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THE REVOLT OF THE ——

 

A Page from the Domestic History of
the Twentieth Century.

Mr. Madax sat before his desk in a
most despondent attitude, his head in
his hands, and his hands in his hair.
Things were going badly in the city, as,
alas, they often do. Mr. Madax was
alone in his office in Old Gold alley. He
wanted time to think, and had given or-
ders that he was not to be disturbed. All
the thinking he appeared able to do did
not seem to help matters, so at last he
pulled himself together and paced up
and down the room. Finally he stopped
and said to himself: ‘*That seems the
only thing to do. I shall consult with
my wife. I wish she came home more
frequently, and then we could talk over
these matters.’’

He seized a telegraph blank and wrote:
‘“‘Mrs. John Madax, 20 Bullion Court,
city. Can you run over to Old Gold
alley for a few minutes? I wish to con-
sult you oh business.—MADAX.”’

He rang the bell for a telegraph bey,
and sent the message; then paced up and
down his room again, waiting for his
wife to appear. Instead, there came a
prompt answer, which he tore open and
read feverishly: ‘Sorry I can’t come
this forenoon. Too busy. Call on meat
1 o’clock and I will take you to the club,
where we can lunch and have a quiet
talk.—JOAN MADAX.”’

The worried man consulted his watch.
It was not yet 11. It would be more
than two hours before he could see his

wife. He sat down at his desk and de-
voted himself for those two hours to
what business there was in hand. Then

he brushed himself up a bit, took his
walking stick, and drovein a hansom to
his wife’s offices in Bullion Court. Af-
ter having sentin his name, a neat little
girl showed him into a room and told
him that Mrs. Madax would be with him
presently. She was sorry to keep him
waiting, but she sent a copy of the Sketch
for him to look over during the interval.
The Sketch was a paper started in the
nineteenth century, and was at that time
considered to be rather in advance of
other slow-going weeklies. Now, how-
ever, it was thought to be the correct
paper for a man to read, although the
women paid little attention toit. In the
reception room two or three other men
were waiting, nursing their hats. Pres-
ently the office girl came in and told them
all, except Madax, that Mrs. Madax
couldn’t possibly see them until later in
the day, as she had an appointment; and
would they be good enough to call about
4 o’clock. So the men took their depart-
ure, and Madax was left alone with his
paper, although his wife entered very
soon after. She was a tall woman, with
fine, clear-cut, decided features. As far
as the upper part of her was concerned
she was dressed almost like a man. She
wore a somewhat glaring necktie and a
stand-up collar. Her brown hair was
cut short and parted at the side, while
the hair of her husband, dark and

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894.

streaked with gray, seemed to part nat-
urally in the middle. The neat tailor-
made skirt which Mrs. Madax wore had
pockets at each side, high up, and very
similar in cut to a man’s pockets. Her
right hand was thrustinto one of these
pockets, and she jingled some coins and
keys as she entered the room where her
husband was waiting.

‘‘Well, John,” she eried, ‘‘excuse me
for keeping you, but we have had a very
busy morning. However, if you are
ready nowlam. We will go to the Pine
Ear Club and have lunch.” She ap-
proached her husband as she spoke and
patted him with some affection on the
shoulder. He looked up at her and
smiled. Somehow her influence hada
soothing, protective air about it, which
made the man feel he was not battling
with the world alone. One of the num-
erous girl clerks came in with a long
ulster, which Mrs. Madax put on, thrust-
ing one hand in the armhole and then
the other, while the girl held the gar-
ment by the collar. When Mrs. Madax
had buttoned up the ulster and puta
jaunty round hard hat on her head she
looked more like a man than ever, and
Madax himse!f seemed almost effeminate
beside her.

“Is my brougham at the door ?”’ she
asked the girl.

“Yes, madam.”

*“Come along, John, we have no time to
lose,’? said Mrs. Madax decidedly, and,
leading the way, she opened the carriage
door, whereupon he stepped inside.

“To the Pine Ear Club,” said the lady
to the coachman.

She took her seat beside her husband,
and the carriage drove off toward the
West End. Inashort time it drew up
before a palatial building standing where
the Hotel Metropole once stood. This,
as every one knows, is the Pine Ear
Club, the sumptuous resort of women
engaged in business in the city. It is
higher priced than the Carlton or Reform,
but is much more luxurious than either
of these old-fashioned men clubs.

*‘Call for me at half past three,” said
the lady to her coachman.

The stately doors of the club were
opened by two girl porters, and the
couple entered. The lady wrote her
husband’s name in a book which was on
a stand in the hall, and together they en-
tered the large dining room, where they
took their places at one of the small
tables set for two near one of the large
front windows.

“We will take the regular club
lunch,’’ she said ‘to one of the waiters.
‘“‘And bring a bottle of ’84 champagne—
a large bottle.’’

“I—I don’t think I care for cham-
pagne,” said Madax, hesitatingly; ‘‘It
gives me a headache.’’

‘‘Nonsense,’”’ cried his wife; ‘‘a glass
or two will do yougood. You look wor-
ried.”

“TJ am worried, and that is what I
wished to see you about.”’

‘*Well, we won’t talk business during
lunch, if you please,’’ adding, as she

 

 

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leaned back in her chair, “‘it’s a habit I
never indulgein. It’s bad for one. We
can have a talk in the smoking room
afterwards. How are the children 2”

‘Very well, thank you. The girl is a
little hard on the boy and knocks him
about a bit, but they are getting on very
well.”’

‘**Poor little fellow,’’ said Mrs. Madax.
‘‘Boys are such a worry to their parents,
when one thinks that they .have to en-
counter this world alone. I must run
down and see them next week, if 1 ean.”

“I wish you would,” said Madax;: “‘the
children miss you very much. Why
don’t you come home oftener?”

**Well, very soon I expect to beable to
do so,” she replied; ‘but, like you, I
have a great deal on my mind at present,
and the market requires close watch-
ing.”’

“Can’t you come home with me to-
night ?”’? he asked. ‘‘The children would
be so pleased to see you.”

**No,’? she answered. ‘I have to take
Sir Cesar Camp out to dinner to-night.”

‘To-morrow night, then 2”
gested, deprecatingly.

“No,” said the lady, shaking her head,
“it’s worse still to-morrow night. I
have alot of stockbrokers dining with
me at the Holborn.’’

“It must cost you a lot of money, these
dinners on every night ?”

**Yes, it does,’’ said Mrs. Madax; “‘but
my experience is, if you want to make a
good business deal with a man, you must
first feed him well. I always see that
the wines are irreproachable. I will say
one thing for the men—they always
know good wine when they taste it.”

‘*Well,’’ said Madax, ‘I will tell the
children that you send your love to
them, but I think, you know, that a
woman shouldn’t lose sight of her chil-
dren, even though business is absorb-
ing.’

She urged him to take his share of the
champagne, but Madax declined, saying:
‘“‘A man must keep his head clear for
business nowadays.”’

**Yes,’’ said his wife,
man must.”

he sug-

““I suppose a

There was a slight tinge of sarcasm in
her voice, and she put unnecessary em-
phasis on the noun. Madax looked
grieved, but said nothing. How often
do women in their thoughtless rudeness
cause pain to the tender hearts of those
who love them!

After lunch was over, Mrs. Madax led
the way upstairs tothe private smoking
room which she had reserved for their
use. It was in a corner of the club
building, overlooking a bit of the river
and commanding a view of the Charing
Cross railway bridge.

‘*We will be quite undisturbed here,’’
she said, ‘‘and can talk business.”’

Ringing a bell to give an order, she
asked her husband:

‘“*What will you drink?”

‘‘Nothing, thank you,’’ he replied, but
added afterward, ‘‘Il will have a glass of
milk and soda, if you can get it.’’

 

    

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“You will smoke, of course,’’ said his
wife.

“A cigarette,’’ answered Madax.

When the waiter appeared, Mrs. Madax
said, ‘‘Bring a glass of milk and soda,
some of the best Egyptian cigarettes,
two Havana cigars, and a glass of special
Scotch with seltzer.”’

When these materials were brought
and the waiter had disappeared, Mrs.
Madax walked to the door and turned the
key in it. Her husband lighted his ciga-
rette from the match she held out to him,
and then, biting the end from her own
cigar, she began to smoke. She thrust
her two hands deep down in her pock-
ets, and began to pace up and down the
room.

‘“‘Now, John,” she replied, ‘‘what’s the
trouble?’’

Mr. Madax’s name was Billy, but
everybody called him John because his
wife’s name was Joan. Mr. John Madax
was the name he was known by.

‘‘Some months ago,” began Mr. Madax,
“TI went into a wheat deal, and I don’t
quite see my way out.’’

Mrs. Madax stopped in her pacing and
faced her husband in surprise.

‘“‘A wheat deal?” she cried.
side of the market are you on?”’

“Oh, I’m on for a rise.’’

His wife made a gesture of despair
and began walking up and down the
room again.

**What in heaven’s name did you
for a rise for?”

‘“Well,’? said Madax, very humbly,
‘*you see, the American wheat crop had
practically failed, and I thought 1 was
pretty sure of a rise.”

“Why didn’t you speak to me about
it?” she cried.

Her husband flushed uneasily.

“[ wanted to do something off my own
bat,” he said. ‘Of course, lL had no idea
at that time there would be a corner in
wheat.”

‘Corner!’ she cried, contemptuously,
‘‘there’s always a corner, there’s bound
Don’t you Know enough

“Which

buy

to be a corner.
not to look to the United States any
more for indications of the wheat mar-
ket? India and the Baltic hold the key
to the situation.”

‘“‘Yes, I know; at least, 1 know now,”
he said; ‘‘but there is no use in upbraid-
ing me for what 1 have done. I am up
to the neck in wheat, and the signs to-
day are that it is going lower than ever.
Now, what would you advise me to do,
Joan?”

“Oh, advise you!”’ she cried. ‘*What’s
the use of coming to me when it is too
late? lLladvise you to get out of it as
cheaply as you can.”

Her husband groaned.

*] am afraid,” he said,
mean practical ruin now.”

‘Well, my opinion is that wheat is go-
ing still lower.”’

“Then itis utter ruin for me,”
Madax, dejectedly.

Mrs. Madax stopped once more in her
pacing the room, and confronted her
husband. ‘John,’’ she said, ‘‘why don’t
you give up your office in the city and
go home and take care of the children?”

A spark of resentment appeared in the
man’s eyes as he gazed at his wife.

“I don’t want to be entirely dependent
on you,’’ he said at last.

“Pooh,” said his wife, and then she
added, ‘‘I will make you a handsome al-
lowance for housekeeping and as mucb
as you want besides. You are worrying
yourself to death about business. You

“that will

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Cmons

W Ill be higher very soon, the
mercury is creeping up’ Buy of

ought to take a run to Brighton, or go off
to Monte Carlo, and give up bothering
about city affairs.’’

The man sighed.

‘‘That’s all very well, but you don’t
see that I want to make some money for
myself.”

“But you are not making it; you’re
losing it. You say you are up to the
neck; how much does that mean?”

“Twenty-five thousand pounds,’’
said with a sigh.

‘Dear, dear,’’ she said, ‘‘and I sup-
pose that is all the money you have.”

“It is more than all the money | have,”
he answered.

‘I wish you had spoken to me before;
it is too late now. Don’t you see that?”

‘Yes, but | had something to propose.
You spoke of taking Sir Cesar Camp to
dinner. Now, 1 don’t know what you
want to get him in on, but I do know
that | eould get him on my side of the
wheat deal, and he would bring in
others. Then we might be able to stop
the break in the market.”’

Mrs. Madax’s eyes sparkled as
looked down at her husband.

‘‘Can you really do that?’’
almost breathlessly.

“Yes. if 1 had any assurance that we
would get out with a little profit. It
seems to me that all their influence
thrown in on our side of the market
would give us rise enough to get out of
the hole, at least.”’

“Oh!” said his wife, ‘‘that is a differ-
ent matter. I didn’t know you had any
plans. Yes,” she added, after thinking
a moment with knitted brows, ‘‘that’s a

he

she

she asked,

first-rate idea. How much money do
you think it would all total up to?”’
“About a million,’? said Madax,

pleased to see that he was getting more
attention than censure.

‘“‘A million,’’? said his wife, more to
herself than to him. ‘‘Are you certain
you could get all that amount on your
side of the market?’’

‘Quite certain.”

Mrs. Madax, as she continued her pac-
ing up and down, seemed to be making
some mental calculation. She finally
asked:

“Whom are you running against? Who
is at the head of the corner?”’

“Oh, that,’? said Madax. ‘‘none of us
knows. The business is done through
the Tokio and Jamboree Bank, but we
don’t know who is behind it.” ,

‘“‘Now, doesn’t it strike you that the
first thing for you to do is to find out
whom you are butting against? Ifit’sa
stone wall the sooner you know it the
better, so that you can stop before your
head gets hurt. If it’s a hedge you
might manage to get through. It would
have been my first work to find out who
was against me.”’

“‘But,’? said her husband, ‘‘don’t I tell
you that I didn’t know there was any-
body on the other side of the market?”’

“Oh!’? said his wife, impatiently,
‘‘you can always count on somebody be-
ing on the other side of the market. So
you can’t find out who it is?”

‘“*We can’t,’”’ said her husband.

‘‘Very well,’’ she said. ‘‘Now listen
to me. You have twenty-five thou-
sand pounds in this, and if you can get all
the money of Sir Cesar and his friends
to help you I will guarantee that you
will come out with double—that is, fifty
thousand pounds.”

“Do you mean it?’ cried her husband,
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‘*] mean it,’’ said his wife solemnly.

“And may I tell Sir Cesar that you
said so?” he asked.

‘No; whatever information I wish
Sir Cesar to have I will give him my-
self. You will tell him that you have
had private information, and are not al-
lowed to mention the dealer’s name.’’

‘Very good,” said Madax, with in-
tense relief in his face.

‘Do not let it get out,’’ continued his
wife. ‘‘Use all your force and see if
you can raise the market, and as soon as
the price gets up, sell out at once.
Have all your plans made for selling
out. Promptness is the thing in these
matters. Now, 1 must go. I will drop
you down at your office.”’

Mr. Madax knew what his wife said
about the markets generally came true,
so he, in great jubilation, telegraphed
Sir Cesar Camp and others to meet him
at his office, and they did so. He told
him that he had private information
about the market, and, after some slight
hesitation, they all went in. He ar-
ranged with them that the sale would be
made at once after the rise.

Next day it was announced that a mil-
lion of money was put against the cor-
ner, and wheat sprang up a few points,
but not as much as they had expected it
would. Madax could have sold out
without loss, but saw that he would not
double his money, for the corner was
stronger than any of them had thought;
but after the slight rise down went the
price of wheat again. The very bottom
seemed to have dropped out of the mar-
ket. Madax’s twenty-five thousand
pounds were swept out of sight, and so
was the million his deluded friends had
put in with him. All confidence that
Madax had put in his wife had now de-
parted, so he merely telegraphed to her
that he was ruined, and went home a
broken man.

About 8 o’clock that night a carriage
drove up to the door, and his wife sprang
out and let herself into the house with
her latchkey. When she entered the
room her husband never looked up, but
she crossed to where he sat and patted
him on the back.

‘Come, come, my poor infant.
up!’ she said.

Madax’s only answer was a groan of
anguish.

‘“‘And so your little twenty-five thou-
sand has gone with the rest?’ she said.

“You told me I would double my
money,” said he, ‘‘and | believed you.”

“Of course you believed me, and here
it is,” she said, taking a check from her
purse. ‘There’s my check for fifty
thousand pounds, so you have doubled
your money.”

“What do you mean by that?’’ said
her husband, looking up.

“Mean? You poor child! I mean
that I am the head of the corner. It
doesn’t matter now who knows it. That
was the reason I had Sir Cesar and the
others dining with me. I had no idea
that you were on the other side, and
when you told me that you could get
them to assist, it seemed too good to be
true; for 1 did want that million. Hus-
bands are of some use after all. Now,
my boy, you take that check and go
down to Monte Carlo. I may be able to
go after all this work is over. I am
very much obliged to you for the million
you threw in my way, and consider it
cheap at £50,000. Drawon me for all
your expenses while you are at Monte

Cheer

 

Carlo. Iam sure you will find the tables
much, less expensive than the London
wheat market. Iam sorry that I can’t
stay with you, but Iam on for a dinner
in the city. Those who were with me
in the wheat corner are giving me a din-
ner to-night, and I am due there at 9
o’clock. Iam sorry I can’t wait to see
the children. Give them my love, and
tell them I will run down in a few days
and pay them a visit—that is, unless you
take them with you to Monte Carlo. It
must be lovely down there just now.
Well, ta-ta. Take care of yourself and
your check. I may see you at Monte
Carlo.”

And with that she left the room, and
was waving good-by from the carriage
window as the dazed man stood watch-
ing her through the open door, before he
had quite realized the situation.

RoBERT BARR.
—_—__ ~~
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held
at Protective Brotherhood Hall, Monday
evening, May 21, President Viergever
presided and the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.

Peter Schuit, chairman of the special
Committee on Flour, asked for further
time to report, owing to the absence of
Manager Rowe of the Valley City Milling
Co. The request was granted.

E. A. Stowe, of the Municipal Com-
mittee, presented a report, outlining the
work undertaken by the Committee
on the license schedule matter, which
was accepted.

The following letter was presented
from the Director of the Poor:

GRAND Rapips, May 21—I notice that
Iam announced to address your meet-
ing to be held this evening. Now,
while I am anxious—and believe it would
be for the best interest of the city, and
also for those receiving aid from the
city—to adopt the method proposed by
me, I do not feel that it would be good
policy for me to urge the matter through,
as lam only acting in this matter as I
believe to be for the best good of all
concerned. It is already before the
Council and also before the _ public
through the city press. Ido not feel it
my duty to take further measures for its
adoption. You will, therefore, please
excuse me from being present at your
meeting this evening.

Wma. MoreRDYK.

B. Van Anrooy moved that a committee
of two persons be appointed to circulate
a petition among the retail grocery trade
of the city, praying the Council to adopt
the plan proposed by Mr. Moerdyk. Lost.

Henry J. Vinkemulder presented the
following resolution, which was unani-
mously adopted:

Resolved—That we heartily approve of
the plan of Director of the poor, Moer-
dyk, abolishing the city supply store and
substituting therefor a system of orders
good on any retail grocer in the city.

Mr. Vinkemulder also moved that
every member of the Association see the
aldermen of his ward in relation to the
matter and urge the adoption of the
plan. Carried.

The following letter was read from the
Secretary of the Grand Rapids Whole-
sale Grocers’ Association and laid on the
table:

GRAND Raprips, May 11—Replying to
your letter of May 8, I would say that
the new rule adopted by the Wholesale
Grocers’ Association of charging cartage
is not under the control of the Grand
Rapids Wholesale Grocers’ Association;
neither, indeed, is it within the juris-
diction of the Michigan Wholesale
Grocers’ Association, as the same rule
has been adopted and isin force in six
States, all of which are equally inter-
ested. Your communication, however,
has been handed to the Secretary of the
State Association, and will, doubtless, be
referred to the proper committee.

SumMNER M. WELLS, Sec’y.

There being no further business, the

meeting adjourned.

 

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SEEDS! |

Everything in seeds is kept by us—

 

Clover, Timothy,
Hungarian, Millet,
Red Top, Blue Grass,
Seed Corn, Rye,
Barley, Peas,
Beans, Ete.
If you have Beans to sell, send us
samples, stating quantity, and we
will try to trade with you. We are
headquarters for egg cases and egg
case fillers.
MW. Y. LAMBREAUX CO., weisriage st

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

If You would
ae

 

How to conduct your
business without the
loss and annoyance at-
tendant upon the use of
the pass book or any
other charging system,
send for samples and
eatalogue of our

Coupon Book
System,

Which is the best meth-
od ever devised for plac-
ing the credit business
of the retaildealer on a
eash basis.

Tradesman
Company,
GRAND RAPIDS.

The Poorest Man

On Earth
Can afford the BEST salt.

The Richest Man

On Earth
JANNOT afford any other.

 

 

SR Net mince ‘
pWerron fyor®. |

 

See Quotations in Price Current,

|. M. GLARK GROCERY 60.,
GENERAL AGENTS,
GRAND RAPIDS, - - -

 

MICH. |

BUYS’ BENGH BARREL TRUCK

 

Patented.

The Simpliest, Most Substantial
and [lost Satisfactory Barret

Truck ever invented.

 

For Prices, Terms and Illustra-
ted Circular, call or
Address,

A. B UYS EAST FULTON ST.

SE CNG

1. Hot Weather.
2. A Circus.
3. Fans.

 

Of all the past and by-gone adver-
tising fakes, none hold their own with
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 card
and fan combined,

WHY!

The children want 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 our late samples and lead the
procession with an advertising fan
on Cireus Day.

 

‘0

TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Willow—Jesse Butler
Moore in general trade.
Marquette—E. Farnham
W. Toles in the drug business.

sueceeds R.

succeeds

|
}
| Court.
J |

was rendered against Mr. Watt for $584.
The case will be appealed to the Supreme
The verdict was a great suprise

| to those who knew the facts of the case
and is regarded by them as very unjust.
L. Benton Harbor—Fred Hollister has re-
| tired from the wholesale grocery house

Charlotte—A. B. Allen & Co. succeed of Kidd, Dater & Co. and will embark in

r a : i |
L. H. Turner in the feed business. |

Merrill—R. P. Grattan has purchased |
the jewelry stock of Geo. L. Kinch.

Reed City—John Watkins has sold _ his }
business to Houseman & Kautzman.

ithaeca—E. D. Hamilton has purchased
the grocery business of Balch Bros.

Haneock—Lignell & Olander succeed
Carl G. Printz in the drug business.

Fenton—Snyder Bros.,
dissolved, Snyder & McCracken succeed-
ing.

Fenton—Snyder & McCracken succeed
Snyder Bros. in the grocery and crockery
business.

Haire—Horner & Gulleckson have
opened a dry goods and notion store at
this place.

Detroit—Bachmeyer &
druggists, have dissolved,

grocers, have

 

Pendleton,
McClellan C.
Pendleton succeeding.

Stanton—Stevenson Bros. have opened
a branch store at Sheridan, putting in
lines of dry clothing and boots
and shoes.

Coldwater—The Shively Dry
Co. stock has gone into the possession of
L. S. Baumgartner & Co., of Toledo, by
virtue of a chattel mortgage. |

Kent City—Alfred Herendeen has pur-}
chased a half interest in the
stock of Eugene O’Connor. The new firm
will be known as O’Connor & Heren-
deen.

Wayland—W.  B. and E. E.
Whitmore have formed a copartnership
under the style of Hooker & Whitmore |
and will shortly embark in hard- |
ware business.

Pontiac—Perry Weed has severed his

goods,

Goods

general

Hooker

the

connection with the firm of W. D. Har-
shaw & Co., dealers in drugs, paints and
oils. He has purchased the drug stock
of Henry M. Linabury and will continue
‘ the business at this place.

New Era—A. J. Rankin has closed out
his general stock and retired from  busi-
ness He his dry goods and
groceries to Frank Veltman,
and shoes to O. L. Cedarquist
and his hardware to
Store (Shelby).

here. sold

his boots
(Ferry)
the Co-operative
Detroit—T. W. Palmer has commenced
brick block, 50x120
basement, on the
Larned and Cass

Lee & Cady will

the erection of a
feet, six
northwest
streets, to cost $35,000.

stories and

corner of

occupy itas a wholesale grocery house,
and it will be constructed with especial
reference to that trade, walls and
floors being of extra strength. ;

Alma—The Alma Mereantile Co. has
been organized by J. Henry Lancashire,
Sarah H. Lancashire, Wm. C. Clark and
Lester A. Sharp with a capital stock of
$25,000, of which $12,000 is paid in, t
conduct a general merchandise business
in the opera house block. The directors
comprise the officers of the corporation |
as follows: President, J. H. Lancashire; |
Vice-President, Wm. C. Clark; Secretary
and Treasurer, L. A. Sharp.

Saranac—aA law suit at Grand Rapids,
in which Rabecca Thomas was plaintiff
and S. A. Watt was defendant, took a

the

a

9

 

number of Saranac people to the Valley
City last week.

The suit was decided; W. Hyde each one-quarter.

other business. John R. Price, who has
been a partner in the business since it
was established, but who has continued
to travel for H. C. & C. Durand and their
successor (the Durand & Kasper Co.),
has concluded to devote all his time to
Kidd, Dater & Co. hereafter and take the
position in the house rendered vacant by
the retirement of Mr. Hollister.
Marquette—H. H. Stafford & Co. have
merged their drug business into a stock
company under the style of the H. H.
Stafford Co. The corporation has a capi-
tal stock of $30,000, all paid in. There
are only three stockholders and they
comprise the directors and officers of the
organization, as follows: President, H. H.
Stafford; Vice-President, M. H. Stafford:
Secretary and Treasurer, W. D. Man-
ness. The business was established by
the President of the corporation in 1859.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Kalamazoo—The style of the Kimble
Engine Co. has been changed to the Com-
stock Manufacturing Co.
Clarence—The Clarence Lumber Co. is

i building a narrow gauge logging road

running to its timber in Greenwood
township.

Kenton—Wnm. Kroll has purchased the
sawmill built by Townsend, Heath &
James, under the name of the Kenton
Lumber Co.

Detroit—The Ryan Brothers Knitting
Co. have filed articles of association with
the county clerk. Maria Keane and Anna
Ryan have 749 shares each, Dennis T.
and John T. Ryan one each. The capi-
tal stock is $25,000, of which $2,500 is
paid in.

Sault Ste. Marie—Ainsworth & Alex-
ander have closed a contract with the
Manistique Lumber Co. for sawing
15,000,000 feet of logs. The logs will be
rafted down from Grand Marais. This
eontract, in addition to Ainsworth &
Alexander’s own logs, will be sufficient
to keep their mill running steadily day
and night during the entire season.

Manistee—The sawmills have been cir-
culating some money here of late, their
first pay day for the season being May
15. The Peters concern came to the
front with $42,000, while the Buckley &
Douglas Lumber Co. was a close second
with $35,000. This amount of money
putin circulation after a long, hard win-
ter ought to relieve the pressure some-
what.

Manistee—Louis Sands has shut down
his shinge mill for the present and
cleaned off his dock, as he did not have
enough stock to keep the mill running
full, and the price was no great object
to continue. Carpenter & Co., who were
running their mill nights, have closed
out their night crew, thinking they
could lose enough money in the day-
time, at present figures.

Greenville—W. H. Bradley has merged
his cigar business intoa stock company
under the style of Bradley Cigar Co. The
corporation has a capita! stock of $5,000,
all paid in, Will H. Bradley holding
one-half the stock and A. Magee and L.
These gen-

in favor of Mrs. Thomas and judgment|tlemen comprise the directors, the offi-

cers being as follows: President, W. H.
Bradley; Vice-President, A. Magee; Sec-
retary and Treasurer, L. W. Hyde.

Saginaw—There is very little induce-
ment to manufacture lumber just now.
In all the lumbering history of the Sag-
inaw valley there has not been such in-
difference manifested by manufacturers.
They do not seem to care whether they
do anything or not. There is such little
demand for lumber that there is no in-
ducement to manufacture. Charles
Merrill & Co., who have 15,000,000 feet
on the docks, say that during the winter
they did a little something in the car
trade, but now nothing is doing, and
there is no likelihood that they will
start their mill this season. Whittier
& Co. well not start their shingle mill
this season. The Wylie mill will not be
started, and Ed Andrews, who usually
manufactures several million shingles
each season, says he wishes he had not
started his mill.

i <i
The Hardware Market.

General Trade—Keeps up fairly well
and indications point to a study increase
for the remainder of May.

Wire Nails—Are much firmer, as the
coal and coke strikes have interfered
very much with the mills, a number of
them being short of fuel, and some clos-
ing down. Detroit and Chicago are firm
at $1.30 rates, and this market is quoting
$1.35@1.30. Whether this advance has
come to stay is uncertain, but it is doubt-
ful if it can be held, should the strike
soon end and the mills get to running
again on full time.

Barbed Wire—The same conditions
have affected wire as nails. The mills
are asking $1.85 for painted and $2.25
for galvanized, while from stock jobbers
are quoting $2.20 for painted and $2.60
for galvanized.

Window Glass, bar iron, sheet iron
and many other lines are all affected by
the strike and prices have been advanced
all along the line. It does seem an out-
rage that such troubles should commence
just as business seems to be ready to re-
vive a little.

The Drug Market.

Opium is dull and tower. The pros-
pective large crop and the belief that
the article will come in duty free have
tended to unsettle speculation.

Morphia was reduced 10¢ per ounce
by all manufacturers on May 21.

Quinine is firm, but unchanged.

Oils orange and lemon are in
stock and lower.

Oil cubebs has declined.

Cocoaine has been reduced by the com-
bination and is now quoted at $5.75 per
ounce in ounce vials and $6 in ‘x
vials.

full

ounce

Menthol is in light supply and has ad-
vanced about $1 per pound.

Salacine is firm and higher.

Turpentine is higher.

tt
From Out of Town.

Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN office during the past week
from the following gentlemen in trade:

T. H. Shepherd & Bro., Martin.

R. Gannon, White Cloud.

W. M. Briggs, Shelbyville.

S. Steinberg, Traverse City.

Maley & Snyder, Edmore.

A. L. Power, Kent City.

Bates & Troutman, Moline.

O’Connor & Herendeen, Kent City.

F. J. Pomeroy, Lisbon.

 

Eli Runnels, Corning.

Taking It Easy.

There are some people who have had
things pretty easy in the past, and they
think, poor things, that it is going to last
forever and ever. It is a mistake; things
will change, and you’ll have to hustle.
Life is a tussle, a race and fight, with
enemies and obstacles innumerable. One
needs to be wide awake, and not easy
going, tohold his own. The ninety and
nine will make themselves comfortable
at your expense. Waken up and stir
round, or you’re distanced and doomed.
In contests drowsy people never come in
ahead, and there are contests in every-
thing to which we put our hands.

GEORGE R. ScortT.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Asparagus—Home grown advanced to 50c per
doz. bunches, on account of cold weather
which prevented growing stock from maturing,
but the price will probably recede to 30c before
the end of the week.

Beans—Stronger and higher. Dealers pay
$1.40@1.50 for country picked, holding hand
picked at $1.83.

Beets—New Lllinois, 50c per doz. bunches,

Beans—Wax, $2 per bu. String, $1.50 per bu.

Butter—Supply is good. Creamery, fancy, 16@
17e; 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.

Cranberries—The Cape Cod cranberry growers
are organizing a combine for the purpose of pre
venting a repetition of the ruinous prices which
prevailed last season. Sixty growers, represent-
ing 28,900 barrels of the crop of 1893, have al-
ready united with'the organization and it is
confidently expected that two-thirds of the
growers will take this means of dictating prices
to the commission houses, instead of being dic
tated to by the latter.

Cucumbers—50c per doz. and tending down
ward.

iggs—Dealers pay 9%@10c, holding at lic.

Field Seeds—Medium and mammoth clover,

$6@6.25; Alsyke, #@s8.50; Alfalfa, #6.75@7.50;
Timothy, $2.15; Red Top, 75e; Orchard Grass
$1.80.

Greens-——Beet, {0c per bu. Spinach, 30c per bu

Honey—White clover, 14c; buckwheat, 12c¢.

Lettuce—Higher, on account of cold weather.
Dealers pay 6¢ and sell for 8¢e per Ib.

Onions—Louisiana etock is in ample supply at
$..25 per bu. or $3.25 per bbl. By far the finest
stock now in market is from Mexico, command-
ing $1. 0 per bu. in sacks, Green onions are in
small demand at 8@10c¢ per doz. bunches.

Peas—Green from Iilinois, $1.50 per bu.

Pie Plant—ic per Ib.

Radishes—Canada stock is
home grown,
bunches.

Tomatoes—%3.50 per t-basket crate.

Potatoes—The market is strong and excited
and higher prices are pretty sure to rule in the
near future, owing to the scarcity of old stock
and the lateness of Southern stock, due to the
cold, unfavorable weather. Handlers pay 7c,
holding at 80c, and will probably have to pay $1
before the end of another week.

Strawberries—Southern Llinois and Indiana
command 10@12%¢ per qt, according to quality.
Some Benton Harbor berries are expected in be
fore the end of the week, but they will probably
be higher in price than the stoce now arriving
from further South.

Watermelons—A short time ago it was re-
ported that acold wave had ruined the water
melon plants in Georgia, and that, therefore,
the crop would amount to nothing this year.
Tne frost, late and severe as it was, did not
cause much damage, however. An inspection
of the melon territory in that State shows that
the area of cultivation this season is 7,376 acres,
as compared with 8,839 acres last year. The
melons this year will ripen about one week late.
The first shipment from Georgia will not be
made before June 10, A few cars may come in
from Florida before that time. One railroad
company running through Southeastern Georgia
handled 3,633 cars of watermelons from that
section last year. Of this number 1,076 cars
were carried East and 2,577 West. It is thought

now eclipsed by
which command iC€e per doz.

that in spite of the decreased acreage, the ship.
ments will be almost as heavy this year, for the

 

yines are covered with young melons, which are
now about the size of a man’s fist,

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THE MICHIGAN

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Lyon & Boynton are succeeded by
Lyon Bros. in the grocery business at 3
Robinson avenue.

 

The annual convention of the Mich-
igan Funeral Directors’ Association will
be held in this city July 11 and 12, in-
stead of a month earlier, as was _ in-
tended at the last meeting. The change
was made so that the members could
have the benefit of the semi-annual
furniture exhibit which occurs at that
time.

So far as Tuk TRADESMAN is able to
learn, no one in Western Michigan has
been able to get any information what-
ever in regard to the next meeting of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion. The same was true last year, no
member from Western Michigan being
present at the meeting and very few
members being informed as to where or
when the meeting was to be held. Ex-
President Wurzburg, of this city, has
written the present Secretary, exquiring
as to the status of things, but up to this
time has received no reply to his en-
quiries.

Foster, Stevens & Co. are in possession
of the wholesale stock of the Gunn Hard-
ware Co. and expect to be able to com-
plete the inventory thereof two weeks
from Saturday. They will take posses-
sion of the retail stock, on Monroe street,
June 4, and will begin taking an inven-
tory immediately. A. L. Zwisler has
been engaged temporarily to cover the
trade of F. R. Miles, who is engaged in
inventorying the Gunn stock. Foster,
Stevens & Co. state that they will re-
double their efforts hereafter to avoid
getting out of goods, as they realize they
will not have any stock to sort up from.

No

Gripsack Brigade.

 

Geo. Sherwood, formerly engaged in
the manufacture of cigars at Ionia, has
gone on the road for the wholesale cigar
house of Ruhl Bros.

Wilbur J. Lynes, of Corunna. died
May 22, as a result of heart failure. He
was an early member of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, holding certificate
No. 315.

“Did l ever tell you why I swore off
smoking?’ asked a veteran traveling
man, as the younger members of the
party lighted up their weeds and settled
back for an afternoon smoke. ‘‘No?
Well, Pl] amuse myself with a recital of
my troubles, while you fellows are busy
trying to make chimneys of yourselves.
1 think | must have had a hereditary de-
sire to smoke. Anyhow, I started in be-
fore I had reached my teens, borrowing
my respected parent’s old briar pipe and
burning up his strong tobaceo out in a
secluded corner back of the old barn.
Of course, | was discovered and read a
severe lecture on the danger to a boy’s
health from the nicotine. Of course, I
promised not to do it again,
how in my childish way I figured out
that my health was as good as my dad’s
and thatif he could stand it 1 could.
So I kept on sub rosa. One day when 1
dropped a match and nearly burned the
barn down I did get a fright, and let the
weed alone for a couple of weeks, but it
was not long before I was at it again.

but some-

The older I grew the more I smoked,
and between pipe, cigar, and chewing
tobacco, | managed to keep using to-
bacco pretty

continually. The

 

thing before I went to bed in the evening
I would drop a little chunk of juicy plug
in my mouth and roll off to pleasant
dreams. If I did not find it there in the
morning it did not make much differ-
ence. Fora longtime 1 did not realize
how strongly the tobacco habit was be-
coming fixed on me. I always flattered
myself with the belief that I could quit
whenever I wanted to, but I never wanted
to. One bright summer day I planned to
go out with a friend to spend the day
shooting in the conntry about fifteen
miles from town. My friend did not
smoke. In the morning when we were
starting out I carefully provided a big
pouchful of tobacco, a handful of cigars,
a pipe, and a generous hunk of chewing.
These I did up in a bundle and dropped
in the rear of the buggy with the guns.
I had a little plug in my pocket, and
this kept me pretty busy until we reached
the shooting ground. The first thing I
did was to look for my ‘supplies.’ You
can imagine my horror and dismay to
find them gone. The bundle had been
jolted out of the buggy on the way out.
it was then that I realized what an im-
portant part of my existence tobacco had

become. All day long I suffered the
tortures of Tantalus. I could do no
shooting. I was too nervous for that.

I could do nothing but speeulate on the
possibility of getting tobacco to satisfy
my longings. If there had been a place
within five or six miles where 1 could
get some I would have cheerfully gone.
But there was not. My friend could not
understand my sufferings, but he could |g
see that 1 was suffering. He tried to get
me interested in other things in vain.
Finally, | proposed that we go back to
town early in the afternoon. He good-
naturedly consented, and we started.
My one idea when we started back was
to get to some place where | could get a
cigar as quickly as possible. But I
never smoked the cigar I wantec so
badly. I have never smoked it yet.
Somehow the scales fell from my eyes
before Il reached town and I saw myself
wearing all the galling chains of abject
slavery to a foolish habit. I made a
declaration to myself then and there.
[ said, ‘Nicotine, old boy, you’ll never
have a chance to torture me this way
again.’ He never did. It was the great-
est battle of my life. The enemy did
not die until he reached the last ditch,
but | beat him.”

oo
Purely Personal.

H. S. Maley, senior member of the
firm of Maley & Snyder, general dealers
at Edmore, was in town one day last
week.

Lester J. Rindge was taken seriously
ill last week with inflammation of the
stomach and for a iime his condition was
considered pecarious. He was so much
improved Monday that his recovery is
now considered certain.

A Duluth correspondent thus chroni-
cles the movements of a Grand Rapids
man in that vicinity: Chas. H. Chick,
the Grand Rapids timber buyer, accom-
panied by a trio of assistants from Man-
istee, Finlay Morrison (his agent), Harry
Mee (his attorney), and W. H. Cook (his
explorer), started to visit the pine fields
in dispute at Tower recently. Cook, Mee,
Morrison, et al., had plastered the home-
steads all over with timber and stone
men; these men proposed to prove up
by swearing that the other fellows were

last | prevaricators and insufficient under the

 

law, and Mr. Chick stood in to buy the
timber at a pre-contract price of $1.25 a
thousand for the white pine, and $1 for
norway, taking his title from the timber
and stone men. When the party reached
Tower they were met by 100 homesteaders
and sympathizers. They seized Mee and
Morrison and put ropes about their necks
and beat them without mercy. Had it
not been for the intercession of the
Mayor, the men would have been hung.
Cook made his way through the crowd
and hid in a baggage ear; Chick, not
being known, escaped. Lumbermen,
generally, smile at the unseemly
squabble, and are wasting sympathy on
neither party.
a
The Pure Food Exposition
The Pure Food Exposition
Monday evening
auspices, with every indication of a sue-
eessful exhibition. Mrs
her two weeks’ course of demonstrations
in practical cookery this afternoon, ob-
serving the following programme:
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 3 p. m.
Subject: Egg Cookery.
French Omelets,
Shirred Fggs,
Omelet Souftle,
Frothed Eggs,
Beauregard Eggs.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 3 p. m.
A side of beef will be cut and explained
before the udience.
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 3 p. m.
Sublect: Roasting, Broiling, Larding.
Larded Fillet, Mushroom Sauce,
Hamburg Steaks,
Broiled Steaks.
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 3 D. Mm.
Subject: Warming over of Meats.
Boudins, Sauce Bechamel,
Fillet, Horseradish Sauce,
Curry in Rice Border.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 4 p.
Subject: Soups.
Bouillon,
Tomato Soup,
Turkish Soup,
Stock
MONDAY,
Subject: Bread.
White Bread,
Whole Wheat Bread,
German Horns
Rolls
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 3 p. mi.
Subject; Quick Breads.
Pop Overs,
Rice Muffins,
Milk Biscuits,
Crumpets.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 3 p. m.
Subject: Diet for the Sick.
Koumis,
Mergg’s Food,
Beef ‘Tea,
Barthelow’s Food.
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 3 p. m.
Subject: Pastry.
French Paste,
Patties,
Lady’s Locks,
Plain Paste.
FRIDAY,
Subject: Poultry.
Trussing and Roasting Chicken,
White and Brown Fricassee.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 11 a. m.
Subject: Salads.
Ceylon Tomato Salad,
Potato Salad,
Lobster Salad.
SATURDAY, June 9, 4 p. m.
Subject: How to use the Chafing Dish.
Lobster a la Newburg,
Lobster a la Bordelaise,
Eggs Brouilli,
Welsh Rarebit.

opened

under very flattering

Rorer begins

JUNE 4, 3 p. m

JUNE 8, 8 p. m.

 

2 <—$$_$__—_—_—
Better to learn ten thine you will
have no use for than to omit to learn one
that will be a benefit to you through
life.

The best testimonial of an employer
to an employe is a voluntary increase of
salary.

Mind your business when it orders you
to be up and doing.

 

The Dry Goods Market.

The market continues quiet in most
departments, but the retail movement in
seasonable fabrics holds on
helps to keep up a fair
The business is
prints,

which
trade.
largely confined’ to
Sateens and thin summer stuffs in
the way of lawns, that are
brown

well,
jobbing

ducks, ete.,
selling at low prices.
bleached cottons are dull
and the situation is yet unsatisfactory,
although a fair export movement in the
former still prevails.
slowly,

and
with agents,

Dress woolens job
report very few
new orders, although the mills are fairly

while agents
busy for the present on old orders for
fall. Men’s-wear woolens
the outlook is very bad.

well

are dull, and
Old orders are
towards completion, while
new business is very

along

meager.
i i lip.

Knew His Business.

Young Clerk—These ladies’

getting shop worn. Shall |
their prices?

Head Clerk—No.

shoes are
mark down

Mark down the size.

 

FOR SALE, WAND ITED, ETC.

WANSTED- TINNER, ONE WHO GAN
clerk in store and understands farm im
plements. A good all around man, willing to do
anything. Address S. A. Howey, Lake City
Mich. i 631 |
\ JANTED—3500 TO #1.000 ADDITIONAL

capital in a manufacturing business.

Party to take active interest. No debts. An ex

cellent oppor ‘tunity, open to full investigation.
Address “Business,” care Michigan Trades
man 632

\ JANTED—SMALL STOCK OF GOODS:

must be 1 cheap. Will pay spot cash.
Address at once, i. E. Day, Bedford, Mich. 6343

For sat JE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MER.
chandise ina hustling town of 3,000. Will
inventory about 6,000. Best location in the
place Address ‘‘M.? care Michigan Trades-
man. 630
AY YE HAVE BUYERS FOR ALL KINDS OF
business, whether you want to buy, sell or
exchange.
Bay City,

. Write to Mutual Business Exen: ange,
Mich. 628

AY JANTED—TO BUY STOCKS OF MER
chandise of any description. Will pay
spot cash, Address Warner & Dunbar, Parma.

Mich. 624

OR 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.
Dunton, old County buil ding. 618 __
BH

OR SALE—LARG! SIZED | THRE E ‘KNIFE
rotary meat chopperin good order. Cheap

for cash. N. M. Wilson, Sand Lake. 616
PLANING MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE
the North Side Planing Mill, which is first
class in every respect, or will receive proposi
tions to locate the business in some other thriyv
ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic
ited. Sherids an, Boyce & Co. , Maniste e, Mich. 613

OR SALE @HEAP—STORE AND DWELL-
ing in first-class location in town of 1,000
inhabitants. Address E. L., box 158, _————

ville, Benzie Co., Mich.

YUE BEST PLAG E IN THE STATE TO
start a dry goods store is Big Rapids. Has
only two. 608
| ee RENT—EXCELLENT LOCATION FOR
grocery store. No other grocery within
four blocks. High and dry

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

basement under

 

store. Come and see for yourself. "
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
CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES FOR
Sale; good trade, cheap for spot cash;
the only delivery wagon in town. Stock about
$2,500. Investigate. Address box 15, Centre-
ville, Mich. 820
SITUATIONS WANTED.

WASTED 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 Mic higan
x radesman. Speaks seve ral le guages.
Vv ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED
¢ assistant pharmacist of three years’ prac
tical experience. Can furnish best of city refer-
ences. Address No. 634, care Michigan Trades-

man. 634
Vy J ANTED—POSITION BY EXPERT AC-

countant. Books opened or closed. Bal-
ances rendered. P: artnership s adjusted and any
other work of similar character promptly done,
Address No. 578, care The Tradesman. 578
jag yp wee sy GHLY COMPETENT

and experienced young man would like
position as book-keeper, cashier or other office
work with jobbing or mannfacturing —
Address “‘H”’ caré The Tradesman.

Pp E - K ’ SS HEADACHE

POWDERS
Pay the best profit. < Order from your jobber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

The Race for Success.

It is no small matter to keep up in the
great race. Business has come to be
such a different thing in these days,
when ships skip like a deer across the
ocean; in these days when everything
seems to have swift feet, and must be
done on the minute. It is trained peo-
ple that must come to take hold, and un-
less they have wit, have it about them,
and have it sharpened, they shall fall to
the rear. Life at bestis a great strug-
gle. Let us help each other, every man
of us, every woman, by kindly words,
by encouragement. If you should pos-
sess a good art to achieve success de not
put a patent on it. Let us hand it
around, give it to the next one; say to
him, **Pass iton to yeur brother,’’ and
so let the world be filled with joy and
brotherliness and uplifting until this
world shall be filled with good-will to
man. I had the greatest respect for a
little boy on a winter day that sat ata
street corner rubbing his knee. He had
slipped down in passing from the curb,
and to the man who came right behind
him he said, ‘*‘Mister, don’t step there;
that is where I fell down.” We will say
that, marking the places where we slip-
ped, but we will say more: ‘‘Here is the
way to get up; take hold of this hand,
and this one, and let us help each other.”
A friend said to me yesterday, that in
one of these automatic machines where
you can drop in a nickel to get a piano,
or something else, that when they came
to open the box they found that some
people had put in buttons, and little
strips of leather, and stones, and a bit
of lead, and a lot of things that were not
nickels by any means. 1 do not know
what happened when these articles were
dropped into the slot, but this I know,
that there did come a day when the
machine was opened, when it was found
out that somebody had some day proved
untrue. They tried to get, and maybe
did get, a prize without the proper pay,
but the day came when it was all told
out against them. If you try to get a
thing without toil, without honest en-
deavor, it will not be worth anything to
you. You will say, *‘l obtained this for
nothing, and I can get another and an-
other for nothing.’”’ And it will take out
of you, besides your own self-respect,
the spirit of effort, and it will dwarf you,
and you shall be that much lessaman. We
can only really get what we deserve to
have in this world and the next. Keep
on in the line of earnest endeavor, and
you shall find the flowers at your feet,
and the music further on, and stil! higher
up the friends to greet you, and smile
upon you, and bless you, and far beyond
it all the best of friends to give you wel-
come, when all this weary world and its
work behind you—a friend who shall
say, ‘‘Well done, good and faithful
soldiers, enter into greater joys and
blessed rest.’’ JOHN WANAMAKER.
><

Put Life into Your Work.

A young man’s interest and duty both
dictate that he should make himself in-
dispensable to his employers. He should
be so industrious, prompt and careful
that the accident of his temporary ab-
sence would be noticed by his being
missed. A young man should make his
employer his friend by doing faithfully
and minutely all thatis entrusted to him.
It is a mistake to be over-nice or fastidi-
ous about work. Pitch in readily and
your willingness will be appreciated,
while the ‘“thigh-toned” young man who
quibbles about what is and what is not
his place to do will get the cold shoulder.
There is a story that George Washington
once helped roll a log that one of his
corporals would not handle, and the
greatest Emperor of Russia worked as a
shipwright in England—to learn the
business. That is just what you want to
do. Be energetic, look and act with
alacrity, take an interest in your employ-
er’s success, work as though the busi-
ness was your own, and let your em-
ployer know that he may slace absolute
reliance on your word and your act. Be
mindful; have your mind on your busi-
ness, because it is that whichis going
to help you, not those outside attractions
which someof the ‘‘boys” are thinking
about.

 

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Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

 

Dry Goods Price Current.
UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
eee z Arrow Brand 4

Ae... 1.4. — Wide. 6
Atlanta AA......... 6 a
Atlantic -. 6%) Full yard ee. .... 6%
Es Gi Goorma A..........
- eee ocean > oy With... 6
a. _———e
- <h.......... 4%| Indian Head........ 5%
eS rs cae oe, 6%
Archery Bunting... King EC. oe ms
Beaver Dam AA.. 4% Lawrence LL......

Blackstone O, 32.... 5

pack Crew........- 6
foock Beck .-...... 5%
a oe... 7
oe 2... 5%
a 7 .......,.. 5%

 

Chapman cheese - 3x
Clifton CR...

a... .--.
Dwight Star...
Clifton CCC..

BLEACHED
ARE. .........<... 84
Amazon 8
cee... - ..-..
Art Camorte......... 10
Biackstone AA..... 7%
as oe...........,
eee 12
ee 6%
ee ee 6%
oo Ok........ 5%
ee hw Ty
Cleveland . : 6
Dwight Anchor... 8
“shorts 8
eae. 6
aes... -....,.; :
Parec....-..----- -- 7%

Fruit of the Loom. 8
Pacer ...... ... 7

 

 

Madras cheese cloth a

Newmarket a 5%
we XN ce 6%
. DD.... 5
- Gael 6%

ee 5

6

_
COTTONS.
Geo. Washington... 8
concn: SESies... 7
Gold Medal......... 7%
Green Ticket....... 814
Great Falis.......... 64
Ne een 7%
Just Out.....-. 4%@ 5
King Phillip Leeceeue am
Lonsdale ee. -10
Lonsdale...... @s
Middlesex.... .. @5
Pe i one 7%
ox Voow........... 6
a owe... 5%

Pride of the West...12

eeee.......----.- 7%
Pore... 4%
Utes Mais......... 8%

Pies Pras... ...... 6 - Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom %. 74) Vinyard............. 8%
eee... 4%4|White Horse........
Part Vates.......... 6% , 8%

HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.

 

 

 

— $%|Dwight Anchor os 8
Pare aed
sale FLANNEL.

Unbleached. Bleached.

Housewife a Housewife Q.... -.. 6%
B. 5% : z.. _.

“ oF, “

ae . o

“ae E oe

. F . Po. 10

. G ‘s _.... Oe

va Z... _ x... 11%

C I " z..a

“ J “ ee 13%

“a K i Xe

. a.

a... 10%

“ 3 i

_ 21

ne a 14%

CARPET WARP.

Peerless, weie...... a |

 

White Star colored. ..18

 

 

 

' colored. . —_ ‘wee teer.......... 17
ieee... 18%] ** colored .19
DRESS GOODS.
Hamilton ._s Nameless ——oo 20
eee a.  - Ce 25
' ee ge 27%
GG Cashmere. ae 20 ee ee 30
Ramee ... ......- 16 . ; noha
eee ee 18 Se
CORSETS.
ee 89 50|/Wonderful . ..84 50
Seniitaes......-.. © Oi eemeonm.. ........ 475
Davis Waists..... 5 Oboes .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 450 —— coe 15 00
CORSET JEA
eee a - 6% aaa satteen.. 7
tame —m. os OEE DOES...... - 6%
oo 6 |Conestoga. —
Brunswick. .... 6%| Walworth ...... + OE
PRINTS,
Allen turkey reds.. 5%/Berwick fancies.... 5%
robes........ ¥\Clyde Robes........
- pn & purple 5%/|Charter Oak fancies 4
._ a... 5% DelMarine cashm’s. 5%
e aa checks. 5%) mourn’g 5%
- meee .....- 5 ‘ie: ae fancy... 5%
” shirtings ... 3 chocolat 5%
American fancy. . - 53 _ rober.... 5%
Americanindigo.. . sateens.. 5%
American shirtings. 3 |Hamilton fan 5%
Argentine Grays.. 7 opie . 5%
Anchor eae.- Manchester an 5%
Arnoid Y new aR 5%

ans |

Arnold Merino..... 6
“ long cloth B. 9

“ “ ee Cc Ld

- 7%
‘* century cloth 7

“gold seal..... 10%
‘“* green seal TR 10%
“« “yellow seal. ro
" —_ bee ue

“ Turks; 20d. “ioe
Ballon solid black..

colors.
Ben blue, green,
red and orange... 6
Berlin solids........ 5
. eee... 6
“ “ een ae 6
“ FPoulards ... 5%
“ red &. 7
2 oe 9%
. . oe 10
_ “ 34X XXX 12
Cocheco ee. has ©
. madders... 5
_ XX twills..5 |
. OO. 24 ou 5 i
TICK

Ameshkeng AC A....12%
Hamilton N ol 7

D 8
” nae an

Merrimack D fancy.

Merrim’ck shirtings. 4

. Repp “-

Pacific fancy..
robes

Ou

8 %

“solid black, 5%
Washington indigo. 6%
Turkey robes.. oy

** India robes.... 7%
i plain Tky x XX 8%

* Ottoman aS
key red

Riverpoint robes..
Windsor fancy..
gold ticket
indigo blue.. a
4

ae ‘.

Ings.

Oe ita se os owen 11%
Pemberton eae

 

farmer ..
SSIS
Lenox Mills et ole 18
son, 2.......... 6%
i i 6%
Can, &..........- 7

oe ete oops
wees Miver......... ve
[oe Svee........... 12
NE ase men set 12%
Comostogs .......... 16
D

ee Oe bw caves

me Meme........ -
Top of Heap........0 9

 

 

 

 

 

DEMINS.

Amores ...... -..- Columbian brown. .12
' ~*~... 14 |Everett, blue........ 12%
brown .14 - brown. ....12%

Aner: .......-.... 1% Haymaker bine. .... 7%

Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7%
. De... 0 eee... ... 2. LK
. a... aaa a 12%

Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 90z...... 13%

blue 8% . No. 220....13
“ d & twist 10% No. 250....11%
Columbian XXX br.10 » No. 280....10%
XXX bi.19
GINGHAMB.

Ameo ...... ..-- Lancaster, staple... 5
. fea dress 64, fancies . 7
ai Canton .. 7 “Normandie :
. ...... £4%|Lancashire..........

. Teazle...10%|Manchester......... Sa
. Angola. .10%/|Monogram.......... 6%
_ Persian.. 7 |Normandie........ 7

Arlington staple.... 6144|Persian............. 7

Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... 7%

Bates Warwick dres 74%/Rosemont..........-. 6%
' staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6

Centennial. ........ 10% -ermnengy ine nee un

oe 10%

Cumberland staple. ost

Cumberland.... ....

es :

— ™

Everett classics..... 8%/|Whittenden......... 8

Exposition. . -. 7 “heather dr. 7%

Glenarie. ~- - indigo blue 9

Glenarven .. 6%|/Wamsutta staples... -

Glenwood..... -» 7) Weathrook..........

Peeeepeen..... . .....2 5 ee eee 10

Jobnson Vhaloncl %/|Windermeer.... .... 5
- ties bie SL Terk. .... .......... 6%
= sephye....6

GRAIN BAGS.
tg ieee ss — Bey oe ees 13%
aa cece. eee = +.
THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's.......... 9

Cott. d. &F......- = menmeire.... .....- 90

ES 22%

KNITTING COTTON.

White. Colored.
ae 38

White. Colored
sean 42

Be. & .33 No. 14.
SS 38 Pe... 38 43
a. — .° m..... 39 44
- =... 41 =... 45
CAMBBICS.
—_—_  ————— ‘ae... €
Wares Gter......... . 2oeeeee...... ... 6
oe --...-_._. 4 ~~... 2
Newmarket......... 4 j\Sranewick ........ 4
RED FLANNEL.
Pee... Ct... ale | --.......... 2%
Coopieenrs......-.-. i ye B2%
Tees EP ak......... me i. Or, See........: 35
Hemecless...... ..... Dry eure... ........ RY
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%
ieee ©... 22% = it ae ones 18%
ee ae. .-....-..--.-.. 18%
6 oz Western........ 20

 

Pioshing REE...... om

 

 

vee B.......-... 224%|Manitoba...........
DOMET FLANNEL.

Nameless 8 @9% SS 9 @10%

Ce 8%@10 oe et 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.

Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black.

9% 9% 9% )10% 0% 10%

10% 10% 1034/11% 11% 11K

11% 11% 114%)}12 12 12

12% 12% 124/20 20 20

DUCKS.

Severen, 8 oz........ 9%|West Point, 8oz....10%

Mayland, Cos........ 10% 100s ...12%

Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% ai, om... 13%

Greenwood, 8 os. 11% vee ccenns 138

Boston, 8 0z......... 10% |Boston, 10 oz........ 12%

WADDINGS.

White, Ges.........- 25 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 50
Colored, Gon........ — eee «CL. 7 50
SILESIA8.

Slater, Iron Cross... 8 pomtnatat.

7 — Cross.... - Dundie a

. ie... 10%|Bedford.. a

” Best AA...... 12% aad City eee 103
A, i i
ite en ce

SEWING SILE.
es, Gon....... 85 {Corticelli knitting,
wist, doz..40 per %os ball...... 30
aa doz. .40

 

OKS AND EYES—PER GROSS

No : BI’ ¢ & White.. 4

 

 

 

No 4Bl’k & White. 15
8 20

“ 3 “ B * 10 “ 25
PINs.
No 2—20,M C....... 50 ee 4—15 £ 3%...... 40
" 2-28 C........
COTTON TAPE.
No 2 White & Bl’k..12 {No 8 White & Bl’k..20
= 4 “ —— | = ' 28
“ 6 “ —— 1" 2 ” --%
PINs.
WO ike) ole 28 _ ee 38
NEEDLES—PER &M.
I, in cates. 1 40|/Steamboat.... ...... 40
—— 1 3/Gold Eyed.......... 150
dine keene 1 @jAmerican........... 1 00
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....175 6—4... Pen 6—4. ..2 30
TTONT WINES.
Cotton Sail Twine. ae Ee ae a 14
ae. 12 Rising Star4-ply....17
Dee ..........- 18% 3- -ply.. —_
I bc oi etca tees ~ eecth Stee... ......

Bristo 13
vee Tee... .. ee

Wool Standard 4- — %
Powhattan

ame eee

I oo oes ve chee 6%[Mount Pleasant.... 6%
Alamance, . , oss .- 5
BE ib cs aeeveeee oe ST 5%
ares... .......-- 6 a 6
pe fs lion 614| Riverside 54
G SE OO Bios s cons wee 6%
Baw Biver......... ® |Toledo

Spake peer. 5 |Otis checks ._ 7%

 

WE HAVE MADE

H. SGHNEIDER GO.,,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,

Distributing Agents for the Old Reliable

Kk
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CIGARS.
AMERICAN CIGAR C0.

IN, LYON & Cb

NEW STYLES OF

 

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20 & 22 Monroe S&t.,

GRAND RAPIDS

 

ALWAYS STANDARD

AT WHOLESALE BY
I[azeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Ball-Barnhart—Putman Co.
Olney & Judson Grocer Co.
Bn. Reynolds.

FINEST QUALITY.
POPULAR PRICES.

 

 

A LADY'S

GENUINE » VICL : SHOE,

Plain toe in opera and opera toe and . S. heel.

D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather

tip, $155. Try them, they are beauties. Stock

soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send

for sample dozen.
REEDER BROS. SHOE CO

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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_THE MICHIGAN _TRADESMAN.

 

Home the Foundation of All Patriotism.

If every family in the United States
owned its home, however humble, and
was able to live by honest labor, there
would be no valid reason for discontent
among the people, and in all probability
there would be pone.

The man who is dissatisfied because
he is not as rich as A or B deserves no
sort of consideration. The woman who
repines and bemoans her hard fate be-
cause she has no diamonds, or is not
able to keep a carriage, is entitled to
no sympathy or commiseration. But the
man who, however industrious, sober or
temperate, is deprived of the ability to
take preper care of his family, and the
woman who, at the eud of the month,
is not sure of having a roof over her
head for a week longer, are truly ob-
jects of profound pity. The main thing
is the house. If a rooftree were assured,
the problem of feeding and clothing a
family would come much easier of solu-
tion. Really it would be a triumph of
statesmanship and philanthropy to sup-
ply every family in the country with a
home.

Of course, it could not be done now in
any country without the instrumentality
of a violent revolution. There was a
time in the United States when such a
thing would have been possible. From
the purchase cf Louisiana, in 1803, to the
Gadsden purchase from Mexico, in 1853,
the United States secured possession of
more than 1,000,000,000 acres of land,
exclusive of the original old thirteen
States. Here was land enough to give
every family in the union to-day a good-
sized farm. Of this amount, near 160,-
000,000 acres have been granted to rail-
roads, and much more has, by a system
of juggling with the public lands, come
into possession of great corporations and
land syndicates, and the land hunger ex-
hibited by the wealthy classes has so
operated to monopolize the real estate of
the country that the day is not far dis-
tant when the vast area of the United
States will be owned by a comparatively
small number of landlords.

The menace of such a future, and the
vast dissatisfaction now existing in the
country, have given rise to several plans
for counteracting the evils produced by
the absorption of the lands by a limited
class. One proposition, which has at-

tracted considerable attention, is em-|8

braced in a plan to levy all the taxes on
lands, and to exclude all other property
from taxation. Whatever is to be the
outcome of such a scheme does not yet
appear, as itis, so far, a mere theory,
never having reached the stage of exper-
iment. But however much the advo-
eates of such a scheme may vauntit asa
remedy for existing and threatening
evils, it lacks one requisite which under-
lies the entire fabric of American so-
ciety, and that is the home. The home
is the foundation of all patriotism, as
the family is the beginning of the State,
No man can feel in a rented house as he
would under a rooftree he can call his
own, and no socialistic disposition of the
land would gratify the demand for a
home any more than a communistic dis-
tribution of the women of the country
would minister to the demands of the
family affections. Without homes and
families there is no patriotism in the
sense that it is now known.

The wisest statesmanship should, then,
seek to cherish the domestic affections
and gratify the home feeling by giving

 

every head of a house a home. Just how
this is to be done does not readily ap-
pear, but it does not seem impossible.
The homestead associations accomplish
something on a small scale. The United
States might do more on a wide and
comprehensive basis. The Government
has accomplished something by the sys-
tem of homestead entries in the public
lands. There are still resources in this
direction, and if the enormous grants
out of the public domain were canceled
as far as possible, and the land made
available for homestead entry, there
would be still further prozress in that
direction. The time may also come
when the Government will find it neec-
essary to expropriate lands in order to
provide homes for the people, to be sold
to them on a system of partial payments
on long time. The land itself would al-
ways be security for the payment of the
purchase money.

The homestead right ought to be pro-
tected by the most stringent laws, so
that it could not be alienated lightly and
except under a great general rule. This
exemption should not be made to apply to
any real estate, save the homestead; but
all other lands should be subject to legal
execution. The entire prosperity of the
people, as well as the preservation of
free institutions, depends largely on pre-
venting the monopoly of the lands by a
wealthy and limited class, and in seeur-
ing to the people the ownership of
homes. When the masses of the popula-
tion shall become mere tenants at the
will of the landlord, they are actually in
a worse condition than were the slaves,
or the Russian serfs, who were always
sure of a home, or were, in the case of
the latter, fixtures of the soil.

The entire problem of preserving the
free institutions and the personal inde-
pendence of the American people is one
that demands the ablest statesmanship.
its solutions will be postponed, doubt-
less, far into the future; but it is of the
greatest importance that it be settled,
and that as soon as possible. Every
family ought to have a home. How is it
to be accomplished?

FRANK STOWELL.
8

Twitted on Facts.
Brown—Have you heard the news?
Smith—W hat about?
Brown—About Jones.

ion.

Smith—Well, may be he has; but
Pll bet you, if he has, it is in his wife’s
name.

He has got reli-

rs 4 _— ><

The premature explosion of mouths of
men has done vastly more damage than
the premature explosions from the
mouths of cannons.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who

 

pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ee 60410
a
SOmrinee WOMUINO...... -.....-...... 4... 25
Orme, TIGSUENPONE. 6... kk 8 50&10
AXES,
First eS 8. B. Bronze.. Lesessee © GO
x. .............. ae
. s mo Seer... 7 50
i D, Beer, oc... 6... ... = 50
BARROWS,
Ree. $12 00 “a ‘00
Cregeen ........-4-- inser cesses OG Oe Oe
BOLTS. dis.
ee ee 50&10
—— RE 75&10
co ie Avene a ee
Slefgh oe | COR Eee SEE EA eae onan 70
BUCKETS,
eae $350
Well, swivel ce ha pea ce 4 00
ta i Cast. dis.
ent Looe fan Gere | ft 7&1)
Wought Narrow, Srignt Sastjoint 40...... 60410

 

 

   
 

   

Wrought meee Pie 40 |
ees Te oa
Wrought Inside Blind..... ee
eee 5
tl 7O&1e
Blind, Poe 70&10
Blind, OE 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10
CRADLES,
as ..... Lee eee eu od ‘e -- 41810
CROW BARS.
ae... per® 5
Ely’s 1-1 ae 65
ee per m
ao eee o 60
ek “ 35
eS EN EL YA - 60
CARTRIDGES.
Rim Fire... .. a Gal Slo se coy ae 50
corel Pe... dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
ee 75&10
emcee TRIN --75&16
OG MORC I 5&10
See "5&10
meecners’ Dengod Wirwiee............
COMBS. dis,
Camy. Lewrentes................. oea . 40
Ne eee. 25
OHALK,
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@1i2% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28
14 ioe Peon. PONG... ke «2... 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 3
Cold Rolled, ——— a eee. 23
Bottoms . : eee ee 2
“DRI ‘LL. dis,
Morse’s Hit Stocks.............. ree eee 50
Taper and straient Sheank................... 50
Morse’s Taper Shank.. ee eee eceucac. « 50
DRIPPING PANS.

Smell sises, ser pound .... 6%
here dines, per pound ..... ......... _.... 06
ELBOWS.

Com. 4 plone Gin... 1... dos. net %
Ceaaeeece. dis 40
Soa dix, 46410

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, mre; faree GG... 30
Ives’, 1, 318: 2, 824; 3,830 - . 25
FILES—New List. dis.
Peon en 6010-10
Mew AmMiCriCan 0... |... 86.6... . Oe
Mcholngn se ......... .. - 60&10-"0
Hoeller’s. ..... ae 50
Heller’s Horse Rasps" ee 50

GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 2; 22 and 2; % and 2%; 27 28

im Ff 14 15 6
Discount, 60 -10

GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. 50
KNoBs—New List. i“
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, ep. (eimnigs............ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcelsin, Co a 55
Drawer and Shutter, peresiia Dee ecules 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list .... 55
meeurory, Wooccler & Com................... 55
TT a, 55
porweee......... 55
MATTOCES.
Rowe Bee... ...... 2... . 816.00, dis. 6C-10
CO a 815.00, dis. 60-10
Hees... ..... . $18.50, die. —
is.
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, ‘bandied... —.
MILLS. dis.
— Pereere Coe... 40
P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s naa 40
. Landers, Beery & Clork’s............ 40
go 30
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Stebbin's Pattern.. eee ees aed.
Stebbin’s Genuine... ee ee, —_
Enterprise, self-measuring.... .. .... 4 25
Advance over base, on both Steel and we”
oe eee... Cw. OC 1 30
i oer Geee...... .-.. ........ oe
EE Base Base
ee... 10
-.  .. 25
25
35
45
45
50
60
75
90
ee 1 20
cena 1 60
ee 1 60
“seo &....... 65
ei ee 5
~ £..... 90
eee: vis)
ee ee 90
. 8 Die ete eae 110
Clinch: es Recs 70
wane. ; ee eewiaee 4s 7
PLANES, dis.
Cie Tool Con, faney.... ......... e410
ee ee. B50
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy...... ..... @40
Benen first quality........ ....... <a...
Stanley Rule and Level’Co.’s wood. . ....50&10
PANS.
mee Ae. se... —_>
Common, Cees dis.
Rivets.
ion Ged Tiemed..............
Capper Hivete and Bury.................... 50—10

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“a” Wood’s woe planished, Nos. 24 to - . 20
“B” Wood's lanished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20

 
 

 

Broken packs 4c per pound extra.

bart Moin,

a Oe oc dis. 25

ee eee a else ieee ce es ole dis. 25

Forbes & Plumb’s. dis. 40&10

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . ..B0e list 60

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand.. - 80 40&10
HINGES.

ome, Clare 1.2.9 ....................; dis. 60610)

per dos. net, 2 50
P eenet am and Strap, to 12 in. MK 14 and

 

longe 3%
screw ‘Hook and Eye, s- 10
a4 5%
“ “ “ Se net 7%
ee dis. 50
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50410
Champion, anti-friction.................... 60410
Miagecs Weed wate... 40
HOLLOW WARE.
oe EE 60416
See 60&10
ee 60&10
eo | .. 40&10
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Ruemped Fin Ware............... new list 70
aepenunod Ta Ware... wo 2
Granite Iron Ware ............... new lis 2t
WIRE G0ODs. dis.
ae
Serow ven... - 70610410
Hoge... ee eta.
Gate Hooks and Eyes...... 70&10&10
LEVELS. dis.79
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s i
ROPES.
Sisal, a inch aud larger Leese
ee. “i. 3
SQUARES, dis.
meee Om 7&1)

Try and poner eee eee, . i
Mitre . os Sk, 20
SHEET. TRON.

Com. Smooth. Com
ae $2 70
Moe to ................ . 46 2 70
ee 4 05
Nee eee 4 05 2 80
Nos. 25 to 26 ee ee. . 43 2 90
No. 2 rey

. . 46 3 00
All sheets ‘No. 18 ‘and lighter, “over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

  

 
 

  

List acct. 19, 86 . -- Gig, 50

SASH. CORD.

Stlver Lake, eA ee ete. list 56
ee _ 55
White a eo i 56
' ieee... “ 5
ip Watec... ‘0
Discount, 10,
SASH WEIGHTS.
ROG tren per ton $25
SAWB. dis.
' meee 4
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, .. 70
“ Ponsa Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50
. —— Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
ss ampion and Electric Tooth xX
one; =... a,
TRAPS, dis.
Steel, Game. . . . 60810
Oneida Community, Newhouse’ Ea 35
Oneida Community, Hawley s Norton’s. 70
moun, Colmer 18¢ per dos
Mouse, delusion 2 $1.50 per dos
WIRE. dis.
De 65
Aumeeten Maree 7U—10
Cogperes Wreteee 60
re EOE, 62%
Copmerca Spring Steel... .......... 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized...... 2 50
ee PO 2 10
HORSE NAILS,
An Wee dis. —_—
Ee dis.
pe dis. 10810
HES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, asenaied ee eee. * 30
toce Comme 8, =
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........
Ceow Patent malioabie..........  .. ... wae
MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Pare Cie
Pome Cer. —
Borowe, Wowie... &10
Coster, Bed a -d Pisie.................. soaiao
Demperm, Ameriggs  ....
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... esai0
METALS,

PI@ TIN.
EE 260
28¢

ZINC.
uty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
Loci Atanas hone ee 6%
ree 7
a SOLDER.
ON ae ee ede ues ou ce, 16
cae wee 15

The prices of the many other qualities of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.

 

aids A¥TIMONY.
MO per pound
(PO EP 13
TIN—-MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal Se eee ce. $750
14x20 IC, eee eee 7 50
10x14 1x, ee 9 25
14x20 Ix. Fe 9 2€
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75,
IN—ALLAWAY GRADE,
—* IC, Charcoal eeu ee a uel oe 7d
10x14 IZ ”
14x20 IX, - oak
Each additional X on this grade 1. 50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, " Weeeenee 6h
14x20 IX, ' ya 8 50
20x28 IC, . OS EC 18 56
14x20 IC, « Allaway Grade........... 6 00
14x20 IX, ye 7 3
. _ - 12 50
. _ Fugue woag 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 1894.

 

 

THE INTEGRITY OF THE HOME.

Elsewhere in this week’s paper Frank
Stowell discourses at some length on the
benefits that would arise if every
sponsible head of a family in the country
could possess a properly
protected by wise laws and secured to
his family in case of the unworthiness of
the owner.

This view seems to be in direct an-
tagonism to a class of theorists who
hold that land ought not to be owned
by anybody, but should be held in com-
mon for the use of all, and that such
ownership should be made undesirable,
if not impossible, by a system of excess-
ive taxation.

Since all organized society begins
with the family, every system of distri-
bution of wealth must recognize the dif-

re-

homestead,

 

ference in families and the particular
needs of each. Any = system that
ignores this principle, and only takes
account of so many individuals as such,
is absolute communism. All modern!
civilization -is founded on the family, |
which is the foundation of the State, |

and on the home, which is the begin-
ning of all patriotism, and these prin-
ciples are too solidly founded in human
nature be overthrown by any sort
of communism, every attempt to estab-
lish it having totally failed.

Conceding the supreme importance of

to

 

the home in this country, some exam-
ination of the subject will be worth!
while. According to the returns of!
the census of 1890, there are” within
the United States 4,564,641 separate
farms, averaging about 137 acres each,
of which, in the Eastern, Middle, West- |
ern and Pacific States, 80 per cent. are}
occupied and managed by their owners. |
The area of the United States, omitting |

Alaska, comprises, in round figures, |
1,900,000,000 acres. Somewhat less than
one-third of this area, or 623,218,619

acres, is now occupied as farm property |
and valued under
shown by the eleventh
the farms are classified

and is assessed
that title. As
census (1890),
as follows:

Under 1) acres

j 159,193
Over 10 and wader 20 acres...........

265,550 |

Over 2) amd woder *@ acres.............. 902,777

Over 50 and under 100 acres... ......... 1,121,485 |
Over 100 and under 500 acres.............2,603,694 |
Over 500 and under 1,000 acres.......... 84, |
Eee eeren eee OFEE.... 8... . wen sese 31,546 |

From these facts it will be seen that
in the rural districts of the United
States there are more than 4,500,000
home farms, only about 100,000 of
these being larger than 500 acres. To
these country homes must be added
5,000,000 more of homes in cities. mak-
ing between 7,000,000 and _ 8,000,000
homes owned by the American people.
It must be understood that the great
number of these home-owners are poor
people, working people. Some have
large families and others small; but
each home, it may well be supposed, is
gauged by the needs of its inmates.
When it comes to the wealthy classes,
they do not count for much in the long
run, sinee statistics show that there
are only about 4,000 millionaires in this
country.

Any effort to attack the great holders
of real estate, the land barons, by lay-
ing all the taxes on lands, will oppress
the bumble holders of more than 7,000,-
000 homes. It would be a blow that
would strike ali those millions of farm-
ers and working people, and, perhaps,
strike them down, in order to disable
and humble a few thousand  mil-
lionaires, supposing that they were all

large landholders; but the fact is that
many men of enormous wealth have
not it invested in real estate. Many

of them are railroad wreckers and spec-
ulators, so an exclusive land tax
would not reach them. They would
escape with all their ill-gotten gains,
while millions of small landholders
would be destroyed in order that a few
thousand rich men might be punished.

The power conferred on
Government for the exclusive purpose
of furnishing a revenue to pay the ex-
penses of and should be
so regulated as to oppress the people as
little as possible. Most popular revo-
lutions that have overthrown govern-
ments were inspired by unjust, unequal
and oppressive taxation. People will
submit to many iniquities on the part
of their servants who compose the Gov-
ernment. They will endure to be de-
prived of their liberties; but when the
tax collector deprives them of their
homes, them to beggary,
The na-

taxing is

Government,

and reduces
they will rise up and resist.
tional constitution guarantees to the
people the enjoyment of their homes,
free from inquisitive search and un-
necessary invasion; but, sooner or later,
there will be laws, not to tax the peo-
ple out of their homes, but to insure
them from being driven out and beg-
gared, either by the public or private
creditor. Some such provision will be
necessary to protect the sanctity of
American homes. The preservation of
the home and the family is the condi-

| tion upon which the free institutions of
; this country are founded.

There is no
other basis for human liberty.

 

THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL.
The Manchester Ship Canal has been

| lormally declared open to the commerce

of the world by Queen Victoria. The

| actual opening of the canal took place

more than four months ago, and more or

| less traffic has been carried on through it
| Since; but the loyal Britishers did not

consider the great work formally in-

| augurated untilit had been honored by

the presence of royalty. Accordingly,
Queen Victoria made an excursion on
the canal last Tuesday and formally de-
clared it open.

Aside from being an engineering feat
of nosmall importance, the building of
the canal cost an immense amount of
money, and it is questionable whether
| the traffic through it will ever realize the
expectations of its projectors. It is true
that the canal has enabled ocean tonnage
to load and unload at the docks of Man-
chester; butit is also true that the navi-
gation of the canal has been both expen-
sive and dangerous to ocean-going craft
of large size. It is, therefore, likely
that, as an avenue for ocean traffic, the
canal will have but a limited success;
but it will, nevertheless, prove of ines-
timable benefit to the cotton-spinning
section of Lancashire by affording water
competition in the matter of freights
between Liverpool and Manchester.

The high rail charges on cotton from
Liverpool to Manchester were the pri-
mary cause for the construction of the
Manchester Canal. Should the canal, by
affording a cheap route between the two
cities, cause a material reduction in the
transportation of cotton from the sea-
port to the mills, it will have accom-
plished its original purpose, even should
the suecess of Manchester as a seaport
fall short of the hopes of the more
sanguine promoters of the canal.

 

A FALSE DEDUCTION.

It is understood that Mr. Hatch, of
anti-option bill fame, is preparing to
bring up his bill in the House of Repre-
sentatives as soon as the appropriation
bills are out of the way, and press it vig-
orously to a vote. While it is scarcely
possible that the chairman of the Agri-
cultural Committee can be dissuaded
from his purpose by any argument, how-
ever good, still he would do well to eare-
fully study the signs of the times, so
that he may learn how inappropriate at
the present moment his bill must ap-
pear.

Mr. Hatch’s bill is based on the idea
that speculation is responsible for all
periods of depression in farm products.
At the present time the agricultural in-
terests of the country are _ passing
through the worst season of depression
in more than a generation. The present
evils can certainly not be attributed to
speculation, because there is practically
no speculation. The real cause of the
dullness is the unwillingness of manu-
facturers and consumers of our agricul-
tural products to carry the surplus sup-
plies of our stapies. As there is no specu-
lation, they can follow this policy with
impunity, having no competition.

It is, therefore, evident that the ab-
sence of speculation has intensified the
dullness, because, were speculation ac-
tive, the consumers would have to meet
the competition of millions of outside
capital, and this competition would
naturally force prices up. That specula-
tion is practically dead is due largely to
fears of just such legislation as Mr.
Hatch proposes. The advocates of the
anti-option bill have, therefore, an excel-
lent opportunity of guaging in advance
the probable effects of their pet meas-
ure.

 

TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY.

The question of taxation of church
property should not be considered as
a religious but a business matter. In
advocating the taxation of church
property we are not assailing religion
nor religious institutions. We would
simply put churches on a more inde-
i pendent and business-like footing. We

 

 

 

would place them all on an equality,
and “not allow the wealthy churches
opportunities for revenue that poorer
ones do not enjoy. It would not weaken
churches to be obliged to pay taxes on
their property. A church member
would or should feel more self-respect
if he felt that religiously as well as
in other ways he was paying his way
in the world. We believe religious in-
terests would be promoted by taking
away from the churches the tempta-
tion to cloak business enterprises as it
is done in our large cities under the
privilege of exemption from taxation.
For the sake of justice to all and for the
best interests of the chureh we think
church property should be taxed.

 

There is one form of advertising that
all lovers of nature should earnestly pro-
test against. It is that of allowing the
patent medicine men to destroy the beauty
and individuality of farmers’ homes
by immense placards on their barns,
fences and even their lawns, advertising
nostrums. It is bad enough to see one
of these farms as we are passing by, but
how the people who live there can stand
it day after day, year in and year out, is
an inscrutable mystery. How can a
home be made a home when it is allowed
to be used as a mere bill board? We
would as soon see the walls of a church
decorated with placards advising the use
of Fetchem’s pills, as to see hideous an-
nouncements on God’s beautiful scenery.
‘The groves were God’s first temples,”
and the advertising artist should be
taught to respect them.

The food, clothing and money given to
tramps would buy enough fertile land
in the West to maintain them all in the
fruits of honest labor. The tramp prob-
lem is becoming a serious one, but the
conditions that make tramps need our
first attention. No one should suffer or
be idle in this great land of plenty, nor
would they be if our social machinery
were not out of gear. Too many people
are engaged in scheming how to get con-
trol of what somebody else has earned
or evolved. Between the broadcloth
gentry with tramp ideas and the tramps
themselves, those who do honest work
have a vast unproductive army to feed.

 

 

The compilation of the statistics in the
hands of the Census Bureau show that
in American manufactures there is
generally a less number of concerns in
operation than ten years ago, but the
total capital and number of hands em-
ployed have largely increased. The in-
crease in product in many lines is from
200 to 500 per cent. This increase
largely due to the invention of labor
saving machinery, which fact also favors
the massing of manufacture in fewer and
wealthier hands.

 

is

 

An Intelligent Hardware Clerk.

“Got any cow bells?” asked a farmer,
stepping into a hardware store.

“Yes; step this way.”

“Those are too small. Haven’t you
any larger?’’ asked the farmer, after he
had inspected some small cow bells.

‘‘No, sir; all the largest ones are sold.”

Rusticus started off, and got as far as
ore door, when the clerk called after

im.

‘‘Look here, stranger, take one of these
bells for your cow, and you won’t have
half the trouble in finding her, for when
you hear her bell you will always know
she can’t be far off. If you were to

buy a big bell that can be heard a long
distance, you would have to walk your-
self to death finding the cow.”’

The farmer bought the bell.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN. 9

 

 

A REVIVAL OF PROSPERITY.

Prosperity up to certain limits means
abundance of credit.

When all business is reduced to a cash
basis, every consumer only purchases
what he can pay for at the moment. The
entire community lives in a stinted way,
and all business is contracted, and,
since the cash on hand must be made to
purchase as much as possible, the con-
sumer seeks the cheapest market. No
dealer has any regular customers under
such circumstances, because the buyers
will necessarily spend their money
where they can get the most forit. This
is plainly exemplified ina panic period,
when credits of all sorts are rejected,
and cash alone is demanded for mer-
chandise. on

When the entire community is on a
cash basis, or when creditis extended to
a favored few, the period is always char-
acterized as ‘‘hard times,’’and it is only
in poor countries that credit fails, save
in the exceptional periods of financial
panic. The return of credit means a re-
turn of prosperity, put the credit must
be based on something solid. Every in-
dustrious, sober man who has steady
employment has credit for necessaries at
the grocery. On the faith of this credit
be buys more liberally than if he had to
pay cash down, and he lives better, while
the grocer gets the benefit of a jarger
trade, and so the faet that the masses of
the people have credit reacts on the en-
tire volume of trade, and the commerce
of the country, which was restricted to a
sort of hand-to-mouth condition, soon
grows into a great traffic.

Thus it is seen that all commerce de-
pends on the masses of the people, on
the masses of the consumers, for itis
consumption that makes trade. But the
revival of trade, while it is wholly de-
pendent on the consumers, does not com-
mence with the people. It begins in the
fact that, by reason of a long stoppage
of industries and production, the sup-
plies of necessaries are so reduced that it
becomes absolutely requisite that more
shall be made to supply immediate de-
mands, for there is no speculative mar-
ket immediately after a monetary
panic.

Thus commences the starting up of
mills and factories, the re-employing of
work people, and the paying of wages to
people who have been suffering enforced
idleness. Then the people who for
months have had little or no money now
begin to make up for the starvation and
nakedness they have been forced to en-
dure. They buy, and soon the dealers
who know them again extend credit. In
this way a revival of business com-
mences, and in no other. The money
which has been locked up, because there
has been no field for its safe and profit-
able investment, is brought out, loaned
and otherwise invested, and before long
the entire business of the country is
spinning along on credit. That means
prosperity. Itis only in this way that
prosperity can be restored. There is no
other. It comes from the bottom and ex-
tends upwards. It never comes from the
top down. It makes no difference to the
country what the rich men are doing.

‘‘Whatis the condition of the masses; |

what are people doing; and how are the
crops?’ These are the great questions

that must be answered in a favorable |
manner before anybody is capable of |
predicting a revival of prosperity.

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clerk in astonishment and said: ‘'Please
to look and see if there is anything for
Clarence Boggs.

THE RULING CLASSES.

The ruling classes in a goverment of |
the people, by the people, for the people,
it is proudly proclaimed, are the people |
themselves. But this is only on the sur- |
face.

There are those who believe in the di- |
vine right of kings, and who teach that
an aristocracy, or privileged class, is)
necessary to maintain the dignity and
grandeur of a country. Of course, in
the opinion of such persons the people |
count for very little. They may not be|
precisely slaves, but they are in the con-
dition of being born with saddles on!
their backs, or yokes on their necks, so |
that they may draw or bear the loads im-
posed on them by the privileged ruling
class.

In this republic the ruling class is
composed of organized hordes of poli-
ticians who manage, for the most of the
time, to keep themselves in political
place, using the powers and opportuni-
ties of their official positions to enrich
themselves and advance their private
interests. These’ place-seekers and
place-holders are found in every depart-
ment of the Government, Federal, State,
county and municipal. They constantly
play into the hands of persons who have
grown rich at the cost of the people, and
who, to advance their interests, con- |
stantly secure legislation that will give |

 

monopoiistic powers to contrel certain |
branches of trade.

These politicians, be they in Congress,
in State legislatures, or city councils,
form a close corporation with contractors
manufacturers and monopolists, and it
may well be understood that a communi-
ty of interests implies adivision of the
profits. The favored classes can always
be depended on to secure in election
times, with substantial contributions,
the return to office of their willing
servants, while the subservient politi-
cians make return by enacting such
legislation as their patrons and backers
may require; while the true masters of
the placeholders, the people at large,
not only get no returns, but are robbed
right and left. Under the theory of our
popular goverument, the masses of the
people are the ruling class; but in re-
ality, rings of politicians and the friends |
and jobbers who are associated with
them are the real rulers of the country.

Enquired for the Whole Family.
A freckle-faced girl stopped at the de-

 

livery window of a certain country post- |
office the other day, and yelled out;

‘Anything for the Boggses?”

**No,’’ said the delivery clerk, ‘‘nothing |
to-day.”

‘Anything for Jane Boggs?”’

‘‘Nothing.’’

‘**Anything for Fun Boggs?”

‘*No.”?

‘‘Anything for Tom Boggs?”’

‘**No, Miss there is nothing.”

‘‘Anything for Bob Boggs?’’

**No.”?

‘‘Anything for Sallie Boggs?”

“No, nor for Pat Boggs, nor Dennis
Boggs, nor Pete Boggs, nor Pau! Boggs,
nor any Boggs, dead, living, unborn, |
native or foreign, civilized, uncivilized,
savage, franchised or disfranchised,
naturalized or otherwise. No, Miss,
there is positively nothing for any of the
Boggses either individually, jointly,
severally, now and forever, one and in-
separable.”’

The girl looked at the general delivery

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in the West, carefully selected
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If you want to wear diamonds handle
our coffees. <All packed in 5O Ib.
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Jewell’s Arabian Mocha,

Jewell’s Old Government Java,

Jewell’s Old Government Java and Mocha,
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Lansing, Mich.

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Having re-organized our business and acquired the fac
tory building and machinery formerly occupied by the Hud-
son Pants & Uverall Co.. we are prepared to furnish the
trade a line of goods in pants, overalls, shirts and jackets which
will prove to be trade winners wherever introduced. If
you are not already handling our goods, and wish to secure
the agency for your town, communicate with us immedi
ately. An inspection of our line solicited.

J. M. Earre, President and Gen’] Manager.
E. D. Voorners, Superintendent.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

ALL ABOUT TEA.

 

Prize Article Prepared by a Toronto
Grocer.
Robert Mills in Canadian Grocer.

Of the many articles handled by the
grocer, none is so important as that of
tea. This importance arises from its
value as a profit-producing article, and
also from its effectiveness in retaining
and increasing the general trade when
supplied with such quality as will give
continuous satisfaction to the general
public and to the regular customer.

Notwithstanding its importance, it
may be stated (of our own country at
any rate) that there is no other article
the quality and value of which is so little
understood.

Various circumstances have largely
contributed to this ignorance on the
subject.

Our country, being a new one, has in
many districts been rapidly opened up,
and into such fields many with little or
no previous business training have been
tempted to embark.

Until within a comparatively recent
period, also, we have been largely a
green-tea-drinking people, when the de-
mand was for something sharp, pungent
and of pleasing appearance, and the
selection of such teas required much
less judgment and discrimination than
have since become necessary, when the
public taste has turned so largely to
black teas. In Great Britain, where young
men have been compelled to serve a
long apprenticeship, such has generally
been undertaken with houses fully ac-
quainted with every part of the business,
and the results have been widely differ-
ent. Her people, too, have long been a
black-tea-loving people, and on her mar-
kets, also, the productions of every tea-
growing country had to find their place
of sale, and here, also, the excellencies
of new producing districts received early
recognition, the result of all these ad-
vantages being that with her the man-
ipulation of tea has developed into a
science.

Our own taste having largely turned to
black teas, it now requires much greater
discrimination than was formerly neces-
sary, and the advent of Indian and Cey-
lon teas has still further complicated our
position.

Assailed as the grocery trade is now
from so many quarters, the necessity for
better knowledge and attention is appar-
ent, if those engaged in that calling and
to whom it ot right belongs are not to
witness the almost entire withdrawal of
this article from their realm of busi-
ness.

To understand the buying, handling
and selling of tea, is to be possessed of
an enviable knowledge and experience,
and while such proficiency is not possible
to everyone, the study of these points in
any measure will be both profitable and
entertaining. It may be said that such
study will take up too much valuable
time, and that itis much better to buy
from others having the knowledge, capi-
tal, and experience; but even should this
method of doing the trade be the one
adopted, the great necessity for a better
acquaintance with all these matters
must be plain toeveryone.

BUYING TEA.

Every grocer should be provided with
a small kettle and apparatus for boiling
water as conveniently and as quickly as
| possible, proper scales for weighing
small samples of tea, pots for drawing
and cups for tasting same, and so be
ready to start from the beginning. This
process of drawing samples is so gener-
/ ally known that it need not be partic-
ularized.

Samples of the kind of tea wished for

 

|having been procured from various
| houses, they should be drawn, tasted,
and examination made of leaves of each,
| their color, size and smell being closely
| noted. In such a draw there will in all
| probability be some teas in competition
| that may safely be placed aside through
| having some objectionable character-
‘istics. Those remaining should then be
| carefully placed in order of esteem, but
| Should any difficulty be experienced in
giving a decision between several samples
| that are deemed to rank above the

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peated, these alone this time being con-
sidered, thus narrowing down the exam-
ination. Ee a

Where it may be difficult to trace any
difference in drawing qualities of such
samples, then the style or make of leaf,
their weight, and their bulk should be
earefully looked into. These are matters
for careful consideration in any event,
and will generally be found helpful in
making required decision. This having
been obtained, however, the tea es-
teemed most may be higher in price than
others approaching it very nearly in
drawing qualities and style, and should
this be the case, and it is found that it
cannot be purchased excepting at a con-
siderably higher figure than some ap-
proaching it closely in every respect,
then, all points considered, it may be
better to purchase a tea ranking second
or third in ‘‘draw.”

It is a good plan always to have a
sample of tea wished to be replaced, and
which has been known from experience
to have given satisfaction, placed in
competition with these others, and
should it prove to be ovetter than any
of them, then it will be advisable to pro-
cure other samples, and that the whole
process be repeated until something
equal to, if not better, may be secured.

Samples of teas of various districts,
and others Known to have been yood
value, should always be kept handy for
reference, and in good-sized air-tight
tins, properly labelled with their char-
acter and year of production. These are
exceedingly valuable to anyone when in
the market buying or replacing tea.

Purchases of tea should be confined to
houses of good standing and of enter-
prise. They are the most likely to have
the right article, and confining your
trade generally to them, they will learn
your taste and wants, will take an inter-
est in your business in this line, and will
be sure to bring under your notice at
any time samples having, in their esti-
mation, special value. Having good
judgment themselves, and having in
their employ those who are experts, and
giving their whole time to the study of
the question, their advice or suggestions
will be exceedingly valuable.

It is impossible here to specify the
kinds of tea to buy; they are of almost
infinite variety and flavor, and can
only be touched on in the most general
way. The first pickings of any variety
are generally the most desirable. They
are superior in flavor and in keeping and
blending qualities. The new season
crop should also receive preference, tea
losing its goodness by keeping, the deli-
cate aroma gradually passing off. Cer-
tain districts are famed for fine teas, but
this should not always be relied on, the
quality sometimes differing very much
with character of season.

Japans and green teas are in great de-
mand in some sections, and may be more
easily judged than other varieties. They
are all more or less colored, and great
attention should be paid to this point,
and if to a large extent they should be
discarded.

Indians and Ceylons are now obtain-
ing a very large sale, and require special
attention, as they vary much in flavor.
Their peculiar sharpness and great
strength, together with their moderate
price, make them desirable goods to
handle.

With these and China blacks, some of
which are justly esteemed, there is a
wide field for selection, and an acute
sense of taste and smell will especially
be required when these are to be pur-
chased.

Musty, unclean, minty or earthy teas
and those having rank or peculiar fla-
vors, should be studiously avoided; a
very smali portion of any such will spoil
the best tea combined with them.

The character of water prevailing
where teais to find its market should
not be lost sight of. So much stress is
paid to this in Great Britain that London
tea houses are said to procure samples of
water used in those places to which
their travelers are to be sent.

As a general rule it may be stated that
North China teas, classed as black-leaf
Congous (Mondings), are adapted for
hard-water districts, South China or red-
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and Ceylons do not show quite so much
difficulty in this respect.

Scented orange Pekoe and Capers
should be used, if at all, very sparingly,
and, at any rate, they are in much less
demand than formerly.

Teas already blended and in bulk form
are now being extensively offered, and
where a small business may be done, or
where there is neither time nor ability
to perform this properly, it is a good
plan to buy such teas. With a properly
prepared article there is some chance of
giving satisfaction, but with one put up
at haphazard there is almost none what-
ever. If this course is adopted there
will still be the necessity for testing the
various blends, the same as the simpler
forms, especially to see that uniformity
is being maintained.

Packet teas are also being offered
under different names, and while many
are good, it is not to the grocer’s advan-
tage to help to introduce an article liable
to be handled by those in other lines of
business.

HANDLING TEA.

The utmost care is necessary to pre-
vent tea acquiring foreign flavors. It
should, therefore, if possible, be kept by

itself in a moderately warm room. If |

this cannot be done, great care should be
taken to keep it out of reach of all
strong-smelling articles, as soap, or-
anges, apples, ete.

When any of the packages are opened
and the contents not all removed, great
pains should be taken to replace lead
lining and cover so as to exclude dust.

Tea should never be exposed in win-
dow or at shop door, as is sooften done,
where the air, light and dust quickly
and surely destroy all semblance to the
original, delicately flavored article.

The practice of blending teas has ob-
tained very largely, more especially since
Indians and Ceylons have made their
appearance, and for the successful car-
rying on of the trade is now absolutely
necessary. Todo so, however, requires
an intimate acquaintance with the vari-
ous productions, and also a knowledge
of the manner in which teas affect each
other in combination. The reason for
blending is that different teas possess
varying qualities and characteristics.
Some teas possess fine flavor,- others
strength, and others body or thickness;
no single variety has ail these qualities
to any marked degree.

The object, therefore, sought by
blending is to bring these various attri-
butes together in such proportions as
will satisfy the greatest number of con-
sumers, and at the smallest possible
cost. The taste for tea prepared in this
manner being an acquired one, the proc-
ess must be performed with exactness
and uniformity, a record being always
kept of the component parts of each
mixture and a sample carefully pre-
served for future reference. In the blend-
ing process, teas should always be care-
fully weighed, not measured. Certain
teas are improved when combined with
other varieties, but impaired when
others are substituted in blend.

This fact has been the stumbling block
in the way to success of many grocers.
They have mixed indiscriminately, and
the ever-varying qualities of their goods
have resulted from ignorance of this
fact and want of exactness in manipula-
tion.

A common tea should never be mixed
with a fine one in order to reduce cost.
The flavor of the former will most cer-
tainly prevail, and the good qualities
of the other be entirely lost. A tea
mill and cutter are almost a necessity
for the proper preparation of any mix-
ture, the cutter giving an even appear-
ance to it, and making available the leaf
of large make but good quality.

All teas handled in this manner
should be placed in bins excluding air
as much as possible and kept for some
time before being used. The various
parts will influence each other or be ‘‘as-
similated,”? and in the process be greatly
improved. There is infinite variety of
combination possible, and it is well, es-
pecially in high-class and medium
plends, to cultivate a peculiarity of

flavor that shall distinguish and place
them above all other preparations. In

 

Great Britain, where competition is ex- |

ceedingly keen, many grocers prefer to
do all this work themselves, claiming it
to be impossible for any blending firm
to please all sections of the country,

also claiming that those purchasing |

from such make a serious mistake by
sacrificing their individuality, thus los-
ing touch with their customers. ‘‘This,”
it is remarked, ‘‘emphasizes the neces-

sity of every dealer studying the wants |

of his neighborhood and of placing |
his tea trade upon an independent
basis.”

SELLING TEA.

Having succeeded in procuring teas
that may be expected to please, a most
important consideration is how best to
bring them to the notice of customers
and the public generally. Treat them
not as a well-known ‘‘staple,’’ but as a
new article requiring special effort for
introduction.

A prominent display in  half-chests
and smaller packages should always be
seen inside of store, as also samples of
various district productions convenient
for examination, some. specially at-
tractive display occasi. nally being made
in window with handsomely put up
packages of your blends.

Outside, the sign boards and wagon
must also impress everyone with the
specialty of this branch of business. All
bags should be of fine quality, great care
being taken to obtain neatness of ap-
pearance in all tea parcels. Nothing
gives so bad an impression to customers
as the careless and slovenly parcelling
so often seen. Let all tea bags and
papers be neatly printed. Have a spe-
cial name for your blend, this appearing
prominently on them, as also instrue-
tions for its proper making. Small
hand bills, short, pointed and catchy, may
be placed in every purchase. Sugar
bags should have special notices, and
will reach many who only deal with you
in sugar. Salesmen should talk tea as
often but as judiciously as possible.

Ascertain where customers in other
lines get this one, what kind and what
price they use, and if possible a sample
of it. Examine this carefully and be
prepared to show that you cannot only
match it, but are able to do better in
both quality and price. Give them some
to prove this.

If a customer drops off, quickly notice
this and find the reason of it, thus show-
ing him your anxiety to retain custom
and your willingness to remedy any dis-
satisfaction. Sample your neighborhood
occasionally with neat parcels of the
line deemed suitable for such locality.

The grocer has long loaded his teas
with excessive profit, endeavoring to
make up here for small returns on other
goods. Change your ideas on this point
considerably.

Handle high-grade goods, striving al-
ways to show that the finer kinds are
really the most economical.

This kind furnishes better profit to
the seller and more satisfaction to the
consumer, and the tendency of such
kinds is to maketalk on the subject and
to win increasing trade.

_——— --<—__———
The Right to Work.
From the Albany Press and Knickerbocker.

Labor is at once a property and a ne-
cessity. The man who is denied the right
to control his own labor or to dispose of
his own property would be no worse off
living in Russia than in the land of the
free and the home of the other person.
You might as well order a man off to
Siberia at once as to come up to him
when he is employed, trying to earn
something for himself and his family,
compel him to drop the implements of
his trade, andeblige him to go out into
the streets and become a burden on
society. If such a person is not allowed
to work when he is willing and able and
has the opportunity, he has far less in-
dividual liberty than the Southern slave
before the Rebellion. There is such a
thing as the white slave, and the black
slave, but the worst and most slavish
slave of the lot is the poor fellow who is
prevented from using the hands God has
given him to work, and must let them
drop purposeless at his side at the beck
and will of another.

- Summer Goods.

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WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

 

They Are Gradually Usurping the Mas-
aia culine Avocations,
From the New York Tribune.3

Women are found to-day in many an
employment which until very recently
was regarded as the exclusive privilege
of man. For instance, one of the most
suecessful ranch-owners in Kansas is not
a robust and able-bodied man, but a
woman fair of face, petite in form, and
not more than 30 years old. Advertising
is another business in which women are
beginning to figure prominently. There
are two very large advertising agencies
in Boston, the members of both firms
being women and all their employes
women. They make their contracts and
attend to the most intricate business
problems themselves, and have large
contracts for entire railroads and street
cars in the largest cities in the United
States. One woman in this city who had
an excellent musical education in her
youth took a thorough and systematic
course in the theoretical study and prac-
tice of piano tuning, and soon proved
her capacity in excelling the male com-
petitors in the establishment. She has
now a very large number of patrons and
comfortably supports herself and two
children. The first woman railroad pres-
ident in this country succeeded her hus-
band on his death; he was the president
of the Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad.
The First National Bank of Lexington,
Neb., has for its president Mrs. H. R.
Temple, and for vice-president Miss
Temple. The recent election of the wife
of asenior member of a large New York
firm of short-line railway builders as
president of the Hains Medina Valley
Railroad Compamy in Texas makes the
second instance in this country of a
woman appointed to fill this position.
There is only one woman railroad engi-
neer. Thereis a little stretch of road
known as the Cairo Short Line, and on
this the daughter of one of its chief
owners rode to school daily, and at a very
early age seemed deeply interested in
machinery, and always had the workings
of the engine explained. Finally she
manifested a greater interest in mechanic-
al and railroad engineering, and as all
things come to him (or her) who waits, a
chance arrived. The engineer of this
narrow-gauge road became ill, and dur-
ing this illness the young woman in
question took his place and made the
runs without any mishap. Upon the
death of the engineer she assumed charge
of the train, which she is still running,
to the entire satisfaction of all parties
eoncerned. In Texas there is a female
contractor in the employ of the United
States Government. Her contract is for
carrying the mail from Keith to White
Hall. Georgia has a woman mail carrier
who not only delivers the mailon her

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known, the inventions and property of the O. & W. Thum Company.
tensively imitated by unscrupulous parties.
ity of handling infringements. and reminded of the injustice of so doing.

little black pony over a forty-mile route
tri-weekly, in a bleak and sparsely
settled region, but manages a large farm
as well, doing much of the manual labor
and supporting her aged parents and
crippled sister by her indefatigable in-
dustry and energy. She is but twenty-
two years old.

In Cincinnati an excellent restraurant
is in the Chamber of Commerce Building,
and is patronized exclusively by the fore-
most business men in that city. It is
run by three Scotch women, and upon
strietly temperance principles. Every
one predicted their failure when it was
announced that positively no liquor was
procurable in their restaurant, and
people scoffed to think they could not
even get a glass of beer with their meals;
but their predictions proved erroneous,
for besides paying an annual rental of
$5,000 for their magnificent premises,
they clear annually from $10,000 to
$15,000,

The lady guide is an institution in
London and an innovation now being in-
troduced in American cities. In London
these guides are for the express purpose
of supplying women tourists with mem-
bers of their own sex to pilot them safely
over the well-known tours of England
and the British Islands in general, and
in fact anywhere they wish to goon the
Continent. These guides are refined and
cultured, speak French and German
fluently, else their application for this
rather agreeable position will not be con-
sidered, and have excellent credentials
as to character and sobriety. They are
supposed to work eight hours a day, and
their charge is but ten shillings, equiv-
alent to two dollars and a half of Ameri-
can money. When one considers the
aggravations one is spared by having a
guide, and the surety one feels of not
having spent too much for anything pur-
chased, it will be found that this amiable
courier has saved her employer fully the
amount of her salary. In New Orleans
one of the finest orchestras is composed
entirely of women, and the leader and her
corps of well-trained musicians are seen
at every entertainment of note in that

 

gay city. In Astoria, L. l., many of the
largest hothouses are controlled and
managed by women. In Gotham is a
blacksmith’s shop managed entirely by
the three daughters of the blacksmith,
who are intelligent young women. The
father died some twelve years ago,
and the mother took charge of the}
establishment; and looking to the future,
she had her girls instructed not only in
the art of horseshoeing, but in every-'
thing pertaining to the trade. Since the |
mother’s death one of the sisters married, |
and now the married sister and the two}
young girls employ five men, but person-

ally superintend every horse that is shod.

Among their patrons are numbered the

wealthiest owners of horses in this city, |

Tanglefoot in its present shape has been on the market for ten years.
Jeads, and is accepted by beth the best trade and the best consumers as the highest standard for
Sticky Fly Paper.

the Sealing Border,

| which women can now
| gist in Upper New York engaged a female |

Divided

and during the racing season they will
open a large branch at Monmouth, N. J.
One of the busiest importers of artificial
flowers in this city died three years ago,
and left his business in a most distress-
ingly tangled state. His wife, a woman
of exquisite taste, goes downtown to the
office daily, goes abroad todo her pur-
chasing in the Parisian market, and her
business is now in a most flourishing
condition.

The largest typewriting business in
the whole world is also in this city, and
is conducted by two sisters. The elder
took a course in stenography for her
own pleasure. She became so proficient
in this art that she became anxious to
utilize her knowledge, and accepted a
position in a _ well-known _ lawoffice.
Presently her mother died and the father
became incurably ill. She then taught
the two younger sisters this art, and
opened a school with twelve pupils,
whom she taught every evening after
getting through with her duties down-
town. To-day this young woman is in
partnership with one sister, has five
offices, one school, and employs from
sixty to sixty-five stenographers and
typewriters, and owns all of her ma-
chines. One rule which they invariably
follow, and which has insured their
marvelous success, is that any work
promised is delivered at the time stated
if it takes half of their working force all
night to finish it. For emergency work
they have a reserve force, besides em-
ploying many women to translate legal
documents and dramas in every language
spoken—excepting Garner’s monkey-
talk, which thus far has not been de-
manded. There are many women riding
teachers in this city, and one of the most
successful dentists here does all the
mechanical work, while her assistants
attend to the toothpulling in the office.
An entire block of houses was papered
by a young woman who takes the con-
tract for such work from our largest
builders. The only woman thus far
heard of who earns her living by break-

 

ing in and training horses for the saddle}

is a beautiful Virginian of aristocratic
lineage. Chemistry is another

enter. A drug-

|
|

field |

prescription clerk, at which his other |

clerks demurred, eventually refusing to

work with her. The woman was ¢ca-
pable, young, and courageous, and told
the proprietor that she had come to stay,
and hoped he had no fault to find with
ber filling of the prescriptions. He was
so well pleased that he married her, and
he has now adoubly interested partner
as well as first-class assistant in his busi-
ness. A young woman is the proprietor
of a drugstore in Pennsylvania, and
makes the compounding of medicines a
specialty.
_—_— or oor
The Spice Habit.

The New York physician calls atten-
tion to an injurious practice which many
frequenters of barrooms fall into, and
which he says is almost, if not quite as
injurious as the drinking habit. He
calls it the ‘‘spice habit.” Says he: ‘‘In
every well ordered barroom nowadays
is to be found a tray containing some or
all of the spices generally used, and
from it three men out of five who take
drinks in the place will select a bit of
this or that condiment after finishing
their tipple. These substances are
taken in a majority of cases either to re-
move the taste of the liquor from the
drinker’s mouth or the odor of it from
his breath, but so common has the prac-
tice become that in many instances it is
as much a habit as the drinking it-
self. The evils of it are severe and va-
ried. Cloves area powerful irritant to
the stomach, and not infrequentiy they
remain in it unassimilated, serving as a
nucleus for the crystallization of alkaline
properties, until finally they gather a
coating which gives them the appearance
of globules of glass. Peppercorns,
which many drinkers eat between tip-
ples, have a highly debilitating effect
upon the system; cinnamon depresses
the action of the heart, and calamus, or
sweet flag root, has a bad effect upon the
liver. The spice habit—and many
drinking men are such slaves to it that
they carry cloves or other condiments in
their pockets to nibble at in their work-
ing hours—is seareely less injurious to
its victims than alcohol. It is an evil,
moreover. which proprietors of saloons
are largely responsible for inereasing.”

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Your Neck of the Woods ?

Buy ali the first-class Poultry you can get and ship to me.

pay highest market price.

P. J. DETTENTHALER, 117 and 119 Monroe &t.

~ TANGLEFOOT

* SYIGKY FLY PAPER “a

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and annoyance usually connected with the sale of imperfect or inferior goods.

Tanglefoot always
is well

These features are being ex
Dealers are respectfully cautioned against the illegal-

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Baseball from a Business Standpoint.

PETOSKEY, May 25—The young men of
Petoskey who are interested in athletic
sports have purchased a tract of ground
near the Bay View resort and have laid
out a base ball park, with the intention,
later on, of building a bicycle track and
lawn tennis courts. Some of the over-
zealous Christians of the place thought
athletic sports were not quite the proper
thing, and, like the editor of Tur
TRADESMAN, thought it took business
men from their work too much and the
younger people from the prayer meet-
ingsgheld during the week. With a view
to ascertaining the opinions of all
classes, a public meeting was called at
the opera house Sunday, May 6, when
addresses were made by several gentle-
men on both sides of the question. <A.
W. Peck, representing the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co., was called upon to
express his opinion. He stated that
some business men were so engrossed in
the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar that
they could see no benefit or pleasure in
athletic sports. He then read the follow-
ing article, clipped from Tur MIcHIGAN
TRADESMAN, and commented severely
on the editor’s position:

Base ball is once more in full swing. and the
base ball crank is again abroad in the land, and
about all that can be heard in office, store or
hotel is “Great hit,” “‘Well caught,” ‘That was a
hot one,” and “Slide, Kelly, slide.””. The air is
full of ‘base hits,” and “home runs,” and “foul
tips.” The same old chestnuts are heard, too.
The clerk says his mother in-law is sick and not
expected to live, and asks to be excused for the
afternoon; the ‘‘old man” is not feeling very
well, and thinks he will go home; and the clerk
and the old man find themselves side by side on
the grand stand watching the game. Great
sport! But is it not something of a nuisance as
well? Business men neglect their business
and employers their work—all to see a number
of men knock a ballall over the field and run
themselves out of breath in the endeavor to get
back before the ball does. People come from a
distance to do business and go away without ac-
complishing their purpose, because those they
want to see are at the ball grounds. There can
be no objection to base ball, but it is carried
away beyond reason, and is becoming a serious
detriment to business. The people are surely
going base ball mad. Something must be done,
or it will be necessary to suspend business dur
— summer season and let everybody ‘play
ball.”

After a speech lasting upwards of half
an hour, Mr. Peck closed by saying that
it was usual in religious meetings, when
revivals were being held, to have those
who had experienced a change of heart
stand up, and he thereupon asked that
those who did not agree with Tur
TRADESMAN and over-zealous Christians
and believed that athletic sports did not
detract from business, religion, or good
character, to please arise. ‘The audience
arose en masse. He then called upon
those who were opposed to stand up.
The entire audience remained seated.

Mr. Peck has the reputation of being
a clever salesman, and, judging by his
specious argument before the good peo-
ple of Petoskey, he is clever in other
things besides selling goods. Tur
TRADESMAN has never been so foolish as
to condemn athletic sports and games,
per se, and doubts whether any business
man can be found who would take such
a position. Moreover, THe TRADESMAN
does not discuss any subject from a re-
ligious standpoint, its text being busi-
ness and all its premises being based on
business principles. Such being the
case, the attempt of the Petoskey gentle-
man to wring Tuk TRADESMAN into a
discussion from the standpoipt of morals
and religion is more creditable to his
shrewdness as a disputant than to his
sense of candor and fairness. Tue
TRADESMAN is prepared’ to prove its
premises of a few weeks ago—as set
forth in the article above quoted—that
baseball, as at present conducted, mo-
nopolizes too much time which should
be devoted to business, especially when
business is as quiet as it is this season.
When Grand Rapids had a bad case of
baseball fever, three or four years ago,
it was next to impossible to find a busi-
ness man at his desk long after dinner
any bright afternoon and country mer-
chants who came in on the afternoon

trains to buy goods were compelled to
transact their business with clerks—
which was just as well, perhaps, al-
though merchants who seldom come to
market like to meet the principles with
whom they do business on such* ocea-
sions—or remain over night. Tuer
TRADESMAN has no objection to base-
ball as a recreation, but as a steady diet,
day after day for weeks, resulting in
wholesale absence from business and ne-
glect of imperative duties, it has objec-
tions of a very serious nature. The
good people of Petoskey may put the
seal of approval upon baseball, horse
racing, or any other sport, but when
they come to get a daily diet of any
game, as Grand Bapids did a few years
ago, necessitating a partial suspension
of business during the afternoon and un-
fitting business men for work during the
forenoon by reason of the discussion of
the previous game and speculation as to
how the next game will terminate, it is
barely possible they will come to the
conclusion that they have been a little
too fast in condemning the statements
of a publication which knows more
about the subject from actual experi-
ence than they do.
a
The Wheat Market.
Since my last report nothing of great
importance has transpired, except the
Daily Record Breaker, until No. 2 Red
has dropped to 53!¢e per bu. This price
is lower than ever known. While wheat
in the early days may have sold lower, it
should be borne in mind that in those
days it cost nearly 25¢ per bushel to
ship it to export points, while to-day it
costs only 6@8c per bushel. Still the
short sellers keep on pounding the wheat
for lower levels, and the talk and drift is
for wheat to go below 50c per bushel, in
order to get it to an export basis, and,
as the exporters’ demand is not what it
should be, I see noreason why it won’t
go lower orto an export basis. With a
liberal decrease last week and the week
previous, and a shortage of acreage, the
Northwest will be 25,000,000 bushels
short of last year. With all these facts
before us, wheat keeps on slumping
every day, and how long ‘this will con-
tinue no one seems able to. solve.
As everything has an end, so will this
record breaking come to an end, and
some fine day we will all wake up and

find the wheat all used up.

Many claim this is splendid weather for
wheat. I claim to differ from them.
While there are some good fields, many
are spotted, and the wheat will be very
uneven. lalso think that the crop re-
porters over-estimated the acreage, as
on my trip last week to Cincinnati I did
not find as much acreage as one and two
years ago; especially two years ago,
when I went over the same territory, and
it seemed that it was a continual wheat
field all the way, while this year wheat
fields are scattering, corn and oats are
more plentiful. Why should this not be
so? Oats are worth 1!¢e per pound,
corn is worth four-fifths tents per pound
and are exactly the same price per pound
of wheat.

The past week there was received in
this city sixty-eight cars of wheat,
fifteen cars of corn and of oats—nine
cars more than double the number
received in Detroit.

C. G. A. Vorer.
—>-. >

We have made H. Schneider Co. dis-

tributing agent for the old reliable S. K.

 

 

B. cigar. American Cigar Co.

The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The market was so weak dur-
ing the past week that a decline Monday
of a sixpence on some grades of hards and
+ge on most grades of softs oceasioned
no surprise. The market is still weak
and unsettled and further declines are
by no means unexpected.

Cheese—The market is tending down-
ward, but will probably not go down to
the butter basis.

Bananas—Are in ample supply at fair
prices for common to choice grades.
Large bunehes of fancy fruit bring
rather high figures, and wholesalers find
no difficulty in placing all they can get.
Prices range from $1 to $2.25 per bunch,
according to size of bunch and quality
of fruit.

Cocoanuts—Continue to move readily
at prices quoted.

Dates and Figs—Continue to sell
fairly well, as do other staples. Prices
fluctuate a little, but quotations, as ap-
pear elsewhere, are uniformly correct.

Jelly—The manufacturers have put
this article on the rebate plan, the mar-
ginof the jobber depending altogether
on his maintaining the established price.

Lemons—Still remain cheap and de-
mand is limited to actual needs, which
owing to the cold weather, are small.
Our market is well supplied, but not
overstocked. Prices are about the same
as quoted last week, excepting for 300s,
which are worth 25c per box more.

Oatmeal and Rolled Oats—Advanced
25e per bbl. by the manufacturers, which
has been followed by a similar advance
by the jobbing trade.

Oranges—California oranges are about
gone. Whatis being offered now con-
sists of a lot of small inferior fruit,
which is without value, excepting now
and then something which was put in
cold storage. Our market holds but
very little of it, local dealers having
cleaned up early and now depend upon
Messina and Sorrento fruit. This is
packed very nicely and, while selling a
little high as compared with the price of
Californias, sells very readily and stands
up well.

Peanuts—Are a shade higher and held
firm.

Pepper—The present low price of
Singapore black pepper has been brought
about by overproduction. The acreage
planted until within the last two years
had increased to such an extent that the
supply exceeded the demand, and, even
at the low rates now ruling, there is no
briskness in the trade. The cost of pro-
duction is just about covered, that is,
by the Chinese system of cultivation,
The next year’s crop is estimated to turn
out less than the present one, but not to
such an extent as to materially affect
values, which would depend more upon
the demand for the article in Europe and
America. By July, 1895, however, the
production is expected to be reduced to
quite 30 to 40 per cent. under what it is
now.

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Lakeview Laconics.

LAKEVIEW, May 15—Eckert Brothers,
(John and Will) who have been in the
photograph business here for a couple of
years, have discontinued business.

T. J. Banks has invented a concern
for sprinkling potatoes with water and
paris green by horse power. It consists
of a 15-gallon galvanized sheet iron tank,
placed upon a horse’s back, with small
rubber hose attached to each side so that
two rows can be worked at a time.
Straps connecting the horses fore legs
with the machinery upon the tank, work
the apparatus. It is thought to be a

 

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CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS,
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

 
   

Cases Bbls. Pails,
Standard, per Ib....._._. 6 7
_ ioe... Le. 6 :
" wee 6 7
Boston Cicam...,........ 3%
ee Toa. 8%
Bara 1 O........ a oe 6
MIXED CANDY.
Bbls, Pails.
ee eee 6%
ee 6%
on Oe eee eee anes ce 6% 7%
le 8
Bogen Hoek 7 8
COVEN 7 8
Bromen ‘Tafly......... |. baskets 8
Peanut Squares............ i 1% 8%
Wrench Croama.......... 9
Neuer Cregae 13
Midget, 30 Ib. baskets..........._. 8%
Modern, 301b.  * eee ee ae .
PANCY—In bulk
Palls,
ROneesee Bie 8%
_ .----- te teases adescena tay OO
CEOCORAE 12
Chocolate Monumentals................/ 77) 12:
tiie lacks ET Ee iN NN 5
\citipnaie: EE 7%
BN 8%
Cee 10
FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box
Ce eee ats 50
ST oo.
POPPere Ore 60
Cece a 7
mM Chocoiste Prope 30
HN 40
Ne eee 1 00
A CONOR EOD, 80
ee a 60
. Ce nN 65
Se 60
EN 70
Center. ede ieee Gabe atau cae
ee 55
Hand Made Creamed 85@95
Fae (eee Se esecs..
peceratoa Crdame...... -90
Ne 60
SE 1 60
Winterareen Berton 60
CARAMEL
No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes.”............... 34
No. 1, . 3 ee 51
No. 2, ° 2 _ 28

WONG ie
: ee es ed
hal IME176 200-S2hs ... oe
Fancy Seedlings, 126s............ 2
. " 150-176-200-2268.... 2 ..0.. 3 2
‘ eee eee 275
Messinas
Preperians, 3 25
c ee . 3 C@4 00
Bale boxes of flats 100g — ae
LEMONS,
ee 3 00
CONC UN 3 35
ECE CHNOC Gs 25
POMGES Some 4 00
xtra fancy 360............ a 4 00
BANANAS.
PAreOUEHeReK 2 00
Small bunmehes...... .. 2... eee
ae a — FRUITS,
My RO TON, Bo os cc oe ce 12
- ee oii”
* @xtra a ceece @15
preted, Perd, 101h. bon. @7
oD ee @ 5%
- Perman Sib bom... | @5
C ee Th
NUTS.
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oh Oe @l5
C California.......... @
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Ce @ll
welmuse Gromgmie 0 @13
i eC @10
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Wanle Nuts, foney....... @12
° Cer @i1
room tome Fl @™%
CCC
Mionary Mateserha. 13
Coceanuts, fatlascks............. ..... 7D
PEANUTS
Beney, BP Sane i... @ 5%
: . T OGNOG cc, @7
wanes. PF Wie @ 5%
. . a @7z
Chote, .F., Extren. @ 4%
se - “ mossiee 22... @ 6

OILS,
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:
ELS.

CONG ee eea 8%

XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight . T
Rpt @ 6%

Reove CRNOIING. 2... 8... . S 7%

eo -27 @36

TO las --13 @2i

Black, 15 cold test........... ...000.... @S¥

FROM TANK WAGON,

MOGQCI Es ie sccwe sco coe icy cass 1... errr 7
mak W. W. Mich Headlticht ....... 5
POULTRY,

Local dealers pay as follows:
LIVE.
‘THERGyS........ seeds See e bee aees a... 8 @9
ee . 8 @9
Oe ee 6 @ 6%
nl 8 @9
Gee 6... a @
DRAWN.
ete 12 @I3
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ge eee: ll gi
Pe 8 eee cade wees ss 10 @ll
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UNDRAWN.

POON 9 @9%
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

Drugs# Medicines.

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.

Three Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.

Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

£ ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Star Island, June 2 and 26;
Houghton, Aug. 29 and 30; Lansing, Nov. 6 and 7.

 

Michizaa State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President— A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.

Secretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.

 

|]Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society
President, Walter K.Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder

 

 

The Rennet Ferment in Plants.

A ferment which, from its resemblance
to the rennet of the animal organism,
may be presumed to belong to the class
of proteohydrolysts, has been noted by
many observers as being widely distrib-
uted in the vegetable kingdom. Its oc-
currence is much like that of the peptic
and tryptic classes, it being found in
very various parts of different plants.
Prior, in his Popular Names of British
Plants, speaks of a curious property of
galium verum, which was noted by Mat-
thioli in the sixteenth century. who
wrote of it, ‘‘Galium inde nomen soritum
est suum quod lac coagulet.’? Even now
in the West of England itis the custom
of dairymen to put this plant into milk
to set the curd ready for cheesemaking.
The active principle seems to be located
in the flowers.

The power of curdling milk was stated
by Linnzeus toexist in the leaves of
pinguicular vulgaris, which, he says,
were used for that purpose by certain
Lapland tribes. Pfeffer says that they
are also used in the Italian Alps to the
same end. Darwin noted that the secre-
tion of the glands of drosera had the
same power. The latex of carica
papaya, the bast of the stem of clematis
vitalba, and the petals of the artichoke
also cur¢le milk, whenallowed to remain
immersed in it.

The ferment has been extracted in re-
cent years from alarge number of seeds,
some before and others during germina-
tion. The fullest account of its proper-
ties has been given by Lea, who pre-
pared it from the resting seeds of
withania coagulans, a shrub- which
grows freely in Afghanistan and North-
ern India. Withania isa genus of the
natural order solanacee, and has a cap-
sular fruit containing a large number of
small seeds. From these it can be ex-
tracted either by glycerin or by a moder-
ately strong solution of common salt. It
is destroyed by boiling, but it can with-
stand a moderately prolonged exposure
to aleohol. Its activity isabout the same
as that of most commercial samples of
animal rennet.

Martins has shown that commercial
papain contains rennet, but he does not
speak of its situation in the plant.

During the last few years the writer
has met with vegetable rennet in the
seeds of datura stramonium, pisum sat-
ivum, lwpinus hirsutus, and ricinus com-
munis, in the two former in the resting,
and in the two latter in the germinating
condition. In ricinus it does not exist in
the resting state, but the seed will then
give up to an appropriate solvent a prin-
ciple in which the milk-curdling power
can be developed by warming with dilute
acids. From the endosperm of germinat-
ing seeds the enzyme can be extracted
by either salt solution or glycerin. It is

associated with the trypsin already men-
tioned, as well as with another ferment
to be described presently. The enzyme
is often present in good quantity, or it
has very energetic powers, a glycerin
extract in one experiment curdling two
and a half times its volume of milk in
five minutes. The salt solution extract
acts much more slowly, netural salt be-
ing a hindrance to rennet, as it is to
trypsin. Different seeds, however, con-
tain very varying quantities of the
enzyme.

In the germinating lupin seed, rennet
exists side by side with trypsin, but
there is much less of it present.

The rennet from ricinus is capable of
acting in either acid, neutral, or alkaline
solutions. Too much acidity obscures
the action, as the acid itself tends to
throw down the casein of the milk

The so-called ‘‘naras’”’ plant of South
Africa also contains rennet in the peri-
carp, in the pulp, and in the expressed
juice of its ripe fruit. It differs from
the examples just quoted in not having
any in the seeds. The enzyme in naras
is destroyed by boiling, but it will re-
main for an almost indefinite time in the
dried rind. It differs from most fer-
ments, according to Marloth, in being
soluble in alcohol of 60 per cent. strength.

J. R. GREEN.

—_—_—_—> +=

Reverie of a Lead Pencil.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

There are clerks and clerks.
shopper knowsthis, and so does every
merchant. There areclerks with whom
it is a pleasure to deal, who make you
feel like shaking hands with everybody
you meet; and then again when you get
through with some clerks, you feel like
going out and kicking somebody. Some
clerks are mere machines, dummies, who
get what you want without a word, have
no suggestions to offer if you should
happen to have any difficulty in making
a choice, and who stand and stare at
you with about as intelligent an expre3-
sion of countenance as is seen on a cloak
store dummy.

Then there is the clerk who moves
about in such a dull and listless manner
that you are tempted to box his (or her)
ears, in order to infuse a little life into
him (or her).

You have met the officious clerk, of
course—the kind that knows better than
you do what you want. ‘‘I think this
will answer your purpose better,’’ or
“‘Here is something you ought to try,”
or “I know exactly what you want,” and
then he produces an article that you do not
want and that has not the remotest rela-
tion toyour requirement. After trying
in vain to get what you want, and, in the
end, taking what you had never thought
of purchasing, you go out with revenge
in your heart and a settled determination
never again to buy anything in that
store.

The talkative clerk. Female? Not
always, and by a large majority. The
talkative clerk is generally of the mascu-
line persuasion, so that I am justified in
using the pronoun ‘the’? in speaking of

Every

 

this particular clerk. He talks about
everything—the weather, the last per-
formance at the theatre, the ‘‘old man,’
his fellow clerks—one continuous stream
of talk, until your head swims. You
forget what you went in for, and go out
and take the wrong car and never dis-
cover your mistake until you have gone
| half a mile in the wrong direction. That
' elerk will die some day and the commu-

 

 

nity of shoppers will heave a sigh of re-
lief and wish there were only one of
him.

The giggling clerk, who giggles like a
lunatic on the slightest provocation.
Silly is no name for it. She giggles
from morning until night, and those who
ought to know say she giggles in her
sleep. Her idiotic giggle follows you
for hours, and makes you feel something
like an escaped lunatic yourself.

Then there is the clerk who mashes.
Of all the mean, contemptible, disgust-
ing creatures the masher is the worst.
He ogles and smirks at every lady who
comes near his department, and, when
no better game offers, will try to mash
his fellow clerks. One dose of the
masher is enough and no lady ever puts
herself in his way more than onceif she
ean help it. Heisa libel on manhood
and a disgrace tohis calling. However,
there are not as many of him as there
were, and it is to be hoped he is dying
off.

There is another kind of clerk and this
kind is nearly always feminine. She is
the one who looks at you, as youapproach
her counter, with an expression of coun-
tenance which clearly indicates that she
regards you as a mortal enemy who is
only waiting an opportunity to ‘‘do her
up.” She attends to your wants in grim
silence. Sometimes a smile flits over
her face, but that is her way of saying
she is ‘‘onto you.’”’ The temperature of
her department is always below zero,
and you are glad to get out into the
warm sunshine and get thawed out. But
you feel mean enough to kick the cat
when youget home, and you slap your
neighbor’s little boy because he was
playing on your doorstep, and get intoa
row with your neighbor that lasts until
you cool down ard explain to her the
reason; and then she says it’s all right,
she doesn’t blame you in the least—she
has been there herself.

There are several other kinds of clerks,
but I want to recall only one more. He
is the kind who waits on you intelli-
gently and promptly. You know what
you want and he knows that you know
and acts as though he did. If he has
something new to show you in the line
you have called for, he does it in such a
way that you are glad he did and the
chances are that you purchase the newer
article. He isa gentleman and shows it,
and no matter how exacting you may be,
or how much you may try his patience,
his temper is unruffled to the last.

Yes, there are clerks and clerks, as
everybody knows, but I heard it said not
long ago that clerks are just about what
customers make them, and next week I
may have something to say about the
other side of the question.

Onxiy A LEAD PENCIL.

et
They Have Their Rights.

The New York Tribune gives the his-
tory in brief of a prosperous business
enterprise conducted by a lady in New
York, which furnishes a telling com-
mentary on the talk, which some promi-
nent women still loudly indulge in, as
to the inequalities and injustices that
women have to contend with in the
struggle for existence. This lady, whose
father was making a comfortable living,
undertook to master stenography merely
for her own amusement. Becoming pro-
ficient, she insisted on taking a position
in an office and making her own living.
Her father met with reverses and fell
ill, and she found that the support of
the family was devolving upon her. She
proceeded to teach her two younger sis-

‘ters the art, and opened a school with

 

 

twelve pupils, whom she taught every
evening after getting through with her
duties down town. To-day this young
woman is in partnership with one sister,
has five offices, one school, and employs
from sixty to sixty-five stenographers
and typewriters, and owns all of her ma-
chines. One rule which they invariably
follow, and which has insured their mar-
velous, success, is that any work prom-
ised is delivered at the time stated if it
takes half of their working force all
night to finish it. For emergency work
they have a reserve force, besides em-
ploying many women to translate legal
documents and dramas in every lahguage
spoken—excepting Garner’s monkey talk,
which thus far has not been demanded.
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Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

JAVA OIL

RAW AND BOILED

A substitute for linseed, and sold for
much less money.

Purely Vegetable,

adapted to all work where a more eco-
nomical oil than Linseed is desired.

Free From Sediment.

has better body, dries nearly as quickly
and with better gloss than Linseed Oil.
Especially adapted to priming and min-
eral painting.

This Oil is a Winner!

Try a sample can of five or ten gallons.
Write for prices.

HM. REYNOLDS & SON.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

Seely’s Flavoring Extracts
Every dealer should sell them.
Extra Fine quality.

Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors.
Yearly sales increased by their use.
Send trial order.

'
Seely 8 Lemon,
(Wrapped)
Doz Gro.
loz $ 90 10 20
Sex. 120 12% 640
4o0z. 200 22 80
60z. 300 33 00

Seely's Vanilla

(Wrapped)
1 oz. $ ite 1620
20z. 200 21 60
4o0z 3 75 40 80
60z. 5 40 57 60

Plain N.S. with
4 corkscrew at same
? price if‘preferred.

Correspondence
Solicited.

SEELY MFG. CO., Detroit, [ich.

sj 8B
sta

NO CURE, NO MUSTACHE.
NO PAY. NO PAY.
DANDRUFF CURED.

1 will take Contracts to grow hair on the head
or face with those who can call at my office or
at the office of my agents, provided the head is
not glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed.
Where the head is shiny or the pores closed,
there isnocure. Call and be examined free of
charge. If youcannot call, write to me. State
tho exact condition of the scalp and your occu-
geucn PROF. G. BIRKHOLZ,

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Advanced—Salacine, Turpentine, Menthol. Declined—Gum Opium, Oil Orange, Oil Cubebs,
Oil Lemon, Morphia, Cocoaine.
ACIDUM. Bxechthiion eee ee . soni = TINCTURES.
Aceticum ...... ...... 8@ 10] xechthitos... - 3 50@! 6 .
Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 | 2tigeron . 1 50@1 60 Aconitum “ers race z
eee ao | Gaultherta . 1 70@1 80} 4) ' 60
Carbolicum. ........ 20@ 30} Geranium, ounce. @ i as ad ea
Citricum 52@ 55 Gossipil, Sem. gal. W@ 75 i an — sete eee wees 60
H drochior ee 3@ 5 Hedeoma etl 1 25@1 40 — a ihn se Saw ewes 6 elee ae 50
Wittooum ........... 10@ 12 Juniperi | 50@2 00 Asafcetida. ee 0
IIA cece cc cceecc. 3 12 | Lavendule .... S0@2 00 —. A =
Phosphorium dil...... 20 | Limonis ..... 1 40@_ 60 ea 50
Salicylicum 1 30@1 70 | Mentha Piper 2 85@3 60 megs
Sulphuricum. alae i ee 1%@ 5 Mentha Verid. 2 20@2 30 aoa eee 50
waar mnie 40@1 60 Morrhuag, gal. 1 30@1 40 es ee eee ee ene ease 50
eee OS 33 | Myrcia, ounce. on. sons OD cee ee
AMMONIA, Picts § Liquida, (gal. 35), 100 2 Un rs we ntee eens eens >
Ages, : 2 ; nn cv 1 00 .--- Peieetise ele false a a --1 00
Garbonas sss. -—= oe ~:~: an.
Chloridum ............ = Si tet - eee Sea 60
ANILINE. Santal CS 2 are 00 coe totes =
96 assatras. .. es
ne piece edee gen ceee 2 BGT = Sinapis, ess, ounce... @ 6 Cubeba..... 50
a ee @! 00 —- =
Yellow .......... 2.1212 50@3 00 eee °G; Go | Gentian ||. 50
BACCAE, Sheobromas..... ..... 15@ 2 Quasea 0. =
Cubeae (po 36)...... 2@ 30 POTASSIUM. “ammo 60
Juniperus ............. 8@ 10] BiCarb... ........... 15@ 18] Zingiber ...... 50
Xanthoxylum ... 23@ 30) bichromate ........... 13@ 14 Hyoscyamus .. 50
BALSAMUM — en es m= = Todin we we =
| oe... : oloriess. vt
Cupattie .........-.,---- 45@ 50 | Chlorate’ (po 28@35).. 24 26 | Perr! Chloridum 2... 35
we =“ os = ca Cee ong 55 — ee “
era n, sees . ee. 2 00 omtcae oe
Tees. 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, mae. a Seve 50
coRnTExX Potassa, Bitart, com. oe eer Vout... ........,
: Potass Nitras, opt i -— 1 -..... ........ ...... 83
Anton, Canadian.... ....... = Fotos Nitras ee %@ 2 : Cam arte 50
BO... eee eeee eee er eeee fomeese.............. eodor. 7...
Ciacmeme Fieve........... B Sulphate po........... 15@ 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Auranti Cortex... recesses BO
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 RADIX. Wassla ............ 2... 50
Prunus Virgini.............. 12 Aconitum Le 2@ 25) Ppstany - =
spermatic RR: Ge ead
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 a es eee seeds a - io on S
EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)_.... 8@ 10] Stromonium................. 60
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 2 | Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18| Tolutan.............. ...... 60
yeyr pee 3@ 35 —— Casaden, Toco Vv . 44 asc doce. Oe
Haematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12 (po. 35 @ 30| Veratrum Ver Po 50
7 13@ 14| He lebore,, Ala, po.... 15@ 20 MISCELLANEOUS
“ Me. TT 15Q@ 2 .
“ Dc, secs 16@ 17 Ipecac, Oo... ..1 60@) 75 | Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30
i as plox (po. "35@38) .. 35@ ° an ' - 47. on .
Carbonate Precip... se ee ees es
jean = _ mn 3 2 — po...... 71 = a eee 3@ d
a cceee........ ieee eee... 5
weve = e = ST ‘ =z Antimont, BO a .
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Sulphate, com’l....... 9@ 2 spigelta Se 35@ 38 Antiperin a @1 40
“ pure... eo 7 cengutnaria, @o).. @ Di Anttetrin...... |. @
ee —— eee es as oe = — Nitras, ounce so 48
ene i rr... ....... a
Brees .............., 18@ 2 Smilax, Officinalis, Hl @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.... 38@ 40
Anthea io... 39@ 35 M @ Si Biemuths N......... 2 W@2 26
ee 50@ 65 —. (po. Fn 10@ 12 “a —" 1s, (48 “a
mmmocaineas, Wott = =| 18: tea ia).
‘ial ieee 50 ' = Oi a @ 35} Cantharides Russian, ‘a
a we Veleriana ng. (po.30) 25 oe... 1
Conta. “acutitol, Tin- Garman. 15 20 : :
nivelly ....-. .-.. ges a ies... #0 ee gs
_— a = 25 pve ee —s Cnniiane (ports) 106. 32
ues ted 2; SB | amma, Oo. 28 @ 15) Carmine Now... gs 7
eum. Bred is (graveleois) 3 7 | Cera Flava............ 38@ 40
Acacia, ist picked.... @ 60 Carul, an ia em 1 Ce @ 40
. = Cte 3 2 Cardamon i 1 OO@1 25 —— wroctis........ 3 7
ne : eee i oe mem
- ag sorta.. Seog ~ Cannabis Sativa. 4@ 5 ieee ee at s
Aloe, Barb, (p6.90)-:. 80@ 6 | Chenopodiaia <2 Tog. _ Ot 2
gore ire po. ea 3 = Dipte! x Odorate ce 2 40g 60 ———_ _ an Gees ce 1 50@1 2
oeniculum........... @ 15) vmondrus .............
Bos , 1s, ore 14 148, @ 1 | Foenugreek, po... J @ : é Cinchonidine, zo ¥ i »
Raat, (85. OB | He OOO HE S| cent OB
ea 3o 50 Pharleris Caaatian an Creta, ofbbl. 78) :
Buphorbiom a 3@ x Sinapis ie @8 c a. Sdeaeae a
Gamboge, pO... QB ———- Wes Me 3
Guaiacum, (po 35) @ 30 spigot Croesus ........ 55
Kino. (po 1 1. @i 15 Frumenti, Ww. vi Co..2 @2 50] Cudbear........ 24
Mastic | a eens @ = =F. e..... : oa = Cupri Sulph .. 6
i hee ee eT ali extrin Lia 3
Oni "(pe 8 80g 00) 2 3002 % Juntperis Go. 6:7 1 e5@2 00 Biber Sulph.... %
ent piesched...:. 33 35| Seacharum N. 8... ..1 7@e 00 | 2Mery> all numbers. .
Tregecenes ............ 40@1 00} Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 T5@6 50 Breots, ‘po.) a 0@ 75
HERBA—In enn for COOree ........... 1 25@2 00 Cn 12@ 15
thi 25 wine ee............- Loewe @ 2B
Absinthium .... Gambier... 7 QS
Eupatorium 20 SPONGES. Gelatin Cooper: @ 60
Lobelia....... = Florida sheepr’ wool, ae | 30@ 50
aj Piperit 23 arriago............. 2 50@2 75 | Glassware ‘aint, oY box 80.
Mentha Piperi eseep sheep’ wool Toes thn bio 7
Se : | oar 2 00) gine, B 9 15
ae... - 30| velvet ae ‘sheeps” ue, Brown..........
gs ae aA 3 | gto! carriage... ‘owe ae
yenr Bre geliow seemed 85 Grana Pa Paradist........ 2 2
aa a eee ae
Calcined, Pat 55@ 60 = a a Hydrasg’ Chior Mite: “@ 7%
Carbonate, Pat........ 2@ 2 Ha 3 ais ae 5 Cor @ 65
Carbonate, K.& M.... 0@ 25/| Hard io “ Ox ane @ %
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 — Reef, for slate i“ “ Ammonia. © ©
. S| MR seas eeee ee ccee eens i Gaecuin Gn @
Absinthium. .........2 50@3 00 SYRUPS Tah oboe, es ele @ 6
Amy: dalae, Duic. pieces ~ 45@ = poobe Be eel seeee eee: >> Olla, Am.. ..1 Tol =
alae, Amarac. . 00@S8 2 cca cae OE ee cece,
Ani eb od eee es es = eee et eoeee...................,... 60 iodine: Besnhi........ 3 80@3 90
Auranti ra sob eee le tied to Get hoetorm.............. @4 70
Ne oo ccc 3 1 = — ee > aati beaeteseniet’s ‘ - =
Se Ee 0 Lee
eat ii Cyaan cues s 15@ = Similax Oficinali. beatae ° ao Shes ou = “= 7@ 75
ee 35@ eo Arse
CmenGneen ........... oo 50 WO oe ace @ 2
Cinnam nea pea Galea "1 1061 15 Selllee Debt wade eos ceceecpeces 50 soumee syees boaeete 10@ 12
ae bieieyeseaes s @ = ae ” erm re tert tensoten oe . — Sul _ (bbl
a_i 35@ oe Dee ceeue
Sopaiba ............... 80@ 901 Pranuscvirg.....200 0000. 50 | Mannia, &.F..........

 

Morphia, S. P. & W. 2 15@2 40
' S. WN. YY.

Cc 4............. 26@em)
Moschus Canton... .. @ 4
Myristica, No 1.. ... 65@ 70
Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10
ig iced: 1 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.

Ce... @2 00
Picis Liq, N.«C., % gal

ee @2 00
Picis Liq., — . @1 00
Lok. 85
Pil Sodinar. (po. 80). @
Piper Nigra, (po. 2). @ 1
Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3
Plix Burgun ene ceca ae eo 7
Pinmbi Acet ........ 14@ 15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. 1 10@1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes
2 Co. Goe..... @1 25
Pyrethrum, pv........ 20@ =
anaes 8... &@
@uinis, 5. FP. 4 W..... “a@o0'g

” S. German.. 270
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ i
Saccharum Lactispvy. 12@ 14

Perce... 2 10@2 25
Sanguis Draconis..... 50

 

 

  

Seidlitz Mixture...... @ Ww
ae Fe ene wee @ 18
ee @ 3
Snuff, a De
Vere of... @ 3
Snuff. “Seotch, De. Voes @ 35
Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11
Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25
Boge Caro..... 1%@ 2
Seda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5s
moans. Ams. ........... 3%H@ 4
Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2
Spts. Ether Co ........ 50@ 55
_ “ Myreta om. .... @2 25
. rola Imp... .. @3 00
Vint Rect. bbl.
eee eee ce eee 2 17@2 27
Less 5e gal., cash ten. —
Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45
Sulphur, ae... ..... 24@ 3
Mon... 1... 2 @ ™~
Wemertods ............ 8@
Terebenth Venice..... 23@ 30
Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48
Lo 9 00@16 00
Zinci Sulph. ose. Ca SG
OILs.
Bbl. Gal
Whale, winter........ 70 70
Lard, extra so 85
Lard, No. a 42 45
Linseed, pureraw.... 52 55

 

Linseed, boiled 58
Neat’s Foot, winter
strained 65 70
SpiritsTurpentine.. 36 40
PAINTS, bbl. Ib.
Red Venetian. . --1% 2@8
Ochre, yellow Mars. - 1% 2@4
Ber.. ie 2@3
Putty, commercial... ..234 2%@3
- at pure..... 2% 2% @3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
Oe a, 13@16
Vermilion, English.. 65@70
Green, Peninsular..... 70@75
Lead, foe 6 pos
whe .........
Whiting, vues a: at
Whiting, Gilders’. SM
White, ‘aris American 1¢

Whiting, Paris Eng.
sean thsi Painti 20g ‘
Swiss Villa 7

Wee 1 00@1 2
VARNISHES,
No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
muire Var... ........ 160@1 70
Coegen Hody........... 2 T5Q3 00
No. 1 Torp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
Eutra Turk Damar....1 1 60
a —e No. 1
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Grand Rapids, [lich.

 

Sponges<

We offer the following very desirable
sponges in cases:

Sate ow... Loco fiton. @$ 5 00 per case
No t96-A.......... 100 Mea ae. @ L 56 ay .
“+ 40 -4.......... 100 Bee eee ell (@ 2 50 hay .
— es 100 wT ee oe... @ os o0 aa ny
= (o-4.......... 100 go (@ 5 00 .
oO Al Se @ 450 obs
sk oc. ......... 60 CS @ 071g each
. e608. ......... 50 Wee ee @ 14
aia "G8... 25 Oo eee ce cll (@ 20
bel cca... 25 a oe (@ 30
. Ss... 30 a @ 40 se
< 46-6... ....... 18 OO @ 50 _
“ oe... ee. 13 -— hl @ 65 _
es Ee ee @ 90 “
Assorted Case:
Ze. 50 Pieces rOrmll Se GuCh.................. $ 3 50
mee. 40 a 4 00
RS... 30 = —- we - ............-.; 4 50
Se 18 ae '— we hl... 3 60
$14 60
PRICE $8.50 per case.
Sheep’ Wool Sponge, from Dee aes --$ 1 25 to 3 25 per pound
——lmltmt<“iOCOCOCO™~™~™OCCOCz#COCS#CLC _.... . oot rkEOG * ’
Slate _ - ...  ...... tT @tce *“* -
Surgeons i le. 2 0@ fe 3256 “* a“
. strings 1 00 to 2 50 each

Chamois Skins

From $ 1 00 to $ 20 00 per kip.

“sé

60 to

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HAXELTINE & PERKINS DRUG GO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

GROCERY PHICE CURT:

in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail .dealers.
It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
as it is our aim to make this feature of the

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
those who have poor credit.

greatest possible use to dealers.

for average conditions of purchase.
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions,

 

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doz gross
ee 55 6 00
eee Tt. ....-.-.. 60 7 00
_ae............ 50 5 50
as... 75 9 00
eee eee 65 7 50
ae |. .----. ss S&S co
BAKING POWDER.
Acme.
ig Ib. cans, 3 doz......- --- 45
=a." 2 _ =
—_—- £7. 1
~ E e 10
‘Arctic.
i I cans 6 doz Case......-. 55
oe * £60 * _.--.. 2
‘os “* 2a -2@
sm “ ido 9 00

Cream i
Son “ Gaox * 45
ton * 6€20e ™ -..---- 60
co * «CT. 80
so“ toc ~ .---+«- 1 10

» ~ — _ . 200
» “ ido Re
Red Star, is > cans... ...- 40
C * b " 14
Telfer’s, %¢ lb. cans, dos. 45
“cc % lb. rT ~~ 85
ou 1 lb. “oe ss ni i 50
Our. Leader, Ib cans. 45
% lb -Cans...... vb)
. 1ibeans..... . 1 90
BATH BRICK.

2 dozen in case.
care... —.
—_——— EO ee 80
ae 70

BLUING, Gross
Arctic, . = ovals Lee cu on : .
2 os ad... ... 9 00
. sifting box... 2 7
- =. 3. . is 00
a No. 5, ea _8e
= toceee ..-......... 450
Mexican Liquid, 4 i . 360
Son....... 6 80
BROOMS,
aoe ................. iz
oe eee ee ee 200
No. 2 Carpet. . 2 2
_ ... 2 50
“EE 2 7%
Common Whisk........-... 80
—, ae 1 00
ree... 29
BRUSHES.
Stove, No. 1...........----. 123
r _ i 1 50
“ “ 1 5
Rice Root aaa. 2 row. 85
Rice Root Serub, 3row.... 125
Palmetto, goose.........-..- . 150
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes......... 10
Star, 40 ee ee 9
a ....-.....-..-. 16
Wicking _ a
CANNED GOODS.
Fish.
Clams.
Little Neck, 11b.... 1 20
“ = o.....--... 90
Chowder
nee Se... ............ 22
Cove a
Standard, ai... .. 7
ae 13
Lobsters.
Star, a B.. / 2 45
a ee el 8 50
Picnic, | lb 290
ee 2 90
Mackerel
Standard, so ee eee 110
soe ee crue 2 10
Mustard, 1b eee cee 2 2
Tomato ae =i... 2 %
eS .......... .2 25
Columbia meee, Set... ... : 80
' «ko
I I occ cee. 12
o oS Ns 110
cers, See. ..........-.. 1%
Sardines.
American ns 4%@ 5
ec -6%4%@ 7
Imported - ree ec oe @w
ie a
Mustard ae oe oo ote 6@7
NE ieee sited os 21
Trout.
ee. 2 50
Fruits.
Apples.
3 Ib. standard......... 1 20
York State, enpens.. 3 75
Hamburgh,

 

 
  

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Lave oak....... i 1 40
oe ee....... ... 1 40
Oe ge 1 50
oo e.........---. 1 0
Blackberries.
rs w.......-........ 90
Cherries.
_—.........-..--.-... 1 10@1 2%
Pitted ee - ee
White cae 1 50
oe... 1 30
Damsons Ege Plums and Green
FaAg_es.
a... 1 20
Care. .... 2:2... 1 40
Gooseberries.
_——_—————————— 13
Peaches.
ee. nc 1 10
eS ie es i 66
Seeeeeee ...._........ 1 60
California. . — 75
Monitor ec
ee...

Pears,
ee 123
ee os ns 1%

Pineapples.
ae 1 00@1 30
Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50

grated..... 27
Booth’s eficed......... B2 5)

' eeeeee......... @2

Quinces.

Cees 2... c... 1 10

Raspberries.
ee. ........... 110
Black Hamburg. 146
Erie, black . 123

Strawberries,
Lawrence . oe 12
Hamburgh . eee ene i=
ee 1 20
ees ck... 1 05

ee
Blueberries ........ 85

Meats.

Corned beef Libby’s ee 210
Roast beef Armour’s....... 1 80
Potted ham, 4, - Lo 2.2
ee 85

' uneek & i a. oe
: o Bias soe 85
Chicken, % ID....... 95

Vegetables.

Beans.

Hamburgh stringless....... 1 15

French style.....2 00

' FO 1 35
Taek, een... .-...........5
- oes ccc aues 70
Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35
Bay State Baked............ 1 3
World’s Fair Baked....... 13
ae... 1 00

Corn
Eeeeeree ......:........... 8
Livingston ee 1%
ae.
Honey Dew... 140
ame “yg Glory

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Peas.
Bamburgh meerretat........

1

early June - ...1

o Champion Eng..1
. = oe...,... 1

ancy sifted....1 90
I oi 65
meres stenGerd............. 75
VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10

C early June.....1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 2
ree. ....--. 215
ciacnats Mushrooms.

os eke chee eee ou 19321
Pumpkin. _
I oi vee ec ks 80
Squash.
ee 115
Succotash.
eee 1 40
EE
oe ees 1 56
Ee Ee ea 13
Tomatoes.
NE
eee... a
FIGSDOTE..-- oocccc00e
ee. 3 BO
CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s.
German Sweet.. .......... 23
ere pee ce 37
Breakfast Cocoa........ \ 4
CHEESE,
a 9%

oe oacee . 9%
ee G9
Riverside 9%
ao eeee.......... @9
Ee 6@8
——————— 15
ET 1 00
a ~
ON @15
OO O25
~—eg- ort-..... on @Q35

Re ees es eeee
Schweltner, imported or
om: hae @i¢

 

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, 25 bottles ee ee
Pint
Quart 1 doz sain oo
Triumph ee

  

age.

Package.
McLaugblin’s XXXX.
Bunola.....

Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case....

 

Gail Borden ee..... --.

(ee...........-------
Magnolia

 

Peerless evaporated cream.
CREDIT CHECKS.

 

500, any one denom’ a

1000, oe
—” « -
Steel punch..

RO ek Chota con ey
Daisy cee eee

Cheese eee Geeres 4
a eee

2%
4

Half pint, per doz.. 35
Pak SS Dele... 450
Quest, or Gee. Cet 3 75
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross DOKES..... 2.0040 44@45
COCOA SHELLS.
oe oe... @3
— ; pore a @3%
Pound packages......-. 6%@7
COFFEE,
Green.

Rio.
—_................
—_ 19
eee eee 21
aoeen....... ee |
, z

Santos.
eee eee 19
ee
I 22
Pesce .......__....... 2

Mexican and Guatamala.
ee 21
mee el 22
I a eet eee 24
Maracaibo.
Se 23
—. ........_...-....-.. oe

Java.
eee 25
Prrvawe Growin. ......--...- 27
eee 4. aes 28

Mocha.

Imitation .......-. oe
A 28
Roasted.
To ascertain cost of roasted

coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

22 80
22 20
oo

am

Extract.
_— City % STORS........ a
lix
Hummel’ ‘ __ BTOSS..... 168
a 2 8
CHICORY.
ae. _s
i ed a
CLOTHES LINES,
Cotten, 49f....... per dos. 1 25
- e....... _ 140
. ...... - io
_ oe... _ 1%
- 80 ft : i=
Jute éo ft ' 8}
” 72 tt rr o-
CONDENSED MILK,
4 dos. in Case.

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s ——

40
6 5
5 75
4 50
po

3 35

5 76

$3 00
5 00

OvUPON moors.

   

“Tradesman.’

 

8 1 books, per hundred.... 2 00
g 2 os ot se ne 2 50
g 3 oc “ ia) a 3 00
g 5 “ee “e ay on 3 on
810 ae ou “ mh 4 Ou
820 oe “ se i 5 00
“Superior.”
Bi books, per — 2 50
82 +80
83 ' - ' - 330
2 5 “ee ee “i i 4 00
810 “ ve “ 5 00
#20 se “ “ i 6 00
Universa!.”’

#1 books, per hundred... 83 00
2 " _ eo
83 ss .. 400
85 - as .. 500
81 0 “ “ i 6 00

se “ 7 00

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

200 books or over.. 5 per cent
500 “ “ hie 10 “

as “

1000 . .- 20
COUPON PASS BOOKS.
Can be made to represent any

enomination from 810 down.|
oo boone... ......-.--.... $ 100
ss | .. .. ee
_— * .........-..... 3 00
eee cee ae 6 2
el ee ee 10 00
— -¢- 17 530
CRACKERS.
Butter.
Seymour ee ns eee 5
rag — cartoon..... 5%
es 5
Family Pees ‘cartoon oe 5%
Salted XXX oa
Salted XXX, ‘cartoon ee 5%
— ek 1%
ae ute cera 7
Butter ooes.............. 6
Soda
ee 5%
Soda, ee ™
Boda, Duchews...........,.. 8%
Crystal Waler............... 10%
Long — Watern.-...... 11
—
SB. Oyater XE... ...........- 5%
City Oyster. XXX............ 5%
Farina Oyster..............
CREAM TARTAR.
Sieiy Sare...............
Telfer’s Absolute..........
Greco .... -... ....15..... som
FLY PAPER.
Thum’s Tanglefoot.
Ree OF... : 3 60
Wire ones d008........-...,.-.3 oe
‘Ten case iobt.........-...-.5 9

Less than one case, 40c per box
DRIED FRUIT

Domestic.

Apples
Sundriec, sliced in bbls.
quartered ‘‘
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12 12%
Apricots,
California in bags.. ...
Evaporated in boxes.
Blackberries.
a eee es.
Nectarines,
ee
We a oe
Peaches.
Peeled, in boxes beet eeee
Cal. evap.
e i beee......
Pears.
California in bage.....
Pitted erries.

Prunelies.
DOT, WI. osc ones ose
nen
In barrels....
50 Ib. boxes.
Sb. “

 

 

Raisins.
Loose Muscatels in Boxes,
2 crown ek wee cone 4

6

4 canes © ——_ in om,

 

2 crown.
Bre pethacenaseeie ts cveoe &

 

Foreign.
Currants.
Patras, in barrels......... 2
mm a oee.......... 2%
- in leas quantity .. 214
cleaned, bulk......
cleaned, package.. 5
Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, _ boxes "
Lemon

 

Orange ’ = . " 10
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. 5@7
Sultana, 20 —_ @s
Valencia, 30 = ‘
Prunes.
California, 100-120... _%
90x100 25 Ib. bxs. %4
. 80x90 | 8
se 70x80 “ " 8%
: 60x70 i _s
Qo ne 5
ae... -.
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
Mo. 1, 0% .-.-.. 22-5 oe
No. 2, 6%.. . 12
Be. 1,6..-. 1 65
PG, BD Gace ek nsec eee. 1 50
XX wood, white.

No 1, 6%.. 135
No. 2, 6% 123
Manilla, ‘white.
as 1 08
Coin.
oe 100
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina.

100 Ib, kegs. .....---..-- 3%
Hominy.

Pebble... cclececcncasececes © O
— 3 00
Lima Beans.
eS ae 4 @4%
Maccaronti ~¢ Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 1b. box.
Imported......-.....-- -.10%@11
——

Barrels 200.. a.
Half barrels 100... ae 2 50
Pear! Barley.
Kegs...... a ae
Peas.

Green. OM.... ....-«<--..- 1315
Sat per We... sae 3
oe | —

Barrels 180... .. @4 7
Halt bu S8.......... @2 30
Sago.

Ce eee 4%
——————————— S
Wheat.
eee... L..... 3%
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
eee ce i te oe
Cod.
I io 5 oii on oie
Whole, Grand Bank.. _-
Boneless, bricks.. ......
Boneless, strips.. ....... en
Halibut.
Gicked 0000 .. 10@13
Herring
Holland, white hoops keg 70
e bbl 9 50
“ a“ ue
‘eens OO cen e es
Round, %e bbl - Ibs oa 2 50
ee 1 30
eee gk oes 17
Mackerel.
me. 1, MOMe.......... ...-
ae a 4 60
et, Se... ee oc
Se a en 7 50
wee SO es... ss... 3 30
EE 90
Peay, OF ee... .... 1... 5 95
° iis........... @
Sardines. %
Russian, keek.............. 55
Trout.
+t %& bbis., — eae 5 25
bbl, 40 } :

  
 
 

MATCHES,
Globe Match Co.’s Brands,
Columbia Parlor. .......... $1 25
ZxX Sainber....-...... +

Diamond Match Co 7 —
No. 9 sulphur...
Anchor parlor
No. 2 home..

Export parlor. ines ee

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Souders’

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the money.

 

Regular
Grade
Lemon,
doz
ca ...24 &
on. . 1 50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
Soa.....08 @
a...
XX Grade
Lemon.
on... $1 50
..... 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla.
Bon..... 81 7
.o..... 3 50
Jennings.
Lemon. —
20% regular er. 75
402 18 ; 00
6 OZ ' .2 00 3 00
No. 8 taper........ a 35 =
No. 4 taper.....-.. 1 50 2
Northrop’s
Lemon. Vanilla.
20z ovaltaper 75 1 10
Oz vr ar = 1
2o0z regular “ 8 1 20
“ “ 1 6 » 25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
a 3 25
Meant MOG... .. 122-01 +n 1 90
Quarter kegs...........-.-. 1 10
Lip Go.................,.. 30
oo Oe... 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
ee ee ee te 42
a 2 0
Quarter kegs... ....-....-.. 1 ©
Pib cans ....... Ke ecoe Oe
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Sa Keuesc. li
Halt I io So el a 5%
Cee WOEN............2,. 3 00
ee 60
HERBS,
EE
Be oe ts wasn ees 15
agony
Madras, Sib, bores....... 55
S. F., 2, 3and 5 1D. See 50
JELLY.
= Ib, pails Loa aa dees @ &4
bene oe 81
LICORICE.
I ee ae 30
betty epee ne ee eumee En Te 25
Sicily 12
Te vee eee ce 13
LYE,
Condensed, : Se ache eae 1 20
sisscnenes 2%

omune ae

 

Mince meat, 3 doz. in Case. 2 75
Pie preparation, 3 doz. in
ee a. =e

MEASURES,

Tin, per dozen,
[oe 81 75
Half ae 1 40
— ie ae ene eee 70

Se a 45
Half pint. 40
aa en, for vinegar, per doz.

eS ae ir 7 00
Half gallon . ieee 4 7
ee 3%
Pint os a a
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house......... +. :
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary .......-...s0««s om 16
Porto Rico.
ge ee ee ous 20
Fancy.. no 30

Ne ew “Orleans.
oe |. oe 18

Ooo ......- 22
on good.. 27
Choice 32

jeune (ecu y 40

 

Fancy
One-half barrels, 3c extra;

 

 

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ud
QE4

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4

 

‘

i

Pret
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* »

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Big’ j

 

rICKLES,

  
 

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 09
Half bbis, count.. @2 00
mall,

Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 00
PIPES,
on, Ea a 1 70

D. faticount........ 70
Cob, No3 Desc eckesccede wess 1 20
POTASH,

48 cans In case,
ee .................. 4 00
Peaea met COW.......,.; 3 00

RICE.
Domestic.
eee: Ded ee isci ue) 6

 
  

 

 

s)he
Imported.
Japan, No. ; mds eiue (sae e ces 5%
ee 5
mee. ecescseccess 6
———— 4%
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
CS 9%
Cassia, China in mats...... =

" Batavia in bund..
. Saigon in rolls...... ‘3
Cloves, oe See 2
Zanzibar. . -11%
Meee Haters....... ..--..- 80
Nutmegs, =e ede eeusesees 7
No. ene ed eos 70
_ No. 3 Npaeageteeeetss 60
r, Singapore, black....10
Pepper, Singapo —- os
—_ ie in Bulk.
Aiweees ... .. oes. es ne 15
Cassi a, Batavia ence ued estes 18
and Saigon .25
' —. 35
Cloves, Sere... ......... 22
Za — oo =
Ginger, = —..... i
e ciety 20
_ ae » 22
Maco Batavia......-.......- 65
Mustard, an and Trieste. .22
este Da ose eke an se 25
Nutmegs, TNO. oe oe 75
Pepper, Singapore, — 2
“ a J
> Cee. Coe eueserse 20
fies... 20
“Absolute” in —"
Allspice .........
Cinnamon...
Cee... ....
Ginger, Jamaica
- African
eee
Pe ooo ce oe
Bege......
SAL ‘SODA.
Granulated, _bbis oie ae ae 14%
Wp cascs...... 1%
Lump, Oe 4.8... 115
1451b kegs ee ig li 14
SEEDS. i
————— @id
Canary, Smyrna....... 4
—"_ a 8
Cardamon, Malabar... 90
Hemp, Russian 4%
oe eeee........... 5@6
Mustard, white....... 10
Pees ......---........ 9
es ........ .-..-- 5
Come bene.....-..... 30
STARCH,
Corn
ae bee......-.......... 5%
40-lb ‘* boas 5%
loss.
see. eddtocge :
S Ib ee. 5%
20 and GO lb. boxes.......... 3%
Barrels. . - eek 3%
“SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders. ven sousee
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SODA,
cua oee ke beuwceobudeess Shy
Roms,  Bagiish a
Diamond =.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes.. $160
2 50

Barrels, 320 Ibs...

  

115 2 6 1b Dags.. 4 00
“ cB. _ ....°8e
- 3010 ib * - oe
Butter, 56 I> bags......... 65
(1 “* 24141lb bags 3 50
“ 200ip bbe... 2 50
- 2a 2 26
Worcester.
15 py ' lb sacks ee 84 (0
rit ee 3 %5
o> se
56 Ib linen bags.. Le -
ee... . 32
Common Grades.
100 3- > sacks eetee nas 5. 82

 

605
28 10-Ib. sacks...
Warsaw.

56 Ib. dairy in drill — 30
28 Ib. _ =

56 lb. dairy in Tine linen eacks.. 7%
g
56 lb, dairy In on sacks 75

Soar Rock.
a... CC. 22
Sagi Common Fine.

LL. 80
Te 80

 

SALERATUS,
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.

CRGre 44... 3 30
ree ccs. $5
Dwights.... .. Sa buccal se ee
Taylor’s ee 3 00

SEELY’S EXTRACTS.

Lemon.
. = doz. $10 20 gro
. mo “*
/ ig ae

Vanilla,

1oz.F.M.150doz. 16 20 gro
7." N.S2e 2 “
a Peso aoe *
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.
Oe... ic. To Gon... .. § 00 *
Vanilla,
2Gen,..... 1 @0don.....1068 “
SOAP,
‘Laundry.

Allen B. ae i Brands,
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 20
Good Cheer, 60 1 — ieee deas oe 3 90
White Borax, 1) X-1b...... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.
Mo oi cea sae 3 45
Ivory, 10 oz. _e7

Mm ee say. 4 00
ee ee 3 65
Mottled ee 3 15
Town Talk.. ae

Senta! Brands.

Co 3 %
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, @elHvered...... 3 %

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, wrp'd. .$4 00
plain... 2 94
N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s ee
Santa Claus.. Lou eae
Br own, OO bare 3 40
Gaye ..... ... : 3 25

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

 

eee... ....... 2... 3 75
een es... | cS
Marseilies............
emer... kl. a 00
Thompson’ & Chute Co.’s Brands
( Ri Rays he eee \
| 5 % |
\ eu" ~ |
} A}
k

fh
eit eS ;

4 { 4 ;

sc PT AR A % L'@ : 3
Sve 3 65
moe. 3 30
Savon Improved........... 2 50
Runmower ........ al. 2 80
Ce 3 25
POOnOMMes! |... ........, 2

Passolt’s Atlas Brand,
Memes Doe... 3
5 box lots..

10 box lots...
25 bo x lots del...

  

Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...: 2 40
hand, 3 doz....... 2 40
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which* the
wholesale dealer adds the lo
cal 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.

Me Dee, ed $4 94
Powered .................. 444
a. .............. 412
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 25
Cubes ...... io
xa Powdered.. eae rei. oOo
Confec. Standard A. -. £00
Wo. fF Columbia A......... 3 87
No. : —— Ae ie

   

SYRUPS.
Corn.
Ts bere cece deuce ue: 16
Pe Oe 18
Pure Cane.
Pete cc cio ee tc 19
——......... 25
MO ic sky cee, 30
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’ e, large .... <. 475
oall...... 2 7
Halford, — eas 3%
Te 2 2
Salad Dressing, large ..... 4%
meer ..... 2 6

 

 

TEAS.
Javan—Kegular,
Wee @17
@20
SUN CURED. 7
re... @i7
eee fc @2
Choice. . Losetecveee Ge
Choicest.. i 32 @34
Ree. 10 @12
BASKET FIRED.
Pee 18 @20
ee @25
Choicest. . @35
Extra choice, Wire leat @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @é65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @85
OOLONG, @2
Common to fair... ... 23 @30
IMPERIAL.
Common to fair....... 23 @26
Superiortofine........ 30 @Ss
YOUNG HYSON.
Commor. to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
Wee 18 @2
Cueiee................- 2 S
—....... ... . oe
TOBACCOS.,
Fine Cut.
P, Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.......... 30 @32
ieee 30

D. Seotten & Co’s Brands.

aa 60

Coe. ..... ioe os 32

Hocees...... ........- 30

Spaulding & Merrick’s Brands,

a 30
— ate Brands.

Bazoo . @30
Can C an. Ss @27
Mette Bly... ........ 2 @35
Uncle Ben. 24 @25
Bogieey ....--... .... 27
= ee as, 25
Peiy Jim... .......- 29
Torpedo ... .... ...... 24
" in drums.. 23
Wie vom .......... 28
ee . z
- Gras........._.. 22
Plug.

Sorg’s Brands,
Ss — eee 39
ONGE 2.22... 1.4... =
Nobby io 40

Scotten’s Brands.
ve 6
Hiawatha te ea se eas 38
‘Valley City ........... 34

Finzer’s Brands.
(ad Thonosty.......... 40
ony Ter ....,....... 32

Lorillard’s Brands.

Climax (6 oz., 4lc).... 39
or eo Tore.......... 30

Three Black Crows... 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good...... =
Out of Sight. .
Wilson & McC ‘aulay’ s Brands
Gaia Hope... .... 2...

Happy wheaghd 3
Perens... 32
Notary... ... ....... 31
ree oe... 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands.

Miln Gdeiea .... —
Golden Shower.............
Erairems _. ee, -. 8
MOGrnOnMGmS .......... 0... 29@30

American Eagle Co.’s were
—— OO

ed! aig
German . eles uses 15
ioe 33
wore 1 ............... 82

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.

Bee. 6
Banner th gag Oneien ss. 38
Gagcat ................ 28
ideas s Brands,
Were 15
money Pew 26
Gale Meck... | 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Brands,
Poerems.. 1... ae
OM vou... 18
POGOe ls, 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Meenas... 41
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
ee 26
Uncle a. meas ones 28@32
mem Cagwer... a. 3
Spaulding & Merrick.
Wom aod Jorry.............. 25
Traveler Cav endian ns 38
pace Hore... 30
Plow = ee ce ee
Corn Ca i
VINEGAR.
oo... 7 @8
ee @9
81 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,
Bulk, per g al es ate won os
Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1%
YEAST,
— 1 00
Warners... a
Yeast Foam oleeee he Oe
eee. cy 75
(OE 90

 

WOODENW ARE,
Tubs, moe 0. 1

‘ No. 3
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
‘No. 1, three-hoop....

 

a OS
S8SSE

Bowls, 11 inch
i es 90
we eee ce i323
e wo ole. 1 80
a ee 2 40
eee cee uss
Baskets, market............ 35
e Par: i bushel.. 1 15
. full hoop ‘ 1 25
e willow ¢ ‘ths, No. 5 25
" No.2 6 2
. o No.3 725
“ splint “ Noise
' : " moz4o
_ ° “ Neosée
INDURATED WARE,
ee 15
Tubs, No. i eee due codecs 13 50
Tubs, 2 Ae: ES 12 00

 

1 Oo
ow ashboards—single.

  
  

Liverass. 8... 2 2%
No. Queen . wcaccess © Oe
Peerless Protector.......... 2 40
Saginaw Globe............. 1%
Double.

Water: Witch... 225U
ee 2 55,
Good Luck.... 27

Pecweeee. 4... 2 85
HIDES PE and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

 

HIDES.
Green ................... 2@2%
Pact Cured........... @ 3
a @ 3%
ee... 4@5
Hive groom ...........2 @s
' Garea............ @4
Calfskin, green...... 4 @ 5
cured 4n@ 6
Deacon skins.. 10 @2
No. 2 hides v4 of.

PELTS.
SMeCeranen............. 5 Bw
Tene... ..........; 25 @ 60

WOOL,

Washed . mtcoeeeoceee (le
Unwashed . & @is
MISCELLANEOUS,

OO cocci... 4 @4%

Grease butter......... 1@2
Sereoes.............. 1%@ 2
Gimeene ..............3 Glee

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 48
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 48
MEAL,

Bolted.. 0. 2
Granulated.. ‘ 1 65
FLOUR IN SACKS.

SP ACGHIe.... 3). coe se |
OSeeeueee. 5. . 1 60
Pperoemee.........,.....,.- 15
weRGln................... 135
Porarein.................- oo
ne... 40

*Subject to usual cash dis
count.

Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-

ditional.
MILLSTUFFS,
Less
Car ny quantity
Bra. S14 $15 50
Screenings .... 12 30 13 00
Middlings..... 15 00 16 00
Mixed Feed... 17 50 17 50
Coarse meal .. 16 30 16 30
CORN.
Cer oe... 5... 44
Lees than Car lotw.......... 47
OaTs.
—_— ...................., 41
Less than car . +... a
AY.
No. + Heute. car lots....11 90
No.1 - ton lots......12 50

FISH AND OYSTERS.

z. = _———— quotes as
follow
FRESH FISH.

  

Woenecee ............ @8

WO el cece cues @s
Biack Baoe........-... 12
Co a ee @15
Cigcoes or Herring.... @ 4
Repomen............... @15
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 20
— ......... ee 10
No. 1 Pickerel..... @10
Pine... ...........- @?
Smoked White.... ... @s8
Red: Snappers........- 15
= River Sal-

es 12%
por sai ee 18@25
oxsTsRs—Cans,
Fairhaven Counts.. @45
Fr. ee eo
Te ee ieee ees
i. leu ceee 8
Seunderam, ... ......-.
OYsTERS—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal.
Semis ...............
Penre. o.
eee
SCauOns........- ae
ee 1 25
CURR eo. 5 coe
SHELL e00D

aren pee We... a 25@1 75

ams, & : 75@1 00

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co
quotes as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS,

 

  

Mens, Lo... 12 50
co i3 00
£xtra clear pig, = sl eaeee 14 50
Extra clear, heavy.. ees Sheu lotua ces,
Cee te ee 13 50
Boston clear, short cut.. ci eeccess. OO
Clear back, short cut. 1¢ 00
Standard clear, short enti beat 14 50
SAUSAGE
aa... 7
Pegaso. 5%
Eiver........ . 6
ee... 8%
Blood .... .....
Head cheese 6
ee 10
Frankfurts iM
Kettle Rendered... 8%
Granger . ieee ee cee eae ee
tha ee A 614
Compound . 53
Cottolene.. Sa.
50 Ib, Tins, 4e ady ance.
20 lb. pails, %c
1b * xe “
Sib “* Xe “
sim “* Le :
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.. =
Extra Mess, Chicago seenine ee 7%
Boneless, rump butts. . . oo
SMOKED MEATS—C anvassed ¢ or r Plain,
Hams, average ie... 934
Se 104
Woy “ 12 to 14 lbs.. 10%
. ee 84
° Cee eeuciom 9
MNGUMO T%
Breakfast Bacon beuneless.. 10
Dried beef, ham prices.. . 1
HONG CIGNE HOOGW
Briskets, medium. 7
* light .. 7%
DRY SALT MEATS.
De
Poe | 8
Pee i 7%
PICKEED PIGS’ FEET.
at barrels... 3 00
ier UA 2 00
Kits eee 90
TRIPE.

Kits, Lom i 75
Kits, Pecueei . caclL,, 65
BEEF TONGUES.
Re, 22 00
alt Derreigs 11 00
FOr POUnG 11
BUTTERINE.

Dairy, sold packed..... . ._
Dairy, re. 1344
Creamery, solid — eee oe 17%
Creamery, rolls . es 18
FRESH BEEF,
EC ees ee eet es SIREN GUE
Wore quartete. 2... 4@4%
Hind quarters.. Oe ie~ teneces. 1 GO
ed - 8 @l0
ae & @ 10
ae 6 @6%
Chucks..... wa 4%@ 5
Pies .............- 3 @ 3%
FRESH PORK
mremoa .. 64@6%
LOiin....... ee 814
ON 6%
eon fare... |... 9%
MUTTON.
——-............. 6 @
Eat @7
VEAL.
eee. 5 @5%
ZRO0CKERY AND GLASSWARE.
LAMP BURNERS.
mG Of 45
No. 1 e 50
as 7
wane, eee 7
LAMP CHIMNEYS. "Per box,
6 doz. in box.
No. 9 Sun a 12
No. 1 ee ee 1 88
Oy ee ee 2 70
First quality.
No. : Sun, crimp top ee 21
No, 1 Ch eee eee eae. 2a
No.2 * . ig 3
XXX Flint.
= o- crimp _ =e
a . ' ee
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.. » oan Ol
as :..lhlUD rr CU 47
No. 3 Hinge, ” . ’ --4 8?
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. --1
a=. llhlhrrlrlUC rr SCC 1 50
No. 1 crimp, per, Ps ORS geet crete ee ace ye 1%
Dl el ee 1 60
LAMP WICKS
me G, WCE Steen 2
No. 1, eee ee 28
- 2. eee eee ee 38
No. 3, ee 75
Mammoth, per doz.. bees %
STONEWARE—AKRON,
Butter Croce ttpGes). i... 06
* % gal. per doz.. ices OO
—-— % eal, peraee......... cL.
to4 gal., per gal......... ees .. ‘
Milk Pans, % gal., per | ~~... ...... S
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED,
Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal.. Lao
Milk Pans, a. ea 65
ede cecee peas aene sa 78

    

18

THE MICHIGAN TRADHSMAN.

 

 

THE COAL MINERS’ STRIKE.

If the soft coal miners’ strike contin-
ues much longer, the consequences of it
will be extremely disastrous. We have
an illustration of what they possibly
may be in the experience of Great Brit-
ain last autumn, when a similar exten-
sive strike of coal miners in that country
paralyzed industry to an enormous ex-
tent and finally created so much distress
inthe community that the Government
interfered, and, through the agency of
Lord Rosebery, the present Prime Minis-
ter, effected a compromise by virtue of
which mining was resumed. How much
mischief had been done while the strike
lasted, and how great were the losses it
inflicted upon both employers and em-
ployed of all kinds using coal for the
production of motive power, has never
been precisely ascertained, but the
amount was many millions of pounds
sterling. We shall not probably suffer
to an equal extent, but our injuries will
be sufficiently great to make us solicit-
ous to aveid them, if possible, in
the future.

The prevention of strikes by law, un-
reasonable as they often are, is not to be
thought of. Even where, as in the pres-
ent case, a majority of the strikers have
no grievances of their own to redress,
and stop werk only for the benefit of
others of their brethren, it would be both
useless and impolitic to attempt to inter-
fere with them by legislation. The
remedy would involve a restriction of
individual liberty which would be worse
than the evil to which it was applied.
Something should be done in the way of
protecting from violence miners who de-
sire to continue at work, but a moral co-
ercion could and would take the place of
force and be quite as potent. So long
as employers are free to fix the amount
of wages they are willing to pay, those
to whom the wages are offered must be
equally free to refuse them, and to make
their refusal decisive.

Fortunately, the mischief occasioned
by the present soft coal miners’ strike,
great as it is, is not so great as it might
be. Forthe fuel of which it deprives
consumers substitutes exist and
largely employed. Anthracite can be
burned and burned in factories, in
steamships, and in railroad locomotives.
Wood, which of late years has been al-
most entirely driven out by coal, can be
had to an extent which makes it an ele-
ment of importance. Petroleum,
can be used in some cases. Then there
are, besides the mines of soft coal which
are not involved in the strike, and from
which the market is still partially sup-
plied, those of Nova Scotia and of Great
Britain, which, ata slightly increased cost
for freight and duties, furnish a very
considerable quantity of fuel. But im-
proved and enlarged organization may at
no distant period bring these resources
also under the control of strikers, and
then the community must either submit
to their demands or resist them by means
to which it has not yet resorted.

are

is

also,

The Supreme Court of the United
States long ago decided that the regula-
tion by the community through its leg-
islative and executive agents of all in-
dustries which, to any large extent, af-
fected its well being, is one of its con-
stitutional rights. In the celebrated
Granger cases it held that any State
might, to prevent extortion, limit the
rates of storage for grain which ware-
housemen should be allowed to exact as

 

it limits the rate of interest for the use

of money, and the principle thus estab-
lished has since been applied to other
subjects. Thus, the Legislature of New
York, in 1886, limited by law the price
of gas in New York City, whether it
was furnished by corporations or by in-
dividuals, and it has since then, on sev-
eral occasions, extended the limitation
to smaller cities. its intervention has
also lately been sought to reduce tele-
phone charges, and though it has not
yet made the reduction, its right to do so
is conceded.

If, therefore, it should happen in the
course of events that the comfort and
well being of our citizens generally
should be impaired either by quarrels
between coal mine owners and their
miners which cut off the supply of coal
or by combinations between the two in-
volving the exaction of an exorbitant
price for it, the precedent has been
made both by custom and by law for
regulating the business by legislation.
Whether this shall be done by fixing
miners’ wages and hours of labor, and,
as a consequence, the price of coal, or
whether the people shall take posses-
sion of the mines by what lawyers call
the right of eminent domain and carry
them on itself as they carry on in the
cities the business of sapplying water
and in many cities that of supplying
gas, is one of those knotty questions
which remain to be answered.

The regulating by law either of the
wages of miners or of the price of coal
is open to objections which, theoretic-
ally, are fatal, and which in practice
have yet to be met and overcome. The
price of coal might easily be fixed as
that of gas is fixed, or the charges for
warehousing grain, but no law could
compel mine owners to mine and sell it
at that price if it did not afford them a
profit. Norcould miners be forced to
work for statutory wages if they thought
those wages were too low, any more than
they can be compelled now to work for
the wages which the mine owners offer
them. The same objection applies to
the proposal to settle disputes concern-
ing wages by compulsory arbitration.
The arbitrators may make their award
carefully and conscientiously, but when
they have made it there is no feasible
method of enforcing it. A strike or a
lockout against the decision of arbi-
trators is as easy as one against one of
the parties directly interested and just
as hard to put down. The most that
any arbitration can effect is to make the
parties to it listen to reason and to dis-
pose them to a settlement by offering a
a disinterested judgment for their con-
consideration. To this extent they have
frequently proved successful, but it has
been in consequence of a voluntary, not
a compulsory, submission of the con-
troversy.

The Government ownership and oper-
ation of the mines, though earnestly ad-
vocated by the Socialists, Populists,
Nationalists, or whatever other name
may be given to those reformers who
think that all social and financial evils
could be remedied if only the Govern-
ment would undertake the management
of the country’s principal industries,
have not yet sufficiently commended
themselves to the majority of our citi-
zens to secure acceptance. That we are
drifting toward them, as we are toward
socialism generally, I pointed out in my
article of four weeks ago, but we have

not yet got there, and a great deal more
argument from unpleasant experience
than we have had so far will be required
to bring us to them. Submitting indi-
vidual enterprise to Government con-
trol for the sake of escaping the incon-
veniences of strikes and lockouts is like
submitting to military despotism to es-
cape anarchy. It may be an effectual
remedy, but it is a very disagreeable
one.

For the present it looks, therefore, as
if we must trust for the settlement of
coal miners’ strikes as for those of other
controversies between employers and
employed to the old-fashioned process of
the struggle for existence and the sur-
vival of the fittest. It is a case where,
though might may not make right, it
makes the result, and, as has been said
of lawsuits, itis more important to the
community that strikes should be ended
one way or the other than that they should
goon forever. In the instance before
us, the soft coal miners, however just
their demands may be, will have to
yield, if the mine owners are able to
starve them into submission. On the
other hand, the miners will win if they
can hold out until the scarcity of coal
puts it to a price at which the mine
owners will be tempted to open their
mines at the wages which the miners
ask. It isa trial of strength and endur-
ance on both sides, and much as coal
consumers may suffer from its contin-
uance they are without remedy. It is
not a flattering feature of our civiliza-
tion, but there is no use in shutting our
eyes to it. MATTHEW MARSHALL.

i <i ane
The Secret of Success.

“| can’t make out how it is that Jim
Johnson always gets such good places,”’
said Harry Smith, the carpenter’s son,
to another boy, one aftermoon.

And Harry was not the only one who
thought thus. Jim was certainly no
pattern of cleverness, of beauty or
strength; he could not do more than
others, nor could he do it so well as
many; but for all that it was quite true
he always had good places, good wages
and a good character.

When he left one employer to go to
another it was generally said, ‘1 would
not part with him if 1 could help it;
he is a good boy and so obliging.”’

This was the secret of his good luck—
he was ‘“‘so obliging.” Did the merchant
want an errand boy, or did anyone want
ajob done at a moment’s notice, it was
only to get a sight of Jim, and it was as
good as done; for Jim would hurry
through his own business, without feel-
ing it a troube, in order to help.

When he was at home he kept the
woodbox full of wood, and his mother
never had to ask him to bring in a bucket
of water, and many other little things
did he do in a cheerful manner; so that
he was a great favorite, and if he saw
younger boys in trouble he would try to
help them out; and he put his shoes on
again after having taken them off, one
pouring rainy night, to walk two miles
to the town for a parcel containing a new
gown, which the carrier had neglected
to bring to the kitchen girl, who was
crying her eyes out because she could
not have it to wear next morning at her
sister’s wedding. It was not so much
what Jim did, but how he did it, that
was so agreeable.

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No One Dies Any More.

“The hard times have played hob
with credit in our town. The doctors,
even, refuse to visit patients unless they
get their fees in advance.”’

“That’s tough lines, sure enough.’’

“Should say so! We’ve lost one of
our best citizens by it. He moved away
last week.’’

“No! Who’s that?’’

 

 

“The undertaker.’’

 

How It Happened.
Syms—Poor Robinson, I’m teld, was
killed by hard drink.
Smyles—Yes, he was struck on the
head with a cake of ice.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

19

 

THE USES OF ADVERSITY.
From the Shoe and Leather Reporter.

In seasons of adversity, few people
ever give a thought to any beneficial re-
sults that may grow out of them. Dur-
ing the long period of the enervating
effects of the depression from which the
country is slowly recovering, there was
little said about the value of the lesson
such an experience of discipline wag
calculated to teach. But now that the
worst of the trouble is over, the debris of
the convulsion cleared away and new
foundations are being laid on the ruins that
were made, it is opportune, and will be
of service, to consider what gains there
are to match the losses that were suf-
fered. Panics never come without a
cause. They have their origin in trans-
gression of sound commercial principles.
They are penalties for mistakes of judg-
ment and misconceptions of the true line
of policy which ought never to be devi-
ated from. Itis perfectly obvious that
our distress was largely attributable to
distrust of credit, and that the distrust
of credit was brought about by the
alarming interfusion of a discredited
metal into the circulating medium.
When to that was added the uncertainty
in respect of legislation upon the revenue
laws, it was not so very strange there
was a disturbance, though it is difficult
to understand why it should have been
so serious as it was, for, really, the coun-
try was rich all the while and literally
teeming with plenty.

However, when people get into a state
of fright, they don’t stop to reason
They run over each other to get out of
the way of danger, and in their haste are
as apt to run toward it as from it. Of
course, in all financial revulsions there
are many wrecks.. And yet few individu-
als, firms or corporations ever fail if
they are solvent, and there is no reason
to suppose that any considerable number
were carried under, in the storm of 1893,
whose means were equal to their in-
debtedness. On the contrary, it has
since been rendered apparent that there
were some helped through whom it
would have been better not to have as-
sisted, because they had so much the
less to divide among their creditors
when they did stop payment. There
was throughout a universal spirit of for-
bearance to debtors, and any one who
could make a satisfactory showing of
assets was in no great danger of having
his notes protested. He could always
get the relief by simply intimating that
he wanted it. There is nothing creditors
dread so much as to have their debtors
lie down. As long as they keep their
assets alive, there is hope; the moment
there is a default in payment they are
reckoned as dead. Hence it is not at all
hard for parties who are in debt to ob-
tain extensions at times when their
facilities for procuring loans are known
to be temporarily circumscribed. There
was so much of this sort of accomoda-
tion shown last summer that there has
been a good deal of anxiety for fear evil
effects would follow later, but so far there
have been only a few examples of the
inexpediency of shoring up shaky con-
cerns, which demonstrates pretty con-
clusively that there was a great deal of
inherent strength in the commercial sys-
tem of the Republic.

= ©¢ *

There is one substantial and salutary
gain that can be credited to the panic.
lt has put a check upon overtrading. It
is a failing among business men to ex-
pand as much as they possibly can.
They are enterprising; they enjoy the
excitement; as long as they are making
any money they feel sure that the more
business they do, the greater their
profits must be; they like to outrival
their contemporaries, so they spread out
at a great rate, enlarge their expense ac-
count, incur heavy risks, and if they are
not remarkably lucky, they will end by
getting involved in difficulties which, in
spite of all their efforts to surmount
them by making sacrifices, will prove so
formidable that there can be no way out
of them. In such cases the finale is in-
evitable. ltis only a question of time.
The collapse is certain to come, and the
longer it is delayed the more complete it
will be. Panics are exceedingly de-

 

structive of all such aerial and illusory
structures. Last year’s panic did some
good in putting an end to the opportuni-
ties of men to borrow money without
security. Nor could anybody have real-
ized, until the facts were revealed, what
vast sums bankers and capitalists of all
degrees had been loaning for years to
persons whose means were about in the
same proportion to their debts as a dime
is toadollar. In some instances there
were not assets enough to defray the
charges of liquidation. Men do tradea
long time on the recollections of the past
when the commercial atmosphere is
serene. But that is because the parties
who trust them are lacking in vigilance.
It requires just such warnings as we
have had of late to put sellers of mer-
chandise and lenders of money on their
guard. We are confident there will be
few failures this year, and that the
majority of the few there are will be
remnants of a by-gone period, when
credits were cheaper than they ever
ought to have been.
* #

There are other defects in the methods
of conducting business which have been
corrected under the stress of the exigen-
cies of the situation. It has been
demonstrated that it is not only un-
profitable to undertake to foree trade by
offering to sell goods before they are
wanted and to name inadequate prices to
induce people to buy, but that the thing
cannot be done. The buyers will not
take hold until they get ready. Those
of them who are of unquestioned respon-
sibility do not care about running in
debt any more than they are obliged to,
and orders from those about whose abili-
ty to pay there is the slightest shadow of
doubt are not solicited. This policy of
conservatism has caused a marked abate-
ment in the baneful practice of ‘dating
ahead,’? which was so long a topic of
animadversion among shoe manufac-
turers, but which they were powerless to
prevent until the financial reverse which
fell upon the country admonished buyers
as well as sellers that it was all wrong.
It has also diminished greatly, if it has
not entirely done away with, the custom
which has, at times, been disagreeably
prevalent, of ‘‘countermanding’’ orders.
Much has been said and written concern-
ing this usage from the ethical stand-
point, and the conclusion we reached,
after having heard it discussed pro and
con for years, was that, while ‘‘counter-
manding” was sometimes justifiable and
often defensible, it was a _ privilege
susceptible of being abused and that
everybody in the trade would be glad
to see anend puttoit. That would be
the natural sequence if goods were sold
only as they were needed for distribu-
tion. Consequently, manufacturers will
not be in any great danger of ‘‘counter-
mands,’’ now that they are selling goods
to parties who want them as soon as they
ean be forwarded.

* * *

Why should it be, how can it be, that
our country, with a superabundance of
money, with inexhaustible resources,
with a productiveness which embraces
everything that is essential for the
sustenance and comfort of mankind, at
pease with the world, and under a
system of government the most effective
and the least oppressive which human
ingenuity has ever yet conceived of, is
perplexed and harassed by doubts and
uncertainties that impede its industries
and impair its credit?

= *

There are several reasons forit. One
is that we have not yet recovered from
the debilitating effects of the coinage of
silver, nor from the feverish anxiety lest
there may be some way found yet of
tampering with the currency. Another
is that there are 441 men in the national
Capitol charged with the function of
legislation, In one wing 356 of them
are supposed to be on duty for about
four hours per day, beginning at noon,
for six days a week. They receive
salaries of $5,000 a year each. The
principal business that has been done in
that body for several weeks is hunting
up aquorum. Atthe other end of the
building there are 85, and they are mak-
ing speeches on the tariff. As long as

 

these 441 men remain in Washington, the
other 68,000,000 inhabitants of the
nation must suffer. If they could be
prevailed upon to adjourn and go home,
there would be happiness unspeakable
throughout the land, But they have no
idea of leaving. They are not at their
posts a great deal of the time, but they
keep up the forms and draw their pay.
a ti

REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
Geo. Carrington, the Trent Merchant
and Miller.

Geo. Carrington, senior member of the
firm of Carrington & North, dealers in
general merchandise at Trent, was born
at Leicester, England, April 6, 1831. His
father owned a factory for the manufac-
ture of turned spools, but abandoned the
business when George was 10 years old,
removing to this country and settling in
Onondaga county, New York. George
subsequently went to California, return-
ing to Rochester, New York, and finally
emigrating to Michigan thirty-six years
ago, locating in Ashland township,
Newago county, where he purchased a
farm and proceeded in the work of con-
verting the wilderness into a garden.
Twenty-five years ago last November he
purchased a general stock and opened a
store at Trent, which he continued to
conduct seventeen years, when he sold
an interest in the business to his son-in-
law, Chas. North, since which time the
business has been conducted under the
style of Carrington & North. Dnring
the summer of 1892 he built and equip-
ped a fifty-barrel flour mill, with full rol-
ler process machinery, making one of the
most complete flour mills in the State.
In addition tothe original farm of 166
acres, Mr. Carrington has another farm
of 90 acres, a fruit farm of 190 acres
and a 200 acre farm in Moorland town-
ship, Muskegon county, which he is
rapidly subjugating and planting to pep-
permint and onions.

Mr. Carrington was married thirty-
seyen years ago to Miss Sarah HE.
Mitchell, of Monroe county, New York,
and has had three children, only one of
which, a daughter, is still alive. She is
married to Mr. North, a partner in the
merchandise business of Mr. Carrington,
who is now a grandfather twice over.

Mr. Carrington is a man of tremendous
energy and has been very aggressive,
both as a farmer and merchant. He
stands well with the trade, is respected
by his customers and esteemed by his as-

sociates. What more can any man ask ?
—_———— > -O<
Can Horses Count?

A Russian doctor has been experiment-
ing to find how far some domestic ani-
mals ean count. The intelligence of the
horse, as shown in mathematics, seems
to surpass that of the cat or the dog.
The doctor found a horse which was able
to count the mile posts along the way.
It had been trained by its master to stop
for feed whenever they had covered
twenty-five versts. One day they tried
the horse over aroad where three false
mile posts had been put in between the
real ones, and, sure enough, the horse,
deceived by this trick, stopped for his
oats at the end of twenty-two versts, in-
stead of going the usual twenty-five.
The same horse was accustomed to being
fed every day at the stroke of noon. The
doctor observed that whenever the
clock struck, the horse would stop and
prick up his ears as if counting.
If he heard twelve _ strokes, he
would trot off contendedly to be
fed, but if it were fewer than twelve
he would resignedly go on working.
The experiment was made of striking
twelve strokes at the wrong time, where-
upon the horse started for his oats in
spite of the fact that he had been fed
only an hour before.

 

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falis Route.’’
(Taking effect Sunday, Feb.11, 1894.)

Arrive. _Depart
Baom........ Detroit Express ........ 7 0am
5 30am.....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 1i 20pm
1 3pm...... New York Express...... 5 20pm
*Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacifie ex-
press trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re-
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 p m.

Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains ee st over the Michigan Cen
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

A. ALmguistT, Ticket Agent,
Union Passenger Station.

 

March 18, 1894

CHICAGO »

ANDoOWEST MICHIGAN R’Y.

~ GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv. G a Ramids......... oo 1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago ...... :?25pm 6:50pm *6:30am
RETURNING ROM st

Lv. Chicago Meee ney oto. 7:35am 4:55pm *11:30pm

Ar. GG Hapids......._. 2:30pm 10: 20pm *6:10am
: TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am tzopm 5:45pm

Ar. Grand Rapids...... 9:15am 2:30pm 10:20pm
TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.

 

  
 

Ly. Grand Rapids .. oe oo es

Ar. Manistee........ Rae |.......

Ar. Traverse ( hada .-. 12:40pm 8:45pm

Ar. Charlevoix.. Soe ona. 11:10pm

Ar. Petoskey . 8:40pm 11:40pm
Arrive from Petoskey, ete., 1:00 p. m. and

10:00 p. m.

PARLOR AND 8LEEPING CARS.
ToChicago,lv.G.R.. 7:25am 1:25pm *11:30pm
ToPetoskey,lv.G.R.. 7:30am 3:15pm ........
To G. K. Ty. Chicago. 7:35am 4:55pm *11:30pm
To @. EB. Ty. Petoskey Siem 10pm ........

*Every day. Other trains week days only.

DETROIT,

LANSING & NORTHERN R, R,

 

FEB. 11, 1894

 

GOING TO DETROIT.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am *1:20pm 5:25pm
Pg 11:40am *5:30pm 10:10pm
RETURNING FROM DETROIT.

Ly. Dearoit............. 7:40am *1:10pm 6:00pm

Ar. Grand Rapids......12:40pm *5:15pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:40am 10:55pm
TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. BR.

Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowoell........-. 12:40pm 5:15pm

THROUGH CAR SERVICE,

Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn-
ing train,

*Every day. Other trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN &
WAUKEE Railway.

EASTWARD.
+No. 14;tNo. 16 \tNo.

MIL-

 

 

Trains Leave 18 | *No, 82

 

G’d Rapids, Lv} 6 45am} 10 20am| : 25pm | 11 00pm
A

 

lone ....... r| 7 40am/11 25am! 4 27pm/12 35am
St. Johns ...Ar! 8 25am/]1217pm| 5 5 20pm} 1 25am
Owoss)......Ar| 900am/ 120pm)} 6 05pm} 3 10am
E, Saginaw..Ar|10 50am] 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City. .... Ar /|11 32am] 4 35pm) 8 37pm! 7 15am
Witnt .|.. ... Ar |10 05am 3 45pm) 7 65pm) 5 4am
Pt. Huron.. -Ar [12 05pm 550pm/ 8 50pm! 7 30am
Pontiac ......Arj10 53am] 305pm/ 8 25pm} 5 37am
Detroit....... Ar |11 50am] 405pm)} 925pm/} 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
i ee 77:35 @. m.

~:Ti seo Dm.
-+4:55 p. m.
Chicago and Milw au

For Grand Haven and Muskegon...
re “ “
“ “ “

kee, Wis.. 7:30 p. mm.
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee, Ho: 05 p. m.
For Grand Haven (Sunday only). . £:00 a, m.

+Daily except Sunday. eDaily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50
p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.

Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10
a. m., 3:15 p.m. and 10:50 p. m. Sunday, only,
8:00 a. m.

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.

Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana,

TBAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave going
h.

For Traverse City, Mackinaw City and Sag..

For Traverse City and Mackinaw City. °

Mee See
“TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

 

Leave going
South.
FO CRORE ina eee s cece cc cubes: onee 6:50 am
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... ......... o

  

For Fort Wayneand the East......... << os
For Kalamaszoo and Ohicago............cese- 11:20 p m
Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R.

Lv Grand Rapids........ - :05 Pm 2:15pm 11:20pm

Arr Chicago.. Pm 9:00pm 7:40am

12:05 p m train has deena Wagner Buffet Parlor
Car.

11:20 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.
Lv Chicago 6: 50 am 4:00 p m 9:35 p m
Arr Grand Rapids 2:15pm 9:15pm

4:00 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car.
9:35 pm train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive
7:35 am 40am
5: 40 pm §:20p m
0. L. LOOK WOOD,
Genera! Passenger and Ticket Agent.

7:25am

    

20

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

News from the Metropolis- --Index of
the Markets.
Special Correspondence

New YorK, May 26—The storm that
raged for several days this week—in
fact, allthe week—has restricted trade
in some degree, but, as a rule, the job-
bing trade report a more cheerful feel-
ing than has prevailed recently. Orders
by mail from out-of-town dealers have
been of good size and fairly numerous.
It is, of course, needless to say that
there is room for improvement; so there
will be, perhaps, for a year. Collections
are said to be easier, and money not so
reluctantly parted with.

A feature of interest to visitors to this
city will soon be found in the exhibition
shortly to be made of the products of the
United States and Central and South
American republics. This museum will
occupy one of the largest and most com-
modious buildings in the city, and its
importance should not be overlooked by
the manufacturing industries of Michi-
gan and adjoining States. It will be a
sort of gigantic trade exchange, open to
the public the year round without
charge for admission. The expense will
be met by the exhibitors, who will be
charged the nominal sum of $300 per
year for 100 square feet of floor space.
This includes all the advantages of a
private office, typewriters, translators,
advertising in the official paper, and
every convenience. One great feature
to which the attention of retail grocers
will be particularly directed will be tbe
food exhibit, under the efficient man-
agement of C. F. Bussing, well known
to the retail trade. Visiting grocers,
whether here alone or in bodies, are
sure of finding a trip to the exhibition
one well worth making, and should not
fail to call. The exhibit will be ready
about July 1.

G. Waldo Smith, President of the
Wholesale Grocers’ Association, recently
addressed the Ohio wholesale grocers
at their annual convention at Cleveland.
Mr. Smith has nothing but words of
praise fer the manner in which he was
treated, and thinks the Ohio whole-
salers should serve as a model for the
Association here, so far as ‘‘getting to-
gether’? is concerned. The Buckeyes,
he says, were ail out; they were full of
enthusiasm, and they all staid until the
convention was over. In the case of the
Association here, itis sometimes neces-
sary to go out and sandbag members
enough to make a quorum, and scarcely
an iota of interest is shown by some.
Perhaps this will be ascribed to the gen-
eral lack of unity of purpose which pre-
vails in New York, but if anybody can
get the wholesalers out it is Mr. Smith,
though the members should care enough
for their organization to make it the
most powerful and efficient body of the
kind in the country.

The invoice value of Rio coffee has
fallen to 16c, with rather small transac-
tions taking place. Neither holders nor
buyers seem over-anxious, and trading
is very quiet. Mild coffees are also
lacking interest and quotations are nom-
inal.

Rather more activity is being shown
in teas than has existed for some weeks.
Some jobbers report quite a good busi-
ness in Greens and Pingsueys of fine
qualities, but lower grades are weak and
not wanted except at reduced quotations.

Canned goods are dull and with
scarcely any inquiry save for immediate
use. Gallon apples are higher and are
worth for N. Y. State, $3.65 per doz.
Standard tomatoes, N. J. or Del. brands,
are quotable at around 90c. Demand in-
active. Peaches are dull, and selling
from $1.50@1.75 for Eastern as to brand.

Sugars are dull for both raw and re-
fined. Enguiry for latter is hardly as
satisfactory as expected. Orders come
in slowly, and $4.18 still remains the quo-
tation.

For foreign green fruits the banana
is the only article that is holding its
own. For this fruit the demand is fairly
active, and prices are well held. Lemons,
oranges and pineapples are all dull and
are selling in a perfunctory manner.

Watermelons are arriving quite freely,
but they are mostly green and worth

 

THE MICHIGAN

scarcely
Strawberries are full of water from the
recent floods, and, while the market is
glutted, sales are slow.

Domestie dried fruits are quiet, al-’

though for fancy evaporated apples a
fairly good business has been done. They
are worth about i6c. Dried peaches, 16
(@18e; cherries, 11@13ce.

Some sales of excellent butter have
been made at a less price than 17e,
though this is the ruling price for Elgin
and near-by marks. Other grades are
dull and exporters are claiming that 11le
buys good enough butter for them.

Michigan and Indiana eggs are worth
12¢ and the very best ‘‘home-made”’ sorts
are quotable at about 14c or even less.

Provisions are weak and no specula-
tion whatever prevails. Pork is entirely
neglected. New mess, $13@13.50; fam-
ily, $13.75@14; mess beef $7@8.50.

For domestic rice there is a fairly
good demand. It is scarce and the price
is firmly held. Foreign is also doing
better and holders maintain values.

In spices not much is doing. Stocks
are not large. Singapore pepper, 5@5 ce;
West Coast, 434 @5e. Zanzibar
cloves, 514 @5!ge and some reported to
arrive at 4°7¢.

Nothing new in the developments re-
garding the Thurber, Whyland Co. re-
organization. Itis said that Mr. Thur-
ber will remain in the concern in an ad-
visory capacity, but no authentic news
can yet be | ree. JAY.

- >>
Prunes as a Preventive of daeeinitiianinn,

The belief that the daily eating of
prunes is a prevention of appendicitus is
sustained by the record of a fruit valley
in California, whose 75,000 residents en-
joy a continuous fruit season; yet not
one has ever had a symptom of appendi-
citus. The action of prunes on the liver
is said to be beneficial, and they have, be-
sides, considerable nutritive excellence,
making them a valuable family food. It is
a good plan to prepare five or ten pounds
at a time, saving time and having them
always ready. Let the prunes stand at
least four hours in water enough to cover
them; then put ina little cold water—
just enough to keep them from burning
—and stew very slowly, closely covered.
When done, and they should be plump
and tender at this stage, add two pounds
of sugar to five pounds of fruit, and
leave them on the stove for perhaps fif-
teen minutes longer. Pack in jars and
serve freely.

— HH

The Ruling Passion.
lie had $10,000,000,

And when he died and went
Some otherwhere, they gave him

This simple monument:

 

 

The world moves on toward the day.
Already the infant morn stands ‘tip-toe
upon the misty mountain top,’ and
stretching his ashen fingers forth is
plucking here and there a golden star
from out night’s sable robes, which roll
back before the coming day.—Denver
Commercial Bulletin.

Good for the infant! Let it pluck.
But one is somehow reminded of the
story about the young man who, in im-
passioned tones, was declaring his love
to his best girl. He had _ studied his
piece beforehand and thought he had it
pat, but somehow or other got swamped
in the depth of his own eloquence.
“Darling, if you will be mine, the light
of your glorious beauty would shed—
would shed—would—” ‘‘Never mind the
wood-shed,” said the girl, ‘‘“go on with
the pretty talk.’’

more than $20 per hundred. |

 

 

TRADESMAN. —
It is Enough to Make a

Horse Laugh
to see how some merchants persist in hanging to the pass book
and other antiquated charging systems when the adoption of
the Coupon Book System would curtail their losses, lessen the
time devoted to credit transactions, enable them to avoid the
annoyances incident to credit dealings and place their busi-
ness on practically “a cash basis. Over 5,000 Michigan mer-
chants are now using our Coupon Books. We want 5,000

inore customers in the same field.

Are you willing to receive

catalogue and price list? A postal card will bring them.

Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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POLISHING

MITTEN

' per dozen.

Whitte more” s Dandy,

Ciquid)...... oe $1 75

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Bixby’s Salinola, (liquid ae aste). 1.
Loomer’ 8s Russet, (liquid) i a ee ‘ ane 1 00
I i ee on ee 17

Paste, (in tin) ol, 1 00

Eclipse Russetine, (ieee) ......... Co ee, ee eT
Cxerees, (oeee)........... he ia ieee ea ik aes 85

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

A Panacea tor Dull Times.

 

The safest, speediest and most effective cure for dull times.

is the liberal use of printers’ ink. The business man who
keeps himself before the public controls the magnet that at-
tracts trade. Reward follows those possessing the courage to
buffet the tide of adverse circumstances.

Let the line of trade with which you are identified know
that you are still at the old stand and ready for patronage. If
you have anything new let the printer help you make it
known.

We are experts in all branches of typography and engrav-

Long established, excellent facilities, perfect equipment,
and bottom prices for the best class of work.
our promptness,

TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, [lich.

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You can rely on

 

   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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o% ® THE GRAND (formerly Rickard) LADDER.

      

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Is the only Practical Combination Step and
Extension Ladder Made.

Easily Adiusted from a Step Ladder to an Extension
Ladder of any Height.

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Patented Dec, 23, 1884.
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Clear Norway Pine and Malleable tron Castings.

Especially Adapted for Tinners or Fruit Growers’
\ | a Use. Can Work on Both Sides.

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Watch out for our new spring novelties. They are
sellers.

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New York Biscuit Co.,

S. A. SEARS, Manager,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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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
satisfaction.

 

We Manufacture and Handle only Reliable Goods.

AGENTS FOR THE

‘- BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

 

 

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 thesame way, but
there is no other one that will dothis: 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 itis
ready to drive the screw.

+ In either case, when it is closed as shown in Cut No. 3, if desired, it will act as aratchet, 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; at this 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 drivin
screws, here we show its usefulness in a carriage, wagon or machine shop where many smal
burrs are to be taken off and put on; the screw driver bit is removed and a socket wrench putin
with which burrs can be run on or off, twenty times quicker than by the old way.

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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 screw,
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., Manis:

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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.

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) whether an article of food is pure, wholesome, reliable, convenient
f and economical.

Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream

possesses intrinsic merit, with all the above qualifications. We recom-
mend it, and you are safe in doing the same. It is rich and whole-
some Milk, condensed, with its entire proportion of Cream, and with-
out sweetening. Its keeping quality is assured by perfect processing.
} People who like to use an unsweetened preserved Milk are learning
of its merits, and will want it.

 

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H. LEONARD and SON
Will furnish a Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware.

 

 

 

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IF YOU DON © list given below. Crockery and Glassware are staple, never go | IF YOU DO new assorted packnaen. Write for complete list and illustrations of our ”
outlof style, take up but little room and pay a good profit. i new assortec packages of Glassware, the Majestic’ and mammoth assorted packages are prov xX
fing themselves great seliers. . :
A Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware. »

( Original assorted crate of Alfred Meakin’s Best English White Granite, containing a good assortment of all staple
ONE J pieces of crockery the new Henshall Shape. This is the best white ware in the World and has a reputation that no hh

| other ware has. If you always keep the best you are sure to please your customers and gain trade.

one) Of our Brown or Gray Albany 100 Piece Dinner Sets, this is our English make and extra good value for the price.

( |
one! Of our Burmese English Decorated 12 Piece Toilet Sets in Brown or Blue Decoration >
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ONE \ Of our 1255 Belle Decorated 8 Piece Toilet Sets with Slop Jar. Neat decoration in Brown or Blue with Gold Lines on the ”
| edge of all the pieces. ¥
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ONE - Of our Ariel Decorated 56 Piece English Tea Sets in Brown, Blue or Pink Decoration i (l) ;
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ONE \ 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. rg
ONE - Assorted package of either Robin or Orial Engraved Tumblers. :
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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. Y