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Will Priges Decline ?
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Will Prices Remained Unchanged ?

It is a conundrum, but we will predict that sugar is now
at the bottom notch.
are not prepared to say just how soon.

Higher prices are sure to come, but we
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THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The man was what Dr. Johnson would
call ‘‘an odd stick,’ and, when he
“sidled”’ in here, the other day, and be-
gan to talk about ‘‘what funny things
are happening right along every day,” I
happened to have been thinking the same
thing, and encouraged the visitor by say-
ing, ‘‘How do you mean?”

‘*‘Well, in a good many ways. I think
it’s remarkable that we had to wait until
day before yesterday, or, better say,
early this morning, to find out that the
human race has been killed off at the
rate of nobody knows how many thou-
sands a year by alittle mite of a some-
thing you can’t see and which, until they
find a good name for it, they’re calling
‘microbe,’ about the same as we eall the
baby ‘it’ until we finally settle down ona
name that’s worth something. Then,
after the microbe has been proved to be
the imp that has been doing all this mis-
chief—after he has been hunted down by
Pasteur, who tracked him for years and
finally invented a shotgun that will wind
up his murderous career—ten times out
of ten, nobody seems to care anything
about it and will go right on giving the
deadly little tike full swing.

‘After kerosene came into general use,
about every other morning the papers
would have an item stating that some-
body ‘had found that “the path of
glow-ry leads but to the grave,” and had
got a good start by kindling the fire with
the help of the oil can.’ The hotels
found it not only necessary to put up a
notice over the gas jet not to blow out
the gas, but had to station a boy at the
chamber door, with his nose to the key-
hole, to make sure of furnishing break-
fast to Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed; and, just
so long as there is an old well to be
brought again into use, just so long will
there be found somebody who ‘can’t see
no use’ of the folderol of lowering a can-
dle to see if it’s dark down there, and
who, later on, is fished out witha rope,
half dead.”

‘You think, then, there is a power in
the unseen that can be turned to practi-
cal account—is that it?”

“Why, yes, it amounts to that, a good
many times. Over in Swampscott, some
years ago, they had a terrible time. It
was claimed to be one of the healthiest
towns in the State, up to that time. All
at once, diphtheria and typhoid fever
came in and went to work and the peo-
ple died off like sheep. Superstition
isn’t dead here in this country, for all
its so many years since the Salem
witches were hanged, and the ministers
and the other good people of the piace
came together to see if prayer couldn’t
stop the pestilence. While they were so
engaged, a physician who had his wits
about him went prowling around and
finally came across a well of water that
wasn’t exactly like Chaucer’s well of
English, for, if there ever was water that
was defiled, it was the ‘dripping cool-
ness’ that the old oaken bucket brought

 

 

up from that well. After the meeting
had adjourned, the physician called on
the selectmen to clean out that well and
cut off the extract of graveyard that was
oozing into it. That done, the diseases
that came near depopulating the town
‘folded their tents like the Arabs and as
silently stole away.’ Then the people
called another meeting, ‘to give thanks
to the Lord,’ as one deacon put it, ‘for
delivering them from these angels of
death,’ when, the fact was, the Lord
hadn’t had anything to do with it; and,
if they’d had wit enough to put into prac-
tice a little of their knowledge of the un-
seen, the undertaker’s wife couldn’t have
come out that winter with a seal skin
sack and a new silk gown.

“It’s wonderfu! how this superstitious
ignorance has left its ‘footprints on the
sands of time’ ever since there were such
sands. Speaking of gas a little while
ago made me think of it. Wasn’t it Van
Helmont that was scared out of his five
senses and in his fright gave a name to
our common gas? I think it was Van
Helmont—we will give him the credit of
it anyway. He had been getting ac-
quainted with our unseen friends—a
friendship, however, that tolerates no
unseemly familiarity—and was getting a
little scarey at the blue flames and the
sulphurous fumes which were more than
suggestive of—of—well, the devil, for
that is exactly what he thought of. Mat-
ters came to a crisis one day. One or
two assistants had been laid up for re-
pairs—pure carelessness; but, when an
explosion killed another, the brave
Dutchman concluded he had better take
the experiment at that point and go on
with it himself—being a little more equal
to coping with His Satanic Majesty, if it
should come to that, than one less expe-
rienced. Experience, however, found it-
self overmatched that day, for, hardly
had Van Helmont taken the vessel in his
hands, when it was wrenched from him
with a violence he had never seen before,
and a thousand pieces were scattered in
every direction. ‘Es ist ein geist!’ ex-
claimed the terrified chemist, and stepped
not on the order of his going into the
open air. And ‘geist’—the ghost—as gas
is proving itself a good servant but a ter-
rible master.

“I might go on with this, for the lan-
guage is full of these words which mean
so much when you know where they
come from; but I’m tired and so are you.
You'll find, however, that this microbe
business has come to stay, and you'll
find, too, that, even in the world of trade,
the unseen is the all-powerful, and that
they are most successful whose invisible
thought has laid its finger upon mer-
chandise and turned it, Midas like, into
gold.’’

1 can’t hear a man go on in that fash-
ion without piling up a stack of buts for
him to climb over; but he was gone, as
he had come, before I could throw a sin-
gle one of them in his way. There is no
doubt about the power of the unseen,
but, whether the conclusions reached by
the Odd Stick are admissible, each

 

 

 

reader of THE TRADESMAN must decide
for himself.
* * *

I wish I could make every tradesman
believe that no antidote is quite equal to
& preventive in the matter of disease,
and that much of the mischief which hu-
Manity suffers might be stopped, if it
could be constantly borne in mind that
these unseen evils are the children of the
dark. A dark store isthe bane of every-
body and of everything in it, and the
evil doing is not all unseen. It means
damaged—if not ruined—eyesight; it
means lack of healthy air, for too often
the Indifference that shuts out the light
shuts out the air also; it means headache
and want of vitality, the forerunner—
both of them—of mistakes and depres-
sion, and often of sickness, all to be pre-
vented by the friend of all—the shining
sun.

= ££ «€

I wonder if it is going.too far to say
that a dark store is the precursor of
crime. If that be possible, I can under-
stand how Jimmy Jones, a grocery boy
who comes over every morning to sweep
out, isn’t going to turn out well. The
grocery in question is in the middle of
the block, and, of course, is lighted only
at the ends. Jim is like all boys—no
better, no worse—and especially hates
Sweeping, as that is the principal thing
he is expected to do. Like the new
broom he handles, he Sweeps clean for
a while; but his arms ache and he pretty
soon finds that nobody is going to follow
him ’round with a lamp or a candle to
see if his corners are carefully looked
after—or the middle of the floor, for that
matter—midway between the front and
the back windows. Hesoon learns, ona
dark day, that, if he doesn’t sweep at all,
no one is going to be any the wiser. He
is sharp enough to keep things shipshapa
where they are seen and he lets the rest
g0. Heis quick in mind and body and
soon has a call tocome up higher. He
finds there the same conditions, some-
thing else taking the place of the broom;
and, when the newness wears off, he
finds it’s just as well to let some things
go, and a little observation soon tells him
what. Every kitchen has its sink drain,
and it’s a great pity if he can’t have one
in his, and he does. There is no need of
following Jimmy’s after history in this
brief life-story, but, some day, when I
pick up a paper and read that James
Jones, the trusted cashier of the whole-
sale house of Dark, Dingy & Co., has ab-
sconded, [ shall think of how Jim Jones
got his start in that grocery where, at
midday, be couldn’t find anything on the
floor without lighting a match, a good
point driven home—as the schoolmaster
said when he sat down on a tack !

* ss *

There is a wholes:le provision house
in—South America. It is doing a big
business and making money, but, do you
know, for the life ot them, they can’t
find time to give that establishment an
overhauling? Teams are coming and go-
ing and every man is on the keen jump

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

from morning until night. ‘Oh, things
are not so dreadful. Once ina while, a
stray potato or an orange, a pear or a
banana, will roll out of sight and decay
in a corner, but you can smell ’em when
they get that bad, and one or another
will follow it up and clear it out. One
of these days, we’re going to have a gen-
eral clean-up.” But it keeps being ‘‘one
of these days,” and the decaying banana
has plenty of company back there in the
dark, and the ‘‘one and another’’ have got
so used to the rank odor that the fruit
lies there undisturbed. You'd better not
try to go down cellar. The windows are
shut this weather, and, of course, it’s
damp down there and you’ll be apt to get
cold, say nothing about the risk you run
of breaking your neck over boxes and
barrels, for it’s dark as a pocket down
there. Healthy? Oh, well, Pushem com-
plains a little of headache and he’s
white’s a consumptive; and the office
force is a cadaverous looking crowd—but
that’s because they are all tired out.
The book-keeper complains of his eyes,
but, while the office is rather dark on a
cloudy day, it’s twice as dark as it would
be if they’d wash the windows once.

One of these days, it will be remarked,
as Pushem—or all that remains of him—
goes by, that “itis a strange dispensa-
tion of Providence that took away that
comparatively young man in his useful-
ness;” but, as the Odd Stick said about
the epidemic in Swampscott, Providence
didn’t have anything to do withit. One
of these days, when the sunlight gets
into that storehouse, and the cellar win-
dows are forced open, and the air, foi-
lowing its own sweet will, gets into the
farthest corners of that dungeon, some-
one will say, as the reeking refuse is
thrown into the garbage wagon, ‘*There’s
what killed Pushem. When will men
learn that darkness and disease and death
always travel together?”

.- «& Ff

‘J didn’t build this place and am not
responsible for the dark,” said a mer-
chant, when comment was made on the
gloomy interior. Thatis very true. It
has come to be the case that, while tbe
builders of storehouses are now and then
so building as to let in tbe light—and air
—it is only now and then. On the cor-
ner of North and Soutn streets a fine
brick building was put up last year. To
a first-class grucer was given the choice
of room. The one on the corner—the
place—he refused and took one in the
middie of the block. What a store for
groceries that corner would have been!
In addition to the large windowed front,
there was the whole of one side of the
store to be thrown into windows, doing
more in the way of heaith and cleanli-
ness than all the Boards of Health in the
country!

One of the first advantages of such a
store as that might have been is the dis-
play of goods. it makes no difference
what the merchandise is, the customer
wants to see it, and, moreover, wants to
see it by daylight. If it be old stock, so
much the more is the light desirable, for
the buyer, knowing that it is old, ex-
pects a bargain as an inducement; but
he wants nothing worthless, even if he
is getting it for nothing, and the sales-
man can do more effective work with
such goods when the customer can see
for himself. Also, he is less liable to
the buyer’s stinging reproof—if the

goods are not what it was hoped they |

 

would prove—‘‘l came as a purchaser
and you ‘took me in!’”’
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A great deal has been said, of late anent
windows and window dressing. It at-
traets the crowd. It draws custom. It
is a means—the best means—of artistic
display. Itis a silent recommendation,
to the passer-by, of what is inside, and
it leaves the impression that an attrac-
tive store like that is the place to trade,
when the time comes to buy. If this be
true of the front window, much more is
it true of the store having the advantage
of light on three sides. It becomes, in
fact, under thoughtful and skilful bands,
a show case to those outside, and those
having much to do with show cases need
not be told that the customer who looks
into an attractive show case is lost. A
glance of admiration, a desire to ex-
amine, followed by a request to be al-
lowed to do so, ends in a sale, to the
gratification of all parties concerned.

There is nothing pleasanter to the
American in Paris, after he has blessed
his eyes with the glories of the Louvre,
than to cross Rue Rivoli and saunter
along its miles of stores. There is noth-
ing he cares to buy. Thereiseverything
in the line of merchandise to be seen,
and every window, a picture in itself,
stays his steps. There is no lack of
light—the window in most cases is the
store—and the display is all that French
taste and ingenuity can make it. There
is nothing he comes to buy, I repeat; but
he who leaves that street without adding
to his possessions does so because he
finds, after selecting something he must
have, that he has left his purse at home.

I hope, some day, to see my ideal cor-
ner grocery. Its leading attraction will
be the glorious light. Its front windows
will be beautiful pictures skillfully fash
ioned out of goods so fresh and so invit-
ing as to make me buy whether | will or
no. The store will be always clean and
sweet. Taste will arrange the shelves,
and, with masses of color such as only
groceries provide, I will have a picture
from front to back that will be a delight
to the eye, and a surprise to the beholder,
because the world has so long believed
that there is nothing in common, and
never can be, between art and the corner
grocer; and when the artist has done his
work, and I step to the street to note the
effect, the crowd around will agree with
me when I say that the store with its
line of windows is a huge show case and
as pretty a picture as one would care to
see. RICHARD MALCOM STRONG.

 

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When a man lives on credit he is not
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Signal Five
Best Havana Fler o¢ igor

Manufactured by

Ed. W. Ruhe,

47 Dearborn St., Chicago.

 

Represented by
F. E. Bushman,
523 John St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK CANDY.
Cases _ Pails.

  
 

  
 

 

Gtenderd, per Ib......... i
- ae. 6 7
. inv eeeues 6 7
Boston Cream ........... 84
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MIXED CANDY.
Bbis Pails
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a_i 5% 5%
—— oa heen 6 i”
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PETS nc sc oe sce 5 i*
Broken Taffy ese now ee -- baskets 7
Peanut Squares............ 8
ees Cres. 22 none 9
Valley Creams... ..... 124%
ae cane Ay baskets. ES ee 8
oes cer cee ses cscs cree
Panoy—In bulk
Pails
Lozenges, — ee eee tee 8%
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Chocolate aan Se de aay eee ee 11
Chocolate Monumentals.............-..+-00- 12
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Ok ee ee ee ee 7%
Soar Oee........ 8
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Fancy—lIn 5 lb. boxer. Per rs
bomen Dees...
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Chocolate Drops. . oe ee . 65
H. M. Chocolate Drops... Sele oe see ae 75
ao... —
Be i hes ed eee eee eee
A. ©. Leeorice Drope............-...-... .-0+-- 13
Lozenges, —ae. Det eee seen ac eee ee 60
pr’ —_—- ee ee eee ee
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Cream Bar i" _
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Hand Made Cream . 0 am
Pisin Creamas........ 6 3@30
Lecorated Creams.... ee
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Weegee Werreee............ 60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, ts boxes.. 34
No. : 51
No. 2 “ : sé 28
ORANGES,
Pioridas, Fancy Brights 126................. 3 7
Piocidas, Fancy Brignis, 190...... -... ....- 4 00
Fioridas Fancy Brights, 176, 200. 216........ 4 25
LEMONS.
oe es eect ee Lets 25
Extra Choice, 300 . cd eepueeeetse couse, cose
i, 35
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BANANAS.

Eerce tees... ..... 159
Samer Crees... ec we Hel 23
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, Caney tayers 160. ................ 12
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- exe is ecu 11

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Dates, rard, 10-1b. box ed cou oc meee arse @7
cokes @é6
. Persian. G.M.50-Ib box. @5
_ Lis Bovak, Bee .............._- @
NUTS.

Almonds, —— eo letiegee
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Tavie Nuts, aa, G10%
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Poceas, Wem, &. Pt 6@7%
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Hickory Nuts per ‘bu., ieee 1 50
Oncosnate foil <aege oa a 410
Duiserinss per Ma... 5... 60
Bisck Walnmis, por be,.......... ...... 6u
BANUTS.
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we ‘Roasted 62 6
Fancy, i. P. A cs. a 5%
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Hind quarters... ....... - s+. . 4G 8
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STREL RANGE MAJESTIC.

What the Hardware Trade of
Michigan Says of It.

The most prominent stove merchants
in Michigan who have given a lifetime
of study and observation to the subject
of cooking apparatus, unite in saying
that the Steel Range Majestic is the best
constructed, the most economical in the
use of fuel, the most perfect and satis-
factory in its operation of any stove or
range that has come within their notice.

Besides this, more than one hundred
thousand housewives unite in saying that
it is so far superior to other cook stoves
and ranges they have used that their
cooking by its use is made a positive
pleasure.

The Steel Range Majestic is backed by
the strongest and most swee ing guar-
antee ever made upon any commercial
article.

 

STEEL
RANGE

housewives pronounce it the greatest

100, 00 cooking range. 1896 fire linings guar-
anteed for five years against burning; other
parts for twenty ‘five years against breaking.
Descriptive cook book, 2 cents.

MAJESTIC MFG CO., 8t. Louis, Mo.

COMMENTS OF THE TRADE.

Five Testimonials Selected From More
Than a Hundred.

The Majestic Steel Rangeis the finest article
of merchandise to se!] that I have handled in 30
years that I have been in the hardware business
Of all the ranges we have svld there is p sitive-
ly notone but what is giving perfect satisfac
tion Our dealings with the M jestic Manufac
turing Company, which have been more exte2n-
sive than we had expected by a large degree,
have been the most pleasant and satisfac tory in
every way that wecould desire They are hon-
orable business men inevery respect ‘and it is
notonly profitable but ero, to do business
with them. RANK H GRAVES,
Manager Stove Department, Foster, Stevene &

Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Before accepting the Majestic agency we in-
vestigated the merits of this range thoroughly.
We expected great things of it from what we
heard frm others, bit I must say in justice to
the Majestic that every expectation has been
moreth nrealized There re other good steel
ranges, but we believe that the Majestic is w th
out a fault. as far as the ability of man can
make it, and compared to other steel ranges it is
perfe: tion initself. The method employed by
the Majestic Manufacturing: o. in introducing
this rauge to the public is the most original and
effective I have ever seen in business, Our ex
perience with the company has been very pleas-
ant indeed and it has beena positive pleasure,
as well as a benefit. to do business with so large
and well —_—— ted a firm.

WILLIAM SEYFFARDT, ne ¥,

Saginaw Hardware Uo., Saginaw, W. 8., Mich.

Onr recent experience in selling the pose
ful Majestic steel Kange has been most pleas-
ant aud pr fitable to us. Mechanically and
scientifically the range is the cooki g apparatus
par excellence. The:e can be no economy in
the household without a Mnjectic Steel Range
upon waich to do Covoking aud water heating.

EBERB:ACH HARV WARK CO,
Anu Arbor, Mich,

The experience of a lifetime in the general
hardware business has yet to show me a Cuoking
ran<e that can be compared with the steel
Range Majestic. We so.dala ge number «vur-
ing the exhibit, and since then our patrons
unite in praise of it. H.S. ME ,INGER,

Pontiac. Mich.

It is simply absurd to compere any other cook-
ing tove or Coking range that we have suldin
our ex,erien ‘e in the cook stove business with
the Maje+tic in economy of fuel and facility
and aespajch in properly preparing food for
the table. DUNNING BROs,

Menominee, Mich,

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

For further particulars address

J. W. JOHNSTON, Manager,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3

 

Tne Candy Show Case.
Written for the Tradesman.

It is only a country store and very
many kinds of goods are offered for sale
therein; but in the show case nearest the
front door is an assortment of candy,
and to this the youth of the village turns
its attention.

*“O, look at them big red fishes!’
chorused a bevy of small! girls on their
way toschool. ‘‘Ain’t them jes’ lovely?
An’ see them choc’lates! My! O—!’’ with
an indrawing of the breath.

‘*‘Here’s what I like,’’ exclaimed the
little miss who first discovered a new
variety of cream puffs.

‘“U-m-m-m! Jes’ look a here. Say,
how much is them nigger babies? A
cent! O, my! I wishtI had my penny

here.’’
* -— =

It was a small boy and his twin sister.
“TI know what I’m going to have.”
*“*What?”’

‘One o’ those there flags with taffy on
the end of it.”’

‘““‘Why don’t you get ten o’ those candy
cigarettes. That’s all they are—jest a
cent.’’

“O, I had some o’ them. They’re
holler an’ they don’t taste good either.’’

“IT know what I’d have if 1 had the
money. I’d have a great big piece of red
an’ blue an’ green an’ yaller taffy, with
nuts into it, an’ chocalate an’ vanilly an
ice cream an’ coffy an’ sody water, an’—

an’—an’ a stick o’ licorish root.’’
- = ©<

‘*‘What’s them car’mels?”

**Two for a cent.”

“Only two?”

‘“‘That’s all.’’

‘“‘Dear me! Hain’t you got any five
for a penny?”’

“Yes, you can have five of these for
a cent.’’

‘“‘What, them little things? Guess I
don’t want any then. I’m goin’ over to

Mc Farlan’s.’’
= « *

‘‘Please could 1 buy a cent’s worth of
candy?”’

There were two of them, both small
boys; and they held each other’s hands
very tightly, lest they should become
separated—in which calamitous event
one or both might perish.

He was served and the other lad said:

‘*Pleathe could [ get a aigth wo’th 0’
gum?’’

“A what?’

And the other interpreted:

‘‘He wants to trade his egg for a stick
of gum.’’

Of course, he got it.

—a—

She was alittle girl with round rosy
cheeks, and a presumably normal diges-
tion. She had flattened her nose against
the show case for several minutes. At
length, discovering some small tin plates
loaded with a vile pink and white com-
pound, erroneously styled ‘‘ice cream,’’
she gave a shrill scream of delight and,
dancing up and down in ecstasy,
asked:

‘‘How much are they?”

“‘A cent apiece.”’

‘Ts that all? Well, l’ll take seventeen
cents’ worth of ’em.’’

Seventeen cents’ worth of ice cream
plates filled a pretty good sized bag. She
took it with every sign of unmixed
pleasure, and, hugging it closely in her
arms, sped joyously away.

* 2 ¢

It was another laughing, chattering,

hungry throng of youngsters. A halo of

 

{
red heads surmounted a comely assort-

ment of blue eyes, freckled cheeks,
white shining teeth and eager faces.
The O’Lollys, the O’Rourks and the
Mulcabys had come to town.

‘“‘Thim’s moine!’’ said little Dennis
O’Lolly, as he pointed to a trayful of
scarlet ‘‘wintergreen berries.”’

‘“‘Whist, Dinny,” cautioned his sister,
‘the mon’ll be afther shlappin’ the mug
av yez. Thim belongs to the shtore
kaper.’’

The children, startled by this an-
nouncement, looked timidly around, but,
seeing no prospect of an immediate on-
slaught from the enemy, Daisy, other-
wise known as Bridget Mulcahy, said in
a more subdued voice:

‘“Yez kin hev thim thair ridtings an’
welkim. Thim, an’ thim, an’ thim, an’
thim is moine.”

‘“‘Hould aisy, Biddy,” interposed an-
other of the girls, with a grin of derision,
‘‘whin ye git allyer shtuff to home, sorra
the ting would the mon hev lift in his
shtore.”

“Taik the sugar poles in thim two
jairs, an’ the full av me han’s av las-
sengers, an’ be artherly an’ dacint, sez
Oi,” was the suggestion of Teddy
O’ Rourk.

“Buy me some av thim motterses,
Rosy,’’ pleaded Dennis.

“Whist, bye. Oi wud, but Oi lift me
pocket book wid me tin dollar bill an’
all me small change to home on the
pianny.”

‘“‘Along wid yer gold watch an’ yer
diminds an’ yer sale shkin pollynaise
an—”’’

Whack, slap, shriek!

Rose’s dignity had been trified with.
Dennis rubbed his eyes with his ehubby
fists and howled dolorously. Rose eyed
him with unmixed satisfaction, but, at
length, mollified by his evident peni-
tence, she said:

“There, there, Dinny, lave _ aff.
Afther this pay more rispict to yer in-
feriors. There do be a two pound roll
av good pasture butther in the cillar, an’
whin that’s sould, Dinny, Oi’ll buy yez
mottyses wud gold thrimmin’s an’ silver
linin’s, an’ a fione large jew’lin ivery
wan.’’ Gro. L. THURSTON.

———_—__ <>.
The Value of Associated Effort.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

The Traverse City B. M. A. has been
the most persistent and successful or-
ganization of the kind in the State. It
was the first to be organized in Michigan
and has, through all the years since,
kept very much “alive.” It is very
largely through its efforts that most of
our factories from abroad have been se-
cured, and itis owing to its werk that
Traverse City has prospered while many
towns of the State have stood still or gone
backward. It is, to-day, one of the very
few associations of its kind in active
operation in Michigan. The membership
numbers upwards of 140 and embraces
most of the live, wide awake business men
of the town. It is largely owing to this
organization, which has brought our
business men so closely together, socially
and otherwise, during the last dozen
years or so, that so kindly a feeling ex-
ists among them. While a healthy
rivalry in business exists, as it should,
for the good of the town, there is ecom-
panionship in business interests and a
common desire for the good of the town
that unites all in every effort made to
advance the interests of Traverse City
and the whole Grand Traverse region.
Every business man inthe city should
belong to this organization.

nnn
Signal Five cigar is Spanish hand-
made, 5c.

 

 

 

When THE TRADESMAN was established, a little over eleven years ago, it was
issued from a small room in the Eagle building. At that time its projectors in-
dulged the ambition that its business would increase in time to warrant them in
adding an adjoining room; and when a few months’ rapid growth enabled them
to realize this ambition, they were highly gratified. When, a year or two later,
they had added two more rooms and were well equipped with machinery aad ap-
paratus for the prosecution of its rapidly increasing printing and engraving de-
partments, their gratification amounted almost to pride, and they were confident
that provision had been made to meet the requirements, so far as room was con-
cerned, for a good many years tocome. Butin this they proved to be mistaken.
In a year or so longer its quarters began to be straitened and two and a half years
after the second addition of room it had become so crowded that removal was abso-
lutely necessary.

In preparing for this removal care was naturally taken to make sufficient pro-
vision for room to allow for the continued increase for a considerable time to come.
With this end in view, a lease was secured of the three-story and basement build-
ing at 100 Louis street, where each branch of the business was departmentized and
the equipment greatly enlarged, thus increasing the capacity of the establishment
to a considerable extent. Within the past two years, however, the business of the
office has increased to that extent that it has become absolutely necessary that still
another change of location be made. In making preparations for this removal,
which have been going on for several months, not only has care been used to se-
cure sufficient room, but special study has been given to securing and arranging
the room for the greatest possible convenience and economy in the prosecution of
the business. After carefully considering several locations it has been deemed de-

 

 

 

 

 

sirable to execute a ten years’ lease of the fifth floor of the Blodgett Bnilding one of
the finest office buildings in the city, comprising nearly double the floor space now
occupied and admirably adapted to the purpose by reason of itscentral location, un-
usual amount of light, and (an important advantage in a printing office) having every-
thing except warehouse and storage room on one floor. The building is fitted with
every possible convenience. It is heated by steam and provided with quick pas-
senger elevators and two freight elevators, one of which is among the largest in the
city.

Especial care has been taken in designing and fitting up the offices, both busi-
ness and mechanical departments, on the theory that the best work can be accom-
plished where the surroundings are made as airy, light and pleasant as possible.
The Grand Rapids School Furniture Co. has designed and made tbe fixtures and
partitions, which is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the work, and no
reasonable expense has been spared to make the quarters as complete and up-to-
date as possible. New machinery will also be introduced in each department and
several new lines akin to the business will be added. As soon as the work of re-
moval is completed, the public will be invited to inspeet the premises and witness
a model printing office in operation. In the meantime the patrons and friends of
the office will be made welcome at any time and itis hoped that many will avail
themselves of the opportunity to inspect the pleasantest, most complete and best
equipped publishing and engraving establishment in the State.

 

  

AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Inland—G. C. Reynvids succeeds R. B.
Reynolds in geverat trade.
Kaiamazou—J. 1. Garrison is succeeded
by the Yuuug Furniture Co.
Caluwet—Cuinan & Sibilsky
M. J. Cuinan iu geuelal trade.
Bacuelor—Ww. Lawrence has sold his

succeed

general stuck tu K. F. Schauke.

Hemivck Ciry—l. W. Newrick, gen-
eral deaier al this piace, Is dead.

Lesite—Siducy VU. Russell is sueceeded
by L. M. Russeil iu geueral trade.

Tonree Kivers—D. C. Bigbee succeds
Bigvee & Co. in ibe grocery Vusibess.

Marshaii— Mills & McWeihy succeed
Edwin K. Milis in ive barbess busiless.

Lausing—Peavudy & Peavudy have
sold tbeir general sivck tu A. L. Hariow
& Cv.

Muiliken—F. A. Gouid has purchased
the grucery ana meal busilicss of J. &.
Prati.

Aipena—M. C. Bostwick succeeds M.
C. Bustwick & Co. in the buut and shue
busiess.

lronwood—James & Blackwell, gro-
cers, have dissuived, Wm. H. Biackweil
succeeding.

Eaton Kapids—G. McMarple has pur-
chased the grocery busimess of H. A.
Sturickrodt.

Bay City—C. B. Fuqua succeeds Ll.
Bergevin as pruprietur of the Vailey
Drug Store.

Escanaba—Gilmette & Cleary have
purchased the furniture business of :.
M. Peterson.

Hilisdale—E. J. Smith has sold one-
half interest in bis grocery business to
Julius Baker.

Davisvurg—Burnaby & Benton
ceed J. S. Burnavy in the grucery and
Nnowend LusiLiess.

Saginaw—Chas. L. Roesser succeeds
Wim. Kuesser & Sons in the agricuiturai
implement Dusivess.

Untonagon—Clarence Emmons _ has
purchased the Curbett Hardware Co.’s
business at this place.

West Brauch—b. Brumenthal & Bro.,
dealers in men’s turnisuing good, have
dissolved, K. Biumeuthal continuing the

suc-

busiuess.

Freesoil—O. S. Dean has purchased
the interest of A. B. Dean in the drug
stock of Dean Bros. anu will continue tile
business ip his own hame.

Eatun Rapids—k. P. Dayton will
shortly open @ hardware store in the
building tormeriy occupied by W. W.
Zimmerman’s grocery stock.

Galesburg—The grist mill business
formerly conducted by Townsend & Zinn
will hereatter be conducted under the
style of the Galesburg Milling Co.

Dundee—Local business men have or-
ganized a stock company with $8,000
capital stock for the purpose of erecting,
equipping and uperating a canning fac-
tory.

Cedar Lake—B. L. Ward has sold his
general stock, store building and house
and jot toE. M. Ward for a considera-
tion of $2,500 and will shortly locate in
Texas. '

Muskegon—Soderberg & Donelson will
shortly open a shoe store in the vacant
store at 5 W. Western avenue. Fur
years this tirm has been doing business
in the Eighth ward, and has conducted a
branch sture on Houston avenue. The}
two stocks will be combined at the new |
location. |

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Saginaw, W. S.—Mr. Tuomey, of the’

dry goods firm of Tvuomey & Co., of Jack-
son, was here last week looking over the
field. having the establishment of a
branch store in view.

Traverse City—W. J. has

Bell se-

cured a settliemeut with his creditors on

the basis of 25 cents on the

| the same style as before.

Newaygo—Frank Van Leuven has pur-
chased the interest of Hadley Miliard in
the furniture and undertaking business
of Millard & Van Leuven abd will con-
tinue the busipess in his own name.

Belding—L. RK. Brown, F. E. Howk
and Owen Cooley have formed a partner-
ship and will open a bakery and restau-
rant in the stere in the Holmes-Rubin-
son block formerly occupied by R. L.
Hale.

Fiint—The general merchandise firm
of Smith, Bridgeman & Co., which has
dune business here fur thirty-five years,
dissolved partnership. The firm
will be re-organized by William L.
Smith and Chas. T. Bridgman,

Ludington—Mrs. Carrie Shackleton
has assigned her millinery stock to D. F.
Cargill. The stock inventories $3,500
and the liabilities are $2,100 which in-
cludes a $900 mortgage to the Creighton
estate.

Cadillac—The clothing stocks of Henry
C. Auer were bid in at chattel mortgage
sale by Richardson, Smith & Bates, of
Boston, at 25 per cent. of their inventory
value. It is thought that the purchasers
will put the former owner in possession
of the stocks, as they have confidence in
his ability to regain the esteem of the
business public.

Albion—A certain business man here
sent his wife off on a visit, and after she
had remained away for what he thought
a reasonable length of time he asked her
to come back. She wouldn’t. He pleaded
with her. She remained as firm as ada-
mant. Thesly fellow then sent her a
copy of each of the local papers with
one item clipped out. In less than two
days she was back, anxious to know
what had been going on which her hus-
band did not want her to know about
She was madder than a wet hen when
she discovered the ruse, and now there
is a case of domestic infelicity in that
family.

has

———— > -+
Electrical Inspector.
Although the city still seems to be too
poor to support acompetent electrical in-
spector who would be able to prevent
such fires as occurred at the Y. M.C. A.
recently, there is no excuse for burning
down our elegant buildings here from
fires caused by defective electric wires,
when there are such electrical experts at
everyone’s command as the Grand Rap-
ids Electric Company. They give their
personal inspection to every contract, so
that no poor work passes through their
hands. Remember that they are now lo-
cated at No. 9 South Division street.

 

 

 

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

——_—_—=>

Quality is the basis of value with Gil-

lies’ fine New York Coffees. J. P. Vis-

ner, agent.
>>
Try the new cigar, Signal Five, 5c.

 

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET
Apples—All winter varieties command #250
per bol., if in good condition whil- fancy st CK

~exdily commands 33.
Be-ns—The market is strong
owing to the discovery that nearly every market
in the country vare of stock. The same is
true fthe European markets, a strong export

and excited,

is

| demand naving sprung up during the past week:

dollar and |

| bas re-opened his dry goods store under | s2,er bu. befure May 1.

 

From the present indicatious the price will go to |
Present quotatious are |

#1.7.. per bu. in car/ots cr less.

Butter A little higher in price, consequent
upun the disappearauce of surplus stocks and
the appearance of a more active demand.
Choice dairy brings 18¢ per 1b

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

Celery—The advance has been
dealers who have any stock holding it at 2vg25c
per doz

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

Eggs—19c for strict!y fresh, 15c for pickled
and i.c for cold storage stock. The mar
ket for fresh is strong and the price may go to
20c unless the cold weather lets up.

Lettuce—1.c per Ib.

Onions—Red Weatherfields and Yellow Dan
vers command 44¢c per bu. Yellow Globes com
mand 55¢c and Red Globes are eagerly sought for
on the basis of 6vc. Spanish stockhas declined
to 9'c per box.

Parsnips—35c per bu.

Potatoes—Strong in the local
weaker at mo-t of the outside markets.
transactions are on the basis of 55¢.

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

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command
$3 per bbl. Kiln dried Ilinois stock is held at
2.¢ less.

Squash—Hubbard brings 1%c per Ib. if the
quaiity is up tostandard. Poor stock sell- at %4
dic.

sustained,

market, but
Frreeent

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

a) VAY

BARREL SWINGS.

This is a convenience no grocer can

afford to be without. It keeps sugar and

other stuff under the counter out of the

way and free from dust and dirt, and

saves covers. It will swing a barrel of

sugar with perfect ease. relegraph
name, Swing. Price, each, $1.

LANSING WHEELBARR@W CO,

Lansing, Mich.

CYCLE
STEP
LADDER.

 

 

 

HIRTH, KRAUSE & 60,

MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS,

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20 & 22 Monroe &t.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

    
   
   
    
  

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SHIPPED DURING
JAN. FEB. 028 MARCH are not
PAYABLE UNTIL MAY ist 1895.
OUR SOUVENIR BOOK?
FROM THE FOREST TO

THE FOOT.” SENT FREE
UPON APPLICATIONS

  

 
   

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

J. W. Button has opened a grocery
store at Campbell. The Olney & Judson
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

Frederick & Knauf have opened a
grocery store at Reed City. The Olney
& Judson Grucer Co. furnished the
stock.

Roelof Fisher has opened a@ grocery
store at 929 Wealthy avenue. The stock
was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler
Company.

Andrews & Clapper, meat dealers at
Petoskey, have added aline of groceries.
The stock was furnished by the I. M.
Clark Grocery Co.

 

A. C. Fassett, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Watson, has pur-
chased the confectionery and bakery
business of Geo.Hickox, at 135 South
Division street, and removed his Watson
stock to the same location.

 

 

L. C. Hayden has purchased an inter-
est in the miil supply business of J. M
Hayden & Co. The business will be con-
tinued at the same location under the
same style. Mr. Hayden comes to Grand
Rapids from Teeumseh, where he was
identified with the Globe Flouring Mills,
which are claimed to be the oldest insti-
tution of the kind in the State, having
beep established in 1859.

Jos. Kruse, clothier at 34 West Bridge
street, uttered a trust mortgage Dec. 17
to H. J. Felker as trustee for six credit-
ors whose claims aggregated $6 000. The
stock and fixtures were inventoried at
$3,900. The sale occurred Monday, when
Chas. P. Kellogg & Co. (Chicago) bid in
the stock at $1.400 and Voigt, Herpol-
sheimer & Co. bid in the book accounts
at $50 and the safe at $8.50. Had the
trustee advertised the sale as he should
have done, there would have been more
bidders and, in all probab lity, twice as
much would have been realized for the
creditors.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Opinion is divided as to the
probable course of the market, some look-
ing for an advance, while others predict
that the price will remain where it is for
some time yet. European holders of raw
have advanced their quotations and the
Cuban shippers are holding on to their
stocks in the expectation that a higher
range of values will govern later on.

Molasses—New Orleans grades are
strong, the Louisiana market being rel-
atively higher than other points. Cen
trifugals are strong. Kettle goods are
likely to advance, in sympathy with the
advancing tendency in sugar.

Syrups—On account of the curtailment
in production, many of the factories hav-
“ng closed, glucose is higher.

Coffee—Rio and Santos grades are
without particular change. Mild coffees
are strong and some grades are higher.
Java is considerably higher at Amster-
dam. Manufacturers of package brands
have advanced their quotations le.

Dates—Are as low at the present writ-
ing as they are likely to be at any time
during the next six months and now isa
good time to buy a fair stock. Fards are
of fine quality and those put up in 12 Ib.
boxes are especially so.

Foreign Nuts—Move slowly, as a ma-
jority of dealers seem to be more inter-
ested in getting clear of remnants of hol-
iday purchases than in stocking up.

 

 

Prices are largely in favor of the buyer
and close to rock bottom.

Bananas—Local dealers took in two
cars Monday, which look very good, con-
sidering the severe weather. Sales are,
of necessity, confined principally to
home dealers and nearby towns, as it is
and bas been too cold to risk reshipping.
Prices are very favorable to those who
will chance the possibility of safe ar-
rivals.

Figs—The bottom has been reached
and already the prospects are that prices
will be gradualiy advanced, especially
on faney grades. The demand for bag
figs has diminished considerably, owing
to the rather poor quality and low price
of choice grades of box stock.

Lemons—Good stock of the various
grades is in ample supply and so much
more afloat bound for this country that
there is no immediate probability of an
advance over present prices.

Oranges—In Floridas only a few boxes
of sound stock are left and they are all
russets. Sicily fruit, Riverside seedlings
and navels are the ruling varieties
offered. The seedlings are rather pithy
and juiceless yet. The Sicilys are
sound, of fairly good flavor, although a
little pale in color. The navels are first-
class and ahead of anything offered in
the orange line. The weather is too
cold to allow fruit to move freely just
at present and out of town dealers who
do not get fruit ordered may attribute
the delay to the weather.

Provisions—Beef is a little stronger
and slightly better prices are obtained.
Smoked meats are firm, but lard is
weaker and a little lower and barrel
pork has sustained a further decline.
Local provision men believe that bottom
has been reached and that any further
ehange will be of upward character.

—_—~--
The Grain Market.

Wheat during the past week has been
very irregular, with a downward ten-
dency in speculative markets, while at
initial points the markets held firm, ow-
ing to the fact that there is no wheat
moving, either in the winter wheat belt
or inthe Northwest. So far as this sec
tion is concerned when wheat drops to
50e or less farmers will not sell. Even
witb this excellent sleighing farmers are
hauling everything else except wheat.
Foreign markets have also leaned to
easier prices. Eastern freight rates have
been reduced to where they were before
Nov. 12, which we think will stimulate
Eastern shipments and may advance
prices some. The financial outlook is,
also, some better, which may have the
effect of inspiring confidence in the mar-
kets. Atleast, the trade generally ex-
pect it to.

Corn has, also, been weaker, as the
Eastern demand has not been what it
generally is at this time of the season.

Oats are the only things which holds
its own and there is more trading in oats
than the other grains.

Wheat receipts during the week have
been only 41 cars—rather below the av-
erage—while corn receipts were 31 Cars
—much above the ordinary, and receipts
of oats 4 cars. Ihopel may be able to
note a better feeling and higher prices
in our next. C. G. A. Vorer.

$$$ <____——

My maple syrup is very fine. Now is
the time fo sell itand get a good profit.
See price list on last page of this paper.

EpWIN FALLAS.

 

 

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Purely Personal.

Homer Klap, grocer at 300 West Fulton
street, is seriously ill with bilious fever.

Geo. Zang, of the grocery firm of Zang
Bros., at Battle Creek, was married Jan.
29 to Miss Mabel Lane, a most estimable
young lady of that city.

Enos Putman, President of the Grand
Rapids National Bank and the Peninsular
Trust Co., leaves Friday for Pasadena,
Cal., where he will remain about three
months. He will be accompanied by
his family.

Thowald Peterson, book-keeper for
the Manistee & Grand Rapids Railroad,
who was short in his accounts, is not re-
lated to John M. Peterson, book-keeper
and buyer for Buckley & Douglass, of
Manistee, and purchasing agent for the
Manistee & Northeastern Railroad.

The late James B. Mulliken, formerly
General manager of the D., L. & N. and
Cc. & W. M. system, left an estate
amounting to $22,821.85, which has just
been divided among five heirs, the
widow receiving one-third and four
children receiving $3.803.65 each.

Frank E. Leonard and Wm. B. Collins
(H. Leonard & Sons) are in Pittsburg,
selecting glassware for the spring trade.
Mr. Collins will return the latter part of
the week, but Mr. Leonard will go on to
New York and spend a month among the
representatives of foreign crockery man

ufacturers, placing import orders for
1895 goods.
Henry Idema, Vice-President of the

Kent County Savings Bank, leaves to-
day, with his family, for a month’s re-
spite at Daytona and Rock Ledge, Fla
Mr. Idema has made quite as remarkable
a record with the Kent Bank as he did in
the district representation of the Brad-
street Co. and richly deserves the resi
and recreation accompanying such a trip
as he has mapped out.

Corwin S. Udell (S. P. Bennett Fuel &
Ice Co.) has the sympathy of a large cir-
cle of friends in the death of his wife,
who passed away last Thursday evening
as the result of a sudden attack of ap-
oplexy. Mrs. Udell was one of the most
talented women in the State, possessing
a wide range of information on literary
and economic subjects, together with an
unusual degree of culture. She was a
woman of beautiful character—quiet,
unassuming, unselfish, of strong person-
ality, yet never obtruding that person-
ality on the notice of others. Everyone
with whom she came in contact loved
her, and her courage was a source of
strength to all who knew her. The
world is the better for her having lived
in it.

 

The Drug Market.

Gum opium isa little firmer but un-
changed.

Morphia and quinine are steady.

Salicylic acid has declined, owing to
reduced prices by manufacturers abroad.

Salicylate soda is also lower.

Linseed oil has advanced and is in
small supply. |

The price of empty hard capsules has
been fixed by the combination at $1.10
per doxen in boxes and 75c per thousand
in boxes of 1,000.

Cocoaine has advanced.

FARM FOR MERCHANDISE.

The Michigan Hardwood Land Co., of
will trade best farming

 

 

Mancelonia,
lands for stock of general merchandise.

 

Wants Column.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and
one cent a word for each subsequent Insertion.
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
Advance payment.

HhUsINEss CH NCES,
\j JANTED—TO EXCHANGE AN IMPROVED
farm in Southern Michigan for a stock of
merchandise. Address Box -90, Plainwell, Mi h.
65

 

 

 

 

OOD NINE ROOM HOUSE NICELY LO-
ecatec In Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Will ex-
change for stock groceries. Address Box 8),
Stanton, Mich. 696
YO EXCHANGE—FRUIT FARM IN OCEANA
county for general merchandise. Address
No. 694 care M chigan Tradesman. 694
A GOOD STORE BUILDING AND 83,000
stock seners] merchandise. to exchange
for ferm worth %*,00'. For particulars ad-
dress No. 686 care Michigan Tradesman 686
G ROCERY sTO.K Fon -ALE—INVOICING
about &,000,in a hustling town of 5.000.
Everything cash. The only grocery that made
money last year. Reasons other irons. Address
No. +91 care Michigan Trade-man. 691

 

 

OR SALE—SHARES OF STOCK IN. THE
principal"hardware in Cadillac. Mich. The
trade is established and the location is good.
Wherever this business is known it is favorably
known and an opportunity like this is seldom
offered. Good reason for selling will be fur-
nished. For varticulars, address A. W. Newark
Cadillac, Mich 692 |
~ITOCn OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN'S
2 furnishing goods; estanlished trade: splen-
did opening fora general store Will sell
cheap for cash. Address No. 680, care Michigan
Tradesman. 680
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK, CLEAN AND
fresh, new shelving, counters, show cases,
sode fountain and safe. the finest location in
good business town Wi#ll take 34,000, payable
half cash and balance on short time Address
for particulars, No. 6%5, care Michigan Trades-
man. BR
ryX\O EXCHANGE—FOR sTO''4s GROCERIES,
boots and shoes or clothing. ten acres of
nice land in first ward Coldwater, Mich. Ad-
dress S. Spurlock Sh rwoed M:ch 684
a. \LE—FIRK-T CLASS GRO EKY STOCK
and fixtures nearly new. Good Jocation,
good own Good reason for selling. Greatop
portu ity forthe right man. Address No. 683
eav'e Michigan Tradesman. 6X3 7
| ae RENT_AOTEL Ti RENT, PARTLY
furnished. good bar and bar fixtures ex-
cellent locati n: good chance to the right party.
Ingn re 67 \'arrier -t., Grand Rapids 674

F'® VEN'—A DE IRABLE STORE BI ILD-
ing fermerls oceupied by E'liott & Co. on
northea teorner of Monroe and lonia streets.
One of the best locations inthe city. Inqnire of
Peter Doran 0 Tower Block. 665

wy POCK OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN’S
‘ furnishing good- to trade for real estate,
Address No. +00. Care Miehigan Tradesman. 660

 

 

 

 

 

.00 WiRM NEAR SV'(TH CAPITOL,
¥ clear t tle, to exchange for boots and shoes
G.W Watrous. Lansing, Wieh. a

F YOU WANT TO BIY OR SELL REAL

estate write me. I can satisfy you Chas,

E. Mercer, Rooms ! and 2. Widdicomb building.
673

 

 

F° SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF
interest in ssme on one of the prircinal
streets in Grand Rapids New stock goo4 trace,
location Al. Address No. 624 care Michigan
Tradesman. 624

SITUATIONS WANTE®,

 

RELIABLE DRY GOONS AND SHOE
‘ salesman de-ires position. Is capah'e of
taking fnl! charge of stocks or occupying posi-
tion of gene al manager. Address No.€71 care
Michigan Tradesman. 671

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

mpue CITIZENS OF DORR WILL PAYA LIB-
eral bonus to any party who has a small
eapit ltoinvestina fl uring milat '’orr. For
further information write J.C. Neuman, Dorr,
Mich, e932
— AN SUPPLY AGENTS MICHI-
g n with Shaeffer’s New Pancake Grid-
dle: positive proof you realize $5,090 annually;
no capital required; must be financially respon-
sible: no other need apply. (Stamp.) M. shaef-
fer, Canton. O. 687

 

 

¥ JANTED—TEA LEAD IN ANY QUANTI
ties from everywhere. Address, stating

price. J. M. Hayden & Co., 69 Pearl St., Grand

Rapids, 0. te’'ephone 540. 68

HAVE THE CASH Ti) PAY FOR A GOOD

clean stock of hardware located in an Al
town. Address No 68’, care Michigan Trsdes-
man 682

Bee HUNDRED AND SIXTY ARES
farming land in Craw’ord county, Michi
gan, to exchange for improved farm orstoc. of
goods. Title perfect. 4H. Harrington, Reed
City Mich. 61

N EN TO SELL BAKING POWDER TO THE
grocery trade. Steady employment, ex-
perience unnecessary $75 monthly salary and
expenses or commission. If offer is satisfactory
address at once with particulars concerning
yourself U.S. Chemical Works, Chicago, 6,7

_—.. EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples. cabbages, etc.

Correspondence solicited Watkins & Smith,

8.-86 South Pivision St.. Grand Rapids. 673

OR SAl E—MODERN NINE ROOM HOUSE

on J+ fferson avenue Price low and terms

easy. Owner going South. For particulars
write W. R. Griffiths, 6 Canal St. 675

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Money as a Measure of Value.

The most important public problem
now before the peuple of the United
States is the reformation and reorganiza-
tion of the currency and the finance of
the country.

There is scarcely any subject upon
which there is greater diversity of opin-
ion, and, unfortunately, partisans on
different sides of the question have often
conducted their discussions with unneces-
sary heat and temper.

What is of the greatest urgency is that
people should inform themselves on so
important a subject so that they will be
posted, not merely in the stock opinions
and arguments of prejudiced theorists,
but will understand the principles that
are embraced in the matter under con-
sideration. When the people are properly
informed of the functions and qualities
of money, and the conditions that have
to be met by it, they are certainly better
qualified to know what they want.

One of the functions of money which
is greatly misunderstood is expressed in
the declaration, so often repeated, that
itis a measure of worth, and it is set
forth that ‘‘the bushel, the gallon, the
yardstick, are legal standard units of the
measurements of liquids, solids and dis-
tance, just as much so as the dollar is
the unit of measurement of value.’’ As
this statement obtains credit with many
intelligent people, it is worth a little ex-
amination.

The bushel, the gallon and the yard
are measures of quantity, and are so es-
tablished by law. The bushel and gal-
lon measures must contain specific
amounts of cubic inches, and the yard-
stick a certain number of linear inches.
Every bushel, every gallon and every
yard of merchandise, when honestly
measured, is a certain and constant
quantity, and when it is stated that there
are SO many bushels, gallons or yards of
any substances, it is known that there
is a definite quantity of each, and these
quantities are always the same, without
variation.

But when the statement is made that
there are so many dollars’ worth of
wheat, of whisky, of cloth, who knows
how much of each is there? But the
answer is that the dollar measures the
value, and not the quantity; but how is
it that a dollar’s worth of wheat, or
whisky, or cloth, is not always the same?
The value of these commodities change
every year, every month, every day, in-
deed, and when the expression, ‘‘a dol-
lar’s worth,’’ is used, nobody knows just
what it means. Then there is no meas-
ure, no constant, invariable measure of
value.

It is seen, then, that a dollar is no
measure of the values of any merchant-
able commodity. Moreover, dollars
themselves are totally different. A gold
dollar in the world’s markets is worth
every day, and for a _ long period
of years, 100 cents; while the value of a
silver dollar in the world’s markets is
changing all the time, and at this mo-
ment is worth less than 50cents. There-
fore, if a dollar were any sort of fixed
measure of values, it ought to have a
constant and certain quality, like a gal-
lon pot or a yard stick.

The only way in which money could
be a measure of value would be to de-
termine just how much money there is in
circulation in the trade of the country,
and to discover just how much of it can

| be devoted to the purchase of each arti-
cle of necessity. If it were known that
the population had just so much money
to spend in wheat, and it were known
just how much wheat there was in the
country, it would only be necessary to
divide the dollars into bushels, and then
a dollar’s worth would be a fixed quan-
tity of that important grain.

The money in circulation represents
the earnings or profits of all labor and
business each day. Out of this great
aggregate each man has his income or
earnings. Take a man with a fixed sal-
ary. Hisincomeisa precise sum. He
apportions that among his needs and ex-
penses. There is so much for food, so
much more for clothes, so9 much more for
house rent, and the balance for other ex-
penses. Thus he has so many dollars to
spend for food. If the prices of such
necessaries never changed, and his salary
never varied, his income would measure
not only the value, but the quantity of
the articles consumed. If the popula-
tion always remained the same, if there
were no variation in the prices of nec-
essaries, and the same amount of money
remained in circulation, a dollar’s worth
of any article would always remain a
definite amount, and so that dollar would
be a fixed measure of value.

But population is constantly changing;
by reason of good or bad seasons, the
crops are large or small, and the stock of
necessaries is constantly changing, and,
therefore, itis impossible to have any
definite measure of values. The dollar
practically measures nothing but ex-
changes of labor and commodities from
day to day. Money is simply a con-
venience to obviate the difficulties of
barter. A day’s business is an exchange
of services and commodities performed
by means of money, and, as the values of
all sorts of commodities are constantly
changing, money can only be said to ex-
press their values temporarily and mo-
mentarily. The term, ‘‘a dollar’s worth,”
has no definite meaning. It stands for
something which changes every moment
and in every individual transaction.

And it ought to be remembered that
the stock of money does not change in
quantity with the same rapidity as do
the stocks of products which are largely
dependent on uncontrollable causes, like
the seasons and the weather. Suppos-
ing the gross amount of money remains
nearly the same, allowing for an increase
in proportion to the increase in popula-
tion, it must be seen that when crops are
overabundant the prices must be cheap-
er, because there is only so much money
to be spent for them; while, when the
crops are short, there is only the same
amount of money, and so the prices are
higher. The whole amount of money is
the measure of the whole amount of ex-
changes, but that does not mean any con-

stant value. It is something that
changs every day. FRANK STOWELL.
(1. _
A Fine Foot.

The elderly gentieman was getting a
pair of shoes and the clerk was striving
to please.

**You have an elegant foot, sir,” he
said as he smoothed the leather down
across the instep.

“Um,” sniffed the old gent, eyeing him
narrowly, ‘lL guess you ain’t the chap
who was coming to see my daughter
every other night last week.”

2

Aluminum is now used in the shoe

trade in building up heels.

 

| ———_—> 2a
Signal Five cigar, all imported stock,5c.

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

 

UNBLEACHED COTTON 8.
en oe eee 6% Clifton or Bnd 4%
—. |... 5 orld Wide 6
ate me oe... 6 o LL i 4%
Atlantic A .........- 6 |Full Yard Wide..... 6%
c H.......... Si6iGeorgia A.....-....
- P........ 5 |Honest Width...... 6
- 2s........ 6 j|HartfordA ......... 5
~~ i......-... 4%| Indian Head........ 8%
NN Cees 6 A........... 6%
Archery Bunting... 34%|/King EC............ 5
Beaver Dam AA.. 4%|Lawrence LL...... 4%
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 8%
Bisck Crow......... 6 Newmarket .....
eck Book ........ —- 6h6h6Ure” Ce ; %
oe AG. .......... 7 = 2...
Cope A... 5% ia DP.... 5
os F.......... 5% ” zz... 6
Chapman cheese cl. = meres G............- 5
Cites C&........- 514/Our Level Best..... 6
Oe i ox a 6
Dw ster........- Sa Poumes.......-...... 6%
Cietee CCC........ 5%|Solar..............-. 6
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED JOTTONS.
Sec... 8%/Geo. Washington... 8
Amazon ----. 8 (Glen Milis.......... 7
Te ee Ea 27? Gold Medal...... noe OO
Art Comers... .... © iGreen Ticket....... 84
Blackstone AA..... 6% Great Falis.......... 6%
Beats All............ ee 6%
a 12 Just Out..... 4%@ 5
ST 6 |King Phillip cee -
ee, 6 .. 7
Charter Oak.... .... 5 %| Lonsdale Cambric.. 9%
Conway W.......... 74¢|Lonsdale...... @ 6%
Clevelan@......... 6 [Middiesex.... .. @ 4%
Dwight A nehor.. . eee... 7%
shorts 6 |Oak View..... ..... 6
ete. : -_S a Oee.......-.... 5%
Empire. .... ......... 7 |Prideof the West...11
Farwell... - Sa Roserd...........- 7%

Fruit of the Loom. 7%)
Pitchville ...... .-. 2
View Pre.....-.... 6

Fruitofthe Loom X. in

 

 

 

 

 

penmtient............. 4%
UGes Mils......... 8%
‘© Nonpareil ..10
Vivee............. 8%

Fairmount.......... White Horse........ 6
Wall Vaine.... ...... — * oe.... -8%
HALP BLEACHED COTTONS.

(oeet..........,..- 6 oe . 7
iree...... .-... 7
CANTON FLANNEL.
Unbleached. Bleached.
Housewife A........ 534|Housewife Q.... ... 6%
a, 5% _ Mh tests ,
, Cc ...... 6 . ince ks 7%
“ Do 6% oo. 8%
. £......-: 7 iis U........ 91g
a a: Th . J...
' OF tee cane ™% 0 v.... 2
on .... 7% . Zz... 11%
' ns 84 sg v.12... 12%
‘ Peep ee 8% . eS .....: 13%
: a... oe
: L......2
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. ». 1
. i... 21
“s Pr... 14%
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, wette...... 14%4|Integrity colored, ..18
colored....17 |White St _..... ae
Inteertty.......... . 18% ‘* colored .19
DRESS GOODS.
Atlantic, 45 in.. 34| Pacific BAW. 10%
—~— #51n i Hamilton grey mix. 10%
. F plaing.. ——
. Re 8 sein. famty .......
Pacific, 45 in...-.... 324|6in. “.... ———
BAt..... ... = ain, * se
- oF. 26 |Win. Flannels Lu soa
ees eh UmrFhl p>)
— (in. ro 20
CORSETS,
Commins. ..........- #9 00|/Wonderful. .. $4 50
Schillings... ...... 9@iDrignten... . ... 4%
Davis Waiste..... 9 @iBortree’s .......... 9 00
Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00
COBSET JEANB.
Somebeng.......... 7. (eeeecoee.......... 5
Audroscoggin ......7 |teckport....... . =
a 6%|Pepperwell.......... 7%
COTTONADF*,
Moscow... i Stratford 2... 2. 16
Alpha...... 2 PORE cc os cs AS
Dundee . —_—— Holt . 1.
unkerhill.. 12 ,| Beaver Sean... 17
Woodstock . .......56
PRINT

Allen dress goods.. 4%
' Turkey red... 4%

io, ....
American indigo b’l 44

a shirting..

- delaines ae

. b’lk white 114
ee 5
' long. cloth .*
“oe “ 4 6%
* gold seal T KR »%
Bear Mill -

Stan’rd A percajelv
““ B “ 8
oc D “ee %
Charter Oak fancies 3%
Elberon solids:**- - 4
Fountain red ._. 1

: cardinal . 5%
Garner’s—

stand, ind. ene 194,

satines ... . 54

caramels ......... 8

Flower Pot.. -

mousteline . ._. oa

Del Marine Mgs.. a

Quaker style _- om

Aarmony fancies. . 414

Hamilton — tes 5
— a
e twi 1 dran. 6
. dragon c’h 8h
Imperial solid — 5
blue DG.. 6%
. pnrpie 5%
India mile val. tur-
key red robes..... Mo

7% | Lodi fancy

‘* shirtings.. "Bat
Manchester fancies. 5
mourn. 5
Martha Washington
indigo = -voe 4%
turkey red . - 6%
Pooeee ... 8... 434
Pacifie— 10%
blk & white p’s. . 5
Aventine. 5
fancie. bik, white 5
solid blk prints... 5
fast color robes... 5%
Bedford cords ... 7%
Passaic fancies 4%
clarion rbs 5
Peabody solid bI’k.. 4%
solid color 5%
Simpson’ 8 m’ing fac 5

   

 

 

 

  

 

 

COTTON U BRILL.
aeente, a... ae 8
eee. le 6x mo Neme........ - 7%
Clifton, K Topper Heap........ 9
oar
Lawrence, 90s...... 12 Otis, os — a
. moee...0k ) Be. 9%
° Ho. 2).... Si:  “* oc... _-.
. No. 280.... 8 Amosxeag, blue : » 11%
Everett, ae... i0% 90: -13%
brown. ....10% - heown 156
GINGHAMS
| a 5 Lancaster, staple..
‘* Persian dress 64 fancies . .
. Canton .. 7 c Normandie 6
. i 8$¢/Lancashire.......... 4%
_ Teazle...104|Manchester......... 4%
- Angola. .10%/Monogram.......... ax
. Persian.. 7 |Normandie........
Arlington stapie.... 6 |Pergian............. oe
Arasapha fancy.... 4%| Renfrew Dress 7%
Bates Warwick dres 74%/Rosemont..... 6%
- staples. 6 |Slatersville . 6
Centennial......... 10%/|Somerset.... 7
Coren ....... 10%|Tacoma .... -. %
Cumberland staple. 0M Toil du Nord. - 8%
Cumberland.... .... Wabash - os
ee i “ geersucker.. 1%
ES Tear. nce. en 6
Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... 8
Exposition 7 c heather dr. 7%
Glenarie... . o r indigo blue 9
Glenarven .. 6% | Wamsutta —- - 6&
Gienwood........... % Westbrook... 8
Tae... . .....- as
Jobnson Jhalon cl im Windermeer.. .6
. indigo bine Sicivorm..... .......... 6%
- xsepnyrme....
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskeag......... ” sesceiodll Lis eae oe 12
See
a ao = Dee eee
THREADS.
Clark*s Mile End....@ (Barbour's.......... 95
Coo, 7. aF....... > Veeeeeeire ... ...... 90
oeee............. 2%
KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored
Mea 6. = as ro. 14.......2 42
ss aces —:" = --38 43
- -—. Mm... 39 44
. = i &.....,.— 45
CAMBRICS.
ee ex (eewards........... 3%
Wit Geer........-- 3% Lecrwood.... .. ..- 2%
eo .........- %|Wood’s eae
Newmarket......... = Brunswick . one ak se
RED FLANNEL.
Toon... CK. 27 .............-.- 2%
Cresamne......-... = we... 32%
‘Teleot 22Z......... mm wee eee......... 25
Deeeeeee........... 274 packeye.... ........ RK
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & a, Laoeeae = Grey SRW... -17%
Union R.. oe 18%

Windsor.....
6 oz Western

 

prides RP a
Ploshing XZz...... 23%

  

Ue ........ 2% Manmttona........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless ..........- 3%|Nameless.. :
” oe ed _s
a 4% ie 8%
eT TT 5 Ee TT 10
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CANVASS AND PADDING.

 

 

 

 

yy Brown. Black.|/Slate Brown. Black’
% 9% /10% 10%
to 10% 10%/11% 11% 11K
11% 11% 114/12 12 12
12% 12% 1244/20 20 20
DUCKS,
Severen, 8 oz........ 8 {West Point, Bon....10
Mayland, 8os.. .2 00x ...12
Greenwood, ™% ‘Os. 9% ies | 100% beeed caee 12
Greenwood, 8 os. —— ee 138%
Boston, § os......... Boston, 10 os........ 12%
WADDINGS,

White, dos......... 20 |Per bale. 40 dos....88 10
Oolored, dos........ T woes ~ ......- 6 50
RIL FStas

ae ....... 4ivictory 2 .....--.. 7

mea trees .. .....-.. 6 i s ... 8

[acous _.......... 9 C eo e.. 10%

Victory ©0.......... 6 ’ Be ee 12%

SEWING SILE.

Corticelli, dos.......75 (Corticelli knitting,
twist,doz 37.+| per %osz ball. ...80
50 st doz. .37%

OKS AND BYEBS—PER GROS

No 1 Bre & White. te

 

 

 

No 4 Bik o "White.. :

_ 3 " ~e ire ' ..10
PINS.
No 2—20,M C.......45 |No4—15  3%...... 40
* 8—16,8C........40
COTTON TAPE.
No 2 White & B)’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
‘ 4 “ _ “ 10 “ 23
‘ 6 “ 18 “ 12 “ee 7
SAFETY PINS
Noz Soe .28 [Nos Le eee 38
NEEDLES-—-PEE M.
_ oo... 1 4)|Steamboat a
Crowear @....... -... I Bicol Eyed ........ 150
Marehairs..........- + OO Averiogn........... 100
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....175 6-4... ..165 6—4...2 30
af gh ten
Cotton Sail Twine. pees ce 14

on. ......... 12
Peewee ..........- 18%
eee. se 16
nae eee pees rr 13
erry ......
Exh 18

itsing ‘staré a naka

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North Star.... 20
Wool cnndaad 4 ply! %
Powoattan .........

*
PLAID OSNABURG

 

    
 

' choculates 4 solid bl’k 5
Hamilton fancies... 4% . crepon... 5%
TL ICKINGS.

Amoskeag ACA.. iH Imperial ..... ca. Oe

Comostowa ......... Swift CC . 7

Hamilton N eee cess 6% Swift +s. 8
EB Galveston B 8

Lenox...
Kimono
Salem...

 

 

 

 

a 6% {Mount Piensa. . 6%
Sieeeeee........... 6%) Incids.............. 5
Segoe ........ 2... 7%|Prymont ..........- 5%
Ar sa - te eee or ane 6,|Randeiman......... 6
orn... 6y|Riverside........... 5
Gran . cia oon h erage S ree Bow. as pos 6%
ew River......... S PE ota enoioe
Mae 2.....-........ 5 ene... .. ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN — TRADESMAN,

 

PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP.

 

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

To go from Ohio to New York thirty-
five years ago was not quite such an
everyday affair as it is to-day. We alli
travel to-day as if to be on the go con
tinually was the natural end and aim of
our existence. Among others of my
hopes and dreams the one of some day
seeing New York was gladly cherished,
but I supposed it would be a great many
years before the hope would be realized,
and now it was here.

We went through the stock, making
notes of goods running low or that were
sold out, and after doing this in the or-
der we reached the goods, we then drew
the memorandum into another book, this
time putting each article under the head
where it belonged, so that it could be
seen at a glance what was wanted in each
line. Then Mr. Ely gave me a list of
the houses he had ever bought of and of
other houses of whom he hada favorable
impression, but he emphasized the re-
mark that he expected me to get the
goods I bought at the bottom rates, and
I was to buy where goods were cheapest
without regard to any names he gave me.
When all this was done 1 was given $50
in cash and a draft on New York for
$150. and I was ready tostart off on what
was to me a very wonderful journey.

If I had but some one for a companion,
I thought, I would be perfectly happy,
and when I reached the depot I lookeu
anxiously around to see if anyone had a
valise in their hands as if they were go-
ing on a long journey, but | could see no
one but a man from Germantown, and |
imagined they always carried a valise if
they were but going to the next station;
still l asked him where he was bound.

‘*Well, Marks, I pe goin’ down to New
York,’’ was the unexpected answer.

**You are? So am 1,” | said, delighted.

**Pully, dat ish goot; we will go to-
gedder.”

My German friend was the leading
man in the settlement, and reputed to be
very wealthy. He had put up a sawmill
and made many valuable improvements
there, and | now remember to have heard
that ten or fifteen German families were
coming from the old country, and L eon-
cluded he was going to meet them as he
had done with others. He had always
been a good customer of Mr. Ely’s, and
he and | were on excellent terms.

The cars came and rattled away with
us on board. The first hour of our ride
was through country I was familiar with,
so | paid more attention to my fellow
travelers than to the scenery outof doors.
Mr. Fischer went otf to the smoking car,
and though the car was pretty well
crowded | had a whole seat to myself.
At the first station of any size more peo-
ple came in the car than went out, anda
quiet, respectable looking old gentleman
took the vacant seat beside me.

He was an extraordinarily modest old
fellow, and looked as if one were doing
him a favor merely to speak to him. I
found that he was well acquainted with
the towns we were passing through,
their population and business, and yet
he told me he lived in a large city at
the eastern terminus of the road. We
chatted away sociably, or rather i did,
for he merely answered the questions I
asked him, and in his company | passed
away an hour. He left me at the next
city stop we made, and when the con
ductor again came around I asked him
who the man was I had been talking
with, for I had noticed he and the con-
ductor were acquainted.

‘“‘The old gentleman that just got off?”
he asked.

““¥ es.””

“That’s the president of this road.”

I made up my mind | would be a little
cautious with strangers hereafter, or 1
might get into trouble.

After Fischer had smoked about five
hours he came in the car with his face in
a broad grin.

‘sWell, Marks, I had some fun.’’

“Did you? What was it?’’

‘| had some fun with the gamplers.’’

«Gamblers, on the cars?’’

**Yaw, on the gars. I know’d th

was gamplers right off, and dey dhry a

dake one fellow in; one man says
here you got de leetle yoker, und I pet
vou fife dollars you dou’t know him.
Und dinks 1, my fine fellows, I will
gatch you, so I says here’s fife dollars
und dere is de yoker. Und py golly when
he turn him up he was not de little
yoker at all but anoder fellow. Ha, ha!’’

**You seem to feel good over it,” said I.

‘Feel good? So I do; what’s else?
Shall I gry? No; I pets und loses, you
don’t got no more leetle yokers ofer me.’’

When evening came the cars were not
quite so full of people, and we turned
over the seat in front of us and fixed
ourselves for the night. I have no idea
how much I slept that night, but my im-
pression was that I[ slept none at all.
The starting and stopping of the ears,
the calling out of stations, and the
strangeness of the whole thing kept me
awake, though Fischer snored beside me
as if he was as comfortable as man
could be.

When he awoke in the morning he be-
gan an inventory of his effects to see if
he was all there; everthing seemed all
right, valise, basket, hat, shoes, necktie,
watch, and then he felt for his pocket-
book.

‘*Where ish my money?’’

“‘Isn’t it in your pocket?”’

‘*No; my money ish gone; where ish
my money?”

I said I knew nothing about his
money; but he began pulling the bun-
dies around and talked loud enough to
rouse the whole car. Several men came
over to usand looked at me as if saying
[ had the money. I tried to get some
facts from Fischer, but he was almost
wild with excitement, and would say in
answer to every question ‘‘where ish my
money?”

At last one man found it between the
cushion on the bottom of the seat and
the back; it had evidently fallen out of
Fischer’s pocket and worked down into
this crack. I think I was as much re-
lieved as he was, and his face brightened
all over as he remarked: ‘‘I know’d it
was somewheres; I will dake a goot
schmoke.’’

vs -_ > >
The retailer’s friend, Signal Five, 5c.
cigar.

 

 

 
    

  

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Hardware Price Current.

 

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

 

 

AUGUBS AND BITS. dis
eee 6. &10
oo ee teen eke cersceeeas au
ermine, MOMUING. ... 2. - 6.55.8 nt owes. 28
Jennioge, Deletion .............-...... «- 50&10

AXES.
Firat Quality, S. B. Bronze.................. $5 50
% DB Broa - =
: S. © & meoer.............-.....
' poe... 13 00
BARROWS. dis.
Ratlroad eee eee ee ee a
Goreen ........... 2.2.1.0... net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
ee 50&10
Carriage eT EE 75&10
ee re, ere etc eee —
Sleigh moo...
BUCKETS.
oe... 8 3 Su
eae... 400
gy CAST. dis
Cast Loose Pin, figured....... oo. ee
Wrought Narrow, oright Bast joint 40 . 66410

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Wreuget ioose Pim................... i. 40
Oe Eee 4
Wrougnt Iuelde Bind ....,............... 4:
Wratent Ureme occas 5
Diam Cae 70&16
Blind, Eearecre........... 70&16
Blind, as emcee enen 78
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892..... ..... 60&10
CRADLES,
ee is 40&10
CROW BARS,
Cee hieg:. em «CS
OAPs,
Ely’s 1-10 .
Hick’s C. F 55
Gn. .... 35
Wusket 60
CARTRIDGES.
Bim ere.................. be ecto cua eee oe 56
Comma We... dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
Socmes Sarmier lo cuee deuce =
Seem ee &1A
ROCMCRC CMM isa10
MOGMCe TENONM 715&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............... eee 40
comBs, dis.
Carry, Lawreneo's................ eee eomeae 40
CO 25
OHALE,
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
Planished 14 os Cut to size... .. per pound 23
14x52, 14x56, 14x60... 2.2... 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ....... 23
Cold Rolled, — oe 3
Bottoms . : ! eet ew esee s 2
DRILLS. dis.
Morse’s Bit Stocks.............. oo 50
Taper and straight Shank........... ote 50
Moree's Teper Shenk. ................. ... . 50
DRIPPING PANS,

Suaall wisce, ser pound ...................... 8%
Targe elses, por pound...... ......... ..... 06
ELBOWS.

Com. 4 oem: eee ecee ee dos. a 75
OO 59
Ropumenee pm 42&10

EXPANSIVE BITS, dis.

Clark’s, a—. Sin. levee, Oe... ............
Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824 > 3,830 eee ee 25

FILES—New List. dis.
ee tt a 60&10-10
Now Auer C8... 60&10-10
Nicholson’s ... he eebe cece 1&1
ef, oe el 50
Hetics = Home Wamp .. .................... i)

GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2; 2 and 2%; 27. 28
List 12 13 14 15 16 17
Discount, 70

 
 

 

  

GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... eae eee 50
KNOBsS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ... i 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings ... ...... 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings ......... 55
Door, porcelvin, trimmings ... .. a. 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. %
LOCKS—DOOR, dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new lst ....... 55
Meliory, Wheeler & Co. 8........... ....... 55
Ce 55
Sorgen e........-................ 55
MATTOCKS.
eeee mee.................. - 816.00, dis. 60-10
Hoel eee... $15.00, dis. 60-10
aes. |. $18.50, dis. —
perry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled. oe _. "ss
ILLs. =
‘offee, Parkers Co. Ph “ 4
'P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleabies.. &
« Lenders, Perry & Cleck'p............ «
- - Enterprise Se BS
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
‘tebbin’s Pattern............ i
‘tebbin’s Genuine . —.
Znterprise, self- measuring... bese ee cae
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Meal mane. Base. ........... ..... bedeececek OO
Waren cee... CCCs 135
oe... ee oo. Base Base
50 1u
=
3
35
45
45
5¢
6
7
»
12
1 ti
1 6
65
iced s eee eee as caus 73
9
7
90
1¢
70
80
6
Barrell ®.. fee eee eect e cme 6. iv
“PLANES. dis.
Onde Yoo! Ce. a fancy.... ............- et
‘ciota Bench .. eee ae @5
Sandusky Tool Co.’ 's, fancy. eee e+
Sench, first quality —.. =
Stanley Ruie and Level Co. ‘s wood. . ....508!
Pans.
me ACs dis.60—10)
ela Saaiaios ee eee ede gue on dis. 7
BIVETs. dis.
Trem ee Semen... .............. “
Copper Rivets and Burs..............

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
“A”? Wood's none net Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
‘*B?? Wood's owe os. 25 to 27... 9 20
Broken c per nen extra,

 

acUe.’s...... : 4

 
 

Waydok
acip’s a file
Yerkes & Plumb’s Lk Gis. 40a!
Mason’s Solid Cast Stee! B0c list 6
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand. . B00 4041!
HINGES.
—_ Cuamea f 2.2.................. dis. —_
Pe er dos. net, 2
Pee Hook and Sirap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
eee 3%
Screw Hook and Eye, Mee... net 1
r c i a... net 8%
Pa 6 oo
Seereaeae........ fk... _ 5°
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. S08
Charapion, antl-triction.................... &10
Hitter WeedGeee 40
HOLLOW WARK.
i ace eee 60416
Kettles..... feed cee cee eeu seus Ma eee cee GO&10
ee i. 60&10
Cray CUeMenCe fl 40&10
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
Seamed Tin Ware... new list -
eto i
Granite Iron Ware ._............. new lis >
WIRE GOODS. 8.
eee. 70&10&10
Reraw Wyee.... ede eees !
2 ee,
Gate Hooks and EB res. eee,
dis.7
Stanley Rule and Level. Co.'s fede arco a tues 4
PES.
Sisal, % inch and senate Sse deco. - «
Manili ee ee — 10
SQUARES, dis.
eeeraee tem 7 &10
7 = ee 60
ee. 20
SHEET _e
‘om. Smooth.
Moa t0te #3 50 S50
Nos. 2 6)
Nos. 2 70
Nos. 3 2 80
Nos. 3 90
No. 27 3 00

 

3 7
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

List acct. 19, 86 . ate one 30
SASH CORD.
Silver Lake, mie A 50
Pee A ' 55
or Wises... ' 50
' ee. : 55
- Wace

Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS,

Roa nes. per - ao
SAWS.
' Oe * 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
. — Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
ss 7 ecial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. FH
- — and Blectric —_— x
Cuts, per foot inet
“TRAPS. ais.
Steel,Game........ sear ~

Onelda Community, WNewhouse’s Lt lee
Oneida Community, ne & Norton’s.."¢-10 10
Mouse, choker... ... .15¢ per dos
Mouse, delusion... 81.25 — _
"WIRE.
Betas Meee
Annealed Market............... Hed wey cg 75

Copperce Marece 70
[nee One |. 62%
Capperce Spring Steel... 50
Barped Fence, salvanised.................. 286
' eae... 2 0
HORSE NAILS.
See dain |«6<nie
"utnam eed eee a.
Northwestern bee e ees suee dis. 10&16
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter’n Adjustable, nickeled ...........
‘oe’r Genuine dee 5)
‘oe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . 75
Coe’s Patent. malleable -H&16
MISCELLANEOUS. dis,
Bird Cager \ . 5
Pumpa. Cistern <1. TOD
Screws. New I ‘st .. 0&1! &10
Casters, Beda d Plate ‘ 5010410
Dampers, American oe 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods 65410
METALS
Pie TIN.

Pig Large ete 26¢
[oe 28¢
ZINO,

Juty: Sheet. 2%c per pound

Wi pound Cages .............. 6%

rer poe... oe 7
SOLDER.

43% ee ee a

@xtra Wiping ir

The prices of the many other qualities of
‘older {n the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.

AMTIMONY,.
Cookson : per pound
Hallett’s " ts
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
=: an oe ee
14x20 IC, eee sccm mesa eccepeeace 2 Om
10x14 IX, ' bea cues sete | ae
14x20 _  .......................... 9 2
Each Naditional X on this grade, $1.75,
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal Oeeee eee ace ee 7%
14x20 [C, Bete ceteccetees-acae. Oe
10x14 IX, - |... 2... i cean 8 2
14x20 [X . o>
Bach additional X¥ on thts grade 8&1, 50.
BOOPING PLATES
14x20 IC, Wereeween................ @o
14x20 [X, . C—O 8 5
20x28 IC, ' tee cence ee 13 50
14x20 IC, ‘* Allaway Grade........ 6 00
14x20 IX : eee aes 7 50
20x28 IC, “ ' . ee 12 §
waeix, ‘ iC . 15 50
BOILER SIZB TIN PLATE.
14x28 1X 814 O
14x31 [X . 15 OL
bn i for No. . Bollers, { per pound 10 00

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E, A. STOWE, Editor.
FEXRRKU «RY 6.

 

 

WEDNESDAY

 

 

THE TRADESMAN finds many things to
commend in the administration of Mayor
Fisher, but candor compels the state-
ment that he has made two very serious
blunders which have caused the legiti
mate grocery trade of the city no end of
trouble. One was his appointment of
Alderman shaw (who is alleged to have
asserted that the retail grocers of the
city are allied to the swine family) as
chairman of the Committee on Licenses
and the other is the apparent reckless-
bess with which he issues free pe:mits
to peddlers on the recommendation of
the Charity Organization Society. THE
TRADESMAN does not wish to do Mayor
Fisher any injustice, but it cannot help
expressing the belief that if His Honor
would listen less to the behests of the
C. O. S. and consult more frequently with
the police department in such matters.
he would ve more likely to be just than
generous. It may bea generous act to
accord a poor man the privilege of ped-
dling frozen and unwholesome fruit on
the streets, without the payment of a
license fee, but itis a manifest injustice
to the neighbor of that man who is
- equally as poor but has managed by dint
of economy or sobriety or the assistance
of friends, to secure a license in man
fashion by the payment of the prescribed
fee. The granting of a license by a
municipality ought to carry with it cer-
tain rights and privileges which the ex-
ecutive cannot nullify, and the sooner
the Mayor is deprived of the right to
grant free permits the better it will be
for all concerned.

 

The attempt of the Evening Press to
curry favor with the professional poli-
ticians in the ranks of trades unionism
by condemning Mayor Fisher and the
Common Council for refusing to pur-
chase a municipal lighting plant is in
thorough keeping with the ‘‘cash till
policy’? of that publication, but does
not speak weil for the intelligence and
diseernment of the editorial department.
The Press is acting on the assumption
that the meager majority given the pro-
posed measure last spring is mandatory
on the Council to proceed to create a
public lighting plant without delay. As
a matter of fact, no bond buyer will pur
chase city bonds issued on the authority
of such a vote, as the law explicitly

 

states that all bonding schemes of that
character shall have the affirmative
vote of a majority of the duly qualified
voters. The Press wears the muzzle of
unionism at the top of its editorial col-
umn and would, naturally be expected to
lick the hand of its master, but it
should be more careful, and not seek to
lead its master astray by subterfuge of
this sort.

 

There was one element of weakness in
the Whisky Trust whieh does not obtain
in the other great combinations like the
sugar or oil trusts, in that a plant for its
manufacture can be so easily and quickly
established wherever the proper grains
can be procured, and that is almost
anywhere in the country. The sources
of the sugar or oil supply can be pretty
accurately determined and thus associa-
tions of capital can be made that will
not be subject to wide speculative
fluctuations. In the Whisky Trust,
en the contrary, buying in newly estab-
lished plants early became a disturbing
factor which increased in importance
until it caused the failure. During the
life of the Trust its stock has been one of
the most variable in Wall Street.

 

The entire loss caused by the Brooklyn
strike is estimated to exceed $2.000,000
by the Brooklyn Eagle. A considerable
part of this is destroyed property which
must be made good by the taxpayers of
that city. The fund used by the strike
managers is supposed to approximate
$100,000, but there is the usual 'ack of
definiteness as to the amount or its ap-
vlication. It is probable the usual pro
portion of saloons will be established by
the strike managers after their duties in
connection with the strike are ended.
The leader, Connolly, proposes to raise
$100,000 more for the forlorn cause by
issuing bonds. If be succeeds in floating
them with the backing they will neces-
sarily have, he will inaugurate a new
era of financiering.

 

The loss of the Elbe, in which 350
lives were sacrificed, was singular in
that it occurred under conditions of ap
parent safety. There was no fog at the
time of the eollision. The ship was con-
structed on the compartment system,
which was supposed to insure it against
sinking in case of collision. But it was
struck at the point of division between
two compartments, whieh contained the
machinery, destroying the bulkhead and
sending the ship to the bottom in a very
few minutes. This is said to be the only
vulnerable point—a few feet either way
would have saved the vessel.

The Dry Goods Market.

Prints remain unchanged.

Cambrics have declined 1c and are
now jobbed at 3°zc; former price, 4c.

Hair cloth is very scarce. Jobbers
now ask 45c for a fair quality. Imita-
tion is quoted at 15@20c.

Shirting prints are 3}¢c. Indigos are
414¢c. Harmony prints are 4c.

Beaver Dam cottons, equal in quality
to Lawrence L. L., 4c.

Fourteen inch linen crash 3c.

Damasks made by Waverly mills, for-
mer jobbing price 20c, are now 18c, 58
inches wide.

The above prices are the lowest on
record and show that Grand Rapids dry
goods jobbers can sell as low as anyone,
and can, also, save you large freights.

SOE MOLES ASME AP LIOR ER AER TEL LIRR BELO LT ETO ET POMEL OLE INT BTN I on

 

Social Meeting of the Jackson Retail
Grocers’ Association.

JACKSON, Feb 1—At the regular meet-
ing of the Association, held Jan. 3, a
committee was appointed to arrange
for the fourth annual social meeting.
The committee, consisting of C. G.
Hill, P. W. Haefner, M. M. Whitney,
W. H. Branchand M F. Murray chose Jan.
31 as the date, and added to the committee
1. N. Branch, D. G. Fleming, H. L.
Way, W. H. Porter, J. L Peterman, G.
E. Lewis, B. C. Hill and L. Pelton and
divided into sub committees to look
after the details. Last evening was the
appointed time and it is safe to say that
it was the most enjoyable social occasion
ever held by the Association.

The first part of the evening was
taken up with a programme of events
which had been arranged for the occa-
sion, consisting of vocal and _ instru-
mental music, toasts, recitations, whistl-
ing duets, ventriloquism, ete. The mu-
sical portion consisted of an instrumental
duet by Misses Jessie Hill and Maude
Mattison, a vocal solo by Byron Hill,
vocal solo by J. B. Foote and banjo solos
by F. Jones and F. Lewis.

The recitations were by Miss Monica
Wilson and little Emma Cornell. Miss
Wilson related the experience of a girl,
just home from school, learning the art
of cooking from an Irish cook, and Miss
Cornell recited ‘Sending a Letter to
Mamma in Heaven.’’

The toasts were ‘‘Wholesale Grocers,”’
by Geo. W. Baker, of the Jackson
Grocery Co., and he, as usual gave a
very pleasant address.

D. G. Fleming spoke on ‘‘Our Associa-
tion, its Past, Present and Future.’’ He
gave a review of the Association since its
organization and entertained the guests
in his genial way with an up-to-date
sketch of the work done and the wishes
aod hopes for the future.

M. F. Cottrell spoke on ‘‘Crackers.”
His address was brief and pointed; that
is, he pointed the way of those who
wished te learn the modus operandi of
making crackers at his factory.

“The City of Jackson’”’ was the subject
assigned M. W. Tarbox, editor of the
Saturday Evening Star. He gave a
pleasant any pithy address on the lights
and shades of our city in his usually
happy manner.

M. J. Cummings spoke on ‘“‘Soap.”? He
handled the subject in an admirable
manner, referring briefly to the various
kind of soaps, more particularly of the
soap of commerce, and was very enter-
taining and instructive.

“The Ladies” was placed in the hands
of T. E. Howard. ‘‘Happy Tim” was in
his happiest mood and handied the sub-
ject in his usual hearty way.

Messrs. Devnier and Gates in their
whistling duet—imitation of a planing
mill, mocking bird duet, ete.—proved
themselves hosts in the line of amusing
people and were enthusiastically and re-
peatedly encored. In fact, everyone
present seemed to enjoy most thoroughly
every number on the list.

After the set programme, dancing, eat-
ing, cards and sociability were in order.
Judging from the happy look on the face
of everyone present, we have good
reason to believe that the occasion was
thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our Presi-
dent, as master of ceremonies and in his
thoughtful care of our guests, proved
that no mistake had been made in his
selection. There were about 300 grocers
and guests present—just enough for the
room and just room enough for them.
One feature of the occasion that was
appreciated by the wives of our grocers,
was that, instead of setting tables and
having our ladies do the work, we had
a buffet lunch, our guests could eat at
their pleasure and our ladies could en-
joy the whole evening.

W. H Porter, Sec’y.
<2 9
Reduced the Price.

Shopper—l’d like to buy that lovely
—_— shade, but I can’t afford to pay $10

or it.

Salesman—Well, madam, I’11 make the
price $9.99.

Shopper—Oh, how good of you!
take it.

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Influence of the Traveling Man in Tims
of Trouble.

“I do not dislike to see salesmen call
as often as they have a mind to,” saida
retailer to the writer last week. ‘No
matter how busy I may be at the time of
their visit, Ican always find time enough
to courteously bid them ‘good morning.’
If I do not wish to see any new lines, I
say so firmly and respectfully, and if I
am inclined to see what the salesman
has to offer, but I do not happen to have
the time just then, I intimate that I shall
be glad to see him at some other time.
{ have always found salesmen, as a rule,
gentlemen, and however persistently
they may press the superiority of the
firm’s goods they carry, they have too
much self-respect to try to force them-
selves on a retailer when they are con-
vinced that he has not the time or in-
clination to discuss their samples. Be-
sides, there are few men who know more
about the shoe trade, or about human
nature in general, for that matter, than
the shoe salesman. I have got valuable
points from them time and again, which
have been of practical use to me in deal-
ing with my patrons. Asa matter of
fact, I believe I would not be in the
business to-day but for the good opinion
and kindly feelings toward me of two
members of ‘the drummer’ craft. On one
occasion, for reasons I need not state, I
was unable to ‘come to time’ in settling
my accounts, and I owed quite a large
bill to the house represented by one of
the two. I had the stock. but I had not
the cash. The house made it a strict
rule to press for a settlement of all bills
after they became due. They would
bave done so in my case and forced me
to the wall, had not the two salesmen
referred to interested themselves in my
behalf in a most unusual manner.
They drew up a statement setting forth
their belief that if the firm to which I
was indebted made an exception, in my
ease, to its invariable rule and gave me
a reasonable extension of time, 1 would
meet my obligations to the letter. The
statement was signed by the two sales-
men referred to and by four others to
whom I had never given an order and to
whom I had shown no special favor

beyond treating them with unfailing
courtesy any time they called on me. It
was a long while afterward that I

learned of the reasons that induced the
firm in question to make an exception in
my case, and that it was the high opin-
ion it entertained for its representative
and the other salesmen who had given
their names out of appreciation for my
reputation for always treating salesmen
as they Ought to be treated.” The re-
tailer whe gave expression to the above
facts now owns one of the most solidly
prosperous and handsome stores in the
city where he lives. No one could be
speaking with him for any length of
time without concluding that pleasant
manners, courtes and urbanity yare his
predominant characteristics.
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VERMONTVILLE, Jan. 31—Your cores-
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

COAL TRADE OF GRAND RAPIDS.
Written for THz TRADESMAN.

Someone has aptly said: ‘‘Age is a rec-
ommendation in four things—wood to
burn, wine to drink, friends to trust and
books to read.”’

_ On this score, coal should head the
list, for was it not stiff from old age hun-
dreds of thousands of years before even
Methuselah was born! There are few
things upon which man is more depend-
ant than upon coal, not only for heating
purposes, but back of all the machinery
which moves the world—the steam en-
gine and the electric motor—and we may
well stop to consider the mighty debt we
owe to the past for this legacy.

It is a singular fact, but true, never-
theless, that the hardest and strongest
coal is found near the Atlantic coast,
and, in point of time, it is supposed to
be the oldest. So far, the mining of this
anthracite coal has been confined almost
entirely to Eastern Pennsylvania. The
coal west of the Allegheny mountains
gradually deteriorates from the hard
bituminous coal found in the valleys of
the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers to
the soft weak stuff of Missouri. The
States from which Grand Rapids draws
her supply are Pennsylvania, Virginia,
West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and In-
diana.

In 1876, there were only three coal
dealers in Grand Rapids—a mere handful.
They have increased in numbers, until,
now, there are about twenty-five, count-
ing large dealers and small, and, as one
remarked, ‘'a new one springing up every

day.”
The large hard coal beds from which

our supply comes are located in the north
and central eastern part of Pennsylvania.
Here are mined, every year, 40,000,000
tons of anthracite, of which some 75,000
tons or thereabouts comes to this city.

The mining of hard coal is done mostly
by hand. Large blocks of it are carried
by cars to what are known as ‘*breakers,”
where they are broken in pieces and
passed through a series of screens, giv-
ing the different sizes, known in trade as
‘“prate,” ‘“‘egg,” ‘‘stove,” ‘‘nut,” and
‘number two nut.” By far the largest
part of the cost of coal is in transporta-
tion. When it reaches here, it is again
screened, and by this process 3 to 5 per
cent. is wasted.

Somewhere from 80 to 90 per cent. of
the hard coal used in Grand Rapids is for
domestic purposes. The ordinary base-
burner consumes from three to five tons,
per annum, a medium sized house uses
twelve to fourteen tons in its furnace,
while our largest residences require
twenty to thirty tons. A ton of anthra-
cite brings $6.40 this season, delivered,
$1.10 less than last year, yet there is a
falling off in the consumptive demand of
10 to 18 percent. This is ascribed to the
cheapness of wood and the substitution
of a fine quality of soft coal. Soft coal
is a much cheaper fuel and, for many
purposes, just as good.

A hard coal plant costs a pretty penny.
Only a very modest one can be opened up
for $100,000, and the better ones cost
from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. On the
other hand, the equipment of a soft coal
mine may cost much or little, as the
means or wishes of the operator may dic-
tate. One with the newest machinery

and run by electricity may stand side by
side with one
road and donkey,
screens.

furnished merely with
picks, shovels and

 

There are innumerable mines of soft |
coal in this country, and many of them
much nearer to us than the anthracite
beds; so the cost of transportation in
many cases is less. Each dealer has his
favorite kinds whose excellent qualities
he lauds to the sky, though often they
do not differ materially from the varieties
handled by his competitors.

Grand Rapids uses about 125,000 tons
of soft coal annually, three-fourths of
which is required for steam power. The
remainder is used by the Street Railway
Company, the Waterworks, for domestic
purposes, and in heating blocks, churches
and other large buildings.” The smallest
blocks take from 100 to 200 tons, while
the largest require ail the way from 500
to 1,200 tons. The schoolhouses are
heated with soft coal and coke.

About 10,000 tons of coke is burned
here, a large per cent. being made by the
Gas Company. Coke which has not been
subjected to heat for more than forty-
eight hours is, by some people, preferred
as fuel in place of coal, because smoke-
less.

The coke ovens having the finest repu-
tation are at Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
Coke retained in the ovens seventy-two
hours is used in foundries for the reduc-
tion of metals.

Besides all this coal, Grand Rapids
furnishes a market for an amount of
wood variously estimated at from 100,000
to 150,000 cords a year. A large part of
this comes by rail from the North, and,
besides, thousands of cords are brought
in by farmers ’round about.

The demand for charcoal here is small,
farmers, hotels and hardware stores be-
ing about the only users.

Tricks in the trade? One would say
yes when we read such anecdotes as this:

A coal merchant advertised for help.
A man answered the advertisement who,
somehow, didn’t seem to fill the bill, but,
when asked what his last place was, he

answered, ‘Il was master of short
weights and measures.” The merchant,
all smiles, grasped his hand, saying,

‘Come right in! You are the very man
I’m looking for !”’

Or this:

The small boy in possession of a coal
dealer for pater, upon being asked if he
knew how many pounds make a ton, an-
swered the question in true Yankee
fashion: ‘‘D’ yer t’?ink I’m agoin’ ter give
it away an’ nen go hum an’ git licked?”

Of course, as in other lines of business,
there are dealers—and dealers. One who
buys heavily may well, like Diogenes of
old, take a candle and hunt for an honest
man, and he will find more than one.

No business is more directly affected
by the weather thanis this. Watch the
mental thermometer of the merchant rise
as the mercury falls. If you have any
favors to ask, tickets to sell, charity to
beg for, choose a cold day—the game is
yours. 4. &. U.

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THE STRANGE PREACHER.

 

The Record of an Evangelist in a Mis-
souri Town.

A number of men were sitting about
the stove in the hotel of a Missouri vil-
lage. The night was bitter cold and the
wind was howling, and old houses could
be heard cracking their weary joints.
The train had come in, and the boy who
had gone for the mai! had said that there
was but one passenger, and that he had
mysteriously disappeared immediately
upon reaching the end of the railway
platform.

‘What for a looking man was he?”
asked the wise man of the town, who,
many years before, no one could remem-
ber exactly when, had served as Judge of
the County and Probate Courts.

**T couldn’t see him very well,’’ the boy
answered, ‘‘but he was putty tall and
wore a long overcoat.’’

‘*And you say you don’t know which
way he went?”

‘No, sir. I couldn’t tell which way
he went after he got down off the plat-
form.’’

**You don’t suspect anything, do you,
Judge?’’? someone asked.

The old man did not answer imme-
diately. If there is ore trait that be-
longs distinctively to wi- liom, it is de-
liberation, and, knowing this, the Judge
took his time. He scratched his chin,
then with geutle strokes smoothed his
beard. Every eye was turned upon him,
and in the silence that waited for his
words there was a nerve strain of eager-

ness.
“It would be difficult to determine,”

said the old man.

*‘But why do you suspect him at all?’’
asked a Shoemaker, who, during his long
life as a shoer of men, had tramped, and,
therefore, looked with a sort of liberal
skepticism upon the intentions of a
stranger, and was generally inclined to
give him the much boasted benefit of the
doubt. Upon the shoemaker the Judge
fixed the gaze of his watery eyes. ‘Did
I say, sir, that I suspected him?”

“No, not exactly, but

*‘But nothing, sir,’’ the Judge broke
in. ‘*You not only jump at conclusions
yourself, but you rake up a pile of con-
clusions and attempt to pitch me head-
long at them. Ido not suspect a man of
evi! simply because he disembarks from
a train in this town. Many a good man
has stopped among us, and we should
not look upon a man with suspicion sim-
ply because he is a stranger; neither
should his being a stranger warrant us
in running up to him and covering him
with our confidences. There should be
reason in all things. Now, you will not
Ceny that there have, of late, been sev-
eral robberies in this town, and, as it is
not likely that these depredations were
committed by home people, we must con-
clude that they were the outrages of
strangers. Who’s that at the door?”

Someone wa; fumbling at the latch.
The landlord stepped forward and opened
the door and in stepped a tall man wear-
ing a long overcoat. The boy who had
seen the stranger at the railway station
looked at the Judge and nodded his head.
The stranger sat down and the landlord
hung about him as if he desired some
sort of explanation and yet had not the
courage to demand it.

‘“‘This is a public house, is it not?” the
stranger asked, looking sharply at the
landlord.

**Yes, sir; oh, yes.”’

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

‘‘All right; then cease to tangle me up
in the flying threads of your embarrass-
ing attention. Sit down over there,
please.”

With unaccustomed quickness the land-
lord sat down and every one gazed at the |
stranger. He was handsomely dressed. |
About his neck he wore a soft white
searf of silk. His eyes were soft, glow-
ing and pleasing in expression and his
nose, prominent and thin, was of a pecu-
liar whiteness. His hair was rather long,
dark, but with an_ interest-inviting
sprinkle of gray.

A silence fell upon the company,
broken only by the sharp hiss of a to-
bacco chewer’s well-directed shot at the
hot stove.

“It appears,’’ said the new-comer,
loosening the scarf about his neck and
shaking his hair as a proud horse might
shake his mane, “that I have touched
the exposed nerve of suspicion; but let
me assure you that I came in at the
straight gate, and am, therefore, not the
same as athief and arobber. And, gen-
tlemen, permit me to introduce myself.
I am John Bellwether, a humble but
courageous preacher of the gospel, a de-
voted admirer of the bravery of Paul,
ready either to pray or to fight—indeed,
one who stands listening for the tinkling
of the bell that shall summon him to
duty. You have not heard of me. |
present no credentials. I come simply
with a heart full of love. If I could I
would willingly tell you much about my-
self, but Icannot. I know but little of
myself; but what I do tell you shall be
absolute truth. Now, listen to me. |
was walking in a field—where, I know
not; when, | know not; but I do know
that, while walking in that field, I was
ealled upon to come to this community
and preach the gospel. And so here |
am. I know nothing about denomina-
tions—I come simply to present the gos-
pel warmed with love. I ask for no
money—only for a place to sleep and a
seat at table. Buti am not apauper. I
have money, which I am willing at any
time to divide among you. I ask you,
please, to take it, sir.”’ He thrust his
hand into his breast pocket, took out a
roll of bank notes and held it out toward
the landlord.

“Gracious, no,’’ said the simple man,
shrinking back.

“But can’t you put it into your safe
and give some to me as [ may ask for it?
Take it and pay yourself whenever you
find that 1 am indebted to you.’’

““No,’”’ said the landlord, shaking his
head, ‘‘you keepit. Never in my life
have I laid hands on that much money.
I don’t want to handle it. I’m afraid of
‘t.”

“Then will you keep it for me?’ the
stranger asked, turning toward the;
Judge.

By this time the Judge was looking on
in pop-eyed astonishment. ‘‘No, sir, I
am not prepared to assume that respon-
sibility,’? he answered; ‘‘but I will take
the responsibility to warn you to be more
eareful. This is a public house, you
must remember, and many an eye peers
into such places. We have a bank here
and to-morrow I will go with you so that
you may deposit it. Pardon my blunt-
ness, sir, but are you sure that you are
altogether right in your mind ?”’

The preacher laughed. ‘I admit the
appearance of unsettlement,’’ he said
*“*but I can assure you thatl am perfectly
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‘*Where did you preach last ?”’

**f have never preached, sir.”

The Judge shook his head. ‘‘But
what business have you been engaged
in?’

‘Really, I dou’t know.”

‘*And yet you are sure that you are
perfectly sane?”

‘‘Perfeetly sure of that, sir.’’

“Pardon me,” said the Judge, ‘‘but I
am forced to doubt it.”

The preacher laughed softly and re-
plied: ‘‘That is your privilege. Now,
let me ask you a question. Where were
you 1,000 years ago?”’

‘Why, I wasn’t anywhere.”

“Oh, yes; not your body, but your es-
sence, your spirit, must have been some-
where. But, of course, you don’t know
where. And now, with me, all back of
a few days ago was an unconscious es-
sence, an unidentified and unthinking
spirituality.”

“111 be dinged if you ain’t too much
forme,’’ said the Judge. And then, ad-
dressing a gaunt old fellow who had
said nothing, he added: ‘‘Do you want
to take him, Brother Hallum?”

“‘Well, IL ain’t very keen to,’’ Brother
Hallum answered; ‘‘but, as the boys out
in my neighborhood say, l’ll ‘try him a
few falls, Mr. Bellwether—funny name,
too—you say you are a preacher ?”

“From this time on, yes, sir.’’

‘“‘Well, I’m a preacher, also, and have
been for thirty odd years, and I can tell
you where I have been ever since [ was
very small.”

“Ah, but can you tell me where you
were when the earth was very small—
when this globe was a grain of sand ?”

“No, of course not.”

“But, my dear sir, what is has always
been in some form. The idea has always
existed. The phonograph we call new
but we know that the principle is as old
as creation. But there is no religion in
such a discussion. I donot come to ar_
gue upon my sanity but to preach the
gospel of love. 1 have the newest proof
of immortality. Listen with close atten-
tion. Wise men have brought up shrewd
arguments against the immortality of the
soul, or, rather, of man. They say,
‘Bring me a fact.’ I can give them
something stronger than a mere fact.
We will turn to Shakespeare. In his
book we find a thought that can never
die. Shakespeare’s mind, his soul,
created that thought. Shakespeare died
but the thought still lives. Ab, but
must the something that created that
thought perish, leaving the thing created
Can the created be greater
But we will not

immortal ?
than the
argue.’’
‘My friend,’”? said Brother Hallum,
“you may be a strange man, and all that,
but Il am very anxious to hear you
preach. To morrow, I have an appoint-
ment in this town and you may take my

creator?

place.”’

The next day
before Mr. Bellwether had eaten
fast the village in intense excite-
ment concerning him. In the barber's
shop, on the corners of the streets—every-
where he was discussed. His strange
theories, with appropriate exaggerations,
had been blown about, and it was de-
clared that they were going either to
hear the ravings of a madman, or a most

and long

break

was Sunday,

was

powerful sermon. The church was
crowded and there was eagerness in the
throng when the preacher entered. He

requested the brethern to sing a simple

 

hymn, and, when this had been done, he

clasped his hands and pronounced the
word ‘‘Love.’’? Slowly he began to talk,
and how precise and clear he was in his
use of words! There were no rant, no
broken accents, but a flow of beautiful
sentences, growing warmer and warmer.
Men looked at one another in astonish-
ment, and women, always lovers of the
beautiful, clasped their hands and leaned
toward the speaker; and, when the ser-
mon was brought to a close, and al-
though it was done gracefully, the con-
gregation was stunned, almost stupefied.
Old men, old women, young women and
girls pressed forward to take the stran-
ger by the hand. There was no longer
any doubt—he was, indeed, a man in-
spired.

It was a great revival. Services were
held every night. There were three
liquor saloons in the town, but they were
closed, not by force, and by the men who
had kept them. A poker room had been
run over a livery stable, but soon it was
deserted and the cards were scattered in
the street. It was now declared that the
new preacher was a great evangelist who
did not want his real name to be known,
and who, having heard of the wicked-
ness of that little town, had come to
purge if and a fear arose lest soon he
might take his departure. But time
went by and he said nothing of leaving.
Now he did not apppear to be eccentric;
he had ceased to speak in the language
of mysticism; his eyes were softer, his
countenance more serene. Preachers
from adistance came to hear him and
were loath to leave. He was welcomed
to every pulpit, urged to go into other
communities; but he said that his work
lay in that little town and that he must
abide there until he received orders to go
elsewhere. His money was gone; he
had given it tothe poor, but he would
take no pay for his work. ‘‘All I want
is a place to eat and sleep,” he was wont
to say, as at the first of his coming.

One day, a Bishop called upon him.
They met in the parlor at the hotel. It
was known that the great man had come,
and the room became crowded.

‘IT have come a long distance to see
you,’ said the Bishop.

‘“‘And [thank you, brother, for your
interest. But were there not others that
needed looking after? Have you not
come to see a reed, shaken by the
wind?’’

The Bishop bowed his head in ac-
knowledgment of the rebuke and then
answered: ‘But not cut of idle curios-
ity have | come, brother, but witha hope
that I may induce you to come with me
to other communities. You must re-
member that all fields are the fields of
God.”

“True,” Mr. Bellwether answered;
“but fields are apportioned out for till-
age. And Ihave been appointed to till
this field.”

It was of no use to argue with him,
ind, after hearing him preach that night,
the Bishop took his departure, marvel-
ing at his power.

The strange preacher had been in the
town six months. One night. a large
congregation was waiting for him but he
did not come. The Judge and Brother
Hallum said that they would go uown to
the hotel and see if there was anything
wrong. When they entered the office of
the hotel they found the preacher sitting
there. At first, they hardly recognized
him, his face had changed so. His eyes

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“PROCESS”, and will do the same amount of work, and consume much
less fluid.

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

We Have the Agency for This CELEBRATED STOVE.

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No. 415 3-Burner, High and Step, List - - $12
No. 414 2-Burner, High and Step, List - - 16

Regular Gasoline Stove Discount.

OSTERZAT EVENS
& C: MONROR

Sold on tts Mer

Guaranteed.

 

 

Order from Your Jobber

 

Grand Rapids Soap Works.

 

  

12

 

i
no longer beamed with their accustomed |

soft radiance and his countenance was
troubled.

“They spoke to him and he said: “I
have been trying to think when I came
to this place and how I got here. I don’t
understand it.”’

‘Why, you were called among us to
preach,” said the astonished Judge.

“Preach!” And the man_ laughed.

‘Why, I never preached in my life. I
am a lawyer, and I live in Louisville,
Ky., and how I came here I don’t
know.”’

“*Is it possible,’’ cried the Judge, ‘‘that
you are not Rev. Mr. Bellwether?’

*“Bellwether!”? shouted the man.
‘‘Now that’s a name for you! No, my
name is Harvey, and I am a lawyer, |
tell you.” He took a paper from his
pocket. ‘‘AndIsee in this paper that
nothing has been heard of me. It’s all
very strange, and if I have preached,
gentlemen, I hope that I have done no
harm. ButI don’t think I could have
preached much of asermon. What time
does the next train leave? I must get
back to my family.”’

And so he went away. The news-
papers had a long account of the strange
freak of a prominent lawyer, and the
doctors called it ‘‘embolism.”

Opie P. READ.
= >
Credits and Collections from the Job-

ber’s Standpoint.
W. B. Templeton in New York Shipping Lisé.

Before we can collect an account we
must have given credit, and, therefore,
we want to look at some of the conditions
that have led us to have faith in the cus-
tomer who has become possessed of our
goods. We trusimen, some because they
are well rated by the agencies, some be-
cause our salesmen speak well of them,
and some because we know that, althuugh
they have small means, they are men ot
the strictest integrity, and we believe
that, as long as they can, they will pay
their bills—all good reasons for accord-
ing credit. And yet, unfortunately, we
know by bitter experience that the agen-
cies have been wrong; our salesmen, in
their anxiety to sell a bill of goods, have
overestimated the ability of the customer
to pay, and our poor but honest customer
has been unabie to bear the strain of the
hard times that have unexpectedly come
upon him and upon everyone else. After
q business experience of more than
thirty-four years, many cf which have
been spent wrestling with this knotty
question of credits, | am persuaded that
no power outside of the strictest care and
common sense will protect any merchant
from constantly having to bear losses in
his collections. There is no use in aliow-
ing an inexperienced young man whe
knows little or nothing about buovk-keep-
ing to pass upon your orders, and, in-
stead, either do it yourself or place the
matter in the hands of one on whose
judgment you can rely, and who is
thoroughly conversant with business
methods. The positionof credit clerk in
every establishment is of such impor-
tance that no one should be aliowed to
occupy it unless he is thoroughly qual
ified in the way 1 have pointed out, and
any firm who places a clerk in this posi-
tion who is not thoroughly up to the
mark must expect their past-due list to
be an awful length.

There is no doubt that, if cach line of
trade had its own bureau of information,
under the management of some thorough-
ly competent business man, the informa-
tion supplied would be more accurate
than that obtained from any general
agency; but, until these bureaus are es-
tablished, no house can afford to do with-
out the information to be gathered from
some reputable agency. But I believe
and hope that we shall live to see the
time when every line of trade will take

care of its own credits in the way 1 have | an’
There are, at this time, sey-| from association.

indicated.
eral different trade associations that have
adopted some sort of interchange plan

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

CHIGAN BARK AND

between the members, and it seems to
work very well; but my belief is that,

unless such a plan is made national, it)

cannot be truly effective, as manufac-
turers and the wholesale trade cer-
tainly want to do more than a local
trade.

In starting some manufacturing busi-
ness it has been found well to let the
goods circulate independent of the stand-
ing of the buyer, and thus get them
known, the losses being looked upon as
so much for advertising; and, when an
article has undoubted merit, and simply
needs to be known to create a demand,
there is certainly good reason to be care-
less of the credit of customers for a cer-
tain length of time, but such a course
should be abandoned as soon as possible.

No matter how careful one may be in
granting credit, there is, unfortunately,
always more or less trouble in making
collections, and they are found to be far
harder to deal with than in deciding to
give credit, especially if there is not
eternal vigilance in looking after this
important department. Every _ house
snould have a regular system, some such
as the following: Bills mailed same day
as goods are shipped; statements on the
first of each month; regular draft days
in each month on which due notice is
sent to customer, and, where long credit
is given, a regular time for sending out
notes for signature to those who take
time; every month lists of past-due ac-
counts should be taken from the ledger
and notations made on it as to dates of
letters sent, ete. Collections should be
made, asarule, direct from the office,
as it is not fair to burden the salesman
with the collection of accounts, as it un-
doubtedly interferes with his making
sales, and in some cases may prejudice
the buyer’s mind against him. He is
hired to sell goods and should have a
free hand if he is to be a successful
salesman; but, as there is no rule with-
out an exception, soin this case, when
there are delinquents to be looked after,
a good salesman may be a material help
in getting old accounts squared up.

A large amount of common sense is re-
quired in the granting of credit, but an
even larger amount is necessary in the
collection of accounts, if o!d scores are
to be cleared up sucessfully, as each
case must be reckoned up and dealt
with on its merits.
taught me that *‘More flies can be caught
with molasses than with vinegar,’’ and
that is one reason why I made a _ suecess
of a large accumulation of past due ac-
counts 1 once tackled, for the per-
suasions of the pen reduced the list, and
not the attorneys. The latter gentlemen
should get no accounts to collect until
every power of persuasion has been used
and exhausted by the office, so that,
when they do reach their hands as a last
resort, the accounts have been proved to
be practically useless. Any man in
charge of the collection department
should be too proud of showing results
to allow any attorney to fatten on his de-
partment, and he proves himself a fail-
ure if he does not collect the accounts
himself, and so attend thoroughly to
his employer’s interest.

Several plans for the collection of ac-
counts are being tried by various associa-
tions, but there is no system, so far as is
known, that is as good as it might be
made, and then they are only loeal,
whereas, to be of any real good, they
Should be national. As I have already
advocated a national credit bureau for
each line of trade, so 1 advocate a na-
tional collecting bureau for each line of
trade; and there is no reason why one
bureau should not cover both credits and
collections, and so save expense, as they
would be under one good business head.
Of course, to carry out this idea, each
house would have to contribute a certain

sum each year—perhaps a hundred dol-

lars—and if properly organized and con-
ducted, they would find it to be one of
the best investments ever made, and that
such a combination of interests would be
of real benefit to themselves and to their
trade, as, in this community of interests,
the jealousies of competition would grow
less and man’s good will to man increase

2
Use Tradesman Coupon

Common sense has |

 

LUMBER GO,

GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld.

  
  
 

=. N. B. CLARK, Pres.
==i W. D. WADE, Vice-Pres.
E C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas.

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

Se i ROTHMAN SS
3 —

ee

PALACINE.

Has proved itself the only perfect illuminating oil.

Why?

La Correspondence Solicited.

 

BECAUSE it gives a clear, bright light.
BECAUSE it does not cloud the Chimneys.
BECAUSE it does not char the wicks.

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

For sale by all first-class dealers, and refined only yb

SCOFIELD, SHURMER % YKAGLE.
Grand Rapids.

Telephone 865.

 

| 4
Write for Prices of

Any Kind.
63 -65

 

Canal St.,
CC RAND RAPIDS,

 

 

’

ll

eneral Warehousemen and Transfer Agents.
Dealers in

Wagons, Agricultural Implements and Binder Twine.
General Office, §3 South Division Street, Grand Rapids.

COLD and DRY STORAGE.

BE. J, BROOKS, Man’sg,

*9 “9

Carriages,

General Office, Telephone 945,
Warehouse, Telephone 954,

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN. 15

 

FIXING RESPONSIBILITY.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

| Before offering the enclosed copy for publi
cation it may be besttosay something by way
of explanation.

By request of Mr. Parsons, of the Pharmaceu
tical Era,I prepared, last fall, an article on
“Purity in Food and Medicine.’’ It was ‘ac
cepted and appeared iu the issue of Nov. 1-, be
cause, though not exactly agreeing with edi-
torial opinion, he believed in free discussion

J have since studied the subject more fully in
the light of facts gleaned from various quarters
and, having some new arguments and sugges-
tions to offer, propose, with your consent, to ad-
dress a different class of readers, believing that
what I have to say is apropos of th: present dis-
cussion as to new legislation for this State.

I cannotindorse the extreme views of those
who expect to abate an evil by pun.tive snap
judgments against re'ailers, while the real cul-
prits are left to work their fraudulent purposes
at the fountain head. I have tried, and fairly,
to offer some views concerning a betier way—
one that will, in my opinion, more fully iusure
the end we all so earnestly hope to attain—a
higher standard of commercial honesty
throughout the land. S. P. WHITMAR-H

One of the most common failings to
which frail human nature is heir is the
tendency, everywhere shown, to exercise |
too hasty judgment. Whether in the |}
family or neighborhood, or in the larger

 

activities of life that concern immense |
financial interests, where the press claims |

to be the avant-coureur of public senti-

ment, the world exhibits a constant suc-
cession of faulty conclusions.

Courts invariably recognize this men-
tal condition in selecting jurors, by re-
jecting men who have the reputation of
prejudging on every occasion. Public
clamor, under excitement, tends to af-
fect the judgment of many men who are
believed to be mentally well balanced.
Even in the councils of the people’s rep-
resentatives in state or nation, where
laws are enacted that directly concern
the persons and property of millions,
sober second thought has often been
forced to take ‘‘a back seat,’’ while
prejudice, expediency, or self-interest
are framed into statute and work infinite
mischief until arrested by remedial ac-
tion. Every man’s experience verifies
this statement, especially in the present
generation when vagaries of all descrip-
tion are fastened upon legislation, and
every party carrying a reform banner
seeks the aid of legal penalties to en-
force its peculiar beliefs. How far this
may parallel the harsh examples of per-
secution recorded in history | leave my
readers to decide; there is evidently a
similarity in fact though not in degree.

Since a belief prevails that all evils af-
fecting mankind can best be corrected cr
cured by legislation, every statehouse
has been crowded with reformers eager
to apply the infallible remedy. Too
often committees are induced to make
favorable report on bills that, be-
cause urged in the name of philan-
thropy, receive little attention as to de-
tails, escape wholesome criticism as to
their tendency and effects, and, in the
end, become laws that, if enforced to the
letter, violate the first principles of
justice and only serve purposes cf bun-
combe or private revenge. Much of the
legislation concerning the drug trade is
of this description.

Every fair-dealing, conscientious drug-
gist is to-day compelled to earn a liveli-
hood with the brand of liquor dealer at-
tached to his revenue certificate. In ad-

dition, a large part of the so-called moral
reformers, forgetting the scriptural in-
junction about preliminary condition,
hurl stones of doubt, distrust or misrep-
resentation, which carom on the loose

 

WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TIGKETS

ONLY A FEW LEFT.

Original set of four - - - - = ase

Complete set often - - - a -
Order quick or lose the opportunity of
a lifetime to secure these souvenirs ata

nominal figure. They will be worth ten
times present cost within five years.

Tradesman Company,

 

Your Bank Account Solicited.

Kent County Savings Bank,

GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH

Jno. A. CovopE Pres.
ienry Ipema, Vice-Pres.
A. S. VERDIER, Cashier.
K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r.
Transacts a General Banking Business,
Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings
Deposits.
DIRECTORS:
Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox,
Tv. J.O0'Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema,
| Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. 8S. Verdier

 

Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars,

 

 

WE WANT

BEANS

and will pay highest market price for
them.

If you haye any stock you wish to
dispose of, seek headquarters for an
outlet.

 

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.

The Bradstreet Company, Props.

Exeeative Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y

CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres,
Offices n the principal cities of the United

States, Canada, the European continent,
Australia, and in London. ngland.

Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg

HENRY ROYCE, Sapt.

 

H, M. Reynolds & Son,

Jobbers of

STRAW BOARD,

BULLDING PAPERS,
BUCKSKIN and MANILLA

WRAPPING PAPER,
ROOFING MATERIALS,

COAL TAR and ASPHALT;

also

Practical Roofers,

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,

Coal
SP. BENNETT FUEL & IGE 60.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

- Mich.

 

Rapids to all points north
on short notice.

50c |

reconsigned frem Grand |

Back to the
Clad Frice

FP. & B&B. Standards

PER GALLON, wa

CLEANLINESS and N

The Putnam ‘ae Co.

P. & B. OYSTERS
Beat Them All.

HERWD-BERISCH “AOE Gu..

5 «ad 7 Pearl St.,
Our Line for 1895 is
finer than
Every one of the

Greater in variety and

ever attempted before.

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

‘“‘Black Bottoms.’

Headquarters for Wales-Goodyea

Rubbers.

 

 

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

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

 

Barn Telephone 1059.
APM SCN Ne i FN AR th

Storage and
Transfer Co.

Office Telephone 1055.

SECURITY

257—259 OTTAWA ST.

Moving, Packing, Dry Storage.

irniture, Ex rfully
Es. EL STON. oe,

Household F

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of ~ -
agon ut al wurs

Given. Business Strictly (on fidenti al. Baggage

Show Cases,
Store Fixtures,

Etc.

 

PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES.

J. PHILLIPS & CO., Detroit, Mich.

Established 1864.

Importers and Jobbers of

->TEAS<

21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

se Yradesman's Wants coivmn.

 

 

They Return Excellent Results

 

  

14

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

‘Jess’? what you want.

We are always on the lookout for something to please our trade and
put dollars in their pockets; and, after thorough investigation, and many
tests have secured a plug tobacco that just suits everybody. It is called
“JESS,” is a club shaped plug, 2x12, spaced for 3 cuts and shows a
good margin to the retailer. It weighs 16 ounces to the plug and the
consumer gets full value for his money. We propose to push it to the
front and make it the leading plug tobacco of Michigan. Ask our
salesman to give you a chew, and show you the goods and you will buy.
Everybody is taking it. Why? Because it is “Jess” what they want and

nd OS, Mich

 

USscinon Grocer 0,

Poultry Raisers, Attention !

Thoroughbred Fowls,
Buff Wyandottes,
Buff Brahmas,
Buff Plymouth Rocks,
Buff Columbians,
White Plymouth Rocks,
White Wyandottes,
Light Brahmas,
Barred Plymouth Rocks,
White Leghorns,
Eggs, $2 per setting.

Cut clover, green food, Bowker’s Ani-
mal Meal, Sheridan’s Condition Powders.
Lambert’s Death to Lice. Correspon-
dence solicited.

H. BFHNKE & SONS,

30 E Br dge St, Grand ¥apids.

 

SIWEET’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 put inevery room, and the office, remodeled and
newly decorated, is one of the handsomest in Michiga».

 

Chas. Petiersch,

JOBBER OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and Limburger a Specialty.

161--163 West Bridge -t, Telephone 123 |

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

resident

Che #

To

HENRY HROCH, your clerks, attorneys,
satiesmenm and workmen, and all claiming

of the United States of America,

ager

~»

or

holding through or under you,

GREETING:

Wh cTeEaS, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District ot

Ne. Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant,
Court of the United States
to be relieved touching the matters therein

it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant,
complained of, and that the said

that
District

tne

for

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY.

Complainant,

Now, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you,

LOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents,
uader the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you
absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using
substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant,

with the

is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO”

in case of disobedience, that
the word ““SAPOLIO,” or any word

as a trade-mark for scouring soap

the said HENRY

salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you

you do
) or words

manufacture or sale of any scouring

and from directly, or indirectly,

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling er delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,

that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from
false or misleading manner.

@ >e
Avitness, The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief

United States of America,

Jersey, this 16th day of December,

eight hundred and ninety-two,
[sEAL]

ROWLAND COx,
Complainant's Solicitor

at the City of Trenton, in said District

[sicnep]

in any way using the word ““SAPOLIO” in any

Justice of the Supreme Court of the
of New

in the year of our Lord, one thousand

S. D. OLIPHANT,
Cleré

prejudices in the arena of popular
| clamor, thus wounding him in reputa-
| tion at least.

At nearly every session of state legis-
lators some one is sure to put a pre-
pared egg in the nest, hoping it will
hatch out a statute that shall, under the
guise of benefit to the public, add an-
other burden to the present intolerable
load, until there is searcely an hour in
the day or a day in the year wherein the
druggist is not in peril of legal persecu-
tion from any malicious person who may
be disposed to use the weapon prepared
to his hand. The only consoling reflec-
tion he has is the reflection that the aver-
age human being is seldom mean enough
to make use of the advantage thus held.

Of late, alaw of Ohio compelling the
purity of foods and drugs has excited
public interest by the peculiar actions of
the special commissioner appointed to
execute its details. He has done so with
a zeal that indicates a disposition to pan-
der to popular prejudice against local
distributers, completely ignoring the
sly manufacturing rogues who, under
cover of good business reputations, se-
cure customers for inferior or adulter-
ated products. Taking the letter of a
carelessly framed statute as the base of
his operations, and the report of a sup-
posed expert in chemistry as the mate-
rial evidence, he locates at the doors of
the retailers the main responsibility for
all adulteration in food or medicine.

If the public health really requires
that all goods in the market shall con-
form to the conditions specified in such
act, without regard to the harmful effect
on the human system, why should not
this law be applied to each case, as are
all municipal ordinances that regulate
certain lines of business or personal
conduct on the public streets? No po-
lice officer of good character degrades a
citizen by arrest for transgressing such
ordinance until, after due admonition,
the offense is repeated. Why should
even a good and wholesome law be used
as a trap to catch the unwary yet loyal
citizen without proper notice of the ex-
act offense?

Surely the object of pure food laws
cannot be simply to collect fines from
Surprised victims. At least nine-tenths
of all retailers whom they concern are
acknowledged to be free from criminal
intent; besides, the facts upon which
conviction is sought must be extracted
from the state of uncertainty by proc-
esses that are, in their very nature,
both indefinite and subfunetive. Chem-
ical analysis by one expert is not neces-
sarily proof of adulteration—certainly
not of guilty knowledge and intent.

It is argued by radical theorists that
in no way can legal action reach the evil
of adulteration but by prosecution of the
retail distributer. The act of punishing
druggist or grocer for being duped by
the manufacturer furnishes an instance
of substitution to which no proprietor of
patent medicine or his cheeky advertis-

 

ing agent need object; yet, what proves
Sport ta them and toa capricious public
may be death to the business of honest
distributers of goods which the truthful
newspaper takes the responsibility of
introducing to consumers as perfect and
of infallible efficacy, and which this
same capricious public imperiously de-
mands of the dealer.

The spirit of these theorists reminds
one of the way Chinese boatmen treat
ducks when training them to the busi-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

15

 

 

ness of catching fish. The process of
capturing the finny prey comes natural to
the birds, but retrieving is the part es-
sential to the owner. There is, there-
fore, a special call to the fishing flock
urging return to headquarters, and expe-
rience has proved that the most effectual
method to secure prompt obedience is to
whip the last duck.. He may be the only
faithful one of the flock, bringing in
even more than his allotted tribute, a
fact ample to account for the delay;
but Chinese justice does not recognize
such fact—any more than does Ohio
justice similar points of legai equity.

Some who claim for pharmacy a higher
standing than is attainable or necessaay
for the majority of druggists justify the
extreme severity of the Ohio law, and as-
sert that druggists are, or at least should
be, by virtue of their profession, experts
in analytical chemistry. They iusist
that each knight of the pestle should not
only be able to compound intelligently
every drug prescribed by medical author-
ity, but should also be compelled to as-
certain by analysis the purity of every
article sold by him before it is delivered
to the purchaser. If we admit the jus-
tice of this conclusion, what a busy hive
of industry each drug store in the land
will reveal, for at the rate new phar-
maceutical products are thrown on the
market to-day each place of business
will have to be provided with an expen-
sive laboratory, requiring from two to
half a dozen analytical chemists, in ad-
dition to the ordinary force of prescrip-
tion clerks and salesmen. Even then, as
doctors disagree, so may pharmaceutical
experts. Perchance, between them all, an
adulterated article may escape detection
only to catch the eagle eye of the state
commissioner’s special chemist, who will
pounce upon that capable druggist hav-
ing such expert facilities for doing busi-
iness, and the last state of that man will
be worse than the first.

But, it may be asked, how is the grocer
to detect adulteration in his stock, and
thus escape the rigorous penalties of a
pare food law? His case must surely be
a sad one, since, in the language of
Scripture, ‘‘If the righteous scarcely be
saved, where shall the ungodly and sin-
ner appear?” Having no home facilities
for analysis, or ability to use them if he
had, the work of detection will have to
be paid for at expert prices. The Ohio
price as charged one grocer is $25. The
imagination can suggest the inevitable
sequel when these conflicting conditions
are fully understood.

Seriously, if the object of law is the
prevention of adulteration in food,
drinks, and medicines, can it not be done
without outraging constitutional rights,
and making justice a travesty? If any
article sold in the market should prove,
upon examination, to be fraudulent as to
its manufacture, or compounded with
one or more ingredients injurious to
health, let it be at once brought to the
notice of the dealer keeping it on sale.
If he bought it entire as found from
a firm or manufacturer, then let him
state under oath that fact and the name
of the party from whom it was pur-
chased. It is easy thus totrace each un-
lawful product to first hands. When

found, if within the state, let justice
knock at the maker’s door. But if be-
yond state jurisdiction, let the fact ap-
pear, wit! the names of all parties and
places concerned, and a copy of this re-
port be sent to every dealer in the state
handling such line of goods.

 

In the meantime, the condemned arti-

cle, wherever found, should be turned
over to the state, to be treated as an eut-
lawed product, and destroyed if thought
advisable under the right of eminent
domain, just as is now done with other
property under health regulations as
heretofore construed. Let the sale of

‘goods once condemned be treated as an

offense to be punished with deserved
rigor as evidence may show guilt on due
trial. If the retail dealer is found to be
a transgressor of law by deteriorating
the quality of goods, let him be treated
accordingly.

Should any patent medicine, on proper
examination, be found to contain dan-
gerous ingredients, or powerful drugs
compounded in unsafe proportions, let
them be exposed in the name of suffering
humanity. Thecost of all these practical
methods need not exceed the present out-
lay used in spasmodic and blind prosecu-
tions, that, after all, only prevent asmall
fraction of the evils of adulteration.
Were it ten times greater, the results
sure to be achieved by the methods above
noted would justify and ultimately re-
pay the increased expense.

No fitful or half-hearted efforts to pro-
tect the public health will concentrate
the force of individual opinion against
the makers of dangerous commercial
compounds, who appeal to aselfish econ-
omy in soliciting the patronage of con-
sumers, and who are assisted by the press
in advertising their goods to be whole-
some as well as cheap. If the moral
side of the question is to be considered,
the advertiser is as much responsible
to society for resulting effects as any
outside the manufactory. The guilt can-
not be laid at the dealer’s door, as some
would have, until after due notice he be-
comes particeps criminis by his own
action.

The question of how best to prevent
fraud in products that concern the health
ofa nation should be thoroughly dis-
cussed, to produce a wider and more in-
telligent public interest and more har-
mony in legislation. No doubt, in order
to more efficiently reinforce state action,
Congressional legislation will have to be
secured before the boon of pure commer-
cial products will become a practical
realization.

S. P. WHITMARSH.
a

“There was quite a fight in front of
the store to-day,’’ said a leading West
Bridge street grocer at the supper table
the other evening. ‘*Two men got into
&@ row, one struck the other and then the
crowd gathered. The man who was
struck ran and grabbed a cartstake and
rushed back, his eyes blazing. 1 thought
sure he’d knock the other man’s brains
out, and [I stepped right in between
them.’’ The young heir had given over
eating his tart as the narrative proceeded
and his eyes leaned right out of his head.
He was proud of his father’s valor, and
he cried: ‘‘He couldn’t knock any brains
out of you, could he, father?” The old
man looked long and earnestly at the
heir, but the lad’s countenance was frank
and innocent and open. When it closed,
with the tart on the inside, the father
gasped slightly and resumed his supper.

—__—_—~

A young Russian widow, who lost her
husband last year, erected over his re-
mains a splendid monument, bearing the
inscription, ‘‘My grief for my loss is so
great that I cannot bear it.” She was
married again a short time ago, and, find-
ing the inscription a little awkward, had
the word ‘‘alone’’ added to it.

—__-_ —~. -9

False pretense does not serve the man
who cannot obtain money under any pre-
tense.

 

 

Muskegon Bakery Grackers

(United States Baking Co.)

Are Perfect Health Food.

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

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

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

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

| Muskegon Branch, CAKES and

| Mlik Lunch CRACKERS

United States Baking Co.

LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,

Muskegon,

Horse
Sausage

Horse Feed is
what we wish to discuss this week and we will use horse sense

Mich

 

Is something we do not care to talk about.

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 Feed.

OUR 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 rea} the har-
vest. Don’t wait till the demand for feed is all gone before filling yvur
bins. We send out quotations regularly every two weeks. If you want
them sent in your address and we will put your name upon our list.

Valley City Milling Go., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Not a Lack of Money, But a Lack of the farmers, who, at least, have grain

Work.
Everybody recognizes the financial dis-
tress which prevails in the country, and

numberless plans are proposed for its re- |

lief. Unfortunately, there is no agree-
ment on the remedy to be applied. Every

method of treatment appears to differ |

from every other, and, as a result, noth-
ing is accomplished, and the evil goes on
as before.

A notion which is held by many and is
pushed forward with much persistence
is that the trouvle comes from the lack
of money. “if,”’ they argue, “overy

man, woman and child had as much
money as he or she desires, all would be
well. The trouble would come to an
end. All that is necessary is to provide

the money and divide it out.’’ Of course.
it is intended that the work of creating
and dividing out the money is to be done
by the Government.

This proposition presents so many and
such serious difficulties that its advo-
cates are stumped at the very begiuning,
and, beyond the wild suggestion that the
Government should print unlimited
quantities of treasury notes and lend
them to the people for indefinite periods,
on little or no interest, there has been no
agreement as to how the business is to
be accomplished.

Leaving out of the present discussion
the proposition that the proper function
of money is to facilitate the exchange of
products and labor by shortening and
simplifying the processes of barter, and
that it has really no other use, and drop-
ping out of sight for the moment the
further fact that all proper money must
have some sort of guarantee or solid
backing to give it value, let it, for the
purposes of the discussion, be assumed
that the Government can make green-
backs by the bale, and that they will
just as desirable
there are only some
to be backed up,
deemed.

When these bales

guaranteed and re-

of greenbacks shall

have been printed, and stored up in the |

treasury warehouses, the question will
arise: How are they to be distributed
among the people? The constitution

forbids that money shall be drawn from

the treasury save for some specific pur-|
'
How would |

pose of the publie service.
any person be able to get any of the
money in question? Suppose it were
lawful to lend it out to the farmers on
mortgages upon their lands or products.
That would only affect a single class of |
the population, while many other classes
quite as deserving would
lieved.

No possible issue of greenbacks would
raise the price of farm products.
great trouble with the farmers is the low
price of their crops. Anytbing which
would revive business, set all the mills
and factories to work, and enable all the
people to earn decent wages, would bea
far grander boon than would any divid-
ing out of Government paper. Such a
division of money would do nothing

be left unre-

more than to encourage the people in|

idleness, while to set them to work
would re-establish their proper pride and
self-respect now so much depressed and
damaged by constrained idleness.

But to return to the present condition
of the country, which is just now giving
so much public and private concern, it is
seen that the greatest sufferers are not

be |
when issued by the |
thousand million as they now are, when |
$400,000,000 of them |

The}

|and cotton. The people who are having
| the hardest time are laborers of all sorts.
| The financial and industrial depression
has cast a great number of willing and
| capable workers out of employment; but,
before that, there were already many
more who were unable to find steady
work, or even any work at all. Even in
the best and flushest season that has pre
vailed in the past ten years there has
not been a moment when there were not
several hundred thousand men out of
employment.

of all this? Scar-
Searcity of work?

What is the cause
|eity of money? No.
Yes. And why was there in the flush
times, when all the mills and factories
were in fullblast, any scarcity of work?
The reply is brief, but itis formidable. It
is contained in the word ‘*machinery.”’

There was a time when human labor
was not sufficient to supply the demand
for articles of necessary use. It has not
been many years since wheat was worth
from 150 to 100 cents a bushel, and flour
was worth from $8 to $5 a barrel. All
the manipulation which was then con-
ducted in growing wheat was performed
by human and horse labor. To-day
steam plows break up the vast prairies;
machinery at a single operation cuts the
wheat and binds it in sheaves. Another
machine at a single operation threshes
out the straw, winnows the chatf from
the grain, and puts it in sacks ready for
market.

In every other industry to-day, ma-
chinery, which will do everything but
think, spins, weaves, sews grinds, pol-
ishes, shapes, contrives, finishes and does
everything with cotton, wool, _ silk,
leather, wood, metals and all other ma-
terial that was once wrought by the
hands of men. The machines have
turned out of the mills and factories
men by the dozen, the score, the hun-
dred, the thousand, the hundreds of
| thousands, so that they must seek other
| means of livelihood.

 

But it must not be supposed that ma-
|chinery has been an unmitigated evil.
To a great extent it has been a benefi-
'cent and blessed gift. It has raised man-
' kind from a terrible slavery of toil, and
has offered a premium to brain work
over that of hands. Fingers of brass
operated by muscles of steel made sen-
sitive by electric nerve wires, now per-
form most of the offices which were once
required of human hands, and thus it is
| that, while the mechanism of machinery
does the actual work, the brain which

directs it has time for thought and
study.
Moreover, the enormous manufacture

| of machinery has furnished occupation
|for many busy workers, and the rapid
increase of wealth and luxury, and the
extraordinary advances in science and
the useful arts, have multiplied every
comfort and luxury of life and ministra-
tion for these has given employment to
many more. But machinery, like every
other great agent, has its limits of use-
| fulness, and to-day, when thousands of
busy workers have been consigned to
idleness because machinery has taken
their place, and there is no work for
them, it becomes evident that the em-
ployment of machinery has been pushed
beyond the limits of its usefulness, and
is growing into an evil which becomes
more grave as it every day becomes more
| evident.

 

 

The greatest problem in political econ- |

omy is toemploy all the people and to |
give them all the opportunities to earn
wages. The question is not whether
there is more or less money in the world,

but how itis to be distributed so that}
the widest benefit can be derived from it. | Ar.
It is necessary to the honesty and inde- | a
| Ar.

pendence of the people that they should
be able to get money in an honorable
way. They should not become pension-
ers on the Government, but self-respect- |
ing earners of their own wealth. It is|

to insure this that statesmanship and | im.

philanthropy are to be enlisted. Let
them be set to work in this great behalf
until something wise and good shall be

accomplished. RADIX.
~~.

The Republic of Honduras’ has
adopted the gold dollar of the United
States as its standard coin. The demon-
etized coin is to be redeemed at the rate
of $1.50 of the new currency.

| bis.

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

Thanking you for past favors we now
await your further orders. Hoping you
wiil give our line a careful inspection
when our representative calls on you,
we are REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO

 

 

 

"

 

Send me a trial order for
a mixed car of

Flour,
Feed,
tHlay,
Etc.

G. H. Behnke,

30 East
Bridze Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

k. G. DUNTON & 60.

Will buy all kinds of Lumber—
Green or Dry.
Office and Yards, 7th St. and C. & W. M. R. R.

Grand Ra;ids, Mich.

MICHIGAN ( TENTRAL
“‘T we Niagara Falis Route.”’
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894.)
Arrive. Depart’
S2Dem....... Detroit Express... ... 700am
: 30am ....*Atlanticand Pacific .. .1
‘= eee New York Express
aily. All others daily, except Sunday.

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

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

Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

A. AtuguistT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

 

 

|

3

CHICAGO _Nov. 18, 1804
AND WESI M:CHIGAN R’Y.

GOING TO —
. Gd — 7:15am o 25pm *11: 30pm
. Chica) 25pm 6:50pm *7:20am
RETURNING FROM CHICAGO.
Ly. Coleen ....... .: 8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm
G’d Rapids. .......3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND PROM MUSKEGON.
Grand Rapids ..... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm
Grand Rapids......11:4:am 3:05pm 10:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.

Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm
Ar. Manistee......-- 12:20pm 8:15pm
| Ar. TraverseCity.... 1:00pm 8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix ..... 3:15pm 11:10pm
Ar. Petoskey 3:45pm 11:40pm

|

|

 

Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.

Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar-

rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicag, 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6.25am.

*Every day._

DETROIT

5 eee
LANSING & NORTHERN R., R.

Others week days only

 

Oct. 28, 1894

 

GOING TO DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids. . 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detrekt .. -.-.--.- 11:40am 5: 30pm 10:10pm

RETURNING ~ DETROIT.

Ly. Detroit. . 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids 42: 40pm 5:2¢pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8ST, LOUIS.
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

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

THROUGH CAR SERVICE
Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morb
ing train.
Trains week days or.
GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN &
WAUKEE Railway.

MIL-

 

EASTWARD
Trains Leave ,tNo. 14/tNo. _ oe Sa

1100pm

 

 

Gd Rapids, Lv) 6 45am/1‘ 20am | 3 25pm |

 

fonts ........ Ar! 7 40am/11 25am) 4 27pm|1235am
st. Johns ...Ar) 8 25am|12 17pm) 520pm) 1am
Owoss)..... Ar) 900am 1 20pm| 605pm| 3 10am
E, saginaw. Ar lu 50am 3 45pm) — 6 40am
Bay City .....Ar|113' am) 435pm) 6 37pm| 7 15am
Peet ......- Ar} {10 u5am 3 45pm} 7 05pm) 54 am
Pt. Huron...Ar} |12 05pin 550pm! 8 50pm) 7 30am
Pontiac .....AT|1053am| 305pm| 8 25pm] 5 27am
Detroit..... Ar|1] 50am| 405pm) 925pm)} 7 00am
WESTWARD.

For Grand Haven and Intermediate
Poin ..........--..... se *7:00 &. m.
For Grand Hav en and Muskegon..... +1:(0 p. m.
Mil. and Chi. +5.35 Pp. m.

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

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

p.m. 5:30 p. m., 10: v p.m.

Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m. 3:15
pm and 9:15 p.m.

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.

Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

TRAINS GOING NORTH
Leave going
North

For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw
Vor Saginaw ..............
For Petoskey and Mac kinaw. .

TRAINS GOING BOUTH

 
 

Leave going
8o0 .
Por Clactenatt.... ...........- 0c ccccsscescoes- 7:2 a.m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... ...... «+-+++. 2:15 p. m.
For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 2:15

 

For Cincinnati ............-...+0+ :
For Kalamazoo and Chicago............---- #11:40

Chicago via G. R. &1.R.R
Ly Grand Rapids........ 7:25am 2:15pm 11:40pm
ioe Coreage............. 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am
2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor
Car and coach
11:40 p mtrain daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

and Coach.
Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3:30pm 11:30pm
Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm 2:15pm 7:20am

330 pm has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car
11:30 p m train daily. through Wagner Sleeping Car
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For ee From Muskegon—Arrive.

7:25am 9:50am
1:15pm

5:20pm
0 .L. LOCK WOOD*
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

ENGRAVING

1:60pm
8:40 pm

 

PHOTO
wooD

HALE-TONE

Buildings, Portraits,” Cards and Stationery
Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented
Articles.

TRADESMAN

ce.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

17

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

It is predicted by those who are
thought to be experts in matters of this
sort that within the next ten years ermine
will be worth more than its weight in
gold. The demand is increasing, while
the supply is of necessity very limited.
Fashion’s demands are arbitrary, and the
rarity of an article always increases its
market price. This, of course, does not
refer to judicial ermine, which will al-
ways be more or less cheap, according to
the taste, habits and previous condition

of the wearers.
= + *

Most of the English magazines and
papers nowadays contain advertisements
of American confectionery, which seem
to have obtained a firm hold on the af-
fections of the English people,in spite of
their usual prejudice against things
American. Tons of candy are now sent
over to the other side of the big pond,
and one of the leading New York con-
fectioners intends to open a_ branch
store in London. The stuff which the
English people have been eating under
the name of candy, or ‘‘sweets,’’ for the
last century is said to be the most mur-
derous concoction that was ever put on
the market. It must be a relief to them
to get hold of something really whole-
some and palatable. It is to be hoped
that the use of American confectionery
will sweeten John Bull, and cause him

to send back some of our gold.
* + +

A genuine curiosity found its way into
the redemption division of the Treasury
department last week. It was a thin
sheet of sterling silver, into which had
been rolled a $10 silver certificate, so
that the particles of the bill were to a
large extent incorporated with the
superficies of the metal. The $10 certifi-
cate was a brand new one not long from
the Treasury. That was evident from
the appearance of its oddly metamor-
phosed remains. It was the property of
a workman in a silverware factory. It
so chanced that he had it in his hand
while rolling out a sheet of the metal.
He dropped it and it passed with the
silver beneath the roller, with the effect
that has been described. There was only
one thing for him to do, and that was to
forward the silver plate in statu quo to
the Treasury department. He will get
back his $10 in the shape of a fresh cer-
tificate, together with the silver sheet,
though the chief of the redemption divi-
sion, Mr. Relyaa, would like to keep the

latter for a souvenir.
* * *

A story is told of an eminent physi-
cian who had cured a little child froma
dangerous illness. The thankful mother
turned her steps toward the house of her
son’s savior. ‘‘Doctor,” she said, ‘‘there
are some services which cannot be re-
paid. I did not know how to express my
gratitude. I thought you would, _per-
haps, be so kind as to accept this purse,
embroidered by my own _§hands.’’
‘‘Madam,’’ replied the doctor, roughly,
‘‘medicine is no trivial affair, and our
visits are only to be rewarded in money.
Small presents serve to sustain friend-
ship, but they do not sustain our fami-
lies.” ‘But, Doctor,” said the lady,
alarmed and wounded, ‘‘speak; tell me
the fee.” ‘Two hundred dollars,
madam.” The lady opened the purse,
took out five bank notes of $100 each,
gave two to the doctor, put the remain-
ing three back in her purse. bowed
coldly and departed.

It seems to be taken for granted that
the depletion of the gold reserve in the
Treasury is only caused by European de-
mand. As a matter of fact, nearly as
much gold has been taken out during
the past three months to remain in this
country as for export. The possibility
of a premium has evidently caused the
hoarding of much of this and it will be
quickly brought out by a changed con-

dition of the money market.
-_ «+ ©&

The exports of manufactured cotton
goods from England to Japan amount
to about $14,000,000 per annum. The
cotton used is nearly all obtained
from American planters for about
one-fourth that amount. The other
three-fourths represent the cost of

profits. It would seem worth while to

manufacture the goods in this country.
* * *

The United States receives one-third
of the exports of the Latin American
countries and sells them about one-sixth

of their imports.
* * +

In the death of Ward McAllister, New
York society loses a dictator of whose
mandates the Four Hundred stood in the
profoundest awe. Yet the duties he as-
sumed were such as are assigned to the
butler by the old world aristocracy.

* + *

Two prominent gentlemen of Pitts-
burg got into a personal difficulty the
other day over a political question, and
one of them talked violently about slap-
ping the other’s face. This was taken
as an insult, and the aggrieved party
sent a friend to request an apology or to
arrange for a quiet meeting for the ren-
dering of due satisfaction. The chal-
lenged party replied that he had noth-
ing to retract or apologize for, and that
if the other was thirsting for his gore, he
would meet him at the north pole on the
31st of February, 1999, to settle the af-
fair with squirt-guns. Itis hinted that
this may not be the end of the matter, as

both of the parties have ‘‘sand.’’
- «2. *

It is said the whole bottom of the
ocean is covered with a layer of calcar-
eous 00ze, mingled with the skeletons
and other animal remains of its inhabi-
tants. This is said by men of science,
who may have walked clear across to the
other side on the bottom of the ocean. It
is difficult to throw science down on
an assertion; the trouble to disprove it is

too great; and there is, at least, one man
who will not dispute the material of the
ocean’s ground floor. He is satisfied to
keep away from the calcareous ooze.
-_— 2

Pending the decision of the constitu-
tionality of the income tax preparation
continues for its collection. Blanks are
prepared for the income statements of
those supposed to be liable to the tax.

 

— 9
Embryo Shoe Factory---Grocers Or-
ganize.

Owosso, Feb. 2—The prospect is good
for stili another factory for Owosso. D.
R. Salisbury, who has placed his retail
boot and shoe business in charge of J. B.
Melntosh, is ‘‘experimenting,” as he
says, in the manufacture of boots and
shoes. Some of the necessary machinery
has already arrived and more has been
ordered. At present four persons are at
work, and Mr. Salisbury expects to soon
increase this number to eight or ten.
For the present the work is being car-
ried on in the basement of his store,
Opera House Block.

The grocers have organized for mutual]
protection. The organization is called
; the Owosso Grocers’ Protective Associa-
j tion, and holds weekly meetings.

 

manufacture, trade, transportation and |

ADJUSTABLE
RUNNERS.

 

 

|

For Buggies, Surries, Hacks, Hearses
and Express Wagons.

VALLEY CITY BENT KNEE BOBS.

TeFit % Axies List....
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+6 1% sé ec ..
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Can be attached in a few minutes and your Vehicle is
converted into a sleigh ready for the road.

ee ee $13 00

13 00

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2
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NOTE-—In ordering give size of Axle, and length of Axle Box in the Hub.

BeOWN, HALL & CO.,

20 and 22 Pearl St., Grand Rapids.

MANUFACTURERS OF CUTTERS, SLEIGHS AND

 

Stock at Lowest Market Prices.

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions,
Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear,
Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ging-
hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE I’2ALERS IN

We invite the Attention of the Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted

Spring & Company.

 

 

| allowed.

ichael Kolb & Son,

Clothing Manufacturers

Rochester, N. Y.

Wm. Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 12 and 13, with his full line of
samples in Men’s, Youth’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing;
also on elegant line of Spring Overcoats. Customers’ expenses

MICHAEL KOLB & SON.

 

  

18

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Drugs Department.

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Aan Arbor.

Two Years—George Gundrum, tonia.

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, [onia.

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

 

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

 

 

The Significance of Alexins and Anti-
toxins.

The name ‘‘alexins’’ Buchner applies
to the albuminous substances by which
the organism protects itself against the
ravages of bacteria. All natural im-
munity depends on these substances,
which are soluble in the blood. By im-
munity we mean the insusceptibility of
the animal and human organism to dis-
eases in general and to infectious dis-
eases in particular. Such an insuscepti-
bility, however, may also be produced
artiffcially—by the so-called ‘‘antitox-
ins;’ and then we refer to the acquired
immunity. Therefore we have two
classes of substances which are capable
of protecting the body against bacterial
invasion; the ‘‘alexins’’ on the one hand,
and the ‘‘antitoxins” on the other.

As to the origin of the alexins,
Vaughan and Kossel have established
the fact, based upon experimental inves-
tigations, that these substances emanate
from the leucocytes, the white blood-
corpuscles, and are to be accounted as
nucleins. Waughan has shown that the
nueleins possess bactericidal properties,
and that the bactericidal property of the
blood (for some time known) is not to be
attributed to the serum albumen, but
rather to the presence of nuclein, which
has its origin in the leucocytes. Conse-
quently the leucocytes exercise a very
important function in the natural pro-
tection of the organism—not, indeed, in
the manner set forth by Mectschnikoff,
but through the dissolved substances
which are secreted by them.

According to the doctrine of Metschni-
koff, the phagocytes (leucocytes) have
the power of absorbing the bacteria and
of digesting them. Or, in other words,
an infectious disease can be regarded as
a conflict between the invading micro-
organisms and the natural defenders, the
phagocytes; if the phagocytes overcome
the intruders, the disease assumes a fav-
orable aspect. Since the bactericidal
alexins (nucleins) remain unaffected by
freezing, and the leucocytes on the other
hand are destroyed, we are compelled to
assume that the germicidal action is not
due to the leucocytes as such, but is de-
pendeut upon the dissolved substances,
the alexins (nucleins). Therefore with
reference to the natural immunity the
phagocytosis of Metschnikoff plays but a
secondary part.

While the antitoxins are to be regarded
as specific bacterial products, the alexins
are, as we have seen, products of the an-
imal organism. But there are still more
important differences between these sub-
stances. The alexins act as germicides and
possess antiseptic properties; the antitox-
ins have only antitoxic properties. The
latter antitoxic effect depends not, as one
would suppose, upon the actual destruc-
tion of the specific bacterial poisons

 

(toxins) in contact with the antitoxin,
but is brought about only within the or-
gZqnism, by decreasing the specific sus-
ceptibitity of living parts—rendering the
latter insusceptible and capable of re-
sistance to the respective poisons. In
contradistinction to these, the alexins
have to take up the conflict against the
bacteria themselves.

From the foregoing consideration we
learn that natural immunity is based
upon conditions and reasons essentially
different from those of acquired immu-
nity. The former is due to the large
amount of alexins (nucleins) in the or-
ganism, while the artificial or acquired
immunity depends upon the presence of
specific bacterial products. The immu-
nity established by antitoxins can be
transferred through the media of blood
and milk, which is not the case with
natural immunity.

Here I desire to call attention to the
communication of specific immunity
through the milk. Ehrlich has demon-
strated experimentally that the milk is
capable of supplying to the suckling the
‘“‘anti-substances”’ and of bestowing upon
the infant a high and increasing immu-
nity. The remarkable evidence that the
‘‘anti-substances”? are in this case ab-
sorbed unchanged by the digestive canal
demonstrates the absolute suitability of
the mother’s milk to the requirements of
the infant organism. Based upon these
investigations, Ehrlich concludes that
the present ruling tendency to replace
the natural infant’s food by those artifi-
cially prepared is never to be counte-
nanced. It is a fact that nurslings dur-
ing the period of lactation possess a rel-
ative or absolute immunity from a series
of infectious diseases, as scarlet fever,

measles, ete.
The antitoxins and alexins (nucleins)

have been recently proposed for the
treatment of infectious diseases, and
have been introduced into therapeutics.
The results obtained by Behring, Roux,
and others with antitoxins, particularly
with diphtheria antitoxin, have given
rise to great expectations. The investi-
gations of Vaughan on the therapeutic
applicability of the nucleins have led to
the following favorable results:

Rabbits and guinea-pigs may be pro-
tected against viruleut cultures of the
diplococcus pneumonice by previous
treatment with hypodermie injections of
a solution of yeast nuclein.

The immunity thus secured is not due
to the direct action of the nuclein as a
germicide, but is most probably condi-
tioned by the stimulating effect of the
nuclein upon some organ whose fune-
tion it is to protect the body from bac-

terial invasion.

The longer the nuclein injections are
continued and the more frequently they
are administered, the more complete is
the immunity secured.

At any rate, there is no doubt that the
nucleins will occupy a very important
position among the natural remedies
preventive of infectious diseases, and
that further results in the therapy of
bacterial products may be expected to
follow the advancing knowledge of the
nuclein and antitoxin substances.

KaRL SCHWICKERATH, Pa. D.
—————-— -2 =a

A Chicago man discovered the other
day that a lottery ticket, which he had
bought and put away ina bureau drawer,
had won $7,000. He hurried home to get
the ticket, and found that his wife had
just been cleaning out the bureau and
had burned up the the trash found in
the drawers.

 

Excessive Mentality in Business.
Javis in Farm Implement News.

If all the tradesmen who have failed
in their commercial undertakings be-
cause of their excess of mentality, during
the past quarter of a century, could be
placed in army array, there would be
such a gathering of brains and brawn as
the world never before witnessed. The
number of failures that can be ascribed
to actual braininess is appalling. In
many cases a man is ruined by his own
unquestionably bright talents. His keen
intellect is the sole cause of his downfall.
The very mental superiority that should
advance him above ordinary men proves
his undoing by devoting itself to the ab-
normal development of his bump of self-
esteem.

The popular idea of smartness is re-
sponsible for much of this. We encour-
age the precocious boy by praise until he
gets to believing too much in his precoc-
ity, and before he has reached the years
of discretion he cannot conceive of the
possibility of failure. Like a certain
kind of pear, all the early promises turn
to naught, for rottenness comes with
ripening. Unfortunately, his unbounded
faith in himself impresses others, and it
is not difficult for him to obtain backing
for the enterprise in which he will re-
cord the first of his failures.

We think we know the excessively
smart man in all his guises, but we do
not. He quite frequently appears before
us sO modest and unassuming that we
have to encourage him to display his
ability, and, therefore, we value it the
higher. Possibly we feel the pride and
right in him that comes with discovery.
It is only after we are taken in that we
realize the fact that his humility is but
the studied effort to bring his talents to
notice.

Commerce is rapidly becoming a stage
for the display of histrionie ability of a
certain order. We are losing our natu-
ralness, and consequently our solidity to
some extent. We want the praise we
cannot hope to obtain by sticking to a
staid business in a staid sort of way.

All this would be trivial were it not
for the result; it is the outcome that
makes the matter a serious one. The
popular idea of smartness and the eray-
ing for notoriety makes the ordinary
transaction of business too dull. The
very bright young merchant must dis-
play his ability. He may start out cau-
tiously and do nothing more reckless at
first than startle the community with a
rush of expensive advertising. Pessibly
it may be apt to pay him; but whatever
he does must be startling and original

 

apd stupendous. If his methods pay, he
is regarded asa bold, advanced trades- |
man; if they fail, he is set down as a)

reckless speculator.

So seriously is the speculative tendency | ff :
regarded that itis made the subject of | if

special inquiry on the part of the credit |
men of many of the large jobbing estab- |
lishments. Itis not that they question
the shrewdness of the merchant-specula- |
tor, but that they do not believe a trades-
man can speculate on the outside and
give proper attention to his legitimate)
trade undertakings. Then, it is a matter |
of fact that there are very few trades- :

men who have separate funds from those
invested in business. The moneys they
speculate with, therefore, are taken
from their; cash drawers, and their re-
mittances are controlled too much by the
fluctuations of the grain and stock mar-
Kets.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
sent to Chicago and St. Louis brokers
every day by country patrons for invest-
ment in margins. No one who has-in-
vestigated will question this statement;
nor does any one doubt that the major-
ity of the:country patrons are country
merchants. They fortunately do not
constitute the majority or even a respect-
able minority of the country merchants,
however; nor do they include the plain,
common, every-day business men. They
represent a class of really bright men
who, conscious of their ability, are im-
patient to give it full sway. Some may
succeed and have sufficient self-control
then to retire, but most fail first or last,
and are forced to retire. In either case
their course is the result of a surplus of
mentality.

 

—_ 2
About as mean a thief as was ever
caught is Louis Bourgard, of Paris.

While he was ridnig in a cab recently he
ripped open the cushions, and pulling
out the horsehair stuffing, made it up
into a bundle. He had the cab wait while
he went into a place and sold his plun-
der, and then paid the cabman with the
proceeds.
a a A
Favored a Good Deal.
First—‘‘Are you in favor of an income
tax?”’
Second—‘'You bet I am. I go fur-
ther’n that. V’m in favor of giving
every man an income to be taxed.”

 

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
Zoz. 120 12 60
4oz. 200 22 80
60z. 300 33 00
' ’
Seely 8 Vanilla
yrapped)
Doz. Gro.
1oz.$150 16 20
2oz. 200 21 60
40z. 3 75 4080
60z. 540 57 60

Plain N.S. with
corkscrew at same
price if preferred,

Correspondence
Solicited

SEELY MFG. CO., Detroit [Mich.

 

 

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The Best 8c Cigar

bHOUeT Un

Ever Putin a Box.

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Wholesale Distributers.

J. A. Gonzalez, Michigan Representative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

 

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Declined—Salicylic Acid.

 

  

 
 

  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 

ACIDUM.
Aceticum ...... ...... 8@
Benzoicum German.. 65@
tone ..............
Carbolicum .......... 20@
Citricum ............. 41@
Hydrochior ........... 3@
Nurceum ............ 10@
Cesc ............. 10@
Phosphorium dil......
Salicylicum ...........- 70@
Sulphuricum.... .... 14@ 5
Veeco... .:...-... 1 = .
Terewicam......-....
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg.. 4@
et | 20 Gog. 6@ 8
Carbonas ..... -- R@ i4
Chloridum ............ 129@ 14
ANILINE,
piece. ...... ..-2 00@2 2
Browk... -. 80@1 00
meo....-. i“. 45Q 50
Tio. 2 50@3 00
BACCAE,
Cubeae (po 25)...... 208
ete so... ees 8@
Xanthoxylum .. 25
BALSAMUM,
Copaiba ..............- 45@
petg............. _@2
Terabin, Canada 45@
Tolgten............... Sap
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian..........--

Cassiae
Cinchona Flava ...
Euonymus atropur
Myrica Cerifera, po
Prunus ao
Quillaia, grd..

Sassafras
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)......

EXTEACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza —- ..

 
 

Haematox, 15 lb. box.
[ is...

FERRU
Carbonate Precip...... @
Citrate and Quinie.. @3
Citrate Soluble........ @
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. @
Solut Chloride........ @
Sulphate, com’l.. -9@
' pure.. @
FLORA.
ae 12@
Anthemis ........-.--- i8@
Matricaria ise ss ss 18
FOJUA
Barosma ......------- 14@
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nivel Ie 2... - +. oe 18@
a“ 253
Salvia officinalis, “Me
and 48........-.+--- 123
Usa Gee ........----. 8@
eUMMI.
Acacia, ist picked.... @
' 2d i. @
o 3d eee @
” sifted sorta. . @
~..... BOD
sai Barb, (po. 80)... tO@
‘6 Cape. (po. 20).. @
Socotri. (po 80). @
Catechu. 1s, (444.14 498
1) =
Amm:niae DQ
Assafcetida, _ 5U He
Bensvinum. wee
Camphor |
Euphorbium po ...... Se
Galbanum...........-- @z
Gamboge, po —_
Guaiacum, (po 35) | @ 2
Kino, (po 2 (G0)....... @2
Maes... ..... -...- @
Myrrh, (po 45). @
Opii (pe 3 30@3 50). @
Sheree .. ---..----.. 41D
. bleached ... 4@
Tragacanth 50@

HERBA—In ounce —

Absinthium
Eupatorium .
Lobelia
Majorum ...... ..---e+seeee-
Mentha Piperita pao seeeaeees
scan , .............-
Thymus, V.......--.-..---+-
MAGNESIA,
Calcined, Pat.......... 55@
Carbonate, Pat........ 20e
Carbonate, K.& M.... W@
Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@
OLEUM.
Apeotnies.. ..-.-<.-.- 2 50@3 00
Amygdaise, Dulc... .. 30@ 50
Amydalae, Amaras....8 &
fro... 2 11@2 20
Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 0)
Roa |... 3 00Q3 2
ieee i... ........ 6
cCarvopiyil........... TQ
Ceeee ............,...- 5
Ghenapeail Cee cues ees @!1
Cinnameah ... ....... 1 25@1
Ciena .........,.- 45
Contam Mee.........
RINE cceccns sauces 8B

 

aeons... 1 40@1 50
Exechthitos.......... 2 20@1 30
Beer i 2%@1 30
Gelinas ........... 1 50@1 60
Geranium, ounce..... Ki]
Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 7@ 75
Hodson 1 —— 40
unInerL......,........ .o
Lavendula . eee woe

Linge _............. Un oot &0
Mentha Piper. ........ 2 10@3 00
Mentha Verid ..1 20@2 00
Morrhuae, = bel ee 1 30@1 40
— ounce. @ 50

   
    

    

  
  

Oliv 9@3 00
Picts Liquida, gal. 35) 10@ 12
Ricini 38 96
Rosmarini....... 190
Rosae, onde 6 0@8 =
Sacer: ............. 40@
Sabeee 91@1 oo
nee C8 2 50@7 00
Sassafras... 50@ 55
Sinapis, eRs, ‘ounce. @ 6
ae. @ $0
Thyme eee eee 40@ 50

' a. @1 60
‘Lheobromas..... eee 15@ 2

POTASSIUM.
Bi Carh...... 15@ 18
Bichromate . -. oo
mroerec.............. 40@ 43
Car.... 123@ 15
Chlorate (po. 17@i9).. 16@ 18
Cyanide ol. 50@ 55
logiee.... 2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart, -_- 23@
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt eet 8@ 10
Potass Nitrag.......... 7 9
Presets... _........... 28@ 30
SoIpmase ye........... 15@ 18
RADIX,

Beene... 20@ 2%
Althae.... - 2O BS
Anchusa 12@ 15
Arum, po @ ®B
Calamus.. - @W@®
Gentiana (po. 12) . =
es gg (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
= rastis Canaden,

_ Looe @ Ww
He eh Ala Pp . ae a
Inala, po..... . Be we
Ipecac, po.. --.1 we) @
Iris siua ¢ (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40
Jelena, or... W@ 45
Maranta, ¢s.. .. @ 3
Podophyllum, Po. 15@ 18
Rhe!.. 75@1 00

. cut.. a

. pv... . BQ1 Ss
ee 3@ 38
ee (po 25).. @ w
cen We ieee 59@ 55
Sene 55@ 60
Stmilax, Officinalis. “H @ 4

M @ 2%
Scillae, (po. %)....... 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Fett-

coe, po......-.. @ 35

Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ 3
German... 15@ 20
ee 6............ 183@ 2
Dives j........... 18@ Ww
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20) @ i5
Apium (graveleons).. 14@ 16
ee mw ........ 41m 6
Cant, (po. 1)......... 10g 12
Cardamon.............1 O0@1 25
Coredcrmm........... 12@ 14
Cannabis Sativa...... 4@ 5

CydoniGgm.... -....... 75@1 00

Chenc ypodins . 19@ 12
Wt tertx ¢ sm rate 2 4022 60

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pres og
’ — alarial 4m
ee eee 44m 5
Sinapia A = ee oe 1@ 8
........ 11@ 12
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Fromenti, W., D. Co. 2 OG:
D.F.R.....2 Oz 25
ke 1 25@1 w
Juntperia Co. ©. F....7 65@2 =
Saacharum N. E...... 1 W@z 10
So. Yini Galll........ 1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto ...........1 B@2 00
wi Eiee..........-... 7 2 00
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool |

eeroaec.............2 2 50@2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool

carriage 2 00
Velvet extra sheepe’

wooi carriage 110
Extra — sheeps’

carriage 85
Grase sheope” wool car-

riage 65
Hard for slate use. %5
Yellow Reef, for slate

mee... 5... es. 1 40

SYRUPS.
soe 8)
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ioe... 60

Te 50
Biren Coetes............-. 50
ue) Bee... . 50
Similax Officinalis.. ..... 60

“ " --. o
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Ee 50

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Pineed coe... .......- 50

 

 

TINCTURES.
Aconitum NapellisR....... 60
“ . y....... 50
ee, 60
" end migreh... .... |. 60
areice Pee eee cece se 50
ROO 0
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Benzoin ee ees ce, 60
ee ee one tees a 50
Genauinerte fetes cu eeeeee. o. 50
Berens l., 50
CAieerlacs................. 75
Cagmeum 50
Ce Gamen .. 75
ee v3)
ee, 100
Cerceme et . , 50
oe 50
. o...... . s e
Comme 50
Conhnm ........... betas eens e 50
oe
Piette cl, 50
—-................ 1... 50
Genwan........ 50
° ee 60
Caatee 50
™ ——.............. 60
POMG@enee 8... 50
wIvOPCuSINGM 08... 50
ene... oe
. Coloriess. . oto.
Ferri Chloridum............ 35
Kino i Le owes 50
Lobelia 50
matte... 50
a Vomtea ...... 50
Opit _..
\ Camphorated. . 50
" BDeodor.. oa
AurantiCortex...... .
meee 50
ete 50
oo... Oe
Cassia Acutifiol......... ... @
- is ca... 50
PorpOnaaria 50
Serereamiean. 60
Tolaten............. 60
Vereen 8... 88... 50
Veratrum Veride............ 50
MISCELLANEOUS
ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 3 3&8
- 42 38@ 40
Alumen . .... 24@ 8
le ground, =
7 .. oa.
Annatto.. -....... on oo
Autimoni, ‘po. Leese 4@ 5
et PotasseT 5d@ 60
Antipyrin . @1 40
Antifeprin @ Dd
Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 48
areootos ............ oo 7
Balm Gilead Bud.. 38@ 40
Bismuth 8. N.. 1 40@1 50
Calcium Chlor, ‘18, ‘(Ka
in, Ae ee. ........ @ il
Cantharides Russian,
ne... @1 00
Capsici en - @ &
@ 28
té “a @ 20
Caryophyllus, = Pos) 10@ 12
Carmine, No. 40....... @3 7%
Cera Alba, 8. & 2... 50@ 55
— a ee 3 40
——............. @ #0
p meray Practus........ @ 2%
Cemscerm.............. @ 10
Cetaceum . __ . Sm 4
Chloroform . eee - 60 68
squibbs Qi &
Chioral Hyd Crat --1 B@i 50
Chondrnus OD 2
Yok tne ‘a »
%>
7
Creta, (bbl. 7%5)..... @ 2
 e........ 5 5
ia eon ih eee e ee 9@ ii
- ubra.. @ ;
Croeus ......... 40
Cudpear........ “2 24
Cupri Sulph... i 6
ee 1 12
Biner Saien........... 75Q 90
Emery, = numbers.. 28 ‘
Ergota, ) -....... 35
— ” ia, pie cere ee 1 15
ee @ 2B
pe nea feces cee ¥ 8
Gelatin, Cooper Mecca 6
" French x
Glassware fifnt, by box 80,
Less than box 7.
Gine, Breows......... 9@ 15
- eee... ..4,.-. ue 25
Giyeerimas ............. 1 20
Grana Paradiai........ @ 2
Humulus. 55
Hydraag Chior, Mite.. a
- Ox sai @ 8
- Ammoniati. @ %
Unguentum. 45@ 55
Hy@rareyrum ......... @ 60
Tchthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
noe... .... 75@1 00
fodine, Resubl........ 3 80@3 9
ee @4 70
Lupus .-............. @2 B
Lycopodium .......... 60@ 65
acu ................- 7 15
Liguor Arsen et Hy-
rece fod...........-

Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bbl

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Mesam, &.¥..........

 

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nN. 2. peeeree. eat’s oot, Ww nter
Ce 1 95@2 20 ie aaa @ atrainea |. 65 70
Moschus Canton... .. 40 cae a, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40
Myristica, No 1.. ... 6@ 7 Veen @
Nux Vomica, (po 20)... a 10 snuff, “Scotch, De. Voes @ PaINTs. bbl. Ib.
Os. Sepia.. 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 8-16). 7% Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
Pe = Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 24@ Ochre, yellow Mars...1% 2@4
Be ee ee. OO i Soda Carb............ 146 Ber......1% cas
Picts Liq, N.sC., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... : Putty, commercial... .2% 24
ae da ee 00} Soda, Ash............. 34@ “ “strictly pure.....2% 2%@8
Picts Liq., — wens @i 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... Vermilion Prime Amer-
pints ....... @ 85| Spts. Ether Co........ {can . 13@15
Pil Hydrary. = 80).. @ 50 ‘* Mereia Dom.... . Vermilion, English.. 6570
Piper Nigra, (po. “ma @ 1 ‘ Myrcia Imp... .. Green, Peninsular..... 13@16
ag Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 . ini Rect. bbl. Lead, — See 514 @6
Fite Borgen... Se a 2 eoeecsg) 0) white...  54@s
Plumbi Acet .......... 10@ 12] Less 5c gal., Caan ten days. Whiting, wutte Span. Qi
Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... 1 40@1 5, Whiting, Gilders’...... e@e%
— an a boxes H Sulphur, Subl. White, Paris American 1
& FP. . Co., dos. .... @1 25 = i ......... | Whiting. | Paris =
P rethrum, . 9 ae ........... 1 40
<r oe oo 3 3 Terebenth. Venice..... Bs Universal Prepared ..1 00@1 15
guinte, 8. Piw..... “annie Thcobromae .......... 45 48 VARNISHES.
8S. German.... 27@ 37] Vanilla... ........... " iy _ No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. ..... de, 166@1 70
Saccharum Lactispv. 1 14 Coseh Hoay........... 2 75@Q3 00
Saleen 2 50 oILs. No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
Sanguis Draconis..... Bbl Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Sapo, W.........-.. - 12@ 14] Whale, winter........ 7 0 | Japan oe No. 1
Meee eee cere eee MO 12) ard, extra... .....- $0 Turp. |
Gl @ 15 \ tard, Not... 42
Linseed, pureraw.... 58
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Manutacturing Chemists,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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.

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

 

 

AXLE GREASE,

doz —
ws... Ce 0
Seri... 60 7 00
e..........-. 50 5 50
er s............ 75 9 00
Mica .. i. 65 7 50
Paragon 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.
acme.

 

 

3 cs 45
— 4, gue "5
ey 1
week.

Arctic.
cans 6 doz case....... g
$3 a. == 1 10
1 Db © ta0c “ _...... > oe
2 * (oS Creo 9 00
Queen Flake. Hy
3 ozcans6doz “ ...---- 2 70
coc Sa jae ee 3 20
sua * thu * _..... oo
a” 2 Cs 4 00
ce" ita - oe
Red Star, is > cans......-. =
cccecee fis,
ay ray Le 1 40
Telfer’s, . “34 cans, dos. 45
“ as se a 85
o a ih ' -- 130
Our, Leader, & .b cans..... 45
\% ib cans...... 7D
. Pieces -t-
BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
Eaglish .. 8
aoe... _ -
Seeess .....-..----... --- 60
BLUING. Gross
Arctic, = ovals ee =
< - |...
a ints, mans... 9 00
u Ko. 2, siftiz 1g DOK... 2
No. 3) qr 00
- No. 5, . 8 00
= ieceee ...- 450
Mexican — 2 ot: . 3 60
ee 6 80
BROOMS,
a 1 90
“. 2

Patera P
Common Whisk............ 85
‘ancy es 1 06
a 2 85
BRUSHES.
Stove, No. . eee eee eee cee i .
ee - ce 17%
Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 8
Rice Root Scrub, 3 row.... 1 2%
Palmetto, goose............ 1 &
CANDLES,
Hotel, 40 ib. —- ee 10
Star, 40 Lec
Paraffine ee ee . 16
ee 24
OANRNED GOODS.
Fish.
Clame,
Cae ek, i... 1 20
a0 e
Clam Chowder.
Sienierd S18... 22
Cove —_—
Standard, : Ib... we
a, (135
Lobsters.
Star, ee 2 45
c_—.... BK
Piente, : eS 2K
Lee ee 2%
*ackerel,
Standard, Aya a 110
Socks cece 2 10
susterd i eee ee ee 23
Tomato Sauce, 21b......... 2 &
ee ee _ oe
almon.
Columbia River, = ——. ; 75
eee 5
Aiea Bee... 1 30
pin eee 1 &
Rieeceyu, See... 19
Sardines.
American Be ee 44@ 6
Lee en i -6%@ 7
Imported ae G0
ae 15@i6
Merc We............... Gaz
Boneless ......0..0. eee 2
Trout.
|
Fruits.
Appier,
3 lv. standard i.
York State, oe. 27
Hamburgh, - nl

 
    
  

 

 

—
tage oek.....:. .. ae 1 40
ae Se... |. 140
aa 1 50
a 1 40
Blackberries.
sy... ........... 85
Cherries,
bee eee ee oe @1 20
ae Hamburgh on.
eee 1 40
Erie eee i
Damsons, Ege Plums and Green
age:
a=o........CtC<CiCC 135
California. .... 12
Gooseberries.
en / 13
Peaches.
— ee 110
ee 1 50
ee. 1 50
aes... 160@1 75
es...
oe,

Pears.
aa.
Riverside.......

Pineapples.
ee... ... ...
Johnson’ 8 sliced.

grated
Booth’s ace... .,..
eeapen........
Quinces,
eae

 
 

  
 

 

Raspberries.
oe ee 95
Black Hamburg....... 1 46
Erie, black .. 120
Strawberries,
Lawrence . : 123
Hamburgh . ee i=
ee 12
aes... 1 5
Whortleberries,
Blueberries ........ 85
Me
Corned beef Libby? _ 2 20
Roast beef Armour’s....... 2 35
Potted ham, 4 = oe 13
eeee errr cese ‘
e tongue, * _.... 1 35
' _ oo . z
us Chicken, % ib....... 95
Vegetables.
Beans.
Hamburgh stringless...... 115
French style ....2 00
Li 12
i &
oak —
Lewis Boston Baked........ 12
Bay State Baked............ 1 2
World’s Fair Baked........ 1 3
a 95
Corn.
ena TE 1 2
—— as... 110
ae -1 00
aa ae 135
Morn pg i ere Sa
de ee. vio)
Peas,
Hamburgh marrofat eee 1 30
early June . ...1 50
' Champion Eng..1 40
. = poe... 1 40
ancy sifted....1 65
Soames ceccoens OO
Harris standard............. %5
VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10
' early June..... 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25
eae: 2 15
a Mushrooms.
enc. wSecccccccccccc cel MDL
Pumpkin,
ae. eoosscce OO
squash,

Hubbard ...... eee is
Succotash,
Hamburg....... ee

ene
— “A crccocsd 40
et 135
Tomatoes.
ee. 90
Paoeeer . =
ae weccee SO
ee «kt 25
A 3 00
CHOCOLATE,
Baker's.
ee ° 23
ee... ... von 3?
ceaninees Ceces...... . 43
CHEESE,
ae 12%
ee ll
Eeeeeree.......- .... 12
oe ............. 12
oe wees... .....
a, a 8@9
a... ee 11
Edam 1 00
SO ee . 20
Limburger ... @i5
engin 4 DB caee G24
Requefort Qs
oe ooo... 220
Schweitser, imported. @24
domestic “en oi¢

 
  
 
 
  

CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly ee...
Telfer’s Absolute.........

ar... ee ison

CATSUP.
Blue Label one.

 

— pint, 25 bottles... ue VO
Pint oo
Quart 1 doz bottles .-3 50
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per dox.......... 135
fame, > betiies.............. 450
Quart, poe Gee... 3 75
CLOTHES PINS,
Seren bowes............ 40@45
COCOA SHELLS,
=e Ve...
Less quantity........ @3%
Pound packages........ ..6%&@7
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
=... 18
ae 19
Enamel |
a... a
Saas. 23

Santos
ee ee 19
ee 20
ae 22
ed 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Se 21
ee 2
—.. LC 24

Maracaibo.
—.. 23
—— 24

Java.
a... 25
rvese Grewenh....... 27
Deaseeniiog 28

ocha.

Imitation . 0
Arabian.. a
peaniietery
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 22:
ee 21 86
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case ... 22 30

Extract.
alles City * STOSS.. 75
Fel ._
Hummel’, foil, BTORS...... 1 65

tin 2

CHICORY.
ee 5
— a 7

CLOTHES LINES,

Cotton, ° > .. per dos. 1 25
deo ” 14

C 80 ft . 1 68

_ _e....... _ 1%

a oom... ... - tt
Jute a - 8
i . 1 90

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz. in case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s ——-
7 40

Gail Borden Eagle
oe
ae
C Eanaiien a
—
Dim

 

Peerless evaporated,cream.

- 62
- 5%
- 450
- 2

 

5 75

 

COTPON BUOKS,

 

‘Tradesman.’

 

$1 books, per hundred... 2 S
ae
8 5 ia “ “ ae 3 oo
810 oe “ a i 4 Oo
#20 oe “ “oe M 5 00
“Superior.”
8 1 books, per hundred ... 2 50
8 2 se “ec “ee is 3 00
“a “ “
See. oe
#10 oe oe “ : 5 00
$20 oe “ “ 6 00
Universai.”’
: * books, per hundred. . =
83 “ec ity = =
“ “ ss
810 “cc “ _a 00
=— * 7 00

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

200 books or over...
“oe “

1000 “ “ 2 “cs
COUPON PASS BOOKS.

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

é per cent
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20 books ees el $100

Sh UC. 2
we 3 00
— hl 6 3
— |... 10 00
le 17 5O

CREDIT CHEOKS,.

500, any one denom’n..... 83 00
— ° * ee 5 00
—" * = 8 00
Soa sees) _C.......... 75

CRACKERS.

Butter.
on 5
Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5%
i a 5
Family XXX, cartoon...... Si
Salted XXX.. oo.
Salted XXX, cartoon ...... "Bx
— ot
Same a. ............. 6

Soda.
eS 5%
eee TH
poms, Peceem.............. 8%
yee! Werer.............,. 10%
Long Island Wafers........ 11

Oyster.

Soper XEE.............. 5%
City Gyater. Ex ............ 5%
ee 6
DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.

Apples.
oa... 5%
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 7

Apricots,

California in bags.. ... 8%

Evaporated in boxes. 9
Blackberries,

In boxes.. a 74
Nectarines.

2 ib. bars....... Soe eee es

ie. BONE... .......... 9

Peaches,

Peeled, in boxes oo. 10
Cal. e evap. a 10
a 8%
Pears.
en - — 6%
erries,
saat ee eee eee te cee
os boxes . "
Prunelles.
30 lb. boxer s
Raspberries.
In barrels.. ‘ 20
eee conn eee 20%
See 2%
Raisins,
Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
3
4
5%
Loose ere in a
2 crown. is
3 . Peoee ees au.
Foreign.
Currants.

Paes, bee... 4
Vostizzas. 6 1b. cases . 4%
Schuit’s Cleaned,
OE
[i peckeees .... LS

 

Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, => boxes 13

emon 8
Orange ' = . “ 10
Raisins.

Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes... @%
Sultana, 20 @i%
Vetencia,3> “ 5
Prunes.

California, 100-120 5%
90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 6
so

“es 80x90

io TUx80 a3 7

. 60x70 " . T%
ee
ver...

ENVELOPES,

XX rag, white.
mais... 8) 35
ont
mets... 1%
paee....... —w.- £ oo

Manilla, white.
 ............ 8 8 5

Coin.

i ees... 90
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina,

105 Fo. Meme 2%
Grits.

Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 85
Hominy.
aod ge
oe... 3%
Lima Beans,
oo 5@5%

Maccaroni ne a ppetaasas

  

Domestic, 12 Ib. b
Teeeeied...........- 10%@11
Pear! Barley.
Senumeacmer... _.._...... B14
a 3
Peas.
cen, Oe... |... 110
Soe Crib ............ 3
Rolled Oats,
Schumacher, bbl. ........ 84
. te... .... 2 oe
Rosanna, tel... 4/0
monarch, < bil... .... .. % 3
mer, Caeoe........... Soe
Oven Hated... ............ 33
Sago.

German ...... EES) 3
eee reee.................. 3%
Wheat.
oe 3
FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
aa... 1 65
Cod.

Georges cured........... 4
Georges genuine......... 6
Georges selected......... 7
Bones, oricks.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... éx@o
Halibut.
ae... 11@12
Herri
Holland, white hoops _
9 s
Rorweren .............,.
Round, % bb] 100 Ibs ..... =>
“a ly ‘cs 40 “oe a 1 30
Ponto ... 5... a. 15
Mackerel
mo. 1, WORs.......... 11 £0
ae Leee......... 4 9
No. 1, 10 lbs. 1 30
pe. 2, OO e..... 17 99
aa... 4 30
ma... 1%
Pamity, © lbe.........
r bs.
Sardines.
Breton, bees.............. 55
Tro
Mo. 1, 4 beee., Oe... ..... 5 00

o. 1% bbl, 40 Ibs.. 2 36
No. 1, kits, 10 Ibe. .. t5
No 1,8 kits..... 55

Whitefish.
No. 1 family
% bbls, » 7 a. 186 25 3:00
soos) OOP Loe
10 Ib. kits ee 7% 4
SC  — cS os
MATCHES,

Globe Match ah 8 Brands.
Columbia Parlor..... —_ 25
ZA Salpeer.............. 00
Diamond Match Co.’s ‘ican
Sa 5 eeeeee........... .... 1 65

 

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

Regular
Vanilla.

XX Grade
Lemon.
poe..... $1 50
aon..... 3 00

XX Grade
Vanilla, uC

Jennings.
Lemon. —

: oz regular same 75 20

408 ..1 50 2 00
6 oz . .-2 00 3 00
Ro. S tuper........ 1 35 2 00
No. 4 taper........ 150 2 50

Northrop’s
Lemon.” er.

 
 

2 0z oval taper 75 10
3 02 1°20 1 75
2 oz regular ‘“ 8 1 20
oe 2:25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
a. ee eke pence eee 3 25
for bees... 1 90
oertee beow............... 110
_..........,.........
i oe... 18
Choke ene one
Kegs.. " 4%
Half kegs. ee 1.2 40
bead kegs.. i
1 ipbcans...... - =
Eagle enk~eneens.
Kegs Leeeeec eee so. 11 00
Hal? Were eee. sae 5%
ator SOG... ... ....... 3 o

1 coms..........
HE

 

Madras, 5 Ib. boxes.......
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes...

 

  
  

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 27
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....3 06
MEASURES
Tin, per dosen.
1 oes... 1 75
Half gallon. 1 40
Quart... 70
[om .... 45
Ear pint... 40

Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
i gation ....... 7 00

 

Half gallon 475
J 375
es 4k — -
MOLASSES,
Blackstrap.
Sugar house ........ 14
Cuba Baking
Geiivery .... -. ' 16
Porto Ritu
a... 20
Fancy 3
New Orleans
—_—  .............__.... 18
ee ... 6.4... 22
: — oer. ....c......... 27
oa ae Aces coma i. 32
40

Male, -barrels 3c.extra

 

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TAE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN,

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PICKLES,
Medium.

 
 
  

Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 0
Haif bbis, 600 count.. @: 50
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00
Haif bbis, 1,200 count 3 50
—

Clay, No. 2 | ko

= . ~ Apaaoy eae ele 70
eee 1 20
POTASH,

48 cans in case.
are... 4 00
Fenna Sat Co.'s.......... 3 00

RICE,
Domestic.
Carolina a ee _-- . OG

mo i .......-....... 5

" No. 3 ede es 4%
a 38%
Imported.

Jeeen, Hot... ............. 5%
. Nes... as -

 

   

 
 

 

Paes... ee os 4%
. SPICES,

Whole Sifted.
Aleeios..................... 9%
Cassia, China in mats...... 9%

' Batavia in bund....15

- Saigon in rolls...... 3z

Cloves, ee 22
e—_—__ 11%

Mace Batavia eae seca. qu

Nutmegs, eae - os ;

No. 1 .

' No. 3 ees canes 5>

Pepper, Singapore, — -.10

white... .20

“ .16
Pas ie in Bulk.

Ales... 15

Cassia, ~~. Le eee 18

nd Saigon.25

. aon feeew nee nee 35

Cloves, Amboyna 2

Zanzibar .18
Ginger, A — oe 16

eee h ewes ae 2u
. jen foes

———___————— 65

Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22

ieee 5
on 2 No. 2 6 bag Te

epper, Singa’ o ac 1
eo . . 24
. we es 20
ee 2
“Absolute” in Packages,
8 8

Aen ..-..--..... + of Lo

aoeon............- 84 155

Cloves. . 84 155

Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155

Brrican ....... 1s

Meaterd............... 84 155

ooo ........ 6 eo ae

as... |.l oe

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls eee ect 1%

Top caser.....- 1%

Lump, oe... 1%

451d kegs........ . 1%
—

Aue... . @13

Canary, Smyrna....... 4

Carauee .............. .

Cardamon, Malabar.. -

i. 4%

Mustard, white....... 9

8
Rape 4%
Cutie bone.......... 30
STARCH.
Corn.

So ip bomee...........-. a... 8
OO oe 5%
Gloss.
1-lb packages eee secs oe 5%
3-ib 5l
6-lb Ge 5%
4) and SO Ib. bowes.......-... 3%
Bere. - 38%
SNUFF.

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

Maccaboy a 35

French Rappee, in Jars..... 43

SODA,
oS en 5S

cae ies ee 4%

SALT.
Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 243 lb boxes......8 1 60
Barrels, 320 lbs.. . 250

" 115 2% Ib bags.. . _=

al 05 _2o

/ 30 10 ip oo. ee
Butter, 56 io beee.......- 6>
wigpiegs ........ 358

* wee Gbis ........ 2a
“24am © +o. 2

Worcester.

115 2%- Ib sacks a 8410
osm 8 6 Ce . 3
= —se)0U” Cf. 3 50

a ” |... ee

330 _............. 2 50

a 32%
linen acks...... “. 60
Common Grades.

100 3-lb. SUCKS ete oe .. 82 10
eee 1 99
S210 th angie 1%

Warsaw.

56 lb, dairy in drill bags.. 30
28 lb, oe “ oT he 16
Ashton.

46 lb, dairy in linensacks.. 75
Higgins
56 jh, dairy in linen sacks 75
Soiar Rock.

54 ly, sacks 22
Common Fine
RT occ en es ee 90
Meeees .. 5... --... -.. 90

 

 

SALERATUS,

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
oe 330
Merseee .................. 36
Pues... .. ...-.. 3 3)
Taylors. ..... 3 00

SEELY’S EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

loz. F.M.% 90doz. %10 20 gro
"ae ia ze

e* Fete” ma
Vanilla.

1 oz. F. M. 1 50 doz 16 20 gro

-"N SS 2a ” 26

2° Fess 25 50 “

Rococo—Second Grade.

Lemon.

oe... 8 25 @os..... se ~
Vanilla,

2den...... 1 oO doz..... Os *
SOAP,
Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Brands.

Concordia, 100 % Ib. bars...3 50
5 box lots =
“ 10 box lots.......3 30
c 2. box lots . os 3 2
Best German Family.
60 1b tees _.--..-.-.-. 2 5
Shox igs .. ....... 2
ee 2 00
Allen B. Wrisley” s Brand
Old Country, 80 1-Ib......-. =
Good Cheer, 60 1 ib ee 3 90
White Borax, 100 %-Ib.....- 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Qe ee 3 45
Ivory, 10 Of... .... ecoee se
- € ef ..............;, 4 00
leuex. ..... ..-.-------- 3 65
Moitled — eee een eee 3 15
Wow Tae ..........--..-.. 3 2
Dingman Brands.
Single box.. ...-.....-..-- 3%
5 box lots, , dietiveced ened 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

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

2 97

- & we

a. 2. en oe ——.
Santa Claus i

Brown, 6) Dare...........-- 3 0
' OO Gare ..... ..-... 3 10
— Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

a 3 65

nanan —........... 6 00

Marseilies.... .. oe

Master a. __.. -o

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

  

a Ripa i
oes... 8 3 30
Savon Improved eee ee. 2 50
eee 2 80
Golden 3 25
Economical . ricewee ©
Senn,
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 daa 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 shipp:ng point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight, buyer
pays from the market in which
he purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.

 

Bomme .................. $4 75
eae 475
Cubes ..... hee eee ne. 4 37
Pomaeee .................. 4 37
Zaus Powdered... . =
eee 3 94
Fine Granulated........... 3 9
Extra Fine Granulated... 416
Mowe A... ... 21.6... 4 37
Diamond Confec, A....... 4 0)
Confee. Standard A.. ....3%
a ae
38

3

3

3

 

Corn.
Barrels......- ae. i
Pelt bets. ..........._...._.. 19

Pure Cane.

Pee ee 17
— ......................
Coieeee...... 25

TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’ 8, oe eel 47
omall..... 2 75

Halford, ioe... 37
a... 2
Salad Dressing, large 455
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TEAS,
yJaPan—HKegular.
Pam...
Goon .......... Se sceeee v

Clee... 4.8... 24 @26
Choicest...... -t- --.-oe ~Goe
ae... 8. 10 @12

SUN CURED.
mee... @l17
occ. Cs. @20
Choice... .. 24 @2e
CC eee 32 @34
—........ ..... 10 @I2

BASKET FIRED.
ee... 18 @20
Cyoree......_.... el @25
Choicest...... 5
Extra choice, wire leaf @40

@UNPOWLER.
Common to fait ....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fanty........ 7 @ss
OOLONG. @Q26
Common co fair .. ...23 @30

IMPERIAL.

‘ommon to fair....... 23 @26
Superior tofine........ 30 @35
YOUNG HYSON.

Commor to fair....... 18 @z6
Superior to fine....... 30 @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
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TOBACCOS.
Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
— Miseet.......... 80 @32
Tige 30

©. Seotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha......
Cuba. 2
Moeret...... .....-.-- 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s —
Steciimeg .......-......-
— pees

Bazoo . ne @30
Can Can.. eee @2z
Welle Biy.....-....... 2 @25
Hneio Bon. ...........28 Geo
MeGinty .....-... ua 27

% bbls.. . 25
Colombia .....--....-.-. 24
Columbia, drums ...... 23
Bane Up....:.....-...-. 20
Bang up, drums ........ 19

Plug.

Sorg’s ene
Spearhead ......-. 39
Joker o- 33

Nobby wiet.........-+- 40

Scotten’s Brands. L
Hgle.....-....._..._... 25
Hiawatha......... ---- 38
Valley City ........--. 34

Finzer’s Brands.

Old Honesty......---- 40
Jolly Tar bs 4

Lorillard’ 8 Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41C).. 39
Green Turtie.......... 30
Three Black Crows... 7

J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good...... 38
Ont of Signt.......... 24
Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold Hope.........--. 43
Happy Thought....... 37
Peeeeeee ............- 32
ho rer........ ......- 31
Het GO...........--+.. 27
Smoking.

Catlin’s Brands.
aie Gee ............... —
Golden Shower......-.......
Huntress ..... Lee 26
Meerschaum _..........- 29@30

American Eagle Co.’s —
Myrtle Navy.........-...-.:
CS 0
a eee .15
ree... 32
jane, te fodl.......---...-- 32

Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.....

Banner Cavendish.......... 36
Gree tet _................. 30
Scotten’s Brands.
Waren... 14
Honey Dow................- 26
Gara Bioek...........-..... 30

F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
_—

Peerless... .... Le 26

Oe ee ewe 18

Standard.... 22

 

Globe Tobacco Co." 8 Brands.
Hamdmace............-.-.-.
Leidersdorf’s Brands.

 

Bow Mey............-. Lowes 26
Unele Sam........... 28@32
Bod Clowce......_....-. 32
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry...-..---.++++ 25
Traveler Cavendish........ 38
Buen More... 3u
Plow A belie es eae eae ange
Core (oko ..............-
VINEGAR,
40 gr.. phe oeetseces- @8
50) gr. @

“1 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,

Bote pereel ....... .....

Beer mug,2dozincase... 1 75
YEAST.
Mack....... . 1 00
Warners .... 1
woes Voom ................5 @
EE %
Royal ..... ee ee cogs e 9

 

Eee

WOODENWARE,
ae 1 be else cana we 75
pee cseeleucaccs 475
- (ee 4 00
Pails, a ‘, two-hoop.. . 1 25
No three-hoop.... 1 35
Bowls, 11 inch eae cn
a .... ... 90
Oe 12
. 7 os 1 80
" _ - 240
ee

HIDES PELTS and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

 

  

FURS.
Mink........ 2... @1%9
ee a2
peenk..... _..-. % @1 2s
Bat, winter..... ee ui
Bat fan... 03 @ C8
mee Foz........ 1co @1 4
Gray Wox.,...... a0 @ 6)
Cross Fox. .....-. 800 @50)
Betger........ © GIG
Cat, wild........ 0G &
Cat, house...... we S&S
Fisser ..........508 @EG@
ee............ 10& @2 50
Martin, dark.... 200 @3 00
Martin, pale, yel 100 @150
ee 500 @8 0)
te 100 @200
Beaver.......... 30) @ iw
Bear... _.. 1508 @2 G0
Cpocsaml........ ne 2
Deer Skin, dry.. 10 @ 2%
Deer Skin,green 05 @ 12%

HLDES
Green oe 2%03%K%
Part Curea........... @ 1%
a @ 5%
oe 5 @7
Kips, green ........... 3 @4

- ¢occa ......... @6
Calfskins, green.. @6

cured S 8%

Deacon skius.. . G5
Vo. 2 hides % off.

PELTS.
Sheariegs.....-...... 5 &
roars |... 2% @ 3

WOOL
Waseca... ........ 2 @is
Unwashed . 2 @i2z

MISCELLANEOUS.
Talo 3 @ 3%
Grease butter ........ 1 @2
Seicnoe ............- 1%@ 2
Gimeene, -....-... 5... 2 WUOG2 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFSs

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 1b. test) 48
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 48

MEAL,

Bolted.. eee: 1 40
Granulated. . 1 65
FLOUR IN SACKS,
ee —. a
ue, 145
Beker... .... _- ia
*Graham. : 2u

1 40

ye..
Subject ‘to usual “cash dis-
co

eel in bbls., 25¢c per bbl. ad-

 

ditional.
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran.. i ..-.014 00
Screenings oe 13 00
Middlings.. ett eee oe
Es 18 00
Cogese meal ............. 7
CORN.

Car lowe... =
Less than car lots..........4%
OaTs.

Car lot. .... oe
Less than car lots: i.
No. 1 Timothy. eo low.... 9 ®
No. 1 . ton tote .....11 ©

 

KISH AND OYSTERS.
FRESH FISH.

 

@10
@oa
s ! 15
Halibut, chunks....... @i4
Halibut, stripe........ @il
Ciscoer or Herring.. @6
Bluefish. @il
Fresh lobster, per ‘tb. 20
Cod heen 10
No. 1 Pickerel......... @s
Pree. ..... @8
Smoked White.. @8
Red Snappers.....sse- 13
Columbia River Sal-
me 5a 12%
Mockoe. 18@z
OYSTERS—IN BULK.
aa ........... 2 20
Extra Selects .... 1 65
ae 1 49
meMeIOne.. ..c.. «1... 1 50
Shrimps — 16
a 1 23
SHELL @0ODs.
Oysters, per 10....... 1 oe 50
Clame. 5@1 00

OYSTERS—IN CANS.
F. J. Dettenthaler’s strands.
Fairnaven Cvuuls.... 33

FP. J. D. Selects. .....-. 28
Selec 25
P. J. i, arene : 23
Benes 2... = Oe
Standards.........-.-- 18
reverie .............. 15
Standards per gal......... 1 00

Anchor standards per gai 1 10
Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

New York Counts.. '
Extra selects..
Se ects

in b standards. 2
Ce ee
Mediums ..... ence Be
Standards, per gal . ‘
IXL standards, per ga oa ‘1 10

 

   

 

CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE

No. 1
No. 2 hay
Tubnlar

Security. N

Security,

Nutmeg ..
Arctic. ...... ....

 

LAMP BURNERS,

No. 0Sun eds ee cyl. bel eee.

 
 
  
 
 
  

No.0 Sun.... (3
Rat ....... 1 88
No.2 “ co i 2 70
ll / First at ialite

_ 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...2 10
No. $ i“ ‘ ts ‘ “ 9 o8
No.2 * +“ ts ‘ “ ‘“ oe 25

XXX Fiint.

a 7 Sun, » crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 60
No. 2 “a a ec ac oe ae s 50
Pearl top.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and iaveled .-8 70
No. 2 a “ee ‘e “ee 4 4 Lod
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . A 4 89

ll Fire Proof—Plain 7
No. 1,8 sun, plain bulb ee ee 3 40
No. 2, Te Tg ay
La Bastie.
1S Sun, » Plain bulb, per Moz. : 13
1 crimp, per doz... cee is
ee ss oo . eo
Rochester.
No. 11, ime (65¢ doz) . _.. 3 40
No. 2, lime ( 0¢ doz) 13 70
No. 2, flint (80e doz). gered eee . 430
Elect tric.

No.2, me (70e daz) ............. ae 4 10
No. 2 flint (80¢e doz) .. i 4 40
Miscellaneous.

Junior, Rochester ...... —
Nutmeg .... TT 15
Uluminator Sees... 1 00
Barrel lots, 5 doz LT 90
7 in. Porcelain shades... 1 U0
Case iota, Edor. ....__.. 90
Mammoth Chimneys for | a b ies

0
No. 3 Rochester, lime . 1 5) am
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 1% 4 BU
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s 8.1 85 5 25
No. 2 Giobe Incandes. lime...1 75 5 10
No. 2 G.obe Incandes. flint...2 00 5 85
No. 2 Pearl giana. ........_..2 10 6 00
OIL CANS,
: Doz.
I gal tin cans with apent..... ............. 140
I Sal galy irom, with spout................ _ 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout ceue deat es acc. oF eel
3 gal cuiy fron withapout.... 4 50
o gal MeNutt, ee one eee dee ee Oe
2 al Rureksa Wiis. ................ 6 50
5 gal Eureka with faucet.. . «oo
5 gal galviron A & W | oe
5 gal Tilting Cans, Monaren nT 10 00
oO OAl calviron Nacefas....  ....... . 9 dy
Pump Cans,
Seal Coe tule... .......... oo _.10 56
Seal Home Bae ae
S #al Goodenough.............. i
S gal Goodenough ......... a
caer )hOl..................... 10 50
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0, Tubular, Cases I doz. each eee 45
No. 0, CO ee 45
No. 0 bbls 5 eS 4u
No. 0, ° bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 00
LAMP WICKS,
No. 0, per gross. — 20
es lCUmLTDLCU 28
RE 38
No. & Re ee ee 65
Mammoth, per oe U 78
JELLY TUMBLE ns—Ti in Ten
14 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00)... 64
4 24 pe, © Gon (bbl a)...... 2
_ fe ‘ box, Dex (box @)).... 1 0
— | Ss * ~*~ Det doz (bbl 25)..... 26
STONEW 4ARE—abHKUN.
Butter Crocks, i. to 6 gal Lie U6
. . 6 gal. per doz... 60
Jugs, % gal., 1 or eo... 7
- 104 on per gal... .. oa. 07
Mik Pans, 4 gdi., por dos......... bu
“ ts 1 * a ee 72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED,
Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 = eT 6%
Milk Pans, % gal. per duz. 65
- 1 . ° i 7
O:1Ls,
The Standard Ol] Co quotes as follows:
BARRELS,
Mocose 9
Zax W. Ww. “Mich. ‘Headl ee 7%
Nae. @7
Stove Gasoline. . @ *
‘sioeer Ce @36
Engine. .. oe ee
ee TE i.
Hiack, 15 cold test...... ... ' 10
FROM TANK WAGON,
Eocene.. i%
Wx W. W. ‘Mich. Headlight 5“

Scofield, Shurmer & Texel

Palacine

NE
Red cross, W W oe i

Nuaptha

Stove Gasol ine. aa

Palacine.
Red Cross W W Headlight.

  

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BAR RELS.

FROM TANK WAGON,

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‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

TREND OF UNIONISM.

 

Individual Liberty Discarded for State
Socialism.

The unsuccessful strike at Brooklyn,
with the rioting and violence which ac-
companied it, became nothing but an out-
break of lawlessness which had to be put
down, as so many other outbreaks of the
same kind have heretofore been put
down, by the strong hand of the consti-
tuted authorities. In this respect there
can be, among right-thinking people, but
one opinion of it. Whatever may have
been the grievances of the strikers, and
however unjustly they may have been
treated, society cannot, consistently with
its own self-preservation, permit them
and their allies to redress those griev-
ances and secure justice by the means to
which they resorted. The progress of
civilization for the last thousand years
has been in the direction of taking away
from individuals the forcible righting of
their wrongs and vesting it in courts and
in legislatures. In these closing years
of the nineteenth century a reversion
to the methods of the dark ages is unen-
durable.

That this strike, like the many similar
strikes which have within the past
twenty years preceded it, could not suc-
ceed, was a foregone conclusion. It took
on the shape of a rebellion, and a rebel-
lion, to be justified, must become a revy-
olution. Unless the Brooklyn rioters
were prepared to overthrow the Govern-
ment and set up in its place one of their
own, they had to be subdued and pun-
ished. It was a plain case for the appli-
cation of the principle: ‘‘All they that
take the sword shall perish with the
sword.” Men who assault their compet-
itors and destroy the property of their
former employers are not to be exempt
from the treatment of malefactors merely
because their numberis gre. and they

ave the semblance of anc sanization.
‘Lhey must either conquer s. ciety or be
conquered by it, and as society outnum-
bers them by 100 to one itis pretty sure
of ultimate victory.

It is remarkable how blind to this
truth so many otherwise enlightened and
intelligent people are. Instead of an
unanimous condemuation of the breaches
of the peace and of the destruction of
property which usually accompany
strikes of this magnituae we met a di-
vided public opinion, with a numerous
party favoring the law breakers. Thus,
the Mayor of Brooklyn openly avowed his
sympatby with the men whom it was his
duty to treat as criminals; the police fra-
ternized with them; residents along the
line of the railroads aided and abetted
them in destroying cars, beating motor-
men, oObstrueting tracks, and cutting
trolley wires; shopkeepers refused to sell
supplies to the soldiers called out to pre-
serve order; newspapers espoused the
cause of the rioters, and vilified their
victims; and lawyers and judges were
found who prostituted the machinery of
the law to render them assistance. It
was as though a man’s neighbors should
applaud and aid the incendiaries setting
fire to his house, and should obstruct the
firemen in tLeir efforts to extinguish the
flames, in disregard of the obvious fact
that their own houses may be the next
objects of attack. For, if one set of men
are allowed to extort money from other
men as the price of immunity from in-
jury, another set may do the same, and

 

bands of tramps living by pillage and
ransom. A peaceable strike often comes
very close to extortion by threat and in-
timidation, but a riotous strike is intel-
erable.

The explanation of this aberration of
judgment lies doubtless in the fact thata
vast number of men are governed in their
conduct more by feeling than by cool
reason and consider immediate results
rather than remote consequences. So
many of them, too, are earners of wages
themselves that their sympathies are
with those in the same situation, and the
payers of wages being in the minority,
the preponderance of opinion is against
them. The disparity is still greater be-
tween the employers of large numbers of
laborers and the rest of their fellow citi-
zens. They are but a handful compared
to a multitude. The men capable of di-
recting profitably the exertions of other
men are as few in number as are the gen-
erals capable of commanding an army,
and nothing but stern necessity compels
submission to them. Then, too, the
amount of wages paid to each worker is
so small, relatively to the profits of his
employer, that it seems inadequate, and
the refusal to increase it a trifle appears
unreasonable. It is forgotten that a sum
small itself is great when multiplied a
thousandfold, and that an increase of a
few cents in the daily wages of each ef a
multitude of employes, comes at the end
of the year toa very large amount. If
the 6,000 Brooklyn railroad employes,
for example, were to be paid only twenty-
five cents a day more than their present
wages, they would in the aggregate re-
ceive in the ceurse of 365 days an in-
crease of $547,500. What the total in-
crease would be if all other wage earners
obtained a corresponding addition to
their present pay itis easy to imagine.
The dispute in Brooklyn did not, there-
fore, involve a few cents, but hundreds
of thousands of dollars, and those who
censured the employers for not granting
the strikers’ demands did not sufficiently
consider the matter.

Nevertheless, this prediction of the pub-
lic in favor of strikers, and its diposition
to look kindly upon even their lawless
efforts to gain an advantage over their
employers, must be accepted as a fact
and dealt with as such. Wise men treat
other men as being not what they would
like to have them be, but what they are;
and since an ounce of prevention is bet-
ter than a pound of cure, the prevention
of riotous strikes, if it could be accom-
plished, would be better than their sup-
pression by the police and the militia.
Thus far, as the Brooklyn strike and the
other great strikes which have recently
preceded it abundantly prove, no method
of such prevention has been discovered.
Compulsory arbitration has been urged
for the purpose; but if the submission to
arbitration is to be compelled, and the
award of the arbitrators is to be enforced,
it amounts to a Government regulation
of wages, the next step after which is
the assumption by the Government of the
management of all great industries.

Everything indicates that, under the
pressure of the discontent which is an

| ineradieable element of human nature,

civilized society is gradually shaping it-
self into a system in which private af-
fairs will be much more regulated by
law than they are now, and that the out-
come eventually will be what is called
State Socialism. The sympathy of the

the country would soon be overrun with, public with the Brooklyn strikers and

 

GRAND RAPIDS
BRUSH COMP 'Y,

MANUFACTURER OF B R tj Ss = KE S GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses.

 

 

 

  
  

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ona
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pose. It’s made from the best brine by the best process with the
best grain. You keep the best of other things, why not keep the
best of Salt. Your customers will appreciate it as they appreciate
pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free {com all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, wiii not get damp and

soggy on yourhands. Put up in an attractive and salablemanner. When
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For other information, address
DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. ;

We Think

that we can truthfully say that never before has the demand for novelties
in Jewelry of every description been so great in early season as this. We
have the line to fill your wants. You cannot afford to be late in placing
your order. Our line of Hair Ornaments, Belt Buckles and Czarina
Buckles are as staple as your dress goods by the yard. Send us your or-
der if our salesman has not called on you. Ourcustomers can rest assured
that whenever orders sent in for anything in our line they will receive our
careful attention.

WURZBURG JEWELRY CO.,

76 Tonroe St., = a Grand Rapids

 

 

Last Trip:-

THURSDAY and FRIDAY,
Feb. 7 and 8.

M. J. Rogan will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grond Rapids, on above dates and will
be pleased to pay expenses of any merchants coming from a distance to see his
goods. Last trip for the spring season.

Moore, Smith & Co., Boston,
HATS and STRAW GOODS. ~

WANTED.

Beans, Potatoes, Onions.

If you have any to offer write us stating quantity and lowest price.
sample of beans you have to offer, car lots or less.

MOSELEY BROS.

26,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Send us

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 25

 

 

its impatience with the inconvenience
caused by the refusal of their employers
to yield to them is a positive proof of
this tendency, showing that we have al-
ready arrived at a point from which fur-
ther steps in the direction already taken
will soon land us where the Government
will make rules for every affair of life,
and the citizen will not only not be per-
mitted to do wrong, but also not to do
right, excepting in a prescribed manner.
This is the goal toward which those
who clamor for Government interference
in settling strike disputes, and for more
stringency in the regulation of tenement
houses, of factories, and of the liquor
traffic, are driving society. Meanwhile
it is comforting to see in Brooklyn, as we
saw in Chicago, that in spite of the prev-
alent fondness for raising wages at the
expense of employers, a great deal is still
left of individual liberty, and that men
who are willing to work for the wages
offered them cannot always be prevented
by force from doing so.

MATTHEW MARSHALL.
———_

High Art in Stealing.

One day last week two nice-looking,
well-dressed women in a street car were
discussing in an animated manner those
subjects always so interesting to women
—shopping and dress. Said one:

‘Suppose we go to two or three fashion-
able millinery stores and see what they
have? I haven’t anything dressy in the
way of a hat yet this season, but—”

‘‘Neither have I,’’ broke in her com-

panion. ‘Shall you get a hat this after-
noon.”’
“Oh, no! I never buy trimmed hats

outright; do you? They charge such
dreadful prices for them, you know.
Let me tell you how I manage to get
something just as nice as any pattern
hat, and at one-third the cost. I go to
the first-class stores and ask to be shown
something very nice. The hats 1 like
best I try on until I find one that just
suits. Then I look it over until I have
it fairly photographed on my mind, and
after promising to come in and decide in
a day or so, | leave. I next go to some
place where shapes and trimmings are to
be had and buy an untrimmed hat of
precisely the same shape as the pattern
hat. I get trimmings of the best quality
and I go straight home and trim my hat
at once before I forget how it should be.
It is not so very much trouble, and when
it is done itis the exact counterpart of
the pattern hat, and I save from ten to
twenty dollars.’

**Indeed, you are just perfectly won-
derful! I couldn’t trim a hat to save my
life!’’

“Oh!” said the other, complacently,
‘I can copy like a Chinaman; but some-
times I have to go back and see the hat
two or three times before I can remem-
ber exactly how it is trimmed.’’

“Well, I simply couldn’t do that! I
get my last season’s hats slightly altered
at a trifling cost, and wear them until
the season is nearly over; then, when
the millinery is marked down to cost, I
attend reduction sales and get some-
thing really pice for almost nothing. The
disadvantage of this plan is that I have
to wait so long for my hat; but I invari-
ably get good materials, and the feathers
and other trimmings can be used another
season.”’

‘*You know my sister Grace,’’ said the
first speaker. ‘‘She has good taste in
dress and is considered very stylish.

 

 

times has as many as half a dozen during
the season. Whenever she comes across
a real bargain in ribbons, velvets,
feathers or ornaments she makes a pur-
chase, which she lays aside. Once in
three or four months she employes a vis- |
iting milliner, who comes to the house|
fora day or so at $2 per day. In this |
way she gets her children’s hats and her
own for just about what one fashionable
hat would cost at a first-class place.”

And, having reached their destination, |
the two women left the car, presumably
to make a tour of the millinery stores.

Having occasion to same afternoon to
visit the millinery department of one of
our large stures, it occurred to me to in-
quire if this self-confessed pilferer of
styles was an exception, or, unhappily
for the merchant, but one of the many.
The manager assured me that women
frequently resort to this practice, and
that they seem to regard the exhibit of
trimmed hats as simply a collection of
models for them to copy. He said:

“Fach year we place in stock less
trimmed hats, while our department of
shapes and trimmings is being rapidly
enlarged. I cannot say how much of
this change in the millienery trade is due
to the hard times. We hardly realize
enough from our trimmed hats to pay
our makers, trimmers and salesladies.
You would be surprised to know how
many wealthy ladies steal our styles and
make their own millinery.

‘*Rather a provoking, though amusing,
incident occurred yesterday. A young
woman stood in front of a case contain-
ing some of our most expensive hats.
She was busily engaged with pencil and
note book. A saleslady, thinking she
must be taking notes for some paper or
fashion magazine, went to her and asked
if she might show her anything.

‘**No, I thank you,’ she answered,
sweetly, ‘but please turn this hat around,
so that I can see the other side of it. It
is a love of a hat, and I’m going to make
myself one just like it. I’m sketching
it, so 1 shall be certain to succeed in
copying it.’

‘‘And soon she departed with an ac-
curate pencil sketch of the hat, and
wearing a highly pleased and satisfied
expression.

“This form of dishonesty is not pun-
ishable by law. The young woman was
not a shoplifter, but, nevertheless, she

was a thief.”
—_———~ -4 <<

No drugs, a healthy smoke, Signal
Five.

She always wears pretty hats, aud some-
|

 

 

I will meet person-

.
ally or correspond
with anyone contem-
plating building to
assist or to execute

piuns. a.wavs having tneir interest in mind. I
know that a well-pleased client always assures
another. JOHN BRECHTING, Architect, 79
Wonderly Bld., Grand Rapids.

- WANTED -:

Everybody in-
terested in pat-
ents or patent
law to send his
name;inreturna
book containing
valuable infor-
mation will be
sent free by
mail.

L. V. Moulton,

Patent Att’y.
Grand Rapids.

Mich.

 

 

 

~@- INVENTIVE SENIUS- ©

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- - The Globe Box
iA Metal

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: , : is as tough as tripe. Used
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{ babbitting counter
é 2 \ shaf.s| emery grinders,
‘S ' carving machines and
; all high speed machinery.
} af Its trial costs you neth-
(iy ef ing if not satisfactory.

lf it proves its merit it is
the cheapest high-grade
babbitt metal made.

 

Telephone 540.

J. W. HAYDEN & CO.. Grand Rapids.

69 PEARL ST.

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Mail and telegr-ph orders r

 

California
Navel
Oranges.
All Sizes.

Lowest Prices.

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

General Stampede

FROM THE

Curse of Credit.

Hundreds of merchants are now abandoning the
old-time credit system and discarding the pass book
for the cash and coupon book system, which en-

ables the dealer to avoid all the losses and annoy-

 

ances inseparably connected with the credit busi-
ness.

If you are a victim of the credit business and
desire to place your business on a cash basis, send
to us for a catalogue and samples of our several
kinds of coupon books, which will be forwarded

free on application.

TRADESMAN COPIPANY.

 

    

24.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, Feb. 2.—The general trend
of things in the wholesale grocery trade
here during the past week has not been
of a particularly encouraging nature.
There is an element of so much uncer-
tainty regarding the finan al outlook
that buyers are showing no ~ ithusiasm.
i*rices are still low and there .eems to be
no immediate prospect of any upward
turn. The rise in coffee seems to be a
speculative movement and without legit-
imate foundation. Not many interior
buyers have been seen, and we are sim-
ply waiting for something to turn up.

Rio cotfee No. 7 is worth 16%c, and
trading is light. Thestock afloat is about
500,000 bags. Mild coffees are well held
and bring full value.

Granulated sugar is in a bad way.
The sales are light and there are few in-
teresting features in the market. While
there has been no change in quotations,
a further reduction will cause no sur-
prise.

The tea trade languishes and the late
spurt in quotations has hard work to
maintain itself. Sales at auction do not
indicate any notable improvement.

For both moiasses and syrup there is
a@ steady trade and no concessions are
made in the the former product to effect
sales.

The rice market is as firm as it has
been for some time and for all kinds
there remains a good demand. In some
instances trouble has been experienced
in promptly filling orders.

Foreign and Pacific Coast dried fruits
are still in fair inquiry and the feeling
is one of increasing confidence as time
goes on. Prime grades of California
raisins are held with a good degree of
confidence but prices are ruinously low
yet.

Foreign green fruits show no anima-
tion. No change has been noticed in
the rates for lemons. Shipments have
been light, owing, in some degree, to the
prevalent cold weather. Oranges are in
moderate request, with Havana in bar-
rels selling from $3.50@4.

Canned goods dealers are acting in
the most conservative manner, and the
sales are very smallindeed. Thereisa
eontinued call for ‘‘something cheap,”
and ‘‘something cheap’’ is also ‘‘some-
thing nasty.’’ A large block of bank-
rupt tomatoes has been sold to go to St.
Louis. These are fairly good goods, but
can be sold in ruinous competition with
legitimate purchases. Baltimore reports
matters in more favorable condition than
they appear here.

Receipts of butter are fair, but the
market is not very active. Elgin is
worth 24c, but this is for something ex-
tra.

Cheese is slow and the market un-
changed. There is, perhaps, a little bet-
ter feeling for fancy, large, colored.

Eggs continue to advance under the
influence of cold weather and the rate is
now to a point where it has checked de-
mand for all but strictly fresh. The
best Western eggs bring 2614 @27c.

Pea beans are worth $1.85. The mar-
kei is steady.

ee
Monthly Report of Secretary Owen.

GrRaND Rapips, Feb. 1—The follow-
ing new members have been admitted
since the last report:

Grand Rapids—W. RK. Andress, Geo.
W. Abell, A. E. Baker, Frank A. Boyn-
ton, Edwin D. Brooks, Geo. H Black-
mar, Chas. Rosenberg, G. A. Rysdale,
Thos. McGuire, Jas. McNamara, Sam
Newman, Wm. J. Kiine, F. F. Knight,
Cc. L. LeBarr, N. M. Marshall, Wm. T.
Merrill, Geo. W. Hart, J. A. Hughston,
M. M. Hughes, Wm. G. Hawkins, Louis
Jacoby, Will Jones, G. J. Johnson, J.
H. Kennedy, E. D. King, Fred J.
Ephlin, Geo. A. Findlater, Geo. W.
Feldner, M. Goldbury, H. W. Garrett,
W. H. Gardiner, J. L. Gillett, John G.
Carlson, WM. Campbell, Frank A.
Collins, Wm. J. Corbin, P. J. Coppens,
Frank Daiton, A. T, Davis, C. W. Dier-
dorf, Franklin F. Davis, A. L. Swisler,
Thos. Sheils, Theo. Shu! ze, Guy P.
Smith, J. W. Simmons, J. W. Stough-

 

ton, E. C. Sparrow, J. E. Sargeant,
Geo. H. Seymour, G. F. Truman, J.
M. Troutman, H. J. Vinkemulder, M.
K. Walton, Frank Warren, A. K.
Wheeler, T. A. Workman, C. R. Young-
blood, H. J. Klose, F. M. Lee, F. W. 8.
Thayer.

Detroit—Maurice A. Ayers, Frank S.
Bigler, G. C. Burnham, Henry W.
Beeson, Chas. C. Chadwick, A. M.
Crother, J. A. Gray, R. Stewart Tibbs,
Blaine Gavett, Richard H. Gully, Wm.
K. Gavett, Henry A. Jenks, Fred B.
Kay, R. Geo. Marsh, Robt. J. Marsh,
Wm. May, D. L. McDermid, Thos. S.
McGraw, Thos. Naylon, A. A. Nall,
Carlton Row, Albert W, Ryerson, M. C.
Robinson, Louis Reichie, F. W. Sam-
mons, John P. Smith, Oscar Stoddard,
R. K. Stevens, Frank B. Trout, Chas.
C. May, Harvey C. Beeson.

South Haven—J. T. Avery.

Kalamazoo—C. C. Adams,
Davis, Kirk A. Smith.

Jsackson—E. A. Aylward, D. E.
Brackett, Arthur D. Lathrop, Dwight
Smith, Fred Williams.

Louisville—Fred Albright.

Dayton (Ky)—Henry B. Ansdemoore.

Chicago—E. S. Braymer, S. T. Bowen,
Mark H. Jackson, D. Kirkling, A. Lina-
weaver, Jas. L. Patterson, Fred Worth.
8. C. Wilson, H. D. Bogart, John P.
Walter.

Grand Haven—Walter Baker, Silas,
Kilbourne, Herman Z. Nyland.

Howell—W. D. McKane.

Watertown (N. Y.)—C. Y. Pickett.

Cincinnati—Jas. A. Panting.

Port Huron—Wm. H. Proctor, J. W.
Sheldon.

Allegan—Geo. F. Peck.

St. Johns—B. D. Palmer.

Greenville—Lou H. Roenigk.

Ludington—Vasco H. Roberts.

Manistee—Frazer M. Smith.

Vassar—Geo. W. Smith.

Mt. Clemens—Geo. S. Sanford.

Bay City—J. Harry Sligar.

Aima—T. F. Trinby.

Webberville—W. E. VanHouten.

Minneapolis—J. H. Brown.

Charlotte—Van J. Tears, D. A. Cas-
terlan.

Ovid—Byron N. Murdock.

Vermontville—A. M. Sherman.

Linden—J. K. Burr.

Constantine—C. D. Remington, E. E.
Bittenbender.

Big Rapids—Wm. Batson, John Lou-
don, J. W. Morton, Ciarence H. Olds.

Rockford—John C. Clifford, Seth E.
Wells.

Edmeston (N. Y.)—A. J. Colgrove.

St. Louis—A. J. Collins, J. R. Kirs-
ton.

Carson City—E. B. Collins.

Adrian—Wm. W. Curtis.

Saginaw—J. A. Carson, H. V. Hughes,
J. D. Kingsbury, E. C. Thorn, W. W.
VanBrunt.

Lansing—A. B. Casterlin, L. A. Josse-
lyn, Robt. B. Kellogg, Chas. H. Luce,
Frank A Newton, John Q. Ransay,
Henry S. Seage, C. W. Wynkoop, A.
T. Sprague, E. L. Hamblin.

Muskegan—J. H. Cummings, C. M.
Philbaum.

Donnersgrove (lll.)—A. P. Daniels.

Toledo—D. D. Douglas, Geo. F. Worts.

Flint—E. J. Doane, G. W. Haskins,
F. A. Jones.

Ionia—Chas. B. Derthick, Frank L.
Taylor.

South Lyons—W. C. Duffus.

Cassopolis—Jas. H. Farnum.

Owosso—Frank L. Gifford.

Traverse City—Geo. Gane.

New York City—David B. Geis.

Belding—Stewart Haydon, Wm. W.
Travis.

Des Moines—H. B. Horton.

Decorah (lowa)—J. F. Hogle.

Baldwin—C. H. Jackson.

Battle Creek—C. S. Kelsey, Geo. W.
Leesk, Chas. H. Smith.

Van Wert (Ohio)—Frank W. Leslie.

Fort Atdinson (Wis.)—G. W. May.

Milwaukee—Henry D. Marks, Hugh
McDowell, E. A. Phillips, Sam Stern.

Hillsdale—E. N. Margan.

Hastings—R. B. Messer.

Marshall—John J. McHugh.

GEo. F. OwEN, Sec’y.
a
Someone has said that a good place to

settle is where you owe money.

Wm. C.

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Wm. Connor (Michael Kolb & Son) will
be at Sweet’s Hotel next Tuesday and
Wednesday with full lines of spring
goods.

The monthly social party of Post E
will be held at Elk’s Hall Saturday even-
ing, Feb.9. Dancing and a light lunch
will be the main features of the enter-
tainment. A business meeting of the
Post will be held at 7:30 o’clock sharp.

E. M. Dennis, traveling representative
for the Saginaw Hardware Co., broke
his right leg in two places below the
knee while scuffling with a friend Jan.
28. The patient is doing as well as
could be expected under the circum-
stances.

W. D. Simmons, for the past five years
Michigan salesman for the Vacuum Oil
Co., has engaged to represent the Vos-
cosity Oil Co., of Chicago, in the same
territory. The statement that he had
engaged with the Toledo Rubber Co. was
erroneous.

The boys are having no end of fun
with Guy P. Smith (Ball-Barnhart-Put-
man Co.) and Wm. A. McWilliams (1. M.
Clark Grocery Co.) over an episode
which happened at Moline one day last
week. It appears that the traveling
men above named were driving from
North Dorr to Moline, without comply-
ing with the State law requiring bells on
all conveyances which utilize the sleigh-
ing. When near their destination they
ran into a farmer, who was so wrathy
over the interruption that he followed
the travelers into Moline and swore out
a warrant before the justice of the
peace. A local constable made the ar-
rest and the justice promptly imposed a
fine of $2, but Smith talked so earnestly
and urgently, promising complete refor-
mation, that the minion of the law let
the offenders off on the payment of 50
cents and costs.

—_—___—>_- 2 << __—

Mr. Hubert Daane, of Daane & Wit-
ters, of this city, recently returned from
a month’s visit in Florida. While he
was away from business Mr. Witters had
a very satisfactory experience in the use
of J. C. Shaw’s patent file book in the
keeping of their customers’ accounts.
The firm find that system to be a great
economy of time and money and in the
above case enabled Mr. Daane to take a
trip South on business and pleasure.

#% OYSTERS

Note New Prices.
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can... ........ 14

 

 

  

Daisy Brand, Standards, per can 16
Daisy Brand, selects, per can ... 24
Solid. Brand, Standards, per can. 18
Solid Brand, a... percem.......... ——. =
Bolsa Brand, Selects, per Can............0... 24
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, percan.........8 26
ee 90
Extra Steneerds. per onl.................... 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 65
ee ee 50
se oem... ia 45
oe ee 40

i quart Manon Jars, per dos............... 1 40

2 pints Mason Jars per Goz....... ....... %
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the

Destmege. Price per case ............... 2 40
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
oe 6
Post i Oe 6%
ee eee eee. 6%
Sib. Cen, per dee. ............ oe eee. 1 40
Si con per oe. ae 3 50
Pint Mason Jars. per dos....-........ ...... 1 @
(uert Meson dara, per dos .............. _. 2 25
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon.............. 10
Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon.......... a
New Pickles, medium, barreis............... 5 00
mow Ficnies, barre. 2%
New Seneriszant, barreis................... £0
New Sauer Kraut, oo eer 2 50
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 140
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per dos.... 2 %
Mapie Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00
Peach Marmalade, oe |. 1 00

EDWIN FALLAS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Western
Beet

and
Provision
Co.

These prices are right at the time of going to
press and are subject to market changes. We
enter orders at markel prices at the time re-
ceived.

Sausaze.
—.,.hlr:twt:«*«C;C;C;«C«dé«CC 64@ 7%
Vermont Sausage in bags.... ......... 9
I i eee ee 4% @5

Smoked Meats.
a ~eoe Oe ©
Picnic Hams beca veces. GUE /
Breakfast Boneless “Bacon a ee een 8n@ re

vried Beef, Ham Sets.

Fresh Meats.

Beef Sides, cows and heifers. .........5 @6
Beet Siaes, Ne, | Sveers ...... ......... 65%@ 7
Loins of Beef ... oe 8 @10
OE 7 @9
Pectiges |. ....-......-........,.. TH

Beef in Barrels.
Boneless Rump Butts......... cee © oo

Barrel Pork.

Mess Pork.. . $11 30@12 00
Boneless Pig, bean pore. ed ee 12 00
Extra Heavy clear back............. 13 50
Standard Short Cut, ciear back.... .. 13 2
Medium, clear Haek..................._- . 13 00
Lard in Tiereces.

Kettle Rendered.. ee Iiicctad 8%
remily....... LL 5%
J ee 5%

lease... ae 5%

 

Ask for prices on any provisions
or fresh meats. Special attention to
mail and telegraph orders.

Telephone 1254.

71 Ganal St., Grand Rapids.

M. R. ALDEN. E. E. ALDEN.
M. R. ALDEN & CO.,

Wholesale - Produce,

Strictly = Eggs and Choice oes and
Dairy ater a Specialty
76 So. Division St., Grand east.
We buy on track at point of shipment or receive
on consignment. ’Phone 1300.

 

 

PROVISIONS.
Tbe Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Cao
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,

Mess, a nS 107 5
Short cut . ee ee 11 00
£xtra clear pig, short cut. . etee eee: 14 00
OE
Clear, fat back.. bees ee, 12 50
Boston clear, short cut.. oe eee, 13 00
Clear back, ere o7
Standard clear, short cut, best........ : 13 00
SAUSAGE.
Perk Gare........ 2 6%
Bologna. oe.

Liver....

  

eee 6%
start ae . 634
ro iS 4c advance,
O lb. pails, +c

50 lb. “ce
3 — * we ’
om. * te -

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 ibs............. . 7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 6 75
Poets, ee eee... 9 x5

SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or on
Hams, average = osu eee eee . :

  
 
  

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12 to 14 lbs

- Omee
. est boneless........ rade cike ewes
Pe 6%
Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 3g
Dried beef, ham prices....... <reae ee ac.
DRY SALT MEATS.
ona om. , heavy... bee oe ea 6%
Briskets, medium. .... otter
PICKLED Pies’ _PEET.
Pe 3 25
te cepa ati dhe a ee es 1%
Tee 90
TRIPE.
Re Peereees..... 75

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