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STEVENSON. C. E. BLOCK, W. HL P. ROOTS. ENGRAVING Buildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented Articles, TRADESMAN CO., Grand Rapids, Mich, MICHIGAN Fire & Marine [nstrance C0. Organized 1881, DETROIT, MICHIGAN. g aw SAND7 PEARL STREET. Buildings, Portraits, and Note Headings, Patented Articles, Maps and Plans. Cards, Letter TRADESMAN COTFIPANY, Grand Rap ds, Mich. BSTABLISHED 1841. A A AE OO A RA A ANN BE HN THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada THE APOSTASY OF PAGET. The sun was meditating his conge be- hind the huge hump of Jack’s Mountain, when John Paget dog-trotted smartly from the denuded strip of red clay— of three dimensions—euphemistically known as the country road, and turned into the gateless entrance to Sleepy Hol- low. In the lower end of the long ninety- acre meadow, at the point where Paget’s Run entered the swamp, a negro pot- hunter paused among the traps he was setting for muskrats, peered cautiously over the alder bushes to account for the hoofbeats on the rickety bridge, and then resumed his work. From the grove of oaks about the great house came a succession _of raucous, discordant shrieks as the )peafowls flew, after an idiotic amount of deliberation and ‘perking” of heads, to their night perch in a majestic dead tree, and the answering prolonged howls from two setter dogs, who ignominiously fled under a low porch to escape the ear- splitting vibrations. But now, as ‘Boots’? shoved his nose from his cavernous retreat with a little, nervous, convalescent yelp, his eye came upon the horseman at the foot of the hill, and a moment later he and ‘Shot” were scampering wildly about Paget’s black mare. They received an unwonted amount of recognition, and when their master dismouated he accepted the prof- fer of Shot’s paw, when that wily canine felt called upon to make capital of his accomplishment. Then the two trotted quietly at his heels, betrayed every now and then, by some accidental movement of his hand, into a demonstration of af- fection which as suddenly died away before the impatient word of command. Paget strode into the front door and bent over to remove his spurs before he addressed a little group seated at the farther end of the great hallway— his two sisters and the younger brother, Beverly. John Paget’s straight shoul- ders and broad back showed off to good advantage in the ripe development of forty, as did his high, square, mathe- matical forehead and strongly molded chin. Out of his environment he would have looked seedy as to his trousers, tucked in the boot-tops, a black coat pretty nearly green, and slouch-hat. As it was, he simply looked like a Virginia gentleman. His dress was in accord, too, with the general appearance of Sleepy Hollow. It was distinctly an atmosphere of dis- approbation that he entered when he joined the little family of which he was the head. But he met the reproachful silence with a nenchalance which may or may not have been altogether whole- hearted. He was used to having his way, and it was with a tone implying covert but absolute and final defiance that he detailed the successes which had come in the day’s canvassing. “It is curious, Bev.,’”? he said slowly, under a cloud of smoke that almost hid his half-shut eyes, ‘‘what little things count in a politician’s success.” ““Yes,’? interrupted Virginia, tlashing up in her brother’s anticipatory pause, ‘the littler and meaner things are, the more they count with some kinds of politicians.”’ John Paget made no sign of having heard her, as he continued, after an aggravatingly placid puff or two: ‘‘Now, to-day at Baynesville I got the ear and the good humor of the facturing towns beyond the river—sur- vivors of the late ‘‘boom” and its partial collapse. In ’61, the male Pagets between the ages of sixteen and seventy had ridden with Jackson and Mosby. As for John, he had run away four times to enlist, against the parental command, to be captured and brought home thrice; the fourth time he stayed because his father had been wounded and he was the only person whom John would allow to cap- ture him. The female Pagets had done hospital service, had drained the re- sources of the farm to feed the Confeder- ate troops that came within feeding distance, and had assisted at several critical junctures when secrecy and hard- riding and noncombatant friends were of exceeding value to beleaguered soldiers of their persuasion. These evidences of loyalty were their own reward; fortunately so, for other requitat was there none. The farm was in a perilous state after the war, nor was John the man to better matters. Quite the contrary. It had finally come to be beyond his power to pay the taxes. The old servant remained with them, how- ever, and it was an easy matter to main- tain a bountiful table and a few horses. But the presence of cash in the house- hold—on certain legal occasions result- ing in mortgage papers—was an excep- tion which only proved the rule of poverty. This was bad enough, but the girls felt that it was Elysium compared to the remedy that John had seen fit to attempt this summer. He had joined the Read- juster element of the Republican party— a fact in itself sufficient to make the departed Pagets squeak and gibber in the family cemetery; had mortgaged the last acre of his share of the land, which was the largest; and was ‘‘running” for the office of county sheritf. From the mortgage receipts he had been able to pay off such of his standing debts as stood most obstinately in the way of prospective votes, and to guarantee his quota of the election expenses. The office he sought would pay him several thousand dollars per year; it was a forlorn hope, and he had staked his all on it. His was anything but a negative nature, and now that he had allied him- self with the people whom his family had always aspired to keep aloof from, he threw himself body and soul into the task of succeeding. Susan had been indignant and Virginia had cried over the cowp dWetat, while Beverly, who had been the baby and the pet of the family, sided feebly with the majority. Beverly was. rather a goodish-looking, slight young fellow of twenty-one, with scarcely the Paget al- lowance of gall and backbone. The girls had often had trouble with John. He had sowed broad and fruitful acres of wild oats, was irreparably ‘sot’? in his ways when once he got started, as ’Lisha expressed it in the kitchen. The family had always called him self-seeking, and he had accepted himself on those lines. As tothe deser- tion from the Paget political creed, it was to them simply a disgrace and the greatest misfortune many that had come to them, which exaggeration helped John’s conscience wonderfully, and made him feel that he was about as near right as they were. It was nothing short of treachery to Miss Virginia, who had the Waverly novels nearly by heart, and to whom the greatest regret in life hitherto had been that the tender age of three had not allowed her to bear the war. This MeNab alliance was a bitter pill, too. McNab wasa burly Scotchman of means and energy; he had identified himself actively and obtrusively with the social reconstruction of the section, and possessed in a high degree those qualities, more severely logical than humanly sympathetic, that Charles Lamb and Dean Swift have been pleased to consider typical of the Caledonian char- and among arms in civil acter. However that might be, he had certainly been anti-Paget, thoroughly and consistently, and now Virginia, with a flushed face, left the family circle, feeling that her brother’s apostasy was complete. John was in most unprecedented spirits over the thought that, after a summer’s herculean labors in living down and glossing over various uncom- fortable traditions, his election was as- It was hard work indeed. He had made the people of his own social stratum his by the clearly the other hand he with a record of unpaid debts and a lingering suspicion of his sincerity and solvency. But then MceNab’s eight-hundred mill- hands and McNab’s newspaper settled it. ‘It?s the best day’s work of my life, Bev.,”” he exultingly, over their pipes that night. ‘‘You see, Mac thought it would be a great card in his reforming work to have an old reprobate like my- self converted and shown up in front. V’ve been working like a mule to get him, and now I’m safe. When the election’s over, we’ll go down the valley, my boy, and have the biggest kind of a hunt; the birds are getting riper every day;’’ and Paget cocked his feet up still higher on the porch pillar. It was the first really happy, hopeful hour that had ceme to him in years. ‘“*By the way, Bev., I’d almost forgot- ten.”? John turned about and looked through the moonlight at his brother with some hesitation. ‘‘Peyton came sured. enemy as one man desertion, while had to contend selfish on said up to the eco’t house te-day and whis- 2 THE MIOHIGAN TRADESMAN. pered to me very friendly that you’d somehow got your name mentioned along with a story that’s not as nice as it might be. Oh, 1 don’t want to know anything about it. Just be careful not to get yourself mixed up in anything ugly.’’ “I think I can take care of my own business,” retorted Beverly angrily. It was too dark to see the flush which might betoken on his face something other than righteous indignation. ‘“‘Well, just be a gentleman over there, and don’t raise a row, Bev.’, more brother’s words then by any insult in them; but that was the tangible thing to vent him- self on, and he said bitterly: ‘‘You a fine one to come to me talking so virtu- Beverly was irritated, by the just probably occasion of his are ously, John Paget. It hasn’t been so long since you turned saint. You are so devilish selfish and taken up with your own affairs that you think every- body going Don’t be afraid that ll spoil your reputation and interfere with the Besides, just remember | am my own master.’’ His brother fired up with the instinet of authority, and a sharp altercation ensued which John ended by going to his room in silent rage. He a little else is wrong. election. was ashamed of the boy. He set a higher standard for those near him than for himself. The two scarcely saw each other during the next week. John was work- ing with might and main from early morning till late at night. His election the late coalition, and he was already planning fences and gates and a renovation of the house. day, and then election day,” he mused, as *‘Cualy” whinnied her anticipation of corn after was practically conceded since ***To-morrow’s co’t the day’s gadding about. ‘‘Yes,’’ said Paget to the octogenarian darky boy, who hobbled out to take the mare, ‘‘the We to be elected, retailed the kitchen coal in Pagets will lift their heads up yet. ain’t half dead. I’m goin’ ?Lisha.” And the old man information before the while he lifted a red-hot horny fingers to light his pipe. Gawd,’’ he added, ‘‘1 ain’t John so peart sence war days.’’ When the found Virginia with her head buried in Susan’s lap. It jarred him and puzzled him. Was such an generate, unclean Why they want to take away the the one success he was about to achieve? At his approach both the girls left the hall. He angrily threw himself into a chair and picked up the new ‘‘Herald’’ from the centre table. He gazed vacantly at the patent moment. Remembering that there would be lots of election talk in this issue, he turned to the local news page, and then he saw that he had mistaken the cause of distress. For there, under scare-head first even before the political matter, fire his ‘+e’ seen Mars’ Paget entered house he on he unre- thing? should comfort of rather outside for a his sisters’ caps, in the the details of a scandal in which Beverly | Paget was the most prominent and most | The shamefulness unhonored character. editorial moralized the harm of such events, and declared that it was the mission of the *‘Herald” to make them impossible, and that it took this opportunity to hold the offender up to public shame, since it happened that the law could not touch him. over ‘of the column, | were | and | As he read, Paget’s brow became very | pale, and there was an ominous twitch- |ing in the muscles of his flushed cheeks. | | He quietly burned the paper went to his | | room, and did not appear at the supper |table, nor did Sally, ’Lisha’s wife, find | | it necessary to make up his bed the next | morning. He away county town. rode as usual toward the The fact of court day and election day coming in succession had gathered a crowd of country and county folks such as had not been seen for years. Before the gro- booted men were standing or seated on chairs and drygoods boxes chatting poli- tics and expectorating with much deliberation and with an accuracy that Sir Toby would have called inevitable. But the largest group was in front of the court house itself, and there the burly form of McNab towered among the men, and his voice spoke out loudest discussions. Paget rede leisurely down the main street, nedding here and there to ac- quintances. Peyton said to his neighbor as the new arrival went past: ‘‘MceNab’d thought twice about that matter of young Beverly Paget if John had’nt been tied up in his election business hand and foot. I marched by John Paget’s side twenty-four years ago, and I’d never ’a’ thought he’d ’a’ taken that down. Polit- ics’| bring a man to anything, though, I reckon.” In the meantime, the subject of this criticism had ridden to the court-house. hitched his horse to the long rack, and in their where McNab was holding forth. There was a challenging look in Paget’s eye which gave him the man’s attention without a word. He said slowly and distinetly: “Did you allow that column about my brother to go into your paper with your knowledge, Mr. McNab?’’ “It was a mistake, Paget; let’s forget about it, for the present anyway. I wrote it, but it was a month ago, and,” in a lower tone, ‘‘I didn’t intend to use it till after election anyhow. My man down there ran it in through mistake in the date. Let’s smooth the matter over till after to-morrow anyway.’’ With a sweep of his arm Paget cleared a space around himself and the propietor ‘“‘Herald.’”? Then he raised his voice and said: ‘‘l want to say to all gentlemen here present that this man has written a malicious lie about my brother, Beverly Paget, and has published it in his paper. | Furthermore, that lam going to thrash him for the insult right here.’’ Which he proceeded to do with a quickness and dexterity that enabled him to practically complete the task by the time two constables arrived on the scene. The basic, traditionary social law had triumphed. Paget was not elected. CHas. D. LANIER. el The Dry Goods Market. Prints and wash goods are very low. Satines move freely in blacks and | black ground fancy figures. A new fabric on the market is called Taffeta Moire and looks and feels like silk. It retails at 16e in six patterns and fifty colorings. —-—>- The man who stays at home and minds his own business is not regarded among agitators as a good citizen. cery stores, saloons, and public buildings | walked through the crowd to the spot | 12, Uh and 16 Pearl 8. Of course, you have. | Y RINDGE, KALMBACH & 60, Have you heard of our River Shoes ? Ever heard of our Hard Pan line? Why cert. Everybody = knows we make themright. What we want to eall your at- . tention to now is our Cordivan line, the line that is coming to Qs the front with glorious results. We have met with such os limited success in the manufacture of them in Men’s, Boys’ * and Youths’ that we have decided to add Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s. Misses’ and Children’s in both heel and spring heel with prices that cannot help but please you. (Another question.) Are we init on jobbing goods? Well we should | smile a smole longer than a wagon track. Of course we are in it of | fall goods will convince you that weare in it more than ever. A little advice on |the side without charge, it is to place your rubber order early as it will save you money. The following testimonial was received from a brilliant member of Congress a few days ago: and our line WasHINeTon, D. C., May 3, 1894. RinDGE, KaumBacu & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Dear Sirs:—Too years ago today I put on a pare of youre Cordovan Shoos and havent had thim off my feet since, they are strong yit. Yours trooly, JERRY SIMPSON. DECORATE ! ILLUMINATE ! CELEBRATE | Send for Net Trade Price List of FIRKWORKS *" LANTERNS and all Fourth of July Goods. Publicand Private Exhibitions for any amount furnished on Short Notice. Order at once tose ure prompt shipment. Our Fireworks Prize Box is a winner. FRED BRUNDAGE, Muskegon. Mich. SPECIAL HIGH GRADE. a A Strictly High Grade 28 Ib. Bi- cycle, the Latest and Best English Model. ‘Tool Steel, Ball Bearing throughout, Tangent Spokes, Either Wood or Steel Rims, Design, 94 Tool War- Pneumatic Tires, Hardened Steel Rear Sprockets, Re-enforced Frame, Hickory or Steel Forks. ented throughout. We sell direct from our factory, as the time has come when riders must have a strictly High Grade Wheel with Strength and Lightness com- Price $75. CYCLOID WHEEL WORKS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Lemons WIll be higher very soon, the bined, at actual value. mercury is creeping up Buy of us now while prices are Low. The Putnam Candy Co. W DONT PROVE. DE You only Chew the String when you read this advertisement. ‘T'o Prove the Pudding, you must send for a sample order of Tradesman, Superior or Universal Coupon Books. If youhave never used the Coupon Book System, and wish to investigate it, sample books and price lists will | be mailed free on application, ih ¥ ty q a ff a ki’ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE USES OF CHEESE. Pronounced Opinions by the Apostle of High Art Cookery. Mrs. Rorer has very decided opinions on a variety of subjects, and she usually expresses her opinion in a very emphatic manner. Her complete mastery of the subjects connected with her art, and a great command of language, make her a very entertaining talker. Sheis a con- versationalist of the first order. Her re- marks are pungent, pointed and clear, and her listener never has any difficulty in understanding her. A _ reporter of Tuer TRADESMAN called on Mrs. Rorer last Friday at her rooms in the Morton House and in the course of the talk which followed the conversation turned on ‘‘cheese.’? In response to the ques- tion as to her opinion of cheese as an ar- ticle of diet, Mrs. Rorer said: ‘‘Prop- erly prepared, I consider cheese to be of great nutritive value, the chemical con- stituents of which it is composed giving it a digestibility hardly possessed by any other article of food; but, asit is gener- ally used, it is enough to spoil the diges- tion of the strongest man who ever lived. It is cut in great chunks from one to two ounces in weight, and one person will eat two or three of these pieces. No stomach can stand that sort of thing. If cheese is to be eaten raw it should be insmall quantities and once a day is often enough. The complaint is made that it takes too much time to pre- pare cheese in what are called the scien- tifie methods, that putting it in cooked dishes. That is all nonsense, for it takes no longer to prepare a dish with cheese in it than it does one without. That is the great fault of our American way of living, everything is doneina hurry. Food is prepared in a hurry and eaten in a hurry—bolted, someone has called it. Men, and women, too, will sit down and shovel in their food witha rapidity almost incredible; and such quantities the most of them do eat! 1 don’t know how they stand it, and as a matter of fact they don’t stand it, they break down after a while, even the best of them, with one or the other of those two American diseases, indigestion or nervous prostration. A man should eat according to the work he has to do. If he is a man of sedentary habits, if he is sitting in an office most of the time, he certainly does not need as much or as hearty food as the bricklayer or black- smith; but you will see the man who gets next to noexercise and the man whose work is all exercise sitting side by side at a table eating the same quantity of ex- actly the same kind of food. It is the brain of the man in the office that needs nourishing, because his work makes heavy draughts on his nervous force; so he should eat such foods as will feed his brain and replenish his depleted nervous system. In the case of the man whose work is almost entirely manual in char- acter, it is the animal tissue which is de- stroyed, by the muscular exertion he is compelled to make. He should eat such foods, and in such quantities, as will re- place the wasted tissue. Cheese is one of the best flesh-formers in the world when properly prepared, and should be eaten by all men whose work is of a muscular nature, but should be partaken of very sparingly by men of sedentary habits. While few realize it, cheese is one of the most important animal! foods. But in its raw or uncooked condition it is certainly indigestible and cannot be as is, readily assimilated or converted into our own substance as flesh food, butif prop- erly cooked you would be surprised at its | digestibility. In going over and over again the chemistry of our food so many times as | do in my lectures and newspaper articles, I am afraid the publie get very weary of the subject, but I do know that for your own good it cannot be too frequently re- peated. How and whatto eat, and the best methods of preparing our daily food is an all-important subject. In France one of the commonest dishes the fondu, but in France one finds every sim- ple dish that is nutritious and whole- some. This fonduis a mixture of cheese and egg with a small addition of milk. It is usually cooked in an earthen bak- ing dish and served as soon as it comes from the fire. A laboring man might dine sumptuously, healthfully and eco- nomically on a fondu, bread, butter and a cup of coffee. Such a food is, however, too nutritious for the office man or the man of sedentary habits. It a great mistake to choose new or poor cheese, as the digestibility of cheese grows easier as the cheese grows older. Cream cheese is more digestible than other kinds on account of its soft nature and less pro- portion of casein. The righest cheese in the market is Stilton. Cheshire is also made from unskimmed milk, while Par- mesan, the favorite cheese of the Italians, is made from milk deprived of its fatty matter, consequently it will be found to change less with age than _ richer varieties. ‘Toasted cheese, no matter of what variety, is one of the most indi- gestible articles one can possibly eat “If you have the time to spare, | would like to say a word about the steril ization of milk, that is, milk in which the baccili have all been killed by the ap- plication of heat. If there is one thing of which the present generation stands in mortal dread it is a microbe. He is found in everything we eat and drink and his malign influence is felt in all walks of life. The microscope of the scientist has discovered the typhoid microbe, the consumption microbe, the smallpox microbe, the diphtheria microbe, and hundreds of other microbes in almost every article of food, until it looks almost as if one must starve to death if one does not want to die of disease. Well, milk is claimed to be a favorite stamping ground of several varieties of microbes, and people are instructed never to use milk unless it has been boiled—steril- ized. Boiling, they say, kills the microbes, and renders them harmless. But lately scientists have discovered another thing and that is that microbes are of two kinds—good and _ bad, beneficent and malevolent. The good microbes are always at war with the bad and destroy them whenever they come in conflict. Milk contains a pre- ponderance of good microbes, which are destroyed by boiling, and when the milk cools disease microbes fall into it from the atmosphere and, their natural enemies having been destroyed, have everything their own way. Be sure your milk is from well-fed, healthy cows, and you need not be afraid of microbes. But boiling won’t help you in any event.”’ is is o> -—— Quite a Difference. Johnny—Papa, is there any difference between a wheelman and a cyclist? His Father—Um—none that I know of, unless itis that a wheelman sits erect and acyclist humps his back up. Cannot Be Refilled. It is reported that some Ohio glass- makers have invented a bottle which can- | | not be refilled after it has been emptied, Tf You would and they think they are going to do a big | business with it among the proprietors of fine wines and liquors, patent medicine men and other dealers in have suffered much loss from ing of their empty bottles, with some in ferior goods, which have been sold genuine on the strength of the package. The peculiarity of this bottle is not de- as scribed, but itis said that a very simple | device in the neck of the bottle admits of the contents being poured out, but entire- ly prevents anything being poured in. It is said that the bottle has been submitted to the severest tests, even to heating it to exhaust the air, and then inverting it in a vessel of water, and found to act satisfactorily. help being curious to it has been One cannot know how this bottle gets outside of its original charge, if it cannot be refilled. However, most purchasers are more concerned about emptying than filling them, and _ this bottle will doubtless supply a long-felt want. et The Economy of Pure Food. From the Baltimore Telegram. There are many persons who, from a misguided sense of economy, purchase food which they know to be inferior, so that they may thereby save, in order to meet other demands of the family. Hand- some clothing and fine houses in aristo- cratic neighborhoods are desirable, we admit, but not at the expense of the most important factor of our existence; es- pecially when we know that pure, nour- ishing food, is the immidiate cause of pure blood and, consequently, more perfect nerve and brain power. It is not only false economy but positive crime to obtain edibles below the standard for the purpose of sustaining both the mental and physical health of the human being. NS ARE COMING 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 Circus Day. —-— TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Michigan. wet goods who | the refill- | How to econduect 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 catalogue of our Coupon Book System, Which is the best meth- od ever devised for plac- ing the credit business of the retail dealer on a eash basis. Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS. The Poorest Man On Earth Can afford the BEST salt. The Richest Man On Earth CANNOT afford any other. a \e sp WnITOR 120. WARREN STI VYOR®: | See Quotations in Price Current. I. M. CLARK GROCERY CO, GENERAL AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, - - - Sao NO CURE, NO MUSTACHE NO PAY. NO PAY DANDRUFF CURED 1 will take Contracts to grow hair on the near + face with those who can call at my office or vt the office of my agents, provided the head 1s »ot glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed Where the head is shiny or the pores closed, tere isnocure. Call and be examined free ot harge. If you cannot call, write tome. State ho exact condition of the scalp and your occu: enon PROF. G. BIRKHOLZ, Room 101i Mascaic Temple, Cuicaas Hi 2 i 4 AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. MecBain—Storrey & Morrison succeed C. M. Storrey in general trade. Remus—A. D. Kendall succeeds Ken- | dall & Hane in the grocery business. Saginaw—.J. E. Asam is succeeded by the Saginaw Basket Co., incorporated. Grand Haven—John Kamont has pur- chesed the meat business of J. B. Lum. Burr Oak—H. T. ceeds W. M. Urie in the hardware busi- } ness. West Bay City—Ingersoll ceed H. S. Ingersoll in the grocery busi- ness. Port Huron—A. Lee has sold his grocery stock on Lapeer avenue to Mrs. West. Iron Bros. suc- Mountain—Wm. Moyle has opened a grocery and provision store in the Stephenson building. Port Huron—R. S. Patterson & Co. succeed R. S. Patterson in the jewelry, book and sewing machine business. Fremont—Fred E. Holt has sold his grocery stock to Landon Bros. He will continue in the boot and shoe business. Fenton—Snyder «& MeCracken have opened a grocery store in the building} formerly occupied by Mrs. M. A. Helm. Mantou—Frank Weaver has sold his grocery stock to Solon Tyler, who will | continue the business at the same loeca- tion. Petoskey—J. K. Feick has sold his grocery stock to Geo. Mullenhagen, who will continue the business at the same location. South Haven—J. S. Malbone will shortly begin the erection of a two-story building which he will occupy with a stock of hardware. Ludington—Peter in clothing, has Mendelson, dealer failed. He seeured creditors to the amount of $11,000 and left many more out in the cold. Kalamazoo—Frank F. Ward, formerly of Plainwell, and Geo. kK. Walker, for- merly of Saranac, have embarked in the grocery business at 141 So. street. Allegan—B. Burdick Desenberg & Co., the Kalamazoo wholesale grocers, obtained judgment against Ephraim Leisure for $649.01 in the Allegan Circuit Court last Thursday. Muskegon—K. E. moved his Vanderlinde has stock of groceries from 52 Apple street to Fremont. He has been in business here foreight years. He willi eontinue the same business in Fremont. Holland—C. L. Streng & Son have purchased the entire stock of dry goods forrmerly owned by Nelson Pitton, of Mr. Forrest, agent for Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago. The purchasers will consolidate the stock with their own. Stanwood—H. W. Reid and Geo. C, Bonnell, formerly engaged in the gro- cery business at Grand Rapids, are now engaged in general trade and the saw- mill and hemlock bark under the style of the Grand Rapids Lumber Co. Allegan—C. W. Stone has leased a store in the Marsh block and opened a dry goods and faney goods stock under the style of ‘‘Stone’s business here 3oston Sazaar.” Mr. Stone will be remembered as formerly engaged in the dry goods business at lonia. New Saginaw—The daily papers are parad- ing the information that the Jas. Stewart Mercantile Co. has severed its connection Diffenbaugh suc-| THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | with the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ | Association. Such is not a fact; further- more, such an event is not likely to oc- cur, asthe Stewart Co. has too much to | gain by such a connection to think ser- iously of severing it. | Cheboygan—The Thompson Smith’s | Sons have given an option on their large general stock, at Duncan, to E. J. James, who has long acted as manager and | buyer of the mercantile department of Mr. James has also pur- | chased the grocery stock of R. A Paddock and, in company with a partner, will conduct stores at both places, occupying | the old location at Duncan and the dou- | ble stores in the Paquette block at this | place. lt is expected that F. S. Frost, formerly of the firm of Penney & Frost, | will return to Cheboygan and have the management of the Main street store jand, in all probability, Arthur R. Gerow, who bas been with Thompson Smith’s Sons fora long time, will manage the Dunean store. Detroit—Recently all the wholesale | druggists in the city, except the firm of Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co., signified a desired to close their places of business on Saturday afternoon during the sum- mer months at 1 o’clock, That firm’s re- fusal to agree to the early closing will make it necessary for the other houses to keep the old hours; but the explana- tion which Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co. give is that they receive one of their most important mails from their cus- tomers at 2 o’clock on Saturday after- noon, and that it is absolutely necessary that these orders be filled promptly. Mr. Davis suggests that one-third or pos- sibly one-half of their employes take one Saturday afternoon, and the others the Saturday following, and so on. The matter has been referred to the foreman of that firm, and if he reports favorably they are willing to make such an ar- rangement. | the concern. | | | | | | | MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Montague—The Montague Roller Mills are now owned by Gardiner & Calkins, David D. Erwin having transferred the property to those gentlemen last week. Detroit—At a meeting of the stock- holders of the United States Heater Co., held last Tuesday, it was decided to in- crease the capital stock from $50,000 to $75,000. East Jordan—The machinery in the Ingall’s hame fastener factory has been purchased by J. D. Champion, of White Cloud, and will shortly be removed to that place. Iron Mountain—Wright Bros. have a contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway for 800,000 cedar ties, of which amount 100,000 are now being delivered. Lansing—E. Bement & Sons, whose capital stock is $350,000, will shortly is- sue $150,000 preferred stock, on which 6 per cent. cumulative dividends will be paid. This stock is to be redeemed at the end of twenty years, for which pur- pose the corporation must set aparta portion of each year’s profits in the | Shape of a sinking fund. Nearly all the | Stock has been subscribed, as the confi- | dence in the management of the business | renders it an easy matter to place the | stock in the hands of desirable parties. | The proceeds of the stock will be devoted to the payment of the bank and commer- | cial indebtedness and the enlargement of | each department of the business. Detroit—The Polisho Company has filed articles of association with a capi- tal stock of $5,000, all paidin. William Auberlin, Martin S. Smith and Chas. T. Karpp are the incorporators. Ocqueoe—Michael McCabe claims the pennant for expert log driving on the Oecqueoc river. He recently filled a raft of 3,500,000 feet in three hours and a half. The raft was towed to Bay City. lronwood—The Upper Peninsula Chair Co.’s factory here will be removed to Marshfield, Wis. The business men of the last named place have presented sufficient inducement for the change. The factory employs 100 hands. Battle Creek—The Citizens’ Electric Light Co. has increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $150,000. A portion of the increase will be taken by the present stockholders, and the balance held in re- serve to sell when the company needs more money to enlarge its business. The old officers have been re-elected for the coming year. Detroit—The Detroit Shade Manu- facturing Co. has filed articles of associa- tion with the county clerk. The capital stock is $100,000, all paid in. The incorporators are H. L. Humphrey, Frank W. Claxton, Francis Trickey, O. O. Walmoth, Ed. Hartford, Henry M. Dubois, Louis C. MeBride and Franklin L. Lord, all of Detroit. Saginaw—J. E. Asam & Co., basket manufacturers, have merged their busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Saginaw Basket Co. The corporation has a capital stock of $10,- 000 and will shortly remove its business to a factury building now in process of construction on the grounds of the Sag- inaw Improvement Co. Muskegon—A tow of 6,000 logs was put in the booms of the McGraft Lum- ber Co., at whose mill the logs will be sawed, last week. They are the prop- erty of Fred Magnuson and were cut along the shore of Lake Michigan, this side of White Lake. A strong log boom was thrown around them and they were towed here without loss. Alpena—Alger, Smith & Co. have 250 men at work extending the Alpena & Northern Railroad into Montmorency county, and expect to reach Atlanta in September. The firm owns 300,000,000 feet or more of timber in that county. It also owns large tracts of timber in Presque Isle county, and is hauling logs from Lake Mary to Alpena. Detroit—The entire plant of the Buf- falo Fish Co., including fisheries at Kingsville and Wheatley, Ont., has been purchased by a syndicate composed of Howland & Giddy, Alpena Fish Co., A. Solum, Sons & Co., C. Dante & Co., O. E. Cheney and A. G. McDonald. The syndi- cate have organized the Detroit Fish Packing Co., with a capital of $50,000, fully paid in. Muskegon—W, E. Barrett & Co., the Grand Rapids lumbermen, are going ahead in their work of making Muske- gon the center of their shingle business. They have leased the Stimson docks, and will erect immense sheds having a ea- pacity of from 30,000,000 to 50,000,000. The sheds will be 50 feet wide and 500 feet long. The shingles will be shipped in here by water from northern points and distributed by rail. Pentwater—The Pentwater Bedstead Co. has begun the erection of an addi- tion to its present factory, 96x125 feet in dimensions and three stories high. The addition will be constructed en- tirely of brick, with substantial stone foundation. The remarkable success of this institution is due to the enterprise, liberality and far-sightedness of Messrs. Sands & Maxwell, without whom Pent- water would to-day be little more than a way station. instead of a thriving vil- lage, with more than average prospects of a bright future. Saginaw—Never in the history of Saginaw Valley lumbering have. there been so many men out of employment as at present, and wages were never so low. in the woods there is less doing then ever, and large firms that formerly oper- ated gangs of men in the summer season have either exhausted their timber and retired or are doing nothing, and the few men that have employment in the woods are glad to obtain $12 and $15 a month. Hundreds of men are roaming from place to place through the lumber camps and small towns where mills are located, in search of work. The idle mills in Sagi- naw are beginning to cause some distress to unemployed labor. There are five or six mills here employing nearly 500 men in the aggregate that have been running steadily until the present season but are now idle, and this causes suffering among the men. Manistee—Business seems to be im- proving slowly. Some kinds of lumber are in better demand while others con- tinue to drag. Pine piece stuff sells at $9 for short, while a sprinkling of long or wide will raise the figure a quarter or a half, as the case may be. Hemlock is doing considerably better. The market showed more life in the past two weeks, and each shipment made a gain over the preceding one. We have closed out all the dry common inch held over from last season, and have now only this season’s cut. Some of this, of course, is in shape for shipment now, but a good many of the mills have let it go as soon as it had been on stick 30 days, preferring not to hold it. Some of the firms that are mak- ing hemlock inch have made some good sized sales recently. Buyers seem to think that it will fill the place of a com- mon pine inch if they can get a pretty good grade. A The Wool Market. The life seems to be slowly ebbing away from the wool market. It is al- most pulseless now, and what little in- dication of life there is is due to fever- ish excitement occasioned by the uncer- tainty regarding the conditions to be im- posed upon it by Congress. Advices from the leading Eastern markets are to the effect that there is little or no move- ment of wool, although the new elip is well on the way from first hands. Lo- cally business is quiet, and not much wool has been received. Dealers are pretty well satisfied, however, as the condition of the Eastern market will not warrant heavy buying. (1. +> _____ Lakeview Laconics. LAKEVIEW, June 11—W. B. Keyser, of Clinton, is here looking over the Mather bank property and talking with our citizens, with a view of buying the prop- erty and opening up a banking institu- tion. Louis Fuller is manufacturing a is proving patent family swing which very popular. A. Macomber has added to his planing mill a $1,100 flooring planer and matcher. Arthur L. Palmer has transferred his livery business to Big Rapids. ashe 4 43 ty THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. P. Steketee & Sons have secured the order for flags to be used rally day, June 28, by the Kent County Sunday Schools. A. J. Beardsley, dealer in dry goods at Boyne City, has added a line of groceries. The Lemon & Wheeler Company fur- nished the stock. John DeMan has sold his meat mar- ket at 762 East Fulton street to Geo. A. Haines and Wm. Bonner, who will con- tinue the business at the same location under the style of Haines & Bonner. Daniel Lynch has begun the erection of a three-story and basement brick block at the corner of Ellsworth avenue and Island street, 50x95 feet in dimen- sions. He expects to be able to occupy it by Sept 1. Chas. R. Stuck has ‘leased the store building of the Lebanon band, five miles southeast of Hubbardston, and will oc- cupy the store with a grocery and hard- ware stock. The Ball-Barnhart Putman Co. has the order for the grocery stock. Sneevliet Bros. have removed their grocery stock from 715 East Fulton street to the former location of James Van- Splunter, corner of Jefferson and Wen- ham avenues. Mr. Van Splunter kas closed out his stock and retired from business. The Wilcox Heat- t-Light Co. is a thing of the past, the stock having been pur- chased by L. T. Wilcox, who has paid the debts of the corporation and ab- sorbed the assets. He is closing out the stock as rapidly as possible and will soon remove to Lansing, where he has taken a contract to inaugurate an oil stove de- partment in connection with the stove and implement business of E. Bement & Sons. This isa new departure for the Lansing concern, and they think they make no mistake in securing the services of a man who possesses wide and varied experience in the oil stove business. Grand Rapids people have no reason to be in love with the business, as those who put their money into the Wilcox company were glad to take 10 cents on the dollar for their stock, after one year’s experience. The Pure Food ecaetition closed last Saturday evening, with satisfactory re- sults to everyone connected with the enterprise, with the exception of the Manager, who is out of pocket about $400, besides his time and expenses. This result may be attributed to several ‘auses, paramount among which are the lateness of the season, the hardness of the times, the suddenness with which the Exposition was sprung upon the people after the project had been tem- porarily abandoned by the Retail Gro- eers’ Association, the lack of prelimi- nary preparation and the seemingly short-sighted policy of a number of local manufacturers in refusing to make an exhibit of their products. Particularly is this the case with the local flour mil- lers, who thus placed themselves in a position of antagonism to the retail trade of the city and gave an outside mill an opportunity to introduce its product to the attention of many housewives who were probably unaware of the existence of such an establishment. The general sentiment among the retail grocery trade is that the Exposition has been of great advantage to the trade, as it has awak- ened the attention of the people to mer- itorious food products and that this, in connection with the practical lectures of Mrs. Rorer, will tend to stimulate the demand for better classes of goods. Now that the people are acquainted with the advantages of the food exposition, it is probable that an attempt to hold an- other exposition next season will be made before the season has been so far advanced as to shut out such exhibits as soups, chocolates, ete., which are usually shown during the cold months only. ‘‘[ suppose you think you did me up in great shape,” said E. J. Herrick to THE TRADESMAN reporter last week. ‘That’s all right; but I don’t want my friends to think I walked in from Kala- mazoo that night, for I didn’t. Il came home with the rest of the boys by train, and never felt bettergin my life. 1 con- sider my initiation into Saladin Temple one of the best investments I ever made. I bave had nothing but good luck ever since. Not long afterI became a Noble of the Mystic Shrine my nephew in Lan- sing became the father of a bouncing baby boy and named him Erwin Justus after his uncle—that’s myself. By the way, did I ever tell you how my name got turned around? I wasnamed Justus Erwin and was so called until I became a young man, at least until I was old enough to get out among the girls. You needn’t laugh; when | was a young man I tell you the other young fellows stood a poor show with the girls when I was around; but | was going to tell you about my name. I had an uncle whose initals were the same as my own, and this fact occasioned no end of trouble—fun some of them called it—but I didn’t see it that way. He used to get my letters, and sometimes | got his, but his were gener- ally business letters, while mine were— not. My Sunday girl wrote me once ask- ing me to call onacertain evening. I didn’t go, for my uncle got that letter and kept it a month. I did not know what was the matter with my girl. She cut me dead on the street and, when | called at the house, she was colder than 1894 May weather. Well, my uncle finally gave me the letter and her peculiar con- duct was explained. I hadn’t called as requested in the letter, and as I made no explanation, she resented it and I didn’t blame her. The evening! got that let- ter I went over to her father’s, and of course, everything was satisfactorily ex- plained, even to the reason why my uncle had kept the letter. He had gone himself and kept an appointment in- tended for me—spent a very pleasant evening, too, | have no doubt. I put an end to that sort of thing right away. I never had an unele that was good enough to get my letters and go to see my girl, so I twisted my name around and it has been twisted ever since.” a. an From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: Alex. Denton, Howard City. E. C. Tew & Sons, Lake Odessa. J. E. Thurkow, Morley. C. A. Brott, Moorland. J. H. Eppink, Lueas. W. E. Hardy, Harbor Springs. H. VanNoord, Jamestown. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. Bates & Troutman, Moline. F. A. Burlington, Bradley. Thos. H. Atkins, West Carlisle. Grand Rapids Lumber Co., Stanwood. G. K. Coffee, White Cloud. Gripsack Brigade. Frank E. Chase (A. C. MeGraw & Co.) is at Room 101, Sweet’s Hotel, this week, with his line of fall goods. | | construed as A successful commercial traveler must | make customers not for a day but for all} time. He must be able to look customer in the face and ask him if the last bill of goods was satisfactory every time he gets around. The man who de- pends upon misrepresentations or cut prices to sell worthless goods figure on making more than one success- ful trip. Pleasant relations between the ‘* and ‘‘drummer’’ are absolutely essential. An honest house selling honest goods wants an honest salesman. It must take the drummer intoits confidence and treat him as an honest man if it wants to get the best results from his labor. It must not question and quibble over every item in an expense bill, nor growl over a re- sultless trip when times are hard. A feeling of absolute confidence between salesman and manager does more to sell goods than any other factor. ‘I was very much amused while on the Lake Shore road the other day,’’ a well-known traveling man, in the hotels, ‘tat the action of a portly cannot ’ house’ said one of gentleman in our car. He was an inde- fatigable mewspaper reader; bought every paper at each city through which we passed, and invariably as soon as he had finished one paper he would tear off and destroy the heading on the first page before beginning the next ene. After this had been going on some time, I could not restrain my curiosity, and finally asked him why he so mutilated the newspaper, adding that the train boy would doubtless be glad to have the paper back again. ‘‘‘That’s just it,’ said the portly gentleman. ‘These news- boys are altogether too smooth. They sell me «a paper for five cents. After I have read it they straighten it out and possibly sell it to some one else for an- other five cents. Then when he has fin- ished they cut off the heading and return it to the publication office, credited to the account of the newsboy sending it in, as an unsold paper for which he gets his rebate at the end of the month. Now when [ have torn off that heading he can’t sell that paper again, neither can he send it back to the office for the rebate. It’s one of the many little petty swindles that are be- coming so common, and I’m doing all in my power to break it up.’ ”’ —_— tl — Am The Wheat Market. Wheat has been erratic during the past week. The visible supply and the amount on passage showed a large de- crease, and on that account and also on account of the reported damage to crop, the price has advanced 6 cents from low point. It receded two cents, at which point it has remained since. The city mills pay 52 cents per bushel, and, if we have a few more weeks like the past, wheat may get somewhere near where it belongs, so that the agriculturist will re- ceive a fair remuneration for his labor. There was quite a decrease for the week, amounting to 1,181,000 bushels, and for the month of May to about 10,000,000 bushels. The decrease in the world’s supply of wheat was only about 6,000,000 bushels. It can readily be seen that there is a steady decrease which will eventually count. The crop report for June, as it reads, can be where it is every | 5 rather bearish, the crop two points above May, although, as it makes taking the different State reports, it |shows a decline of five points. The Government claims only a reduction of 1 per cent. in the winter wheat acreage, while it certainly is from 10 to 12 per cent. less; but then the Government re- port will stand, no matter how faulty it is. There were only 34 cars of wheat, 2) ars of corn and 5 ears of oats re- ceived here during the past week, or about the same as was receivad in Detroit, which shows clearly that there is no wheat moving, Har- vesting has commenced in Texas and Government ; other Southern States, but, as no thresh- ing has yet been done, the possible yield cannot be estimated. C. G. A. Vorar. >_> > > Clothing Men, Attention! Brick store building to rent, all fitted up, in town of 500 people. Has been used for clothing business three years. No clothing or furnishing goods line now in town. Good farming country. Write B. C., care MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “FOR ‘SALE, WANTED, ETC. Adv ertisements will be ir iserted unde or this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion, No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. V a, in good town. Tradesman. v4 OR SALE—CLOTHING AND GENTLE. men’s furnishing goods stock ata bargain. Will rent store to parties pure hasing if so de STOC K, ‘OR cheap for cash, care Michigan ANTED- -SMALL GENER AL two lines of mere handise, Address No. 641, sired. Address Lock fa 0. Cl tte Mich. ae \ JANTED TO EXCHANGE—TWO-HORSE _engine, upright boiler, good as new, for electric motor. Redner Bros., Battle Creek Mich. 643 | Vy THO WANTS A NICE, <¢ LEAN, WELL ES tablished and good payi ing dry goods and notion store, in one of the best locations in the city, at a great bargain; good reason for Write or call at once, Michigan Tradesman. pre STORE FOR se ling. Address No. 635, eare 635 [ SALE—INVOICING $1,600, 3500 down; balance on time. Good business. Low expenses Address Book keeper, 4 and 6 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 60 | age SALE—60 GALLON OIL TANK, WITH - pump, $2.50; also three compartment re frigerator in good condition, $10. Julius J. Wagner, 197 East Br idge St., Grand Rapids. 54 WV ICHIGAN DRUG EXCHANGE, H. E. a} Grand Girard, Proprietor. 1! have on my list several drug stores for sale, rang sing from $00 to $5,°00, in and out of the city, and will furnish further particulars. [have alsoa great many drug clerks, registered and assistants, who wish situations in or out of thee ity. Nocharge to buyer or employer. Address Mich. Drug EX chang e, 128 Monroe street, , Grand Rapids, 37 OR SALE—STORE BUILDING AND dwelling combined at Levering, Mich. First-class place for a general dealer. A. M. LeBaron, Grand Rapids, Mich. 636 | er SALE—CLEAN DRUG STOCK IN A thriving town in Northern Michigan on C. & W. M. Railway. gan Tradesman. 639 Vy JE HAVE BUYERS FOR ALL KINDS OF business, whether you want to buy, sell or exchange. Write to Mutual Business Excnange, Bay City, Mich. 628 OR RENT—THE STORE FORMERLY OC cupied by E. J. Ware, druggist, corner Cherry and E ast streets. Also meat market, east end same building, with good ice box. JohnC., Dunton, old County building. 618 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 thriv ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic ited. Sheridan, Boye e &e Oo. , Manistee, Mic h, 613 3 FORSALe CHE AP—STORE AND DWE LL- ing in first-class location in town of 1,000 inhabitants, Address E. L., ville, Benzie Co., Mich. FRYER BEST PLACE IN THE SPATE TO start a dry goods store is Big Rapids. Has only two. 608 OR RENT—EXCELLENT LOCATION FOR grocery store. No other grocery within four blocks. High and dry basement under store. Come and see for yourself. J. W Spooner, 6 Arcade, Grand Rapids. 609 CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES FOR Sale; good trade, cheap for spot cash; the only delivery wagon in town. Stock about Address No. 639, care Michi box 158, Thompson 598 2.500. Investigate. Address box 15, Centre- ville, Mich. 82 P E . K ’ S HEADACHE POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your;jobber 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Growth of the Cottonseed Oil Industry: In view of the determined opposition of farmers and their friends to cottolene, cottosuet and other products of cotton- seed, substitutes for lard and butter, it is interesting to note the enormous ex- pansion of the cottonseed oil industry. In 1880 there were forty cottonseed mills with an aggregate capital of $3,- 500,000. There are now 300 mills, hav- ing a combined capital of about $30,000,- 000. At present about 1,500,000 tons of seed are annually used by the mills, yielding to the farmers about $18,000,000 a year for a product which until recently was regarded as waste material. The total output is about 1,500,000 barrels or 60,000,000 gallons of oil, 500,000 tons of cottonseed meal, 750,000 tons of hulls and 30,000,000 pounds of linters, the ag- gregate value of which will average about $30 000,000. The demand for oil steadily expanding. As only about one-third of the total cottonseed crop is is now consumed by the mills, there is practically unlimited room for the growth of this business. Ten years ago the hulls were burned by the mills as fuel, as no other use could be found for them. Investigation proved that they made excellent fodder, and last year about 400,000 head of cattle were fat- tened for the market on cottonseed hulls, while 100,000 miich cows were fed on the same material. Here is food for thought. What will be the result to farmers and dairymen if this industry continues to expand in the future as it has in the past? Undoubt- edly new uses will be discovered for cottonseed oil, but, as a competitor in the field until recently held in undisputed possession by lard and butter, it will play a much more formidable part than it has in the past. Will it finally entire- ly supplant butter and lard? Hardly, although it may be expected to revolu- tionize buttermaking asa business and make the latter an unprofitable article of commerce. The fact that the price of butter for a considerable portion of the year puts it beyond the reach of a large prvuportion of the people will work in favor of the cottonseed oil industry, although good butter ata fair price will always find a market; but the process of butter- making will need to be vastly modified if itis to hold any portion of the field against the cottonseed product. The enormous incaease in the consumption of milk by the people is another considera- tion. May not the fact that the con- sumption of milk is constantly on the increase show to farmers and dairymen amore profitable market for the disposi- tion of their product? There is profit in milk even at present prices, but here, too, great changes are necessary and farmers have much to learn. The relative merits of animal and vegetable oils have long been determined in favor of vegetable oil. Cottonseed oil has been proved to be pure, wholesome and nutritious, which cannot always be said of lard. Perhaps the two have separate fields of usefulness, and when it is decided just what is the peculiar sphere of each competition will cease. In the meantime the prejudice against vegetable oils and their products is dying out though opposition from inter- ested quarters is as strong as ever. The figures and facts given above show that the raising of cottonseed for its oleagin- ous product has proved to bein several directions a great boon to farmers. FRANK STOWELL. Dry Goods Price Current. rene COTTONS, Sees ‘* Arrow Brand 4% Argyle... ec 5% “ Were _— 6 Atlanta AA......... 6 a. i. —. =. Atlantic -...... ..-- 6%/Full Yard Wide..... 6% tS Oiceagm A.......... 61 C a... 5 |Honest Width...... 6 C >... © Martiogs ......... 5 | 4%|Indian Head........ 5% ey ox are A... 6% Auehars oe King EC 2 Beaver Dam A A. " 456| Lawrence Be 4% Blackstone O, 32. 5 Black Crow. | Madras cheese cloth ox _s |Newmarket G 53% 5 maeck Mock ......_. a 5 pom AG. 7. | . 2. 6% Capital A.... — “s D.... x — 7... e - 6X Chapman cheese cl. 3c ate eT 5 i | 544|Our Level Best..... 6 (eee... 64 | Oxford a oo 6 Dwight Ster......... 6% Pequot.. 8 (on CCC........ aa... 6 |Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEAC oar COTTONS. -c............ \Geo. ae 2 oe... ........ § halon Be.......... 7 are... 4... 6 |Gold eee... T™% Art Cambric........ 10 iGreen Ticket....... 84 Blackstone AA..... TH — 7......... 6% See ae... ee, 7% oe... 12 3 Sune Out... 4%@ 5 ee 8x|King Phillip dole eeu 7% tren —..... ™% Caeser Oak... | 5 {Lonsdale Cambric..10 ower 2 .......... 744|Lonsdale...... - os ceeene...... ... 6 |Middicesx.... .. @5 Dwight Anchor. 8 Me Weme. 7% “shorts 8 [Oak View... ..... 6 oe... 6 ia 5% ere... ......... 7 |Prideof the West...12 a. 74 noestind ........... 7% Fruit of the Loom. 8 Suniight...... --- 4% Pienvie ..... .-- : Uiies Mis......... 8% Poa eree.......... 6 . Nonpareil ..10 Fruit of the Loom %. 7% va... 8% Fairmount.... : i hite ores........ 6 Pull Veius.......... 6% ~ -ooe.... 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. as. 7a Per Anchor..... 8 ———...... oameen | FLAME. Unbleached. Bleached. Housewife é eee ee bi |Housewite ¢ — om “ Co é " “ . 7% “ D.. 6% “ i 8% “ es 7 * a 91% . — The| ss vo 10 ‘ eo . 7% as w... 10% a oe 7% ~ NE 11% ‘ L 8\y “ ¥ 12% ' J 8% ' a 13% ' =. 9% ’ i... ' _...... 10% ee N os 11 sa oo. 21 “ . 14%} CARPET WARP. Peerless, white......17 |Integrity colored...18 . colored....19 |White Star.. ey ey. .....-... .. —— “colored .19 DRESS GOODS. Hamilton _S ecew...... ..... 20 perme: oe 25 “ Co 10% “ es 27% GG Cashmere...... ” ho. Nameless a is _ ees oe ee 18 ’ _“ oe CORSETS. Ome. ........... 89 50/Wonderful . . 84 50 Schilling’s. . --. 9 00/Brighton.. - 4% Davis Waists... 9 O0\Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|A bdominal eee 15 00 CORSET JEANS. ee 6%; Naumkeag satteen.. 7% Androscoggin....... | OCRDOes....... .... 6% eeee.......... Ic aa.. -- 1a Brunswick. .... 8% Walworth ...... - 6% PRINTS. Allen ow reds.. 5'4|Berwick fancies.... 5% robes. 544/Clyde Robes........ “ ~s & purple 544) Charter Oak fancies 4 a —....... 5%/|DelMarine cashm's. 5% - pink checks. 5%) ' mourn’g 5% ” staples ...... 5 |Eddystone fancy... 5% sag shirtings ... 3% | chocolat 5% American fancy.... 5%/ ” rober.... 5% Americanindigo... 4) . sateens.. 5% American ae 3% Hamilton =. 5% Argentine Grays.. y ode .. oe Anchor Shirtings.. ‘ ‘Manchester anc 5% Arnold “coe new wa. 5% Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5% long cloth B. : Merrim’ckshirtings. 4 ” i. . Reppfurn . 8% century cloth : Pacific Some. ..... o. 5% * peed eool..... 10% —......... ‘green seal TR 10% al... robes... 6% ** yellow seal. —— Simpson mourning.. 5% ea es 1% greys x “ ~6Turke; red..10% ' solid black. 5% Ballon solid black... Washington indigo. 6% * colors. ‘* Turkey robes.. os Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robes.... 7% and orange... 6 ” plain Tky x % 8% Berlin aps cee 5% * a... ae...... 6 “ Ottoman Tur- « o a... 6 oe “ Foulards ... 54|Martha Washington > = . Turkey red %..... “ a 9%|Martha Washington ss - 21... 0 7ereey re8........ ’ 4XXXX 12 (Riverpoint robes.... 5% Cocheco oom oe 5 Windsor ee. so 6% madders... 5 old ticket - XX twills.. 5 indigo blue....... 10% . as...... 5 aey......... . TICKINGS. Amoskeag AC A....i1%/A C A eee dea ee ee 11% Hamil oe ? |Pemberton oe a... rs 8 |York. 10% : a -11 |Swift River.. a T% farmer << OS ices Bevee......... 12 First Prize.......... 0%| Warren....... ane -12% Lenox Mills oe cee = Comoe .......... 16 ON DRILL. nen, 2.......... ee ee ccs 8 Se nie meme........ .. ™% oe 7 repeat Bow.... ..:. 9 DEMINS, Amoskeag i 12 {Columbian brown. .12 7. .... 14 |Everett, blue........ 12% ° brown .14 = mown. .... Ae... 11% Haymaker ne... 7% Beaver Creek > brown... 7% ig ee 11% me Go. Lancaster eee ee 12% | Boston. Mtg Co. br.. ne =on...... 13% blue ay e Oo. 20....18 ‘“* da twist 108 ' No. 250....11% Columbian XXX br.10 " No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. aoe... .... 5 Lancaster, staple... 5 ‘“* Persian dress 64, fancies . 7 Canton .. 7 ” Normandie 7 Bay Pe... .. &4%|Lancashire.. . . Teazle...10%/|Manchester. -- ' Angola..10% Monogram .... ao. oa ' Persian.. 7 |Normandie.. 7 Arlington staple.... 614|Perstan.. ee: Arasapha fancy .. 44 /Renfrew Dress. . os 7% Bates Warwick dres Ti mosemont........... 6% ” staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6 Centennial......... ti! im 7 Criterion .... 10%|Tacoma ... os oe Cumberland staple. 3% Toil du Nord....... 8% Cumberland.... .... Wabash. . . 7% a 4% “ geersucker.. 1% ee 7 Vareeee.... ...... Everett classics... $4 Whittenden. . 8 Rxpomeeon.......... ' heather dr. 7% ceeeeree....._.... on ' indigo blue 9 Glenerven.......... 6% |Wamsutta are _— oeeee........... He Westbrook... eee... . oo. Jobnson Vhalon cl oe Windermeer. etek 5 . digo bie SCIVorR..... .......... 6% . an... GRAIN BAGS, Amoskeag.. = Georgia .. 13% Pe e F ares...., ...... 13 De ee THREADS, Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's.......... % coe. ¢2.@P....... 4 jMarshall’s.... ...... ” Holyoke. de erase RM KNITTING COTTON. N, LYON & C0 NEW STYLES OF | 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS. eR i a | ~~ White. Colored. White. ———- -_ 6... oe ee 37 2 _— th ho... 38 3 . 40 ._ 44 nt... 41 r=. Ue 45 CAMBRICS, er. bande oe 4 t= os i. & ma inl 4 ocewoor.... .. so. 4 are Kid Glove........... 4 |Wood’s.... ae * Lapre Newmarket......... 4 |Brunswick ........ 4 GENUINE : 3 VICI : ‘SHOE, RED FLANNEL. i Plain toe in opera “a opera toe ai Cc. 8. neat ——— settee tenes 2% uy : --22% | D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather ers ace _ JREOXXx 0 pe tip. 81. . | them, they are beauties. Stock pee... ...- oi eoeewe... 32% st and Sng, Rexible and elegant fitters. Send MIXED FLANNEL, REEDER BROS. SHOE co, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Grand Rapids, Mich. oe eee 4|D eP entre ae oeee.....,..... ore 18% 7” 6 oz Western........ * Flushing XXX. 22". 4 WE HAVE MADE law ej... 2% Manitoba.. ++? DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless . ‘ @% ar 9 @10% oe : 8%@10 ' as 12% “ “cam — a. : Slate. rown ack.|Slate rown. Black. 10% 1U% 10%4|11% 11% 11\ i i F 11% 11% 11%}12 12 12 | Distributing Agents for the Old Reliable 12% 12% see vol 20 20 Severen, & oz........ 2% 1 West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, Son...2... 10% ce ...12 Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% Raven, 100z oo 13% Greenwood, 8 oz. =.11% 18 ten Boston, § ox......... 10% nll Wien 12% WADDINGS, wee, Gee.........- 25 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 50 Colored, dos........ —- ae hl 7 50 SILESIAS. Slater, iron Croms...8 tPawtueket.......... 10% Red Cross.... 9 ee... . aes... ....., 10%|Bedford.... .... “10g ' Best AA..... * a ee 10% ee ET hd Ei ee mA 10% a eel SEWING SILE. Corticelli, dos....... 85 [Corticelli ane, twist, doz. .4¢ per %os ball...... 30 50 sh doz..40 OOKS AND EYES—PER GRO No 1BI'k & White..10 No 4 Bk & Waite. 15 “ 3 a 12 5 20 CIGARS. AMERICAN CIGAR CO, “ 3 “ “12 |“ 10 “ 125 oo No 2-20, M C....... 60 |No4—15 4 3%......40 SEEDS , » 28 C........ e es TAPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 [No 8 White & BI’k..20 —ie “4 oT | 10 = » Cotton Sail Twine. .28 |Nashua. | Beans, Ete. CE 8 on ee oe 12 Rising Star 4 Ply. -.17 i Domestic .. 12.22.27. 18% S-ply....17 If you have Beans to sell, send us ee ............. = Mork ier... 20 Bristol . -—-—— oe Standard 4 ply17% Cherry Valley. oe 15 |Powhatta: IXL 18% PLAID OSNABURGS eee... 6% worn od Pleasant.... 6% Alamance. . oe oe ; oe eee. mon ry ek 6 |Bandeiman......... re... 634|Riverside........... Ts 5%/Sibl mew Biver......... 5 |Tol ee 5 |Otis checks samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We are headquarters for egg cases and egg case fillers W. YT. LAMBREAUX GO. 47%5230182 GRANDRAPIDS, MICH. ‘¥ a SJ 4b ‘A aT ‘¥ a SJ 4b ‘A aT WHO IS TO BLAME? Written for THE TRADESMAN, The great strikes are still on. strikers, in many instances, seem to be ‘‘masters of the situation,” and, except in the matter of getting their demands acceded to, are having things pretty much their own way. No matter what may be the outcome of the strikes, one fact seems to be demonstrated beyond peradventure, that promiscuous immi- gration is responsible for much of the trouble. The miners of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Virginia are largely the scum of the Slavonic states of Eastern and Southern Europe. These people, ac- customed as they were to the worst and most grinding forms ef oppression in their own countries, and ignorant and debased to an almost incredible degree, are unable to appreciate the fundamental principle upon which the liberty of every citizen in this country rests. They have been born and bred with the idea that ‘‘might makes right,’’ and that brute strength is the only thing worthy of respect. Kept in restraint at home by armed force, it is not to be wondered at that, when opportunity affords, they resort to arms to enforce their demands. The militarism of the Old World natur- ally breeds contempt for human life, and the brutishness of the manner of living in many of the countries of the Old World greatly intensifies that contempt. This will account, in a large measure, for the disregard of life shown by the strikers, especially in the coal regions. Here, when aroused, their brute passions can have full swing; at home, on con- siderably less provocation than they have given here, they would have been shot down by the soldiery. At home they are not allowed to gather in crowds; here they are under no restric- tions in that respect. What wonder, then, that, mistaking their liberty for license, lawlessness, incendiarism and murder are the result? it may be said, and admittedly with truth, that design- ing men, labor agitators, and walking delegates, by their appeals to the pas- sions and prejudices of these people, are largely responsible for the terrible crimes which have been committed by the strikers, but, in the name of reason and justice, let the blame rest where it of right belongs. Itis not the striker or the walking delegates only who should be held responsible, but the men who induced people to leave their homes and come to this country. They were known to be ignorant and depraved, to have no respect for any law that was not enforced by sword and_ bayonet: to be so debased, mentally and morally, as to be beyond the civilizing and elevat- ing influences of American institutions; yet they were encouraged to come to this country and were promised work at wages which to them must have seemed princely. The mine owners, railroad corporations, and others who were in- strumental in bringing these savage hordes to our shores must bear the blame for the awful results which have followed their coming here. They were warned of the danger, but disregarded the warning. They wanted cheaper labor, and they got it. But whether, reckoning the loss from strikes, ineen- diarism and other causes. directly traceable to their cheap labor, the spec- ulation has been a paying one or not is a question. If they have lost they have deserved to lose, and little sympathy The these will be wasted on them. ‘The financial loss, although considerable, is, however, a secondary consideration. Every life lost, every wife widowed, every child orphaned—and they may be counted by hundreds—must be laid at the door of the men who brought these people here. They are primarily and alone respon- sible. What will be done about it? Nothing, for nothing ean be done. Every employer has a right: to import cheap labor if he wants to, and the more degraded and ignorant it is the eheaper it will be. Slavs and Huns and Italians are ignorant enough, and, al- though the people of the land may suffer, in the words of the elder Vanderbilt, “to h—— l with the people.’? Perhaps, after all, the people may find a remedy. DANIEL ABBOT. <> © —-, A New Coin Wanted. From Shoe and Leather Facts. {n these days of money discussions it is pertinent to call attention to a much- needed coin. The denomination in mind is a 9-cent piece. Modern business in- genuity and enterprise have brought about a fine discrimination in the matter of selling prices, and instead of being satisfied with fixing their profits in deci- mals and demi-decimal denominations, find it to advantage to make the conces- sion of a single penny on a $5, $10 or $15 sale. In values that are less than $5 it is almost as common to see 99 and 49 fig- ures as it is those ending with 0 and 00. In fact a 9-cent piece is now as necessary as a 10-cent piece. It is very pleasant to our feelings and desirable to our purses to enter a large store and purchase a 20- cent collar for 19 cents, but it transforms us into pestiferous and cranky individ- uals to be compelled to stand on one foot for twenty-seven minutes and wait for the return of the penny due in change. The pennies we save in promiscuous buying would provide us with afternoon papers and postal ecards, but the time lost in waiting for change would make an annual income sufficient for an Afri- can prince. surely — > o> ae The Talkative Drummer. For weeks he traveled on the road, And everywhere he went With buyers far and buyers near Whole hours and hours he spent. He talked and argued with each one With energy intense, And poured with most vehement zeal A flood of eloquence. He talked and talked, yet by his tongue No money could he make, In spite of all the yarns he spun No orders did he take. The buyers listened to his wit With quick responsive smile, And when they got a chance to speak They said they’d wait awhile. And so they did. They waited for The quiet man who came Right after him, who could not talk But got there just the same. Tom Mason. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITs. dis. Poors... 60410 ——.......... 40 "cummins ou. cee fe 25 ore. Seem. 50&10 AXES. First wr? ee ® 6 50 a = eee... ..... ix 00 s me Oh POE... ce aaa 7 50 i DB Se 13 50 BARROWS. dis. a... #12 00 1400 eee... net a 00 BOLTS. ame Ee S010 pea wre... 75&10 ee 40&10 Sleigh ee 70 BUCKETS. oe eee $350 Well, ee 400 — CAST. dis. eat Doge Pe Gene 7&1 ought Narrow, hr 5Sastjoint 40..... 66&10 THE ———oae TRADESMAN. ene TOO OP 40 . 7 HAMMERS. TR +: nt dicta MeO dis. 25 Wrought Inside Blind... soi etes sess cu | Cc Wrought Brass El | | Workes & Plombs............ - dis. 40410 ee a 70&10 | Mason's Solid Cast Steel. ..... 800 list 60 Blind, Parker’ Oe a. Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand. ..B00e 40&10 Blind, ee i HINGES. BLOCKS. | Gate, Clark's, 1,2.3.. 1). = - dis.60&10 ° ee a “/per dos. net, 2 50 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10 Screw Hook and Strap, da 48) ea 6 ta aia ORADLES, longer .. eae 3% eee, --49&10 Screw Hook and. Eye, %.. ae 10 CROW BARS, a . “ %......... ma i perb 5 “ “s “ ™%% CAPS. Sirapeandy............ aa 50 aie... 65 ANGERS. \ ters cf ....... a 60 | Barn Door Kidder Mfa. Co., Wood track. hl 25 | Champion, anti-friction. Musket a 60 | Kidder, wood track . HOLLOW WARE. Pee... .... 4.6... i ceeee sl. oe Rim Fire...... Ee Cy 6010 ase... dis. yO GO&I10 CHISELS. din. Gray enameled.. ..-- 40810 Gecwe: tamer... 75&10 Poconos... | Socket Corner...... CO : Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ COMBS, dis, te Oe ' 40 eee 25 CHALK, White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, a i cut tosize... .. per pound 28 me lemon, ee... ............ 26 Cold Rolled. 14256 me TON. sl. 2 Cold Rolled, Tere... 23 oe. 22 DRILLS, dis. Moun e BM Stems... |... 50 Taper and straight Shank................... 50 morse 8 Taper snes... ............ : 50 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound .......... Lcleseeuece | | Gael Eeugeaiece, per pound...... ......... ..... 06 ELBOWS, Com. 4 phece Gig... ............... dos. net = Comer. dis ACs. diz. 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS, dis. Clark’s, small, 818; large, $26 lee ei cece 30 Ives’, 1, 818: 2 824: ee 25 FIL nes List. dis. Ce 604&10-10 New Avert 60&10-10 Peceorre kL... 60&10-10 Ee 50 Heller's Horse Wasps... .............___.... 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 26; 27 28 List Le 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 60 -10 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s. : KNOBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, Jap. tinenines............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelvin, ce 55 Drawer and Shutter, percerssn............. 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 manory, wmecior & Co.’s................... 55 Branford’s . Mees p oe oa, ce 55 Rowen... 55 MATTOCKS. Aneel... - 816.00, dis. 60-10 Co $15.00, dis. 60-10 ae $18.50, dis. 20&10. AULS. dis. Sperry & Co.'s, Post, ‘ames Bese sae MILLS. dis. Coffee, Si ye A... 2... 40 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s e.. 40 - Landers, verry &@ Cieracs............ 40 Beaters ... oe ee ee 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. ores Peters... . 60410 Senn CHT 80610 Enterprise, self-measuring............ em Advance over base, on both Steel and — oes etre, Wee. ........... 2... -. ee ee 1 20 i 1 60 Mieee......-...-...-................ 1 60 Case Oe ice ee oe ee. 65 7 90 7 90 110 70 80 se S eee dese ceue 90 Paton 17 ANES. dis. Ohio a Co.'s, Samay ee eee @4) tte 50 Santee er Ce fae. @40 retain iee em @40 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. 50&10 PANS. ee, OO os Common, sabiaiad ae dis. RIVETS. ) tmineliict,.. (01 50-10 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A? Wood's ope planished, Nos. 24 to sel 10 20 — Tea anished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Brok en packs ¢ per pound extra. HOUSE FURNISHING ‘goons. Stamped Tin Ware.. ie -new list 7 Japanned Tin Ware.. ele. 2B Crantte Iron Ware ............... “new lis. 2t WIRE G00D8, dis. Rie... -- %70&10&10 a -70&10&10 ions. .... ._......... bebe cu. 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Bycs............... 70&10&10 LEVELS. dis.79 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’9............... ROPES. Steal, 46 neh and larger ............... _ @ Men .................. odes iecccss., GF SQUARES, dia, Steel and Iron..... eee, 7 &10 Try and Bevels............ eee etter ces. 60 Mitre . LL a. 20 SHEET. IRON. Com. Smooth. Com Noe ito 4........... Mn ee ecco aee OO $2 50 Dee. 1590G 77 ...................._... 3 50 2 60 moe, totem... 4 05 2 7 mos Sete... 2 80 Nos. _ om... meas os Of 2 90 NG Sy.... 3% 3 00 ar sheets ‘No. 18 and lighter, “over 30 incher wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER, List acct. 19, 86 .... dis. 50 SASH ‘CORD. Silver Lake, White A. “s list 50 DrabaA. eevee ee ee 55 hes White |B oes 50 . moe... 55 aoe... . £0 5 Ww Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Solid Eyes....... .. per ton 825 dis. " rane. 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,... 70 ' — Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoat.... 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 ' a * and Electric — x Cuts, per foot. Ss 30 “TRAPS. dis. oe Cee - oes Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .... 35 Oneida ¢ ne ew & Norton’ 5. 70 Mouse, choker.. - .18¢ per dos Mouse, delusion. eas wee “81.50 _ _ "WIRE, Bright Market.... .... eres a. "0 Annealed Market ee 7—10 Coppcrca warece.. a Wantoe Mareen... 52% Coppered Spring Steel. Heda ou ee leas, 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized. Peieewecceo.. 2 Oe - painted . emetesec ce, Se HORSE NAIL 5. Au Sable........ ' -- dis. 40&10 cee. ........................... dis. 05 Northwestern... ee eee ee dis. 10410 WRENCHES, dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. Mee cele 30 Coes Genume ........... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, one ae 75 Coe’s Patent, malleable ~ +... ore MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Bird Cages Ll . 50 Pipe, Ciseenn...... ...... ‘ 75410 Screws, New List.... .- 20816 &10 Casters, Bed a d Plate.. rn Dampers, are, Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods "ogee METALS, PIG TIN. Pig —.- ee 26¢ Pig Bars.. 28c uty: Sheet, 2%c per won 600 pound casks................. sees. 64% PO Pe SOLDER. ee 2 4@ EE The prices of the many other qualities a solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Cookson.. ees i. -- por pound OE 13 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, er Le oe eae ce ie. 8750 14x20 IC, _. . 7 50 10x14 Ix, . —— 9 26 ee 9 2 Each Saditional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Sue me eee c Leese ules 75 OO EE ee 6 75 10x14 ial ye 8 25 4x20 Ix, eee dee asc 9 25 Each Saditional X on this grade $1.50. BOOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, ' Wereemer.. 6 5u 14x20 IX, ° eg 8 50 20x28 IC, ‘ ee 13 50 14x20 IC, ‘| Allaway Grade... 6 00 14x20 Ix, . . - 1.2 20x28 IC, be ' . 12 50 20x28 IX, - S . 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. a eee ren 14x31 IX «ene OGG a ei for No. 8 Bollers, ios vii: .. 10.00 WACHIGAN: Ce «, . e tangy Ce A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Best Interests of Business Men. Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, -—— BY THE -— ry » Nac vy Y v7 vy TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. ADESMAN | taste to the people of the United States | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. } to the rudeness and lack of politeness of |curd and water, and butter and cheese i the people of the United States. It is, doubtless, true that some dis- | has been aroused by the filibusters and | other adventurers who have operated in| Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second- | ‘lass matter. te" When writing to any of our advertisers, | please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1894. COURTESY IN COMMERCE. The people of the United States are far from being polite as a rule. Their disposition to be rude and brusque is seen in nearly all public offices, and par- ticularly among. subordinate officials. It often happens that the humbler the grade of the official the more he feels called on to support the dignity of his} position with a haughty and overbearing mien. Nor is this brusqueness business circles, many persons ployed to represent proprietors showing too much lack of courtesy and ness to take pains to please their tomers They often act as if they were conferring a on with whom they than they ecus- favor persons business, rather for which do performing a are paid. Whether are characteristics sarily inherent in people world’s most prominent human freedom solved. This may be the new order of things, but the ancient of dignity and honor constantly taught that the the rank and the freer the heart the more obligation is there to be gentle and courteous, while the only true nobility is to be good. service and which rudeness discourtesy are neces- who are the exemplars of not is a problem yet doctrines higher Such considerations seem to come up with and for special comment in connection the charge that a lack of politeness a disposition to be dictatorial and over- | bearing obstacles in the of a tween the United American countries. taken by K. Von are the principal successful commerce be- States and Central This view is Stauffer, a writer in way the American Journal of Politics for June. Hesets out with the statement that while the United States imports wanting in} em- | | consult | customers, | How | willing- | | | | from Central and South American coun- | tries large quantities of tropical prod- ucts, and those countries are large con- ; sumers of merchandise which the United States ought to be able to fur-| nish, the greater part of the foreign goods used in Central and South Amer- | ica comes, not from their near neigh- bor, the United States, countries of Europe. This fact, ac- cording to the writer mentioned, is due | will raise a cream, will sour, turn to but from far-off | the Central American countries, but | itis not likely that impoliteness is the only obstacle in the way of more inti- mate commercial relations. One trouble certainly is the unwillingness of the merchants of the United States to give such long credits as are commonly grant- ed by European business men. Ordi- narily, money in Europe is not worth much in the way of interest, and if a/| sufficient profit be made on the business relations, the periods for which eredits | are demanded do not figure so seriously | in the accounts of the London or Ham-| burgh merchant as in those of our own people. This matter of credits important affair. But there is another which must be added to the charge of} lack of politeness. It is the indispo- | sition of American manufacturers to! the wishes and tastes of their | whether at home or abroad. often do we in mercantile | establishments a sort of indifference, if not unwillingness, to keeping on hand the particular articles demanded eustomers, and a disposition mani- fested to insist on their taking, instead of the articles, others which were not acceptable. In many a case | trade is driven away to houses where | efforts are made to satisfy the particu- | lar demands of customers. In the same way, foreign peoples have their particular tastes and prefer- which European manufacturers seek in every way possible to cater to and satisfy. On the other hand, it is charged by the writer mentioned that the Americans, instead of recognizing | the importance of respecting the wishes is an| consideration | see by desired ences of their customers, endeavor to force upon them articles which may be as} good or better, but at the same time | articles which the proposing buyers | are not acquainted with and will not ac- cept. If this lack of attention to the wishes of customers shall cost our manufac- turers a large share trade which they otherwise secure, it is plain their interests would counsel habits. So far as the home custom is concerned, it makes no difference, since the people must buy anyway; but it is unquestionably true that the matter of politeness and an ac- commodating spirit make an enormous difference with cash customers against and in favor of others. People with cash can buy where they may choose, and they will not spend their money where the business of shop- ping is made disagreeable by rude and dictatorial manners on the part of sales- men. of foreign could them to reform their some houses The Cincinnati Times-Star annonnces that a chemist of that city has succeeded in making a fluid which has all the prop- erties of ordinary cow’s milk, and is equal to the best for all purposes. It is a combination of water, solids and fats, and is absolutely the same as, and indis- tinguishable from, pure milk, and has the advantage of being absolutely free from the diseases and impurities that are often found in milk. This chemical milk | consistently advocated for |of the men of physic. |}an old machine. can be made from it the same as from cow’s milk. At present the cost of pro- duction is more than $1 a gallon, but the chemist believes with a few more ex- periments he can reduce the price to 10 or 15 cents a gallon, and by making it in wholesale quantities can retail it at the usual 6 cents a quart. This story was probably invented for the purpose of en- tertaining the marines. Tur TRADESMAN gives place, this week, to a call for a convention of retail grocers to be held to-day at Clare. The | real objects of the meeting are, appar- ently, not set forth in the call, but the reference to the thorough organization of the wholesale grocery trade probably |} furnishes aclue to the motives of the gentiemen who have issued the eall. | THE TRADESMAN is pleased to note the | disposition of the retail trade to meet | and discuss matters of vital interest to |the trade and will, therefore, be rep- resented at the meeting and earnestly advocate the plan it has persistently and over ten | years for the amelioration of the trade— thorough organization. Blessed, yea, thrice blessed, be the name of Sarah Tyson Rorer! Let every boarder in the land say amen! She doesn’t make hash, doesn’t believe in hash, and declares that hash is a de- lusion and a snare, a breeder of night- mares and a builder up of the fortunes Mrs. Rorer is very right. The Boycott a Boomerang. ‘I have been boycotted, as I suppose you know,’’ said G. J. Johnson, the South Division street cigar manufacturer to THe TRADESMAN last week, ‘‘and [| am glad of it. The arbitrary methods employed by the union to bring me to terms have disgusted the public and helped my business. They have lied, too, and I have proved it. I offered the union $100 if it would substantiate its published statement about my using The machine was in- vented this year, and the union knew it. Now they are endeavoring to intimidate some of my customers by sending com- mittees to interview them. I hope they will keep up the fight, as their agitation is calling the attention of the public the fact that lam now making better cigars for the money by the aid of the machine than any other manufacturer can by means of primitive methods.”’ i ei He Took the Chance. A tall man with wildness in his eye rushed into an all-night drug store about 3 o’clock the other morning and shouted at the top of his voice: ‘“‘Lend me 50 cents.’’ The dozing clerk woke start. ‘“‘What’s that ?”’ he asked. ‘“‘Lend me 50 cents.’’ ‘*Who are you ?”’ **Lend me 50 cents.” ‘“‘Why should I lend you anything ? Get out of here.” “Do I get it ?” **Get what ?”’ ‘The Sfty.” **No, you don’t get it.” The tall man turned to go out. ‘All right,’”’ he said pacifically, ‘‘l didn’t sup- pose I would, but you can never tell up with a when you’re going to run against a: sucker.’’ The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market has been strong in tone in sympathy with raw sugars, which have advanced quite sharply and are strong at the advance. Several slight changes were made in the schedule dur- ing the past week, and Monday morning brought an advance of ‘gc all along the list, with the exception of Nos. 15 and 14, which advanced a sixpence only. The market is still strong and further ad- vances are likely to occur. Rolled Oats—The price has advanced 50¢e per barrel in the past two weeks and the market is still strong at the advance. Cheese—The price has receded ge during the past week and the supply is still in excess of the demand, although the parity between butter and cheese is still very largely in favor of cheese. Pickles—The market has slumped off 50c per barrel and all classes of barreled stock are dull at that. Pork—There was but little change in the market last week. The feeling was firm almost from the beginning of the week. Receipts were 176,000, being 17,- 000 more than the previous week, and 97,000 more than one year ago. Busi- ness in hog products for the week was good, which is not surprising when the low prices are considered. There are no changes worth noting; in fact, prices are about as low as they can be, and ifa change comes it will be in the direction of higher prices. Bananas—Continue to be in good de- mand at rather high prices. The steam- ers that ply back and forth from the plantations have been carrying small cargoes, and that fact, taken with the active demand, has been the means of holding prices above those usually rul- ing at this season of the year. Our mar- ket is well supplied with a good grade of fruit. Lemons—Have advanced, as they al- ways do when the weather begins to get warm. Prices were stationery for a long time, on account of sales having been crowded. There is now an active demand and everyone will soon be eager to buy, and the sooner purchases are made the better pleased dealers will be. The tendency is upward and now is a good time to buy, as quotations are still low. This market holds a fairly large amount of stock but no glut. Oranges—Savento and Rodi fruit is about all there is in the market. There is a limited supply of the latter fruit, but both varieties bring high figures. People who eat oranges after the Fourth of July will be compelled to pay round prices. The Imperials (160s) are the principal size offered. See quotations elsewhere. Cocoanuts—Moving slowly, although there will be demand for them right along—probably more during the next three weeks than for two months following—as they always sell fairly well up to July 1. Peanuts—Remain unchanged, although held firm at previous quotations. A Bank Notes. The Peninsular Savings Bank of De- troit has tired of paying the city 4.65 per cent. interest on daily balances and has notified the Common Council that it desires to withdraw from its present contract. Waldby & Clay, private bankers at Adrian for many years, have decided to merge their business into a State bank. some = ON THE WRONG SIDE. The Denver Commercial Tribune is ex- cited because THE TRADESMAN com- mented on a statement made by that journal concerning the rights of wage- workers. The Tribune says it never said a word about ‘‘special rights for wage-workers.’’ Then what did the Tribume’s remark, that ‘‘the wage-worker has certain positive rights’’ mean? Does it imagine that its readers do not know whatare the rights of the wage- worker? Beyond question the writer of the sentence quoted has made a dis- tinction between ‘‘certain positive rights”’ and rights which are uncertain and in- definite, while the Federal Constitution states plainly what are the rights of every citizen. If the editor of the Tribune will sum up the rights which be- long to himself as a citizen of the United States, he will know exactly what are the ‘‘certain positive rights” of the wage- worker. They are the rights of every citizen, whether he be a wage-worker in the sense in which the Tribune uses the term or a manufacturer, capitalist or werchant. The Tribune imparted no information when it said that ‘‘the wage-worker has certain positive rights.” That is known to everybody. It would have been more to the point if it had stated in what way and by whom the wage-worker is being defrauded of his rights, if that is the meaning to be at- tached toits remark. It is not denied that sometimes employers of labor have disregarded the rights of their employes, but that is beside the question, as what is done by individuals has absolutely no bearing on the subject. The Tribune says it has ‘discussed the Jabor question fairly and honestly.” If commonplace platitudes and meaningless phrases may be called discussion, the Tribune is right; but the trouble is just there. Not only trade papers but the press generally are afraid to say anything condemnatory of the conduct of union workingmen, no matter how reprehensible it may be. If the press of the country had the courage to speak ontin defense of law and order and in condemnation of the worse than vandalism which has prevailed in many sections of the country for several months, it would have done much to remedy the evil; butit is the encourage- ment which Jaw-breakers, in the name of union labor, have received from the press which has intensified and enhanced the trouble. Inso far as the rights of labor have been invaded and restricted, workingmen ought to have and will have the sympathy and support of all honest men, but murderers and incendiaries de- serve nothing but punishment for their crimes. So if the Tribune, and other papers, will stop talking about the rights of wage-workers long enough to de- nounce the wrongs from which the whole country is suffering as a result of the lawlessness of some of the wage- workers, what it says about their rights will be much more worthy of respect. In addition, the Tribune should stop calling names, They are not very convincing as arguments, and the kind of people who might be influenced by them would not be a credit even to the subscription list of the Denver Commercial Tribune. A man is usually most distinguished after he is extinguished. Marriage is a failure when one side is a cipher. ——-_ ~ -« <->. Use Tradeeman Coupon Books. ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 TYRANNY OF ORGANIZATION. Written for THz TRADESMAN. Mankind, in an individual capacity, represents interests that are ever selfish and conflicting. Each unit of the human aggregate has its own purpose in view, which is quite sure to antagonize many; and none can be reconciled to any other until some common ground can be found upon which to unite. Hence has arisen the necessity for con- ference, harmony of opinion, and a pool- ing of issues which we are accustomed to call organization. Itis only through organization that savagery gave piace to civilization. By the same means alone can civilization continue the ratio of progress already attained. The theory of modern organization is that each integer surrenders a portion of individ- ual rights in order to maintain the in- terests of the whole. This results, us- ually, in giving to the individual a larger measure of protection and conse- quent development than could be gained by his own unaided action. Political or- ganizations, whether monarchiecal or re- publican, are based on the above theory, and must be judged by the comparative success of each experiment. The tendency of the age is against in- dividuality and in favor of combined action, whenever any special object is to be attained. In a nation like ours every effort to better the condition of humanity must proceed on lines that directly tend to acommon end, and that end should be the greatest good to the greatest number. Accordingly, the individual is nothing unless part of an organized force. Whether willing, or unwilling, one who is not a clam moves in harmony with his fellows toward some desired end, either in the line of social, benevo- lent or business purpose. Progress can be made in any worthy cause only by the concentration of individual effort. Among the English speaking people the habit of association is stronger than with all other nations. There are, un- doubtedly, more societies organized for special purposes in the United States, in proportion to population, than else- where. Our educational system fosters them, until there is scarcely a school district that does not have from one to half a dozen societies bound to others by State and National ties for a common purpose. Most of them are temporary, serving only to make social life more desirable, and bringing talent to the front that would, otherwise, remain ob- secure and undeveloped. Many are be- nevolent entirely in spirit and method; and, linked as auxiliaries to a central body, serve as feeders to grand elemosy- nary enterprises whose results are felt all over the globe; a large number, and those that more nearly concern the in- terests of the general public are strictly business combinations, formed to ad- vance the special interests of corporate capital or unincorporated labor. This is as it should be, provided (1) that each organized body is the growth of an evi- dent necessity, (2) that it does not un- fairly antagonize the natural rights of individuals or societies in general, and (3) that its purposes are sought in strict conformity with the laws of the land. Unfortunately for the public interest, all organizations are not wisely con- ducted. From government down to a bootblack’s union, cross purposes are ever shown that neutralize the safest counsels and the most unselfish en- 4 “CRESCENT,”’’ “WHITE ROSE,”’’ “ROYAL.”’ These brands are Standard and have a National reputation. Correspondence solicited. VOIGT MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. “GANNED GOODS THE STANDARD CANNED GOODS HANDLED AT THIS MARKET IS THE FAMOUS HAMBURG all arnhart PuatmanCo. OF COURSE YOU ARE CARRYING THESE GOODS IN STOCK ? IF NOT, WHY NOT? 10 ‘THE MICHIGAN oh deavers of the majority. Perhaps in most associations the ruling element con- sists of a small minority that, by sheer force of persistence, keep life and activ- ity in the organization. When such ac- tive members are truly loyal to its pur pose and wise in policy, the results will justify organized effort. Each association, being based on the voluntary action of its members, can produce the best results only, so long as the will of the majority is intelligently expressed. If the machinery of organ ization is controled by radical theorists | who insist on serving personal ends, and either by fraud or specious appeals to} selfish passions, subvert the true intent | of associated effort, society is injured in proportion to the strength of such or- ganization. And the evil is greatly magnified when associated action in a | land like ours builds up conflicting in-| erests that affect large masses of citizens. As each combination grows more power- ful by constant accretion, it widens the breach that human selfishness naturally causes in the eager rush for wealth, and its action becomes arbitrary, unjust and wholly indefensible. Organized effort should be judged by the same impartial rules that apply to individual action. In the great majority of cases where the objects sought are of a social, literary, religious, scientific or professional char- acter, organization is usually free from influences that are subject to just crit- icism; but this cannct be said of the combinations that have of late years put capital and labor at variance and, by frequent contests of strength, proved that of all the tyrannies of earth there is none so pitiless, so unyielding, and so unjustifiable as the tyranny of organiza- tion in a country that boasts of the lar- gest measure of individual freedom. Capital, originally organized for a worthy purpose—to afford the greatest measure of result at the minimum of cost—has been captured by ambitious leaders, who use consolidated effort for their own personal benefit. They either override and defy law, or bribe the peo- ple’s representatives to betray a trust- ing constituency. If met by fair compe- tition in behalf of a suffering public, they crush it out by the momentum of accumulated wealth, or undermine it by sops thrown to the weakened censcience of individual greed. In this way they have controlled the price of both labor} and products. Under the name of trusts, and in the guise of public bene- factors, they prey on vested rights, piling up colossal fortunes for the few at the expense of the many; and each success- ful member of the cabal poses as an ex- ample of what republican institutions can do to reward honest business am- bition. Against this tyranny of associated capital there has arisen from small be- ginnings and primarily for self-defense | capital by brute force. only, another conflicting interest in the shape of organized labor. By degrees |{ local unions have affiliated with State | and National representative bodies, each | seeking in its own field of action to pro- tect certain interests, and, at times, joining allied forces to bring on a gen-| eral engagement with their natural | enemy all along the line. The general | public, occupying the position of non- | combatants, like peaceful inhabitants of | a country that is under military occupa: | tion, suffers continually by the alternate | successes and defeats of each hostile ! i|foree. For ‘‘to this complexion has it | come at last,’? since the oppression of |; One party and resistance of the other | have culminated in what may properly be called civil war. This in not only a | war between labor and capital, but it is | a war of labor against itself—a tyranny that by force equal to military law pun- | ishes every laborer, whether within or without its ranks, who does not consent | at every hazard to meet the injustice of As a natural re- sult, where there is a will attempting to enforce unjust claims, there is sure to be a won’t resisting it; and in the fierce struggles made necessary by this terror- izing process, constitutional law has for the most part stood helpless, watching with nerveless indecision acts of violence | that would be allowed in no other land. Each execution witbin whose jurisdic- tion the tide of warfare threatens public safety fears to use the power in his hands to protect life and property, lest he compromise his political prospects by offending a class whose ballots may in future avenge the bullets he should use. when necessary, to fulfill his official oath. Thus time after time a greater power than civil power has usurped con- trol of affairs and made our boasted sys- tem of self-goverment a by-word among other nations. No general alarm is felt, because it is understood that our form of government is beyond danger from the ills that have wrecked others fully as powerful. A blind faith in destiny and our secret ballot system keeps the pub- lic mind free from what should be a wholesome fear of consequences when conditions exist such as confront the American people to-day. The industrial conflicts that have oc- curred of late so frequently, with all their serious consequences, cannot be charged to organization, but to its abuse. The champions of labor who attempt, by the power of numbers, to secure jus- tice from employers forget that this is a government founded especially to pro- tect individual as well as collective rights; but while resenting the tyranny of capital, they themselves employ no less arbitrary methods to attain their ends, all of which react on thousands of innocent sufferers. None but the insane or hopelessly bad will strike friend and foe alike. which labor complains; but for pity to waste. tains an organized tyranny it occupies a false and untenable position, and ean have no rights to appeal to the American sense of fair play. The most radiéal supporters of force in the ranks of labor are men who have not yet been long enough under the American flag to learn its true significa- tion. They are victims of monarchical rule who come fresh from its bitter ex- perience, and are therefore unfit leaders for peaceful organizations of workers seeking lawful relief from harsh eco- nomic conditions: but they have brute courage, and when force takes the place of argument they lead forlorn hopes, or destroy millions of valuable property that labor alone must in the future re- store or repair. If wage earners expect the moral support of public sentiment and a fair settlement of the important | questions affecting their interests. they | must purge their organization of an ele- Public sentiment has always | sympathized with the real grievances of its fancied and technica] wrongs there is no | So long as labor main- | ment that is sure to wreck the cause of TRADESMAN. _ > 7 09 Vowd Having re-organized our business and acquired the fac- Lansing, Mich. Be tory building and machinery formerly occupied by the Hud- ve son Pants & Overall Co., we are prepared to furnish the a trade a line of goods in pants, overalls, shirts and jackets which - : . - i a will prove to be trade winners wherever introduced. If \ 4 you are not already handling our goods, and wish to secure Ny the agency for your town, communicate with us immedi ately. An inspection of our line solicited. we J. M. Earxe, President and Gen’] Manager. a E. D. Voorners, Superintendent. nt 4 ¢ 3 : 8 ‘7 ‘ 4 t4 4 > a) * « + We pay Highest Market Prices in Spot Cash'and measure bark , pay Hig f when Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. A are beginning to arrive, but ie = * 9 e -~ Don’t be in a Hurry to Buy. 4 a First arrivals cost considerable more than the same grades g “a will a few days later. Wait for the Reliable 4 ; - < A ¥ « ~~ . i \ ™™~ 7.7 A and you will get a fancy article at the right price. ag {MC Jarki, St THE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. 11 labor if not banished from its councils. Extremists on the side of both labor and capital must be forced to the rear if har mony is to be secured. Men of purer ai‘ns and more self-sacrificing purposes than the leading representatives of both hostile forces will be the questions of mutual ones to settle interests between employer and employed in the future. Wien thus settled may we not hope that the rights of each laborer will secure from assault by the tyranny of or- ganization among his own class? S. P. WHITMARSH. —_— 2. — Partial Surrender on the Co-insurance Clause Matter. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The latest development in insurance circles which has reached the public is the partial surrender of the companies in regard of the 80 per cent. co-insurance clause. Finding it impossible to enforce it (many of the larger companies, al- though parties to the iniquity, practi- cally ignoring it), the managers have de- cided to abandon it, at least so far as general business is concerned. It was a forgone conclusion from the start that the clause could not be enforced. lt was unjust and oppressive, and forced many insurers to abandon old line insurance and take refuge in Lloyds or mutuals. In the congested districts in the large cities it was found impossible to place the amount of insurance required by the co-insurance clause, and it was, there- fore, not only madness for the companies to attempt its enforcement, but the height of injustice as well. Even where it was possible for insurers to place the amount required by the clause, opposi- tion to it was so strong, many of even the larger companies saw the futility of their efforts to enforce it and wrote in- surance without the 80 per cent. clause. This action on the part of these com- panies was enough of itself to destroy the usefulness of co-insurance, but added to it was the perfidy of some other companies tothe agreement who failed to live up to it and never intended to. It was, therefore, decided by the managers that after June 1 co-insurance should ap- ply only to country stores, lumber and electric light and power plants: but in- surance men are still as firm believers as ! ever in co-insurance. They say the plan is a good one and will ultimately pre- vail. So, in order that the public may have a standing object lesson of its bene- ficent effects, Detroit and Grand Rapids are exempted from the order nullifying the clause, and co-insurance is still in force in these cities, for which act of grace on the part of insurance men it is to be hoped business men are sufficiently thankful, although just why insurers in the cities named are compelled to insure to 80 per cent. of their valuation, while insurers of other towns are not, is a mystery. If the clause wa’ unjust when applied to the entire State, what name shall be applied to it now that its appli- cation is confined to but two cities? It is nothing short of an outrage for which there is neither palliation nor excuse. This is the general sentiment of business men, and that there will against this iniquitous goes without saying. the result the companies will have only themselves to blame. had warnings enough. One thing seems to be in favor of the public and that is be | } | | be a revolt | discrimination | Whatever may be! They have surely | that no agreement is sacred to an insur- | ance company. Itis business they want, and business they will have, if they must smash every principle of the Decalogue. DANIEL ABBOTT. > oe > He Convinced H-r. The other day an omnibus, full of pas- Sengers, drove up to its suburban termi- nus. Side by side sat a commercial tray- eler and a lady temperance lecturer. The commercial man seized his bag and made a move to get out. The lady made a snatch after him and he halted. ‘| beg your pardon,” she said, “but you have my bag.’’ ‘‘You certainly are mistaken, madam,” the traveler said, courteously but firmly, ‘This bag is mine.”’ ‘No, sir,’? the lady replied firmly, “it is mine. I should know it among a thousand. You must not take it.’’ But the traveler persisted and the lady insisted, and they came very near quar- relling. Presently one of the passengers pointed to a twin bag in the omnibus and said: ‘‘Whose is that ?’’ “It isn’t mine,’’ said the traveler. ‘It! But the lady had fainted, and the is just like mine, but this is mine.’’ | traveler relocked his bag with a quiet ‘‘And it isn’t mine,’’ said the lady. | smile. ‘“‘He has mine and I want it and ll have| Early in the afternoon a sign painter it. It’s a pity if alady can’t travel alone | Teceived a note, in a feminine hand, ask- in this country without being robbed of | ing him to go to a certain house to mark her property in broad daylight.” }@ black leather bag in white letters a | foot and a half long. Finally the traveler said he would | | open the bag and prove his property. | The Horse’s Foot. The lady objected at first, saying she | From the Boren sanctions Rev iow. did not want her bag opened in the pres-| {t is difficult to understand how the : ~ | legs of horses stand the wear and tear ence of a crowd of strangers. lof the work in our great cities, where But as there was no other means of every step of their ironshod hoofs is settling the dispute, she at length con- | aren & here unyielding road. There is i . ce ae Hy | no other creature living, with the excep- sented. 'tion of the donkey or the mule, which The traveler took out a key, opened | can long bear the constant battering en- the bag, and the curious crowd bent for- | tailed by rapid locomotion over a paved / |surface. Butif we look at the structure ward to see. ‘of the horses legs we see how it is that On the top of everything lay a big, | the jar and vibration do not injure him flat flask, half full of whisky, a pack of|more. His “‘pasterns,” the part just cards, a meerschaum pipe and a quarter | above the hoof, yield a little at each step, of a pound of tobacco. | and so break the force of the concussion. | | He is, in fact, mounted on springs. This The traveler was the first to recover is one chief reason why he is a pleasant his self-possession and speech. |animal to ride. Anyone who has tried | riding a cow or ox has found the differ- *‘Madam,” he said, ‘‘you are right. | : u i jence between the easy, elastic move- The bag is yours. I owe you a thousand ;ment of the horse and the jolting and apolo—’’ | Jogging of a horned mount. Che of GREETING: Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of resident the United States of America, To HENRY KOCH, your clerics, attorneys, ager ; salesmnem and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District the complained of, and that the said of New Jersey, against you, said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, is entitled the Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and_ perpetually exclusive use of the designation *‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under yoi under the pains and_ penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO.” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant's said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading manner. @& it 54 a I WeS5, The honorable MELVILLE W. FuLLer, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of the lr i 1 [SEAL] ROWLAND COX, Compi ted Sta Sid THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 18 THE CENTRALIZATION OF TRADE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. One effect of the long-continued busi- ness depression is likely to be, in the opinion of ex-Comptroller of the Treas- ury Hepburn, a greatly accelerated movement in the direction of the cen- tralization of trade. Many industries which were started and for years have been conducted in the smaller towns, are removing to the large cities, where busi- ness opportunities are more numerous, and transportation facilities much _ bet- ter. These industries have been the life of the towns in which they were situated, and their removal will be a deathblow to the smaller places, while it will add to the greatness and importance of the large cities. While this condition of things is to be deplored, it must be re- membered that it is perfectly natural. The centralization of capital, of trade, of population, and, ultimately, of polit- ical power seems to be manifest destiny. There will always be a strongest nation, constantly growing in power and im- portance, which will draw to itself the best elements of its weaker rivals; and, given a civilization and enlightenment commensurate with the age, this is rather a matter for rejoicing than other- wise. The results may seem to be dif- ferent when it is the centralization of capital and trade that is being discussed, but as a matter of fact such a condition will always result beneficently. When has centralization worked injury to the people? Rather has it not cheapened the cost of living and added to the ap- pliances and conveniences which go to make up the sum of human comfort? Undoubtedly: and, therefore, it is not to be feared and treated as an enemy. The few may suffer for a time, but the great good to accrue to the many overshadows and transcends the injury to the few, who will themselves be benefitted in the end. No social or political system will ever be perfect in this world, but the world, growing wiser by experience, is slowly learning that, while individuality is a good thing, it gains in value and grows in importance only as it comes in contact and unites itself with other indi- vidualities. The more of these that are welded together in the form of states or nations, the greater the strength of the whole and the more prosperous each individuality becomes. This is equally true of capital. Two dollars united possess more than twice the value of one dollar isolated, and what is true of two dollars is equally true of two thousand or two hundred thousand. It is adisputed question whether or not the centraliza- tion of political power would be of equal benefit. Those opposed te it point to history to prove that it has bred tyranny, oppression and internal dissension, and finally has resulted in the downfall of the nations themselves; but it must be borne in mind that the nations of the world are only now beginning to emerge from the darkness of ignorance and superstition which for centuries has benumbed their faculties and hindered their progress. Perhaps with increased and increasing intelligence the centrali- zation of political power may be the true solution of the social and political prob- lems which at present are baffling the minds and crippling the efforts of earth’s best and wisest. DANIEL ABBOTT. a The born leader of men is one who will lead in any direction so long as he is acknowledged as the leader. Annual Meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association. JACKSON, June $—The regular meet- ing of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation was held June7 at Red Cross Hall. The Committee on Hucksters and Peddlers reported that they had made report to the police of persons peddling without license. Upon investigation, it was found that the Mayor had granted them permission to peddle, subject to the action of the Council at its next meeting, when the mattter is to be considered. The Committee appointed to consider the selling of vegetables and produce by weight reported correspondence that had been received in regard to the same and were granted further time to draft a schedule of articles and weights. The Secretary presented a protest to the City Council against the repeal or any changes in the hucksters and ped- dler’s ordinance as itwas adopted and ap- proved. The protest was referred toa committee to obtain the signatures of grocers and have same ready to present to the Council at its next meeting. W. H. Porter reported that he had visited the summer resort at Devil’s Lake, in Lenawee county, and looked over the buildings, grounds and facilities for taking care of an excursion and pic- nic. He found everything in excellent shape and considered it the best ap- pointed place within 500 miles for pienic purposes. On motion, a committee of three was appointed to arrange for the annual ex- cursion and picnic for 1894. President D. A. Fleming was appointed the chair- man, and Messrs. C. G. Hill and G. E. Lewis were appointed as the remainder of the committee. The Secretary submitted a report of the business of the year, and the Treas- urer reported the condition of the finances, showing a balance of $171.50 on hand at the close of the year. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President—Paul W. Haefner. First Vice-President—Charles G. Second Vice-President—E. W. Secretary—-W. H. Porter. Financial Secretary—J. Winslow. Treasurer—J. F. Helmer. Trustee—Geo. E. Lewis. On motion, a vote of thanks was ten- dered the Secretary for his work done for the Association during the year. The retiring President, D. S. Fleming, escorted Mr. Heafner to his seat as the President of the Association for 1894-5. Mr. Haefner made a brief, pleasant and timely address. He asked for the harmony, good will and assistance of all the members in the work to be done. On motion, a hearty vote of thanks was rendered ex-President Fleming for his able and efficient services and for his efforts in behalf of the Association dur- ing the two years he had held the office of President. The vote was unanimous. On motion, a special business meeting was called for June 21 to start the work of the Association on its fourth year. The meeting then adjourned. . H. PORTER, Sec’y Hill. Swick. ——-<—____ Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held at Protective Brotherhood Hall, Monday evening, June 4, President Viergever presided. The special order of business was the selection of a date for the annual pinic and August 9 was designated as the day on which it will oceur, the location to be determined hereafter by the Executive Committee, which was instructed to take the matter under advisement. Henry Vinkemulder brought up the agitation instituted by Director of the Poor, Moerdyk, and suggested that the members of the Association see their aldermen and solicit their votes in favor of the proposed change in the method of dispensing charity. Peter Schuit approved of the idea and suggested that active efforts be under- taken to further the end in view. Mr. Vinkemulder said the Association ought to have 100 members present at each meeting, and suggested that some plan be devised by could be secured. Mr. Viergever stated that the Roch- ester (N. Y.) Association keeps up inter- est in, and attendance on, the Association meetings by dropping cards in a hat or box, setting forth the names of bad pay customers. He suggested that some such plan be adopted by this Association. A. J. Elliott deplored the fact that the attendance of the Association was not larger, considering the membership. He stated that he had been benefitted every time he attended a meeting. E. J. Herrick suggested that non- members be invited to attend the meet- ings as guests. E. White suggested that special topics be assigned members on which to pre- pare papers for presentation and discus- sion at the meetings. Mr. Vinkemulder said the Association was based of a solid foundation, because the best grocers of the city gave it their co-operation and support. Mr. Herrick stated that stood the wholesale grocers trouble in organizing their Association, but that they are now acting as a unit and securing marvelous results in con- sequence thereof. Mr. White suggested as a subject for the next meeting: ‘Is the present market location satisfactory?” Mr. Goss approved the suggestion of Mr. White, and, on vote, the latter was invited to prepare such a paper for presentation at the next meeting, which he agreed to do. B. VanAnrooy moved that the Secre- tary be instructed to invite all non- members to attend the meetings as guests of the Association, whether engaged in business in Grand Rapids or in the suburbs. Mr. Herrick gave notice that he would offer an amendement to the constitution and by-laws at the next meeting, and the meeting adjourned. _—_—~—- ~<—— G. K. Coffee, the White Cloud grocer, was in town over Sunday. The report that his visit had any effect on the mar- ket value of the stock of the Grand Rapids Brewing Co. is probably without foundation. m~ in W. The Leading Nickle Cigar Made inthis Market. which this object he under- had much The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit Made by Improved Machinery. This Cigar is made with Long Mixed Filler, Single Connecticut Binder and Sumatra Wrappcr. Sold at $35 per 1,000 By the Manufacturer, G. J. Johnson, 347 South Division St. Grand Rapids, Nich. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. Standard, per Ip......... 6 7 ' Ie Be... ...... 6 6 7 . [oe 4... 6 7 Boston Cream....... .. Of ee 8% Extra H. H. . oo “MIXED CANDY, Bbls Pails. Standard...... a 6% Par ee, 54% 6% EE 6 7 Nobby. ae - English Rae 1) 2 8 OTRCE VGN 8 occ coc cc aus a 8 Broken OD eee eo cee a baskets 8 Peanut Squares bee ee 7% 8% French Creams.......... 9 Valley Creams. a 13 Midget, 30 lb. baskets eee 8% PeOCern Sie 8 Fancr—In bulk Pails. Lozenges, mee 8% printed.. 9% Chocolate Drops Meee sees Pee ctetancees cee, Ee Chocolate Monumentals.. ee. Gum Drops.. . el Moss Drops. . ae i% Boos Pegs. .... ee eee eect, Paporinlg (ow _ 10 "Per — FANCY—In 5 lb, boxes. Lemon Drops ee Sour Preps. .....,.. Peppermint Drops...... Chocolate Drops — H. M. Chocolate Drops.. a Gum tae 40 Licorice Drops... ....... A. B. Licorice Drops. i Lozenges, we printed. . Imperials..... . Mottoes ea Cream Bar..... Molasses Bar.... bouea ee 55 Hand Made Creamer 8595 Plain Creams..... Led be cle .80 lecorated Creams.. tea eu eae uc. a) Seem oem .60 rat Aion 1.1 09 Wintergreen CE 60 CARAMELS. mo. 1, wrapped, 21, bowee................. 34 No. 1, a 3 ' Sci oles atl aaa 51 No. 2, : = se a ORANGES. Pency Seer We... oeue.....,... B Oe 6 : RO 2 65 BOrrenmtos, HOH ......... 1... 3 50 r 2.0s ee oe 4 08 Rodis, 1608 Ns ieee oe - HOS i ee icc. oF Messinas, SNe 2 00 LEMONS. Choice, ..... SS 3 00 Choice 300. Oe eee eee cu cl. oe Extra choice 360 .... Heed cou aa. 3 50 Extra fancy 300...... 4 00 Matra fancy wy... 1 00 BANANAS Large bunches 260 Small bunches. ee aoe on coca tL 2 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers, sit \ _ @i2% 201 ees @l14 5 extra << 46. be ecaceaas @15 Dates, Pard, 10-1b. NL TN TN @7 - Sel 2 @da*% ” Persian. 50-lb, box.... @5 ee NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona.. —— @i16 Ivaca a oees @15 - Ce @ Brazils, new. Wa @s eee @ii Walnuts, Grane @13 rec. .......... @l1v0 . Calif... @i2 Tapie Nuts, fancy @12 choice @il ith ie H. Qi% Coe Hickory Nuts per bu.... =1t9 I Cocoamiuts, Tull @R0E8............. PEANUTS. = a Fanoy, H. F., Fancy, H. P., Choice, H. Suns ' Roasted. Piege Moamtod. ............ P., Bxtras..... ' “ Hoast & 8S$esss o The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: BABRELS. Mocene. a 8% Mx W. W. Mich. Headlight.......... 7 ee @ 6% Stove Gasoline...........-...----- @ 7% OO ~-27 @36 egies ..... 1... .. Dee ee ace, | 3 @21 Bieom, tb coid teat.....--... Mee @ 3% FROM TANK WAGON, WO ieee nd occ en q Ses W. W. Mich Headlight.......... d | POULTRY, | Local dealers pay as follows: LIVE. aoreeve .......-.-. ... ele CN EE 6 @7 | Fowls.. Sides She Sees steeeee same ga a a i oe ae eee 8 @9 | Geese . sens tres eeeeetecec estes ac cews ans @ Have you seen our ‘*‘Sunbeam’’ line DRAWN, MPUREGUR. 4. 5-50 - oeeeee e li @i2 of Machine Sewed Children’s andj} Chickens. et ee tl ow ---10 @ill | Fowl. es Misses’ Shoes ? Dongola Patent | Ducks... .....00..-..-0.-eeceeeeeeneee 10 @u DP Ee 10 @l2 Ti spring. 6 8 @ 65e—81Z UNDRAWN. sinssptenies Spring a 7 . cu Leo ed cece oes eeu ees oon rl 9% Le 5e—12 to 2 @ 90e. CC a 7H4@ 8 to 1174 @ Te to 2 @ 90¢ CL bead ula cuca 64@ 7 la a “ff Q DO ei oe te ee wee ee HIR T a, KRAUSE 4, Se C O.| | Geese ..................+ el etiee 8 @9 14 State Board Michi gan State Pt of Pharmacy. that atters r satt y + a t y any tra t ook \ . fecte e merrantile net merca I o ‘ 2 is 4 thing is ar. ‘ near —oe" por iY mer pu } 6 ase y rignt OOe< r t . y ants No r ant rar " ape ¢ ‘ . put if <5 it we a pe ihe drugeg "ha - 4 ~ nat 4 must f . eam netit " ¢ com y and W re struge the 4 right te a > nave a r al t requisite ed 4 a te Ipete for s ss ir f believes that r earnest effort ti st portance portal a v er s of ir t munity r a 5 certair ema r fession fr t Zz wt purely omin must of necessity the U eae f furnis ng 1 the 7 - The j ‘ phys tainly and g AV profes ee rvi a ‘ ‘ r to an extent that w na not or gnoraple it at as ren rative as that « sions if the st ! nwa meut Fé comm j . witelliage Whe A tain t f e¢ phar S ficiently well educated he v that respect and con ew dispensable to his suecess as a profes- sional man. The Americ e day com- plains bitterly of the manufacturers of pharmaceutical preparations bers, the physicians, and the Manufacturers of id extracts, pills and other preparations are berated be- . od . ~ t?) or - ‘3 Mm 4 Vrugei * v7 S se a} a G al m + 4 i r , e : “= aT a t the armacist S 2 ne Caliing Sar tim r r »fes- + +} i thie ; os t enert f 38t As ¢ r- ss ¢ suf not enjoy THE MI CHIGAN TRADESMAN. i other modern forms of -made € nes which can be carried about by 2, rtair 4 c tors ¢ kent tock 4 ain S38 0 sor kept in stock n their offices, rendering the services of pr rmacist sur rf c € pharma € numerous urnals and news- pa e€ pt Z the pub suller from many imaginary wrongs, is tru But what 1e to r these evils really ien strated to th of the t gent portion of the community and t €ar-hea 1 and onscientious phys t $ are indeed such as tc > Reorganized. ‘I understand that Dr. Firstly at your now preaches without notes.” We are on a cash basis kle sleep. ‘ ‘Yes, tirely.’ en- Seely’s Flavoring Ext racts | Every dealer should sell them. in| about | | Lemon, Vanilla, Extra Fine quality. Assorted Flavors. | Yearly sales incrc ased by their use. | Se ond trial order. Seely’s Lemon, yrapped Doz. 90 Gro loz $ 10 20 Zoz. 120 12 60 4o0z. 200 22 80 Coz. 300 33 00 Seely’s Vanilla (Wrapped) Doz. Gro, 1oz.$150 16 20 Zen. 3 00 21 60 40z. 3 75 4080 60z. 5 40 57 60 Plain N.S. with corkscrew at same price if'preferred, Correspondence Solicited, SEELY MFG. CO., Detroit, Mich. ASPHALT FIRE-PROOF ROOFING This Roofing is gnaranteed to stand in all i Iron has fai is super- led; | tor to Shingles and much eu re successfully | enough to answer the required number | of questions is then licensed as a full-| fledged ‘‘registered pharmacist” and macy” (?) on his own account. States In some neither practical experience a drug stores nor any other kind of practi- cal training is necessary; it is answer 50 or 75 per cent. of a lot of worn-out stock questions. Not one of | the pharmacy laws affords any hint as to| what the candidate is expected to know. enough to he best Roofin on old f nN old Tool not rot g for covering over Shing rns, or pull loose, and when painted wit s of houses, ba sheds, «¢ ' will “phar-| FIRE-PROOF ROOF PAINT, Wall tact lor er e the un- pri relative to Rooting and for les o t Building Papers ste. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, « Louis and Campan Sts, Grand Rapids, Mich. » He oF? yy ml » Pie s THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — a Price Current. Advanced— Declined—Gum Opium. ACIDUM, nae a i" 2 00 eS 8@ 10] Exechthitos.......... 1 50@1 60 aeeeeioes German... 65@ 75 a w-eecas--oe+--k SOGBL 6D Cee qo | Gaultheria ............ 1 70@1 80 Carbelou 20@ 30) Geranium, ounce..... @ 7 Citricum | §2@ 55 | Gossip, Sem. gal. 0@ 75 i drochior ....... ae 3@ Meecwms .... . 4 25@1 40 Minot LL. 10@ 12] Jumiperf............... 50@2 00 Oxalicum . -... 10@ 12] Lavendula . --- 90@2 00 Phosphorium ai. a. 20 Limonis . eee, 1 40@) 60 Salicylicum ...........1 25@1 60 Menthe pe cence eee 2 85@3 60 Sulphuricum.... .... 1%@ 5 ace a deed 2 some 30 Wanereun............ 1 40@i 60 ree agp niaay Ls = 4¢ Tartaricum......... . 6 Ss Olive. 9003 00 AMMONIA. ae Liquida, (gal. 35) 1 met = ot”. ee ——_— 1 00 Curbomes ............. 12@ 14 oe isu eo 6 = Chai 129@ 14] Succini...... ......... 45 PO oe 00 ANILINE. — oe 2 50@7 00 = ‘ 9 or | Sassafras..... 50@ on * Boi 00 Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65 eg seusceannyrati Mee Zt 00 Yellow :...) a ge BACCAE. Theobromas........... 15@ 20 Cubese @o )....-. 3@ 30 POTASSIUM. Jooaoenas ............. 8@ 10] BiCarb....... 15@ 18 Xanthoxylum . 2@ 30] Bichromate .........|. 13@ 14 SAT ese, a ieee eee = = Copaiba ... 45@_ 50 Chlorate (po %@2) 21a 26 Terabin, Canada .... 60@ 65| Tedide. "aa eres... 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 27@ 30 CORTEX Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 a . Potass Nitras, opt Lele. 8@ 10 — (auegien............ * Potass 3 tas 7a 2 Wee 8c... i 2 Cinchona Flava ........ . . 18] Sulphate po........... 15@ 18 Euonymus atropurp..... . pen Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 . ee 2) SconiGam ............. 20@ 25 Prunus Virgin Tian a Cimere, Gic.............-.. 10 oe... RQ wB a ae 12 — Set meas 12@ 15 oe ate po... een oe Calamus a 20g 40 EXTRACTUM. cae (po. 12). 8@ 0 mae... 4 25 ychrrhiza, (pv. 15). 16@ 18 — og se 30 35 a rastis Canaden, a ae 11 12 Ss - nee ian. ae . = 14@ 15] Inula, = a 15@ 20 “ Me. use 16@ 17 Ipecac, oo 60@)1 75 FERRU Tris plox (po. 35@38) .. = #0 ot Carbonate Precip...... @ 15] Maranta, ¥s......... @ 35 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Podophyllum, |... 15@ 18 Citrate Soluble........ So witke 75Q1 00 Bersocyestenen Sal... @ 50 me a @1 7 Solut Chloride.. @ 15] * pr. 75Q@1 35 Sulphate, —.. oe sie 35@ 38 pure.. @ 7] Sangutinaria, (po 25).. @ 2 BOrpencarms............ 45@ 50 FLORA. Senega .. 55@ 60 Se ao = Simtlax, , Officinalis, i g = ——_— 30 35 : ee 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 FOIA Sy rmplocarpus, Foati- “ ee 18@ 50 valeriana, nig. (p06 $ o Gan “Aculitol, Tin- us German... 15@ 20 nivelly setage ceanees ae 50 PB e.........,.. 18@ = Salvia officinalis, Ms CT Farner eens 18@ ON 15@ 2% SEMEN. aoe ............. 8@ iC] Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 @UMMI. _— (graveleons).. R@ 7 Acacia, gt: @ 0) Carn, (po. 18) 000.7... 10. 18 _o- Be Cardamon eee 1 = = es ifted sorts... @ 20| Corlandrum........... @ a a 60@ 80 —— Sativa. 4@ : = ed ee te a a Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ = Guana in oe Hh 12 ee ee 1, mn ere ee Onesie, 1m, (348, 14 48, “% Foenngreek, pe... , S a wan a 55@ 60 Li, ‘gra.’ (bei 8 uae 4 Assafcetida, (po. 35).. 40@ 45 bela a aa i)... 4 Sees worececeee ss a = Pharlaris Canaria. 3 3 4 = ao oe a 19 a 7 @ anum oe 2 ' Gamboge, po.......... W@ 7% Nigra....... N@ 12 Guaiacum, (po 35) . @ x SPIRITUS, me, (po 1 10)...... @1 = ee 00@2 50 . A aa @ 40 u ne ' Opli (po 3 60@s" 80) - 2 age 25 | Juntperis Co. O oe .... ......--.. 2 *« sCPleached..... 33Q_ 35 ———— N.E Trepecene ......-.... 40@1 00] Spt. Vini Galli.. : i Oport HERBA—In ounce packages. he — ata Bieter ............-. . = ia eee... 20 SPONGES. ae se ide ie al aictd ek a Florida 2 sheeps’ wool, ai on 5 carriage............. 50@: Mentha Piperita............ 23] Nassau sheeps’ wool TNR Gretenesine eee ME MM etn de 2 00 ee 30 Velvet extra sheepr’ Tanacetum, V.........-..--. 22) wool carriage....... 1 10 Thymus, es veseeeeekucwee p Extra yellow sheeps’ MAGNESIA, on e... nda ae 85 wieiees, Fot.......... 55@ TASB SLCOPS’ WOO! Car- ——. Pe... 20@ 2 | __Tiage .............-.. = Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25| Hard for slate use... Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 poe eel, send davies 1° OLEUM. Absinthium. .........2 50@3 00 SYRUPS. Amygdala, Dale...) 45@ 75] Accacia ... 50 Amydalae, Amarae. -8 00@8 25 | Zingiber 50 Anisi . -1 80@1 90 | Ipecac.. 60 Auranti Corte 1 80@2 00} Ferri Iod 50 Bergamil . 3 00@3 20 | Auranti ae 50 Cajiputi .. 60@ 65] Rhei Arom........ 50 Caryophyll ne = Similax Oficinalia. = Comer ..... Chencpodi @1 60 | Senega........ 50 Cinnamonii 1 10@1 15 Scillee.. 50 Citronella @ 45 Co 50 Conium M 35@ 65 natin. 50 MI heer ieieus 80@ 90 | Prunusovir, 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napeilis R....... 60 o z... 50 Aloes.. i. ae “and myrrh... eee eee: 60 aoe 50 Asafostida...... 2. © Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 aie... 60 . Co.. L teen .....-...... $8 Mexican Liquid, 4 oz 3 60 . ig fo<....... & a BROOMS, —oo................. 5 ol 20 No. 2 Carpet .- oa 1 a io 2 50 Parlor Gem.. se ae Common Whisk a 80 an cock eee on 1 Oo arehouse.... 2 75 BRUSHES. _ C—O 1235 . i Ee a 150 . en [z Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3 row. 13 Paimetto, goose........ i. co CANDLES, Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes . Star, 40 .... 2 Paraffine 10 Wicking 24 CANNED GOODS. Fish, Ciams. Little Neck 1 ib 1 20 rs S.... 1 90 Clam Chowder. Scandard, 3 lb.. 22 Cove Oysters. Standard, iib.... Th - 2ib.. 135 Lobsters, — =... ase _ ..3 50 Picnic, 1 lb 2 BUM. eee) eee .2 90 Mackerel. Standard, 7 esse es tee ee 110 ~...... 2 Mustard, 21 eisce sco ee Tomato Sance, 2 1b. 2 ag ee 223 Salmor.. Columbia River, Gat.... ...1 @ - ok... _. & Alaska, _— ‘ i * ae —- Kinney’s, fate a . eottines. American = ee 4%@ 5 gel........... C4 7 Imported ieee aw ee 15@16 Mustard me a 6@7 Boneless . peo ees ee ee 21 ‘Trout. Brook 8, ib . 250 Fruits. Apples. 3 Ib. standard......... 1 20 York State, gallons.. 3% Hamburgh, It is impossible to give Apricots. Live oak....... 1 40 Santa Crus. 1 40 i... ...... 150 Overland.... 1 10 Blackberries. r.& W . 90 Cherries. Red.. .-1 10Q1 2 Pitted Hamburgh | White 1 50 _-................ 1 30 Damsons, Beg = ums and Green ges. ee 120 California. 1 40 Gooseberries. Common . 13 Peac hes. Pie . 110 Maxwell, i 66 Shopard’s ....... i 60 Callvormia....... 160@1 75 —— oe... Pears, ae... 123 _evoeeee........._.... 17 Pineapples. ee... 1 00@1 30 Johnson’ eS sliced...... 2 50 grated. a Booths eliced........ @2 5) . grated..... @2 7 Quinces, oe 1 10 Raspberries. R ; 110 Black Hamburg. — 1 46 Erie, 13 "abi. Lawrence ..... 13 Hamburgh i= Erie. Lo 1a Terrapin eee 16 Whortleberries, Blueberries ........ 85 Meats. Corned beef Libby’ 8. 2 10 Roast beef Armour’s. -1 80 Potted ham. % >... -1 40 ~. 85 tongue, _ee.........1 4 “N 85 Chicken, % Ib....... 95 Vegetables. Beans. Bamburgh stringless.. --. Frenc Btyle.. 2 00 ' Cie ee ae cee ae . ree... 70 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35 Bay State Baked............1 3 World’s Fair Baked. = Picnic Baked. \ .. Corn. Peers... I Livingston Eden ...........1 2 — ar oo... 1 40 oy eee... ——- 75 Peas. Hamburgh mearrotet...... 1 30 early June . ...1 50 Champion Eng..1 40 _— a. 1 49 _— ee 1 Socket . oo. . - Harris standard............. is) Van amp’ S merrofat.......1 early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25 a... -we 10 Mushrooms, rome .......... -19@21 Pumpkin ———— 80 Squash. ——— Cl 115 Succotash. ee sn ae... money Dew.....,_...... Erie eee Tomatoes. ———.. ee ——.. oc oe. LLL 8 50 CHOCOLATE. Baker's. German Sweet........ oo 23 Tee... 5 2-5.. ..-... 37 Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43 CHEESE, pee... 9 ee... 5, 9 Loewe... .......... 9 ee ...... ...... 9 oe seee.......... Os% i 5@7 a SG 15 eee... 8... 1 00 Leiden . oon z= Limburger. ee @15 we I ee einen O25 “a O35 8a ‘a... ‘ @20 Set weltzer, imported. @24 domestic .... @i4 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pint, 25 bottles........2 75 Pint a oe Quart 1 doz bottles ..8 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz........ 1 35 Fis oo SOueee..............4 Oe Quart, per dos ..... _- CLOTHES PINS. > erees Sees............ 44@45 COCOA SHELLS, ie oe... @3 Less g eer ne @Q3% Poun packages... a '6%@7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair. . 18 Good 19 Prime... as Golden. ee 21 Peaberry . cue ee 23 Santos. ——......... _ oe... a Prime . a Peaberry . CC 23 Mexican and | Guatamala. —.... ol ae ie ———7............ ....... Maracaibo, Freee... . .... - ae... - ee Java. Interior .... es 25 Private Growth. ae Mandehling . / oe Mocha. Imitation . . 25 Arabian. i. i. .28 ‘ik To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 22 30 Bunola .. io. Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 22 30 Extract. Valley City « gross Lo oe 75 Felix i 1 15 Hummel’ 8, —_ gross ee 1 65 (ounce CHICORY. Bulk.. 5 —.... a CLOTHES. LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per dos. 1 25 e -....... C 140 Hs —...... _ 1 60 C —e....-.. C 1 75 . e....... _ 1 90 Jute 60 ft e 8 : 72 ft . 100 CONDENSED MILK. 4 dos. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden —— a _.. 2 Crown... (oi aees ote oe 5 75 cate 4 50 oe 425 Dime 3 35 Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’n.....83 00 1000, “ “ “ec | ay “ee Steel eee COUPON BOOKS. ‘Tradesman.’ $1 books, per hundred ee 2 —- = oe 83 : ne .. sa ee ee . 8 00 $10 i ' .. we e................ 90 ee ss is........... & Sardines. Russian, kegs............ _ = rout. No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs. No. 1 1¢ bbl, 40 Ibs... No. 1, kits, 10 Ibe..... Mo 1.6% e.......... Whitefish. Family No. 1 ¥% bbls, 100 lbs........86 25 8200 a." = ”......,.30 1 mee eee... . 78 35 eT 65 31 MATCHES, Globe Match Co.’s Brands. Columbia Farior...........8 $1 25 XXX Sulphur.. 1 00 Diamond Match Co. 8 ‘Brands. BO © cei oe., 1 65 Anchor parior.. ao No. 2home............ 1 8 Baer PAeee...........,.0,... 400 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Grade Regular Vanilla. XX Grade Lemon. 20 . 61 SO eoe..... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, Zoe..... $1 75 oo. .... 3 50 Jennings. Lemon. —_— 2 oz regular - 75 4 = ' aa 2 OD 60 ’ 2 3 00 hong = wpe... .... 1 36 2 00 No. < taper........1 @ 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon. Vanilla. Z0z oval taper 75 1 10 3 oz . 1°20 1% 2 0z regular ‘‘ 8 1 20 4 0z ae . 1 60 2 25 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. ec 3 2 an SOee...................3 oe Quarter — Sa on ._ 1 Ib cans. Settee cece a. oe % Ib cans. i i8 Choke Bore— —Dupont’s 8. i H 425 Half kegs iS 40 Quarter kegs. . _ ia ‘i> cam ....... 34 Eagle Duck— “abies 8. ae. 11 00 Balt keos..... ee Aceereer ROge...... 3 00 1 ID cans..... |. = HERBS. MO oe veces cece weds eee 15 TAO a. 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50 JELLY. W Ib, pails ea @ 54 30 @ 81 LICORICE. a 30 ee 25 Sicily... pb Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7% Pie ee, 3 doz. in case . — ME EASU RES ‘Tin, were dante. .ee......... 1 % Half gallon. | =. NN ee 70 int . beoua 45 Half pint. is 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. oe ...... cone 7 00 Half “seamed ieee eee 4 1 Quart. cao 3% Pint —.. .. oe MOLASSES. ee Sugar —— a oe i eer wee a... 16 Porto Rico, i eines ae 20 Tenee ...... sks 30 New Orleans. ae... 18 eee eka aude. 22 Po 7 ee a 32 ee ee 40 ncy One-half barrels, 3c extra, t 4) PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 00 Half bbis, 600 count.. @2 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 00 Half bbis, 1,200 count 3 00 PIPES. Clay, No. 216. La acck tT. * fullcount........ 70 Cob, No. oe penne 48 cans in case, ae 4 00 Penna Salt Co.'s. 3 00 RICE, Domestic. Carolina pee... ... 8 a 5% ' me S............... & EE 4 Imported. Japan, No. : ees eee Cena eres 5% No. ee eee 5 Pe woo 6 a ee eee ten ces 1% SPICES. Whole Sifted. ae. 9% Cassia, China in mats...... 8 ° Batavia in bund....1 . Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna...... et a oe wcert ht Mace Bataviae.. 8 Nutmegs, fancy... Ledeus No. 1 kes 70 - aa 3 ............. 60 Pep pper, Singapore, black....10 white... .20 : shot. 16 Pure Ground in Bulk. TIMROO . . 2. 52 5 wesw eno none 15 ¢ ‘assia, Batavia eee ae 18 and — 25 ' Saigon . 30 Cloves, Amboyna. Zanzibar. . Ginger, oy ae ecnee.........5 e a. . Maco Batavia..........-.--- 65 Mustard, Eng. ae — 22 Trie ste.. 2 Nutmegs, No. 2 .... ao Pepper, Singapore, aa = [ Cayenne. . on Sage be ea ae ee we oe 20 “Absolute” In Packages. 4 Ys Alispice ........ we ole Cinnamon. . .... 2 i= Cleves. .....-- _... oo + oo Ginger, Jamaica ce 84 155 Breen .....--- 84 155 Mustard...... oi oo Peer... .... 8. . & tS ae... 84 SAL “SODA. Granulated, ee... ee. 1144 T5lb casee...... 1% Lump, a ee 45lb kegs. es SEEDS. a @i5 Canary, Smyrna......- 4 ot 8 Cardamon, Malabar.. 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird.. 4. 5@6 Mustard, white....... 10 Poppy .....----.---.-- 9 ape ee 5 Cuttle ‘bone. bel ane : 30 ARCH oo 20-lb boxes... oo “1b “ av | Se “@loss. 1 one le 6 3-lb De ores toons 5 6-Ib reg i. ae 40 and 50 lb. boxes. ee 3% Barrels. . ie oe “SNU FF. Scotch, in bladders. ........37 Maccaboy, in jars........-.-. 35 french appee, in Jars.....43 SODA, Deed caeereessccdens aa Sk Kegs, ugiteh ee SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 243 Ib. boxes......8 1 60 Barrels, ee te... es. 2 50 115 2% lb bags _ oo ies sos in” .. 3% be 210 ib “ i 308 Butter, 56 Ib bage........ 65 O * 2414lb bags 3 50 “ 280lb bbis 2 50 . 2 2 25 Wore ester. 115 2-1) eacks............. 60 60 5-Ib C fe 30 10-1b a 22 14 lb. eee a ee a O65 ib BAOe... .....:..,.. See 56 Ib linen sacks...... a 60 Common Grades. = : Ib. sacks ewan sce . 2 10 Looe 8 10 Ib. sacks..... . 18 Warsaw. 56 Ib. dairy in drill —- ._ = 28 Ib. 16 56 lb, dairy in en sacks.. 75 Higgins. 56 lb, dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. 06 th. GNORS...... a Common Fine. a 80 Manistee ......... SALERATUS., Packed 60 lbs. in box. Church’s bee eet, Dera S 15 Peer e.... ... .. ......... 2 oe Taylor's a SEELY’S EXTRACTS. Lemon. .3 90 doz. $10 20 gro :- ts. to 2 60 2 r= ie” Hd “ Vanilla. los. Fm. I 50 doz. 16 20 gro a a 21 60 ,* FF 2.2e 25 50 tococo—Sec wil Grade. Lemon. BOM... .. cans Mdoz..... 8 @ Vanilla. 2 doz. 1 00 doz.....10 50 SOAP. Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s ——— Old Country, 80 1-Ib........: 3 20 Good Cheer, 601 TT $0 White Borax, 100 %-lb...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble, Concord.. Lo Iv ory, 10 ee 6 75 Con 4 00 Lenox ... Mottled German... se Town Talk. oe Dingman Brands. Singie OK. .-.-...... 22 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3 75 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. Americ an Family, wrp’d..$4 00 — ._cu K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands. Santa C 178...... ' . .@ Brien. & bare........-..-. > @ bg So ere ..... LD Sos Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. oo... sw Cotton O11..... .. Marseilles....... .... oe Mates ......-............. 4 00 Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands ‘SYLWER Silver ... 3 65 mone... i. ooo Savon Improved........... 2 50 Sunflower ... eee, 2 oO Gorges. ................. oa Economical ..... 2 2 Passolt’s Atlas een Single box...... ‘ .3@ 5 box lots.. ns 60 10 box lots. oo. aoe Mbox let del ol)... 3 40 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, $ados....... 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. ES” ea ® CO ae 4 50 Granulated 418 Extra Fine Granulated . 4 31 Cubes ... eed oe ee xa Powdered. os oo Confec. Standard A.. .... 4 06 No. 1 ColumbiaA. —. oot No. 5 Empire A...... levee Oe No. G........ os _oo 2 a. _o Wa, 3. -.... . 3 69 Be 9 kk 3 56 Pee ek yi 3 44 me. i2...-. ee 3 37 ie, ie...--.---. 3 ot No. 13. 2 94 ve 2 87 SYRUPS. Corn. Barrels. .. 54-040... cy Mads WEIR... ck. oe Pure_Cane. ee ec 19 ae eS 25 OS ie ee 30 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’ a. _—a wie mae... 2 7% MialioeG tree ............- 3% ih Peete... tens Oo Salad Dressing, large a. oo small . 2 65 TEAS. JaPaN—Regular. rere... @17 eee @20 Choice. 24 @26 Cmoscoss.......... 2 @34 Dust . . 10 @Ii2 SUN CURED. Fair . 4 @l7 Case @20 eee 2A @xe ‘oo. ......... ove Got Pvese........ yeaa G12 BASKET FIRED. Fair . ee C hoice. ek oe Ueda ae @25 Choicest. @35 Extra choice, ‘wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy....... 75 @85 OOLONG. @26 Common to fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL. ‘Commeon to fair....... 23 @26 Superiortofine........30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine.......30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Fair . ia 18 22 Cc hoice.. Lo. le @2s8 Best... .... —— oe TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. P, Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Russet..........30 @32 eer... 30 D. Seotten & Co’s Brands. Hiawatia........ . 60 Cube. ... Le eee oe 32 Rocket .... 30 Spaulding & Merrick’s Brand eg 30 Private Brands. Paso ...... 30 (nal Cen. .........-.... @2 Nellie Bly 24 @25 Uncle Ben.... .----08 GS McGinty ce. nes 27 16 bbis....... 25 Dendy dm............ 29 Torpe AdG . 4. - 2 : in drums.. 23 Vim Yam ........... 2§ ge ee " 2 * drums 22 Plug. Sorg’s Brands, Soearnead ...........- 39 Oe gains ccc eeese, 2 Noboy Fwikt........... 40 Scotten’s Brands. Byte... 26 Hiswathe......... .... 38 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 40 Jolly Tar. 32 Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (6 o@., 41c).... 39 Gren Turtic.......... 30 Three Black Crows.. 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good. Out of Sight.. 8. Wilson & McC ‘aulay’ 3 Brands Gina Mope........... Happy Thought....... x Meee ............ 32 Move........ ....... 31 oo. Ge..............-.. 27 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. Kiln dried... : — Golden Shower............. Huntress ce a a Meccan ............. 2030 American _ Co.’s Brands. Myris Navy... ........-.... 40 Siem... .. l . .30@32 German ....... beac dc 15 aS. 33 ere, 8 FO... 8... 32 Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands. — Ct 16 Banner Cav eat 38 cat l............... 28 Scotten’s Brands. Werpeen 2... 15 money Bew................. 26 cole Bioee.................20 F,. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, ee... 26 Ce 18 Standard.. betes ae Globe Tobac co Co.'s Brands. Memdmiade....-. 1... 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. nop Hoy... :. 26 Unele Sei.............. ~~ Hed Clover... 2.2... cc wsccced Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry... .+.ereess 25 Traveler on ce = Buck Horn. Loa. Fiow Poy............... ib Con Cake VINEGAR. a ac. 7 @8 eee 8 @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Balk, perent ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 dozincase... 1 75 YEAST. Magic, ee, oe 1 00 aoe Peas Ce 1 00 Riamond. a % Royal 90 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WOODEN WARE. Twe Me t.............-... 6 00 5 50 eo. 4 50 1 30 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. « «6No.1, three-hoop.... 1 30 Bowls, 11 inch ae r =: hl... . = Lecce. 2 ia Me eee 1 80 Sf 2 40 = me ee ee weer ene Baskets, market. Ht amies ae coun 35 tipping bushel.. 1 15 C ful noop “ 1 25 c willow er ths, No.1 5 25 u No.2 6 25 " “« Nos7ts o splint * Neise [ [ No.2 4 25 . " “ Nosts INDUBRATED WARE. Pails. Se gee _so Tubs, ‘No. . .....,..., as 80 Tope, Wo. 2... .............1 Tubs, No. 3 10 50 Butter P lates—Oval. 250 1000 ma t..... 60 210 OG, 2 eae 0 2H ee $0 280 2. 100 350 Ww ashboards—single. Universal . . No Gucem ......... Seu 4 Peerless Prosecior.......... 2 Saginaw Globe....... Double Water Witch. ae oe 2 oo os Luck. cee oa. & ee Peerless.... 28 HIDES PELTS ‘and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows: HIDES. oo .......... . oo Part C ured.. os @ 3 i ti‘(‘(COLCC @ 3% Ree 4@5 Kips, — ae 2 @3 " @oaree............ @ 4 Calfskins, meen. ..... 4@5 cured...... 4 w@ 6 Deacon sking.......... 10 @2% No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Shearlinge............. 5 @ 2 eee 25 @ 60 WwooL Washea..............2 Gil Unwashed ..... & @is MISCELLANEOUS, Werow ................ 4@ 434 Grease butter ........1 @2 — ......,...... 1%@ 2 ee a 2 0O@2 50 @RAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 52 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 52 MEAL, Bolted.. cues 1 40 Granulated.. 1 65 FLOUR IN SACKS. ee i ee EE oo. .. Graham... .....--. ++. ve... .. *Subject ‘to’ count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad ditional. ‘sual cash dis- MILLSTUFFS. Less Car lots quantity Bran. ......... $14 00 815 00 Screenings .... 12 00 12 00 Middlings..... 14 50 15 50 Mixed Feed... 17 50 17 50 Coarse meal . 16 30 16 30 CORN. aoe oe Less than car lots.......... 47 oaTs, Car lots. ... a Less than car lots.. oo HAY. No. 1 Timothy, car lots....11 No. 1 . ton lots......12 50 FISH AND OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. [a @8 Trout . eee @8 Black Bass...... . 12% Halibut @15 Ciscoes or Herring... @ 4 Bluefish.. @i10 Fresh lobster, per ‘lb. 15 Ged... a 10 No. 1 Pickerel. @8s Pike... @7 Smoked White... @8 Red Snappers.......+- 15 = River Sal- ees 1 waaneiel De cee 18@25 OYsTERs—Cans, Fairhaven Counts.... @45 J.D. Selects....... Sole B27 ................ Anchors.. aa Standards... oY sTERs—Bulk. Extra Selects..per gal Seieews................ ooo. ............ Counties ......... Scallops... Shrimps Oo ee SHELL aoons. Oysters, per 100. .-) BS@l Clams, r . TOQ1 vo a7 PROVISIONS The Grand Rapids Packing and Provis quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. oe... ae eee Extra clear pig, short cut Extra clear, heavy.... Cicer, fat back......... Boston clear, short cut Clear back. short ¢ut........... Standard clear, short cut, best SAUSAGE, Pore. tee. Peoene............ MAWOR. 12... Tongue Blood ... Head cheese ... SUIIROr. 0... | Frankfurts.... Kettle Rendered Granger ie aa Wameey -..-. Compound . Cottolene.. 50 lb. Tins, gc advance. 20 Ib. pails, Me F nin, *)6=6Me oo. | %C a 16. ‘ le BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs....... Extra Mess, Chicago packing... Boneless, rump butts. ion Co SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Hams, average 20 lbs a ae y i 2 to 14 ibs. c ——................,........ ' best boneless... a Shomer ........... ..... Breakfast Bacon boneless.. Dried beef, ham prices... \ Long Clears, heavy..............- Briskets, medium. ” at... DRY SALT MEATS. Butis..... Dd. S. Bellies... Fat Backs.. “Pp 1 KE ED PIGs FEET. Half barrels :. : Quarter barrels.. kits i dt a eee Mics, Boneyecomp.... ... Kits, premium FRESH BEEP. ..o 00 2 00 _.. Cureaee. |... FLE@ 6% Fore quarters..... eee eee 8. . ae eo aaa _-7 @s Pepe Ne . 8 @lv Rips. ... Lee eee. Hee. & Go ae Rounds 6 @ See ecco ee ew uae 6 CBgeke.......... ee a. 444 @ = Plates oe @ 3% Dressed 4 @ey, CSS ... ee eee eee te eee were ee cree 6 644 oe wes SHOGIGGrS ......... 6% Leaf Lard... Ive CRP ee 6 ¢ ia ....... O7 i VEAL Cae -.-.+ oaee CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. LAMP BURNERS. _ “~ Mt teat ese et ec sess D No. lg ig No _ ee ‘Pabwier Lous. LAMP CHIMNEYS. 6 dos. in box. No.0 Sun a No.1 y ' Per box. “ No. Mirst quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top.. No. 1 No. 2 “a ib XXX Flint. No. : Sun, crimp top No No v6 ‘ de No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled No. 2 oo No. 2 Hinge, ‘ La Bastie. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb , per doz. No. 2 ac “se No. 1 crimp, per. doz. oo ce FRUIT JARS. Mason—old style Pie... 8. Quarts Half gallons aaa ' i" Me ison—one e doz in case, Pints. Quarts .. ; ae Half gallons. .. 600 @S te <2 OF ot Dandy- “gl ass cover. Pints ... be etc d eau as 10 50 QUATES 222. coee cee eee eee sane 11 00 Hialt callous ............ i. 14 00 Supplies. Boyd’s extra Caps 2 RubOr Pings............-..--- ..- 0 LAMP WICKS. No. 0, per gross ee 2 No. 1, ce Se ee ee No. 2, a ee 38 No. 3, _ we Mammoth, per doz.. 75 STONEWARE—AKRON, Butter Crocks, J to G eal... Oe eae ce eee. 06 4 gal. per doz.. oo Jugs, % gal., per eee “ Tw4 gal. oe Miik Pans, * gal., per | ek oe een : iin EWARE—BLAC K GLAZED. Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal...... ' oF Milk Pans, 44 gail........ oe 65 ' . Fo 73 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE COAL MINERS’ INSURRECTION. The acts of violence to which the miners now on strike in the soft coal region of this country have resorted to insure compliance with their demands are no more than a repetition of those which have frequently been committed on similar previous occasions. Nom- inally, the strike is against the mine operators, to compel the payment of higher wages than they offer; actually, it is against the other miners who do not voluntarily join in the strike and who are willing to keep on working for the wages heretofore paid them. In addition, the strikers endeavor to make their efforts to produce a scarcity of coal more effective by preventing the transporta- tion of the mineral from mines still in operation to consumers who have hither- to been supplied from those now closed. Thus, not only have they at various points attacked and maltreated their non-striking brethren, but at one they have fortified themselves in military fashion near the approach to a mine and keep it closed against all comers. At others they seize and inspect railroad trains, and, whenever they find cars loaded with coal, arrest their further progress. All this is done in a system- atic, methodic manner, under the direc- tion of leaders, and with the forms of an organized insurrection. circumstance attend- outrages is the indifference they are treated by those whose official duty it is to repress them, and with which they are regarded by citizens generally. The riots that took place in New York City in 1873 were no more defiant of law than are the acts now perpetrated by the striking miners, yet those were promptly put down in the course of afew days, while these have been permitted to continue for six weeks, with no prospect of their immediate sup- pression. Persuasion, argument, diplo- macy and proclamations have been em- ployed to induce submission, but the stern hand of physical force has been withheld. Meanwhile, not are numbers of non-strikers compelled to re- main idle and lose the wages they The remarkable ing these with which only might be earning, but thousands of other men are thrown out of work for want of the fuel indispensable to the industries in which they are engaged. Why the striking coal miners are so tenderly treated it is easy to divine. The object which they are endeavoring to at- tain isone in which alarge number of their fellow citizens sympathize with them, and any measures which may be taken to defeat it in the present instance would establish a precedent for defeating it in others. The notion which so many crazy theorists entertain and disseminate, that the earners of wages in this country are a feeble minority, ‘‘trampled to death under an heel,’? as President Cleveland expresses it, by the owners of capital, isa fiction of the imagination. They compose, on the contrary, an overwhelming majority of our citizens, not only in numbers, but in physical strength, and they have, as we see to-day and have been seeing for many years, the power to dictate terms, in a manner that admits of no resistance, both to their employers and to their recalcitrant brethren. Whether the strikers in the present case succeed in securing the concessions which they demand, or whether they are ultimately compelled by want and hunger iron to accept the terms which they now re- ject, or even if, as usually happens, a compromise is effected in which both parties to the dispute mutually concede something to each other, the fact will re- main that now for six weeks one large body of our citizens have forcibly de- prived another large body of their legal rights, and that neither the State nor the Federal executive has been able to subdue them. While in the eye of the law they are criminals who merit only swift and exemplary punishment, in that of judges, sheriffs and governors they are belligerents entitled to recogni- tion as such. Of course it must be admitted that the strikers are required by the logic of their position to act as they are acting. They have joined together to coerce their employers into granting them certain demands, and it is essential to their suc- cess that all the other coal miners in the country shall back them up. If these others will not join them of their own accord they must be made to do it by force, just as during the late war we compelled the copperheads of the North, much against their wills, to contribute money and recruits to put down a rebel- lion which in their hearts they approved. That so few of our citizens turn upon these insurgent miners as they turned upon the Southern rebels is because, as 1 have said, the majority of them sympathize with the insurgents as the Copperheads sympathized with the Con- federacy, and wish them to succeed, peaceably if they can, but forcibly if they must. Accustomed as we have become, in this region, after thirty years of pro- found peace, to government by law, and to obedience tu law, not from compulsion but from habit, it is difficult for us to recognize the fact that, after all, the supremacy of law rests upon physical force and must be supported by it or fall. Among our primitive ancestors it was the stronger who ruled the weaker, re- gardless of what we now call right. As society advanced it was the best fighter who became chief, and commanded the obedience of his fellows. A still further development led to the preeminence of those who were not only superior to the rest in individual prowess, but who ex- celled them in military skill. Thus, down to a recent period, society was or- ganized upon essentially a military basis, and to this day the titles of European nobles are the old and almost obsolete names of the different grades and func- tions of military officers. The duke was the ‘“‘dux’’ or leader, the marquis had the guardianship of the marches, or front- iers, the count was the ‘‘comes,’’ or as- sistant of his king, and so on. The Emperors of Germany, of Austria, and of Russia pride themselves more upon their soldierly than upon their political skill, and the Sovereign of Great Britain is theoretically, the head of the British army. The continent of Europe is, as the poor taxpayers know to their sorrow, one vast camp, in which every able- bodied man is liable to do military duty. We have emerged to some extent out of this condition, and devote ourselves far more to peaceful industry than we do to war, but as thirty years ago we had to conquer peace with arms, so now, we must either preserve it in the same man- ner, or we must surrender ourselves to the domination of those who are physic- ally stronger than we are. The striking coal miners have undoubt- edly no intention of overthrowing the existing State and National governments and setting up a government of their own in its place. Like the Coxeyites, they aim only at carrying the point they have immediately in view and do not consider anything beyond it. This has been the case with all great strikes in which violence has been used. The striking railroad engineers in 1877 did not set out to burn down the city of Pittsburgh, nor did the striking switch- men at Buffalo in 1890 mean to inaugu- rate a civil war, but both came perilous- ly near to these results, and so, now, in the coal miners’ strike, a contest has been begun between those who are viola- ting the laws and those whose duty it is to enforce them which threatens the en- tire fabric of society. It is civil war on a small scale, and if the insurgents es- cape unpunished, even though they are defeated in other respects, we shali have taken a step backward in civilization and reverted to the reign of force. The question involved in this strike, in the way in which it is conducted, is not, therefore, merely a question of wages. It is whether we shall maintain a state of society in which the bodily weak are protected against the bodily strong and enjoy equal privileges with them, or whether we shall go back to one in which physical strength shall be the only safeguard of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As 1 have said, the notion that it is only a contest between the owners of capital on one side and the owners of labor on the other is a figment of the imagination. Whatever wages the mine operator, in the present instance,, pays for mining he adds to the price at which he sells his coal, and it is the consumer who suifers in the end from every increase of cost resulting from the increase of wages. Nor are the consumers, as some people seem to imagine, principally the rich. It is the comparatively poor who buy the greater part of the coal mined and of the goods which coal is employed in produc- ing. Not only do the striking coal miners directly deprive by violence their non-striking fellow miners of the wages they might but for their interference earn, but they directly levy tribute upon the vast multitude of workers in other occupations, men, women, and children, who will have in the end to pay every cent of the increase of wages which they may succeed in getting. This strike, too, with all the violence with which it is accompanied, happens, opportunely, to show the futility of the agitation now in progress for the exten- sion to women of the right of suffrage. If either from administrative weakness or from mistaken sympathy, the strike shall end, as it is likely to end, without the punishment of those who are leading it; if it is settled that laws are practical- ly to be made and executed not by repre- sentatives chosen by the ballot, but by the fighting portion of the population armed and prepared to burn, destroy, and kill rather than be defeated, it will be of little use for woman to have a voice in framing them. It will even be as useless for the peaceable enervated citizen, who labors more with the pen and with his brains than with his muscle, to go through the form of enacting them. We may as well hand over the govern- ment at once to the men who wield the crowbar, the pickax, and the hammer ’ as our ancestors did in feudal times to those who wielded the sword and the spear, and accept so much of the fruits of our labor as they choose to allot to us. This is the end to which strikes, con- ducted like this coal miners’ strike, are leading us, and we ought to look the fact squarely in the face. MATTHEW QUALITY is the first thing to be considered when buying soap, after that comes the question of price. If you handle the ATLAS BRAND the first is guaranteed, the second speaks for itself. Sendsample order and see for yourself. MARSHALL. Made only by HENRY PASSOLT, SAGINAW, MICH. Typewriter Supply Office. H. B. ROSE, Manager. STATE AGENCYCFOR THE | The Edison Mimeograph—The Simplex Duplicator—Typewriter and Mimeograph Mail Supplies of all kinds. orders re- ceive prompt attention. Y.M.C. A. Building, Grand Rapids, Mich Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS_,MIOCH. Jno. A. Covope, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres, J. A. S. Verpier, Cashier. K. Van Hop, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T.J.0’Brien, A. d. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A.S. Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, ¢ te Hale 60, MANUFACTURERS OF MATCHES and NATCH WE CAN DO YOU GOOD. SEND FOR SAMPLES and PRICES MACHINERY, GRAND HAVEN, MICH. See quotations in Price Current, hi ; 4 4 * agg a % * tg St 4 a REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. E. C. Tew, Senior Member of Tew & Sons, Lake Odessa. Elmer C. Tew, general dealer of Lake Odessa, late of Orange, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, N. Y., in 1838. He comes of a good old revolu- tionary stock, his great grandfather be- ing a captain in the revolutionary army. His father was a native of Rhode Island and a farmer. Mr. Tew’s boy- hood was not unlike the boyhood of the average farmer’s son, his summers be- ing spent in work on the farm, and the winters being devoted to acquiring the rudiments of an education. In 1856, when 18 years old, he came with his father to lonia county, this State, and settled on a farm in Berlin township, which he quitted seven years ago, though he still retains the farm in his posses- sion. On leaving the farm he moved into the village of Orange and entered into partnership with C. E. Erdman and P. H. Kilmartin in a general store, the firm being known as Erdman, Kilmartin & Tew. The first-named gentleman died the following spring and Mr. Tew’s son, Charles E. purchased the Erdman interest, and the firm name was changed to Tew, Kilmartin & Tew. Later Mr. Kilmartin’s interest was purchased by his partners and the style of the firm became E. C. Tew & Sons, Mr. Tew’s younger son becoming a member of the firm. On May 1 last the business at Orange was sold to H. H. Jordan and Messrs. Tew & Sons moved to Lake Odessa where they are opening a general store on a considerably larger scale. Mr. Tew is a genial gentleman with whom it is a pleasure to converse. He has never had any political aspirations, but has been contented to plod in the old-fashioned way which is, after all, the only sure road to contentment and competence. He is an earnest and con- sistent member of the Methodist church. i Not Ready for It Yet. From the Merchants’ Review. It need not be expected that, for at least some time to come, grocers will tumble over each other in an eager rush to establish a universal cash system. Desirable as this system may be, there are many obstacles to its general adop- tion, the principal one being the grocer himself. But while nearly all deplore the indiscriminate credit giving practice in vogue, very few merchants have the moral courage to take a bold stand against it. Circumstances, in addition to long usage, seem to operate against anything like radical reform, but it strikes us that some improvement could be made so as to curtail the enormous losses we hear so much about in the re- tail grocery trade. A contemporary suggests the taking of judgment notes in certain cases, and add: ‘Of course, you charge all the goods to the wife, as then she and her husband are both re- sponsible. When they appeal _ for further credit itis the proper time for you to suggest that both the wife and the husband sign a judgment note. An ordinary note is useless. Judgment notes waive the right of exemption, and knowing this the husband will bring down money to settle it out of his wages, instead of using it for extravagant pur- poses.’’ This might doin places where the law is agreeable and under certain conditions, but we hardly think the plan would be found generally satisfactory and successful. We believe the adop- tion of the coupon book system would greatly mitigate the evils complained of, and we often wonder why it is not in more common use. With all, however, the grocers have the matter largely in their own hands, and in this respect a little ‘personal reform’’ might be of benefit to all concerned. MICHIGAN AN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falis Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) Arrive. Depart | 10 2pm... -Detroit Express ........7 00a m 5 30am. -*Atlantic and Pacific..... ‘11 20 pm! L cep m...... New York Express...... 6 00pm | *Daily. All others daily, except Sunds ay. Sleeping cars run on Atlantie and Pacifie ex press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7 700 am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct Communication made at Detroit with all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division. ) A. ALmguist, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. CHICAGO ANDOWEST MICHIGAN R’Y, May 27, 1894 GOING TO CHICAGO. G@Mapidsa_..... : sme _ 1:59pm *11:30pm Chicago. ...... 6. 7:15pm *6:45am RETURNING PROM "C HICAGO. Chicaro........ |... 7:35am 4:55pm *11:45pm Gd Rapids. ........2:25pm 10:20pm = *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON, Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:50pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... ‘9:53am 2 25pm 10:20pm TRAVERSE CITY, ¢ /HARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Ar. Lv. Ar. Ly. Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Manistee. . 12:20pm Ll 8:15pm ax. Traverse City. .. 12:40pm 8:45pm Ar. Charlevoix...... oom... 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey 3: — ; - 11:40pm Arrive from Petoskey , Ctc., 1:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. ToChicago,lv.G.R.. 7:25am 1:50pm *11:3¢pm ToPetoskey ly.G.Kh.. 7:30am 3:iipm ........ To G. R..lv. Chicago. 7:35am 4:55pm *11:45pm ToG. R..lv. Petoskey 5:00am 1:30pm *Every day. Other trains week days only. DETROIT FEB. 11, 1894 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am *1:20pm 5:25pm Ar, Dewow............. 11:40am *5:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit. .... ----. €:40am *1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids. os 12:40pm *5:15pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8ST, LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. GR.11:40am 10:55pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. RB. Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ay from Lowell.......... 12:40pm G:iSpm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. *Kvery day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t i eee GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. +No. 14|tNo. 16|tNo. 18; [*No. 82 Trains Leave G@’d Rapids, Lv 6 45am) 10 20am) 3 25pm| 11 00pm Ionia ........AT| 740am]11 25am} 4 27pm/12 35am St. dohns....Ar 8 25am 1217pm} 520pm) 1 25am Owoee> ....../ Ar| 900am} 1 20pm| 3 05pm| 3 10am E. Saginaw..Ar }10 50am _—_ 8 00pm) 6 40am Bay City.....Ar| 111 32am] 4 35pm 8 37pm) 7 15am Flint . no ae /10 05am 3 45pm} 7 05pm) 5 4?am Pt. Huron...Ar |12 05pm 550pm| 850pm)} 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar {10 53am 305pm) 8 25pm) 5 37am Desror....... Ar |11 50am 405pm| 9 9 25pm} 7 00am WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate Pe. 17:30 &. m. Kor Grand Haven and Muskegon Wane jin :00 p. m. a. 355 p. m. - . « 6Chicago and waar kee, Wis.. *7:30 p. m. For Grand Haven and Milwaukee,t10:05 p. m. For Grand Haven (Sunday only)...... &:00 a. m. +Dally except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10 a, m., 3:16 p.m. and 10:50 p. m. Sunday, "only, 8:00 a, m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet 12:50 car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 WagnerS . Jas. CAMPBELL, City Tc Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana TRAINS GOING NORTH. Leave going North Wor MGOWMOW eon ow icc cece icc ec cccences 7:40 a. m. For Traverse City and Saginaw.... ooo 4200 DL a. Te I ak es peice re eae eta 10:25 p. m. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Leave going South. EO — 7:00 a .m. For Kalamazoo and Ohicago... ...... For Fort Wayne and the Kast........... ee Come For Kalamasoo and Chicago................ Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids........ 7: = am £:30p _ “11:40 pm her Clseeee............. 2:00pm 9:00pn 7:10am 2:30 p m “foun has through Wagner Butfet Parlor Oar and coach. 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car and Coach. Lv Chicago 6:50 am 3:30 p m 11:30 pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:00 pm 9:15 pm 6:55 a m 3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car. 11:30 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 7:35 am 9:40am 4:40 pm iano THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TESINON IN YOUR STATIONE i ‘Way It’s first-class stock. USE It’s easy to write upon. It’s always the same. IT It’s a credit to your business. ON It always gi _ o stock, the price is nothing. ves $3 PEANY Wl 66 Look For the Watermark 19 2RY +f We control it in this locality. Your N Heads. Your Rckies LLleads. Your Legal Blanks. Your Checks and Drafts vote satisfaction, and, compared with other Ho They Raise Poultry Your Neck of the Woods ? 0.L. LOOK WOOD, Genera! Passenger and Ticket Agent. j The TRADESMAN COPIPANY, Buy all the first-class Poultry you can get and ship tome. 1 want it and will pay highest market price. F, J. DETTENTHALER, 117 and 119 Monroe St. v Your Autograph ? < i Fa on a btite C Chain These are samples of autographs we engrave to order. Can be used for all kinds of printing. PRICE $1.50 If desired we can furnish rubber stamp of same and = 6 a » pad for $1 Extra. ‘ WAS ANA In ordering write name — two or three times in ink. oo C fl Ce ‘ Grand Rapids. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis- --index of the Markets. Special Corresponcence New York, June 9—The situation in grocery jobbing circles remains in about the same condition that has character- ized it for a long period, and during the past week nothing has oecurred to break the monotony of the prevailing dullness. Local attention—even national- be- ing given to the legislative investigation now being conducted in this city regard- ing the police department. There is be- ing uncovered what seems to be one the foulest spectacles ever presented to} the American people. For years it has been common that policemen | were in the habit of receiving blackmail from keepers of disorderly houses, saloons, etc., in exchange for protection. | It is well known that some- | thing” to get to be a policeman, and much as $10,000 is stated to be given acaptaincy. It is such exhibitions this that add to the prevailing discontent and rightly. It come to the point where a policeman not respected, if there ever was such atime; he is toler- | ated, and looked upon with about as} much regard as a or brothel | keeper. Dealers Congress is of | report report it **“costs as for as sees vas is salocn i complain the handicap} keeps upon trade, and they have so complained ever since December. | The Sugar Trust, by even our} Democratie papers, is being more care-} fully attended to than they dared hope, | and the amount of money they will) pocket if the Senate programme is car- ried out is simply fabulous. In nothing has there been important hange, and the report sent from Chicago | hat apples in that town were worth $50 a barrel created no excitement, for who is surprised at anything Chicago may do? It is even stated that Eugene Hall} of the Grocers’ Criterion has cut off his | whiskers. Coffee continues its downward course} in sympathy with foreign markets. For} No. 7 Rio, 15%c¢ prevails. Sugar isina variable mood, and most daily changes are being made by| the Wholesalers’ Association. The | tendency at the moment is toward firmer | prices for refined. Demand grows} slightly better as the canning season ap- | >roaches. Butter is a trifle firmer, and an ad-| vance of Ic a pound bas been made since! of it is said i | c ¢ L | | | | | | | | i | | | | } | | al-| last writing, the rate for best Elgin and State being 18c. Cheese, if full is in fair demand, but very slow on other | Fancy, 9i¢c. Eggs have been in| less liberal receipt, and at the moment | the market is firm at l4c for best West- | ern. Canned goods are in limited demand, | both for spot and futures. e anxiety | is felt as to the result of the great floods | in the Northwest upon the salmon fish- eries and holders are inclined to talk | higher prices, or at | are not] anxious at The new pack of peas is reported excellent, and | so of all other stuff that is now being put | up. It is refreshing to get reports from | Baltimore that are not full of complain-| drought and bugs and cut- | i sorts. som least they sellers low rates. ings about worms. In dried fruits fancy evaporated | apples are held at 144@l5ec, and are} fairly steady. The remainder of the} line is dul] and there is hardly any in- quiry for anything on the list. New potatoes are in very liberal sup- ply. and are selling for $3@4.50 per bbl. —a decline of 50c. Other vegetables are in abundant supply and at low} prices. | While the demand for lemons remains moderate, holders are guite firm in their views, holding within a range of $1.90@ 3.50, asto size and condition. Oranges, bananas and pineapples are all meeting with a fair trade. On June 1 the holdings of raw sugar at the four ports amounted to 273,400} tons, against 86,010 tons last year. This is a straw, but it shows that the Sugar} Trust is casting an anchor to the wind-| ward. Ay. | > i | Use Tradesman Coupon Books. | | for ; and all will be benefited. | Michigan State Pharmacentical cream, | | } Timot | doz. | has completely died out. | @1.50and are in fair supply. | supply Call for Convention of Retail Grocers. CLARE, June 5—You are requested to meet at Clare on Wednesday, June 13, at 2 o'clock p. m.,in Doherty’s Opera House, with the grocerymen of Ithaca, St. Louis, Alma, Shepherd, Mt. Pleasant, Clare, Reed City, Howard City, Greenville, Stanton, Carson City, Big Rapids, Evart, Cadillac, LeRoy, Marion, Harrison, Far- well, Coleman and Midland, for the pur- pose of forming an association of the grocerymen of the above cities and towns social and financial benefit. We every groceryman to be_ pres- as it will be an interesting meeting We are aware urge ent, | that the wholesale grocers are thoroughly organized and it now stands us in hand to be up and doing and be in line to pro- tect ourselves. Wecan meet every six |} months, or as often as we so desire, in any one of the above cities. Be sure and come and represent your business in person and have a good time. Railroads will give 1}¢ fare. J. F. TATMAN, J. MASON, JAMES Boyn, Local Committee. _> 2. — " To Be Held in Detroit. The next annual of the Associa- tion will be held at Detroit, Sept. 18 to 21, inclusive. This convention information is furnished by Dorian M. Russell, prescription clerk for Thum & Reichel, who is a member of the Committee on Pharmacy. Secretary Thompson has been written |to repeatedly in regard to the matter, both by THE TRADESMAN and by former officers of the Association, but in no case has he taken the trouble to make any reply whatever to the enquiries. > > The Drug Market. Opium is dull and lower. Morphia is unchanged. Salicylate soda has been reduced 10¢ per pound by the makers on account of the decline in salicylic acid. PRODUCE MARKET. Asparagus—Has dropped to 30c per doz. weather has had its usus!l effect. Strictly hand picked, $1.60@1.75, and held at $1.70@1.85. Beets—New Illinois, 50c per doz. bunches, Beans—Wax, $1.90@2 per bu; String, $1.50 per bushel. Butter—Is very weak. Hot seans— The best dairy can be bought for 10@12¢ and no other is wanted at any price. Many dealers are putting itin cold stor- age, preferring to hold it until fall than sell it at present low figures. Creamery brings 16@17c, which is fair considering the market for dairy and the generally good quality of dairy butter. Eggs—Dealers pay 94@10c, holding at lic. Field Seeds—Medium and.mammoth clover, $6@6.25; Alsyke, $8@8.50; Alfalfa, %6.7537.50; h $2.15; Red top, %75c; Orchard Grass, $1.89; German Millet, 80@90c; Common Millet, @85e ; Hungarian Grass, $1.10@1.20. Greens—Beets, 69c per bu.; Spinach, 40c per bu Honey—White clover, 14c; buckwheat, 12c. Lettuce—Is getting scarce and is up Ic, now ‘ | bringing 9c. Onions—Californias $2.50 per 2bu. sack, Louisianas, $2 per 1'¢bu sack; green, 12% per doz. bunches Peas—Have dropped 20c being now held at $1.4) per bu. Pie Plant—Dealers pay 25¢ per bu. basket of 60 lbs. holding at 40¢ or 1c per lb for smaller lots Radishes—Home grown are now held at 8c per: buuches Tomatoes—Mississippis have bringing $1.90 per 4 basket crate. Potatoes—Prime bring easily $1 per bu., though they are sold for less by some dealers. Seconds bring 90c. The “potato excitement” New bring from $1.25 fallen off 60c, Pineapples—Sugar loaf pines, the only kind in the market, bring #1.50@2 perdoz. The season | 1g about over. Straw berries—Home grown have driven out- side fruit off the field, and are now in liberal They are held at 10c by local dealers, Continued warm weather will soon bring them | ‘within the reach of all.” (0. CLYDE TUCKER. W. R. SMITH. L. L. WOOD. O. CLYDE TUCKER & CO., Commission Merchants, 8 South lonia St. Grand Rapids, Mish. Telephone 39 GENTLEMEN :— Kindly examine testimonials given = Note good prices and below. that we have pleased our shippers by getting making quick returns. We want your business, and we guar- antee to please you. We make liberal advances on consign- ments when desired. We refer you to the American, Adams, all r National and United States Express Companies, and 2 ~ wholesale houses inthis city, who can tell,you as to our sponsibility. We are the only house in the city handling pork, Veal, poultry and game on commission. _Cold’storage_in connection. Very truly yours, O. C. Tucker & Co. GRAND Rapips, Mich., June 11, 1894. We have always found O. Ciyde Tucker & Co. reliable and prompt in their business transactions at this bank. Having known Mr. Tucker for several years, we believe that any business in his line intrusted to him will be satisfactorily at- tended to. GRAND Rapips Nat’. BANK, By F. M. Davis, Cashier. PIERSON, Mich., Feb. 8, 1894, 0. C. Tocker & Co., DEAR Sirs:—Yours received with check for $50, for which accept thanks. I have shipped you nearly 4,000 dozen eggs within the last two months. You have proyen yourselves a good honest firm (something unusual), and what | have to ship to Grand Rapids will consign to you. Respectfully yours, E. E. WEED. STANWOOD, Mich., Feb. 7, 1894. 0. C. Tucker & Co., GENTLEMEN:—Yours received this morning with check enclosed. Please accept thanks for doing so well with the eggs. Shall be glad to ship you our overstock of produce whenever we have any. Yours truly, BURGHDOF & MITCHELL. WAYLAND, Mich., Feb. 9, 1894. To SpHipPERsS OF PropuckE, Pouttry, Erc:— This is to certify that 1 have dealt with O. C. Tucker & Co., of Grand Rapids, quite extensively, and am not partial in saying that they have dealt honestly and obtained better prices for everything I have sent them than I could have obtained myself, though having years of experience and quite a circle of friends in their market. Therefore | cheerfully recommend them to all new shippers accordingly. JOHN C. YEAKEY. FREEPORT, Mich., Feb. 9, 1894. To Tue TRADE IN GENERAL:— We have had considerable dealings with O. C. Tucker & Co. and have found them reliable and prompt in their settlements. We give them the main portion of our commission business in Grand Rapids. YARGER Bros. & HERRICK. To WuHom Ir MAy CoNCERN:— We have known O. C. Tucker & Co. and dealt with them for a number of years, and have found them straight in business, making quicker and better returns than we could get from Chicago, Buffalo or New York. WILEY & JACKSON. SEBEWA, Mich,, Feb. 12, 1894. To WxHom 1T May ConcEeRN:— This is to say I have shipped to O. C. Tucker & Co. a y great deal of produce, and have been well pleased with the results. I think they have always secured me the top market price, and they have been very prompt in remitting as soon as sold. I expect to favor them often for thecoming year. Respectfully, F. N. CORNELL. 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Merchants interested in supplying their ; , j . customers with satisfactory goods, at a reasonable profit to themselves, . - . . 1 » » will find that the Peerless Brand is a good article to purchase end a ; , ? reliable one to sell. Prepared and guaranteed by the New York Condensed Milk Co. E’" For QuoTATIONS SEE PRICE COLUMNS. ASTORE run one: If so and you are endeavoring to get along without using our improved Coupon Book system, you are making a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the coupon book plan and are the largest manufacturers of these books in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business. SAMPLES FREE. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. a SR 2 | | | |