ee 7G LOR lo, SY * 5 — NAY 22 —S ” QR ‘ > } PaO) GOs ) es I “( 2) ) OES A’ oy oa ow A RAS Py ; \ 4 REC IR ne J BAS CONN yi dk Soe ? Dp A oD, by, Ze. ae Carn eS mS owt A Py PER Nia 2 ve aS AC SES oe NRG DRS 8 Po Ly AIX GaES aa JIYEPALN us G//s 4 et x @ £ (| Sy ae I) Xt r) OC (ay An MES = oa —- ye aa Io ey S UBLISHED WEEKLY GNGoe $1 PER YEAR SS SIPC OUI ISS ALD ae — RAPIDS, _ DECEMBER 26, 1894. Pronounced by Dr. Seeley: one of the most famous water cure physicians of this century and country, to be VOL. XII. equal ir not better than and water to his knowledge for ink Poe e ea a (bree bowels. He used itiu tne years 18i8 and 1849. tis opinion has been verined by scores of our patrons in Grand Rapids since the water has been placed on the market. Purest table water ex- tant. Address Ponce de Leon Water Co., 90 First Ave. Telephone 1382. GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH GOMP'Y, MANUFAGTUR. =e Fit Our Goods are sold by all GRAND KAPIDS” MICH Michigan Jobbing houses, EDWARD A MOSELEY, 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. Established 1876 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 = - Rubber Boots and Shoes. Mill and Fire Department Supplies. Manufacturers of Pure Oak Short-lap Leather Belting Jobbers of Skates. Rubber Belts, Etc., Saws, Saws, Steam Pumps, Large Stock. Low Prices. STUDLEY & BARCLAY, Grand Rapids. Mich ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader. SOLD ONLY BY teLFPRR SPICE CoO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEG SA SEE QUOTATIONS. HAD ey) VOIGT, HERPOLSHFIMER & CO. Wholesale 3 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 56@ CANDY Ui nw for holiday trade ? You can find it in great variety and right prices at A. E. BROOKS & GU., 5 #7 lonia St, Grand Rapids, Mich, _—— PEMEAING & HESS, DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, Nos. 122 and 124 iad a. Grand Rapids, Michigan. WE CARRY A STOCK OF (AKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. Duck __, Kersey Coats Pants We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment. to give entire satisfaction, both in fit and we aring (ui ea. We are also he: adquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of our manufacture are not regularly handled. Lansing Pants & Overall Cn., LANSING, [IICH. Oyster Crackers HEYMAN COMPANY, ‘Manufacturers of Show Gases of Euery Description. t : . ; \ Are now in season. We manufacture ; All Kinds SEAR). SHLIINE WAFER OY SQUARE OYSTER i : | A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed in 1 Ib. cartoons | with neat and attractive Jabel. Is one of the most popular | packages we have ever put out. Try Our NGLION RUM CAKES. 1 lb. $2.40 per doz. Handsome embossed packages, I 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, Manager, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. 63 and 65 Canal St, Grand Rapids, Mien WRITE FOR PRICKS. Standard Oil Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN DEALERS IN lllUminating and Lubricating < OILS :- Naptha and Gasolines. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, TRAVERSE CITY. LUDINGTON, ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY. Highest Price Paid for KMPTY GARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, Importers and Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. 5 ¢ ny¥ oh COR tad OF kd & roy a Aaa ete ) VOL. XII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN ESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1894. NO. 588 THE NIGHIGAN TRUST G0, unc. Makes a Specialty of acting as Executor of Wills, Administrator of Estates, Guardian of Minors and In- competent Persons, Trustee or Agent in the management of any business which may be entrusted to it. Any information desired will be cheerfully furnished. Lewis H. Withey, Pres. Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance C0. Organized 1881. DETROIT, MICHIGAN. TP af PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. FIRE INS. co. SAFE. ESTAELISHED 1841. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada WILLIAM STUART, Expert Accountant and Notary Public. Books opened, written up, trial balances made, etc, Conveyances done and collections made. Room 5, over Fourth National Bank. References: Messrs. White & Friant,F. Letellier & Co. and J. Frederic Baars, cashier National City Bank New Turkish Baths In connection with the Morton House, No. 91 Monroe street, are open night and day, Every Tuesday forenoon and Fri- day all day will be reserved exclusively for ladies. M. S. LABoursiizr, Proprietor and Chiropodist. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE S8T., Have on file all reports kept by Cooper’s Com- mercial er and Union Credit Co. and are constantly revising and adding to them. Also handle collections of all kinds for members. seen 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, Ets, CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, e 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 favoratly knownas Piedmont or Cumberland Blossburg and stands unrivalled for smithing purposes. S. P. Bennett Fuel & Ice Co-, Grand Rapids, Mich. HEADACHE PECK’S “"Sowoans Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. It was ashameful story which the wires flashed eastward from San Francisco on the incoming of the month, and for the first time in many a day, if ever before, the saloonkeeper had the sympathy of that class of citizens who are wont,to look upon him and his calling with unfriendly eyes. On that day, however, the city and the saloons at the Golden Gate were invaded by a gang as merciless as “the Assyrian [that] came down like the wolf on the fold.” They went the rounds of the city in hundreds. They swarmed into the saloons and beer halls, smashing chairs and glasses to emphasize their de- light, and they terrorized the citizens wherever they went. The police were powerless to control them and all that re- mained for the saloonkeepers to do was to appeal for protection to the authorities of the University of California and of the Stamford University, protesting against the conduct of the students of those in- stitutions of learning after the foot ball match. Some days before this, in the cultured East, when the date and the place of the foot ball contest between Harvard—if we do not mistake—and Princeton, was an- nounced, the rumor went abroad that the New York theaters, after the experience of a year ago, had taken due precaution to prevent the repetition of a similar out- rage; and they who care to read the record of the collegiate foot ball en- counters need not be told of the brutality which is constantly taking place. The question is often asked why these gentlemen and the sons of gentlemen are willing to engage in public fights, for they are nothing else. Can the reason be, because they are neither gentlemen nor the sons of gentlemen? Is it really true that these young men are sent to college, because, when the fathers of these same young men were at the college age, the sons of men of mark’ were col- lege-trained? Do the boys themselves want to go, because Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate made the college a step- ping-stone to success? And do their par. ents have the faintest idea that the wind- falls from the apple orchard can be dumped into the hopper of the cider press with a superior quality of ‘extra dry” as a result? If it takes three generations to furnish a gentleman, all the improved cider presses and the most skillful treatment known can only furnish a little better cider out of that first generation of wind- falls. So the college, like the cider press, takes themin. They area wormy lot. They are of the earth—earthy. They smack intensely of the soil; but they are ‘‘college boys’? now, and they must do as they have heard that coliegians do. The old trick of stealing a ware- house sign is passe or, in common par- lance, is a chestnut. It must be en- larged upon and improved; so the sign is taken down, the warehouse windows smashed with it, and it is then hurled at the interfering watchman’s head. Ten to one, the class of ’29, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ class, never came so near killing a watchman as that! Lake Quinligamond is to be the scene of a boat race. The windfall is on hand. He yells for his alma mater, and, when the race is over, in her dear name he does his best to turn the old Bay. State House inside out. ‘Bill? Send it to the old man!’ And the old apple tree that is looking forward to a little champagne cider one of these days pays the bill, re- joiced to see such proof that “the boy’s gittin’ on!” Foot ball? Stand right back. There’s where he shines. The spirit of a long line of windfalls rises to the occasion, and if he cannot be one of the eleven to slug his man, he can be and is the one to do a little fighting on his own account, when the touchdown game is over. So New York has a double Thanks- giving—one for the day and the other for seeing the last windfall safely out of town. So San Francisco with her saloon- keepers implores the college president to protect her from the outrage of the stu- dents. is endurance the only remedy? Be it so. Ifthe third generation is to amount to anything, the beginning, unpromising as it is, must be made now. Be it so. If the boy—that kind of a boy—must go to college, that matter is settled. Web- ster and Choate have been faithfully fol- lowed so far. Let the imitating go vig- orously on. They were faithful students. In good, plain, homely talk, ‘they got their lessons;’’ and the lessons were long enough to keep them busy. Let the mat- ter center right there. Make the lesson long enough and insist that it shall be learned. That one simple rule will in six weeks start homeward this objection- able material, the working up of which can be carried on better under the parental rooftree than anywhere else and with better promise for that third gener- ation. With this wheel-clogging element out of the way, the student born and not made will once more come to the front. There may not be quite so much gate money in different parts of the country; but there will be less slugging going on, the number of killed and wounded will be lessened, and the colleges can go on again with the old work of furnishing educated men for the places in the world which are calling for them; while the Websters and the Choats who are mak- ing the college training the means of reaching those places will not toil in vain, and so bring back to these higher institu- tions of learning the legitimate work for which they were founded. RICHARD MALCom STRONG. lc When Abraham Lincoln once presented a bill for $1,000 for services rendered to General George B. McClelland, then su- perintendent of the Illinois Central Rail- road, that gentleman refused to pay it, Saying: ‘‘That is as much as a first-class lawyer would charge.’’ —__--_—-+ Founders’ shares in the Suez Canal, which twenty-five years ago were worth $250 each, are now quoted at $250,000. STRINGS TO LITTLE SHOES. The child ina family is greater than king or queen, potentate, or even politi- cian. In the divinely regulated economy of human life, by which what is good in it is kept from the flies, and what is bad is restrained or corrected, the little child is one of its living and forceful factors. It was said some thousands of years ago, and the words are as full of sap and throb to-day as they were then, ‘A little child shal] lead them.’’ It will be so un til the last cradle on the planet is rocked. Every child, lordly or lowly born, fair and shapely or distorted in feature or limb, with the faint impress of noble- ness or hereditary sins on its face, has its beneficent, though unconscious, mis- sion. _ It is as iunocent of design or re- sponsibility as the daisy that inspired a Burns, the star that led the shepherds, or the bird that sings to a hungry Laz- arus. With the roughest or rudest of men, the trustfulness and innocence of a little child are a recall to what time and the devil have not spoiled in his nature. What he once was, but is not now, and may never be again, is mirrored in the face that looks in his from the cradle or the knee. A manacled criminal, with stained hands and a frozen heart, spares a farewell tear for the little hands that never stole and the lips that never lied. Verily, in that dreary and desolate soul there is yet left a lone blossom on a dead tree. Besotted and brutalized fathers and brothers, soaked with rum and beast- liness, when reason relights its lamp, and virtue struggles out of dead leaves like a crocus in spring, look in the face a child and fora moment repent of their sins. No spoken or written word, and no pic- ture by pen or brush, could so readily and vividly rebukea drunkard or a brute. Men who are lazy in bone and practice, who would rather hunger than Sweat, who leave empty cupboards at home, and return at night with more free lunch in their bowels than cash in their pockets, can lie to a landlord and curse a patient wife, without spoiling their sleep or dis- turbing their conscience. We have yet, however, to put our eyes on the man of this type who could look squarely into the pinched and pallid face of his hungry child without wincing. The same holds true with men who are neither drunken or lazy, but at the dicta- tion of an agitator will drop their trowel or hammer, and with it the means of paying their debts or feeding their fam- ily. The man may be obstinate, and, from his standpoint, a reasonably reso- lute and justifiable striker. Orators and writers may sublimate his folly. Un- paid rent, a fireless stove, and one meala day may not reverse his opinion or change his purpose. He ean stand this sacrifice without a murmur, but the little folks at home, with little to wear and less to eat, can doand have done more, and forever will do more, to checkmate a human and economic folly than anything else on the face of the planet. Bayonets are nowhere when little white fingers en- ter the contest. In the general run of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. daily life the influence of a child is as Strongly manifest. Many a man with hard hands and aching arms, knotted and gnarled like an old oak in the struggle of life, will be cheery and hopeful at his forge, furnace, or lathe, when he sees a little face in the hot iron, and hears the ring of a voice in the rhythm of his an- vil. Men who in the stern struggle for existence have lost the finer feelings of humanity, their sympathies run into pig iron, and their faith in human kind gone forever, have a recall to their old selves when achild twines its arms around a rugged and perverted nature, as green ivy on the trunk of a dead tree. The touch and confidence of innocence have no rival force in this mundane sphere. It would be well if the qualities that gives childhood its influence were not lost when we get out of short clothes. As it is, the truest and best of human kind are those who have earried the strings of lit- tle shoes into the duties of maturer years. FRED Wooprow. —-—s_ =a American Beef in England. Roast beef is John Bull’s standard fare, and some physiologists have attributed | to the influence through many genera- | tions of this sort of food the great phys- | ical stamina and constitutional vigor of the English people. The ox is one of the sturdiest and most muscular animals in the world. He is purely a vegetarian and one of the cleanest of all feeders. He has abvun- dant courage along with his great strength; but he is not quarrelsome or vicious. It is not unreasonable that people who for many centuries have been nourished chiefly on beef should have drawn from it particular qualities, not only of body, but of mind. On the other hand, it should be ex- pected that those people who habitually feed on the flesh of the hog, and whose ancestors have done so before them, would derive from their daily food some qualities special and peculiar to them- selves. The people of these United States chiefly consume hog meat, and if there were no other reason for their be- ing different from the beef-eaters of Old England, that would be at least one suffi- cient reason. Of course, the ‘‘tight little island’ of Great Britain does not afford enough beef to feed its people, and so great quantities have to be carried there from other countries. The Argentine Repub- lic and other of the pampas or prairie countries of South America are large sources of beef supply; but so, also, is the United States. The statistics gath- ered by the Department of Agriculture at Washington show that during the nine months of 1894, ending Sept. 30, the farmers and _ stockraisers of the United States exported to Great Britain more than 300,000 head of beef cattle, of a value of over $26,000,000. These cattle are all shipped on the hoof, and, although there is some trade in slaughtered beef carried in refrigera- tor ships, it does not compare with the export of live cattle, it being difficult to overcome the prejudices of the people in favor of live beef cattle. The regula- tions governing the importation to Eng- land of live stock are the same as to ani- mals from the United States and Canada, no discrimination being made for or against either class. All of the animals are, under the English law, slaughtered immediately upon arrival at British ports. Large proportions of the meat thus taken to England are sold in the re- tail markets of London, Liverpool and other cities as ‘‘prime Scotch”? or ‘‘Eng- lish beef.” Under that classification the buteher demands and secures a better price than he could with the meat known and sold as Canadian or American. Some facts of economic importance are learned from the department’s report. It appears that the live beef trade is con- ducted at different ports with slight dii- ferences. At Deptford sales are private on the hoof. At Liverpool half the ani- mals are sold privately. The other half are slaughtered on account of shippers and sold to buyers by the carcass. The Liverpool surplus makes its way to Lon- don, and a large part of it, beyond ques- tion, is so cut up as to simulate prime Scotch joints. At Glasgow and Bristol nearly all animals are sold at auction on the hoof. The charges do not differ materially at the various ports. They are about $3.75 per head for all terminal costs, includ- ing commissions for selling. Add to that the freight, $11, and $1.50 for the feed and attendance of each animal on the voyage, and $1.60 for insurance, and | we have a total expense for each animal shipped of $17.85. This represents very nearly accurately the expense of getting a beef animal from the American port in- to the kands of the British buyer. On Oct. 25, 1894, good American steers were bringing in the British market $85 each, so that it is easy to see what the encour- agement is for exporting beef cattle. In England the offal—especially in London and Liverpool, where large num- bers of poor people purchase it—is con- sidered of great importance. Heads, tails, livers, kidneys, lights and hoofs go to one buyer, and the hides and inside fat to another. Parliament disinclines toward the encouragement of a trade in dressed meat, because that would shut out the offal. But the Commissioner thinks that if the American cattle are killed at home, properly dressed, and sent to Europe in a state of refrigeration, the cost of American beef will be reduced in all those markets. By killing at home and shipping only the dressed carcasses, bulk is compacted, value is enhanced, and the cost of transportation is reduced, so that the poor, who heretofore have bought offal, may be able to buy good meat instead. During the first six months of the year 1894 there was ex- ported into the United Kingdom of Great Britain 112,000,000 pounds of dressed beef, valued at nearly $10,000,- 000. This trade im dressed beef is al- most entirely in the hands of American citizens. The question of the differences of races of people is most interesting, and one that may possibly never be solved; but the anthropologists must find much worth attention in the _ investiga- tion of the infiuence of the food of a people on their physical and mental characteristics. The people of the British Islands have, of all mod- ern races and nations, made the largest impression upon the history, the prog- ress and the literature of the world. How much of it is to be attributed to the roast beef of Old England ? FRANK STOWELL. — —>_ There is as much to learn about spend- ing money as in making it. WHAT STOVE MERCHANTS With Experience in the Trade Have To fay 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 cook stove busi ness.) Newark & Drury, Cadillac, Mich. We are glad we control in Cadillac the best cooking apparatus made—the grand Majestic Stee] Range. H. Sheldon & Co., Janesville, Wis. After a most thorough and scrutinizing test, we believe that the people who do not use a a Majestic Steel Range waste the cost of it every year in the unnecessary amount of fuel consumed and the waste of food by im- proper baking. Harry Daniels, Jerseyville, Til. I never learned ,what a cooking apparatus was until, during the exhibit, the value of the Majestic and its many excellencies were demonstrated tome. Over one hundred in use. Every user delighted. P. D. Ray & 80n, 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 Majestics. 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 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 ‘“‘Majestic’ in economy of fuel and facility and dispatch in properly preparing food for the table. Tausche, La Crosse, Wis. The virtues of the Majestic Steel Range, which have been demonstrated to us and our people during the exhibit here, were both surprising and gratifying tous. Every user (of which there are a large number) says we did not tell them half the advantages of the Majestic over the cook stoves they had been using. . K Johnson Hardware Co., Alton, Ill. 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, ich. 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 conclu sively prove beyond a doubt that the Majestic is in every particular all that is claimed for it. D. A. z.. For further particulars address J. W. JOHNSTON, Manager, Grand Rapids, Mich. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. Headquarters for Over Gaiters nd Leggins $2.50 per dozen and Upwards. Lol Ses Duck and. Sheepskin Sine, Mail us your order and we will guarantee satisfaction in both price and quality. Notice of Collection of State, County and School Taxes IN THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, For the Year 1894, City oF Granp RapPips, Kent County, Micuigan, November 30th, A. D. 1894. To the Taxpayers of the City of Grand Rapids, in the County of Kent and State of Michi- an: 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 January, 1895, with an addition of One Per Cent. for collection fees. And upon all taxes paid on or after said tenth day of Jannary, 1895, there will be added Four Per (ent. 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 sald 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 wees (unless such Tuesday be a legal holiday), from the hour of 7 o’clock p. m. to the hour of 9 o’elock p. m., from the first of December, 1394, tothe 10th day of January 1895, poth inclusive. Marsh H. Sorrick, Treasurer of the City of Grand Rapids. A ana | 5 AND7 PEARL STREET. | Cele’ BIOS. SHG G0, STATE AGENTS FOR The Lycoming Rubber Company, keep constantly on hand a full and complete line of these goods made from the purest rubber. They are good style, good fitters and give the best satisfaction of any rubber in the mar- ket. Our line of Leather Eoots and Shoes is com- plete in every particular, also Felt Boots, Sox, etc. 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 OO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ONE AIM IN BUSINESS. Probably nothing would more effec- tually serve to elevate every honest oc- cupation, and to ennoble every worker therein, than a realizing sense of the service thus rendered to the community. Most people pursue their various em- ployments as a means of livelihood, or of increasing their personal advantages and comforts, and these motives are per- fectly justifiable. The mistake they make is that they have no other. They do not reflect that their work is also a means of promoting the welfare of the community; or if they admit the fact, it does not come home to them in that im- pressive way which would lead them to receive it as an aim to be achieved. There are a few pursuits where it is ex- pected that this end will be kept in view, and where the worker that has within him no motive but that of self-in- terest is held to have degraded his high calling, but that all employments demand so high a standard of action is an idea floating in the air, perhaps, but by no means brought into general or practical use. In commercial life, for example, the profit of the individual usually occupies so large a proportion of the attention that but little is left for the real bene- fits which commerce itself bestows upon the people at large. That it furnishes a livelihood to multitudes and fortunes to some, are by no means the greatest of its benefactions. Its contributions to the comfort and conveniences of the public by bringing necessities and enjoyments within the easy reach of all is incaleu- lable. In this respect alone it is one of the chief factors of civilization. But it does much more than this. It draws men together by common interests. It binds the East to the West and the North to the South. It even unites countries between which oceans roll, enabling va- rious nations to mingle, and thus to un- derstand and to respect each other. By encouraging travel it spreads ideas and methods, conversing and establishing the best, and planting them where they have hitherto been unknown. Thus, through the influence of commercial enterprise, the differences that mark different states and nations, instead of proving insuper- able barriers to friendly intercourse, are made to subserve mutual improvement and to enable each one to make con- tinual advance. There is another and even more im- portant benefit which commerce bestows upon society, that of increasing trust and confidence by promoting honesty and equity. We hear and read of so many instances of cheating and overeaching in trade that we forget that these are the exception and not the rule. Every ease of dishonesty is pointed out and emphasized, when of the thousands of honorable merchants and tradesmen of all kinds nothing is said. We are ac- customed to think much of the great temptations to unfairness and double- dealing that beset the young man enter- ing business, and it is well that he should be put upon his guard against them, but it is also true that mercantile life as a whole is a school wherein in- tegrity and rectitude must be among the chief lessons. For commerce is built upon trust, and whatever shakes or un- dermines that trust weakens the whole structure. If roguery and unfaithful- ness were general, the foundations of business would give way, and commercial enterprise would no longer be pussible. It is but a poor and temporary gain that the shortsighted swindler or the dishon- est trader obtains. He is speedily dis- covered and shunned, and sooner or later he is ostracised from the business world as completely as the sensualist or the drunkard is ostracized from good society. True gain is not the transference of money from one man’s purse to another’s, without adequate return, but the increase of social welfare by efficient and intelli- gent labor. When this is realized and acted upon, commerce will attain a sure and permanent success, in which all en- gaged in it will be sharers. Thus, while business life depends for its true prosperity upon good faith, rec- titude and honor, so in its turn it fosters and encourages these virtues. Mr, Lecky, in his ‘History of European Morals,’”’ speaks of industrial veracity as that ‘‘aecuracy of statement or fidelity to engagements which is commonly meant when we speak of atruthful man. * * This form of veracity is usually the special virtue of an industrial nation, for, although industrial enterprise af- fords great temptation to deception, mutual confidence, and, therefore, strict truthfulness, are in these occupations so transcendently important that they ac- quire in the minds of men‘a value that they had never before possessed.” If this be so, it gives to business life an ethical character that is seldom accorded toit. Nordo the virtues it inculcates end with itself. When we occupy a high standard of action in one part of life, it raises that of all the rest. One who has been accustomed to be faithful and loyal in his home is not likely to be false in his friendships, and if business requires integrity in its followers, the seeds thus sown will blossom out in other spheres, and thus a better character, as a whole, will result as the fruits of its influence. Is not such a result worth reflecting on and planning for? Do not let us lose sight of it in the effort for personal gain. Let us ponder on the good of trade, not only to the individual trader, but also to the community, to the nation, to the world. Just as the faithful physician feels himself bound by the honor of his profession to promote health and alle- viate suffering, so let the upright mer- chant realize the noble mission of his oc- cupation and strive to do his share to- ward furthering it. The duty of service comes to us all, and nothing tends more directly to elevate our employment and to dignify our relation to it than to hold this duty close to our hearts and prom- inent in our lives. —_— > -- > Actual Business Practice, With requisite book-keeping, is ex- acted of students at the Grand Rapids Business College. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices n the — cities of the United States, Canada, the Euro continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Ofice, Room 4, Widdicomb Blig HENRY ROYCE, Supt. UOAN 1S, PHUALS wad NOLS wd The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:%3 STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails, Standard per Th... 6% 7% ee 6% «7% by Twist Sigicdey aes 6% 7% Boston Cream............ OM ee 9 Ree A . ... 9 MIXED CANDY Bbls. Pails i 5% 6% i ok 5% 6% pore ee cecil sil cla lest ca ™% 8 ee eee setae cll, coaes 1% 8% English a 1% 8% ROO eee csc 7% 8% Bromen Taiyo... 1.2... baskets 8% Peanut Squares............ 8 : PrOmOM CNN co cs cs 9% Valley Creams.. a 18% Midget, ME WN os coc sess cace chen CRT ee os eee 3% Fancy—In bulk meric Lozenges, sa rinted 4 FaNcy—In 5lb. boxes. Per — Om -swcbonee a oe pc cceles Peppe: nt Drops.. Piece tuceus«nctce Chocolate Drops. . ee eided eoaeea | H. M. Chocolate Drops. liad Ge cwbee seus ce woe 80 Maven SO 40@50 UI oa ce 1 00 A. B. Licorice Oe 80 Lozenges, ee oe ee ee eee scene 65 printed . 65 Imperials......... -60 ottoes........ -70 Cl “soe ee ee 55 Hand Made Creams ao. 85QIS PO Ms 80 ORO 90 ee 65 MG AO 100 Wintergreen a Sad ek ee ae eee 60 _ 1, — 2 Ib. “poxes.- ae - Ne 2 ~ 3 een 28 ORANGES, Floridas, Fancy Brights, = ae 23 Floridas "Fancy oo 2 49 Floridas, Fancy Brights, 176, 200, 216... -28 Floridas, Golden Russets, :50, 176, 200, 216... 2 4u LEMONS. TE a 3 50 Extra Choice, ee es 3% om ee sacs o OO ee 4 00 BANANAS. ee PO ee i 1% Small eae Scidgedecsed ssid ecesses 1 00@1 50 B FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers Ree. 5... 12 Oe, 34 - Cue ~*~ Oe .......... 1.2.4... 11 Oe RO eee be chacane . 6% Dates, ard, 10-1b. box ac egage woes Qi “ ee ee @ “ Persian 60:1b. WO. @ 5% - Sie nova... ._........ dedi pak oueial oe 3% NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona.................... @15 Tyeek.........:.:.. -- @is California, soft shelled |... @i2% Co ee @i% Filberts . ee a Walnuts, Grenobie. Ss oe French.. 10 ” ee one oe edce @12% ‘“* Soft Shelled Calif. @i4 Tapie Nuts, . Seed aac 7% Om Pecans, Texas, a4 Me as a ga 6O7™% ee ee 4 Hickory Nuts per bu.............. aac Cocoanuts, full aacks............. wees 4 00 BeeeeNO, Oe ns, ns wee 75 Black Walnuts, per bu........... ...... 60 Fancy, H. P. Suns @5*% @ 6% Fancy, H. PF pees cael sa @ 5% “ roasted. a ae ee go @ 6% Cuetes, WF, Muga... os... @ 4% i ” = meee .........-.. 6 FRESH MEATS. BEEF. I iis os ec eccle ee nenens 5 @6 Fore Quarters........---scccccccccesseee 34@ 4% Hind quarters.........-..+ i Loins No. 3........++ ees cae oslo - 8 Pe es seca 6 Hounds ........0. segceee eee 5 g : Chucks ..c-ccccee... 2+ + 46 geen seen 3%O 4% Oe a eo 3 @ 3% PORK, Dressed... .. se yics cuss, Ae S ee ceseee ‘ 7 Shoulders ...... 6 Leaf Lard....... 8 MUTTON. Carcass ....... Se ce el tlig glia ost diac 4 2 5 oa i ee cic ep ecaciccdncsccdtcss GOGGNE VEAL. CON oe ae. setctieeactacs © GI6 PROVISIONS The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. ee. 22 50 OOOO cc 12 50 £xtra clear pig, short cu 14 00 Extra clear, heavy...... (eer, fas DHGK.. 2... .:.... oe a 13 25 Boston Clear, short cut...... pee cue ee 13 50 Crees PAGE shorlout,............,...... 13 50 Standard clear, short cut, best........ : 13 75 SAUSAGE, —_ En ae 6% Bologna..... de ge secu eese ee 5 Bee eee eect wae 6 ——— eee ee 8% ee 6 ee a 6 Pe 10 rere eee cee: 7% RD. Kettle Rendered.. ae 84 6 BEEF IN BARRELS. bs Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. « &5 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 00 a 9 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average ee ce 9 ig eae 934 . ie 12 to 14 lbs -10 i 7% = Bee 8% 6% Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9 ried beet, bam prides.......... 2... 2... 10 < NY DRY SALT MEATS. ee 6% Brinks, — Bu D. s "ideilies bbs sees ee PICKLED Piés’ FEET. ee OO 3 25 _— Od sees 7 eel ee uu ee | TRIPE. lie, CO 75 Se CM 85 —IF YOU WISH AN — Engraving of Send us a photograph and tell us what changes you may wish in the view ar- rangement of signs, etc. (we can make any changes), and it will surprise you at how low a price we can make it and do the finest work. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, [lich. GRINGHUIS’ ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. : Quires, = PARES... . cess ee eeee cere ee eee ees 82 .- i. go Se ee oe a Ey a 3 50 . ° = eid c suede: 4 60 INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 invoices. ..82 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Agents, Grand Rapids, - - Mich. AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Alamo—Fred J. McCali succeeds W. R Maltby in general trade. Millington—A. C. Allen succeeds F. E. Kelsey in the drag business. Fairport—Jas. Seams succeeds Alvin D. Rice in the groeery business. Mt. Morris—W. F. Durham succeeds Durham & bush in general trade. Springport—Fred Gregory has sold bis hardware stock to Allen Crawford. Gooding—Gooding & Co. succeed R. B. Gooding & Son in the grain business. Marquette—H. E. Kellan succeeds Watt & Kelian in the grocery business. Ovid—E. H. Danforth is succeeded by A. B. Danforth in the furniture business. Yale—Hoiden & MeNair, general deal- ers, have dissoived, J. C. Holden succeed- ing. Chadwick—E. T. Bolster succeeds G. W. & E. F. Bolster in the grocery busi- ness, Falmouth—The drug stock of G. V. Brown been seized on chattel mort- gage. Cassopolis—Grant Underhill & Co. sue- ceed Underhill & Dever in the grocery business. Flint—Geo. Sturt & Son, grocers, have dissolved, Geo. H. Sturt continuing the business. Detroit—L. Biack & Co. sueceed Black & Connolly in the jewelry and silverware business. Sturgis—Thos. H. Berridge succeeds Thos. Berridge & Son in the manufacture of shears. Frontier—Robt. W. Swift chased the general stock of Chas. ley & Son. Lake Odessa—Theo. Forster has re- moved his jewelry stock from Lakeview to this place. Sault Ste. Marie—C. E. Ainsworth suc- eeeds Ainsworth & Alexander in the saw- mill business. Lansing—Robert Shaw has purchased the agricultural implement business of A. L. Harlow & Co. Manistique—MacLaurin Bros., and shoe dealers, have dissolved, Geo. MacLaurin succeeding. Clinton—The Ciinton Plow Co., not in- eorporated, has dissolved, Frank Wood- ward succeeding to the business. Port Huron—C. A. Kuhn, who was formerly engaged in the tailoring busi- ness at Cheboygan, has removed to this place. Burlington—A. W. Gay has purchased the grocery stock of D. L. McPherson, and will continue business at the same location. Mendon—Geo. Speelman has purchased the meat business of E. C. Whiting and will continue the business at the same location. Detroit—Speck Bros., furniture deal- ers, have dissolved. The business will be continued by Jacob Speck under the same style. Burlington—A. W. Gay has purchased the grocery stock of D. L. McPherson and wiil continue the business at the same location. Three Rivers—Alonzo Vosburg, who has been engaged in the lumber and plan- ingmill business, has sold his lumber yard to Case & Coon. Harrisville—Scahar, Stern & Co., deal- ers in clothing, dry goods, ete., have been closed up on a chattel mortgage held by Max Jasspon, of Alpena. has has pur- Hig- boot THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Jackson—The W. M. Bennett & Co. |dry goods stock was sold at chattel { mortgage sale last Wednesday to Alfred | Vandercook, who resoid the stock the) inext day to Clarence N. Bennett, who | will continue the business at the same | | Jocation. | Detroit—W. H. Schieffelin & Co., of i New York, who claim to be the sole | | agents for phenacetine and sulfonal in ; the United States, have filed a bill in the | United States Cireuit Court, to enjoin Leon Caron from manufacturing or sell- ing phenacetine in this country. ; Irouton—The merchandise in the de- | funct Pine Lake Iron Co.’s store was bid in on aitachment sale Dee. 17 by the Mil- lerton National Bank of Millerton, N. Y. The purchaser immediately resold the property to Mrs. Adams, who has been in charge of the business for some time. Grand Ledge—A. J. Kramer has pur- chased the interest of S. W. Kramer (who is also engaged in the dry goods business at Cadillac) in the dry goods and furnishing goods stock of A. J. Kramer & Co. and will continue the busi- ness under the style of A. J. Kramer. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Port Huron—The American Egg Case Co. has merged its business into a stock company. Lake George—J. W. Sutton, who oper- ates a sawmill near this place, has shut down for the season, and is putting in logs for next season’s cut. Pinconning—Cnharles Ford, of Chicago, has purchased an interest in the Ford stave and heading mill at this place. The capacity of the plantis to be in- creased. Hillman—Four sawmills are being erected in Montmorency county for the purpose of manufacturing hardwood lum- ber—one at Hetherton, one at Big Rock, one at Vienna, and another ata place known as Tingell’s. Saginaw—Wickes Bros., of this city, have purchased the entire sawmill ma- chinery outfit of the West Michigan Lumber Co.’s mills at Woodville and Diamond Lake. The machinery includes double band saw outfits. It will be re- moved to this city. Mt. Pleasant—Horning & Root, man- ufacturers of heading, have dissolved, Mr. Reot retiring to devote his entire attention to the manufacture of staves, having purchased a half interest in the Prentice Stave Factory. Horning & Son will manufacture heading. Cadillac—The Oviatt Manufacturing Co., which is the successor to the Cadillac Veneer & Basket Co., expects to start up the factory in this plaae with the be- ginning of the new year. The manager is purchasing a supply of hardwood logs and bolts to stock the plant. Detroit—N. E. Manuel, C. W. Harrah and John Butterworth have organized the Detroit Manufacturing Novelty Co. and have filed articles of association. The capital stock is $10,000, and they will construct road carts, and manufac- ture hooks and eyes, lamp wicks, medi- cines and novelties. Detroit—The American Pepsin Cracker Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 of which $10,000 is paid in. The stock is held by C. S. Edwards, T. L. Riggs, Mark Lewis, D. F. Starker, F. L. Aubery and Edison Goodrich, of Detroit, James Mackenzie, of Port Huron, and P. E. Atchison and R. E. ! Atchison, of Wyandotte. LLG Rye Bi 93 iz ¥ Ee \ # ae “ ie 7 - . Pema ast a danghagitig ert ar : The Leading Hotel in the City. e ® | e Martin L. of Sweet’s Hotel, retaining t'! e Messrs. Irish as mana- Sweet has assumed control gers. 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. Compliments of the Season from Special aitention tu mail and telegraph orders, OYSTERS, POULTRY. OSCAR ALLYN Wholesale, 106 Canal. FISH. Paul Ejfert Welcomes the traveling fraternity from all points of the compass and invites attention to his line of Trunks, Bags and Sample Cases Anything made to order at 50 Canal St. GAME. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Bear, Boon & Co., Limited, general dealers at 1161 South Division street, is succeeded by Bear, Son & Co. Mrs. S. P. Barnard, general dealer at Hesperia, has added a line of groceries. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. D. Leak & Son have embarked in the dry goods and grocery business at Ro- sina. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the grocery stock. M. M. Calkins, manager of the Pheips Lumber Co., near Woodville, has put in a supply store in connection with the mill. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. The Champion Cash Register Co. has leased the third floor of the Bissell build- ing, 6, 8 and 10 Erie street, and will oc- cupy the premises with its buffing, nickel plating and finishing departments. John Allgier, formerly engaged in the grocery business at 160 Clancy street, has formed a copartnership with Ernest O. Goss under the style of Allgier & Goss and opened a meat market at 351 South East street. oa i Purely Personal. H. H. Hoffman has taken charge of A. ee Smith’s drug store at Crystal. A. H. Doolittle, formerly of Bingham- ton, N. Y., succeeds Will C. Wood as book-keeper for C. N. Kapp & Co. D. E. Corbitt has sold his $2,500 stock in the Champion Cash Register Co. to the other stockholders at 2 considerable ad- vance over the amount represented by his original investment. W. A. Stowe, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Tradesman Company, but now engaged in the wholesale paper business at 22 South Ionia street, will be married Jan. 2 to Miss Blanche Robert- son, of Chicago. They will be ‘‘at home”’ to their friends at 310 Jefferson avenue after Feb. 1. How about that ‘‘thouse warming’’ Charley McCarty, the versatile Lowell merchant, was to give his friends in com- memoration of his moving into his new residence? it is possible he has struck a streak of ill luck—an unheard of thing in the career of Mr. McCarty—which has impelled him to omit that important cer- emony? J. H. Thaw may be an authority on prohibition topics, but-he will, probably, not attempt to prognosticate the bean market again very soon. So confident was he last summer that beans would go to $2 per bushel before the end of the year that he purchased a ecarload of the W. T. Lamoreaux Co. at $1.50, Dee. 15 delivery. He paid $50 the other day for the privilege of being released from the deal, a Rubberoid and Asphalt Roofing Are gaining great popularity in the West and Middle States, as their great dura- bility is appreciated. H. M. Reynolds & Co., of this city, are introducing them widely and yesterday shipped 110 squares to Great Falls, Montana. a ee Great Goods for Holiday Trade. Edwin Fallas has received at the Lake Shore depot a ful! car of Mason’s Pint Jars. No wonder Mrs. Withey’s jellies are in such great demand when grocers can them in Mason’s jars for one dollar a dozen. THE MICHIGAN 3) &Gripsack;Brigade.)_ — "3 Robert N._ Burch, city salesman for Osear Allyn, has a new 8 pound daughter at his home at 14 Olive street. S. A. Goss, formerly traveling repre sentative for the I. M. Clark Grocery Co., but more recently on the road for E. Fal- las, has engaged for 1895 with Merriam & Collins, wholesale grocers of Chicago. His territory includés the entire southern portion of the State. The thirteen salesmen of the Champion Cash Register Co. have been called in by Manager Geiger for the purpose of get- ting acquainted with each other and ex- changing ideas as to the best methods of pushing sales. Sessions are held daily at the company’s office on Canal street. W. F.. Bowen (Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.) was married Monday to Miss Eleanor Norrish, stenographer for the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. The happy couple spent Christmas with the bride’s rela- tives at London, Ont., and will put in the remainder of the week with relatives of the groom at Mormara, Ont. E. H. Cady, formerly on the road for the Goshen Sweeper Co., but for the past year traveling saiesman for A. E. Brooks & Co., is taking a course of instruction at the Indianapolis School of Embalming, preparatory to his going on the road, Jan. 1, for Hurd, Gray & Co., manufacturers of embalming fluid at Syracuse, N. Y. His territory will include all the availa- ble towns in eight Western States. E. A. Bishop, for the past four years Michigan representative for the H. J. Heinz Co., of Pittsburg, has gone to Clinton, Ind., to spend the holidays with his parents. The first week in January he will go to Pittsburg to attend the sixth annual convention of the 144 travel- ing salesmen of the Heinz Co., returning to Frankfort, Ind., where he will be married Jan. 9 to Miss Fanny Deming, an estimable young lady of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop will take up their resi- dence in Grand Rapids, and will be ‘‘at home’”’ to their friends on and after Feb. 1. Saginaw Evening News (Dec. 24): The leading candidate for Treasurer of the Knights of the Grip will probably be Herman E. Vasold, of this city, whose name will be proposed by some of his numerous friends. He is one of Saginaw’s oldest and best known traveling men and itis is understood that Post F will vote asaunit for him. The Light Infantry band will accompany the Saginaw dele- gation which wil! have its headquarters atthe Morton House. The royal man- oer in which the Saginaw knights enter- tained their fraters last year leads them to expect reciprocal treatment at Grand Repids. Wm. Connor (Michael Kolb & Son) writes from Rochester: ‘‘I greatly re- gret that the Saginaw trade journal should have made such remarks reflect- ing on the honor of the traveling men of the Saginaw Valley. I am intimately acquainted with many of them and can vouch for their good conduct on all oe- easions. 1 had hoped to be in Grand Rapids on the occasion of the K. of G. convention, but find it will be impos- sible for me to follow my own inclina- tion in the matter. You will be pleased to learn that my house is greatly elated over their trade for the past year and— best of all—that money is coming in much more freely than was anticipated. So anxious was one of cur customers to settle his bills and get his discounts that TRADESMAN. he actually overpaid his account $275. Of course, the amount was promptly re- turned to him.” Whitehall Forum: B. F. Emery, who has been gradually declining with con- sumption, expired at the home of Robt. Goffin, Sunday. He was born at Farm- ington, Mich., Feb. 26, 1846, and was a member of Grand River Lodge, No. 34, F. and A. M. He served three years in the U. S. Navy on the steamers Hornet and Augusta. He was numbered among Whitehall’s business men in the early days, but after leaving here became a commercial salesman and was well known and respected among that fraternity. A few years ago the insidious disease be- gan to show upon him, and he went to Colorado in hope of being benefited by the change of climate. He did not im- prove, however, and gradually declined to the moment of his death. He leaves a wife and two sons. The funeral was held Tuesday under the auspices of the Whitehall Masons. J. A. Gonzalez and F. M. Tyler both announce themselves as candidates for the position on the Board of Directors, M. K. of G., rendered vacant by the re- tirement of Geo. F. Owen, whose term of office expires this week, but who will probably continue on the Board in an ex officio capacity as Secretary. Both gen- tlemen are men of ability and energy and the organization will not suffer in the event of the election of either. Mr. Gon- zalez remained at the helm during the time the organization was nearly wrecked by an incompetent officer, and to his fidel- ity and activity at that time is largely due the remarkable record made by the organization since these days of darkness and uncertainty. Mr. Tyler is a man of marked ability as a parliamentarian and is a decided suecess as a presiding officer, besides being calm and candid in matters requiring careful consideration and deliberation. — The Michigan Manufacturing Co., Makers of Pants, Shirts and Overalls, for- | merly of Otsego, now permanently loca-| ted in this city, in the Reid building, cor- ner Louis and Campau streets, is ready | for the spring business and is showing | The addi- | tion of new and improved machinery to | a larger and more conveniently arranged | factory makes it possible for the com- | pany to produce better goods at the same to- | excellent things in its line. price. In consideration of this fact, gether with that of the shipping facili- ties offered here, the management does not hesitate to assure the trade of prompt | shipments and satisfactory goods. Sales- men will call early with spring line. a The Bridge Street House. This well-known hostelry, under the , new management of Mr. G. A. Pickle, is making new friends among commercial travelers and visiting merchants. Mr. and Mrs. Pickle give their personal at- tention to making a pleasant home for all patrons. Changes for the better have been made in the cuisine and the entire house is being refinished and made new. ~ ne ee PORTUGBLOM ... 20... eee eee eee cece ee eee BE. we used to push along seven or ten miles | A ‘imatable.... 2.00... . cece eee e cece ee dim. 40d10 | List acct. 19,86 ......... 0... dis. 50 r ASH CORD. more to reach the inn where man and Clark's, small, $18; large, pa Ce ay Silver Lake, B ecage < be cua a. 50 i ; ith | Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; 3, 25 Drab A. 55 om were kindly treated, not with " vuizs—New List.” “ “ White s.. 50 whisky, but with good stalls for our i oe vette eeeeeees 55 horses, fine table and beds for ourselves. i 7 a i. : : ae 50 SASH WEIGHTS, It is with nations, as with individuals, | Foners Horse Rasps... ON per ton #20 we must have profitable customers. Many GALVANIZED IRON. i a . — oO of our young men are far beyond our Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 4; Hand %; 27 2%] Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 own lines pushing trade. We have com-| piscount, 70 ' se me special Steel Dia X Gute cer a 30 : : : AUGES. dis. . fon and El mercial travelers in all the commercial Stanley Rule and Level J 50 Cia per ae. S coue eoteie =— x nations of the world doing the same ee xuene—Kow List. dis, ui thine TRAPS. st i : : a s a eaten lt ie eee ae thing. The war in the East is going tu) 500r' Sorcelatn, jap. trimmings... 122, 55 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s... |. open up new and extended markets, and | Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. a 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley # Norton’s. .70-10 10 : . Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. oe) mOUNe, CHOMeE eg 15¢ per doz there will be a big field to occupy. Let} Drawer and Shutter, caeeaiiin Ce 70 Mouse, delusion................ 00... $1.25 per dos us, by treaty and other mutually helpful LOCKS—DOOR dis. beau - dite 7 ¥ Belper a" | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.'s new list ....... if eee.” senses - 70-40 arrangements, get there before the Eng-| Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............0.02.1. 55 | Coppered MEAERGE es no nse nn conocer ee = lish or Germans. We wish them no ill, Branford’s ee a cee a ee ee 55 Tinned et aay LCE a 62% es ae ne dee iar ed 55| Coppered Spring Steel.. 50 but we want customers. We want to eas MATTOORS. oy i“: Barbed Fence, galvanised oa . ; 1 BYO..... 22 es eecsccce. nde enie -00, dis. 10 ON og oe eee shoe the world, and getting all mankind ee $15.00, dis. 60-10 . HORSE NAILs. = into the way of eating corn bread. By | Hunt’s................ .....-.-. $18.50, diz. — i NN dis, 40610 and by, instead of having only 80,000 | gperry & Co.'s, Post, .... an” -.. dis. 10810 + MILLS. Ss. E travelers offering good things for sale Coffee, Parkers 00."8.......- ---2--.gs-+ +++ | Rants Adjtebic, nickeled.........._... i. we'll have 800,000—a profitable by and a PS. & W. Mis. Cota Malleabies.... #0 Coe's Genuine eh iGavel’ Wrowging oo 50 : ¢ erry & Clork’s............ oe’s Paten cultur CUES oe. by, when every factory will be busy and| « nterprise ......-.---cl ann? | 0°08 Patent, ee E16 sane * 2 MOLASSES GATES. a. MISCELLANEO every willing worker will have a paying | stoppinrs Pattern........0..000000c0-000- a." eee job. Geo. R. Scorr. UOT COU en nn es ks coe we = Pumps, teen... ee eae ee ee 75&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ ‘ae BOrewe, MOM Lae... ee T0&10&10 —__—.-. NAILS Casters, Bed a d Piste... bees vee» 50G&10&10 ” er base, b : r,s es ase eee seme. 4 A young woman in London has found she +4 aval oe -— 7 Forks, hoes, rakes and ail steel goods... 5810 a new way to make a living. She acts as Wire Rg oe ee a 1 35 METALS nursery maid to pet. dogs, taking them/go......... Does te PIé TIN. out for an airing and attending to their 10 | Pig Large......----..eeeeee cece eee ee eee e266 meals and toilets. Her charge is 75 cents = Pig Bars..... .... .... areesn bo Sess 28¢ a week. 35| Outy: Sheet, 2%c per pound. io tee voune Claes. 8. 8% 4 et Per pO ee 7 Hardware Price Current. o0| 4% —— a % xtra Wi ing © iS “ease aes cs ee 15 @ prices of the man th These prices are for cash buyers, who|3 1 20 solder fn the market indicated oF i nanan pay promptly and buy in full packages. : = vary according to “GSTIMONY. MONY 65 | Cookson........... < -. per pound a go10 I 7 eT 40 90 --MELYH GRADE. Jenningy’, Peaning 0 25 z 2 = chareoal, eae 2 i : Lee 50 Jennings’, imitation 2 cag cemecdaasu se 50810 10 toxis 1X, _ 9 25 Pirst Quality 8. B. Bronse.. .......-.++-+-. 8550 sal ick coehtueel Xan Gan penne = , d. B B. ed ee semicon ae “ = 90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. or ee eee OG ee BARROWS. Oita Tool Os. "s, faney 2... 2... an. coe et ooo IX, A idee Caetea ela ae a 8 25 Railroad RE cee cece ccc ee | EG Q 25 Garden on aaa Tool oe Co Each sidditional X on this grade $1.50. Mencia odes ceceneedue wane ROOFING PLATES Stov Stanley Rule ae Level Co.’s wood. . 50810 = »® r Worcester bees elec ett ices 6 Su eee PaXs. ' cesccecessacessives Gem Carriage new list OS nD SEGRE ee ere dis.60—10 | 20x28 Ic, “ ee see gee 13 50 Sisigh ae a 70 Common, polished Lu ali decwl sos causes GI ig | MEWIC, «“ Allsway Grade........... 6 00 RIVETS. ae 7 50 BUCKETS. ee ee ee 50—10 | 20x28 IC, . - Oc aecaae aes 12 50 i TES a ae A Ee 8 3 50 | Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 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Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second class matter. =" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tut MiIcHIGAN TRADESMAN, E. A. STOWE, Editor, WEDNESDAY DECKMBEER 26, THE REBATING EVIL. John H. Goss, a reputable Grand Rap- ids grocer, writes Tue TRADESMAN as follows: { noticed in THE TRADESMAN of a re- cent date an article touching on the sub- ject of rebates. As one ofa great many i think that whoever wrote said articie is perverse to quite an extent. 1, asa buyer of groceries, for instance, think that I understand my business. | think—and 1 think that you will agree with me—that it would be very foolish in me to not ac- cept a rebate if it was offered. It is hardly natural for any of us to say, *‘No, Mr. Agent, we will! not accept a rebate.” We, as buyers, wish to buy goods at bot- tom prices. We not only owe it as a duty tu curseives, but we owe it asa duty to our patrons, I think it is a great many times understood by the agent from the house which he represents that certain gouds may be sold at less tnan the estab- lished price, but they must be sold ina way that they may be billed at the regu- lar price. We will take another view of of it: Suppose, for instance, Mr. Agent comes to my store and 1 am a customer who turns him and his house in a good many dollars during the year. [ pay vash and discount my bills. Now, my neighbor is making a lead on A. F. soap. He is sell- ing it for 5 cents a bar. He buys in larger quantities than I do, as I have just SO much capital to do business with and I buy within my means. I say to Mr. Agent, “Now, 1 wantsome A. F. soap. What is the best you can do?” He says that unwrapped is worth $3.27. | reply, ‘My neighvor is selling it at 5 cents and, if 1 cannot buy it for what he is selling it for, 1 cannot buy It. I have not the money to invest in ten boxes, but if you Want to send over three boxes at the ten box price, all right.” The salesman says he cannot do it, but the soap Comes and a rebate is taken off the next week when Mr. Agent comes along. 1 know that { received the soap and | seeit billed $3.27. Isay tobim, *The A. F. soap I must send back, as I will not pay that price for it.”” He does not tell me he will taxe off a rebate, but telis me to go on and sell fish and when | come to A. F. soap to sell it at 5 cents it 1 wish. 1 note that when he is figuring up My bilis that he has taken off an amount to correspond with the difference. Am 1 a thief or have | robbed his house, as your article infers? In common with not a few others, | do not credit your paper with it, but give the credit of said article to the l. M. Clark Grocery Co.; and if this company did write said article, | think, for one, that it would be to their interest to tone it down a little, as Land not a few others will lay it up against them. The article referred to by Mr. Goss was written in THE TRADESMAN office by a regular member of the staff and the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. had no more to do with it than Mr. Goss did. THE TRADESMAN fails to see wherein Mr. Goss has made out a case in his de- fense of the practice of rebating. He of- fers no valid reason why the salesman should violate his own honor or betray the confidence of his house, which can obtain no contract goods unless it has first signed an agreement to maintain the prices established by the manufacturers. To bring the case nearer home, Mr. Goss may compare the position of the salesman with that of a consumer seek- ing credit at the hands of the retailer. The customer obtains credit by register- ing a solemn promise that he will pay the account at a certain time. In ease he fails to make good his promise, the re- tailer loses confidence in him and places no more reliance on his statements. Wherein is the salesman who violates his promise to his house any better than the consumer who violates his promise to the retailer? THe TRADESMAN fails to see any difference. Both are doing wrong because they are violating the confidence of the jobber and enter into collusion to defeat, by subterfuge, an agreement en- tered into for a laudable purpose—the maintenance of a legitimate profit on a staple article. ee A TARIFF WAR WITH GER MANY. The German Government is evidently in earnest in its efforts to retaliate upon this country for the damage done Ger- man trade by the 1-10th of a cent dis- criminating duty on sugars produced by bounty-paying countries. The duties on cotton seed oil and cotton seed products have been made practically prohibitive, and the recent prohibition of the im- portation of American cattle is being rigidly enforced. To meet this menace to our foreign trade, President Cleveland advised in his message that the obnoxious duty of 1-10th of a cent be repealed; but, from the present outlook, it is by no means certain that this will be done. Unless Congress comes to the rescue, it will be necessary for the Government to meet the unfriendly course of Germany by re- prisals in the way of increased duties on German products. The inauguration of a tariff war be- tween the two countries would be a serious matter, because this country can ill afford at the present time to sacrifice any of its foreign trade, and then there is, also, the more serious consideration that mere tariff reprisals might eventually lead to more important hostilities. The Government was empowered by a law passed in 1890 to adopt retaliatory measures where foreign countries un- justly discriminated against American geods. There would, therefore, be no real need for an appeal to Congress. It would be a much more satisfactory ar- rangement were Congress to adopt the President’s suggestion and repeal the discriminating duty on beet Sugar, as all danger of commercial friction would be overcome. Ten eet The United States Government has notified Spain that, unless the present policy of imposing prohibitive duties on American products imported into Cuba be promptly abandoned, the President will exercise the powers conferred upon him by an act passed in 1890 and impose {a heavy duty on Cuban Sugar imported | into the United States. WELCOME, TIRELESS TRAVELERS! It affords Tuk TRADESMAN much pleasure to extend to the visiting delega- tions of traveling men the cordial greet- ings of Grand Rapids business men. It trusts that their meeting will be produc- tive of great good to themselves and to traveling men generally, and that the en- tertainment features of the occasion will be as enjoyable as the business pro- gramme will be beneficial. ———_—__——_ The municipal reform movement, which has gained such headway in New York, seems likely to run through many of the cities of the country. Nearly every hearing before the Lexow commit- tee brings out Startling developments of bribery and corruption, involving more and more of the highest police officials of that city. The amounts involved in- dicate that the receipts of the police and police authorities interested, from un- lawful resorts of various kinds, were many times greater than the salaries paid by the city. The fact that a single captaincy cost the incumbent $15,000 is sufficiently suggestive of the magnitude of the transactions. The question is naturally suggested whether such a con- dition of affairs can obtain and reach such development in one city, even though it be the metropolis, without the same spirit of enterprise being carried to, or developing in, the other great cities of the country. This thought is leading to the Suggestion of Lexow com- mittees and is turning the eyes of public inquiry in that direction in many places, and the movement can Scarcely fail of Startling developments elsewhere. One curious phase of the agitation in New York is that the proprietors of the re- sorts have not only stopped paying the requisitions, but in many cases are, in turn, demanding and receiving large amounts of hush money from the offi- cials. Taking it altogether, it may be imagined that there is uneasiness in the circles of the “rings,’”? and that municipal corruption stock is not at all stable any- where. ———— nt The financial policy of the present Congress has been a matter of much so- licitude in relation to the return of im- proved economic conditions, and when the Secretary of the Treasury presented his financial scheme in the Shape of a bill which failed to meet the approval of the banking and commercial interests of the country, there was an immediate response in the increased demand for gold from the Treasury, which shows the sensitiveness of the country to such dis- turbances. The manner in which the bill was received, however, and the promptness with which it was withdrawn seems to have restored confidence. The farcical character of the proposed legis- lation is sufficient to Suggest to the op- ponents of the administration that in its introduction its influence on the inter- ests of speculation was the only consid- eration; and that, if SO, it was probably @ success. The substitute presented, whileagreat improvement, is not doing so much to restore confidence as the manner in which it is received. There is a con- servatism manifested by those who have taken up the question that gives assur- ance that the action taken will be con- fined to the correction or absurdities in the circulation and the Similar details, leaving the present national bank sys- tem, and the general financial policy of the government, in relation thereto un- disturbed. iri It seems that tea is to be no longer considered the cup that cheers but not inebriates. A New York doctor de- clares that, of the patients applying to the dispensary, fully 10 per cent. are tea drunkards, and that tea ranks as an in- toxicant second only to alcohol. These patients suffer from vertigo, headache, insomnia, palpitation of the heart, night- mare, nausea, hallucination, depression of spirits and sometimes suicidal im- pulses—surely a formidable list of symp- toms. Dr. Wood thinks that this evil may be greatly lessened if only freshly steeped tea is drunk. nao Itis being generally recognized all over the country that domestic tranquil- ity and good order, as well as security from possible foreign foes, dictate the wisdom of steadily improving and in- creasing the organized and equipped militia force. Having so small a stand- ing army, it is very essential that there should be a formidable body of militia sufficiently well drilled and equipped to become immediately available for serv- ice, either in the event of serious inter- nal disturbance or trouble with an out- side power. ee In some respects Christmas has come to be a dreaded holiday. The excite- ment and exertion which come with it, and the spending of money which goes before it, and the worry to secure fine presents which cannot well be afforded and really are not needed, take much of the merriment away from Merry Christ- mas. These handicaps on Christmas make the average man like New Year’s day better, as a day when all a man has to do is to go around wishing everybody a Happy New Year, without spending a cent. eae Emcee cee loc nee Soft and really beautiful effects may be obtained by enlarging well-taken photographs, but the crayon work in the case of the cheap portraits is so atro- ciously executed that the last vestige of charm is removed. Enlarging from photographs is an inexpensive proc- ess and the crayon treatment is a matter of a few hours, so that the cheap- ness of the professed crayon portraits is a matter of astonishment. Morton House Interior Finish. The richness and beauty of the new woodwork interior of the Morton House are attracting much attention, especially from the traveling public, who have had liberal opportunities to see the interiors of other public houses in ail parts of the country, with any of which the Morton House will compare very favorably. Very choicely selected quarter sawed white oak has been mostly used, with mahogany veneers in contrast. One en- tire room is finished in mahogany veneer. The hand carving shows to great advyan- tage, and all of the designing and execu- tiop are much to the credit of F. Letellier & Co., whose work is recognized, also, throughout the Michigan Trust Com- pany’s building and many of Grand Rap- ids’ finest residences. The same firm is now completing similar work at Cadillae, Mich., South Bend, Ind., Springfield, Mo., and in other parts of the country, where the excellence of Grand Rapids work- ; Manship is being advertised as not con- fined wholly to furniture. ‘kim. MIiLmiGAI RAIS MAN. v THE NATURAL LAWS OF MONBY. When low prices and general business depression prevail there is a tendency to look to the Government for relief. There are, however, certain economic laws whose operation cannot be effec- tually and permanently arrested by legis- lation. Money will ordinarily go where there is a genuine commercial demand for it, and where it can be secured, as naturally as water seeks its level. But mere poverty does not constitute a com- mercial demand. If the industries of a given region are, from any cause, unre- munerative, money will not go there any more than water will flowuphill. Nor can relief be had in such acase by simply increasing the amount of money avail- able for investment. In his recent message to Congress, the President stated ‘The first day of November, 1894, the money of all kinds in circulation, or not included in the treasury holdings, was $1,672,093,422, $24.27 per capita, upon an estimated pop- ulation of 68,887,000.’ In the course of his hearing before the House Committee on Banking and Currency, the other day, Comptroller Eckels said, in reply to a question put by a member of that com- mittee, that there was no neeessity for a change in the present system of banking in this country so far as the necessity for & greater abundance was concerned. In other words, there is, in Mr. Eckles’ view, already enough money in the country to meet all the natural and le- gitimate demands of its business. His scheme, like that suggested by Secretary Carlisle, is intended mainly to relieve the treasury from the embarrassments to which it is subjected by the banking business into which the Government has been forced. But both of these plans, as well as the one known as the Baltimore plan, will be opposed by the advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver. It will be said that the per capita estimates are misleading, that a great part of the money is in a few hands, and that what is needed is more silver—‘‘the money of the people.’’ So it will prob- ably be necessary to repeat again and again the truism that money will go only where it can be profitably and securely in- vested, and that there is no force of at- traction in the poor man’s pocket to draw any kind of money irresistibly into its vacant depths. What is needed is to inspire confidence in the paying capacity of our actual or possible industries. When that desideratum has been met the problem will have been solved. There is yet another law of finance, unwritten on the statute books of any nation, but inexorable, which the silver- ites either ignore or ignorantly deride. It is the practical, automatic principle known as Gresham’s law, and which has recently been formulated by a well- known economical writer, Mr. Dunning McLeod, as follows: ‘‘(1.) If the coins consist of one metal only, and clipped, degraded and debased coins are allowed to circulate together with good coins, all the good coins disappear; they are either hoarded, or melted down, or exported, and the bad coins alone remain in circu- lation. “*(2.) If coins of two metal, such as gold and silver, are allowed to circulate together in unlimited quantities at a fixed legal ratio which differs from the market ratio of the metals, the coin which is underrated disappears from cir- culation, and the coin which is overrated adds: ‘‘It is exactly the same in all cases alone remains current.’? Mr. ce TY] in which persons are allowed to pay | their debts in things which have nomi- nally the same value, but are in reality of different values.’ This law bears the name of one of its discoverers, a master of the English mint under Queen Elizabeth. It was first announced by Nicolas Oresme, one of the counselors of Charles the Fifth, of France, surnamed the Wise, and 160 years later by Copernicus, for the benefit of Sigismund the First, King of Poland, who had sought his advice. All of these authorities stated the law substantially in the terms employed by Mr. McLeod. Oresme declared, further, that the sov- ereign ‘‘can in no case fix the value of the purchasing power of the coins.” If he could do so, he could fix the value of all other commodities; which was, in- deed, the idea of the mediwval sover- eigns, assays Mr. McLeod. Whatever the explanation may be, there is no doubt about the operation of this law. It has been tested repeatedly in the history of the world. It made England practically a gold monometallic country in 1718, and monometallic by statute in 1816. It made France practically a silver mono- metallic country in 1726, and the United States practically a gold monometallic country in 1834. Under the operation of this law, the free and unlimited coinage of silver would drive gold out of circula- tion in the United States, and no more gold would be coined here. ‘There is no need to resort to abstract reasoning on thissubject. From 1834 to 1873 the silver in a silver dollar was worth more than 100 cents, and a man could not coin his silver without loss. So, according to the report of the Master of the Mint in 1816, during the whole of the long reign of George the Third, no more than £64,- 500 of silver was coined at the mint, be- cause silver commanded a premium through all those years. The natural laws of money will always prevail, no matter what contradictions or limitations may be prescribed by legal enactment. The Horse Meat Question. The sale of horse flesh, ass flesh and even mule meat has grown to such pro- portions in Paris as to make the dealers in beef, mutton, etc., seriously uneasy, as it affects their sales very materially, and they recently held a conference to consider the matter. After long debate they passed resolutions calling upon the assembly to put duties on such meats, the same, in proportiog to their selling value, as is imposed on other meats, and to make regulations forbidding the dealers in such to handle the regular meats. 2 A Costly Watch. Attorney-general Hensel, of Pennsyl- vania, sometimes amuses his friends by showing them what he calls his $10,000 watch. Some time ago Mr. Hensel sub- seribed that amount of money to estab- lish a watch factory at his home, in Lan- caster, Pa. The managers of the factory made and presented to each of the large subscribers a handsome gold watch. The factory soon failed, and all that the sub- scribers got out of the enterprise was their watches. _— Oo Why Florida Oranges are Late. From the Philadelphia Record. Continued warm weather has made the Florida orange crop later than usual this year. A temperate season increases the size of the fruit, but cold weather is nec- essary for it to ripen properly. Conse- quently the oranges arriving from Flor- ida are as yet a trifle green, though large Poor Merchant Because he is haunted with visions of cash accounts which do not balance and cash drawers which are the prey of careless clerks. He could easily and quickly remedy this difficulty and secure the peaceful slumber which nature brings to those whose business is conducted accurately and method- ically by the purchase of a 9 and the adoption vf our triplicating check charge system, which can be conducted without additional effort. By the Use of Our Register the Following Advantages Are Obtined: Boot and Shoe Dealers can keep track of the profits of each day’s busi- ness by noting the margin on each sale. Grocers can keep track of produce purchased and the amount of merchane dise exchanged for produce. Clothing and Furnishing Goods Dealers are enabled to note at a glance just what they have sold, the profit on each transaction and the total profit for the day. Commission Merchants and Produce Dealers can keep track of each department of their business, keeping purchases of game, pro- duce and fruit separately, if desired. Hardware Dealers can keep separate accounts with their stove depart- ment or their tin shop or any other department of their business. Druggists are enabled to keep separate accounts of the transactions of their prescription department or their cigar sales, or their stationery department, or any other special feature of their business. But what is the use of enumerating the advantages of our Register over those of all other registers heretofore invented ? They are to our machine like moonlight unto sunlight; like water unto wine. Suffice to say that our system is the only one which enables the merchant to have a triplicate check of every charge transaction with but one entry. If you have never seen our machine and desire an opportunity to in- spect the merits of the mechanical marvel of the age, call at our office, or at the office of any of our agents; or, if you are located at a distance from either, write us a letter telling us your line of business and what features of your business you wish departmentized and we will send you illustra- tions, descriptions and voluntary testimonials of the Register that will meet your requirements. CHAMPION GASH REGISTER G0., Main Office, 73 and 75 Canal St., Factory, 6, 8 and 10 Erie St., in size. L Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 WHE MICHIGAN TRADHESMA * CHRISTMAS ADVERTISING. Job Dobson’s Experiment and How It Resulted. Job Dobson was a sort of fixture in the considerable city in which he lived. His father before him had been in the groc- ery business and the phrase ‘‘got at Dob- son’s” meant, when the town was younger and consequently smaller, that it was the best that could be had. For the Dobsons, father and son, prided themselves on being that now somewhat obsolete production, merchants who hoped to get rich, if at all, in slow and modest manner, and who relied on the excellence of their stock and their power to attract trade because of honorable dealings for financial success, rather than on ‘flyers’? outside their business, on the stock board, the grain markets, and the like. The town of A , in which the el- der Dobson had settled in that dim and uncertain period known vernacularly as ‘“‘an early day,’? was know as a smart place and had thriven amazingly, and here Mr. Dobson, Sr., had literally grown up with the town. Only this in- volved that Mr. Dobson senior should grow up toward heaven and when the town became a city, he had gone hence and the son ruled in his stead. Mr. Job Dobson had imbibed the slow and sure methods of his respected ances- tor, which meant that things should run as they always had run, and that there should be little of infusion of new ideas, and few of modern notions. Thus it chanced that the store of Dobson con- tinued in the same manner as it had in the past, while there sprung up com- petitors on every hand as the census showed yearly gains; and when it came about that in the fullness of immigration and a high birth rate the city of A was possessed of a round 100,000 souls, or at least bodies supposed to contain souls, for not all were seized of that useful but often wearing commodity, a soul, Mr. Job Dobson occupied the same store that his father had, and bought and sold in the good, old-fashioned way. Kach Christmas found him as the preceding one had left him and the common saying was that the Dobson store was a land- mark. And soit was. In at the capacious front door came an- nually fat turkeys which seemed to have waddled to the block voluntarily; plethoric pigs, their cheeks swelling as though in happy memory of having died for so good a cause as Christmas, and sort of benediction on the approaching festivities. The front of the store was garnished with great bunches of celery, entwined as brothers’ arms in affection,’and over- looking baskets of nuts, boxes of raisins, gorges of yellow citron, blushing pump- kins, beseeching for the knife of the housewife and fairly expiring for the as- sociation of the long sticks of cinnamon which stood hard by. Fat and unctious geese hung heavily on the hooks, and shivered not at the absence of feathers, so well warmed were they by the pre- vailing Christmas cheer, and so snug were they in the midst of surfeit for table and lunch. The very cranberries blushed at the squash, which in turn nudged the sweet potatoes for more room for their crooked elbows, while the red and green apples stood, like a troop of merry school children, near the pota- toes, which latter were begging for boil- ing pot that they might emerge from a bath therein with their jackets bursting with whiteness and attractiveness. In the midst of these surroundings moved Job Dobson, his white apron cov- ering his honest heart, and his face aflame with good fellowship and honest traffic. The scales were not more ac- curate, and they were true as adie, nor were the measures, overflowing with good things, more attractive than honest Job. At the time of which this tale treats, Mr. Dodson had but recently taken unto himself a wife, and already there was a young Job Dobson practicing gravely that mysterious avoeation, walk- ing, which we scarcely learn ere we re- nounce and again go tottering whence wecame. The wife was of one of the ‘best’? families in A , and held her head as high as the next. Her father had settled in A some months prior to the advent of the deceased parent of her husband, and her mother had come into the town when it was young, as the cook of a passing steamship. But, as-these are the somewhat common ac- cessories of blue blood, and as her mother had grown mightily exclusive in the latter days of her life,‘looking down on the common herd who delved and did not keep a girl, Mrs. Dobson was recog- nized everywhere as a social leader, in respect of the fact that she had been a Worlding, and that her pa had once been mayor of the town, and that they had al- ways held their heads very high in- deed. So when this particular Christmas day came, or at least when it was coming, their shaven crowns seeming to shed a ne SS AGLES AS | th { Merk oftheNewYom Comme a IT HAS NO EQUAL. Don’t fai! HOW TO he. Sali thats al salt 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 jcom all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, will not get damp and soggy on yourhands. Put up in an attractive and salable manner. en | your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of **¢he salt that’s all sait.”” Can be obtain __ from jobbers and dealers. For prices, see price current on other page. | For other information, address DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. $20,000 Twenty thousand dollars is a tidy little sum, but we have 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 t ll your jobber you want our make, Mrs. Dobson had insisted to her spouse | tion is simple. First. Make the best goods always. Tuirp. Don't neglect details. Gail Borden TE i= » EVAPORATED CREAM is sure to order a supply now. SECURE AND HOLD the best trade is a perplexing problem to some people, but its solu- eeeeeeeeea Jee SECOND. Let the people know of it, early and often. Attention to these principles has placed the CONDENSED MILK at the head, and Borden’s Peerless Brand the consumer’s favor, because it has INTRINSIC MERIT. Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW YORK CONDENSED [MILK co. The Putnam Candy Co. possible ; not once in a while, but Eagle Brand to obtain an equally high place in ABSOLUTELY PURE. tS" For Quotations SEE Price CoLUMNS. we: a > ome 4 ti, IVLiUiriboais a Ek VS We es - 14 that he should advertise, she esteeming | the name of the concern in big black type as giving some sort of prominence. ‘“‘And then,’”’? she had said, ‘‘you must remember that there are many people who have come here to live since your father began business, and you cannot expect to succeed unless you let the pub- lic know you are in business.” These, and sundry other arguments, appealed tothe heart of Mr. Job Dobson, and some three weeks prior to the Christmas day of which this narrative treats, he concluded that he would, for the firsttime in his life, advertise. In- deed, so well known had been the aver- sion of the elder Dobson to advertising, that the several solicitors of the papers with which the city now swarmed, had long since given that establisement up as a bad job, and never called there for business. Thus it was that Mr. Job Dobsop was not approached in this par- ticular, and so had ample opportunity to adjust the matter as he pleased. After long and careful consideration he concluded that he would confine his efforts to one particular paper, and that the leading daily of the town, which also had a Sunday issue. He mentally com- puted what amount he could afford to ex- pend and set aside the sum of $20 as the maximum, hoping meantime to reduce it to at least half that amount. For this he expected to secure at least a week’s ad- vertising, and so, after closing hours, re- mained at the store and devoted much time and thought to the construction of the advertisement. Having at last arrived at a display which to him seemed admirable, and which he concluded should bring him a vast deal of business, he untied his apron one morning and betook himself to the office of the paper upon which he had de- cided to bestow his patronage. Arriving there, he announced his in- tentions, and, when the members of the office force had sufficiently recovered from their astonishment, was turned over to the business manager for adjust_ ment. “Do you want a position?” asked that worthy, after he had proffered the grocer a seat. Somewhat astonished at this perspi- cacity on the part of the newspaper man, Mr. Dobson admitted that position was of little moment to him, but that Mrs. Dobson thought an advertisement might assist her in that direction. Explained that this position did not refer directly to society, but to top of column, first page, or next to reading matter, as offer- ing greater advantages, Mr. Dobson said he wanted the best and was able to pay for it. How much space did he wish? Well, seeing that he did not advertise often, he thought that perhaps two col- umns every day for a week would be about the thing. ‘Sunday, too?” queried the business manager. Mr. Dobson thought not, as Mrs. Dobson occupied a front pew at the Gilded church; but this was shown to him as having nothing to do with the case, and he decided to go in for the Sunday issue, being informed that the Sunday paper had a wider circu- lation than the daily issue, and that it was read more closely. These matters having been settled to the satisfaction of both parties, the price was announced as $100. When Mr. Dobson had regained his breath, he said that he had not come prepared to buy the paper outright, but merely wished to gratify his friends and Mrs. Dobson for the time being in the direction of advertising. The business was finally adjusted by reducing the amount of space to 10 inches for Tues- day, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and the sum agreed upon was $40, for which amount Mr. Dobson drew his check and walked out of the office in somewhat of a daze. The next day being Tuesday, Mr. Dob- son did not wait until he reached home to see his name in print, but secretly purchased a copy of the daily Grind, and, retiring to the upper floor of the store, regaled himself with a sight of his name in big black type on the first page of that publication. Then he folded the paper cdrefully, and, swelling with dig- nity, advised the head clerk that he was going to tea a little earlier than common, and wended his way home, that he might have the’pleasure of first showing the ad- vertisement to Mrs. Dobson. But when he reached the house he found that lady had forestalled him, as she was engaged at the moment of his ar- rival in reading a copy of the Grind. ‘‘Dear me,” exclaimed that good lady, “I did not know you wereso fine a man!” “What now, my dear?” queried the grocer. ‘*Have you seen the Grind?” “Yes, my dear. What of it?’’ ‘‘Why, here is half a column telling what a fine man you are, how well you understand your business, what a superb stock—yes, it says, ‘superb’” (referring to the paper in an excited manner) ‘‘and how cheaply you sell goods. pointing triumphantly toa column of the paper where, in reading type, the glory of ‘‘our well-known townsman, Mr. Job Dobson,”? was set forth with alluring repetition of adjective and comment. As this was evidently thrown in in the excess of good will and because of his patronage of the Grind, Mr. Dobson felt more comfortable over the investment of his $40, and ate his supper and drank his tea in silent admiration of himself. Having finished and kissed his wife and baby—they had been married but a few years, it will be remembered—Mr. Dobson donned his overcoat and again sought the store. Secarcely had he en- tered, when he was met by the proprietor of the morning Ponder, who, by the way, was a member of the same lodge as Mr. Dobson, who approached him with smil- ing countenance and remarked on the} excellence of Mr. Dobson’s personal ap- pearance, and concluded by stating that he had called to secure his order for the insertion of Mr. Dobson’s advertisement in the Ponder, as appearing that day in the Grind. Here was a situation for which Mr. Dobson had made no preparations, and he simply said that he had decided not to extend his advertising beyond the Grind. ‘But you cannot afford to confine your business to one paper, Mr. Haven’t I always been a good customer of yours? And always paid my bills promptly?”’ The outcome of all this, and much more of the same tenor, was, that the daily morning Ponder appeared the next morning with a duplicate of the adver- | tisement of Mr. Job Dobson and another fnisome and laudatory reading notice, free. The opening of business the next day saw Mr. Dobson early at his task, but not so early but that the representatives See there!” | MUSSELMAN GROGER 60, WESTERN MICHIGAN AGEN''s FOR HL HOUUONG GO. § Gelertled Buller SPRINGDALE (dairy) in 1 and 2 Ib. rolls and tubs. | SPRINGDALE CREATIERY in 1 Ib. rolls, 2 lb. prints and tubs. GOLD NUGGET (fancy creamery) in 1 Ib. prints. 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. We Have Sacked the Towns ot Michigan pretty thoroughly with our different brands of flour, and especially is this true of LILY WHITE which has a world-wide repu- tation. If You Are a Merchant an! desire to establish a BIG flour trade, we would say that you can make quicker sales, easier sales, more sales, and, consequently, more profitable sales with Lily White Flour than with any other brand in the State. Why ? Because LILY WHITE flour is put up in neat, attractive sacks, is backed by quality and repu- tation and the constant, expensive, aggressive and effective advertising of the manufacturers. You can lose nothing by trying it, but have Dobson. | everything to gain, Because Success Attends the Man Who Takes a Good | Thing When He Can. VALLEY CITY MILLING GO, #328 RINDGE, KALMBACH % CO "sh! Manufacturers and Jobpers or Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. Our stock for fall and winter trade is complete. New lines in warm goods and Holiday Slippers. We have the best combination Felt Boot and Perfection made. Inspection Solicited. Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. ie ‘ i pe # ; Ra RM eR aH Nt a aa i bi " : 5 Se Th 12 of the evening Buncombe, the evening Snorter and the evening Sewer were there before him. Long arguments followed on the merits of the respective papers, and the upshot of the matter was that before 10 o’clock these had his orders and check for ad. vertisements, costing in the aggregate $50. That is, all but the Sewer, which, being a sort of a nondescript sheet given to blackmailing and divers methods of extorting money without equivalent, he debarred from the scheme. The adver- tising agent of this paper stated to him in the broadest of broad language that, except he gave to his paper such adver- tising as was its due, the paper would certainly give him some “‘free advertis- ing;’’ but, as Mr. Job Dobson did not com- prehend what that meant, the threat had little terror. Thinking that at last he had reached the end of the cost in regard to his scheme to touch the public heart, and that at last he had expended all the money possible, it is stating the case mildly to say that Mr. Dobson was alarmed and astounded when the follow- ing morning he found his store simply gorged with agents for publications of the existence of which he had heretofore had no knowledge. There was the Dent- ists’ Weekly, the Earth—printed in the interests of the combined societies of one denomination of the city, the weekly United States, the Social Exponent, the HE MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. was not. end to the matter, he had made no account. of fakirs without loss. inA in the Sewer. Sociological Weekly, the Business Man, the Marriage Guide, the Phrenvlogical Monthly, the Bee Culture, the Carpen- ters and Joiners’ Own, the Blacksmiths’ Friend, tie Street Sweepers’ Advocate, the Printers’ Espouser, the Housemaids’ Entertainer, and thirty or more Dublica- tions of which he had never heard before All these came to him, and in a thousand and one ways made appeal for his sup- port. He had advertised in the other respectable merchant, dragged in the dirt. the truth? No; manifestly, papers; he had sent out his advertise- ment to the four winds of the heavens; he had had their trade and they, too, must be recognized and at last, for very peace, he recognized the entire crowd and gave them all and severally orders which, in the aggregate, reached the comfortable sum of nearly $90. But the end was not yet. The days seemed to bring representatives of pa- pers, weekly and monthly, of which he had never heard, and of which he had no idea as to their merit. But they ad- vocated themselves, or at least their agents did, so well that the only thing Mr. Dobson could do was to engage him- self to advertise with them and to pay them a comfortable sum. Then there came a grist of men and boys with one excuse or another. Some had a scheme which was simply a matter which he could not avoid with safety. One had the notion of printing a list of the fire alarm calls in the city and wished to secure so prominent an advertiser as Mr. Dobson for one of his patrons. The charge was only $5, and that surely would not break him. Another had a a Christmas scheme which was resplend- ent with pictures, and which was in- tended to make glad the hearts of the children, and surely Mr. Dobson would | in, wish to be represented in that. Of course, and there went another $10. Then along came the man with the right to advertise in the street cars, and he, too, made so good a showing of his busi- ness that he managed to secure $5 of the the blackmailer, cisely what he did. * * * * * * But in this he was in error. gro cer’s hard-earned money, and the end There followed the man with the program of the opera house; the man with the coming entertainments of the Y. M. C. A.: the man with the church papers; the man with the secret society organizations, and there was really no And the upshot of the whole business was that when Mr. Dobson took down his shutters on the morning of the day before Christmas he was out $250 hard cash, to say nothing about sundry trade contracts which he had made and of which He thought to himself that he had made a miserable fool of himself, and so indeed he had, for he might have gotten the major por- tion of the advertising for less than half the sum he had expended; indeed, he might well have omitted the entire list And, to cap the climax, the advertising agent of the Sewer came in and showed him a proof of the ‘‘free advertising’? which he had promised him in case he failed to come into that publication. Mr. Dobson might have been puffed up with the notices he had had from the other papers, but this took the starch out of him. He had no idea that there was so thoroughly bad a man as was shown by the article Charged with having com- mitted every crime in the decalogue, he trembled in his boots and willingly paid the $50 demanded without a murmur; that is, without an outward murmur, for in bis heart he murmured vigorously. But how could he help himseif? He, a bearing on his shoulders the respectability of his father, and having a wife and child looking to him for support, did not want his name And how could he ever make his wife believe that what was thus printed in cold type was not ALBUIIS, his way was to pay the money, and that was pre- * When Mr. Job Dobson came down to the store in the morning he was sore of heart and troubled. He had paid out nearly $400 where had purposed to ex- pend but $20 at the outside, and he really believed that he was on the verge of ruin. business had taken a sudden and unac- countable boom, and there were names on his books of which he had never heard prior to the insertion of the adver- tisements, and the Christmas trade at Dobson’s was something phenomenal. In vain did he order fresh supplies of tur- keys; in vain did the wagons from the fruiters roll up to his door laden with apples and celery and vegetables; in vain did he order and re-order and order still again stocks of fat oysters and game: it was all useless and at last there happened what had never before been known—the Dobson store was out of goods in many lines before 9 o’clock on the night before Christmas. And Mr. Dobson, seeing that he had made a hit, although a costly one, there- after continued the insertion of adver- tisements in the newspapers, but never again indulged every schemer who came by accepting his estimate on that which he had to sell, and was not again guilty of submitting to the demands of nor of employing hand bills, whether these were thrown about the opera house, hung in street cars, or the result of moribund publica- | tral Railr tion. intelligent study. ———qz@2-—____— ilization. >a an Anarchist is to take it off. But he never forgot the experience of his first attempt to advertise, and now points out to Job Dodson 3rd, grown a lusty, healthy grocer, the dangers of launching into anything without first counting the cost and giving the matter Ly. Chie. Con. After China gets through with her war, she will feel as if she had taken a full course of study at the University of Civy- The French way of puttiug a head on Nov. 18, 1804, CHICAGO AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y, GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly. G’d Rapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:30pm oe Lode ceed ae 6:50pm *7:20am TURNING FROM CHICAGO. OO oes. 8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar, @’d Rapids.........3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 1 Ar. Manistee..... aoe : Ar. Traverse City.... Ar, Charlevoix...... Ar. Petoskey..... .. Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10:00 pm. them. dispose of, outlet. and will pay highest market price for If you haye any stock you wish to seek headquarters for an DOLLS, TOYS, GAMES, The 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS. a BOOKS. EATON, LYON & C0. ONLY A FEW LEPT. Original set of four - - . ° Complete set often - - - ° . nominal figure. times present cost within five years. Tradesman Company, PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar- rives from Chicago 10:25pm. ao cars leave for Chicags 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi- oO 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 Ae, DOORS: oo 11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT, ly. Dee. 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND BT, 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 ....... §THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morr- ing train. ‘ains week days at: GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t, a, GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. l'rains Leave |tNo. i4jtNo. 16)tNo. 18/*No, G’d Rapids, Lv| 6 45am|1) 20am 3 25pm /11 00pm bonis .....,.. Ar) 740am}11 25am! 4 27pm/1235am St. Johns ...Ar 5 20pm} 12am 8 25am} 12 17pm Owoss)...... Ar/ 900am] 1 20pm} 6 05pm} 3 10am E. Saginaw..Ar/1U 50am] 3 45pm 8 00pm) 6 40am Bay City ..... Ar/|11 30am} 4 35pm) § 37pm] 7 15am Pe ........ Ar/1005am| 345pm| 7 05pm} 5 40am Pt. Huron...Arj}1205pm} 550pm 850pm! 7 30am Pontiac ....., Ar/10 53am) 305pm/ 8 25pm] 5 37am Detroit. ...... Ar}1] 50am] 4 05pm] 925pm} 7 00am WESTWARD, For_Grand Haven and Intermediate Points *7:00 & m. For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 p. m. “ - = “Mil. and Chi... 45:35 p. m +tDaily except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the Cast, 6:35 a.m., 12:50 P.mi., 5:30 p. m., 10:00 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10a. 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 SI ‘ Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana, TRAINS GOIXG NORTH, WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TICKETS - 25c¢ Leave going North For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:40a. m oe Sree Oe 5:25 p.m. aa, scree AS For Petoskey and Mackinaw..........////""” TRAINS GOING S0UTH -5:00 p. m. 10:25 p m. Order quick or lose the opportunity of a lifetime to secure these souvenirs ata They will be worth ten “Tue Niagara Falls Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) Arrive. eoem........ Detroit Express ........ 150 ‘4 4... New York Express...... *Daily. Al press trains to aud from Detroit. Rapids 10:20 Southern Division.) A. ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. MICHIGAN CENTRAL Depart. 70am 5 30am..... *Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 @pm 6 00pm 1 others daily, except Sunday.” Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00a m; re- turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand :20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains erat over the Michigan Cen oad (Canada Leave going South. OE EEE. cick ce 6:50 a.m. For Kalamazoo and ee ee 2:15 p. m. For Fort Wayneand the East. 2:15 p.m. Wer Clusinnees "5:40 p.m For Kalamazoo and Ceieage.. 4: “11:40 p.m Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Ly Grand Rapids........ 6:50am 2:15pm *11:40pm Arr Chi 9:00pm 7:10 : ™m Pitas dbindece wisi, 2300 p m 2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner *pufret Parlor Oar and coach. 11:40 p m train dai , through W and Gotch, ly ug agner Sleeping Car Vv 0 3:30 p m 11:30 Arr Grand Rapids cispm ‘T#0ne 3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car. 11:30 p m train daily ,t hro ugh Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 7:25am 8:25am 1:00pm 1:15pm *:40 pm 5:20p m woop: 0 .L. LOOK General Passenger and Ticket Agent. KNGRAWINGi Suildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented Articles. TRADESMAN Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. rt THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 The Grocery Market. Sugar—The raw market bas declined 7#e and the recent slight advance on granuiated proved to be only nominal, the schedule having been reduced to the old basis the middle of last week. The impression among the trade appears to be that no changes of note are likely to oe- curin the immediate future, the most noteworthy feature in the situation be- ing the present session of Congress, which is apparently disposed to take an- other turn at the crank, in consequence of which the Trust is keeping very quiet and exciting as little comment as pos- sible. Fish—The large amount of poultry marketed during the past month has, to a certain extent, restricted the request for fish, but the demand is expected to improve from now on. The recent ad- vance is well maintained, owing to the light stocks at nearly all markets of im- portance, Molasses—Reports from New Orleans are to the effect that prices on the entire list have been advanced from 1 to 2¢ per gallon, the latter figure on fine grades of open kettle goods. Syrups continue dull and in small request. Bananas—The two cars of this kind of fruit which the local dealers had en- gaged for Christmas trade came in as per arrangement, but thequality was not up to expectations and many dealers who had placed orders for stock to arrive were sorely disappointed. Bananas are very unsafe and treacherous stuff to handle, at best, and, while wholesale dealers, as a rule, aim to buy only selections, many cars, which start from the pier in good condition and give every promise of ‘coming up”’ nicely, reach their destination either frosted, on the one hand, or overheated, on the other, and in any event far from being up to grade. The commission man with a clip full of orders is ina quandary. ‘To ship, or not to ship, that is the question” which perplexes. Ifa pause is made to consider, the prospect of a large loss convinces him that the fruit must be moved, and at once, and he takes the chances of a customer charging back a percentage of the loss, well knowing that the odds are as seven to ten that the re- ceiver will be displeased and register a strong kick, if nothing more. Such are daily occurrences with all who deal in bananas, and the retailer should bear with the one who ships him, if the goods do not prove to be “plump, sound and all yellow,” as there is not a commission man or wholesaler dealer who would not prefer to send to every customer just what was wanted. For the week divid- ing Christmas and New Years, the supply will be light, but as there are so many other fine fruits to be had, it will not be of much moment. Oranges—Prices have been advanced a little this week—enough so to cover the cost of repackinz and actual shrinkage. Holiday orders executed by the wholesalers of Grand Rapids were Strongly in evidence of the popularity of the brands handled and of the prices made. All of our local dealers are gen- erous providers of stock, and, usually, anticipate the full volume of holiday wants, and although in the present in- Stance they took a larger view than usual of the probable wants, it appears that they were looking through the wrong end of the telescope and, the end of actual holdings was reached much een ges -2>___—_. Morton House Lunch Counter. Warren Swetland is maintaining his reputation among the traveling frater- nity and the city people for serving the finest and freshest sea food known in Michigan. . Meet your friends there. another Random Reflections of a Prosperous City Merchant. The starting point of many of the suc- cessful merchants of the day was the country store. Such merchants fondly recall the familiar touch with the cus- tomers in those days, as well as the prin- ciples of business there learned. Time may come and time may go, but in many cases the country store goes on in the same old way—forever. The railroad enters the quiet community, the summer visitor comes, the city family moves in the place and desires the same line ef goods they have been accustomed to pur- chase. The merchant wonders why the new trade, as well as some of the old, use the more rapid transit of later years to visit the larger centers and do their trading. No wonder at all; the wonder would be that they should not do so. Our friends in the country should wake up. They should understand that at this age of the world’s history people will have what they want, even if it bealittle higher in price, and if the country store doesn’t, some one else will procure it for them. 2. 2&2 <= Window dressing, cleanliness and neat- ness about the store and all that category help the grocer to succeed, but after all the essential requirement is that he be a man. A man who will take the condi- tions under which he may be placed, whatever they may be, and honestly and cheerfully do his best; who will be too much of a man to lower himself by any mean dealing or ‘‘too sharpness;’?? who will value his reputation and self-respect too highly to sell them for the few cents which are to be gained by misrepresent- ing to a eustomer or trying to deceive him regarding any goods he may wish to sell, has the elements of success within him. Then, too, sueh a man influences his whole establishment. Leta clerk see his employer do a mean or an unmanly act and he will be likely to do the same. It is not to be expected that he will rise much above the example given him. The clerks in a store can generally be gauged by the character of their employer. It behooves, then, every grocer so to act that he keep his manliness and his rep- utation unquestioned. Telling the exact facts about his goods and dealing with a customer in all honesty pay from a pnrely business stantpetn. Undoubtedly, the majority of retail grocers, if asked what was the greatest evil in connection with their business, would say the credit system. We ques- tion this prevailing statement and assert that the greatest evil is bad debts. ‘‘But,’’ some one says, ‘tare not bad debts the outcome of this system?”’ Certainly, but only one outcome, and, to use the same argument, the credit system is the outcome of doing business. Does it, therefore, follow that doing business is evil? The credit system is with the re- tail grocer and with him it will remain. To find a successful grocery business, bailt up on a purely cash basis, is a very marked exception, and the fault, after all, is not in the system but in the appli- cation of it. Certainly every seeker after credit should not have it. How shall we discriminate? Oftentimes we do not know the eharacteristics of the individual applying for credit and must act with the very slightest basis for such judg- ment. The main difficulty is lack of pro- tection. Is it necessary, because Mr. Poorpay’s account is closed with a heavy : debit against him at one store, that every other store in the vicinity should be called upon to go through the same ex- perience? Yet such is the case gener- ally, and it goes to show how completely in the dark the retail grocer is compelled to do business on this line. How may protection be secured? Only one way— by an organization of the retailers and then just as careful a rating of the cus- tomers in the retail as in the wholesale world. ae ‘Competition is the life of trade.’? Oh, yes, if it’s fair, square, open and above board competition, but this guerrilla war- fare, and cut-throat, cut-price, marked- down, no-profit competition that is so prevalent, or a competition that leads a retailer to quote to a customer of an- other prices lower than his regular sell- ing prices, are evils indeed. In this connection attention might be called to the so-called grocery departments of some of the sell-everything stores, so- called, because the staples they will not and do not tackle, but those goods, most- ly in packages, which are easily handled and on which there should be more pro- fif, they slaughter. Right here is an- other place where organization on the part of the retailers, with the Golden Rule for a motto, would come into play. There should be an understanding in reference to a fair ratio of profit on all goods, including staples, and a deter- mination to fight everything unfair for the best interests of the organization. —but. _— 9 What ‘Cut Rate” Prices Do for the Drug Trade. During the past year a campaign of demoralization has been conducted by the retail drug trade of Detroit, nearly every store in that city bearing an omi- nous-looking sign, announcing that cut rate prices rule therein. A few months ago the drug trade of Detroit was in excellent condition, finan- cially speaking, but at the present time it is estimated that 60 per cent. of the druggists are chattel mortgaged and that 25 per cent. of the remainder are unable to buy goods except for cash. Surely the way of the transgressor is hard! Seely’s Flavoring Extracts Every dealer should sell them. Extra Fine quality. Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors. Yearly sales increased by their use. Send trial order. Beely’s Lemon, Doz. Gro. $ 90 10 206 120 12 60 200 22 80 3 00 33 00 Seely’s Vanilla Wrapped) loz. 2 oz. 4 oz. 6 oz. Doz. Gro. 1oz.$150 16 20 200 21 60 3 75 4080 5 40 57 60 Plain N.S. with corkscrew at same price if preferred. 2 oz. 4 oz. 6 oz. Correspondence Solicited SEELY.cMFG. CO., Detroit [lich. ¢ 1S ed bitads THE MICHIGA N TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Morphia, 8. P. & W. 2 6@2 30 elditts Mixture. ..... @ 20] Linseed, polled... 59 - . oe, MApIS................. . cu a OM cc 1 95@2 20 ss, @ 30] strained........... 6 70 Advanced Declined. aschne — ee | = —, Waceaboy, De as SpiritsTurpentine.... 34 40 yristica, m2 oe aoe en tt ‘aaa 9 — Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff, Scotch, De. Voos @ % Painrs. bbl. Ib. Aceticum ...... ...... &@ 1 Aconitum NapellisR....... On Rea 5@ 18} Soda Boras, (po.11). . 10@ 11] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@8 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 se io F....... 50} Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D, Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ 25 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 Boracic .............. P 15 Ne 60 Co ee eee @2 00 | Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 alte 1% 2@3 Carbolicum .......... 0p 20 “and myrrh . 60} Picie Lig, NaG., % gai Soda, Bi-Carb...../... 3@ 5| Putty, commercial... 24 24@s Citricum ............. 41@ 44 Arnica ......... {ae oe @2 00| Soda; Ash......... |... 34@ 4 sitlctly Pure... .2% 24 QB Hydrochior ........... 3g : Asafotida...._ - 0} Picts Lig., quarts .___! @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas..... |__| @ 2/ Vermilion Prime Amer- Nitrocum ......-. +++» — : Atrope Beliadonn so @ 85|Spts. Ether Co... ||. 50@_ 55|_ ica ORAOUE occ es oct 10@ = 1 on. 60 | Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. @ 50] * Myrcia Dom..... @2 00 65@70 Phosphorium dil...... 1 1 60 a 2 10@3 0 . Bens wee 50 | Piper Nigra, (po. 22) .. @ 1 ‘* Myrcia Imp... .. @2 50 Salicylicum ........... 2B. Mentha Verid...| |." 1 0@2 Sanguinaria............ oe i Alba, (pog5).... @ 3 ‘ ini Rect. bbl. i a -- 8 @6% Sulphuricum........... 1%@ 5 Morrhuae, gal [2 oe $6) Fe Bergan. @ ee 2 49@2 59 hilary 6 @6% Tannicum............. 1 I 00 | avreia ine 50 | Cantharides............0/27! 75 | Plumbi Acet ........ 12@ 13) Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... @70 Tartaricum........... oly rian Raat Oe Ceomionm 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20| Strychnia Crystal... 1 40@1 45 aa , ee -~ AMMONIA. Behn a oe ee oe amg. ccc: | PYpeMheam, ‘boxes i eee Se eg | eee, ee deat, 0 Oe i GE 96 | cast Co . 2 - D. Co., doz. @1 25 ication Rol 8 4 — ai Ua, 10 GOX........-- “rong eee EE IE Ie i{ ee... ., Bee 2) Clee a 90 deg... - so. 6 50@8 50 | Catechu 222720 777727°7277 "50 | Syrothram, pv........ "8d. 10 | Terebenth Veuiice..... 24 9) | Universal Prepared i ogi tf Carbonas .2:.....0...5 12@ 14 Susan oo din ae CmenenaA 50 | Quinia, S. Pe Wl”! 34%@39% | Theobromae ........ 45 @ 48/ Swiss Villa Prepared CRETEIE «0-00 «04.0 en 1 i OD icecnccecnccess.s 'S. German... 27@ 37| Vanilla............1") 9 00@16 00; Paints........0...... 1 00@1 20 ANILINE. EE ar uN 2 sont oo + ogy Oe 50| Rubia Tinctorum..._ 12@ 14{ Zinci Sulph.. | VARNISHES. 2 00@2 25 Sie aie co cs OO ERO a 50 Saccharum Lactispy. 129@ 14 No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 BISGK......--++00++-00- Thm om ounce... @ @5|Cubeba. lS 50] Salas acts Pv. 2 10@2 25 OrLs. Extra Turp....... 166@1 70 Ewes. 05.5... > = Tigi... is pial 2 £0 — a = gee A Draconis..... 40@ = Gal — on vi ae < woe? " wece cece sees cecoes eo 4 50 6 i lh i 8 . S Whale, winter........ », No. rp urn.. . Yellow ................2 50@3 00 | Thy ao @1 60 | Gentian 2... BO] ay a - = Eutra Turk Damar....1 Sooi a BACCAB. Theobromas......... ISD OY gag COrrsr reer ereee eee ee ee Oe @ 15| Lard, No. 1........7. 42 45/ Ja Dryer, No. 1 Gupton ---..--..... 22.22... 50 Linseed, pureraw.... 56 50|° Turp.. 70@75 Cubeae (po 25)...... 20g = POTASSIUM He 60 , Se ee RD ase a a o Pe ean ee 8@ go | BiCarb... 2.2.2.2... a ee 50 Xanthoxylum... .... %@ Bichromate a 130 4 Hyoscyamus . Se 50 ——— “a —— moe <—eeeeamenennnrre — re eS eee ewe cues 2. oT RS ana - 1B 15] Colorless... 027 75 Comihe 45@_ 50} Chlorate (po, 17@19).. 16@ 18] Ferri Chloridum...) 171.777’ 35 RSENS G2 00 Cyanide............... Ss Shi King 50 Terabin, Canada .... 45@ 50} Toaide.... 2.72! 2°°7°"7° 2 96@3 00 | Lobelia... . 50 OO cue ek. 35@ 50 Fotases, Bitart, pure.. 23g 25 Myrrh. soi 80 0 a » COM... ux Vo ecu e = g | Potass Nitras, opt... se. 2 e Abies, Canadian............ 7 Potass Nitr Le 2 a : Cam ne : Fo BRBIRO .... 2. eee eee eee eeee eee on ee Cinchona Flava ............ 18 Sulphate a 15@ 18 AurantiCorter............. 50 Euonymus atropurp........ = RADIX. uassia ........ he = Cerifera, po......... > dati: oa = atany 50 tees ic cs SR Sassafras vnscs2s-c cess. $a] Amohman 200202200. BB | Gaeta Aoutitoi.-.. 50 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 Cade POs se sree cess aoe = Serpentaria ..... sue Ha * 59 V ALLEY CITY EXTRACTUM. Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 Suaaecntomn eee eee le 2 a cine hee “eee 8 y ca : | BigoayChnaaen safes | POULTRY POWDER s ebsbore, Als, po... i = MISCELLANEOUS, BO us ck 17 | Ipecac, po............. 1 30@1 40} ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 30 Irts plox (p0. 38038). 35) 40 | teh SP “ER! pe 3 Salen c 40@ 45] Alumen 24@ 8 Sie a a el peaks teas 50 | Podophyilum, po...... ee ee 4 ee 75@1 00] Annatto...........1.77 60 = Oe 2 Antimoni Pte: a a es et Potass is . ° e Nin EO 38} Antipyrin............. @1 40 Nothing Like It to Make Hens Lay in Winter. * | Sanguinaria, (po 25) @ 2 Antifebrin............. @ Se ee. 30@ 35) Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 53 " Senega ..... .......... 55@ 60} Arsenicum.........._. 5@ 7 Ae es, = i: Similax, Offcinalis. = g 4 Balm Gilead Bud... ia 40 ia OE Bina ae -gegit 08 | Calstam Choris, ga! OO - on TO ace a / te i l . visits so| de, pore... @ 35| caninetate Russian, A valuable addition to the feed of laying Hens and growing ee er ta Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) : 3 % TN CE @1 00 . 9 eee «. . . ae ee Oe Sl ae aon, 18 20 | C*PRIC! Fructus, - os chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera = Pager se 18@ 2 ‘“ “ po. S@ ? Salvia officinalis, \s t : and %8......... ae 15@ S SEMEN. Gerznyiins, aula "2, = Roupe and Gapes. Uae. .........-- S@ 10) Anisam, (po. 20)... @ 15) Carm Alba, 8. & F.... 50D 55 GUMMI. Spine (graveleons).. 3 7 Cera Flava............ 38@ 40 eas cack sues. Acacia, ist picked @ 80 Carui ae 10my 12 | VOCCUR................ @ #@ a a G | Oardamon. nr ‘Sula (CSS ‘ rte © eo Cetaceum......... @ 0 os ae ae 4 . ee oe. ra a Chloroform nears e = Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... a 1 12 bs .. ‘ * Cape, 0 3 2 rh Dipter aes a 2 40ge 60 Choral Hyd Crat Le ae 1 a. " : eee. @ 15; xacnerus ........... - Catechn, in, (48, 14 3s, ; a a 6Q §| Cinchonidine, F. & x ue % waa sop go | Lint gra.’ (bbi'8K) _; aes Corks, list, is. yer Assafotida, (po 50} LS 62 : a ey o re BQ 40 —— > oo Wsesee near ee ee & Pharlaria Canarian : f2 2 : Huphorbian po — @. 101 sinapis Albu........ 4 @ 5 Galbanum............. @2 50 pi — 0 %@ ii Gamboge, po.......... 70@ 7% @ Guaiacum, (po 35) @ x a. i 3 40 Kino, (po 1 7%) @! 7 | Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@3 @ 24 ae. @ 80 “ aE... 1 75Q2 5@ 6 Myrrh, (po. 45)........ @ 40 Se 1 3@1 10@ 12 Opli (po 8 30@3 50)..2 6°@2 70 Juniperis Co. 0. T....1 65@2 7 90 Meee 2 ce 0@ ‘ a 1 75@3 @ rT} bl ed.. 4@ 15 mo 1 75@2 @ 6 Tragacanth ........... 50@ Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 30@ 35 HEEBA—In ounce packages. — dae eae eoe : B@2 o = Abeiatiiiee a5 | Vint Alba............. %Q2 "9 Oe Bupstertnm teen erm wr eres ene = SPONGES, i t e 60 cs pein wie widen 6 a6 endemic orida sheeps’ woo) naa 50 Maj oe eek eeu wicuee ae 28 Fl age. — oe 2 50Q2 75 Gl are flint, by box oe Mentha Srperte Paasee adage = Nassau sheeps’ wool eas on don box 75. ; ge dg: | ED 15 soot Oe a pease > Velvet extra sheeps’ Glue, - “~ ee S Tanacetum, V............... be | _ woo! carriage....... 1 10 ey > ma = ee, Woe Extra yellow sheeps’ a }ieoeek a z Calcined, Pat.... . 35@ 60| Grass sheeps’ woo! car- pe tans bac = = Garbonale a BG | Bares ine Gat ge a @ & Price 25 Cents eee bah i e Carbonate, Jennings... 300 36 Talew Reef, for slate i“ “ Ammoniail.. : 2 25 Pain edewsel : OLEUM, nguentum. bain 50@3 Hydrar Oe. oss @ 60 A dalae Dai i. * OS 0 Ts aeekaiin ka 1 25@1 50 Sane Same 00@Ss 25 ees... 75@1 00 i... s6e fodine, Resubi. 3 80@3 90 Auranti Cortex....... ieee — ss oe pricier csees a 00@3 = toaaaed 60@ 6 : Sa pophyiif 22072227. me 80 —. 0@ 7 a Cedar tae BB. ee Liguor Arse et Hy enopodii .... |...” 1 60 arg lod............ a i Cianament wt eemnass 1 wei fo —— aa 68 2 Manufacturing Chemists, I 0e diate diane s boweaieece Pibisercoigs * foc *" ‘he “) tie * Queen Flake. 8 ozecans6doz “ Son * 4d0z.: ~ oo * ge08 ~ ‘eh * Sado * Sib = ides ™ Red Star, 4 } cans......-. . oe fA “e a Telfer’s, 4 cans, Gos. . 4 1b. : Me Our, Leader, a > cane. ..-. > cane...... a # ib cans BATH BRICK. 2 ste in case. EBaglish .. 6 ——— 80 ES... gam ' M Standard, 1 ib. MusiarG, Tomato Sauce Soused, 2 Ib. se Columbie Riv: er, £ tall Aiaska, Red.. i Sane ae aR as inners, Sae.......... cone HYSON ae Wik... rO g i . No. 2 ‘i P and labeled. 2 60 _ -lb. hae oO ius ; ‘at, house “om % Ti “cc lod «set OO ARMOS. 5 cccns %-1D...... 3 65 Superior to fin ---18 @2e Paice 10 @ 2% - $8 Coma Bano somes cin csk 9% ‘s Proctor & Gamble. ne 30 @40 a NET wee eee 0 @600 hs Ften, ie Pearl top. .3 80 “Batavia in bund... a fon ee i, 3 ae Martin, dark... 2 108 @ 250 No.2" apped and labeled........ 3% seven, Saigon in rol. arpa oR IPR | Galea cc Bie Martin, pale, 321 100 @ 1 5 Radming, ng " + Saree oe go en 29 iin 400 Bes oes @28 acrd eo cae 5 00 680) No. 1, Fire Proof—Plai jceccus oe an Ee ar 11% ttt. i — Wolf-.....-..-.. 100 @ 2 00 ase 2 Top. 80 ah oo TOBACCOS Ratics ane ae <2) Dingman Brands. ” Fine Cut. Opossum........ ’ = @% 00 No. 1 Sun, iin ? Single box.. P. Lorillard'& C — Skin, dry.. 10 $ = No. Plain bulb, per doz. 5 box lots, deliveeed 27° 395 | SweetRuseet...--- 8) Os eer Skinjgreen 45 @ 12% | No. i crimp, per don i bes ox lots, delivered. ee : ; = ee . ee are 30 @32 Green HIDES. 2 Mae a et cranes su mae OR | Greene cgeren~ 902 | oso ae aon orem am vot sen in Baik. Jas. S, Kirk & Co.’s Brands, en & © Brands, — Cured...... iS a4 No. 1, ime Rochester. C Batavia ee eo ks ual 2 American Family, wrp'd.. 38 3 Ps ee @ 5% a 2 tiie Gee aon; ‘areata 3 eee | nM nee | Bee iii mie | oeiittica: k a. eels ae aa wa se and Saigon .25 N. K. Fairb 227 Spaulding & Merrick’s ie oo Se die dk ila 3 ¢ : 5 Oh eae ee 3 70 coves, Amboy... Santé Clauses son 3H Pe ee | eS Qe | Nos, ime coe doz) — oo BPs nose tim@tn 99 a ee ee : a Sint mean Ginger, African...... a 80 bare 2202022272. c. oe Can Desconskins. Rha 10 $2 int (80¢ doz) ......... ee, 04 40 Pn 9 N 0. 2 hides % off. ; dicot “ de L Nellie Bl es %&% off. Miscell Mace ajuinate -_ Se ciee z —— Bros. & Co.’s Brands. Unele ion Shearlings PELTS. Junior, Rochester aneous. : xen pena ae ance Cotton ace at: eGinty ma oS a Nutmeg - ee veteiteeestseeeescseees “30 coat arse: ne _ 2 Oe ees oe ene s ae Nutmegs, No.2 ............- 25 Marsellies.... a. 4 oo — acaciece Washed . WwooL. Barrel aator Bases. Pieces diee esc e ce et 15 Pepper, Singapore, peters ee eee une, . 400 i drums Unwashed ..... vee-12 @l5 7 in. Porcelain Shades... 1.17” Sete cea | sane his “ Thompson ae iat ahiialine Dame = = oa ed «snes @i2 Case — don “t : ee 90 imc 20 ee ee frm a ee 3%S@ 4 fammoth Chim ae Wo ns ab cmntnvdusras iene butter... * neys for St Abaotate”" Packages. sane = oS 1K@ 2 = 3 Rochester, lim Doz. Lamps. Box Allspice ......... “oe Spearheed ... owe IM8ENg.......-....... 3 00@3 25 No. § Pearl ton ming 2224 5) 4 20 ee I ais Nobby ‘Twist. 27 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS | No.2 Gidbe Incanter Hee 8.1 & — Gan tee 155 Se 40 WHEAT, No. 2 Giobe In ndes. lime...1 75 ~ 25 som, Soar toe es 84 155 ae otten’ em No, 1 White (58 Ib. test) No. 2 Pearl gl on flint...2 00 5 10 can... — ¢ ‘ ae oe gee eee 2 5 85 Mustardscessc: M188 eee = | Nosed @in tw) os om cas, 6 00 Sipe een ee ee y City ....-. 34 eta. ci 1 gal tin cans 5 AGS... Po ola oo Brands, eee 140 1 gal galy “ot - spout.. ee Doz SAL aan. ebicee Jolly Tar ee. 40 FLOUE IN SACK: 1 65 2 gal galy iron with out ee 1° cme goma. | Sieben 38 | gumesmaeco. 32 *Patents. 8. 3 gal galv i Ae - 200 hie -+ 196 Mono .... ...... Wiliawaenes *Standards........ «| to eee eee ih pe. ie Savon Ymproved:<.°1/.".::230 | ‘three eee, me: | Re 145 | 3 gal Eureka, pith spond. 0.2 6 co 145lb7kegs........ cot a 2 80 Three Black Goat" = ee a 1 0 5 pe Eureka’ withitaueee ronan 6 00 SEEDS Economical .71'"77"""7"": 3 25 J. G. Butler's Brand aan aeons BS ee een 8 aw nner 7 00 ‘Se E . Ltittteeeceeees 2 25 ood si 38 ne to usual cash dis- 5 Tilting Cane Monarch. 7°) 7 50 Garey! Smyrna....... “ Single box 8 Atlas Brand. 24 Flour in bbl gal galv iron Nacefas.... 22. 12222272071! 10 CO Caraway oo anos 4% Sanaa net 3 65 s Brands. ditional. 8., 25¢ per bbl. ad- 3 gal B ie=_ of 9590 ag Malabar... 90 10 box lots. . . 3 60 43 Seevaieiuees 5 gal one Rule. Cee, M ane oo heap 4 25 box lots del ase 37 ° ‘a 3 gal Goode ee --10 50 Mustard, white .....! = Scouring. 7? 31 Bran eA quantit 5 gal Goodenough... ITER 00 Poppy ees % Sapolio, ie eae” = oan #14 59 By 815 5 OD 5 gal ee “12 00 Rc ccsccas stenees iatsia Ee Smokin Middlin : 13 00 Se need ces Cuttle bone........ = sai 3dos....... 2 40 Catlin’s Brand aes 16 = 17 00 Ho 0, Tubular, aaras GLOBES, STARCH. Below GAR. Kiln dried 8. Coarse meal .. 22 24 00 No. 0, oz. each.. ae 45 20 1p boxes... yaons ca sages ner Tek | Hanae Shower |S oem 3m | Re a a pip nee ng | Roath ie | Meme ee ae mia 8 SSR ealer adds the lo | a ierican iagle Co.'s Br ai”: l——e 43 No. LAMP WI 1-Ib packages. ae aaa ot point, on nf Se en eee ia No. 0, per, gross........... ons. ei ee ex | the. mount "of freight ing | Sor | ene thea Gaia! 0022-7 eee ce 5 i er eerevececee reight bu Germ a eos cual ae 0. 3, Lt aa aa eb we Wee wate ocean seek 2 oa es ie kc 5% ys from the market in which an . 15 No. 1 Ti MOB, a nee gg a renee enee ones 38 —e oe. sess ene 3% patie Inttonns tozhis pidentee Sato fou .-R No. 1 motby, ear sete... 3 50 oth, per doz........... SE eee & ao ol mea B ee ee ~ | Pints, ¢ doz in box, per box { -— Scotch, +s Waedinen ‘Déetas arrel. B aeeeee Tobacco Co.’s Brands FISH AND = Ben ee _— (box 00) Macca oa 37 Cut Laat hiainsthves ati os << | ace ‘ 7 OYSTERS. ‘“ . i aa ie oz (bbl 35 “i french en Ser Greaves 35 nae ee 4 5 eee te ene, ais Samana 36 FRESH FISH sy we noes ml box (box 00). sO) n Jars. ....48 me 4 37 Old Cut. ..-.-..-++---.----80 Whitefish ......... - @l RO cor copra Koge Bagitsh oe Sin Gene Powdered. shat . Scotten’s Brands. —a. 2 Butter Crocks, tC gales cennen asaah serene saese ae E a ae POE ices, . kc. ne 12% iat vee Gag on 06 Sah bia obacan 4 ine Granul sevens ae Honey Dew.... a BO ann nn - =r Jugs, 4 al. per doz........... Cases, enpca . neuen jeubaa 40 Gold Block. 7 ‘the trade are hereby warned against using any infringements on Weigh- ing and Price Scales and Computing and Price Scales, as we will pro- tect our rights and the rights of our general agents under Letter sPatent of the United States issued. in 1881, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1891, 1893 and 1894. And we will prosecute all infringers to the full extent of the law. The ‘simple using of Scales that infringe upon our patents makes the user liable to prosecution, and the importance of buying and using any other Computing and Price Scales than those manufactured by us and bearing our name and date of patents and thereby incurring liability to prosecution is apparent. Respectfully? THE COMPUTING SCALE CO. BE SURE YOU BUY THE DAYTON SOMPUTING SORLES. See What Use's Say: ‘““‘We are delighted withit..”. The Jos. R. Peebles Son's Co., Cincinnati. U- “‘Would not part with it for $1,000.” Dan. W. Charies, Hamilton, O. “Tt saves pennies ever time we weigh.”’ Charles Young, Adrain, Mich. ‘‘They are worth to us each year five times their cost.” Ranup & Hayman, Constantine, Mich. “Weare very much pleased with its work.” Henry J. Vinkemulder & Bro., Grand Rapids, Mich. “Since the adoption of your scales have made more money than ever be- tore.” Frank Daniels, Traverse City, Mich. ‘* Ttake pride in recommending them to every user of sca'es.” Chas. Railsback, Indianapolis, Ind. “T heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish to save money.” Geo.{F. Kreitline, Indianapolis, Ind. “It is the best investment I ever made ™ ‘I, L, Stultz, Goshen, Ind. (3 For further particulars drop a Postal Card to HOYT & CO., General Selling Agents, DAYTON, OHIO. TTL Naan sen AS qt PT cs H. LEONARD & SONS. We will be ready for you the First of January 1895 to talk GASOLINE STOVES. The ‘‘New Process” Stoves _ The Michigan Generator Stoves Have been greatly improved and are, without a question, the}An entirely new line for the coming season. They con- best vapor stove in the market. Don’t think of selling any}tain some new features never before shown on gasoline stoves other stove this coming season if you can get the agency for and are only found on the Michigan Stove. ~ 9? the **New Process. . ; : ' Write Us Early. Write Us Ear y. We are going to give the agency of these stoves to but Don’t cost any more than to wait until some one else gets the|one dealer in a town, see that you get it—for they are the best selling stove. Be up with the times and get there first. [easiest and best selling generator stoves ever offered. W rite for Catalogue and Discounts. H. LEONARD & SONS, GND Rapips,