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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

The broad white sunlight beat  piti-
lessly down on a rigid form prostrate on
the roadside. The dead, upturned face
was clotted with dust and blood which
had just ceased flowing from a deep
wound in the head, a wound which had
cut the life-thread all too swiftly. De-
spite the disfiguring mask, the stern,
aristocratic features were plainly visible.
The clothes, torn as though in a struggle,
were of the latest fashion, and, at a little
distance from the inanimate form lay a
hand-bag of alligator skin, firmly clasped
and locked. The murder (for murder it
undoubtedly was) was evidently not
committed for the purpose of robbery, as
the watch and other valuables remained
untouched. Not a pleasant sight this,
tosuddenly greet the eyes of a gay party
of equestrians, returning to the hotel
from a pleasure excursion in the country
surrounding the little town, where, with
a number or friends, | was summering.

Advising the ladies to ride forward,
we of the sterner sex remained until the
decision was made, that two should pro-
ceed to summon the coroner, the others
stationing themselves as guards to the
body until that official should arrive. It
was late when, relieved from duty, we
reached the hotel where the guests, from
the knowledge of the tragedy in their
midst, were awaiting. us in subdued
eagerness. i

The hotel at which we were stopping
held so many people from the same West-
ern city, that we seemed more like one
family than mere guests and strangers

My sister Elsie and I had been amongst
the latest of the season’s arrivals, and
upon our coming we had found, to my
chagrin and Elsie’s ill-concealed delight,
amongst the sojourners, Mr. George
Davenal, a Canadian, who had come the
winter previous to reside in the city
from which we hailed. He was a hand-
some, languid, indifferent man, just the
sort of a fellow to attract a woman’s
fancy, and create havoc in susceptible
breasts. However, in my eyes, the care-
less insouciant nature possessed deeper
meaning than the light-laughing face
seemed to denote. Somehow I could not
help thinking there was a mystery about
him; it might be but a whim, but I felt a
vague distrust, and antipathy to the
good-looking Canadian. This feeling
was clearly not shared by others, for,
from the moment of his arrival with let-
ters from well-known people, he became
a social lion, and general favorite. To
my annoyance, pretty Elsie seemed to
return with interest the evident admira-
tion he lavished on her, but as he had
yet ma e no declaration of his love to
her, I could find no legitimate cause for
open protest. When I would speak to
Elsie of the unpleasant feeling with
which he had imbued me, she would in-
variably call me a ‘‘whimsical old bear,’’
or ‘ta dear old goose,’’ and laughingly
waive the subject. The evening of the
murder, Elsie, who had been listening
with evident excitement to the one sub-
ject under discussion, had finally witha

 

white, pained face, crept to my side and
whispered, that George Davenal had
been absent all the afternoon, and had
not then returned; then came her ques-
tioned fears, “If anything could have
happened to him, too ?”’

For answer, I smiled down in the
Sweet, moist eyes, and pointed reassur-
ingly to the tall distinyue figure of Mr.
Davenal, who was just about to join us
on the piazza, He was pale and tired,
his worn appearance increased by a
wounded arm which he wore in a sling.
He quickly accounted for his late ap-
pearance by explaining that the friend
whom he had appointed to meet at the
depot, had telegraphed his inability to
leave home for a few weeks, and, after
ascertaining this fact, he had hastily re-
turned to the hotel, hoping to arrive
there in time to join our excursion.
Finding we had departed, he had swiftly
mounted and ridden off in pursuit. Un-
fortunately a fall from his horse had pre-
vented the accomplishment of his desire,
and, weakened from pain and his broken
arm, had caused his delay in returning
home.

After expre sing regret at his mishap,
we proceeded to inform him of the mur-
der. How the victim had been identified
as a wealthy Chicago man from papers
about him, and the added details showed
that he had evidently been on his way to
our hotel. His friends had been tele-
graphed, and some were to arrive as
early as possible, so as tobe able to ac-
company the remains home, after the in-
quest. As yet no clue to the perpetrator
of the awful deed had been discovered,
yet every effort was being made by the
authorities for the criminal’s arrest, and
by order of the dead man’s relatives, a
well-known detective had been tele-
graphed to appear on the scene.

George Davenal appeared extremely
shocked at the recital, and the horror of
the tragedy so near us, added to his own
individual suffering, rendering him so
spiritless that-it required Elsie’s gayest
sallies and undivided attention to win
his usual smiles that evening.

Yet he was the most emphatic in wel-
coming the presence of a good detec-
tive.

Two nights after the tragedy, the
weather was so unusually sultry, that I
found myself unable to sleep after I re-
tired to my room, and, thinking a cigar
and stroll through the grounds might be
an effective way of wooing the drowsy
god, | decided to seek the air. Aftera
turn or two about the hotel, 1 was pass-
ing a window when something white
fluttered from it, and fell at my feet.
Mechanically I stooped to raise it, glane-
ing meanwhile over the sheet of paper,
to learn if it was of value to save and re-
turn to the owner. At the first few
words my blood burned like fire, and un-
der their awful spell I read, in clear,
bold writing, the following letter:

“DEAR GUILFORD:—You can set your
mind at rest as to my courage to finish
the work you gave me. It was not the
awful undertaking I had feared. 1

 

waited for solitude, and the most favor-
able time, and then made an end of the
work without delay. Your man was
game throughout, and I hardly hoped for
the effectualend. It’s the only piece of
work like this lve encountered for
years, and I declare a return to that sort
of business makes a fellow thirst for
more blood. It will be better for your
plans for you toremain in the dark for

awhile, keep your identity secret even

from the men who engage you. I am
anxious about the settlements. When

did you see Rose?
her finding out ?
‘Don’t let a woman into the secret: no
matter how level-headed she may be, if
she learns all it will be given away some

Is there danger of

day. It’s pretty warm here just now,
for me. I think I’ll eseape to cooler
climes as soon as possible. In con-

clusion, let me say that whilst your plot
was excellently conceived and admirably
carried out, yet murder makes the most
callous shaky, and next time, old fellow,
draw it mild. Yours fraternally,
‘“GEORGE.”?

The perspiration stood in great beads
on my brow. Iwas horrified, petrified,
for there, plainly in his own chirography,
George Davenal was a _ self-acknowl-
edged murderer, and the deliberate per-
petrator of the horrible deed, the result
of which had greeted our sight on the
memorable sunshiny afternoon! Waves
of doubt and suspense submerged me.
Should I deliver the criminal
to the majesty of the law? Despite the
vision of Elsie’s pretty, pleading face, a
loathing for the scoundrel who had dared
to win my darling’s
me.

Whilst | was deliberating whether to
confront the wretch at once with proofs
of his guilt, and deliver him to the
authorities, or whether to aid him for
Elsie’s sake to evade justice, I felt ahand
laid heavily on mine and turned to be-
hold a_ stranger addressed me
suavely: ‘‘’ardon me,’”’ he said, “but
having just lost a letter, and seeing one
in your hand, I think, perhaps, you have
found the object of my search.”’

1 drew haughtily from him, when a
thought flashed across my mind From
the keen, untlinching eyes, the cool, col-
lected manner, the non-committal, ques-
tioning face, I knew the stranger was the
detective who had been summoned for the
murder case.

A delay would have been fruitless. I
turned quietly, and placed the letter in
his hand. ‘*This may be a clue,’’ I said.
‘“*T recognize you as the detective,
moned for the solution of the late
edy.”’

“Yes,’? he answered, with a
peculiar smile, ‘I am he. I saw your
discovery, and thought from your dis-
turbed appearance that you might have
a clue,” and he continued, scrutinizingly:
“It is more circumstantial evidence, and
now to find George, the murderer. Can
you assist me ?’’

I knew my aid was unnecessary, for
the criminal could be easily traced, be-

instantly

love swept over

who

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sides my love of justice was too strong
to eare for mercy. I gave minute infor-
mation to the detective. In a few days

the investigation was complete, the let-|

ter as damning evidence, Davenal’s ab-
sence at the time of the murder, his later
appearance wounded and dejected, all
were considered sufficient proofs. And
before evening, George Davenal was
placed under arrest, and borne to the
county jail. Had not the proofs been
overwhelming, I should myself have
doubted his guilt. He the most
clever actor | had ever seen. The well-
feigned astonishment at his arrest, his
vehement denial, yet haughty and digni-
fied bearing throughout, were all that of
an innocent man wrongfully accused.

‘Isie’s conduct at this time was a
source of great mortification to me. She
clung to the prisoner, asserting his inno-
cence, and declaring the parties to the
outrageous proceeding would suffer a ter-
rible penalty after his vindication. I
learned then for the first time of my sis-
ter’s engagement to the handsome Cana-
dian. but even in the knowledge of this
discovery, which added to my wrath, 1
could not help noting that his greatest
grief was for her; nor could 1 avoid see-
ing the great tenderness of his solicitude,
and gratitude for her unswerving faith
and devotion.

In the months that rolled away Elsie
spoke but seldom to me, then only icily,
evidently considering me a party to the
proceeding... She remained until late in
the season, in the vicinity ef the place
where the incarcerated,
and, despite remonstances, went daily to
see him, until I finally insisted on her ac-

was

prisoner was

companying me back to our city home.
Although but imperfectly acquainted
with the laws of our country, Davenal
had engaged competent lawyers for his
defense. Though other evidences of his
guilt had been given to the public, the
lawyers for the prosecution had deemed
it advisable to keep the contents of the
fatal letter a secret, though it was ad.
mitted that a paper containing Davenal’s
confession had been found, and the pris-
oner’s vehement denial of having ever
written such a statement of guilt carried,
of course, no weight with it. Despite
pressing business I was obliged to be
present at the trial, and on my depart-
ure, Elsie insisted upon accompanying
me, in order to be near her lover in his
ordeal.

Excitement ran high,
was crowded when we arrived. Evidence
was strong against the accused, his ab-
sence during the afternoon of the mur-
der, his late appearance, fatigued and
wounded, all seemed conclusive proof of
his guilt. Then was called on to pro-
duce the letter lL had found on the hotel

and the room

grounds.

During its reading the prisoner turned
deadly pale, and, for the first time dur-
ing the trial, uttered an exclamation.
He was about to speak when restrained
by his counsel; he contented himself with
whispering to the lawyer near him.

It was growing late, so the court ad-
journed until the following day.

On the opening of the defense, wit-
nesses were produced in favor of the
prisoner, notably a countryman and his
wife, who testified that they had seen
the accused fall from his horse on the
day of the murder, that they had assisted
him to their cottage where, owing to his
weak condition, he remained in their
company until evening, when they had

helped him mount. his horse, and
watched him proceed on his way toward
the hotel.

When the prisoner was put on the
stand he admitted that he had written
the letter produced, to a friend who had
just entered the literary field as an
author, and, being also in commercial
business, Davenal had advised him to
carefully conceal his literary tendencies;
that the mysterious allusion to the ‘‘at-
tack and finishing,” were in reference to
the perusal of the book, by Davenal, to
whom the author had submitted it for
judgment, under protest from him, as he
did not care for such reading matter.
The mystical ‘*Rose,” was acousin of the
author’s, who was interested in his liter-
ary veutures. In fine, the entire letter
was but in reference to the literary merit
and financial expectations of the fledg-
ling novelist. The only fault of which
Davenal admitted being guilty, was hav-
ing written a mostinelegant and ungram-
matical letter, a fault which he would be
sure should never occur again.

For further proof the young writer,
who had been hastily summoned the day
before, took the stand and produced an
exact copy of the original letter which I
had found, and which had been discarded
by Davenal, owing to several, blots that
had rather blurred the writing. The
copy from its date had been received by
his friend the very day of the murder.

It was not long after the retirement of
the jury that a verdict of, acquittal was
rendered. The released man. was in-
stantly surrounded by hundreds congrat-
ulating him. As for me, I publicly
asked his pardon*for my part of the af-
fair, which he granted_me, though rather
coldly, | must own. Isaw how eagerly
his eyes were fixed on Elsie, who awaited
him in tears of joy, and as soon as possi-
ble he was with_her, and together, they
sought the hotel, whilefl rather shame-
facedly accompanied them.

‘“‘Mr. Davenal,”’ I said, ‘‘I can scareely
hope for your forgiveness, and I confess
I am heartily ashamed of my doubt. The
only reparation 1 can make you is to
freely give you the rarest jewel of my
life, my little sister.’’ But Elsie saucily
raised her dainty head and responded:
‘Never mind the generous presentation,
Robert, the little jewel long ago pre-
sented herself to him.’’

That evening Davenal left for home,
and two days later Elsie and | followed.

The day of our departure, as I was
stepping from the:hotel, I was accosied
by a most pitiable-looking object, indeed
a wretched, rum-sodden, _ ill-kempt
tramp, who huskily begged for a little
brandy. Observing him narrowly, I saw
that the poor creature was really ill, and
so assisted him to the piazza, where he
fell exhausted. Calling an employe, 1
bade him summon a physician, who, ar-
riving, pronounced the man dying.

Before his death he said he was a mem-
ber of a well-known American family,
but from his dissolute habits he had
sunk so low, that to save his family dis-
grace he preferred to die unknown; he
had never committed actual crime until
a few months before, when in a tramp
through this same place he had encoun-
tered atraveler on the roadside, between
the station and the hotel. The traveler
was evidently a manof wealth, and the
tramp, maddened by liquor, yet craving
|more, and with no means to obtain it, at-
| tacked him for the purpose of robbery.
He only meant to render him uncon-

 

 

 

 

scious, and secure the valuables, but in
the ensuing struggle he had killed him,
and was about to precure the price of
the awful deed; but before he could get
either watch of purse, the echo of horses’
hoofs in the distance had warned him
that delay would be fatal, and, without
compensation for his crime, he had fled
as far as possible from the scene of mur-
der. In the agony of illness, being again
in the neighborhood ot his sin, he had
crept towards the hotel, hoping some
person would aid him. After his confes-
sion the unhappy wretch expired.

Elsie and I reached home a few days
after, and with my_eyes lowered before
the languid blue eyes of Davenal, I earn-
estly vowed ever after to put forth every
faculty to aid the downfall of circumstan-
tial evidence. BeRTHA MAy Ivory.

_ i 2 <a
THE RIGHTS OF THE SCAB.

The scab is a man who chooses to work
when others choose to strike. For this
exercise of his personal liberty and his
own volition, he is annointed with an ar-
omatic egg in the shape of an odious
name being added to that given him by
his mother. Itis true that this scurril-
ity makes no difference in his personal
character. Putting a lion in a donkey’s
hide never yet changed the animal
within, nor can mud thrown on a marble
column make it otherthan itis. It is so
with aman. Epithets cannot spoil him
any more than a label on a bottle can
make soda water of milk or brandy. The
misfortune is, however, and it is just
here where the cloven foot comes through
the stocking, that the public do not al-
ways discern the distinction between an
epithet anda man. ‘This is human na-
ture; it will join the hounds every time
in;pursuit of a lamb or'a hare. It wasa
mob of this kind that crucified Christ,
and would be as ready to do it to-day as
they were 1,800 years ago. A _ brickbat
never stops to reason, nor does a bludgeon
wait for a jury.

Here lies the venom and ferocity of
vocal abuse. It has killed statesmen and
ended the career of some of the best and
wisest of men; ‘it, has opposed reforms
and bolstered up abuses, muzzled the
mouth of truth and made; music of lies.
Rub this kind of garlic on preacher,
prophet, statesman or public writer, and
the usual ninety-nine fools in a hundred
of population will hold their noses as
the victim passes by. Better a wooden
leg or agiass eye than a bad nawe. It
sticks closer than a porous plaster, and
the victim, through innocent as Noah
was of drowning his neighbors, is under
a ban from which it is as impossible to
escape as it would be to craw! out of his
skin.

What is known as a scab, in modern
parlance, is not necessarily a scamp or a
seoundrel. He may be as honest and
manly as his neighbors, as true a citizen
and as good a son, brother or husband as
ever turned out of the divine workshop.
What he eats he earns; what he buys he
pays for, and no scurrility can make a
dog of such a man as that. He has his
personal liberties and rights, and they
are his, as sacred and unassailable as
those of any other men. A knife on the
throat of these rights is social murder,
whether committed by a spiteful neigh-
bor cr an industrial order. This is plain
talking, but any man that can count his
fingers can swear to its truthfulness.

if labor wishes to secure its own rights

it must respect those of others, and if; TRADESMAN Co.

 

one can put on his coat and walk out ofa
workshop, another has an equal right to
take off his coat and walkin. We recog-
nize the value of unanimity in labor; we
know that without cohesion it is power-
less. Weunderstand why men making a
stand for what they honestly consider to
be ajust demand or remonstrance, are
more or less frustrated and in some cases
excusably irritated, by seeing others take
up the hammer or chisel they laid down;
but with all this allowed, there can be no
defense, either legal of moral, for deny-
ing anotker man his personal liberty or
rights. Society would recoil from keep-
ing a man out of a church door if he
chooses to goin. Wedo not hang, burn
or drown men nowadays for their relig-
ious opinions. We claim freedom at the
ballot box and punish the men who ob-
struct it; in fact, all men are conscious
of the danger involved in intefering with
personal rights. It must be so recog-
nized in all labor struggles, and labor
unions will never be what they ean and
ought to be so long as violence is done to
the non-consenting. We do not say, nor
do we wish to infer, that the majority of
labor concurs in such methods. but we
do say this, that it is one of the most ur-
gent duties of labor organizations to say
‘Hands off!’ and to say it earnestly.
The is done by putting the
guilty parties out of unions, the better
for labor.

sooner it

Frep Wooprow.

 

    

Have you seen our ‘*‘Sunbeam’’ line
of

Misses’

Children’s and
Patent

6 to 8 @ 65e—8

Machine Sewed

Shoes ? Dongola
Tip, Heel or Spring.

to 111¢ @ T5e—12 to 2 @ 90e.

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO.

peer BIOS. oe C0.

STATE AGENTS FOR

 

The Lycoming Rubber Company,

keep constantly on hand a

full and complete line of

these goods made from the

purest rabber. They are

good style, good fitters and

give the best satisfaction

of any rubber in the mar-

ket. Our line ef Leather

Boots and Shoes is com-

plete in every particular,

also Felt Boots, Sox, ete.

Thanking you for past favors we now
await your further orders. Hoping you
wiil give our line a careful inspection

when our representative calls on you,
weare REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

ELECGROTYPES

DUPLICATES OF

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

   

 

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THE MIOHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8

 

MORNING MARKET.

 

Some of the Familiar Faces Regularly
Seen There.

‘“‘Morning papers, sir;
nickel? Morning papers?’ ‘Yes; give
me a Herald; here’s your nickel; never
mind the change.’’ And the hustling
little fellow who ‘‘does the market’’
with the morning papers pocketed the
nickel with a grin and, taking a seat at
the lunch counter, called for a sandwich
and a cup of coffee. The reporter took
a seat beside him and proceeded to ask
him a few questions about himself and
his calling as a newsboy. ‘‘How’s busi-
ness? Oh, ’taint very good, not near as
good as it was last summer. You see,
times is hard and they won’t buy papers,
cos they say money’s scarce. Do the
country people buy many papers? The
fruit men do; the other fellers can’t
read, 1 guess; anyway they don’t buy
papers. The fruit men buy lots of ’em;
but there are lots of city folks here every
morning and most of ’em buy from me.’’

“You have to get out pretty early in
the morning, don’t you?’’

“You bet. I’m here every morning by
4. Got to be, or I can’t do business.”

“Do you sell papers all day?’

sé ‘Yep.”’

‘“‘Aren’t you pretty
comes?”’

“T should say yes. I’m ready for bed
about as soon as I get my supper, and
that’s about 7 o’clock. I hain’t got no
time to fool around, I tell you;’’ and,
swallowing his last mouthful of sand-
wich and coffee, he began again—‘*Dem-
o-o-o-erat ’n Herald! two for a nickel!’
and was soon lost to view in the crowd.
Energetic, industrious and full of push
and ‘‘go,’? heis just the kind of boy to
make his mark in the world, as have so
many others whose early youth was
spent as his is being spent. He will
make his mark in the world yet, or we
will miss our guess.

Nearly every grocer in the city may be
seen on the market in the morning, and
those who do not come down themselves
have a buyer to represent them. For in-
stance, it is some time since E. J. Her-
rick’s ‘‘notorious phiz” has been seen on
the market. ‘‘Joe,’’? as he is affection-
ately called by his friends, or Joseph
Miedema, as he appears in the directory,
does the buying for his house. No bet-
ter or more capable buyer comes on the
market. He always knows what he
wants and what he ought to pay for it,
and when he stops buying he has
*sstocked up” for the day, and there
won't be much left when night comes,
either.

A. J. Elliott comes no more to the
early morning market; *‘the cock’s shrill
clarion” no more has charms for him in
the ‘‘ghostly dawn,” so he draws the
blinds close, and lets the day break if it
wants to—he has no use for it ‘‘so early
in the morning.”’ A. J. says he gets his
best sleep between 4 and 7 a. m., and
that that is what keeps him always look-
ing so fresh; his friends think he would
be just as fresh if he got no sleep at all,
but no one argues with him about it.
He does not need to come down to the
market if he don’t want to, for what his
buyer does not know about buying has
not been printed yet. Not metaphori-

two for a

tired when night

cally speaking, but actually, his name is
Dennis—L. D. Blackford—and he buys
right every time.

J. Geo. Lehman does his own buying.
He may be seen any morning on the mar-

 

ket shortly after business has begun.
But if you want to be sure of finding
him go to the market lunch counter and
wait for him. Whatever else he may
forget, and his best friends will admit
he does sometimes forget, he never fails
to eat—four times a day and oftener if
he has opportunity. He buys for a trade
that will not take second-class goods,
and he generally manages to get what
they want. His neighbor, D. Arnott, is
another buyer of ability, who buys the
best the market affords.

Henry J. Vinkemulder—which his
stage name it is Henry—not only buys
for his retail trade in the city, but he
has a considerable and constantly grow-
ing wholesale demand from _ outside
which he does his best to fill. He sel-
dom fails to get what he wants, and all
he wants. His wholesale trade, which
started in a small way not many moons
ago, has grown untilit has become one
of the most profitable departments of
his business. Henry admits, however,
that much of his suecess is due to TuE
TRADESMAN as an advertising medium,
and his shrewdness is manifested by his
taking advantage of it. ‘‘Six years old
to-day,’’? said Henry on Aug. 11 to his
customers, and it must be admitted that
he is a remarkably vigorous and well-de-
veloped six-year-old.

B. S. Harris is another buyer of note.
He is a ‘‘general dealer,’’ but his grocery
trade would be considered enough for
the ordinary citizen.

There are a great many more buyers
who might be mentioned, who are recog-
nized as among’ the shrewdest of their
class—Hart, Viergever, Schuit, Wagner,
Winchester, Goss, Gaskill, Jenkins,
Rasch, VanAnroy and a host of others
who are familiar figures on the early
morning market. They are welcomed
by every grower in the line, for, although
they are close buyers, they are good fel-
lows who believe not only in living but
in letting live. Their task is no light
one; they must please the tastes and
palates of scores of customers, hardly
two of whom the same _ tastes.
They are compelled to work early and
late, in fair weather and foul. for very
small return, and yet they preserve their
patience and appear to be having a good
time and to get as much out of life as
most of us do.

have

—>-- >
Food by Chemistry.
Philadelphia has a chemist who be-
lieves that meats of all sorts and flavors
will ultimately be produced in the labor-
atories of the chemist. Says he: ‘*Within
this century 1 expect to see synthetic
steaks, roasts and chops entered upon the
bills of fare at our leading hotels and res-
taurants, and they will be prepared so
artistically as to appeal to the sense of
beauty as well as tothe appetite. At
first, of course, in order to appease the
natural prejudices against anything so
novel, a choice will be afforded between
the real and artificial; but eventually
the killing of animals for food will be
regarded in all civilized countries as bar-
barous. That this is not an absurd pre-
diction is well assured to those who have
observed what synthetic chemistry has
already done in exactly reproducing
mustard, sugar, butter, ice, lemon juice
and flavoring essences, besides madder,
turpentine and many other compounds
used extensively in commerce.”
i — i <li

The man who can pay his debts and
will not, is something like a thief. He
keeps the owner from handling his
money.

Egotism always looks at his ‘‘neigh-
bor’? through the wrong end of the tele-
scope.

 

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STATIONERY

5 PEANY Wl

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For the

Watermark
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We control it in this locality.
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It’s always the same. IT
It’s a credit to your business. ON

Your Note Heads.
Your Letter Heads.
Your Legal Blanks.
Your C hci ks and Drafts

It always gives satisfaction, and, compared with other
stock, the price 1s nothing.

TRADESMAN COMPANY,

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SOLD.AT THIS PRICE

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YOU

if YOU BUY OF HHADQUARTERS, Y
ARE CUSTOMERS OF THE
TRADESMAN COMPANY,

n returning thanks for the large increase in trade for the fall and winter of
1894-5, it affords us much pleasure to acknowledge receipt of many letters
from leading merchants expressing their pleasure on finding that we have in-

troduced so many Impoved Styles in Overcoats and Ulsters. The Paddock Over-
coat is a surprise and leading feature, is dressy and shows the figure to perfection.

Our Clay and Fancy Worsted suits are in great demand, and our large line of
Double and Single-Breasted Suits in Unfinished Worsteds, Chevoits, Cassimeres,
Ete., sold at popular prices, have afforded our customers the pleasure to meet all
competition.

Write our Michigan Representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, Marshall, Mich.,
Box 346 (his permanent address), who will be pleased to call upon you, and you
will see and learn something to your advantage.

All mail orders promptly attended to.

MICHAEL KOLB & SON,
W holesa
ROCHESTER, = a

William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Tuesday, Sept. 10 and 11 and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept.
and 28, Fair week.

 

 
 

 

le Clothiers,
N. 7,

on Monday and
26, 27

 

IHE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
lronwood— Deyo
lronwood Cash Grocery Co.

Fremont—F. E. Hoit has
the grocery business of Landon Bros.

Holiand—Fred Zalsman has embarked
in the produce and commission business.

Flint—Buekley & Shaw succeed Buck-
ley & Pettit in the monument business.

Constantine—Lewis Hutton has pur
chased the meat of Thomas
Wolf.

Traverse City—J. W. Bell will remove
his dry goods stock from Escanaba to this
place.

Hastings—Jos. Rogers & Co. have
signed their grocery stock to Hon. P. T.
Colgrove.

Carsonville—MePherson & Co. succeed
McPherson Bros. in the grocery and dry

Jas. sueceeds the

purchased

 

business

as-

goods business.

Kalamazoo—Lamb & Rodiger, furni-
ture have John A.
Lamb succeeding.

Kalamazoo—Fisher & Harris, produce
and fruit dealers, have dissolved, Fisher

dealers, dissolved,

& Kiine succeeding.

Jonesville—Pomeroy & Son will open
a grocery store in the building formerly
occupied by 1. R. Bentz.

Detroit—J. P. Rosenthal & Co., whole-
sale notion dealers, have dissolved, John
P. Rosenthal continuing.

Watervliet—J. L. Zuver has purchased
A. G. Wigent’s undertaking stock and
will continue the business.

Manistee—Hans Petersen’s
stock has been seized by Claus

clothing
Hoop by
virtue of a chattel mortgage.

Cadiliae—The dry goods store of E. 8S.
MeMahon has been closed by virtue of
a mortgage held by Edson, Moore & Co.,
of Detroit.

Traverse City—Armstrong &
have sold their groeery stock to A. Gold-
farb, R. Yalom-
stein’s clothing business.

Petoskey—D. C. Page, assignee of D.
N. White, the THE
TRADESMAN that the assets of the estate

Bowen

formerly manager of

grocer, writes

amount to $1,700, while the liabilities
aggregate $2,800.
Three Rivers—W. D. Tyler, who

recently had his grocery store closed on
an attachment by J. E. Hummel, the
former owner, has sold the stock back to
him and Mr. Hummel will continue the
business.

Albion—A. P.
Putnam & Co. in the grocery
Mr. Wolcott was the *‘Co.’’
firm. Mr. Putnam will devote all of his
time hereafter to his real estate and cold
storage business.

Traverse City—S. 8. Trevett has re-
moved to this place from Muskegon «nd
has rented the old Steinberg building, in
which he will open for business witha
line of teas, crockery and bazaar goods,
conducting business under the style of
the New York Tea Co.

Shelby—H.
rangments to establish a branch shoe and
hat store at Ferry under the management
Me. Johnston, with the
firm name of H. Jchnston & Son. They
will be ready for business about Sept. 1.

Wolcott succeeds L. L.
business.

of the old

Johnston has made ar-

of his son, John

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

|Kimble and Dr.

Vicksburg—Emory J. Kimble, R. E.
C. H. McKain have

‘formed a ecopartnership and will manu-

facture a steam governor, which is partly
E. J. Kimble’s invention.
Ludington—A deal has been concluded

| between Thomas R. Lyon and E. A. Car-

 

|

| fashioned variety.

tier whereby the latter purchases of the

| former 30,000,000 feet of standing pine,

located chietly in Lakecounty. Mr. Car-
tier is also contemplating the purchase
of one of the two sawmills here belong-
ing to Lyon. The pine purchased is to
be delivered in four years.
<henn 2 2 <—--
Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. H. McWilliams (Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.) leaves to-day on the press
excursion for Lockport, N. Y., where he
will spend a week with friends. He is
accompanied by his wife.

The thanks of loca! traveling men are
due the Tradesman Company, for badges
furnished, and the Putnam Candy Co.,
for candy and gum furnished, on the oc-
casion of the annual picnic.

W. A. VanLeuven sustained the only
serious accident at the traveling men’s
picnic. While running to a base, he
sprained the cords in his right leg, ne-
cesitating his hanging around the house
for a week.

C. W. Hurd (Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co.) has a high opinion of the artistic
ability and prophetic foresight of Long-
year Bros., the Mason druggists. Their
personal sketches portray a depth of
feeling and a thorough familiarity of the
subject little less than remarkable.

Shelby Herald: Tiaveling men and
others who travel on the Pentwater
branch of the C. & W. M. Railway and
find the present time schedule very in-
convenient and who desire an occasional
ride on the local freight decidedly object
to being compelled to pay telegraph tolls
to ask for a permit to ride, besides pay-
ing a first-class fare for the ride. ‘They
think it is as much railroad business as
to telegraph for a car to load with
freight, hence the kick.

The annual pienie of the Grand Rapids
traveling men, which was held at North
Park Saturday afternoon and evening,
was fully as enjoyableas previous events
of the same character. Early in the af-
ternoop Byron 8. Davenport and Ben
Van Leuven selected their base bali
nines, which were designated as ‘‘Weary
Willies” and ‘‘Cheeky Chinnrrs.’? The
game resul ed in a score of 48 to 47, but
in whose favor the scorer was unable to
determine, owing to the very inaccurate
way in which he recorded the runs. The
game was umpired by A. D. Baker, who
would probably have been murdered but
for the intercession and assistance of his
wife, who appeared to know more about
base ball in a minute than he will know
in a lifetime. On the conciusion of the
game, all hands adjourned to supper,
most of those in attendance being pro-
vided with lunch baskets of the old-
Not content with the

| notoriety he obtained as umpire of the

ball game, Mr. Baker insisted on singing
a song, entitled ‘‘Papa’s Pants will Soon
Fit Willie.” The song was well received,
in deference to the lady who played the
accompaniment, and Mr. Baker—mistak-

| ing the applause intended for the accom-

Sturgis—Jay Wait has sold his inter-|

est in the furniture factory of Wait &
Wetmore to A. Winesburg, Fred Utritz
P. Berridge. The business
hereafter be conducted under the style
of the Sturgis Furniture Co.

and

panist as praise for his own effort—insist
ed on singing another song, which depop-

‘ulated the pavilion for the time being.

will |

Dancing began at 8 o’clock and continued
without interruption until 10:30, when
the merry party broke up, taking to their

homes only pleasant memories of the oc- ,

casion.

Father of the River Market Scheme.

“The idea of a River market is not a
new one by any means,’’ said J. A. S.
Verdier, Cashier of the Kent County Sav-
ings Bank to THE TRADESMAN last week.
‘When I was in the Common Council,
twenty years ago, the question of a per-
manent market was agitated, and I sug-
gested a bridge over the River as the best
and most economical settlement of the
question. That was the first time such a
thing had ever been thought of, so I
think I am entitled to be called the
father of the bridge scheme. When 1
first suggested it the cost was estimated
at $100,000, which was a big lot of money
for those days. We had just floated our
waterworks bonds, 9n which we had to
pay 8 per cent. interest, and it was not
thought advisable to go any deeper into
debt at that time. Nothing has been
done since, although the matter has been
discussed and argued from almost every
point of the compass. The location I
preferred and which I advocated at that
time was from Lyon street on the East
side to Allen street on the West side of
the River. This is the most eligible site
in the city, and has the additional ad-
vantage of being central. There are sev-
eral objections to a land site. One is its
cost. Mr. Comstock wants $60,000 for
his site, which may be cheap enough,
but, in addition, buildings must be
erected and the market ground paved, so
that, in the end, it would cost much more
than a bridge market, the probable cust
of which would not greatly exceed $100,-
000. Another objection to a land site is
the difficulty of keeping it clean. There
would be more or less refuse lying around
most of the time. Anyone who has ever
lived or done business near a market will
appreciate this objection. If a bridge
market is built the refuse can be swept
into the River with very little or no
trouble every day. Some objection is
made to throwing the refuse into the
River, but I see no force in such an ob-
jection when it is remembered that
the entire sewage of the city finds its
way to the River. So Idon’t see why a
bridge market should be objected to on
that score. The city must have a per-
manent market of some sort. -The men
who supply us with fruit and vegetables
deserve the accommodation and ought to
have it, and, as things are now, instead
of being an accommodation the market
is a nuisance to everybody.”
— 2 ~<a
Interstate Wholesaie

Association.

Pursuant to call, thirty-five delegates

from State wholesale grocers’

 

 

The Grocers’

associa-
tions, representing twenty-one different
states, met in Chicago Aug 15 and 16 to
organize an Interstate Wholesale Grocer’s
Association, having for its object the
promotion of friendly relations between
wholesale grocers and the interchange of
ideas tending to better methods. Elec-
tion of officers resulted in the selection
of Geo. J. Reed, of Chicago, for Presi-
dent; W. E. Schweppe, of St. Louis, for
Vice-President, and Graeme Stewart, of
Chicago, for Treasurer. The Secretary
will be selected by the Executive Com-
mittee, composed of Jas. Edgar, of De-
troit; Mr. Cox, of Terre Hante: Mr.
Mahon, of lowa; and P. H. Kelly, of
St. Paul.

The Michigan Association was repre-
sented by President W. J. Gould, of De-
troit, and Wm. Judson, of this city, and
the latter gentleman was honored by be-

 

‘ing placed on the Committee on Consti-

 

tution and By-Laws, and also on the
Committee to nominate officers. An
elaborate banquet was tendered the del
egates at the Athletic Club by the Chi-
cago Wholesale Grocers’ Association on
the evening of the 15th, which was
heartily enjoyed by all present. Itis a
notable feature of the organization that
the constitution places the Association
on a broad basis, it being expressly stip-
ulated that the individuality of the firm,

market and State shall be preserved.
Saeed
Use Tradesman. Coupon Books.

 

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Appies—Duchess of Olcenberg take the lead
bringing 40@f0c per bu. Astrakans, 25@40c, and
other varieties from 10c up.

Beans—Commission houses pay from $1.0@
1.65, holding at $1.85@2 per bu.

Beets—40c per bu.

Blackberries—Supply is poor and the quality
is following suit. They are held at $1 per 16 qt.
crate.

Butter—Best dairy is worth 17@20c, and
creamery 22@23c.
Cabbage—Sold for 50@60c per doz. Some

extra large heads sold for home consmmption
for 75¢ per doz.

Carrots—Are worth 15¢ per doz. bunches,

Celery—No change except in quality, which is
improving. The price is 16@18e per doz.

Cucumbers—Have reached 25c per bu.
ling are worth the same.

Eggs—Are up two points since last report.
They now bring 12@13c per doz.

Green Corn—Is held at 8@10ce per doz.

Muskmelons—Indianas bring 75c per doz.
Home-grown, which greatly outclass the others,
are worth $1.25.

Onions—Ripe, ‘0c per bu.
doz. bunches.

Green Peas—Atout out of the market.

Peaches—Thejsupply of Hale’s Early is still
scant; they bring $1.40 per bu. Crane’s Early,
the finest peaches next to the Crawfords that
come to the market, are worth $2.50@2.75; they
also are scarce as yet. Alexanders and Early
Rivers have about disappeared.

Potatoes—Growers have been rushing every
thing in the shape of a potato into the market
and, as a consequence, the price has come down,
They are held at 60@65c per bu. As soon as the
rush is over, they may be expected to rise.

Plums—There was a good supply of Brad-
shaws on the market, which sold readily at 2@
2.25 per bu. They were in excellent condition
for canning. There was a limited supply of
Green Gages and other varieties which brought
fancy prices. Next week thesupply of all
kinds is expected to be ample.

Pears—Home grown brought $1.25@1.50 per bu.
Californias, $1.75@2 per box.

Radishes—Are large and pithy. Thcy sell for
10¢ per doz. bunches.

Squash—There is no export demand, and the
price has dropped to1e per Ib.

String Beans—No export demand whatever,
and growers take what they can get.

Tomatoes—Home grown have the market to
themselves. They are worth $1 per bu.

Turnips—There is a fair demand and dealers
are asking 40¢ per bu.

Watermelons—Are still on the decline.
are now held at 12%@15c per melon.

Crabapples—5vc per bushel.

Henry J. Vinkemulder,

JOBBER OF

Fruits and Vegetables,

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

Pick-

Green, 12%c per

They

 

We quote you choice apples at $1.25 @1.50 per
bbl. Home-grown tomatoes at $1 per bu. Choice
onions at 7c = bu. Potatoes at 70c per bu
Home grown celery at 15c per doz. Green corn
at 10c per doz. Parsley at 20c per doz. Water-
melons at 13@13c. Muskmelons at $1@1.25 per
crate Cabbage at :0@50c per doz. Our cropof
peaches, pearsand plums will be large and the

uality of the fruit fine. This week we will get
the Early Michigan; Mountain Rose and Crane’s
Early peaches, and in about a week or ten days
we will have the Crawfords and Barnards, and
from then until after the middie of October we
shall have plenty of fruit every day. Plums and
pears are coming in now and the stock is good.
Plums bring #2@2.75 per bu. Pears, $1@1.50.
Peaches, $1.50@~.5, (Freestone) per bu.

Send in your orders by mailor wire and
I assure you they will have our prompt
and personal attention and benefit of
lowest possible prices.

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Peterson & Whipfler, brewers at 296
West Bridge street, are sueceeded by
Julius R. Peterson.

E. H. Deling & Co. will shortly opena
new grocery store at Custer. The Olney
& Judson Grocer Co. has the order for
the stock.

Joseph W. Raynor has sold his confec-
tionery business at 300 South Division
street to Geo. W. Adams, formerly in the
grocery business at Ionia.

Wallace Watson has re-engaged in
general trade at Parmelee. The Olney
& Judson Grocer Co. furnished the gro-
ceries, P. Steketee & Sons the dry goods
and Reeder Bros. Shoe Co. the boots and
shoes.

Somebody is laboring under a mistake
in connection with the granting of per-
mits to peddlers by the Mayor. His
Honor says he has not issued any new
permits and has renewed but two of
the old ones. If the Mayor is right—
and he ought to know—then the com-
plaints of the police are a trifle out of
place. They have a right to complain,
of course, at the granting of any per-
mits, which are a plain overriding of the
law, but the Mayor should not be blamed
for what he has not done. Let the
police go to work and enforce the law,
so far as possible, and the Mayor keep
his hands off the city ordinance and
there will be no fault found with
either.

As the fiscal year of the Grand Rapids
Retail Grocers’ Association closed Mon-
day, it is not out of place to glance at the
work accomplished, or attempted to be
accomplished, by the Association. A
level price on sugar has been maintained
throughout the year. This has been a
somewhat difficult matter, as there are
several dealersin the city, not members
of the Association, whose one object in
life seems to be to sell sugar at or below
cost. Some timid members have been
shaken by the action of these pirates,
but, on the whole, the card price has
been well maintained. The operation of
the sealer of weights and measures ordi-
nance has been, at least temporarily,
suspended. This was the result, un-
doubtedly, of the vigorous protest of the
Association against the unjust and in-
efficient manner in which the ordinance
was being enforced. Protest was also
entered against the imposition of fees,
as it was held by the Association that if
the people want inspecticn of weights
and measures, they should be willing to
pay for it, and not saddle the cost upon
dealers, who have already enough to con-
tend with. If the ordinance is ever
again enforced it will be upon an entire-
ly new basis. In the matter of the
peddling nuisance the Association has
spoken with no uncertain sound. Not as
much was accomplished in this direction
as could have been desired, partly be-
eause of the hard times, but, more es-
pecially, because a License Committee
was appointed by Mayor Fisher who
seemed anxious to give the peddlers the
earth and compel the grocers to build
a fence around it. This work has not
been abandoned, however, but is in
good shape for next season. In the
meantime the Association has carefully
noted the course of events, keeping track
of the manner in which the police de-
partment has enforced the law. The

THH MICHIGAN

Association records its thanks to Super-
intendent Carr, and those under him,
who have had charge of the work of
enforcing the peddling ordinance. They
have done their whole duty in a most
commendable manner. Grocers, like
others, have a social side to their nature,
and this feature of the work of the As-
sociation has by no means been neg-
lected. As a consequence, the members
have become better acquainted with each
other and a better spirit has prevailed.
This has tended to harmonize the mem-
bership and give to each a better under-
standing of the needs of all. The As-
sociation is to be congratulated upon the
success which has attended its efforts
during the past year. With the advent
of better times, which cannot be much
longer delayed, there is the assurance of
a still larger measure of success in the

coming year.
—_—_—_—>--a———————

The Grocery Market.

Sugar (Edgar)—Refined sugars have
ruled firm at unchanged prices except
Nos. 13 and 14, which advanced ‘¢¢ Mon-
day and ‘gc Tuesday. A large business
has been done, but transactions have not
reached nearly so large proportions as
was expected in view of the passage of
the Senate bill, the usual large contin-
gent evidently awaiting President Cleve-
land’s signature before investing further,
when, of course, the opportuuity will
have been lost. Itis generally believed
that the bill will become a law and under
its operation retined sugar will doubtless
advance 4@e per pound. Assuming
3¢ to be a normal basis for 96 deg. Cen-
trifugals, the duty paid price under the
new act will be 4 1-5¢e, and the usual
margin between raw and refined would
advance the price of granulated to 53g¢
at the refinery under ordinary conditions,
but the surplus abroad may prevent the
full advance just at this time. The raw
market is very strong and quotations are
based on comparatively small transac-
tions, owing to the scarcity of offerings.
No considerable quantity is available at
31ge. English granulated is offered at
53gc, less 2 per cent., to come in under
the new tariff.

Oranges—Do not seem to be ‘‘in it.”’
Demand for them is very light, although
the 200 size Rodis are really fine fruit.
There are so many peaches, melons and
other homegrown fruits that oranges are
neglected. People say, ‘‘We will take
seasonable fruit when we can get it and
oranges we must.”? Fruit stands
are an exception, however, as they want
them all the time.

Lemons—Are_ in

when

good supply and
prices are steady at reasonable figures.
The offerings, which are quite large, do
not average a high degree of excellence,
and that fact, taken with the cool
weather, has prevented a large demand,
as no one is buying for speculation.

Bananas—Receipts are good and the
fruit is selling at prices very favorable
to the retailer. The demand, however,
is not very good, as the supply of domes
tie fruits is ample and tropical fruits are
consequently neglected.

Dried Fruits—The new tariff reduces
the duty on raisins from 244 to 1\e per
th , which will have a tendency to make
lower prices on imported goods. The
duty on prunes is reduced from 2 to 1c
per fb.

Pork—The week’s receipts of hogs on

 

the Chicago market were 136,961, a de-
crease from the previous week of 33,000

and an increase over the corresponding
week last year of 12,000. The advance
in pork during the week has been tre-
mendous, caused by the high price of
corn and the discouraging crop pros-
pects. Everything in barreled pork,
except mess, has advanced from $1 to
$1.50 per bbl. Lard, all brands, has ad-
vanced from ‘4@1se per th. Cottoline
is up 4c. Smoked shoulders are down
lve. Beef in barrels remains unchanged,
except boneless rump butts, which are
up $1.50. Business for the week in the
local market is reported fair, with the
prospect good.

i — i

The Hardware Market.

General trade keeps up fairly well.
Purehasing for fall requirements has not
started in yet, but there is a good deal of
enquiry for many things. Prices on
sheet iron, elbows, stove boards, stoves,
etc., are settled and the indications are
that there will be no change. The pass-
age of the tariff bill and the early ad-
journment of the disorganizers of trade
and traffic—otherwise our Congress—can-
not help but have a good effect.
the manufacturer, as well the mer-
chant and farmer, knows what is what,
and can make his calculations
ingly.

Barbed Wire—The demand keeps up
unusually well for this time of the year
and the mills are able to give prompt
shipments. The price remains steady
and we do not look for any change this
fall.

Wire Nails—Are in quite brisk de-
mand, and, as only a part of the mills
are in operation, it is not an easy matter
to keep up assortments. The prospect
of any further advance is not good. Nor
do we look for any lower prices.

Ammunition—As the hunting season
on some kinds of game is near at hand,
the demand for shot, shells and powder
is very good. There has been an ad-
vance of 5c per bag in shot and, as is
generally the case, the shot makers try
and advance at that rate until the price
reaches $1.50 for drop. The present
quotations are $1.25 per bag for drop
shot and $1.50 per bag for buck shot.
Loaded shells, 40, 10 and 10 from list.
For good orders on loaded shells this
price can be shaded.

Tariff Bill—As the passage of this
bill will affect quite a few articles in the
hardware line, we give below a few com-

parisons of the old and the new rate of
duty:

Now
as

accord-

Old rate. . New rate.
iron ore.........- $% 75 per ton. 40 per ton.
Tin plate 2.20 per ewt ‘ = per cwt.
Anvils. .. oe os Lae
Serews, % in. and

lessin length... .14 per Ib. -10 per Ib.
Screws, '3tolin. .10 oe 17 * =
Lead, pigandbar .02 | oa a « «
Shece vane .... 2 tae" & Ol “*
Horseshoes ..... 01&10* “ 25 *per cent.
Chaim .....-..-... a cio” © = .
Galvanized and

Sheet Iron..... 1.35 per cwt. 8-10 per lb.

Mica
* Ad Valorum.

35 per cent. 20 *per cent.

<i
Laces in America.

A good deal has been said about the
precious collection of laces owned by
some of the royal ladies of Europe, but
it is now well known that there are sey-
eral ladies in America who have laces
more valuable than those owned by any
European potentate. The laces of the
Astor family are valued at $300,000, and
those of the Vanderbilts at $500,000.
More lace is bought in New York that in
any other city of the world. The pope
is said to own lace to the value of $875,-
000. Queen Victoria has $375,000 werth,
while those belonging to the Princess of
Wales are valued at $250,000. The wed-
ding dress of the Queen was trimmed

 

 

with a piece of Honiton, which -”
$5,000.

 

5

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.

 

D—POSITION AS MANAGER
clerk in dry goods or general store.
window dresser. References.
Haven, Mich,

OR SALE—CHEAP FOR GASH.
mill in first-class repair,
Holmes & DeGolt, Tustin. Mich.
W 7 ANTED—POSITION
book keeper in a
references furnished
Remus, Mich.
y JANTED—FURNITURE
for a drug store
Address C. W. Vining,

OR
Good
Box AA, New
587
. SHINGLE-
40,000 capacity-
688
AS | CLERE OR
general store. Good
Address A. D. Diehm.
589
AND FIXTURES
Price must be right
Lakeview, Mich. 536
Wy Sete FOR CASH—STOCK GENERAL
merchandise. Must becheap. Also store
building in Northern Michigan. W.H. Pardee.
Freeport, Mich. 584

W 7A ANTED—TO EXCHANGE STORE BUILD
ingin Vassar, Mich., for stock of mer-

chandise worth about $1,600. Store torent. Ad

dress T. W., 506 Cherry St., Toledo, Ohio. 582

WVANTE tD—A DEALERIN EVERY COUNTY

 

 

 

 

¢ to handle the Peerless typewriter. Send

for circular. Barker & Saunders, State Agents,
19 and 21 Fountain St.,Grand Rapids, 583

YOU WANT TO SELL OR TR ADE, SEND

F
I a list of your property
for advertising same. We
chances for you.
change, Bay City,

and 25 cents to pay
“sil a good many

Address Business Men’s Ex
580

Mich,
FOR SALE—TWO P RESC RIPTION
one pair druggist’s prescription scales,
four section druggist’s drawers (only one year
old), six four foot show cases, very cheap. Ad-
dress °C. G. Pitkin, White = Mich, 581

W ANTEL ANTED—EVERY iGGIST JUST

starting in business a every one alre ady
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you $15 you can now get for $4. Four
teen labels do the work of 113. T radesman
Company, Grand Rapids.

 

| CASES,

   

 

 

7 OR SALE—LARGE STORE, WAREHOUSE,

barn, etc., with one-half interest in stock

of general merchandise in the village of McBain.

Missaukee county, Mich. For terms write to Gil
lis McBain, McBain, Mic ih, 578

\ JANTED—A GOOD oo SECOND
hand safe. Must be cheap Write us par

tic ulars, Morden & Miner rr, Alma Mic h. Bc
T°, "RENT—BEST LOGATION IN’ THE CITY.
The new Waldron Building, opposite union
depot, 50x80 feet. Three stories and basement.
Suitable for whole sale trade. Apply to Scribner

Bros., 67 Lyon St. 575

WAV ANTED—STOCK OF GROCERIES—NOT
v to exceed #1,50°—in exchange for cash
and real estate in a thriving Nebraskac ity. Ad
dress i. Clark, Ashley, Ind. 573

OR. SALE—A FINE CONFECTIONERY
store in Traverse City, the queen city of
the North. Best location intown. Will invoice
about 31,800. Terms, one-half cash, balance on
time with approved notes. Address No 567
care Michigan Tradesman. F67 i
A 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
years for himself. Address ‘‘Pharmacist,”’ care
Michigan Tradesman. 586
EARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER
for sale at a great reduction from cost.
Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of

 

 

 

 

a make of machine, which we consider the
best on the market. Tradesman Company, 100
Louis St., Grand Rapids. 64

Gee AT OFFER—FINE STOCK OF WALL
XJ 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 Sehwind, Grand Rapi ds. F6t

~ 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,
stove and 39 acres of land, a good water power,
22 foot fall, side track into mill, plenty of hard
wood timber. Thisisa —s chance for anyone
wishing to engage in any kind of mill business.
For further particulars ad¢ dress B. W. Barnard,
35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 559
CC —. FACTORY WANTED—A PARTY
with some capital and who understands the
business, to build and operate a canning fae tory

      

 

at Grant, Newaygo Co., Mich. For particulars
write to H. C. Hemingsen, Village Clerk, Grant,
Mich. 553

 

oo 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

WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TIGKETS

ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Original set of four = > = - 5c
Complete set often = : - = oc

Order quick or lose the meitiedts of
a lifetime to secure these souvenirs at a
nominal figure. They will be worth ten
times present cost within five years.

 

aa he

Tradesman Company,

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

CURRENT CRITICISMS.

The law has been avenged. Santo
Caserio has been guillotined: but—Presi-
dent Carnot is still dead.

* * +

If Santo were the only anarchist, we
would have the melancholy satisfaction
of reflecting that perhaps President Car-
not had not died in vain.

* # *

But in all probability even now the

knife is being whetted for the next vic-

tim, and the lot being drawn for the next
assassin.
* * *
Who will be the next victim? Per-

haps Victoria of England, or William of
Germany, or Cleveland of the United

States. It is not a question of whom
with the anarchist.
* * *
Wouldn’t it, therefore, save a large

quantity of tears and crepe if the police
wou'd just collect sufficient evidence to
eonvict them

then serve them as Santo was served ?
* * *

It might save a life of more value than
the lives of all the anarchists on earth or
in hades; in any event it would rid the
earth of a very undesirable class of citi-
zens.

% * *

At last the country has a tariff bill.
And it is some satisfaction to know that
the sugar trust has been placed beyond

the reach of want.
i. = s

Senator Gorman is the biggest man in
the United States to-day. He has downed
Congress, the President and the entire

administration.
* * *

It is a ‘‘tariff for revenue only’’ sure.
y

But the revenue goes to the sugar trust.
* * +

At least as much may be said for the
tariff bill as Lincoln said about some-
thing else: ‘‘For those who like that sort
of thing, that’s about the sort of thing
they’d like.”

* * *

Professor Wilson is the author of the
late lamented Wilson bill. He is also
Chairman of the House Committee on
Ways and Means. He recently asserted
that, in view of the probable passage of
the sugar schedule, the sugar trust had
imported about $100,000,000 worth of
raw sugar.

* % %

Professor Wilson said also that the
quantity of sugar imported was 448,000
tons, which at $100,000,000 for the lot

would be at the rate of $223.21 per ton.
+ = =

Granulated sugar costs at wholesale a
trifle over $100 a ton. Will someone
please figure out the refiners’ profit on
the above speculation, according to Prof.
Wilson ?

*€ a *

As a matter of fact $60 a ton is a good
price for raw sugar, and 448,000 tons
would last the American Sugar Refining
Co. alone about three months.

* * *

‘“‘What this country wants is lovers,
not haters,’? warbles an organ of union-
ism in this city. Of course it means
lovers of unionists, forclubs are trumps
when unionists meet a non-union work-

man.
=e «£

The merchant who grumbles and sighs,
And turns up the whites of his eighs
In sorrow and pique
Because trade’s very wique
Is the fellow who won't a permene.
2

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

of being anarchists and |

 

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

~

  

Adriatic ......
Argyle... - 5%
Atlanta AA 6
Atlantic A 6%
. H . 6%
“u P 5
- D . s
- .. 4%
aes... rps
Archery Bunting...

Beaver Dam AA.. he
Blackstone O, 32...
Black Crow..

 

 

Newmarket G

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
2. “ce

Arrow Brand 4
“* World Wide. 6

   

a 4%
Full Yard Wide. 6%
Georgia A.. - BY
Honest Width. 6
HartfordA ... .s
Indian Head........ 8%
er 6%
King EC. 2

Lawrence L L. 4%
Madras cheese cloth =
5%

aa... oe l6hUmmUmmUmlUCUlC
ee, AO a ne, 7 - a... 6%
Cotet A... ox “ DD.... 5%
ees F.... - x 6%
Chapman cheese cl. 3% Nothe 5 5
eo i 544|Our Level Best..... 6
OE fo crore &.........., 6
Dwight Ster......... Sar eaeee.............. 7
Cita CCC........ See... 8

|Top of the Weap.. ua

BLEACHED COTTONS.
Ace. ...... - 8%/Geo. Washington... 8
Aa... Cine BEES... 7
ee 6 (Gold Medal......... ™%*
Art Cambric........ 10 iGreen Ticket....... 84
Blackstone AA..... 7%|Great Falls.......... 6%
eee Ae... i. wee. My
ee. 12 jJust Out...... 4%@ 5
a... 6% |King Phillip bee eee 7%
ee 6X ..... ™%h
Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..19
Cres w...... ... 744|Lonsdale.. @3
Cleveland ...... ... 6 |Middlesex.... .. @5
Dwight Anchor. 5 io Resee............ 7%

- shorts 8 |Oak — Lee 6
Edwards... .. _= ar oee....,......, 5%
Reese. ..-. -..,. 7 |Prideof the West...12
Farwell.. - ere... 7%

| Fruit of the Loom. S eeeeeee.......---. 4%
ieee ....,... . oie eee........- —
Porm Prise. ........- 6 . Nonpareil .

Fruit of the Loom %. 7% i |white B Oe eee =
ees... 414|White Horse........ 6
Pall Vetus.......... 6X — oo - 8%

 

 

HALF BLEACHED COTTON!

 

 

re a. ee Anchor eee 8
earece....... ._... oe
CANTON FLANNEL.
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife A........5% Housewife ¢ eae oe 61g
C EE EE 7
“ C.. e - 5 eee cen 7%
“ a 6% “ ee 8%
_ =e 7 “ Cl 9%
_ - Th ss ¥.... 10
- oe Th - _.. -10%
” ies ues 7% - 2... 11%
a 814 e Ze 12%
“ Deen eeee 8% - Sc 13%
‘ cL
_ ce
' _ aes 10%
ed i “1
“ oO... 21
r.... 14%
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white...... 17 oe a colored. ..18
color -19 | White —.-........ 17
eas. "18% | ** colored .19
DRESS GOODS.
a heen : Nameless reece conee =
ss ne “$056 " a. «ee
G G Cashmere. eoen 20 “ oe
Rao ... ......- 16 - too occ
a 18 “ o <a
CORSETS.
OOERTIND. 2.3505 02000 89 50/Wonderful . —— -
__——— 9 00|/Brighton.. nu 75
Davis Waists..... 9 00/Bortree’s .......... $ 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50;|Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
aoe .......-..... 6%|Naumkeagsatteen.. 7%
Androscoggin....... Hes oe! 6
Biddefoera........... Conestoen.......... 7%
Brunswick. ...-.  &% Walworth ...... --. 6&
= 8.
Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.... 5%
—... 5 Clyde Robes........
“ a & purple 5%/Charter Oak fancies 4
- oe... .. 5% | Del Marine = 5%
“ pink checks. 5% ourn’g 5%
' staples ...... 5 Eddystone Foamy 5%
. shirtings ... 3x chocolet 5%
American fancy.. . ee - 5%
Americanindigo.. or . ateens.. 5%
American shirtings. Ba Hamilton fancy... 5%
Argentine Grays.. 2 wg» .. 5%
Anchor ——-- Manchester ancy. - 5%
Arnold new era. 5%
Arnold Merino..... 6 idle D fancy. 5%
long cloth B. 9 |Merrim’ckshirtings. 4
Cc. 7% ss — - 8%
“century cloth : Pacific = - 5%
“ §=6gold seai..... 0% ee 6
‘* green seal TR 10% Pevieusute robes... 6%
“yellow seal. a Simpson mourning. oo OM
- ........ — 6h lU”.h.lC«Ce 5%
‘“ urkez red..10% . oa a bisck. 5%
Ballon solid black.. Washington indigo. 6%
colors. Turkey robes.. oy
Ben al blue, a7 ‘* India robes.... 7%
and —-- _. - plain Tky x % 5%
Berlin ee _— * x...
ane 6 * Ottoman =
o omg _. ee. %
‘“ 6Foulards . 5% Martha Washington
“ %&.. 7 Turkey red &..... 7
“ a 9%| Martha Washington
ne Ye. -10 Turkey red........ 9%
ss “ 34XXXX . Riverpoint robes 5%
Cocheco fomer...... Windsor rig ae 6%
madders. . 8 —_ ticket
- XX twills.. indigo blue.......
_ ee... 5 jHermony......... . 4%
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag ACA....i1%/ACA.. - 11%
Hamitjen se ........ 7 Pemberton AAA....16
SS 8 |Yor a ....10%
a Awning. .11 Swift 28 Eetaae 7%
fe ceded con cece BS esr River......... 12
a e.......... een... 12k
fan Mills oo 18 |Comostogs .......... 16
COTTON DRILL.
sas, 2.......... ee secs ae 8
ae oe eee......., .. 7%
i 7 [teapot Beap........ 9

 

 

DEMINB.
Amoskeag..........12 [Columbian brown..12
c ro..... 14 |Everett, blue........ 12%
. brown .14 ' brown. ....12%
Ao... 5... “1% Haymaker Sine. .... 7%
Beaver Creek AA.. brown... 7%
BB.. ee 11},
_ oC.. Lancuster .......... 12%
Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, -un...... 13%
blue 8% 0. 220....13
“ d «twist 10% . No. 250. ...11%
Columbian XXX br.10 . No. 280....10%
XXX bl.19
GINGHAMS,
Apeonbeir ...... ... Lancaster, staple... 5
. Penton dress a . fancies .... 7
. Canton .. 7 _ Normandie 7
. AVG...... &%|Lancashire.......... 6
a Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 5%
- Angola. .10%/Monogram.. - 6%
" Persian.. 7. |Normandie.. 7
Arlington staple.... 614/Persian. : cc. 2
a fancy.... 4%|Renfrew ‘Dress...... 7%
Bates Warwick dres 74%|Rosemont..........- 6%
i ee 6 |Slatersville ......... 6
Centennial. . ~. ee oereet............ :
CO errors... .....-... 7%
Cumberland staple. ee aol) Ga Hord....... 8%
Cumberland.... .... wee... .-.:-.-- T%
eee... ...... i ‘¢  seersucker.. 7%
— eee... ......
Everett classics..... 8%/|Whittenden......... 8
Hxpeshtion.......... Tg ‘heather dr. 7%
feeeeeeee....... 1... 6% ' indigo blue 9
Gienarven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6%
(Caeaweon........... i Westbrook acces 8
een *
Jobnson Uhalon cl *s Windermeer.... ....
' Eadie bie SEivore..... .......... 8%
. zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Suqevene ne = eee ooo oe
American..... a i3 ..
oo
Clark’s Mile End.. eer. te, 95
(oer, «- OF ....... - eres ... ....-- 90
Holyoke ee 22%

 

ENITTING COTTON.

 

White. Colored. White. Colored
—. 5... = mo. .......27 42
. 2 34 Sei hlUee 43
, =... SS Mi 39 44
Sz 36 41 ent 45
CAMBRICS,
a 4 (Béwards........... ¢€
Wee Ster...... ... © Bocewoer...... ... 4
moe Geee......... 4 |Wood’s oo 2
Newmarket......... 4 |Brunswick ........ 4
RED FLANNEL,
Pewee... ..... eg 22%
Crectmeore.....-.... ewe & ce a
Tee mae....,.... -— oe, Bee......... 35
Dace... . .... we speneeeete..4. 224 00.0 82%
MIXED FLANNEL,
ae; . _ plaid. © iGrey SER W......... 17%
Ct 22%| Western W ......... 18%
Windsor pence sebeee ee 18%
Gos Wontern........ 2 jFlushing X2z...... 23%
alee 8 ....:........ Seg Masobe.... ......- 23%
eae FLANNEL.
Nameless ae : ne 9 @10%
ae yoio” _ bese 12%
ae AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate . Brown. Black.
9% 9 944 /10% 10 10%
10% 10% 10%/11% 11% 11K
11% 11% 114/12 12 12
12% 12% 12% vl 20 20
puc
Severen, § oz........ 9% West Point, 8oz....10%
Mayland, cos....... 10% 10 oz 12%
Greenwood, 7% oz. “aa ial ss. ........ 3%
Greenwood, ‘-.... 7 Ce 13%
Boston, § os......... ».10 %|Boston, 10 oz........ 12%
WADDINGS.

Waite, Gee...... 2... 25 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 50
Colored, dos........ -— eee ~ 7 50
SILESIAS.

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

Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie..............
. Se en 10%) Bedford... 194
" Beet AA..... i et City. ec oess 10%
i ae 10%
es ee ae
SEWING SILE.
Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli re.
twist, doz..4¢ per 40s ball......
50 pt doz. .40

 

OKS AND EYES—PER @
No : BI’. & White. No 4 BI'r é & ‘White.. =

 

 

is ; “ sy 2 " » 25

No 2—20, me... Wena 4-15 # 3%...... 40

216,58 C........

No 2 White & BYK.12. ‘No 8 8 White & BI’k..20
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SAFETY PINS.
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none eB
oS 1 40|Steamboat.... ...... go
ee, . oe Eepee.......... 1 50
eT A .... 2a + Oy Amorican.........-- 1 00
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....175 64... --165 6—4...2 30
COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 14
a 12 Rising Star4-ply....17
I oe oc enue 18% r 3-pl oo» |
eee... 6 ior Sher... 20
I ieee ce 13 | Wool Standard 4 plyi7%s
Cherry Valley...... 1 (Powhatian .........
Poe 8

PLAID OSNABURGS

aes........-....- - Pleasant.... 6%
Alamance....... Co 5
I erp ienciccn Te ReOOe .W......+..- 5%
AP gees... .......3. 6 (Randeiman......... 6
oes... ......... 61¢|Riverside........... 5g
oe Smremeer A........ .., 6%
Rew Siver......... > ree...
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Everything in seeds is kept by us—

 

Clover, Timothy,
H[ungarian, 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. T. LAMBREAUX 60., w. triage 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
the

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SAGINAW, MICH.

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MERCHANT-PEDDLERS.

 

Important Opinion by Attorney Gen- |
eral Ellis.

E. B. Howard, Deputy State Treasurer, Lans
ing Mich.:

DEAR SIR
the letters of ——of
requesting my opinion
ceived and considered.

It appears that is the owner of a
grocery store in the village and delivers
to his customers goods from his store by
this means, such as they may chance to
need. Where the goods are put up and
weighed to suit the demands of the
customers, does not appear. I shall
suppose, at least in this case, that it is
done in the wagon, as there is nothing
stated to the contrary, and that is the
most reasonable hypothesis. Neither
does it appear where the orders are
taken, nor when or where payments are
made.

Section 1263 of Howell’s Statutes,
which is section 22 of the chapter rela-
tive to hawkers and peddlers, provides:
‘*No merchant shall be allowed to peddle,
or to employ others to peddle, goods not
his own manufacture, without the
license in this chapter provided.”

Webster defines the word ‘‘peddle,” as
follows: ‘*To go about and sell; to re-
tail by carrying around from customer to
customer; to hawk; to retail in small
quantities.”’

Under an ordinance of the city of
Macon, which provided that persons re-
tailing fresh meat in the city, whether
from stalls, stores, or by peddling the
same on the street, should pay a license
of fifty dollars, it was held that a
butcher whose residence, shop and
slaughter pen were all out of the city
limits, but who habitually hauled into
the city a part of his fresh meat, and from
his wagon delivered it to regular cus-
tomers at their doors in the city, was
within the terms of the ordinance, and
subject to the payment of the license
fee.

Davis & Company vs. Mayor
Council of Macon, 64 Ga., 128.

I cannot see but what the wagon is
made a kind of portable store and moved
daily to the door of each customer, and
in my opinion merchants who do busi-
ness of the character above stated, and
in the manner assumed, are not exempt
from the provisions of the statute, and
should be required to pay the license
fee, as therein provided.

Respectfully,
A. A. Ennis, Attorney General.
ee

Questionable Methods in Trade.

WILLIAMSBURG, Aug. 7—Can you give
the readers of your valuable journal the
standing of Peter Henkel, of Detroit?
For some time a man ¢alling himself T.
F. Sink has been selling groceries to
farmers and others in this vicinity at
prices which has made people almost
crazy. For instance, granulated sugar,
4 cents a pound, and other sugars in pro-
portion; Mocha and Java coffee, 16 cents
per pound. I will not weary you any
further, but please give a statement of
the responsibility and reputation of Hen-
kel, Sink & Co. W. S. ERNST.

As the Peter Henkel Co. is an old-es-
tablished and reputable wholesale gro-
cery house of Detroit, which should be
above resorting to such reprehensible
methods as set forth by our correspon-
dent, his letter was forwarded to the Hen-
kel Co. with a request for an explana-
tion. Here is its reply:

Detroit, Aug. 13—Replying to yours
of Aug. 11, we beg leave to say that the
man your correspondent refers to is T.
F. Sink, of this city. Mr. Sink is a ped-
dler. He buys his goods from us and
sells them all through the State. He has
no connection with our firm, and, if he
represents himself as our agent, he does
so without our authority, and we dis-
claim any responsibility for any dealings
he has with any one. P. HENKEL Co.

The reply is far from satisfactory and
discloses a condition of things highly
disecreditable to the Peter Henkel Co.
No house which looks to the legitimate

                

ferring to me
—, and
thereon, is re-

 

 

 

and

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retail dealer for support should cater to

| the trade of peddlers or permit peddlers

 

, to use the name of its house in peddling
goods from door to door. In the opinion
of THE TRADESMAN it would have been
far more creditable to the Peter Henkel
Co. to bave assured the trade that ped-
dlers’ patronage was not wanted and that
methods calculated to undermine legiti-
mate trade would not be tolerated or en-
couraged, either directly or indirectly.

It is such abuses that the Northern
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
was organized to combat and THE
TRADESMAN trusts that the retail grocers
of Southern Michigan will proceed along
the same lines, in which case grocers all
over the State will be in a position to
co-operate in these matters. Perhaps,
however, a State organization would
cover the ground more completely and ef-
fectively than two separate and district
organizations.

lion lillie
The Outlook for Hops.
From the New York Shipping List.

As the time approaches for harvesting
the new crop of hops the interest of the
trade in the prospective course of the
market is increasing. Recent reports
from the producing regions both in this
country and Europe are indicative of an
unusually large production, and in view
of this probability, prices have been
lately influenced in a downward direc-
tiop. In some localities dry weather has
affected the crops to some extent, but in
general the conditions necessary to pro
mote an abundant yield have attended
the work in the fields. From Eng-
land and the Continent, similar informa-
tion has been coming to hand for some
time past and the markets there are ac-
cordingly easier in tone. Reports from
California and the entire Pacific Coast
hop-raising districts denote an excellent
outlook. The Department of Agricul-
ture estimates that California alone will
produce about 75,000 bales and that Or-
egon will follow with at least 50,000
bales. Washington also will contribute
its full share and New York State may
safely be depended upon to furnish the
usual quantity. It would therefore seem
that so far as the United States is con-
cerned, unless some unforeseen disaster
should overtake the industry, the yield
will exceed the average of recent years,
while the encouraging reports from
abroad make it almost certain that the
world’s production will be extremely
prolific. The quality of the maturing
hops is said to compare favorably with
previous crops and on the whole, from
the buyers’ standpoint, the situation is
very satisfactory. The question of fu-
ture prices is as yet somewhat uncertain,
but as dealers are anticipating an active
demand both on export requirements and
for domestic consumption, it is. probable
that values will not recede materially, if
at all, from present figures.

oOo

Money is always fashionable; but it
does not follow that a sensible man is
out of money because he happens to be
out of style.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

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

 

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ee ee. ——
ee
ee ee... C...................
Jeeniaee, Dae. ......... s0&10

AXES.
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.. der enece @ on
. We rs ceca c encase . 00
if o. ©. & Slee... ....... Le ee 7 50
‘i _t.............. = 50
BARROWS.
Meatread 2... $12 00 “a “00
. ...................-... ieee a bet 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
eee i i. ..50&10
Guanes wee ioc - 75&10
ce i 40&10
Sleigh a
BUCKETS.
oe ee $350
Meee PO 400
seers CAsT. dis.
ee 10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5astjoint 40...... 66410

 

  
   

   
   

   

   

 

 

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Wrought — Lg eae . HAMMERS.
roug. ee 4 ( QR
Wrought Inside Blind..................... 2. oo eo ae On
Ro ee % | Yerkos & Plumb’s................ . dis. 40&10
me Cee ec... 5 ae Mason's Solid Cast Sieel............_.... 30c list 60
Blind, —— 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .30¢ 40410
py MAAS PAL Bt et eet ee eee ee eee ee eee ‘ H INGE,
BLOCKS, Gate, Clark's, 1,2,3...... ! . dis.60&10
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10 | State......................---..-. per dox. net, 2 50
eee gyn Hook and Strap, to 12 In. 4% 14 and
7 ON ee 3%
ee 49&10 Screw Hook and Eye, ¥%.. . net 16
CROW BARS, oo net 8%
ee me eta. Gf a eet tens = i
Ely’s 1-10 CAPS. eis . eg * c
SY BA-LU . we crew cc ever encccverccoses r dis.
—" et a ease o 60 | Barn Door Kidder Min c " “Wood track....50&10
G.D..... wre ee ete eee eres eeees i 3 | Champion, anti-friction........ 2)... 60&10
‘
ee oe Gl) Widder, wood track ................ 0... 40
CARTRIDGES, HOLLOW WARE.
ee 58 ee a 60&10
Coane Pee aan a ee ‘cana
OHISELS. dis. | Gray enameled.. | 40610
Racket ine 75&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
ae SR ee Ti 75&10 ee oe _ oR --+- Dew ow i 2
re 75&10 pann n r . -:
Soetat Gus ......__. "7510 Granite Iron Ware ..... _ new lis. 2t
Batehars’ Fanged Wirmer.....-..... 5... . 40 WIRE 600D8. dis.
omnes. dis. ew ae ee Ne eeces os 70&10&10
u i Se oe... - -70&10&10
ee, Ree wl vec ecc cca.)
i ce ds cone 25 | Gate Hooks and Eyes............... 70&10&10
OHALK. LEVELS. dis.7
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s :
ROPES.
COPPER. Sul Minthandiaines |
—" 14 oz — ae... .. per pound 20) Maniia.......... eee oe eee 01
4x52, 14x ae... 26. SQUARES. da
Cold Rolled, téxs6 and 1460...0 2011.1, 23 Steel and Iron.... . — Sees aye a RIO
Cold Rolled; 14x48 ee lee hee vane cues et ey oe Bove... cc
as. Ct. . Ll eta toe “ | mare........... Ce 20
DRILLS. 5. SHEET IRON.
Morse’s i Soche i gf Com. Smooth. Com.
Taper and straight Shank................... 50 | Nos. 100 14...................+---. 850 80
Mouse s Teper Guemk...................... ; 50 oe : rrteeeeeee BSG 2 60
DRIPPING PANS, asl Ue Ce
nit eee Gor pou 8% Nos. pala amas an ag 2 90
Tage ee, ber oot. C#...... ..... 06 | No. : 3% 00
ELBOWS. sar sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
Gun. . aon, CT aa aaay dos. net 75| Wide not less agg ror
oe dis 40 r :
—— dia, 40&10 | List acct. 19, "86 ......................... dis. 50
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Silver Lake, White + sania aR 50
Clark’s, small, $18; a —............... 30 _s.......... 55
Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824 ac a ee 25 ' woe b........ 50
FILES— ew st. ' eee... " 55
Pee 60&10-10 vs White ¢..... a
Tew Aries... ..... 6010-10 Discount, 10.
a as euee 6 . SASH WEISHTS,
cucee eee Come eee
cine; 6 Homes Hoes .. .........-.......... , SAWS. _— tot “py
@ALVANIZED IRON. - PP ey a. ec site ies "20
g ¢ put, per foot,....
= “> ~ xe ~~ 4; “— #6 5 - = vs Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50
Discount, 60 -10 ' : ecial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
es dis. Cn poomeg ary and Electric Tooth X si
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ....... 50 . a EE ~~"
KNOBs—New List. am [hee Game... —
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .... ... Loe 55 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...........
Door, porcelain, 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. *
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings . Mee cea So | Mouse Choker... ................_.. 18¢ per dos
Door, porcelsin, Co ee oo} Mmounc Gclanion.................... $1.50 per dos
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 WIRE. dis.
LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Bright Market.. eee die tla a ie od 70
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ... 55 | Annealed NNR ARNT: “70-10
allory, Wheeler & Co.'s. ny COpperee Memrmee 60—10
Branford’s NE EE 62%
Norwalk’s 55 | Coppered Spring Steel. ee meee cee 50
eee Barbed Fence, galvanised. . ese eeee cel lc, 2 7%
2 SEES SSE Ne icinneosi sD 816.00, dis, 60-10 Wa 2 30
Thiet ee 5... $15.00, dis. 60-10 Au Sable dis 40&10
Ce ee $18.50, dis. — ll * aig. 05
a. a
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled Loe wey ca seuee < 50 Sn CHES. - 10&10
8.
Coffee Parkers Co. s oe os coe 40 Renter’ e Adjustable, “nickeled seen 30
PS. & W. Mfg. Cos Malleabi 40 (oce Gomme... 50
- fa went &Cler es. 49 | €00’S Patent Agricultural, wrought, . 75
i Enterprise Leah 30 Coe’s Patent, malleabl : was «> -AUOO
MOLASSES GATES, dis. | Bird Cages MIBORLEANEOUS, ven
a 60410 Pumps, Cistern CC 75410
Giobin es Gomer. a anew s0&1!
Enterprise, self-measuring ee 70&1! &10
P NAIIS <uede 40 % | Casters, —> .* a 50&10&16
ampers, American. os 40
Pr scon4 pict base, on both Steel and 7 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.... ..65&10
Wire pore nh LL NE A ce UN 1 40 METALS,
_— Pig Large ipsa 266
10 SHOMCOTHKH ME MECH HE Code COO ee Dees 40 x
25 eee 28¢c
2 ZINC.
ax | Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
45 ~— —o Oe 6%
TE ee 7
50 SOLDER.
0 | #O% --.. ne Ee a
75 | Extra Wi ing . ed ete ee detente ee ee. “15
90 The prices of the many other qualities of
1 29 | solder in the market indicated by private brands
eee ay 1 60 | Vary according to composition.
See eee ea 1 60 enn
lier te sadn eerie per pound
“ a. 5 Meee eek.
“ TIN—MELYN GRADE.
— ee = _— ~ Charcoal Be ee eee cece sec ce 87 -
Cece ereeeoes ceeeeeee ceeeee ‘
ooo 131 fox 1X, Mo seeerittes ates sees seessaees 9 25
ie ran anna orinsn ar ns $=
a 80 Each  caditoene) X on this grade, $1.75.
2. 90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
Barrell K...... LY it 10x14 10 IC, Charcoal ...................04-.--. , 7%
LANES. dis, —ae %5
Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy «22. -----0..0-.00e. @40 | 10x14 ee 8 25
i il see ong soma i i ans aeons
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. @40} Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
Bicneih Hemk GUM ll @10| sonic, [ee
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s. wood. ee = >
PANS : : et a ge
EE aE dis.60—10 BOK2 TC, eens aS
i ag polished TT dis. a) IG, ‘“ Allaway Grade........... : =
RIVETS. dis, 4x2 1c ue a akties igi 12 50
OE 50-10 a x i Ce 15 50
Copper Rivets and Burs..................0: 50— i ’ BOILER SIRE FUN PLATE. '
PATENT FLANISHED IRON. OE $i4 00
“A” Wood's — planished, Nos. 24 to - OE  ————— es 15 00
“B” Wood's lanished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20| 14x56 Ix, for No. 8 Boilers, t per pound 10 00
Broken G per pound extra. 14x60 1X, | “3 ain

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22.

LEGISLATION BY THE PEOPLE.

It is not possible for the people, the
masses of the people, of a country to
make their own laws. The people could
not be assembled to discuss any proposed
measure, in order to have the work
done intelligentiy, it is committed to a
body of chosen representatives kaown as
the Legislature.

Bat the legislative assembly is found
to be too big to give proper consideration
to the great number of bills brought be-

and,

fore it, and each one of those bills is re-
ferred to a committee charged with the
duty of giving it particular examination
before it can be passed on by the full as-
sembly. Even when a bill goes to acom-
mittee, it has been commonly found
sirable to entrust it specially to a sub-
so that all the investigation
understanding of the

de-

committee,
necessary to an
subject may be given it.

Commonly a national or a State legis-
be trusted to enact laws for
but there are cases when the

bound by
lawmakers.

lature
the people;
people are not willing to be
any act of their ordinary
Such are the instances when the
turion of a State is to be amended by
the Legislature. That body is only per-
mitted to change the constitution on con-
dition that the
shall be submitted to the people for final
In the matter
the constitution |
of a country no act of the Legislature is
final. It must be upon by the
people in a popular election. Thus it
will be seen that there are matters in
will not trust their |
legislators or legislative repre-
but demand the right to pass

may

consti-

amendment

proposed

acceptance or rejection.

of making or changing

passed

which the people
chosen

 

sentatives,

upon their work, and, if it be so desired,
to condemn it by peremptory
When a legislative body
its representative but dependent charac- |
ier as to assume to make or amend the}
fundamental law of a State or country,
without having its work supervised and
passed upon by the people, it is but nat-
ural that such a body would strongly ob- |
ject to being criticised by the people and |
the press. Such arrogance, however, |
has never failed to bring down upon it-
self wide-spread indignation and univer- |
sal condemnation, proving that the peo-

rejection.
so far forgets |

| other rule known

| were out of work.

|ple promptly and actively resent any

attempt by their public servants to shirk
responsibility and to assume an indepen-
dence which they do not possess.

The crude and often baneful legisla-

‘tion which emanates from Federal and
| State lawmakers has long been recog-
| nized as a serious evil,
} upon it,

with no check
and it has been proposed, by
way of remedy, to subject all representa-
tive legislation to a direct vote of the
people, as is done in the case of eonstitu-
tional amendments. Such a rule is in
use in Switzerland, and is known as
“The Referendum.’’ The Swiss have an-
as ‘*‘The Initiative.’’
It consists in the draft of a proposed law,
| signed by a given number of voters and
addressed to the Legislative Assembly.

| That body is bound to take notice of the

| petition by enacting a law in compliance
| with its proper and constitutional de-
| mands, and that is to be submitted to the

i pureed vote or the referendum.

Necessarily this constant reference of

all laws to the people would entail some
'delay and the additional expense of a

popular election; but it certainly fur-
nishes the only complete and reliable
check on the workings of a legislative
body. If their work were subject to
such supervision and signal judgment,
all legislative bodies would be com-
pletely deprived of their power for job-
bery and corruption, and all lobbying
would be broken up. It would be use-
less to bribe or buy up a legislative body
when its work was not final, but had to
go before the people. The referendum
is said to work tothe greatest public ben-
efit wherever it has been introduced. A
strong effort is being made to educate the
American people to demand its adoption,
and, sooner or later, it will become an
institution.
SUPPORT IN IDLENESS.

The question has often been asked:
‘‘What is the benefit to be derived from
a labor union which can force its mem-
bers to quit work and give up the means
of supporting themselves and families,
but cannot support them in their en-
forced idleness, nor secure for them any
other employment ?”’

This question is about to be answered
in a judicial decision from the bench of
a court. There was a strike on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, in Pennsylvania
and New York, in November, 1893. It
lasted into December of the same year.
Among the strikers were forty-eight con-
ductors. They have gone into court at
Buffalo, N. Y., totest their rights in an
organization to which they belong and
under whose influence the strike was
started.

These plaintiffs were members of the
Order of Railway Conductors of Amer-
ica, and were entitled, under the rules of
that order, to draw pay for support
while on strike or out of employment by

; reason of having lost their jobs as strik-
| ers.

For some reason the Order of Rail-
way Conductors refused te pay the
forty-eight strikers the entire amount of
their claims for their time while they
They have brought
suit against the order for the amount of

 

their several claims at the rate of $50)

each amonth. The total sum for which
suit was brought is $12,000. It is not

suit.

| Sherman law was repealed,
got no better.
stated whether the order is solvent and provement which was foretold has never
| could pay tbe money if a judgment for | come into view, and then the blame was

the amount should be the result of the laid upon the tariff situation.

In ordinary cases a member of a
mutual relief society legally organized,
who has paid his dues and otherwise is
in good standing, can recover from the
society by law any sum to which he is
entitled from the relief funds, if the
society is solvent. Mutual benevolent
insurance companies may be compelled
to pay all lawful claims against them on
their policies. Thisisthe law of labor
unions having relief and insurance pro-
visions in their charter, the same as it is
the law of other relief and insurance
societies.

Supposing that the Order of Railway
Conductors is such an organization, the
question to be decided is as to its liabil-
ity for the support of its members who
lost their means of snpport through
obedience toits orders, and have since
been unable to secure employment. If
strikers only had such an organization
behind them, with money enough to
maintain its members in idleness for in-
definite periods, they would have a sure
thing in a strike. In the first place,
such an organization would have an
enormous membership, because the mem-
bers would be sure of a living, whether
they worked or not. In this way the
labor unions could gain control of all
laborers, and there would be no scabs,
and, as aconsequence, in any branch of
trade, when the men went out there
would be nobody else to take their
places, and so the employers would
either bave to submit to the demands of
the strikers or quit the business. The
only difficulty in the way of such an ar-
rangement is the lack of money. It will
never be possible to get together money
enough to maintain the millions in idie-
ness. That would be out of the ques-

Moreover, very few people work from
tion.
choice. There are large numbers who
would live in idleness if they could; but
since all wealth is created by labor, any
extensive system of enforced or volun-
tary idleness would work great destruc-
tion of industrial interests. Work is
necessary to keep the world going. Wise
laws that constantly increase the de-
mand for the products of labor, and
which bring the employer and employe
into larger mutual relations of interest
and confidence, are what are wanted.

 

THE FINANCES NEGLECTED.

Congress, having at last united on the
Senate amendments to the tariff bill, is
evidently in a great hurry to adjourn.
Possibly the brief remainder of the ses-
sion will be devoted to the enactment of
the appropriation bills, and then the
members of the house at least will hurry
home to work for re-election.

The revenue arising from the new
tariff bill may possibly be found suffi-
cient for the needs ofthe Government, al-
though that is a question yet to be an-
swered. But nothing has been done in
the way of improving the general finan-
cial condition of the country. There was
a notion prevalent that the great bar to
prosperity of the country was the opera-
tion of the Sherman silver law, which re-
quired the constant purchase by the Gov-
ernment of silver bullion, and the issue
against it of treasury notes. Well, this
but times
The swift march of im-

After a

‘long period of turmoil and trouble a

 

tariff bill has been enacted. Congress-
men will go home and tell their people
that the good time is coming right along
and will soon be here. But the people
will find out that the improvement will
come very slowly, and it must do so’ no
matter what sort of legislation might be
accomplished, because the restoration of
a country to prosperity, after a period of
extraordinary speculation and inflation,
eannot be secured save by the gradual
recovery of the productive industrial
forces of the people. A hundred million
dollars of wages has been lost through
the commercial and financial depression.
The people, not having been able to earn
that money as they would have done in
an average good time, could not, of
course, spend it, and by consequence
$100,000,000 has been cut off from ordi-
nary business. Moreover, by not work-
ing, the people failed to create a vast
amount of wealth which would have
been added to the common stock, but
which does not exist. No legislation
can make up these losses.

But one thing which Congress has
failed to do, is to provide some means of
maintaining the treasury gold reserve,
that fund which is absolutely necessary
to keep the paper dollars up to the stand-
ard of value, and to maintain the silver
dollars upon a parity with gold. The
gold reserve has got painfully near to
half its proper strength, and no provision
has been made to recruit it. A certain
proportion of the customs dues might be
made payable in gold, and that seems to
be the only way out of the trouble. Itis
doubtful if Congress will countenance
such a movement, as the members of the
House are largely tinctured with popu-
listic ideas. The financial condition of
the Government is far from sound, and
that is a fact not calculated to inaugurate
a new reign of prosperity.

 

It has been quite generally believed
that the merchant who had a stationary
location could send out a wagon load of
goods and peddle the same from door to
door. Upon what this assumption was
based is not clear, but a recent opinion
from Attorney General Ellis shows it to
be a fallacy. The statute quoted by
Mr. Ellis is so plain thatno mistake can
be made about it: ‘*No merchant shall
be allowed to peddle, or to employ others
to peddle, goods not his own manufacture
without the license in this chapter pro-
vided.” As peddling is properly re-
garded as a nuisance, because of the ex-
tent to which it is carried on and the
character of many of the men engaged
in the business, it is clearly the duty of
the Legislature to make laws regulating
it and confining it within reasonable
bounds.. This is the sole purpose of the
license laws; but peddling is a serious
detriment to legitimate trade. Notwith-
standing the fact that peddlers carry, as
a rule, second-class goods, and even
worse, many people patronize them,
buying almost their entire supplies from
them. Especially is this true in rural
districts. For this reason dealers should
be slow to engage in peddling. They
are hurting their own business by keep-
ing buyers away from the centers of
trade, besides placing themselves in the
list of lawbreakers unless they take out
the statutory license.

 

 

Harry E. Fairchild, invoice clerk for
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., is
spending a week’s vacation at Ottawa
Beach.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9

 

 

THE PURIFICATION OF POLITICS.

The charges of corruption now stand-
ing against Senators of the United States
in connection with the powerful Sugar
Trust, and the persistent accusations
that certain Senators speculated in stocks
of the Sugar Trust on the faith of the
action which was expected,to be taken
by the Senate upon the sugar schedule of
the tariff bill, have furnished material
fora very flagrant and shameful legisla-
tive scandal.

It will make very little difference
whether the actual corruption shall be
proved or not; certain Senators have be-
come so much mixed up with this scan-
dal that they will find it impossible to
escape the disgrace which popular con-
demnation has already visited upon
them. They may evade judicial convic-
tion, for money can do almost anything;
but the people’s verdict has been ren-
dered, and that is final. Any man who
has become rich with dishonest plunder
may be able to escape the penalties of
the law, but nothing can ever make him
an honest and honorable man.

Nevertheless, every consideration of
justice, of public safety, of the public
good, demands that all public robbers
shall be brought to punishment. They
should no more be left to run at large
than if they had been robbing and plun-
dering in their private life. lt is not
enough that dishonest public officials
should be branded with popular condem-
nation. Justice demands that they
should have placed on them the judicial
sentence and stamp due to all convicted
criminals, and it was to this end that
United States Senator William V. Allen,
of Nebraska, has offered a bill to punish
the crime of speculating by national
legislators in stocks that are to be par-
ticularly affected by the official acts of
such legislators.

Mr. Allen’s bill provides that it shall
be unlawful for any Senator or Repre-
sentative of the United States, during
his term of office, to own or be concerned
directly or indirectly in owning, buying,
or selling, or in any manner dealing in
speculative stocks, the value of which
may, in any manner, depend upon a vote
of Congress; nor shall any such Senator
or Representative, during the term of
his said office, be a member of, or in any
manner pecuniarily interested in, any
board of trade, stock exchange, national
bank, or other organization, in which
speculative stocks are bought or sold.

lt further provides that, before any
such Senator or Representative in Con-
gress is admitted to his seat therein, he
shall be obliged, in addition to the oath
now required of him by law, to take and
Subscribe an oath to the effect that he
will not, during his term of office, buy or
sell, or bein any manner concerned in
buying, selling, or owning any specula-
tive stocks, or become a member of any
board of trade, stock exchange, national
bank, or other organization, in which
speculative stocks are bought or sold.

The penalty for any violation of the
provisions is to be forfeiture of his ofiice
and expulsion from his seat in tue)
branch of Congress of which he may be
4 member, and he shall be subject to in-

 

dictment, prosecution and conviction for
such offense in any United States circuit |
court within the district in which such)
offense is or may be committed.

But speculation by officials in stocks of |
corporations, the value of which can be

influenced by their official acts, is no of-)}

| because they step over a dozen little du-

| ties in trying to find one big one. CHAMPION CA SH REGISTER Ca.

fense in the eyse of public servants who
make a regular business of bribery and | - H E KI NG H AS Cori E ! !
corruption in office. Nevertheless, Sen-|
ator Allen is moving in the right direc-

tisn. The public service in every de- | ‘The CHA M PION pri ge
TOBE _

partment must be purified. Bribers, job-

bers and robbers must be driven out, and & A S H SUPERIOR
the day will come when the people will OTHER
have it made a penal offense for their |. R EG IS ¢ i EB R a”
representatives in national, State and MARKET.

city governments to accept free railway

passes from any corporation. This ORIGINAL IN DESIGN—HANDSOME IN APPEARANCE—

should be forbidden to judges, !awmak- SIMPLE IN CONSTRUCTION—INFALLIBLE
ers and public officials of all sorts. No . IN ACTION—INDISPENSABLE
inducements should be allowed to any TO THE PROGRESSIVE

official to favor acorporation or monop- MERCHANT.

oly company in any way in the deciding
of a cause or the enforcement of a law. | We aim to meet the needs of Legitimate Merchants—Do not Cater to Saloon

The time is not far distant when the peo- Trade.
ple will be able to force their represen-
tatives to make such laws as may be re- Some reasons for our claims, as set fourthin our Award by the World’s

quired, and, by means of the referendum, | (ol|ymbian Exposition:
rejectany law that the people may disap-
prove. The power of having all legisla-

tion referred to a popular vote is easily 1. For Handsome Design.

 

 

 

in reach of the people, and they can en- 2. For Simple and Durable Mechanism.
force itif they will. The sooner they do 3- For a Superior Device by which a Detailed Account
on haneneer. of every Cash Transaction is Kept.
The Surfeit Cure of Delusion. 4- For Its Ability to Keep Separate Accounts for Each Sales.
‘‘When | was a youngster,” said Mr. man.

Bozzle, *‘l used to wonder how the con-

fectioners could make any money. It al- . For the Instantaneous Display of All Accounts in Detail.
ways seemed to me that the clerks would

. For the Method of in issi 5
eat so much candy that they would eat up autast g Omissions and Errors.

all the profits. 1 remember reading or hear- 7. For the Identifying of Delinquents.
ing later that this was not so; that when
a new clerk came into the store the pro-
prietor would say: ‘Now, I hope you will
eat all the candies you want; don’t hes-
itate to help yourself at any time,’ and
that the result of this was that at the end
of a week she was so sick and tired of
candy that she hated the sight of it, and
didn’t want any more fora year. This,
L suppose, might be called the surfeit
cure.

‘“‘After I had grown up and come to
have a family 1 remembered this and
thought I might turn the idea to advan-
tage. I had four children, and the
amount of money they spent for ice cream
and candy and soda water was something
awful. Il thought that by spending ina
lump enough money to make them tired
of those things I might in the long run
make a considerable saving. So I set
aside a thousand dollars for that purpose,
and one day | said to my oldest child:

**Tillie, 1 don’t think you and the
children are beginning to have the ice
cream and candy that you ought to have.
lam afraid you think because papa isn’t
very rich that you must skimp yourselves
about those things, but you needn’t; you
ean have all the money you want for
them. Here’s fifty dollars. Now 1 wish
you’d take the children out and get some
ice cream and candy, and whenever that
money is gone just let me know, and Ill
give you more.’

‘“‘Well, they used up that thousand dol-
lars in about ten weeks, and at the end
of that time they were as hungry for ice
cream and candy as ever. I kept up the
supply of money. I was like the gam-
bler who keeps on playing after he has
lost a lot, in the hope that his luck will ONE OF MANY TESTIMONIALS.
turn. I thought they might reach the i .  . :
surfeiting point at any minute, and it BE ig lng CHEMISTS
seemed too bad to make a dead loss of 84 Canal St oe ean
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THH: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The Restraining Fear of Punishment. | of them do, embrace a system of divine
The human race has always had a re-| justice and government in which men
ligion. It has not always been the same | are punished or rewarded in a spiritual
sort of a religion, but it has always had | state of existence, according as their acts
a sort of common basis of doctrine. | in a state of physical life were in accord-
There has always been a belief in a su- | ance with or in violation of certain moral
preme power which created and controls and spiritual laws. Of course, the most
all things and commonly holds its| distinguished is the religion of Christ-
creatures to a certain responsibility to | ianity. Mahometanism must be classed
particular laws. as one of these, and there has never been
The origin of religious belief and in- | a religion which obtained any prominent
stitutions does not come into the purview position among enlightened peoples that
of these observations, nor is it here in- did not include some system of moral
tended to discuss the nature and merits | justice. :
of particular doctrines; but it is merely | Man, as a mere animal, necessarily
desired to consider religious belief suffers in his health and physical consti-
briefly in its relation to the conserva-| tution for every violation of the laws of
tion of human society. physical nature. But man is something
From the fact that religion in every more than an animal. Living in a state
age and every country has been pro- of human society, he acquires relations
tected by law, and in some countries is a to other human beings. He comes into
fundamental part of the Government, it | responsibilities of all sorts as an individ-
must be inferred that religious belief ual, as a son, as a husband, as a father, as
and institutions are useful to society. In| afriend, as a partner or trusted employe
the fact that they form a great conserva- in business, as a citizen,as a public official.
tive and restraining influence in their so-| Here are numerous important positions
cial organization, their beneficial quali- | in which men are placed, and each has
ties cannot be denied. | its functions, its duties, its responsibili-
The foundation of all human govern-| ties. Should he willfully violate any of
ment is in the existence of a power these obligations, he must suffer for it,
which ean administer justice and execute either through the condemnation and
judgment. It denounces pains and pen- | contempt of his fellows expressed in
alties upon those who act contrary to the | public opinion, or through penalties as-
public good, and it executes those penal- sessed by a court of law.
ties upon violators of the law. The fear But the functions of man do not end
of punishment is a powerful restraining with his physical and social relations.
force upon evil-doers, and there is no | He is endowed with a spiritual nature,
country where crime is so rife and viola- | and he occupies relations to his Creator,
tions of the law so common as are who is also his judge. A man who has
those in which the enforcement of the wrought iniquity may have so artfully
law is lax and the infliction of punish- covered up his misdeeds as to have
ment is of rare occurrence. | escaped both the condemnation of public
It has been held by certain sentimen-j|opinion and any sentence from the
talists that people should do good from a | courts, and has, therefore, escaped from
love for virtue and truth, and that those all the punishment that could have
who are restrained from crime by the reached him in this life. But in the
fear of punishment are as bad as those | spiritual state into which, according to

who commit the crimes. Whether such|several prominent religions, he is
a notion be true or not, it is no part of | ushered, after finishing his course in
these observations to consider. But the|this life, he will be called before a}

practical fact remains, that for every | court which never fails
person who is restrained from crime by | case, and he must stand
the fear of punishment, society at large who, knowing all things
enjoys a distinct and certain gain. Think | give due justice.
what a harvest of crimes would be com-/ no mistrials, in that august tribunal: but

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cides, robberies and thefts innumerable; | executed. :
outrages upon women, anda vast cata- | Without doubt, a belief in this final

logue of evil deeds which would inflict | judgment exerts an enormous restrain- |

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incalculable and often irreparable injury |
upon others and upon society at large.
But these crimes are not committed, be-
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lt is a terrible thought that the crimes
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only the arbitrary will of the monarch or |
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time in the whole of modern history |
when a nation undertook to live without
reiigion was the Reign of Terror in
France, in 1793, and under the maniac
methods of the Paris Commune in the
Franco-Prussian war. The world does |
not want to see a return to such meth-|
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These observations have only been |
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ant restraining influence to prevent the
propagation of crime and immorality.
Many crimes have been committed in the
name of religion, but it has restrained
vastly more than it permitted. As to which
isthe true religion, or the best, isa ques-
ion which has no place in these re-
marks. Only so far as they possess
social relations have religions been con-
sidered. The greatest social progress
has been made under the influence of
Christianity. The works wrought by each
religion stand for it. By their fruits

must all be judged. FRANK STOWELL.
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CIRCUMVENTING CREDITORS.

 

Schemes by Which Bankruptcy is Made
Profitable.
From the New York Sun.

The recent indictment of Lawyer Her-
man Joseph, of his clients Saul Ketchum
and Julius. Jonas, who composed the
cloakmaking firm of Ketcham & Jonas;
of Henry Jacobs, a salesman, and of
Mendel Jonas, a brother of Julius Jonas
and assignee of the bankrupt firm, all of
whom are charged with fraud in connec-
tion with the assignment, calls attention
again to the merry war which has raged
for years between certain debtors and
creditors. According to the allegations
of the prosecution Ketchum & Jonas pro-
posed to save something out of a wrecked
business by exhibiting a false set of ac-
eount books, which made it appear that
the firm owed $10,000 or so more than it
really did. It is also charged that a
large amount of collectible accounts were
transferred personally to the receiver
without consideration.

Between debtor and creditor the con-
test has been about as close as that be-
tween cannon and armor and as uncer
tain. Before the days of assignments
and preferences the creditor had, per-
haps, the better of it. In those times, as
men of long standing in the legal profes-
sion will remember, every lawyer who
wanted to had his representative in the
Sheriff’s office. If a judgment was to be
collected it was easy to put it in the
hands of a friendly deputy sheriff, who
would take possession of the debtor’s
store or office, and threaten to rip up the
carpets, take the desk or counters, and
eloze the establishment until the debtor,
in fear of actual ruin, would hustle
around and get the money or secure
bondsmen. In the next stage of the con-
test the debtors were away ahead. That
was in the early days of the operation of
assigment laws, when the debtor was
permitted to designate certain persons as
preferred creditors, and thus secure the
payment of their claims ahead of all
others. Such preferences were made to
relatives to such an extent that if an out-
sider attempted to collect a debt he was
apt to get a biJl of costs for his pains.
Sharp creditors would sometimes upset
the best laid schemes. With mercantile
agencies, private credit clerks, and a
whole army of spies toinform them, they
would often swoop down upon the man
who was getting ready to fail, secure

judgments, and sell him out before he}

could doctor his books or patch his ac-
eounts to help himself.

Lawyers and clients were put to it for
a while after such preferences became
impracticable.
eonfessed judgment dodge and were
happy again. This was something that
could be almost kept in the house to de-
feat sudden attacks. Before the legiti-
mate ereditor could say Jack Robinson
the confessed judgment creditor was in
ahead of him, and every dollar’s worth
of property in sight was seized by the
Sheriff. He had to look sharp, too, or
the goods would be sold fora song before
he knew it.

It was when things were in this condi-
tion, that some sharp lawyer devised a
mode of attack which put the creditors
ahead again, and created a_ veritable
panic among the professional bankrupts.
This was the useof the Coroner to take to

Then they hatched the;

were not his statements probably false
when he bought his last goods? It was
a safe enough presumption upon which
to base the writs at any rate, and the
Coroners’ office had to support a special
man to issue them. Then it became a
tough match between the creditor with
an elastic conscience and the debtor who
didn’t mean to pay. Under their writs
of replevin the creditors would seize
everything. They did not always expect
that they could hold the goods if it came
to a suit to determine title, but they

that question; that would be long
enough. The debtor would tind no pro-
fit in the delay and would give up money
under a sortof blackmailing arrangement
according to his ability. This was a
great and popular game, and many law-
yers and their clients thrived upon it.

Then an improvement was invented
which has been more profitable than the
green goods game. This was a combina-
tion of the preferred creditors, the con-
fessed judgment, and the replevin, all in
the interest of the man who failed. First
the debtor has the Sheriff seize his own
goods through the friend to whom he has
confessed judgment. Then comes the
Coroner with writs from men who claim
to have been defrauded of their goods.

‘Those are my buttons,’’ cries one of
those whose claim is $50, perhaps, ‘*‘but
I cannot separate them from the coat. I
must take them all!’’ and he does.

The Sheriff has no objection to this
proceeding, for he represents no one but
the man with the confessed judgment.
If any outsider attempts to interfere he
is apt to run up against some pretty
strong objections.

‘What can Ido to get my money,” he
asks his lawyer.

If the latter is also of the old style, he
will inquire: ‘‘Is your bill due? Was
there any fraud in buying the goods?”’
and some other questions.

“No,” the creditor replies.

“Then I can do nothing for you ex-
cept to bring suit, await the outec me of
the other proceedings, and if anything
is left, we will seize it for your benefit.”’

Of course, there isn’t anything left. In
six days the parties seizing the goods un-
der the Coroner’s writs get judgment
against the Sheriff, which debars him
and practically everybody else from in-
terfering. Then they seil the goods, set-
tle the affair among themselves, and pre-
pare to repeat the process. All an out-
side creditor could do was to bring a suit
for debt in regular form. To do this, he
was obliged to serve a complaint and
summons on the debtor, and wait from
six days to twenty, according to the
court, before he could take judgment,
even if the debtor put in no answer.
Give a man who does not mean to pay his
debts even six days’ notice, and he can
have the whole machinery of the Sheriff’s
and Coroner’s offices at work. Instances
have been known where the Coroner’s
man got around to replevin the goods
before the Sheriff got there to seize
them.

But to-day the latest improvement in
sharp practice has taken away all these
advantages, and a creditor who employs
the right kind of lawyers can wind up
the affairs of his debtor at his own will,
be the latter honest or otherwise. The
method is simple. Merely arrange to
omit giving the debtor notice that suit
has been begun against him, secure a
|judgment, put your execution in the
| hands of the Sneriff, and you have his
| property all snugly in your control be-
|fore he or any one favoring him knows
|that you are acting. It is
scheme and requires but one essential
; man to work it. This man must be the
process server.
served a notice of the suit upon the de-
fendant in person. He must state the
| day and hour when he did this. He must
also be ready to repeat this if the record
is questioned, and to substantiate it.
| This may seem difficult, but it is not.
Men to do such swearing can be had for
|}money. Even the lawyer does not have
| to know what really hapbened.

 

 

could hold them pending the outcome of |

He must swear that he}

the Sheriff the writof replevin. The lawai-| ‘‘lt is the cleverest trick that | have
lows any man to recover goods soid on ever known in my experience in the long
eredit if he can show that they were pro-| warfare between debtor and creditor,”
eured under any taint of fraud. Is it not | said a well-known lawyer the other day.

fraud for a man to fail, it is asked, and | ‘“‘Of course nothing has been actually

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proved as to the doing of it, for if there |

had some people would be on the way
now to being disbarred and they and
others would be on a rapid transit line
for the penitentiary. This is what is
known: Several times recently debtors
have complained that they have been
taken by surprise. The Sheriff has
walked into their places and seized every-
thing before they even knew that they
were being sued. What redress do you
suppose they had? None. If they tried
to have the judgment set aside they
would be met with the question as to
whether the debt it represented was not
ajustone. Either way they were met by
the fact that they owed the money, and
that the Sheriff had their property. No
court would be apt to order the property
released under these circumstances, even
if it ordered a new trial. But what
chance has the debtor to convince the
Court that he is telling the truth—that
he never received service? If the place
of service were out of town, for instance,
the process server describes accurately
his journey there and how he rather ex-
pects the landlord of the local hotel will
remember him as well as the station
agent. Then be tells just where he saw
the defendant, where he stood, and who
was near by. What does it avail the deb-
tor to remember then that all that passed
between him and the process server was
that the latter asked him what time the
night train left town, or what the local
price of butter was? It is a desperate
game, but it seems to work well so far.
How long it will last is a question.”

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A MEXICAN GROCERY.

 

Some Peculiarities of the Business
Across the Border.

In the republic of Mexico the wholesale
grocery is an unknown institution. The
retail trade is controlled almost entirely
by Spaniards—oi aot the highest order of
inteliigence—whose chief characteristics
are an absolute lack of intelligent enter-
prise and an all absorbing desire to fleece
the present purchaser for as much as
possible, regardless of future custom or
favor.

In these stores the imported commodi-
ties are purchased through local general
commission merchants, whose line is an
infinite one, and who executes orders for
eheeses and locomotives in the same
breath. and brings in shipments of
noodles and steam pumps whimsically
united within the friendly walls of the
same packing cases.

Although Mexico produces the finest
fruits on the continent—and these in end-
less variety—no canning factories exist in
the republic, and a large percentage of
the output of our own home factories
finds its way to that market The con-
sumption of American canned corn, suc-
cotash, tomatoes, salmon, peas, lobsters,
etc.,
are regarded with high favor by
Mexican consumers. Unfortunately,
however, the customs duties on the latter

quense as large by far as it would other-
wise be. i i
duced to a reasonable figure American

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is large, while American preserves |
the |

preservers will find a large and appreci-
ative market in Mexico for their admir-
able products.

American sauces are rapidly becoming
popular in Mexico, and our incomparable
soups have long since trickled their way
into public favor. American cheeses,
lard, flour, hams and bacon enjoy a brisk
demand, while our condiments in general
are gradually replacing those of English
and French preparation.

The Mexican tienda de abarrotes, or
retail grocery store, compared with the
American article, exemplifies the familiar
truism that ‘‘comparisons are odious’’—
this time for the Mexican. Mexico’s cap-
ital resembles an oriental city, in the
sense that most of the filth and squalor
are found in the suburbs, while the
wealth and fashion concentrate them-
selves as near the geographical centre of
the city as possible. Thus it is that the
majority of Mexico’s elite dwell ‘‘over
stores’’ or stables, as the case may be.

These tiendas de abarrotes are to be
found in nearly every square of the capi-
tal. They are generally dark and unin-
viting, and that air of briskness and
cleanliness which characterizes the Amer-
ican store is conspicuous by its absence.

There is never any fixed scale of prices,
or even an approximation to one, in a
Mexican grocery store. This can be at-
tributed to two causes, the first being
that the prices of all imported goods are
regulated by the erratic state of the
foreign exchange; secondly, because the
proprietor is always on the watch fora
new purchaser, and he fixes the price on
the estimate he forms of what amount
the intended victim will allow himslf to
be fleeced.

This sliding scale of prices is especial-
ly annoying to an American accustomed
to dealing with reputable firms which have
one price for all, and who has no inclina-
tion to haggle or bicker over the price of
an article. Until he or she learns from
experience the approximate price of an
article in a Mexican store, and also that
it is not customary to pay the price first
asked, they pay some very phenomenal
prices for some very inferior goods. As
the Mexican tendero never counts on
selling to the same person a second Dill
of goods, he takes time by the forelock
and makes hay while the sun _ shines.
This policy seems a ridiculous and short-
sighted one to a progressive American,
yet the Mexican pursues it with avidity,
and, if he does not thrive on it, he at
least manifests no desire to change, since
to change a time-honored custom is as re-
pugnant to a Spaniard or a Mexican as a
eold bath is to a tramp.

Though the valley of Mexico is admira-
bly adapted, both as to soil and climate,
for truck gardens, comparatively little of
such farming is done. The Otomi and
other neighboring tribes of Indians in-
differently supply the city with vege-
tables, but these gentry are as unstable

as New York weather, and their ideas of

| fulfillment of contract and punctuality
| are susceptible of extensive development.
goods are so high as to be almost pro-|
hibitory, and the trade is not in conse-|

When this absurd tariff is re-|

 

Prepared by the New York Condensed Milk Co.

He despises ine ruling race in Mexico,
as well as all foreigners, and they sell
them their garden truck more to suit
their own convenience than that of the
purchaser. They make knavery a close

and economical.

out sweetening.

 

SOLD EVERYWHERE.

study and delight to annoy aud deceive
those who are depend-nt upon them for
supplies. There are several large
markets in the capital where these In-
dians congregate to dispose 6f their
wares, so very few of the groceries carry
green stuff in stock for sale. As every
Mexican traveler will attest, the country
produces an apparently unlimited quan-
tity of chickens and eggs. The latter
are most always good, as they keep re-
markably well in the dry air of the table-
lands, but the former are never fed
enough or kept long enough to fatten
before they are placed on the market. In
the interior towns of the republic pro-
duce of all kinds is cheap and plentiful,
but this comes rather high when shipped
into Mexico City. Owing to the fact that
in Mexico an interstate and local city tax
exists, every article of any kind brought
into the federal district is subjected to a
tax, light or heavy, according to the
value and consumption of the same, so
that every egg, radish, etc., that passes
through the city gates has a rider at-
tached in the shape of a tax, sometimes
greater than the cost of the article it-
self.

No grocery store in Mexico City pos-
sesses a delivery wagon, nor is anything
ever delivered free.

No house ecalls for orders are ever made;
very little advertising is ever indulged
in, and the purchasers are allowed to
quietly gravitate to whatever store their
interest or inclination may lead them.
Servants make the purchases for the
native families, and there is always an
understanding between these female in-
dividuals and the grocer. These servants,
understanding the nature of their game,
drive sharp bargains and pocket the dif-
ference between what they pay and what
their mistress would have to pay. The
grocer, to secure their custom, protects
them, and the mistress, arguing that the
grocer is the loser, allows the difference
as a commission to the servant. Whether
this hypothesis is a correct one, is to
my mind, doubtful.

All vegetables are sold in Mexico by
weight. In the capital they are expen-
sive. Potatoes—small ones at that—cost
on an average of one cent each. All the
large potatoes in the country—and they
are astonishingly few—are sold, while
the small ones are planted. Any farmer
can guess the result. Whimsical causes
oftentimes produce untooked-for results,
and boiled potatoes are rarely served in
a Mexican hotel.

Although the Gulf of Mexico is only
250 miles away, and connected with the
capital by a line of railway, running
daily trains, fish in the latter place are
searce and high. What can be secured—
generally red-snapper—sell from 35 to
40 cents per pound. Compared to New
York, it costs about double to keep house
in Mexico city. Canned goods taste
sweeter where they are scarcer, but no
man on a limited salary can afford
canned goods on his table in Mexico. A
two-pound can of American corned beef
sells for 75 cents, while a three-pound
can of tongue brings $1.50. Canned corn
and tomatoes retail at 40 and 50 cents.
American cheese sells for 37) cents per
pound. Indifferent butter brings 75

 

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cents, While the prime articie sells for
$1. A two-pound glass cylinder of pre-
serves sells for $1.75, while soda wafers
sell for 65 cents per pound. American
ham and bacon sells for 50 and 40 cents
per pound, respectively. Michigan
apples retail at 12'¢ cents each and a
bottle of Milwaukee beer sells for 62}¢
cents. Most of the bread consumed in
Mexico is made by large bakeries which
turn out millions of small loaves daily.

In spite of the above prices there is a
large and steadily increasing demand in
Mexico for American groceries. The
great departments ip our principal whole-
sale groceries, devoted to export, exem-
plify this. The Mexican trade is a valu-
able one and one for wh.ch the American
manufacturer should work. One very
essential requisite in filling export orders
is careful packing. A strict adherence
to instructions, however whimsical they
may appear, are also necessary, for the
Mexican customs tariff is ‘‘fearfully and
wonderfully made,’ and the slightest
blunder on the part of the shipper sub-
jects him to a fine, in some cases exceed-
ing the cost of the shipment.

T. Partie TERRY.
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Reads at Two Years Old.

The Westminster Gazette tells about an
infant prodigy, the 2-year-old son of a
butcher at Brunswick, England, who can
read with perfect ease anything printed
in Roman or German characters. A few
weeks ago three physicians of Brunswick
had the child before them at the house of
one of the gentlemen. The first thing
the little one did when brought into the
consulting room was to stand on his toes
at the table, reading out from the books
that were lying about. All that could
be ascertained, as to why and wherefore
of this uncanny accomplishment, is that,
when the baby was 18 months old, and
his grandmother took him out, he always
immediately caught sight of the inscrip-
tions over shops and asked about them
as only a small child can ask till he had
fathomed the meaning of the letters. It
was the same at home; books and news-
papers had greater fascinations than lol-
lipops and toys, and whatever the par-
ents playfully told him he remembered,
with the result that at the age of 2 years
he reads with perfect ease. Apart from
his accomplishment in reading, the boy’s
development is quite normal.
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Paul on the Walking Delegate.

It appears that there were ‘‘walking
delegates” in the days of the Apostles.
Paul’s second epistle to the Thessalon-
ians, third chapter, tenth and eleventh
verses, contains the following reference
to these meddlers and trouble mongers:
**For even when we were with you this
we commanded you, if any will not work,
neither shall he eat. For we hear of
some that walk among you disorderly,
that work not at all, but are busybod-
ies.”’

The labor disorganizers of those days
were not paid salaries for agitating and
disturbing the peace, and inducing labor-
ing men to quit work and become mendi-
cants.

centile til nis

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

t of determining ;

Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream

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

rich and whole-

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

13

 

HOW TO REMEMBER FIGURES.

Almost everybody experiences much
difficulty in remembering figures. How-
ever firm and sure a hold we may have
upon words and facts, no matter how ex-
pert we may bein the art of reckoning,
our grasp on numbers is too often very
weak. To put it differently: a good
figure memory is a much rarer ‘‘bless-
ing’ or ‘‘gift’?? than a first-class word
memory. The main reason of this is be-
cause we never train ourselves to asso-
ciate figures with facts or with one
another as we do words.

According to the laws of mental asso-
ciation we can recall knowledge only
by connecting the unknown with the
known. Just here lies the whole secret
of a good memory for figures, words,
ideas or anything else. We must al-
ways proceed from the known to the un-
known, and recently acquired knowl-
edge should be firmly associated with
facts we already have @ strong hold
upon. To apply this to figures: we
should associate a figure with an article
it belongs to so that when we think of
the latter we will also recall the former.
To remember the price per yard of a
particular piece of dress goods, for in-
stance, we should always recall its price
whenever we look at or think of that
piece of goods. This will stamp it in-
delibly upon one’s memory. The reason
we never forget the price of a certain
widely advertised three dollar shoe is be-
cause we always think of the price and
the shoe together.

Suppose, however, one wishes to re-
member the prices of a dozen or a hun-
dred different patterns and qualities of
dress goods, how is he to do it? Simply
by distinguishing one piece from another
and connecting the price with the article.
If there is a difference in price between
two pieces of goods, there must neces-
sarily be some difference in quality or
design, or possibly both. The first thing
to be done, then, is to ascertain what
this difference is, and then the associa-
tion can be made more easily and intelli-
gently. Differentiating one article or ob-
ject from another is one of the most
valuable habits a person can acquire; it
is the basis of all scientific observation
and the first step in memorizing. We
see it applied in all walks of life. When
a detective, for instance, is seeking for
information concerning the personal ap-
pearance of aman heis running down,
he endeavors to learn from those who
knew him or saw him last, not so much
in what particulars he resembled other
men, but rather in what way he differed
from them; a certain peculiarity of man-
ner, of features or of carriage, no matter
how slight, often enables him to pick out
the fugitive among a company of a hun-
dred. This, too, explains how some men
can remember faces and names so well;
they instantly note how one face differs
from all others, and at once associate the
name with it, so that whenever the name
is recalled, so, too, is the peculiarity of
feature or manner of the owner: or, vice
versa, when the latter is seen the name
is immediately brought to mind.

Whenever we run across a salesman in
a store, or a drummer on the road, who
remembers without effort the price of
every article he handles, we will proba-
bly find out if we inquire that he does so
because he has acquired the habit of
never looking at an article in his stock
or sample case without recalling its
price. The two go always together.

 

This is the reason we recollect some
dates and forget others; those we forget
have not been indissolubly connected
with the events to which they refer.
Were the mental operations of those per-
sons who are supposed to be ‘‘blessed’’
with phenomenal figure memories, or
heads for dates, carefully analyzed, it
would be discovered that they had ac-
quired this habit, most likely uncon-
sciously, of storing away and recalling
figures and facts together. Those dates
that the poorest memories retain are
those that are so closely associated with
the events to which they refer that they
are being continually recalled with their
events. Whoever thinks of the Declara-
tion of Independence without at the same
moment recalling the date 1776? or of the
discovery of America without the date
1492?

No one should rely when memorizing
upon mnemonical aids if they can possi-
bly avoid doing so. The use of what
Mmnemonicians call a ‘‘figure alphabet,’’
by which figures are translated into the
consonants of words and these words
committed to memory either by repeti-
tion or by “linking” one word with an-
other, can only be of service to one who
is preparing for an examination and
wants to retain certain dates and figures
in his memory for only a few days, until
the ordeal is over. Even then it is doubt-
ful if the mnemonical method is as good
as nature’s way; the former is artificial
and cannot be trusted very far. The
mnemonical method is to remember one
fact or figure by tacking to it something
else which has no connection with it, but
which may be easier retained than that
which is to be remembered. The natural
way is to connect what you want to re-
member with what you already know by
means of its resemblance or contrast, or
by contiguity in time or place. This
last principle is that which we see in op-
eration when we endeavor to commit any-
thing to memory by repetition; we repeat
a series of words together so that we re-
call them again because they have been
placed side by side.

Speaking of learning by rote, it may
be remarked that there is no type large
enough in a printing office in which to
say that words and figures must not be
repeated in memorizing oftener than is
absolutely necessary, as the mind should
be trained to grasp instantly and _ tena-
ciously what it wants to master. If the
memory is to be strengthened, the work
of learning by heart must be done ener-
getically. The mind, like the body,
should be developed by vigorous exer-
cise.

If we have a series of figures to re-
member, and nothing concrete’ with
which to connect them, we should asso-
ciate them one to another. This, of
course, may at first prove very difficult,
but one peculiarity of the memory that
will soon make itself apparent to any one
who takes advantage of the foregoing
hints is that the more we strive intelli-
gently to remember figures the easier be-
comes the process. In fact good mem-
ory is really only a matter or habit. To
put the whole thing in a nutshell, it may
be said that all who wish to master ‘‘the
art of never forgetting’? must form the
habit of recalling their figures with their
facts or with each other. When this has
been accomplished they will discover
they have learned the true secret of a
good figure memory.

JAMES C. MoFFET,

 

 

 

The Drying Up of the West.

The ancient holy prophets are credited
with tle prediction that the next grand
and terrible catastrophe which is to be-
fall our earth is by fire. They tell us
that it was once overwhelmed by a del-
uge of waters, but the next assault upon
it will be a fiery one.

Whether so fearful a calamity is to
come through collision with a blazing
comet, or by reason of some outburst of
the supposed internal fires, does not ap-
pear; but the prophecies teem with fore-
bodings of excessive heat in which even
the solid matter of the planet will be
melted and all organic life be destroyed.

However this may be, the geologists
who ridicule any sudden and formidable
changes in the regular order of nature
hold that the earth is already losing its
moisture and is gradually drying up, and
that the worst impending calamity is
that all animal and vegetable life will
perish for want of water. They repre-
sent that the central fires of the earth
are steadily becoming extinguished, and,
as the earth cools, enormous interior
cavities once filled with steam and gases
kept in a high state of expansion by the
heat will be vacated by the chilled and
condensing gases, when the subterranean
and submarine cavities will become
filled with water. As this cooling
process goes on, the seas will retire into
narrower limits, the rivers and lakes will
sink into the thirsty earth, and the des-
ert expanses, which already occupy large
portions of the earth’s surface, will
finally cover the greater spaces, while
water will only be obtainable by means
of deep borings, and agriculture will be
confined to the narrow limits of the very
lowest valleys.

As the waters disappear from the sur-
face of the earth, the sources of evapora-
tion will constantly grow smaller and,
by consequence, the rains will become
always more scant and infrequent, and
this drying process will go on _ until
finally all the water will have retired into
the interior cavities of the earth which
will then become a dead planet. There
will be no evaporation of water, and,
therefore, no watery vapor in the atmos-
phere, and the arid rock and dry earth
and sand, stripped of all vegetation, will
roast and bake under the unintercepted
rays of the sun shining from a cloudless
sky. Such a scene of parched and
burned-out desolation is seen in the
moon to-day, which is declared by the
geologists to be a dead and dried-up
planet Mars, too, is believed to be rap-
idly undergoing the processes of dessica-
tion, the land occupying two-thirds of
its surface, whereas our earth still has
two-thirds of water to one of land. The
vast stripes of green on the red conti-
nents of Mars are believed to be titanic
canals cut by the inhabitants to water
their dry lands and to connect, for pur-
poses of navigation, the green seas of
the red planet. But so many millions of
ages must elapse before these changes
can be completed that they may be con-
sidered as mere curiosities of science,
with no immediate practical bearing.

But, coming back to the present time,
and to our own planet, it is interesting
to note the remarks of some of the West-
ern papers on what they assert to be the
growing dryness of the vast interior
country of the Union. The recent se-

vere drought, accompanied by winds so
hot as to wither and destroy all growing
vegetation, has so seriously cut down

 

the corn crop in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and
Illinois as that, in the markets of Chi-
cago, corn is selling at prices higher
than wheat, a fact which had never oc-
curred before in the history of this coun-
try, and in any other time but this age of
surprises which have become so much a
matter of course that they do not surprise,
the matter would produce a genuine sen-
sation.

The drought is, however, so serious an
affair that it is attracting general atten-
tion throughout the West. The Des
Moines Register holds that the Western
country is rapidly drying up. It ex-
presses the belief that the subterranean
waters of the earth are sinking at an
alarming rate, and that if the level goes
down much further it will mean blue
ruin for the farmers of the Mississippi
valley. When the editor settled in
Grundy county, forty years ago, good
water could be had but a short distance
below the surface. Now it is necessary
to dig one or two hundred feet to secure
the same results. He does not exactly
know what caused the sinking of the
waters, but fears that the gradual cool-
ing of the earth has something to do
with it. Ifit keeps on going down at
the rate of a foot a year, of course it will
not be long until it will be difficult to
get even a drink of water in Iowa.

That the West is drying up there
seems to be no doubt. All the branches
of the Missouri River, and the Missouri
itself, are noticeably dwindling, and so
are the head waters of the Arkansas.
They are being consumed by agricultural
irrigation. Everywhere the water of all
the upper tributaries is being diverted
to flow over farming lands. Not a drop
ever gets back into the main rivers. It
goes into vegetation of all sorts, or sinks
into the earth, or is evaporated with
great rapidity by being spread over a
wide surface of cultivated fields. A
quarter of a century ago the vast region
now covered by the States of Montana,
Wyoming, the two Dakotas, Colorado
and the Western parts of Kansas and
Nebraska had, perhaps, scarcely a single
farm of consequence in it. Now a mil-
lion of people are farming there, and
the entire industry is wholly dependent
on irrigation, because the rainfall is so
scant and poorly distributed as to be
practically wortbless.

As that region fills up with people,
the demand for irrigation water will con-
stantly grow, and the day will come
when the Missouri, which was formerly
one of the world’s great rivers, but is
rapidly dwindling, will finally carry
water only for brief seasons, when the
spring rains and the melting of the
winter snows give ita supply. Thus it
may be seen there is obvious reason
for the drying up of the Western rivers.
But the causes are chiefly the work of
man, and there is no need to go back to
geologic theories and terrene forces to
account for the fact. As to the rains,
they are all derived from the Gulf of
Mexico. They will always, save in ex-
ceptional years, furnish water to the
States along the Mississippi River, and
to all the country from the Mississippi
to the Alleganies. What used to be
known at the Great American Desert is

likely te become dryer than ever.
FRANK STOWELL.
a
Livingston & Gibbons, clothiers at St.
Joseph, will dissolve Aug. 20, Gibbons
succeeding.

 

  

 

14

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Drugs # Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.'

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.

Three Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.”

Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.

President—Fred’k W. R. Perry, Detroit.

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

Secretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit. -

 

Grand Rapids Pharmacentica! Society
President, Walter K.Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder

 

LAW AND LEMON EXTRACT.

 

The ‘‘Eldora Cocktail’ and Its Appear-
ance in Court.

Eldora, lowa, enjoys the distinction of
being the first town in the country where
lemon extract has been extensively used
as a beverage. When prohibition went
into effect a number of old bums had
trouble to obtain their poison. Finally
it was discovered that lemon extract,
such as is sold by grocers, for flavoring
purposes, contained 90 per cent. of
alcohol and 10 per cent. of oil of lemon,
and that by reducing it with cider, pop
or water, it afforded means for intoxica-
tion and for injuring the lining of the
stomach. But little attention was paid
to the sale of lemon extract for some
time. Some aggravated cases of extract
intoxication occurring last spring in-
augurated a crusade upon all grocers
in Eldora and they were driven out of
the business, but are still allowed to
sell other ilavoring extracts which con-
tain alcohol.

The Winchester pharmacy, however,
continued to sell extracts, claiming the

right under their pharmacy permit.
An injunction restraining the drug
store from selling was asked. The tes-

timony of several physicians was taken
tending to show that lemon extract is
recognized as a medicine or remedy in
certain cases but is not often used for
such purposes by the profession. Upon
this showing the judge refused to grant
an injunction, giving as his reason for
such holding that it being admitted
that the sales were made upon requests
in the form prescribed by law, and for
alleged medicine purposes, it cannot be
assumed in the absence of other evi-
dence that the defendant did not act
in good faith and within the authority
of his permit.

The judge also explained
ruling is not to be construed as_ hold-
ing that the sale of lemon extract can
be lawfully meade in any manner except
as any intoxicating liquor, as it was
held that the article is composed largely
of alcohol and is capable of being used,
and is used as a beverage. It was his
opinion the sale comes within the pro-
hibition of the statutes which outlaws
all intoxicating liquors. The legislature
doubtless did not think its mandate
was quite so sweeping or far-reaching
as this construction carries it, yet there
seems to be no way to avoid it. It is
worthy of notice in this connection that
the prohibitory law as it now stands
has dropped the word ‘‘culinary’’ from
the list of lawful purposes for which
a permit holder may sell intoxicating
liquors. Formerly the law provided
for the lawful sale of liquor for medi-
cine, culinary, mechanical and sacra-
mental purposes, but the words mechan-
ical and eulinary have been eliminated
by late amendments.

that this

If this ruling is sustained it will have
the effect of prohibiting the sale, in
Iowa, by grocers and others, except
registered pharmacists, for ‘‘scientific
and medicinal purposes,”’ of all flavoring
extracts; also the sale of many of the

essences and perfumes.
a

Union Men Must Learn Sense.

It is reassuring to find that Debs, like
Powderly, by hard experience, has
reached the conclusion that strikes and
boycotts are boomerangs which do not
pay. Wise men knew this from the
beginning, but D. and P. are not wise,
except at the end, when it’s often too
late.
never. Coaxing and enlightening are
better than violently wrenching. If you
are right, truth is mighty and will pre-
vail. Let that encourage you. Union
men who are in the minority, must learn
that the non-union men who are in the
majority have rights which must not be
touched. The unions are now going to
the ballot box. Very good. That’s the
legitimate fighting ground. Give us
educational campaigns—the pros and
cons of this great question fairly stated.
Nothing equal to that in discovering
wise and unchanging principles. This
is real good news. Reason ascends her
throne; dynamite and violence to the
rear. Come let us reason together and
do it in good humor—both with reason-
able consideration for the other side.

When work is scarce—not enough to
go round even for the enrolled union
men—a non-union man who dares to
raise a pick on their line of work is to be
maimed and destroyed. Will that dia-

 

workingmen? Not until the Devil and
his children are wholly in possession of
this world, and that must never be. This
war of union men against non-union
men must be declared off. Let both
wings of the great working army make war
to the death on the saloons, and it will be
seen that two-thirds of the ills, real and
imaginary, will at once disappear.
That’s our cure. We have absolute be-
lief in its efficacy. Will you give it a trial?
You couldn’t do anything better.
Geo. R. Scort.

_— ~~ oe >.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

 

Seely’s Flavoring Extracts

Every dealer should sell them.
Extra Fine quality.

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

Beely's Lemon.

rapped)

Doz. Gro.

loz. $ 90 10 20

Zon. 1230 123 60

4o0z. 200 22 80

60z. 300 33 00
' s

Seely s Vanilla
Wrapped)

Dos. Gro.

1 0z.$150 16 20

Zoz. 200 21 60

40x 3 75 40 80

60z. 5 40 57 60

Plain N.S. with
corkscrew at same
7 pricé if preferred.

 

Correspondence
"Solicited

CO., Detroit, Mich.

 

|SEELY MFG.

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labels, the smallest amount sold. Cheap enough, at a glance, but did you ever fig-
ure it out—113 kinds at 14 cents ?—$15.82. With our system you get the samere-
sults with less detail, for less than one-third the money.

Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4.

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ACIDUM. eer SN at . TINCTURES.
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Se tet ao = Erigeron .... :.1 50@1 60 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 60
— Gaultherta ...... --1 70@1 80] 410 F....... 50
Carbolicum .......... 20@ 30/ Geranium, ounce..... = @ 75 |“... i =
CIN cesta 52@ 55 | Gossipil, Sem. gal..-.. 70@ 75| ," and myrrh............ =
Hydrochlor ........... 3@ 5 Coma ......... --1 251 40 | eid CS
Nitrocum 10@ 12 Juniperi..... .- 50@2 00
a... we oe. ‘| 90@2 00 Atrope Beliadonna.......... 60
Phosphorium aa 20 ins ..1 40@1 60 Benzoin Sn ei 60
Salicylicum ........... 1 25@1 60 | Mentha Piper... 3 Ie ig eee nner none ’
Sulphuricum.. 1%x@ 5 Mentha Verid. ..2 20@2 30 | Sanguinaria................. 50
anhioure i 40@1 60 Morrhuae, gal. ~<i 30@1 40 ereenee.................... 50
oa 30@ 33 | Myrcia, ounce. @ 50| Cantharides................. 7
ATtArICUM........... i 90@3 00 Capsicum ...... i 50
AMMONIA. . Picis i Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12|C# ate + tetreereesseoes Co)
SE ences ices 1 22@1 2B] CO... eee eee eens a
a. 8 » = is a : ain a. oe 00 por en Ss 1 .
ee ee 6 osae, ounce. ..6 50@8 50 1S OOOH COLO wleineee
Carbonas settee estes ae i... a a ee 50
sees a Sabina . 90@1 00 i eee eect ce Oe
ANILINE. Sonia _ ..2 50@7 00 — +N se cme aelnw wee dees =
a a — ie . BO@ 55 | VODIum .....................
BlQ0K... + 0.0402 .-0+- 2 of ae. ahi came @ 65 | Cubeba 50
-—" ereccecbccceccens 45@ 50 Tie... @1 00 — Kh h eee nd soe oases =
ste uid ofl li Th _ ee ce eed ay
Wale ay 2 50@3 00 | *Hyme eae _ = S Ce 50
BACCAE. ‘heobromas........... 15@ 20 acted settee eee eee ee ee es 60
Cubeae (po 36)...... = ’ POTASSIUM, a :
Juniperus ............, Bee ee inate
Xanthoxylum... 25@ 30] Bichromate ........... 13@ 14 ica a
—" Ce genes crue a Shee... LL.
BALSAMUM, —_“ op
i » 45@ 50 | Cat. -;------- 3. 12@ 15 Cree. 5
Copal i i. e Chioraie (po 23@25) .. 24@ = a Carareaum. ......_._. 35
Terebin, Ganada'-.-. 40@ 45 | {aude .-----"--77--""5 Sy SS] ERO igre ie ae 50
4 2 Oe iota sinned oess saan
Pee 35@ Fowsrs, Sitert, pore. 2p i Myer 50
ooRTEX Fotassa, Bitart, sara on = ae VOM ds, 50
' Co Nee Ok 6B Ge 85
Abies, Conaiion sess eeneees " Fotess Nitras Ce xg . ; Camphorated OU a, 50
tren ecesererscconsses I ete esa oy 5 te ae
Euonyaans stropurp......, 2] °UENMe PO.....-..... 18 18] anramtiCortex...... ....... 50
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 RADIX, UAHA ........ 2.2. eee 50
Prana Veit... 12 Aconitum ee 2@ 2 ~ ged =
a Anobna0000000 ae 18 Caneia Aeutitai.. 50
ee | Galamue 2202020202 20 Z| Serpentarta .. 80
EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 | Stromonium 60
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ = Hyarestie "Cana 2 16@ 18 — 60
Haematox, 151b.box.. 11@ 12 (pe. 35)... ) =~ @ +30 | Veratrum Veride...........! 50
. is eos ae 13@ 14 inal 0 Ala, PO... 15@ 20 iii ania
“ ea 1G 17 | Ipecac, po............. 50@1 60} Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 28@ 30
weREU Iris plox ( (po. 35@38).. 35@ e a ' ~ <4)... 2a
Carbonate Precip...... ose gl Ee eee
eee end Sasate..- as... aoe 4 8@ 4
—— eee @ 50 Rhe rae See eectes- arise wet = Antimont, Oe see eee ae < .
Solut Chloride........ @ 15 Cee aan TT Potase T. 55@ 60
Sulphate, com’l....... 9@ 2 Spigelta LE A AON 3@ 38 Antipyrin Ca @1 40
se pure... ..... @ 17] Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 20] Antifebrin............! @ 2B
uel Serpentaris...........- 45@ 50] Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 48
¥ a LOM ee 55@ 60] Arsenicum............ 5@ 7
Arnica ........-.---.:- 18@ = Similax, Officinalis. H @ 40} Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40
ee é 5 @ Wi Bienmth &. N......... 1 60@1 470
Metviciria ft. :. 50@ 65 | Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 Calctum Chior, is, (48
FOMA =— Foti- 2: er. .c....... i
ii lL 18@ 50 <a el es ae ‘. ai : . Caniharldes Russian, ee
a ‘aul, Tin. alerlana, Eng. (po ee
Ose Eeegee ae BO 2% ingiber a. rn * SB 3 | Capaict Fructus, af.. @ x
hl om ot Pea,
Salvia officinalis, a paneiper 7........... 18@ Ww “ ss @ 0
one Me. 15@ 25 SEMEN. Caryophylius, fpe- 5) 10@_ 12
ee 8@ 10} Aniwum, (po. 20).. @ 15| Carmine, No. 40....... @3 7
@UMMI. — (graveleons).. 18@ 20] Cera Alba, S. aF cud 50@ 55
ain: es ee @ 0 ee 4@ 6 ore Preva............ 38@ 40
Acac a, 18 picked... e Carul, (po. 18)......... 10@ 13 @ 4
: 2d rs $ 5p |) Candemen............. 1 00@1 25 eo Pructas........ @ 2%
‘ . ---- @ © | Corlandrum........... epee... ........ @ 10
“ gifted sorta... ood = eae. an io ... @ 4
. ‘ ne 0). Soe 80 ee 75@1 00 Chloroform oe 60@ 63
Aloe, Bar » (po @ 12 enopodium ........ 10@ 12) ony one -@1 2%
eee l toe. | 8) @ 60| Dipterix Odorate...... 2 - oa -1 251 =
Cateohn, ts, Cosh. 14 348, oer as Cinchonidine, F. & W iO 20
ee fine... 4O 4% German 3%@ 12
Ageafestidn, (po. 88)..” ag 45) Lint, gra. (bi. 854)... 3yq@ 4 | Come, Mat, dis. per
Bensoinum............ SO 55 | LORENA... ...---- ------ : te nee OQ %
Camphora. ..... ; = in Pharisris Gatartan bo 7 | Crete, Cobl. 78)... @ 2
pos — Re a sinapis Ae 1@ 8 arte 5@ 5
Gamboge, Po... 70 1 Nigra... uO a] Dea
Guaiacum, (po 35).. @ 30 SPIRITUS. Crocus 35@ 40
Kino, (po 1 75)....... @1 75 | Frumentt!, W., D. Co..2 00@% 50| Cudbear....... ‘
Eas, | S Be Ret eee oo | Cadbear.... --.. @ x
Myrrh, (po a ee nnn i. 251 50 Cope parpe........... 5@ 6
Opi. (po 8 £0G3 70) --2 3502 45] Jumtperts Go. O:'t....1 asepe 00 | BexttBe == =. 10D 2
ite a ee all numbers.:  @
Tragacanth ........... 40@1 00] Spt. Vini Galil... >: 1 75@6 50 Ergota ae ne -
HERBA—In ounce packages. inf Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00 o White Cy 12@ 15
Absinthium ................. g5 | Vini Alba............. 1 2502 00| Galle. ses. @
Bupatorium ......-.seceseees 20 SPONGES. oe ae — 7 ¢ a
Lopelis.- Se 33 | Florida _sheeps’ wool, ‘ - a 30@ 50
Limanscoommesecesees MEN” Ca TT 5
Mentha Piperita. ae AN 23 | wassau aheeps' wana a ee Glassware. ant, oF box 80,
VEE. vevcc sees oct 5] NGaittnge eee woe canon 5
a 3 iv “a Bh Glue > ee ageing 9@ 15
anacetum, V Leusweuecaadnsn 2 bene exw ahcepe" 110} | White. 183Q 25
ee Bxtra yo yellow sheepe’ . | =
MAGNESIA. .
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Galoined, Pat... $5 | Grameen wookeas: =| Bunny Chior Mite.. “@ 75
Carbonate, E-& M OO S/Teioe Ret tecisio «=| «Ox Rubrum «=
nn ee... ie ee eo 140} ‘ Ammoniatl.. @ 9%
OLEUM, . Unguentum. 45@ 55
Abetathiam. ......... 2 50@3 00 SYRUPS Hydrargyrum......... @ 6
Amy i ees. os ie oes = Acoesie eee ie occ ee sagas = a Olla, Am.. ..1 at P
ae, Amarae. a — ae
An iat Dee ae 5 eee Oe eee... 60 | Iodine, Resubl........ 3 80@3 90
Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 00 oe. Se) seoerwe.............. @4 70
rea Geka ys baesce) 3 on = ees MR cee dai cee : — eas ibe dussieue ‘ = 2
See ss, Oe Be BO Ae Gapodtun ..........
—— ieee tao @ = Similax Oficina cua = oe “as ae sags 0@ 75
i 5@ . uor Arsen e
i a ae @1 60 ica elles asee eee cues 50 ao ay ees os - @ 27
Coenen ........... OMe Oe oo eli 50 Lime Penias Astin 10@ 12
pone mong = rs eae ao g Tea “ ee = — Sulph (bbl 240 4
eee esseue A Pee rece cose seve seses Semen wewe seen eeoes
WE ok ches cep i nae Gee «Ve | Pemenree.............. - St Meunis, 6. F.......... 60@ 68

 

  

 

 

 

Morphia, S. - & W. ~~ 30 | Seidlits Mixture...... @ 2| Linseed, boiled. .... 62
nN. 7.0 & Sinapis bee cece @ 18 —s we winter
a tgs OP anne @ 30 TT

Moschus Canton. @ 40| Snuff, Maccaboy, De SpirtigFarpeutina.. 37 40

Myristica,No1.. ... Me Tr Voon ll... @™ 35

Nux t Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff, “Scotch, De. Voes * @ $35 PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
ce Spe... 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
Pe = Sane, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25} Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4
_ 00 | Seda Carb. ........... 1%@ 2 Ber... .. 1% 2@3
Picis Lig, NwC., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5} Putty, commercial....2% 2%@3
a G20 Soda, Ash... 3%@ 4/_“ ae pure..... 24% 2%@3

Picis Liq., quarts ed @1 00| Soda, Sulphas......... a 3 — rime Amer-

ce @ 85} Spts. EtherCo........ SO SG Cen ........-......... 13@16

Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50| “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 25 Vermilion, —-- 65@70

Piper Nigra, (po. =). @ 1 ‘ Myrcia Imp... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular.. T0@™S

Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 * Vini Rect. bbl. teem, tog. 6 Bb%

Plix Burgun........... i a 258|_ White --+---+ 6 @O%

Pini Acet........ 15} Less 5e gal., cash ten on Whiting, white Span.. @70

Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 tot 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... @%

Pyrethrum, boxes H Sankar Sahl. 214,@ 3 | White, Paris American i

SPT Ca. das... @!1 2: a ae ae = Paris Eng.

Pyrethrum, pv........ P ‘emernds............ i aim te ag gg el

yrethrum, pv ny 7 i 30 Terebenth Venice..... ao 30 | Universal Prepared ..1 coat is

Quinta, 8. P. a W... saMaanig Theobromae ..........45 @ 48| Swiss Villa Prepared
a German 22 ag) Vania 900@16 00} Paints...... --1 00@1 20

Rubies Tinctoram oe 44 ( oenel Seip. |... 7@ ceili

accharum Lactis py. ie 14 No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20

a 2 10@2 25 OILs. Extra a 7 eoat 70

—— Draconis..... 400@ 50 Bot Gali Coach Boay........... 2 75@3 00

7 Lied oel oe ee ey 12@ 14| Whale, winter........ 70 70] No. f Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10

Bo Moses cere seen eee 10@ 12) Lard, extra... . = 85 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
rm Pecece eee cess @ Wile Seat.......... 42 45; Japan Dryer, No. it
Linseed, pureraw.... 56 ot Fee 70@75
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DIMENSIONS:—13 inches square at top; 2:

high.

Will keep stock clean and show sponges to advantage.

 

inches

Furnished in Light and Dark Oak, Cherry or Walnut.

PRICE $20.

square at base; 62 inches

HAAELTINE & PERKINS DRUG 60.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in
going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase.

those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or

greatest possible use to dealers.

It is impossible to giv

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

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Jastor Oil. 60 7 00
aaa... 5 50
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aoe «C.. (.--.»-s- 55 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Acm®.
%q iD. cans. 3 doz _- 45
% <b. ee 5
—_— :* 12
ee ee ew 10
Arctic.
% cans 6 doz case. 55
xD * 4 a  «C... 1 10
id 2 doz ' -2@
a. * 1 doz . +. oo
Cream Flake. .
3 OZ ‘o- ~* a 45
4 OZ “G05 “ —. 60
OZ 4doz 80
Oz Adoz 1 20
® “ 2doz 2 00
Ib idoz oe
Red Star, * > cans... 40
+3 . 1 40
Telfer’s, Ib. cans, dos. =
' Ib : ‘.. oo
Our Leader, ies. 45
Ki con. ....- i)
1 lbcans 19
BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
Buglish ee
Bristol. .... So 80
Domestic. ... 70
BLUING. Gross
Arctic, _ ovels.....-.--- © oe
— tee 2
ints, round. oe
2, sifting pox... 2 7%
e No. 3. . 400
No. 5, ea .o
(an. |...
Mexicat 1 Li quid, s a 60
nee... 6 80
BROOMS,
Ac. 2 Hurl eh eee oe i.e
No.1 io 2 4
No. ons eo _- =e
N pe -
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Common Whisk. bos eee 80
Fanc ee . =
Warehouse........ .2£n
BRUSHES.
mon me t......--..-----. 1
a“ “ 10. : 1 50
ca ee ee 1 %
Rice Root Scrub,2 row..-- 85
Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25
Palmetto, goose...... te
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.. o-_
i nein enn 9
ee .-
icking =
CANNED GOODS.
Fish.
Clams.
Little Neck, >... 1 20
19 Se... 1 90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.. _.. —_-
Cove Oysters.
St audard, 1 og | 75
: 13
Lobatr.
Star, e....... 2 45
oe ..}........ ..8 50
Piente, 1 Ib... . 2 90
ee ao
ee.
Standard, a ee
Laie en dak 2 10
Mustard, 2b. s-
Tomato Sauce, 2a... aS
—— OO 12
Salmon.
Columbia River, oe
s.......- 1 65
Alaska, eee Oe 13
pin pe ce ek ee ces wee 1 10
Kinney’s. fais le ecbe ee ee 1 95
—
American — ..4%9 5
ee SAO 7
Imported “i eee eee een @w
ee io
Mustard ae. i. oe
— Se 21
Trout.
Brook 3, Ib.....-. 2 50
Fruita.
Apples.
8 ib. standerd........ 1 20
York State, —- ee 4 00

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Lave oak....... ‘ 1 40
Santa a. 1 40
Lusk’s oe. 1 50
Overlan en 1 40
Blackberries
r. oe ees 90
' Cherries.
ss. ................ 1 10@1 2
Pitted Hamburgh .....
ae ....,.........-- 150
—............... 1%
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
age’
ae 1 20
California. . 140
Gooseberries.
one... wl ps]
Ponda.
ee 1 10
ee ..........-... i 50
ee 150
California. . 160@1 75
—— aE
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Pears.
Demeee......2........ 13
eee... 1%

Pineapples.
aaa... 1 00@1 30
Johnson’ a wtieed...... 2 50

grated...... 2%

Booth’ 8 sliced a. @2 5)
erasen........ @2 75

Quinces.

ae... 1 10
Raspberries.
—.................... 110
Black Hamburg.. 14
Erie, black .. Lone 13
Strawberries.
ss... 1 23
Paes .........._- i=

4 1 20
a 1%
Whortleberries,
Blueberries ........ 85
eats.
Corned beef Libby’s....... 210
Roast beef Armour’s....... 1 80
Potted ham, —-- —
ES 7
Cones, 6 ......... 1%
- Be cs a 7
i chicken, 4 Ib.......
Vegetables.

Beans.

Hamburgh stringless....... 1 15
French style..... 2 00

: en 1 35
ok, Oee......-...-s.s.,, 13
ee 7

Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 35
Bay State Baked............ 13
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 3
Pacuie Gaked............ a

Corn.
I ke ee 123
Livingston ee coke 1 2%
Honey BI oe cote cress 1 40
a — ee a

pee eee seis seeeae 7

Peas.

Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 30
early June . ...15

a rca Eng..1 40

© = se 140
ancy Potted. =

Soaked ee ee 65
Borris standerd............. 5
VanCamp’ Ss mereres....... 110

early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25
French... ae 2
om Mushrooms.

I econ es 19@21
Pumpkin.
i 5
Squash.
ee... ........,., its
Succotash
on. dese ne 1 40
oe... 80
meee eew..... 1 50
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Tomatoes.

Hancock .
Excelsior
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CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s.
German Sweet.. .......-.. 23
Pee 37
Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43
CHEESE,
See ......--....... 10
ACEO.... ...... 9%
Toeee..........-...- 10
Riverside . 10
Gold Medai.. 9%
ON ee 7
i. 15
I ie eee nee 1 00
eee ............... =
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nes Rognetor Di pecn ci een ies 2
bes eee 220
Se ales. imported. Ox
” domestic .... @i4

CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
—_ pint, 25 bottles coca 2%
ees 4 50
ae 1 doz bottles . 850
Triumph Brand.
Melt pint, per Goe........ .. 13
Pint, 25 bottles...... eee ce 450
enrt, per Gee ..... .......3 7
CLOTHES PINS.
Serems bOees............. 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.
oe oe...
Less quantity........... @3%
Pound packages........ 6%Q@7
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
ae... 18
ae. 12
eee... 21
ES
Poe |. 23

Santos.
—............ 19
—.. .......... 20
ce cee 22
as... 23

ee 22
ee i 24
Maracaibo.

ee 23
OO 24
ava.
ae... .... ----- ---.. 2
Private Growth............-27
OE —————————aa 28
Mocha.
eee
ae. ....... 28
Roasted.
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add c. per lb. for roast-

ing and 15 per ont. for shrink-
age.

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 22
Bunola 22
Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 22

Extract.

80
30

} sd City % STOBS....-... y és]

Fe i 115

Hummel’s, foil, gross. daa 1 65

tin sue

CHICORY.
ne _s
ee +
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft.......per dos. 1 2

’ a... a“ 123

° ....... -

_ a... " 1 %

- s....-.. . i=

Jute r...... " 8

' oe ...... - 1.

CONDENSED MILE.
4dos. in care.
ECE

are are BAA 5H

  
   

  

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40
a 6 25
ee ee 5 75
4 50
— odes ae ed con ae 42
eee, 1. 3 35

 

CREDIT CHECKS.

 

500, any one denom’ e....- $3 00
— «li i 5 00
2000, “ ‘ 4 8 00
Steel punch.. eeesese. oe

;
Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75

———— BOOKS,

   

 

‘“Tradesman.’
8 1 books, per hundred.... 2 00
8 2 “ “ “ ue 2 50
g 3 “ “ ou a 3 00
s 5 a7 “ “e a 3 oo
$10 oe “ “ oa 4 ov
#20 ae “ “ iat 5 00

“Sn ig
# 1 books, per hundred ..: 2 50
g 2 “ “o “ ne 3 00
ae nig . -.. 380
8 5 “es “ “ ou 4 00
#10 se ity “ ce 5 00
#20 “ “ “ o 6 00

Universal.”
8 1 books, per hundred... 83 00
82 ' " ue Oo
83 C " .. 400
ss 6 | C* _ . oe
810 Hy “ ee
820 ™ . 7 00

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

200 books or over. : 2 per cent
“ fe 0
1000 “cc “ : 20 oe
COUPON PASS BOOKS.

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

 
 

 

weeenee... ..-.... $100
SS 2 00
_— * 3 00
2 . 6 25
i ees 10 00
aS 3 17 50
CRACKERS.
Butter.
Seymour XXX..........+.++. 5
eagle Zs, carcoon..... 5%
ge SE Se
Family Ray, cartoon. ..... 5%
Saeee Oa ................- 5
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 5K
—- ml a
— IS TE 7
Butter Beet. c. Le 6
Soda.
poms, 5 ee.......
See Caee........--
Soda, Duchess.....-. .. 8&
Creuees Water.........-..... 10
Long Island Wafers ....... 11
ster.
S. Oyster EXE..........-..- 5%
City Oyster. XXX............ 5%
Farina Oyster.....- ees 6
— waaee.
Strictly pu ies
Telfer’s Absolute. a
ee ek ee sox
FLY PAPER.
Thum’s Tanglefoot.
eee ee... 3 60
eve oe es... .....-.--..-- 3 50
Ten case lots.. .3 40

Less than one case, “40¢ per box
DRIED FRU

Domestic,

Apples
Sundried, sliced o bbls.

’ quartered ‘
Evaporated, 50 Ib, boxes 12 12%
Apricots,

California in bags.. ...
Evaporated in boxes. ..
Blackberries.
es
Nectarines.
re eeee...........
25 th. DOROS.... .....
Peaches.
Peeled, in boxes........
Cal. evap. i
in b

 

Pe
California in ba, =n
Pitted Cherries.

Prunelles.
ae eeeee.....--......
Raspberries.
re eee... ,.........-
Po eciercas cone
ee
Raisins.
Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown le teee oe open cen

 

4 ac

es Muscatels in 1 Baga”
2 crown... . 4
De  eibe cic ceep i eee ons

 

Foreign.
Currants.
Patras, in Gerreds........- 234
in ee oo... 2%
via in less quantity .. 3
cleaned, bulk...... 4

cleaned, package.. 5
Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, os boxes .

Lemon

Grange * 2 . 10
Raisins.

Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes... @

Sultana, 20 @8

Valencia, 30 ‘
Prunes.

California, oe. .....-...
90x 100 25 Ib. bxs.

“ee 90

“ 70x80 “

“ 60x70 “
ee
eee

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
i o.......-........ $1 75
eo... 1 60
mete. 1 65
we 26... 1 50
XX wood, white,
oe 8 ONG... 1 35
, ee ee 1%
Manilla, white
a care cee ee es 1 06
Se ie 9%
Coin
a wet. .............. 1
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina.
oe. hee... ....- 3%
Hominy.

TD coven tecn sss. s, 300
oT .................-... 3%
Lima Beans

ss... 4 @4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box...
teperted....-......... 10%@11
Oatmeal.
mens Wee... 5. 5 5 00
Half barrels 100...... - se
Pearl Barley.
BR. ass c cae es median
Peas.
mee, OM... oo eee. 135
Split e- “tb ew eane
Rolled Oats.
meres ... ....--.- @5 00
Hat soa o......... @2 7
Sago.
ST ee 4%
eee POO oes. 8
eat.
eee. 3%
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
eee
Cod.
Georwes cured............ 1%
Georges genuine......... 6
Ceorges selected......... 6%
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%
Halibut.
Smoked .....-......... 10@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops as 70
Merwertes ........<,.....
Round, % ‘bbl 100 Ibs ou 2 50
oo wh 1 30
a 19
nes
me eee. ess... 0 00
No. 1, 40 oe. obese ete i 4 40
7 + wee... .....-.. 1 00
ee oe ee... «s-..... 7 00
os ee oe............... 3 10
moo oe Wee... . 8...
Peutny, © re..............
. OE lee ee
Sardines
Restlen, ees.............. 55
Trout.
No. 1, 4 bbls., 100lbs........ 47%
No. 1% b bl, Dae 2 26
No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs oo oe 63
Mo 1.8% kite, 53
Whitefish.
No.1 family
4 7 3» 100 _- beeen ae 252%
ea . 289 120
“_ ~ kits beet iee oe 7% 38
a = CL & 33
MATCHES.
Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbia Parlor........... “ =

XXX Sulphur..
Diamond Match Co.” 8 ‘ican

Pe I irc cit cs 1 65
Baer PATIO... . 65 s0. 4. 170
Pe NN eines occas as 1 10
meet Pee... -.... 400

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Souders

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

 
  
  
  
  
  

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2a ...2 ©
io..... tS

Regular
Vanilla.

Jennings.
oe ——_

; - re ular ne 5
& pa aH
re ' a 0 3 00
No. S taper........ 1 35 2 00
No. 4 taper.......-. 1 50 2 50

Northrop’s
Lemon. er.
202 oval taper %
3 02 1 20 it73
20z regular ‘ 85 1 20
402 a. . 12 2 25
GUNPOWDER.

Rifie—Dupont’s.
Kode ces casa aces sees ouem 3 25
Halt MO on. oe eo 1 90
Rosier a i 10
DO ec i ee 30
\% lb Cans. 18

Choke Bore—Dupont’r

ee iss ee .& 25
eae ee..........-.-. 2
Quarter kegs.. .... --- -ia
'ip Ones ...... 34
~~ Duek—Dupont's 8.

ee eas ee ee oie 11 00
Ha t a 5 1
Quarter kegs . 800
Tw Ge... ne esses 60

RBS. ,

OS... coos we oe .
Moe oes nie Die iees bee 15
ee
Madras, 5 lb. boxe 55
S #4, Sand Sib. Sean. 50
JELLY.
i eee........... @ &3
_" i eS
. Ne ee @ 9
LICORICE.
PS iso ss co 30
Ee een 25
oe 12
oe ee eee 13
LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos.. ~~ 2.
soe. ......... 2 2%

MINCE MEAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 5
Pie preparation, 3 doz. in

a
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
ee $1 75
Halt NE le eae cay 1 40
—--- oui ecee cues 70
ee 45
ee oe ..... .....--.. 40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
ee 7 00
Male eaten ..........---.. @ oo
— Sc 3%
ec eee eke  -
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap
Sugar house..........----- 14
Cuba Baking.
Oeeeey .... s,..---- ---- 16
Porto Rico.
ee 20
Peay ....-. 30
New Orleans.
Pee 4, 18
ee 22
Wain wood. .....1---.....- 27
eee ee 32
Dp w

Fancy
Half barrels 3c.extra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

PICKLES,
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... @4
Half bbls, 600 count.. @2 7
Small,
Barrels, 2,400 count. 5
Half bbls, 1,200 count 3

 

   

 

  

PIPES.
Clay, oe 1 70

+. D. fallcount........ 70
Cob, Noes ee

POTASH,

48 cans in case.
Eee... .-............. 4 00
Ponna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 00

RICE,
Domestic.
Carolina head...

o N . 7.

. ee eae
¥_————————

Imported.
Jd apan, TO Ri ie ee 5%
WOE... oe cc cees ecccscocee §
Paseo Sestescce 6
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
Ayes... .. <2 .5 8. —
Cassia, China in mats...... 8

v Batavia in bund....15

’ Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, — eee 22

Peer ............ 11%
Mace Hetavim....... ......- 80
Nutmegs ee 75

Ret

“ -fe 2............... 60
Pepper, Singa: ~ —- -10

ee "20

" oe... 16

Pure Saeeall in Bulk,
AS i... 15
Cass la, “Batavia lane ed ues 18

and Saigon.25

. ee 35
Cloves, —_ We cc. 22

eee... 18
aes African 4.4... S

' —..... 2
—————_————— 65
Mustard, ae —_ ——?
Nutmegs N No. 2 aback =

‘epper, Singa a ac. ;
ee ae. FY

: eek. Seieear ences 20

Ds

‘‘Absolute” in Packages,

148 a
Mie... ... oes 155
Ceamenion............. @ IS
eee... 1 55
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
_ meroee........ & 135
Maer .............. 64 155
Pepper ............-++- 84 155
Sage..7... a. oa,
SAL SODA.
Granulated, penl....-....... 144
%lb cases...... 1%
ie ee sw. 1 15
= 3 eeee....... |: 1%
SEEDS.

Aetie oL @15
Sue. Smyrna. . 4
Comes ........,..... 8
Cardamon, Malabar 90
Hemp, Russian. 4
Mixed Bird. 5@6
pumees, white. 10
Poppy .. as 9
a... 5
Cuttle bone.. 30

STARCH,
Corn.
20-1b boxes leet ee eco as 5X
eh 5%
Gloss.
2 > packages ee ee see ese ee :
e ib es 5%
40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 353
ree... a... 358
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43

 
 

ine — ee 4
gs, g. SALT. %
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... $1 60
Barcom, Se e..........- 50

  

2

: 115 2% Ibjbags.... 4 00
aoc mu . 3%

” 2010 ib “ . =
Butter, 56 lb a ves cs 65
20 ib baee......... 3 50

“ 0ilb bbls ....+.++ 2 50
“an * 2 25

Worcester.

115 a -lb sacks Ce ekee cd 84 (0
ene UF hl 3 B
30 cOub Sk 3 5D
mye i, 3 30

— 2 60

8 lb sacks.. 32%
blinen acks.. 60
Common Grades.

OOS 1R, ONOME.......... ... 2 10
60 5. ee 2 00
28 10- i see 1 85

Warsa

56 Ib, dairy in drill bags... 30
os a“ 7 a

Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75

ns.
56 Ih, dairy in Hinen sacks. 75
Soiar Rock.

56 Ib. sacks... peddle. seeeue 2
Common Fine

NO ccc, 80

ce cc ee 80

 

SALERATOS,
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Cee cl 3 30
Deere wk se. 3 15
Dwight’s.... .. 3 30
Taye © ........... 3 00

SEELY’S a

Lem
1 os. F. M. . 90 doz. $10 20 gro
N 1 20 B@

2” Ss.
2* Fei * 1440 *
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M. 1 50 doz 16 20 gro
2" Ree * 2c
2 * F.M.e _ =o
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.
208... 3. ea... seo “
Vanilla.
2 Go8.....: 1 @ dex... 10 SO“
SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. — 8 Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 20
Good Cheer, 60 1 Ib bees dees 3 90
White Borax, 100 %-Ib...... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.
mee 3 45
Ivory, 10 - ee fees aoe 6 75

. oo ................ 4 00
Reomoe. . 8... Le 3 65
Mottled German........... 3 15
i ee A 3B

Dingman Brands.

Simagie Pex. .............- 3 9%
5 box lots, delivered eae 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. 8S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, =_— "d..83 33
plain..

2 aT

N. K. Fairbank & Co. ee
Sateen Cee...

Brown, ooee......... 3 40
o oes... 8... 3 25

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
ee 3 75
imtamita
Peete 4 00
meee cs ee

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

   

ree oo... 2
ee 3 30
Savon Improved Pee ees ease 2 50
Pueeower..... .... 2 80
titre 3 25
moonomicas 225
Lago Atlas Brand.
Pe 3 65
5 box ‘on. eee eee ta, 3 60
oe tote 3 50
ees ied 3 40
Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40

hand, 3 doz De dceke 2 40

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on’sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on, the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
ange from the market in which
a an en shipping

ncluding;20° pounds
the weight of the aoa -

 

eee 5

bisa cae ee * “4
MPO ee 5 00
rowers 5 00
xXxXxxX Powdered eee 5 25
repute 435
Fine Granulated. ......°""’ 4 75
Extra — Granulated... 4 87
moog A ...... ae
Saeunead Comfec, A... 4%
Confec. Standard A.. .... 4 62
ee 4 50
_—e. 450
me oe 4 50
a 6 444
i 437
Re en 4 25
No. A 412
fe 4 06
a ee 4 00
ee 3 94
Bee 3 87
Ce 3 81
No. 13 1. 3 56
eee 3 37

SYRUPS.

Corn.
ee 24
ee oe 26

Pure Cane.
he fe 19
ee 25
Cees 30
TABLE SAUCES,

Lea & Perrin’ 6, leree ...... 475
emiall..... 2 %5

Halford, or bende, 75
ei ge el 225

Salad Dressing, large . 455
email ..... 2 65

 

TEAS.
JaAPAN—Regular.
Weer

@17

 

OS 32
ee 10
BASKET FIRED.
Pare ............ “oe
Cuonee.......... ”
Cogecene. .......-...
Extra choice, wire leat
GUNPOWDER,
Common to faiz....... 2
Extra fine to finest... .50
Choicest fancy........ 75
OOLONG.
Common to fair... ...23
IMPERIAL.
Common to fair....... 23
Superiortofine........ 30
YOUNG HYSON.
Commor, to fair....... 18
Superior to fine....... 30

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
18

 

TOBACCOS,.
Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
one Russet. . ...380 @32
a a ee oe 30
5. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Peewee... - os -,..... 60
Dee Scene 32
Rocket. 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s Brauds.
Seartinig ..........._... 30
Private Brands.

Baeoe ...........2....,

Can Can..
Nellie Bly..
Uncle Ben.

 
    
 
 

am ai ..-......-- 2
Torpedo ee. 2
in drums.... 23
Vow Yum ........... 2
1608), 0.2) |... 12... . z
* Geee............ 22
Plug.
Sorg’s Brands,
Soesrpead ............ 38
a 27
Nobby Pwist...........- 40
Scotten’s Brands.
Ba. .......... 26
Hiawatha cee eues 38
Valley City ........... 34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old Honesty.......... 40
JOllyVar.......-..-.-- 32

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41c)..

Gren Tartie.......... 30

Three Black Crows... 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.

—_-. “16 eee

Outor Sigit..........

a. & rMecaiay 8 iin

Gora Hope ............ 43
Happy Thought eee 7
ee 32
Maves........ ..-.... 31
bet Ge................ 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,
oes eee. 17@18
Golden Shawer............. 19
a
Meersehsum .. ......-.... .29@30

American Eagle Co.’s a
Myrtle Navy......

  

A
—
ee |...
jam, aoe. 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
ee 8 16
p oromanerad Cavendiah.......... 38
Coe cee .,..----..-,.:-... 28
Scotten’s Brands.
Ware... “4
Oe eee 26
Gold Hieck.......... i. 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Brands.
(ee 26
18
Oe 22

Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Memmeeee........ 4. 41

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

ee
Uncle Sam Sateen ne nee saga
ee Cree... 5... 32
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry.......+...- 20
Traveler Cavendish........ 38
CE 30
Ce a 30@32
Comm Cee... ss. 16
VINEGAR.
a. ................... 7
Sh 6 ee 8 @9

81 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD,

Bulk, poral .........,... 30
Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 75
YEAST.
a. 1 00
Ware ................... 1 00
re i ie 1 00
Riamond....... lel oo. 15
Royal ..... oecdeae| oe

 

WOODENWARE.
Tubs, _ : See eecdee es cue. 6 00
De kee ce once 5 50
" Nos Se bege cemteeccass 4 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 30

‘“* No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 50
Bowls, 11 inch

 

 

13
“ 15 “
“ce 7 “ee
tc 19 “
2
Baskets, —. oar 35
ng us el.. 115
. ful nes a 1 2
. willow c ‘ths, N 0.1 5 25
’ No.2 6 2
: _ [ Mees 2
“ splint = Nol a7
es r . No.2 4 25
te “ se No.3 4 7
INDURATED WARE
Fae... 15
Tune, Ne. t................ 13 50
(oe 12 00
oo 10 50
Butter Plates—Oval.
250 1000
60 2 10
7 24
30 2
100 350
Washboards—single.
Universe... 2 2
Ne, Gueen................- 2 50
Peerless Protector.......... 2 40
Saginaw Glone............. 1%
Double.
Water Witeh _.._........ 225U
Wan. 2 52
Goo tuck... ........... 2%
BeGmeete 28

HIDES PELTS and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

“ HIDES.
um 2@2%
Ser Cured Seed. @3
wee COC. @4
Dey. Lee es dea w eeu ce 4@5
Kips, meen .. 2... .. 2 @3
*  Gered............ @5
Calfsking, — eas 4@5
cues 5y@ 7
Deacon ain a 10 @25
No. 2 hides \ off.
PELTS.

Seeerines ..........- 5 @ Ww
Lae... 2 @ 60
wooL

Washed... ........-.. 12 @i7
Unwashed ............ & @lz
MISCELLANEOUS.
TROW ...... 2... es. 3%@ 444
Grease butier.........1 @ 2
Syeeeuen...........-.-- J A@. 2
Ginaene. Sa 00@2 50
GRAINS and aad
WHEAT,
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 46
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 46
MEAL.
eneed..................... 1 40
Granulated.. -_ 16
FLOUR IN BACKS.
“reiomte.............. cose. 2 OO
MeeenGerae................ 1 &
eee 1 35
WEERPOID .. ...., 5. eeee ss. 1 40
ee, 40

1
— to usual cash dis-
co
ol in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.

MILLSTUFFS.
Car lots quantity
Eran. ......... 815 00 816 00
Screenings .... 12 00 12 00
Middlings..... 16 00 17 C0
Mixed Feed... 23 00 24 50
Coarse meal .. 22 00 23. 00
CORN.
—— —..........-...... oe
Less than car lots.......... 60
OATS.
cor wie ............... 34
Less than car casa TS

No. 1 Timothy, a lots....11 %
No. 1 r ton ijote...... 12 50
FISH AND OYSTERS.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as

follows:
FRESH FISH.

   
 

 

— ee 610
me... _...........- @8
Black | _ See dee a ale : 12%
Pees. ............. @17
Gan or Herring.... @ 4
Haeeeee...........,..- @10
Fresh lobster, per Ib.. 20
a ead ect 10
Na. 3 Piekore:......... @9
—. , ....... @7
Smoked White.... ... @8
Red Snappers......... 15
Columbia River Sal-
mee 15
Mackora.............. 18@2:
OYSTERS—Cans.
Fairhaven Counts.... @45
F. J.D. Selects..
Boneeee .....2.. ...
Pd, os s.........,
EE ———
SiemGeras..... nus. 0
oYsTERS—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal.
eee
ee
oe
Gealiqws......... a
—........... 1 2%
oe —_—

SHELL GOODS,
Oysters, per 100.-.....1 25@1 75
Clams, . . %3@1 00

 

PROVISIONS

i7

The Grand Rapids Packing ond Provisinn Ca

quotes as follows:

 

PORK IN BARRELS.

OR, veces. 14 00
Ree Ge ek ees... ‘4 75
Extra clear pig, short cut. . 16 50
etre clear Geacy.. 8 .
el 16 00
Boston clear, short cut. -- 16 0
Clear back, short cut. - 16 00
Standard clear, short cut, best. 16 00
SAUSAGE.
Orr ee 7%
te 5%
EE 6
ee 8%
ae wen
Meee Gnaease 6
Summer..... : 10
PeOMee T%
LARD
Kettle ene. .... 83
Granger . to. eS
Pee 6° ¥
Compound . 6} ‘
eee i 74
50 Ib, Betas 4c advance.
20 Ib. pail 8, 4c
10 lb. %e "
cin 66 CORE :
oie “* tle °
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. . 7
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 75
Bencicss fan Ute 11 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average Cola, ae 23
' ee 1
: " 12 to 14 Ibs.. o 138%
a. pee By
V  MORGMeNCléae 10%
eC 7
Breakfast Bacon boneless................... 10%
Dried beef, ham prices.. : Me seat oe 13
DRY SALT. MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy ..
Briskets, medium. 83
. — 9 7
Butts.. !
D. S. Bellies... Pine creceeceeme......,... @
TT 8%
PICKLED PIGS’ FEET.
Half barrels...... Lees. 3 00
Quarter barrels. . 2 00
le 90
TRIPE.

Bae noses... esti 75
Kits, prcmam i. 65
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BUBNERS,

a eae ceag eee cel. 45
Bet CC. 50
Noe” 4k... |... ae
Wueler..-. sc. 75

LAMP CHIMNEYS, Per
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box.

  

 

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No. Sun, crimp top..
No. “
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No. 0 Sun, crimp --- .2 60
moat “ ee
No.2 . " a an aN .8 80
Pear! top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled..............3 70
No. 2 te ee “ec “ a : 4 7
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ ' es .4 89
Fire Proof—Plain n Top.
No. 1, Sun, plain bulb.. : 3 2
CO eg .4 70
La Bastie,
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. LCL 12
No. 2 a. ae
No. 1 crimp, per. ee | 1 3
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LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. each...... 45
No. 0, . oo. o Pe waa oe 45
No. 0, . Dbbisb “ . 40
No. 0, ° bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 00
ROCHESTER STORE LAMPS.
No. 10, Brass, 400 Candie power............ 3%
STREET LAMPS.
No. 9, Globe, automatic extinguisher........ a
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0, per gross.. so 23
mas ULC 28
_ 2, ee  . 38
No. 3, . ‘to
Mammoth, per doz.. i Th
FRUIT JARS.

Mason—old style.
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a... . ' . 500
uarts . Se eee ee eee a
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—— © ass cover.
Pints.. re a a . $50
Quarts .. hh deb ace hen . 900
Halt gallons ....... ee
Supplies.
Boyd’s extra caps. 22
Muboer ries... ........ 2. . =
Sealing wax, red or white, 5 Ib pi 1c ‘kag i 3
JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
14 Pints, 6 doz in bars per box (box 00)..... 1 64
— i 24 "oOo " Co fo @)...... 23
“_ G ‘ box, * box (box 60).... & 90
.— * a. * oe UD” hCUe OS)... 26
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks, 1 to6 gal.. ee 06
“ \% gal. per oe NE 60
woon, eel per Gem... es se 70
“ 2 See, per aa..........._...... ._
Miik Pans, * gal., per dos.. =
<a. EWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, | and 2 aal................. 6%
Milk Pans, % gal. per doz.... . &
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

MEN OF MARE.

 

Hon. Chas. C. Comstock, the Pioneer
Furniture Manufacturer.

“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,

And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.”

But itis not to the lives of great men
we should look for our inspiration and
encouragement in the struggle of life.
Alexander, and Charlemagne, and Napo-
leon, and Washington, and Lincoln, were
all pre-eminently great men; they not
only made history but they were evoch
makers. Had they never lived the
worl’ds history would read far differ-
ently from what it doés. But how many
of us, gazing up at the lofty pedestal
upon which their mighty deeds have
placed them, will care to say, I shal) be
an Alexander, or a Na; oleon, or a Wash-
ington, or a Lincoln? No; we take
some lowlier example, some life, which
while successful in its own sphere,does not
call upon us to perform the impossible.

In every community are to be found
men who have made both a name and
fortune for themselves, whose lives are
well worth careful study by _ those
younger in years and experience. These
are the men to be followed and emula-
ted, not the heroes of history, and in
patterning after them we find our best
and chiefest encouragement. Perhaps
no man in this community is more de-
serving of a niche in the local temple of
fame than Hon. Charles C. Comstock.

Mr. Comstock was born in the Old
Granite State 76 years ago. His father
was a native of Connecticut, where he
was born 124 years ago last May. By oc-
cupation he was a carpenter, with which
occupation he combined farming in a
small way. He was not successful as a
farmer, but he was a good carpenter, and
an honorable, upright citizen, and from
him his son Charles imbibed those les-
sons of frugality and industry which
have stood him in such good stead in his
own battle with the world; but Charles
did not take to carpentering; he stuck to
the farm, for which he has never lost his
liking. After attaining his majority he
pushed out for himself and had soon
added lumbering to his farming opera-
tions, both of which were moderately
successful financially. Im 1853, when 35
years of age, he came to Grand Rapids,
then a town of 4,000 inhabitants. He
again engaged in lumbering to which he
soon added various lines of manufac-
tures. He was the pioneer furniture man-
ufacturer of the city, for years making
fully two-thirds of the furniture manu-
factured in the city. The financial
storm of 1857, before which
good men went down, seriously embar-
rassed him, but four years’ time saw him
with every dollar of his indebtedness
paid, and again on the full tide of pros-
perity. Mr. Comstock was the first to
enter the wholesale furniture
this city. While in the East on business
he fell in with a Western furniture
buyer, whom he induced to visit Grand
Rapids. To this gentleman he sold 300
bureaus—the first wholesale furniture
transaction recorded in the city. From
this time the business rapidly extended
until in 1863 it gave employment to
several hundred men. In that year he
sold a half interest to James M. and
Ezra T. Nelson, and later he disposed of
his remaining interest to his son, T. A.
Comstock, and two others. He then en-
gaged in the manufacture of wooden-
ware, principally pails and tubs, which

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he carried on with more or less success
for about twenty years. The panic of
1873 was another period of trial, but Mr.
Comstock weathered it safely and came
out stronger than ever. In 1876 came
the hardest strain. Money was scarce
and business poor, while freight charges
were excessively high, and all the ex-
penses of doing business were greatly
enhanced. How to continue running his
works, so as to give employment to his
men, without swamping himself was the
problem to be solved. ‘‘l did business
ata loss of $8,000 one year,’’ said Mr.
Comstock, speaking of those days recent-
ly, *‘but I could not stand that long, and
so something had to be done. First of
all, [ went to the men and told them
just how I was situated, and that they
must submit to a reduction of just one-
half in their wages. Not a man quit, but
all cheerfully consented to the cut. I
then turned my attention to the freight
charges. 1 had paid in one year as high
as $12,000 for freight, and I thought 1
eould reduce the bill somewhat. The
cars used were very small, 250 dozen
pails making a good carload. I bought
twenty cars at an expense of $12,000,
which would carry 700 dozen easily and
as they cost no more to haul than the
small cars, it made a big reduction in
my freight bill. Those cars paid for
themselves inside of two years. By
close shaving I managed after that to
come out even.

‘“‘What about ‘Comstock scrip?’ There
is not much to be said about that. I had
for some time been running a store in
connection with my other business, and
when money got scarce, like others, |
began to give my men orders. Thatis a
most unsatisfactory way of doing busi-
ness, and I soon introduced the scrip to
take its place. A good many comments
were heard about it; some people
laughed at it; some objected to it; others
said it was illegal; but 1 had been careful
to get good sound legal opinion on
the legality of the scrip and had no fear
on that score. It was not circulated as
money, but was redeemable in goods at
the store. I was not making money;
that is a function that Uncle Sam jeal-
ously reserves to himself. 1 wanted to
tide over the hard times, and my scrip
was certainly a big help in that direc-
tion. Some of the other merchants did
not relish it, for it took considerable
trade from them to my store. I did not
compel any of my men to trade with me,
and if a man wanted his wages in money
I was compelled to get it for him; butall
of them were perfectly willing to take
the scrip and trade at my store. That
was why the other merchants kicked.
There were all sorts of stories aicat
about me and my scrip at that time.
‘Comstock is on his last legs’ some
people said. Well, they were pretty good
legs, after all, for 1 have used them ever
since and they are sound yet. It was
reported that I had $100,000 worth of
scrip out, when, as a matter of fact, 1
never had more than $6,500. It run
from five cents to $5, and there was a
big pile of it, or there seemed to be.
Not 5 cents of that scrip was ever dis-
honored, but is was all redeemed as
fast as it was presented. And when it
was withdrawn it was paid for in cash.
I had a record of every note issued, and
none of it, so far as I know, was ever
counterfeited. In addition to my own
signature it bore the signature of the
party to whom it was first issued, and

 

also that of the manager of the depart-
ment from which it was issued. J. N.
Fisher, who was 20 years with me,
signed a large number of them, as did
others. It did not at that time, nor does
it now, strike me as being anything re-
markable. I did it because I had to
do something, and the issuing of scrip
seemed to me to be the best thing to do.
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FAC-SIMILE OF “‘COMSTOCK SCRIP.”

“It seemed strange to me then, and I
do not understand it yet, that I was
always on the unpopular side. Take
the Mill Creek railroad, as an instance.
1, in common with a few other North-
enders, wanted a railroad from this city
out to Mill Creek, to make connection
with the other two roads running north
and south from the city. Manufac-
turers in the North-end wanted better
transportation facilities. So I organ-
ized the Grand Rapids Railroad Co.
I had the route surveyed, and even
bought the right of way myself for al-
most the entire distance; but the pro-
ject fell through for want of support,
and also because it was actively op-
posed by almost the entire business
community. Now the desirability of
such a road is acknowledged even by
those who were most stenuously op-
posed to it at that time, but the time
for building it is passed. It would have
enhanced the value of property in the
North end, and would, undoubtedly,
have been finally completed as a belt
line.

“At the time the G. R. & 1. Railroad
was being organized, I was asked to
take stock in it and I did so. A little
later what is now the L. S. & M. S.—
but at that time known as Gardiner’s
road, or the Allegan road—was started.
1 took stock in that company also, but,
so far as I know, I was the only man in
town who favored both roads. I was
told that the Gardiner road was pro-
jected to ‘bear’ the stock of the other
company; that the road would never be
built, and that its promoters never in-

 

I was satisfied that
both roads would be built, and I
wanted to see them both built. We
needed them both and the competition
would not hurt the city; but everything
possible was done to defeat the Gardiner
road. Ww. B. Ledyard, one of the most
conservative and able of our business
men, met me in the bank one day and
took me to task for supporting the
Gardiner road. He got quite excited
over it, and finally offered to bet ten to
one that the road would never be built.
He was not a betting man, but he was
so sure that the road was a fake that
he was willing to risk his money on it.
I told him I would take his bet and
would put up $100 against $1,000.
After some further talk, he said, ‘What
was that about the bet?’ ‘You said,’ Ll ans-
wered, ‘that you would bet ten to one
that Gardiner’s road would never be
built. Now, I will take that bet, and,
further, will bet that the Gardiner road
wi!l be built first. He laughed at me,
said | was crazy, and backed out of the
bet. Well, I was right. The Gardiner
road came into the city first, and un-
doubtedly stimulated the building of
the other road. Both were finally com-
pleted and | guess the people who at
that time opposed one or the other of
the two roads are satisfied now that the
city needs both roads. But all the same,
I was the only man in the city who

supported both roads.
“I don’t know why I should always be

on the unpopular side, but such seemed
to be my misfortune. Perhaps it is the
way [ am built. Take the proposed
scheme for deepening Grand Kiver,
as another illustration. Now, I am
positive that that scheme is not feasible
for two reasons: First, if it were pos-
sible to make a deep water channel from
Grand Haven to this city, so that the
large lake boats could be brought up
here, constant dredging would be neces-
sary to keep the channel clear. The
washings from the upper part of the
River would choke it upin alittle while.
In the second place, there is not enough
water, except in the spring and fall, to
float even the smaller lake crafts. These
two objections are fatal. It would be
much cheaper to construct a canal pro-
vided with locks, and | believe that to be
the only practicable plan. But nearly
every business man in the city advo-
cates the former scheme, and I am ealled a
lunatic and other hard names because lL
can’t see it that way, too.’’

As has been said, Mr. Comstock has
never lost his liking for farming. Suc-
cessful as he has been in his business
ventures, he is to-day a plain every-day
farmer, with very little in his personal
appearance to denote the man of means.
He owns about 300 acres of land just
outside the city limits on the north, on
which he has erected a comfortable and
handsome residence. Here, away from
the smoke and dirt and noise of the city,
he retires when the concerns of the day
are past and here he hopes to spend the
remaining years of his life. His chief
concern and pleasure is the care of his
herd of 80 Jersey cattle. They are his
pride, too, and withal he finds them prof-
itable. Another farm of 400 acres of
improved land completes his farming
operations and leaves him time to look
after his other interests. Though he
has never sought office, he has several
times been elected to positions of trust. He
was elected Mayor of the city in 1863 and

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1864, and was a member of the XLIXth
Congress. His knowledge of public af-
fairs is extensive and accurate and he is
always ready to discuss the political
questions of the day. Mr. Comstock has
always had the best interests of the city
at heart, and has done more, perhaps,
than any other individual for its material
advancement. Now that he has to all
intents and purposes retired from the
field, all are willing to concede to him
the honor and credit which are his due.
He has passed by six years the scriptural
allotment of the life of man, being now
76 years old; but his mind is still vig-
orous and active, and his body strong.
and he may reasonably hope for many
years of usefulness and enjoyment.
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PRESENT ASPECTS OF BUSINESS.

Making every allowance for imperfect
information and for intentional mis-
statements, the failure of the corn crop
in the sections of country affected by the
recent severe drought is extensive
enough to be a serious calamity. The
financial loss to the country at large will
be diminished, it is true, by the enhanced
price of the crop actually harvested, and
of the wheat and other cereals which
will be required to fill the place of the
lacking corn; but still, property de-
stroyed is property destroyed, and the
world’s wealth is so much lessened by
its absence. To the individual agricul-
turists whose year’s labor has thus been
unexpectedly dissipated into nothing the
loss is irreparable, and so far as it in-
capacitates them from purchasing com-
modities produced’ by others and from
paying | their “ereditors what they cwe
them, its effects extend beyond them-
selves to all with whom they deal.

The supposition that the working
people out of employment have for some
time been living largely upon their say-
ings is partially confirmed by the reports
of the savings banks, which show that
the total savings deposits on July 1, 1894,
were less than on July 1, 1893. Since
January 1 of this year -there has
been a steady gain in deposits, so that
the withdrawals previous to that date
must have been by that amount larger
than they appear to have been for the
whole year. It is true that a consider-
able amount was withdrawn last sum-
mer, not to pay living expenses, but for
investments in securities at the tempt-
ingly low prices which ,then prevailed,
and it is also true{that most of the work-
ingmen who are thrown out of work in
hard times’ are,'; unfortunately, those
who, from their inferior skill and capac-
ity, are the least desirable to their em-
ployers, and who, therefore, have been
less able to lay up money. Still, this
diminution in savings bank deposits is
significative, and, if it should continue,
it will mark a decided shrinkage in the
national resources. _ Indeed, the absence
of the savings institutions from the mar-
ket as lenders on bond and mortgage on
real estate has had a considerable effect
in keeping up the rate of interest upon
such securities, and to some extent has
checked building.

In confirmation of what I have several
times suggested as the possible course of
the labor marke‘, it may be remarked
that the Chicago strike, which at one
time threatened to bring to a standstill
all the industries of the country, has so
completely died out that it is no longer
talked of. The Pullman car works have
reopened, and are running with a fall

 

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complement of hands at the reduced
wages which the strikers so stoutly re-
fused to accept. In New York City the
public school house strike failed to stop
the work at which it was aimed, the
places of the strikers having been
promptly filled by men working for less
than union wages. An approaching re-
duction of wages in the Fall River cotton
mills is announced, and the understand-
ing is that it will not be contested. All
this goes to show that the wages of labor,
like the prices of commodities, adjust
themselves in the end according to de-
mand and supply, in spite of artificial
interference.

The indifference with which the gradual

dwindling of the Treasury gold reserve
is regarded marks a distinct change of
of the feelings of the public on the sub-
ject as compared with the anxiety which
prevailed at the beginning of the year
1893. Then, with a reserve of $108,000,-
000, Secretary Foster precipitated a
panic upon the country by the announce-
ment that as soon as the reserve fell be-
low $100,000,000 he might be compelled
to suspend gold payments. Even as late
as last February, when the reserve was
nearly $70,000,000, the financial mag-
nates of New York City were frightened
by the specter of another panic into
lending the Treasury $60,000,000, mostly
in gold, in exchange for an issue of
bonds of doubtful and disputed legality.
Now the reserve has fallen close to
$50,000,000, and not a muttering of
alarm is heard from any quarter. Peo-
ple have come to see, what I have con-
tended for all along, that no special gold
reserve is needed to keep our paper
money at par with gold nor required by
law. So long as the Treasury is able to
meet the demands upon it for gold, it
matters not how little it has left. No
citizen of this country asks to be paid in
gold for the goods which he sells or for
the debts which are due him, and even if
the metal went toa premium of one or
two points nobody would refuse either
greenbacks, Treasury notes, national
bank notes, or silver dollars and silver
certificates. The Treasury gold might
run down to $10,000,000 without doing
anybody the least. harm. This year we
are not likely to see it much more re-
duced than itis at present. Our exports
of cotton and food stnffs will soon be
enough to pay all we owe abroad either
for imported goods or for the income of
investments belonging to foreigners. In
Europe Austria alone is taking gold from
us, and Austria has by this time fur-
nished herself with nearly all she needs
to carry out her transition to gold pay-
ments. The tranquility of the public
mind on the subject is therefore justi-
fied, although I hear that in regard to it
some foreign brokers doing business here
are still a little nervous. If Congress
would only have the sense to give to the
Secretary of the Treasury the authority
which is given to the finance ministers
of every other civilized country, to issue
short bonds for gold whenever he neeeds
it, and to repeal the absurd act of 1878,
requiring the reissue of redeemed green-
backs, there would not be even the
shadow of apprehension in the mind of
anybody that we could not maintain
gold payments under all circumstances.

The condition of the banks of the At-
lantic seaboard cities also contributes to
maintain public confidence. Our large
exports of gold have been furnished by
States Treasury, and have

 

left their stock of the metal undimin-
ished, while the Western banks have ap-
parently nearly enough currency re-
maining from their accumulations of
last year to supply the usual summer de-
mand for it in that section to move the
crops without calling for as much from
the East as they have hitherto taken at
this season. No great stringency in the
money market is, therefore, likely to oc-
cur during the remainder of the year,
and the faith of stock operators in a con-
tinuance of the present ease, indicated
by their support of prices In the face of
adverse business conditions, seems to be
justified. MATTHEW MARSHALL.

The Tt Stove Pipe Collar and Holder.

Holds any pipe.
Fitsany flue. Ab
solutely soot and
spark proof. Im-
possible for pipe
to work loose. It
is neat, durable,
inexpensive.

Patented.

Liberal discount

to the trade.

. One dealer in
¥ towns of 1,000 or
less.

Write for prices
to L. D. Sanborn,
Grand Rapids,
Mich.,

Sole Agent for this State.
J. K. Randles, Manufacturer, Quincy, III,

 

 

 

 

Established 1868.

H. M. Reynolds & Son.

Building Papers,
Carpet Linings,
Asbestos Sheathing.
Asphalt Ready Roofing,
Asphalt Roof Paints,
Resin, Coal Tar.
Roofing and Paving Pitch,
Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool,
Elastic Roofing Cement.
Car, Bridge and Roof Paints, Oils.

Practical Roofers
In Felt, Composition and Gravel.

Cor. Louis and Campau Sts.,

PECK’S

Pay the best profit.

Grand Rapids

 

HEADACHE
POWDERS

Order from your jobber

mi W.

The Leading Nickle Cigar
Made inthis Market.

 

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit)

Made by Improved Machinery.

This Cigar is made with Long Mixed
Filler, Single Connecticut Binder
and Sumatra Wrapper.

Sold at $35 per 1,000

By the Manufacturer,

G. J. Johnson,

Telephone 1205.

347 South Division St.
Grand Rapids,
Mich.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

“The Niagara Falis Route.’’
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)

 

Arrive. Depart
C2 m........ Detroit Express ........ 7 Wam
5 Dam.....*Atlantic and Pacific..... ll M@pm
cep m...,.. New York Express...... 6 00pm
*Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run om 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 p m.

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

A. ALMguisT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

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

Cases Bbls. Pails.
Standard, per lb.. a 6 z
Be 6 7
ba wee ......,... 6 7
Boston Cream ........... 9%
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MIXED CANDY.
Bbls. Pails
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i... ... O56 6%
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Nobby.. ee Ge 8
English PE NA a 8
Conserves . De le, a 8
Broken Taffy. eee a, baskets 8
Peanut Squares. . oe. TM% 8%
French Creams.......... oo 9
Velley Creams. ll 13
Midget, 30 Ib. baskets, eg ue cou cua. 8%
Modern, 30 Ib. a Lote oe o
ranoy—In bulk
Pails
Lozenges, plain.. ee
TG 9%
Cmecmmerwere.... 13
Chocolate Monumentals.. ..
Gum Drops.. : ee
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Peppermint Drops. bees eee eee cele oo.
Chocolate Drops. . ee ee
H. M. Chocolate Drops. Oe ee ee ee 80
fam eee... 40
Ejeerce me... a
A. B. Licorice Drops . A ee 80
Lozenges, plain.. a Se ee
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Wintorercen Gerrices.................. Knee oess 60
CARAMELS.
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No. 1 1, 6 51
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LEMONS.
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BANANAS.

Large bunches.. ©
Small bunches 1 60@!1 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, fancy layers, om... es . @i2%

WA es oc. @i2
* extra ee oc ae @15
Dates, Pard, 10-Ib. box telus eeu acc @?7
' 50-Ib. Be aeeeee @d*%
- ane 50-Ib. box.. @5
_ iib Royals... .. . on
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.. @i6
ioe... @15
' Careorem........,........... @
Brasils, new. oe, @8
Filberts . @1!
Walnuts, Grenoble. Re eed ee cee @12
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Tapie Nuts, fancy.. eee @i2
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Fancy, H. Ps COE @5%
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Choice, H. Pe Extras.. @ 4%
“Roasted. . @6
OILs.

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BARRELS.
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Stove Gasoli es eae @ 7%
— a Rt 5
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Bisex, 5 cold test.......... eiedeoeus. @ 3%
FROM TANK WAGON.

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Zax W. Ww. “Mich, "Headlight. Leet etee 5
FRESH MEATS.

BEEF.

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Fore quarters 3 @4
Hind quarters. 7 @3a
Loins No. d...... 8 @10
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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, Aug. 18—Ever see 1,000
barrels of sugar afire in one store?
Makes a mighty hot blaze, don’t it? At
least that was the unanimous verdict of
about 10,000 people last Wednesday after-
noon, who were watching the blaze in
the wholesale grocery store of S ¢
Williams & Co., one of the oldest and
largest grocery houses here. The fire
was caused by an electric wire, and what
was not burned was drowned by the tons
upon tons of water thrown intothe strue-
ture and stock. The loss, which will be
almost a total one, will reach at least a
quarter of a million on the stock, with
an additional $50,000 on the building.
The building is a five Story brick, built
about ten years ago, and “from turret to
foundation stone’? was crowded witha
complete stock of groceries. It is a dan-
gerous neighborhood fora fire, as it is
right in the heart of the wholesale dis-
trict for groceries and only a stone’s
throw from the big dry goods depots.
The loss is fully covered by insurance.

The list of papers having their type
set by machinery is constantly being en-
larged, the number now including the
Pharmaceutical Era, Shipping List, Oil,
Paint & Drug Reporter, Popular Science
News, etal. The expense is found to be
greatly reduced and time saved. A good
machine operator gets $24 per week of 48
hours—not so bad in these times, but one
man will do the work of a dozen by hand.
The price of the great Magazines must
come down. We will yet see Harper's
selling for 15 cents per number, possibly
for 10 cents.

New York has never seen such endless
quantities cf California fruit as are piled
up everywhere waiting for consumers.
It never grows any cheaper on the push
carts. Always ‘3 for 10,” but it is worth
mentioning that the quantity and quality
are both unsurpassed.

The drouth that has prevailed so long
in this vicinity has been quite well
broken and we may expect a fairly good
out turn of tomatoes, while fruits will,
also, be greatly benefitted. The pack of
tomatoes, while not promising to be as
large as in recent years, will still be suf-
ficiently ample, and the market shows no
particular animation.

The retail grocery trade in New York
is in a prosperous condition, and your
correspondent found genera] Satisfaction
prevailing. Of course, great satisfaction
is expressed that the tariff bill is finally
formed. May the question not be revived
for a decade again!

Notwithstanding the hardening ten-
dency on many lines of goods, there is
very little speculation going on. These
times of adversity have not been without
their advantage if they have taught the
dealer that supply and demand are bet-
ter agencies for legitimate trade than
speculation months ahead by cliques and
rings. Sugar is moving in the smallest
manner consistent with demands, yet it
is generally thought that there will bean
increase in price if the present bill be-
comes alaw. Granulated is worth 4%,
and steady at that.

Some important transactions have
lately taken place in Maracaibos coffees
in anticipation of the removal of the tax
thereon, about 18,000 bags changing
hands. Otherwise the coffee market re-
mains steady. The sales above noted are
said to be upon the basis of 18@18¥e.
Rio No. 7 is quotable at 16e.

It seems strange to see a thing so sud-
denly galvanized into life as has been the
case with teas. A month ago the mar-
ket was absolutely dead, while now the
interest is becoming daily greater. The
market is strong and healthy, and every
day shows signs of improvement.

The canned goods market remains un-
changed, but there is nothing quoted
lower than last week. Better demand
prevails for New York State corn, which
is wortb from 75@90c; Maine, $1@1.10.

JAY.

 

>_> ___
E. Hogadorn, the Fife Lake general
dealer, was in town last week, attending
the races.

  

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wheat Market.

The wheat market has continued in
Sympathy with cern, declining and re-
acting, and again declining with it.
There was quite a good export business
early in the week, as the sharp declines
enabled exporters to accept offers in
hand. Bradstreet estimates that the ex-
ports last week were 2,979,924 bushels,
wheat and flour, United States and Can-
ada inclusive, which amount is rather
small in comparison with the amount ex-
ported in previous years, as the exports
@ year ago were 6,129,700 bushels for the
corresponding week. Interior receipts
of wheat continue to increase and the
visible supply is larger by several mil-
lions than ever before at this season of
the year. The visible last week in-
creased 2,320,000 bushels, which is rather
more than was estimated. The estimate
for the increase the coming week is about
two millions. Reports from all sections,
East and West, Say that wheat is being
extensively fed, as it is cheaper than
either corn or oats. This must surely
have some effect later on. The specula-
tors do not seem to be aware of the terri-
ble destruction to coarse grains conse-
quent upon the drought. Old agricul-
turists report that they have never known
such a destructive drought as that which
has prevailed for the past three months.
A severe winter and bad outlook next
spring would intensify the bull feeling
so it can hardly be that the present low
prices wil! continue another year. Wheat
at 50c and wheat at $1 per bushel are two
very different things.

Receipts for last week were 81 cars of
wheat, 40 cars of corn, and 5 ears of

oats. F. A. Vorer.
A
Bank Notes,

A. L. Beard & Co. have opened their
doors for business at Morrice. The mem-
bers of the firm are A. L. Beard, G. R.
Lyon and H. S. Hadsall—all gentlemen
well regarded in the locality of their ven-
ture.

Seymour B. Gorham, assignee of the C.
W. Chapin & Co. bank, at Stanton, has
petitioned the court for another exten-
sion of time in which to wind up the af-
fairs of the bank. He states in his peti-
tion that during the yearin which he has
had charge of affairs he has collected
about $5,300 and has pald out in expen-
ses $4,100, leaving a balance on hand of
about $1,200. This leaves very slim
picking for $75,000 worth of depositors
and they are loud in their expressions of
dissatisfaction at the showing made.

Charlevoix Democrat: Assignee R. W.
Kane had an auction sale Saturday, of
the assets of the defunct Bank of Char-
levoix. Not a very large crowd partici-
pated in the bidding, and the receipts
were not so large but what a common
bank vault would hold them. A goodly
portion of the ‘‘assets’’ consist of notes
which are either not worth the paper
they are drawn on, Or against which
there are off-sets to nearly or quite the
face value, so that the commercial paper
of itself brought in Searcely nothing.
Much of the paper was passed because
there were absolutely no bids, and will
be offered again at another sale, later on,
providing any one appears who wishes to
possess the trash.

>_<. __

Thos. Heffernan, the Baldwin druggist
and grocer, is rejoicing over the advent
of a son, who will make a worthy com-
panion for the two daughters who al-
'ready grace his family hearthstone.

 

 

Comfortable Sum Netted from the
Excursion.

JACKSON, Aug. 18—At the regular
meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion, held Aug. 16, the Committee on
third annual excursions made a report of
the receipts and disbursements, showing
a balance turned over to the Treasurer
of $231, with some small bills and some
receipts yet to hear from.

The Committee were continued until
next meeting to close up the affairs of
the excursion.

The huckster ordinance was discussed
and the Committee reported that a number
of them had taken out their licenses. The
Committee will look after them closely.

The credit system was considered. The
Secretary reported that he had received
lists from about half of the active mem-
bers, showing the names of nearly 500
delinquents.

Several non-union grocers have signi-
fied a desire to join the Association, on
account of the interchange report system,
and blank applications were given to
several members to get the hames of
those who wish to join.

Resolutions were passed extending
thanks to the railway companies and to
the many kind friends who so ably as-
sisted in making the third annual ex-
cursion a grand success.

W. H. Porter, Sec’y.
rt _ -.- <>
Unionism Fostering Treason.
From the Allegan Gazette.

Grand Rapids has a ‘central labor un-
ion,” for which no decent town should
have any use. Its anarchistic mouthings
are frequent and its influence with the
workingmen of the Valley City is mis-
chievous in the extreme. Its latest of-
fense to loyal citizenship is a resolution
declaring that no member of a labor un-
ion should belong to the State militia nor
any other military company. The ani-
mus of this is plainly opposition to all
legal restraint, and especially forcible
restraint of such labor union mobs as re-
cently ravaged and burned in Chicago.
If this is the spirit of trades-unionism,
and it is painfully apparent that it very
closely approximates that spirit, the day
of the dominance of labor unions is to be
short. When they come to foster not
only anarchism but treason, all excuse
for their existence ceases.

Oo + Oo
A Feeling of Surprise.

A good story is told ona young and
ambitious attorney. He was one day en-
gaged in trying adamage case in which
electricity from a live wire had caused
the injury. The witness was an old
electrician who was fond of a joke at the
expense of others.

‘Describe to me the sensation of a
shock received from a telegraph wire,”’
was the dictatorial question.

*‘Oh, I can’t describe the sensation. I
know how it feels though.”’

‘‘Well, tell the jury how it feels to get
an electric shock from a telegraph
wire.’”’

‘Well, I took hold of a wire cnce, and
the feeling is just the same as the one
you would experience if some one should
hand you a$10 bill. I should Say a feel-
ing of surprise.’’
> 2 <—

The Drug Market.
Opium is ruling firm.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is unchanged.

Alcohol has advanced 12c in the past

 
   

few days. The price to-day is:
eeu UC $2 43
ee i.
ee eg a 2 50
Oe CnC Ce 2 53

All less 5e per gallon for cash 10 days.
Another advance is looked for daily.
All single stamp whisky has advanced
15¢ per gallon.
ee
There is really no matter of more pres-

sing national interest than the preserva-
tion of forests, and no subject on which
the public need more systematic and per-
sistent enlightenment. Humboldt says
that wherever man appears upon the
globe he provides the conditions for his
own extirpation in the destruction of the

 

forests around him. He is rapidly work-
ing toward that result on this continent,
and some restraining and protecting
force ought to be interposed. Every
State should havea well-considered for-
estry law as well as an efficient and de-
termined forestry commission, not to be
bullied nor cajoled by the lumbermen in
or out of Congress or the Legislature,
and there should likewise be a national
ordinance covering the entire subject.
If we fail to protect our trees we ‘shall,
in no long time, have nothing left to pro-
tect, and in place of a fertile and bur-
geoning continentsflowing with milk and
honey and other abounding tides of
plenty, will be left merely an arid space
between the seas, inhabited by the jaekal
and the serpent, like the dominions of
Belshazzar and Sardanapalus and many
another old branded spot of empire where
the lumberman was not made to know
his place.
A ne
The convicted anarchists of Patter-
son, New Jersey, who tock an active
part in stirring up the silk workers who
were out on strike, have been sent to
jail for terms ranging from three months
to five years and six months. The
former sentence was given for rioting.
Those who assaulted workmen or who
wrote threatening letters were put
away for a year, while the heaviest
sentence was given to Charles Doebbler,
convicted of placing a dynamite bomb
on the lawn of a manufacturer and of
Writimg him a threatening letter.
Doebbler was really let off with light
punishment. The offence he committed
should be made punishable with death.
The intent is the main thing in crimes of
this character, and the intent of a dyna-
mite bomb-thrower is clearly murder.
——- << ___
Hon. Chas. E. Belknap tells a story of
4 congressman who, having submitted
himself to the manipulation of a venera-
ble colored barber in Washington, was
told: *‘Do you know, sah, you remind me
so much of Dan’! Webstah?”? Of course,
the congressman was greatly pleased at
the compliment, and he smiled visibly.
He would have straightened up promptly
had he not had his head in a barbarous
chancery, so to speak. “Indeed?” he
said. ‘Shape of my head, I suppose?”
This staggered the aged colored man
somewhat. He had not expected a ques-
tion in reply, and had merely laid the
foundation for his complimentary bluff,
never thinking that there would be a call
for an explanatory superstructure. ‘‘No
sah,’’ he stammered in reply. ‘Not yo’

 

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POULTRY,
Local dealers pay as follows:
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owls, hens.

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Jobbers of

COAL, COKE and WOOD,

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65 Monroe &t.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Correspondence solicited.

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Seasonable

Mason Fruit Jars.
SPECIAL PRICES.

Subject to change without notice
Packed Regular Way in Cases.
PINTS.

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QUARTS. HALF GAL.
. 5 gro.

75 gro. Jo ZrO. $7.2

Mason Fruit faba:

New Style Patent Boxes.
Packed One Dozen in Each Box.
PINTS HALF GAL.
$5.50 gro. $8.00 gro.

QUARTS
$6.00 gro.

Extra Caps, $2.25 gro. Rubbers, 3c gro.

Flint Glass Jars,

ands Sid ace

GLASS COVERS--SELF SEALERS.

Only Perfect All Glass Jar on the Market

HALF GAL.
$14.00

2he per gro. advance.

PINTS.
$10.50

QUARTS.
S11 00

No charge for package or cartage on fruit jars or

jelly tumblers.

 

Goods.

Jelly Tumblers,

Pints, 6 doz in Box (box 00) pet Box $1.64
i¢ Pints, 24 doz in Bb] (bbl 35) per Doz 23
lg Pints, 6 doz in Box (box 00) per Box 1.80
lg Pints, 18 doz in Bbl (bbl 35) per Doz 26

Common Tumbiers.

i¢ Pint, Plain, 6 Dozin Box (Bx 00) per bx $1.80

1¢ Pint, Plain, 20 Dozin Bbl (Bb1 35) per doz = .27

Assorted Package.

Engraved Tumblers.

Thin Blown.

6 Doz in Box (bx 00) Per Box $3.00

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY.

BOTTOM PRICES.

KEEP YOUR STOCK READY FOR THE
DEMAND IS SURE TO COPIE,

 

From

LEONARD'S.

Stoneware.
BUTTER JARS,
PRESERVE JARS,
FRUIT JARS,
MILK PANS.

cO “MON STCNEWARE.

Stone Butter Jars. 4g Gal. per doz .60
Stone Butter Jars, 1 Gal. each per gal .06
Stone Butter Jars, 2 Gal. per gal .06

per doz .90
per doz 1.40

Stone Preserve Jars and Covers, 1g Gal,
Stone Preserve Jars and Covers, 1 Gal,

Comate or Fruit Jars, '¢ Gal. ito
Tomato or Fruit Jars, 1 Gal. -90
Stone Mi k Pans, 4% Gal. per doz .60
Stone Milk Pans, 1 Gal. each -06

FINE GLAZED STONEWARE.
Black or White.

1 Gal. Fine White Milk Pans, per gal -08

1 Gal. Fine Black Milk Pans, per gal 064g
lg Gal. Fine Black Milk Pans, per doz -65

1 Gal. Fine Black Butter Crocks, per gal -07

1 Gal. Fine White Butter Crocks, low, per gal .08
lg Gal. Fine White Butter Crocks, per doz 5

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SO FOR YOU?

Users Say:

TRAVERSE City, Mich., Sept. 21, 1892.
The Computing Seale Co., Dayton, Ohio.

GENTLEMEN:—Since the adoption of
your Computing Seales I have made more
money in my business thau ever before.
The Howe Scale Ll had, while new, had
such a radical variation that I lost
money every tims | weighed upon it. I
would retire from business before return-
ing to the use of regular weighing
seales. Yours truly,

FRANK DANIELS.

For further particulars drop a Postal Card to

HOYT & CO.,, (General Selling Agents,

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