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GRAND RAPIDS, DECEMBER 19, 1894.

 

 

G. H. BEHNKE,

WHOLESALE
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw, Etc.
CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY,

Will make up mixed Cars on Application,
Goods at Lowest Prices wuaranteed.

=“! Fancy Straight Flour.

It’s the newest thing. Contains more nutriment and makes
whiter bread than any other flour.

Thoroughbred Poultry Stock and Eggs. Poultry Supplies.

Office Telephone, 112-1R. 30 East bridge St., Cor. Kent St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

GRAND RAPIDS
= COMP’Y,

| GRAND D RAPIDS

Our Goods are sold bv all Michigan Jobbing Houser.

 

First Quality |

 

WE BLL vv

 

Boston Belting Co.’s

H. Disston & Sons’ = =

E. C. Atkins & Co.'s =

H. R. Warthington’s, = =

A. G. Spalding & Bros.’ = Sporting Goods,

| L. Candee & Co.'s S = Rubber Boots and Shoes.
Mill and Fire Department Supplies.

Manufacturers of Pure Oak Short-lap Leather Belting.
Jobbers of Skates.

Rubber Belts,
Saws,

Saws,

Steam Pumps,

Eic..

Large Stock. Low Prices.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY, Cond Rapids Mich.

4 MONROE ST

 

  
 
 

 

EDWARD A. MOSELEY, Established 1876

TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY.

MOSELEY BROS.

Jobbersfof

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, Rubbers, Felt Boots,

 

Socks, Etec., for your fall and winter trade.

Our Celebrated Black Bottoms

Place your"orders with us
now and get the best to save money.
in Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf, tap sole in Congress and Balmorals,
are the leaders and unsurpassed.

Our Wales-Goodyear Rubbers are great trade winners.

Mail orders given prom, . 1ttention.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CoO,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ABSOLUTE TEA.

The Acknowledged Leader.

SOLD ONLY BY

TELFER SPICE CoO,,

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

PERKINS & HESsSs,

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.

YOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & GO,

Wholesale

DRY GOODS and NOTIONS

Mackinaw Coats and Lumbermen’s Outfits.
Specialty of Underwear and Over Shirts.

Overalls of Our Own Manufacture

Grand Rapids, - = Mich.

 

Do You Want Some Nice

= CANDY

FF Fy < ~~
for holiday trade? You ean find it in great variety and right prices at

Fes
A. &. BROOKS & GO,, 5&7 lonia 8b, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oyster Crackers) HEYMAN CoMPany,

‘
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Are now in season. We manufacture 4 All Kinds

SEARS. SALINE WAFER of SQUARE OVSTER,

A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed in 1 Ib. eartoons'|

with neat and attractive lal el.

packages we have ever put out.

GLI RUT CAKES.

| 1 lb. $2.40 per doz.

Ivy Our

Handsome embossed packages,

packed 2 doz. in case 2 Ib. $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, Manacer,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cluaks,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and we:!
‘ssorted stock at lowest market prices.

Spring & Company.
Duck ang Mersey
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 Go..
LANSING, [ICH.

Is one of the most popular |

‘Manufacturers of Show Gases of Every Description,

 

FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY.
38 and 68 Canal St, Grand Rapids, Micn

WRLUTE FOR PRICES.

Standard Oil Co.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

DEALERS IN

[IlUminating and Lubricating

 

 

 

Naptha and Gasolines.

Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave.

| BULK WORKS AT
GRAND RAPIDS,

MUSKEGON, MANISTEER, CADILLAC,
| BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, TRAVERSE CITY. LUDINGTON,
| ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY.

Highest Price Paid for

KMPTY CARBON % GASOLINE BARRELS,

LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY

Importers and

Wholesale Grocers

Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

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VOL. XII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1894.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRUST GO,, &%..2e0s.

Makes a Specialty of acting as

Executor of Wills,
Administrator of Estates,
Guardian of [inors and In-

competent Persons,
Trustee or Agent

in the management of any business which may
be entrusted to it.

Any information desired will be cheerfully
furnished.

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 Insurance Co.

Organized 1881.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

THE
FIRE
” INS.
co.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAPS.

J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres.
W. FRED McBAIN, Sec.

 

BSTABLISHED 1841.
ml

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R.G. Dun & Co.

Reference Booksissued 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 ane and Union Credit Co. and are
constantly revising and adding to them. Also
handle collections of all kinds for members.

Telephone 166 and 1030 for particulars.
L. J. STEVENSON. C. E. BLOCK.
W. H. P. ROOTS.

A.B. KNOWLSON,

Wholesale Shipper
Cement, Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Ete.

CARLOTS AND LESS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

 

 

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 & Iee Co-,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

P. G. WHITE, P. M. SHAFER.

Grand Rapids Paper 6o.,

20 Scribner St., Grand Rapids.

All Kinds Wrapping Paper ond Paper Bags.

Twines a Specialty.

Telephone 1355.
HEADACHE

PECK’S “*fowpzss

Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber

 

 

THE MOVER’S CREED.

 

Words of Warning to the Discon-

tented.
Written for Taz TRADESMAN.

A young man recently fell victim to
the demon of unrest. He was uneasy
and discontented with his surroundings.
One day, while walking in a lonely place,
cogitating on the gloom of his environ-
ment and the better chances that might
await him in some other place, he met
an old white-headed man. The old man
divined the innermost thoughts of
the restless cogitator and thus ac-
costed him:

‘‘Young man, harken unto my words.
They are the words of wisdom and of ex-
perience and will do you good, provided
you treasure them up and square your
future actions by them.

*‘I was once young like you, and, like
you, was tossed about by a merciless and
reasonless craving that gave me no rest.
That craving I mistook for ambition.
Fatal mistake! True ambition is a noble
attribute. It bursts not the confines of
reason, nor reaches not out after the un-
attainable. It deals not inillusions. It
does not blind our eyes to the real peb-
bles which lie in our pathway, by hold-
ing up mental images of great nuggets
strewn along some other pathway. True
ambition points out the real in life and
inspires us with a burning desire to em-
brace our opportunities and make the
most of our present surroundings.

‘*Young man, itis not noble ambition
that prompts this unrest; if it were, you
would perceive all around you opportu-
nities for doing good. Ambition would
not make you mope in idleness and long
for distant and unknown fields of useful-
ness; it would set you at work where
you are and keep you so busily at it that
you would have no time to dream of
other and different work. You have
simply been hypnotized by the spirit of
unrest. You have been dreaming: but
it is your first dream, and, if the fatal
spell can at this stage be broken, your
life may yet be a useful one and the
world be the better for your having
lived in it.

“It was many years ago when I dreamed
my first dream. I need not acquaint you
with the circumstances surrounding my
birth, my education, or the influences
brought to bear upon me during the
process of development into manhood.
I say, it is needless to dwell on these
things, for the tale would contain nothing
new or startling. My experience would
but echo that of every other man in our
favored commonwealth. All I need to
say is that it all happened in one of the
countless little worlds which, in the ag-
gregate, constitute the great world.
What I wish to impress on your mind
more particularly is the similarity of
these little worlds. This truth is learned
only in the school of experience; it can
be learned in no other way. I see you
are incredulous. You think that, be-
cause you have visited some of these lit-
tle worlds, and have heard vague stories
about some others, you Know all about

 

them. Ah, well, I was once young my-
self and shall not censure you for your
incredulity.

‘“‘When [ stepped upon the threshold
of active life, I, too, dreamed a dream. I
dreamed that society in some other little
world would be more congenial to
my tastes; that the people there were
more clever and less exacting, and that
they would better appreciate the supe-
rior talents which I imagined I pos-
sessed. I did not realize that I had only
been dreaming, and so I exchanged
worlds. The realization followed—it
was only adream. Self was not the su-
perior being I took him for, and I began
to look at life more seriously. I en-
gaged in business, but difficulties soon
presented themselves and I dreamed
again. In my dream I saw a little world
where the difficulties I was encountering
did not exist. Conditions were such that
any man possessing my business quali-
fications could make money without
exerting himself. It seemed so real that
I changed worlds again. Was this but
another dream? No, it could not be—it
was only a mistake. I had simply failed
to get into the right one. And sol went
from world to world, finding each simi-
lar to the one I had left behind, until Il
wore myself out in the search and satis-
fied myself that the whole thing was
only a dream, after all. The best years
of my life had been squandered in a
wild, impetuous chase after the unattain-
able. Do you call this ambition, young
man? Nay, it was the lack of ambition.
Real ambition might not have taught me
that all little worlds are strikingly sim-
ilar in the variety and sum total of diffi-
culties found in each, but it would have
helped me to encounter and overcome
the difficulties in my own little world;
in other words, it would have kept the
demon of unrest from taking possession
of my soul, it would have saved me from
being dragged to death by the mover’s
phantasm, it would have conserved and
turned to practical account all my wasted

energies.
“But I was not yet done dreaming.

The onward mareh of time had
quenched my insatiate desire to make
money in some easy, rapid manner, but
it had left its impress on my physical
constitution, and 1 again dreamed—this
time that the climate had fallen into a
backslidden state. And so 1 dreamed of
a little world where the sun shone with
greater brilliancy and the clouds were
less leaden; where gout and rheumatism
were unknown, and where poverty,
disease and death were less destructive
of human happiness. I never found it—
it was only another dream.

“TI felt as though my life’s work was
nearly completed. The spell was broken
and the demon of unrest left me, to take
up his abode in the heads of younger
men. The scales have fallen from my
eyes, and, old and decrepit, I have re-
turned to my first little world, where I
shall end my days.

**You do not recognize me. You belong
to the second generation of men who

 

have grown up into manhood since I
romped over in those fields, a heart-happy
and care-free boy; and yet I find that
you are possessed with the same old un-
rest, and that, in spite of all your mod-
ern, ideas, you are about to make the
same fatal mistake I made forty years ago.
The experiences I have recounted have
cost me my life, and yet you may reap
the benefit of them for nothing. I re-
peat, do not imagine that, because you
may have visited other little worlds,
your chances for success will be greater
in them than in your own little world.
There is a law which governs the eternal
fitness of things that will subject you to
the same test no matter where you may
go. The great world is full of dangers
to be avoided, troubles to be borne, sor-
rows to be endured, pain to be suffered,
difficulties to be overcome and obstacles
to be surmounted; and each little world
has its full quota. TheCreator has not
so ordained that any portion of his crea-
tion shall be exempt from the universal
conditions of human existence, or that
any one community of human beings
shall escape from the innumerable ills to
which human flesh is heir.

“Young man, disinthrall yourself
from this fatal enchantment before you
take your first step in pursuit of the
mover’s phantasm. Do you fancy that
the inhabitants of your little world do
not appreciate you as they should? If
this be the case, I assure you that your
trouble will be magnified a hundred fold
if you go to a new world where you are
unknown. Get this fancy out of your
mind, and rest assured that the people
who know you best will show you all the
respect you merit, and that is all toe
which you are entitled.

‘“‘Are business conditions unfavorable
where you are? Are you casting about
for some place where you would be more
successful? You will never find it.
There is no trade center, large or small,
on the face of the globe, where just such
fellows as you are not telling the same
tale. Start in quest of more favorable
business conditions—you will waste your
life in the search and, in the end, will be
no nearer the coveted goal than you
were in the beginning. If you want
more favorable conditions, you must look
within and not without. Nowhere will
you find them ready made. You must
make them yourself, out of material
found within your own resources, no
matter where you go. Why not accom-
plish it in your own little world and so
save valuable time? If you feel that
competition is too much for you, meet it
where you are or ‘throw up the sponge.’
You cannot escape it by running away
to some other place—you will find it
wherever you go.

‘“*Young man, harken unto my voice.
Business success does not depend upon
the kind of business you may engage in,
or upon the particular place where you
do business. If you possess the neces-
sary qualifications for, and bend all your
energies to, the business in hand, and
your stock of perseverance does not run

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

   

out, you will succeed in the end. Re- | CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS “

member that each little world has its The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: , t bl M th d

Own ups and its own downs, and that all STICK CANDY. Ques 1iona e e O S.

these different ups and downs are ae _— — :

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“I have but little more to say. In| Boston Cream... )/)°’*"’ 9 Grand Rapids business man:

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everything else necessary to make each oo ee seman : ’ < Le
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a . ; chy | een 4C@50 “
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make your life a grand success. Desert
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is S. Yould he teach the| Floridas, Fancy Bri hts, 176, 200, 216..... 2 25 oe ll
— = oe c . Floridas, Golden ieee, 125 eo 2 Ou eo : SAN bull’ saad th- :
world as great a lesson as the old man Floridas, Golden Russets, 150, 176, 200, 216... 2 25 Pt rm A_Q2. f Mr dusle Aun Gus
had taught him—that it was possible for LEMONS. og t h
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a young man to profit by the experience a 250 ee i ie oe 4 00 ad. a. Kho t fo BC, /* IR
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of the old? A look of firm determination | Fancy Messinas,.60, new. od @ F/5~ Fourtke ‘Tite, A fPrge 2£0
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drove away the expression of discontent. BANANAS. beer feel 5 beat Fvfo upside uae |
a ce Large bunches.... 1.0 |. a 1% é | . ABR Q
Phe seales had fallen from his eyes, and, Small bunches............ ae 1 00g! 50 CAH eR, cd ole % (3-0LQ Peay 5 -
looking around, he was surprised to find hi oa. hoper ¥tict us Aa. Sr

a um OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. os 7 Vrrthigorn, Dh arv_t
on every hand, golden opportunities Figs, fancy layers 16.2... .......... 12 '
where none had appeared before to ex-| “ ais “tts tte eeensecenee =
ist, and he determined to use them to the aot. ha os 6% THE TRADESMAN is loath to believe that the traveling men of the Saginaw Val-
best possible advantage. oe BOIb. hee RNR 2 ley are coming to Grand Rapids next week to make ‘Rome howl.” It believes they

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The following, which I shall name| “ i seesecntspeateentenn @ 9 are coming here in a sober condition on a mission of business and pleasure, that
“The Mover’s Creed,” had dominated his they will conduct themselves in a gentlemanly manner and that the intimation that
actions so farin life, and had been the siiindnaciteataiiini ae ro they will make ‘‘Rome how!”—in other words, indulge in the drunken orgies which
ruination of many an otherwise well- —. = characterized the last days of Rome—is a base and unwarranted libel on their in-

* California, soft shelled . ce 12
meaning man. ne Brasils, new......... ee & 744 | tentions.
: =e a : Walnuts, Grenoble. 20707" oi Tue TRapEsMAN is, very naturally, gratified over such a voluntary acknowl-

I believe that the talents with which | @10 =| edgement that Grand Rapids is the place for Saginawians to purchase their trunks,
the Creator endowed me are not suited to Calif @12%

‘Soft Shelled Calif..227°7°77°77 @14 | although Saginaw and Bay City dealers may criticize the intimation and fail to ap-

 
 
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~~ ee ——E —— — el S10% preciate such attempts on the part of the writer to divert the trade of Saginaw and
I believe that, in some other place — a H. P., 6 O7% Bay City people to a competing market. The fact that managers of trade papers
known to me, the people are a Sa Hickory Nuisper bu, aH la generally interested to keep such trade in their own cities may tend to call in-
est, more obliging and less exacting than | Cocoanuts, full sacks......_//7""” 4 00 to question the sincerity of the writer.
they are here. PEAXUTS. ml i uu va i a
I believe the place where I am located is Fancy, H. P.,Suns.... wai 2 5 The proposition to “take it in trade is generally consitered unprofessional,
a bad place in which to do business; that | Fancy, H. P., Flags... 00.00.0000 011)  @ pig | tO Say the least, and no trade paper whose space is worth the price asked for it will
I ean find a place where money is more mete HP. — Ps % resort to such expedients to obtain business,
plentiful and where a fortune can be or cS oer @6 THE TRADESMAN is assured that the reference to a local jobber is entirely un-
more easily acquired—a place where authorized, being on a par with the spurious testimonials invented by vendors of
competition does not interfere with FRESH MEATS. questionable remedies.
profits, and where the dead-beat is un- BEEF.
—— oe ee Fore quitters: 2000000000007 ag ‘x
; I believe that where ave my habita- nd qu : oe nae e
H tion the water is bad and the air is sur- ee : Pa ul Fifert,
E charged with malarial poison; that in a a ees
B certain other place the water and the air | Plates.............0°17°,000 0.77" '
H are perfection; that in that other place PORK. TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS,
the sun shines brighter and the winds| DipM0d--- -:++.-++-----scsceee see. AH@ i SAMPLE TRUNKS and
: Lim toe ee SATIPLE CASES
H the gout, neuralgia, rheumatism, and all
F the other tisms, are unknown, and where | Carcass ............. cade eee eee 4@ Of any description to order on short
i taxes and death are not tolerated. PO 54S 6% notice.
Finally, I believe that it is time to: aes : i
eae £i.dem ian, ™ pac 6 @%| 50 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

fa See a renege Ser aS ae Ra a Te orem serene

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

A HINT TO MERCHANTS.

‘‘How comparatively few persons make
really good salesmen in a store of any
kind, at the present time,”’ said an eld-
erly lady, not long ago. ‘‘They should
be educated especially for that work,”
she continued. ‘They should be able to
read character quickly and well, should
possess the traditional patience of Job,
and exhibit a spirit of constant sunshine
in the presence of customers.’’

I thought there was a suggestive lesson
in her words which it would pay those
interested to heed.

Youthful salesmen of either sex, other
qualifications being equal, are generally
most attractive to customers. Salesmen
must constantly be on their guard against
permitting favoritism to influence them
in the least. During business hours,
strict equality toward every customer
must be observed, without respect toage,
wealth, or rank, else losses in trade—
possibly never known why by them er-
chant—will take place. Customers pos-
sess their imperfections, and they come
to a store in ali the ‘‘moods and tenses;”
but the good salesman will so conduct
himself as to be blind and deaf to every-
thing except the one desire to serve the
individual to the best of his ability. Two
qualifications are worth more than all
others put together, viz., good nature and
Kindness. These will win customers,
even away from those who occasionaliy
give better bargains, as nothing is mere
attractive than a pleasant greeting and a
courteous bearing.

I heard one lady say to another, not
long ago, *‘Yes, I know that I can save
more by dealing with Mr. » but I
prefer to trade where they are always
kind and obliging, even if I lose a little
money.’’

While this is admittedly the age of
haste, it is often the case that customers
cannot or will not be hurried in making
purchases, especially old persons or
those to whom money is worth more than
time. The humble doliar or two in the
hand must be cautiously expended, and
much thought and deliberation are re-
quired befere deciding upon each pur-
chase. A spirit of patience in such in-
stances, with now and then a kindly sug-
gestion, instead of an overbearing, im-
patient or hurried manner, as if anxious
to get rid of the customer will, in every
case, prove valuable to the employer.
Time should never be deemed so val-
uable by the salesman that he cannot
take enough of it to give a civil reply to
a customer’s question.

While waiting in a store the other day
for my purchase, I could not help over-
hearing the conversation of two ladies
standing near me. They were discuss-
ing the merits—or demerits, rather—of a
clerk who had just gone to the other end
of the store. Said one: ‘I can’t bear to
be waited on by that girl! Every time I
come in here (and I do most of my trad-
ing here, amounting, in a year, te some
hundreds of dollars), I steer clear of her
locality. I asked her a courteous question
one time, several years ago, in regard to
some goods lying on the counter, and
she gave me such an unmannerly, curt
reply, as if 1 were beneath the grass she
trod on, that I vowed I never would enter
this store again. After thinking the
matter over, however, I saw my foolish-
ness in depriving the proprietor of my
custom, just for incivility on the part of
one of his employes. So I swallowed
my anger and pocketed my pride, and

 

 

| came back here to trade; but trom that

time (five years ago) to this, I have not
once had that girl wait on me.’’

Said the other lady, ‘‘I had much the
same experience with her myself. I
came in one time to ask the price and
quality of some goods in the window.
This girl came forward to wait on me.
On making the enquiry, her frowns and
hurried manner gave me to understand
that she was either desirous of getting
rid of me, or that she inferred I wished to
look at the goods as a matter of curiosity
or pastime, with not the remotest idea of
buying. She pulled the goods out of the
window with a yank. The pattern was
exactly what I wanted, and examination
of the goods proved the quality to be
satisfactory; but I was unable, from the
girl’s insolent manner, to instantly de-
cide upon the number of’ yards I wished,
and, while I was hesitating a moment,
she startled me by snapping out, ‘‘How
many yards shall I cut off?” For an in-
stant I couldn’t think, but in the next I
found my speech and replied, ‘‘You need
not cut off any!” And I turned on my
heel and left the store, never to have
that miss wait on me again. While los-
ing the dress pattern that suited me tua
T, So-and-So lost my little twelve or fif-
teen dollars. Perhaps I deserved cen-
sure for not entering a complaint to the
proprietor, but 1 was not obliged to pat-
ronize this establishment, and I consid-
ered it his business, and not mine, to
know whether his customers were treated
courteously or otherwise.”’

Thus, as I said before, merchants never
know the extent of the losses due to in-
competent employes, unless they observe
personally the treatment accorded their
patrons. OBSERVER.

——_—»> +4 a
Happy Medium between Credit and
Cash.

A good many merchants are now pon-
dering over a problem which causes them
much uneasiness.

What shall it be after January 1—
credit or cash ?

To continue the credit system involves
a continuance of the losses which have
proved so burdensome and annoying.

To abandon the credit system and
adopt the cash system involves the loss
of a good many desirable customers who
pay promptly at regularintervals but are
not in a position to pay spot cash on the
occasion of every purchase,

Luckily, there isa happy medium by
means of which the merchant can aban-
don credit and place his business ona
cash basis—a combination of cash and
coupon books which works admirably
wherever introduced.

Cash for those wko can pay cash every
time they come into the store, and coupon
books for those whose trade is just as
valuable as that of the spot cash custom-
er and who pay their accounts on a
certain day each week or month with
the regularity of clockwork.

Such customers are too valuable to
every store to be driven away by iron-
clad rules and harsh methods.

If you are a merchant and are unfamil-
iar with the advantages of the coupon
book system, we invite you to correspond
with us without delay.

January 1is an excellent time to in-
troduce changes in your business—if it
needs any—and New Year’s day will
soon be here. TRADESMAN COMPANY.

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Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

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.

 

   
  

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KNOWN TO THE ARTS.

SS5,>-- POWDER, FUSE, CAPS.
Se Electric Mining Goods,
HERCULES,

      

 
 

AND ALL TOOLS FOR STUMP BLASTING,
fHE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK Nag eee oe ae
ANNIHILATOR. HERCULES POWDER COMPANY,

Cuyahoga Building,
CLEVELAND, CortiCcS,

Hercules Powder is carried in stock by all of the following?jobbers:

Potter Bros., Alpena,

Buechner & Co., Kalamazoo,
Seavey Hardware Co., Ft. Wayne,
Camper & Steadman, South Bend.

Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids,
A. Austin, No. 93 Jefferson Ave., Detroit,
J. J. Post & Co., Cheboygan,

Popp & Wolf, Saginaw,

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Co pemish—Gibb & Co. announce their
intention of selling their drug stock and
MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. retiring from business, Owing to the fact
Edmore—Heath & Sanderson succeed | that W. W. Gibb has been elected Regis-
Frank Heath in the drug business. | ter of Deeds of Manistee county and
Jonesville—The Hix Hardware Co. | must immediately remove to Manistee.
succeeds Gilbert & Hix at this place. Kalamazoo—The Gates Vapor Engine
Scottville—Reader Bros. & Hunter| (Co. has begun the manufacture of the

AROUND THE STATE. |

 

 

succeed Reader Bros. in general trade.

Holland—Thomas Price, late of Grand
Rapids, has opened a new meat market.

Coldwater—Adams & Perry succeed
W. H. Adams in the grocery business.

Bay City—Charles Babo succeeds
Charles Babo & Sons in the grocery busi-
ness.

Hillsdale—Howe & Carter succeed
Barrows & Howe in the grocery busi-
Os Mitchell & Co. have
purchased the general stock of Osear
Field.

Gobleville—Richardson & Teman have
sold their hardware stock to Wm. S.
Crosby.

Saginaw—Howenstine & Wrege suc-
ceed J. H. Howenstine in the jewelry
business.

Manistique—Herman Winkle  sue-
ceeds Shuster & Winkle in the meat
business.

Jonesville—D. L. Powers has pur-
chased the general stock of D. A. Wis-
ner’s Sons.

West Branch—Neilson & MeFadden
have purchased, the grocery stock of
Lewis Benaway.

Mason—Henderson & Parkhurst suc-
ceed Ashel W. Parkhurst in the dry
goods business.

Lansing—C. Alsdorf & Son, druggists,
have dissolved, Fred M. Alsdorf continu-
ing the business.

Columbiaville—-MeDermott & Bro.
have purchased the general stock of J.
L. Preston at this place.

Bay City—T. W. Davidson & Co., drug-
gists, have dissolved, T. W. Davidson
continuing the business.

Bagley—H. G. Lord & Co. succeed Os-
trander & Lord in general trade and the
cedar post lumbering business.

Grand Ledge—A. I. Kramer & Co., dry
goods dealers, have dissolved, A. E.
Kramer continuing the business.

Holland—C. Blom, Jr., announces that
be will shortly erect a two-story brick
building, 60x80 feet in dimensions, which
he will occupy as a candy factory.

Saginaw—Lavin & Gregory, grocers,
have dissolved partnership. The busi-
ness will be continued by J. H. Lavin.

Stanton—T. S. Earle has purchased
the grocery stock of G. W. Sharp and
will consolidate it with his own stock.

Farwell—H. M. Roys has sold his
drug stock to A. H. Roys & Co., who
will continue the business at this place.

Clinton—Lindsey & Kishpaugh sue-
ceed Brown & Kishpaugh in the hard-
ware and agricultural implement: busi-
ness.

Detroit— The Lohrman Seed Co., not
incorporated, succeeds Lohrman, Broth-
erton & Co. in the wholesale seed busi-
ness.

Mason—A. MeDonald has bought the
undertaking business of S. P. Stroud and
will join forces with F. L. Stroud in the
furniture business under the name of
Stroud & McDonald.

Mulliken—A. O. Halsted, formerly in
the drug business at Muskegon, has pur-
chased a part of the Anderson drug
Stock, at Grand Ledge, and has moved to
this place, where he will put in a full
line of drugs and medicines.

   

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lit next month.

Spaulding gas and vapor engine in the
Chase Mantle Co.’s building. The pres-
ent headquarters are temporary only, the
Present intention being to erect and
equip a modern factory building early
next season.

Sutton’s Bay—W. S. Johnson has sold
his interest in the Store, general stock
and docks of W. S. Johnson & Co., to
John Plathner, of Milwaukee, and E. R.
Daily, of Empire. John Litney still re-
tains his interest in the business, which
will be conducted hereafter under the
firm name of John Litney & Co. Mr.
Johnson still owns a large amount of
hardwood lands in Leelenaw county.

Whitehall—The Forum says: J. D.
Meinhardi, the druggist, was arraigned
before Justice Collins, at Muskegon, Fri-
day, charged with violating the phar-
macy law. The complaining witness is a
man named Ewing, of Grand Rapids, at-
torney for the State Board of Pharmacy.
The specific charge is the selling of mor-
phine and iodine without being a regis-
tered pharmacist or having one in his
employ. Meinhardi pleaded not guilty
and his trial was adjourned until Dec. 17.
He gave a $50 bond for his appearance
and retained Arthur Jones to defend him.

Detroit—By the breaking of a cable,
the elevator in the store of Stanton &
Morey, recently fell from the fourth floor
to the basement. Mary J. Judson, a sew-
ing woman in the employ of the firm,
was in the elevator, and was so severely
injured that she avers she is stil] a suf-
ferer. She brought suit for $10,000 dam-
ages, and the trial was commenced one
day last week inthe Wayne Circuit Court.
The testimony showed that the person
who was operating the elevator was not
the one employed by the firm for that
purpose, and that Miss Judson was aware
of that fact. Judge Frazer thereupon in-
formed the jury that she was guilty of
contributory negligence, that the elevator
was in good eondition, and the firm not
liable. He directed a verdict for the de-
fendant.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Sparta—Hammond & Warner are suc-
ceeded by the Sparta Brick & Tiling Co.

South Haven—E. Van Arden has pur-
chased the flour and feed mill business of
S. M. Trowbridge & Son.

Prescott—The Cliff Manufacturing Co.
is running its shingle mill full blast and
is shipping in bolts by rail.

Bagley—H. G. Lord & Co. succeed

Ostrander & Lord in the general trade

and the wholesale cedar lumbering busi-
ness,

Sturgis—Thos. H. Berridge & Son,
manufacturers of patent tinners’ shears,
have dissolved, Thos. B. Berridge con-
tinuing the business.

Shingleton—J. M. Carr has sold the
Bice Manufacturing Co. 300,000 feet of
logs, which will be railed to Marquette
and worked up in the purchaser’s fac-
tory there.

Bad Axe—Eagan Bros. have erected a
small sawmill here and expect to start
It is also equipped with
planing machinery anda slat mil] is in
connection.

  

 

Lake Station—W. H. Cawbrey has
leased a new circular mill built here a
year azo by W. S. Thomson, and will
stock and operate it this winter and an-
other season. It has a cutting capacity
of about 35,000 feet daily.

Marquette—F. E. Haines has a camp
in near Kitchie and will get out about
2,000,000 feet of nice white pine, besides
a quantity of timber for mining pur-
poses. The logs have been sold to the
Dead River Mill Co. and will bc manu-
factured here.

Marquette—Thomas Sheridan has a
camp on the Escanaba River, the logs
from which will probably be railed to
this city for manufacture. Joseph Kisick
has been getting out some timber in the
same vicinity, which has gone to Oshkosh
over the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way.

Ludington—The O. N. Taylor sawmill
shut down last week. The mills of the
Cartier Lumber Co. and Butters & Peters
will continue running until ice compels
them to shut down. The Cartier mill
will start up again about February 1,

With night and day tour, cutting hard-

wood logs for Albert Vogel. *

Manistee—The weather in the woods
has not been first class for the past week
or so, having been too soft for com fort-
able work, and those that were working
in swamps or low ground have had to
abandon their operations for the present.
Some camps have been moved in the last
few days, and from others the men have
been withdrawn till the cold weather
settles on us. This is in marked con-
trast with what we had at this time last
Season, as the weather set in hard the
first of the month and logging continued
without intermission.

Ewen—The Phenix Lumber Co. has
been formed here, with a capital of $25,-
000.- It will operate the mill plant of the
Ontonagon River Lumber Co., under the
management of D. A. Neuse. The com-
pany will stock the store connected with
the mill with goods to the amount of $10,-
000. It has contracts sufficient to keep
the mill running all winter and next sea-
son. About 25,000,000 feet of logs will
be sawed during the year on contract.
The officers of the company are S. M.
McElroy, Cashier Citizens’ National bank,
Pittsburg, Pa., President; Alex. M.
Jenkinson, President of the R. & W.
Jenkinson Co., Pittsburg, Vice-President;
Nelson A. Burdick, National Bank, Sault
Ste. Marie, Secretary and Treasurer, and
Joseph Totten, general superintendent.
Peter Drummond is in charge of woods
operations.

Bay City—There is no ice in the river,
the weather is balmy, and if this sort of
thing could be guaranteed navigation
and lumber manufacturing might be
revived. The indications are decidedly
of an open winter, yet the prognostica-
tors have given out that it is to be an

 

 

 

 

 

 

old snifter with the trade-mark blown
into the bottle. Snow and cold weather
will be needed for those who have logs to
put in, bnt an open winter will not pos-
sess the terrors that it did ten and twenty
years ago. Now those having small
quantities of logs to get in, if remote
from a railroad or Stream, require snow,
but nearly all the timber is contiguous
to railroads. The improvement that has
taken place in the general business
of the country and in lumbering will
stimulate a good deal of winter lumber-
ing on a small scale. Owing to the de-
pression in the stave and cedar business
not as much will be done as in years
gone by, but the hardwood lumber out-
look is better and in the aggregate a
large quantity of logs will be put in dur-
ing the winter in Northern and Eastern
Michigan.

Manistee—It is somewhat strange that
no effort has ever been make to get the
sunken logs out of the Manistee River,
but the time has not yet arrived, as with
active operations going on every year it
would not be feasible to do much in that
line. The matter has been talked over
with a good many old loggers, who say
that there are quantities of good logs
seattered along the River which will
never see the sawmills at the mouth, and
that the best way to reach them would
be to have a portable sawmill on a scow
to saw the logs as fast as they are met.
This would obviate the difficulty of get-
ting the logs out on the bank to dry, and
also save all chance of their sinking
again, as they are likely to do, even
though well dried. It is well known
that most of these sunken logs are shaky
butt logs and small sap pine which
would hardly float when first put into
the water, and many of them would be
of little value even should they be gotten
to the mills, so that by the scheme of
Sawing where they are found in the
River they could leave the worthless
without handling and only take those
which it would pay to turn into lumber.

A,
New Turkish Batis.

Mr. M. S. LaBourslier, who for ten
years has been very favorably known to
Michigan people in connection with his
Turkish bath establishment, has opened
in the Morton House block newly
equipped and elegantly furnished bath
rooms and will furnish all the baths of a
first-class establishment. He will con-
tinue his attention to removing corns, in-
growing nails and bunions from men,
women and children.

—————— Et en ecenee

The Grand Rapids Fire Insurance
Company has issued two very fine eal-
endars for 1895—one intended for homes
and the other for business houses. If
you have not received one, telephone
No. 33, or drop the company a postal and
you will be supplied.

 

 

Martin L.

Sweet’s Hotel, retaining the
3 5D

gers.

Sweet has assumed control of

Messrs. Irish as mana-

Extensive improvements will be made throughout the

house, and it is expected that the office, remodeled and newly

decorated ,will be one of the handsomest in Michigan.

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

5

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

A. W. Cobb has opened a grocery store
at Crapo. The Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.

John Borst has opened a grocery store
at Vriesland. The Olney & Judson Gro-
cer Co, furnished the stock.

J. Balyhan & Son have opened a gro-
cery store at Big Rapids. The Lemon &
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

M. B. Thomas has embarked in the
grocery business at Edmore. The stock
was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler
Company.

H. C. Greiner has embarked in the
grocery business at Rockford. The stock
was furnished by the Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.

Faulkner & Aldrich, dealers in hard-
wood lumber, have dissolved. The busi-
ness will be continued by John N. Faulk-
ner, Henry E. Stanton and Elmer L. Mad-
dox under the style of John N. Faulkner
& Co.

H. S. Welch has retired from the firm
of Welch & Co., grocers and meat dealers
at the corner of South [onia and Hall
streets. The business will be continued
by the remaining partners, W. S. Brad-
ley and Elmer J. Worden, under the
style of Bradley & Worden.

 

Dennis Bros. have taken possession of
the den Bleyker carriage plant, at Kala-
mazoo, to secure themselves for a claim
for lumber sold Mr. den Bleyker when
he was engaged in the manufacture of
carriages at Saginaw. The property is
now occupied by the Michigan Buggy
Co. as auxiliary to its main establish-
ment.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Reports from New York are to
the effect that the refineries did an enor-
mous business last Monday and Tuesday,
during which time granulated was
marked down a_ sixpence below 4e.
Wednesday both standard and fine gran-
ulated were marked up 1-16c, when
business slacked off. The next turn in
the market is looked forward to with in-
terest, but what it will be none are will-
ing to foretell.

Molasses—The New Orleans market
has exhibited considerable strength dur-
ing the past week, actual advances rang-
ing from 1to 2c per gallon having oc-

curred.
Fruits—Lemon peel searee and

strong. Currants have sustained an ad-
vance of 44¢ in Greece, which has had a
tendency to strengthen the market in
this country. Domestic prunes. are
searce and firm. French prunes are
quiet and unchanged. California raisins
are firm. Sultanas are selling freely.

Coffees—Brazil grades are without ma-
terial change, the market being character-
ized by frequent uuimportant fluctua-
tions. Mild grades are quiet. It
feared that a large portion of the Mexi-
can crop will be lost on account of the
searcity of labor.

Bananas—The local market has two
ears of bananas with which to supply the
holiday trade. Chieago, Detroit and

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other large places are making such ex-
tremely low prices on this article that it
is difficult for bome dealers to realize
enough profit to pay for handling them;
still our dealers dislike to see the trade
go elsewhere and have prepared them-
selves to take care of voluntary orders.

Lemons—The new crop of Messina
stock that is now coming in is fairly well
ripened and grows better every day.
Prices are also getting lower, and quota-
tions, as they appear elsewhere, compare
most favorably with other markets and
are in favor of the buyer. The fruit is
packed very nicely and, outside of a few
green spots, is sure to give satisfaction
to the trade.

Oranges—Our market is fairly glutted
with the finest of Florida oranges. Every
wholesale dealer and commission man
has from one to three cars in stock, and

secure the orders of outside buyers.

Foreign Nuts—The local market is
well supplied with all grades, except
Tarragona Almonds. In place of them,
however, California Paper Shells are be-
ing offered at very low figures, and,
though somewhat smaller than the reg-
ular Tarragonas, are giving as good sat-
isfaction to a majority of the dealers.
The meat is large, bright and of fine
quality and the goods are being sold at
prices never seen before in this market.

Peanuts—Remain easy at previous quo-
tations. New nuts are rapidly coming
into market but local dealers report that
orders are small, as the trade do not care
to stand the shrinkage that naturally oc-
curs on the new stock. Shelled goods
are also slightly lower.

Figs—Are in good supply at prices
most favorable to the buyer. Bag figs
seem to take well with the outside trade,
and, although many of our dealers
stocked up liberally, they report that
first invoices are nearly closed out, owing
to the large outside demand.

Dates—Hallowi dates have dropped off
a quarter and are selling to the trade at
from 5 to5ige. The new crop seems to
be very fine quality, the goods opening
up clean and bright. There is nothing
to warrant a further decline, as present
prices are about as low as they usually
get.

Candy—This is the manufacturer’s
busy season. All of the factories are
working hard and all report that trade is
extremely good. Prices have been
whittled down toa point that leaves but
a very small margin, but they are, un-
doubtedly, in accordance with other lines

of goods.
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Gripsack Brigade.

A. J. Quist has engaged to represent
the cigar and tobacco department of the
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. among the
city trade.

Preparations for the annual conven-
tion of the Michigan Knights of the Grip
are now practically completed, and nearly
everything is in readiness for the troops
of tramping traveling men who will
invade the Valley City on the morning of
Dee. 26. A final meeting of all the com-
mittees of arrangements will be held at
the Livingston Hotel Saturday evening.

Jos. P. Visner, who has covered the
city trade the past year forthe John A.
Tolman Co., of Chicago, has handed in
his resignation and gone to New York,
where he will spend a week posting up
with E. J. Gillies & Co., with whom he
has signed for 1895. Mr. Visner repre-
sented Gillies & Co. here for four years
and is thoroughly familiar with the
goods and methods of the house.

Oliver C. Shults, formerly salesman for
the defunct firm of Curtis & Dunton, but
for the past four years a resident of Chi-
cago, during which time he has traveled

 

all are making extremely low prices to}

 

for the Indurated Fiber Ware Co. and the
Samuel Cupples Woodenware Co., has |
signed with L. Gould & Co. (Chicago) for |
1895 and will cover the entire trade of |
this State. He has, therefore, returned |
to Grand Rapids to reside and taken |
possession of his own home at 605 North |
Front street.

Chairman Gonzalez issues a call for a
final meeting of the Reception Committee,
to be held at the Morton House at 3
o’clock Saturday afternoon. The Commit-
tee has been divided into several sub-
committees, the following members being
designated to meet the trains and eseort
the visiting grip carriers to headquarters:
J. H. Roseman, chairman; W. E. Rich-
mond, V. A. Johnston, Hal Montgomery,
A. E. McGuire, D. S. Haugh, John Cum
mins, John M. Shields, Frank R. Miles,
J. F. O. Reed, W. A. VanLeuven, M. M.
Mallory, Frank Hadden, Chas. Wood, J.
H. Dawley, Geo. J. Heinzleman, J. M.
Fell, Chas. S. Brooks, W. F. Wurzburg,
H. FE. Winchester, P. H. Fox,. H. L.
Gregory, Jesse C. Watson.

The Grain Market.

Wheat has been extremely sluggish
during the past week and rather lower
than the previous two weeks, owing to
the expectation of another large increase
in the visible and small exports, while
receipts in the Northwest have been
more than were anticipated, also owing to
the lack of buying orders. We do not
look for any improvement until after the
holidays, at least not until there is a
falling off in receipts, and more export
orders, so as to diminish the visible,
which will probabiy exceed 87,000,000
bushels, which is about double what it
was in former years, with the exception
of the last two years. In the winter
wheat belt deliveries have been very
moderate and are likely to be less, as the
roads are getting very heavy with the
rains of the last two days, which are re-
ported to be general.

Corn has remained stationary, owing
to the high price, and it seems lifeless
and in a waiting mood. Oats bave been
very active. While the price has been
only a trifle higher, the demand has been
of such a nature that any offerings have
been picked up at full prices.

Receipts during the week have been 57
cars of wheat, 13 cars of corn and two
ears of oats, which is a little less than
the usual amount of wheat and rather
more than the usual amount of corn re-
ceived. C. G. A Vorer.

Christmas Trade Oysters
Should be better than you have ever be-
fore had in your store. Such occasions
may bring new customers, who will al-
ways be your patrons if they are pleased
with their tirst purchases. The Wolverine
oysters, in bulk and cans, for which Os-
car Allyn is city agent, cannot be ex-

celled. Headquarters at 106 Canal
street. Telephone 1001 for quick deliv-

ery. Mr. Allyn claims to carry at all
times the choicest stock of live and
dressed poultry in the city, if not the
largest stock.

2-0 __—_.
Store Fixtures and Shelving
In large assortment, as good as new,
are included in the ‘‘Everything on Earth”
at Jim Travis’, 67 Canal street. Also a

saloon outfit complete.
a a
Complete line of white goods, Nain-
sooks and India linens will be ready for
inspection at P. Steketee & Sons’ Whole-

| sale department Jan. 15 to 20.

 

 

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BUSINESS CHANCES,
\ JANTED—TO EXCHANGE
stock of boots, shoes and rubbers fora
stock of hardware, or will sell cheap for spot
cash : Will invoice 3:00. Address No. 646 care
Michigan Tradesman, 646
I® YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL
- estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas,
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2. Widdicomb building.
653

 

 

PORSALES SECOND-HAND MEDIUM SIZED
safe by Geo. M. Smith, 157 Ottawa street,
Grand Rapids. 652

KF IR SALE AT A BARGAIN—NEW STOCK
of groceries invoicing $1,°09. Good trade,
good location. Reas n for selling, death in
family. Write G. B ,care Michigan Tradesman.
651
XCELSIOR STEAM LAUNDRY, OF GRAND
. Rapids, Mich.. for sale: good location: long
lease; cheap rent; brick building: good engine
and machinery. This property for sale. Tor-
rance « Barber, 208 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids,
Mich. 647
OOD OPENING FOR DENTIST. AD.
dress S. S. Burnett, Lake Ann, Mich. 654
YOUNG MAN WITH GOOD HABITS
wishes to change location. Experience in
hardware and groceries. References furnished,
Address L. B. B. Jackson, Mich. 655

Beets AND SHOES—A RARE OPPORTUN
ity to purchase the stock, fixtures and good
will of an Al shoe business, in city of 5.000.
Willinvoice $5,500. best reasons for selling.
Will sell for 75e on a dollar, spot cash. Can't
use real estate. Address No. 650, care Michigan
Tradesman. 650
(OR SALE—A WELL SELECTED DRUG
stock and first-class fixtures in good order;
also store building with hall overhead, located
at Bradley, one of the best trading points in Al-
legan county. teason for selling, present
owner is nota druggist Excellent opening for
good man. M. A. Ross. South Monterey. Mich. 644

oR SALE—FOR CASH ONLY, NEW. WELL
assorted stoc, of hardware. Only store in
town of 7 0; surrounded by good farming conn
t-y, doing paying cash business A snap, Good
reasons for selling. Will take small grocery
stock. Write at once. Address No. 643 care

Michigan Tradesman 643
O EXCHANGE—FOR STOCK GENERAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

merchandise or clothing. fruit farm in
Oceana county. Address No. 612, care Michigan
Tradesman. 642

 

OR SALE OR RENT—BLACKSMITH SHOP

in small village and in good farming coun-

try, seven miles from the nearest shop. Address
J. H. Purvis, Ironton, Mich, 641

re SALE—CLEAN DRUG STOCK FINELY
located in a prosperous Northern Michigan
Lake Shore town of 8,590 population. Invoices
from 43.5 0 to $4,000. Address No. 640, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 640

RICK STORE TO RENT; LIVING ROOMS
above; good trading point, surrounded by
good farming lands; abundance of fruit: rea-
sonable terms. Address A. L. Power, Kent ( ity,
Mich 626
coma ee
OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF
interest in ssme, on one of the principal
streets in Grand Rapids New stock. good trace,
location Al. Address No. 624, care Michigan
Tradesman. 624
SITUATIONS WANTED,
rr. BUYER AND MANAGER WILL
be open for engagement Jan. 1. Sixteen
years’ experience. References furnished, Ad-
dress No. 638, care Michigan Tradesman. 638
MISCELLANEOUS,
‘PHE CITIZENS OF DORR WILL PAY A
liberal bonus to any party who hasa@ small
capital to invest in a flouring mili at Dorr. For
further information write J. C. Newman, Dorr,
Mich 439
JEND FOR THE LITTLE BUOK—-HOW TO
kK Speculate Successfully in the Stock and
Grain Markets.” Mailed free. Comstock,
Hughes & Co., Ria'to Building, Chicago. 648

ee H Wish TO LEASE A 15
horse power portable engine and boiler,
with or without engineer, during the ice cutting
season. Consumers’ Ice Co, Grand Rapids. «45

EARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER
for sale at a great reduction from cost-
Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of
same make of machine, which we consider the
best on the market. Tradesman Company, 100
Louis St., Grand Rapids. 564

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

o

VJANTED—KVERY DRUGGIST JUST

starting in business and every one already

started to use our system of poison labels. What

has cost you $15 you cau now get for $4. Four-

teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company, Grand Kapids

Builders of Boats,

- GEORGE RIDER g 00., Launches and Vars.

Store Fixtures, Counters, Shelving. etc., made
to order. Corner of Kent and Newberry St.,
Grand Rapids.

I Wish To Buy

A good retail business in any of the fol-
lowing lines: Groceries, crockery, dry goods,
boots and shoes, clothing or gents’ furnishings.
Am short of ready money, but have a large num-
cer of unincumbered {ots in this city and in one
of the cleanest and best located new suburbs of
Chicago, where property will soon double in
value. If you wish to get out of business and
get your stock of goods where the rise in value
will be from 50 to 110 per cent.in the next few
years, better write quick to R. A. J.,50 Fremont
St., Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.
Written for THe TRADESMAN.

Ambition, enterprise and thrift are,
without question, royal virtues well be-
fitting citizens of a great republic, where
no one can be a king, yet where all are
sovereigns. Whenever, in the struggle
for wealth, power or fame, honest means
are used, and the purpose is secured
without prejudice to the rights of others,
success may well crown one’s efforts. In
such event public opinion freely concedes
to the fortunate one his well-earned re-
ward, whether his field of action be in
war, politics, business, literature or
science.

In a territory so extensive as ours,
with hardly a tenth of its naturnal re-
sources yet developed, it is possible for
some to become very rich, the majority
prosperous, and the rest doing fairly
well. Should the fortunes of half our
millionaires disappear, the general con-
dition of the people would not be per-
ceptibly changed. In spite of the need-
less waste and recklessness of our large
cities the wealth of this nation is steadily
accumulating, and every decennial census
surprises us with the immense total. If
every citizen would become an active
factor in this prosperity, our republic
might be considered a perfect model for
the world’s imitation. But this is far
from hopeful realization at present. In
every community some persons allow
themselves to be, wholly or in part,
maintained at the expense of others. If
this results from sickness, accident or ad-
verse conditions beyond personal control,
it is unfortunate and they deserve sym-
pathy rather than reproach.

But there is another class, one or more
samples of which may be seen in nearly
every portion of the land, who have a
way of getting on in the world peculiar
to themselves. Their ways and schemes
are ever new and varied; but all tend to
one end, and that is to obtain whatever
they desire of value in the world at the
least expense to themselves, however ex-
pensive may be the result to others.
They are ‘‘as smoke to the eyes, and as
vinegar to the teeth” of every business
man so unfortunate as to have dealings
with them; and I am compelled to admit
that their success in life financially is in
inverse ratio to the merit of their meth-
ods.

This type of a class to be found every-
where, all enterprising men, always get-
ting up in the world at the cost of some
one else, is not so uncommon as some may
imagine. He may be a member of any of
the learned professions, he may be en-
gaged in manufacturing or commercial
pursuits, or he may pose as a moral re-
former sui generis. He has but one be-
lief concerning the laws of meum et tuum,
and this is his free translation thereof,
‘‘What is yours is mine, and what is mine
is my own.”’

To get on in the world by the methods
he chooses to adopt requires cheek of the
largest dimensions. Principle, like a
grain of mustard seed in proportion, may
exist, but usually as a thin. veneer that
is soon worn away by the friction of com-
petition until scarce a vestige remains.
An excessive self-esteem takes its place
which swells into resentment at any lack
of popular appreciation, or voices a
volume of abuse against any one who of-
fends by doubt or suggestion of personal
ego. He firmly believes in a credit sys-
tem, using it ad libitum to the farthest
extent of his creditor’s endurance, from

 

 

 

 

 

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Dry Goods Price Current.

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ae Arrow Brand 4%

a ag ‘* World Wide. 6
Ads ee — 6”lUUE Ct. 4%
Atlantic LS 6%/ Full Yard Wide..... 6%
e... 6 Georg 4...... noon OE

_ ......... 5 Honest Wieth...... &

. a. S merece’ ......... 5
ge 4% —. aoe 5%
ao earn A 6%

- 4% Kine = .. 5

Ascheny Bunting..
Beaver Dam AA..
Blackstone O, 32..

4%|Lawrence LL...... 4%
. 5 |Madras cheese cloth ex
5%

 

 

Biack Crow......._. 6 Newmarket : a
Black Rook ........ —  - ee...
pom, AE 7 . N eoce. 6%
Capital A... cee. 5 ns DD.... 54
Comma 7... 5% = z= ..... 6%
Chapman cheese - 3% peer... 5
Citron CR........ 544/Our Level Best..... 6
wha 5% etond Bo 6
Dwight Star......... 6%| Poomes.............. 7
Clifton CEC... .... oe. 6
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
7 8%/Geo. aaten. . -o
Amazon.. occccee © Mase BESiig....
Amsburg..... ..... Gold Medal a 7%
Art Cambric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... 834
Blackstone AA..... 64/Great Falls.......... 6%
Beam AN 8. 4 oa ee 7%
eee, 12 ust Ont...... 4%@ 5
one oe 6%4/King Phillip eee ces 7%
oa... 3% er... 7
Charter a... 5 %|Lonsdale Cambric.. 93/
Commay W.... . ox Lonsdale...... @ 8
Cievetand...... ... oo ew @ 4%
Dwight Anchor.. ruin eames... Th
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Edwards... ——- - Por Oen... 5%
ore... 8. a. Pre of t the West...11
a, Called 7%
Fruit of the Loom. ee eee 4%
Pitehyilio ..... ... 7 [Utica Milis......... 8%
pores Exe... ....... 6 _ a -——
Fruitofthe Loom %.7%/Vinyard............. 8%
Pairmouns.......... 434) White eae Stele oe 6
Plt Veime.... .._... 6% Roc 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
ee Jape weet Anchor es 7%
Pare...
CANTON FLANNEL.
i Bleached.
Housewife 7 —: Housewife g i 6%
a ££ 6 ' 5 oe. 7%
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Peerless, white...... 13% wher ale ee. se
colored....16 White ted oe v7
Integrity. eee 18% cs “colored -19
DRESS GOODS.
Hamilton eee etee ecu 8 Nameless ee =
— oo -10% 7 +-27%
GG Cashmere...... 16% LL oe
Nameless i 16 . + dK
oo. a " - 3d
CORSETS,
Coraeee...........2 $9 00|Wonderful . 84 50
Schilling’s.. ...... 9 00/Brighton.. . 475
Davis Waists..... 9 00|/Bortree’s .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50|/Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
Armory ...... ._... 3 %| Naumkeag satteen.. hoe
Androscoggin....... 74|Rockport...........
PCG... os. ws 6 |Conestoga.. . %
Brunswick. = a a ebiee . 6%
Allen turkey reds.. 3 {Berwick fancies.... 5%
a... 4|Clyde Robes........
ss pink. apusis He Charter Oak fancies 4
s —.. _. 5% DelMarine — 8.4%
pink checks. 5% mourn’g 4%
: staples ...... 5 Eddystone fancy... 5
- shirtings... 3% chocolat 5
American fancy.... 5 . roper.... 5
Americanindigo... 4% ss sateens.. 5
American shirtings. 3% Hamilton — -.. 1
Argentine Grays. . — 2
Anchor Shirtings.. a Manchester ancy. 5
Arnold -oee 6 new era. 5
Arnold Merino..... 6 ieesieaie D fancy. 5
long cloth B. Merrim’ckshirtings. 4 .
C. “ __Reppfurn . 8%
‘© century cloth ; Pacific ae 5
‘6 gold seal..... 10% cian, ae 5%
‘* green seal TR 10K mnie robes... 6
«yellow seal. = Simpson mourning.. 5
, a... 11K greys...
“  Turke7 red..10% “  golfd black. 5
Ballou solid | black”. Washington Indigo. 8
‘* colors. Turkey robes.. :
Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robes..
red and orange... 6 ae Plain Tky x % t
Berlin solids........ 5% -10
- oil aae...... & * Ottoman Tar-
een .... 6 Serre 6%
6 Fou ards 5% | M 2 Washington
: red _—-.- ... : a eo a 7
ss ae %| Martha _ ngton
- © oe 10 Turke aoe
ee “* 3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpo' nt robes.... 5
Cocheco fancy... .... 5 |Windsorfancy...... ~
madde: = ee ga! icket
- 2 ae. indigo blue....... 0%
' solids...... S hover, 4g
TICKINGS.
AmoskeagACA....i1K%/ACA..... 2.000... 11%
Hasstiton BM ........ "a ceberten, nee a
i 8 |Yor -10%
- Awning. .11 Swit River... 2717! 7%
farmer o+ee-eee 8 |Poarl Rivér......... 12
First Prise. eee ee ae 10%| Warren ...... Sn 2%
Lenox Milis ......... 5 \Comostope ........ |.
COTTON DP BILL,
Stent, _ er AC... 8
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Amoskeag eee 12 {Columbian brown. -12
won... 14 Everett, Bine........ li
. brown .14 brown. ....i1
Ae... — Haymaker blue. beens T%
Beaver Creek AA.. brow 7%
a” — Jaffrey, XX. OXXX. 10
e i“ Lancaster fen eee 12
Boston, Mfg os — Lawrence, 90z...... 12%
blue 8 a ” No. —....
wist 10% al No, 250....1€
Columbian Yxe br.10 = No. 280.... 8
XXX b!.19
GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag ..... 5 Lancaster, staple... 5
Persian dress 64 fancies . 6
rl Canton .. 7 o Normandie 6
. ...... &%/Lancashire.......... 4
. Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 4%
' Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 4%
- —-- 7 |Normandie.. - 8%
Arlington staple.... 64/Persian.. wns Ome
Arasapha, fancy.... 4% Renfrew Dress...... 7%
Bates \ arwick dres 74 mosemont........... 8%
staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6
ens pase ye iBomoersct............ 7
Crlortem .......... iG tacoma ............ 7%
Cumberland staple. 5%/Toil du Nord....... 8%
Cumberland........ S iweneen............ 7%
a ‘*  seersucker.. He
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Everett classics..... By Whittenden......... :
Expoion........._ TM n heather dr. 7%
Gecmerse... 6% ‘* ~~ indigo blue 9
Gacnerver.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples. . -
Glenwood........... im Westbrook aS
ane... Bo 1°
Jobnson Jhalon cl ms dental eae 5
. indice bine VCiyan. .. 6%
. zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskoae. .......... oon... 12%
ae 16% fee
Auacri¢am........... 12¥%)..
THREADS,
Clark’s Mile ae. _—— ares 95
Coaty, 7. &P...... . 4 (Marshall's ... ...... 90
Holyoke eee RK
KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored
Ne. 6.2 oo iNo. M..... oF 42
= 2. Jia 43
. 2. =: 6S. 39 44
— —_ i> @...... 45
CAMBRICS,
Pee 4 (|Rewoerds........... 4
Waite Siar... ..... < iLockwoel...... ... 4
ead Giove........... = Woes... 4
Newmarket......... < Bemewick........ 4
BED FLANNEL,
—choyage-anne en ee 2%
Creedmore. ee B2%
Talbot XXxX.. 0 wee eee... 35
Nameless...........27% Buckeye Leas wees eG RK
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW.........
aa 22% ore Ww :
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6 oz Western........ 20 |Flushing Xxx
Caos f.... 22%|Manitoba.... .
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Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black.
9% 9% 914/10% 10% 10%
10% 10% 104%/11% 11% 11\
11% 11% 114/12 12 12
12% 12% 124/20 20 20°
DUCES,
Severen, 8 oz........ 9% [West Point, 8 oz....10%
Mayland, 8o0z....... 10% 10 ox ...12%
Greenwood, 7% 08.. 9% Raven, 100z eee 13%
Greenwood, 8 os. 11% /8 occ 13%
Semon, so8......... 10% en, i008... .... 12%
WADDINGS,

Watte, Gos.........- 25 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 50
Colored, dos........ ~— heed * 7 50
SILESIAS,

Slater, Iron —: - 8 /Pawtucket.......... 10%

Red Cross....9 |Dundife.............. 9
. ton...... --»- 104i Bedford............ 10%
- Best AA — ad a 10K
i Lenmess boas (4c ee 10%
EWING SILE.
Corticelli, dosz....... 55 {Corticelli rutting,
twist, doz..37%| per %ox ball...... 30
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No : BI’ ¢ ‘ White.. - No 4 BIr 2 & White, 15
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SAFETY PINs.
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NEEDLES—PER x
A. —. dete 1 40 Steamboat. “
Crowely’s........... 1 35|Gold Eyed..
Marsha Vs ue oe ---1 00/American........... 100
TABLE OIL CLOTH,
5—4....175 6—4... --165 6—4...2 30
COTTONT WINES,

— Sail Twine..28 |Nashua

  

 

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penal aS -ply.. “2
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PLAID OSNABURGS
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soma eee 6% | Riverside. - 56
TS 5%/|Sibl A. - 6
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WE WANT

HANS

 

and will pay highest market price for
them.
If you haye any stock you wish to
dispose of, seek headquarters for an
outlet.

 

ae
ALBUIIS,
DOLLS,
TOYS,
GAMES,
BOOKS.

EATON, LYON & C0.

20 & 22 Monroe &t.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

Betsy and I Are Ont

Draw up the papers, lawyer.
And make ’em good and stout,
For things at home are crossways,
And Betsy and I are out.

 

It’s only a very little thing
That’s a-partin’ of us two;

I insist on usin’ Atlas Soap
And she’s got to use it, too.

And if she don’t, I declare to you,
I'm a-goin’ to git up and git;

I’ve allus been boss of the roost at home,
And I’m going to be boss yit.

If Betsy "don’t come to terms to- day,
And git Atlas Soap at the store,

I'm goin’ to leave’without delay,
And TI’ll not come back any more.

Menufactured only by

HENRY PASSOLT,

Saginaw, Mich.

HIRTH,
KRAUSE
& CO.

Headguarters for

Over Gaiters
dnd Leggins

$2.50 per dozen
and Upwards.

Lom) Wool Soles

in 3 grades.

Duck and Sheepskin
Slippers,

Mail us your order
and we will guarantee
satisfaction in both
price and quality.

 

 

 

 

whom a dun, however courteously ex-
pressed, is considered an affront, and a
repetition of it a sure casus belli.

Yet, however immoderate may be his
impositions on the forbearance of cred-
itors, he claims the same financial stand-
ing accorded to prompt payers and howls
piteously if it is not conceded on the
commercial record. In this line he does
business on the smallest capital of merit,
yet expects to receive the largest net div-
idends in the alpbabet of financial rating.
His system of book keeping does not in-
clude double entry, unless it be in dupli-
cate charges of the same item. It has no
column for offsets, and all reference to
them is carefully ignored. Should ac-
counts payable be pressed upon his at-
tention, they are audited by a sealing
down process to which decimation affords
no parallel; or, if admitted, a demurrer
is entered on the plea of lack of funds.
At the same time he does not deny him-
self anything so long as it can be pro-
cured from a contingent fund which is
always available, and, thanks to our ex-
emption laws, always beyond the reach
of creditors. He has no trouble to se-
cure bargains whenever a profitable spec-
ulation heaves in sight. He has fictions
to account for every seeming discrepancy
between the alleged poverty of yesterday
and the extensive cash purchase of prop-
erty to-day. Thus, everyone’s extremity
is compelled to serve his opportunity,
while he preserves a remarkable serenity
of mind concerning the mountain of un-
fulfilled obligations he is heaping up
year after year, to the injury of accom-
modating neighbors and tradesmen.

You should see him brought face to
face with a grocer’s bill that has crept
up from nothing to a fearful aggregate,
in spite of casual payments. Watch how
he scans each item from January to De-
cember, for the purpose of finding some
weak spot on which he may base a dis-
claimer of contract, if not an actual alibi.
The pathetic appeals of his washer-
woman or poverty-bound seamstress
never loosen his purse strings, since,
by reason of cardiac ossification, they
fail to reach a responsive feeling in the
vital portion of his anatomy. He treats
all accounts against him as though they
were plaintiffs in a legal action and he
counsel for the defense, pleading every
technicality in mitigation or arrest of
judgment, but having otherwise no per-
sonal interest therein, except to grieve
that there are no fees coming to him for
quibbling the complainant’s case out of
court.

Such an enterprising citizen in any
community is sure to breed a general
distrust of honesty of human action. If
he be an employer of labor, every man
subjected to his peculiar methods loses
not only a portion of his earnings, but
also that faith in humanity that holds the
business world true in its orbit and helps
to keep his own moral system in a healthy
condition. Itis not strange if, at times,
he is tempted, by injured feeling, to sus-
pend the rules of honest dealing and en-
ter on a similar course, acting on the
theory of ‘Do unto others as they do
unto you.’”’ He forgets that the better
Golden Rule was made for universal ap-
plication, and, like natural law, cannot
be broken without a resulting penalty.
Just to the extent that injured creditors
adopt such business heresy will the moral
tone of society be lowered.

The failures that are occurring among
dealers all over the country may be at-

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

tributed, in part, to the laxity in general
morals concerning the sacredness of busi-
ness promises made by consumers. The
credit system seems to be a necessity—
it certainly is to many poor men strug-
gling to reach better conditions; but
there is a limit to its advantages. The
credit system is a curse to one who can
get along without it, though usually he
is the man most likely to abuse it. It is
the recourse of the careless, pleasure-
loving spendthrift, as well as of the
shiftless and the criminal. Its history is
mainly a record of broken promises.
Some of these may have had honest ex-
cuse, but long experience with all sorts
of men convinces me that the latter will
not exceed 10 per cent. Looking over
the accounts of many years once listed as
hopelessly bad, nearly all of which are
now barred by the statute of limitation,
I do not believe there is a dollar of the
total that could not have been paid by
the debtor when due without the sacri-
fice of a single comfort to himself or his
family.

One who wilfully takes advantage of
another’s confidence, by purchasing on
credit either luxuries or necessities with
no intention of paying for them, is a
criminal in fact, however much a legal
fiction may gloss over the animus of the
deed. In comparison, larceny, be it petit
or grand, is a virtue, because universal
opinion condemns the cowardly act of a
Stab in the back, while excusing blood
spilt in open and fair combat. Those of
the first mentioned class befog their con-
duct with all manner of excuses, when
the reason apparent to every observer is
a want of manly courage to show their
true colors.

A majority of bad debts, the world
over, if we take the most charitable view,
may reasonably be charged to improv-
idence of the buyer. They are what
every intelligent dealer who is com-
pelled to do a credit business expects.
Upon his shrewdness and intimate knowl-
edge of each customer’s habits depends
his freedom from excessive loss. But
the class of thrifty ones whose profits de-
pend on defaulted promises represent the
real vampire sucking the lifeblood of
commercial prosperity. Rather than
pay for ‘‘a dead horse,” as the slang of
the day designates an article bought and
consumed but not paid for, creatures of
this ilk prefer to steal a dozen live ones

before the eyes of the owners, expecting
the theft will be condoned by law under
the name of ‘‘uncollected debts.”’ If it
were not for the tax this class impose on
trade, the enterprising dealer would stand
a better chance of getting onin the world.
S. P. WHITMARSH.

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

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

  

AUGUBS AND BITs. dis.
See 60&10
oad ee nn 49
Ce 25
wOrMNing®, WWMEREIOM ww. 50410

AXES.
First Quality So eee... $550
5 D. mm oes... 11 00
: S. oS Sioa... 6 50
. =. eee 13 00
BARROWS, dis.
Beeee $12 00 1400
oie Ec net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
ee - 50&10
Ceroeponow im - 75&10
ee -40&10
ee 70
BUCERTS.
hee $350
Oe 400
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ ............. 70&10
Wrought Narrow, brigat Sustjoint 40...... 60410

 

  

 
  
 
 

 

 
  
  
  

 

Wireugrt Loose Fin... 40
Wren See 40
Wrought Inside Blind..... ee eee cs 49
Were ieee 75
Ce 70410
ned, Pareers............ ee eee i ca 70&10
POO See 78
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60&10
CRADLES.
secret EE 40&10
CROW BARS.
eee perb 5
Ely’s 1-10 pn 65
ey m
eee Pe 55
Gp..... ee . 35
ee - 60
CARTRIDGES,
elie 50
Cone Pe ck. &
CHISELS. dis.
ROCmCe ee 75&10
Roce 75&10
eee 75&10
ee 75&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................... 40
COMBS. dis,
Comey, Eawrcices. 40
Ce 25
CHALE,
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. perpound 28
. Dame, 145568, 14560... 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 23
Cott Helicd, Mr 23
\ mm On 2
DRILLS, dis.
Morne’ s BiG Stothe 50
Taper and straight Shank................... 50
Morse’s Taper Shank...................... : 50
DRIPPING PANS,

Small sizes, ser pound ...................... 6%
Large sizes, per pound...... ......... ..... 06
ELBOWS,

Com. 4 mMese, Gi. ...... ..... dos. net 75
ee dia 50
Gyan... ... 5... Sees oa ose cag. dis. 40410

EXPANSIVE BITs. dis.
Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826...............
Eves, 1.015: 2,660.80 00 25
FILEs—New List. dis.
Linea ttt 60&10-10
ew Amorican ..... ..... soccce sees COG10-10
retreat eee a 60&10-10
Heller’s...... fede ees welncecca cued ic au oC, 50
Helters Horse Hsspa.. 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and es
im &F2 Ss 14 15 ms
Discount, 70
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ........
ENOBS—New List. dis,
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ........ re 55
Door, porcelain, jap. ngs. 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. . 55
Door, porcelvin, trimmings............. - 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list : 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s........ 55
aaa. 55
vor naimermelee EOE es 55
MATTOCES.
AGae ve... ..... -816.00, dis. 60-10
Het ye... ....... -815.00, dis, 60-10
ee - $18.50, dis. 2010.
MAULS. dis,
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... 50
MILLS. dis.
Comes, Parkas Cae 40
“ P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 46
** Landers, Ferry & Clork’s........ 40
, 30
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
coateominiggiga aera 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine................ eee 66&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ Sala 30
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
ReCCr ONG OOM 1 35
re ee 135
... . Base Base
Ee 10
a. ee 25
ed 25
ee 35
ee 45
fee fee ee... 45
a 8 50
Se 60
Cee 75
-_.... 90
ee ll 1 20
————— 160
ee 1 60
cee we 65
Ce 5
Oe 90
ee 5
ee 90
ee 10
Clinch!10.. 70
' a 80
ss Oe 90
a 17
PLANE: dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy .. on
Seite Heneh.... 8. ...... B50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy oo
Bench, first quality........ es lect oa @4
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. . 50&10
Pans.
ee, See dis.60—10
Common, polished......................dis, 70
BIVETs, dis.
hii 50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50—10
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 % 2

‘“B’? Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...
Broken packs deoarpeaee extra,

 

  

 

HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s.. 26
mee... 1... o . =
Yerkes & Plumb’s reece cevens Ce, S040
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 6(
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Stee] Hand... -BUC 40&10
HINGES,
Gate, Clark’s,1.2.3...... we onesee noose OM, COMET
ee per dos. net, 2 5¢
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
ee ce tia ely 3%
Serow Hook and Eyo,%. 0.1...) net 1
ce “ec se 5 i ae 8 4
6 “ee “a ay wis
ee “ *.. TK
MerapendT........._: ee
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. -. 5O0&I1C6
Champion, anti friction. 21.0000 60410
MiGder Weedtraee 40
HOLLOW WARE.
Cn Bk 16
ee Ta Nii 60&1 0
Se N GO&10
Gray enameled.......... a ecca geo. 40G16
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
wemnpod Tin Ware new list 73
aapeunod Tin Ware 2
Granite iron Ware ......... 0. new lis 2t
WIRE GOODS. dis,
oe , 70810816
ee -70&10.&10
Hoeks......... ee -70&10810
Gate Hooks and B7es............... - %&10&10
LEVELS. diz.79
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... eee
BOPEs,
Sisal, % Inch and larger ................ 7
Meee ee ee ty 10
SQUARES, 8.
Steel and Iron..... = ol renee dies oleae wane
ey Se SC 60
Ce 20

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Ree teint. -€3 50 oe
Mee tei? 3 50 2 60
woe ttem 4 05 2 70
ee 3 55 2 80
Ota = 6 2 90
Ce 3 %5 8 00
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PaPER.
Cee ee ee diz. 50
SASH CORD.
Siiverleke, White A list 50
ny Litre a 55
" White <.... eee eee 50
- ce oo ' 55
' Wee 30
Discount, 10,
SA8H WEIGHTS,
Se per ton 820
SAWS, dis.
* Cy 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
‘* Special Steel Dia. Xx Cuts, perfoot.... 30
‘ Champion and Electric Tooth xX
MR La I nin an 30
TRAPS diz.
ee ea 6010
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s..... |) 40
Oneida Community, Hawley Norton’s..7€-10 10
meouee, Chee i5c per dos
Mouse, delusion.......... |... --.. 81.25 per dos
WIRE. ue
eee 70-10
Auncsicd market 5
Coppered Markeat.......... 7
ice Maree 62%
Coppered Spring Steel............" 50
Barbed Fence, galvanised..........1| |! - 250
’ cate OEE EL ER 2 10
oo ais HORSE NAILS,
ee dis. 40&
Ne dis. 05
OkemWwOMeer dis. 10&10
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
eee ee 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wreaene,........ 75
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............00 75&16
MISCELLANEOUS, dis.
Te 50
er Ce 75410
eee 70&1 £10
Casters, Hed a Fists... 50&10&10
perspers, American 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel geeds...... 65&10
METALS,
as PIG TIN.
cn ae a 26
a 28¢
Duty: Sheet, 2% pound
uty : eet, 24%C per pound.
oe CONES Cae. 6%
Per pound...... 7
a 16
Extra wore a 15
The ces of the many other qualities of

solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition,
ANTIXNOFY.

    

Se per pound
Pee ig 13
TIN—MELYXN GRADE.
eee Se CHOON 7 50
14x20 IC, Os 7 50
ide a me a RUA 9 26
ee A ET eG 9 28
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75,
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE,
meee Oy Chereoes 75
4x20 IC, Ty 6 7%
10x14 IX, ea eee 8 25
14x20 IX, Cc eee ieee ea a,
Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, wee 6 Be
14x20 IX, el) 8 50
mas ic, * ee 13 50
14x20IC, “ Allaway Grade........... 6 00
14x20 Tk. " ee 7 50
20x28 IC, ° . ene cu eo. 12 50
x28 IX, ' . ME ee ea 15 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS.

CT $14 00

a 15 00

14x31 IX...
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19.

 

 

FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.

There would be no outcry for the free
coinage of silver unless it were believed
by those who advoeate it that some good,
some public general good would come of
it. It is important to look into this mat-
ter and see what good, if any, can result
from free coinage.

Let it first be understood what the free
coinage of silver is. It means that any
holder of silver bullion shall have the
right to go to the mint with it and have
it coined into standard dollars. That
right does not exist to-day. The mint
will not coin silver for anybody on any
terms. It will only coin silver which is
owned by the Government. The right of
free coinage in gold exists, however, and
the mint will coin gold for any per-
son and hand out the eagles for all the
bullion that is turned in. The mint
makes its seigniorage or fee, which need
not be deseribed here, since the questien
of free coinage alone is under considera-
tion. Free coinage means, then, not
that the mint will coin free of charge,
but that it will coin without limit all the
precious metal that is brought to it. As
has been stated, there is free coinage in
gold, but not in silver.

But suppose that free coinage in silver
were authorized by act of Congress; what
would be the consequence? Would it
make money more plenty? Theonly way
to make money plenty is to put itin ae-
tive circulation, and this is done only by
whatever will arouse and stimulate every
sort of business and industry.

When all the mills, furnaces and fac-
tories in the country are running at full
capacity and full time. working up the
raw material from the fields, forests and
mines of the country; when the ships,
beats and railroads are busy carrying
products of all sorts from the interior to
the coasts, and from the ports to the in-
terior; when all the work people are
earning fair wages, then, and then only,
will money be plenty. It will be plenty,
not because there will be any more dol-
lars in existence, but because those dol-
lars, instead of being locked up in vaults,
will be in the hands of the people.

What effect would the free coinage of
silver have in producing such a state of
things? When a man carries his silver
to the mint and has it coined, what will

TRE RA AE Sa actor eas rw ecasrenan EE a era err

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

he do with his money? Why, just pre- |
cisely what he does with his gold when |
he gets that coined. He commonly hides |
it away to be used in business. He does |
not give it to his friends; he does not |
hand it out to the public; he keeps |
it for his own use. Nobody would get
one of those new dollars except in the
way of business, and yet there is a wild
outery for free coinage, just as if any-

 

body would be individually benefited
by it.

It is a remarkable fact that, in spite of
the strange demand for the free coinage
of silver, the people will not handle sil-
ver dollars. The total coinage of these
dollars under the act of Feb. 28, 1878,
was 378,166,793; but, instead of going
into circulation, they are nearly all in
the vaults of the treasury. There are
364,726,543 of these silver dollars stored
up in the Government vaults, but they
are represented in circulation by paper
certificates.

The people talk: loudly about silver;
but all the time they mean paper, be-
cause every paper dollar, whether it rep-
resents gold, silver or what not, will on
presentation draw gold out of the treas-
ury. All the money in the United States
is based on a gold standard, and, despite
the fact that on the first day of Decem-
ber nearly $600,000,000 of silver coin
and bullion was covered by paper cer-
tificates, every dollar of that silver paper
stands for its face value in gold.

Every man who earns wages, every man
who sells the products of his labor, is
paid virtually in gold, because all the
money in the United States is guaran-
teed by the Government to be worth its
facein gold. Every silver dollar, which
is intrinsically worth about 50 cents, is
really worth 100, because the Govern-
ment says it shall be so. The situation is
practically the same as if there were only
gold dollars in circulation, because the
Government has guaranteed every dollar
in the country to be as good as gold.

But the power of the Government to
maintain such a guarantee is limited. It
can make its pledge good with $600,000,-
000 of silver, but it cannot maintain it
with unlimited silver. If there were
free coinage of Silver, the Government
would have to guarantee every dollar
coined, no matter for whom, and it is
plain the end of guaranteeing would
soon come. Nocreditis unlimited, not
even that of a government.

The credit of the United States rests
upon its ability to raise all the money it
needs by taxation. It has not reached
the limit of taxation yet, and it can pile
on & good deal more before the people
will rebel. Some nations have reached
those limits, and they can raise their
taxes no higher. When taxation be-
comes so oppressive that the people feel
they are being robbed, they refuse to
pay; they rise up and overthrow the
Government. That has been done many
times in the past, and will be done
again whenever the limits of the people’s
endurance have been overreached.

The United States’ credit is first class,
because itis a country rich in natural re-
sources, and its full development is far
from having been reached. The country
will stand a good deal more of taxation,
and that is the reason its credit is so
good in the world’s money markets. But
this credit, like all others, has its limita-
tions, and if the free coinage of silver
were permitted,and the Government were

 

 

‘o continue to guarantee 100 cents for

every 50 cent dollar, itis plain that this
magnificent credit would break down,
and the first time there was a failure to
hand out 100 cents for a dollar silver
certificate, then down would go the
money of the country to a silver basis.

 

THE CURRENCY PROBLEM.

It is surprising with what unanimity the
press comments on President Cleveland’s
message agree that the currency prob-
lem has become the most important
question before the country. This con-
viction loses nothing of its force by the
fact that there is not the least evidence
that party lines have anything to do
with the matter. The inelasticity of the
present currency system is generally
recognized, and even the hitherto most
pronounced opponents of State bank cir-
culation are now apparently drifting in
the direction of the full recognition of
the rights of the banks to issue notes.

The President and Secretary Carlisle
are clearly in favor of the repeal of the
taxon State bank circulation and the
issue of notes by the State banks where
their solvency is approved by the Treas-
ury Department. This isa long step in
the direction of a more elastic currency,
and the further recommendations, that
Government bonds be no longer re-
quired as security for circulation, and
that notes be guaranteed solely by the
credit of the banks issuing them, supple-
mented by a guarantee fund to protect
the notes of failed banks, promise to re-
move from the shoulders of the Govern-
ment a burden which should be no part
of its proper functions.

The manifest tendency of legislation
on the currency question is in the direc-
tion of the elimination of the treasury
from the banking business, and its re-
striction to its legitimate and proper
duties, namely, the administration of the
revenues of the Government. There is
a growing belief that the only money the
treasury should issue is gold and silver,
the circulation of paper being left en-
tirely to the banks.

The only other plan claiming attention,
besides that of Secretary Carlisle, is that
known as the Baltimore}Plan, advocated
by the American Bankers’ Association.
It calls for the issue by the Government
of a sufficient amount of low interest-
bearing bonds to retire all the outstand-
ing paper currency. These bonds are to
be afterward used by the banks, State
and national, to secure circulating notes.
This Plan, it will be noted, also contem-
plates the retirement of all the paper
money of the Government, and the
recognition of the State banks on an
equal footing with the national banks.

The recommendation of the President
and Secretary Carlisle that all banks be
permitted to issue notes, with no other
restrictions than an official approval by
the treasury of their solvency, isa full
recognition of the justice of the demands
made by the advocates of the repeal of
the 10 per cent. tax. There will be many
financiers, however, who will oppose
Secretary Carlisle’s Proposition that the
notes should be secured by the deposit of
bonds. Some security, whether State or
national bonds, would undoubtedly in-
crease public confidence in the notes,
and, if such security were exacted upon
an equitable basis—as, for instance, to
the extent of 75 per cent. of the total
amount of notes issued—the elasticity of
the proposed currency would in no way
be impaired.

 

 

It is doubtful if the present short ses-
sion of Congress will be able to enact a
new currency law; but an attempt should
certainly be made, even if nothing
further than the repeal of the tax on
State bank circulation is accomplished

in the way of a beginning.
ec

It is a curious thing that the most
radical monopolistic organizations for
protection—the labor unions and federa-
tions—in nearly all their publications
are strenuous advocates of free trade.
This means, of’ course, that all differ-
ences in the value of labor in this coun-
try, England, Germany, Belgium, India
and China should be ignored, so far as
trade is concerned, only protesting that
the laborers themselves be excluded
from immigration. They ask that there
be no restriction in the product of their
labor. At the same time they form
themselves into organizations embracing
a small minority in each of the different
trades as a whole in the country, the
first principle of which, in those locali-
ties where their numbers give them the
power, is the exclusion of all others of
the same trade from participating in the
labor of that locality. Is there @ nar-
rower form of “‘protection’’ conceivable?

 

ee

The Subject Uppermost with All.

The currency question is uppermost,
Congress and the country are engaged
upon it. We are sure to find a solution,
and one which will be nearly right. We
may make mistakes in the working, but
we’ll ‘‘get there all the same”, Discussion
enlightens, and we are having discus-
sions, not in banks only, but in the
homes. Every thinking man is talking
on the important subject of the nation’s
money. We must have the best. On
that we are all agreed. Our judgment is
that national recovery and progress are
hindered more by this uncertainty than
by anything else.

There is some talk of gold shipments
the next six weeks, Exchange keeps
well up to the shipping point, and expe-
rienced bankers look for shipments this
month and next; and if we get our cur-
rency put into good shape this winter all
will be well. Our industries will revive,
and all willing workers will again find
jobs. There are indications of an in-
creasing demand for iron and steel at the
present low prices. Our 170,000 miles of
railway must come gradually into the
market for replenishing supplies, and
this will help to make things hum and
lessen the number of pessimists who are
ever insulting the present by talking of
the good old times, when stage coaches
and wheelbarrows were more in use.

Gro. R. Scorrt.
———— ll — 9
Lakeview Laconics.

LAKEVIEW, Dec. 15—Nearly all of the
new brick buildings erected here since
the fire will be occupied within a month.

The Stebbins Manufacturing Co. has
its new factory building nearly com-
pleted. It is also putting in an elevator,
several new machines and a steam heat-
ing system, costing altogether about
$2,000.

C. Newton Smith will
dition to his
dimensions.

The electric lights have shone two
nights in our village, but some of the
city ‘‘dads” hardly seem to be pleased
with the job.

Lakeview will have her first reputable
banking house about Jan. 1, with L. P.
Sorenson as proprietor.

erect a brick ad-
warehouse, 24x28 feet in

nt ern
The self conceited man who says he is
too smart to be fooled comes very near

 

being a fool.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

9

 

THE SEARCH FOR GOLD.

It matters not in the least whether the
consummation of the free coinage of silver
shall reduce all business and money in
this country to the silver standard or
not, henceforth there is to bea deter-
mined, indefatigable and almost mad
search for gold.

The great commercial nations of the
earth have established the gold standard
as the measure of commercial and finan-
cial values. In London, the world’s
money market, which gives laws in
values to the other nations, gold is the
rule, and so the world must have gold.
Should the silver standard be forced upon
the United States, as is not at all un-
likely, the prevalence of a depreciated
silver currency will make the demand
for the yellow metal all the more imper-

ative.
When, at the close of the American

civil war, the restoration of peace turned
the minds of the people to the demands
of commerce, they realized that their de-
preciated paper currency, which then
fluctuated from 140 to 280 to 100 of gold,
emphasized all the more energetically
the urgent demand for gold, and, in re-
sponse to this demand, the vast region of
the Nortbwest, now occupied by the
States of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming,
was covered with bands of white men
searching for gold. Their efforts were
rewarded with such success that in the
decade between 1864 and 1874 gold
enough had been secured to enable the
United States, with more than two
thousand millions of dollars in outstand-
ing obligations, to resume specie pay-
ments.

When, in 1893, the Congress of the
United States declared the inability of
the nation to maintain any longer the
gold value of the flood of silver which
the Sherman law had turned loose upon
the country, there came a collapse in sil-
ver mining, and a mad rush into the
Western mountains to search for gold.
Under this impulse, the stock of gold
was increased from the new mines that
were discovered and improved processes
that were employed in the old. For sevy-
eral years past there has been increased
activity in the search for the yellow
metal, and the production has consider-

ably increased. According to the best
statistics, the world’s production for the

past three years is given as follows:

United States World’s

Product. Product.

OE eka oe ee $33, 1.5,000 $13u,65 -,000
Me ace Ce --- 33,014,000 146,297 000
Me ie, «+. 33,939,000 155,521,000

While there is an increase in the gold
production, there is nothing in sight like
the great yields of California and Austra-
lia, or even like the rich mines of Mon-
tana and Idaho, as they were in the
period from 1864 to 1874. The depend-
ence is no longer in those deposits that
made men fabulously rich in a single
season; but in the use of processes and
methods which give superior economy
and increased power of reducing ores
that were once rejected. Old mines are
being worked over and inferior ores are

made to pay. :
There is probably no rich deposits left

undiscovered anywhere, save in Africa,
and nobody knows what may be hidden
there. But itis becoming manifest that
the gold hunters must depend upon im-
proved methods of extraction rather
than upon special rich finds. But there
is still every reason why the search
should go on, as it will, with the great-
est activity. Indeed, this is what is be-
ing done.

 

In this connection, there is no wisdom
in going off to distant countries to find
gold. Whether Mexico, Honduras, or
other Central and South American coun-
tries, be the goal, the same costs and
toil and uncertainties are present, with
the additional difficulties arising from
the fact that the laws and customs of for-
eign countries have to be contended with.
There is still a great deal of gold in the
United States, and there is no need for
the explorers to go out of their limits.
The Rocky Mountains and _ Sierra
Nevadas in the West, and the Blue Ridge
Mountains in the East, are all producers
of gold, and they are all being worked
over with favorable results.

The present business depression is
slowly passing off, to be succeeded by a
Season of active trading, and, later, by
vigorous business enterprise and lively
speculation. The eager demand for gold
will excite a large interest in mining op-
erations, and gold property will be eager-
ly sought.

 

THE TRUE NOBILITY.

The people of the United States, to
whom titles of nobility are specially
denied by the national constitution, are,
nevertheless, in many cases desirous te
trace their descent from royal or noble
blood, and they often base their claims
on extremely flimsy evidence,

In this country, where there is extreme
neglect as to records of marriages, births
and baptism, it is not easy, after the eye-
witnesses shall have died, to prove a
marriage, and when information is
sought for, a few generations back, into
the history of a family, it often happens
that there is no evidence that would be
respected in a court of law to tell any-
thing about the family descent and con-
nection.

There are families, of course, which
possess records and various heirlooms
that have been handed down for gener-
ations and which give satisfactory infor-
mation; but the claim, so often made in
this country, of royal descent must be
regarded rather as a romantic and fan ci-
ful matter than as a solid and reliable

fact.
Nevertheless, for the satisfaction of

such claimants, a very ingenious caleu-
lation has been put forth which answers
all objections and satisfies all doubts. The
English nobility of to-day claims descent
from William of Normandy, who, witha
French army, largely composed of ‘free
lances”? and adventurers, in the year
1066 crossed the water into England and
conquered the country in a very brief
campaign, in which only one consider-
able battle was fought.

William made himself king and con-
structed a peerage, or order of nobility,
out of his chief lieutenants. It is, there-
fore, usual not to claim nobility back of
the Conquest, although there were Saxon,
Welsh and Scottish Kings when Wil-
liam’s ancestors were Norwegian pirates
prowling about the European seas in
those peculiar barks like the one sent
from Sweden to the Chicago Exposition,
and subsequently down the Mississippi
River to New Orleans.

But the Pirate Rolla, having settled on
the coast of France, founded what after-
wards came to be the Dukedom of Nor-
mandy, and from this stock sprang this
conqueror who started a new order of
things in the British Isles. Since it isa
very important matter to be a descendant
of such a robber king, the arithmeticians
have been kind enough to fix the busi-

 

hess up with figures, and, since figures
never lie, the claims of such high de-
scent are easily settled.

Allowing thirty-three years as a gener-
ation, there have been twenty-six gen-
erations since 1066. William the Con-
queror had four sonsand six daughters.
Averaging each of
three children, with the same average
foreach of their descendants down to
the present, and the children of William
in the present, or twenty-sixth, gen-
eration, by a simple arithmetical calcu-
lation, would have 2,824,295,314,810 de-
scendants now living in the British Isles,
in America, in the colonies, or wherever
men of British descent are to be
found. As thisis fully 25,000 times as
many as there are people of British
descent on the globe, it shows that many
families died out and became ex-
tinct; but it is good enough for those
who survive. Here every person of
British descent has a share in the blood
of the Conqueror. Then there are all the
other English kings, including Henry
VIII, with his six wives, and the Stuarts,
whowere generous in their favors.

But, after all, in a democratic form of
government, where every man, az Sancho
Panza has said, “is the son of his own
works,’’ what boots it that a man has de-
scended from a robber or a rakish king,
if that claim will gain him no consider-
ation and will not even secure a meal of
victuals? There is much in heredity, but
it is not necessary to go back for it 800 or
500 years. It is worth while fora man to
know that his father, his grandfather
and his great-grandfather were honest
and respectable men. If he ean trace
back still farther and find an honest an-
cestry, and be able to call his progenitors
by name and recite their history, so much
the better. But who can trace out the
direct line through which he claims
descent from royal personages? In the
absence of records, such pretensions are
of little worth. A manis a gentleman,
not because of any claims whatever, but
because his behavior proclaims his noble
spirit, his generous disposition, his high
sentiment of honor, and his desire to do

always what is right. This is God’s
stamp of nobility, and there is no
other.

SUPPRESSING THE SOCIALISTS.

The first work to which the present
session of the German Reichstag will be
directed will be the bill for the suppres-
sion of revolutionary movements and
punishing seditious utterances. This
bill is, of course, aimed at the Socialists,
and will restrict liberty of speech, pro-
tect the State from public attack and
monarchy from all disloyal utterances.

Although the measure will meet with
vigorous opposition and wi'l have to be
materially amended, it is, nevertheless,
admitted that it is likely to pass. It is
becoming generally recognized that the
drift of Socialism is toward active revo-
lution, and all adherents of the existing
order find it necessary to subordinate
other differences to a united fight against
the disintegrating leaven of Socialism.

The socialists themselves have don.
much to aid the agitation against them
Their open defiance of the Emperor in
the Reichstag, a few days ago, has
aroused popular sentiment against their
party, as it served to show clearly that
their ultimate aim was revolution and
the overthrow of all existing institutions.
Heretofore, the Socialists have carefully
absented themselves from ceremonies
where cheers for the Emperor were
likely to be called for; but, on the occa-
sion of the opening of the Reichstag,
they evidently sought an opportunity
purposely of openly displaying their dis-
loyalty. This course, while probably
calculated to enthuse the Socialists them-
selves, cannot fail to consolidate all the
patriotic and conservative elements
against the party of revolution and dis-
integration.

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‘WHAT STOVE MERCHANTS

With Experience in the Yrade Have
To 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 seen in our forty years’
experience in the cook stove business.
James Montgomery, Warsaw, Wis.
Fifty Majestic Steel Ranges in use. Every
user delighted. The Majestic is, without
doubt, the best cooking apparatus in the
world. (Thirty years in the cookistove busi-
ness.)
Newark & Drury, Cadillac, Mich.
We are glad we control in Cadillac the best
cooking apparatus made—the grand Majestic
Stee] Range.

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, J erseyville, 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.

D.

|P. D. Ray & Son, Arcolo, Ill.

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.
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
fumiliar with its virtues.

W. D. Cooke, Green Bay, Wis.

Have sold the Majestic Steel Range for four

Hx.

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 stove business

with the ‘‘Majestie” in economy of fuel and
facility and dispatch in properly preparing
food for the table.

V. 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 to us. 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,
ze.

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.

The opinions of the above merchants,
who have given a lifetime to the stove
business, are above criticism and conelu
sively prove beyond a doubt that the
Majestic is in every particular all that is
claimed for it.

For further particulars address

J. W. JOHNSON, Manager,
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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

Special Correspondence
Delayed Letter.]

New York, Dec. 8—Business among
grocery jobbers is rather quiet this week
and everything seems to be of a holiday
character. Staples take a back seat for
the present and Christmas goods take up
the room in the windows. Retailers are
doing an excellent trade and the major-
ity of people certainly have more money
to spend than last year. Goods are so
cheap that very little money wil] fill a
big stocking with goodies this season.

Coffee is decidedly firm and holders are
not at all anxious, seemingly, to part
with No. 7 for less than 16c. Not very
much trading is reported, but there is a
steady current all the time, and, in the
aggregate, the volume of business must
be quite satisfactory. In store and afloat
there are 559,106 bags, against 462,767
last year. Mild coffees are firmly held
with Mocha 26 @27e; Padang Interior,
2436 @25e.

Teas are gradually getting into better
shape and the market is firmer. Holders
are anticipating an inevitable increase in
rates, and even the arrival in two steam-
ers of nearly 4,500,000 pounds, did not
create any weakness in the situation.
Good teas bought now, it is generally
conceded, will prove to be an excellent
purchase before many weeks. The de-
mand is not large, but stocks are small in
the interior and replenishment must soon
follow. Fine to choice Japans, 19@25e
in an invoice way; fine Formosas, 28
@30e.

The demand for granulated sugar is
light—in fact, only of the lightest every-
day character. Prices have gradually
declined slightly and the tone is weak.
The daily press has informed your read-
ers of the tremendous transactions in
sugar stocks. It is a good thing to trade
in, seemingly.

There is a slow movement in molasses
and syrups, in fact, the demand is econ-
siderably short of previous seasons, and
there is seemingly no better prospect in
the near future. Common to prime New
Orleans molasses, 15@28e; Syrups, good
to choice, 17@22c.

Spices are dull and holders are disap-
pointed in the demand, whieh is of the
lightest possible character.

Rice is fairly active for the time of
year, although there is no excitement in
the market.

Canned goods are extremely “tired.”
There is no life or snap whatever in the
trade and holders are calmly waiting the
dawn of a brighter day with what pa-
tience they can. Prices have not varied
one way or the other to any extent and
the outlook all around is not for any-
thing better at once. Advices from Bal-
timore report that market, also, as dull
beyond reason and prices way down.

Trade in foreign fruits has been disap-
pointing, but, with the incoming of the
next week, a turn is looked for. Rates
are low all around and it seems as though
there should be an improvementin de-
mand very soon.

The butter market shows no material
change. Arrivals, while not large, are
yet sufficient to meet the demand, wihbeh,
at best, is moderate. Extra creamery,
24¢ for State and 25c for Western

Cheese is firm ina jobbing way for
large full cream State, which is worth
11%c, with small sizes / @i¢c higher.

Eggs of strict reliable guality are not
in abundant receipt and quickly take at
25@27e for Western and near-by, respec-
tively. The scarcity of the better stock
leads, of course, toa higher range on the
grades which have been in storage and
the profits must be very satisfactory.

Potatoes are worth from $1.25@$1.62
per bbl. moderate transactions.

Provisions are very quiet and no ma-
terial change isto be noted. New mess
pork, $13.50@14.25; family beef, $10@
12.

Retail grocery stores are fast becoming
Christmas shows and trade in fancy
package goods is active. The huge piles
of Christmas trees along the landing
places of incoming boats from Maine
betoken the coming season, and the sale
thereof promises to be large. ecu

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

The postal clerks are bearing the brunt
of the public dissatisfaction over the two-
cent stamps with as much fortitude as
they can command, but they are begin-
ning to show the strain. The question
of the durability of the stamps is of great
importance to the numerous commercial
houses in New York who purchase
stamps in great quantities, and who also
receive stamps in payment for merchan-
dise from customers. It is still the
practice throughout almost the entire
country for people who wish to remit
small sums to make up the amount in
postage stamps. It is not an effective
or by any means a safe way of making
payments, but it seems impossible to
change the custom. As people do not
generally have several dollars’ worth of
stamps on hand, they buy them at the
post office without seeming to under-
stand that a postal order is a safer and
more expeditious way of sending money.
When the new stamps are sent in sheet
form they are often entirely destitute of
mucilage, and in order to be used, fresh
mucilage must be put on each stamp. If
the sheet is carelessly folded, so that the
fold runs across the stamps, they invari-
ably break when the sheet is unfolded as
though made of dry toast. In the ordi-
nary business of mailing letters the
clerks find it impossible to proceed with
their usual dispatch, for the reason that
only a small percentage of the stamps
cling to the envelopes. Altogetber the
new stamp is a failure for many other
reasons than a purely artistic one.

Several of the journals that are de-
voted to the things we eat are proclaim-
ing vigorously against the ‘‘white oys-
ters” which are in such large demand at
the fashionable up-town restaurants.
Nobody knows exactly where the idea
started, unless it took root in a belief in
the feminine brain that everything that
is white is pure; but it is a fact that
women have made unusual demands dur-
ing the past few seasons for oysters that
were white, and rejected those that were
yellowish or brown as being unfit to eat.
Two of the most popular restaurants up
town have made a point of serving small
Blue Points on the half shell, packed in
ice, the oysters in almost every instance
being as white as snow. They look far
more palatable and delicate than the reg-
ulation oysters, but experts declare them
to be injurious in the highest degree.
Salt water, which is the natural elemeat
of the oyster, gives ita yellowish tinge.
To produce the white color the dealers
throw the oysters into fresh water, when
they turn white, become abnormally fat,
and soon die. Some ofthe Fulton Mar-
ket dealers class them as diseased oys-
ters. Itis not likely, however, that a
little detail of this sort will have any ef-
fect upon the fashionable demand for the
white oyster.

a —
Too Proud To Beg, but Ready To Steal.

A leading retail grocer thus pays his
compliments to a well-known character
about town:

About a year ago, a man came to me
and asked to have a few goods—grocer-
ies—on credit, stating that he did not
wish to run up a bill, as he expected
some money that was due him that even-
ing and would pay then. He also gave
me to understand that he was employed
in the tax office. Through one excuse
and another he managed to run up quite
a bill, until I refused to fill any more or-
ders. He then stated that what he had
said about being employed in the tax of-
fice was not true, but that he got the po-
sition that day, which proved to be a
fact. He managed to run up a bill of
$80, which 1 am unable to collect, al-
though this man has a first-class posi-
tion now—not in the tax office—and his
daughter is a school teacher. Now, this
man would not degrade himself by asking
for pennies, and I am positive that he
will not, although a first-class musician,
join a street band, but he will pledge his
honor and swear by all that is holy to get
something to eat, and lie out of it after
he has it. Begging or playing in the
street for pennies may not be very ex-
alted callings, but 1 place these people
far above the one who lives in a brown-
stone house, dresses in the height of

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vccom, SHANPION GHSH REGISTER 60,

Factory, 6, 8 and 10 Erie St.,

 

fashion, is, to all appearances, a gentle-
man, and does not pay for what he eats, }

Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

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TRADESMAN. 44

 

 

IN THE SWIM.

 

How Mrs. Orlando Bliven Got into So-
ciety.

Mrs. Orlando Bliven, of Bliven Mills,
Minn., went to New York with a fixed
purpose. That purpose was to get into
New York society. She wasa widow of
48, with a mind of her own and a pretty
daughter. The late Bliven had owned
and chopped down some twenty square
miles of forest, and his mills turned the
wood into bedsteads and bureaus. When
one of his own buzz saws cut his career
short and separated Mr. and Mrs. Bliven
forever, the widow sold out her interest
to a syndicate for a cool three Millions
and went East to establish herself and
daughter.

Mrs. Bliven chafed under the limita-
tions of a country town. The puffed
sleeves she copied from the local gazette
seemed to her like wings to waft her to
broader fields of social activity. Shehad
thought of moving to St. Paul or Min-
neapolis, or even te Chicago. She had
been to the World’s Fair and was great-
ly impressed with the splendor of that
city.

‘‘But, ma,’’ pleaded the pretty daugh-
ter, ‘‘the swellest people we saw at Chi-
cago were New Yorkers. What’s the
matter with going to New York to live?”

It was early in the summer when the
Blivens moved to Gotham. Their only
acquaintances were the local agent for
the Bliven bureaus and the banking peo-
ple on Wall street with whom Mrs. Bliven
had deposited her large fortune.

The Blivens snubbed their former
agent and were made much of by the
bankers. They were stopping at the
most expensive hotel on Fifth avenue,
where the senior partner of the bank
called.

‘“My dear madam,’’ he explained, ‘“‘you
must not think of remaining in New York
now. Every one is going away, you
know. You must follow the throng to
Long Branch or Newport or Narragan-
sett Pier.’? ?

‘This seems very elegant to me,” said
Mrs. Bliven, looking proudly around the
twenty-dollar-a-day little drawing-room.

‘‘And oh, ma, the stores!’ exclaimed
the pretty daughter.

‘‘Ah, yes! You ladies must shop a bit
first, of course,” and the banker bowed
himself out.

‘Splendid gentleman,” remarked Mrs.
Bliven.

“Old stuff!’ replied the pretty daugh-
ter.

And shop the Blivens did, and to much
good purpose, and when they didn’t shop
the Blivens read the newspaper accounts
of doings at the various summer resorts.
Pretty Miss Bliven read with the idea of
finding out where there was the most fun;
Mrs. Bliven with the idea of following
the greatest fashion.

“Oh, ma, we must go to Long Branch.
They’ve a big swimming tank there
and an actress who turns handsprings in
the water.”

‘“‘Nonsense, my child; the papers say
Long Branch has run down dreadfully
without the horse racing, and no swell
people go there any more. Now listen to
this account of a garden party at Sara-
toga.”

So, after more parley and consulta-
tions with their banker, the Blivens de-
cided to make a tour of the watering
places, but not before their adviser had
suggested the propriety of their having
a maid.

 

“What for?” exclaimed Mrs. Bliven.
“I can dress myself.” But they were
persuaded, and went to an office kept by
a broken down gentle lady, who took in
the situation at a glance and supplied
them with a discreet elderly person who
did more to educate the Blivens that
Summer than a whole library of books on
etiquette could have done.

It would hardly be fair to follow the
Blivens through their first summer cam-
paign. They did no better and no worse
than thousands of other women who have
followed the same beaten track. The
natural shrewdness of the mother was a
foil to the fresh beauty of the girl, and,
go where you may in America, the per-
fume of the dollar hangs about the lucky
possessor.

The newspaper correspondents, too,
were especially kind in passing comment
upon the Blivens.

The Long Branch Surf volunteered this
remark:

Mrs. Bliven, one of the richest widows
of the West, is sojourning at the South
End Hotel. Her lovely daughter is a
most accomplished pedestrian, and is
daily seen walking the bluffs arrayed in
Worth’s latest creations. Mrs. and Miss

Bliven will go to Saratoga and Newport
later.

The editor of the Saratoga Springs was
naturally attracted by such a notice, and
when his turn came, expressed himself
like this:

Miss MaeBliven, the beautiful Western
heiress, is summering at the Reunion
Hotel. Her costumes are noted for their
elegant simplicity. Her mother, Mrs.
MacBliven, wears some of the finest dia-
monds ever seen at the Spa.

So, by the time the Blivens arrived at
the Ware House, at Newport, it was no
wonder that the Breeze found room for
this puff:

Miss Mac Van Courtlandt Bliven, the
great beauty and heiress, has arrived,
and created a sensation at the Casino
this morning. She was charmingly
gowned in pale pink, with a great broad-
brimmed feathery hat. Prince Poloponi
and Count Goff were herescorts. The
young lady has been educated in a con-
vent in Paris, and not only speaks sevy-
eral foreign languages, but is a delight-
ful musician. Mrs. and Miss Bliven will
join a coaching party to Lenox later in
the season.

At first the Blivens were inclined to re-
sent such absurd misrepresentations, but
their cireumspect maid told them that it
would do them more good than harm, and,
in fact, intimated that she had something
to do with having such glowing notices
printed.

It had all been so new and strange to
the Blivens that they were halt annoyed,
half pleased when they got a letter from
their banker to say that, owing to the fail-
ure of Kite & Co. a very desirable fur-
nished house in Fifth avenue could be
obtained by them for the modest rental of
$8,000 a year, and wouldn’t they like to
come on and see it? People would soon
be coming back to town, etc.

To tell the truth, Mrs. Bliven was
rather tired of her summer campaigning.
She recognized the futility of trying to
make correct acquaintances at summer
resorts. She already realized the power
and influence of her money, but she also
felt how it was being abused. She had
been especially nice to a finely dressed
woman at Long Branch, whom she took
to be a great swell, buf the discreet
maid almost broke her heart by inform-
ing her that the woman was a book-
maker’s wife.

So, at Newport, the pretty daughter had
met a rather English looking swell at the

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Wave House, and had been taken out
on a four-in-hand brake by him, only to
be told afterward that the man was a pro-
fessional whip who gave driving lessons
at so much an hour.

While Mrs. Bliven felt that she would
rather get back to New York, the pretty
daughter could have stopped on at New-
port forever. Her brown eyes had been
opened a little wider each day as she sat
on the Casino veranda and watched the
swells stroll to and fro. She caught the
women’s gait, their poise, their manner-
isms. She managed to get the Western
burr out of her naturally sweet voice,
and to speak with the fashionable inflec-
tion, and one day when a young fellow
with whom she had danced in the parlor
of the Wave Hotel came up and spoke to
her she gave him the real society shake
of the hand.

No one can deny the American girl her
imitative powers, her adaptability, which
make her the most plastic and attractive
woman in the world.

When the Blivens got back to their
New York hotel and had had a “rub
down,’’ as they called it, mother and
daughter sat down seriously to compare
notes and tote up the results of their first
campaign.

The acquaintances they had made,
whether they knew it or not, were as fol-
lows:

Three bookmakers, one Italian and one
Russian prince (so-called), five German
barons, three race judges, two riding
masters, one professional whip, several
very respectable Chicago families, as
badly off for acquaintances as the Blivens;
a half dozen kindly old ladies, who al-
ways scrape summer friends; three or
four people who live in cottages at Sara-
toga and Newport, and about twenty
dudes, who had been attracted by the
pretty daughter, but had paid no more
attention to the mother than if she had
been one of the Bliven bureaus.

Mrs. Bliven was very much pleased with
a visit she received afew days after her re-
turn to New York. The banker had sent
his wife to call upon his rich client. The
wife had demurred and protested against
the impossibility of getting on at all with
“‘those horribly rich Western people.’

‘*You won’t find her at all vulgar,” he
had explained, ‘‘only new, brand new,
and with such a pretty girl.”

So the visit was accomplished, with
much satisfaction to both women. Mrs.
Bliven was full of the people that she
had met during the summer and took it
for granted that her visitor Knew all
about them. Being a woman of the world,
the banker’s wife had heard some of the
names quoted, but never turned a hair,
and explained that society was getting to
be so large that it was really impossible
to keep track of every one.

And was Mrs. Bliven really going to
take the Fifth avenue house? Yes, that
was very nice—such a charming neighbor-
hood and so many people one knew all
about. And poor Mrs. Bliven, who had
only seen the house once and had been
dazzled by its grandeur, was more
pleased still and could hardly wait until
Nov. 1 to move in.

“‘And, by the way, Mrs. Bliven,”’ said
the banker’s wife, glancing, perhaps un-
consciously, over that lady’s trim little
figure, ‘‘may I not recommend my dress-
maker to you? I know how hard it is for
a stranger to find suitable people who
Wwon’t rob them.”

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

‘Now, that’s awfully good of you; it’s
just what I was going to ask you. That
dress of yours fits elegantly.’’

So the next day ‘“‘ma” and the pretty
daughter spent a delightful morning ina
Fifth avenue modiste’s, where the per-
fume of the dollar seemed again to have
preceded the Blivens, for there never
were sO many stuifs and so much atten-
tion showed to two women before, and
when they were permitted to leave, an or-
der had been left behind that would
clothe most women for years.

As the Blivens strolled back to their
hotel, whom should they meet on the
street but young Tallow, who had danced
with the pretty daughter at Newport,
and he greeted them with a splendid bow
and a handshake to the girl, and might
he walk back to the hotel with them?
You see, it was only October, and he
wasn’t apt to meet any of his own set
and the pretty daughter really looked
stunning.

Then they went to a stable to see some
horses, and found there the professional
whip who had driven the pretty daughter
out at Newport, but he was all deference
now, although the pretty daughter
greeted him cheerily and cordially, much
to the horror of young Tallow. Soa pair
was bought at a very fancy price, upon
which Tallow, of course, got his commis-
sion, and then Mrs. Bliven suggested
lunch at the hotel.

Oh, no! Tallow eouldn’t think of that.
So, feeling rich after the sale of the
horses, he took the ladies to a fashionable
restaurant, and laughed at Mrs. Bliven’s
surprise over ‘“‘those queer little bugs”
(they were oyster crabs), but desisted
when she declared that she could shoot a
better partridge than the one served, from
her back window at Bliven Mills.

Some of the pretty women from Hemp-
stead and the Country Club happened in
to lunch, and Tallow, though at first
abashed at being found insuch company,
braced up and argued that Mrs. Bliven
didn’t look at all bad sitting down, and,
as for the pretty daughter, she would
pass in any crowd.

Then they bought harness, and the
maker had a very steady coachman to
recommend, thoroughly sober and a care-
ful driver. Mrs. Bliven thought his
breath smelled of whisky when he came
to apply for the place, but the pretty
daughter reassured her with the whisper
that he “looked the image of the bishop

of Minnesota.”’
By the time the carriage was mounted,

the new gowns had been duly fitted and
sent home. It was a proud day, indeed,
for Mrs. and Miss Bliven when a hall
boy knocked and said: ‘Please, mum,
your carriage is at the door.’”? I wish I
could describe the confections which the
clever modiste had devised for these new
customers. There was some red about
the pretty girl’s throat that well became
her bright face, and ‘‘ma’’? was resplen-
dent in some sort of brocade and furs.

To most people it is a frightful ordeal
to drive out in a brand new carriage,
with brand new harness and brand new
reins,

Not so with the Blivens. “Ma” sat bolt
upright in the victoria, but the pretty
daughter lolled back as she had seen the
Newport women do.

As they passed Tallow’s club, who
should be standing in the window but
that young dandy himself.

“Oh, look, ma! There’s Tom Tallow,”
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Horrified, yet pleased in spite of him-
self, Tallow started in to bow, then he
thought better of it and pretended he
hadn’t seen anybody.

“What’s the matter with him, any-
how?” exclaimed the pretty daughter.
*‘Got the airs bad to-day, I guess.’?

‘Ah, Tommy, we are onto your
curves,’’? came in chorus from the elub
window. ‘*Who’s your pretty mash?’’

The first of November had come and
the new house was occupied. The visit
to the banker’s wife had been returned,
and she had proved invaluable in the way
of getting servants and making sugges-
tions.

Events moved rapidly .from now on
with the Blivens. Tom Tallow offered
to bid for a box at the horse show for
them, and got one of the best for $800.
It was a week of wild excitement, with
dinners at Delmonico’s and an ever in-
creasing list of acquaintances. Every-
one was asking, ‘‘Who are _ those
Blivens?” And the answer, “Awfully
rich people from the West,’”? seemed to
be a sesame that passed them every-
where,

Mrs. Bliven had never heard an opera
in her life, but the banker’s wife had
and wanted to hear more, so she sug-
gested to Mrs. Bliven that a box at the
opera would be a very enjoyable feature
of the winter; so one on the parterre was
rented and was a source of infinite de-
light to Miss Bliven, who, of course, fell
in love with Jean de Reszke and fairly
overwhelmed Melba with flowers.

One evening a dignified, portly gentle-
man, who had great influence in society,
was brought to the Bliven box by the
banker, and presented to the ladies, and
before leaving he had promised to send
the Blivens cards for the first Patriarch
ball.

That good lady’s cup of happiness was
how filled to the brim. Her only trouble
was that she could not remember half of
the people’s names, and had no visiting
list. She felt that she would like to
send out cards for ‘tat homes”’ in Jan uary,
but she didn’t know whom to send them
to. But somebody told her that all those
things could be arranged for her, so she
went toa shop, where they printed her
cards, provided her with a visiting list,
and sent her cards out.

Miss Bliven could never decribe her
first ball. ‘It was all a whirl and a
swirl!” she said. Her ball gown was a
perfect dream of beauty, white satin and
chiffon, and snowballs. ‘‘Ma” had bought
her a string of lovely pearls. Tom Tal-
low had sent her a great bunch of white
violets, the first she’d ever seen, and the
banker’s son contributed another of pale
purple orchids, which she didn’t appre-
ciate. She danced the cotillon, of
course, and got home at half past 4 in a
high state of exhaustion and nervous ex-
citement.

Mrs. Bliven now consulted the banker’s
wife about the propriety of giving an
entertainment in her own house. She
had had several large dinners, which had
gone off rather well, although the com-
pany had been mixed. Mrs. Bliven
wanted to give a grand evening recep-
tion, such as she imagined were held at
the white house. The pretty daughter
wanted to have adance. So a compro-

mise was made, and 1,000 cards for an
evening ‘‘at home” were sent out, and
“‘dancing’’ was printed in the corner.
The Bliven house was a large double
one. The back drawing-room was to be

used for dancing and the front reom for
what the pretty daughter called ‘‘chin-
ning.” A famous restaurateur was
given carte blanche to supply the supper
and wines, and the pretty daughter had
seen to it that every young man in the
three or four best clubs had received
a card. Mrs. Bliven had, of course,
taken the precaution to send a descrip-
tion of her dress and her daughter’s, to-
gether with a list of invited guests, to all
the leading newspapers, and had been
most civil to the reporters who had called
for further details.

The banker’s wife, who was to receive
with her, was the earliest arrival. Then
some of her Western friends came, and a
few old gentlemen—but where was so-
ciety? Ten, half-hast 10, came and the
front room was only half full. The
banker’s wife had told Mrs. Bliven that
she must not expect early hours, and
that women didn’t go out much at night
—a harmless sort of lie that might spare
Mrs. Bliven much mortification.

By 11 o’clock some girl friends of the
pretty daughter showed up, and soon
after a batch of young men, who had
evidently been dining at their club, made
&@ noisy entrance.

This party had been made up like this:
‘‘Who’s going to the Blivens’ to-night?’
asked Tom Tallow of a group at the
Noodle Club. ‘‘Don’t know them,’? was
the general answer. ‘‘That doesn’t mat-
ter. Got a ripping house, plenty of
‘fizz? and all that. They told me to
bring any one I chose.’? So the whole
party started off to be amused, as they
would go to the play or a dog fight.

When these ingenuous young gentle-
men got down to the drawing-room they
made things hum. Dancing of the most vig-
orous sort was immediately begun, inter-
spersed with frequent visits to the din-
ing-room. Then some of the men dis-
covered a smoking-room further on, and
soon the heavy odor of Dimetrino ciga-
rettes penetrated even the front drawing-
room.

““That’s right, boys, have a good time,”
said Mrs. Bliven, pleasantly, as she came
back to give an order to some servant.
Not one of these dandies got out of
his chair or laid down his cigarette as
she looked into the room, but she didn’t
notice their bad manners, and might al-
most have overheard ‘‘The jolly old
girl!’ that greeted her departure.

Mrs. Bliven, in summing up the net
results of her first entertainment, could
not see that she had gained much in the
social scale. it was a disappointment to
her that the fine ladies of New York had
not vouchsafed to come. She felt that
she and her pretty daughter had already
mastered the masculine portion of so-
ciety. Indeed, the trim little widow al-
ready had several very promising flirta-
tions of her own on foot, and, as for the
pretty daughter, she was fairly besieged
by admirers, one old bachelor in partic-

 

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what the trouble was. A good looking
widow from out of the West, with a
pretty daughter and three millions, was
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**My dear Mrs. Bliven, I’m sure I don’t
know what more you can do, except to
try charitable work. Lentis soon com-
ingon. There are a dozen fashionable
church and sewing classes being formed.
If you could associate yourself with
these I think you would meet many very
nice women, and get to know them bet-
ter than in a ballroom.”

Mrs. Bliven had been going to St.
James’ church, which numbered many of
the four hundred in its congregation.
The rector had called, and Mrs. Bliven
had made a very handsome Christmas
offering to the church. She decided to
go now and offer him her services as a
worker in the vineyard during Lent.
He was, of course, delighted. Great
wealth, when sanctified by works, is as
acceptable in the church as elsewhere.

Mrs. Bliven met a number of leading
ladies of the parish at the rectory, after-
wards at their houses, and finally had the
ineffable pleasure of holding a meeting
of the class at her own house.

By the end of Lent she had got to be
on very friendly terms with three or four
matriarchs, a half dozen colonial dames,
and twenty or thirty other prominent
women, but she still looked ahead, with
awe and longing, at the ‘‘howling swells,”
the dinner dance set, although the bank-
er’s wife told her frankly that it might
be years before she could even get to be
on bowing terms with any one of them.

in one winter’s work, then, Mrs. Bliven
had skirmished all along the line, and
been victorious in every instance except
to penetrate to the holy of holies.
Money—of course the most irresistible
factor lever—the open sesame in New
York society, was the chief reason of
Mrs. Bliven’s success. The beauty of
the pretty daughter and Mrs. Bliven’s

pluck or cheek filled the rest.
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15

 

Storekeeping a Hundred Years Ago and
Now.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The present generation have but a
faint idea of the gocds contained in a
store seventy or eighty years ago. Nota
tenth of the kinds of merchandise now
on sale in nearly every department of
trade and ready for instant use, was then
in existence, such has been the wonder-
ful advance in science, art and improve-
ment. Within the memory of persons
now living there were no retail stores
with special lines of goods only, afid even
in the wholesale departments such were
rarely seen and were confined to dry
goods, groceries and hardware. Goods
were generally retailed from the original
packages as much as possible and with

no attempt at display or attractiveness.

Sugar was sold direct from the barrel,
box or hogshead, tea and coffee from box
or bag, nails direct from the keg, etc.;
and the customer who had the boldness
to ask that his purchases be delivered at
his residence would have received a mild
lecture on the subject of laziness.

The medium of exchange was princi-
pally the products of the farmers, as the
larger portion of the small amount of
money in the country was in but few
hands. However, with the increase in
population from immigration and other
sources, and an increasing commerce,
came an increase of money per capita,
and with this a demand for different and
better classes of goods, and in greater
quantity.

As the number of stores increased in
greater proportion than the inhabitants,
the percentage of customers to each de-
creased, and new devices became neces-
sary in order to attract trade which
might otherwise go to one’s neighbor.
Since a decade dating from 1825 there
has been no greater change in the gen-
eral retail stores of the country than
this. An exceptional departure was
made in the convenience, as well as the
beauty, of the store room ftself, so that
little remains to remind one of the past.
The style and size of front windows were
changed, the room was better lighted by
both day and night, and oil lamps took
the place of candles. Counters and
shelves were made more artistic and
rows of handsome drawers began to ap-
pear. All this was found to facilitate
business, and goods were kept in far bet-
ter order.

It was also discovered that if a single
line—or, at the most, two—of goods were
kept and sold, the profits would be
greater, as the amount required would
admit of purchasing direct from the man-
ufacturer or producer, thereby saving
the percentage of the jobber. Thus, tea
and coffee stores, book and stationery
stores, and soon afterward stores of other
special lines of goods, were opened in
numbers of the larger towns and villages.
During the last quarter of the eighteenth
and the first quarter of the present cen-
tury, a majority of the retail merchants
paid for their stocks quarterly or semi-
annually in certain kinds of products
from the farms, mines or forests. These
products must be sueh as would not
readily decay or suffer injury from trans-
portation, and which were in good de-
mand in foreign countries, where the
great bulk of our merchandise came
from; such was the system of barter in
the early days of our republic. Boats

and wagons were the vehicles of trans-
portation for all this produce to the sea-

board (from whose large cities nearly all
merchandise was obtained) and for the
return of the goeds it would purchase,
for the railway was yet aun infant.

Villages were not numerous and cities
were far apart, which necessitated the
crossroad or country store, often in sev-
eral places in each county. As at pres-
ent, in the new and sparely settled sec-
tions of the country, at these isolated
stores the post office was usually lo-
cated. A hotel, then known as a *“pub-
lie house,’’ or ‘‘house of entertainment,”’
was generally situated near it, where
public meetings of various kinds were
held, and where the business of the town,
and sometimes of the county, was trans-
acted. (I may state, in passing, that the
mails of the country were then carried
on horseback or by corporate stagecoach
lines which, with relays of horses sta-
tioned at these hotels along the route,
ran day and night between all principal
commercial cities.) In those days nearly
all public houses were provided with a
bar, or small enclosure within a front
room, near the huge fireplace, having a
narrow counter in front and provided
with a few shelves, and sometimes slid-
ing sash and glass, behind which, in
tempting array, stood decanters of
rum, brandy and gin, ready for dispens-
ing; and here, also, was an embryo store
for the convenience of travelers and
others. On these shelves were exhibited
tobacco in various forms, clay pipes,
crackers, cheese, pies of various kinds,
and a barrel of cider stood underneath,
from which ‘‘good cheer” might be en-
joyed for a very limited amount of money.
A limited credit was given to neigh-
boring farmers only, the accounts being
kept on long narrow slips of paper
tacked against the wall, in plain sight,
that the debtor might, from time to time,
be silently reminded of the amount, and,
should his vision or memory be faulty,
a neighbor might now and then jog his
memory. I have in my possession one of
these accounts —unpaid—which belonged
to one of my ancestors, from which |
produce a verbatim copy:

JOHN SEL‘RIDGE, Dr.

Feb. .0th, 1821. Tol — Tobacto ..... 05
Co u1

2 Dry Berrie .........- 02

T Oemek Gin ............ 63

14th 1 Drink Whisky 03
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Cider for the Crowd.. 17

23th 1 Paper Smoking ....... 7
Sree... 02

.2nd Piet im |... LL... 14
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March 5th Crackers and Cheese.. wu8
2 Glasses Cider.......... 04

26th Me OG es a, ese occ, 06

2 Plugs Tobacco ....... 10

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lam enabled to explain the unusual
expenditure by Mr. Selfridge on February
22 only by inferring that his patriotism
and love for the Father of his Country in-
duced him to celebrate his birthday in a
proper spirit.

The country ‘thouse of entertainment’’
has disappeared forever and with it the
bar and its incipient store. It is an open
question whether, with all the radical
ehanges and so-called improvements in
storekeeping, the merchant himself has
been benefited. In some respects his
customers may be reaping the harvest,
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chantis not. The per cent. of failures
among the retail merchants to-day, as
compared with fifty years ago, will be
found to be four to one. Whatis the
cause of this? Is it nota fact that, for
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There are a great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only

one can be best—-that is the

origina]

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

 

Are You Selling

   

IMPORTED ano CLEANED py
a GRAND RAPIDS

CLEANING CO.
GRaND RAPIDS, MICH :

  

 

 

 

The Celebrated
Cleaned Greek Currants
and the Genuine

Cleaned Sultana Raisins.

Prepared by

Grand Rapids Fruit

Cleaning Company.

IF NOT, WHY NOT?

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.
GFr"For Quotations

see Price Current.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

to the storekeeper is entailed? And,
further, unless the innovation is one
which is patentable, every competitor in
trade can adopt it; in fact, as with the

who has deliberately made up his mind
to adopt either system always laments
that he had not adopted the other. One
curious phase of the credit business is

  

  

CHICAGO _Nov. 18, 1894

AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y.

 

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv. G’d Rapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:30pm

 

    

 

 
        

! PU. gee . a
ists are engaged, at large salaries, for| other merchants will corroborate my tes- | | — arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00
this line of work. Buildings must now timony. It is as a correspondent of THE

be constructed and fitted up on extensive MICHIGAN

delivery wagon, they are forced to do so| that it depends more upon the class of e* - Ar. Chicago wo ns 1:25pm 6:50pm *7:20am 4
| or “‘go to the wall.” avocations than upon the individuals —— r Lv. image wanes ae 4
3 The tendency in trade to-day is to de-| who follow them whether they pay in- : Ar. G’d Rapids......... 3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am 3
a structive competition. Gradual changes | debtedness or not. Many persons whose 4 4 to ei Rapids... 7am 1pm 5:30pm q
Fs have brought this about. Fifty year | avocations are supposed to be very re- Ar, Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm
$ ago, such a thing as outdoor display of | munerative never pay except at the end SP, inane i eee —
A goods, as at present prevails, was un-! of lengthy and expensive litigation; . e Permian th On = = 4
} thought of, and window decoration was a| others who earn very little pay promptly. /. 5 5 7 Ar. Charlevoix... 3:15pm 11:10pm 5
dream of the future. Now, special art-|1 speak from personal experience, and i b 0 p ial NG wk \ | Ar. Petoskey .... 3:45pm 11:40pm

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PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

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costly plans, and rents, lights and other
expenses are correspondingly higher.
The strategic means now adopted by new
devices to tempt the public te purchase
all point to the fact—whether expressed
in words or not—that the cost of doing
business is far greater than formerly. In
regard to exposure of goods for display,
a less in their value naturally accom-
panies such exposure, especially in the
case of dry goods and groceries, and in
the aggregate this is no smail sum. If
we could know the value of the fruits
and vegetables which have perished on
their hands and been thrown away by
grocers, we would wonder where their
profits come in.

For several years past, the majority of
persons purchasing goods at retail have
somehow obtained the idea that they
were paying exorbitant, if not extortion-
ate, prices for merchandise, aud, whether
this idea has been true or false, it has
produced a marked change in customers,
they being anxious to try not only other
firms near home with which to deal, but
also to try other towns and cities. The
result of this has been injurious to both
dealers and customers, as both parties
were no longer in contact with old
friends. New acquaintances have been
made and new whims and tastes gratified
in the matter of goods, aud, in making
the acquaintance of new dealers, both
parties have taken a certain amount of
risk, which is always unavoidable among
Strangers. There was a time—not very
far in the past either— when “the old
storekeeper” who had grown in the busi-
ness from boyhood, and had been thirty
or forty years in one store, possessed the
implicit confidence of every customer,
and vice versa. But this is not true to-
day. Dissatisfaction has arisen on both
sides, much to the detriment of trade in
general, and especially to that of the
smaller towns. Customers are to-day
‘trying their luck’? in different towns
about, as well as different stores at home,
and with unsatisfactory results. lt is
the order of the day that the storekeepers
who make their places most attractive
are those who command the heaviest
trade. In this esthetie age it is the eye
as well as the stomach which seeks grati-
fication.

The axiom that ‘*‘A twofold cord is
stronger than one, and three not easily
broken”’ has caused many copartnerships

years ago—“The wealthiest men are the
poorest pay, because they always keep
their money at work accumulating inter-
est, and upon the prestige of real or sup-
posed bank deposits purchase all they
want on time, and without interest, few
storekeepers having the nerve to demand
the cash from wealthy families when
goods are delivered.” The poor classes,
possessing no available assets, generally
make their honor and their name a relia-
ble guarantee, knowing that, if these
fail, all is lost, and, their purchases be-
ing small and short time given in which
to pay. they generally make every effort
to pay their store accounts when due.

In conclusion: The store of our civili-
zation is an imperative necessity. We
cannot dispense with it, nor with the
storekeeper with his sharp and decisive
tivalry. What, then, will specially char-
acterize the store of the coming century?
Its general trend to-day is toward the
store of seventy-five or 100 years ago,
that is, a shop wherein everything under
the name of merchandise can be found.
Business, as now conducted, is really in
excess of the demand, and, consequently,
not as lucrative as formerly, and is grow-
ing less so, yearly; and one of two things
must inevitably take place—either there
will be a less number of stores, accord-
ing to the population, or the specialists
will be gradually frozen out, leaving us
the general or department stores only,
and these on a scale the magnitude and
maguificence of which was never before
equaled. STOREKEEPER.

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Miscellaneous Hints.
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

A good idea to incorporate in your
newspaper advertisements orin a win-
dow card at this time of the year is astate-
ment of the number of days between the
current date and Christmas. This ealls
the attention of the reader, in a forceful
manner, that the time for the selection
of Christmas presents is at hand.

A contemporary calls attention to the
fact that merchants should hunt up all
the empty pasteboard boxes they can
find and hold them subject to the de-
mands of their customers. They are
much needed for inclosing Christmas
presents by the latter, and they are apt
to feel hurt and offended by a refusal
when they ask for them, no matter what
the reason.

It is the custom of some mer-
chants to make presents to children
coming into the store at the holiday sea-
son. If this is done the giving should
be indiscriminate, but it is extremely

 

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Tradesman Company,

Western Michigan Agents.

 

 

WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TICKETS

ONLY A FEW LEFT.

Original set of four . - -

Complete setoften - <« .« =
Order quick or lose the opportunity of
a lifetime to secure these souvenirs at a
They will be worth ten
times present cost within five years,

nominal figure.

Tradesman Company,

 

 

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

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
Ar. Detroit .............11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm

RETURNING FROM DETROIT.

Ly. Demos... 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8ST, LOUIS.
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL,
Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:40pm 5:20pm .......

sTHROUGH CAR SERVICE.

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

Trains week days ane.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t,

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.

 

EASTWARD.
rains Leave |tNo. 14/tNo. 16)tNov. 18/*No.

G'd Rapids, Lv | 6 45am]10 20am} 325pm/11 00pm

 

AOMIM os... Ar) 7 40am/ii 25am 4 27pm |12 35am
St. Johns ...Ar| 8 25am!/12 l7pm) 520pm) 1 25am
Owoss)...... Ar| 900am/ 1 20pm} 605pm! 3 10am

E. Saginaw..Ar {10 50am 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City..... Ar |11 30am} 435pm| § 37pm} 7 15am

 

Flint --++-+++ Ar} 10 06am 345pm)| 7 05pm) 5 4fam
Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pin| 5 50pm 8 50pm) 7 30am
Pontiac ...... Ar }1053amj 305pm} 8 25pm} 5 27am
Detroit... ...... Arj11 50am} 4 05pm} 925pm} 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
Points *7:00 &. m.

For Grand Haven and Muskegon.... . +1:00 D. m.
' - - “Mil. and Chi. ..+5.35 p. m
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 &.m., 12:60

p.m., 5:30 p. m.

Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 & m. 3:15

Pm and 9:15 p.m.

Eastward—No, 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner

Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana,

TRAINS GOING NORTH,
Leave going
North
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw

 

  

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Te ON 00 p. m,
For Petoskey and Mackinaw...........///77" 10:25 p m,

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

 
 
   

me ees, one aa.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 15 p. m.
For Fort Wayne and the East.. :15 p,m.
ee ee -"5:40 p.m.
For Kalamazoo and Oeene *11:40 p.m
Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.
Ly Grand Rapids........6:50am 2:15pm *11:40
MEP CBREG. 6... cca es. 2:00 p 9:00 7:10 . m

m pm
2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor
Oar and coach.

11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

aan
v cago 3:30pm 11:30pm
Arr Grand Rapids 9:15pm 7:20 m
3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car.

11:30 p m train daily,t hrough Wagner Sleeping Car.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

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

 

 

 

in mercantile business, in order to save | doubtful if the custom really swells the “Te Niagara Falls Route.’’ 1:00pm aon
se j > wavs > -| Voiume of a merchant’s business to an oo . ' .L. LOCKW. ‘

expense in many ways, and, by the com i ct Ghends Meas a (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) iil Passenger and iobet nonet.

bination of capital, to do business on a Arrive. Depart.
. . | pense. eaem....... Detroit Express ........ 70am 2
: larger seale and crush out small com peti- ee Sim... 3 omenes ane Pacific..... 11 0pm PHOTO a
‘ ' “a eT . ee i 1 30pm... New York Express...... 6 00 x
5 tors, and this tendency is extending. The slot machine is to have another il- “Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.) woop of
; — : - s i its sefulness. One has Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- 4
‘ And there is the problem of credit with | lustration of its u yrsenteatnn to nigh tous een HALF-TONE 2

ahi : beep arranged that will sell six street car P ' a
: ey ' arlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00 am; re- s

eH ” ipsa picatigaeng eae tickets for a quarter. A number of them eoentee Sean Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand mnildings, Portraits, Cards and Sesienery a8
s an o cas D credl Ss i ¥ i ; s 10: m. ’ ? i
are to be used in Cincinnati. If a success, P Pp Headings, Mapa, Plans and Paten :

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been fought over and over again during | they will probably have a wide sale. all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen ‘Antigen :
the past quarter of a century at least, a ee tral Railroad SA Thee sei q
and is no nearer ended. The merchant Use Tradesman. Coupon Books. ‘Union PassengerStation. am ite

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Purely Personal.

F. A. Rockafellow, President of the
Rockafellow Mercantile Co., at Carson
City, wasin town acouple of days last
week.

Chas. E. Temple left Monday for Den-
ver, where he will stop a few days, and,
perhaps, go on to San Franciseo and
Stockton before returning home.

A. E..Pickard, formerly engaged in
trade at East Jordan, has removed to
Ellsworth, where he has taken the posi-
tion of book-keeper fer the Ellsworth
Lumber Co.

Jas. E, Granger, Secretary of the
Stone-Ordean Co., wholesale grocers at
Duluth, arrived in this city Monday for

a ten days’ visit with his family and
friends.
Geo. D. Van Vranken, the Cadillac

druggist, has erected a handsome pagoda
in the center of his store, from whizh he
is dispensing hot chocolate and beef tea
free tohis customers during the holidays.

Clarence C. Beatty, junior member of
the dry goods firm of S. S. Beatty & Son,
at Morenci, was married recently, to
Miss Viola Lester, of the same place.
The wedding is the sequel to a pleasant
World’s Fair trip.

Edwin White, President of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, leaves
the city the second week in January for
a visit to England, where he will spend
amonth with relatives and friends at
London, Leeds and Manchester. During
his absence he will attend the marriage
of a sister near Leeds.

Baumgarten Bros., the Bay City gro-
cers, exhibit a front window this week
which is the admiration of al! beholders.
It is the handiwork of Ed. Baumgarten,
who has acquired considerable distine-
tion as a window dresser in the grocery
line, and represents a rural scene de-
picting a stream of water spanned by a
bridge, over which a wagon, loaded with
people, is passing. The work is con-
structed entirely of nuts and is remark-
able in point of ingenuity and effeetive-

ness,
———ro3 -4 a

Bank Notes.

The State Bank of Michigan (Grand
Rapids) elected two new directors at the
annual meeting, last week—E. H. Foote,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Grand
Rapids Chair Co., and Edward Crawford,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Michigan
Chair Co.

The Commercial Savings Bank of
Adrian has declared a 10 per cent. divi-
dend and passed $5,000 to the surplus ac-
count.

The Adrian State Sayings Bank has
declared a 7 per cent. dividend and
passed 2 per cent. of the eapital stock to
surplus account. i

The creditors of the defunct’ National
City Bank of Marshall will receive the
remaining 5 per cent. due them, with in-
terest, before the end of the week.

D. B. K. Van Raalte has been elected
President of the Holland City State
Bank, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Jacob Van Putten, Sr. The va-
cancy in the board of directors has been
filled by the election of R. Venekloasen,
of Zeeland.

——-~>-o
Skillful Business Correspondence,
As taught at the Grand Rapids Busi-
ness College, is worth many times its cost.
—_— i <a

Eight hundred dozen boys’, youths’
and men’s outing shirts, from $2.25 to $6
per dozen, will be ready to show about
Jan. 20 at P. Steketee & Sons. Wait
until our salesman shows you our line
before buying.

 

 

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Statement from Dr. Sayles.

KALAMAZOO, Dec. 12—Believing that
you have no desire to injure any person’s
character, I wish to eall your attention
to the statement you made to-day through
your columns. According to an agree-
ment, 1 met G. W. Saunders at Grand
Rapids, to look over my property, consist-
ing of a house andlot. We agreed on the
value and I went home with Mr. Saunders
and looked over his stock of drugs, and
made a purchase of Same, by giving se-
curity satisfactory to Mr. Saunders, when
I again returned to Riverdale and took
possession. Mr. Saunders with his
mortgage went to Grand Rapids and, not
being careful in his looking up the
record, thought I did not own the prop-
erty mortgaged. On his return to River-
dale, I proved title to his eutire satisfac-
tion, and Mr. Kingsbury packed and
moved the goods, and Mr. Saunders fre-
quently asked to assist him in his work.
The title is perfect so far as I know, as I
obtained it from an honorable man.

C. ©. SAvims,
—_— TS oe

The Drug Market.

Opium is very firm and an advance is
looked for. The primary market is
higher than ours.

Morphia is, as yet, unchanged.

Quinine is steady.

Citric acid is a trifle lower.

Gum camphor is weak.

Bismuth salts will probably be lower,

on account of lower prices for the metal.
_ or <

DIAMONDS,

 

 

Precious Stones, Rings, Pins, Swiss and
American Watches, Silver-
ware, Clocks and Opti-
cal Goods.

This is a list that will make a Christ-
mas present hunter look happy and if a
visit shall be paid to the elegant jewelry
store of Zierleyn & Carstens, 89 Monroe
Street, the large display of these goods
and the remarkably low prices will make
them feel happy.

This firm is one of the substantial ones
of the city and all orders entrusted to
them either personally or by mail will
receive prompt and honorable attention.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—The market is about the same as a
week ago. Baldwins are still sold at $2per bbl.,
but Greenings and Spys are held at $225,

Beans—The market is weaker and lower, the
price having dropped 3@5c per bu. Handlers
pay $1.20@1.25 for country picked, holding
city picked at $1.55 in small lots and $1,50 In
carlots.

Butter—Dull and slow sale, owing to favor-
able weather, good roads and—last but not
least—the competition of butterine. Good
quality dairy stock finds few purchasers at 16c
and creamery is correspondingly depressed.

Beets—30c per doz.

Cabbage—Price ranges from $1@4 per 100, ac
cording to size and quality.

Celery—Is held by dealers at 10@15c per doz.

Cranberries—Leach’s Walton Junction fruit is
eagerly sought for by the trade at $3.50@3.75 per
crate, according to quality.

Eggs—Easy and weak. The price will prob.
ably go below 20c unless a cold snap comes
along to stiffen the market. Pickled stock is
dull at 18c.

Grapes—Tokays, $2.50 and 83.75 per crate, ac.
cording to size. Malagas, $6.50 per 50-lb. keg,

Hay—Handlers grumble over the new tariff,
which reduces the duty from $5 to $2 per ton and
thus enables Canadian dealers to supply New
England markets, thus cutting off shipping de.
mand in that direction.

Lettuce—1z¢e per lb.

Onions—Red Weatherfields and Yellow Dan-
vers command 40c per bu. Spanish stock, $1
per box.

Parsnips—40c per bu.

Parsley—25c per doz.

Pears—Californias bring $2 per bu. box.

Potatoes—The market is drooping and the
price is not so firm as a week ago. Local hand-
lers py 33¢, holding at 40c in carlots and 45¢ in
small quantities.

Radishes—Hot house stock commands 30¢ per
doz. bunches.

Sweet Potatees—Ilinois Jerseys are the only
=v still in market. They command $3 per

Squash—Hubbard metas take per lb.
Turnips—z5c per bu. smajl demand and
adequate supply.

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General Office, Telephone 945.
Warehouse, Telephone 954,

DS STORAGE AND

General Warehousemen and Transfer Agents.

Dealers in

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Carriages, Wagons, Agricultural Implements and Binder Twine.
General Office, 83 South Division Street, Grand Rapids.

COLD and DRY STORAGE.
E. J BROOKS, Man’s.

 

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that amount invested in machinery alone, just to make

Candy

We turn out goods in proportion with the investment,
too. We make a full line and to get fine fresh-made goods at
rock bottom prices come to us or tll your jobber you want

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

 

Badges

SOCIETIES,
CLUBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COMMITTEES.

For

The Largest Assortment of Ribbons

and Trimmings in the State.

TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

   

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Drug Department.

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—George Gundrum, [onia.

Three Years—C. A. Bug bee, Charlevoix.

Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
£Fecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
‘treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. i
Coming Meetings—Detroit, Jan8; Grand Rapids,
March 5; Detroit (Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov. 5.

 

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

Secretay—S. A. Thompson. Detroit.

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica) Society.
President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

 

 

“Substitution” by Druggists.

Periodically a desperate raid is made
by certain manufacturers upon those
wicked druggists who may have been
guilty of the unpardonable sin of ‘“sub-
stitution.’”’ A new proprietary compound
has been added to the list of a thousand
or more with which the hapless drug-
gist’s shelves were already loaded, and
when in his despair he seeks relief by
supplying a preparation of his own in
place of “‘Smith’s Heavenly Elixir,”
down swoops the Majesty of the law,
hauls him into court and lashes him with
disgrace and a fine. Professionally and
commercially the druggist is supposed to
have no right to complain. He does lit-
tle or nothing to create the demand for
these proprietary marvels. The manu-
facturer makes and booms them, the
physician prescribes them, and the drug-
gist is in consequence compelled to buy
them. What if he be obliged to wipe
out his profits and mortgage his store in
order to ‘‘keep up with the times’’ by
converting his shelves into a world’s ex-
position of medicinal mixtures? Whatis
he but a purveyor of merchandise that
he should raise his voice in protest
against the joint edict of manufacturer
and physician? He carries already a
dozen or more brands of the same prod-
uct under as many different hifalutin
names; he has bought about everything
proprietary thatevery prescription called
for; he has tried to accommodate himself
to every whim and fancy of the modern
physician, and when at last realizing
that he is but forging firmer the chains
for his own captivity he rises in defiance
with the only weapons at his command—
the United States Pharmacopweia, the Na-
tional Formulary and his conscious pro-
fessional skill—he must be hunted as a
criminal and branded as a felon.

No reputable pharmacist has a word of
apology for fraudulent substitution. The
physician or patient is entitled to receive
precisely what his order calls for, and
any material deviation from the direc-
tions without the knowledge or assured
concurrence of the patron is an act of
fraud and properly punishable as such.
The deliberate substitution of the ‘same
thing”’ or ‘‘something just as good” is not
a sufficient defense in either ethics or
law. The substitution even of some-
thing better or of something designed to
avert fraud upon the physician or dan-
ger to the patient is clearly not permissi-
ble. What then is the pharmacist’s pro-
tection against the multiplying horde of
brands and proprietaries which appar-
ently have but just commenced their de-
vastating march into the province of
legitimate pharmacy? To remain passive
is but to invite pillage and dishonor; to
resist as individuals is to be trampled un-
der foot by the servile druggists who
prefer peace with the enemy and a share
in the spoils.

 

It is only by organized resistance that
an effective defense can be made. The
American Pharmaceutical Association
through the Pharmacopceia and particu-
larly through the National Formulary
has already taken action. These volumes,
complete in information as to compounds
and processes, official and unofficial, af-
ford a solid foundation for progressive
work. Physicians having the welfare of
their patients at heart (and the vast ma-
jority are happily of this class) will as-
suredly welcome information which will
enable them to prescribe more intelli-
gently and to retain association with
known remedies and processes rather
than with the mysteries of secret com-
pounds which their own ethics officially
denounce. The medieal profession has,
equally with that of pharmacy, a deep,
natural antipathy to any sort of medi-
cinal pretender which, while it vaunts
its virtues, conceals its identity and thus
puts at defiance all laws of medicine and
pharmacy. The solution of the problem
therefore requires the co-operation of the
physician—a task to which tha pharma-
cist in whose skill the physician has con-
fidence is asa rule fully equal. When
the allied professions shall come into sin-
cere and active accord with their avowed
principles, the life of unworthy proprie-

taries will be at an end.
oor

Tablet Triturates.

Although triturate tablets possess, in
many instances. an obvious superiority
over pills, they are, however, objection-
able in others. For example, in exhibit-
ing the bitter substances, such as strych-
nine, quinine, aloes, ete. Owing to the
absence of a coating it is quite impos-
sible to swallow a tablet containing any
of the bitter medicaments without leav-
ing some indication of its bitterness
upon the sense of taste. An occasional
objection is found in some instances
where the active constituent of the tab-
let is crystalline in character; owing to
the recrystallization in the tablet, it be-
comes hard, and consequently is rend-
ered difficult to reduce to a powder un-
less subjected to extraordinary pressure;
thus destroying, to some extent, one of
the advantages claimed for it. Again, if
the quantity of adhesive matter intro-
duced into the tablet for the purpose of
maintaining its form and holding it to-
gether has been used to excess, its ready
reduction to powder is impeded. Care,
therefore, should be intelligently exer-
cised in their preparation, or, again,
their superiority over coated pills be-
comes weakened. From personal obser-
vation it must be admitted that in pro-
portion to the increased demand for
triturate tablets there appears to be a
decreased demand for pills, capsules,
and powders. While there still remains
an active demand for pills, powders are
being rapidly supplanted by tablets. It
is not claimed by the writer that this
condition exists wherever tablets have
have introduced. The reverse of this
condition may exist in many sections.

It is a settled fact that triturate tab-
lets have come to stay, at least until
some better means has been discovered
that will accomplish the same end. As
there is no secrecy about the modus
operandi for the manufacture of triturate
tablets they can be produced by the aver-
age pharmacist through the employment
of ordinary skill and the utensils he now
has at hand. With mortar and pestle,
glass or porcelain slab, spatula, and a

 

few set of hard-rubber or metallic molds,
he finds himself equipped for the produc-
tion, on a small scale, of any tablet that
the large manufacturer is capable of
making, with the exception, as in all
other things, that they can be made
ona larger scale at a greatly reduced
cost. The possible danger of ultimate
injury to the prescription business can
only result where the pharmacist fails to
recognize the preference the physician
is disposed to show toward the triturate
tablets, and refuses to supply them

when prescribed. D. J. THOMAS.
—_—_—~. +2.

Annual Meeting of the Grand Rapids
Pharmaceutical Society.

At the annual meeting of the Grand
Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, held at
the office of the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co., last Thursday evening, Wm.
Remus, druggist at the corner of Wealthy
and Jefferson avenues, was elected to
membership in the organization.

Walter K. Schmidt presented his an-
nual address as President, congratula-
ting the Society on the work accomplished
during the past year and offering a num-
ber of pertinent suggestions relative to
the duties and obligations of the mem-
bers. The address was discussed at
some length and accepted.

Benj. Schrouder presented his annual
report as Secretary and Treasurer, show-
ing total receipts of $65.09 and disburse-
ments of $49.94, leaving a balance on
hand of $15.15. The report was accepted
and adopted.

Election of officers being then in order,
H. B. Fairchild moved that the Presi-
dent appoint a committee of three mem-
bers to recommend suitable persons for
the several offices. The report was
adopted and the President appointed as
such committee H. B. Fairchild, H.
Riechel and C. G. Dykema.

The committee withdrew for a short
time, subsequently recommending the
election of the following persons to the
various offices for the ensuing year:

President—John E. Peck.

Vice-President—R. A. McWilliams.

Secretary and Treasurer—Benjamin
Schrouder.

Boatd of Trustees—President, F. J.
Wurzburg, C. G. Dykema, John Steketee
and G. Hahn.

The report was adopted and the offi-
cers named were declared unanimously
elected.

Mr. Peck protested against taking the
office of President, stating that he much
preferred to serve in the ranks and would
act a member of any committee, but was
finally prevailed upon to accept the honor,
in view of the fact that the action of the
Society was unanimous.

A resolution was adopted directing the
Secretary to address a letter to those
manufacturers who put out 25 and 50
cent remedies which job at more than $2
and $4 per dozen, requesting them to re-
duce their jobbing prices.

After an interesting discussion and the
adoption of several matters of interest to
the trade, the meeting adjourned.

> +9
Liked the Coffin and Bought It.
From the Philadelphia Record.

For over a year the show window of an
Eleventh street undertaker has been
adorned by an elaborately modelled and
beautifully finished burial casket. Peo-
ple who have occasion to pass the estab-
lishment regularly noticed one day last
week that the familiar object was miss-
ing from the window. Its fine workman-
ship had attracted no small amount of
attention, and its removal naturally was
remarked upon. The proprietor of the
establishment, upon being questioned
about the matter, admitted that it had
been purchased by a wealthy customer.

‘‘And the strangest part of it is,” he
remarked, ‘‘that it has been stored away
for safe keeping untii needed. Yes, sir;
that man came in here one day, looked
at the casket, said he would like to buried
in it when his time came, and finally
bought it. Of course, it wouldn’t do for
me to tell his name, but if 1 did I think
you would be rather surprised.’’

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE,

18956.

Foremost of American Weeklies.

Circulation 168,000 a Week.

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

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

Beely’'s Lemon,

rapped)

Doz. Gro.
lez. $ 90 10 20

2oz. 120 1260
4o0z. 200 2280
60z. 300 33 00
Seely's Vanilla
Wrapped)

Doz. Gro.
1oz.$150 16 20

2o0z. 200 21 60
4o0z. 3 75 4080
60z. 5 40 57 60

Plain N.S. with

corkscrew at same
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Palmetto, goose............ 1 50
CANDLES,

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Star, 40 ee 9
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Wicking 24
CANNED GOODS.
Fish,

Clams.
a 1 20

ao. 9
Clam Chowder.
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Cove Oysters.
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Lobsters.
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Mackerel.
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Sardines.
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Trout.
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Fruita,
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Hamburgh, * oo.

  

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ae ore. 1 40
Se 1 50
Cvermene. 1 40

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Gooseberries,
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Peaches,
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Beenie... 150
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Rivonaee.. 1%

Pineapples.
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Quinces

men 110
Raspberries.
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Black Hamburg....... 1 46
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Strawberries.
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ae. =
ee . 1 20
Pore 105
Whortleberries.,
Blueberries ........ 85

Meats.

Corned beef Libby’s....... 220
Roast beef Armour’s....... 235
Potied ham, im. 25
ss oe 70
i tongue, oe... 1 35
. . ——
. chicken, & Ib....... 95

Vegetables,

Beans.

Hamburgh stringless....... 115
. French style..... 2 00
gx SO 1 35
on, eee 115
. aoe... 70
Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 25
Bay State Baked............ 1 25
World’s Fair Baked......_. 125
Pome neKee

Corn.
Pee 1 25
Livingston Eden........._. 1 10
Some -1 00
or eee 135
Morning Glory.............
ee 75

Peas.

Hamburgh marrofat........ 1 30

o early June . ...1 50

. Champion Eng..1 40

C on... 140

' ancy sifted....1 90

eee een cee 65

Harris standard............. 75

VanCamp’s marrofat......_ 1 10

: mug | June..... 1 30

Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25

eee 215
shrooms.

French ..... seteeccescces 1 IQ2I
pkin,

ee... ecccccccccccee 80

Squash.

Hubbard ...... eee 16
Succotash,
Paes ee
ceminenatage a 80
oes eee coccel
a ee, 13
Tomatoes.
ak. oe $0
eee 9u
ae ecce 90
ee 1 30
ae ——. oe
CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s,

German Sweet.. ... —
aoe
Breakfast Cocoa..........

CHEESE,
eer...
aoe... ——.
eee...
Riverside ....... poe
aoe eee...
ee... .... ee

ee 20
rere @15
Eeaceeeee....... |
oe MReneete . 2. od
& Oo eas 2
Sokol, tn rted. @x
- omestic .... gi4

 

CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, 25 bottles........ 2%
Pin _ ...<o
Quart 1 doz bottles .. oo

Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per doz.. —

 

 

Pint, 25 bottles... oe
erin Gas
CLOTHES PINS,
Seressbores...... ..... 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.
See @3
Less quantity @3%
Pound packages........ 6%@7

 

COFFEE,
ccmapinie Hee 21
secon ig’: fn ee 23

Santos.
aig 19
a 20
in ea 22
ee 23

Mexican and Guatamala.
ee 21
tie 22
Sirens (Ue EE 24

Maracaibo.
ee 23
svicvcrimscgecl At Ma CL 24

Java,
tei 25
Paveie Growth... 27
Paes 28

Mocha,
cme 25
a 28

Roasted.

To ascertain cost of roasted
Coffee, add ec. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age,

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. <1 30
ae 20 86
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 21 30

Extract.

Valley City % gross........ 7%
Felix o —
Hummel’s, foil, gross...... 1 65
. tin Yee. 2 85
CHICORY.

a
Red

TA

CLOTHES LINES,

Cotton, 40 ft 1

. on... 1

- 60 ft. 1

_ i... 1

' 80 ft 1
Jute 60 ft

' 72 ft i

 

a88S SRSASSER

CREDIT CHECKS.
500, any one denom’n..... 83
— | ee 5

: sc “ el 8
ae

CONDENSED MILK,
4#dos. in case.

  
   

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40
ee 6 25

 

 

 

  

 

 
 

Peel,
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes 13
Lemon - = a 8
Orange ' = ' 10

Raisins,

Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes.. @ 3
Sultana, 20 Bg @7
Valencia, 30 ‘

%

aan Prunes.
; DENSE California, 100-190.......... 5K
VD es 90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 6
\ ar owe s 80x90 - .. 6%
HH aes 2s” “ue 60x70 ae i 8
i. EAMCONDENSEDTE —
re 2 2
XX rag, white,
weet Pees... -__..__._ ae eee 2 -"s
cinema: oo 5 001 No. 16... 1 2
Standard... ............ cer a
eee Manilla, white.
CRACKERS. OES eT] 75
Butter. SS 70
Somer kee. 5 Gan
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5% i
Sore A 5S inet eet... 90
Family XXX, cartoon...... 5%
wees. FARINACEOUS GOODS,
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 5%
ee T% Farina,
ee ---- © Jct, kee. 2%
Deect Simei... 6 Grits
Soda. :
een ee. 5% | Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 2 10
eee toe. T%* fominy.
pees, Dee 8 RPO ee
eyeenl Waren. | Le at 3%
Long Island Wafers ....... 11 Lima Beans,
—- Dried 5@5%
Soyer SER ll. ca a ek leben untae einai r
oe 6 Ee 5K Maccaroni and Vermicelli,
Perms Oedier. 6 Domestic, 12 lb. box...
CREAM TARTAR. ee 10%@l1
ar pene. 30 Pearl Barley.
telfers Absolute.......... 30 | Kegs..... ed ks eee so
Soe 15@25 Peas
DRIED FRUITS. on ee 1 05
Domestic, Ore 2%
Sundried — : 6 Rolled Oats.
Evaporated “50 Ib. boxes 8 Schumacher, bbi........... $5 00
A i —o......... oe
Apricots, M th. bbl Pe
Californiain bags.. ... fe lelargeansea a ae tat cee £5)
Evaporated in boxes. _. 9 Monarch, bbl........ .. 9 $3
Blackberries, Weaker, Cases... | Boe
Im boxes........ i 7%
Nectarines. Sago.
Dib. bare oo German... Seteeeec rac 3
i bee 9 Peete 3%
Peaches,
Peeled, in boxes........ 10 Cracked Wheat. 3
Cal.evap. “ sana 10 Lecce ee cece.
ie "  mbhem...... 8% FISH--Salt.
Pears.
California in bags..... 6% Bloaters,
Pitted Cherries, VYarmoain...........; ia ce
percee........ ... ta Cod.
50 1b. boxes ... : Georges cured............ 4%
ae Siete ala Georges genuine......... 7
Prunelles, Georges selected......... 7%
a Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6
. Raspberries, Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@9
eee 20
ib boxe 204% Halibut,
ae 2555 | Gmeked .............. 11@12
Le = a. io Herring.
2 “ae a vr iy Holland, white hoopskeg 75
yaa sgausmaaseateeteammens as a me «bbl 9 00
, se ¢ 5a OnWCRION 2,
Loose Muscatels in Bags, Round, % bb! 100 Ibs...... 2 6*
ore... B¥1o6 10 eeeee 135
ie a iit 4% es, ; 16
Foreign. Mackerel.
Currants. ee. 8, 0 10 50
ee we ei re. 2 ee... 4 50
Vostizzas, 56 1b. cases...... 3 met ie 1 20
me 2, 900 WO, 8%
aan Oe OO 3 60
aoe ie. 98
}] Famtly, 90 lbs...... os
™ re
Sardines,
Russian, kegs..... ee ce 55
Trout,
No. 1, % bbls., 10d] bs... 4 00

 

 

 

 
   

36 1-Ib cartoons..... 6
25 Ib. boxes, bulk. . 5
| 50.1b. boxes, buik... 4%

SultanacRaisins, ie
1 Ib, cartoons............11

Ri No. 1 4g bbl, 40 Ibs...
ai No. 1, kits, 16 Ibs.

 

   

No 1,81b kits.........77 we

Whitefish,
No.1 family

6 bbls, 100 lbs........87 60 3 00
a 310 159
oe ee Ss «
oh 71 39
MATCHES,

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbia Parior.......... $1 9%
ao Cee... 1 00
Diamond Match Co.’s Brands.
as, © oii... 1 65
Anchor parlor...... web vniet ad 1 70
BO SOM... 2... ke

Sxport parier...........

 

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders’,
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Bestin the world for the money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

Regular
Vanilla,
doz
2oz.....81
12..... 2
XX Grade
Lemon.
-o..... $1 50
o..... 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla,
Zoe... . $1 75
Oz - se
Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2oz regular panel. 75 20
40% e «ot OO 2 00
6 oz ' oe On 3 00
Wo. & taper........ 1 35 2 00
Ro. 4 taper...,....1 & 2 50
Northrop’s
Lemon. Vanilla.
20z ovaltaper 75 1 10
0z . - 13 1%
20z regular ‘ 85 1 20
4 oz . * 1 2 25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s,
ao reece se bee eee ee. 3 25
eet Meee 1 90
muerecre KPGR.. 8. fl. 1 10
tos... 30
aioe 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s
ee - «oe
oon coe, —-—
Custer ker. ........ . ts
lip cans ...... . —
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
ee weet weceskh OO
oe eee 5 75
Cumrreees. 3 00
Doe... 60
HERBS,
8 a ee eee
meee. be ete kee a
INDIGO,

Madras, 5 1b. boxes....... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes... 50
JELLY.
> walle... cL . @ 43
lh ee @ 29

 . @ 65
LICORICE.
io a
npg a EN 25
ee
Ei 10
LYE,

Condensed, 2 dos........... 1 20
wa ©oo.........,. 2 2%

MINCE MEAT.

  

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....3 06

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.
(oe. 81 7%
or oon 1 40
ee: a. 70
ee ein, a 45
mee Oe 40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
eee 7 00
er COR |
ey
ee

MOLASSES,

Blackstrap.,
page Ronee... — 14

Cubs Baking.

eee Ll. a 16
Porto Rise.

de en 20

Fancy hn 30

~ New Orleans.
oe Meccccee

  

18

ecceseocen 22

He beicenen 27

Fan 40

tee he
Half -barrels 3¢c.extra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN,

 

 

PICKLES,
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00
Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 (0
Small,

Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00
Haif bbls, 1,200 count 3 50
PIPES,

(Clas, We 6... 17

* 2 fee comnt........ 70
oe weg. 120
POTASH,

48 cans in Case.
Banos... 8... 4 00
Pouns Sait Co.4........., 3 00

RICE,
Domestic,

 

    
 

 

  

 

   

SPICES,

Whole Sifted, :
Aree... 9%
Cassia, China in mats...... 9%

‘ Batavia in bund....15
' Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna....... 4
. Zanzibar.
Mace Batavia...
Nutmeg, fancy............. 75
' a a 70
_ ee 2. 50
Pepper, Singapore, black....10
= Br white... .20
- oe. 4 Le
Pure Ground in Bulk,
BOS 15
Casita, Batavia....:........ 18
. ' and Saigon .25
' Pe ae 35
Cloves, Amboyna........... 22
' Denesoar.......... 6
Ginger, African........ 2.
. Cochia............ 20
. cameeee ........ .. 22
Mace Dateyin............... 65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
' rome. ............ 25
Daumers Ho? ...... ...... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black....16
: . white..... 24
[ Cayoune........... 20
PAO
*‘Absolute” in Packages,
ls ee

Alloniee ........ eee. 84 155

Cinmamon........ —. OO ie

CONOR cs, 84 1 55

Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155

. Atviean........ & 1%

—— lees eee eee = ; =
age

Save...... hoc, cu,

SAL SODA,
Granulated, bbis............ 14

. 7GIb cases...-.. 1%

Pa ee 15

"Sees... - 1%
SEEDS, :

Co @i5

Canary, Smyrna....... 4%

Caraway .............: 8

Cardamon, Malabar... 90

Hemp, Russian....... 4

Mixed Bird........... 5@8

—— mite... . _
a

Meee’ oe 5

Caseie bone........... 30

STARCH,
Corn
 ilicnaal pis a 5%
> * edo icee sey a
Gloss.

SO ROCR Ae 5

3-Ib ee 5

6-lb - nebe ee ocd. eos. OOe

@ and 50 Ib. boxds.......... 35g

ee 3%

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37

Maccaboy, in jars........... 35

French Rappee, in Jars..... 43

SODA,

I eva Si
Bees, Boge... |. sky
SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... $ 1 60
Barrels, 220 lhe... ....... 2 50
. 115 2% lb bags.... 400
. mo m= ... se
iy =m ib” .... 5s

Butter, 56 lb bags......... 65

Sore oes... 3 50

OH

( ae 2 25
Worcester.

E24 beaches 84 60
60 5-lb ee 3 %5
ee YS 3 50
eee 3 30

ei ee 2 50

Sire... 24
ee 6
Common Grades.

MOSib chee... $2 10
woe, | <reiece & OO
ao cet BRO 1%

Warsaw.
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags... 30
28 lb. 6 “ = 3 16

Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75
8

Higgins.
56 1h, dairy in linen sacks. 7
Soiar Rock.

a

i ee ee
Common Fine.
ee 90
Manistee ......... ae 90

 

 

 

 

 

 

SALERATUS,
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Corea 3 30
ll itidmaitt 3 15
ayes... ae
Teas... eo. oe
SEELY’S EXTRACTS.
Lemon.
1oz. F.M.$ 90 doz. $10 20 gro
> 3.8 ta me
-~ Emig * Mae *
Vanilla,
loz. F.M.150doz. 16 20 gro
- A.8 so * on Ge *

= Peso “ 2 oo
Rococo—Second Grade.

 

Lemon.
208... hoe 800‘
Vanilla,
pcos. .... 1 doz... Os “
SOAP,
Laundry,

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands,
Old Country, 80 1-Ib........ 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 Ib.......... 3 90
White Borax, 100 %-Ib...... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.
Coneere 3 45
_wory.io. .. 6 75

eos ......... 4 00
a 3 65
Mottled German.... ro
orate 3 2

Dingman Brands.
Singte box. ...... a
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3 75

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands,
American Family, wrp'd..33 33
. ' plain... 2 27

N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands,
a Ge

Santa Claus....... Hones Oe
Br swa, 00 bars........ |... 210
“ bee. . 3 10
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
ee 3 75
(enoeGn... eae
merscniog 4 00
Oe oo. 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

   

Ll 3 65
lait ee 3 30
Savon Improved.... —. 2 oO
Santlower ....___. -. 2a
Golden... . om
Economical ..... reece a oe
__  Passolt’s Atlas Brand,
mae BON 3 65
SPOm lome 3 60
NOM ie 3 50
~—OCn iGindel 3 40
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 49
° hand, 3dos....... 2 40

SUGAR.

Below are ‘given New York
prices On sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you Credit on, the? invoice for
the amount of freight, buyer
pays from the market .in which
he purchases to -hig shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.

Pee $4 75
Cut Peele 7
ee 4 37
Powers 4 37
XXXX Powdered...... .. <&
Create 3 94
Fine Granulated...... ‘7’ 3 94

Extra Fine Granulated... 46
BOE A 4 37
Diamond Confee, A....._” 4 00
ee Standard A.. .... 3 94
No. I

 

SYRUPS.,

Corn.
Darrow... ss.  esicccae ae 19
Oe 20
Pure Cane.
Ee 18
ong CO ee EG 25
ee . 3
TABLE SAUCES,
Lea & Perrin’s, ioe... 4 7
' al

Mato lovee... 37
. ee ese ek,
Salad Dressing, large ..... 455

' . small ..... 2 65

|
|

 

 

TEAS,
JAPAN—Regular.
ee
Good...
Choice, ;
Choicest
ms ........
wae
Ceee..
Cage 24
CHgteene &
ott ~---.20 @i2
BASKET FIRED.
a. 18 @20
Ceeeee @25
eo . @35
Extra choice, wireleat @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @8s5
OOLON@a. @26
Common io fair... ... 23 @30
IMPERIAL,
“Gommon to fair....... 23 @26
Superiortofine........ 30 @35

YOUNG HYSON.

Commor to fair.......18 %
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
ae 18
Ceice..... 24 @28
Ome ..... ek. 40 @50
TOBACCOS,
Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s_Brands.
Sweet Russet..........30 @32
Tier. 30
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands,
Hiawatha ............. 60
Gee, 6. 32
MOGCeGS...... ... 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s Brauds,

 

  

Beers
Private Brands.
Paseo................ @30
et @27
nenie Biv............. 2 @2
Uncle Ben... a Ges
MeGinty ....... 27
Nt ee 24
Columbia, drums....... 23
Bene Up... ........... 23
Bang up, Grums........ 19
Plug.

Sorg’s Brands,
Beemrneaa ..... 39
JOmer ........ cc .. 37
Money Twist............ 40

Scotten’s Brands, i
Bvie.............. owe 25
Valley City ........... 34

Finzer’s Brands.

Olid Honeaty.......... 40
eae Tar... ... 4.4... 32

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41¢)....
Green Tore..........
Three Black Crows... 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Something Good...... 38
Outot Sight.......... 24

Wilson;& McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold Rope 43

 

 

  

     

Happy Thought....... 7
Moms 32
Co 31
nee Ge. 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,
Mile drice. ....._._......- 17@18
Golden Shawer........._... 19
Huntress cere c este, ae
Meersenaum ........... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands,
meyraio My. 40
Re ee ie ce .. 0
Gaeen 15
TO ei ee cae n ts oe een 32
aava, 4efou..........-.... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands,
CO ee 16
Banner Cavendish.. a
Get Ca oe 30
Scotten’s Brands,
Werpenn 4... ........... <4
money Pew... 26
Gold Sicek......... eeeae 6 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
: Brands, i
POORIORE.. 0.0 ...0._.. -26
Old Tom. ke
OO 22

Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
ee 40
Leidersdorf’s Brands.

On MOP... st oo 26
Uncle Sam..... eee 28@32
Mee Claver.............. coeode
Spaulding & Merrick.
mom aud Jerry. 4... 225
Traveler Cavendish........ 38
Pen OR es. 30
Feow og... 30@32
Coen Cane........,....... | 16
VINEGAR,

Be ca. dc dcceces @s

ee @9

$1 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD
Baie, per wal ....... ..
Beer mug, 2 dozincase... 1 75

YEAST,
Oe 1 00
Mere oo. 1 00
ee Pome 1 00
Piamond....... . he bod open: ae
Royal ..... bale wee 90

 

  

WOODENWARE.
wae Ne Fo 6 00
i 5 50
eS 4 50
Pails, No. 1,two-hoop.. . 1 30
“* No.1, three-hoop.... 1 50
Bowls, 111inch...... cae
“ 13 sc : i 90
oe 13
a 1 80
. Cl. .--. 2a
a wee
Baskets, market............ 35
- ae bushel.. 1 15
. ful — .. . ao
i willow c ‘ths, No.1 5 25

‘ se ‘es

- splint '
HIDES PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
WS:

lo
FURS.
Do 30 @19
Coen... » Oo.
Sane % @110
at, winter..... ee i
Mas, fal... 0 @ C8
Bed Fox... ... 100 @1 49
Gray fox, ..... @ @ 6)
Cross Pox... _. 300 @5 09
BPegger.. |. «5 ai oO
Cat, wild........ 3s @ @&
Cat, house...... oe @ 2
Fisher |... 500 @600
PNME I1@ @250
Martin, dark.... 200 @3 00
Martin, pale, yel 100 @ 1 50
ier... 500 @8 00
Wer... to eS és
Deaver.. |... | 300 @7 00
Bear... .s..... 15 00 @25 00
Cposeam........ mw @ 35
Deer Skin, dry.. 10 @ %
Deer Skin,green 05 @ 12%
HIDES.
Green... 2@3
Part Cored... @4
ee @ 5%
i 5 @6
Kips, green eeepc 3 @4
eS @6
Calfskins, green...... 5 @6
° GCured...... 6 @8s
Deacon skins.......... 10 @25
No. 2 hides %& off.
PELTs.

ShOGriivies ............ 5s & ®
tome |... 23 @ 50
WwooL,

Wenmee 12 @i5
Unwashed ............ & @i2
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tew. 3%@ 4%
Grease butter......... 1 @2
SWeCMOS 1%@ 2
Ginseng _._... 3 00@3 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.
No. 1 White (58 ib. test) 52
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 52
MEAL,
ee 1 40
Grangiated............ . 1&
FLOUR IN SACKS.
*Patente. oo. wt. secs, 1 OS
‘SeenOeras. 1 45
Ce, 135
— SS 1 20

1
*Subject to usual cash dis-

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

MILLSTUFFS,
Less
Car lots quantity
Eran. ........ $14 50 815 00
Screenings .... 12 00 13 00
Middlings..... se $ne
Mixed Feed... 23 00 24 00
Coarse meal .. 22 00 23 00
CORN.
oe, 45
Less than ¢ar jote.......... 48
OATS.
Car ids... 8... 33
Less than car lots.......... 35

HaY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots....10 90
No. 1 . ton lots...... 11 00
FISH AND OYSTERS.

F. J. Detienthaler quotes as
follows:

 

BESH FISH
Wattetem ............ 610
es @ 9
Paeen DAse............ 12
CO @15
Ciscoes or Herring.... @6
Oe @10
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 20
ae ‘ 10
We. t Piekerel......... @10
Pe... @9
Smoked White.... ... @s
Red Snappers..... cece 15
Columbia River Sal-
Mee... 1. ss 12%
Macken. 2... 18@x
OYsTERS—Cans,
Fairhaven Counts.... @33
w. 2. 0. Selec. ...... 28
BGIOGSE ........ 6...... @25
0 23
AMENOPE ooo. ...554... 20
Standards......... ae 18
Paverre......... 15
OYSTERS—Bulk.
Conn ss. 2 20
Extra Selects..per gal. 1 65
Berea. 1 40
Anchor Standards.... 110
Seapeerds ..._........ 1 00
Seahors......... as 1 50
1 2
UO cnn ae, 1 3a
ge — 501 7%
Oysters, per Leena
clams, “ Ke - %@1 00

 

LAMP BURNERS,

Ea 40
ae 45
Na? * CE dee leet e tee cues | ae
Eo emia ee Sete nice Oe
Re 60
ee a sO
OGG ee ae
aCe. oe

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6 doz. In box.

ee ee. as
Not “ oe ee -1 88
ee ete ve ee a a oe

First quality.

 

  

 
  

 

No. : Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...2 10
oO. ae ‘ ae 9 ¢
No. 2 “ “ ‘ee ‘ “ ty a 25
XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 6(
No. 1 “ec se “ “ce “ec “ | 2 Qu
No. = “ “re te “cc oe oe "3 80
Pearl top.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and mueig 3 7
noe * . = a 47
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ - a 4 8?
Fire Proof—Plain Top.

No. 1, Sun, plain bulb... Heenan a.
No.® * ee a a 40

La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, Per doe. «....... _., 125
Nos “ . . , ne Ceres e fd oe
BC coc. le ae
Nee “ Ty 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, ime (65¢e li Ae 2.2
No. 2, iime?(76e eT oie. ae
No. 2, flint (80e doz)... 22.01.7277) Nee eda 4 30
a Electric.

No.2, lime CEE 41
So Stem dedoa 4 40
Miscellaneous,

Doz.
eunior Heehester UN i “50
Matmes ee 15
PETER Be 1 00
Barrel lots,5 doz ......, Fe 90
7 in. Porcelain Shades....._ |. eee ee 1 00
Casctow idee _ 90
Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.
Z. Box
No. 3 Rochester, lime . 1 50 4 20
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 1 30 4 80
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gi'g.1 85 5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes. lime...1 75 5 10
No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint,. 2 00 5 85
No. 2 Pearl glass. . fees 6 00
OIL CANS.
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with See ae
1 gal galv iron, with ee - 200
2 gal galv iron with Se
3 gal galv iron with spout......_. Loe cae, 4 50
5 gal McNutt, with spout. .........00..1.17) 6 00
5 gal Eureka, with spout............//7/ 177! 6 00
5 gal Eureka with faucet........../.7727777" 7 00
5 gal galviron A. &W ... ee
5 gal Tilting Cans, Monarch...._._. |”! _ «4. .0 OO
> gall galy tron Nacefag 16/0110) 17777 959
Pump Cans,
Se) 10 50
Sen ee ee 12 00
Sen GOCCe 12 00
FE ee 13 50
5 gal Pirate ee on 10 50
LANTERN GLOBES,
No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz. GOGH... 1. ae
No. 0, . a ee 45
No. 0, . bbla5 “ ee. 40
No. 0, “ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 00
LAMP WICKS,
eG per grog ftecee ree, Oo
No. 1, TT 28
No. 2, a 33
hos * ae
Mamma perder 76
JELLY TUMBLER8—Tin Top,
4 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00)... 64
4g a | OO dog (bbl aay 23
— * G | | Bex, “ box (box 00)....' 4 50
2-7 a | Be, |) des (inl sg)... 26
STONEWARE—AERON.
etter Croems| ViaGeal O06
- - ment per des... |... ae
CURF) SOL Beraom 70
Me ee -. «&
Miik Pans, % gal., per dos......... ide <con (OO
6 - 1 * OO 72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED,
Butter Croeks,1 and2gal 6%
mer Pane, “gal per dog... 65
° 1 . eS 8
OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:
BARRELS,
MOOGNS Se 8%

XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight....... 7
Nene ao @ 6%
move Gesdine @ 7%
Cylinder... ee @36
nee. cS 13 @21
eee FerO feee 12
Sleck, tcold test...... oo 10
FROM TANK WAGON,
Boecene. us q

XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight...///. 977” 5

Waals 6

 

If you want to buy or
sell a stock of mer-
() HAI chandise, invite cor-
respondence through

our Wants Column.

OTYPES:
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

OBSTACLES TO CURRENCY REFORM. |

The reform of the currency bids fair
to take, for a while at least, the place of
the silver question as a topic of discus-
sion. The scheme for the issue of cir-
culating notes by both national and
State banks otherwise than upon the
pledge of Government bonds, which was
approved by the recent convention of
bankers at Baltimore, and is, therefore,
known as the Baltimore plan, has, with
some modifications, received the sanc-
tion, first, of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency, next, of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and, finally, of the President,
who has recommended it in his message.
A bill embodying it will probably, if it
can be prepared in time, be submitted
either to the Senate or to the house of
Representatives during the present ses-
sion of Congress, and although it is ex-
tremely unlikely that such a bill can be
passed at this session, it will none the
less serve as apeg upon which to hang
debate in the newspapers and among
citizens, as well as in the national Legis-
lature.

That our currency needs reform
universally conceded, but as to what the
reform should be, and how it should be
accomplished, a complete chaos of opin-

is

ion prevails. There is a radical dis-
agreement as to fundamental prin-
ciples and a multitude of conflicting

ideas as to details. In all sections of the
country errors are entertained as to the
true character and functions of money,
which it will take a long time to remove,
and which, until they are removed, will
greatly obstruct reform.

In the eyes of bank officers, and of the
commercial community generally, the
ehief defect of our present currency is
what is called its want of elasticity. The
volume of silver coin, silver certificates,
and legal tender notes being fixed by
law, that of national bank notes by the
requirement of the deposit of Govern-
ment bonds as security, and that of gold
by the production of the mines which
yield it, an unusual demand for currency
at a given point can be met, now, only
by drawing it from another point aud
thus causing a scarcity there. For ex-
ample, when the wheat, corn and cotton
crops are ready to be marketed, the re-
quisite currency to be employed in bring-
ing them from the farmers and planters
has to be drawn fram New York and
other Eastern financial centers, with the
effect of producing at those centers a rise
in the rates of interest, a contraction of
loans, and a fall in the prices of com-
modities and securities. To remedy this
evil the bankers assembled at Baltimore,
and those who agree with them unite in
recommending that the requirement of
Government bonds as security for bank
circulation be abrogated, and that all
banks, both State and national, shall be
allowed upon certain conditions to issue
eirculation against their own assets, sup-
plemented by a deposit of a certain
amount of legal tender notes as a safety
and a redemption fund. The theory of
this plan is that when any special de-
mand for currency arises the banks will
make a special issue of notes tosupply it,
that and as soon as this demand ceases the
banks will retire the notes it has called
out. Thus the quantity of currency
available will, it is assumed, never be
either deficient or excessive, and there
will never be at any point either a
monetary stringency or a monetary
plethora.

 

Were the function of currency exclu-
Sively that of facilitating exchanges, any
scheme which would insure the expan-
sion and contraction of its volume at the
pleasure of bank officers would be un-
objectionable and might be useful. But
currency serves the additional purpose
of measuring the value of commodities,
and, since its value in relation to those
commodities is determined by its volume,
any change of its volume changes its
value also, and, consequently, impairs
its stability as a measure of values. In
this aspect inelasticity in a currency is a
merit and not a defect. The advocates
of elasticity complain that when an in-
creased amount of wheat, corn, and cot-
ton is offered for sale a dearth of cur-
rency ensues, prices fall, and the rate of
interest rises. This natural and logical
result they desire to prevent. In effect,
they take the same ground that is taken
by the advocates of free silver coinage,
who demand that, since the quantity of
wheat, corn, cotton, and other commodi-
ties annually produced has of late years
immensely increased, while the quantity
of gold in use as money has remained
substantially unchanged, and thus a
general fallin prices has been caused,
either gold shall be discarded in favor of
silver, of which the production has in-
creased to as great an extent as that of
other commodities, or silver shall be
added to it, so that in either way prices
shall be raised to their former level. It
is extremely doubtful whether any sys-
tem can be devised which will contract
the volume of currency when it has once
been expanded, but if it can, such an
arbitrary contraction would be resented
by the sellers of commodities and by the
borrowers of money as much as they re-
sent the same result when it is produced
by natural causes. Before the Baltimore
plan can be adopted, therefore, it must
first be determined whether this varying
value of currency is desirable, and
whether it can be secured.

Again, the idea prevails extensively in
the agricultural districts of the West and
South that the chief business of a bank
should be the lending of money to bor-
rowers who desire to use it for the im-
provement of their property. In the de-
bates in Congress upon the removal of
the prohibitory 10 per cent. tax upon
State bank circulation, this idea was
very prominent. It was repeatedly
pointed out by the opponents of the tax
that, while money was piled up in New
York and could not be loaned even at
ridiculously {ow rates of interest, it was
not to be had by farmers and planters at
any rate whatever. This was attributed
to the want of local banks; and it was
contended that the remedy was the es-
tablishment of State institutions, free
from the restrictions of Federal laws in
the issue of circulation, to supply the
wants of the agricultural community.
Evidently, banks conducted upon this
theory could not be expected to redeem
their notes on demand even in legal ten-
ders, much less in gold. They would
lend the notes first to farmers and plant-
ers on the security of their land and live
stock. The borrowers would next pay
them out, in the purchase of implements
and fertilizers and in the erection of
buildings, to people who would use them
in turn in the payment of their debts,
and so they would eventually come into
the hands of persons who would want
them redeemed, either in Jegal tenders or
in coin. Then trouble would begin. The

   

 

 

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LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS

and

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These goods took the lead in this market last season and we have
reason to believe they will maintain their supremacy the coming season.

MUSSLEMAN GROCER CO.

 

Holiday Presents in Musical Goods, * %

An Immense Stock of

Weber, Hazelton, Fischer, Schaff
and other Pianos.

A. B. Chase and Ann Arbor Or-
gans.

Violins, Mandolins, Guitars,
Banjos, Harmonicas, Ac-
cordians, Music Boxes,
aig Ete.

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Friedrich, 30, 32 Canal St.

The. Sali :
thats al salf-

is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pur-
pose. It’s made from the best brine by the best process with the
best grain. You keep the best of other things, why not keep the
best of Salt. Your customers will appreciate it as they appreciate
pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, will not get damp and
soggy on yourhands. Put up in an attractive and salable manner. When
your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of “‘¢he salt that’s all salt." Can be
obtain _ from jobbers and dealers, For prices, see price current on other page.

| For other information, address
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

banks which issued the notes would
have plenty of mortgages on real and
personal estate, but they could not im-
mediately convert them into lawful
money, and for want of this money they
would have to fail and be wound up. A
bank currency redeemable on demand
would, therefore, fail to satisfy South-
ern and Western requirements.

This matter of redemption is also left
by the original Baltimore plan of bank
currency in a singularly incomplete con-
dition. The plan seems to have been
devised to provide for no more than the
occasional failures of banks which may
occur in the ordinary course of events,
leaving out of consideration the extra-
ordinary demands for redemption which
may follow a drain of gold to Europe or
be caused by a financial panic. A safety
fund of five per cent. and a redemption
fund of another five per cent., both in
legal tender notes, would manifestly be
insufficient in a crisis like that of last
year, and even the 30 per cent. fund pro-
posed by Secretary Carlisle, also to be
composed of legal tenders, might prove
inadequate. A great deal is said about
making bank currency safe, but ultimate
safety and immediate convertibility are
two very different things. Of the ulti-
mate safety of the legal tender promises
of our Government there can be no
doubt, but if they should cease to be re-
deemed on demand in gold they would
lose much of the value as currency. Still
less would a bank currency redeemable
only after the collection of the assets of
the banks issuing it be availableina
crisis in which a large number of them
should be forced to suspend payment.
To be as good as gold a currency must
be redeemable on demand in gold, and
the fund of gold applicable to this pur-
pose must be so large as to dissipate all
fears of its sufficiency under any circum-

stances.
The disposal of the outstanding legal

tender notes is another matter to be set-
tled before we can have any satisfactory
currency reform. These notes now
amount to $500,000,000, and, as the law
now stands, not one dollar of them can
be cancelled or even locked up in the
Treasury. They must be reissued as
fast as they are redeemed. If to them
and to the $600,000,000 of silver, silver
certificates and national bank notes,
which the Government practicaily under-
takes to maintain at par with gold,
should be added an indefinite amount of
bank notes, no matter how well their ul-
timate payment may be secured, gold re-
demption, already difficult, will become
well-nigh impossible. Unless the vol-
ume of legal tenders is reduced that of
bank notes cannot safely be increased.
Now, to reduce the volume of legal ten-
ders they must either be redeemed out of
a surplus revenue or be funded into in-
terest-bearing bonds. At present there
is no surplus revenue and no probability
of any for a long time to come, and fund-
ing is our only resouree. To fund the
whole of the legal tenders even at 21¢
per cent. perannum weuld cost the coun-
try $12,500,000 a year, and the proposi-
tion to impose this burden upon tax-pay-
ers for the benefit of the banks would be
sure to be defeated in Congress. Since,
then, the legal tenders cannot be retired,
we should rather seek to reduce the vol-
ume of bank circulation than to increase
it, for, by withdrawing the present $200,-
000,000 of that kind of paper currency,
we should insure the use inits place of

 

 

; 4 corresponding amount of Government

paper, and to that extent lessen the diffi-
culty of maintaining gold payments.
These are not all the obstacles that the
framers of a scheme for currency reform
have to deal with, but the mention of
them suffices to exhibit the thorny nature
of their task, and ought to enlist in their
behalf our most charitable consideration.
MATTHEW MARSHALL.
—qs3 2a _
Swetland’s Sea Food
Is again offered at his Morton House
lunch counter. The finest shell oysters
and live lobsters are received by express
every day direct from the seacoast, and
the way they are served has won wide
fame for Mr. Swetland.

 

 

Notice of Collection of State,
Commty and School Taxes

IN THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS,
For the Year 1894,

City oF GRAND Raptpa, )
KENT County, MicHIGaN,
November 30th, A. D. 1894. f
To the Taxpayers of the City of Grand Rapids,
in the County of Kent and State of Michi-
gan:

You are hereby notified that the general tax
rolis of the respective wards of the city of
Grand Rapids for State, County and School
Taxes have been delivered to me for collection,
and the payment of taxes therein assessed and
levied may be made to me on all sums volun-
tarily paid before the 10th day of Jauuary,
1895, with an addition of One Per Cent. for
collection fees. And upon all taxes paid on or
after said tenth day of January, 1895, there will
be added Four Per Cent. for collection fees.

That my office for the receipt of payment of
such taxes is located on the first floor of the
City Hall, in said City of Grand Rapids, near the
east end of City Hall. Thatsaid office will be
open for the receipt of such taxes, in said rolls
assessed, from 8 o’clock in the forenoon until 5
o’clock in the afternoon of each and every week
day, up to the First Day of March, A. D. 1895,

And said office will also be openon Friday of
every week (unless such Friday be a legal holi-
day), and on Tuesday of every weex (unless
such Tuesday be a legal holiday), from the hour
of 7 o’clock p. m. to the hour of 9 o’clock p. m.,
from the first of December, 1394, to the 10th day
of January, 1895, poth inclusive.

Marsh H. Sorrick,

Treasurer of the City of Grand Rapids.

 

Chas. Pettersch,

JOBBER OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and Limburger a Specialty.
161--163 West Bridge St. Telephone 123.
GRAND RAPIDS

‘WALTER BAKER & GO,

The Largest
Manufacturers of

COCOA and
CHOCOLATE

IN THIS COUNTRY,
have received from the
Judges of the

World’s
Columbian
Exposition

The Highest Awards
(Medals and Diplomas)
on each of the following articles,

namely:

BREAKFAST COCOA,
PREMIUM NO. {| CHOCOLATE,
CGERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE,
VANILLA CHOCOLATE,
COCOA BUTTER,

For “ purity of material,” “excellent
flavor,” and “uniform even composi-
tion.”

SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

WALTER BAKER & Co.,
DORCHESTER, MASS.

 

 

 

frases TEVENS

CAR STOVE.

THE
ONLY
PRRFEGY

STOVE

FOR

USK

IN
SHIPPING
POPATOKS,

 

We also carry a good
stock of plain board for lining
cars.

 

Write For Price.

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‘- Wash Goods for Janvary ‘95 Delivery -:-

Toilet du Nord, Bates, Normandie. Fancy
Lace effect Gingham, Palmer Seersucker in
290 patterns. All New Spring Goods: also
100 Cases New Spring Prints, prices range
from 3 3-4 to 5c in Simpsons, Hamiltons, Pa-
cifi , Cochecos and Manchester Makes. Our
Dress Goods for Spring are unsurpassed, sam-
ples will be shown Jan. 2nd.

- P, Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids, --

 

 

24

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, Dec. 15—The coffee market
is rather dull and buyers are not scram-
bling over each other in a “mad rush”’ to
make purchases. A fair trade is being
done by jobbers who have fine samples,
but, with a prospect of larger supplies
soon after the turn of the year, the feel-
ing is one of unsteadiness as to present
quotations. Rio No. 7 is worth 14<e.
An old firm of coffee brokers, John C.
Lloyd & Co., failed Thursday. No state-
ment of their affairs has yet been made
public, but the amount will not be large.

Refined sugar is selling in an everyday
way, and quotations show no change. It
is likely that good sized orders for stand-
ard granulated would be filled for 4c.

Teas are quite firmly held and holders
are still feeling that a rise is certain.
The demand, however, shows no appre-
ciable increase, and the interior is appar-
ently well supplied.

In molasses the demand is light, and,
upon the whole, rather disappointing.
Trading is chiefly for small lots, and
prices remain unaltered. N. O. open-
kettle, fair, 28@30c; do. good, 31@32¢;
do. choice, 35@38c.

Rice is firm, with the demand of an
everyday character. The supply is light.

Spices remain in the game groove, and
the entire line is dull, with, perhaps, a
little better tone on cloves and hnutmegs.
Singapore pepper, 413@5ce; Zanzibar
cloves, 53 @5*<c; Amboyna do., 12K4@
13%4e.

In canned goods the trade is dull be-
yond precedent, and prices of tomatoes
have gone down to 65c here and corn to
50c at the factory. The pack of 1894, as
shown by figures coming from canners in
all sections, has been ‘‘simply immense,”’
and those who are looking for better
prices in the future had better postpone
still further their hopes. Peaches are as
dull as all the rest of the list, and quota-
tions correspondingly low.

Dried fruits show no animation and
the market is about as for some time
past. Quotations are not to be relied
upon, as the general drift isto cut when-
ever necessary to make sales of any size.

Butter is without essential change and
receipts of the best grades are seemingly
sufficient to keep the rate at 24¢.

In cheese the market is quiet and even
jobbers seem to be taking a rest. There
is a confident feeling, however, regard-
ing the future. Full cream small size
State is worth 1144 @12e.

The egg market is weak, most of the
stock offered being not up to the mark.
State and Pennsylvania are quotable at
25ce; Western, fresh gathered, choice,
24e.

There is a pretty good demand for
fresh fruits, both foreign and domestic.
Lemons range from $2.25 to $3.25. Ba-
nanas are selling well and quotations are
a little higher, with holders firm.

Provisions are doing better. Mess
pork, $13.25@13.75; lard, $7.25; family
beef, $10@12.

Altogether we have to report a better
feeling among dealers, both wholesale
and retail. Salesmen are busy, and, al-
though the sales are for the most part of
a holiday character, staples are going

well, too. All are looking forward to a
good year during 1895. May the wish
come true!

The brilliantly colored neckties, about
which so much was written by corres-
pondents early in the season, are appar-
ently doomed to the dusty obscurity of
the upper shelves of the shops along
Broadway. The ties were of great
variety and of extraordinarily vivid and
striking colors, ranging all the way from
bright scarlet to the sharpest possible
shades of blue. They were sent over
here from London, and the fact has been
developed that they were the invention
of the Haberdashers’ Association in
Great Britain, which started out in an
effort to make the fashions. A conven-
tion of haberdashers and manufacturers
was held, and they decided to change the
dull and rather modest style of neckwear
now in vogue, and make brilliant. and
showy ties fashionable. Nobody has ever
been able to tell who makes or unmakes

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

the fashions either for the men or the
women, but it is pretty certain now that
the haberdashers cannot make the fash-
ions for either London or New York.
The market was flooded with gorgeous
specimens of neckwear, the shop windows
were made gay with them, and the newspa-
pers teemed with the news of fashion’s
new fad in neckties. This was in London,
but in a short time the same scheme was
tried in New York. But the taste of the
men who buy ties was evidently antag-
onistic to the taste of the haberdashers,
for the public absolutely refused to buy,
and a brilliant commercial scheme has
gone to the wall.
>_> —___
Jackson Post Presents a Candidate
for Treasurer.

JACKSON, Dec. 17—Post B, Michigan
Knights of the Grip, held an enthusiastic
meeting at the Hibbard House Saturday
evening and by a unanimous vote decided
to muster a goodly number to attend the
annual meeting of the parent lodge,
which occurs at Grand Rapids December
26 and 27.

The annual election was held at this
meeting, the following gentlemen being
chosen to tote the lodge grip for 1895:

President—E. A. Aylward.

Vice-President—H. P. Rockwell.

Secretary—W. S. Mest.

Treasurer—A. W. Stitt.

Sergeant-at-Arms—A. F. Peake.

The Post also decided to go to Grand
Rapids with the purpose and full deter-
mination of electing one of its members,
Chas. T. McNolty, to the responsible
office of Treasurer of the State Associa-
tion; and when the members of Post B
make up their minds to secure anything
they generally succeed. In this ease the
boys feel that there can be no more suit-
able candidate for the office than Mr. Me-
Nolty, who is known, not only to the
Jackson Knights, but to almost every
traveling man in Michigan. Mr. Mc-
Nolty was one of the charter members of
the order and has been amony the fore-
most in pushing its interests. When the
annual meeting was held in this city,
three years ago, he labored night and
day forthe purpose of making the gather-
ing a success. Heis a young man of
ability and integrity and a safe man in
whose hands to place the funds of this
important organization. While every
peuny of the moneys would be carefully
accounted for, were it necessary he could
furnish bonds in any amount required
without difficulty. Always an active
member, he has never asked for recogni-
tion in an official capacity and is not
now seeking the place, but his brother
members believe he is entitled to and
should receive the unanimous support of
the State Association.

A special meeting will be held at the
Hibbard House next Saturday evening,
at which time all who intend to make the
trip will report, in order that some pre-
liminaries may be arranged and badges
supplied.

OO Oo
Organization of Post J.

GRAND HAVEN, Dec. 17—The travel-
ing men of Grand Haven held a meeting
at the Cutler House Saturday evening,
Dec. 15 for the purpose of organizing a
local Post of the Knights of the Grip and
elected the following officers:

Chairman—Louis J. Koster.

Vice-Chairman—J. Woltman.

Secretary-Treasurer—J. W. Harvey.

Sergeant-at-Arms—Geo. J. Simpson.

Executive Committee—R. K. Stallings,
J. W. O’Brien and Walter J. Baker.

It was decided to present the name of
J. Woltman as Vice-President for the
Fifth District at the coming convention
and also to attend the annual meeting at
Grand Rapids in a body. Geo. F. Owen
is the unanimous choice of the Post for
Secretary and will be heartily supported.

The new post is to be known as ‘Post
J,’? but the members want it distinctly
understood that theirs is not a ‘‘J” Post;
but, on account of nearly every member
having the letter ‘‘J”’ in his name, they
think the name is rather to the point.

We are very enthusiastic over the com-
ing meeting and every one of us is
pledged to go to Grand Rapids, with his
better half, and take in all the fun Post
E is willing to give us.

Louis J. Kostsr.

 

‘GRAND RAPIDS, -— =

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co.
quotes as follows:

PORE IN BARRELS.

 
 
  
  

 

    

  

ee s2 50
ee 12 75
xtra clear pig, short cut............. . 14.0
no mxtntetirasiaie’! lee cid: Ae :
oor re 13 2%
Boston Geer, shertenut...... ........... 13 50 |
+ eutinatilae cate 12 50
Standard clear, short cut, best........ 13 %5
SAUSAGE.
ae eee 7
Bologna..... — — 5
Eaver......... i 6
Teneo... .. 8%
—. .. 6
Heed cheese ............... 6
ee oe 10
Sie ya ic 7
LARD.
Bettie Rendered..................
ee
ee 6
sangha. caries OL Ga i %
eee ies 74
SAN 6%
0 lb. Tins, 4c advance.
0 lb. pails, 4c e
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BEEF IN BARRELS,
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. coo
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7%
monceem ramp UNE 9 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain,
PAR ever 9%
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° - 12 to 14 lbs i0
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ing est boneless... bees 8%
Sees... ete ee _. ox
Breakfast Bacon boneless.......... os
Dried beet, ham prices.................. |. 10@10%
DRY SALT MEATS.
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Iam keeping down prices notwithstanding
the advance. Order at once for your Christ-
mas trade.

  

Solid Brand, Extra Selects, percan. .......8 26
Solid Brand, Selects, per can................ 24
Solid Brand, E. F., per can...... oe 20
Solid Brand, Standards, percan. . 20
Daisy Brand, Selects, per can .... 22
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can ... 16
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can... .. 14

Standards, per gal........ ..... Peewee ene ccns 90
Extra Standards, per gal.
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:

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ee 57
Ce 56
I5-Ib. pail. .... 7. 45

Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the
best made. 85c per doz. 3 doz. in case:
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:

40-Ib. pail, per Ib. ..... 6

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een eee 6%
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon........ ..... 10
Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon.. oo. 12

Fine Dairy Butter, per ib .. ...
ereen Mees. pet doe...
New Pickles, medium, barrels.... 5 00
New Pickles, % barrel........ / oeden cece ee
Now SauerKrant, barrels... ........ |... 4 00
New Sauer Kraut, % barrels............ 2 50

EDWIN FALLAS,
Oyster Packer and Manufacturer.
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

 

If You Want an OFFICE DESK,
ROLL OR FLAT TOP,
Send for Catalogue ‘‘A.’’

 

  

  

NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE Cco.,
33 to 39 Canal St., tec

 

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Wholesale Hats,
Boston.

 

I will be at Sweet’s Hotel Thursday
and Friday, Dec. 20 and 21, and shall be
pleased to pay the expenses of any deal-
er coming to the city for the purpose of
looking over my line. M. J. RoGan.

 

H. M. Reynolds & Son,

Headquarters for

STRAW BOARD

for lining

POTATO GARS.

Telephone 188.

Corner Louis and Campau
Sts., Grand Rapids.

Best Single Harness on
Karth for the Money,

 

 

Only $8.

All Hand Made.
A strong, durable 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, 114
in.; Breast Collar, 1% in.; Briching, 1% in.;
Bridle with blinds and overcheck, or, if de-
sired we will send a VERY NEAT LIGHT OPEN
BRIDLE. I am so confident that this harness will

7 | 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 for it. and, if not satisfac-
tory, return it at my expense. No Risk. It
Wiil Cost You Nothing to -ee

GH. WIkMOY’ Grand Rapids,

197 and 199 South Division St.

cer BIOS. Oe C0,

STATE AGENTS FOR
The Lycoming Rubber Company,
keep constantly on hand a
full and complete line of
these goods made from the
purest rubber. They are
good style, good fitters and
give the best satisfaction
of any rubber in the mar-
ket. Our line of Leather
Boots and Shoes is com-
plete in every particular,
also Felt Boots, Sox, ete.

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

 

.when our representative calls on you,

weare REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Buildings,
Interiors,
Landscapes,
Factories,
Maps,
Plans,

Show Cards,

 

 

or

ANYTHING

for

ANY PURPOSE.

 

Machinery,
Patented Articles,
Furniture,
Portraits,

Letter Headings,
Cards.

 

 

 

~ OF ANYTHING FUR ANY PURPOSE.

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Samples and Prices on Inquiry

TRADESMAN COPIPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

NOW IS THE TIME AND HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO

BUY JOB LOYS of HOLIDAY GCODS.

If you are looking for Bargains, come and see what we are offermg. It will more than pay you. If you are too :

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busy to come, order by mail We will guarantee the goods to suit you at the price,

 

 

Lot No. 1.

Contains a good assortment
of Bisque Figures, Vases and
Perfumery. Worth from 80c
to $1.50 per doz.

Job Lot Price 42c Doz.

 

Lot No. 2.

Contains Bisque Match Safes,
Bisque Figures, China Vases
and Perfumery. Worth from
$1.50 te $2 per dozen.

Job Lot Price 75c¢ Doz

 

Lot No, 3,

Contains Large Vases, Bisque
Figures, Glass Baskets and Per-
fumery. Worth from $2.25 to
$4.00.

Job Lot Price $1 98 Doz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lot No 4.

Contains a beautiful line of
Cups and Saucers. Worth from
2.25 to 4.00 doz. Would make
a splendid Assortment to run
for a quarter.

Job Lot Price $1.89 Doz.

 

 

 

 

 

Lot No. 6.

Another Doll Bargain. A
regular 50c retailer. Patent
washable doll, 194 in. long, pat-
ent leather shoes, colored stock-
ings. Would make a big lead
er for 25e. ;

Job Lot Price $2.00 Doz.

 

Lot No. 5.

Doll Bargains. A_ regular
1.50 per doz. Doll. 15 in. long,
washable head, hands and feet,
with hair and glass eyes.

Job Lot Price 75c Doz.

 

 

 

 

H. LEONARD & SONS,

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

 

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WARNING--Yo Users of Scales.

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