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VOL. XII
GRAND RAPIDS, DECEMBER 122, 1894.
NO. 586
‘Pedieeelias
HOR HOLIDAY GIFTS,
For Ladies and Gents.
The largest and most complete line of
Umbrellas ever shown in the state, mostly
our Own make. The ‘‘Two-in-Hand”’ (Um-
brella and Cane combined) is one ofsour
latest novelties.
——_9——_.
COAL, Woop,
LIMB, CEMENT,
PIPE and BRICK.
Right Prices.
Right Qualities.
§. A. MORMAN & 60,
Office 19 Lyon St.
Telephone 455
Gold and Silver Headed
CANES.
Engraving Done Free of Charge.
Save half by having good Umbrella Frames
Covered.
nae cemmen
J, P, PLATTE, 64 Monroe 8t,
GRAND RAPIDS
BRUSH GOMP'Y,
MANUFACTUR —— Fe RU S HE S ae
Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses,
DWARD A MOSELEY,
TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY.
MOSELEY BROS.
Jobbers’of
SEEDS. BEANS, PEAS, POTATOES, ORANGES and LEMONS.
Egg Cases and Fillers a Specialty.
26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
To the Retail Shoe Dealers==-
Our line is complete in Boots, Shoes, Rukbers, Felt Boots,
Socks, Etc., for your fall and winter trade. Place your orders with us
now and get the best to save money. Our Celebrated Black Bottoms
in Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf, tap sole in Congress and Balmorals,
Established 1876 | Boston Belting Co.’s =
H. Disston & Sons’ = =
E. C. Atkins & Co.'s =
H. R. Warthington’s, = =
A. G. Spalding & Bros.’ =
L. Candee & Co.’s “
Rubber Belts, Etc.,
Saws,
Saws,
Steam Pumps,
Sporting Goods,
Rubber Boots and Shoes.
Mill and Fire Department Supplies.
Manufacturers of Pure Oak Short-lap Leather Belting.
Jobbers of Skates. Large Stock. Low Prices.
STUDLEY & BARCLAY, fiqni Rails, Mich.
4 MONROE ST
are the leaders and unsurpassed.
Our Wales-Goodyear Rubbers are great trade winners.
Mail orders given prom} ~ttention.
HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
PERKINS & HESS,
DEALERS IN
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow.
Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.
Paul Ejifert,
Manufacturer of
TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS,
SAMPLE TRUNKS and
SAMPLE CASES
Of any description to order on shori
notice.
50 Canal St., Grand Rapids.
This is Our Latest Furniture Photo Case,
Duck _ , Kersey
Coats Pants
We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of
any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We
are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and
solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of
our manufacture are not regularly handled.
Lansing Pants & Overall Co..
LANSING, [lICH.
LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY.
Importers and
Wholesale Grocers
Grand Rapids.
Oyster Crackers
Are now inseason. We manufacture } All Kinds.
SEARS’ SALTINE WAFER or SQUARE OYSTER,
A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed in 1 1b. cartoons
with neat and attractive label. Is one of the most popular
ackages we have ever put out.
Pp ¥
NGL RUT CAKES.
1 lb. $2.40 per doz.
Try Our
Handsome embossed packages,
packed 2 doz. in case
2 lb. $4.80 per doz.
These yoods are positively the finest produced and we
guarantee entire satisfaction.
SEND US YOUR HOLIDAY ORDERS.
New York Biscuit Co.,
S. A. SEARS, Manager,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Spring & Company,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons.
We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.
HEYMAN COMPANY,
Manufacturers of Show Gases of Every Description,
FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY.
33 and 68 Canal St, Grand Rapids, Mich
WRITE FOR PRICES.
Standard Oil Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
DEALERS IN
[]lUminati ” and Lubricating
Naptha and Gasolines.
Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave.
BULK WORKS AT
GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC,
BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAV EN, TRAVERSE CITY. LUDINGTON,
ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY.
Highest Price Paid for
Spring & Company.
KMPTY CARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS,
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VOL. XII.
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1894.
THE NIGHIGAN TRUST, sg
Makes a Specialty of acting as
Executor of Wills,
Administrator of Estates,
Guardian of [Minors and In-
competent Persons,
Trustee or Agent
in the management of any business which may
be entrusted to it.
Any information desired will k ll
a ired will be cheerfully
Lewis H. Withey, Pres.
Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y.
Township Bonds.
Cash Paid for Township and County
Warrants.
Special attention given to examining and direct-
ing proceedings for bond issues.
CHAS. E. TEMPLE, Grand Rapids.
827 Michigan Trust Co. Bldg.
MICHIGAN
Fire & Marine Insarance Co
Organized 1881.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
THE
FIRE
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co.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAPS.
J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres.
W. FRED McBAIN, Sec.
SSTABLISHED 1841.
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THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
R.G. Dun & Co.
Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections,
attended to throughout United States
and Canada
COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO.
65 MONROE ST.,
Have on file all reports kept by Cooper’s Com-
mercial Agency and Union Credit Co. and are
constantly revising and adding to them. Also
handle collections of all kinds for members.
ean 166 and 1030 for particulars.
L. J. STEVENSON. Cc. E. BLOCK.
W. H. P. ROOTS.
A.B. KNOWLSON,
Wholesale Shipper
Cement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Ete,
CARLOTS AND LESS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,
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Special Notice.
All smithing coals sold by us we guarantee to
be mined from the BIG VEIN in the Georges
Creek District. This is the coal so favorably
knownas Piedmont or Cumberland Blossburg
and stands unrivalled for smithing purposes.
S. P. Bennett Fuel & Ice Co-,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Attend the
Grand Rapids Business College
fora
Business or a Shorthand and Type-
writing Education.
Its GRADUATES are alwaysin demand. For
Catalogue address A. S. PARISH,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
PECK’S *fowpzns
Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber
THE BACK OFFICE.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN has taken
me in, after seeing me hanging around
the door at one hundred Saint Louis
street, until he could stand it no longer,
and, doubtless observing, from the signal
that demands a patch, that | am not
wholly prepared for cold weather, his
charity got the better of his judgment
and he let me come in toget warm. The
unexpected kindness so far overcame my
prejudices against labor that I offered to
return the favor with an item now and
then for the paper. The offer was ac-
cepted. And here, in the Back Office, I
hope to materialize gray matter enough
to make my company better than my
room. RICHARD MALCOM STRONG.
e+ &. =
The outline of the Postmaster-general’s
policy, as indicated in his last report, is
a proof that his collar is bigger than his
hatband. Two years ago, when every-
body voted for a change—and got it—it
might have been a matter of some con-
cern if this recommendation of revising
the postal law pertaining to second-class
matter had been made; it ean be easily
understood how the ganglia of national
life at the country crossroads and on the
farm might have been sensitive on hear-
ing that ‘‘the change’’ would put a stop
to free delivery in the country, and the
surprise, expressed every where at the in-
creased postal faeilities recommended in
cities and tewns where so much has al-
ready been done, would have then made
something of a stir: but now, with pub-
lic opinion overwhelmingly against such
recommendation, the report will be as
harmless as the amusement it will create.
If there has been one movement more
marked than another during the last
twenty-five years, it is the rush from the
country tothe town. The city has ab-
sorbed—and is still absorbing—in crowds
the village and the farm life. They are
after the facilities which they do not and
cannot have in country lanes and by-
ways. Adaily paper is a necessity in
the city, but the man in town does not
need the news any more than the man on
the farm. A letter for Bridget O’ Hearn
is no more important than one for Mary
Smith, but Bridget gets hers an hour
after its arrival at the city post office,
while Mary’s lays for days—it may be for
weeks—in the country post office.
Now, if this rush for the city is to be
stopped—and that it should be seems to
be the prevailing opinion—it is submitted
that cutting off the very facilities that
check the movement towards the town is
hardly the proper thing todo. What the
country needs more than anything else is
development—-the good things which peo-
ple, wherever they are, not only want
but need. With every means of rapid
communication the country may hope to
keep within hailing distance of the city—
and that is near enough—but without
that communication the countryman will
continue to be the hayseed that he has
been willing to be so long—a reproach to
himself and to that kind of statesman-
ship whose chief characteristics are a
little hatband, a big collar and a double
ehin.
* * *
The price of flour has declined very
materially during the past decade, but
the bakers have maintained the same re-
tail price for their product.—New Eng-
land Grocer.
While not in the baking business my-
self, and knowing nothing of its ins and
outs, I acknowledge considerable sy mpa-
thy for the under dog,and propose to stand
by and see this fight out. It must be ad-
mitted that his grip is simply tremen-
dous, and in all the changes of this
financially transitory life that dog has
adhered to his purpose with a grip that
nothing has been able to relax. The
odds are against him, but he clirgs. He
knows a good thing when he gets hold of
it, and then, like any other dog, he settles
right down to business. Kicks and
blows amount to nothing. The hose of
public opinion has been turned on with
full force and with extra pressure at the
waterworks, but to no effect. The tradi-
tional dipper of scalding water alone re-
mains untried, and in the meantime the
dog doesn’t let go.
By chance, or by caleulation, the price
of the breadloaf ten years ago was fixed
at five cents. The price of flour went
down, but the unfickle loaf, true to its
trust, stood firm. Ata nickel or nothing
remained the price of bread. Why not?
Grant that, ten years ago, with flour at a
certain price, bread was sold for five
cents. Grant that, to-day, according to
this Atwater man, bread can be sold ata
fair profit for two cents, the weight of
the loaf constantly diminishing. Two
from five—that makes a difference of
three cents. Who’s goin’ to have that
three cents? I guess, mother, you’ll have
to bring on your bilin’ water!
* = =
‘Remember that organized labor has
two effective weapons which are beyond
the power of capital; they are the ballot
and the label.”
And remember, too—and you had bet-
ter wait until the mental machinery is in
good working order—that labor, organ-
ized or unorganized, has never accom-
plished—and never will accomplish—any-
thing for that cause—or for any other
cause—without some organized brain
work behind it. There isn’t adoubt that
grievances, and a good many of them,
too, exist in the working world, and there
isn’t a doubt that the public sympathizes
heartily with the workingmen; but, just
as the public are getting ready to lend a
helping hand, some Smart Aleck with
just wit enough to makea fool of himself
is pushed to the van of the labor army,
and that’s the last of that movement.
Capital, in this country at least, hasn’t
so much to brag of in the way of brains.
Many, if not most, of the capitalists of
to-day were workmen in the ranks
twenty-five years ago; but the strong
point about the capitalist is that in cer-
tain lines he knows that he ‘‘don’t know
nuthin’,’? and he puts his case into the
most skillful hands he can find. Not so
with labor; all he wants is a chance.
He “hain’t be’n t? school ray t speak
NO. 586
on,’”’ but, put him up in front of this
labor movement, ‘‘n’ he’ll patch it up so’s
*twill run.” Patching, however, isn’t
statesmanship, and, while the union man
is remembering ‘‘the ballot” and ‘‘the
label,” he might just as well put down
that patching business and give it a
‘‘chewing over.”
= ¢ *
“Shoot the militia!’ says a union
paper which has drifted into the Back
Office. But we just ‘‘dassen’t” do it! We
had some of that promiscuous warfare
Jast summer and it didn’t work. A few
cars were burned and a few shots were
fired, just to scare the crowd, you know:
and then, I’ll be everlastingly kicked, if
the boys didn’t bring up plump against
some United States bayonets! Shoot the
militia? Don’t le’s. Le’s bang away at
suthin’ else.
* * *%
“There never was a strike that was a
complete tailure.”
That’s right. Ofcourse, there are peo-
ple starving at such times—by thousands
if the strike is a good big one. The
wives and children of men who ought to
be at work, and would be if the strike
had not been ordered, suffer more or less
from hunger and cold, but, for all that,
no strike was ever ‘‘a complete failure.”
There is a principle, you see, underlying
the strike; and when George M. Pullman
was finally brought to time and com-
pelled to make a showing, it didn’t
amount to much, but it saved the strike—
the biggest thing of the kind on record—
from being ‘‘a complete failure.” And
there, it may be added by way of round-
up, is where the strike differs from its
leaders—as complete failures as ever
crawled into notice to be laughed at after
they get there!
*
See. 5. Bread, when sold, shall be
weighed in presence of the buyer, and,
if found deficient in weight, bread shall
be added to make up the legal weight.
The above is Massachusetts law and it
won’t work. If it can’t be gotten around
in any other way, every establishment in
Yankeedom will turn out bread too heavy
to be digested—the baker is determined
to come out ahead.
* * &
Eli says that a young man who will
not think is a failure from the start, and
he might as well settle down in life on
the theory that he will never amount to
much, because of his own indifference.
Settle? He is settled already, and has
been from the foundation of the world.
A lump of putty has more chance of a
rise in the world tban he. Push him,
and he stays pushed. Punch him, and
the finger doesn’t find resistance enough
to feel it. Kick him, and he besmears
the shoe. The only thing to be done is
to put him out with the rest of the lum-
ber in the back shed; and even then, if
one isn’t careful, he will always be right
in the way. A young man who doesn’t
think! The world has no use for him.
* * *
There is mischief brewing at the Home-
stead Works in Pennsylvania. They
have put in a machine which places the
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ingots in the heating furnaces and with
draws them, which is all right so far, but
the machine does away with the services
of quite a number of skilled workmen, a/|
fact that will raise a howl from one end |
of the country to the other. See if it |
doesn’t!
+ & & |
Right in the face of the depression |
from which it was hoped the country |
was emerging, the United States Labor |
Commissioner comes out witha statement |
to the effect that there has been a re-
markable improvement in the condition |
of the wage earner during the last half |
century! That Commissioner has been |
rooting up turnips in the wrong field.
They had a little practical astronomy
in Philadelphia, the otherday. A young
woman was knocked down while
crossing the track at Norristown at half
past six in the morning. She ealled for
damages, which the railroad company re-
fused to give, on the ground that it is
light at that hour. The astronomers
were called in and declared that it was
pitch-dark at that time in the morning.
The $25,000 which the jury rendered as a/
verdict in the young woman’s favor will
probably open the eyes of the unthinking
world to the fact that there is something
practical, after all, in this stargazing
business which it may be just as well to
look up.
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WOMAN’S FIELD OF INDUSTRY.
She Is Actively Competing With Man
in Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune has taken
trouble to hunt out the women of
city who are earning a living in the va-
rious ways which used to be man’s ex-
clusive property, and it would seem,
from the result, that what woman cannot
do in the field of employment is much
more simple than what she can accom-
plish.
The first on the list is that of a woman
undertaker, who has been in the busi-
ness fifteen years. Several other women |
are engaged in the same unattractive em-
ployment. They make their offices cosy
and homelike with dainty things, hiding
the gruesome reality of their work as
much as possible, and in most cases they
make a success of the business.
A dozen different barber shops are
conducted by women, with women as-
sistants. and most of their customers are
men. Again, woman’s daintiness and
taste in making the surroundings at-
tractive are an advantage over man’s
conservative ideas, and her business
prespers accordingly.
Women engaged in art of various de-
grees of excellence are legion. Now and
then one masters the art of photography,
and Chicago has several successfully em- |
ployed in this business. One secret of:
their success is their appreciation of the
fact that photographs must flatter to be
quite satisfactory, and another is their
winning way of making each man be-
lieve he is a perfect Adonis. Each one
has gotten into the business by studying
it from the ground up.
Dentistry is found to be a lucrative |
business for a dozen women, and they ex-
press their confidence in woman’s skill |
in this profession with a great deal of as-
Surance. Many of their patients are
children, for women succeed better than
men in winning their confidence.
Miss Sara Steenberg is an insurance
broker, the only one in Chicago. The |
elements of woman’s success in this
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| CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS
| The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
. Cases Bbls. Pails.
Standard, per Ib......... 6% 7%
. a ee 6% 7%
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Boston Croeam....... .. 9
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MIXED CANDY.
Bbls. Pails
Standard... a 6%
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Rovai...... ee ee wee ee 7% 8
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Broken Tay... baskets &h&
Peanut Squares.........__. rs 9
French Creams... : 9%
Valley Creams... es ee 13¥,
Midget, 30 Ib. baskets...._. “cou. ©
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Pails
Lozenges, —.. —— ._ 2
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Chocolate fa eee I 3
Chocolate Monumentals......./.1.77 777777"! 13
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BANANAS.
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NOW-A-DAYS You would like to hand out to your friends
IF YOU or customers on January Ist. We will re-
Produce it and get you up a Calendar with
ARE NOT an individuality that won’t need a trade-
ORIGINAL. mark or a patent.
WE ALSO HAVE A VARIETY OF DE-
SIGNS IN STOCK WHICH WE CAN
FURNISH ON IMMEDIATE NOTICE.
Don’t Hang Fire!
Talk Now!
TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Getters-up of Original Printing.
is
a
An Immense Stock of
Holiday Presents in Musical Goods, #
es
Weber, Hazelton, Fischer, Schaff
and other Pianos.
A. B. Chase and Ann Arbor Or-
gans.
Violins, Mandolins, Guitars, i
Banjos, Harmonicas, Ac-
cordians, Music Boxes,
se Ete.
Julius A. J. Friedrich, 30, 32 Canal St.
Use Yradesman's Wants Golvmn.
It Brings Good Returns,
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¥ é ao wal Were & PD Re KA ee
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business are a thorough knowledge of in-
surance law, a clear head, ability to
grasp details, and a disposition not to
ask for business simply because she is a
woman.
Another woman isin pension agent,
and has been looking after soldiers’ pen-
sions for years.
Chicago claims more women lawyers
than any other city in the Union, and
these number nearly a dozen. The rep-
resentative woman in the profession is
the wife of a lawyer, and co-operates
with his firm to such an extent as is cus-
tomary among lawyers who find it to
their advantage to work together.
Women in the medical profession are
so numerous and well established that
they are accepted asa matter of course
in every city, and Chicago has her pro-
portion. In connection with them are
the professional nurses, who are ew-
ployed in hospitals, sanitariums, and
private families; and the demand for
teachers in nursing schools is a growing
one.
Physical culture furnishes a wide field
for woman’s work, and parlors filled
with all the appliances of a first-class
gymnasium are successfully conducted
by women who direct the exercises
scientifically with specific results in each
ease. They have taken a regular med-
ical course, have made a special study
of the anatomy of women and under-
stand the effect of all they teach.
The laundry business is not one which
suggests ease and pretty surroundings or
possible fame, yet a great many women
in Chicago are making a nice living out
of it. Each one has a specialty—cur-
tains, fine laces, linens—and that gives
hera clientage. Their places of busi-
ness are filled with modern machin-
ery, and in some of them women are
employed to the exclusion of men.
A few women have ventured into the
caterers’ field, and the making of pies,
cakes, bread, preserves and jellies is a
profitable business for many others.
One woman in the suburbs of Chicago
has a butcher’s shop, and another one
has a milk route; still another carries on
the largest cooperage business in the
city.
Brewing is certainly a unique employ-
ment for women; yet one woman was
left by her husband’s death with this
business and some boys to care for, and
with the aid of a foreman she has carried
it on for many years. Now the sons
have the management, and she is the
proud possessor of a handsome home and
and a fine property.
A number of women are in the boot
and shoe business, and in big depart-
ment stores there are many women oc-
cupying responsible places as buyers. It
seems, in fact, that there are very few
branches of commercial life in which
women are not engaged. Women drug-
gists are plentiful enough and one wom-
an owns a wholesale drug _ business.
There are women florists, who own their
establishments, women furriers, dealers
in musical instruments, grocers, hard-
ware merchants, commission merchants,
and women who deal in almost every-
thing, from furnaces to cigarettes.
>.
The dimensions of the I. M. Clark Gro-
cery Company’s new building can be
foreseen by the excavation, now com-
pleted. The old buildings were moved
away by the Grand Rapids Heavy Mov-
ing Company and one of them went up
the entire length of Cherry street hill.
WHAT STOVE MERCHANTS
With Experience in the Trade Have
Yo 8ay about the Majestic,
Hughes & Otis, Fond du Lac, Wis.
The Majestic Steel Range is without a peer
as to cooking apparatus. (Thirty years’ expe-
rience in the stove business.)
& F. Lusel, Watertown, Wis.
After a most thorough test with both hard
coal and wood, we unhesitatingly say that
the Majestic Steel Range is the best cooking
apparatus we have seenin our forty years’
experience in the cook stove business.
James Montgomery, Warsaw, Wis.
Fifty Majestic Steel Ranges in use. Every
user delighted. The Majestie is, without
doubt, the best cooking apparatus in the
world. (Thirty years in the cook stove busi-
ness.)
Newark & Drury, Cadillac, Mich.
We are glad we control in Cadillac the best
cooking apparatus made—the grand Majestic
Stee] Range.
A. H. Sheldon & Co., Janesville, Wis.
After a most thorough and scrutinizing test,
we believe that the people who do not use a
a Majestic Steel Range waste the cost of it
every year in the unnecessary amount of
fuel consumed and the waste of food by im-
proper baking.
Harry Daniels, Jerseyville, Ill.
I never learned what a cooking apparatus
was until, during the exhibit, the value of
the Majestic and its many excellencies were
demonstrated tome. Over one hundred in
use. Every user delighted.
P. D. Ray & Son, Arcolo, Il.
Two years ago we bought one Majestic
Range and kept it on our floor. Since we
have had a practical demonstration of its
value, we have sold nothing but Majesties.
H. Krippene, Oshkosh, Wis.
I have been selling the Majestic for over four
years. Every user says they enjoy it more
and more each day as they become more
familiar with its virtues.
W. D. Cooke, Green Bay, Wis.
Have sold the Majestic Steel Range for four
years. Have not furnished one cent of re-
pairs or had one single complaint. The
users unite in saying that no words written
or spoken can speak more highly of it than it
deserves.
Dunning Bros. & Co., Menominee, Mich.
It is simply absurd to compare any other
cooking stove or range that we have sold in
our experience in the cook steve business
with the ‘‘Majestic’ in economy of fuel and
facility and or Sg in properly preparing
food for the table.
. Tausche, La Crosse, Wis.
The virtues of the Majestic Steel Range,
which have been demonstrated to us and our
people during the exhibit here, were both
surprising and gratifying tous. Every user
(of which there are a large number) says we
did not tell them half the advantages of the
Majestic over the cook stoves they had been
using.
. K. Johnson Hardware Co., Alton,
Th.
Since the Majestic exhibit at our store, the
people who are able are looking only for the
Majestic Steel Range when they want some-
thing with which to cook.
The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.,
Traverse City, Mich.
The Majestic is substantial in its construc-
tion, perfect in its operation and the best
that can be had. Our personal guarantee of
every part and place in this range goes with
every one we sell,
Edwards & Chamberlin, Kalamazoo,
Mich.
The Majestic, for durability, economy of fuel,
perfect operation, and all the qualities that
go to make a perfect cooking apparatus,
stands without a rival.
Kanter Bros., Holland, Mich.
The Majestic is perfect, the delight of its
users, and stands without arival as a cooking
range.
D.
The opinions of the above merchants,
who have given a lifetime to the stove
business, are above criticism and conclu-
sively prove beyond a doubt that the
Majestic is in every particular all that is
claimed for it.
For further particulars address
Majestic Manufacturing Oo.,
St. Louis, Mo.
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Wolverine Oysters.
This brand of oysters is not excelled
by anything offered to Michigan buyers.
Every day new inquiries come into
Oscar Allyn’s for this brand from mer-
chants whose customers have repeatedly
asked for them and will take no others.
The Wolverine may not have the oldest
reputation, but, perhaps, they have the
best. The wholesale trade for these favor-
ite oysters, White Plume celery and choice
poultry is cared for at 106 Cana! street,
or telephone 1,001.
———_—>_ 2
Want Choice Onions for 40c? If so,
mail your order at once to H. J. Vinke-
mulder, 445 South Division St., Grand
Rapids.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—The market is strong, the demand
being active. Jonathans command $3; fancy
Kings, $2.50; Greenings and Canada Reds, $2.25:
Spys and Baldwins, 92.
Beans—Coming in more freely, owing to the
fact that the weather has beer more favorable
for threshing. The price is unchanged. Han-
dlers pay $1.25@1 30 for country picked, holding
city picked at $1.60,
Butter—Unchanged. Dairy, 18@2ic, accord
ing to quality. Creamery. 22@25c.
Beets—30c per doz
Cabbage—Price ranges fromo$1@4 per 100, ac-
cording to size and quality.
Cauliflowers—$1 per doz. for choice stock.
Celery—Is held by dealers at 10Q@i2¢ per doz.
Eggs—Strictly fresh are very hard to get and
readily command 20¢ per doz. Picklers are be-
ginning to take out their stock, holding at 18e.
Grapes—Tokays, $2.50 and 83.75 per crate, ac.
Cording to size. Malagas, $6.50 per 50-lb. keg.
Lettuce—12\e per Ib.
Onions—Red Weatherfields and Yellow Dan-
vers Command 40¢ per bu. Spanish stock, $1
per box.
Parsnips—40c per bu.
Parsley—25c per doz.
Pears—Californias bring $2 per bu. box.
Potatoes—The demand is more general and
the market is a little stronger than a week ago.
Local handlers pay 38c, holding at 40c in carlots
and 45¢ in small quantities,
Radishes—Hot house stock Commands 30c per
doz. bunches,
Rye—Small stocks and relatively high prices
have resuited in a total cessation of exports.
During the first ten months of the present year
these were next to nothing at barely 232 bushels
against about 750,000 bushels a year ago,
Sweet Potatees—Lllinois Jerseys are the only
variety still in market. They command $3 per
bbl.
Squash—Hubbard brings 134¢ per lb.
Turnips—30c per bu. In smal} demand and
adequate supply,
THE MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN.
GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
B. J. Launier has closed his meat mar-
ket on West Bridge street and retired
from the business.
Chas. A. Loughlin has removed his
produce and commission business from
290 South Division street to 412 South
Division street.
John D. Wickham has sold his meat
market at 117 Butterworth avenue to
Bert Hatch, formerly in the employ of
the Consolidated Street Railway Co.
The Palmer hardware stock at 676
Wealthy avenue has been purchased by
Jacob Dykema, formerly aclerk for Jos.
Berles, the Canal street hardware
dealer.
Frank E. Winsor, formerly engaged in
the grocery business at 152 North Divis-
ion street, has opened a grocery store at
24 Fountain street. The I. M. Ciark
Grocery Co. furnished the stock.
Peter VanKolken, formerly with the
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., has formed a
copartnership with Paul Tanis, of Chi-
cago, and the two will! shortly embark in
the tea and coffee business at Holland.
The Musselman Grocer Co. took pos-
session of the G. L. White & Son grocery
stock, at Mancelona, last week, by virtue
of a bill of sale, subsequently transfer-
ing the stock to Wisler & Co., who con-
solidated the stock with their own.
THE TRADESMAN gladly gives place
this week to an excellent paper on the
“Progress of Pharmacy,” prepared and
read before the last meeting of the Mich-
igan State Pharmaceutical Association
by Dorian M. Russell, of the Thum Bros.
& Riechel pharmacy, of this city.
The Standard Oil Co., which has occu-
pied rooms in the Hawkins block for the
past ten years, will shortly remove to the
fifth floor of the Michigan Trust Company
building, where it will occupy rooms
503, 505, 507 and 509. The principal
reason for removing is to secure vault
room, which could not be had in the
present location.
Pollard & McKinley, whose general
stock at Ashland Center was recently de-
stroyed by fire, have placed orders with
local jobbers for new lines. Foster,
Stevens & Co. capture the hardware or-
der, the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnish
the groceries, P. Steketee & Sons supply
the dry goods and Rindge, Kalmbach &
Co. put in the boots and shoes.
Geo. N. Davis is agitating the matter
of organizing a stock company witha
cash capital of $40,000 for the purpose of
erecting and conducting a mammoth cold
storage warehouse, using ammonia re-
frigeration instead of ice. A _ location
has been selected on the West side, pend-
ing the conclusion of negotiations now
under way for the exclusive use of the
process of refrigeration in this city.
A good many of the retail grocers of
the city appear to be of the opinion that
the oil trade has been ruined by the
peddlers. Has it ever occurred to them
that it might be a good idea to sell oil at
cost for a few weeks and thus drive the
peddlers out of business? Such an ex-
pedient has been advupted in other cities
with success, and Tue TRADESMAN sees
no reason why such a measure would not
work advantageously in this city.
The stockholders of the Sintz Gas En-
gine Co. have voted to increase the cap-
ital stock of the corporation from $30,000
to $100,000, and a portion of the new
stock has already been spoken for. The
increased capital will enable the com-
pany to push the sale of its gasoline en-
gines, both stationery and marine, and
also enable it to increase its output of
boats of all sizes and varieties. This en-
terprise has worked up a considerable
business without special effort in the
way of advertising or the employment of
traveling representatives, but the stock-
holders bave reached the conclusion that
they have something worth pushing and
augmented capital will enable them to
put this idea into practice.
There is a proposition now before the
Common Council of this city to enforce
the use of the union label on all munici-
pal printing. The measure is clearly a
violation of the charter, which provides
that all work of the kind shail be let to
the lowest bidder; but there are probably
a half dozen members of the Council who
owe their position to the machinations of
unions and who will violate their honor
as men and their oaths as publie officers
to secure this approval of the allied
interests of unionism and rum. The
business public, however, expect honest
men to do their duty in such an emer-
gency and will note the vote on this
question with watchful interest, as it
will indicate the exact position of each
member on the question of perpetuating
monopolies.
2 BM “Persian dress 64, fancies... 6
: . . Cc. a “ “a
needed service: his store is a local con- mao 7 “ N 6% : = Ne Lancash oTmandie ox
venience, doing for each of its customers Capital A... 1... a a - ou “ Teazle.. .104|Manchester. . 4%
i : Coyne F..... x “ Angola. .10%/Monogram . 4%
a work at less expenditure of time, trou- Chapman cheese cl. 3% Noibe R....... 5 “ Pe relan.. 7 Normandie 8%
: : Citften CR... 544/Our Level Bes 6 Arlington staple... Persian...._.. 6%
ble and expense than if people attempted ok 5%/Oxford R.... . i ao oe, Seadivais thane 7
to do the same work for themselves. If oun nee veteeceee Seisolnr . . : Bates Wrarwies oe 6) Rosemont. 6%
ee is : pheirae
there were no stores opened voluntarily (fev et the Weep. F | as es 10% imaadeeuee 3
fa pl da nee Serna, Ceteertan 10%|Tacoma ...... .™
by those who saw the need of a placeand| 4 p Poo, 8% |Geo. Washington... 8
A 8 iGlen Mills... 7 | Cumberland staple. 5 Toil Boe mee os. 8%
forestalled the demand, the community Soe ee oy ** xe | Cumberland... .... Wabash.............
msburg..... ..... 6 |Gold Medal. . ra... iu eae Sane” 2
would be quick to take steps to secure | Art Cambric......”” : Green_Ticket ie 7%4|Warwick.... ......
j si Blackstone A A..... 6 4|Great Falls.. “++ 84 | Evereit classics..... 8%|Whittenden......
the needed service, even at considerable | Boats All. ae 2 pee... re Exposition 7g heather ar ru
gost. Every store is the center around | Boston.... ......... 12 \sust Cat iiip —. Glenarie........ .. 64] "Indigo blue 9
: : RO ce ciaes sc, 8% King Phillip... .... x ian“. .. 6%|Wamsutta staples, .. 6%
Which a fixed trade revolves, which | Cabot. % 200770127” Pic 7% Westbrook..........
3, | Glenwood....... 7% Wer ti ‘00
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trade is arbitrary and exacting in its de- Conway W........, 7%4|Lonsdale...... @8 ampton. SO eagena tees
: lan Middlesex. @ 4% | Jobnson vhalon ci 4 wisiasealianas kwh oes 5
mands. It insists that from daylight eas. see a. 7% “Indigo blue 9%|York..... ........7 6%
“en “
until late at night the local dealer shall i rts 3 "Oak — : a mange = ae
be prepared to meet certain demands, for coe ene 8 Z Prlde of ie Went st” Amoskeng........... 12% Georgia... ........ 12%
i a ss villi yer Rosalind. . ros 5D LOR reins secs cat MOT ccc cei coe ccd luce.
which patrons should ie willing to pay Fruit of the Loom. 74 |\Suntight.. i == 295 | Amerioan,..... o.. Rees ee os
a fair price. Competition from outside, — Cee ; Utica Mills boon on THREADS,
; ‘ : Waree Tree... |... onpareil .. 3
more or less irregular in character, comes Fruitof the Loom %. i Vinyard ee 8% — ae 45 Barhour's..... ; +2388
i § s i | Pere. OO. occ —— ee een ee
in, not to perform all of the service de aa. mm Soe 8% Holyoke............. 2%
manded of the local store, but only such HALF ——_ corseme. bs i KNITTING COTTON,
: isa eC kee ena ge oe t Cmer...,.. i:
portion of it as the competitor selects, Farwell ee news 7 2 ay “4 No. 6 a ~~ N 4 oe
niet ANTON FLAN eee
and naturally he strives for that which ishieeeeee Siendbed. Ce =
will be the most easily handled and pay | Housewife A fe * Housewife Q SS ie 6%} 49°" 7’ 3g 45
ee heeat eetiens peo ag 1) ee “a Slater....... ve 4 (B@wards....0..... 4
terference, and they are right in taking ; oo 7 i White Star. --. 4 [Lockwood.... .. ... 4
every legitimate measure to check, and if * 7 2. se Kid Glove........... 4 |Wood’s............ ‘.
7 : .
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
7
ive prices are asked. They fail to take
into account that their demands upon the
local store are more exacting than upon
the department stores, which in New
York and Brooklyn do not render cus-
tomers as complete’ service as that
given by local dealers. In Chicago the
department stores keep a complete stock
of groceries, while every where their con-
duct of business is far superior to that of
the average grocery. They excel in
cleanliness, in management of details,
and the character and quality of counter
service. Retail grocers must improve
their service if they are to compete. I
believe that the department stores are
here to stay and that they will not injure
the wide-awake, pushing, competent,
brainy men who are retail grocers. They
are liberal advertisers, and this helps
every grocer in some measure, for their
announcements increase demands which
the retail grocers are competent to meet.
The service of the exclusive grocery
store can be made superior to that of the
department store. The managers of
some of these stores are inexperienced,
and certainly they are no match for men
trained all their lives toa knowledge of
the retail grocery business. The lesson
of the time is that retail grocers must im-
prove the appearance and service of their
Stores, stop selling staples at cost and
add new departments to their business
as fast as they are able to do so and
must maintain excellent service.
FRANK N. BARRETT.
New York, Dec. 1.
_-—_-_—~>-+o >.
Cutting Prices of Hardware.
This foolish, expensive and hurtful
practice in retail country hardware
stores, brought about more by personal
rivalry than by honest competition, is
greatly to be deplored, not only on ac-
count of the mischief it causes in regard
to values generally, but it is entirely un-
necessary. If the merchant will stop to
consider before he makes ‘‘cut’’ prices
and ask himself, ‘‘What good is this go-
ing to do me?” the chances are he won’t
doit. Inthe first place, his action in
cutting prices tends to create a suspicion
in the buyer’s mind that heretofore he
has been paying too much for his goods,
and he will certainly expect it in future
purchases. Secondly, he should disabuse
his mind of the idea that he is hurting
his competitor’s business; he has not
done so and the probability is that the
latter is laughing in his sleeve, while the
customer thinks none the better of him
for it. Thirdly, there is the loss of his
self-esteem and the esteem of his neigh-
bors, as well as of his customers, who can
have little reliance on a man who sells
goods too close to cost. The merchant
may sometimes recoup himself on some
of the goods called for in a bill of hard-
ware, but in nine cases out of ten it (the
overcharge) will sooner or later come to
the surface and injure him. Close figur-
ing is one thing, and cutting prices to the
cost mark is another, and should never
be indulged in. Nails, barbed wire and
similar staples are already sold at such a
small margin of profit that in many
towns fence wire is now entirely handled
by the implement trade—brought about
by the pernicious habit of price cutting.
Let a merchant mark his goods at a fair
percentage for profit and then adhere to
those figures, and his customers will re-
spect him and look up to him with a de-
gree of confidence they will not accord
the man who cuts prices,
The Sun.
The first of American Newspapers,
CHARLES A DANA, Editor.
The American Constitution, the Amer-
ican Idea, the American Spirit. ‘These
first, last, and all the time, forever.
Daily, by mail, - = = = $6 a year
Daily and Sunday, by mail, =< - $8 a year
The Weekly, => = « = « $1 a ynar
The Sunday, Sun
is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the
world.
Price 5c.a Copy. By Mail, $2 a year.
Address THE SUN, New York.
peer BIOS. ofe C0,
STATE AGENTS FOR
The Lycoming Rubber Company,
keep constantly on hand a
full and complete line of
these goods made from the
purest rubber. They are
good style, good fitters and
give the best satisfaction
of any rubber in the mar-
ket. Our line of Leather
Eoots and Shoes is com-
plete in every particular,
also Felt Boots, Sox, ete.
Thanking you for past favors we now
await your further orders. Hoping you
wiil give our line a careful inspection
when our representative calls on you,
weare REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.
5 AND7 PEARL STREET.
Chas. Pettersch,
ITORMIG LOGNS PUR ioe cc ee 40
WRC CONS ec ie 40
Wrought Inside Blind..... Goss ev does sees keen ae
baal pe io 2, OE OS ST Grain %
Pe ROO 70&16
ce ee fg OE RE ee ce EE 70&10
PG PO 70
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10
CRADLES,
Ne eo ee 40&10
OROW BARS,
SOG perb 5
Bly’s 1-10 — 65
OM ie ic ke casi e cae dece ss rm
RE es a“ 55
Gb .:... Pi cadeas eu Gia g ecu) ia . 35
SS se a a ae et _ 60
CARTRIDGES,
CE ee 58
Central Fire....... ride cpedidugeda ae coe dis. 25
CHISELS. dia.
re a 75&10
OCG a 75818
OCR 75&10
Re 75&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................... 40
COMES, dis.
Cicer. DAWPONOO. oo cs 40
Ee 25
OHALE,
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12Q12% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. per pound 28
‘14x52, 14x56, 14x60... ...... 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 23
ee ee, Se 23
nor an Hama Ee a rE 22
DRILLS, dis,
owed se Bee Binewe. 50
Taper and straight Shank................... 50
ores Teper Anema . 50
DRIPPING PANS,
Samal sisom, sor pound ...................... 6%
Large aises, per pound...... ......... .. 06
ELBOWS.
coe 4 piers. Gi. aos. net %
RR ee dis 50
PN ee dis. 40410
EXPANSIVE BITs. dis.
Clark’s, small, 818; large, $26...............
Free’, 5, Sie: 2,0: Se 25
FILEs—New List. dis.
emt 6010-10
ee AO 60&10-10
Pe ee 60&10-10
tae at, SE a ee ey Naa aE 50
Prcror se Horse ages. | io. 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 16 17
Discount, 70
Gs.
@au
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.....
KNOoBs—New List.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ..............
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... .......
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..........
Door, porcelvin, trimmings.................
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain.............
LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.'s new list ..
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............
SO eke stu.
dis.
. 815.00, dis. 60-10
$18.50, dis. 20610.
MAULS, dig,
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handied............... 50
MILLS, dis.
cee, Pereere Ow
“ P.8..& W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables....
** Landers, Ferry & Clerk’s............
‘ee
MOLASSES GATES,
Stebbin’s Pattern...
Stebbin’s Genuine........
Enterprise, self-measurin:
JOBBER OF NAILS
' Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Im orted and Domestis Cheese a. 135
ee EI, Woo ice pets ween 135
Swiss, Brick and Limburger a Specialty. [502020202020 Base Base
ee a ee een a =
GRAND RAPIDS ee ae 35
Ne ees 45
12. 45
Hardware Price Current. - seebhenepereat ratte seeee eee sees 50
Ce Oe Ue 7
These prices are for cash buyers, who|$.00100020000 72 1 30
pay promptly and buy in full packages, i. Le icdos SGM AWud seu welnmadeg s lod ‘3
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Case BUG a Mv reeen wed poesia ou 65
Snell's Roe LL ci CRM. aie 6os10 a : rete ee eee eee rete een teen ee cere =
00 og Ah A le hh ah dhe il ee eae Oe Ck ee alle a il ag eh ew lie a a dah echt eerie’ oleie =
Jennings’, genuine...... oo... eee ee eee 25 | Finish 10.............--2- 0. cree eee 75
EN | SOOO oo oe ct extecnce: 65 50&10 eee 10
ae i Paik speeds dis seta'ca - << _
Annual Meeting of Post E,
At the annual meeting of Post E, Mich-
igan Knights of the Grip, held at Elk’s
Hall Saturday evening, Dee. 8, Chairman
Bradford presided.
The annual report of the Secretary and
Treasurer showed total receipts of
$287.20 and total disbursements of $271.50,
leaving a balance on hand of $15.70. The
report was accepted and adopted.
Election of officers for the ensuing year
being then in order, Manley Jones nom-
inated Jas. B. McInnes for Chairman.
Will Richmond nominated ©. L. Lawton
for the same position. An informal bal-
lot resulted in twenty-four votes for Mr.
Lawton and nine votes for Mr. McInnes,
and the former was declared unanimously
elected.
F. M. Tyler was elected Viee-Chair-
man by acclamation and J. Henry Dawley
was elected Secretary and Treasurer in
the same manner.
On motion of E. A. Stowe, Ad. Baker
was elected Sweet Singer of the Post.
F. M. Tyler moved that the thanks of
the Post be accorded the retiring officers
| tor the faithful manner in which they
had discharged the duties devolving upon
'them, which was unanimously adopted
| by a rising vote.
The newly elected Chairman was then
escorted to the chair and announced the
appointment of B. G. VanLeuven as Sar-
geant-at-Arms, and W. E. Richmond, B.
G. VanLeuven and Peter H. Fox as En-
tertainment Committee. He asked leave
to defer the appointment of the Execu-
tive Committee until the next meeting,
which was granted.
Geo. W. Stowitts, chairman of the Com-
mittee on Decorations, reported that a
Detroit decorator would embellish both
halls with bunting and flags for $250. A
considerable discussion followed, cul-
minating in the adoption of a resolution
offered by Jas. N. Bradford that the bid
be not accepted, but that local decorators
be engaged to do the work instead.
L. M. Mills introduced the following
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved—That we request the Board
of Directors of the Michigan Knights of
the Grip to adopt the following house
rules at the annual convention:
That the Sargeant-at-Arms be in-
structed to admit no person upon the
floor of the convention, during the ses-
sions, except members presenting re-
ceipts for death assessment No. 3 of 1894,
or who have joined since Sept. 20 (as
only such are in good standing); also
that the same officer be instructed to al-
low no member to leave the room during
any session, without permission from the
chair, and to allow no smoking in the
convention hall during the sessions.
There being no further business the
meeting adjourned.
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The Hardware Market.
General trade continues fairly good, al-
though, as usual in December, everybody
is restricting buying and getting ready for
inventory time, which, with most of the
trade, comes the Ist of January. Changes
in prices are few and what there are we
find mostly declines. All manufacturers
and jobbers are looking forward to better
times and prices, but when they will
come is hard to tell. Now that the hunt-
ing season is over but little ammunition
is moving—dealers confining their pur-
chases mostly to Christmas goods, such
as cutlery, skates, silverware, hand-
sleighs, ete. The absence of snow keeps
many lines of goods in the background,
but, when it does come, snow shovels,
sleigh bells, saws, axes and lumbering
tools generally will begin to move. Job-
bers are busy looking up orders for
spring shipments—in wire cloth, gaso-
line stoves, barbed wire, wire nails, agri-
cultural tools, poultry netting, potato and
corn planters, etc. Itis wise for dealers to
anticipate their requirements, as manu-
facturers need to know about the quan-
tity that will be wanted, so there may be
no disappointment to those who want the
goods. A shortage in skates is already
apparent, as the demand has been very
large. Bar iron and Sleigh shoe steel re-
main low in price with no prospect of
any improvement. Sheet iron is in good
demand and prices are firm. A brisk de-
mand among the large dealers for win-
dow glass has Sprung up and the factor-
ies are having all they can do, the result
of which gives a much firmer tone to the
market. There is talk of an advance in
stamped ware, but we can see no reason
for it, as tin is low and no advance can
take place unless a combination is
formed—and they are hard things to
maintain. A meeting of the hardware
jobbers of the country is called to take
place in Cleveland this week. They will
undoubtedly solve the problem of how
every hardware merchant can make
money. We will advise our readers how,
if we find out.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
ALWAYS IN THE FUTURE.
= It was Sunday evening in July—an
evening aglow with warmth and splen-
dor; an evening when even the streets
of London were glorious with the light
of the splendid west; an evening when,
if you are young (as I[ sincerely hope you
are), only to wander hand in hand over
the grass and under the trees with your
sweetheart should be happiness enough.
One ought to be ashamed to ask for
more; nay, a great many do not ask for
more.
They are engaged. Some time, but
not just yet, they will marry. They
work separately all the week, but on
Sunday they are free to go about to-
gether. Of all the days that make the
week they dearly love but one day—
namely the day that lies between the
Saturday and the Monday. Now that the
voice of the sabbatarian has sunk to a
whisper or a whine; now that we have
learned to recognize the beauty, the
priceless boon, the true holiness of the
Sunday, which not oniy rests body and
brain, but may be so used as to fill the
mind with memories of lovely scenes,
of sweet and confidential talk, of love-
making and of happiness, we ought to
determine that of all the things which
make up the British liberties, there is
nothing for which the working man
should more fiercely fight or more jeal-
ously watch than the full freedom of his
Sunday—freedom uncontrolled to wander
where he will, to make his recreation as
he chooses.
If the church doors are open wide, let
the doors of the public galleries and the
museums and the libraries be opened
wide, as well. Let him, if he choose,
step from chureh to library. But if he
is wise, when the grass is long and the
bramble is in blossom, and the foliage is
thick and heavy on the elms, he will,
after dinner, repair to the country, if it
is only to breathe the air of the fields,
and lie on his back watching the slow
westering of the sun and listening to the
note of the blackbird in the wood.
Two by two they stroll or sit about
Hemstead Heath on such an evening.
If you were to listen (a pleasant thing
to do, but wrong) to the talk of these
couples you would find that they are
mostly silent, except that they only oc-
casionally exchange a word or two. Why
should they talk? They know each
other’s cares and prospects; they know
the burden that each has to bear—the
evil temper of the boss, the uncertainties
of employment, the difficulties in the
way of an improved screw, and the fam-
ily troubles—there are always family
troubles, due to some inconsiderate mem-
ber or other. I declare that we have
been teaching morality and the proper
conduct of life on quite a wrong princi-
ple—namely, the selfish principle.
We say, ‘‘Be good, my child, and you
will go to heaven.’”?’ The proposition is
no doubt perfectly true. But it proposes
a selfish motive for action. I would
rather say to that child, ‘‘Be good, my
dear, or else you will become an intoler-
able nuisance to other people.’’ Now,
no child likes to consider himself an in-
tolerable nuisance.
These lovers, therefore, wander about
the Heath, sometimes up to their knees
in bracken, sometimes sitting under the
trees, not talking much, but, as the old
phrase has it, ‘‘enjoying themselves”
very much indeed. At the end of the
Spaniards’ Road—that high causeway
whence one can see, in clear weather, |
the steeple of Harrow Church on one |
side and the dome of St. Paul’s on the}
other—there is a famous clump of firs, |
which have been represented by painters |
Over and over again. Benches have been |
placed under these trees, where one can |
sit and have a very fine view indeed,
with the Hendon Lake in the middle dis- |
tance, and a range of hills beyond, and |
fields and rills between.
On one of these benches were sitting |
this evening two—Adam and Eve, boy
and girl—newly entered into paradise. |
Others were sitting there as well—an/|
ancient gentleman whose thoughts were |
seventy years back, a working man with)
a child of three on his knee, and beside
him his wife, carrying the baby. But
these lovers paid no heed to their neigh-
bors. They satat the end of the bench.
The boy was holding the girl’s hand, and
he was talking eagerly.
‘‘Lily,’? he said, ‘‘you must come
some evening to our debating society
when we begin again and hear me speak.
No one speaks better. That is acknowl-
edged. There is to bea debate on the
House of Lords in October. I mean to
come out grand. When I’m done there
will be mighty little left of the Lords.”
He was a handsome lad, tall and well
set up, straight featured and bright
eyed. The girl looked at him proudly.
He was her own lad—this handsome
chap. Not that she was bad-looking
either. Many an honest fellow has to
put up with a girl not nearly so good-
looking, if you were to compare.
He was aclerk in the city. She was
in the post-office. He attended at his
office daily from half-past nine to six,
doing such work as was set before him
fora salary of a pound a week. She
stood all day long at the counter, serving
out postal orders, selling stamps, weigh-
ing letters, and receiving telegrams.
When | add that she was civil to every-;
body you will understand that she was!
quite a superior clerk—one of the queen’s
lucky bargains. It is not delicate to|
talk about a young lady’s salary, there-;
fore, I shall not say for how much she
gave her services to the British Empire.
He was a clever boy who read and
thought. ‘That is to say, he thought that
he thought—which is more than most
do. As he took his facts from the news-
papers and nothing else, and as he was
profoundly ignorant of English history,
English law, the British Constitution,
the duties of a citizen, and the British
Empire generally, his opinions, after he
had done thinking, were not of so much
value to the country, it is believed.
But still a clever fellow, and able to
spout in a frothy way which carried his
hearers along, if it never convinced or
defeated an opponent.
To this kind of clever boy there are al-
ways two or three dangers. One is that
he should be led on to think more and}
more of froth and less of fact; another, |
that he should grow conceited over his
eloquence and neglect his business. A
third temptation which peculiarly be-
sets this kind is that he should take to}
drink. Oratory thirsty work, and
places where young men orate are often |
in immediate proximity to bars. As|
yet, however, Charley was only twenty.
He was still at the first stage of every-
thing—oratory, business, and love; and |
he was still at the stage when everything |
appears possible—the total abolition of
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oppression,
suffering—by the simple process of tink-
ering the constitution.
“Oh,” he eried, ‘‘we shall have the
greed, sweating, poverty,
most glorious, the most
Lily! The power of the people is only
just beginning;. it hasn’t begun yet. We
shall see the most magnificent things.”
He enumerated them as_ above
indicated. Well, it is very good that
young men should have such dreams and
see such visions. I never heard of any
girl being thus carried out of herself.
The thing belongs exclusively to male
man in youth, and it is very good for
him. When heis older he will under-
stand that over and above the law and
the constitution there is something else
more important still—namely, that
every individual man should be honest,
temperate and industrious. In brief, he
will understand the force of the admoni-
tion: ‘‘Be good, my child, or else you
will become an intolerable nuisance to
every body.”’
The sun sank behind Harrow-on-the-
splendid time,
Hill. The red light of the west flamed
in the boy’s bright eyes. Presently the
girl rese.
“Yes, Charley,’’ she said, less sympa-
thetically than might have been expected:
**ves, and it will be a very fine time, if
it comes. But | don’t know. People
will always want to get rich, won’t they?
I think this beautiful time will have to
come after us. Perhaps we had better
be looking after our own nest first.’’
“Oh, it will come—it will come!”
“J like to hear you talk about it,
Charley. But if we are ever to marry—
iflam to give up the post-office, you
must make a bigger screw. Remember
what you promised—ihe shorthand and
the French class. Put them before your
speechifying.”’
“All right, Lily dear, and then we will
get married, and we will have the most
splendid time. Oh, there’s the most
splendid time four us—ahead!”
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It is six months later and mid-winter,
and the time is again the evening. The
day has been gloomy, with a fog heavy
enough tu cause the offices to be lighted
with gas, so that the e,es of all London
are red and the heads of all London are
heavy.
Lily stepped outside the post-oftice, !
work done. She was going home.
At the door steed her sweetheart, wait-
ing for her. She tossed her head and
made as if she would pass him without
speaking. But he stepped after and
walked beside her.
‘No, Lily,’”’ he said, *‘I will speak to
you; even if you don’t answer my letters
you shall hear me speak.”
**You have disgraced yourself,’? she
said.
“Yes, 1 knew. But you will forgive |
me. It is ihe first time. I swear it is!
the first time.”’
Weill, it was truly the first time that |
she had seen him in such a state.
“Oh, to be a drunkard!” she replied. |
“Oh, could I ever believe that I |
see you roiling about the street!”
“It was the first time, Lily, and it shall |
be the last. Forgive me and take me on!
again. If you giveme up! shall go to |
the devil!” |
*‘Charley”—her voice broke into a sob
—‘‘you have made me miserable—I was |
so proud of you. No other girl, 1|
theught, had such a elever sweetheart; |
and last Tuesday—oh. it’s dreadful to
think of!”
should
‘“‘Yes, Lily, I know. There’s only one
excuse. I spoke for more than an hour,
and I was exhausted. So what I took
went to my head. Another time I should
not have felt it a bit. And whenI found
myself staggering I was going home as
fast as possible, and, as bad luck would
have it, I must needs meet you.”
“Good luck, I call it, else I might
never have found it out until too late.’’
“Lily, make it up. Give me another
chance. I'll swear off. Vll take the
pledge.”’
He caught her hand and held it.
““O Chariey,’’? she said, “if I can only
trust you.’’
‘You can, you must, Lily.
sake I will take the pledge.
whatever you ask me to do.”’
She gave way, but not without condi-
tions.
‘‘Well,’’ she said, “I will try to think
no more about it. But, Charley, remem-
ber, I could never, never, never marry a
man who drinks.”’
‘*You never shail, dear,” he replied,
earnestly.
“And then, another thing, Charley.
This speaking work—I know it is clever
For your
I will do
and all that—but it doesn’t help us for
ward. How long is it since you determined
to learn shorthand, because it would ad-
vance you so much? And French, be-
cause a clerk who can write French is
worth double? Where are your fine
resolutions? ”
“T will begin again—I will practice
hard; see, now, Lily, I will do all you
want. I will promise anything to please
you—and do it, too. See if I don’t,
only not quite to give up the speaking.
Think how people are beginning to look
up to me. Why, when we get a re-
formed House, and the members are paid,
they will send me to Parliament. I
shall be a member for Camden Town.
Then I shall be made Home Secretary,
or Attorney General, or something. You
will be proud, Lily, of your husband
when heisadistinguished man. There’s
a splendid time for us—ahead!”’
“Yes, dear. But first you know you
have to get a salary that we can
live on.”
He left her at her door with a kiss and
a laugh, and turned to go home. In the
next street he passed a public house. He
stopped, he hesitated, he felt in his
pocket, he went in and took a drink—
Lily would never find it out—ot Scoteh
whisky. Then he went home and played
at practicing shorthand for aa hour. He
had promised his Lily. She should see
how well he could keep his promise,
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“It is good of you to come, my dear,
Of course, I understand thatit is all over
now. It must be. It is not in nature
that you should keep him on any longer,
But I thought you would see my poor boy
once more.”’
It was Charley’s mother who spoke,
He was the only son of a widow.
“Oh, yes, I came—I came,” Lily re-
plied, tearfully. “But what is the good?
He will promise everything again. How
many times has he repented and promised
—and promised?’’
‘‘My poor boy! And we were so proud
of him, weren’t we, dear?” said the
mother, wiping away a tear. ‘He was
going todo such great things with his
cleverness and hisspeaking. And now—
I have seen it coming on, my dear, for a
year and more, but I durstn’t speak to
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you. When he came home night after
night with a glassy eye and a husky
voice, when he reeled across the room, at
first I pretended not to notice it. A man
mustn’t be nagged or shamed, must he?
Then [ spoke in the morning, and he
promised to pull himself up.’’
‘He will promise—ah, yes—he will
promise.”
“If you cculd only forgive him he
might keep his promise.”
Lily shook her head doubtfully.
‘*f went to the office this morning, my
dear. They have been expecting it for
weeks. The head clerk warned him. It
was known that he had fallen into bad
company—in the city they don’t like
spouters. And when he came back after
his dinner he was so tipsy that he fell
along. They just turned him out on the
spot.’’
‘*Mother,’’ said Lily, ‘‘it’s like this. I
can’t help forgiving him. We two must
forgive him, whatever he does. We love
him, you see, that’s what it is.’’
‘*Yes, dear, yes.’’
“It isn’t the poor tipsy boy we love,
but the real boy—the clever boy behind.
We must forgive him. But’’—her lips
quivered—‘*i cannot marry him. Do not
ask me to do that unless—what will never
happen—he reforms altogether.’’
“if you would, dear, 1 think he might
keep straight. If you were always with
him to watch him.’’
“I could not be always with him. And
besides, mother, think what might hap-
pen as well. Would you have me bring
into the world children whose lives would
make me wretched by a drunken father?
And how should we live? Because, you
see, if I marry I must giveup my place.”
The mother sighed. ‘*Charley is in his
own room,’’ she said. ‘*{ will send him to
you;”’
Lily sat down and buried her face in
her hands. Alas, to this had her en-
gagement come! But she loved him.
When he came into the room and stood
before her and she looked up, seeing him
shamefaced and with hanging head, she
was filled with pity as well as love—pity
and shame and sorrow for the boy. She
took his hand and pressed it between her
own and burst into tears. ‘‘O Charley,
Charley !” she cried.
‘1 am a brute and a wretch,” he said.
“I don’t deserve anything. But don’t
throw me over—don’t, Lily !”’
He fell on his knees before her, crying |
like a little school-boy. A tendency to
weep sometimes readily accompanies the
consumption of strong drink.
Then he made eonfession, such confes- |
sion as one makes who puts things as
prettily as their ugliness allows. He |
had given way once or twice; he had
never intended to get drunk; he had been | }2
overtaken yesterday.
he had a headache in the morning. To
cure his headache he took a single glass
of beer.
fice he felt giddy.
drunk. They bundied him out on the
spot without even the opportunity of ex- |
plaining.
Lily sighed. What could she say or
answer? The weakness of the man’s na-
ture only came out the more clearly by |
his confession. What could she say? To
reason with him was useless.
him promise was useless.
“Charley,” she said at length, “if my |
forgiveness will do any good, take it and
welcome. But you cannot undo the past.
You have lost your place and your char- |
acter. As for the future——”’
The day was close; |
When he went back to the of-
They said he was
‘*You have forgiven me, Lily,” he cried.
“Oh, I can face the future. Iecan get an-
other place easily. I shall very soon re-
trieve my character. Why, all they can
say is that 1 seemed to have taken too
much. Nothing—that is nothing !”’
‘“‘What will you do? Have you any
money?”’
‘‘No. I must go and look for another
place. Until I get one I suppose there
will be short commons. I deserve it,
Lily. You shall not hear me grumble.’’
She took out her purse. ‘I can spare
two pounds,’’ she said. “Take the
money, Charley. Nay—you must—you
shall. You must not go about looking
half starved.”
He hesitated and changed color, but he
took the money.
Half an hour later he was laughing, as
they all three sat at their simple supper,
as light-hearted as if there had never
been such a scene.
given he may as well behave according-
ly. Only, when he lifted his glass of
water to his lips, he gasped—it was a
craving for something stronger than
water which tightened his throat like
hydrophobia. But it passed; he drank
the water and set down the glass with a
nod.
‘‘Good water, that,’”’ he said. ‘‘Noth-
ing like water. Mean to stick to water
in future—water and tea. Lily, Vve
made up my mind. For the next six
months I shall give up speaking, though
its against myinterests. Shorthand and
French in the evening. By that time I
shall get a post worth a hundred—ay, a
hundred and twenty—pounds a year, if
I’m lucky, and we’ll get married and all
live together and be as happy as the day
is long. You shall never repent your
wedding day, my dear. I shali keep you
like alady. Oh, we will have a splendid
time.”
At ten o’clock Lily rose to go home.
He sprang to his feet and took his hat
and went.
‘“No, no,’’ he said.
; Not if I know it.’’
She laid her hand on his arm once
more, and tried to believe that his prom-
ise would be kept this time. He led her
home, head in air, gallantand brave. At
the door he kissed her. ‘Good night, my
dear,” he said. ‘‘You know you can
trust me. Haven’t I promised?”
‘Let you go alone?
house.
[peeeaine of his heart; his footsteps were
| drawn and dragged toward the door.
At eleven o’clock his mother, who was
| waiting up for him, heard him bumping
| and tumbling about the stairs on his way
He came cin—his eyes fishy, his
| voice thick. ‘‘Saw her home,”’ he said.
“Good girl, Lily. Made—(hic)—faithful
prcmise—we are going to have—splendid
time !”’
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The two women stood outside the
{prison doors. At 8 o’clock their man
would be:released—the son of one, the
| lover of the other. The elder woman
looked frail and bowed; her face was full
of trouble—the kind of trouble that noth-
ling can remove. The younger woman
' stood beside her on the pavement; she
To make | was thiner, and her cheeks were pale; in
|her eyes, too, you could read abiding
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“We will take him home between us,’
said the girl. ‘‘Not a word of reproach.
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On the way home he passed a public- |
The craving came back to him, |
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‘He is your brother?” Nov. 18, 1894,
forgive. Oh, we cannot choose but for- | When the lodger came home and found
‘‘He is my lover. Is he ill?”
give !” out his loss he proved to be of an irasci- |
s ea suspicious I disposi-| ‘Heis very ill. He came in all in |
Alas, the noble boy—the clever boy ble, suspiciou ‘ and — = s . " aoe eds ws ee
He immediately, for instance, sus- rags, dirty and penniless s Ly. G’d Rapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:30pm
she loved—was further off than ever. He’ tion.
Prepare yourself. He is dying} ay. Chicago .... 50pm = *7:20am
|
ses e his character with! pected the drunken young man of the} indeed. ae ee
eee hind : - —— | RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.
it never gets another berth. This is a} first floor. He caused secret inquiry to} of pneumonia.” Ly. Chicago............8:25am 5:00pm #11:45pm
rule in the city. We talk of retrieving | be made, and—but why go on? Alas, (1 told you before what they call it.) = Gd Rasids. 0.) 3:05pm —— *6 :25am
* . . : at - TO AND FROM MUSKEGON,
character and getting back to work. | the conclusion of the affair was eight! Lily sat at the bedside of the dying! >) grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
Neither the one nor the other event ever
comes off. The wretch who is in this
months’ hard.
‘‘Here he comes,’’ said Lily. ‘Look
hapless plight begins the weary search | up, mother; we must meet him with a
for employment in hope. How it ends
varies with his temperament or with the|
All day long he |
position of his friends.
climbs stairs, puts his head into offices,
and asks if a clerk is wanted.
No clerk is wanted. Then he comes
down the stairs and climbs others. and
asks the same question and gets the
Same reply. If evera clerk is wanted a
character is wanted with him; and when
the character includes the qualification
of drink as well as of zeal and ability,
the owner is told that he may move on.
I am told there is a never-ending pro-
cession of clerks out of work up and
down the London stairs. What becomes
of them is never known. It is, however,
rumored that short commons, long tramps,
and hope deferred bring most of them to
the hospitals, where it is tenderly called
pneumonia.
Chariey began his tramp. After a lit-
tle—a very little while—his money, the
money that Lily lent him, was all gone.
He was ashamed to borrow more, because
he would have to confess how that money
was chiefly spent.
Then he pawned his watch.
Then he borrowed another pound of
Lily.
Every evening he came home drunk.
His mother knew it and told Lily. They
could do nothing. They said nothing.
They left off hoping.
Then his mother perceived that things
began to disappear. He stole the clock
on the mantelshelf first and pawned it.
Then he stole other things. At last, he
took the furniture, bit by bit, and pawned
it, until his mother was left with nothing
but a mattress and a pair of blankets.
He could not take her money, because all
she had was an annuity of fifteen shil-
lings a week; otherwise he would have
had that, too. He then borrowed Lily’s
watch and pawned it, and her little trink-
ets and pawned them; he took from her
all the money she would give him.
Both women half starved themselves to
find him in drink and to save him from
erime. They did not use these words—
they understood, for now he had be-
come mad for drink. There was NO | with it.
|smile. He will come out sober, at any
rate.”’
He was looking much better for his pe-
riod of seclusion. He walked home be-
tween them, subdued, but ready, on en-
couragement, for their old confidence.
In fact, it broke out, after an excellent
breakfast.
“ft made up my mind,” he said,
*“‘while I was thinking—oh, I had plenty
to think about and plenty of time to do
my thinking in. Well, [ made up
my mind. Mother, this is no country for
me any longer. After what has happened
I must go. You two go on living to-
gether, just for company, but I shall go—
I shall go to America. There’s always
an opening, I am told, in America, for
fellows who are not afraid of work.
Cleverness tells there. A man isn’t kept
down because he’s had a misfortune.
What is there against me, after all?
Character gone, eh? Well, if you come
to that, I don’t deny that appearances
were agai me. I could explain, how-
ever.
“But there nobody cares about charac-
ter nor what you’ve done here.” (This re-
markable belief is widely spread concern-
ing the Colonies, as well as the United
States.) “It’s what can you do, not,
what have you done? Very well. I
mean to get rich now. Oh, I’ve sown my
wild oats! Then you’ll both come out
to me, and then we’ll be married, and
Lily, we’ll have a most splendid time !”’
oe
Five years later Lily sat one Sunday
morning in the same lodgings. The
poor old mother was gone, praying her
with her last breath not to desert the
boy. Butof Charley not a word had
come to her—no news of any kind.
She was quite alone—in those days she
was generally alone; she had kept her
place at the post-office, but everybody
knew of her trouble, and somehow it
made a kind of barrier between herself
and her sister clerks. The sorrows of
love are sacred, but when they are mixed
up with a criminal and a prison there is
a feeling—a kind of feeling—as if, well,
one doesn’t like somehow to be mixed up
Lily was greatly to be pitied,
longer any pretense; he even left off | no doubt; her !over had turned out shame-
lying; he was drunk every day; if he |
could not get drunk he sat on the bare!
floor and cried. Neither his mother nor |
Lily reproached him.
An end—a semicolon, if not a full |
stop—comes to such a course, unfor- |
tunately not always the end which is |
most to be desired—the only effectual |
end.
The end or semicolon which came to!
this young man was that, having nothing |
more of his mother’s that he could pawn, |
one day he slipped into the ground floor |
lodger’s room and made up quite a val-|
uable little parcel for his friend, the |
pawnbroker. It contained a Waterbury |
watch, a seven and sixpenny clock, a|
mug—electro-plate, won at a spelling |
competition—a bound volume of “Tit
Bits,’’ and a Bible.
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fully, but she ought to have given up the
man long before he got so bad.
She was alone. The church belis
were beginninz to ring. She thought she
would go to church. While she con-
sidered this point, she heard a woman’s
step on the stairs, and there was a knock
at the door.
It was a nurse, or probationer, dressed
in the now familiar garb—a young
nurse.
“You are Lily Chesters?” she asked.
‘‘There is a patient just brought into the
London Hospital who wants to see you.
He is named Charley, he says, and will
give no other name. He wrote your ad-
dress on paper, ‘Tell her.’ he said, ‘that
it is Charley.’ ”
Lily rose quietly.
him.”
“1 will. ge to
eee
nee Paae roLs eaten
man.
“it is all over,’”? he whispered. ‘I |
have reformed, Lily. I have quite |
turned over a new leaf. I have now!
resolved to take the pledge. Kiss |
me, dear, and tell me that you forgive |,
me.”
‘Yes, yes, Charley. God knows that I
forgive you. Why, you will come back
to yourself in a very little while. Thank
God for it, dear! Your own true self.
You will be my dear old boy again—the
boy that I always loved; not the drink-
ing, bad boy—the clever, bright boy.
O my dear, my dear! You will see
mother again very soon, and she will
weicome her boy, returned to himself.’
“Yes,” he said, “that’s it—a serious
reform this time. Lily, I dare say I shall
be up and well again in a day or two.
Then we will see what to do next. Iam
going out to Australia, where everybody
has a chance—America is a fraud. I
shall get rich there, and then you and
mother will come to me and we shall get
married, and—O Lily, Lily, after all
that we have suffered, we sball have—I
see that we shall haye’”’—he paused, and
his voice grew faint—‘‘ we shall have—
the most splendid time!”
“He is gone,’’ said the nurse.
WALTER BESANT.
WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR. TIGKETS
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Original set of four - = - i
25c
Complete set often - - = = = 50c
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nominal figure. They will be worth ten
times present cost within five years,
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL
“*Txe Niagara Falls Route.’
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)
Arrive. Depar t
Eden, op arene Detroit Express ........7 00am
5 30am ....*Atlantic and Pacific. __ -11 0pm
1 7 eee New York Express...... 6 00pm
*Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00a m; re
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains eeast over the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMQUIB8T, Ticket Agent,
hion PassengerStation.
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm ! 0:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
Ly.Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm
Ar. Manistee...... -- 12:20pm 8:15pm
Ar. TraverseCity.... 1:00pm 8 :45pm
Ar. Charlevoix...... 3:15pm 11:16pm
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 11:40pm
Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00
m.
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.
Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm, Ar-
rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicags 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6:25am.
*Every day. Others week days only,
DETROIT,
LANSING & NORTHERN R, R,
Oct. 28, 1894
GOING TO DETROIT,
Ly. Grand Rapids.. ... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
ee 5:30pm 10:10pm
RETUKNING FROM DETROIT,
iy. Deco... ¢. |. Fei 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 87. LOUIS,
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. GR.11:35am 10:45pm
TO AND FROM LOWELL.
Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. trom Lowell... 6.. 0.0: 12:40pm 5:20pm .......
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap-
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morp-
ing train,
Trains week days ae. :
GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t,
[DETEOIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.
EASTWARD.
Trains Leave |+No, 14) tNo. 16)tNo. 18;*No.
|
Gd Rapids, Lv | 6 45am/10 20am fe a 11 00pm
Co a Ar} 740am|11 25am) 427pm|1235am
St. Johns....Ar| 8 Sam/iz2 17pm); 520pm| 1 25am
Owoss)...... Ar} 900am! 1 20pm 6 05pm} 3 10am
E. Saginaw..Ar {10 30am 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City ..... Ar }11 30am] 435pm/ § 37pm} 7 15am
2 ee Ar/|10 05am! 3 45pm} 7 05pm] 5 40am
Pt, Huron... Ar/i205pm 550pm} 8 50pm] 7 30am
Pontiac ...... Ar /|10 53am] 305pm} 8 25pm] 5 37am
Detret..... .. Ar}11 50am] 4 05pm} 925pm/ 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
PO *7:00 & m.
For Grand Haven and Muskegon.... .+1:¢9 P. m,
“ e “Mil. and Chi...15:35 Pp. m
tDaily except sunday. *Daily.
Trains arrive from the Cast, 6:35 a.m., 12:50
p.m., 5:30 p.m.
Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m. 3:16
Pm. and 9:15 p. m,
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet
car. No. 18 Partor Car. No, 82 Wagner Sleeper,
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper,
Jas. CAMPBELL, City ‘I¥eret Agent.
Grand Rapids & Indiana,
TRAINS GOING NORTH,
Leave going
North
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:40a. m
all etna nay ee TR 25 p.m,
gn, Sagem eee NR OR NTE) 5:00 p. m.
For Petoskey and Mackinaw...........7'7"" 10:25 p m
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Leave going
: South,
Oe CONNER ce 6:50 a.m.
For Kalamazoo and CeO 2:15 p. m
For Fort Wayneand the Hast 2:15 p.m.
Bor Siem ghee ee 40 p.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... oooee"lh 340 PD. m
Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R,
Ly Grand Rapids........ 6:50am 2:15pm *11:40 Pm
Are CNIN 2 6 7:10am
00 p m pm
2:15p m train has through Wagner Buffet Parlor
Car and coach.
11:40 p = train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car
ach.
and Co
Ly Chicago 11:30 pm
Arr Grand Rapids 915 pm 7:20am
3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car,
11:30 p m train daily thro ugh Wagner Sleeping Car,
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Lea¥+ From Muskegon— Arrive
:25 8:25am
1:15pm
5:20p m
0 .L. LOOK WOOoD*
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
ENGRAVINGS
Ruildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery
Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented
Articles,
TRADESMAN CO.,
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3:30 p m
1:00p m
*:40 pm
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
adi dcdohines cee papers
18
MAGNANIMOUS TO MASSIRE.
The Charge of Embezzlement Against
’ Him Withdrawn.
THE TRADESMAN very reluctantly last
week gave place to the bare facts relat-
ing to the arrest of James A. Massie on
the charge of embezzlement preferred by
his former employer, the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co. The ink was hardly dry on
the paper before the city was visited by
Will H. Bradley, the Greenville grocer,
who came here for the purpose of en-
deavoring to effect a settlement with the
aggrieved party and secure the discon-
tinuance of the eriminal proceedings
brought against the accused. His efforts
met a hearty response at the hands of the
Clark Grocery Co., the officers of which
corporation cheerfully and magnani-
mously offered to discontinue the suit,
providing Mr. Massie would sign a vol-
untary statement admitting the embez-
zlement and controvert the reports which
had gone out through him and his friends
to the effect that the shortage was due to
the condition of the company’s books and
not to any lapse on the part of Mr.
Massie. This statement Mr. Massie was
very willing to make and sign, in
justice to himself and his former em-
ployer—especially as he was unable to
repay any portion of the sum collected
and not turned in—and as it was a condi-
tion of the agreement that it should be
published in Tue TRrapEsMAN, it is
given herewith:
To Whom It May Concern:
Charges of embezzlement having been
brought against me by the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co., by whom I have been em-
ployed for the past seven years, anda
criminal action having been begun
against me in the Circuit Court of Barry
county, I desire to state that I admit the
truth of the charges made, as it is a fact
that I used money which was paid me by
the customers of the I. M. Clark Grocery
Co., and I was unable to turn over to the
proper owner collections made by me in
the name of my employer. Certain re-
ports having been spread abroad to the
effect that I was innocent of this charge;
that I was being oppressed by my former
employer; that the charge against me
was due to the inaccurate condition of
the company’s books, instead of my own
unfaithfulness, 1 desire to State, frankly
and unqualifiedly, that such reports are
false and misleading, and that the I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. in this case has been
consistent and in the line of strict justice
and equity to all concerned.
It having been brought to my attention
that the criminal charge against me is to
be discontinued by the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co. by reason of the intercession
of my friends in my behalf, I make this
Statement, frankly admitting that I have
been untrue to the trust reposed in me
by my former employer, and acknowledge
the Magnanimity of the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co. in relieving me from the re-
sponsibility of meeting a criminal charge
out of regard for my friends and the wel-
fare of my wife and children.
JAMES A. MASSIE.
Dated Grand Rapids, Mich., Dee. 6,
1894,
Witness—Sydney Steele, E. A. Stowe,
Will H. Bradley.
THE TRADESMAN heartily commends
the magnanimity of the I. M. Clark Gro-
cery Co. in dealing so leniently with an
erring employe, and trusts that the bit-
ter experience of the past month will
notonly cause a complete reformation on
the part of Mr. Massie, but will also
Serve as a warning to other salesmen
that collections made in the name of the
house must be held inviolate, as a sacred
trust, and under no eircumstances be di-
verted by the salesman to any purpose
except their legitimate uses. Pending
an investigation of the matter, the I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. made a complete can-
vass of Mr. Massie’s territory, resulting
in the conclusion that his shortage was
due, toa considerable extent, to the per-
nicious system of giving rebates to se-
cure orders. In one case it was learned
that he had given $2.63 on a $63 bill, and
other instances equally as reprehensible
were disclosed. This may account, in
part, for Mr. Massie’s popularity with
the retail trade, but in the opinion of
Tue TRADESMAN the dealer who will
tempt a salesman to offer a rebate on
contract goods, thus influencing him to
violate the confidence of his employer
and the honor of his house, is no better
than the man who actually pays the re-
bate. It is to be hoped that Mr. Massie’s
experience will serve as a warning to
other salesmen who are suspected of
pursuing thesame method in obtaining
trade, and that they will profit by that
experience and thus save themselves a
repetition of the weeks of bitter anguish
through which Mr. Massie has passed.
‘There is a future in store for any
man who has the courage to repent and
the energy to atone.” Having made
atonement, so far as he is able, and hay-
ing eaten the bread of bitterness asa
punishment for his misdoings, Mr. Mas
sie should now be accorded the cordial
co-operation of the trade and the hearty
Sympathy of the traveling men in re-
gaining the position he has lost. Mr.
Massie asserts that he is determined to
regain the esteem of his friends and the
coniidence of the trade, and THE
TRADESMAN trusts that none will be so
uncharitable as to cast a stone in his
pathway, but that all will join hands in
assisting him to recover the ground lost
through his own misdeeds, for which he
is truly penitent and for which he has
made, so far as he was able, ample
atonement.
The Largest Fly Wheel in Michigan
Will soon be at the Grand Rapids
School Furniture Company’s plant. It
weighs 45,000 pounds and belongs to
their new 550 horse power engine, which
will weigh 130 000 pounds and be one of
the largest and most efficient engines in
the State, having a driving belt 100 feet
long. Five cars will bring it from Mil-
waukee, and the Grand Rapids Heavy
Moving Company will escort it from the
railroad.
tt Ay
The Oakdale Park Episcopal church,
which is in the form of a cross, measur-
ing 40x60 feet, has been moved two miles,
to the corner of Highland and Central
avenues, without even a crack in the
plaster. The Grand Rapids Heavy Mov-
ing Company did it.
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Mackinaw Coats and Lumbermen’s Outfits,
Specialty of Underwear and Over Shirts,
Overalls of Our Own Manufacture
Mich.
Grand Rapids, - -
12, 14 16 Pearl 8b,
RINDGE, KALMBACH & GO %,l4,4 18 en
Manufacturers and Jobpers or
Boots, Shoes and Rubbers.
Our stock for fall and winter trade is complete.
New lines in warm goods and Holiday
Slippers. We have the best
combination Felt Boot
and Perfection
made.
Inspection Solicited.
Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.
Are You Selling
The Celebrated
Cleaned Greek Currants
and the Genuine
Cleaned Sultana Raisins.
Prepared by
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These currants are cleaned by a new process (they are not
washed like other so-called cleaned currants) and are war-
ranted the year round; ask your jobber for them and take no
others claimed to be just as good. Be sure and get them.
Sold by Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., Musselman Grocer
Co., Olney & Judson Grocer Co., I. M. Clark Grocery Co.,
Hawkins & Co.
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Drug Department.
State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Three Years—O. A. Bug bee, Charlevoix.
Four Years—S. FE. Parkill, Owosso.
Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit,
President—Fred’k WR. Perry, Detroit.
fecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gandrum, Ionia.
Coming Meetings—Detroit, Jan 8.
elevate the profession.
That a good demand has been created
for the new work is shown by Mr. Curt-
ciation (A. J. P., p. 355). In August an
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n,
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretav—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical! Society
President, Walter K. Schmidt; Secretary, B. Schrouder
edition of 8,200 copies was placed upon
the market, followed by an edition of
5,000 copies, and again, in 1894, a third
edition of 5,000, a large portion of these
being already sold.
The Committee on Revision of the 1890
PROGRESS OF PHARMACY.
In seeking proof that progress is being
made in pharmacy, one must note the
condition of its followers, the work they
are doing toward perfecting the art,
elevating the profession and developing
new ideas and facts. That much work
has been done during the last decade is
seen in the new Pharmacopeeia, which
became official on Jan. 1 of this year, it
could hardly be expected that a work of
its nature wouid please all, and since the
first volume was presented to the A. P.
A. last year for inspection, pharmaceuti-
eal journals, both at home and abroad,
have been filled with flattering and eom-
plimentary reports, criticisms just and
unjust. ‘
The first to be noticed among the im-
portant changes is the adoption of the
metric system of weights and measures
and the principle of solids by weight and
and liquids by measure, except when
liquids may be weighed easier.
The change in chemical and botanical
nomenclature has caused many changes
in Latin and English titles. For the
adoption of the rules of the Botanical
Club of the A. A. A. S., the Committee
on Revision has been severely criticised
by Mr. Beringer (A. J. P., 1893, p. 513).
Sixty pages have been devoted to
purely chemical instruction, of which
eight pages are required for a list of
chemicals and formulas; nineteen are
required in giving a complete list of re-
agents and instructions for preparing
them; twenty-seven are devoted to vol-
umetric solutions and methods of analy-
sis (volumetric methods supplanting
graveometric of last edition). The Com-
mittee has thus placed in the hands of
every pharmacist official methods for
testing his chemicals and pharmaceutical
preparations. It also shows that a more
thorough knowledge of chemistry is re-
quired in pharmaceutical] training.
edition of the Pharmacopeia has already
commenced its work. The Research
Committee B has reported on the follow-
ing subjects:
1. Arsenic testing by Strouton’s chlo-
ride, Pharmaceutical Era, Aug. 1, 1894,
p. 102.
2. Volumetric Determination of liquor,
plumbi subacitatis, Pharmaceutical Era,
Aug. 1, 1894, p. 103.
3. Artificial manganese dioxica, Phar-
maceutical Era, Aug. 15, 1894, p. 151.
The new issue of the Pharmacopeia
has led toa complete revision of both the
national and United States Dispensator-
ies, and will, no doubt, be followed by a
new edition of the National Formulary.
The various sub-committees submitted
the following reports to the forty-first
meeting of A. P. A. (Additions, Proc. A.
P. A., p. 42, 1893):
. Liquor magnesize effervescens.
. Elixir paraldehyde.
Elixir digestives comp.
- Glyceriti guaiaci.
. Syr. pinns albe comp.
- Tr. pinns albe comp.
- Aromatic elixir.
Eliminations (Proce.
Nos. 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 32, 7, 118,
192, 207, 232, 236, 249, 268, 315.
Corrections. Nos. 27, 40, 41, 42, 63
85, 93, 95, 96, 99, 105, 12%
310, 363, 370, 376, 390.
The educational requirements of phar-
macy students have ever been a perplex-
ing question, and is at present receiving
the attention of many able writers. The
result of all this agitation may be seen
in a few of our college announcements,
where the truth that a common school
education and an examination in its
branches prior to entering the college is
supplanting the idea that practical expe-
rience is all that is necessary to the at-
taining of perfection in the practice of
pharmacy. To elevate a profession, the
foundation must be Strengthened upon
which the profession is to be built, anda
more rapid progress toward a higher
professional Standing may be attained by
TES Ot Oo 2D he
A. P. A., p. 45).
For the first time in any pharmacopceia,
Standardization has been settled; but the
Committee, in considering this subjeet
(page XXX), found that reliable meth-
ods, ensuring uniform results when ear-
ried out by different operators, were
available at present for only a few drugs.
Opium, cinchona and nux vomica were
selected. Opium should contain 13 to 15
per cent. morphine; cinchona not less
than 5 per cent. total alkaloids and at
least 2.5 per cent. of quinine; nux yvom-
ica should contain 15 per cent. by weight
of alkaloids.
Each revision of the Pharmacopeia
minds not being in condition to study, it
is practically impossible for them to
stimulating the desire among the ap-
prentices to attain a better education.
Has this progress been what it should
within our own State since the existence
of our pharmacy laws, whose require-
ments are more exacting than most of
those in the Western and Southern
States? For answer we have only to
look about and observe under whose
management a large number of the phar-
macies are placed. Boys are taken into
the stores as apprentices irrespective of
their educational attainments. Their
shows that the profession of pharmacy is
setting a higher standard for its follow-
ers, and the 1890 edition is remarkable
for its advanced position from a scientific
Standpoint; and it should stimulate many
pharmacists to renewed efforts to main-
tain their reputation as educated and
progressive men, and impel the younger
analyize the theoretical part of the art,
thus makirg a stupid blunder of the
practical.
read understandingly our present phar-
maceutical literature, and to be able to
answer questions intelligently, one must
have more than a store education.
It is quite evident that to
in order to stand on the same plane to
which its compilers intended it should
man’s report on U. S. Pharmacopceias to
the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Asso-
on Compulsory Education reported the
following recommendation A. Db. & Fe.
R., Sept. 15, 1893, p. 160): ‘*No student
should be admitted as apprentice by a
pharmacist unless such student has
passed the preliminary examinations sat-
isfactorily in such subjects of general ed-
ucation as may be best suited to the re-
quirements of the several countries not
yet having enforced much requirement
of compulsory education, and such
student’s time of apprenticeship shall
date from the time of that examination.”
As the enforcement of such a resolu-
tion is practically impossible in this
country, the duty rests upon each phar-
macist to carry out the principle in his
own store.
The manufacturing chemist, aided by
the physician, is rapidly absorbing some
of the essences of the drug business, and,
in fact, infringing upon the professional
part.. With their advantages for inves-
tigating, facilities for producing, and
schemes for introducing their pharma-
ceuticals, they have compelled the phar-
macist to stock his shelves with the prod-
ucts of their laboratories.
The unfamiliarity of the greater num-
ber of the physicians with chemistry, the
United States Pharmacopeia and Na-
tional Formulary may account for their
readiness in prescribing new prepara-
tions, introduced by smooth-tongued
salesmen and well-worded literature that
has been sent out to instruct the physi-
cian and aid him in his practice. It
must be admitted, however, that the man-
ufacturing pharmacist has done wonders
toward advancing an elegant pharmacy.
Skilled in the art of preparing, he has
robbed many a detested drug of its re-
pugnance. Often in being so progressive
in transforming these rank-odored, dis-
agreeable-tasting drugs into palatable
preparations, the character and identity
are changed at the expense of their use-
fulness.
The activity in analysis and syntheti-
cal chemical research has done wonders
in the development of new ideas and
facts. Its influence upon pharmacy has
not only been confined to solving myster-
ies, but has promoted Simplicity and ae
curacy. Drugs which cannot always be
relied upon for definite percentage of
medicinal properties, thus not insuring
uniform results, are being replaced by
their alkaloids and alkaloidal salts of
definite chemical composition, and whose
action is always the same. Medicaments
which had fallen into disuse because of
their toxic properties, by products here-
tofore considered inert, have been ana-
lyzed, their constituent parts separated,
and, when united with certain acids from
non-toxic, non-irritant definite chemical]
compounds, which may be taken into the
system in large doses without producing
any evil effects. But the extraordinary
activity in synthetical developments has
flooded the market with worthless chem-
ical compounds in such humbers as to
produce confusion and uncertainty to
both physician and pharmacist. In look-
ing over several pharmaceutical! periodi-
cals, under the head of ‘‘New Remedies,”
I was able to enumerate 343 new names,
Fifty-nine of these have been reported
since the first of the year, and no doubt
the greater number will serve their use-
fulness in furnishing material for a
long article in the drug and medical jour-
nals,
At the last meeting of the International
Students toa more thorough education,
Pharmaceutical Congress, the Committee
posted on the recent developments and
The pharmacist, in order to keep
|
| demands of the present, must not give
his undivided attention to commercial in-
terests, but must devote a portion of his
long hours to reading and studying cur-
rent pharmaceutical li erature. If he be
a recent college graduate or an old-time
practical pharmacist, he cannot assume
the air of perfection. Associations and
institutions of learning whose object is
to promote the interests and elevation of
American pharmacy should receive his
influence and support.
Dorian M. Russety, Pu. C.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
As Seen in a Trip Across the State.
Written for THz TRADESMAN.
Thanksgiving Day, 1894, with its hand
shakings, its friendly greetings, its wish-
bones and its drumsticks, has come and
gone. Like unto its predecessors, and
like unto all other days, it was subject to
the perils which beset our pathway from
the cradle to the grave. The whirl of
human events respects not one day above
another; and, though we May set apart
one day only out of all the 365 in which
to eat turkey and give thanks for the
good things of life which have been al-
lotted to us, yet, commingled with our
rejoicings, will be heard the ery of pain
and the mourner’s wail of despair. Not
even for one short day in the year will
the specter of misfortune and the grim
messenger of death halt in their sorrow-
dispensing work among the children of
man. It is only on days like this when
pleasure seems to predominate that one
is especially impressed with this strange
blending of joy and sorrow.
The day was damp, cold and uninvit-
ing. Asthe people wended their way
toward their various depots, they drew
their wraps closer about them in a vain
attempt to shield themselves from the
raw atmosphere that hung over the city.
It was that kind of atmosphere that
skips over the water iu the ditch to con-
gealthe marrow in human joints. No
wonder the thanksgivers looked blue as
whetstones when they arrived at the de-
pot, and no wonder they looked ghastly
in their efforts to smile and pass pleas-
antries while waiting for trains. The
bluish tint of their faces may have been
caused by hunger, as they had, no doubt,
been fasting for some hours previous,
but I attributed it to the graveyard pe-
culiarities of Western Michigan air. Come
to think about it, though, the whole dif-
ficulty may be traced to the glasses I wore
that day, for I was destined to spend the
day in a railway coach, homeless, friend-
less, and turkeyless.
Oh, how bleak, bare and cheerless the
outside world looked as we rolled out
into the country. Nature was clothed
in her meanest wardrobe. She had put
off her autumn gown of lovely tints, but
she had not yet donned her robe of rest—
the pure white robe of winter. Thanks-
giving Day had caught her “in disha-
bille’-—only a mass of flying withered
dead leaves to cover her cold lifeless
form. One might as well go to a de-
serted brickyard for inspiration as to
look for it among the oak crowned knolls
and hills. A hue of dirty brick is not
the particular kind of hue with which
lovers of the beautiful become enrap-
tured, and, when this hue is set to music
by the bleak November winds, it is eal-
culated to freeze the milk of human kind-
ness in a sensitive soul. Those knolls
and hills reminded me of a dirty red-
headed pockmarked freckle-faced gypsy,
and if such a fellow is an object ot
beauty, then I beg Nature’s pardon for
my unkind remarks.
Aboard the train this dingy forenoon
were all kinds of people. The city man
of business was there with his family.
They were going out to Podunk’s Cor-
ners to eat turkey. The man of business
smiled—while his wife did all the talk-
ing, as usual. I don’t think he smiled
in anticipation of eating turkey, or ‘es-
pecially at the remarks of his wife. No,
and slow collections, and smiled just
from force of habit. [I did not censure
him for smiling mechanically, for I
would have done the same thing if I
could. I deem ita duty on the part of
every man to smile—oceasionally—if he
can; and, if he cannot do so naturally or
good-naturedly, then, by all means, let
him smile mechanically, or even under
protest. The demand for smiles in this
world is greatly in excess of the supply,
and even a bogus smile may deceive
some poor simple soul and make it hap-
pier.
Yes, all Kinds of people are found in a
railway train on Thanksgiving Day, and
a description of each would fill a volume.
The drummer was there in profusion.
He was careless. indifferent and passive.
His traveling was like the smile on the
face of the man of business—merely
force of habit. He knew that business
was suspended and would remain so un-
til his customers had gorged themselves
with turkey and had had time in which
to digest it.. This would take two days,
leaving Saturday, always a poor day, to
close out the week. And so he yawned
in a listless sort of way, smoked, and
played pedro. What a happy-go-lucky
sort of fellow the drummer is, to be sure.
He is never ina hurry, yet he never gets
left. He is never discouraged or dis-
heartened because he fails to secure a
new customer. His motto is, ‘Never
give up; if you don’t catch him this
time, change your bait and try again.’’
He enjoys implicit faith in himself. If
he receives a letter from Importer &
Son, informing him that their orders are
all placed for this season, but that a call
from him next season will receive proper
consideration, he straightway takes it for
granted that a mysterious something be-
tween the lines indicates the possibility
of securiny a present order; and so away
he flies 500 miles out of his regular
course to see Importer & Son. Travel-
ing, even on Thanksgiving Day, would
be less interesting were it not for the
drummer. May he never lose his grip!
And let us hope and pray that a plan
may yet be devised whereby the services
of the drummer—yea, even the drummer
—may be made available in the Beyond.
As the train pulled into an old interior
town, the writer had a glimpse of pover-
ty that eclipsed anything he had ever be-
held. It was a dilapidated old stable
converted into a human habitation! Two
or three holes that had once served as
windows were stuffed with cornstalks.
An old stovepipe protruded through the
roof. In the open doorway stood three ema-
ciated, half-clad children. Exclamations
of surprise burst from every passenger.
Could this be Southern Michigan, and was
this Thanksgiving Day! What an en-
vironment for innocent childhood! And
has it come to pass that squalid scenes
are no longer confined to the reek-
ing tenement districts of our great
cities? What man _ who witnessed
this exhibition of abject poverty could
The
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department of their business, keeping purchases of game, pro-
duce and fruit separately, if desired.
Hardware Dealers can keep separate accounts with their stove depart-
ment or their tin shop or any other department of their
business.
Druggists are enabled to keep separate accounts of the transactions of their
prescription department or their cigar sales, or their stationery
department, or any other special feature of their business.
But what is the use of enumerating the advantages of our Register
over those of all other registers heretofore invented ? They are to our
machine like moonlight unto sunlight; like water unto wine. Suffice to say
that our system is the only one which enables the merchant to have a
triplicate check of every charge transaction with but one entry.
'
If you have never seen our machine and desire an opportunity to in.
spect the merits of the mechanical marvel of the age, call at our office, or
eat his Thanksgiveng dinner without
thinking of this wretched picture and
wondering what those little unfortunate
victims of cruel fate had to make them
thankful? There are certain things that
Serve as appetizers, but this is certainly
not one of them.
At every stop of the train the same
variety of people get off and on. Friends
are waiting at every station to receive
friends and escort them to happy homes
he was thinking of accumulating bills
where the turkey is being basted and the
at the office of any of our agents; or, if you are located at a distance from
either, write us a letter telling us your line of business and what features
of your business you wish departmentized and we will send you illustra-
tions, descriptions and voluntary testimonials of the Register that will
meet your requirements.
CHAMPION GASH REGISTER GO,,
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Main Office, 73 and 75 Canal St.,
Factory, 6, 8 and 10 Erie St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
cranberry sauce is being cooled. At one
station my Lord Loftus steps off the
train with his immaculate side whiskers.
With a holier-than-thou expression he
looks about the station grounds and then
a sullen frown settles down and claims
him for its own. He is evidently dis-
gruntled at not finding a brass band to
escort him; and so he stalks off haughtily
down the street with my Lady Loftus on
his arm, perfectly oblivious to the con-
cealed smiles of those about him. Self-
important old prig! Pity the cartload
of good things that await to be stowed
away in that capacious John Bull grub
depository of his could not be made bet-
ter use of! Pity it could not be boxed
up and sent to the children in the win-
dowless stable.
-* ££ 2
And now it is high noon, and in thou-
sands of happy homes comes a savory
odor from as many kitchens—apetizing
in the extreme.
The scene in the ear suddenly changes.
A bridal party boards the train. Merry
voices, happy laughter, bright colors,
floral fragrance—it is a sudden burst of
sunshine illuminating the face of every
one in the car! All realize the fact that
there are two souls, at least, who are
sincerely thankful for the good things
vouchsafed them.
But this revival proves of but short
duration. A young mother is taken
aboard at a station further on, but she
is cold in death and sleeps the everlast-
ing sleep in her flower-covered casket of
white. An aged and ~- grief-stricken
mother, a heartbroken husband, weeping
brothers and sisters and sorrowing
friends fill the coaches, while men in
white gloves, with bits of white crape
attached to their coat lapels, completely
fill the smoking car. It was a Maccabee
funeral. When the destination was
reached, a large assembly of sorrowing
friends were in waiting and the body was
borne to its last resting place.
It was a swiftly passing scene, but it
left a sad impression on all, not except-
ing the bridal party. The bright laughter
ceased, the merry voices became hushed,
the drummer forgot what was trumps and
put away his cards, and the Day of
Thanksgiving seemed gloomier at its close
than at its beginning, and—we were at
Detroit. E. A. OwEn.
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Seven iron trusses, weighing 9,000
pounds each, were raised twenty-four
feet above the roof of the Fox building
and lowered to their permanent positions
by the Grand Rapids Heavy Moving Com-
pany.
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A Common Occurrence.
“Did you get butter at Steinburg’s, as
I suggested?” I enquired of a friend a
few days ago.
“No, I did not. The fact is, Will,” he
continued, ‘“‘the butter itself looked pass-
ably good, but I took the liberty of fol-
lowing the clerk into the back room to
examine it, and found the surroundings
decidediy unfavorable. His butter was
broken into the Seometrical shapes of
triangles, hexagons, rhomboids, trape-
ziums, ete., and thrown promiscuously
into a—probably new—washtub, which
stood on the floor. Near by, on top of a
barrel of oil, was an open box of codfish
and half a bushel of onions. As butter
always absorbs Surrounding odors, I de-
clined taking my chances and dropped
into Smith’s where I found some rolls
just from the country. No, I didn’t of-
fend Steinburg, as I took in the situation
at a glance. I merely said, ‘Oh, I was
looking for butter in rolls,’ and, fortu-
nately, he had none. As I walked home I
mused upon the mutability of trade in
general, and wondered whether thought-
less and careless grocers ever found out
why a desirable customer failed to call
as often as usual, or why it seemed so
hard to sell goods from the back room.
A CUSTOMER.
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The Clerk and the Cartridge.
Levi Noland, a clerk in Mellor Bros.’
Hardware store, Boone, Iowa, wanted a
small ferrule to place on some tool with
which he was working. Looking through
the show cases, he discovered a small
shell about an inch long and in diameter
about equal to a .22 ealiber cartridge.
There was no ball in the thing and he
didn’t know just what it had been de-
signed for. He knew, however, that, by
sawing off the bead of the closed end, it
would suit his purpose exactly. He
therefore placed the little shell firmly in
a vice and commenced operations with a
small hack saw. He was progressing
nicely when suddenly there was a flash
and areport. Noland’s hat was blown
into smithereens. Blood began to ooze
from several places in his face, and he
felt positive that something had struck
him. It was then discovered that the
harmless looking little shell was a dyna-
mite cartridge and was prepared for
business. A doctor picked pieces of
cartridge and saw out of varions
places in the young man’s face. Luck-
ily, pone of the flying particles struck
the eyes and the injuries received were
only slight. The cartridge was such as
are used for various blasting purposes
and was very powerful. There are sey-
eral of the cartridges left, but the box is
now labeled ‘‘Dynamite.’’
Oo
All the expert heavy moving now be-
ing done in the city seems to be man-
aged by the Grand Rapids Heavy Moving
; Company.
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STETSON’s
FROM
JOHN B. STETSON'S
GROVES
DE LAND,
FLORIDA.
HAT BRAND ORANGES
REGISTERED
The handsomest pack,
Every box guaranteed full count and perfectly sound.
CONVENTIONS,
The Largest Assortment of Ribbons
Do You Want Some Nice
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A. E. SROOKS & CO, 547 Ionia 8b, Grand Rapids, Mich
SOLD ONLY BY
f Of DELEGATES,
aad Trimmings in the State.
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ALFRED J. BROWN 6O., Michigan Agents,
CLUBS,
COMMITTEES.
TRADESMAN COMPANY.
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for holiday trade? You ean find it in great variety and right prices at
The Acknowledged Leader.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
guaranteed by the New York Condensed Milk Co.
A COOKING SCHOOL
now exists which, recognizing the importance of having plenty of pure
milk on hand for cooking purposes, has found its requirements fully
met by
reliable one to sell.
and it highly indorses same.
customers with satisfactory goods, at a reasonable profit to themselves,
Borden’s Peerless Brand
Evaporated Cream,
q
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Merchants interested in supplying their ;
will find that the Peerless Brand is a good article to purchase end a
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Bank Notes.
At the annual election of directors of
the Peninsular Trust Co., held Tuesday,
Geo. H. Davidson and John B. Martin
succeeded to the places on the board
formerly filled by E. H. Foote and Chas.
B. Judd.
A. G. Hodenpyl, Secretary of the
Michigan Trust Co., succeeds Jas. A.
McKee as a director of the Kent County
Savings Bank. Mr. Hodenpyl is a
financier of conceded ability and his ad-
vice will be of great value to his asso-
ciates in his new connection.
B. E. Quick, of the banking firm of B.
E. Quick & Co., at Freeport, has been
bound over for trial in the Barry Circuit
Court on a charge of compounding a
felony. Mr. Quick protests his innocence
of the charge and asserts that he will be
able to disprove the allegations of his ac-
cusers before the legal tribunal.
Some time ago a bank was started at
Peck with Frank Battersbee in charge.
B. R. Noble, the Yale banker, thought it
an infringement on his territory and
started a second bank at Peck. Now the
Battersbee bank is putting in a second
bank at Yale, with C. J. Reynolds in
charge, and a war of extermination has
been inaugurated.
Nehemiah Chase has resigned from the
board of directors of the Kalamazoo
National Bank, and the resignation has
been accepted. Mr. Chase says the rea-
son of his action was because he was also
a director in the Home Savings Bank and
he did not consider it quite proper to
hold such an office intwo banks. The
vacancy will be filled at the annual meet-
ing.
Twenty-one years ago B. C. Hoyt was
a@ prosperous banker at St. Joseph, being
rated at $200,000 above all liabilities,
most of which was invested in real es-
late. He was owing $61,000, and when
the panic of 1873 came on his creditors
put him into bankruptcy before he could
realize on his real estate. Am assignee
was appointed, and eight years after the
creditors were paid 11 per cent. on giving
receipts in full. Five years ago Mr.
Hoyt began suit to recover his property,
which is now valued at $600,000, on the
ground that the legal period of time had
not elapsed before his creditors threw
him. into bankruptcy. The case has
reached the United States Appellate
Court and a decision is expected soon,
The property involved includes 249 acres
within the city limits, a hundred platted
lots, anumber of houses and business
blocks, the Masonic Hall and the ground
upon which the Chicago & West Michi-
gan and Big Four have their tracks, ele-
vators, depots, etc. Mr. Hoyt is 88 years
old, and feels confident that he will
again live inluxury. If he succeeds it
will throw 200 families out of their
homes.
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Purely Personal.
C. E. Blakeley, the Mancelona drug-
gist, was in town Monday to select his
holiday line of faney goods.
Quincy A. Hynes, the Delton druggist
and grocer, died a few days as ago the re-
sult of a sudden attack of heart disease.
H. W. Rodenbaugh, the Breedsville
druggist, mourns the death of his wife,
whose demise was due to quick con-
sumption.
Jerome Bush, the Ashley hardware
dealer, was in town last week for the
purpose of purchasing a fire engine for
the village.
mes A Se ae TE ec ea Iie ee
Thos. H. Atkins, general dealer at
West Carlisle, was married Dec. 6 to
Miss Daisy E. Crocker, of the same place.
The ceremony occurred at the residence
of W. E. Ames, of this city. The happy
pair spent a couple of days at Allegan on
their way home.
The Majestic Manufacturing Co. is to
be congratulated on securing the ser-
vices of B. D. Butler, for several years
on the editorial staff of the Grand Rapids
Democrat, as manager of its advertising
department. Mr. Butler isa gentleman
of unbounded energy and unusual dis-
cernment and is admirably adapted, both
by experience and temperament, to dis-
charge the difficult duties devolving upon
him in his new connection.
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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.
The regular meeting of the Grand Rap-
ids Retail Grocers’ Association was held
at Elk’s Hall, Monday evening, Dee. 3,
President White presiding.
Mr. White renewed his suggestion of a
few weeks before that cash prices be of-
fered for the best series of contributions
on the evils of the credit business.
On motion of J. H. Goss, the sugges-
tion was adopted and Messrs. Wagner,
Schuit and Vinkemulder were appointed
a committee to decide on the amount of
the premiums and pass upon the merits
of the various contributions entered in
competition therefor.
Considerable discussion followed over
the silverware scheme introduced by sev-
eral local grocers, but no conclusion as to
the merits or demerits of the system was
reached.
J. J. Wagner stated that at one time he
offered a cook book with $10 worth of
cash trade, and that, as a result of such
offer, some of his customers have enough
cook books on hand to supply the chil-
dren and grandchildren of the family for
a century to come.
- H. Goss moved that the grocery
stores close all day Christmas and that
no Christmas presents be given customers,
both of which resolutions were adopted.
There being no further businss the
meeting adjourned.
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From Out of Town.
Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentlemen in trade:
L. M. Wolff, Hudsonville.
Phin Smith, Hastings.
David Cornwell, Monterey.
W. H. Harrison, Harrisburg.
Grattan Merc. Co., Grattan.
L. A. Knowles, Stetson.
C. H. Osborne, Hastings.
E. L. Brooks, Grattan.
N. B. Blain, Lowell.
T. H. Atkins, West Carlisle.
W. N. Hutchinson, Grant.
Sullivan Lumber Co., Sullivan.
Wm. Fowler & Co., Kalamo.
W. C. Loomis, Henrietta.
Atkins & Hall, Ross.
ne
The Drug Market.
There are no changes to note.
Gum opium is steady.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is in good demand at un-
changed prices.
The Porous Plaster Co. has placed its
goods on the rebate plan ata slight ad-
vance over jobbers’ prices.
By a typographical error in last week’s
issue, Miles’ Remedies were reported as
having been advanced to$7 per dozen. It
should have been $8.
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Foreign potatoes are coming to this
country in moderate quantities. They
consist chiefly of Scotch and German
Magnums. The amount received so far
is not large, yet sufficient to unfavorably
affect the market for home grown.
German potatoes sell at about 70@72 cents
per bushel and Scotch at a price a little
below that. Under the new law foreign
potatoes are admitted at an import duty
of only 15 cents per bushel of 60 pounds
compared with old of 25 cents.
A SPLENDID ENGINE.
New Steam Plant of the Grand Rapids
School Furniture Co.
The Grand Rapids School Furniture
Company recently purchased for its
plant one of the Nordberg Manufactur-
ing Company’s latest improved Corliss
engines and a complete line of shafting,
with the Nordberg friction clutches and
pulleys. Mr. Bruno Nordberg was born
in Finland and for fourteen years was
the chief designing engineer for the E.
P. Allis Company of Milwaukee. Six
years ago he started the Nordberg Man-
ufacturing Company and now holds more
patents than any man in this country ex-
cept Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Nordberg
made the principal designs for all the
heavy machinery that is now being sold by
the E. P. Allis Company.
The Nordberg Manufacturing Com-
pany has built up a business that stands
high in the engineering profession, all
due to the skill of Mr. Bruno Nordberg.
They are the only builders of the Nord-
berg patent high grade, automatic cut-
off poppet valve engine. The poppet
valve type of engine is very favorably
known in Europe but has not been used
as extensively in this country until now.
The Nordberg Manufacturing Com-
pany is turning out a great number of
them, for they have given the best of
satisfaction and are of higher efficiency
than any known in this country. Be-
sides the poppet valve engine they make
a high grade Corliss engine, which pos-
sesses features very su;erior to the or-
dinary Corliss engine.
The Nordberg Manufacturing Com-
pany’s principal trade is among the roll-
ing mills about Pittsburg and different
manufacturing plants in the New Eng-
land;States and throughoutthe East. In
Michigan they have furnished large
plants in Detroit, Saginaw, Bay City,
Kalamazoo and nine plants in Grand
Rapids. They are now erecting a very
high grade pumping engine for the
United States Government for the water
supply of Washington, D. C., which was
sold in strong competition with the best
manufacturers of pumping engines in
the country. The Michigan agent for
the Nordberg Manufacturing Company
is Mr. D. A. Heikel.
% OYSTERS
I am keeping down prices notwithstanding
theadvance. Order at once for your Thanks
giving trade.
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can.».......8 26
Solid Brand, Selects, per can... -_
Solid Brand, E. F., per can..... 20
Solid Brand, Standards, per can 20
Daisy Brand, Selects, per can............... 2
Daisy Brand, Standards, per Can ........... 16
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can... ........ 14
ON dence neces. 90
ixies Senaers, per Wel... .... 1 00
Oysters fine and cans well filled.
The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices.
Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with
green apples, very fine:
ee ee wD
£0-1b, pail... 57
DE os i kpc dp setae aeenee ees one 50
Ry, kh eee ok oc nee cee 45
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the
best made. §85c per doz. 3 doz. in case:
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
aoe. oa, per te... nie
eh, ON Oe ne 6%
OID, patie, Per 1D... ....-... - ne soon enceces 644
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon.............. 10
Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon...........-.... 12
Fine Dairy Butter, per Ib... ..e+e........-. 20
eee are, er ae. se 17
New Pickles, medium, barrels - 500
New Pickles, % barrel........ _< on
New Sauer Kraut, barrels.... ee
New Sauer Kraut, & barrels..............--- 2 50
EDWIN FALLAS,
Oyster Packer and [anufacturer.
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Si al eae: we # ing
Ponce de Leon Water.
Pronounced by Dr. Seeley, one of the most fa-
mous water-cure physicians of this century and
country, to be equal if not better than any water
in his knowlekge for the kidneys, stomach and
bowels. Heuseditin the years ig48 and 1849,
His opinion has been verified by scores of our
patrons in Grand Rapids since the water has
been placed on the market. Purest table water
extant. Address Ponce de{;Leon Water Co., 90
First Ave. Telephohe 1382.
Best Single Harness on
Karth for the Money,
All Hand Made. Only $8.
A strong, durabJe harness, especially adapted to
the hard times. The saddle is leather lined,
with imitation rubber or white trimmed. This
harness is single strap throughout. Traces, 1144
in.; Breast Collar, 13 in.; Briching, 1% in.;
Bridle with biinds and overcheck, or, if de-
sired we will send a VERY NEAT LIGHT OPEN
BRIDLE. I am so confident that this harness will
suit that I will send it by express C. O, D. to any
point in the State, with the privilege of examin-
ing it before paying forit and, if not satisfac-
tory, return it at my expense. No Risk. It
Wii! Cost You Nothing to -ee It.
G.H. WILMOY, Grand Rapids,
197 and 199 South Division St.
ESTABLISHED 1868.
AM, REYNOLDS & UN,
Headquarters for
STRAW BOARD
tor lining
POTATO CARS.
Telephone Iss.
Corner Louis and Campau
Sts., Grand Rapids.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.
The Bradstreet Company, Props.
Exeentive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y
CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres,
Offices in a cities of the United
oStates, Canada, the —— continent,
.Australia, and in London, England.
rand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.
HENRY ROYCE, Sapt.
Your Bank Account Solicited.
Kent County Savings Bank,
GRAND RAPIDS ,MIOH.
Jno. A. CovopE, Pres.
Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres.
J. A. S. VERprER, Cashier.
K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings
Deposits.
DIRECTORS:
Jno. A: Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox,
T,J.O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, ene Idema,
Jno.W.Blodgett,J.A.McKee, J.A.5S. Verdier.
Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars,
rd
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PERO far hint oe,
We Are Headquarters For
CANNED GOODS,
Carrying in stock the largest and most complete line of
any house in the State, including full assortments of
CURTICE BROS.’ Fruits and Vegetables,
and
FONTANA & CO.’s Columbus Brand California Fruit.
Inspection of our stock and correspondence solicited.
jJark_.
IMGro cery
ZA CO.
Muskegon Bakery Grackers
(United States Baking Co.)
Are Perfect Health Food.
There are a great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only
one can be best—-that is the original
Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.
Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest,
Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use.
Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS
Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK
Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR
Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER
Great | Jelly Turnovers, | FOR
Specialties Ginger Snaps, | MUSKEGON
Are | Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S
| Muskegon Branch, | CAKES and
| Mlik Lunch, | CRACKERS
United States Baking Co.
LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,
Muskegon, - Mich |
Oysters
OLD RELIABLE
ANGHOR BRAND
All orders receive prompt attention at
luwest market price.
See quotations in Price Current.
P. J. DETTENTHALER.
117 and 119 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
A Majestic Exhibit
For the three
weeks there will bea Grand Dis-
next two or
play of Majestic Steel Ranges in
our Retail Department, and we
want all merchants in Western
Michigan, if in the city, to drop
in and see them.
Coffee and Hot Rolls willbe
served daily.
Steel Ranges are fast sup
erseding the Cast Range. Dur-
ing this exhibit expert range
salesmen direct from the fac-
tory will be on hand to show
up their good qualities.
OSTER
& GC:
STEVENS
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The Dayton Computing Scale _ |
WARNING--Yo Users of Scales.
‘he trade are hereby warned against using any infringements on Weigh-
ing and Price Scales and Computing and Price Scales, as we will pro-
tect our rights and the rights of our general agents under Letter sPatent of the
United States issued in 1881, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1891, 1893 and 1894. And we
will prosecute all infringers to the full extent of the law.
The simple using of Scales that infringe upon our patents makes the
user liable to prosecution, and the importance of buying and using any other
Computing and Price Scales than those manufactured by us and bearing
our name and date of patents and thereby incurring liability to prosecution
is apparent. @~. Respectfully
THE COMPUTING SCALE CO.
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DAYTON, UHIO.
a,
H. LEONARD & SONS,
134-140 East Fulton St.,
Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents of
Toys, Dolls. China and Gioss Novelties, Aibums, Plush Cases,
Five and Ten Gent Specialties, Ec.
GENTLEMEN: --
For the last time this season we address you on the subject of
HOLIDAY GOODS FOR CHRISTMAS TRADE. As is well known, this trade is
very late this year, and many merchants have delayed buying their
Holiday goods, owing to the past year’s business depression, and now
believe that it is too late to put in a line of Christmas Novelties,
although those who have done so report the advance trade as very much
better than anticipated.
As far as the lines carried by us are concerned it is not too
late for this business. Believing as we did, that this was to be a
year when a LARGE ASSORTMENT of Holiday goods would be appreciated,
we are still able to show (after an unexpected large trade) a
magnificent selection, and we guarantee to surprise all late buyers.
Make your gelections from our Catalogue, or leave it to us,
stating about the amount and kinds of goods desired, and we will see
that you are well satisfied with the goods and their prices, and that
you receive them VERY PROMPTLY.
In the lines of China and Glags Novelties and in Dolls and Toys,
we have some splendid “Job Lots” to offer you at prices actually
below the import priece--popular goods on which you can certainly
double your money.
Awaiting your commands in person or by letter, and hoping you
will have a large and profitable Christmas trade, we remain,
Respectfully yours,
Grand Rapids, Mich., Dee. 12, 1894
H. LEONARD & SONS.