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“Don’t Count Your Chickens Before
They’re Hatched.”
Written for THE TRADESMAN,

Pardon me for digging up this frag-
ment of ancient philosophy. -It forms
the headlines to this article, not because
there is any possible chance for its ap-
plication in this speculative age, but be-
eause there are a few non-progressive,
fossiliferous people who still persist in
quoting it. Why these human clods are
permitted to outlive their own time,
and act as dead weights and neutralizing
factors in a more advanced age, passes
my comprehension. It was one of these
chilling croaks that prompted the writ-
ing of this article. An enterprising gro-
cer was recounting his past successes
and pointing out to the writer the vari-
ous improvements he! had made from
time to time with surplus earnings. He
makes a specialty of illuminating oils,
and he was describing an ingeniously
contrived oil room which he intended to
build with the surplus of next year’s
earnings. He was self-confident, enter-
prising and hopeful—three grand essen-
tials to progress; and while describing
the oil room, his faith in the future was
so strong that he seemed to be already in
the enjoyment of his oilroom. But just
as his enthusiasm touched high water
mark, there came a chilling croak from a
boneless codfish box behind the stove:
‘“‘Don’t count your chickens before they’re
hatched.’? It came like a voice from the
grave. Investigation proved that its
source was actually in close proximity to
the grave; it was the voice of an invalid
old uncle of the grocer, who had called at
the store to ‘‘get his breath.”

Old verbal ‘‘saws’? may have served @
good purpose in past ages, when the only
ideas entertained by the masses, pertain-
ing to the philosophy of life, were dished
out to them in simple formulas by the
very few who possessed originality in
any marked degree. These old ‘‘saws’’
have lost their original force. They are
worn out. They cut both ways; have
double meanings, and may be quoted to
prove or disprove an assumed proposi-
tion. It is an indication of mental
weakness, a certain symptom of brain
paralysis, to make use of dead men’s
words in conveying and palming off
ideas supposed to be our own. They are
not our own ideas—dead men’s words
convey dead men’s ideas; and the man
who jabbers in these dead echoes, whether
the echo comes from thegrave of William
Shakespeare or elsewhere, is not so pro-
foundly learned as he imagines himself
to be. He is simply barren in the region
of thought. He has no ideas of his own,
and, poor fellow, he is forced to borrow
other men’s ideas. If a dearth of orig-
inal ideas be an indication of learning, in
this age of original thought material-
ized, then may our children show no in-
dications of being learned. There is no
room in the busy world to-day for these
human parrots. They should be caged
and kept, like their feathered brothers,
for amusement merely. Ido not wish to

 

be misunderstood in this matter. A mas-

 

terly understanding of the truths taught
and the work accomplished by the great
and good of all ages, should be striven
for by all who would become learned,
and the student who acquires the great-
est proficiency in this direction will de-
velop the largest stock of original ideas;
and the more prolific the source of his
own ideas, the fewer will he borrow from
other men.

But it is the old ‘tsaw’”’ selected as the
subject of this paper which calls for
special attention. Who it was that made
the remarkable discovery that chickens
should not be counted until they are
hatched, is not known tothe writer. It
may have been Belva Lockwood, or it
may have been someone else; but who-
ever it was, itis quite evident that the
beacon star of hope had disappeared be-
neath the horizon of the author’s mind.
And not only so; but the author, by for-
mulating his own despair into a proverb
of universal application, would rob all
mankind of the only thing that makes
life endurable—namely, hope. The orig-
inator of this old saying made a very
common mistake. He framed a standard
for all mankind, with material taken
from his own experience only. He was
very short-sighted and extremely narrow-
minded. He thought that because his
eggs failed to hatch, other people’s eggs
would fail also, and so he would fore-
warn us in order to save us from bitter
disappointment. He would have us keep
right an setting our eggs, of course, but
not with any expectation of hatching out
chickens. Whata sweet morsel of en-
couragement this is for struggling hu-
manity! What an incentive to do and to

dare !
I wonder what sort of metaphorical

eggs this old philosopher failed in hatch-
ing out? I wonderif he was engaged in
the grocery business? This would have
familiarized him with the unhatchable-
ness of literal eggs, and when the time
arrived for his creditors to gather up the
remains and assign him to some new field
of labor, it would be the most natural
thing in the world for him to associate
blasted hopes with stale eggs. It would
seem that grocers were about the only
fellows engaged in business who acted on
the principle embodied in the saying. It
may be that there is a strong affinity be-
tween hopelessness and the business;
and that, when a man has lost all hope
of raising poultry, he naturally grav-
itates into the grocery business. Whether
this be true or not, it is quite certain that
if every man who is contemplating the
grocery business would sit down and
seriously consider the prospect of hatch-
ing out chickens, there would be fewer
to engage in the business.

The counting of chickens before they
are hatched is right and proper—pro-
vided the eggs are good and the condi-
tions for hatching are what they should
be. In fact, it is the hope that centers
around the counting of the chickens that
makes us careful in choosing the kind,
and in testing the quality of the eggs, and
in obtaining and applying the best pos-

 

sible means of hatching them. The man
who qualifies himself for any business,
and reaches out and grasps it with a firm,
tenacious hold, pushing it with all the
mental and physical force at his com-
mand, has a right to anticipate success.
Shut off this anticipation, and the very
means necessary to bring about a realiza-
tion is weakened and destroyed. Hope
is the mainspring of persistent and un-
tiring effort, and without this success
is out of the question.

Young man, go ahead. Select the best
and latest improved eggs you can find,
and be sure they are the hatchable kind.
Remember you are going to hatch chick-
ens, and conveniences and appearances
cut no figure in the selection of your
eggs. Some eggs never hatch, yet some
people keep right on setting them, trust-
ing to Providence, or fate, for chickens.
These people never get into the poultry
business. When they get old and tooth-
less they have to get along without
chicken broth.

Be sure and set your eggs in a suitable

place. Set them where all dangers may
be warded off by yourself. Don’t take
any chances in the matter. Remember

that the best regulated hatchery is sub-
ject to unforeseen disasters which make
it sufficiently hazardous without taking
chances on anything visible. After they
are set, watch them. JDon’t trust to
Providence, here, either. Providential
aid will not be withheld, but it will
never include one iota of your part of
the work; remember that. Don’t trust
to Tom, Dick or Harry, while you are up
in the woods fishing, or down at the ‘‘Ex-
change”’ playing pool. These fellows
may be pretty good fellows, and some
day they may make a success of the
poultry business themselves; but what
do they care for your eggs?

The temperature must be kept even.
Don’t apply an oversupply of heat for a
few days, and then go off to look after
something else and let the mereury drop
to the freezing point in that hatchery.
Some folks adopt this plan, but they are
never seen in the market with spring
chickens.

Finally, you must never take your eye
off the thermometer in that hatchery or
forget to lock the back door. This you
will not be able to do without that eheer-
fulness of mind and steadfastness of pur-
pose born of the spirit of expectancy—
therefore, count your chickens before
they are hatched. E. A. OWEN.

$$$ @<>——_______—

A big fish story, for this season of the
year, comes from Manasquan, N. J.,
where a whale thirty-five feet long is
stuck fast in an inlet. The whale came
in with the tide, and reaching a deep in-
let appeared to go tosleep, as he lay per-
feetly still. After a while the tide began
to go out and a stiff breeze blew off shore,
which sent the water below low-water
mark. The whale charged the sand bank
which had made him a prisoner, and
lashed the water, but all to no avail—he
was stuck fast. There are several old
whalers in the place, who superintended
the slaying of the monster.

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CURRENT COMMENT.

It shows a great advance ip the coun-
try’s moral tone that offenses against the
moral code weigh so heavily against can-
didates for office. There was
any examination of his private life as an
impertinent intrusion into a sphere
which did not belong to the public gaze.
He might have one family at the seat of
government, for instance, and another at
home, without much fear of exposure.
Or he might accept an invitation to the
opening of a big gaming house, with the
certainty of finding the Cabinet, the Su-
preme bench, the Senate and the House
all well represented there, and not a
word said of their attendance in the
Washington newspapers. In our time
the public is more exacting. The re-
fusal of a renomination to Col. Breckin-
ridge, in Kentucky, decidedly
modern. Massachusetts knew things
nearly as bad of a Senator of a past gen-
eration, yet re-elected him out of defer-
ence to his abilities. The overturn in
New York City, consequent upon the
disclosures of the Lexow Committee,
shows that no party can afford to become
the protector of social vice. The col-
lapse of a candidature for the national
Senate in another State, upon the dis-

was

covery that the candidate’s wife was
about to sue for divorcee, has a similar
significance.

* * *

It would be surprising if the present
session of Congress should prove fruit-
ful of important legislation. Under the
unhappy arrangement by which a sec-
ond session is held after a new Congress
has been elected, that session is always
more barren than the first. It is sure to
be doubly so when a pulitical overturn
has taken place in the preceding elec-
tion, and the country has shifted the
eontrol of Congress from one party to
the other. The defeated party has no
heart for work; the victorious party,
though in the minority in Congress, has
plenty of heart for resistance, and the
fatal hour on the 4th of March gives
them a point beyond which they do not

need to carry resistance.
* * *

The cases of hair turning white in a
single night, mentioned by Byron and
other romanticists, have not generally
been thought by scientists to be well
authenticated, but a remarkable case of
the reverse of this, where white hair
turned black in a few hours, is reported
from Louisville, Ky., where engineer
Geo. Gambrall, of the fire department, re-
cently fell from a burning building ex-
hausted and covered with ice. The next
day it was found that his snow-white
hair had turned black, all except the
part covered by the fireman’s helmet.
Gambrall is recovering, but his hair
shows no sign of resuming its hoary
color. The physicians think that the
exposure to the cold for such a long time
must have operated on the hair cells, but
in what way is a question left for scien-

tists to solve.
* * *

A dog has just been admitted as coun-
sel to plead for his master in police
court in New York. His master was ar-
rested for being drunk, and man and
dog were lecked up together in a cell
in the station-house. When arraigned
before the judge the next morning and
asked what he had to say for him-
self, the man said to the dog, ‘‘Talk to
him, Jim.”? And Jim, rising on his hind

a time}
when the American politician reseated |

 

 

legs, whined

into the justice’s ear.
“Are we sorry. Jim?’ interrupted the
man, and the dog sunk his head between
his paws and was convulsed with grief.
The justice dismissed the case, remarking
that such a sensible dog deserved a sober
master.

- & *

It is the custom of the queen to give
one or more of her subjects a happy
New Year by elevating to the peerage
some enterprising brewer or soapmaker
who has amassed a fortune or otherwise
distinguished himself. This year no
new peers were made. Peers are almost
invariably made at the suggestion of the
prime minister. In his ‘Life of Pitt’’
Rosebery wrote most disparagingly of
the custom of taking good men out of the
ranks of commoners to make nonentities
of them in the Upper House. He may
on that account feel bashful about
recommending commoners for promotion.
Or, he may remember Gladstone’s expe-
rience in making peers of liberals, who
turned promptly into tories in honor of

their new dignity.
= *

The feeling is becoming stronger all
the time that something should be done
to save the forests of the country from
destruction, and so the House bill, which
recently passed, for the proper and ad-
equate protection of the forest reserva-
tion will meet with general approval.
As the bill now stands, however, it has
two clauses which should be amended.
One is that there shall be restored to the
public domain such parts of the reserva-
tion as shall be suitable for agricultural
or mineral development, while the other
provides that prospectors and others
shall be allowed to cut timber for fuel
or building material—two provisions
that the ‘‘timber robber’’ will be sure to

take advantage of.
* + *

Captain Porter, of the Secret Service,
has sent notices to the firms and individ-
uals who have been using facsimiles of
the Columbian half dollar and the
Isabella quarter, notifying them that
since the two coins have been designated
as legal money it is an offense to sim-
ulate them in any form or manner.
Among the notices was one to the man-
agement of the women’s commission,
which has been advertising the sale of
the Isabella quarter by circulars contain-
ing a facsimile of the coin. Notices were
also sent toa number of manufacturing
concerns which have been making me-
dallions, lockets and other trinkets out
of the coins, informing them that any de-
facement of the coins was a punishable

offense.
+ ¢ *

There is serious objection to the per-
formances of people who whistle for
want of thought. Americans are looked
upon as natural born whistlers, and the
national whistling habit has resulted in
the production of a great number of
really skillful and musical whistlers.
With one consideration and another
there is a tremendous amount of whis-
tling. It seems cheerful, and, sometimes,
to the whistler, it is really cheerful.
Now, undoubtedly this would be very
nice if every one’s whistling were heard
only by himself. It would be a blessed
way of working off one’s nervousness.
But the other fellow has nervousness,
too. What about that? An ordinary
whistler’s performance gives absolutely
no pleasure to any one but himself.

That, however, does not trouble the
whistler.

 

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CAN Diks, PHRULTS anu NULLS
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK CANDY.
Yases Bbls. Pails.
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Standard, per Ib.........
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Boston Cream............ 8%
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Bea H........ oe i)
MIXED CANDY.

Bblis. Pails
ae 3 6%
ee epee es een 5% 6%
an 6 7%
TU oe ew eee oe eee :

Hagiteh Book....... ............- 7 8%
OCT EE nnn coc cs teres cece woes 1%
Broken Taffy... 7
Peanut Squares. . 8
French Creams.... 9
Walley Cregees.. ...........--.. - 12%
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......-..2.-eeee seen eces 8
rr eg oc ee os ok ae :
ranoy—In bulk
Pails
lesenges, pinin................ Lee eee 8%
: Me ee ee 9%
Chocolate Drops... 0. 22. 2... cece - 00 -cen 11
Chocolate Monumentals...............0--+++ 12
outs PP ke wee ie wren enn 5
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Sour Weeee......-............ .......... os 8
ROEIONS. kt ee a 9
FaNncy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box
Lemon Drops........ ee eee ee cens eee eee 50
I I ie ia i ee ewes ectoue onee £0
Peppermint Drops..........02--ceeecsesecccces 60
ene Od ec es ee ce
H. M. Chocolate Drops..........02 eserves --0es- 95
cas eee ee te 35@50
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A ise Soee.............-...... %
Dosonees ple
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Se... ee 7
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leoeresee (remees............................. 90
String Kock. ..... ae
Burnt Almonds....... 90@1 25
Wintereroen Werdes.........................3 60
CARAMELS.
Ho. 1, wrapped, 2 ib. boxes................. 3
bo. i, e 3 ee — =
No. 2, o 2 Ce 28
ORANGES,
Floridas, Fancy Brights 126................. 3 £0
Floridas, Fancy Brights, 150........... ..... 3 75
Fioridas Fancy Brights, 176, 200. 216........ 4%
Florida Tangerines, 100 to 150 in flat........ 2 50
LEMONS.
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Matce Coase, S08. -.. ee
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Pancy, 0.........-.... Se cree
BANANAS.

Leree buneiecs.... ........._..-.--......_... 3
Gace bemeres...... 2... 1 00M! 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, fancy layers 16D................. 12
. ' ae. 3
‘extra ce ee os il
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Dates, Pard, 10-Ib. DOX............2..-.- @7
a ee CL . @

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NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragon. .............e.se. Oils

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California, soft shelled .... @12%
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- oes... .............. @9
Peosee Tomes, 7. PL, .........--. 2... 6@T%
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Hickory Nuts per bu...................-
Consemets, Can wms............. -.... 400
Buttermere per ba........-.._.-...-..-- %
Biack Walnuts, per ba........... .....- 60
- ss PEANUTS.
ancy, H. P.,Suns......... S@ 5%
me . ~ Roe... ......-... 6D 6%
Fancy, H. P., Flags........ Looe aes @ 5%
fr - * Bees .......-..... 6B 6%
Chotes, H. P., Extras............... +. @ 4%
ie ig - eee... 5@ 6
FRESH MEATS.
BEEF.
ON i ee te cece ee cow ee come 54@ 7
Fore quarters........--- deneeeoeb eet eoe 4 @5
Hind GUareers.... 00-20. 0-resses -. - 6%@ 8
Loins } 8 @10
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Rounds ....... ee cay ieee 5 @
Chucks ... _ . e 3K@ 4%
OO pe eneecnens ++. 3 @3%
PORK.
Dressed ... ......--++-+- Wen eee cne conn 5@ 5%
OO ee 7%
Seeeeeces ...... 7. aC Ts 6
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Carcass ...... Oe eee 4@5
Lambs...... ni ctuce ounces ecrae reccsess SaREnG
VEAL.

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Vila? STOVE MERCHANTS

 

With Experience in the Trade Have
To 8ay about the Majestic.

 

Hughes & Otis, Fond du Lac, Wis.

The Majestic Steel Range is without a peer
as to cooking apparatus. (Thirty years’ expe-
rience in the stove business.)

D. & 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.

A. H. Sheldon & Co., Janesville, Wis.

After a most thorough and scrutinizing test,
we believe that the people who do not use a
a Majestic Steel Range waste the cost of it
every year in the unnecessary amount of
fuel consumed and the waste of food by im-
proper baking.

Harry Daniels, Jerseyville, Il.

I never learned what a cooking apparatus
was until, during the exhibit, the value of
the Majestic and its many excellencies were
demoustrated tome. Over one hundred in
use. Every user delighted.

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

Two years ago we bought one Majestic
Range and kept it on our floor. Since we
have had a practical demonstration of its
value, we have sold nothing but Majestics.

H. Krippene, Oshkosh, Wis.

I have been selling the Majestic for over four
years. Every user says they enjoy it more
and more each day as they become more
familiar with its virtues.

W. D. Cooke, Green Bay, Wis.

Have sold the Majestic Steel Range for four
years. Have not furnished one cent of re-
pairs or had one single complaint. The
users unite in saying that no words written
or spoken can speak more highly of it than it
deserves.

Dunning Bros. & Co., Menominee, Mich.

It is simply absurd to compare any other
cooking stove or range that we have sold in
our experience in the cook stove business
with the ‘‘Majestic” in economy of fuel and
facility and dispatch in properly preparing
food for the table.

V. Tausche, La Crosse, Wis.

The virtues of the Majestic Steel Range,
which have been demonstrated to us and our
people during the exhibit here, were both
surprising and gratifying 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.

H. 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,
Mich.
The Majestic, for durability, economy of fuel,
perfect operation, and all the qualities that
go to make a perfect cooking apparatus,
stands without a rival.

Kanter Bros., Holland, Mich.

The Majestic is perfect, the delight of its
users, and stands without arival as a cooking
range.

The opinions of the above merchants,
who have given alifetime 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. i

For further particulars address

J. W.JOHNSTON, Manager,

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3

 

-- WORDEN GROCER CO, -:-

Successors to

HAWKINS & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE
GROCERS

Hawkins Block, Corner Ionia and Fulton Sts.

AUTHORIZED CAPITAL
PAID IN CAPITAL = =

= $100,000
50,000

STOCKHOLDERS.

A. E. Worden, W. L. Freeman, W. M. Butts, W. D. Tolford, Chas. W. Garfield, T. J. O’Brien, Chas. F. Rood,
N. Fred Avery, W. F. Blake, Alex. Keith, Harry Worden, Eugene Worden, Geo. Worden.

DIRECTORS.

A. — Worden, W. L. Freeman, Chas. W. Garfield, T. J. O'Brien, W. D Tolford, N. Fred Avery, Chas. F. nood,
W. M. Butts, W. F. Blake.

OFFICERS.

PRESIDENT, A. E. Worden. SECRETARY, W. M. Butts.
VICE-PRESIDENT, W. D. Tolford. TREASURER, W. L. Freeman.

 

Patronage of the Trade Solicited.

 

 

4

AROUND THE STATE.

|

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Blissfield—Ellis, Scott & Co. succeed |
A. D. Ellis & Co. in general trade.
Port Huron—Wm. Wastall has
his drug business to R. V. Conway.
Ovid—Hazel & Clark succeed Fred E.
Hazel in the boot and shoe business.
Kalamazoo—Adrian VerWest — suc-|
ceeds Ball & Co. in the meat business.
Hanover—E. L. Heath, general dealer
at this place, has assigned to W. W. Dew.
Cass City—Seeley & Anton succeed
C. W. McPhail in the banking business.
Oxford—P. Rice & Co. have purchased
the drug business of C. H. Parker & Co.
Constantine—L. H. George succeeds
Gladding & George in the drug business.
Aima—Albert E. Woodward has sold
has boot and shoe business to J. L. Meil-
ler.
Rockford—Thompson & Keeney suc-
ceed A. A. Thompson in the grain busi-
ness.

sold

Carsonville—Austin & Vivian suc-
ceed David Crory, Jr., in the drug busi-

ness.

Saginaw—Erlick & Lefkvits succeed J.
Jaros in the dry goods and shoe busi-
ness.

Gaylord—Chas. W. Bahel has removed
his general stock from Otsego to this

piace.

Oak Grove—Geo. A. Wood has pur-
chased the drug business of L. E.
Walker.

Lawton—Chas. Hall sueceeds A. J.

Hall & Son in the agricultural implement
business.

Parma—Hans & Godfrey succeed
Hodges & Dean in the drug and grocery
business.

Jackson—Newell, Richardson & Gal-
braith succeed the Foster Furniture Co.
at this place.

Eastport—D. D. Blakely & Son succeed
F. M. Harris in the dry goods and gro-
cery business.

Central Lake—Cummings & Swaverly,
meat dealers, have dissolved, S. E. Swav-
erly succeeding.

Battle Creek—Siias C. Bellamy suc-
ceeds Mrs F. E. Locklin in the glove and
mitten business.

Eaton Rapids—Pillmore, Tiers & Mer-
ritt succeed Pillmore & Tiers in the
clothing business.

Prattville—Culver & Duncomb, general
dissolved, Duncomb &
Jones succeeding.

Ridgeway—Sutton & Gould, general
dealers, have dissolved, Bert Gould con-
tinuing the business.

Saginaw—Wm. A. O'Donnell sueceeds
O'Donnell & Sealion in the produce and
commission busipbess.

West Bay City—Kircher & Ueberath
succeed Weber, Kircher & Co. in the
planing mill business.

Three Rivers—W. K. Ritchie, of Gur-
nee, ilis., has purchased the grocery
business of J. E. Hummel.

Vassar—Hill & Lewis, boot and shoe
and furnishing goods dealers, have dis-
solved, C. C. Hill succeeding.

Charlotte—The Benton Manufacturing
Co. has removed its hand rake business
from Potterville to this place.

Durand—The DeCamp Hardware Com-
pany has purchased the stock of the Du-
rand Hardware Co. at this place.

J. Miller has bought
implement and hard- |

dealers, have

 

Shelby ville—L.
the agricultural
ware stock of Walker & Brooks,
effect Feb. 1.

RN ENN SS ame

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Holly—Algoe & Striggow, who have

| been engaged in the windmill, pump and |

produce business, have dissolved, Lew.
Algoe succeeding.

Saginaw—Borden & Drysdale, whole-

sale produce and fruit dealers, have dis-
| solved.
| by J. M. Drysdale.

The business will be continued

Albion—F. A. Young & Co. have
added a stock of groceries to their meat
business. Frank H. Clay (W. J. Quan
& Co.) sold the stock.

Muskegon—Hoekenga & Barsema will
shortly open a grocery and meat market
store in the building on Lake street, for-
merly occupied by K. Solheim.

Wayland—H. P. Hudson has purchased
the interest of his partner in the produce
business of H. J. Slade & Co. and will
continue the business in his own name.

Byron Center—Geo. Levitt has sold
his interest in the meat market of Levitt
Bros. to his brother, who will continue
the business under the style of Chas.
Levitt.

Eaton Rapids—W. W. Zimmerman has
sold part of his grocery stock to Stirling
& Crawford and is shipping the remainder
to Jackson. He will retire from the
business.

Hart—Henwood Bros. have sold their
grocery stock to the Stitt Grocery and
Provision Co. (Winfield Stitt, manager),
which will continue the business at the
same location.

Albion—E. A. Davis succeeds the firm
of N. & E. A. Davis in the grocery busi-
ness, N. Davis retiring to devote his
time to the Electric soap factory, in
which he is a stockholder.

Saginaw—Henry S. Doran, for the
past ten years manager of the Excelsior
Clothing and Shoe Co.’s shoe department,
will embark in the shoe business here on
his own account about April 15.

lonia—Chas. H. Webber has purchased
a half interest in the hardware stock of
H. B. Webber and will assume the ac-
tive management of the business. The
new firm will be known as H. B. Webber
& Bro.

Cheboygan—2J. J. Post & Co. have pur-
chased the Wm. Erratt & Co. hardware
stock from the Peninsular Stove Co., De-
troit, which purchased it at assignee’s
saie, and have leased the store building
for five years.

Bay City—The style of the wholesale
grocery house of the R. P. Gustin Co. has
been changed to Gustin, Cook & Buck-
ley. There is no change in owzership,
the members of the firm being H. H. Gus-
tin, Chas. E. Cook and Frank J. Buckley.

Ada—Smith & Bristol, formerly en-
gaged in the drug, grocery, boot and
shoe and furnishing goods business,
have dissolved. James Bristol continues
the drug and grocery business, and John
Smith the boot and shoe and men’s fur-
nishing goods business.

Hastings—Chas. A. Freer has pur-
chased the interest of C. O. Freer in the
firm of Freer Bros. (sucvessors to John
Flemming & Sonin the dry goods and
grocery business) and will eontinue the
business under his own name at his new
location on Jefferson street.

Mason—S. P. Stroud has sold his fur-
niture and undertaking stock to F. L.
Stroud and A. McDonald, who will con-
tinue the business at the same location.
The senior Stroud has been actively en-
gaged in the business thirty-nine years,

to take | during which time he has officiated as un- | H. C. Parke, 13,90

dertaker at the funeral of 2,150 persons.

| Port Huron—William Wastell,

| tired from active business, after having |
| been engaged in the drug business in this |
| city for forty years. He began his busi- |

Dr. C. M. Stockwell. Soon after, he pur-
chased the latter’s interest and has con-
ducted the place eontinuously since. He
has sold the stock to V. R. Conway, of
Sault Ste. Marie, and will take a rest.

Quinecy—H. A. Graves has a curiosity
on exhibition in his store window in the
shape of a roll ef butter which he bought
of some farmer last Saturday as a gilt
edged article and sold to some customer
in good faith as such. Looks, however,
is sometimes deceiving, and you have to
get at the heart to show tne true charac-
ter of the article. It proved so in this
case, for when the beautiful yellow roll
of butter was cut into the true inward-
ness was soon discovered. The veneer
covering of good butter, about half an
inch thick, was spread very adroitly
around the entire surface of white, in-
ferior butter.

Flint—The Swinton & Reynolds Co.,
Limited, has uttered a trust mortgage of
$4,246.96 for the benefit of all the cred-
itors without preferment, to David
Swinton, of Saginaw. This company
was organized about two years, with a
paid in capital stock of $8,000, and its
assets are now about three times its lia-
bilities. The creditors are Swinton,
Reynolds, & Cooper, Saginaw, $1,137.02;
First National Bank, Flint, $1,500; Na-
tional Wall Paper Company, New York,
$879.92; and miscellaneous accounts of
$730.02. The stockholders were not sat-
isfied with the earnings of the concern
and it is stated that this action is taken
to protect the creditors in full and to
make it possible to effect a final and
complete settlement of their differences.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Kalamazoo—The Phelps & Bigelow
Windmill Co. has increased its capital
stock from $40,000 to $175,000.

Traverse City—A. W. Wait has merged
his contracting and wood working busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of A. W. Wait Manufacturing Co.
The capital stock is $20,000.

Saginaw—The Alpha Manufacturing
Co. has been organized with a capital
stock of $5,000, all paid in, to embark in
the manufacture of wearing apparel.
The stockholders are Edmund A. Rob-
ertson, of Saginaw, and Angus C. Wood-
bridge, E. Clement Whateley, Charles L.
Morgan and M. M. Nesbitt, of Detroit.

Detroit—The corporation of Parke,
Davis & Co. expired by limitation Jan.
14, and was reincorporated Jan. 10 with
a capital of $2,000,000, of which $1,500,000
is paid in, divided among seventy-nine
stockholders. Those who hold the
largest blocks of stock are John Clay,
New York, 1,200; Geo. S. Davis, Detroit,
7,782; Mrs. E. B. Judson, Lansing, 600;
Mrs. A. H. Hanscombe, Vevy, Switzer-
land, 192; Mrs. Florence, M. C. Butts,
Orchard Lake, 320; Mrs. C. B. McCon-
nell, Pontiac, 307; Willard C. McConnell,
Adrian, 360; Mrs. F. J. McCartney, St.
Clair, 120; Mrs. A. Price, Bristol, Eng.,
264: E. G@. Swift, Walkerville, 60: Rev.
George Worthington, Omaha, 600; Dr. E.
T. Tappey, 1,080; John B. Russell, New
York, 1,069; Wm. H. Stevens, Detroit,
| 3,933; Mrs. E. P. Stevens, Detroit, 1.200;
2; G. V. N. Lothrop,
i 1,409, and Truman H. Newberry, 600.

 

the |
pioneer druggist of this city, has re-|

ness career in 1854, in partnership with |

 

 

Western
Beet

and
Provision
Co.

Agents for Armour’s Celebrated
Lard, Vegetole, World’s Fair Premium
Butterine.

Smoked Meats.
Mot Bae 9
Pieois Vas Tk
Breakfast Boneless Bacon.........- 8%
Dried Beet, Ham Gets ............. 9%
Fresh Meats.
Moet Gees... a. ee
ee 8@10
idee enca eens 7@ 9
Perk Cees... ot .. we
Beef in Barrels.
Boneless Ramp Butts...........-- $9 25
Lard in Tierces.
mettle Momaerea ..... .............. V%
ee a
Comeonne ee

Ask for prices on any provisions or
meats.
Special attention to mail and tele-
graph orders.
Telephone 1254.

71 Ganal St., Grand Rapids.

PROVISIONS.

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

 

—...... eee £2 GO
ee eo wz
xtra clear pig, short cut. : 14 00
Extra clear, heavy ....
Clear, fat back. bel eee Coe t desde 13 3
Boston clear, short a 13 530
Clear back, short cut. 13 50
Standard clear. short cut, best.. 13 75
SAUSAGE.
CC ee 6%
ee 5
ier... 6
ee. 8%
OEE 6
Se eee 6
ee 10
ees. 7%
LARD.
Bee Genes, .  .. S
naar
PR re, creer certo mee conse 6
eee . See i
itera tw Sooo .
Co, ee 6%
Olb. Tins, 4c advance.
Olb. pails, bee r
50 Ib. %C -
i. * we "
oem ~ te _

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. . 7

Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7

Renee, Foe eee 9

SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.

dams, average 20 Ibs.. _
_oe.............-.......

12 to 14 lbs.

‘ “se

 

 

- -...........
‘best boneless....
shoulders

 

Breakfast Bacon boneiess....._
Dried beef, ham prices.. ....
DRY SALT MEATS.

 

Lone Clears, heavy............ , _..... oo
Briskets, ee 7%
\ light eo
OOo
eee... i...
CO —————
PICKLED Pigs’. FEET.
Bee ree 3 2
Ct eee 1s
ee 90
TRIPE.
OO Ee 75
Rie ree se, oo. 85

 

 

   

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ENGRAVINGS: TYPE FORMS,

TRADESMAN Co.. GRAND RAPIDS MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Chas. VanMiddleworth has opened a
meat market at 694 Cherry street.

B. F. Pogue, grocer at 692 Cherry
street, is succeeded by J. W. Harris &
Co.

 

W. E. Densmore, formerly of Saranac,
has opened a meat market at 5 Robinson
avenue.

 

G. Adrion has opened a grocery store
at 223 West Bridge street. The Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock.

220

the
Rob-

Olney & Robinson, grocers at
Plainfield avenue, have dissolved,
business being continued by J. M.
inson.

C. B. Reynolds has embarked in the
grocery business at 1250 South Division
street. The Lemon & Wheeler Company
furnished the stock.

The United States Cigar Co. has leased
the fifth floor of the Weatherly & Pulte
building and expect to begin manufac-
turing goods for the trade about Feb. 1.

Gleason & Murray, general dealers at
Lake City, have opened a branch gro-
cery store at Falmouth. The stock was
furnished by the Musselman Grocer Co.
and the Worden Grocer Co.

John Algier, of Algier & Goss, meat
dealers at 359 South East street, has sold
his interest to Geo. A. Caldwell, for-
merly a clerk in the clothing store of E.
S. Pierce. The new firm name is Goss &
Caldwell.

Local capitalists who are being im-
portuned by the Secretary of the Board
of Trade to invest in a cannery enter-
prise here, on the representation that the
margins are large and the demand for
the output always in excess of the sup-
ply, are invited to peruse the opening
paragraph of our New York letter on the
twentieth page of this issue.

 

 

A representative of Dr. J. Parker
Pray, manufacturer of manicure goods,
called at the Morse department store the
other day for the purpose of selling, if
possible, an assortment of manicure
goods. Her mission was a failure, Geo.
Morse laconically—and probably truth-
fully—remarking that the people who
patronize his store do not clean their
finger nails.

 

A new stock company isin process of
organization to be known as the Singer
Hook & Eye Co. The corporation will
have a capital stock of $300,000, of which
$225,000 will be issued to Julius Berkey
in exchanged for his patents for safety
drapery and garment hovks. Fifty
thousand dollars of the stock will be
placed on the m rket at par and the re-
mainder, $25,000, set aside for the Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the company. It
is expected that Julius Berkey will con-
sent to act as President of the corpora-
tion, and that the position of Secretary
and Treasurer will be filled by H. W.
Stebbins, for the part two years Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the Priestly Ex-
press Wagon & Sleigh Co., Mr. Stebbins
having resigned the position of Treas-
urer of the Priestly Company and Ar-
thur W. Seymour been elected to fill the
vacancy. The Singer company will

probably have its hooks and eyes manu-
factured in the East,
from this city.

shipping all orders

Henry Trucas, formerly in the hotel |
business at Edmore, has opened a res- |
taurant at 20 West Bridge street.

The city is full of furniture buyers
from all parts of the country, attracted |
thither by the semi-annual exhibit of
spring samples by local and outside
manufacturers. Much speculation was
indulged in over the attitude of the buy-
ers on the subject of placing orders, but
a comparison of notes at the end of the
eighth day of the season showed that
more orders had been placed than dur-
ing the entire season last July. This is
decidedly encouraging to all dependent,
directly or indirectly, on the prosperity
of the furniture industry, as such a con-
dition of the trade involves full forces
and full bours at all of the factories for
several montbs to come. This means
large payrolls and augmented trade for
merchants and all who depend on the
patronage of furniture workers.

— > —-
Know What You Have in Your House.

The Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co.
has issued a little book which every fam-
ily in the city who carry insurance on
household furniture should have. It is
called the Household Furniture Inventory
Book. This book is arranged in sys-
tematic form, containing a printed list
of all articles appertaining to a furnished
house, having one column for the orig-
inal entry and other columns for what
may be added, together with columns for
the value and description, making it a
very easy matter to arrange. Only those
who have passed through the ordeal can
fully appreciate the annoyance and labor
involved and the difficulty experienced
in remembering in the confusion which
results in all cases after a fire, the nu-
merous articles which belong to them
and can fully realize how many dollars
they could have saved had they taken an
inventory before the fire. These books
will be given to any one desiring them
by calling at its office in the Houseman
block.

—_—_—> +>
For the Retail Trade.

The Commercial Credit Company is de-
livering to its subscribers its annual re-
port of names of individuals whose
worthiness of credit is questionable. It
is a book containing 2,700 names and ad-
dresses—400 more than last year’s book
—very carefully compiled and alphabet-
ically arranged. Its great value and
convenience are freely spoken of by

many merchants.
————-__—>-o-<——__—_—__——

From Out of Town.

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

Cc. N. Menold, Fennville.

J. L. Covey, Reno.

Jas. Murphy & Son, Lowell.

Gleason & Murray, Lake City.

Frauk Hamilton, Traverse City.

——_—___—~>.<——__——

Why impose on a confiding public with
cheap, tasteless, insipid Chicago jelly,
when you can buy Mrs. Withey’s Home-
made Jellies, which are really fine fla-
vored, nice and tart, at such low prices?
See this week’s price list of Edwin Fallas
on last page in this paper.

—_—___-_— >

J. P. Visner is on the way with Gillies
& Co.s’ fine New York coffee. They are
not matched. Wait for values.

—_—__—_~>-o<—__—

There was $98,259.26 worth of postage
stamps sold at the New York post office
during the month of December.

 

 

 

 

 

 

j ations.

EXIT HAWKINS & CO.

Inauguration of a New Wholesale Gro-
cery House.

The former establishment of Hawkins
& Co. has ceased to exist as a wholesale
grocery house, the steck and good will
having been acquired by a new organiza-
tion which will be known as the Worden
Grocer Co. The new corporation has an
authorized capital stock of $100,000, of
which $50,000 is paid in, divided among
thirteen stockholders in the following
amounts:

Am Worden...... ....- pea een tena $10,0 0
Omen WW. Gaveele .......... -.-.-.. 5.40
Wm. D. Tolford ........... a 5,1 00
eee 5.100
Wt Mew
Chas f. Hood........ ee 5.000
M Merce Agee |... ...... |... Se
W Grad Glee. se.
ek ce ae eee 2,500
7.2 (Vere ...... eee eee 1,000
Mosene Worden.......... ...........-.....- 1%
Howry Woeten .....5 = ........ ....,.- 100
George Worden.... -........ “ os 5
A Werden tusiee ................ 1700

At the first annual meeting of the
stockholders, held at the office of the
corporation Saturday forenoon, nine di-
rectors were elected, as follows: A. E.
Worden, Chas. W. Garfield, Wm. D. Tol-
ford, W. M. Butts, W. L. Freeman, Chas.
F. Rood, N. Fred Avery, W. F. Blake
and T. J. O’Brien.

At a meeting of the directors, held sub-
sequent to the stockholders’ meeting, the
following officers were elected:

President—A. E. Worden.
Vice-President—W. D. Tolford.
Secretary—W. M. Butts.
Treasurer—W. L. Freeman.

The new company has already ar
ranged to increase the stock over that
carried by the former firm and proposes
to take rank with the five other houses
in the grocery line competing for the
trade tributary to this market. There
appears to be no reason why such should
not be the case, as the officers of the cor-
poration are gentlemen of wide business
experience, two of them—Messrs. Free-
man and Butts—having been identified
with the grocery business for many
years. Mr. Worden is @ gentleman of
wide experience, having been identified
with the wholesale notion, furniture
manufacturing and wholesale lumber
business, and brings to the new eter-
prise a breadth and enthusiasm which
are a favorable augur for the prosperity
of the house.

The traveling force of the new bouse
will be as follows: W. F. Blake, A. S.
Doak, B. E. Granger, Geo. F. Schumm,
M. M. Mallory, H. R. Savage and G. B.
Conkey.

——————>e-_
Sixteen Out of Seventy -One

Owosso, Jan. 11—The regular exami-
nation of candidates for certificates as
pharmacists and assistants by the
Michigan State Board of Pharmacy, con-
cluded yesterday at the Catholic Club.
There were seventy-one present of whom
fifty-three were candidates for registered
pharmacists and eighteen for assistants.
The following passed as registered phar-
macists: Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo: M.
R. Blair, Birmingham; ©. C. Dowswell,
Algonie; Perry Hibbard, Delray; Fred
Nesbitt, Durand; J. L. Wasburn, Perry,
N. Y; Albert E. Johnson, E. Kimmich,
C. O. Larter, J. J. Morrish, W. J. Reid,
Robert Rutherford, J. F. A. C. Water-
map, Detroit. The following assistants
passed: H. A. Barclay, Clio; BE.
Fenner, J. P. Toomey, Detroit.

The next meeting of the Board
for examinations will be held at
Grand Rapids on the first Tuesday in
March. Hereafter all applicants must
furnish affidavits showing the required
practical or college experience before
being allowed to write on the examin-
STANLEY E. PARKILL, Sec’y.

 

Wants ieee,

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CARLOTS AND LESS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

SIAM AND ITS TRADE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The penetration of eastern semi-bar-
barous countries by western civilization
has a greater influence on values, and
consequently on economic conditions, in
the West than is generally supposed.
The price of wheat in this country is
fixed by the fields of India and Siberia.
Similar influences are felt in less degree
in the competition of other products.
Thus there is an added interest in any
such countries liable to exploitation by
western enterprise. The kingdom of
Siam, in the eastern part of the Indian
Peninsuia, is, next to Thibet and Corea,
the least known of the eastern countries.
In a recent conversation, Dr. Dan F.
Bradley, of Park Congregational church,
of this city, gave THE TRADESMAN
some interesting information in regard
to Siam and Siamese trade. He is well
qualified to do this as he spent the first
twenty-four years of his life in that
country, his father having commenced
his missionary work there in 1834, the
year after the first Protestant mission
was established.

Siam is about equal in extent to the
State of Texas, and supports a popula-
tion of five or six millions people. A
large proportion of the country is un-
cultivated, being occupied by mountains,
jungles and swamps. The great plains
of the delta of the principal rivers are
subject to such inundations that rice,
the principal staple in higher localities,
eannot be grown; but from the accre-
tions of silt brought down by the rivers
and from other causes these are rapidly
becoming the most productive lands of the
earth, rivaling the Nile Valley. The
tropical temperature is quite varied, the
nights in some seasons being cool. At
times, however, the heat is excessive.

The principal export of Siam to the
western markets for many years has
been teak wood. Great forests of this
and other valuable woods abound near
the upper courses of the rivers. The
lumber is transported in rafts to the cap-
ital and principal shipping port, Bangkok,
and thence is shipped to Marseilles,
Southampton and other western markets.

The following curious list of articles
subject to export duties is published in
an annual by Dr. Bradley’s father and is
the official schedule:

Ivory, gamboge, rhinoceros horns,
cardanums best, cardanums_ bastard,
dried mussels, pelicans’ quills, betelnut
dried, krachi wood, sharks’ fins wh te,
sharks’ fins black, lukkrabau seed, pea-
cocks’ tails. buffalo and cow bones, rhi-
noceros hides, hide cuttings, turtle shells,
turtle shells soft, beche de mer, fish
maws, birds’ nests uncleaned, Kingfish-
ers’ feathers, cutch, beyche seed (nux
vomica), pungtalai seed, gum Benjamin,
Angrai bark, agilla wood, ray skins, old
deer horns, soft or yonng horns, deer
hides fine, deer hides common, deer sin-
ews, buffalo and cow hides, tiger bones,
elephant bones, armadillo skins, sticklac,
hemp, dried fish plaheng, dried fish
plusalit, sapan wood, salt meat, mab-
grove bark, rosewood, ebony, rice, Sugar
white, sugar red, cotton cleaned and un-
cleaned, pepper, salt fish, beans and
peas, dried prawns, tilseed, silk raw,
bees-wax, tallow, salt and tobacco.

The country is badly handicapped by
the terms of its treaties with other na-
tions in which it is not permitted to
charge more than 3 per cent. import
duties.

Trade methods are exceedingly primi-
tive. The only medium of exchange is
silver, The coinage is principally from
Mexican dollars, which are coined into
‘“ticals,” equal to about 60 cents United
States currency. There are no bank
methods of exchange except for foreign
trade in the hands of British residents.
If itis desired to transport money from
one part of the kingdom to another, it
must be carried by a royal escort, or, in
possible cases, paid to some reliable
trader who will produce the value in
gouds or money at the place designated.

Gold is as much a commodity as dia-
monds are in this country. The king
has tried to make up for the recent de-

 

D. F. BRADLEY, D. D.

preciation of silver by debasing the coin-
age until the results are very disastrous.

The trade of the country is principally
in the hands of Chinese and Arabian
merchants. Most of the stores or ba-
zaars in Bangkok are in floating houses on
the Menam River or the numerous canals
which intersect the city in place of
streets. The greatest imaginable vari-
ety of articles is displayed in ti ese
stores, from which the fronts are en-
tirely removed, so that everything is
open to the inspection of possible buyers
as they pass in their boats. Credit is
never given and no books are kept ex-
cept the merchant’s reckoning of gains.
In fact, there is no provision for the col-
lection of a debt, even if the purchaser
be wealthy. The only possible security
provided for is on chattels or personal
service. Produce is brought into the
cities in boats on the rivers and canals
which interseet the country in place of
roads, and is sold for cash. This traffic
is in the hands of the Siamese.

The Siamese are taxed by the Govern-
ment to one-third the value of their
time. There is a triennial tax levied
on the Chinese residents, for which a re-
ceipt is given by a string tied around the
left wrist and sealed with the official
seal. The Chinese in Siam are about on
a level with those of the Pacific Coast of
this country in intelligence and activity,
but are so far superior to the natives
that they, with the Arabs, easily mo-
uupolize the trade. They emigrate
in great fleets of their clumsy junks,
which make one round trip a year, tak-
ing advantage of the trade monsoons, as
they can only sail with the wind.

Dr. Bradley has an interest, of course,

to watch with care its political probabili-
ties and prospects for advancement.
He predicts that in the near future the
country wili pass into the control of the
British Government, when the first great
enterprise carried out will be the con-
struction of a canal across the Malay
Peninsula, thus

dreds of miles. Should this prediction
be realized, the vast natural resources of
Siam will become available and will

the world.

 

 

in his native country, which leads him,

shortening the great)
eastern route of commerce many hun-}

have their influence in the markets of,

THE MAN PROPELLER.

The management of men is a science
This missing, an army would be but a
mob, a congress a Babel, and a mine or
a mill on the road to bedlam or the
sheriff. Abate order and discipline, let
the time clock run as it pleases, put
printed rules into the stove, and what is
left of your business and yourself would
be but a bare bone or a cracked egg.

Everybody knows this, from the man
who runs a squad on municipal jobs to
the manager of amine, asteel plant, or a
ward election. The boss is indispensa-
ble. To be a success he must be able to
control, rule, or direct those placed in
his cbarge. Asarule, his employer is
more directly interested in the slate that
gives the figures of production and the
totals of the pay roll than in the ways
and means by which the figures slide
over to the right side of the ledger.
This is more and more a necessity, as
the merging of inuustries into combina-
tions is on so large a scale that many a
manager or president of a mine, or rail-
road, or group of mills, knows as little
of his employes as he does of the mayor
of Mars, or the cousins of an Egyptian
mummy. This may be an unfortunate
condition in industrial relationships, but
it is a logical sequence to ruling causes.
A manager may be as humane as the gen-
tleman who, between Jerusalem and
Jericho, provided oil and wine, a saddle
and a hotel for the Jew whose pockets
had been emptied and his bones broken
by a gang of thieves. He may bestrictly
just and as much opposed to denying his
employes their rights as he would be to
rob his own head of its ears, and yet
what may be done in his name and with-
out his knowledge may be unjust and
inhumane. It is among one of the more
virulent and popular of modern scandals
to charge the causes of discontent, and
the sins of arbitrary and despotic man-
agement, to men who are as innocent of
the abuses charged as are the horses they
ride. Weare of the conviction, and we
speak from experiences on sea and land,
in the coal pit and the lumber camp, in
railroad service and other forms of labor,

that in arbitrary, domineering and con-
scienceless under-bosses the peace and
content of labor have suffered more than
the newspapers ever tell, or the average
demagogue cares to remember. Many a
strike with the bark pulled from the tree
would show a salaried man at the root
of the trouble. We recall a coal miners’
strike in the West. It had the usual
black fringe of scandal and horrors—
men hungry and children in rags. The
sensational scribe served up his hash
with the usual spices. The name of the
mine operator was an Offense to the pub-
lice nose. He had built his home and
bought his daughter a piano by grinding
miners’ bones and squeezing the labor
lemon dry. Somebody went to work on
this case and the cause of all the trouble
and located it in a manager and some
sub-bosses. The operator was brought
in contact with the miners, and a week
after every pick in the valley was busy.
This instance could be multiplied by the
hundred. But while this is true, it is
just as true that the man propeller, as a
rule, takes his cue from his employer.
He is simply a sneeze from office snuff.
He is manly or brutal, according to the
copy written on the slate. He pipes the
musie for which he is paid, and the
louder he swears and the more work he
can squeeze out of ten hands and ten
homes, the brighter his prospects. Such
men do immense mischief and work
more evil than is generally supposed.
Fair-minded and reasonable managers of
men, though not a few, are none too
many; but, from the man propeller we
have described, may the Lord deliver us.
FreD Wooprow.

 

   
  

 
  
   
 
  
  

  

 

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Green or Dry.

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The Largest Manufacturers of
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Ke COCOAS anp
\¥ CHOCOLATES
oe on this continent,
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IN
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Their delicious
BREAKFAST COCOA
is absolutely pure and soluble, and
costs less than one cent a cup.
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS.
H,M Reynolds & Son,
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COAL TAR and ASPHALT;
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CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres,

Offices n the principal cities of the United
States, Canada, the European continent,
Australia, and in London, England,

Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

HENRY ROYCE, Supt.

HIRTH,
KRAUSE
& CO.

Headquarters for

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id Leggins

$2.50 per dozen
and Upwards.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP.

Progress of a Clerk Who Was Not
Afraid of Work.
An Old Merchant in Hardware.

Of all the good things that came to me
in my boyhood days probably none had
so direct a bearing upon my prosperity
as the offer of Mr. May of the use of his
library. I had the average love of read-
ing to be found in most boys; stories of
adventure were my especial delight, but
I eagerly read stories of any and every

kind that came in my way; for heavier

reading I had little inclination; books of
travel were good if they were well filled
with incident, but the descriptive parts I
usually skipped. Of course, such a
taste as this is not the one most to be
commended, but a taste even for story
reading is better than to have no taste
for any kind of reading. And Mr. May,
who seemed to take an interest in me, in-
stead of trying to persuade me to drop
stories for other matter, encouraged me
to go on, only he laid much stress on the
fact that there were many degrees in
stories. His library contained a good
collection of novels; among them I re-
member Scott’s, James’, Bulwer’s, Miss
Porter’s. Miss Edgeworth’s and others of
those times. Scott’s ‘Ivanhoe’? looked
rather dry to a boy who had been read-
ing *‘The Trapper’s Feast,” but a few
words regarding its hero made me de-
sirous of reading it, and through it I be-
came interested in early English history.
and I found myself reading history with
a greater relish than I had formerly read
Cobbe’s stories. I mention the matter
here to impress it upon the clerks who
see these chapters, thatevery young man
has it largely in his power to educate
himself, and that the evenings spent with
good books are the most profitably spent
of boyhood.

Between my sixteenth and seventeenth
years I grew fast in maturity. Iwas the
oldest child and my mother was poor;
what she earned with her needle and my
small salary kept a family of five of us.
There were no extras about the house,
nor much but plain fare set before us;
our clothes were home made and chosen
for service rather than for style. It
seems as if life under such aspects was
not very pleasant, but there are a great
many comforts in life that do not depend
on money altogether; we were able to
keep out of debt and. we had our home
and each other, and, thank God, a
mother’s love is the same let her be rich
or poor.

When I was 17, Mr. Ely said to me that
Harry was going to leave, and if I could
do the work with a boy to help me, he
would advance my salary $200 a year. |
felt abundantly able to take Harry’s
place, and when he left I began to put in
practice a great many ideas that he had
laughed at when I had mentioned them
to him. I explained them to Mr. Ely
and he told me to go ahead.

I think our store was far ahead of the
average country store of to-day: I rarely
meet in my travels, and I am ‘‘on the
road” more or less, any store thatis kept
neater than we kept ours, while [ rarely
find anywhere many nearly up to it. 1
had noticed that there were two lines of
goods in every branch of trade—one that
people bought because they needed, the
other, goods they bought because they
saw them. This wastruein dry goods,
it was no less true of groceries, and it
was largely so in boots and shoes and
hats and caps. In our town it was the
fashion to display the staples in each
line; we piled unbleached cottons and
prints at the door; had boxes showing
various kinds of sugar in the windows,
and kept a pair of cowhide boots swing-
ing over the door.

I reasoned that these were goods
everybody wanted and that everybody
bought, and that they rarely bought ex-
cept when they did want them; they
would come in and eall for them any-
how; they must have them. But there
was a large line of ‘‘faney’’ goods that
came partly under the head of extras
that the eye would be pleased with and
that would tempt a purchaser.

We went to work and cleared our
show ease of plug tobaceo, ladies’ hosiery,
buff envelopes, ete., and made a brilliant
display in it of buttons, ribbons, edgings,

 

braids, and goods of that kind; we put
wires over the counters near the ceiling
and on them pinned hosiery, handker-
chiefs, collars, gloves, and similar arti-
cles. In the window where we had been
wont to show sugars and a large box
of bar soap we made a display of raisins,
spices, and candy, and on the counter
we piled up ground coffee in fancy pack-
ages, and chewing tobacco in handsome
boxes; the shelves were full of goods
having pretty labels, and the grocery
department was an ornament to the
store.

Anyone who has never tried the ef-
fect of a good display of fancy goods, I
doubt my ability to convinee of the
difference between that method and the
old-fashioned way of piling everything
haphazard, but the difference is there
and one has but to make a small trial of
it to be convinced. Mr. Ely confessed
before the first month was over that our
trade had increased ten percent., and the
increase was entirely in the fancy goods
—the ones we were most anxious to sell.

About this time we began to hear
rumors of another store about to be
started in town, and before long the
story turned out to be a true one; some
men were coming from Fairville, a city
twenty miles away, and were going to
open a general store. The facts were
there were already more stores than the
place justitied; two of them gave their
owners avery poor living, and Mr. Ely
had made money because he had money
and was able to handle everything and
earry his trade as they needed. Buta
firm from the city probably meant sharp
eutting and war, and we did not enjoy
the prospect. The new store was to be
opened in thirty days.

Lying about four miles from our place
was a German settlement of about thirty
families; they were hard working,
thrifty people, and no one of the stores
could say it owned their trade. They
sold more butter and eggs than any
other neighborhood in the county, and lL
eoncluded there might be a way whereby
we could get their trade and hold it; if
we were to have to fight for our trade we
might as well begin at once. I suggested
to Mr. Ely that he should buy a business
wagon (he already hada horse), and that
| would go down to the settlement and
see what I should do with the people in
arranging for a weekly collection of but-
ter and eggs. He was willing 1 should
make the attempt, so next week |
started off one morning on what was
my first drumming trip.

Delivery wagons have now become as
necessary a part of every business as
scale; and counters, but many of us can
easily remember when people carried
home their own goods, and when one
village dray did all the delivery of
heavy goods for a whole town.

 

 

Chas. Pettersch,

JOBBER OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and Limburgera Specialty.
161--163 West Bridge St. Telephene 123
GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

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

AUGUBS AND BITS. dia.
eee . 60&10
eS a
POmniee  weonming... 1,-2.8... woe.
Jennings’, EE so&t0

AXES.
*irst Quality, = 0 eens _.... _......... 85 50
D. B. Bronze a 41 00
: Sf 4 Sree... .. 6 50
' BE eee... 13 cO
BARROWS. dis.
ET $12 00 1400
ae. eee cee ee ie net 30 00
BOLTS dis.
Soave. ..... dee eeees oe-cl see,
« — Ce 75&10
oC —
Sleigh a
BUCKETS.
vie $ 350
TREE eat, 400
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ .... -70&1°

Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint 40 .....60d&10

 

 

Wrougit Loose Fin................... Leese. 40 |
eee Pere. so... 40 |
Wrought Inside Blind..... Be ees de eon < i}
Oe
Bind, Clark’s...... bee eee eee a mosis
Co EE 70&19
ie iaperae 3... 79
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10
CRADLES.
ee 40&10
CROW BARBS.

Coe eee perb 5
CAPS
miwet em ............., Meee eee wens ce per m 65
Hick’s mm ce... . 55
EE . 35
Wusket ae ay 60
CARTRIDGES.
eee 56
menen Pere. ... 25
CHISELS. dis.
(Voie tocsee
i... on Meee eee re |
OCC ON ee T5&ii
CO 75810
saschers’ Tengo Wirmer............ ...... 40
cOMBS. dis.
ary, DOwWremeew. 2... 8k. 40
eee eee 25
OHALE,
White Crayons, per gross.... «-12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
“lanished, 14 oz Cut to size... .. per pound 28
14 moe, eee, PON... 8. 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........-.- 23
Sold Rolled, — i 23
Bottoms . 4 ee se eae 22
“DRILLS. dis.
Morses at Stocks.............. aS 50
Vaper and eiraigmt Shank............. ..... 50
Worse se Teper sane. ................. ... : 50
DRIPPING PANS,

Srial) sees, eer pound ..................... - %
Uerae ee, per pound...... ......... ..... 06
ELBOWS.

Cone. 4 wieee, G@in............ — —_ net 75
orrugated a - dis 5n
OE ia, 40410

EXPANSIVE BITS, dis.
Clark’s, small, 818; eee eee. ae es
Ives’, 1, 818: 2) 824: Meebo ee es 4 25

os ew List. dis.
eee ee 60&10-10
Now American
Wrepeueire .-... kt, te 60&10- 0
a 50
Heller's Horeca Maepe... ............_.._.... 50

GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 2; 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 6 MW

Discount, 70
GAUGES. dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ........

EKNOBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... : 55

   

Door, porcelain, plated trimmings
Yoor, porcelvin, trimmings..........

    
   

Drawer and Shutter, porcelain ............ 70
LOCKS—DOOB, dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Maliary, Wuccier & Cos............_...... 55
ee 55
( 55
MATTOCES.
oe ..... 818.00, dis. 60-10
eet eee... $15.00, dis. 60-10
aaa $18.50, dis. —
ig,
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled Oe area. “a 50
ILL8. B.
aaa oe Co.* — Be, ore eee eee 0
& W. Mfz. Co.’s Malleabies.. 40
poe Pores & Clore s............ 40
“« Moeeorme «2...
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Stebbin’s Pattern.. Seduce se cece +scs- . nn
Stebbin’s NN _—
Enterprise, self-measuring.. i. 30

NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

  
 
  
 

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Wire fare beee. 135
ee Base Base
Eee 10
eo. 25
eS... 25
Te 35
16... 45
sa. 45
1. ee 50
Se 60
Cae. vt
ee 90
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De ieee ee = eee uae 1 80
ines... 1 66
eT 65
~ ee .. bese ec gee ae wok 75
~ ¢... .., 90
Finish . ce eee Ls de ae 5
Fe ee uee eu os ed euaceas oO
‘ $ eee eee eee eee 1(
ane wc. ck. 7
se g.. ee ce sale 80
' a. 90
Barrell %. De eee ou eee 1 75
LANES, dis.
Ohio Tool Co.'s, onan eee. - Ot
Scioms Benen. .....-........- 50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.. - Ow
Bench, first quality... . 4n
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. . 50810
Pas.
Wry, AGmO.................. 0. sees ees dis.60—10
Common, aida ee dis. 70
RIVETS. dia.
Teena Taree... Ct. ....... 50—10
Capper Rivets and Burs.................... 5O—10

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

“SA” Wood's — planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

‘*B? Wood's paren os. 25 to 27... 9 20
Broken packs

G per pound extra,

| Blacksmith

| Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3

Screw Hook and Eye 1%

| Japanned Tin Ware..
| Granite Iron Ware ....

 

eee & Co.'s.

| Forkce ‘& Plumb’s os = iL
| Mason’s Solid Cast St teel
2’s Solid Cast S

HINGES.

 

Siete. ..... 8:
Screw Hook and ‘Strap, to 12 fn. «
longer

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Sapane ye
BANGERS,
Barn Door Kidder Mig Co., W
Champion, anti-fricticn..
Kidder, wood track . oe
HOLLOW WARE.

 

Pou. ...........
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Spidera ... Lettes
Gray enamel NE
HOUSE FURS
Stamped Tin Ware.

 

WIRE ¢0O os.
Bilght.. ae :
Serew Eyes..
Hook’s
Gate Hooks and EB;

  

Stanley Rule and Levol Co.'s ee

ROPES.
Sisal, % inch aud larger oo \ 4
Manilla : te eae ee 10
SQUARES. dis,
Steciand Ivo... ........................2 a0
ry ad Dovels.... j,k... 86
Mitre. ....... . a Loe. 20
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
Moe i@te Mm... a %? 50
Moe eer? oe 2 6)
pe 4 a,
Nee stems... 3 55 2 90
ae cos OO 2 90
Gee 3 . 8 00

All sheets No. 18 and lighter
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

List acct. 19, °86 . dis, 5
“SASH CORD.

Silver Dene, WEite Ae | oO
' ra eee tease ' 55
- Watte <....... eee | 50
- van 2...... es 55

' Waree .... ........... .

Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
Sold Byee er tan fee
Saws. dia

' CO 2
Sfiver Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot,.... 7
‘6 Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
Y : — Steel Dia. X Cu t,perfoot.... 2

= ampion and Electric Tooth X
on. per foot . ek oe

TRAPS. dis.

Steel,Game ...... Ml . 60810
Oneida ¢ Community, Newhouse’a ... 49

Oneida Comm altajot Hawley « Norton’s.
Mouse, choker....
Mouse, delusion.

"Ct-10 10

“WIRE. C
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Annealed Market.....
Coppered Market oe
Tinned Market .
Coppered Spring x Steel...
Barbed | Fence, galvanised.

 

painted .
HORSE NAILS
7 oe....................... .....4. ane
Putnam. os dis. 05
Northwestern. ee ee te Gis. 10410
WRENCHES. diz,
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 30
Coe’s Genuine .... coe 50
Coe’s Patent Agricul itural, wrought... ae. 75
Coe’s Patent, malleable.. Mk so ooo
MISCELLANEOUS. dia.
Bird Cages ee eee ee some a kee cee 50
CO 75410
Screws, New List..... .. 701! &10
Casters, Bed a d Plate.. . BOG 10810
Dampers, American.... erie. 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. hed oe 6E&10
METALS,
PIé TIN.

Pee PNW 26¢
ie are 8... 28¢
ZINC

JOuty: Sheet, 24c ~~ po and,

660 pound casks......... 8%

Per pound.. eee 7
SOLDER. >

4@% eee ce _-.-.. oe

Extra Wi ing . ms ... we

The prices of the many ‘other qualities of

solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands
vary according to composition.

ANTIMONY.
Cookeon........ eet eee per pound
ars... ‘s 13

TIN—MSLYN GRADE.

10x14 IC, — a Le lees ce cc oe a oe
14x20 IC eee 7 50
10x14 1X, 9 25
14x20 TX, * 9 26

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

    

10x14 IC, Charcoal . Lee ele es be pode e a tee %5
14x20 IC, . 6 75
10x14 IX, . § 25
14x20 IX, cl 9 25
Each additional X on th!s grade a1
ROOFING PLATES
14x20IC, ‘ Worcester eae 6 Bu
ae ae " . Sis eet ney 8 50
20x28 I ‘ . teed deco, ee
14x20 Ic ' Alinwey Gracde.......... 6 00
14x20 Ix. i c [ na 7 5A
20x28 IC, . . - 12 §°
aes ix, * . . tacecee, 1 U8
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
oe ..... rece eae OO
Oe 15 00
iss I for} Sg, lias io. pound.... 10 00

 

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FATE OF THE CURRENCY BILL.

There is no significance attaching to
the defeat of the second Carlisle bill be-
yond considerations of political manage-
ment. The carelessness shown in pre-
paring and presenting both bills gives
color to the intimation that the authors
were actuated by considerations of sec-
tional political prejudices and a desire
to please their immediate constituents,
with no thought that the bills would be
pushed to serious consideration. The
manner in which the defeat of the last
bill was brought about, by forcing a test
vote without any attempt to conciliate
the opposition or to outline a policy for
its consideration, indicates that there
was either ‘playing to the gallery”? or a
regard to financia! fluctuations in Wall
Street, or both. There were some good
features in the last bill, as, for instance,
in the direction of extending bank cir-
culation, but this was not sufficiently
guarded against the ‘‘wild cat’’ idea to
command any confidence.

The failure to pass a currency reform
bill at the present session of Congress
will be a serious obstacle in the way of a
complete restoration of confidence in
business circles. It now perfectly
clear that, until a currency bill is passed,
the drain of gold from the Treasury
must continue, and, in order to meet the
constantly increasing demands, frequént
issues of bonds will be needed.

The existing situation discloses the
absolute need of two remedies—one the
prompt retirement of the outstanding
legal tender notes, and the other the
creation of a bank currency to take the
place of the Government notes. The
redemption and cancellation of the legal
tenders is necessary to stop the drain of
gold and the constant bond issues. Under
existing laws it is necessary for the
Treasury to reissue legal tender notes
as fast as they come in. As a result,
there is a perpetual outflow of gold from
the coffers of the Government, without a
reduction in liability. As the taxes and
customs dues are all payable in Govern-
ment notes, the Treasury has no means
of securing gold, except by issuing
bonds. The legal tender notes are,
therefore, a constant menace to the
National Treasury, and the finances of

is

the Government can never be placed |

upon a sound basis until they are retired.

 

|

 

The retirement of the legal tender
notes would make a bank circulation
necessary to meet the wants of trade.
This must be secured either by rendering
the issue of National bank notes more
profitable or by the unconditional repeal
of the tax on bank notes until some com-
prehensive measure governing circula-
tion is framed by Congress.

The failure of the present session of
Congress to pass a currency bill will
postpone action on this important matter
until next winter, when a new Congress,
under the domination of a political party
hostile to the administration, will be in
power. This consideration should urge
the Democratic leaders to point out the
necessity of some immediate provision
being made to check the gold drain, even
if itis found impossible to secure the
enactment of a comprehensive currency
bill. The failure of the Carlisle bill
should not prevent the introduction of
other measures of currency reform.
The debate in the House over the pend-
ing bill, although it has developed wide
differences of opinion, has, nevertheless,
served to emphasize the importance of
a prompt solution of the curreney prob-
lem.

 

The defalcation of the Treasurer of
the State of South Dakota, involving
from $300,000 to $350,000, has been a
matter of much comment and specula-
tion, especially as to its causes and the
motives governing that official. The
theories advanced make him out almost
anything from a philanthropist over-
whelmed by the financial depression to
the veriest embezzler and thief. It has
been stated that if he had not advanced
State funds to help one of the local
banks during the panic, the result would
have been widespread failure and ruin
throughout the State. This means, of
course, that there was collusion between
him and others in misappropriating the
funds and thus violating his oath of
office, which would argue a bad condi-
tion of financial politics. It is one of
the risky conditions attending the organ-
ization of a newly settled State that, as
all are newcomers, it is impossible to
know the reliability of aspirants to its
offices and thus opportunities are given
for the exploits of such ‘‘Napoleons of
Finance.’”’? It is found in this case that
the culprit’s father in Indiana, reputed
wealthy, is execution proof and but a
moiety can be collected from the
other bondsmen. Whatever may
have been the causes leading to the
original defalcation or misapplication of
State funds the fact that the defaulter at
the last got possession of all the cash he
could reach, having for some time laid
his plans to that end, and absconded, as
other thieves usually do, leaves no ques-
tion as to the proper classification of him
or his crime. To appreciate its enormity
it must be remembered that the State
had just passed through a season of ex-
tended drought, added to cheapened
products and searcity of money, making
the collection of the taxes a serious mat-
ter. Then the magnitude of the sum
taken is relatively much greater in so
young a State. All these things con-
sidered, it amounts to a serious calamity.

H. Knickerbocker has resigned the
Presidency of the Antrim County State
Savings Bank of Mancelona and is suc-
ceeded by Warren E. Watson, C. E.
Blakeley having been elected Vice-Pres-
ident to succeed Mr. Watson.

 

The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The market has been steady on
hard grades, but somewhat irregular on
soft grades. The indications are that
the market will be steady for some time.
Coffee—Brazilian grades are active and
strong, having advanced 44¢@'c. Man-
ufacturers of package brands have ad-
vanced their quotations yc.
Bananas—Stock in the hands of local
commission merchants is of a fair qual-
ity and is selling as reasonable prices,
although the volume of sales average
small, on account of the risk of having
them spoiled in transit by

weather.
Lemons—The extreme cold weather is,

in a measure, responsible for the very
low prices at which these goods are be-
ing sold. Dealers with a fair amount of
stock on hand are chary about ordering
from the auctions, as they fear the fruit
may become frosted and, consequently,

open up spotted and unsaleable.
Oranges—There are still a few boxes

of fruit in our market that are in first-
class order, having been loaded and
started North while the weather was
warm. They are being held at firm
prices, and by the latter part of the pres-
ent week will have been snapped up by
the retail trade. A great many carloads
of oranges are being shipped from Flor-
ida every day, but every orange was on
the trees during thd entire cold weather,
which practically ruined the crop. The
buyer, therefore, must take his chances
of getting rid of his stock before decay
sets in. The fruit is loaded in refriger-
ator cars, iced, and then closed securely,
in order to secure an even temperature.
There will be no perceptible change in
the fruit while in transit, and, if dealers
are careful to keep what they buy in a
cool place, a great deal of it can be
worked off at a profit; but if is placed in
a@warm room, fermentation will begin
and the fruit will soon become worthless.
Our quotations are for fruit that has not
been touched by frost, and, if you are
offered fruit for less money, you are
quite likely to get oranges which are
more or less frozen. Sicily oranges have
jumped up $1 per box, and so many or-
ders have been placed for Californias
that the exchanges have issued circulars
stating that they will accept no more or-

ders for two weeks.
Peanuts—The new stock is coming

forward in excellent condition and is be-
ing offered at prices which would seem
were rock bottom. The nuts are suffi-
ciently dry now to warrant placing in
stock and will not shrink in weight by
further drying out. Shelled goods are
easy, and especially so are the No. 1 and
No. 2 Virginias.

Candy—Mo material change in prices,
as sugar has remained stationary. Gro-
cery mixtures are being sold very low,
but there are few large orders. French
and handmade creams, chocolates and
the finer lines of good are selling fairly
well and the manufacturers are hopeful.

a

The directors of the National City
Bank (Grand Rapids) made no mistake,
Monday, in electing Constantine Morton
to succeed the late Thos. D. Gilbert as
President of that institution. Mr. Mor-
ton is a gentleman of wide experience
and excellent judgment, having been en-
gaged in active business enterprises for
nearly thirty years, during which time
he has acquired a knowledge of affairs
and an insight into men and methods

which will be of paramount value to him
in his present position.

 

 

severe |

 

Gripsack Brigade.
Percy D. Wells has signed with the
Peerless Manufacturing Co., of Detroit,
for 1895.

At the annual meeting of Post F (Sag-
inaw) Geo. A. Reynolds was elected
Chairman and A. R. Sutton Secretary.

J. N. Faulkner & Co. have engaged C.
E. Northrup to represent them on the
road. He will buy logs and lumber, as
well as sell lumber.

W. F. Blake takes $5,000 stock in the
Worden Grocer Co. and will transfer his
allegiance to that house from the Mus-
selman Grocer Co. as soon as his sueces-
sor can be selected and qualified.

R. J. Ferris, formerly on the road for
the Royal Furniture Co., but more re-
cently with the Oriel Cabinet Co., has
engaged with C. P. Limbert for 1895,
covering the trade of the Eastern States.

W. D. Downey, Western Michigan
representative for E. B. Miller & Co.
(Chicago), was called upon to mourn the
death of his mother on Jan. 7. He has
the sympathy of the fraternity in his
affliction.

Ed. P. Andrew (Farrand & Votey
Organ Co.) was in Hastings last week
and caused the arrest of Thos. Mc-
Guigan on acharge of embezzling $211.10,
as the proceeds from the: sale of four
organs. The accused lies in jail in de-
fault of bailin the sum of $350. Mrs.
MeGuigan attributes her husband’s mis-
fortune to his appetite for strong drink,
asserting that the profits on organs sold
was ample to support his family and
meet the necessary expenses of selling,
so that defalcation was unnecessary.

L. M. Mills (Morrison, Plummer &
Co.) was called upon last Thursday to
mourn the death of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Eliza McDowell, who expired
after five weeks’ illness from paralysis.
Deceased was a person of beautiful
character and bore up bravely under
more trouble than: ordinarily comes to
the average individual. The remains
were taken Monday to Traverse City,
the former residence of the deceased,
where the funeral and interment were

held in the afternoon.
—___—_<»>—_@-

The Grain Market.

Wheat closed strong at the end of the
week with an advance of \¢c and held
firm, owing to the buying of the short in-
terest who covered their short sales be-
fore their loss would be greater. All
calculations point to a much less amount
in farmers’ hands than was supposed to
be. Receipts in the Northwest are fall-
ing off, as was anticipated, and there is a
rumor of freight rates being reduced on
wheat to what they were before the ad-
vance, or a deduction of 5c per 100
pounds. Weare still inclined to the be-
lief that wheat is good property to hold
at present prices, especially as our ex-
ports are holding up and are increasing.
Corn is, or seems to be, weak, and the
demand is nominal at present prices;
while oats, in sympathy with wheat, are
strong, with a higher tendency.

Receipts during the week were: wheat,
60 cars; corn, 5 cars; and oats, 2 cars—
the wheat being all for the mills here.

C. G. A. Vorer.

a

John E. Gleason, of the firm of Glea-
son & Murray, general dealers at Lake
City, was in town several days last week
selecting a new grocery stock for the
branch store the firm is opening at Fal-
mouth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9
WHAT REGULATES VALUES. The Spaniards having opened to the TRY THE

The proposition that the value ofa
thing must be governed by the cost of
production is as false as that it is meas-

ured by its usefulness, as is easily seen |

in any survey of the ordinary prices of
necessaries in the markets of the country
or of the world.

Some ten or a dozen years ago cotton
sold in New Orleans for 10 cents a
pound, and wheat sold in Chicago for 100
cents a bushel. The cities mentioned
are respectively the most important cot-
ton and wheat markets in the world. It
is not likely that the costs of producing
wheat and cotton have declined to any
extent in the past ten years, certainly
not in any such ratio as the price has
gone down. Evidently the prices of
wheat and cotton to-day, standing rela-
tively at about 50 cents a bushel for the
one and 5 cents a pound for the other,
cannot have been the results of de-
ereased costs of production. Nor can
their diminished values have been
caused by any decline of usefulness,
since these staples are just as much
necessaries of life as they were when
they sold for double the values that can
now be claimed for them.

It should not require any further
demonstrations to show that the stand-
ard of value does not depend on the cost
of production, or upon the usefulness of
the articles themselves, and there must
be some other explanation of the regula-
tion of value, keeping always to the
general doctrine that a thing is worth
just what it will bring in the open
market.

Passing by the entire subject of bar-
ter which existed before money was in-
vented, it will be necessary to consider
the money metals, gold and silver, since
all paper currency, whether in the notes
of governments, banks or individuals, is
simply made up of promises to pay gold
and silver, or either. Mankind had
reaehed a high state of civilization be-
fore money was invented.

The extreme inconvenience of barter
had been established, and it was neces-
sary to devise some method by which ex-
changes of value could be readily and
accurately made. Gold and silver had
long been objects of admiration and ex-
tensively used as ornaments and adorn-
ments for the persons of the wealthy and
distinguished, and, being also recom-
mended by their practical indestructibil-
ity and resistance to decay and rust,
were chosen as representatives of value.
Precious stones might on some accounts
have been selected, but they could not be
divided into larger or smaller proportions
to make payments, and obviously the
choice fell on gold and silver.

Gold, being the more beautiful in pub-
lie estimation, was held in greater ad-
miration, and its extreme weight gave an
idea that a greater value was concentra-
ted init. Bulk for bulk, gold is about
twice as heavy as silver, and, therefore,
an ounce of gold will occupy about half
the room required for an ounce of silver.
In the far East, in early times, gold was
held to be only twice as valuable as sil-
ver, and this reckoning appears to have
been based on the relations of weight.
The relations of the two metals in the
time of the Romans was somewhat vari-
able, but was generally one of gold to
twelve of silver, and this ratio seems to
have generally obtained up to the dis-
covery of America.

 

nations the treasures of the New World,
which they for centuries practically con-
trolled, some time about the year 1700
established the ratio of 16 to 1, which
has since been accepted throughout the
commercial nations. Mexico and Peru, |
which were the principal sources of the |
Spanish treasures, were far richer in sil-
ver than in gold, and it was doubtless
upon the basis that silver was sixteen
times as abundant as gold that influenced
the determination of the Spanish mint to
establish such relative values for the two
metals. When the great mines of Cali-
fornia and Australia, the richest the
werld has ever known, poured their
floods of gold into the commerce of the
world, the idea began to be entertained
that the yellow metal would become
more abundant than the white; but the
subsequent discoveries of silver and the
fruitfulness of the old mines soon dis-
pelled this idea, and the ratio of the two
metals remains as it was established by
the Spaniards.

One of the circumstances that has long
operated ta create and maintain a prefer-
ence for gold was the action of the Brit-
ish Government, which in 1816, by the
advice of Sir Isaac Newton, who was
Master of the Mint, eharged a higher
seigniorage upon the coinage of silver
than of gold; so it was more advanta-
geous to keep gold in England, and to
send silver abroad to pay foreign debts
with. Other nations were perfectly will-
ing to accept silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,
and, as a result, England secured a large
stock of gold, while the silver was put off
on foreign countries.

But, of course, this is not the only rea-
son for the decline of silver in the past
few years. It is the result of the failure
of the gold mines which were once so
rich, while the silver product shows no
such falling off until since it became un-
profitable to work the less prolific mines. |
But should there be any increase in the
value of silver, there will be no difficulty
in securing ample production.

Coming back to the question of values,
it appears that the relative conditions of
demand and supply have more that any-

S.C. W.

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NICKLE CIGAR.

Sold by All Wholesale Dealers Traveling from Grand Rapids.

OYSTERS.

O—-————-

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All orders will receive prompt attention at lowest market price.

F. J. DETTENTHALER.

The. Salt”
thats atl 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.
rystal Salt

 

 

Are the best.

 

Diamond C

Being free {com all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, wii: not get damp and
soggy on yourhands. Put up in an attractive and salablemanner. When
your stock cf salt is low, try a small supply of ‘‘the sal¢ that’s all salt.”" Can be
obtair _ from jobbers and dealers. For prices, see price current on other page.

For other information, address
DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH.

     

 

 

 

 

thing else todo with regulating prices.
When the crops, for instance, are very.
abundant, prices will godown. When
they are cut short, prices will go up.
This country has been recently treated to
a remarkable spectacle in the price of
corn rising above that of wheat. Ordi-
narily wheat stands far above corn; but
in 1994 an abundant wheat crop was
harvested in summer, while the corn, |
which is a fall crop, was cut off by ex-|
cessive drought. The scarcity of corn
raised its value, while the abundance of
wheat operated to depress its own mar-

ket.
The excessive crops of cotton and

wheat have depressed the prices of those
articles, just as the excessive production
of silver in proportion to gold has re-
duced the value of silver. It is useless
to talk of putting up prices by legisla-
tion. No law which the United States
can make will enhance the price of silver
or depress the price of gold in London. |
Everything depends on the great laws of |
demand and supply.

In old times we used to wear home-
spun clothing. Now a great many peo-
ple are using homespun ideas of govern-
ment and they are about as rough and
knotty as the threads in our homespun

 

clothes.

SSS
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$20,000

Twenty thousand dollars ts 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 tell your jobber you want
our make,

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

10

THE DRUMMER’S ORDEAL.

My fellow passenger drew along breath
through the cigar stump between his
teeth until it burned like a crematory
furnace, and enveloped mein a haze of
smoke; then he lighted his third cigar,
settled himself back in his seat and be-
gan:

“Six years ago this coming January
19th { reached Spikers Station on the
5:14 train in the afternoon. I was trav-
eling for a wholesale grocery firm, and
was engaged in working the trade in this
part of the State. Spikers is a little
place.

‘Only one local train a day stops
there. The place consists of a forlorn
station, a few poor frame dwellings, a
store kept by a Scotchman, a saloon and
a blacksmith shop. This, you know, is
a sparsely settled region. At intervals
in the broad expanse of scrubby woods
there are small farms and an occasional
ore bank or sawmill upon which the few
inhabitants depend for their livelihood.

**] got off the train and hurried over to
the store. As it was already dark the
place was filled with loafers, rough-look-
ing fellows, who stared in a vacant way
as I unpacked my sample cases and
spread the goods upon the counter. 1
knew the storekeeper, and had notronble
in selling him a bill, so that when I fin-
ished business with him at the end of an
hour I felt amply repaid for my trouble.
Then I began to look about for a place to
spend the night.

“I found that the Pittsburg express
stopped at Schmucker’s Junction, three
miles up the track, and that by good,
brisk walking I would be able to catch it
comfortably. I made arrangements to
have my cases sent on by the local train
next day and then took my leave, after
having received explicit directions to fol-
low the beaten path along the railroad.

“‘As I left the store I noticed, but did
not heed, the sinister glances that three
of the loafers who were sprawling along
the counter cast upon me.

“It was a clear night; the moon was
just rising above the mountains in the
East; the air was cold and crisp and the
ground frozen hard. Ina few moments
I passed the last house, reached the rail-
road and was reeling off rod after rod of
the hard white path that stretched be-
fore me. I soon arrived at the woods
and was plunging deep into their heart.
I had set for myself a brisk, bracing pace
and at first felt not the slightest uneasi-
ness at my lonely condition, dark and
forbidding though the woods seemed.
But asI proceeded deeper and deeper,

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

until I could make out nothing down in}
the woods, suddenly I heard the wheels
of a vehicle. I stopped and listened.
It became louder and louder, as if ap-
proaching me, and then began to die
away, and soon was lost in the noise of
leaves and limbs.

‘“‘When I had gone about a mile and a
half I found myself within a few yards
of what appeared to be a wood road, that
wound out from among the trees, crossed
the track, and then lost itself in the
blackness on the other side. I had just
passed this road, when I was startled by
the sudden sound of a footfall behind me,
and before I could turn, two horny hands
had seized my throat and held me fast.
I tried to cry out, but my effort was
stopped by a firm clutch of the strong
fingers. Then two men appeared, and
in another instant [ lay helpless on the
ground.

“The three ruffians were big, burly
fellows, so heavily muffled up that be-
yond a few stray whiskers I could make
out nothing of their faces. All my ef-
forts at kicking and struggling proved
vain. One sat on my legs and coolly tied
my feet; another bound my arms, and
then the clutch on my throat was loosened
and I was allowed to breathe. In a few
moments they had taken everything of
any value that I had upon my person—a
watch and my money, not much, only a
few hundred dollars.

‘This done, I thought that I would be
allowed to go, but reckoned wrongly. |
One seized my hands and another my
feet, and they laid me across the track.
My horror knew no bounds when I real-
ized what this meant. One of the brutes |
tied my feet hard down to the rail. a
begged and threatened, pleaded and ex: |
postulated, offered them a reward for my |
release, and dire vengeance if they left |
me there, but in vain. They coolly |
wrapped the rope round and round my)
ankles and under the rail, and then,
fastening my arms at the elbows, they
proceeded to secure my body.

‘The tighter I felt the rope drawing to |
hold me until the express freed me from
the track and the world the more [|
pleaded. ‘The final answer was a blow|
on the mouth and the information that
they ‘wasn’t goin’ to have me telling
tales.’ Then they left me.

‘‘] heard the rattle of wagon wheels as
they drove away. And then I wasalone.
1 twisted and tore and writhed in my
frantic efforts to free myself until ex- |
hausted. Time passed slowly. I pic-
tured myself lying in pieces along the |
track. |

 

 

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And last but not least, does not emit a bad odor.

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Telephone 865.

 

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FOR A FRW DAYS

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REMEMBER that we make several grades of feed, our
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confined to Michigan, and that this special sale will last for a
few days only [ten perhaps] we are ALWAYS
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because we buy grain in large quantities for
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jae The LARGEST dealers can BUY cheaper and conse-
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‘*At last | heard a ringing in the rails,
a low, plaintiff ringing that told me that
the express was coming. Only a few
moments and it would be on me. [
twisted and writhed in one last desperate
struggle for freedom. 1 tore and kicked
until the ropes cut into my flesh, and my
clothes where the thongs were grew hot
from friction.

“The ringing became louder, until at
last it developed into a roar. I looked
down the track and saw the faint gleam
of the headlight as the engine rounded a
curve. One more minute!

‘*Frantically I struggled. Nearer and
nearer came the flying train; louder and
louder became the roar and ringing in
the rails—so loud that it drowned my
wild screams. The headlight was blind-
ing me—all was over. No, I continued
to struggle. Then I felt a burning sen-
sation in my legs—a terrible heat—and
an odor of burning clothing followed. I
raised my head and the gleam of a flame
met my eyes. There was a sudden flash,
and in an instant my feet were enveloped
in fire. Irealized it then—the friction
of the thongs, in my tremendous strug-
gies, had set fire to my trousers.

‘Suddenly, almost miraculously, the
ropes unloosed—they had burned off and
my feet were free. I raised myself on
my back and waved my blazing legs in
the air. There was a whistle for down
breaks, a jarring of the rails as the
wheels slipped over them—the headlight
was right over me, blinding me by its
brilliancy—but too late! I felt the cow-
catcher’s nose gently rub my back and
then it stopped. I was saved!

‘*The whole train crew and all the pas-
sengers rushed up. Ina few seconds the
fire was extinguished, and I was carried
by kind hands into one of the cars. Ah,
that was a terrible experience! I hope I
may never have another such.”

“So do I,” I joined in heartily.

The speaker paid no attention to me,
but continued: ‘I lost fifteen pounds in
fifteen minutes, a gold watch and $300.
My trousers, a new pair not yet paid for,
were burned into knickerbockers. The
bruises I recovered from. It was just
Six years ago and——”’

He blew out a great puff of cigar smoke
and was about to continue when above
the buzz of conversation and rattle of the
train arose the nasal tones of a farmer in
the seat behind us as he exclaimed to his
companion:

‘*Et do beat all th’ way this ’ere ken-
try’s growin’, Sam. Two years ago they
wasn’t a house er a store at Spikers Sta-
tion, an’ now it’s gettin’ quite a place.”’
—>—>—>—-
Things to Remember When Purchas-

ing a Microscope.
From the Meyer Brothers’ Druggist.

The expense of ignorance is ever evi-
dent tO the observing person. In fact,
every One realizes the cost of the bitter
lesson taught by experience. We were
made to realize this recently when called
to @xamine a microscope which a drug-
gist had purchased at an expense of
$45. The owner of the instrument was
obliged to depend on the judgment and
integrity of the firm from which he or-
dered, as his knowledge of the instru-
ment was limited toits name. As a re-
sult the druggist exchanged his $45 fora
microscope that we would not pay $10

 

 

 

 

 

for, unless it was to have aspecimen asa |

cabinet example of different styles of |
manufacture.

It is just as true as it is unfortunate |
that the market is flooded with poor mi-|
croscopes which are being sold at ex- |
travagant prices. It affords us pleasure |
to say that they are not the product of |
American industry, but are brought to |
this country to satisfy that morbid idea |
that so many have which leads them to
believe in the superiority of anything
that is ‘‘foreign,’’ and rave over the ar-
ticle from Paris. It is not our intention
to convey the idea that all foreign micro-
scopes are of an inferior quality, for this
is far from the truth. However, it is
noteworthy that the United States manu-
facture fewer poor instruments than are
imported for sale here. In fact, there is
no necessity or even a good valid excuse
for a pharmacist purchasing anything
but an American microscope.

A word of advice anent the subject of
selecting a microscope for pharmaceutical
work may not be amiss at this time.
Students at colleges of pharmacy, and
those druggists who live in cities where
such institutions exist, should embrace
every opportunity of acqtiring a knowl-
edge of the microscope as an optical in-
strument. This will enable them to
select the microscope most suitable for
the work and within the range of their
means. Do not invest less than $25, and
if possible spend $50 or $75 for an outfit.

Those who are so situated that they
cannot become familiar with the micro-
scope and be their own judge must de-
pend on others for a selection. Their
opticians, asa rule, are not microscopists,
much less pharmacists, and their judg-
ment is often materially strabismic from
the effects of the profit influence. To
them the best microscope is the one that
costs them the least and sells at the high-
est price. Itis far better for a druggist
to consult some competent microscopist
and place his order accordingly.

oO
The Drummer’s Prayer.

Our landlord at the head of the table,
we hallow thy name. Let thy beefsteak
come, jet it be properly done, and let it
be free from taint. Give us this day
some ham and eggs, also fruit in season;
forgive us when we kick as we forgive
those who kick against us; put us not in
unclean and buggy beds, deliver us from
dirty towels and cockroaches, and thine

 

be the glory and two dollars a day for
ever and ever.

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Mail and$telegraph orders receive special attention.

 

 

P. Steketee & Sons

will show a large line of Outing Shirts
ranging in price from $2.25 to $6 per
d. z. in Outing Flannels, Chevoits, Mad-
rass cloth and printed fabrics; also a fine
line of Pants from $4.50 to $27 per doz.,

Deal

all well shaped and new patterns.

ers will do well to look at these goods
before buying, as they are choice goods.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld.

= N. B. CLARK, Pres.

= W. D. WADE, Vice-Pres.

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+ C. N. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas.

We are now ready to make
contracts for bark for the sea-
son of 1895.

 

Correspondence Solicited.

 

 

SAY

 

 

THEY ALL

 

“It’s as good as Sapolio” when they try

to sell

you

their experiments. Your

own good sense will tell you that they

are only

trying to get you to aid their

new article.

W ho urges you to keep Sapolio? Is
it not the public? The manufacturers
by constant and judicious advertising
bring customers to your stores whose

very presence

ereates a demand for

other articles.

JOBS IN RUBBERS! -

= WRITE FOR NET PRICE LIST BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE.
Address G.

Just the thing for

A LEADER.

MAYHEW, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

STORE RULES

 

Adapted to Establishments Employing |

Many Clerks.

An army is exactly what its leader is.
If a strict disciplinarian, a devotee of
tactics, a thorough drill master, it will
be a perfect human machine like the
German army. If the commander lacks
military effectiveness, disregards details,
is lax in enforcement or orders, the rank
and file will be sleeping at their posts,
neglecting duty and inattentive to the
care of arms, ete. It is the same with a
store. If the proprietor has at heart the
interests of his business, is enthusiastic,
on hand early, late and all the time, is
master of his calling, takes a pride in
store service, his clerks will like him, or
else they are good for nothing.

Written rules may be necessary; cer-
tainly are in establishments having a
large number of men, but whether it is
best to have printed rules in a store em-
ploying a few men is a matter of con-
troversy. The general opinion is to en-
force unwritten rules by example and
precept. A firm of enterprising grocers
issues a cardboard folder to its employes
w hich reads as follows:

RULES FOR BUSINESS CONDUCT.

1. All inside employes, except cashier,
required to be on hand at 7 o’clock a. m.
sharp, and immediately proceed to busi-
ness at their respective places. Cashier
to report at 8 o’clock sharp. Store opens
at 7 o’clock a. m. and closes at 6 p. m.,
with the exception of Saturday, which
night store remains open until 10 o’clock.
During holiday season or on exceptional
oceasions all employes are expected to
report for duty after regular business
hours, if necessary.

2. One hour only allowed for meals.
No employe will receive pay for services
not rendered. Each one must stand his
own loss of time.

3. No smoking, or expectorating to-
bacco juice, by employes permitted in our
building.

4. Loud talking, laughing or whistling
in the salesroom by employes is strictly
forbidden. When clerks are conversing
together, they must not do so loudly
enough to attract attention.

5. Arguments between clerks and cus-
tomers or between employes will not be
allowed. Arguing strike questions and
political discussions are not necessary in
the salesroom, and often serve to create
a bad feeling. Therefore, all are re-
que-ted to refrain from such arguments.

6. There is always something to be
done in a store; no time should be
wasted. Business, now, is concentrated
into the hours between 7 a. m. and 6 p.
m., and every moment needs to be im-
proved. Therefore, we cannot allow vis-
iting with companions who may come in,
reading, or anything that will divert
from business.

7. *‘Be methodical if you would suc-
ceed in business, or in anything.” ‘“‘A
man for every place, and every man in
his place.” The duties of each employe
will be distinetly stated, and each em-
ploye will be held responsiblo for the
performance of those duties.

8. Customers must be served in their
regular turn. No deviation from this
rule will be permitted unless you have a
sufficiently good reason, and then only
after having received permission from
the other customer. All, whether rich
or povr, must have the right kind
of attention and treatment.

9. Employes purchasing goods must:

fill out a regular order blank (or have it
filled out), and have the goods put up
and checked by the order clerk, the same
as any other eustomer, whether the
goods are to be delivered by wagon or
not. Five per cent. discount allowed
from retail prices.

10. No employe allowed to pay out
money from the cash drawer for any pur-
pose whatever, except he be authorized
by one of the proprietors.

11. If through carelessness of employes
in store, or delivery elerk, goods or any
other articles belonging to the business
be lost, destroyed, broken or damaged,
the loss must be borne by the employe.
No merchant ought to stand losses
through carelessness of his employes.
(This does not include unavoidable ac-
cidents. )

| 12. Employes are not allowed to make |
|a practice of chewing gum, eating confec- |
tionery, fruits and other expensive
goods out of the stock. The aggregate
amount consumed by a large number of
employes during a year would astonish |
one, and is more of a loss than the busi- |
ness can stand in these days of keen
competition.

13. Delivery clerks are not allowed to
take persons on the wagons for a ride
| while delivering goods. The only ex-
ception to this rule would be in the case
' of a customer or his children going to or
from our store. Neither do we allow

 

companions to occupy your time while
at the stables.

night, between the hours of six and
seven o’clock, our store floor must be
cleared of all goods and scrubbed or
mopped. All inside employes (except
lady cashiers) who have been on duty
that day are required to help. No ex-
cuse will be accepted.

15. Each salesman shall have certain
stated shelf and counter space to arrange
and keep clean at odd moments. Every
shelf must be dusted and faced up full
each morning.

16. Employes must exercise great care
in weighing goods; neither short nor
over weight will be allowed. Scales
must be cleaned and balanced every
morning. No guessing at measures, sach
as scooping up a quart measure half full
for a pint, or shoveling a bushel basket
half full for a half bushel. Your time is
paid for, and we want you to take time
enough to do everything right.

17. Delivery clerks must examine
wagons carefully every morning to see
if any repairs are needed, so that delay
shall not occur while on the routes.
Horses must be shod before 8 a. m., if
needed that day.

18. In taking orders, see that the car-
bon paper is straight and even between
order-sheets. Write each article plainly.
Use abbreviations only when necessary,
and then so that it will surely be under-
stood. Use sharp pencil, and bear
down sufficiently hard to get a plain du-
plicate. Every order must have date,
initials or name of customer in full,
street and number, and salesman’s let-
ter; otherwise you will be required to re-
write it. Make no promises to custom-
ers that you do not know the house can
keep. Each one is held accountable for
any trouble arising through his failing
to observe any of the above points. Or-
der-sheets and cash checks must be per-
fectly separated along perforated lines

19. Every employe in the house is ex-
pected to do his utmost in the way of
saving. Useonly the right sized sacks
and paper. Use enough twine to make
the package secure but no more. Turn
gas low in cellar after using. Be care-
ful not to leave ‘‘odds and ends’? when
eutting cheese, bacon, butter, etc. Keep
potatoes shoveled up clean in bins.
Save nails and cord when practicable.
Pick up all sacks and paper which may
drop on the floor, before they become
soiled. See that goods do not get out of
place, and so neglected and spoiled.

20. We must allimprove in eur man-
ner of wrapping up packages and hav-
ing them securely tied. Nothing eviden-
ces more the character and tene of a
merchant and the store than the style of
packages sent out.

21. Much depends on the treatment
that customer get at the hands of clerks
as well as proprietors, whether we
please or hold their trade. Each one is
required to treat politely each one,
young or old, rich or poor, under all
circumstances, who enters our store. No
impatience or incivility toward any one
will be allowed. This rule will apply
also among employes.

—_—— 0
A Serious Mistake.

McSwatters—I made a bad break yes-
terday.

MecSwitters— What was that?

McSwatters—You know I’ve been try-
ing to get rid of Smugs; well, I thought
that l was giving him that cigar you
gave me but instead I gave him one of
my perfectos. The result: I can’t shake
Smugs now, and when I smoked your

 

14. Onee each week on Wednesday |

 

cigar it gave the parrot a hemorrhage.

[ iOS. one bb,

STATE AGENTS FOR
The Lycoming Rubber Company,

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Thanking you for past favors we now
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when our representative calls on you,
we are REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TIGKETS

ONLY A FEW LEFT.

 

Original set of four - - - - = 25¢
Complete setoften = <= = = + 50c

Order quick or lose the opportunity of
a lifetime to secure these souvenirs at a
nominal figure. They will be worth ten
times present cost within five years.

Tradesman Company,

 

Your Bank Account Solicited.

Kent County Savings Bank,

GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH.

Jno. A. CovopE Pres.
Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres.
a. &. &. ‘VERDIER, Cashier.
K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r.

Transacts a General Banking Business.
Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings
Deposits,

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox,
T. J. O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema,
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A.S. Verdier

 

Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars,

 

 

WE WANT

BEANS

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

MICHIGAN CENTRAL
“ Txe Niagara Falis Route.’

(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)
Arrive. Eo ped
a eem........ Detroit Express ........

5Smam..... *Atlantic and Pacific..... it 20 P m
[apm...... New York Express...... 6 00pm
*Daily. All others daily, except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex
press trains to aud from Detroit.

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

Direct communication made at Detroit with
allthrough trains eeat over the Michigan Cen
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

. ALmMQuisT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

 

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CHICAGO Nov. 18, 1894,

Ane sain si M a CRIGAN R’Y.

 

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv. 06 Baees......... : — . 5pm *11:20pm
Ar. Chicago 25pm 6:50pm *7:20am
RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.

Ly. Chicago..... .o:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. Gd Gapides.....__.. _.3:05pm 10:25pm = *6:25am
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm ‘0:25pm

TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
Ly. Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm
Ar. Manistee........ 12:20pm 8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm
3:15pm 11:10pm
3:45pm 11:40pm

Trains arrive from north at 1:40 pm and 10;06
pm.

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm, Ar-
rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicag» 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6.25am.

*Every day. Others week days only.

DETROIT,

LANSING & NORTHERN R, R.

 

Oct. 28, 1894

 

GOING TO DETROIT.

Ly. Grand ae. Le 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit . -11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm

RETUKNING FROM DETROIT.
ia. Detroit. ...........- 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS.
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL.
Lv. Grand Rapids ....... 7:00am 1:20pm 5: —_
Ar. frome Lowell.........- 12:40pm 6:20pm ......

THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

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

Trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.

 

EASTWABD.
trains Leave  tNo. 14/tNo. yes 18; —

 

 

| Gd Rapids, Lv 6 45am 10 20am) 3 25pm | 1100pm

(ion... Ar. 7 40am|11 25am) 427pm/1235am
| st. Johns ...Ar| §25am/12 lipm} 520pm) 1 25am
wen ...... Ar); 900am| 120pm) 6 U5pin| 3 10am

 

E. Saginaw. Ar |10 50am 3 45pm} 800pm) 640am
Bay City..... Ar |i] 30am} 435pm) § 37pm| 7

 

 

aaa... Ar|10 05am 3 45pm | 7 05pm} 5 40am
Pt. Huron...Arj1205pmj 550pm/ 850pm/ 7 30am
Poutiac ...... Ar /|1053am] 305pm/} 8 25pm| 527am
Detroit....... Ar|1150am| 405pm)} 925pm)} 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
—...... +

7:00 a. m
For Grand Haven and Muskegon.....+1:00 p.m.
Mil. and Chi.. .t3:35 DP. m
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.
Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50
p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:v0 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 Sleeper.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City T’cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave going
North

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MEN OF MAREK.

Cc. I. Clapp, Manager of the Michigan
Manufacturing Co.

Chas. I. Clapp was born at Hartsville,
New York, Feb. 5, 1858. When 6 years
old his parents removed to Blissfield,
Lenawee county, Michigan, and three
years later they again changed their res-
idence to Kalamazoo. Here the subject
of our sketch attended school for eight
years, when his family removed to
Otsego, where Mr. Clapp entered to em-
ploys of C. W. Edsell, who at that time
conducted a dry goods store there. He
subsequently worked for P. W. Travis,
but, after three years’ experience in the
dry goods business, he embarked in the
bakery business on his own account,

 

 

 

 

 

 

subsequently conducting a grocery store,
managing both enterprises with signal
pal success for nearly eleven years.
Six years ago he began manufacturing
shirts, pants and overalls in asmall way,
beginning with four machines run by
foot power. Two months later he added
two more machines and put in steam
power, and a year later he took into
partnership Messrs. Ross and Miller, at
which time the firm name was changed
toC. I. Clapp & Co. and the business
moved to more commodious quarters in
the building formerly occupied as a hoe
factory. In April, 1892, the business
was merged into a stock company under
the style of the Michigan Manufacturing
Co., with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, of which $22,000 is paid in.
The capacity was gradually increased
until, afew months ago, forty-four ma-
chines were in continuous operation.
Feeling the necessity of better banking
and shipping facilities, as well as the
prestige which necessarily attaches to a
larger market, the company decided to
move its business to this city, where it
located, some weeks ago, on the second
and third floors of the Reid building, at
the corner of Louis and Campau streets.
Here the capacity has been increased
by the addition of eleven machines, in-
eluding a number of special machines
which curtail very materially the work
ordinarily done by hand and by slower
machines. Four traveling men are kept
constantly on the road working the trade
of this State, while the Chicago branch—
the house of Wyckoff & Co.—keep sev-
eral men at work in the West.

In the early history of the enterprise,
Mr. Clapp christened his goods the

‘‘Ideal,”? and the brand has become a

 

familiar word in so many households
that a proposition will be submitted at
the next annual meeting of the stock-
holders to change the name of the com-
pany to the Ideal Clothing Co.

Mr. Clapp served Otsego faithfully as
Trustee for two years, and held the re-
sponsible position cf Treasurer for two
terms. He was organizer and manager
of the cornet band, a musical organiza-
tion which won many honors for its
members and the village. He was super-
intendent of the water works for five

years, beginning with the creation of the |

system and closing with his removal
to this city. He was iast year
Vice-Chancelior of Otsego Lodge, K.

of P., and a member of Otsego Division, |

No. 7, U. R., K. of P., and the esteem in

which he is held by the members of the |
order was given expression, on the occa- |

sion of his removal to Grand Rapids, ina
banquet in his honor, which was partic-
ipated in by nearly every member of the
organization. Numerous impromptu
speeches were made,
Clapp’s departure from the scene of his
early labors and triumphs and paying
hearty tribute to his many manly qual-
ities as a brother and a citizen.

Personally, Mr. Clapp isa genial gen-
tleman whose acquaintance is a pleasure
and whose friendship is a_ treasure.
Loyal to his friends, faithful to his busi-
ness and zealous in the cause of buman-
ity, his career presents a striking exam-
ple of the distinction a man can achieve
in the business world who is actuated by
generous impulses and correct business
methods.

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The Drug Market.

Gum opium is weak and lower.

Morphia is unchanged.

Quinine is steady.

Gum camphor has declined.

Gum kino is very scarce and higher.

Oil anise is lower.

Oil cassia has declined.

Oil cubebs is lower.

Serpentaria is scarce and has
vanced.

Sugar of lead is lower.

Linseed oil is very firm. An advance
was noted of 2c in Chicago Saturday.

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PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—There is a fair outside demand for
small lots, but the local demandis very moder-
ate. Baldwins are about the only variety mov
ing, commanding $2.25 per bbl.

Beans—Light receipts have forced the market
up 5@l0c, in consequence of which local han-
dlers pay #1.30@1.35 for country picked, holding
city picked at 81.¢0 in small lots and $1.55 in car
lots.

Butter—Never flatter at this season of the
year, due to the encroachments of the imitation
article The market is so utterly devoid of fea
ture that quotations are useless.

Cabbage—Price ranges from 32@4 per 100, ac-
cording to size and quality.

Celery—Is held by dealers at 10 Bizc per doz

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

Eggs—2ve for strictly fresh, Ife for pickled
and 18¢e for cold storage stock
Lettuce—1z2%¢ per lb.

Onions—Red Weatherfields and Yellow Dan- |
Spanish stock, $1 |

vers command 35¢ per bu.

per bor.

Parsnips—3 ¢ per bu

Potatoes—The market is quiet, but another
week wiil prvbably witness a revival of the
seeding demand from the South, which will
have a tendency to stiffen the market.
handlers pay 40c here and about 3.e@ at ontsida
buying points
on the basis of 45c.

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

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command
$3 per bbl. Kiln dried Illinois stock is held at
25c less.

Squash—Hubbard brings 1'¢c per lb., but the
market is strengthening and may go to 2c before
the end of the month,

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Drug Department.

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Aon Arbor.

Two Years—George Gundrum, fonia.

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

For Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
£ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Detroit, Jan8; Grand Rapids,
March 5; Detroit (Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov. 5.

 

Michizgan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.

Secretayv—F. C. Thompson, Detroit.

 

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

 

Preliminary Education of Apprentices
in Pharmacy.

The necessity of a satisfactory prepar-
atory education of those who enter drug
stores to learn the art of pharmacy has
been again and again discussed by writ-
ers on pharmacy topics, but no progress
has been made. Under our laws every
drug store must be conducted by a ‘‘reg-
istered pharmacist,’’ and, therefore,
every manager of a drug store is a phar-
macist. The boy he takes into his store
to learn the business becomes an ap-
prentice, and adrug clerk, or the pro-
prietor of a drug store, in the course of
time. No matter how ignorant he may
be, having yotten in he rarely gets out
again.

Every intelligent man, who honestly
and earnestly desires to seetheday when
a satisfactory standard of education
shall be established in our profession,
must realize that at the bottom of any
shortcomings in that direction lies the
absence of restraint upon the introduc-
tion of unfit recruits.

Only a small proportion of these ap-
prentices, and generally the better part
of them, ever come to the colleges of
pharmacy. Hence the colleges cannot
remedy the evil.

There seems to be no way by which
the influx of unfit material can be pre-
vented, except through the State boards
of pharmacy.

A person who has not gone to school
long enough to learn to spell common
English words, or to estimate correctly
the quantities required for the produc-
tion of a given amount of a solution of
any fixed percentage strength, or to cal-
culate the size of each single dose of a
poisonous ingredient in a prescription,
cannot be fit to become a pharmacist;
and this is so self-evident that, in the ab-
sence of any specific legal standard of a
preliminary education of apprentices, it
is the duty of the boards of pharmacy to
examine into the fitness of all candidates
for registration, not only with reference
to their knowledge of chemistry and
pharmacy, but also with reference to
their general intelligence and education.

The introduction of a fixed minimum
standard of compulsory preliminary edu-
cation of apprentiees must be brought
about; but, until this shall have been ac-
complished, the State boards should re-
fuse to register as a pharmacist or assist-
ant pharmacist any candidate whose pre-
paratory education is of so low a grade
as to render it plain that he ought never
to have undertaken to learn chemistry
and pharmacy. The scholars of our pub-
lic schools are not allowed to enter the
high school until they are fitted to do so:
why should any one be permitted to en-
ter upon the study of pharmacy until
reasonably prepared for it?

The lowest standard of compulsory
preliminary education that might at first

be adopted is one equivalent to the re-
quirements for admission to the best
American standard high school. If the
State boards of pharmacy would hence-
forth require at least that amount of
general education of every candidate for
registration, we would at once begin to
make marked progress. Examinations
of candidates to determine their general
education might be omitted in all cases
where satisfactory evidence is presented
by them showing that they possess the
education required.

No real general improvement in the
status of pharmaceutical education can
be expected without positive measures
to compel sufficient preparatory educa-
tion; and a sufficient standard of the
compulsory preparatory education of all
persons who enter drug stores to learn
pharmacy is no less important than the
pharmaceutical colleges, the pharmacy
laws, and the State boards of pharmacy.

OscaR OLDBERG.
———Vq_ > —_—
What is a Thing Worth?

The ancient political economists were
much given to theorizing about finance
and values, and one subject that was
given a great deal of attention was the
actual meaning of ‘‘value.”’

It was not strange, when men dealt
largely in theoretical philosophy and
gave little attention to practical facts,
that they should have busied themselves
with complicated discussions as to the
basis of value; but it is surprising that,
in this day of realism in philosophy as
well as in political economy, anybody
should vex himself with any elaborate
speculations as to why a thing has value
in the commerce and economy of the
world.

But recently a very learned and elab-

orate book on the subject has appeared
from the pen of Weisner, a prominent
Austrian writer on political economy. It
is entitled, in a translation which has
been made of it, ‘‘Natural Value.’?
However interesting to political philoso-
phers, such a book is worth littlein prac-
tical business life. Nevertheless it is
worth while to gain some definite idea of

the basis of value.
It should be understood that there is

no absolute innate self-existing standard
of value. A thing is worth what it will
bring in the market, and the price de-
pends upon how great is the momentary
demand for it. When large consumers
go into the market to purchase supplies,
they create a sudden demand for a par-
ticular article, and so there is an immedi-
ate rise in its market price. This de-
mand having been satisfied, a lull fol-
lows in the trading in tbat article, and
so the price declines. Thus is seen the
almost daily fluctuations in the markets
for the principal articles of consumption.

Some of the writers have essayed to
found values on the utility or usefulness
of articles, but no rule of that sort will
hold good. Wheat and cotton may be
considered absolute necessaries of life.
The world cannot get on without them;
but the market prices of those articles
vary every day, their values being
affected, as has been seen, by the special
demand, as well as by the general de-
mand and the supply. Some theorists
have proposed to base the value of an
article on its cost of production; but that
is an entirely fallacious position, since
every day is seen the spectacle of many
useful articles sold below the cost of

making them. All depends upon the ex-
tent to which such articles are needed.

 

Everybody knows that the mere reduc-
tion of prices is not sufficient to sell out
astock of goods. If people do not at
the moment need the articles they gener-
ally will not buy, no matter how low the
price. Nevertheless it is wise to pur-
chase articles of necessity when the
price falls below the customary average.

The terms ‘‘general demand’? and
‘‘special demand’? need a word of ex-
planation. There is a general demand
for wheat and cotton. There are so
many human beings who must have
clothes and food; consequently there will
be a certain demand for cotton and
wheat. But this general demand is not
always the same every year. If it were
known just how many persons had to be
supplied with food and clothing, and
just how much wheat and cotton each
would require, it would be easy to figure
out the wheat and cotton markets so far
as the general demand is concerned.

But there is a’ special demand. Sup-
pose a large purchaser of wheat or cot-
ton, having laid in his supplies, should
find that the ship in which they were be-
ing transported, or the warehouse in
which they had been stored, had been
destroyed by fire, or other casualty,
such losers would require again to go in-
to the market to supply their special de-
mand. This fact might make the price
go up. But there is another sort of
special demand which for .the moment
largely increases the value of an article.
The traveler who is waylaid by robbers
would, at the critical moment, give a big
price for a loaded pistol. When King
Richard III offered his kingdom for a
horse at the battle of Bosworth, he an-
nounced an enormous rise in the price of
horses; but the demand was limited.

But all values of marketable products
come back to a simple basis of values.
In barbarous ages there was no money,
and all business was done with barter.
All exchanges were the swapping of
products, or the exchange of products for
services. There was a sort of general
agreement about the value of articles or
services; but where there was an urgent
need of something, that something was
held at a higher rate. In the same way,
when there was a redundance of certain
things, they had to be disposed of at a
lower valuation. Itis just the same to-
day.

When commerce grew to meet the de-
mands of the civilized states of society,
barter gave place to money. Articles
convenient for exchange and transporta-
tion were adopted for money, and finally
the general choice feil on gold and silver,
because they were not subject to be de-
stroyed by rust and decay, and were, of
all other articles, least perishable. But
gold and silver have never had an abso-
lute and unchangeable value. There
have been times when silver was worth
more in proportion than gold. To-day it
happens, for a variety of reasons, that
gold is worth more in proportion than
silver. The ratio of values may some
day change back. FRANK STOWELL.

— > >

A Reasonable Profit.
From the Chicago Apparel Gazette.

A merchant is entitled to a reasonable
profit on his merchandise just as much
as a mechanic is to his wages. Not only
is he entitled to it but he must have it,
for he must live as well as the day
laborer; he must pay his expenses: hence
any dealer should be slow to sacrifice his
reasonable profit. It is plainly evident
that if he does not make his profit his

 

capital will go to pay his expenses and

 

he will fail; sooner or later he must do
so. As the wageworker may be out of
work and obliged to draw on his savings
to live, so the merchant may in times of
dull trade not be able to make his ex-
penses, but when this is the case he
should know it and seek aremedy. But
the remedy should never be a cut in
prices so that he cannot make his profit
on his sales. If he cannot make his
profit, he can rest assured that his pur-
chasing is faulty, his expenses too great
or his location is not such as to support
a business of its class. No successful
merchant ever sells goods except at a
profit. The very class of dealers, the
big department stores in large cities,
whose claim is that they undersell the
exclusive dealer, make a larger aggregate
percentage of profit on their total sales
than any other class of dealers. They do
this by their splendid buying, by the
small percentage of expense as compared
with their total sales, not by a sacrifice
of profit except on an occasional leader.
If they sell an article at a low price, the
cost corresponds.
—_————__—~—>—_____-
Prescription Accidents.

From the Medical Journal.

When weconsider the immense num-
ber of prescriptions which are written
daily, it seems remarkable that so few”
mistakes occur. It is certainly to the
eredit of physicians that poisoning by
accidental misapplication of drugs at
their handsis sorare. There are many
ways in which a prescription may fail in
its mission before or after leaving the
druggist. Next to the lawyer, who is
famous for his chirography, the pbysi-
cian is second, and makes a good one.
If we will only stop to think how few
people can write legibly, we will be sur-
prised. This is different from women—
they, as a general rule, if they can write
at all, write plainly and distinctly. In
connection with prescriptions the hand-
writing should be particularly distinct.
It is especially in writing symbols that
mistakes are liable to occur. A hastily
written scruple or drachm may bear such
close resemblance as to escape the com-
mission of a blunder only by chance.
An inexcusable source of error is in a
lack of sufficient explicitness in the writ-
ten directions on a prescription. Such
vague expressions as ‘‘use as directed,”
‘a teaspoonful when  needed,’’ are
sources of accident. Patients find it
very difficult to remember directions.
Every physician should acquire the habit
of carefully re-reading his prescription
before it leaves his hands.

—_—-— —- oe a

John Lithgrow, of Boston, made a will
that his $150.000 should not be divided
among his heirs uatil all his children and
grandchildren were dead. The court
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Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors.
Yearly sales increased by their use.
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Wholesale Price Current.

 

Advance@—Gum Kino, serpentana.

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ACIDUM.
eee 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75
ie eee eee 15
Ceeeeam ......---. 20@ 30
Cliricum: ............-. 41@ 44
Hedrochior ........... om 5
Witrocum ........-..- 10@ 12
Oxalicum ........--.- 10@ 12
Phosphorium dil...... 20
Salicylicum ........... 1 25@1 60
Sulphuricum....... .. 1¥@ 5
Tannicam..........-.-1 @@1 @
Tartaricum.... 30@ 33
AMMONIA.
Aqua, me On8.......... 4@ 6
2 dee......-... 6@ «8
Carbone .....-.-+-... 12@ 14
Chioridam ........--.- 12@ 14
ANILINE.
ae... tase oes 2 00@2 25
Bn oo ccc new ce nase 80@1 00
ce cease ee 4Q WO
Me oie vote aces e- 2 50@3 0
BACCAE,
Cubeae (po 25) 20@ 25
Juniperus ...---.------ 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum... 25 30
BALSAMUE.
Copaiba .. .. a =
Peru. owes 32 00
Terabin. ‘Canada —. oo. =
Tolutan . -- oe oC
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadiar.. 18
Cassiae .... a
Cinchona Flava. Sacre ats
Euonymus atropurp......-- 30
Myrica Cerifera, po.....-.-- 20
Prunus Virgini.....------+++ 12
Quillaia, grd......---+++ +++ 10
Sassafras .......---------+*: 12
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 25
po 33@ 35
Haematox, 15 1b. box.. 11@ 12
eS! 13@ 14
4a Leese 14@ 15
' igs.. 16@ 17
FERRU
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble....---- @ 8
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50
Solut Chloride......-. @ 15
Sulphate, eomi....... .e 2
pure @ 7
FLORA.
ee ee 14
Anthemis ..........--- 18@_ 25
Matricaria ieee 18@25
FOJUA
Barosma ....--------: 14@ 30
Cassia *,cuiitol, Tin-
nivelly eden Gece 18@ 25
' Alx. 3@ W
Salvia officinalis, igs
ANG WB..---- eee eee 122 20
Ura Ural ....-.-----e: 8@ 10
eUMMI.
Acacia, ist picked... @ 60
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“i “ i. @ 30
“= gifted sorta... @ 2
a 80@ 80
Aloe, Barb, (po. =: SO@ 60
Cape, (po. 20). @ 12
Socotrt, (peo. 60) . @ 50
Catechn, 1s, (ser, 14 748,
We usec oss @ 1
Ammoniae ........--+- 55@ 60
oa. (po.50} 50@ 6:
Benxoinum.....-.----- 30 55
Camphor®.....--- ~-- 42@ 50
Euphorbium po 3D 10
Gaibanum...... _ @ 50
Gamboge, po....-..---- 70@ 7
Guaiacom, (po 35).... @ si
Kino, (po 2 00).....-. @2 60
Mastic . — @ 80
Myrrh, (po 45). @ 40
Opli (po 3 203 50) ..2 5°@2 60
ee oo... sone * Ne 60
” ” sancched 4@ 15
Tragacanth .......-+-- 500 80
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium ...........---++- 2
Eupatorium .....-..---++++-- 20
oe Do a de pet ee ee oe 25
Majorum ......-.-+-++++s2+++ 2
Mentha  Biperita. Deo eeees 23
eee 30
Tanacetum, V....--------+:- 2
Thymus, V......-----+-+ +++: 25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60
Carbonate, ra... Se 2
Carbonate, K. & ei W@ 25
Carbonate, Jennings 35Q@ 36
OLEUX.
Absinthium. ........-. 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc...... 30@ 50
Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@! 25
Anim .....--. 2 40@2 5
Auranti Cortex 1 80@2 Ov
Bergamii .. 3 00G@3 2
Cajiputi ... bo@ 65
Caryophylli B® 8
Cedar " 35@ 65
CGhencpodii @! 60
Cinnamonii . 1 25@1 4
Citronelia .. @ %
Conium Mac 8 65
Copalbs .... ... . 80G 90

 

 

 

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Cuberes............. a - = TINCTUBES,
Hrcehthitos.......... :
Biber 1 ei = Aconitum NapellisR....... 60
Canleneria ol 1 50@1 66 i Te laa eal 50
Geranium, ounce. @ 7 Aloes Dee ee ose neal eae ae 60
Gossip!i, Sem. gal. ae 0@ 7 * sd —— fee eee ees 60
Hedeoma .............1 31 @ ae... 50
ES 50@2 00 SO ————————— 0
laccudol. .......... 90@z 00 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
ee 1 40! Benson... ....-.-. ---. 00s 60
MenthaPiper. ........ 2 10@3 00 SCO... ee eeee eee e eee 50
Montha Vorid. ....... 1 20@2 00 Sanguinerie................. 50
Morrhuae, gal 1 30@1 40 | Barosma ........-.-.---.-+-5 50
Myr rele, ounce. @ 3B Cantharides.................- %5
90@3 00 Coysscum ................... oe
Picle p Liquida, (gal. 85) loa 12] Ca damon De eee a eee 7
a 96 Doce scceccveccecs
eee ae 1 90 | CABLOF ..... ccc cee cee eeeee 100
Roene, ounces. ........ 6 50@8 50 ne, 50
anh 40 45 Co 50
Raping #11 00 8 CO... eee eee eee es 60
— 2 50@7 00 Columee _.......... seeecees 50
Sassafras.. BO@ 55 oo 50
Sinapts, eR8, ‘ounce. @ 65 coe... ......-......... Oe
Tigifi i ] @ %0 eee 50
Thyme .. a. 40@ 50 aaa 50
CT @1 60 Gentian ee eee aces aaa 50
Sto i... 15@ 2 G a ..................
HCL uaica oe 50
u a 60
Bi Caurh................ 160) 28) Seemioee -... ....... ...._... 50
Bichromate ........... 13@ 14} Hyoseyamus................ 50
ries... 40@ 43 | Iodine...... eee teense
Carb pe 6; ” Coloriess......... +... vis)
Chlorate (po. 1 17@it iN 16@ 18 | Ferri eee co 35
Cyarece............... 50@ 55 no. o... S
lode fe..... ..2 99@3 0) | Lobelia 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure. 2 C—O 50
Potassa, Bitart, con. @ 16) Nuss Voniles................ 50
Potass Nitras, ap... 8@ 10| Opii. 85
Potaes Niwas.......... 76 4 Cl Cam] horsted.. on
Prussiate ... cdcceness Geman ((( Ce ‘2 00
Sulphate po........... 15@ 18] aurantiCortex............. 50
RADIX. — ee 50
Aeowtee uel 20@ 25 atany 50
a en oa 25 | Rhei..... 50
Reehuaa 12@ 15| Cassia Acatifel.....-... ... oe
Aran, po. @ i C0... 0... BO
Calamus. : Ll oo ab Serpentaria .........-...---. 50
Geutiana (po. 12 2) 8@ 10 Sivomontm.............-... 60
Glychrrhiza, (py. 5). 16@ 18 Tolutan ee 60
Hydrastis Cana den, Valerian ..... 50
(po. a @ 30} Veratrum V 50
Hellebore, Ala, O. 15@ 2
ae PO. ne po _ oo a MISCELLANEOUS.
ipeene, 0O............- 30@) 40} ther, Spts Nit, 3 F.. 2@ Ww
Tris ely ae 35@38).. 35@ 40 “ 4F.. 2
Jeieea, pr......-.....- 40@ 45] Alumen............... 24@ 3
Maranta, “s.........- @ 3 ' ground, (po.
a Pe...... i tet 2).............._.....
—.......... ..... 75@1 00 Aunaito eae a. 60
gee @1 75 Antimoni, = ee 4B 5
~ we. : 75@Q@1 35 tPotassT. 55@ 60
Sires... 2... 1.8... 35@ 38) Anti ie ee eee @i 40
Sanguinarta, (po 25).. 20 | Antifebrin.............- @
ee tec ude 35 —, = ounce @ 48
Somers... .......... 55@ 60] Arsenic oo 7
Similax, Officinalis. H 40 | Balm Gilead, Bud.. 38
M @ 25}| Bismu .:. 1... 1 40@1 50
Scillae, (po. H)......-- 10@ 12 cane Chior, 1s, (48
——. Foti- Te; 44a, 14)........-- @ il
aca 0... .......... @ 3 Cantharides Russian,
Valerian, =. (po. - ss =—t 666... @1 00
rman. 1 20
inguer &...........- 20 capatet Fructus, af... =
Zingiber ; 18@ WwW ve ‘“ po. @ w
SEMEN. pos i ange Da 15) “2. =
Anisom, (po. 20) @ 15 armine, No. 40.......
A Cera Alba, 8. & F..... 50@ 55
aha ts (graveleons) .. - 7 a Flava...........- “7 =
Carui a 12 Goo .........-.-...
Cara (6,18 aS 1 woot 25 | Cassia Froctus........ @ %
Gorlandrum........... 12 14| Contraria...........--. @ 10
Cannabis Sativa....... 4® 5 Cetaceum ............. @ 40
oe tL z 1 00 | Chioroform ........... 60@ 88
Chenopodium ........ 12 aibbs.. Oi &
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 ing oo ee 1 5@1 =
Genidalum........... @ Wine a. ea ps:
i. a’ Cinchoniaine, a Ww 58 20
ug AS 3@ 4 German 3%4@ 12
Lint, gra. (bbl. 3%)... 34@ 4 —_—=ao
aoe ma ; : - - 40 = ea eee eww e eee ere =
& ar ana: an. 5 ee
Rapa cia ip ese 44m 5 | Crete, (Dbl. 75)... & z
Sinapia Aiba......... 7@ 8 pre: oS 5
Nigra... 1@ 12 8 %
SPIBITUS. 40
Framenti, W., D. Co..2 00@<% 50 By
D. F.R.....2 0@2 25 5 6
Se tenes ae 1 2@1 50 10@ 12
Juntperts Co. O. T....1 65@2 00 7 90
oo 75@3 50 ve
Saacharum N. E...... 1 9@2 10 @ 6
Spt. Vini Gallf........ 1 75@6 50 | Ergota ve 35
ini Oporto .........-. : 25@2 00 | Flake i. 15
Vini Alba.........-.-- 1 26@2 00| Galla....... i 3
Gambier. . _< 8
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ _— Gelatin, Cooper i ne =
_carris Ee 2 50@2 75 | Glassware flint, by box 80.
—_—_ sheepse’ wool ae Less than box 75.
perriage ......-...--
Velvet adhe sheeps’ Glue, _ See poe 9@ 15
wool Carriage....... 110 oven eee. us =
— _ 85 —e Seas cee P
wee... .........- 55
Grass shoes? wool car Hydraag Chior Mite. @ 7
Hard for slate use. 5 bors
Yellow Reef, for siate nt Ox Rubrum 85
Ne 1 40 Ammoniati.. @ %
- Unguentum. 45@ 55
SYRUPS. _ drargyrum........- @ w&
Bocets ...._.....-.---..-,-<. 50 en ae ~- --1 Ql 50
a ket ate coun sues 50 WU on cee ow we neces 1 00
is a 60 teams. Hesenl........ 3 80@3 9
ee ae SO | lodoterm.............. @A4 70
Auranti Cortes.........-.+-- 56 —— eee eee @2 3
Biel Agom........... ------ 50 | Lycopodium .......... 65
Simiflax Officinalis.. ..... GO) Macks ..........-...... 7@ %5
bag - ---. 8O| Liguor — et Hy-
SOMOER 2... noc cs ecco ses ccee 50 rarg Iod...........- 2
eee 50 | Liquor Fetes Anatoli 10@ 12
a) ee 50 ——— Sulph (bbl
Woden .... ...- see esecesees a 4
Pronas @irg........ 000+ . 50| Mannia, 8. F.......... 63

 

 

 

Morphia, S.P.&W. 205@2 30] Seidlits Mixture...... @ 2/| Linseed, boiled. 59 62
S.N.¥.Q. & _—. ee @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter
© €e... S62 * at. ............ @ Wi strained ...........
Moschus Canton...... @ 4 —, Seasiaaw, De SpiriteTurpentine.. 34 4p
Myristica, No 1 . Ce Vase .............. @ 35
ge (po 20). ; 3 10 sau "Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 Paints. bbl. Ib.
Ln Soda Boras, (po. 8-16). 7@ 9| Red Venetian..........1% 2@8
Pe pals re & P.D. “ Seas s Potass Tart.. - = 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars.. er 2@4
Bg eee se ees aCom........... Pag & Ber... ..
Picis Liq, N.«C., % gal Seca, BiCarp......... 3@ 5 | Putty, commence. ee 2%@3
“s ms Se . Ovi Sete Aen .......:... 34@ 4| “ strictly pure..... 2% 2%@3
cis Lig., quarts . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 — me Amer-
Pi] pints ....... @ 85|Spts. Ether Co........ eT 13@15
a Hy dar (po. 80) .. @ 50 © Meyreia Hom..... 00 aaa, English.. 65@70
Po gra, (po.22).. @ 1 ‘ Myrcia Imp... .. @2 50 | Green, Peninsular..... 13@16
pie Alba, (pog5).... @ 3 ini Rect. bbl. eT 5% @6
a Co @ ft fo ee oe a eee eee 2 499259; ‘ wie ........... @s
: mht eet 8... 10@ 12 atm 5e gal., oy ten days. borer poe Span... @70
ulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 en © a Beene 1 40@1 45 | Whiti oem ...... @%
——. boxes —" es 24@ 3 White, hate American 1
D. Co., dos..... esa: ~*~ ton .....,... a 2% Whiting, Paris Eng.
a, me. 20@ 30} Tamarin bn bee ae Se 1
ae 8@ 10| Terebenth Venice..... BQ Universal Prepared ..1 CO@1 15
uinia, 8. P&Ww 34% @39% —— Oe eee ‘mse 48 VABNISHES,
erman 27 3 ——... .........., 16 00|No1™ ‘
Rubia Tinctorum..... 2 14} Zinci Sulph.. ........ 7@ 8 Tie Tun wae i ae OGL 0
Saccharum Lactispv. 12@ 14 Coach Boay........... 2 7 00
— 10@2 25 OILs. No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 1 10
— Draconis..... 40@ Bbl. Gal | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
BPO, w LS 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 7 70| 58 Dryer, No. 1
BC Messe sete seeeeees 10@ 12/ Lard, extra . = 85 Se 7O@75
Gece e ee cone @ i Ear No i.......... 2 6
Linseed, pureraw.... 56 59
#

VALLEY CITY
POULTRY POWDER

Nothing Like It to Make Hens Lay in Winter.

A valuable addition to the feed of laying Hens and growing

chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera

Roupe and Gapes.

 

Price 25 Cents.

HAXELYINE & PERKINS DRUG

60.,

Manufacturing Chemists,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

16

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GROC!

t are for the trade only, in such q
It is impossi
age prices for average conditions of purchase.
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions,

The prices quoted in this lis
going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
below are given as representing aver
those who have poor credit.

 

greatest possible use to dealers.

ERY PREECE

 

CURR:

uantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers.

ible to give quotations suitable for all con
Cash buyers or those of strong credit
as it is our aim to make this feature of the

 

PUNT.

They are prepared just before
ditions of purchase, and those
buy closer than

usually

 

 

 

AXLE GREASE.

 

  

doz ross j
60
5 5
m 8
65 7 oot
Paragon = 6 00 |
BAKING POWDER. }
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140

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85

15a

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BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

ERaglish . - _ =
ioe, ....------- : RO
may

Domstic it
BLUING, TORS

40£ OV vals 2 60

Arctic,

 

Parlor Gem

 

 

Common Whisk
Fancy fl 1 Of
Warehouse.... 28
BRUSHES.
Stove, No. 1 : 12%
1 ih 1 50
r = -. . 1%
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row -- 85
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row 1 25
Pei metto, gooke..... io
Cc ANDLES.
Hotel 40 lb. boxe ee 10
Star, 40 9
Paraffine oo  -
Wicking .....-- eo
CAKKFED GOODS.
Fish.
1m
1 20
Star, 1 lb. 2 45
= 2 id. 350
Picnic, 1 1b. 2 90
san 2Ib 2 90
Standard 1 1
Mustard, 2 OF
Tomato 2 25
Soused 2s

 

 

Apricots.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

CREAM TARTAR.

 

 

[ve onk....... . 1 © 1 Striety pere...............
~ ; 1 40 | Telfer’s Absolute.......... 30
1 = ea 15@25
Lo. i -
Blackberries ee
Ce ee 85 Blue Label Brand.
Cherries. Haif pint, 25 bottles ..2
a 1 20 | Pint ..
Pitted ee Quart 1 doz bottles .. .....3 50
White 1 40 Triumph Brand.
Erie... L | Balt pint, per dor.......... 1 35
Damsons, ‘Ege Plums and Green | Pint, 25 bottles.............. 4 50
Gages. QGuax6, per dor ..... .......5 7
Erie oo 1 35
Crores... -...--. 1 2 CLOTHES PINS.
Gooseberries.
Common | 1 25 | 5 gross boxes............ 40@45
Peaches.
Laue 110 COCOA SHELLS.
1 50
‘cot so iD Deee...............
F 160@i 75 | Less — a @3%
a Pound packages....... '6K%@7
rere... oa...
' a COFFEE.
oo = ic. . 1 25 Green.
REV OPE ce cane snes so 1%
ineapples. . Rio.
Common. 1 00@1 30 Fatr. eee le
= ou’ sliced... : Ce
grated... 245) crmeO.-...._..._.
Reoth ie lieed _... .. @25) aoe. LL
‘ srated...... se 23
uinces. Santos.
Common ’ ee
Raspberries. foes... ...
a EE 22
Black Hamburg.. . “i rceeerry -.-.__..........__- 23
Erie. black 1 20 Mexican and Guatamala.
Strawberries. Pee 21
Lawrence ..... oper... 22
Hamburgh 1 | Pancy............ .-........ 24
——— 1 20 nncorneunen
ra api :. 1 05 ro... ....... te 2
Whortl: aberries, Milled . oe
Biueberrice ........ 85 Java.
Meats. eee. a. 25
Corned beef Libby’s....... 2 29 | Private Growth............. 27
Roast beef Arm our’s.......2 35 | Mandehling ................ 28
Potted ham, ¥% Ib..... 1% Mocha.
04 *t . 70 een . -
tongue ce “"4 35 | Arabian. .. a
r nikon, a > cece : eee,
= _ - %] To ascertain cost of roasted
et 7
Ve — . coffee, add ic. per Ib. for roast-
Hamburgh stringless ce i and 15 per cent. for shrink-
i rench style.....2 i
Ue Package.
Lima, green 1s McLaughiin’s Bae... t1
soaked.. aoe. 21 36
Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 25 | Lion, 60 cr 100 1b. case.... 21 80
Bay State Baked............ 13 Extract.
Wi orld’ . rer Gaked........ 25
os nee - = Valley City % gross........ 2
Hamburgh all _4 95 | Hummel’s, foil, Bross. oe i 65
Livingston Eden . “1 10 tin -+o- B85
Purity Ll eee ew ees 1 00
Honey Dew.. ser cee oe CHICORY.
Morning Glory............. EE
—_———————————— Site ..... 7
: a Poas. Oo sebeeeoe + ceeepoowee « @
amburgh marrofat 1 30 : ls
: early June "150 CLOTHES LINES.
Champion En g. -1 40 Cotton, om......- per dos. 1 2
. etit ‘pois. = os... 1 40
ancy sifted....1 65 . ....... . i.
Soaked eee ieee 95 - —....... . 1 %
Harris stangerd............. %5 ' ....... ' 1 90
VanCamp’s marrofat.......1 10 Jute od ' 85
ee _ z a oo oo. 1 30 72 tt: _ i 00
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25
ae ee a 2 CONDENSED MILK.
Mushrooms. 4 dos. in Case.
Pee as. 19@)21
Pampkin. -
ae...
Squ
Hubbard oo
Succotash
EEE, 13)
Soaked . ... cccescee ces 80
a Dew..........2.220001 4
—.... 135
"Pomatoes.
eo ........,... 90
@xcelsior oe ole ome 9.3
Eclipse a 90 ”
Hamburg ..... boned 1 25
Gallon . 3 00 : a Cond? ns d Milk Co’ ae
7a orden Eagle.. —
CHOCOLATE. ee oe giunennsens 6 3
Baker’s. Dais 57
aie. ....-.. ima 45
eater LEM 37 Geene ee : —
Breakfast Cocoa.......... ieee . 335
CHEESE,
Amboy a 12
aos. ... ...... on es 11%
Leeawee.......- \ 12
eee... -..... 12
Gold Meee
SE Se 8@9
Brick 11
Edam 1 00
—————oee 20
Limburger oe me @15
——— bees eete se ee @24
Roquefort...... .. ... @%5
Pg ee @20
Schweitzer, imported. @24
“ domestic .... wi4

 

 

 

Colum} bia R i %
oo
Alaska, Red 1 30
pink <4 1 2
Kinney’s Sole ee
Sardines
Ameri can i’ ‘ 4%@ 5
ns 6%@ 7
Imp: orts ed gs, / @i0
_ -. 15@16
Mustard _ . 67
Boneless . £2
Treat.
Brook 2, ib 2 50
Fruits.
Appice.
8 ib, standerd me 99
York State, gasiong.... 2 50
Hamburgh :

 

Peerless evaporatedjcream. 5 75

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= BOOKS.

   

 

‘Tradesman.’
$ 1 books, per hundred.... 2 Ou
g 2 ad “ “ce i i 2 et
8 3 “e “ee “es 3 00
g 5 se “ se 3 ce
$10 c . r 40
$20 oe sé oe 5 oo

“Superior.”
81 books, per hundred .. 2
82 +. Soe
g 3 “cc “ “ 3 50
85 . re 4 00
#10 ‘ ‘ee “ 5 00
#20 ‘ se “ 6 00

Universal.”
$ 1 books, per hundred .. 83 00
$2 e e oo
$3 c ' .. to
$5 ' ' . 5
#10 ' - se
#20 oe ss 7 00

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

200 books or. over.
_— ©

1000 ‘cs “ i 20 oe
COUPON PASS BOOKS,

5 per cent
a “

{Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down.|

 

CREDIT CHECKS.

 

 

 

500, any one denom’ oe 83 00
1000, ao. 5 00
_ lee 8 00
Steel aeon................. 75
CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX.. 2
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5%
Dee EEE...... -.-.,.- 5
Family XXX, cartoon...... 5%
— eae 5
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... oi
— be ee i
—————— 7
Sutter es .............. 6
Soda.

oom Bee .......,......... 5%
TT ™
Soda, pee... ..........
Crystal Wafer.............-- 10
Long Island Wafers ....... 11

Oyster.

8. Oyster XXX.............. 5%
City Oyster. XXX............ oH
Farina Oyster.....-..------
DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.

Apples.
ee 5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 6

Apricots.

California in bags.. 8%

Evaporated in boxes. 9
Blackberries.

Te beeee........---....- Ts
Nectarines.

70 ib. baes......-

ae oe... .......... 9

Peaches.

Peeled, in boxes........ 10
aes” Ct... 10
_ in Dage...... 8%
Pears.
en in bags..... 6%
wis ted Cherries,
50 1b, boxes . K
Prunelles.
BO Ib. DOKES......-......
Raspberries.
Te peerels............... 20
GOih, bomes.............. 20%
Sih. “* M%
Loose Muscatels' ‘in Boxes.
2 CTOWN «2-0. -002 ee eee eee es 3%
3 ee eee oe 4
ee 5K
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2 crown eee 3
3 oe eases cee ‘<
Foreign.

Currants.

Paes OO. ................ 4
Vostizzas, 56 lb. cases...... 4

 

Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, o> boxes .

Lemon

Orange . = r ° 10

Raisins,
Ondura, 29 ib. boxes. . @ 4
Sultana, 20 . @7%
Vaiencia. 30 ‘
Prunes.
California, 100-1)......---» 5%
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 6
“sé ‘80x90 Ty . 6%
e 7x80 e 7
: 60x70 - .
oe... ........-..--
eee
ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white.
Mo. 1, 66.-............-... $1 35
Na. 2, 6%... 1f
ete... 1%
me 26... LL... 1 00
Manilla, white.
ae 15
eke wees cee eee 7
Coin

en) Me. 8.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina,

115 lb. kegs....... ccueee 2%
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo & Co.’s..... 2 10
fiominy.

Barrels .......- oc. © oe
ME ccc twee ete sso e aus 3%
Lima Beans.
wie... 5@5%
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box.. 5!
Imperted.............. :10%@1 1
Pearl Barley.
Schumacher... ...-...... 3%

EE
Peas.
eee 1 05
Bet perib............ 3X
Rolled Oats.
Schumac ee 8475

<—bol......... oo
Monarch, bbl ............. 3 90
Monarch» Obi.....-..... 2 15
Quaker, CaseS......+++++.-. 3 =
Oven Baked.. oul -ae
Sago.
EN 3
—————————— 3%
Wheat.
Cenehed...........- <2
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
Wiseeik.................-
Cod.
Georges cured..........- 4%
Georges genuine.....-... 7
Georges selected......... 7
Boneless, bricks.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@9
Halibut.
Saeed ............... 11@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops ae
Norwegian .......+......-
Round, bbl 100 Ibe a o°
= i. a:
ae
Mackerel
Mat, Sere......... sit
ot ee ............... 49
mo. 1 ie e.....-...... to
oS Oe... ..--..... 17 99
aS @ oe.............-.. 4 30
mee oe... 115
Peasy, @ ihs..............
. OD WS 20s 5..-. 5.
Sardines.
Rossian, kews.....-........ 55
Trout.
No. 1, % bbis., 1001bs oa 5 00
No. 1 bb 40 1 TI ecw eens 2 36
Wo, 1, Elta, 20 Ihe... 65
No 1 Sie (s............ 55
Whitefish.

No.1 family
¥% bbls, 100 Ibs......
ee eee cee

86 75 3 00
.300 150

 

88 4
co x
MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands,
Columbia Parior........... * 1 23
Rae Salpeur.............. 00
Diamond Match Co.’s bicenhe
Noe. 9 suiphtr............... 1 65
Anonor earior............... 170
ie Sheme......-........... 110
Export parlor............+4+ 400

uders’,

 

    

MINCE MEAT.

Fancy
Half -barrels 3c.extra

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
So

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

 
 

Regular
Grade
Lemon,
doz
28... 8 F
402 _1.o
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
2 oz 81 W
=... 2 40
XX Grade
Lemon.
Soe..... $1 50
oo6..... 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla,
Boe..... $1 75
oe... 3 50
Jennings.
mon. Vanilla
202 regular anaes 5 1 2
40% 1. 3 2 00
6 oz ' 2 00 3 00
No. S taper........ 1 35 2 00
No. 4 tapee......-.1 2 50
Northrop’s
Lemon. Vanilla.
2 02 oval taper 75 1 10
3 02 1 1%
2 02 regular * ° 85 1 20
40z r 1 60 2025
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle— —
Kegs.. io reucee oe
Half kegs. ao 90
Quarter me . 10
1 lb cans. 30
% lb cans. . =
or Bore—Dupont’ 8
eee geen eee 4%
helt a -.2 40
Quarter kegs.. -1o
Pipes ...... ‘ 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s 8.
eee tee ae ee 11 00
aoe 2
Quarter kegs....... .-....- 3 00
ee 60
HERBS,
ee ea eee
eee 15
egecsiaig
Madras, Sib. bOkON....,.. 55
8. F., 2, 8and 5 Ib. been. 50
JELLY.
15 Ib. pails Late au ley es @ 38
7 ee gee @ 42
a) o @ 65
LICORICE.
as... 30
Calabria ee 26
Sicily.. ie.
i eee 10
LYE,
Condensed, © aee.......14., 12
Be... e 2 25

 

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 27
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....3 00

MEASURES

Tin, -— aoxen.
1 gallon. Sonaae . &
Half gallon. eee 1 40
fpuees ..........-...2.--. ss 7
ME ci ickiciceteus panes 45
Halt pint .. 40
Wooden, for vinegar, ‘per doz.
LOTTO nse cnc es oe as 7 00
ait oetign ........... ... eo
Quart 3 75
Ps ieee wee 2

MOLASSES. |

Biackstrap.

Sugar house.. 14
Cuba ‘Baking.
Coateary .....-....: bee 16
Porte Rics.
Pee... --....-e,-e 20
a 30

New Orleans
a |... 18
tote ee eres 22
xtra cood................ 27
Po keer ese we ee 32
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PICKLES,
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00
Half bbls, 600 count.. @3 10

 
 

  

Small,

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

Clay, ee 2 ............... 1 70

© D. fallcount........ 70
Cob, No. 3.... cc ee
POTASH.

48 cans in Case.
ee 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 00

RICE,
Domestic,
Carolina head Dees ts
Meee 5
ss No Ss Lh... 4%
aoc etal ose e. 3%
Imported.
Japan, > No. i bee aah eta eens 5%
af... ... --..-..-
eee coscccccececes 5
Pato. ........--.----«------ 4%
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
Allepice........---sseeeeeeee 9%
Cassia, China in mats...... 9%

a Batavia in bund....15
_ Saigon in — oo 32
Cloves, Amboyna.. 2

Zansiber............ 11%
Mace Batavia....... .....-. 80
Nutmegs, we ee eee e 75

+ “i
“ No Sesser
Pepper, § Singapore, t —* 10
120
ee 16
Pure aa ink Bulk.

Allspice . Loe
Cassia, Batavia. a 18
nd —. =

’ ieee.

Cloves, Amboyna... a

PeneiVes.......-++-; 18
Ginger, Ayies.....-.----.- 16

aa 26
. Jamaica escapee 22
Mace Batavia..........--.-- 65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
vay THIGIUD. . .0 00 --eeess 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .......---++- y t3)
Pepper, Singapore, white. 16
24
" Cayenne.. tooo
eae
*‘Absolute” in Packages.
% “a8
Alispice ........-.s000- 84 155
Cianamon...........-. & 1%
Ce 84 1 55
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
Atrvican......-. 84 155
soe os ss. oO too
Pepper . oe te
Sage...... 84
SAL "SODA.
Granulated, bbls...........- i
_ 75lb cases. ._ 2
Lump, bbls ..........----«- 134
" 145lb kegs........ .
ween
Anise . | euuee @13
Canary, Smyrna. on oa 4
Caraway ......-.---+<. .
Cardamon, a, 80
Hemp, Russian.. i 4
Mixed Bird........... 4%
Mustard, white....... 9
Foppy Leda eee ceseuns 8
Wee .. 4... 4%
Cuitle ae aa
‘ARCH.
"a
20-Ib DOMES..........-... _«
“ib * i
_
1-lb packages. . Riceees ee OO
3-lb bese eee ceet eae 54
5-lb eee 53%
40 and 50 lb. boxes......---- 3%
Barrels.. re . 3%
‘SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars.......---. 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SODA,
a oo bree re sett 5h
egs, English................ 4
g' & SALT. %
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes......8 1 60
Barrels, 320 Ibs........... 2 50
' 115 2% lb bags.... 4 00
" mn ib” .... oe
_ si“ .... a0
Butter, 56 lb bags........- 65

“« Seigiiecs......... 200
6 SONI DUIS ..ccecee 2

* Se fe 2 25
Worcester.

115 2%-lb sacks ea 400
Oom ates 3 75
not cee one 3

owe 3 30
eo) Fp. Spl. .....-......--.. 2 £0
8 lb sacks cr edae x
Tied OORS......-+---
ee anne

100 3-Ib. BACKS.. _. «a io
sie |. ......,...... 90
on 10-1, aheee............. 1 75

War

56 lb, dairy in drill. bags. oa
28 lb. “ “ee “ee ti 16

Ashton,
56 lb. dairy = linensacks.. 75

56 lb, dairy in ie sacks. 75
Soiar Kock.
ba th. Oees.....-. ...----- 22
Common Fine.
Saginaw ........eeeeeeeee

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SALERATUS.,
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

a 3 30
Detar s ......--..-...---s- 315
Dwigets.... .- ga ctcesses @ OO
Test ........... Poss, OO

SEELY’S EXTRACTS.
Lemon

loz. F.M.% 90doz. 810 20 gro
2 “ N.S. ‘7 be 12 60 “
s* Fete ue *
Vanilla,
los. F.°M.150doz. 16 Zero
2°37 2 se. 21 60 “*
2°“ Fm.cce 350 “
Roecoco—Second Grade.
Lemon.
Son... 5 96 doz..... § 00,“
Vanilla.
2doz...... 100 doz..... 10 50 ‘
SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s oe”
Old Country, 80 i-lb........
Good Cheer, 601 1b.. a 90
White Borax, 100 %& re 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.
ee 3 45
Ivory, “y - lo 6 75

dete eed aes 4 00
ee eee 3 65
Mottled German.......-.-- 3 15
Town Talk.. Cbcue sess Oe

aeouen Brands.

Single box.. .........---+- 3 95
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, = d..83 33
plain..

2 7

. K. Fairbank & Co.'s were
eats I ee ee ere ees

Brown, 60 bars........--+-> 30
, OO DOrS ..... ----.- 3 10
_ Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Bere ...... .-...-.....-...- 3 65

Cotton Oil. to eeee--- GO Oe

Marseilion.........-.-.----- 4 00

a 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

 

ee 3 65
ae 3 30
Savon Improv ee .....-..-. 2 50
SumGOWEE ......... +0. scue. 2 80
ee 3 25
Méednamical ............... 2 a0
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 doz Lea 2 40
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
eal freight from New York to
your shipp:ng point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
pays from the market in which
he purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds. for
the weight of the_barrel.

eee $4 75
i 475
Cees 2. 4 37
Pimeoree ...........-...... 4 37
XXX% Powdered...... .
nce teas 8 94
Fine Granulated.. .aet
Extra Fine Granulated.. 46
Moa 4. ...... -_-.---..-.. 4 37
Diamond Confec, A......-. 4 Ov

Confec. Standard A.......3o&

  

‘SYRUPS.
Corn.
Barrels... eee eae ee
ee 19
Pure Cane.
Eee 18
——— eee 25
a 28
TABLE SAUCES,
Lea & Perrin’ 8, i bah ce “7
aoall..... 275
Halford, i heeds tctecsae 37
oe 2B
Salad Dressing, ps ae oe 455
mall ..... 2 66

 

 

 

TEAS.
Se a:

   

 

   

Choicest cree peed 32 @34
ae... ... ... 10 @12
SUN CURED.
vo ._................. 17
Geom .................. @2x0
Cheree _............... 2A @2e
Crgrcet..............- 82 @34
Deaet........ .. ----.40 @iz

BASKET FIRED.

Ray ............ 18 @20

ae @25

Chotcest...... @35

Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER,

Common to fai1....... 25 @35

Extra fine to finest....50 @65

Choteest fancy........ % @s5

OOLONG. O26

Common to fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL,

Gommon to fair....... 23 @26

Superior tofine........ 30 @35

YOUNG HYSON.
Commor. to fair.. 18 @26
Superior to fine....... ..30 @40

ENGLISH BREA “—_
Pate ..........- Se
CienGe, .... 6. 5s as . = a 8
beet ..............-.... 40 @50
TOBACCOS.
Fine Cat,

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands,
Sweet Russet........-. 30 @32
eer. ...-.......------ 30

“D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiaweiie.....--.....- 60
Cuba. -.....- couecee 32
Rocket. 30
Spaul¢ ling & Merrick’ 8 —
Sterling.

Priv ate Brands.
Bazoo. Las i @30
Can Can.. Led aac cesses G2
Mellie Biy........-.--.- 24 25
Uncle Ben.............244 Ge
McGinty ...--+--- +--+: 27

: % bbis....... 25
Columbia .....--.---.--. 24
Columbia, drums....... 23
Bang Up...- Dey eeee 20
Bang up, drums........ 19

Plag.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead .........--- 39
Saber ......-...-...... 37
Nobby ‘Twist...........- 40

Seotten’s Brands.

Beceem eae 25
H @watha......-.. --<- 38
Valley City .....------ 34

Finzer’s Brands,
Old — Leesa ceane 40
Jolly T a. 32
Lorillard’ 8 Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41C).... 39
Green Turtle.......... 30
Three Black Crows.. 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something = a“
Out of Sight........-.-. 24
Wilson & Mec aulay’s Brands.
Gold Rope..........-- 43
Happy Thought....... 7
Messmate........ | 32
No Tex........ “ 31
Let Go......-...-.---. 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,
Mile dried. .............. ae
Golden Shower......-------
Huntress ue aes
Meerschaum _e...-...---: *“a5@590
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy... ..------+-++: 40
eee mn teen ene nee 38
German .. ie
WO cc enor wen ee eones 32
Java, %8 foil........--+.--- 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
TE ewe cnet can a 16
Banner Cavendish dae ee 36
Gala Cat ...-..-.---------- 30
Scotten’s Brands.
Warpath .......-...--0-+ e+:
Honey Dew.......---------+ 26
Gold Block........- ae 30
F. F, Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Brands.
Pocricas.......-----<-+--++-- 26
Old Tom.........--..+------ a
Stanaerd...-.....-.--+----«-

Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade. ..........- «ese
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
Mob Bey..........-- se 26
Uncle Sam....--. Vooaee ‘i

  
 

 

Red Clover..........---
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry...---+--+-+e% 25
Traveler Cavenaiah.. -.a0)
Buck Horn........... Loe eeue 30
Piow Bog........-....-. 30@32
ve eee 16
VINEGAR.
MO BE... we ccc eens eacee @ GS
Sige... |... +21... 8 @9

$1 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD,

Bulk, per gal ....... ..... é
Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1%
YEAST.

Magic. ....... ........,..... 1 00
a 1 00
Weest Poam ...............- 100
WM ci cs tee cee vo)
Royal ..... oe

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | |

 

WOODEN WARE.
Nez. ............. 4
Me. 4................ 4 00
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 12
= We}, three aoe _-. 2 oo
Bowls, 1 1 inc Mc ae eu
13 Caen 90
. _ 1s
- fF * ..........-... 1 80
° 3s 2 40
» “

HIDES PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol

lows:
FURS.
Mink. ........... 30 @19
Coon ........... 2B ww
Skunk..... ... @ @iz
Rat, winter..... os @ ill
Hog, fail.......- 0 @ C8
ned For........ 100 @14)
Cray Fom........ 4 @ 6)
Cross Fox....... 300 @50)
Badece .... ... 50 @ 100
Cat, wild........ 10 @
Cat, houke...... og &
Piece ......... 5 00 @ 6 00
oo) 108 @2 50
Martin, dark.... 200 @3 W
Martin, paie, yel 1 00 @ 1 50
———————————— 500 @8 0)
Weif............610 @aw
Beaver . 80 @at oa
Bear... 1500 Geo
Opessum........ nea 2
Deer Skin,dry.. i0 ¢ 25
Deer Skin,green (6 @ 12%}
HIDES.
Groen ....,.......-..-- Saga
Pare Curved........... @ 4%
a 5%
eS ae
Kips, green a 3 @4
“~ eured..... eeu @ 6
Cc alfskins, green. ..@ @o

Gured...... 7 @8%

Deacon skins _..--..10 @e
2 hides 4 off.

PELTS.
Sheeriings,.......... .s @& om
Lamba ..... _.w..20 @&

wooL
Washed. ne tccceeeeee Gap
Unwashed ee ee 2 @l2

MISCELLANEOUS.
Telew .......... 34%E 4%
Grease butter ... . 1 @ 2
Switches ........ Leis 1 =
Ginseng...... se. 2 OOGBe &
GRAINS and FEEDSTUBFS

WHEAT,

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 53
No, 2 Red (60 1b. test) 53

MEAL.
Bote... 4...
Granulated........... 1 65

FLOUB IN SACKS.
= eee . 1.2
eondneds................ § 29
Bokere............_) 12
PG vai... ...- 2... csseeuee i 2
Rye... «.- se 40

*Subject ‘to usual cash dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.
MILLSTUFFS.
Less
Car lots quantity
Bran.......... G14 50 815 00
Screenings .... 12 00 13 00
Middlings..... 16 00 17 00
Mixed Feed... 23 00 24 00
Coarse meal .. 22 00 23 00

CORN.

Car lots 14 43
Less than ‘ear ee, 45
OATS.

Car lots... os _ oo
Less than car ate ee
HAY
No. 1 Timothy, car lots. 9 50
No. 1 ' ton lots..... “11 00

FISH AND <D OYSTERS.

FRESH FISH.

Wittenas ............ @10
ee ce eee a9
Black Bass...... 12%
Hallas. .....-. 1D
Ciscoes or Herring.. ' @6
Bluefish.. f @10
Fresh lobster, per. Tb.. 20
Cod...... . ; 10
No. 1 Pickerel......... @18
Pike Sse. G@9
Smoked Ww hite. @s
Red Snappers.......-- 15
Columbia River Sal-

WOO <i... ee Oe ete 12%
Mackere!..........---.- 18@25

OYSTERS—IN BULK.
Counts ............-... 2 20
Extra Selects ..... 1 65
ee 1 49
Seallops......... 1 50
rercansag eae 1 2
Cram 5. cone. 12

‘SHELL @OODS.
Oysters, per 100. .-1 Qi =
Clams. TI
OYSTERS—IN CANS.

F. d. iting narcosis s Brands.
Fairhaven Counts. @33
¥. J.D. Selects....... 28
—_—_— ee @25
vd. i, Standards, ' 23
Standards eee 18
Favorite ....-... 15
Standards. per gt a 1 00
Anchor Stand¢ ards per ae 1 10

Osear Allyn’s Brand
New York Counts. Lo ee.oe
Extra reper oT 25
Selects eed eaa os 25
7X 1 Standards, ............. 2
Standards. ae
Mediums...... ee
Standards, per g gal. aoe 1 00

XL Standards, per gal.....1 10

 

 

 

CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BURNERS.

 

  

No.0 Sun. Dee eee uae 40
a s
/ 45
4}
ty, ° ecesevceesocecs SO
Nutmeg De tee oe _—.. oo
Bree. 12
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6 doz. in box
e z.
No. 0 Sun 7
No
<A, 5
» 4
d ed
No. i
No.2 ° 3 25

 

 
 

ian abeled ‘
ot
Peg
= 1 Sun, wrappe od ar a (
No. 2 -< es 470
No. 2 Hinge, “ bs v6 4 89
Po}
> 40
4 4)

 

  

 

  

 

, 4)
; TO
1 30
41
4 40
Doz.
5U
15
1 00
1 00
. JU
t s
) Box
5 j
‘ 4
} Q
) Ot
1)
De
2
4
6 LO
6 50
woeeee ‘ UU
7 BO
10 00
9 50
S mal Tome Riie,... .--.42 ee ecw ww eae we 10 50
Sf 2 00
3 eal GOOGENOUGZH. .. cece... wee we nee 12 00
5 gal 2nO4 os . 13 50
5 gal Pirate King be te ou cues 10 50
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0, Tu bu lar, cases 1 doz. each...........- 45
No.0: H = | ee 45
No. 0, ’ bbias * ee
No. 0, ‘ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 0U
LAMP WICKS,
No. 0, per gross....... ' a. oo
No. 1 '
RG ee tee eu ates
No. 2, 7 ee al 38
No. 3, ws Met beee cea ecae Gel

‘acid, per doz... Looe .
JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.

 

 

Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box (0)... 64

1g 24 enn dk bl 35) 23

~~ ¢ * © Bom. {)) 1 8)

ee a eS a 35 26
STONE WARE—AKBON.

But ter ( TOC ks, 1 to6 gal a : . U6
4 gal. per doz... _—. oo

Jugs, \% gal.. 2 a z

  
 

ito 4 gal an

 

 

 

  

gal
Miik Pa ra % Eal., per )
sb 1 ‘ 72
STONEWARE
Butter Crocss, 1 and ie 6%
Milk Pans, % gal. per doz... . . &
, i ' ’ 73
OLLS
The Standard Oi] Co quotes as follows:
BARRELS.
Eocene - eee She
cas WwW. Ww. “Mich, Headligh q
Naptha. Lous M4
Stove Gasoline : eee eee : 7 @ 7%
Cylinder a _ @36
Engine eee 13 @2l
Black, zero test Lee ae eee 12
Biack, 15 cold test...... ..... 10
FROM TANK WAGON.
Eocene... . i . 7
Axx a Headlight ' 5
Scofie | urmer & Teagle quote as follows;
BARRELS.
ae o-
sy, W hite : -. . 8%
ross, W W Headlight "

) ha . 6%
Stov e Gasolin . \ T%
FROM TANK WAGON,

Palacir Sat oo
R a Cc ross Www Headlight.... .. a. 5

 

if you want to buy or
ge a stock of mer-

: a A
| ai ny . fininmn ner
W a LG) Hil ec vending, invite cor
4b respondence throu

our Wants Colum

 

18

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. —

 

The War upon the Greenbacks.

The unanimity with which the banking
fraternity and their allies are clamoring
for the retirement of the legal tender
notes and the substitution for them of
bank currency, either national or State,
and either with or without Government
bonds as security, illustrates the well-
known propensity of human nature to
advocate private at the expense of public
interests. The legal tenders fill a place
that would otherwise be occupied by the
notes of the banks, and they thus dimin-
ish the profits of the banking business.
Hence we hear, on all sides, the cry,
“The greenback: must go!” meaning by
the greenbacks the Sherman act Treas-
ury notes, as well as the original issues
of the war.

The financiers and the newspaper
writers who have taken up this cry ev-
idently assume that the opinions they
hear expressed in their immediate neigh-
borhood are the opinions of the majority
of the nation, but if they could extend
their inquiries beyond this restricted
field they would discover that outside of
the great money centers, like New York
and Chicago, there is among the people
not only no hostility to the greenbacks
but an active friendship for them, which
will protect them from every attack.
Soon after the war ended, this same cry,
that ‘“‘The greenbacks must go,’’? was
raised with such effect that their retire-
ment, at the rate of $4,000,000 per month,
was ordered by Congress, but as soon as
the process had fairly begun it was
stopped by an almost unanimous vote.
Again, in 1875, their retirement was or-
dered by the Resumption act, and again
it was stopped by the act of February,
1878. Since then, nobody, until lately,
has attempted the destruction of the
greenbacks, and it will not be seriously
attempted now.

Two objections are made to the con-
tinued issue by the Government of its
promises to pay and to making them
serve the purpose of money. One is that
it is banking, which is a business in
which it is said the Government ought
not engage, and the other is that, un-
der the law as it stands, the redeeming of
these promises in gold is a task too great
for the Government’s powers. The ef-
forts now making to perform it are, it is
charged, not only ineffectual, but lead to
a steady increase of the national debt and
to a drain of gold from this country to
Europe.

That the Government may engage in
the banking business, or in any other
business that the people decide to be for
the general welfare, is provided in the
Constitution; and whether the issuing of
legal tender notes is or is not banking, it
has been pronounced by the Supreme
Court of the United States, which is the
final arbiter of such questions, to be an
exercise of the constitutional power to
coin money. Those who disapprove of
it must, therefore, convince the majority
of their fellow citizens that it is not pro-
motive of the public welfare, and this,
as yet, they have failed todo. As to the
agency of the legal tenders in drawing
gold from the Treasury, and thus com-
pelling an increase of the national debt
to replenish the gold reserve, it is indeed
true that the act of 1878, by peremptorily
requiring the reissue of the greenbacks
when they are redeemed pursuant to the
provisions of the Resumption act, makes
them an instrument for draining the
Treasury of its gold unchecked by the

 

 

contraction of the currency which re- |

demption without reissue would natu-
rally cause. This evil, however, is
created by legislation and can be cured
by it. Even the very simple remedy of
increasing the revenues of the Govern-
ment so that they shall equal its ex-
penses, instead of falling short of them,
would suffice. Until the revenue became
insufficient the redemption of the green-
backs in gold gave us no trouble. The
$100,000,000 of Government bonds which
were sold during the past year, and the
$100,000,000 more which are probably go-
ing to be sold this year, have not been
rendered necessary by the existence of
the legal tenders. They have been a
clumsy substitute for the short-term
bonds which should have been author-
ized by Congress to meet the temporary
needs of the Treasury, and their issue is
a perversion of law, if it is not distinctly
illegal.

But whether the legal tenders are or
are not improper and detrimental, those
who clamor for their extinction have
evidently never considered the practica-
bility of the measure, nor its inevitable
consequences if an attempt should be
made to carry it out. First of all, the
overwhelming popular sentiment against
it in the West and Southwest must be
met and overcome, and this cannot be
accomplished by mere declamation and
assertion. Then, provision must be
made to fill the vacuum in the currency
which the retirement of the legal tenders
would occasion. The substitution for
them of bank notes would only partially
suffice. At present they compose the
greater part of the reserves which the
national banks by law, and the State
banks from necessity, hold against their
deposits. This purpose bank notes will
not serve,'and recourse must be had to
gold. The national banks alone would
need $165,000,000 in gold to replace their
present legal tenders, and the State banks
nearly as much. If the Government
finds it difficult to obtain enough of the
metal to keep its reserve up to $100,000,-
000, certainly the banks would find it
more difficult to obtain twice or three
times that amount, and while they were
engaged in getting it they would have to
contract their loans to an extent which
would lead to a frightful financial dis-
aster.

Supposing, however, that, undeterred

 

 

by this prospect, the retirement of the
legal tenders should be determined upon,
the next point to be considered would be
the methed of effecting it. The notes are)
certainly not to be repudiated, and if they |

THE IGG

 

 

 

cee a =

High Grade
Lard<

We have it. Manufactured expressly for us.
load just received. We call it ‘‘Gold Leaf.”’
make no mistake if you put it in stock.

Packed in tierces, 80 lb. tubs, and 50, 4 and 3 lb. tins.

Grand Rapids

First car-
You will

————

MUSSELMAN GROGER 60. is,

HATS, CAPS,

AND

STRAW GOODS.

Moore, Smith & Co., Boston, will be pleased to have
their agent, M J. Rogan, Kalamazoo, Mich., call on any mer-

chants who may wish to look over their line.

 

ESTABLISHED OVER 30 YEARS.

 

Office Telephone 1055.

SECURITY

257—259 OTTAWA ST.

Packing, Dry Storage. |

Estimates Cheerfully )
F. S. ELSTON, Mgr.

Barn Telephone 1059.

Storage and
Transfer Co.

Moving,

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of Household Furniture.
Given. Business Strictly Con fidential. Baggage Wagon at all hours.

| |

 

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

OSCAR ALLYN;
106 Canal St.
For Fish, Game and Poultry telephone 1001.

HN

it N

ANE OF

Pants, Shirts axo Overalls.
For the Spring of 1895

Samples now open for inspection.
Factory and Salesroom 26-28 Louis St., corner
Campau, Grand Rapids.

IS BETTER THAN EVER.

Chicago office, 804 Medinah Temple, 5th Ave. and Jackson.

F. B. Wycloff, Representative.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

are not repudiated they must either be
paid off in gold out of surplus revenue
or funded into bonds. Of the former
plan it is enough to say that there is no
surplus revenue now, nor is there likely
to be one for along while to come. The
Administration is at its wits’ ends to de-
vise means for procuring enough revenue
to barely meet its expenses, and paying
off $500,000,000 of legal tenders is out of
the question. Besides, if there were a
surplus, it could not be turned into gold
to an extent sufficient to retire even $50,-
000,000 of greenbacks a year without
convulsing the financial world.

The other scheme, that of funding,
seems more feasible, and it is dis-
cussed as if there were no obstacle to its
accomplishment. Its advocates fail to
consider that it involves the withdraw-
ing, within a comparatively short space
of time, not merely from the banks, but
from the pockets of the people, of
$500,000,000 of currency, and that this
would be so difficult as to be practically
impossible. The talk of a popular loan
proceeds from gross ignorance of the
financial circumstances of our people.
Unlike the French, they do not keep
money hidden away in chests and old
stockings, but invest all they can spare,
retaining only so much as is absolutely
necessary for their daily needs. To buy
Government bonds they would have to
draw out savings bank deposits yielding
them a much higher rate-of interest, or
sell securities also producing more in-
come. If the funding of the legal ten-
ders is to be effected at all, it must be
effected by the agency of banks and
bankers, here and abroad; and if they
attempted to scoop up the legal ten-
ders and return them to the Treasury, a
financial collapse would be the result.
The burden which the payment of inter-
est upon the bonds issued to do this

Ha i i = INSURE

mischief would impose upon the nation | gress, nor, with any certainty, can it be — ACCURACY WiLL CALL ON You
it is unnecessary to discuss. Even at] expected from that which will succeed SAVES YOU THe Nex Fie
the low rate of 234 per cent. per annum, | it. The repeal of the laws commanding — MONEY HE is If

it would amount to $12,500,000 a year,
and would by that amount increase the
already large deficit of the national
revenue.

The upshot of the matter is that, for
the sake of enabling the banks to put
out $500,000,000 of their own notes and
make a profit by lending them as money,
it is proposed that the country shall be
saddled with an interest charge in per-
petuity of $12,500,000 a year, and incur
the risk of a financial crisis compared to
which that of 1893 would appear insig-
nificant. Nor would the maintenance of
gold payments be rendered any easier,
nor the liability to gold exports be in the
least diminished. The only difference
would be that the task of keeping at par
with gold $500,000,000 of paper money
would be transferred from a single cen-
tral power, with the whole wealth of the
country behind it, to the 8,000 and more
banks, mostly small ones, scattered
throughout forty-four States and each
pursuing its own course without regard
to that of its fellows. That such a
scheme should receive the least counte-
nance is amazing.

Far more pressing at the moment than
measures relating to the currency is the
reestablishment of the balance between
the Government’s income and the Gov-
ernment’s expenditures. If the income

cannot be increased sufficiently for the
purpose by imposing duties on imported
articles now free, such as tea and coffee,
by increasing excise taxes, and by re-

 

quiring the use of stamps on instruments
in writing, then resort must be had to
the heroic remedy of scaling down our
extravagant pension list until it comes
within the Treasury’s resources. After
this matter has been disposed of, the
provision of the act of 1878, requiring
the reissue of redeemed greenbacks,
might be repealed, and the gold fund for
their redemption, created without au-
thority of law by Secretary Sherman, and
having no rights which any Secretary of
the Treasury is bound to respect, might
be established by act of Congress. As
things are now, the so-called gold re-
serve fund is a mere matter of Treasury
book-keeping, arbitrarily created and
liable at any time to be arbitrarily de-
stroyed. The present Secretary has
openly asserted his right to use for gen-
eral purposes the gold obtained by the
sale of bonds under the Redemption act,
and he has practically exercised it. The
fund should be raised to $200,000,000, or
some such amount; it should be sacredly
devoted to the single purpose of redeem-
ing the legal tender notes, and when by
their redemption it falls below a fixed
limit, the legal tenders thereafter re-
deemed should be locked up in the Treas-
ury until the deficiency in the fund is
made good. Itis true that the interest
on the fund or on the bonds sold to
create it, computed at 243 per cent.,
would be equal to $5,000,000 a year; but
this is much less than the $12,500,000 or
$15,000,000 which would be required for
the funding of the whole $500,000,000 of
legal tenders, and, since the mere ex-
istence of the fund would insure their
permanent maintenance at par with
gold, it would be equivalent to adding
$30,000,000 without expense to the gold
reserves of the country.

No legislation of this sort, however, is
to be expected from the present Con-

the reissue of redeemed greenbacks has
been talked of, but itis pronounced im-
possible by the Chairman of the House
Banking and Currency Committee. The
probability is that the Administration
will speedily have to choose between
suspending gold payments and sealing
down, if not suspending, pension pay-
ments, with the odds in favor of the
former. Nothing short of some such
catastrophe will ever lead to an im-
provement in our financial system.
MATTHEW MARSHALL.

 

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The Beauty of Niagara
can never be described and it has never
been pictured so adequately and satisfac-
torily as in the splendid portfolio just
issued by the Michigan Central, “The
Niagara Falls Route.’’ It contains fifteen
large plates from the very best instan-
taneous photographs, which ecannect be
bought for as many dollars. All these
ean be bought for ten cents at the Michi-
gan Central Ticket Office. 595
>_<

By careful watching one will oceasion-
ally see a man who will try to beat down
the price of a pair of shoes, or find fault
at the price the dressmaker charges for
making his wife’s dress, who will climb
up a pair of back stairs, take a latch key
from his pocket and entering a room
where the blinds are closely drawn down,
sit down toa table and bet his bottom
dollar that his kings up will beat any
hand around the board.

From a business man’s point of view
it pays to have every boy and every man
about the store polite and gentlemanly
in word and action. People like to be
treated well, and they will take pains to
go where their treatment is perfectly sat-
isfactory.

 

 

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that he occasionally loses money by failing to
charge goods sold on credit; and where he hears
of one case there are twenty occul which he does

not discover.

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when it will save you more each month than you

are paying for it.

(a Every essential feature of the CHAMPION is fully protected by patents
Users will be protected

owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Register Co.
and infringements will not be allowed.
If you have never seen our machine and

mentized and we will send you illustrations,
ials of the Register that will meet your requirements.

MANUFACTURED ONLY BY

CHAMPION GASH

REGISTER 60,

 

Grand Rapids,

 
     
   
    
  
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
 
   
  
 

desire an opportunity to inspect 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 tell-
ing us your line of business and what features of your business you wish depart-
descriptions and voluntary testimon-

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New YorK, Jan. 12—The annual state-
“ment as to the amount of tomatoes}
packed in the country, given in this
week’s American Grocer, has been 1e-
garded with a good deal of interest. |
The figures given are the result of an)
estimate made after personal correspond- |
ence with all the packers. The Grocer|
has had so much experience in collecting |
these figures that it has a very complete
list of packers. Still, the estimate does |
not include all factories, and therefore is
the minimum,and this shows the enormous
aggregate of 5,736,000 cases, People who |
are intending to put their spare cash into |
canning factories shuuld put this state-|
ment in their pipes and smoke it. Can-
ning factories are going up as if by
magic in every part of the country and
where the profit is to come from bo one}
can tell.

The coffee market has been exhibiting |
a good deal of firmness, although
whether the slight advance in quotations
is justifiable or not remains to be seen.
Atthe close Rio No.7 is worth 15%¢c.
Mild sorts are firm, too, Mocha being
worth 26) @27¢.

Refined sugar is about the most life-
less thing in town. There is only the
most limited inquiry imaginable. It is
likely that even the present low rate
would be still further cut if necessary to
make a good sized sale.

Tea is still firm and there is a freer
buying from interior houses. Holders
express much more confidence of good
trade a little later.

Rice is firm and holders are, seemingly,
very well satisfied with the prevailing
condition of affairs. Telegrams from
primary Southern points are ofa very en-
couraging character and the better grades
are higher. It is evident that purchases
made now will not be made in vain.

Molasses remains without change, al-
though, for the best grades, there is
rather more inquiry. Syrups are quiet,

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with a range of 16@22c for good to
choice. Sugar is so low that syrups are
negiected.

Spices are without interest and holders
and buyers alike are ina waiting mood.
Pepper has declined to 4}¢¢ and 100 tons
are sold for shipment.

Canned goods are dull here, but Balti-
more reports a better demand since the
turn of the year, although these reports
are taken here with a little salt. There
is a little more inquiry for gallon apples,
but, aside from this, the market remains
unchanged and we probably ought to be
thankful that there are no decided ‘‘de-
clines’’ to mention.

In foreign dried fruits there is very
little doing. There is a little firmer feel-
ing as to currants and California raisins,
the latter selling, for 3-crown, at 34,@
314ce. Domestic dried fruits are quiet, al
though for the best evaporated apples
there is a firm demand and sales are
readily made on the basis of 734 @8/<c.

Oranges from Florida are very apt to
show the effects of late cold weather.
Most of the arrivals sell at $2.50@3.
Apples are firm. Foreign green fruits,
lemons, oranges and grapes are all doing
well and bringing fairly remunerative
prices. Bananas are dull and the supply
is ample to meet all requirements.

Butter shows no animation. It is
possible that, for the better grades, there
is a firmer feeling, but buyers seem to
have no great difficulty in supplying
their wants at reasonable _ figures.
Western extra creameries are worth 26c,

 

 

 

 

but this is the limit.
Cheese is very quiet and the market}

shows no change from last week. Small |
sized, fancy, full cream will bring |
1144 @12e.

Eggs are in freer receipt and the mar-
ket seems to be amply supplied. The|
result is lower quotations, choice fresh- |
gathered Western being quoted at 2174 |
@22¢. }

Provisions are firmer and a better tone |
prevails all around. Mess pork, $12.75 |
@13.25. Family beef, $10@11.50.

|

Breadstuffs are more active and wheat

is higher, closing at 62c. Corn, 52343 |
oats, 343¢¢.

| zens

The most interesting event of the
port that
Siegel, Cooper & Co. were to put
largest store in New York.

a site, and the store they will erect will
be about half as large again as the larg-
est store building here. That there is
room for them no one doubts, for it is
almost impossible to thread one’s way

| through the crowds which infest all our

large stores atany time. Let ’em come.

JAY.
—— 2 > —
Special Meeting of the Board of Direct-
ors, K. of G.

Granp Rapips, Jan. 144—A special
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip was held
at the Hudson house, Lansing, Saturday,
Jan. 12, being attended by R. W. Jack-
lin, Geo. F. Owen, A. F. Peake, F. R.
Streat, John R. Wood, 8S. E. Symons and
J. F. Hammell. L. M. Mills and Geo. A.
Reynolds were also present.

The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.

A. F. Peake, chairman of the Finance
Committee, reported that the accounts of
the retiring Secretary and ‘Treasurer
were correct, and moved that the re-
ports of those officers be approved and
their bondsmen released from further
obligation. Adopted.

On motion, a unanimous vote of thanks
was tendered the retiring oflicers for the
efficient work done by them during their
terms of office.

On motion of A. F. Peake, the bonds
of the newly-elected Secretary and
Treasurer were approved and placed on
file.

On motion, the five remittances of $1
each, sent in without identification, con-
stituting what is known as the *Un-
known Fund,’’ was passed to the credit
of the general fund.

President Jacklin announced the fol-
lowing committees, which were con-
firmed by the Board:

Legislative—N. B. Jones, chairman,
Lansing; W. V. Gawley, Detroit; J. N.
Bradford, Grand Rapids.

Railroad—E. L. Smith, chairman, St.
Johns; Chas. McNolty, Jackson; E. C.
Cornwell, Saginaw.

Hotels—A. G. Ellis, chairman, Sag-
inaw, E. S.; C. 8S. Brooks, Grand Rapids;
J. J. Seagers, Bay City.

Bus and Baggage—L. J. Koster, chair-
man, Grand Haven; Burr Wilbur, Hills-
dale; J. B. Corlette, Port Huron.

Employment and Relief—Kirk A.
Smith, chairman, Kalamazoo; C. J. Lewis,
Flint; John Hutchinson, Jackson.

Chaplain—John M. Fitch, Durand.

Sargeant-at-Arms—Wm. M. Burrell,
Jackson.

The following accounts were audited
and allowed, and orders on the Treasurer
ordered drawn for the amounts:

Geo. A. Reynolds, salary to date.......... $130 28
L M. Mills, ne ice oa .. =
Tradesman Company......- -.. -.+2-++++- 12 10
Grand Rapids Lithographing Co.......... 7 Sv
R. W, Jacklin, attending board meeting... 6 lu
F. R. Streat, r . Hag 3
S. E Symons, E C 4 7
Geo. F. Owen, . 3 85
L. M. Mills a . 3 85
A. F. Peake, c C i . 2
John R. Wood [ ° ' . 4 52

Proofs of death of Silas Clarke (Wyan-
dotte), Theodore J. Beaubien (Detroit)
and B. F. Winch (Grand Rapids) were
presented and approved, and the Secre-
tary instructed to issue orders on the
Treasurer to the amount of $500 for each
beneficiary, payable as soon as sufficient
money comes in from assessments Nos. 1
and 2.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned, to meet at the same
place at 9 o’clock a. m., March 2.

Gro. F. OWEN, Sec’y.
—_——_—__<> >
Monthly Meeting of Post E.

The regular meeting of Post E was
held at Elk’s Hall Saturday evening,
Jan. 12, Chairman Lawton presiding.

The Executive Committee reported
that the total expense of entertaining
the State convention was $2,190.74, all
of which had been subscribed by citi-
and business houses of Grand
Rapids. The report was accepted and

all the Committees, except the Executive |

Committee, discharged with thanks.

| week has been a confirmation of the re-| tary prepare and mail to each local mem-
the great Chicago firm of | ber of the State organization, who is not
up the|a member of the Post, a communication
The syndi-| explaining the advantages of member
cate has spent over $6,000,000 in securing | ship in the Post, which was adopted.

 

 

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J. N. Bradford moved that the Secre- Ludington—O. J. Wanger succeeds O.
J. Wanger & Bros. in the manufacture of

sash, blinds, etc.

“& OYSTERS #

 

 

Geo. W. Stowitts introduced the fol-

 

1 : edad i an the Bi. Iam keeping down prices notwithstanding
—" resolution and moved its adOp-| ie gavance.
B “ . . Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can... ......-- 14

Resolved—That a Committee on Sick-| Daisy Brand, Stentenen, por Can... 5c.. 16
ness and Relief be constituted by Post nae eee ee ee =
: ces : .. | Solid Brand, Standards, percan. .........- f
E, to consist of three members, where Hold Brand BE. .. per cam. .................  2e
duty it shall be to receive all reports Of | solid Brand, Selects, per can... .....++++-- 24
illness and death and furnish the proper a. ap Selects, percan. .......8 =

oka alice § ; fe Standards, per gal........ ee g
assistance, me bills incurred Py such Extra Standards, per gal. ....... .--..+--++e- 1 00
connection to be paid by the Post on be-| Oysters fine and cans well filled.

ing properly approved by any two mem-
bers of the Committee. It shall be the
duty of the Committee to furnish eseort

The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices.
Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with
green apples, very fine:

   
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

S0-ib. pail.....- e5
where death occurs away from the city | 20-1b pail -....-----seeeseee eres tee rer eee cees 50
or where the remains are to be taken to ao oa. beet ecieg ee ee nesta cae mmmenie aha ee 4
a distant point for interment, all neces-|°y quart Mason Jars, per doz......0.0/..... 1 40
sary expenses incurred in such connec- | 1 pints Mason Jars, per Qe... ee. |
tion to be paid by the Post. Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the
il il best made. Price per Case ........----++-- 2 40
The resolution was discussed at some] Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
length and adopted. => ar © ee didi biel .
Boyd Pantlind, Col. Aldrich and W. | i01b, pails, per Ib.v-vvscecessresetoecoee Oi
H. Turner were elected honorary mem-| 2-1b. cans, per dOZ........-.-.seeees rer er eeee i -
bers of the Pos 895. Sh cans, per G06) ee ee ek ae
‘¢ r Post for asses i Pint Mason Jars. per doz... 1 40
On motion of KE. A Stowe, the Secre-| Quart Mason Jars, per doz .-.....------+ + 2 25
tary was instructed to communicate the ee ee ce ee -
thanks of the Post to all who contrib- | New Pickles, ee CU  cecectes 5 00
uted in any way to the success of the] New Pickles, }2 barrel........ -- --++++ +++ 2%
State convention. New Sauer oe beeen =
ne 2 s : _ | New Sauer crant, % barrele..............-.. #
Chairman Lawton announced the ap- | Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40
pointment of B. S. Davenport, J. T.| Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 25
Flaherty and Geo. W. Stowitts as mem- Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz.....- 9 00
» 1). ile
vers of the Executive Committee for 1895. Peach Marmalade, 20-Ib pails -........----- 7a
There being no further business the EDWIN FALLAS,
meeting adjourned. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Show Cases,
Store Fixtures,
Etc.
BUY

PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES.

J. PHILLIPS & CO. Detroit, Mich.
Established 1864.

 

 

 

HEROLD-BERTSGH SHOE GO.

5 and 7 Pearl St.,
Our Line for 1895 is

Greater in variety and finer than
ever attempted before. Every one of the
old Favorites have been retained.

Your inspection is kindly solicited
when in the city.

Our representatives will call on you
early and will gladly show you through.

Keep your eye on our Oil Grain line
in ‘‘Black Bottoms.”

Headquarters for
Rubbers.

 

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ANNAN

  

   

SEE QUOTATIONS.

GUN RPS STORAGE a AMS. 8.

General Warehousemen and Transfer Agents.
Dealers in '
Wagons, Agricultural Implements and Binder Twine.
General Office, 83 South Division street, Grand Rapids.

COLD and DRY STORAGE.
EB. J. BROOKS, Man'g,

 

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Carriages,

General Office, Telephone 945.
Warehouse, Telephone 954.

 

 

 

 

 

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Muskegon Bakery Grackers

(United States Baking Co.)
Are Perfect Health Food.

There are a great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only
one can be best—-that is the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter

Cracker.

Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest
Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use.

| Muskegon Toast, | ALWAYS

Nine | Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK
Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR

Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, | GROCER
Great fl | Jelly Turnovers, FOR
Specialties Ginger Snaps, | MUSKEGON
Are | Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S

Muskegon Branch, | CAKES and

Mlik Luneh | CRACKERS

United States Baking Co.

LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,
Muskegon, ~

SPRING
TRADE

Note the following.

WE ARE
SHOWING

A fine line of Dress Goods, single and double fold.

Toile-du-nords, Seersuckers, Domets and Prints in
new and beautiful designs.

PAN TS—Men’s and Boys’ at all prices.

SHIRTS—Domets, Cheviots and Pereales. Finest and
most complete line ever shown in Western Michi-
gan.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & GO

Mich.

 

Are you ready for it?

Place orders early.

 

 

G. H. BEHINIKE,

WHOLESALE
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw, i.

CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

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

First Quality |

=~’ Fancy Straight Flour. |
It’s the newest thing. Contains more nutriment and makes |

whiter bread than any other flour. |
Thoroughbred Poultry Stock and Eggs. Poultry Supplies.

Office Telephone, 112-1R. 830 East Bridge St., Cor. Kent St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,

Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.

Spring & Company.
Our «New Gem.”

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The Pride of the Household.
_——.

  

The Most for
*AQUOW ISBOAT OY2

MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
THE DANGLER STOVE & MFG. CO.,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.

 

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The Burner has the same flame and heating power as_ the
‘PROCESS”, and will do the same amount of work, and consume much
less fluid.

Made with our celebrated tank, which is neither LAY-DOWN nor
ELEVATED, and regarded as the most CONVENIENT, RELIABLE
ani ABSOLUTELY SAFE tank ever made.

We Have the Agency for This CELEBRATED STOVE.

cae

 

3-Burner, High and Step, List - - $12
2-Burner, High and Step, List ~ - 106
Regular Gasoline Stove Discount.

OSTERZATEVENS

O- MONROR

No. 415
No. 414

 

 

 

Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator.
NOW READY--OUR NEW LINE FOR 18985,

Write us for catalogue and discount and secure t! e sale of the
Best Selling and . ‘
Best Advertieed RCfrigerator in the World.

Be up with the times and sell only first-class

  
   
 
   
   
 
 
    
   
 

Refrigerators. Remember that in buying from us

 

you get your refrigerators direct from the manufac.

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turers and so

Save the Jobber’s Prefit.

 

 

We give the agency of the Leonard jRetrigera-

 

 

 

 

tors to but one dealer in a town, if an order is

 

 

placed the first of the season.

 

 

 

SONS, (Fnsul Rapids.
The Dayton Computing Scale

WARNING--Yo Users of Scales,

‘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 COMPUTING SCALES

See What Users Say:

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‘‘Would not part with it for $1,000.” Dan. W. Charles, Hamilton, O.
“Tt saves pennies ever time we weigh.”’ Charles Young, Adrain, Mich.

‘“‘They are worth to us each year five times their cost.”
taup & Hayman, Constantine, Mich.

‘We are 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-
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‘“‘ Itake pride in recommending them to every user of sca'es.”’ }
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“T heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish to save money.” '
Geo. F. Kreitline, Indianapolis, Ind.
“Tt is the best investment I ever made ” I. L. Stultz, Goshen, Ind.

 

{38° For further particulars drop a Postal Card to

HOYT & CO., General Selling Agents,
DAYTON, OHIO.