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AN EMPTY DREAM.

 

Simple Story of Life on the Pacific
Coast.

As Seibel came into Olivia
Fleet’s sitting room he saw a picture
that pleased, while it startled him.
Olivia sat on the rug in front of the fire,
popping corn, and on either side of her
knelt a pretty child. They were chat-
ting merrily.

‘They are little white butterflies just
finding their wings,’’ the boy said.

“They are baby fairies putting
their night caps,’’ declared the girl.

“They are like souls coming out of
ugly bodies, made pure and white for
heaven,”’ Olivia said softly. Then
saw Seibel and rose to greet him.

‘“‘What lovely children!’ he exclaimed.
The children looked at him gravely.

“They are my Olivia
simply. She divided the popcorn be-
tween the children. ‘‘Tell Mr. Seibel
good night, and run away to bed,’”’ she
continued.

The children promptly held out their
little hands to Seibel, kissed Olivia and
left the room.

‘Lovely children,” Seibel repeated,
this almost interrogatively; but
Olivia only smiled, and in a moment
they were talking of other things. But
an hour later, when Seibel reached his
bachelor quarters, he found himself eu-
riously anxious and restless. He thought
he knew all there was to know about
Miss Fleet’s affairs. Why had he never
even heard of these wards?

George

oD

she

wards,’’ said,

time

For some time he had acknowledged to
himself that Olivia Fleet interested him.

He was content that she should. Olivia
was his ideal woman—strong, self-re-
liant, had splendid judgment—but to-

night he discovered he was in love with
her. The knowledge had come to him
when she kissed those wards!

Next morning Olivia Fleet and Mary
temer stood waiting for a cable car to
take them to the ferry.

‘“A nasty morning,” grumbled Mrs.
Remer, but Olivia smiled. Once a month
for the last three years she had stood on
this spot, outwardly a serene, self-pos-
sessed woman; inwardly, an eager, loy-
ing girl, for she was on her way to the
prison at San Quentin to see the only
man she had ever loved.

Ten years before she had watched her
lover take the train for New York; when
he should come back they were to be
married, but when their wedding day
came he was not there. A year later she
heard that he had married a variety ac-
tress and gone West.

Olivia had borne her disappointment
bravely, so the gossips of Hayunne said.
She had not grumbled. She did not
answer questions sharply, but she had
suffered as only true women can be made
to suffer. :

Three years passed and then her
mother died, and she became a heroine
in a modest way. One night, as she sat
alone, her devoted Mary having gone to
prayer meeting, Charles Graves, the man

 
 
     
 
   

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1894.

who had jilted her, came to her. He
had a child on each arm.

“Tama fugitive,’’ he
killed my wife’s lover.
children.

“I have
These are my
I give them to you.”’

He put the children in her lap, then
took a package from his pocket and put
it on the table.

“This is every dollar I have in the
world. I know I can trust you,” he said.
Then he hurried from the house.

Olivia was awakened from her aston-
ishment by the sight of the babies.

A month later she received San Fran-
cisco papers telling of her lover’s cap_
ture and conviction of manslaughter. He
was sentenced to ten years of penal serv-
ice in San Quentin.

A year later Olivia Fleet sold out her
home and went with the children and
faithful Mary to California. For some
years she had lived in Southern Califor-
nia; then, overcome by a longing to be
nearer Charles Graves, she moved to San
Francisco.

During her stay in Southern California
Olivia had begun to speculate carefully
with the money Charles Graves had given

said.

her. It was $5,000 when she came to
’Frisco. It was increased to $20,000.

Her one object in life was to be a mother
to Charles Graves’ children, and have a
comfortable sum of money for him when
he came out of prison.

She came to’Friseco four years before
her beloved’s term was to expire. She
visited him onee.a month, comforting
him in every possible way. It was, no
doubt, owing to her devotion that he
was so patient and earned the good will
of his keeper. His term was to be
shortened. In six months he was to be a

free man.
It was two years before, when Olivia

had bought her home, that she became
acquainted with George Seibel. His
legal service had been called upon. He
became Olivia’s trusted friend, but she
had kept her own counsel regarding
Charles Graves for so many years that
she kept it still. In all things pertain-
ing to her money and investments George
Seibel was allowed to have a part, but
he had never once heard of little Charlie
and Clara until last night.

This morning Olivia’s heart was over-
flowing with happiness; only six months
more of waiting and Charles would come
to his home, to his children, and
would help him face the world again.

Each day she talked of him to his
children. Papa would come, dear, good
papa. He was the object of their most
reverent thought. Of their mother she
never spoke; indeed, so complete had
been their lives, and so shut in from the
outside world, that they never even
asked about her. ‘‘Aunty” and the
wonderful far-away papa satisfied them.

The bay was full of fog; it seemed to
have gotten into the very souls of the
ferry passengers. Mary Remer was un-
usually sour looking; she never failed to
show her displeasure when she followed

Olivia to San Quentin, but she had to
confine herself to looks, as Olivia
brooked no interference.

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NO. 580

Olivia’s face grew more and more
radiant as they neared San Quentin;
there was so much in the big basket

Mary carried that would please Charles:
the children’s new picture, a picture of
their playgrounds, with its swing and
their pets, and the pretty letters the
children had written to him.

When they entered the prison (at least,
when Olivia did so—Mary had never ‘‘de-
meaned herself’? by going further than
the prison door), Charles Graves greeted
her joyfully:

“T have had another visitor this morn-
ing,’’ he exclaimed—there was new life
in his voice. ‘‘Minnie, my beautiful
wife, came to see Think of | it,
Olivia; she says she can prove to me that
I misjudged her; that I killed an inno-
cent man.

“Olivia, I have been wretched—l
believed in her so—ah, God, how I loved
her—how I love her? 1 thought I should
die of joy this morning! She has for-
given me for everything—for taking her
babies from her even.’? Here Charles
Graves broke into sobs.

‘She has planned it all. When I am
free, she and I and the children will go
to Australia and live till the world for-
gets I have been a convict! Think of it,
Olivia, my Minnie loves me and will be
my wife again, although in the eyes of
the law she has her freedom.”

Olivia felt as if she was turning into
stone; she did not think, she could not!
Charlie’s sounded clear her
ears, but she no him—what
she did see were the long years of loneli-
ness that stretched before her like a
great desolate desert, with no green
thing anywhere—Charlie, the children,
her hopes all gone.

**T told her of your goodness,” Charlie
was saying, eagerly. ‘‘She will to
you to-morrow—she longs for her chil-
dren, poor, lonely mother! You will be
good to her and comfort her till | come—
I know you will—and give her the $5,000;
she will invest it and live on the interest
till £ come!

me,

so

voice in

longer saw

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When Mary again saw Olivia she was
silenced by the deathliness of her face—
some terrible thing had happened; she
dared not ask what it was.

*“*‘Come,’’ she said, more tenderly than
she had spoken in her whole life, ‘‘let
us hurry home to your children!”

Her children! Ah, they were not her

children any more! Another woman
would come to them to-morrow—the
woman who was their mother! And
then the first bitterness passed away.
For the children’s sake, she must let
this woman, who was her enemy,
make her life desolate—if Charles had

killed an innocent man, had injured his
wife’s reputation, it was a fearful thing

—she must not be selfish—she must wel-

come this woman, no matter what it
cost her.
When she reached home the children

greeted her rapturously.
‘“‘We are all ready, aunty!” they cried.
It was their day to go to the park with

 

  

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*‘aunty.”
heart. This would be their last day to-
gether; to-morrow their own mother
would come.
memorable one for them.

After passing several! hours in the park |

they took the train for Cliff House. The
children wild with delight; they
played in the sand, paddled in the water,
listened to wonderful stories told them

were

by their always charming aunty.

‘‘Now we will go to Cliff House and
get glasses and louk at the sea,” she said.
Soon each child was armed with field
glass and Olivia sat
chatter. Presently
came out the restaurant. Olivia
noted them carelessly—the men wore
long coats and rakish eaps; the women
were painted and bleached; all were
laughing boisterously. They sat down
at one of the tables and ordered beer.

“J say, Lucy, think of Min playing
the maternal,’’ cne of the men called out.

“Shut up, Billy,”? one of the women
answered. ‘Let me forget it to-day.
Think of me with a brat almost as tall as
Iam! Let me be happy to-day; to-mor-
row | must be proper and prim, so as to
make up to the old maid. It’s a pity she
hadn’t got Charlie herself.”

Olivia hurried the children away.
This, then, was the woman Charlie
Graves had jilted her for; this painted
creature was the mother of his children.
She was possessed by a fierce indigna-
tion. When she reached home she sent
for George Seibel.

‘*‘l was on my way to you,”’ he said, a

a
listening to
a party of people
of

happy determination lighting up his
face, making it almost handsome. “I

want to tell you that 1 love you—won’t
you be my wife, Olivia?”

Her answer was to tell him the story
of her love for Charles Graves.

When she had finished it all, she broke
down and began to ery.

George Seibel put his arm tenderly
around her and stroked her hair.

‘“‘I was your friend before L became

your lover, Olivia,’? he said kindly.
“Will you have me for your friend
again?’’

His advice was that she should receive
Mrs. Charles Graves into her house and
give her a part of the $5,000 Charles had
intrusted her with. Olivia had never
told him of her successful speculations.
She had kept it as surprise for him!
Mrs. Charles Graves was to be given
$1,000 and the rest promised to her be-
fore her husband left San Quentin.
When Seibel ieft Olivia she felt strangely

comforted.
The next day Mrs. Charles Graves ar-

rived. Her meeting with Olivia and her
children was extremely theatrical. She
fell upon her knees, hugged the children
and called them beautiful darlings. The
children seemed relieved when she said:

‘‘Now run away, my darlings. 1 must
talk to your charming friend.”’

As they left the room she said: ‘‘Dear-
est Miss Fleet, I am the frankest woman
alive! 1 don’t mind telling you that
children make me nervous, so if you
don’t mind, just keep on looking after
My sweet darlings as if I had never
come; and now to business. When will
you get the money, dearest, Charlie gave
you to keep for me? The sooner | get it
the better!”

“1 can only get $1,000 of it immediate-
ly,’? Olivia answered coidly, trying so
hard tu keep down ber indignation; ‘the
rest is invested; you can have the inter-
est of it when it is due.”’

A pang shot through Olivia’s |

She must make the day a/

their |

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

‘*‘But vou are to give the entire $5,000
to me; my husband says so,’’ Mrs. Charles

| answered, imperiously.
|

| from to-day,’’ Olivia said firmly.
“Oh, well, I will have to wait, then;
| meanwhile I shall make myself entirely

;athome. I am immensely fond of so-
| ciety, I am always surrounded by
| friends. I hope you will like my friends

|—you are sure to—they are perfectly
lovely,” Mrs. Charles rattled on.

That evening the “friends” began to
}come and Olivia’s house was changed
into a scene of wildest merriment and
debauch. Night after night there was
singing, dancing, wine drinking—night
after-night Mrs. Charles went staggering
to bed. At first Olivia remonstrated
with her kindly for the children’s sake.
Then she showed her indignation and
declared that if she did not mend her
ways Mrs. Charles must leave her house.

“Oh, very well!’ Mrs. Charles an-
swered. *‘Get my children ready; we will
leave immediately. We have no desire
to intrude upon you.”’

The thought of having the children
go with this creature filled Olivia with
horror. She begged Mrs. Charles to re-
main where she was.

The first visitor's day after Mrs.
Charles arrived Olivia had prepared a
basket to be taken to Charles Graves.

‘Don’t trouble yourself, dearest Miss
Fleet,” Mrs. Charles had said. “I will
see that my husband has all he desires.
He won’t need you, now that I have
come. Dear Charlie! How he adores
me!”

Time passed very slowly for poor
Olivia, but at last the six months passed
and the day upon which Charles Graves
was to leave the prison came.

Early that morning Mrs. Charles had
secured the rest of the $5,000.

“Shall I go with you to San Quentin
to welcome Charlie?’ Olivia said to her.

“Oh, no! he would rather have me, I
think,’”? she had answered. So Olivia
contented herself with making the
house look beautiful and talking to the
children.

“If papa’s like mamma he had better
stay where he is,’’? Charlie said, some-
what stolidly.

At 2 o’clock Olivia went out for awhile;
something had been forgotten in the
marketing. When she returned Mrs.
Charles had departed, leaving the follow-
ing note:

“I never really intended to live with
him. I am divorced already. I leave
him to your tender mercies.”

it was 4 o’clock; Charles was to leave
San Quentin at 7. Olivia sent for George
Seibel.

‘Don’t fret, Olivia,’’? he said, kindly;
“it was really the best thing she could
have done!”

‘But think of poor Charles,” Olivia
said, tearfully.

‘We will go to him and help him face
the worid; we will bring him home to
his ehildren,’’ he said.

When Charles Graves met them his first
question was:

‘‘Where is Minnie?”’

“She did not come. Let us hurry, Mr.
Graves, your children are expecting you
every minute,’”’ Seibel answered quickly.

Charles Graves said no more until be
reached home. Just outside the house
he stopped and said:

“I knew everything. 1 knew it when I

 

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would have been more merciful to have
told me before—oh, why didn’t you come
toseeme? How miserably long the past
six months were!”’

“Your wife told me she would go,”’
Olivia cried.

“Come, Graves, your children are only
a step away; come to them,” Seibei inter-
posed.

While the sad-hearted man was being
embraced by his children Seibel called
Olivia into another room:

‘‘Good-by, Olivia. Then for the East

early to-morrow,” he said.

“But you will return,’’ Olivia said
quickly.

“Not soon,” he answered. ‘‘Graves

is free to marry you and he surely will
do it.’’

Suddenly Olivia realized that she had
only been dreaming of love all these years,
and that her dream was an empty one.
There was only a great pity in her heart
for Charles Graves, a pity that was not
in the least akin to love. She went up
close to George Seibel.

‘‘Come very soon,” she said.
want to marry anyone but you.”

Of course, Seibel didn’t go at all. In a
few weeks there was a quiet wedding
and then Graves left California. He re-
fused to take a cent over his passage

money.

‘Keep it for my children, if you will,”
he said.

The children remained with ‘ Olivia
till they were grown, and the last
time I saw Seibel he was proudly dis-
playing little Charlie’s first baby as ‘‘my
grandson.’’ M. G. T. STEMPEL.

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The English Cheese Market.

The London Grocer, editorially review-
ing the cheese situation, says:

‘There can be no doubt that one cause
of the lukewarmness and indifference in
the home demand for cheese this season
has been the damp and unsettled weather
which has prevailed during the summer
months, marring all outdvor pleasures
and work-a-day pursuits, and nipping the
consumption of cheese, both by rich and
poor, just at a time when it is supposed
to be at its hight. Another circumstance
which should be taken into account in
considering what has operated unfavora
bly upon the market this year is that the
upprecedented cheapness and abundance
of frozen mutton from the antipodes have
greatly interfered with the use of cheese
amongst consumers. It has, besides, to
be borne in mind that the copious rain-
fall in most dairying countries has been
productive of an unusually rapid and ex-
tensive growth of grass, which has been
followed by an extraordinary yield of
milk, butter and cheese, and the make’ of
the latter staple commodity has been ex-
ceptionally large in this country, as well
asin Holland and Canada and the Ameri-
can states. English cheese having be-
come the cheapest, has often gained the
preference over the kinds generally
bought and speculated in on ‘e. i. f.’
terms; and Dutch makes, offering at rea-
sonable figures, have been in active com-
petition with the dearer importations
from New York and Montreal. Austra-
lian and New Zeeland cheese have like-
wise played an important part in giving
an impetus to business where it .eemed
to hang fire, either by promoting an ad-
vance or by accelerating a decline; and
from the highest prices paid for the best
parcels in May, viz., 60s to 62s per cwt.,
the value lately has descended to 50s
and 48s; part of the drop here shown,
however, being ascribable to the deter-
ioration in the quality of the more recent
consignments; but the influence of colo-
nial cheese on the market as a whole will
not be perceptibly felt until next spring,
when arrivals of new will probably again
occur and conveniently take the place of
other sorts, which as a rule are at that
period of the year running out of stock.”

——— >a

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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The Putnam Candy Co. quoter as follows:

STICK CANDY.

  
 

 

   

Cases Bbis. Pails,
Stemderd, per Ip:......... 6% i*%
“ ae... 6% ih”
' oe .......... 6% 7%
Boston Cream ... =. oo
cmt toat............... : 9
aan el. lhl. CS
MIXED CANDY.

Bbls, Pails
ee 5% 6%
eee 5% 6%
ee. 7% 8
Tey 8%
Pore ore... C.,.,...... 7% 8%
ee 8%
mroeen Taney... baskets 8%
FeanusSquares............ “ 9
French Croams.......... 9%
cores Cee. : 134%,
moet, See oes. 9
Sars lL oo

Pancy—In bulk
‘ Pails
Eouemees Oe 9
ni ee. 9%
ees... 13
Chocolate Momumentale..................... 13
ae... 5%
ae. 8
or ree 8%
TT
PaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box
bomen Die... 55
ae 55
Poeecsmes eees,..... 60
Couper ere... 5
me M cmoestate Drops ...... ..... 2... 60
ee 40@50
Eoorece ee 1 00
-. &. Cees ees... 8 ae 80
eee eee 65
printed.... wee tee reece eee ee 65
ee 60
eee 70
Crema Oar... et eee tee ee
ee ee 55
Heme Meade Croames..... ................. 85@95
ae.
POence teen 90
ee eee t5
burnt Almonds.. ee
Wumerprean Berrieg. |. 60
CARAMELS.
Ne, 1, wrapped, 2%. bombs. .......... ...... 34
No. 1, [ 3 ee 51
No. 2 se 2 ss 28
ORANGES,

Fancy Brights, 150, 176, 200, 216 ..... . .... 3 3
Golden Russets. 1.0, 176, 200, 216. ......... 3 00
LEMONS.
rer ee 3 50
xtra fancy 260, Sorrentos.................. 4 56
Extra Fancy 30¢ Maioras.... .... oe ee nee oe 7 00

BANANAS. 1
Large bunches.... . ee ee cere deseo. 175
Smet Damehes............ 2... 8 OR SO
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Pion, fancy eyes, BB... 15
si a
* exira . =.........,...
Dates, Pard, 03h. bax... @s8
- ee @

- Perce. S26. Sex... @ 5%
' Lio 7
NUTS.

Almeomis, Tacragoma.................... @15
. voce... - on
i California... @
Breasts. neow.......... @8
ee @10
ees, Gromer... @iz
ia Pronen......., bee @i0
. Cam... Sede eet @i2%
ene Wee temey.... @11%
' een. @10
Pocans, Toms, 1 P., ......... eee 6@T™%
ee 4 00
Hickory Nuts per bu.......
ocean, Titi anems ............ .....
NUTS.
Pandy. H. P..dune |... ee
iy 7 eee ae
Pansy, 5. F Pian... |. @ 5%
[ 7 | emebod, Oz
Cnesce, , P., Extras... @ 4%
. ' " moeweee ....... @ 6
FRESH MEATS,
BEEP,
corre ke 5 @6
Pere Geeterm 344@ 4%
Sea GURTOCTS. 8, . 6 @e
Poe ee - 8 G10
ee 6 @&
eee -5 @6
CRUCES 220-04 ..0.. a < mere oes. GD OE
Oe 3 @3%
PORK.
ee 6
ee ees 8
Shoulders ee ee 6
eee 9
MUTTON.
eee ee 4 @5
ona a 54@ 6%
VEAL,
NN 6 @iT%%

   

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

WRONG CONCLUSIONS,

 

}

Based on Erroneous and Misleading |
Statements.

Henry Clews, speaking in his last cir- |
cular of the heavy gold draughts being |
made on the national treasury for ship-
ment abroad, says:

There is likely to be a much more ac-
tive demand for gold in Europe than has
been experienced for many months past.
Egypt will call for some £2.000,000, in|
payment for her cotton crop; Brazil has
a call upon a considerable sum in pay-
ment for her large exports of coffee; the
British provinces and Scotland are ex-
pected to forthwith draw largely upon
the Bank of England; and Austria-Hun-
gary is ready to seize every convenient
opportunity to complete her new cur-
rency scheme. It is quite possible, there-
fore, that, before the end of the year, we
may need to increase our exports of mer-
chandise if we are te escape exports of
gold.

While the situation, according to Mr.
Clews, is sufficiently grave, the com-
ments of the Evening Press, of this city,
on the eminent financier’s words are en-
tirely unwarranted, It says:

What Mr. Clews says is quite possible
will undoubtedly come to pass if the
needs of Europe are as he represents
them. When the old countries need
gold they invariably come to this coun-
try to getit. The policy adopted by the
treasury department gives them ready
access to whatever there is on hand, and
if that is not enough to meet their re-
quirements bonds will be issued to secure
it. In no other country on the globe
does the government thus lend itself to
the assistance of foreign money sharps
who seek to drain away its circulating
medium.

The finance editor of the Press has
overlooked the a. b. c. of his business.
The ‘‘needs of Europe” have no connec-
tion with the present outflow of gold.
The trouble is that the balance of trade
has been against us for some time, and,
instead of making an exchange of com-
modities, this country has been com-
pelled to pay for its importations in gold.
If our people want foreign goods, and
foreigners do not want our goods in sufti-
cient quantities to balance accounts, we
must pay the balance in gold, the only
kind of money issued by this country
that is of any value in foreign countries.
Just so soon as our exports exceed our
imports, just so soon will the golden
stream be turned and flow back to this
country. Superimposed upon the ter-
rible panic from which the country is
only now beginning to emerge, was the
long-drawn-out tariff discussion which
resulted in almost a complete paralysis
of industrial production. Exports were
small because there was little to export;
importations fell off very little if any,
and any schoolboy should know the nat-
ural resuit of such acondition. Added
to the fact of the balance of trade being
against us is the further fact—which
must not be lost sight of—that we are a
debtor nation. Our indebtedness to for-
eign nations is over one thousand mil-
lion dollars. Interest on this debt must
be paid in gold, and, as fast as any por-
tion of it matures, it must also be paid in
gold; the Government has no alternative.
Not a dollar of the paper held by foreign-
ers can be paid in silver. The white
metal is worth about 63 cents an ounce
in New York, and that would be the
valuation of American silver coin in any
foreign country. To pay the country’s
liabilities to foreigners in silver would

 

be practical repudiation and be taken as
an indication of bankruptcy. The Press|

: a
says that, if there is not enough gold in|

the treasury ‘‘to meet their (foreigners’) |

requirements, bonds will be issued to se-
cure it.” In other words, when the gold
in the treasury is exhausted, other bonds
will be issued for the purpose of raising
gold; these must also be paid in gold,
and so on ad infinitum. The financial
editor of the Press is not the Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States.
The Government does not ‘insist
paying out gold for paper which specific-

upon

ally calls for silver,” if the ‘paper’ re-

ferred to is held by foreigners. Foreign

money lenders would not take a dollar of |

our paper if they knew it was to
paid in silver, except at a ruinous dis-
count. They know at least much
about finance as the Press writer.
payments are always expected and in-
sisted upon. ‘In no other country on
the globe does the government thus lend
itself,’’? ete. All other countries on the
globe does just that if they are buyers of
foreign goods or borrowers of foreign
money, or how does it happen that, when
our exports exceed our imports, gold
flows into, instead of out of, the country ?
Mr. Clews says, ‘‘Egypt will call for some
£2,000,000 for payment for the cotton
crop.’’ The countries which use Egyp-
tian cotton must pay Egypt in gold,
which is what the Press says no other
country but this dees.

The only way by which silver can be
utilized as a medium of exchange be-
tween the various trading nations is by
international agreement. Until such an
agreement is reached gold will continue
to be the circulating medium between
the nations. No one can doubt or over-
estimate the expediency and value of
such an arrangement, and every well-
wisher of his country will earnestly de-
sire its consummation.

DANIEL ABBOTT.
~~ 2.

as

How To Avoid Sleeplessness.

Do you lie awake at night and anathe-
matize the man who first suggested the
connection between’ sleepiness and
guilty consciences? Have you counted
ail the clocks in the house striking all
the hours of the night, at different times?
Have you tried to fix your mind on
something impersonal and failed? And
have you finally come to the conclusion
that there were many arguments in favor
of the chloral habit?

If you have done all these things, of
course the indications are that you need
a doctor. Butitis not always convenient
to summon a physician at 1 o’clock in
the morning simply because you can’t
sleep. It is better to read, work and
learn a few cures for insomnia which
you may try over night, and see a
physician in the morning.

If you fear a sleepless night undress in
the dark. Light stimulates and arouses
the activities. Darkness is supposed to
produce drowsiness. Put chopped ice
in a rubber bag and place it at the lower
extremity of the spine. This is partic-
ulary quieting to the nerves. Do not
use anything buta rubber bagor you
will merely have a damp cloth and
rheumatism by morning.

Do not use a pillow. Relax every
mus¢le so far as it is possible. Sprawl
over the bed with arms and legs stretched
out. Take a sponge bath with tepid
water before going to bed.

Lie on your face instead of on your
back. That is the way babies sleep, and
their methods are searcely to be im-
proved upon in this particular. All
pressure is removed from the spine by

this means, and ‘a delicious feeling of |

restfulness ensues.

Make up your mind that you want to! —
keep awake long enough to hear some |
one come in, or to outline the next day’s |
drop asleep immedi- |

work. You will

ately.
—_-—-> +>

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Gold |

be |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leap INTO THE Loicut

by discarding the antiquated business methods of the past and
abandoning the cash registers of a former age and adopting in
their place up-to-date methods and a cash register adapted to
the wants of the merchant of to-day. Such a cash register is
the CHAIIPION, which is hailed witb delight and approval
by the trade everywhere as one of the mechanical marvels of
the age. The superiority of the CHAMPION over every
other register ever invented is conceded at a glance, as it is the
only register which enables the merchant to keep an accurate
account of the sales ot each clerk or an itemized record of the
transactions of each departm: nt, or both.

As progressive merchants and shrewd business men, the
officers of the Parker & Fleming Co. take rank with fancy

Read their opinion of the CHATPION

grocers anywhere.
cash register:

PARKER & FLEMING CO.,
Jobbers and Retailers of,
PURE FOOD PRODUCTS.
JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 16, 1894.
CHAMPION CASH REGISTER Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.:

GENTLEMEN—When we opened our branch store in the new Library block last
month, we purchased one of your cash registers for use in that store, and find it a
great satisfaction to be able to check over each day’s transactions and know just
what each clerk is doing. We have examined several other kinds of registers, but
have not seen anything that would do our work as satisfactorily as the Champion.

We take great pleasure in recommending it.

Yours truly,
PARKER & FLEMING Co.,
D. S. Fleming, See’y and Treas.

(23"Every essential feature of the CHAMPION is fully protected by patents
owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Kegister Co. Users will be protected
and infringements wil] not be allowed.

{Merchants desiring to inspect our Register are requested to drop us a ecard,
so that one of our agents can call when in the dealer’s yicinity. It will cost noth-
ing to see the machine and have its merits explained.

Manufactured only by

Champion Gash Register Co

Grand Rapids, [lich.

 

 

 

 

 

LEE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

  

AROUND THE STATE.

MERCHANTS.
meat dealer at

MOVEMENTS OF
Hersey—J. C. Meagher,
this place, is dead. '
Jones—B. S. Reed has removed his dry
goods stock from Cassopolis to this place.
Hudson—Garrison & Garrison. grocers:
have dissolved, A. 1. Garrison succeed-
ing.

Hancock—Wendell & Schulte have pur-
chased the general stock of W. H. Rob-
erts.

Birmingham—Mudge & Allen are sue-
ceeded by F. J. Kinnisten in the bakery
business.

Homer—Burgess & Dowker succeed H.
L. Cook the grocery and restaurant
business.

Jonesville—W.
E. Taylor in the
business.

Bay City—Geo. H. Shearer, of F. H.
Shearer & Co., wholesale and retail jew-
elers, is dead.

Midland—Mack, Whipple & Co. succeed
Frank Mack in the dry goods and boot
and shoe business.

Whitehall—Dallas Johnson has opened
ameat market at the location recently |
vacated by Fred Herren.

Lowell—Having failed to secure a

in

H. Taylor succeeds W.
restaurant and bakery

}

| .
Saginaw—Schuette & Co., who re- | Jardine, and their efforts were entirely

| cently purchased the Hoyt planing mill | successful. Mr. Rogers served with dis-

| plant, have a large force of men at work
putting the buildings in shape, and new
machinery will be put in.
Jackson—The broom factory of S. W.
| Phillips has been purehased by the
| Crown Paper Co., which will hereafter
| operate itin connection with its paper
| warehouse, and both concerns will be
| enlarged.

South Manistique—Hall & Buell in-
tend cutting 17,000,000 feet of pine this
winter for next season’s sawing. The
firm’s mill at that point will have turned
out 10,000,000 feet of lumber at the close
of the season.

Manistee—Notwithstanding the re-
moval of the duty on salt, the Michigan
Salt Association has recently raised the
price 5 cents a barrel, and a large quan-
tity is being shipped out daily. R. G.
Peters evidently has faith in the future,
as he has just let a contract for a new
well, on which work has begun, and
which he hopes to have pumping by the
time the mills open in the spring. This
will make six wells at his plant at East-
lake, where, with his present capacity,
he turns out over 2,000 barrels of salt
everyday.

Lansing—Greatly to the regret of all

 

compromise with their creditors, the C.
G. Stone & Son dry goods stock will be
sold at sale by the assignee
Nov. 8.

Biteley—Reynolds & Nason, who have
been engaged in the shingle mill and
grocery business at this place, have dis- |
solved. The business will be continued
by J. B. Nason.

Kalamazoo—M. S. Scoville will open a|
meat market in connection with his gro- |
cery store. Those who know the owner
will need no assurance as to the quality
of meat he will! handle.

St. Charles—J. H. Hammill kas pur-
chased a half interest in the grocery
stock of Willis & Co. The business will |
be continued at the same location under)
the same firm name, giving special atten |
tion to the purchase and sale of country |
produce and fruits.

public

 

Nashville—A. J. Reynolds has sold his
interest in the grocery stock of Brumm
& Reynolds to his partner, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of P.
H. Brumm. The retiring partner will |
devote his entire attention to the wagon
and carriage business established by his
father, the late B. F. Reynolds.

; appropriate sufficient funds

concerned the State Board of Agriculture
has decided that the dairy school estab-
lished last season by Prof. Clinton D.
Smith must remain simply a butter school
another season, owing to the lack of a
building suitable for intruction in cheese-
making. An earnest appeal will be made
to the Legislature the coming winter to
to erect a
building adapted for the purpose of a
dairy school, in which event the eurricu-
Jum will be augmented so as to inelude
courses of instruction in cheesemaking
as well as buttermaking. The work of
Prof. Smith is already productive of ex-
cellent results and all true friends of
dairying should rally to his support in this

matter.
OO

MEN OF MARK.

Wm. J. Rogers, Secretary of the New
York Condensed Milk Co.

Wm. J. Rogers was born in the City of

New York, May 23, 1843. He was edu-

cated in the public schools in the city of

| his nativity, attending school until nearly

18 years of age. About that time came
Lincoln’s eall for **75,000 volunteers.’’
In April, 1861, young Rogers enlisted in
the famcus 9th New York regiment of

 

Crystal—C. S. Baker has sold his drug
stock to A. Lee Smith, who formerly con-
ducted the drug business at the an
stand for several years. As Mr. Smith |
is attending medical lectures at Detroit,
the business is being managed in his ab- |
sence by Henry Phillips, formerly en- |
gaged in the drug business at Middleton. |

Detroit—The James Nall Co., organ- |
ized for the purpose of manufacturing |
and selling furniture and house furnish-
ing goods, has filed articles of association
with the county clerk. The capital stock
is $7,500, all of which is represented to
have been paid in. The incorporators |
are James Nall, Edwin B. Nall and |
Daniel T. Smith.

|
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MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Alma—Tinker & Lancashire succeed
Tinker, Lancashire & Co. in the maufac- |
ture of sash, doors, biinds, ete. |

Menominee—The name of the Detroit |

Lumber Co. has been changed to —)

inee Saw Mill Co.

volunteers, better known as Hawking’
Zouaves. This regiment distinguished
itself in many battles, particularly at
Roanoke Island and Antietam, in which
latter engagement it lost 67 per cent. of
its members. Col. Hawkins, its com-
mander, was one of the bravest and most
daring officers in the service, and he
was backed and emulated by every man
in his command. The brilliancy and
dash with which they ‘‘went at” their
work, their unflinching courage and de-
termination under fire, made them a ter-
ror to their enemies. At the expiration
of the term of service for which they had
enlisted, Capt. Rogers and his company
returned to New York and he was soon
actively engaged in the organization of
another company to go to the front with
a new regiment. The celebrated New
York riots broke out about this time,
and the new regiment volunteered their

services for the purpose of quelling the |

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tinction until the close of the war, and
about a year after its close, in 1866, he as-
sisted and was chiefly instrumental in
organizing the first regiment of militia,
which was composed of volunteers who
had served in the army and had been
honorably discharged. This regiment
was known as the ‘First Regiment of
Volunteers, State Militia, Hawkins’
Zouaves,’? and became one of the best
drilled and most orderly in the service.
It served the State ten years and was
then disbanded. Shortly after being
mustered out of the service, Mr. Rogers
entered the employ of the New York
Condensed Milk Co., with which busi-
ness he has ever since been identified.
He has been connected more particularly

 

with the sales department, superintend.
ing the placing of the entire product of
the company. His advancement, which
was undoubtedly due to the recognition
on the part of his associates of- his
ability, integrity and sound judgment,
was rapid from the start, until, in 885,
he was elevated to the position of Secre-
tary of the company. Such an office in a
business of such magnitude requires ex-
ecutive ability of the highest order, and
the fact that he was advanced to the
place is the best evidence that he pos-
sesses the requisite ability. A record of
thirty years’ connection with one house
unusual, and is testimony that the
value of his services is appreciated, and
that the company has made no mistake
is seen in the fact that its business is in-
creasing rapidly from year to year.

Personally, Mr. Rogers is a gentleman
of marked individuality. Heis a man of
strong likes and dislikes, but manages to
acquire about as many friends as any
man in trade, and it isa noteworthy fact
that the friends he makes he seldom
loses. He is a man of marvelous discern-
ment and intuition, reading men at a
glance as easily as many people read a
book and forming conclusions of men and
methods which invariably prove to be
correct. Broad guage in his ideas and
far-reaching in his methods, Mr. Rogers
has achieved a success of which any man
might well be proud and there is every
reason for believing that the future has
in store for him added honors and posi-
tions of trust.

The Dry Goods Market.

Manufacturers of cotton goods are
catching up with their orders and do not
anticipate any further changes in prices
until January.

Dress flannels and tricots remain scarce
and are hard to get in some colors.

Cambrics have declined }4e, due large-

Is

riots. They were led by the late Gen. | ly to competition among manufacturers.

 

 

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PRODUCE MARKET,
Apples—There seems to beno end to the sup
ply of this staple fruit. Buyers in the country
report the quantity of unpicked as enormous
New York, Maine and other Eastern States are
shipping their fruit West ata price which makes
our dealers tired —they cannot compete with it.
The market for American apples is extremely
dull, with little prospect of a revival, and, alto
gether, the outlook for the remainder of the
crop is far from encouraging. Dealers here say
they cannot get more than $2 per bbl. for prime
Winter stock and this hardly lets them out even.
Beans—Are lower than for several years. Lo-
cal handJers are buying at outside points and
report the supply as undiminished. They can
get all they want at $1@1.15 per bu , and even at
those figures some of them have stopped buying.
An uueasy feeling pervades the market, caused
by the uncertainty as tothe amount of foreign
competition which will have to be met on ac
count of the decreased duty. If the influx of
Canadian beans should be large, the price is
likely to go still lower; otherwise it is thought
that bottom has been reached.
Butter—Best dairy is scarce and higher.
held at 1i8@20c. Creamery, 23 p24.
Beets—Washed bring Sue per bu. on the mar-
ket; unwashed .5c.
Cabbage—The market price is 30e per doz. for
small and medium and 50¢ for large.
Cauliflowers—sel! on the market at 75e per
doz. Very fine bring $1.20,
Celery—Is held by dealers at 12% @15¢ per doz,
Egg Plant—The market price is 81 per doz.
Eggs—Firm at 17@18e per doz.
Grapes—Concords (home-grown) are held by

It is

| dealers at 17¢ per 8-1b basket. Niagaras, 18c.

tuce—Grocers pay 10¢ per Ib

Onions—Yeilow Danyers have fallen to 25e per
bu. and are likely to go lower. A peculiar feat-
ure of the market this season is that Consumers
wantreds and apparently have determined to
take no others. This has had the effect of hold.
ing the price of reds up and they are 10¢ higher
than Danvers. If the market is not to be glutted
with reds the price must come down.

Parsnips—Grocers pay 40gale per bt.

Parsley—Is held by growers at 2. @z5e per doz.

Peppers—Atout out of the market. They
bring 5ve per bu.

Potatoes—What Tue TrapE-MaN said a few
weeks ago concerning the big yield is now being
verified Reports from all over the country
are to the effect that the yield is fully equal to
last year and the acreage much greater. Some
sections report the tubers to be of poor quality,
but, generally, the ouly fault found is that they
ure loo green to ship. Wherethe tops have not
been injured by the frost, the potatoes are still
srowing,waich will continue until cold weather
puts an end to it. Growers are se.ling freely
at 30@5ve per bu., aud the prospect is that before
long the peoyle will again be treated to 25¢ pota-
toes. The prophets were not‘ in it” this year at
least.

Pears—Californias bring $1@1.25 per box.

Quinces—Dealers hold them at $1 per bu.

 

 

Radishes—Grocers pay 8Q!0c per doz,

Sweet Potatoes—Jersey’s prime stock, are held
by dealers at 70¢c per bu.

Squash—The mar. et price is 1@1 %C per lb.

Tomatoes—Are slow saie at 80 @4Ue per bu.

Turnips—Washed are sold on the market for
30¢c per bu.

Vegetable Oysters—Grocers pay 20@25c per
doz. r

 

Henry J. Vinkemulder,

JOBBER OF

Fruits and Vegetables,

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

 

We have some very nice Red and Yel-
low Onions. If you ean use a carload

 

 

 

ean make you alow price. Quote you
Fancy Yellow Onions at 45e per bu.
Fancy ked Onions 45e per bu. No. i
Winter Apples $2 per bbl. No. 2 Winter
Apples $1.75 per bbl. Fancy Jersey
Sweet Potatoes $2.25 per bbl. Cabbage
30 to 40e per doz. Home-grown celery
15¢ per doz.

if you have any Fresh Eggs to offer,
please quote us price.

Favor us with your orders, they will
always have our prompt and careful at-
tention and benefit of any decline in

' prices.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHH MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN.

5

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

The Musselman Grocer Co. has fur-
nished a new grocery stock to Johnson &
Kaiser, the new grocery firm at Cad-
illae.

Herman Jahn, hardware dealer at
Emma, Ind., has added a line of gro-
ceries. The Musselman Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

Dr. Isaac Watts has sold his drug
stock at 1213 South Division street to
John G. Jackson, who has removed it
to 115 West Bridge street.

Miss Mary Lankester has opened
dry goods store on the corner of East
Bridge and North Lafayette streets. P.
Steketee & Sons furnished the stock.

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tiley Devine has opened a grocery and
shoe store at Douglass. The Olney & Jud-
son Grocer Co.
and the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co.
the boots and shoes.

furnished the groceries

supplied

E. F. Brucker, formerly a member of

the merchandise brokerage firm’ of
Brucker & Gehlert, of Detroit, has re-
moved to this city and embarked in the

brokerage business. His office is in the
Michigan Trust Co. building.

Birt Lackey has sold his interest in
the stock of Kline & Lackey, grocers at
183 Broadway, to his partner, who will
continue the business at the loca-
tion under the style of Mrs. Ida Kline.
Mr. Lackey will remove to Texas and
enter the employ of a lumber firm.

Albert Coye, who came to this city
from Rochester, N. Y., in 1854 and em-
barked in the manufacture of awnings,
tents and sails, died at the family resi-
dence at 88 Turner street Sunday, as the
culmination of many years’ suffering
from asthma. Deceased was a man of
excellent character and habits, a leader
in church and temperance work, caring
only for the applause of his own soul.
Generous to a fault, loyal to his friends
and absolutely without enemies, de-
ceased pursued the even tenor of his
way without exciting the admiration of
the world, outside of the immediate cir-
cle in which he moved, but leaves the
world better for having lived in it.

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Gripsack Brigade.

C. W. Caskey, founder of the Petoskey
Furniture Co., is now traveling on the
road for that corporation.

Geo. A. Newhall (1. M. Clark Grocery
Co.) has returned from Boston, where he
attended the and funeral of
his sister.

The Michigan Vapor Stove Co. already
the
orders for next season’s delivery—Chas.
L. Comey in the East and W. H. Gardner
in the West.

F. S. Dresskell, has covered this
territory for the past eight years for
the Chatfield & Woods Co., of Cinein-
nati, has resigned his position, to take
effect January 1. Geo. F. Kenney, Pres-
ident of the Mosher-Burgess Paper. Co.,
of Chicago, has tendered his resignation,
to take effect at the same time, when the
two will form a copartnership under the
style of Dresskell & Kenney and embark
in the commission paper business at De-
troit, The firm will carry no stock, but
will handle the product of several mills,
shipping the goods direct from the mills.
Both gentlemen are popular salesmen
and will, undoubtedly, meet with de-
served success.

same

 

deathbed

has two men out on road soliciting

who

 

D. H. Powers, the portrait artist, has
painted a portrait of Geo F. Owen,
heroie size, which will be on exhibition
in THE TRADESMAN Office until the De-
cember convention of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, when it will be
transferred to Lockerby Hall, to assist
his candidacy for the Seeretaryship.
The artist has idealized his subject and
all who have seen the portrait are warm
in praise of the skill of the artist in de-
picting the sang froid characteristic of the
subject. The portrait is the personal
contribution of Mr. Powers and John
Smythe to the canvass of Mr. Owen and
it will, undoubtedly, contribute in no
small degree to his success at the con-

vention.
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Objects to the Other Fellow’s Slate.
ed

JACKSON, Oct. 27. THE TRADESMAN
came to hand this week, as it always
does, and IL noticed a communication
from my friend Reynolds, of Saginaw,
and in reading it over came to the same
conclusion of what I have heard a num-
ber of the boys say this week—that, as
Siginaw had completed the State ticket
forthe Michigan Knights of the Grip,
there would be no necessity of hulding
the annual meeting at Grand Rapids.
Now, in justice to the members at large,
I think this slate making all wrong, and
out of place. Every post has aright to
select some candidate for some position
and present the same at the annual meet-
ing for the consideration of the econven-
tion. Now, my friend from Saginaw has
had the position of Treasurer several
years. Why would it not be a good time
for him to step ont and jet some other
good member from Saginaw take the po-
sition? My adviee to the Association is
to make the offices of Secretary and
Treasury one. This would save our As-
sociation between one and two hundred
dollars each year; and the prospects are
strong that it will be done. Then Bro.
Reynolds can make the run for President
if he has not pledged himself to some
one else. Last year a slate was made
and broken and that same slate lost us
several members and made hard feelings
between two Posts. Let us avoid these
things and go to Grand Rapids unpledged
and there vote for those men who we
think are best fitted for the different
offices. A. F. PRAKE.

nee i <i ———
Will Not See Detroit Disparaged.

SAGINAW, Oct. 24—It is evident that
the editor of the Saginaw News is not up
to the times in etiquette. If he were, he
would not so loudly praise the entertain-
ment given by the Saginaw K. of G. on
the occasion of the last annual meeting.
He says it was the best entertainment
which has yet been given. Probably he
did not attend the banquet of Post C, the
year before at Detroit. If he had been
present, he certainly would not have
given us the cut he has. We endeavored
to conduct our banquet in such a manner
that there would be no cause for ‘‘kicK-
ing,” and it seems to me that no commer-
cial traveler who has the interest of the
organization at heart would give us such
acut. No one hears any of the members
of Post C praising their work. Of course,
the whole State is fighting Detroit, but
you can rest assured that ‘‘she is up in
the front row where most of the bald
heads are to be seen,’’ and will not take
a back seat for any city for bospitality—
not even Saginaw. WiINby WILLIAMS.

i 2
Jackson Jottings.

Gould Bayliss has purehased the stoek
of groceries at the corner of First street
and Greenwood avenue from A. C.
Ranney and will continue the business.

Joseph Robinson, from Detroit, has
opened a grocery store on Lansing ave-
nue, near North street.

John Creek has putina stock of gro-
ceries at the corner of Lansing avenue
and North street.

The grocery firm of Allen & Morehouse,
on North Jackson street, has been dis-
solved, Mr. Morehouse retiring.

‘Important Decision Affecting Peddlers

{
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, Stevens & Co.’s this week and next.
grocers are invited to call and sample it. |

 

of Meat.

LANSING, Oct. 18—Attorney-General
Ellis has filed an opinion touching upon
an important feature of the law requiring
hawkers and peddlers to take out a State
license. The question was raised by
George P. Stone, a St. Louis attorney, on
behalf of a client and was referred tothe
Attorney-General by Deputy State Treas-
urer Howard. Mr. Stone contended that
the law was unconstitutional for the rea-
son that it put a restraint upon trade,
but the Attorney-General holds that the
tax is a specific one, which the Legisla-
ture has full authority toimpose. The
latter also holds that a farmer who raises
stock and butchers it hasa right to travel
through the country and sell it without
taking out a license, the meat then being
as purely a product of his farm as a
cereal is. It is held, however, that when
a farmer buys stock from others and then
butchers it he must take out the re-
quired license before selling it.

2 <-
From Credit to Cash and Coupon Books

TRAVERSE Ciry, Oct. 27—Enclosed
herewith find my cheek for $5, for which
kindly send me an assortment of coupon
books suitable for a merchant of my
standing.

Iam going to commence selling on a
strictly cash basis Nov. 1, and these
coupons are for those of my customers
who want to pay in advance. I shall
give a discount of 5 per cent. to all pur-
chasing books. I have demonstrated that
the cash system is the best in the coun-
try and I am confident I can do better
here by doing a cash business. I shall
publish it in our local papers and reduce
prices on some articles, and 1 am confi-
dent that in a year from now IL will have
just as much trade as I do now and shall
have contracted no poor accounts.

W. THURTELL.
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Purely Personal.

J. L. Taylor, the lonia grocer, was in
town Monday.

H. M. Gibbs, the Howard City drug-
gist, was recently married to an esti-
mable young lady of Detroit.

G. M. Harwood, the Petoskey druggist,
has been in town for a week, recruiting
his health. He will spend the next week
with friends in Detroit.

J. W. Milliken, the Traverse City dry
goods merchant, was in town a couple of
days last week on business for the Acme
Potato Planter Co., in which enterprise
he is a leading spirit.

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Hides and Pelts.

Hides—The feature of the
the scarcity of hides and the downward
tendency of prices. The tanners still
complain of high prices and are doing no
more buying than they are compelled to.
The loeal market is dull.
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The Drug Market.

Gum opium is decidedly firmer and ad-

vancing, with prospects of much higher

market is

prices.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
There are no other changes of impor-
tance to note.
_——__—>o>____—
From Out of Town.

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

J. H. Baker & Co., Cannonsburg.

John Pikaart, Brookside.

Maston & Hammond, Grandville.

J. W. Milliken, Traverse City.

J. L. Taylor, tonia.

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Dwinell, Wright & Co.’s Royal Java
and Mocha coffee is being served at the
exhibit of Majestic ranges at Foster,

This brand is controlled in this market
by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.

 

 

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, tobacco

Patent Eggs Denounced.
The Ohio State Food Commissioner has

declared that patent eggs shall not be
sold in the markets of that State, and

has seized a shipment of them in transit
from the manufacturer in New York to
a Cincinnati dealer. The dessicated
egg has sold at 45 cents per pound, and
one pound is equivalent to six dozen
eggs. The Commissioner’s chemist says
the albumen in the dessicated egg
obtained from the eggs of fish-eating sea
birds, which ean be seeured by the mil-
lion on the low” uninhabitable
aiong the Atlantie coast.
fit for food, and the albumen alone
taken from them in making dessicated
eggs. The patent egg is largely used
by hotels and bakeries.

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is

islands
They are not

Is

It is said that the government of Ja-
maica is likely soon to be entirely in the
hands of negroes. The attorney general
is a negro, and so are a large number of
the officials of the government.

The jaws of death that people are al-
ways being snatched from are partly sup-
plied by the talk of tiresome folks who
bore people to death with their jaw.

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. a

 

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and
one cent a word for each subsequent insertion
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents,
Advance payment. i

] )RICK STORE TO RENT: LIVING ROOMS
above; good trading polnt, surrounded by

good farming lands: abundance of fruit: rea-
sonable terms. Address A. L. Power, Kent City
Mich. 626
WYVANDED—A MAN WITH 000 READY
4 c4sh to take half interest in a well estab-
lished hardware business in a live town of 500
population. Good farming country, good trade

and no competition Address No, 625, care Mich
igan Tradesman. 625
OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS. OR HALF
interest in ssme. on one of the principal
streets in Grand Rapids New stock. good trade,
location Al. Address No. 624, care Michigan
Tradesman. 624
ETAIL MILK BUSINESS FOR SALE—THE
best route in a city of 45,600 inhabitants,
embracing the product of some 40 cows 2 good
wagons and 3 horses, toge her with cans and all
fixtures good will of the business, ete.: the
chance of a lifetime tomake money: good rea-
sons for selling. Address P. O. box 2:7, Fort
Wayne, Ind. 622
V JANTED—AGENT IN EVERY TOWN ID
Western Michigan forthe Palmer Laun-
dry. Strictly first-class work. Address A. J
Giddings. Prop., Grand Rapids, Mich 621 —
FINE

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

G REAT OPPORTUNITY—TO RE)
A storein Fenton, Mich. Best opportunity
for dry goods and notions in Mich. No store
now on south side of river. Address Lock Rox
96. Fenton. Mich. 623
i ARDWARE FOR SALE—A NICE CLEAN
stock, good opening and will inventory
$ 500 to $2.000. Address “Hardware” care of
Michigan Tradesman. 618
F IR SALE—A FULLY EQUIPPED SHINGLE
mill Perkins machinery, hayinga capacity
of 45,00) shingles per day, now in ope-ation.
Situated on a good streamand ina cheapshingle
timber district. First-class Huvett & Smith dry
kiln in connection. Will sell cheap for cash.
Good chance for mill man with some money.
teasons for selling given to one who means
business. Morse & Schneider, Seney, Mich. 620
WV ILL PAY CASH FOR STOCK OF CLOTH:
ing if price is right. Address Box 11¢6,
Jac Mich. 616
N TO SELL BAKING POWDER TO THE
. grocery trade Steady employment, ex-
perience unnecessary. $74 monthly and expen
ses orcom. If offer satisfactory address at once

 

with particulars concerning Yourself, U. &.
Chemical Works, Chicago, i 608 |
NREAT OFFER—FINE STOCK OF WALL

M 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 %2,5/0 to #3,°00, Address Mrs
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids F61
) PEIN MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE

the North side Planing Mill, which is first-
cClassin every respect, or will receive proposi-
tions to locate the business in some other thriv-
ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solie-
ited, Sheridan. Boyce & ‘‘o., Manistee, Mich. 612

JEARLY NEW B8AR-LOCK ‘TYPEWRITER
for sale at a great reduction from cost-
Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of
same make of machine, which we consider the
best on the market. Tradesman Company. 100
Louis St.. Grand Rapids. 554
was TED—* VERY DRUGGIST JUST
starting in business and every ore already
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you #15 you can now get for $4 Four-
teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company, Grand Rapids.

SITUATIONS WANTE::.

ANTED—POSITION AS CHEMIST OR
drug clerk by assist: nt pharmacist. Grad-
uate of Pharmacy School, Michigan University
degree Ph C. Single. Do not use liquor or
M. F. Nichols, 228 East Bridge St.,

Grand Rapids. 617

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Position of the Middleman.

Is he essential, or is he a tax on trade?

That’s one of the questions of the day.
If we are on any side of the question, we

jean to the side of the middleman. We

think the help he renders in the distri-
bution of commodities is greater than
the hindrances. Modern trade has
drifted into that way of doing business,
and the methods adopted by traders
—the new methods—are very apt to be
better than the ones they supplant.
Better ways are always in order, and
better things surely are in store for us,
to be found out and used, if we only act
reasonably and kindly.

From our reading and statistics it ap-
pears to be true that in the last decade
or two middlemen are on the increase
and the producers or makers are on the
decrease, not in every case, but in‘the
large majority of cases. See how the
business of the commercial travelers has
multiplied sinee its beginning a few
years ago. The numbers now out on the
road offering their wares is a big crowd,
and the money they spend each year is
on a big scale, as they travel over the
continent. They are everywhere buying
butter, beef and wool and hundreds of
other articles needed by consumers.
They are in every country store unpack-
ing and showing their goods. When the
inventor brings out a new good * thing,

agents are at work in every community |

bringing the producer and consumer
together and gathering in his commis-
sions for the work. Would it be well to
interfere with that helpful fellow as he
comes to our door with new, better and
cheaper things? We say give him a show.
If he works things out for the benefit of
the largest number he has come to stay.
There are some cases, of course, in
which some middlemen outwit and over-
reach us. Altogether, however, the
trade machine best adjusted and
works more smoothly with the middle
wheelin. Neither the farmer nor the coun-
try merchant is required, because of his
business, to travel long distances to
market. The market comes to him by

telephone and the middleman.
Gro. R. Scorr.

Is

_———-_a
His Own Worst Debtor.
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

The cause of many a failure, in the

dry goods line especially, has undoubt-
edly been the failure of the merchant to
keep his identity as a man and as a mer-
chant distinet and separate. It is so
easy to supply the want of one’s self and
family from one’s own store, so easy to
make presents to one’s relatives, so easy
to dress your wives and daughters ina
manner beyond your actual personal in-
come when the goods are simply trans-
ferred from your own stock to your own
home. How often has a merchant, in
trying to find out how it is that he has
such trouble in meeting his bills, been
suddenly confronted with the fact that
he is his own largest debtor, and that the
bills he owes himself are about the worst
on the books. Frequently he neglects to
keep account of the goods he takes him-
self and has no means of telling where
the leak occurs. A merchant is on dan-
serous grounds when he fails to figure
the value of goods he uses from stock as
part of his personal income.
> -.——_ _
w Williams, of Boston,
ankruptey in 1878 owing
recently paid every cent of
his indebtedness, and 6 per cent. interest
onit. The court proceedings had freed
him from the obligation of the debt, and
some of the creditors did not want to
take the interest, being glad enough to
get their principal, but Mr. Williams
told them that he would not be under
obligations to anybody, and they must
take all or nothing.

Henry Bigelo
who went inio b
$200,000, has

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Amoskeag..........12 {Columbian brown AR
UNBLEACHED COTTONS, . oo..... Everett, Die,..... --ii
Ae 7 ‘* Arrow Brand 4% brown .14 Town. ....i1
we. 5% | Weta @ile 6 Anion 11%) Haymaker Sue... 7% |
Alenia AA... 6 . fe 4% | Beaver Creek AA...10 r brown... 7%
Soomee sl 6%/Full Yard Wide..... 6% ay BE... 9 iJaffrey........ ody
“ a GMiGeorgia A.......... 6% ' cL... Lancaster ...... -- 12
' Pr... 5 |Honest Width...... 6 Boston Mfg Co, br.. 7 Lawrence, 9 oz : -- 12%
. a 6 iHertfordA ......... 5 blue 8% " N » 226 --32
a 4\%4| Indian Head........ 5% ‘“ d & twist 10% . No. 250....10
ory. CXiking AA... 6% | Columbian XXX br.10 No. 280.... 8
Archery Bunting... 4 eee LULL _ XXX bl.19
BeaverDam AA.. 4% ee LL. a Gre GINGHAMS,
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese clo sancaster, staple... 54,
Bisek (row... 6 aaaeunes ns 5X | ee. vom 6 i = oo 6 '
2 | ‘“ B 5 Crsian Gress 64 L )
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Boot. AL........... 7 i Nw... 6% . AG &%4/Lancashire.......... 1%
Capital A.... ...... 5% 7 DD.... 5% Teazle...10%4/Manchester......... 4%
Cavanat V.......... 54 X..... 6% wi Angola. .10%|Monogram.......... 4X
Chapman cheese cl. 3&|Noibe R............. 5 ‘6 Persian.. 7 |Normandie........ 6%
conn ce. 544/Our Level Best..... 6 Arlington staple | ew Poiana 6%
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Comet oe 5%! 7 |Arasapha fancy ... 43/Renfrew Dress. .... 7%
Dwight Star......... $%/Pequot.............. ° Bates Warwick dres 7%4/Hosemont........_.. 6%
Ciften CCC... .... Ce 6 “ staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6
nae nF -+++--. 10%|Somerset....... 02... 7
cer ings 8 Coenen... Seer ecome ............ The
ABC. ............. $’4|Geo. Washington... 7 | Cumberland staple. 5%/Toil du Nord....... 8%
Ameren... 8 bie ae... 7 Cumberland 5 Wat 7%
Aer. 6 |Gold Medal......... 7% Se 4 “ geersucker.. 7%
Art Cambrie........ 169 (Green Ticket...._.. 834 ee 7%4|Warwick.... ...... 6
Blackstone A A..... 74|Great Falls.......... $% | Everett classics... 8%/Whittenden..|/)_). 8
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Boston .............. 12 |Just Out..... 44@ 5 Glenarie.... 6% “Indigo blue 9
Cabot... ....... 2... 6% King Phillip. or 7 Glenarven.......... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6%
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Charter Oak........ 5 %|Lonsdale Cambric. . 10 Hampton 5 ae 10
anes... 744|Lonsdale...... -_- 8 Jobnson Vhaion cl_ %|Windermeer...) |’ 5
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DwightAnchor.... 8 (we Mame........ |. 7% . eeabeee 16 mt ae
. | Sherta & (Gak View... ||. 6 = ‘a
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| Fruit of the Loom. Cees 4% | American..... eee ee cee
| cote a 7 Utica — ee _ THREADS,
First Prise... 6 5 Nonpareil .. .
| Frultof the Loom %. [Vinyard -......- 8% ares aS
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HALF BLEACHED coTTons. KNITTING COTTON,
coe... --+- 6%|DwightAnchor..... 8 White. Colored. White. Colored
| Farwell....... ..... 7% Ne 6... 38 Ne. th... ae 42
CANTON FLANNEL. oe 24 sit te 43
Unbleached. Bleached. : - 2. = m1 44
Housewife A........ 544|Housewife Q.... -- 634 co 41 “ 99. 45
u B........5 ic R........ a CAMBRICS.
‘“ mn eS ee By ee - (eewerds.......... 4
‘ “ Ta 91% White Star......... + weckwood...... ... &
‘“ &s a i | SiGe = wooes........ 4
‘ “ W.... 110% Newmarket......... 4 |Brunswick 4
e _ ze .. 11% BED FLANNEL,
i a Y....... A Miremes | || —— eC, 22%
r ' Zw. see 13% | Creedmore.......... eee RY
i i 6 oer es. 35
| Nameless...........27%|Buckeye........_... 32%
“ MIXED FLANNEL.
. Red & Blue, plaid. .40 aces SEW... age
“ Union R...... ......224%|Western W pecs a
CARPET WARP. ll eae... 18%
Peerless, white... ...17 |Integrity colored. ..18 6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23%
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| 18%, “* ** colored .19 DOMET FLANNEL,
DRESS GOODS. Nameless. 8 e*| ' --- 9 @10%
Beeston. ........_ ee ee é ‘ / 8%@10 ‘“ ' ' 12%
c te ee eee tee ee CANVASS AND PADDING,
A -10% i Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black
G&G Cashmere...... 16% 9% 9% 914] 10% 10% 10%
Memes .......... 16 . 10% 10% 10%] 11 11% 11K
te Z a . 11% 11% 11%4|12 12 12
: 2 2% 124/26 20 20
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Davis Waists..... 9 00/Bortree’s .....|.... 9 00 Mayland, 80z....... 10% ‘i Z ...123
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Armory ........-.... 6%|Naumkeagsatteen.. 734 Boston, 8 oz......... 10% |Boston, 100z........ 12%
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red and orange... 6 * plain Tky X & 7
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‘ madders... 5 . ld ticket an... ae Rising Star 4-ply....17
‘s Kx twills.. 5 indigo blue....... 10% | Domestic ....... 18 ' 3-ply....17
_ solids ..... 5 es... 4 i Anchor... -.. orth Ster, 20
TICKINGS. Seo ....... .... 38 Mees Standard 4 ply17\%
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7

 

Fancy Cheeses from the Standpoint
of a Caterer.
From the English Hotel Gazette.

One of the greatest wits and wags was
once requested by an editor to write a
good article on milk. He replied by re-
turn mail: ‘‘The best article on milk I
ean think of is cream. What more do
you want?”’

In the same fashion it may be said of
cheese that the best article om cheese is
mould, or chemical corruption. In truth,
cheese owes its value todegeneration and
the presence of bacterial life. Ina word,
cheese is the glorification of decay.

The history of cheese may be consid-
ered as condensing the whole pastoral
poetry of the Aryan race. The mild and
gentle cow, sacred still ameng the Ary-
ans of India, doubtless by reason of her
gentleness in the family economy, fell
especially to the charge of the women.
Our very language proves this. Our
word daughter comes from the Sanscript
duhitar, meaning the milker, from the
verb duo, to milk.

Cheesemaking has, therefore, been a
feminine profession from the start, and
on some farms to this very day the money
coming from the sale of the cheeses is
considered as the special perquisite (pin-
money) of the wife. England has long
been famous for the quantity and quality
of its cheese.

America, however, in a wholesale way,
is destroying all the traditions of cheese.
One steamer lately carried to England
750,000 American cheeses. Perhaps,
after achemical treatment, many of them,
like good citizens, will have returned
home to delight unwitting natives by
their fine foreign finish. Yet, though
America makes cheese by the mountain
load every year, there are not, as in Eng-
land, France and Italy, any localities
famous for special brands. The reason
is not far to seek. The American cheese
factories collect the milk of various areas,
having different soils and peculiarities of
pasturage, and mix them, striking thus
an average, eatable indeed, but lacking
character.

It has been proven beyond a peradven-
ture that the quality depends on the pas
turage. Cows, dairymaids, and special
methods of making have been taken
from Cheshire to other parts of Eugland,
and the result was a product very differ-
ent from the famous Cheshire cheese.
Cheddar, too, which comes from a vale in
Somerset, where the famous Sydney
Smith was born, has a flavor like his
pungent blend of wit and humor, for
which there is no chemical counterfeit.
It smacks of the soil; it breathes of the
pasture.

But the glory of England’s cheese has
been eclipsed in quality by France.
France cannot keep pace with the demand
for her cheeses. Consequently a large
amount of spurious French cheese is sold
everywhere. The cheese of tables d@’hote
is almost always a fit subject for suspi-
cion; good for the mind, perhaps, since a
ehemist whose digestion had been im-
paired by cheap tables dhote once an-
alyzed a piece. He found it to contain
chiefly what Opie, the famous painter,
said he mixed his paints with—brains.

Take Brie, for instance. This comes
from a small district near Paris, and isa
cream cheese of unrivalled delicacy, but
not easy to keep during warm weather.
The largest importing house in New York
imported last year, in one order, 6,000 of
these cheeses, of which 2,000 went from
the dock out West to Chicago, San Fran-
cisco and St. Louis. If this amount were
multiplied by three, it would not repre-
sent the year’s consumption of alleged
Brie in New York alone, to say nothing
of other large cities.

Camembert, however, a cheese very
similar, though coarser in flavor, which
is made in a large area in Normandy,
has been steadily pushing in favor. It
is just half as expensive, and restaura-
teurs can afford to give double portions
of it. Hence your infatuated table Wd’ hote
diner, who always wants quantity rather
than quality, votes for Camembert.

Pont l’Eveque also comes from Nor-
mandy. It is not, as some might sup-
pose, merely a Camembert gone dry, but
is intentionally made more solid and
milder in taste, and is 10 per cent. more
costly.

 

Port du Salut is another cheese of the
same order, but superior in flavor to all
except true Brie. It costs about the
same as Brie, and it may take rank over
that, as that has done over Roquefort,
and as Roquefort did over Swiss, which
was the first foreign cheese that ever
really had a hold on our affections.

The making of Port du Salut is a pro-
found secret, * the property of the monks
of the Abbey of Bric-a-brac, in France,
and the pious gourmet might be forgiven
for believing that over every cheese a
benediction has been said. But in spite
of its wholesomeness it has not yet
“caught on” in England. Only two houses
import it, which fact is a pretty good
proof that it is still not cheese, but
eaviare to the multitude.

Roquefort, though its price yet is high,
is a richer cheese, more fond of lingering
on the breath than others. It is made of
goats’ milk, and the chiaroscuro effects
in it are caused, not by rusting it with
insertions of wire, but by dropping into
it some handfuls of peasant bread. Ro-
quefort, therefore, is a dairymaid con-
eoction of bread and cheese.

Gorgonzola, another favorite cheese, is
Italian, though its base is the same,
namely, the milk of that gay and festive
animal who has made so many humor-
ists—the picturesque and venerable goat.
This cheese comes from the Milanese dis-
trict of Italy, retains its aristocratic rich-
ness unspoiled by changes of climate,
and is a good cheese to swear by—
wherein it differs from Limburger, a
good one to swear at.

Some cheeses, like Roquefort and Gor-
gonzola, require two or three years to
ripen for the taste of experts. Some
cheeses retain a great age. Parmesan,
another Italian or Sicilian variety, has
been kept 10 years and found still de-
licious, and full of life and power. Neuf-
chatel is a French cheese, not a Swiss, as
many fancy from the name.

The king of all cheeses is most decid-
edly the aristocratic Stilton, but, iike
royalty, it is not always accessible in
proper state. <A good ripe Stilton is ac-
ceptable as the king of cheeses, but un-
fortunately, not 5 per cent. of them ever
reach this condition. And so many quvur-
mets prefer to rely upon a more certaip
product, and this fact largely accounts
for the great sale of Gorgonzola in Eng-
land, as the cheese has some of the same
attributes, besides being more reliable.

Armour Will Test It.

The Ohio oleomargarine law is giving
a good deal of trouble to dealers in that
State. Several of them have been ar-
rested and fined for violating the pro-
vision of the law which forbids the
product to be sold without a label at-
tached setting forth the ingredients, of
the substance. It is said that Armour
& Co., of Chicago, who manufacture the
compound, have been paying the dealers’
fines, and say that they propose to settle
the constitutionality of the law by
bringing the matter into court.

>_> >

The wages of sin may not be paid
every Saturday night; but they are sure
to come.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

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

AU@UBS AND BITs. dis.
ee 60410
ae =
Jopnteer.scnuioe. ..... ................_..
centages, Deusen... 50&10

AXES.
First Qnality, CO $550
D. B. Bronze eeepc esa ues ae 11 00
‘ - © So Slee... 6 50
D8 13 00
BARROWS. dis.
ee 81200 1400
Garaes. ......... pet 30 00
BOLTS dis.
Oe ee oe ee 50&10
pc Se EE 75&10
Plow eee ee oe
Sleigh CE
BUCKETS.
Well, piain - ae $350
Wer eeere.............. 4
BUTTS, CA8T. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, Geured........ ..... ....... 70&10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5astjoint 40 ....60&10

 

 
 

 

 
 
  

 

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roug. ee 40 | ’ ‘
Wrought Inside Se 49 ie — Ce > =
roug cee Le % | Yerkes & Plumb = iy
eee 708i | Fortes & Plumb’ ae aaeee tre crsines dis. 4010
ee 70810 | ; ba - ie
ae 79 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30¢ 40810
BLOCKS, Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3 .- - di8.60&10
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60.£10 | State. r doz. net, 2 50
CRADLES. ae Hook and ‘Strap, to 12 in. vi 14 and
ES Onn 40810 | screw r Hook aes — |
CROW BARS. L u te Batt ttt tate cas wae net 8%
Ike lebee cera uses decimals per’ 5 pe i * erereres rts etait net 7%
7 = ....,...,...... net 7%
CAPs, ‘
Ely’s1-10...... eee perm 65 te - ai 7
Ct in = a rm — Ridder Mtg. a Wood track.. - SOSI0
eee yuemiplon, antl friction. ................
ee _ OO) Ridder) woodiesem ~——
. OARTRIDGES, Pots HOLLOW WARE
ee et ates ee cee case ag 60&10
Contral Pra dis. 25 ae aan ; 60610
CHISELS. dis. Gan enameled........ CTT pale
—— Pirseer - oe 15410 ‘ - HOUSE FURNISHING @oops. i
— oe - —— Tees ain cs Pe a eens cee eee. new list 73
Cee rece rccccesccccccecsene Se fe SEE PU Me tcc ces cecccccuce
Be ee ny °5&10 | Granite Iron Ware ....__ wa” 6G
Sutehers’ Tanged Wirmer............._..... Bilght WIRE oops. dis.
aie. pe De 70& 10410
Curry, Lawrened’s ee 40 a —_. se inlay a ‘aaee
Hotchkis Se a 25 Gate Hooks and Byes... 2.2... 70&1010
. EVELS %
White Crayons, per gross.......... 129}12% dis. 10 | Stanley Rule and Level ES oo .
COPPER, . a
Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. per none 28 tania = — a 5c ee im
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ........... 60... 26 i “squanzS, Te rraneniaae ae
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ........... 23 | Steeland Iron..... Oe - nae
eee ree
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li iil DBILLS, dis, i “Sais egaie — ”
orse’s ocme i. 50 Ci
Taper and straight Shank................... 50 | Nos. 10to 14.......0 00... Bie nS 50
Moraes TaperShank . 50| Nos. 15to17. Alois ea ee on -355 260
DEIPPING PANE, a oo a1... _ 4 05 2 7
Small sixes, ser pound .................. 000. Mite eee. 9 6 8
Large sizes, per pound... CCN ee a a
aa All sheets No. 18 and If, igs
Com. 4 plece, Ce doz.net 75 | Wide not less than 2-10 extra ne
ae dis n SAND PAP
Ne ain, Senate List acct. 19, "86 . c ate) | | Se
EXPANSIVE BITS, dis. SASH coRD.
- 8, oye $18; large, 826............... 30 | Silver Lake, White A tine 6G
ves’, 1, 818: 2, 8243 3,830 a 25 rabA........ ' 55
eee es List. "dis. i White s.. us 5
Dee 6010-10 o Drab B.... ' of
Now Aiortean 60&10-10 iy Ee as 2
Nicholson's «0.000.000, -60810-'0 Discount, 10.
ellers |... ee 50 SASH WRIRaTS,
Heller’s Horse Rasps .. .................0., go | Solid Byes....... a. per ton hg
GALVANIZED IRON. ‘“ Hand.. ne o
Nos. 16 to 20; 2 and 4; 2% and 2%: 2 28 | Sliver Steel Dia. ¥ Cuts, er foot... 2
ee ss 15 16 17 ja Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
- ih Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot . 30
Stanley Rule and ane Co." ones * Sue ae ton ewes Blectrie Tooth X
KNOBs—New List. dis. ee a
oor, mineral, jap. trimmings ot 55 Steel, eee gE end
oor, porcelain, jap. trimmings... 55 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s |||
Door, —— plated trimmings ~ ne 5A aon —— Hawley & Norton’s..*f-10 °
; Pee ee ee eee
drawer and Shutter, genau le oni 2 Mouse deus. $1. a ace 7
LOCK8—DOOR. dis. ae ais,
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 pte itoaep a an ce
Mallory, Wheeler & C0.’8.............. 55 ATECE ees ceee ee ccen ees vrei %
: 2 a el Sang ig ee ~ | opperee Market |... 7
sranford’s eee a SVs askoe re eee 70
Jouevaiiits 2° | Tinned Market 62%
eee Coecces 55 | Coppered Spring See BO
wien MATTOCES, es ks Rarbed Fence, oe... 2 55
see ccecce eeee Go.UU, ¢ . -1]0 Q
BU gee ee ee. $5.06, dis. 60-10 . aaa er TG ax
Ee $18.50, diz. 20610 | Au Sable ......... di 40
dis. ls Tana natin 8. an &16
perry & Co.’s, Post, a eee ee. 50 ot el LA =
seo die pipes dis. 10419
‘offee, 7a Site. Ga. a ro wae > Baxter's Adjustable, alee. -” 30
i } nin se
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Pp eo . eee eee. os 30 | Coe’s Patent, ~~ Bent eeeeeeeeee wee ee “Wate
Ciciiieciialled hereto 60&10 | Bird Cages ........ cap ” BC
See | 6e&1( | Pumps, Cietern...... | ve La "7510
Enterprise, self-measuring.. Se ee eee 701i &10
NAILS Casters, Bed a d Plate.. ...50G10d
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Dampers, American... ve 40
ire nelle, base es a5 | forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. eens “e510
or ee i 35 METALS,
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=.. 35}| Juty: Sheet, oe - pound.
16 LL 45 sa pound casks... _.... 6%
2. 45} Per pound.. . ee 7
». _ _ “on " SOLDER.
7&6 ne 75 Extra Wi ee ee
Cee 90 @ prices of the many other qualities of
EE 1 20} solder in the market indicated by ema hana
ee ee ees eee ce cess eee e 8. : = vary according to composition.
En ANTIM
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7 : Se eset dee OE
SE a 90 TIN—KELYN GRADE.
Finish . 75 | 10x14 IC, oe et ee ae 8750
iM 1 Lo ee cane cee = 14x20 IC, i eee, io
Clinch 16... 70|14x201K; “ 9 2¢
i 8 80 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
Barrell .. Se a 7 aes 1c Charcoal . . %
LANES. ee 7
Ohio Tool - *B, sia. @40 | 10x14 Ix, a Reece 8 or
Sctota Bence rr ee
fo a ool Ga. 8, fancy. Meee sce : @40 Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
_.... a - ROOFING PLATES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood. .. 50810 | 14x20 IC, i Worcoster........... 6 &
Fry PANS. oa “ 14x20 7 i L eee a -
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cae a . . Bie dis. — rer IC, . Allaway Grade ee 6 00
Iron and Tinned. sea -sovt0| aime TC, TTT BB Bo
Copper Rivets ie 50—10! 20x28TX, ’ dee ioe ee 15 50
PATENT FLANISHED IRON. iia BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. sue
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31.

IMPROPER NATURALIZATION,

On the application of an alien for nat-
uralization before the United States Cir-
cuit Court at «hilade!phia, Judge Dallas
refused the petition on the ground of de-
fects in Lhe papers and the lack of com-
petent evidence to support the applica-
tion. The judge said:

it may safely be assumed, 1 think, that
Congress, in requiring it to be made be-
fore the court, meant to assume its being
made with decent sclemnity; but, more
han this, it is expressly provided that it
shall be made ‘‘on oath,” and, therefore,
in my opinion, it should not be accepted
in any case in which, upon examination,
it appears that the applicant does not un-
derstand its significance, or is without
such knowledge of the Constitution as is
essential to the rational assumption of an
undertaking, avouched by oath, to sup-
portit. In many instances these decla-
rations are made by men who have no
counsel to inform or restrain them, and
who themselves have no adequate appre-
ciation of their purport, or of the saered-
ness of the accompanyingfoath, which, in
order to accomplish the object in view,
they are often quite willing to take as a
matter of course. I cannot shut my eyes
to the existence of this abuse, nor regard
as suflicient under the statutes any oath
which relevant questioning results in
showing is not intelligently and con-
scientiously tendered. Furthermore, the
law requires that ‘‘it shall be made to ap-
pear to the satisfaction of the Court’’ that
the applicant has behaved as a man at-
tached to the principles of the Constitu-
tion, and, bearing thisin mind with what
has already been said, the conclusion
seems inevitable that the Court ought not
tu admit any alien to citizenship without
being satisfied that he has at least some
general comprehension of what the Con-
stitution is, and of the principles which
it affirms.
it this sensible decision be established
the result cannot be
to the
country, elevating to the political moral-
ity of the people and conservative of the
best and highest interests of the nation.
Too often aliens take the oath which
makes them citizens of this country and
invests them with all the privileges of
citizenship, with no more knowledge of

as a
otherwise than beneficial

precedent,
whole

its significance and sacredness than has
the ehild They are without
knowledge of the Constitution or of the
principles upon which the government o{
the country rests, and are ignorant of the
first duty of citizenship ina free eountry.

unborn.

Why, then, should they be placed upon |

an equality with native-born Americans?

 

 

RRS ee Ce a Se ee aD ae a ae

SS

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

There are, however, other and more co-

izenship should not be hastily conferred
upon aliens, and why, indeed, it should
be withheld
Judge Dallas says:
these declarations are made by men who
to inform or restrain

for a
‘“‘In many instances

have no counsel
them.’’
worst feature of the case.

foreigners to take the oath

For ignorant
required by

and must be mischievous in its results,
but when aliens are influenced and manip-
ulated by political tricksters, as thou-
sands of them are at every election, then
their admission to citizenship becomes a

 

serious menace to the purposes and per-
manency of American political institu-
tions and destructive of the fundamental
principle of the Constitution. If aliens
were compelled to reside in this country
for a term of years before being invested
with the franchise, it would go a long

large cities and towns, and if an educa-
tional provision were attached to the law
and every applicant for citizenship were
compelled to pass examination in
American political economy before being

an

mean something and citizenship be re-
garded as a sacred trust.

 

LEARNING IMPORTANT LESSONS.

The naval battle of the Yalu, between
the Chinese and Japanese, has afforded
students of naval affairs many important
ubject lessons which will not fail to bring
about radical alteration in naval
struction. The battle in question was the
first general engagement between modern
ships of war, the offensive as well as de-
fensive equipment of these vessels being
hitherto practically untried by the ordeal
of actual combat.

It must be confessed that the results in
a large measure proved the wisdom of
most of the modern appliances of naval!
warfare. The efficiency both high-
power and rapid-fire guus was demon-
strated, and the protective power of ar-
mor plating was also found to be satis-
factory. It was shown, however, that
the powers of offense were superior to
to those of defense in modern warships,
and that powerfully armed eruisers were
able to make a much better showing
against battle-ships than had been sup-
posed possible.

One of the most important lessons of
the naval fight was the demonstration of
| the necessity for more thorough protee-
tion of the gun crews. The slaughter,
even on the heavily protected Chinese
battle-ships, was tremendous, and the
loss of officers was especially great. It
is, therefore, evident that the ship which
protects its crew the best will have its
guns best served. Another lesson of
the battle was the deadly character of
the fire of the smaller rapid-fire guns.
The shells from these guns apparently
penetrated even the heaviest vessels, set-
ting them on fire and causing most of the
slaughter.

The extent to which many of the ships
| engaged suffered from being set on fire
by shells demonstrates the advisability
ot doing away with all woodwork that
; can possibly be spared. It is said that
the constructors of the United
States nivy have already profited by this
jlesson, and that in future ships wood-
work wiil be reduced to a minimum.
Elaborate cavin furnishings will acecord-

con-

of

 

 

 

 

This is true, but it is not the |

law with no conception of its meaning is |

way towards purifying the polities of |

allowed to vote, the franchise would soon

vide fuel for the flames.
|
| battle of the Yalu are made public, it
will be impossible to fully estimate the
number and importance of the lé¢ssons
which have been taught; but that they
| are numerous there is no doubt.

|
A PERFIDIOUS POLICY.
| <A leading retail grocer in a certain
Michigan city recently asked a large
Chicago wholesale grocery house for a
quotation on granulated sugar. The
reply was that, if the retailer would sell
the sugar at 414 cents a pound, the Chi-
cago house would sell him fifty barrels
at 4%5 cents; otherwise, the price would
be 4° cents.

This circumstance is significant,
| showing the attitude of the
| grocery trade of Chicago toward the re-

as

wholesale

| tail trade of Michigan. Angered at an
j atleged breach of faith on the part of

}certain Michigan wholesale grocers in
| failing to maintain the recent unpopular
| , .

| charges for cartage, boxing and exchange,

the wholesale grocers of Chicago are

 

;Sshowing their displeasure by venting
| their spleen on the retail trade of this
State in selling sugar below present
|

; cOst wherever such sale will demoralize
| the market, realizing that such a eourse
| will make it decidedly unpleasant for
| the wholesale grocery trade by creating
lan era of strife and ill feeling which will
require many mouths time and much ef-
fort to overcome. As a result of such
reprehensible methods on the part of
Chicago, the retail grocery trade of Mich-
igan was never in a more demoralized
condition than it is at present. Sugar is
being sold closer to cost than at any time
for the past two years, and in many lo-
ealities the demoralization is so com-
plete that the market price involves a
loss of from 10 to 20 per cent. on every
This condition is likely to
continue until Chicago ceases to pursue
its present guerilla policy and Michigan
wholesale grocers are able to re-establish
the full Equality under which
both the wholesale and retail trade were
under any other
connection with

pound sold.

lan,

more prosperous than
method ever devised in

the sale of sugar. Cut prices are by no
means ss satisfactory to the retail trade
as uniform wholesale prices, firmly
maintained, thus enabling the retail

trade in each locality to establish uni-
form prices and obtain a reasonable
profit on the great staple of the grocery
business.

With these facts staring them in the
face, Michigan dealers have an admir-
able opportunity of judging as to whieh
policy is the better policy and which
market is the better friend of the retail
trade—Chicago, with her perfidious pol-
icy vacillation and treachery, or
Michigan markets, which held out
against the Chicago method of charging
for cartage long as possible, and
which stand ready to restore the full
Equality Plan as soon as it can be done
without opening too wide the doors of
| Chicago greed and revenge.

of

as

 

 

THE GOVERNMENT OF ALASKA,

it is stated that at its coming session
| Congress will be asked to frame laws for
| the better government of the territory of
' Alaska, It has been suggested in some
quarters that there should be a territorial

gent reasons why the privileges of cit-! everything discarded which might pro- |

 

 

 

ingly have to be done away with, and ‘Geum of government, with a representa-

tive in Congress, who would be in a posi-
tion to make known the needs and wants

Until the results of the investigations of the inbabitants of the distant posses-

i" :
number of years.|of naval experts into the lessons of the | sion.

It is also proposed to increase the prof-
itable character of the Alaska possession
by improving the communication with
the territory, and otherwise aiding in the
development of its resources.

The white population of Alaska is en-
tirely too small to maintain a regular
form of government, while the natives
are not sufficiently advanced in the arts
of civilization to have a share in the con-
duct of affairs. The object of the pro-
moters of the territorial form of govern-
ment is to eventually promote Alaska to
statehood, and thus ereate another rot-
ten borough to further complicate af-
fairs in the United States Senate. All
attempts to inaugurate a regular gov-
ernment in Alaska at the present time
would be productive of no good results,
hence there is no sense in wasting the
time of Congress on such a scheme.

 

The market question may now be said
to be fairly before the business public.
The daily papers, with remarkable una-
nimity, have entirely ignored the ques-
tion, so that citizens generally have little
or no knowledge of what is being done,
and the discussion has been confined en-
tirely to business circles. Of the inter-
views published on another page of this
issue of THe TRADESMAN that of Mr.
DeGraaf is the most interesting and im-
portant. Asa member of the Common
Council he is, presumably, acquainted
with the condition of the city’s ex-
chequer, and in a position to know what
it may or may not undertake. Therefore,
when Ald. DeGraaf says the city cannot
undertake to purchase a site and build a
market at present, his statement may be
relied upon. If, then, a market cannot
be erected, the present system must be
continued, and the question arises:
Would it not be better to move the mar-
ket stand from its present location to an-
other street equally as convenient and
accessible? Louis street isin the heart
of the wholesale district. The drays be-
longing to the wholesale houses, express
wagons, United States mail wagons, and
private vehicles pass along or across this
street at an early hour in the morning,
or find it necessary to cross it to reach
the freight sheds and depots. At times
Louis street is completely obstructed, to
the great inconvenience and detriment of
regular business, and the removal of the
market has several times been suggested
and urged. Where shall it be located if
removed? Mr. DeGraaf answers the ques-
tion fully and satisfactorily. South lonia
street, from Oakes street to Wealthy
avenue, is the most desirable street
location in the city. Its easy accessibil-
ity, contiguity to the railways and com-
mission houses, its location just on the
edge of the regular line of traffic, its
length, and the fact that it has a solid
brick driveway of unusual width, all
point to it as the ideal market site. The
season is about over for this year, so that
there will be plenty of time in which to
thoroughly investigate the matter, and
Mr. DeGraaf’s suggestion is worthy of
consideration.

En

Willis & Co., grocers, St. Charles: “We will
continue to be subscribers to THE TRADESMAN
as long as we remain in trade, as it is an able ex
ponent of the rights and duties of merchants
and business men.

  

 

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THE MICHIGAN

  

  

TRADESMAN.

 

 

IMMORAL LITERATURE.

Many outbursts of condemnation have

—

been directed against the newspaper

press for its sensational manner of
telling the news of the world’s oc-
eurrences, and doubtless this critisism

is more or less merited; but what shall
be said of the sort of books that are
being issued in avalanches from the
press and exposed for sale on the coun-

ters of reputable ‘dealers in litera-
ture?
The newspapers print details of

erimes, of acts which bring the perpe-
trators under the condemnation of the
eriminal statutes, and in many cases
these details are bloody and shocking;
but the newspapers do not paint gilded
and enticing pictures of vice and evil.
This sort of atrocious immorality is
left te the writers and publishers of
the vile literature that is being poured
out from the book presses and is offered
for sale everywhere without restraint or
eoncealment.

It is not too much to say that half the
volumes one sees on the counters of an
average book store deal in a style of
the most unreserved familiarity with
the grossest immoralities, while not a
few concern themselves with shocking
abominations, the bare contemplation
ef which ought to disgust and horrify
human nature. Nevertheless, these books,
which actually entice and invite to vice,
are in the sight and reach of everybody,
and, by reason of thecheapness of their
prices, and of the gaudy pictures which
are flaunted on their covers or in their
title pages, they attract attention which
would not otherwise be given to them.

Another startling feature of this bane-
ful literature is that not only the very
worst products of the French erotic
school, translated into English, are
thus freely offered for sale, but even
they pale in grossness and _ reeking
moral filth beside the books by American
authors who pander to the worst and
most perverted passions of human
nature. A few decades ago no book-
seller, however disreputable, would have
dared to expose such books upon his
eounter. To-day it is done by even the
most reputable as a matter of course and
without the slightest reserve.

The victims who most readily fall
into the snare set by these books are
the young and innocent of both sexes.
Attracted by their cheapness and showy
exterior, young men and girls purchase
these infamous stories in which vice is
made pleasing and crime is justified,
and so are sown broadcast the seeds of
the most insidious and dangerous so-
cial demoralization; and yet the self-
appointed reformers who love to in-
veigh and declaim against the sensa-
tionalism of the daily press, which only
paints crime in its most shocking and
revolting colors, have not one word to
say against the atrocious books which
are sowing broadcast through every
community the most pernicious doc-
trines for the subversion of morality,
religion and virtue, and for the de-
struction of the family affections and
the most sacred ties of life.

Perhaps the loud-voiced reformers
do not know what they are talking
about. At any rate, it will be charity
to think so. Butif they wish to qualify
themselves for the criticism of truly
immoral literature, let them gather at
random any half-dozen of the ordinary
paper-backed novels to be found on the

 

counter of the average dealer in such
things, and learn something of the sort

of social manners taught to the children
of many of the best people in the coun- |
try and in every considerable commupi- |

ty. The press should rise up against
these demoralizing books, and demand
that they be hid away from public view,
and supplied only to those persons whose
debased tastes demand such mental
nourishment and who are brazen enough
to ask for it. The press can accomplish
such work of purification long before
the reformers who love to pose as
apostles of purity and virtue shall wake
to any sense of duty on the subject.

Use and Abuse of Credit.

Credit is at least as old as history. It
is a growth of civilization, and expands
as civilization advances. In the earliest
writing we read of lenient and of harsh
and unjust creditors; the use and abuse
of credit. It would be impossible to
conduct any extended business without
credit. An exchange of commodities
without more or less credit, or, which
largely the same thing, confidence, is
an impossibility. Credit is with us to
stay, and with sume of us it is a per-
manent institution. Upon a firm and
rational basis extended credit means
prosperity, thrift, advancement. Many
lines of goods are sold on no longer time
than thirty days, and the tendency is
constantly toward shorter time. In the
agricultural business it seems necessary
to give considerable time. Farmers are
large users of credit, and doubtless on
the whole to their great advantage,
though many use it to their injury. In
nearly all cases of serious loss the fault
will be found in an agent of defective
judgment or something worse. There
are inexperienced jobbers enough in the
field to give irresponsible dealers a start
and it also frequently happens that trav-
eling salesmen for good concerns take
up with this kind of customers. I am of
the opinion, however, that jobbers are

is

becoming much more conservative, and!

that it will be decidedly more difficult
in the future than it has been in the past
for irresponsible parties to get credit on
so slim a basis. Our best and most
reliable information should be used by
the salesman who makes the contract.
NEED OF A BANKRUPTCY LAW.

I think that all business interests are in
need of a proper bankrupt law. Com-
mon humanity would dictate that when a
debtor is honest, and honestly surrenders
his assets, he should be released from his
debts so as to commence anew. It is
true that creditors often do release the
debtors now, but often they do not, as
they think that a young man may
work up again and they may get some-
thing.

It might be well to make the release con-
ditional. It does happen that a released
debtor becomes wealthy, while his ered-
itor is very moderately situated, yet the
debtor has forgotten his old obligations.
But probably the main reason for a
bankrupt law is to prevent creditors from
unnecessarily swooping down upon debt-

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“CRESCENT,”’’ “WHITE ROSE,’’
“ROYAL.”

These brands are Standard and have a National reputation.
Jorrespondence solicited.

VOIGT MILLING GO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

QUALITY - UNIFORMITY - PRIGE

SEARS
CRACKERS
and

CAKES

 

t Cosenni Drop Cakes.
| Imperials,

Cream Jumbles,
Cream Drops,
Cornhills,

Have you tried our new goods?

\ Nonpareil Jumbles.

Add a box or barrel
io your next order.
They are splendid
sellers and sure to

 

ors who would work out and pay all}
debts if they were permitted to do so. |

|

The law should provide that two-thirds '!
of the creditors could take pessession of |
the debtor’s estate and continue cae |
business, or close it up, precisely as if!
it were their own. A sacrifice would be:
prevented. Itis a court merely to at-
tempt to settle the dispute without liti-
gation. A majority of cases are settled
in this way. JOHN A. JOHNSON.

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please.

New York: Biscuit ClO

S. A. SEARS, Manager,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

   

  

   

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Origin and Growth of the Coupon Book

Business.
From the Northwestern Lumberman.
GRAND Rapips, Oct. 15—The late

Martin Ryerson, who began his business
eareer here and laid the foundatien of
his substantial fortune by trading with
the Indians on Grand and Muskegon
rivers, used to delight to recall an inei-
dent in his career which started him on
the road to millionaire station—the find-
ing of a French merchant and shingle-
maker on the back waters of the Muske-
gon who could neither read ner write,
but who managed to keep a fairly ac-
curate account of his dealings with his
customers, most of whom were his em-
ployes in one capacity or another, by the
use of shingles bearing certain marks
identifying the customers, whose ac-|
counts were kept by means of notches,
those on one edge indicating dollars and |
those on the other edge indicating cents.
Mr. Ryersou was by no means college
bred, but his knowledge cf business
methods struck the Frenchman so favor-
ably that the latter offered him an inter-
estin the business, which he was not
siow in accepting. He exchanged the
wooden account books for a regulation
bookkeeping system, and from (hat time
his success was rapid and without inter-
ruption. Mr. Ryerson was in Grand
Rapids on an errand of mercy a year or
so before he died, and whiie here was
suiown through the coupon beok estab-
lishment of the Tradesman Company.
ile expressed great surprise at the re
markable growth of the bus ness and the
eTreat number of lumbermen in all parts |
of the eountry using the books, conclud- |
ing with the remark that the adoption of
such a labor-saving device at the incep-
tion of his career as a Jumberman would
have doubled his income, as its use
would have enabled him to avoid all the
losses and annoyances incident
tashioned bookkeeping methods, and to}
devote more of his time to the selection
and purchase of timber lands, which at |
‘gat time was a somewhat perplexing |
question.

Fortunately or unfortunately, it falls |

to the lot of a large portion of the lum-
vermen of the country to furnish gro-
ceries and other articles of necessity to
ihe men in theiremploy. In some cases
he camps or mills are so isolated that
he supply store is a necessity; then, |
iain, the stocks of gvods carried by
storekeepers in proximity to a mill or
samp may be of such inferior character
that the lumberman is compelled to put
in a stock of staples, in order that his
employes may be furnished the necessi-
ties of life at reasonable prices. These!
eonditions call into existence the ‘‘eom-
pany store,” which has a good or bad ef- |
fect on the community, dependent alto-
gether on the manner in which it is
eonducted. If the men are given to un-
derstand that the tenure of their posi-
tions depends entirely on the amount of |
trading they do at the ‘‘company store,”’
it will be found that such restraint is
irksome, and soon becomes so oppressive
that employes of any spirit will seek po-
sitions elsewhere. it is a matter of gen-
eral congratulation, however, that em-
ployes are seldom hedged in by such ar- |
tificial barriers, as employers have come |
to realize that men who are discontented |
are unable to do as effective work as |
those who feel that they are being treated |
well in every respect.

It was to meet such a requirement that
the coupon book system was adapted to/|
the use of the commissary or ‘‘company
store.”’ Originally conceived by E. A.
Stowe, in 1873, the inventor soon found |
that Reed City was too small a town to!
enable him to manufacture coupon books |
successfully, so a removal was made two
years later to Big Rapids, which was |
then the center of a considerable lumber- |
ing district. Feeling the need of still |
better facilities, Mr. Stowe removed to|
Grand Rapids in 1877, where he resumed |
the manufacture and sale of the books on |
anenlarged plan. Machinery especially |
adapted to the work was invented and/
constructed, an engraving department |
was created to execute the orders calling |
for specially designed and engraved |
books, and in 1889 the business was
merged into a corporation, under the
style of the Tradesman Company, with a|

to old-|

| nator and first introducer of the coupon

| cashier,

| identified by somebody known to us be-

|l am known to you by name, | presume,

jinterrupted the

| the transaction of business.

;} Means of
| that toil may meet its due reward with-

; Out

|} earth on the mountain that erushes down
jinto the ground

| the workers may live.

| lifeblood of the people and”——

|New York, but a male beggar with a

| good deal of money.

7 1 H;

paid-in capital of $30,000. Besides be-
ing the legitimate successor of the origi-

book, this ccmpany is now the largest
manufacturer of these goods in the coun-
try, having special machinery for every
branch of the business, doing its own en-
graving, printing and binding under one
roof and one management, superintended
by men who have had constant and ex-
tended experience for years in the cou-
pon book business.

The Tradesman Company now num-
bers among its customers several thou-
sand lumbermen, located in every state
and territory where lumbering is car-
ried on, all of whom are warm in praise
of the system, as its use does away with
all the bookkeeping and red tape inci-
dent to antiquated charging methods,
placing the business of each employe on
practically a cash basis. Hundreds of
voluntary testimonials certifying to the
advantages of the coupon book system
are on file in the Tradesman Company’s
office, but the merits of the system are
now so well understood that a repetition
of them is unnecessary.

A catalogue or sample books will be
supplied by the company, whose office is
at 100 Louis street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Her Identity Was Established.
From the Chicago Tribune.

“i have no doubt, madam,” said the
“that you are Mrs. Jykes, the
person bamed on this draft, but the rules
ot the bank require that you must be

fore | can cash the paper for you.”

“J suppose I could go and hunt up
some acquaintance,” replied the lady, |
‘“‘but | took it for granted you were suf- |
ficiently familiar with my face to make |
such a formality unnecessary. It has!

 

}
| been in the publie prints often enough.

| SPRINGDALE (dairy) in 1 and 2 1b. rolls and tubs.

as a public speaker and lecturer on social
and political sub’

‘| repeat, madam, that, so far as 1 am
personally concerned, 1 have no doubt
you are Mrs. Jy kes, the well-known pub-
lic speaker, but in business matters, as
you must be aware, a_ banking-house
must be guided by established business
prin” ——

*‘When business principles are contrary
to established rules of common sense,”
caller, impatiently,
‘‘what is the use of being guided by them?
Bank drafts are drawn, sir, to facilitate
The theory
is that banks are organized to serve as a
promoting the rapid inter-
ehange of commodities, or rather the
converting of commodities into the circu-
lating medium of the country, to the end

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undue delay. But banks, sir, are
conducted for the real purpose of enrich-
ing their proprietors. They are swift to
take money in and slow to pay it out.,
They form but another link in the chain
with which plutocracy is fettering the
limbs of labor—another spadeful of

the common people!
Banks, sir, are simply a part of the
scheme through the operation of which
the rich are growing richer and the poor }
are growing poorer. The monopolists
eontrol the means of exchange and dic-
tate to the workers the terms on which
Like a hideous
vampire the money power fattens on the

‘“‘Madam,’’ said the cashier,
‘‘here’s your money.”

feebly,

> <->

Female beggars carrying babies to at-
tract sympathy are common enough in

baby is an uncommon sight. There is
one who walks along Fifth avenue, near
the Waldorf, at night, and picks upa
The novelty of his
appearance calls forth curious comment
from passers-by, and the beggar is
sharply questioned. He explains that
the child’s mother is dead and that he is
too poor to hire a nurse. He always
adds that the child is very dear to him,
and that he could not think of parting
withit. The man’s time is worth some-
thing, and he is invariably rewarded for
his explanation.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

General Stampede

FROM THE

Curse of Credit.

 

Hundreds of merchants are now abandoning the
old-time credit system and discarding the pass book
for the cash and coupon book system, which en-
ables the dealer to avoid all the losses and annoy-
ances inseparably connected with the credit busy
ness.

If you are a victim of the credit business and
desire to place your business on a cash basis, send
to us for a catalogue and samples of our several
kinds of coupon books, which will be forwarded
free on application.

Tradesman Company,
' GRAND RAPIDS, [MICH.

 

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These goods took the lead in this market last season and we have

reason to believe they will maintain their supremacy the coming season.

MUSSLEMAN GROCER CO.

 

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SOCIETIES,

CLUBS, "
CONVENTIONS

DELEGATES,

COMMITTEES.

For

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons
and Trimmings in the State.

TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

Fall ’94

 

Underwear, Overshirts, Hosiery, Socks, Kersey and Cotton
ade Pants, Caps, Outing Shirts, Yarns, Flannels, Cotton

Flannels, Skirts, Cotton and Woolen Dress Goods,
Ginghams, Seersuckers, Satines, in black and fig-
ured, Batts, Comforts, Blankets.

We have received over 100 cases new fal] prints in all the

newest styles and colorings, prices from 33 to 54

eall.

Give us a
Prices always the lowest.

P. Steketee & Sons,
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END OF A. T. STEWART & CoO.

 

Decadence of the Great House Foundea
by the Merchant Prince.
Sabin Smith in Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.
When I ‘was a boy in
Coun., where I was born early in the cen-

tury, a small brig from Ireland put into’
The brig!

New London for safe harbor.
was bound for New York, but she was de-
tained at New London for

soil. He was one of the boat’s
gers.
ceeded to New York with Stewart aboard.

Upon his arrival at New York Mr. Stew- |

art was almost penniless.

taught a small school. He was well

qualified for this, as he had had a good}

education in Ireland. This occupation
led to his getting a pretty good acquaint-
ance in New York, which was not a diffi-
cult thing tu do early in thecentury. He

was thrifty, and in some way managed to}
1 don’t know whether}

get a little capital.
he had saved or borrowed it. But with
this money he opened a little retail store
on Broadway, where he dealt in notions
and dry goods in asmall way. The busi-
ness was conducted by himself and wife
They worked hard, early and late, and
soon succeeded in orgauizing quite a re-
teil business. This was Mr.
beginning in New York.

When I was a young man and first be-
gan to visit New York on business trips,
Mr. Stewart had established a nice busi-
ness, though he employed no elerks,

everything being carried on by him and}

his wife. He was an indefatigable busi-
ness man,
the start, and he made money fast. About
1850 he had been so successful in the re-

tail business that he bought the property

at Broadway and Chambers street, oppo- |

site the city hall park. There were sev

eral old buildings on the land.

magnificent
In this big store he joined

considered
those days.
the wholesale
tail. On the lower floor
business and the upper
given up to the wholesale.
Mr. Stewart’s business capacity de-
veloped with marvelous rapidity. Every-
thing he touched succeeded, and in a few
years be bought lots farther up Broad-
way, where he built a really magnificent
store and turned all his retail business
into that, the Chambers street establish- |

was

stories were

ment being retained for the wholesale |
two places |
successtul |

trade exclusively. These
were the iargest and most
houses in New York City at that time.

In 1859, while | was living in
lyn, 1 accepted an offer from Mr. Stewart
of a clerkship in the wholesale house.
When the war broke out | was at the head
of the domestic department of the whole-
sale house, and did all the buy ng for
that department during the war We
did a most astonishing amoun;y og Dusi-
ness—it astonishes we DOW x ometiies
when | think of the increase jp the
wholesale trade during that period.

At the oucbreak of the war the domes-

tic department was doing @ pysiness of |

$4,000,000 a year, while the pysiness of
the wholesale house amounted to $20.-
000,000 a year. But with the war prices
went up fearfully, and in some years dur-
ing that period the sales ip my depart-
ment amounted to $8,000,000 and those
of the house to $50,000,000, These fig-
ures have never been reached since Mr.
Stewart’s death by any house.

After the war I retired from business,
having a competency, and continued to
live in Brooklyn.
Mr. Stewart died and the business was

continued by his partners, Mr. Libby and |

Judge Hilton. Both had been associated
closely with Mr. Stewart. Mr. Libby, who
had been Mr. Stewart’s

business, while Judge Hilton had been
Mr. Stewart’s confidential man and knew

his private affairs as intimately as did the |

merchant prinee himself.

After Mr. Stewart had been dead two
or three years,
ton thought they would start a wholesale
house in Chicago. They sent for me to
Brooklyn and asked me to visit Chicago
and make a report on the advisability of

New London, |

several days |
by stress of weather. and there young A. |
T. Stewart’s feet first touched American |
passen- |
After a few days the old brig pro- |

Awhile he}

Stewart's |

full of energy, suecessful from |

These he |
tore down and put up a store which was}
in New York in}

business with that of re-|
the retail |

Brook- |

Not Jong thereafter |

Ss partner for years, |
was familiar with all the details of the |

Mr. Libby and Judge Hil-!

the venture. Lcame here and spent sev-
eral weeks looking over the field. On
wy return to New York I reported in

Crystal Springs Water & Fuel 6.

Jobbers of

ifavor of the plan. After some little |
| time they sent for me again and asked |
me to make a second visit here, as the

| matter was of great importance. | made
a second visit,
than my first in favor of the plan. I
| found a group of th:ce fine stores, all va-
cant, at Wabash avenue and Washington
street. This was several years after the
fire—in 1876, | think.
a tive years’ lease on the store now occu-
pied by Mr. Tobey for $5,000 a year, and
the adjoining stores could be had for ecor-
respondingly low prices.

Mr. Libby and Judge Hilton made me
a handsome offer for a five years’ con-
tract to come Out as the head of the Chi-

|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|cago wholesale house, and I accepted. |

i The leases were taken, goods were

out from New York to help, the house
prospered, and at the end of
years a fine business had been built up.
The New York house asked me to renew
the leases for five years, showing that
Mr. Libby and Judge Hilton were well
satisfied with the situation of affairs
here. This was done, but after two
; montes of the new !eases had run, I re-
ieeived a confidential letter from

|} sale house in New York would
; closed. Mr. Libby and Judge Hilton had
had aterrivble quarrel. The nature of it
was never disclosed. Mr. Libby always
refused to discuss the matter and Judge
Hilton never referred to it, but it was so
bitter that the wholesale heuses were
closed up entirely and Mr. Libby retired
from the business altogether. He lives
now in a magnificent mansion overlook-
ing the Hudson. Hiiton has the retail
store at Broadway and Tenth sireet, and
has conducted the business there since.
Hughes was in the old retail house for
| years before he was taken into partner-
; ship by Judge Hilton.
The reason of the contemplated action
|of the firm is apparent enough. They
will close out because they are making
no money. They have done nothing but
sink money for along while, and then,
| too, Judge Hiiton is getting to be an old
|} man, and | presume he thinks it nearly
| time for getting his affairs in shape. He
has children; but his wife died a few
| years ago and he did not marry again

A. . Stewart’s wonderful success was
due to several causes,
the fact that he was a hard worker—he
| worked early and late, and was at his re
tail store until midnight. He was quick,
but quiet and stili. He used to go about
the big wholesale house as still as a
mouse, Overlooking everything.
thing was wrong,
ot duty or inattention on the part of
salesman, the matter was corrected at
once.

Mr. Stewart was a well-read and a well-
educated man. He received a college ed-
| ucation in Ireland, was fond of the clas-
sics and knew how to appear in good so-
ciety and in the presence of educated
men. After he became rich he gave ele-
igant dinners and entertained nearly
| every man of promineuce who visited the
country from abroad. Mr. Stewart was
a most accomplished gentleman in his
manner and speech. He had a singular
turn fay business. There was no detail
too small for him to attend to, nothing
too trivial to receive his attention. He
expected every one in business to be
| promptly at his post and to stay there
until his work was done with thorough-
ness. Mr. Stewart left a fortune of be-
| tween $40,000,000 and $50,000,000, which
up to that time was the largest ever
amassed in America. Vandervilts and
Jay Goulds were unknown then. All his
money was made by legitimate business.
| No one ever suspected him of under-
| handed dealing. Thebulk of his fortune
passed into the hands of Judge Hilton,
but just how the public was never in-
formed.

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from Pittsburgh to Lake Erie entirely
feasible, and Pittsburgh parties are en-

deavoring to raise $100,000 for the — :

sary surveys.

Mr. Drake offered |

shipped by every railroad, men were sent

the five |

New |
York instructing me to close up the busi- |
bess entirely, and stating that the whole- |
also be |

but the first was}

If any-;
if he saw any neglect |

Engineers declare the proposed canal |

39 Monroe *t.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Correspondence solicited

| dealers.

‘COAL, COKE and WOOD,

giving a stronger report |

With cutside |

 

   

ELECGROTYPES

ENG DUPLICATES OF
aoe GRAVINGS:. TYPE FORMS.

Sec oe CO., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH

COUGH
DROPS

RED STAR Cough Drops
are the cleanest, purest and
most effective drop in the
market. Try Them. Made
by
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BROOKS

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5 and 7 lonia St.,
Grand Rapids,
Mich.

 

  

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SOLD AT

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MANUFACTURED BY
NORTHROP, ROBERTSON, & CARRIER

LOWISVILLE KF.

 

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Our other brands are, DARLING, STANDARD and

tations in Price Current.

ABSOLUTELY

finest

combine to

matter what

FIRSY PRIZE BRAND GONDRNSED MILK

QUALITY

GUARANTEED.

Prepared by Michigan Condensed Milk Co., atits factor-
ies at Lansing and Howell, drawing their milk supplies

dairy region in the country. Natural

advantages, long experience, thorough knowledge of the
business and the latest and most approved methods and

make FIRST PRIZE the most

perfect milk prepared in Europe or Ameriea.

price you pay, you cannot buy a

LEADER. See quo-

MARSHALL BROTHERS, General Sales Agents,

39 W. Woodbridge St,

DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

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is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pur-

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best grain.

best of Salt.
pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea.

 

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Your customers will appreciate it as they appreciate

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Put up in an attractive and salable manner.

When

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THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER.

 

Address by S. M. Lemon before Michi-
gan Wholesale Grocers’ Association.
To be permitted to address such an as-

semblage as this is an honor of no small

degree, and | regret exceedingly that the
short notice for preparation, as well as
the brief period which it is necessary to
occupy, are far from sufficient to do jus-
tice to the subject of the commercial
traveler. No effort shall be made to af-
ford merriment or laughter by reciting
episodes or reminiscences as a part of the
experiences of the commercial traveler.

I shall not attempt to tell the story of the

overcoat; I shall not try to explain the

expense account; I shall not endeavor to
picture Sam’! of Posen, the most innocent

man on the road; nor shall l speak of a

gentleman not a thousand miles away

who, upon a certain occasion, succeeded
in making a sale of soap in the great

State of California large enough and of

sufficient magnitude to warrant the Union |

Pacific Railroad Company to increase its
rolling stock and to build a double track
from Omaha to San Francisco. No, Mr.
President, on the contrary, the subject is
to my mind most serious and far-reach-
ing. The commercial traveler of the fu-
ture will occupy a position and wield an
influence in the commercial world per-
haps second to none; and, if this be
true. he should possess certain natural
endowments and equipment necessary to
the complete make-up of a successful
salesman.

Let us consider what some of these es-
sential requirements are. First, and
above all, the successful salesman must
be an honest man; he must be 4 hard-
working, industrious man, and he must
be a man possessing a high order of in-
telligence, so that he may easily divine
between right and wrong, and, being
thus enabled to perceive his duty, he
will, with becoming force and courage,
pursue it with diligence. Such a man,
with such endowments aud such prepa-
ration, pursues his calling from high, hon-
est principles, upon a broad plane of hon-
esty; strictly adhering to and ever keep-
ing in mind the ‘‘golden rule,’’ he cannot
fail to achieve permanent success and
happiness in the pursuit of his business
life.

Sufficient care and pains have not been
taken, as arule, in thiscountry in the se-
lection of the proper kind of material
from which to make good commercial
travelers, and proper attention has not
been given to educate them up to the cor-
rect realization of their part taken'in re-
iation to the houses with which they are
connected. In Great Britain and other
European countries, commercial travel-
ers are selected only trum gvod families;
they are men of high intelligence, and,
of necessity, receive a gocd business
training. They are gentlemen of good
presence and refinement of character,
thoroughly educated in and master of the
science of their profession; while in this
country I regret that observation has led
me to the belief that American wholesale
grocers, when engaging commercial trav-
elers, to a very large degree overlook, ig-
nore, or consider of but little moment,
these qualities to which reference has
been made and which, in my estimation,
are of vast importance.

in this connection I urge upon you,
one and all, as employers of salesmen, to
use your influence to elevate in these par-
ticulars the standard of the commercial
traveler. You owe it to yourselves; you
owe it to your representatives. Your
traveling men are an index to the honses
they represent; they are your agents—
your mouthpiece—a true reflex and coun-
terpart of yourselves, aad the trade will
form an estimate of you precisely in
keeping with the character and consist-
ency of your representatives.

I have said that the commercial trav-
eler should have a well-trained mind and
astrong personality to support him in
the discharge of his duties away from
home, deprived of the benefit of consul-
tation and advice when forced to
decide at once for himself, from a logical
standpoint, questions of importance.
The buyers of any of your large houses
have the advantage of consultation, and
the credit men of your various concerns
are in possession of the same blessing,

 

‘point or from the commercial traveler’s

 

“HEH MICHIGAN

must decide the most intricate matters
promptly and entirely according to his
own judgment, without the assistance or |
advice of anyone; hence tue necessity of
natural ability, good training and sound
judgment. The commercial traveler
should, also, be a thorough statistician,
so that when asked for an opinion on the
future of any great staple or article of
merchandise that comes within his line
he may answer promptly. For in-
stance, should he be asked his opinion on
the future of the sugar market, he ought
to be abie to reply with promptness, giv-
ing the estimated crop of the current
year contrasted or compared with that of
the previous and former years, and, tak-
ing these and other surrounding condi-
tions into consideration, satisfy his cus-
tomer of his thorougk familiarity with
this and other important subjects of like
nature from a most intelligent stand-
point. Such aman will inspire in the}
minds of his trade that confidence and |
respect for his intelligence which is so
desirable, if not absolutely necessary, to
success; and, while | would have the
commercial traveler repose every confi-
dence in the instructions of his house
relative to the cost of goods and the value
of same, yet Isubmit that if he wants
and expects to rise to eminence, and be a
star in his profession, he must in this,
as in any other walk in life, be a well-
read, seif-posted and self-made man.
Thus far the commercial traveler has
been referred to in a general way; but
just now | desire to allude to him ina
more specific manner, from a wholesale
grocer’s standpoint, and in doing so Il
wish to call your attention to the fact
that the inauguration ef Equality in the
sale of sugars has brought about uniform
prices on this great staple; and that this
uniformity is to prevail in the future,
not only in this but in many, if not all,
of the States east of the Rocky Moun-
tains, and that the principle and practice
of Equality, as known to the grocery
trade, shall be broadened and deepened
as time goes on, and that it will be ap-
plied to many other lines of groceries
there is but little doubt. This will, nat-
urally, necessitate a unanimity and ad-
herence to the grand and inexorable
principle of Equality all along the line,
and this harmonious action on Equality
and all the Rules of Practice for the con-
duct of business soon to be established
and maintained, will, in the future, shut
out salesmen devoid of good principle
and will call into action men trained in
their profession; believers in the policy
of ‘live and let live;” progressive men;
men who abhor cutting prices; men who
abbor making unjust rebates or allow-
ances of any kind or nature. I say that,
whether from a wholesale grocer’s stand-

{
but the traveling man, in most cases, |

standpoint, the future will find no place
on the road for the cutter or rebater or
maker of unjust allowances. In other |
words, there will be no room on the list }
of commercial travelers for any man not}
strictly honorable in all his ways.
i trust you will not imagine that | am
setting up an ideal salesman of such high |
stature that the realization. would be im- |
possible. I believe not. For many
years I occupied the role and filled the
capacity of the commercial traveler, and |
if there is one man in the commercial |
world who, more than another, is enti- |
tled to special consideration, it is he;
for, in my opinion, of ail the professions
|

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and trades, in that of the commercial
traveler may be found the keenest wits,
the brightest genius, the brainiest men, |
the most generous, the most devout, the |
most faithful and the most charitable; |
but, as all things in nature are changing,
so would I see the commercial traveler
day by day grow better. 1 would have |
for his motto, ‘‘Excelsior,’’ ever reaching |
toward that perfection which is, perhaps,
only attained by a life of earnest struggle |
and fidelity in building up and cement- |
ing the common brotherhood of man.
————j@7s3. a ____

Every great man has a physician who |
can forbid his patient to make a public |
speech when it is best for him not to
talk.

 

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There are always enough officers to go |
round; but not enough offices. |

TRADESMAN

GRINGHUIS’
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS

Size 8 1- — Ce: | | Ar.

240
1 320 "
5 400 ca
6 480 [

INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK.
8) Double Pages, Registers 2,880 invoices.

TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Agents,
Grand Rapids, - - -

 

Established 1868

H M. Reynolds & Son.)

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

Practical Roofers
In Felt, Somposition and Gravel.

 

.-82 00 Ly. Grand Rapids..

Mich.

|

j

CHICAGO _ Sept. 25, 1894,

AND WEsT M'!CHIGAN R’Y.

 

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Gd — ea: : :25am 1:25pm *11:30pm
Cutcaro .....-. 25pm 6:50pm *6:45am
RE TURNING FROM CHICAGO.
. CeleneS.... .. ..8:15am 5:00pm *11:45pm
mew] Rapids. eke 3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.
. Grand Rapids ..... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
. Grand R. 9:i5am 3:05pm
TRAVSRSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
7:30am 3:15pm
12:20pm 8:15pm
1:00pm 8:5vpm

Lv.

Ar. Maniatec........
| Ar. Traverse City...
| Ar. ae ao 3:15pm 11:10pm
| Ar. Petoskey .. 3:45pm 11:40pm
Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and *10;00
pm
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

Parlor cars leave for Chicago 1:25pm. For

| north 3: 15pm. Arrives from Chicago 10:35pm.

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| Ar. Grand Rapids..

Cor. Louis and Campau Sts., Grand Rapids

 

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The Leading Nickle Cigar
Made inthis Market.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit)
Made by Improved Machinery.

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

Sold at $35 per 1,000

By the Manufacturer,

G. J. Johnson,

Telephone 1205.

| BIOS. 0G Ui,

STATE AGENTS FOR

347 South Division St.
Grand Rapids,
Mich.

 

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

| Ly. Grand Rapids...
| Ar. trom Lioepenl......-.... 12:40pm 5:15pm

 

From north. 1:pm. Sleeping cars leave for Chi.
' cago 11:30pm. Arrive from Chicago 6:25.
*Every day. Others week days only.

DETROIT,

LANSING & NORTHERN R. R.,

 

Sept. 23, 1894

 

GOING TO DETROIT.
| Ly. Grand enue ee 7:00am 1:20pm 5:55pm
| Ar. Detroit . : -11:40am 5:30pm 10:40pm
RETUKNING FROM DETROIT.
Ly. Detroit. .. 7:40am l:lupm 6:00pm
...12:40pm 5:15pm 10:45pm

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BT. LOUIS.

| L¥.GR 7:40am 4:45pm Ar. G R.12:35pm 10:55pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL,
. 7:00am 1:20pm 5:55pm

THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn-
ing train.

Trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.

 

EASTWARD.
Trains Leave tNo. 14\tNo. 16)tNo. 18;*No.

 

 

 

Gd Rapids, LV} 6 45am/{10 20am) 325pm/11 00pm
lonta. . Ar) 740am/11 25am) 4 27pm/1235am
St. Johns ...Ar) 8 25am}12 17pm] 520pm] 1 25am
Owonas ...... Ar| 900am 120pm/ 6 05pm} 3 10am
E. Saginaw ..Ar/|10 50am| 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City Ar}|11 32am} 4 35pm) § 37pm} 7 ldam
Pont ........ Ar/|10 05am] 345pm) 7 05pm) 5 4am
Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pm} 550pm/ 8 50pm) 7 30am
Poatiac .... .. Ar/|10 58am] 305pm/ 8 25pm} 5 37am
Betrott....... Ar/11 50am] 405pm/ 925pm) 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
—........... *7:00 a. m

For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 p. m.
Mil. and Chi...+4:55 D. m
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily
Trains arrive from the east, 6: 3 a.m., 12:60
p.m., 4:35 p. m
"Files arrive from the west, 10:10a. m. 3:15
pm. and 9:10 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

TRAINS GOING NORTH,
Leave going
North

For Traverse City, Petoskey ~_ re <r

For Traverse City ‘and Mackin

For Cadiliac and Saginaw.........

Por Meckieaw...................
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

as

   

  

Li
of any rubber in the ar | ~—.
Pe Oe
ket. -Our line of Leather For Kalamazoo and Chicago......... ....... 2:15 p- =
. For Fort Wayne and the East................ 2:15 p.m.
Boots and Shoes is com- | For Cincinnati..............-00.000. "5:40 p.m.
oe ee
plete in every particular, | or Kalamazoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p.m
also Felt Boots, Sox, ete. Cionge via. G. B. HT. BR.
Ly Grand Rapids........ 6: eo m 2:15pm “11: 40pm

Thanking you for past favors Wwe now
await your further orders. Hoping you
wiil give our line a careful inspection
when our representative calis on you,
we are REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“Tie Niagara Falls Route.’’
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)

 

 

Arrive. _Depart
eps e........ Detwolt Express ........ 70am
5 am.....*Atiantic and Pacific.... . 11 20pm
1 — ee New Yorz Express...... 6 0pm
aily. All others daily, except Sunday.
Sleeping ‘ears run on Atlantic and Pacific ex

press trains to and from Detroit.

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

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

. ALMQUI8ST, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

Arr Chicago Pm 9:00pm 7:10am
2:15 p m train inion Wagner Buffet. Parlor
Car and coach.
11:40 p m train daily, through W sl
and Coach, £ agner Sleeping Car
v cago = :30 p m 11:30
Arr Grand Rapids 9:15 p . pm z: 20 =
3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car.
11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

For Muskegon— Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive
5am 8:25am

1 :00p m

\:40 Dm

1:15pm

8:10pm
: 0.L. LOCKWOOD‘
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

KNGRAWINGiti

Rnildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery
Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented
Articles.

TRADESMAN CO.
Grand Rapiés, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar (Edgar)—The market during the
past week has ruled dull and heavy for
raws, while refined were reduced Satur-
1-16@ge on all grades. Refiners have
claimed a good business, which the gen-
eral reports do not confirm, but stocks in
many directions have been worked off,
as sales in some localities have been
large; the chief call is still for softs, but
the output of granulated has shown a
very considerable increase, and there is
evidence on every hand that the tendency
is in the direction of improved condi-
tions. We may possibly see some
changes in the list of values, although
we really see no necessity for lower
prices. The Louisiana sugars are finding
a market at about the level of last sea-
son’s low prices and refiners may check
any tendency on the part of the grocery
trade to invest in these sugars, by cheap-
ening refined, but we see no reason why
this should be necessary until receipts
become large, when we are inclined to
look for a firmer market for the Southern
product. The refiners are the large con-
sumers and will, undoubtedly, enter into
sharp competition with the dealers dur-
ing the season of largest receipts. Melt-
ings continue light; the Philadelphia
houses closed down a week ago and the
production in New York is extremely
limited. As repeatedly stated heretofore
we have entered a low priced campaign
and the over supply of sugars in dealers’
hands, with resultant absence of demand,
has intensified the position to such an ex-
tent that in order to start a buying move-
ment, some very attractive prices may be
offered later on. While sugar is unques-
tionably cheap to-day, there is little en-
couragement to anticipate requirements
and we can only counsel conservative in-
vestment.

Pork—The tendency of. barrelled and
smoked pork is still downward and no
change for the better is expected before
the end of the year, by which time the
“odds and ends’’ will be cleared up. See
price current for quotations. Business
for the week in the local market was dull
and spiritless.

Fish—Whitefish are a
Other varieties unchanged.

Farinaceous Goods—Oatmeal is lower.
Sago has declined. Lima beans and
pear! barley are stronger and higher.

Bananas—The demand does not im-
prove to any appreciable degree and
local peddlers are getting the bulk of
nearly every car which our wholesale
dealers take in. Domestie fruits are un-
doubtedly responsible for the slow sale
of bananas.

little lower.

 

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The Hardware Market.
General trade continues good, al-
though the warm weather prevents any

very great activity. Reports from other
trade centers and adjacent towns all in-
dicate that in some lines there is quite a
standstill, pending the advent of a cold
wave. The indications all point to an
active demand in many lines as soon as
the fall crops are harvested and returns
from them come in. The pectato and
fruit crop being good in “Michigan and
prices ruling high cannot but help hav-
ing a good effect on general trade.
Prices in all lines of hardware fluctuate
but little, as they already seem low
enough to suit the majority—certainly
lower than the manufacturer wishes
they were.

Wire Nails—Are moving freely. The
mills are all running and report a good

 

 

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ca
demand. Pome advance from the present |

low rates is not likely and, if anything,

lower prices may rule before higher. We

quote $1.30 @1.33 from stock and $1.10

at the mill.

Barbed Wire—The demand but
slight, but, as yet, the mills quite
busy and do not manifest any disposi-
tion to name lower figures, they
not think it would have the effect to
create any more In in-
stances, orders are placed for
spring shipment, as many feel the pres-
ent low figure cannot rule the coming
year.

Sheet Iron—In good demand and many
makers find it impossible to keep up
with their orders. There
to note in price, however.

Ammunition—The demand very
good and, in some lines, it is impossible
to get the goods. Loaded and empty
shells and-certain kinds of cartridges are
impossible to get without placing your
order at least a month ahead.

Window Glass—Never so low as now.
How long it the
asked by every manufacturer and jobber.
Some say the low price will
rule all winter; others that a change for
the better will come after election. We
can tell better after January 1.

—_—--~-2 <<

A Fashionable Woman’s sie
Prom A Bachelor Maid”

‘Did nobody ever tell you that in some
far prehistoric time 1 was in love with
my husband?’’ said Mrs. Romaine, ecare-
lessiy. “Well, I was. 1 used to go to
afternoon services in Lent and pray for
that love to last, because the sensation
Was so much to my taste. I used to have
ecstatie feelings when his foot was on the
stair, and I sat sewing little baby-clothes
We lived in a planish way, then: th
dollars spent in two theatre-tickets
a tremendous outlay; and we walked out
to dinners—I tucking up the train of my
best gown under a long cloak, and laugh-
ing if the wind snatched it away from
me at the corners and whipped it around
my feet. Then he grew richer, and we
broadened the borders of our phylactery,
and then—how—when—dear knows if |
can remember, we grew farther and far-
ther away from each other. Now when
he is at home, i am aware of it because
he is there behind a newspaper, but that
is all! When our lips meet, itis like two
pieces of dry pith coming together. Lhave
a perfectly unsurpassed power of an-
noying him by my presence. | know
nothing of his affairs, nor he of mine.
Our interests are his, not mine. Our
house is mine, not his. All my tastes
are ‘fads’; but,so long as 1 don’t disgrace
him, he does not interfere. 1 have
money in abundance. Money—money—
who cares for money when a man’s heart
and soul and brain have gone into it?
How long is it since he has thought L
eould want anything from him but a
check? But ah! if | were you, and Gor-
don were my suitor—if knowing what
was to come, I had it all to live over
again—I think I would take the bitter
present for one taste of the old sweet
that never can come back!’’

i lpm
Ida—‘‘Did you see my father?”’
Waiter—'‘Yes, I toid him I had come

to ask of him the greatest blessing a

young man could ask—his daughter’s

hand.”’

‘*‘And what did he say?”

‘“*He seemed much pleased—said he was
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TRADESMAN.

 

Specific Name for Michigan Cheese.

! J. H. Monrad in National Dairyman.

}and
injustice committed which permeates the |

 

Michigan had no show at all at the
World’s Fair with its soft, soggy cheese,
we do not wonder at the feeling of

cheese-
is ac-

Michigan
cheese

mind of the successful
maker who knows that his

| policy

tually outselling the best Wisconsin and |

county’’ cheese

to consume
*Tis true he

New York ‘Herkimer
in an area sufficiently large
the per cent. of production.

has long ago made up his mind that it is |

useless to place his cheese on the open |
but |

in Chicago or New York,
cares’? when he has his special
little avenues through which he unloads
his whey-loaded product? And who is to
blame him? He gets a bigger yield and,
as said before, in some eases actually
outsells good ‘‘cheddar.’? We
very last to cago him; indeed,
sume we should a
same eos 2 we write
partly to explain the action of the judges
the World’s Fair and to show their
justice, and partly to enter a protest
against the Michigan

inarket
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we pre-

at

as he does under the} ae a : : i
this | PABY was responsible for the loss, on the
his |

sheesemakers ecall-j; . ee
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| her loss.
are the |

| der

ing their cheese not only by the time-|
honored name of cheddar bat even by
the later adopted names for the same
cheese in different form, ‘'Flats” and
“Young America.’”?’ We claim that a
cheese so different from the original as |

the Michigan cheese is from the original

standard should, indeed, not
allowed an entry in the said
spite of the shape being correct. They
have no more right to be classed as be-
longing to the cheddar variety than a
lump of cheddar curd moulded in the
shape of Edam has the right to be classed
as such. Thus, while we freely admit
the right of Michigan factories to
cater to any special trade, we doubt the
correctness of their calling their product

classes in

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by the name of one so very much differ-
ent in everything but the shape, and we
think it would be a good policy for cur

Michigan friends to adopt some specific
name under which their peculiar product
might become known. If this had been
done there would have been a special
class for their cheese at the World’s Fair
and they would have been judged aceord-
ing to their own standard. As long as
the cheese is entered under either of the
above-mentioned three names, the mak-
ers will have to stand or fall by the true
standard, that of the old English eheddar.
Let the Michigan Dairymen’s Association
take this matter up and give a premium
not only for a suitable name but for the
best description of the make and the
quality of the Michigan modification of
‘cheddar’ cheese.
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She Smoked Them, Out.

Mrs. Outen, of New York, who rents
furnished rooms, has discovered an effi-
cient way of getting rid of undesirable
lodgers. Charles Burns and his wife
have been living in the house for some
time, but for some reason Mrs. Outen
preferred their room to their company,
and gave them notice to quit. They
were very comfortable where they were,
and, politely but firmly declined to
vacate. Mrs. Outen does not have a very
high opinion of the machinery
which undesirable tenants are dispos-
sessed, so she went out and procured a
lot of sulphur, which she put into a pan
and putting it into a room immediately
under that of the tenants, it on fire.
Presently the acrid fumes pervaded the
whole house, and came pouring through
the windows in yellow clouds, tothe no
small alarm of the neighbors, who did
not understand what was going on. The
tenants stood it awhile, but human en-
durance has its limits, and they were
soon compelled to capitulate. When they
were once outside, Mrs. Outen locked
them out, and would not permit them to
enter the house even to get their belong-
ings.

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was presented in Chicago recently. ‘The
manager of one of the larger companies
received a proof of loss from an agent in
a near-by town fora sulky plow which
was destroyed in a fire in a blacksmith

|Shop. The owner of the plow carried in-

surance on his farm machinery, but the

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to cover it on his
farm a mile away. Some repairs were
found necessary and the plow was taken
to the blacksmith shop, where it was
when the fire destroyed the shop and the

was written

plow. The owner made claim for indem-
nity on the ground the repairs to the

plow were necessary and asked to be re-
imbursed for its value. The case is sim-
ilar to one which came up in Milwaukee
some time ago. A woman who carried
insurance on all her household effects
sent a sealskin jacket toa furrier to be
repaired. Fire destroyed the shop and
the woman asked to be recompensed for
When this case came before
the courts, as it did, the Supreme Court
of Wisconsin decided the insurance com-

ground that the repairs were necessary
to the garment, that the taking of it to
the store did not release the insurance
The policy un-
this was rendered
contained a clause insuring the property
‘‘contained in said dwelling. The deci-
the wording of
the policies, which now read ‘‘while con-
tained in 7” It would be
well for every one to read their policies
carefully and watch for new clauses.
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According to La Laiterie, the number
of distinct Varieties of cheese produced
in dairy world—that is, in Europe
and America, for very little is known of
the production of Africa and the East—
is 213, of which 204 are produced in
Europe, the remaining nine being pro-
duced in America. It is, however, doubt-
ful (says Professor Long) whether the
whole of these are really distinet varie-
ties. Wetake the American varieties—
for example, the Cheddar, flat cheese,
Young America, pineapple! cheese and
brick cheese. Of this number we shall
find that the first four at least resemble
each other in manufacture and in flavor,
although the form different. The
Young America cheese, of which so much
is made in the States, is almost identical
with a Wiltshire loaf; which is also, and
in this country, too frequently described

which decision

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as a distinct variety. It is nothing of
the kind. Itis a Cheddar made in the
form of a Stilton, and the same remark

  
 

applies to many of the va-
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total exportation and importation of
produce of the various dairy countries of
the world amount in value to 1,203,000,-
000f., of which 687,000,000f. apply to
butter and 516,000,000f. to cheese.

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Drugs# Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy!

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach ian Arbor.
Two Years—George Gundrum, fonia.
Three Years—C.A Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Four Years—S. F. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F. W.R. Perry Detroit.
President— Fred’k W R Perry, Detroit.
fecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, [onia.
Coming Meetings—Lansing, Nov. 7 aid 8.

 

 

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President— A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit,
Trearurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.

 

Grand Rapids Pharmacentica) Society
President, Walter K Schmidt; Secretary, B. Schrouder

“The Drug Store ane the Geleee.

Some years ago a physician made a
tempting offer to induce me to take a
young man (a student of medicine) into
my employ, solely for the purpose of im-
parting to him a knowledge of the prin-
ciples of pharmacy, amounting to what
might be called a short practical course.
It was not the financial inducement so
much as adesire to accommodate a friend
that finally led me to assume the charge.
After a few weeks of such responsibility
I became very tired of my ‘‘bargain,”
and at the termination of the contract ]
felt not a little relieved; it was as a bur-
den lifted. I believe I never before nor
since realized the gap which exists be-
tween the drug store and the college; be
tween what is known as shop training
and coilege training. My time was so
constantly demanded by thestore and oc-
cupied with business cares that it re-
quired an effort which I did not before
realize, to make at times a sudden turn
and concentrate my mind upon the one
idea of teaching, and for the time being
convert my laboratory and store-room
into a class-room; and yet to perform mj
duty conscientiously I felt this was nec-
essary to do at stated times almost every
day.

I believe I am saying only what has
been said over and over again, and in
perhaps the same words: Practical shop
experience can be acquired in no other
place than the drug store, and a college
education can be obtained in no other
place than inside the college walls. The
practical laboratory work of the college,
which de¥otes its time, as it should, to
the practical demonstration of the teach-
ing of the class-room, should not be in-
tended as a substitute for that peculiar
experience which is gained behind the
drug counter. I think it goes without
saying that to-day it requires both ot
these to make a pharmacist in the sense
in which the word is used by the drug-
gist and by the body politic. It alse
goes without saying that the college or
school gives a training which cannot be
accomplished by the shop, and the shop
gives a training which cannot be accom-
plished by the college.

If | were to characterize in simple
terms the quality of the two kinds of
training, I should say that the one was
business like and the other professional,
or rather technical, in character. Ot
course, | do not mean by this that either
the college or the shop confines itself
within these boundaries. It would be a
poor college professor who did not occa-
sionally indulge in a lecture on the busi-
ness side of pharwacy, and it would bea
curious specimen of a pharmacist who
would not now and then indulge in com-
ments upon the scientific principles
which underlie the profession which his
business represents. But the aims and

 

tor, and those of the teacher or profess-
or, are almost directly opposite.

This divergency of interest was not so
apparent in former years, when the col-
lege course was comparatively limited;
but as time has advanced, it has become
more pronounced, until the college in
some parts of our country, feeling itself
fully occupied with its immediate work,
asks to be relieved of the responsibility
of looking after, and holding itself re-
sponsible for, the shop training. In do-
ing this it does not seem to underrate the
value of the shop training, but merely
wishes to be relieved of the vouching for
that over which it has so little control.

Endeavoring to look at the matter from
an unbiased standpoint—as the public
might look at it—it seems to me it does
not matter upon whom the burden of this
duty rests; the important thing is that it
shall be looked after by proper and re-
sponsible parties. Whether this respon-
sibility rests upon the college or the
State board is perhaps immaterial, pro-
vided the investigation is properly made.

It seems to me that in either case shop
experience will always be found to be an
uncertain and variable quantity—de-
pendent upon the quality and faithful-
ness of the preceptors who have the su-
pervision of such work. Comments here
are unnecessary, as everyone knows that
the personal equation of the preceptor is
by no means a fixed quantity.

The question has frequently been asked
me: Why not adopt the plan of some of
the colleges—be relieved of this burden
and only look after the college work—
give credit for this, and let the other take
eare of itself? My answer to this is.
that whenever it shall beagreed that this
shall be looked after by others, [ shall be
only too glad to resign that part of the
work. I wish very much that some unity
of action could be adopted by our various
colleges, but I should be very sorry to
adopt any plan which might be misun-
derstood by the shop, and that would
tend to disturb the intimate relation
which now exists between the two.

In the University of Kansas the per-
sonal contact of the professor with the
student, and his intimate relation with
the student’s preceptor, give him a pecul-
iarly advantageous position to judge of
the value of shop training: but itis a
question whether it is best after all for
him or the institution he represents to
continue to vouch for this experience. |
should not like to urge any radical
change from present methods unless the
change be recommended by our State
Board of Pharmacy and thoroughly ac
ceded to by our Board of Regents.

The question has oceurred to me:
What would be the value of a diploma
issued by the University which does not
in any way vouch for practical drug
store experience, as compared with a
diploma, as it now stands, which does
vouch for this in a measure? Assuming
that the college training in both eases be
precisely the same, whether the expe-
rience be had or not, it is clear that the
diploma in the latter case, where the ex-
perience is had, represents more. It is
true it would represent also values more
variavle, but it would in every case mean
more. I think this is the view that any
unbiased person would take, and the
view the public would take. As before
stated, I should be very happy indeed to
relieve myself of the responsibility of ac-

‘counting for, of verifying and vouching
purposes of the proprietor and precep- |

for, the shop experience; and I am sure

that this would be a change, if adoptep
by the Board of Regents, which the stu-
dents, particnlarly those who are ambi-
tious and impatient to obtain a degree,
would welcome very heartily. It would
doubtless increase the number of stu-
dents on the class roll, but whether it
would ultimately be an advantage to the
profession of pharmacy in the State of
Kansas is aquestion upon which I am en-
deavoring to get some light, and trust
that it will be fairly and freely discussed
at this meeting in the Educational Sec-
tion of our Association.

In closing I would say that I am con-
vinced of one thing, and that is that our
educational institutions of pharmacy in
the United States should come to an un-
derstanding, and an effort should be made
in the direction of greater uniformity in
this matter of pharmaceutical education
in college, and shop experience.

L. E. SAYRE.

—__-. -4+ >
Look Out for His Whiskers.

A man may smile and smile again, and
still be a villain; but if he wears a full
beard he is not easily found out. An-
archists and pirates, and occasional re-
vival preachers may wear beards, but
good actors and good lawyers and elo-
quent orators are clean-shaven. There
is a prejudice against a beard that does
not alone come from boarders who sit at
the same table and are obliged to see the
full-bearded man soak his whiskers with
his soup. An expert connected with the
police of New York remarked the other
day that in the course of eighteen years’
service he had seen a great many men
brought up on the charge of insulting
women in the streets and elsewhere.
“They do not resemble one another
much,” he said, ‘‘except that in every in-
stance they wear full beards. I don’t re-
member of ever seeing a clean-shaven,
thoroughly smart-looking young man at
the bar on that charge. ‘Their whiskers
are never trimmed to a point, either, but
always grow ina straggling or careless
way. Ihave never noted any exception
to this, and, so far as my opinion goes, I
think that any man who gets up in the
morning, takes a bath and shaves him-
self with a bit of cold steel, is apt to
start out and be decent, whereas the
whiskered man is not. I read an article
by Chauncey Depew once, in which he
said that the passing of the cold steel
over his face in the morning always
drove the fanciful ideas of the night out
of his head, and straighted him out for a
hard and sensible day’s work. I guess
there is a good dealin it, though I am
not able to reason these things out as Mr.
Depew does. But you can go bail for
one thing, and that is, whenever you
read in the papers that a man has been
arrested for insulting a woman, you can
picture him in your mind’s eye as having
a shabby set of whiskers.”

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Are Your Heels Nicked?

Philip Welch, a traveling man, says
that Pullman ear porters have a secret
method of informing one another as tothe
characters of travelers who pass over the
lines, just as tramps have secret signals
by which they notify one another of the
treatment which they may expect at
houses along the road. They make the
travelers themselves carry the signs on
the inside edges of their boot heels. Of
course, almost every patron of the Pull-
man cars must place his boots at the
merey of the porters, and a very small
nick on the heel is sufficient to tell the
next porter what manner of man he is.
A nick in one part of the heel will say
that the wearer is a generous man, andis
worth lavishing some attention on. A
nick in another place will say that he is
crabbed and close-fisted, and future por-
ters who get those shoes to clean will
steer clear of the wearer. A spotter—
one of the individuals employed to travel
about as spies on the conductors and por-
ters—is known by acertain mark on his
heels, and when that is seen the employes
of the line will be on their best behavior.

 

1t would be well for travelers to examine

their heels the next time they are ona
Pullman, and get some adept to decipher
the meaning of the nicks they find there,
if they need any deciphering.

——< +0

An Old Bank-note.

Bank notes are common enough in
these days, but they were not so com-
mon in 1699, when one was issued by
the Bank of England, which the bank
still carefully preserves as a notable
curiosity. It is dated Dec. 19, 1699, and
is for £555. It is printed from an en-
graved plate, but has blanks for the
amount, date, number and _ signature.
Across the face are indorsements, show-
ing that it was redeemed in three sepa-
rate installments. In general appearance
it is not unlike the modern bank-note!
Another curiosity in the same line pre-
served by the bank is a £25 note, which
was not presented for redemption for 111
years. The bank also has a note, drawn
in 1782, for £1,000,000. This is quite
unique, only four notes for such an
amount ever having been issued.

~ >_> 2. <->

The mints are busily coining cents and
nickels because they are needed. Much
of the need comes from the modern style
of price-fixing, which chips a few cents
off every dollar. The bargain which
offers a rebate is irresistible. But
neither baits nor rebates will draw the
purehaser without publicity. It is
mainly advertising which keeps the
small change rattling and makes work
forthe mints. In fact, it is a mint itself,
if its coinage facilities be capably
handled.

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aes. @ 40 oes - seesees dont 25 Cassia Fructus... @ 2%
. = * ... @ Bie 12@ 14| Centraria....... @ 10
“6 sifted sorta... Po a Cannabis 8 Sativa cee @ 5 Chloroform ‘ eg 2
ss ee ( 36 nf a, ae og P Caleretoe
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] Cydontum.--- ........ og 12 eguibbs.. 1 25
"Cape, (po, 20}. @ 121 Siterix Odorate 2 40@2 80 Chioral Hyd Crat...... 1 25@1 50
Socstri, (po. 60). @ 50 Foenicuium.... . @ 15|Chondrus............. 20 2
Catechu, in, (Ams 14 ae. “4 Foenugreek, po 6@ 8 oe & 2S ae =
16) ssq@ 60] Lint...... 3n@ 4 Corks, list, dis. per
Ammoniae . 5@ 60) Tint, gra. (bbl. 8%).. 3%@ 4 ' ye
Assafotida, (po. 3 3). 23Q 30 Lobelt ia / . B® 40] Cent ............... 7
Bensoinuim.. . — = Phariaris Canarian ae ot ae" @ %
Comers. ............ 46@ 55 Rapa oe Creta, (oer. %)..... @ 2
Euphorbium ” on 35g : 10 Staapts Alba a 7@ 8) §, PYEP......... 5@ 5
Galbanum.. wanes | @2 50 Nigra. 11@ 12] * — rice ae 9@ 11
Gamboge, po.. : 10@ i i . MDES......, @ 8
Guaiacum, (pe ‘85) @ » 8 re CHOCNE 8.60... 35@ 40
Kino, (po 1 7%). @i 7} Framenti, W., D. Co 2 W0@% 50 | Cudbear........ @ #4
Mastic . @ 80 ‘ D. FL R.....1 75@2 00) Copri Sulph..... 5@ 6
Myrrh, (po. 4 @ 4 r tl 1 25@1 50] Dextrine.............. 10@ 12
Opli (po 3 1003 "40)..2 40@2 3) | Suniperix Co. 0. T....1 65@2 00} Ether Sulph........... 75@ 90
Shellac .. . 5Q@ 1 75@3 50 aa numbers. @
““pleached..... 33@ 35] gaacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Te @ 6
Trarecanth ........... 40@1 00} Spt. Vini Gall. 1 756 50 | Ergo a CC 30@ 35
HERBA—In ounce packages. ba —— ve teeee ees : 25@2 00 | = Flake ee | 1s
AN, .--.------------- & Oe > ovo haa Se 7 @B
aa = ilesoeeuemian Gelatin, Cooper... @
eri og | Florida aheeps’ wool : French........ 20
Majorum ...... fe canes ss = Carriage -...© 50@2 75 | Glassware flint, by box 90.
Mentha seas srineceenes El imams sheepe’ wool » op | Less than box 76.
Rue.. veresisereseees 20] gaiwee Omece shespe’ | Gime, Browa.......... 9 15
Tanacetum, V.............-. = wool Carriage....... 110] caer . “ ue =
wre Extra yellow sheeps’ Grana Paradisi.......  @®
ema carriage ... waal ear ” Hema 25@ 55
Calcined, Pai.. , a oO Grass sheeps wool Car- os Hydraag Chior Mite. @ %5
Carbonate, Pat..‘..... MQ 2 Hint tor 2 as poe 7 ss Cor @ 6
Carbonate, K. & 0 38 Yellow Reef, for slate Ox Rubram @ &
Carbonate, Jennings.. 25@ 36 portal 1 40 a" Ammontiati.. BR s
OLEUK. ni i nguentum.
Absinthium. ........- 2 50@3 00 SYRUPS. Hydrargyrum......... @ 60
Save | ee a =. 50 | Accacia 50 Tohthyo olla, Am.. ..1 net =
Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@S ) 25 | Zingiber . 50 ee ena uu aeese 3a =
Oe ce. ee ..2 65@2 90 Toebac..... heseececcees toe _ eeabt.......- os
Auranti eee. - Gee i Pers fod................ ... SO; seaamurm......_.
Bergamii ..... ..--3 00@3 20 | Auranti Cortes. .. OO impure... |... ... @2 2%
5 I di 65
Cajipad ........,..-.- 60@ 65] Rhei Arom.. ee 50 | Lycopodium .......... 6O@ 6
Caryophyill “+++ %@ 80} Similax Officinalis. en ee sae. @ %5
Cedar iccsece oe . 2 Grane fod et Hy aa
Chenopodii . ee @1 Bemeee 2... oe are.
= Cinnamonil......... 1 60@1 76 / Soilise...................... 50 | Liqu a 10@ 12
Seeneite. Cee mer tt ae 2 = ' a = Magnes a, Sulph ( ‘
Conium Mac.......... Qian .....-.. ee eee eee DOE | DA). - ee eens cece eee ee
mee 80@ 90| Prunus ¢irg 50| Mannia, 8. F......... 63

Morphia, S.P.& W.  195@2 20] Seidlits Mixture...... @ xa
' N.Y. CG 4 Sinapi es... @ 18
C Co... i @ ®%
Moschus Canton...... 40 | Snuff, Massa, De
Myristica, No 1.. ... ae wl Ves. @ 35
Nux — (po 20) .. @ 10 Snuff, nail De. pas @ *35
Oe Mee 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 1). 10@ 11
Pe an a H.&P. dD. Soda et Potass Tart. 24@ 25
Bes codec cl. 00| Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2
Picts Liq, N.C., % gal Seda, Bi-Carb......... @ &
a @2 00 | Soda, Ash.............3%@ 4
Picis Ligq., _— a @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2
mie... @ 85} Spts. EtherCo........ 50@ 55
Pil Hydra, (po, 80) .. @ 50} ‘“ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00
Piper Nigra, (po. _ @i1  Biyreta Imp... .. @2 50
Piper Alba, (po $5) .. @ 3 * Wind Reet bbl.
Plix Burgun De @ a 2 49@2 59
Frepl Acct |... 12@ 13 Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 1001 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 45
ty. boxes H Sulphur, a Dae Lue 24@ 3
. Ce, doa... .. @1 25 woe eae e 2 @2%
rethr | oe... Taner... 8@ 10
Pyrat a oo — 3 = Terebenth. Veniee..... 28Q 30
Quinia, Shaw... “maging Theobromac ........_. 45 @ 48
S. German.... 279 OE 9 — 00
Rubia Tinctorum..... 1L2@ 14 Zinci Sulph.......... 7@ 8
Saccharum Lactis pv. i 14
See 2 10@2 25 ors.
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal
Sano, Ws 12@ 14) Whale, winter........ 70 70
HUTT at 10@ 12] Lard, extra.......... SO 85
- Go... @ 15 Lard, he. 1.. a. 45
Linseed, pure raw.... 58 59

 

 

   

Linseed, boiled.. 62
— it se winter
eas 65 70
eatanieuiia 34 40
PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
Bed Voncetian.......... 1% 2@3
Ochre, yellow — --1% 2@4
Putty, eG . . .24¢ 24%@3
** strictly pure.... . 2% 2%@3
—— rime Amer-
eee ee 13@16
Verutian: English.... 65@70
Green, Peninsular 13@15
Lead, rea... ... 6 @6%
white @b%
Whiting. white Span. @70
Whiting, Gilders’...... @%
White, ‘aris American 1

— Paris Eng.

  

Cae... 1
Universal Prepared ..1 C0O@1 15
Swiss a epared

rane 1 00@1 20

VARNISHES.
No.1 Turp =. --- 4 10@1- 30
Extra Tur --160@1 70
Coach Bo y. ee. . .2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn -1 00@1 10
Eutra Turk oy --1 55@1 60

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VALLEY CITY
POULTRY POWDER

Nothing Like It to Make Hens Lay in Winter.

valuable addition to the feed of laying Hens and growing

chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera

 

Price 25 Cents.

DRUG O0,,

Manufacturing Chemists,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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The prices quoted i in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before

going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

greatest possible use to dealers.

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
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doz gross } ee
Aurora 55 6 00 Sant
Sastor O11... 60 mio... 1 50
Diemer... 50 5 50 Overland. ... a 12
hl. 75 9 00 Blackberries,
Mica 65 151F.& W ' se )
Paragon 55 6 00 Cherries, .
co nea... Loess s.k A oe
BAKING POWDER. Pitted Hamburgh |...
White . 1 50
~ ems. 45 | Erie 125
¢ > —3 ~5 | Damsons. ;. Egg Plums and Green
fi 1 - 190 i ™
: 10 | Erie. 1 10
Bulk oe  Caliteria oo 1s
Arctic. Gooseberries,
i¢ cans 6 doz case > | Common 123
% : C : z a6 j Peaches,
: > rind ig 1 16
5 fb a. 90! Maxwel 1 50
Cr 1ake " h 130
: oz | ' ni 160@1 75
ps ‘ SU
el 1 20
—y neu S 00 Pears.
CC ee ~ Ul 7 oF,
Ib Re 7 oY Riveridel 1 75
Red Star, *% . “a Fn Pineapples,
- oe 1 40] Common anne 1 00@1 30
: a 7 | Johnson's sliced... 2 50
Telfer’s, 3g lb. cans, doz 45 ‘5 grated... 2 75
“ 4% Ib ‘ 85 ' 7 .
7 it ' oe Boot! ’s sliced @2 5)
' ai. - 159 . ated @2 5
Our Leader, fina Quine e8, '
“2 I ) CaANns...... be Common 1 10
1 lbcans 1 Raspberries.
in SRICK. ae 110
ee Black Hamburg... .., 16
Z
2 dozen in case. Erie black 13
Euglish . 30 Strawberries,
Bristol. SO | Lawrence .... 12
Domestic 10 | Hamburgh 1 2
Erie Lo 1 2D
am lh ry r a 1a
BLUING. Gross | Terrapin 1
Whortle berrie eR,
Arctic, 4 0z ovals 3 60 | Blueberries ........ 85
—— | _—. b 75 Meats.
“ pints, round -- 9001 Corned beef I albby’s.
“No, 2, sifting box 275 | Roast beef Armour’s.
. Woes. : 4 00 | Potted har m. % ib :
No. 5 3 00 : % ib
: ox ball ee 45 to ‘gue, 4% Ib
Mexican Lic yuid, 4 oz 36 “s a
‘ 8 oz i. 6 80 ' chicken, & Ib.....
y egetablea.

BROOMS, Beans,

: + 90 Heambur gh Stringless ca. 1
Mo.2Hurl.......... 5 Ap *rench style -2 00
i oo i Anas 1 35
No. 2 Carpet 215 eT ‘[ 2
2 : ........
Parlor Gem = pakod. 2... 1 zs
Common Whisk ie e Baked
Fancy : Boe Fair Baked...... 7 35
Warehouse - © | Picnic Baked..... ..1 00

Corn,
BRUSHES, Hamburgh iat a 1 3
g5 | Livingston Eden..... 1 20
2 i 1 2 vings om. ie
Stove, =e 160
ss a 1 7% oT. a ee
7 Or ng G ~
Rice Root Serv s Seamea’” a POD beeches eee,
Rice Root Sec 1 QF —. 75
Paimette. gor 5 4 si
a Hamburgh mar ; 20

CANDLES, : = June. ..1 £0
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes 10 a con Eng. 4 40
Star, 40 | 9 sancotg a
eins 10 - fancy —_ --. 90

mle oe peeeoe....... Co —..
Wicking 4 | Harris standard...)
 . Vane amp’s marrofat ‘1 10
CARNED GOODS. early June 1 30
Fish. — s Early Blossom 1%
rench 215

Litt Ne Ck, -— 1 a Mushrooms,
itie 2 Ib 4 90 | French...... - -19@21

Clam Chowéer me
Scandard, 3 id 2
OVE Oveters
Standard If 7
= 21b i 3s
Lobsters.
Sonr, 1 ib.... 2 45
+ 2 ie. 3
Picnic, i Ib x
2ib...... * ok 6
Mackerel. nat rf
Standard, 1 ib : 1 i a
2 = le. .
Mi “— > damburg i 30
uktare a Gallon .. 3 00
Tomato a <it
Soused, 2 iy aa 35, CHOCOLATE,
Baker's,
‘olumbtia Rive Geren Hwee. ......... 23
“ ‘ Premiuin oo 37
Alaska, Red.. Breakfast Cocoa.. 43
' ink.
Kinney’s, flats. ... 19 CHEESE,
il oe AMmIDoFy 1134
Sardines. a eme 114
Americau = 1AD sawee 11%
Sn@ raide 11;
> c p1
imported “" eee i. @ 01 Go ia Medal 10%
ce aK .t im 8u9
Mustard « 6@7 | Brick “2
Boneless . _. “1! Baam 1 Ww
"Trout. Leiden 2
Brook 3, ib..... 2 50] Limourger @'5
Fruits. a ioe eee. @24
Apples, a ee a @35
lb. standard 1 29 | Sap Sago.......... B20
York State, gal) ous 4 00} Schweitzer, uw ported i G23
Hamburgh, Ty Hai domestic @i3

 

 

 

 

   

  

 

  

 

  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Daisy ..
Champion...
Magnolia
Dime

 

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CATSUP
Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, *5 bottles 2%
Pint / 4 ww
Quart 1 doz botties 3 50
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per doz.... =
Fant,25 bottles ..... ..4 530
Quart, per dog ..... _< oo
CLOTHES PINS,
Dero bexos........_.. 40@45
COCOA SHELLS,
ioe @3
Less quantity - Gr
Pound packages 6% Q@7
COFFEE.
Green,

Rio.
— 18
one... 12
aa. 21
Golden 21
Peaberry 23

Santos.
ae. ao
Good. ao
ee 22
Peaberry ... -23

reas and | Guatamaia,
Peir....
Good. eee.
Poacy.....

Maracaibo
ae... 2
a 24

dav
ere 25
Private Growth. 27
Mandehling ....... a

Mocha,

Imitation . no 23
Arabian ol 28
Roasted.

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add c. per Ib. for roast-

ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.

Package,
McLaughiin’s XXXX._ 20 86
Bunola . .. 3G
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. ease -._. =o

Extract.

_— City & TOSS. 75
1%
Hummel’ 8, foil, gross 1 65
tin .. 2
CHICORY.
Bnik.. 5
ee 7
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40ft.......per dos. 1 25
. om... " 140
C oo... . 1 60
. wort... _ 1%
e oe... ' 1 90
ute ee....... ” &
2%: . 1%
CREDIT CHECKS,
500, any one denom’n..... 83 00
; oe 5 00
2o00, “ ” «se. OGD
Stee] punch ..
eis DENSE MILK.
4 Ree

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co ’s brands
Gail Borden Eagie.

 

Peerless evaporated cream, 5 75! 1 Ib, cartoons

 

 

 

SED MIKE,
a mick Ci
) RANSING, MUCH
Pret free... .._..... 38
rom. CC > 00
Standard... el 4 50
eee 3 60
CRACKERS.
Butter.
Soumourk ak... 5
os a cartoon..... 5%
Manly Se
Family cea ‘cartoon Lewes 5%
Salted KXX.... oo
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 5%
Kenosha 7%
—-. a
Butter biscuit .. -
Soda.
Bega, AEX... 5%
poe ae Tr
moa, memome............._ Bae
Cryo: Water... .... _.: *.. 10%
Long Island Wafers neal
Oyster,
8. Oyster XXX. ' -. 5%
City Ocnter Wem) 5%
Farina er. 6
CREAM TARTAR,
Strictly Pare... 3U
Telfer’s Absolute..... _ =
aoe. 15@25
DRIED FRUITS,
——”
Ap
Sundried, alee 9 bbls. 5
quartered ‘ 5}
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 2
Apricots,
California in bags.. 10

Evaporated in boxes. ..
Blackberries,
In boxes.... eae.
Nectarines,
wih bees.
21> bOneE.... ....._....
oe.
Peeled, in boxes..
Cal, evap. “

Pe
California in bags..
_— Cherries.
Barrels...
=o boxes . ee eee

Prunelles,
30 lb. boxes
Raspberries.
im perros...
= ‘us uaasenmedenneies
Raisins,
Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown eee Coleone ce, 2
3 : 4
3 Gee 53

Loose penne in Bags.

2 crown 3%
3 44
Foreign.

Currants.

Peree, Ohl. | ls
Vostizzas, 56 1b. cases...... 34

| BEST quay QUALITy
| SUaRanreed

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IMPORTED
| “"© CLEANED
GRAND ”

PRy Ur ND RAPIps

CLEANING CO.
GRAND Rapins, Mic.
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36 1-1b cartoens é
25 lb. boxes, bulk....... 5
50 Ib boxes, buik........ 43%
Sultana Raisins.
abe e vanes on 0

 

 

Peel
Citron, Leghorn, a> boxes 13
Lemon ' 8
Orange " = . ° 10
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes @ 6%
Sultana, 20 @s8
Valencia. 30 ‘“
Prunes.
California, 100-120... os
90x 100 25 Ib. bxs. 5%
" 80x) 6%
" 7 x80 6%
: 60x70 “ :
Turkey o
See
ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white,
No. 1, 6% 81 35
No. 2, 6% [7
No. 1,6 1 2%
No. 2, 6 1 00
Manilla, white
6% .. 15
... ........ 70
Coin
Rite ft. ...........,. 90
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina,
Ce 3%
flominy.

ETN ccc ceeccccesess BOD
ee ec 3%
Lima Beans.
ee 5 @5%
Maccaron! and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 1b. box

 

 
 
 

 

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Pearl Barley.
Rees...... Be eee oo. oO
Peas.

Green, oe... 135
Brut perib ... |... 3
Rolled Oats.
Schumacher, bbl....... $4 75

. % bbl . 260
Bouse be... 42
Monweh 4% bbl... .... .. 2%
Quaker Cases ............ a9

Sago.
See 4
Seeing... a4
Wheat.
Cemeneeg 3%
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
a
God.
Geergesicured............ 445
Georges genuine..... ss
Georges selected......... 6%
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 63%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%
Halibut.
eee... 11@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 6"
“ “es bb] 8 00
Rperweean .........
Round, % bbl 100 Ibs lo. sm
: 40 1 69
heame. |... 16
Mackerel.
Mo. ft, 000... - 1058
Potwoe........... 470
mit | 1 20
nee ees... 8 56
No. 2, 40 lbs... -so
noone. 1 ce
Family, 90 lbs. . ea
Keg 10 ie
Sardines.
Buesean, kee.............. 55
Trout.
No. 1, % Dbia., 100ibs....... 4 00
No. 1 ii bol, @ the... ...... 1
wo. 1, Re, 10 ioe... ...... 55
oO 1S kiie............ 47
Whitefish.
No.1 family
% bbis, 100 lbs... 87 00 2 50
- © * .. ee ta
mie. RIS... ....... |. so
_—_ a. 71 35
MATCHES,

Globe Match Co.’s ance
Columbia Parlor. a
Ra Saohee.......... 10
Diamond Match Co.’s Brands.
No. 9 suiphur.......... .. 16
iB eeer POENOr....-...05..,..- 1 70
oer eeee.............,,... 1k

Bao Ure... 400

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders’.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Bestin the world for the money.

 

  

Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
cos ....8
_—-—.... | oo
Regular
Vanilla,
doz
2 0z -B1 QW
40z 2 40
XX Grade
Lemon,
2oe.:... $1 50
Os. .... 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla.
7on..... 81 75
2on..... 350
Jennings.
Lemon. Vaniila
; - regular —- 15 1 20
50 2 00
6 - : -.2 00 3 00
No.3 taper. ....... 1 35 2 00
No. 4 taper.. -1 50 2 50
heath 8
Lemon.” wee
20z oval taper %5 10
3 02 ' 1 20 1 75
2 oz regular ‘ 85 1 20
40z c — 2 25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s,
OE 3 25
Half orn... 1 90
Meeerner ceee.... 110
7 i> come... .... Leese oe 30
i) Cale... . 18
_— een
on <*>
Half or. -.2@
— nem... .. i
Di} cane ...... - -o
Eagle Dusk—Depent'a e
ae 00
aioe 5 75
Guarierkess....... 2... 3 00
OO 60
HERBS,
A es oe a
Pe ee ee 15
INDIGO.
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes. ...... 55
S. F., 2, —— boxes. . 50
ELLY.
15 Ib. patie ee §2
7 i iM 58
89
30
25
12
10
Condensed, 2 o,......... 1 20
Coe... 2 26

MINCE MEAT,

 

 

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....3 00
MEASURES,

Tin, per dozen
1 gallon hoo : $1, 75
Halt walion....... 1 40
Quart .... os 70
Fant . ' 45
Half pint ewe ies 40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
—..........,..... 7 00
Half a: / 4 73
Quart . 3 75
int i 2
MOLASSES
Blackstrap.

Sager bowie... i4
Cuba Baking.

Ordinary 16
_ Porto _*

Prim 20
Fanc 30
‘New Orleans
ee 18
itm Se 22
meee SON 27
Oe 32
Fanev. 40

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PICKLES
Barrels, 1,3 Medium. :
Half bbl ,200 count SALEE
8, 6 —. r SRATUS
Barrels se go i 3 a ao 60 Ibs. .
ae Teco : op ala . vara t EAS:
, 1,200 count 3 00 Dwight’s 3 30 Pair .... aN—Regular. |
iia 50 Taylor's .... oo . 26 | Good pees | WOODEN
Clay nN ES. ee --++-3 39 ee i @17 j Tubs, N tINWARE. |
Ne, 316... SEELY’s E .. 300 aa ae 9 a :
Cob. N imi 170 cin ao 24 @26 | ‘ _ eerneomeaED 6 00 CROCKERY
ee 70 loz. F. M. gigmon. cao --+-82 @24 Pails, No 1 _ oa co | mw CRY AND GLASSW
POTASH, __ 120 2, NS | 90 doz. $10 20g Sa aL — "No. i! two-hoop.. oe | To LAMP BURNER: SSWARE
2 20 (0 ¢ “ B th o “ EE
48 ca : F.M. 1 se ae | Bowls, 11 Ine Lea. ie | ; sig
Babbitt’s ns in Case. — o 14 > ic Choice. ... eeeeeeeeees = | 13 neh ae 258 | :
es ee a i era : Qs | ‘ Deca dieas ss | : “f
Penna Salt Co.'s.......... 400 1 oz. F. M1 — Dust pest... os ox = : a 90 | 4
a 2 NWS 96 ae le. vt 2 | ee a sen 6"
‘nice, 3 00 Q & rE 2 00 eg “ 20 gro Fair BASKET om engi! éi2 19 “ ee ; a a bi

Carolina we ce cee 35 . , choles. CS "is . Baskets, Te Le aC 1B | Reger occu cocmetion 60

ae Grade oicest... CR a ee (aa an OR SO

aii No.2 ais deetine a oa Om, i - ene, ie =. i Tn bushel. 4 = LAMP CHIMN 50

ee *5 doz. rele @35 . hoop “ Vi eee owe 1 25
LL 5 7 doz..... 8.00, ** ' @UN at @ ‘ will 1 25 0.9Su 5 doz. in b
Japan, N Imported. 4 2 doz : anilla, i Extre fr to amet - ! low el'tha, No 5 oF No a ss ane
P -- 00 doz Ch meta ieee | 25 @35 ! 26 2 0. 2 Per he
deve vee .. | o! nes 5 ‘ : 6 et x
Java Ca 5% oe ee cest fancy... ’ — = .— G2 75
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ANOTHER LOCATION.

 

Alderman DeGraaf’s Suggestion as to
a Public Market.

Whether the city will build a river
market and erect stalls and booths for
the accommodation of the trading public,
or lease a piece of land, pave it and use
itas amarket stand as the streets are
used at present, or, failing this, abandon
the project altogether for several years,
remains to be seen. The reasons why
this journal has persistently advocated a
bridge market have already been given
in these columns, so they need not be
given again. It is butfair to the oppo-
nents of a bridge market that they be
given an opportunity to present their
side of the case. There are now but two
land sites being seriously considered by
the Committee. Both are in the vicinity
of Fulton and Waterloo streets. The site
on the north side of Fulton street is too
small; it would not accommodate one-
half the number of wagons to be seen
any morning on the market even at this
season of the year. The other site is
large enough to accommodate the fruit
and produce growers and buyers for
many years, and, if a land site is decided
upon, it is, by all odds, the most desir-
able location for a market yet suggested.
Whether it can be secured for the pur-
pose or not is a question, as certain por-
tions of it are now in litigation. Not
much can be done this season as winter
is too near at hand; but the question is a
large one, important interests will be af-
fected by the result, and, therefore, haste
is not desirable.

Interviews have been had with a num-
ber of those directly interested and the
result is given herewith:

E. A. Moseley (Moseley Bros.): 1
don’t want a bridge market. It would
cost too much to build and be a constant
source of expense tothe city. It would
deteriorate in value from the day it was
opened for business, and the revenue de-
rived from it would no more than keep it
clean and in good order. If a land site
is secured, it will increase in value from
the day it is purchased. It will be
money well invested. So far as sanita-
tion is concerned a land market has the
advantage, and from the standpoint of
health there is no comparison between
the two. Just imagine standing for
hours in the dense fog which envelops
the river in the morning. Nothing could
be more unhealthy, and, speaking for
myself, Idon’t want any of it. During
the hot months there is not enough
water in the river between Sixth and
Lyons streets to carry off the amount of
refuse that would result from one day’s
business on the market, and much of it
would lie in the bed of the river and rot
and send forth its poisonous odors to pol-
lute the air for blocks around. A land
market could easily be kept clean, and,
if one of the sites along the river below
the G. R. & I. bridge is chosen, there is
plenty of water to carry away all the
refuse. The site I prefer is on the south
side of Fulton street on the corner of
Waterloo. It is large enough for the
purpose, convenient of approach, is
nearer than any other to the center of
the city, and is near the railways, which
is a big item in the estimation of a com-
mission man.

C. B. Metzger: We must have a mar-
ket. The present market, as it is called
by courtesy, is about as inconvenient an
arrangement as can be imagined. Com-

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

mission men buy more fruit and produce
than all the other buyers on the market
combined. There are certain growers
from whom I buy every day, if I can find
them; but, as it is now, they have no
regular ‘‘stand,’’ and are seldom in the
Same place twice in succession; they
can’t wait an hour or two for me to hunt
them up, and [ can’t afford the time to
look for them. If.we had a market each
grower would have his own stall and we
would always know where to find him.
As to the question of location, I am de-
cidedly opposed to the bridge scheme.
It would cost not less than $200,000, and
to put that sum into a bridge is the
height of folly. What returns would
the city get for the outlay? It would
have a market, but suppose the time
should come when it would be necessary
to move the market to a new location;
where would your bridge market be
then? Other cities have been compelled
to move their markets—Buffalo, for in-
stance, and Cleveland and Detroit. You
could do nothing with a bridge market in
such a case, and it would be a dead loss.
Where would I locate the market? Be-
tween the river and Waterloo street,
either on the north or south side of Ful-
ton street. My second choice would be
the Island, if the others are not avail-
able. Any of that river property is
bound to rise in value, and any time it
might be necessary to move the market
the vacated site could be sold for a good
advance upon what was paid for it. It
is nonsense to say that in ten or twenty
years’ time no land will be available
for a market site. The city can always
secure all the land it wants for any pur.
pose, and about where it wants it, too.

C. N. Rapp (C. N. Rapp Fruit Co.): We
need a market, that is sure; and, so far
as the.commission men are concerned,
we don’t want it very far from our places
of business. There is hardly a morning
during the rush of the fruit season but
what we have to be in and out of the
store every half hour or so, and if the
market is any considerable distance
from us it will put us to great inconven-
ience. We are the heaviest buyers on
the market and ought to receive some
consideration. I don’t like your bridge
scheme. It is too costly and is otherwise
undesirable. I am not particular about
the site, so long as it is convenient to the
business part of the city and does not
cost too much. It appears to me, how-
ever, thata site on the river bank would
be the best for many reasons.

Cc. C. Bunting (Bunting & Davis):
Your bridge scheme is no good. The
city can’t build a bridge market and we
don’t want one if it could be built. What
we want is a land location, convenient to
the railroads and commission houses, and
easy of access from ajl parts of the city.
That exactly describes the site on the
southwest corner of Fulton and Waterloo
streets—by all odds the most desirable

 

of the proposed locations.
A. J. Brown (A. J. Brown Co.): Al-

though, personally, I am in favor of a
bridge market, I think the city should go
slow on the market question. No matter
what location may be decided on, it is go-
ing to cost a pile of money, and we have
none to throw away. The present ar-
rangement is certainly unsatisfactory,
but perhaps if the stand were moved to
some other street we could get along
for some years without paying out any
money. The thing I want to say is

 

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that, if we are to have a market, it must

peenenneanans

 

|
be as near the business center as pos-
sible. That may or may not be the geo-
graphical center, but it is where the mar-
ket ought to be, just the same. If we can’t |
have a bridge market, then any conyen-
ient land site will suit me.

Ald. G. H. DeGraaf, grocer: I don’t |
think much of your bridge scheme.
Suppose itcosts no more than $200,000;
it will cost that much, at least, and that |
is a big sum of money, and the city can-
not afford it. My opinion of that scheme
is that if it is pushed hard enough it will |
kill the prospects of getting any kind of |
a market entirely. It is impracticable
from any point of view. Neither do I
think the city is in a position to purchase
a warket site at present, or to enter into
any obligation to pay for one. We have
other liabilities which will be falling due
right along for a number of years and
which are about all we can take care of.
If we were in a position to build market
sheds and stalls it might be different,
but we are not; so I do not see the phi-
losophy of talking about purchasing a
site. Wecan’t even do that: we would
be compelled to rent and when our lease
expired we would have paid out enough
money to erect a market, and have noth-
ing to show for it. So long as we cannot
have a covered market, why pay rent for
what we can have for nothing? Why
not leave the market on the street?
That would not cost the city a cent and
would be just as convenient and every
Way as good as an uncovered market
site. Come down street with me, I want
to show you something. | Mr. DeGraaf
took the reporter down to South Ionia
street, which is being paved with brick
from Oakes street to Wealthy avenue. |
Now, what better market site do you
want than that? A solid brick roadway
on a concrete foundation; brick side-
walks nearly twice the ordinary width;
no street cars; no traffic to interfere;
convenient to the railroads, commission
houses, and every way superior to an
open market site. Do you want any-
thing better than that? If the market
stand is moved down here, the men who
own all this vacant property will, at
their own expense, erect one-story build-
ings to rent for storage purposes; some
of them have told me they would do so:
but 1f they do not, here are the railway
sheds which the companies would only
be too glad to throw open free of cost to
shippers. Now, why waste time and
breath over a market site, or your bridge
scheme, when right here is the best mar-
ket site in the city, which can be util-
ized without the expenditure of.a dollar?
This can be arranged just as you would
arrange any market. Locations can be
marked on the curb stone with the name
of uhe owner of the wagon, and a ticket
given which will entitle the holder to
‘‘stand’”’ on that spot. It will be neces-
sary to have policemen on the market
anyway and they can keep things
straight. What do you think of it?

B. S. Harris, grocer: We must have
some kind of a market different from the
present apology for one. I have fa-
vored the McConnell site because it ap-
pears to be the cheapest and most con-
venient; but if that site on the corner of
Fulton and Waterloo streets is available,
I don’t know but what it would be the
best. There are some things about a
bridge market I do not like, and, be-
sides, I do not think it practigable.

Phil. Graham, grocer: I wanta bridge

would be easy to keep clean; it is. con-
venient for everybody, and is better in
every way than a land market. If a
bridge market is not feasible, from what
Ihave heard of it 1 should favor the
Waterloo and Fulton site. It is
the most central and for all

street
convenient
purposes.

Henry Vinkemulder, grocer and whole-
I don’t Know whether we
so at

sale produce:
want a market or not. |
one time, but, the
the matter, Ll am inclined to the opinion
unmixed
Our trade
is cut up bad enough now by the ped-
dlers, and if we have a market with
stalls for the sale of vegetables and
fruits, my opinion is that the little trade
in those things we have left would be
taken from us. Of I know all
about the inconveniences of the present
arrangement; but many of these could
be overcome by the use of a little sys-
tem. Perhaps it will be necessary to
move the market to some other street to
obtain the desired result, but there are
plenty of streets available and conve-
nient.

E. J. Carrel, grocer: So far as I
concerned it makes noditference whether
we have a market or not. Ido not buy
on the market; but there can be no doubt
about the necessity for one—the present
system must be very inconvenient for
those who do business on the market,
and I think the men who bring in fruits
and vegetables are entitled, at least, to
protection from the weather. Il know
nothing about the proposed sites, as I
have given the matter no attention.

E. J. Herrick, grocer: Of course, we
need a market. There can be no ques-
tion about that. As tothe kind of mar-
ket, 1 believe in the bridge scheme. It
would put the market about where it
ought to be, and be easily accessible

from all parts of the city.
eli — eli

Philosophy for a Bill Collector.
From the Syracuse Past.

A collector of unpaid bills has a hard
time of it, but one met a philosophical
debtor recently who convinced him of
some astounding facts. The collector
said that he had been chasing the said
philosophical debtor for about — six
months, and was getting tired. It was
always ‘‘come around to-morrow,’’ or
“‘haven’t got it now.’’

‘*‘Say,’’ he said, when he made his last
trip, ‘‘are you ever going to pay this
bill?”

‘‘Why, yes, some day,’’ the philosopher
replied. ‘‘But, look here, young man, I
want to show you athing or two. How
many bills have you got in that pack?”

‘‘About forty,”’ said the collector.

‘‘How long does it take you to visit all
these people?” the philosopher inquired.

‘“‘About a day.”’

‘‘What if all paid up promptly?”

“Why, that would be great.”

‘‘Would it? What would you do for a
living if all these debtors paid up in one

thought

more | think about

that a market would not be an
blessing to the grocery trade.

course,

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day?”’

The collector looked blank for a mo-
ment.

“Great Jerusalem! I’d be out of a
job.”

‘‘Well, then, don’t be so anxious to col-
lect every cent due your people. One
bill a day is enough. As for me, come
around some day next week,-and I may
do something for you.’? And _ the philos-
opher faded away.

WE BUY -
Sundried and Kuaporated
APPLES

HASTINGS & REMINGTON,

 

 

 

 

market. The site would cost nothing; it

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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THE MIOHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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NOT AN AUTOCRAT.

 

Mayor Fisher Co-Equal with the Coun-
cil in Licensing Peddlers.

GRAND Rapips, Oct. 26—On page 5 of
the issue of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
for Oct. 24 is an article signed ‘Daniel
Abbott,’’ bearing the head, ‘‘Is the Mayor
Bigger than the Council?’ wich con-
tains sO many seriously wrong—pardon
ine if 1 say entirely false—statements as
to the Mayor’s powers and acts in con-
nection with the peddling question, that
I am constrained to make this public
statement, for the purpose of giving the
people what I deem to be the truth and a
reason for such action as | have taken.

The article mentioned is based upon
the assumption that the Mayor has a dis-
position to make himself superior to the
iaw; that he has ignored its plain pro-
visions, and has done or failed to do
many things directed by the Common
Council or the ordinances, relative to
peddling.

The ordinance governing peddlers, now
in force in this city, was adopted June
30, 1893, and was a revision to take the
place of all its predecessors. It provides
that the power to issue licenses is vested
in the ‘‘Common Council or Mayor.” It
will be seen, then, that the Mayor has
concurrent jurisdiction with the Council
in the matter of this class of licenses,
and has in no sense attempted to usurp
the function of an entirely different
branch of the city government from his
own, when exercising power under this
ordinance.

That ordinance contains no limitation
whatever as to time, save that it pre-
scribes that no license fee shall exceed
$15 per day. Therefore, whenever the
Mayor shall have authorized a shorter
term license, he has in no sense contra-
vened the provisions of that ordinance.

Still further, when the present Council
adopted a schedule of licenses governing
this municipal year, it positively refused
to fix a limit in time of one year, or any
other term, for hucksters, or fruit deal-
ers, or any other possible licenses.
Hence, the Mayor, advisea by both the
former City Attorney and the present
one, had no hesitation in deciding that
he had the legal right to grant short term
licenses, if, in his opinion, public policy
dictated that course.

Now, in the matter of license fees, the
schedule, as made by the Common Coun-
cil, leaves many licenses to the discretion
of the Mayor as to the amounts to be ex-
acted. The spirit of the schedule is
plainly that fees shall be larger relatively
for short terms than for long terms, upon
the general business principle that whole-
sale rates are cheaper than retail. For
example, a license to peddle lead pencils
and pens may cost $2, including clerk’s
fee, for a single month, and but $4, with
the clerk’s fee, for an entire year. The
Mayor believes that when his action is in
accordance with this evident spirit of the
adopted schedule, it is clearly within the
purpose and meaning of the ordinance
and the Council’s action.

The article mentioned makes the as-
sertion that the Mayor has given permits
which are ‘‘not worth the paper upon
which they are written,’ and denies the
Mayor’s right or authority to grant such
documents. It should be remembered
that custom or usage, what may be
termed the unwritten iaw, is frequently
of more force and effect, more binding
upon the community, than printed ordi-
nances or written statutes. In this mat-
ter of permits, when the Mayor entered
upon his duties, he was furnished with
blank forms upon which to issue them,
which had been provided at the expense
of the city and paid for in bills audited
by the Common Council. He learned af-
firmatively that such permits had been
given for many years, for an indefinite
period, by many—probably all—of his
predecessors. Indeed, at the second ses-
sion of the present Council, he was dis-
tinctly authorized to grant a permit with-
out license fee, by the Common Council,
and the force or value of a Mayor’s per-
mit without license fee was thus specific-
ally indicated. Many of the aldermen as
individuals, yet in their official character,
both orally and by letter, have urged
him, in special cases, to grant such per-
mits, where they deemed the applicants
worthy.

 

Under such circumstances, under the
customs of the city, and where the Mayor
has the unquestioned concurrent power
to grant licenses and, in almost innumer-
able cases to fix the fees himself, there
can be no doubt that he may grant what
is practically a license, upon payment of
an exceedingly small fee, or even no fee
being paid.

Upon this view, it must be apparent
that the peddling ordinance, which is but
a form or manifestation of the police
power of the community, is established
for the protection, not only of the public
and the business men, but of the possible
peddlers themselves, and to some person
or persons is given the discretion as to
the manner and circumstances of its use.
The ordinance clearly confers this power
upon the ‘Common Council or Mayor.”
The practice has been that pretty much
all of these licenses are granted directly
by the Mayor, and that formal action of
the Council is very seldom had upon any
one of them.

So much for the Mayor’s powers and
acts anent the article bearing Mr. Abbott’s
signature. It must be apparent, upon
comparing with his statements, that if
the facts above given are true, the Mayor
neither has transcended his powers nor
been guilty of acts autocratic or in viola-
tion of his oath of office, and that he has
in no sense given any occasion for the
peddling ordinance falling into disre-
pute.

Permit me in this connection, though
this article be already lengthy, to add an-
other statement. It has been deemed by
some that the Mayor has no moral right,
even if he have the legal, to grant free
permits, and that granting them is not in
accordance with wise public policy. lam
willing to admit that this is a debatable
question, and have been very glad to ex-
ercise all the caution of which I am mas-
ter, in the use of this power, for that
reason.

in general terms, my own attitude has
been founded upon the following theory:
It is better in a community to encourage
unfortunate or disabled citizens to assist
themselves to get their own livelihood,
than to allow them to become public
charges and chronic paupers. I have be-
lieved that it were better both to forego
the revenue of a small license fee and en-
dure the small competition of such ped-
diers, than to prevent their doing busi-
ness at all, and make them dependent
upon either the city’s poor fund or the
charity of the community. I have
thought that such continued better citi-
zens and were more likely to bring their
children up to become good citizens, if
their independence were maintained and
their self-respect encouraged, than if
they were allowed to become paupers.
So I have been not only willing but glad
to furnish free permits to a few whom I
deemed worthy and necessitous, in the
belief, on the foregoing theory, that the
municipality was thus accomplishing
much for its present good and for its fu-
ture protection, for in nearly every case
young children have formed a part of the
families so benefited.

This explanation will furnish a reason
why I have conferred with the Charity
Organization Society in several cases,
rather than the police department, in de-
termining whether free permits ought to
be granted or not. If the applicant for
permit bore any such indications as sug-
gested that the police had a special ac-
quaintance with him, he was refused a
permit or the police were conferred with.
lf he or she seemed worthy and only un-
fortunate, why should the police have
more knowledge of the merits of the ap-
plicant’s case than any other good citizen,
or even so much knowledge as the
trained, skillful, and specially successful
investigators for the Charity Organiza-
tion Society?

if the police complain, as is stated on
page 8 of the same issue, that the Mayor
has not asked for information of that de-
partment so much as he ought, they cer-
tainly never have manifested that atti-
tude or feeling toward him personally,
and as certainly will admit the force and
value of this explanation of his attitude
and action. If the Mayor has been mis-
led by information given him, may it not
be that any other source of information
or informant might be equally incorrect?

 

That the Mayor has made mistakes is
but another form for saying that he is
human and failible. If he has made
more mistakes upon a less number of
eases acted upon, in this department,
than his -predecessors have, while it is
unfortunate for him and the community,
he may fairly claim that he has not been
unmindful of the law or purposely neg-
lectful of what he considered the highest
good of all classes—the poor and unfor-
tunate, as well as those who certainly
are not suffering because of the competi-
tion of peddlers carrying the free per-
mits he has issued. E. b. FISHER.

_ 2 <—_

VESEY STREET BARGAINS.

 

They Range from Pickles to China and
Are Very Cheap.
From the New York Sun.

For bargains and for sidewalk displays
there are two blocks in Vesey street that
can’t be matched in New York. There
are men and women who for more than
twenty years have stood on these walks
and sold goods, making acomfortable liv-
ing for themselves and families, besides
laying aside money.

The sidewalk is preferred to the stores.
It is more difficult to find a good sidewalk
privilege to rent than it is astore; and in
some cases, to get what they want, peo-
ple are compelled to hire astore and sub-
let it, retaining for themselves as much
of the sidewalk as they need and dare
take. In such cases the merchant doing
business outside is more likely to have a
bank account than the one in the store,
although the latter may be better
dressed. Why thisshould be the case is
not clear. Vesey street is not a thorough-
fare leading from a ferry and has no
elevated road station to land passengers
in it; still thousands of people pass up
and down every day, and many of them
have come for the express purpose of
shopping. Years of experience have
taught these sidewalk merchants to cater
to the eye. He would be a very unob-
serving person indeed who could go from
Broadway to Greenwich street and not be
attracted by something or other exposed
for sale. i

On the first block is the bird man. His
stock is displayed to the best of advan-
tage. Next to him is a collection of
plants and shrubs, asif birds and foliage
went together. He can tell you much
about birds. He will explain why he can
sell canaries cheaper than the bird stores,
and why his birds are better. He will
tell you how they are raised in the Hartz
Mountains of Germany, and are not
brought from the Canary Islands. He
says that you might as well look in Cen-
tral Park for a wild canary as to hunt for
one on the Canary Islands; that canaries
originally came from Africa a few hun-
dred years ago; that itis believed that a
ship on which some of them were being
transported to Europe was wrecked on
the Canary Islands; that the climate be-
ing favorable they bred there and became
very plentiful, and thatthey were hunted
so persistently on account of their value
as song birds the islands eventually were
denuded. He explains that in their wild
state in Africa they are a homely gray in
color, and would not be recognized if
placed beside their fellows who have
been raised in confinement, and that the
cage bird’s song is not natural, being en-
tirely a matter of education. If you buy
a bird he will wrap the little wooden
eage which contains your purchase, in
paper, carefully puncturing a few small
holes for air, and will warn you by all
means to protect the little creature from
draughts. But he neglects to explain
why it is that his birds do not suffer, ex-
posed as they are in all kinds of weather.

Farther down the street you can see a
great variety of goods. China seems to
predominate. Some of it looks very
handsome, and the prices are remarkably
low. This is explained by the fact that
it is chipped. Many pieces are not
really damaged much, but have justa
little nick, and for ornament will answer
every purpose.

A stairway seems an odd place to sell
second-hand clothes for women, but in
Vesey street such an arrangement is all
right. The shopper stands at ease and
allows herself to be measured without
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handles and inspects the garments hang-
ing in and lying about the hallway.

Vesey street has its shop for antiques,
also. For seventeen years the merchant
has been in the street, and he knows his
trade well. He occupies both the store
and the sidewalk, and although his stock
may consist of 5,000 pieces, he knows the
history of each article and, better still,
the price. be it old silver, old iron, or
old clothes, each article has an extra
value for its undoubted antiquity or in-
teresting history.

There are bargains to be had in wines.
‘*Fine old sherry” is offered at 25 cents
a bottle. No matter what thesherry may
be you are sure of a pretty label. Be-
sides, the vender will put your purchase
up in a neat, square pasteboard box, at-
tach to this a convenient little wooden
handle, and if you are a new customer
the chances are that he will give you a
handy pocket corkscrew. This all goes
to show that the seller has faith in his
goods and hopes to make a regular cus-
tomer of you.

Pickles, aiso, are put up in quarts in
Vesey street and sold at the same price
as the sherry. These you may taste be-
fore buying, and, in fact, you are urged
to do so by the woman who sells them.

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

New York, Oct. 27—The sugar market |
during the past week has been about as
dull as could be imagined. There is ab-
solutely nothing doing beyond the most
commonplace every-day transactions and
buyers show no disposition to make pur- |
chases beyond the day’s wants.

Contrary to expectations coffee has |
taken an upward twist and is firm at 15c.
Of course, it is a ‘‘legitimate rise’ and
one that is made ‘‘because the state of the
market demands it;’? but the truth is,
that the whole statistical position is such
as to justify no rise whatever. Mild
coffees are dull and the market seems de-
moralized.

Molasses shows noimprovement, about
38c being the ruling rate for open kettle
choice goods, but this is the top price.

Syrups are in light demand and it is
difficult to obtain reliable quotations.
Good to choice grades are worth from 16
@22c.

Rice is quiet. The demand is just
about sufficient to keep back any aecu-
mulation. Good to prime, 424@5 ice.

Canned goods have shown no activity,
and buyers have had things pretty much
all their own way. The amount of corn |
carried over from ’93 has been a great ob-
stacle to progress and, until it is gone,
the whole trade is likely to be somewhat
demoralized. There have been large ship-
ments of fruits from California during
the past few weeks and prices are very
low. N. Y. gallon apples are worth $2:
No. 3, 6714g¢; string beans. from 55@60¢
for ordinary goods, up to $1.35 for some
choice N. Y. State. Peaches are in light
demand and the market is dull. Stand-
ard Crawford, Cal., $1.45. Salmon is
steady and prices remain as they have
been for a long time.

The butter market has been dull be-
yond precedent, although at the moment
there is a trifle better demand. Prices
have declined and it is not likely over
231¢c¢ for the choicest makes could be ob-
tained. The accumulation is stili large,
but receipts show some falling off, and
we may see a better tone within a fort-
night.

Cheese is doing better, but prices are
still low and unsatisfactory. It is hardly
possible to quote over 101c for the very
best N. Y. smal! size full cream.

Eggs are worth 1914e for choice Michi-
gan, Northern Ohio and Northern Ind.
The market is in an unsatisfactory posi-
tion. There is an accumulation of stock
here which is a little ‘“‘off’’ and this up-
sets the market for all but the very finest
goods.

In foreign green fruits there is nothing
doing and for lemons, particularly, the
market is dull. Jamaica oranges in
barrels are worth $4.75@5. Bananas are
lower and 87}4c is all the market will
stand, even for the first qualities, and
the range is from this down to 65c.

Domestic green fruit shares the general
apathy of the markets for otber stutf and
apples are dull even fer the very best
grades. They are worth from $1.50@
2.50 per barrel.

With the single exception of choice
evaporated apples the dried fruit market
presents no activity. Prices are low,
supplies are abundant, and, altogether,

i flowers every Sunday by
| made

 

 

the outlook is for a season of uninter-
rupted low rates all around.

“The announcement that seventy cf
the most prominent and malignant Aunar- |
chists in France have decided to sail for |
America,’’ said a well-known lawyer the|
other day, ‘‘goes to show that the new |
French law dealt a fatal blow to anarchy
when it took away all publicity from the
operations of the ‘reds.’ Nowadays, |
when an Anarchist has committed a}
crime in France he is dealt with, not bya
jury which can be intimidated by threat-
ening letters, but by judges who are re-
sponsible only to the State. He is desig-
nated by a number and his name is not
published, so there is no hero worship
as faras his family is concerned. The
papers are not permitted to publish his
portrait, nor to report his trial, and he is |
buried in an unknown grave. When |}
Henri was executed last summer in Paris, |
no less than 100,000 of his portraits were |

'

 

| Sold in the Parisian streets, and his grave
| was heaped nearly three feet high with
who.

people
pilgrimages io the last resting
place of that distinguished bomb thrower.
Nowadays the ‘reds’ are not mentioned
at ail.
strenuously, but the most bloodthirsty
and violent of them find that the Anar-
chist is no longer a hero, and newspaper
publicity isa vain and fruitless thing.

| Hence they are coming over here.”

Mr. Cleveland’s affability was not pro-
nounced during his recent visit to New
York. Ii was a gloomy episode in the
life of a good many of the people who
are always more or Jess interested in the
presence of the Chief Magistrate in this
city. There were many callers at Dr.
Bryant’s house, but they were not im-
pelled by warm impulses of friendliness
or eagerness to testify to their admira-
tion for the distinguished visitor. Nearly
forty of the visitors were reporters, who
trudged through the rain with a full con-
sciousness that their quarrying would
prove difficult, and who realized it before
the hunt was over. Mr. Cleveland has
adopted a glassy stare when a reporter
approaches him which is absolutely in-
scrutable. He looks straight ahead, and
apparentiy turns over the words he is
about to utter with great consideration
several times before he actually gives
them forth. The result is usually some
commonplace observation, and after
speaking his sentences with labored ear-
hestness he moves away with the air of
one who has finaliy settled a question for
which the world has been waiting a solu-
tion for many years.

While the week has not been a very
cheerful one, there is every sign that
trade is improving, and another cheering
symptom is the unmistakable revival of
manufactures, not only in this city, but
throughout the State and inthe adjoining
territory. Many mills report night work
as necessary and, altogether, the long de-
pression now seems to bein a fair way
of ending. Retailers in nearly ail lines
report a better consumptive demand, and
the big stores are again taking on more
help. May the good work goon. Jay.

———_—_—>--2 << _______
Who to Appeal to When Payment is
Stopped on a Check.

At a recent meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
Julius J. Wagner, the East Bridge street
grocer, reported having cashed a check
drawn by Hauser, Hayden & Owen on
which payment was stopped by the
drawer, owing to the fact that the eheck
was lost by the rightful owner and found
by a person who had no right to it. Mr.
Waguer notified the person for whom he
cashed the check that the matter must
be adjusted within a certain time or he
would bring it to the attention of the
Prosecuting Attorney, and within the
time the check was redeemed.

For the purpose of ascertaining Mr.
Wagner's rights in the matter B. S. Har-
ris appealed tothe legal department of
the New York Journal of Commerce, to
which he wrote as follows:

GRAND Rapips, Oct. 10—Mr. W., of
the firm of W. & B., draws a check pay-
able to his own order and, expecting to
use it shortly after leaving his office, in-
doxses it properly for that purpose. Ar-
riving where he expects to useit, he finds
he has either mislaid it or lost it, Mr.
J. runs a grocery store; on Saturday
evening—a busy time—a man comes in,
buys some goods of one of his clerks and
presents in payment for them W. &. B.’s
check payabie to W.’s order and properly
indorsed. The man gets the gosds and

 

| the check falls into the hands of the
| groceryman—an

innocent
course. On Monday J. makes up his

deposit, among whieh is the check, takes |

it to the bank, and it is:placed to his
credit on his bank-book. In the mean-
time, W., the drawer of the check, has
notified his bank of the loss, but not in
time to stop the check being taken at J.’s
bank. So it stands until the next time
Mr. J. goes to his bank again, when the

check is handed out to him, and he is | lifeless and dull,

They have struggled against it |

holder, of |
|

asked to make it good on the ground
that the payment had been stopped, be-
cause the drawer had lost it and the per-
son that had used it had no right to it.
; Will you please give your opinion as to
; Who should lose the amount, provided of
course the man who passed the check
/could not be found and it could not be
recovered from him. Should W. lose it
lor J? B. S. HARRIS.

The reply to Mr. Harris’ enquiry was
| as follows:

Mr. J.’s bank in this ease is entitled to
charge back to him the amount of the
check deposited by him, inasmuch as
payment of it has been stopped. The
bank upon which the cheek was drawn
having refused payment Mr. J. can re-
cover by suit either of Mr. W. or of the
firm of W. & B.—either of the drawer or
indorser. The check came to Mr. J. in
such a form that it would pass by de-
livery, like money. Thereis no forgery
upon it, and equity as weil as law de-
mands that the loser shall be the person
who put the check into such form as to
give it currency by delivery. All that
Mr. J. need show is that he took the
check without notice of the loss or theft,
in good faith, for value and in the usual
course of business. Having shown that,
he is entitled to recover of any one
through whom, directly or indirectly, he
claims title. This is the rule in all the
States of the Union, including Michigan.
For decisions in the latter State see 34
Mich., 29, and 60 Mich., 388.

_ 2
Committees of Arrangement for De-
cember Convention.

The following is a corrected list of the
committees appointed by Chairman Brad-
ford to superintend the entertainment
features of the annual convention of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip:

Finance and Soliciting—Geo. F. Owen,
Chairman;. H B. Fairchild, Milton Fitch,
Chas. Findlater, Chas. S. Brooks, Manley
Jones, J. B. Orr.

Invitation—P. H. Carroll, Chairman;
E. C. Groesbeck, W. R. Foster, E. N.
Thorne, W. Y. Barclay.

Entertainment, Program and Banquet—-
B. G. Van Leuven, Chairman: F. M. Ty-
ler, W. L. Freeman, H. L. Gregory, E. E.
Stanton, G. F. Rogers, W. H. Pipp, Peter
Fox.

Reception—J. A. Gonzalez, Chairman;
W. H. Goodspeed, V. A. Johnston, John
Grotemat, S. V. DeGraaf, W. F. Wurz-
burg, A. E. MeGuire, D. E. MeVean, J.
B. Evans, D. MeWhorter, D. S. Haugh,
H. A. Hudson, W. H. Jennings, C. Craw-
ford, Frank Conlon, W. S. Canfield, F. E.
Chase, H. N. Brandon, John Cummins,
E. P. Dana, Frank Miles, W. A. Van-
Leuven, C. I. Flynn, F. H. White, M. M.
Mallory, Geo. F. Schumm, Capt. W. H.
Sheller, John M. Shields, J. A. Massie,
A. J. Quist, C. B. Parmenter, J. H. Rose-
man, J. P. Reeder, J. FE. Kenning, Ed.
Huyge, E. H. Poole, W. F. Bowen, G. C.
Oswald, Joe F. O. Reed, W. P. Townsend.

Transportation—J. T. Flaherty, Chair-
man; Dell Wright, A. S. Doak, Peter
Lankester, Sam. R. Evans.

Badges—C. L. Lawton, Chairman; Jud
Houghton, Fred Frost.

Decoration—E. E. Woolley, Chairman;
Jos. Finukler, E. Kuyers, Henry Snitzeler,
G. W. Stowitts.

Music—W. E. Richmond, Chairman;
J. A. Morrison, E. P. Andrew.

Printing—A. D. Baker, Chairman; E.
A. Stowe, F. W. Hadden, Geo. J. Hein-
zelman, F. M. Atwood.

Hotels—Byron S. Davenport, Chair-
man; N. B. Clark, J. M. Fell, Harry P.
Winchester, A. J. Cozzens.

Banner and Rally Cry—C. L. Lawton,
H. P. Winchester, Harry Gregory.
> 2 —_ —___

The Grain Market.

| Wheat has been rather dull during the
past week owing to continued large re-
|ceipts in the Northwest, especially at
| Minneapolis and Duluth. Exports have
been as usual, amounting, wheat and
flour included, to over 5,000,000 bushels,
but the tired longs sold out, which had a
depressing effect, and, while no lower
prices were maintained, the market was

 

 

As to future values it,

|is merely guess work; time will work out
that problem. With the cancellation of
ithe reciprocity treaty we lose about
| 9,000,000 bushels in the shape of flour to
'Cuba and Brazil. All this was winter
wheat flour, so, the sooner we get: reci-
procity restored, the better for the mil-
lers and farmers.

Owing to the very fine weather, which
matured corn faster than usual, corn
ruled lower. Oats are also lower, but
are still high for the amount raised.

Receipts of wheat for the past week in
this city were 53 cars; corn, 3 cars and
oats, 2 cars—not large for the season.

Cc. G. A. Voter.

 

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co
quotes as follows:

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Standard clear, short cut, best....
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Praukforts.........._. ao 7
LARD.
mee ema 8%
fae eg - 8%
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nema ann 5g
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50 lb, Tins, 4c advance,
20 lb. pails, %e C
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5 lb. “ %e “ce
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BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. 2%
Extra Mess, Chicago pecking........ <1... + oo
Bonciees, mp Uti |. 1U 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.

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yee 7%

( eee omeiee 8%
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Breakfast Bacon boneless....... - 9¥@1C%
Dried beef, ham prices.................. 104%@l11

DRY SALT MEATS.
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PICKLED PIG8’ FEET,
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Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can$ 27

Solid Brand, Selects, per can....... 25
Solid Brand, E. F., per can........ 21
Solid Brand, Standards, per can.... 19
Daisy Brand, Selects, per can...... 23
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can... 17
Daisy Brand, Favorites, percan.... 15

Best Baltimore Standards, per gal 1 05

The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices.

Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly,
made with green apples, very fine

SOP OO. oak css, bce eh asia ~ -
di eo 60
1 OAR el
Ee 50
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince
Meat, the best made. 85 cents
per doz. 3 doz. in case,
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-1) pails, per Ib... ee 6
oo DAS Der 614
OO pee er 614

Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon.... 10
Pure Sweet Cider, per walion...... 12
Fine Dairy Butter, per poune...... 20
Hresh Mags. per dog..... 00)... |. 7
New Pickles, medium, barrels..... 5 00
New Pickles, medium, 44 barrel.... 3 00
New Sauer Kraut, barrels......,.. 4 00
New Sauer Kraut, 14 barrels....... 2 50

EDWIN FALLAS,

Oyster Packer and Manufacturer.
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

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in and see them.
Coffee and Hot Rolls will be

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Muskegon Bakery Gracker

(United States Baking Co.)

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There are a great many Butter Crackres +1 the Market—only
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{ Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest
Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use.

 

     
 

Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS Sr
Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK B
Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR ANCHOR BRAND
Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER ')
Great Jelly Turnovers, FOR
Specialties Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON eer
Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S eo eee eee
Muskegon Branch, CAKES and lowest market price.
; Mlik Lunen CRACKERS
é See quotations in Price Current.

United States Baking Co.| R, j. DETTENTHALER.

a LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,

Muskegon, - Mich. 117 and 119 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

 

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+ New Holiday Goods ~

JNO. MADDOCK & SONS 1 ; a os. JNO. MADDOCK & SONS
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English White Semi Porcelain. New Tariff I rices Green Rococo, Gold Edges.

 

 

 

   

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—, cases of China, Earthenware and Glassware, making a grand assortment of good |
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Christmas Novelties and Holi lay Goods

) all at the NEW TARIFFPRICES. This means a very large difference, a differ-

ence that cannot fail to be noticed by the retailer and consumer. You can sell this

5 == line at a good profit. Clear off a “slow? counter and make a display. Our line
Positively finest ware made on the Globe. The! wil] sell itself. If you cannot come to this market and make your selection

New Tariff price brings itsas low as the most

com mon ware was at old prices. LET US USE OUR JUDGMENT. |
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JOHN MADDOCK & SONS F We will send youa general assortment of china, dolls, |
New Astor Shape or 35-00 vases, Cups and saucers, mugs, child’s plates, child’s tea ae ;
WHITE SEMI PORCELAIN, sets, ete., etc., to retail from 5 cents to 25 cents. | Latest Style in English Decorations
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€@ doz. Fie Plates 24 Vegetables. | ae ‘i
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2 doz. Tea shunned : — F We will send you a larger assortment of similar goods Sinise
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iene cnamrisotelicapam ee ror 50.00 but adding many novelties from our assortment that we hin ve 6 Pickles.
a mcengddinngm an oc. have proved to be first class stock. We never experi- | 2doz ‘Tea 4 Cake Plates,
shes seasectelagauae bd a - oe ment with these orders. We use the best judgment we 12 doz. ee Plates. —
6 - — : 7 have in making a selection. | ae Fruit Saucers, “6 Sets Coffees
1s Dishes , Assorte & Cv'c s . oo hee " Bt he igen il
Co ida s 2 getable Dishes
18 Scollops. 5 Boats. | 36 Oy: ter Bowls 6 Sance Boats.
eer. netosiaasngy T ° All bills to merchants of approved credit payable net | }8 Assorted Dishes. Z a Dishes.
6 Butters 18 Bowls. ierms: Jan. 1, 1895. On bills sold prior to November Ist. we |, a. cco
* Pickles. 6 Creams. will allow omen to all Holiday Goods (as | ppis small assortment iilustrates one of our
2 err oe ga ata ogue) ine ee Cent if paid by Nov. 10. many beautiful new assorted packages of Deco
Price List of atove sent on request. Don’t fail | : a : = agenus« = ou our business over the month | poted Ware for the H liday Trade. We trust we
to get our prices on our new lines befcre plac. : c pt wo 8 oO — it all at oo Novem- may be able to show you these patterns in per
ing Holiday Orders. Variety of Dinner Sets, gta ee er. , After Nov. 1, all bills due net Jan- son. Sold either by set alone or in crates and
Toilet Sets and New China is equal toany in the a ee ubject to 2 per cent. if paid within ten days may be matched for years, Price of above on
market. ' i request.

 

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Sold by all Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocers and

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beige itional protection against ° . ;

; ‘ey steps an Uail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk ¢
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/ Sng CONDENSED, Is unequalled as a food for infants. ,

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