A WT Gy g NIG) ( TD NG 7 7], Ce WN wes ( /( yle> 7 ZS er bs S oi at Y Ss a NY 2) Ja: 2», 2S a, TR OSU SS < ie i= ie i. ie BX y << eS QIS a x é ao 4 Dea Ns cS Is Pe eos 32 TRADESMAN COMPANY. PUBLISHERS: Ke $1 PER PYEAR s SP OIE SAE Da Ga BNE SS; OOO REESE AAR JES & Se ES SSE AOE VOL. XII es ae RAPIDS, JANUARY 23, 189. NO. 592 Rubber nq Oiled | OYSTERS. Clothing Clothing pom Anion Brand ‘ e Macki f »tOS! ICS; Are the best. All orders will receive prompt attention at lowest market price. Large Line, Prices Right. ee ee eee WEST MICHIGAN AGENTS L. Candee Co.’s Rubbers. Duck and Kersey OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE. CAN SHIP PROMPTLY. Coats Pan Ss STUDLEY & BARCLAY, fio Rais Mich t 4 MONROE ST. We manufacture the best made LOOUS in these lines of GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH COMP 1, : " Mt nn ' our manufacture are not regularly handled. MANUFACTUR. = BPRISHES ae Lansing Pants & Overall Co, LANSING, MICH. any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to + give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing houses. EDWARD A. MOSELEY, Established 1876 | Pp EB R K I N S & H -E SS TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY dl 9 DEALERS IN MOSELEY BROS. Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. Jobbers{of SEEDS, BEANS, PEAS, POTATOES, ORANGES and LEMONS, Egg Cases and Fillers a Specialty. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee a ae — SA ure ‘On: ve BEN * ‘FLA = BAKI Neg Pow iP onny Hicy WEF, RINDGE KALMBAGH % GO "if %,taus TT - osC4 4! Oty SOLDA! 1¢ PRICE 3K ogy Wien 35¢ NorryroP. ROBERTSON acanri IANSING, Mich. ‘“NUFACTURER? | ouisville, Ky ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader SOLD ONLY BY TELPER SPiIcke. Coa, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Manufacturers and Jobpers or Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. Our stock for fall and winter trade is complete. New lines in warm goods and Holiday Shppers. We have the best : combination Felt Boot and Perfection made. Inspection Solicited LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY Importers and Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids. We Are Headquarters For CANNED GOODS, Carrying in stock the largest and most complete line of any house in the State, including full assortments of CURTICE BROS.’ Fruits and Veyetabl.s, and FONTANA & CO.’s Columbus Briind California Fruit. Inspection of our stock and correspondence solicited. jark_. IMGro cery San Co. Buckw heat Flour We make the best. Absolute purity and uniform quality guar- anteed. Put up in 24, 12 and 10 pounds sacks and in barrels. Please write us for price delivered at your R. R. Station. Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co, Holland, Mich. FLOUR, FEED and CEREAL SPECIALTIES, Use Yradesmans Wants Golvmn, They Return Excellent Results. ‘ : ‘ \ Are now in season. We manufacture ) All Kinds. SEARS SALINE WAPER Of SOUARE QYSIER | A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed in 1 lb. cartoons ‘with neat and attractive label. Is one of the most popular | packages we have ever put out. NGLION FRUIT CAKES) ——e ( 1 lb. $2.40 per doz. ITry Our Handsome embossed packages, . packed 2 doz. in case 2 Ib. $4.80 per doz. These goods are positively the finest produced and we guarantee entire satisfaction. SEND US YOUR HOLIVAY ORDERS. ———— TE, New York Biscuit Co., S. A. SEARS, Manager, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Standard Oil Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN DEALERS IN [IlUminating ad Lubricating Naptha and Gasolines. Office, Michigan Trust Bldg. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANTSTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, TRAVERSE CITY. LUDINGTON, ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY. Highest Price Paid for EMPTY GARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. Oyster Crackers: VOL. XII. THE MIGHIGAN TRUST GO, gms, Makes a Specialty of acting‘as Executor of Wills, Admisistrator of Estates, Guardian of [Minors and In- competent Persons, Trustee or Agent in the management of any busiuess which may be entrusted to it. Any information desired will be cheerfully furnished. Lewis H. Withey. Pres. Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y. John W. Champili John G. Sione. CHAMPLIN & STONE, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS. 627-623 Michigan Trust Co. Building. Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN Fire & Maring (nsrance Go. Organized 1881. DETROIT, MICHIGAN. ~ THE LINO. 9 FIRE ICO | co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAPs. J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. BSTABLISHED 1841. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY rt. ts. Lun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE ST., Have on file all reports kept by Cooper’s Com- mercial Agency and Union Credit Co. and are constantly revising and adding to them. Also handle collections of all kinds for members. Telephone 166 and 1030 for particulars, L. J. STEVENSON. C. E. BLOCK. W. H. P. ROOTS. PECK’S *“Sowpzns Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber Try OLD LEE Anthracite. Most durable coal in the market. 5. P. BENNETT FUEL & ICE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. —— ; LSAND7 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The question has been asked with much earnestness whether the time has not come for this intolerable rudeness of the English visitor to cease. An English author comes to the United States and goes home, after a round of open-handed and open-hearted hospitality, to fill the columns of a London newspaper with statements which, even had they been true, should have been left unsaid. The daughter of a noble house tells a Boston audience that the English will not send any more paupers to America, if Amer- ica will promise not to send any more millionaires to England. John Burns, member of Parliament, who, like Christo- pher Sly, has shown himself unequal to the civilities tendered to him and ‘‘unto which he was not born,” took the oppor- tunity to remark, in return for these civ- ilities, that ‘‘Chicago is a pocket edition of hell,’ or, as he afterwards revised the statement, ‘‘Hellis a pocket edition of Chicago.” Stopping for a moment to remark that, without doubt, Mr. Burns considers him- self a competent judge of the locality he has seen fit to couple with the City of the West, and that, on grounds of courtesy, we would not question his competency or his conclusions, the query arises whether this inborn rudeness common to the English classes is not due to what seems to be a fact—that where there is a reigning family, with which the lower orders of life never come in contact, these lower orders consider it their bounden duty to show to those whom they consider beneath them the same lack of good breeding which they have received from those above them. The man of letters, who had won for himself a name wherever our mother tongue is known, flattered at home, and especially flattered abroad, received, in his reception here, what he would gladly have given to the grade of life above him, if the golden door of royalty would let him in, and he, from the serene heights to which our excessive adulation had lifted him, was duty bound to play the part of Christopher Sly and ‘‘assume a virtue if he have it not.” It is not easy to believe that her lady- ship could have meant, in the slightest degree, to offend, by a single word, the audience or the Nation where she had been received an honored guest; and itis easy to understand the numberless ways in which even the slightest word may have been mistaken and misconstrued. Her mission here—to do what she can for a class that deserve all the help and the pity to be anywhere obtained—ought to shield her from offensive criticism; but, if she did step over the line and say what had been far better left unsaid, it only shows that that part of Adam’s family brought up behind feudal walls did not hesitate to assert itself at the very table of an indulgent host, and it remains for the host to decide whether this gentler type of Christopher Sly shall abuse her privilege with impunity. If the two drive home the truth, ‘*’Tis meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes,’’ the thought is intensified in the example of English rudeness who has deemed it proper to make a display of his unenvia- ble knowledge of pocket editions. This man, instead of being a type of the Christopher Sly class, is old Christopher himself, and, for a better understanding of him and all he represents, the reader should again peruse the Introduction of “The Taming of theShrew.” Altogether too much fuss has been made over this man. He took it into his head to come over here and look around; that is sensi- ble—let him come. He wanted to go knocking about Chicago. It was to be expected and he was permitted to knock about. His statement shows that he knew where he wanted to go and, fur- thermore, went. Why not? He knew his business and went about it, and, when he went away, after an examina- tion of the pocket edition, whose busi- ness was it but Christopher Sly’s? We who concluded to dance attendance at ‘this lordship’s” bedside must carry out the farce and go through with all the re- quirements of the foolish service; but, when the play is over, let us keep in mind that it was but a farce and that old Christopher is never to know what a guy we made of him, and especially is he not to be held responsible for his sayings and doings during that happiest period of his life. Does it not seem, after all, that the rudeness complained of is due to ignor- ance rather than to intention, and that this is due, in a measure, to the caste idea—that whatever is not of it has little to deserve respect? There will come a time, doubtless, when America, like bluff King Hal, will weary of Old Jack Falstaff, his ignorance, his offensive familiarity, and, when that time comes, the offender, be he author, aristocrat, yeoman, will be taught, as Sir John was, to mend his ways and to remember to be respectful to his superiors. - = «& It is always a pleasure to agree with our friend, the enemy, and when I read, the other day, from unquestioned author- ity, ‘lt is the man who has served no ap- prenticeship and acquired no skill at his business who stands in the way, and who is not only aninjury to himself, but to the finished workman and to the em- ployer who foolishly employs him,’ I could hardly believe my eyes. Every employer who has had much to do with this business knows what it is to have just that sort of a workman thrust upon him. If the matter stopped there, the employer might, in time, manage to get along with the imposition; but, when pay day comes and the man with no ap- prenticeship and no skill coolly demands the wages of a workman who is skilled, and not only demands it but receives it, because somebody who knows neither employer nor employed says he must have it, if that doesn’t ‘‘start the sweat,’ I don’t know of anything that does. , 1895. NO. 592 How does this read? The other day, I wanted a boy to filla certain place. I concluded that I knew pretty well what kind of a boy I wanted, and, in the simplicity of my heart, forgot that, in my own business and in my own establishment, I couldn’t do as I chose. I found a boy that promised to exactly fill the bill and I engaged him. Judge of my surprise when my foreman came to me and confidentially told me that he could find me a boy that would just suit me. “Very well,” said I; ‘‘keep him in mind and, when I want anybody, I’ll have him show up.” “Oh—but I mean—to take this boy’s place that’s just come in.’’ *‘[ don’t want this boy’s place to be taken. I want this very boy, and, until I find out that I don’t want him, the other boy had better keep away from here if he knows what’s good for him.”’ ‘Yes, but it’s against the rules to let any outsider come in if there’s an insider to take a place. This boy I’m telling you about is the son of a man who be- longs to our order, and we all want him to come in.” “I suppose, then, the wages and every- thing of that sort is settled?’’ “"Well, they will be, after he has worked a while.”’ ‘‘Well, I guess we’ll let matters stand as they are now. This boy is here and he’s going to stay here; and I have an idea, Mr. Foreman, that, if you want to keep your place, you’d better be a little cautious about saying anything more about this boy or any other boy. When I want your services I’1l let you know.’’ I see by the extract, however, that this is an exception, and that the real union man believes as I do—that the unskilled workman is ‘‘not only an injury to him- self, but to the finished workman and to the employer who foolishly employs him.”’ = # * I know a printing house not more than ten thousand miles from Grand Rapids, where the proprietor had a foreman who got drunk. At first, the foreman was cautious about letting himself be seen when in ‘‘a condition.’’ He very soon got over that, however, and, when called to account for it, gave the proprietor very peremptory orders to take his de- parture for a locality well known for the torridity of its temperature. Not be- ing ready to make the change just at the beginning of the busy season, and not willing to trust that part of his business to a drunken foreman, the proprietor discharged the man. Now, he can’t hire another foreman unless he takes a man from the ‘‘order’’, and he must pay the wages which the ‘‘or- der” says a foreman must have, whether he can earn such wages or not—at least, that is what the proprietor has been thinking all along. I shall write him of his blunder, because I get it from the highest authority that the ‘‘order” is working on his side first, last and all the time. PL meatacerie red : ; i = MRR ae AS cae He ie af There is another house which has had | more or less troubie arising from the dic- tation of its men. The ‘‘order’’ won’t do this and the ‘‘erder’’ won’t allow that, un- til the spirit of the entire management is vexed within. Finding, one day, t: at | the amount of paper folding required more hands than they could afford to pay, and learning that a folding machine would simplify matters very materially, they bought a folder and watched the re- sult. It took up less room; it was a great deal cheaper; there was no confu- sion, and what had been no end of trou- ble was adelight. That set the manage- ment to thinking. Machines don’t quar- rel with anybody; they do their work well; they are always on hand; they don’t seem to know any difference be- tween an ‘‘order man” and a ‘‘disorder man;” they don’t wait until you get into atight place and then demand double wages, and they don’t strike. A ma- chine, therefore, is a mighty good thing to have. Why not see what we can get a typesetting machine for, learn to run it ourselves, and stop this everlasting dictation business? (The ‘‘order” al- iows, if Ido not mistake, the owner to set his own type and run his own ma- chine.) From their experience with the folder, that is probably what they will decide to do; but, from that time on, the paper they print will be a ‘‘rat’’ sheet, and the proprietors a set of men ‘‘about as mean as ye make ’em?”’ * * * Here is another fact that looks well or ill in type according to the fence you are on. Over here in Jonesville,. the men were all the time complaining of being overworked, and the men downstairs couldn’t understand why work was never done on time. They were obliged to fig- ure on jobs too closely to enlarge the force, and, with the overwork going on, it did seem as if there was a screw loose somewhere. Nothing was said, for, of course, the foreman knew that the men were overworked and there was no use in talking the matter over with him. What did those mean men do but buy one of these registering clocks. Every one of those toil-worn men is now num- bered, exactly as if he were a convict, and he is obliged to carry a key corres- ponding to his number. Every time he enters the building he registers, and every time he leaves the building he reg- isters, and every one of the registering men is as mad now as he was tired be- fore; and those good-for-nothing scape- graces in the office are laughing because the overwork has stopped and the orders are filled on time. Who can tell what what this fabula docets? RICHARD MALCOM STRONG. $< _—--<--____— The Beauty of Niagara can never be described aud 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 cannot be bought for as many dollars. All these can be bought for ten cents at the Michi- gan Central Ticket Office. 595 ———~< -9 - << Home Expense on Business Principles. Wykes & Burns are selling many copies of the ‘‘Family Expense Book,”’ the neat- est blank book out, for only forty cents postpaid. Atthe end of each week and month you can tell just where you stand. Dates for every day in the year are printed for entries under the following headings: Board or rent, groceries and provisions, physician and medicine, books and stationery, church and echar- ities, labor or services, washing, lights, fuel, furniture, clothing, taxes, amuse- ments, contingent expenses, cash paid out and cash received. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Greenings are about out of mar- ket and Spys are very scarce at $2.50 per bbl° Baldwins are in ample supply at $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 $1.€0in small lots and $1.55 in ear lots. Butter—In a little better demand in some quarters, in consequence of which the giutted condition of the mar. et has disappeared. Choice stock is salable at 516c. Cabbage—Price ranges from $2@4 per 100, ac- cording to size and quality. Celery—Is held by dealers at 10312¢ per doz. Cranberries—Leach’s Walton Junction fruit is eagerly sought for by the trade at $3.50@3.75 per crate, according to quality. Eggs—18e for strictly fresh, 15¢ for pickled and ice for cold storage stock. The supply of all grades is ample. Lettuce—i23Xc¢ per Ib. Onions—Red Weatherfields and Yellow Dan- vers command 4(0c per bu. Spanish stock, $1 per box. Parsnips—35c per bu. Potatoes—Mo change from a week ago. Radishes—Hot house stock commands 30c per doz. bunches Sweet Potatoes—Kilin dried Jerseys command #3 per bbl, Kiln dried Illinois stock is held at 25¢ less. Squash—Hubbard brings 1%c per Ib., if the quality isuptostandard, Poor stock sells at % @ic. THE MICHIGAN TRADESM AN. = GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Chas. Krantz has opened a meat mar-| ket at 388 Jefferson avenue. Adrian DeWitt has removed his hard- ware stock from 214 to 221 East Bridge street. H. T. Allerton & Co. succeed Williams Bros. in the grocery and meat business at the corner of Wenham avenue and South Division street. Heth Bros., hardware dealers at 923 South Division street, will shortly open a branch store at the corner of South Division street and Burton avenue. The regular meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association, which was to have been held Monday evening, was post- poned until the evening of Feb. 4, owing to the inclemency of the weather. At the annual meeting of the Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., held Monday evening, Dr. Chas.-S. Hazeltine, M. B. Hazeltine and Cornelius Crawford were re-elected directors of the eorporation and the old officers were re-elected, as follows: President. C. S. Hazeltine; Vice President, C. Crawford; Secretary and Treasurer, M. B. Hazeltine; General Manager, H. B. Fairchild. The report of the Treasurer showed that the corpo- ration sold more goods during 1894 than in any previous year in the history of the company. _> > The Grocery Market. Sugar—Raw sugars are firm, European beet sugars being especiallystrong. Re- fined are steady, with no indication of any change in the market. Dried Fruits—Currants are strong and higher, both old and new goods having sustained an advance during the past week. Apples, both evaporated and sun- dried, are stronger and higher. Califor- nia prunes are weaker and a little lower. French prunes are firmly held and Sul- tanas are quiet and unchanged. Coffee—An advance of %@%gc_ has taken place on Rios and Santos, the lat- ter grade being most in demand. Mild coffees are also stronger than a week ago, and higher prices are quite likely to be realized. Rice—Both foreign and grades are in fair demand, firm and tending upward. Canned Goods—The market is looking up alittle, some varieties meeting a lit- tle better demand. Corn still as flat as ever, but tomatoes and apples have Smail fruits domestic with prices is shown some improvement. are dull. Oil—The price has been advanced ge per gallon. Bananas—Local dealers are not at all satisfied with the way this article is mov- ing. One car was received early last week and, as orders were few, two-thirds of the fruit ripened all at once, and in order to save a portion of it, consign- ments were made toa number of the best retailers. I¢ will be, at least, two months before the fruit can be moved with any degree of safety, satisfaction or profit. Lemons—Some of the wholesalers have been taking advantage of the low prices ruling at the steamer auctions at Eastern markets and have been laying in a fair amount of new stock. By having the goods forwarded by the fastest freight lines, and instructing shippers to secure the tightest of refrigerator cars and hay- ing and papering well, it is believed that | the fruit will reach its destination in | first-class order. Fortunately, weather has been very mild during the | past five days and no apprehensions | have been felt that the stock will not | Open up as bright and sound as could be} | desired. The demand, usual at this season of the year, is light and the prices quoted on the different lists could, and will be, shaded to liberal buyers. Oranges—Up to the present no Mes- sina or Valencia oranges have fered by fruit dealers here. One or two of them were fortunate in having a fairly good supply of Floridas which were picked and shipped before the frost anni- hilated the greater portion of this year’s crop, and they promptly advanced their selling price to a point that would yield a good profit and, to some extent, reim- burse them for losses sustained during December, when, owing to fierce compe- tition and too free consignments, the re- tailer could nearly make his own price. For the past two weeks large quantities of the frozen stuff have been dumped into every market in the country to the detriment of dealers who had good fruit and the disgust of purchasers. If one stops a@ moment to consider he knows that damaged goods of any kind, espe- cially of food products, are a bad invest- ment, besides being positively injurious. The ‘‘soft” Florida oranges (and there are still many of them in the hands of various dealers) will be cleaned out by the end ef the present week, and the Cal- ifornia and Sicily oranges will resume the position among deciduous fruits as been of- them. Foreign Nuts—Are practieally changed from last week’s quotations. Dates—Are in ample supply at steady prices, and nothing can be seen to war- rant speculators buying. Figs—Sell steadily in fairly large quan- tities at favorable prices. —_—-> <> The Grain Mactet. There is no change of importance to report. While receipts have fallen off fully 50 per cent. in the Northwast and there is hardly any movement in the winter wheat belt, exports have been above the normal during the week, that the visible will show quite a de- crease. Prices have declined about le per bushel. One reason for no stronger markets is that exporting countries have sent an unusually large amount to the grain centers of Europe, which has had a depressing effect. The world’s supply of wheat is about the same one year ago. Some authorities claim a large de- crease, but, if such was a fact, prices certainly would be stronger and higher than they are, so that the matter of higher prices depends on when the spring opens and how tbe winter wheat will come on. From all information the present time winter wheat is in good condition. There only one thing which can be said—wheat is cheap, too | cheap for farmers to make any effort to raise it or to increase the acreage. Corn, in sympathy with wheat, a decline. hundred millions short, anxious to invest in it. Oats remain fairly firm, with a leaning to easier prices. Receipts have been: wheat, 96 cars; | corn, 5 cars; oats, 7 cars. This is a very | large amount of wheat—almost as much as went into Detrcit last week. C. G. A. Vorer. ub- so as is shows no one seems the | they have held before Floridas dethroned / up to! While the erop was several | Gripsack Brigade. Secretary Owen is busy sending out} the first death assessment for 1895 to the | members of the Michigan Knights of the ‘Grip. He accompanies the notice with s | ee Column. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subseque nt inse rtion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. | ae : . : BUSINESS CH «NCES. ithe certificate of membership for this - ei : cn a : OR SALE—FIRST CLASS GRO’ EKY STOCK year and otker interesting information of and fixtures nearly new. Good location, ne goodtown Good resson for selli Gres 1 an official character. foselgo og Bip ete wgerb gays Na Ge J. A. Gonzalez, for the past three years | C#'¢ Mi bigan Tradesman, 6s3 : : ! »| BYR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED FURNIE- traveliug representative for the Owl | i tur and second-h mae = a 1d phew Cigar Co., N. Y., has transferred his al- | to add — -baneaesghe get shore town in il i Michigan, veason, poor he: Address Un | legiance te the Wellauer & Hoffmann Co., | dertuker. care Michigan Trade 1 678 Milwaukee, having signed to represent | , Poem “. _ EL T ENT, PAR’ L ¥ i | irnished, good ba ts 2 Michigan and Indiana during 1895. words for the commercial traveler as we meet him on the road and outside of busi- ness. Heisan angel in disguise to the |traveling public. Who knows the time tables and can tell you all about the stop meals, stations, hotels and best rooms, the attractions at the various points, and the best and cheapest way of reaching them? Who gives up his com- fortable lower berth and takes an upper one, or sits up when the sleeper is full and there a lady, a feeble man ora sick child in the case? Who entertains the solitary traveler with his breezy, in- teresting tales of travels or humorous sketches conducive to digestion and provocative of convulsive laughter, and who will stay up all night, if needed, to minister to the wants of a friend or fill a card party? Wkose hand and purse are always open to the afflicted? The drum- No wonder the publie in general ministration necessary overs, is mer’s. have found his and will not do without him. > ©. Purely Personal. Clyde Cole, of the firm of Cole Bros., grocers at Kalkaska, in town a couple of days last week. Harry Converse, of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., has been visiting W. A. Mc- Graw (A. C. McGraw & Co.), of Detroit. Fred H. Ball (Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.) goes to Detroit to-day as the dele- gate of Yurk Lodge, F. & A. M., to the Grand Lodge. John M. Flanagan, the Mancelona gen- eral dealer, was in town Monday way to Owosso to attend the receiver’s sale of the Snedicor boot and shoe stock. Geo. W. Reed, the Stanwood general dealer, announces the arrival at his home of an invited guest—a young lady who acts as though she intended to take up her abode with the family until invited to share the fortunes of some young man. F. M. Edwards, advertising representa- tive of that sterling publication, the Chi- eago Dry Goods Reporter, was in town Monday. The Reporter has lately made a ten stroke by changing its form to pamphlet size and increasing the number of pages. +> Travelers making Boyne City will be pleased to learn that J. C. Lewis, who | formerly kept the Commercial House | there, has opened a new hostelry there | known as the Lewis House, which will and made first class in every | was on his be enlarged respect. ~~. 2 The Commercial Credit Company’s 1895 book is delivered to its subscribers. This book is thoroughly revised and takes the place of all previous issues. It should | be in the hands of every retail dealer in| ! the city. the cigar department of that house in| Mr. | tio ient Inquire 67 } eel loca 1 . ' : WVOR SALE—A WELL e ID DRUG Gonzalez is an energetic salesman and | stock and first class fixtures, a good assort | >Y f wall paper ina cond i will prove an accession to the Milwaukee | Pcbh or Wl abel cation. Terms institution. 3 676 Houston Pest: We will say a few Pe eae BI = northea t corr i One of the best locati Peter Doran. .0 Tower tay EXCHANGE | af ion. Fi ing the leading \ : : Was pond with and oaeeias Rapids for sale or e goods, grocery Cl: NTOCK OF ( CLOTHING | AX KD furnishir ods Address No. 660, Care Mit ( ‘ oop. PAR Me DAR STATE “APITOL, q clear ti tl Pe Ar rel eas asiusumanl G. W. W atrous, I g, Mich 659 YOU WANT TO BUY FE J estate, write me. I ce E. Mercer, Rooms 1 anc YOOD OPENING _ dress S. S. Burne QYOR SAL CE—A SHOE “BUSINESS, ¢ interest in ssme on one o streets in Grand Rapids. New sto g location Al. Address No. 624, care Tradesman. SITUATIONS WANTE ED—POSITION | pharmac'!st of experi store or salesman on th eare Michigan Tradesman 2 e road. RELIABLE DRY GOODS AND SHOE Z sal lesn ian desires position. Is capable of taking fu 1 che arge stocks or occupying posi- tion of ¢ gene alt Michigar Address No. 671. ca 671 re MISC ELL ANFOU:! Ss, \ JANTED—TEA LEAD IN ANY QUANTI ties from eee here Address, stating rice. J. M. Hayden & Co., 69 Pearl St.. Rapids. o te ephore 54!) ] HAVE THE CASI PAY FOR A GUOD clean stock of hardware loeated in ! town. Address No 68°, Michigan Tredes man 82 tue KEE —— (hp ‘RES farming land in Cr Michi gan, to exchange for improved 1 of gonds. Title perfect. eed City Mich. 8 _. TO SELL BAKI NG POWDER a: grocery te LV ve perience unnecess ary Yn expenses OF CO address at one yourself U.S Cl I WILL BUY ARGE nessin Northern Cer pees feheap. Wri an"on. yi ich. Ww! shag otat onions, appl Correspondence soiicite¢ 8 -S6 South ftrivision St POR SAl E—MODERN NINE on Js r easy. Owner write W. R. Griff VW ASTED- MANAGE hardware Gra Ra aa. ROOM low HOUSE and ter ms RF store within on RETAIL red miles | of this city; we want aman 0 exp rience aud unquestioned ability. 17 first-class | opportunity for the right party. Address Lock | Dr awer X Cleve and, Ohio 661 5 TRARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TY PE WRITER | f for sale at a great reduction from cost- ean for selling, we desire another pattern of | same make of machine, whi we consider the the market. Tradesman Company, 100 best on Louis St., Grand Rapids. 564 FARM FOR MERCHANDISE. Co., of farming b The Michigan Hardwood Land Mancelonia, will trade best lands for stock of general merchandise. 3 ; THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WORK FOR WOMEN. Local Aspect of a Much-Discussed Subject. Writen for THE TRADESMAN ‘““No: [ generally get to the store about nine in the morning. At first, they made a fuss about my being late; sol went earlier for a day or two, and then went back to my old time. Nothing since then has been said to me, and, any- way, I work hard enough when J am there to make up, and I don’t get half the pay the woman in my place did. I guess they are getting stingy.”’ These remarks led to a visit to some of the more important stores and offices of Grand Rapids, to learn the opinion held of women as clerks. Three of the leading dry goods stores were visited. To the question how women were liked, the hearty response each time was, ‘*We could not get along without them. Their honesty, strict at- tention to business and desire to please could not be surpassed by men; and lady customers prefer them on account of their taste and intuitive knowledge of what is wanted.” Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. employ the same number of women as men for clerks. They have tried the experiment with cash girls, and with success. The girls are more quiet and more obedient. Many of these girls become their best clerks. Recently, three gold medals were presented to girls who had been in their service ten years and were leaving to be married; and there is one lady who has been with them twenty-three years. Two-thirds of the clerks in the Boston Store are women. Only the heavy de- partments of dress goods, linens and cot- tons are turned over to themen. The lighter departments of ribbons, laces, handkerchiefs, and even shoes, are given to the women, and they have proved most efficient in these lines. But one-third the corps in Spring & Company’s are women. Their work is declared above reproach. The wages of women in these stores range from $4.50 to $10 per week, and are from one-half to two-thirds as much as the men receive; but in these cases, one must take into consideration that all the heavier work, as well as more of the responsibility, is placed on the men. Grocers find more and more use for women. Two firms on Monroe street have recently hired women as clerks, simply to take orders, and only to fill such as people wish to take with them. Such a place seems especially adapted to a woman, who finds it easier to suggest new dishes and table delicacies in the grocery line to the tired housekeeper who asks for something new. Many places in china and glassware stores can be better filled by women. One merchant in such astore said: ‘‘Yes, there is good reason why there are so many women in our stores. Ladies like to be waited on by women. They know better what is wanted and are careful. As to being more or less reliable than men, it is six one and half a dozen the other. About pay? Well, it is too bad, and we are sorry, but it is a fact that women get much less. They have their homes and work for pinmoney. We can get young men, though, to work for $5 or $6 a week. My best woman gets more. She sees to everything, dusts dishes and all that.”’ Occasionally, a woman is employed by a furniture firm to show draperies. As one large furniture dealer said, “Ladies like them to do the matching. We had one young woman here several years and she was well liked. She earned $4 a week, and 1 don’t know what she would have done without a home. But, since one of our young men went to New York and studied color two years, we do not need a woman.” When asked if he knew of any women making a special study of this subject, he replied, “No, bat I don’t seo why they shouldn’t.”” Another large furniture dealer said, ‘‘We could use women all the while in designing rooms in private residences if they had studied color and harmony. The time is not distant when women will do this, for they have a nat- ural taste for this line of work.” Woman is just as important a factor in the office as in the store. Women are fast fitting into the routine of office work, and they are especially apt as copyists, stenographers, billing clerks and book-keepers, and there is searcely an office without one or more of them. In railroad offices women are chiefly employed as stenographers. In one of the general offices there are eight sten- ographers and one ticket counter. The Western Union Telegraph Office has five women. The responsible posi- tion of delivery clerk is sometimes held by a man, sometimes a woman. The pay is the same in either case. One-half the clerks in the Gas Office are women. In all these places they are considered more accurate and attentive to business, also less headstrong. Girls have entirely supplanted boys in the Telephone Exchange, and they have succeeded because of quickness and bet- ter disposition, and because they are easily controlled. There are now thirty- five girls employed. The first year an applicant learns the use of the switch board and earns $15 a month. Whenshe becomes competent, her wages are in- creased to $30. These employes are pleasant and obliging and seldom is fault found withthem. There is one girl who has been in the service ten years, and in all that time not a single complaint has been entered against her. Such are the opinions held by some employers. But there is another side to the matter. Many women are there whose earnings mean more than simply pin money; their wages barely pay for the simplest food and clothes, and not a cent is left for books and other comforts, not to mention occasional amusements. Sometimes they are compelled to work nights and mornings at housework for their board. Pathetic tales could be told of the unselfish help given by women to their families. One gentle- man who employes a number of women in his office said that every one of them either supports, or helps to support, a family. But, on the whole, to an outsider, women’s prospects are steadily growing brighter. True, positions which de- mand little preparation can always be filled easily and so the wages are corres- pondingly low. But every day new lines of business are offered which promise greater opportunities to women. But, in any kind of work, when a women is willing to put her whole heart into it and master it, asking no privileges on account of sex, she is sure to find as much room at the top as her brother, , and her ability is as quickly recognized. Z. E. Dry Goods P rice Current. UNBLEACHED COTTON 8S. Agree... 6% Ce 5 Aventa AA......... 6 Atlantic 2 sae coo. eee. 5% . 5 Lee 5 ne y...... 6 eo 4% eee eee oe 6% Amor ines Bunting... 3% BeaverDam AA.. 4% Blackstone O, Ss Binek Crow......... 6 Biack Hoek ........ 5% Bom Ae... y (ao A. 5 Cavanet 7.......... 5% Chapman - ana - = Clifton CR.. Clifton Arrow B’nd 4\% World Wide 6 LL 4% Full Yard Wide..... oe Gecreme A.......... Honest Width...... 6 MerttergaA ......... 5 Indian Head........ 8% oo 6% King E Lawrence LL...... 44 Madras cheese cloth 8% Newmarket a bse ; Me - x... 6 sie DD... 5 - : 6 | 5 544/Our Level Best..... 6 Coa... ...... --- , 5% Ostord ........... 6 Dwight Star......... caer oes. 6% Ciltten CCC........ 5% eater Ee eee ce 6 ao... Oe 8 Sn Art Cambric........ 1g Blackstone AA..... 6% Moms AT............ 4 oe... _-.. 12 aa... . 6 ao, ............. % erece Oek........ 5% Conway W.......... 7% Clovelend...... ... 6 Dwight A nehor.. 7 shorts 6 inane | E = Empire... -..0.-00 7 Parwen..........-. .- 6% Fruit ofthe Loom. 7% Pitenvile ...... ... ; a feee.......... |Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. 8 Geo. Washington... 8 ten Miiis.......... Gold Medal......... TH Green Ticket....... 8:4 Groat Falls.......... 64 moee................ 6% Just Out...... 4%@ 5 Kin Phillip ee 7% ‘ OP : Lonsdale wamese 9% Lonsdale...... @ 6% Middlesex.... .. @ 4% Smeme............ 1% — pinned eee et come 5% Pride of “nah fsinesets i Rosalind. . a Seees............. 4 Geen Mie......... 8% ‘© Nonpareil . "3s FruitoftheLoom %. 54 CC, Pelrmount.......... 444) White ooee-- bees cone Fall Value.......... Sa: “ Boeck... : 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. (eet 6 |DwightAnchor..... 7 Parec........-.. 7 OANTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. Bleached. Housewife A........ 54 Housewife g on 64 ' S..., — = FF... . Sf 6 - % Ldeeeee 7% “ a 6% se _ 8% >, ££... 7 aa ee 91g y........ The _ ¥....... 10 $ i . 7% ” _..... 10% s Hu... 7% ' [a 11% ce . 8% - z...... 12% . ccs ee 8% ini x... 13% . c...... oe 1... 10 : .. ... = . a 11 . o......: 21 . r..... ae Peerless, —_—,- : AB Integrity. een. = olored....16 (White Star.......... ewe... 16 [Wa . colored 9 DR aioe. Atlantic, im... .-. 3244| Pacific BAW. -10% _ sa a2 | Hamilton. grey mix. 10% - ry. plains.. ot C we 18-598 ~ fancy ce Pacific = i..... 32% /36 in, - 8 aAt 30 31m: . sae. ee Be eues e F ee. Flannels 37% _ a 20 |36in E go 16 - in. . CORSETS. Coeee...........,. 89 00 Wonderful oe Schilling’s. . 9 00/Brighton.. . Davis Waists 9 00|Bortree’s Grand Rapids..... 4 50 Abdominal... CORSET JEANS. Neumkeag.......... 7. \Seeeerr........... 5 ee ee BY Armory .. «2s OE operwell.......... 7 COTTONADER, Moscow... ... ....21 |Stratford...... a. as. a ae: Dandeoe...... re oo fo 16 manberhill......... oe Beaver Jean........ 17 Woodstock .-....... 15 PRINTS. Allen dress goods.. 4% Hamilton prs tes 5 we Turkey red... 4% aples.... 5 os ........ 5 . twi 7 dran. 6 American iodine bl 44 uy on c’h 9% shirting.. Imperial sol cloth 5 - delaines roe eDG.. 6% ss b’lk white 444 ae 5% ee ae 5 India wikit and tur- ' long, cloth 4 key red robes..... 7% “ TXilodifancy ..... 34 - c 6% ‘* shirtings.. 3% * gold seal T R $4 Manchester fancies. 5 Bear Mill— mourn. 5 Stan’rd A percalelU Martha Washington ’ B i 8 indigo — —-. a. va > | turkey red... ... 6% Charter Oak fancies 334; fancies ........... 434 Elberon solids****.. 4%|Pacifice— 10% Fountain a |... blk & white pts. . 5 cardinal . Aventine. 5 Garner’s— fancie- blk, white 5 stand, ind. blue. 10 solid blk prints... 5 eet... ... 1. 544; fast color robes... 5% cardia ......... 8 Bedford cords.... 7% Flower Pot........ 944|Passaic fancies 43% mousseline ....... 5%& . clarion rbs 5 Del Marine Mgs... 5 Peabody solid bl’k.. 4% Quaker style cs 54 solid color 5% Harmony fancies... 414 Simpson’ 8 m'ing fac 5 . chocolates 4 solid bl’k 5 Hamilton fancies... 414} e Crepon... 5% TICKINGS. eet es-—-= Eeperies 8% Conostoga .. vs were (1)... .s00...- 7 Hi ton N. ewe om wots... 8 e........ 6%/Galveston B........ 8 = Meets... CRILEROE 18 es > ....... 7%|Kimono.. ee ry LE Paine... ......... 10 ag a2... S04; Werrem............. 2146 OOTTON 0D BILL. —. a... Seiwa A. ........ 8 ee ee Gino Mame........ . 7% ontton, = .. 7 VToeper Heap........ 9 DEMINB. Lawrence, 9oz oes 12 Otis, ara ee 10 No. 23 a a . No. 250... oe oc. sess Boe ic 0. 280.... 8 AmosKeag, blue -..11% Everett, blue eae i0% Sax..... 13% brown. ....i0% - brown .11% GINGHAMS. Amoskeag...... .... 2 Lancaster, staple.. ‘* Persian dress 64 fancies . a Canton .. 7 a Normandie : . wns &%|Lancashire.......... . Teazle...10%|Manchester......... be . Angola..10%/Monogram.......... 4% - = 7 |Normandie.. -«-. O05 Arlington staple.... 6%%|Persian.. ace OM Arasapha fancy.... 4% Renfrew Dress...... Th% Bates Warwick dres 74|Hosemont........... 6% . staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6 Centennial......... je POMNOINGS.....2--0+-5 7 eon... eG recom ............ T™% Cumberland staple. oH Toll du Nerd....... 8% Cumberland........ a 7 a t ‘© seersucker.. 4 a... .....--... 735 warweee.... ...... Everett classics..... 84%4/|Whittenden......... Bxposition.......... Tq . heather dr. 1% emeee..........., 6% indigo blue 9 Gienarven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples.. os Gieaweod........... 7351 WentmTOoK.......... Heewoms..... ...... 5 eee e ees 10 Jobnson Vhaloncl %%/Windermeer........ 5 ' indies bias Sic York..-.. .......... 6% al zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag..... a Cerne... ...,,... 12 1 Aaeceeeee........... es THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's.......... 95 Coum,o.&F....... 45 iMarehall’s ... ...... 90 Heiyeme............. R% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored Me 6... 2 oS peo. MM... ay 42 - os 04 me 43 38 : 2... 44 40 - ...... 36 -— i 45 CAMBRICS. a 3% (Edwards........... 3% White Star...... a Saeeewoed...... ... 3% Mid Greve _.......... 3% |Wood’s on Newmarket......... 3% Brunswick . + oe RED FLANNEL, Premen...... -...- or 2 Creedmore.......... ee Tee BAk......... mS wer, oee....... 25 Nameless........... 274i buckeye.... ........ B2% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% aan... 22%4| Western W ......... 16% anes... ...... od 16% 6 os Western........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% iaion G..... 22%4|Manitoba........... 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless cee ee 3% Nameless.. oe Z ; aes oe Ce 5 CC 10” i 6 CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black |Slate Brown. Black’ 9% 9% 94g) 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 104] 11% 11% 11K 11% 11% 114/12 12 12 12% 12% 12%|20 20 20 DU Severen, 8 oz........ : Mayland, ook... 100s . Greenwood, 7% oz. o% maven, 0em......... 12 CKS. West Point, 8 ox....10 it) 0 s 12 Greenwood, 8 os. 1% —— - .... 13% Boston, 8 0z......... Boston, 10 on........ 12% WADDINGS, Watte, Gos.........- 20 |Per bale, 40 dos....88 10 Celored, dom........ 2 wenereg ~ ....... 6 SILEATAR. level... .... --... “te 2... 7 en Crops... .._... =... .... Teco ............ a , ax... 10% Victory O00) 4 8 12% @ SILE. SEWIN Corticelli, doz....... 75 twist, doz. 374 50 — doz. 37% Corticelli ne per Kos b OKS AND EYES—PER GRO No : BI’r ¢ ‘ (White.. : No : BI’k & White.. 7 9 “ ; “ . 6 ~ ' ».10 No 2—20, ee... 6 “No 4-15 - e...,.. 40 8—18,S C........ ern | ON T. No 2 White & Br. 12 No (8 White & BI, 20 4 15 23 « ¢ - te) | 2 ' 26 SAFETY PINS. mee... oe 38 NEEDLES—PEER M S. eee............. 1 40 aeeenees eee ese 40 ey + mioue Bvee.......... 1 50 Marseeirs........... 2 Op Amiceicen 1 00 TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—4....175 64... 5—4....165 6—4...2 30 OTTON T WINES, Cotton send Twine. on... 14 Crown. ie Rising Star . oiy....17 Domestie 0 18% 3-ply.. 17 Rae... (Sort Gier Bristol . ee = Valley. pee 15 IXL 18% Wool Standard 4 ply17 % Powhattan 16 PLAID OSNABURGS aise. ........... 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% AIOMAnee,.......... 6% eeee. 4... 8. 5 nn atc re tymomse ........... 5% Be Seeee........... 6. itches sec ouce 6 Georgia oe by aoa ee 5lg MOON o.oo : a aN 6% Haw Hiver......... oo oe ibe says 5 Otis checks... ..... 7 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP. Progress of a Clerk Who Was Not Afraid of Work. An Old Merchant in Hardware, When the drummer of to-day starts out after trade with his valise of samples in his hand, he feels something as I did the day I got into the wagon and started for Germantown. The expedition was my own idea entirely, so that if it failed lL could not divide the failure with anyone. My plan was to inaugurate a weekly visit, when I would collect butter, eggs and cheese, and anything else the settie- ment might have to sell, and pay them either in goods or in orders on the store for cash; even if they came in for the cash, it would be worth a great deal to get them into the store. It was a pleasant day and my hopes rose with the ride, so that by the time lI reached the first house in the settlement I was in good spirits for trade. I drove up to the gate and hitched my horse, while one of the windows was soon full of faces watching me. Mr. Guggenheim opened the door as I went in the gate and gave me a ‘‘Wie geht’s?”’ in answer to my ‘‘Good morning.” I was pretty well acquainted with ail the settlers there, so 1 proceeded at once to business. **Have you any butter or eggs for me to-day, Mr. Guggenheim?” ‘“‘Butter an’ eggs? You want some?” ‘*Yes, sir; lam coming around every week for such things, and will pay you just the same as we do in the store; or if you like better, I will bring you groceries for them next week.”’ ‘Yah, [ will see.”’ He called out the good wife and they spoke together in German; then they brought out a pan of butter anda few eggs. I weighed and coupted what they brought me and then tried to get their order for some goods to be brought out the next week, but it all ended in my giving them an order on the store for the amount of the produce in cash. At the next house I was successful in getting an order for goods for their pro- duce. Some of the people looked on me with considerable suspicion, and won- dered why I did not bring the cash along with me, but with these I called in some one who knew me and 1 got their stuff. As a result of my day’s work, | carried back a very good load of produce, some good orders for goods to bring with me the next week, and | had opened trade with several families whom we had never sold to before. On the next Saturday the people with the cash orders came in, and there were none of them but did some trading with us before they left the store. The next time | went out I had goods to deliver, and I came back with a good batch of orders for the week following. Mr. Ely considered my experiment a decided suc- cess, and when the new store started we were sure of the trade in the German set- tlement. The new merchants started as if they were going to run out of trade every other store in town. They brought some of the city enterprise with them that one could see at a glance were capital ideas, but they also had some notions that were entirely out of place in the country. The store was arranged with great taste and so that everything was convenient for the salesman; the country was flooded with glaring handbills calling attention to the new store, and staples were quoted below cost, but Mr. Ely had been ahead of them here. He reasoned that they would surely cut down prices, first, because it was natural for a new firm to do it, and, next, because we were selling staples at what was a fair profit, while in the city where these men had been living staples were sold at cost or less. Then he said that if he were to cut down prices first many people in the country would give him the benefit of the de- cline, while if he waited until the new store was running it would be said he was forced by the new men to come down. So we anticipated their opening and circulars, and sent out ours, cutting prices down to the quick. The new firm went a little below us on some articles, but not enough to attract attention, and we could not say after they were started that we felt their competition at all. One day I was standing at the depot waiting for a coming train, when I ran across the senior of the new firm, Mr. Haricot. He seemed very cordial, and after a few minutes’ talk asked if I had made any engagement with Mr. Ely for any specified time. I told him I had not. Then he said he would give me an in- crease over any salary I might be getting if I cared to leave Mr. Ely and work for him. It seemed to me it was a very mean way of doing things between two merchants, but I simply said I was well satisfied with my position at Mr. Ely’s, and should not care to change. I never mentioned this incident to Mr. Ely, bunt when, at the end of the year, he gave me $50 more than was due meI was tolera- bly sure that he had heard of it from some one. That $50 was the beginning of my bank account. Mr. Ely told me to do just what I pleased with it, and mother said she did not need it. | determined at first that I would buy a watch with it; then I con- cluded I would have the ‘‘nobbiest” suit of clothes in the town; then I changed my mind and was about to start a private library with it, but I was talking to Mr. May about books and he said something that decided me to put it in the savings bank. ‘Don’t begin to invest very heavily in the purchase of books just yet, Mark,” said he. ‘If you are able to save a little money don’t put it where you cannot get at it; the day may not be far off when a little ready money will be the making of you; open a savings bank account woen you have $5 saved, and you will feel like adding toit whenever you can; then if you need your money it is where you can got it.’’ We had no savings bank nearer than the city, but a few days after this Mr. Ely sent me down there to pick out some groceries, and I opened an account in the savings bank there. I felt myself quite a capitalist as I rode home. For the next three months I was toler- ably busy. Mr. Ely caught a severe cold that settled on his lungs, and for twelve weeks he could not come near the store. Mr. May came in every evening and we made out orders for goods together, but during the day I had to shoulder the en- tire responsibility of the business. Fortunately it was not a time of year when farmers were selling much of their products, and when it came to selling our goods I was nearly as well posted as was Mr. Ely. In ordering goods I was with- out any experience whatever; Mr.Ely had always done this without consulting me, unless to ask about stock on hand. Sol made all our orders very light in order to be on the safe side, and the result was that when Mr. Ely was able to come to the store we were very low in goods. After he had time to look the stock over, he decided it would pay to goto New York and lay in a good line of goods, and he determined, too, that | could do the work there as well as he, so he told me to getready. Noone but a clerk who ‘‘has been there” can realize my feelings as I carried this news home to my mother. I was so happy [ slept but little that night. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITS. dis. ....... — ee eye goneeens gonweme ...- -.............. 8... 5 7enmiaer, Maltetion ..................... .. 50&10 AXES. First Quality Be Meee... $5 50 ' D. im Sree... ........ = = i oe eecer.................. . i eee 13 00 BARROWS. r dis. Bere... $12 00 1400 Cree... bet 30 00 BOLTS. dis. EEE ET 50&10 Guetaes meow 75&10 ee 40&10 sleigh ee 70 BUCKETS. we Oe $350 Wen Cuetec. 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cost Leone Pin, Seurved........ ............. 0&1" ; Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint 40 - 66410 Meret 2oeme Fan. 40 Meneuiins Seo. 8... 40 Wrought Inside Blind..... Se Selec seo ete tes 4) Menquams Drege. 75 mae Cole. 70&10 Blind, Pecmere...........- edgeeeecceececuae 70&10 Blind, ROBOT cos. 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60&10 CRADLES. Cie 40&10 CROW BABS. Cam Stee perb 5 Ely’s 1-10 oo 85 eee rm Bo —o 55 ep..... & 35 Musket ’ 60 CARTRIDGES, Mt ie 58 Comgra: Wire... 8. dis. OHISELS. dis. emcee WOE 75&10 SaGmen WM 75&16 Sateen ee 75&10 Gems el, 75.810 Butehers’ Tanged Pirmer............ ...... 40 coMBs. dis. Cuses. Egwrctieep. 4... 5... 668... 40 Poeeeie oo 25 CHALK, White Crayons, per gross.... ..... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. per pound 28 14 aoe, Seen, Poe. 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 23 Cold Rolled, (OI 23 Doses. es 22 DRILLS. dis. Morse’s Bit Stocks.............. . 50 ‘Taper and straight Shank........... ..... 50 Worse’s Taper Shank................ 50 DRIPPING PANS, Small slece, ser pound ...................... 6% Liarae eisce, per pound...... ......... ..... 06 ELBOWS. Com. 4 — 6in. . dos. = 75 ote ee 5a Raveenee...... 0... naceue as 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, oe: lavco, OG... 30 Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824 > 3,830 eee 25 FILEs—New List. dis. ( 60&10-10 New American .. . 60&10-10 Micholson a ........ . - 60&10e-" os EE Helics «© Horec Mame... ......-........_.... Pa GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 70 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ........ 50 EKNOBs—New a. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings . . 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 55 Door, porcelain, plated aa. 55 Door, porcelvin, tr’ ee... : 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelaia.............. 70 LOCKS—DOOB. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheetoe & Co.9................... 55 Cerone. 55 i 55 MATTOCKS. ES $16.00, dis. 60-10 EEE $15.00, dis. 60-10 Bees ..........-... .-...-..- $18.50, dis. =" dis. Sperry & Co.’a, Post, ie fee emotes uae MILLS. dia. Coffee, Perso Cae ....... ......._....... 40 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s —- 40 * Yonders, Perry &Cierks............ 40 < Meee ol. 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. ene Pere... 60&10 EE a Enterprise, self-measuring............ ee NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and — OO EE — ee 1 35 os EE 135 CS Base Base 10 25 25 35 45 45 50 60 5 a... 90 ae 1 20 Oe oad ee ee ees a, 160 Mises... 1 60 Cue we... 65 i a 7 - 62... 90 Finish 7 eee 7 Oe eee eee ede ce ten cose 90 . 6 le ee eee ee ae 10 Cimen te 70 - eee 80 . eee 90 Barrell % . ae beta oees co 17 ANES. dis. Ohio Too! Co.'s, Senay ee eae a ce O40 Sciota Bench... ed eee en es Bs Sandusky Tool ¢ ‘Co. ", ‘fancy... Seco a ceee @40 ee EE @40 oe Rule and Level Co.’s wood. 50&10 PANS. ae See dis.60—10 a iia eee ee. dis. 70 BIVETS. dis. beneee Tee... 50—10 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘*A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to = 10 20 ‘“B’? Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken co per pound extra, BAMMERS, Maydole &Co.’s............ -dis 25 OT dis. ee = 40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 Blacksmitno’s Solid Cast Steel Hand....30c 40410 HINGES. —_ Co 4 Oe dis.60&19 a r dos. = 2 50 Serew — and Strap, to 12 fn. Oh 14 and OS 3% screw "Hook and Bye, Me cwee cones net 1 _....... --net 8% “6 _ . ee net 7% “ ss Ms Se .: net 7% CO diz. S HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. - 5010 Cheasaprom, anti-friction.................... 60&10 Kidder, IS Cee 40 HOLLOW WARE OC 60&10 ee 60&10 Cg EE 60&10 Gray cuainewe -o< +» A00E10 HOUSE 7 eoops. Stamped Yin Ware..................... new list » Japanned Tin Ware ee eee a Granite Iron Ware ............... new lis = WIRE GOODS. ia. eee... 70&10&10 pero Myce. -70&10&10 eas... ew, .70&10&10 Gate Hooks and —— os 70410810 EVELS. dHis.79 Stanley Rule and Level co s......_..-..... PES. Sisal, ppb and ‘larger - « @ ee et SQUARE . Steel and Iron.... Try and Bevels... Mime. .......... SHEET IRON. a Com. Smooth. Com. Noe 10ta 164... .... se ae 8? 50 Nam Tatel7................ 2 60 Noe. tee.............. 27 om, Seo Se... 2 80 mee ZG Me ............. 2 90 eG 3 00 37 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, sales inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Tit ace. to Se... diz, 50 SA8H CORD. Silver Lake, — A... Matas | ou ee ee 50 hes... ' 55 - White sl .. ' 50 - ae 8. ’ 55 ° Wwoeeee .... Discount, 10. SASH WBIAHTS, Rome. per ton 820 SAWS. dis, i OOO 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 - — Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50 . p iaeners Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 . fon and Electric — x Cuts, per foot.. L. “TRAPS, Seok, Gamo... Gos10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 49 Oneida po aad eres & onmeu: s..70-10 10 Mouse, choker.. aa+«--. 0G Per dos Mouse, eT $1.25 = — WIRE. Bright Market.. ee ee eee ee 70:10 Annealed Market................----.. ce aa 7 Moppcres MOPEee. 70 Moannee Marece. |... 5... 62% Coppered Spetng Steel... 50 Barbed Fence, galvanised.................. 2 50 - Bere 2 10 HORSE NAILS. Au = eee eee oe dis. 40&10 Eueneee es dis. 05 amaneaicons Lee ee ped ee ee ee le Cis. 10410 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. 30 Coes Genuing..........:. ena 59 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought. Puce e ees 75 Coe’s Patent, malleable . saa oo MISOBLLAREOUS. dis. Bue Cages... si. 50 Does Coen “75&10 Serome Nowlwe....................... 70&1( &10 Castors, Head a @ Fiste.................. ee Dampers, American.. : 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.. .-65&10 METALS, PIé TIN. Pig a. a 26¢ Pig Bars.. bees) gee See ee 28¢ "ZINC. Duty: Sheet, mee “ — 600 pound Casks.. 6% EE ? SOLDEE. —. lh... 16 aes... 15 The my rices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Coe per pound oe ....................,... 13 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal a $7 50 OE 7 50 10x14 IX, . eo cee. oa OO 9 2E Each aattional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal a 75 eee 6 % 10x14 IX, UC 8 25 4x20 IX oy oe Each Caditional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, ~ Woereewer ................, 6 Su its, = * — 8 50 20x28 IC, . - ) 50 14x20IC, ‘ Allaway Grade........... 6 00 14x20 TX, Oe 7 50 20x28 IC, - . i 2 50 Saaeix, ' eo 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATS. Saucers. 814 00 aa. 15 00 same 1% for No. ; Boilers, \ per pound.... 10 00 8 MictiaN TRADESMAN A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THR Best Interests of Business Men. Pablished at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE— TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payabie in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICETION, Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinned, except at the option of the proprietor, until ell arrearages are vaid, Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second lass matter. ¢@ When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in HE MICHIGAN TRA DESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. JANU tRY 23. WEDNESDAY COQUETTING WITH CRIME. In the earliest times those authorita- tive rules of action which are denom- inated laws were based on the principles of honor and morality. A man has the right to do anything, provided his act does not work damage to any other in- dividual. Therefore, no one has a right to injure another. Upon this maxim is based the right to ge secure from attacks upon life, limb, liberty, property and character. Gov- arnment is founded upon the necessity for providing some agency by which these rights may be protected and inva- sions upon them punished. Honor is the sentiment which grows out of a recogni- tion of these rights, and is the expres- sion of a desire to see them protected and maintained. The honest man, desiring not to wrong any one by infringing on his rights, will not only obey the regulations that are made for the protection of those rights; but when there is such a violation by others, although the wrong does not touch bim, he realizes that it is a blow at justice and a disturbance of the order of society, and he wishes to see the intruder or malefactor brought to proper punish- ment. Here is the true basis of honesty, honor and good citizenship. But in a material age like the present, when money means so much in social life, when wealth is the key to political and social power, and the only means of securing the enjoyment of luxury and ease, the struggle for material prosperity becomes the chief ovject with a large portion of the population, and the con- tention grows so keen that not a few will adopt questionable means to secure the object of their desire. By the growth and prevalence of such a state of affairs, it becomes necessary for many persons who have not been overscrupulous in the attainment of their object to take measures for their own protection, and, in the discussion of such subjects, the law-writers have come to draw very fine lines of demarcation be- tween those acts which, while not fair and honest, are, nevertheless, not abso- lutely criminal. It becomes of extreme importance for men to know just how far they can go on a course of selfish disregard for the rights THE lof others, and yet not place themselves ‘in jeopardy of the penalties of an out- raged law, and whereas it was intended in the beginning that honor and honesty and Jaw should be very closely allied, there has grown up between them a wide gap; so, while the law does not in direct terms sanction and permit wrong- doing, means are found to deduce from it a virtual excusing of the wrongdoer. Any decay in the legal standard of right and wrong necessarily infects the sentiment of which social honor is the expression, and, in consequence, there is a gradual falling away from the orig- inal standards of commercial honor. As to political honesty, that was the first to fail. The Government is an impersonal thing. Itis not an individual, or even an organization of individuals. It is a something that represents the whole body of*the people; the fund which is called public money is a contribution from the masses of the population. It really belongs to nobody, and, therefore, there is nobody to complain if it be made away with. In this way political job- bery comes to be a common affair, and so the public money becomes an object of desire by persons both in and out of of- ficial position. But when the infection of dishonesty once begins to work upon men, where is it to stop? Who shall set limits to its ravages? Like any other dangerous and damaging infection, it spreads from one to another until it has implanted its con- tagious poison far and wide in a com- munity where it has once taken hold. Men who have no scruples in engaging in a piece of political jobbery, but would not doa dishonest act in private busi- ness, finally lose sight of the line between public corruption and private dishonesty, and cross it without giving the matter a second thought. Then comes the necessity for drawing a line, on one side of which questionable transactions may be carried on with im- punity, while, on the other side, the door of the felon’s cell yawns for the criminal. How often has it been that solicitous friends, suddenly alarmed at the revelations of suspicious transac- tions, have with anxious care investi- gated the matter, and, being assured upon competent advice that the conduct which had aroused apprehension stopped just short of the penitentiary gate, were forced to be content that the wrongdo- ing had not proceeded quite to the limits of felonious crime. But is not the standard of private honor just as high as ever it was? Tuer TRADESMAN fully believes so. But it is possible that it is less generally es- teemed. It is possible that the criminal corruptionist is more readily excused than formerly. It is possible that the frightful mien of the monster, crime, has, through too much association, become less revolting. It is possible that the social and political success of men who have reached their positions by question- able, or more than questionable, means has directed attention away from the methods by which that success was at- tained. There is every reason to believe that | human nature is marching on to better | things, to a higher state of honor, virtue, | piety and happiness. Such a result is in | accord with all the prophecies, both | sacred and profane. But it wou!d be | most premature to believe that this state MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. yet to be a great deal of sloughing off of unscrupulous selfishness and reckless crime. That happy day will come in its own good time; but there must yet be a | long waiting for it, and much work of preparation by mankind. Let the work go on, at least. STUDYING RAILWAYS IN COLLEGE. Several of the principal American uni- versities are giving particular attention to the various branches of economic science and philosophy. The _ Uni- versity of Pennsylvania has a professor- ship of journalism, and the University of Chicago has introduced into its sys- tem a course of study on railroads. It is not expected that any theoretical knowledge of newspaperdom, or of rail- roads, or of any other system of economics which unites practical ac- quainutance with the details of a compli- cated business with an exact professional experience can be of much assistance to the intending journalist or the incipi- ent railway manager, but itis bound to be valuable as a part of a good general education. A business man, or any sort of profes- sional person, in this wonderful age, can- not know too much about the general matters of life, whilea wide and varied acquaintance with every class of facts is invaluable to the lawyer, the journalist and the statesman. The American people run greatly to politics, and any man who hopes to be able to legislate intelligently on the various subjects which, in this age of wonderful progress, go before the the law makers of the country ought to know something about the practical affairs of the business that may be said to move the world. In connection with the study of rail- ways in the Chicago University, the Railway Review of that city remarks that a system of lectures is in use by which practical railway men come by invitation for the purpose of the presen- tation and discussion of some topie in connection with the management of rail- roads. This practice has resulted in giv- ing to that institution an amount of in- formation on railway topics not pos- sessed by any other. Chicago is one of the greatest railway centers in any country, and men can be found there who are well versed in any department of railway practice. The commerce of this great country is most intimately associated with railways, and the regulation of these great carriers has been already made the subject of legislative enactment, and will bein the future to a still greater extent. A fair knowledge of their operations, of their organization, of their earnings and ex- penses, of the relation of freight rates to agriculture and other industries, is of the greatest importance to those who write about them and to those who legis- late on the subject. The railway course in the Chicago University is an impor- tant addition to its facilities for impart- ing instruction. THE CURRENCY PROBLEM. Now that it has been shown that the Carlisle currency bill cannot pass, it has become equally apparent to the entire country that a currency reform bill is urgently needed. So general is that conviction that conservative journals, and particularly the financial ones, are found urging that this same Congress which has just shown its inability to lot perfection is near at hand. There is; agree upon the Carlisle bill should, nevertheless, pass some other measure remedying the defects in our currency system before adjourning on March 4, It is now certain that no mere partisan measure will pass. The Democrats will be unable to push through «a bill which does not conciliate the silver people, and, even if that element of the party should be cajoled into voting for a measure, the Republicans would antagonize it to a man. If any currency bill is to be passed at this session, therefore, an ap- peai must be made to the conservative forces in Congress, irrespective of party, and some measure must be introduced which will commend itself to the busi- ness and financial interests of the coun- try. Already a number of measures have been brought forward to take the place of the discredited Carlisle bill. All of these have more or less merit, but they have also the taint of partisanship about them, and, consequently, afford little hope of success. To have the least chance of securing the support of the conservative elements of both Democratand Republican parties, a bill must provide, first, for the retire- ment as speedily as possible of the legal tender notes, and, second, for the is- suance of a well-secured bank currency. A bill which does not accomplish these two requisites must fail of its purpose, and probably would not be able to pass; but an attempt to accomplish much more than this would be equally abortive. Any attempt to bring the silver problem into the agitation for currency reform would only confuse matters and make it impossible to secure the passage of any measure. The repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman bill was brought about at the very outset of the term of the present Congress by a combination of the conservative forces in both parties. What was then accomplished could be as easily brought about again before the final adjournment on March 4. For the administration to abandon all farther efforts to pass a currency reform bill, owing to the refusal of Congress to ac- cept the Carlisle measure, would be a woeful lack of courage. To those familiar with the delibera- tion in preparing for a change in the ad- ministration of this Government and the improbability, amounting almost to an impossibility of the resignation of its chief magistrate, the story of the revolu- tion in the French administration last week is almost incomprehensible, and at first glance suggests the idea of a lack of stability in the republican form of government in that ccuntry. On the contrary, however, nothing could have occurred to demonstrate more forcibly the strength to which the principles of republicanism have grown there. The enemies to this form of government were instantly at the front. The Bour- bon pretender was ready with mani- festo of willingness to take his throne, which excited only derision; while the socialists and anarchists were as quickly and more actively manifest. With French vivacity and toleration they made the assembly almost a bedlam during the election: but the result showed them in such an insignificant minority that there is but little to be apprehended from them in French pol- itics. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 RAILWAY BANKRUPTCY IN 1894. With the new year comes the settling of accounts, and that proves to be judg- ment day with too many business con- cerns which have not been able to breast all the storms of 1894. It is very generally conceded that the financial condition of the country and | of 62,926, and carrying a stock and bond | | debt of $3,528,125,000, or largel nineteen years, commencing with 1876, the railroads sold cut in bankruptcy | were in number 593, embracing a mileage | il than three thousand million dollars. It | | should seem certain that in the end the railways area pretty fair index of the| /as that they can be operated profitably. faithful reflectors of its prosperity or the | lack of it. the receiverships and the sales in bank- ruptcy of American railways for 1894 A glance at the statement of | gives some important particulars on the | subject. |ous tophamper, endeavor to make way Timely information in this direction is furnished by the Chicago Railway Age, which is high authority in matters con- cerning the railways of the country. From the figures that have been gathered | by actual transactions, it is seen that in 1894 over 7,000 miles of railway, ‘in- cumbered by a steck and bond indebted- ness of about $396,000,000, have gone into the hands of receivers; while about 6,000 miles, with a funded indebtedness of more than $319,000,000, sold out under foreclosure of mortgage. have been More detailed information is worth at- tention. show that most of the defaulting roads are located in the West and South, al- though six of them hail from New York The figures of the Railway Age |The Lycoming ities Company, and the contiguous State of New Jersey. | None of the New England States are| represented, Ohio, notwithstanding their nor are Pennsylvania and | great rail- | way mileage and continued additions to | H. The fact that Kansas, Texas and some of the other states in Nebraska, which railway operation has been noto- ; riously unprofitable do not figure largely | in the record for last year is explainable by the single statement that a large | share of their railway mileage has been | bankrupt for some years. The largest items in the list are made | when our representative calls on you, up by the appointment of separate re- | ceivers for four companies that formed | parts of two great systems which con- | fessed bankruptcy last year, the Atlantic and Pacific and Colorado Midland, of the | Santa Fe’ system, and the Oregon Rail- | way and Navigation and Oregon Short} Line, previously forming part of the Un- ion Pacific. These four roads, whose in- solvency really was announced in 1893, represent 3,696 miles, and $183,768,000 of bonds and stock, or 52 per cent. of the mileage and 46 per cent. of the capitali- zation, showed in the list of receiverships for 1894. With these great failures de- ducted the record of the past year would be less appalling, though it would still greatly exceed that of every year be- tween 1885 and 1892; while, if they were credited to 1893, the bankruptcy figures of that year would be indeed overwhelm- ing. As to cases of foreclosure, during 1894 there were forty-two railways brought to the block, having an aggregate of 5,643 miles, with $164,216,000 of bonds and $154,783,000 of capital stock, or an ag- gregate of $318,998,000 of securities. The Richmond and Danville, and East Ten- nessee, Virginia and Georgia, and their dependencies, furnished a large share of the mileage and capitalization of this for- midable list. The results of the great financial panic of 1893 were necessarily carried over into 1894, and all this bankruptcy means, at least, a settling up of the old scores of misfortunes which occurred before 1894 was born. The figures show that iu railways will settle down to such a basis | that he oc vasionally loses money by failing to | charge goods sold on credit; and where he hears They could not pay their way through | ae i excessive inflation followed by periods of | collapse, and they have been compelled, | one by one, to succumb tothe storm, and, cutting away their useless and danger- of one case there are twenty occur which he does not discover. _} under such scant sail as they may be) able to hoist in such hurricane weather. | It is only by such a course that they can hope to get safely into port. It is only on such a basis of caution and close-reef- ing that any ducted in such a stormy season. business should be econ- eS Boyne City—C. C. Batchelor will re- move the stock from his branch store at | Boyne Falls to this place. | er Bs. 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Reynolds & Son, ROOFING y MANUFACTURED ONLY BY Will buy all kinds of Lumber— Green or Dry. Office and Yards, 7th St.fand C. & W. M. R. R. Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. HARD TIMES. Pathetic Picture of Daily Life during | the Panic. Of course, you’ve read about it in the} papers, sir. There muchelsein them, one time. failin’ here, an’ another one there, an’ some big concern that everybody sup- posed was worth millions, going ter smash. An’ maybe, seeing yer’ a writer ye’self, an’ imaginin’ is sort 0’ yer perfession, yer’ve ‘‘imagined’’ how the working class felt about the hard times, an’ hey’ taken a satisfaction layin’ the blame on Cleveland, or the folks that passed the Silver bill. But I tell yer, sir, there can’t no imaginin’ nor news- papers, nor hearsay—nothin but jest havin’ be’n ther’ yerself, make yer real- ize the feelin’ that comes over a man when he walks up ter git his Saturday pay, an’ in the envelope is a slip sayin’ the force must be cut down, an’ he won’t be needed there any more. It don’t so much matter if he’s alone in the world, but it generally happens he ain’t. An’ when I read that slip, the first thing I thought wa’n’t about gittin’ another place, or bein’ dissappointed my- self, but the way my wife would look when I broke the news ter her. There was the little girl, too. An’ though children of twelve ain’t supposed ter know much about money affairs, she, bein’ the only one, an’ old fer her age, has got ter understandin’ things most as well as her mother. She aint’ very strong, an’ we’d planned ter save up an’ give her a little trip out in the country through August—hire her boarded ter some old farm-house, where she could have her fill of country air an’ be ready fer school again in the fall. I teli yer, sir, I never had many chances. Worked out summers an’ went ter school winters until I was fifteen, an’ then come intothe city ter learn a trade. An’ my wife had ter keep house fer her father until the old man died, an’ then she married me, so her ederca- toin ain’t much ter boast of, either. But we'd talked it over between us, an’ made up our minds ’at our little girl should have a show—go through the high school, an’ through college, too, if she wanted, an’ keep on just as long as we was able to work for her. “Never mind,” says my wife, when I come home, blue enough, an’ she found out what was the matter. ‘‘Yer’ll have ter git another place. An’, if yer don’t, the shops will start up in a week or two, an’ a little vacation will do yer good.” I wa’n’t so sure about the shops startin’ up, but I’d always held ’at a strong, able- bodied man that kep’ away from could find work an’ so the next Monday mornin’ I started out ter look fur it. first—no chance there; they was runnin’ short, an’ some o’ them laughed when | asked fur a job. ‘“*You’re the seventh that’s this mornin’,”’ one boss said. yer suppose we want of yer when can’t keep our own hands emp!loyed?”’ Times hard, 1, knew an’ somewhere, all was hadn’t reckoned on gittin’ the same an- swerevery place. I wa’n’t partic’ lar after a while. I tried them ail—grocery stores, an’ butcher shops, an’ express- | mans, an’ woodyards. An’ every time 1) come home my wife would ask, meanin’ | to make her voiee sound as if she | didn’t seem ter be} A bank} rum | 1 tried the machine shops' just be’n here | “What do) we | that | wa’n’t much more than I expected; but 1} | wan't much concerned, ‘‘Well, did you find any work to-day?’ An’ I would an- swer as cheerful as I could, because of | little Nell takin’ in every word we said, i **No, didn’t seem ter git along very well to-day. Presume likely I’ll strike some- thin’ to-morrow.” But the next day things would go on jest the same, an’ finally I begun ter feel discouraged. We hadn’t much laid by. I’d taken out a three thousand life insurance, in ease anythin’ should happen ter me; but, when times are prosperous, folks git into the notion of thinkin’ they’re goin’ ter continue that way, an’ spendin’ the money as itcomes. An’ there was the rent ter pay, the same as if I was ter work. An’ the grocer sent in word he’d got ter have cash hereafter; he hated ter ask it but hard times was pinchin’ him. I pawned my watch—a silver one, but it brought a little—an’ the ring I gave my | wife once for her birthday, an’ a locket | of little Nell’s. An’ one night yer might ?a’ seen me sneakin’ out o’ the back door with my winter overcoat done up in a bundle. Another time it was my wife’s silk dress, an’ then the rug in the parlor; always at night, though, fur, however poor a man is, it hurts his pride ter have his neighbors know be hain’t had foresight enough ter provide fura day like this. Yer remember that hot spell we had the last part o’ July? 1 come home one o’ them days, when I’d_ be’n lookin’ fur work, ter find Nel! lyin’ on the sofy with hardly strength to raise her _ head, though she did try ter brighten up when she saw me. An’ then my wife said she’d be’n sort o’ ailin’ fur a week or two, but the little thing had made her promise not ter tell, ‘“‘because papa had so much ter worry |} him now, an’ he’d want ter git a doctor, ? she was sure he couldn’t afford it. There was just two dollars in my pocket—every cent I had in the world— but she had that doctor in iess than half an hour. He laughed an’ tole her he guessed she’d be’n playin’ too hard, an’ a little medicine ’d make her all right, but when he got me out in the hail he looked grave. ‘I find considerable trouble with the heart,” he said; ‘‘no settled disease, but it is in a highly irritable condition, an’ she seems much run down. Has she be’n frettin’ over anythin’? Anythin’ on her mind?’’ I told him I was out o’ work and I pre- | ““Oh, yes; she sees you lookin’ gloomy I suppose, and it reacts on her. Now am goin’ ter speak plainly with yer. |Cheerfulness is one thing yer daughter | must have. 1 cannot answer for the | consequences if this anxiety continues. Send her inter the country for a mouth; or, if yer can’t afford ter do that, yer! must keep her from frettin’ about things | she cannot help. As fer the hard times, | most people are worrying themselves | |unnecessarily. There is no cause for | the depression except a temporary lack of confidence. Business will be in full swing by the middle of October.”’ | He meant it kindly, 1 know, but I stood there an’ looked after him an’ wondered what difference it would make | | what happened by the middle of Octo- bes, if a man couldn’t see his way clear | to livia’ through August. I went down ter_look fer work again that afternoon. 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B.J, BROOKS, Man’g, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 14 An’ when all that failed I sit down on a! curbstone, an’ looked at the people ridin’ by in their carriages, an’ wondered if *twas the way the Lord intended it— that some should have everythin’ an’ others nothin’—an’ almost scared my- self with the curses that kep’ comin’ in- ter mind, whenI thought how easy it would have been fer them to help me, an’ they wouldn’t. ‘‘Come, move on here !?? says a policeman, an’ I started up. It was about four o’clock, as I was slouching along the street, only stayin’ there because I couldn’t bear to go home | an’ face little Nell, that I heerd the fire- bell ring, an’ the next minute the engines come puffing through the street. There was a crowd 0’ boys, an’ women with shawls-over their heads, an’ men, an’ [ followed with the rest. if I could save a life, or do some other brave thing, they might make up a purse to reward me. The plainest of us do get high-flown ideas like that once ina while. But the fire was in a barn, as it happened; an’, by the time the engines got there, the downstairs was a solid mass 0’ smoke. I asked a man if the hosses was all out, an’ when he said, ‘‘Yes,’’ [stood an’ watched the firemen fix on the hose. Jest as the water begun to play, a woman standin’ near me give a cry. ‘‘Oh,” says she, ‘‘see that little dog lookiug out o’ the window! There! Upstairs!” He was a little yeller half-starved thing, an’ he stood an’ pawed at the glass as if he knew his only chance was to break through it an’ jump. ‘It’s jest a stray dog,” says a hostler. ‘‘He’s be’n taggin’ ’round here fur a day or two. Followed somebody up ther’, I s’pose, an’ got the door shut on him. Poor duffer!” A little girl about as big as Nell com- menced tocry. ‘‘Oh,” she says, ‘‘can’t somebody git’im out? The fire hain’t caught in that room at all yet. See ’im look! He’s thinkin’ some of us could run up an’ unfasten the door, only we won’t. Please, mister, can’t you——”’ An’I started. It might hev be’n jest her sayin’ it, but it seemed to me that that dog had the same thought in his mind that I’d hed when I sit an’ watched the people go by in the carriages. In I don’t know} why, unless with a foolish notion that) gen’ral, {’m an every-day, common sense | man, an’ hold a man’s life, with a wife) an’ little ’un dependin’ on him, too) precious to be risked for a mongrel yel- ler dog; but jest fur a minute it seemed | to me that that little critter hed a soul thes Lack 7 ie orl, EWYORK et SEE york: jest like folks, an’ | took one long breath an’ started in ter save it. The smoke was thick, but it was a lit- tle clearer in the room where the dog was, an’ soon’s I opened the door the little thing seemed to know what 1 come fur an’ give arun right inter my arms. There was a winder near, an’ I broke it with my fist an’ got a taste o’ fresh air, an’ then started back, agropin’ my way down the stairs, blind, an’ dizzy, an’ gaspin’, an’’most givin’ up at the last, till { felt a breath not quite so thick with smoke, an’ then I knew the door was close by. The men raised a cheer as I come out, an’ one o’ the women went somewhere an’ got mea glass o’ water. But the biggest part of the crowd didn’t pay no ’tention, an’ when the fire died down they went away, an’ left me sittin’ on a pile o’ blankets that hed been thrown out; for I’d breathed so much smoke it made me feel queer, After a while I heard some one speak an’ looked up. There was a fleshy good- lookin’ man standin’ by me. ‘*Well,” he says, laughin’, ‘‘tyer come mighty near gettin’ caught in that building, my man. Do yer save dogs fer fun er from a sense o’ duty?” I told him that I wa’n’t fond o’ animals suffer if I could help it. ‘Well, ’'m not either,’’ he said, ‘but Il didn’t think 1 could prevent it. Yer look played out. Anythin’ | can do fer yer?” An’ then, o’ course, I asked him fer work. I’d said the words so often they rolied off from my tongue like some- thin’ I’d learned by heart. But I knew from the start I would’t get anythin’ from him, an’ then ther’ come a queer feelin’ as if ’'d never say them again. **No-o,”’ he said, ‘I don’t believe we can take yer. One o’ our men was taken sick a day or two ago, but we’ve decided seein’ we can get along without hirin’ till he’s better. Ever worked in a_ grocery store?”’ I said, ‘‘No, I was brought up on a farm. Late years l’ve worked in a shop.” “Oh, yes—one o’ Colton’s hands. There has been two or three around lately. But, yer see, we shouid wanta man who understood the business, and I’ve about made up my mind ter git along without extra help—for a time, anyway. I’m sorry I haven’t anythin’ fur yer. It can’t be very pleasant to be turned out of a job through no fault o’ | yer own.”’ He was nice enough, yer see, an’ I know folks tell about how much good a It Has No Equal_——_— We know it because we sell more each year. Jobber sells more! The Retailer sells more! The Consumer buys more! The Babies cry for more, and more mothers write us stating that the | Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk Is unequalled as a food for infants. It Pays to Handle Such na The Sta Ge ses Store Fixtu res, Etc. Oe PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES. J. PHILLIPS & CO. Detron, Mich. Established 1864. y Fs cS ERB) ae tes it woe CAG as Mail and Sie orders receive special attention. P. Steketee & Sons will show a large line of Outing Shirts ranging in price from $2.25 to $6 per doz. in Outing Flannels, Chevoits, Mad- rass cloth and printed fabrics; also a fine line of Pants from $4.50 to $27 per doz., all well shaped and new patterns. Deal 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. me C. U. CuarkK, See’ y and ‘Tross. or tee oy ci W. 'D. WADE, Vice-Pres. } > a Pe ny =] We are now ready to make “7 eontracts for bark for the sea- son of 1895. e Correspondence Solicited. SOAS ox SIGSODOAy Fer Quotations See Price Columns 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. sympathizin’ word does. him walkin’ away, an’ felt as if I’d got to the end of my rope—nothin’ to fall back on now but that life insurance poi- icy. It give me acreepy crawly feelin’, at first, when my thoughts kep’ strayin’ around ter that, but after a little the idea was sort pleasant ter me. It would be enough to keep ’em on fer quite a while, { thought, an’ it would be better than charity. Maybe Nell’s mother would grieve more at first about her hus- band’s dyin’ than she would about bein’ on the town books as a pauper; but ther’ oC wouldn’t be anythin’ ter be ashamed of in the first kind o’ grief. An’ when my little Nell grew up, her dad havin’ made a misstep one night an’ fell into the river wouldn’t be nothin’ fur people to fling in her face. I sat there with my thinkin’ it all started fur home. the door at the felt an’ from the him up tin’-room door with a rush. “Any news?”’ tremble, comin’ ‘“‘News! I should think so!” I yelled, flingin’ my hat. “Why, Nell, yer dad’s a hero! Saved a dog’s life ! Cheers and applause! Asked tercall around ter- morrer an’ ahead! Hurrah !”’ It wa’n’t very 1 know. never hed hed much practice in lies, yer see. But my wife thought I was jest head in my hands, y .. struck six. [| had 1 t wa’n’t t till the cloe decided then, an’ got up an’ till L opened that L heels the stairs foot 0’ somethin’ snuffin’ around my nen I saw ’at the little dog I’d saved fire had followed me. 1 picked in my arms, an’ opened the sit- says my wife, all in a ter meet me. up see about a job. Good times well done, puttin’ on a little more than I felt ter) As fer her, she brightened | please Nell. up inaminit. She made me sit over on the sofy by her an’ tell her all about the} fire, an’ how the little doggy looked, an’ what the man 1 was goin’ ter work fer said. An’I told her not bother her little head with partic’lars—the matter wa’n’t but the next day I'd tell her all An’ when I asked about supper, an’ my wife said the butter was all out, an’ she hedn’t bought any meat that day, 1 com- meneed ter laugh, an’ kept it up so long she got frightened an’ thought 1 was los- ing my mind. I said it was was so pleased that our hard times goin’ ter be ended inthe morning. But somethin’ I saw in her face quieted me. W hen—that—happened the next day, Il ouldn’t my wife always thinkin’ I'd acted strange the las’ night and won- derin’ if I did it on purpose. I pushed my chair back from the table. Come, I said, ‘‘let’s all take a ride on the electric cars. We've been mopin’ long enough. An’ now I know what I’m goin’ ter do; a little outin’ ’d be good fer us. Yer’d like ter go, Nellie, wouldn’t yer? Mamma’ll take the shawl, so’s ter make it easier fer yer tired little back.” “I guess my wrap ’ll do better,’ says my wife. An’ then 1 remembered the pawnbroker’s ticket. up as pleased as if I’d offered her a for- tune. “Oh, yes,” says she. “An’ Pil take the dog. him right in my lap, won’t care. Can’t 1 take him, papa?” I said, ‘‘Yes,’’ and we started. The car was full, 1 reec’lect, an’ there was some trouble about gittin’ a seat. Two women got on after we did, an’ we crowded along ter make room. to decided yet, about it. because 1 was have now.” But I watched | | But Nellie looked | He’s so little, 1 can hold} and the car man} ‘See how full the car is,” says one 0’ them, ‘tan’ mostly working people, too. They have money enough ter ride on the cars, it seems. I was sure the re- ports of the sufferin’ among them were exaggerated.” She was holdin’ a long knit purse, an’ the thought come into my mind ter snatch it away from her an’ minit I hed ter grip my han’s ter keep from it; then 1 remembered the steppin’ off the bridge would be sure an’ that a disgrace. thinkin’ run. there wouldn’t nobody call An’ all the while I was l was ter Nell, may be, t over talkin’ Fer a| tergether | was a lump in my throat that choked me, an’ I jest stood there with the tears run- | nin’ down my face. I’ve be’n thinkin’ a good deal about it | = Chicago sence, an’ it sort o’ seems to me—though Ly | Ar. G’d Rapids. - | I ain’t a preachin’ man nor a perfessor | |o’ religion—as if some trouble was jest sent ter show what poor, miser’ble fail- we'd make if there wa’n’t ures 0’ livin’ |nobody ter oversee us. There I was, r,|gropin’ away by myself fer weeks, growin’ more an’ more desprit every day, an’ plannin’ ter get out o’ the world, an’ all the time the Lord was seein’ ter , everythin’, even ter our goin’ ter ride an’ Fer when I tried ter thank him ther’ | '\CHIC: AGO | |leave for Chicag: tellin’ about the way l used ter do on aj/takin’ jest that car. There’s a story | farm—how 1 drove the cows, an” now. how I ploughed, an’ how Lraked the hay. The air blew cool in her face an’ sent a little pink flush there. Onthe way back, my wife roused up alittle an’ commenced | talk the t school together, an’ ter 0 times when we went ter what everybody said un’ did, an’ 1 laughed an’ hedn’t a care in the world. ter the house | felt th rf Ya couid. iI back a little nervous ter- we got as played my part long as | as helped them off an’ then om ‘Guess [ll ride up stepped ont ar tt sar mter tne car. night,” said I. here , then walk back ter quiet me.” ‘*Never a@ ways an’ My wife mind, | Jae c voice. looked queer. her An’ a bit. said she, with a tremble in “Something will happen.’ ! nen 1 see it all hedn’t deceived her The the ears started, ; touched me on the shoulder. I | there was the man who had talked with methatafternoon. ‘*Thought | |I’d seen yer before,” says he; ‘‘but 1| minit turned ‘round, an’ eouldn’t think who it was till I noticed | the dog. Found a place yit?” I said, ‘‘No, I didn’t expect ter.’’ “Oh, yer musn’t git discouraged. Say, ] was thinkin’ after you’d gone that I | didn’t know what was the use o’ us doin’ | all that extra work while the clerk was ; Sick, as long as there was plenty anxious | ter take it off our hands. Now, yer new ter the bus’ness, an’, o’ course, I can’t pay fancy prices. But if yer want ter come an’ try it for a while—probably till the shops open—it’s only seven dol- lars a week, but—” I turned ’round then an’ o’ his hand. In gen’ral, common sense man, an’ men ain’t given ter makin’ much ado over their feelin’s, but there are times when they will break through. Itold him what he said hed | saved my life—an’ then felt ashamed of ; myself fer sayin’ it. ‘“*That yer little girl yer had with yer?” 1 told him yes. ‘‘She’s sick, an’ we thought the air might do her good.’’ “I thought she didn’t look overly strong,” said he. ‘‘OQught ter send her out in the country for a while.’’ **We’ve be’n plannin’ on it,” I said, ‘‘ybut the hard times stepped in ter pre- vent.” The cars come ter the terminus then an’ we got off. *‘Well, good-night,’’ said he. ‘1 pose I’ll see yer at 6 ter-morrow Main, the place is.” An’ then he added |}as if he was ashamed of it: ub wants country air, why, brother’s big farm, plenty dren. My Jennie’s week. ence. eaught hold as I said, ’m a be’n sup- —527 there’s my lots 0’ down ther’ 0’ milk, s goin’ You’d better plan it so’s yer little all the better fun. Hang it all, what! ails yer? Come, 1! say, don’t do that—| brace up an’ bea man!”’ joked as if 1] But when | someone } “If yer little | folks live down Sonset way— | chil- | next | One more won’t make any differ- | | girl can go ’long with her an’ they’ll have | The shops start up next week, an’ the ; country’s seen the worst o’ it. But what I started out ter say, an’ what I believe, sir, is that ther’ can’t none o’ them writ- ers, nor a, nor folks that are fond io’ givin’ advice, te!l how the workin’ men i feel over the hard times unless be’n through it theirselves. PAULINE PHELPS. WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TIGKETS |* ONLY A FEW LEFT. Original set of four - = - = < 25¢ Complete set often = - < = 2 50c Order quick or lose the opportunity of a lifetime to secure these souvenirs at @ nominal figure. times present cost within five years. They will be worth ten Tradesman Company, Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. | | Jno. A. CovoveE, Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. 8. Venprer, Cashier. K. Van Hop, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed Deposits. DIRECTORS: D. A. Blodgett, E. ¢ vrofton Fox, 2. J. Bowne, Henry Idema, J.A. McKee J. A. S. Verdier Jno. A. Covode, T. J. O'Brien, Jno.W. Blodgett Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, WE WANT sl and will pay highest market price for them. If you haye any stock you wish toe | dispose of, seek headquarters for an | outlet. » MICHIGAN CENTRAL “Tw Niagara Falis Route.” (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) | Arrive. Depart. w20om......- Detroit Express 7 Wam 5 30am -*Atlantic and Pacific.....1: 20pm 1i0pm New York Express 6 0pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex | press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:0)am; re | turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand | Rapids 10:20 pm Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen | tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) i . ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent, | Union PassengerStation. on Time and Sayings | they’ve | DETROIT, __ Nov. 18, 1894. AND Weer M.-C HIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO, v. G’d Rapids.. ' — 1:26pm *11: 80pm pm 6:50pm *7:20am NING FROM CHICAGO, zam 5:00pm *11 :45pm ..3:05pm 10:25pm = *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm Ar. Grand Rapids......11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. RETURN , Cnieaso.... Ly.Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Manietee.......- 12:20pm 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar, Charievoix..... 3:15pm 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey 3:45pm 11:40pm Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10,00 pm. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS, Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. rives from Chicago 1:25pm. Sleeping 11:30pm. Arrive from Ar- cars Chi- cago 6.25am. *Every day. Others week days only. Or Oct. 1894 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO DE | Ly. Grand Rapids 701 5:25pm Ar. Detroit 11 :40ar :10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT - Detroit 7:40am 10pm 6:00pm . 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, Ly. Grand Rapids 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell 12:40pm 5:20pm . | | j THROUGH CAR SERVICE Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Kap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. Trains week days only GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pasa’r Ag’t. eae GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUDUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. Trains Leave ;tNo. 1 0. 16)TNO. i8j*#vo. G’d Rapids, Lv| 6 45am| 10 20am| 3 25pm | 11 00pm Tonia ........Ar| 740am/}1125am| 4 27pm/12 35am St. Johns....Ar| 8 25am/12 17pm) 5 20pm| 12am Owosa)......J Ar| 900am| 120pm/ 605pm) 3 10am KE, Saginaw..Ar |10 50am pe en ag 6 40am Bay C ‘ity -o.- AF it] am 4.35pm) § 37pm! 715am Flint ........ Ari16@6am 3 45pm) 7 05pm 5 40am i Pt. Huron...Ari1205pm 5 50pm | 8 50pm! 7 30am | Pontiac . ..Ar|i0 58am} 305pm) 5 5 37am Detroit.......Arj1150am]| 405pmj 925pm)} 7 00am WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate reese oe *7:00 &. m. +1 00 PP. ma. F or Grand Haver 1 and Muskegon.... . +5:35 DP. m Mil. and Chi. +Daily except Sunday. *Daily Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60 p.mm., 5:3) p. m., 10:00 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:16a. m. 3:15 pm. and 9:15 p. m. Kastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No.1) Parlor Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Jas CAMPBELL, City ‘i‘cket Agent. rand Rapids & indiana. TRAINS GOING NORTH, Leave going North For Traverse C City Pe teoskey and Saginaw. For Traverse Ci PO ORO ite w aia oe oe For Petoskey and Mackinaw........... TRAINS GOING 8OUTH .-¢:408. mm. cob 225 Pp. m. 5:00 p. ma 10:25 p m. Leave going ee ror (eerie... lL. For Kalamazoo and Chicago... ...... Yor oe Wayneanc the Kast......... For Ciacin natt mae Chicago via G. R. &1. R. R. Ly Grand Rapids........7:2am 2:15pm 11:40pm arr Chicago............. 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am 2:55) m train hasethrough Wagner Buffet Parlor Car and coach. 11:40 p m train daliy, and C oach. through Wagner Sleeping Car Ly Chicago 6:50a m 3:30pm 11:30 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm 9:15pm 7:20am 3.30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car 11 30pm traindaily.chrough Wagner Sieeping Car Muskegon, Grand Rapids & [ndianns. For Muskegon —-Leave From Muskegon- Arrive, 7:25am 955am 106pm 1:15pm §:40 Dm 6:20pm © .L. LOCK WOOD‘ General Passenger and Ticket Agent. EN b RAVING HALE-TONE Buildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented Articles, PHOTO wooD TRADESMAN CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 MEN OF MARE. C. A. Morrill, the Chicago Tea Importer and Cigar Jobber. Charles A. Morrill was born in Ply- mouth, Penobscot county, Maine, Feb. 20, 1845. His heritage was brains, en- ergy and a strong constitution. When between two and three years old he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. David C. Morrill, of Farmington Falls, Me., and spent his early life on a farm in the Sandy River valley, attending the village school when not at work. An apt scholar, he easily acquired such an edu- cation as the common schools of that day afforded. At the breaking out of the Re- bellion he was determined to enter the army, and, not being able to get the con- sent of his foster parents, he quietly stole away one day and enlisted in Co. G, Seventeenth Maine Infantry, being mustered in at Farmington, Aug. 18, 1862, a boy of 16 years of age. He served his full term of three years and participated in the battles of Fredricksburg, Chan- cellorsville, Kelly’s Fork, Locust Grove, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Siege of Petersburg and Little Sailor’s Creek. At Chancellorsville, while participating in a night attack on the enemy in which his regiment was engaged, he was stunned by a shell, was taken prisoner by the rebels and confined in Libby prison and Belle Isle for more than two months, when he was returned to the Union lines by an exchange of prisoners. He imme- diately resumed his place in the ranks and on May 6, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, he was shot through the abdomen by a minie ball and left on the battle field among the dead. By the merest chance a companion noted ev- idences of life in the apparently inani- mate form and succeeded in getting him away from the place in the last ambu- lance which left the field of battle. He was supposed to be mortally wounded, but was sent to the Mt. Pleasant General Hospital, at Washington, where he was cared for by Annie Etheredge, the famous Michigan nurse. He was subsequently removed to the Ft. Schuyler General Hospital, in New York Harbor, where he recovered from the injury sufficiently to be assigned tothe Veteran Reserve Corps and returned to his regiment in season to participate in the entire campaign of 1865, culminating in the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, and was honorably discharged at Portland, Me., June 4, 1865. He was promoted to the position of corporal soon after entering the serv- ice, but immediately resigned; and, al- though he was frequently offered promo- tion, he persistently declined to rise above the ranks, preferring to remain ‘‘with the boys.’’ Returning home, Mr. Morrill entered as a student at the Old Weslyan Seminary, at Kent’s Hill, Me., paying his expenses with money saved from his pay as a sol- dier at $13 per month. He taught school one winter and at 21 years of age was ap- pointed United States Consular Agent at St. Thomas, Ont., where he served two years with credit. Determined to seek his fortune in the West, he went to St. Louis in 1868 and took up the work of brakeman on the Northern Missouri Railroad, running be- tween St. Louis and Kansas City. He had then made up his mind to adopt the profession of the commercial traveler, and most of his spare time in St. Louis was spent in seeking an opening in that direction. He finally obtained a commis- | voluntarily, assume half the loss. sion from the importing tea house of Foster & Rockwood, the senior partner remarking at the time that if Mr. Morrill was as persistent in selling goods as he was in seeking an opportunity to get on the road, his success was by no means problematical. He was out five months on his first trip, during which time he made a record which eclipsed anything of the Kind in the previous history of the house. His territory included Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Wyoming, and, at the end of ten years’ continuous service with Foster & Rockwood, he found he was in possession of $30,000 from the savings from his salary and the results of a number of judicious investments. He thereupon resigned his position as saiesman and formed a copartnership with John Guild for the purpose of em- barking in the importing tea business at Omaha under the style of Guild & Mor- rill. In 1880 the business was removed to Chicago and the following year Mr. Morrill purchased Mr. Guild’s interest and has since carried on the busi- ness alone under the firm name of C. A. Morrill & Co. With great business fore- sight and keen judgment Mr. Morrill has increased a business of $200,000 to $1,000,000 in sales per year, which ex- tend from the Ohio River to the Pacific Coast and from the Galf of Mexico to the Canadian line. He has never failed business, never given a note for mer- chandise and never failed to discount a bill. In addition to his tea business, which is one of the largest in Chicago, he owns the Morrill Cigar Co., which he in established seven years ago, and which conducts an extensive business in the West and Northwest. He also owns more than $100,000 worth of Chicago real estate and about 5,000 acres of land in lowa, Kansas and Texas. He is a large holder of Chicago Street Railway stock and has stock in several Chicago banks, his total earthly possessions being es- timated at a round half a million dollars. Liberality and generosity have always been cardinal features of Mr. Morrill’s career. A Single instance is sufficient to show his breadth of vision. During the cyclone at Grinnell, Lowa, in 1883, two carloads of tea shipped by him cus- tomers in Montana were blown into the river and destroyed. The loss was un- covered by insurance, but, on learning of the disaster, he immediately tele- graphed his customers that he would, Such to | owned by any man in Chicago. an act naturally made him a most popu- lar man with the Montana trade, afford- ing him an amount of gratuitous adver- tising which money could not buy. Personally, Mr. Morrill is one of the} most companionable of men. He is liked by his employes because he insists on paying salaries commensurate with the services rendered, while his business associates and competitors hold him in reason of his inflexible honor and sterling integrity. Socially, he is a general favorite, because of his perpetual good humor and unusual con- versational He a charter member of the Chicago Athletic Club, and a liberal patron of the race track, taking great pride in the possession of as a pair of trotters as are He was a Democratic when he an- of Democratic the high esteem by powers. is speedy somewhat conspicuous as politician until last fall, nounced his abandonment doctrines and his adoption of tenets of Republicanism. Mr. Morrill ful wife, who has a brilliant and beauti- has recently taken their only child, a daughter, abroad to com- plete her education in France and Ger- | many. Mr. Morrill is quite well known in this city, having come here occasionally to visit his cousin, W. F. Blake, who for- merly represented his house in this State. —- 2 <—_- A Lansing Business Block. In the office of architect W. D. Sutton, room 703 Michigan Trust building of this city are the plans for a very handsome block to be erected on Michigan avenue in ssp tie for Mr. N. &. Bandy, of To peka, Kansas. It will be three story, of us with sandstone trimmings, have a very ornamental front of art glass and brass, cost $5,000 and be completed by June 10. Mr. Sutton is thoroughly con- versant with all the details of planning and supervising the construction of buildings of al! kinds, has a well culti- vated taste in their ornamentation and for many years has been very favorably Known in Michigan. i -o < The Jackson Meeting. The special meeting of the Michigan Wholesale Association, which was held at Jackson last Tuesday, was well attended, thirty of the thirty-five houses belonging to the organization being represented in person. The proceedings were very harmonious, the concensus of opinion being that the organization should be maintained at any hazard. No action was taken involving any change in the policy of the Association in any respect. Grocers’ (a ate Retail Grocers’ Meeting Postponed. The adjourned meeting of the North- ern Michigan Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion, which was to be held at Reed City next month, has been postponed until the regular meeting at the same place in August. This action has been deemed desirable by President Tatman, in view of the unsettled condition of the grocery business, necessitating the constant pres- ence of the dealer at his place of busi- ness. A et 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, and tart, at such low prices? See this week’s price list of Edwin Fallas on last page in this paper. Why impose nice Western Beet and Provision to. Agents for Armour’s Celebrated Lard, Vegetole, World’s Fair Premium Butterine. Smoked Meats. Net Hams Lo. ol iemie Hams... 000. ..... Loewe GSE Breakfast Boneless Bacon.......... 83¢ ried eot, Ham Sets ..0...00..... 944g Fresh Meats. Beet Sides oo 5@ Loins of Geof......... Rib Roas m0 Pork Loins Beef in Barrels. Boneless Ramp Butts.............$9 25 ard in TWiarenc Lard in Tierces. Kettle Rendered . VK TE 546 COM PON 51g Ne 534 Ask for Quotations on Armour’s No. 1, World’s Fair Butterine. Its Price and Quality are right with us. Ask for prices on any provisions or fresh meats. Special attention to mail and telegraph orders. Telephone 1254. Tl Ganal St, Grand Rapids, PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. meee ee 8 a. 7% Short cut . 12 00 @xtra clear pig, ‘short cut.. 14 00 Evo clear, Heavy................ Citar. fat baek.............. 13 60 Boston clear, short cut. 13 530 Clear back, shortcut...... 13 25 Standard clear, short cut, best... 13 75 SAUSAGE. a a... 6% Boge 5 OO i i ce ee ee ae 6 oe 8% oe... 6 Heam@ cheese .._....... 8... 6 ee 10 Pranefure.....-...-.-..... 7% LARD. Mewia Heuderea...... -.... .....,. Ce EE ee Pare ee Cottolene.. Cotosuet U lb. Tins, 4e advance, 0 lb pails, we 50 lb. 34Cc are. «= =O c 13 Ib. le C BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. _c- Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......... _ Bonciows, trump UGiie .. 8... 9 50 SMOKED mMEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 lbs eee eee ee lee 9 ie... 9% e . Higkhie.... |... 10 . foc... 7 “ Sem bemcless. -.... oo 8% ae a 6% Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... &§% Dried peel, ham pripes....................... 10 DRY SALT MEATS. Long Clears, heavy.. ed cums ote ea, Oe Eee 7% ee Nee ade ucucs EO NE EE eee OO EE PICKLED PIés’. FEET. Half barrels...... . Quarter barrels.. TRIPE. mite, HOMOVGCOMN.. Kits, premium A.B. KNOWLSON, Wholesale Shipper Cement, Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Ets, CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drug Department. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—George Gundrum, [onia. Three Years—C. A. Bug bee, Charlevoix. For Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Five Years—F.W. R. Perry, Detroit. President— Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit. fecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Coming Meetings—Detroit, Jan8; Grand”? Rapids. March 5; Detroit (Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov 5, Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit. Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—F. C. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmacettica] Society. President , John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder. THE PRICE OF BREAD. Periodical Revival of a Time-worn Complaint. An editorial recently appeared in the Herald, of this city, under the heading ‘**Facts for Bakers.” In it are some sur- prising statements as to the enormous profit made by bakers, not only in large cities like New York but even in Grand Rapids, of which the following are samples: The movement for cheaper bread which has been more or less noticeable throughout this country has accom- plished much. It has in many places forced greedy and soulless bakers to ac- cept a profit somewhat less exorbitant than the 200 or 300 per cent. which, in many places, Grand Rapids among the rest, is yet exacted. * * * But, be that as it may, there is not a baker in this city who pays even $2.50 per barrel for the flour he uses, nor is there one whose percentage of profit is less than 300 per cent. on each loaf of bread sold. And, what is more, there is not one who can produce figures to successfully re- fute this statement. With a view to confirming or refuting the statements of the Herald, THE TRADESMAN detailed a reporter to interview a number of leading bakers on the subject, with the following result: Ernest F. Hubbard, of the Hill Bak- ery, said: ‘‘The writer of that article is certainly much mistaken, and could not have gotten the facts of thecase. In the first place, we pay $1.10 more per barrel for our flour than he quotes. We have just put in a ecarload of Minnesota flour at $3.60 per barrel. We could never sell bread here made of the cheap quality he mentions. There are many conditions which make the business more profitable in a large city than in one of this size. The demand here is very fiuctuating. Many families buy occasionally, but for the most part make their own bread. The demand here is much greater in summer than in winter. To-day, for in- stance, we have made 1,500 loaves. Now, if we could have made twice as much, the expense of labor would be in- creased very little. Then the expense of delivering is much more here. We require four teams to do our work, be- cause the trade is so seattered. A Chi- cago firm can distribute 2,500 loaves with one team. One restaurant alone there will take 500 loaves. Our loaf which wholesales at 4 cents weighs one pound six ounces. There is a large amount of waste, also. We give barrels of bread too dry to be marketable to the Charity Organization, Little Sisters ‘of the Poor, etc.” L. E. Patten, of the City Bakery, said: ‘‘No money is made on bread at the pres- ent prices, and were they lowered, it would simply drive men out of the busi- ness. Since the reduction in prices last spring, no greater quantity has been sold —less rather than more—as people have thought the quality must be poorer. I cannot make an acceptable loaf of bread for any less money than we are doing. As it is, we make three times as much bread in summer as in winter, which in- sures us against loss. We use the best Minnesota flour and it costs us from $3.80 to $4 per barrel. A loaf of bread on the counter costs 3 cents. Added to this are the cost of delivering and loss by drying, and yet we must wholesale at 4 cents and retail at 5.”’ Chas S. Jandorf, the Monroe street baker, said: ‘‘Grand Rapids bakers can- not compete with New York or any large city. I know, because I have been a baker all my life and have worked in New York and Chicago and know all about their shops. People here would never be satisfied with such bread as is turned out from many New York bak- eries. They often use the very poorest flour, mixing with it a little better qual- ity to make it answer at all—sometimes mixing four or five different kinds.”’ In regard to the drawbacks in a place of this size, Mr. Jandorf spoke sub- stantially as the others have done. F. C. Hammerschmidt said: ‘'The writer of the Heraid article is entirely mistaken. There is not an iota of truth in the article. If there were any such profit, there would be no end to people who would want to go into the business. The actual cost of my bread is nearly 3 cents per loaf. F. L. Blake, of South Division street, said: ‘‘The article is not worth notic- ing, and I do not care to say anything about it. The writer evidently does not know what he is talking about. My bread eosts 8 cents a loaf before it is de- livered. We use the best material and have only first-class help. It is made exactly as bread is made at home, except we are able to mold it a little softer. Our loss from stale bread is very small. Ido not think we lose a bushel of bread in a week, but our men have to go twice a day and redistribute to prevent any be- ing left. That is the only way we have any gain.” Jos. V. Tschauner, of the Union Bak- ery, when shown the Herald article, said: “If people believe such things as that about bakers, I only wish they would try it themselves for a little while. I make six different kinds of bread. Among them is a hop yeast bread, made of the best flour, a loaf of whieh weighs one pound and ten ounces, retailing at five cents. The man who wrote that article thinks he knows all about our business, but he doesn’t and I am ready to sign my name to it. If we make twenty-five per cent., we think we are very well to do.”’ ————————>-o>—_——__——__. His Mistake. Woman—That rocking-chair you sold me is a fraud. Second-Hand Dealer—How’s dot? ‘The rockers are not even and, as you rock, it keeps moving sideways all over the room.’’ ‘‘Mein Cracious! I haf made a mees- take, und sent you von new patent rocker varranted nod to vear oud de carpet all in von place. Dot kind costs two tollars more.”’ ‘‘Huh! Well, it’s your mistake, and I won’t pay the two dollars, and I won’t send it back—so there.”’ ————————2—2 A Florida negro mistook a mule for a ghost and poked it with astick. The verdict recited that he came to his death by using too short a stick in probing the unknowable for evidence of a future ex- , istence. HONEST STEALINGS. This phrase, if a paradox from the standpoints of the law and the gospel, is not soin the accommodating flexibility of modern speech and conscience. There are dividing lines even among thieves. They grade up from the nude and un- washed article to the exquisite apex where they are mixed up with rainbows and angels’ wings. The plain, original, and unlaundried article, like a black sheep in a flock of Southdowns, is gen- erally under some sort of supervision, and sooner or later rubs his nose against the cold iron of a prison cell or becomes the guest of a penitentiary cook. It is also true that the more refined and well- behaved article, dainty, delicate and glorious in collars and cuffs, sometimes exposes his cloven foot, and finds a stool for the same where repentance wears a striped suit, but carries no key for a prison door. The accommodations for these gentlemen, we regret to say, are gradually becoming insufficient, but what would they be instraitness of space and limits of accommodation if all who ought to be there were gathered in from the outside. What a _ procession it would be, and how it would shame the few who found their way into Noah’s ark! How many office chairs would be empty and what vacancies there would be in our courts and legislatures, our boards of trade, our police platoons, and even in our church pews. How many a mill would be silent and congressman dumb; dealers in real estate and man- agers of poor houses, charities and strikes—how few and lean would the members of this great army be if the roll were called and the sheep separated from the goats. If every brick were paid for with honest money, how small some of our houses would be, and if so-called honest stealing were withdrawn from banks and safe deposits, what a skeleton would be made of the golden calf. In our State and municipal depart- ments it is no secret, and nobody’s hair gets gray in thinking of the matter, that in an alarming number of instances of- ficial salaries do not represent income. There are more chickens than eggs, and the milk ladled into private pans is a drain on more than one cow. This is true from the top to the bottom, from lobbying a bill to closing a contract for a sewer or demanding fees from an im- pecunious washerwoman. We have got so familiar with this process of being skinned that the operation is painless, and the man who secures the hide has but one regret—that there is not more of it. Itis plain, whether we like the med- icine or not, that if corruption and venal- ity in public office are accepted as a per- quisite of patriotism, and mercenary motives are the royal stairway to the highest duties and dignities of the na- tion, is it not more than likely that the vice of Judas will sooner or later repent of its sins in the hempen necktie with which that person closed his biography. It is true that a tree is known by its fruits, and a stringent persimmon can never be a libel on an apple tree, but if there were not something wrong at the bottom there would be very little of it at the top. Our public men are products | and not a metamorphosis, and if we will | |e be sufficiently candid and courage6us to || wipe our eye-glasses we will confess! (e that, from trading a horse to getting a municipal charter, our consciences’ trouble us but little. Asa consequence, who loses breath or asks for ammonia or soda water when men who have been in publie office for three years come out of the gold dust with enough of the metal to cover the wants of three score? How is it that in strikes we have one set of men eating cake and venison and an- other set seeking a meal, and finding it not, on the spareribs of a red herring. How is it that some men who could not pay for their shoes come out of a pro- tracted struggle with a home of their own, a brass plate on the door, and a sleek horse in the back lot? How is it that of a barrel of money collected, what is left below the third hoop is accounted for, and the rest is swallowed up in ‘‘ex- penses?”’? What a fat-producing compound are honest stealings! Where should we be without them, and what will be our fate if the caterpillar outlives the cab- bage? FRED Wooprow. ———>_++ The number of men who claim to keep the best cigar in the city is only equaled by the number who actually keep the pourest. Send me a trial order for a mixed car of Flour, Feed, Hay, Etc. GH. Behnke, 30 East Bridge Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Chas. Pettersch, JOBBER OF Imported and Domestic Cheese Swiss, Brick and Limburger a Specialty. 161--163 West Bridge St, Telephone 123 GRAND RAPIDS Seely’s Flavoring Extracts Every dealer should sell them. Extra Fine quality. Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors. Yearly sales increased by their use. Send trial order. Seely's Lemon, (Wrapped) Doz. Gro. loz. $ 90 10 20 1 20 12 60 200 22 80 3 00 33 00 Seely's Vanilla Wrapped) 2 oz. 4 ox. 6 oz. 1 oz. $ is 16 30 200 2160 5 75 40 80 5 40 57 60 Plain N.S. with corkscrew at same price if preferred. 2 oz 4 oz. 6 oz. Correspondence Solicited CO., Detroit lich. SEELY MFG. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Turpentine. Declined— ACIDUM, ==. ee, -1 40@1 50 TINCTURES. Asolicum 00. |... 8@ 10] #xechthitos.......... 1 20@1 30 Benzoicum German.. 65@ 75 oe ttt ee ster ee ee ; ons = Aconitum —s----- = Garbolieum 2222.2..." og $n] Geranium, ounes...1 | @ 75 | Ales. oa esc 60 Pn a aa 41@ 44 | Gosstpl, Sem. gal. “1 BB Oe eee ° a ic |... 3a 5 ed ee 25@1 40 a il —— tog 12 | Juntpert.. ---s> Sn) Sa eeaianng ae. 10@ 12 | Lavenduia . po gpeng PN gag ae 60 Phosphorium dil...... | em 40M: 60 | Benzoin..................... 60 Salicylicum ........... 1 25@1 60 | MenthaPiper. ........ 2 10@3 00 | , et 50 Sulphuricum.... ..... 1%@ 5 Mentha Verid........ 1 80@2 00 ra arta oe 50 Mannion |... 1 40@1 60 oe _ lee 1 30@1 40 Cantientina street tee e eee eees 3 cla 1 ce. ween es Qe BD I VAM OUELIUOS . 01 cee wee ee eee é Tartaricum........... 30@ — Ul Maas TI lt rence AMMONIA, Picis 6 Liquida, (gal. 85) io 12} Ca eee 9 : Agua, 16 _ > ae Rommatiai<. CABLOF «os oes ee eee eee cees 1 00 a 12@ 14 osae, ounce _.680Q8 80 Core rece eecces seceee } Age aaa 19 14 | Succial................ =. a gn rnresenenees a ANILINE. Santel eo POT 00 —— settee ee eee eens eee = ; 22 etree... esteem la stat la lg om...------------~- Pa Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65| Cubeba 50 Rod ener rn 45@ 50 ee @ $0 Dicer... 50 — seage 0) A ------ 088 — BACOAE. ‘heobromas........... 15@ 20 iil tite eee teen eee ee es = Cubeae (po 25)...... 20@ 25 POTASSIUM. ee 80 Juniperus ............- 8@ 10] BiCarp...... 16) 18 | Binethen 0) gp Xanthoxylum .. 2D Bichromate . 19 | Hyosevames |... 50 BALSAMUM, en po 3 “mae oo vi} ee...... — bs c ee ne, 5 Copaiba ......-.-.--++- 45Q_ _ Chlorate (po.17@19).. 16@ 18 | Ferri Chloridum.. a 35 aaa eee on a Cyanide ee 2a ons o-oo oo. | Se a oe ep Te a ee 50 Wolntan 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pars... 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H @ 40/ Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40 nthe... |. “— . M © Si Biemoth & WN... 1 40@1 50 Matricarla tts s ss ®-5 | Sctllae, (po. 85)........ 10@ 12 Calcium Chior, 1s, (48 FOULA oo Foti- - wie taastanpea ¢ Tragacanth .........-- 50@ 80] Spt. 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Nw. ¥.@ & _- ee @ 18 — Foot, winter - €e..... 1 95@2.20 _ Sette cuca @ S| Sramed........... 65 70 Moschus Canton...... @ 40] Snuff, Maccaboy, De Spirits Turpentine. 35 a Myristica, No 1 . ce At You... |... @ 35 Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 Snuff, Secotch,De. Voes @ 35 PAINTS. bbl, 2. SOOM. 18 | Soda Boras, (po.8-16). 7@ 9] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@8 in Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart.. 24Q 25 Ochre, yellow Mars... eee 00 | Soda Carb............ 1%@ 2 Ber. . — Lig, N..C., % Bal Seda, Hi-Carh........- 3@ 5| Putty, commercia eee @2 00 | Soda, Ash.............34@ 4] _“ strictl -24% 2%@38 Picis Lia., — @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas..... |. @ 2 — ime Amer- mae... @ 8! Spts. "Ether Co ........ 50@ 55 ee Pil Hydirery, oa. 80).. @ 50] “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 0 Vermilion, English Piper Nigra, (po. _-- @ 1 " Myrcia timp... .. @2 50 | Green, Peninsular. Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ $s Vint Rect. bbl. A Piix Burgun........... en 2 40@750| ° white . _ - 54@6 Pinmbl Seat 1... "@ mk 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. @70 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... @% Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, sabe... ‘me 3 | White, Paris American 1 & PD. Co., dos... @1 25 a ; Ro en 2 @2% Whiting, Paris Eng. Pyrethrum, pv........ ‘ amarinds ........ ---- 8@ 10] CHM .................. 1 oe on | 7 = Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30} Universal Prepared ..1 00@1 15 a S.P&W 34%@39% | Theobromae .......... 45 @ 48 VARNISHES. S. German Sia Sy | Vata... 9 y 00} No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14; Zinci Sulph.......... So) extra Pare 166@1 70 Saccharum Lactispy. 12@ 14 Coach Body........... 2 00 Saleein 2 10@2 25 OILs. No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 boot 10 Sanguis Draconis 0@ Bbl. Gal | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 po, W.......... Whale, winter........ a) | 2 =, Dryer, No. 1 i -.... Rand, extea........... 90 | eere............ .... 70@75 Ge @ ited, Net. 42 45 Linseed, pure raw. 58 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. HAARLTINE =& PERKINS DRUG GO. Manutacturing Chemists, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROC. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. ay PRICE. CURRENT. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLEGREASE. |_ Apricots. CREAM TARTAR, OOTPON BOOKS, Peel. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. . doz — nee age cane . i = = —, pure.. so. 30 . = Citron, Leghorn, oa boxes 13 Souders', jms ie... i 60 : GO Lusk’s. sins i cn i 50 Gro cm 8 Absolute. Cay ison ee . 5 > “ 10 ee ee Diamond............ 50 5 50] Overiand.... LL 1 10 CATSUP. " ” ut 2 Best in the world for the money, Fraser’s.... _. = 9 0 Blackberries. om c Raisins. as .... , 65 coe ee 85 Blue Label Brand. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes @ $ Paragon 55 600 os Cherries. i —_ pink. 25 bottles ........2 75 eee yo ST ——_ i . 17 nt ss __ 4 50 acencia. 30 o BAKING POWDER. Pitted Hamburgh ..... i Quart 1 doz bottles 50 Prunes, —, sn — _ 1 40 Triumph Brand. = ary ri > California, 100-120.. . BK 2os ....§ %s — ~~ 2... I> | Half pint, per dos. ......... 135 8 1 book hundred 2 of & 90x100 25 Ib. b 8 4oz .... 150 % 1D. cams. 3 doz.... Damsons, Egg Pluras and Green | Pint, 25 bottles ..... 1. ‘eee eee oe be ae a xe. ? _ 7 ' 1 teeter ecees 1 @0 Erie ages, 135 Quart, per —... .. 3 i ; 3 ‘6 ‘“ ‘6 Ce 3 4 ‘i a ‘6 : “on Regula a ee 35 ; : oo 0x8 : 7 tegular Bul eoenn i ees 10 | California. species 135 CLOTHES PINS. see ue he iia 60x70 7% Vanilla. sO08e der a : i % > cans 6 doz case. 1 55 | Common ....... i e 1 25 | 5 gross boxes........... oan | “ - tc oe aussiadeien eda aestece | 2 02 BE 3D ee eee eres 10 Peaches, uperior. NY 2 i 2 1“ 2doz ss... ae 110 COCOA SHELLS. 8 1 books, per hundred ... 2 50 xx: ne wate ” [Ss Gee ~ '-----.. 900 | Maxwell ....... . 1 50 . oe rag, white, my eueon Flake. | Shepand’e 00) 159) S>'b bags... nd ada Ala Aho Se tee 81 35 = —— 3 oz cans 6 doz Pesci 2 7 | Calffornia........ 160@1 75 | Less quantity... | eaies | i - 400] No. 2. 6% 7. ae a 50 6 oz‘: 4doz * ...... 3 *) | Monitor Pound packages........6\%@7 oe i i 5 00] No. 1,6.... 1 2 40z..... 300 9 oz * 4doz - 4 80) Oxford... .. Boge inn 20 Ce 1 0 i h 2 doz : } Ars. se 5 5 Ib “ idoz aie”. 125 Manilla, white XX Grade Red Star, bd r cans | a ie 1 75 Green. BG nae anew cient cnn rene %5 Vanilla, wig we ee “5 Pineapples. Rio .... acon 7 pOS..... $1 75 “ ] (eon [oe ee 18 Coin 4.02..... 3 50 Telfer’s, ‘ Ib. cans, ‘dos. 45 | Johnson’s sliced...... 2 50 | Good. 19 Universal.’ Mill N paras . % 3 . % i grated cy 275 Extao .. : 1 books, per hundred... -. eo ll No. 4.. 90 gee ol i _. i ooth’s sliced @25) Ll 2 2 . wi a mo anilla Our, Leader, \% .b cans.... 45 . ———e....... Gs 5 s.r 23 83 C [ . FARINACEOUS GOODS. 202 regular panel. 75 1 20 % As Cans...... io Quinces. Santos 85 a " -- o@ 4 9 -1 50 2 00 “ 1 lbeans i7iGeae. se np ie * ‘s .. 600 Farina. 60 i ...2 00 3 00 Raspberries. ee a9 [820 = “ 7 op | 115 Ib. kegp............. 2% a. 3 taper.. ie 2 00 BATH BRICK. Be ed S Hap 95 — Sa i ee prices on coupon books Grits. No. 4 taper... 1 50 2 50 . iac amburg....... 1 46 eaberry 23 are subject to the following c . . ie” dozen in ati go | Erie, black .... 1 20 Mexican and Guatamala. quantity discounts: Walsh — & Pooaag 8..... 2.10 ———- Vanilla a . 0 Strawberries, a EEE TE 21 “0 books or over.. 5 per cent | Barre} flominy. 2oz oval taper 75 1 10 en r A. 1 25 | Good. 22 500 "10 i TEIB..... erreccccccescocs 3 O00 ‘6 1 20 75 Domestic | Hamt urgh . Shen 24 |1000 «ou Tee ie fe 3% 2 07 regular “ 85 ; on I . ; 20 b . ‘“ e oo BLUING. Frose Terra; in a : = Prime .__. “Manat oe COUPON P. ass BOOKS. Dried... = _— 5@b% in ae 225 Arctic, 4 oz ovals 3 60 Whortleberries. Milled . eee 24 | [Can be made to represent any i ; Rifle—Du a retic, ow 6 75 | Blueberries ... =e ...---- 3 ened bent kakbew. Private Growth... 2 scares a Se e....-. :? No. 2, sifting box... 2 % = llC 2 00 Quarter - ee ee ce 110 ae oO 409 | 2osst beef Armour’s...... Mandehling . eo 100 3 00 Pearl Barl (eae es =e ig oe a Potted ham, —iP.... io. “Mocha. or 6 Ble i Wii Wa —. traneereseetes Me oo a a i Imitation . i 10 00 | Schumacher... .......... 3x, | 4 Ib cans... ais loszball .... ia + (tongue, th... |. Arabian... i "98 ct eran Cee 3 =~ Bore—Dupont’s 5 Mexican Liquid, 4 oz...... 3 60 ‘“ ts 1b Re . ir 1006 sete ttteeeeeeeeee 17 50 P Keg: 16 se ss 8 oz. 6 & ss a. oon ee oaste SS lll eS e . chicken, Ib....... 95 CREDIT CHECKS. G Half Kegs...........--.: 2 40 r= i To ascertain cost of green, Du.... ............ 1 05 73 BROOMS, Vegetables. ssiien Gan a 500, any one denom’n...... 8 00 Bele perth. oy Guecienr hogs ba 1 * 0 ing and 15 pe EN ; _ Ao. 2 Hurl 1 90 ae per cent. for shrink 2000, * « _ | 8 00 Rolled Oats. Eagle Duck— Dupont’ 5. No 1 : 2 0 Package. Steel ere 75 | SC humacher, ett aig. 11 No. 2 > Cary = 4 ; ee acer % bbl. pe moriessee cs a 2 50 5 | McLaughlin’s XXXX.. <1 90 CRACKERS. Monarch, bbl ............ 375 pn, ob ce Econ. , . 250 soaked............... 70 | Bunola ... 31 36 Butter. Monarch, % bbl... .... .. 21011 Ib cans..........-..00000. Common Whisk. 95 | Lewis Boston Baked........1 25 | kdon, 60 or 100 1b. case.... 21 99| SeymourXXX............... 6 | @usker, cascs ........... 9 on azul Fane ‘ 1 00 | Bay State Baked............ 1 25 E Seymour xxx, cartoon..... Si. oven Baked... |... ........ 8 35 i: Warehouse.... 2 95 | World’s Fair Baked........ 13i~ © ee Pemiy Sax... Cid... 5 8 --_. ee = Peeste taka oe ee 1ty % BTOss........ ” - tonne XXX, cartoon...... 54 | German — 3 et INDIGO. ' a Corn. : . 1 alted XXX... os a hmmm : a og | Bamburgh ... .1 25 | Hammel’s, a. Kross. seeeee 1s Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 3% etc nnco eters: 3% | Madras, 51b. boxes....... 55 Stove, No. 1 Ee 1 25 Livingston ee 1 10 +. 2 oe Kenosha ee OF hia Wheat. 8. F.,2,3and5lb.boxes.. 50 FL Biren teetecncenes CM LE reiswenm ener nsenns -1 00 u RE 7 BOKOU...--..-.-220- .... - 8 ELLY, ive Root arab, § sew: | | Boney Dew nee 1 35 CHICORY. Butter biscuit 2200000001 6 speed: teas 15 Ib. pails.......-...- @ 38 ot Scrub, -- b) eres Glory... oda, i eT wee ereree 2 ee ; = Soaked a “ee 75 oe oe ; aoe. oar bee ee. = aii idiiails Bioaters. : 30 |. e 6 lo 288, eens ie ae eee 65 , ‘Capen. Hamburgh marrefat........1 9 CLOTHES LINES Soda, Duchess.............. ied Cod. i 7are..... iGo poe 30 Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes . early June 1s iy Sie... Mites fC 4% Calabrig..................... 25 or ae 9 cont ean Eng. 2 = Cotten, .- .. per dos, 1 25] Long Island | Wafers 11 | Georges genuine......... 7 ae a 12 ’ : weet ceee etit pois...... a a ster. Georges selected... oot ett ee ene eee 10 wicking eee 1 neue ancy sifted....1 65 T = ft . 16 City vet a. — Beneion, ee ae LYE, Fa a a . wteeteccreseceecerecss BD ‘ 70 tt co yster Hees seen ace, CAGE al ey ‘ Harris ee... 75 ss 80 ft. s 265) rerink Over... : PON IEE « ~~~ +00 xan Condensed, ; .. 1 20 CANNED GOODS. VanCamp’s marrofat...... 110] Jute 60 ft...... “ 85 Halibut. Fish. Archer’s an i = safe i? Seen. Smoked ............... 11@12 Clam ak Yo CONDENSED MILE. Domestic. Herring. Littie Neck : = 1 2 ite Mushroo ; ; 4 dos. in case. aaa Apples. 5% Holland, white pues keg q ererceces ~ coeeseeesececsecscesons 9@B2 27 6c ‘ bbl 87 Clam Chowder. _Jomehin. Evaporate a, 30 1b. boxes OAL Morwestan | 00000. Standard, Coa ; 2 25 | Hrie..... ccessees 80 California in bags.. ... gy, | Round, % bbl 100 Ibs bee = oe vaporated in boxes. .. 9 sina 30 Standard, 2 ib 7 i Blackberries, Sealed uM uaa - 15 Se nee 7% ackere oe Laetem l Nectarines. "| Me.1, Wei... 1 ee =" s ib a. seine . 70 Ib. bags................ am 3, S-------------. 4 9) Pionto, 1 Ib SO a 9] No: 2! to Ta... 02°22202.22 2h fo | Minge mest, 8 doz. in case. 2 7 a mn Peeled, in boxes........ eo Pee oe ee ee ee 3 08 Standard, iib...... aa . toe 115 MEASURES 2 Ib 2 10 ia —- 8% Family, — Sere bee weua. Tin, per ¢ ii Mustard, 2 Ib SS ears, W seseee. cscs 1 gallon.. 1 75 Tomato Sauce, 21b.........2 25 Se N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands ° eS i O% Sage Half gallon.......... a Soused, 2 Ib... 225 CHOCOLATE oC 7 401 Barrels ts apie. wpa “i au 3 Salmou or r ee ‘sia... CU Oe et al, 45 Columbia River, fiat.... ...1 75] German sya C interes 5% os nore ca No. 1, % bbls., TOOKbs.......-f oc] Half pint .... 40 - ah. Ini Paw 37 eiemmem ee No. 1 4 bbl, ae 2 3¢| Wooden, for vinegar, per doz. eel 1 30] Breakfast Cocoa...... : 43 eee 4 25 Prunelles. No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs.......... 65) i eeton......- 7 00 ~> -Oouup ¢ | itivormide 2 ane recent na a .. 3.00 150| Sugar house......... Emapgrtod 248.. _ @10| Gold Medai_..... 7177! ' . Raising. 10 Ib. kits.. Sa ae a Baking. ' ee 1516] Sxim _... Ex Loose Muscatels in Boxes. 8 lb. ¢ Mustard t eo Sian — 2 2 CLOWN .---.---. eee eee, ee TT eee ~ =e Porto Ric ” aa + 10+ cercsnebee sce « ” 22 dam ents 100 ; Lu os aoe ‘ MATCHES, ee 20 eiden oe eee 2 FP aici en Trout. i. ei : ce Muscatels in Bags. “ Giske Match Co.’s Brands, ancy ieee” 30 on o Pineapple... ES ee —— pi 3 atceeee Fee... ....,, $1 25 ee eqetlertic 2. ae seteceseesesceiee oes 4° | XXX Sulphur... ee is ie ai ave eB. Bap Bae 220 Foreign. Diamond Match Co,’s — Extra good.. oF standard ...... 90 | Schweltser. 1 io Cc Oo. 9 Suipher... = York State, gallons 2 ny | SCHhweltser, Imported. @24 ‘urrants. Anch Choice ...... 2 fiambureh,” care 250) «4 domestic .... gi4 Patras, bbls.. le No. home... tite i 70 Fancy.. ee Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75| Vostizzas, 56 1b. cases... 4 | Export parlor.............71 ‘ io Half -barrels Sc.exira PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 00 Half bbis, 600 couut.. @2 50 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00 Half bbig, 1,200 count 3 50 PIPES, (een, me, BG...........,.... 1 70 ~ 7. full count _- Cob, No. 3.. : . oe POTASH, 48 cans in Case, eee a, 4 00 Penna Salt Co.'s. 3 00 RICE, Domestic, Carolina head.. -. 5% met... i, 5 a 4% piene she ewes a elon cs cow ee 3% Imported, geoan, hoi... -.........,.. 5% : WO.e..... 2. 142.2... 5 OR eee ecvccccecoce § regoa......,.. etecaeease 455 SPICc ES, Whole Sifted. Allspice. G% Cassia, China in mats. 9% . Batavia in bund.. io ‘ Saigon in rolis...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna...... a u Pane hi Mace Gatavia....... ....... TW Nutmegs, _— eee eee 65 No. 1. boc . No. “son Pepper, Singapore, black. oe white -20 me. .......... 5 Pure Conia in Bulk. ee 15 Cassia, Batavia ee 18 and a = . on ae Cloves, Amboyna. . 2 - Zaneiver...... 18 Ginger, African. ............ 16 C tocnm............ 20 si Jamaica 22 Mace Daiave..........-... 65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. ee Trieste Louse ‘ Wirtmews, To. 2 -.......-.... - Pepper, Singapore, black.. white... 28 Cayenne. Mtoe wee. "30 “Absolute” in Pack ages. 44s a8 Atlenees ............... O86 Loo COO, cece cece ees GO | OO Cieven....... wence OO 1 SO Ginger, Jamaica. ue oe Oro Afvican ....... 96 13 Mustard...... oe ole rer re rites 84 155 Sage..... “ woes 84 SAL SODA. Granulated, Deis... 1% Til Casee...... 1% Lump, aa oe 45Ip Bees........ . SEEDS, Anise . @i3 Canary, Smyrna.. a 4 Ce 7 Cardamon, Malabar... 80 Hemp, Russian. 4 ee 14 Mustard, white.... 9 Poe os 8 meee... oo 5% Custie bone.......... 30 STARCH Corn. at 6 om ~ Cc... . . 5X Gloss. Lip peereeme..............,. 54% 3-lb ' i. Le eaaa -» OM 6-1b eee eee ea 5% 40 and 50 lb. boxes.. 33% Beare. ... 3% SNU FF. Scotch, in bladders. 37 Maccanoy. in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jarg.....43 SODA, ee Ss Kegs, English. a sone Diamond Crystal. Cases 243 Ib. bores......8 1 60 Barrels, 320 Ibs ee a 2350 “ 115 2% Ib bags. 4 00 “s 605 ib 3% 30 10 lb Butter, Seip Daie......... 65 miapoers......-.. 350 ‘“ 280 Ib De .oscccee 2 OO “ £m * 2 25 WwW orcester. -Ib Sacks. .84 (CO pean ace cease 3 %E et cee ee 3 50 Oe Poe eee aoe 320 Ib. a 2 50 8 lb sacks.. Lo 82% linen acks......-.. . @ —— Grades. 100 3-lb. sac . 82 10 asi. * i. oo 28 10-lb. sacks..... 1 Warsaw. 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags.. 30 28 Ib. 16 Ashton, 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins 56 1h, dairy in oa sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. 56 lu. SOCKS...... 22 Common Fine. PN ete 90 cas ida seen aces 90 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs. in box. So 3 30 Daengs................... 3 15 Dwight’s.... Ll eg 2. SEELY’S EXTRACTS, Lemon. loz. F.M.$ 90doz. $10 20 gro -_- os tae aoe -" Fei m4 * Vanilla, 1 oz. F. M. i 2 16 20 gro 7°88 210) “ 2 P.M. 2 50 ‘ 2550 Rococo—Second Grade. Lemon. Soe... 2. 70 GOs..... ao “ Vanilla. > aoe. .... 1 @doa..... i 58 * SOAP, Laundry. G. R. Soap Works Brands. Concordia, 10. % 1b. bars. ..3 50 i o DOG lots ......0 a " 10 box lots.......3 WD ' a box lote.......3 20 oi. ...... 2 5 box lo‘s2 15 25 box lets 2 00 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib........5 20 German F amily, ‘6 “ “ rT 3 Good Cheer,G)iib.......... 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-IbD...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Oomcere ................... 3 45 Ivory, Z OZ. ee a 6 75 : Oe 4 00 Lenox. eee ee eee es 3 65 Mottled German a 3 15 Town Talk. enna 32 iain ie. ae 3 95 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas, S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..%3 33 plain... 2 27 K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands, pales OO ea eee ee Bes, Oe ae ..........-. 10 ° S bar ..... "3 10 Lautz Bros. & Co.'s annie. aoe 3 65 CoteaGi..... | ...... 6 00 (a 4 00 ——- .... ........ ..... 400 Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands 3 65 3 30 Savon Improv on... 2 50 Sane ower ............. +. © Oe One is 3 25 Economica: .......... - 22 imei. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, 3 doe 2 40 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars. to which the wholesale dealer adds the lo- cal freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer says from the market in which 1@ purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Domino... .. 84 75 ee 4 75 CoDes ...... . 43 Powdered . oo ax Powdered. os . 462 Greigietea «|__|... 3 94 Fine Granulated........-.. 3 9t Extra Fine Granulated... 446 moma as... 4 37 Diamond Confec. A....... 40 Confec. Standard A. . 34 ae. f.. oe 3 81 [ 3 81 Wo 3............. ........ 3 81 no 66. . & ot mo Go... 3 7% es ie tesa cele. 3 69 no 7... 3 62 no f.. ..... 3 56 ae 8 3t No. 10 3 44 No. ti 3 37 fe. 3 31 ao. & ................-... 318 moe 8 3 12 SYRUPS, Corn. Barreis...... (deddoceeucaseaula Pratt bee. ................... 19 Pure Cane. Var ........-....-........... 7 mee... hee eee aes 20 aosee. 4s... TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ 8, large -- 4 small..... 27 Halford, ee eee see 3% — 25 Salad Dressing, —_- - 45 leas 2 65 TEAS. sJaPan—Regular. Pa... Good .......... et eaee Cuosee.............._., 24 Cieieent. ......... a Bim. 10 SUN CURED. Rar ...... 2.8 Gee. |... Cueice.................08 Choicest. a 32 —.......... BASKET FIRED. Pan... ...0 __oeee.............. Choicest. . Extra choice, ‘wire leaf GUNPOWDER. Common to fair.......25 Extra fine to finest. ...50 Choteest fan¢y........ 75 OOLONE. Common to fair... ...23 IMPERIAL. Gommon to fair.......23 Superior tofine........ 30 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 Superior to fine.......30 G2 G35 @i @s65 @Ss5 @r6 G30 Qx @35 @26 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Par .......... cecsce-tG Gee Choice......... 24. @28 ee .49 @BO TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Ruseet.......... 30 @32 2 Taber ............- 3t D. Scotten & Co’s ‘Brands. iaveos............. 60 es. .......... eoecce z [oT Spaulding ‘& Merrick’s Brands, Secrrmim.. 1... _—— Brands. Bazoo . @Q30 Can C an. a Se etaae @27 Heine Big.....__.._..- 24 @25 Uncle Hem.............00 Gr McGinty os o 27 % bbls.. oo 25 CO i asa... 24 Columbia, drums....... 23 Bowe tp... ....... 20 Bang up, drums........ 19 Plug. Sorg’s Brands, Moeerhiead .-.......... 39 OME occa an Leeeues 27 Nobby Twist.. 40 Scotten’ 8 ‘Brands. i Bylo... 25 Haawaetha,........ .... 38 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old Honesty.......... 4 Jolly Var..........-+-- 4 Lorillard’s Brands. Ciimax (8 oz., 41¢).... 39 Green Turtie.......... 30 Three Black Crows... 7 J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good...... a Out of Sight.. 2 Wilson & McC faulay’ 8 Brands. Oola Hepe ........... 43 Happy Thought....... 37 moeeete............- 32 Ho ret........ ....... 31 bes Go... .......... 7 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, ai Gre l........... “— Golden Shower. . os Huntress ee 23 Meerscosum es... . . . . - /29@30 American Eagle Co.’s Brands, Myvcice Navy... .......-.... 40) meee... eee 30 eran... 1s... 8... 15 BN oe ieee acces 32 Java, 8 foil.. 32 Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands, eee 6 Banner Cavendish.......... 36 Gela Cat ........,..... . 36 Scotten’s Brands, el... ........ ~ oe) iee............... Gold Bicek................. 30° F, F, Adams Tobacco Co.’s Brands, VOGtIeas ........,......-...- 26 = ge 18 ence... : Globe Tobacco Co.’s me eee 40 Lekdeendert’ s Brands. Hob Hoy........... ee aa 26 Uncle Sam..............20ae hed Clover.......... net ceuae 32 Spaulding & Merrick. ‘Tom and Jerry............ Traveler Cavendish...... oe EE eS few Bow... .... aig Corn Cane............. 16 VINEGAR. G7 ....... 2... oc. 4 GS oo ar...... -8 @ 81 for barrel. WET MUSTARD. Bulk, per gal Sees 3 Beer mug, 2 doz in Case. 1s YEAST, oe 1 00 werner es ....... ade aoe tock OO Weast Yoam ........ tone ceee ek Oo Teemond........ ........ Royal ..... \ os Se WOODENWARE, Tore mo 1... ......, 57% a «oe 440 — Oe... 2a Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 25 ™ Mo. 1, Giree-hoop.... 1 Bow, ti ineh.............. r a Ue Y — Me esceee 2 oe . mf 1 80 ay ~~ 2 40 ee eee HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: FUBS. =ae............ 30 @19 Coon sided ee Go na fo & Skunk..... _ wo Bis Rat, winter.. 68 G 11 mas, fall... .... 03 @ C8 mead Yoxu.... ... 160 @ 1 40 Gray Fou.,...... 40 @_ 6) Crees Fos....... 300 @5 09 ts 50 @100 Cat, wild........ 0 @ Cat. Bouse...... 0 @ Wisher ..........600 @ 600 Dyny............ 105 @250 Martin, dark.... 200 @ 30 Martin, paie, yel 100 @ 1 50 2 a i. ......... 2 @ WOOL. Washed .. . I @is Unwashed .... e @i2 MISCELLANEOUS. Tallow ......... weseee OGD 46 Grease but : @2 Switches .. 14@ 2 Ginseng...... “3 00@3 25 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 53 No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 53 MEAL, ete | 8... 1 40 Granniated............ 1 65 FLOUR IN SACKS. Petemig. ............ ean. TOOCRIMIRIOR.... 021... Meme... i ‘Oramem ................. 3 a Rye.. 1 40 *Subject ‘to’ “cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. ‘sual MILLSTUFFS, Less Car lots quantity ...... $14 5u #15 OO Screenings a 13 00 Middilings - 16 00 17 00 Mixed Feed... 19 50 24 00 Coarse meal .. 19 00 23 00 CORN. -—_e..l. 46 Less than Gar lobe...) 11k OATS. Car low..... . -.....,. ae Less than car lots . _ = HAY. No. 1 Timothy, car lots.... 9 50 No. 1 [ ton lots......11 00 FISH AND OYSTERS. FRESH FISH Whitefish (oe a it bine kK Bass. Bat POE oa aes aug Ciacoes or Herring. Bluefish... . F —" lobster, per lb. Cod... .. No. 1 Pickerel........ Pike Smoked White.. Red Snappers......... Columbia River Sal- ee kl a ll li coe. _........... OYSTERS—IN BULK. Counts ade Extra Selecta ..... Semmes ................ Scallops... ree gw cee, ——................ SHELL GOODS. Oysters, per 100....... 123 Clams. T5Q OYSTERS—IN CANS. F, J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. Fairhaven Counts... @33 BP. 2. D. Selects....... 28 OS @25 ¥. J. D., Standards.... 23 BeanG@erds, ........... 18 rave .............. 15 Standards. per gal........... 1 00 Anchor Stand: irds per gal..1 10 Oscar Allyn’s Brands. New York Counts.. ..... _..28 Extra Belectia...._.... 28 Selects ee ube cea e a, 25 IX L Standar: is. Lou. 29 eet, 8k ls, 12 (Ee 0 Standards, per gal..........1 0 IXL Standards, per gal 1 10 ee om : : = : EN CRUCKERY AND GLASSWARE LAMP BURNERS. 3 ee lnc ecue., oO No. ST eee no. .-.. Tubular....... —.... i . a 5D Security, Ne. t.......-. he peeurity, No. 2... oa . 80 Numer 50 Arctic.. . | — 12% ‘LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6 doz. in box. Per bo No. 0 Sun 135 a i 8s No.2 “ 3 7 First qua No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...2 10 No.1 se iT ‘ ‘ af 2 25 No. = se ‘ oc Ty 3 on L i XXX Flint, No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrappe 2d and labeled. 2 60 No t ‘ ae sé 7) ‘a 9 No.2 ‘ os “s 3 Pear] tor No. 1 Sun, wrapped 2d and la 3 70 No.2 * . . 470 No. 2 Hinge, “ ' ‘ --4 8? Fire Proof—Plain Top. No.7, Sun, plain bulb... Seen. i. 3 40 as UlUlUdlUU ee 4 40 ! La Bastie. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. . i... oo Noo * ‘sc ‘“s ‘“ Te mp, per doz... 1 ee ele alae 1 tochester. (Ove GOe oo se -o 40 fe doz) « 40 weceen). 4 30 Electric No.2, lime (70e doz . ../. 10 No. 2 flint (80¢ doz) Lecaa. ..4 40 Misce lane ous, Z er Roe Hester ..... . “a odoe ey . 15 il ier ‘. le wooek OO Barrel lots, 5 doz / 90 - Porcel ain Shades.... Lew ee ee 1 00 Cece lots Edo. ............. 90 nae No. 3 Rochester, lime . 43 No. 3 Rochester, flint. 4 80 No. 3 Pearl top or Je 5 25 No. 2 Giobe Incande 5 10 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. 5 83 No. 2 Pearl glass. oe 6 60 OIL CANS, Doz. 1 cans with spout | 1 0 1 ron, Derm ee . 200 22 ae - 329 3 f 4 50 5 . 66 » ga 6 50 ° gai ZT 00 . ga eee ee 5 gal Jans, Monarc h. ee dec ee eee, Se OU 5 gal galy iron Nacefas.... ee. oe Pump Cans, 3 gal Home Rule.... ee ee 10 50 ® gal Home Rule. 12 00 3 gal Gooden: UE... . +. Bea ce ecu. 12 6O @ @8l GOOdenOuED ......... 13 50 LPiate hie 10 50 LANTERN GLOBES No. 0, Tubu lar, ¢: aspen i doz Gach... ... 45 No. 0, ' se a. TT ee eae e em muee 45 No. 6 bbls 5 oa 41) No. 0 bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 00 LAMP WICKS, No. { 1 POT BTOSS..-..-.. ee eee eee eee eee eens OO No. eee ee eee ec ce 28 RO 38 No 65 Mammoth, per 7 4 Pints , per box (box 00 64 le doz (bb! zo Ws r f 1 80 iy — fo ~ — @el, Geez (bb a5)..... 26 Butter Crocks, 06 ‘6 60 Jugs, %& 7 “ ito4 07 Miik Pans 60 1 72 STONEWARE-—BLACK @LAZED, Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal 6% Milk Pans, % gal. per doz 65 as 7 OILS. The Standard Oll Co quotes as follows: BARRELS. Eoce _ ooo 9 x oe Ww. ‘W. Mich. Headlight...... owe i% Naptha.... ee : @ 6% Stove Gasoline ee ea a eee a @ 7% Cylinder. .... Engine. dl Lia Black, zero tést..... le ea ou 2 Black, 15 cold test.... . 10 FROM TANK WAGON. Eocene... i+ XXX W. W. Mich. Headlicht 5% Scofield, Shurmer & T ; Pare ........... ........... Daisy White..... Red Cross, W W He: adl ig] Naptba ...... << Stove Gasol FR ROM” TANK WAGON, << 5} ss W W Headlight E DUPLICATES OF 1< Ne GRAVINGS:. TYPE FORMS SINGLY OR TRADESMAN co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i8 _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “FOR VALUE RECEIVED.” Written for THE TRADESMAN. The question arises, What is value? Webster defines it as ‘*The property or properties of a thing which render it useful;’”’ or, again, ‘‘Estimated worth; price accepted as equivalent to the util- ity of a thing.” After all said in explanation, value— as applied to the millions of objects passed in exchange, the world over—is one of the most undefinable expressions in our language. The writer of Sacred Proverbs, who knew human nature so well, stated the truth of this matterin a nutshell when he described one typical transaction as follows; ‘“‘it is naught, itis naught, saith the buyer: but when he gives his way then he boasteth.” There are still differences of opinion nowadays between buyer and seller, whether expressed in words like these or not—since human nature is much the Same asin the days of Solomon. All human activities, since the race began, bave been directed to the ex- change of equivalents. Both buyer and seller are ever intent on pursuing the the phantom of actual value. Ever since England’s warlike sovereign offered his ‘*kingdom for a horse,’’ and found no taker,down to the latest shouted quotation in the modern stock exchange, men have been doing business with differing opinions as to the worth of articles sought to supply temporary wants— never perfectly in accord, yet ever clos- ing bargains on some satisfactory basis, because necessity com pels—leaving the solution of the question, ‘‘What is value?’’ to be discovered by wiser heads than their own. In a spirit of curious enquiry the question has often been asked, ‘‘What would be the effect of an _ irresistible force coming in contact with an immov- able body?” The true answer is still to arrive—since imagination can scarcely picture a sensible conclnsion in a case where the premises are so contrary to reason. As to the buyer and seller in open market to-day, two forces meet that are, in general, more elastic in their natures. They may banter and chaff, contradict and affirm, overpraise and depreciate in turn till patience of one or the other is overtaxed, but the real value in dspute_ will usually be found at the exact spot be- tween the extremes of opinion, marked by individual interest as the point of least resistance. Asal] the virtues belonging to humanity are better appreciated through contrast or comparison, so must the value of every marketable commodity be considered as relative to some condition indefinite and ever liable to change. Among these conditions fashion exerts an important influence on the market or relative value of articles which are in daily use, either for comfort or social display; but it sel- dom affects consumers unfavorably—in fact, they rather appreciate the in- creased expense entailed, because it narrows a circle that aims at nothing so much as to be exclusive. Combinations of capital in manufacturing enterprises, in wholesale lines of trade, or real estate deals, also exert a powerful influence on values; and this is the condition most commonly complained of by the people who are compelled to buy at market rates. While this is one of the evils common to a free government, for which no statesman or philosopher has yet de- the vised a remedy, there is comfort in the thought that it has some redeeming features and limitations. The buyers can afford to spend time in contending for the highest value in each small transaction which concerns daily supplies, however may vary the estimates of the parties thereto. The oriental style of bargaining does not pre- vail in this fast age, especially among the American people. The relative worth of anything desirable in the retail market is generally known in advance, so that haggling or beating down are now uncommen between shoppers and tradesmen, unless, perhaps, in the very remote rural districts. This is partly accounted for by the fact that leading retailers in every community in all lines of trade largely advertise not only their goods, but also prices on those that are most in demand. The customer, therefore, has only to compare quality with price to find the relative value. If his judgment is faulty he may not al- ways get the worth of his money; but, in the long run, exchanges under this system prove usually satisfactory to both dealer and customer. One practice still extant that confuses a customer’s estimate of true value is ad- vertising staple goods to be sold at 4,3, or 14g off what are understood to be usual retail rates. The public draws in- ferences from it which tend to demor- alize trade by diminishing confidence in the honesty of all dealers. Scarcely one of the shoppers who crowd to take advan- tage of such offers believes this frac- tional rebate is other thana catch phrase used to serve a temporary purpose, though many hope to secure bargains — thrown in among the general rush. Said a hustling butcher to a customer who was rather rusty in mental arith- metic, as he placed on the seales a roast nicely manipulated, ‘‘Seven times seven is seventy-seven. You may have that fine roast for seventy cents.’? As the pleased buyer passed out, enjoying the fiat ten per cent. rebate, while I blushed like a guilty endorser, the butcher winked at me, and said: ‘‘It takes only a little fast talk to make business pay.” The practice of retailing goods at re- bate prices is not necessarily question- able on the score of morality. It is one of the many well-worn devices of re- tailers to draw unwilling custom, and is as fair in a business sense as that of the jobbers who sell certain lines of goods at a discount from list prices, provided no misrepresentations are made or implied. The latter method, however, asa policy has a better justification in reason. Listed goods have a varying cost founded on small gradations in weight, dimen- sions, or quality, which determines the selling rate. As it is very inconvenient to change the price of each individual grade to meet market fluctuations, a permanent list is established which rep- resents the relative value in each grade, and the discount from this list is but a short method of adapting prices to cost, all the way between manufacturer and consumer. There is no doubt that excessive com- petition among retail dealers does create in minds of acertain class of consumers false ideas of true value. They infer from the sweeping reductions made by a few that the majority who maintain reg- ular prices are extorting unreasonable Such people indulge exagger- profits. ated estimates concerning the volume of business, and naturally nurse themselves into a chronic state of grievance thereat. With no experience in trade to instruct judgment, they presume to lay down an arbitrary limit of per cent. profit for all mencantile transactions, to go beyond which is extortion. But for home use they have a different measure, leaving percentage out of the question so far as profits are considered. From the stand- point of the buyer they define true value to be the lowest price asked by any seller. When they come to market as venders with fruit, grain, vegetables or other farm products, the value of each article is for them the highest price of- fered by any buyer. But concerning value as an exchangeable equivalent they have no intelligent conception. Strictly speaking, if all exchanges made in the world were actual equiva- lents in the sense that neither party could receive anything worth more than was passed in exchange, commerce would prove only a barren ideality, and men would have no incentive to better their condition. The fact is, in every actual transfer of value, whether it be labor for cash, labor for goods, labor for labor, prod- ucts for money, or products for products, there is always an advantage expected on one side or the other; and if the judgments of both parties to the trade are sound, each one should be againer. Otherwise, commerce might as well be a formal ex- change of tenpenny nails even up, ad infinitum. Granting these premises, it follows that a laudable object in all forms of ex- change may be to secure a profit, and when both parties to the transaction re- spect the average customs of legitimate business, the chances are fayorable for an equal division of that profit. If human nature could only rise to the high level of its possibilities, even a horse trade might be effected without transgressing the laws of God or man. What demoralizes value in mercantile transactions is the never-ceasing schemes of one or both parties to secure more of a fair share of what may well be termed “the unearned increment.”’ A—— buys a large lot of goods on credit ata fair value. After trying in vain to sell them to advantage, the cred- itor reclaims them, and to secure the money due puts them up at forced sale. B—— bids them in at half the original invoice price and afterwards sells ata good profit. All this change of value re- sults from A ’s lack of judgment and greed to grasp more of the legitimate profits of business than his capital justi- fied. In the larger markets of the world other conditions may enter as factors— such as overproduction, good or bad harvests, exhaustion of natural resources and war between nations; so that values are ever fluctuating, and he whois blest with the best judgment, foresight and memory usually receives a larger share of the wealth that comes from whole- sale exchanges than do others who are less gifted. The original question, therefore— What is value?—may be answered satis- factorily to themselves by these lucky investors. Yet he who in a narrower sphere operates on the true theory of ex- changing equivalents, wherein the inter- ests of buyer and seller are mutually protected, may succeed in maintaining a high commercial standing, and when striking a final balance sheet, find him- self possessed of a handsome surplus, besides the satisfaction of having al- a given full measure for value re- ceived. S. P. WHITMARSH. ANSE aUsage is something we do not care to talk about. Horse Feed is what we wish to discuss this week and we will use horse sense in doing so. Do You Sell Feed? Do You Buy Feed? Do You Use Feed? If so, note this: Lots of people make feed. Lots of people make poor feed. WE MAKE GOOD PRED! Uur Special Sale will continue for one week more and you will be wise if you take advan- tage of it. We guarantee satisfaction. Our feed has never been excelled. If you handle feed send in your order now and be ready to reap the har- vest. Don’t wait till the demand for feed is all gone before filling your bins. Valley City Milling Go., Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN. i} Panacea for Dull Times. Written for THz TRADESMAN. When trade is dull don’t stick your hands in your pocket and draw your face down, thus calling attention to the fact, but bring your goods to the front, make a good display of some article, and, by judicious advertising, command atten- tion. Get people to talk about you and the ‘‘snaps’’ you offer and they will be- come interested and spend their money with you. A department store will engage a “curio” to place in a front window to at- tract the people, and on all sides of the particular object or mechanical inven- tion so exhibited will be displayed vari- ous articles, to which are fastened pla- cards setting forth in conspicuous char- acters the superiority of manufacture and the points wherein it excels over competing articles of like design. A sled, a table, a stand or picture rack is marked so low that you wonder how it can be made for the price. Some article in the line of actual necessities is offered at wholesale rates. What’s the result? People talk about what first caught their eye and then remark the bargain offered. They tell acquaintances that ‘‘So and So” has a window worth looking at. They say, ‘‘Yes, we’ve heard about it,’’ and they will put themselves to some trouble to go home that way to see for them- selves. More than half the people who gaze from the outside will go in, and half of those who go in will buy sometbing, and the aggregate daily sales will make the proprietor happy and pleased with his scheme. The dry goods houses advertise special linen sales, and the stores are thronged, but you don’t suppose fora moment, do you, that their sales are confined to linen goods? If so, you are mistaken. The dissemination of the special sale idea brings people to the store, and then courteous clerks interest them with the various lines of merchandise handled, and liberal purchases of miscellaneous articles from the various departments swell the merchant’s daily average. Careful investigation will show that, wherever you see business going on lively, there are vim and vigor at the head of the institution, and the hustle appar- entis the legitimate outcome of per- sistent and well-directed reaching out for trade. Conditions are largely what we, as individuals, make them, and the successful dealer is the one who is ever alert to do a favor, and to make a person feel that his orders are appreciated. This is the season of the year when trade is usually quiet, when a seeming lethargy keeps people from buying, and, therefore, it is all the more necessary that special inducements be put forward to attract the dollars to your till. Put your best foot forward, be pleasant, be up to the requirements of your business, and don’t let trade get dull. Be careful to select help that have the qualifications necessary in your particular line, see that they are bright, keen and obliging, and keepin close touch with them by taking an interest in their welfare. There isn’t an employe about you in any capacity who does not walk a little firmer when good work is noticed and appreciated; and when it is so easy to do or say something to create a better un- derstanding, don’t let the opportunity go by default, as it is in the end a matter of dollars and cents to you. If proper care is exercised in buying goods, and proper discriminationis used in surrounding yourself with the bright- est, brainest persons to assist the busi- ness along, with a liberal use of printer’s ink, there will be no dull times with you, and the wail of the calamity howler will strike no responsive chord in your mental make-up. FRANK T. LAWRENCE. — 1 Weak Features of the Income Tax Law. Whatever may be said in favor of an income tax in general, the proposal which was carried at the last session does not commend itself to anyone who has studied the history of direct taxa- tion. The new tax is levied with entire disregard of justice to those who pay it, and with no real security to the govern- ment which undertakes to collect it. It assesses all incomes eqnally, regardless of the fact that they differ very greatly in value according to the source from which they are derived. Incomes from land and investments have the highest value; those from trade and manufac- turers eome next; those from professions rank lowest, as being most precarious. The English law taxes these according to their several valués, thus adjusting the burden according to the ability to bear it. The old American law—which was denounced as unconstitutional and oppressive by the party which enacted the present one—also made a discrimi- nation between larger incomes and smaller, which was sound in principle, and might have been carried much farther. On the other hand, the new law gives none of the securities required for a thorough assessment. It extemporizes, hastily, a body of officials without ex- perience, and directs them to throw the dragnet of the law over the whole coun- try. Their trust-worthiness is untested. Their knowledge of the field is simply nothing. Their inexperience is un- limited. The English law is in the hands of an expert staff, under the direc- tion of a permanent commission. It knows the people of every neighborhood and their style of living. It watches with the eye of a hawk every transaction which gives a clue to the value of in- comes, wills, sales of property, and the like. It thus makes the tax as inevita- ble as death, and acecustoms the least honest to obey the requirements of the law, and all this without any sort of publicity, except where theclaims of the commissioners are disputed and have to be tested in the courts. The United Kingdom, again, is a little compact country, with an area not much more than a thirtieth of that of the United States, while the population is about two-thirds as great as ours. The machinery needed is less expensive, al- though the distribution of wealth every- where pays for itself, except, perhaps, in Connaught andthe western High- lands of Scotland. Our new tax neces- sitates an array of officials who in most parts of the country will have nothing to collect. They will be as much at their ease as the North Carolina colleetor who replied to Mr. Carlisle that he had no opinion as to the differ- ence between specific and ad valorem duties, as there were no importaiions at his port. This, indeed, will make the law a very comfortable arrangement for the party in power, but not for the people at large. FRANK STOWELI.. Spring 1895. Our salesman will shortly cal you with a complete and vite Pi ad of Novelties in Hair Ornaments, Belt Buckles and Pins, Garter Clasps, Czarina Collarettes, and everything produced for the season, in connection with our usual complete line of Jewelry. Wait until you have seen our goods before placing your order, WURZBURG JEWELRY CO., 76 Tlonroe St., = = Grand{Rapids. SHAW’ NAME FILE OR on LIGHTNING ACCOUNT KEEPER “und ae 7 y GA Galtame | ist | Mr. J. C. Suaw—Dear Sir—l have one E | of your file books. The only thing I can D-| blame you for is that your brain did not |work quicker, for then Il might have | been saved these years of worry and la- bor, and perhaps my hair would not have | been as gray asit is now; and the only | thing more I ean sayis ‘‘Eureka,’’ and | suecess to you and your file book. | J. K. Farting, Hardware Merchant. No Day Book, ter accounts on slips instead of day- The) No Ledger. book. File these in pockets. names will make an index. Grand Rapids. Strong testimonials and descriptive circulars furnished by 1. SHAW, Sole Mnfr., 29 Canal St., Grand Rapids. Big Money to Agents. WHOLESALE OYSTERS OSCAR ALLYN, 106 Canal St. For Fish, Game and Poultry telephone 1001. Barn Telephone 1059. Storage and Transfer Co. Office Telephone 1055. SECURITY 257—259 OTTAWA ST. Moving, Packing, Dry Storage. Estimates Cheerfully Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of Household Furniture. F. S. ELSTON, Mgr. Given. Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage Wagon at all hours. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis- --Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence NEW York, Jan. 19—The jobbing gro- cery trade is without special feature. Trade remains steady, but it cannot be called brisk. The usual forces are ampie to wait on all customers, and, while there are quite a few buyers from out of town in the dry goods district, their number is not large when we reach- the heart of the grocery section. Pur- chases are being made in an everyday manner, and nothing is sought after ex- tensively. It seems strange that coffee should keep up in price the way it does. Reports from Rio note firm market there, so the situation here seems but a reflee- tion of the primary points. No. 7 Rio is worth l6c here. Mild sorts are steady and firmer and quite a trade is. being done in some sorts. Refined sugars are meeting with usual trade. Quotations are without change, but, as remarked last week, rates would probably be shaded rather than lose a good sale. Granulated, 3 13-16c. Molasses and syrups are steady, and buyers and sellers agree much more readily than they have done, because the buyer takes it and asks no cvuncessions. All grades are in better position, and the baser sorts were helped by the disposal of an amount, said to be some 20,060 barrels, for home distilling purposes. Rice is tirm and former quutations are firmly adhered to. Good to prime, 424 @5 7g e. Butter is dull and uninteresting. While receipts are not excessive, the feeling is rather weak, and 25c is cer- tainly the very highest quotation which can be made. Cheese is steady. Full cream is held with quite a degree of confidence. Small sized are worth 1134 @12e. Eggs are steady, with 22c as the top quotation, and in many cases this will be shaded. Canned goods are dull, duller, dullest. Baltimore brokers try to make out that a brisk trade is going on there and that business is improving daily; but these reports lack confirmation, if we may judge by the spirit of the New York mar- ket. Canning factories are becoming as plenty as skating rinks were during the craze and they promise to be about as re- munerative to the builders. Dried fruits are in rather better shape and holders are feeling more and more encouragement. This is true of nearly the entire range, both of foreign and do- mestic. Provisions have experienced a good ex- port demand and are firm and higher. Mess pork, $12.75@13; lard, $7.02; beef, $10@11.50. Breadstuffs remain about unchanged. Wheat, 60% @61¢; corn, 514¢; oats, 34@ 34i¢e. Fresh fruits are firm. Unfrosted Flor- ida oranges, $2.50@4 per box; apples, $2 @3.50 per bbl. for greenings. People who have been acquainted with New York around College Place will no- tice a big change there, as the entire west side of the streetis being torn down in order to make the thoroughfare wider. It is a big work. The Secretary of a large insurance company decided a short time since that it would be better for his office work to introduce haif a dozen or more women as typewriters, operators and_ assistant book-keepers. He had noted that, of the feminine employes in his office, the pretty ones were the least effective and attracted the most attention, to the detriment of the work of the other clerks. So he de- cided to engage only women who were of mature years and experienced in office work. First, he advertised, stating that applicants should give age and number of years’ experience. He did not succeed | in getting a single satisfactory reply. Then he went to a well-known business college and told the manager that he did not suppose he would have any trouble in aiding him, as he did not want a/! young or attractive-looking woman. The | manager listened to him while he ex-| plained his wants, and then, going to a | desk, took out a file of letters with asmile | and laid them before his visitor. There! THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. were upward of half a hundred applica- | tions from banks and commercial institu- | tions, and every one of them, without a single exception, asked for a woman of | mature age. The manager said that it was absolutely impossible to supply the demand for employes of the description that business men now demanded, but he had rafts of pretty girls at all times who were applicants. —-—_—_ -6 <> From Out of Town. Calis have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: Chas. McCarty, Lowell. Friedrich Bros., Traverse City. Cole Bros., Kalkaska. Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. John M. Flanagan, Mancelona. —_—oc +4 The Drug Market. Opium is dull and weak. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is a little firmer on account of increased demand. ——- 2. —>- - The insurrection in Hawaii of a few hundred malcontents, which was met and defeated by the Government before an organization could be fairly effected, has excited almost as much comment in this country as though it bad occurred in our own territory and gives an added sig- nificance to the overtures of the Dole for annexation. Perhaps nothing else could have occurred to show how greatly American influence and in- terests government predominate there. These are to warrant careful consideration at the hands of our Goy- ernment and it is notimprobable that an- nexation may finally result. —————__ ~~ +2 Some undertakers whose customers are poor people are using coffins made of paper. The coffins are made in ai} styles out of pressed paper pulp, just the same as the common paper buck- ets. When they are varnished and stained they resemble polished wood, and in point of durability they are much better than wooden ones, it claimed. certainly sufficient is —_————+2 —<- The cold world little realizes the sense of desolation that shuts down on a man who thinks he has been handed too much change by his grocer, when he dodges round the corner and finds it correct to a cent. ——~ -6 <> It isa common thing nowadays to see aman smoking a cigar who cannot afford a clean collar oftener than once a month. a Gillies’ fine New York coffees are clean values. J.P. Visner will soon see you. % OYSTERS & Note New Prices. Daisy Grand, Favorites, per can... ........ 14 Daisy Brand, Standards, per can ........... 16 Daisy Brand, Selects, per can.............. 2 Solid Brand, Standards, per can. — 18 bole ireand, =F peréan. le Solid Brand, Selects, per can................ 24 Solid Brand, Extra Selects, percan.........8 26 Standards. oer pal... is eee 90 Pein ences per eet. 1 00 Oysters fine and cans well filled. The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with boiled cider, very fine: ee el €5 re ee 5) ae we ae a 45 ae LULL. 40 1 quart Mason Jars, per doz......... - 1 f pints Mason Jars, per dozs............. % Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the Oestmeade. Pricoper €age .. 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: ie oe oe oC 6 aie Pee Beri 6% oo wee bee 646 -iD. Cone, per Gee... (oe cbecesece 2 ofO Came per Gace... .._. |... Se Se | Pint Mason Jars per doz........ 1 40 oer Macon Jars, per doz ............. _. 2 25 Fure Cider Vinegar, per galion.............. 10 Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon........ _ = New Pickles, medium, barreis............... 5 00 [hew takicn Ghee 8 2% New Seucrkrant bermeis 3 4 00 New Sauer Kraut, \% barrels................. 2 50; | Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40} Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 | Mapie Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00 Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails ............... 1 00} EDWIN FALLAS, Grand Rapids, Mich. SWEET’S HOTEL. MARTIN L. SWEET has assumed control of Sweet's Hotel, retaining the Messrs. Irish as manager. Extensive improvements have been made throughout the house. Steam heat has been putin every room, and the office, remodeled and newly decorated, is one of the handsomest in Michigan. ite Phas: ee ete ap AS WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK. MERCHANTS NOTE OUR TERMS \ FAY) I/] ALL RUBBERS ‘$4 |\) 1] SHIPPED DURING JAN. FEB. 08 MARCH are not PAYABLE UNTIL MAY {ST 1895. OUR SOUVEN/2 BOOK® FROM "THE FOREST TO THE FOOT.” SENT FREE UPON APPLICATION» ew rie page ' ~~ 22 + old on Its Merit: Order from Your Jobber Grand Rapids Soap {Works, HEROLD-BERTSGH SHOE 60., 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 Rubbers. ee ee for W ales-Goodyea Consult Us Before Placing Your ee —__ Orders. os +—----—___--—-_ --— ~_— 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. PANTS—Men’s and Boys’ at all prices. SHIRTS—Domets, Cheviots and Percales. Finest and most complete line ever shown in Western Michi- VOIGY, HERPOLSHEIMER & GO. 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. Are you ready for it? Place orders early. Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great i 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, ~ 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 Ib. tubs, and 50, 5 and 3 Ib. tins. Mich First car- You will MUSSELMAN GROGER GO,, Grand Rapids j | Our «New Gem.” oO The Pride of the Household.