& Vi A q 4 Zh SS D i y a ve v “ g ma = AS) i PON Kags a ey ia Ve 8 An eM) ( NE x Cas lof eros ET SSNPS 7 ) G ‘Fz RSG — Fe) ORE ES WE OR RICE 13) os A ZA £4 AY (= . Ss UG 32 ?) — * ((s ie 777 Y Y/ a BS es CT o aE RA \(( <@ PUBLISHED WEEKLY Zo A ©) yj ONES STI San ro Pes INVENTIVE “GENIUS » i COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 TIONROE ST. Reports on individuals for the retail trade,house renters and professional men. Also local agents for the Furniture Commercial Agency Co.’s‘‘Red Book.” Collections handled for members, Telephones 166 and 1030 CHEAPER BICYCLES. Discussion of the Matter from Several Standpoints. Interest in cycling has grown to ex- tremely large proportions. The wheel bas certainly worked its way to the front rank in the sporting world. The follow- ers of cycle racing in this country do not, as a rule, turn out in as large num- bers as they do to baseball games, and as they have done in the past to horse racing, but the attendance at the various meets is growing steadily, and the time may come, and come soon, when a wheel meet will attract the banner crowd of the year. The wheel is not only popular in this country, but has its votaries all over the civilized globe. The nobility has bowed to the new order of things and the mem- bers of the best society in this country are now enthusiastic votaries of the sport. It does not have to depend upon its purely exhibition and amusing fea- tures, for thousands of riders care nothing for races or for race meets, and they take to the wheel simply for its re- laxations, pleasures and the excellent exercise which the riding of the wheel entails. One is never too young to ride a wheel and old age does not dim the enthusiasm. A child can learn to ride after it learns to walk or has left its swaddling clothes. A man or woman can ride a wheel as long as he or she can walk. The benefits of sensible ruad riding are stupendous—how stupendous the layman brokep down through mental and phys- ical labors cannot even conjecture. The wheel is a tonic to mind and body, and it is one of the best medicines yet dis- covered toresist the ravages of the years. Wheeling, of course, is like any other exercise. One should not be too violent, too ambitious at the start, particularly when one has traveled life’s road a great many years before he takes to the wheel. A few miles will do as soon as he has mastered his steel steed and he can in- crease the dose as his appetite for phys- ical exercise develops. The making of bicycles has become a business in itself, and the capital in- vested init is enormous. Those inter- ested in home production will be glad to know that the American manufacturer of wheels easily leads the world. It is not so mManv years ago that the English man- ufacturers controlled the trade of the world and when the expert rider would disdain to ride anything but an English make of wheel. Now the exportation of wheels from tbis conntry has become an important item of commerce. Then the American racers who have’ invaded Europe in the last year or two have made such short work of foreign riders that the attention of the cycling world has been attracted to the American wheel. The English, French, Italian and Span- ish are slow to acknowledge the superi- ority of the American muscle and sinew and prefer to believe that the Zimmer- mans, Wheelers and Bankers are as- sisted materially by the wheels that they ride. Now that cycling has become so uni- versally popular, itis only natural that considerable attention should be di- rected to the cost of the wheel. Manu- facturers are combining to keep up prices, while the general rider is begin- ning to realize that it costs quite a sum of money to purchase a really first-class wheel, and a sneaking idea creeps into his ‘‘thinking tank’? that when he pur- chases a wheel he is paying all that the wheel is worth and probably a good deal more than it is worth. A layman will, in all probability, com- pute his valuation npon the weight sys- tem. Others compare the evolution of the bicycle to that of the watch and the) sewing machine. They remember when a first-class sewing machine could not be bought in this country for less than $100, and the same machine at that time was selling in England for from $35 to $40. Now machines, first-class ones, can be bought here for $35, and a really good sewing machine for even less. As soon as perfected machinery could be made, the various parts of the machine were turned out in abundance. Many a man who a few years ago pur- chased a handsome gold watch blames his stupidity for not waiting until the present time to make his purchase. Machinery has played an important part in the evolution of the watch, and the average timepiece to-day is worth a few dollars over and above the cash value of the gold and silver contained in the case. A few years ago the old ordinary— which will soon be a relic—cost the en- thusiastic pedaler, according to the size | of the wheel, all the way from $125 to! $150. In 1888 the first safety bicycle was built in America, and as soon as the new machine came into popniar favor the star of the ordinary began to wane, until, at the present time, no dealer would ask more than $5 or $10 at the most for one of the old-style wheels. When the safety first came in, manufacturers de- clared that the new machines cost much more to manufacture than the ordi- nary, and made this an excuse for raising the standard price to $135. Of course, the riders objected, but there were so few manufacturers in the country that there was no difficulty in maintaining the price, and later, when the pneumatic tire came into use, in raising the price to $150. Lured by the stories of the immense profits there were in manufacturing wheels, men started new factories and competition soon became so active that the old concerns, in order to maintain their supremacy, announced in the spring of 1894 a cut in price to $125, which was the standard list price of all the leading makes last season. Even this reduction did not eheck the rapid multi- plication of factories, and the increased competition forced the price still further | down, until now the list price of the high-grade wheel is $100. Many people NO. 598 predict that before the close of 1895 high- grade wheels will be selling for a good deal less than $100. In speaking about this the other day, a well-known rider said: ‘‘When it is considered that the actual cost to the maker of all the materials which enter into the construction of a first-class bieycle, including tires, enameling, and nickel-plating, is less then $25, and that $10 per wheel is an extremely liberal es- timate for all the skilled labor required in its construction, it will be seen that a maker building, say 10,000 bicycles, can easily afford to dispose of them for cash for $40 apiece, and will have no trouble in doing so if he goes to the right persons, as the resources of these im- mense department shops are practically unlimited, and they, in their turn, are easily content with a modest profit of 25 per cent. This is what is being done now on a limited scale; it is what will be done on a large scale before the end of the season, and itis safe to prophesy that before the close of 1896 the buyer of a bicycle will find no other place in which to buy his mount than in one of these large stores, or from the direct represent- ative of the manufacturer.’’ The consensus of opinion among man- ufacturers is voiced by a local manufac- turer as follows: ‘Under present conditions I cannot see any chance for an emphatic redue- tion in the price of first-class wheels. If new methods are introduced, then it will be a different matter; but with the condi- tions as they are now, I think that $100 for the standard wheel will be the price for some time tocome. That old watch and sewing machine argument is de- crepit with age, and, in spite of the fact that there is no comparison between the manufacture of a wheel and the manu- facture of a watch or sewing ma- chine, the story is revived at regular in- tervals. ‘*People outside of the cycling busi- ness have no idea what the makers have to contend with, and the popular mind is slow to grasp the fact that it costs as much to sell a wheel as it does to make it. What I mean is that, when the wheel has been made, we are just about half through. This is caused by the meihods which have grown up with the trade, and until there is a change 1 can see little chance for much of a decline in the price of wheels. Our expenses are enor- mous, and the plant, tools and experi- ments have cost us a great deal of money. “Some people try to average the cost of a bicycle at so much a pound, but they are cranks, of course, and their vapor- ings carry no weight. Barring the in- troduction of new methods, as said be- fore, I can see no prospects of much of a change. I believe that the weight limit of the wheel has been reached, and that the new ’95 models are about as light as we shall see them for general and road use. There is not one practical rider in a thousand who can tell the difference by three pounds in a wheel. Of course, between a 35-pound wheel and a 28- pound wheel the difference is obvious.’’ : ak . 2 THE BUITER NUISANCE. A New Era Dawning for the Retailer. Written for THE TRADESMAN. They say that every house contains a secret chamber and that in that chamber there is a skeleton. The lofty brown- stone mansion and the humble cottage are alike in this regard. The closest surveillance does not always suffice to keep these skeletons in the secret cham- bers where they belong—not even that surveillance which is possible only in the abodes of the ultra rich and the devotees of fashion. We have heard the ghastly rattle of some of these escaped high-toned “‘picked cadavers,” of late: and it is to be hoped that their worthy (?) progeni- tors may suffer shame and remorse for the feeling of disgust which they have provoked in the minds of the great de- cent people. The skeleton in every country grocery store is not a bundle of bones loosely strung together; it is a mixture of pretty much everything except bones and is closely packed, as well as loosely strung together—in short, it is the conglomera- tion Known in common parlance as but- ter. This is the skeleton which has con- fronted the country dealer ever since Adam gave up the fruit business for that of general agriculture. Butter, as a po- tent factor in causing trouble, is ever present in the country store. How to regulate it and what to do with it are questions as old as the business itself. Scheme after scheme has been devised and various applications have been made to rid the trade of this intolerable nui- sance, but ali of no avail; the problem still remains, in all itsintricate ugliness. unsolved, and, so far as present condi tions are concerned, unsolvable. When [ think of the desperate strug- gles and fierce conflicts encountered with butter during the time I was making my last effort to get rich through the medium of the grocery store, a feeling of self-pity comes over me—self-pity for the woeful lack of judgment and common sense that made me keep up the unequal strug- gle, until every cherished hope and every worthy aspiration was smothered and buried by the enemy—butter. The enemy’s base of supply was too great for me and I was subjugated. Where all that butter came from has been a matter of wonder to me all these years since that wretched period of my existence or, rather, nonexistence. That a goodly share of it came from barnyards was evident from its appear- ance, but, Lot being achemist myself, and the manufacturers naturally being clase- mouthed, I was unable to learn the nomenclature and relative quantities of the various ingredients of which it was composed, or just what pereentage of pure butter—if any—it might contain Of course, | am aware that buttermakers are not guided by any fixed formula Chemical analysis would show that the dairy products of no two neighborhoods are alike; that the products of no two makers in any one neighborhood are alike, and that no two consecutive churn- ings of any one maker are exactly alike. Thus, it may be necessary for some coun- try dealers to have larger cups than have some others, in order that their sorrow may not run over. It may possibly be that the particular field where I learned this bitter experience required a larger cup than others; it may be that the cows in that neighborhood were sickly—had abnormal appetites. There was certain- PS ERE Oe Bt A a Lees Saree eae THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ly nothing unusual about the place where { did business; it was simply one of those very common cheerless little ‘‘huddles’’ that spoil our beautiful country land- scapes, occupying and eating into the corners of four farms—a sort of rural cancer; still, the accumulation of 2-cent grease in my cellar, purchased at an average price of 16 cents and paid for in granulated sugar at cost, may have exceeded the average of such accumula- tions. The difference between any two points merely shows that the evil varies in degree, and that it is always present and must be met and grappled with by every country dealer. What are the conditions which make this evil a permanent one? They are these: First, the country dealer must take his customer’s butter in exchange for his goods, if he would do business; second, ne must pay a uriferm market price for it, be it good, bad or indiffer- ent, or lose trade. Now, if the stuff were all butter and passably uniform in quality, all would be well; it would bea source of pleasure as well as profit. But what are the facts? Mrs. Jones makes first-class butter, worth 18 cents in the city. She carries the most of it to the city and sells it for cash. Ozcasionally, she carries a roll or two (especially if a little off) over to ‘‘the corners,” and, of course, ‘tthe corners” dealer must allow her the city price. Mrs. Brown does not make good butter. She thinks she does, however, and, therefore, she carries very little of it to the city, for inspection is an act of iujustice to which she will not submit. She, therefore, un- loadeth her dairy product on the home dealer, much to the delight (?) of that unfortunatedupe. Ofcourse, he pays her the city price, and with the aid of Mrs. Jones’ butter, he leaveneth the combined lump, so that he is able to realize from 50 to 75 per cent. of the cost. If this were all, the dealer might manage to possess his soul with patience; but there are other factors. Mrs. Nag is also a professed butttermaker—that is, she calls the oleaginous mixture she brings to the store, ‘‘butter;”’ but the dealer has every reason to believe that she knows it is not butter, because she brings it all to him and never ventures on the city market withit. This choice article, whether much or little, is weighed and paid for the same as real butter. It costs 18 cents and is dumped into barrels down cellar, where itcontaminates every- thing within the four stone walls until finally disposed of by the dealer’s heart- broken creditors at 2 cents per pound. When the “‘traveling dairy’? came into existence and was sent out on its mis- sionary tour, the heart of every country dealer beat joyfully with the newly kindled hope that a way of escape was at jast opened up. But the traveling dairy, as an educational means, is not accom- plishing its object as rapidly as was an- ticipated. It is complete in equipment, practical to a degree in its mode of im- parting instruction, and pitches its tent atthe very doors of those whom it would most benefit; but the trouble lies here: Mrs. Jones is the only buttermaker who is willing to be taught. Mrs. Jones al- ready makes good butter, which shows that sheis intelligent, and the fact that she avails herself of every opportunity to improve is evidence that she is enter- prising and progressive. Mrs. Brown, on the other hand, thinks she knows all there is to be learned about buttermaking, | and this makes her case absolutely hope- less. Mrs. Nag fairly snorts at the idea. Hear her: ‘‘Wot a pack c’ fools them there men is, anyhow, goin’ galivantin’ up an’ daown the country with a lot o newfangled toggery an’ apurtendin’ to Varn the wimmin folks wot’s none 0’ their pesky business! They ort to be ’shamed o’ theirselves, goin’ ’raound stickin’ their noses into other folkses’ business. If the men folks hed any re- spect fur their wives, they wouldn’t let ?em onpack their measly traps inside the town. They do say that Mrs. Jones is ’baout half bewitched by ’em. She goes to see ’em every time they come here, an’ nen she goes hum with sum new hif? lutin’ notions in’er’ead ’baout buttermakin,’ an,’ after all the fuss an’ extry oxpense she goes to, I git jest as much fur my butter over to ‘the corners’ as she does!” But a newera is dawning and relief from this crying evil is surely, if slowly, coming, and is plainly visible all around. The great consuming world hay erected a standard of quality for every need. This fixedness of quality makes uniform- ity absolutely essential, and uniformity demands co-operative effort. These sim- ple propositions have a universal appli- cation, but I wish to apply them espe- cially to the butterindustry. Consumers of butter, becoming heartily disgusted with the extreme variableness of com- mercial dairy butter, with its embodi- ment of disagreeable uncertainties, set up a demand for a uniformly pure arti- cle. Farmers are slow to act; and, while they were thinking about it, business en- terprise stepped into the breach and filled the demand with an article that is uni- form and pure. \ Although not all ‘cow butter,’’ it is cleaner, cheaper, more wholesome and gives far better satisfac- tion than nine-tenths of the barnyard butter that finds its way into the cellars of country dealers. Butter substitutes have obtained a mighty hold on the but- ter consuming world, and the lesson taught the farm buttermakers has been a good one, though hard for them to bear. When the family of a thriving, econom- ical city mechanic become used—the re- sult of uniformity—to a pure butter sub- stitute at 20 cents, it is difficult to woo them away from it with a 25 or 30-cent article, though it may be all wool and yard wide. But, at last, the universal tendency has begun its work in the long- locked-up cranium of the farmer. His margin on wheat has been destroyed by a foreign competition he cannot meet, and he is turning to the dairy as the most available means of self-preserva- tion. He has begun to look into the “show”? and into the ‘why’ of things, and he sees more and more clearly that his opportunity lies in co-operative ef- fort. Now, what is the result? We see butter creameries going up in every state of the Union and in every province of Canada. Ontaria, the champion cheese- making country of America, is putting forth every effort to lead in butter, also. Since one short year ago, she has doubled her creameries, having 100 in operation at the present time, with a weekly out- put ef over 50,000 pounds of butter, equal in quality, according to the testi- mony of competent experts, to the world- renowned Danish and Australian butters. Co-operative buttermaking in winter dairying is fostered by both the Provin- cial and the General Government, the latter of which is, at the present moment, considering the advisability of granting OANDIKS, Fea UITS and NUTs The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases _— Pails, Standard, - ~~... < ne. 6 7 _ Twist 6 7 Boston Cream 8% Cut Loaf..... 8 Ruime f........ S% Oo MIXED CANDY. Bbls. 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No. 1, Deke obec eee 51 a 2 Ee ET 28 ORANGES, California Mavels, 112....................... 32 ‘ mo ee 3 50 . 158, 16, 200, 216. 3 45 r sd 200 o. + £40 Riv erside Seedlings, a . 26. 150, — oo o ' 200. .. © oo Rove... ll _ Se LEMONS. Cuaiee oe... 27 Extra Choice, 3v0 . eee Penee oe |. noo .... lle oe en 3 50 Cuamen 8 2 50 BANANAS. ieee Cancels... oe eels OUMCHS Ll. 75@1 25 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers Pe ee 12 ag ee 34 “ extra ls ea eee 11 eS ° 6% Dates, Fard, a box i Oz ee ee @6 . ce G. M.50-Ib vox. @5 _ Lim Move, new............,... @i %* NUTS. Almonds, Teresa... ss... q% 14 Wee. -138%@14 California, soft shelled 4 @i2 es ae, ........ @i Filberts ... @il Walnuts, Grenoble, old. @10 e French. @i2 e aa @13 ’ Soft Shelled Cal @l4 Tapie Nuts, faucy.. @10% choice . @?2 omen Texas, H. P 6S@7% Caesinuis............. Hickory Nuts per bu., 1 50 Cocnannuts, full sacks 4 00 Butternuts per bu...... i" 60 miscx Walnuts, per ba........... ...... 60 PBANUTS. Fancy, a. P., a. Sm 5% o beaaiadl be eee eee 62 6% Fancy, H. P., ieee eeu @ 5% " Sees... 6B 6% Choice, H. P, Extras.. soe @4% “ Roasted.. 5@ 6 FRESH MEATS. BEEF. eee 5%@7 hewn messi, 4@ 5 Hind UAarters.....-...-..6 re.eee . ... B® 8 Lome ees... pieces oe = ......... .. Ledeen be ed aL & @10 oeeee 8 eee, 5 @6 COED coed coce. .... < can ones Or oe ce 3 @3% PORK. ree. a 5 @5% ee G4 peoulaes eee cere the 5% Leaf Lard..... ee ee ce oe 8 MUTTON. ON i 54D 6% a 6 @7 VEAL, sinatra sececeee eres OM @ 6 ee aid in the establishment of a refrigerator system that will hold this creamery but- ter at a uniform temperature during transit from the factory to the English markets; and also the advisability of granting an export bonus, and of making advances to the extent of 20 cents per pound as fast as the butter is ready for shipment. This latter advantage would furnish the patrons with ready money with which to operate, instead of being compelled to wait for returns from a dis- tant market. Thus, the new era is opening up and the country dealer’s day of salvation is at hand. Mrs. Jones has the least to gain; yet we find her at the head of this movement, as well as other progressive movements. Mrs. Brown falls in line, of course, because she sees a way of getting out of work—something she has always been trying to do, which accounts for her poor butter. Mrs. Nag is not con- sulted in the matter; old Nag’s cows are as healthy as anybody’s cows, and he finds a good excuse for eating dry bread in his own house. A creamery goes up on the vacant Jot around the corner; the butter is made there; it is uniformly pure, and of high quality and sells at a higher price than the best dairy, although the cost of production is less. The cash is distributed among the patrons and the dealer gets a share of it. Co-operation is on the increase. All hail the day when the dealer weighs the last ‘‘gob’’ of barn- yard butter. E. A. OWEN. a CURRENT COMMENT. February 26 the House of Representa- tives went through the farce of passinga bill providing for acompulsory board of arbitration, whose decrees are to be en- forced by the courts of the United States, to decide all questions of differ- ence between commoncarriers and their employes which they may not be able to decide between themselves. Though strongly opposed in the debate it passed without division. Thus, this branch of Congress poses before the country as fa- voring a measure popularly supposed to be in the interests of labor—a measure it would hesitate to support if there were a possibility of its becoming a law. The consequences of such an enactment would be farreaching. They would in- volve the incorporation of the industrial organizations and create a monopoly of labor that would be far more destructive to personal freedom than at present. In employing labor, negotiations would have to be carried on with the managers of the unions, and the workman would have no voice save in the selection of such managers by election. Of course, such a law would be the sheerest non- sense between corporations on one side and individuals on the other. The only explanation of the action is that it was taken for its appearance of favoring the labor element, its advocates knowing that it could not pass the Senate, even were it not too nearthe end of the ses- sion to reach a conclusion. -_ + < It is interesting to note how widely the results differ in the same calculations based on the same data from the various authorities on the Treasury situation. Mr. Carlisle’s computation gives a sur- plus of over $20,000,000 for the next year, while the answer obtained by Mr. Gorman is a deficit of over $60,000,000. -— = * The final attempt at legislation on the financial issue was made February 27 by | THE Senator Gorman in a proposition to authorize the issue of $100,000,000 debt certificates to meet the Treasury deficien- cies. A motion to lay on the table caused its withdrawal. =. The amendment to the deficiency ap- propriation bill to provide for the pay- ment of $425,000 damages under the Paris Behring Sea award was defeated in the House on the ground that the claimants of the larger portion of the award were American citizens who did their poaching under the protection of the British flag. * * + The popularity of black iron lamps and lanterns for the piano, the study or the porch, has given impetus to the languishing art of working in hammered iron. It is the highest type of iron work, as well as the most beautiful, and it is pleasant to see it revived. The ham- mered iron work of the Middle Ages has been reverenced almost as a departed art. The best of this work is very ex- pensive, but that has not prevented the production of some magnificent ex- amples. The opportunity for the use of hammered iron work is large and iron hammering should be encouraged. — = Near Eldora, Iowa, an extraordinary apparition is making a nightly visitation. The people call it the ‘‘Fire Ghost,’’ and hundreds of people are flocking to see it. Trustworthy persons who have seen this curious ball of fire in the heavens are mystified and unable to explain the phe- nomenon. The object usually makes its appearance about 9 o’clock and remains suspended about a hundred feet in the air for half an hour atatime. Itcastsa weird light which make a reflection fora radius of several miles. Wm. Springler, aresponsible farmer, determined upon an investigation. He took his gun and drove to within four or five rods of the lurid flame and taking steady aim fired into the mass. A loud explosion followed the report and the air was filled with minute fragments of fire. Springler sat watching the spectacle, when slowly the particles gathered together, formed the same ball of fire and vanished in the air. The farmer returned home, dazed at the experience of the evening, but mystified more than ever. Some of the people in the neighborhood regard the apparition as an ill omen and are frightened and nervous. Others look upon the light as a condition of the atmosphere, as a sort of optical illusion. .- « « Writers of fiction should be careful how they trifle with natural science. One popular novelist described with much eloquence a tropical full moon, and represented as occurring immediately afterward a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomical impossibility at such a time. An American novelist represents one of his characters as pointing to a certain star in the course of conversa- tion, and names as the exact date of the incident a day when the star is visible in no part of the earth. * * * A green grocer is one who goes to New York or some other large city in answer to an offer of a stranger to sell him green goods ‘‘away off.’? But he is sure to turn blue on his return and is never a green grocer any more. 8 — Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Tradesman Compan RNGRAVERS AND PRINTERS Some Points Wherein we surpass our competitors: We have The largest capital. The largest single floor space in the city. The largest four roller press in the city. The only folding, pasting and trimming machine in the city. The largest number of platen presses in the city. 8 I } 7 The most machinery of any establishment in the city. The largest paper stock of any printing house in the State. We are The only house doing Engraving, Printing and Binding under one roof. The largest Label Printers in the State. The largest Calendar Manufacturers in the State. The largest Coupon Book Makers in the World. The largest manufacturers of Merchants’ Specialties in the country. a Ee ee If you have never seen A Model Printing Office and desire to inspect such an establishment, you are invited to call any time during business hours and be shown through the var- ious departments. Be sure and make yourself and your mission known. Tradesman Gompany NEW BLODGETT BUILDING THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AROUND THE STATE. ‘TS OF MERCHANTS. M. Hansen shortly open a new grocery store. North Star—A. D. Clark Clark Bros. in general trade. Flint—Frank D. Baker V. Craft in the drug business. Mason—W. C. Walton in the grocery business. Millbrook—J. H. Chiids & Co. Carman & Childs in general trade. Charlevoix—A. J. Charter has chased the eigar factory of C. Barry. Cortright sueceeds MOVEMEN Manistee—C. will succeeds . Chas. & succeeds Walter succeeds succeed pur- Springport—H. J. Cortright & Griffith in general trade. Petoskey—Cook & Ballantine succeed | B. H. Cock in the hardware business. Scotts—F. J. Milliman has purchased the drug business of Philip Eberstein. Haslet Park—E. M. Babbitt succeeds J. P. Lockwood & Co. in general trade. Mt. Clemens—E. H. Conner succeeds Rutter & Conner in the bazar business. Haneock—Fox & Wittig succeed T. D. Mason in the fruit and meat business. Morenci—Hendee & Paine, bakers, have dissolved, Mrs. W. Hendee succeed- ing. Battle Creek—Thos. J. the grocery firm of Leon & Jennings, is dead. Detroit—David 5. D. S. Phelps Co. in the hardware ness. Phelps succeeded by F. A. Norris in the meat business. : Grand Ledge—Pearsal! & Rawson suc- | ceed Roxie A. (Mrs. V. H. ) Pearsall in | general trade. Brooklyn—Jennie (Mrs. Park W.) Hart is succeeded by Geo. fruit business. St. Ignace—J. E. Wagley & Co. suc-| ceed C. F. Hankey & Son in the flourand | feed business. Battle Creek—Glenn & Pritchard, tion dealers, have dissolved, Pritchard & Wilson succeeding. Edmore—Purpie & Cronkhite, ware dealers, have, diss: lived, i. ©. Cronkhite sanneniinns, Dryden—Lamb «& dissoived, Folsom, Edwin Lamb general dealers, have continuing the business. Zreland—ZJ. Brouwer & Son purehased the boot and shee business of J. Den Herder & Son. St. Charles—Wiliis & Co. are succeeded by Willis & Downing in the grocery and have flour and feed business. Hastings—Phin Smith has purchased the grocery stock of Jos. Kogers—and still yearns for more worlds to conquer. Negaunee—Alexander Ueyun is suc- ceeded by Henry H. Bregstone in the dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe busi- hess. Grand Ledge dry gouds dealers, have wil! be & Newson, The —Babeuck dissolved. business Newson. jart—E. A. Bros. purehased the Charies Noret. sueceeds Noret | Noret in the hardware business, interest of his brother, Fred | | | will add the goods to their respective | Jennings, of | trustee of the mortgage on the drug and succeeds | busi- | i | Casnovia—O. D. Blanchard & Son are a Ebberts in the | no- | hard- | continued by F. D. | having | Saginaw—Baumgarten Bros., clothing , sisted, despite the father’s and boot and shoe dealers, have dis- solved. Each will continue business in| his own name hereafter. Devereaux—Fred Wilder has retired | | from the firm of N. F. Wilder & Co., gen- | eral dealers. The business will be con- | tinued under the same style. Lansing—Chas. Broas has given a chattel mortgage on his clothing stock for | $22,000 in favor of J. L. Hudson, to pro- | teet certain creditors, and the store is ‘closed for inventory.” Boyne City—White & Fairchild an- nounce their intention of erecting a brick store building in the spring. |; Work on the structure will begin as soon as the snow is off. | Caledonia—The agents of the Chicago |Supply Co. have avandoned this com- munity in disgust. Prior to their de- parture the goods and chattels were at- tached by local business men for minor amounts. Howard City—Mrs. M. E. Warren has 'disposed of her millinery stock to Mrs. E. Barber and Mrs. J. A. Herold, who stocks. Mrs. Warren will remove to Grand Rapids. Kalamazoo—Alfred J. Mills, who is | stationery stock of Roberts & Hillhouse, |advertises to sell the stock and fixtures at foreclosure sale March 16. The amount of the mortgage indebtedness is Cheboygan—E. J. James & Co. have | purchased the grocery stock of D. Hi. Muloney, the transfer occurring March 1. Mr. Moloney will retire from the grocery | business and devote his time to the cedar business, in which he has been engaged several seasons. Cadillac—Fred A. Diggins has been appointed special guardian of Geo. A. Dillenback, who has given his drug and stationery store no attention for several |weeks. It is hoped that a course of | treatment at some retreat will result in | the restoration of his mental powers. Detroit—Joseph C. Robinson, grocer at $50 Champlain street, has filed three chattel mortgages on his stock and fix- tures, the first being in favor of Peter | Flierl for $500, the second in favor of |John Flier! for $500, and the third in favor of Henry M. Bentzel, as trustee, | for $129. Traverse City—W. J. Hobbs bas formed a copartnership with H. D. Alley, of Au- burn, N. Y., and the new firm will be |known as Hobbs & Alley. They have purchased of Buhl, Sons & Co., of De- troit, the A. Pohoral hardware stock and will remove their hardware stock to the | building formerly occupied by Mr. Poho- ral. Kalamazvo—O. B. Shaw, who uttered a $500 chattel mortgage on his grocery stock Sept. 18, 1893, im favor of 5. | Desenburg & Co., has surrendered the stock to the mortgagee. Nov. 24, 1894, | | | Mr. Shaw uttered a second mortgage on | ithe stock to Mrs. Clara Stewart for | $307.15. On the trial of the case |eosts, which he paid. | dealer, was up to St. Paul Sunday before | : _ business here.” | Jast, getting married, when he received a message that his stock was on fire. He answered back, ‘‘Letit go. Do the best you can. I cannot leave this important The fire was soon ex- tinguished, doing but small damage, which has been satisfactorily adjusted, and Mr. and Mrs. Friedman are happy. Tue TRADESMAN extends congratula- tions. Cadillac (News)—The collection agent of the Chicago Supply Co. made his ap- pearance in this city and vicinity this week, and, with the tactics usually adopted in such cases, is seeking to com- pel the payment of the notes given by the victimized farmers last summer. George Wallace, of Riverside township, has decided to resist the payment of the note obtained from him, after tendering the return of the goods given him, and he will be represented in the case by E. F. Sawyer, the attorney. Other farmers who have been victimized by the Supply Co. should join with Mr. Wallace and Mr. Sawyer in defeating the Chicago Supply Co.’s peculiar methods. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Belding—The Belding Cigar Co. be- gan operations last week, employing eight men. Canandaigua—E. C. Hill has purchasea an outfit and will erect a factery in time to begin operations by April 15. Albion—Frank C. Eby has purchased the interest of his partner (N. Davis) in the Albion Electric Soap Co. and will continue the business. Detroit—Articles of the Decoy Fy Paper Co., Limited, have been filed with the county clerk. The capital stock is $50,000 and the stockholders are Joseph H. Berry, William G. Smith; Charles E Upham, James L. Bennett and Apollon- nis A. Flozecknski. The amount paid in is $14,101.03. Detroit—The Michigan Elevator & En- gine Co. has filed a notice in the county clerk’s office that it has sold all its prop- erty and franchises and has gone out of existence. The report is made by George C. Wetherbee, Albert G. Boynton and Jacob Hull, the last board of directors. Jackson—When Charles H. Plummer, the eccentric Saginaw lumberman, died, his planing mills, lumber yard, ete., in this city passed into the control of the Union Lumber Co., which has now sold the property to Peck & Jackson, a rival firm, who will close the mill a d remove the stock to their yards on Jackson street. Lansing—At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Lansing Pants & Overall Co., heid Feb. 27, the follow- | ing directors were elected for the ensu- ing year: J. M. Earle (Presideut, Treas- urer and General Manager), E. D. Voor- | hees (Secretary and Superintendent), S. | Manistee—E. A. Larsen, baker at 314 A. Watt, Thos. Hili, Geo. A. Cockburn, | Sibt xen street, was recently arrested at; John Page, W..H Murray, John A. Me- Jackson—Averill Bros., who have con- ‘the instance of Richard Newman, who Clelland and C. S. Brown. duct over thirty succeeded Smith, Davis & War years, are ner. ty—J. H. Levinson Traverse Ci opened braneh stores at Charlevoix, Elk | more worids to conquer. ed the wholesale grocery business | charged the respondent with having sold by cigarettes to his thirteen-year-old boy, violation of the cigarette has | law prohibiting their sale to youths un- Larsen had been warned Rapids and Central Lake. and yearns for | by Newman not to sell any more cig- jarettes to his son, but the baker per- Herbert, in der seventeen. : _ OO P. Steketee & Sons offer Clark’s and |Coat’s best six cord thread at 45 cents | per doz., less 7 per cent. trade discount and 2 per cent. off 10 days or 1 per cent. off 30 days. a Signal Five cigar, all importedstock,5c. | | objections. | the baker | pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and | | varieties $3.50@4 per bbl. Quinecy—S. Friedman, the dry goods | oe PRODUCE MARALT. $2.50 per bbl. Baldwinsand Spys #3 and extra choice winter Apples—Russets command ’ Beans—The market continues to strengthen; handlers paying #1.60 for hand- picked stock and holding at $1.75 in carlots and clean, | $1.80 in smaller quantities. Butter—Without material change, dealers pay- ing 1@lse and holding at 17@19e for dairy. Celery—25 35¢ per doz., according to quality. Any of it is poor enough. Cranberries—M per crate. Eggs—1 @19c per doz., down grade. Lettuee—15c per Ib. Onions—Dry stock is scarce. oc, holding at @ @i5c. Parsnips —35¢ per bu Potatoes—The demand for stock for seeding purposes is quite strong, especially from Tc xas and the other Gulf States, and dealers look for- ward to an active and satisfactory shipping sea son. Until the weather moderates sufficiently o open the pits, stocks will have to be drawn from storehouses and cellars, which may en- hance the price materially, but later on the mar ket is likely to recede, although the belief is current that 69@°5e is likely to be realized be fore the close of the season. Radishes—Hot house stock commands 30c per doz. bunches. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried $3 per bbl Squash—Hubtard brings 1%c per lb., if the quality is up tostandard. Poor stock sell. at % @l1c. but market on the Dealers pay 50@ Jerseys command PROVISLONS, Tne Graud Kapids Packing and Provision Co jnotes as follows: PORK IN BAKEELS. ae 10 75 ree ue 11 00 &xtra clear pig, shod oak 14 00 @xtraciear, heavy ...... clear, fat tack.......... ee cas 12 00 Boston OO ae 12:0 lear back, shortcut. ... Le 12 50 Standard clear. short cut. best 12 7 BAUSMAGE, ree, ee. ...-....... i . 7 Boteeea ._...-..... Levee cues : 5 Laver .....-. i eee eee ee 6 WO ek ce oles Le ey 8% Biood .... ' \ . 4 6 Head cheese i 6 Sumimer...... Pee | 10 eee . I LARD Metre Gengered ......... ......_.......,.. 78 Granger ...... hot oe 7 Pay ....... be eae ec oc ee oo tole la . oe Cottolene.. ed ee lee oe 6%4 oe, ae 6% O ib. Tins, “4 ¢ “adv ance O lb. pails, eC e 2 * te . oe <= we ' uh. ~* le a BEEP IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 ibs....... ..-.6 Extra Mess, Chicago packing...... ce Boneless, rump butts. SMOKED MEATS—Can vena or Platt r ams, average a ips.. as 16 lbs.. . o ' tate - ee... eT ss best boneless....... Shoulders.. ... Lo. eee eo Breakfast Radon bonbiewe && Uried beef, ham prices........ 1. 1. DRY SALT MEATS [omg Caceres, homyy................ : 6% Bris-2-<___-_—— P. S‘eketee & Sons offer Clark’s and Coat’s best six cord thread at 45 cents | per doz., less 7 per cent. trade discount | and 2 per cent. off 10 days or 1 per cent. | Dates and Figs—No change to note ' off 30 days. “ereameries. | The Creamery Shark in a New Role. A certain Chicago establishment which Wants Column. Advertisements will be inserted under this l | head for two cents a word the first insertion and and scheme creameries is now turning | oy pave a word for each subsequent insertion. oc. : ae o advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, its attention to the inauguration of | Aqvance payment. : scheme canneries, with excellent success | BUSINESS CHANCES. ; : _ "I — —so far as relieving the people of sur-| Wane D—A Sawmill, nearly new, in good 2 t | running order, capable of cut ting 15,000 plus cash is concerned. Crafty agents | hardwo d per day of ten hours. Must be cheap i i: a: |and on easy terms Good security. Write full are going about the country, oan the | particulars. Aadress K, care Mich. Tradesman. cupidity of the people by stories of the; _ LL a 713 ae i | (LOOD LOCATION for Sawmill 000 or large profits involved in the manufac- | G 30,00) capacity,on good ture of canned goods, and, from present indications, the State will soon contain cate. Write at once. Li i gar wre & the wrecks of as many canneries as it ax SALE_We . cre © now possesses the remains of wrecked | F tin and f urnace tusiness reasons for selling. Ir | O. Box 47, Grand Rapi id The American Grocer recently called | |W 1e of rail pad and | | large inland lake: abundance of timber: 500.000 | feet logs on skids waiting for go¢ a mill to lo- Address W, care Michi ANT to buy sali aaa stock op | “i aunt iH / notions, ete., about $2.5 0 attention to the prevailing craze created | | town of from 3,0 0 to 5,000 inhabit by the industrious agents of cannery | 0" Western Michigan. Address Michigan Tradesman supply houses and called attention to | W: ANGE PariariaEen the following cogent reasons why the} 75 bbl. steam roll eraze should subside: | ated on railroad: 1. The number of canneries now in | — haste, operation has a capacity far beyond the | \ FANTE! tf ir rest In my ae “pnt Salesm | country. Full consumptive requirements of the coun- | $10 per month en try. | of advance; commission if prefe no ) i | ri e ed ddress Vander : The markets are overstocked, and | /emce required, Address W A. Vandercook Co., | San Francisco, Cal. 7 the leading staple articles sold far be- low the cost of production. in a live town of That it costs, under favorable cir-| incluces boiler engine cumstances. 68@70 cents per dozen to | reat ae ha ehh pack No. 3 tomatoes, now selling at 60@ | furnishing « aparece 65 cents per dozen. That it costs to pack good standard | { r 9 ti oe ~ < M OF that it is now celling from 50@60 | HOR SALE O# TRADE a goods—shoe stock ] d—two tracts cents per dozen. of land, one of torty and the oth r te That the history of the canning in- | Address Lock Box 984, Big Rapids, Micl dustry is marked by the failure of | YYANTED—A St CK O01 hundreds of producers and others, who | State ore a ee have started smal! factories to be opera jdends H Hlizerote. Lansing ted afew monthsin the year, and who Fee ALE A | WELLS have endeavored to compete with old-es-| 4 | Stock, stationery, sh: tablished factories worked the entire | *2dress Box 155, Suntie d, year and with their brands well known . ace nati and popular with the trade and consum- | jn good f rming Giautueuans ers. sehler, Grand Rapids, Wick —— Oe K‘ IR S AL B=AS rock yi K i | Gripsack Brigade. tinner’s tools, in Cornelius Crawford has traded his srles inst yenr § ante e ie house and lot at Caledonia for Aaron | _0ins i to manufeeturis Brown Bros. & Co., Colt Bechtel’s drug stock, atthe same place, | Ohio and will continue the business at the A Goon: i same location under the management of l deries yy we land te Henry Arbour. ee eee GOOD STORE The regular monthly meeting of Post A stock seneral m E will be held at Elk’s hall! Saturday | [°° frm worth $5.00 dress No. 686 care Michigza evening, March 9. As several matters of ( \ROCERY STOCK FOR importance are to come before the meet- ead con ‘wae oo ing—including the advisability of chang- cgay 4 oa — o ing the place of meeting—a full attend- For I ance is requested. A young man has been misunderstood. He was traveling salesman in the employ NOR SAl 13LE FACT furnishing excel lent shi | cost $'7.0 0 and is well w sold for $5,':00. owing to ir ddress No. 97, care W $10,000 a it wi erience of Tr adesm: in 697 SMALL “STOCK nat pis terag H ANDI: S Ee. W., I—INVOICING tling town of 8.000 y that made Address 691 SALE—DRUG STOCK, CLEAN AND fresh, new shelving, counters, s sode. fountain and safe. the finest good business town Will take half cash and balance on short Ww eases, location in pay able Address for particulars, No. 635, care Mic Trades- of one of the large western houses, and man. 685 | CQITOCK OF CLOTHING AND ( Ss PLEMEN’S in his many years of service had always social ali had his accounts O. K.-ed without ques- | Address No. 660, Care Michigat tion. What was his surprise, therefore, G OOD FARM NEAR STATE CAPITOL, : clear title, to exchange for boots and shoes. to be called up one day before the senior | I ict 659 . | $$ $$ $$$ member of the firm and thus harangued: J® YOU WANT ‘Y OR SELL RE At, estate, write me. I can satisfy you oe S > ¢ 7 i , , Mr. Salesman, in the long time you have @ masses cain t ands Wikiiecms bn! worked for us | have always found you : ! . as i OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF saving and mindful of the firm’s inter Riese Uanae, Gn cle Of the pitnetial ests, but for the past few weeks I have | streets in Grand Rapids New stock, good trade, . : location Al. Address No. 624 care Michigan noticed a change, and I’m sorry to see | Tradesman. 634 that extravagance has begun to set in. | MISCELLANEOUS. Now we expect you to keep clean, and {EX TO SELL BAKING POWDER TO THE ) : os grocery trade. Steady employment, ex- don’t object to ordinary antiags: but perience unnecessary 875 monthly salary and when it comes to baths at $2 apiece, and | expenses or commission. [f offer is satisfactory : - , .,,, | address at once with particulars cc ig those taken twice a week, I think it’s | yourself U.S. Chemical Works, Chicago. 6/7 time tor us to object. I think I’ve said enough, and you’ll be more guarded in potatoes, onions, spelen, cabbages, etc, |. ., | Correspondence solicite: Watkins & Smith future.’? ‘Just one word, Mr. Senior, if | g,-s¢ ar Secon 1. Grand Rapids. 673 ' se,” said the drummer. ‘Bath zn a a : yen stone,” sat he oe th | ATEARLY NEW BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER is a town in South Dakota that I make for sale at a great reduction from cost ic ‘ s of the juni Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of oe ee ee same make of machine, which we consider the best onthe market. Tradesman C een tw p Tee ina Louis St., Grand Rapids. George Chantler, the Manistique drug- gist, is in town for a few days, visiting | ww; EVERY DRUGGIST JUST yy .. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, in starting in business and every one already friends. a started to use our system of poison ‘labels. What ae ss vv fo has cost you $15 you can now get for #. Four 9 Gillies’ fine New York Coffees are OD teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman top. J. P Visner, Agt. | Company, Grand Rapids. ee eR ee i eRe an re ea Scie ot i ae chido dag Bae RL rn ee eee ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PORTER TO PARTNERSHIP. Progress of a Clerk Who Was Not Afraid of Work I have no doubt many who read this will agree with me that the hardest work they do is going to the city to buy goods. After a long experience at it one may so arrange his program as to save himself a deal of work, but at its best it is tedious and wearing. To | go to a large city an entire stranger, with instructions fore buying, is getting the hardest task that could be laid on your shoulders. To the country youth there is an ex- citement in the bustle and hurrying that of ttself ts Uresome. The streets of New York offer so much that is new and attractive to him that he is led on and on, and never suspects that he has walked a very long distance until his legs begin to admonish him of the fact. I remember complaining to a friend that New York tired me much quicker than the same amount of travel would at home, and he took down a map and showed me that I had taken a walk of over four miles, and was comparing it with one of less than a mile at home. It looks on the surface as if it were simply taking one’s ease to go into a store and write down the prices given you, and that a day of such work would be an-easy oné; but this is wide of the truth. You enter a store, introduce yourself to someone, have to give some idea of what you are after, and, when a salesman waits on you, have all your wits about you. You want his best prices, you want to post up on new goods and patterns, and you are on the alert to see where you can buy best, and what you had better buy. My first day at this kind of work was a very tiresome one. I looked through “three dry goods stocks, one notion stock and a stock of crockery. I en- larged my ideas a good deal that day. In our little town at home the peo- ple were mostly American born; and when ___i there, the Germans came the general feeling among young and old America was that they were an inferior class of people. The old native farmer sneered at “furriners,” and vowed that they ought never be allowed to vote. I have no doubt I imbibed much of this feeling, for I rather patronized my German cus- tomers, and felt as if they were be- hind our world. But I had not been long in New York before I began to get my ideas enlarged on this head. In one of the largest stores I entered I was met by a German, and a glance told me all the others in the store were like him. He was a clerk, and suggested introducing me to one of the firm—Mr. H. I had never known what true politeness meant until that mo- ment. Mr. H. greeted me as kindly as if he had been an old friend, put me at my ease in a moment, and seemed to pay me and my opinions a defer- ence which, coming from him, was the most subtle kind of flattery. The en- tire accommodations of the stcre were placed at my disposal, and in such a way that I could have no doubt but that the offer was a hearty one. Kind inquiries were made to see if I could not be assisted by them while in the city, and in talking about their goods not a word was said against other houses or different goods. Since those- days my ideas of life and of the world have grown some- what, and the word “foreigner” no longer means a term of reproach. The nationality of a man long since ceased to be a matter of any importance to me, and if I have a weakness, it is to heartily despise the man who assumes airs because his father or grandfather happened to reach this side of the water a few years ahead of someone else. It is a sure sign to me of a nar- to figure around be- |} row experience and a very small mind. Finishing my day’s work about half past four, I started from Canal street to the Astor house. I was pretty well fagged out, and was just going to hail a ’bus when I felt a hand on my coat. I had heard enough of New York to know at once that my pockets were being picked, and I turned like a flash and caught the hand that was in my pocket, but instead of the ex- pected thief it was my friend Fisher. “Is it you, Fisher?’ “Yah, it vas me. You valk like a shteampoat: vhat’s de matter?’ “Nothing. I’m pretty tired, and was just going to hail a ’bus. Where are you going, and how are you getting on?’’ “IT pe goin’ novheres, und I ton’t got on at ail” “What’s the matter?” “De ship vas not in—the man can’t dell vhen.” “He don’t know when it’s coming?” “Dot's t£.” “What will you do?” “To? I vill to nodings.”’ “Will you stay here for it?” “Shtay? To pe sure I vill Vhat I goom for?’ “Have you had your dinner?’ “Tinner? I should guess so. Tinner? I am yust goin’ for mine supper.” “What are you going to do to-night?” “Yust schmoke.” “Come around to the supper?” He agreed to come, and when I came down from dinner I found him waiting for me. We Sat in the reading room an hour, he smoking and I reading the day’s papers, when a hand was laid on my shoulder. It was Mr. Fry, and I suddenly remembered he had invited me to go to the theater with him. I wanted to go, but I had asked Fisher over to see me; so I told Fry I was sorry I could not go, as I had a friend there who came to spend the evening with me. “Ask him to come with us,” said he. Fisher was ready to go, as he had never been to a theater in his life, he said; so we started for the “Bowery.” I had been to many small shows in my village, but they were very small affairs, though I had enjoyed them thoroughly. Our hall was about 20x40, and the entire scenery consisted of one curtain. I had seen that used fre- quently, in one_ evening, for* a parlor, a dungeon, a garden, a forest, and a saloon, and I had enjoyed it each time. To go from such a hall as that to a New York Theatre was in- deed a change. The handsomely up- holstered seats, the gilt on the wood- work, the handsome scenery, the mu- sic and the actors—it was almost like seeing heaven. Fisher and I said little to each other till we got out doors. We shook hands with Fry, and Fisher turned to go to his hotel. He drew a long breath, and said: ‘My gootness, Marks, : sthay. Astor after dat vas heafenly nice! I agreed with him perfectly. >. Kept His Cash in a Nail Keg. J. J. Van Wyck, a hardware merehant in Kansas City, Mo., had an experience some time ago that he will remember for some days to come. One night, as he was closing his store, two highwaymen leveled a revolver at his head, and com- manded him to walk into the store. He walked. The robbers tied him to a chair and commenced a search for money. They could not find any, and compelled Mr. Van Wyck to open the safe, but it was empty. The highwaymen grew angry and flourished their revolvers in the face of the prisoner, and told him that he must either tell where the money was or get ready to die. Fearing that his captors would execute their threats, he opened a keg of nails, and turned out $100 in eash, alot of checks and some eounty scrip. After securing the money, the robbers took the keys of the store, walked out of the front door and locked | their prisoner in. Dry Goods P rice Current. UNBLEACHED COTTON 8 Ae ............ 6% nee ee 5 Aventis AA........- 6 Atientic A...... — - ag Se 5% . a... 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Amoskeag ACA... ne 8% Comostors ......... etn Cl........... Hamilton a 6% |S ... 6% . - 4 L . ae ' BB... : 108 eatin, ono eee es 10 icine are ae sno, y...... Seema CCCs ss 8 ee 6%|No Name........ - 7% Cnfton. 2 ........ ¥ te ore... 9 DEMINB. Lawrence, -os...... 2 Otis, fetes scenes 10 No EE —.. . No. 250... os CC. 8% " No. 290.... 8 Amoskeag, blue....11% Everett, — eee 10% een. .... 13% brown. ....10% ' brown .11% @INGHAMB. Amores ...... -..- 5 Lancaster, staple. . ‘* Persian dress 6 fancies . 7 . Canton .. 7 ” Normandie 6 ws BC. 26.65 &%/Lancashire........ ». 4 ’ Teazle...10%|Manchester......... 4% . Angola..10%|Monogram..... cuca. oon . Persian.. 7 |Normandie......... 6% Arlington staple.... 6i¢|Persian............. 6% Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... T% Bates Warwick dres 74%|Rosemont.. ........ 6 _ staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6 Centennial......... 1OpG ommeress............ 7 oc... ac recess ............ 7% Cumberland staple. OM Toll du Noerd....... 8% Cumberland........ ~apeen........._... % ‘6 seersucker.. an ll Warwick.. . Everett classics..... 8% Whittenden......... Srpomoon.......... Th C heather dr. % emerse........... 6} _ indigo blue 9 Gienarven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... -o Glenwood...... nes om iW eneereace.......... Hampton.. a go 10 Jobnson Vhalon cl ee Windermeer.... .... 5 tees bie Oiraes..... -.......... 6% . zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag.. ho. ee ORE... ..-... 12 ore... ee aa seuss a oles Ss THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....46 |Barbour's.......... 95 Coats’, J. & P. > (meres ... .....- 90 Holyoke. ae 22% ENITTING COTTON, White. Colored. , 33 38 White. Colored No. me o. 42 , +. - i” 43 . 40 wl 34 “ 2 36 a |” 45 CAMBRICS. es cues ve 3% |Edwards........... 3% Wore tar......... Se Lockwood...... ... 3X Hac Geere........... 3% |Wood’s. sess Newmarket......... 3% Brunswick . —. oo RED FLANNEL. Pireeam.... 4... ow... 22% Creodmore.......... - we. .......... 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Cortioell, Gos....... 75 {Corticelli ee twist, doz..374] per oz ball...... 50 yd, doz. .37% HOOKS AND EYES—PER G@ No 1 BY’k & White.. 5 ‘ 2 iy “ 3 “ ne 6 No 2—20,M C...... * 816,585 C........40 COTTON No 2 White & BI’k..12 - ° ~oke * £ “ Je No — r& ‘White. "2 . .-10 PINS. - |No4—15 # 8%...... 40 TAPE. No 8 White & Bl’k..20 “ 10 “ 23 “42 “ "26 SAFETY PINS. Oe... ee _ ieee........., ......80 NEZDLSS—PER M. A. om ieee uceeue 1 40|/Steamboat .......... 40 Crowely’ wo -conk SUGee Eyed | beeen 1 50 Marsha’ Vs. i ; OaAeericen.._.......- 100 TABLE OIL oo 5—4....175 6—4.. --165 6—4...2 30 —— Cotten _ Twine. = ans... .... oe. .......- 18 Rising ‘Star pig. Domemre ........ 3-ply.. oH Anchor . on a North Star -20 Bristol . 1 Cherry Valley. eeu: 15 IXL 18% Wool Standard 4 plyi? % Fownatien .........16 PLAID OSNABURGS ae... 6% ee 6% OO Th Ay epee... ......... Ou EE ess es 6x Granite .. 7 Haw River.. .' Bee Fo 5 Mount Pleasant.... 6% oe 5 Le en 5% Randelman......... 6 RPE 5.4 ee- 5lg Sible - rides ea 6% Tol ne Otis aon: ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 DRIFTING TO CHAOS. Pessimistic View of the Financia) Situa- tion. It has been said (and, without doubt, truly) that there has never been known in the history of the wor!d, until the present century, such an occurrence as a financial panie and widespread com- mercial depression. Of course, there have been times in the history of many countries when, by reason of the failure of food crops, great distress was caused ina particular district or region; but its effects were not felt in all the other com- mercial countries. The reason of this is plain enough—it is only in modern times that the whole world has been bound together by the ties of commerce. To-day, all the commercial countries are, in reality, one. They are connected by the electric wire and by railways and fast steamships. The market price of the chief products of common use is tel- egraphed daily to every principal city in the world, and business is influenced all the time by the state of the weather, the condition of the crops, the needs of the people of some particular country, the stock on hand, and a variety of other cir- cumstances which could have no effect but for the intimate association of all commercial countries. The present is an age that has never had a precedent in the experience of the eutire human race, and it is this fact that forces the world’s thinkers to endeavor to originate and apply remedies to the evils that arise from any disorder of the commercial conditions which have grown out of modern civilization. And right here is the difficulty. It has required a long time for human society to develop the situation which exists to-day, and, therefore, it will require a proportion- ately long time to work out remedies for allits evils. Capital has become so con- eentrated and division of labor has been carried so far that, whereas, fifty years ago, every man was his own master, now thousands of men are dependent for their sustenance upon the will or caprice of one man, while several corporations can, by combination, control the market of a commodity. The productive power of man has increased many fold, and the standard of life of the people has been steadily rising. The industrial develop- ment has wrought an immense change upon the moral, as well as the social, condition of the people. It is easily seen why any considerable disturbance in the industrial and com- mercial world must produce effects that are far reaching and often of the most serious nature, affecting not only the communities where they oecur, but tle people of distant countries. For instance, a strike by railway employes can paralyze the entire basiness of the country, and the failure of the American eotton or wheat crops can produce infinite distress over half the countries of Europe, while a commercial failure in Lombard screet, London, or in Wall street. New York, is capable of exerting an effect like that of a thunderbolt on the money markets of the world. The difficulty of finding a remedy for these evils, when they oceur, is ag- gravated by the fact that everybody has a panacea to propose, and each self-ap- pointed doctor of finance will listen to nobody else, but will insist on forcing his own medicine upon the body politic. AS a consequence, there is no agreement on any pian, and, by the clamorous per-! sistence of the most ignorant that no other plan than their own shall be tried, they prevent the wisdom and experience of those who are most competent to act from being used for the amelioration of the evils from which the country is suf- fering. But every industrial and moral evil has ip itself the means of cure. The result of letting the country drift from one financial breaker to another will finally drive the people to desperation. They will take matters in their own hands and attempt some violent and drastic experi- mentin finance. They will succeed in| wrecking all their business and indus- | tries, and then will they become con- vinced of their foolishness and stupidity. Then will they seek for some wise leader- ship to bring them out of their desperate condition, and thus the disease, after running its course, will eventually cure itself, after working the destruction of all the credit, ecommerce and industries and all the prosperity of the country. RADIX. —_ © > The Hardware Market. General trade continues quiet. Febru- ary has not been a satisfactory month for business. Reports from ali over the State are of the same tenor. We also notice from our exchanges that jobbers in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and other jobbing centers all say the same thing. In a few lines every one is quite busy. All sugar supplies are in good demand, as the winter has been a good one for maple trees. Wire Nails—Are firm at prices quoted last week. The mills have all they can do and seem determined to hold up prices. There has been quite a fight on between two Chicago jobbers, who have been selling for less than they could re- place, but it is understood that their dif- ferences have been settled and market prices fully maintained. We quote from mill 95e@$1 and from stock $1.15@1.20. We look for higher prices. Barbed Wire—Is beginning to go for- ward on spring orders. Prices are firm and advancing, with no prospect of a decline. As usual, we anticipate somebody will be disappointed and not get his wire as soon as he wants it. Dealers have a habit of putting off the date of shipment into April and May and then find out they wantit in March and wonder why the mills cannot ship at once. We will tell them why: We know one mill which has orders on its books for 10,000 tous, all for shipment March 1. Now, no mill can do that. They could not get the cars. They would need 834 cars, and it takes time to get that many around. Window Glass—Is firm, but there is no change in discount. Bolts—The new lists and discounts are going all right, although they are not fuily distributed among the trade. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ek. 70 eo. 40 ome Weine. ..... -.. 58... 25 eennings’, Hattalion ..................... .. 50&10 AXES. dis. First Quality, 8. BE. Bronso....... D. B. Bronze.. ...85 50 . 5.8. 3 Steer... .... oe oe ee in their own locality. Conversing with sp spied store Meng also sd heard oo a member of such a firm, I was informed me Se Renn oe Se CT Se. that it is the most satisfactory retail _——- oe _ er mm oe trade in the country, the average profits coed without incurring the antipathy of being lnree ahd the customers well business rivals = underselling =, pleased. He admitted that, while the This is his idea, To eda along this goods so purchased were not always up line he must possess ready cash, so that to date in style and frequently came to he may be ready at any —— te them in a disordered or damaged condi- advantage of forced sales, — mar- tion, yet, being neither old nor shop ? ae ot bony See ere worn, if properly handled after their re- jee will ——— it besa the ee ception, they were equal to any others 1 Ces Hee er Here ee © fer comfort and service. ‘‘Such goods,” eH oO oe ee —_— said he, ‘‘are especially salable to the dealer also oe advantage of the various Sernedinss of geaglé whe seek the sub- forced sales in the larger cities. He gen- stantial rather than the beautiful, and —_ er Mianeceeeny _ ee _ the source whence they are obtained is is not particular “ to the kind, if only cot muds & eeciek the quality and price suit him. hin & Bom I knew a man ence who bid $250 at an auction sale for 900 dozen pairs of gloves and his bid took them. The gloves were of various kinds, from lisle thread to CYCLE silk and kid, and the larger portion of them were for women and children. | & TEP watched the outcome of that purchase. The merchant at once placed a man on| - the road with samples of this stock, and LA DDER. within forty days he had sold 500 dozen to country merchants, netting $350 cash ; _ and expenses of selling, and eould, of course, afford the retail the balance at leisure. Anotber instance: Jacob Rhinehammer, a German, kept a general store at Rich- mond, Iils., in the early settlement of that State. One summer day, a man drove up with a two-horse wagon, the box of which was packed with tinware— perhaps half of it milk pans of assorted sizes—which he wanted to sell for cash. Said he was atinsmith himself and owned a factory in Milwaukee, where his stock was made. He had probably heard that Jacob was a strictly cash buyer, which 4 e-em INVES Hc We will be pleased to show and explain = r ee without any expense to you. Drop usa card. : rs Every essential feature of the was a fact, and it was specie, instead of CHAMPION is fully protected by i " 7 patents owned and contr. lled | the usual wild-cat currency then circulat- the Champior Cash Hal hahaa C ‘o. Users wil be protected and in- fringments will not be allowed. ing in the West. The German looked over the stock, which was hand made, and named a ruinously low price at| " which he would take the lot. This the owner declared to be robbery but at last accepted; then, to his disgust, Jacob re- | FH quired that 10 per cent. be deducted, as | he had only gold coin with which to pay | the bill. After considerable wrangling | over the matter, the bill was discounted and paid and a good stock of tinware carried into the store. But he came near having the goods replevined and a con-| WRITE because it inculcates “business {methods which enable then. to attend to sequent lawsuit on his hands, as the ma-| your business in a more methodical manner, which saves you money. terial of which they were made had never HIRTH, KRAUSE k 60 Cones only by been paid for, which may have accounted ineaock ts(‘L(*Ss*t*t*«“«édRCatogee, | |GMOMPION GASH REGISTER GO. Grand Repids, Mick. t2"Merchants desiring to in- spect Our registers are requested ql b to drop usa card, so that one of hg our agents can call when in the ees ; i dealer’s vicinity. It will cost nothing to see the machine and ‘ ‘ have its merits explained. a a It Brings SYSTEM to Every Retail Store. You CAN’T Afford to ke Without It. Your CLERKS Will Like It 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE LITTLE OLD LADY. {Concluded from last week}. People sometimes make the statement that they have spent the entire night without a wink of sleep. This remark may, as arule, be taken with a reserva- tion, but in my case it was literally true I did not close my eyes in slumber during that long and terrible night. I felt convinced that foul play had been going on downstairs—in short, that the little lady had been murdered. I shud- dered as I recalled Georgiana’s face, and afresh when I remembered having seen Lydia about the premises that very morning. The landlady of the house pleased me no better than did these two women—in short, the sooner we were all out of this terrible place, the safer for our lives, I considered. Major Earn- cliffe was again away, but I remembered with a sense of satisfaction that he in- tended to return on the following even- ing. Harold was now so much better that Dr. Butler did not come every day. I did not wish to trouble the doctor, if I eould help it, over this matter; at the same time, I felt that something must be done. If the old lady had been ill and had died in the ordinary way, why had her death been made such a mystery of? Why did not even the landlady acknowl- edge that she was ill? Why did the coffin arrive in the middle of the night? I felt convinced that that coffin was meant for her and for no one else. It was under the ordinary size of an adult’s coffin. Yes, I could almost swear there had been foul play. In the morning I got up feeling weak and haggard. As soon as 1 could, I called Miss McKay into the inner room. “The little lady on the drawing-room floor is dead,” I said. ‘*Merciful Heavens!” exclaimed Miss McKay, ‘‘you don’t say so. How do you know? How dreadfully bad you look. What will poor little Harold say?” ‘‘] will tell you why I know that the little lady is dead,” I replied. ‘‘When I went downstairs to get the lemons last night, I saw a coffin being carried into the drawing-room. There is no doubt that the coffin is intended for the little lady. Sheis dead, and I do not for a moment believe she has come to her death by ordinary means. Of course, Miss McKay, this dreadful thing must be kept from Harold’s ears.’’ ‘“‘Of course,’? said Miss McKay. ‘Oh, we will manage that,” she added. Then she talked a little longer over the occurrence of the night and I pres- ently went downstairs. [ had a basket on my arm. Iwas going out ostensibly to buy provisions, but my real motive was to visit the nearest police station and tell my suspicions to the police. On the stairs I met the landlady. An im- pulse made me stop her. ‘So the drawing-room lodger is dead,’’ I remarked. ‘Dead!’ exclaimed the woman, with a start which, if assumed, was well acted. ‘“‘What on earth do you mean, Miss Lawrence? I have just taken the lady her breakfast and she appeared to be quite in her usual health.” ‘Then why was a coffin taken up into the drawing-room last night?” I inquired. ‘“‘A coffin! Good Gracious me, what next? You must be dreaming or mad, Miss Lawrence. There’s been no coffin beought into this house since I’ve had anything to do with it.; A coffin, in- trembled Office Office Telephone 1055- 1055. SECURITY 257—259 OTTAWA ST. Moving, Packing, Dry Storage. Storage and Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of Household ‘Furniture. * ey Business Strictly Confidential. Baggage Wagon atall hours. F.S.ELSTON, Mgr. Barn Telephone 1059. RO UNE, Le Transfer Co. “Estimates Cheerfully PP anxane Kb. owDEF qt? ony di IG Gaane. Ban PouneR SOLDAT ¢ PRICE 3K ary agin | oh “7. NorrripoP. ROBERTSON canpiét LANSING, Mich. FACTURER® Louisville. Ky JARREL SWINGS, This is a convenience no grocer can afford to be without. It keeps sugar and other stuff under the counter out of the way and free from dust and dirt, and saves eovers. It will swing a barrel of sugar with perfect ease. Telegraph name, Swing. Price, each, $1. LANSING WHERLBARRGW CO, Lansing, Mich. The President of the United States of America, To HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager satlesm em and workmen, holding through or under you, el and all claiming or GREETING: Wh creas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District ot in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, vader the pains and_ penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you Ne.7 Jersey, it has lately District of New to be relieved touching the matters therein Complainant, absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlaw fully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring * ial J § soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word pf mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading manner. e Vitness, The honorable MELvitteE W. Futier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Sta*es of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, [sEAL] [SIGNED] > D. OLIPHANT, Clera ROWLAND COX, Complainants Solicitor am mee a % THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 deed! and taken up into the drawing; room! You must be out of your head!’’ “Tam not,’’ I said, firmly. ‘‘I saw the whole thing with my own eyes. Four men came creeping up the stairs in their stocking feet, between 12 and 1 last night. They were carrying a coffin and brought it up into the drawing room and left it there.” “Well,” exclaimed the landlady, ‘‘if this isn’t too much! Do [ stand in my own house and hear such dreadful things uttered? I suppose you’ll say next that poor Georgiana has murdered her mis- tres! You’re a queer lot. But seeing is believing. Il suppose if you were to see the little lady, you’d believe she’s alive. Come with me.” The woman was in a towering rage and Icould not perceive that she was acting at all. She went downstairs with me, opened the hall door and crossed the street by my side. “You can see my drawing-room win- dow from here,’’ she said. ‘Look! Now do you believe your own eyes?”’ I did look, and I looked in dazed as- tonishment, for there, just as calm as usual, and in her usual pretty dress, with her soft white hair and her quaint white cap, sat the little old lady! Her knitting was in her hands and she was bending over her work. “There!” said the landlady, ‘‘who was right? Now you'll know better than to spread such infamous lies about my house!” “*) see I was mistaken about the lady being dead,’’? I replied. ‘I am sincerely glad, sincerely glad, that Iam mistaken. Nevertheless,’’ I added, “I saw the coffin earried up.’’ The landlady gave me a withering glance. She would not condescend to waste any more words on me but re- turned to the house. I went off in a limp sort of fashion, to perform my housekeeping duties, instead of going to the police station, as I had intended. Iam afraid I did not think much about Harold’s dinner on that oc- easion. ‘*The little lady is alive, but a coffin has been carried into that room,’’ I kept saying to myself; ‘‘a coffin has been earried into that room. What does it mean?”’ On my way home I looked up again at the drawing-room window. Yes, the little old lady was there; she was still bending over her Knitting. She did not look out, as was her wont, however. She gave me no keen bright glance out she kept looking Then I went of her pretty dark eyes; at that tiresome knitting. ee Presepy bear the the signature, a = je) for: EDMitawisher a an tional ptecon 205 wth Na EWYoRK CONDENSED Hudsons treet New OOK upstairs and told Miss McKay what the landlady had said. It was Christmas Eve. Harold was ex- cited about some presents he was prepar- ing. One of them was for the little lady. It was a beautiful Christmas card. He was a clever little feliow and had il- luminated it himself. “IT wonder what she’ll think of it?” he kept saying. ‘‘l wonder if she’ll be glad—if she’ll guess how very much I love her. She always calls me ‘the po- lite little gentleman,’ when she sends mea message. Shall [ put ‘From tbe polite little gentleman to the little old lady,’ on the Christmas card, Laurie?” “Yes, do,’? I answered. I gave him a pencil and he wrote the inscpription with great care. All through that day my anxiety grew greater and greater. What did that coffin mean? At last, I felt so fidgety that, as the evening came on, I could not keep still. I stole softly out and crossed still at the window. The blinds were down there and there were lights in the room. I could see her shadow quite dis- tinctly against the shade; she was still bending over her knitting. I thought her attitude a little queer. I felt more uncomfortable than ever when I got back to my room. It was then 8 o’clock. Harold was getting tired and anxious to go to bed, so Miss McKay began to undress him. A sudden idea darted into my mind. ‘‘Look here,’’ I said to the child, ‘“‘sgive me your card and I’ll take it down to the little lady.’’ ‘But you can’t see her,” said Harold, glancing up at mein surprise. ‘'Georg- iana won’t let anyone see her.’’ ‘I dare say I can manage te see her,’’ I replied. He went and got it at once. Miss Mc- Kay raised her eyebrows and glanced at me with an expression of interrogation. I said nothing. I seemed to be carried quite out of myself, in a sudden passion- ate determination that, by hook or by crook, | would get inside that room. I went downstairs. On the way I met Lydia Perkins. the house? some days ago. and down to the dining room. Major Earncliffe had returned. I knocked and a voice said looked equal to anything. “fs anything wrong, Miss Lawrence?” We The The mis the road to see if the little lady were | ‘*Anyhow, give me the card.’’ | | he said, glancing up in surprise. was no servant in the room. door and crossed over to where he sat. **There is something very wrong,’ I whispered, fearful there might be a lis- tening ear at the keyhole, ‘‘but not with little Haruid. want you to come up with me to the draw- room.’’ 1 then told him as briefly as I could the story of the coffin and my fears for the little lady. **f am not a nervous woman,’’ I said, must be my guarantee for that, but the horror which fills me now is, I find out what the mystery is.” cliffe entered fully the situation. While he was consider- of his, a Captain Graham, came in. “Just in the nick of time!’’? exclaimed the Major. ‘Now | believe we can man- ageit. Sit down, Graham; we want your help.”’ In a dozen forcible words he told my story to the captain. ‘What you, Graham, are to do is this,” said Major Earncliffe, in conclusion— ‘-you are to stay in this room and listen with all your ears for the drawing-room bell. If I ring it twice, go at once for the police. Now, Miss Lawrence, I am at your service.” We went upstairs. I knocked at the drawing-room door. After a pause it was opened by Georgiana. She had not expected to see me, still less Major Earn- cliffe, and, in consequence, opened the door wider than she otherwise would have done. She was a powerful woman | but she was no match for the Major. He put his hand on her shoulder, pushed her aside and dragged me with him into the room. I looked at Georgiana. Her face turned fairly livid. Behind her stood Lydia. The door of the bedroom, which led into the drawing-room, was open. Il rushed in and there saw a coffin resting on the bed. In the coffin lay the little lady, her eyes closed, her pretty What was she doing in| She had been dismissed | I walked past the drawing-room door} The Major was lingering over his dinner. | He was a tall powerful-built man who, know it because we The Jobber sells more! The Retailer sells more! Consumer Babies cry for more, and more mothers write us ¢ stating that the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk Is unequalled as a food for infants. It Pays to Handle Such Goods face calm and pale. ‘*Here she is—she is really dead—I was right,’”’ | exclaimed, all in a breath. ‘But what is the meaning of this?” cried the Major. ‘‘There must be two old ladies, for there is another sitting in “Come in.” | the window.”’ | He strode up, as he spoke, to the draw- ing-room window and touched the little |figure bending over its knitting. A queer expression came over his face. buys more! There | I shut the! / same instant he locked the door I want you to help me. I, The figure was a dummy, dressed up in the little old lady’s clothes. It did not take the Major an instant to go and push At the and put When he did this two women’s the drawing-room button twice. the key in his pocket. the look of terror on the faces cannot be expressed by any words | of mine. | hand on her forehead and looked at in conclusion; ‘‘my profession as nurse | I gave them one glance and then turned to the littie lady in her coffin. 1 put my her carefully. 1 bent over her and listened ; and then gave a joyful ery. I am cer- | tain, justifiable, and 1 cannot rest until | believe, she is still ‘They have drugged ‘*] believe, I do alive!” I exclaimed. | her, but they haven’t quite finished her, To my relief, lsaw that Major Earn- | into the gravity of | j ing what had best be done, there came a, knock at the door and a brother officer | and we must get her out of this room without delay.” Major Earncliffe glanced women. “Oh, never mind them—let them go, I said; ‘‘anything to her precious toward the 2? save | life.’? | devils at bay, | this room. out of the coffin. ‘Step by step, I staggered up ‘IT vow they shan’t escape,” said the Major, setting his teeth. ‘‘Now, you’re not strong enough to hold these she- and Vili have to stay in Do you think, if 1 lift her you can carry her up- stairs alone?”’ “Ves, yes, yes,’ I said, “I ean do it.” He lifted her tenderly out of the coffin and put her carefully into my out- stretched arms. Then he opened the door for me, locking it immediately. the breathing hard, for the little lady heavily against my breast. At last, stairs, lay lL reached my room. I! put her on the bed and applied remedies. Har- ' old must not know at present. 1 chafed her hands, | made her sit up, IL foreed | the open window and talked to her, sell more each year. For Quotations See Price Columns her white hair and made her her to swallow some strong coffee, which happened to be waiting for me in the room. After a time opened her eyes. Yes, she was alive, ing eyes gazed at me I bad saved the little old teo late to she but her star- with a vacant ex- pression. Yes, lady’s body, but had I Had her mind through which she been save her mind? failen a victim to the agonies had lived? I placed her in a chair by rub- hands and making her swallow She did ex- bing her spoonfuls of the hot coffee. actly what I told her but her smile was vacant and not a word passed her lips. At last, an idea came to me. I brushed look pretty, then slipped a skirt of own on her and wrapped a white shaw! around hed Then [ went into the other my shoulders. room. a | ONOEND * 12 ‘-Harold,” “vel up and cume with me; lll wrap you up warm. The little old lady is in my room. I want you to kiss her; she would rather have a kiss from you, just now, than anything else in the world.”’ “What did she think of my card?” asked Harold, springing eagerly out of bed. “She'll tel) you about it some other time,’’ Isaid. ‘‘Now you’re ready and I'll earry you in.’’ I picked him up, Miss McKay follow- ing, overwhelmed with amazement; and when she saw the little old lady sitting there in the chair alive, she could not help uttering a shriek. But Harold, dear little man, walked, in his pretty, deliberate fashion, over to where she sat, and, dropping on his knees by her side, put his arms around her neck. “T’m ‘the polite little gentleman,’ ” he said. ‘‘You'd like to kiss me, wouldn’t you, sweet little lady?’’ She felt the warmth of his childish arms and looked at him with wondering, startled eyes. Her lips began to quiver and she took his sweet little round face in her hands and brought it near her own. ‘You are like my own dear little boy who died long, long, long ago,”’ she said, and then she began to kiss him passion- ately. He kept his arms around her neck and pressed his rosy lips to hers many times. Presently, she began to ery softly, with her white head on his breast. I knew then that Harold had saved the little lady’s reason. In the trial which followed, the land- lady was proved to have been in league with the wicked servants, Georgiana and Lydia. She, also, was arrested and tried, and the three are now undergoing penal servitude. Of course, the little lady was rich, and these vicious women wanted her money (which she was known to keep by her somewhere, but where they did not know), and I had barely been in time to save her life. She is still alive and quite well and is very, very happy, for ‘‘the polite little lives with her. And I have not the least doubt that, when she leaves this world, he will inherit her wealth. She is devoted to him and he to her, and neither can bear to be long absent from the other’s side. She is just as pretty and just as sweet as during the days when Harold used to watch her sitting in the drawing-room window; and she is full of a gentle intelligence quite re- markable in one of her great age. On one point, however, she bears traces of the terrible shock through which she lived-—the narrow escape she had from the very jaws ef death; she absolutely forgets the time when she sat and knit in the drawing-room window, and, in fact, has no remembrance of that draw- ing-room. That whole awfui period isa blank to her; Providence has merciful veil over that agony. I. T. MeApE. ~~ 2. <> — They Use Shaw’s Name File. Bradley & Worden, grocers, who harea large trade with railroad men, say: “The quickness and accuracy of this system of keeping accounts is marvel- ous. You don’t ask enough for your book.’’ i said, gentleman”’ —_——~ +9 No drugs, a healthy smoke, Five. Signal a me ee Use Tradesman Coupon Books. % cast a! THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. is Your Name Burns? E, S. Harris in the Trade Magazine. I dropped in to see my old friend, George Burns, the other day. He’s a grocer and a good fellow, and is always happy, although he doesn’t seem to grow much richer. We fell to talking about business in the following strain: ‘*Well, you seem happy, as usual.”’ “Of course. What’s the good of com- plaining?”’ ‘‘None; but you have nothing to com- plain of. You’ve had a good year, haven’t you?”’ “Pretty good, I guess.” “Decn’t you know?’’ ‘Oh! Pve had enough to eat, and paid most of my bills.’’ We were very old friends, and any question I might put to him could not be considered as an #fipertinence. This is mentioned merely to account for the questions that follow. ‘“‘How much do you owe?”’ ‘I really don’t know. The bills are all here, and I guess I could figure it up quick enough.” ‘Don’t you keep a bill-book?”’ “No. Ijust put them on that file un- til they’re paid; then I put them on the receipt file.”’ ‘How about bills you have out? Do you keep any record of them?”’ “Of course. I enter them in that sales-book. them off.” ‘Suppose you forgot to cross one off, wouldn’t it be disagreeable for you to have a customer come in in a temper be- cause you had sent a bill that had been paid?” ‘*That doesn’t often happen.”’ “But it does sometimes.”’ “Oh, yes; but I can explain very easily.” “But it isn’t businesslike.”’ ‘‘A man can’t remember everything.” “Vm not talking about memory. You ought not to trust to your memory at all, and you wouldn’t have to if you kept your books right.” ‘| can’t afford to keep a book-keeper.” ‘You don’t need to. Do it yourself in odd moments; you are not busy all the time.” ‘‘No; not all the time, but nearly.” ‘‘How much have you coming to you?” “I don’t know exactly, but more than a thousand dollars. I could find out by going over my book.’’ ‘‘How much stock have you here?’’ ‘I can’t tell that, either, without add- ing it all up.”? “So you haven’t an idea of what you’re worth. You don’t know whether you’ve made or lost money this last year. You don’t know what it costs to live, for, I presume, you just draw what you need from the till without keeping a record or it.” **That’s so.” Burns is one of many. He’ll fail, some day, and wonder why he did so. He understands groceries, but he doesn’t understand business, and the latter is the more important of the two. No man can safely sail the ocean without a full and constant knowledge of his where- abouts, and no more can a man run a business where goods are bought and sold en credit. When they’re paid I cross > —e——_ An Omnibus Prescription. NrEWAYGO, Feb. 28—It is not often that we get a real good thing in the way of prescriptions, and when we do we like to make it public, to enable the afflicted people of the State to get the benefit of it. The following recipe was obtained by one of our citizens through a friend in the southern part of the State as the genuine remedy with which a specialist in that part of the country brings the dead to life: 1 gallon boiling water, 3 lbs. epsom salts, 1 Ib. rochelle salts, 1 lb. glauber salts, ieib. alum, 3g0z. salt petre. Boil in a stone jar for ten minutes, then add: 8 oz. fi. ext. black cherry, 8 oz. fi. ext. dandelion, 1 oz. fl. ext. gentian, 8 oz. nitric acid. Dose, a teaspoonful three times a day. Dr. J. F. A. RAIDER. orden rocer CORNER IONIA and FULTON STREETS, Grand Rapids, O., | Exclusive Agents for We Carry KIRK’S SOAPS, MAYER’S “HOME MADE” JERSEY CHEESE. LARD, 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. J. M. Hayoprn. HOSE OILS WASTE, FILES, J .M. HAYDEN & CoO,, ANY KIND but Ladies’ hose. L. C. HAYDEN. Phone 540. WHOLESALE and RETAIL MILL HOSE, GARDEN HOSE, ENGINE, MACHINE, CYLINDER. EMERY WHEELS and POLISHERS’ SUPPLIES. Grand Rapids. 69 PEARL ST. PALACINE. Has proved itself the only perfect illuminating oil. Why? BECAUSE it gives a clear, bright light. BECAUSE it does not cloud the Chimneys. BECAUSE it does not char the wicks. And last but not least, does not emit a bad odor. For sale by all first-class dealers, and refined only yb SOOFIELD, SHURMER & YRAGLE. Telephone 865. Grand Rapids. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AN ERA OF CRIME. Written for THE TRADESMAN, To enable us to appreciate the present, | it is sometimes profitable to glance at the past; to observe the difficulties which | lay in the path of our ancestors, and the patience with which they surmounted the obstacles they encountered. With all our modern improvements to facili- | tate labor and to bring the holiday lux- | uries of our grandparents into every- | day use, are we really as happy as they? Seventy-five years ago, the possessor of $5,000 or $10,000, either in cash or mer- chandise, was referred to as ‘‘one of our wealthy men,’’ while to-day he is looked upon as scarcely removed from poverty, and he echafes at his condition. Our standards of wealth, morality, generosity —we may include religion, also—have all changed; nothing is as it used to be even in the days of our childhood. No one can deny this. Contentment seems to be an obsolete state of the mind, anda condition of rest and of satisfaction with one’s lot is seldom attained. Larceny is committed under a name less irritating to the wrongdoer, and, the greater the crime—if punishment be eluded—the more shrewd is the crime considered. Thus is evil made semi-respectable witha certain class of our people. The apathy displayed toward criminality and the maudlin sympathy extended to criminals, the disparagement and underestimate of crime—all speak in a language not to be misunderstood, that there is a popular approval of obtaining wealth at almost any price. The numerous inventions now manufactured for the purpose of de- teecting thieves and pilferers, and which are bought by almost every merchant and business man—cash registers, time- locks, ete.—and the devices adopted for securing and yuarding goods of great value, as safety deposit vaults, all point to the requirements of the age. It is a sad commentary on our boasted civiliza- tion, that the strength and number of our safes, our bolts and bars against criminals, must and do increase, side by side, with our christianity. The laxity with which our laws are administered and executed is rapidly becoming a na- tional disgrace and invites, rather than retards, the commission of crime. If the criminals are weak in numbers, their punishment may be swift and sharp, but, if numerically strong and well banded together, the guns of the officers, if loaded at all, contain only blank cart- ridges, thatno one may be injured by their discharge. The cause of this state of affairs in our midst is the constant and ever increasing extravagance of our people. The maxim of one of our honored statesmen, ‘‘Spenc one penny less than thy daily gains,’’ is quite generally changed to, ‘‘Spend five or six times that which thou earnest.’’ Among poorer classes the idea obtains that wealth is seldom or never obtained honestly, and that to bequeath it in large sums to individuals is an injustice to the masses and little short of crime.” It is quite time that our best men and women exert all their influence, both by precept and example, to bring about a change, first, in the opinions of our people, and, second, in their actions; itis not neces- sary, however, to return to the condi- tion of our ancestors, nor to give up any real necessity in order to effect a refor- mation which would bring about a reign of peace and happiness to struggling humanity. Frank A. Howie. Nepotism in Trade. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. One of the worst mistakes a merchant ean make who has a son or relative in his | store learning the business, is to give that person a position or salary beyond his ability to fill or earn, simply because he bears such relation to him. There is the case of a prosperous in- surance agent in this city who has a twenty-year-old brother in his employ. The young fellow is not capable of dis- charging duties of a managerial nature, can’t keep a full set of books, and is sim- ply a fairly bright overgrown office boy, and does much the same work that $15-a- week clerks in the office do. True, he is intrusted with some of the secrets of the business, for what reason no one can tell, and his ability to look wise and knowing, on account of this, is probably the chief reason, beyond that of relation- ship, why he receives a salary of $150 per month. Of course, the other clerks are constantly dissatisfied and feel that a great injustice is being done them. This boy is going to get married in a few weeks, while the others, who would like to take the step, are hindered by finan- cial considerations, although their work is, in most cases, far more worthy of ad- equate reward than his. But the injury is not to the other clerks alone but to the boy as well. Heis bright and has con- siderable ability which, under the right conditions, could be made to develop. As it is, he is being done what may be an irreparable wrong. Feeling that he is secure in his position, that his ‘‘tenure of office” is not dependent on his merits or industry, it is little wonder if he grows indolent and, in time, conceited and overbearing. He will gradually come to believe that he is one of the pil- lars of the house and that the business would be a collapse should he resign. When he reaches that point his useful- ness will be practically gone, and should his brother fail, he would be unable, probably, to obtain anything but a bare living. This instance is related because it has come under the personal observation of the writer. There are many similar ones in the retail dry goods trade and other trades. In justice to your clerks, to yourself, to your son or relative, let him stand on his merits, at least, while learn- ing the business. Of course, it is only natural that you should look forward to preferring him some day, but only when he has learned his business, and not only learned it, but learned it well. This can obly be done when he learns in the school of practical experience and dis- cipline. On the other hand, do not plunge into the other extreme and underpay the scion of your family; pnt him on the same level with the others. if your son, pay him a regular salary, and let him pay you board, if he lives with you; it teaches him independence and the man- agement of personal finances. These sug- gestions are practical, as the experience of many a merchant can testify. ~— > -. — _—e The retailer’s friend, Signal Five, 5c. cigar. A.B. KNOWLSON, Wholesale Shipper Cement, hime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Ets. CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 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. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. Is This A Good Thing? $15 for $4 You Want [kl . YoU Have Yo Have It | The haw Says You Shall Have It! 2,800 Labels All in convenient form for immediate use as illustrated below, with in- structions for using. NO LABEL CASE NECESSARY. THEY NEVER CURL. THEY NEVER GET /IIXED UP. cy ry + oe’ ree TRADESMAN \ COMPANY'S CLASSIFIED LIST OF =>|POISONOUS DRUGS | ARRANGED IN FOUF eee TEEN GROUPS WITH AN ANTIDOTE FOR © How to Use Tham CAUTION —Use RO oligr $¥3 aa cof = g ~~ i co | = o = oy > = ; 7) “ty aT = fener, oy A * a Y perm nae FT [ 5 i 2 Eat i RAE 5 5 Bes a eT a i | pep ere i & 5 ‘ -" a ! EARS 5 | ES i : i z | i ary! Coat There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which must all be labeled as such, with the proper antidote attached. Any label house will charge you but 14 cents for 250 labels, the smallest amount sold. Cheap enough, at a glance, but did you ever fig- ure it out—113 kinds at 14 cents ?—$15.82. With our system you get the samere- sults with less detail, for less than one-third the money. Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. re eee es eee BEHIND THE COUNTER. Some Interesting Phases of Human Nature. Written for THE TRADESMAN. It was a bitier cold night, sharp, still for shootin’ | Marshalltown time o’ the cyclone. | been and clear, and very few people were out. | 1 had just decided to close the store. when the door opened and in walked a man with watery eyes, a damaged and an impenetrable breati: He said, avenin’, steadily across the room heavily inte a chair. “Say, chummy,’’ queer, husky voice, ‘‘Oi’m one o’ the b’ys, but Om down in me luck [hic]. See? Hard luck, dashed hard luck. [hic]. And his sank to an in- audible whisper, ad dropping low between his shoulders as though he slept. Presently, he shifted his chair and broke out again: ‘‘Me name is Dan Kelly, an’ O’i live to Grand Haven when Oi’m to hum. Me brother is Pat Kelly. Ennybody ean tell yez. An’ Oi’m a b’y that niver wint back on a b’y [hie]. See? Oi’m here just as Oi’m atellin’ yez, an’ Oi want t’ ask afavor. Will yez do ut?” ‘What is it you want?” **Me name is Dan Kelly, just as Oi’m atellin’ yez, an’ Oi’m a square b’y. Will yez do ut?”’ ‘Well, what do you want me to do?” Oi’ want t? ask a favor uv yez, an for God’s sake don’t say ‘No.’ Thrue as Oi’m atellin’ yez, Oi ain’t hed a bite t’ ait fer tree days, an’—an’—” His voice this time sank away to a low wail and he sobbed dismally. Soon recovering, however, he said, ‘‘Lind me tin cints!”’ *“Couldn’t do it. now.” He straightened up with some show of indignation, but presently, thinking bet- ter of the matter, continued: ‘“‘Me name is Dan Kelly. Yez can ask ennybody. An’ Oi niver wint back on a b’y. Me mither doied whin Oi .wuz a *liven months ould baby, an’ Oi’ve hed to s’port mesiluf iver since. Oi hed a good job at Forman’s camp, but Oi got hit wid a bindin’ pole, an’ Oiain’t hed a bite t? ait fer tree days. Say!’ “Well?’’ “‘Hev yez tin cints in yer close?” ies? “Will yez gimme it?” “Ne.” ““Yez won’t?” “No. You’d only with it.” “O chummy, Oi ain’t that kind uv a b’y. Me name is Dan Kelly [hic], an’ Oi ain’t hed a bite t? ait fer tree days. Say! Would yez gimme some crackers?”’ “Oh, certainly.” I weighed him out a liberal allowance. He reached for the sack with a shaky, uncertain hand and put one of the crack- ers in his mouth; but he spit it out di- rectly and threw the rest on the floor. ‘Oi don’t want thim,” he said. “I gness that’s no lie. Now you get out. I’m going to lock up.” sleep.’ you. Are ” walked un- and sank “Good words his hea about in > You're drunk enough go and buy whisky Say, gimme a place t’ ‘| have no place for ready to go?’’ “Thin lind me a bed.” ‘Not on your tintype. Now fly.’’ ‘Say! Me name is Dan Kelly. Oi’ve| sailed salt wather an’ fresh wather. Qi| was in Chicago time o’ the fire. Oi was quarther t’? buy a he continued, in a} you | iby. Say! ‘TELE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. the nayger. Oi was in in tree railroad smashups, the st’amer Alpena. lind me a Would yez | quarther?”’ nose | | invitingly | | | | He had reached the door and I held it open. He hesitated for my reply, but agentle push placed him on the outside, and, after the lock clicked behind him, I heard his shambling step as he maged down the street. Next morning, bright and early, he was touching a farmer for half a dol- >»; lar to aid him in reaching his wife and twelve small children in Kalamazoo. He was tolerably sober then—and he got the money! ro * * ‘If 1 could be fixed just as I’d like,’ remarked Tempestuous Thompson, a night or two ago, ‘‘l’d have a nice big store in a good lively town, an’ l’d have it cram jam full o’ goods. Then Il’d want business enough so’s to keep about seven clerks Just a boundin’ takin’ in the sil- ver. Id have a platform set in the back end, an’ l’d be there a watchin’ of ’em to see that they done it right. “Then I’d smoke ten-cent cigars an’ have some o’ the good old extract of tarantula juice, and a fast horse, an’ whoop la! boys, I’d sling some o’ my dust around where foiks could get a whack atit. That’s the way I’d do busi- ness.” Then he meditated a few moments and this was the result of his cogitations: “But 1 s’pose if 1 struck a snap like that, it wouldn’t belong afore some fel- ler’d be sizin’ things up, an’, next 1 knowed, he’d have astore right alongside 0’ me, an’ be acuttin’ slices right out o’ my back.’’ And there was more truth than poetry in Thompson’s last remark. * * + A very good friend of mine who has tried running a store for a couple of years told me to-day that he had sold out. ‘I could have kept along, I suppose, and have done about as much business as ever, if I’d had a mind to,’’ said he; ‘‘but, the fact is, my day book wasn’t big enough. It was charge this, and chalk down that, or remember the other thing for a few days, until I had so much out that I got to lying awake nights wondering how I was going to get it all back; and, at last, 1 just made up my mind I'd better quit; and I’m glad lL did. But lve got a good steady job now—a first-class job—one that will last me three or four years.” I expressed my pleasure at the good news and inquired the nature of the work. “Collecting those blamed bills,” was his sad reply. Gro. L. THURSTON. A Little Too Realistic. The proprietor of the only hotel in the village was also the undertaker. The guests were gathered around the table one day, and the solemn man looked up, sighed heavily, and then let his gaze fali upon his plate. ‘I see,’? he said in measured tones, | **that there has been another funeral.” Every one looked up inquiringly. *‘How do you know?” asked the brisk little widow. ‘Because,”’ and thesolemn man sighed | again, ‘‘there are tlowers on the table and | ice on the butter.’’ a 8 Signal Five cigar is Spanish hand- in Keokuk whin Jack Morris was hung! made, 5c. Oi’ve | wuz! shipwrecked twicet, an’ wint down wid | Oi’ve bin a hard | little b’y, but Oi niver wint back on a FOR DESCRIPTIVE { PAMPHLET. 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Manufacturers of le cee $a aR Same Re eee ne OE lia RRS BROWN, HALL & CO., Buggies, Sleighs and ‘tagons. Grand Kapids, Wich Sl = ene a ee The Grocers’ Safety==-Made in Two Sizes Only. * ft. long, 3iin wide, diop tail gate ft. long, 26 in. wide, drop tail gate FULLY W ARRANT! D, GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH GOMP MANUFACTURER OF B R ij S Hi E S GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Our Goods are sold by ail —_— ee Houses. Body, -- $40 CO Body, 925 ' 48 v0 Ww. AN TED. Beans, Potatoes, Onions. If you have any to offer write us stating quantity and lowest price. sample of beans you have to offer, car lots or less. MOSELEY BROS. 26.28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Send us WHA MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN About once in so often there comes a wail from all parts of the country, pro- testing against the street howler and the traveling auctioneer. It begins the min- ute sales begin and the how! increases as long as they go on, and then, with a cul- minating ‘‘tiger,’’ the noise stops until the city or town is again invaded, when the same performances are again re- peated. The other day, when the street corner vender had some of the regular togers Co. cutlery to sell for what the crowd were willing to offer—‘*Bankrupt stock, you know, an’ hafter sell ’em’’— the senior member of Spike, Nails & Co. was hopping around on one foot madder’n a March hare. “Whats up Brother Spike, you seem to be excited?” I asked, for the sake of giving hima chance to vent his feelings and so pre- vent the threatened explosion. ‘*Mat- ter enough!’ was the reply, accompanied by certain expressions I haven’t time to jot down. ‘‘Matter enough! Here we are, good citizens of the town and doing everything we can for it, and—’’ well, it was only the same old story. I’ve heard it until I’m about sick of it, and so, after enough steam had been let off to preclude the idea of danger, I got him here in the Back Office and did a little talking on my own account. I gave him a prime Havana, which I knew would seal his mouth, and, after the first whiltf, there stole over his face an expression which said, ‘‘This is a pretty fair world, after all.” That was my time and I began. “You merchants and tradesfolk gener- ally remind me of a little hollow there used to be on the playground of the vil- lage where I was born and brought up. Every time there was a rain, it gathered in the hollow, and we youngsters used to have no end of fun playing in the water and getting our feet wet. Scoldings and ‘lickin’s” followed, but of no avail. Finally, one old long-headed deacon filled up the hollow and ended our fun forever; and then ivery fayther and mither in the village wondered why that hadn’t been done before.”’ **And you think the long-hveaded deacon was a mean whelp, I suppose?” ‘We were talking about these stray peddlers, and you people howl and abuse the peddler, when all you have to do is to stop his fun—and your howling at the same time.’’ “Well, this cigar is a good one and I guess it will last till you get through. Go ahead. How shall we stop it? I never knew a pen-pusher yet who didn’t know all about it, with an item or two to throw in. How shall we stop it?” “11 be honest—this isn’t a pen- pusher’s idea at all. It came from a lit- tle country town. That’s one nice thing about these little towns—the tradesfolk there seem to know something. A_ ped- dler came in and went to cutting prices for all he was worth. Howl? There wasn’t even a whine; but a meeting of the storekeepers was held in that town, that verg afternoon, and the next day there was another auction sale opened. In a few minutes the peddler was having one of the liveliest talks all to himself that a traveling auctioneer ever had. That’s the kind of storekeepers to have in a town. a little common sense goes a great ways; don’t you think so?” “Oh, please go right on. I’m not say- ing anything. Let’s see—you’d got as far as your example. You'll have to now, Somehow, hurry up with your application and your conclusion, or this cigar’ll be gone. Don’t happen to have another in your vest, do you?”’ “You're getting the worth of your money and the Back Office isn’t offering any premiums. What I was going to say was, if you howlers would stop howling and talk this thing over, youcouldn’t get a peddler within ten miles of here. Do as those fellows did. Each one went to his store and got out some of his old stock that he’d long ago given up sell- ing. a good part of which he was willing to give away, in order to get rid of it. | Then they called in the best auctioneer | they could hear of and set him to work. The result made ’em laugh. The ped- dier got away just as soon as he could— that was the main thing; but, when the returns were all in, every contributor to the auction came out with a clean profit on his goods. Now when a peddler comes to town they are ready for him—all of whieh comes from having brains and using them once ina while. See?’’ “From which we may conclude that you’ ve another of these cigars for me?” ‘*From which we may conclude, sir, that there is a hint here which even the quick-witted country storekeeper fails to catch. I'll give it to you in place of the cigar. It’s worth more and I’m going to smoke the cigar myself. ‘““Why under the sun don’t you fellows have regular clearing-out sales without being forced into it? There isn’t one of you that hasn’t truck in your store you would give away just to get rid of it. Think of the dry goods, the clothing, the millinery, the boots and shoes, the hard- ware, the everything that is tucked away out of sight and covered with dust. Then think how these cast-offs could be made into auctioneer stock and sold ata profit—think of that! In a town the size of Grand Rapids, there could be an auction sale monthly, the year ’round, of just that class of goods. Any quan- tity of people buy these things—a good many because they must buy them or nothing; a good many more, because “it?s such a bargain, you know!’ Here these ways and means are right in your hands and, instead of making use of them, you prefer playing the baby act and howling because the peddler comes in and does what you are too lazy or too shortsighted to do. Q. E. D. Now, then, stop finding fault. Check the peddler’s game if you can; if yeu can’t, grin and bear it. But don’t let the public know | that that measly peddler came in and | scooped the town—you along with it— |} and that you didn’t know enough to stop wy him! ~~ + + It is getting about time for the fruit season to begin. If strawberries haven’t begun their northern march they will be- gin it soon, and it will do no harm to put dealers on their guard as to the qual- ity of the fruit received. Consumers do not want poor fruit and, moreover, will not buy it if they know what they are getting, and woe to the dealer who “tucks off on them’’ the fibery, thick- skinned orange, the delusive lemon or the puckery strawberry. Mcrethan ever is the cousumer to be on the lookout. The pure food idea has taken a strong hold on the masses, and, from the little yeast cake up, there is a suspicion that there is an acid, an adulteration, or a cheat somewhere for which the hard- earned dollar is expected to pay, and CALL YOUR PA’S neighbors and friends attention to the fact that we are IGHIGAN'S KROHANT IGHTIEST IGLERS, , ° . . 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 Mich. Are You in Need of Spot Casi We have lots of it in 4 and 8 oz. packages ® at 1LUe. $10 per 100 Pounds. The best smoke for the lowest price kno WM Wh. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. they don’t propose to do it without re- monstrance. It is easy to trace the line of protest. The cheated consumer takes back the condemned article and delivers an animated opinion. The dealer, choice in language, unloads the stuif at the door of the whoiesaler and pro- nounces a philippic that would excite the envy of Demosthenes, and, by the time the matter is disposed of, the producer or the manufacturer, feeling for his scalp, makes up his mind that that sort of thing doesn’t pay in the long run. The Reform Period—the Golden Age of pure foods—has begun, and the dealer or the producer who doesn’t read the times aright will find, in his reduced sales, that he is decidedly not ‘‘in it” and that is name is *‘Mud!” *% = - How one thing does bring up another— as the fellow said after he’d swallowed an emetic. I thought of this lately, on looking over a recent issue of the Grand Rapids Evening Press. An expression in it brought up the old syllogism | hadn't thought of since 1 was cramming for my Junior ex.: The psalmist says, *tAll men are liars.” The psalmist was a therefore, the liar. Hence, it follows that the statement he made was alie and that, men tell the truth. If, however, all men tell the truth, then the psalmist, being a man—but there is no use going on with it. And that whole thing flashed through less man; psalmist was a therefore, all my mind as my eye fell on the item in the Press anent the alleged statement of a Grand Rapids alderman to the effect It is evidently and so that ‘‘Grocers are hogs.’’ the conclusion of the syllogism, exact are the terms that the premises are easily written out. Here they grocers are men: hence, are: All men are bogs; *‘Grocers are hogs.” I trust the will not attempt to up-et anything so in- vincible as logic. Of course, the fact so stated is to be deplored; but it makes it a little easier to bear, remembering that they are also men—see minor premise— while a feeling of supreme satisfaction will steal over most of them on reading the all-embracing major premise—‘All men are hogs’—which that the peculiarity claimed for the grocer is a characteristic he shares with all man- kind. “Logie is logic. That's all I say 1’ RICHARD MALCOM STRONG. ——»>__*+ Where the Newsdealer Has an Ad- vantage. From the News Trade Circular. For much the newsdealer should be thankful. Huis business is the easiest kind of trade in one respect. In no other business can the merchant get a stock of goods so easily. All the newsdealer has to do isto pay for enough gvods to fill his counters, be they large or smail, for a week ortwo. If be dues not sell them does he lose any money on bis govods? Notacent. Ail that he cannet sell he returns, and in their place gets a new supply of fresh goods. His first outlay for two or three weeks is al! he needs in the way of capital to stay in business for a year, or as long as hepleases. What other business is as easy as this for the grocers shows dealer? in what other business is pos- sible loss reduced to so smalia per- centage? << -———— Doesn’t Get Around in Time. From the Cincinnati Tribune. Tommy—Do you say every night? Jimmy—Yep. ‘“And does your maw say hers?” “Yep.” **And does your paw?” *‘Naw. Paw don’t need to. It’s al- most daylight when he gits to bed.” your prayers vi will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Friday, March 1, with a full line of sam- ples in ready-made clothing in Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Childrens’. Four- teen years with Michael Kolb & Son, Clothing Manufacturers, Rochsster, N.Y. k, 6. DUNTON & 60. Will buy all kinds of Lumber— Green or Dry. Office and Yards, ¢th St. andjC.’& W. M. R. R. Grand Rapids, Mich. e *9 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, ete. Thanking you for past favors we now await your further orders. Hoping you wiil give our line a careful inspection when our representative calls on you, we are REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO. GRINGHRUIS’ ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. = Quires, 160 paced........-..... eee eee $2 00 3 a 240 ea eee ey 4 [ 320 ee 3 60 5 a 0 ee, 3 50 ae es 4 INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 invoices. ..82 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Agents, Grand Rapids, - - Mich. WE WANT BEANS will pay highest market price for them. and haye any stock you wish to seek headquarters for an If you dispose of, outlet. fe E ie K ’ S HEADACHE POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber Chas. Pettersch, JOBBER OF Imported and Domestic Cheese Swiss, Brick andjLimburger a Specialty. 161--163 West Bridge St, Telephone 123 GRAND RAPIDS 8. P. Bennett Fuel Rice Go, Mine Agents and Jobbers for Abb KINDS OF FUEL. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ’ oe 1) Ln EATON, LYON & C6 ; 20 & 22 Monroe &t., GRAND RAPIDS. Sap Pails and Syrup Gans. Net Price List. Sap Pails per 100. IC IX 10 quart ...810 69 13 25 = ... ae 14 25 15 13 75 16 50 Syrup Cans per 100. ine ........... 68m Our goods are full size and are guaranteed not to leak The pails are made almost straight, flaring enough to pack conven jently. 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. Tonia St., GRAND RAPIDS. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. Covopz Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. 8S. VERDIER, Cashier, K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r Transacts a General Banking Business, Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox T.J. O’Brien, A.J.Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Biodgett,J. A. McKee J. A.S. Verdier Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, MICHIGAN CENTRAL “Te Niagara Falis Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894.) Arrive. Depart. 1020pm........ Detroit Express ........7 Oam 5 0am ....*Atlanticand Pacific.....11: 20pm 1 30pm ..... New York Express...... 6 00pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to aud from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct commnnication made at Detroit with all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALMguisT, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. CHICAGO _Nov. 18, 1894 AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly. G'd Rapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:30pm Ay. Chica... ........ aan 6:50pm *7:20am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. iy. (ieee... 8:25am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. G’d Rapids.........3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Manistee........ 12:20pm 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar. Charieveix...... Ar, Petoskoy..... .. Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm‘and 10;00 pm. 3:15pm 11:10pm 3:45pm 11:40pm 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. DETROIT, Oct. 28, Tas LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit .............11:40am 6:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING{,FROM DETROIT. Lv, DEIng............. 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35am 10:45pm TO AND FROM LOWELL. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:40pm 5:20pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE, Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train, Trains week days a, GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & WAUKEE Railway. MIL- EASTWARD. Trains Le ve tNo. 14)tNo. 16)tNO. 18;*#No, G’d Rapids, Lv 6 45am|10 20am} 3 25pm /11 00pm fonts ......_. Ar; 7 40am 11 25am) 4 27pm |1235am st. Jobus Ar} 8 25amj12 17pm} 520pm); 1 25am Owoss)......Ar| 90Q0am| 1 20pm) 6 05pm} 3 10am KE. Saginaw..Ar 10 50am! 3 45pm} $8 Wpm/} 6 40am Bay City..... Ar/11 3am} ¢35pm) § 37pm! 715am Fim ........ Ar 1005am) 3 45pm) 7 05pm} 5 4 am Pt. Huron...Ar/1205pm} 550pm| 8 50pm) 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar/1053am! 305pm/ 8 25pm} 5 37am Detroit.......Ar|11 50am] 405pm]| 925pm] 7 00am WESTWARD, For Grand Haven and Intermediate i... *7:00°8. m, For Grand Haven and Muskegon.....+1:.0 p. m. ' _ ea **" Mil. and Chi, . 15:35 PD. m. +Daily except Sunday *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:50 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 10:.v p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m. 3:15 pm. and 9:15 p. m. Eastward—No., 14 has Wagner Parlicr Buffet car, No.18 Parlor Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner S! : JA8. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent. Grend Rapids & Indiana. TRAINS GOING NORTH, Leave going North For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw....7:40a. m. or Soeieaw ..........54.. : Leave going South. oe ree 7:25a.m. For Kalamazoo and Chicago... ...... ....... 2:15 p. m. For Fort Wayneanad the East................ 2:15 p.m. eee *5:40 p.m. For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p.m Chicago via G. R. & I. BR. R. Ly Grand Rapids........ 7:25am 2:15pm *11:40pm Arr Chteago............. 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am 2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor Car and coach 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car and Coach. Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3:30 p m 11:30 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:50pm 9:15 pm 7:20am 3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car 11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive, 7:25am @ 2 50am 1:00pm 1:15pm §:40 pm m 5:20 p O .L. LOCKWOOD: General Passenger and Ticket Agent. NGRAVINGi Buildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented Articles. TRADESMAN CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Je ei ee a aoa AES so. a Rs QUARTERLY MEETING Of the Board of Directors, K. of G. GRAND Rapips, March 4—The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of the Grip was held at the Hudson House, Lansing, March 2. Present, Messrs. Jacklin, Owen, Hammill, Symons, Peake and Tyler. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Michigan Secretary Owen presented his first q uarterly report, as follows: GENERAL FUND. RECEIP Ts. Prom Ex-Secy Milis............9 121 45 From “unknown fund” 5 00 Prom annual dues............... 197 0) From new members.... 17 00 From honorary members 33 00 From draft from ‘Treasurer oe. 10 00 Total receipts, 448 45 DISBURSMENTS. Remitted Treasurer by Check ‘O. eel ee oe 4 OU ‘nea Treasurer by Check WAG, Bocce eee 275 00 279 00 ene hand, ‘$164 45 DEATH FUND. RECEIPTS. From Assessment No. 3, 1894....$ 22 0) From nes Nos. | and 2 1845. . : Cee ce eae Total rece eipts, $2396 LO DISBURSMENTS. Sent Treasurer by Check No. 1..$12 6 00 Sent Treasurer by Check No. 2.. 1196 0 Total disbursements, $2396 00 The report had previously been re- viewed by the Finance Committee, which reported unanimously in favor of its acceptance and adoption. The recommendation was concurred in. Treasurer Frost presented his quarterly report as follows: GENERAL FUND. RECEIPTS. From Ex- Treasurer Reynoids.. F om Check No. 2 Prom Cheek No. 3........ first .- 3498 88 4+) 215 Total —_— S777 88 DISBURSMENTS By — No. 137 to 149 ine Total en | S777 88 DEATH FUND. RECE = a From Ex-Treasurer Reynolds. ..3 65 From Sec’y Owen by Check No.1 1200 CO From Sec’ y ‘Owen = ‘Check Neel. «eee Elo GO Total receipts, $3050 45 DISBURSEMENTS. To beneficiary Silas Clarke, Wraetste.. $ 500 00 To beneticiary ‘Theo, J. Beau- inem, Deiwgt. |... 500 00 To beneficiary B. F. Winch, Benen... 5 0 00 Balance op hand. ............._.. 1550 45 Total disburtements, $3059 45 This report took the same course as that of the Secretary. Representative O. W. Robbins ap- peared before the Board in advocacy of House bill No. 82, having for its object the revision of the laws relative to rail- road rates in the Upper Peninsula. At the conclusion of his remarks, Director Peake introduced the following resolu- tion, which was unanimously adop.ed: Resolved, That the Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, in session at Lansing, March 2, hereby ap- prove House bill No. 82, providing for equalizing the rates charged for trans- portation by the railroads of the Upper Peninsula, placing them on the same basis as in the Luwer Peninsula, believ- ing that this is but simple justice, not ovly to the railroads of Southern Michi- gan, but to the traveling public of the Upper Peninsula as well. We recom- mend that our members use their in- fluence with their Senators and Repre- sentatives to secure this legislation dur- ing the present session of the Legisla- ture. Communications were received from C, E. Esseltyne, of Bay City, setting forth the facts connected with the robbery of his store by Wm. J. Peterhaus, of Ply- mouth, ‘on Feb. 6. As the accused pleaded guilty tothe charge, so that there was no question as to his guilt, Mr. Tyler moved that his name be striken from the membership roll and that he be requested to return his grip tag. Adopted. On motion, President Jacklin was in- THE structed to write the chairman of the | special Legislative and Railroad Commit- | MICHIGAN tee, urging active effort in the negotia- tions for a 5,000 mile book, in accordance with the plan adopted at the recent Grand Rapids convention. Reno G. Hoag, of the Morenci Observer, in a somewhat lengthy communieation, called the attention of the Board to the urgent necessity of an official organ for the K. of G. and made a proposition to start such a publication at Detroit, Grand Rapids or Morenci, providing the Board would sanction the enterprise. On mo- tion, the Secretary was instructed to write Mr. Hoag that the proposition did not meet the approval of the Board. Proofs of death of the late Fred Sher- riff, of Saginaw, were presented and ap- proved, and the Secretary was instructed to issue a warrant on the Treasurer for $500, payable to the beneficiary. On motion, the Treasurer was in- structed to pay the beneficiaries here- after through some bank or express office, checks to be delivered only on the signing and delivery to the custodians of the proper receipts. The following accounts were audited and allowed: Geo. F. Owen, salary, death fund......... $119 80 Geo, F. Owen, salary, general fund . - 8s Expenses Secretary’ pence 76 2 iaccamanm COMDAMy. 0, 85 85 R. = gacklin... eee Y. Tyler eee 61 Geo. an ee 5 87 &. E. Syinone.... .. ee 4 55 A. F. Be 3 7% There being no further basiness, the meeting adjourned. The next meeting will be held at the same place on Saturday, June 1. I am unofficially informed of the death of J. P. Cawley,of Detroit, who was for several years on the road for Burnham, Stoepel & Co. The deceased had paid the annual dues for this year, but had ines to pay death assessments Nos. 1 and 2 all ‘of the death claims against the As- sociation have now been paid and there is sti}l a balance of $1,050.45 to the credit of the death fund. The general fund is, aiso, in excellent condition, as will be seen by referring to the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer, given above. The following members have joined since the last report: E. L. Brown, Indianapolis, Ind. Geo. L. Gatch, Indianapolis, Ind. John S. Linton, Otsego. J. P. H. Armstrong, Minneapolis. Lewis C. Prescott, Grand Rapids. Albert J. Bayless, Toronto, Ont. W. J. Reid, Vassar. G. F. Faude, lon:a. R. B. Hyman, Grand Rapids. Chas. E. Lockwood, Grand Rapids. Jos. H. Belknap, Bay City. Alva Davis, Battle Creek. J. Vander Berg, Grand Rapids. J. G. Davis, Detroit. W. C. Colby, Eaton Rapids. H. J. Moulton, Springport. H. A. Chamberlain, Elkhart, Ind. W. H. Powell, Atlantic Highlands, nN. o. W. E. Wolfenden, Grand Rapids. W. H. Griswold, Hart. John C. Deuel, Marshall. Luther Gicklings, Kalamazoo. Ernest Liebman, Chicago. H. E. Tremain, Bay City. M. B. Graham, Bay City. G. F. Rummel, Lincoln, Neb. Fred D. Jones, Bronson. S. G. Maffat, Le Sueur, Minn. Calvin H. Mills, Ithaca. Louis M. Wise, Chicago. Albert M. MeMurray, Chicago. Albert B. Liebemann, Watertown, Wis. John W. Mead, Berlin. Wu. J. Gilmore, Chicago. Edward Davis, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Louis F. Yocum, New Baltimore. J. H. Beals, Rochester, New York. Wm. Wildanger, Flint. W. H. Wilcox, Hillsdale. T. O. Parker, Washington, D. C. Danie! Dake, Manistee. Edwin R. Thornton, Buffalo. Frank S. Dunbar, West Superior, Wis. Harry C. Barton, Perrysburg, Ohio. A. L. Vander, Toledo. C. S. Robinson, Grand Rapids. Wm. A. Snyder, Chicago. H. D. Lauson, Chicago. Byron B. Downard, Milwaukee. Frank E. Arnold, Harrison, Ohio. TRADESMAN. J. W. Dunn, Grayling. G. J. Tuttle, Grayling. E. C. Compton, Manton. Wm. F. Ballentine, Alma. J. D. Billings, Traverse City. Ed Killean, Manistee. T. J. Phelps, Greenville. W. P. Hetherington, Belding. Morton Comraton, Bad Axe. Maggie McGary, Ludington. C. D. Farr, Sturgis. Burt Spafford, Cadillac. J. A. Humphrey, Reed City. J. D. May, Traverse City. C. L. Stevens, Ypsilanti. A. P. Cortright, Grand Rapids. Wm. T. Welch, Paw Paw. J. C. Nelson, Detroit. GEo. F. OWEN, ————— i? Opposedsto the Brundage Bill. JACKSON, March 1—At a meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association, held Feb. 27, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: WHEREAS—There is now before the Legislature a measure known as the Brundage bill, introduced January 10, 1895, having for its alleged object the curtailment of adulteration and the sale of adulterated goods; and WHEREAS—We, the members of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association, are positively in favor of the sale only of wholesome and healthy food, and are op- posed to a bill that discriminates against the retail dealer and places him entirely at the mercy of his enemies and the See’y. persecution of the paid spies of the State; and WHEREAS—We believe that, if such bill passes and is enforced, it will drive very many articles that have be- come necessities out of the State, or com- pel the retail grocers to retire from trade; therefore Resolved—That this Association does most emphatically protest against the passage of this said Brundage bill, and that we are positively opposed to any legislation that is devoid of the elements of fairness and justice; and Resolved—That we most earnestly re- quest the Senators and Representatives of this district and of the State to work and vote against the passage of the Brundage bill and kindred measures. W. H. Porzer, Sec’y. ee Objects to the Paper Dolls. HiILLiarpDs, March 1—In your last is- sue | notice a communication from W. F. McLaughlin & Co., in reply to Mr. Steele, of Advance. 1, for one, object to the pictures and advertising matter in XXXX package coffee, for the sim- ple reason that it takes too much time to sort out the baby dolls and then hunt for their hats. There are four separate pieces, and some of them will find their way into the mill, where they are almost sure to clog up the feed spout, or, if they sueceed in going through, do not add particularly to the appearance of the goods. The XX XX people are very pro- gressive, and we look for them to add more clothing from time to time to the wardrobes of their dolls, and, unless they think to furnish a Saratoga trunk (in the form of a well-sealed envelope placed inside each package), we grocers will have to attach a fanning-mill to our coffee grinders and, in the meantime, try to educate our customers to use bulk goods. We sincerely hope that Mc- Laughlin & Co. will devise some scheme to take the place of this nuisance, as their goods take first rank in this sec- tion. H. E. PARMELEE. THE TRADESMAN suggests that those of its readers who handle package coffee write out their opinions on this question, to the end that McLaughlin & Co. may be able to ascertain the sentiment of the trade on this matter. ee House to Rent. Have you a house or store standing idle for want of a tenant? List it with John C. Dunton and place it before the masses. You go to your | butcher to buy meat. People go to John | C. Dunton to rent houses, av It is said that, when the United States Government moved to Washington, in the year 1800, the property was all car- ried in seven boxes, while the Chief Ex- ecutive got lost in the woods in the neighborhood of Washington. Now, the the Government has not half enough public buildings and warehouses in which to store the nation’s duds, and, unlike the palmly days of the country, there is not chance, in these days, to lose the Chief Executive in the woods. et An American in Germany was surprised to find a number of cripples among the celebrated college professors, men whose high standard of learning makes them famous the world over. One Berlin pro- fessor is wheeled into his lecture-room every day, and there are others similarly, though for the most part less painfully, afflicted. This is due partly to the fact that underthe military regime of Ger- many when a boy is disqualified for the army he is trained for science or the law. — i — Lip Alpe To be a millionaire does not necessa- rily mean that the lucky man is deficient in brains. George Vanderbilt is credited with being master of seven languages— English, German, French, Italian, Span- ish, Latin and modern Greek. He also possesses a smattering of Hebrew and Sanscrit, and has studied many of the dialects of the Indian tribes of America. —_—___—~<> +2 <> — The chewing tobacco furnished to the sailors of the navy is of extraordinarily fine quality, none of the ordinary brands on the market being accepted. It is pur- chased by the Government in large quan- tities, and last year 27/4 cents a pound was the price paid. on The city of Glasgow manages its own gas, water and markets, and makes an annual profit out of them of about $350,- 000. It owes no debts and has a surplus of over $12,000,000. 9-7 — Russia has decided to use only gray horses for artillery purposes, as they have been found to have more strength and endurance than horses of any other color. sun i ip el King Humbert, of Italy, spends} more in charity than any other monarch. He gave $80,000 to the poor on Christmas, and is continually economizing for their benefit. — ~
  • +> A recent sale of gold bonds by New York City of $3,265,537 at 3 per cent. in- terest was subscribed three times over. The best bid was 44 per cent. premium. “ i —

    - @- ~ Dees........ 65 * Zoleppecs ........ S50 = 201 bere) 2 50 ay + = Worcester. 15 2%-lb Sacks. oo &4 (0 Oem eee os ee 3 50 2ei4ib. “ 33 oe 8 Ib sacks... Kae ce | ee linen acks i Common Grades. 100 3-lb, sacks. & 10 @si5. * ie S8101h sacks 75 Warsaw. 56 lb, dairy in drill bags... 30 in ig _ . Ashton. 56 ib. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins 66 Jh, dairy in linen sacks 75 Soar Rock. 56 in. Shcks...... Common Fine eer Manistee ......... Segices 90 SALERATUS, Packed 49 ths. In box. Cpuren 6 3 3d Detanas .... 315 Dwtente.... |... --3 3) Teter e ......... 5. 4.0 On SEELY’s EXTRACTS, Lemon. lox. 7. Me. : 90 doz. #10 20 gro 2° Fe 20 1 6 2“PMio* Me “ ‘Vanilla, lon. Fr. M1 50 doz. 16 20 gro ze NS 2 = 21 60 > Fe se 25) Sasets- anced Grade. Lemon. -......... "6 dox..... sa “ Vanilla. Soo... .. 1 G@doz..... ie al SOAP, Laundry. R. Soap Works Brands. onan 100 3% Ih, bars...3 50 ‘ 5 box iots...... 3 a5 . I) box iots.......3 ' 20 box lots...... 3 20 Best German F pee 60 1-lb. bars.. |= 5 box lots 25 box lots. 3 Allen B. W risley’ s ; Brands, Old Country, 80 1-1b ....... 3 20 Good Cheer, 601 Ib..........3 White Borax, 100 %%- ie 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Concer. ..............0 oe very, on... .... -...... 6a . ca... 4 00 Lenon .... Poecuc.: Ge Mottled German.. 3 15 Town Talik........ 3 2 ied aie. Sure box. .............. 3% 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered ..... 3 7 Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands American Family, —_* 03 33 plain. 9 27 K. Fairbank & Co. —. ene eee... Brown, @) bars, ............ 3 10 . wo Gere ..... ‘ 3 10 Lautz Bros. &Co.’s Brands. >... 3 65 Osten Onm.... ...... 6 00 Mosmtes.... . -........ 4 00 Master 400 Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands Saver... a 3 65 Mone... ...-.-.......... 3 30 Savon Improved 2 50 oe 2 80 coe .........,.......... 3% Economical ..... 2 2 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, 3 dae i . 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. aio... #4 69 Cut 10a. ......t...... 4 69 WON ccc, cl 4 51 ameeree .... ...5,.....-... 431 Suxd Powdered...... . 55 eee 3 4 Fine Granulated....... a. OO Extra Fine erent 1 216 Mould A .... 431 Diamond C ‘onfec. a . 3 34 Confec. Standard A. _ 2a ae ft 3 75 mo © ke oc. 3 75 Be 2. Ce 3 75 ao 4....... cl 3 15 ae 6 3 69 No. 6 3 62 me FT 3 56 ae 8... 3 70 ae 3 44 ae _- aoe No. 11 --« oan mo ee cc 32 No. 13 _2u No. 14 iis icteee 2 OS SYRUPS. Corn, Borrem. |... ..., sae aos... .............. a1 Pure Cane. POR ee 17 ee 20 ae. 25 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’ 8, large - 4% small..... 275 Halford, bees os 37 Ome 22 Salad Dressing, large ..... 4% —..... 2 66 TEAS, yaPaw—Reonlar, Parr... : a. Biz ee |... 8... @2v Chotee............. ee ee Cheicest .......-. «a Gol Poe 8 10 @12 SUN CURED. Val @17 Goon. 2... @> Cucee............... 24 @e Copco... 32 @34 Bust... .... ‘ -10 @I2 BASKET FIRED. i ee 18 @26 CeCe. @25 Choicest. . @35 Extra choice, wire leat @Q40 G@UNPOWLER. Common to faf....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Cholcest fancy...... .. 7 @8s5 OOLONS. 26 Common co fair... ... 23 @30 IMPERIAL. Gommon to fair.......23 @26 Superiortofine........30 @35 YOUNG HYBON. Commo z to fair.......18 @2s6 Superior to fine....... 30 ENGLISH BREAK ren TOBACCOS, Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Russet..........30 @32 Ditee 30 To Seotten & Co’s Brands. Hiawatha ......._... 60 aS 32 Rocket 30 Spaulding & Merrick’s ii Seeriine .......... Private Brands. Bazoo @30 Can Can... .......... @27 Nellie Biy.............2% @2 Uncie Gen......... -.-» Go MeGinty oe _— 27 Le OO. ...... 25 Coen nes ..........._.. 24 Columbia, drums ...... 2: Beane Ue. 20 Bang up, drume........ 19 Plag. Sorg’s Brands, Sooerhead ............ 39 Jorer ................ 37 Nobby Twist.. ee eee 40 Scotten’s Brands. Eva ..........._ 25 Eawaetna,........ ..-. 33 Valley City ........... 34 Finzer’s Brands. Old — pee ceee 4 Jolly Tar —.. 32 Lorillard’ 8 Brands. Climax (8 02z., 41¢).. 39 Green Turtie...... es 30 Three Black Crows.. 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good...... 38 Out of Sight.......... 24 Wilson « McC = 8 anes Gold Rope.. Happy Thought. ee 3 ee ............. 32 Rove... |. |... 31 ret Go... 27 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands, Bil ded... .... 7@18 Golden show ae ee Huntress ..... ee Meerschaum 29@30 American Eagle Co.’s a Myrtle ee does. -- 40 Stork .. Peete. 3u German Se 15 ia 1g8 foil.. es. Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands, ee 8, eee 16 Banner Cavendish.. oe 36 oh 3u Seotten’s Brands, Werth... 14 hoes ew... 26 co ................ 3u F, F, Adams Tobacco Co.'s Brands, Pecricms........... a. od You... 18 Sianderd......... 22 Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 Brande. ioe... .......... 40 Leidersdorf’s Brands. ae 26 Unele Gam......_ ...... 2832 MeaChver...... 8 & Spaulding & Merrick, Tom and Jerry..............25 Traveler Cavendish....... 38 Buce Vom... ... Piow ee Corm Cake... . oe VINEGAR. a Weegee eeu eceees ce Ogt..... #1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Bulk, pergal .... Beer mug, 2 doz in Case ! i YEAST. meee... ad Warners ..... os ecu ad Memmi roam .....2.........4 Diamond..... . Royal ..,.. nl res oO Oo 00 io zo Tubs, No. 1 . 5 75 - 4 75 We ee le a - 400 Pails, No: 1 two-hoop.. 1 25 No. 1, three hoop ... 1 a Bowls, 11 inch ee eeu, 13 90 iat 15 oe 1 25 . 17 . 1 80 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- OWS: FURS. Mik... 2... 30 @1 10 Ce eek 30 @ 70 ee 7% @125 Lat, Winter..... 6s @ 11 Mat, fall... e@ cs mead Vox... .... ico @1 4) Cray Fox.,...... 40 @ 6) Cross You. ...... 300 @50) Bedger..... ... 50 @ 100 Cat wid........ fe @ & Cat, house... .. ne Pisner .......... 50 @ 6o Pyne... ... 1 O08 @ 2 50 Martin, dark....£2 00 @ 3.00 Martin, pale, yel 1 00 @ 1 50 ter. 500 @8 0u Wolt... -10@ @2a@ Beaver. 30) @Z 00 Rear. __. --»--15 0) @25 00 Opossum... wD @ 2 Deer Skin, dry. ne & Deer skin,green 065 @ 12% HIDES. Coreen ..... eo. 24%G3 4 Pant Cored. .......... @ 4% eo @ 5% ae... ue OO GF Hine. green .......... 3 @4 7 Greg. ... @é6 Calfskins, green...... 5 @6 _ Cured...... 7 @8k% Deacon skins...... 10 @xd No. 2 hides } off. PELTs. Shearlings....... 2 2 Lambs is @ 60 “WOOL. Washed... ..... 12 @i5 Unwashed . ... © @e MISCELLANEOUS Taabewe 8... 42@é Creame Gullter ........1 @ 2 Switches 1%@ 2 Ginseng 2 OK 25 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFs WHEAT, No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 50 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) Su MEAL, ores... ...........,...,. 1 40 Granulated..... . 1 65 FLOUR IN SACKS. *Patents.............. o——.. © oo sSiandarde 1 45 ae. ....... 1.3 a cye..... oo. ee *Subject t to usual cash dis- count. Flour-in bbis., 25¢ per bol. ad- ditional. MILLSTUPFS, Bran.. Lo ... 14 50 Screenings os _.. ae Middiings...... .. Les. oF OO NOt Meee ............ 16 Coarse mea! . . ao CORN. Car lots ... : 45 Less than car lots... . 47 OATS, Car lots ... Ke 33% Less than car lots 3c HAY No. i Timothy, car lots 1 40 No. 1 ton lots 1] OV FISH AND t?e¥STERS FRESH Pls Whitefiss ee @s8 Trout oo G@ 8 Black Bags..... 15 Halibut, a ee @i-% Ciscces or ‘Herring _ @ 6 Bluefish.... ' @i2 Fresh lobster, per ‘Ib. 20 Cod 10 No. . Pickerel........ @3 Ge 8 fated White... ... @ 8 Red Snappers......... 13 Columbia River Sal- ee ee 12% Mackerel... 18@25 Seallops I 50 ee 1 <5 Clams 1 29 SHE LL 00 pa, Uvyeters, per tix: 25@1 50 ‘lame 75@1 00 OYSTEKS—IN CANS, F. J. Dettenthxler’s Brands. Fairnoaven Couiis . 33 Y. J. i). Selects....... 30 Bemecte ...... . 25 F.d. D., Standards,. . «3 ‘Arco .............. 20 OGTR, 8. cane a 13 Pavoric.... 1... .... 15 Standards per gal.. 1 3 ‘Anchor Standards per § gal 1 30 OYSTERS—IN BULK. Counts, per g aul 2 40 Selects ‘ _-.. £ Oo Extra Selects per gal... ae Oscar Allyn’s Brands. New York Counts. ao Mxtra Selects... ‘$! Selects ee ae 1X L standards. Standards. ....... Medinms...... Standards, per gal. ) IXL Standards, per gai..... 1 30 Extra Sele ts, a * £2 Selects, per al. ‘+ ecuk oO CROCKERY AWD 614-5" ans we No.G Sun 4) at. |. Ll. — 4 woe ae - & Tubular ' mettieley. NOLS Looe oe pccuriEy, NG. z......._.. a . oo Nutmes. Be H oc. oe Arctic... . se 1 “5 LAMP CHIMNEYs.—o dos in box. i Fer box No.0 Sun : b 75 No.1“ Se 1 8s No.2 “ ea ; i First qnality No. 6 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. 2 10 No.1 oe te ‘ be ‘ ‘ 2 75 Neg ¢ « “ ‘ Sa a XXX Flint. No. ¢ Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. z tv No. Ti se sc oe “ee se > Ne.2 « “ ts “ 4s “ 13 90 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped ana lapeied 3 70 Nes * C " " 4 70 No. 2 Hiage, “ _ " 4 89 ' Fire Proof—Plain babes No. 1, Sun, pl ain bulb. Sees i... o Nas * eee ee 44) a : et Mdatic. No. 1 Sun, plain buib, per doz 12 No.2 “ “ 4 ‘ 1 50 No. 1 crimp, per doz 1 38 No. 2 ° 1 6fi l : Rochester, No 1, lime (65¢ doz) ...... 0 OO Wo. 2, time (6€do7). |. 4:0 ING. 2, Ging (S66 doz)... 4 40 i Electric. No.2, lime (70¢e doz) oc. 2 0 No. 2 flint « ween... Us 4 40 Miscellaneon: 8. Doz. Junior, Rochester eee a . Nutmeg ES 15 iigsabnonia Bases, |... 1 00 Barrel lots, 5 doz eee 9u 7 in. Porcelain Shades. . 1 00 UCase lots, i2 doz. ..... 20 Mammoih C himneys f. yr Store Lumps. ' : Oz. Box ‘0. tochbester, lime . 1 du 4 20 No. 3 Rochester, flint. Le i 4 SU No. 3 Pear! top or Je wel g 1 85 5 25 No. 2 Giobe licandes. lime...1 75 > i No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint...2 00 5 85 No. 2 Peaxrlelisg | 2 10 6 GO OIL CANS, a Doz 1 gal tin cans with spout. 1 60 1 gal galv iron, with spout : : . 2 vO 2 gal galv iron with — Lae Se 3 gal agile lgpatesapdens sai oe. 1 50 o9gal MCNutt, with spout. ....... 6 (0 > gal muse Ka, with spout. 6 50 5 gal Kure ka with faucet..... i Ww 5 2 viron A & W ee 2 i ilting Cans, Monarch. ioe OO Saiviron Nacefas = 8 8 =. 9 5) _ Pump Cans. 3 gal Home Rule, .. | 10 0 + gal Home Rute, 2 00 3 gal Goodenough........ 12 00 5 gal Gooden ugh ol oa .13 50 5 gal Pirate King ee ee vce, Oe On No Tubular, ea 45 No. 0 45 No. w bbis 5 oo _- No, 0 bull's eye, Cases 1 doz each.1 25 i LAMP WICKS, Mo. G. per eroms |... cee aae 26 No. I, : ae a 28 No 2, si es ceed “ 38 No. 3, : eo “1 2 Mammoth, per doz....... Ce. 7s JELLY TUMBLEK-—Tin Top. 1¢ Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00). 1 65 3 24 Bi, doz (bbl 35) 2k by hg oo box box (box 00)... 1H ._ > bbl, doz (Ob136)..... 24 STONEWARE—AK HON. Butter Crocks, 1 to 6 gal i is . Mg gal. per doz. ae 60 Jugs, 4% wal.. per doz...... , . 2 S5O4eu versa). Dl Miik Pain, » aui., per dos .. . 2 : 6u ay o . . eee 72 STONEWAKE—BLACK GLAZED. Butter Crocus, 1 and 2gal...... 6% Milk Pans, % gal. per doz... Ree 85 i ' i“ ts 7 OiLs, The Standard 0:1 Co quotes as follows: BARRELS, ccc .rtCisiCCtCtC*~*~<“‘ SC; $16 a WwW. W. Mich ‘Headlight a i S| Naptha.... eee. : H @7 Stove Gasoline......... @<% Cylinder 6 ra ee 13 | Black, zero CT 12 Black, 1) cold test...... ...... : i to FROM TANK WAGON. Eocene... . . " RAN W. W. Mich. Headlight. ..... | 6 Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows; BARRELS. Palacine. . 10% arial Mbit eee .. 9% : owe “Headlight cee ae 8 Stove Gasoline ... \ - 8% ' FROM TANK WAGON, Palacine ' Loe acc... 8 Red Cross W W Headlight ee ek . . aes ps a "Ngati: oTYPE FORMS TRADESMAN CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. If All Wealth Were Equally Divided. There is a favorite notion with so- cialistic theorists that if all the wealth of the country were equally divided to each head of the population, an ideal state of happiness and prosperity would be realized. In order to make such a distribution of property bring the benefits and hap- piness predicated upon it, the most ab- solute requisite would be that every adult member of the entire population should possess an intelligence, an hon- esty, an industry and a physical Wicer eaqmal ts that of any oF the others. In a word, every individual should have an _ equal chance in every particular, and no one should have any advantage over any other. But this is contrary to all the facts of human nature, and so, if all the wealth of the country were equally divided among the pop- ulation to-day, but a very brief period would elapse before, through the prof- ligacy and debauchery of some, th=2 imprudence and credulity of others, the indolence and idleness of others still, the ignorance and stupidity of yet others, the shrewdness and sagac- ity of some others, and the dishonesty and unscrupulousness of other some, the wealth would have departed from many persons and have accumulated in the possession of others. There would soon be poor men and rich men, just as there are to-day. but, for the sake of a little investi- gation, it will be interesting to follow out the theory of equal distribution of wealth to a population in which all its members are equal in all respects of health, strength, intelligence, in- dustry, honesty, morality and wis- dom. Of course, all this is impossible; but as it is just as easy to theorize about impossibilities as about any- thing else, that fact will make no dif- ficulty in the present case. The first thing necessary in arrang- ing for a general division of the coun- try’s wealth among the people is to find out how much is to be each per- son’s share. The estimated aggregate of the entire wealth of every descrip- tion in the United States is put at $64,000,000,000. There are about .$70,- 000,000 souls of population, and this number divided into the $64,000,000,000 would give $900 apiece. The property is of such a nature that it would be impossible to divide it. For instance, the million-dollar Van- would belong. to more than 1,000 people. They could not all live in it, and, since there would be nobody rich enough to rent it, no income could be got out of it. As to the railways and great man- ufacturing establishments, they would have to be parceled out to many thou- sands of persons each, whole fortune of those people would be invested in the factory chinery, they naturally would have no money to apply to the pur chase of material; and, since there would be no banks or other deposi- tories of money from which loans could be secured, the industries of the coun- try would be wholly crippled. As to a railroad, some twenty persons would own a locomotive, ten would own a passenger car, and five would own a freight car, some hundred thou- sand or so would own the track, and, after every derbilt residence ed debt of the no money, undivided, nothing to live on but an indefinite share in a great system of material and franchises, the | impossibility of operating the busi- ness must be obvious. The only way to manage such a divi- sion of property would be to sell it | eut, lock, stock and barrel, land, houses and everything, to foreigners, | for cash, and then, having secured the $64,000.000.000 which is ‘supposed to be and, as the! and ma-| item of value had been} measured out to each participant, all | of whom would be bound for the bond- | road, but would have / > THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. the value of the whole, money at the rate, say, of $900 per head of population. The result would be that all the people would immedi- ately become the tenants of the strangers who had bought out the property, and their situation would be worse than it is to-day. The ablest thinkers on socialism long - ago considered the impossi- bility of managing a vast population on the basis of an equal division of property, realizing that if a general distribution were made once every week, it would not maintain the peo- ple in any sort of financial equality. Having rejected as wholly impractica- ble any such scheme, they have adopted the idea of having all prop- erty, industries and commerce seized and held by the Government and ad- ministered for the benefit of the peo- ple. Of course, there would have to be divide the a central government, with agencies and subagencies in every State, coun- ty, city and town, ward and township, to carry on the administration. This central government, although created by the people, like every other govern~ ment, would have to be vested with absolute power to enforce the regula- tions and control the people. Here would be created an imperialism or me-man power, or an oligarchy, or the rule of a small council or coterie. There would have to be an army, po- lice, courts, money, taxes, and all the paraphernalia of government, just as under any other conditions, and there would be a vast corps of officials, all armed with authority from the central power, and thus there would be no equality of persons than under any other form of government, except in this caSe there would be a royal ruler, a vast aristocracy of officials, and a vast equality of slavery which the masses of the people would have to en- dure. In such a socialistic state the power and control all gets into the hands of the most shrewd, Selfish and unscrupulous men in the community, and they would use their authority to benefit and advance themselves at the expense of the people whom they would control. Nearly all the trouble in this world comes from the dishonesty, selfishness and false-heartedness of men, and these qualities have proved the curse of every experiment in government 2ver tried, and, until human nature shall undergo a radical purification, they will continue to do so. This fact is the fatal defect in every socialistic scheme, and there is no escape from it. — os ~ more Caught a Tartar. HUDSONVILLE, Feb. 27—The Chicago Supply Co., which is receiving some at- tention at the hands of THE TRADESMAN, is the same concern whose representatives deluded a number of farmers in this vicin- ity into purchasing a bundle of their | goods. They promised fabulous prices for farm produce, and some of their | dupes sent their eggs and butter and re- ceived much less for them than was be- | ing paid in this market at the same time. | A warrant was issued for one of their salesmen for obtaining money under false pretenses; but, for some reason or other, the matter was hushed up. At this place the company employed a man | to designate the responsible farmers. | After a prolonged stay in the saloons of Grandville and Jenison—during which time they became exceedingly hilarious, in consequence of the large quantity of ‘**bug juice’ imbided—they pounced upon a renter who is not responsible for a dol- Jar and readily sold him a bill of goods and took his note. After awaking to a sense of the blunder they had made, they succeeded (in compromising with the above rentér by giving him back his note | and a large portion of the goods. H. E. | Bradshaw, of the Bradshaw Transporta | tion Co., informs me that the company’s headquarters is a little 10x12 roomin the upper story of a block on Market street, near Madison; so their pretentious store- rooms (which they claimed to be larger | than Montgomery Ward’s) have sadly | dwindled —as will the confidence and ex- | cheauers of their patrons when the var- ious notes become due. lL. M. WoLrF. a, Show Cases, Store Fixtures, Etc. PHILLIPS’ SHOW CASES. J. PHILLIPS & CO., Detroit, Mich. Established 1864. Fancy Washington Navels. The only seedless orange having thin skin and with acrisp, tender pulp fairly bursting with juice. We in all sizes. have them The Putnam Candy Co. HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO., 5 and 7 Pearl St., Our Line for 1895 is Greater in variety and finer than ever attempted before. Every one of the old Favorites have been retained. Your inspection is kindly solicited when in the city. Our representatives will call on you early and will gladly show you through. Keep your eye on our Oil Grain line in ~ “a Bottoms.”’ J Headquarters for Rubbers. Wales-Goodyear A ego TIE i : Bais RE NS: Pe tf 7 = zn Pinte ay Jd Re Poe oN te Bgtet ae REGS Wig > es 026 fee r% RBS ° Le «of $ssc$ OR oe e 2 ox =, + HGO8s i i rt ‘ - ian ee Bip tet! IN SS \ vel \ rae EOMeAnpAigerigeeanns SN xl \\\ | ABOVE ARE CUTS OF LACE CAPS WHICH WE WILL HAVE IN 10th, RANGING IN STOCK ABOUT MARCH PRICE _FROM $2 to $4.50 We also have 15 from $1.75 to $4.50. numbers of Men’s and Children’s Faney Outing Caps Outing Shirts, 36 inches long, from $2.25 to $6 per dozen. P. Steketee & Sons WHOLESALE DRY GOODS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, icici I iasseccetnesins Industrial and Social Relations of the Sexes. There is no question that the move- ment of women into the fields of labor heretofore exclusively occupied by men has had a very large influence in securing a serious reduction of wages. Women, in the ordinary avocations of life, have never been able to com- mand equal wages with men. The reasons for this are various. One is that women do not possess the physic- al strength of men, and this dishabil- ity stands in their way, even in occu- pations where no special physical ex- ertion is required. There are many sorts of work which depend rather on skill and attention than upon any spe- cial bodily vigor, and women can and do perform them better than is pos- sible with men; but, all-the same, the wages of women are lower. Tt is algo claimed that women can- not work as many days as men, be- cause their health and _ constitution will not permit, and thus their services are worth less; but this disability is not so serious as it is represented to be. Another reason is that, when women are forced to work, their ne- cessities are commonly so great as to force them to accept almost the first offer available, and, therefore, they are not able to stand out for better terms. Moreover, as most of the employers are men who seem to think it their business to domineer over the other sex, they take advantage of the op- portunity to fix the wages of women at a lower rate than that given males who are employed to do the same sort of work. Other causes wages of with those circumstance highest to lower the women compared of men, and, barring the that actresses of the class receive as high salaries operate working as men, the fact remains that in al- most every other calling women’s services are lower men. But this in-~ justice to women reacts powerfully upon the stronger sex, for, despite the inequality of wages, women are constantly taking places formerly oc- cupied by men, and thus the latter are either finally compelled to work for smaller pay or to abandon the field al- together. When it is understood that men and women are to compete avocations, and that there is not work enough for all of them, the question arises: What is to be the final result? This question is made the theme of a communication printed elsewhere, in which complaint is made that through the invasion of women into every field of labor, not only are wages being cut down, but men are being steadily driven from the contest, and no won- der the question, full of anxiety and wages for the same than are those of apprehension, is being asked: Where is all this to end? There is no ready reply to it, be- sause the changes which are wrought are actually _ shaking the very in the same | |} of will and em | ditional and | straints? being | revolutionizing | foundations of | society. The basis of all society in| every age has been the family. The} 1 men were required to go out to work | for, to maintain and women and children. The women were keepers at home. The original idea of the family organization was that every man should have only one wife, and, therefore, the family only of people bound together by the closest ties. But, in process having been killed sulted an excessive and since the beginning been of time, many men in wars, there re- number of women, women had from the regarded as depend- ants, it was necessary that somebody should take care of them, and thence grew up a system of polygamy in which the men who had the pecuniary means absorbed into their harems the ' exoess of women, so that no detached’ GRAND RAPIDS, im to defend the | consisted | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. — 28 and uncared-for females were to be found, with the exception only of such as had become utterly depraved. The polygamous system prevails in all Asiatic and African countries and among all wild peoples, including all the American Indians and the natives of Australia. The practive was brought by the Turks into Europe, and obtains in all the Mohammedan states of that continent. Christian Europe and America, while holding to monogamy, or the one-wife system, have endeavored to take care of the women; but gradually their so- | cial system has weakened until the} number of women wholly independent | of family life has become very great, and the number still attached to their | families, but who go out daily to work | in the fields formerly occupied by men, is also rapidly increasing and has grown to vast proportions. are not only crowding every avenue of | industry and commerce, but they are pushing with great energy into poli- tics, and that they will in time reach | political equality cannot be doubted by those who observe the operation of social and political ferces. And, there- fore, comes up with great prominence, | not only the question, What effect will these changes have on labor? but What will be their effect on the family? That enormous social force which is termed love is partly physical and partly made up of sentiment. That Which is natural cannot change, but the sentimental part is wholly made up of custom and education. Re hgion has much to do with it: but with a change of sentiment in social affairs there may be departures from ihe ancient religious sanctions. In| view of the fact that conditions never | before realized are coming into exist- | ence, there are no precedents upon which they may be judged. The age of emancipated women has never be-| fore existed under the sun, and, there- | fore, it would be manifestly unwise | to attempt to prophesy concerning it. | Will it result in setting the sexes in two great opposing camps, or will it! bring them together in all the freedom | of unrestrained equality, or can the} family life survive the operations of | changed conditions working through a} long period? All society is an evolution. It grows} out of the conditions which surround ! it. What will be the social evolution | of conditions which place men and/ women on the same plane of equality | as to liberty of action, independence | ancipation from all tra- | time-honored social re- | | John Brechting Architect, 79 Wonderly B’ld’g. Call or leUs correspond if you build. want to Deaf and Dumb Men DO THIS when they want the BEST 5c CIGAR on the market. Ss. ©. W. | is sold by all Wholesale Druggists, Confection- ers and Grocers traveiiug f:0m Grand Kapids. | Ask your Jobber to send you a sample with next | order or apply to G. J. JOHNSON, MICH, it | Sold by the following Grand Rapids jobbers: 21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, | Are the best. Swift's Cotosuet.... IS THE BEST shortening that the world ever knew IS THE BEST cooking fat 1S THE BEST selling shortening on the market where introduced IS THE BEST trade bringer aud trade keeper in this line. One of the Largest Makers of Shortening in America MAKES IT, ENDORSES IT and STANDS BACK OF IT Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Ww ae Grocer Co. - M. Clark Grocery Co. Lemon & Wheeler Co. te Barnhart-Putman Co. Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. ~— Grocer Co. Made only by Swift & Company Chicago. Write for prices of Any SOWCOSe Needed. 55-577=59-61 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS. mK. A Importers and:Jobbers of -> TEAS< ILL. SEE QUOTATIONS. OYSTERS. Anchor Brand All orders will receive prompt attention at lowest market price. F. J. DETTENTHALER 24. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, March 2—With the pass- ing of those two cold and gloomy things —winter and Congress—trade takes on a more hopeful turn and every day sees more encouragement. The month of February, among the jobbing grocers of this city, was a very favorable one, and some of our leading concerns report a greater volume of trade than in January. Prices have not appreciated in the de- gree anticipated by some and there is, as yet, no speculation, although some fairly large lots of canned goods have been picked up at rates which betoken a good profit later in the year. Quite a large number of buyers have been in town and the territory within 500 miles of the city has been very liberally repre- sented. Reports indicate that the con- sumptive requirements of the people are large and that they are purchasing more freely than a year ago. There is very little fluctuation in the price of leading staples, but a firmer feeling exists, and this is a desirable thing. The big bazaar house of R. H. Macy & Co, has begun suit againstthe big Chi- cago concern, Siegel, Cooper & Co., for alleged breach of contract. It makes a good advertisement for both sides. Amount involved, $150,000. The daily papers of Friday report a conversation with Mr. Siegel on their news pages which occurred the ‘‘day before” regard- ing the new building the Chicago house is to erect here, which is, word for word, the same as he utteredin January, thus showing the whole thing to be a paid ad- vertisement. The coffee market remains firm, both for Brazil and the milder sorts. The de- mand is not very large, but there seem no signs of weakness. No. 7 Rio is worth at the moment 16°/c. Granulated sugar is somewhat slow sale, but nofurther reduction is antici- pated. German granulated is worth, te arrive, 3 67-100e. Teas show no special activity. Rates are well maintained and the outlook for the future is rather more encouraging. Rice is firm and holders will make no concession. It is hard to fill orders for fine grades of Japan at the present time and transactions are mostly for April. Canned goods show considerable im- provement and during the week many good sized orders have been filled. The long-existing demand for ‘‘bargains’’ has cleared the market to some extent of the ‘“‘cheap and nasty’’ stock and we are now entering an era of better goods. Promi- nent packers from all parts of the coun- try have been here during the week mak- ing preparations for the spring cam- paign and they are generally hopeful, but it costs an effort to be so when they think of the past two years. There seems to be more corn than the ‘‘figurers”’ had ‘‘figured’’ on, and the surplus is such an unknown quantity that holders are somewhat uncertain asto the course of the article in the future. Maine corn has sold for 50e—said to be the lowest point ever reached. This is not a fair quotation for the whole range, as the market is about 60@65c. A cir- cular has been sent out by some one who is said to be ‘‘way up” in packing eir- cles, offering, for $50, to tell packers all} about bleaching corn with soda, and other matters. The circular says: ‘I think you would find this investment a most excellent one.’’ Doubtless! Our recent big sale at Low Prices d Fairly good | Dried fruits attract no attention and move along in a humdrum manner. Some orders have been received, but there is no activity to the market. The only comfort is that no lower quotations have been made. Foreign fruits, lemons, oranges, ba- nanas, ete., show a daily strengthening and holders feel greatly encouraged by the situation. The butter market is dull and quota- tions can hardly be made that are to be depended upon. The warmer weather has accelerated the movement and hold- ers are prophesying lower prices. Best Western is worth about 22c; best State, 18@20¢e. Cheese shows a better movement and the market has improved during the week in an encouraging manner. Not much doing for export and the little that is taken is of inferior sort. Eggs are scarce and high for the better class of stock, brt there is a feeling that the “spring drop” is on the way, as ad- vices indicate increasing supplies in the country. Beans and peas are steady, without many transactions taking place. Choice 1894 pea beans are held at $1.95; medium, $1.85; marrow, $2.45. Provisions are dull, but are firm at quotations. One of the oldest and most widely known leaf tobacco importing firms in the city, I. Hamburger & Co., 174 Water street, failed Thursday, with liabilities estimated at $250,000, witb no estimate given, as yet, of the assets. Over purchases of Sumatra tobacco was a leading cause of the failure. —_— >< The Drug Market. Opium, quinine and morphia are steady at unchanged prices. Borax has advanced and is very firm. Wood alcohol has advanced 20c per gallon. Wood alcohol shellacs have advanced 10c per gallon. Turpentine is higher. Note Lower Prices on %® OYSTERS * Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can.............8 14 Daisy Brand, Standards, percan............ 16 aicy Brand, Selects. per can ........____. 22 Solid Brand, Standards, ——a....hCLLLCUCU SO Grant EF. percent mold Brand, Selects, percan....... 24 Solid Brand, #xtra selects, per can......... 26 Stan ce lL 1 05 Oysters fine and well filled. The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with boiled cider, very fine: ee Oe €5 ee ee 50 tt ae 45 See 40 i quett Masen Jars, por doz......... ..... 1 i Pints Mason Jars, per doz....... ......- 95 Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the bestmade. Price per case ......... a 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: we Oe 6 ie OA oer... es -. oF Peewee 6% ice prio 1 46 Jone dee 3 50 oe een dam oreaa | lCU 1 40 | Quart Mason Jara. per doz ............. .. 3% | Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40 Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 % | Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00 Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails ............... 1 00 EDWIN FALLAS, Grand Rapids, Mich. FOR THE LENTEN SEASON Oysters, Fresh and Salt Fish OSCAR ALLYN Wholesale Prices PHONE 1001. 106 CANAL STREET _ azz dina CR | Our Plan lita F cnsitasthitiatritionetee | Saves disputes and enables you to discount your bills. Saves book charges and bad debts. Saves worry and loss of sleep. Wins cash trade and new customers. . IF NOT SATISFACTORY, YOUR MONEY BACK. Do You Know That we are Manufacturers of Overalls, Shirts, ete, ? That our line of Gents’ Furnishings is complete? That it will pay you to see our new Satin Fleurettes, Tela-Vela Ducks, Pereales, Ginghams and Prints? ot Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. W holesale DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Ete Grand Rapids, Mich. Signal Five BEST HAVANA FILLER 5c CIGAR. MANUFACTURED BY ED. W. RUHE, 47 Dearborn St., Chicago. Represented by F. E. BUSHMAN, 523 John St., K ilamazvo, Mich. AAS a Ea us as AN > CaaeaN SAS Sy Cae —— = Mail and telegraph orders receive special attention. SWEET’S HOTEL. MARTIN L. SWEET, Proprietor. HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, [l’egrs. Steam heat in every room. Electric fire alarms throughout the house. mprovements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan. Other 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. emonstrated to Michigan Tradesmen that the cry of “No money in circulation” is a fal- lacy and is used only by back number merchants. Send in your orders or ask for quotations on Fresh Meats and Provisions from The Reliable. area WT ACs + 2 a \Y > ~ 7 : We are Wholesale Agents for Armour’s Lard, \ egetole, Compound and Butterine. Special attention to mail and telegraph orders. Telephone 1254. WESTERN BEEF & PROVISION GO, 71 Ganal St, Grand Rapids ei ee 4 Muskegon Bakery Crackers (United States Baking Co.) Are Perfect Health Food. There area great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only one can be best—-that is the original] Muskegon Bakery Butter Cracker. Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use. | Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS Nine Royal Fruit Biscuit, ASK Other Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great Jelly Turnovers, FOR Specialties Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S Muskegon Branch, CAKES and Mlik Lunch CRACKERS United States Baking Co. LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, Muskegon, ~ Mich. Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS I1N 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. “ legs” what you want. We are always on the lookout for something to please our trade and} put dollars in their pockets; and, after thorough investigation, and many | tests have secured a plug tobacco that just suits everybody. It is called | ‘“JESS,.”* is a club shaped plug, 2x12, spaced for 3 cuts and shows a} good margin to the retailer. It weighs 16 ounces to the plug and the | consumer gets full value for his money. We propose to push it to the front and make it the leading plug tobaceo of Michigan Ask our salesman to give you a chew, and show you the goods and you will buy. Why? Everybody is taking it. Because it is “Jess” what they want and have been looking Lor. MUSSEINON GIOGET GO Gnd Rais, Mich, BARK AND LUMBER C0, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN Gat Fee ARS yuk ue 18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld. et Gee ~ ~ al ee a ares a | We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the .sea- son of 1895. Correspondence Solicited. Sugar Makers’ Supplies Post’s Tap Spouts Anchor Tap Spouis 3ap Fails Galvanized Sap Pans ‘Emack Sap Pans Tapping Bitts The ay Uf] Comput ng Seal _ psa Features, | ee WARNING ! 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 Cuited States issued in 1881, 1885, 1836, 1888, 1891, 1893 and 1834. 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, e and the importance of buying and using any other Computing and Price Scales than those manufactured by us and bearing our name and date of pat- ents and thereby incurring Hability to prosecution is apparent. Respectfully THE COMPUTING SCALE CO. 2 RRR Sh nes SEE WHAT USERS SAY: KIEF & MEANWELL, STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES, No. 19 Huron Sr. YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 25, 1894. Messrs. Hoyt & Co., Pere 0. GENTLEMEN—We have been using two of the ‘‘Dayton’’ Computing scales, one Grocer’s platform counter and one Tea scale a little over three months. Weare satisfied that the PENNIES it saves will pay for the scales in six months. When the scales aretvesi we had ten five-pound packages of sugar tied up, which we had weighed on a pair of Howe scales that had only been in use since last April. We were surp rised to find upon re-weighing them on the Computing scales we had given away seven cents OF OUR PROFIT on fifty pounds of granulated sugar, and that means nearly fifty cents lost on every barrel of granu- : lated sugur sold. We could not lay this to the carelessness of our clerks, as we have only one, and he is on the de livery wagon most of the time, taking and de slivering orders while we are putting up the goods. We both conside red ourselves careful in weighing before, but we are more so now, and instead of giving chuck down weight, and at the same time giving away our profits, we still give full six- teen ounces to the pound, and pocket our profits. We would sooner think of parting with our safe now, than we would with the Computing scales. 3 You are at liberty to use this letter if it will assist you to make any more sales and at the same time help some or fellow sufferer pnt his egitimate profits in his own pocket rather than to divide them with his customers, for groceries are being sold so close now days that we cannot afford to divide the profits. Very truly yours, - KIEF & MEANWELL. \ > r further information drop a postal card HOYT & COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio, IS IN . P ‘: Ruby Glassware. Great DEMAND. Note the Present Low Prices on These Assortments. er ee ™ ASV) Assorted Package ROYAL RUBY Glassware. CHRYSANTHEMUM - Assorted Pkg. 408 Ruby Glassware. Per Doz. Per Doz. Ce eee ee 6 00 .+ al EEE ....90 O00 $3 00 So tee Jape... a. _......... 2. oe Re 9 00 2 25 94 Tumblers, . . . SC . .... to 3 OOF 18 Seukines ee - £ OO 1 50 3 7in Berries i i ll 5 00 SE ee 2 oo 50 3 Sin. Berries oo ot ee 6 00 SOE ee eT ee eT 1 20 1 20 2 7in. Open Frid. Beow!s. : ee 7 50 L Son > 60 eee ee 4 50 15 ; 2 8in. Open Ftd. Bowls. eT 298 . Som © CPRener Oars. eee 9 00 1 50 34 41m. Nappies... -. ee ee 1 40 2 sof 1 6 Open Bowls, Ftd. Te . 6 SO 54 1 7 in. Covered Bowls a ee 7 58 Re 7 50 63 1 8 in. Covered Bowls. ee 75h 1 8 Open TRG Oe el oka Wo al nll nal il collec 8 50 7 12 Wines : tL . ee . 1 00 Loom 1 Covered Sows, Fig 8 50 11 12 Salts and Pe ppers oo. ee .... 2 00% 1 S Covered Bowls, Fid........ eee 9 50 79 FEU ee Ee ee TG 1 50 38 ee 4 00 1 00 } Less Gtscemnt 25 percems Lol 5 85 a Nee $15 46 Pkg. 75e. $17 57 Bbl. 35e. THE MOST BRILLIANT PATTERN ON THE MARKET. NICE STYLE AND ENGRAVED. No. 15016 - Ruby ENGRAVED Assorted Pkg. New Glassware. Per Doz. Ry $9 00 $1 50 NE Lo 2 1 50 Fe EE ee 1 00 1 00 WRITE Be eee 3 00 50 WRITE Is 2 Os... .. ee . £4 00 67 1 t 2 Molasses-Cans.... ee eee \ be eee cece el oe io US FOR Ce TT CC 45 FOR ILLUSTRATIONS. 6 Peppe eee eee 90 45 ILLUSTRATIONS. 1 8 in. . Berry Nappies... ee ee 75 12 4} Se _-. . oe 1 20 Net, MO MISCORNE. ee 3S 8 7 ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids.