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TOLD BY A TRAVELER.

‘*‘When I was a man of 30,’’ ramarked
a gray-haired three-score-and-tenitarian
after the drummer had finished a rather
unbelievable card story, ‘‘I could shuffle
the pasteboards pretty fairly myself, and
it was only the veterans who cared to
tackle me, and they were usually sorry
for it afterwards. I was not rich and
proud then,’’ he smiled softly, ‘‘and
made most of my living selling groceries
in the South and West for a Baltimore
house. I did the large towns as a rule,
but I had a few good customers in out-of-
the-way places and I made it my busi-
ness to cultivate them and get around to
see them at least twice a year. Among
them was a merchant in Mississippi, and
he had a daughter who was one of the
sweetest, prettiest girls Lever saw. In
fact she was so attractive that I fell in
love with her and tried to marry her, but
she was silly, like most women when
they are young and sometimes when they
are not so young, and instead of recipro-
eating my affection, the affection of a
plain but honest man, I'll be shot if she
wasn’t wasting her affection on a han -
some bon a rein—that’s French for good
for nothing,’’? he explained—‘‘and I
hadn’t the slightest chance against him,
although her father wason my side and
did all he could to save her from the man
she would persist in loving. He was un-
doubtedly a handsome fellow and one
whose manners were fascinating, not
only to women, but to men. With all
his natural ability, however, and attract-
iveness, he was utterly worthless; a hard
drinker, a brawler, a vindictive wretch,
a libertine and a notorious gambler.
These qualities of the man were well
known in that locality and his reputation
was not unknown throughout the State,
while up and down the river he was
known on every steamboat for the big
games he played and his success. He
was the youngest son of a prominent and
highly respectable family, and this, to
the girl, seemed to offset his numerous
defects of character.

‘*Whatever it was, there was no ques-
tion that the girl was completely infatu-
ated with him, and finally she eloped
with him. This act of hers broke her
father’s heart and within a year he had
died, leaving no property whatever, nor
any family, as the girl was the only
child and her mother had been dead
some years. The loss or absence of any
property which might be of assistance to
the daughter did not affect her seriously,
as her husband had some estate and man-
aged by successful gambling to maintain
her in comfort the first year or two.
With the death of the father and the
marriage of the daughter very naturally
my interest in that locality waned and I
lost track of the neighborhood and its do-
ings for five years. Then I was called
there on business and when I stopped at
the only tavern in the little village I was
more than surprised to find that it was
kept by my former rival, whom, by the
way, I shall call Jackson. He did not
know me and I don’t suppose it would

 

have made much difference if he had, for
with all his faults he was not a jealous
man. He was too gay a Lothario for
that sort of thing. Well, I kept my
identity pretty much in the background
and made up my mind to see how the
marriage had turned out. I got an ink-
ling of it that very first night, when
Jackson came in just drunk enough to be
ugly. He had changed much in the five
years, and from being the handsome fel-
low he once was, he had become bloated
and all the bad streaks in him seemed to
have settled in his face. His wife I had
not seen, up to the time of his appear-
ance in the evening. I was sittingin
what passed for an office and he was
there cursing a stable-boy. After he
had finished with the boy he called his
wife from the kitchen where she was at
work, and when she came in frightened
out of her wits, as I could plainly see, I
never would have known her. She was
thin and pale and bore every evidence of
having received the most cruel treat-
ment. I was shocked beyond expression,
and it was not allayed by the way he
talked to her and ordered her around,
once even giving her ajerk by the arm
that brought a ery of pain from her and
came almost getting me into the scrap. I
kept still, however, and waited, and that
night he grew so ugly that she called in
one of her neighbors to serve as a kind
of protection.

‘The next day he was no better, but
he went off and did not return until late.
During the day she had a chance to see
me and at once recognized me. Whether
she was glad or sorry I don’t know, but
she broke down and had a nervous fit of
erying for half an hour, and I got away
until she recovered. When I saw her
again, she was quite calm and for two
hours she talked to me of her terrible
condition. He had been all things to her
aman should not be, and the community
only partially knew what she had to
bear. He had beaten her and starved
her and made her work like a slave, and
once or twice when she had tried to es-
cape, he had brought her back and kept
her in a dark room on bread and water
fora month. There was no place for
her to go in the neighborhood, and he
never gave her acent of money, so that
she might have gone to some distant
place. She was ashamed and afraid to
appeal to the public for help and she was
slowly being tortured to death. Fortun-
ately she had never had any children.

‘‘We talked the matter over in all its
aspects, and Lasked her, if I could se-
cure her escape, would she go with me
to my home in the north, for I had mar-
ried and settled down like a _ sensible
man; and she agreed to it if it could be
done without making her condition any
worse. I then began devising ways and
means of getting the poor woman out of
this hell-on-earth, and by night I had my
plans ready for trial. When Jackson
came in that evening he was in better
humor, having won some money on a
horse race, and he was not quite so ugly
drunk as he had been. He was drunker,

 

A DESMAN

NO. 567°

perhaps, but it was not such a mean
drunk as before. After supper I ena-
gaged him in talk, and along about 9
o’clock I proposed a game of poker. It
struck him just right, and we adjourned
to a room upstairs with a couple of law-
yers and a judge who were stopping
there over night and the game began. At
first, Jackson won right along and as he
won he drank, calling every now and
then for his wife to bring him more
liquor, and whenever she came into the
room and saw me, the look she gave me
almost made me kick over the table and
fight the whole crowd. However, that
was not my game, and I let on to herand
the rest of them that I was about as
drunk as Jackson was; but I wasn’t.

“At midnight we had reached the eli-
max. The two lawyers and the judge
had been raised out and Jackson and I
were left for the finish. I had four
nines, not a bad hand as hands went in
those days, and I had an idea that Jack-
son hadn’t anything to beat it. I also
had my wits about me and Jackson
hadn’t, and I had $5,000 in my pocket,
which Jackson hadn’t. I had been bluff-
ing like the mischief all through the
game and Jackson had caught me for a
good lot on my recklessness, but all he
had was on the table when the other
three passed out. That is, all the money
he had, but he owned three good horses.
It was a game without a limit, asit often
was in those days, and when I put down
two hundred he saw me to the extent of
ene horse. Then I went five hundred
more and he went another horse; then |
went another five hundred and he went
the third horse. Of course the man was
wild now with liquor and the excitement
of the game, and when I laid down a
thousand more he was dazed for a min-
ute. Just then his wife came in and
with a curse he ordered her out and was
about to throw a bottle at her. She hur-
ried away with an appealing look at me,
and Jackson sat stupidly gazing at his
hand and at the pile of money and con-
tracts for the table, and he
was sure | was bluffing. I could see
that, but he didn’t like to take too much
of a chance. Then all at once a new
thought seemed to come to him and he
looked square into my face,

** ‘By the way,’ he said, ‘you
know my wife, didn’t you ?’’

**] nodded coolly, thought somewhat
rattled at this somewhat unexpected rec-
ognition.

**And you used to be in love with
her,’ he went on.

‘*Again | nodded.

‘**¥You wanted her once,’ he ventured
slowly, and I nodded again.

‘**By heavens,’ he exclaimed, ‘I’ll put
her against what you have there. Isita
go ?’

‘**Once more | nodded.

‘« «Jentlemen,’ I said to the judge and
the lawyers, ‘make a note of that. If 1
win, the woman is mine todo as I please
with. Is that agreed ?”

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to acontract to deliver his wife to me if
the game went against him, or words to
that effect.

“Now! he said in a tone of sup-
pressed feeling, ‘what have you got?’

“Very quietly, but with some little
fear that | might miss it at last, 1 laid
my four nines down on the table.

“Jackson looked at the cards a second, |

then with a hoarse scream he slung down

his own hand all over the room and
dashed through the door. Fearful that
he might mean harm to his wife we

went pell-mell after him, but he did not
stop anywhere. On he went out into the
night, and we lost him in the darkness.
I thought we mightfind him next morn-
ing dead somewhere, but we didn’t.
When we got back to the room we gath-
ered up his hand and found that it con-
sisted of three aces and a pair of tens,
one of those hands the gamblers of those
days, as a matter of sentiment, would bet
everything they had on, and, by the
way, not a bad hand as hands go, is an
ace full.

**I never saw Jackson again. He did
not return to the place for two or three
days, and when he did come back | had
gone, and with me his wife, to whom I
had explained the situation. I made ar-
rangements with the judge and the law-
yers to restore to Jackson
but I kept what money I had won and
gaveit to his wife. She went home with
me, and in a year or so had secured a
position, and always as a kind aunty to
my children she was the jewel of the
family; and the queer part of it was that,
notwithstanding I had once courted her,
and might be charged with saving her on
account
bit of that in it all, and she acted always

his horses,

of the old love, there was nota

in such a manner that I could no more
have flirted with her than [ could have
flirted with my own sister. She just

wouldn’t have it; that was all. As i

said,” concluded the old gentlemen, ‘‘1|

never saw Jackson but 1 heard
that with the money he got for the
horses which I returned to him he went
to New Orleans and was killed there in
a@ fight over the card table. That was
not my last game at poker, though,”
smiled the old fellow, ‘‘andif any of you
gentlemen want to have a little penny-
ante round I’m your humble servant.”’
W. J. Lampron.
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SEVEN YEARS HENCE.

How Arbitration Revolutionized the In-
dustrial Situation.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The more closely one examines into
the workings of the arbitration act the
more one is struck with its simplicity
and perfect adaptation to the purpose for
which it was designed. There is no in-
tricate machinery to be set in motion, no
red tape to be unwound before results
ean be obtained; all that is necessary
where grievences exist, is to make astate-
ment in writing of the matter complained
of and lay it before the Board, which is
in continuous session throughout the
year. A copy of the complaint is sent
the respondent, who files his answer, and

again,

 

the case is decided without other testi- |

mony. This does away with the expense
of calling witnesses and saves
which would be consumed in their exam-

ination.

One effect of the operation of the act

has been to break down many of the dis-
tinctions between what have been termed
‘‘elasses.” All have been put upon the

the time!

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; Same broad plane, and social differences ,

| have been all but obliterated. A hint of
this may have been gleaned from the il-
| lustrations taken from the records of the
| Board of Arbitrators, which appeared in
; this journal two weeks ago, and a few
| more ‘cases’? will still further develop
‘that fact. For instance: A young man
employed as ‘‘man of all work’? avout
the house complained to ‘the Board that
attic
kitchen with the other
servants; that he was not allowed to en-
tertain his company in the parlor, but
was forced to take them elsewhere for
entertainment; and that he was not
treated with the consideration due a free-
born American citizen, and prayed the
Board fer redress. Before passing upon
this case the Board asked the appellant
to explain his use of the word servant,
as this was the first time since the Board
assumed its functions that the word had
occurred in a complaint. In reply he
stated that it was what he and his fellow-
employes were called by their employers.
In their opinion the Board said: ‘‘The
language used by the appellant discluses
a condition of things as existing in the
household of the respondent, which, it
was

he was compelled to sleep in the
and eat in the

hoped, had forever passed away,
The use of the term servant implies that
there is a master, and the use of these
two terms correlatively can mean noth-
ing but that the former class is inferior
to the latter. This is contrary to the
constitution of the United States, which
declares that all men were created equal,
and is diametrically opposed to the gen-
ius of American political institutions,
Instead of ‘master and servant,’ the term
‘employer and employe’ is now common
and the difference in language fully ex-
emplifies the difference in condition. it
must be accepted as true, therefore, that
the indignities to which the appellant
has been subjected by the respondent are
the result of a misconception of the rela-
tion in which he (the respondent) stands
to the appellant; but in this case mis-
conception is almost criminal since it
has led to the degradation of one man
(ian, be it remembered) by another who
is no more than a man. The law de-
clares that each individual is in posses-
sion of equal rights with every other in-
dividual, but the respondent, who evi-
dently has little respect for the glorious
magna charta of our common liberties—
the constitution—has denied to the ap-
pellant the exercise of certain rights
which are his inalienably, thus making
himself greater than the law and arro-
gating to himself exclusively privileges
which are the common right of all. So
much for the general aspect of the case.
Now to particularize: The appellant
pleads that he is compelled to sleep in
the attic. This, per se, is of little mo-
!ment; but taken with the general con-
| duct of the respondent towards the ap-
pellant (and presumably towards all his
| employes), it assumes a very serious as-
pect and its results may be far-reaching
and disastrous. Would the respondent
sleep in the attic? Most assuredly he
would Then by what process of
raticcination does he conclude that the
j; attic is good enough for the appellant?
What right has the respondent to say
| that his employes shall sleep in the attic
when he himself would not sleep there?
This is, in the opinion of the Board, the
| boldest attempt made in years to subvert
| the liberties of the working man and de-
grade him to the position of a servitor,

 

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and it is not at all unlikely that the|
courts may take the matter up and pun- |
ish the respondent as he deserves. This |
Board can simply order that the respoud-

ent be given a sleeping apartment more

in consonanee with the dignity of the

working man. As to the remaining pleas

they may be considered in toto, since the

remarks made above will apply to them,

they being of the same tenor and com-
plexion as the one considered above. But

it is not out of place to say that it seems

monstrous, in these days of enlighten-

ment and emancipation from the serfdom

of the past, that any citizen should be
subjected to such an indignity as being

compelled to eat in the kitchen and the

board directs that henceforth he be ac-

corded a place at the family table; also

that the parlor be placed at his disposal,

so that he may entertain his friends in a

becoming manner. It might be well, in-
deed, if some amicable arrangement could

be made so that neither party would be

inconvenienced, but that each might be

left in peace by the other. The finding

of the Board in this case applies equally

to all the employes of the respondent and

not alone to the appellant.’’

One effect of the operation of the arbi-
tration act has been, as may readily be
premised from the above finding of the
Board, to make the accumulation of
wealth a secondary consideration. An
employe is at liberty to use the property
of his employer for his own pleasure,
within reasonable bounds, without let or
hindrance. Why, then, need he trouble
himself about the acquisition of riches?
He has all that wealth can secure to him,
without the worry and anxiety incident
to the care of a large fortune. How
much more desirable is his condition than
the condition of the poor rich man who
must keep his nose to the grindstone day
in and day out if he would keep what he
has gained? Thoughtful men _ predict
that this condition will bring about still
greater changes in the future and that in
a few years there will not be founda
man willing to carry the burdens and re-
sponsibilities of wealth. Just what
would be the outcome of such a change
it would be difficult to predict. Another
result of the prevailing condition is to
give to ali citizens more time for the cal-
tivation of the mind and of those finer
qualities of our nature, which, but a few
years back, were considered to be the ex-
clusive property of the rich. As a con-
sequence we are fast becoming a nation
of scholars; learning and refinement are
fast ditfusing themselves over the whole
land, and our civilization is constantly
taking a higher level. The broad princi-
ple of equal rights to all has been ex-
tended to even the ordinary affairs and
concerns of life, so that even the poorest
enjoy as much asthe rich. This condi-
tion of things makes it necessary that all
who would enjoy ‘‘equal rights’? must be
employed at some useful labor, as only
employes have any claim upon employers.
Little did those who devised arbitration
asa method of settling labor disputes
imagine how far-reaching in its results
that beneficent system would prove to be,
or how completely it would revolutionize
the relations of employers and employes.
The arbitration act and its results will be
their best monument and eulogy. The
socialistically inclined see in the work-
ing of the act a promise and prophecy of
the full realization of their most commu-
nistie hopes, and they are confident that

 

‘in a few years the social fabrie will be

reconstructed in accordance with their
ideas. Perhaps so. This much is cer-
tain, the operation of the arbitration act
is working wonders in the way of changed
social conditions, and no o.e would be
surprised if the hopes of the socialists
were to be realized. Bearing in mind
what socialism has already done for the
country and for civilization, this is a con-
summation devoutly to be wished.

nnn

Current Criticisms.
Debs has a grate future before him.

The grate is on the prison door.
A strike which has cost $13,000,000—
which the industrial and producing clas-
ses must pay for—would be real jolly if it

came out of the boycotted Pullman.
* = @

The new $1 silver certificate will bear
a design illustrative of ‘‘History In-
structing Youth.’’ Youth needs a good
deal of instruction in the matter of the

value of such things.
# * *

Speaking of arbitration, wouldn’t it be
a good idea for the majority in Congress
to submit its differences with itself to
arbitration and get the tariff difficulty

out of the way?
* * *

The Evening Press of this city is a
great friend to the inciden-
tally, to itself. It has placed drinking
basins for the canines in different parts
of the city with a flaming advertisement
for the Press in each basin. The good
book has something to say about people
who blow a trumpet when they give an
alms, which, no doubt, suggested the
scheme to the Press. The basins of
water will be useful to the dogs, how-
ever, for they can wash their pants in
them.

dogs, and,

The puissant president of the A. R. U.,
yclept Debs, says he is not to be heid
responsible for the late strike. A good-
ly number of people have held the
opinion right along that he was not.
But does it not sound like pleading the
baby act for him to say so?

* a *

Debs has called a convention of the
A. R. U. to meet in Chicago some time
in August. This convention, he says,
will decide whether the strike will be
continued, extended or declared off. One
thing can truthfully be said in Deb’s
favor—he’s a sticker. When everybody
else in the country had thought the
strike had ended and were beginning to
dismiss it from their minds, Debs can
still see it looming up in magnificent
proportions, an unqualified and unmit-
igated success. The railroads have
resumed operations, commerce has
again found its normal level, and, with
the exception of the Pullman Car Works,
the industries affected by the strike have
resumed. Yet Debs says the strike is
still on. A combination of morphine
and whiskey apparently makes men see
things in strange lights.

A te

About all there is in life is a good
night’s sleep. Instead of worrying and
fretting for fame, or wealth, a man
should conduct himself in such a man-
ner during the day that he will sleep
well at night. If a man will behave
himself, and sleap well, he need not
worry abour his future; he will sueceed
in everything that is desirable very
much better than those who do not be-
have themselves, and, consequently, do
not sleep well. The great secret of life
is good conduct. It brings all the re-

 

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THE MIOCOHIGAN THADESManN.

 

MEN OF MARE,
Wm. Judson, of the Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.
In the year 1634, fourteen years after

_ the Mayflower cast anchor off the rocky

coast of what is now known as the State
of Massachusetts, another schooner
made the perilous voyage across the
stormy Atlantic, bringing to the shores
of the New World another company of
sturdy men and brave women, who, for
conscience sake, gave up the compara-
tive comfort, the friendships and the old
associations of the Motker Land. The
hardships and dangers incident to
ocean travel 260 years ago, the priva-
tion and suffering, the awful loneliness
and isolation of their position, the
horrible solitude and silence of the vast
forests of America, broken only by the
howling of savage beasts of prey and the
war ery of the still more savage Indians
—all these counted as nothing with these
brave souls when put in the balance with
the ‘‘liberty to worship God according to
the dictates of their own consciences.”’
They wanted to be free, alike from the
domination of king and bishop, and the
wilds of America offered the only asylum.
Among the passengers by the vessel last
referred to named William
Judson, who settled in what is now
State of Connecticut. He was of hardy
Yorkshire stock, accustomed to hard
work, and undaunted by the dangers
and difficulties of ‘“‘life in the New
World.” From him sprung Adoniram
Judson, the great missionary to the
Burmans, whose name is a synonym for
all that is good and grand in manhood,
and whose self-sacrificing labors for the
welfare of his fellowmen have given him
an imperishable renown.
justly-esteemed Rev. Edward Judson,
D. D., pastor of the Judson Memorial
Baptist Chureh of New York city.
Another William Judson, a descend-
ant of the ‘‘pilgrim,”’ left his home and
friends in Connecticut and came to Mich-
igan in the year 1836, one year prior to
itsadmission to the Union. He settled
on a tract of land near the site of the
present town of Schoolcraft, in Kalama-
zoo county, known for years as Prairie
Ronde. No Judson was ever known to
fail in anything he undertook, and the
emigrant from Connecticut was no ex-
ception tothe rule. His farming opera-
tions were prosperous to a conspicuous
degree. The William Judson who, 260
years ago left his home in England and
came to America, was the progenitor of
this Connecticut emigrant, whoin turn
was the grandfather of William Jud-

was one

the

His son is the

son, of the Olney & Judson Grocer
Co., who is the subject of this
sketch. He was born near Schoolcraft,

March 9, 1854, sothat he is now in the
prime of life. He was educated in the
old Schooleraft seminary (now the high
school) and on graduating was engaged
to teach the district school in his neigh-
borhood. But ‘‘teaching the young idea
how to shoot’’ was not to be his life work;
neither was itas a tiller of the soil that
he was to make his mark, although it
was in this honorable calling that his an-
cestors for many generations had won
distinction and wealth. In the vicinity
of his boyhood’s home resided two other
families and from each of these a boy
had gone out into the great world of
trade, and both were on the highway to
suecess. Their success awakened in
William Judson a desire to enter other

 

fields, to try other pastures, so to speak.
As he watched the railroad trains as they
thundered by, he knew that, beyond the
contracted horizon of the paternal acres,
there lay the great world of business. Ut
might have its valleys of humiliation,
but it had also its mountain peaks of suc-
and longed to climb.
Finally deciding to leave home and blaze
out a new track for himself, he came to
Grand Rapids and engaged as teamster
in the lumber yard of Barnhart,
hout & Fox. He for
months, was then made foreman of the
yard, and was finally sent to Fife Lake in
Grand Traverse county manager of
the firm’s interests in that section. Sev-
ering his connection with the firm named
above, he engaged in the lumber busi-
ness in Big Rapids with Franklin Barn-
hart, under the style of Barnhart & Jud-

cess, these he

Oster-

drove team six

as

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son, which covartnership continued for
five years. It was here, and during the
five years in which he continued in the
lumber business, that he laid the founda-
tion upon which has been built the sup-
erstructure of his present comfortable
fortune.

After closing out his lumbering inter-
ests Mr. Judson connected himself with
F. Fairman in the banking business, the
firm name being Fairman & Judson.
One year later he sold his interest to his
partner, and went to California, where
he remained a year. He then returned
to Grand Rapids and purchased a third
interest in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness of Olney, Shields & Co. On the re-
tirement of Mr. Shields and the incorpor-
ation of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.,
Mr. Judson augmented his interest in
the business, taking the position of
Treasurer and assuming the duties of
credit man and financial manager. How
well he has performed his part of the
work the reputation of his corporation
and the financial position of its stock

bear ample testimony. i
About a year ago Mr. Judson figured

as one of the incorporators of the Reeder
Bros. Shoe Co., of which corporation he
is President and to which business he

giyes considerable attention, assisting
Manager

Reeder in the credit depart-

 

 

 

ment in an advisory capacity. Although
he is not a stockholder or officer of the
Putnam Candy Co., his services in the
same capacity have been invoked by
President Putnam and a certain portion
of each day is given to a consideration of
that company’s business.

‘Two years ago last spring Mr. Judson
was appointed a member of the Board of
Police and Fire Commissioners by Mayor
Stuart, in which position he bas distin-
guished himself by the conservative and
common sense methods he has advocated
and the needed reforms he has suggested
and urged.

Personally, Mr. model
man, both socially business
relations. Cool and collected at all times
and under all circumstances, he has es-
tablished a reputation for long-headed-
ness which few men

Judson is a

and in his

succeed in acquir-

‘know

 

 

ing so early in life. Frank and out-
spoken in manner and method, he is so
well balanced that he seldom alienates a
friend or loses a customer. He is gen-
erous to the extreme, being an active
worker in the Y. M. C. A. and other
kindred organizations, and his proverbial
persuasiveness invariably secures him
a place on every soliciting committee
within the scope of his usefulness and
activity. Honest in practice and meth-
odical in method, his career forms an ex-
cellent example for the young men of
the day who are content to achieve suc-
cess through the employment of laud-
able motives and patient industry.

For 300 years the Judson escutcheon
has been unmarred by a dishonorable ac-
tion—a record of which any family may
justly be proud. Add to this the lofty
place which the name of Judson occupies
in the political and religious history of the
country, and what more could be needed
as incentives to honorable and upright
living? William Judson is rightly proud
of his name and has done his part to-
ward preserving its purity and fame.

a

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Howard & Horton, grocers and crockery deal
ers, Cheboygan: ‘Every merchant in Michigan
should take your paper We would not be with

 

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y

of

Misses’

Machine Sewed Children’s and

Shoes ? Dongola Patent
Tip, Heel or Spring.

12 to 2

6 to 8 @ 65e—8k

 

to 113¢ @ T5e @ 90ce.

HIRTH, KRAUSE

 

& CO.

Established 1868.
H. M. Reynolds & Son.

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Asbestos Sheathing.
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Car, Bridge and Roof Paints, Oils

Practical Roofers
In Felt, Gomposition and Gravel,

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Which is the best meth-
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AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Alpena—D. Desjardins, of D. Desjar-
dins & Son, grocers, is dead.
Wyandotte—Henry Kaul succeeds Kaul
Bros. in the dry goods business.
Muskegon—C. L. Brundage has sold
his drug stock to J. D. Sheridan.

Jackson—Jas. M. Toole succeeds Gib- |

son & Toole in the boot and shoe busi-
ness.

Ludington—Geo. McMullen has pur-
chased the boot and shoe stock of A.
Torp.

Battle Creek—Wheaton & Goodale
have purchased the drug stock of A. Ss.
Johnson.

South Boardman—Geo B. Stanley is
sueceeded by E. J. Gordon in the meat
business.

Caledonia—W.
Spaulding & Barbour in the grocery

Barbour sueceeds
business.

Belding—Benj. White has removed
from Smyrna to this place and opened a
meat market.

Durand—Cowles & Co. lost their drug
stock by fire July 24. Loss, $2,300; in-
surance, $600.

Sturgis—Schweder Bros.
Sehweder & Jesse in the grocery and
bakery business.

Marquette—Horace J. Lobdeli has
given a bill of sale of his grocery stock
to S. R. Lobdell.

Three Rivers—Bond Bros. have pur-

suceeed

 

chased the grocery and baking business
of J. J. Dikeman.

Detroit—J. C. Merbach & Co., boot and
shoe dealers, have dissolved, C. J. Mer-
bach continuing the business.

Bay City—Wilkins & Herstein, boot
and shoe dealers, have dissolved, S. P.
Wilkins continuing the business.

Grayling—Claggett & Pringle, general
dealers, have dissolved, Sidney 5S.
Claggett continuing the business.

Manistee—The Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. has taken possession of the
J. P. Williams drug stock on a bill of
sale.

Vickeryville—H. 1. Carpenter has
sold his drug steck to Frank Hecox,
formerly engaged in business at Cale-
donia.

Albion—Beers & Monfort, dealers in
meats and canned goods, have dissolved
partnership, D. Monfort continuing the
business.

East Jordan—Harrison Mitchell has
sold his grocery and confectionery stock
to C. G. Lewis, who will continue the
business at the old stand.

Battle Creek—Wheaton & Guvuodale
have purchased of Dr. Johnson the Par-
ker Bros. drug stock and will continue
the business at the same location.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Traverse City—The Traverse City
Lumber Co. is running its mills night
and day, but little is being sold.

Owosso—The Owosso Cigar Box Co.
has purchased the cigar box manufactar-
ing business of Frank Schnabel.

Manistee—The Manistee Maple Floor-
ing Co., whose plant has been idle for
over a year, resumed operations last

week.

Big Rapids—Hackley & Hume, who
have finished lumbering operations on

' Conklin—W. W. Hatch has transferred | Poor Place to Look for Consistency.

‘the Conklin flouring mills to L. M. Smith) GRAND RapIps, July 30—It may not
‘and J. B. Trowbridge, both of whom are | 5¢ out of place, under the circumstances,
a ’ ‘to eall attention to the uabusinesslike
experienced millers. methods of some men of means (not ene-
Temple—The Dewey & Co. stave mill | mies of labor) employed by them at this
is cutting thirty-three cords of elm a day | time in the labor union and strike _
ee 29 el ; |tion. There is an old adage that a
wn ba swood for 22,000 none of heading. heracd ohtid denice the Orc, ak we
The heading department is operated day | pave all read the story of the man who
‘and night. warmed a viper in his bosom. Asa rule,
Ludington—Sands & Maxwell have | we have a poor judgment of a man’s in-
!purehased a considerable quantity of tellect, who, having once suffered loss,
ches Ramee ot Beabes mit, ws knowingly places himself in the same
: r r ' ’ position again; yet we see every day men
Fountain, and will utilize it in the | who have just suffered loss, through the
manufacture of furniture. fickleness of union labor, hiring union
| Ludington—The Ludington Shingle |!@>or again, and, worse yet. hiring the
in : ‘ a é i. very same broken reeds who wilfully
Co, recently started its mill for aN) nq without reason caused them loss;
indefinite run. The company’s docks | and now we read that the labor leaders
are full of shingles, and vacant addi- | are planning to consolidate their forces,
| tional land will have to be atilized for|™#ke their demands next spring and
piling space have another big strike next May. What
fi about the railroad and other companies
Alpena—The mill of the Minor who have kindly forgiven their men and
Lumber Co. has gone into commission, | taken them baek? They will be de-
the company having contracted to cut ae a
: Hl : say, s y ;
4,000,000 feet of logs for Mosher & Malt-| ¢,, we will get our positions back again.
by, which will come down by rail from | During the strike the only railroads and
Presque Isle county. other enterprises which suffered the
a : : >
Plainwell—The Church Furniture Co. eine cagg gore ap th Boag reap a:
has begun the erection of another addi-| cient. We have union men in this city
tion to its plant in the shape of a foundry | who are trying to ruin a man because he
building, 30x50 feet in dimensions. The is giving better and cleaner goods for
i : : i less money by using machinery, simply
company will soon begin the manufac-|peeause the machine throws some of
ture of a new and improved opera chair. | them out of employment; yet these same
Saginaw—The affairs of the Ayres men are taking the bread out of thous-
ie i : ~~ | ands of mouths by eating bread cheap-
Lumber Co., operating a planing mill | gneq py machinery in the field and mill.
and yard, which failed last season, will Think for a moment how much work and
not pan out very well, The secured | how much better prices poor sewing girls
ereditors will be forced to accept not | 204d women would get if those machine
Ss : : _ | boyeotters would only be consistent and
over 60 cents on the dollar of their ‘fair and just and use only flour
elaims and those not secured will get| made in a mortar or ground between
nothing. [Wo stones, like the savages at the

 

World’s Fair, and use only cloth woven
by hand without looms and boycott their
wives’ sewing machines. O, Consistency,
thou art a jewel! JUSTICE.

—_— >

The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The long-expected advance
came Monday morning, when everything
from Cubes to Confectioner’s Standard
A sustained an advance uf 4¢e¢ and every-
thing from No. 1 to No. 12 was moved
upward a sixpence.

Cheese—The market continues to ad-
vance and prices would go still higher if
the small factorymen did not make occa-
sional breaks in the market by offering
fair stock at 1@13¢c below actual value.

 

 

——_—~ -- <—-
The Wool Market.

Notwithstanding the enormous amount
of wool which has changed hands within
the last fortnight, the price remains un-
changed, at least no changes are reported
as operative. Some Eastern dealers have
withdrawn their wool from the market,
in the belief that Congress would pass
| no tariff bill this session. If this belief
should prove to be well founded, the
price will undoubtedly take an upward
turn. Business in the local market is
steady.

Oranges—The demand for them is very
light and only the fancy 200 size Rodis
are te be had. The abundance of berries
and small fruits now to be had is mainly | ee om

| A Tearful Farewell.

From the Springport Signal, July 20.

' ' The ‘‘Shopper’s Paradise’? bundled up
worth bothering with or that has much | their traps and calamities the latter part
merit until along in October, when Flor- | of last week and left for parts unknown.
idas begin to come in. Jamaicas will be They also left several mourners in the
Si - ik ees ene 4 rear and in the front seat could be found a
offered sooner, but they are usually 00) coq eyed editor, who mourned to the tune
sour to be palatable. of $5.05. Yea, verily, brother editors,

Lemons—Considering the time of year | if this firm, calling themselves Dunlap
g y & Co., ‘Paradise Lost,” or any other

and the _ of the weather for aoe pair of dice swoops down upon you, give
week, prices are remarkably low. There|them a wide berth, for they are loaded.
is no lack of good fruit and dealers in
the market handle only the best. Reg-

ular arrivals are now the rule and the . ti ieee ot ah Fred Wal
nani oo repor e death o rs. Fred Walton,
filling of orders promptly an easy thing wife of our enterprising grocer. She

to do. Demand is good and does not) was a great worker and helped him in
seem to be curtailed much by the large | the store, where she will be missed very
quantities of domestic fruits and vegeta- — oe mee a ga greeting for
. iow ‘i ' _ | everybody. She was also a chureh
bles. They are the cheapest of the pop-| Yorker. She left two boys and a loving
ular luxuries, and more generally used | husband to mourn her loss. c.
than any other single item of foreign
| fruits.
Pork—Receipts of hogs for the week

responsible for the indifference concern-
ing oranges, and there will be nothing

Death of an Estimable Lady.
Mason, July 28—It is with sorrow we

 

——_——__—~—
Certain species of ants make slaves of
jothers. If a colony of slave making ants
sre on ‘ 'is changing the nest, a matter which is
jin Chicago were 128,257, an increase Over | jeft to the discretion of the slaves, the

 

the Muskegon in Clare county, have sold | the previous week of 27,000 and 28,000 | latter carry their mistresses to their new

a number of logging cars to the Gale
Lumber Co., to take the place of cars of

more than for the corresponding week | home. One a of a making ants
“an a , _; | has become so dependent en slaves, that

s “ar. susi ss ) tS | i¢ ‘ M

last year. Business in hog products 10! oven if provided with food they will die

 

the latter company destroyed by forest | the local market is reported fair for the of hunger unless there are slaves to put

fires recently.

ijweek. Prices are firm and unehanged. it in their mouths.

PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—There is a good supply of not yery
| good fruit. They are bought on the market for
| from 40@75e per bu.

Apricots—Are still hung up by the strike.

Beans—Strictly hand picked bring $1.90 per
pu.
| Beets—Plentiful supply at 15¢ per doz.
| Blackberries—Are worth 7c per at.

Butter—Is in fair supply and firm at 1'@I7c
for good dairy and 18g@20c for creamery.

Cabbages—Good supply and held at 7@e per
doz.

Carrots—l5¢ per doz. bunches,

Currants—Are none too plentiful and are held
at $1.25 per 16 qt. crate.

Celery—15@18c per doz.

Cherries—About out of market.

Cucumbers—Are worth 35¢ per doz.

Eggs—Are held by dealers at 1lc per doz.

Gooseberries—Out of market.

Green Corn—Is in good supply, but rather
young. It brings 10c per doz.

Onions—Ripe are worth 80c per bu. and green
12% per doz,

Peas—Are scarce at 75c per bu.

Peaches—The supply is fair, but no really
first-class fruit has reached the market. They
bring $1.25 per bu.

Potatoes—Supply is ample at 65c per bu.

Pears—A few from California have reached
this market, but are too high priced for the gen-
eral consumer. They are held at #8 per bu,
crate—or what is called in the far West a bushel
crate.

Radishes—10c per doz.

Raspberries—About out of market.

Squash—Bring about 2% per lb.

String Beans—Limited supply. The price 1s
#1 per bu.

Tomatoes—A few home-grown were to be seen
on the market Monday morning, which were
sold at the regular price —8c per Ib.

Turnips—3ve per bu.

Watermelons—Have advanced and are now
held at 23c.

 

Henry J. Vinkemulder,

JOBBER OF

Fruits and Vegetables,

418, 420, 445 and 447 So. Division
St Grand Rapids.

Owing to the extreme dry weather, cucumbers,
cabbage and all vegetables haye been scarce and
high, but look for lower prices from now out,
We quote you choice cucumbers at 25c per doz. ;
green corn. 10c; fine celery, 18c; wax beans, 75¢
per bu.; beets, $1.25 per bbl; onions, #2.50@2.7: ;
good cooking apples, $1.75@2 per bbl; choice eat
ing, $2.35@2.50 per bbi; tomatoes, melons, cab
bage, blackberries, etc., at lowest market prices.

The peaches now coming in are hardly fit for
shipping; being clingstones, they do not carry
well. We will begin to get good freestones
about Aug. 15 and fromthen on we shall have
plenty of nice fruit and will give your orders our
prompt attention aud lowest prices.

We are looking for your mail orders and you
will find it to your interest to trade with us.

Grysial Springs Woler & Fuel 60.

Jobbers of

 

COAL, COKE and WOOD,
65 Monroe Sst.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Correspondence solicited with outside
dealers.

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Rand, McNally & Co.’s
BUSINESS ATLAS

 

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

A. May has moved his bazaar from 41
and 43 Monroe street to 17 Canal street.

 

W. H. Tibbs, druggist at 618 South
Division street, has moved his stock to
123 Canal street.

B. F. Pogue, lately from Indiana, suc-
ceeds B. 1. Kent in the grocery business
at 692 Cherry street.

Arie Van Bree, hardware dealer, has
removed from 63 West Leonard to 90
West Leonard street.

The Singer Sewing Machine Co. has
removed its office from 76 South Division
to 14 North Division street.

 

F. Hartog will open a grocery store at
243 Watson street. The Bali-Barnhart-
Putman Co. furnished the stock.

Fred W. Fuller, grocer at 143 Living-
ston street, has bought F. FE. Winsor’s
grocery stock at North Division
street and will continue business at both
places.

 

152

 

L. Anderson, formerly of Grand Ledge
and Lansing, has opened a drug and
grocery store at North Lansing. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished
the drug stock.

ing at 447 South Division street and will
open a meat market there Wednesday in
conjunction with the grocery establish-
ment of Henry J. Vinkemulder.

The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has
sold to J. P. Williams, of Manistee, the
drug stock recently taken from him on a
bill of sale and he it to
Arcadia, where he will re-engage in busi-
ness.

will remove

 

 

Fred E. Morley and Horace Bedford
have opened a grocery store near the cor-
ner of Wealthy avenue and East street.
It will be known as the Wealthy Avenue
Cash Grocery. The I. M. Clark Grocery
Co. furnished the stock.

The Lemon & Wheeler Company and the
Musselman Co. Grocer unite in offering
$50 in prizes for the best cheese made in
Michigan factories and exhibited at the
coming fair of the Western Michigan Ag-
ricultural and Industrial Society. The
money is divided into three classes—$25,
$15 and $10—for the best first, second
and third exhibit. Such an offer ought
to be appreciated by every cheesemaker
in Michigan and result in a large line of
exhibits.

It is reported that the career of the
nearly defunct Wileox Heat-Light Co. is
to be reviewed by the courts, Attorney
General Ellis having the
method of winding up the corporation t-

pronounced

legal and consented to the use of the name
of the State in quo warranto proceedings
to enquire into the right of two stock-
holders of the company to seize the assets
and dispose of them without consulta-
tion with or consent of the other stock-
holders. Papers are now being drafted
by local attorneys, asking for the ap-
pointment of a receiver, with power to
replevin the goods alleged to be fraud-
ulently held by E. Bement & Sons, of
Lansing, and others. Itis claimed that
a change of conspiracy to defraud can be

lodged against the Lansing concern.
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Grand Rapids.

Gripsack Brigade.
Guy P. Smith (Bail-Barnbart-Putman
Co.) resumed his visits to the trade Mon-
day, after an enforced idleness of a fort-
night by reason of illness.

Joe F. O. Reed (H. Leon’'ard & Sons)
has returned from Iowa, where he spent
a four weeks’ vacation with his father
and has resumed his visits to his trade.

Edward P. Waldron, President of the
Michigan Knight of the Grip, has been
in this city several days in the interest
of Geo. A. Steele’s eandidacy for the
State Treasureship.

M. J. Rogan, of Kalamazoo, represent-
ing a New York hat house, has finished
his season and reports very fair trade.
He will take a month’s vacation, fishing
in the lakes around Otsego. No sympa-
thy need be wasted on the fish.

The annual picnic of the Grand Rapids
traveling men will be held at North Park,
Saturday, Aug. 18. The affair will be
entirely informal and all who can do so
are expected to bring well-filled baskets.
A base ball game will be played in the
afternoon and adance indulged in during
the evening.

While making a drive from Grand
Haven, Sam Evans (Ball-Barnhart-Put-
man Co.) found a couple of lucky stones.
Meeting P. J. Coppens a little later he
presented one of the stones to him. Mr.
Coppens objeeted to the possession of
the stone, and, on his return home, his
wife advised him to throw it away, but
he concluded to keep ita few days and
see what would come of it. The next
day he bought a dozen bananas of a Dago
peddler, subsequently discovering that
he had given the brown-skipned son of
Italy a $5 gold piece along with 18 cents
in pennies. The next morning he went
to chureh for the first time this year,
only to find the door locked and the
preacher away on a vacation. Monday
morning he missed his train, going off
later in the day without his postal cards,
so that he was unable to notify his cus-
tomers, in consequence of which very
few dealers expected him, those who
were not away fishing or resorting being
unprepared to give him an order. On
his return home at the end of the week
he found a letter from his house enquiring
if he was still working for them. Mr
Coppens has the lacky stone for sale
cheap.

_
Purely Personal.
Wm. Judson bas gone to Schoolcraft to

spend a few days with his mother on the
old homestead.

W. A. Townsend (H. Leonard & Sons)
has returned from a fortnight’s vacation
at Rome, N. Y.

W. F. Nagler, the Howard City drug-
gist, is rejoicing over the advent of a
nine pound boy.

Arthur Mulholland, geueral dealer at
Ashton, is in town as adelegate to the
Republican State Convention.

A. M. LeBaron has resumed his former
connection with the Commercial Credit
Co. He will run his grocery store by
proxy.

Geo. B. Caldwell, National Bank Ex-
aminer for this State, has invited Comp-
troller of Currency Eekels to spend a
couple of days in this city on the occa-
sion of his visit to Michigan to attend
the annual convention of the State
Bankers’ Association. The dates set for
the visit are Sept. 10 and 11, and among

 

 

the events of his visitation will be a re-
ception tendered by local bankers.

‘TRADESMAN.

 

|
H. M. Geiger, Manager of the Cham-|

pion Cash Register Co., is spending a |
week among the retail trade of Northern |
Michigan.

Will A. Wood, druggist at Six Lakes,
was called upon to mourn the loss of
his wife July 24. Consumption was the
eause of death. No children.

Heman G. Barlow, the versatile letter
writer of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.,
has returned from a three weeks’ vaca-
tion, which was spent at Mackinac Is-
land, Omena and Traverse Point.

John T. Staff, of Cayuga, Ind., was in
town a couple of days last week for the
purpose of closing a deal with Chas. Ww.
Shedd for the latter’s patent can filling
machine. Mr. Staff conducts vegetable
canneries at Cayuga and Bloomingdale,
Fnd., and Kansas, Ll.

J. R. Odell, the Fremont banker and
druggist, has the sympathy of the trade
in the death of his only son, Perry Odell,
whose ailment was spinal meningitis, in-
duced by a severe attack of the grip.
The deceased had only recently grad-
uated from the Medical Department of
the Michigan University and was estab-
lishing a fine practice, in connection
with the management of the drug store.
Deceased left a wife and one child.

- > —_
The Wheat Market.

There is nothing new toreport. Itis
getting have to report
only lower prices for wheat. It matters
not how low the markets are, the next
week generally has another surprise of
still lower prices for wheat. The visible,
although exports have been nearly
double the past week, will show a large
increase, owing to the large amount re-
ceived in the West and Northwest, which
have been simply enormous, as farmers
have been liberal sellers, thinking that
the price is the best, as it has been for
several years past, right after harvest.
They may be right, but I have my
doubts, as other cereals are away out of
line in price with wheat. When corn is
higher than wheat, and oats in the same
position, owing to drought and other
things combined to keep them up, 1
think it only a question of time when
things will right themselves and wheat
will place itself in value more in keeping
where it ought to be. The large amount
in elevators in Chicago and New York
will have to be moved before prices will
advance, but, after the first rush is over,
it is eoneeded that the movement of
wheat will cease and, if our exports will
keep near where they have been in years
past, this amount, although large, will
gradually shrink; and, when it does,
prices will take a higher lever. Receipts
from cars were: Wheat, 80; corn, 46;
oats, 2 cars.

The demand for flour has been fair.
The mills have placed their output as
fast as made. _C. G. A. Voter.

———_—__$__—< - <a
How They Catch Monkeys.

A gentleman who has spent some time
at Panama tells how they catch the little
monkeys down there, whicb are so _ use-
ful to the itinerant organ grinders. They
take a cocoanut and cut a hole in it large
enough to admit a monkey’s paw. A
string is then attached to the nut. The
monkey is a very inquisitive little
animal, and when he sees one of these
nuts he inserts his paw through the hole
to find out what is inside. When the
paw is closed it cannot be withdrawn,
and as the monkey has not sense enough
to open his paw, the nut is dragged by

monotonous to

 

within reach of the captors,
‘a net over the monkey and in that way

' secure him.

5

The property which we carelessly or
eriminally burn up in a year would wipe
out one-fourth of the national bonded
debt. It would re-create the World’s
Fair, re-stock it with all its features, and
have enough left to make our navy one
of the strongest in the world and pay a
year’s interest on the national debt be-
sides.

 

 

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

|e SALE—BEST PAYING DRUG STOCK
in Northern Michigan. Reason for selling,
other business. Correspondence or examination
solicited. Address No. 572, care Michigan
Tradesman 572

iintiaiionmcre nC i
— RENT—NEW BRICK STORE, OPERA

house block, 24x72, shelved complete. S.
M. Gay, Milan Mich. 570

y= SALE—A COMPLETE STOCK OF
drugs and fixtures. Will invoice about
$2.000. Corner store. Nice location. Rent,
$16.50 per month I have just invented and
patented a cash register and want to give my
entire time to manufacturing same. Will sell
stock at a sacrifice. It{isa good opening for a
young phys'cian. It is in a thickly settled neigh-
borhood and no doctor’s office near. Address
M. Blank, 416 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids
Mich, 569
OR SALE—A FINE CONFECTIONERY
store in Traverse City, the queen city of

the North. Best locationintown. Will invoice
about 71,800. Terms, one-half cash, balance on

 

 

time with approved notes. Address No. 567,
eare Michigan Tradesman. *67
WwW: PAY SPOT CASH FOR GENERAL
stock of merchandise. J. H. Levinson,
Petoskey, Mich. 568
PHARMACIST, REGISTERED, WITH

thirty-four years’ practical experience in
all kinds of pharmaceutical and mercantile
works, wishes a situation of responsibility as
clerk or manager. Has been in business for
vears for himself. Address ‘‘Pharmacist,”’ care
Michigan Tradesman. 566
Ww: HAVE 100 BUSINESS CHANCES.
Send stamp for our list. We can find you
a buyerif you want to sell. Mutual Business
Exchange, Bay City, Mich F65
EARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER
for sale at a great reduction from cost-
Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of
same make of machine, which we consider the
best on the market. Tradesman Compeny, 100
56

Louis St., Grand Rapids.

G REAT OFFER—FINE STOCK OF WALL
XM paper. paints, varnishes, picture frames
and room mouldings for sale. Reason for sell
ing, death of proprietor. Good paying business
in a very desirable location. All new stock, in
voicing from $2,500 to %3,000°., Address Mrs.

Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 61
OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH
of my husband I offer for sale clean stock

general merchandise inventorying %6,000. Will
sell cheap for part cash and good security. Will
rent building. Address No. 582, eare Michigan
Tradesman. 562

 

BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR SALE OR EX
change for farm or city property in or near
Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property situated
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on the G. R. &
I. Railroad. consisting of saw and planing mills,
sto-e and 39 acres of land. a good water power,
22 foot fall, side track into mill, plenty of hard-
wood timber. This is a good chance for anyone
wishing to engage in any kind of mill business.
For further particulars address B. W. Barnard,
35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 559
ANNING FACTORY WANTED—A PARTY
with some capital and who understands the
business, to build and operate a canning factory
at Grant, Newaygo Co., Mich. For particulars
write to H. C. Hemingsen, Village Clerk, Grant,
Mich. 553
OR SALE—A WELL EQUIPPED MACHINE
shop in Detroit, Michigan. Good tools,
suitable for building or repairing heavy or light

 

machinery. Good business location and low
rent. Suitable terms to responsible parties. Par

ticulars from Charles Steel, Administrator. box
46, Wyandotte, Michigan. 647
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
| ag MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE
the North Side Planing Mill, which is first-
class in every respect, or will receive proposi-
tions to locate the business in some other thriv-
ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic-
ited. Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613

P BE Cc K 3 S HEADACHE

POWDERS
Pay the best profit.

Order from your jobber

WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TIGKETS.

ONLY A FEW LEFT.

Original set of four = = -

 

= 25¢
Complete set of ten = = = * =

Order quick or lose the oppertunity of
a lifetime to secure these souvenirs ata

 

 

 

 

 

the string and the monkey with it to)
who throw!

nominal figure. They will be worth ten

| times present cost within five years.
Tradesman Company,
l GRAND, RAPIDS.

THEH MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN.

 

 

THE MORNING MARKET.

Some Refiections on the Vegetable De-
partment.

111

if you can’t find what you want in the
way of vegetables and fruit on the mar-
ket, don’t waste your time looking for it
elsewhere, for you will not find it, and
any one who wants something not to be
found on the Grand Rapids market ought
to go hungry. Everything in the way of
vegetables is to be found here, and of the
very quality. the
list, of course, con-

Potatoes head

are justly

best
as they
sidered the one indispensable vegetable.
That they are somewhat searce yet is not
the sea-
but the
offered

as the
finest, good enough for the fastid-
ious the land, are the
equal of any and the superior of most of

the fault of the growers but of
which is a backward

morning

son,
tubers which are every
for

one,

sale are as fine in quality
most
and

epicure in

the imported stock, even the celebrated
Bermudas. Western Michigan
raise even more potatoes than she

should

does.
Soil and climate are both cougenial, and
**Michigan

the

there is no reason why

toes’”’ not head
When will Michigan farmers awaken
stop

pota-
should procession.
to
their privileges and opportunities,
raising fifty cent wheat altogether and
take to raising more fifty cent potatoes?
They certainly cannot compete with the
West the matter of wheat
while their chances are

in
even, to say

is more money in po-
there

to culture. There
tatoes at 25 cents a bushel than
in wheat at bushel,
majority. The who
this truth and raises more potatoes and

is
50 cents a by a large
farmer recognizes
Jess wheat will come out laps ahead of
his neighbors. The early bird may
his tail feathers,
the same, is as true now as it was
it was first uttered thousands of years
ago.

What vegetable comes next to the

lose
but he’ll get there just
when

po-
tato in point of popularity, do you sup-
What but the succulent and odor-
Western Michigan onions
fa-
least they are
that must
be pulled with a corkscrew and to sever
two fond and loving hearts as quickly as
this sublunary sphere.

but a thought,
”? is the

pose?
iferous onion?
are declared to be fully equal to the
mous Spanish
warranted to give youa breath

variety; at

any grown on

“Two souls with
that
blissful condition guaranteed to him and
her Western Michigan
onions in quantum suff. Onions are fast
becoming an important item in the prod-
this section. Their

single

two breaths smell as one,

who will use

ucts of the farms of
commercial
disputed, but their therapeutic value is
only beginning to be recognized. They
are a comparatively hard crop to raise,
as, if it is intended to put early onions
upon the market, they must be started
not later than August and cared for dur-
ing the winter. It pays, however, as the
price of early ripe onionsis usually high.
Of course, you can get all the green
onions on the market you may want.
Turnips and beets are also very ‘‘pop-
ular” vegetables, and are found in al-
most unlimited quantity on the market.
Turnips are a wholesome and nutritious
article of diet, but they make poor flavor-
ing for milk, of which fact some milk-
men do not seem to be aware, and board-
inghouse keepers are warned against im-
posing too often on the long-suffering
patience of their boarders by making

value is undoubted and un-

 

raising, |
the |
least, for successful and profitable pota- |

 

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

UN BLEACHED COTTONS.
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Adriatic .... Arrow Brand 4x
Aree .. wk 5% ‘© World Wide. 6
Atienta AL......... 6 ee avy
Oe Bice ce ns one 6%/Full Yard Wide.....
C eu . oe 2 .......... 6
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Archery Bunting... 4 |KingEC. ...... ie oa
Beaver Dam AA.. 4%/Lawrence LL......
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth ox
Binck (row......... & Newmarket es 5%
Bieck Hock ........ 0% m ..... 0
meet, Aie..-........ 7 o
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Cavanat V.... . 5% '
c chapman ¢ cheese cl. 3%| Noibe R. 5
Clifton C R.... 54q/Our Level Best. 6
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ae ght eee 6X Pequot. 7
Aaa CCC... .... Seer... .......... 6

|Top of the Heap 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.

Oe. .......-..44 814|Geo. Washington... 8
Amazon.... aoc 8 Pom MiGs... ..,... 7
ee 6 iGold Medal s. 7%
Art Camuric........ 10 jGreen Ticket....... 84
Blackstone AA..... 74% \Great Falls.......... 6%
Bee ae... 4 |Hope................ 1%
Boston .... none jJust ae. .... 4%
Cabot.. ee 8x \King Phillip 7%
Cabot, “, ork 6%! ee 7%,

Charter Oak. i" sitlLenstale enemies 10
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Cleveland ...... 6 Middlesex one @5
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Bowards... ........ |Our Own. . 5%
ee 7 |Pride of the West...12
Farwelil.. . 7% Rosalind 7%
Fruit of the Loom. 8 "Sunlight... LC.
Fitehville ..... ? |Utica Mills. -. 8%
Paro... ...... 6 - Nonpareil . ‘10
Fruit of the Loom %. 7+|Vinyard......... .- 8%
Pairmount.......... 4%4| White Horse.
Fall Velus.......... 6) ~ Box 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
OE. oe cote oe —.-
Fareed
CANTON: FLANNEL.
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife A........544|Housewife Q.... ...6%
' -.. 5% C ee 7
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CARPET WARP.

P eerless, white......17 |Integrity cclored...18

eolored....19 | White ae... 17

a 18% | ‘* colored .19

DRESS GOODE.

Hamilton [N ameless. . 20

copuescece Eh 1 | whee eceu aun 25
Se +9 - . 27%

G G Cashmere...... 20 - 30
Nameless so sa -32%

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CORSETS.
Coraline............89 50/Wonderful 84 50
Schilling’s. .--- SO Brighton... . ._ eo
Davis Waists..... : G0}Bortree’s .........- 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50 Abdominal ........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
Soe... 6% | eee. 1%
Androscoggin a 744) Rockport. . 6%
——————O 6 (ences... ..__. ™
Brunswick. - §%| Walworth _..
PRINTS.

Allen turkey reds.. 5%| Berwick fancies.... 5%

robes.. -- 5%/Clyde Robes........
- pink # purple 5M4| Charter Oak fancies 4

buffs 5%) |DelMarine cashm’s. 5%
pink checks. 51% mourn’g 5%
siepies ...... 5 | Rddystone fancy... 5%
shirtings chocolat 5%
American fancy .... 5 ie rober.... 5%
Americanindigo... 4% _ sateens.. 54%
American shirtings. a | Hamilton fancy. ... 3%
Argentine Grays... 6 staple ... 5%
Anchor Shirtings. _« | Manchester fancy.. 5%
Arnold --- © new era. 5%
Arnold Merino . 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5%

. long clot, B. 9 |Merrim’ckshirtings. 4

' 7% . Reppfurn . 8%
‘century cloth 7 7 jPaciiic fancy........ 5%
gold seal,.... — ae... ;. 6

‘* green seal TR 10%/ Portsmouth robes... 6%
“yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning. . 5%

= 2... : os . a 5%

“ furke; red..10% C Sola black. 5X
Ballon solid black. . Washington indigo. 64
“* colors. ‘* ‘Turkey robes.. 1%

ae blue, green, ‘* India robes.... 7%

red and orange... 6 . plain Tky x % =

 

Berlin solids oo
- eeee.....- 8 “* Ottoman =
“ - oon.... & ee
“« Foulards 5%/|Martha Washingion
= wee... 7 Turkey red X..... T%
is 2. 9%| Martha a
- ~ <4 .....- Tere ren... 9
- ‘“ 34XXXxX 12 |Riverpo nt a . 5%
Cocheco foey...... & Windsor taaer...... 6%
madders... 5 | gold ticket
XX twills..5 | indigo blue.......10%
solids...... 5 ree ......... . 4%
To.
mame © ACA.. LBA C Cc - 11%
Hamilton N : Pemberton AAA. a
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Pires Pree... 2s 10%) Warren....... aoreei am
Lenox Mills saeoek TONEGES .....-...-
COTTON DBILL.
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oo 4% | No Name........ 2
Cuitton, eo Mop of Heap........ 9

 

 

 

 

DEMINS.
Amoskeag ..-.-12 {Columbian brown. .12
. -.....— Everett, peee........ 12%
. brown .14 brown. ....12%
NOE. 6s ss 11% Haymaker ee 7%
Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7%
a oe...9 e.............. lis
' 1; Lamoesser .......... 12%
Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence, 9oz...... 13%
blue 8% ao No. 20....13
‘* d& twist 10% . No. 250....11%
Co columbian XXX br.10 " No. 280....10%
XXX b1.19
GINGHAMS.
Ae... ---- 5 |Lancaster, staple... 6
‘* Persian dress 64, co fancies .... 7
. Canton .. 7 - Normandie 7
. Ar... .. ee Lancashire.......... 6
c Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5%
C Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 5%
” Persian.. 7 |Normaendie......... 7
Arlington staple.... 644/Persian.. on 2
Arasapha fancy ... 44%|Renfrew Dress. . a 7%
Bates Warwick dres 7% iRosemont..........- 6%
r staples. 6 |Slatersville . 6
Centennial. . 10%|Somerset.. a
cVaeerton ....... TOM TACOMR ... .....-+6 ™
Cumberland staple. 5% Tell du Mord... ...- 8%
— Le ota ieee .....-...-... 7%
ee i“ “ geersucker.. 7%
ee Tui Werwitk.... ...... &
Evereit classics..... 8% Whittenden. ee cies 8
Bepoeeon.......... 7 " heather dr. 7%
eee... 2... 6% . indigo blue 9
Glenarven.........- 6% |Wamsutta staples... 6%
Glenwood . He Wremieaen.........- 8
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Johnson vhalon cl * Windermeer.... .... 5
way indigo blue 944/York .... ........-- 6%
' zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoukeag...........15 |Georgia 13%
Bea EG
American..... a a ee
THREADS,
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour’s..... . ....9
Coy, 7. &F....... = \Merseell’s.... ...... 9
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a «66k. - ee ee 42
. ..... me Be 38 43

' fee 40 ee ee 44
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CAMBBICS,

a ee « tieeweeds........... &
White Star. . © Becewood......... 4
ee eeee........... & Peon... ......-. @
Nowmaerket ........ 4 (Brunswick ........ 4

RED FLANNEL.
ieee. ...... oss. 324(T W. be ates oe ey a
Ceeeteeee. |... eee ees os
Talos cae......... 30 or, co k.........20
Nameless ..27%|Buckeye.... 82%
MIXED PLANNEL,
Red & Blue, plaid. 40 |GreySRW.........17
eS i a 224| Western W .........18%
Sree... ..-- eee er... 18%
6 oz Western........20 |Flushing XXX......23%
Uaton G............ 22g... ....... eae
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless . a 8 @9% 9 @10%
8%@10 - . . a. 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|/Slate Brown. Black.
9% 9% Sy/10% 10% 10%
10% 10% 104% |11% 11% 11%
11% 1% 11%)12 12 12
125 12 124/20 20 20
DUCES.
Sevoren, 8 oz........ 9%]West Sess : a -10%
Mayland, Rigel, yt, Z ...12%
Greenwood, 74% 0£.. 9% aes 1008. idea ones 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz some Stark a. ae
Boston, § Os......... 104% /Boston, 10 oz........ 12%
WADDINGS.

White, dos ...---25 |Per baile, 49 doz....83 50
Colored, dos. . ee foeeeroe ~~ = =... 712
SILESIAS,

Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket..........10%

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twist, doz. .4¢ per %oz ball .....20
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Crowely’s....... -++- i mieent Broed.........-. 1 50
Weare... .-.-...0 WE Oem... .. 045. 1 00
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5—4....175 64... --165 6—4...2 90
—.

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crewe ...:... 12 Rising “Star Soly....07
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Bristol . 13 |Wool Standard 4 Plyl7%
Cherry Valley.. cre ae 15 |Powhattan .....

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Ae ......-...- 6% {Mount Pleasant.... 6%
Alamance... u “ id 5
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SEEDS!

Everything in seeds is kept by us—
Clover, Timothy,
Hungarian, Millet,
Red Top, Blue Grass,
Seed Corn, Rye,
Barley, Peas,
Beans, Ete.
If you have Beans to sell, send us
samples, stating quantity, and we
will try to trade with you. We are
headquarters for egg cases and egg
case fillers.
W. ¥. LAMOREAUX C0., w: Bridge st.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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with a stone.

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 is called ATLAS and is

manufactured only by

HENRY PASSOLT,
MICH.

market.

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pumpkin pies out of turnips. Otherwise
turnips are good. Beets are good, also;
they make good greens, if you take them
early enough in their career before Time
has aged and hardened them as he does
the rest of us who may not (?) be beets;
but beets are good in all stages of their
existence, as everybody knows.

Is celery a vegetable? This deponent
does not know, but he knows that enor-
mous quantities of it are sold every
morning on the market. Hotels, board-
inghouses and private families all buy
celery, and our own farmers are raising
it for them, too. The Kalamazoo variety
of apium graveolens is not a whit better
than is raised here at home.

‘Two heads are better than one,’’ es-
specially if you refer to Western Michi-
gan cabbage. Nowhere is this desirable
esculent seen in larger quantities, greater
variety or better quality than on the early
morning market, and in notown in Mich-
igan does it receive more appreciative at-
tention. Cabbage, corned beef and tur-
nips go far toward smoothing down
rugged paths of life, and making
road to our final resting place easy and
pleasant. And withal what visions they
do conjure up, especially in the night,
when we have nothing to do but see vis-
ions! Great is cabbage and corned beef
is its correlative!

Carrots, too, occupy a prominent place
on the morning market, and in the com-
mercial and domestic economy of the
community. They havea value outside
their various uses as an edible, for with
them pale, sickly-looking, half-starved
dairy butter is transformed into the rich,
yellow-colored, and altogether desirable
creamery article at a material advance in
price. Butitis in contributing itself as
a constituent element to soup that the
earrot finds its chiefest pleasure and
principal avocation, though there are
many other ways in which it delights to
serve its admirers and friends, and in all
it is heartily appreciated. There are no
better carrots raised anywhere than in
this section of the Wolverine State.

Then there is the cucumis sativus,
the deadly cucumber, in league with the
doctors and the undertakers; innocent
looking and enticing, yet containing more
colic and cholera infantum to the square
inch than all other things on the market
combined. Let them alone unless you
are copper-lined, or the cucumbers are
pickled and have their sting pulled. The
quantity used is truly amazing when one
considers their disreputable character
and the danger attending their use, and
is only to be accounted for on the princi-
ple that both vice and danger possess at-
tractions forthe human race. Anyway
they fill a large place in public esteem,
and the finest in the world are to be found
on the Grand Rapids market.

All the vegetables in the calendar, and
some not found therein, are to be seen
any morning on the market, even to kail,
so suggestive of home and heather to any
stray native of faraway, bonnie Scotia.

As for the fruit—but there is so much
of it and it is so good that it deserves a
better place than the tail end of an ar-
ticle on vegetables.

DANIEL

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ABBOTT.
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History of the Manufacture of Soap.
From the American Soap Journal.

If we inquire into the origin of the
manufacture of soap, we find that a
detergent corresponding to our soap is
not mentioned by any writer before the
Christian era. [tis frequently asserted

that soap was known to the authors of j Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

the Old Spunhiininad but the Hebrew
words used in the passages (Jeremiah ii.
22, and Malachi iii, 2) are stated by
authorities to refer to vegetable and
mineral lyes, i. e., potash and soda in
some form. In the time of Homer,
washing of clothes was effected without
the use of soap, as he tells how Nausicaa
and her attendants washed clothes by
stamping them with their feet in pits
filled with water.

In time, however, juices of plants
were used as detergents and also natural
soda and wood ashes; Paulus 4gina had

discovered that by adding lime to
alkalies their strength could be in-
ereased, Fuller’s earth was, however,

the principal agent used for washing in
ancient times, the fuller’s art being due,
it appears, to one Nicias, the son of
Hermais. At one time fuller’s earth,
found of a superior quality in Stafford-
shire, Bedfordshire, and other counties
of England, was considered so indispens-
able for the dressing of cloth that to
prevent foreigners from rivaling English
fabrics, it was made a contraband com-
modity and its exportation made equally
criminal with the heinous and wicked
export of wool.

The Gauls made a soap out of goat’s
suet and beechwood ashes, and used
it for dying the hair red. It is supposed
that this soap was an oily mixture used
also as a salve in eruptions of the skin
and similar diseases. The Arabs useda
salve-like product obtained by mixing
olive oil and lye, fer affections of the
skin, as well as for household purposes.

As a detergent, soap is first mentioned
by authors of the second century after
Christ. The celebrated physician,
Galenus, speaks of itas a detergent, as
well as a medicament, and considers the
German soap as the best, and the Gallic
as next best.

The next we hear of soap was in the
ninth century, made in Marseilles.
Till Chevreul’s classical researches on

fatty bodies (1811 to 1823) it was
believed that soap consisted simply of a
binary eompound of fat and alkali.
Claude J. Goeffray in 1741, pointed out
that the fat or oil recovered from soap
solution by neutralization with a mineral
acid differs from the original fatty sub-
stance by dissolving readily in alcohol,
which is not the case with ordinary fats
and oils. The significance of this ob-
servation was overlooked; and equally
unheeded was a no less important dis-

covery by Scheele in 1783: In preparing
lead plaster by boiling olive oil with
oxide of lead and a little water—a

process palpably analogous to that of the
soap boiler—he obtained a sweet sub-
stance, whicb, called by himself ‘‘Oelsuss”
(sweet principle of oil), is now known as
glycerin. The discoveries of Goeffray
and Scheele formed the basis of
Chevreul’s researches by which he laid
bare the constitution of oils and fats and
the true nature of soap.

From the first part of this century up
to the present time, soap making has
been advancing, but it not to its
highest point yet, and we must try to
make as good a showing in the next
twenty-five years as has been done@in the
past.

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

AUGURS AND BITs. dix.
ee 80&10
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Cee ee
Jennings’, imitation . “50810

AXES.
First re a a 8650
i Lo Bronze ee ee aa ceeae 1% 00
: See 7 50
' Pee, = 50
BARROWS.
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BOLTS. dis.
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Carrlago OO ee ee ie ce ene ee 75&10
Oe eee Cie eese es see ue cece tea 40&10
Bicigh oe eee pp erin s ce ye ce ces 70
BUCKETS.
reel, WON 8 ; 50
Well, ee ese uu ue 400
BUTTS, Cast. dis.
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ba _— ~~... 8... a HAMMERS.
Oe _ eee 49 | | Maydole & Co.” ai 2
Wrought Inside Blind. . eee ee a ee kis. oe a . i 2e
Wrought Brass Dee ee oe ce eat ees ee ul % | Yerkes & Plumb’s. a 4081!
Blind, Clark B..eeee sees eh ae cee ee een se 79.816 | Mason’s Solid Cast Stocl.__._.. 800 list 6!
co le 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30c 40&1%
EE 70 | HINGES.
BLOCKS. | | Gate, aoe 1 22 ...... ..-.. 2. dts. 60410
lo a ‘ nein | State. .-- ‘per doz. net, 2 5:
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60&19 | Screw ak and ‘Strap, ‘' 46 api
CRADLES. i longer .. a B%
ee 43&19 | Screw Hook and Eye, ing! ns “Taet I
CROW BARS. ts “ “ a oa 8%
Ce perth 5 Ks . oes ea pee oe
CAPS. Str ap ‘iil T........ cree. .- din. .
mantic ......._............-.-.-.. em «86 HANGERS. dis.
ee Ee «9 | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., hieupeiauee
O_O ss on | Crmmmpion, anti friction.................... 60&1"
Musket Llc awee  ee 60 | Kidder, wood track . ee
- HOLLOW WARK.
ent ee ee eee
Rim Wire. ooo. Sie... 60&1'
Central Fire. oe -.-Gis. 25 | Spiders ee eee
CHISELS. dis. Gray enameled. See soca ew del ee cone as 4041¢
= HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Bockot retain. 0202 --0--0-ccss--ns-s---sem | Gemmell TB WRG, noreseseee sooo -new list 7
Socket Corner. . a ee a wae ogee - :
Socket Slicks . TS IIITITT spase | Greate iron are nn. ee new lis dis 2
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer...--0 002000200. sie as 704510610
COMBS, Gm, i serow Hyos:.................. - 70&10&10
Coreg, Cawronee'd. ........................  @) BOCES... ---...0.-..- ay 7010410
ee . 25 | Gate Hooks and ore sees 70410410
cy LEVELS. diz. 7%
White Crayons, per gross..........12@12% dis, 10 — ae oe 7
COPPER, Sisal, % Inch and larger ............ ' _ a
— = oz Cut to size... .. per pound 2 Manilla .... . 01
ate 14eG 14EOO 26). 8qv ARES. dis.
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 2.0.2.2... 23 | Steeland Iron .... --+- 72 &10
WN NU I oe voce ee crete ccesen ae 23 | Try and Beysis.. stent eens eens oe
a2 | Mitre ............ vette ee es -- w@
DRILLS, Ais. SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com
Morse’s Bit — a uae oe 50 | 4 a
Taper and straight Shank......... oe — - - = a Cs a Ba < a
Morse’s Taper Shank. ....0 000.020.0202, oe UU TU ae ae
DBIPPING PANNA. men ceeee....... + & Oo 2 80
Sietl sises, wee pound ...................... 8% | Nos. 25 to 26 --3 65 2 90
Largo sises, per pound...... ......... .....  06| No.27.. - 3 75 3 00
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
Sas, 6 een Oe BLBOWS. Wicae 75 wide not less than 2-10 extra
een titan dis ass... dis. 50
Pees... lia. 40810 SASF CORD.
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Silver Lake, — A. list 50)
Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826.. ‘ rab A. ' 55
Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; 3,830 es a White B , 50
FILES—New List. dis. ' Drab B. ‘ 55
Ps 60&10-10 [ White C ' £0
New American eee cues. . .60&10-10 Discount, 10.
Nichoison’s ........ .. eo 60&10-10 | _ SASH WEIGHTS.
Helena... oe 50 | Solid Eyes...... he : .. por ton $25
Meters Worse Hames .. .................... 50 : ‘SAWB. dis.
ee aees ene " ee 2
_ i Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... vit)
Nos. i6 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 2%; 27 28 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
List 12 8618 14 15 16 17 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 20
Discount, 60 -10 ‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X
GAUGES. Gis. aoe... 30
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... TRAPS, dis.
KNOBS—New List. dis, | Steel, Game.. . 60&10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .. a 55 Oneida Cc ommunity, Newhouse’ B. ° 35
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings — 55 | Oneida —— —-§ & Norton’s. 70
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 | Mouse, choker.. veseseeee +2. 18€ per dos
Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55 | Mouse, delusion... . . . 91.50 per dos
Drawer and Shutter, saaeeia ee % “WIRE. dis.
Oe ea dir. bright Market... ttteeeeee sete ecee ener cess en TO
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 ——. > oleae Soieirtetton rests
Mallory, Whoeler & Covs................... 55 aes Market.. eS 0-10
ss. Cds 551 4 ely ae hic
N alk’a 55 Coppered Spring ee 50
err eae et teeters 5° | Barbed Fence, galvanized... aa
ii, 816.00, dis. 60-10 i % it eeeereceee oes 2 30
SE ED I 815.00, dis. 60-10} ay Sable dis. 40&10
Se $18.50, dis. 20410. Pain ae oo ee
ema B. | PUMMAMD.- 8. ee eee cece cece e eee eee ,
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handied............... 50 Northwestern. ‘WRENCHES. —
MILLS. dis i . si
Coffee Packers O67 “40 a Aajuntabi nickeled.. oe 30
’ lig gg hhh li oon Coe ...................... . 5h
ion oe eee — — >. Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, 75
a a ie FE OTB. ow oo weno 39 | Coe’® Patent, malleable... es T&iG
P Salsa ala me dia eae MISCRLLANKOUS. dis.
I ON ooo cocci neve es 60e10 Pumps, Clstern 02000000. ene ae ae.
NNN UNI es oo ss ans -+60810 | Screws, New List... 20.0.0 ..0000000 208 &10
Enterprise, self- rs cuavee cree - °* | Casters, Bed a 4 Plate. 50d:10d810
ampers, American. j
evn Das... _— on both Somes and — Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods......65&10
Wire nails, base.. CO 1 49 METALS,
ee “Base Base PIG TIN.
ee 260
Ee 28¢
25 ZINC.
35 | Duty: Sheet, Zac ~ —
45 | 680 pound —.. _ 6%
45; Per pound..
50 " SOLDER,
ee tate e teed 16
We | OM VOIR eect eeeee ee tage aso ee 15
90 The prices of the many other qualities of
1 29 | Solder in the market indicated by private brands
1 60 | Vary according to composition.
1 60 ANTIMONY.
65 | COOKMON......-.- 2-0... eeeee eee. per pound
a 3
90 TIN—MELYN GRADE.
75 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal be oes wo bume es teen es eae 8750
Ce a tua a 7 50
1 10 a rr, nh SS ee ee ; 25
o_O CC0CCC Eee 2
een irre att ses i Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. :
. EE 90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
SE 1s ea ae.
PLANES. dis.
Ghia Toei Oe, taney... Ow joxid Ix, i
STN 50 | 14x20 IX, nee
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. @ Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
ee @40 201 ,, ROOFING PLATES
Stanley Rule and Level Go.’ ® wood. . ....50&16 | 14x20 IC, Worceater............ . *
PA ee
ee eee a cae din.60—10 | 20x28 IC : a wevtereeeeeeseees 18 50
5 Monge Ce dis. 70 14x201C, “ Allaway Grade........... 6 00
’ el s. |i4x2e0IxX, “ . wt atte etes ones 7 50
Iron and Tinned, a 50—10 poe Boe c a Be sate ete ee es a =
Copper Rivets and Burg.................... 50—10 ’ necuue en ee eae. ——
PATENT FLANISHED IRON. _—_ OO a ore va eee ee toe ence cogs eces cons 814 00
‘‘A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 6 eT ic ccs ee ee ccs cee 5 00
“B” Wood's o pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 — = for No. : Botlers, | per pound 10 00
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1894.

 

 

UTILITY OF SHIP CANALS.

While the present is pre-eminently the
age of railways, it is also the age of
canais; but the canal of to-day is a very
different affair from the canal of a
tury ago.

The object of the canal of the olden
time was to furnish internal routes of
transportation. That business to-day,
except where natural interior waterways

cen-

already exist and are readily susceptivle
of improvement, is left to the railways.
The canal! of the present day is intended
to connect by direct water routes, seas,
lakes and great rivers, which near
each other, but are separated by tracts
of land. made this
age itis to enable vessels carrying car-
goes to sail right along from one sea or
lake or river to another without
ing or transhipping any part
freight, and at the same time
ing a direct and short route, save the de

lie

When a eanal is in

unload
of their

by pursu-

lay and expense of long circuitous voy-
ages.
The Suez ship canal is the most dis-

tinguished example of this sort of direct-
Instead of being
forced to circumnavigate the entire
tinent of Africa and much of Asia,
pass through the canal, which connects
the Mediterranean and Red Seas,
hemisphere

ness in water routes.
econ-
ships

and

sail through a which once
they were compelled by long and danger-
ous to For the

lack of aship way through narrow

around,

the
American isthmus, it is necessary to cir-
South Amer-
may proceed

sail

voyages

cumnavigate the whole of
ica that
from Atlantic perts of North America to
those on the Pacific The
sity for such a canal is obvious to every
great commercial nation any
shipping and carrying any considerable
commerce, and France came near supply-
ing the need and possibly may do so yet,
Since some - effort being made by a
French company to take up the scheme
again. England does not need an Ameri-

vessels

in order
coast.

neces-

possessing

is

can inter-oceanic canal, from the fact of |
being already the possessor of the Suez |
canal. But for this England would quickly |

build the Nicaragua canal and may do so
yet rather than let the enterprise go beg-
ging.

If the United States had any consider-
able amount of shipping engaged in for-
eign trade, or any foreign colonies to
protect, such a canal would long ago
have been a most imperative necessity;
but the policy of the government has
long been oppesed to acquiring or pro-
tecting interests abroad. Destitute of
merchant ships it becomes necessary to
entrust the carrying of all foreign com-
merce of this vast country to foreign
bottoms.

Possessing no colonies and controlling
no country out-ide of the immediate ter-
ritory limits of the union, there are no
great interests to defend, while the pol-
icy which has been adopted of submit-
ting all our international controversies
to arbitration by European powers, guar-
antees shat the United States will never
have a foreign war. With this view of
the situation it becomes apparent that
the United States needs a navy no more
than it needs any merchant vessels.
Committing its commerce and its public
defense entirely into the hands of for-
eign people and foreign powers, it is
easy to see that the United States is the
last nation in the world that seems to
have any interest in an inter-oceanic
canal,and unless indications shall change,
itis not likely that it will take any active
steps in the matter. THe TRADESMAN
strongly believes that the United States
ought to build up and cherish a great
mercantile marine to carry its commerce,
and it believes that this nation ought to
be able to defend itself and assert itself
on every proper occasion, and it believes
that an inter-oceanic canal through the
American isthmus is as necessary for the
commerce of this country as it is for the
publie defense. But, unfortunately, such
views are not supported by Congress.

This article was not started in the in-
terest of the Nicaragua canal, much
as THE TRADESMAN favors such a scheme,
but it was suggested by the fact that
ship canals are so obviously the order of
the day in all parts of the world. In
Europe, next to the Suez canal, the most
notable recent work is the Corinth canal,
cut through the Greek peninsula, besides
important channels connecting several
Dutch and German ports with the sea by
deep water channels. Thecutting which
enables cotton-laden ships from American
ports to unload cargoes directly at the
| doors of the cotton mills of Manchester,
| England, is one of the great undertak-
ings of this sort. The Dominion Govern-
| ment of Canada is engaged in cutting a
|channel around the falls of the Sault
Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Super-
ior, and has spent $54,000,000 in the en-
largement of its canals connecting Lake
Erie above Niagara Falls with the St.
Lawrence River and the Atlantic Ocean.

Thus it appears that every country
that has any commerce, or that desires to
/ have any, is making every possible exer-
tion to facilitate trade and to extend its
business. The people of the United
States are fond of boasting of their en-
terprise, but itis certain that they ean
{learn some useful lessons from almost
| every other nation, not even excepting
|the small and weak ones. They can
| certainly do so when ship canals are the
| theme.

 

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Attention is called to an article on
‘*Pullman’s Debts,” which will be found
/on another page of this journal. Tuer
TRADESMAN is not in any sense an apol-
i ogist for Geo. M. Pullman, but it believes

 

in doing justice to all, irrespective of
condition. That there were claims of
long standing against Mr. Pullman in
this city was possible, although highly
improbable, and especially incredible
was it that he had allowed a claim for
house rent to outlaw and then refused to
pay. It appears from the statements of
Messrs. Comstock and Foote that George
M. Pullman never resided in this city,
which effectually disposes of one claim.
Whetber or not the other claims, which
it is alleged are held by several parties
against Mr. Pullman, have any better
feundation is known only to those who
hold them, as they have never been pro-
duced nor have any particulars concern-
ing them been made public. In other
words, they lack confirmation. It ap-
pears to be sufficient, in these days, for
a man to acquire wealth to make him the
target for the shafts of calumny, vituper-
ation and falsehood, and George M. Pull-
man seems to be paying the penalty for
the crime of being rich. But what can
be said of those men in public life who
are willing to lend themselves and their
names to the shady business of maligning
the character of any man simply to gain
the favor and good will of the dema-
gogues who control the labor organiza-
tions?

In atwenty-line article in its Satur-
day edition, the Eagle of this city takes
a fling at the ‘‘moneyed men of the
East,” saying, among other things, that
“they have never been distinguished for
patriotism and it is improbable that they
will ever be actuated by any motive
other than selfishness, unalloyed and
supreme.” The youth who now con-
trols the destinies of the Eagle is evi-
dently too young to remember the events
of the civil war, and evidently has never
read the history of the conflict. If he
had he would have a different opinion of
‘“‘the moneyed men of the East.’’ It was
largely their money that made the war
a possibility and an ultimate success.

 

New Use for the Telephone.

An event recently occurred in Detroit,
which appears to confirm the idea that
courtship, as well as most other things,
will hereafter be greatly facilitated by
recent inventions. It seems that there
is a young lady residing in Detroit who,
for some time, has been the recipient of
the attentions of two young men, one a
young professor in the Michigan State
University, at Ann Arbor, and the other
a traveling salesman for a New York
wholesale hardware house, whose route
extends through Michigan and parts of
Canada. One day recently the New
Yorker arrived in Detroit late in the
afternoon, and, of course, immediately
started to make the rounds of the re-
tail hardware dealers, with the laudable
purpose of selling each a good stock
for the winter before the repre-
sentative of any rival concern should
put in an appearance. He had hoped
to visit the object of his affections in
the evening, but business was brisk,
and 8 o’clock found him very busy
trying to induce a prominent dealer to
take six dozen axes, four dozen grind-
stones and half a carload of wooden
pails. At this stage of the proceedings
a younger brother of the young lady
dropped in to get a new jack knife,
and accidentally mentioned that the
Ann Arbor professor was up at the
house. It instantly occurred to the

progressive hardware and cutlery drum- |

 

mer that the college man came for no
other purpose than to lay his heart at
the feet of the young lady he himself
adored. For a moment there was a
struggle in his heart, but he speedily
got control of himself and decided that
he could not possibly leave the store,
as the dealer was just on the point of
deciding to take the pails. But the
thought of giving up the lady, who
had been for munths constantly in his
mind waking and sleeping, was unbear-
able. Light suddenly dawned upon
him. Handing the merchant a circular
explaining the merits of his new double-
bladed chopping knives, he requested
the use of the dealer’s telephone for five
minutes, stepped to it and rang up the
central office. A moment later the tele-
phone bell at the residence of the young
lady rang, sharp and decisive. The pro-
fessor had been there for an hour talk-
ing pleasantly of the grand educational
work they were doing in the depart-
ment of fossilology at Ann Arbor.
When the bell rang, the young lady’s
father being absent (he is a physician),
she excused herself and proceeded to
the adjoining room to answer it. The
professor heard her step to the tele-
phone and say, ‘‘yes;?? made a_ short
pause and say ‘‘yes’’ again. Then there
was a longer pause, and he heard her
reply: ‘*‘Why—why—really, this is
very sudden.” Then there was a still
longer pause, and he heard her say
‘ves’? very softly, and then ‘‘good-by,”
and then she hung up the receiver and
came into the back room. The college
man moved closer to the lady and re-
marked that it was a warm evening,
and he thought that it was going to
rain, and then resumed his talk about
the great work at the _ university.
Fifteen minutes later there was a ring
at the front door bell. The young
lady responded to it, and a district
messenger boy handed her a plain gold
ring, which she slipped on her finger,
and returned to the parlor. ‘‘Miss
Gratiot,’’ said the professor, five min-
utes later, ‘‘I want to ask you a very
important question this evening. Ex-
cuse me for putting it bluntly, but will
you be my wife?” But we need go no
further with this. Two minutes later
the professor went down the front
steps, and shook his fist at the tele-
phone wire and took the first train for
Ann Arbor.

The Secret of Success.

The basis of success in all occupations
which involves the relations of employer
and employed is, remarks an exchange,
the employer should have an accurate
knowledge of the work to be done, what
it consists in, how to do it, and how long
it should take. A man of business who
neglects this places his interest entirely
in the keeping of irresponsible agents
and, human nature being what it is, ar-
rives in due time at insolvency. This is
why the self-made man, who has been
sternly initiated into the whole mysteries
by having himself stood in the ranks of
the employed, outstrips those who seem
to start fair from the vantage ground of
education and capital, and builds a for-
tune where others miserably fail. As
the mistress of a household who neither
knows what a servant’s duties are nor
how they may be fulfilled fails to manage
her house well, so the man who does not
understand the duties of workmen placed
under him is at the mercy of any decep-
tion they may be pleased to practice upon
him with reference to the quality of the
work they perform.

a ca

A clerk who will lie to another by
your instructions will also lie to you of
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THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The Employer and the .Young Man.

“Suppose a young man has, practi-
eally, all, or many of the qualifications
deemed necessary for a business success.
He finds himself in a congenial position, |
and he gives to it his best energies. Not
only does he fill that position, but he|
does a little more. He makes his em-|
ployer’s interests his interests. Can
such a young man feel tolerably certain
that his work will be recognized by his
employer ?”’

‘“‘Are employers, as a rule, ready to)
treat their employes justly ?”’

Among the hundreds of letters which |
have reached me in regard to my article |
on ‘*The Young Man in Business’’ in the |
Cosmopolitan, none were more interest-|
ing than those asking the above ques-
tions. In other words: In this article I
had attempted to point out some of the
qualifications necessary to a young man’s
suecess in business. 1am now asked to
treat the other side of the question and
am challenged to prove that where all
the necessary qualifications exist on the
side of the employe, the employer will
recognize, appreciate and reward.

The challenge is a fair one.
* * *

It is my honest conviction, and that
conviction is based upon careful inquiry
and personal knowledge, that, taking the
business world as a whole, there are more
just than unjust employers. Of course,
the majority of young men are unwilling
to accept this truth. It is perhaps only
natural that the clerk, suffering from
the injustice of an unappreciative em-
ployer, believes that all employers are
like unto his own. But the fact, pre-
cisely the opposite, still holds good.
Meo are not in business for their health.
Thousands of us could be out of business
and be equally robust. The one sole aim
of business is the making of money and
the ambition for commercial supremacy.
This places the art of business on a cold,
hard and selfish basis. But business is
a selfish institution, and men engaged in
commercial strife are, for the most part,
selfish. A regard for one’s own interest
is just as necessary, if not more, with the |
employer as with the employe. But in |
the greed for gold—calling it by the
ugliest name we can perhaps—an em-
pleyer knows that he is just as much de-
pendent upon his employe as that em-
ploye is dependent upon him. If, for |
the sake of argument, we lay aside all |
thoughts of justice, the fact still remains
that the average employer would be
likely to do what is right and fair by a
good employe whom he knows is valu-
able to his interests, upon selfish
grounds if no other. Whatever may be
his personal inclinations, the employer |
is very apt to take care of those who)
have his interests at heart. That is busi-

 

ness.

But Lam inclined to believe that there
is a softer, a more humane side to the
employer of to-day. lam convinced that, |
for the greater part, the reputation of |
employers suffers most at the hands of |
disgruntled employes who do not receive |
recognition because they do not deserve |
it. Such employes talk more than do the |
satisfied ones, and talk, all too unfortu- |
nately, goes for something in the busi- |
ness world in creating impressions of:

men.
- + .*

But while I am ready to concede that)!
the average modern employer is just, or
means tobe, lam equally ready to ac-

| copyist,

| ress should more often go hand in

| received the slightest recognition of
| services other than this

knowledge that, in a number of cases, he
is wofully short-sighted sc far as the in-
terests of his employes are concerned.

There is an impression in the minds of
a large number of employers that a word
of praise or approval goes for very little
in a business. Some goso far as to be-
lieve that it holds absolutely no place in
the commercial world. An ‘‘increase of
salary’? is what men want, these employ-
ers say. Now, I beg to differ with these
gentlemen. For many years I was an
employe, going the range of office-boy,
book-keeper, clerk,  steno-
grapher and department manager. Lat-
terly it has been given me to employ peo-
ple. 1 think, therefore, that 1 can fairly
judge this question from both sides.

To the heart of the average employe
his salary is naturally very near. That
is what he is in business for: to make
money just as hisemployer is. But there
are men and men. To some men, the
question of how much money they earn
is not everything, even though necessar-
ily it forms a large part. Take a young
man assuming a new posision in a house.
He enters on a small salary. He proves
himself capable, and his salary receives
an increase, either by solicitation or vol-
untary—mostly by the former method.
His salary keeps pace with his growth.
But he finds that the second of
salary has not one-half, no, not even one-
fifth the element of delight in it to him
as did the first ‘‘raise.” The third

inerease

has

even less, although it is, of course, ac-
ceptable. After he has received four or
five additions to his stipend he is apt to

feel that, after all, money is a very cold
and hard return for what he does. His
nature longs for something, exactly

what, he does not perhaps know until
one day some friend tells him of a cer-
tain nice compliment paid to his work by
his employer. Then it occurs to the
young man that his employer has never
said an appreciative word to him.
what that young man is really hunger-
ing for is not another increase of salary
so much as it is to have his employer
acknowledge that this was particularly
well done, or that piece of work was
cleverly conceived and even better car-
ried out. A word of praise is a tremen-
dous stimulant to the right young fellow
in business, plodding hard each day for
his employer’s interests. And employ-
ers are far too chary of praise. The gen-
eral claim is that they cannot afford to
praise ‘‘for policy’s sake.” In some
eases, this may be. Butin the majority
of instanees, it hurts no man to told
that he has done athing weil. It helps
him.

{ do not say that a word of praise will
take the place of an increase of salary.
But I do say that in thousands of cases
these two factors in a young man’s prog-
hand
employes are

Now,

be

than they do. Too many
left to inferthat their services are satis-
factory to their employers because they
are allowed to work on without criticism.
This silent praise has stifled the ambition
of many a young man.
young man who became a vital part of
the interests of a house from eight years’
connection witb it. His salary
ereased during that time, at intervals,
from $600 a year to $3,500. But be never
his
evi-

l have in mind 4

was in-

Monetary
dence. When the opportunity came he
resigned simply because the pure heart-
lessness and selfishness of his employers

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‘THE MICHIGAN 'TRADESMAN.

 

 

jarred upon him. Exceptional case, I honestly believe that an employer |
some one says. Not at all. There are | consults his wisest interests by pursuing
men, and lots of them, too, to whom an | this policy of voluntary increase of sala-
honest word of praise means more than/ries. It is not asking an employer to try |
the clink of gold. The absence of the}an experiment. It has been tried, in
fermer has cost business houses the loss | hundreds of houses, and in every case
of many a good man. I give no larger has it resulted to the interests ef the
place to sentiment in commercial strife | business. To say that it is unwise, is to
than will any business man. But I do| put one’s self in opposition to the exper-
believe that there is a place for the kind/|iences of some of the most successful
word of approval expressed by the em-/ business men in New York, Philadelphia
ployer to the employe. It costs nothing, |and Boston. Onthe contrary, it is the
and I have known cases where it was| policy that serves an employer best in|
remembered long after instances of in- | the long run.
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The increase of the salaries of the em-
ployes is a knotty question with every
employer. And, for the most part, it is
fellowed according to short-sighted and
narrow lines. A liberal policy of be-
stowal in this respect is the exception
rather than the rule.

Now, if there is one thing to a young
man more hnmiliating than another, it is
to be compelled to ask for an increase of
pay. lIremember, in my own case, the
absolute humiliation I felt in each of the
three instances where I felt I earned

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titled to. I shrank from asking for it,
and the feeling was a proper one. 1 de-
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to me without the asking. I believed it

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my views, now that I am enabled to look

at the matter from the employer’s point |
of view. And here is the point where |
the entire salary system is wrong. There |

are business houses, and I am glad to
know of several, where employes are
never compelled to ask for an increase of
salary. Twice each year in some cases,
but once per annum in most, the pay-
roll of each department is given to the
members of the firm, and recommenda-
tions for increase are made. Thus an
employe knows thatif his pay does not
receive an addition, itis because of one
of two reasons: either he does not de-
serve it, or the condition of the business
of the house does not warrant the in-
crease in expepse. The consequence is
that in the case of each of the houses
where this system is in vogue, the
loyalty of employe to employer is re-
markably strong, and such a thing as in-
ducing a capable man to leave for a posi-
tion in another house is impossible to ac-
complish. Every business man knows
that he appreciates what comes to him
voluntarily far more than that which he
seeks. This is particularly true of the
salary of an employe. Placed upon a
purely selfish basis, it is the most profit-
able course for a business house to pur-
sue. It knits the interests of employer
and employe very closely together. It
demonstrates and proves to the clerk
that he is not a cipher in the eyes of his
employer, but that he and his work are
known and appreciated. Increased effort
and honest endeavor result from this,
and one house in New York, now the
largest in its particular line, has practi-
cally builtitself upon this policy. When

it began, and employed three men, the}

head of the house started this policy, and
his sons pursue it now when they have
over eight hundred men in their service.
Such a thing as a request for an increase
of salarygis;, unknown in this establish-
ment, and a more loyal and hard-work-
ing set of employes it would be difficult
to find.

| System would de away with much of the |
| annoyances an employer feels from ap-|
plications for added pay which come to|
|him from men in his employ whom he |
feels he cannot refuse. There can be no
| question that young men often stand in|
| their own light in this respect. The ser- |
vices they render in their respective
positions always seem of greater value
| to them than they really are to their em-
ployer. Most of us are ready to believe
| ourselves the under dog ina fight. It is
|a theory held by many a young man that
lhe should receive an increase every six
months or year. And he forthwith asks
for it. Now, frequent applications for
|more salary are apt to be just as irritat-
ing to an employer as they are humiliat-
jing toanemploye. If the man is valu-
able, the employerfeels he cannot refuse
{the demand very well, and he either ac-
cedes to the request of the applicant, or
meets him half-way. But he does it, in
nines cases out of ten, under protest and
with an ill-feeling which remains with
him and associates forever after with |
that employe. It is well for a man to|
rise in a business house, but it is more}

 

too quickly. A rapid success, alluring
as it is to young men, speedily wears it-
self out. A steady rise is always the
healthiest to the riser, and the more ac-
ceptable to the employer. Conscious, as
an employer must necessarily be, that
the relations between him and his em-|
ployes are purely of a business nature,
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frequently impressed upon him any more
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should never forget that no matter how
valuable it may be his good fortune to
make himself to a house, he can never
make himself indispensable. The cruel-
est thought in life is that this world can |
get along without us almost as wel! as
with us—ip the vast majority of cases, |
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If a young man can feel absolutely
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

and employe. There are cases, and a
number of them, where employers are
unwilling to give sufficient importance to
this fact. It is not the outward attitude
which the clerk assumes to his chief that
is always the true one. That is the atti-
tude of policy. Butitis the inner feel-
ing that exists in the heart of that em-
ploye which tells in the business. No
business is destined to a permanent suc-
cess where there is an undercurrent of
disrespect or hard feelings for the heads
of the house. And yet this is present in
many acommercial establishment to-day,
and it sometimes exists unknown to the
employer: at other times he is conscious
of it. The atmosphere of a business
house is very much as is the character of
the employer. If an employer is narrow
in his views, he cannot expect the views
of his employes to be broad in their deal-
ings with customers. If an employe
feels that he can never be sure of the at-
titude ef his employer on a question of
principle, be assured that the employer
in almost every case is to blame. If the
head of the house be erratic—to-day in
one place and _ to-morrow assuming
another—the policy throughout that
house will be an uncertainone. An em-
ployer sets the standard for his em-
ployes. If his standard be low, those he
employs will be lower than he: if it be
high, and evenly high, their aim will be
to reach the standard which the em-
ployer sets. Heights are more difficult
of accurate measurement to the human
eye than are depths. An uncertain
employer makes an uncertain policy, un-
certain employes and an uncertain suc-
cess. This is absolute. The employer

moulds the employe.
* * *

One of the common causes of com-
plaint of young men against their em-
ployers is that they ‘‘do not give them
enough liberty;’’ sometimes it is called
‘*sufficient lee-way.’’ This may often
appear so to the young man, but he
must remember that this question is
capable of being looked at from two
points of view. The right to act and
think for one’s self is a just preroga-
tive, and 1 am ready to concede that
employers sometimes withhold this
right too long from young men. But
young men must remember that what
is one’s own. and has perhaps been ac-
quired by years of the hardest kind of
self-denial and work, is very precious
to a man, and he must not be blamed
when he is zealous over it. Authority
is a good thing to invest in the right
hands, but it is a most dangerous kind
of a thing in the hands of the inex-
perienced. When a young man _ has
proven his worth in a position, I think
he ought to be gradually vested with
authority. Responsibility, unquestion-
ably makes men. The right kind of a
young man wili respect and endeavor
to meet the responsibility placed upon
him. But young men are. as a rule,
too impatient for this trust. They
want it too soon. The most difficult
thing in business is to do what one is
told to do, and stop there. We are all
apt to believe that we can improve on
somebody else’s idea. Now, a young
man starting in business is at first
paid to do, not to think. His em-
ployer will do the thinking; he must
do the carrying out part. If it was
intended that he should think, he
would not be paid six hundred dollars.
Men employed to think are paid more

than clerks are. Let a young man sin
business show that he is capable of
carrying out the wishes of his em-
ployer, and he demonstrates a most
valuable quality. To do a thing pre-
cisely as one is told to do it is the
first step to success. When the em-
ploye has served a term of probation,
then can he hope to be given a more
individual grasp of the reins. The
young man is wise who at the start is
content simply to sit beside the driver
and learn the art of driving.

On the side of the young man’s ar-
gument, Iam free to believe that employ-
ers are not always sufficiently willing to
transfer authority. The full worth of a
young man’s business capacities can
never be tested until he has had an
opportunity to ‘‘stand on his own bot-
tom.” as the saying is. That chance
he should be given, and the employer
is not fair who withholds this right.
It is as a young man that the capable
business man is moulded both to know
the value of responsibility and how to
carry it. If responsibility is withheld
he becomes a machine of no use to him-
self and of precious little value to his
employer. I think appeals to the
honor and self-reliance of the young
man are rarely frequent enough in the

buriness world.
* * *

I have a deal of sympathy with the
young man in business between the
age of twenty and twenty-five. There
is not a more trying point in his life.
He is neither one thing nor the other.
He is in constant friction between his
own belief that he is capable, and his
employer’s belief that he is young and
therefore inexperienced. Say what we
will, to be a very young man, and in
business, is nothing more or less than
a positive misfortune. No matter how
much older he may be in judgment
than his years, his opinion is not con-
sidered worthy of respect. ‘‘He is
young,’’ and that is the sum and sub-
stance of it. Try as he may, he can-
not overcome the prejudice of business
men against the judgment of men
younger than twenty-five or thirty. It
is unquestionably true that a young
man’s judgment cannot amount to
much before twenty-five, and it is a
period of our experience that we must
all pass through. At the same time, I
think employers are apt to make this
too manifest with young men, and
thereby do much to dampen their spir-
its and stamp out natural ambitions.
It is true that a young man at twenty-
five very often resents mere encourage-
ment. It is patronage he seeks. And
I believe there is possible a happy
commingling of the two which, if more
generously extended, would be mutually
advantageous. It is cruel to make a
young man feel that he is a cipher in
the business world. He cannot be a
factor: that I grant. At the same time
| there lies between the two extremes a
| happy medium, the giving of that en-
| couragement that seems patronage even
|if it does not absolutely partake of it.

|
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| less difficult for him to pass through
| that period. Itis, surely, not too much
|to ask of business men that they shall
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and observe the spirit of the golden |
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The moral responsibility for those in
our employ is one which too many em-
ployers are all too willing to shirk or
failtorecognize. Tospeak of it generally
means to be accused of an indulgence in
eant. Atthe same time I feel that it enters |
particularly into the career of a young)
man. The fact of the matter is, to put
the truth plainly, too many employers
ask their employes to be nothing more}
nor less than liars. Scores of young}
men daily fight the battle between an)
adherence to the principles
home and those they are asked to rep-;
resent in business. As an office boy, I
had the must perfect training possible
to become an accomplished liar. I was!
told, at least half a dozen times a day,
to say to callers that my chief was out

of the)

'
when he was in. At home, 1 was}
taught that truthfulness and honesty |
were the current coins in business. |

And yet, day after day, lI sbown |
the falsity of it by my employer. 1
refused to lie for myself, and yet 1 was
compelled to lie for another. When I
became a copyist, it was asked of
to write letters which I knew to
absolutely contrary to facts.
And yet I was in the employ of one of
the largest corporations in the world
and one of honorable repute. My di-
rect chief was a man esteemed alike in
and social circies. He was,
too, a recognized pillar in the church.
The result was, as I can see now, that
1 formed an entirely wrong conception
of the true and best methods of
ness. lt was not long before 1 became
delightfully skillful at the art of mis-
representation. In my second position,
I found it was necessary for me to un-
learn what [ had learned in my pre-
vious post. My lines were thrown, most
fortunately for me, with a man to whom
integrity was more than policy. From
him I learned healthful lessons; at his
side I started. His influence happily
was strong upon me, and the respect he
commanded from me at that time has re- |
mained with meeversince. Hetaught me

that, although than fif- |
teen years have passed, the lessons I
learned from him are as fresh with
me to-day and are as pleasant and
profitable to recall as when I was his
rather amateurish stenographer, and, as
I liked to believe, his private secretary. |
I cau recall now that he never treated |
me as a boy, but always gave me that)
feeling that I had the instincts of a man |
which some day I would be destined to}

was

me
be

existing

business

busi-

so well more

 

realize. He had faith in me, and he did |
not hide in from me. Step by step, he
remained at my side, graduating me |

from one position to another, until he
felt I had found my proper atmosphere.
His hand always steadied me; his infiu-
ence, I felt, was never farfromme. And
to-day, if l have one feeling more thor-
oughly satisfactory than any other, it is
that the adviser of my boyhood, and
my friend of to-day, Mr. Clarence Cary,
of New York, believes that his con§-
dence in we was not misplaced.

This, I think, is the recollection a |
young man should be able to carry with

| shown in commercial establishments in
| the freer and larger opportunities given

| portant positions by outsiders.

ito stand in the way of the success of
| their business affairs.

| hind what is commonly accepted as the
| favor of an employer is frequently some-

| face.

| And where favoritism is shown the rem-
|edy to the one who suffers from it is in

; much
icliques in the editorial departments of
| magazines to shut out the unknown au-
| thor of talent.

him through life of his employer. It
rests with the employer to make it pos-
sible.
+ * *
Among other causes of complaint that
I have heard expressed by the young
business naan is the one that favorism is

to relatives, and the tendency to fill im-
But the
young man must never overlook the im-
portant fact that true ability counteracts
this objection. Few employers are so
blind to their own interests that they
wlll allow the mere question of favoritism

This would not
if business men are
Be-

be practical, and
anything at all they are practical.

thing more than may be seen on the sur-
It is generally easier to raise the
ery of favoritism than itis to prove it.

his own hands. Asa rule—although, of
course, there are exceptional cases—the
ery of favoritism in business has about as
basis that there are

as the cry

The complaint of precedence given to
relatives in business houses is true only
in the minority of instances. Where it
is true, a young man will serve his best
interests by seeking other connections.
But before he does so he will be wise if
he first makes certain if precedence is
given on the ground of relationship.
Opposed as [am personally, on general
principles, to relations being associated in
business, there must, | know, always be
cases where their introduction’ will
be both just and proper.

The lack of the civil service system of
promotion is perhaps the more weighty
and warranted of the trio of objections.
An employer cannot be more unfair to
his employes than when a position of
importance opens and he zoes outside of
his own business to fill it. Nothing is |
more discouraging to the ardor and zeal |
of an ambitious young man than the dis- |
covery of such a tendency in the policy

 

of a house by which he is employed. Of
course there are cases where a position
becomes vacant and it is impossible to
graduate a subordinate into it. But, I
believe, that, so far as possible, civil
service reform rules should be prevalent
in business houses. At the same time,
there is this to be said on the employer’s
side. No employer will intentionally go
out of his way to fill a position if he
feels he can fill it with some one of his
employes. Only aman blind to his own
interests would do that.
& * .
This whole subject, even when one at-
tempts to discuss it from the standpoint
of the employer, comes back to the
young man himself after all. If he has
ability, if he becomes a factor in the suc-
cess of business, he can be tolerably sure
of good treatment at the hands of his
employer. Genuine talent is not such a
drug in the business market that any
employer will slight it when he finds it.
But when a young man finds his lines
east with an unjust employer, a man
who refuses to pay a proper equivalent
for services rendered, then, as I have
said before, the remedy lies in his own
hands, and the sooner he applies it the
better. But young men are, in many
cases, apt to be altogether too impulsive
and often faney injustice where it really
does not exist. In the impulsiveness of
youth lies its chief danger. Some young
men desire to get along too fast, mindful
only of the present and forgetful of the
future. The result is that again anc
again certainties are given up for uncer-
tainties,which is always unwise except
under special and exceptional circum-
stances. When a young man finds that
he is either in the wrong position, or
under an employer whose principles he
cannot respect, it is far better for him to
work along, doing his work so well that
he will attract attention to himself from
other sources. Opportunities will come
to him fast enough if he proves himself
worthy of them. He can measure these
chances at his leisure and select the one
which he believes is best adapted for his
special talents. A young man in a posi-
tion is infinitely more likely to receive
an offer than the young man who is out
of one. Many a young man has been
misled by offers made him while occupy-

 

ing a position, only to learn when he had
resigned that position, that the same de-
sire to secure his services was not pres-
ent.

I believe a young man should, so far
as it is possible, secure the position
which he thinks he can fill most accept-
ably to himself and his employer, and
then stick to it. Constant changing
from one position to another disturbs the
confidence of meninaman. To him is
quickly applied the old proverb of a
‘rolling stone.’?’ The fewer changes a
young man makes in his business career
the better. At the same time he should
not be blind to any opportunities which
may offer, to better himself. But let
him be certain that a change will mean an
advantage. Conservatism, born of pru-
dence and careful thought, is a tremen-
dous element ia business success, and to
none is it more of an element than to a
young man.

Earnestness of purpose, honesty in
dealings, uprightness in principle; with
a willingness to work and talents pro-
pelled by energy, and no young man to-
day need fear of final success. It may
not come at once. He may not find the
right place the first time. He may not
just find the employer best suited to his
development in the first place in which
he finds himself. But the country is
large, and opportunities exist on every
hand for thse right sort of a young man.
He need have no fear of finding inade-
quate recognition at the hands of his
employer. Let him demonstrate that be
deserves recognition, and he will find
that not only all things, but the very
best of things ‘tcomes to him who waits,”
and he had better add to that proverb
*‘and works.’’

The American employer stands ready
to pay all that the American employe is
capable of earning. Epwarp W. Bok.

—_—— <a
Only Twenty-five Dollars.

If you are thinking of purchasing a
cash register, send to G. Gringhuis, 403
West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, for a
Rhodes’ register on ten days’ trial before
purchasing elsewhere. It is the most
complete cheap cash register in the
market. It will record three or more
lines or departments and each salesman’s
sales, which cannot be done on any other
register.

 

 

 

 

(THEY ALL SAY

“It’s as good as Sapolio” when they try

to sell

you

their experiments.

Your

own good sense will tei! you that they
are only trying to get you to aid their
new article.

W ho urges you to keep Sapolio? Is
it not the public? The manufacturers
by constant and judicious advertising
bring customers to your stores whose
very presence creates a demand for
other articles.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

18

 

THE VALUE OF PUNCTUALITY.

An old proverb says that misfortune
is next door to stupidity; and we might
add thereto, that stupidity is the antip-
odes of punctuality. Forgetfulness is
the legitimate offspring of stupidity, and
the progenitor of negligence. A forget-
ful man is a stupid man; and his forget-
fulness is no palliation for the evil ef-
fects of his stupidity; neither will it
screen him from the charge of contribu-

tory negligence. Such a man is never
punctual and, consequently, never
reaches success as a business man. It is

recorded that Washington once said to
his secretary, when the latter was excus-
ing himself for his late attendance by
laying the blame on his watch: ‘Then
you must get another watch, or 1 an-
other secretary.”

There can be no excuse for
ness man who lacks punctuality. If the
injurious effects of his uncertain habits
were confined to himself it would make
but little difference to.the business world;
but every business man with whom he
comes in contact in the regular course of
business is made to suffer likewise.
Such a man is the perpetual cause of un-
necessary friction in the business ranks.
He is like a balky horse in a procession
—when he stops he brings everything to
a standstill behind him, and when he
starts, he goes off with a jerk just as un-
expectedly, causing an extra strain in
the rear for a recavery, and injuriously
stimulating those in front. His irregu-
larities affect the whole line—those next
to him, fore and aft, being subjected to
greater annoyance than those farther re-
moved.

The man who is not punetual in meet-
ing his engagement, is a general dis-
turber of the peace and serenity of
others. He throws everybody into a
state of feverish impatience, from time
to time, with whom he comes in con-
tact, either socially or in a business way.
He is systematically late, never meeting
an engagement exactly at the appointed
time. If he were only regular in his ir-
regularity like a bad time piece that is
set on time in the morning, but during
the day loses a certain number of min-
utes per hour, business men having oc-
easion to transact business with him
might by a little computation, arrange a
time table which would save them mnech
time, annoyance and loss arising from
broken engagements. But the unpunc-
tual business man is not so governed in
his movements; like the watch he is a
bad time keeper; but, unlike the watch,
we have no means of protecting our-
selves from the pernicious effects of his
unreliability. We find him fifteen min-
utes slow to-day, thirty minutes slow to-
morrow, and the day after he surprises
us by being ten minutes fast. Once in
a great while we find him exactly on
time, but when such is the case it is
purely accidental.

the busi-

A successful business man always es-
timates time according to its true value,
and he never forgets that time is (or
ought to be) just as valuable to other
business men as it is to himself. His
word is as good as his bond, and when
he makes an engagement to meet an-
other at a particular place or at a partic-
ular time, he considers the contract
binding. He realizes, with a keen sense
of honor, that the time so engaged is no
longer at his disposal; he has parted

with it upon mutual consideration, and
can no more retain it for other purposes

 

or promise it to others without commit-
ting a breach of good faith, than he can
retain for his own use, or for the use of
others, any other thing of value which
he has already disposed of. If every
business man who recognizes such a
thing as honor would seriously consider
this question in thelight presented above
there would be less confusion resulting
from broken promises in matters of busi-
ness engagements than there is at
present.

The punctual man has no use for ex-
cuses. He arrives at the depot before
the train leaves; ke mails his order,
check, or acknowledgment before the
box is closed; he makes his deposit be-
fore the bank closes; he never allows his
Own paper to become marred with the
protesting marks of a notary through his
own carelessness; his bank account is
never overdrawn, and he does not wait
for the presentation of a draft to be re-
minded that a bill has matured. No, the
punctual man has no excuses to offer.
He offers promptitude in action instead,
thus removing all conditions conducive
to the breeding of excuses.

It would seem unnecessary, at least,
to state in an article intended for publi-
cation in a journal read exclusively by
business men, that a man in order to
make a success of business, must estab-
lish and maintain an unimpeachable
credit; and yet when we examine the
records of business men all around us—
men who are evidently anxious to suc-
ceed, we are inclined to doubt whether,
after all, this proposition plain, simple
and self-evident as it is, is really en-
dorsed by business men generally. The
actions of many of these men would in-
dicate, certainly, that they either did not
consider the maintenance of an untar-
nished credit essential to success, or that
they did not know how to maintain such
acredit. Every business man with the
slightest degree of business acumen
ought to realize that the first signal of
danger—the little cloud no larger than a
man’s hand that betokens the gathering
of the dark clouds of adversity just be-
neath the horizon, is the first impairment
of credit. The storm may be averted,
but even then it will require time and
the utmost diligence to remove the im-
press left behind it. In no branch of
business is an impairment of credit so
disastrous as in the banking business.
Punctuality is the banker’s key-note,
and the first intimation of a failure to
meet an obligation promptly brings an
avalanche of creditors aud depositors
down upon the concern, and if the vaults
are not inexhaustible, it will be com-
pelled to succumb to the demands of a
contidence-shaken public.

A business man should guard his
eredit as he does the apple of his eye.
The exercise of puactuality is the only
way to establish and maintain a credit
that will be the passport to success.
The exercise of punctuality demands a
free and easy condition of solvency—
that is, all emergencies which arise from
time to time in the ordinary course of
business must be provided for and care-
fully guarded against, so that every en-
gagement and obligation entered
may be met and performed at the time
and in the manner agreed upon. This
means that a man who desires to make a
success of his business ought never to
assume an obligation, trusting to blind
luck, or some unforeseen conditions to
arise, for the means to meet it. Such

into |

 

an act jeopardizes credit, places barriers

in the way of the exercise of puncuality,
and converts business into a mere game
of chance. E. A. OWEN.

 

     

New England Grocery Notes.
A. C. Dowse in American Grocer.

In acertain village near Boston every
grocery store save one is closed every
Thursday afternoon this summer. That
one gets the transient trade—but does it
pay? The other grocers and most of the
people answer ‘‘No.”’

Grocers should never settle cases with
embezzling clerks; neither should they
give employment to a clerk who has
wronged another merchant. I have
known grocers to hire a clerk, knowing
he had stolen from another, and | have
seen those grocers served right by losing
at the hands of the self same clerk.

A cigar dealer tells me that during the
past six months the call for five cent
cigars—six for a quarter—has greatly
increased, while the inquiry for ten-cent
cigars has correspondingly decreased.
He says he sells very few ‘three for
fifty cents” cigars in these days. I
recently heard a prominent grocery job-
ber remark that he always bought two
cigars for a quarter—the twenty-cent
one he smoked and the five-cent one he
gave to a ‘‘friend.”’

**l believe” said a Boston grocer to me,
“that the time has gone by when it is
absolutely necessary to keep your store
open late every night. It’s nonvense.
People are being educated to buy their
goods in the day time, and not at night.
I propose this coming fall to close at
least four nights during the week. Il
don’t intend to watch my neighbors. It
doesn’t make any difference to me what
they do, and I believe in being independ-
ent. By closing early you are saving
your fuel, your light, and, better than
all, you save your clerks and your
eashier; and their services are worth a
great deal more to you every day in the
week if their hours are shorter.”

James Eagan, one of the large grocers
cf Pittsfield, Mass., has been the victim
of a trusted clerk who has left the city.
The amount of the embezzlement is said
to be $3,000. It seems that this clerk
had formerly been in business for him-
self but entered Mr. Eagan’s employ
three years ago. He began his stealing
almost at once. He had charge of the
store’s best paying route, and worked it
very shrewdly to his own advantage.
A year ago Mr. Eagan learned that
despite his big business he was losing
money but not until last May did he
learn the cause. He presented a bill to
a customer and ascertained that it had
been paid to the clerk and the money
never paid in. Here is where Eagan
made his mistake—he didn’t arrest the
clerk but got a lawyer to make the clerk
settle. Theclerk agreed to settle, but
instead left the city, leaving behind a
wife and three children. Probably he is
now working for another grocer in an-
other State. His name is Barney Curley.

a
If He Has the Nickel.

Inventor—I have a machine that will
make our fortune now. It’s a slot
machine with anew attachment. All I
want is money to set up a lot of ’em
along Wall street.

Capitalist—But what does it do?

Inventor—When a man loses money
all he has to do is to back up to the
machine, drop a nickel in the slot and it
will kick him.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

 

 

FRESH MEATS.
BEEP.

  

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Pore quarters........... oso @4
ind duarters........... " ot ae
Loins NO. S........ a - 8 Gio
oe... 6 @é&
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Chucks..... eee eae 3%@ 4
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PORK.
Poe ... ...... Ss 6 @b6%
Lotns..... ace. eee enue eee aa 8%
Ce oe 7
Teen dere... 8. el, 9%
MUTTON.
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VEAL.
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CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS,
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.

Cases Bbls. Pails.

Standard, per ib......... 6 '

- ey... 6 7

o ee 6 7
Boston Cregia ........... 8%

Can teat ........ 2... 8%
Berea oH... 8. a
MIXED CANDY.

Bbis. Pails
oe 6%
es . 5M 6%

over ..... ..... 6 7%
Rooce ......... 7 " 8
English Rock ... ise ee ae 8
Coeerves ... .......... a 8
Broken Taffy a baskets 8
PeanutSquares...... ..... 7% RY
French Creams ......... 9
Valley Creams ....... 13

Midget, 30 lb. baskets

Modern, 201!b. =‘ i... ...... 8
Pancy-—In bulk
Palls
Lozenges, Pee ee
a ...... .... 9%
Chocolate Drops ... ee 2
Chocolate Monumentals....... ........ - 13%
Gum trans... |... a fo
moses Pipe. |
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Imperials. . Loe <1...
FANCY— in 5 Ib. Deen, Per Box
Lemon Drops . eae ney cee
Sour Drops . eee eee eee eee eo Oe
Peppermint Drops’ oa ee cou. cal. oe
Chocolate Drops ..... ... oe. ee
H. M. Chocolate Drops...... eT
Ce heel.

Licorice Drops.. . ae
A. B. Licorice Drops. Helos
Lozenges, plain... resents
printed.  .
mpermas................. oe
et Lee oul,
Cream Ber... .....-
Molasses Bar.....
Hand Made Creams.
Plain Creams. . Lee
Lecorated Creams. ects eee ge teeta e
String Rock..

 

 

Burnt Almonds.. a
Wintergreen Berries........
CARAMELS.
a 1, : eee 2 Ib. boxes a...
3 Mee ota ce eeaeee. 51
No. 2 ' 2 : eee
ORANGES.
Fancy Seedlings, 96s
Momremios, S606 ..... -......
moan, 20m... ......,........
LEMONS.
Cmemeag sen... 4 50
Se 4 50
Extra fancy 300...... ete dee ace sees, oe
Extra faricy 360............ ee oe
BANANAS.

Large bunches.... . oe oe
Small bunches...... ..... -- 1 SQil 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, fancy layers, oc as Le eee os @i2%

moe @12%
“ extra _ oe... @l15
Dates, Pard, 10-Ib. box. @7
. —ie ee @ 5%
' eit ote Sow... @5
1 lb Royals.. ' a“. 8
NUTS.
Almonds, fen oe eaten @16
va met ee bey deen ecercee @15
_ camenia. eee cee, @
Brasils, new. . @8
Pucere........ @11
Walnuts, Grenoble @12
™ French @lv
- Calif. . eae @12%
Tapie Nats, fancy eee @12
choice . @ii
Pecans, Texas, H. P., @i%
Chestnuts .
Hickory Nuts per bu..
Cocoanuts, full sacks . 4 00
PEANUTS.
Fancy, a. P. , Suns. @ 5%
* Reamtea 000 1) @7
Fancy, H. P. ........... @ 5%
‘* Roasted.. @7
Choice, H. Pes Extras.. i @ 4%
‘Roasted... @6
OILs.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:
BARRELS.
8%
6%
7%
ngin ee 1
Black, “8 Com tee... ake
FROM TANK WAGON,
egeee:... 4 ................, _. 1... eves 7
Zam Wh. Ww. “Mich. Headlight.......... 5
POULTRY,
Local dealers pay as follows:
LIVE.
Turkeys, bens. .......... ae
Toms.. : -- woe
Fowls, hens. . ----8B8%
r roosters. . 5@S
Broilers, a7 TT 9@10
02% lbs.. ..10@11
DRAWN.
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Chickens.... eee
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Docks. .... ek
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Chickens..... Detect ectec eens ae eenc cuss
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Drugs

 

Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Yearse—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Three Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owoaso.

Five Years—F.W.R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W.R. Perry, Detroit.
FE ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming Meetings—Houghton, Aug. 29 and 30;

ng, Nov. 6 and 7.

 

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Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President— A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor
Vice-President-—A. F. Parker, Detroit
Treasurer—W.I nt, Detroit.
Secretay—S apson, Detroit.

  

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceatica) Society
President, Walter K.Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder

 

THEORY VERSUS PRACTICE.
In the to
relative value of practice and theory in

classical dispute as
the every-day vocation of the pharma-
i practical
mechanical

ie older who
manipulations

to the manufacture of pills,

men are

 

in the

necessary

plasters, suppositories, ete., have been
firm adherents of practice, renouncing
theory; while the latter generation of

pharmacists, especially the college men,
assert that the pharmacist, to be suecess-
ful as a professional man.

must possess

huge amounts of theory. This disparity
of ideas must naturally prevail between
the two extreme classes of pharmacists;

they would indeed have a poor opinion
of their calling did they not hold decided
opinions—opinions corresponding to
their equipment as pharmacists.

it is 8 fact

beyond dispute that

of phar-
and according as the pharmacist is

killed i:
Saiiie|d 1D

practice is an essential feature

macy,

practical manipulations does

His success, in a |

arge degree, depend.

The recent college graduate, with his
cranium packed full to overflowing with
theoretical ideas, finds it hard to come

down to the level of practice, and rather
considers it his excellent

education to be compelled to learn how

an insult to
to make a well formed suppository with
his fingers But lofty

finds

iis his
he
of prac-
is almost useless in his

gradually
ideas vanish, or are curbed,
that certain amount
tical deftness he
profession.

The of can certainly
not be over-estimated, for it is the little
points here to this
drug or that preparation, and the knowl-
edge of an of little

learned

as

Without a

value practice

and there relative

unlimited number

things that can only be

practice, which add

by
le ‘ , +h }
largely to the effi-
He must be
able to make pills of absolute uniform-
ity, proper adhesiveness,

ciency of the pharmacist.

and markedly
spherical in shape, else their downward
passage and therapeutic value will be
the
shall be
finely divided,

lest a lumpy, unsightly ointment, may-

uncertain; to ointments,

which

dispense
medicinal ingredients of
evenly distributed and
hap one capable of producing irritation,
result; to spread plasters evenly, and of
proper lest
injured;

consistence, their adhesive
skillfully
forming emulsions,
result—instead, an
mixture; to form
shape and consist-
insertion

properties
wield his
lest no

unsightly

be to
pestle in

emulsion

‘‘cracked”’
suppositories of such
ence that their
value

and medicinal

to percolate
property drugs and powders so that their
valuable constituents are secured with
the least possible menstruum, if desired,
and a preparation of elegance result, and
last, but certainly not the least, he must
be a capable business man, else his fail-
ure financially is assured.

will be assured;

the |

 

| But while itis true that these things
{can only be learned by practice, does it
| prove that theory is worthless in phar-
| macy?

| Aman may be a pharmacist without
| possessing any theoretical knowledge;
| but that fails to prove that he would not
ibe a vastly better one, and his success
professionally be very much greater, did
he command the theory necessary to a
proper understanding of the articles un-
der his supervision, their origin, proper-
|} ties, doses, incompatihilities, chemical
| peculiarities, tests of character and iden-
tity: and the knowledge that will enable
him to act with judgment and accuracy
in cases of emergency—to be able to
think for himself and not be compelled
to have recourse to his books every time
something out of the ordinary presents
itself.

But even suppose he desires to look up
something in the Dispensatory, Pharma-
copeia or other work of reference, how
much would he assimilate of the matter
found in these works unless he had a
pretty good understanding of the theory
underlying pharmacy and its allied
branches? How much would he accom-
plish in reading inthe U.S. P. an official
description of a leaf, for instance, desir-
ing to become familiar with its form and
its possible adulterants, if he did not un-
derstand more or less of its
teachings and nomenclature?

Assuredly theory is as essential as
practice, and the trained, educated phar-
macist must be theoretical to a large de-

gree.
Potassium chlorate must be known to

him as something more than a white
erystalline salt much prescribed by phy-
sicians in certain affections of the throat.
He should be aware that it is a com-
pound of potassium, chlorine, and oxy-
gen; that potassium is a metallic ele-
ment, occurring plentifully and belong-
ing to the alkaline group of metals: that
chlorine is a non-metallic element and a
deadly gas, which, if set free from any
of its compounds and inhaled, produces
disastrous results; that oxygen is alsoa
non-metallic element of widespread and
abundant occurrence, a gas, a strong
supporter of combustion, and the essen-
tial constituent of all vegetable and ani-
mal life; that in this compound the chlo-
rine and oxygen are linked together as a
compound radical presenting one free
bond of affinity, which unites with the
monad atom of potassium to form potas-
sium chlorate, a satisfied compound; and
that this salt readily gives up its oxygen
when brought in foreible contact with
readily oxidizable substances, producing
oxidation and combustion. Minus this
knowledge he will stand, metaphorically
speaking, with one foot in his future
resting-place, when some _ horse-doctor
desires equal parts of potassium chlorate
and sulphur powdered and intimately
mixed together. He ought likewise to
know thoroughly every article in his
store, and that requires something more
than practice.

It is theory which has brought phar-
macy forward into the front rank among
the professions; without theory, phar-
macy would have remained merely a
trade or business.

Theory it is which assists the pharma-
cist in judging quickly and correctly as
to the compatibility of the several in-
gredients of a prescription, and enables
| him to so dispense it as to avoid the for-

|
j

mation of new and sometimes dangerous

botany,

 

 

compounds; which gives him a knowl-
edge of the various drugs,
and alkaloids daily prescribed by
physician; which underlies all original
research, and to which all startling dis-

coveries in the chemical and pharmaceu- |

tical world are due.

But, essential as theory certainly is, it
is almost worthless divorced from prac-
tice. A pharmacist may possess all the
theory in existence, but unless he can
practically apply it with success it is of
no earthly use tohim. If he must com-
mand only one, to the almost total exclu-
sion of the other, then let the one be
practice, for without practice a man is
certainly incapable of following phar-
macy as acalling. But the merely prac-
tical man can never hope to be considered
a professional pharmacist, for the latter
should be thoroughly acquainted with,
and fully aware of, the hidden forces and
dangers that lurk in every drug and

chemical in his store.
Hence we plainly see that it is not

practice that makes the able pharmacist,
nor does theory produce the desired re-
sult; but it is the blending of the two in
proper proportion that marks the phar-
macist of ability the world over. Either
alone is like an engine without the mo-
tive power, steam; combine them, and
power, strength and ability result.

A good, thorough training in the store,
preceded by a substantial preliminary
education—a high-school course, at
least—and follewed by a reasonable sea-
son of theorstical study interspersed
with practical experiment, cannot fail
properly to qualify the earnest student,
who cares to learn and has a just regard
for his chosen calling, to become in time
a pharmacist of ability, capable of ful-
filling his duties to the credit of his pro-
fession. Harry B. Mason.

_> > <—
Discretion in the Pharmacy.

It is not likely that any veteran phar-
macist needs warning that a loose tongue
may be the source of mischief. He has
doubtless learned from personal experi-
ence or observation of another’s disaster
that a man cannot prattle freely in a
drug store without coming to speedy
grief. But the admonition that silence
is golden in the retail drug business will
not be wasted on the younger men. The
complaint is too frequently made that
the babbler is abroad; that delicate se-
crets revealed by the prescription or
other agency are frequently bruited
about, to the mortification of the patient
and the disgust of the physician; that
some drug stores are centers of gossip,
whence Mrs. Grundy obtains her choic-
est morsels of scandal.

The young clerk cannot be too soon
impressed with the fact that the prattler
in the drug business is worse than a
knave—he’s afool. He not only violates
a common principle of honor and de-
cency toward the people who contide in
his discretion, but actually chooses the
most effective means of self-ruin. It
would be hard to conceive of a more cer-
tain method for repelling custom and de-
stroying reputation than a loose, bab-
bling tongue. The druggist might just
as wisely turn his store into a smallpox
hospital or a cholera barracks as tolerate
on his premises an assistant possessed
with the itch of speech—one of those
half unfortunate, half contemptible

creatures who cannot restrain an inborn
propensity to tell all they know.

Most men seldom, and druggists never,
| regret having spoken too little.

chemicals |
the |

}

| Stamp Worth More Than the Medicine.
| A well-known druggist writes: ‘‘I
| was surprised the other day when a
gentleman came into my place of busi-
|ness and called for Helmbold’s Rose
| Wash, or Helmbold’s Buchu, put up in
the old style. I told him I had none.
He said he would buy what I had and
give me a good price. Later he told me
he had sueceeded in buying some, and
had sold the proprietary stamp for $16.
Some time after the war the Government
issued a large number of revenue stamps
for proprietary medicines, toilet articles,
ete. Some fifty or sixty of the proprie-
tary medicines had special stamps, and
these are very valuable. They have a
regular catalogue price. Anything over
four cents is worth considerable money.
I allude only to the Government pro-
prietary stamp.”’

 

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

Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavoi.
Yearly sales increased by their us
Send trial order.’

'
Seely 8 hemon
(Wrapped)
Doz. Gro
loz. $8 90 102)
Sem. £26 19.6
4oz. 200 22 8
6o0z 300 33 O41

Seely's Vanilli

(Wrapped)

    
 

   
 

pea : Doz. Gro,
WGALL IN 10z.$1 50 16 206
2oz. 200 21 66

4 oz, 75 40 80

60z, 5 40 57 60

Plain N.S. with

corkscrew at same
price if preferred,

 

Correspondence
Solicited

Detroit, [lich.

for Sale.

The Kight Man.

SEELY MFG. CO.,

 

Drvg Stock

The Right Place for

The Right Goods for
The Right Place.
The Right Price if taken at
The Right Time.
That means now. Call or write and see
if this is not right.

Will Z Bangs Prop. of Magi Celery
° ’

and Pine Cones.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

WHAT
IS
TWO
CENTS

 

TO AN OLD CUSTOMER
or
TO A NEW CUSTOMER

or
To \( for that matter.

Try giving away afew of our adver-
tising fans this hot weather. Samples
sent to responsible parties.

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TRADESMAN COMPANY,
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ee s@ 10| #xechthitos.......... + 50@1 60 eonltun Manatee
Benzolcum German.. 65@ 3 a: stats eeae es : a = Senge: es aaa 2
Boracic ..... “ eS ae ae lt 60
" : Geranium, ounce..... rs reese dicen
Carbolicum « .. stttt OB 3] Gosstpii, Sem. gal... 0@ 75 ie and myrrh............ 60
H eee a on 3G ;. Hedeoma ean: 1 25@1 40 — secs ed sae oe be cele ad 50
a.” 10@ 12] Jummpert. IT, Oe ee eee us... 0
orca a el S laos Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Oxalicum ............. 0@ 12 Li { ey 1 40@1 60 moe 60
Phosphorium dil...... = Menth Si oe es 3 80 sae seule 50
Salicylicum ...........1 2@1 69 Mentha Vorid : ‘3 20@2 30 Sanguinaria ee 50
SNS - oor os, TD Se ae 1 30@1 40 | Barosma .................... 50
Tannicum............. 1 SBt 0 | vreia. Cn @ 50| Cantharides................. 75
‘Taxterioum........... 3@Q 33 ( Nive ounce......... go@s 00 | Capstoum ..22000022 200022002 50

AMMONIA. Picls ‘Liquid, (gal. 8) oe 12 | Ca ee ( =
Agua, 16 deg.......... S oe...

) deg 6@ 8 oes Bes eeees 1a h
ee 9 Rosae, ounce. ....... 6 50@8 50 | Catechu...... 50
1 14
coe te aT Saacin’ 40@ 45 Cinchona .. 50
Chioridum ............ 1@ I4|oa 90@1 00 “ Co 60

ANILINE. Santal Un 2 50@7 00 coe tee =

MN iy es oeey 2 OO@2 25 | Sassafras.............. 50S SS! Gubeba...., 50
oo | Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65

eee... 4... 80@1 Melt @1 00 | Digitalis 50

ee 45@ 50 Te Ba rere ses cite 4o@ 50 | Ergot........ 50

See 2 50@3 00 ik ee @1 6¢ | Gentian ........ 50

BACCAR. ‘heobromas..... ... 15@ 20 Geiatiia =
Cubeae (po 36)...... %@ 30 POTASSIUM. ag
Juniperus ..........-.- ~o@ 10) Bicaro... .. ie tS eines 50
Xanthoxylum.. .... 2 30 ichromate - i 44 Bycecveamus................ 50

BALSAMUM Bromide.. i . 2a Silediie.. ... eo

i 1 Caae...... 12@ 15 . Colorless. ........... 5

Copaibs ..........-.--- 45@_ 501 Chiorate (po 23@25).. 21@ 26| Ferri Chloridum ........._. 35
Peru. +toug || Ae oo Oyen ll... oe Sie 50
Terabin, Canada .... 10@ 49 | Todide.. ..2 99@3 00 | Lobelia eee a ae
SC eee ae 35@ 50 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. SO 50
oRTEX Potassa, Bitart, com. loos Vomicn................ &

" . Potass Nitras, opt.. = Site ................ -...... &
Abies, Canadian............ 18] Potass Nitras......... 7™@ 9| ‘ Camphorated........... 50
oe peice er tres i Frussiate .. a ” . eee 200
Yinchona Flava ......-. .- 1 Sulphate el 15@ :
mas eee. Yee =—

rica Cerifera, po.........
Prunus Virgini ee 12 Aconitum 200 25 _— . =
MEIOMER, OIG... 6. cs ee sens ye | wottctee cessor ess A ‘ ve yn
oes ey certeees 12 Suen a eeeeeseee wees 12@ = Cassia Acutifo Go. -
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 ao ne 4a | Serpentaria ....... 50
EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 ee =
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 25 | Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 ‘Walston net 50
po 3Q 35 ay Greate Canaden, Vasa Wane. ile
Haematox, 15lb. box.. 11@ 12 Le 35) @ 30| Veratrum Veride............
eee 13@ 14} He lebore, “Ala, po.... 15@ 20 MISCELLANEOUS.
“ Me......... MB 1 mum, - ea eines, 15@ 2
- igs... 166 «87 | pecan, po............ 50@1 60 | Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 22@ 30
Tris plox an 35@38).. 35@ i r “ <4).. fe

FERRU Jalapa, peo... Woe 4 Alaa 24%@ 3
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15! Maranta, \s.. @ 3 ‘ground, (po.

Citrate and Quinia... @3 50 | Podophyllum, po.. OO et 3@ 4
Citrate Soluble....... So Sikhea.. 7. (heal OO VAnnatiO ow... 55@ 60
Ferrocyanidum Sol... @ 50 " O86... @1 7 Antimont, n.. — 5
Solut Chioride....... @ 15 ey sec. ot on 6t Potass T 55@ 60
Sulphate, com’l....... -9@ 2 ied fa . 35@ 38 Antipyrin Ee @1 40
“ pure... o 7 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 20] Antifebrin............. @ B®
Dercenterm............ 45@ 50] Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 48

FLORA. Senees ..... ........, SO Ol Ameiogm 5@ 7
sae... Te 20 Similax, Officinalis. H @ 40] Balm Gilead Bud.. oa 40
Anthemis............. 1@ 3 ‘e HM @ Bienen & N......... 1 60@1 70
ee ooo 50@ 65] Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12| Calcium Chlor, 1s, (%s

FOU.A —— Feti- Te Mie, 24)... ...... @ il

18@ 50 ne ... ee. @ 3 Cantharfdes Russian,
a “acuistel, Tin- Valeriana, » Eng. (po.30) wf * ee @1 00
¢ Ferma: 2
nivelly ....-. --..... == = {ngiber a... 8 ate 180 20 sins San — .-- $ =
sia sini i eS | cingter j........... 18@ il - 6 0
ao... ee 15@ 25 — a Caryophylins, ( (po. 15) 109 R
aoe 9 Anisum, (po. @ 9 ANU. SU... ...

euuat. Aptum | (eraveleoii 18@ 20 | Cora Pieris 3 40
Acacia, 1st picked... @ 60) 47°, (8.- 9|Coccus . oe ae

a 2 ne @ 40 Carai, (po. 18) .. i. 3 1 ,

L oe @ w»I ‘ardamon............. 1 00@1 2 Genta. ttre eeee @ %

Ca dsorts... @ 20| Corlandram........... 12@ 14 oe : ssrereee @ 10

i sorte. em 80 Cannabis Sativa. ..... 4@ 5 ae a @ #0

> go) Cydenlum.. ........ 75@1 ov | Chloroform - 0 @&
Aloe, Barb, “(po. 60)... 50@ = Chenspottan a 1 12 aibbs _@1 %
Cape, (po. 26). @ 50 Dipterix Odorate. . ...2 40@2 60 Chioral Hyd ‘Crat. --1 25@) 59
Socotri, (po. 60). @ Foeniculum.......... @ 15| Chondrus 2D 26
> oo, One 14 a, es Foenugreek, po.. 6B 8 on on oe a se =
: ck cae 4 4
Ammoniee 55@ . a gra. (bbl. 5%). ag ‘ Corks, — dis. = ur
Ansafootida, (po. 35) ..  0@ >| Lobelia @Q 4] cent : 7%
Baseoieum............ HD = +o eo ncen lab an ot 4W@ 5 Creasotum ... a2 35
Camionore........--.- 46@ - ae en a 6@ 7 Creta, (bbl. 75) .. @ 32
Euphorbium po .....- 35@ | 19 Sinapis | ‘albu. 17@ 8 y oe... S@ 56
Gorenum...........- q @2 50 Nigra.. 11@ 12 i ee 9@ 11
Gamboge, po.......... 1@ 7 cilia mora... ., @ 8
Gualacum, A 35) ++ @ CO 35@ 40
Kino, -_* 7).------ @1 7 | Framenti, W., D. Co. .2 00@% 50| Cudbear.... ||. @ %
ee  aises cl = a Dd. ¥. z..... 1 a ; = Cupri Sulph... 5@ 6
Myrrh, (po. 45)... .... i it . -1 5@1 50) Dextrine...... 1... 10@ 12
Opi (po 3 4003 60). .2 ao 15 Juniperis Co. oO. cee = = Ether Sulph........... 0@
Shellac . a. oe eee eS b
“ bleached: Coiis y~ F = aootiee % = es : a = os —* Hosni . $ 8
Tragacanth ........... Spt me COAIE........ 7 Ergota, ae) 70@ %5
HERBA—In ouncepackages. | Vini Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00 | Flake te Se 12@ 15
oe eae: 1 25@2 00] Galla........ 0. @ 2B
eee Se x5 Gambier. 7 @8
pupetectom pecceeredeusecers = SPONGES. Gelatin Gooper: shi oo
acme. pececorgareset am Florida sheeps’ wool, e te 50
ee ea . Carriage.............2 50@2 5
Mentha Piperita eee 23 Nana ane seal laanware, fit, by box 80.
Sees aes oie |...

Be eee eed cae. 30 Velvet extra sheepe’ Glue, wrown. une 2
Tanacstu, Vi...s-ss++s+--- 22)” Wool carriage....... 5 Pee — ba
Thymus, V............------ “5 wytra yellow sheeps’ SG yoe Puredl @ =

MAGNESIA. Garriage ............. 85 ence nin ! =
Calcined, Pat.......... Es Nee eal atanaa es | Hydraag Chior Mite.. “@ 75
ee ea 20> 35 | Hard tor slate use. o| < “Cor... @ 65
Comonste, E. & M.. 3, | Yellow Reef, for slaie ,  ,0xRubrum @ 8%
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 7 yg 1@ “ Ammoniati.. @ 95

eee ’ " si aoa 45@ 55
Abetothigm. ......... 2 50@3 00 SYRUPS. iy es @ 6
Amygdalae, Dulc... .. a ot eee ............... 50 | Te. hthyobolia, Am 1 25@1 50
Amydalae, Amarac.. +6 eee oe | ej... 88... OO tee ei... 75@1 00
Anisi . .--.--1 80@1 90 — aes este ane 60 fodine, Besanl........ 3 80@3 90
Auranti Cortex....... . Oe er Beer se 50 | Iodoform.............. @4 70
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WO ieee ass es 5 wilne: Arom........... a Corecium ..........
Garyopyil eaqeee sees 75@ 80 Similax Ofticinalis. ae 60 BU oa kee ccs 70@ 75

ides coiscnees 35 65 oa = Liquor Arsen et Hy- e
Ghenopodil es ee ebuae Or i aes... ...... a
Cinnamonii ......... _* Moaee §0 | ee... ........... 50 ee ee 106@ a
COROMOTID 0.5 oe eso ass @ 4 AM 50 | Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
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ym, 8. P.&W. 205@2 30] Seldiits Mixture...... @ 2/| Linseed, boiled.. 59 62
LNG & Sinaple. Cd @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
CO Ca ee @ 80|_ Sstrained........... 6 70
Moschus Canton...... @ 40] Snuff, Tass De SpiritsTurpentine.... 37 40
Myristica, No 1 .. ... ae ae @ 35 a bbl. Ib.
Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff, Scotch, De. Yoes @ 3 AINTS.
Oe Bene, 18@ Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... ix 2@3
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars..
Le eee e eae 00} Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Bers 1M ;
Picis Liq, N Sole, Be Carh. oo... 5| Putty, commercial....2% 2%@3
@2 00 | Soda, Ash............. 3% 4|_“ strictly pure..... 2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., —- @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... 2 — me Amer-
@ 85|Spts. EtherCo........ Se ee cL, 13@16
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. @ 50] “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 B Vermilion, English.. 65@70
Piper N igra, (po. ».. @ 1 “ fyreis hon... @3 00} Green, Peninsular..... 70@75
a: (po g5).. @ 3 . {ni Rect. bbl. Lead, oe 6 @6%
ree... en 2 31@2 41 hadlainea EEE @b%
Plumbi Acet .......... 14@ 15] Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white § @70
Pulvis Ipecac et opi -1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 Whiting Gilders’...... @%
Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl......... 24@ 3 | White, Paris American 1
&P. D. Co., dos. .... @1 25 . ; Ro Te 2 @2 Whiting, Paris Eng.
¢ Meee... -. 2 10] __ Cll ..............0...
a :------: %@ % | Terebenth Venice... wp 30 Sm villa ared . ‘ i coat 15
paw |. Theobromae ..........45 @ 48 | Swiss a ‘ects
oe ‘sawn a. 9 0o@i¢ 00| Paints... 1 20
‘ean Siete 12@ 14{2inci Sulph.......... 7@ 8 VARNISHES.
Saccharum Lactispv. 12@ 14 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Seldeig 2 10@2 25 OILs. extra Torp........ -160@1 70
Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ Bbl. Gal} Coach Body.. 27
Sapo, a .....--.......- 12@ 14) Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
es 10 ie) Tard, Gxirs........... SO 85 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
ee. @ ited, Nea ?t........... 42 45|Japan Dryer, No. 1
Linseed, pure raw.... 56 59 Me 70@75
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HARRY’S

ROOT BEER

Is manufactured from Roots and Herbs
of well-known medicinal qualities, which
are carefully selected for the purpose.
It will be found highly beneficial as a
Blood Purifier
and as a

General Stimulant

for the system. It is a delicious bever-
age and can be drank freely and in al-
most unlimited quantities.

10 Cent Bottle Makes 5 Gallons.

 

HAXKLTINE §=& PRRKINS DRUG 60.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

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those who have poor credit.

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Aurora : —— = 6 00
Jastor Oil i 7 00
eee... 50 5 50
Wresers............ 75 9 00
=e -..-- . 65 7 50
Paragon a 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.
Acme. “

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fon” ton ~ moe 60
cua) 6 . 80
Sax“ 4002 ot
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Red Star, % Bb cans a
“c % b se a 75
o __— 1 40
Telfer’s, % Ib. cans, dos. 45
“ % Ib. “ac rr 85
e 1 1b. r 1 50
Our Leader, % .b cans. ..-. 45
% ib cans.....- 7
1 lbcans 1530
BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case. -
Eaglish oan

i, ee 80
Desevatic.........------- 70
BLUING, Gross
Arctic, = ovals.. ‘ °°?
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. 300

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- 3, .
“ No.5, ‘
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Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... <
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BROOMS,
A . 2 Hurl... -_.-
No. i ioe nese .. sae
No. 2 Carpet -. 22
a. . oo
Parlor Gem.. 3
Common Whisk. . wo
Mee
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BRUSHES.
Stove, No. Bo te.
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. a 1%
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.. 85
Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25
Palmetto, goose...... twee 2
CANDLES.
Hotel, S lb. ee. nn _
Star, lo! eS
fees eee ee eee
Weems .--.- (ao eeee Oe

OCARNED GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.
Little Neck, : ~_ 12
1 90
Clam Gevaiies
Standard, 2ib.. eo a
Cove s Oyaters.
Standard, o . a 75
Zi.. 1%
Lobsters.
Star, 1 ib. oe
* 2
Picnic, 1 Ib. ‘i
2Ib.. 2
Mackerel.

Standard, PO eee
21

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Sou

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Salmon.
Columbia River, oe ae oe

Alaska, _-

aan

Sardines.
American " eee eum 44%@ 5
bose cee oe.
Imported Bg a. ow
re 15@16
ee 6@7
ee re 21

Trout.

re 2 50

Fruits.

Apples.
S i. stanGers......... 1 20
York State, gallons.... 4 00

Hamburgh, “

 

 

 

 

—
Live oak....... 1 40
pants (rus.......- 1 40
Lusk’s. 1 50
Overland.. oe 18
Blackberries.
ay... ......... 90
' Cherries.
ae 1 10@1 25
— re : eae
Wh 1 50
" ae 12
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
age
TD ass a. 1 20
California. .. 1 40
Gooseberries.
Common . 2
Peaches
ee ic 1 10
i a i 3
eer... 1 50
Cerrrormes............. Mean
Monitor
Oxford ele
Pears,
eee. 13
oo 75
Pineapples.
ee 1
Johnson’ @ eliced......
grated..
Booth’s sliced.

. grated........
Quinces.
eS 1 10
Raspberries.

ee ee eee ek eee 110
Black ae 14
Erie, black 13
~ Strawberries,
Lawrence . 1S
Hamburgh .. I=
oe... 1m
Peres 8, 1%
acreage

Blueberries ........ 85
Corned beef Libby’ Bc 210
Roast beef Armour’s....... 1 80
Potted ham, 6 _ a.
Pe ees 70

tongue, 7: Ib. .

lg ae 75

chicken, % Ib......-. 95

Vegetables.
Beans.

Hamburgh stringions.......1 15
Frenc. style Lee a 2 00
eee 1 35

rn, eee... is
C ee... 70
Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35
Bay State Baked............ 13
World’s Fair Baked........1 3
ae ee................ 1 00

Corn.
Hamburgh . a |.
Livingston ee 1 ww
Purity

coe

5

ear

Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 20
early June i @

e Champion Eng. -1 40

 

: — = ee 140
a ancy sifted....1 90
eee... a...
Harris standard............. 75
VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10
' early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom... 1 25
French... a .
i. i. Mushrooms.
enc -ooe «SSRI
“Pumpkin.
ee 7
Squash.
ee... is
Succotash.
Hamburg..... eo ecnees 40
hese on ces | ae
— NG 1 50
ee... i
‘Tomatoes.
Dance: ....... .
Excelsior ee eee ee
Eclipse... ..... ae
Hamburg. pened eleiiee ies
eee ae one
CHOCOLATE,
Baker's.
German Sweet.. ......... 23
se coins conee 37
Breakfast Cocoa......... 43
CHEESE,
eee 10
——————aao— 9%
oaeee.......--...... 9
Riverside 9%
Gold Medal..... 8%
ob a eues 5@7
a 15
1 00
Leiden . =
eer.....,..... @15
a eee O25
Roque cove-se oe 35
Bap BAKO... .20000 0000 a2
Schweitzer, imported. @24
" domestic .... @14

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

Half pint, 25 bottles oo 2%
Pint 4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles 3 50
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per Gon.......... 135
Pee we Oeeeeee.........-.... 450
Quart, per on ..... .-.... Bo
CLOTHES PINS.
Serres: Semes...........- 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.
me oe @3
Less pe LS NEE @3%
Pound packages .. 6% @7
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
Per... . 18
——....... . 19
ae... 21
Golden..... a
ee... .23
Santos
oe...
—, . 20
feabeniy 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair. o 21
Good. . ae 2
Fancy. . oe
Maracaibo.

Prime .. .23
Milled - . / 24
Java.

Interior ...... a: 5
Private Growth... 27
Mandehling . 28
Mocha.

Imitation 5
ae....... i. 28
Roasted.

To ascertain cost of roasted

ing and 15 per cent. for
age.

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX..
Bunola
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.

Extract.
Valley City % gross..
Felix .

CHICORY.
Bulk.
Red

Cotton, 40 ft
as a. .....
" CO ft ..

“ Bott.
Jute

Gail Borden Eagle.....
oo aS
Daisy.. oo
Champion.. ee
Magnolia

“i ‘6 “

 

Hummel’s, foil, gross......
" tin ™

.. per dos

Pee pee eee

 

2000,
ee ee.

coffee, add \c. per ib. for roast-

shrink-

ay
tte

Raat SBS

#9
g

2
RO ee e

Pas]

CLOTHES LINES.

REBASSH

CONDENSED MILE.
4 doz. in case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s ee

ioe 63

Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75
CREDIT CHECKS,

500, any one denom’n.....

000, a“ “ “ a i

 

COUTPON BOOKS,

 

‘Tradesman.’

 

8 1 books, per hundred... 2

3 2 as a e 2 50

eS 2 00

% 5 “ “a “ 8 oo

Siu - 4

$20 " . es 5 00
“Su ox,”

# 1 books, per hundred 2 50

z 2 or ae ae 3 00

83 re e . 830

85 ' ' " . 400

810 ' c 5 00

#20 ‘ee sé “ 6 00
Universal.”’

: : books, per hundred ..

8 3 ci oves

$5 ‘ “

810 sg “

ine ihimnin on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:
200 books or over.. 5 per cent
500 “ ou“ ine 10 “
1000 “a “ i 20 “as
COUPON PASS BOOKS.

{Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down. |

eee... ............ 858
— cee oe .
—_— * 3 00
ee ema 6 2
oo * . 1000
_— Ss
CRACKERS.

Butter.
Perera e............., 5
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5%
Pees EEe...... -......; 5
ne Ae ‘eartoon...... 5%
as 1 ee............ _... o
Salted ERE, cartoon ...... 5%
Kenosha . oe
Boston. ee
Butter biscuit . ae

Soda.

Sone, ELe.-......... 5%
eee... ...,...... ™%
——_ |
St 10%
Long Island Wafers er
ster.
6. Ovnter 722...... aces
cay Opeeee, REE............ 5%
Pease Opeeet..............
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly p ee ca
Telfer's Absolute.......... 30
oe ce ete eee 1525
FLY PAPER
Thum’s Tanglefoot.
ee oe.............,...5 oe
Prve Cone ee. ......-... .3 50
Ten case lots....... 3 40

Less than one case, 40¢ per box
DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.

Apples.

Sundried. sliced in bbls.

' quartered ‘
Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes 12 12%
Apricots.

California in bags.. ...
Evaporated in boxes. ..
Blackberries.
m oe...
Nectarines,
re bee... ..-........
ire See... ..........
Peaches.
Peeled, in boxes........

Pea
California in bags.....
Pitted ™ erries.
Darvels.......
> boxes .

Prunelies.
30 ib. boxes
Raspberries.
ke Serre. ...............
50 Ib. boxes bisa oe cae onan

25 Ib.
‘Raisins,
Loose a in Boxes.
2 crown . se

“

Lo se
: Loose Muscatels in Bags,
oes... ..., 4%
ae ee

 

Foreign.

Currants.
Patras, in barrels........ 2
fs i 3oome........_. 244
in less quantity Zhe
cleaned, bulk...... 4
cleaned, package. 4%
Peel.
Citron, Leghorn. =o boxes 7
Lemon

Cmme ~*~ 3 . 10
ine
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes 5@7
Sultana, 20 . %@8
Valencia, 30 ‘
Prunes,
California, 100-120.......... 6
c 90100 25 Ib. bxs. 6%
“ 80x90 “ ce
. 70x80 . 7%
o 60x70 " =
ee... 5
Silver ....

ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white.

 

yes white.

6% ‘occ: ceeee oe
Coin.
ae met. ..... 1 00
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina
Poe eee... 3%
Hominy.

PE i cccccmccscats osee 3 OO
RO ee 3%
Lima Beans.

Dried ..

@1%
Maccaroni and Varmtcett. |
Domestic, 12 lb. box.

 

Teewted.......... -.10%@1
Oatmeal.

Barrels 200.. a. Ce
Half barrels 100.......... 3 12
Pear! Barley.
a... 8... 2 60
Peas
oe Oe. 1%
pout perce ...........- 3
Rolled Oats.

Barrels 180... .. : @5 50
alt bie D........ @3 06
Sago.

NE cae... Aan
ee ee... i
Wheat.

ML .-c... eae 5. 3%
FISH--Salt.
—

Yarmouth..
‘Cod.
eee |...
Whole, Grand Bank..... 45%
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%
Halibut,
eee... 10@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 65
“ bbl 9 50
Norwegian.... ee
Round, % bbl 1 100 Ibs 2 50
7 1 30
meeeee...............-...., 18
hppa
No. i, 0lbe.. So
Net Otel 4 49
et, eee... 1 00
Bak ee ee....: ........ ee
NT i ° 50
N 70
Sardines.
Reseian, Sees.............. 55
Trout,
No. 1, % bbis., 100ibs........ 4 75
Ro. t bel, © ree... ...... 2
mot, coe ee... ...... 63
mo 1,6) Bre........... 53
Whitefish.
No.1 family
4 bbls, = se “B35 ©
‘sion oe toe
10 Ib. nite eee 3S
eS” —- -—
MATCHES,
Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbia Parior........... $1 25

XXX Sulphur.. 1 00
Diamond Match Co. 's Brands.
me. © OO... ... 0a -1 65
Anchor parior.. / os 70
ee A 110
ee

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders',

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

Grade

    
   

y

Regular
Vanilla.
4 doz
2cs.....01
2 40

XX Grade
Lemon.
o..,.. $1 50
o..... 2

rer an ee eee

XX Grade

Vanilla.
2o..... $1 75
fon..... 350
Jennings.

Lemon. Vanilla
1

2 08 regular panel. 75 20
402 130 2 00
§ OZ ...2 00 300
Bo. 3 taper......... & 2 00
No. 4 taper 1 50 2 50
Northrop’s
Lemon. Vanilla.
2oz ovaltaper 75 1 10
3 0z " _ = 13
2 oz regular ‘‘ 85 12
40z : . 72 2 25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle— =
Kegs.. ie i
Half kegs. aa
rece Eeee,.....-........
ioe... .............. 30
oe... 18

Choke Bore— enmanapis 5

es |... ..4
Half a 12 40
—— _. ct

1 1b cans. it 34

Eagle eih-dieneait iz.
11

 

MN ie ec
Half kegs eo
Quarter a

1 Ib cans.

‘HERBS.
ee ee 15
a 15

INDIGO.

Madras, 51b. boxes. ...... 55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes... 50
JELLY.

17 Ib, pails Lee ch bones @ 54
30 81

: LICORICE.

ee 30

eee... 25

Sicily... Las ‘ a a

eee 4,

LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz..... 1 20

" doz 2 2

MINCE MEAT.

 

Mince meat, 3 doz. incase. 2 4
Pie preparation, 3 doz. in
oe a

MEASURES

  

Tin, de pg
1 gallon icuceugayeccas Oe oe
Half gallon. Vouk e be eee cue. 1 40
Leah aE SE Sn GN 7”
PE ee aus C, ie 4 45
a wit ..... 40
, Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
tore ........-s.., oe 7 00
Half gallon 4 7%
AONE iss. 3 7%
int a 8
MOLASSES,
lackstrap.

Samer WON... se 14
Cupa mene:
Ordinary ieee 16
Porto Rico.

Prime . eel eres 20
Fancy .. iecce Se ieees 30
New Orleans,

PARE esis cues ses 18
Ne os See eb cs ean ae 22
eee O08. iis... 27
CO veka se Welaue te cine 32
Fan oo boon 40

necy.. .
half -barrels 3c. extra

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

 

PICKLES,
Medinni.

Barrels, 1,200 count. @4 00
Half bbls, 600 count... @2 50
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 00
PIPES,

Clay, No. 216 Te

7. 2. full Se I 70
Yob, No. 3... ; ee oe
POTASH,

48 cans In case.
Rents... .. ............ £0
Penna Salt Co.’ cl -. oo

RICE,
Domestic.
Carolina head....... dee
7 ot... .... se... oe
. ee 5
eee ee. 4
Imported.
jenen, We t.... .....\..-,....0%
' No.2 le
es ee 6
reee.....-.. 4%
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Alimies ...................- 9%
nt China in mats...... 8
. Batavia in bund....16
- Saigon in rolis...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna...... ae

Tee... «-++-- 11%
Mace sunecta.. ie
Nu —— ancy.

No
Pe pper, Singapore, » black...

‘e

shot
Pure Ground in Bulk.

 

Allapke6 ....... 2.5... --- +. 15
Cassla, Batavia eee 18
—_ Saigon .25
" meieem ......-...... 35
Cloves, Amboyna. . ee 22
Za = Leste ee
Ginger, ao oe
sere ag Leesan es 20
. Jamaion <o.. e
Maco Hatavia...........-- 65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
Trieste .. 25
Pepper, Singap 2 coo a sd
-epper, Singapore, black ....16
PR “r white 24
Cayeonne.......-.-.2
ee
‘Absolute’ in Packages.
4s 448
Allspice .... Loc, OO Lo
Ciamamon........ 84 155
Cloves. . : ... 2 ie
dene, Jamai a 84 155
Y Brreean........ of 1m
Oe 84 1 55
Peeeer ....-.........- 4 15
Bage...... 84
SAL "SODA.
Granulated, ss ..... _o.. 1
W5lb cases...... 1%
Lump, — ......,... oe oo
1451b ‘kegs... 1 oe
SEEDS.
Aue ...... oe @i5
Canary, Smyrna. 4
Caraway .. 8
Cardamon, Malabar... 90
Hemp. ussian 4
Mixed Bird a
Mustard, white....... 10
RE oc eee ey 9
Rape i 5
Cuttle ‘bone. pice neue 30
STARCH,
Corn.
20-lb boxes...... 5%y
@-Ib  ‘* uel i... OG
Gioss.
i oe _o
3-1 5
SIb Ce .. 5K
40 and SO ib, Howen.......... 336
Barrels... ‘ 3%
SN UF ¥.
Scotch, in bladders.........37
Maccaney, mm iars........... 35
french Rappee,in Jars ....43
SODA,
eee eras uss <1 sh
inom English (oa
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 Ib. boxes. ae 1 60
Barrels, 320 Ibs.. . 2.
115 2% Ib bags. - £2
. m5 ib” .... Be
. awh. Cj... Se
Butter, oe tp oees......... 65
miIGupers......... 3 50
” 330 Ib pels ........ 356
“ 2a oo. 2
Worcester.

Ti -1h oees............. 84 (0
60 5-1b © esse te, oO
on oe
Bre eect ee 3 30
Bayh. Bel.......-....4...-- Bee

8 lb sacks.. 1s
51b line n sacks...... ‘ 60
Common Grades.

100 3-1b. SACKS... . 42 10
60 5-1b. oe
28 10-lb. sacks. a es

Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags.. =
28 Ib. oe a7 “ a 16
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
Sgi08,
561», dairy In linen sacks. 75
Solar Rock.

6 Ih. OOGRE....... 2
Common Fine.
ae 8)
Manistee ae. 80

 

 

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
oe 3 30
Dereees 8. cee
Deere... |. 5. a oe
Taylor’s ' . oe
SEELY’S EXTRACTS.
Lemon.

1 oz. F. M. $ 90 doz. $10 20 gro
zz" oo te ne “
"2 M. ia” 44a
Vanilla.
1 os. F. M. 1 50 doz. 16 20 gro
24 6S 20 | Se
“Fee ~ oo *
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.
@ OM... .. seen 06 Gox....: sa ”
Vanilla.
tdua...... 1G...
SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. — 8 Brands.

Old Country, 80 1- 20
Good Cheer,G01ib.......... 3 90
White Borax, 100 %&-Ib...... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

Cee 2
Ivory, a 6 7
[oe ....... 4 00
oes 8. cel... 3 65
Mottled German. 4-2
Towe THe .....+...- .32
Dineen Rude.
Ramee BON. 2... 3 %
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, > eee. 84 00

plain... =
. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
tog ‘laus.. Nat . 400
Brown, 60 bars...........-. 2 40
c oO bere ..... os 3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Dome 8. oe 3 75
eee : =
Marseilles. . ces
easter .........- eet ceeenes ee 00

   

Thompson & Chute Co.’

ee » 65
Mone |. 3 30
Savon Improved........... 2 50
Sanepowor................ 2 80
—..................... oo
Economical ..... ! 2
Passolt’s Atlas Brand.
Binmie UOe ..... 8. cous. 3 65
Se Se
10 box lots. Leet tos oO
25 box lots del.. oo. oe
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 doz aaaee 12 40
SUGAR.

Below are given New ‘York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
pays from the market in which
he purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.
Demeo...........- _—.
Cm beat... 2... ae
Cubes ‘ 4
Powdered .... . %
XXXX Powdered.. os
Granulated
Fine Granulated....... . 4 62
Extra Fine Granulated. . :4 75
Mould A.....
Diamond Confeec. A......
Confee. scauappeeel -
No. Be ees ee

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.
aie, eee 19
Deo... 2

Pure Cane.
PE i veee cece ese... 19
Good. (ee eee ae
Chotes 0. 30
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’ S, laree ...... 4%

small..... 2 %

Hatord, levee ............. 3 %5
" Wee, 2B
Salad Dressing, large ..... 455
on ..... 2 65

 

 

 

TEAS.
JaPpan—Regular.

  

 

Choicest.......... ---.08
Pee ee, 10 @I12
SUN CURED.
Fer... ........... es @l7
Good .. i. Q2w
NOG ce. 24 v
a 32 @34

Mee. i 10 @I12

BASKET FIRED.
moe. 18 @w
Choice. . Lana. @25

Choteest i. @35

Extra choice, wire leaf @10
GUNPOWDER.

Common to fah....... 25 @35

Extra fine to finest....50 @65

Choicest fancy.. .-% Qs

OOLONG. @26

Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.

Gomeon to fair....... 23 @26

Superior tofine........ 30 @35

YOUNG HYSON.
Commor to fair.......18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
ee 18 @2&
Choice we 2
aa, .40 @aO

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.......... 30 @3z
Tiger. . 30

D. Scotten & ‘Co’s ‘Brands.
Hiawatha ........ 60
Cuba. oe 32
Rocket . 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s a
ate ...............

Private Brands.

Bazoo . oo @30
Can eT @27
Welle Biy.............28 Ge
Unele Ben..........-..4% @%s
McGinty ee a a al 27
Dele. ...... 25
Dendy Jim...........- 29

Tormeae... .... ...... 2
wa in drums.. 23
Yum Yum toe 28
ie.....-...-.-.. : 23
“ 2o.... ....... 22

Plag.

Sorg’s Brands,
Socarecaq ......-.... 39
WOMer 2. 2..-05.....4.. Pz
Nobby Twist. . 40

Scotten’ 8 Brands.
i ee 26
Heawatha,............ 38
Valley City ........... 34

Finzer’ 8 Brands,

Old Honesty.......... 40)
douy Yar...... 32

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41C)....
Gr-en Turtie.......... q
Three Black Crows. 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good.....
Outot Signt..........
Wilson & McCaulay’s ode
(ond Vee. ...........

   

Happy T ee eles 37
peg Ss ee 32
No Tax. Ceo 31
Tet Ge 7
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands.

Mie @ised................ 17@18
Golden Shower.............19
Hones ..... Leia ees
Meorschaum ............; .29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle aiainee ee 40
et «wets ae «+ ceca
German . Lee
Java, } 68 CE 2

— rT bacco Co. ‘Ss —
Bammer... ....-.

  

Banner is gaps a

Gold C 28
oa 8 Brands.
were... 74
Hosee pow............. a
Gord Biock......... ae 30

F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Brands.

Peerless. . ce

Oe 78

Standard. . ae

Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brands
eee i an a

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

on oe. ...........--...... 26
nee Gam....-..... 0 oe -ROQDS2
moe Clover. ................- 3
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry............- 25
Traveler Cavendish....... 38
Dee Pee, se ae 30
Piow Bow...... ....,.-. 30@32
Cora Cobe..................
VINEGAR,

Oe, 7 @8

ee 8 @9

$1 for barrel.

paces MUSTARD,

Bulk, per gal .............
Beer mug, 2 Paice in case. 1%
VEAST.

Magic,.... ieee decease 1 00
We oie kee ae 1 00
Yeast oe ica eyed 1 00
Riamond.. a
Royal ..... a oo

 

_THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

WOODEN WARE.
Wie, Me. t................. 6 00
ny OG eee 5 50
“ TO ee ae 4 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 30
"Ite. 1, three -hoop -. oe
Bowls, 11 inch ol .
“ o * 90
: nb 12
" —o0O TT, 1 80
.  * . 240
a ee
Baskets, meseer....... -.... 35
shi ping bushel. 1 15
C full hoop 1 25
Y willow cr ths, No.t 5 25
“ 0.2 6 2
- . Ne 3 72
. splint * Relea
c No.2 4 25
oo se “se No. 3 4 75
INDURATED WARE.
Se
en oe f................ 13 50
CC ae 2 00
Tubs, No. 3.. -10 50
Butter Plates- —Oval.
250 1000
me Fo 60 210
Hoa, 2.. 26
-............. te
ae .............. 100 350
Washboards—single.
ae... 22
No. Queen . tac. 2 oe
Peerless Protector.......... 2 40
Sagimaw Globe............. 1 %
Double.
Water Witch. Leteeue Seen
Wilson . . voeeeeteteeeees BB
Good Luck.. i 2 _
Peerless. .

 

HIDES PELTS and “FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol
lows:

HIDES.
Green . ss. 2G2%
Part Cured... oe @3
ae @ 3%
re... 4@5
Kips, green 2 @3
~ Carea............ @4
Calfskins, ereem...... 465
cured...... 4 w@ 6
Denconeaking.......... 10 @25
No. 2 hides } off.
PELTS
DEOMPINaE oc. 5 o mw
a... 2 eS SS
WOOL.
Washed . ! 12 @
Unwashed... e @il
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow. ‘ 3%@ 4
Grease butter ........ 1 @2
Seen... .......... 1%@ 2
Ginseng 2 0O@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT,
No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 45
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 45
MEAL.

Botta... ..............., 1 40
Granulated. . 1 65
FLOUR IN SACKS.
OO, oc oes eeu u ae .
ee . . io
Bakers’. i
*Graham .. ee ane ae ‘=

Rye.

ye. 1 40
*Subject ‘to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.

MILLSTUFFs.
ess
Car lots quantity
Bran.......... $14 00 $15 00
Screenings .... 12 00 12 00
Middlings..... 15 00 16 00
Mixed Feed... 19 50 20 00
Coarse meal 18 00 19 00
CORN.
Car tose... -...-... : . 4544
Less than car lote.........-50
OATS.
Car low.... ee
Less than car _ . 45

No. 1 Timothy. pod lots....11 ©
No. 1 on lots. ..... 12 5K

FISH AND OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as
follows:

FRESH FISH.
Whitcem ............
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Bisee Baan............
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Ciscoes or Herring....
Braoeen......-........
Fresh lobster, - ..

889 989
Op wew
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od... ee
No. 2 Pickerel.........
Pie... s...
Smoked White..
Red Snappers........-
Columbia River Sal-
ne 15
Mae ............. 18@25
OYsSTERS—Cans.
Fairhaven Counts.... S45
FF. 3.0. Seleets.......
eee
¥. 3.0

_888

Ce
Standards..

OYSTERS—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal
OO cc cs sa. c
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MO ces ne es
Seaverm......... coe
NN vee cece cease 1 25
COME oo cssenss.

SHELL oops.
a per _ as aS 1 %

ams, 1 00

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i PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co
quotes as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS.

oe 8 13 25
Snarene 0 eee i3 Be
£xtra clear pig, short Cee i
Extra clear, heavy......... oo io
Clear, fat back...... . Le ee 14 50
Boston clear, short cut. i. Lace, oo oe
| Clear back, short cut..... ice oe
| Standard clear. short cut. best. ... oo
| SAUSAGE,
Pom ios... 7%
Boga. ..... ea as 5%
Livee............... eee eee. 6
Taree ....... ee 8\%
Blood . a Hib
Head cheese . eee 6
Summer. oe 10
eet. : 1%
LARD.

-

Kettle Rendered... ..
Granger ...... aa
raw...
Compound .

Citeeene... gc,
50 Ib. Tins, 4c advance.
oe lb. pails, a

YQAAwE
ee

4 2) =
3 lb. : ie
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. : _.7.o
Extra Mess, Chicago packing...... civecess 2 oe
Boneless, rump butts.. 9 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs... ' -- 11%
. oe... .... ec eae
. . ——iee............... iz
" icnic . etd eae eee ee
. est boneless... Lee ee ed 10
eee eS
Breakfast Bacon boneless....................10%
ried peer, ham prices.................. 12%
Lome Cioara neayy.................... oo
Eememes, mecmm ................... 8
a a. g
DRY SALT MEATS.
Butts.. eee eee cea o.
TT a . _8
Fat ecm... —.. ?
PICKLED PIGS’ FEET.
Perr Oereees.................... Let e a ee
en re ee ee |
Kits. oe eee eee
TRIPE.

Hits, BOmeveomp..........:..... Pe tacc ae 1D
a
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BURNERS.

No. 0Sun. Oe ee
OT o a
Tubular ee eee
LAMP CHIMNEYs. Per box.

6 doz. in box.
No. @San............ eee 25
NOL eee ee eee 1 88
i ee eee a aac, 2
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.. ..2 10
No. i e _. ae
No. . r 3 35
XXX Flint,
No. : Sun, crimp — 2 60
No. ae 2 0
ae ” ” eee ee 3 80
Pear! top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled ..2 7
Nase * 4%
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . .-4 8
La. Bastie.

Fire Proof—Plain =

No. 1, Sun, plain bulb 1. 3 a0
Nr. 2 .4 70
No. 18 un, plain bulb, per doz. 128
No. 2 ! 1 50
No.1c rimp, per, ao. Le. 1 3
Oe 1 60
LANTERN GLOB ES.
No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. each...... i
No. 0, C _ = c ee
No. 0, Dbbie5 “ eee 40
No. 0, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 00
ROCHESTER STORE LAMPS.
No. 10, Brass, 400 candle power............ 33
STREET LAMPS.
No. 9, Globe, automatic extinguisher. oe
LAMP WICKS.
a © pee orome.........-._.-............. soe
No, 1, gee ue Piweeeuece oe
No 2, ee ee 38
No. 3, . ee Ys
Mammoth, per don a
FRUIT JARS
Mason—old sty le.
Pine. 4 %5
Quarts.... eee dsc ce eet dete sacs oom uenee 5 2D
Half gallons. Dea Coane 72
Mason—one doz in case.
——. eed oa ea : 5 00
 ————————— 6 00
Half ed eee 8 00
Dandy—glass c over,
Pinte. ... ... : ol
Quarts .......-.... reas Ns ios
Half callene............... os ' 14 00
Supplies.
Boyd's extra capa........ ...
BRGr TH cs ine ete
Sealing wax, red or white, 5lb pac kages.
JELLY TU MBLERS—Tin Top.
1¢ Pints. 6 doz in box, per box (box 00)..... 1 64
— . bb, “* doe (Obl S)...... 23
ne , oo. box (hex @)).... 1 30
me * 18 «“ * bel, * doe Gol s).... 26
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter ( ‘rocks, LtioGeal...... a O06
Sool oer GGe... ........... 60
—. * gal. per Goe..............._.. 7
0 4 gal., pergeal...... ee ae
Mx Pans, 9 ga. » per dos. Lee ee S
aiuaaaie ‘GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal...... : as 6%

 

 

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18

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

THE DREADED POWER OF CAPITAL.

Thousands of years ago our Asiatic
ancestors, impressed by what they saw
of the mighty forces of nature, such as
the light and heat of the sun, the wind
and the rain, fire and flood, lightnings
and tempests, made personal beings of
them and worshipped them, as many
savage tribes do to this day. Their
devotion was inspired not by gratitude,
but by fear, and it was intended more to
avert the mischiefs which they believed
their deities could and would do them
than to manifest an appreciation of the
benefits they conferred. Christianity
and civilization have long ago eradicated
from among us the outward forms of
this primeval idolatry, but the spirit
from which it proceeded still remains an
essential element of human nature, and
finds other ways of expressing itself.
The blind, unreasoning hatred of capital,
which entered so largely into the recent
railroad strike, and which has produced
so much denunciation of employers of
laboring men, results from this same
tendency to personify every great but
obscure power and to attribute to it
malignity as well as _ benevolence.
Capital is aot, indeed, worshipped as a
god, because the spread of intelligence
and the prevalence of Christianity forbid
it; but itis execrated as a demon, and
the human passions of greed, selfishness,
tyranny, and cruelty are attributed to it
as if it were capable of thinking, feel-
ing and acting like a man, or, rather,
like a very bad man.

Of course, those who thus revile
capital will readily admit that they do
not mean to be taken literally. No
argument is needed to demonstrate that
capital, in itself, is net a proper subject
of either blame or praise. It neither
thinks, feels, hears, speaks nor acts. It
is nothing but the inert accumulation of
materials produced by man, and
fashioned by man into forms in which it
can be made useful or destructive, ac-
cording to the way in which it is em-
ployed. A large part of the capital of a
railroad company, for example, consists
of its locomotive engines, which will
draw loads of dynamite or of breadstuffs
with equal indifference, and run over
human beings that get in their way with
as little compunction as they devour the
fuel that is shovelled under their boilers;
of its embankments, its bridges its
tunnels, its cars, and its station and
freight houses, all of which are absolute-
ly lifeless and conscienceless. A great
manufactory, too, is nothing more than
a combination of building materials and
machinery adapted to certain purposes
which it fulfills or fails to fulfill according
as itis setin motion or suffered to lie
idle. The same is true of farms, houses,
ships, steamers, merchandise of all! sorts,
and of the whole array of articles—
money included—which men call wealth,
and which constitute the capital of their
possessors. To speak of them as if they
had souls, and were engaged consciously
in oppressing, crushing, and plundering
the men and women employed in making
them useful is less rational than eleva-
ting storms, lightning, and fire to the
rank of gods. Natural forces have at
least the semblance of being free agents,
and of working not the will of another,
but their own.

The parallel talk about labor as if it
were a thing independent of the laborer,
and self-acting like him, is equally in-
defensible. The man and not his muscle

 

is what does the work it which he is
engaged, and the most valuable work is
that of which mere muscular power
forms the least part. The efforts put
forth by Bessemer, Bell, Edison and
other great inventors in thinking out
their inventions are as truly labor as the
shovelling of earth or the handling of
mechanical tools, and yet neither
deserve consideration in themselves, but
only as they represent the human being
from whom they proceed. He alone is
entitled to the reward they bring, just as
he alone would be responsible if he
should misapply his powers to the in-
jury of his fellow men.

The conflict, therefore, between Capital
and Labor, popularly described as if one
were a personal demon and the other his
victim, means, if it means anything, that
the owners of capital who employ the
owners of labor are, as a mass, avari-
cious oppressors, while, on the other
hand, those whom they employ are, as a
mass, ground down under an iron heel,
and writhing in agony like trodden
worms. Putin this extreme form such
a view of the matter is manifestly false.
Employers are not, as a rule, tyrants,
nor are the employed, as arule, helpless
victims. On the contrary, the majority
of employers are as fair in their dealings
as other men, and the majority of those
whom they employ are decently treated.
If it were not so, the world of industry
would not go on as it does.

Nevertheless, the idea is current
among otherwise intelligent people, and
finds frequent expression in newspaper
reviews, sermons, and political speeches,
that capital somehow is a thing which
needs to be jealously watched and sternly
repressed in order to keep it from mas-
tering the community and enslaving
those who do not possess it. Through-
out the debates in Congress on the re-
peal of the silver purchase clause of the
Sherman act frequent reference was
made, in the Senate as well as in the
House of Representatives, to a ‘‘money
power’’ which, it was alleged, was con-
spiring to fasten the yoke of gold mono-
metallism upon the necks of debtors.
The tax upon the incomes of the few citi-
zens having more than $4,000 a year is
aimed at the great capitalists whose
power for mischief is supposed to need
restraint, and the staple argument
against protective duties is that they
tend to increase the wealth of greedy
millionaires.

That wealth does invest its possessors
with a certain kind of power nobody can
deny, but that this power can be exerted
and is exerted to the injury of the public
any more than that of eloquence or per-
sonal influence, or of a combination of
small private interests, like that, for in-
stance, of would-be pensioners on the
national bounty, is not true. At this
moment it is generally believed, and with
some show of reason, that a few large
capitalists interested in the maintenance
of aduty on refined sugar are success-
fully exerting themselves at Washington
to shape the pending Tariff bill in their
own favor, and this illustration may be
cited to show what money can do to cor-
rupt legislators. But it must be ob-
served that it is not the money of the
Sugar Refineries Company which is thus
employed. The officers of that company
have no need to resort to this means to
accomplish the results they seek. The
company, as @ company, and they them-
selves as individuals might be as poor as

 

church mice, and yet they could do all
that they are accused of doing. It is not
pretended that they have paid a dollar to
any Senator for his vote. They have
merely, it is charged, put some Senators
in the way of profiting by a rise in the
market price of their stock, predicated
upon the adoption of a scale of duties
favorable the the company’s interests.
So, again, it is asserted that large sums
are used every winter at Albany to buy
the passage of bills desired by individ-
uals for their own special benefit.
Whether this be true or not, the money
is said to be paid, in most cases, not by
men of large wealth, but by those whose
wealth is yet to be gained, and in no
case do they succeed in abridging the
liberties of their fellow citizens or in
fastening upon them intolerable bur-
dens.

Conflicts between employers and those
they employ, like those which have re-
cently taken place between coal opera-
tors and coal miners, the Pullman Car
Company andits workmen, and the West-
ern railroad companies and the American
Railway Union, are also cited as proofs
of the power of the owners of capital to
enslave and oppress the laborers whom
they hire. In every one of these cases
the owners of labor have shown a far
greater capacity for mischief than the
owners of capital. They have lost a few
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
wages, but, by the stoppage of business
alone, they bave inflicted a loss of mil-
lions of dollars upon their antagonists,
and, when to this is added the destruc-
tion of ears, locomotives, switches,
bridges and buildings, it will readily be
seen that they are far more to be dreaded
than the men who have to endure the
consequences of their resentment.

But the greatest of all the fallacies
current in regard to the power of capital
is that which is based upon the assump-
tion that the wealth of the country is
vested in the hands of afew persons,
leaving the vast majority in the condi-
tion of paupers. To support it the wild-
est guesses of the amount of the wealth
of prominent citizens are taken as sober
facts, the sum total of these amounts is
deducted from the assessed valuation of
the national wealth, and the remainder
only is credited as belonging to the rest
of our population. Even if the result thus
reached were approximately true, there
would bein it nothing perilous to the
public welfare. The number of citizens
who have incomes of $4,000 and upward
is estimated by those who are interested
in making it as large as possible at only
85,000; that of the lucky owners of
$1,000,000 and upward has recently been
ascertained by the most exhaustive in-
quiries possible to be only 4,000 al-
together, while that of men having $10,-
000,000 and more does not exceed 100 in
all, if, indeed, there are so many. Some
of this handful of large capitalists are,
indeed, active politicians, but they are
quite as demagogical as if they were
poor, and not one of them has been even
remotely suspected of aiming at destroy-
ing the liberties of his fellow citizens for
the purpose of setting himself up as a
monarch.

A far more formidable peril to the
country than the power of its few great
capitalists is the prevalent envy of these
capitalists and the disposition manifested
by demagogues to rob them by legal
methods of their possessions. The pro-
posed tax upon the comparatively small

 

number of annual incomes exceeding
$4,000 is a beginning; compulsory arbi-
tration, by which the owners of capital
invested in railroads, manufactures, and
other enterprises involving the employ-
ment of large numbers of people are to
be denied the liberty of making their
own bargains with laborers will be the
next and if the laws
against corporations and trusts are car-

step, existing
ried much further, capital will shun in-
vestment here and fly to other countries
where the hindranees to employing it
are less. If national poverty is a bless-
ing, this result may be thought desirable,
but I doubt if such be the opinion at
present of a majority of Americans.
MATTHEW MARSHALL,
WALTER BAKER & CO,
The Largest
Manufacturers of

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PULLMAN’S DEBTS.

 

Are They Real or Mythical?

Next to Debs, Geo. M. Pullman was
recently the most talked of man in the
United States. Newspapers of ali
shades of politics, and of no polities at
all, preachers from their pulpits and
labor union agitators and jawsmiths
united in abusing the sleeping car
monarch and in resurrecting and manu-
facturing stories to his discredit. Per-
haps some of the things said of him are
true; considering the vast amount of
space and time devoted to him, it would
be strange, indeed, if the truth were not
stumbled on occasionally; but, amid the
mass of rubbish which has been spoken
and written of Pullman, one fact appears
plain and indisputable—that the ground
of it all is fear of the labor organizations
anda desire to stand well with them.
A little more backbone in the editors of
some of our papers would make their
clothes fit better and be more in accord
with the time-honored doctrine of ‘‘the
liberty of the press.” The press of this
city have added their quota to the sum
total of vituperation heaped upon Pull-
man’s devoted head, and have asserted,
among other things, that Geo. M. Pull-
man had contracted debts in Grand
Rapids, allowed them to outlaw and then
refused payment. Two local
have told how they held notes, given by
Pullman for various sums, which he had
repeatedly refused to pay. One lawyer
allowed himself to be interviewed by an
Eagle reporter, and told had
been given a note to collect; atter
writing Pullman and_ “receiving
answer, he had gone to Chicago
‘“‘bearded the lion in his so to
speak; how at first the multi-millionaire
had treated him rather shabbily, intimat-
ing that he (the lawyer) tished up
an old matter, and endeavored to work
on his (Pullman’s) sympathies in order
to make a fee for himself; how this
made him (the lawyer) ‘‘hot;’? how he
then proceeded to tell Pullman a few
things; and, alas! how even this failed to
move the flinty-hearted sleeping car
magnate, for he did not then, nor ever
after, pay the note. The holder of the
note was an old lady—infirm, feeble and
poor—to whom the money, though only
a small matter of $27, would have been
a godsend. This story presents Geo. M.
Pullman in a bad light, but, of course,
no one will for a moment suspect the
lawyer aforesaid of endeavoring to create
a feeling against Pullman, or of having
a desire to be on the popular side, which,
to some people’s way of thinking, is
certainly not Pullman’s.

It never seems to occur to some people
that there may be two sides toa story.
These stories seemed _ so
straight and plausible, and
from which they emanated gave them
such weight, that they have been
accepted by almost everybody as ‘‘gospel
truth,’? and Geo M. Pullman has been
berated and execrated accordingly. The
trouble is that somebody can almost al-
ways be found ready to spoil a good story
with cold, hard facts; who, with the pin
of truth, is mean enough to puncture
the bubble of fiction, dissipating it into
thin air. So with those fairy tales
about Geo. M. Pullman. There are two
gentlemen in the city who have known
the Pullmans since in the early
who have had business dealings with
them many times, and who are in a posi-

attorneys

he
how

how

no
and
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had

perfectly
the source

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tion to kuow what they are talking about
when Geo. M. Pullman is the subject of
conversation. Hon. C. C. Comstock and
Col. Thaddeus Foote, two old residents,
were interviewed, and emphatically
denied that Mr. Pullmam ever refused
to pay a just debt. Said Mr. Comstock:
“IT was intimately acquainted with
Albert Pullman, a brother of Geo. M.
He lived in this city several years prior
to his removal to Chicago, where he died
a few years ago. He was engaged as
manager of a furniture salesroom, in
company with a man named Eceles. IL
believe that Geo. M. was the owner of
the business, although it was managed
by his brother. The two mismanaged
the concern to such an extent that
George finally ordered the stock soid out
and the business closed. This was done
and Albert Pullman went to work for
mein my furniture factory, making most
of the furniture for the old county
building. Several notes were given by
Geo. M. Pullman at the time the busi-
ness was closed out, but they were paid
in fullin every instance. How it
with Albert’s debts, 1 cannot
do not think that Geo. M. ever
Grand Rapids.
of course, but,

was
say. |
lived in
He was here many times,
so faras my recollection

goes, he never resided here. So the
story that he gave a note for $27 for
house rent is questionable. ‘There is
one man in the city, however, who can
tell you all about, and that is Col. Thad.
Foote. Come along with me over to his
place and hear what he has to say.”

Mr. Foote was found at his home on
North Front street, and was perfectly

willing to give all the information in his
possession coneerning the Pullmans.
“George Pullman never lived in Grand
Rapids,’’ said Mr Foote, positively. ‘‘He
was here many times, for he had _ busi-
ness interests here, but his home was in
Chieago. I[ know nothing about Albert
Pullman’s affairs, and so I cannot say
anything about whether he paid his
debts or but George Pullman never
was known to refuse to pay a just debt.
I have known him for many years and
know what lam talking about. If you
care to listen, | will give you a little of
his family history, which will give you a
better idea than anything else would of
the kind of man he When the
State of New York. decided to
widen the Erie canal it made necessary
the moving of a great many buildings
which had been built on the banks of
thé canal. Geo. Puilman’s father took
thy contract of moving some of these
buildings, but, as it turned out, at a
price which, when the work was done,
left nim seriously embarassed. He died,
leaving many debts unpaid, and his son
George, then a boy of eighteen deter-
mined to pay them. He continued the
business of moving buildings from the
canal, made money and paid every cent
his father owed. That was not all.
There were his mother, five sisters and
four brothers to care for. It was a big
load for a boy of his age to carry, but he
did his duty manfully, educated and
clothed the children, and provided a
home for them and his mother as long as
they needed it. There never was a more
filial, a more dutiful son than George
Pullman, He paid his father’s debts,
which oniy respect for his father’s
memory impelled him to do; he educated
and provided for his brothers and sisters,
and gave to his mother ail the respect
and affection which a son should give; he

not;

is.

 

has been known as an open-hearted,
generous gentleman ever since he ac-
quired wealth, yet they want us to
believe that he would rob a poor, infirm
old lady, or refuse to pay any other just
debt. The idea is preposterous and
originated in the minds of men who
wanted to make capital against Pullman,
and carry favor with his enemies. Pull-
man is not the man to refuse to pay his
debts and I dare say that not a man in
Grand Rapids, or anywhere else,
paper to the extent of a dollar against
George M. Pullman. Why do these men
who have claims against him
them reproduced in the papers? That
would settle the and prove
what they say. They don’t do it, simply
because they have no such claims.”’

The lawyer above referred to as hav-
ing been interviewed by an Eagle
porter was asked for an ex lanation,
and stated that what he had said was in
the utmost good faith; that the events he
narrated had occurred several years ago
and he had to depend entirely on his
memory. His recollection was that the
note he spoke of was against George M.
Pullman, but he could not say positively.

On being told that gentlemen who had
been acquainted with Mr. Pullman
Many years had asserted that he had
never lived in this city and so could not
have contracted adebt for house rent,
the lawyer admitted that he might have
been mistaken; that it was probably
some other Pullman whom he saw in
Chicago. Perhaps the other stories
about Pullman’s debts have better
foundation. It is inconceivable that a

holds

not have

question

re-

for

no

man whose private charities and public!

benefactions have been so great, whose
conduct as ason and brother
so worthy of emulation, and whose
character for integrity and uprightness
is so well known, should refuse payment
of a few paltry debts,
his wealth iii millions.

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Grand Rapids,
lich.

1205.

 

(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)
Arrive. _Depart
i wom........ Detroit Express ........7 00am

5 30am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... it 20 pm
1 t0pm...... New York Express ...... 6 00pm
aily. All others daily, except Sunday.

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

Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 pm

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

A. ALMguist, Ticket Agent,
Union Passenger Station.

 

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July 1, 1894

MICHIGAN R’Y,

CHICAGO |

GOING TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Gd Hapits......... 7:23am —- *11:20pm
Ar. Chicago . 1 pm 6 :50pm *6:45am
RETURNING F ROM CHICAGO.

Ly. Chicago ..8:20ene iw: :0 pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids. ae 3:05pm 10 5 25

CHICAGO VIA ST AND STE

Lv. Grand Rapids...... 1:25pm **6:30pm

Ay. Colca .. ...... 8:00pm 2:00am

Ly. Chicago 9:30am, i Rapids 5:25 pm

TO AND FROM MU SKEGON,

Ly. Grand Rapids :
Ar. Grand R. 9:

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AND PETOSKEY.

Ly. Grand Rapids 45pm 11:1 Span
Ar. Manistee 10:35pm .
Ar. Traverse City 11:lupm

 

Ar. Charlevoix. .

  

Ar. Petoskey pm 1
AY. Day View...... 1; :Opm 8:00am

Local train making all stops leaves Grand
Rapids *7:45am. Trains arrive from north at
6:00am, 11:50am, 1:0 pm and *10:00pm.

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

Parlor cars leave for Chicago 7:25am and 1:25
pm. For north 7:30am and 5:45pm. Arrives rier
Chicago 3:05pm and 10:35pm From north 1125
pm and 1 00pm. Sleeping cars | e for Chieago
11:30pm. For north 11:15pm. ive from Chi
cago 6:25. Eromnorth 6:0.

*Every day. **Except Saturday.
days only.

DETROIT,

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GOING TO DETROIT. _
Ly. Grand Rapids

  

 

_7:00am 1:20pm 5:55pm

AY. Dewom.. ........, 1 11:40am pm 10:40pm
RETU! {NING FROM DETROIT.

by. Detuor. ....... 7:40am 1:16pm 6:00pm

Ar. Grand Rapids 12:40pm 5:15pm 10:45pm

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, AL sn AND ST. LOUIS.

 

Ly.GR 7:00am {:45pm Ar. G R.11:40am 10:45pm
TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R,
Lv. Grand Rapids.... 7:00am 1
Ar. from Lowell...... 2 2:40pm 5
THROUGH CAR SERVIC

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

Trains week days only.

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one... ar 7 40ara) 11 25am 4 27pm
St. Johns ...Ar) 8 25am/j12 17pm) 5 20pm
Owoss)......Ar) 900am| 1 20pm! 6 65pm/| 3 10am
E. Saginaw..Ar/10 50am| 3 45pm} 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City Ar j}11 32am) 4 35pm) 8 87pm! 7 15am
Flint -Ar|10 05am) 3 451 mj 7 05pm} 54 am
Pt. Huron... Ar 1206 & 8 s0pm — am
Pontiac ......AT |10 53am] 30 | 5¢
Detroit.......Ar|11 50am| 4
WESTWARD.

For Grand Haven and Intermediate

Poise... ea. --a-tt 200 O. Te.
For Grand Haven and Muskegon.....+1:00 p. m.

t4:55 p. m
Chicago an

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For Grand Haven and Milwat
For Grand Haven (Sunday only)

  

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60
p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.

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

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlier Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 W oe
Jas. CAMPBELL, Ci ‘“cket Agent

 

  

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

     

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave goin
Oe PRON ccs is 7:40 a. m
For Traverse City and Saginaw................ 4:50 p. m.
a ec aa ia 10:25 p. m.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Leave going
South.
Poe Coscenee...............,

   
 
  

Oeercececereons 7:00 a .m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago 30 p.m
For Fort Wayne and the Kast.... 30 p.m
BR ed icc ous enue cen d eas 5:40 Dp. .m

For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p. m

oo via G. R. &I. BR. BR.

Ly Grand Rapids.. --7:00am 2:30pm *11:40 pm
Arr Chicago.. 2:00pm 9:00pm 10am
2:30p m train “has through Wagner Buffet Parlor

Car and coach.
11:40 p m train daily,
and Coach.
Lv Chicago 6:50 am 3:30 p m 11:30 p m
Arr Grand Kapids 2:00 p m 9:15 pm 6:55 a m
3:30 p m has through Wagner Butfet Parlor Car.
11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For Muskegon—Leave From Muskegon—Arrive
7:35 am 9:40am
4:40 pm §:20 p m
0. L. LOCKWOOD
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

NGRAVINGsii

through Wagner Sleeping Car

 

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Ruildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery
Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented
Articles

TRADESMAN CO.,
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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New Yoru, July 27—Not for a genera-

tion has so clever a swindler appeared in
this part of the country as David Cole-
man, who has just ‘‘done up’’ the Hig-
gins Soap Co. to an extent that necessi-
ates its suspension. He also euchered
J. J. Richardson, dealer in stoves, out of
$1,100, the Lincoln National Bank out of
$6,000, with others to hear from. From
this city he went to Paterson, N. J., and
got in some of his fine work there, when
he was found out. The Higgins Soap
Co. has been managed by C. 8S. Higgins,
whose German Laundry Soap was so ex-
tensively advertised a few years ago. He
dissolved his connection with the old
firm, and established the Higgins’ Soap
Co. There have been interminable law
suits ever since regarding the name and
labels of the soap, and the climax now
comes in the closing up of the new fac-
tory. Some of the banks which were
victimized prided themselves upon their
“cunservative” record, believing they
were altogether too smart for any swib-
but in walks David Coleman, draws
the money, and not even a suspicion is
aroused until he has left the city. It all
goes to show that the best of financiers
are not infallible, even along the lines
they are most interested in.

Law and order scored a substantial
victory Thursday when Police Captain
Michael Doherty was found guilty by the
police commissioners of accepting bribes
tor protecting the disorderly house at 23
Second avenue, and dismissed from the
service. He is still liable to civil prose-
cution, which, it is hoped, will be pushed
without delay. Among the interesting
things the Captain testified tu was the
fact that he gave a friend $200 to invest
at his discretion and that in five months
the sum made $22,000. All the specu-
lators in Wall street are now trying to
make arrangements with the same
‘-friend,’’ but he is hard to find. Noone
doubts but other captains are equally
guilty and ail are wondering where the
lightning will strike next.

Speaking of restaurants, it may not be
uninteresting to give the many readers of
THe TRADESMAN a few prices taken
from the bill of fare at Coney Island.
Beginning at the aristocratic old stand-
by, porterhouse steak, we find it listed at
$1.50; with onions, $1.75; extra porter-
house, with truffles, $3; with mushrooms,
$3.25; plain beefsteaks, 60c; sirloin, 90c;
spring chicken, with cress, $1.50; roast
turkey, 75c; broiled chicken, $1.60. Com-
ing down to corned beef and cabbage at
one fell swoop, we pay only 50c for it.
Pie is 15¢ and coffee or tea 10c per cup.
Bread and milk, 25c. These prices may
seem rather *‘way up in G;’’ but you see
the hotel men must make hay while the
sun shines. The crowcs which are pay-
ing these prices are so large that one is
lucky if he can find a seat, and no one
would ever suppose that hard times ex-
isted anywhere in the country.

“If you can say nothing good of a per-
son, say nothing at all.” Soruns the old
adage, and it applies to the grocery mar-

dier;

| ket of New York City this last week of |
| July. 1894, with full force. In no line is
| there anything doing of more than a mid-
summer character, and from the staples
of coffee, tea, and sugar, down through
the minor articles of molasses, syrups,
spices, rice, ete., the answer is always
the same, ‘Nothing doing.”
can be excepted. They are doing well, |
thanks to the hot weather; but other|
lines of fresh fruits are exciting no more |
interest than usual. |

Arrivals of best butter are small, and |
the result is a slight rise, 19¢ now being |
obtainable for Elgin and State.

The interest felt in the pending tariff
question in this city can scarcely be real-
ized at interior points. The papers are
read with an avidity only approached by
the interest displayed during the strikes.
It is needless to say that the question
has no importance to the country at
large. If people will consider the busi-
ness transactions taking place between
this and other countries, as shown by
Governmental reports, they will at once
see that itis a mighty important factor
in the general welfare of the nation.

When one can go to Liverpoo! for $10,
or to Antwerp for $14, it is cheaper to
go than to stay, and we hope that about
5,000,000 people in this country will act
upon this hint. The steamship compan-
ies report an enormous business in steer-
age passengers, so that itis an ill wind
that blows good to nobody. JAY,

2
Corporation News.

The annual report of the Proctor &
Gamble Co. (Cincinnati) shows net
profits of $688,008 for the year ending
June 30.

The change in the ownership of the
Lowell State Bank—A. J. Bowne having
sold his $8,300 holding and C. B. Ensign
having disposed of his $16,700 holding—

has necessitated the election of new
officers, as follows: President, Francis
King; Vice-President, Chas. McCarty;
Cashier, M. C. Griswold; Assistant
Cashier, B. N. Keister. All of the stock
of the Bank is now held by Lowell
people.

The New York Biscuit Co. has reduced
its floating indebtedness several hundred
thousand dollars since the annual meet-
ing and there has been some talk that
the payment of dividends would be re-
sumed this fall, but parties well in-
formed in the matter say that nothing of
the kind will be done before next
January. The market valve of the stock
is steadily advancing.

SS

The Drug Market.

 

Lemons | ’

 

Gum opium is a little firmer, but un- |
changed. |

Quinine is firm and has an upward |
tendency.

Morphia is study.

Other articles in the line are

without
change.

 

Northern Michigan Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.
President, J. F. Tatman, Clare; Sec’y, E. A.
Stowe, Grand Rapids.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

| President, D. Viergever; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

Official Organ—MicHuiegaN TRADESMAN.

 

West Side (Saginaw) Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

President, C. F. Alderton; Secretary, John Doerr.

 

Bay County Retail Grocers’ Association.
President, Thos. Walsh; Secretary S. W. Waters.

 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association.
President, P. W. Haefner; Sec’y, W. H. Porter.

 

Grand Haven Retail Grocers’ Association.
President, John Boer: Secretary, Peter VerDuin.

Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Asseciation.
President, D. Christie; Secretary, F. B. Aldrich.

 

 

Petoskey Grocers’ Union.
President, Geo. W. Bump: Secretary, J. W. Lott.

 

Bay City Grocers to Picnic August 16°

Bay City, July 27—Our Association
held a meeting last evening to make ar-
rangement for our third annual excur-
sion. There was a large attendance and
the members were very enthusiastic.
We decided to hold it on Aug. 16, the lo-
eation to be determined at a meeting to
be held one week later. The following
committees were appointed:

Transportation—W. W. Hodgkins, R.
M. Sherwood, Chas. M. Baumgarten.

Games—W. A. Chatfield, Sam. W.
Waters, Thos. Walsh, Geo. Osborne.

Music—Geo. Cornwell, W. J. Caldwell,
H. Koch, Jr.

Prizes—John McKim, R.
Chas. Babo, Jr., Thos.
Henmann.

Printing—M. L. DeBats, J. J. Kelly,
D. Goddeyne.

Badges—John Standacher,
Grace, John D. Whalen.

Supplies—Chas. Ellsworth, Walt. C.
Houghton, H. E. Buck, John Carroll,
Bay City Frait House.

Finance—W. Delong, R. J. Ferris,
John D. Whalen, M. L. DeBats, W. A.
Chatfield.

H. Chase,
Walsh, Chas. C.

Richard

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Coats

 

Tickets—W. A. Chatfield, Geo. Corn-

well, C. C. Henmann,
Sam W. WATERS, Sec’y.
The Mt. Pleasant Convention.

Reta'l grocers doing business in North-
ern Michigan, north of the line of the
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
Railway, should not forget that the first
regular convention of the Northern
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
will be held at Mount Pleasant, Tuesday,
Aug. 7, convening at 2 o’clock p. m.
Matters of vital importance to the trade
will be introduced at this convention for
discussion and action, and it is earnestly
hoped that every dealer who can spare
the time will be present and participate
in the meeting. Ample hotel accommo-
dations have been provided by Mount
Pleasant grocers and every effort will be
made to render the occasion a memorable
one inthe annals of Michigan conven-
tions.

einai —~— > —~<» net

Attention, Ball Tossers.

GRAND Rapips, July 30—In behalf of
the attaches of the Grand Rapids whole-
sale grocery houses, I hereby challenge
the retail grocers or retail grocery clerks
to a match game of base ball for $5 a
side on the occasion of the annual picnic
of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation at Reed’s Lake on Aug. 9.

RatpH RocKWELL.
a tt
From Out of Town.

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

D. Aldershof, Holland.

Crandall & Gregg, Luther.

Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.

John Smith, Ada.

W. W. Brower, Fife Lake.

M. L. Campbell, Leslie.

St. Johns Mere. Co., Jt. Johns.

 

, Kersey
Pants

We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of
any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We
are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and
solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods ot
our manufacture are not regularly handled.

Lansing Pants

& Overall Co.,

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Mason Fruit Jars. Jelly Tumblers, Stoneware.
SPECIAL BUTTER JARS,
Subject to change without notice \¢ Pints, 24 doz in Bb] (bbl 35) per Doz 23
lg Pints, 6 doz ss Box (box io oes Box: 1.80 PRESERVE JARS,

1g Pints, 18 doz in Bbl (bbl 35) per Doz 26 , > ]
PINTS. QUARTS. HALF GAL. : se ae Se FRUIT JARS,

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Packed Regular Way in Cases,

New Style Patent Boxes. Pint, Plain, 20 Dozin Bbl (Bb135) per doz .27 Stone Butter Jars, !s Gal. per doz .60
eo iene ten Macks Hex. : Stone Butter Jars, 1 Gal. each per gal -06
Stone Butter Jars, 2 Gal. per gal .06

PIN’ QUARTS HALF GAL. A. SSO rted Pac k age . | Stone Preserve Jars and Covers, 3g Gal, per doz .90
$9.90 gre. $6.00 ZrO 55.00 gZTo. Stone Preserve Jars and Covers, 1 Gal, per doz 1.40
Engraved Tumblers. Tomato or Fruit Jars, }s Gal. Li

Extra Caps, $2.25 <ro. Rubbers, 3c gro Thin Blown. Tomato or Fruit Jars, 1 Gal. .90
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