are #3,5 0, of good ciean goods. Sales last year, #12 000. Good town of S00 inhabitants. Noe ompe tition, and in the finest section of country in the State. Addre ss Piere e & Lee, C ‘limax, Mich. 614 OR SALE GHE AP STORE AND DWE LL- ing in first-class location in town of 1,000 inhabitants, Address E E. 1.., box 156, Thompson- 598 ville, nzie T\HE BES’ THE STATE TO start a dry goods store is Big Rapids. Has only two. 608 ['—EXCELLENT y store. LOCATION FOR No ae grocery within Yr RE groc four blocks. High and dry basement under store. Come and see for yourself, J. y Spooner, 6 Arcade, Grand Rapids. 609 OR SALE—THE THEO. KEMINK DRUG stock, corner West Leonard street and Broadway. Purchaser gets great bargain. Henry Idema, Kent County Savings Bank, Grand Rapids. 610 OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF HARD- ware and agricultural implements in good paying territory. Stock will invoice $2,500 to $3.000. Would sell one-half interest. Good rea sons for selling. Address No. 589, care Michi gan - adesman. 589 A CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIE S FOR Sale; good trade, cheap’ for spot cash; the only deliv. ery wagon in town. Stock about $2,500. Investigate. Address box 15, Centre- ville, Mich, 820 bgp heron AN FAMILIAR WITH THE cheese trade to embark in the wholesale cheese and dairy supply business at this market, Advertiser stands ready to put in $10,000 special capital. Address No. 602 care Michigan Trades man. 602 SITUATIONS WANTED. ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK OR book-keeper. Have had three years’ prac- tical experience in a well known general store in this city. Address No. 629, care Michigan Tradesman. Ww: ANTED—POSITION BY EXPERT AC- countant. Books opened or closed. Bal- ances rendered. Partnerships adjusted and any other work of similar character promptly done. Address No, 578, care The Tradesman. 578 _ THOROUGHLY COMPETENT and experienced young man would like position as book-keeper, cashier or other office work with jobbing or mannfacturing a. Address ‘‘H’’ care The Tradesman. B E C i’ S HEADACHE POWDERS Pay the beSt profit. Order from your jobber THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. roby | REFINING SUGAR i Description of the Processes Used — ” s Price Current. DEMINS. iin Pounkihe teetauey. Sed at) aatic _.., DARUEACHED COTTONE. Ameskeng.. oe Svorett Bn brown. .12 oe pie Reiecy. = [Se ne TS ere ee e As stated last week the making of the aden ‘ao 5q| World Wide. oe anneeie brown 14 |" ae oe. ae ‘= various grades of sugar is the result of Atlantic A... 0... 0% Full Yard Wide...” 4% | Beaver miiot [Eek | slightly altering the conditions under . P Eng " nom BA eens on " 6... - Jaffrey. ove "" _— ~ crystals develop. 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Soe ca ceay 5 a. 7 = -10 [ No. 280 “oe ¥ ¥ © © i, le t awre meee 1 19 7 see granulated sugar is not completed with ae |Madras cheese cioih 6% os er the mere production of the clear white | pi&¢™ os Seceeua ox ee re --- 5 [Lancaster, staple... § + We crystals; it has yet t nul Pee Ae 7 “ : oo fancies .... 7 ‘ c y o be dried and|Capital A.... ...... 5% “ “ Canton ne” “ Normandie 7 sifted—‘‘granulated’’ is the technical Cavanat ¥.......... 5 “ ts AFC...... &%|Lancashire.......... 6 es a tical | Chapman cheese ci. 3%/Notbe R “ Teazle...10%/Manchester. ... 5% : . 1e sugar to be granulated, after Clifton C YR. 5i¢/Our Level Best : Lb Angola. .10% Monogram.......... 6% leaving the centrifugal machines, is con- Dwight $ ae - oon R.........- 8 | foe staple... 6% aS "? veyed to the sixth floor, whence it is Clifton egies 3 camel ; aoe Seounen ted 7 Renfrew Dress...... 7% tenn. ; i nr nee + +> MME cece saemns ves i laced i / ane : o een mare... 2... 7 |Prideof thea West __ 5% GRAIN BAGS, ‘ . . ; in the lowest part of the drum, | Farwell.............. i%'Rosalind West... .12 i 13 Georgia .. 13 ° a <. early half way round, and drops it tay egg Loom. 8 lSuntight......... Hs Se ce ucis nbadaens ” upon the heated surfé ie oe. Utica Mills... .. 8 Ce r ; ed surface of the inner | 5/78 Prize... f “Nonpareil .. ." a Pa ‘ v Gs Wi cece ts ink we oe HREADS. per abKe e is process is continued | Falrmount.......... ‘% |White Horse ee 8% oes ad... Warbours...... ..- 95 while the sugar is passing through tl Full Value.......... 6% ei. | : Holyoke. cee 45, |Marshall’s.... ......90 ¢ » granulat . : 1e HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. a geet ~_ ys or. The falling of the sugar seat oe ee ee tu [Dwieas a ethor... 8 KNITTING COTTON. Crew. "2 upon the hard surface of the inner drum eae N es wane, Coe Reintintiens ' . a Tedbtens CANTON FLANNEL. vo. . .. 38 jNo. 14. ee or 2aks up any lumps which may have | Hous Jnbleached. Bleached. 8.......34 se i“ ca 2 oe. t i 3 ousewife A........ dg Housewife . Ue 49 |* 16.......38 43 i urmed and prevents the crystals from c Be 5% 8 ‘eee GM] 12.0050 38 ais oo 44 ‘ “ . re ame 7 ne pe E adhering together while drying. The i oe iL s A 7% |g) CAMBRICS. ” * WRITE ER PR i ea moisture thrown off during the drying c E ee 7 ‘i 7 sie oi oe... eeu ‘ Lockwood 2. 4 . coe y oo. ns Cobeccnnst I DERE... ecw see w a Pee, process is expelled by afan. The sugar * cone a i a. ans Gove ee 4 ooo agape a ‘ >) vi is ie . f a ‘ Perens eer eit B a is not yet ready for barrelling, as it : a ie i = slat 11% RED a om must be ‘“‘bolted’”’ in wis bs on i : J 2 8% ss Zz +122 12% Fireman...... . B24 (T W . = e the coarse f ' separate ' EE Citas | ll lee 22% 2 coarse from the fine grains is a Talbot XXX......... STE Tn eee ooo BM , and so . = So 30 JRF, XXX Manufacturers ; preserve uniformity of size. The proc oe a ie Nameless...... .....27%|Buekeye....--.--... 34 aabeocaveregge th “7 ' S1ze. 9e- eiscs os sii ie a8 waist ess of bolting is nearly similar to that in . neous ~ Red & Blue, as ani PIECED AND STAMPED TINWARE used in flour mills. Powdered sugars | pe rl = pr WARP. Winds R.... 22% Western W enema 188 Telepho on ne et oe cn f gars crlews, white ee eesti colored. 18 | Caso ----+ -+--+-18KID RP... 8... 21e ne are made from the particles of granu- he ‘colored ‘55 [Eategetty colored. ..18 Sen Western. -18%4/D R P... ae — GRAND RAPIDS, MICH i granu-|, red....19 |White Star... ” «IU ern........20 Flushing XXX 23 ? E ated screened off by the bolting ma- a a nr colored 19 waoelariceqae eee ae chines. It is ground by rollers which a se eteeeres 8 (Nameless... 9 | Nameless ..-.. 8@ 9% ss Ay revolve with great rapidity. This prod- es a aid ae 10% i ee ee “on | Cl au ' on Se « , ee a a. 2 sae A 7 uct is also bolted, and reground until cae. oud 20 ee =" Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black a STYLES OF eo? the whole is reduced to an almost im idm ae 1054 wie 108 18 i | 10% - i j Genera ri : i Ee 1 / palpable powder. The making of cube Coine dy 8 3) Woinderta. 45 ie ae ieelao 2” 12” " : sugar is also an interestin ' Schilling’s.. ...... 9 00/Brighto ee 0 20 20 : i sting process. | Davis Waists .... 9 00|/Bo cree tat ete 4 7% | severen ti a bs The sugar, which has been previously 8 50|A bdominal Heese 15 00 Mayland, Son...” ‘108 ead wrointss :. ' isichead tee « thick ov it siti CORSET JEANS. 20S Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9 oz ...12% v EI a ck sy rup, is fed into a ae ella 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% Greenwood, 8 ox... 1154[Star ee re 18% 9 > a ae um or die, the surface of | Biddeford.......-2.° = icenotees Ses eet 6% rns 8 F--+~--s- 10% Boston, << ae which is perforated with holes the size PrenaeEe ----- += 6%| Walworth eae é preggo i - ye * and shape of the fini oe aa --+ OM | Waite, Ses.......-.- Pee tale, oe 1e finished cubes. The | 4J/e turkey reds.. 5%4|Berwick fa Colored, dos........ 20 |Colored’ “ --. ae moistened sugar is compressed ji * Fobes.. Iclyde —-- . oe oa ee 7 50 a acre 7. ssed into] ,, pink « purple 5 ed \Charter Oak fancies Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pa 3 these spaces while the drum is revoly-| “ pink checks. 5%/DelMarine cashm's: 3% _— Cross.... 9 cae are ° ing, and, after being carrie< ae “ caer ecks 544) ss mourn’g 5% mee, ae 9 r e qo i part way| « hie asin 5 |Eddystone faney... 5% Best AA.....124)Valley C oe round the drum, is expelled by shirtings ... 3%) chocolat 5% ee 7% KK Soe... ine . 1y plung- | American fancy.... 54 . oe Peete es. rr tree 10% ers which are worked by a cam on the yosemite e ea samen. 9 a. ‘szwine SILK ’ j ce : i ean shirti , . inside of the drum. The cubes drop in — pean. 3% Hamtton fancy. 5% Contioatt, Ge... Corticeili knitting, 4. ~#o? 4 core i eed ouneteion ween eed —— —-- : |Manchester _ 4 =e doe per %oz ball .....30 90 & 99 M 7 plates carried under tl Arnold Merino.... ; new era. 5% OKS AND EYES—PER 0 ; es — ne drum by an «long cloth 5 $ Metrhussk © Sanay. 5u% | No 1 Bk & White, -10 No ‘Bk ¥ GRAN nroe St., wT endless belt. They are finally removed] « centuryciosh 2” — a a5 3 0 oe 2 ae ‘ r “ from the belt and placed in drying clos- ‘ aa a Fecisie fancy... oa % “ 10 “ = o i ots, where they harden ina few hours > seal TR 10% lt be N° ste sc. ey e £-15 Sf 3%......40 When dry they are screened ” . = low seal. = Simpson mourning.. 5% “s Aa cas - ed and packed.| « ‘"Rren.y red! 11% greys...... 5% | No 2 White & BIk12 |No » amount of water used in refining Ballon nie 10% a oy 5X i : “6 ” ts 3 White & lens : Ta sugar in the Franklin refi i “colors. m indigo. 6% ' --18 |“ 12 “ _ ry Le sfinery is | Bengal biue, n Turkey robes.. a4 - 26 ¢ enormous. Two pumps are used for cog ogg y . ee ae ares. ow. “Sa pumping the hot water used in the ae ica on a eT iY EX 3% a hai | a 38 “| 7” : el : va- fl blue... 6 | * O *- NEEDLES— rious buildings, having a combined ca « 9 gem ....6 aoe Tur- A. James.......... 1 40|Steambo oF pacity of 1,25 . , c Foulards ... 5%|Martha Washington 6% | Crowel = beeen ae 1 35/\G 1a 1 acter =e 40 1,250,000 gallons. The two dis- “ redy.... 77) Turkey red ington | | Mareball’s......-- ian 11 50 charge pipes are twelve inches in diam-| “ “ 44... 107 ark ashington |S—4....175 6-4 IS —— ee STAN yr? eter and are in constant use. All the <—/,£, 12 mieeena Lee o% Hu [e+..-.1 6 6—4...2 30 DARD ul i. a... Wi + ee used is filtered, the two filters & medders... 5 : oo 6% one Sail Twine. “a 4 © used being each te : : wills. TOW : i. --14 a g eac h ten feet in diameter and + ie... 5 a Paes 104 Domestic — Rising Star 4-ply..--17 a # en feet high. They have a cc TICKINGs. -sreeeeee » 4% | Anchor ............. 16 |North § Sply....17 AT WE bined capacity of 3,000,006 : >m- Hamilton Ns MKIAC A... 11% a ae Poa ei inl 20 H 4 1OLESALE BY ) 3,006 ; _ | Hamilton N ........ 7 |Pemberton AAA... 7 i cei en . —— a day. D re Pemberton AAA’. .16" |TXL- Valley...... 1b Powhattan wT _ azeltine & Perkins Drug Co “ : sc s recently been in-|, “ Awning..11 [Swift River.°.2...2: rE ERs ote nn Ball_B: 0. creased about twenty-five per cent peas maeee......--. 74 | Alabama... aay euitiount P' all-Barnhart-Putman Co. { yj ns sees tae 0 tiie ot se i %| Warren. s a a. veeeees $% Oneida oe Olney & Judson Grocer Co. 7,000 haiti at one o dae, wed to ovEros — 16 Ar sa eee. eee 5% B. J. Reynolds. a\4eo iia: i i (fre Ae Ce 0° eabeaaganenars 64| Riverside... 02... ® dey, ond bs Ol. i. le a... ee 5 ' 7 |Top of Heap........20" | Baw River......-.. ‘yo: Senora oi FINEST QUALITY. \A oe sessesereeeeee & [Otis Checks... .... i cheeks... -.” -~| POPULAR PRICES. yy ‘<< A+» re v > .) _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ORANGES AND LEMONS. Wonderful Growth of the Trade these Staple Fruits. in “You want to know something about soft fruits?’ said Ben.W. Putnam, of the Putnam Candy Co., to Tuk TRADESMAN last week. ‘Well, I have been handling them for thirty years in this market, and 1 will tell you what 1 know about them. Thirty years ago we imported all our oranges from the [sland of Sicily. So far as I know they were not grown in this country at that time and it was not until more than twenty years later that home grown cut any figure in American markets. They were a luxury for the sickroom and for the tables .of the rich in those days. The wholesale price ran from $16 to $20 a box. Now they sel- dom go above $4 a box. Where one box was sold in those days there are a thou- sand sold now, and they are almost as common as apples. Indeed, 1 suppose you know that for some time they have been actually cheaper than apples and much more common. Down East they still import Sicilys to a considerable ex- tent, but here, and in all Western mar- kets, we buy Floridas and Californias almost exclusively. It is less than ten years since domestic oranges came into the market, yet in that short time they have almost entirely supplanted the for- eign fruit. Floridas are the finest or- anges in the world, and no one wants any other kind so long as they are to be had. But New York, Boston and other Eastern ports have always been receiv- ing points for foreign fruits, and, I sup- pose, always will be. Hundreds of thousands of boxes are received every season from Sicily. These are all sold by auction ‘to shippers who distribute them to dealers. There are not far from 100,000 boxes consumed in Michi- gan alone, and many other States con- sume many more than we do. So you see the orange trade is a pretty extensive one. Florida oranges are, however, fighting their way to the fropvt, even in the East, and in my opinion, it will not be long until they will have the Ameri- can market to themselves. I don’t mean that California oranges will be shut out, but their distance from the consuming centers will always be a bar to their progress. What [ mean that Flor- idas will rule the market. Last year it took about 15,000 boxes to supply this market, and, if times had been good, that number would have been exceeded by at least 5,000. A great many Mich- igan people are interested in orange cul- ture in the South and they talk oranges and send them to their friends and so the consumption is constantly increas- ing. Years ago the season practically closed with the Fourth of July: but now we handle oranges throughout the year. Now they are to be found on the tables of all classes of people; then if ordinary people ever ate an orange it was on a holiday and it was put down as an ex- cusable extravagance. AsItold you, it is less than ten years since we began to receive domestic oranges, and yet our growers have already begun to fight for- eign growers on their ownground. The exportation of oranges is already quite large and is constantly on the increase. It is simply another instance of the triumph of American enterprise and push. “As to lemons, the trade has in- creased in about the same proportion as is oranges, but we do not raise lemons in this country. We import all we use from = Sicily. California tried to raise them, and, I believe, is still mak- ing a desperate effort in that direction, but they are very poor stock, very soft and poor keepers. The climate does not seem to agree with them somehow, but the trade in lemons is a growing one and I have no doubt that our people will yet succeed in producing them. ‘Bananas are bad stock to handle. The weather is seldom just right for them, and the dealer who handles them to any great extent is more than likely to lose. I remember when we first began to handle them. It was about twenty years ago when we were located on Canal street. Very few people knew what they were and numbers would come into the store every day to ask what they were. From ten to twenty bunches would supply this market for a week in those days. We would never order twenty bunches unless we had places for at ‘east half of them; but the consumption has grown enormously in the last few years, and last year this market got away with about 125 ears. That means 50,000 bunches, or, at 100 bananas to the bunch, 5,000,000 bananas. They are considered very wholesome and highly nutritious, more so than any other fruit, and, considering their delicious flavor, it is not to be wondered that they have risen rapidly in publie estimation. Tarantulas? Yes, we run across them sometimes, but not often. I never heard of anyone being injured by a tarantula, although they are said to be very vicious, and their bite sure death. The boys usually kill them when they find them.” i — lpm _ “Better Let Well Enough Alone.” From the Toledo Business World. THE MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN com- plains that the Food and Dairy Com- missioner appointed by Governor Rich is more ornamental than useful, and that he spends a good part of the time which should be occupied in looking after offenders against the food laws in wooing the drowsy god. There is some compensation for even such a state of things as this and THe TRADEs- MAN ought to be reconciled by the thought that when the Commissioner is asleep he is at least doing no harm. Over on this side the line the complaint is, not that the Commissioner is too quiet, but that he is entirely too active. Tur TRADESMAN will remember that when the frogs petitioned Jupiter for a king, he sent them the first time a log, which they soon came to treat with con- tempt. It was too inactive to suit their views, and they elamored for a change. Whereupon Jupiter sent them a stork, who immediately set about devouring all his dutiful subjects that he could put his bill upon. Better let well enough alone. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash bwyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dir. ee ae 6010 i ee 40 Poa er ee, 25 eeueiiee. Weenie... .. L. 50&10 AXES. First ya Se Bree... ew. $ 6 50 ‘ B. Bronze el luau ewan ce ix 00 z a 7 50 ' i 13 50 BARROWS, dis mereee. ww ce $12 00 14 00 oe neous - bet 30 00 BOLTS. dis. eee eas 50&10 —— moet ow. 75&10 ee ee 40&10 Sleigh Oe ee eee yee BUCKETS. We, eee... ek ns. ce $350 CE ee ee eso 400 — cagT, dis. Cast Loose Pin, fi — oe 7&1) Wought Narrow, bright 5ast joint 40 ..... 66410 Wrought ee oo HAMMERS. Mle 40 | Maydole &Co.'s..... eo ee dis. 25 Wrought Inside Blind..... Lyecees i, 49 | ip’s.. Meet ae ieeee see... 235 Wie 75 | Yerkes & Plumb’s. es dis. 40&10 ee, Ce 79&10 | Mason’s Solid C: ast Steel... ..80c list 60 Pee Pee i. 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand.. ..80¢ 40&10 Mitea: Seeeerae§ «............2......... 7... 70 | HINGES, BLOCKs. | oo Crave ’s, 1,2,3..... r . dis. 60&19 i ao an | oate..- "per ox. net, 2 50 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10 Seow @ Hook and ‘Strap, ‘to 12 in. - 436 14 and ORADLES. on oe 3% Ce aL --40&10 Serew Hook and’ Eye, %.. eeeseeem@t 10 a 7. oo CROW BARS, 6 “ . Me iese eter corer ee «TM a perb 5 ite " & oe ee Ti CAPS Strap and T. cue - » Ue 50 ete GERS. dis. Hers = EN a Lin = Barn Door Kidder Miz. Co., Wood track... .50&10 : Ee a5 | Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10 da a i“ 80 Migoer, woe rece .................,....... 40 ee gaa HOLLOW WARS. OARTRIDGES, Wee... cee... 60410 re ee 50 | Kettles. Bede ese cua. ee Eg dis. 25| Spiders... .... .-- 60810 CHISELS, dis. Gray enameled. . ..- 40G10 Socket Firmer . .. ie Stamped ee BNISHING iy new list 70 peas CO 25810 Japanned Tin Ware.. ie : aoe — eee eee a 75&10 Granite hon Ware. ............ “new lis” = cket Slicks .... . 5810 WIRE GOODS. dis Butcherr’ Tauged Re ee 70&10410 COMBS, dis, — ee -70&10&10 a ook basa 7010810 Hotcbhice” " _— inet Ce eG ' - Gate Hooks and Kyes............... 708104510 CHALK, Stanley Rule and Level Co,’ — White Crayons, per gross. ..12Q12% dig, 10 = GT i COPPER. Sisal, % Inch and — ae _ @ Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. ‘Per pound 28 Manilla .... : “2 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 . 28 | cool and SQUARES, om. Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... gg] suvel and Trom..... .......-.-----.- +44 -- M&1) Cina tee 33 Poy ee eee. 60 TS a2 | Mitre... ee, 20 ee “dis. satya 7 g ho Moros Bit Sidewe Se Nos 10t0 14... a Ty 70 per eee Merete ea een 405 2 7) Mioree's Taper hee. ... 8... i Nee te ATP” 05 DRIPPING PANS, NOB. 22 $0.24... ee eee eee eee ees $05 2 80 Small sises, ser pound .... 6% a 25 tO -... eee esses ie fo Large sizes, per pound ... 06 | All sheets ‘No. 18 and lighter, over ea inches ELBOWS. wide not less than 2-10 extra Com 6 phone Gm... dos. net = SAND PAPER, Cc sorrugated AC dis List acct. 19, "86 .... dis. 50 EE diz. 40 SABH CORD. 1 m 4080 Silver Lake, White A.........-...... lat 80 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. DrabA . 55 Clark’s, small, et ay ee... 30 “ eee ‘ en Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; 3,830 eee a. 25 “ ae = FILES—New List. dis. 5 RE ' . ) Oe 6010-10 Discount, 10 ee. " New American ..... .....-............. 6010-10 * gasH WEIAnTS pean Breese ee — BN ve oses es P@r ton $25 Halices Hore Reape Re i ia SAWS. dis. GALVANIZED [RON dticen taaia’ Dia. X Guts. er foot... 2 — “- * 22 — *4; 2% and 26; 27 28 an Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 Ds 6 ar 5 6 6 . _~ jal Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 36 scount, 60 —1 . ampion and Electric Tooth X GAUGES. dis. Cuts, Po ree... 30 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 TRAPS. dis. KNOBs—New List. dis, eer, COM 60810 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 | Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s . 35 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s. 70 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... ee Ce 18¢ per dos Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55 | Mouse, delusion..................... $1.50 per dos Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 7 tes Mecees WIRE. = LOCKS—pboor, din. right Market os ee eae eee ecu eu cele. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 oe sae Ms Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... ne cere atten ss Branford’s 55 aanned Market.......... nes 55 Coppered Spring Steel. edd ote ae, 50 roo. | Barbed Fence, galvanised. a 2 sen. $16.00, dis, 60-10 painted .. tosteeeeeeees 210 Hunt Bye deo ah. 00, aie, 6C-10 HORSE NAILS, Hunt's 818.50, dix, 2010 Au Sable ........ ota | )|=36 i 300 a MAULS. ee Tea TN os nas- cnnsnenesenn wens dis, 05 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled... 50 | Northwestern..... wicu, vee oS Coffee, Parkers Co.’ oe ~, Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.. 30 Dee ok Wittens D | Coes Genuine |. cn 5A) “ PS. W Ps oe 7 sunuesen 42 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, tase, 7 - ae — ee aa ce, 30 Coe's Patent, malleabl vee sees. TGC MOLASSESGATES. dis. MISORLLANEOUS, dis. Stebbin's Pattern.............0.. 5. -»-- pe eee” Veo aaa Stebbin’s Genuine... ooo. 68410 | Screws, Ne orn... eo iieeh ey eines ent | am Enterprise, self-measuring............ meee 25 aaee Bed a te a. -sdtodt0 Dampers, ee A MENT ) Advance over ba h Steel nails, a bot i _ —- Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods... “esaio Wire nails, base. : 1 30 METALS, EE ee Base Base PIG TIN. ee SO) Ee deel 26¢ . EE 1 Pig Bare..... .... nee eaaeesice 28¢ i ps) c. = ee 35 a: cen gowe vga per pound, a 45 | GO pound casky............... ea 6 a... ani rter pouee..... 7 Me ee co. 50 4% . SOLDER. Ce ieee . IS . 90 The prices of the ‘many other qualities of CC eee 1 20 | solder in the market Indicated by private brands s 1 60| Vary according to composition. Fine 3 1 60 ANTIMONY ce ee 65 | Cookson... oe eee ee pound - -«.CrmrCCCsCCs OU 13 ee %0 —MELEN GRADE. Finish ” ee "5 roar a Charcoal a 8750 Se ee 90 ’ ied ee ened eu cuus se ‘“ : a. . . 1 10 | 10x14 1X, ’ (oie eee dl 6 Clineh?10.... ed ee a i Fe 9 2 “6 a so| Each additional X on this grade, $1.75. bi ee Cae eee ue isu, 90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. Barrell & . i, 17 a 1o Charcoal . : 7 LANES. ee es 6 75 Ohio Tool Co.’s, ‘uae ae @40 | 10x14 oe 8 25 Se ee a “""" gso | 14x20 EX, a a roe ~~ ee .. O40 Each idditional x on this grade ‘1. 50, ene rst qu @40 ROOFING PLATES Stanley Rule and Level &o.! B wood. . ....50&10 —— * “| Worcester.................. : Bu 4x20 IX, r LO ead euneue scone, 50 Na dis.60—10 | 20x28 IC, ‘ Fl india wealicess aia 13 50 Coamon, poliained a dis. 70 Le 7 “ Allaway Grade........... 6 00 RIVETS. dis. 4x20 IX, ee 7 50 te 50—10 | 20x28 IC, “ i Baa een 12 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50—10 | 20x28Ix, ‘ ‘| ee ela 15 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. 14x38 x a Paemepeanagtee 814 00 “ay Wood's be patent planished Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 a i a, ite 0od’s 08. 25 to 27.. 14x86 i for No. : Boilers, Broken : per pound extra. 14x60 Ix, ; | per pound 10 00 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN az PL 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — 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- lass matter. ¢@" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tae MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894, A DIVISION OF THE PLUNDER. The expression, ‘‘To the victors belong the spoils,” is commonly attributed to General Andrew Jackson, when he be- came President. He felt the necessity of being surrounded by men in official positions who would work in harmony with him and not antagonize his plans, which, in regard to the national finances, extremely radical and opposed to the popular notion at that time. President Jackson’s administra- tion, therefore, commenced with a gen- eral change of officials to an extent that had not previously common. In later years it came to be the pracice to turn out all the on the accession of a new President, and there is no doubt that it satisfies the popular will. The partisans who assist to elect were been office holders a President or a Governor expect to share the actual benefits of the victory, and they clamor for the offices. The of the United States, leaving out the Army and Navy, requires more than 160,000 men to do its work. This public service requires the spending of some $500,000 a year, a large share of which goes to the office-holders. Naturally, when there is a change in the National administration, it is the popular public service wish that there should be an entire new deal of offices This doc- city gov- the plunder system obtains throughout the country. These observations are and salaries. trine descends to the state and ernments, and, as a consequence, suggested by the strong opposition made to Senator Morgan’s bill for the reorganization of the State Department for the purpose of creating a competent diplomatic service. Under the present spoils system men are put into public office because they are friends and partisans of those in power. Necessarily, but little attention is paid to the fitness or competence of appoin- tees. The country can get along, as it has always done, with partisan office- holders in the domestic service, but when it comes to dealing with foreign nations, our untrained ‘‘diplomats’’ are unable to contend with the skilled and ingenious men who have been brought up from their youth in an atmosphere of diplomacy; who have all the principles and precedents of international law and treaties at their fingers’ ends, and who are constantly alert to gain advantages against other countries for the govern- ments they serve. A lot of men, picked here and there,whose chief recommenda- tions are that they are the friends and backers of men high in power, are con- verted, by the mere fact of appointment, into members of the State Department, or of the diplomatic corps of the United States to contest questions of high in- ternational importance with the trained statesmen of Europe. So poorly is the United States equipped as to its diplo- matic service that it never fails to be outgeneraled in a war of wits, and it is only when naval officers like Perry, Ingraham, Benham and others like them, take the dilemma of diplomacy by the horns and force it out of its field, that the United States ever gains a victory in an international dispute. But the common notion is against any permanent and trained civil service. The United States is spending hundreds of millions of money every year on its public business, and there is a general demand that there should be rotation in office, so that the money may be dis- tributed around. The ery is not only that the ‘trascals’’ of the other party should be turned out, but that every fellow who has had a place for a term or two ought to be put out, so others can have achance. It is, therefore, much to be doubted if it will be possible to create & permanent diplomatic service. The existing civil service reform movement has never been popular. It is contrary to the demand that everybody should have a chance at the plunder of public office. The axe which has been at- tributed to Vice President Stevenson seems to be the most popular symbol in politics. PRODUCTION OF INDIAN CORN. Probably there is no article of food | which is supplied in greater abundance and at cheaper rates than is the maize or Indian corn of America. It is more nour- ishing and more generally wholesome than is wheat, yet itis almost unknown in Europe save as food for animals. This grain is peculiar to our continent and is hence called Indian corn. A re- port on maize from the Department of Agriculture shows that the exports of maize or Indian corn for the past ten years may be said to have averaged about 4 per cent. of the entire crop. The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Bel- gium, Holland and Denmark rank as our best customers for the grain, while Spain and Norway and Sweden take a small quantity. Except an __ insignificant amount, exported corn is chiefly used as food for animals, distillery purposes, and starch making. The only form of corn as human food at all known abroad is corn starch, whichis sold principally in the British Isles under the name of corn flour. It is also put on the market under various other names, sometimes in order that the public may not know that it is a product of Indian corn or maize, as prejudice is strong against the grain as human food. The manufacturers thereby restrict the demand, and the public are kept in ignorance of what the article really is. America has practically a monopoly of | the production of this important food product. corn is grown in Italy, and its home con- sumption is considerable. Spain, Cen- tral and Southern France, produce a mea- ger quantity, and it is less palatable as human food than the American, and the use of it in that way is insignificant. From Southeastern Europe comes Danu- bian corn, a small, round grain variety, which is preferred to the American for chicken feed, owing to the size of the grain. The very limited corn areas of Europe grow a grain which cannot com- pare with ours either as to quality or price; hence the European production need not be taken into account in dis- cussing the question of creating a Euro- pean market. It would be natural to suppose that an article so excellent for human food and at the same time so much cheaper than wheat would be regarded as a boon by the working people of Europe, but corn bread is practically unknown to them, and the people who live on frye, barley, oats, potatoes and beans reject our nour- ishing and admirable bread product with loathing. Charles J. Murphy, an American citi- zen who had spent much time in Europe, was impressed with the necessity for making known the value of Indian corn to the people of the European countries, and, at his own cost, made exhibits and delivered lectures on the subject at sev- eral foreign general expositions. He was subsequently employed by the De- partment of Agriculture to introduce abroad a proper knowledge of the value of this product of the United States, and he has done good service in disseminat- ing information on the subject. But people wedded to old habits are slow to j learn, and nothing is more difficult to | overcome than a blind and senseless prej- udice. In his report Commissioner Murphy gives an instance of the preju- dice against corn. It was in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it was pro- posed by a member of the povurhouse board to substitute Indiap corn for a costlier food in their institution. The mere suggestion brought a storm about his ears, and at the ensuing election he was overwhelmingly defeated because of his inhumanity in thrusting on the de- fenseless paupers a food which the hon- orable legislators thought only fit for pigs. It appears to be quite as difficult to teach the Europeans the use of corn as food as it is to accustom the Northern people of the United States to consume rice as an article of ordinary diet. They must be educated to it. The United States produces annually nearly 2,000,: ; 900,000 bushels of corn, of which only a mere pittance, say from 30,000,000 to ; 50,000,000, is exported. Our country can spare an enormous amount of this product, aud it would be of immense im- portance to have its use extensively in- troduced in European countries. AS TO THE SENATE. The United States Senate has, for a considerable period, been growing into public disfavor. It is not a popular body in the sense that it is not responsi- ble to the people, because its members are not chosen by the people. It has | been commonly styled ‘the millionaire jclub” and the American House of | Lords. Abbe Sieyes, the celebrated French |radical in the Revolutionary Assembly A somewhat inferior grade of | of 798, denounced a second house of Congress on the grounds that if it dis- sented from the other house itis mischiey- ous, and if it agrees it is superfluous, But the United States Senate is not a mere second house as an annex or sup- plement to the first. It is a most proper part of our peculiar political system. It represents the sovereignty of the co- equal States, while the other house rep- resents the people. There are so many representatives in Congress because there are so many millions of people in the country. There are eighty-eight Senators because there are forty-four States, and each State has two Senators. There are in the present House 356 mem- bers, the basis of representation being one to 173,901 inhabitants. Just now, the Senate is coming in fora great deal of denunciation, all the faults of its membership being paraded before the public. It is not enough that the House, with 356 mem- bers, costs the people of the United States considerably more than $2,500,000 perannum. Most of the lower houses of the legislative bedies of Europe have two or three times as many members as belong to the lower branch of our Nat- ional Legislature, yet they cost the peo- ple for whom they legislate scarcely a fraction of what we pay for the honor of being governed. The Senate far surpasses the House in costliness when the smaliness of its membership is considered. The House of Representatives of the United States, with its 356 members, takes $415,000 per annum to pay its employes. The Senate, with eighty-eight members, has taken $418,000 for this year for the same pur- pase, and, as it constantly increases ex- penses, next year it will no doubt take more. It requires $130,000. to pay the mileage of members of the House, but the Senate cannot get along with less than $45,000 annually for the same pur- pose. In all probability there are not more than half a dozen of its members (if so many) who do not travel on railroad passes and coolly drop the money which belongs to the people in their wallets. The House contents itself with fifty- seven committees, one-third at least of which are of no use, but the Senate can- not get along with less than sixty, while every member of the Senate has a clerk of his own, at his individual beck and call, with no drain upon his private purse therefor. The clerks, messengers and employes of one kind and another around the Senate wing of the Capitol are as thick as flies around a sugar bar- rel. Each Senator does not cost the country less than $12,000 per annum. But the United States are rich enough to pay their Senators well, if they oaly get a service to correspond. The Senate should be a great conservative body, made up of statesmen and_ patriots, whose wisdom and philanthropy ought to be the grandest bulwark of the repub- lie’s prosperity, safety and perpetuity. As it is, demagogues, placemen and mere politicians have in late years been too plenty in its seats. Isn’t it about time the large retail houses stopped talking hard times, bad times, panicy times in their advertise- ments in the daily prints? Iteration and re-iteration only serve to make people think that the business world is worse off than it really is. Let’s have a more hopeful tone. A perfectly well man can be made ill in a day if every one he meets tells him he is not looking well. { ty + a+) a @-s ) er ee SS hm Vt THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 THE FAILURE OF REPUBLICS. Many thoughtful persons who have observed that the entire history of hu- man government is the history of the oppression of the people by kings and despots of all sorts, while republics, or governments for the people and by the people, make up but a most insignifi- eant part of the world’s political an- nals, have attributed the fact to the ig- norance of the people in earlier ages, and the consequent ease with which they were enslaved by astute and am- bitious tyrants, and they claim that re- publican democratic principles are the result of an evolution of modern civili- zation and enlightenment. Such a notion is not only contrary to the ascertained fact, but history is filled with accounts of the decay and failure of every form of popular government and its inevitable lapse into some sort of despotism of class or one-man control. The first republic of which there is any circumstantial account was the Hebrew commonwealth. It was established un- der the direction of one of the wisest lawgivers the world ever saw. The ex- perienced men and elders of the people formed a sort of senate, charged with the important business of the nation; but the entire congregation had a voice in publie affairs. Finally the people got tired of the cares of public business, and they clam- ored for a king. Their wise men en- deavored to dissuade them from so dan- gerous a change, impressing the advice with the fateful declaration that the little finger of a king was thicker than the thigh of an ordinary man; but this wise counsel was vain. The people would not rest until they had discarded their democratic institutions and had voluntarily placed themselves under the control of the worst set of despots im- aginable. Greece and Rome tried de- mocracy, and voluntarily gave it up to be governed by successions of unen- durable tyrants, whose reign cursed the very earth on which the enslaved people permitted such monsters to live. After the fall of the Roman common- wealth, shortly before the Christian era, with the exception’ of the little Swiss Confederation in the European Alps, there was not upon the face of the whole earth any distinct and vigorous manifes- tation of republican democratic institu- tions until the rise of this New World republic of the United States of Amer- ica. And despite the wonderful object lesson it has presented to the people of all countries for more than a century, the spread of democratic liberty has been most meager and limited. The failure of republics comes from the inherent selfishness of the people. In a commonwealth, which is a govern- ment of the people, by the people, every citizen has obvious public duties. But men are not willing to give anything, not even their time and intelligence, to the public good. Every individual is thinking, scheming and exerting himself solely for selfish interests. There are, of course, some exceptions in the vast masses of the population, but these ex- ceptions do not change the rule that of the majority every man is for himself at the time that the republic falls by its abandoment by the people. There is in every country a small class of political schemers whose supreme de- sire is to rule. To them the public ser- vice is a personal, private perquisite. by dividing their plunder with the ) placemen. But these two small classes could Their object is to get into office, by no matter what means, and to maintain themselves there at every cost to their personal honesty and the public in- terest. Then there is always a gang of spec- ulators and contractors who live on the body politic and maintain themselves in favor with any change of administration never overthrow a government unaided. The most dangerous element, and one which makes the biggest noise and show of strength, is the blatant trade union- ists who are really socialists and anarch- ists at heart and who improve every op- portunity to lead astray the working- men of the country by creating deep- seated hatred of capitalists and the es- tablished institutions of the country and even the nation itself. These men are really the most dangerous foes of the republic, for the reason that their most effective work is done clandestinely and insidiously, giving patriots no opportun- ity to controvert the false and inten- tionally misleading statements of the plotters, who advocate a strong govern- ment which will seize on all the wealth and divide it among the multitude; which will take possession of all indus- tries and operate them for the general benefit. Another dangerous element is the ‘best people,’’ so-called, who do not care what may be the form of govern- ment or who the persons in power, so long as their worldly affairs prosper. They do not regard political principles, and it is only when their personal inter- ests are hurt that they will ever raise a how]. If they could be assured of not being disturbed in any way, such people would not give the least thought as to the government or politics of the country. Then there is the very wealthy class, a small one, whose members desire laws and institutions that will give them so- cial precedence and special privileges over the common people. Moreover, they want well-armed protection for their enormous wealth. Such people are always for a strong goverment. They would prefer a king. Such, in brief, are the various classes who are warring against the government, either openly or tacitly; from which it will be seen how easy it is for a de- mocracy to be changed into a despotism. This has been done many times before, and there is no reason it will not be done again. Let the American people take warning. The Power of Invention. It is not every one who appreciates the importance of helping the inventors along. They are the salt of the earth. Congress can well go out of its way to consider any law which, to any extent, will assist them tn getting a fair return for their ideas. If a system of laws could finally be enacted, giving full and fair compensation to each inventor promptly as one by one he discovered the secrets of nature, there would not be, as there are at present, so many of nature’s secrets hidden from us. We might find that, instead of this world be- ing one of incessant toil, nature intended it to be one of comparative ease; inste ad of being a world of incessant worry, per- | haps we should find nature intended it! to be one of comparative contentment. a Much as a woman loves her husband, she always hopes that her daughter will marry better than she did. FREE Given Away ——~_e< ar Ty eye The “DETROIT Self-Adding Detailed Gash Register. “A REGISTER THAT [8 A REGISTER.” All Work Done on Wheels, No Paper Used. OUR OFFER. We will send the above Cash Register free with 1,000 Cigars for $39. Terms 30 days, less 2 per cent. 10 days. This offer includes either ‘ Key West,”’ “D. T. C, Havana Gems.’ There are positively no better Cigars made and retailed for 5 cents. To convince the dealer that the above brands are as represented, we will send 200 for examination to be returned if not satisfactory. Ifthe Cigars suit, the balance, 800, can go for- ward with the Register. 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Vooruregs, Superintendent. ; - GRAND Kamps; ues, We pay Highest Market Prices in Spot Cash and measure bark when Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. We have the best line of roasted coffees in the West, carefully selected trom the leading roasting estab- lishments in the country. If you want to wear diamonds handle our coffees. All packed in 5O01b tin cans, with latest improved lid of our own invention. Jewell’s Arabian Mocha, Jewell’s Old Government Java, Jewell’s Old Government Java and Mocha, Wells’ Perfection Java, Wells’ Java and Mocha, Weaver's Blend, Sancaibo, Ideal Golden Rio, Crushed Java and Mocha, Clark, oT oy MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. DELAY IN General business BUSINETS REVIVAL. still remains uncom- fortably depressed. and the few indica- tions of an approaching improvement in it, which have been noted from time to time, have been only partially verified. Apparently the much prosperity is going to be delayed longer than was expected, and must be awaited with such patience and resignation as we are able to command. We, evident- ly, did not, at first, fully appreciate the magnitude of the calamity which over- took us last summer, and are just begin- ning, in the light of experience, to dis- cover it. It is said that a soldier in the heat of action will receive almost mortal wounds and only become aware of them when, after the battle, he finds himself upon a hospital cot and is examined by @ surgeon; the stress and excite- ment which prevailed a year ago, every one of us, being occupied with the im- mediate peri] of the moment and with efforts to meet it, failed to take in the full Now desired revival of so, in uil seriousness of our disaster. hat we are confronted with facts which hen existed, but were concealed from Us, We see more clearly how matters actually stood. | The success, too, with which we re- sisted the shock of the Baring failure in 1890 had contributed to deceive us as to the real peril of our position. That ca tastrophe, resulting as it did from the collapse of the wild specalation fostered by British capital in Argentina and in Australia, and following closely upon the disastrous termination of the French copper syndicate, the waste of millions |in the Panama Canal project, and the | losses of Germany and Austria in build- ing, Manufacturing, and mining specu- lations, ought to have involved us like- wise in its effects. That it did not, and that, after a brief period of alarm and stringency, business here resumed its usual course, was due to the operation of the Sherman act in steadily pouring jinto our currency the $4,500,000 per month of notes issued for the purchase of silver, as well as to the elasticity of our national character. Reassured by our good fortune, and heedless of the fate of European operators, we kept on as if | nothing nad happened, untilin January | of last year our speculation rose to a height it had hardly ever before attained. | The prices of nearly all stocks were at high water mark. Then came the ship- ments of gold to Europe, Secretary Fos- oe ef & eo o i | | ter’s silly appeal for help to the New| | York banks, the equally silly alarm of | their country correspondents, the bank- | ;ruptey of the Reading Railroad Com- | pany and of the National Cordage Com- pany, and the subsequent long train of | free coinage by international compact of private and corporation failures and railroad receiverships which have made the year 1893 so sadly memorable. trouble was only temporary and that we should recover from it as speedily and ; With as little substantial loss as we did uted it entirely to the continuance of silver purchases under the Sherman act | and predicted complete relief from it as soon as those purchases were stopped. They were stopped in September, but the good results expected did not follow, and we can see now why they did not. In fact, although the silver purchases, involving the steady issue of millions of dollars per montb of additional paper Still, we fiattered ourselves that the! currency, were undoubtedly the prime eause of the speculative infiation which culminated in January, 1893, their cessa- tion aggravated the collapse of that in- flation by withdrawing the stimulus that eaused it. Like cutting a drunkard off from his whisky, it was a necessary step, but the immediate effect of it was pros- tration. This signal disappointment of the hopes that were built upon the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sher- man act did not, however, prevent, quite recently, the diffusion of equally groundless expectations from the Presi- dent’s veto of the Seigniorage bill, and it does not, at this moment, deter a large number of our prominent citizens from clamoring for the passage of the Wilson Tariff bill, ‘‘with or without the income tax,” as the sovereign remedy for our business troubles and the only remain- ing hindrance to business revival. What would have happened if the Seigniorage bill had become a law is, of course, only a matter of conjecture, but, as I contended when the bill was still under discussion in the Senate, its evil tenden- cies were immensely exaggerated, and evenits provisions were by so respectable a body of gentlemenas the New York Chamber of Commerce wofully misun- derstood. Now these same gentlemen and a multitude more like them are will- ing. for the sake of getting the Wilson bill passed, to submit toa tax which is avowedly intended to take $30,000,000 annually from 85,000 of our citizens for the benefit of the rest. If the bill were absolutely certain to accomplish all that is expected of it, this would be a high price to pay for its enactment, and in view of the impossibility of predicting with accuracy just how it is going to work in practice, it strikes me that it would be far better to dispense with it altogether than to accept it with its in- come tax attachment. We know what the present tariff is, and can adapt our- selves to it, but we have had no experi- ence with the Wilson measure, and can only guess at its probable results. If only the removal of the uncertainty as to which tariff will prevail is desired, that can be obtained as well by the defeat of the Wilson bill as by its pas- sage. In thus pinning their faith upon the efficacy of a single measure to bring about a return of commercial and finan- cial prosperity, our people, however, are not peculiar. The European advo- cates of the cause of silver, whose most eminent representatives have been in session this last week in London, are equally positive that the restoration to their darling metal is indispensable not only to relieving the world’s business distress, but to preventing its future re- currence. They are far from agreeing upon the details of the scheme which they so earnestly advocate, but in a gen- eral way they assert without qualifica- from the flurry of 1890, especially as the | majority of our financial magnates attrib- | tion that the single gold standard has done all the mischief from which we are suffering, and will do more if it is ad- hered to. One Says that it has caused the fall in the prices of commodities which has occurred during recent years, and will cause them to fall still lower, thus discouraging enterprise and pre- venting the increase of production. An- other says that it unsettles the rate of exchange between gold standard coun- Standard countries. tries and silver 45 y wa , 'e 45 y veh 'e THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. 11 Arthur J. Balfour declares that we are ‘‘standing face to face with a great danger which can be only averted by a rehabilitation of silver to its proper commercial function.” A leading New Yorker, Henry W. Cannon, writes, without giving his authority for the assertion, that ‘‘in this coun- try the sentiment is almost universal that both gold and silver should be used as legal tender money, if a com- mon ratio can be established by interna- tional agreement between the principal nations of the world,” and says that this result, if attained, ‘‘will undoubtedly be of incalculable benefit to mankind.” A number of our United States Senators also cable a similar opinion. Notwithstanding the positiveness with which all these propositions are laid down, and the high respectability of the gentlemen who advance them, I cannot see that this latest enunciation of them adds anything to their truth. Making it in a formal meeting of individuals who have, as_ individuals, repeatedly ex- pressed the same views on other occa- sions, is like grouping together ciphers which were previously scattered. Ten ciphers in a row amount to no more than ten ciphers separate, and a hundred bimetallists assembled in conference possess as little wisdom as they did before they got together. It is sat- isfactory to see that the London press takes this view of the matter, likening the proceedings of the con- ference to the beating of a drum and the blowing of a trumpet to no practical purpose. The prevailing depression in business is one of those vicissitudes to which human society is liable, and is the prod- uct of no single cause, but of many causes combined, including the constitu- tion of human nature itself. It is a mental and not a physical phenomenon, and can neither be prevented nor cured by legislation. We had from 1879 to 1893, with but brief interruptions, an era of expanding enterprise and steadily increasing wealth. Many people suc- ceeded in gaining largely, more of them less largely, while few failed of gaining something. Oue enterprise, when it succeeded, led to the undertaking of an- other, and this to another. Everybody was rich or felt rich, or felt that he was going to be rich, and lived accordingly. This, in turn, stimulated production and exchange, and increased the profits of trade, until, as I have already pointed out, the failure of the Barings alarmed Great Britain, and our gold; shipments of a year ago and the resulting contrac- tion of credit by our banks brought on a panic here. At present we are painfully and laboriously engaged in sifting out the profitable from the unprofitable spec- ulations in which we had embarked, and we find, to our dismay, that numbers of them which we supposed were good are in reality comparatively worthless. Our discoveries in regard to these throw discredit on all the rest, except a few which have withstood the stress of disaster, and until we get through completing our examination and be- come weary of idleness we_ shall refrain from attempting anything new. How long a time the process will re- quire cannot be precisely foretold, but that we have not yet got near the end of it is tolerably certain. MATTHEW MARSHALL. LABOR AND ITS REWARDS. Written tor THE TRADESMAN. Of all the equivalents offered for sale in the world’s market, labor, considered | in the abstract, is the most subtle and | incomprehensible. Although its value | is reckoned in connection with time, yet} time can never be a definite measure of | its value. The owner, whoever he may be, is compelled to put it on the market everyday, or else see it drift away from him, like lost opportunity into the dead past. If not exchanged before the close of each day for something that has a more permanent value, it can only be invoiced with the assets of lost time or vanished hopes. it resembles the hran- na of the Jewish commonwealers in this respect, viz., that each human being has his daily allotted portion, which may be utilized entire or in part; but if un- used nothing remains on the morrow to increase one’s garnered treasure. Yet this incomprehensible something, so different from all material products for which it may be exchanged, becomes itself, under certain conditions, capital, so much decried nowadays by radical theorists. In other words, when each individual exchanges his labor for more of the necessaries or luxuries of life than he chooses to consume, the remainder is a reserve fund rightly called capital, whether its value be a dime, a dollar or thousands of dollars. This capital, which is but the unexpended product of labor, becomes in turn a powerful incen- tive to further exertion. Without it labor cannot secure its legitimate re- wards. Neither can capital without labor haye power to move great enter- prises that benefit mankind in general, since the latter enters into every form of production or distribution, and when it is withdrawn from market the former ceases to draw its profits. Thus capital and labor are in effect reciprocal terms representing a common interest, and the vexed questions now agitating the pub- lic mind must be solved, if solved at all, in the light of this fact. Every day’s work performed, whether in ploughing the earth or seas, the de- veloping of mineral wealth in mechanical pursuits, scientific research, or intelec- tual improvement has its relative value to be determined by results achieved. Few are naturally inclined to work in any field of labor unless under the spur of necessity, or from hope of reward. The promptings of the first, whether in- ternal or external, have a force impossible to resist. Men can labor and have often labored without useful purpose, and others fur purposes that are actually criminal. Until within a generation or two the wonderful resources of our country have favored the interests of those who had nothing but labor to sell at the start; and thousands of this class have become in turn capitalists and purchas- ers of labor. But since the competition of active capital created an extraordi- nary demand for labor the supply has become excessive. Competition ending in over-production has induced capital to lower its bid for labor and the New World is beginning to duplicate the ex- perience of older countries in the work- ings of its wage system. We have nowin the United States a large population entirely dependent on daily labor for existence, much of which is gathered from the lowest and least civilized classes of foreign lands. Each CANNED GUUUS COU RSE YOU ARE CARRYING THESE GoUODS IN S1LOCK 2 IF NOT, WHY NOT? THE STANDARD CANNED GOODS HANDLED AT THIS MARKET Is THE FAMOUS HAMBURG BRAND all arnhart PuatmanCo. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, ROCHESTER, N. Y. ESTABLISHED 37 YEARS. All Mail Orders Promptly Attended to. Our representative, William Connor, who resides at Mar- shall, Mich., will be pleased to wait upon you if you will favor him with a line to do so, and should he not have what you re- quire will thank you for looking through our line. Perfect fit and excellent garments. Low Prices Guaranteed. Summer Goods. LAWNS, ORGANDY, CHALLIES, DOTTED MULL, SERPENTINE CREPE, PERCALES, SEERSUCKER, SHIRTINGS, In all grades to sell at Popular Prices. Samples cheerfully sent on application. P. Steketee & Sons, 83 Monroe 8t. 12 ‘SHE MICHIGAN ‘PRAUDENS MAL fluctuation in market value of products means to them acertain gain or loss— the gain, if any, but slight, the loss sure to be heavy and to deprive them of the actual comforts of life. Our legisiation intended for their benefit is necessarily broad in scope, and cannot reach the de- sired end except in an indirect manner. Thus labor has been left to fight its own battles, and unfortunately not in the wisest way. | perity of all, and especially of those who depend on what labor each man can profitably put on the market, every ex- | treme demand weakens a cause that in | the main is just and should prevail. It | is true we may for atime be oppressed by combinations of capital entrenched by |injustice. The cure for that evil can | generally be found in competition, and | ultimately public opinion will enable competition to fairly combat selfish Through organization it has attempted | greed. But since many charges against to control the price of the only article it C@Pital are either false, or exaggerated has to sell, which like a perishable mar-| f0T @ Purpose, we are safe in believing ket product is difficult to do successfully. | that the wealth of the land is not in any Accordingly, in the effort the cause of | considerable degree held by the oppress- labor often gets worsted for want of suffi- | °TS of the working class. But who shall cient weapons. Quite as often bad} restrain the selfish and arbitrary power generalship turns the scale against itself, | Sed bya minority among the ranks of and the workers make their just resent-| /@bor, if by specious harangues it totally ment play into the hands of opponents. | destroys the sense of right in those who By degrees, too, organized labor is be- | form a majority of voters that can make coming as oppressive to individuals with-| 0" ™@r our civilization and consequent in its own ranks as the schemes of cap-| #¥tonomy as a nation? italists so loudly complained of. | We are nearing a crisis which is to |test the strength of our republican ex- One of the worst features of labor or-| periment as it has never been tested be- ganization is that it does not equalize; ¢gre. The unwise policy so long main- tained, that not only allowed but invited immigration of a kind wholly at vari- ance with the spirit of our institutions, is beginning to bear its natural fruit. The worst elements thus secured from lands demoralized by monarchical rule are to-day controlling the councils of labor, however much we may deplore the fact. Every day develops some new claim made on capital or government that is foreign to the theory of our national bill of rights. Until lately anarchy was solely the product of despotism. To-day it seeks to take root like the Russian thistle in republican soil, and promises equally undesirable results. It seeks, through workingmen, to undermine the citadel that protects all we hold dear, the right of self-government, and some even of our national legislators are disposed to bid it welcome. If organized labor shall en- courage the newcomer in spite of the warnings of those whose advice may be scorned because they are capitalists, then the old story of the woodman and the viper will be repeated on a large scale, and generations to come will rue the consequences. If labor is wise the evil may be averted. In default of prompt, defensive action, capital, its supposed enemy, may indeed suffer; but labor will be involved also and, by its own folly, fail to receive its desired reward. S. P. WHITMARSH. <-> Utilizing the Army. The village of Wauwatosa, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, has found a use for the commonweal army. The place has long been infested with tramps and beggars, and the leading men of the vil- lage got together and determined to or- ganize them into a contingent of Coxey- ites, and send them on to Washington. Accordingly, they went to the leader of the tramps, dubbed him general, and persuaded him to set up a recuiting office for the army. Then they set about persuading all the rest to enlist under his banner. As soon as the contingent is ready to move, it will be furnished with some supplies, escorted out of town, and, as it marches off, the inhabitants will go back and hold a jollification over their riddance. oa 2 The more worthless a man is, oftener he changes jobs. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. the hand too often puts a premium on lazi- | ness or incapacity. A sort of Proerustean | system has been enforced that gives the ambitious workman nochance to com- pete for the highest prizes, but ties him to the treadmill of fixed wages that cramps his energies, and makes him a hopeless instead of a happy toiler. Cap- ital may be never so selfish and arbitrary. But it recognizes the limit of human nature and does not make such foolish mistakes as those frequentiy insisted on by labor unions as ultimatums. Labor as organized is growing each year more unreasonable in laying down proposi- tions as a basis for settlement of ques- tions that should only be decided by the fundamental principle of the Golden Rule. Hours of labor, piece work, ap- prenticeship in skilled trades, and even trifling points of etiquette complicate many chances of settlement. And al- most invariably extremists, who are, and forever ought to be, in the minority, control its councils. the rewards of labor; but on the other/ = py to sell In a land like ours where public opin- | ionis the ultimate and impartial arbi- | trator of questions involving the pros- | you (THEY ALL SAY “It’s as good as Sapolio” when they try their experiments. own good sense will tei! you that they are only trying to get you to aid their new article. Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the public? The manufacturers by constant and judicious advertising bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for Other articles. Your EVERYBODY, eed PRICES FOR 1894. 40 CENTS A BOX. $3.60 PER CASE. .50 PE ASE, in Five- Pere ee, oe Pave Sticky Fly Paper. Case Lots. : CASE, in Ten- Its distinctive features, the Sealing Border, Divided Sheet, and the Holder are. as is well $3.40 — — known, the inventions and property of the O. & W. Thum Company. tensively imitated by unscrupulous parties. Tanglefoot in its present shape has been on the market for ten years. leads, and is accepted by both the best trade and the best consumers as the highest standard for TANGLEFOOT — Sealed SYIGKY FLY PAPER. 5 The Dealer who sells Tanglefoot will be sure to please his customers, and will avoid all loss and annoyance usually connected with the sale of imperfect or inferior goods. Manutactured by O.& W.THUM Co., Grand Rapids, Tanglefoot always These features are being ex. t | € 3 Dealers are respectfully cautioned against the illegal- ity of handling infringements, and reminded of the injustice of so doing. Each Box Contains| 25 DOUBLE SHEETS | AND ONE HOLDER. Each Case Contains) Mich. THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of| Nearby 133¢c is all that can be quoted, the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, May 19—It is not likely that anything will come out of charges of bribery now to be investigated before the Senate committee, but if it were demonstrated that a man _ had offered a bribe, there ought to be some punishment made to fit the crime. If the Sugar Trust is shown to have re- sorted to bribery, it is evident they are seeking an undeserved protection should be made little legitimate foreign competition. It is to be hoped, for decency’s sake, also, that it will not be shown that the honorable Senators have speculated in sugar stocks themselves. If they have, they should be consigned to the deepest oblivion. How would it do to dis- franchise them—to regard them as hav- ing no rights which other people were bound to respect? By the Sherman anti- trust act, the Trust is illegal, and be- tween the men intrusted with our na- tional legislation and the managers of an obnoxious monopoly, there should be no dealings or understandings. Sugar was accorded a protection of .18 cents a pound in the Tariff bill as passed by the House. By a slight ‘‘twist of the wrist” this has been increased in the nearly .55 cents on sugar imported from countries paying no bounties on exports and .65 cents on sugar from countries al- lowing such bounties. Under the Me- Kinley law refined sugar, as everybody knows, was protected to the extent of 14 cent a pound. Certainly the Trust has been liberally treated, and, much as we shou!d regret to learn it, there would not be much surprise occasioned to find that there had been reciprocal favors shown. Sugar trust stock, which was 85g on March 1, and 89% April 1, has since reached 104, and, though a trifle below par at the moment, is still sailing around 100. Let us have an investigation to the very bottom. Since my last letter, a better demand has sprung up for refined sugars, and the market is fairly active, with granu- lated at 4 5-16e. The question of lim- ited prices on sugars grows in interest The Trust does not sell to retailers, even though they buy in 100 barrel lots; but they can purchase through so-called brokers, and it is a fact that retailers in some sections are selling fot 14 cent less than the wholesalers can deliver the sugar in the same place. Coffee shows no particular animation and continues ip about the same chan- nel, with a general tendency downward. For No. 7 Brazil, 163¢¢c is about top. Mild sorts, in sympathy with Rio, are moving rather sluggishly, and few im- portant sales are being made. There is an utter absence of speculation and business on the Exchange is dull indeed. Go into the leading brokers’ offices and they will have a long lingo on rice ready for delivery, but, after all is said, you are still at a loss to tell just how the market is after all. Dull for domestic and fairly satisfactory for foreign, will, perhaps, about express the situation. Canned goods are dull, both here and in Baltimore. Here trade is exceedingly slow, and buyers who have the cash can pick up some bargains. Gallon apples have taken a turn upward again, con- trary to the general run of canned goods, and are now held at $3.65. The weather is favorable to a large pack of small fruit. and strawberries, particularly, are giving great promise. There is very little demand for peaches. Salmon is fairly steady at $1.60@1.75 for flat tins. The butter market is very weak, and prices are low and unsteady, although stocks are certainly smaller. It is prophesied that we shall see a 16¢ basis for Elgin. It is now 17¢e and the choic- est butter is obtainable at retail for 21e. Of course, with best grades at such fig- ures, lower sorts are not wanted, and go begging at 14@16c. The cheese market is dull and without any particular change from last week. Full cream, large, 1034 @10°¢c; small do, 104%,@10%c. The export demand is very light. the | and | to feel the effect of a} Senate to| Arrivals of eggs keep up well and the | market appears dull and irregular. For | with Western, Michigan, and Indiana, | 12@121¢e. | Dried fruits are extremely dull, and | prices are low without parallel. For lemons the demand is most disap- | pointing. Holders are hoping for a |touch of torrid weather. New York finds strong competition from other points and wishes ardently for the good old days. Oranges sell fairly well, and | bananas are firm at recent quotations. JAY. | —— > > The Hardware Market. General trade has kept up fairly well, but the late cold snap has had a tendency to check it, as dealers are a little cautious and fear that fruit and other crops have been injured. There is but little change to note in prices and those where advances have occurred are caused by conditions other than an in- creased demand. Barbed Wire—Owing to the strike among the coal and coke mines, it has been impossible for manufacturers to keep supplied with a sufficient amount of fuel to run their plants full time, and the consequence is a shortage; and, as prices have already been down close to the cost margin, they feel they can, with- out doing anyone an injustice, advance their prices, which they have done—15 cents per 100 pounds on barbed wire and 10 cents a ton on plain wire. As long as the trouble continues, these advances, without a doubt, will be maintained. Wire Nails—Like barbed wire, is also effected, and prices have been advanced by the makers 10 cents a keg. Jobbers in this market have, as yet, made no change. Wire Cloth—Still scarce and manufac- turers do not give much encouragement that they will be able to supply the de- mand. The price of $1.75 per 100 feet is firmly held. Poultry Netting—The demand each year seems to grow and makers find great difficulty in keeping up with the demand. Window Glass—With the early ap- proach of the closing down of all glass factories for the summer, prices are grow ng materially stronger with each week. Weshould not be surprised to see the discount put at 80 per cent. any day. te Purely Personal. S. A. Sears spent Sunday with friends at Elk Rapids. Mrs. Sears accompanied him. N. Friedman returned from St. Mo., where he has been on a trip. While there he pur- chased of Max Judd, the Consul General of the United States at Vienna, a large cloak factory, and will soon move there to manage the business. i The wage-worker has certain positive rights. He is entitled to fair and impar- tial consideration.—Denver Commercial Tribune. Bosh. What right the wage- worker that every other man in the com- munity has not? Or what rights has any man in the community that the wage-worker has not? ‘‘He is entitled to fair and impartial consideration.” Of course he is. And so is every other man. One member of a community is entitled to just the same consideration as every other member of the community. This never-ending petting and coddling the ‘‘wage-worker,’’ as though he were a spoiled child, is sickening. has Louis, business has HE WAS INITIATED. Suspicious Appearance of a Monroe Street Grocer. Last Friday morning a policeman noticed a man acting in a suspicious manner in front of a Mcnroe street store. The man was bruised and battered and his clothes were torn and, altogether, he was in a rather dilapidated condition. **Here you,” said the cop, ‘“‘what are you doing there?” “You don’t know me, eh?’’ said the stranger. ‘‘No, I don’t know you; but ’'m going to get acquainted with you—I’m going to run you in.” ‘“‘“Run mein! Well, I guess not. So you don’t recognize me? Well, that’s all right. I knew you at this time yes- terday but now [| know you not. Yester- day I was but a plain citizen of these United States; to-day I am 7 ‘“‘A deserter from Coxey’s army, by yer looks; or are you the army itself, broke loose from its moorings?’ ‘You are a fly cop, ain’t you. And you don’t know the earmarks? You don’t know a fresh-laid shriner when you see one ?” ‘‘A shiner! Yes, you’re a shiner. Your light may be a trifle dim, but you’re a shiner, all right.” ‘‘A shriner—not shiner. S-h-r-i-n-e-r, shriner. Do you tumble now? Do you know what ashrineris? A shrinerisa man who has crossed the burning sands of the desert, bucked—no, bearded the tigerin his lair, and ridden the ferocious and deadly came! forty-one times around the mystic circle. Allthis 1 have done and more. Hold, minion, I have the proofs. See my feet? They look like pieces of raw beef left over from week before last, but they are feet just the same; but the sands of Arabia are not a circumstance to the heat of the country you are pilgriming to, if you don’t quit being a policeman—see this ?” said the tramp, tenderly touching his cheek bone, which looked as if it had been kicked by a mule five times in succession on the same spot. ‘‘That’s where the camel kicked me. They say a camel’s foot is soft and spongy. It must be his other foot. The one that struck me was harder than a boarding-house biscuit. And the tiger—were you ever turned loose on a full-grown, healthy tiger? Well, I was, and only last night. 1 could stand the burning sands of the desert, and to be kicked into the middle of next week by a camel, forty-one times round the magie circle wasn’t so bad, though I expect to take my fodder standing for the next 30 days, but when I struck the tiger—say, my friend, take my advice and don’t even buzz-saw with a tiger, un- it be the little one in the green room, and even then you are likely to get scratched. Noone ever forgets the tiger that does business with him; but Vll be all right ina few days. I’m go- ing into dry-dock for repairs, and when 1 get about a dozen patches of new flesh, less and some more hair and clothes, I'll feel a new suit of like a newman. Vm worse up than Elliot was the time he worked off that old chestnut about oxygen, or Holland gin, or something.” “That'll do for a yarn,’ said the police- man, ‘‘but you tell me who you are and what you are doing here or ll run you in.” The turned painfully around and silently pointed at the sign over the door. ‘‘That’s my name.’’ ‘What! ‘E. J. Herrick?’ What’er you givin’ me?”’ ‘“That’s what; and E. J. Herrick is now in full and regular the Ancient and Noble Order of the Mystic Shrine,’’ replied the remains, as it un- locked the door and pulled itself inside. The astonished turned about, walked down to the patrol box on Scribner’s corner and turned in the fire alarm. He doesn’t know yet whether it was a dream or a bad case of wheels in the head; but what he had heard was true. Herrick wentdown to Kalamazoo to be initiated into the mysteries of the Mystic Shrine. He was initiated. > te Foster, Stevens & Co. Buy Out the Gunn Hardware Co. Foster, Stevens & Co. have purchased the merchandise and good will of the Gunn Hardware Co., both wholesale and retail, and will consolidate the stocks with their own. a Attention as directed to the advertise- ment of the Detroit Cigar Co., on another page of this week’s issue. The offer is an exceptionally attractive one and should meet with the hearty apprecia- tion of the trade. wreck itself standing in policeman PRODUCE MARKET. Asparagus—Home-grown now rules the mar ket. Dealers sell it for 0c per doz. bunches. Beans—Slow. Dealers pay #1.80@1.40 for coun- try picked, holding hand picked at $1.75. Butter—Supply is good. Creamery, fancy, 16@ 1ve; choice, 15@16c; Dairy, extra, 14@15c; rolls, fresh 11@12%. Cabbage—Poor in quality and appearance, yet all that come to this market are quickly snapped up at $2.50@2.75 per crate. Cucumbers—Are down to 60e per doz. Eggs—Dealers pay 94%@l10c, holding at lle. Field Seeds—Medium and mammoth clover, $6@6.25; Alsyke, $8@8.50; Alfalfa, %6.75@7.50; Timothy, $2.15; Red Top, 5c; Orchard Grass $1.80 gee clover, 14c; buckwheat, 12c. Lettuce—Supply is increasing. Dealers pay 4c and sell for 7e per Ib. Maple Syrup—Is unchanged. for 85ec and held at $1 per gal. Onions—Louisiana is now sending forward new onions and old are consequently knocked out. New are sold for $1.25 per bu, or #3 per bbl. Green bring 8@10c per dozen bunches. Radishes—Canada goods are fine in quality and ample in supply, commanding 15¢ per doz. bunches. Home grown, much inferior to Cana dian, bring 12c. Spinach—Unchanged at 40¢ per bu. Tomatoes—#3 per 6-basket crate. Pie Plant—Is down to %c per !b Strawberries—The quality is far from being fine, but demand is fair atabout $2.25 per crate. Indiana stock will begin to arrive this week. Potatoes—Weak and lower, handlers having reduced their paying prices to 60@65c, while they hold the retail price just now at 70@7Ec per bu. It is still bought Do They Raise Poultry in Your Buy all the first-class Poultry you can get and ship to me. pay highest market price. F. J. DETTENTHALER, 117 and 119 Monroe St. Neck of the Woods ? I want it and will 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Three Years—C. A Cheb Four Years—S. EF Five Years—F. W President—Ottmar Secretary—St Treasurer—Geo Coming Mee Houghton, Aug. 2% Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n, President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor Vice-Pre i Treasurer—W. Secretay—S. A. {Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society President, Walter K.Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder EQUALITY MEANS COMPETITION. While a complete and uniform polit- ical, moral and social condition of all the inhabitants of a community or coun- try is dream of the humanitarian perfectionists, the fact remains that no such state of and no examination ofthe present the ever existed, things has char- acteristics of human nature has ever been able to secure any information that could encourage the belief that any such consummation of social equal- ity is possible. The primary facts of human nature testify to the entire inequality of human beings in every respect. Take children born of the same _ parents, reared and educated under the same in- fluences. brothers and sisters usually exhibit the most striking dif- ferences of physical constitution and of mental capacity. These inequalities, ex isting from the moment of con- stantly increase until, when up to maturity, manifest most marked differences of health, the These birth, they grow persons the vigor, beauty, intelligence, moral principle, traits of disposition and emotional nature. Asa result of these differences, they drift apart, and each gravitates to that social, intellectual and sta- tion which his or her natural or acquired aptitudes dictate. Thus it comes to lig children of one family thing as physical, intellectual and moral moral the there is no such ht that in equality, and as these characteristics are the foundation of organization, after the children grow to maturity to take their places in the communities in which they there is in many cases very equality among them. social live, little social This is rich while others are poor; because some become some may be honest and respectable. while others dishonest and morally depraved; some may ‘be brilliantly intellectual or pro- foundly may be stupid and averse to books and culture. If this can be the case in a single family, have are learned, while others where all the members been born and reared under as the same any physical, intellectual or mera! equal- ity among the people of a community or country? and, by consequence, how can there be any social equality? nearly as possible conditions, how can there be Political equality there may be and is. It is equality before the law, the equal right of every individual to exercise cer- tain common fran and rights, in the enjoyment of which the law will protect him. Then there is the equal right for every individual to use his fac- ulties to the best advantage for his own benefit and advancement, limited always ses i riority of any sort, and weakness and un- | | tion. | law of human competition. fore the law means the right of every | man by the force of his talents to rise to | the highest place in the trades, in com- | invention, in| imerce, in j j restrain the most capable in the com-/| man, have no settled occupation and do|evening of the 26th. The entire exam- munity, and bring them down to the! level of the weakest and least capable, would destroy all the genius, vigor and heroism, so that there might be no supe- fitness would be the standard. Leveling down isa policy of destruc- mechanical | science, in politics, in statesmanship, in by the requirement that he must not | infringe the rights of any other. This | is all the equality that is possible, and | any law that would seek to suppress or| he is leading... They are tramps to a religion, in social station. competition there would be no progress, there would be noe worthy ambition, no noble aspiration, ne genius, no heroism, nothing grand and beautiful in buman nature; there would be nothing, indeed, in life but stagnation and the dead level of a pitiful mediocrity. It is natural that this outery against those who have honorably made their way in the world should come from others at the bottom. People who have done nothing to merit success and honors are apt to be envious; but they should not be allowed to set the stand- ard of human life. Let none who are honestly striving to rise be dragged down, but let all be encouraged to better themselves. The competition of life some evils but it is the instrument of all human progress. Itis this competition that places the barbarian above the sav- age, the civilized man above the barbar- ian, and the man who is truly enlight- ened, morally as well as intellectually, above them all. It is only noble to be good, to be good in the manner that raises our humanity to the highest point of virtue, honesty and real philanthropy. FRANK STOWELL. >.> —__— COXEYISM. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The daily papers are full of it. Mag- azines have contained long and learned dissertations upon it. Preachers have preached about it, and one and all have declared it to be a very serious matter, indeed. It has been called consequence of the peculiar conditions un- der which we have lived for thirty years;” ‘the laboring man’s protest against the inaction of Congress;’’ ‘‘a wave of dis- content which at stated periods sweeps over the country;” ‘the protest ef the people against conditions whick daily making the many few richer:’’ it has been may cause ‘the inevitable said to be a great many other phases of a large num- | ber of other things. But, after all, itis simply Coxeyism—the silly scheme of a hair-brained individual who possesses more money than brains, whose ‘‘strong personality’’ resolves itself into a pig- headed persistence in anything he under- takes. He is not even the author of Coxeyism. The ‘‘Gospel of Good Reads” had been preached long before Coxey was known outside his own family circle. | Socialists and populists have each made demands upon Congress for an issue of National bonds to “give the people money,’’ and even the idea of a ‘*march on Washington” has been suggested sev- eral times before Coxey organized his | “army.” Having the means he has been able to do what others would long ago have done if they had had the money. Then, consider the character of the men The law of human progress is the} Equality be- | Without this | are | poorer and the} not want any. who have joined the ‘‘movement,” have the ‘tramp instinct, and, being out of work, Coxey has supplied them with the necessary excuse for ‘‘taking to the | road.” They belong to the class that lrobs hen-roosts and frightens women into giving them something to eat, who steal school children’s lunches, sleep in | Straw stacks, roam the country at will in summer and crowd the jails and work- houses in the winter. The idea of join- ing in a body and marching to Washing- | ton had peculiar charms for these men. It had the promise of plenty to eat so |long as the march should last, and at Washington they would, at least, be as well off as anywhere else. Then, too, the ‘‘army’’ was to invade the National capital ‘500,000 strong,” and this vast number held possibilities which com- pletely dazzled the tramp mind. The 500,000 dwindled to less than 300 and the ‘‘gigantic enterprise’? was an igno- minious failure. If there is a serious side to Coxeyism itis in the encourage- ment which the movement received from many labor leaders. It is a_ serious matter when these men, who, presum- ably, speak for the great body of organ- ized labor, approve and encourage such wild schemes as those advocated by Coxey. It shows the utter incompetence and unreliability of the men who are the accepted unionist leaders. It shows, moreover, with startling distinctness, the socialistic tendency of unionism, which looks upon the accumulation of property through individual enterprise and industry as a capital crime. Think, too, what would be the result if such men as these leaders should ever get con- trol of the National legislature. But of this there is little likelihood, as, with a few exceptions, the head and heart of the American workingman is sound. Coxeyism in the abstract may have a serious aspect, but Coxeyism in reality is a huge joke. DANIEL ABBOTT. - _ 2. 8@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @ 60 ’ 2d cee @ 40 “a 3d as ne @ 30 . sifted sorts. . @ Ww oe 60@ 30 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60 ss Cape, (pe. 20).. eo Socotri, Y tom: 60) . @ ae. hes (48,1 14 a8, 16). oe 1 Ammon 55D «60 an, (po. 2. 4@ 45 Benecinam...........- 30@ 55 Camphors...........-. 46@ 50 Buphoroium po.. 3a 10 Ee @2 50 aaiean, Mice cues 70@ To Gualacum, = 35)... @ 3 a —* _..... @!1 i5 Mastic ... Lote @ 80 Myrrh, (pe. 45) .. @ 4 Opli (pe 3 80@4 00) ..2 40@2 50 EE ok yeaa res 35@ 42 _ ” ea" 338@ 35 Tiagacenth -.......... 40@1 00 HERBA—In ounce packages. Absinthium....... oo BEpeeTaan - ... acl —- Ceucaheeuccce I ons ae eee eens es 28 Mentha . Piperiia. Dieepe teeeys 23 ee ce ko 20 oe Tassie, ¥...... P+] MAGNESIA, Calciue’, Fui.......... 2 @ Carbonate, Pat........ W@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... W@ % Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Abetathinm. .....-..- 2 50@3 00 —— RG os os 45@ 75 a= alae, Amarae....8 00@8 2 ee ee eee 1 80@1 90 ae COPtOR:. <.. 5s 2 [= 40 I cco sec ues 00@3 20 NNR ce cie soa. eis 3 0O 65 Ceeveoeyil ........... 75@ 80 MOE ice eae ee dan cns 5@ 65 ee boc ass, @1 60 Craneeet ......:.. -1 10@1 15 IG cd sd once nse @ 4% Conium ae: oksaewes 35@ 65 WORE ec cean ever os 89@ 9 Comepee............. @ 2 50 Exechthitos.......... 1 50@1 60 Brrceren .....,........1 soe OO GeuItnere ......,.. ..1 Test 80 Geranium, ounce..... @ Gossipli, Sem. gal..... 70@ 75 PeGeoan ............ 1 25@1 40 wimg... cl... 5SO@2 00 Eavenaus ............ 90@2 00 tamone ....... .-1 Dl 7 monsearrer.......... 2 85@3 60 Mentha Verid........ 2 20@2 30 Morchaae, @hi........- 1 30@1 40 — ounce. ' @ 50 liy 90@3 00 Plels Liquids, ‘(gai. 38), 10@ 12 Meee 1 R@1 28 Rosmarini......... 75@1 00 Rosae, ounce. ....... 6 50@8 50 Buceiil...... 40@ 45 BApIne ....... . 90@1 00 ee 2 50@7 00 Sassafras i . oe & Sinapis, ess, ounce... @ 65 Wie... @1 00 Thyme .. 40@ 50 opt @1 60 ‘1 heobromas.. . be roraserum. Pie... ......... 15@ 18 Bacnramaie ........... 13@ 14 eee... ..-s,.,. . «— © Cae... 12@ 15 Chlorate (po 23@25).. 24@ 26 Cysneee....... 8, 50@ 55 Tees... 2 9@3 00 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 27@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt 8@ 10 Potass Nitras.......... am F eo, 28@ Sulphate po..... 15@ 18 RADIX, Aceon ............. 2 Bw AreeO................. aan 2o Po 12@ 15 Arum, po.. @ = Calamus... 2@ 40 Gentiana (po. 12 eau 8@ 10 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden, SS: _.. @ 30 Hellebore, -™ po.... Be @ rage, bo............- 1KQ Ww Tpecac, po os 1 60@1 75 Iris piox Pas B53). 35@Q 40 Jalapa, * 40@ 45 Maranta, i¢s.. ne @ & —— po. ae 15@ 18 eee. . T5@I1 00 Ouse. @1 75 ~ = uel ey . nas De ee 35@ : Sanguinaria, (po 25).. 20 Serpentaria............ 45@ 50 Senega . oa & Smilax, Officinalis, ‘H @ W@W M @ Seiliac, (po. %)........ a @ apusniccen, Foti me, po......... @ 3 Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ B German... 15@ 24 Meer ack... 183@ 2 Pinata 3.......... 18S@ Ww SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). 15 Aplum (gravelecns).. 22 Dare it.........-+-. i = 6 Carul, ae 1 12 Curdemeon.............] GGGas Corlandrom.... i Cannabis Sativs.. I@ 5 Cydonium. T5@B1 Ww Chenopodium ...... 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate..... 2 40@z 60 Poontouivm..... .... @ 15 ee oo... 6 «8 ee ee 4 @ 14% Lin, grad. (bbl. nye). . 3%O 4 Lobelia.... 35@ 40 PharlarisCanarian.... 3 @4 ee ET 6m 7 Sinapis A Alba. .7 @os oa 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co. .2 00@2 Su . D. F. R.....1 tee _ bees deeese sok nL Oe Juniperis Co. O. T....1 65@2 00 i ees -1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. B...... 1 75@2 00 Be. Vint Gail........ 1 75@6 50 re Cee... ...... 1 25@2 00 Viel ANA.............1 mae @ BPONGES, Florida sheeps’ wool Carriage. . .2 50@2 75 —- sheeps’ “wool ee 2 00 velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 110 Extra a sheepes’ ORITIORS .. «4.21465. 85 Grage aaa wool Car- OO oo cess was 65 Hard for slate use.... 7% Yellow Reef, for slate mee 2. 1 40 SYRUPS. ee 50 ice e ie sass aye. 50 oe a ee 60 ae 50 EO E__—_— ee 50 Rhei Arom Le ercae Similax Otticinalls eae. 60 e.....: 50 BN ik aches cece cues 50 PON odes knieeceecsve a. oe ia sec ees a ION oes saia ee sasccee: ae Pensoetre........... Doeee 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 “ oc F a 50 meee... 4... ... ees 60 * end —. Mone c ue eee 60 ee eee ea 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Peewee... 60 ° ce... ... 50 RUMOEME. ....... 8... 50 Peete gd 50 Cemsberren................. 7 Wee ce 50 co. Gere... ................ oo C a . i ae ees 100 octane 50 re 50 = cc ae Cones... ......- Leteuc, Oe ote... Cee cs ll ae PeeeOne Wu... s. 8 ..,. 2... SO ee 50 Gentian oe ee 50 ie econ cal. 60 Guaica . . 50 a 60 a 50 PVGNOwRING cl, 50 eae... _ Colarion 7% Wer Ciloridam............ 35 ee 50 Lobelia 50 Myrn........ 50 Nux Vomica. 50 Opil ee eee. ' Camphorated ee. 50 “ Deedor.. te eee sce ak ee AurantiCortex...... coo. on ee 50 - Be eee eens ae 50 Le eee eee ed a elle wee 50 Cassia Acutifol Dracereae «46 50 Ce... 50 cies bee eee Cuacereae 50 Serenenroes............. 60 Se ee oe 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS, Atther, Spts NaS F.. MS DW ' -t'.. 2S Ameen ............... See . ground, (po. 2... 3@ 4 Annatto ee ee 55@ 60 Antimont, neon ee 1‘ 5 et Potass T. 55@ 60 ——_ . @1 40 Bien. ............ @ % Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 48 Aveemicwm ............ a | Balm Gilead Bud. 38@ 40 Diauin & W......... 2 W@2 25 Calcium Chior, 1s, (hs in; 468, 4) .......... 11 Cantharides Russian, ee @i 00 Capsici Fructus, af... @ % “ « Ha a “ “a po. @ Caryophyllus, (po. 15) 10@ 12 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Cera Alba, 8S. &F..... 50@ 55 Ceta Fisva............ 38Q 40 Coccus .... ae @ 40 Cassia Fractue........ @ 2% Ce @ 10 Cotscoum ............. @ 4 Chioroform . 80@ 63 ” quibbs . @i 2 Set — ‘Crat es 4 50@1 80 Chonda 20@ 2 Cinchontaine, P& Ww 156@ 2 German 3%@ 12 = list, dis. per De eke u cay dees 75 ouaeeens \ @ % Creta, Boag 75). Pens oe 32 Botte ress SS 5 . nee ene 9@ 11 ee... .. ee ¢§ Crocus . _. 50@ 55 Cudbear........ @ 2% Cupri suiph.. 6@ 6 eee... C.... 10@ 12 menor Mee... ........< 0@ 7 an Se numbers.. g ‘ meee 5 ai eo... 70@ 75 Flake White......... 12@ 15 oe. @ 8B Cl 7 @8 Gelatin Cooper cease @ 60 «'Brench........ 30@ 50 Glassware flint, by box 80. Less than box 75. Giese, Mrows......... 9@ 15 ~ weeee........... 18Q 25 Greens ............. a Grana Paradisi........ @ 2 a 25@ 55 Hydraag Chlor Mite... @ %5 Cor @ 65 . ~ Rabeuin @ 8 . Ammontiati.. @ % _ Unguentum. 45@ 55 {shthyabolla, ees @ 6 — Am.. ..1 25@1 50 eed eese ceras 75@1.00 teams, Resabl........ 3 80@3 90 a @4 70 — bee aeeteceesss @2.25 Lycopodium .. --- WO“ WN sr oak os anes 70@ 75 Liquor Potess Att 10@ Magnesia, Sulph (bbl 27 12 Mannia, 8. F i A. EEA EAR Morphia, S. P. a 2 25@2 50 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2 amen, bolied.. .... 55 58 8. N. Y. Q. & -—. Deane ue ces @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter @o........-..... 2 15@2 40 -. @ Wi iained........... 65 70 Moschus Canton...... 40 —_— I accaboy, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 38 Myristica, No 1. 65@ 70 Woes... @ 35 Nux — (po20).. @ 10 Snuff! Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Ce teem... 15@ 18] Soda Boras, (po. 11). 10@ 11} Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Popena ae, E&P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 27@ 30 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 Co @2 @ | Seda Carb............ : 2 Ber......1 see Picis Liq, NwC., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... 5| Putty, commercial....2% 24%@3 oe @2 00 Soda, a... 140 4] “ strictly pure.....2% 2%@3 Piel Liq., —. @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... 2) Vi — rime Amer mice... @ 651 Sots. BiherCo........ wane 55 ee 13@16 Pil Steen, (pam).. @ ei ° My — Dom... . Q2 25 Vermilion, English.. 65@70 Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ 1 “+. M a imp... . @3 00} Green, Peninsular... @%TE Piper Alba, - @ 3 ai Vint Rect. bbl. Lead, red..............6 @6% Pre Barcus. .......... ee TT Sie tii. Wie... 6 @b% Plumbi pom eS 15 Less 5c gal., cash ten days, Whiting, white Span... @70 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10a! 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 49@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... Qu Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl. 24.@ 3 | White, Paris American 1 0 & PD, Co., daw... . @1 25 - ; = OO 2 @2% — Paris Eng. ¢ —— oe .......... 8@ 10 c 4c soe si 7 = # | 'Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30 | Ploneer Prepared Painti ne 4 Quinta SP &W co gam Theobromae ......... 45 @ 48| Swiss Villa Prepared Ne lapel dom) Veit) 9 ——- 00} Paints -s+-+++-.1 OO@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... ia 14 | Ziel Sulph 22.0.0. VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispv. 12@ 14 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 26 Sele 2 0O@z 10 OILs. Extra Tury a lae0abt 70 Sanguis Draconis..... 400@ 50 Bol. Gali Coach Body...... 75@3 = Sapo, a... oe... 12@ 14} Whale, winter........ 70 7 No. 1 Turp Furn..... i 00@1 10 rr =... 10@ 12) Lard, extra.. .. = 85 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Me @ 15} Lard, No. 1. .. = 45|Japan Dryer, No. 1 Linseed, pure raw.... 52 55 eee TO@7T5 Sponges<< We offer the following sponges in cases: very desirable Pee 1,000 Pi ieces a @$%$ 5 00 per case Mo. 15@-A.......... OO @ 1 50 << « ae 440-4. ......... 100 ......-.. @ & 50 66 és “ to 8.......... 100 oe @ 3 oO ey a“ “ TOA... ........ 100 eee ee (a 5 00 “ ‘ay 116-4... LL... 50 sf .. @ 4 50 ss - Oe... 60 eo @ 071g each . Ho... 50 a (@ 14 o ee 25 a @ 20 “ Oe 25 CT @ 30 ae a“ BG oll. 30 eee (@ 40 _ i 40... 18 Te, (@ 50 si Co 2 a. @ 65 . ee, co ee @ 90 " Assorted Case: Be... 50 Pieces WOtNIL DG CMGN 1. il... $ 2 50 cae. 40 _ Ti aaa 4 00 Me ae ee a iy Oe Fo ae 4 50 me tk 18 as —O 3 60 $14 60 PRICE $8.50 per case. Sheep’ Wool Sponge, from ee -$ 1 25 to 3 25 per pound ee ese 50 to 1 00 Slate ha Me elie To te 1 56 “* . Surgeons nip Ce 360 to 2 50 °° se _ See eT eT 1 00 to 2 50 each Chamois Skins From $ 1 00 to $ 20 00 per kip. - 60 to 8 50 : + doz. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG 60, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROG: The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, i going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. Pek Peres, Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim CURFU in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They It is impossible to give quotations suitable for we are prepared just before all conditions of purchase, and those or those of strong credit usually buy closer than to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE, doz gross ae. ee Ue ee te.......... 7 00 ee, ns 50 5 50 Frazer’s = 9 00 ee 65 7 50 oe |. ke 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. % Ib. cans, 3 doz oe 45 a 7 OS es i > 1 60 Bulk.. — 10 ‘Arctic. % > cans 6 doz case. . = . 4 ee nwo 1 10 : > = 2a © i cteeee 200 ce” ton ~ 9 00 see Flake 3 o£ so CC 45 4 OZ eee 60 Te... 80 Sean“ Q00c ~ 1 10 » * 2d 2 00 > ~*~ ido 9 00 Red Star, % cans.....-.-- 40 ' ® , i. 75 e Ce eeee ee 1 40 Telfer’s, * Ib. cans, dos. 45 e % Ib. . = “ i lb. a ~ 1 50 Our. Leader, ¥ lb cans..... 45 ib Cans...... 7D C Siecees..... . 1 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. Rati... .-......--- a ——eee eee 80 aoe... 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic, ; - ovals oe 3 60 cee. 6 75 Ha pints, sound... ...» 9 00 > a , Sifting box. 75 wg No. 3. oO - Bea C 1 os ball oa OW em eS 3S Mexican L iquid, 4 OZ. 60 Sie... ae 8O BROOMS, do. 2 Hurl.... 1% ee 2 00 No. 2 Carpet.....--..------- 2 a. 6h cee ee Oe Parlor Gem.... 27 Common a 80 ee 1 00 a eee 2 7 a. Stove, No. -12 1 ee 1 50 “ i eae 1% Rice Root Scrub, 3 —.. Rice Root Scrub, ‘Brow... 12 Palmetto, goose.......----- 1 50 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. ae. oe Star, 40 ot. 8 ES i CARNED GOODE. Fish. Clams. Little Neck. ib. ..1 2 “ a .190 Clam ener. Standard, 3 1b _ Cove Oystere. Standard, ilb , = a 13 Lobsters. a1... . eo .8 50 Picnic,1 Ib..... .2 - oa. ..........-.-.- a oe Mackerel. Standard, 1ib.. on —. - [-............ ee et. Sib... a. oe Tomato Sauce. oth... ees aes ........-. 2 23 Salmon. Columbia River, ‘flat. " 1 80 - = =e... 1 65 Alaska, Red... ... 123 sal RE 6 ee tew er ne wows 110 cinneys, Sae.............. 1 9 Sardines. American ee a “<< 5 ne 6%@ 7 Imported ee. @n |e 15@16 ees Se..........-.... 6@7 ai niin con 21 Trout. RE Bice iu. in cone ee 2 50 Fruits. Apples. 3 ib. standard......... : York anes, gene 3 Hamburgh, “ — lave ook....... : 1 40 ees Cs........ ... 140 Lusk’s. one 1 50 Overland.. is Blackberries. 8 7.... : 90 Cherries. ee eck eee 1 10@i 25 Pitted a - . White . oo 1 50 —........,.....,.. 1 30 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green - Eri Seca 1 20 ae. 1 40 Gooseberries. Common . \ 123 Peaches. ee 110 eee... i 66 i, 1 60 Calvormia............. CQ © a eee Oxford .... Pears. Domestic .... Le. 1s ee es 1% Pineapples. ee 00@1 30 Johnson's sliced...... 2 50 grated..... 2% Booth’s sliced......... @2 5) _ grated.. , 2% Quinces. ee 1 10 Raspberries. _—........,_...--.. 110 Black Hamburg.. 1 46 Erie, black ... 15 Strawberries. Lawrence ..... a) Hamburgh . i= Erie on 120 Terrapin | ' 1 05 Whortleberries. Blueberries ........ : 85 Meats. Corned beef Libby’s.......2 10 Roast beef Armour’s.......1 80 Potesd hem, 16 b...........1 @ . eae 85 tongue, % lb 13 _ : i... 85 chicken, ¥ Ib....... 9% Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgeh stringless....... 16 French style..... 2 00 ee 1% Lime, EG, a 70 Lewis Boston Baked. i. Bay State Baked....... oe World’s Fair Baked....... 1 3 Picnic Baked.. ioe oe Corn. Hamburgh .... oe oe —— Eden . ie Honey OT 14 — a I sce 75 Peas Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 80 early June . ...1§ Champion Eng..1 40 ees ........ ancy sifted....1 90 I oe ew 65 Harris standard ee che vi) Vance amp’ 8 marrofat....... 110 early June.....1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25 Pe 215 Se . Mushrooms. ee... ... 19@21 Pumpkin. BD occ ce een e ee ase . 80 Squash. ies... 115 Succotash. ee 1 40 Soaked ..... - - — Dew.. ~ol 3 ee eee 13 Tomatoes. SS 1 10 ee a Hamburg..-..... NE se ee owned SO CHOCOLATE. Baker’s. German Sweet.. ......... 23 a en 37 Breakfast Cocoa........ : 43 CHEESE, ae... 2... 103; aoe... ...... 10% Lenawee Sll% Riverside . 1034 Gold Medal........... Zl0% ES 6@s I oc certs eae 15 Oe 1 00 I eee eee x Pe ————— @15 a Pe cbsnsoencnee @2 ices os | Ser ‘Sane i : S20 welizer, imported. @24 domestic .... @i4 { | CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. — pint, 25 bottles ew eee 27 weno oe comut 1 doz nettien” 2.2 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per Gos.......... 1 35 Pink 3S boses..............8 oe Quart, per dox ..... -......3 7 CLOTHES PINS. Seroms bexes............ 44@45 COCOA SHELLS. 35 lb. bags.. ae wie @3 Less uantity. ee eee @3% Pound packages.. . 6% @7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Wake... .. ss ee ee oe ae cee... ee ee Santos. —........ 2... ...... —.......... oa es : ee 23 Mexican and Guatamala. EE 2 Good. . 22 Maracaibo. ee. 2 ae... ae Java. ee... <_< Private Growt@...........--20 aes... ............28 Mocha. es... .....--. 2 —— SS 28 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.. 22 80 Bunola .. ._. =a Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 22 80 Extract. aw City % gTOSS..-...-. 75 Felix -_ Hummel’ 8, foil, gross. oreee 1 65 SS UF 2 8 CHICORY ee 5 oe. eee | CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, ee... per dos. 12 eS 14 ' _ . 1 60 " _.......- 1% - oe... ..- 19 Jute i i....... C 8 72 ft ’ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s —— Gail Borden Eagle..... ... ck Cent eee 6 3 NN ee eee 5 % Cee. 5... oe oe a a 425 eee... |... ...... Peerless evaporated cream. 5 76 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’ Ee 83 00 ST 5 00 2000, ce ooo 8 00 ee ee vi) — moows. ‘Tradesman.’ $1 books, per hundred.. - 20 g2 + oo g 3 “ “ “et a 3 00 * 5 “ee o “ Ha 3 on $10 ia . . . 40 #20 " C 88 . 500 “Superior.” $1 books, per hundred Le 82 2s 8 3 ‘ ee oe 3 50 s 5 ‘ ir oa 4 00 #10 i va ' 5 00 #20 se “ oe 6 00 Universal.” $1 books, per —_—, oe 00 $2 . 350 83 * o . 400 $5 “ " . 500 — * ’ . 6 00 820 te ot 7 ¢ oO Above prices on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 books or over.. — * ' is 1000 ae “i L 20 “a COUPON PASS BOOKS. Can be made to represent any enomination from 810 down.| 5 per cent 10 - oo boeme... .........-..18 8 oe oka see 2 00 oe ce 3 00 ee helene cnee 6 25 oe ee 10 00 — §* CCl 17 3 CRACKERS. Butter. Seymour kok ...... --- +000. 5 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5% Pisa EAR...... «-..... 5 Family XXX, cartoon...... 5% Salted XXX... Lec Salted xx, cartoon Lowees Oe — ™ —_—l OS 7 Dae WeeE.............. 3 Soda. cts BEE .........---.-. 5% a 7% — 8% Crystal Wafer ®............. 10% Long Island Wafers........ 11 Oyster. S. Oyster XX City Oyster. “re. Farina Oyster....-- eee 6 CREAM a Strictly pure.. a" Telfer's ‘Absolute.......... 30 ee ee 15@25 FLY PAPER. Thum’s Tanglefoot. Singie cane...... Five case lots.. Ten case lots.. Less than one case, 40¢ per box DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples Sundried, sliced in bbls. c quartered ‘‘ Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12 12% Apricots. California in bags.. ... Evaporated in boxes. Blackberries. Nectarines. ih. tee... ....... 4... i rh, Deree.... ........-. Peaches. Peeled, in boxes a In boxes.. Pears. California in bags..... Pit - a. Barrels. . ae oe boxes « Sole ces eoees Prunelles. lb. boxes.. Raspberries. ee Ee 25 Ib. ceca cane cans se “ 4 4 Loose ae in ied ; crown. 2 Foreign. Currants. Pee, = a 3 I snes = 24 . in less quantity.... 234 cleaned, bulk...... 4 cleaned, package.. 5 Peel. Citron, Leghorn. = boxes . Lemon Orange = ' . 10 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes 507 Sultana, 20 --% @8 Valencia, ng Ga Prunes. California, -t...... <5. 7 90x1 00 25 Ib. bxs. 7 . 80x90 . vo 0s 70x80 o 8% . 60x70 _ 8% oe ae 5 oS 16 ENVELOPES. XX rag, white. me 1 Oe... -e $1 75 No. 2, 6% in mate... 1 65 Ro. 2,56... 1 50 xx wood, poronng No. 1, 6% 1 3 No. 2, 6% 13 Manilla, ‘white. peut e ee tees 1 0@ SO 95 Coin i wet. ..... ----... FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 100 Ib, kegs.......--...- 3% flominy. RN ae sntcoveneononenere 2% ———_— owe Oe Lima Beans. MN i oi oe ae 4 @41% Maccaroni and a — 12 Ib. box. 5 Imported.............. 10%@l11 Oat —_— Barrels 200.. 423 Half barrels 100.. 22 Pearl Barley. eee Peas. Geeoe, be... ....-.+-...- 135 Bets perib> ............ 3 Rolled Oats. eres te: .-..-... @4 . ar tee S.......... @2 4 =. ee ee 4% East Mica ca, eee 5 Wheat. Ee 3% FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Vieioeth....-..........--- Cod. ee Whole, Grand Bank..... 44@5 Boneless, bricks.. ...... 634 Boneless, strips.. ....... 6% Halibut. eT ae 10@13 "Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 70 - - “ 2 8h “ee “ “ ‘e Norwerwn ............,.- Round, % bb] 100 Ibs ..... 2 50 ' a oe 1 30 es cane 17 Mackerel. WO CP eee es tee 10 %5 No. 1, 40 lbs.. - £o ee ae 1 23 No. 2, 100 Ibs.. heehee 7 30 Ss 2 | 330 Tee Oe es ee 90 Family, ee eee 5 % OO Oe isis... 65 Sardines. Russian, ee SSE 55 ‘out. No. 1, % bbls., o0lbs Lcpaeed 5 25 Ho. te bet, & me.......... 2 49 a, &, ROes, 2 Oe. . 2. ~ 22s. 68 TW 0, Oe Re vk ik aes cose 57 Whitefish. . pao % bbls, 100 - Slaene a 50 $2 50 40 oo Oo? La moe Xie.......-: .. 80 4 ta he ., 67 MATCHES, Globe Match Co.’s nee Columbia ‘Parlor. XXX Sulphur.. Diamond Match Co. 8 ‘nan Ee 1 65 Anchor parlor........ ie ck oe We, BI obi oie cote dacens 1 10 Mert WARNE. noe 6 ies cae cs 400 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. doz 20s ....6 % 402 ~Lo Regular Vanilla. doz “.....2 = on... 2 40 XX Grade Lemon, 20z.....81 50 oos..... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, OG. ec 55 $1 75 On. ...; 3 50 Jennings. Lemon. —— 202 regular asad vis) 4 = r 1 50 3 00 6 0! . 2 3 00 ng See... ..... 4 35 2 00 No. 4 taper.....-.. 150 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon, Vanilla. 2oz oval taper 75 1 10 3 0z _ 1 20 1 % 202 regular | . 85 1 20 1 60 2 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. a eee 3 25 SO 1 90 ann ON cosa ee 110 ee — a 30 re oes... Choke Bore—Dupont’s. 4 ul i eee ee ee ee 24 aaa OER. cece nsec ress 135 Tip cam ......- recess ae Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. Rees ............. ae 11 00 Half eee cece. s% Quarter kegs......... . 3 00 [oo ....... .--..... 60 HERBS, INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50 JELLY. tr Uh, OO... 4. - +s. @ [0 » * ee 80 LICORICE. echo e ete we bee, ote cig ot ne A a 3 ee 12 ee ek vee ete 13 LYE. Condensed, a neeesese 1 20 aa 22 silinaas MEAT. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie preparation, 3 doz. in ee ee ovens OO MEASURES Tin, sels denen. gallon $1 75 Half gallon. bee ea eee 1 40 RS ce ieee 70 PE 5g cen eee 45 =. ee ow en, for vinegar, ‘per doz. i om eae bea 7 00 an ee - aieascas oo Quart Soe ens 3% Pitot i. —. 2 MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Sugar house......... - Cu ba Baking. _ IIE on en tc eeecan.. 16 Porto Rico. as ice sk cp eee 20 a a 30 New Orleans. ice ce se pence 18 SO ack die idkc sp joanne 2 tee BOG. .. e005. 0002s Pz Choice 3 32 ches 40 Fancy One-half barrels, 3¢ extra, «*be + 4 > espa: ¢ fa? += 4 > \ \A espa: THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count. . @4 00 Half bbls, 600 count.. @2 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 00 Half pbis, 1,200 count 3 00 PIPES. Clay, ees 1 70 7, 22. Sa Ooum......... 70 ee 1 20 POTASH, 48 cans in Case. ——_———————Oe 400 Ponna Salt Co."s.......... 3 00 RICE, Domestic. Carolina ON ces case suse 6 dis 5% 6 No. i ce 5 Reetee.. 4 Imported, Japan, No. : pete dae e cana ee ess 5% Oe ck ena tcen es 5 MOM. asc cese ccceceoe 6 Pee. 5-5-5. cee ieee 4% SPICES, Whole Sifted. Allspice. . enccee OG Cassia, China in mats...... 8 . Batavia in bund....15 " Saigon in — ie 32 Cloves, Amboyna.. 1a Peeseer........-+0s 1% Mace Batavia... oe Nutmegs, fancy .. Se 75 WG Beet eh oes 70 my No. spore, BARA... 10 r, Singapore, blac —— — white... = Pure sani in Bulk. Allgpice ...... 00.06 eceeeeee- 15 Cc ‘assia, Batavia etter ee 18 and Saigon.25 . ate ......-..-.-- 35 Cloves, Amboyna. a fr — “oe : Ginger, * eet eee nae g ees os 20 . 5 mien lees tee 2 Mace Batavia..........-.--- 65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22 ‘Trieste Lee ade. 25 Nutmegs, No. 2 ........----- 15 Pepper, Singapore, a: -16 whit 14 ' Cayenne........-.- 20 eae eee eeu enews en oe 20 **Absolute” in Packages. ' 135 Allapice .....-.. +00. eee rn oe al i =... CO cee e aes 84 155 Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155 , Afvican......-- 84 155 Mastasa......--------- 84 155 Peer ..--.. 22. -.05--- 84 155 Sage...... 84 SAL ‘SODA. Granulated, bbls ees tees ee 114 76ib canes...... a 34 Lump, i 1 1 145lb kegs. oe SEEDS. i ee @15 Canary, Smyrna......- 4 a 8 rate a ne ; ee Hem ussian 4 Mixed a aa 5@6 Mustard, white....... 10 i, 9 TOI vc dee ce 4-2 5 Cuttle bone.. 30 STARCH. Corn. 20-1b boxes se 5% 40-Ib ce eee Oe Gloss. 1-Ib packages... cues : oe 6-1b a ou 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......-..- 3% ete e eee ace 3% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, fs Seed... ...-- 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, ee w cen cees 5a png English.. cs . 4% SAL : Diamond Crystal. Cases, 243 Ib. boxés,..... 8 I 60 Barrels, — Ibs... 250 c 5 2% Ib bags... 400 ’ 605 2 ms Simi” «.... ta Butter, 56 lb bags......... 65 (1* pereipver ........ 3 = 2001p bbls aeetee 2 50 ~~ @ere 8. 2 2% Worcester. 115 2%-Ib sacks i i . co ose. 3 %5 ae: Cl. 3 50 SO ten peee........... ao... ........... 3214 Common Grades. 100 3-Ib. sacks Oe eae oe _ 10 60 5-lb. siete... Se 28 10-Ib. wacks. cae 2 keke g 1 85 56 lb, dairy in drill” bags.. . 2 28 lb. “ “ “ee ni 16 Ashton. 56 lb, dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 lb, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. 56 lb. sacks...... 22 Common Fine. Cee oc... 80 I socks chee eee 80 SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Cees. ine. 3 30 pe 3 15 De Taylors. ........; eee 3 00 SEELY’S EXTRACTS, Lemon. loz. F.M.8 90doz. 810 20 gro 7." 2.8, tm * ne ” Zz 2.mte Ke Vanilla. tos. F. M1 50 doz. 16 20 gro 2. SS eae 21 60 ‘ 2 MS ot 25 50 -* Rococo—Second Grade. : Lemon. BOM... 4sccee Ge... So * Vanilla, = Gex...... 1 OO dom,.... ne SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. or s ae Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 20 Good Cheer,6011b.........- 3 90 White Borax, 100 X%-lb......3 65 Proctor & Gamble, MO ee i tout cy en 3 45 very, Ge... ............ 67 Oe se 4 00 Ce ee 3 65 Mottled German a. 3 15 oo eee 3 2% Dingman Brands. Sree Poe... ...... 3% 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands, American Family, wrp’d. “ 00 plain... 2 94 N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands. Pe 4 00 re, & eeee...........-. 2 40 . WO ORE once nceess Oe Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. mores... eee. 3 75 oe... ks. Oe a ee 4 00 ee .............. ..... Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands Pigott : Six af TER | Silver . 3 65 Mono .... 3 30 Savon Inprovyed........... 2 50 UE oh cent. 2 80 Co 3 2 Reoncusee! ............... S25 Passolt’s Atlas Brand, Sine Poe... ees, 3 65 Onen 1000..0.5............0 3 10 box lots... G eee eecoeee oe Shek lowe. 0... 3 40 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, 3 doe. 2 40 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which* the wholesale dealer adds the lo- eal freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Cat fost... ...........- #4 94 Powdered ..... bee eee 444 ee 418 Extra Fine Granulated. 4 31 Cunee ...... ieee, oo XXXX Powdered... i 4 69 Confec. Standard A....... 4 96 oO. Ft Columbia’ ......... 3 94 No. 5 Urapae 4...... ....-. 3 87 No. 6 é No. No. No. No. No. No. No. met SYRUPS. Corn. Ce es one ee ee 18 Pure Cane. TNE oie eee ceca ne. 19 ee 30 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, inte ...... 4% omal...... 2 Halford, ee 3% ae00............ 2 ee Salad Dressing, large ner 4 55 email ..... 2 65 meen cnaiiee. OE cee cect eee ce eee is, @20 Moods cee se see 24 @26 Cuereen.......... -... 32 @34 Pee... wt... 10 @i2 SUN CURED. toll ee @34 irae te aR 10 @12 BASKET FIRED. ieee 18 @20 be ST @25 Mee, sc... @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @49 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest... 50 @b5 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s5 OOLONG, @26 Common to fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL, Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair™..... . 18 @26 Superior to fine.......30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ee. eee, 18 @2 Choice. ..24 @2B est... 40 @50 TOBACCOS., Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet useet.......... 30 @32 eer... 8. 30 D. Seotten & Co’s Brands. Hiawatha . | 60 UI oe Se ee we 32 Rocket 30 Spaulding & Merrick’s Brands, Sterling .. 30 Private Brands. ey, @30 at @27 ewe Hiy............. 4 G2 ere Ben... .......-... 24 @25 McGinty .. : 27 % bbis 25 Dandy Jim.-........-. 29 Torpedo ee ee 24 in crome.... 23 Sim Yim ........... 28 oe cc aren crs . 2 * Gee... ....... 22 Plag. Sorg’s Brands, Roeerhnead ............ 39 oS 37 Nobby wise. ........... 40 Sedtten’s Brands, eae ee ewes ee lass 26 Beene... oe 38 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty...... aeae 40 ORTY TOE... 8. nee an 32 Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (8 oz., 4ic).... 39 Gren Furtie.......... 30 Three Black Crows... 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good...... = Outot Signt.......... Wilson & McCaulay’s erie Gold Heve..._.....;.. 43 Happy Thought....... 37 Monemaic ...\-....:... 32 Bove ..-..... ...-... 31 ee Ge... 27 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, a oee............,.. — Golden Shower.. Mees aoe oo... ee... mecersecnhatm ...........- 2030 American Eagle Co.’s ee — eee... Se 30032 German eee i cea cee tases 33 Java, 148 foil.. a Banner Tobacco Co. "’ —_ Oe ec Banner * qpeapess cue cage 38 ae 28 aa s Brands, Wars ..._................ 15 monoy Dow.....0........... 26 Gold Hiock......... ieee. 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands. Peerless. . oo CO 8 Pees 8. 22 Globe Tobacco Co,’s Brands. ee 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. EO i eee 26 Uncle Sam.......... --28@32 Poo eS ee Spaulding & Merrick, Tom ana Jerey..............25 Traveler Cavendish........ 38 Ce 30 Daew Hoe... 21... 30@32 Com Came... 6. 16 VINEGAR. cc ee cae 7 @8 ee ee @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, mre, per OAF .. Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75 YEAST, ee wees ...... ...--...,.5 oo Meee Pee Cw. ioe. cases OE i ee ac, v6) NT EE 90 WOODEN WARE, Tubs, No. 1 Saeco he cee teceees 6 00 TOO Bice se ccc ge cease 5 50 Oe WO oc ant, 4 50 Pails, No. 1, two- -hoop.. 1 30 * _ No.1, three-hoop.... 1 50 Bowls, 2 inch eee eases s “ a ‘ “ee 7 “ ‘es 19 “ce _ Se Baskets, market. . = shipping ‘bushel. . full hoop ‘ . willow cr’ ths, } Not 6 ‘ 001 ann © wes a 1 0.2 No.3 - splint ~ Mel: : “ Roz “ a “ee No.3 ‘ 75 INDURATED WARE, Ol, 3 15 caee, Ee 13 50 (eri, Pee, 12 00 Tubs, No. 3.. .-10 50 Butter Plates—Ov al. 250 1000 mot... 60 210 No. 2 70 245 No. 3 $0 280 WO, ee 100 350 Washboards—single. Univeral 2% No. Queen. Lae. oe Peerless Protector... a BOTW GONG. cseccs...... 1 TS Double. Water Witch. TT Wilson . TC eliess Gued fae 27 Peerless. . 2 85 HIDES PELTS and “FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. eee 22% rent Covec...... @ 3 ti‘ @ 3% Py... icici & Ge Kips, green. ae 2 @3 ~ cured.. Lae. @4 Calfskin, green -.. £& @S eured...... 4 )®@ 6 Deacon skins..........10 @%5 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Seeeriner............. 5 @ ee 2 @ 60 WwooL, Washed . 2 ey Unwashed ...... 2 @l3 MISCELLANEOUS. Bi ee age 4@4% Grease eae oo 1 @2 Switches . a. “ Me i ee ey 2 0O@2 GRAINS and anaes WHEAT, No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 52 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 52 MEAL. Monee. ............ 1 40 Granulated. . . |e FLOUR IN SACKS. Pmeomis.... ....... sas, 2 ice a. 1 60 i ee 1 55 eo. .................... 1 35 eee 1 50 *Subject to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. MILLSTUFFS, Car lots quantity Bran. ... $14 50 $15 50 Sereenir 128 Lou co Oe 13 00 Middlings..... 15 ¢0 16 00 Mixed Feed... 17 50 17 50 Coerse meal .. 16 30 16 30 CORN. Car lots.. Lets Less than car lots........ 47 OATS, Car low...... ee Less than car — os Ay. No.1 Siete, car lots....11 90 No. 1 _ ton tots...... 2 50 7. AND OYSTERS. rz = Dettenthaler quotes as follow FRESH FISH. eeu «............ @s8 a @8s Black Bass...... a. 12% Beet... sn @15 Ciscoes or Herring.... @ 4 Pegeeee............... @15 ——" lobster, _ Ib. 20 Cod a 10 No. 1 Pickerel........ @10 oe @7 Smoked White.... ... @s8 Red Snappers...... eee 15 — .River Sal- a 12% Mackecei acl eee ee 18@25 nig Sac gag Fairhaven Counts. @45 I. J, o. Selects. ...... Selects ........ F. 2.0... ee Standards... ' oysTEers—Bulk. Extra Selects..per gal. BN ce cone ie oe. Pee... so noe Pe oe 12 oi eee, SHELL GOODS. pn poe We... 1 25@1 75 Clams, _ ie - T%@1 00 es PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Oo quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS Oe Mee eet aee 13 00 Ee 13 & £xtra clear pig, short cut..... i 14 50 muere Clear, hoayy............ Crear fa8 beee. ............ 14 09 Boston Clear SuCne CUE. ..,................. ae Clear back, short —. 1¢ 00 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 1450 SAUSAGE, POee ee 7% Oe a“ 5% ha oe . 6 eee 3 Blood . " ee ee eau et ™ Head cheese .......... +0. ele meee 6 ee 10 PYAUMPOVIN, .44......04. ee 7% LARD MGMG MONMGIOG ee ee - 36 Family ee eee ere tenga enue ce ced 6% ee. 6 Cottolene.. 1% 50 lb, Tins, we adv ance. 20 1b. pails, 4ec 5 mh. “ %e . ois “* Xe ° os. 6©"—hlé«_> o> From Out of Town. Calls have been received TRADESMAN Office during the from the following gentlemen J. E. Gray, Caledonia. J. P. Fetz, North Dorr. A. Bechtel, Caledonia. Henry Ewing, Morley. C. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids. W. Lawton, Berlin. -@ 3 W. J. Roche, Lake City. ga E. A. Bowen, Kent City. F. Roman, Kent City. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. S. E. Wait, Traverse City. at THE past week in trade: ASPHALT FIRE-PROOF ROOFING This Roofing is guaranteed to stand in all places where Tin and Iron has failed; is super- for to Shingles and much cheaper. The best Roofing for covering over Shingles on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, ete.; will not rot or pull loose, and when painted with our FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Will last longer than shingles. Write the un- dersigned for prices and circulars, relative to Roofing and for samples of Building Papers, H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, ¢ Gee. Louis and Campau 8ts., Grand Rapids, Mich. RINDGE, KALMBACH & O.. 12, 14 and 16 PearlSt. WE KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM, If you want the best for Style, Fitand Wear, buy our make. You can build up a good trade on our lines, as they will give 4. BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO +. Again Made and Again Sold in Large Quantities ; THE GRAND (formerly Rickard) LADDER. 7 '? ¢ om > Is the only Practical Combination Step and wv Extension Ladder Made. my Easily Adjusted from a Step Ladder to an Extension Ladder of any Height. = { ¥ 4 _ { tL. © * fi ¢ As an Extension Ladder. As a Step Ladder . bs ‘‘ Patented Dec. 23, 1884. - Clear Norway Pine and Malleable fron Castings. Especially Adapted for Tinners or Fruit Growers’ 4 fe Use. Can Work on Both Sides. a eA 4 foot, making 7 feet when extended........--.---------eeeeeetrrettts $1 75 S « - os - ss - aca ai ee et 2 00 - *t a SE an - ee eee cs a eee ee ees eo 2 25 v4 ; “ “6 s “ Me a ee caesieas 2 75 | 2 + oe “ SE ee eau gael SAN Ai la 3 00 ‘e . * . i. fi ee we ee eae ee ee Cee 8 50 i ? vs a ny 4 etek a aad as ves 4 00 é 1 ae hag * a5. + ue isl ae a ae obi le olara aws 4 50 «| ) WRITE FOR DISCOUNT. \ 4 ) - RIVER SHOES Patented. NO. 3. The above cuts show a few of the many purposes this device will serve. Cut No. 1 meagerly shows its adaptation as a Screw Driver—anyone readily understands that it will drive a screw in, as several other devices on the spiral plan drive a screw the same way, but there is no other one that will do this: Take a screw out with exactly the same push movement as it was put in. and just as quickly; this is done by simply grasping the brass shell with the left hand, and having hold of the wood handle with theright; simply give the right hand a twist toward you; this reverses it to take out a screw; in like manner give itaturn from you, and it is ready to drive the screw. In either case, when it is closed as shown in Cut No. 3, if desired, it will act as a ratchet, turn- ing the screw half round each ratchet movement made by the operator, and still another valuable position is obtained by simply turning it as before stated, but instead of clear from one side to the dther, stop at half way; atthis point it will be as rigid as if it was one solid piece of iron. Cut No. 2. Here weshow the spiral clear extended, another use made of it other than driving screws, here we show its usefulness in a carriage, wagon or machine shop where many small burrs are to be taken off and put on; the screw driver bit is removed and asocket wrench putin with which burrs can be run on or off, twenty times quicker than by the old way. Cut No. 3. This shows not only its usefulness in the carriage, wagon or machine shop, but carpenter, plumber or undertaker’s establishment as well, in fact it is indispensable to any worker in wood or iron where screws or burrs are used, or boring, drilling, etc., is done, and in finishing up work with hard wood, where a small hole must be bored or drilled to receive the nail or serew, it is a wonderful convenience. Thus it will be seen it well merits the name it bears, The Univer- sal Screw Driver and Brace. The chuck and shell are highly polished brass while the handle is finished in natural wood; it is substantial, durable and the most powerful tool of its kind made. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR. Ss. F. BOWSER & Co., Mant’s. FORT WAYNE, IND. WY Al D A The BEST | are the \i CHEAPEST. Iced Coffee Cakes, || Michigan Frosted Honey, S. ymour Butters, Graham Crackers, BOX OR BARREL OF ROYAL TOAST TO YOUR NEXT Sears | ORDER -— | SOMETHING NEW the AND A BEST. _—G00D SELLER. Watch out for our new spring novelties. They are sellers. New York Biscuit Co., S. A. SEARS, Manager, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. outjof style, take up but little room and pay a good profit. For Less Than gg Dollars. N. LEONARD and SONS - Will furnish a Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware. iinew assortec packages of Glassware, the ~ Majestic’ and mammoth assorted packages are proy- T 1? carry this line of goods think this over and read carefully our|f} handle Crockery and G!assware, we can interest you in some of our IF YOU DON 7 list given below. Crockery and Glassware are staple, never go} IF YOU DO new assorted packages. Write for complete list and illustrations of our Original assorted crate of Alfred Meakin’s Best English White Granite, containing a good assortment of all staple ONE } pieces of crockery the new Henshall Shape. This is the best white ware in the World and has a reputation that no other ware has. If you always keep the best you are sure to please your customers and gain trade. ONE) Of our Brown or Gravy Albany 100 Piece Dinner Sets, this is our English make and extra good value for the price. ° « Se ‘on J ONE~- Of our Burmese English Decorated 12 Piece Toilet Sets in Brown or Blue Decoration ONE ONE ~ Of our Ariel Decorated 56 Piece English Tea Sets in brown, Blue or Pink Decoration f ONE ONE ~ Assorted package of either Robin or Orial Engraved Tumblers. \ Of our 1255 Belle Decorated 8 Piece Toilet Sets with Slop Jar. Neat decoration in Brown or Blue with Gold Lines on the j edge of all the pieces. | Original assorted package of our New Majestic pattern of Glassware. This pattern is a direct imitator of Cut Glass and is ) one of the newest and best selling patterns in the market. ing themselves great sellers. A Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware. 7 Sond) ss eG ae) eee CN ET E> EF ees) Ce Se SF S88 lS Ge) ee oe 08 4I We will send any dealer an itemized list and illustrations of any of our New Assorted Packages on application. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. AS) UU ita tesmes If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using our improved Coupon Book system, you are making a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the coupon book plan and are the largest manufacturers of these books in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business) SAMPLES FREE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. QO 6 SSS SV SIS SI DGSVO SSI SU IIIS OOUOSDUCO CUSGE SEU LU SUUUUOVEUNUOEE SPECIAL NOTICE —~ g DOOEOOOOEOUEOL OULU UUUUeUUUUULY.. 2 Prepared by the New York Condensec Milk Co. 2 For Quotations SEE Price CoLumns. A BRIEF STATEMENT FOR BUSY MEN. The New York Condensed Milk Company takes pleasure in announcing that the trade is now prepared to supply you with Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream, used is far in advance of any other method of preserving milk without sugar. Our new plant is © constructed especially for this branch of business, and is unequaled in equipment for the various § i] processes employed. Having thoroughly tested all the important points in connection with the § milk referred to, we are now prepared to offer the trade, through the jobbing houses, Borden’s € Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream, unsweetened, with entire confidence that it will prove, like our celebrated Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, to have no Equal. It is thoroughly guaranteed in every respect, and this guarantee is substantial, as every one knows. a eee 2 a ~~ | i} \4 ' 9 iy . , ¥ * 4A ‘ 5 ”) y 4 1 % » om ° , % : ' t 4 N a }? *