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Don’t Wait for the Thaw

but get your light rubbers in now.
We have just received 4,700 Cases Rubber Boots, Sandals,

Storm Slippers, Hurons, Croquets, Ete ,
manufactured by
Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

since Jan. 1, 1895. Remember New Rubbers are worth
50 per cent. more than old ones. Our stock is always fresh be-
cause we sell so many of them and turn it often.

A. C. McGraw & Co.,

Rubber Department,
Detroit

GRAND RAPIDS, FEBRUARY 20, 1895.

 

Duck ae Kersey
Coats Pants

We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of
any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We
are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and
solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of
our manufacture are not regularly handled.

Lansing Pants & Overall Co.,

LANSING, MICH.

 

 

 

ABSOLUTE TEA.

The Acknowledged Leader.

SOLD ONLY BY

ISLPer See CC.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

OYSTERS.

Anchor Brand

Are the best. All orders will receive prompt attention at low:

F. wy DE 1 TENT TA LER,

market price.

 

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thils at sal

is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pur-
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“*s under a. nditions. Our Jct Pumps, Wat es and “Ul yualied
pM P-NBERTHY INJECTOR CO.  vetrRoiT,

BRANCH FacTORY aT WINDSOR, ONT. MICH.

Seno FoR
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, 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
your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of ‘‘¢he salt that’s all salt.” Can be
obtair _ from jobbers and dealers. For prices, see price current on other page.
For other information, address

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO.,

 
       

ST. CLAIR, MICH.

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THE STANDARD BARREL TRUCK NO. 1,

  
  
      
     
   
   
 
 

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ae barrel of liquid of a few hundred
LK a =, pounds npon a truck or skid re-

quired the combined effort of two
or three men, while with the
Standard Truck a boy of or-
dinary strength will loada pack-
age weighing one-fourth of aton
easily—a slight tip of the truck
will elevate the barrel so thata
faucet may be put in without the
loss of a drop of the contents, after
ans of the

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required

Trucks.

LANSING
WHEELBARROW
CO.,

Lansing, Mich.

 

  

 

RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO.,

12, 14, 16 Pearl St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

BOOTS,
SHOES,
and
RUBBERS.

Our aim is to please our customers. We
Come and
see. WE MAKE and handle the best lines in the
market—everything up to date.

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

We carry as large a stock as any jobber. Or-
ders filled promptly and always at best terms and

know what they want and have got it.

    

discounts.

LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY

Importers and

Wholesale Grocers

Grand Rapids.

 

 

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Are now in season. We manufacture 4 All Kinds.

MAR OALTINE WAFER Ot SQUARE OYSTER

A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed in 1 lb. cartoons

 

with neat and attractive label. Is one of the most popular

packages we have ever put out.

*

INGLION FRUMT CAKES. ——-

1 lb. $2.40 per doz.

Try Our

Handsome embossed packages,
packed 2 doz. in case } . $4.80 per doz.
These yoods are positively the finest produced and we

guarantee entire satisfaction.

New York Biscuit Co.,

S. A. SEARS, Manager,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

PERKINS & HESs,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow.

Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

This stinging cold weather reminds us of Buckwheat Cakes when we
get up in the morning. Absolutely pure and unadulterated Buckwheat
Flour made from sound and well-cleaned grain is an essential and we
make it and put in up in barrels, 24 and 10 Ib. sacks. Quality guaranteed
the best. Prices right. Write ‘us.

The Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co.
Holland, Mich.

 

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Grand Rapids Soap Works.

 

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DEALERS IN

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Office, Michigan Trust Bldg. Works, Butterworth Ave.

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MICHIGAN

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Organized 1881,
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Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections
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constantly revising and adding to them. Also
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Telephone 166 and 1030 for particulars.
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law to send his
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN

 

OLD-TIME METHODS.

 

Merchandising as It Was in Our Grand-

fathers’ Days.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the early part of the present cen-
tury, one of my great uncles had a store
in a small Massachusetts town, over the
front door of which was a sign which
bore the inscription, ‘‘English & W. I.
Goods.’’

England was the market from which
all the world bought manufactured prod-
ucts, while from the West Indies came
rum, molasses, tobacco, spices, sugar,
dried and preserved fruits and other edi-
ble matters, so that it came to pass that
“‘W. I. Goods’? became a synonym for
anything in the grocery line, and my
uncle’s sign, meaningless to the present
generation, was, therefore, equivalent to
saying: ‘‘Here is kept a complete stock
of general merchandise.”

Things have changed greatly since
those old days, and there is a marked
difference in the business methods of
then and now. The country merchant of
fifty or sixty years ago was not called
upon by traveling men. The drummer,
as we know him, did not exist; but his
prototype, the peddler, was ‘‘thar.”
Wholesale peddlers traveled about in
wagons and were prepared to deliver
goods on the spot. Jim Fisk got his
start in this manner, and his sales were
so extraordinary as to attract the atten-
tion of the firm from which he bought
much of his goods, and led, I believe, to
his becoming one of the concern. One of
kis wagons, a ponderous affair resplen-
dent with red and gold, is still in exis-
tence, carefully preserved by an old
friend and admirer of the great financier.

In those days of high postage the mails
were not burdened with catalogues, cir-
culars and price lists, special or other-
wise, on all lines of goods; neither did
our grandfathers receive numberless per-
sonal letters announcing ‘‘jobs,” ‘‘snaps,”
‘‘bargains,” ‘‘leaders,’’ **specials,’’
“drives,” and ‘‘fire,” ‘‘water,’’ ‘‘auction”
and ‘‘closing out” sales. Nobody thought
of soliciting business in this way.
Things did not go with the hustle and
clatter to which the present generation
is so accustomed; a man could wait.

Country merchants went to the cities
to buy their goods, and, on these momen-
tous expeditions, were invariably dressed
in garments of solemn black. The reg-
ulation costume consisted ef a swailow-
tailed coat, with very tight sleeves, a
satin vest, trousers strapped under the
instep, an exceedingly high stock buckled
around the neck, and a ‘‘stovepipe” hat.
Arrayed ia this garb, they made their
purchases, and then returned to await
the arrival of their goods.

In no particular, perhaps, is there a
greater change than in the present
method of packaging goods. ‘‘Gimme a
package of sody,” is such a common de-
mand nowadays that it seldom occurs to
the salesman that salaratus was formerly
obtainable only in kegs or barrels, to be
weighed out in quantities to suit the cus-
tomer; and baking powder, now one of

ESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1895.

 

the grocer’s staples, is a comparatively
recent invention. Some of our older
cooks even now prefer to buy their cream
of tartar and soda separately, and mix
them as their profession demands.

Look at your well-stocked candy case
—a source of considerable profit, or it
should be—and count up the varieties of
Sweet goods it contains. Then give a
guess how many kinds of candy are made
to-day. I have by me the list of a large
jobbing house, and by actual count 1
found no less than 408 distinct varieties
quoted. My grandfather’s stock of con-
fectionery consisted of sugar sticks,
sugar hearts, sugar plums, ‘‘kisses,’’ pep-
permints, ‘‘Gibdraltars” (made of molasses
and coated with red), and horehound
eandy. This latter was in twisted sticks
about 1}¢ inches wide, very black and
very strong in flavor. It was packed in
hinged wooden boxes, about the size of
those now used for yeast, and was one of
the first instances of handy packages for
goods. It was made by Proctor & Rhodes,
of Lynn, Mass., which firm also manu-
factured tincture of rhubarb and essence
of peppermint, also writing ink, all of
which were sold and delivered from their
own wagons.

The staples in the line of sugars were
brown Havana (about 400 pounds in a
box which was strapped together with
strips of rawhide), the West India damp,
and New Orleans sugars in barrels and
hogsheads, and an occasional barrel of
refined soft. The only white sugar was
‘‘loaf,” which came in cones of about ten
pounas, and was cut or broken to suit
the wants of the customers. These cones
were wrapped in heavy purple paper,
which was much prized by housewives
for dyeing cloth.

Early in the ’50s sugar refining began
to get something of a start, and it was at
about that time that the soft sugars were
classified as Coffee A, B and C, and coun-
try merchants began handling granulaied.

The brands of molasses were West
India in hogsheads and New Orleans in
barrels.

American cheese were not packed in
boxes, but, being made by farmers, were
put up in accordance with the ideas of
the individual manufacturer; and crack-
ers, the inseparable adjunct of the afore-
mentioned product of lactation, were
made in small country bakeries and ped-
dled about in wagons. If my father’s
memory serves him as it should, the
goods from the little oven on Abel
Smith’s farm were very fine.

Two kinds of raisins were known to
the trade—box and cask. Box raisins
came from Malaga. Thecheaper variety
was pressed hard in casks like half bar-
rels.

The housewife of those days could not,
at the last moment, send to the grocery
for a package of dry kop or compressed
yeast. Nosuch thing was known. Her
only resort was to call on an obliging
neighbor for a cupful of ‘‘emptin’s.’’

That fragrant and nutritious product
of the sea known as codfish was dis-
played for sale as the good Lord made

 

NO. 596

him, with no embellishment save that im-
parted by a plentiful allowance of salt.

Shredded and packaged cod is a later
day idea; whether or not, in this form,
he may be viewed in the light of an im-
provement, I leave for someone more his
friend than [ to say.

Matches must have been matches in
those days. Left in cards of thirteen,
they were done up thirteen cards in a
package. Rather an inconvenient way,
one would think, and conducive to the
idea that thirteen is truly an unlueky
number.

In a drawer in my grandfather’s store,
there was, at no very remote date, half a
peck of gunflints, an illustration of the
folly of overbuying.

The best cigars used to cost three cents
apiece, and it was said that years before
much better ones could be bought for the

money. The qualities chiefly sold were
known as “long nines” and ‘‘short
sixes.”

Fine cut chewing tobacco was un-
known, but that our grandfathers
‘‘chawed”’ is evidenced by the following
pet styles: plug or fig, twist, pigtail and
cavendish.

Much snuff was used.
varieties were Rappee, Maccoboy and
Scotch. The snutf department of acoun-
try store must have been a source of
much annoyance to the merchant, for the
old women who used the vile stuff always
expected to have their boxes, regardless
of size, filled for one cent, and thought
him a mean duffer who charged more.

There were no Japan teas, until Com-
modore Porter opened the Japanese ports
in the early 50s. Up to that time
Chinese teas were the only ones known,
and Gunpowder, Hyson and Young Hy-
son, for the green teas, and Ooleng, Sou-
chong and Bohea for the blacks, were the
chief, if not the only grades.

Whatever may be said against modern
methods of putting up goods in small
packages, no one will deny that it saves
time and labor for the retailer and im-
proves the appearance of his stock. But
as business has been of late, country
dealers, at least, have had, in the matter
of doing up goods, abundant leisure to
revert to the methods in use in our grand-
fathers’ days. Gro. L. THURSTON.

The prineipal

“ i
Lower Prices for Bicycles.

Dealers generally have the idea firmly
rooted into them that bicycles will soon
be one-third to one-half cheaper before
next fall, and argue that as the American
market is already largely overstocked
and that large factories continue to
spring up, there must soon come a de-
cline in the high prices which have ruled
so long. <A lower price will bring these
health giving exercising machines within
the reach of the masses generally, who
will not be slow to take advantage of the
opportunity so presented. A_ bicycle
used in moderation every day will be
found a better tonic than any bottle of
medicine emanating from the drug store
—its use is a positive cure for dyspepsia
and indigestion.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

THE BACK OFFICE,
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

It may have been born in me, and it
may be due to early training, but I have
insisted all my life that there is nothing
in this world too fine to use—too fine for
me to use if I can only get pessession of
the fine thing. A parlor is a place to
collect these fine things in, if they belong
to that class, and then, whew the room is
ready for the caller or the visitor, | want
to be that favored individual and, with
the choicest book in the library, | want
to take that luxuriously-upholstered easy
chair and make good, everyday use of
the good things of this world. That is
what they are for, and whether it be the
shut-up parlor, or the costly garment, or
the fine picture, or the beautiful statuary,
they are not accomplishing their mission
in the world, unless they are put where
they come in contact with the masses.
That was the idea 1 had when | brought
into the Back Office the copy in plaster
of the Venus of Milo which stands over
there in the corner, and got laughed at and
jeered at for my pains. ‘There isn’t any
room too beautiful for a copy of the
Sistine Madonna, but that isn’t any rea-
son why I shouldn’t have a photograph
of that marvelous work of art hang over
my desk, and I hung it there. One would
have thought the world was coming to
an end about 3 o'clock to-morrow after-
noen, to judge by the sarcastie remarks
which were made about turning an office
into an art gallery; but the picture is
there and the statuary is in the corner
where 1 put it; and what I have
seen since picture and statue have been
in place permits me to say what I
thoroughly believe, that if these fine
things are to do any good in the world,
they must come down trom their high
places, and, mingling among wen, exert
there their influence; and until they do
that there is little hope of a rapid growth
of a love of the beautiful among those
who need it most. Lock up in the fine
parlor the picture, the Venus, the grand
piano, and the divine poem, and tell me
how they are to make the world better
by being init. Yes, I know that that is
the way to keep them nice and new and
dustless; but I know, too, that the office
boy who whistles that everlasting ‘‘boom-
de-a,’’ if the piano could get at him,
would have been in love long ago with
something in the reaim of sound that is
well worth the whistling, and so with
the other fine things that are shut from
the light of day and the eyes of men.
Tow out there shoveling coal and Bridg-
et, the china-breaker, are the really
needy, and the problem for art to solve
to-day is, not how can I Feep bright and
beautiful and shut up, but how can I jay
my hand upon the heads of those who
are suffering in their need of me, and
bless them with my touch? How ean Il
get down?

“Shall I intrude too much if 1 come
in?”

Had it not been for the deep voice,
musical as it was earnest, my ‘‘No, con-
found you!” could not have been re-
strained, but that disarmed me, and |
turned to greet my hardly welcome vis-
itor with whit grace I could, for my
paper had been put off too long already.

“T shall be glad to have you come in,”
I said and then | meantit. ‘‘l am alone,
you see, and | am sure you will find the
chair and the fire more comfortable than
the fearful cold outside.’’

“T am obliged tu yuu,’’ he said, as he

SE a EE OEE

placed his hat upon the desk and, throw-
ing open his coat, took the chair I had
placed for him. ‘It was that that brought
me in and a glimpse of your Venus de
Milo, something not often seen in a back
office. Nota bad copy in plaster. Did
you get that on this side?”

‘I didn’t, but L am almost sorry I
didn’t. Aside from the reminder of a
pleasant summer, it has little merit, and
1 could have saved myself some annoy-
ance by getting one like it in New York.
There is little need now for going abroad
for the sake of bringing back what you
can get at home; and 1 bave an idea that
the best thing that can be done witb
these fine originals is to start them on a
journey around the world. I know of no
better way of leavening the whole human
lump.’’

“Some summers ago, after a stay of
some weeks at Geneva, | took that famous
drive from Lake Leman to Chamouni.
Fortune favored me and I had a seat by
the driver. As we rode along through
some of the finest scenery I have ever
seen, the thought came to me that a
man, however humble in life, must be
under the best of influences who travels
daily that Alpine road and I tested the
man at my side. He could talk of noth-
ing but his horses. The grandeur of the
Alps brought only the expressive shrug.
I had the same experience while stand-
ing in the mighty presence of Niagara
There, too, my driver had lived long in
sound of that tremendous voice, and,
while I stood in awe before it, too over-
powered to speak, he, with vexation in
his voice, remarked that that was a little
the dumbedest mist to git intew that he
ever went anywhere! It may be that
your position is the right one but 1 am
suiry | caunot agree with you. The fact
is, the best in nature and the finest things
.f art, if common, fail to have that in-
fluence they should have; and these
things, instead of coming down, should
insist on staying where they are, and
should lift the masses to their level.”’

**Here’s a case in hand: Jim Jones, the
cobbler, right around the corner, has a
boy 9 or 10 years old. Jim wants the
boy to have a better chance than he ever
had, and he’s all the time getting beauti-
ful things to take home. Sometimes it’s
a picture, sometimes it’s something else;
but it has always something attractive
aboutit. How’s the boy to be benefited,
if beauty is to stand forever on her ped-
estal?’’

* Just the same as he is to be benefited
by going tochurech. Jim doesn’t expect
the child will look upon the face of the
Lord by going to church. He does ex-
pect that the clergyman will bring the
child nearer to the Divine Presenee ana
that the Great Unseen, through the pul-
pit teaching, will be made manifest some-
how to his child. Now, as in the olden
time, the child must be suffered to come
to Him and not forbidden to come.

“The same fact appears everywhere.
| know of nothing clumsier than the
farming implement of seventy-five years
ago, unless it was the rough and un-
gainly furniture that was found in every
farmhouse. As time went by, it was
learned that the useful need not be ugly

 

and from that moment a change for the

_ better began. Axes and hoes and scythes

grew lighver.

‘well as light and strong. The kitchen |

Form received attention;

UOAN DLS, FRUITS and Nis
The Putnam Candy Co. quctes as follows:

STICK CANDY.

 

 

Cases Bbls. Pail.
Standerd, per Ib......... 5 ‘
. es 6 7
. ee ......-..- 6 7
Boston Cream....... .... 84
Cae Goet........ ee 8
Sera ........ i" 34 QO
MIXED CANDY.
Bbls Pails
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Conmeerves .... .. oe 1%
Seoneon Feary. ............. baskets 7
PeanntSquares............ a 8
French Creams.......... — 9
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Midget, 30 lb. baskets......
Modern. 201b. ‘“

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m Ceo Dees... 75

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Wintergreen Herries.... .. .. te

CARAMELS.

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes ...... a

No. 1, c 3 _ |... a 2

No. 2, . 2 a ee a... 2

ORANGES
California Navels, 11. cs 310
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LEMONS.

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BANANA ~.

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OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS,

Pies, fancy lingers 16% ..........._.. i2
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‘* bags oe : e-ee bho
pees Fore ee wa. 7
a “i 50-ib “i 6

5

‘Persian. G.M.50-lb box.
- 1 Ib Royals, new

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and now the hayfork and the number-!

less farming tools must be comely as

followed the same law. The walls are

DTREL 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
u-e 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
used that their
cooking by its use is made a positive

and ranges they have

pleasure.
The Sieel Range Majestic is backed by

the strougest ait most swee ing guar-

antee ever made upon any commercial
article,

STEEL
RANGE

hou-ewives pronounce it the greatest

100 Ou cooking range. 1395 fire linings guar
anteed for five yexrs against burning; other
parts for twenty tive yeors sgainst breaking.
Descriptive couk book 2 cents,

M JE:TIC MFG C), St. Louis, Mo.

COMMENTS OF THE TRADE.

Five Testimonials Selected From More
Than a Hundred

Tie Majestic Stee! Rangeis the finest article
of merchandise to se | that Ihave handled in 30
ye rs that i have been in the hardware business
Or a'itne rang » we haves Id there is p sitive-
Iv not ne but what is giving perrect satisfae
ton Onr dealings with the M jestie Manufae
OmMpahy, Wol hb have been m re exten-
sive then - e@ bad expected by a large degree,
hove been che coost joeas ntand satisfactory in

talus

every way that wecould esire They are hon-
on 1¢ business wen inevery respect ond it is
booonly profittble tuca pleasure to do business

with tuem tKANK H GRAVEs,
Manager Stove Department, Foster, Stevens &
Co.. rand Rapids, Mich.

Kefore accepting the Majestic agency we in-
vestigated the merits of this range th roughly.
We expected great things of it from what we
heard from others, bs [must say in justice to
the Majestic that eve y expectation has been
more th nrealized ‘ere -re other good steel
ranges. but we believe that the Majestic is with
outx fault, as far as the ability of man can
make it, and compared to other steel] ranges it is
perfetiou initself. The method employed py
the Majestic Manufacturing Co. in introducing
this range to the pubiic is the most original and
effective I have ever seen in business, Our ex
perience with the Company has been very pleas-
antindeed and it has beena positive pleasure,
as well as a benefit, to do business with so large
and well conducted a firm.

WILLIAM SEYFFARDT, Sec’y,

Saginaw Hardware Co., Saginaw, W.$., Mich.

Our recent experience in selling the wonder-
ful Majestic >teel Range has been most pleas
ant and pr fitable to us. Mechanically and
scientifically the range is the cooki:g apparatus
par excellence. There can be no economy in
the household without a Majectic Steel Range
upon which to do cooking aud water heating.

EBERB\CH HARDWARE CO,
Ano Arbor, Mich.

The experience of a lifetime in the general
hardwa’e business has yet to show me a Cooking
rau-e that cau be compared with the Steel
Range Majestic. We sold alarge number dur-
ing the exhibit, aud since then our patrons
unite in praise of it. H. S. ME -sINGER,

Pontiac. Mich,

It is simply absurd to comn-re any other cook
ing - tove or Gouk ng range that we have sold in
our experien ein the Cook stove business with
the Majestic in economy of fuel and facility
and despajch in properly preparing food for
the table. DUNNING BROs,

Menominee, Mich,

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

For further particulars address

 

NUTS.

Almonds, Tarrepems.................... 14
i7eon........ «ceo - ld HOI4S
Californis,soft shelied .... G12

oreo |... @i

Poecrs ... _.. a eee ee @i1

Walnuts, (irennbie, old 10

C Prcute ..__.. @2

" a ee @13

Hi Sort Smciied Calif... ...... @il4
Teo tee, ey... ae G@10%

e eee : @9

Pecans, Tomes, f F., ...... 637%

oe

Hickory Nuteper bu., Mich _.... ___.. 155

Coensnnts, full eacgs . 4 00

Bauer oer on CC 60

Bieck Walnuts, perbu......... _... 60

PRANOUTS.
Fancy, 4. P., Suns be eee ee tae pe @ 5%
a a hl 6L 6%
Panos. © fee @ 5%
ag ' eee 62 6%
Cuotee, SF. fxs. @ 1%

. sg | Seated... Gas
FRESH MEATS,

BEEP.

Ss... ee 5%4@ 7

Fore quarters ....... os 4 @5

Hind quarters .... .. b%4@ 8

soe... oo. 8 glo

Ee , tessrewe, © ee

— LLC a oe ae

Chucks ... 34HG@ 4%

rule ...... na 3 @3%

PORK.
Dressed a 5 @5%
Loins : ete ee . 6
CO eee ee Ge b%
tortor. CL Lo, 8
| MUTTON.
es 5%@ 615
Se ee
VEAL,
a... hl -.- 5 Or

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

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_THE MICHIGAN TRADE oo

 

 

papered because warmth and beauty
have combined to make the farm-kitchen
attractive. The fireplace has long ago
given place to the stove and none of dis-
pleasing design is found in any kitchen
to-day. So the rag carpet has given
place to the ingrain; the old settee, to
the more comfortable lounge or sofa; and
a thousand comforts and conveniences
have crept in, all of them teaching les-
sons of taste and beauty. I don’t know
how art can better accomplish her mis-
sion, and yet the Sistine Madonna and
the Venus de Milo and other master-
pieces which are exerting a powerful in-
fluence over every home in the wide
world still stay in the galleries which
they have made sacred so long. Would
their influence be greater and more far-
reaching if they had journeyed from
their country, as you seem to suggest?

“I may be greatly in error, but 1 am
beginning strongly to believe that one of
the best means of lifting the masses to a
higher life-level is the common, every-
day store, be it in country or in town.
The labeled box, the ornamented pail,
the omnipresent tin can with its con-
densed goodness, are doing more for civ-
ilization than the careless observer will
be willing to admit. I know this is true
in the city for I have watched the spread
of its wholesome influence, and what I
can remember of my little experience on
the farm convinces me that there, more
than in the town, is the good art-work go-
ing on. Shut in from the outside world,
the illuminated fruit can gives glimpses
of color and form which the untrained
eyes of the farmhouse have never before
looked upon, and the roughest and the
most gorgeous of these designs and colors
prepare the way for better things to
come; and I have often seen sent out
with groceries, pictures so beautiful that,
had they not been stamped as an adver-
tisement, I would have aderned my own
home with them. The traders themselves
are beginning to look at these things with
more kindly and more intelligent eyes;
and I am ready to believe that the win-
dow dressing we are hearing so much of
now is due in a great degree to this real
art-work, which is widening its influence
every, year.

‘“‘Another means of culture which is
coming to tbe front is the trade paper;
and one of the greatest impediments to
its rapid progress is the editor himself.
There are two vocations in life which
anybody can fill—editing a paper and
teaching a school; and there are too
many instances where the work done
shows that that idea is carried out. It
doesn’t make any difference how a thingis
said. All the taker of a trade paper
wants is a list of prices and a joke or
two. What difference does it make
whether the verbs and their substantives
quarrel? The reader is never the wiser.
Grammerless himself, he can’t tell
whether the sentence be right or wrong,
and, so far as giving him anything be-
sides the prices is concerned, it would be
so much time thrown away.

‘*There never was agreater mistake. If
every reader of a trade paper were a reg-
ular ‘‘Jap,’’ that one fact should make
the editor feel that the making of that
‘‘Jap’’ into an intelligent human being is
the end and aim of his life; and that the
only way to do this is to give him, with
every impression of his paper, something
that will attract him and make him read.
If the ‘‘Jap” likes jokes, give him some
good ones. It is a starter; and in time

 

he may be induced to take something |

else. But Jap or no Jap, the trade paper
has a work to do, and if it be well done,
there will be as great a lifting of the
masses to that higher level we have been
speaking of, by this means, as by any we
have so far considered.

‘I would stay longer with you, for you
can see I have mounted my hobby and
have had a spendid ride; but, prejudice
aside, I believe you will agree with me,
when you think over what [ have been
saying, that in these matters Mohammed
must and ought to go to the mountain,
for the mountain cannot be moved. Good
day.”

I am inclined to think that the man is
right; but there are arguments on the
other side of the question. However,
we are both working for the same end,
and what do I care what means are taken
to stop that ‘‘boom-de-a’’ if it be only
stopped? RicHARD MALCOM STRONG.

Not a Work of Necessity.

‘“‘You mustn’t black your shoes this
morning, Johnny,’’ said Mr. Billus. >

‘‘Why not?”

‘‘Because it’s Sunday. You should
have attended to that matter last night.
Besides,” added Mr. Billus, hurriedly
feeling in his upper left-hand vest
pocket, ‘‘I want you torun over to the
drug store and get me some cigars.”’

— >> Hane
“Magnanimity” and Business.
From the Montreal Witness.

Ever sinee the American war the be-
havior of England toward the United
States has been as magnanimous as that
of a mastiff to a snapping terrier. In
this determinedly friendly attitude Eng-
land has not been entirely disinterested.
She knows the value of her best cus-
tomer.

 

a
Try the new cigar, Signal Five, 5c.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.

The Bradstreet Company, Props.

Executive 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, England.

 

 

firand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

HENRY ROYCE, Sapt.

H, M. Reynolds & Son,

Jobbers of
STRAW BOARD,

BUILDING PAPERS,
BUCKSKIN and MANILLA
WRAPPING PAPER,
ROOFING MATERIALS,
COAL TAR and ASPHALT;
also

Practical Roofers,

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,
Grand Rapids, - - - Mich.

Chas. Pettersch,

JOBBER OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

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

GRA ND RAPIDS

A.B. KNOWLSON,

Wholesale Shipper

Cement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Ets,

CARLOTS AND LESS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

 

 

Fancy Washing ton

Navels.

The only seedless orange having thin skin and with
acrisp, tender pulp fairly bursting with juice. We have them

in all sizes.

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO.,

 

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

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

Your inspection is kindly solicited
when in the city.

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

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

Headquarters for Wales-Goodyear
Rubbers.

 

Signal Five

Established 1865.
AN ie SA IA ef

BEST HAVANA FILLER 5c CIGAR.

MANUFACTURED BY
ED. W. RUHE, 47 Dearborn St., Chicago.

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

<J Ses

BAC ae

Riper NES

RCL iN we an i ae

 

Mail and Gaccea< orders receive meccial attention.

BROWN, HALL & CO.,
Buggies, Sleighs and Wagons.

Grand Rapids, Mich,

Manufacturers of
NM eg sa A A

 

Body, 9:

e ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail gate

FULLY WARRANTED,

GUI DROPS

The Grocers’ Safety--llade in Two Sizes Only.

Body, 7 ft. long, 351n wide, drop tail gate

#40 CO
48 00

are all right for cheap mixtures, but its the better class of

goods that pay the largest per cent. of profit. Our French and
hand-made Creams, Fine Chocolates, Lozenges and

Imperials cannot be surpassed tor purity and beauty of finish.

 

The Putnam Candy Co.
TRY YRAVESNAN'S WANTS COLUMN.

 

  

AROUND THE STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Mason—Will C. Walter succeeds
Walton in the grocery business.
Leslie—Geo. S. Mit
the grocery stock of G. W. Marks.
Remus—Bessex & Quyle succeed Bes-

Fred

sex & Servis in the meat business.
Saginaw—Geo. Walz

& Keller in the hardware business.
Pontiac—E. L. Kaiser succeeds M. D.

Harshaw & Co. in the drug business.

succeeds

ehell has purchased |
| purchased
i will

Walz!

| terest in the drug stock of C. N.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Allegan—lIt is reported that the man- |

Muskegon—Martin Dowd has been ad-
mitted to partnership in the Muskegon
Boiler Works, the other partners being
C. D. Stevens and Edward Behrens. The
style remains unchanged.

Manistee—The broom factory formerly
conducted by Seymour Bros. has been
by local business men, who
continue operations under the style
of the Manistee Broom Co.

| & Co. to Dr. E. M. Snyder, who will con-

Ithaca—James Danie! has purchased |

the meat business of Geo. W. Winget.
Baroda—Jas. T. Hollis & Co. succeed
Hess & Fisher in the drug business.

j

Marshal!l—Mills & McWethy succeed |
Edwin R. Mills in the harness business. |
Howell—Fishbeck & Cook have pur- |

chased the stock of Jones &
Son.

Morenci—Rorick &
Saulsbury & Cook in
ness.

Holiy—A. W. Prescott is succeeded by
R. Cook, Agt., in the grocery and bakery
business.

Constantine—R,. F.
chased the general stock of
Barry, Jr.

Port Huron—Jas.
his general stock
this place.

Lansing—A. L. Harlow & Co. have
purchased the general stock of Peabody
& Peabody.

Menominee—A. B
Bloch & Son in the
pet business.

Ann Arbor—John
Koch & Henne in the
carpet business.

Detroit—J. Sparling & Co.
W. & J. Sparling in the dry goods and
notion business.

Allen—Joiner & Eaton,
have dissolved, B. J.

grocery

Cook succeed
the meat busi-

Chas. H.

McNeil has removed
from Greenleaf to

loch succeeds A.

dry goods and car-
Koch succeeds
furniture and

succeed

genera! deal-
ers, Jviner con-
tinuing the business.

Yale—Lothian & Beard, general! deal-
ers, have dissolved, R. M. Lothian con-
tinuing the business.

Iron wooi— Megan
wooed manufacturers,
Chas. H. Koenig succeeding.

Bancroft—Euler & Payne,
and grain dealers, have dissolved, T. M.
Euler continuing the business.

Newberry—Max Coplan succeeds Cop-
lan & Stade in the boot and shoe and
dry goods and clothing business.

Saginaw—R. M.
by Randall & Boyd,
the planing mill and

Haslett Park—J. P.
have

& Koenig, hard-
have dissolved,

hard ware

Randali is sueceeded
incorporated, in
lumber business.
Lockwood & Co.,
The

general dealers, dissolved.

business will be continued by E. M.
Babbitt.

Kalamazoo—Sands & Hanes, merchant
tailors, have dissolved, the latter sue-
ceeding. Mr. Sands has removed to

Lafayette, Ind.

Lennon—Paul Countryman &
have purchased the store building for-
merly owned by M. O. McFarland and will
occupy it with their hardware stock.

Vickeryville—A. C. Oyler has moved
his stock of dry goods, clothing, groceries
and boots and shoes to Carson City and
will occupy the building formerly oecu-
pied by Mr. Clough.

Adrian—Harris S. DeFoe has
admitted to partnership in the old-es-
tablished dry goods house of J. V. De-
Foe. The new firm will be known a
J. V. DeFoe & Son.

Son

been

2

Watkins has pur- |

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Be SRS aE I a NS NE Pe ae re

tinue the business at the same
under the style of E. M. Snyder.

Belding—W. F. Bricker has
block and other property to E. H. Deats-

location |

sold his |

'respects and richly

agement of the Grange Store, so-called,
is likely to pass into the hands of
Martin Stegeman, brother of the present

manager, who cherishes a desire to spend |

the remainder of his days in the sunny
clime of Southern California. Albert
Stegeman is a remarkable man in many
deserved a respite

|from business cares and perplexities—
Sunfield—C. N. Snyder has sold his in- |

Snyder |

man, of Sunfield, taking in exchange the |

latter’s general stock, valued at $7,000.
Mr. Deatsman expects to take up his res-
idence here about May 1.

Hastings—R. K. Grant has sold his
| clothing stock to C. F. Chidester and E.
A. Burton, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location under the style
of Chidester & Burton. Mr. Grant will
devote his entire attention to his ele-
vator business.

White Cloud—Mrs.
has admitted her son, W. E. Barnhard,
to partnership in the business, which
will be continued under the style of the
3arnhard Mercantile Co. Mr. Barnhard
has been connected with the business
several years as clerk and manager.

Owosso—J. N. MeBride and H. P.
Dunbar have acquired the stock, patents
and machinery of the Detroit Paper
Package Co. and will remove the busi-
ness to this city and continue it under
the style of the Michigan Package Co.
A new factory is aow in process of erec- |
tion, the intention being to begin opera-
tions about March 15.

Manistee—The firm of Greig, McKen-
zie & Greig, proprietors of the Boston
(dry goods) Store, has been dissolved,
the interest of J. M. Greig, of Corning,

»S. FP. Barnhard

| being $15,

 

 

N. Y., having been purchased by T. M.
Greig and Hugh McKenzie and the firm
will hereafter be known as Greig & Mc-
Kenzie. The gentlemen who now owa
the business have been the resident part-
ners since the store was started.
Constantine—C. H. Barry has sold his
stock of general mercnandise to R. F. |
Watkins & Co., of Union City, who will |
continue the business. Mr. Barry will |
remove to Buffalo City, Ark., where he |
|
!
|

has large milling and lumbering inter- |
ests. This stock has been in the Barry
family for a great many years, Governor
Barry formerly doing business in the
same building.

Sullivan—The report that Hiram Mun- |
ger had purchased the general stock for-
merly owned by the Sullivan Lumber Co.
is erroneous. ‘The stock, store building
and warehouse have been purchased by
Miles D. Bunker, who has managed the
business several years for the Sullivan
Lumber Co. and won something more
than a local reputation by reason of his
energy and shrewdness.

Owosso—Geo. E. Mason brought a
stock of goods, bought from Snedicor &
Hathaway, of Detroit, from Au Sable to
Owosso last fall and put them in the
store managed by J. B. MeIntosh. Later
he was given charge of the store, and
soon after the Detroit firm failed and
turned over to the assignee the Owosso
stock as part of the assets. Mason re-
fuses now to give up the keys, claiming

a $2,000 interest in the goods here. The
stock was sold to Truix & McGregor, of

{Dun as

 

Ypsilanti, by the assignee.

nor would his retirement from active

business be a source of profound regret
on the part of Allegan merchants gen-
erally.

Manistee—In the Manistee Circuit
Court, last week, judgment was rendered
against John and Richard Seymour for
310,000 on a promissory note held by
Mrs. Fred Seymour, which had been
given in part payment for the third in-
terest in the business of Seymour Bros.,
held by Fred Seymour before his death.
Executions were immediately issued and
placed in the hands of the sheriff. who
levied upon all of the real estate held by
the firm in this city, with the exception
of their residence property, also upon
the stock of clothing in the Hub Clothing
Store, which is owned by the firm, and
has now been advertised at sheriff’s sale.
ee ee
Big Capitalization on Paper, but en

in Reality.

CALEDONIA, Feb. 19—Our village was
surprised yesterday morniug by the ar-
rival of six oily-tongued agents, with as
many more large sample trunks, all
claiming to represent the Chicago Sup-
ply Co., of Chicago, located at the corner
of Madison and Market streets, having
an alleged capital of $100,000. The en-
tire gang are canvassing the farmers,
and showing samples of goods—cluth
ing, dry goods, shoes and yroceries—
and soliciting orders and members to
their Association, the membership fee
or free to each purchaser of
worth of goods, payabie either in
cash or by six months’ note, without in-
terest. The would-be purehaser is as-
Sured that on every $200 worth of goods
purchased he will save $75 over the
greedy prices asked by the local dealer
for the same goods, and they promise the
producing purchaser 25 cents per pound

 

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for butter and 25 cents per dozen for
eggs the year round.

Please let me hear by early mail
what you know of their standing and

responsibility, as well as their dealings
in other places, and greatly oblige,
A. LIEBLER.

The Chicago Supply Co. is rated by
having $5,000 capital. Brad-
street accords the concern no rating,

| evidently acting on the assumption that

the owner or owners are not entitled to

such reeognition. Tuk TRADESMAN

| will act on the suggestion of its corres-

pondent and endeavor to ascertain the
record the emissaries of the concern
made in localities where they have op-

erated heretofore.
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N, LYON & CO.

20 & 22 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

Western
Beet

and
Provision
Co.

These prices are right at the time of going to
press oe are subject to market changes. We
enter orders at markel prices at the time re
ceived.

Sausace.

Pork Sausage be eee 64@ 7 as
Vermont Sausage in bags ee ee

Boelogaa. ....... (aun, oe @: 5

Smoked Meats.

No. 1 Hams 84. 9
Picnic Hams 6320 6%
Breakfast Boneless Bacon .......... 8.@ 8X

Uried Beef, Ham Sets...... on

Fresh Meats.

 

Beef Sides. cows and heifers 5 @6
Beef Sides, No, 1 Steers 6530 7
Lotesof weet. - 8 @10
tip Roxsts + @9

Pork Loins CSET MEGS ith i”
Beef in Barrels.

Boneless Rump Butts...... $9.5
Barrel Por k.
Mess Pork.. #11 0)
Boneless Pig, bean pors 11 80
Mxtra Heavy clear back. ........... 13 00
Short Cut 1 T5@l1l 25
Standard Short Cut, e lear back. ua. 27
Medium, clear back. ... i 12 00
rgy:
Lard in Tierees,

Kettle Rendered..... oe 7%
Family .. : 54
caenoee.... . ......,. 1% @5

———... ...... ...... 5%

 

Ask for prices on any pr. visions
or fresh meats. Special atten:ion to
mail and telegraph orders.

Telephone 1254.

7! Ganal St., Grand Rapids.

PROVISIONS

fhe Grand Rapids Packing snd Provisinu Co
quotes as foliows:

PORK IN BARRELS.

 

om... 10 75
ee eee : 11 v0
mxtracicar pir. short out ........._ . 14 v0

G&xtra clear, heavy
Cider, fet back.......... oe 12 23
Goston Clear, shortemt................. 12:0
Clear back, short cut : 12 50
Standard clear. short cut, best... 1

40
BAUSAGE,
oe 7
ig i ee eee el 5
ver. i... ao oT 6
Teme 8%
a. CU 6
eee Cnecee 6
eee bce ee oe 10
Preaerers...................... i i 1%
LARD.
Rete Gendered... 734
oracger...... ...... 74
Pau ........... ee See ee ee 5
era Pewee eee ee 5g
Cottolene.. 6%
ore t%
Olb. Tins, 4c advance,
Olb pails, eC
50 Ib. 3c
pie «| %C .
im ~* tie “
BEEF IN BARRELS
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs... ' ,. ca
Extra Mess, Chicago packing...... en 6 5
Boneless, rump butts.......... 9 <5
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Piatt.
Hams, average 20 tbe. 9
16 lbs. ae oo
. - 12 to 14 ‘Tos... —— 9%
picnic. 634
‘best boneless... Sy
Shoulders... ... 6%
Breakfast Bacon boneiess.... . . . ~...... $%
Dried beef, ham prices... . : oo
DRY SALT MEATS.

Long Clears, heavy............ | 6g
Briskets, medium Ke 6%
PICKLED PIGS’ FEET.

Det bares. 3 2%
ew barrels i 7%

ee ee ee ee 90
TRIPE.

Kits, honeycomb bec pee oe q

Kits, eas... 65

 

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

C. A. Lamb & Co. have opened a prod-
uce commission house at 33 Ottawa}

street. |

D. C. Watson has embarked in the |
grocery business at Luther. The
Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

J. B. Trowbridge has opened a gro-
cery store at Thompsonville. The stock
was furnished by the Worden Grocer Co.

 

THE TRADESMAN is now in its new
home in the Blodgett Building, where it
has the largest, lightest and most con-
venient printing office in the State. All
friends of the publication are invited to
call and inspect the premises at any
time.

Stanley E. Parkill, Secretary of the
State Board of Pharmacy, was in town
last week and engaged the sixth floor of
the Blodgett building—between the two
floors occupied by the Tradesman Com-
pany—for the next examination session
of the Board, which will be held here
March 5 and 6.

H. E. Hesseltine is closing out his
hardware stock at 17 and 19 Grandville
avenue for the purpose of embarking in
the picture frame and gasoline stove re-
pairing business at 201 South Division
street. He will be associated at the
latter location with Fred S. Russell, the
style of the firm being Hesseltine &
Russell.

In order to accommodate another or-
ganization, the Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion waived its right to Elk’s Hall
Monday evening and will hold its reg-
ular meeting Wednesday evening in-
stead. As several matters of impor-
tance are to come before this meeting
for discussion and action, it is hoped

that the attendance will be large.
+ - -¢

The Grocery Market.

Oysters—The market al! of last week
was in a very uncertain condition, the
culmination of high prices being reached
Monday afternoon, when Baltimore pack-
ers wired the price of Standards at $1.50
and Selects at $1.75. Local dealers had
anticipated a slight advance and placed
orders somewhat in excess of regular
needs, and in the light of later develop-
ments, it proved their wisdom. For this
reason they were able to notify their
trade that they would not raise their bill-
ing price above $1.40, unless the situa-
tion at headquarters grew still worse.
Happily for all concerned, the last figure
named has been the top noteh of prices
so far this season, and to-day they are
wiring and notifying tbe trade that they
would bill at $1.25 per gallon, feeling
that the conditions now warrant them in
thus naming a figure actually below the
Baltimore quotations. When the break-
up comes—as it must soon—prices will
tumble back to near the old figures, and
it is hoped that they have sufficient stock
on hand to carry them along.

Lemons—The fruit now in the hands
of the dealers is of most superior qual-
ity, and a very large perceniage of the
recent cargoes sold at Eastern ports have
graded as Fancy and Extra Fancy, and
sold at what would usually be considered
very low figures. The severe weather
has deterred Western dealers from buy-
ing as largely as they would have done
eould they have felt sure that the fruit
would not have become frosted in transit,

but all have a fairly good supply,
and no retailer adjacent to our market
ean procure better grades or prices else-
where. In spite of the extra and expen-
sive precautions taken by the shippers,
the outside layers in some boxes will
show a slight evidence of having been
pinched a little too close by Jack Frost,
but not enough to warrant repacking or
entail loss by wastage. With receipts in
lighter volume, and the better demand
attendant on settled weather, a gradual
increase in price may be expected.

Dates—No particular change in them
since our last issue. They continue to
move as steadily as the wants of trade re-
quire.

Figs—Sell moderately well, although a
little better feeling characterizes the bet-
ter goods. Bag stock is dull and meets
but little recognition.

Foreign Nuts—No changes in any of
the varieties worth noting. Thedemand
is limited and any dealer showing a dis-
position to buy a large bill will be al-
lowed to make very liberal conditions,
favorable to himself, by the importers.
There is nothing in the commercial hori-
zon at present to indicate that an imme-
diate change is likely to oceur, and for
that reason the market may be said to be
inactive.

Bananas—Nothing doing with them at
present, excepting in a small way, the
weather being too cold to ship, excepting
by express, and express rates are too
high to allow any profit for the dealer,
after deducting expenses and first cost.
The higheprice of oranges, apples and
kindred fruits will be apt to stimulate a
good demand for bananas jnst as soon as
it gets warm enough to justify regular
shipments. Prices are now low, as hold-
ers realize that to get orders they must
throw out inducements, and they prefer
to move the goods at a small loss, rather
than to hang on for enough to cover first
cost, thereby missing orders altogether
and losing the whole loaf. There are
very few fruit dealers who, taking one
year with another for a period of four
years in succession, can show a clean
profit as a result of their efforts in han-
dling this most treacherous and easily
damaged line of fruit, but, nevertheless,
when once engaged in it, it seems to
be almost impossible to drop it out,
there seeming to be a certain sort of fas-
cination about the holding on, even
though a large loss be assured. Pros-
pects are excellent for a large volume of
business in them the coming season, as
more concerns are interested in the car-
rying trade, and trade will start with a
bound the moment spring and warm
weather greet us.

Oranges—The receipts of Sicily fruit
been liberal at the different
ports of entry, and the prices re-
alized at the auctions have been
somewhat below the expectations of
the importers, who have hustled the
fruit toour shores ever since it was an
assured fact that the great Florida crop
had been destroyed. Calfornia growers
have not been slow to improve their
opportunity, either, and had the cold
spell not been so protracted, mure of
their products would have met that of
the Silicians half way. The enforced
delay of heavy shipments has been in-
strumental in giving the consumer a
better grade and much riper fruit, and
for that they should be thankful. It is
getting to be the rule to begin shipping

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the new crop of nearly every variety be-
fore it has sufficiently matured, which |
causes the public at large to become
suspicious of the fruit for a long time,
even after it has reached its prime, but
there is no way to prevent its being |
done, and the practice will doubtless |
continue to be indulged in, saiiddions |
as itis. The California crop is now in

fine condition to forward and heavy ship-

ments will be the rule. The Navals

this year are excellent, being fine fla-

vored, good colored and very heavy, and

containing all the requisites of a first-

class table orange. The Seedlings are

having a good sale, more on aczount of

their cheapness, than of their good
eating qualities. Prices, as quoted else-
where, can be taken as a fair average
for small lots. When larger quantities
are wanted, rock bottom quotations will!
be furnished by our local whoiesalers,

upon request.

Oil—Both of the companies competing
for the trade of this territory announce
and advance of !ge per gallon on all
grades of illuminating oils. No change
on naptha or gasoline.

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The Drug Market.

Gum opium is steady at
prices.

Morphia declined on the 7th 10c per
ounce. The change was overlooked in
last week’s report.

Quinine is firm and in active demand.

Gum camphor has advanced 5c abroad.
Domestic manufacturers have advanced
prices 10c.

Oil anise continues to decline.

Cod liver oil has advanced $27 per bar-
rel in the last two weeks and higher
prices are looked for. Stocks are very
low.

A new list and discounts is in effect on
glassware and corks, netting an advance
of about 15 per cent. on the former and
25 per cent. on the latter.

Linseed oil has advanced ic and an-
other advance is probable.

Turpentine is higher.

Change in the Sugar Card.

The Committee on Trade Interests of
the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation promulgated a new schedule
of prices on granulated sugar Feb. 19,
as follows:

5 cents per pound.

51g pounds for 25 cents.

114g pounds for 50 cents.

24 pounds for $1.

unchanged

W. L. Gregory, who is connected with
the mereantile department of Emmett
Hagadorn, at Fife Lake, wasin town over
Sunday, the guest of friends.

2

Frank T. Lawrence (Putnam Candy
Co.) is spending a couple of days in
Chicago, posting up on the fruit market.

All are trying to match Gillies’ New
Work Coffees. They are fine. J. P.
Visner, Agt.

| fashionable summer resort.

y= EXCHANGE FORSTOCK OF

goods, $1,000 stock and $1,000 store build-
ing at Henrietta. Stock comprises groceries,
wall paper, clothing, notions; also fixtures
Store is 20x70, with 10x50 addition. Three quar-
ters of an acre of land, good barn, apple trees,
well and cistern. Buildings all new and painted
in good shape. Store is one-half mile from
For particulars ad-

| dress 090, care Michigan Tradesman. 690

VY ANTED—A STUCK OF MEKCHANDISE.
¢ well located, in exchange for stock in
State bank; doing good business, paying divi-
dends. H. Hizerote, Lansing, Mich. : 707
i JR SALE—FIRST-CLASS GROCERY STOCK
4 and fixtures, nearly new. Good location.
Good reason for selling. If do not sell will take
partner. Address Lock Box 302, Kalamazoo,
Mich. 763
| er SALE—A WELL-SELECTED DRUG
stock, stationery, shoes, ete, Particulars
address Box 185, Sunfie!d, Mich. 702
\ AN1 TO BUY—SALEABLE STOCK OF
hardware and general goods about 3.000

in live town of from #,0:'0 to 8,000 inhabitants in
Western or Central Michigan. Address No. 701.
care Michigan Tradesman. 701
OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS HARDWARE
and implement bnsiness in thriving village

in good farming community. Address Brown &
Sehler, Grand Rapids, Mich 700

 

 

Yr SALE—A STOCK OF HARDWARE AND
tinner’s tools, invoicing about $2,000, Cash
saleslast year #7,000. No t:n shop within ten
miles. Will sell part or all. Reasons for selling
going into manufacturing business. Address
Brown Bros. & Co., Colton, Henry County.
Ohio. i 704
WOR SALE—150 CORDS 18 INCH DRY WooD
on cars here at Mecosta. Will be sold
cheap to close up a business. Make me an offer
J D. Leahy, Mecosta, Mich 705
GOOD HOME WITH NINE ACRES OF
choice land to exchange for stock of gro-
ies or general merchandise not to exceed
$2,50? Address W. W., Parmelee, Mich. 706
NOOD NINE ROOM HOUSE NICELY Lo.
cated in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Will ex-
ehange for stock groceries. Address Box 80,

 

 

  
 

   
  

Stanton, Mich. 696
ry\O EXCHANGE—FRUIT FARM IN OCEANA
county for general merchandise. Addresg

No, 694, care Michigan Tradesman. 694
A GOOD STORE BUILDING AND 84.000
£ stock general merchandise, to exchange
for farm worth %5,000. For particulars ad
dress No. 686. care Michigan Tradesman 686
1 ROCERY STOCK FOR SALE—INVOICING
XJ about $7,000,in a hustling town of 8.000.
Everything cash. The only grocery that made
money last year. Reasons, otherirons. Address
No. 691. care Michigan Tradesman. 691
‘JOR SALE—DRUG STOCK, CLEAN AND
fresh, new shelving, counters, show cases,
soda fountain and safe. the finest location in
good business town Will take $4,000, payable
half cash and balance on short time. Address
for particulars, No. 685, care Michigan Trades-
man. 685
~TOCK OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN'S
K furnishing goods. to trade for real estate,
Address No. 660, Care Michigan Tradesman. 660

NOOD FARM NEAR STATE CAPITOL,
3 clear title, to exchange for boots and shoes.
G. W. Watrous, Lansing, Mich. 659

I ¥OuU WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL
. estate, write me. I can satisfy you Chas,
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb building,
653
OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF
interest in ssme, on one of the principal
streets in Grand Rapids. New stock, good trade,
location Al. Address No. 624, care Michigan
Tradesman. 624

SITUATIONS WANTED,

\ TANTED—POSITION BY A GROCERY
clerk having city experience. Can come
well reeommended Address, stating salary, P.
S. Hendershott, Tecumseh, Mich. 698
MISCELLANEOUS.
NHE CITIZENS OF DORE WILL PAYA LIi-
eral bonus toany party who has a small
eapitel to invest in a flouring mi:lat Dorr. For
further information write J.C. Neuman, Dorr,
Mich. @93
HAVE THE CASH TO PAY FOR A GOOD
clean stock of hardware located in an Al
town. Address No. 682, care Michigan Trades
man 682
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, 677
Vy JANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.
Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,
81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids, 673

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

OR SALE—TABLE FACTORY. LOCATED
inalivetown of 2/00 inhabitants Plant

incluGes boiler engine, kilns, sawmilland nec
essary machinery to manufacture tables or other
lines of furniture Town has three railroads,
furnishing excellent shipping facilities. Plant
cost $17,0°0 and is well worth $10,000, but will be
sola for $5,000, owing to inexperience of owner.
Address No.' 97, care Michigan Tradesman. 697

er SALE OR TRADE—FOR,SMALL STOCK
of goods—shoe stock preferred—two tracts

of land, one of forty and the othcr ten acres,

Address Lock Box 984, Big Rapids, Mich. 699

 

 

 

 

EARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER
for sale at a great reduction from cost.
Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of
same make of machine, which we consider the
best onthe market. Tradesman Company, 100
Louis St.,Grand Rapids. 564
Vy TANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST
starting in business and every one already
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you #15 you can now get for #4. Four
teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company, Grand Rapids.

FARM FOR MERCHANDISE.

The Michigan Hardwood Land Co., of
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WITHIN SOUND OF THE SAWS.

Lumber had gone up and the big mill
on the Aspohegan was working overtime.

Through the range of square openings
under the eaves the sunlight streamed
in steadily upon the strident tumult,

the confusion of sun and shadow within |

the mill. The air was sweet with the
smell of fresh sawdust and clammy with
the ooze from great logs just ‘‘yanked’’
up the dripping slides from the river.
One had to pitch his voice with peculiar
care to make it audible amid the chaotic
din of the saws.

In the middle of the mill worked the
“gang,’’ a series of upright saws that
rose and fell swiftly, cleaving their way
with a pusating, vicious clamor through
an endless and sullen procession of logs.
Here and there, each with a massive
table to itself, hummed the circulars,
large and small; and whenever a deal or

a pile of slabs was brought in contact |

with one of the spinning disks, upon the

first arching spurt of sawdust spray be-|

gan ashrieking note which would run
the whole vibrant and intolerable gamut
as the saw bit through the fibers from
end to end. In the oceasional brief

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| of the main slides, stood a table whose
' presiding genius was a little swinging
' circular. The circular was tended by a
powerful, somber-visaged old mill hand
| called ’Lije Vandine, whose office it was
‘to trim square the ragged ends of the
“stuff” before it went down the slide.
| At the very back of the table hummed
the saw, like a great hornet, and when-
|ever Vandine got two or three deals in
place before him he would grasp a lever
| above his head, and forward through
| its narrow slitin the table would dart
l the little saw and scream its way in a
second through the tough white spruce.
| Every time he let the saw swing back he
would drop his eyes to the blue-shirted
|figure below and his harsh features
| would work with concentrated fury.
| These seven years he had been waiting
| for the day when he should meet Sandy
| McPherson face to face.
Seven years before, ’Lije Vandine had
| been working in one of the mills near
St. John, New Brunswick, while his
‘only daughter, Sarah, was living out at
'service in the city. At this time Sandy
McPherson was employed on the city
| Wharves, and an acquaintance which he

> - - | : :
moments of comparative silence, when | formed with the pretty housemaid re-

several of the saws would chance to be |
disengaged at the same instant, might be |the two.

sulted in a promise of marriage between
Vandine and his wife were

heard, far down in the lower story of the satisfied with the girl’s account of her

mill, the grumbling roar of the two
great turbine wheels, which, sucking in
the tortured water from the sluices, gave
life to all the wilderness of cranks and
shafts above.

That end of the mill which looked
down the river stood open, to a height of
about seven feet, across the whole of the
upper story. From this opening ran a
couple of long slanting ways, each two
feet wide and a hundred feet in length,
raised on trestles. The track of these
‘‘slides,’’ as they are technically termed,
cousisted of a series of wooden rollers,
along which the deals raced in endless
sequence trom the saws, to drop with a

lover, and the months slipped by swiftly
without their making his acquaintance.

Among the fishing and lumbering
classes it not seldom happens that be-
trothal brings with it rather more inti-
mate privileges than propriety would
sanction; whence it came to pass that
one evening Sarah returned to her par-
ents unexpectedly, having been dis-
missed from her situation in disgrace.
Vandine, though ignorant, was a clear-
seeing man and understood his own class
thoroughly; and, after his first outburst
of wounded indignation, he had forgiven
and comforted his daughter no less ten-
derly than her mother had done. He

 

plunge into a spacious basin, at the
lower end of which they were gathered |
into rafts. Whenever there was a break
in the procession of deals, the rollers
would be left spinning briskly with a
cheerful murmur. There was also a
shorter and steeper ‘slide,’ diverging
to the lumber yard, where clapboards
and such light stuff were piled until
they could be carted to the distant sta-
tion.

It former days it had been the easy
custom to dump the sawdust into the
stream, but the fish wardens had lately
interfered and puta step to the prac-
tice. Now, atall young fellow, in top |
boots, gray homespun trousers and blue
shirt, was busy carting the sawdust to a
swampy hollow near the lower end of
the main slides.

Sandy McPherson was a new hand.
Only that morning had he joined the
force at the Aspohegan mill, and every |
now and then he would pause, remove
his battered soft felt from his whitish-
yellow curls, mop his red forehead and
gaze with hearty appreciation at the fair |
landscape spread out beyond the mill.
With himself and with the world in gen-
eral he felt on fairly good terms—an
easy frame of mind which would have
been much jarred had he been conscious |
of the fact that from a corner in the up-
per story of the mill his every move-
ment was watched with a vindictive and

 

 

knew well that the girl was no wanton.
He went at once into the city, with the
intention of fetching Sandy out and cov-
ering up the disgrace by an immediate
marriage. He visited the wharves, but
the young man was not there. With
growing apprehension he hastened to
his boarding house, only to learn that
McPherson had left the place and was
departing for the States by the next
train, having been married the previous
evening.

The man’s pain and fury at this revela-
tion @ilmost cheked him, but he mas-
tered himself sufficiently to ask a boy of
the house to accompany him to the sta-
tion and point him out the betrayer.
if the train bad not gone, he would be in
time to avenge his poor girl. The boy,
however, took alarm at something in
Vandine’s face and led him by a round-
about way, so that, just as he drew near
the station, the Western express was
pulling out. On the rear platform stood
a laughing young woman bedecked with
many colors, and beside her a tall youth
with a curly yellow head, whom the boy
pointed out as Sandy McPherson. He
was beyond the reach of vengeance for
the time; but his features stamped them-
selves ineffaceably on the avengers mem-
ory. As the latter turned away,
to bide his tinfe in grim silence, the
young woman on the platform of the
car said to her husband: ‘I wonder

 

and ominous interest.

who that was, Sandy, that looked

In that corner, close by the head of one like he was going to run after the cars?

| Dian’t you see? His arms kind o’ jerked
out, like that; but he didn’t start, after
all. There he goes up the hill, with one
pant leg in his boot. He looked kind 0’
wild. I’m just as glad he didn’t get
aboard.’’

‘‘He’s one of your old fellers as you’ve
give the go-by to, I kind o’ suspicion,
Sis,’ replied the young man, with a
laugh. And the train roared into a cut-
ting.

About a year after these events, Van-
dine’s wife died and Vandine thereupon
removed, with Sarah and her baby, to
the interior of the province, settling
down, finally, at Aspohegan Mills. Here
he built himself a small cottage on a
steep slope overlooking the mill. And
here Sarah, by her quiet and self-sacri-
ficing devotion to her father and the
child, wiped out the memory of her error
and won the warm esteem of the settle-
ment. As for the child, he grew into a
handsome blue-eyed sturdy boy, whom
his grandfather loved with a passionate
tenderness intensified by a subtile strain
of pity. As yearby year his daughter
and the boy twined themselves closer
about his heart, Vandine’s hate against
the man who had wronged them both
kept ever deepening to a keener anguish.

But, now, at last, the day had come.
When first he had caught sight of Me-
Pherson in the yard below, the impulse
to rush down and throttle him was so
tremendous that, as he curbed it, the
blood forsook his face, leaving it the
color of ashes and, for a few seconds, he
could not tend his ‘saw. Presently,
when the yelping little demon was again
at work biting across the timbers, the
foreman drew near and Vandine asked
him, ‘‘Who’s the new hand down yon-
der?”

“Oh!” said the foreman leaning over
the bench a little to follow Vandine’s
pointing, ‘‘yon’s one Sandy McPherson,
from over on the Kennebec. He’s be’n
working in Maine these seven years past,
but says he kind o’ got a hankering after
his own country, an’ so he’s come back.
Good hand!”

‘‘That’s so!’ was all Vandine replied.

All the long forenoon, amid the wild,
or menacing, or warning, or complaining
crescendos and diminuendos of the un-
resting saws, the man’s brains seethed
with plans of vengeance. After ail
these years of waiting he would be satis-
fied with no common retribution. To
merely kill the betrayer would be insuffi-
cient. He would wring his soul and
quench his manhood with some strange,
unheard-of-horror, ere dealing the final
stroke that should rid earth of his pres-
ence.

Scheme after scheme burned through
his mind, and at times his gaunt face
would crease itself in a fearful smile as
he pulled the lever that drove his blade
through thedeals. Finding no plan al-
together to his taste, however, he re-
solved to postpone his revenge until
night, at least, that he might have the
more time to think it over and to indulge
the luxury of anticipation with realiza-
tion so easily within his grasp.

At noon, Vandine, muttering to him-
self, climbed the steep path to the little
cottage on the hillside. He ate his din-
ner in silance, with apparently no per-
ception of what was being set before
him. His daughter dared not break in
upon this preoccupation. Even the idol-
ized Stevie could win from him no no-
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frightened the child. Just as he was
leaving the cottage to return to the mill
he saw Sarah start back from the window
and sit down suddenly, grasping at her
bosom and blanching to the lips as if she
had seen a ghost. Glancing downward
to the black road, deep with rotted saw-
dust, he saw McPherson passing.

‘‘Who is it?”? he asked the girl.

“It’s Sandy,” she murmured, flushing
scarlet and auerting her face.

Her father turned away without a
word and started down the hill. Pres-
ently, the girl remembered that there
was something terrifying in the expres-
sion of his face as he asked the curt
question. With a sudden vague fear
rising in her breast, she ran to the ecot-
tage door.

‘‘Father,” she cried, “father!” But
Vandine paid no heed to her calls, and
after a pause she turned back into the
room to answer Stevie’s demand for a
drink of water.

Along about the middle of the after-
noon, while Sandy McPherson was sstill
carting sawdust, and Vandine was tend-

ing his circular amid the bewildering
din, Stevie and some other children

came down to play around the mill.
The favorite amusement with these em-
bryo mill hands, stream drivers and lum-
bermen was to get on the planks as they
emerged from the upper story of the
mill, and go careering swiftly and
smoothly down the slides, until just be-
fore coming to the final plunge, they
would jump off and fallon the heap of
sawdust. This was a game that, to
Strangers, looked perilous enough, but
there had never been an accident, so at
Aspohegan Mills it had outgrown the
disapproval of the hands. To Sandy
McPherson, however, it was new, and
from time to time he eyed the sport ap-
prehensively. And all the while Van-
dine glared upon him from his corner in
the upper story, and the children raced,
shouting, down the slides and tumbled,
with bright laughter, into the sawdust.

Among the children none enjoyed more
than Stevie this racing down the slides.
His mother, looking out of the window
on the hillside, saw the merry little bare-
headed figure, the long yellow curls
floating out behind him, as_ he _ half
knelt, half sat on the sliding plank ready
to jump off at the proper moment. She
had no thought of danger as she re-
sumed her house work. Neither had
Stevie. At length, it happened, how-
ever, that, just as he was nearing the
end of the descent, an eagle came sailing
low overhead, caught the little fellow’s
eye and diverted his attention for a mo-
ment. It was the fatal moment. Just
as he looked down again, gathering him-
self to jump, his heart sprang into his
throat, and the plank, with a sickening
lureh, plunged into the churning basin.
The child’s shrill, frightened shriek was
not half uttered ere the waters choked it.

Vandine had just let the buzzing little
circular slip back into its recess, when
he saw McPherson spring from his eart
aud dash madly down to the shore.

At the same instant came that shrill
cry, so abruptly silenced. Vandine’s
heart stood still with awful terror—he
had recognized the child’s voice. In a
second he had swung himself down over
the scaffolding, alighting on a sawdust
heap.

‘“‘Hold back the deals!” he yelled in a
voice that pierced the din. It was not
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seemed to know what had happened.
Two men sprang on the slides and
checked the stream of deals. Then the
great turbines ceased to grumble and all
the clamor of the saws was hushed. The
unexpected silence was like a blow, and
sickened the nerves.

And meanwhile—Stevire? The plank
that bore his weight, clinging desperately
to it, plunged deeper than its fellows
and came up somewhat further from the
slide, but not now with Stevie upon it.
The child had lost his hold, and, when
he rose, it was only to strike against the
bottoms of three or four deals that lay
clustered together.

This, though apparently fatal, was in
reality the child’s salvation, for, during
the half or three-quarters of a minute
that intervened before the slides could
be stopped, the great planks kept drop
ping and plunging and crashing about
him, and. had it not been for those very
timbers that cut him off from the air he
was choking to breath, he would have
been crushed and battered out of all
human semblance in a second. As it
was, ere he had time to suffocate, Mc-
Pherson was on the spot.

In an instant the young man’s heavy
boots were kicked off, and, without paus-
ing to count the odds, which were hid-
eously against him, he sprang into the
chaos of whirling timbers. Ali about
him pounded the falling deals, then
ceased, just as he made a clean dive be-
neath that little cluster that covered
Stevie. As Vandine reached the shore
and was casting desperate glances over
the basin in search of some clew to guide
his plunge, McPherson reappeared at
the other side of the deals, and Stevie’s
yellow curls were floating over his
shoulder. The young man clung rather
faintly to the supporting planks, as if he
hsd_ overstrained hinfself, and two or
three hands, who had already shcved off
a ‘‘bateau,’’ pushed out and picked him
up with his burden.

Torn by a convulsion of fiercely antag-
onistic feelings, Vandine sat down on the
edge of the bank and waited stupidly.
About the same moment Sarah looked
out of the cottage door in wonder, to see
why the mill had stopped so suddenly.

In all his plans of vengeance Vandine
had never dreamed of such ehance as
that his enemy should deserve his grati-
tude. In his nature there had grown up
one thing stronger than his thirst for
vengeance, and that one thing was} his
love for Stevie. In spiteof himself, and,
indeed, to his furious self-scorn, he
found his heart warming strangely to the
man who, at deadliest risk, had saved
the life of his darling. At the same time
he was conscious of a fresh sense of in-
jury. A bitter resentment throbbed up
in his bewildered bosom to think that
McPherson should thus have robbed him
of the sweets of that revenge he had so
long anticipated.

The first clear realization that came to
bim was that, though he must kill the
man who had wronged bis girl, be would,
nevertheless, be tortured with remorse
forever after. A moment more, and, as
he saw Sandy step out of the ‘‘bateau’’
with the boy. now sobbing feebly, in his
arms, he knew tbat his vengeanee had
been made forever impossible. He

. longed fiercely to grasp the fellow’s hand

and make some pvor attempt to thank
him. But he mastered the impulse—
Sarah must not be forgotten. He strode
down the bank. One of the hands had

taken Stevie and McPherson was leaning
against a pile of boards, panting for
breath. Vandine stepped up to him, his
fingers twitching, and struck him a
furious blow across the mouth with his
open hand. Then he turned aside,
snatched Stevie to his bosom and started
up the bank. Before going two paces,
however, he paused, as if oppressed by
the utter stillness that followed his as-
tounding act. Bending a strange look
on the young man, he said, in a voice as
harsh as that of the saws:

“IT was going to kill you to-night,
Sandy McPherson, but now, after this
day’s work o’ yourn, I guess yer safe
from me from this out.” He shut his
mouth with a snap and strode up through
the piles of sawdust toward the cottage
on the bill.

As for McPherson, he was dum-
founded. Though no boaster, he knew
he had done a magnificently heroic thing.
and to get his mouth slapped for it was
an exigency which he did not know what
todo with. He had staggered against
the boards, from the force of the stroke,

 

but it had not occurred to him to resent
| it, though, ordinariiy, he was hot-bluoded
| and quick in a quarrel. He stared about
, bim sheepishly, bewildered and abashed
| and unspeakably aggrieved. In the faces
lof the mill hands who were gathered
about him he found no solution of the
mystery. They looked as astonished as
himself and almost equally hot and
ashamed. Presently, he ejaculated:
“Well, Lswan!” Then one of the men
who had taken out the ‘‘bateau’”’? and
picked him up found voice.

“*V1l be gosh-darned ef that ain’t the
damnedest,”’ said he, slowly. ‘Why, I
thought as how he was agoin’ right down
on his prayer-handles to ye. That there
kid is the apple o’ his eye ”

‘‘An’ he was sot on killin’ me to-night,
was he??? murmured McPherson, in
deepest wonderment. ‘‘What might his
name be, anyhow?”

‘’Lije Vandine,” spoke up another of
the hands. ‘‘An’ that’s his grandchild,
Sievie. I reckon he must have a power-
ful grudge agin yon, Sandy, or he’d
never a’ acted that way.”’

McPherson’s face had grown serious
and pale. ‘Is the boy’s father and
mother livin’?” be inquired.

“Sarah Vandine’s livin’ with the old
man,’ answered the fureman, ‘an’ as
fine a girl as there be in Aspohegan.
Don’t know anything about the lad’s
father, an’ don’t want to. The man
that’d treat a girl like Sarah Vandine
that way—why, hangin’s too good for
ora”

McPherson’s face flushed crimson and
he dropped his eyes.

‘‘Boys,”? said he huskily, ‘‘ef ’Lije
Vandine had a’ served me as he intended,
I guess as how I'd have only got my de-
serts. Il reckon as how I’m the little
lad’s father!’’

The hands stared at each other.
Nothing couid make them forget what
McPherson had just done. They were
all daring and ready in emergency, but
each man felt that he would have
thought twice before jumping into the
basin when the deals were running on
the slides. The foreman could have bit-
ten his tongue out for what he had just
said. He tried to mend matters.

“| wouldn’t have thought you was that
sort o’ man, to judge from what I’ve just
seen 0’ you,’’ he explained. ‘‘Anyhow,
1 reckon you’ye more’n made up this

 

 

day for the wrong you done when you
was younger. But Sarah Vandine’s as
good a girl as they make, an’ I don’t
hardly see how you could a’ served her
that trick.”

A certain asperity grew in the fore-
man’s voice as he thought of it, for, as
his wife used to say, he ‘‘set a great
store by ’Lije’s girl, not havin’ no
daughter o’ his own.’’

**It was lies as done it, boys,’’ said Mc-
Pherson. *‘As for whose lies, why, that
ain’t neither here nor there. An’s she
—as done the mischief’s dead an’ buried
before she died she tol’ me all about it.
That was last winter—of the grippe—
an’ I tell you I’ve felt bad ’bout Sarah
ever sence. An’ to think the little lad’s
mine! My, but ain’t he a beauty!” And
Sandy’s face began to glow with satisfac-
tion at the thought.

By this time all the hands looked grat-
ified at the turn affairs were, to them, so
plainly taking. Every one returned to
work, the foreman remarking aside to a
chum, ‘‘l reckon Sarah’s all right.” And
in a minute or two the saws were once
more shrieking their way through the
logs and siabs and deals.

On the following morning, as ’Lije
Vandine tended his vicious little circu-
lar, he found its teeth needed resetting.
They had been tried by a lot of knotty
timber. He unshipped the saw and took
it to the foremaa. While he was wait-
ing for the latter to get him another saw,
Sandy McPherson came up. With a
strong effort Vandine restrained himself
from holding out his hand in grateful
greeting. There was a lull in the up-
roar, the men forgetting to feed their
saws as they watched the interview.
Sandy’s voice was heard all over the
mill.

‘’ Lije Vandine, I saved the little lad’s
life, an’ that counts for’ something, but I
know right welll ain’t got no right to
expect you or Sarah ever to say a kind
word tome. But 1 swear, so help me
God, | hadn’t no sort o’ idee whose child
I was savin’. My wife died las’ winter
over on the Kennebec, an’ afore she died
she tol’? me everything—an’ I’d take it
kindly ef you’d let me tell you, more
particular, ancther time. An’ I was
wantin’ to say now, I’d take it kind ef

 

you'd let me go up along to your place
this evenin’, an’ maybe Sarah ’d let me,
jest talk to the boy alittle. Ef so be ez |
l could persuade her by aud by V forget |
an’ forgive—an’ you'd trust me after |
what I’d done—l’d lay out U marry her |
the minute she’d say the word, fur there!
ain’t no other woman I ever set such|
store by as 1 do by her. An’ then, ther’s |
Stevie—”

“Stevie and the lass hez both gut a}
good home,’’ interrupted Vandine |
roughly.

“An | wouldn’t wanta better for ’em,” |
exclaimed McPherson, eagerly, catching |
the train of the old man’s thought.
“What I’d want—would be—ef maybe— |
you'd let me come in along with them |
an’ you.”

But by this time Vandine had got his}
new saw and had turned away without |
replying. Saudy followed him a few)
paces, then turned back dejectedly to at-
tend his own circular, he having been |
moved into the will that morning, in|
tacit acknowledgment of his heroic |
deed.

All the hands looked at him in sym
pathy, and many were the ingenious
backwoods oaths which were muttered |

after Vandine for his ugliness. The old
man paid little heed, however, to the
tide of unpopularity that was rising
against him. Probably, absorbed in his
own thoughts, he was utterly unaware of
it. All the morning long he swung and
fed his circular, and, when the horn
blew for 12, his mind was made up. In
the sudden stillness he strode over to
the place where McPherson worked and
said, in a vwice of affected carelessness:

‘You better come along an’ have a
bite o? dinner with us, Sandy. You’ll
be kinder expected, I reckon, and
Stevie’s powerful anxious to see you.”

Sandy grabbed his coat and went
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INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

It is reported from Washington that
initial steps have been taken looking to
the formal consideration of a treaty be-
tween the United States and Great Brit-
ain, under which all disputes arising be-
tween the two powers would be sub-
mitted to arbitration. Such a treaty, it
is understood, would be the entering
wedge in a movement to bring about an
arramgement between all the powers of
Europe and the United States to submit
matters in dispute to arbitration.

This agitation had its rise, apparently,
in a movement backed by a large num-
ber of members of the British Parlia-
ment, and that it has its advocates in our
Congress is attested by the fact that
there is still on the calendar of the
House of Representatives a resolution
by Mr. Springer, indorsing the move-
ment in favor of arbitration between
this country and Great Britain.

However desirable it might be under
certain conditions that all international
questions should be submitted to arbitra-
tion, it will not require much investiga-
tion to realize that any such arrange-
ment between the United States and the
European powers would be sure to re-
sult disastrously to the pretensions of
this country to supremacy in the West-
ern hemisphere. It is even questionable
if arbitration would be practicable where
@ nation had vital interests at stake.
The stronger power, moreover, seldom
desires arbitration.

As everybody knows, the United
States claims, under the teachings of
whatis known as the Monroe doctrine,
that no European power must interfere
in the affairs of the Western hemisphere.
On our ability to maintain that doctrine
rests the continuance of the supremacy
of the United States in American affairs.
None of the European powers recognize
the Monroe doctrine, and only tolerate
its teachings because of their unwilling-
ness to seek a serious controversy with
this couniry. In an arbitration over a
dispute with a European country the
Monroe doctrine would not be allowed to
stand for an instant, hence in any diffi-
culty arising from an application of the
teachings of that doctrine the United
States would be decided against by the
arbitrators.

 

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An arbitration treaty with Great Brit-
ain would tie our hands with respect to
Canada, and would prevent the recogni-
tion of the independence of any of the
British colonies that might see fit to
throw off allegiance to the mother coun-
try. It would make the annexation of
Canada to the United States forever im-
possible. Moreover, in every arbitration
with Great Britain in which any of the
European sovereigns or statesmen would
be called upon to serve as arbitrators
the decision would invariably be against
this country. The Behring Sea arbitra-
tion is a case in point.

But by far the most serious complica-
tion likely to arise from an arbitration
arrangement with all the European
powers would be the impossibility of
maintaining the recognition of the cit-
naturalized Americans.
Many of the European powers have re-
fused to recognize this claim, or have

| merely tolerated it to avoid trouble. In
, the arbitration of a

difficulty arising
from the refusal of one of the European
powers to recognize the citizenship of
one of our naturalized citizens the de-
would be promptly rendered
against us, as none of them allow the
voluntary expatriation of subjects.

Thus an arbitration arrangement with
the powers of Europe would rob the
United States of the privileges it has so
successfully maintained for the past
century, whereas the benefits secured
would be of very doubtful character,
as none of the European powers would
for a moment hesitate to disregard an
arbitration agreement did it find that it
could the better carry its point by force.
The time is not ripe for international
arbstration, and certainly the United
States has nothing to gain by it,
whereas it might readily lose the ad-
vantages now arising from its inde-
pendent, if isolated, position with re-
spect to the other powers.

 

NO HOME FOR THE BOYCOTT.

The boycott still persistently refuses
to flourish in the bright sunlight of
American civilization, although the ef-
forts to acclimate it continue unabated.
Intelligence and fair-minded repugnance
to that which is so sneaking and sly in
its methods of attack are too widely dis-
seminated to allow a strong development
of the hideous monster. It is difficult to
find terms for its characterization that
will not mix the metaphor. In its slimy
repugnance it resembles the reptile, but
in its methods of attack it manifests a
cowardly prudence more in accord with
animals like the jackal, which hovers
on the outskirts of the herd to attack the
weak and disabled. Generally the vic-
tim is selected in a business depending
on a patronage among those who are ig-
norant and have a sympathy with the
cause it professes to champion. In such
attacks it is sometimes partially success-
ful.

But the ideas of those who would em-
ploy the boycott in their hunting rise to
higher game than this. Its features of
terror impress the ignorant minds of the
classes in which the labor agitator looks
for his prestige, and it is necessary to, at
least, make a feint of attacking such en-
terprises as will indicate a bravado that
will impress these classes, although
such agitators may and do know that the
warfare will not only be ineffectual, but
will work a positive benefit to the ob-
ject of attack. There are boycotts run-

 

ning in this city to-day which are of ma-
terial value to the ‘‘victims.’’ They are
against concerns with sufficient prestige
and capital to be benefited by the adver-
tising the agitation gives and by the sym-
pathy resulting from the American love
of fair play. In a recent labor contro-
versy here some one suggested the em-
ployment of the boycott. The manager
of the business in question asked the
leaders of the union why they did not
declare a boycott. ‘Because we know
too well it will be worth thousands of
dollars to you if we do.”’

No, the boycott can never flourish in
this climate.

THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Although the bill permitting the use
of the Government’s credit to the extent
of $70,000,000 for the purpose of con-
structing the Nicaragua canal has passed
the Senate by a good majority, the meas-
ure has still to run the gauntlet in the
House of Representatives, and as there
remain but seventeen days of the present
Congress, there is not much margin for
delay.

It is reported that the friends of the
Nicaragua canal bill are endeavoring to
secure a promise from the Committee on
Rules to fix a date for the taking up of
the bill, and the chances of success in
that respect are said to be good. Owing
to the limited time left, the support ac-
corded the measure will have to be very
strong, as filibustering tactics would
prove fatal, unless promptly suppressed
by ashow of strength.

lt is of the utmost importance that
some decision as to the Nicaragua canal
should be arrived at as soon as possible.
The Central American powers which
have granted the concession are anxious
that the canal should be completed, and
it is believed that European capital is
ready to embark in the enterprise should
the United States refuse to take it up.
While it is proper enough to insist that
the work should be conducted under
American auspices, it will be difficult to
prevent foreigners from controlling the
enterprise if we ourselves refuse to un-
dertake it. We must either decide
speedily to build the canal ourselves, or
leave the project to more enterpris-
ing people.

The control of the Nicaragua canal by
any foreign power, and particularly by
England, would bea serious menace to
American influence in the Western Hemi-
sphere. The foothold that such an en-
terprise would give a foreign power in
this part of the world would destroy the
usefulness of the Monroe doctrine, as it
would practically render it a dead letter.
It would be well for Congress to take
these facts into serious consideration
and pass the Nicaragua canal bill at the
present session.

 

 

The action of the House in defeating
the gold bond bill is not so much the in-
dication of a disposition to oppose the
administration in regard to bond legisla-
tion on account of the short time remain-
ing of this session, as the manifestation
of a conviction that its passage would
have resulted in dishonoring al] the
bonds of the Government outstanding.
Its introduction was based on the as-
sumption that there is doubt as to
whether the bonds issued under the re-
sumption act to be paid in coin will be
paid in gold or its equivalent, or in a de-
preciated currency. That such a bill
could be introduced and receive the sup-

 

port of so large a minority is a matter of
astonishment. That there should be a
division at all can only be explained on
the theory that the consequences to the
outstanding bonds were lost sight of in
considerations of the silver question.
The sectional lines of division tend to
confirm this supposition. The fact that
the purchasers of the bonds so privately
negotiated by the President are offered a
net profit of 8 per cent. in the London
market indicates that the Old World
financiers have more confidence in the
integrity of our Government than many
of its legislators, or even the Executive
himself.

 

As is invariable in such cases, the .

State Board of Arbitration of Massachu-
setts finds it impossible to induce the
shoe manufacturers affected by the
strikes to submit the differences with
their employes to arbitration, while the
latter are ready for it at any time or in
anyway. It must always befound so. The
employes have all to gain and nothing to
lose, while the employers, if they sub-
mit to arbitration, must surrender their
right to manage their own business en-
terprises to those who have little if any
practical knowledge in such matters.
As human nature is now constituted,
such ‘arbitration’? is impossible. The
willful and incorrigible ‘‘eapitalist’?? must
bear the responsibity of its failure.

 

An English physician calls attention to
a means of keeping pneumonia, colds,
chills and all the ailments that cold
weather brings on, at a distance. Deep
and forced respirations, he says, will
keep the entire body in a glow in the
coldest weather, no matter how thinly
one may be clad. He was himself half
frozen to death one night, and began
taking deep breaths and keeping the air
in his lungs as long as possible. The re-
sult was that he was thoroughly com-
fortable in a few minutes. The deep
respirations, he says, stimulate the blood
current by direct muscular exertion, and
cause the entire system to become per-
vaded with the rapidly generated heat.

 

Mayor Fisher has again placed the
taxpayers of the city under obligations
to him by vetoing, for the second time,
the proposition to bond the city for the
purpose of creating a municipal electric
lighting plant. The position of Mayor
Fisher on this matter is such as will com-
mend itself to all right-thinking people,
albeit he will have the antagonism of a
handful of venal and unscrupulous
trades unionists who advocate the estab-
lishment of another public enterprise
for the sole reason that it will necessitate
the creation of a new set of municipal
employes to be supported at the public
erib.

 

 

During the past thirty years the im-
portation of tea from China into Eng-
land has diminished from 96 per cent.
of the total imported into that coun-
try from all sources to 12 per cent.,
the remaining 88 per cent. coming from
India and Ceylon. The shortsighted
dishonesty of the Chinese factors and
the encouragement of the tea industry
in British India are said to account for
the change.

When labor is organized to prevent
labor it is time to call it something else.
“Organized anarchy” or ‘‘organized idle-
ness” or ‘organized blackmail’? more

clearly describes the situation than the
term ‘‘organized labor.”

 

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

THE RESTLESS AMERICANS.

The people of the United States have
the reputation of being the most restless
and unsettled of all the civilized races.

It is asserted that there are more
tramps here thanin any other country,
and that work-people remain in the serv-
ice of the same employer for shorter
periods than anywhere else. In Europe
men follow the trades and professions
of their ancestors, and so skill and spe-
cial sorts of knowledge are inherited as
well as learned, and men are proud of
the fact that their fathers were honest
tradesmen of particular sorts and are
glad to follow in their footsteps. The
Americans, it is claimed, are prone not
only to desert the trades and callings of
their fathers, but they constantly seek
some occupation where the work will be
lighter or in which they have more lib-
erty, while too many do not wish to
work steadily at anything, even if they
are willing to work at all.

Mr. Vedel, a civil engineer who has
been writing on the instability of Amer-
ican labor, in the American Magazine of
Civics, draws some statistics on the sub-
ject from the annual report of the
United States Commissioner of Labor
for 1889. The figures, which are quoted
below,show the migratory character of the
labor employed on railroads. It appears
that large bodies of the men are not
willing to remain long in one situation
or to work steadily atanything. They
are constantly changing from one place
to another. The reports on railroad em-
ployes of the Commissioner of Labor
show that for sixty systems of railroads,
representative of the different parts of
the country, out of atotal force of 224,-
570 men employed as laborers and fore-
men, brakemen, carpenters, conductors,
engineers, firemen, macbinists, switch-
men, telegraph cperators, ete., about 25
per cent. worked less than twenty-five
days out of the whole year and 59 per
cent. less than half a year, for the same
road. Some of these may have been laid
off when there was no work for them, or
during the inclement season, but for
brakemen, who come third, and firemen,
who come forth, in the list of restless-
ness, this does not apply. Taking the
working year to be 310 days, the average
per cent. of the year worked for the
same road was: Masons, 30; laborers,
32; brakemen, 49; firemen, 50; telegraph
operators, 53; carpenters, 53; switch-
men, 57; machinists, 62; conductors, 67;
engineers, 76; foremen, 79.

It should be remembered that these
figures do not come from a period of
great industrial depression, like that
which has prevailed during the past
two years, but they are from a time of
great industrial activity, the year 1888,
and they show that vast bodies of work-
ingmen either have changed their situa-
tions or they have had long spells of
idleness. It is well known that many
sorts of workingmen are So migratory in
their habits that they will not remain
long in one place, but when the time
comes for them to gratify their restless
desires, they will leave good situations |
and steady employment in order to be off.
In fact, in many trades the only men |
who stick to a situation and do not yield
to the migratory instinct are those who
are anchored with wives and children,
and even this fact does not always over-
come their desire to move.

 

 

American restlessness is accounted for
on the ground that the population of the

 

United States is largely made up of emi-
grants of every race and every continent.
They are here from every country of
Europe, Asia and Africa. They were,
or are, men who left behind home,
friends, associations, traditions, climate,
customs, language and all that bound
them to home and fatherland. All these
they have given up to cross an ocean and
cast their lot among strangers in a
strange land. Thus the population of
the United States is made up of the most
daring and adventurous men of all coun-
tries, and, therefore, restlessness and a
proneness to be always moving, always
changing location and circumstances, be-
come the predominant characteristic
of the American people.

So that not only the vagabond and the
migratory workingman, but the wealthy
classes also, are impatient of any re-
straint that keeps them in one place,
and, as if impelled by an irresistible
force, they must move from place to
place, and, whether as tramps or tour-
ists, they are all and always on the go.

The ancient proverb about the rolling
stone gathering no moss should teach the
Americans that a wandering, shiftless
and thriftless life is not good for their
material welfare, and this is a fact that
many of them realize in their own expe-
rience. But nothing conquers American
restlessness, until this country has _ be-
come notorious, if not famous, above all
others for furnishing tramps, tourists
and globetrotters generally. Since it
does not seem possible to overcome nat-
ural instinets, save by along course of
discipline and training, there appears to
be no remedy, and the evil must work
itself out in its own way.

Suggestions as to Selecting Table Cut-
lery.

In the seleetion of table Knives and
forks, care must be taken to select pat-
terns which are most in demand, and,
consequently, most likely to sell. Do
not purchase too many patterns. Table
cutlery is one of the few things which a
hardware dealer need not stock a great
many varieties of. My advice is to con-
fine yourself to repeat numbers, and go
on buying the same patterns, only at rare
intervals introducing or substituting a
new design as animprovement. Make
up a set of stock numbers and prices and
stick to them. Do not have too many
numbers; for an average trade I consider
four patterns in ivory, and the same of
ivorine, buffalo, black and white bone,
quite enough. In some country districts
stag horn handles for table cutlery are
used, and soalso is a very common handle
called ‘‘forebuck.’’ A few of these may
be added in the proper neighborhood.
These numbers should be well known,
and the stock should be constantly re-
plenished and kept up. Table and desert
knives, carvers and steels to match,
should be kept. Carvers and steels
should be kept in stag in several qual-
ities of style of handle and shape of
blade.

—_—_-_—~>_.<—.___—__

A smart Englishman has invented a
‘‘self-rocking cradle, warranted to run
for forty minutes.’’ It will no longer be
necessary for unlucky fathers to get out
of bed on cold nights and walk with the
baby. All they will have to do will be
to wind up the cradle.

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000,000 has been invested in electrical
machinery, and the business is yet in its
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owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Register Co. Users will be protected
and infringements will not be allowed.

If you have never seen our machine and desire an opportunity to inspect the
merits of the mechanical marvel of the age, call at our office, or at the office of any
of our agents; or, if you are located at a distance from either, write us a letter tell-
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REGISTER 60,
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10

Social Evolution of the Sexes.

The evolution of modern civilization
has brought about conditions in social
and industrial life which have never
before existed, and they present new
problems which must be solved accord-
ing to the laws that have created them
and now govern their development. As
there is no precedent upon which to|
judge them, the world will be forced to
wait until they shall reach a full fruition;
but even as they now are they present
interesting studies.

One of these remarkable conditions is
the effect upon labor and _ political
economy growing out of the extraor-
dinary use of machinery in every branch
of industry. Another is the social status
of woman growing out of the increasing

 

development of the emancipation of
women from masculine control. Itis not |
proposed to discuss this matter as to its
merits;or demerits, but to trace back to |
its causes and show how the movement
of female independence originated and to
what it tends.

In the earliest times, and among all
peoples,$,men claimed and maictained
not only a physical, but a social control
over the other sex. It has always been
denominated the weaker sex, the softer
sex and; the fair sex; but it is certain
that much of the weakness, softness and
beauty are,due to development. In
those savage nations where the women
are slaves to the,men, and are forced to
perform all theshard labor, the women
are physicallyjas strong as the men and
capable of as much endurance.

{it does not appear that the females of
either wild; orjdomestic animals are in-
ferior in}.strength to the males. True,
the females are subject to certain disad-
vantages offorganization; but, aside from
these, there iscnosdefect of strength in
those races where both sexes live in a
state of nature.» The American Indians
present the readiest examples for study.
In a wild state their women strike and
pitch the sking{lodges, pack all the bag-
gage on horses for removal, or unpack it
when an encampment is to be set up.
They chopjand carry the wood and water,
skin the slaughtered game and tan the
hides into buckskin:and buffalo and bear
robes. In ajword,ijthe women perform
all the hard}.labor, while the men, ex-
cept when on the war path or engaged in
hunting, spend their time in absolute
idleness.

The Indian squawfis not only not of the
weaker and softer, but she is not a rep-
resentative of the fair sex. The male In-
dian, except;in story books, has no idea
or perceptionjof beauty. Heis a polyga-
mist, and, in :choosing his squaws, he
takes care only that they are able-bodied
and not too old. He does not prize
beauty, and, as a;consequence, the Indian
women, so far,from being beautiful, are
as ugly as they well can be.

Beauty is {an cevolution which has
grown out of{a demand for it. When it
is understoodthatjmen desire comeliness
in their women, the Swomen will, by
adorning themselves and the use of such
arts as may;be available, do all in their
power to improve their outward appear-
ance. Thisjsortiof effort to be beautiful,
carried onithrough many generations,
finally so improves the subjects of it that
at last the women become so much
changed in appearance that to be well-
formed and featured appears a regular
characteristic. The Georgian and Cir-
cassian races of Asia, which furnish the

|

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

most beautiful women for the Eastern
harems, are the direct result of such an
evolution. They are taught from child-
hood that they are to grace the saloons
of the zenanas of Turks, Egyptians, Per-
sians and other Asiatic polygamists of
high rank. Those girls, looking forward
to such a lot, and knowing that they will
be esteemed for their charms of person
and disposition, try to be as attractive as
possible.

This sort of influence has operated for
ages upon the women of most civilized
countries, until they actually represent a
weaker, softer and more beautiful sex,
and such are the women of to-day. But
what will be the result upon the personal
appearance and character of women of a
final and total emancipation from sub-

| servience to the men is an interesting

study. If women are to occupy precisely
the same position of independence as
men, will they not grow in physical
strength and muscular development to
meet the demands of the labor into which
they will gravitate? Will they not lose
the timidity and modesty which the re-
tired life of the sex has imposed upon
them, and will they not become bolder,
more aggressive and even combative?

lf, under such circumstances, women
will scorn tu be the darlings of men cor
their playthings, or the companions of
their lighter hours, will they not cease
to esteem the beauty and gentleness that
have commended them to men, and will
not the final influence of such an evolu-
tion operate to destroy the entire senti-
mental part of love, and to leave only the
physical characteristics of the sexes?

These are interesting questions, and if
they cannot be answered with confidence,
because such a state of society never be-
fore existed, it is at least worth while to
speculate on them. In the whole of Eu-
rope and Asia women are subservient to
men. In some ancient nation, the coun-
try of the Amazons, it is related that the
women ruled and the men were slaves.
But there is growing up in America a
series of conditions in which, in the
course of time, the women will have the
same legal and social rights as the men,
and there will be no legal distinctions be-
tween the sexes. Such conditions must
necessarily operate to exert enormous
changes upon both sexes.

It is plain that women can only obtain
such terms of equality through the weak-
ening of the stronger sex. To control
the weaker sex has always been the pre-
rogative of the men, and when they vol-
untarily surrender it, for it is only by

; consent of men that this emancipation

ean take place, it will be a certain evi-
dence of a departure from the ancient
claim of masculine superiority. When
the men fail in intellect, courage and
will power, it becomes necessary for the
women to take the scepter of dominion.
And it must not be supposed that the ad-
vance of women to positions of equality
means anything but a weakening of the
other sex. Men never surrender power
voluntarily. It is only when their hands
become too feeble to retain a firm grasp
upon it that they suffer it to be snatched
away.

The inevitable conclusion is that the
march of women to political equality
means their growing superiority to the
men. Either one sex or the other will
rule, and it will always be the stronger,
whether that shall be male or female.

FRaNE STOWELL.

 

 

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Importers and Jobbers of

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21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

AAI TIA!

 

   

CALL YOUR PA’S

neighbors and friends attention to the fact that we are

 

IGHTIEST
[LLERS,

IGHIGAN'S
ERGHANT

That we grind 800 Barrels of flour per day, and that in Jan-
uary we ground over 30 cars of corn and 10 of oats and sent it
broadcast over the state in the shape of the best feed known !

We Will Do More in February

and we want yonr orders to help the record

Valley Gity Milling Go., Grand Rapids Mish.

Show Cases,
Store Fixtures,
Etc.

 

 

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PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES.

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

M.R. ALDEN.

 

E. E. ALDEN.

M. R. ALDEN & CO.
WHOLESALE -

PRODUCE.

Strictly Fresh Eggs and Choice Creamery and Dairy Butter a Specialty.
Northern trade supplied at lowest market prices.
We buy on track at point of shipment or receive on consignment.
76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids.

*Phone 1300.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

  

11

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

On tbe oceasion of a recent fire in a
Northern Michigan town the firemen lost
considerable time in endeavoring to
loosen the plugs, so as to attach the
hose, the delay being caused by rust in-
cident upon disuse. At the next meeting
of the trustees of the village a gentleman
from Donegal, who was a member of the
body, got up and moved that thereafter
the fire plugs should be examined ten
days before every fire. ‘he motion was

carried.
* * *

A story comes from Germany to the ef-
fect that a hop salesman, when paying
his first visit to a famous brewery in
South Germany, was about to enter the
office, when he noticed a plate with the
inscription: ‘‘Hop travelers up stairs.’’
Concluding therefrom that a special
room was set apart for interviewing
travelers, he took the hint, and on reach-
ing the top of the stairs he found him-
self in a long passage, the walls of which
were adorned at intervals with the image
of a hand pointing in one direction. At
the end of the corridor another hand
pointed to a second flight of steps lead-
ing downward. At the bottom of the
steps a hand pointed to a door, which he
opened and found himself—in the street.

Hotel Mail: Commercial travelers
can do much to spread a hotel’s reputa-
tion for good or ill, and proprietors show
wisdom in treating them with extra con-
sideration. An almost perennial subject
of discussion among any chance group
of Knights of the Road is the hotels, and
the champion of any particular house in-
sists on crying its virtues at all times

and places.
= * ¢

In acknowledging themselves beaten,
the Brooklyn strikers ask to be rein-
stated under the old conditions. To
this the companies accede as far as they
may be able in justice to the non-union
men employed during the strike. This
experience will tend to show the em-
ployes that, if the corporations are vio-
lating the laws of the State in hours of
labor or otherwise, it will be better to
invoke tae authority of the courts than
to attempt to coerce them by the riot and

disorder of a strike.
oe

The labor ‘‘philanthropists’’ of this
country—that is, the leaders in labor
causes—are not entirely free from a sus-
picion of selfishneas in the matter of
wages. As editor of a weekly labor
journal of limited circulation, Debb’s sal-
ary was $4,000, but when elected presi-
dent of the American Railway Union the
remuneration for his philanthropic la-
bors was $9,000—more than the salary
of any cabinet officer of the United
States. Such a princely salary should
have commanded the services of one who
could show far more ability in the man-
agement of a labor contest than appeared
in his case. In England the labor lead-
ers are more frequently in charge of co-
operative enterprises and federations de-
vised for improving the condition of the
workingmanp, positions requiring business
and executive ability of a high order.
Some of the managers of the great co-
operative mills and stores whose transac-
tions aggregate millions per year are
content to receive $750, or less than
$15 per week, no more than they formerly
received as operatives. Such men are
friends of labor. In this country the
labor agitators, from the walking dele-
gate up, receive so much more than

the workmen that it is an object tostrive

for such positions.
* * *

The death, at the age of 90, of the
‘Silent Man,” in a New Jersey town,
brings out little incidents worthy to be
woven into a story by Mary Wilkins, or
Alice Brown, or Sarah Orne Jewett. Mr.
Page would not talk. He had nothing
to say and did not care to waste his
breath saying nothing. He lived in a
little room alone, sold papers and saved
his money; but his meek spirit answered
to a great challenge once. It was pro-
posed that there should be a new bell
for the Presbyterian church in Rahway.
A rich and presumably stingy citizen
laughingly said he ‘‘would give as much
as old Page.’? The Silent Man rose to
the occasion. He sent his check for $500

for the bell fund.
* * *

The bicycle has been introduced into
every civilized portion of the globe, and
even farther. The latest bicycle agency
to be established was in Guaymas, on
the west coast of Mexico, where bicy-
cling is becoming a popular sport. It is
considered that when the racing team
now touring that country has completed
its propaganda, the Mexicans will be
rampant in their desire tou get wheels.
Dealers report a good bu3iness in that
country at the present time, but expect a
big increase. Bicycle clubs have re-
cently been established in Brazil and in
the Argentine Republic, South America.
All revolutionary countries will soon

have wheels in their heads.
+ + *

While many of the Eastern roads have
abolished stop-over privileges, on ac-
count of their manipulation by scalpers
and dishonest employes, it is curious to
note that the Supreme Court of Califor-
nia has just decided that under the law
of that State the holder of a through
ticket has aright to stop over at inter-
mediate stations. It says: ‘‘A passenger
who tenders the regular fare is entitled
to a ticket to his place of destination,
which ticket, under the law, gives him a
right to stop over at an intermediate
station. And the railroad company can-
not demand the regular rate and
at the same time deny the privilege
which the law confers upon all who

pay it.”
-_— = =

One of the latest scandals unearthed
in France reads like a burlesque. A man
was arrested for defrauding a wine mer-
chant by representing that certain shares
of the Nice Navigation Co., which he
gave in payment for goods, were worth
much more than their market value.
This led to an investigation of the com-
pany, which advertised a daily service
between Nice and Corsica. It turned
out that the persons forming the com-
pany never had any capital; that they
had hired an old steamer on credit, had
changed its name two or three times to
conceal its identity and used the differ-
ent names to make up theirfleet. Asthe
steamer was pot seaworthy, it regularly
left Nice with great display, and as soon
as it was out of sight made for a safe
place on the coast, never trying to go to
Corsica, and after a while returned to
Nice. The captain and crew were never
paid. The deviser of this ingenious

scheme is said to be a naval engineer
and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
He must be something of an engineer to
engineer a plan like that; but he prob-
ably belongs to the big Legion of Dis-

 

honor.

 

STO) Cals.

Net Price List.
Sap Pails per 100.

Sa) Pails and

Ic Ix
10 quart ...810 00 13 25
~”lhlU(< Ct ..!.lUr 14 25
yp _. oe 16 50

Syrup Cans per 100.
iealion .......... $8 50

Our goods are full size
and are guaranteed not to
leak. The pails are made
almost straight, flaring
enough to pack conven
fently. Send for price
list of general line of tin-
ware.

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Pieced and Stamped Tinware.

Phone 640.
260 8. Ionia 8St.. GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW SPONGE CASE.

HAYMAN GOMPANY,

Write for prices of any showcase needed.

 

55-57-59=61 Canal St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, * MICH.

 

John W. Champlin. John G. Stone.

CHAMPLIN & STONE,

ATTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS.
627-628 Michigan Trust Co. Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ml

will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,
Friday, March 1, with a full line of sam-
ples in ready-made elothing in Men’s,
Youths’, Boys’ and Childrens’. Four-
teen years with

Michael Kolb & Son,

Clothing Manufacturers,
Rochsster, N. Y.

 

 

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ONLY A FEW LEFT.

Original set of four - ° = - a

Complete set often - - = - »
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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.
Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres.
J. 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,
T.J. O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema,
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Coal
§. P. BENNETT FUEL & IGE CO,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

reconsigned from Grand
Rapids toall points north
on short notice.

 

 

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ARCHITECT

79 Wonderly B’Id. Grand Rapids.
Correspondence Solicited from all
who intend to build.

CYCLE

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MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS,
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PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| room, all kept me from sleeping soundly,
but for all that | was ready to begin busi-

Progress of & Clerk Who Was Not! | ness the next morning.

Afraid of Work.

An Old Merchant in Hardware.

To a country-bred young man the bus- |
tle and din of New York are very be- |

wildering. The crying of porters and}

hackmen at the depot is a fit commence- |

ment of a city visit. Some of the hotel |
runners acted as if they were going to
carry us to their hotels
wanted to Zo or not.

‘Where will you stop?” I asked my |
friend.

“At the Schmidt House. Will you go to
dot?”

‘“‘“No, Iam going to stop at the Astor.’’

“At de Ashtor! My gootness! Dot
will cost you two tollars efery day.”

“Well, the money comes out of Mr.
Ely’s pocket, you know, and he told me
to go to the Astor.’’

‘Den pusiness must pay like plazes to
shtand dose brices; I will open a shtore
in Yarmantown.”’

We came to the Astor House coach just
then and [I bade Fisher good-bye for
a while, he promising to come and call on
me. When the coach put me down in
front of the hostel, I doubt if a more un-
comfortable youth existed in the city. lL
had never had much experience at ho-
tels, and I dreaded doing something awk-
ward that would advertise the fact I was
fresh from the country. I entered the
door and was met by a crowd of people,
some coming out and others goingin. A
porter came up to me and took my valise
while | followed him to the office. The
clerk pushed a book towards me, and in
as bold a hand as | could write I entered
my name and residence.

“Do you want to go to your room now?”
the elerk asked, and I said I did, adding
that I expected to stay in the city a
couple of weeks and wanted a room not
too high up. He acted as if he did not
hear me, but, sounding a bell, gave the
waiter who answered the summons my
key and the order to *‘show this gentle-
man to 74.”

I was glad to get where 1 could wash
my face again and was well pleased with
my room. From a notice on the door of
“Dinner from 4 to 6,’”? 1 found 1 was in
good time for that meal and my appetite
was in good trim for it, too; such lunches
as I had eaten along the route were only
lunches, and I was ready to sit down toa
“good square meal.’’ I noticed in going
to my room that there were servants
stationed in each hall, so 1 questioned
one of them about the way to the dining-
room, and was duly ushered into the
presence of the head waiter.

I have seen a great many prominent
men in my time, but there are only two
classes who completely overpower me:
head waiters at hotels apd officers in the
militia. This particular waiter was the
beau ideal of self-complacency and im-
portance. Giving mea majestic wave of
a napkin in his hand to follow him, he
led me to a smail table, and then, with a
snap of his fingers,
to attend tome. It was wy first attempt
at wrestling with a bill of fare, and 1
was not at ail easy with it; 1 knew what
beefsteak and roast beef were when I
heard them mentioned, but I was not up
to French, and though there were more
things on the bill than I could possibly
eat, they were Frenchified to such an ex-

tent that 1 did not know what to call for.

But 1 managed to make my wants
known; when not sure of the proper way

to call what I wanted, I pointed it out on |
the bill to the waiter, and1 had ap ex-|

cellent dinner, or, as we would have

ealled it home, supper.

Going down to the office, 1 began to feel |
as if I were initiated in New York life, |
and I found my way to the reading-room, |

where I wrote home of my safe arrival.

The rest of the evening I spent in|

walking up and down Broadway, looking
in the windows of the stores and watch-
ing the passers-by. It was all as won-
derful to me as any of the stories in the |
‘Arabian Nights,’ aud I already pictured |

myself as a hero in relating these won-|

ders when I got home.

Though I was very tired I did not}
sleep soundly that night. The perpetual |
rumbling of the ’busses, the walking in
the halls, the strangeness of the bed and

whether we |

called a waiter)

| My first call was on a firm who were |
| personal friends of Mr. Ely. 1 was struck |
with the air of quietness that pervaded |
the store; no one paid any attention to}
me as I proceeded through tables, upon |
| which cloths were piled, towards the of- |
| fice. I saw several men in the room, but
| while they appeared to be busy, they
were as quiet as if they were in church.
Before I reached the office a young man
/met me with a nod of ‘‘good morning,”
| but his face asked, ‘‘Whatdo you want?”
| ‘Is Mr. Gray in?” I asked.
“Yes; do you want to see him?”
‘I do; I have a letter for him.”’
“Step this way.”

| proved to be the private office of the
| head of the house, and I found myself in
| the presence of Mr. Gray. He looked up
inquiringly as 1 entered, so I at once
proceeded to business. ‘l am from
, on business for Mr. Ely, and
have brought you a letter from him.”’’

‘“Please sit down,’’? he said, at the
same time taking the letter. After glanc-
ing over it, he said: ‘‘Mr. Ely says you
were never in New York before; if we
can be of help to you in any way, I hope
you will feel free to call upon us. I will
speak to Mr. Fry, so that he will under-
stand matters if I am not here.”’

He touched a bell and the young man
who had shown me the office answered
the summons.

“Mr. Fry, this is Mr. Rowland; he is
here to buy goods for Mr. Ely, of
Please give him any assistance he may
need in finding localities, etc.”

When I was out with Mr. Fry he
promptly put me through a course of
questioning as to what I was going to
buy; how long I was staying in town;
where [ was stopping, and what I was
going to do evenings. He showed me
where the principal houses were that we
dealt with, and made himself very pleas-
ant and useful.

**By the by,’’ said he, as we were part-
ing, ‘don’t you want to go to the theater
to-night? ll be at the hotel in the
evening. and glad to go with you if you
like.”

I thanked him and said I would like to
see the theater. The world was suddenly
opening before me.

—___——~_ -6 <=
Official Notice of Grand Rapids Meet-
ing.

Owosso, Feb. 14—The Board of Phar-
macy will hold a meeting for the ex-
amination of candidates in the Blodgett
Building, corner of Ottawa and Louis
streets, Grand Rapids, Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 5 and 6, commen-
cing at 9 o’clock a. m., Tuesday. All
candidates must be present at that hour.
(Take the elevator to the hall.)

Candidates must file their applica-
tions with the Secretary and must fur-
nish affidavits showing that they have
had the practical or college experience
required before taking the examination.

Applications for examination and
blank forms for affidavits for practical
or college experience may be obtained
from the Secretary.

Commencing with the Grand Rapids
meeting, the writing, grammer and spell-
ing, as shown in the candidate’s paper,
will be taken into consideration in
marking percentages. This step is
taken in complizace with a resolution
passed by the State Pharmaceutical
Association at its meeting in Detroit last
summer.

Other meetings will be held during the
| year as follows:

June 24—At Detroit (Star Island).

August—At some Point in the Upper
Peninsula.
| November 5—At Lansing.

STANLEY E. PARKILL, See’y

——— <a
The Scotch commission of six men
| who have been investigating the drink-
jing habits of the Scottish people con-
| sumed daily one dozen bottles of beer,
| one dozen bottles of ale, one dozen bot-
| tles of mineral water, a bottle of whisky,
and a bottle of sherry, and the Scotch

papers are very much amused over it.

 

 

 

 

Il followed him to the door of what |

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.

so! ey BEHNKE & SONS,

E. Bridge 8t., Grand Rapids.

 
 
 
 
 
 

CHICAGO _Nov. 18, 1804

AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y.

 

GOING TO CHICAGO.
Ly. G’d — eee : en = 25pm *11:30pm
| Ar. Chica 6:50pm *7:20am
RETURNING ‘FROM "CHICAGO

Ly. Chicago.. .....8:25am 5:00pm *11 :45pm
Ar. Gd Rapids. ee 3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm = 30pm

Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm :0:25pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.

Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm

Ar. Mamiebee........ 12:20pm 8:15pm

Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm

Ar. Charievoiz...... 3:15pm 11:10pm

Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 11:40pm

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

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS.
Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar
rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicagy 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6:25am.
*Every day. Others week days only.

a, =<=*

2
LANSING & NORTHERN R. R.

 

 

Geer BIOS . one

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

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

 

Send me a trial order for
a mixed car of

Flour,
Feed,
Hay,
Etc.

6. H. Behnke,

30 East
Bridge Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

k. G. DUNYON & 60.

Will buy all kinds of Lumber—
Green or Dry.
Office and .Yards, 7th St. andjC.f[& W. M. R. R.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

 

 

 

“The Niagara Falis Route.’’

(Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894.)
Arrive. Depart.
eweu........ Detroit Express ........ 70am

: —am....-. *Atlantic and Pacific..... 1i @pm
‘= eee New York Express...... 6 00pm
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 pin, arriving at Grand
Rapids 10:20 p m.

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

. ALMQuisT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

 

GOING TO DETROIT.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
ae, Deiees........--... 11:40am 56:30pm 10:10pm

RETURNING, FROM DETROIT.
te 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12: 40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8ST. LOUIS.
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL.
Ly. Grand Bapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5: _
Ar. trom Lowell.......... 12:40pm 5:20pm ...

THROUGH. CAR SERVICE.

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

Trains week days onl ¢;

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN
WAUKEE Railway.

& MIL-

 

EASTWARD.
{tNo. 14/tNo. 16)tNo. 18/*No.

 

Trains Le ve

G’d Rapids, Ly | 6 45am 10 20am| 325pm|1100pm
faa Ar! 740am|11 25am| 4 27pm/1235am

St. Johns cor 8 25am/12 17pm! 520pm); 1am
weed. ...... Ar! 900am/ 1 20pm) 6 05pm; 3 10am
E. Saginaw..Ar jo 50am} 3 po pee 6 40am
Bay City.....Ar/|113'amj| 435pm) § 37pm| 715am
Pies ....-... Ar}10 05am} 345pm) 7 05pm) 5 4Cam
Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pm/ 550pm) 8 50pm) 7 30am
Foutisc...... Ar |1053am| 305pm)| 8 25pm} 5 37am
Detroit....... Ar|1150am} 405pm/ 925pm!| 7 00am

 

 

WESTWARD.
For out Haven and Intermediate

*7 :00ja. m.
For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 P. m.
Mil. and Chi. ..¢5:35 Pp. m.

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12 250
p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:0 p.m.

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

Eostward-—Mo. 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 & Indians.
TRAINS GOING NORTH,

 

Leave going

North
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:40a. m.
Oe bicker enieiiaeeeccon enn mmnae -5:00 p. m.
For Petoskey and Mackinaw..............0.. 5:25 p m.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Leave going

South.
eee... 7:25 a.m.
For Kalamazoo and Ohicago... ...... .... 2:15 p. m.
For Fort Wayneand the East................ 2:15 p.m.
ieee eee oeekieene meen "65:40 p.m.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p.m

Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R.

Ly Grand Rapids........ 7:25am 2:15pm 11:40pm
Oe a once, :40 p 9:05pm 7:10am

m
2:15 p m train hacdiooe Wagner Buffet Parlor
Car and coach.

. —oe P m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car

and Coac

Lv a 6:50a m er 11:30p m

Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm 9:15pm 7:20am
3:30 p m has through — sl Buffet Parlor Car

11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping ‘Car

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For = From ine Oa

1:00p m
4:40 Dm

1: isp. =
5:20pm
O .L. LOCKWOOD‘
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

KNGRAWINGi

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

TRADESMAN CO.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

PURE FOOD FOOLISHNESS.

 

Some of the Pernicious Features of the

Brundage Bill.
Written for THE TRADESMAN,

I have read, with much pleasure, your
comment on some of the iniquitous fea-
tures of the so-called Brundage bill, rep-
senting the wisdom—or deplorable ig-
norance—of our State Food Commissioner
on this important subject. While I see
many unwise and truly deplorable fea-
tures in the proposed measure, I cannot
help feeling that the most pernicious
features of the bill are those which com-
pel the manufacturers of food products
which comprise more than one ingredi-
ent to brand their goods with the names
and amounts of their constituent ele-

ments.
Unfortunately, manufacturers of food

products, canned, compounded, orin any
way mixed or prepared, cannot protect
themselves in these formulas by patent.
Manufacturers of such articles are con-
stantly catering to public taste and pop-
ular requirements. Sometimes they are
trying to prepare a more palatable ar-
ticle, sometimes one that will keep
longer, and sometimes one that will be
cheaper or more economical. It is to
the public interest to encourage such en-
terprise and industry, which results
fully as much to the public benefit as to
private profit. Since formulas such as
are above described cannot be protected
by patent, it naturally follows that the
only possible protection is that of se-
crecy. All manufacturers pride them-
selves upon their secret formulas.
Each is jealous of his neighbor, and,
naturally, unwilling to afford his com-
petitor and rival in his own line of busi-
ness the knowledge of the formula used
by himself, and the success or advan-
tage of a formula may depend fully as
much upon some newly discovered or
previously unused ingredient as upon

the percentage of the same.
Tobacco may#ot be considered a food

product. I mention it, however, because
the history of the manufacture of to-
bacco affords such a vivid example to il-
lustrate my argument. Almost every
reputable tobacco manufacturer in the
United States uses different ingredients
in flavoring his tobacco, whether it be
plug or smoking; the success of any
brand of tobacco may depend upon its
attractive aud popular flavoring. If a
manufacturer who has discovered the
finest flavoring in the market were com-
pelled to announce its ingredients, it
would be all that his rival would need
to deprive the discoverer of all advan-
tages of his enterprise and originality, and
it would be simple enough matter to as-
certain the percentages.

It is not necessary, however, to rely
upon the tobacco illustration. The ecat-
alogue of food products involved is suffi-
ciently long. Take, for example, Lea
& Perrin’s Worcestershire sauce as the

representative of a long list of similar!

sauces and condiments, such as salad
dressings, baking powders, catsups, and
other attractive edible viands, the suc-
cessful introduction of which tothe pub-
lie depends upon the right of the manu-

facturer to protect his formula from the

knowledge of his competitors. All the
imitative pirate would like to know
would be the ingredients in Lea &

Perrin’s sauce disclosed by order of the
Legislature, to enable such a competitor
to put the ingredients together himself
in different proportions until he arrived
at the exact percentages.

Take the case of a bright and skillful
house-keeper who might make an extraor-
dinarily nice mince pie. Let us call her
Mrs. Smith. Her cheeky and indolent
neighbor, Mrs. Jones, comes in and says,
‘Oh, Mrs. Smith! Please tell me whatit
is you put in your mince pies which
makes them so deliicious.’”? It is to be
observed that all Mrs. Jones wants to
know is the ingredients. Lazy and inex-
perienced as she may be, Mrs. Jones
will take her chances of being able to
find out for herself the percentages re-
quired.

Mince meat is a canned and com-
pounded article of food for sale by all
grocery stores. If it must be labelled
with the ingredients, so must granula,
cerealin, fruit puddine, and many other
farinaceous preparations, blends or com-
pounds of wheat flour, corn meal, oat
meal, rye flour, etc. This catalogue will
include broma, cocoa, baking powders,
lactated food, and, besides mince meat,
many other lines of canned goods brought
out in recent years to save kitchen work,
such as pork and beans, plum pudding,
brown bread, and, moreover, the many
articles made a specialty of by the Shak-
ers and the Oneida community and other
preservers scattered all through the
country, constituting a most worthy and
deserving portion of our national popu-
lation. I could go, also, into the domain
of meats and mention sausage, head-
cheese or Chili con Carne. Any such
product being labelled with the ingre-
dients must ‘‘give away’’ the seasoning
or flavoring which is the manufacturer’s
sole secret and the result of his own in-
genuity and for which he has a right to
claim the protection of secrecy.

Should the law enact that people who
thus devote the best energies and all the
resources of their intellect and skill to
the preparation of wholesome and at-
tractive articles of mixed or compounded
food are entitled to no protection or re-
ward for the results of their industry, in
the privacy of their cooking receipts and
formulas, but must publish and print the
ingredients of each upon the labels of all
their packages, it is plain that ruin will
befall this most important branch of
business; and, while the private citizen is
deprived of rights which ought to be
guaranteed him, under our constitu-
tion and laws, as the right of property,
as much as the author is protected by
copyright, so at the same time the pub-
lie will suffer from the destruction of
this business, because no man can be in-
duced to enter upon or remain in a busi-
ness where he is deprived of all profit by

law. RADIX.
—____>_0 <>
Better Than a Book-keeper.
The twelve-year-old son of A. D.

Fisher, grocer at 445 Lyon street, by the
use of Shaw’s Name File, keeps all the
accounts of his father’s business, inelud-

 

ing merchandise and cash accounts, in
such a way that they are always ready
for settlement, by devoting twenty-five
minutes daily to the work. Mr. Fisher
formerly devoted a couple of hours’ time
daily to the same work before the pur-
chase of the file.

The importations from Great Britain
during the last four months of 1893
were $15,305,665. During the same
;} months of 1894 they amounted to $28,-
590,560. The exports during the same
periods had diminished $14,288,485.
These changes in the condition of
trade account largely for the outflow
| of the Treasury goid.

 

 

 

Worden
Grocer
Co.,

Exclusive Agents for
KIRK’S SOAPS,
MAYER’S “HOME MADE” LARD,
JERSEY CHEESE.

CORNER IONIA and FULTON
STREETS,

Grand Rapids.

We Carry
A High Grade of Canned Goods,
All the Popular Brands of Tobacco,
The Best Brands of Coffee,
Choice Teas, and a
General Line of Groceries.

Order anything you want—we have it, and will guarantee
prices and goods to suit you.

 

Swift's Cotosuet

shortening that the world ever knew.

cooking fat.

selling shortening on the market where introduced.
trade bringer and trade keeper in this line.

One of the Largest [lakers of Shortening in America Makes It,
Endorses It, and Stands Back of It.

Sold by the foilowing Grand Rapids jobbers.

Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Musselman Grocer Co.,

Worden Grocer Co., I. M. Clark Grocery Co.,
Lemon & Wheeler Co., Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,
Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.

Made only by

Swift and Company,

Chicago.
hard to get,

OYSTERS *

Allyn Frias Them

106 Canal St.

 

are high and

Telephone 1001.

Use Yradesmans Wants Column.

They Return Excellent Results.

 

  

 

 

 

14

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Drug Department.

 

Stuie KBeard uf “harmacy

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach Ain Arbor.

Two Years—-George Gundrum, tonia.

Three Years—C.A Bug bee, Charlevoix.

For Years—S8. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Five Years—F.W.R. Perry, De‘roit.

President—¥red’k W .R Perry, Detroit.

Secretary —-Stanley E Parkil!, Owosso

Yreasnrer -Geo. Gundrum, lonia
Coming Meetings—Grand Rapids, March 5; Detroit
(Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov 5.

Ase’nD

 

Michigas State Pharmaceutic i
President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit
Vice-Presidenc—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W Dupont, Detroit.
Secretay—F.C Thompzon., Detroit.

 

A Therapeutic Shotgun Theory.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

If Hippocrates, who for many cen-
turies has been dissolved into earth’s
material elements, were to be restored

to-day to his eriginal condition of ani-
mate sentience, what a revelation the
present system of wholesale patent dis-
pensing would be to his astonished vi-
sion! Believing. as he did, in the scien-
tifie application of remedial agents to
the cure of disease, and the necessity of
watching. not only the varying stages of
but also the idiosyn-
erasies of individual patients that should
be considered the administration of
remedies, the now in vogue
suggest that his
in the

human maladies,

in
methods
would the conclusion
favorite science had retrograded
hands of posterity, in spite of all the ad-
vantages of time and oppertunity that
should have insured progress,

He was accustomed to treat each case
earetully aceording to the symptoms as
to the effect of
each medicine on the different stages of
data
Also,

was studied

developed. and reeord
the disea-e, thus furnishing useful
for compati-on in future
the

relat ve tonite

Cases.

result of each remedy

mdiviual action on cer-
tain organs and its tendency to affect the
untavorably;

who'e system faverably or

in shert. he ts beheved to have made each
Case a sted). and the record was not so
much to build up a general uniform rou-
tine in medical practice as to add actual
experience to professional Judgment, in

order to aid that judgment in future
diagnores.
The pharmacology of his day was, un-

doubtedly, far inferior tu the present;
but the principles he appliedin his prac-
tice and teaching have, in large measure,
survived the lapse of time and are to-
day, among the majority of regular phy-
sicians, considered orthodox.

theory

of medern practice which ignores the ex-

but there has arisen a certain
perience of the past and the judgmeut of
of standing,
who are always expecied act as the

professional men highest
lo
court of last resort ip all eases of doubt
or danger. It is built on wholesale lines

and may properly be called the thera-

peutic shotgun theory. In searching for
weapons with which to combat disease, a
medicine proprietors
that
tange of maladies.

portion of patent
shall cover
{n their
weapons one that
does to hit, at short
range, from ten to fifty differeut diseases
or symptonis is rated as second class.

Pet formulas of some old physician
whose sauds of life are run out, leaving
him on the other shore, where he cannet
interfere with the therapeutic artillery
practice of this, constitute the base of
many such medicinal cartridges. By
using the posthumous fame of suen as
he, bis residuary legatees hope to attain
greater renown and, whatis more to be
desired, vaster personal wealth. As the
legendary and mysterious naturally at-

seek for a combination
the
arsenal

widest

of offensive

not scatter 80 as

tract a class of minds ready to give
credence to claims that rest only on tra-
ditional myths, many other formulas said
to be obtained from the list of crude veg-
etable remedies used by Indian doctors
with uniform success are also material-
ized iuto medicinal ammunition, and for
a like purpose; but, in compounding, it
is thought advisable to rearrange and add
new ingredients, so as to give such mis-
siles a wider therapeutic range. They
are then heralded to the world as univer-
sal pain-destroyers, panaceas, ete. To
more fully carry terror into the ranks of
the common enemy, some are fitted into
shells bearing names coined from cer.ain
polysyllabie Greek derivatives, which
also serve to catch the attention of in-
valids and stimulate a desire for posses-
sion. These medicated Columbiads,
fitted with time fuses, are placed in the
hands of wholesale and retail distribu-
ters and, after wide notice through the
press to the millions who suffer, are dis-
charged into the crowd of refractory dis-
eases that are supposed to be secretly
sapping the foundation of public health.
To the weary and disconraged class af-
flicted with ailments that have stubbornly
refused to retire at the command of ex-
perienced physicians, and to all who ac
knowledge self-preservation to be the
first law of nature, these missiles partic-
ulariy appeal. Although they may fail
to dislodge the entrenched force of the
enemy, avd perhaps even enrage him to
reprisals of added pain, yet hope springs
eternal in the human breast, and the de-
mand continues to increase in proportion
the advertising expenses roll up.
Every bacillus k'lled or wounded is bul-

as

letined as glorious news from the seat of
war, and affidavits by the thousand from
real or fictitious artillerymen in the field
are received with a hurrah
broadcast, to reanimate the flag
ging confidence of the many, thus en

and at once
sown

coutaging an increased demand for am-
wunition that scatters —and by good luck
sometimes hits the bull's-eye.

It is useless to eriticise this theory,
though it bristles with the most obvious
absurdities. It does no govud for a rea-
soning man to enquire how they expecta
certain compound to be an active cure-all
for diseased organs so unlike in nature
and function, and which are subject to
so many different pathological condi-
tions; nu use to ask how a liniment can
possibly be compounded that will cure
twenty separate maladies of the horse
and, at the same time, be equally effica-
cious in a like number of ailments com-
}mon tothe human race. It is difficult
for an intelligent person to reason him-
self into the belief that a single prepara-
tion, no matter from what ingredients
compounded, can harmoniously work
remedial effects in various stages of dis-
eases . ffecting the throat, lungs, heart,
stomach, kidneys, liver, brain and all the
delicate tissues of the human organism,
as is claimed for so many medicinal
patents of to-day; however, no one is ex-
pected to strain his perceptive faculties
in compassing such therapeutic incom
patibilities. The fact is that the litera-
ture that builds up a trade in certain
patent medicines is written by men who
make the wording of advertisements a
special study, and these carefully pre-
pared advertisements are not intended so
, much to instruct as to confuse. They
| appeal to the susceptibilities of invalids,
just as the deft manipulations of the ma
gician appeal to the eye of the wonder-

 

 

 

ing spectator. As pictured forth in the
language of pathological rhapsody, the
unreal becomes the real, and the judg-
ment is confused between what the
reader knows of his own symptoms and
what is impressed upon him by an off-
hand hypothetical diagnosis. Even med-
ical students often find themselves car-
ried into the realm of hypochondriacal
fancy when reading practical scientific
treatises on the cause and cure of ills to
which all flesh is heir; and how much
easier for an actual sufferer to lose his
mental equipoise when a learned (?) ex-
planation of his physical organs is sup-
plemented by illustrations showing the
progress of disease and the curative
process sure to follow the taking of the
medicine so confidently urged upon his
acceptance. Especially is this the case
when fortified by endless testimonials,
preved genuine beyond peradventure by
the actual (?) portraits of sufferers who
gladly testify how they crossed the Rubi-
con of doubt and, by the use of half a
dozen bottles. were enabled to land on
the happy shore of regained health. Un-
der such mental! illusions itis not strange
that the mind of the invalid, wearied
with many failures to find relief
through a course of scientific treatment,
accepts chances in a lottery of therapeu-
tic prizes, where the large majority are
fated to draw blanks, a goodly number
gain only chunks of experience, and a
few lucky ones secure many times the
worth of their money in improved health.

lt must vot be inferred, from the fore-
going attempt to traverse the salient
points of asystem employing wholesale

so

methods of medication, that it is done in |

a cynical spirit.
paring special be
used for minor ailments according to in

remedial agents, to

dividual discretion, has too much justifi- | {
eation in merit and honorable precedent |

for anyone to justly assail it as a whole.
However, the multiplication of such rem-
edies in ever increasing lines of trade
has furnished many instances of charla-
tanry that, if unchallenged, have a ten-
dency to throw discredit on legitimate
enterprises whose proprietors put me-

The business of pre- |

—|/

 

 

   

dicinal compounds on the market with due
regard to their therapeutic action, and
whose promoters do not promise more
than can be justified by scientific expe-
rience.

As to another class, whose criminal in-
stinets seek profit by pandering to the
precociousness of the young, the follies
and fears of middle age, and the hopes of
senile profligates, who are ever looking
for the impossible—something that shall
restore wasted energies—they make the
shotgun theorists, by comparisen, ex-
ponents of pure scientific beneficence.
More resembling green goods men in pur-
pose, their suecess is secured through
false pretenses and the use of alleged
mysterious forces of nature claimed to be
powerful curative agents. To complete
the parallel, they avoid open newspaper
advertising, and, while obtaining numer-
ous customers among acredulous public,
each applicant is treated according to
his urgency and the length of his wallet.
To speak of them at length wuuld neces-
sitate a process of thorough disinfection;
they are introduced in the closing para-
graph of this article simply to point a
moral through a darker shade of compar-
ison. S. P. WHITMARSH.

 

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

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

  

Beely’s Lemon,
i (Wrapped)
Doz Gro.
loz. $ 90 10 20
Zoz. 1230 128 60
40r. 200 22 80
60z. 300 33 00
Seely's Vanilla
Wrapped)

Dez. Gro.
1oz.$160 16 20

200 21 60
40z. 3 75 40 80
—— 5 40 57 60

Plain N.S. with

corkscrew at same
price if preferred.

2 oz.

Correspondence

Solicited
CO., Detroit Mich.

SEFLY MFG.

 

 

Wellauer & Hoffman Co.,  HilWauKee, WS., WiOieSOlG DISITIDUIETS.

J. A. Gonzalez, Michigan Representative, Grand_Rapids.

Rac ORR YATRA

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

 

 

 

 

Advanced—Gum Camphor, Cod Liver Oil,

Declined—Oil Anise, Morphia.

Linseed Oil, Turpentine, Flint Glassware, Corks.

 

  

ACIDUM.
aoe wc 8s 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 65@ 7
meee ow 15
Carbolicum . -- =e 3
ee 41@ 44
Fete tee .....-..... Se 5
Niece ............ BE
Caaicum .......-..... 10@ 12
Phosphorium dil...... 20
Salcvrcum ........... 7@ 7%
Sulphuricum.... .. 1X%@ 5
Temsecum............-. is 40@1 60
Tartaricum.. “ 30@ 33
AMMONIA,
Aqua, 16 Gee.......... 4@ 6
Gee ......... 61@ 8
cums Pee ep ua ewes 12@ 14
Coltitom ............ 12@ 14
ANILINE.
Black............-++0+- 2 0O@2 25
meeees................. = 00
a... .......... 50
voce ............. 2 5003 00
BACCAE.
Cubeae (po 25)...... 20@ 235
Jenteeees............. 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum... .... %@ W
BALSAMUM.
Te a 5@ 50
— i. on oe
Terabin. Canada .... 45@ 50
Poreeee............... 35@ 50
CORTEX
_— Canediam............ 18
as |. ................ 2
Ginchona Flava eo
Euonymus atropurp........ 30
Myrica Cerifera, po........-. 20
Praunms Virgini............-. 12
—, oo... ......... 10
Saeeeee .........---...--.- 12
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ =
aematox, 151b. box.. 11@ 12
” ie... 13@ 14
ss i... ..... 14@ 15
= $GB.... se. 16@ 17
FERRU
‘arbonate Precip.....-. @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50
Citrate Soluble......-. 80
Ferrocyanidum - @ BO
Solut ages 8 .
hate, com’l.....-- :
— pure... . eo 7
FLORA
Arnica .... 12@ 14
Anthemis .......-.---- 18@_ 25
Matricaria —sic ss > 18@25
FO).A
et esse 14@ 30
Cassin “,cutitol, Tin-
nivelly eee ae teceeee 18@ 2
- Alx. 2@ 30
fficinalis, 48 '
a. eo , 12Q 20
Ura Ural ee 8@ 10

GUMMI.
Acacia, ist picked ...
“i 24 vig Hee
6 sa

“gifted sorte. i

eae

os ne.....-
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60) . 50D
ss Cape, (po. 20) .. @
Socotri, (po. 6). @
— 1s, (48, 14 4¢8,
ie eae @ }
Ammonise ... 55@Q 60
Assafostide, (po Bo: 50@ 2
Bernsoinum.. .- we =
Camphors .....------: 42@ 50
Eu horbium - ie 35 b 10
Galbanum ‘ _@2 50
Gamboge, po. 65) 80
Guaifacum, (po 35: .. @ 3
Kino, (po 2 50 ....-- @2 50
ena a S :
Myrr 0 es i
Ovi (Po, 2083 DO). .2 35@2 40
Gheuee .. ..--.----- 40@ 60
” bleached 4 4@ 45
Tragacanth .. 50@ 80
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthinum ........-....-.-- 25
Eupatorium.... ......---.-- 20
—- ae stesceeeseeess 2B
Major oe
Mentha Piperita. Le tes =
Re sasier 30
Tansootum, V.....-..----«-- ee
Thymus, V......------------ 25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat... ...... 5@ 60
Carbonate, Pa UW@ w

Carbonate, K. 4.... 2S =
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36

  
  
  

OLBUM.
Abetathium. ........- 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae,Dulc... .. 30@ 50
Amydalae, Amaras....8 O0@S 25
SS ee ..2 00@2 10
Auranti Cortex. --1 80@2 00
a hea 3 00@3 20
aaeengil 70 8
Caryophy ?
a 35@ 65
Chencpodii . ‘ @i
Cinnamonii ... -1 253@1 49
Citronella ..... : @
Conium Mac...... 3Q@ 65

Copaiba........ ...... 80@ 90

 

Comoe... i 40@1 50

Exechthitos..

a i 2
Genitheria ............
Geranium, ounce.....
Gossipil, Sem. gal.

Hedoonia 000000)..0))
wemaper........
et
a

Mentha Piper

Mentha Verid.

Morrhuae, gai
See ounce

 

Rosae, ounce.
Suceini......
Sabina ....
Santal ....
Sassafras.

Sinapis, eRs, ‘ounce...
Tiglii

 

op ks
htehounae ee.
POTASSIUM.
Care...
Sronromate
Dramoe.......... |.

Carb..

Chlorate ( (Po. 17@i9)..

Cyani
Iodide.

Potassa, Bitart, pure.
Potassa, Bitart, com.
Potass Nitras, opt .
Potess Nitcras..........
Erumieto .............
Saigeaie po... C..
RADIX,

Acoma ........ _...
A
Aten |... |...
a

Calamus .....

Gentiana (po. 000
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15) ..
ae Canaden,

eens 3 Ala, pe....
mel po...
pee os... i
Iris sion ¢ (po. —-
Jalan, OF...

Maranta, I¢s

“ent .

——

Sanguinaria, (po ®)..

Serpentaria..
Sene

ee

po
Valeriane, Eng. (po. 30)
German. .
oe
Einetoe: j.........-
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20)..
Apium (graveleons)..
Ce
Carai, Qpo. 1S) ........
Coen... 8. 1
Carrs... .......
Cannabis Sativa... -.

Syéonium

Chenopodium
Dipter!x
Foeniculom
Foenugreek. po

Lini
Lin, grd. (bbl, 3%).

Stnepi A Are _......

Ras. .......

SPIRITUS.

Frament!, W., D. Co
. D.7.8

us

Juntperis Co. 0. T...

Saacharum N. EK
ont, Vini Galll........

Vini Oporto
Vini Alba

SPONGBS.
Florida ee ne’

Carriage
Nassaa sheepa”
Carriage

Velvet extra sheeps’

wool carriage.

Extra yellow aheepa’

carriage

az
Grasse sheops’ wool Gar-

riage

ae |...
Hard for slate use.

Yellow Reef, for slate

a...

SYRUPS.
ee...

eres Creee..........-. 005
a ee ..........
Similax Officinalis..

Mocs ce eevee ee
eee
=  ©8............4-.-
NR noo ie ecc ese
Pome Oe.............. «

 
 
 

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Podophylium, alee
Rhel. al

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SB

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BREST

our

ga
Similax, Officinalis. i
Sceillae, (po. %)........

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BEB oo Se98
Be BB BD TS Og

Sidisie

25 | Cassia Froctus........
Comtrerte 3... |...

Odorate _..

bt ete OD

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TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis 4

- aa fete...
Arnica toes

Sangutnanta lop oem oe tee
Pere
Canthasiges.... ...._...
Cameegm
Ca camen.. ......

  
  
  

‘0
Commie... ,....
Comiim ...........
ae.

mmo
ae
Hyoscvamms...........
loa...
- Colorless. .....
Ferri ee ao.

Nux ‘“eidii ete eel ce
Opli .

* Camphorated....._! me
[ eo 2
Aueame Cortom...... .......
oe...

oe
Cassia Acutifol......... ...
- - co...
ge
ne,
Tolutan . i

Maletan oe
Veratrum Voride............

MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts Nit,3 F..
‘ “ec se 4 F i

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oo

to

ESR

Ameen
C ground, (po.

sds

Annatto..
Antimoni, ‘po.
et ‘Potass T 5
Antipyrin ..
Smeironrin.........
Argent! Nitras, ounce
Breeton... ... 5...
Balm Gilead Bud....

cook’
SBRSSoF0

Sse,

Dimas &. W....... 1 40@1 50

Calcium = 1s, (48
a ae @ 11
Cantharides Russian,
ro... @1 00
Capsici Fructus, af. @ 2%
@ 2
“ “ @ 20
Caryophyllus, 1 12
Carmine ‘No. ee 8
Cera Alba, Rae.....
Com fiw...
oe.

.
BESRSaRa

pene eee een oes
oroforin . --a.- OO
zquibba 2 @

Chior: Hyd ‘Crat . 1 25@1
Chondrus ...... ‘
Cinchonidine, ‘b&w 15@
German 3%9
— list, dis. per
at i

ro RR EY Beg

a. 65
Pn oe o &
Creta, (bbl. 76 @
prep | 5S@ 6&6
——)...... 9% 11
an... @ ¢
Crocus 40
Cudbear...... “7. 24
Cupri Salph . 5@ 6
Dextrine 10@ 12
Ether Sulph 75@ 90
Emery, = numbers.. @
a @ 6
Brgota, (po.) ae 30@ 35
Flake e.......... Dee
oe SoS w
Gambier... 7, @s
Gelatin, Cooper S@ 6
' French BUG 50
Glassware flint. by box 9).

Less than box 5&0.

Glue, —........d.l6hlU
> eee ROR 138@ 25
Glycerina . 13@ 2
Grans Paradist. @ 2
Humulus.. 2@ 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite. @ 7%
@ 6
. Ox aia @ 8
' Ammoniatt.. @ %
" Unguentum. 45@ 55
= Grargyrum ......... @ 60
chthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50
Dee eset eee 5@1 00
ae Bewen........ 3
Sogcmerm.............. @4 70
aes 8 ee. @2 2
ama bee ee eae oe WO@ 6
a ae 7 5
Liquor Arsen et Hy-

@
ee ee ee 10@ 12
2%@ 4
60@ 63

— Sulph
Mannia, Ae

Piper Alba, (po g5).. @
Burgun

— S.P.&W. 195@2 20] seialitzs Mixture...... @ | Linseed, boiled.. 62 65
: -N.¥LG & Sinapis ee dee ae @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
Ce... Toe it 6 hme @ i strained ......|..
Moschus Canton... .. 40 Snuff, sober De SpiritsTurpentine.. 36 40
Myristica, No 1 .. 65@ 70 Voee........ @ 3
Nux Vomica, (po2).. @ 10| snug “Secteh, De. Voes @ 3B PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
Ce Soe 1 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 8-16). 7@ 9] Red Venetian.. ---1% 2@8
— Saac, H. & P. D. fai — et Potass Tart... am 25 Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2@4
Sie le ele eal al os wi ateen: | ........ 1% 5. lll Trl 1
Picis Liq, N..C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5] Putty, commercial. iat 3
BOR oa ees, 2 00} Soda, Ash............. 3K@ 4)_“ strictly pure a Qe 2%
Picis Lig., — e = Soda, Sulphas. . : @-2 — e Ameér-
teens Spts. Ether Co ........ 0@ 55 dc eee. wel |
Pil Hydrary, (po. 80)... @ 50 Ki Myrcia Dom..... @2 | Vermilion, English.. _—
Piper Nigra, (po. _ @ 1 “ Myreia lap .. .. @2 50 | Green, Peninsular. os 13@16
3 Vint Rect. bbl. Lead, red.. _.. oan

A eT 2479257) “| whit - BM
12 ‘ie 5¢e gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. @70

 

 

Pree sera ace... 0W@
uivis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20] Strychnia Crvystal..... 1 40@1 45 | Whiting, Gilders’...... 96
Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, 8 ol 2x 3 White, Hem: American ?
& P. D. Co., doz..... @1 25 a 2 @2 Whiting, Paris Eng.
Pyrethram, py....._.. 2g 20/| tamearinds............ es
Guariog 8@ 10] Terebenth Venice..... 2 30 | Universal Prepared ..1 cowi i
Quinia, Bray. --44@39% —— _ sng a VARNISHES,
S. German.. 27@ 37} Vanilla... ........... No.1 Turp Coach..
Rubia Tinctorum..... 195 14{ Zinci Sulph.. ........ 7@ 8| Extra Tarp = 1001 0
Saccharum Lactispy. 12@ 14 Coach B .2 %5@3 00
POC 2 30@2 50 OILS. No. 1 Turp —— eae 1 1 10
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ Gal | Eutra Turk Damar....1 1 60
Sapo, ee - 12@ 14] Whale, winter... 7 <—— Dryer, No. 1
a... 10@ 12 Lard, extra.... . = a wee. io, iz
ee @ iter Nei... ‘ 45

Linseed, pureraw.... 59 62

 

 

 

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We Sell for

Medicinal Purposes Only.

Canada Malt
Whisky

A Pure Medicinal Whiskey Distilled for Us from the Best

Grain.

Price $4.00_per doz,
7.50-per case of 2 doz.

SSS

Ss

 

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG 6O.,

Manufacturing Chemists,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GROC.

 

ERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before

going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
are given as re presenting average prices for average conditions of purchase.
who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the

below
those

greatest possible use to Ridin.

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

 

AXLE GREASE,

 

  

doz gross
Aurora 55 6 00
Jastor Oil i 60 7 00
Diamond..... 50 5 50
ef 5 3 Ow
co... . 65 7 50
Paragon .. .. 5h 00
2A KING POWDER.
Acm®.
‘q iD. cals. 3 doz.... .
-. '
ib. '”* 1 60
ac. ......._- 10
Arctic.
% th cans 6 doz case. 55
—» “~ igec “ . 1 10
: = . 2
5, : . 900
are
3 27
Son S202 ~— -os--- |
9 4 $0
: . 400
eee
Red Star, Me tb cans 40
big fis)
C ‘1b oo
Telfer’s, %% Ib. cans, dos. 45
ti % lb. * oo ge
_ 1 9 ' ——- 50
Our Lead er, y .b cans. 45
Ye 4 apna Be 3
- fibcens..... . iw
BATH BRICK
2 dozen In Case.
Buaglish ee St
ee ek oe Oly
Domestic 60
BLUING., Gross
a arctic, 4 OZ ovals a 60
8 oz i mh 0 io
“ pints, ro ind i .9 0
lo. 2, siftir ng pox... 275
40
>. sae
2 on bell .... _ 50
Mextea! n Lig yuid, 4 oz . 3 0
8 Oz 6 SO
BROOMS,
40. 2 dorl .. 190
ag . 20
No. 2 Carpet 2 15
a. «|= oe 2 5¢
ParlorGem.... _ 2a
Common Whisk. _ =
eee ee i @
oe le 2 85
BRUSHES.
mm, + OF
Stove, . ee ae : =
. r= See cen eee 1
Rice Root Scrub,2 row.... 8&5
Rise Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25
Palmetto, goose............ 1 50
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.. 16
St tk ._-
ro ......-.._......., Ee
Wicking Loa
GCASKKNED GOODS,
Fish.
Clams,
Little Neck, =... 1 20
c-....... 1 90
att... Chowder.
3candard. SS 2
Cove Cysters
Stancard, Lib.. 7
ss 2 -.. 1.
Lobaters.
Star, 1 Ib.. : 2 45
- = 8 50
Sai... a
“s ce...
Mackerel.
StanGard, ! ...............
2 a 2 10
Mustard, 21b.. 2 25
Tomato 8 Sauce, =ie....--+. 2 o
Semsee, © i.......... 62 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, at oe 1%
a... .1 60
Alaska, = _
eee cet ee eee is
gh a “ae bee oboe i
Sardines.
American - bee oes 4%*D 5
ee
impor ted “i | @i0
ee eine ae 15@ié
Mustard us. ope eee 6@z
See... ...... 22
Troat.
a t .... 2 50
Fraite.
Applies.
3 ib. standard :
York State, gallons. i 27
Hamburgh, |

  
 
 

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

_—e
Live oak....... _. 1 40
rem Coes. LL 1 40
Lusk’s. is
Overland. ee 1
k berries.
i Tae... 85
—
Red. —o Qi 2
Pitted Hambureh . oe
Waste ....... i. 1 40
Erie ..... i
Damsons, ‘Ege Pinms and Green
Gages.
ae...) CC CLC isa
Calton... ....... 1 2
Goose berries.
aan... 13
—— hes.
a _... ‘ 1 10
Maxwell eee 1 50
| Cal tifornia Lo 160@1 75
(ore).
Vrore.... .....-.-....
fPomestie 001... 13
i Riverside.... [z
i Pineapples.
; Common. oe 1 00@1 30
| Fohnson’s sliced...... 2 50
' eraied...... 27
Booth’s eliced......... @2 5)
erased ........ G2 5
Quinces,
oe .............. 1 10
Raspberries,
Red.... 95
Black Hamburg.. ee. 1 46
Erie. black 120
Strawberries,
Lawrence 13
is ........... i=
a... 1 20
ras... 1%
Whortleberries,
Bineberrics ........ 85
Meats.
Corned beef Libby’s. 22
Roast beef Armour’s. 1.2 35
Potted ham, %, - ee 13
i 7
c ton gue, =... 1 35
. —__........ 7
' niin. Oe ae 95
Vegetables,
Beans,
Hamburgh stringices....... 1%
French style..... 2 00
_ Limas kh oo
ieee. Seen................ 3 oe
c sommes... ....... 7
Lewis Bcoston Baked........ 1 25
Bay State Gaked............ 1 2
World's Pair Baked........ 13
Picnie Baked... .......... 95
Corn.
Hamburgh .. oo
Livingston Eden . a, 109
Se
Honey Dee 13
mone Gioty .... .......
a... %
Peas,
Hamburgh eerromas....._.. i 80
early June ..
a Champion Eng..1 40
petit pols.......1 40
fancy sif — 1 65
eee a 95
Harris standerd.. 75
VanCamp’s marrofat 110
ei early June 1 30
Archer’s Early Blossom .. 1 25
oo 28
eins Mushrooms.
enon ........ oes cewccnss ol 1
—_—— 7
Erie. atecccencese OO
“Squash.
ee... 16
Succotash,
ee 1 35
Tomatoes.
Hancock ..
Excelsior .....
Eclipre.. ..
Hamburg...
Gallon
CHOCOLATE,
Baker’s,
Gorman Sweet... ......... ° 23
Sa. 37
Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43
CHEESE,
aes... 12%
— ....... ....,. 12
Boers... 4
———— . 12*%
a Medal...
ee ees 9
ee... e
ee 00
——. .......... 20
Limburger ...... @i5
Pe ice 2... G24
Beqmerers...... .. _.. G35
Sap Sago... ho S20
Schweitser, impor ted. 24
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CREAM TARTAR.

stricti y pure :
Telfer’s Absolute.
aoe... an

CATSTUP.

Blue Label Brand.
Half pint, 25 bottles ...
Pint ‘ ie
Quart 1 doz bottles .

Triumph Brand.

 

09 we ty
fs

alt pint, per dos........ .. 1s
Pret, 2o OOttes..............6 Oe
Cmert, per Gos ..... -.... 39S
CLOTHES PINS.
Serom boxes........... 40@45
COCOA SHELLS.
i> bees.......... —- 2
Less — ee Q3%
Pound packages....... '6X%@T7
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
—. 18
— ll
ae...
aL 21
Peaberry Se

Santos.
ror... oe
—.... le
aa. 22
as... 23

Mexican and Guatamala.
he ea 21
Good. a
Fancy.. Ce ee 24
—,
Prime . _
Milled . oe

Java.
oo oe
Private Growth.. 08
Mandehling . , 28

“Mocha.

Imitation . ae
Arabian... ' -28
‘ne.

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast-
{ng and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.
Package.
McLaughlin’s XXXX_  i2 36
as 21 86
Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 22
Extract.
oy City *% STOBB........ 76
16
Hummels, foil, RTOSS...... : 85
tin 2
CHICORY.
Bulk.. lS
ee... oS on i
CLOTHES LINES,
Cotton, 40 ft.......per dos. 1 2
. 50 ft.. . 14
. —o....... - 1 66
_ ao..... . 1%
' os... .... - 12
Tree 60 ft o 8
: 72 FE . 1 00

CONDENSED. MILK.
4 doz. in Case.

 

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 40
we. 6 25
a
(eos... 4 50
eee. 43

ae... 4...

 

Peerless evaporated cream 5 *5

 

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“Tradesman.’

 

#1 books, per hundred ... 2 00
g 2 “ ab oe nen 2 50
z 3 ‘ “a ae 3 00
zg 5 “ce ty “ee ie 3 on
210 . * 6 .. 40
ie . 500
‘‘Superior.”
#1 books, per hundred . 28
$2 _. oo
83 . - . -. oo
g 5 “ iT) “ ne 4 00
R10 ' _ _ .. 5 @
#20 se ‘“s “ ._.6e
Universal.”’
8 1 books, per hundred 83 00
$2 C e ons Oe
23 : 6 ..
85 ' a
#10 “i “ ne 6 00
«6 " 7 00

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

= books or over..
oe “

Ra “ “a : _- oO te
COUPON PASS BOOKS,

{Can be made to represent any
denomination from #10 down. |

So beeks... ..... a>
_— oo

5 per cent
0 “

 

  

: 2 00
— * . oo
oo | - 6S
so * . 10 00
100 =“ 17 50

CREDIT CHECKS,
500, any one denom’ m..... $3 00
1006, ee 5 00
“ “ee os a 8 00
Steel punch —.
CRACKERS.
Butter.
Seymour XxX.. ele
ee XxX, cartoon...
Pome Eee... C......
Family xxXX, cartoon......
Salted XXX.. Soa ae
Salted XXX, cartoon ......
ae |.
Boston. St ee eee
Butter ipieeake
Soda.
ne ee - S&
an —— 2
soos, Duchem............. 8%
ovens Weer... LL. 1034
Long Island Wafers ...... li
a
oS. Geaeer EEE... 5%
City Oyster. ZZz........ 5%
Farina Oyster...... oo
DRIED FRUITS.
Domestic.
Apples.

Sundried.. 6%
Evaporated, “50 1b. boxes 7%
Apricots.

California in bags.. ... ay
Evaporated iu boxes. .. 9
Blackberrtes.

in DuxeR
Nectarines
Vi. oes = 6... ;
a oe... ....,. 95
Peaches, .
Peeled, in boxes.... 10
—_ i 10
mm Oeee...... 8%
Peart,
California in bags..... 6g
oer a
Berrels.. :
50 ib, boxes .....
_” ge
Prunelies,
%) ib. boxes.. os
Raspbe ries,
oes... 20
ie eee. 2%
—— — 20%
Raisins,

Loose Muscatels in none
—

“

Loose Muscatels in 1 Bags.
2 crown.
3

“é
Ceeerece

Peveien.
Currants,
rates, BOM. ............ 14@4%
Vostizzas, 6 Ib. cases - 4%
Schuit’s Cleaned,
25 "b. boxes : _-.-. oon
11s. packages 1. =

Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, > boxes 13
Lemon 8
Orange - = - e 10
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. @3
Sultana, 20 . : @i7
Valencia.30 ‘ 5
Prunes.
California, a 5
90x100 25 Ib, bxs. 5%
oa 80x90 “ce . 6%
C 7Ux80 . 7
’ 60x76 ° 7%
Tae...
eer...
ENVELOPES,
XX rag, white.
No. i, 6% $i 35
No. 2.6% In
ts... 12%
—————————| 1 00
Manilla, white:
— 8 v 6s)
... «...k 70
Coin
Mill No.4... 90
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina.
'15 tm, bees... 5... 2%
Grits.
Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 85
flominy.
BArrels ...cccccccccceccccccs 2H
MN ce ae 3%

Lima Beans,
aa... 5@5%

Maccaroni “4 Vermicelli.

 

 

Domestic, 12 Ib. box. 55
Peete... 10 %@li
Pear! Barley.
Sebusencner... -......... a
Peas,
oon, Oe... C._..-..... 110
Son peri... |...
Rolled Oats.
Sehureacner, Dpl.....-..-- a4 €5
cH a 23
Monarch, PE ............ 4 00
Monarch, %~ bbl.. 213
Quaker, cases...... oo
Oven Baked................ 03 25
Sago.
oe 3
on eee... 5 3%
Wheat.
Cae... 3
EISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
ee 1 65
Cod.
Georges cured........... 4
Georges genuine......... 6
Georges selected......... 7
Boneless, bricks... ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@9
Halibut.
Smoked ....... l 11@12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg
oe Se
Sorweeen .............. 10
Round, *” ‘bb 100 ibs a
40 4 oe
Somes.
Mackerel,
at eee... a. 11
me. 1. iee........ 4
I eee 1 30
Bae. > 1 e..... ..--... 1f 99
= 2, 40 lbs.... ee eee 4 30
es  Oe....... 1 35
Family, Se
= oe...
Sardines.
Ruseien, Heme.............. 55
out.
No. 1, % bbls., 100Ibs....... 5 00
No. 1 &% bel, © te.......... 2 3
te. 1, Sees, 1 ide........ , 65
me tom oee.......... " 55
Whitefish.
No. 1 family
% bbls, > a oe 86 (0 3 00
tors ooo oo
10 1b. kits. Ss ©
8 Ib. oe eee 63 39
MATCHES,

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbis Parior........... " 25
220 Sapeer.......... 1 00
cium — = s Brands.
No. 9 sulphur.. es
Aor perer.....-........- 1 70
ON ea chee cee, 110

 

j Bapert paclor...............400

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders’.

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

  

Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
—o...5 &
oo. .... to
Regular
Vanilla,
doz
soe ... 12
—..... 2
XX Grade
Lemon
2os:.... $1 50
4oz.. 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla.
co... 81 75
_o..... 3 50
Jennings.
Lemon. ee
2 oz regular was: %
40% sh 50 2 00
6 oz - _.2 00 3 00
oe. S teer........1 00
Ro. 6 Gee... . .-. 150 2 50
Northrop’s
Lemon. V “es.
2 0z oval rr, 75 10
Oz 1 20 i 75
20z regular ‘ 85 1 20
402 ' ° if 22
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee: 25
Half been... ...............- 1 90
uerecr Eees.......... 2... 110
1 Ib Cans.... 30
nee. 18
Choke a een
—. 4.
Raat to... -.2 0
Quarter kegs. . tl
1 i> Gans .....- 34
Eagle Duck— ee,
ee ee a
Half come... Ct ee 5 7%
Gaarterseee....... ......- 3 00
b waar ok. 60

 

Madras, 5 lb. boxes. 55
S. F., 2, 3and 5 Ib. boxes.. 50
LLY.
tS m. pee............ @ 32
7 US:lhU @ 38
oe a 6
LICORICE.
ae 30
ee... 25
Sicily 12
oe. 10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos. 1.2
—.... 2 2

 

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

MEASURES.

Tin, ms en.
2

i gaiion ... 75
Haif ee i. ee
uart. en é 7
int . oe 45
Halt ping 0.0 0 40
Pe en, for vinegar, per -.

Loree .........- 1. 00
Half gallon ues 4 3
Cmeet ....... eeeee eeu _—
6 «|. .

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house . 14
Cuba. Baking. .
Ordinary . : 6
Porto mh,

Pree ......-.+---... 20
Fancy .. - 30
New Orleans.
eer... yk 18

ee og eee ee 22
Bxtrs. good..... ee 27
cyelee § .....-.-~-- ie =

Fancy
Half -barrels 3c.extra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ricKLES,
Mediom.

Barrels, 1,200 Count... @4 (0
Half bbls, 600 count.. @: 50
Small.

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

Clay, me ee 1 70

7. D. fulicount........ 70

Con eee... 1 20

POTASH,

48 cans in case.
ees... 4 00
rea Gee Ce .......... 3 00

RICE,
Domestic.

Carolina Bead. :...... . 5%

No. i “0

Imported,
eee, e.t.... ... ......: 5%
Ma.2.... ose
aene............-3.. —.. 2
raiea...._... acco. -. 2
SPICES.

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

Batavia in bund....15

“ Saigon in rolis...... 3

Cloves, Amboyna...... eo

_ — aa 1%

Mane Baravyie....... ......-7

Nutmegs, fancy. Lee ce ee - 65

No. : eee

“ No. 5

Pepper, Singapore, black....10

white... .20

“se 16
Pure‘ ae in Bulk.

Alimeee................ 15

Cassia, Batavia. . Mi

and ‘Saigon. 25

' Saigon. oe

Cloves, Amboyna. . eee a 22

Zansiper.....- i.
Ginger, African...... 2. oe

Coeem............ 2

" Jamaica _...... ee

Mace Deteria.........-...- 65

Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22

‘Trieste eee ete eee s 25
Nuhoces, No. 2............. 75
Pepper, _— a ——

: ne. uae e cee 20
aoo...... ......
‘‘Absolute” in Packages.
igs ws

Atieee........ -——-, oo to

Copmeneon............. & 155

Clawee. | ws, S64 1 SS

Ginger, Jamaica ..... 84 155

. Aree ....-.. 84 153

Musterd...... Pinecone Oe COO

roar ...<.... 4 13

Sage...... ° 84

SAL "SODA.
Granulated, _bbls.. 1-1. oe

%5lb cases...... 1%

Lump, b ee pec a caleee 144

tal oe... *

SEEDS.

Ase ............ i @13

Canary, Smyrna. ..... 4

Coeawee _............. 7

Cardamon, Malabar... 80

Hemp, Russian 4

Bines Giro ....-..... 4%

Mustard, white ...... 9

Foppy SS 8

ioe... . 4%

Cuitle bene... .....- 30

STARCH.
Corn.
de ie 6
ee 5%
Gloss.

aaa aaa ia. bas wo Oe

3-1 es ew ede oe big
Sib CE 534

40 and 50 Ib. boxes.......-.. 3%

Barrels.. ee .. - 2.

“SN UFF.

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

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

french Rappee, in Jars ....43

SODA,
sn "English | ee o
ALT.
Senna Crystal.

Cases, 243 Ib. boxes...... $ 1 60

Barrels, : fe ae... 2350

115 2% Ib bags. . =

e 005 Ib i. 2
" met ”.hlw... Soe
Butter, 56 Ib Dages....... .. 65
« s7i@bbage |... 350
EO ————————e
‘a2 - |... 225
Worcester.

115 2%- Ib sacks piece tees oe #4 (0
ee 3%
OO 3 50
eg
re eee. c.. 2 50

ee 2h
linen acks...... . =

Common Grades.
= mm, enone. ......... 02 10

Si. * riascesaas & Oe

98 10-1b, ea ae
Warsaw.

56 lb, dairy in drill bags... 30

28 lb, “ te te Ce 16

Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75

ggins
56 Jh, dairy in linen sacks 75
Souar Rock.
56 In. sacks 22
Common Fine.
Saginaw . Leeesecuues ou 90
Manistee ......... 90

weee eens

 

THE MICHIGAN WRADESMAN,

SALERATUS,
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Camrene 3 30
Perens ............_..- 3 15
Dwight’s... ee
Taylor's ee 3 00
SEELY’S EXTRACTS,
Lemon.

1 oz. F. M. ; 90 doz. $10 20 gro
=: 3. Oe ne ”
7° Fim ie 1440 *
Vanilla.

1 oz. F. M. 1 50 doz. - = gro
2°" 5 & fee * “
2“ Fase 2 5) =
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.
oe... focos.....8 0) “
Vanilla.
2doz...... 1 00 doz.....10 50 “
SOAP,

Laundry.

G. R. Soap W orks Brands.

Concordia, 100 34 Ih, bars...3 50
5 box lots oe
e 10 box lots.......3 30
. 20 box lots.......3 2
Best German Family.
60 1-lb. bars. .2 2
5 box lots ... 25
25 box lots.. .2 00
"hlless BW risley’ s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb .3 20
Good Cheer, 601 Ib.. | sso
White Borax, 100 %&- a 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
ee en ae 3 45
Ivory, 10 “ee
© ey................ 4 00
DO i ee 3 65
Mottled German. 2
Town TAR......-. 2.2
Dingman ie
Sinete box.. ..---......-.- 3 %
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered ..... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands

American Family, wrp d. @3 33
am... 2

K. Fairbank & Co. a

Soman laus.. .. og

Brown, 60 bars..... oo
. So bare ..... ...... $0
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands,

sti. 3 65
Cotton O11 ... ... to
toate... ......... 4 00
Master i 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

 

OE a ccna ed ow esas 3

65

Mone ... .............. 3 30

Savon Improved ..... _—.. 2 oO

Oe eee 2 80

Coe |... 3 2

Economical ..... at eee 2
eis.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40

hand, Side 0 . 240
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
pays from the market in which
he purchases ,to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.
Dowme ............. . 84 69
EE ae
eee, 4 1
Powdeoe __...--..-...---- 431
MAS Powdered.......... 455
Granweied ............. 3 4
Fine Granulated........... 3 94
Extra Fine Granulated... 4:6
Bones 4 31
Diamond Confee, A....... 3 34
Confec, Standard A.. .... 3 87
No. s 4
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No,
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.

 

SYRUPS.
Corn,
Co ed os
a 21

Pure Cane.
me... oo.
Good . ene sas a
Choice... oe . 2

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’ S, large... .. 4%
sna.

all.. Soeae 2 75

Halford, i Se ie 3 7
Se 2 2

Selad Dressing, — 455
beau 2 6

 

TEAS,
a

ae... - @1

oe. @20
Chatea.............. ._ 26 Gee
Choicest ..... ie cos ae Ge
Dust. oes 10 @i2

8@UN CURED
Fan... se... @i7
Ce @x
_—..........,.... 244 Qe
Creteest.......... wo. de QU
— ...... ~-co. de GE
BASKET FIRED.
Pac ..... as 18 @20
Chesed 25
Chotcest...... @35
Extra choice, wireleaf @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fai....... 25 @35

Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choteest fancy........7% G&S
OOLONG. Qs
Common co fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL.
“Common to fair.......23 @26
Superior tofine........30 @35
YOUNG BYSON.
Commor. to fair...... 18 @2%
Superior to fine.......33 @#

ENGLISH BREAEPAST.

Pate ...........- seeccesta ee
Cee ee «a = Ge
Sem. -.<0 @ae
TOBACCOS,
Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands,
—— Ruoeet......--+-« 30 @32
ieee... 30

®. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha . . 60
Cue. .. 2-8... aes 32
hora... 30
nana & Merrick’ s Brands.
Sterling .......... 30
Private Brands.
Bazoo
Can Can. ......-..--..-
Nellie Ely ..._.........2%
Uncle Ben. .....-. ---28
foo ....--... --

ma i% bbis.....--
Columbia ...........--.
Columbia, drums ......

 

Bang Up...- ee 21}
Bang up, drums........ 19
Plog.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead .........--- 33

Joker ..__.-....-...-. a
Nobby ‘Twist......-.--.. 40

Seotten’s Brands, l
Kylo.......«.-+-------- x9
Miawatha....... _.. 38
Valley City ....----- 34

Finzer’s Brands.

Old Honesty a 4
dolly Tar...... .------ 32

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41¢). 39
Green Turtle.......... 30
Three Black C TOWS. 7

J. G. Butiler’s Brands.

Something Good...... 38
Out of Sight Deca nee 24
Wilson «& McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold Mope.........--. 43

Happy Thought. ..... 37
Monemnuade 32
(OO a 31
Let Go............-.-- 27

Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,
Kiln dricd ...........-..- 17@18
Golden Shower .........--.19
Huntress ..... Sea a ae
Meerschaum __......- .. 29@30

American Eagle Co.’s —,
Myrtle Navy..

Sion, ... “>
Ce e+) de

ee ee os :
Java, 8 foil.. ae:
— Tobacco Co.'s Bram >

 
 

ee
aan Cavendish... ce 36
Geog cet ........-........ 3U
Scotten’s Brands.
Warpath .......-............ 14
Honey Dew.....-....-..-..- 6
Gola Bieee................- 3u
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Brands.
Pecos. ....,.-... 4 ..-... 26
OO a ee ewes oe 18
Standard... _. 22
Globe Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Handmiade.............--... 4u
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
Row Hoy ................... 26
Unele Bam............-. 32
Red Clover Ce uetes

Spaulding & Merrick.
Tom and Jerry

 

 

Traveler Cavendish....... 38

Buce Horm........-. oe

Piow Hoe..:............ 30@32

Comm Caze ...... a
VINEGAR.

“ er.. besues @s

50 gY.. a @e

$1 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD,
Bulk, per gal .
Beer mug, 2 doz in c 28e 1%

YEAST.
Meee... ..4 00
Warners ..... i
Wea Poem... 5... 1 00
Diamond..... oe
BRogal ..... | eS

 

 

WOODENWARE.,

Tubs, No.1 ..... S 4
Ne 4 75
~ Ses..........- . 400
Pails, No. i, two-hoop.. 1s
‘* No. 1, three-hoop 1 25
Dowie ti iicn.............
- of 90
' io * eeetccge & oe
— 2... 1 89
HIDES PELTS snd FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol
lows:

FURS.
ia... 30 @19
Com ........... as 2 Ww
Bene... @ @is
at, winter.... oe @ fi
nat fl. ....... e@ cs
nea Pox... ... 140 @i*#)
Gray Fou.,...... 0 @ t)
Cross Fox....... 30 @ 3 0)
Bader... .. a. 50 @1 00
reg WG. oon. oe ‘O @ Td
Cat, house..... Woe
rene: ........6@ G@cG
vee... 106 @2
Martin, dark....':2 00 @ 3 0
Martin, pale, ae 100 @150
Otter. . 500 @8 0)
Wort 1 00 .@ 2 Ov
Bpeaver........ .20) @i®
Bear... .--. 159 OO. @2o OG
Opossum. ....... 10 @ 2)
Deer Skin, dry. in @ 2%
Deer skin,green 05 qm 12%
Giver.
Green .... Leese 243K
Part Cured... _. @41%
Ce a @ 5%
Dry ca al Ss @i
Kips, green _ 3 @4
cured..... . @ 6
Caifskins, green......5 @6
° cured 2 @S%
Deacon skins...... ...10 @2
No. 2 hides \ off.

PELTS.
Shearlings..... : 39 2 @
Lampe ...............25 @ 50

WOOL.

Washed .. i 12 @'5
Unwashed & €le
MISCELLANEOUS
Tallow ..... 3 @ 3%
Grense 6 nuer : 1 G2
Switches : 1%@ 2
Ginseng . _. 2@624
GRAINS and FEEDSTUF¥S

WHEAT,

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 50
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) bu
MEAL.
aaa _ 16
Granulets d on 1 &
FLOUR IN BACKS.
Petenie jee, FOS
*Standards... eee
Bakers ......... _ t.o
Tene, 41.2... 8 1 2
Rye. ee — . a

*Sul bject to usual cssh dis-

count.
Flour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad-

 

ditional.
MILLSTUFPS.
Bran.. : |
Screening‘
Middlings... oe
No. 1 Feed oe eae FE
Coarre meal _. 14 OO
CORN
Car lots 44%
Less than car lots... . 46
OATS.
Car iots ... ' : 32%
Less than car lots . 30
HAY
No. 1 Timothy, car lots 9 55
No. 1 ' ton lots 11 00
FISH AND OYSTERS
FRESH PISH
Wuieges ...... _ @lv
Trout be eee @ 9
Black Bass 15
Haltont, Chunks....... @i4
Halibut, strips....... @i1
Clscues or Her sai @ 6
Bluefish. .. @il
Fresh lobster, ‘pe rib. 20
© i. 10
1 Pic kerel. ... as
Pike. Ded eeu neues @ 8
Smoked White.... ... @ 38
Red Snappers.......-- 13
Columbia River Sal-
moe... 12%
Mackerel. 18@25
Seallops 1 50
Sarimpe ..... oo 1 <5
Clams —. ; 1 2)
SHELL #OODs.
Oysters, per luv.......1 2@1 50
Clams. , 741 00

OYSTERS—IN CANS,
F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.

Feirnavern Counts... 33
F. J.D. Selects. i 30
Selects .... oI 27
F. J. D., Standards 25
Awenors .............. 20
StQnGards ......sse.e 22
Pe ee ae 17

 

Standards per gal.........1 46
Anchor Stand: rds per real 1 50
OYSTERS—IN BULK.

Counts, per gal .. 2 40
selects ~*~ ¢ 1a
Extra Selects. per gal. 1 65
Oscar Allyn’s Brands.
New York Counts.. -
viva Selecws......... 4
werects ... eae
TX. Stan garda, 00/00)
dards. es
———
Standards, per gal ........
EXL Standards, per gai.....1 3
Extra Selects, Ye ~ 1
Selects, per gal.. ciecent Bo

 

 

 

CROCKERY ANY OLA
LAMP BURNERS,
No.0 Sun a.
hh
nos «(C........_........
Tubniar

Security. No. 1.
Securi ity, No. 2

 

LAMP CHIMNEYs —t dog. {1

First qualits

6 ‘“ ‘6

 

No, ¢ Sun, crimp t
. ‘

Pearl ton

  

No. 1 Suu, wrapped and le
ts “ “

 

Fire Proof—Plai

No. 1, Sun, plain bulb

 

No. 1 Sun, piafn bulb,

   

Pp, per doz
ts

 

Rochester.
OM) occu.
2. lime (Ge doz)
2, flint (S0e doz)..

No 1, lime (65¢

Electrie
me (70e doz)
int (Sfe doz) ..
Miscel]

 

aneous,

Jun lor, Rochester eu ue. od

 

 

Jugs 4 cal
‘ to 4 va!
to 4 ga!

Miik | Pune 4

att ONEWARE BLACK 6L
deca lg «KS, if 2nd

 

 

Eocet
AA Ww.
Naptha.
st tove Gasolin >
« ylinder. ..

  

ck, Zero. test ...
Black, 15 cold test

Pa'acine
Daisy White..........
Red Uross, W W He:
Naptha oe

Stove Ga soline.

Palaciog...........

Red C ross W W He dlight _

 

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and !
a 1 se “ce ‘ oe
2

 

 

 

FROM TANK WAGON,

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DUPLICATES O

ine

sINGLY OR iy
TRADES “MAN Co.

“TYPE FOR!

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

F ems

ANTITY

 

  

  

18

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
Writen for THE TRADESMAN.

Bicycles of all grades will be sold this
year at a reduction of from 20 to 35 per
cent. from last year’s prices. This is
mainly due to the improved facilities,
especially with the large manufacturers,
for doing high-grade work at a smaller
expense. The highest grade bicycles on
the market this year will sell for $100.
Some will be listed higher, not because
of their intrinsic worth, but in order to
give agents a bigger discount, and to
catch the new buyer, who always takes
the highest priced articles, and who is
not well enough versed in the cycle trade
to discriminate between good and poor
wheels. Some of them haven’t the re-
quired facilities to make as good a wheel
as the large manufacturers without con-
siderable additional expense, and they
hope to regain some of their money by
listing high. As for selling their wheels
at more than $100 this year, it will be
found an almost impossible thing to do,
except in the case of the man who, not
knowing the difference, thinks the high-
est priced bicycle is the best. ‘There is
one exception to this in the case of the
“Cleveland,” one model of which is de-
signed especially for the elite of New
York society. More work is, undoubt-
edly, put upon them, and aiso more dol-
lars added to the price, which will un-
doubtedly go straight, as, to the class of
buyers for whom the wheels are intended,
money is no object. This, by no means,
stamps the wheel as the best on the mar-
ket, as there are others fully as well
made as regards material and workman-
ship, but which lack one or two minor
details included in this wheel, not for
utility, but for the sake of something by
which to distinguish it from the ‘‘com-
mon herd’’ used by people who are not
of the aristocracy.

A common remark made by the non-
cyclists, and especially by men engaged
in the manwfacture of carriages. and
wagons, is: ‘*]1 don’t see what there is
about one of those things to make them
cost so much.” The general opinion is
that they can be made at an entire cost
of about $20 each. Really, it is only the
cheapest kind of a wheel that can be
made for that amount. In the manu-
facture of the best wheels one of the
most, if not the most, important items
in the cost is the labor. Special skill
and knowledge of bicycle construction
are required of a man in order to get a
position in a big bicycle factory, and that
kind of skilled labor comes high. This
is the one reason why all wheels claimed
to be ‘‘the best on earth’’ are not on a
a par regarding merit. Years are re-
quired to develop perfection in this la-
bor, and, as the manufacture of bicycles
is a comparatively new industry in this
country, the supply is limited—quite
limited, in fact; so only the largest firms
have the very best labor in every depart-
ment. Smaller factories have a few of
the best workers, perhaps, but more that
are not the best. The best workmen are
put on the most essential portions of the
wheel, while those less skilled do the
work which requires less care. In this
Way some very good wheels are some-
times made in quite small factories.
The men who hold positions year after
year in the same factory become expert
workers in bicycles in general, and in
their employers’ models particularly, so
that, by the time a factory has been do-

they are turning out a wheel of which
they need not be ashamed.

‘“‘What an enormons profit to the man-
facturer!’’ is another fallacy which
haunts the mind of the would-be pur-
chaser who doesn’t like to spend his
money forit, no matter how badly he
needs or wants a wheel. Asa matter of
fact, the actual percentage of profit upon
the paid in capital of the maker is no
larger than it would be if the same
amount were invested in any good city
business. Fifteen thousand wheels is a
fair season’s output for a paid in capital
of $1,000,000, and the profit upon each
wheel is about $20, after paying for ma-
terial and labor. From tnis must be de-
ducted the cost of running such a plant,
such as fuel, lighting, insurance, adver-
tising, salesmen, traveling men, office
help in general, and the thousand and
one smaller expenses, all of which foot
up an astonishing total at the end of the
year. Taking everything into considera-
tion, from 15 to 20 per cent. is a nominal
profit. in the majority of cases, the
agents, taken collectively, make as much
profit on a season’s business as do the
manufacturers, if not more, and they
don’t have to invest the money, either.
The maker selis to the general agent,
®Who, in turn, sells to his own smali-
er agents. He is not a jobber in
the proper sense of the term, as he buys
only such wheels as are ordered, and
generally has them sent direct from the
factory to his agent. The general agent
makes but a small profit on wheels sold
this way, but he sells so many of them
that they aggregate a good sum during
the season. This method of selling ap-
plies almost exclusively to the best
makes. They are seldom jobbed in the
common sense of the word.

The low-grade wheels are sold almost
entirely to jobbers, it not being an un-
common thing for one firm to contract
for 10,000 bicycles of one line. By do-
ing this they get a price which enables
them to sell to smaller dealers through-
out the country at a lower figure than the
latter can get by buying direct from
the factory. The output of a large
factory making a wheel that retails for
$40 to $60 is larger, by far, than that of
one making a $100 wheel. Cheaper ma-
terial is used, and ‘‘Cheap labor and
quick labor” is their motto, and very lit-
tle care is taken with either the con-
struction or the finish. The less pains
taken, the faster the work is done, and
sometimes 30,000 to 40,000 wheels are
turned out in a single season, and they
are always sold. Being made cheaply,
they can be soJd with profit at an aston-
ishingly low price, which is sure to cateh
the unwary small dealer and generally
leaves him with a stock of wheels to
carry over.

into the cycling field make their mis-
take, and then they get disgruntled at
their failure to make a ‘‘go” of the busi-
Success in this, as in any other
business venture, is acquired by conserva-
tive and businesslike methods. Traveling
men fairly swarm over the country dur-
ing the winter and spring, importuning
dealers to take their line and order some
wheels. The new man in the business
thinks it is the thing to have an exten- |
sive line, and it is no unec@mmon thing |
for twelve or fifteen different lines of
bicycles to be represented by one man.
This is simply suicidal to a dealer in a

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ing business half a dozen or more years, ; town of less than 150,000 inhabitants, |

'
This is where so many adventurers

WANT ED.

Beans, Potatoes,

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

MOSLEY BROS.

26 28,

Onions.

Send us

30 and ‘32 Ottawa St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

AID fl a3

eneral Warehousemen and Transfer Agents.
Dealers in
Wagons, Agricultural Implements and Binder Twine.
Geveral Office. 53 South Division street, Grand Rapids.

COLD and DRY STORAGE.
B.J BROOKS, Man’g.

Barn Telephone 1059.

Storage and
Transfer Co.

 

Carriages,

General Office, Telephone 945.
Warehouse, Telephone 954.

 

Office Telephone 1055.

SECURITY

257—259 OTTAWA ST.

Moving, Packing, Dry Storage.

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of Househoid Furniture.

e Estimates Cheerfully
Given. Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage Wagon at all hours.

F. S. ELSTON, Mgr.

 

IT IS WRONG TO THINK

that you cannot buy goods right and the
right goods in Grand Rapids. Our lines
are “up to date.”’

Voigt, Herpoisheimer & Co.,

WHOLESALE

DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC.

PALACINE.

Has proved itself the only perfect illuminating oil.

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

SCOFIELD, SHURMER & YEAGLE.
Grand Rapids.

 

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.

Telephone 865.

 

 

New

Specialties . ANDY %

Now in.

|Oranges, Lemons, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Etc. always in
| stock and of the finest quality.

A. K. BROOKS & 60,, 5 47 lonia 8t, Grand Rapids, Mich,

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THE MICHIGAN

 

unless he has no competition in his
plaee. Ina small city three lines are
enough to carry—one of the very best for
a leader, a medium grade for customers
who desire to look well without ineur-
ring unnecessary expense, and a cheap
line for the masses at a popular price.
If traveling men make life a burden im-
portuning him to take their line, he can
get rid of them by telling them he will
take samples on consignment, to be paid
for if sold and to be returned if not sold,
the manufacturer to pay the freight both
ways. If the drummer accepts the prop-
osition, no dead stock is accumulated, to
be sold at a loss the next spring because
it is out of date. Conservatism is the
road to success. Buy but few wheels
at a time. Keep a sample on the floor
and when it is sold order another to
take its place. Let competitors carry
the big stock if they want to and lose
money, but remember that it is the con-
servative man who makes a good profit
on his investment. Morris J. WHITE.
— ~_— > <> —
Women in Business.

From the Chicago Record.

When a man starts in any business he
finds before long that he has a woman
competitor in his line. He may imagine
that because he is a brewer or an under-
taker or a butcher he is secure, but he
isn’t. About the only occupation in
which he may feel safe from woman’s
competition is that of grave digger.

During the last ten years the number
of women who have either started in
business or have continued the business
of their husbands at the latter’s death
has increased with wonderful rapidity.
Now it may be said in a general way that
women have invaded all the trades, all
the professions, and, in short, all walks
of life. When women have ‘‘plunged”’
into business they have generally failed;
when they have gone intuit after careful
consideration and with a knowledge ut
what they were doing, they have, with
few exceptions, prospered.

A directory of business women would
in itself filla large volume, but only a
few ipstances of their efforts and suc-
cesses may be given here. Those en-
gaged in dressmaking, keeping furnished
rooms and boarding houses, millinery
work and all such oceupatiens in which
men are rarely found, are too numerous
to excite comment except whenthey have
built up a big business or are in other
ways exceptional.

In Chicago alone between 40,000 and
50,000 women do self-supporting work
away from heme, without counting those
in domestic service. The majority of
these, of course, work in the great dis-
tributing trades—in the department
stores, ete. Large numbers are em-
ployed in making paper boxes, in the
clothing trades, in the furnishing goods
business, in the making of bags, in the
big bookbinding establishments. Then
there are armies of stenographers and
typewriters, book-keepers, waiters and
telegraph operators. Now and then a
woman escapes from the throng of wage-
workers and sets up a business for her-
self.

Women lawyers are not at all rare.
Every year more and mvere of them are
being graduated by the law schools.
When one of them is engaged in a court
case people do not now regard it as ex-
traordinary. Women doctors have been
written about until the names of many
are familiar. Women professors in col-
leges, women preachers and women writ-
ers are mentioned with no more introduc-
tion than the men in the same business.
But when the name of a woman is no-
ticed on a sign above a meat market, a
laundry or an undertaking establishment,
it is often made the subject of comment.

Women grocers are not at all uncom-
mon. There are in Chicago more than
fifty, but most of them are widows whose
husbands have left them the business,
and nearly all of them have places of
business in the outlying districts.
Among the unmarried women grocers two
may be mentioned: Miss Jane Barry, of

   

 

TRADESMAN. 19

 

193 Jefferson street, and Miss Eva Phil-
‘lips, of 152 Willow street.

When the keeper of a meat market dies,
his widow usually gives up the business.
Still, there are here more than a dozen
women proprietors of shops where meat
is sold. Mrs. Rachael Bar, of 575 Elston
avenue, Mrs. M. Glock, of 436 Ogden ave-
nue, and Mrs. Sarah Goldstein, of 539
Halstead street, have inherited the busi-
ness which they conduet.

Women who are proprietors of hand
laundries could be mentioned by the
score. In the photographing business
there are about eight or ten women and
all of them are doing well. It might be
supposed that women would allow men
to conduct their own furnishing-goods
business, but such is not the case. No
less than six men’s furnishing establish-
ments in Chicago are owned by women.
One is in Cottage Grove avenue, one in
Division street, one in Lincoln avenue,
one in Milwaukee avenue, one in Throop
street and one in Wells street.

Miss Nellie Carroll, of 194 North Ciark
street, and Miss Anna B. Clarke, of 108
Washington street, have been successful
in the stationery business. Several women
have made money in the insurance busi-
ness, but none more than Mrs. Sara Steen-
berg, who has an office in the Woman’s
Temple. In Fulton market a woman,
Catherine Huper, conducts successfully
a butchers’ supply depot. In a large
lunch-room in State street a woman is
employed as assistant manager. In the
Auditorium building Miss Nellie McCar-
thy has a hair store.

Women as bakers are numerous, but
not more so than women in the notion
business. They also are proprietors of
many small milk stands. Women den-
tists are as numerous as their sister doc-
tors and their work is said to be fully as
good as that of the men.

Few know that thereis in Chicago a
woman brewer. Yet in Halstead street
Mrs. Magdalena Junk for seven years
has sold the brown product of malt and
hops. And not so very far removed from
the brewery is the barrel shopof Mrs. M.
E. Buggee. In the old town of Hyde
Park, in Lake avenue, Mrs Elizabeth J.
Watkins couducts the undertaking estab-
lishment left to her charge when her
husband died. Before the World’s Fair,
barber shops where women are employed
were rare, but now there are several on
the north, south and west sides of the
city.

In Wabash avenue there are two names
which attract the attention of cable-car
passengers. One is that of the Pick Sis-
ters’ Company, near 21st street, and the
other is that of the Three Sisters’ restau-
rant, near 12th street. The Pick sisters
—Clementina, Bianca, Paula, Libusa and
Esther—were established in the crockery
and glassware business by their father in
1868. They are now all married, and
have turned the active management of
their affairs over to their father.

Mention could be made of numerous
women in the drug, boot and shoe, ciga-
rette, furniture, notion, news, confection-
ery, and other businesses, for they are
prominent in these lines.

 

 

rd “numb Men

DO THIS

 

when they want the

BEST 5c CIGAR

on the market.

Ss. ©. W.

is sold by ail Wholesale Druggists,.Confection-
| ers and Grocers traveling f:om Grand Rapics.
| Ask your Jobber to send you a sample with next
| order or apply to

G. J. JOHNSON,
|@RAND RAPIDS, - -

 

MICH.

 

 

California
Redland
Secdlinges.

The finest medium-pric d orange now on the market.
Rich in color and all sound. Buy them of

The Putnam Candy Co,

Phone 540.

WHOLESALE

 

J. M. HAYDEN. L. C. HAYDEN.

 

Axe Handles,
Hatchet Handles,
Pick Handles,
Hammer Fandles,
W hiffletrees,
Axle Grease

Waste,
Oils,

Hose,
Files.

 

J .M. HAYDEN & CO.,

Gf Fra £ N8.

Grand Rapids.

 

Are You in Need of

Spot Cash:

We have lots of it in 4 and 8 oz. packages at 10e

$10 per roo Pounds.

The best smoke for the lowest price known.

WM

  

 

SWEET’S HOTEL.

MARTIN L. SWEET, Proprietor.

HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, Il’grs.

Steam heit in every room. Electric fire alarms throughout the house.
improvements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan.

    

Other

  

20

‘THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, Feb. 16—After the storm
the sunshine. We are able to realize
where we are at, now, and the outiook
is vastly improved. A few days of rea!
sunshine will make us all happy.

The coffee market remains firm and
not a particle of weakness appears.
Quite a number of buyers have been
looking after ‘‘bargains’’ but, so far,
unsuccessfully. The entire supply
seems to be under complete control of
those who are ‘‘in the ring’’ and all
signs point to a continuation of the
present rates. Mild grades are firm,
and, as the supplies become obviously
smaller, the quotations advance. Good
Cucuta is well held at 19c. The
amount of Brazil coffee afloat is about
the same as last year, aggregating 485,-
000 bags, against about 491,000 bags last
year.

No change has taken place in the
sugar market for a long time, and rates
are exactly the same. There has been
a little better demand for granulated
during the past two or three days, but
the supplies are abundant and no imme-
diate change is anticipated.

The rice market is firm for all sorts.
Foreign grades keep in check any im-
portant advance of domestie. Prices
are well sustained all around and ad-
vices from the South note continued
hardness at primary points.

Spices are moving along in about the
usual rut. There is no speculation. If
any one thing shows firmness it is cloves,
but the market is quiet all around.

Molasses and syrups show no anima-
tion and rates are low. Supplies are
gradually decreasing. Foreign molasses
is in very small request and the rates
given are nominal.

Trading in canned goods is slow.
What demand there is seems to be for
cheap stock, and this has been the
case since the close of the canning
season. There is an exception in the
case of gallon apples, which are well
held at good figures for good goods.
Oysters have advanced, owing to the
cold weather, and it is thought they will
continue as high as they are now.

Dried fruits are dull and selling at
rates showing no margin of profit.

Apples are firm. Florida oranges are
hard to find that are free from frost.

Warmer weather has increased the
supplies of butter and the article has
taken a drop in. nearly all grades.
Best Western creamery, 25c; firsts, 2214
@23ce. The demand is not large and
purchases from commission men are be-
ing made only in a way which indicates
that supplies are being laid in for only
the present.

Cheese is moving along in the usual
rut, the monotony being unbroken by
hardly a single event worth chronicling.

Eggs are firm, with best Western held
at 26c.

Provisions are dull and lower.

Breadstuffs are dull.

Retail trade is excellent and the stores
are all crowded.

F. H. Leggett, head of the firm of F.
H. Leggett & Co., is foreman of the cel-
ebrated Extraordinary Grand Jury, which
has now been in session six weeks. Not
an indictment has been presented as yet;
but it is anticipated that when they do
come, ‘‘there will be a heap on ’em.’’
This jury is charged, as all the world
knows, with the business of considering
the testimony presented before the Lexow
Committee, and some interesting devel-
opments are expected.

Now that the currency question is
finally fixed ‘‘agin Cleveland,” it has
given merchants confidence; not because
the battle has been lost by the Adminis-
tration, but because it is settled.

—-—> --
Gripsack Brigade.

J. Henry Dawley (A. E. Brooks & Co.)
has been laid up for a week with an
attack of la grippe. His _ territory
has been covered in the meantime
by Glenn Young, shipping clerk for the
house.

 

F,. E. Bushman, Michigan representa-
tive for Ed. W. Ruhe, the Chicago cigar |
manufacturer, was in town Monday.

D. E. MeVean (Musselman Grocer Co.) |
was laid up last week with an attack of |
Old Rheum. He mastered the monster |
by a liberal indulgence in Turkish and |
Russian baths.

S. R. McClure, who has been identified
with the grocery trade of Tecumseh since
childhood, has engaged to travel for the
wholesale grocery house of Clark, Mason
& Co., at Adrian.

L. L. Putnam, of Albion, formerly in
the grocery business, has taken the man-
agement of the Danville (Ills.) office of
the Beman Perfect Fence Co., of Albion,
and leaves for Danville at once.

A. P. Wolcott, formerly in the grocery
business at Albion, has taken a position
to represent the coffee and spice interests
of J. G. Flint, of Milwaukee, north of
the Detroit & Milwaukee Railway.

Herbert Darling, stepson of Willis P.
Townsend (M. E. Christenson) died last
Friday after a lingering illness of a con-
sumptive character. The funeral was
held at the family residence Sunday after-
noon.

Wm. Peer, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Muskegon, but now
on the road for the E. W. Waiker & Stutz
Co., carriage manufacturers at Goshen,
Ind., was in town a couple of days last
week.

Col. S. A. Whitfield, First Assistant
Post-Master General under Harrison, was
the guest of Frank E. Chase and family
on the occasion of his visit to the city
last week to attend the annual banquet
of the Lincoln club.

Fred L. Walter, who has been travel-
ing salesman for J. Weaver & Co., of
Kalamazoo for the past nine years, has
resigned that position to take the posi-
tion of Treasurer and Manager of the Al-
legan Paper Co., in which he has an in-
terest.

H. S. Robertson, formerly with the
Olney & Judson Grocer Co., has taken
an interest in a new enterprise at Wan-
kesha, known as the Waukesha Wild
Cherry Phosphate Co., and is spending a
few days in the city, introducing the
product af the company.

Frank E. and Herbert T. Chase have
returned from West Harwich, Mass.,
where they attended the death and
burial of their mother, Mrs. Erastus
Chase. Cape Cod newspapers pay a
tonching tribute to the virtues of the
deceased, whom they pronounce a
woman of exceptional culture and re-
finement, combined with unusual kind-
ness of heart.

Geo. F. Owen, Secretary of the Michi-
gan Knights of the Grip, reports the
payment of Death Assessments Nos. 1
and 2 by 1,056 members up to Feb. 18.
This has brought to the mortuary fund
$2,112, which, with the $600.25 on hand
at the beginning of the fiscal year,
places $2,712.25 to the credit of that
fund. Within a few days, however,
$1,500 has been disbursed to beneficiaries
of deceased members—$500 each to Mrs.
b. F. Winch (Bangor), Mrs. Silas Clark
(Wyandotte) and Mrs. Theo. J. Beau-
bien (Detroit)—leaving a balance of
$1,212.25 still to the credit of that fund.
Proofs of the death of the late Fred
Sherriff, of Saginaw, have been filed
with the Secretary and will be passed
upon at the regular quarterly meeting of
the Board of Directors at Lansing on the
second Saturday in March.

 

Frank Pierce (S., S. & T.) is an abject
siave at the shrine of sauerkraut—es-
peciaily fried sauerkraut—and on the oc-
casion of a recent visit to Dorr, sur-
prised Carrel Bros., proprietors of the
National Hotel, by absorbing a peck of
his favorite dish. Hotels along the line
of Frank’s route must lay in liberal sup-
plies of kraut if they expect him to say
a good word for them on any and all oc-
casions.

The Travelers’ Protective Association
and kindred organizations have secured
the passage of an act of Congress which,
it is believed, will be of great conven-
ience to the traveling salesmen of the
country. The bill provides that nothing
in the Inter-State Commerce act shall be
so construed as to prevent the issue of
joint interchangeable five-thousand-mile
tickets, with special privileges as to
amount of free baggage that may be car-
ried. The bill was reported by Mr.
Raynor, of Maryland, and passed the
House of Representatives June 19, 1894.
It passed the Senate Jan. 29, and, at last
accounts, was ifi the hands of the Presi-
dent, who, it is expected, wil! give it his
approval. The bill is of special interest
to the eastern section of the United
States, as it is calculated that 65 per
cent. of the men ‘‘on the road’’ represent
business houses in Pennsylvania, New
York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Increased facilities and conveniences for
traveling men are naturally stimulating

to inter-State commerce.
te

The Grain Market.

Though everything pointed to higher
prices, wheat sagged in grain centers
fully 1e per bushel, while at initial points
the prices remain as firm as ever, with no
signs of more liberal deliveries from first
hands. The visible decreased fully as
much as predicted, but trade is lifeless
and no amount of strong reports seem

able for the present to lift wheat from
its extremely low price. Guesses and
prophecies are useless,-so long as this
large visible is on hand, about 2,000,000
bushels more than last year at the same
time. While receipts have been only
very moderate, exports have not been of
that proportion to reduce our stocks as
fast as has been looked for and the
would-be purchasers are in a waiting
mood and are watching closely for any
change in the situation. We are still of
the opinion that wheat values will en-
hance in the not far future. When we
have to pay 50c for wheat, while Detroit
market is only 521¢¢e, it shows very con-
clusively that wheat is not as plentiful
as the bear element bank on. When
those large farmers in Chicago (that is,
in the Chicago wheat pit) will have to
furnish the wheat they are at present
selling, the tables may be turned; at
least, let us hope so.

Coru, in sympathy with wheat, was
lower, though that article, owing to the
reduced amount produced, should be
firm.

The oat market, as usual, holds its
own well, with no sign of special weak-
ness.

Receipts during the past week were:
wheat, 56 cars; corn, 47 cars: oats, 9
cars. C. G. A. Vorer.

 

The retailer’s friend, ‘Signal Five, 5c.
cigar.

GRAND RAPIDS

BRUSH GOMP'Y,

 

The Dry Goods Market.

Bleached and brown cotton crash
dropped }4c this week.

All wool dress goods, 50 inch, are now
quoted at 36c; former price, 37 e.

Beaver Dam cotton dropped another
gc, Making the present price the lowest
on record.

Lawrence LL is selling freely at 4c.

Prints remain unchanged.
>.< a

No drugs, a healthy smoke, Signal
Five.
am
Signal Five cigar is Spanish hand-
made, 5c.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.
$2.50 per bbi.,
Baldwins and Spys 83 and extra choice winter

Apples—Russets command

varieties $3.50@4 per bbl.

Beans—The market is still stronger and higher
than a week ago, with every indication of going
to the $2 mark before warm. weather. Local
dealers hold at $1.70 in carlots and $1.75 in less
than cariots.

Butter—The supply is still ample and the mar-
ket is a trifle weaker, dealers refusing to pay
over ‘se for choice dairy.

Celery—Advanced to 30c per doz. The ad-
vance is Caused by the inability of growers to
use their stocks in ground, as they are frozen
solid.

Cranberries—# per crate.

Eggs—The market is weaker and lower, fresh
having declined to 20@22c, with indications of
still lower prices in case the weather continues
to moderate. Pickled and cold storage are
about out of the market, stray lots of either
Commanding i8c, with the odds in favor of
pickled, as the proportion of rotten eggs is not
SO great as in cold storage stocks.

Lettuce—15c per Ib.

Onions—All varieties bring 60@65e per bu.,
except Spanish, which command 9u¢c per box.

Parsnips—35c per bu.

Potatoes— Dolorous reports of the stock frozen
in pits continue to come in, leading local han-
dlers to belieye that the stock thus thrown out
of the market will amount in the aggregate to
enough to affect the market very materially.
Locally, the price has advanced to 60c per bu.

Radishes—Hot house stock commands 35¢ per
doz. bunches,

Sweet Potatces—Kiln dried Jerseys command
$3 per bbl.

Squash—Hubbard brings 1%c per Ib., if the

quality is up tostandard. Poor stock sells at %
@ic.

% OYSTERS *%

Are so high and scarce I shall not

 

handle them this week. Watch for
my quotations later.

Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with
boiled cider, very fine:

oe. me
1 quart Mason Jars, per doz.........
A pints Mason Jere, per doz....... ....... 6
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the
best made. Price per case ......... oo
Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
mili ame oe 6
eidims Geert of.

eos. LU ly
Cie Cone per de 1 40
Pie Cone er Gee
pant Mane Cara, per Gos... ......... |... ¢ ae
Quart Mason Jars, por dox............... :. 225
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon.............. 10
Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon.......... —-
New Pickles, medium, barrels............... 5 00
meow cee eee 27
New SauerErant harmels. 400
mew Sauer Rrant, i harrecls 2 50
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 3%
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per Gos...... 9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails ............... 1 00

EDWIN FALLAS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

MANUFACTURER OF B R U S H EE S GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

“Jess”? what you want. MICHIGAN

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 |
We propose to push it to the)
Ask our

consumer gets full value for his money.
front and make it the leading plug tobacco of Michigan.
salesman to give you a chew, and show you the goods and you will buy.
Everybody is taking it. Why?
have been looking tor.

MUSSCIMON GTOGer Gi, - — Gfdnd Raps, Mich

 

Because it is “Jess” what they want and

LUMBER CO,

GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.

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N. B. Ceare, Pres.
W. D. Wane, Vice-Pres.

C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas.

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

Correspondence Solicited.

 

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Muskegon Bakery Crackers

(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

--¢ are

Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use.
| Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS
Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK
Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR
Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER
Great : Jelly Turnovers, FOR
Specialties Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON
Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S
Muskegon Branch, CAKES and
Mlik Luneh. CRACKERS

United States Baking Co.

LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager,
Muskegon,

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Mich.

 

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Spring & Company,

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

We invite the Attention of the Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted
Stock at Lowest Market Prices.

Spring & Company.

 

 

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

 

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

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

We Have the Agency for This CELEBRATED STOVE.

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No. 415
No. 414

3-Burner, High and Step, List - .
2-Burner, High and Step, List . -
Regular Gasoline Stove Discount.

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COMPUTING SCALE CO. DAYTON enn

 

 

THE DAYTON

COMPUTING SCALK

WARNING == To Users of Seales.

The trade are hereby warned against using any infringements on Weigh-
ing and Price Scales and Computing and Price Scales, as we will protect
our rights and the rights of our general agents under Letters Patent of the
Uuited States Issued in 1881, 1885, 126, 1888, 1§91,1893 and 1894. And we will
prosecute all infringers to the ful] extent of the law. The simple using of
Scales that infringe upon our patents makes the user liable to prosecution,
and the importance of buying and using any other Computing and Price
Scales than those manufactured by us and bearing our nameand date of pat-
ents and thereby incurring Mability to prosecution is apparent. Respectfully

THE COMPUTING SCALE CO.

Be Sure You Buy the DAYTON COMPUTING SCALES.
SEE WHAT USERS SAY:

We are delighted with it. The Jos. R. Peebles Son’s Co., Cincinnati.
Would not part with it for $1,009. Dan W. Charles, Hamilton, O.
It saves pennies every time we weizh. Charles Young, Adrian, Mich.
They are worth to us each year five times their cost.
Raup & Hayman, Constantine, Mich.
We are very much pleased with its work.
Henry J. Vinkemulder & Bro., Grand Rapids.
Since the adoption of your scales have made made more money than ever
before, Frank Daniels, Traverse City, Mich.
I take pride in recommending them to ever user of scales,
Chas. Railsback, Indianapolis,
i heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish to save money.
Geo. F. Kreitline, Indianopolis.
It is the best investment I ever made.
I. L. Stultz, Goshen, Ind.

For Further Partictlars Drop a Card to

HOYT & CoO.,

General Selling Agents,

Dayton, Ohio.

REDUCED PRICES.

Alfred Meakin’s Best

 

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- BUTTERS.

No. 141910 Henshall Shape.

ORIGINAL ASSORTED CRATE.
Alfred Meakin’s White Granite.

 

 

  

 

 

  

English White Granite

Mail us your order for an assorted crate We only show two assortments here, but have a large variety in stock

 

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No, J. R. 1704 Henshall Shape.

ORIGINAL ASSORTED CRATE.
Alfred Meakin’s White Granite Ware,

 

   

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"2 8 7 :< Set handled St. De 8 70 1 46 i Dozen Open Cham} 300 3 00
6s oO 8 4 91 handled Henst Fruit Saucers.... 25 1689 1 Covered Chs 4 50 4 50
6 8 ' ao 1 69 S59 21 * unhandled St. Deni ‘ Butters 19 my 718 5 25
6 245 Bowls... oe 1 3 Only Oyster Bow!s Only 2 Ce 4 47 37% 11 2
12 Os ' 5 75 6 Pairs Ewors +nd Basins Dozen Bowls, 3°s......... 7 5 3715 11 25
2 6s . ¢ ) /inch Dishes 1 | ae a is 63 2 50
i2 5 Oper a s af 6 30s, Oyster re) 1 15 —
é Ss ( r t | 2 t 1 Scollops, 6 inch oe 94 94 ee #66 34
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Anything you want carried in open stock at small advance over crate

price.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids.

 

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