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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,

“OLD JUG” JURD’N.

“Old Jug’? Jurd’n will not be forgotten
for many generations in that region of
the backwoods where his long life was
spent. His individuality impressed itself
so strongly upon his contemporaries that
his fame is handed down from father to
son. And all ‘‘by word of mouth;’’ for
he and his associates and their ancestors
were spotlessly innocent of any vestige
of book learning. Nor was the man in
the least conscious of the fact that he
was unique and making a lasting mark
in the memories of his countrymen. No
thirst for posthumous or other distine-
tion disturbed the tenor of life.
Fame? He never heard the word; and if
seme philosopher had been curious
enough to sound him upon it he would
have been as far from comprehending the
subject as an ox.

his

His real was Jordan,
doubt, but he was not, and could not
have been made, aware of it. To him
life was real and earnest. It was prac-
tical, homely fact, to be handled from
day to day purely for his own material
selfish advantage. He never had the
faintest glimpse into the vexatious re-
gions of speculation. What were the
problems of past and future to “Old Jug?”
He went to his grave ignorant that such
existed. Once at a baptizing in a creek
near his farm house the people joined
fervently in singing.

name beyond

On Jurd’n’s stormy banks [ stand,
and a neighbor said to him jokingly:

***‘Jug,’ don’t you reckin’ some 0’ your
ole gran’daddies was named a’ter the
river Jurd’n?”’’

But ‘Old Jug’s” thoughts were prac-
tical. After meditating a moment he re-
marked:

‘41 gosh, boys, but didn’t it
Must uh ben uh reg’ler harrikin.”’

Why he was called ‘‘Old Jug” nobody
seemed ever to know. Whether the
name came to him in manhood, after his
passionate affection for corn-juice had
made itself manifest to his neighbors, or
whether it attached to him from infancy
because of his life-long resemblance toa
jug of the squatty order, I cannot under-
take to say, but to the oldest inhabitant
of the remote section where he lived he
was known far and near by that name.

blow?

In appearance he was not far removed
from a monstrosity. Why such a walk-
ing caricature of human flesh should have
been turned loose in the world must ever
remain a puzzle. <A hippopotamus is not
more unaccountable than was ‘-Old Jug’’
Jurd’n. But if his physical construc-
tion was strange, what shall be thought
of the fact that that clumsy and hideous
carcass was tenanted by a powerful in-
tellect, undaunted courage, wonderful
cunning, and the masterful qualities of
leadership?

To the end of his days he wore the old-
fashioned ‘‘flap” breeches. His head was
covered at all seasons by a black wool
slouched hat; his shirts were of coarse
white or checked cotton, fastened with
rice buttons, and his outer clothing of

 

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TAT ey

JUNE

homespun woolen or cotton as the season
demanded.

However, notwithstanding the life-
long dictatorship which this singular
man enjoyed, to the day of his death
close observers were in doubt as to
whether or not he was really dangerous.
Some said after he was buried that he
had been only a natural and consummate
actor, Sureit is that he never slew a
human being, and the numerous fights
in which he engaged in the pioneer days
of fifty years ago, though under his com-
mand, were performed by others’ fists.
Without knowledge of a letter of a book,
he acted accordance
with Polonius’ philosophy about avoid-
ing quarrels, but so punishing one’s enemy
when forced to fight as to make him be-
ware of one in the future.

spontaneously in

Once, early in his career, and before
his individualism had burst into full
bloom, a determined fellow faced him
with admirable pluck, and “Old Jug”
(who never got excited) grinning and
glaring in his truly terrible manner at
the offender, drawled out:

‘Jim, it’s the fust time y’ uver run
uhgin me. A’ll let y’ off this wunst.
But I gosh, ef y’ uver do it uhgin A’ll
whup you out’n the settlement!’’

“Right now’s uh mighty good time tuh
try it,” replied Jim.

‘‘Lay holt tuh ’im, boys,” said ‘Old
Jug’? to the bystanders, who had no in-
terest whatever in the quarrel. They
hesitated, and ‘‘Old Jug’s” blue eyes
dilated and took on a paler hue; his grin

became more pronounced, his nostrils
quivered, and he roared out:
**T gosh, d’ yuh heer me, men? Yuh

white-livered cowards! Ef yuh don’t lay
holt tuh ’im I’{l wallup the last darn one
oO yuh!”

And ‘Old Jug’s’’ neighbors lashed the
rebel out of the neighborhood never to
return.

This man’s animal vigor was tremen-
dous; his powers as an eater were never
fathomed, and his intellectual activities
seemed proportioned to his capacity to
assimilate food. He kept books in his
head, and figured accurately about lum-
ber, acreage, interest, percentage, etc.,
He was a

usurious

by processes purely mental.

broad business manager, and
money lender, a hard bargainer, an un-
rivaled collector, a considerable prop-
erty owner. With him business meant
getting, holding and increasing. He was
totally without sentiment, either natural
or acquired. One of his favorite modes
of profit-gathering was the buying of
doubtful notes and accounts for a trifle
and then pursuing the debtor unmerciful-
ly in the courts and otherwise. But he
was not ignorant of the limits of his
power, and he showed great prudence
and sagacity when at a considerable
distance from his ‘‘kingdom.” He was
once prosecuting a speculative claim
before a justice in a county where he
was a total stranger. The case excited
eonsiderable feeling in the community,
being against a poor widow, and a large

 

 

NO. 561

crowd of country folk were assembled at
the cross-roads’ school house on Saturday
to witness the trial. ‘Old Jug” mingled
with the people a little while, listening
to their expressions, and then whispered
to his lawyer:

‘Joe, the hoss’s eye’s sot.
uhgin us. Ef they want tuh
don’t make no trouble.”’

But even Napoleon and Kobert E. Lee
were finally conquered, and it should,
therefore, not be thought strangeif “Old
Jug’’ Jurd’n met his match at last. For
once his pale blue eye quailed, and his
cruel mouth omitted to grin.

When a certain large
was first brought into communication
with the rural districts, multitudes of
country people made haste to take a look
at the wonders of metropolitan life, and,
strange to relate, ‘‘Old Jug’? was among
these curious adventurers. In lieu of
trunk or valise he took with him the old
pair of saddle-bags which had served
him in his long horseback rides for many
years. They were heavily laden—-with
what will be disclosed further on. But
that part of the bulky contents was
whisky was made sure by “Old Jug’s”
remark to the friends accompanying him
as he got on the train.

“I gosh, boys, I got some fustrate lic-
quor here. Mebbe they ain’t got none
in Orleans.”’

It’s sot
‘comp’

Southern city

Arrived in the city he managed some-
how to find a hotel, and there met a
gentleman whom he had long known.

‘‘Mr. Jones,” said “Old Jug,’ ‘I’m
uh gwine tu come en see yuh to-night
et yo’ room.’? And what could poor
Jones do but assent politely?

And sure enough, sat in his
apartment about half-past nine, “Old
Jug” wadeled in with the heavy saddle-
bags on his arm, and followed by four
or five of his country friends.

“T gosh, Mr. he drawled,
“mighty glad tuh find yuh down here.
I ben uh havin’ uh pow’ful good time,
but I nuver was so hongry in my life,
I ben uh eat’n oystyers en sich lak uver
sense night sot in, but them things don’t
do me no good utall. En now, I gosh,
we're goin’ tuh hey some supper, en yuh
mus’ jine us.’’

And drawing a table into the center
of the room ‘‘Old Jug’’ began to spread
the contents of the saddle-bag. First
he drew out two quart bottles of whisky.
Next, a peck or more of baked sweet
potatoes. Then four or five loaves of
browned corn bread, a quantity of boiled
turnip ‘‘greens,” a large chunk of
boiled bacon, several bottles of butter-
milk, and other articles of country fare
brought from home.

? ”

as he

Jones,”’

The host smethered his amazement as
well as he could, tasted the bottle as it
passed around, and watched the feast
with all the patience and politeness he

could summon.
“Old Jug” and his friends had been

drinking before they came to the room,
but after they began to eat they passed
the bottle frequently, and began to be
boisterous.

    

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“Jug,” said Mr. Jones mildly, ‘‘there
is a sick lady in the next room. I have
heard her coughing. I hope you and
your, friends will be as quiet as possi-
ble.”

“Uh sick ’oman, Mr. Jones? I gosh,
she better git uh doctor,” growled ‘Old
Jug,’’ laughing with
And before long there was a knock on
the door

‘“Who’s dar?” called ‘Old Jug.”’

The door opened and a gentleman
stepped into the room. He was attired
in a night-shirt.

“Wy, he’s fixed up lak uh ’oman?’
roared ‘Old Jug,’’ full of laughter.

“Gentlemen,” said the man, without
notice of the rude remark, ‘‘my wife and
I occupy the adjoining room. She is very
sick, and noises distract her. 1 beg that
you make less disturbance,’ and he van-
ished. But the hilarity continued de-
spite the appeals of the wretched Jones,
and again the anxious husband appeared.

“Gentlemen,” he said, more earnestly
than before, and with considerable feel-
ing, ‘‘l beg you again to stop your noise.
I tell you my-wife is dangerously ill.
She is very low with consumption, and
must have rest. Will you hear me, or
not?”

There was silence. Even ‘Old Jug”
seemed awed, and after gazing fixedly at
the disturbed revelers for half a minute,
the gentleman again vanished.

But John Barleycorn would not down,
and “Old Jug” was angry at the
thought that his friends should see him
outdone. He passed the bottle again,
and his whole party, under his lead,
burst out in ribald songs and laughter.

And suddenly the door was kicked
open, and the infuriated husband stood
in the opening with a cocked and leveled
revolver in each hand. He was raging.

“J have been polite to you,’’ he said.
“7 have called you gentlemen. You are
not gentlemen! You are scoundrels!
Now clear out at once!’

And they did, precipitately, ‘‘Old Jug”
leading the way, and forgetting his
precious saddle-bags.

Henry CLay FAIRMAN.

his companions.

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IN LINE FOR ACTION.

 

Organization of the Northern Michigan
Retail Grocers’ Association.

In response to acall issued by a com-
mittee of the retail grocers of Clare, the
following grocery houses assembled at
Doherty’s Opera House last Wednesday
afternoon:

M. O. McFarland, Coleman.

G. W. Halstead, A. S. Rhodes, Mason
& Boyd, D. McPhail, J. Horning, J. F.
Piper, Van Brunt & Son, Bicknell & Co.,
J. F. Tatman, C. S. Chase, Clare.

F. M. Taylor, Shepherd.

Frank Smith, Gustafson & Olson, Le-
roy.

Cc. J. Fleischhauer, H.
John Marin, Reed City.

S. E. Parish, Ithaca.

T. Bergy, Kane Bros., Frank A.
Sweeney, R. D. Balmer, Mt. Pleasant.

N. H. Beebe, Big Rapids.

The meeting was called to order by J.
F. Tatman, who stated that the primary
object in view in assembling the grocers
was the crisis brought about by the pro-
mulgation of the cartage rule by the
Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Associa-
tion. Not only should that subject re-
ceive attention, but some means should
be taken to elevate the retail trade. He
then called upon Mayor Alward, who de-
livered a cordial address of welcome,
tendering the visitors the keys to the

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city and asking them to enjoy every
moment while in Clare.

Theelection of temporary officers re-
sulted in the selection of Mr. Tatman for
Chairman and E. A. Stowe for Secretary.

The Chairman called upon E. A.
Stowe for an and that gentle-
man spoke briefly on the benefits of or-
ganization, citing the careers of the
Michigan Business Men’s Association
and the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’
Association as showing what can be done
by concerted action among grocers and
business men.

Cc. S. Chase moved that all grocers
present be entitled to voice and vote,
which was adopted.

Frank Smith moved that the delegates
present proceed to organize an Associa-
tion to be known as the Northern Michi-
gan Retail Grocers’ Association, which
was adopted. Considerable discussion
followed on the scope the Association
should take, whether it should be repre-
sentative or made up on a delegate basis.
It was finally decided te follow the plan
of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

F. M. Taylor moved that the Chairman
appoint a committee of five to draft con-
stitution and by-laws and prepare proper
resolutions. The motion was adopted
and the Chairman appointed as such
committee Messrs. Parish, Niergarth,
Smith, McFarland and Stowe.

The meeting then adjourned for an
hour to give the Committee on Consti-
tution and By-laws opportunity to pre-
pare areport.

On reassembling, the Committee
recommended a draft of constitution and
by-laws, which was adopted after some
discussion. The same Committee pre-
sented the following resolutions, which
were, also, unanimously adopted:

address,

Resolved—That we tender our hearty
thanks to the Mayor and grocerymen of
Clare for the cordial welcome and enter-
tainment accorded us on the occasion of
our preliminary meeting.

Resolved—That we heartily approve of
the present method of selling sugar at
wholesale, known as the Equality plan,
as it renders the price uniform in all
towns and under all circumstances.

Resolved—That while we desire to ac-
cord our friends of the wholesale grocery
trade the fullest measure of protection
and:the largest voiume of legitimate
profit, we desire to place ourselves on
record as questioning the expediency of
the recent rule promulgated by the Mich-
igan Wholesale Grocers’ Association,
making a charge for cartage and taking
the collections out of the hands of the
traveling men.

Resolved—That this question be made
the special subject of discussion at the
next meeting.

Resolved—That we place ourselves on
record as utterly opposed to the cutting
of prices and all other unbusinesslike
methods to draw trade and that we recom-
mend the formation of local associations
in each town having for their object the
maintenance of uniform prices on sugar
and other staple articles; also for pro-
tection against dead beats and poor pay
customers.

Resolved—That we solicit the co-opera-
tion of the wholesale grocery trade in
shutting off cutters and influencing them
to reform their ways and sell goods at
legitimate prices.

Messrs. Sweeney and Mason suggested

| the adoption of a feature providing for

the organization of local branches.

N. H. Beebe commended this sug-
gestion, but thought it undesirable to
provide for local organizations in the
sense that the parent organization makes
it obligatory upon grecers in all towns
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would lead to such organization, judg-
ing by the experience of the Michigan
Business Men’s Association, which did
effective work but was too generalin its
membership to achieve the full
of success.

measure

As the annual election of officers will
not occur until the first Tuesday in
August—the date set for the first regu-
lar meeting—temporary officers to serve
until that time were elected as follows:

President—J. F. Tatman, Clare.

Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—Frank Smith, Leroy.

The selection of the next place of
meeting being then in order, E. A.
Stowe invited the Association to meet at
Grand Rapids. Mr. Niergarth presented
an invitation to meet at Reed City. Mr.
Parish presented the claims of Ithaca.
Mr. Beebe invoked the members to con-
sider Big Rapids in that connection, and
Mr. Bergy, in his official capacity as
Mayor and in his private capacity as
grocer, asked the Association to convene
in Mt, Pleasant. ‘Two informal ballots
were taken, resulting in the selection of
Mt. Pleasant.

On motion of Mr. Bicknell, the Secre-
tary was instructed to have printed the
constitution and by-laws, blank applica-
tions and other necessary circulars and
blanks, making draft on the Treasurer
therefor.

The local Committee on Arrangements
was instructed to procure reduced rail-
way rates, if possible, for the. next meet-
ing, and in the meantime the officers of
the Association were instructed to pur-
sue an aggressive campaign in securing
new members.

Any grocer or grocery firm doing busi-
ness in Northern Michigan (which shall
be construed to mean all that territory in
the Lower Peninsula north of and con-
tiguous to the line of the D-, G. H. & M.
Railway) may become a member of the
Association by paying to the Secretary
$1 annual dues (the fiscal year to be from
July 1 to July 1 of each year).

As foreshadowed in the resolutions
adopted, it is the intention of the Asso-
ciation to co-operate with the Michigan
Wholesale Grocers’ Association in shut-
ting off cutters and in securing a uniform
price on sugar and other staple articles
in all towns located within the juris-
diction of the organization.

Conventions will be held twice a year,
and in all probability the winter conven-
tion will be held at Big Rapids, Reed
City, Cadillac or Traverse City, it being
the intention of the originators of the
movement to distribute the meetings
throughout the territory covered as
equitably as possible.

Tuer TRADESMAN heartily approves of
the movement, as it believes it will re-
sult in much good to the retail trade,
both in an educational way and in the
stimulus it will give the formation of
local organizations of retail grocerymen,
having for their objects the maintenance
of prices, the curtailment of credit and
the extinction of dead-beats. With this
end in view, THE TRADESMAN offers to
furnish gratuitously blank forms of con-
stitutions and by-laws suitable for locai
organizations of this character, and it
also holds itself in readiness to respond
to any calls for assistance or advice
along this line at any time.

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Many a man who claims that he is

willing to die for his country refuses to
live for it in a way that will benefit it.

The Largest
Manufacturers of

COCOA and
CHOCOLATE

IN THIS COUNTRY,

have received from the
Judges of the

World’s
Columbian
Exposition

The Highest Awards

(Medals and Diplomas)

on each of the following articles,
namely:

BREAKFAST COCOA,
PREMIUM NO. | CHOCOLATE,
GERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE,
VANILLA CHOCOLATE,
COCOA BUTTER,

For “ purity of material,” “excellent
flavor,” and “uniform even composi-
tion.”

SOLD BY CROCERS EVERYWHERE.

WALTER BAKER & CO.,
DORCHESTER, MASS.

The Poorest Man

On Earth
Can afford the BEST salt.

The Richest Man

On Earth
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GENERAL AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICH.

 

   

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

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

 

pation. PROF. G. BIRKHOLZ,
Re-~ 1011 Mascaic Temple, Cuicaac

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMaN.

WALTER BAKER & C0. ¢

  

 

Flags —

for'schools, buildings, halls and pri-
All wool, standard bunt
ings, Sizes from 2x3 to 20x36.
MUSLIN flags on sticks, sizes from Nos.
1to 12. These pay the retailer from 75 to 100 per cent. profit.

vate use.

Red, white and blue bunting by the yard for trimming
store fronts, halls and schools; also tri-colors in each piece.
Prices range from 3 to 10¢ per yard.

Red, white and blue ribbons, solid Or tri-colors. Nos. 5,
7,9 and 12. Write for prices.

P. Steketee & Sons,

Grand Rapids, [lich.

MICHAEL KOLB & SON,
Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER, N. Y.
ESTABLISHED 37 YEARS.

 

All Mail Orders Promptly Attended to.

Our representative, William Connor, who resides at Mar-
shall, Mieh., will be pleased to wait upon you if you will favor
him with a line to do so, and should he not have what you re-
quire will thank you for looking through our line. Perfect

fit and excellent garments. Low Prices Guaranteed.

 

   

Granip, Yaripss Murex,
We pay Highest Market Prices in Spot Cash and measure bark
when Loaded.

Correspondence Solicited.

Lansing, Mich.

 

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

J. M. Eartx, President and Gen’l Manager.
E. D. Voorners, Superintendent.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Clio—E. A. Young has sold his grocery
stock to A. Kellogg.

Whitehall—W. B. Conley has sold his
drug stock to C. G. Pitkin.

Gladstone—J. A. Stewart succeeds J.
A. Stewart & Co. in the drug business.

Republic—J. A. Kingstedt succeeds
Kingstedt & Hocking in general trade.

Kewadin—W. I. Osborne has removed
his grocery stock from Bellaire to this
place.

Edmore—S. D. Salisbury
chased the drug business
Crotser.

Owosso—Francis M. Wheeler has pur-
chased the hardware stock of Wheeler &
Lovett.

Lansing—Frank Z. Thompson suc-
ceeds Thompson & Palen in the meat
business.

Marshall—A. J. Robinson succeeds
Robinson & Townsend in the hardware
business.

Otsego—J. D. Woodbeck and J. Car-
ruthers have formed a copartnership and
will embark in the produce and com-
mission business.

Quincy—Greening & Hyslop, druggists
and grocers, have dissolved, Robert
Hyslop continuing the business.

Berrien Springs—Hindelmann & Cohn
have opend a grocery store. Sprague,
Warner & Co. furnished the stock.

Ishpeming—John Beal will conduct a
grocery, confectionery and fruit store in
the building recently vacated by Ed. P.
Biegler.

Belding—G. T. Owen is disposing of
his stock of groceries and will retire trom
business here to engage in another busi-
ness elsewhere.

Paw Paw—J. F. Bullard has pur-
chased the grocery stock of A. D. Mun-
ger & Co. and will continue the business
at the same location.

Otsego—John S. Linton has sold his
boot and shoe stock to Arthur Harding,
late of Martin, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Cheboygan—Arthur R. Gerow has or-
dered machinery suitable for the manu-
facture of candy and will shortly open a
wholesale and retail confectionery store.

Manistee—Cron Bros., furniture deal-
ers, will dissolve July 1. Cris Cron will
locate at St. Paul, Minn., and Fred Cron
will continue the business at the same
location.

Benton Harbor—C. C. Sweet has
added a grocery stock to his department
store. He now has departments supplied
with dry goods, furnishings, hardware
and groceries.

Flint—S. N. and A. G. Andrews have
formed a copartnership under the style
of Andrews Bros. and opened a drug and
grocery store in the building formerly
occupied by J. J. Kerkey.

lonia—Henry Canfield has purchased
a half interest in the meat business of
W. F. Scammell. The new firm will
be known as Scammell & Canfield and
will shortly add a line of groceries.

MecBain—E. De Leon has purchased
the interest of C. L. DeLeon in the drug
firm of De Leon & Co. and will continue
the business under the style of E. De
Leon. The retiring partner assumes the
indebtedness of the former firm.

Lansing—The Board of Education, the
Superintendent and teachers in the city
schools and the federated council of
churches

has pur-
«kk &

have declared war upon to-

cigarettes to minors. A boy was
brought before one of the justices of the
peace last Saturday and gave the names
of several dealers of whom he had been

| in the habit of buying cigarettes. Ar-

rests will follow as soon as the warrants
can be prepared.

Mancelona (Herald)—Vendors of bank-
rupt and shoddy clothing have been
plying their vocation in town during the
week past. Their patronage, however,
has been a little slim, as many have
learned from sad experience that it
doesn’t always pay to invest in shoddy,
“misfit”? goods even though they are
‘‘shost as scheep ish dirt.’? Still, no
matter how old the game or how gauzy
the inducements to invest, they always
manage to do some business, especially
in a rural community where will be
found a class who have yet to learn that
appearances are sometimes decertive,
and who, because of their ignorance and
guileless innocence, prove easy victims to
the seductive charms of the wandering
fakir—no matter whether his ‘‘lay’’ be
three-card-monte, the shell or thimble
racket, or whether his mission be to
supply the needy with shop-worn ‘“‘hand-
me-downs”’ at a margin of 200 per cent.
But then, ‘‘experience is the best of
teachers,” for it is indeed rare that a
man bites twice on the same game.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Detroit—Tho Jenks & Muir Manufac-
turing Co. has been organized for the
manufacture of iron and brass bedsteads,
springs, ete. The capital stock is $50,-
000, of which some $30,000 has been paid
in.

Traverse City—The Acme Potato
Planter Co. has purchased the patents
on the Knapsack potato bug_ sprink-

ier of Wm. W. Gillis. of Cadillac,
and will transfer the business to
this city and handle it in connection

with their own device. The Acme com-
pany is composed of enterprising busi-
ness men whc richly deserve the success
they are achieving.
—_— —~ +4 <<

The Jas. Stewart Co. Again in Line.

SAGINAW, June 18—The excitement in
jobbing circles, growing out of the
resignation of the Jas. Stewart Co. from
the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Asso-
ciation has subsided, the Stewart Co.
having recalled its resignation and re-
sumed its former connection with the
State organization. It should not be in-
ferred, however, that the seceding cor-
poration was not justified in the stand it
had taken. On the contrary, the Execu-
tive Committee of the Michigan Whole-
sale Grocers’ Association found that com-
petitors of the Stewart Co. were violat-
ing the sugar agreement in a flagrant
manner, leaving no other course open to
the Stewart Co. but to resign from the
Association, which it did. Ample amends
having been made by those who had
violated the agreement and proper as-
surances given that further violations
would not again occur, the Stewart Co.
was pursuaded to restore equality prices
and resume its former connection with
the other wholesale grocers of the State.
The adjustment is considered a happy
one for all concerned and it is to be
hoped that the pressure of competition
will not cause further outbreaks.
><

A Matter of Life Insurance.

“Carry any life insurance?’’

**Yes, $10,000 in favor of my wife.’’

“Should think you’d be ashamed to
look her in the face.”’

**Wha—what for?’’

“For living. What excuse do you

 

 

give her?”’

 

—- 2. >

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

bacco dealers who have been selling |

 

The Principle of the Thing.

There had been a somewhat serious
conflagration in a wild Western town, at
which the citizens had turned out and
worked with a will to save property,
even carrying kegs of powder from the
burning store.

When the final destruction of the
building left them free to attend to
other matters, a quasi-philaniropist
joined a crowd that he saw dragging
away a man who was resisting them and
pleading piteously for mercy.

‘“‘What are you going to do with that
man?” inquired the q. p.

‘“‘To give him the jeegrabbedest big-
gest kind of a whippin’,” replied the
leader of the growd.

‘*What has he done?”’’

“The jambed sneak was caught steal-
in’ some of the stuff we saved from the
fire”

‘*What did he steal?’’

‘“‘A box of sardines.”

“Is that all? Surely you don’t mean
to whip the man severely for such a
small matter as a box of sardines.’’

“Sardines be blowed! It’s the prin-
ciple of the thing. The slambanged
whoof of a jabtit would have stole whales
if he could have got them in cans!’

ol _
Gripsack Brigade.

L. F. Burek, of Owosso, has engaged
to travel for Thos. F. Walbran, manu-
facturer of seamless hosiery at Oriskany,
my.

Percy D. Wells, of Greenville, has en-
gaged to travel for the Peerless Manu-
facturing Co., of Detroit, covering the
trade of Western and Southern Michi-
gan.

Geo. W. Stowitts (Western Suspender
and Neckware Co.) is taking a fortnight’s
vacation, prior to starting out with his
fall line about July 1. Heis putting in
the time at Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and
Port Huron and is accompanied by his
wife.

R. L. Hickman, a traveling man, while
stopping at the Hotel Vincent, at Sagi-
naw, a few days ago, gave a diamond
pin, valued at $250, to the head clerk of
the hotel, ‘‘Nate’’ Sage, to raffle. It has
since been discovered that the stone
which the winner got was not the one
originally in the pin, and that someone
had substituted a very inferior one for
it. Sage was accused and made a partial
confession. He claimed that he had lost
the good stone, and so purchased a cheap
one to cover up the loss.
>. > ——

From Out of Town.

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

Bates & Troutman, Moline.
E. Young & Son, Ravenna.
Wm. Rademacher, Wright.
Geo. Weitz, Caledonia.
J. F. Reed, Paris.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
N. Bouma, Fishers Station.
G. Walbrink & Sons, Allendale.
Franck & Wesson, Manistee.
Alex Moore, Bauer.
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A San Francisco paper says: ‘‘Samuel
Gompers, who lived by the sweat of his
jaw in this city ona labor agitation, and
is now getting afine salary out of union
labor without labor as president of the
federated trades, in a recent interview
declares that one use of the referendum,
initiative and imperative mandate, will
be to compel ‘the rich’ to loan their sur-
plus wealth to the government witheut
interest. Itisto be hoped that if Mr
Goempers doesn’t see anything else he
wants he will please ask for it.’’

 

 

 

How Bogus Commission Merchants
Piuck Country Shippers.

CuicaGo, June 18—There is consider-
able talk on South Water street about
a combination of fraudulent commission
houses who are doing serious injury to
eountry shippers. They rent office room
in dingy basements or in out of the way
buildings and flood the country with
smoothly mailed circulars telling about
their reliability, their big stores, and
large business. When they get consign-
ments they sell them through other
houses, divide the commissions, and
pocket the proceeds. When a country
shipper comes in to inquire about his
goods he is told that the head of the
house is out of town. If he comes back
in a day or two he is told that the house
has changed hands and that the other
man has left town. For a month the
business is run under one name on South
Water street. The next month the name
changes with the partner on West Ran-
dolph street. The stationery reads the
same at all the places, and the princi-
pals never pay their bills if they can
help it, and are seldom to be found, as
the office is left in charge of a boy or a
lady typewriter, who have instructions
to tell all callers that the proprietor is
out oftown. The post office authorities
should stop these fellows from using the
mails.

 

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That ‘‘Fellow Feeling.”

He was a commercial traveler of the
more flashy type and had just finished
telling a startling story to his newly
made acquaintance in the car.

“That reminds me of one of Mun-
chausen’s yarns,’’ remarked the victim,
for want of something better to say.

‘“‘Munchausen—who is he?’’

“Why, don’t you know about him?
He is the mést colossal example of men-
dacity which civilization has produced.”’

A brief, painful silence ensued, which
was broken by the traveler in a tone
which was almost timid:

‘*Excuse me, my friend, he said, ‘‘if I
seem inquisitive, but would you mind
telling me what house he travels for?”

— _ ©¢ -
The Drug Market.

Gum opium is firm and advanced 10
cents in New York on Friday.

Morphia has declined 10 cents.

All bismuth salts have declined 45
cents per pound, on account of lower
price for the metal.

Saffron has declined.

Linseed oil has advanced and will be
still higher. Seed stocks are low and oil
is in limited supply.

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

H. VerHage has abandoned the flour
and feed business at 251 Lake avenue.
Jacob Myers has put ina similar stock
at the same loaeation.

The McCarger Novelty Co. has re-
ceived a very flattering offer in the form
of a bonus to locate at Hastings and will,
probably, conclude to accept the offer.

The steamboat Grand Island has been
purchased from L. Jenison by A. D.
Rathbone and J. L. Hamilton, who will
place her on the route between Grand
Rapids and Grand Haven, making round
trips three times a week. She will
be operated primarily as a freight boat,
with the intention of giving her a com-
panion another season in case the route
proves to be a paying one.

Ald. Shaw’s aggregation, known as the
License Committee of the Common
Council, has incubated again. The
‘‘consequences” are not very serious, but
they have brought forth a report on their
own responsibility—and that is some-
thing. After the Council had, presum-
ably, settled the license schedule by
refusing to make any changes from last
year’s fees and regulations, the fruit
peddlers petitioned the Council to make
the fee for vegetable and fruit peddling
uniform and to confine the hucksters to
the sale of vegetables. Something like
this the Committee ought to have recom-
mended in the first place, but they
dodged the issue by sending in the old
schedule. {t was bad enough for the
fruit men to be compelled to pay $50
for a privilege worth less than the hucks-
tering franchise, which costs but $20; but
by the adoption of the Committee’s latest
report, the fruit men will have the satis-
faction of seeing the vegetable peddlers
taking the cream of their trade. The
report recommended that ‘‘by resolution
it be declared that the word hucksters be
understood to mean the vending of all
vegetables and of home grown (Michigan)
fruits and berries.’? So the firuit ped-
dlers will now be in a position to con-
fine themselves to the sale of oranges,
bananas and lemons, as the ‘‘other fel-
lows’’ will relieve them of the trade in
common fruits. As has been said, this is
not a very serious matter, for the reason
that the hucksters have always carried
fruits—‘‘on the side,” of course—but now
they can do so with a clear conscience,
since Ald. Shaw has made it lawful for
them to do The Committee has
proved that it is possible for men to be
made honest, in some directions, at least,
by legislation; but it is greatly to be
feared that the people will not appreciate
this latest of Ald. Shaw’s efforts for the
public weal any more than they have
some of his past efforts. Ald. Shaw
asserted that he was elected to look after
the interests of the poor man. He evi-
dently meant the poor huckster, since all
his energies since his appointment have
been employed in behalf of that eminent-
ly useful citizen. Of course, the fruit
men cannot be poor, since Ald. Shaw has
uniformly refused to recognize them.
‘*The poor man’s friend” should have a
monument, and the sooner it is placed
over his political grave the better. Ald.
Shaw’s contribution to lexicography is
timely. For years the literary world
has been wrestling with that word
*‘huckster.” What is a huckster? is a
question over which learned men have

 

so.

puzzled themselves almost to the verge of | ately active business.

 

THE MICHIGAN

lunacy, but in vain.
elusive and delusive as
wisp or a_ politician’s promise;
at last, the momentous question
answered, and the world moves again.

is

To Ald. Shaw be the glory. While
struggling with the problem of
how to help the poor (hucks-
ter), that eminent philanthropist

discovered that a huckster is a man who
sells vegetables and fruit. Notice the
juxtaposition of the words composing
the definition! A huckster is not a man
who sells frnit and vegetables, but a man
who sells vegetables and fruit. This is
not hair-splitting, by any means, though
it must be confessed that the distinction
is so finely drawn that only a man of
Ald. Shaw’s great discriminating power
could have discerned it. Only for the
fact that a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country, the worthy
Alderman might expect a substantial
consideration for his valuable contribu-
tion to philological lore and, incidentally,
for his eminent service to the cause of
humanity. His next effort will be
awaited with interest. Now, if the
Alderman will turn his attention to the
study of the true character of retail
grocers, whom he has been in the habit
of regarding as hogs, he may still further
add to his fame and tighten his cinch on
publie regard; also he might with profit
(not to himself, of course), get better
acquainted with the police force. The
public are interested in all that will tend
to simplify the enforcement of law and
assist the police in their efforts in that
direction. Ald. Shaw is also intensely
interested in this important subject—that
goes without saying; but, so far, he has
been so absorbed in his efforts to amelior-
ate the condition of the poor (hucksters)
that he has been unable to give the
matter the attention it deserved. Now,
however, that he has done all that can
reasonably be expected of any man for the
suffering (hucksters), he may possibly
discover that the police do know some-
thing about their business, which
simply and solely to enforce the law.
The public will watch Ald. Shaw’s
future course with breathless interest.
——__ > -+ >
The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is strong and
excited, raws having advanced ‘se during
the past week and refined having been
jogged ahead 3-16s. Another advance of
‘ge occurred Monday morning, but was
withdrawn within an hour, for what
reason not known at this writing.
Now that the season of large consump-
tion is at hand, while refiners are heavily
oversold—some being sold two weeks
ahead of production—it is reasonable to
expect that higher prices will rule as
soon as the Senate reaches a final vote on
the tariff schedule, which will. probably,
be about June 25.

Cheese—The market has still further
declined during the past week, owing to
the accumulation of stock in the hands
of the small factories, which are under-
quoting the market in order to move
their stocks.

Oatmeal—The high price of oats
has caused still another advance in oat-
meal and rolled oats, with the market
still strong and active. Oats are now
claimed to be higher, in comparison with
wheat, than ever before in the history in

the country.
Pork—The Chicago hog market de-

clined 5@10c last week, with a moder-
Receipts were

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TRADESMAN.

165,000, a decrease of 12,000 from last |
week and an increase of 28,000 over the
same period last year. Packers’ prices
are unchanged except on hams, which
are up 4c all around. Beef in barrels,
unchanged.

Oranges—Scarce and high. The local
market is fairly well supplied with 200s
size Sorrento fruit and a few Califor-
nias which have been in cold storage.
The demand for a limited quantity will
be maintained up to the 4th.

Bananas—There has been a falling off
in the demand during the past week, as
strawberries are very plenty and they
form one of the dealer’s greatest staples
for a brief season, to the exclusion of
all other fruits. Our local market was
overloaded with ripe fruit last week and,
to avoid entire loss, they were sold very
cheap. This week the market is in bet-
ter shape. The weather is cooler and
good shipping stock will bring fair
prices.

Lemons—Higher—much  higher—the
hot spell of last week having shot up the
price in proportion as the mercury
ascended. Eastern markets report a
very brisk demand and an advance of
$1@1.50 per box all around. Light
stocks are held by Western dealers, asa
rule, and a majority of them will be
cleaned out by the end of the present
week, owing to the steady stream of
orders sent in by their outside customers.
Prices are not quoted by any one fora
definite period, but are subject to change
without notice and every day during the
last six has marked an advance.

i 2 —
The Wheat Market.

There was but little change during
the week. Prices sagged off again, the
mills paying 53 cents during part of the
week, the price subsequently receding 1
cent, or back to 52 cents, while other
wheat centers dropped about 3 cents.
The retrograde movement was due to the
extremely small exports, which were
only 2,254,000 bushels, against 3,834,000
bushels for the corresponding week of
last year, and, as harvest has commenced
in the Southern States and the yield so
far reported is fair, foreigners are quick
to take the cue and have withdrawn
their bids and substituted lower bids.
As there seems to be plenty of wheat on
hand and plenty in sight, they are rest-
ing easy, knowing they can get all the
supplies they need; if not from America,
they have other countries to draw from.
Reports from the growing crop are very
favorable of late; not even the frost has
injured the wheat. The. amount re-
ceived here during last week was 52 cars
of wheat, 29 cars of corn, 1 car of oats.
The visible supply will not show much
of a decrease, if any, during the week,
but then, the unexpected may happen,
as it does sometimes, and the decrease.

be larger than anyone expects. The
Great Northwest seems still to have
plenty on nand, notwithstanding the

large amount which has come out al-
ready. We have already exported more
than the Government reports counted on
and have still two months before the
crop year is ended. Corn and oats are
still up, especially the latter, which is
about 45 cents and still looking higher.
How long this disparity in prices be-
tween wheat and the other cereals will
continue is beyond our knowledge.
¢. G. A. Voter.

i
Dealers will do well to consign their:

produce to O. Clyde Tucker & Co.

 

Purely Personal.

Miss Lula Owen, daughter of the
versatile George F., has gone to Wyker-
town, N. J., tospend the summer. She
is able to see again and has hopes of en-
tirely recovering the use of her eyes.

Frank Hamilton, the Traverse City
clothier, has taken possession of his
handsome summer residence on West

Bay, just north of Edgewood. Mr. Hamil-
ton has purchased 20 acres of land lying
along the Bay and proposes to plat it and
put the lots on the market.

Harry S. Wesson, of the firm of Franck
& Wesson, grocers at Manistee, was in
town over Sunday. Mr. Wesson is a
grand nephew of Wm. B. Wesson, the
Detroit capitalist, but sees little prospect
of following in the footsteps of his uncle
so long as he does business in a com-
munity where one dealer sells 25 pounds
of granulated sugar for $1.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

 

Advertisements will be inserted under 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.

BUSINESS CHANCES

{OOD OPENING FOR A BOOT AND SHOR
business at Traverse City. Store, next to

my dry goods and clothing establishment and
Opera House Block, for rent. Good location,
rate reasonable. A live business man and hust
ler can make money init. For terms, etc , apply
to or address, Julius Steinberg, Traverse City
Mich. 646 |

OR SALE—DRY GOODS STOCK IN ONE

of the busy manufacturing cities of Lower

Michigan. Best location in town, Ad@éress No,
645 care Michigan Tradesman. 645

WOR SALE—IN DETROIT, MICH., A WELL
equipped machine shop, suitable for any
kind of businessin building heavy machinery
and a general repair shop; tools all in first-class
condition. Full particulars on application to
Charles Steel, administrator, box 46, Wyandotte,
Mich. ee

OR SALE—CLOTHING AND GENTLE-
men’s furnishing goods stock at a bargain.
Will rent store to parties purchasing if so de-
sired. Address Lock bex 270, Chariotte,
Mich. 642
JANTED TO EXCHANGE—TWO-HORSE
engine, upright boiler, good as new, for
electric motor. KRedner Bros., Battle Creek,
Mich. 643
HO WANTS A NICE, CLEAN, WELL-ES-
tablished and good paying dry goods and
notion store, in one of the best locations in the
city, at a great bargain; good reason for selling.
Write or call at once. Address No. 635, care
Michigan Tradesman. 635
RUG STORE FOR SALE—INVOICING
$1,600, 500 down; balance on time. Good
business. Low expenses. Address Book
keeper, 4 and 6 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 640

OR SALE—60 GALLON OIL TANK, WITH
pump, $2.50; also three compartment re
frigerator in good condition, $10. Julius J.
Wagner, 197 East Bridge St., Grand Rapids. 64

N ICHIGAN DRUG EXCHANGE, H. E.
4 Grand Girard, Proprietor. I have on my
list several drug stores for sale, ranging from
$00 to $5,600, in and out of the city, and will
furnish further particulars. Ihave alsoa great
many drug clerks, registered and assistants, who

 

 

wish situations in orout of thecity. Nocharge
to buyer oremployer. Address Mich. Drug Ex

 

 

change, 128 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 637
OR SALE—STORE BUILDING AND
dwelling combined at Levering, Mich.
First-class place for a general dealer. A. M.
LeBaron, Grand Rapids, Mich. 636
OR SALE—CLEAN DRUG STOCK IN A

: thriving town in Northern Michigan on C,
& W. M. Railway. Address No. 639, care Michi
gan Tradesman. 639

OR RENT—THE STORE FORMERLY OC
cupied by E. J. Ware, druggist, corner
Cherry and East streets. Also meat market, east
end same building, with good ice box. John C,
Dunton, old County building. 618
LANING MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE
the North Side Planing Mill, which is first-
classin every respect, or will receive proposi-
tions to locate the business in some other thriv-
ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic-
ited. Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613
NHE BEST PLACE IN THE STATE TO
start a dry goods store is Big Rapids. Has
only two. 08
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
A CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES FOR
Sale; good trade, cheap for spot cash;
the only delivery wagon in town. Stock about
#2,500. Investigate. Address box 15, Centre-
820

ville, Mich.
HEADACHE

PECK’S “‘*fowpsRs

Pay the best profit. Order from yourjjobber

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

6

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Shorter Hours for Merchants and
Clerks.

What is the necessity of keeping

regular stores open anywhere later than

~

7 o’clock in the evening? It is better,
to have all hands entirely busy
ten hours than to have them half
fifteen hours.
cupied, time passes quickly.

surely,
busy
When one is wholly oc-
When one
is loafing, with nothing to do for hours
behind the counter, it dreadfully
tedious, and makes lazy hands and
Let hours
enough just to do the business. With
the hours fixed, buyers would be on hand
Greedy

is
a
business. have

costly us

promptly. merchants who
fuse to adopt the better way ought to be
placarded on the corner of the streets, so
that all buyers human and

brotherly could legitimate

re-

who
a

are
little
until reason is allowed fair

do
boycotting,
play.

hours.

Less wages may be,
In retail trade there is a grow-
ing disposition to deal only with houses

but surely less

where the heads have sharp discipline,
large hearts and fair play to the hands.
Let us have more of it.
berth. Don’t
leave a dollar their stores. Go past
them to the kind men on the next block.
Ask the good clerks,
they are treated,
be a perpetual

That’s all right.

Give hard men a wide

in

not the schemers,
and if they
customer

how say
the
place, for the merchant who treats his
faithful hands well, will treat his cus-

tomers in the same way.

well, of

Let both the shopkeeper and his clerk
know that time money and that the
more of time we can save and utilize the
more money there will be for both. The
personal application of this whole matter
this, do
of in less

is

is just how can we an equal

amount time,
and at less cost? Having discovered this |
one can easily shoot ahead.

In

our own work

a thousand and one ways we see

people misusing time, and in its misuse}
remaining won't and
kill two birds

way up.

poor. Try,

with

you,
stone.

R.

one
GEo.
—- 2+ >

SooTrT.

How to See Cataract in y
Cataract is said to

our Own Eye
be due to

 

}

It’s the}

the |

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

ee aw COTTONS.

Ee .... .... ‘* Arrow Brand 4
Argyle “World Wide. 6
Aue AG....:.... 6 gee

 

 

4%
AGentic A...... \ - Full Yard Wide..... 6%
_ ee wee GM iGeorgia A.......... Gg
_ Dee setae 5 | Honest With, 0. 6
' css on a 5
ie 44%| Indian — re 5%
a 6% preg a A........... 6%
Archery Bunting... [zine eo... ©
Beaver Dam AA.. 441 vawrence LL...... 4%

Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth ox
5%

meee (VOW ......... 6 | Newmarket cu.
Seen BOC ........ 5% | eT
a 7 T ea eae 6%
Capital A 4s eee " pe... ox
Cavanat V.. 5h! a. 6%
( ‘hapman cheese cl. 3%) Notbe R che sbosscece
Clifton CR.... 544/Our Level Best..... 8
Cae. ... |... i... Bee 6
Dwight ee Oeir oeues...... 2... 2
Clifton CCC... mw oe ee 6

|Top of the Heap.... 7

BLEACHED COTTONS.

 

 

  

 

a 8144iGeo. Washington... 8
Amason.... ........8 jGien Milis.......... 7
ae 6 Gold Medal......... 7%
Art Compes........ 10 |Green Ticket....... 8
Blackstone AA..... 7% Great Pas. ......... 6%
Le eee Th
eee ........ ie Just Out bias 4%@ 5
es....-..... - 6%! one Phillip eee 7%
ee, ee sc 7™
Charter Oak........ 5%! (Lonsdale Cambric. .10
Conway W.......... Ta eee... @8
Cleveland ...... 6 |Migciesex.... .. @5
Dwight Anc hor. = me eeeee............ i*%
enorts & |Oak View........... 6
—- . S Ont Owe............ 5
Empire... . 7 |Pride of the West...12
Farwell... ‘ ; Soo eee. ........... 7%
Fruit of the Loom. 8 Demi. ....<..-..- 4%
Fitchville .... 7 (Otome Mis........- 8%
First Prise...... 6 = Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the Loom %. [ar vreyere............- 8%
Failrmount.......... 444; White Horse........ 6
Poll Veeee........-. > oo... 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
eek ee . 6%|/Dwight Anchor..... 8
Perwel....... ~- TMi
CANTON FLANNEL.
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife 4 <r Sly Housewife g Pak eee 6%
ae 7
C . 5 oa oeee 7
: pg 8%
' _ ........ 9%
° ban oo. 10
" r _.. 10%
_ C iiccesen 11%
. _ r....... 12
“ “ s. 13%
_.... |
ae = |
Pr 14%)
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white......17 (Integrity colored. ..18
colored....19 | White Star. kd
Integrity . . 18% ' “~ eolored .19
DRESS GOODS.
Hamilton ao . Namoless...... ..... -
“ — “104! ee 27%
G G@ Cashmere...... 20 | _ 30
—_—_ ————aao I ' -R%
- ....- oe le
CORSETS.
| Coraline @9 50|/Wonderful .. 84 50
| Schilling’s. / . SOerieeton.. ........ 6%
Davis Waists 9 00 Bortree’s .... 9 00
Grand Rapids 4 50, Abdominal 15 00

gradual deposition of oxalate of lime in}

the substance of the crystalline lens, at
first in small spots or streaks, sometimes
in one part and sometimes in another.
The deposit gradually increases until it
penetrates the whole of the lens, caus-
ing blindness. The remedy, then, to
remove the lens, and after its removal
the patient needs a substitute in the
form of highly magnifying spectacles.

All that necessary tuo enable a
patient to see his own cataract for him-
self is a piece of card and a needle—a
visiting card will do very well. Piercea
clean round hole near the middle of the
eard and hold the card up the light
close to the eye, looking preferably in
the direction of a piece of blue sky.
With the card near to the eye, the
patient will not see the smal! hole
pierced by the needle, but he will a
comparatively large faintly illuminated
field with his cataract projected upon it.
He is, in fact, observing the shadow
east by his cataract on the retina at the
back of his eye. With a small tture
in the card the shadow so thrown is com-
paratively sharp. But with a normal
eye an evenly illuminated field or clean
disk will seen. The patient may
thus map down his own cataract, and
settle for himself w! hether it is extending
and whether he will have operation
or not.

is

is

to

  
  

see

pun

be

an

- _—
A Woman’ 8 Mean Way.
Maude—You better be on the lookout
for a proposal from Charley Doodley.

Ellen—Why? Has he expressed his
affection for me?
Manude—No; bat he proposed to me

last night and | refused him.

| Armory wesesessce OM Smeg satteen.. 7%
Androscoggin.... The Rockport. . 6%
eee... "6 iC onestoga. _—» 2
Brunswick - CE Walworth ...... ... 6%

PRINTS.
Allen turkey reds \¢' Berwick fancies 5% |

CORSET JEANS.

roees........ 5% ‘yde Robes......
pink @ purple 58 Charter Oak fanci es 4

 

 

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DEMINS.
Amoskeag ieee aes 12 {Columbian brown. .12
ock..... 14 Everett, ee 12%
' brown .14 brown. ....12%
sae. ....... 11% Haymaker pene... 7
Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7%
c Be... 8 Weere......-.......- 11%
r co. Leneester........... 12
Boston Mfg Co. br... 7 |Lawrence, 9oz...... 13%
blue 8% . No. 220....13
“* d«& twist 10% e No. 250....11%
Cc olumbian XXX br.10 . No. 280....10%
XXX bl.19
GINGHAMS,
Amoskeag...... .... 5 Lancaster, staple... 5
‘“ Persian dress 64, fancies . 7
' Canton .. 7 . Normandie 7
o aro...... . &&% Lanoceshire.......... 6
. Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5%
ny Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
. Persian.. 7 |Normandie.. 2
Arlington staple.... 644/Persian...........-. 7
fates Wa fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress ae 7%
Bates Warwick dres 7%/Rosemont......-. .- 6%
staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6
Centennial......... 104% |Somerset. . . 2
Critecion ..... CO ™%
Cumberland staple. SH Toll Gu Nord... .... 8%
Cumberiand.... .... Wabash.. . %
ee a - seersucker.. 7%
ence ower... ...... 6
Everett classics..... 8%/Whittenden......... 8
Reoeeson.......... 4 ‘6 heather dr. 7%
a 6% . indigo blue 9
Cieeerven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples. . o
Glenwood...... . 1. Westbrook oo.
eee... Se; | 1
Jobnson Vhaloncl %|Windermeer.... ....
. indice bine Si Vork..... .-.......- ox
" zephyrs....16
GRAIN Bags.
Senne ce pe .- ..13%
Stark... A ee ee im"
American. oe to
THREADS,
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's..... .....95
Comer, 2 aF......: = (ere s.... .....- 90
Maorpene.............. 2%

KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored
--33 1

 

 

mo. &. 38 |No. 1 42
e S...... 2 = i 43
. » 1* 44
- 2... “a 1° 45

CAMBRICS.

a 4 ees 4

White Star.......... 4 |Lockwood.. oe

moe eee... 4 |Wood’s i 2

Nowmerect......... 4 |Brunswick . 4

RED FLANNEL.

Pee... 8. oe 2% a... ss

Creedmore. EE ee

Talbot XXX. ieee 30 oar, o...... 0 35

Nameless...... 2c UOmeye.... .-...... 32%

MIXED FLANNEL.

Red & Blue, plaid. -40 ee e..-...... ™,
‘cee E... 22%) Western W ......... 18%
Windsor.... --18%/D BR P............... 18%
Gos Western........ 20 \Flushing REc...... 23%
eo i ee 23%
DOMET FLANNEL.
cae. = 9%! oo 9 =

%@10 | -
<eee AND PADDING.

Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black.
Qs 9% 9% /10% 10% 10%

10% 10% 10%/11% 11% 11%

11% 11% 1144/12 12 12

| 12% 12% ee 20 20
| DU

Severen, 8 oz. . Oi4) West, Point, 8 oz..-.10%

Mayland, =i 10 100z ...12%

Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9%) ag oe... 13%

| Greenwood, 8 oz 11% ae —
| Boston, 8 oz. ........10)§/Bonton, 10 os........ 12%
WADDINGS.
| White, dos ..-25 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 50
| Colored, dos ..— (Colored ** 2 oe
| SILESIAS.
| Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket..........10%
i mee croe.... eee... 2
aa... a oe... ae
' Best AA.....12 2% Vaerey Ciiy.....-... 10%
ee ee 10%
a ee 8%
“SEWING SILE.
Corticelli, doz. .-85 {Corticelli knitting,
twist,doz..4€ | per os ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. .40
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GRO8S.

No 1 Bl’k & White..10 {No 4 BI’k & White..15

“a 2 se 12 j “ 8 “ ld
3 “ —-. 1" & - ao
PINs.

No 2—20, M C ..60 INo4—15 # 3%...... 40

* $-18,8C --

buffs % DelMarine cashm's |
pink checks ot mourn’g 5%
staples Eddystone fancy... 5%
shirtings 3% ' chocolat 5%
American fancy 5M rober 5%
Americanindigo i sateens.. 5%
American shirtings 3u Hamilt lton fancy. 5%
Argentine Grays 6 ei staple .... 5%
Anchor Shirtings 4 Manchester fancy.. 5%
Arnold r -- 6 new era. 5%
Arnol a Merino 6 Merrimack D fancy. 5%
' long el ot b : 2 Merrim’ ekshirtings.¢ |
7% : Repp —: 83
century cloth 7 7 j|Pacific fancy........ 5% |
gold seal.....10% “robes 6
green seal TR 10% Portsmouth robes... 6%
yellow seal. 104 Simpson — 5%

i B.
| No 2 White & sale No 2 White & BI’k..20
“ «4 “6 15 | * 10 ‘i :

COTTON TAP:

 

serge .--11% grey 5% 23
ae Turke; red 10% aiid. black. 5 6 it +2 * 12 “ 28
Ballon solid black Washington indigo. 64% oe rc lg
“ — colors ‘“ Turkey robes... 7% | SAPETY PINS.
Bengal bine, green, India robes. ™ | No2 . 28 |No3 oe 3
— and orange 6 plain T’ky X & S%/} i
Berlin solids 5% * _ i os NEEDLES—PER M.
of] biue...... & Ottoman Tur | A. James............ 1 40)/Steamboat.... ...... 0
“ “~ seen .... § ie ees 644 | Crowel y -. se eee SE Oe ac ones 150
“ Foulards .... 5% Martha Washington Marshall's. .......... . Gh American...........1 60
_ red * Turkey red X ™ TABLE OIL CLOTH.
“| 9% Martha Washington 5—4 175 6—4 5—4....165 6—4...2 30
10 Turkey red.. a
S4xX5XX1 12 Riverpoint robes.... 54 COTTONT WINES.
c ocheco fancy.. 5 Windsor fancy 6 Cotten Sail Twine..28 j|Nashna.... a
madders. 5 _ gold ti cket Crown -+a-ke [iia ng Star 4 ply... ne
XX twill 5 indigo binue.......10% | Domestic -18% pey....0F
solids _s ey 4% | Anchor .16 | North Star 20
TICKINGS Bristol . 13 |Wool Standard 4 plyit %
Amoskeag AC A OE eee 11 Cherry Valley 15 |Powhattan .....
Hamilton N 7 Ree AAA 16 IxL 18%
- D acc Te ee PLAID OSNaABURGES
Awning. 12 — River 7% Alabama . 6% {Mount Pleasant.... 6%
farmer ..... —.. 1 River 12 Alamance. 845) Oneida on oo
First Prise .. 10% ane i .12% Augusta + |. cl oi
Lenox Milis 18 |Conostoga ee Ar sapha..... .6 |Randelman.......
COTTON DRILL. Georgia a —- docu Bx
Atlanta, D 6 \Stark A 8 ; Granite .. 5& Sibley A. _ + or
eee... us oss 7% | Haw River Se
oe 7 (Topof Heap........° 3 Bie odd ene Otis checks 7

   

A LADY’S

GENUINE : VICI : SHOE,

Plain toe in opera and opera toe and C. 8. heel.
D and E and E E widths, at $1.50. Patent leather
tip, $1.55. Try them, they are beauties. Stock
soft and fine, flexible and elegant fitters. Send
for sample dozen.
REEDER BROS. SHOE CO,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

WE HAVE MADE

H. SGHNKIDER GO,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

Distributing Agents for the Old Reliable

CIGARS.
AMERICAN CIGAR CO.

SEEDS!

Everything in seeds is kept by us—

 

Clover, Timothy,
Millet,
Red Top, Blue Grass,
Seed Corn, Rye,
Barley, Peas,
Beans, Ete.

Hungarian,

If you have Beans to sell, send us

samples, stating quantity, and we
will try to trade with you. We are

headquarters for egg cases and egg
case fillers.

W. T. LAMBREAUX 60, w:isriave st.

GRAND RAPIDS, MicH.

EATON, LYON & G0.”

i STYLES OF

 

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20 & 22 Monroe &t.,

 

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

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le

 

 

How Women are Driven Into Man’s
Domain.

Much attention has been attracted to
the fact that there is an active and
persistent movement among the society
women of New York City to obtain suf-
frage for their sex.

There was recently in session, in the
State of New York, a convention charged
with the framing of a new constitution
for that commonwealth. One of the mat-
ters considered was the giving of the
elective franchise to women.

The demand for suffrage does not
come alone from that small band of
chronic agitators whose voices have
been heard for so many years in the
past clamoring for the franchise. To
the astonishment of everybody, the
proud and wealthy women who are sup-
posed to compose the upper circles of
New York seciety have taken up the
ery and are foremost in demanding the
emancipation of their sex from the
thraldom of unequal laws.

I have always held that no great
social or political revolution is ever ac-
complished until the forces which or-
ganize society and create political con-
ditions and shape legislation shall have
time and occasion to work out their re-
sults in their own way. Social evolu-
tion is as much bound by laws as is
physical evolution, and they must be
wrought out according to those laws.

Unquestionably, powerful social forces
are moving women into great political
prominence. The end will be that,
sooner or later, women will exercise
the political franchise in all the Amer-
ican States. The trend of events is
decidedly in that direction, and the
entire movement is so remarkable that

it is worth while to give some atten-
tion to the causes which have cre-
ated it.

In the beginnings of all human society
the women are kept in subordinate and
inferior positions. They are commonly
slaves, or the toys with which men spend
their lighter moments. In such social
conditions the men are esteemed for
their physical vigor and prowess in
battle. The women, physically weaker
than the men and shunning the hardships
and dangers of the chase and of war,
confine their efforts and ambitions to the
things of the home and family. In all
sturdy and warlike races the men must
provide for their families. Not to do so
is to be visited with disgrace and con-
demnation. There are no unattached
or lewd women in such a tribe, since
every woman must be, by marriage,
ties, of kindred or adoption, an inmate
of some family.

There are many centuries of evolu-
tion in the time required fora wild and
warlike tribe to be converted into a
highly civilized and luxurious nation.
In all that time the condition of woman
has changed steadily for the better.
She ceases to be a slave and a drudge,
and becomes the loved and loving wife,
the sharer of her husband’s joys and
sorrows, a fond mother, and she de-
votes herself to the nurture and educa-
tion of her children. But with the
growth of civilization are opened vast
and new avenues of pleasure and self-
gratification. Men, in the exercise of
their assumed superiority and greater
freedom from _ restraint, give them-
selves up to all excesses of self-in-
dulgence. They become idle, shiftless,
drunken, besotted,: depraved, vile and

 

THE MICHIGAN TRAD

unworthy in every sense. The women
and children are the chief sufferers.

The savage woman regards with a
species of worship her warrior lord,
who, however he may beat her, keeps
his family supplied with all necessaries
and protects them from all violence but
his own. The civilized and enlight-
ened woman of to-day regards with
contempt and loathing the worthless
and beastly creature misnamed wan to
whom she is bound by law, and who
so far from giving her provision and
protection, is only a burden and a dis-
grace.

It is only when the men fail that the
women are forced to the front. Some-
body must be up and doing. When it
is not the man, it must be the woman”

Whisky, opium and beastly immorality
are doing their work upon the men.
Thousands of women—yes, hundreds of
thousands—driven to support them-
selves and others dependent on them,
have invaded the domain of men and
are doing their work. How many of
these women are losing their respect
for the lordly sex? The country is full
of trouble from the misbehaviour of
men, from misgovernment and_ polit-
cal ,corruption caused by men. It is
wonderful that many men, believing
that reform and the purification of poli-
tics are impossible while affairs are
controlled by men, should look to the
women for saving grace.

If women have been moving to the
front under existing social and_ politi-
cal conditions, it is because they have
been driven to do so by the failure of
the men. As for the women of the
New York Four Hundred, is it strange
that they have revolted against the rule
of man when the lordly creature is
typified by the absurd and effeminate
dude? Women are willing to be ruled
by a strong man. Woman’s ideal is a
hero—one brave, generous, noble, good.
If allmen were so, there never would
be any cry for woman suffrage. But
when sO many men are mean, selfish,
base, false, ignoble, weak, contempti-
ble and beastly, how could it be other-
wise that so many woman are _ hopeless-
ly disillusioned, disenchanted?

Let it be understood that man can be
master only so long as he is master-
ful. His weakness, failure and decay
nave forced upon women responsibil-
ities they never desired.

SARAH SMITH.
- :: — > —<—>-

Honesty is not contagious,
To make his record good, an honest
man must be honest every day of his
life. Integrity is not a thing of spasms,
like patriotism at mass meetings.

like sin.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

  

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Ree 6010
—- 40
Somme BONING 25
omni, Heese 50&10

AXES.
First Quality, ee $6 50
: 2. eee... ix 00
Se Oo eee wl 7 50
’ a ee eee. 13 50
BARROWS. dis,
CO 81200 1400
ee oe oe
BOLTS. dis.
—-......... '
Carriage new list ...
Piow....... eee eee
Oe
BUCKETS,
oe eee $350
hive iti, 400
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, io. Led oad aleae hacamae 70&10
Wought Narrow, bright 5ast joint 40 .....60&19

 

icine

7

 

mercueet 20008 Fin. .

  

 

 
 

   

40
bie te. 40
Wrought Inside Blind..... eed, 40
Wrought Brags............ bese ee le eee 5
oe, Ce. 70&10 |
ae ee 70&10
eG POI oo 70

BLOCKS,

Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60&10
ORADLES,
ee, 49&10
CROW BARS,

vinegar perb 5
nan CAPS.
ot et Tm 65
Pree " 60
ee . 35
ao. . 60
OARTRIDGES,
ee ee 50
Comte Pie. aa 25
CHISELS. dis.
mockes Virmer........... 75810
Aiitinriade 2 25&10
OCC OEM 75&10
ewes CO
Bucchers’ Tanged Pirmer........... .._.. 40
COMBS. dis.
Currey, Lawreneo’s................ Nee oe os 40
Oe Ps)
CHALE.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis, 10
COPPER,
Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28
t+ 16x52, 14x56, 14x60 ................ 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 23
ore were eee 23
PO 22
DRILLS. dis.
mornas Olt Soares. 50
Taper and straight Shank............ 50
Mores TaperSnenk |... : 50
DRIPPING PANS,

Seial ace wer pound .......... 6%
Eergouines, per pound... .. _........ ...,. 06
ELBOWS,

Com 4 piece, Gin... ...... ..... dos. net vi]
ae dis 40
SO. desea din. 40410

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, small, $18: large, @26............... 30
Eves’, §, Sid: 2. Ot: Soe 25
FILES—New List. dis.
Potions sk 60&10-10
New American ‘ 60&10-10
Nicholson’s .. a cones cee sans... Ce te
feces... .. 50
memers Hore Haagen 50

GALVANIZED IRON.
22 and 24; 2% and 2; 27 28
14 15 5

Nos. 16 to 20;
Li I 16 Ww

st 12
Discount, 60 -10

 

   

GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............
KNoBs—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcorsin, trimmings ................ 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Matlory, Wheeler & Co.%................... 55
CO ‘ 55
OO 55
MATTOCKES,
a 816.00, dis. 60-10
mee $15.00, dis. 60-10
ee 818.50, dis. 20410.
MAULS. dis,
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... 50
MILLS. dis.
Cotvee, Parkers Cae........ ............... 40
“ PP. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
“* Lenders, Forry @Ciork’s............ 40
, oe 30
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
ee eee 60&10
Pcs ChOM 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring............ ua
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Poona eee 1 40
aoa ae. 1 4
60 Base
10
25
25
35
45
45
50
60
75
90
1 20
1 60
1 60
65
%
90
%
90
110
70
80
tee ee 90
Barrell %...... CS i ee if
PLANES. dis.
Cute 7oel One, fanny... .................. ew
ee p50
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. e400
ee Oe ee 40
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. . ....50&10
Pans.
ss Ae dis.60—10
omen, omeee cs wf
RIVETS. dis.
oe ae Fee 50—10
Copper Rivets end Burs.................... 50—10

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

“‘A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

‘‘B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20
Broken a ihc per pound extra,

 

 
 
 
 

HAMMERS.
mewaone SO dis.
Ripe ........... tot cas 25
a dis. 40410

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30c 40&10
HINGES,

Gene Clore 228... dis.60&19

a...

per dos. net, 2 50

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
Ce we a aie 3%
Serew teem snd Bye i... net 10
’ ' “ M........ -- net 8%
“ ss ss net 7%
- Wp - ~~... net 7%
Oe dis. 50

HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50410
Champion, anti fridtion............. |... |, 60&10
EE 40
HOLLOW WARE.
eee, 60&16
aaa NN 60410
ee OO 6010
Gray enameled.......... eee scenes. 40810
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

Stamped Tin Ware.....................new list

  

Japanned Tin Ware........ ...

   

Cramite Iron Ward ............
WIRE GOODS.
ieee... Cee ecacens 44
Screw Eyes..... + -70&10&10
Boone... .......... a
Gate Hooks and Eyes.......... 70&10&10
LEVELS. dis.7%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............
ROPES.
Sanal, 4 Inch and larger ................ _ 2
aie. o1
SQUARES. dir.
reper enG Eram 7E&10
ay Gnd Bove. 60

ee 20
SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com

EE i #350 8250
On Wee 3 50 269
moe, ites... 4 05 2
OE ; oS 2 80
oe See 7. oo 2 90
Ne a... a.

3 75 3 00
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra

 

SAND PAPER.
ee dis. 50
SASH CORD.

Silver ieke, Waite A list 50
c oe A " 55
. Were oo : 50
- a “ 55
- ware “ £0
Discount, 10.
SASH WBIGHTS.
ie al ee Oe per ton 825
SAWS. dis.
_ ee 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoo.... o&

—— Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
“Champion and Electric Tooth X

    

   
    

  
 

  

Com, Pet tee 30

TRAPS, dis.
Ae Cee 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley s Norton’s.... 70
moved, Chale 18c per dos
Meuse Gewese $1.50 per dos

WIRE. dis,

Ce a 70
REC ee 7U—10
Coppecee rem 60—10

Canoe ee 62

— monsoon LL
Barbed Fence, galvanised.................. 2%
pete 2 30
HORSE NAILS.

CO dis. 40&10
Eee dis. 05
POmeweCn dis. 10410

WRENCHES, dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... i 30
teen Gomme : 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . Hl 76
Coo’a Patent, malleabie.............. ...... 75&16

MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Co a 50
Pumps, Cistern.... -- Tomi
Screws, New List... --- 20&1f &10
Cuscers, Ded a @ Pisie.................. 50&104&10

Dempers, Ameritas
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65410
METALS,
PI¢ TIN.

Pee ee 26¢
eee 28c
ZINO,

Duty: Sheet, 24c per pound.
or Poe) COMM, 6%
Ce 7
a SOLDER.
EE 16
ee
The prices of the many other qualities of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ue NTIMONY.
to, eae r pound
a " R? 1
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
omnes FU, Chareoad...-......... Meee $750
ee 7 50
10x14 IX, . eee 9 26
14x20 IX, a 9 2
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
peeee ne, Chmrega) 7
14x20 IC, a ieee eee ee: 6 75
10x14 IX, fe 8 25
14x20 IX, ye 9 25
Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, " Weneeiee 6 bu
14x20 IX, - oes oe 8 50
20x28 IC, _ _ Sl a, 13 50
14x20 IC ‘* Allaway Grade........... 6 00
14x201X, “ “ ee. 7 50
20x28 IC, ' - eee 12 50
rx - - Oe eee ace, 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
Mae re....... See aes Meee e 4k eae dpe $14 06
eee Pe eee dae gues 15 00

14x00 EE) 1 No" § BOUPTS, t per pound... 10 00

 

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1894.

 

 

AMERICAN PATRIOTISM.

Is patriotism still a living sentiment
and a powerful motive in the worid ?
If so, it is precisely what it was a hun-
dred, a thousand ago; or has it
changed its ground? Until of late
years it has been, we should say, just a
wider sort of home-feeling, local attach-
ment and pride of race; but now we live
inan era of introspection and analysis,
and it is difficult for any habit of the
mind or heart to maintain itself in un-
conscious simplicity. The patriot asks
himself: ‘*‘Why dol my country,
and what are the reasons of my love for
or

In his ‘‘Sebastopol,’’ speaking of the
courage and steadfastness of the defend-
ers of that place, Tolstoi ‘There
is so much simplicity and so little effort
persuaded

years

love

says:

in whatthey do that you are
that they could, if it were necessary, do
a hundred times more—that they could
do everything.
timent that impels them is not the one
you and vain,

but another

You judge that the sen-
have experienced, mean
and more powerful one,
which has them, living
tranquilly in working and
watching among the bullets, with a hun-
dred chances to one of being killed,
trary to the common lot of their kind.
It is not for across, for rank; it is not
that they are threatened into submitting
existence.

made men of

the mud,

con

to such terrible conditions of
There must be another, a higher
power. This motive power is found ina
sentiment itself,
which modesty, but
which is deeply rooted in every Russian
heart—patriotism.”’

But still the question is not answered.
Tolstoi is a terrible analyst, and he
seems to hold that vanity is, to
extent, the stay of the soldier’s courage
even when he is defending his native
land against invasion. On the
hand, he appears to admit that patriot-
ism itself isan honest and real feeling,
like the love of the child for its
One might suppose that such a feeling
would thrive best in a small country,
which might be more easily embraced by
a tender imagination; but Russia cer-
tainly is not a smali country: neither is
our own. In Russia, it is true, the case
is somewhat simpler than it is over here;

motive

which rarely shows

is concealed with

mother.

a great |

other |

for there patriotism is promoted by
homogeneity of race, and by a traditional
|loyalty to the hereditary head of the
|State—‘‘the little father’—whom the
|millions of the Russian peasantry love
with an ardor which has suffered no
abatement from the influence of a
nihilistic propaganda. But we Ameri-
eans have preserved nothing like the
Russian homogeneity of race. We must
include in the scope of our immense fel-
low-citizenship every alien who has been
here long enough to take out naturaliza-
tion papers. Those of us who belong to
the old stock which furnished the heroes
of the Revolution of °76 have much
which we do not have in common with a
vast part of the population of the
United States to-day. And yet these
more recently made Americans—for the
most part, at least—have acquired a new
patriotism on these shores, and are
ready, if need be, to peril all in defense
of their adopted country.

 

In lieu of homogeneity of race, in lieu
of inherited traditions
aground of common patriotism is af-
forded for the representatives of all
the nationalities of the Old World here
in the New World in the breath of the
democratic idea which is the vital prin-
ciple of our political system. It is our
boast that our country is ‘‘the home of
the free,’’? and under a shelter as wide as
that every
The conception is beautiful enough, but
how far has it actually realized ?
We shall say nothing of those imported
laborers who have been brought here to
compete with native-born but
who are themselves already beginning to
strike for higher wages; though certainly
we might ask whether it either
patriotism or a philanthropic impulse
which prompted this enterprise. But
it with who appeal con-
stantly for office in the name of patriot-
sincere desire to
serve the whole people? Is it not a fact
that they
demagogues they

and associations,

freeman may feel at home.

been

laborers,

was

how is those

ism, and who profess a
when are not simply selfish
often only bitter
and narrow partisans, seeking in reality
cherishing
anything but love for their compatriots
Or, if the conflict
is not between parties forthe mere sake
of partisan and the spoils of
office, is it not between rival interests of
a material nature? The of this
divided mainly into
two great parties, and the way in which
the one of those parties
speak of the members of the other is the
They use too
bitter enmity, of
and might suppose
that the average of the United
States believes half of his fellow-citizens
to beeither fools or kKnaves. And yet, so
complex and self-contradictory is human
nature, we should find them all forget-
ting their differences should a foreign foe
threaten the land with invasion.

are

to serve their own party and

of the other parties ?
victory

voters

vast country are

members cf

| reverse of complimentary.
| often the language of
open hostility, one

citizen

 

 

MONOPOLY AND MONOPOLY.
Much is heard these days about monop-
It is abused and called hard names
by many newspapers and public speakers
| who appear to have decided the question,
|**What is monopoly?” It is, in the
| opinion of these people, such an institu-
tion as the Standard Oil Company, or the
| Sugar Trust. Sometimes a railroal cor-
poration is called a monopoly; so is a
|telephone or a telegraph company.
Operators of coal mines are called mo-

|
| oly.

nopolists. Perhaps the appellation is
suited to all these and many more, and
then, again, perhaps it is not. It all de-
pends on what is meant by the word
‘‘monopoly.”? Webster, who is sometimes
quoted as an authority, gives, as a defi-
nition of the word, ‘‘the exclusive
power, right or privilege of selling any
any commodity.” According to this, the
Standard Oil Company is, perhaps, a
monopoly—it depends on whether it has
the exclusive right to sell its peculiar
product. The Sugar Trust may, also,
be a monopoly; so may the telephone,
telegraph and railroad corporations, if
they possess exclusive rights in their
own provinces. And even if they do
not possess exclusive rights, but are
striving to obtain them, they are rightly
termed monopolists. Now if monopoly
is an evil, per se, then the institutions
mentioned are evils, but if their moral
quality depends upon the results of the
monopoly, then, perhaps, they are good
and not bad.
Monopolies are not confined to
industrial com-
mercial, nor to transportation or tele-
phone or telegraph privileges. Indeed,
the ways in which a monopoly may be
established, or attempted to be estab-
lished, are legion. One form of monop-
oly is to be found in the labor market,
and in the product of unionism. The
chief object of unions—the one thing for
which they seem to exist—is to get con-
trol of the labor market. They object
to any one not a unionist obtaining em-
ployment, and the methods by which
they endeavor to attain their end are,
like Bret Harte’s heathen Chinee, pe-
culiar. An attempton the part of the
makers of any product to get control of
the market for their wares always raises
a storm of protest from the unions.
They do not stop to ascertain whether
any one would beinjured by the monopoly
if established; they may have no knowl-
edge whatever of facts; but a monopoly
is sought to be established, and that is
sufficient. They do not admit, of course,
that they are attempting to monopolize
the labor market—they are simply try-
ing ‘‘to elevate the workingman,”’’
‘“‘ameliorate the hard lot of the toilers,”
‘compel employers to do justice to their
employes,’’ ete., etc. Sometimes, if the
workingman they wish to elevate is not
a unionist, they use dynamite as a lever;
sometimes, in order to soften the hard
lot of the (nonunionist) toilers, they
will not allow them to work at all; and,
sometimes, in order to compel employes
to do what is right, unionists force em-
ploys to quit work at the point of a re-
volver. These methods may seem pe-
culiar, but they are unionism, and are
employed to ‘further the cause of human
brotherhood,’”’ and so they must be right.
Labor is a commodity; differing some-
what from other commodities, itis true,
but a commodity just the same. Unions
claim the exclusive right to the sale of
labor. According to unionism, a man
who is not a unionist has no right to sell
his labor—that right belongs to the men
who are members of an organization—a
union. The Constitution of the United
States says that ‘‘all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
| Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness;” but unionism
says that the right to live belongs to
unionists, and those who are not mem-
| bers of unions should. not be allowed the

com-

modities, whether or

 

 

liberty to earn the necessary means of
existence. They ‘‘interview’? employ-
ers, and use every means and employ
numberless arguments to convince em-
ployers that they should not employ
nonunionist labor, and, when all else
fails, ‘‘boycott’’ those who will not ac
cede to their demands. The product of
nonunionist labor must not be sold or
used and he who handles it incurs the
deadly hatred of unionists, who do all
in their power to ruin the trade of the
man who has the temerity to offer non-
unionist goods for sale. May not union
ists reasonably be termed monopolists?
Surely. Then, are not the oft-repeated
tirades of unionists and unionist organs

a trifle wearisome?
The moral quality of a monopoly de-

pends not so much on the results as on
the method employed to obtain the re-
sults. If the result sought to be ob-
tained is just and right, then the meth-
ods employed in pursuit of such result
should be of the same character, for, if
the result be evil, 30 will be the methods,
and if the methods be evil so will be the
result. Therefore, if the methods of
the monopolist are evil, then the result-
ing monopoly is evil. It matters not
whether it be a monopoly of the oil or
sugar trade, or of labor that is sought
to be established, if the methods em-
ployed to establish the monopoly are un-
just and oppressive, then the result will
be evil. Good never results from evil,
and if it did it would be no justification
for evil doing. Who will say that it is
right and just to take away from a man
the right to earn a living? Who will
say that, to force an employer to em-
ploy none but members of an organiza-
tion does not savor strongly of oppres-
sion? Who will say that the destruc-
tion of property, not to say of human
life, is right, even though the result
sought be ajust one? Yet these are the
ordinary, every-day methods employed
by the unions to enforce their demands,
and to establish their monopoly of labor.
Is oppression any less oppressive when
itis the act of the ‘‘laboring classes’’
than when it is the act of employers?
Is arson, or murder, or any of the crimes
which have been committed in the furth-
erance of the plans of ‘‘organized labor’’
any less criminal than when committed
by individuals? § If why? But
crime is crime, no matter by whom com-
mitted, and, if the methods of monop-
olists are criminal, then the results of
their methods are bad, because they are
the results of crime. Unionism is a
form of monopoly the most oppressive,
the most outrageous the world has ever
seen. The reason it has been tolerated
so long is because our political institu-
tions are somewhat ‘‘peculiar.”’

so,

 

Considerable complaint comes to THE
TRADESMAN over the action of certain
country banks in deducting exchange
from the proceeds of drafts, even when
the exchange has been properly paid
by the country merchant. This complaint
has always been common against a
syndicate of country banks owned prin-
cipally by an lonia county gentleman, and
the same trouble has lately been experi-
enced at Lansing and many other smaller
towns. Such a practice is so manifestly
dishonest and unbusinesslike that THE
TRADESMAN proposes to make a list of
those banks which persist in the prac-

tice and publish them from week to week
as institutions unworthy of respect or
confidence.

 

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DEPLORABLE GROVELING.

Governor Rich is developing. He has
been before the public so long as a
“plain, practical farmer,’? that one can
hardly credit the fact that he is some-
thing of a sociologist. But he He
has evolved an idea, and it is Governor
Rich’s belief, at least, that his ‘‘erude
plan” will solve the labor question. His
plan is to give corporate powers to labor
unions and thus give them certain
privileges and at the same time put
them under state control.

is.

Governor Rich does not appear to ap-
preciate the difference between a ‘‘cor-
poration’”’ organized for the purpose of
carrying on an industrial or commercial
enterprise in which the entire communi-
ty is interested anda ‘‘union’”’ of irre-
sponsible individuals in which only a
small number of people are interested.
Suppose, in the first instance, it is a rail-
road company upon which corporate
powers are conferred and over which
the state proposes to exercise control.
The basis of the state’s claim to any

* measure of control over the affairs of the

railroad company isthe interest which
all the people have in the success of such
an enterprise. The public is interested
in prompt and efficient service, for upon
this largely depends the internal com-
mercial and industrial business of the
country. But in what way will the
business interests of the country
be helned by conferring corporate
powers upon trades unions? The
skill and efficiency of the individual is
certainly a consideration of immense
importance to the community; but where
is the connection between the individ-
ual’s skillas a mechanic and his mem-
bership in a union? If he be not an
efficient workman, membership in a
union will not help him, and if he is, he
does not need the union. How, then,
can the giving his union corporate
powers be of any benefit to him? Then
too, the interest of the public in trade
organizations is hardly the interest which
it has in railroads and other corpora-
tions, andis not very flattering to the
unions. As to giving unions a legal
standing, and placing them under state
control, itis nonsense. The individual
members are each recognized by the law
and their rights conceded and secured.
These rights are the rights of every
citizen and there is no reason for giving
any citizen or any number of citizens
special legal recognition or special
powers. The state can exercise no
control over any citizen except he, by
his acts, becomes an outlaw, when he
ceases to be a citizen and can use none
of the privileges of citizenship. Neither
can the state exercise any control over
an organization of citizens, except so far
as the acts or objects of the organization
may be illegal or inimical to the rights of
others.

Governor Rich’s ‘‘idea’’
the outgrowth of his fears. In
with many others he attaches
portance to labor organizations which
does not belong to them, and so he is
willing to truckle and fawn upon the
workingman who is a member of a union,
forgetting altogether the one who is not.
Does not the Governor know that to give
organizations of workingmen a_ legal
status, as such, would be either to com-
pel all workingmen to join the unions or
to make them industrial or social out-
laws, depending for existence even upon
the ‘grace’? of the unionists? Those

was probably
common

an im-

 

L THE Mi ChIGAt IN

who refused to surrender their manhood
into the keeping of the union dema-
gogues would be given short shrift, if
one may judge by the past conduct of
the unions. Governor Rich is certainly
developing, but the spectacle of a Gov-
ernor getting down on all fours to truckle
to a small circle of scheming dema-
gogues whose chief weapons are the
strike and boycott and who are ever
ready to resort to incendiarism and
murder to accomplish their ends, affords
a striking example of the depth of deg{a-
dation to which a “‘practieal politician”
will sink in the attempt to further his
chances for a second term.

 

It appears that the ‘Chinese are not
very slow to learn the lessons of progress
from the western peoples with whom
they are brought in contact. Some
Chinese mechanics who appear to have
been to the United States, were engaged
with a large number of others in making
some extensive repairs to the govern-
ment buildings in Pekin, and it struck
them that it would be a good thing to get
up a strike for short hours and long pay,
‘‘allee samee Melican man.’’ They pro-
ceeded to persuade their fellow-work-
men, and organized the strike. But they
soon found that it would not work in
that country. The Emperor published
an edict, ordering the police and military
to arrest every one who presumed to
attempt preventing ‘‘scabs’”’ from work-
ing. The walking delegates were
ordered to be strangled to death on a
charge of high treason, and the remain-
der were banished for three years. The
big strike came to an ignominous con-
clusion, and several million patriotic
people in America will join TuHE
TRADESMAN in the hope that the time
may come when the rulers of this coun-
try will see the necessity of punishing
rioting and anarchy in the same sum
mary manner.

 

There appears to be a conflict of opin-
ion among those who have expressed
themselves regarding the abolition of
the three days of grace. It is said by
some to be inherited from the past, in
other words, that it is merely custom.
Others assert that it rests upon a statu-
tory enactment. In order to ascertain
which position was the correct one, Sen-
ator Peter Doran was appealed to. Mr.
Doran says there is no law on the sub-
ject but the law of custom; but, as the
Michigan Supreme Court, in affirming
the constitutionality of the Saturday
half-holiday, distinctly recognized the
existence of the three days of grace as
determining the time when a note be-
came due, the custom now has all the
force of astatutory enactment. Perhaps
the fact that the Supreme Court has so
recognized the custom may account for
the supposition that there was a law on
the subject.

 

THE TRADESMAN presents, this week,
a complete report of the proceedings of
the convention of retail grocerymen held
at Clare last Wednesday, and _ heartily
commends the movement inaugurated at
that time. In this connection Tue
TRADESMAN takes pleasure in reiterat-
ing the position it has taken on the sub-
ject of the organization of the #etail
grocery trade—that the retailer should
follow the example of the wholesaler in
organizing local associations in every
community for the maintenance of le-
gitimate profits on sugar and other staple
articles. In this way the retail trade
will be in a position to co-operate with
the wholesale grocery trade in shutting
off cutters, besides securing other ad-
vantages in the way of enforcing collec-

 

tions against bad pay customers and/|
circumventing dead-beats.

< WAL JESMAN.

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

STICK CANDY.

 

 

9

MICHIGAN AN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’’

 

 

 

 

   

 

Cases Bbis. Patis, |
Standard, per Ip......... 6 7] (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)
u oH ee ee soe tee 6 7 | arrive. _Depart
Twist .......... : 6 7 oe Detroit Express ........7 00am
Boston Cream ........... 8% 5 30am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 20pm
Cut boat... en SA) 10pm... New York Express...... 6 00pm
Extra. H...... --- 8% *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.
MIXED CANDY. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex
Bbls Pails | press trains to and from Detroit.
Standard...... ween BY 6% Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re
a. aa tne si ao aide «os a 5% 8% | turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand
Nobby i al Ua we sl ie ee le oe ae de 5% 7% Rapids 10:20 pm.
. ee eae . te eae 8 Direct communication made at Detroit with
ng ish il -f 8 all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen
COBRCEN ON 8 8 tral Railroad (Canada Southenn Division.)
Praises secre seo baskets 3% A. ALMQuisT, Ticket Agent,
a 14 : Jnion Passenger Station.
Brencn Cregig. 0. 9 Union Passenger Satie
Valley Creams.. ... 13 ee
Midget, 30 Ib. baskeis. a C May 27, 1894
modem ai Foo. ; 3 CHI AGO ' cy
FANcy—In te a ANDoWEST MICHIGAN R’Y.
alls. | —- - - SaaS
Lozenges, —_ re errrrtetres aes 8% GOING TO CHICAGO.
rinte — eo e Ly. G’d — eeu ; aoe 1:59pm *11:30pm
yen ee Ar. Chicago 000. om 7:16pm *6:45am
pena “peageeeapacian eee ee es oe 2 % Ri TURNING sare CHIC AGO.
= —. ws eee eee +o by. Ciicags... 7:35am 55pm *11:45pm
Sean Wines oe Ar. G’d Rapids.........2:25pm 10:20pm *6:25am
Sancta ie 10 TO AND FROM MUSKEGON,
FANCY sy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box | LY. Grand Rapids...... 5) st: 50pm 5:45pm
NN Ne env seat cr creas 50 | Ar. Grand Rapids......{ 2:20pm 10:20pm
Se TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
Peppermint Drops . 60 pe Grand Rapids... 7:30am ....... 3:15pm
Chinas ee Manistee........ ere 8. 8:15pm
M. Chocolate Drops. ae re TeaverseCity.... 12:40pm ....... 8:45pm
ne 40 Ar. Charlevoix ...... a 11:10pm
SE I IRA ea ONE 100 | Ar. Petoskey Se ear 11:40pm
A. B. ——- nS ES aetna saa ag aes. from Petoskey, ete., 1:00 p. m. and
Yr 0
“a a oT oc = PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS,
Daperiaig. |... i i "60 | LoChicago, ly. G. R.. 1:50pm *11:3¢pm
WO a Tae a 70 | ToPetoskey,lv.G.R.. 7: 3:15pm...
ee ‘55 | To G. R..1v. Chicago, :35am 4:55pm *11:45pm
Molasses Bar... ee ToG. K..Iv.Petoskey 5:00am i:30pm ........
Hand MadalGreas. --85@95 *Every day. Other trains week days only.
Prete Creams... a a
POOOEREOT CHORM “90 DETROIT FEB. 11, 1894
Sere OO 60 ; [

a
Wintergreen Berries......................

CARAMELS,
Bit. bowee......_........
3 “

No. f, st
No. 1

No. 2, e 2 eS
ORANGES.

Weney Seedtingesn 4.....................
Sorrentos, 160s
»),

LEMONS.
Choice 300...... eee
Extra choice 360....

ee

De
BANANAS.

Large bunches....
Small bunches......... SS

OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 8ib..
20k

- cra . aE os
Dates, Perd, 01>. box..................
_ . oe * .................
“ Veramm. G6 6p, Uowl...............
‘ a

  

NUTS.
Almonds, ven ee
ween. ............... beets
S C Pare. lt. ,.,
meee. oe...
Filberts . eee ees ence
Walnuts, Grenoble.

' Co

v Calit...... .
Tabie Nuts, corey
eee.
veces Texas, H. Pi ae
ome...
Micuery Nugiverh....................
Cees, TUTE OOONS............. .-..-

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H. P., Suns.. os,
“ Roasted... _
Fancy, H. P., Oe...
“ oassem..............

Choice, H. Pa oe... ..........,
~ Seemed... ........

 

-+ of

OILS,
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:

 

BARRELS.
ol
Zax W. W. Mich. Headlight..........
OOM oss ce
Beeve Gesarme............ oes
a Pi ae ee pace ene cece cess ones coueee 27
Momeee ..... kas... 13
Black, °5 Come teen... 1...

FROM TANK WAGON.
Mocere ,............._............ ao ae
xxx W. W. Mich. Heaclight..........
POULTRY,
Local dealers pay as follows:
LIVE.
( 7
Me a eee ca ce oe 6
MO cc a a 5
ee el 8
OT
DRAWN,

OTN oe ees e ssc. o i
Chickens.... oo
Mee...
Ducks.....
ee eo -10

UNDRAWN.

Qu Ee na 9
i, 7
owe. ......--........ A ec e eee ee cs 6
MOMOM ce, 8
MONG cael cue te ees sees Genus 8

 

  

LANSING & NORTHERN R, R,
GOING TO DETROIT,

Ly. Grand — Wes 7:00am *1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit . 11:40am *5:30pm 10:10pm
RETU RNING. FROM DETROIT.

Ly. Detat...... ...... 7:40am *1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... -12:40pm *5:15pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS,
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:40am 10:55pm

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

   
 
 

   

 

as TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R.
- 5 Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
-.. « OG} Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:40pm 5:15pm .......
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
40 Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap
4 00 | ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn-
... B 00 | Ing train.
“a *Every da Other trains week days only
4 50 J: ¥ y-
1 a "GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t
- 2 OU SS GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
1. 12 WAUKEE Railway.

@12% EASTWARD.

@i4_| Trains Leave |tNo. 14|tNo. 16)tNo. 18/*No. 82

@15 :

@7 G’d Rapids, Lv) 6 45am/10 20am 25pm | 11 00pm

@ 5% | lonia ......_-/ Ar) 7 40am/11 25am} 4 27pm 12 35am

@5 St. Johns ...Ar} 8 2am 12 17 pm} 5 20pm) 1 25am
... 7% | Owosso......Ar) 900am} 1 20pm) 6 05pm) 3 10am

EK, Saginaw..Ar /10 50am 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am

@16 Bay City Ar /|11 32am] 4 35pm)! 8 8 apm 7 15am

@15 Pint ...... Ar |10 05amj 3 45pm) 7 05pm) 5 4°am

@ : Pt. Huron...Ar |1205pm] 550pm} 8 50pm| 7 30am

8 Pontiac ......Arj10 53am] 305pm) 8 25pm] 5 37am
oii Detroms, ....../ Ar 114 50am| 405pm| 925pm} 7 00am

@13

WESTWARD.
or For Grand Haven and Intermediate
° Pune +7:35 a. m.
° .
e For Grand Haven and Muskegon. : . :00 p. m,
el le 55 p. m.

a “ ‘« Chicago and Milwair.

1 kee, Wis.. 7:30 > i.
3 5 For Grand Haven and Milw aukee, Ho: 05 p. m.
*’ | For Grand Haven (Sunday only)...... 2:00 a. m.

@ 5% +Daily except Sunday. Mad.

@z Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60

@ 5% | p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.

Qi / Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a. m., 10:10

g ~ a, m.,3:15 p.m. and 10:50 p. m. Sunday, only,

8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet
car. No.18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.
8% Jas. CAMPBELL, City TfcBet Agent.

@ 6% Grand Rapids & Indiana

@ 7% TRAINS GOING NORTH.

@36 " Leave going

@21 North

, | For Mackinaw 7:40 a. m.

@ 8h Yor Traverse Ci 4:50 p. m.

For Mackinaw..... 0:25 p. m.
% TRAINS GOING SOU ‘ ‘
5 Leave going
ql South.
We CN ia ce cee ctee ence rss 7:00 a.m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago.. 2:30 p. m.
For Fort Wayne and the East. . m.
Wow Crecmeee, 4 .... -m

@8 For Kalamasoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p. m.

Qa? Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R.

@6 Ly Grand Rapids........ 7: = am 2:30pm *11:40pm

@9 Ave Cilieage............. 2:00pm 9:00pm _ 7: 10 am

@ 2:30 An — has through Wagner Buffet Parlor

Oar and coach.

@l12 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

@ll and Coach.

B10 Lv Chicago 6:50 am 3:30 pm 11:30 p m

Arr Grand Rapids 2:00 pm 9:15 pm 6:55am

@ll 3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Oar.

@12 | 11:30pm train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Oar.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

@ 9% For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive
4@ 8 7:35 am 9:40 am
YQ 7 5:40 pm 5:20p m

@9 L. LOOKWOOD,

@9 ! General suai and Ticket Agent.

 

  

10

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Drugs2® Medicines. New York City, who, in 1820, when he
was but forty years of age, retired from
a ee business with what was then accounted

State Board of Pharmacy.

himself to
One Year—Ottmar Evertach Ana Arbor itm f

hospitality

a large fortune, and
, and a ge
American

Some of those who read these

aA td

roous
minent and foreigners.

may

  

} o
ilnes

  
  
 

fecretary
Yreasarer—G

Coming Meetings
Houghton, Aug

have known him personally, t heir
small,
since
of
kept the diary I speak of,

|} set down not only a record of eve

since it is now

From

 

his he
and in it he

nts im-

e year death

- : ——o
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society ing himself. but also hi

 

  

 

 

President, Walter K. Schmidt: See’y, Ben. Schrouder | reflections and opinions upon matters
—————— _ == | and things in general. They are all ex-
OUR IDLE CURRENCY. ceedingly interesting, but what he says

The exports of gold, which have now| about the great commercial revulsion

been going on at the rate of $5,000,000 to| which began in 1837 and lasted until!
week for several weeks | 1845 is for the present moment the most

and amount for the year to not muchiso. [ resist the temptation to cite por-
less than $5 ave had an effect / tions of his remarks, but any one who
upon the rates of interest for m ¥:| cares to look them up will find in them
which are lower than hey Dave been atithe same denunciations of the corrup-
any time since the cessation of last sum-|tion and folly of the Government, the
mer’s panic. In Ears too, as Here,|same complaints of the extravagance
th nk with gold. | and rapacity of private citizens, and the
180,000,000,) same dismal forbodings of the future

  

the | that we hear now.
Bank of Germany, At the same time it mus

 

of its reported coin that in the present juncture many things
000,000. The Austro- conspire to make it hard for men to be
ais, a3 well as th courageous and hopeful. Not only is
Austria-Hungary, has accumulated 4|Congress wasting time in interminable

iarge amount of gold to prepare for the| debate over a tariff which the country |
roaching a . av- ,
proaching resumption of specie pay-| elamors to have agreed upon one way or
nents in gold and the establishment of — but too much evidence exists

that metal as the standard of value in| ¢q he delay is purposely protracted |
ar er ¢ y + Jerri a .

piace of silver, to be completed during | tor shee and selfish ends. In New
he yea York City we are compelled to listen to}
As usual, t nt is made upon

 

proofs of corrupt among the guard-

ion

 

is 3 gs by many people that ians of the public peace which goes far
it is unprecedented, but they either for-|t, destroy the respect for authority
get the past or have had no experience | which is the safeguard of life and prop-
of it. Asa matter of fact, money was erty. In various parts of the country
loaned in New York City in 1888 at 1 per | tpousands of workmen are both volun-
cent., and the same thing also happened itary idle themselves and murderously
in 1555, 1877 and 1576. While, there-|eeping those of their fellow workmen
fore, the present volume of idlecurrency| who want to work idle also, while
and the low compensation - for its | neither sheriffs. governors. nor soldiers
use are unusual, they by no means OccUr/are able to repress them. Naturally,

i be a Be ie) de P : aa liga g
for the first time in our financial hi tory. the bankruptcies of railroad companies

Thie l2 » s ———— . _

This lapse of memory is, however, Ot | and gnancial institutions are followed by
surprising. We are all liable to it, and | those of private individuals, and the list
the more so the older we grow. While|o¢ them grows longer day by day.
they last, cold weather is always the|Burope is undergoing a like affliction.
coldest and hot weather the hottest we The Panama scandals in France find
think e ver } w and thi hut . : Stew
think we ever knew, and nothing but/their counterpart in the complicity of
the record can convince us to the Con-| high Italian statesmen in bank frauds,
trary. So, too, every calamity that hap-| while even in Great Britain a cabinet

pens to us is the worst that minister has just been compelled to re-

thing of

fered, though we said the same sign his office in consequence of his con-
the one just before it, and will say it] nection with business transactions which
again of the next one after it. It is for-|a eourt of

justice has pronounced dis-

tunate for us that this is so. If we ré-|graceful. Nevertheless, I still main-
tained a lively recollection of all oursor-|tain that the world is not hopelessly
rows their accumulated weight would| ruined, and that we shall eventually
crush us. As itis, we shake off the ef-|emerge successfully from our present
fects of one before we have to encounter |tronbles. As we survived the crash of
another, and thus take them, as it were, | 1437, and those of 1857, 1860, 1873 and
in detail, instgad of having to endure | 1884, so shall we survive that of 1893

them al! at
This tr

the same time. and others yet to come.

ait of human nature excuses, But to go back to what I began speak-

 

though it does not justify, the lamenta-|ing of—the accumulation of idle cur-
tions that we continually hear, especially | rency at the great financial centers of
from politicians and professional agitat-|the world. While it is an unfavorable |

ors, the hard times. They are| symptom, in that it shows a diminution
hard, to be sure, but they are not the| of activity in business, it neverthe-
hardest that ever prevailed, nor are they | less,a valuable practical refutation
special proofs of depravity and corrup- | the fallacy often repeated and so
tion among our rulers and lawmakers. | vehemently insisted upon, that there is
I was looking through the other evening | not currency enough in the country
what to an old New Yorker is a most! meet the requirements of trade, as well
fascinating book, the ‘‘Diary of Philip | as that other fallacy, equally often re-|
Hone,”’ published a few years ago. Mr. ‘peated and vehemently asserted, that
of | the world’s stock of gold is not sufficient

over

is,

50

Hone was a distinguished merchant

t be confessed |

of |

|} been promised, as

to |

| various interests. Every member will
receive due notice of the program of the
meeting, but it is hoped that this notice

|} inent place and oblige,

was scarce and a premium was nomin-
ally paid upon
banks which

eurrency

for hecks

 

this searcity was the result of a

di
spent

no time before or since
¢
f

et

ing which the panic in
appeared as soon as the pa
At
was there any

spired, and i
nic had
its force.
laek of the
essary for business
at the time enough cur
been — y an

satisfy those who a aaa for it

hide it away in safes and vaults the
stock of it now lying idle would be at
least double what it is, if not more
That the panic was not the result bat

a lack of currency is prov
by the fact that in previous
the silver purchases under the
Sherman act had cre 0,000,000
legal tender notes

of gold to

were not

the cause of 3
three years
to it 3
cont the exports
ascribed by some
as great when it commenced as
this year without creat-
ing the slightest alarm.
the agitation for more
eurrency goes on and probably will go
on so long as any considerable number
of our citizens are unable to beg, borrow
or steal as as they desire.
The drift arguments recently
| made in the House of Representatives in
| favor of repealing the present prohibi-
| to ry tax on State bank cir-
lation was that the tax denies to the
seis and the planter the privilege of
borrowing as much money as he wants.
| What need the farmer or the planter has
to borrow at all not explained, nor
| what he would do with the money bor-
rowed if he got it. If he spent it in
p2 he would be no better
0 and if he laid it out
lin improving his land he could not re-
pay it on demand, so that the bank that
lent it to him could not pay its deposi-
tors when they asked for their money,
if, indeed, it could get any deposits from
among acommunity where everybody is
a borrower. So, too, various political
conventions, including that of the Penn-
sylvania Republicans, have declared in
favor of swelling the volume of the na-
tional currency by re-establishing the
free coinage of silver, and a bill is about
to be introduced into the House of Rep-
resentatives for an increase of paper cur-
rency by the issue of State bank notes
guaranteed by the national Government.
If the currency inflation craze, of which
these things are symptoms, shall be cured
by a continuance of the present dull times,
they will not be an unmitigated evil,
jand until it is cured in some way we
| cannot expect long-continued business
prosperity. MATTHEW MARSHALL.

they have been

Nevertheless,

nuch of it

of the

10 per cent.

was

|
;
|
| "
i ying his debts
i
i
|

than he is now,

>

More Particulars of the Pharmaceutical
Meeting.

June 10—The

DETROIT, twelfth an-

 

nual meeting of the Michigan State
| Pharmaceutical Association will take
|place Sept. 18 to 21 at Detroit, during

| the State Fair. This was decided upon
jas the wisest plan, considering the
|pres@@t hard times, as it would allow
| members to come at reduced rates. Our
Association numbers
increase. Many valuable papers have
well as reports on

| will be heeded and plans made to
ithe meeting.

attend
Please give this a prom-
Yours truly,

. A. THompson, Sec’y.

600 and is on the}

She Belonged to

Domestic—‘‘How mt
mum?”

Mrs. Hiram Daly—**l
you are worth.”

Domestic—‘‘I don’t

yation wages.

uch do you

the Union.
pay,

1 pay you what

work for no star-

Good day, mum!”
_— > <—_- ene

Use Trademmen Coupon Books.

 

H|

in |

for Michigan for t
brand of Paints.

with any sold. The
anteed. We have
many years. Write
the agency for same.

GRAND RAPIDS, -

We are T. H. Nevin Co.’s agents

his well-known

Figures can be given to compete

goods are guar-
sold them for
us and secure

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.

Wholesale Druggists,

MICH.

 

Typewriter Su
H. B. ROSE,

Supplies of all kinds.

Gran

pply Office.

Manager.

 

STATE AGENCYcFOR THE

Ml

The Edison Mimeograph—The Simplex
Duplicator—Typewriter and Mimeograph

Mail orders re-

ceive prompt attention.

 

Y. M. C. A. Building,

d Rapids, Mich

 

should

Every dealer

Extra Fine quality.
Lemon, Vanilla,
Yearly sales incr:
Send trial order.

 

 

SEELY MFG. COo.,

 

Seely’s Flavoring Extracts

sell them.

Assorted Flavors.
ased by their use.

Beely’s Lemon,

rapped)
1 oz. ese 10 20
202. 120 12 6O
4o0z. 200 22 80
60z. 300 33 00
Seely’ s Vanilla
Wrapped)
1 oz. % oo 16 20
2oz. 200 21 60
4 oz, 75 40 80
60z. 540 57 60

Plain N.S, with
corkserew at same
price if ‘preferred.

Correspondence
Solicited.

Detroit, Mich.

 

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#4

THE MICHT GAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

 

 

Advanced--Linseed

Oil.

Oxychloride Bismuth.

ACIDUM.

ee ows 4.5.
Benzoicum German..
Boracic
Carbolicum .
coeeee .............
Pivcrociior ...........
Nitrocum Del ee
ho
Phosphorium dil......
Seroy eee...
Salphuricum....... .-.
eee... ...
Tereecam...........

AMMONIA,
Aqua, — Oo} ..........
20 de

Carbonas oo
Ceses

ANILINE.

8@
65@
20
52@
3@
0@
10@
25@1

1%@
1 40@1
@

-_

Declined—Morphia, Sub Nitrate Bismuth, Sub Carbonate Bismuth,

 

 

  

BACCAE,
Cubeae (po 36)...... 25: 30
unmoome |... .......-4 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum . 2Q 30
BALSAMUM,
Copaiba 45@_ 50
es. te @2 25
Terabin, Canada .... G0@ 65
Co 35@ 50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian...........- 18
Oe eect. 11
Cinchonsa Fiava........ 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20
Grange Viewil.............. 12
Cotes, ore................ 10
Sassafras ... 2
Ulmus Po (Ground 15) .. eeu 15
EXTRACTUM.
Glyc trhiza Glabra... 24@ 25
yey, BQ 3
o
1é 14
‘ 14@ 15
oS SS ai 16@ 17
FERRU
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Solubie........ @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @
Solut Chioride........ @ 15
Sulphate, —* i: .9@ 2
were... «.. oe 7
FLORA.
—————a—_e—O 18@ 20
See... sss a 32@ 35
Matricaria ——. oo &
POUIA.
Barosma ............. 18@ 50
aaa *,cutitol, Tin-
nivelly bide ee cease 2 28
” 35@ 50
Salvia officinalis, :
ee 15@ 2
Ura Ursi ] 8@ 10
GUMMI.
icked.... 60
Acacia, = Pp cke : 2 =
2 ¢* ... eon
. sifted sorta... @ 2
' |... -- OO SW
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50D 60
ss Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12
Socotri, (po. 60). @
Catechn, is, (8, 14 “a
OP i eee c ces @ 1
Ae ..........,. 55@ 60
Assafostida, (po. 35).. 4@ 45
a eee............ 30@ 55
Camphore..........+¢+ 46@ 50
Euphorbium po ...... 3@ 10
Ga og Deis neues 2 50
Gemvegs, po.......... 70@ 7%
Guaiacum, os — “os @ 30
— _ i @!1 15
ee i a @ 80
ak, (po. 45) @ 4
Opli (po 3 60@3 80) . 2 2@2 2
See .......+...-.- 3Q 2
° bleached..... 33@ 35
Tragacanth ..........- 40@1 00
HERBA—In ounce packages.
ee ES 25
eee ................. 20
—- Deedee dees cree een ee 25
Mees... ..-. .-- 1 ..-.,- 28
Mentha  Biperita, eee 23
Vir ea 25
ae... ................. 30
eee F...............
Wee Fas, cl
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat.. 55@
Carbonate, Pat... 20@ 2
Carbonate, K.& M.. W@ 2
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
a ecacec se Oe oe
— dalae, Dulc...... 45@ 75
Amydalaec, Amarae....8 00@8 25
Anisi veces sel 80@1 90
Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 00
baer eae bute cotsereee 3 00@3 20
eee 60@ 65
Ca yophyiii eh eddc anes 75@ 80
OO i ease e das 35@ 65
Chenopodii . ees asses @1 60
Cee ......... -1 10@1 15
a @ 45
Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65
PIO | oes cces ees 80@ 90

Oaenee...
Exechthito .
Erigeron ....
Gaultheria
Geranium, ounce.
Gossipil, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma
Juniperi.
Lavendula .
ere,
Mentha Piper. .
Mentha Verld.........
Morrhuae, =-- oo
Myrcia, ounce.
Olive .

Picis Liquida, (gal. 5)
Ricin .

  

Suceint a

Sassafras. aE
=o Oss, ounce.
Tighil

hiidane” eee
POTASSIUM.
Core...
Bichromate ...........
Breres.......... ...
ei Beet aee ce.
Chlorate (po 23@25
wee...
ieee
Potassa, Bitart, =.
Potassa, Bitart, com.

  

Nassac sheepr’ a

Carriage

Velvet extra sheeps’
carriage

wool ¢c

 

“a
2 20@2

1 30@1

cag 50@7
50@

2 00

Py
88,
=

Pe]
8
=

mm

@

@1

@1
15@

we
® de
2

Potass Nitras, oe... 10
Potens Nitrag.......... 7 9
ErUMenee .....l.... 3 30
Salpeete pe........... 15@ 18
RADIX.
Aeoinm ............ 20@ 25
wieee ....... 22% 25
Ce 12@ 15
a @ 5
Coren... 20@ 40
Gentiana (po. 12).... 8@ 10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
oe —
ow @ 30
aicbece,’ Ala, po. 15@ W
an oo... 15@ 20
meee 06... 60@1 75
Tris plow ¢ (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40
eerere. E............. 40@ 45
morente, 16.......... @ 35
Fodophylium, pe...... ie
75@1 00
me eee. @1 7:
pr. Ceocey T5Q1 35
Spig 2ST IO 35@ 38
senguinaiis, (po 25).. @ Ww
SGrperais............ 45@ 50
Senega 55@ 60
Similax, Officinalis. 4 @ 40
@ 3B
Sciliae, (po. %)........ 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Fosti-
oe, oe... Lo. @ 3%
Veleriana, Eng. (po. - @ &
German... 15@ 20
saline a 18@ 2
i 18@ Ww
SSMEN.
Anisum, (po. 3).. 15
Apium (graveleons) _. 2 28
Bee 4Q 6
lee, Coe. Tey... 10@ i2
CarGamon.............1 Gi &S
Corner. .......... 11@ 13
Cannabis Sativa....... @ 5
ome... |... 75@1 00
Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 40@2 60
POemmounim........... @ 15
Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 8
NE os ee a 4 @4%
— _. (bbl. 3%). . 34%@ 4
Lobel 35@Q 40
eharlatis Canarian.. . 8 @4
eee eo eae. , a
Sinapis ie... 8. @8
ieee... :. "18 12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
‘ D. F. R.....1 75@2 00
“ ete teeenccek SO Oe
Juniperis Co. O. T....1 65@2 00
“ SS ees 1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 73@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli........1 75@6 50
Veet Cee... oo. oe 1 25@2 00
Vint ADs.............] sae
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool |
Carriage . %

Extra yellow sheeps’

ee. ............ 85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-

I oe ee ae 65
Hard for slate use... 7
Yellow Reef, for slate

ee 1

SYRUPS.
I oes iss 50
eee 8 50
ee a 60

re eee ee 50
Sirens! Cortes.............. &
— o.........-. ...,.. 50
Similax Officinalis.......... 60

. _ ce...... 50
Pee 50
Ee ee ae 50

Cae 50
‘ST 50
Pape... es. 50

 

 

   

 

 

 
 

TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R....... 60
“ “ F ae 50
Ae 60

at 60
a 50
See 0
Atrope eam eee eee. 60
Benzoin. . _ vues 60

Co.. Se
SA 50
ren. 50
Cemiheraes,. ......
Cee 50
Ca damon ee 75

ee oe
eee .1 00
Cereent. ... 1k 50
Cee 50
oe
60
Comme. 50
Contum ..... . 50
Capers... eo
ME i ol
ee ee
OO 50
OO 60
Cae, ee
” aon... 60
eee 50
Heeesames 50

Iodine... ian ec, oF
. Coloriess. Peeaee 75
Ferri Chloridum.. 35
Mine 0. 50
Lepelin.,...... 50
Myrrh.. 50
Wak Vomica 007 50
Opii ee 8k, 85
‘ Campborated........__. 50
. aor. 2 00
AurentiCortox...... ....... 50
—— i 50
—— ieee ee 50
eee oe 50
Cassia Acutifol. . ae 50
eis eee 50
Barrens 50
POO 60
a 60
Valerian .....  ee.. Oe
Veratrum Veride............ 50

MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 28@ 30

‘ oe « 47 .. RO 34
tll 24@ 3
’ — (po.

%).. _..... oo Of
Annatto.. 55@ 60
Antimoni, ‘po.. 4@ 5

et Potass T. 55@ 60
Ait... @1 40
Bere ............ @ 2%
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 48
Ve 5@ 7
Balm Gilead ov 38@ 40
Bismuth & NW... 1 75@1 85
ogo Chior, 1s, (48

12; | 24).......... @ il
cantharides Russian,

ee ee co, @1 00
Capeiel “oo @ %
it ‘ @ .

i @ Ww
pa po. 15) 10@ 12
Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75
Cera Aika, | s. = 7... 50@ 55
_aee Seeee..........., 38@ 40
@ 4

Cassia Fructus @ 2
Coaerare........... @ 10
Cetaceum . deca @ 4
Chloroform ........ |). 60@ 63
- aquibbs . @i 25
Chioral Hyd ‘Crat ea. fy 25@1 50
Chondrnue ..... 20@ 2
Cinchonidine, P. & Ww 15@ 2
rman 3%@ 12

Ge
— Mat, dis.

 
 

per i
Gnmmeni fee ee oe @ 3
Creta, an —)..... @ 2
eeda chee 5@ O56
+ preeip. 2. 9@ 11
MPA... .. @ 8
eo .......... 40@ 50
Cocpeer........ @ wa
Cupri Sulph.... 5@ 6
Dextrine ...... . 10@ 12
maver Suiph........... 0@
= aw. @
a. @ 6
Earth a 7@ 75
Flake _- 12@ 15
NO ee @ 2
oe 7 @8
Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 0
' Seenen........ 30@ 50
Glassware fiint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue, eee.......... 9B 15
aees........... 13@ 25
Glycerina .. ace. on
Grana Paradisi....._.. @ 2
a 25@ 55
Hydraag aie” = ¢ 2
oO
“ Ox as @ 8%
- Ammontati.. @ %
- Unguentum. 45@ 55
a erargyrum ......... @ 6
— Am.. ..1 25@1 50
a 75@1 .
lodine Pesah....;... 3 80@3 9
ee @4 70
See @2 25
Eyeopodiur: .......... 7@ 5
WO eck. ae 7 %5
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Te 27
Liquor Potass poses 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bb
ee)... * 4
Meno, 8. F......... GS @

 

 

 

 

 

Morphia, 8. P'& W. 205@2 30| Seidiitz Mixture...... @ 2 | Linseed, boiled.. 57 60
S. N.Y. Q. & mp. el @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
C. Co aoe, h hUrlhU @ Wi Mratned........... 65 70
Moschus Canton...... @ 40 — I cea, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 37 40
Myristica, No 1 .. ... Gee St VYou................ @ 3 bbl. Ib
Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 Snuff Scotch. De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. - Ib.
Ce Henie 15@ 18} Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
Popetn Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25 | Ochre, yellow oe: 1% 2@4
ee 2001 Seda Carbo 1%@ 2 Ber... 1.4 2@3
Picis Liq, NaC., % gal Soda, BiCarb......... @ 5/| Putty, commercial....24% 2%@3
ee G2 00 | Soda Ash... |... .... Bag 4] at _ noses 2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., ee @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2| Vermilion Prime Amer-
pens. @ 85 | Spts. EtherCo........ Sy 56) Fee 13@16
Pil Hydrarg, ea 80).. @ 50| “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 25 Vermilion, English. . 65@7
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ 1 * Myrcia Imp... .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular..... 70@75
Piper Alba, (po ¢5) .. @ 3 . ‘Vini Rect. bbl. | NGG, Teg 6 @b%
Plix Burgun........... a tT 32 ee seh | Wee 6 @b%
Pluinbi Acet ....... |. 14@_ 15| Less5e gal., cash on oon Whiting, white Span. @i
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 4 5) Wane Gilders’...... @%
Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl......... 24@ 3 | White, Paris American 1 ¢@
& PD) Co., dos. .... @1 25 e : Roll a 2 @2% Whiting, Paris Eng. ‘oa
‘ pmarinds ........ Sa 10; Cnr ........-..
oe = 1 $0 | Terebenth Venice... 23a 30 | Pioneer Prepared Paint1 20@1 4
Quinia, oP aw... — a ‘reonrousee |... 45 48 Swiss Villa Prepared
3. German.... 27@ ee 9 ing 00 aints ............... 1 00@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12 4 | Zinel Suipa..12.). 8 VARNISHES.
Saccharum Lactispvy. 12@ 14 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Bele 2 10@2 25 OILs. Extra Tur 160@1 70
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal| Coach Bo y.. eee ee. 2 75@3 00
coe 12@ 14| Whale, winter........ 70 70| No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 10
ce es Og ie) Lard, extra........... SO 85 [ewe Turk Damar.. 1 Sobt os
r=... - weitere me i....._..... 42 45| Japan Dryer, No. 3
Linseed, pureraw.... 54 57 ‘Porp a 70@75
ea

Grand Rapids, [lich.

PERF

E DEPARTIIE

als

We carry in stock a complete line of

Eastman’s Extracts

Including these specialties,

QUEEN MAB,

WEET HEATHER,

HER MAJESTY,

TUSCAN VIOLET
PEAU DE ESPAGNE,

LEUR DE LYS,

and all the leading odors of the following

manufacturers:

Lazelle, Dally & Co.,

Swinton,

We have

’

LAVENDER WATER,

FLORIDA WATER,4 ounces,

W

VIOLET WATER,

also manufacture

Ladd & Coffin,

Foote & Jenks.

a complete line of

FLORIDA WATER, 8 ounces.

HAZELYINE & PERKINS DRUG 60,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

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The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers.
going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

greatest possible use to dealers.

They are prepared just before
It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those
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doz

gross
lO 6 00
eer es... ..... 60 7 00
a 50 5 50
ee 7 9 00
se ..........---- 65 7 50
ee. 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.
acme.

3g 1D. sHUIs. . doz....

 

Arctic.
lg Bb cans : = case.
% b

 

oe
* Db “a _— “ee
5 * tam *

Cream Flake dl
tt: tees UCU! OS
[o”* oh C«w 60
‘x toe * ,. &
Son” 66 CC - i»

= “oe 2 doz ae " 2 00

eC tdo = 7 . 900

Red Star, is > Cans........ =

i a 1.

Telfer’s, %¢ lb. cans, dos. 45

“ lb “aa “ce nn 85

' i a | 50

Our Leader, \% .b cans..... 45

% i> Cans...... v6)

. [pbem..... .1@
BATH BRICK,

2 dozen in case.
English a
——- Oe
—.t 70

BLUING. Gross

Arctic, : ea ovals ieee : =
coescevese ‘

_ ee aie es 9 00

” = : ee box... 27%

. .. oe

“ _ “ ca 8 00

. yn --. ©

Mexican Liquid, 4 oz. se 3 60

ca... 6 80

 

Common Whisk oe ee

80
+ me ee 1 00
oe... es 2%
BRUSHES.
ee ee t............... 1 2
- . — 150
ss - 1%
Rice Root Scrub,2 row.... 85
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row.... 1 2
Palmetto, goose............ 1 50
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes ne 10
ee) ieee 9
a 10
ae «4.
CANNED GOODS.
Fish.
Clama.
Little Neck, Leg a
os 1 90
aR) nestony
susinen’ an m4 22
ve a.
Standard, Tb. Lo %5
oa... .. |
Lobsters.
— ts... LL. 2 45
- ss... bd oe ee oe 8 50
Picnic, ; = be eee eae ee 290
ee aa 2 90
yo
Standard, = cree 110
SS 210
ry eres wee 2 2
Tomato Sauce, ee 2 %
Soused, see chee oee + oe oe
Columbia oe fist ee ee : ola
Alaska, os idee kobe ld 12%
pink pie berec creceuss 110
aes, ee........._... 1 95
Sardines.
ae 4%@ 5
' Re ce ~~ 7
Imported - ee ee
Oe be aie i sole
I Os en vo cae 6@7
a 21
Trout.
a2... .. ........ 250
Fruits.
Apples.
3 lb. standard......... 1 20
York State, gallons.. ws 4000
Hamburgh, on

 

Apricots.
Live oak....... 4 1 40
woe Cee........ ..- 1 40
oe e.............5... 1 50
ee... 1 70
Blackberries.
or... .: 90
Cherries.
i 1 10@1 2
a Hamburgh .....
bebe ee 1 50
Ene. ee ee ce 1 30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green

Gages.
ee 1 20
aeaes..... ....... 140

eberries.
Can... : 123
Peaches
en ee oe 110
ere .............. 1 6
ee... 1 60
res. ,.........,, 160@1 75
—— =.
_oeee.... ..-.........

Pears,
Does... ......... 1 2
—_J a 1%

Pineapples.
—s.. 1 00@1 30
Johnson's miieed...... 2 50

erated...... 2%

Booth’ 8 anes oe @2 5)
cceted @2

Quinces.

Cree ..............; 1 10
Raspberries,
a 110
Black Hamburg oes 146
Erie, black ... 123
" eamaiianeidio
oweenee ....... 1 3
eee... [=
=. . 1 20
er ......-...,.,.. 1%
Whortleberries.
ee en " 85
Corned ar Libby" ....... 2 10
Roast beef = .. 1 80
Toued ham, % ib........... 1 40
- na _— 85
_ tongue, % ib........-. 1 35
= - oo, 85
° chicken,  Ib....... 95

 

    

Hamburgh mn ae 1 15
French style... )
: ae... 35
Lima. men. i. 13
ite dees coke oes 70
Soom eee eee. ....... 1 35
Day State Daked............ 1 35
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 3
oe 1 00
orn.
ae, 1 2
— —....... 1 2
see ON 1 40
Morn ae iene os
bets ieee eu. 75
Peas.
Hamburgh maeerotet........ 1 80
early June . ...1£
" pg see Eng..1 40
C  oe....... 1 40
ms awd sifted....1 90
Crea EE EOE Sra 65
ner tention. ............ 75
VanCamp’ S marrofat....... 1 10
i early June..... 1 30
Archer’s : ry panes 25
French eee 215
eee ‘Mushrooms.
ae e+» -19QQ21
Pumpkin.
_)........................ 80
Squash.
ee 115
Succotash.
eee... —en
sae eeenenenteiee. 45 80
Honey Be 1 50
ee 1%
Tomatoes.
I i oocs oces bone
ee
DR octet eon ooee
I oe cie eee...
ee, coo eed BO
CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s.
German Sweet.. .......... 23
ee 37
Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43

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CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
_ pint, 25 bottles so 2 =
ee 4
cas 1 doz bottles . .....350
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per dox.......... 13
ent, 20 OOeeeN.............. 4 50
Quart, per —_.... ..... 39
CLOTHES PINS.
Serocs Somes...........-. 40@45
COCOA SHELLS,
35 lb. bags...... eo
Loos quantity........... @3%
Pound packages........ 6%@7
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
—_— 18
——............ 12
— CCU 21
a. UL 21
Pees... LL 23

Santos.
— 19
aoe 20
Ss... 22
Peaberry .. ‘

Mexican and Guatamala.
— Ll, 21
ee... 22
—. lL 24
Maracaibo,
——... 23
ee oe 24

Java,
ee... 2
Private Growth.. oe
Mandehling . ..

Mocha.

Imitation . oe
—............. 28
Roasted.

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

Package.

en oe XXXxX.. 23
—.......... 21 80
on 60 or 100 lb. case. 22 30

Extract.
aoe City % BTOSS........ 1
‘elix - ele
Hummel . a. gross. — 1 65
orece 2 85
CHICORY.
LL 5
Ce ok pk _
CLOTHES LINES,

ceen, es.....-. per dos. 1 25
. a - 140
. —o....... - in
. —....... “ 1%
_ a ...... <a
Jute ....... - 85
_ ie ...... ” 1 00

CONDENSED MILK,
4 dos. in case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands

Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40
ere. 6 2
pee. 5 7
ee. 4 50
NED ok cca anc oes 423
We ee 3 3

 

ye; vi RAD i
Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75
CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’ 2 $3 00
1000, Lue 5 00
“ “ wie aCe eo 8 00

vi)

2000,
Steel meee... 6. coco

 

 

COUPON BOOKS.

 

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% 1 books, per hundred.... 2 00
ee os
& 3 “ oe oa) an 3 00
g 5 oe “ “ nnd 3 00
810 _ ' ' eo
820 ti “ ray 5 00
“Snperior.”
81 books, per hundred . . 250
82 -_ oo
z 3 te oe “ ie 3 50
$5 ' _ " .. 400
ees .. 5.00
#20 se cay “ i 6 00
Universal.”
$ 1 books, per hundred... 83 00
82 “ - —- oo
83 . x .
85 " ™ . 0@
810 “ sé . 6 00
820 rT) “cs 7 00

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

200 books or over..

= * _ ne

1900 “ ow i 20 “
COUPON PASS BOOKS.

Sa be made to represent any
enomination from 810 down. |

5 per cent
_ «&

 

hoees.......... i
a - 200
nll 3 00
_ * 6 25
ee en 10 00
mee Cas ees... 17 50
CRACKERS.

Butter.
peymeeraas............... 5
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5%
Wemety SEE...... ....... 6
Family XXX, cartoon...... 5%
eee ee... ............ 5
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 5%
aoeeee ee 7%

ee cc ,
pane ies .... .-...- 25. 6

Soda,
eee es... 5%
ON i cee TH
Soe, Pees... 8%
Cryeesl Weeer............... 10%
Long Island Wafers........ ll

Se
e. Outer BEe............+- 5%
aey yee. BAE............ 5%
Pesta Opster..............

CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly p pere......,..-.....
Telfer’s Absolute..........
i ee RO isoxr

FLY PAPER.

Thum’s Tanglefoot.
Bee coee................ oo
Pere cose ton... ......-..... 2

aon Come Ws............... 3 40
Less than one case, 40c per box
DRIED FRUITS,
~~”

Sundried, slieen cy bbls.
quartered ‘
Evaporated, wea boxes 12 1214
ts.
California in bags.. ...
Evaporated in boxes. ..
Blackberries.
(
Nectarines.
re wee... ............
oe Seeee.... .........-
Peaches,
Peeled, in boxes ns

erries,
eee a.
Op te, SONOS .........0...
2

P
California in b
Pitted

“ “ce

Prunelies.
or. Seee.......-.-...
berries,
oe
boxes bis ke oad eeae

eee a
oe

ee 4%
ee ee eu 44

4 Loose Muscatels in Bags.

aang ss 3%

 

Foreign.
Currants.
Patras, i barrels... ..... 2
in %-bbls.. - oe
- in less quantity .. 2%
cleaned, bulk...... 4

cleaned, package.. 5
Peel,

Citron, Leghorn, 25 Ib. boxes 13
Lemon c 25 8

Orange " _—" ” 10
Raisins,
Ondura, 29 ib. boxes. 5@7
Sultana, 20 7% @
Valencia, » * i
Prunes.
California, oe ie.......--. 6
90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 6%
. 80x90 “ao
i 70x80 ° 7%
e 60x70 " oc
ce peeet oss 5
er 4... ..
ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white.
Re .s%.................. 0 &
Po a oee.-.--............ 2
mete... 1 65
No. 2, 6.. i. 1 50
XX wood, white
Me ee 1 35
No. 2, 6 . 13
Manilla, white
Maes eee cee cea 1 0€
SS. 95
Coin.
—4.....lt.. Ue
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina
er beee............. 3%
ominy.

Barrels ..... see cesta 3
ie... 3%
Lima Beans.
oe, 4 @4%
Maccaroni ~ —
Domestic, 12 Ib. 55
BE cscs... 10%@11

a.

Barrels 200.. a. Se
Half barrels 100.. . oo
_— Barley.

s....., ..... coceces.
Peas.
roe, ee kaa... 135
ee 8
Rolled Oats.

Base ie... ........ @5 30
an bee S.......... @2 65
Sago.

Eo oa ce orhelee sen 4%

eer 5
Wheat.
eo 3%
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.

Toreee....-....,........
Cod.
ME iets dec ic aes ne
Whole, Grand Bank..... 4@s
Boneless, bricks.. ......
Boneless, strips.. ....... on
Halibut.
Ne ook a 10@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 70
ae “ee “ce bb] 9 50
a“ “ec “oe ‘
I oo ee sees onus
Round, % bbl 100 Ibs...... 2 50
" a. eo 30
Soe... 17
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Sardines.
Russian, —- a 5
No. 1, \% bbls., “blbs eed 4 7%
No. 1 4 bbl, mie 2 20
No. 1, kits, iolbe Cece s 63
No 1, Sip ki 53
Whitefish,
munity
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4 bbls, 100 Ibs eeu a0 3s 82 2:
40 a . 280 120
10 Ib. kits ea oe @
a. G& 8
MATCHES,

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbia Parlor....... 7 25
ao. Coeee....-......... 00
Diamond Match Co. 8 Brands,
OO ee
Ameer PATTER... ios... ie 70
TO i oes ei 1 10
Dapert parser... ....... ---4 00

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Souders’,
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
208 ....8 %
ao..... 10

Regular
Vanilla.

XX Grade
Vanilla,
SOs..... $1 75
i... 3 50

Jennings.

Lemon. —
202 regular ar %5
4

o£ ~- - ; i
6 ox :
me. 5 er... _ 35 3 00
To, < Gaper........ 1 50 2
Northrop’s
Lemon. Vanilla.
20z oval taper 7 1 10
3 oz “ 1 20 1%
2 0z regular ' . 85 1 20
4 Oz . 1 60 225
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
c- ee cree eee ceeds c ae. 3 25
i 1 90
mocuaee aes... 10
aon. 30
ee 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
SE 425
a 2 40
— oe 2 oe
11b cans. - oo
Eagle mieiti aiid
ee a ne
teen Ree... ..........- 5 7
Guareer SOGN..........._... 3 00
or come... .....,- 60
HERBS,
Wee i 15
15
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50
JELLY.

7 oe... .......... @ 54
a @ 81
LICORICE.

eee seem es eens an 30
mere 2
tim
a 13

LYE,
Condensed, : on as 1 20
Ook... 2.4... 225

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Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75
Pie preparation, 3 doz. in
ce... coveoe 3 OO
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

 

81 75

1 40

70

Pint i. aia 45

oe Oe ..... oss... 40

Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.

DN cee cc uel, 7

Half gallon i.

ee 3 75
—_— -........ 3. 8

MOLASSES,
Blackstrap,

Sugar house.......... ae 1
Cuba Baking.
ey ose 16
Porto Rico.

ieee eese ees cs uae. 20
ee ee 30

New Orleans.

ae 18
ee iL ee ex
eR ea aN 27
a En 32
ek icc, 3 40

One-half barrels, 3c extra

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PICKLES, SALERA
Medium. TUS.
. TEAS.
Halt nee’ Oo count... a 00 ooo 60 Ibs. in box. Fair. AP4*—Regular . WOODENWABRBE. omens
: 2 5¢ hs... wae Miata r oe. —
Small. ’ DeLand’s ..... 3 30 | ~@ood —- 2 | Meet .-.-------.---- 6 00 The Grand Rapids
Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 00 Dwight’s.... .. Ho og a Chale oo Se 7 3 5 50 quotes as follows: Packing and Provision Co
bls, 1,200 count 3 00 Taylors seg CHateeae 2 oa Pails No. 1, two-h 2 M PORK IN BARRELS.
PIPES. i mies... |e @12 No. 1, * Geaheep... is aoa : ooo 125
Clay, No. 216 « SEELY’S EXTRACTS. ve SUN CURED. Bowls, 11 inch Ce Short cut... ae =
NO, BIG a nn ene evoes 1 70 Seika, BaUr oe ee eons ee eeeeees @17 ee lee oe Extra clear, he short cut.................. 14 50
“—aa ae | Se ee 90 doz. S10 Mero | Chelen..8 mm Gee ~ 2a sccc is) oo —
(Wéeee wees 2 a ¢ ‘é 2 Pee endececnns sees 9 ; oo oston ee ea Go | a
POTASH, 2% FM. 149 « - - : — eee 82 @34 ' 19 LL teeeneneeees aa Clear oe ee 13 75
48 cans in case, a CO 10 @12 ee Madd dae dat cus ta 14 00
Babbite’s . anilla, Fair BASKET FIRED. Baskets, market Lee ces 35 r, short cut, best. ee
eR aan aan nen =: 4 00 1 of. FM M. 1 50doz. 1620gro | Chote 2222020022070 18 @20 — 9 hipping bushel.. 1 15 Pork, links....... tT
a 3 00 fo. = 2 00 21 60 Gininat @25 lu ul 1 25 ee rrr tras: 7%
ICE, E oo 2550 ° Extra choice, wirel @35 zB willow c ‘ths, No.l 5 25 ie 5
Domestic. Rococo—Second Grade. oice,wireleat @40 No.2 6 2 Rages ents “ig
Carolina head... GUNPOWDER. “ “ Nos72 tS a -- eaeteanee etree eee eeree 7
ae sualanaanil att 6 ane Lemon. Common to fair.......25 @35 a Noi o Head fe ee eae oii ually 3%
ae - Pe aie 54 wee +e coos 4S COZ... 8 00 * Extra fine to finest....50 @é65 “ ‘ + oe 3% Su 2 BB aE ig ate :
oa S Caste Chotcest fancy........ 75 @8s . “ “ Belle noe Le ‘s
as , oo Papin ae pn pena Ce a 7
Sapan, No.1... oz.....10 50 Common to fair... ...23 @30 ARE, inte Radacd. 1%
ee 5% 8 i! IMPERIAL. Grange re aoe
BOS occa rna me 5 OAP, Common to fair....... 23 @26 Family ree esr atttndlnetats sain Fy
es lore. eT ae Wamfly econ cecw sce susecsssecssecece toad
SPICES. olen B. Wrisley's 8 Brands. Commor to fair...... 18 @x Cottolene.. AAR RS RT 5%
eae Whole Sifted. Gaoa gee _ ee 3 20 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 20 Ib pall eo advance. Stet eeee eens ”
ede wee eeen tees oosene 9 : ae ig
Cama, China in mats...... “~~ White Borax, 100 2-1b...... 3 65 Fair ae 3 Ib. Co xe ‘
"Batavia in bund. ...15 Proctor & Gamble. ee |
Cloves, hae hig B...... 32 Concord... 00.00 345 Best “40 @50 *Washiioards single, BEEF IN
yes, AmbOyMB........... 2 Ivory, 10 oz... .... i ae : eS 295 | Bxtra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs
ia gD er trrrteeseerers 4 00 TOBACCOS. WO. QO0GD «= vo nn eee "250 xtra Mess, Chicago packing..........11 7s
N 8 Lenox : less Protector ° Boneless, rump b fe... 5
utmegn, fancy ne Mottled eetnagn un : = Fine Cut. Saginaw — ie eee ante tise oo ee
“ oo Town Talk.................38 i P. — & Co.’s Brands w Double. Hams, average 20 Ibs. ‘anvassed or Plain.
weet Russet. . ater W eo. a 1
Pepper, Singapore, , black. a Dingman Brands. Tiger..... ceed bs Ww Wilson a FS ‘ ee to ihe 10%
ey ey 158 16 Single box.. ..... 3 95 Sion; Bootie & Co’s Brands. oo Bag sass on ‘I owes LT “
can eiiaania. 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 Sr atniaaena 60 erlees. 2... 28 ssonparinic tt Oa BI Res ane 4
, delivered....... 3 85 ac ann wn Ls a Aliewidera i nit saincnes ota
Cassia, ‘Batavia ae 15 10 box lots, delivered...... 3 75 a = IDES Pains and FURS Breakfast Bacon boneiess.. ee ee eae c 74
’ bras 7 Jas, S, Kirk & Co.’s Brands, Spanidiig & Merrick’s Brands, OWS: ee auc ~~ peices... eae Re n
: America Se ars,heavy...... Tanta ane am
: — noe “ = Private Brands Green aaa Briskets, medium... it naa sss
2 oe Soe Razoo - Ee i @30 Part Cured... ess ry " a eck.
an ml, t awe ll ae ea [6 Wy,
Ginger, : Aiioan a 16 Santa Claus....... a. Nellie Biya bo =. a @ 3% ee. oa SALT MEATS. nae
. Cochin. aE 20 2. 2 Uncle Bes. = — Ee eee 4 @5 DS Ree See
Mace Batavia.............65 eb ss | ee ---- > ee ae
Mustard, ing. and Trieste. . 2 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. : = Calfskins, oa 4 ee Half a mwa 7%
Nutmegs, _. ne = — ee 3% 2 Deacon inane red... me ---4 n@ 6 = barrels. eran ae
Pepper singapore, biack’.116 | Marseilles... 000000. 00 - ee Ki Breer gine
oh im so Memes ..................... £00 23 ee encore eee ee 5 @ Kite’ ao
Banas eres ewan ea ee eeee es 20 Thompson & C , 22 | MAERDE . wee oes ooo ono ee 25 Soe a aaa
“Absolute” in Packages. —— : cee eet Plug. Ww WooL TT
ain ...... ae 4 Sorg’s Brands. ae qc 2 OY Carcass....... FRESH BEEF.
Cinnamon a Soames ee 39 ose ee & @i3 Wore diate ae et 16@ 6
haa 84 : JOKE? ........--0.0.--- 27 Tallo MISCELLANEOUS, cope cae Te eA 4 @ ae
Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 1 Noppy Twist............ Guan WwW ce a 4 @4% lame en tee 7 @8
African ........ 84 1 Scotten’s Brands. Swit teh eer 1 @2 es sna .8 @i0
Sisal . ule ey 1%@ 2 oh" ee ea teehi ee &§ @
Mustard.......000.0..: 84 ele aimn aaa 2 00@2 50 ao sedeedce« dee se sy 10
ee 84 1 orc ~ eee a 38 one . "i i nn ea 6 @ 6%
—. 84 CMY nnn. INS and FEEDSTUFFS eee 44@ 5
ll O—E—EeEe ‘ ar
SAL SODA. Old Honesty...... 4 _— 40 N ae Dressed... ... en Te _——
Granulated, bblis............ 134 Jolly ar 32 a 1 White (58 Ib. test) 52 en ass 6% @644
Wlb cases...... 13; i Lorillard’s Brands 0. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 52 aoa 4
Lump, bbls ........ it Rye 3 65 Climax (8 02z., 41¢) "39 MEAL. ie toate Se 6
«”' 1451b kegs......-.... 1& ii Gr-en Turtle.......... 30 LN ee ee re in oe
SEEDS. ' Savon Improved........... 32) | Three Black Crows... 27 aa 165 | Carcass ........ rr
ee eu Sunflower eh TN RN > 80 Ge) Wahler s Heanaa) op FLOUR IN SACKS, a 6 @
ane. ; Feat 3 25 Something Good...... 38 *Patents.............. CEE En ee TT ain @7
Caraway eoceees : Meonomical ............ 2 25 tne Sight.... 24 ee + oe Carcass oe
cites Fee ie Maile teat i... co SSC eee eee
SS -- 90 Pe Passolt’s Atlas Brand, oa. r — Cana 40 cROC = oe ee —
aoe alt IG ingle BOX ......2.2.2+e000+ 3 65 Meta Thought....... 37 “Siiject oc oe KOCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
a white....... 10 =o lots. aaa . . ssmate ...... 4 x =: usual cash dis- eg e- Hei etal kiana
Hie RONG 9 ee i tebe ren tant tateaetetaerante rascenea nines Mil
ERC aba aaah UE ae ecclesia ny $@ 27 ditt 8., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Te cg inne rettemet te neeenees
Cuttle b in onal. Se =
me. see 80 Scouring. Kil aa Brands, MILLSTUFFS. a toes LCE eh -
i Corn. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 G 1d es. N@Is Lec dos. in box. HIMNEYS. Per box. .
20-lb bi olden Shower Cc
eee 5% hand, 3doz....... 2 40 See nn --n nn ern: ‘ar _ quantity = OSun....
40-lb  ‘* sriatengtan cg Ae - Bram. .......: 814 00 15 eee i
Gio me ives cues 5% oe Meerschaum .. ..........29@30 ae . 1200 12 Sas No Boa nese rete tne setsee anes ee ! ; =
Lib packages. i. sa AR. sive Sa Eagle Co.’s Brands, Middlings .... 14 50 15 50 Get qualtig: correc eeeee eens 2 70
. elow are given New York iyrtle ae 40 C eed... 17 50 7 50 No. 0 Sun, crimp to
See = prices on supers, to which the | StOtK......----....-.-.-.30@ 2 coarse meal .. 17 00 17 00 No. 1 rea teat ats hn iad 2 10
Ot ee eee 5% wholesale dealer adds the lo- Geni TG 15 CORN Naz ¢ i pb
ieee 3% cal freight from New York to oe Csr low... | 45 XXX Flint. vl
ao 34 your shipping point, giving Jaga, Mafon 32 Less than car lots..........48 No. 0 Sun, crimp top
SI F. Ag credit on the invoice for Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brand OATS = 4 ‘
Scotch, in bladders......... 37 e amount of freight buyer Banner... .. y Car lots i No.2 ‘* 7. “
Maccaboy, in jars...... oe pays from the market in which po coh ls aaa 16 > pale cor par ear opp a 45 Pearl to
tc : ype tet Beondinn: 38 8 than car — — 48 e
appee, in Jars.....43 point, vi May ge rine Gold Gut) 000! 28 ra ale 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled
ghia abipping | Gold Cat wenn. 2-38 wo timate eee ote....11.09 | NodHings, © eu Stine
SODA, the weight of the barrel. 8 for - aa Brands, No. ; Timothy, ¢ car lots....11 90 No. 2 Hinge, ‘ ae ‘ 10
Koge, Bugle 0020000. 2.21ag | Powdered 20200000.0000000 mos | Money Dew. 2022220022 ee | ee A veuaes ae
eared gee Granulated | o-oo... ‘+s Gold 2 af AND OYSTERS. = 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. ............ 1 23
Cases, ue Ie — de Extra Fine Granulated... 4 37 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s ean = permanins quotes as =: 1 crimp, per dos Le
a eee. ae Mode od) 56 et ee
arrels, 320 ibs.. ica 2 Vwee Boao) : = Peerless...... — 26 a J 00
ts 60 5 ib a, 4 00 Confec. Standard A.. .... 4 12 On Wem 18 Whitefish ............ 8 M FRUIT JARs,
i 3030 Ib * |... ; = No.1 ColumbiaA....... a II oer esr sa Bleck i B poe ee Pints jared Peeeraccs
Butter, 56 Ib bags...... ie = a4 Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands. Halibut ass... ae 12% ae an nena it
CO Sidbbags......... a "38 Handmade 41 Ciscoes ea ae S° Halt gallon)
i ee MEPS ----++-- 2 : Leidersdorf’s Brands. Bigetien. 2000.2. _- a Mason—one doz in
. Wensenit: ae — = Hoy... 2. mt Fresh lobster, per Ib. 15 Pitta in case.
; indie Sam =20-85 0 | 6 COd..................-. Cae es ate
115 Bld SACKS. «02-0... #4 co No. ae No. 2 Piekerel..-.-..- e's ae
60 51D Meese, ; OO a eset 3 3 Spaulding & } oe aero @7 Dandy—glass cover.
a. : = a 3 00 Tom and Sima 25 smoked Who cn @8 Pints.. iy
RT ree 3 BE Noe cas. 2 Traveler Cavendish........38 Columbia’ Hiver ‘Sal " Quarts .. 7
28 Ib smoke. 20.22.2127) Saag Buck Horn.......000 000 222.80 — meee 11 00
5 Ib linen sacks......_.... 60 SYRUPS. ao Poe ee 30@32 Micke 18@25 ’ aaa 14 00
Common Grades. Corn. ea 16 orsrsne—Cana Boyd's extra caps...
100 3-Ib. sacks.. i 10 —— ea 18 Rubber rings.... eee 2
60 5-Ib. mt ME | On... . es 40 VINEGAR. ‘iw a, OCC 40
28 10-Ib. rena eet 1 85 UC TE IR ay a Lee usec i @s _ : per STOSS............... ;
Marc .. | : NT 2
Sees bags... 30 — vestes eee ceees 19 81 for barrel. Anchors....... ee ala a aaa 28
: Ashton oe OE eo see 30 WET MUS a a pe ee nae pee een 7
Ee STERS— . NT :
56 1b. dairy in linen sacks.. 75 iced... — “ hina Saneate, ne ‘Bulk. noon BW Ani AKON, ee, ve
56 Ihe, dat ggins. TABLE SAUCES. Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75 Selecta 000 ny Butter Crocks,, i to6gal......
\ ry in linen sacks. 75 Lea & Perrin’s large 4 emtertn....-..-..--- J a= —shotiasanct ER 80
a a r Rock. oe -~ 4 % YEAST, Ce ugs, Asal. Dyas agente eset
KS... | tet eee. 27 | Magley 0... cee ete ene. 10 | Scallops...-..... el SA eee
Saginaw ommon Fine. Mea | ao Ware 1 00 Seats .............. 125 Mik Pans. % gal., ee '
aa 80 Salad Dressing, large ..... 4 3 oe ee a Nee a 1 00 — SHELL goons. cmaiieds weet coteeccee sees 7
te cues small |... . 2 65 “ Leawcs es ° eooDs. But E—BLACK GLAZED,
ae 90 sters, per 100.......1 25@1 75 utter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal
ce | See Pe. ----.- Milk Ce ae
Gua. “ i ” 78@1 00 Pans, 1H BBL naan opts eneanienss nine 66

 

    

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

DAYS OF GRACE.

Their Abolition Recommended by Local |
Bankers.

The time-honored custom of giving |
three days of grace on notes and drafts |
will probably soon be a thing of the past.
Several States, including New York,
have abolished the custom by act of the
Legislatures, and other States are now
agitating the subject. There seems to
be no sufficient reason for the retention
of the days of grace. The mere fact of
its having been a custom for many years
is not a consideration. Itis an anomaly
in business and without foundation in
reason. A note given for thirty days,
or any other specified time, is itself an
accommodation to the maker and why he
should be given the right to demand
time beyond the date of the note it is
hard to understand. If it be urged that
this became customary in the days when
the facilities for traveling were few and
interferences with it many, and that, for
this reason, many men with the best in-
tentions in the world were frequently
unable to meet their notes when they
became due, and the three days of grace
were extended to meet such a contin-
gency, the reply is simply that such a
condition no longer exists, and if there
is no better reason for the continuance
of the days of grace they ought to be
abolished. It is a privilege which
means nothing, and to take it away
would not be a ‘‘deprivation of the
masses’? as some one has called it. It
is not a matter of sentiment; if it were
the fact that they ‘thave enjoyed the
privilege from time immemorial’? might
cut some figure. It is purely a matter of
business and should be so considered.
This is the opinion of THE TRADESMAN,
and is the opinion, also, of the leading
bankers of the city, as the following in-
terviews will show:

H. J. Hollister (President Old National
Bank): I have seen the matter of abol-
ishing the days of grace referred to in
the papers, and am also aware that New
York has passed a law abolishing the
custom, for that is all it is; but, then,
custom is oftentimes as binding as law
and itis soin the case of the days of
grace. There was never any statutory
enactment concerning it, but people have
for so many years been allowed
three days beyond the date of a note that
even the courts have sustained them in
the enjoyment of the privilege. There
is absolutely no reason for it and, sooner
or later, it will be done away with. |
do not know of any movement in this
State looking to its abolition, but, per-
haps, now that THE TRADESMAN is ven-
tilating the matter, some one will intro-
duce it at the next convention of bank-
ers, and the Legislature be asked to pass
the necessary legislation. I certainly
am in favor of doing away with the days
of grace.

Geo. G. Whitworth (Treasurer Penin-
sular Trust Co.): Grace on commercial
paper ought to be abolished. It is a
relic of the past which, however useful
it may have been, has long ago ceased to
serve any good purpose. Its retention
isamere matter of sentiment—it is a
time-honored custom. As a business
principle itis a fallacy, for the simple
reason that the three days of grace are
always paid for. This is an age of
progress, and progress is the simplifica-
tion of business methods as much as in
anything else. Wehave no time to do
even a second’s unnecessary work, and

the aggregate of the time wasted by the | | just as easy for him to pay it in 30 days
j | business world in computing the inter- | as in 33 days.

| time beyond the date of the note they | | beyond the date of the note.

 

i on the three days of grace is enor- |
'mous. Besides, no one wants “grace”
lon a note or draft to-day; if they want |

ask for it.

Frank M. Davis (Cashier Grand Rap- |
ids National Bank): Lsay, abolish the
days of grace, not only in Michigan but!
throughout the Union. It has long since
ceased to be of any benefit if it ever was
any good.

Henry Idema (Vice President
County Savings Bank): Our institution |
would be in favor of the abolition of the
three days of grace, andI am myself in |
favor of its abandonment. There is no
reason for its retention, except that it
has been a custom for many years.
Other states are abolishing it and so
ought Michigan. j

F. A. Hall (Cashier Grand Rapids |
Savings Bank): You may write me as in |
favor of its abolition, and in as emphatic |
terms as you please. The thing is out
of date and ought to have been abolished
long ago. A good many people are of
opinion that the three days extension is
“grace,” pure and simple; but it isn’t,
for the extra term is always accounted
for in computing the interest.

Cc. B. Kelsey (Cashier Peoples’ Savings
Bank): The custom of giving three days
of grace has come down to us from the
time when people were imprisoned and
had their goods confiscated if they didn’t
pay their debts. They were given three
days in which to arrange their business.
It has continued from that time to this,
although the custom long ago lost all
significance. An attempt was made at
the last session uf the Legislature to do
away with it, but because the members
of the Legislature were afraid of the
farmer vote, nothing was done. The
fact that several states have abolished
the days of grace, while the time varies
in others, creates no end of confusion.
The law on the subject should be made
uniform throughout the Union, and,
since there is no sense in giving three
days beyond the date of a note or draft,
the custom should be abolished; I want
to see it abolished.

Chas. F. Pike (Cashier State Bank of
Michigan): It is as senseless as a second
tail on a dog. Days of grace were of
some utility years ago, no doubt, and
even in the country whenit was young
and traveling was bad it was a great
boon; but its usefulness has departed
and it ought to be abolished. For some
reason unknown to most of the members
the Legislative Committee of the Bankers’
Association, which was instructed to see
that the abolition of the days of grace
and the Saturday half-holiday were
pushed through the Legislature failed to
carry out its instructions, and only the
half holiday went through. It is a curi-
ous thing; a man tells another one to
draw on him at sight, and that sight
draft runs three days after sight. A note
is given for 30 days. It actually runs 33
days. 1 think if a man gives a note and
wants 33 days he ought to say so. If he
does not he should be prepared to pay
the note when it comes due. It wont be
long before itis abolished in this State.

Lewis H. Withey (President Michigan
Trust Co.): The idea of giving a man
three days beyond the date of a note or
draft is utterly senseless. What good
does itdo him? He must pay the note

Kent |

| | custom;

| which to pay it? If

|days of grace from England,
| haps, in that country, years ago, it
|a convenience to the public;

 

anyway, or have it protested, and it is

 

You are wrong, however, |
in supposing that it is a mere matter of |
there is a statutory enactment |
| giving the maker of a note three days
What right
| has any man to make a note for 30
and then demand three days
he wants
note for

days |
longer in|
33. days, |

let him make his that time. |

| Banks, of course, in computing the inter- |
|est on a note add interest for the
| days of grace,

chree
but if the maker of the
note prefers payment at the expiration
of the 30 days, he can not be compelled
to pay interest on the extra three days.
I hope to see the thing abolished.

J. F. Baars (Cashier National City
Bank): I think we inherited the three
and, per-
was
but it serves
no good purpose in our day in this coun-
try and ought to be abolished. It is as
broad as it long, anyway, for we
charge interest for the three days. It
creates a good deal of perplexity and
trouble, especially in connection with |
sight drafts from several of the States
that never did allow grace on that kind
of paper. Whena sight draft comes to
us from New York for collection, we are
compelled to give the man on whom the
draft is drawn his three days grace,
while, if we send adraft to New York,
it is due on sight. Then there is the
trouble of computing the extra three
days’ interest which, in the course of a
year’s business, is a considerable item.
I say, abolish grace altogether, in all the
states.

W. H. Fowler (Cashier Fifth National
Bank): I wasin favor of the abolition
of the three days of grace when the mat-
ter was under discussion two years ago
and I am in favor of it now; but I don’t
think that it makes as much difference
now as it did before the passage of the
Saturday half-holiday law, for even with-
out the three days of grace, if a note falls
due on Saturday it must go over until
Monday on account of Saturday being a
half-holiday and a note cannot be pro-
tested until Monday. If not more than
one-seventh of the notes held by the
bank for collecton are affected, you can
see that the two days’ interest on that
proportion of the year’s’ business
amounts to considerable. I believe that
the three days of grace will in a short |
time be abolished in every State in the |
Union.

The concensus of opinions given by
the authorities quoted, it will be ob-
served, is in favor of the passage of such
legislation as will abrogate the custom of
giving three days of grace. This is not
the sentiment of Grand Rapids financiers
only, however, but the leading financial
authorities of the country have expressed
themselves to the same effect, and the
fact that several States have already
legislated against the custom will add

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weight to these opinions and, probably,
hasten action on the part of the Mich-
igan Legislature. The failure of the
Legisture to act last year was, no doubt,
due to the indifference of the committee
of bankers who had the matter in charge. |
They seemed to think it would have been
too much to expect the Legislature to |
pass two bills from the bankers at aie
session, and for some reason unknown |
the committee preferred to push the
Saturday half-holiday bill, which went
through. Now, however, there is no

1G. J. Johnson,

 

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will remember that Goliah was

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He said that such a thing
A

good many retail grocers are in the same

had never entered his head before.

predicament as Goliah was before he

rubbed up against David—they have
never gotten acquainted with the merits
of the best selling brand of soap on the
It ealled ATLAS

manufactured only by
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reason why a bill for the abolition of the
days of grace should not be introduced
at the next session of the Legislature
and its passage secured. Opposition to
such a measure would come, no doubt,
from the farmer element of the Legis-
lature, as farmers are accustomed to con-
sidering bankers their most deadly en-
emies; but, if the matter is presented to
the Legislature in the right light, there
ought not to be much difficulty encoun-
tered in securing the abolition of the
three days of grace. The time to begin
the agitation against the anomaiy is now
and the bankers are the men todo the
agitating.
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Goatskins or Sealskins.

It is said that sealskins are going out
of fashion, and perhaps the United
States are going to a deal of unnecessary
trouble and expense in guarding the
preserves of the sealskin monopoly in
Behring Sea. Certain it is that last
winter a great many of the fashionables
of Europe, who formerly never appeared
out of doors in cool weather unless ar-
rayed in sealskins, appeared in otfer
furs, notably the skins of the Thibetan
goat, which is avery handsomefur. It
is hinted that the parsimony of the North
American Commercial Company is largely
to blame for this fact. While the Alaska
Commerciai Company controlled the out-
put of Behring Sea,it was accustomed,
it is said, to make its wares popular by
making sure that the royalties of Europe,
the opera queens and other people, who
set the fashions, had sealskin sacques
and overcoats of the finest skins and
latest cut, and all for nothing. The past
year, under the present management, the

free list was entirely suspended, and
it is asserted that not a_ single
complimentary jacket was received at

the court of St. James. Ladies of fashion
waited in vain for their customary tip,
and in revenge for the neglect proceeded
to array themselves in goat and other
furs. It seems rather hard to have to
give expensive furs to the people who
are best able to pay for them. But it
is the way the world over. Those best
able to pay are the ones that do not

have to.
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The Department Store.
From the St. Paul Trade Journal.

There is one sure way of meeting the
competition of the department store,
and that is by starting another one.
The department store is generally sim-
ply a co-operative store in which several
or many dealers club together to pay ex-
penses and reduce cost ’and freight. A
grocer, abutcher, a baker, a dairyman
can anywhere make one rent, one gas,
one fuel bill, and one advertising con-

PLEASES EVERYBODY,

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PRICES FOR 1894.

40 CENTS A BOX. |
$3.60 PR CASE. |
$3.50 PER CASE, in Five-|
| Case Lots.

$3.40 PER CASE, in Ten-|
Case Lots.

O. & W.THUM CoO.,Grand Rapids,

 

 

| | tensively imitated by unscrupulous parties.
| ‘ity of handling infringements, and reminded of the injustice of so doing.

tract give them better quarters, light,
conveniences, and sales at lower prices,
than they can compass separately. A
grocer, a dry goods dealer, a clothier, a
boot and shoe dealer, a milliner and a
hardware merchant could throw two
stores into one in almost any town, and
at once make it lively for any combina-
tion store. This course is already be-
ing taken, and any merchant who suffers
from such competition should take for
his motto, ‘‘United we stand—Divided
we fail,’? and try to induce his fellow
sufferers to confederate their interests,
pool their expenses, and fight fire with
fire. Real estate would suffer some, it is
true, but in the end less harm would en-
sue than is caused by the many failures
of men ‘‘frozen out’ in trying ‘‘to go it
alone.”

 

0 <r

John L. Stoddard,
The world-famous traveler and lecturer,
has enjoyed unexampled opportunities
for the collection of the finest and best
selected photographs of American scen-
ery, the choicest of which are published
in a series of sixteen portfolios, with
eloquent descriptive sketches from his
own pen. In connection with this work,
Our CouNTRY AND Our NEIGHBORS, the
publishers offer a large new steel plate
of NIAGARA FALLS, the finest ever en-
graved, and which can be procured in
no other manner, both for the absurdly
low price of $3. Call at the Michigan
Central ticket office and see them.

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The bed of the retail hardwareman is
not altogether one of roses. Out in
Concordia, Kan., there is one now under-
going a boycott because he lets one of his
customers clean his pipe with shingle
nails and then sells the nails to carpen-
ters who hold them in their mouths.

JAVA OIL

RAW AND BOILED
A substitute for linseed, and sold for
much less money.

Purely Wegetable,

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

Free From Sediment.

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

This Oil is a Winner!

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

HM. REYNOLDS & SON.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

TANGLEFOOT

Sealed

STIGKY FLY PAPER a

The Dealer who sells Tanglefoot will be sure to please his customers, and will avoid all loss
and annoyance usually connected with the sale of imperfect or inferior goods.

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

Its distinctive features, the Sealing Border, Divided Sheet, and the Holder are. as is well
| known, the inventions and property of the 0. & W. Thum Company.
Dealers are respectfully cautioned against the illegal-

 

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and make a specialty of them. Our
**Net Price List”? is ready tor dis-
tribution Send for one and sort up
an order early.

The PUTNAM CANDY Co.

 

 

Japan Teas
Just Arrived
Zum Yum

Each Box Contains

DOUBLE SHEETS

AND ONE HOLDER.

[Each Case Contains
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16

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The Girl in Commercial Life.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The girl of to-day is being educated
by the side of her brother. She is being
taught that she has an equal right with
him to earn her own living if necessity
compels or she has a desire to be inde-
pendent.

The last two decades have witnessed
almost a revolution in many features of
this question—whether for better or
worse, depends upon the standpoint
from which the matter is viewed.

Twenty years ago, if a woman was
compelled to earn her own living, there
were about one of four fields open to her:
If she had sufficient education and influ-
ence, she might be a school teacher or
governess; otherwise, keeping boarders,
washing or doing house work was ali
that was left her. To-day if she is past
40 and suddenly thrown upon her own
resources, with an occasional exception,
she has not advanced far beyond the last
three. If young and willing to work for
a few dollars a week, the fields are al-
most unlimited. She can find work
where men, women and boys fail. Not
a few instances could be cited where all
the support the family are receiving is
from comparatively young girls.

Is this as it should be?
pends upon from what standpoint the
matter is viewed. If from the girl’s
standpoint, the answer would be, ‘Yes,
only we would like to receive more for
our labor,” seemingly unconscious that
that is the very reason for her holding
the position. Should the answer come
from the man who has anxiously sought
work, only to be met by position after
position filled by girls who work from a
quarter to a half less than he thinks is
necessary for the support of his family,
his answer would be,
first with men.”

It is quite the fashion, from a working
man’s standpoint, to hur! anathemas at
the men who come from other countries,
work for less, live better, and save more
than would he upon twice the wages, and
in many cases he will walk the streets in
a vain search for work, while his own
daughter will underbid a boy or a man
for a position, will thus secure it, and
his own bread will be furnished by her
earnings.

The equal suffragists ask that equal
wages be paid women for equal work
with men. Are the gir!s not largely to
blame for the present state of affairs by
being not only willing but anxious to
work for the low compensation they re-
ceive? Might not that be the solution of
the question from a business point of
view? The position would fix its own
wages, the competent person—be it man
or woman, boy or girl—would secure it.
That would throw many of the girls out
of present positions; possibly, many of
them ought to be in school. Do they not
do as good work as men or boys in the
same positions? Generally, yes; some-
times, better. But they would then
stand upon merit alone and, if valuable
to theiremployer, they would undoubted-
ly hold their own.

Girls have come to be considered as
an element in the business world. When
a& man, or woman, goes into business of
any sort, one of the problems which con-
front them is the hiring of help. They
are going to secure the best help for the
least money. The positions that can be
filled with girls at low wages—without
detriment to their own chances of suc-

That also de-

“Fill the places

 

cess—will be just so much money saved;
so they are employed, as a matter of
course.

Do the girls receive enough? As a
rule, they will receive what they make
themselves worth, as compared to some
other girl .who would do equally good
work, and considering their own neces-
sities. When a man applies for work he
asks for wages to support his family.
When a girl asks for work she asks for
her own support and is willing to take
what she thinks necessary for that.

It is barely possible that American
girls, like American men, are living too
fast, are pushing themselves too far into
the avenues of business, and leaving the
home too far behind them. Itis getting
to be very old-fashioned for a girl to bea
homemaker. As soon as she is old
enough to get her head well above the
counter, her ambition is to be acash girl,
or, if not that, to ‘‘do something’’ to
earn as much as her brother who carries
papers. The ambition to ‘‘do something,”
‘to earn,’’ is all right and we would not,
if we could, deprive the girls of this;
but do they not lose sight of the fact
that saving is earning; tbat it is not all
or the best of life to earn a few dollars
for personal adornment? There is an
old proverb that ‘‘one penny saved is two
pennies earned.’’ If some of the girls
would educate themselves to be home-
keepers, in all that that means, learn to
cut off the avenues of waste and ex-
travagance, to do many things for them-
selves and other members of the family
that are often hired, in many cases they
would easily save to the family the
amount of their own wages and enjoy a
great deal more of health, comfort and
happiness. The strength of a country
is largely in its home life. Are not the
girls pushing themselves, or being

pushed. out of the home into the busi- |
ness world to return to a house poorly |

Do They Raise Poultry i

Some must, of necessity, go out to}

kept by a much-overworked mother, or a
ceaseless, ignorant servant, who i
generally extravagant and wasteful?

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earn a living. Let them, therefore, fit

themselves well for what they wish to!

do, do it well, and get for their labor all
it is worth; but that does not always
mean that all the girls of a family should

be ‘‘business girls’? in the sense that |

(THEY ALL

their business faculties should be em-
ployed for some‘one’s else profit. It is
argued that the home girl does not re-
ceive her proportionate share of the
family wages for the work she does.
There is an opportunity for education.
She ought to be considered in the adjust-
ment of family expenses; perhaps, if this
were more generally considered, more
girls would be willing to devote them-

selves to making homes. American
women ought not to allow their homes to
become simply lodging and eating houses.
They would live longer, be happier, and
leave to future generations a_ better
legacy, if they would adopt simpler
modes of living, teach the girls to make
homes as well as means of earning a
livelihood, and it would not necessitate
so many girls being pushed out to earn
the superfluities.

‘“‘It is a good divine that follows his
own preaching; it were easier to tell
twenty what were good to be done than
be one of the twenty to follow mine own
teaching.”’

That is the trouble. Women are not
willing to do these things themselves.
They have run headlong into the present
state of affairs and the very force of
habit and circumstances are holding
them there. It would not be retrograding
as some might think. It would be sup-
plying the greatest good to the greatest
number. Is it not worthy of considera-
tion? Mrs. Henry J. FELKER.
The Equality Plan.

From the American Grocer.

At last the equality plan of selling
sugar is in force in all territory east of
the Rocky Mountains. It is gratifying
to note the triumph of this ‘‘live and let
live policy.’’? The slight profits which
the jobber gets means a more equitable
distribution of general merchandise, and
this is a direct gain to retailers. The
| struggle to secure the general adoption

 

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

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of the equality plan has been long and
tedious, but the principles involved and
the pecuniary rewards were well worth
the effort. The trade is to be congratu-
lated upon the victory. Time will
strengthen the plan in the favor of its
opponents.

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Much has been said and written about the
benefits to farmers arising from a visit to the
city and an inspection of the markets. Itis
quite as important for commission men to visit
the country and see what farmers have to sell
and how they raise it. It would create a better
understanding all around and increase the
knowledge each should have to conduct busi
ness in any line of products successfully.
There is much for farmer’s to learn in the city
and quite as much forcommission men to find
out in a trip through the country. Both can do
no better than to visit each other.

Asparagus—Is down to 25c per doz. The cold
spell of the first of the week may “‘bull’’ it some.

Beans—Dry, strong and advancing. Strictly
hand picked command $1.95@2. Wax, $1.75 for
full boxes and $1.4) for two-third boxes.

Beets—New Illinois, 35¢c per doz. bunches.

Butter—Best dairy, 11@12c; creamery, 16Q17c.

Cucumbers—25ce per doz.

Eggs—Are bought for 10@1l1c, and held at 12c.

Field Seeds—Medium and mammoth clover,
$6@6.25; Alsyke, $8@8.50; Alfalfa, %6.75@7.50;
Timothy, $2.15; Red top, 15c; Orchard Grass,
$180; German Millet, 80@90c; Common Millet,
7o@sse ; Hungarian Grass, $1.10@1.20.

Greens—Beets, 50c per bu; spinach, 40c per bu,

Honey—White clover, l4c; buckwheat, l2c,

Lettuce—Has dropped to 5c per b.

Onions—Californias, $2.50 per 2 bu. sack. Lou-
isianas, $2 per 1% bu.sack; green, 12% per doz.
bunches.

Peas—On the down grade.
now at $1 per bu.

Pineapples—Large, $1.75; small, $1.5@.

Pie Plant—Nearly out of the market. Is
bought for 4c per tb. and sells for Ic.

Radishes—Unchanged at 8c per doz. bunches.

Squash—lIllinois summer are held at 3c per lb.
and $1 per bu.

Strawberries—The hot weather brought straw
berries forward with a rush and the market has
been well supplied. Dealers pay $1@1.25, hold-
ing at $1.26@1.!0 per 16 qt. crate.

Tomatoes—The price is well sustained, being
now $1.90@2 per 4 basket crate.

Potatoes—Old are held at 90c@#1 per bu. but

areabout played out. New are held at $3.25 per
bbl or $1.10 per bu

They are held

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FP, J. DETTENTHALER, 117 and 119 Monroe St.

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to sell

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their experiments.

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are only trying to get you to aid their
new article.

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it not the public? The manufacturers
by constant and judicious advertising
bring customers to your stores whose

very presence creates a demand for
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