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To the Retail Shoe Dealers=== Our line is complete in Boots, Shoes,-;Rubbers, Felt Boots, Socks, Etc., for your fall and winter trade. - Place your orders with us now and get the best to save money. Our Celebrated Black Bottoms in Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf, tap sole in Congress and Balmorals, are the leaders and unsurpassed. Our Wales Goodyear Rubbers are great trade winners. Mail orders given pror}* ttention. HER JDLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, INJEC OR ~ ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader. SOLD ONLY BY TELFER SPICE CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. , ry - ee | ee GRAND RAPIDS, SEPTEMBER 26, 1894. “83 JOBBERS OF Groceries and Provisions, ga §=2SIEGEL’S 50 and 52 [lonroe St., POPP PR PEF rE Err r P GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. e IK Manufacturers and Importers of GLOAKS, SITS, TEA GOW, Sewnlccem, RAPPERS, WILNERY a Sib eS OSES Dee U/ To give the benefit to low priceson millinery, we will save the expense of travel- ers. Write for prices. 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Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, UNO 7 Y é PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, J. W. CHAMPLIN, —_ FIRE INS. co. SAFR. - FRED McBAIN, Sec. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y! CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United oStates, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Sapt. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE ST., Have on file all — kept by Cooper’s Com- mercial grams” and Union Credit Co. and are constantly revising and adding to them. Also handle collections of all kinds for members. hte 166 and 1030 for particulars. L. J. STEVENSON. C. E. BLOCK, W. H. P. ROOTS, GRAND RAPIDS WHAT’S IN A NAME. “Well, that’s done!’ and Mrs. Jack patted the crisp pillow-shams and gazed complacently around the pretty rooms—a guest-room that had never yet held a guest—fresh, new and dainty. The breeze stirred the frilled curtains, the late afternoon sun shone on the creamy walls, and the soft light flittered through the young leaves of the chestnut, and faintly tinted with green the lovely ‘‘Abend”’ over the bed. No wonder Mrs. Jack looked satisfied; no detail for comfort or beauty had been forgotten. She and Jack had been mar- ried only a few months; this was the finishing touch to their cosy nest, and any young housewife might have been proud of the result. Just then Jack rushed in, bearing a letter. He stopped on the threshold. ‘‘Whew! what magnificence! Mighta poor worm venture in?’’ ‘‘Nonsense, Jack! It isn’t magnificent at all—only pretty and restful. Come in, bad boy, and tell me what is in that letter.” ‘You know Cousin Elizabeth?” asked Jack, as he settled himself in a big easy- chair and pulled his little wife down be- side him. ‘Yes, indeed, dear. You remember I saw her the summer we were engaged, and | liked her so much! Such a sweet face and gentle ways! But she seems too old to be your cousin—more like an aunt.’ ‘Father was the youngest of an im- mense family, and Cousin Elizabeth’s mother was the eldest, so there were many years between them; indeed, father and his niece are nearly of an age. You knew she was married?” ‘Yes, an old love story, wasn’t it— a real romance?” ‘Well, Nannie, what do you say to your new room being christened by this ancient bridal couple on their antique honeymoon?’’ “Oh, thisisn’t their honeymoon! They were married long before we _ were, and that was ages ago. Besides, they aren’t so old, and I am very glad to have some of your people for our first guests. You’ve been such a_ perfect dear about this room. What does the letter say?”’ He read it: DeaR Boy anp His DEaR WIiFE—I have so longed to see youin your new happiness. and now comes an opportunity. The Colonel has come to Boston on business, and I am with him. Would it be convenient for you to have us for a few days? Do not hesitate to say so if it would not. If you really do want us, couldn’t Jack meet the Colonel at Young’s, after his business hours Wednesday, and take him out to your home? I have an engagement that will keep me until evening, but I can find my way to you easily. With dear love to both, Cousin ELIzaBEru. Pp. S. Ido want you to see my Colonel. c. £ ‘*Wednesday—that’s day after to-mor- row,’’ said Mrs. Jack. ‘‘I shall be so happy to have them! I'll write at once. But she gave no address! Never mind, you can assure the Colonel when you meet him how pleased we are. the dinner bell.’’ That night, as Nan was taking hair- pins out of her bonny brown locks, she There’s , WEDNESDAY, SEP casually remarked to Jack: ‘‘What did you say the Colonel’s name was? I don’t remember it.” Jack looked puzzled. ‘‘Why, didn’t I tell you? Colonel—Colonel—Jingo! I’ve clean forgotten that name for the mo- ment. No matter, it will come to me in the morning.’’ But in the morning it was just as far away from his memory as ever. There was such a downpour going on in the outside world that Nan in- sisted that Jack, who had a cold, should not go to the city; and Jack, nothing loath, settled himself for a comfortable morning by a bright open fire. Suddenly he threw down his paper. ‘‘Nan,’’? he said, in consternation, ‘‘how shall I ever find the Colonei at Young’s Hotel? It will never do for me to go around inquiring for ‘the Colonel who married Cousin Elizabeth!’ ” ‘*‘Jack,” cried Nan, ‘‘what a fix we are in! Whatever can we do? Can’t you think of the name? Bend your mind to it.” Jack bent his mind to it, meantime pacing the flour. ‘It seems to me as if it were some- thing like ‘Walker,’ but it isn’t that.’’ ‘*Perhaps it’s Trott,” suggested Nan, “or Trotter.”’ ‘‘No; it’s an odder name than that, but what it is I cannot make out.” “Jack, this is awful! We never can let them know we don’t remember their name, after that lovely clock they sent us when we were married! My note of thanks went to ‘Cousin Elizabeth,’ through her mother. I know if 1 had ever written the name I should remem- ber it. Oh, dear!” and Nan looked so disconsolate that Jack had to stop his deeply perplexed thinking for a while to cheer her. **1’]l say over all the names I can think of, beginning with ‘A,’ and so on through the alphabet. You’ll be sure to know the name when you hear it,” said Nan, after awhile. ‘‘Adams, Atkinson, At- well,’’ ete. But it was all of no avail. By the time Nan had come to ‘‘M” Jack’s hair was in wild disorder and his tie had been pulled awry. Long before ‘‘Z’”’ was reached he was raging up and down the floor like a caged tiger. Nan was al- most hysterical. *“O, Jack!’ she almost sobbed. ‘‘You can’t find the Colonel, and they’ll think we didn’t want them, and how can we ever explain?’’ “Gracious, Nap! It’s simply awful! Cousin Elizabeth is such a dear, forget- ful soul, she’ll never remember she didn’t send us any address; but she is very sensitive, and if she gets it into her head that we didn’t care about her coming, it will break her heart. Ha! I have it!” and Jack snapped his fin- gers and executed a jig on the hearth- rug. ‘*What, oh, what?’ cried Nan. ‘‘Well, Pll go over to the station and telegraph to Sue for Cousin Elizabeth’s married name.”’ TEMBER 26, 1894, NO. 575 *O, Jack, you wise boy! You are the brightest fellow in the whole world, I believe,’”? and Nan beamed and dimpled. Jack pulled on his mackintosh and plunged into’ the storm. ‘ Half an hour later he returned, with a very dismal countenance. “The wires are down between here and Boston, he announced. ‘The gale is fearful.’’ They spent a dismal evening, Jack walking the floor most of the time. “Jove!” he explained, ‘‘the situation is worthy of Howells.” Then the absurdity of their predica- ment was borne upon him, and he roared with laughter. Nan could not see the fun. It was pure tragedy to her hospitable soul. The next morning mat- ters brightened. While they were sit- ting at breakfast, in the sunshine that had succeeded the storm, the postman brought a letter from Cousin Elizabeth. It contained but a few lines: Our plans are changed, dear two, and instead of meeting Jack, the Colonel will wait and come out with me on the eight o’clock train. With love, Cousin ELIZABETH. ‘*What luck!’ shouted Jack. “But,’? said Nan, dolefully, ‘‘we’ve got to call them something. I don’t see that matters are mended much.” ‘Oh! their name will be on their bag- gage, and Cousin Elizabeth will have to introduce her Colonel. That’s all right! Now I must be off!’ With a kiss Jack was gone. The day passed pleasantly in prepara- tion, and when, in the evening, the guests arrived, Cousin Elizabeth thought she never saw a prettier home or a more winsome mistress. Nan, on her part, was proud of her husband when he heartily greeted Cousin Elizabeth’s portly husband with, ‘“‘l am glad to see you, Colonel,” not betraying, by any hesitation, the dreadful blank that existed in his mind after that mili- tary title. For the baggage had revealed no name! The lady, with graciousness, had said, *‘You must call me ‘Cousin Elizabeth,’ dear;’’? and the husband had been introduced simply as ‘The Colonel.’’ ‘“‘Never mind,’’ said Jack. “We'll find out somehow. Its immense, though, having visitors and not know- ing their name. But I’ve thought of a way.”’ “So have 1,” said Nan. who will find out first.’’ Soothed by the certainty, she set to work to enjoy her guests; not a hard task, for she already loved Cousin Eliza- beth, and no one could help liking the Colonel, with his simple hearty ways and utter devotion to his wife. The next morning, when Nan saw the postman coming down the street, she remembered that Cousin Elizabeth had said she was expecting a letter to be forwarded, and so she rushed to meet him, eager to read the address. Just as she reached the door she was met by Cousin Elizabeth, who held up a letter. sweet “We'll see “Only one, dear, and that for me,’’ and away went the envelope into the little morning fire blazing on the hearth, before Nan had a glimpse of the super- scription. Jack grinned. ‘Foiled again,” he whispered in her ear as he gave his good-by kiss. Off went Jack into the city, and from there he sent the following telegram to his sister: Wire at once Cousin Elizabith’s married name. At once. JACK. After Nan had given her day’s orders, arranged her flowers and settled Cousin Elizabeth on the lounge with a new book, she dressed for the street. “Pve a little shopping 1 Cousin Elizabeth. euse me for awhile. ‘Dear child!” murmured Cousin beth, as she watched the slender, grace- ful figure down the street. A little later Nan came back, She hurried must do, 1 know you will ex- ” Eliza- radiant, clasping a square package. a pretty blank it it Then up to her rooms, undid book bound in soft white kid, tied with long yellow ribbons, and laid the little desk in the guest room. she went back to har company. and Elizabeth,” up on Dear Colonel Cousin she said, ‘‘we are so happy to have you as our first 1 knew was lacking in your room, and it just occurred to me it was a guest-book. So I went out and got one, and now 1 want you to write your names on the very first page.”’ ‘Bless you, dear!” said Cousin Eliza- beth; ‘‘what a privilege to be the first of be a long and happy guests. something what I hope will list!’ In the middle of the afternoon Jack re- ceived an answer to his telegram: Do not remember name. He was a colonel. Father and mother in Burlington. They would know. SUE. After lunch, were dozing in the library, Nan stole into the guest-room. the fair first page of the new book, were the words: “Cousin Elizabeth,’’ and beneath, in bolder writing, **The Colonel.” “It’s the funniest thing | ever heard of,” said Jack, after they had confided their disappointments to each other, as they were dressing for dinner. “Funny!” exclaimed Nan. ‘It’s fear- ful! It seems as if everything was in conspiracy against What would they say if they knew we did not even mM) know their name! while the guests There, on us. That evening a neighbor called. Jack muttered over the introduction as inco- herently as he could, and the whole group drew up their chairs in a cosy circle. During a lullin the conversation the caller turned to Nan, and said in a distinctly audible tone: ‘I beg your pardon, but I did not eateh the name of your guests.’’ Nan turned pale—the Crash! over went a little table that standing at Jack’s elbow. “Oh, my pet rose-bowl!” How could you be so clumsy?” room reeled. was Nan. Then, cried as she and Jack stooped over to pick up | the fallen stand, she whispered in his ear, ‘‘You darling! I think I should have fainted!’ In the confusion of restoring order the } | - . ~ too, sometimes as high as four dollars a question was forgotten, and the neighbor went home none the for in- quiry. The guests took their departure the next morning. While they were waiting for the carriage, Nan put her around Cousin Elizabeth, and said, lov ingly: wiser his arms | THE MIOHIGAN TRADESMAN. “You must leave us your address, dear. We want to write and hear from you often. You belong to us now, you know.’’ Cousin Elizabeth kissed the rosy cheek. “I thought of that, and had this all ready for you,’? and she pressed a ecard into Nan’s hand. After the good-bys were said and the carriage rolled away, Nan examined the address, and Jack, looking over her shoulder, shouted with glee. The ecard said, simply, in the Colonel’s handwrit- ing: “325 Vine Ayenue, East Adams, Mass.” That night Jack received his letter: You funny boy! What did you mean by that frantic telegram? I wrote right to mother, and have just received her reply. She says the name is Col. Albion G. Pacer What did you want to know for in such a hurry? SUE. “Well, 1 said it was something like Walker,”’ said Jack. OE Observations on Oysters. ‘It is an interesting sight,” said F. J. Dettenthaler, continuing his talk con- cerning his Eastern trip, ‘‘to watch the oyster dredges at work. There are two kinds of dredges, the hand dredge and the steam dredge. The hand dredge is simply a pair of close-tined rakes whose teeth interlock. It is lowered to the bot- tom and automatically closed before rais- ing. It is raised by a block and tackle. The steam dredge very much resembles an ordinary steam shovel, except that the under side of the scoop is open sufficient to allow the escape ef water and sand. It is worked like the ordinary dredge. Sometimes it brings up a bushel or more oysters, sometimes none, but the boat will have its load when night comes. It is interesting, also, to watch the ‘shuck- ers’ at the oyster houses on the docks. There is a long table divided into spaces of about: four square feet each. Each space is the work table of a shucker. To the right of each shucker are two or more pots holding a gallon each. In- serted in a block of wood is a piece of iron about nine inches high, with a blunt edge on the upper end, and about aninch in width. Holding the oyster shell on this chisel the shucker strikes it with a hammer and breaks off a piece of the outeredge. This facilitates the opening of the shell. The oyster is thrown into one or the other of the pots according to The number of pots corresponds to the number of grades sold by the house. It is technically know as ‘shuck- ing in two pots’ or three as the case may be. When ashucker has filled one of the pots he (or she, as a great many women and girls work at the business) takes out the oysters and is given a ten or fifteen cent metal check, according to the price paid for shucking. On Satur- day afternoon these checks are taken to the cashier, who pays the shucker the sum of the checks in cash. But these ehecks are taken by the saloons in the neighborhood as readily as cash, as they are always worth their face at the cashier’s desk. While I was in one of the oyster houses a saloon-keeper came in with nearly seven dollars worth of cheeks, for which he got the cash. That shows where much of the earnings of these people go, and they make good pay, size. They shuck the oysters with al- most incredible speed, and seldom, if ever, make a mistake in grading. Women and girls make the best shuck- ers, however; they are swifter, cleaner, quieter about their work and their earn- ings do not go for beer. Butit is rough day. | sion work at the best and women do not take kindly toit. Iwill say this much for the women—if there were none but women shuckers most of the saloons in the neighborhood of the docks would be compelled to go out of business or move out.’” Few of Frank’s friends even know that he has a hobby, but he has, and a very interesting one, at that. Listen to him: “Do you know that I believe every oys- ter in those pots (pointing to the oyster table in his own establishment) is alive? Well, Ido. Ihave had many a discus- with travelers and others on the subject, and although they have laughed at me they have not laughed me out of theidea. Now, see here; you may take one of thosa oysters, rub it perfectly dry, lay it upon a dry cloth and ina little while the cloth will be wet. Now, take the same oyster and put him on a plate and put some clean fresh water on him and he will absorb an appreciable amount of it. There is no motion toa dead body. Of course, water may be absorbed by a dead oyster, or it may exude from it, but it is hardly possible for both processes to take place at regu- lar intervals unless the oyster be alive, as I believe he is until he is cooked. “T want to tell you something else, and then you can go. A great many peo- ple come in here and want oysters in the natural juice. I know there are several oyster firms down there that advertise ‘oysters packed in their natural juice,’ but it is all nonsense, there is no such thing as the natural juice. When the oysters are shucked they are thrown into a large metal receptacle resembling a colander, and a man takes a rubber hose, turns on the water and washes them, turning them over and over until they are perfectly clean. Then they are taken out and packed in pails or tins by measure. Then the old reliable brought into requisition again and the pails or tins filled with water as required That is the only natural juice there ever is about oysters, no matter what the packers may say. By the way, oysters will be plentiful and good this year, larger than for some years past.’’ >_>. — Salt for Peaches. hose is The unusual floods of last year along the Atlantic coast have led to what may be a discovery of first-class importance to peach growers. In Kent county, Md., and other portions of the State along the coast, the water rose so high that in many places it flooded the peach orchards and the trees stood with their roots in the salt water for considerable periods of time. The farmers concluded that it would be fatal to them, but they were mistaken. The trees were not hurt at all. On the contrary, those trees that stood in the water are almost the only ones that have any considerable amount of fruit on them this season. A gentle- man in Kent county says that the only trees in his orchard which are in good bearing are those that had salt water baths, and that the semi-circular outline of the flood in his orchard may be clearly traced by the presence of fruit on the flooded trees, and its absence from those that the water did not touch. A num ber of other peach growers bear the same testimony, and the Maryland farmers are now asking themselves whether the peach trees would not thrive better for the application of salt. One prominent peach grower proposes to try dressing his orchard with the seaweed, which ac- cumulates in great quantities along the shore in the late summer and fall, and says that he feels confident of the most satisfactory results. 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Exactly What You Have Been Looking For, Champion Cash Register, VW hich Ron. (i ee aE Cl PP dade, U5 53 sore fier ene Reese oo c= ne hee EX Ce How MANy —— - AY EV Mb Cu STONERS 7 —S Ro Se | e Ss eo a“ iii HAD Some Reasons for Our Claims, as Set Dunne THE pay, Forth in Our Award by the World’s Columbian Exposition. (Ho ANY Times EACH CLERK WENT TO THE c= pewie® casi DF 1. For Handsome Design. 2. For Simple and Durable Mech- anism. 3. For Superior Device by which a Detailed Account of Every Cash Transaction is Kept. 4. For Its Ability to Keep Separ- ate Accounts for Each Sales- Y WHAT THEY ARE vil N "WHO MADE THEM 0. For Its Instantaneous Display of All Accounts in Detail. 6. For the Method of Detecting Omissions and Errors. OAVES YOu gNT ——TIME AG \ 7. For the Indentifying of Delin- ES : y ei 4 "ACCURACY WILL CALL oN You quents. SAVES Y2U THE N ExT TI ME If you visit the West Michigan Fair this week, call at our salesroom, 78 Canal — MONEY St., and make a personal inspection of the “TELLS YOU THE HEAL. VALUE QF EACH CLERK THE AM@QUNT HE SELLS HE is if cINITY Your Vib King of Cash Register. ~ j=" Merchants desiring to inspect our Register are requested to drop us a card, so that one of our agents can call when in AND THE. Cc S- . “Re HE exeRclo™ the dealer’s vicinity. It will cost nothing to see the machine and have its merits ex- plained. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CHAMPION GASH REGISTER COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Battle Creek—C. A. Dibble J. C. Carson in the grocery business. Saginaw—H. E. Lewis has pur. ha-ed the grocery business of J. M. Gaynor. Eagle—Hunton & MeCrumb, have dissolved, Jas. A. Hunton ing. Detroit—E. F. Jas. E. Beavis & Co. in the grocery busi- succeeds xerocers, suceeed- Jenks & Son suceeed ness. Burr Oak—H. Van Etta & Crandall ness. Clio—Long & Johnson have removed Vana in Etta succeeds the drug their grocery stock from Saginaw to this | place. Lake Linden—Miss J. Friederichs sue- ceeds Miss E. Baker in the millinery bus- iness. have sold Wilson & Gasper & Co. stock to selding—A. their furniture Friedly. Saginaw—F. J. Kelsey succeeds Mitts Bros. & Kelsey in the book, news and cigar business. Manistee—L. N. Roussin has pur- chased the meat market of Gus Sehmidt on River street. Eureka—W. W. Hodge is succeeded by Edgar Beicher in the agricultural imple- ment business. Belding—E. A. Horrigan had sold out his confectionery and tobacco stock to Ed. Belding and Guy Weeks. Duck Lake—Monree «& general dealers, have dissolved, Leonard Anderson, Monroe continuing the business. Marquette—Herman E. Bittner, grocer, wagon maker and blacksmith, has sold bis grocery stock to Watt & Kellan. Detroit—Watts & Raub, dealers in} meats and groceries, are succeeded by the Watts Grocery Co., not incorporated. Manistee—P. N. Cardozo has boot and shoe stock to G. A. Co., who will continue at the same stand. Frankfort—Kiefer & Wickert are sue- ceeded by C. A. (Mrs. Lewis A.) Kiefer and busi- sold his in the boot and shoe harness hess. Bellaire—J. L. Wiseman has removed his clothing, boot and shoe and furnishing goods to this place. Hesperia—C. M. somewhat extended business from Marion made improvements and Perkins has additions to his store property, including a 125 barrel water tank above the roof. Muskegon—Andrew Wierengo has leased the entire lower floor of the Odd Fellows’ block and wil! remove his wholesale grocery stock to that location about Oct 1. Ludington—H. C. opened a grocery store at No. 2 the corner o Hensen = Madison and Fourth streets, just above! H. C. Hensen, who has conducted a grocery business at that location for sey- eral years. Adrian—O. J. Avery sold sporting goods stock and sewing ma- chine business to Geo. E. Foree, late of Hudson. Mr. Avery will close out his hardware stock and retire from ness, after of years behind the counter. Alpena—H. C. King and W. H. Vaughan have formed a copartnership under the style of King & Vaughan and purchased the McDonald pharmacy. Mr. King has been engaged in the drug busi- has busi- a career twenty-seven busi- | Johnson & | men’s | has | ‘| mill to this piace, where he has secured his | LHE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. pharmacist. Mr. Vaughan was | several years manager of the McDonald store and has had ten years’ practical ex- perience in pharmacy. Man on—Dennis Bros. have increased | the capacity of their store by erecting an }addition on the north end of the build- | ing, making a salesroom 150 feet long. | The store is in charge of W. A. Dennis, brother of the is making ; Many friends by his unassuming manner | and enterprising methods. owners, who | Pine Lake Iron Co., which has been in- ventoried at $5,216.12, is advertised to be sold at foreclosure sale Sept. 27, by vir- tue of a claim for $850 held ‘by Reid, Murdock & Co., of Chicago. It is thought that the banks interested in the estate will pay the claim and take possession of | the property on an attachment. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Marquette—The Dead River Mill Co. has in eight camps northwest of this city, | and the logs will be banked on the Dead | River and brought by rail to the mill | here. Marquette—Isaac Bearinger was here a few days ago and let a contract for tak- ing out between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 feet of logs near Michigamme. They | Will be railed to this city for manufac- ture. | Les Cheneaux—The sawmill ef Haines Gros., of Port Huron, cut only 1,500,000 ; feet of lumber this season and has shut jdown. The firm was unable to get all | of the logs to miljl, owing to the early break up of sleighing in the spring. | Grand Marais—The new sawmill of the Marais Lumber Co. has begun oper- | ations. Alger, Smith & Co. will stock the mill, which has a capacity of 30,000,- | 000 feet. They have timber enough in | this vicinity to keep the mill! in operation fifteen years. | | | | | Traverse City—Wm. Beitner will shut down his factory in a few days for re- pairs and a general overhauling. He will discontinue manufacturing chair stock, and when the factory is started up again he will engage in manufacturing chairs complete. Manistee—The salt makers are finding jsome difficulty in disposing of their product, and all the sheds Doth here and lat the receiving points, are crowded. |The output of salt for August in this | state was 383,799 barrels, of which Manis- | tee contributed 132,166 and Ludington | 63,796. Grand Marais—George W. Colwell, of | Harrisville, who has been prominently | indentified with Huron shore lumbering | for a score or more of years, has decided ito move the machinery of his shingle ja site and the work of putting up anew | mill to receive the machinery is in prog- ress, Bay City—Business in manufacturing jand shipping lumber is moving along | fairly well. Fora week there has not | been so much buying in the cargo mar- ket noted. The trade seems to be in spurts. ‘The mills are all fairly well em- | ployed and three firms are running day | and night. Crews are being sent into the Georgian Bay district. Manistee—The hardwood trade is be- ‘ginning to pick up and several buyers | have been here looking for stock. They all seem to be of the opinion that there | | | } for depleted, they are hustling among the; country mills to see what they can pick up. Oak and maple appear to have the eall. Detioit—Judge Williams D. Gordon, of Midland county, has sent to County Clerk Reynolds a praecipe in a suit for i | $10,000 damages, wherein Heimelbach & Co., of Midland, are made plaintiffs and Strong, Lee & Co., defendants. The suit is brought because the defendant com- pany recently failed to obtain judgment El'sworth—The general stock of the | in a $300 case for alleged breach of con- duct against the Midland concern. Fenton—The copartnership of A. J. shillips & Co., manufacturers of wooden- ware, which was dissolved by the recent death of Judson B. Phillips, is succeeded by the A. J. Phillips Company, with $100,000 capital stock, all paid in. The management of the company will con- tinue the same as before, the officers be- ing E. Ashley Phillips, President; Harry J. Phillips, Vice-President; Winfield B. Phillips, Secretary, Treasurer and Man- ager. Saginaw—W. Schuette & Co., of Pitts- burg, have purchased the premises occu- pied by the Hoyt planing mill plant, which has been idle about five years, and will at once put in new machinery, aud manufacture sash, moldings, pickets, etc., with a sorting yard in connection. handling in al! about 20,000,000 feet of lumber annually, and employing 150 men. The site is well adapted for this business. Mr Schuette will remove trom Pittsburg to this city and take charge of the manufacturing business, a branch of which will be still maintained at Pittsburg. ————ap> - 2a CURRENT CRITICISMS. Breckenridge has been turved down by his old district in Kentucky. Now, if will only retire into the obscurity pre- pared for him without more kicking, a long suffering public will try and forget him. a = But he won’t. He has been an actor all his life, and, like all of that ilk, he will probably demand the privilege of making several farewell appearances. The decent public can but suffer and be silent. * The Press of this city says that, shame- less and weak as was Breckenridge, the woman in the case was worse. That’s so. The whole trouble was caused by the girl. * * = <= * She just led Brecky like a lamb to the slaughter, and that he did not raise a aracket and arouse the neighbors was due entirely to his goodness and benevo- lence of heart. * * * Breckenridge is a model of all that is virtuous and noble, a truly good man, who must be handled with great ten- derness lest his feelings be hurt and his pure soul pained. - « * But “that Pollard woman’”—why, you can’t think of her without its leaving a sort of chrome-yellow taste in your mouth. Out upon the brazen-faced hussy who dares to live after she has been adjudged guilty of leading such a good old man as Brother Breckenridge astray! — 8 Less politics and more business | what this country needs. It wants busi- ness at Oscoda for over twenty-one years, | is bound to be a fair trade for the next|ness men in the state legislatures as and has had a varied experience as a two months and as stocks are somewhat | well as in Congress. But the class of men who are sent to |Congress are more anxious about the | salary than about the business needs of | the country of which they know nothing, | Their ideas of statesmanship are con- | fired to wire-pulling and ward-heeling. = 2. = Not that there are no good men in Congress. There are mavy men in the House who are far from being mere pol- iticians; whose political visions are not altogether obscured by partisan preju- dice. They are confined to no party but are found in all parties. They may disagree on party issues, but their one purpose is the advancement of the inter- ests of the whole country and not of a section. Give us more of them. = These be the days when the _ six-dol- lar-a-week clerk and the four-dollar-a week book-keeper thinketh with anxiety of the overcoat which their uncle, who playeth the three ball game with skill, hath in his keeping. - © # The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year; It’s most too warm for whisky hot, And most too cold for beer. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples are in good supply; dealers hold them at $1.50@1.75 per bbl. Beans—Handlers pay $1.35@1.40 for country picked, holding hand-picked at #1.65@1.70. Beets—Dealers hold them at 40¢ per bu. Butter—Best dairy is held at 20@21c; creamery 2@2Aic Crabapples—Supply limited: they are held by dealers at 50c¢ per bu. Cabbage—Supply is good; dealers hofd them at 40@ 50¢ per doz Carrots—Bring 40¢ per bu. on the market, Cauliflowers—Are not yet in very good supply. They sell on the market from $1.25@1.50 per doz. Celery—Deatlers pay 12\e, holding at 1lée. Cucumbers—Have dropped to 12% per bu. on the market. r Eggs—Strictly fresh are firm at 16c. Grapes—Wordens and Niagaras are held by dealers at 15¢ per 8-lb basket. Green Corn—Is sold on the market for 8@10c per doz. Onions—Dealers hold them at 50c per bu. Peaches—Best Crawfords are held at $1.75 per bu. Other varieties $1.25 B1.40, Peppers—Green bring $1.25 per bu. Potatoes—Dealers pay 65c, holding at bu. Plums—Are held by dealers irrespective of variety at $2 per bu. Pears—Bartietts have disappeared. Duchess are held at $1.60; other varieties, $1.25@1.35 per bu. Quinces—Are not them at $2.25 per bu. Radishes—A few late are still coming in; the market price is 10c per doz. Tomatoes—Ripe bring on the market f0@idse; green 30¢ per bu. Squash - Late summer 1 and Hubpard, 2¢ per lb. Turnips—The market price is 30e per bu. Watermelons—Homegrown are about done; Southern bring 15e. {0c per plentiful; dealers hold M4 c per lb.; Pike’s peak Henry J. Vinkemulder, JOBBER OF Fruits and Vegetables, 418, 420, 445 and 447 So. Division St Grand Rapids. ’ | goods we send you, anda few hundred other things which makes it profitable for you to mail us your orders, prices we make, attention we give your or- ders, THE MICHIGAN GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Mrs. A. Rens has opened a grocery store on North College avenue. A local jobber furnished the stock. Mrs. A. Gelders has opened a grocery store on Alpine avenue. The stock was furnished by a local jobber. W.H. Supernaw will shortly open a grocery store at Ellsworth. The Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. has the order for the stock. M. E. Cone, formerly engaged in the grocery business on Clancy street, has purchased the grocery and boot and shoe stock of Putney & O’Connor, at Kent City. P. H. Kilmartin & Son have sold their grocery stock at 1166 Wealthy avenue to C. E. Green, formerly engaged in the dry goods, clothing and notion business on Canal street. Wm. Judson, trustee for the mortgage creditors of Thomas Wasson, grocer at 17 South Division, has sold the stock and fixtures to Joseph W. Triel, who will continue the business at the same _ loca- tion. Entries for the Western Michigan Fair, which opened Monday, are full and com- plete and the indications are that the ex- position will be the best of its kind ever held here. The low rates made by the railways will probably result in a large influx of merchants from all parts of the State this week. Jennings & Smith have leased the sec- ond floor of the building in which they already occupy the ground floor and base- ment, thus increasing their floor space 50 per cent. They will remove their manufacturing department to the second floor, using the first floor solely for ship- ping, packing and office purposes. of the Straw Works stockholders Co., At a meeting of the Royston held last Monday afternoon, it was decided to change the name of the corporation to the Empire Straw Works. No change is made in the officers, but the working force has been augmented by the employment of a competent superin- tendent. The Champion Cash Register Co. has leased for a term of years the second story of the block at 73 Canal street and has fitted same up for offices and sales- room, connecting the floor with the fac- tory on Erie street by means of a bridge. The offices are handsomely embellished and furnished and are equipped with all the modern conveniences. The factory is working to its full capaeity, which is three machines a day; but, a- the pany is already behind with its it has decided to increase the capacity of the factory to five machines a day. rr oe Gripsack Brigade. J. M. Watt, traveling representative for C. A. Morrell! & Co., of Chicago, has taken up his residence at Belding. Bert Kuyers (P. Steketee & Sons) is spending this week in the house, assist- ing in the entertainment of the visiting merchants. Jas. N. Bradford. President of Post E, telegraphs THe TRADESMAN to call a special meeting of the Post at the parlors of the New Livingston for Saturday evening, Sept. 29, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and holding a caucus for the nomination of a Grand Rapids candidate for Secretary. com- orders, Albert C. Antrim, traveling represen- tative for the Alabastine Co., left Satur- day for Raleigh, N. C., whence he pro- ceeds on atour of the Gulf States. He will reach Grand Rapids on his return home Dec. 22. Holders of mileage tickets on the C. & W. M., D., L. & N. and M. & N. E. rail- ways may be glad to learn that their mileage tickets will henceforth be good upon all freight trains upon which it has been customary to carry passengers, in- structions to that effect having been is- sued to ticket agents and conductors. This will be a great convenience to com- mercial travelers and all who are com- pelled to be much onthe road. Hereto- fore it has been necessary to purchase special tickets for freight trains—a very difficult thing todo when the agent was away from the office to his meals or out on the track assisting in unloading or loading freight. The Champion Cash Register Co. has engaged six additional salesmen during the past week, as follows: E. D. King, formerly manager of the National Time Recorder Co., of Milwaukee, has taken the agency of the Champion machines for Eastern and Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Northern Indiana. He will reside at Milwaukee, although he may conclude to make this city his headquarters a little later on. Wm. B. Tyler, formerly of this city, but now en- gaged in the retail grocery business at Columbus, has taken the Ohio agency and will put about half a dozen men in the field. Guy M. Belton’ wiil cover Wayne and surrounding counties, includ- ing the city of Detroit. John W. Sim- mons will cover the Northwestern coun- ties of this State, while Geo. W. Abel will look after the territory of Southern and Southwestern Michigan. E. A. Oakes, formerly on the road for a drug- gists’ sundry house, is covering the city trade, also that of the nearby towns. Wm. F. Blake has also entered the field as a candidate for Secretary of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, subject to the approval of the Grand Rapids mem- bers of the organization. Mr. Blake is acting on the assumption that Grand Rapids should have but one candidate for the office, to be determined by a cau- cus, properly called and equitably con- ducted, the defeated candidate to swing into line as an active supporter of the regular nominee. Mr. Blake traveled five years in this territory for C. A. Mor- rell & Co., of Chicago, and seven years years for Hawkins & Company, and for the past year has been on the road for the Musselman Grocer Co. He is at home all day Saturday and at least half the nights during the week and is well qual- ified, both by experience and acquaint- ance, to assume the duties and responsi- bilities of the office. So far as THE TRADESMAN’S information goes, no other candidates have put in an appearance, so that, whichever candidate gets the caucus nomination, Grand Rapids boys need not be ashamed of their favorite. Hides, Pelts and Wool. Hides—Are in good demand at pub- lished quotations, but the supply somewhat limited. Calfskins are weak and declining. Pelts—Are holding their own on a life- less market. Wovol—lIs strong at present prices. The recent London sales did not meet expec- tations as to prices bid. Prices in the is local market are steady though little wool is being rece.ved. The Grocery Market. Sugar (Edgar)—Refined sugars have undergone a trimming process, the de- cline of the week aggregating 5-16¢ per pound from cut louf to No. 12, inclusive, gc on No. 13 and 1-16e No. 14. Sugars may now be considered as abnor- mally low. The distributive demand has shown some improvement and will, un- doubtedly, increase under the incentive of low prices. Wecan scarcely attempt an explanation of the market changes, but it seems to be the general impression that refineries have taken advantage of the prevailing dullness to depress raws through the refined market—a very ex- pensive proceeding for the country at large, with its invisible supplies far above normal; but this method has sue- ceeded heretofore and will, doubtless, shake out a good many speculative hold- ings in the face of the expected low priced campaign, incident to the pros- pectively enormous beet root crop, the first estimates of which indicate 5,000,- 000 tons, being an increase of 1,200,000 tons over the last crop. Ut is intimated that refineries may be closed down after the supply of duty paid sugars has been turned into refined, in whichevent prices may react somewhat from the present basis. The consumptive demand con- tinues large and the apparent surplus of raws for the balance of the campaign is now reduced to 85,500 tons. Later—Monday afternoon brought a decline of 1-16e¢ on all grades from No. 1 to 4, inclusive, and a decline of ‘se on all grades from No. 5 to 14, inclusive. Provisions—There has been no change in the price of packed meats during the week, and just what course the market will take is a matter of conjecture. Re- ceipts of both hogs and cattle at packing centers have largely decreased while prices have ruled lower. This may or may not depress the local market. Busi- ness for the week was only fair.. Coffee—Rio grades are lower and weak. Manufacturers of package goods have re- duced their quotations 1c. on Rolled Oats—The market is weaker and the price is off 25e per bbl. Corn Syrup—Quotations have been lowered le per pound. Bananas—Arrivals in tinue to be small, as the importers real- ize that the demand in the West is still very light and they might as well let the fruit decay or be sacrificed at home as to be obliged to put up additional charges for freight. A better feeling will soon prevail as peaches are nearing the end. our market con- Figs—New stock is due to arrive in New York about Oct. 5, and all of our dealers here have oraers to be filled as soon as possible, which will probably be about the 15th. Prices from vessels are apt to be a little high, owing to the num- ber of orders in hand, but a month later they will have struck their level. Lemons—Are in fair supply at reason- able prices The demand somewhat light and will probably not increase for a time. Maioris sell higher than Messinas, but, being larger and brighter, they are | well worth the difference in price. Oranges—None in this market at pres-, ent and there will probably not be any | until about Oct. 15, when the first ear of | Florida fruit is expected to arrive. It may be a little green but will be fully | equal to anything in the way of Jamai-| cas. is So a we Use Tradesman Coupon Books. From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentleman in trade: M. S. Scoville, Kalamazoo. G. Van Lopik & Co.. Grand Haven. D. Cleland. Coopersville. A. Rogers, Revenna, Arthur Deuel, Bradley. G. H. Walbrink & Sons. Allendale. L. Cook, Bauer. Jas. Gleason, Volney. Kinsey & Myers, Caledonia. Frank Daniels, Traverse City. A. W. Feuton & Son, Bailey, Jas. Hamacher, Boon. | J. L. Thomas, Cannonsburg. A. L. Power, Kent City. W. H. Supernaw. Ellsworth, Beebe & Frederick, Big Rapids. Hannah & Lay Mere. Co.. Traverse City. A. Purchase, So. Blendon. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC, Advertisements will be inserted under iiz head a7 oeeo - wand Gs wet, a one cent a word for each subsequent insertion, No advertisements taken for less than 2h cents. Advance payment. N EN TO SELL BAKING ave grocery trade Steacy perience unnecessa y. ses orcom. If offer POWDER TO THE ; employment, ex- 5 monthly and expen- Satisfactory address at once with particulars eoneerning y urself. U V ] neerning yourself. s Chemical Works, Chicago. [ 608 W &AxtED TNER— WITH #1200 TO take one interest in an old-estab lished and well-paying book, stati y ell-payi OOK, stationery and wall paper business in Western Michigan,” Best oo in the United States for money required in the business. Town Al. Address Lock c 160, Grand Rapids. Mich. ee ee c- Foe SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS AND STA. tionery; price #1.500; half down and bal- —_ Good chance fora regis Address Lock Box 160, G ¢ Rapids, Mich. ae HAVE FOR SALE A CLEAN STOCK OF dry goods and notions. Will sell or lease the building This is a rare bargain. Address Mrs. V.A. Mel White Cloud Mich. ¢07 NO RENT— AR MICH.. BRICK STORE. concrete cellar, good location general dry Apply to C. H. Rip ance on easy terms. tered druggist. goods or grocery business, ley, Flint, Mich. cea eremeee meme ANT 6° 4 OR SALE—ONE QUARTER ORONE-THIRD interest in one of the most desirable lum ber mill plants in the State. New band mill carriage, edger and trimmer, hoop and heading mills comp.ete. Ten miles of logging railroad. with plenty of timber for a term of years. | A good business man who wishes to engage in the lumber business as an active partner will find here a fine opportunity. Will take a stock of general merchandise in part payment. Cleve land Woodenware Co., Midland. Mich 603 K« SAL E—LA RGE STORE AND STOCK of general merchandise in McBain. Mic Gillis McBain, MeBain ae 6F2 A RELIABLE DRY GOODS AND SHOR Wc salesman desires position. Is eapable of taking full charge of stocks or ocenpying posi tion of general manager. Address F, A. M.. care Michigan Tradesman. 600 (H0rce FARM OF | living water, in Dicki: “DEEP SOIL, yunty, Iowa, to exchange for stock of goods or other property. Give full description—quality, quantity and value—in first letter. O. P. Conklin, 26 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 597 W ANTED—A DEALERIN EVERY COUNTY é to handle the Peerless typewriter. Send for circular. Barker « Saunders, State Agents. 19 and 21 Fountain St.,Grand Rapids 53 | 7? SALE—TWO PRESCRIPTION GASES. 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, Whitehall, Mich, 604 NREAT 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 Schwind, Grand Rapids "61 A BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR SALE OR EX. s 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. This is a good chance for anyone wishing to engage in any kind of mill business. For further particulars address B. W. Barnard 35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 559 | ~~. FACTORY WANTED—A PARTY with some capital and who understands the business, to build and operate a canning factory at Grant, Newaygo Co., Mich. For particulars write to H. C. Hemingsen, Village Clerk, Grant, Mich. 553 PLANING MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE the North Side Planing Mill, which is first- class in every respect, or will receive proposi- | tions to locate the business in some other thriv- ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic- ited. Sheridan, Boyce & (o., Manistee, Mich. 613 SITUATIONS WANTED, 2 gpbociabnane! WANTED bY A PRACTICAL hI commercial book-keeper. Speaks German fluently and understands dry goods and grocer- ies. References. Address No, 609, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 609 THE BONUS. Some of the Unpleasant Features of the System. The giving of bonuses to manufactur- ing concerns as an inducement for them | to settle in a certain locality is not, alto- gether, and unmixed blessing. The con- dition upon which the bonus is granted | may be faverable to the community, and the concern bonussed may be a benefit, yet, after all, the system has its draw- backs. The town or city seeking for the establishment of manufactories within its borders is generally not ina position to stand any extra financial strain. Its own legitimate expenses are about all it can carry. The benefits derived from its ‘‘aequisition’”? are, generally speaking, problematical rather than actual, while there is no question about the increased burden of taxation entailed. The bonussed concern itself is generally a detriment to trade; its methods are pirat- ical, rather than legitimate. It has been promised a bonus uf a certain amount on condition that it employs a certain num- ber of hands a certain number of months each year. Perhaps in the course of years the employment of sound business principles, combined with energy and push, might enable it to reach a point when it could employ the number of hands required by the conditions of the bonus; but, to begin business with a certain number of hands, at fair wages, and secure an adequate return from their work, is out of the question. But there is the bonus; that must be secured at all hazards; therefore, business is solicited and taken ata price usually out of ali proportion to the cost of doing the work, always away below what a concern doing a legitimate business would ask for it. As a result, trade is demoralized, honest houses are forced to lower their prices and the wages of their employes, or close down. The bonussed concern can stand it, at least until it receives its bonus. After that its existence is usually short— it has fulfilled its mission and there is no reason for its further continuance. A system which produces such results, or which has a tendency to produce such re- sults, is surely not a good one. A_ busi- ness founded on a bonus generally has to be buttressed with other bonuses if it is to stand upright for any length of time. It is really astonishing what an appetite for bonuses such concerns manage to ac quire. ‘‘Give, give,’’ is the burden of their song and they sing it year in and year out. The refrain “Give us a bonus or we will move out.’? But they never move out, unless some other town is foolish enough to offer them a bonus. The town that falls into the hands of the bonus fiend had better put a mortgage upon itself, give the proceeds to the fiend and take to the woods. FRANK STOWELL. ——>—o—— The Dry Goods Market. Much improvement in prices and trade is a good feature of the dry goods busi- ness. Jobbers have received fairly good orders from road men, while house trade eontinues good. Nearly everything in the print cloth line has advanced @ ye per yard, on account of the large lockout and strike at Fall River. Forty-five inch, all wool dress goods are now jobbed at 35c. The former price on these goods was 421¢e, while dress goods, which last year brought 20c, can now be bought at 16%e in plain colors, owing to the change in the tariff. | 1s, THH MICHIGAN Dry Goods Price Current. ee COTTONS. ‘ ae ‘* Arrow Brand 4% PAmeene 5% | ** World Wide. 6 | Atlanta AA. 6 oe 4% | j Atlantic A 222.2. 6%|/Full Yard Wide... 655 ae 6%/Georgia A.......... 6% e r...... 5 i aemaat With... 6 o a... 6 WartiordA ......... 5 r . 4x Indian — i 5% Amory... 6%) iKing AA. oe Archery Bunting... he |King EC. ai 24 Lawrence L a8 |Madras cheese cloth ex | Beaver Dam AA.. Blackstone O, 32.. pesek (cow... _. 3 Newmarket eee peck ork... 5X) Boe, A 7 - Captai A... . . 5%! - (ayaue Vv... 5% a | x ri mag _— ce. 3% poe es. 5 Clifton CR.. 5%4/Our Level Best..... 6 Coes. Ss oa 6 eentiier.... 6aiPoaaet 7 CeenCce..... Stee 6 Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. ABC. - 84/Geo. Washington. 8 Seen... ....._ 6 Mason Mitlig.... : Oe 6 iGold oa... 7% Art Camuric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... os Blackstone AA..... 7%) creat Falls.......... 6% Beats All..... . ao... Ll 7 Boston . . 12 Just Out..... 4%@ 5 Cabot.. - 6&) King ‘Phillip ei 7% | Ciba aT SS 6h U6SUlULC CO 7% | Charter Oak... 5%) eusiale ee. -10 Conway W ... 71¢|/Lonsdale.. 8 Cleveland ..... 6 |Middlesex.... .. @ 4% Dwight Anchor. 5 ewes... 7% ‘© “shorts 8 Oak _—s.... .._. 6 Eiwerds.. ........ Our Own.. -- ois oe a 7 |Pride of the West...12 Farwell.. . eee. 7 Fruit of the Loom. oe... 4% Fitchville .... 7 Utica” as. = Pirgt Preise... .. 6 . Nonpareil .. Fruitofthe Loom %. vere. 3M Palmacemt ....._._. 34 White ee 6 Pall Valeo... ___._. 6% Rock.. - 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. sl 6%| Dwight Anchor.. 6 Parwecet...... ..... Fas CANTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. | ae Housewife ag -=+ = SG) Housewife 3 a % i c ee 6 . 5 6 Ss 6%) ss ae 8% ‘ Sa a U. 1 ay :..... Th a ,.... 10 ‘ G . “rif | ‘s il 10% H 7341 “ ze 11% 1 I es ss Po 12 ‘ Fo 8% ‘ SL 13% . x.. 9%) . LL... r _ 10% . a. a - ....... = | . ... 14%! CARPET WARP. Peerless, white.. ...17 |Integrity see. 18 colored... ---e | WelteSeer.......__. 17 Integrity .. —— lo ia aaa .- DRESS GOODS. Bemiion ..........6 (Memaiem ...... oe - ce Se 25 ss cece: . - 27% GG Cashmere... 16% - -.30 Nameless poe cece 16 . -- -2% ccoe ee Cee 18 . . 3D CORSETS, oes 89 50|/Wonderful . 8450 Schilling’s.. ...... 9 00/Brighton.. - Davis Waists .... 9 O0iBortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50/Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. a ee. ™% pee eai eckee TE OeROrS.... 6% ee 6 ope nae al 7% Brunswick. .... - 8%! Walworth i -. 6% RINTS, Allen turkey reds.. 34 Berwick fancies.... 5% i 5%/|Clyde Robes........ _ -—* & purple 5%) ‘Charter Oak fancies 4 “ buft oe 5) DelMarine —— . 5% i a checks. 5%4| urn’ z 5% ' staples ...... 5 |Eddystone pay 5 . shirtings . 3%) chocolat 5 American fancy .. | i never... 5 Americanindigo.. * axl e sateens.. 5 American shirtings. 3%) Hamilton —- _- Argentine Grays... 6 — _ o> Anchor ee a ‘Manchester ancy. 5 new era. 5 bcateciaade D fancy. 5 Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 Arnold --+ 6 Arnold Merino _ 6 o long cloth B. 9 ‘ ‘ - e a - —- 8% ‘* century cloth 7 Pacific fancy.. oo “gold séal..... 10% ee 5% Portamouth robes... 6 ‘* green seal TR10% Simpson mourning.. : yellow seal. .10% . oe... 11% oe... .... ‘“ -Turke; red..10% e solid black. Ballon solid | bisck.. ashington indigo. 6% - clon. ‘* Turkey robes.. 7 ‘* India robes.... 7 Bengal blue, green, and orange... 6 - plain Tky id % 2 Berlin solids........ 5% ' 6 “ Ottoman Taur- “ 6 a 6 ss 5%/| Martha Washington - 7 Turkey red &..... 7 “6 - 9% — jaahington ' 10 Turkey red........ - “ 3-4XXxXxX 12 baie nt robes.... 5 Cocheco fancy. _ & | Windsor fanc Lee madders. . 2 = Ket " Ex iwue.. indigo nig Ce 1 _ aoe... iHermony......__. 4% TICKINGS. Amoskeag AC A MIMIAC A a 11% Hemtiton HM ....... 7 |Pemberton AAA... ss a 8 |York. — < mee _ awe. 11 |Swift River /.....7! 7% farmer a -- 6 jrest Miver.....____ 13 First Prise ......... 10%) Warren ...... a Lenox Mills ........ 18 |Conostoga COTTON DRILL. oe. eit eet 6%|Stark A 8 ee Sino Mene........ .. 7% Clifton, EK _< repeat Hemp........ 9 TRADESMAN. | | DEMINS. | j i Amoskeag eeu 12 {Columbian brown..12 | oo... 14 |Everett, blue........ 11 brown .14 . brown. ....i1 | Andover..... — Haymaker = 7% | | Beaver Creek AA.. brown... eal (BB = ee ‘a | ‘oe. feancesior .......... Be | Boston Mfg a br.. 7 |Lawrence, 9oz...... | blue 8 8h) c No. 220... twist 10%; ‘ No. 250... 16 | Columbian ' XXX br.10 . No. 280.... 8 | ExX bi.29 |} | 6 | GINGHAMS. | Amoskeag ..... = staple... 54, | 7 | “Persian dress by ' maces .... & | | Bi Canton .. 7 ‘Normandie 6 | c te | 8% |Lancashire.. . 4% 6% | r Teazle...1044|Manchester. 43% . Angola. "10% | Monogram —. .. ic — 7 |Normandie........ 6% | | Arlington staple.... 6% /Persian.... ........ 6% | | — fancy 43%) Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 7%\Rosemont........... 6% ig staples. 6 |Slatersville . ... nimi. . . Pipomerees............ 7 Criterion ... 10%/Tacoma . --- Cumberland staple. S| Toll = Nord.. 8% | Camberiend.... .... care Se 7% er ie seersucker.. 7% ae... 7%| Warwick han 7. | Everett classics... - SH Whittenden,........ 8 | Exposition - heather dr. 7% Glenarie..... : 6% ** indigo blue 9 Glenarven.. .... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6% | wenwee 7% Westbrook 8 oe... 5 tae ef | Jobnson Jhalon el ¥4|Windermeer bee eee S o indigo blue — ja . _. . zephyrs.. GRAIN BAGS. |; Amoskeag aa 13 [roma .. 13 [oon Le | American .- 12%) THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's .... . ....95 | Coser. 2. &F....... 45 |Marshall’s ..90 Holyoke eee 224% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored mm 6... 2 oo ime. 4... a 42 _ .. =: 2... Ue 43 se Oe ee 4 = .-36 41 a 40 45 CAMBRICS, Slater... cunencee & [Ewards 4 White Star......... a iLeockwood......... 4 Baa Giove.._.....__. . woos. ......... & Newmarket......... 4 |Brunswick 4 BED FLANNEL, hi ae eee RK Creedmore. . — ‘ee Talbot KXXX......... ORE xxx oS Pe 27% |Buckeye. . Lee MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW........ 17% Hmson m. 2... 2244) Western W .........18% eae. 18%;D R P -.. 18% Son Woestern........ 20 (Flushing mee 23% | —_—s.. 224%|Manitoba...........23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless i. : @ 9%! C - 9 @10% ee ef 12% ‘aaa AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black. 9% 2% 934 /10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 104%/11% 1194 11\ 11% 11% 114/12 12 12 12% 12% Ba 0 20 20 DU Severen, 8 os........ 9% 1West Point, Sos....10s Mayland, 8 oz oe = 1008 ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz. iia. een... . |. 13% Greenwood, 8 ox... "ang stank ca 13% Boston, 6 ox......... 10%| Boston, 10 0z........ Ry WADDINGS. White, dozs..........2 |Per bale, eg .- 88 56 ‘Colored, dox........ 20 jColored ‘ 32 SILESIAS. Slater, Tron Cross... 8 ee. 10% Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie.. iw * ex... ...10%|Bedford __ ae 10% | Beat AA, 12}4/ Valley ae 10% Se aes 10% o.. 8% “SEWING SILK, Corticelli, doz.......55 (Corticelli knitting, twist, doz..37%] per %oz ball...... 30 50 hoa doz. .37% OOKS AND EYES—PER GRO! No . BI’k & White.. = No 4Bl’k & White, 15 «oe ‘“c : a a | “ 10 ‘“s . 25 PINS. No S20 C....... 50 |No4—15 . 3% ..40 sage “45 i No 2 White & Brkt. "INo 8 White & BI’k..20 -« «4 ' +40 = “ 8 “ 18 | * 12 “ 26 SAFETY PINs, os ..... -.28 [Nos . 88 NEEDLES—PER MM. A. —_. oe ee 140|/Steamboat .. ...... 49 _aoweer e...... ...., 1 35|Gold Eyed .........1 59 Marsha I's ce eae ---1 OOjAmerican........... 1 00 TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—4....175 6—4.. --165 6—4...2 COTTONT WINES, Cotton Sail eeene — es... i Crown. -12 Rising Star 4- “ply... ir Domestic . i 18% i. ...27 Anchor ... 20 orth Ster | 20 Bristol . 13 | Wool Standard 4 ply17% = Tewnsiien 16 Cherry Valley. ck. PLAID OSNABURGS Avoid the ‘Curse of Credit BY COUPON BOOKS. Eo USING THREE GRADES: Tradesman, we Superior, Universal, n= (cnet Manufactured only by TRADESMAN COFIPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. SEEDS: Everything in seeds is kept by us— Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Ete. If you have Beans to +ell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We are headquarters for egg cases and egg case fillers. 128, 130, 132, W. T. LAMBREAUX CO., wetatde.22- GRAND RAPIDS, MiCH. And _ his wife \said: “Be sure and buy nothing but ATLAS soap, for it makes the washing easy and keeps hands soft and the 80 white.’’ Manufactured only by HENRY PASSOLT, SAGINAW, MICH. EATON, LYON & C0 NEW STYLES OF | 20 & 22 Monroe St., Aes... 6% {Mount un. . 6% a. — +A ——— oe ee eee de 7 ee a 5 Fem ha - 6 |Randelman.. : Be Georgia.. - 6i¢/Riverside........... 5 Granite .. - 5X /Sible Sa nl 6% Haw River 2 ere sis pede iu 5 Otis cheeks _ . % GRAND RAPIDS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. M.S. Scoville, the Well-Known Kala- mazoo Grocer. Miner S. Seovilie was born in Hawin- ton, Conn., February 3, 1839. His father was of French extraction and his mother Scotch. About two and a half years aft- er Miner’s birth the family moved to Columbia county, N. Y., where the elder Scoville purchased a farm, and later did a considerable business as a contractor and builder. Here Miner attended the district school, from which he went to the Claverack Academy. On leaving school be was apprenticed to the carpen- tering trade, mastering that and also millwrighting, both of which he followed for twenty years. In 1866 he came to Richland, Kalamazoo county, clerking in a store for two years. He then opened a general store under the style of M. S. Scoville. He continued in trade. six years. He sold out at the expiration of that time and was engaged to manage the late Senator F. B. Stockbridge’s big sup- ply store at Monterey, which was the base of supplies for thirteen lumber camps. He resigned this position in 1875, removed to Kalamazoo and accepted the superintendency of the Merril] Milling Co.’s_ business, comprising four large mills. During his management of the business the mills were thoroughly re- built and remodelled. Mr. Scoville man- aged this immense business with distin- guished success for ten years, at the ex- piration of which time he resigned and again embarked in trade, opening a gro- cery on the corner of South and Burdick streets in that city, the style of the firm being Passage & Scoville. Two years later he bought out his partner and has continued the business since under the style of M. S. Seoville. To the two es- sential elements of energy and intelli- gence those who know him best attribute much of Mr. Scoville’s success. To these must be added great native shrewdness and a grasp of detail which enables him to see all sides of a business problem. Thirty-two years ago Mr. Scoville was married to Miss Madeline F. Harris, of Hillsdale, N. Y. They have one child, now a young man of 29, who renders his father valuable assistance in the store. He is unmarried and so far seems invul- nerable to feminine charms; but even Achilles had his vulnerable spot and the young man will yet fall a victim to Cupid’s dart. l Mr. Scoville has no hobby, but is an independent investigator in some branch of learning in almost every department of learning—philosophie, scientific, re- ligious or political. He is an omnivo- rous reader, dipping indiscriminately into the above branches, and learning with equal avidity from each. During his ex- tended business career he has never sued a man for any reason, nor has he himself been sued. He does not know that he has an enemy in the world. Mr. Scoville is charitable to an extreme, but practices the scriptural injunction to keep his left hand in ignorance of what his right hand is doing. He isa regular attendant at, though not a member of, the First Presbyterian church, and is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fel- lows. Heis known over a large portion of his adopted State and wherever known is honored and esteemed. oO No abilities, however splendid, can command success without labor and per- severing application.—A. T. Stewart. Do Not Trust Doubtful Customers. From the Philadelphia Grocers’ Review. If you have the least doubt about their ability to pay, or their honesty, do not think of trusting them. This was the advice given us by a successful business man, when we started in business. If we had heeded his advice we would have been a good many dollars better off. But, unfortunately, we did as a good many other grocers do, and learned by expe- rience, to the tune of many hundred dollars lost, what need not have cost us a cent. Find out all you can about would-be customers, and if you find they are not A No. 1, or if you cannot find out anything about them let them go. If a person is really good pay and wants to open an account, he will not be offended if you require reference. Many a merchant who would not think of loaning a sum of money without good security, credits three times as much in goods without any. If you cannot afford to risk your money, you can much less afford to risk your goods for which you have paid or pledged your credit. Don’t trust appearances, they are deceitful. We had one woman who came to us for trust and got it, who said her husband was in a bank. From her tone and manner we thought he was one of the officers. When we came to look her up, we found he helped keep the bank clean. A good one to look out for is the party who wants credit for a few days or a week, until pay day. Maybe they will pay you, but if they do, look out; the chances are that they will want to run by the month on the strength of it. If you have customers on your books who are rupning balances, get rid of them; trusting more in the hope of getting all will be like following a Jack-o-Lantern. It will end in your being swamped. Do not take stock in their future pros- pects; few mortals have as rosy prospects as the ones who come with half enough money to pay their store bill. Be a friend to yourself and do not let people get into your debt. You will find that you will be thought more of by them than if you had let them. The grocer’s worst enemy is the man who owes him and cannot pay. Itis a shame that to-day there are grocers who have lost all they had and run in debt to carry alot of people on their books who do not worry a bit about their bills, when the grocer is nearly worried to death to pay his own. And a good bit of it is his own fault. If the money lost on bad pay customers was used in advertising or making im- provements around the store it would pay a hundred times over for good cus- tomers lost by being too strict. If you cater to slow pay trade you will get it and have to get higher prices, which will drive away good trade. Competition is getting to be so keen that a grocer cannot afford to lose and keep abreast of his competitors. The suecessful business man is the one who knows how to say ‘‘No” and stick to it. ee rs Bad Axe—Tripp & Vizelman succeed Tripp & Sweeney in the meat business. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages, AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Sets... - 60&10 oe 40 gomuimge.@enmino...... ..................- 25 Jennings’, imitation . - -50&10 AXES. First «tied 8. 2 Poeee.. $5 50 Co ee 21 00 : & ee 6 50 ' De, Stee 13 00 BARROWS. dis. haroee .... 812 00 14 00 Garden ee ee ese net 3000 BOLTS, dis. Steve, .. ee ce Carriage Ret 75&10 Plow. oe - -40&10 Sleigh Hee ee 70 BUCKETS. ee 8 : 50 Well, es 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured. . eee 70&10 Wrought Narrow, bright Bast joint i oc 6610 7 waneee Laene Pin. ee ae HAMMERS. rought Table. ... ee dis. 25 Wrought Inside Blind... eee eet ce 8. ao Kips. a Wrought B TABS. - +... 60sec reece ects ee eee ee lS varece Apia .... dig, 40810 Blind, Clark’s...... eee 70&10 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............. 30c list 66 Blind, Parker" De ee 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .30c 40&10 Blind, Ee 70 i HINGES, BLOCKS, | Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3. aoa - dis. 60610 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1992..... .....c0&10| State... r doz. net, 2 50 JA Screw — and Strap, to 12 in. " 14 and iy Ce 3% ee 40&10 Screw Hook and Bye: % ee net 10 x ede ee ola. net 8% , ts ‘ ‘ el ee | Cen ieee 5 = - ss & Oy net 1% Trap an oe oq ete Oe e Ely’s 1-10. 65 . GERS. dis. a" C.F 55 | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Gh... 35 | Champion, anti-friction.............. 60410 Musket CG Middcr, woodtraee 40 a HOLLOW WARE. ee, 604106 Ne ey 50 | 7 ee 60&10 Central Fire. .......... ease eee saa. re 25 Spiders ... ae CHISELS. dis. Gray enameled. . 40&10 Nee ee eet _,HOUSE FURNISHING GOODE. Socket Framing . Ty 75&19 | Stamped Tin Ware. +++ Dew lat 72 Socket Corner.. Se Japanned Tin Ware........ ................ ‘ Socket Slicks Granite Iron Ware . - new lis 2t Butchers’ Tanged Firmer WIRE GOODS. dis, sna dis | 70&10410 . Screw Eyes.. Lees. «eeee -40G10G10 Carry. Lawrence's. ................. . 40 | Hook’s tte teed ea cameo... aCe eee 25| Gate Hooks and Eyes. feed ee 70&10&10 CHALE. LEVEL x Ha. 7% White Crayons, per gross..... ....12M12% dis. 19 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... 1. ...., ROPES. COPPER, Sisal, % inch and —— . . _ of Planished, 14 oz cut to size. - per pound 28 | Manilla \ i0 Soame 14u06, 1406p... 8. 26 dis, Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14460... _.......... 23 | Steel and Iron..... "! &10 Cold Rolled, 14x48... eee 23 | Try and Bevels..... 66 “Cin 2, mare... oS 20 « DRILLS dis SHEET TRON. Morsom Bit Steche MOT , Com. Smooth. Com. Taper and straight Shank.. 50 Nos. 10 te 14.... La i «ee ot) 8? 50 Morse’s Taper Shank................ 50 | Nos. 15to17......... 3 50 2 69 De 4 05 2 70 DRIPPING PANS. Nos, 22 to 24. oe 2 80 alec ce neine. ss 6% Mon Sate... a. a = 2 90 Large sizes, per pound..... eed cess casa, EE 37 2 00 ELBOWS, All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Crm 4 nieces, Gt dvs.cet 7% | Wide not less than 2-10 extra Cormeated a vie n ; arn Seren. Aduuahae 7 ae! enka eaen CCE TS Fee dis. 50 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis, an Coe, Clark's, small, 618: larce O26... 30 Silver Lake, dang A.... tects sees Bt 50 Ives’, 1) 818: 2, 824: 3,830 a ‘ a Zz FILES—New List. dis. “ D vagal ie eee Fe 50 IN ot 60&10-10 i reer teen pt ae New American a --+++++,-60&10-10] — pigcount, 10 PT tae sane tds tl 20 Re eee g ae Relea a 50| gold E sara lsnmtaparin Heller's Horses Reape 50 | ' att apr ee —— we GALVANIZED IRON. e ri EE “20 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24: 25 and 2%; 27 28 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 Liat 12 ff 14 15 16 a ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50 Discount, 7 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, Perfect... 2 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... 5G KNOBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings . 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 Door, porceluin, trimmings ................ 55 Drawer and Shutter, mentale Meee eee eons 7 LOCKS—DOOR. ais. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list es 55 Matory, Whecer & Con... 55 Peete 55 Pe 55 MATTOCES, Adse Eye ee - 816.00, dis. 60-10 Bum eee .. ... $15.90, dis. 60-10 as... $18.50, dis. 20810. MAULSB. dig. Sperry & Co.'s, Post, bandied ........ __.. MILLS. Gir. Coffee, Ste yes: oe 40 P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s a. 40 “ Landers, Perry &Clork’s¢.... 40 _ Enterprise ae a 20 MOLASSES GATES. din. Segoe © Tecsere 60410 Stephin’ s Gemuine................ Enterprise, self-measuring ... NAILS Advance over eae on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, Dase..... Wire nails, base... 0 .~. 4... ‘ ae... 35 ms. 45 i... 45 -........,. 50 S.... 60 'ae |... .... 7 - 90 EEE 1 20 ee 1 60 eos... 1 60 eee... 65 Oe 75 “ee 90 Finish 10. 5 Se 9 6 ee 10 Cee 7 “ Ss... s i. 80 ec 90 Barrell a We cy 17 PLANES. dis. Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy.... ... as ow Sciocta Bench.. ee B56 Sandusky Too! Co. a, fancy. oe Looe. e460 Bench, first quali @40 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. 50%10 PANS. Fry, Acme... ess . dis.60—10 Common, polished... te eas cae ac dis. 70 BIVETS. dis. Iron and Tinned.. eae Copper Rivetsand Burs.................... 50— 10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to - 10 20 “*B” Wood’s cade planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken 3 4c per pound extra. ‘* Champion and Electric Tooth x Cate per foe 30 TRAPS. dis. Seeel, Gamea......... —_— Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’ ie . Oneida C a salen & Norton’ B..7C-10 10 Mouse, choker.... : .15¢ per dos Mouse, delusion...... . : . .81.25 per dos WIRE, dis. PEOC MOTE 70-10 Annealed Market. . eee ee ee, a 5 Coppcroe Markee 70 Tinned Market....... ee Coppered Spring Steel. a 50 Barbed Fence, galvanised..._.__ cet - painted ...... ce 2 HORSE NAILS. Au Sele... tone cos )|6e Pe dis. 05 MOmWeMeE dis. 10416 RENCHES, dis Baxter’s Adjustable, —_— a. “30 Coe’s Genuine ..... os 50 € ‘oe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,. . 76 Coe’s Patent, malleable CT ecm MISC ELLANEOUS. dis. Peta ee 50 romps, Cistern........... ne 75&10 sorowes, Newl ise... - 7&1 &10 Casters, Bed a .d Plate.. — Dampers, American.. 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. Wesuae “65410 METALS, PIG TIN. re tage eee aa 26¢ Pie Bare... oe. 28¢ uty: Sheet, 24c per ae 600 pound casks................ : 6% Per pound.. . eee 7 " SOLDER. OH - i 16 Extra Wiping . 15 The prices of the “many ‘other. qualitios of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Cookson.. 6 aS - per pound CO 13 IN-—-MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal ee ees ect e stu. $750 14x20 IC, meee ca. Sieesaue oO OG 10x14 IX, “ 9 25 14x20 IX, ae 9 2 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE, 10x14 IC, Charcoal eee 7 14x20 IC, Se 6 75 10x14 IX, . 8 25 14x20 IX, . 9 25 Each additional Xon this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES i4x20 IC, Wercceee 6 Bu 14x20 IX, ee 8 50 20x28 IC, . oa 13 50 14x20 IC, “ Allaway Grade........... 6 00 14x20 TS. i “ Fe ee cee, 7 50 20x28 IC, by ' MT eee eee een 12 50 20x28 IX, . - _ ae 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIF PLATE. eee $14 06 14x56 1X, for No, 8 Bot Meee ech e a ees cuae 15 00 x5 or No. 8 Bo lers, } 14x60 IX, ‘9 per pound.... 10 00 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CSAS A WEEKELY JOUPNA® LEVOTED TO THR Best Interests of Business Men. Pablished at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, execpt at the option of the proprietor, until £1] arrearages are vaid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- lass matter. je" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisementin lust MicHiGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION. “Civilization is enlarging its borders and gaining friends. Reminders of its defects emphasize its privileges and suc- cesses. Diffused intelligence about our methods may convert large Eastern populations wanting very little from us now, into anxious purchasers wanting much. Civilizaticn constantly uses force less because it knows how to use it better. Asiatic war may force open sealed ports, develop new wants, and eall for new energies in American in- dustries and markets.” The above extract from market letter affords fuod for thought, As the world advances in civilization it is evidént that the most civilized nations will be called upon to supply the new found wants of those who are just emerging from the darkness of barbar- ism and industrial ignorance. The present war in Asia between China and Japan may be not only a blessing to America because of the demand it will make for our products in the way of food and other materials, but it may be of advantage to the nations at war in open- ing their eyes more fully to the fact that they are still much behind the civilized nations of the earth. It true that China and Japan have made a great advance along the line of progress with- in a few years, and this is especially the case with Japan, whose inhabitants have been called ‘‘the Yankees of the Orient” because of their rapid progress and adoption of modern methods of government and modern ideas generally. But both these nations have much yet to learn before they approach the high plane of civilization to which America attained, and Korea, the bone of; contention between these two great nations of Asia, is an almost unknown land sunk in deepest barbarism. War bad in its immediate effects and the necessity for it is always to be deplored, but it sometimes wakes a na- tion from the lethargy into which it has fallen and gives it an impulse in the} direction of progress that proves, in the end, that what seemed a costly and dis- astrous conflict was really a cheaply a weekly is has is in this country. These innovations will | lead to others, and the probable result | will be that there will spring up a de- |mand for our products that will be of | great financial benefit, and lead to a | largely increased trade between this benpsead and Eastern Asia. Necessarily ; this increased trade will bring about a revival of business, and we may look for |something of the kind in the near future. Of all the nations of the earth the United States is in the best position to take advantage of anything of this kind that may occur. An Asiatic war must result in the opening of a new era of advancement toward a higher civiliza- tion on the part of the semi-barbaric people engaged init, and this will im- prove the trade of every civilized country under the sun. With a perfect civiliza- tion war will become a thing of the past. Paradoxical as it may seem, it has al- ways been war that has opened the way to enlightenment and a condition of the pubic mind that makes war less prob- able. The progress toward a_ higher state of society has always been marked with the blood of the battle field, but the aggregate results have proven that the sacrifices have not been vain ones. War is the pioneer of civilization; civili- zation is the exterminator of war. On another page of this issue will be found an article on the subject of ex- emptions signed by ‘‘Radical.” Tuer TRADESMAN does not endorse all that is said in the article, as it is opposed to the policy pursued by this journal for years. At the same time it must be said that there is much truth in what ‘‘Radical” says concerning bad debts. As a rule, the merchant has only himself to blame for losses on account of bad debts. A closer scrutiny of credits would prevent most of the losses suffered by dealers. Tue TRADESMAN believes in the aboli- tion of all exemption laws and of all laws for the collection of debts, and in the placing of all business transactions upon a basis of mutual confidence be- tween buyer and seller. There never a law made that could not be evaded somehow, excepting the ‘law of confidence.’? Based as it is upon know- ledge, it will do for the dealer what all the laws upon the statute books cannot do for him. It will minimize his losses to the smallest possible amount, for he will trust no one whom he does not know to be worthy of credit. At present dealers rely largely upon the law to help them out with their bad debts; it is like leaning upon a broken reed—it will fail just at the point where its help is needed the most. Abolish all exemption and collection laws and it will not be long before losses from loose credit will be a thing of the past. The people of Kansas are learning by bitter experience the folly of interfering with the natural laws of trade by legis- lation. The populists induced the last Legislature to pass an act for the pro- tection of people who had _ borrowed money on their homes by allowing them an option of two years’ grace after the maturity of the mortgage notes. The was desired and promised. bought blessing. The effect of an Ori-| ental war will be to introduce modern | methods in warfare, and modern means | of provisioning armies, for both sides | in the conflict now on in the East have are always unwilling to make loans un- Was | risk. Cases are reported where a bonus their knowledge being based on personal interest of 7 per cent. above the legal | experience. That their discussions of the interest is demanded for negotiating | subject have been productive of good loans on Kansas property for three years, so that the creditor has to pay 214 per cent. a year extra for the enactment of this law in his alleged interest. This is invariably the way in which lop-sided laws, aimed at capital, always operate. The poor man in whose interest such laws are supposed to be enacted is compelled to bear increased burdens in consequence of his own foolishness. The movement for cheaper postal rates, which is said to be gaining head- way under the leadership of Armour and others, seems to be directed against the wrong evil. Cheaper postage not needed half as much as a better postal service, and a better service will cost more money, not There are few who complain of the 2 cent rate of letter postage, but there are thousands who have good cause to complain of the slow and inadequate delivery of the letters they have decorated with the 2 cent stamps. The new postal reformers should reform their reform by attacking the real postal abuse—that of an inadequate pos- tal service—and they should include as the first plank in their reform platform the demand that the cities, which pay the most postage, should be allowed a suf- ficient amount, from their own postal contributions, to pay clerks and carriers enough to distribute their own mail quickly and properly. One-cent postage can wait until 2 cent postage has fur- nished an adequate postal service. is less. Advantages of the Cash System. Of the many subjects of interest dis- cussed at the meetings of the Retail Grocers’ Association not one is of more importance than that of credits. It is a subject of interest to every dealer, since all dealers have at some time suffered from the evils of the system. Many fail- ures are caused by inability to collect accounts, and almost every case of em- barrasment may be traced to the same cause. The retail grocery trade suffers, perhaps, more than any other from the curse of credits, and that they should discuss the evil and its remedy, and that good results have followed such discus- sion, is not a matter of surprise. Dis- cussion of any subject of importance is always beneficial. At the same time it should be borne in mind that discussion by isolated individuals at chance meet- ings on the street corners or like places results in little of practical value. The ideas advanced are generally of too neb- ulous a character to mean anything, and usually each goes his way with his own opinion still. Buta discussion at a meet- ing of an organized body is a different matter. Those who take part init are usually the most prominent members, the thinkers of the organization, and what they say has weight. Then, again, the discussion usually erystallized into a resolution embodying the sense of the meeting on the subject discussed: but, even though the discussions do not terminate in a resolution, there will be some who, while taking no part in the is effect has been exactly contrary to what | discussion, will yet be brought to a con- Capitalists | clusion. Such has been the result of the discussion of the credit system in the less they can know the exact maturity of | meetings of the Retail Grocers’ Associa- their investments. If they cannot be given such assurance, they will exact a | tion. The members of the Association are men thoroughly alive to all that con- heavier rate of interest, in the way of | cerns themselves and their business, and purchased a large amount of stores bonus or commission, to make up for the! they are fully alive to the evils of credit, | cannot be gainsaid. Several members of the Association have been led to adopt the cash system absolutely, others have largely reduced their credits, while all have been stimulated to look more closely after their debtor customers. While these results are indirect they are none the less to be placed to the credit of as- sociational effort, as they are among the natural effects of organized discussion. If nothing else had been accomplished by the Association, this should be sufficient to gain for it the approval of every retail grocer in the city. In no city in the State can the bene- ficial effects of doing a strictly cash busi- ness be more plainly seen than in Tray- erse City. Nearly forty years ago Han- nah, Lay & Co. began business there as lumbermen. Employing a large force of men, it was soon found to be expedient to open a general store for the accommo- dation of their employes. From the start they did a strictly cash business, paying their men in cash and selling their goods for cash. The town grew, the adjacent country became settled, but Hannah, Lay & Co. did not abandon the cash system. The newcomers soon be- came convinced that the system was as beneficial to them as to the firm and ad- justed themselves to the new condition. With the growth of the town came other mercantile establishments the proprie- tors of which were quick to see that their success depended on their falling into line with the pioneer firm, and for years the place was free from the curse of credit. The result was that the financial panics which have paralyzed the busi- ness of the country at recurring periods since Hannah, Lay & Co. began business have been but lightly felt in Traverse City. When, for any cause, laboringmen were thrown out of work, they had no debts, and the merchants had no bad ac- counts to charge to profit and loss. It is but fair to say that many of the most prosperous merchants of Traverse City began their business career in the estab- lishment of Hannah, Lay & Co., and are thoroughly imbued with the principles to which that firm owes its success. This chapter from the history of a neighbor- ing city is given to show what can be done when a start ig made in the right direction. Itis much more difficult to inaugurate the cash system after years of credit giving; but it can be done. Purely Personal. L. G. Ripley, the Montague druggist, was in town last week and placed orders with local dealers for a round line of holiday goods. H. Montague, Genera! Manager of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., Traverse City, was in town Saturday on his way home from Chicago. Jas. Hamacher, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Reed City but for the past eight months engaged in general trade at Boon, was in town last week, for the first time since he made his change of location. Jacob Jesson, who has been engaged in the drug business at Muskegon for the past fifteen years, prior to which time he conducted a drug store at Pentwater, leaves in a couple of weeks for Los An- geles, Cal., where he expects to reside in thefuture. He makes the change on ac- count of his wife’s health. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. LIQUIDATION OF THE BARINGS. The great shock given to the financial world by the announcement of the fail- ure of the great London banking house of Baring Brothers in 1890 is doubtless well remembered by everybody. This house had a world-wide reputation, and its credit was scarcely less likely to be questioned than that of the Bank of Eng- land itself. It was the custodian of the funds of various foreign governments, and was the general intermediary for the floating of national loans contracted by most of the South American countries. Such an important part did the affairs of this firm play in the world’s finances that its failure caused a general panic which was felt to some extent in this country. In Europe the financial up- heaval was tremendous, and the Bank of England was compelled to guarantee the liquidation of the affairs of the Barings to prevent a general catastrophe. The announcement of the failure was the signal for the commencement of the long series of troubles which the Aus- tralian colonies have experienced. Gen- eral bankruptcy followed in the Argen- tine Republic, Brazil and other South American countries, and the ill effects of the crash are feltin those parts even to the present time. While the real cause of the collapse of the Barings was the enormous shrinkage in the value of South American investments, the immediate eause of the crash was the withdrawal by the Russian Government of the funds it had on deposit with the firm. The immediate effect of the failure was to put the rate of money in London up to unprecedented figures, and the Bank of England had to borrow a large sum in gold from the Bank of France to properly re-enforce its resources. This loan was actually never used, and was subse- quently returned to France with the original packages unbroken. That the action of the bank in coming to the as- sistance of the Barings was eminently wise, and probably prevented widespread disaster and demoralization, there can be no doubt. The liquidation of the affairs of the Barings by the Bank of England has gone steadily on since 1890, and the man- agement has been so successful that the end is now in sight, and it is certain that all the debts will be paid, and there will be left a surplus of at least £600,000. With the return of this remnant of a once princely fortune to the Barings, the last chapter in a most remarkable history of financial disaster and successful liquidation will have been concluded. THE NORWEGIAN MUDDLE. There is now in progress in Norway and Sweden an agitation which may ulti- mately bring about the separation of the two countries, and possibly war between them. The trouble is not a new one, as it has existed with more or less intensity for many years. At the elections about to take place it is expected that the radi- cals will be victorious by an overwhelm- ing majority, and that the Government support in the Parliament will be so weakened as to be of little parctical use. The agitation which has encompassed the Government’s defeat is the result of the popular demand in Norway for a separate consular and diplomatic service distinct entirely from that of Sweden, The Norwegians believe that the diplo- matic service is used by Sweden to con- trol the foreign relations of Norway and injure her trade. The union between Norway and Sweden is based entirely on the fact that both countries are ruled by the same King. Itis true that the geographical positions of the two facilitate intimate intercourse, but in national feeling they are separate and distinct. Each has its own laws, its own revenue, as well as army and navy, the diplomatic and con- sular service being the only branch of Government, aside from the crown, which they have in common. It is, in consequence, very naturally feared that, should the Norwegians be granted separ- ate ministers and consuls, they would soon demand a separation of the crowns. In all respects but the dependence of Norway on the Swedish crown, the former country has a more liberal con- stitution than the latter, and its people enjoy a greater degree of freedom. The national sentiment is very strong, how- ever, and the fact that the country is ruled by a monarch who resides in Sweden, and its foreign relations are also controlled by Swedish Ministers and con- suls, is very galling to the Norwegians, and must, sooner or later, lead to revolu- tion and separation. The union of Norway and Sweden is productive of almost as much internal friction, although on a smaller scale, as the peculiar union of the States forming the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria stands in very much the same relation to Hungary as Sweden does to Norway, and the Hungarians are equally jealous of what they consider an attempt at inter- ference on the part of Austria. The en- tire basis of union between Austria and Hungary is the same as the bond uniting Norway and Sweden, namely, allegiance to the same King. Rub the Other Eye. From the Medical Summary. Nine persons out of every ten with a cinder or any foreign substance in the eye will instantly begin to rub the eye with one hand while hunting for their handkerchief with the other. They may and sometimes do remove the offend- ing cinder, but more frequently they rub until the eye becomes inflamed, bind a handkerchief around the head and go to bed. This is all wrong. The better way is not to rub the eye with the cinder init at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously as you like. A few years since I was riding on the engine of a fast express. The engineer threw open the front window, and I caught a cinder that gave me the most excruciating pain. I began to rub the eye with both hands. ‘‘Let that eye alone and rub the other eye’’ (this from the engineer). I thought he was chaffing me and worked the harder. ‘I know you doctors think you know itall, but if you will let that eye alone and rub the other one, the cinder will be out in two minutes,’’? persisted the engineer. I began to rub the other eye. Soon I felt the cinder down near the inner canthus, and made ready to take it out. ‘‘Let it alone and keep at the well eye,’’ shouted the doctor pro tem. I did so for a minute longer, and, looking into a small glass he gave me, found the offender on my cheek. Since then | have tried it many times, and have advised many others, and have never known it to failin one instance, unless it was something sharp as a piece of steel, or something that cut the ball and required an operation to remove it. 2 — Too Much for Her. The other day M. Casimir Perier, Pres- ident of France, went into a store in Paris and, opening a package which he earried, produced an automatic doll, and asked the shopgirl behind the counter whether it could be repaired. She re- plied that it could, and asked who he was, that the doll might be sent home. He told her, when she stared at him a moment and fainted away. His dignity was too myich for her. QUALITY - UNIFORMITY - PR SEARS CRACKERS and CAKES os ' Currant Drop Cakes, | Imperials, : | Cream Jumbles, Have you tried ovr new goods? Gren Dros | Cornhills, \ Nonpareil Jumbles. Add a box or barrel to your next order. They are. splendid Sellers and sure to please. New York Biscuit Co., S. A. SEARS, Manager, GRAND RAPIPES, MICH. >» bee Bhai : Pe te AaNT.” “WHITE ROSE,” “ROY AL.’’ _ These brands are Standard and have a National reputation. Correspondence solicited. VOIGT MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Mish. re *“CRESC EP EP OR: PAR d iallie Sae iss 9 A am Be yl x ¥ 3] 2] 10 SP be PEAS Ak Ce eS State Farms for the Unemployed of the Cities. There are as many remedies offered for the relief of the unemployed and for labor troubles as there are for any of the bodily diseases to which man is subject. It may well be taken for granted that the medicines prepared for labor dis- orders are no more efficacious for the | diseases they propose to cure than are | those nostrums advertised on every side | for physical ailments. One of the latest of the suggested rem- edies is the establishment by States of farms to which all the indigent unem- ployed are to be sent at the public cost. Men, women and children are all to be provided for, and those who can work are all to be given employment, for which they are to receive food and lodg- ing and some additional wages. How would such an arrangement work? In all probability it would be a com- plete failure. The masses of the unem- ployed are in cities. In many cases they are people who have flocked to the cities from the country. They left coun- try life because they were tired of its dull routine, and they hurried to the city, where they found excitement and change. Many of those people could go back to the country if they would, but they will not. They want to remain in town, and if they cannot find work there they want to be supported there. The idea of country life to many peo- ple who have lived in cities is extremely distasteful, and they will not go back to rural ways. This fact is abundantly es- tablished in all experience. Nobody ever hears of an exodus of people from town to the country except fora short va- cation. The cities grow at a vastly more rapid rate than do the country districts. There is aconstant crowding of popula- tion from the rural districts to the cities. lt was so in every age and it will always be so. The history of the world is the history of cities. When one reads of the Roman Empire that embraced all the civilized world in its day, the City of Rome is always the most prominent ob- ject, and attracts all the attention. The | co i ;a sawmill in the woods or a sweating City of Babylon stands for the entire Babylonish Empire. London, Paris, Berlin, Constantinople, New York, Chi- eago and other cities constantly grow, not because there is a constant demand for population, but because they are a eonstant attraction to people who desire to flock thither. The Coxey army marched through the farming regions of many States, but there is no evidence that any of their rank and file sought employment on the farms by which they passed. They en- joyed living on the free hospitality of the country, and they were intoxicated at the idea of visiting the nation’s Capi- taland of securing from Congress the enactment of laws for their special ben- efit. There is little question that many of the unemployed people of cities would regard it as little better than punishment to be sent to the country to work on State farms. They would view them- selves in the light of convicts. People, like the Coxeyits, hold to the belief that the Government ought to support them, and they went to Washington to demand what they thought they were entitled to. In Rome the great politicians supported in idleness vast hordes of men, whose business in elections was to vote for their patrons. They had nothing else to } do. Most of the criminals and paupers | are in cities, and those classes multiply | as the populations of the cities increase. Both criminals and paupers must live on the people who work and for this rea- son State farms would be a failure. in the same sense that ‘‘county houses” and ‘“‘county poor farms’’ are a failure, so far as their being self supporting is con- cerned. Furthermore, city paupers will not live in the country at any price. FRANK STOWELL. —_— oo Shorter Hours and Sunday Rest. In this age, perhaps more than in any other, reforms respond to the pocket, and as that is filled and emptied, we turn over a new leaf or keep our nose on the same old page. put, either by shorter hours or reduced force, is being recognized as a cardinal doctrine in the gospel of a successful business. There has been considerable of diplo- macy and the devilin the manipulation of an ingeniously arranged surplus. The wires have been laid for convenient and money-making strikes, and while labor has been idle and hungry, the buzzard peeling its bones has fattened on its vic- tim. Hence, the shortening of the hours of labor, on physical, commercial and pro- tective grounds, is not a fad ora whim, or a demagogic spectre floating over the industrial situation. It is simply a logi- cal sequence to improved conditions in which human rights are more distinctly defined and economic laws more and more broadly comprehended. The pres- sure on this matter will not decline with all our talk of progress and civilization and the sweetened chimes being contin- ually rung in the ears of the public on the fact that labor has more pie in its waistband, and better clothes on its back, than had our grandfathers who were unfortunate in being born at too early a date, there is sand yet left in the |sugar and a dead fly in the pot of oint- ment. The gospel of working a man fcr all he is worth, and squeezing the lemon until it is dry, is by no means limited to shop in a back alley. We use a man un- til he is guilty of a white streak in his beard, and he goes the way of a lame mule and aspavined horse. * * * Itis no surprise that under such conditions that a day’s labor leaves aman nervously unstrung, or that diseases of a nervous nature drive so many to the black bottle, the lunatic asylum and an early grave. Under these high-pressure conditions the re-winding of the clock is becoming an increasing necessity. Six days work is enough. As for the Sunday, it is slip- ping out‘of the laborer’s fingers. Its God-given heritage is being nibbled by the rats. The Sunday work done in the country is increasing, and while men are quibbling about smaller matters, the greateris overlooked. Sunday rights are as yet a missing plank in industrial plat- forms. Put it there, for a lost Sunday to the man who toils in the office or the mill would be the greatest catastrophe of the century. FRED Wooprow. “> +4 a Cures for freckles and tan are not wanied at this season of the year when it is fashionable to look as if one had been in the country. _—————»-e__—_ The man who never changes his mind is perfectly reliable; but he is terribly old-fashioned and will never be able to catch on te anything new. The regulation of out-| GROCERYTIEN, TAKE NOTICE! EY D7 GENTLEMAN:—The undersigned are a new firm engaged in the cleaning of cur- rants and raisins. They are cleaned by an improved process, the result of long experience. being neither washed nor adulterated. The majority of the brands of so-called cleaned currants are washed, thus losing their essence, while the currants cleaned by our process retain all their original flavor. Washing renders them almost tasteless and flat, while ours are delicious and sweet. When tried their superior quality is easily determined and currants will be used more frequently. If you wish to increase your currant ST QUALITY UARanTEED a G IMPORTED ano CLEANED py q GRAND RAPIDS T GR CLEANING co.. trade, there is no better article to intro- AND RAPIDS, MicH. duce than the ‘‘Genuine Greek Cur- es rants.”’ Once used the people will want no other. Buy them of your jobber. Do not under any circumstances take others claimed to be just as good. If your jobber cannot furnish you, write us and we will see that you get them at right prices. Another point you should bear in mind is that while these currants are care- fully cleaned and better in quality, they are nochigher in price than inferior, half cleaned goods, put up in fancy packages. Our goods are put up as follows: 1 Pound Cartoons, 36 in case, full weight. 25'Pound Boxes in Bulk, full weight 50 Pound Boxes in Bulk, full weight. Barrels, about 300 Pounds, Cleaned Sultana Raisins, 1 Pound Cartoons, 36 in case. Try them and we will guarantee satisfaction. Grand Rapids Fruit Cleaning Co., PETER SCHUIT, Manager. P. S. See that your package is marked ‘‘Genuine Greek Currants imported and cleaned by Grand Rapids Fruit Cleaning Co.” For quotations see Price Current. FIRSY PRIXE BRAND; CONDENSED MILK. QUALITY ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED. Prepared by Michigan Condensed Milk Co., at its factor- ies at Lansing and Howell, drawing their milk supplies from the finest dairy region in the country. Natural advantages, long experience, thorough knowledge of the business and the latest and most approved methods and machinery combine to make FIRST PRIZE the most perfect milk prepared in Kurope or america. No matter what price you pay, you cannot buy a better article. Our other brands are, DARLING, STANDARD and LEADER. See quo- tations in Price Current. MARSHALL BROTHERS, General Sales Agents, 39 W. Woodbridge St, DETROIT, MICH. Oysters OLD RELIABLE NGHOR BRAND All orders receive prompt attention at lowest market price. See_quotations in Price Current. F. J. DETTENTHALER. 117 and 119 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, | | { = * = THH MICHIGAN ‘LPRADEHSMAN. aS Trade Customs in China. Retail shops are a necessity for a dense and busy population, and the severest Chinese moralists raise no objection to their existence; though adulteration, if earried beyond a certain point, is stil! punished, as in the days of Chow dynasty (1122-485 B. C.), and mercers who sell bad silk are bracketed in the Buddhist scheme of crimes and virtues with physi- eians who administer inferior medicine, with householders who refuse to allow slaves to buy their freedom, and with those who remove landmarks or wan- tonly waste rice. Shops of the same kind eccupy the same quarter in the city, and their owners form a sort of amicable and unaggressive ‘‘trust,’? which discourages underselling and establishes a fair price. “Only one price’? is a common inscrip- tion on signboards, and as the general public in China consists of persons act- tively engaged, though it may be on a very small scale, in commerce and in- dustry, knowledge as to what prices are really to be called fair is more generally diffused than elsewhere. The precept, ‘*You should not beat down articles be- low the proper price,’”’ is one of “twelve sentences of good words” in popular re- pute. The regularity of the demand for certain goods based on unchanging cus- tom also helps to keep prices firm. De Mailla describes how, at the season when winter or summer clothing is left off, a man will bring to a particular locality 6,000 caps of a suitable sort and sell them all in three or four days. When the de- mand is thus fixed and calculable, the dealer does not need to force a sale by low prices or recoup himself by high ones for the risk of an unsuccessful spec- ulation. The force of custom in fixing prices is even carried to a ludicrous ex- tent. Thus, according to Gill, the price of goods in the market of I-chang is said never to vary; things are always so much a pound, but, to make up for this uni- formity, the number of ounces to the pound fluctuates freely. Shopkeepers are allowed to paint their names and wares on the city walls by way of adver- tisement, as well as on their signboards, which are as florid in style as the nomen- clature of the streets. Archdeacon Gray instances in Canton the ‘Street of Gol- den Profits,” of ‘‘Benevolence and Love,” of ‘‘Longevity,’’ of ‘1,000 Grandsons,” of ‘'1,000 Beatitudes,” of ‘*10,000 Happi- nesses,” of ‘‘Ninefold Brightness,’’ of “Accumulated Goodness,” ete. Ordinary commercial credits do not ex- tend beyond the current year. In pre- paration for the festivities of the New Year every tradesman exerts himself to call in his debts and to clear off his goods; it is the moment of genuine clear- ance sales, universal stock taking and drawing up of balance sheets. Debts for household expenses may be dunned for at the New Year, and even the very poor try to avoid this disgrace. A native writer mentions, among the sources of cheerfulness enjoyed at this holiday sea- son, that the people have all paid their debts. Closing the shop door before New Year’s Day has the same significance as for a western banker to ‘‘put up his shutters,” and ‘‘taking the door off its hinges”’ is a way of forcing a tradesman to pay his debts. This annual settlement prevents the unlucky from failing and the thriftless from sliding into the head- long road to ruin; the former obtain for a moment a foothold by which they can recover themselves, and the latter are stopped by a barrier which few persist in overstepping. Bankruptcy is considered disgraceful and even criminal, but there is little law on the subject, and arrangements with creditors are generally made privately. The creditors can only claim absolute control over the debtor’s personality. In the rare cases when a merchant might be brought to the brink of ruin by a series of adverse contingencies, for which he was not personally to blame, his family, or, failing that, his fellow-merchants, or even his creditors themselves, would come to his assistance—a fact which ex- plains the severe view taken of those who are allowed to become bankrupt. In the early part of the last century it was observed by Father Amyot: ‘Our missionaries have been repeatedly amazed to see how readily the people here waive the repayment of a debt.” Chinese public opinion obliges the local Shylocks to relax their claims on honest men who have been unfortunate, or else the family of the debtor comes to an ar- rangement with his creditors. The tri- bunals give no encouragement to the hard creditor, and always allow time for re- payment unless the creditor himself is in want. Money lent by friends is gener- ally paid off in three instalments without interest. But if a debt has been for- given, and the ereditor’s grandson is poor and the debtor is well off, the for- mer may apply for repayment, and it would be thought dishonorable to refuse; so that the inequalities of successive gen- erations tend to compensate each other instead of perpetuating themselves. E. J. Stucox. —_— 0 Use Tradesman Coupon Books. A Chemical Detective. A Budapest manufacturer has informed the poiice that he possesses a powder with which thieves can be caught. Hav- ing recently made the unpleasant dis- covery that his cash-box was plundered day after day, and failing in all attempts to catch the thief, he applied in his dilemna to Mr. Telek, Professor of Chemistry at the Franzstadt Commercial Schools, and the latter gave him powder which he sprinkled over his cash every night before leaving the office. This powder has the peculiar effect of dyeing the skin blue, the color being intensified by washing, while it resists the applica- tion of soap. On the very first day the manufacturer noticed a deficiency of eight crowns in the silver cash-box. He at once called his employes together and ordered them one by one to steep their hands in a basin full of water, got ready for the purpose. One of the men was very loath to follow the example of his comrades. At last he consented, when, no sooner had he dipped his hands in the bowl, than they turned dark blue! His employer stepped up to him and said: ‘You are the thief!’ and the man con- fessed. —_ 7 Origin of the Word Deadhead. Fifty years ago the principal avenue of Detroit had a toll-gate close to the en- trance of the Elmwood Cemetery road. As this cemetery had been laid out some time previous to the construction of the plank road, it was arranged that all funeral processions should be allowed to pass along the latter toll-free. One day, as Dr. Pierce, a well-known physician, stopped to pay his tell, he observed to the gatekeeper: ‘Considering the benevolent character of our profession, | think you ought to let us pass free of charge.’’ ‘“‘No, no, doctor,’’? replied the man: ‘‘we can’t afford that. You send too many ‘deadheads’ through here as it is.” The story traveled, and the word be- come fixed. ~~ oe Use Tradesman Coupon Bovks. Be Sure and Get Them. Sold by all Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocers and THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. 6 © HG G R Orel DG» Gy Trl DAS 5 a Re PLL DQye o> Ro & ERS owe SWS SWS Oo 5 SOW o ° 0° SOLID TRAIN = ~ > z = BE x ° DEG ° o 9 ° °o TWENTY 432,240 ° Delo ° sse@ CAR LOADS I-LB. CANS o ° oe % #6 GAIL BORDEN BAGLE BRAND 2 oO ae, ' Vo © es CONDENSED /1iLK Shipped to San Francisco from the Elgin Factory of the New York Condensed ROD eS Mi'k Company, August 4th, 1894. 3 2 S ¢ FIRST PRIZE AND GOLD MEDAL Awarded at Mid-Winter Fair, San pea Cal. 9 RLDMRLOR INSP LPS OD PROD SESUDE LIE NII f {eee Lom lS < oc SSO owe De of dace Lee OREO Te QeeRS o oA(69 EG oeen S ooo Koo AC Ox, ° ov $00 }3e69, POP Re Paks Poe ORO NCH HG a Sot a ed " ee a Aa Scoala kd Mia ha “= Piel schige dv asacsoee sapkbagla eae From the Grocers’ Monthly Review. i The question of the future relations of capital and labor which is at present be- fore the American people for solution is one of vital importance to the nation, and a comprehensive and satisfactory un- derstanding between the parties inter- ested is a conclusion most sincerely to be desired. The circumstances which have lately been witnessed in relation to this subject seem to indicate a latent animos- ity ameng the ranks of labor. which is excited to activity by insignificant, cir- cumstances, and while strikes with their attendant evils are much to be deplored, the existence of vengeful enmity which seems to underlie these demonstrations of labor against capital is of much more concern to the people than the demon- strations themselves. Differences may be temporarily adjusted, but there is no certainty that amicable relations will continue to exist, and as the late railroad strike originated from no adequate cause, so also others of like magnitude with at- tendant wholesale destruction of prop- erty, embarrassment of business, and consequent distress to combatants and non-combatants alike, may at any time occur with as little cause. Labor is as much a marketable commodity as flour, and because it commands a certain price to-day is no reason that it should be the same to-morrow. We are all creatures of circumstances, the laborer no less than the capitalist, so if the latter has no guarantee against a reduction of his in- come, why should the former? The la- borer does not scruple to forsake one em- ployer for another, if by so doing he gains an advantage. What justice then is there in prohibiting the employer from substituting one laborer for another for the same reasou? These, however, are not the questions for solution. The an- swers are evident, but how shall the la- borer and his employer exist in amity or at least without demonstrations of vio- lence? It must be evident to the un- prejudiced mind that circumstances pro- ductive of advantage to the employer are shared by those in his employ, and vice versa, for in proportion as the pro- ductive possibilitizs of the country are required to supply the demand, so does the value of labor increase and the wage- earner receives his proportion of in- creased profits in the addition to his wages. In like manner, when the coun- try proves overproductive, and merchan- dise a drug on the market, so also is labor, for industries must suspend until the surplus is consumed and a normal state again established. Now, has the laborer no responsibility under these latter conditions, considering the bene- fits derived under the former? Should the capitalist bear the whole burden in times of distress and yet share the pros- | pe:ity? His mills are producing oniy a portion of what they are capable, there being no market for the product; compe- tition has reduced his profits to a min- imum, and if to curtail his expenses to accord with conditions he reduces wages, should he be boyeotted and have his property burned or otherwise destroyed? Are not those who resort to such meth- ods to attain their ends as much crim- inals as they who waylay him and take what he has, or who threaten him for money? Legislation and arbitration are suggested as a zure for these ills. What is there to arbitrate? What right have lawbreakers to legislation except what is already provided for them? Acts like those just witnessed do not belong to an age of advanced civilization, but are relies of barbarism where might makes right and every individual is a law unto himself. The commerce of the nation is detrimentally affected by these outbreaks, not only through the mails and the handling of merchandise, but also in fomenting imaginary wrongs among the laboring classes, and inciting them by word and example to violence and law- lessness. The principle upon which the whole structure of our country political and social is founded is that of union. This being the case, whatever is directed against the fulfillment of that principle is directed against the country, and he who directs it is a traitor to the country. That the greatest benefits may be de- rived from commercial pursuits there tam MICHIGAN “‘TRADHSMASL | must be ha’mony and unanimity of ac- tion. The commerce of a nation being its most vital organ, he who disrupts commerce aims a fatal blow at the na- tion. Moreover, acts like the foregoing affecting as they do the whole country, the subject both of temporary subjuga- tion and eventual disposal are for na- tional and not local consideration except as the parts make up the whole. Labor organized or otherwise should be given to understand that the laws of the land must be observed, or the penalties for non-observance suffered; and while it is the bone and muscle of the country, witbout which the nation could not exist, it demeans itself to the level of thugs and freebooters when resort is had to acts such as those in Chicago and Trini- dad. Organizations intended to protect the interests of the laboring man not only do not protect him, but ruin his cause and place him in a wrong light when they countenance violence or law- lessness of any kind. -——“<«_- a The Elements of Success. From the Dry Goods Economist. True strength is always characterized by quietness. The old adage that ‘still waters run deep’ applies with equal force to human nature. The quiet, self- contained person has always more depth of character than the nervous, irritable individual who is always in a rush, but seldom accomplishes anything. The pompous, overbearing merchant or em- ploye who is always’ seeking for occa- sions to show his authority has not that true strength that is the foundation of a successful business life. The merchant who is always worrying over trifies, or who allows himself to be annoyed by the petty trials of business, lacks strength. Giving way to bursts of temper, or showing a spirit of ill-feel- ing under the influence of the weather conditions, are sure signs of weakness. Physical strength comes to a healthy body by careful training; so, too, ‘the mental strength of a healthy mind fully under control of the will, that essence of all power, can be acquired. Will-power, memory and self-control ‘are most po- tent factors in the struggle for success. These are all strengthened and developed by judicious exercise. Any faculty per- mitted to lie inactive quickly becomes dormant. On the other hand, if we al- low passion full sway we become weak and unfit te govern. There is another great secret of suc- cess—that true success which is achieved by so few—and that is love of business. This love is the foundation of strength, the cornerstone to success. Love of one’s business will give power and strength to overcome all obstacles and rise to the top of the ladder. It is this love of bus- iness which causes men to pursue it un- til gray with age, or death overtakes them in the harness, although they may have acquired a competency. No man can be truly successful in business life without a love for the business he is en- gaged in, and he who has this love of his work has the foundation for a successful business life already laid. Strength raises one above the common level; even brute strenzth commands re- spect when not abused. How much more worthy of respect then is he who, conscious of his strength and serene in the knowledge of the nobility of his aims and correctness of his views, marches on to a successful business life, of profit to himself and of benefit to all mankind? Strength is power, but the abuse of power is a sure sign of weakness. Mer- chants, therefore, should be careful in the selection of people for positions that carry authority with them. Otherwise discord and petty jealousies are sure to exist, to the injury of both reputation and business. Those only are fit to command who have first learned to obey, and he who has himself thoroughly under con- trol is best able to control others. A weak, vacillating person has little inter- est in his work, is without life and lacks that ‘‘snap” that comes only with love of work. Again, gentleness is always consistent with true strength, and should not be lost sight of, as it too frequently is, in business life. 0S. SHOE 0, STATE AGENTS FOR The Lycoming Rubber Company, | keep constantly on hand a full and complete line of these goods made from the purest rubber. They are good style, good fitters and give the best satisfaction of any rubber in the mar- ket. Our line of Leather Eoots 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. GRINGHUIS’ ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. = Gives, 160 whee ....................... Bee 3 e 240 C oe TT 5 C 400 vig ae 6 e 480 eee 4 00 INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,830 invoices. ..82 0 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Agents, Grand Rapids, - - - Mich, 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, Minera) Wool, Elastic Rooting Cement. Car, Bridge and Roof Paints. Oils. Practical Roofers In Felt, Composition and Gravel, Cor. Louis and Campau Sts., Grand Rapids Ss. C. 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, Singie Connecticut Binder and Sumatra Wrapper. Sold at $35 per 1,000 By,the Manufacturer, 347 South Division St. G. J. Johnson, **7srtad Rens Telephone 1205. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “ +6 << Meeting of the Jackson Association. JAcKSON, Sept. 21—At the regular meeting of the Jackson Ketail Grocers’ Association, held last evening, the Com- mittee on Hall, Furniture and Secretary’s Salary reported that on aceount of the rush of fruit and vegetables they had not been able to attend to the work and asked for farther time. On motion, the Committee was grarted until the next regular meeting to make their report. Bills for rent of halland office supplies were presented and warrants ordered for their payment. The Secretary distributed the first edi- tion of the inter-change report of delin- quent debtors, which was received and discussed by the members. Much satis- faction was expressed in regard to the system. Many of those present said that they believed that the system was the keynote to the protection of grocers against dead-beat and slow-pay custom- ers. The Treasurer reported a balance on hand of $489. W. H. Porter, Sec’y. EVAPORATED APPLES We want them Send sample and quote price. HASTINGS & REMINGTON, GBAND RAPIDS, MICH. COUGH DROPS RED STAR Cough Drops are the cleanest, purest and most effective drop in the market. Try Them. Made by A, ©. BROOKS & CO., 5 and 7 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. Headquarters for Over Gaiters nd Leggins $2.50 per dozen and Upwards. Lam) Wool Soles in 3 grades. Duck and Sheepskin SiIpDETS. Mail us your order and we will guarantee satisfaction in both price and quality. WALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of COCOA and CHOCOLATE IN THIS COUNTRY, have received from the Judges of the World’s Columbian Exposition The Highest Awards (Medals and Diplomas) on each of the following articles, namely: BREAKFAST COCOA, PREMIUM NO. | CHOCOLATE, CERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE, VANILLA CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, For “ purity of material,” “excellent flavor,” and “uniform even composi- tion.” Ca SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & Co., DORCHESTER, MASS. FLECfZROITYPE DUPLICATES OF S = GRAVINGS: TYPE FORM? TRADESMAN CO., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Lis En aah iat poraet aaces ide: ates siabcsetee Rea Meade thee tamaale et Se eee Tabane thee ok hove ESD ce eae ck uk: eT ahead ee Wik be he ee a Wee See 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs# Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy.! me Yoar—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. we Years—George Gundrum, [onia. Three Years—C. A. Bug bee, Cheboygan. Four Years—S. £. Parkill, Owosso. Vive Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. President—Fred’k W. R. Perry, Detroit. fecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Ooming Meetings—Lansing, Nov. 6 and 7. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. Vice-President—aA. F. Parker, Detroit Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—8. 4. Thompson, Detroit. @rand Rapids Pharmacentica!) Society President, Walter K. Schmidt; Secretary, B. Schroude Secret and Proprietary Medicines. Proprietorship in remedial preparation is due to the protection afforded by letters patent granted by the govern- ment; to trademark or copyright issued by the same authority; or to secrecy of ingredients or composition, or both. The first class of these preparations, the true patent medicines, do not directly concern the physieian. Whatever may be their merits or demerits, their capacities for good or harm, they are addressed and seld to the people by the manufacturer or dealer, without asking or expecting the countenance of medical men. But it is interesting to inquire why we have them with us. The answer tothis, and to all such economical questions, is, of eourse, ‘‘Because the people demand them.”’ This is only partially true. The granted truth is that the desire for self- dragging, the constant habit of taking medicine, is ingrained in the people—a legacy from earlier and less enlightened times. The existence of this trait is, doubtless, the fundamental reason for the existence of the patent medicine. But because a mau is sick, it by no means necessarily follows that he needs medicine; in the majority of cases he is probably better without it, though this great natural truta is not recognized by the eommunity. On the failure to recognize this great truth rests the raison detre of the patent medicine, and indeed of all forms and varieties of quackery. But, granted the existence of this demand, it is by the most perni- eious use of printer’s ink, in the form of false and misleading advertisements, that the demand is frequently nursed and stimulated to monstrous and unnatural proportions. The character of the ad- vertising of patent medicines is in many instances an index to the character of the whole business. Offering sure cures for incurable diseases, holding out an ignis fatuus of hope to deluded and un- fortunate sufferers, trading on the merit his special attention. With the exception of a few articles of foreign origin, whose composition is definitely know, and whose manufacture is pro- tected by government aid, the proprietor- ship is preserved by secrecy. It is true that the makers, in their appeals to the doctors, make a pretense of publishing their formulas. But what a_ hollow mockery is this! The definition of a formulais, ‘‘The receipt for making a compound medicine.” How many of them publish this? Not one, or other- wise their proprietorship would vanish. The best they do, and some do not even do this, is to publish a partial and some- times deceitful statement of the ingre- dients which their mixtures contain: and this statement, being impossible of veri- fication by the doctor, must be taken on faith—the faith, too, of one whose sole intent is to make a profitable market for his wares. From an ethical standpoint, secrecy in therapeutics is an unmixed evil. Ifthe claim of the proprietor be true—if he has discovered or otherwise procured a remedy of unequaled value in the treatment of disease—his duty to humanity demands that he at once make it freely known to all, and his refusal to do this can be no more justified than would be his refusal to reseue a drown- ing man from a raging torrent unless he were well paid for it. The product of the proprietary medi- cine man can be condemned on the lower and more practical ground of utility. In the history of therapeuties, how many drugs of approved value have entered through the channel of secrecy and pro- prietorship? How has the Pharmacopeia been thus enriehed? The answer of each of these questions is a negative one, and it always will be, for the evident reason that one cannot expect to gather figs from thistles. The United States Phar- macopceia and the National Dispensatory contain everything essential in the treat- ment of disease with drugs. Why then de proprietary medicines exist? The answer is again: Through the potent agency of the printing press. A medical education does not destroy the element of credulity in a man; indeed it some- times seems to increase it, and, as ‘‘men are but children of a larger grewth,”’ they continue to the ends of their lives to be deluded and entertained by fairy tales and other figments of the imagina- tion. Every doctor’s mail brings to him the circulars and advertisements of the proprietary medicine man. Some of these he reads, and some of them he believes» Many of the preparations are credulity of the ignorant and the miser-! of some value, and as they are urged able, is often the special privilege of the patent medicine maker. To the druggist whose shelves are loaded with patent medicines, and who for a margin of profit acts as the willing agent and dis- upon his attention he ultimately begins to use them. The more of them he uses, the more ignorant or indifferent he is, for there is not one of them that he can- not replace with advantage by phar- tributer of the maker, this may sound macopeial preparations, if he has the harsh; but if he be a reading and reason- able man he will not deny its truth. He knowledge and the disposition to do so. The use of the proprietary medicine may, however, console himself with the|is an injury to the physician, to the thought that he is only doing what others pharmacist, and to the public. It in- do and will continue to do until that era jures the physieian by leading him away of unselfishness known as the millen-| from the scientific practice of his profes- nium dawns upon us. sion and from exact knewledge of drugs, But, as I have said above, the patent] and by persuading him to use ready- medicine does not concern the physician | made cempeounds of uncertain virtue and except as a humanitarian. The larger composition. Itinjures the pharmacist the sale of patent medicines—the more by forcing him to keep an infinite variety self-drugging the people do—the greater | of costly articles, many of which he is will be the need of his services. It is ultimately compelled to throw away. and the so-ealled proprietary medicines, | by degrading him from the dignity of his the preparations he is asked to use, that | professton as a pharmaceutical chemist toa mere middleman and clerk. It in- jures the public in that it deprives them of the service of the physician and com- pels them to pay extravagant prices for remedies inferior in value to those that scientific medication would provide. The remedy for the evil, like the cause of it, lies with the shysicians themselves. Asthe medical profession grows in ethical and scientific knowledge the use of secret remedies will decline, the pharmacist will resume his profes- sional duties and status, and the public will receive the skilled attention and honest service that is their due. Cuas. S. SuHaw, M. D. _ o- <> Hearty Approval of the Tradesman Company’s Poison Label System. LEXINGTON, Sept. 24—During my present vacation, I have had my atten- tion called to your new system of print- ing and arranging for use, Druggists’ Poison Labels, with their antidotes. In all my forty-one years of practical phar- macy, I have never seen anything of this kind as perfect, convenient and com- pact. It possesses all the good qualities of the old poison label, without any of the annoyances, or possible chances of errors, to which we have been subject for nearly half acentury. The dusty— often bungling—apology for a label drawer, with its narrow, crowded boxes, has now, probably, taken its departure forever. No more contracting and curl- ing of our cut and gummed labels; which, when warmed by the heat of sum- mer, or fires of winter, utterly refuse to remain by themselves anywhere, taxing our patience to even find the one re- quired; but, usually, laid promiscuously mixed and scattered in and beneath the drawer. Now, your neat and well filled card, hanging in or near the prescription case, convenient for instant use, abol- ishes the drawer forever. Only an in- stant is required for the thumb and fin- ger to obtain the smooth and perfect one label from beneath the rubber spring, and the next to affix it tothe vial, and the messenger departs, with a positive certainty that the poison and its antidote are boih lawfully in place: while all other labels upon the card are left as compact, smooth and cleanly as before. Your system, while saving more than one-half the money heretofore paid for labels, is designed for this age of rapidity in business, and will soon become a pos- itive necessity with every druggist in the country. Begging you to receive my congratula- tions for the “happy thought” which prompted you to so greatly aid the really practical pharmacist, believe me Yours very truly, F. J. W. i << cee The Drug Market. Gum opium is dull and lower. Morphia is, as yet, unchanged. Quinine is very firm. Canada balsam fir is scarce and higher. Stocks are said to be concentrated in few hands. China cassia has advanced. Arnica flowers are in full stock and lower. Buchu leaves are in good supply and lower. Oils anise and cassia are both much higher, on account of the war between China and Japan. Oils peppermint and spearmint are lower, on account of large crop. Ipecac root is lower. Celery seed is in better supply and lower. Flax seed has been advancing daily and manufacturers have advanced their prices on linseed oil about 4c in the past week. Higher prices are expected. Cloves have advanced. Turpentine is lower. >a. Use Tradesman. Coupon Books. 5 P. BEMMETT FUEL & IRE 0, MINE AGENTS And Jobbers of ALL KINDS OF FUEL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Crystal Sonings Water & Fuel G0. Jobbers of . COAL, COKE and WOOD, 63 Wonroe *t. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Correspondence solicited with outside dealers, 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. Seelu's Lemon, (Wrapped) Doz. Gro. loz. $ 90 10 20 2o0z. 120 12 60 4o0z. 200 2280 60z. 300 33 00 ' : Seely's Vanilla (Wrapped) Doz. Gro 1oz.$150 16 20 20z. 200 21 60 40z 3 75 4080 60z. 5 40 57 60 Plain N.S. with A corkscrew at same price if preferred. Correspondence oo "Solicited SEELY MFG. CO., Detroit, Mich HEADACHE r EK C K i S POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber NO CURE, NO PAY. NG MUSTACHE, NO PAY. DANDRUFF CURED. i wili take Contracts to grow hair on the head or face with those who can call at my office or at the office of my — Provided the head is not glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. Where the head is shiny or the pores closed, there isnocure. Call and be examined free of charge. If you cannot call, write to me State tho exact condition of the scalp and your occu- vation ' PROF, G. BIRKHOLZ, emem 1952 Mascaio Temple Cxicaac WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TICKETS ONLY A FEW LEFT. Original set of four - ~ to a = 25¢ Complete set often - - ~ . [ 50c Order quick or lose the opportunity of a lifetime to secure these souvenirs ata nominal figure. They will be worth ten times present cost within five years. L Tradesman Company, Bs mane THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Balsam Fir, Cassia Bark, Oil Anise, Declined—Arnica Flowers, Bue Spearmint, Po. Ipecac, Celer hu Leaves, Gum Opium, y Seed, Oil Cassia, F Turpentine. Gum Opium, do, Oil Peppermint, Linseed Oil. Oil lax Seed, Cloves ACIDUM, Aceticum . Benzoicum German.. Boracic Careoneum. ........ (aes... Eomreenior ........... PeecoeSsCiw. ke. Oxalicum ..... Phosphorium dil..... Salicylicum ..... Saipauricum.... .. .. —............, Yarcartcam.... ...... AMMONIA, Aqua, 16 so | Cuticiaa Clitoris ........... ANILINE, Taiew. BACCAE, ubeae (po " ee sowie ee Xanthoxylum BALSAMUM, Cees 8. Pee Terabin. Canada .... Tolutan . oa CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.... Cassiae Cinchona Flava ........ Euonymus atropurp........ Myrica Cerifera, po Prunus Virgini......... Goltiota, erc........... Sassafras .. Ulmus Po (Ground 15) Va EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. Haematox, = Ib. pox. “ 46 FERRU Carbonate Precip..... Citrate and Quinia... Citrate Soluble....... Ferrocyanidum Sol... Solut Chioride... Suiphate, com’l....... Hig pure. FLORA Arnica Anthemia Matricaria FOJ.tA. Barosm Cassia ‘Acuiitol, Tin. nivelly ne —, oftetnalis, — om Ura Acacia, ist picked ... “ce 2a ay “a q ot . — sorta. “ ao Alce, ae. (po. 3 ) * Cape, io. : Socotri, (po. ay _— 18, (a8, 14 Jer, 16). Ammoniae ......... Assafotida, o- 3 ).. Bensoinnum.. Camphorse...... : Eu ceobhann me ...... Galbanum. Gamboge, po. Guaiacum, (po 35) Kino, (po 1 75). Mastic . Myrrh, (po 45) Opli - 3 10@3 40). Shella c bleached... Treemcenss ........... amc Meats th i it entha perl a. Vir Rue bole. Bataan Vo \ Thymus, V.. eis MAGNESIA. Calcmeed, 7ai...,...... Carbonate, Pat........ Carbonate, K.& M.... Carbonate, J enning5.. OLEUX. Absinthinm Amygdalae, Duic .. “s Amydalae, Amarae. Antsi Auranti ee ' Bergamii .. ae oe: erties erropogt).....:.... Cedar Chencpodii oo . : Cipmameontl ......... Ceeroreees .. 3... : Contum Mac........ eee oo... @ 3D @ 14@ 16@ @ @: @ x st — TS S08e086 Raw ies RSE, 8 ee6ee we €8 2 15@2 20 * 0 40@1 HERBA—In ounce packages, AU ............ 4 eo npguaaa es ea oe 55@ 20@ 20@ 35D Cubebae.. i Exechthitos.......... Ce Gaulthers ........ Geranium, ounce..... Gossipii, Sem. gal..... Hedeoma Junipert. Lavendula Limonis .... |. Mentha Piper. .. Mentha Verid.. Morrhuae, gal Myrcia, ounes......_.. e ck Picis Liquida, (gal..35 oa Rosmarini Rosae, ounce. ....... Succini{. ee. Sabina aa Sassafras. .... . Sinapis, ess, ounce... Tiglil _ — ‘.heobromas.. : POTASSIUM men... ||... Bichromate Bromide.. Cary... ; Chlorate (po. 7@i%.. Cyanide .. -. foaeee.... 2 9 Potassa, Bitart, = . Potassa, Bitart, com. Potass Nitras, opt .. Potass Nitras Prumiisie ............ Sulphate po..... : RADIX. Aconigum .._..... Althae.. on in, —...... Caieee. Gentiana (po. 12).. tlychrrhiza, (pv. 15). . Hydrastis Canaden, (pe, 35) .. Hellebore, Ala, pe... Ingen, 60.......; Ipecac, po Iris plox (po. —_: dalapa, pr....... Maranta, \s.. — a Po oe | Gut. py Spigelia . . Sanguinarta, (po 2 sit Serpentaria.. Senega Similax, Officinalis. H Scillae, (po. 35) Symplocarpus, dus, po.. Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) German. i" Fost! ingiber a . Zineiper j......... SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). Aplum (graveleons) . . Bird, 18.. ' Carui, (po. 18) Cc vardamon. Corlandrum... Cannabis Sativa Cydontum nopodiurs Dipter x Odorate Foeniculam i Foenugreek, po. Li td. (bbl. 3%) Ifa Phariari aC anarian.. / neee on Sinapis Albu. l fl r Rina...... SPIRITUS. eee. W., D. Co ' DF. Dan nS S88e98 Seadsde ~~ Zisde ~ _ vo Co Go wo ak Ssakis S58d050G5805 ee 66 é S : i 22 Juniperts Cc "3, 0.T.. Saacharum N. £.. Spt. Vini Galli. vee Ceres .....,..... Wind Alba.............1 SPONGES. Florida ow wool Carriage... 2 50@2 7 Nagsau sheeps’ carriage ... Velvet extra eheepe’ wool Carriage..... Extra yellow sheepe’ carriage Grasa sheeps’ wool Car- ee ee © 02 3-2 > 2S saa wool ee... Hard for slate use... Yellow Reef, for slate wae .......... SYRUPS. poco... po Ipecac. ee erri Iod.. a. gs Cortes.. Rhei Stmilax Ofticinalis.. emene.........._..,.... Ta Scill Prunus virg... TINCTURES, Aconitum Napellis = Annet. Atrope ~cenpeepaaee Hensom.... .... mp Ce... eee Sanguinaria......... eee. Barosma ie Cantharides........ Capsicum ...... Ley Ca damon... ... .._. ig Ca... Les Cae Catechu a Sone Conium . Cubeba.. Digitalis - ee ae oe Guaica .. . ammo Zingiber .... Hyoscyamus Iodine o Coloriess. . Ferri Chloridum ee Lobelia. = yirh .. N Saas Vomica.. Opli 60 50 60 60 50 0 60 60 50 50 5 J Vi 50 %5 %5 00 50 50 60 50 50 50 50 50 50 60 50 60 50 50 75 2 35 50 50 50 50 ol o Camphorated _ —. " Deaaer.... | AurantiCortex...... — a es - Cassia ‘Acutifol a Co 2 00 50 50 50 50 50 50 cenebinite .. 5 Stromonium 60 Toten... 60 Valerian 50 MISCELLANEOUS ther, Spts Nit, 3 F.. ‘ te tes 4F a Alumen Aunatto. bee An iimons, po.. et Potase T oe Antipyrin Antifebrin Argent! Nitras, ounce Arsenicum Balm Gilead Bud. Bismuth 8, N. Calcium Chior, ‘Is, “Ghe is, 1 SatHKsSua - 12; Xs, Cantharides a po. Capsict Fructus, ‘af. - i “ “ je be ge ipo 15) Carmine, No. " Cera Alba, 8 8. & F. Cera Flava.... Coccus Caxsia Froctoe.. Centraria Cetaceam Chloroform V aquibbs Chicrai 8y¢ Crm Cc nonGcrua Cinckonidine, r&w German 2%O list, dis. per @ 10@ Corks, ce ent Cre sagotum . ee Creta, (bbl. 7). " pren.. i : precip. ees ou " ons...... oes ........ : Cianens........ Cupri Sulph... Dextre ...... a Ether Suiph..... Emery, = numbers po.) "40 acecs WA os ae as 122@ @ 8B eee. 7@8 Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 60 “es @ @ ae, a Gal enc. 30D Glassware flint, ‘by box 90. Less than box 75. Ging, Brown......... we CUyGCrime ............. Grana Paradisi. Humulus...... Hydraag Chior Mite... Cor . . os Rubrum - Ammoniati.. - Unguentum. Hydrargyrum........ — thyobolla, Am. . ndigo fodine, Resubl.. ee Dupes... 4.5... Lyeopodium .......... ncia ... Liquor Arsen et Hy- rarg Iod @ Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ ia — Sulph (b . 138 4@ 20 Morphia, Paw. = NY. ©. Cc. ce po oe Canton |. Myristica, No 1 Nnux Vomica, ( (po 20) .. Os. Sepia 2 05@2 30 & Pi eden a = Piper Nigra, (po. 2: Piper Alba, (po #).. Piix Burgun.. Plumbi Acet . Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. Pyrethrum. boxes W Co. dos. .... Pyrethrum, py........ Quassiae Quinia, LP &w.. S. German. Rubia Tinctorum Saccharum Lactis ”. Salacin 2 Sanguis Draconis. se Sapo, : i “ae Seidlitz Mixture..... Sinapi 8. i‘ — eee De Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes Soda Boras, (po. 11). Soda et Potass Tart. oda Carb Soda, Sulphas. . ‘ Spts. "Ether ~-........ ‘* Myrcia Dom e «Vint hap... .. ini Rect. _. 55 @2 @3 50 13@2 53 ae 5¢ gal., cash ie oon Strychnia Crystal 40@1 Sulphur, — : oO Tamarinds Terebenth Venice a a 48 oe ‘9 9 ongei6 00 Zmnet Sui. |. OILS. Whale, winter Lard, extra.. Lard, No. 1. a. Linseed, pure raw .. Linseed, boiled.. ... 55 Neat’s Foot, winter strained PAINTS. Red Venetian Ochre, yellow Ber er Putty, commercial. iS * strictly pure..... 26 2% Vermilion Prime Amer- {can . / Vermilion, English _ | Green, Peninsular Lead, red “ white Whiting, white Span. Whiting, Gilders’.. White, Paris American Waiting, Paris Eng. U tenia Prepared ..1 coal is Swiss Villa ‘Prepared ane... -1 00@1 20 VAENISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Bawe Toro... |... 160@1 70 Coach Boay.......... 9 75@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar... ny 55@1 60 Japan a ~ 1 Turp l i ne T0Q75 the kind wanted at ak ae and also when ordering new stock. EVERY DRUGGIST knows Pei BAe =o {ee EE HEkcleate SETH RADE AS —-L AG how inconvenient ~” it is to keep his pills in drawers or cigar boxes, necessitating the handling of the entire lot to find Being out of sight of customers they never suggest a sale of themselves. The Mills Pill Case does away with all the above objections, and offers many new attractive features to th ing from 1g to 1 dozen boxes ers. Always in sight. showcase, counter or shelf. more than ordinary drawers. sold, and the next drops into the same place. addition to every drug store. shipment, No. No. No. 2, or Ebeony...... i No. 4, 24 compartments, Imitation Cherry, Walnut, or Ebony.. Glass front and rear. e trade. each. Easily filled. Has 24 and 40 separate compartments, Protected from dust and _pilfer- Increases sales. You can see at a glance how stock is. hold- Can be placed on Costs no You draw a box out of opening at rear bottom, when It’s a very useful and Finely finished, complete and securely and made regularly at following prices: 1, 40 compartments, Natural or Antique Oak.............. $6 3, 24 compartments, Natural or Antique Oak............... = 40 compartments, Imitation Cherry, Walnut, ornamental packed for 50 00 Mahogany oS 5 oe Mahogany 00 Made Special on Orders, in all Popular Woods, Finishes and Sizes to Match Store Interiors, For Sale By = HAXELYINE & PERKINS DRUG OO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eee ro gtr Me OSE ICIS SS ENE OO ae 16 GROCERY PRICE CURR as are usually purchased by retail dealers. Th It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make thia feature of the The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for av those who have poor credit. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. greatest possible use to dealers. erage conditions of purchase. UN T. They are prepared just before AXLE GREASE, doz — a ES 60 7 00 aoe 50 5 50 Frazer’s oo 9 00 — # # #£#£ 750 rae .. ......, S 6 BAKING POWDER. acme. Se “5 —_ * a. * i = xe ae — ‘ @ cans6dGoz case....... 5 > = tac “ ._...1 8 —_{{____—_ aoe 2 00 [oe ~ tae 9 00 Cream Flake. ‘ sa * tec * CK. 45 a. 6 CC;} «a 60 oz * S80: * 80 SS" Ch” 1 20 > 2 00 > imax ~*~ ....... Red Star, 4 cans........ 40 ‘“ cs = " _ c- |... 140 Telfer’s, 14 lb. cans, doz. 45 ' Sip. * . = _ i ~ ‘oo Our Leader, \% .b cans. 45 Ye ib cans.. 75 . 1ibcans..... . 1 50 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. ——a— ss en 80 Oe BLUING, Gross Arotic, 465 ovails.......... 3 60 Ce — | a ' ints, round ........ 9 0b ' Ko. 2, iftine box... 2 7 = we.s, o ... _o - =o ee ... eo C es _ eo Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... ) — -—.. 6 80 BROOMS, —-.................. 1%5 ae 1 90 oe Scares... 215 as SS 2 40 ParlorGem........ 2 Common Whisk. - = Fan ' / 1 00 aao...... Se 2% BRUSHES, oe ee cee 25 OO 1 0 . = &............... 1% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3 row.... 1 25 Palmetto, goose............ 1 50 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes......... 10 Star, 40 eee 9 ee 10 se 24 OANNED GOODS. Fish. Clams. Lite Hook, [..........__ 12 “ oe Clam Chowder. ee... 23 Cove Oysters. ae te 75 “ a. 135 Lobsters. —t 245 2 3 50 oe... 2 00 —. 2 90 Mackerel. eee oe 110 = -_......... 210 Mustard, 2tb........ 2 Tomatc Sauce, 2 1b "2 25 Poe 2S .... 2 25 Salmon. Columbia River, flat.... ... 1 80 - oe. 1 65 Ae ee 13 a 1 10 Staneys, Gee... 1 95 Sardines. Ane A. 4%@ 5 - 2.......... cee © omnes te... @ 15@16 spanner 6@7 ae... 21 Trout. —— 2 50 Fruits, Apples. = th. cedar’... 1 20 York State, gallons _.. 4 00 Hamburgh, * . Apricots. igveosk...... . : 1 40 Le 1 40 zt 1 50 Overland.... a 1 0 Blackberries. r.&W................ 90 Cherries. Rae... 1 10@1 2 Pitted Hamburgh ..... White ... ooo 1 50 =... .. ee 12 Damsons, Egg Plums and Green Gages. —......hCLlU 1 20 ae. 1 40 Gooseberries. ae. 123 Peaches BOREIES a mart, per dos .... |. 3% CLOTHES PINS. Seromsboxes...... ___. 40@45 COCOA SHELLS. pitas. @3 Less — -...- | aor Pound packages ..... 6% QT COFFEE. Green. Rio. =. .... -« —— L,.LCLULU CUCU el <<... Golden..... _.-.... Peaberry oe a Santos. —....LLLL ee ee aoe LLC 22 roe. 23 Mexican and Guatamala, a LLL 21 eee LLL 22 aa 24 Maracaibo. aa. eee ee Java. oe Erivate Growth........... ..37 Mandehling ....... _-. oo Mocha, aan le Arabian..... . 8 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add ic. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. McLaughlin’s XXXX_ <1 86 Com a Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case ... 21 80 Extract. Valley City % gross... .... 75 Felix = _ 1 15 Hummel’s, foil, gross _.... 1 65 e tin ae CHICORY. —_. 5 i 7 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft.......per dos. 1 25 S 50 ft “ . 14 a ee = 1 60 7ocs....... " 1 75 ' 80 f ; ea 1 6 Jute O ft re ' 85 - =e ..... . 1 00 CREDIT CHECKS. 500, any one denom’n..... 83 00 —- * ee 5 00 oe + gl 8 00 om pane 75 CUNBDENSED MILK, 4 dos. In case. Ree oS Saale BRAN 02 _ N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 e!DhLULULULLlLUrrl lle Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75 “ah 6 aS... ULL. lS amen i4 50} ) ——e 4 25 Pitt Freie... .... Darling..... oe 1 o.oo ee. 4 50 — oe CRACKERS. Butter. Ssceymourz ie... 5 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5% Family XXX... .... 8 Family XXX, cartoon...... 5% Cee Aee. ls Salted XXX, cartoon ..... 5% as TH ao. lll Butter tisgwit........_.. 6 Soda. oat ET oon ce... ™% pean, Dee 8% rye. Water.............. 30Ne Long Island Wafers ......11 Oyster. S Over ex. oe City Oynter SEX... 5K Perna Oyeter.............. 6 CREAM TARTAR, Strictly a Telfer’s Absolute.......... 30 ar 15@25 DRIED FRUITS. Domestic. Apples. Sundried, sliced in bbls. ' quartered ‘ Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes Apricots. California in bags... ... 10 Evaporated in boxes. .. Blackberries, mis. Nectarines. ah oo ee Peaches Peeled, in boxes. Cal.evap. ‘“ i . ° in Degs...... Pears. California in bags..... Pitted Cherries. Barrels....... 50 Ib. boxes ...... Prunelles, oho... Raspberries. bance... i. core... oe Raisins. Loose Muscatels in Boxes, : a... oe CoG a 5 Loose Muscatels in Bags, oo —. « 2 crown 4 3 - . 4% Foreign. Currants. aren bos. lls Vostizzas, 56 1b. cases ..... 314 36 1-lb. cartoons..... coos. Bg 25 Ub. boxes bulk 4% 50 Ib. boxes bulk. ......) 4% Peel. Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes 13 Lemon - me * C 8 Orange " =“ . 10 Raisins, Ondura. 29 lb. boxes @ Sultana, 20 = - @6 Valencia. 30 “ Prunes, California, 100-120.......... " 90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 5% io 80x90 “ || ss TOxso . 60x70 i —- eer... ENVELOPES, XX rag. white. No. 1, 6% 1... oo No. 2, 6% 1 10 ees. ieee as Mo. 2 6.... 1 00 Manilla, white. Coin ei te4. .... 90 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. aoe ie. hes 3% Hominy. ieee 3 00 i 3% Lima Beans, ree -4 @4% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 Ib. box... 55 imperiod. 10%@l11 Pearl Barley. MR cee 2% Peas. aon wa. 135 Sait pris... 3 Rolled Oats. Schumacher, bbl....... . % 2% . on... la Mosarch th. 4% Monarch “bik oaker, cases... | 3 on Sago. Se 4% Paine. 5 Wheat. eOkee 3% FISH--Salt. Bloaters. aa Cod. Georeescured.......__. _. 4% Georges genuine......... 6 Georges selected......... 6% Boneless, bricks.. ...... 8% Boneless, strips.. ....... 635.@9 Halibut. ene @ Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 65 ae “ “ bbl 9 50 Rorweeian Round, &% bbl] 100 Ibs...... 3 20 ss oe 1 60 eee 18 Mackerel ao.1, iia. 11 00 ee 470 me. 1 ie... 13 No. 2, 100 Ibs.. 8 06 no.2 ie... 350 evi ee 9 Pomtly, 0s... . -.....L a Sardines. ee 55 Trout. No. 1, % bbia., 100ibs ss 4% mot bb te 2 26 oO. 1. Elis, 10 ibe...... 63 me 180 ki... 33 Whitefish No.1 family 3% bbls, 100 lbs... c= | --.-86 25 2 25 +--+. 9 oO 120 oo ee | a a =. 65 33 MATCHES. Globe Match Co.’s Brands. Columbia Parlor...........81 25 Sak Salpker, |. -. £ 8D Diamond Match Co.’s Brands. oO. S eer. 1 65 Anchor parlor...... ee We eee 110 Seapets verier... --400 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Grade Lemon. Regular Vanilla. P| | ee doz fe 2 0z.....81 Qu im) 40z..... 240 XX Grade Lemon. wes..... $1 50 -o..... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. eee... 81 75 éoe.....3 5 Jennings. Lemon. Vanilla 20s regularpanel. 75 1 20 40% o oo. oe 2 00 6 o£ ° 2 3 00 Mo. S taper........ 1 35 2 00 No. 4 taper....._..% 30 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon. Vanilla. 20z ovaltaper 75 1 10 3 0z . . 20 1% 20z regular ‘ 85 120 402 r * 16 2°25 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. aoe. i 3 25 Bat keen, 1 90 src kee 110 [io come... A ee 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s — - oo Half Rere....,.. totes oe ae Quarter kegs.. .... is 71D cans ...... 34 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. i wot bee 11 ot kee... uereer kore... ae : come... ee ee 66 ERBS, ae... “ oe ae... .... eee INDIGO. Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55 8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50 JELLY. > ip, pelle... @ 57 7. ee @ 63 a SS ' @ LICORICE. 3, 30 aoe 25 eee ee en 10 LYE, Condensed, 2 dos......... 1 20 " oe... 2 MINCE MEAT, Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case ....3 0@ MEASURES, Tin, per dozen. 1 galion a : 1% Half galion....... ic. oe eer... aS 70 aa... 1 aor me 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz, ee. 7 00 Half gallon os on oa Pint .... —. = MOLASSES, Blackstrap, Saget hoes 14 Cubs Baking. Colney... a 1é Porto Ricu. rae 20 Fancy .. 30 New Orleans. Fair eee eee 18 Good . 22 Extra good 27 oice 32 Fancy 40 Half barrels 3c.extra PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count.. @5 co Half bbls, — count. @3 10 a Barrels, 2,400 count 6 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES, Clay, eS ee... ick oe 2. ©. talleoumt:....... Cob, No a... (oo oe POTASH. 48 cans in case, Babbitt’s Fonuna Salt Co.4.......... RICE sama. Carolina —_— Does dese cute cue 6 SPICES, Whole Sifted. AMeeiOe Cassia, China in mats...... § Batavia in bund.. o Saigon in rolls...... Cloves, mene. 6... Zanzibar : Mace Ualeyis....... ....... a aS ES ” -— “i ho’ Pure Ground in Bulk. ee 15 C assis, Batavia... 18 and ‘Saigon. . sa whew eee ae ee = Cloves, Aeveree........... eS Ginger, ayeeee 5 Cochin.. oe ee ' Jamaica ........ Macs Galeyia............... Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.. ig Tri Oc. % Nutmems Nes. ............ Pepper, Singapore, black.... . " white... livige a ow . Cayenne...... 24 «20 20 Oe “Absolute” in Packages, 4s Aries... a Cloves.... - ——.. oe Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 ' Ateican........ 84 — ee = eenee .-_.... ae Sage...... 84 SAL SODA. Granulated, _bbis.. “1. 2 75lb Cases. toa l* ee 1 15 " 22tb kegs Dee ce. 1% SEEDS. —............. Canary, Smyrna....... Caraway Cardamon, Malabar. . aggsagags ape (Cutee bene........... STARCH. Corn. ea SOE. s 8. 5% ob ~* 6- Ib _ 40 and 50 lb. boxes..... ' PORN SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, ire... 35 french Rappee, in Jars.....43 SODA, Boxes .. / er Kegs, English | oo wooo SALT. Diamond a Cases, 243 Ib. boxes.. Barrels, Se) TOR... 2 Bay 115 2% Ib — 4 c 5s Ib - ae . =e... Butter, oO 1b bege......... 2014lbbags ....... ~ sole cee... * 2m * Worcester. 115 2%-lb sacks eA ES SS 60 5-1b .-8 1 60 50 RSSESZ ee www ~ o b. a ib. a 8 lb sacks.. bee linen acks......_.... Common en. op to 08 Co oo we SRSSSH 56 Ib. dairy = ‘aril bags. il 28 lb. oe “ oe a Ashton, 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. ggins. 56 1h, dairy in linen sacks Soiar Rock. 56 ly. sacks...... Common Fine. eee Manistee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, 17 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box. SEELY’S EXTRACTS, Lemon. rs 90 doz. $10 20 gro a. 20 ne “ 140 « 14 40 “ Vanilla, - 1 50 doz. = 2 00 ae 1250 « 25 50 * co—Second Grade. Lemon. On... cee 46 doz... . Sa * Vanilla, =Gor.... 1@0den.___ 6D SOAP, Laundry. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-ib 3 20 Good Cheer, a Ib. . 16 20 gro 2 Go ** ‘iene & Gamble. Concord. . as Mottled German... : wows Tae... Dingman Brands. Single box 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3 7 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands, American Family, wrp d..% 33 plain... 2 27 K. Fairbank & Co. —_—, sou Clans... - _ Brown, 60 bars.. s 3 40 " 80 bars ..... . i Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands, eee 3 75 Cotton Oil..... oe Marseilles....... Master Savon Improved Sunflower Golden.. — 8 Atlas Rene. Single bo Scouring, Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 49 hand, 3 3 doz ieee . 240 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the lo cal freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you Credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. xXXXX Powdered...//°""7’ Granulated Fine Granulated Extra Fine Granulated. . moe A Diamond Confec, A =. Standard A. . No. No. No. No. TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ 8, large ameall.. |... Halford, — TEAS. gaPpan—Regular. C anak. Pie... BASKET FIRED. ae. 18 Choice. . oe Choicest.. Extra choice, wire leat GUNPOWLER. Common to fair....... 25 Extra fine to finest... .50 Choicest fancy........ 5 OOLONG. Common to fair... ...23 IMPERIAL. Common to fair....... 23 Superior tofine.. .30 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 Superior to fine. ..... 30 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. 18 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Russet.......... 30 @32 i 30 D. Seotten & Co’s Brands. Pineetee............. 60 Cuba. 32 Rocket 30 Seanad: ‘& Merrick’s Brauds. Sterling .. 30 Private Brands. Bazoo . ne Can Can.. es cee ane oe Nemlie Big..........-..4 Uncle Ben. io McGinty Sec ee 5. ' % bbis....--- Commie ....-..-....- Columbia, drums Bang Up...............- Bang up, drums ; Plug. Sorg’s Brands, Spearhead .........-. a 1 Nobby Twist.....--.----- ' Scotten’s Brands. as ot alley City ........--- " 7 inser’ *s Brands. Old Honesty...------- Jony Tar........---.-- Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (8 02z., 41¢).. Gren Turtie.......... Three Black Crows... J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good...... Out oft Sight......-..- 24 Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands. Gola Rape |... .. 43 Happy oe Pouce 37 arog ce 32 No Tax.. eee. 31 re Go... 41... a Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, i Elin deeca........_....... — Golden Shower......-...... Huntress . Meerachaum i .-.....-.-. “"95@p30 American Eagle Co.’s — Myrtle Navy.. ....-----.--. .. 2... sia BS RBs 88S Se Fro ia. 44s foil.. Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands. ae _ eee 15 Banner Cavendish ete ew euae 38 Gola Gat ...........-..._.- 28 Scotten’s Brands. i Wereeen ck 4 Hoeey Dew.........-_.._... 26 Gold Sicek.......-...-....- 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Brands, ee. 26 id Tom... 18 Standard.. / . 22 Globe Tobacco Co." 8 Brands, Pandmade.................- Leidersdorf’s Brands. Rep Mov................... , 26 Unele Sam............--20@a2 od Closet... 32 Spaulding & Merrick. ‘Tom aid derry.............. 25 Traveler Cavendish........ 38 Nueces Hern... 30 Fiow Hey...... ....... Con Ceee...............,.. VINEGAR, i % “$1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Balk perce... kk. Beer mug, 2 doz in case... YEAST, Mack... 8 wees... Weest vom ........:....... Diamond........ Rae... WOODENWARE. Mee... 4 50 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 30 — wes 1; three- -hoop.. 5 Bowls, 0 21 ae Baskets, markee 0001. ig bushel.. hy ful - willow i ths, No. “i ‘i c splint te BWI UHH In Per crcrey: ee a INDURATED WARE, ae. : Supe, NOt... ...... 13 50 cue Mees. 12 tise Wes. 10 50 Butter Plates—Oval. 250 1000 210 245 2 80 100 350 Washboards—single. Univ ersal ee 22% No. Q 2 50 Peerless Skea” —. Saginaw Globe............. Double. ” Good eee. 2% Peerless 2 go HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. ia Part Cured eee Fu 8 wR POHO8 cured ok Calfskins, — ne med. ..... Deacon ane eee No. 2 hides \¢ off. PELTS BRGacings............ 2 Ph CO Co © 980 & ‘. 6 omu wo Ss ro oor ~ mr 688 68 © — pe we Unwashed .. .. MISCELLANEOUS. Tole... Grease butter ........ Sweenee.............. 1m Ginseng.. 2 bog? 50 GRAINS a ial FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT, No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 47 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 47 MEAL, —oe....... ............ 1 Granulated... Ss . 16 FLOUR IN SACKS, *Patcie. ...........- cas. 2 Oo oresmeeres 1 55 Bakers’ ae 1 3 ; 40 at wren Rye. 1 40 *Subject to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. MILLSTUFF2. Car lots anu Brae... $15 00 $16 00 Screenings .... 12 00 13 00 Middlings..... 16 00 17 00 Mixed Feed... 23 00 24 50 Coarse meal .. 22 00 23. 00 CORN. Car cis... 37 Less than car lote.......--- 60 OATS. cnr 1... ................, 33 Less than car oe eee el euae. 35 No. 1 Timothy, car lots....11 90 No.1 tots...... 12 50 FISH AND OYSTERS. i al a meena quotes as follow FRESH FISH. Trout Black — ee. Halibu Cheam or Herring.... Bluefish —" lobster, per lb.. aaakod White.. Red Snappers.. — River Sal- Mackerel ee oa Fairhaven Counts. . F.2d. D. Seleets....... Bereee Pe @ ......,......... ANCHOFE..c00..... Standards....... . Parvo .............. . oysTERs—Bulk. Coane... 8. Extra Selects..per gal. Serene a memone......... Lede eee cease CIAmsS ..... —— SHELL @oops. SS per — an 1S PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Short cut £xtra clear pig, short cut. Extra clear, heavy Clear, fat back Boston clear, short cut. Clear back, short cut. Standard clear, short cut, best. SAUSAGE, ROre, AMMA Bologna...... a C ompouia cOtb ees: BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs Extra Mess, Chicago packing Boneless, rump butts SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 Ibs 12 ' . es 1244 “6 12 to 14 lbs. , sé e ‘* best boneless Shoulders Breakfast Bacon boneless.. Dried beef, ham prices DRY SALT MEATS. Long Clears, heavy Briskets, medium. Kits, honeycomb RMS DOM oo CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE LAMP BURNERS, No. OSun No. 1 ee : Seediee ek ea cua a LAMP CHIMNEYS, Per paatta 6 doz. in box. maeson. Nei ‘ No. 2 men quality. 0 un, crimp top eee = 210 Rat * ' uae Flint, 0. 0 Sun, crimp top ee a 3 . Ras “ ’ Ol 3 80 Pearl top. aos i Sun, wrapped and labeled ee 3 70 No.2 oe 1 %5 -1 88 9 Hinge, ts ve “ce Fire Proof—Plain ‘yal 7 Sun, plain bulb eee = 6 eee ee 4 La Bastie, \ i Sun, plain bulb, per doz. id 1 — per doz.. LANTERN GLOBES. . 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. each “ eo “ bbls5 « ROCHESTER STORE LAMPS, . 10, Brass, 400 candle power.............. 3 % STREET LAMPS. ». 9, Globe, automatic extinguisher........ 3 3 LAMP WICKS, No. 3, ee ee mee ccc | ac Maeneen, perder FRUIT JARS, Mason—old style. a, be ~— oo cover. Pints.. eee) coon Lee — Boyd’s extra caps.. oe Mane ries. ............. Sealing wax, red or white, 5 Ib ‘packages... JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top. 4 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box (00) 4 24 ‘bbl, -* doz (bbl 35) - a> ° « box, box (box 00). eof i * | Bo © don (bisa. STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Cc rocks, 1 to6 gal % gal. per doz.. — 16 Gel. nek ee z 1 to 4 gal., per gal.. eee cet cn, GC Miik Pans, * gal., per | RAN 1 1s STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED, Butter Crocks, | and 2 gal Milk Pans, % gal. per doz.. 1 “ te 18 HH MICHIGAN MEN GF MARK, i | Improvement Association, which has | n 8 ss in j i C. J. DeRoo, Secretary and Treasurer | P®€2 very successful in inducing new of the Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co. manufacturing enterprises to locate at Cornelius John DeRoo was born March | Holland, resulting in the era of pros- 19, 1855, in Holland township, Ottawa county. ers, his father having erected and oper- He came from a family of mill- | | been a Republican. ated the first grist mill ever put up in| City in the capacity of Mayor, perity which now marks the place. Politically, Mr. DeRoo has always He has served the has been Ottawa county. Being an only child, he| Alderman two times, member of the received a good practical education— first in the public schools of Zeeland, afterward in the grammar and high schools at Grand Rapids, still later tak- | | and his advice is sought by public offi- On graduating | cials of both parties on matters of publie ing a commercial course in the Grand Rapids Business College. from the latter institution he went to Cedar Springs, where he was employed for one year by W. L. Barber in the ca- pacity of book-keeper. He then re- turned to Grand Rapids, where he worked a year for Foster, Stevens & Co. as entry clerk and cashier. His next position was with Wm. Harrison, whom he served as book-keeper for a year. At the age of 24 years he purchased a one- third interest in the Unity Flouring Mills, of Zeeland, the firm name being Keppel & DeRoo. After remaining in that connection about four years, Mr. DeRoo sold his interest to his partner, removing to Holland and establishing a larger and more pretentious flouring mill under the style of Walsh, DeRoo & Co. The partners were I. Cappon, H. Walsh, W.C. Walsh, G. T. Huizenga, and Mr, DeRoo, all of whom, except Mr. Huiz- enga, are stockholders and directors in the present company. The copartner- ship began business with a capital stock of $50,000, which has since been in- creased to $66,000, and the mill then erected and equipped was the third roller process mill in Michigan and the first one operated in Western Michigan. In 1887, the copertnership was merged into a corporation, under the style of the Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., when Mr. DeRoo was made Secretary and Treas- urer and continued in the capacity of Manager. The business was a pronounced success from the start, necessitating fre- quent changes, improvements and en- largements. This year the buildings have been entirely remodeled and a com- plete outfit of more modern machinery added thereto. The new equipment in- cludes a 400 horse-power Nordberg en- gine, a 250 horse-power Sterling boiler and a complete outfit ef roller process machinery from the John T. Noye Manu- facturing Co., of Buffalo. A. W. David- son, of Chicago, was superintendent of the millwright work. These improve- ments and additions have increased the daily eapacity of the mill to 600 barrels of flour and 50 tons of the products of coarse grains. The mill also has a stor- age capacity of 50,000 bushels of grain, 6,000 barrels of flour and 200 tons of mill feed. During the World’s Fair year, Mr. DeRoo was Secretary and assisted in the Management of the Holland & Chicago Transportation Co., which was organized in the fall of 1892 for the purpose of operating a daily line of steamers dur- ing the season of navigation between Holland and Chicago, but, owing to the increased demands of the milling busi- ness, requiring his entire time, he has been obliged to withdraw from active participation in the management of that company, although he still remains a stockholder and director. He is also a director of the First State Bank of Hol- land, and is Treasurer of the Holland Board of Education three terms, and is now serving his second term as a mem- | ber of the Board of Public Works. He is public spirited to an unusual degree, import. Mr. DeRoo is one of the hardest worked men in Michigan. He has little time for recreation or amusement, but, during the hunting season, he may sometimes be seen with his dog and gun, wending his way to the hunting grounds. He is a keen sportsman and, generally, a successful one. He is, also, very fond of boating, and spends many an hour upon the water. If he is a member of any secret society he has managed to keep it quiet, for his friends have never found it out. He is one of the most genial of men and his latch- string hangs outside to all his friends, although he has no ambition to shine as a society man. Heis a prodigious reader and finds constant pleasure in the companionship of his books, of which he ewns a large number. He is, also, a keen observer and close student of human nature and rarely makes a mistake in his judgment of men and measures, Constant in the pursuit of his busi- ness, faithful to himself and to his family, loyal to his friends and his adopted city, Mr. DeRoo’s career fur- nishes a striking example of the success which can be achieved by any man who is actuated by correct motives and un- swerving devotion to duty. —2_+ > There are various ways in which a man can become a well-known citizen. One way is to owe money to everybody who will trust him. “DRA DHSMAWN, IN HIS OWN HANDS. Exemption Laws No Excuse for Lax- ness in Credit by the Merchant. From time to time complaints are registered by merchants about the in- equitable nature of the exemption laws. The law, it is said, gives the merchant no redress, but permits the dishonest debtor—providing he is a householder— to “‘beat” the dealer almost at his own pleasure. Unless he has an income of more than $25 at each payday, or money in excess of that amount, or personal or real property over and above a certain value, the dealer who is unfortunate enough to have him on his books has absolutely no redress. The law, as passed by the State Legislature, was intended to benefit the honest man of small means, who has only his hands to depend on, as opposed to the man who 2 ; does not wurk with bis hands and is not generally classed with laboringmen. Many an honest man _ has lost everything through running into debt at the grocery or clothing store, and the law was passed to make it impossible for those dealers who are given to sharp practices to turn a laboring man and his family out into the street. As to the debtor ‘‘beating”’ the dealer, the dealer should remember that in the majority of cases the fault is his own if he has any uncollectible debts. There are many merchants who are so anxious for trade that they do not stop to enquire into the reliability of the persons asking for credit—they are willing to trust anyone who desires to open an acconnt. With a full knowledge of the fact that there ‘is a law of exemptions, merchants wil] even solicit the trade of people of whose responsibility they know nothing. The result is that their books are soon loaded down with bad debts. no doubt, take advantage of the law to avoid paying their debts, but their creditors not only knew of the law of exemptions, but might, also, have posted themselves regarding the character of the would-be debtors. Why should the law be held respons- ible for the results of the unbusinesslike Dishonest men, | methods of business men? No reputable wholesale house will give credit to the extent of a dollar toa retailer who has not proved himself worthy of credit. Why should the retailer be more gener- ous to his customers? With the excep- tion of the homestead exemption, which might justly be reduced from $1,500, the present figures. to $1,000, the exemptions in this State are not abnormally high. The wages of a laboring man, who isa householder and the head of a family, are exempt to the extent of $25, together with household goods equal to the neces- sities of the family. That is certainly not an extravagant exemption, and is much lower than obtains in many other states. In Kansas _ the exemption extends to 160 acres of land, with all the improvements, without respect to the value, or, if in a town or city, to one acre of ground and the improvements. In some of the Southern States the amount is even higher. A peculiar feature of the exemption laws is that the amount exempted is lowestin the East, increasing as one travels westward. This is accounted for by the fact that in the East the creditor class rules, while in the West the debtors make the laws. It is the opinion of many that all ex- emptions should be abolished, the claim being made that they encourage running into debt by parties who. but for the exemptions, would pay their debts or not go, into debt at all. On the other hand, the fact of the existence of sucha law should make dealers doubly careful. Having no redress before the law they should be cautious about given credit. The law should have the effect of cur- tailing credits, and anything calculated to have such an effect cannot be alto- gether anevil. With the facilities now at the merchant’s command for ascertain- ing the liability of those who ask for credit it is seldom that the blame for a bad debt can be"placed anywhere but on the shoulders of the merchant himself. Fewer customers—and these good pay— should be the rule of the dealer who is troubled with bad debts. The law of exemptions will not trouble the dealer who does a cash business, and will very seldom trouble the one who is sparing of his credits. Merchants are the benefi- ciaries of the exemption laws to the extent of $250. In case there are two partners in the business each is allowed to reserve $250, whieh would make very respectable foundation for a new business. The law is, therefore, not so one-sided after all. RADICAL. —_—-2 =. The Statement Is Correct. From the Toledo Business World, _ The Micnigan TRADESMAN is author- 'ty for the statement that the saloon- keepers of the State, through the medium of the Michigan Liquor Dealers’ Protect- lve Association, have formed an alliance with the trades unions and that the local lodge of that order has been admitted to an equality witk the various unions in the Central Labor Union. It is to be | hoped, for the credit of the labor organi- zations of the State of Michigan, and of the country generally, that this statement is erroneous. Just what the connection is between iabor and the saloon seems difficult to comprehend. It would look as though some of the Shrewder leaders among the saloon element had manipu- lated the labor organizations for their Own particular purposes, Co es Many men do not allow their princi- ples to take root, but pull them up, every now and then, as children do flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.—Longfellow, * Reds, ees ncosronvesvey nit dict LEE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Philosophy of Fairs. The question as to the practical utility of fairs has been discussed, in the papers and out of them, for many years. There are some who, even at this late day, can- not see what good purpose they serve. It is claimed that competition in the natural channels of trade will force each producer to do his best and that the rivalry superinduced by the fair is purely mechanical and ceases with the close of the fair. It is said, also, that excellence is sought by the producer, not for his en- tire product, but for iselated specimens of various classes, care and attention being given to these sometimes to the ne- glect of the rest. In answer to the first objection it may be said that ‘‘natural competition’’ has done wonders for the products of the mechanical trades and for various ar- ticles of commerce not generally cred- ited to those trades; it has revolution- ized the process of manufactures and raised them to a degree of excellence which it would seem could hardly be surpassed. But all the credit for the vast strides made in mechanics and me- chanical arts must not be given to nat- ural competition. At the fair and ex- hibition the products of the different manufactories have been placed side by side and the points of excellence, or the defects of each, were readily seen. The maker of each profited by what he saw in his neighbor’s product, and each determined to improve on his former ef- forts. Thusis given a stimulus to in- ventive genius todo its best which the natural competition of trade could never give, and which, indeed, could be given in no other way than by the close con- tact and opportunity for comparison af- forded by the fair. As an incentive to improvement of the product of the farm or orchard patural competition has abso- lutely no effect. Every farmer is anx- ious to get as good a yield from his land as possible, and this incuces the cultivation of the land to the best pos- sible advantage, which, in turn, affects the quality of the grain or other farm product. Then, if natural competition will not stimulate the producer to better his product, how can the holding of a fair have such an effect? At the fair some of the products of the various ~ farms are placed on exhibition side by side. Samples of the different kinds of wheat are seen together and their merits or demerits thoroughly canvassed. The best vegetables and fruits to be found im field or orchard are put on exhibition. None but first-elass samples are shown, as each is determined that his display shall not be inferior to his neighbor’s. Therefore, he spends time and thought and money in the cultivation of the few articles he intends to exhibit, and whether he is successful or not in his efforts to reach first place the result is a vast improvement in the various ar- ticles so cultivated. He himself will see the difference between the products of skill and care and the other products of the farm. This cannot but have its in- fluence upon his entire farming opera- ns and must result in tbe gemeral im- provement of farm products. The mer- chants who make displays at the fair must show their best. No old shopworn goods will do, but new and good goods must be exhibited. Each endeavors to outshine the other and all do their best to catch the public eye. As a result trade is stimulated, the purchase of a better grade of goods encouraged, and the whole community benefited. The, keen though generous rivalry engen- | dered by the fair affords the best and most lasting incentive to improvement of product whether of the manufactory or the farm, and the fair, again, gives the best opportunity for noting the improve- ments made. In many ways the whole community gains by the holding of a fair, and the benefits derived are neither local nor for a time, but are shared by all the people and last throughout the year. Such is the philosophy of fairs and some of the reasons which would ap- pear to make it the part of wisdom for all to give them generous support. DANIEL ABBOTT. a How a Boy Was Cured of a Prevailing Fad. Correspondence Art in Advertising. I once knew a small boy: who became afflicted, as most of us do at some time in the days of our youth, with a rabid propensity for answering advertisements. Magazines and newspapers were sought out and carried off to the privacy of his own den and many hours spent in poring earnestly over their advertising columns. Postage stamps and dimes were in active demand, and the coming of that faithful functionary, the postman, watched with feverish interest; in fact, the latter was usually met at the corner of the street and induced to hand over his booty then and there, for the small boy was con- ducting his correspondence on the quiet —the usual way—and had_ excellent reasons for keeping his secret from a lot of mischievous brothers and_ sisters. But, alas! one day he inadvertently ieft in their way a sheet of note paper upon which he had earefully pasted a patent medicine ad. running as follows: “Goop MORNING, FRIEND! Does your head ache? Is there a bad taste in your mouth? Have you a pain in your back? And sometimes in your side? Is there a buzzing in your ear?” etc., etc., winding up with the usual assertion that if the reader be thus afflicted he needs a bottle of the advertiser’s un- paralleled Liver Lubricator, a sample of which will be sent him upon request. Written beneath the above, in the small boy’s choicest chirography, was the request for a sample of the Liver Lubricator. Next morning, when the little fellow entered the breakfast room, he found the entire force of brothers and sisters assembled at the table and was greeted by the eldest with a solemn *“ -4 A Two-Cent Fare. In is said that the legislature of In- diana is more than likely at its next session tu pass a law allowing railroads to charge but 2 cents a mile as regular fares. It seems that the railroads run- ning out of Indianapolis have been mak- ing exeursion rates to Chicago and re- turn at $1. This is actually less than a quarter of acenta mile, and the roads claim that the excursions pay them big money. The Hoosiers think that if this is so, they might be able to haul people regularly at less than 3 cents a mile, and they mean to make them do it. EADY FOR YOUR ORDERS. THE WALSH-DEROO MILLING GO., Holland, Mich. Our mill has been completely remodelled and its capacity increased. The high degree of excellence of our products will be maintained. FLOUR BRANDS: «“Sunlight,’’ «Electric,’’ «‘Daisy,’’ ‘Purity,’ ing Star,” «‘Diamond.’’ CEREAL SPECIALTIES: Wheat Grits, Graham, Wheatena, Rye Flour, Bolted [leal, ‘Idlewild,’ «Tlorn. Buckwheat Fleur, Rolled Oats, Pearl Barley, Feed and Meal. [== Correspondence of Domestic Buyers Solicited. 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 Overecoats 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, WILLIAT CONNOR, Marshall, Mich., Box 346 (his permanent address), who wili 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, Wholesale Clothiers, ROCHESTER, = = “ . - N. Y. Wiliiam Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 26, 27 and 28, being West Michigan Fair week Customers who meet him there will be allowed expenses. ING POWDER .NO. SUPERIOR "= = FEW EQUALS GR PTE. ONLY HIGH DE BAKING POWDER =. GOLD-AT THES PRICE 607. 7.CAN 10 2 1LB.CAN 25 be MANUFACTURED BY NORTHROP, ROBERTSON, & CARRIER ___ LANSING MICH. LOUISWLLE K¥. i Qoaf YUU BUY UP BHAVQUAKI EMO, YUU GUUPU \ KUUK ARE CUSTOMERS OF THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, inne thetic GOTHAM GOSSIP, the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, Sept. 22—An interesting tour to make on Friday is to go over on the East side among the *‘scum” of the earth—the Poles, the Russians, and others. It is market day, and if your hose is not stopped up you ean find any- thing you want by the smell of it. Old women have boards across their laps on which they have chickens, completely dissected, which they sell for so much a| leg or a breast or a gizzard or a heart, or the feathers. Mountains of bread are piled up in front of the nastiest places on earth—bread of all sorts and conditions, the black rye forming a prominent posi- tion, and the big slabs of unleavened also making a good showing. Here are bushels of eggs which were undoubtedly fresh once but that was long, long ago. It is likely that a worse condition of things prevailed when our Sanitary De- partment was less active than now. For this reason there are not so many pos- itively rotten fish and so much meat un- fit for food exposed for sale as a few years ago. Your correspondent takes a sort of fiendish delight in taking his vis- itors up Fifth avenue and then suddenly switching them cover into Mulberry and Essex and all the other sweet seented re- gions about the big ‘‘bend.”’? It is an ex- perience they never forget. The political situation is growing mighty interesting now. New York Dem- ocrats do not like the Ohio Democratic platform, and they are also perplexed to know just what to do fora man who will do to run for a Governor. It seems to be generally conceded that the next Mayor of the city ought to bea man not con- nected with Tammany, and even Tam- many itself thinks this might be well. For Govenor, Judge Gaynor, of Brooklyn, is mentioned as the coming man. He will be remembered as the lawyer who con- ducted the case originally against John Y. MecKane and made for himself a Na- tional reputation. He was afterward elected Judge, and now seems to be on the way to go up higher still. A good deal is said against the nomination of so wealthy a man as Mr. Morton, and, al- though this may seem childish, it will probably have its effect. Business men who have been bribing policemen for years to let them obstruct the sidewalks, ete., are willing to let matters remain as they have been; but these men will prob- ably have to adapt themselves to changed circumstances. Itseems as though there would be no chance for goods to be un- loaded if the law were strictly enforced, and some one said that the ordinance seemed to be passed in order that the po- licemen might line their pockets by blackmail, and they have made the most of their opportunities, This is the only summer which has passed of recent years without a series of mad dog scares running pretty well through the months of July and August. This is due mainly to the adoption of the sensible rules governing dogs in Euro- pean cities. The abolition of the dog catchers was urged fur many years in New York without any other result than the abuse of the people who were trying to establish what is known to be a thoroughly good system in connection with the dog question, and the first year of its enforcement has shown the practi- cal efficiency of the plan. Every man with a practical knowledge about dogs knows that the most patient and amiable animal in the world ean be driven into fits or rendered intractable by being closely muzzled and deprived of all exer- cise during the most trying time of the year. The terror brought about by the dog catchers was so general that the ownership of a dog involved perpetual wrangling and trouble, and most people sought to compromise matters by shut- ting the dogs up in their flats or houses or keeping them muzzled all the time. This year the dogs have run about in New York unrestrained, have been able to seek shady spots, and have not been harassed by chains and muzzles, and as a result there was an absolute disappear- ance of the hydrophobia seare, which News from the Metropolis- --Index of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | was formerly stch a marked feature of | the summer news. |} about in its normal condition. The dry goods district is lively and wholesale gro- cers are hot complaining. | have gone forever, and that we must be- come reconciled to a new order of things. | The volume of trade doing remains | | j | it is hard to} ;make up our minds that old-time prices | in the whole line of groceries there is no | change worthy of mention, and prices are almost exactly as they have been. Tea is about as firm as anything on the list, and really good greens are not in abundant supply. There has been no in- crease in the per capita consumption of tea in this country for twenty years, and, if anything, the amount is growing smaller. The Indian Tea Growers’ As- sociation is employing natives in costume to give exhibitions of Indian tea at gro- cery stores. Of course, a crowd is drawn to the place and the attraction is a very good one for the grocer. Coffee is a little lower again, and the prospects of a huge crop this year will tend to keep the article going lower. Jobbers report a quiet market for canned goods, and this is not to be won- dered at in view of the supply of fresh fruits now visible. The quality of the corn that is being packed in the East is exceptionally fine this year. Butter remains as for the past three change in quotations. Eggs are in sufficient supply to prevent any decided advance in quotations, and 18¢ is about top price for best Western. Rice is steady and prices are firmly ad- hered to by holders who hope for an ad- vance. Molasses is guiet, and no changes in quotations have occurred for a long time. sea waves could not be extended another month. Buyers coming to town now de- clare that New York is the hottest place in America without exception. JAY. ————— Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retaii Grocers’ Association, held at Elk’s Hall, Monday evening, Sept. 17, President White presided. Jas. Fisher, grocer at 850 Wealthy avenue, applied for admission to the Association ahd was accepted. The Secretary presented copies of the Detroit daily papers containing adver- tisements of retail grocers of that city announcing cut prices in nearly every article in the grocery line. The differ- ence between the prices on Staple goods ruling in Detroit and Grand Rapids was SO marked that Messrs, Wagner and Van Anrooy congratulated the members on the good work the Association in has done maintaining a uniform price on granu- lated sugar, resulting in a firmer ten- dency on all articles in the grocery line. Mr. White urged that eash premiums of $10 and $5 be offered for the best articles on the evils of the credit system. The suggestion was discussed at some length and was laid on the table for future action. The same gentleman Suggested that the jobbers be invited to speak at the meetings at intervals during the winter. The prosposition was well received, and the President was designated a commit- tee of one to arrange the dates and other necessary preliminaries, John H. Goss stated that he would like to see the grocers of the city get together and buy potatoes by the pound. He would, also, like to sell beans by weight. B. Van Anrooy said he would like to | Sell eggs by the pound. | A. J. Elliott moved that it be the sense of the meeting that potatoes be bought by weight only hereafter, Which was adopted. A considerable discussion followed on the subject of the cash system, during which Mr. Wagner remarked that the grocery trade would never see a more favorable time to agitate the cash system than it did last winter, when the agita- tion was productive of such good results. There being no further business the meeting adjourned. weeks, very quiet and with scarcely any | The weather is extremely : ot, and it is to be regretted that the season by the sad | | | The Wheat Marxet. Wheat remains lifeless, no change having occurred since last week. The market is in a waiting mood for some- thing to turn up. If the Government crop report could be taken as _ trust- worthy, prices should and would be 10@15c higher, but there are doubts of its being very accurate, especially as some authorities make the total about 75,000,- 000 bushels larger. One thing should not be overlooked, and that is, farmers who have to sell to raise money must sell nearly double the amount of wheat to raise an equal amount of money that they did two or three years ago, and, as they have lost faith in wheat, they sell regardless of price; they will regret their slaughter of wheat, fer, later on, they will see the folly of being so hasty, but then it will be too late. Corn has dropped some in the specu- lative market; so has oats. One reason for the decline is the rain which has helped the pastures, Stock can find more feed and have not to be fed at home, and the fine weather has also had a tendency to ripen corn so that it will be fit for market much earlier than usual. Receipts of wheat here for the week were 38 cars, corn 2 cars, oats 4 ears, which is hardly up to the amount gen- erally received at this time in years gone by. C. G. A. Voter. ————_ 2. Grand Rapids friends of Bert Reming- ton are in receipt of invitations to his wedding, which will occur Oct. 9, the bride being Miss Elizabeth Bois, of 124 DeKalb street, Chicago. The happy couple will be ‘tat home” at 616 North Fifth street, St. Joseph, Mo., after Noy. ‘. An Overburdened Mind. Grocer—Just see the difference! Look at that brainless dude going along with his gaze fixed on the heavens, and then notice how Professor Diggins walks with stooping shoulders and bended head. One is thinking of nothing, and the other is probably solving some intricate mathe- matical problem. ' Profeessor Diggins—Confound it! Did my wife tell me to get her a pound of pins and a paper of lard, or a pound of lard and a paper of pins? >_< When you hang a sign outside your place of business, let it be somewhat original in design and of good quality. Oysters. Note Lower Prices. Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can$ 28 Solid Brand, Selects, percan....,,, 26 Solid Brand, E. F., per can........ 22 Solid Brand, Standards, per can... 20 Daisy Brand, Selects, per can...... 24 Daisy Brand, Standards, per can... 18 Daisy Brand, Favorites, Der can... . 16 Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with green apples, very fine See 1 00 Ce 65 Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the best made. 85 cents per doz. 3 doz. in case. Will quote bulk mince meat later. Pure, Cider Vinegar, per gallon.... 10 Pure Sweet Cider, per Carlen... 12 Fine Dairy Butter, per poond...... 19 Fancy 300 Lemons, per box........ 4 50 Extra Choice, 300 lemons per box.. 4 00 Extra Choice, 360 lemons per box.. 4 00 Choice 300 Lemons, per box....... 3 50 Choice 360 Lemons, per box, ...... 3 50 EDWIN FALLAS, Oyster Packer and Manufacturer. VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE, 215 and 217 Livingston St., Grand Rapids, Mich. B-B-B. Co. Teas and Hamburgh Canned Goods. If you visit the Western Michigan Fair this week—and we hope you will take ad vantage of the reduced railway rates to visit this market and attend the Fair—be sure and eal] at our booth in Art Hal] and Inspect our lines of the above staples, which are universally recognized as standard and con- ceded to be the finest sold. arnhart PuatmanCo. ae Ce £ i ; : ; 3 t Cares aa 2s aneiaamelll . Betsy er taaeay w eee esd - be a 7 x —_— 1 . £3. 4 7 bei ice pct os es a AS ek ial SC a Ls ae ; SNL AAO a ba ge PAN Seg) 2s PRE A ee aes ths way = be s a e ies SO TWh RE ge ne ae aah tiee: 3 + rt There are a great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only Muskegon Bakery Grackers RINUGE. KALMBACH k GU isinn sais.” | , HEALTH SHOES. (United States Baking Co.) ASK TO SEE THES. Are Perfect Heaith Food. a2: They are the coolest shoe in summer, The warmest shoe in winter, and The easiest shoe ever made, Combining ease, comfort and good looks one can be best—-that is the original Muskegon Bakery Butter iY Cracker. a : Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest,| 1 H untin & Sea son Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use. | In one pair of shoes. In xddition to the above, our factory and jobbing lines are complete. Styles attractive. Prices at the bottom. We carry all the leading lines of Socks and Wool Boots; also Bos- ton Rubber Shoe Co.’s voods. Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS iS upon US Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR | Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great : | Jelly Turnovers, FOR Specialties | Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON Are | Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S | Muskegon Branch, CAKES and Mlik Luneh CRACKERS e e United States Baking Co. LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, Muskegon, - Mich. k Are You Selling We are agents for all the leading lines of Guns and ‘Ammunition. ~ Winchester, Marlin, Remington and Colt’s Guns always in stock. We shall try and keep our assortment complete, and hope to secure the trade of Western Michigan on this line of goods MClark— Frost TEVENS & CG: Moore THE ONLY SCALE ON EARTH for the Retail Dealer. An Investment Thousands of the They Are The Paying from EIGHTH WONDER i BEST MERCHANTS 10 to 100 Per Cent. of the World. are Using Them. ‘Per Annum. lf} Your Competitor Says They are a Good Thing for Him, WHY NOT EQUALLY SO FOR YOU ? See What Users Say: LAPEER, Mich., Aug. 2, 1894. Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Dayton, Ohio. GENTLEMEN: We have had in constant use one of your Standard Counter Seales for three years. We look upon the seale as an indispensable fixture in our store. It has paid for itself many times over. We would not part with it under any consideration. Yours truly, Wricut & McBrIprE. For further particulars drop a Postal Card to HOYT & CoO.,, General Selling Agents, Dayton, Ohio. H. LEONARD & SONS Oe E Write us for New Illustrated Catalogue and Discount. Exclusive Sale Given to Any Wide Awake Deaicr Who Will Place an Order With Us for Five or More Heaters. - k ‘ ' & Three New Styles This Season. ude. € € given amount of fuel than any other oil stove m wes our price is NO higher than you will ye most ¢ CTRIC is the only Oil Stove which can be opera ted without smoke or odor and will produce more heat from a SLE in and We do not profess to sell the cheapest stove in the market p—__e—y have to pay for a cheap low grade stove. The E but we do claim to give our customers the best stove for the —e—y price Style of No. 30 Heater. Style of No. 35 Heater with radiating drum removed and the Style of No. 35 Heater. ; i List substitution of a four-hole extension top making the stove No. 35 Heater, Full Nickle.. ...38 00 No. 20 Heater Half Nickle.............. $12 Ov available for cooking =. No. 5 Heater is the same size as No. 35 Mio. 20 Heater Full Nickie ........ .... 13 00 Mo. 35 Complete with Extension Top and Radiating Drum. .810 only without Fender and Casters. No. 15 Heaters are the same style as No. 35 Heater, Half Nickle.... 7 No. 30, only smaller, using a 10 inch ee H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mish, Mo. 15 Heater, Pall Hickie............. 1 0D