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Nes YY an \ Pe AXSN ee AKG R Z49) hid, TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISH ND RAPIDS, MARCH 13, 1895. WEEE SST SO eS E. ALDEN. : |; M.R. ALDEN. E M. R ALDEN &CO.,, WHOLESALE - PRODUCE. Strictly Fresh Egg~ and Choice Creamery and Dairy Butter a Specialty. Noithern trede supplied at Jowest market prices We buy on track at point of shipment or receive on consignment. 76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids. e x Spring & Company, ~:~ oe IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ging- hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the Attention of the Stock at Lowest Mark+t Prices. Spring & Company. Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted 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. front and make it the leading plug tobacco of Michigan salesman to give you a chew, and show you the goods and you will buy. Why? We propose to push it to the Ask our Everybody is taking it. have been looking tor. Musson ice Ch MON & WHEELER COMPAN' importers anc holesale Grocers Grand Ra pids. Use Tradesman’s Wants Column. Because it is “Jess” what they want and | it RES, Mh ‘Do You | | | | | RINDGE,KALMBACH & CO., 12, 14, 16 Pearl St., GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS, SHOES, and RUBBERS. Our aim is to please our customers. Ve know what they want and have gotit. Come and see. WE MAKE and handle the best lines in the market—everything up to date. Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. We carry as large a stock as any jobber. 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Also local agents for the Furniture Commercial Agency Co.’s‘‘Red Book.”’ Collections handled for members. Telephones 166 and 1030 B J. BULLARD Manufacturer of Rubber Stamps All kinds of Stencils, Notary Seals, Checks, Badges, House Numbers, Door Plates, ete. 58 Pearl St., Grand Rapids THE MIGRIGAN TRUST GO, Mz Makes a Specialty of actingjas Executor of Wills, Administrator of Estates, Guardian of [linors and In= competent Persons, Trustee or Agent in the management of any business which may be entrusted to it. Any information desired will be cheerfully furnished. Lewis H. Withey, Pres. Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y. - WANTED - Everybody in- terested in pat- ents or patent law to send his name; in return a book eontain- ing valuable in- formation wil] be’sent free by mail, L. V. Moulton, Patent Att’y, Grand Rapids, Mich. THE -AGTIVE POWERS ~- INVENTIVE GENIUS - LS AND 7 PEARL STREET. USE TRADESMAN'S WANTS COLUMNS WEALTH AND ITS USES. EALTH, Mr. Gladstone has recently W said, is the business of the world. uThat the acquisition of money is the business of the world arises from the for- tunate fact that, with few unfortunate exceptions, young men are born to pov- erty, and therefore under the salutary operation of that remarkably wise law which enacts for their good: Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow. lt is the fashionanowadays to bewail poverty as an evil, to pity the young man who is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth; but I heartily subscribe to President Garfield’s doctrine, that ‘The richest heritage a young mancan be born to is poverty.” 1 make no idle predic- tion when I say that it is from that class among you from whom the good and tne great will spring, and that the reputa- tion of Union College in the future is to be not only maintained but enhanced. lt is not from the sons of the millionaire or the noble that the world receives its teachers, its martyrs, its, inventors, its statesmen, its poets, or even its men of affairs. It is from the cottage of the poor that all these spring. We can searcely recall one among the few ‘‘im- mortal names that were not born to die,’’ or who has rendered exceptional service to our race, who had not the advantage of being cradled, nursed and reared in the stimulating * school... of; poverty. There is nothing so enervating, nothing so deadly in its effects upon the qualities which jead to the highest achievement, moral or intellectual, as hereditary wealth. And if there be among youa young man who feels that he is not com- pelled to exert himself in order to earn and live from his own efforts, 1 tender him my profound sympathy. Should such a@ one prove an exception to his fel- lows, and become a citizen living a life creditable to himself and useful to the State, instead of my profound sympathy 1 bow before him with profound rev- erence; for one who overcomes the se- ductive temptations which surround hereditary wealth is of the ‘‘salt of the earth,’”’ and entitied to double honor. It is not the poor young man who goes forth to his work in the morning and labors until evening that we should pity. it isthe son of the rich man to whom Providence has not been so kind as to trust with this honorable task. It is not the busy man, but the man of idleness, who should arouse our sympathy and cause us sorrow. ‘‘Happy is the man who has found his work,’’ says Carlisle. I say happy is the man who has to work and to work hard and work long. A great poet has said: ‘‘He prayeth best who loveth best.’?’ Some day this may be parodied into: ‘‘An honest day’s work well performed is not a bad sort of a prayer.”’ I will assume for the moment, gentle- men, that you were all fortunate enough to be born poor. Then the first question that presses upon you is this: What shall | learn to do for the community which will bring me, in exchange, enough wealth to feed, clothe, lodge, and keep me independent of charitable aid from others? What shall | do for a living? And the young man may like, or think that he would like, to do one thing rather than another; to pursue one branch or another; to be a business man, or eraftsman of some kind, or minister, physician, electrician, architect, editor, or lawyer, and I have no _ doubt some of youin your wildest flights as- pire to be journalists. Butit does not matter what the young man likes or dis- likes, he always has to keep in view the main point: Can I attain such a meas- ure of proficiency in the branch pre- ferred as will certainly enable me to earn a livelihood by its praetice? GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1895. The young man, therefore, who re- solves to make himself useful to his kind, and therefore entitled to receive in re- turn froma grateful community whom he benefits the sum necessary for his support, sees clearly one of the highest duties of a young man. He meets the vi- tal question immediately pressing upon him for decision, and decides it rightly. So far, then, there is no difference about the acquisition of wealth. Every one is agreed that it is the first duty of a young man to so train himself as to be self-supporting. Noris there difficulty about the next step, forthe young man eannot be said to have performed the whole of his duty if he leaves out of ac- count the contingencies of life, liability to accident, illness and trade depressions like the present. Wisdom calls upon him to have regard for these things, and it is a part of his duty that he begin to save a portion of his earnings and invest them, not in speculation, but in securi- ties or in property, or in a legitimate business, in such form as will, perhaps, slowly but yet surely grow into the re- serve upon which he can fall back in emergencies or in old age, and live upon his own savings. I think we are all agreed as to the advisability, nay, the duty, of laying up a competence, and hence to retain our self-respect. Let me give a few rules, founded upon experience, as to competence and wealth, and how to win them. First—Concentrate your mind and ef- forts upon one pursuit. It does not mat- ter much what that pursuit is, so that it be useful and honorable, and be the first authority in that. Of course, you have heard the advice, ‘‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”’ It is not long since I first told young men to reject that ad- vice and pursue just the contrary course. “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.’? More men fail to win competence and wealth from disregard of this advice, and from scat- tering one’s shot, than from any other cause. There is a second rule: You must not be content with simply performing the part assigned tu you; you must do some- thing beyond that, and watch your em- ployer’s interest at every point, no mat- ter whether it is in your special province or not, and do not hesitate to apprise him promptly of anything that you see in any part of his business which does not commend itself to your august ap- proval. You have hearc, ‘‘Obey orders if you break owners.” Do not let the graduate of Old Union be so stupid. Break them any time if you are clear that breaking orders will save owners, and then go boldly to your employer and point out to him how foolish he has been in giving such an order. Believe me, the young man who does not know the business of his special department much better than his employer can possibly do has not the elements of the future mil- lionaire in him. There is another point: Never try to make too good a bargain either for your- self or for your employer. Be always fair, avoiding anything like sharp prac- tice. It is a *poor bargain when both parties to it are not benefited, and there- fore happy at having made it. Every unjust advantage taken in business sooner or later proves a serious disad- vantage. Men who become great mil- lionaires, co-operating as they must with others, must secure and bold the implicit confidence of their associates and bear a reputation as being, in all things, fair, liberal and considerate; their word must be better than their bond, and their de- sire to do the fair and liberal thing bet- ter than either word or bond. Never speculate. The man who gam- bles in stocks in Wall street is not more culpable than he whe gambles at Monte NO. 599 Carlo, but he has much less sense, be- cause the chances between winning and losing are not as equally divided in New York as at the regular gambling estab- lishment. The life of a speculator, of course, is the life of a gamester, and this is fatal to the development of the reason- ing and judging faculties in man. it is a life of intense excitement fatal to thought and to study. There are but few instances of men who have won a for- tune upon the exchange. It is indispensable that the future com- petence-maker or millionaire should be- gin to save a portion of his earnings early, no matter how small these earn- ings may be. Itis a great mistake, gen- tlemen, to think that good habits and ability go unrecognized inthisage. The millionaire employer is constantly keep- ing his eye open just for these qualities in young men. Itis not capital that he desires, but ability, character, and good, thrifty habits. Begin to lay by a por- tion of your earnings every month, and keep up that habit, and I should like to insure, at a very low rate, your fu- ture millionaireship. You always hear that drinking liquor is the dangerous rock in the path of the young. This is true; perhaps the most serious temptation to whicha young man is exposed. Believe me, my young friends, there is nothing that so com- pletely spoils a young man’s career as giving way, even once, to intemperance. Avoid intemperance as you would vice. Obedience to these things is requisite to win competence and wealth. Now what is wealth? How ts it created and distributed? ‘There are not far from us immense beds of coal which have !ain for millions of years useless. Through some experiment, or perhaps accident, it was discovered that black stone would burp and give forth heat. Men sank shafts, erected machinery, mined and brought forth coal, and sold it to the community. It displaced the use of wood as a fuel, say at one-half the cost. Immediately every bed of coal became valuable because useful, or capable of being made so, and here anew article worth hundreds, yes, thousands of mil- lions, was added to the wealth of the community. AScotch mechanic one day, so the story goes, gazing into the fire upon which water was boiling ina Kettle, saw the steam raise the lid, as hundreds of thousands had seen before him, but none saw in that sight what he did—the steam engine, which does the work of the world at a cost so infinitely trifling, compared with what the plans known before involved, that the wealth of the world has been increased one dares not estimate how much. The saving that the community makes is the root of wealth in any branch of material devel- opment. Now, a young man’s labor or service to the community creates wealth just in proportion as his service is use- rul to the community, as it either saves or improves upon existing methods. Commodore Vanderbilt saw, I think, thirteen different short railway lines be- tween New York and Buffalo, involving thirteen different managements, and a disjointed and tedious service. Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, etec., were heads of some of these companies. He consolidated them all, making one direct line, over which the Empire State express flies fifty-one miles an hour, the fastest time in the world, and a hundred passengers patron- ize the line where one did in the olden days. He rendered the community a special service which, being followed by others, reduces the cost of bringing food from the prairies of the West to your doors to a trifling sum per ton. He pro- duced, and is every day producing, un- told wealth to the community by so do- ing, and the profit he reaped for himself 2 was but as a drop in the bucket com- pared with that which he showered upon the State and the nation. Now, in the olden days, before steam, electricity, or any other of the modern inventions which unitedly have changed the whole aspect of the world, every- | thing was-edone upon a smail scale. There was no room for great ideas to) operate upon a large scale and thus pro- duce great wealth to the inventor, dis- coverer, originator, or executive. New inventions gave this opportunity, and many large fortunes were made by in- dividuals. But in our day we are rapidly passing, if we have not already passed, out of this stage of development, and few large fortunes can now be made in any part of the world, except from one cause, the rise in the value of real estate. Manufacturing, transportation both upon the land and upon the sea, banking, in- surance, have ail passed into the hands of corporations, composed of hundreds and in many eases thousands of share- holders. The New York Central Kail- road is owned by more than ten thousand shareholders between York and Buffalo; the Pennsylvania Railroad is owned by more people than the vast army which it employs, and nearly one-fourth of the number are the estates of women and children. It is so with the great manufacturing companies; so with the great steamship lines; it is so, as you know, with banks, insurance companies, and, indeed, with all branches of business. It tS a great mistake for young men to say to themselves, *‘Oh, we cannot enter into any business.” If any of you has saved as high as $50 or $100, I do not know any branch of business into which you cannot plunge at once. You can get your certificate of stock and attend the meetings of stockholders, make your speeches and suggestions, quarrel with the president, and instruct the man- agement of the affairs of the company, and have all the rights and influence of an owner. You can buy shares in any- thing, from newspapers to tenement houses; but capital is so _ poorly paid in these days that I advise you to exercise much circumspection before you invest. As I have said to workingmen and to ministers, college professors, artists, Musicians and physi- cians and ali the professional classes: Do not invest in any business concern whatever; the risks of business are not for such as you. Buy homes for your- selves first, and if you have any surplus, buy another lot or another house, or take a mortgage upon oue, or one upon a railway, and let it be a first mortgage, and be satisfied with moderate interest. The principal complaint against our | that | industrial conditions of to-day is they cause great wealth to flow into the hands of thefew. Well, of the very few, indeed, is this true. It was for- merly so, as I have explained, immedi- ately after the new inventions had changed the conditions of the world. To-day itis not true. Wealth is being more and more distributed among the many. The amount of the combined profits of labor and capital which goes to labor was never so great as to-day. the amount going to capital never so small. While the earnings of capital have fallen more than one-half, in many cases having been entirely obliterated, statistics prove that the earnings of labor were never so high as they were previous to the recent unprecedented depression in business, while the cost of living, as you ali know, or perhaps you college young men do not yet know this, the necessaries of life, have fallen in some cases nearly one- half. Great Britain has an income tax, and our own country is to be subject to this imposition for a time. returns show that during the eleven years from 1876 to 1887 the number of men receiving from $750 to $2,500 per year increased more than 21 per eent., while the number reeeiving from $5,000 to $25,000 actually decreased 244 per cent. You may be sure, gentleman, that the | question of the distribution of wealth is | settling itself rapidly under present con- ditions, and settling itself in direction. The few rich are getting poorer, and the toiling masses are get- ting richer. Nevertheless, a few excep- New | The British the right | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. tional men may yet make fortunes, but ' these will be more moderate than in the |past. This may not be quite as fortu- /nate forthe masses of the people as is now believed, because great accumula- tions of wealth in the hands of one enter- prising man, who still toils on, are /sometimes most productive of all the forms of wealth. [ake the richest man the world ever saw, | York some years ago. |in his case? | tion of a small percentage used for daily ! ' who died in New | What was found | Why that, with the excep- | } expenses, bisentire fortune and all its | | Surplus earnings were invested in enter- | prises which developed the railway sys- ;tem of our country, which gives to the ;}people the cheapest | known. transportation | Whether the millionaire wishes | | it or not, he cannot evade the law which, | | under present conditions,compels him to j use his millions forthe good of the peo- | ple. | years of his life is that he may live in a All that he gets during the few | | finer house, surround himself with finer | | furniture and works of*art whieh may be |added; he could even have a grander |library, more of the gods around him; | but, as far as I bave known millionaires, | the library is the least used part of what | he would probably consider **furniture’’ | in all his mansion. He can eat | food and drink richer wines, whieh only j;hurt him. But truly, the modern mil- | lionaire is generally a man of very sim- | ple tastes andeven miserly habits. He | spends little upon himself, and is the toiling bee laying up the honey in the industrial hive, which all the inmates ;of that hive, the community in gen- | eral, wiil certainly enjoy. The bees of a hive do not destroy the | honey-making bees, but the drones. It would be a great mistake for the com- |munity to shoot the millionaires, for |} they are the bees that make the most | honey, and contribute most to the hive even after they have gorged themselves jfull. Here is a remarkable fact, that 'the masses of the peopie in any country are prosperous and comfortable just in proportion as there are millionaires. Take Russia, with its population little better than serfs, and living at the point of starvation upon the meanest possible fare, such fare as none of our people eould or would eat, and you do not find one millionaire in Russia, always except- ing the Emperor and a few nobles who own the land, owing to their political system. It is the same, to great ex- tent, in Germany. There are only two millionaires known to me in the whole German Empire. In France, where the people are better off than in Germany, you | cannot count one half dozen millionaires in the whole country. In the old home ot our race, Britain, which is the richest country in all Europe— the richest coun- try in the world save one, our own— there are more millionaires than in the whole of the rest of Europe, and its peo- ple are better off than in any other. You come to our own land; we have | more millionaires than in ali the rest of ;the world put together, although we | have not one to every ten that are re- | puted so. I have seen a list of supposed | millionaires, prepared by a well-known | lawyer of Brooklyn, which made me j laugh, as it has made many others. | | saw men rated there as millionaires who | could not pay their debts. Many should have had a cipher cut from their $1,000,- 000. The inventions of to-day jead to con- centrating industrial and commercial af- fairs into huge concerns. You cannot work the Bessemer process successfully without employing thousands of men on one spot. You could net make the ; armor for ships without first expending seven millions of dollars, as the Bethle- }hem Company has spent. You cannot make a yard of cotton goods in compe- | tition with the world without having an immense factory and thousands of men and women aiding in the process. The great electric establishment iu New York succeeds because it has speat mil- lions and is prepared to do its work upon a great scale. Under such conditions | it is impossible but that wealth will flow into the hands of a few men in pros- perous times beyond their needs. But {out of fifty great fortunes which Mr. | Blaine had made a list of, he found only richer | j | W INTON—Model 12, Weight 20 lbs. Do You Handle Them ? WE DON’T CLAIM to handle ail the good Bicycles made BUT WE DO CLAIM to handle the most desirable lines in the market. HANDLE A SELLER! SELL A WINNER! WIN A BUYER! Which will be your LEADERS # Clevelands, Wintons, Tribunes, Spald- ings, Sterlings, Czars or Royals in High Grades. S & B.’s or Tourists’ Specials in Medium Grades. Featherstones for Cheap Wheels. You can get from us a Full Line at Manufacturers’ Prices. ee We are the OLDEST Bicycle and Sundry Dealers in Michigan and know a good article when we see it and “push it along.” Apply for Agencies at once. Catalogues for the asking. TRS We are still leaders in Mill and Fire Department Supplies and Agents for Candee Rubber Goods and Spaldings’ Sporting and Athletic Goods. Studley & Barclay 4 Monroe St.,GRAND RAPIDS. Mention TRADESMAN. we ae 5 EG Seen aD THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. one Man who was reputed to have made a large fortune in manufacturing. These are made from real estate more than from all other causes combined; next follow whole manufacturing world has furnished but one reprobate millionaire. The only noble use of surplus wealth is this: That it be regarded as a sacred trust to be administered by the possessor into whose hands it flows, for the highest good of the people. Man does not live by bread alone, and five or ten cents a day more revenue scattered over thou- sands would produce little or no good. Accumulated into a great fund and ex- pended as Mr. Cooper expended it for the Cooper Institute establishes something that will last for generations. It will educate the brain, the spiritual part of man; it furnishes a ladder upon which the aspiring poor may climb, and there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder un- less he is willing to climb a little him- self. Wher you stop boosting he falls, to his injury. Therefore, I have often said, and | now repeat, that the day is coming, and already we see its dawn, in which the man who dies possessed of millions ef available wealth, which was free and in his hands ready to be dis- tributed, will die disgraced. Of course, I do not mean that the man In business may not be stricken down with his cap- ital in the business, which cannot be withdrawn, for capital is the tool with which the business man works his won ders and produces more wealth. What 1 refer to is the man who dies possessed of millions of securities which are held simply for the interest they produce, that he may add to his hoard of misera- ble dollars. By administering surplus wealth during life great wealth may be- come a great blessing to the community, and the eccupation of the business man accumulating wealth may be elevated so as to rank with any profession; and by this way may he take rank even with the physician, one of the highest of our pro- fessions, because he, too, in a sense, will be a physician, looking after and trying, not to cure, but to prevent the ills of hu- manity. ANDREW CARNEGIE. or 2 Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen. At the examination session of the State Board of Pharmacy, held in the New Blodgett building, in this city, last week, about seventy-five candidates presented themselves for examination. Several were rejected on account of alleged in- formalities in their application papers, so that the regular examination was taken by only fifty-nine applicants, forty- three being candidates for registration as registered pharmacists and sixteen as candidates for registration as assistants. Only seventeen succeeded in satisfying the Board as to their fitness, nine as reg- istered pharmacists and 8 as assistants. The successful candidates were as fol- lows: REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. J. A. Howsor, Saginaw. E. A. Richards, Saranac. C. G. Meseroll, Jackson. Wm. Legate, Grand Rapids. H. L. La Bar, Fife Lake. J. E. Knapp, Bay City. E. Fuller, Richmond. C. Fisk, Edwardsburg. . V. Cook, Charlevoix. ASSISTANTS. A. Dunwell, Plainwell. H. Jones, Detroit. M. Billings, Grand Rapids. W. Palmer, Mt. Pleasant. O. Fountain, Battle Creek. Chas. James, Detroit. H. H. Tucker, Saginaw. W. H. Roberts, Ishpeming. The next examination session of the Board will be held at the Star Island House, near Detroit, June 24. —--s2->— Five cigar is Spanish hand- BSP OO bz Signal made, 5c. The Importance of Competency in Keeping Books. The importance of employing com-'! : : |petent persons to keep the books of a/| transportation, banking. The) business man is well illustrated by the | ruling of the Court of Appeals of Ken- | tucky in the recently decided case of! Macauley vs. Elrod, which was a suit for an accounting between the owner of & theater and his agent and book-keeper, running through a period of several years, the owner claiming that the lat- ter, by failing to make proper entries and omitting to make others, sbowed the use of the former’s money to a large ex- tent, for which he should be held to account. Many books of account, or- ders, checks, etc., were included in the record, and a system of book-keeping shown that rendered it impossible to ar- rive at any accurate result. The owner first insisted that the other owed $15,000, but on investigation reduced the claim to less than one-third that amount. The matters were referred to a Master in Chancery, fully competent to state re- sults, who found the indebtedness the other way. After several rehearings be- fore the chancellor the matter came be- fore the higher court, which, in sub- stance, said: Ordinarily one undertaking to act as book-keeper and treasurer for another will be held to show a correct state- ment of the accounts and made respon- sible for his failure to do so; but in a ease like this, where the neglect and carelessness of the employer cause the discrepancy, or aid in bringing about a state of things that renders a true accounting impracticable, this strict rule of responsibility does not apply. The large claim asserted by the em- ployer, who had constant access to the books, after such a lapse of time, tends to show that he knew the books gave no accurate statement of the ac- counts, and that he was the recipient of all the proceeds to whieh he was entitled. His own estimate of the re- ceipts and the indebtedness of book- keeper to him are so wide of the mark as to show that his own mistakes are greater than those alleged against the employe. His constant access to the cash drawer and his withdrawal of money, often without even making a memorandum of the date or amount, show the loose manner in which the business was conducted, and the loss, if any, is to be attributed as much to the care- lessness of the employer as to the want of capacity on the part of the em- ploye. The latter was not, in fact, a book-keeper, and this his employer knew. The only experience which he had had originated from the attempt to keep the books in question, and no book- keeper, however expert, could have kept an accurate account of the business as conducted by the employer; the latter having the sole right to the proceeds, the former had no power, even if he knew how, to require him to submit to any regulation that he might prescribe for the proper conduct of the business. The employer had experience as a book- keeper, but with his knowledge of the manner in which the accounts were kept, was as careless as he alleges the employe was, and no one reading his tes- timony ought to fix liability upon his subordinate, who was in fact a mere cus- todian, and not one to receive and ex- pend the moneys, as if he had superior control of the funds. This court is asked to examine a list of accounts too numerous to mention, with a view of testing the accuraey of the chancellor, whois an able and expert accountant, and who has investigated their accounts on more than one reference. The chan- cellor, in our opinion, took the only equitable view of these claims, it being impossible to arrive at any accurate re- sult from the records and accounts, and dismissed both the original petition and the claim for settlement, for a court of equity should leave such matters where it finds them. - -— 2 —_>- ~ Use Tradesman Coupon Books. HEADACHE PECK’S “*powpzrs FISH We are Headquarters for FISH We pack our own FISH WE GIVE FULL WEIGHT, ULEAN, BRIGHT STOCK. SOUND PACKAGES AND BOTTOM PRICES. Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber Paeceieroaanwin Aad Re alee ae a i 4 4 AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS QF MERCHANTS. Detroit—Davis & McInnis succeed M. W. Davis in general trade. East Jordan—Wm. H. Healey, hagd- ware dealer, has assigned. Edgerton—Kelsey & Rector succeed F. Kelsey in general trade. Hadley—Grant Stimson succeeds Stim- son Bros. in general trade. Lansing—The Lansing Fuel Co. has sold its business to John A. Daley. Sterling—Andrew Peacock succeeds Peacock & Redmond in general trade. Coleman—J. H. Dinwoodie has sold his jewelry stock to F. A. Niggeman. Traverse City—J. J. Kurtz has sold his grocery stock to Schooleraft & Co. Jackson—Wm. Sparks succeeds Rob- bins & Sparks in the grocery business. Hadley—E. J. Hemingway succeeds Tunison & Hemingway in general trade. Nashville—Putman Bros. have sold their hardware stock to Brattin & Inger- soll. Detroit—Adolph W. Blumberg has sold his crockery business to Bernhard Berg. Cass City—N. Bigelow & Son succeed Howe & Bigelow in the hardware busi- ness. Manistee—R. D. Christiansen has pur- chased the bazaar stock of Jans Thomp- son. Quiney—C. N. Wilcox has removed his boot and shoe stock from Reading to this place. Albion—Joy & Owen succeed Parsons & Joy in the agricultural implement business. Coneord—Brodock & McKenzie, gro- cers, have dissolved, Brodock & Co. sue- ceeding. Cedar Springs—S. A. Nickerman suc- ceeds W. C. Congdon in the hardware business. Memphis—Sweet & Reynolds succeed Jas. D. Sweet in the hardware and paint business. Berrien Springs—M. K. Feather sue ceeds Jas. F. Skinner in the boot and shoe business. Cass City—Howe & Bigelow, hardware dealers, have dissolved, N. Bigelow & Son suceeeding. Deciple—Skelton & Bartlett succeed Preston W. Bartlett in the grocery and drug business. Pontiac—Pauli & Nusbaumer have purchased the boot and shoe stock of EI- liott & Durrant. Saginaw—The Barrows Musie Co. sue- ceeds Barrows & Gregory, dealers in pianos and organs. Hillsdale—Eccles, Donaghy & Russell, undertakers, have dissolved, Donaghy & Crane succeeding. Jackson—Frank Bowen, Secretary of the Jacksen Grocery Co., has severed his connection with that house. Shelby—M. Kelly succeeds Kelly & Field in the hat and cap and clothing and men’s furnishing goods business. Grand Blanc—A. D. Banker & Co. are succeeded by Stuart & Maxwell in the hardware and implement business. Marengo—Frank stock of general merchandise to J. C. | company will cut 300,000,000 feet of lum- Cooper, who will contipue the business. Owosso—F. H. Chapell, of this city, and J. W. Hibbard, of Bennington, Reed has sold his | besides manufacturing sauerkraut and horse radish. | Ironwood—J. C. & C. M. Bean, dealers in jewelry and musical merchandise, | have dissolved, C. M. Bean continuing | the business. Hart—H. Marshall has sold his bakery ; business to Jacob Eberhardt, recently |from Arthur, lll., who has added a line of staple groceries. Nashville—Dr. John Ball is closing out his stock of drugs and books preparatory to removing to Lansing, where he intends to open a drug store. Frankfort—Baumgarth & Co. bave em- barked in general trade. A. C. McGraw & Co. furnished the boots and shoes, the order being captured by Frank E. Chase. Morenci—The Phillips Hardware Co., of biissfield, has closed out its bankrupt stock of goods here, and the manager, Harry Copman, has returned to Bliss- field. Detroit—Wagner & Woodhouse, whole- sale tobacco and cigar dealers, have dis- solved. The business will be continued under the style of John T. Woodhouse & Co. Midland—H. P. Whipple has pur- chased the general stock formerly owned by the Cleveland Woodenware Co. and will continue the business at the same location. Woodland—C. S. MelIntyre has pur- chased the interest of Dr. Baughman in the drug stock of Baughman & Co. and will continue the business under his own name. Traverse City—Frank Daniels has leased the store adjoining his grocery, just vacated by W. J. Hobbs, and will put in acomplete meat market, which he will conduct on the cash system. Flushing—Parris & Davis have pur- chassed the stationery and musical mer- chandise stock of Hough & Bump and the bazaar stock of F. H. Niles and will consolidate the stocks and continue the business. Muskegon—Moulton & Ridel, whole- sale commission merchants of this city, have an agency in Anderson, Ind., in charge of Frank H. Johnson, formerly engaged in the retail grocery business in this city. Albion—Tbe grocery stock of F. A. Young & Co., recently closed on chattel mortgage, has been purchased by F. L. Crane, who will consolidate it with his own and move both stocks across the street into the store building in the Dalrymple block. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Wolverine—P. E. Hackett has put in 4,500,000 feet of logs for his sawmill here. Ravenna—J. F. & A. J. Tibbets suc- ceed J. F. Tibbets in the planing and shingle mill business. Cheboygan—G. C. Dodd & Co. expect to have their box factory plant here in operation in a few days. West Bay City—Kirchner & Uebber- oth sueceed Weber, Kirchner & Co. in the planing mill business. 1 ! Thompsonville—The Fox Lumber Co.’s sawmill began business March 11. The ber. Adrian—S. B. Babcock has sold his have formed a co-partnership under the | ‘Can Labeling Machine Co. for $3,000, the do a wholesale and retail business in| firm name of Chapel! & Hibbard and will vegetables, table relishes and fruits, ;corn planter factory building on South Winter street to the Cornell & Knapp purchasers to take possession about the middie of May. Mr. Babcock says he THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ‘will continue the manufacture of plant- | ers, but will locate elsewhere if he can find a suitable place. Leland—The Leland Lumber Co. will start its sawmill about April1. 1t will cut 1,000,000 feet against 2,000,000 last season. Holland—A. C. Stewart has sold out his cigar manufacturing business to Frank Delater, formerly with H. Van Tongeren. Saginaw—The Michigan Lumber Co. is reported to have sold 4,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber to Eastern parties. The price is not named. Glen Haven—D. H. Day will start his sawmill as soon as the ice is out. He will cut 2,500,000 feet, mostly hardwood, with some hemlock. His logs are nearly all in. Albion—The Manning Harness Co., W. H. Manning, Manager, succeeds the Rousseau Harness Co. in the wholesale manufacture of harnesses and the job- bing of vehicles. Grand Ledge—Francis Rawson has purchased a haif interest in the marble and granite business of V. N. & Roxie A. Pearsall. The new firm will be known as Pearsall & Rawson. Detroit—John S. Sherman, Edward G. Mumneny and George H. Harms have filed articles of association of the Detroit Vapor Stove Co. The capital is $150,000, all paid in. The corporation will manu- facture vapor stoves and furnaces. Kalamazoo — The Kalamazoo Reed Chair Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000—of which $6,000 is paid in—for the purpose of continuing on an enlarged scale the manufacture of reed and rattan chairs established a year ago by Rickman & Pratt. Saginaw—Col. A. T. Bliss has closed a deal to cut 4,000,000 feet of deals for the export trade, Canadians being the pur- chasers. The stock will be cut at the Bliss mill here from logs railed from Midland county. Col. Bliss is well pleased over the contract and says it will net him $6 or $7 more a thousand than if cut into ordinary grades and piled on dock here. Belding—A cannery promoter, repre- senting the Hoosier Canning Machinery Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., generously offers to erect and equip a complete can- nery here fora consideration of $6,500. As the grocers of the place realize that most lines ef canned goods are now be- ing sold below the cost of production, their advice to the business men who might otherwise be inclined to invest in the enterprise is to let it alone. Detroit—It is reported that C. M. Snedicor has nearly concluded arrange- ments for the establishment of a shoe factory in the building formerly occu- pied by the Black Hardware Co., at the corner of Wayne and Woodbridge streets. Mr. Snedicor had intended removing to seme more western city, but after pros- pecting through the West he came to the conclusion that Detroit presented better manufacturing facilities than any other city visited. Manistee—A lumbering concern here, Wearing that beech could be used for saw handles, five or six years ago cut up a large quantity and held it, selling only a few thousand feet annually. They have at last managed to dispose of the whole of it to a New York concern and it is now going forward by rail. One New York concern has recently clesed a con- tract for 500,000 feet of hard maple to be | sawed to order and shipped by rail, and a western concern is negotiating for 500,- 000 feet rock elm to be Sawed in thick- nesses from 2 to 4 inches. Muskegon—Snyder & Straub, candy manufacturers, have commenced to spread out. For a time they contem- plated moving into new quarters, but ar- rangements were finally made whereby they could acquire the necessary room at their present location,15,17, and 19 E.Clay avenue. The company will have a new Office and an elevator running from the first to the third floor. The firm handles an average of 50,000 pounds of candy per month. Petoskey—The Chicago & West Michi- gan Railroad Company is getting es- timates for the building of a new dock here, with a depth of water sufficient to permit the landing of the steamer Mani- tou, which has heretofore landed only at Harbor Springs. Itis probable that the road will be extended around Little Traverse Bay to Harbor Springs, and thence northward via Cross Village to the Straits. Such an extension would open up a rich hardwood cuuntry. — >.< Will Exploit the Harrison Telephone in the South. A Grand Rapids syndicate has secured, by purchase, a deed of the Harrison telephone patents for Louisiana, Mis- sissippi and Arkansas and will proceed to exploit the invention and establish local exchanges in that territory. For the sake of handling the work more ef- fectively the syndicate has been merged into a corporation, with a capital stock of $100,000, under the style of the Mis- sissippi Valley Harrison Telephone Co., the stockholders being T. Stewart White, Thomas Friant, Harvey J. Hollister, J. H. P. Hughart, Ga'us W. Perkins, Wm. T. Hess, F. C. Miller, Jas. D. Lacey, J. M. Blakely and E. A. Stowe. The officers of the corporation are as fol- lows: President—Thomas Friant. Secretary—-E. A. Stowe. Treasurer—F. C. Miller. PRODUCE MARKET Apples—The marketis nearly pare of stock, Choice stock of any kind commanding $3 @ $4 per bbl. Beans—Still advancing and likely to go still higher, as stocks are concentrated in few hands. Local handlers pay #1.90 for clean, hand-picked stock and holding at $2in car lots and #2.10in smaller quantities. Butter—The market is tumbling, dealers be- ing afraid to handle the ordinary grad s offered exceptina hand-to-mouth way. Prices range from 12 @ 16e, according to quality. Cabbage—50c per doz. Celery—25@3"c per doz., according to quality. Any of it is poor enough. Cranberries—#3.50 per crate. Eggs—1l5@16e per doz., but market on the down grade. Lettuce—12"4¢ per Ib. Onions—Dry stock is scarce. Dealers pay 50@ 6c, holding at &5@75e. Parsnips—35c per bu. Potatoes—The spring shipp’ng season will soon be in full blast. Handlers are now paying 45 @ 5°c at the principal buying points, and the indications are that the price will not vary much from these figures for some days. Radishes—Hot house stock commands 30¢ per doz. bunches. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command $3 per bbl Illinois br'ng $2.°5. Squash—Hubbard brings 1%c per Ib., if the quality isuptostandard, Poor stock sells at % alc. WANTED. Potatoes, Beans and Sun Dried Apples. Any quantity,:car load or less. If you have any stock to offer, write us. HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, 445-447 S. Division st. Cabbage, Quions, Turnips, Parsnips, | Gm THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Arthur Whipple & Co. have opened a grocery store at Delton. The Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. Perry & Worden succeed Bradlee & Worden in the grocery business at the corner of South Ionia and Hal! streets. E. F. Snell has retired from the fancy dry goods firm of F. A. Wurzburg & Co., at 64 Monroe street. The business will be continued by F. A. Wurzburg. Mrs. R. H. Brennan has purchased the millinery stock of Adams & Co., at 90 Monroe street, and has removed her mil- jinery stock from 3 North Division street to that location. S. A. Morman bid in the property at Wayland formerly owned by the Rudell Ice Cream Co., at public sale last week. The property comprises a creamery plant and sufficient machinery to manu- facture butter on the factory creamery plan. Geo. H. Remington has purchased the grocery stock of F. E. Hartwell & Co. at 603 Cherry street. Mr. Remington was for many years engaged in the grocery business at Fennville and during 1894 oceupied the position of house salesman for the Musselman Grocer Co. - ote The Drug Market. Gum opium is very firm and has ad- vanced. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is steady. Cocoaine has advanced. $6.55@6.75 per ounce. Salicylate soda has again declined. Gum camphor is higher, both here and abroad. Po. sugar of milk has advanced. Cod liver oil is easier, on account of offerings of surplus stock by jobbers. Turpentine has advanced. Linseed oil is very firm and another advance is probable soon. Alcohol has advanced Ic per gallon. —>—> The Grain Market. Wheat closed about le higher than on the previous week, with a very strong undercurrent. The reason for the ad- vance was that the Trade Bulletin showed a decrease during February of 10,000,000 bushels; foreign offers were ad- vanced; exports were about 1,000,000 bushels more; Northwestern receipts were some lower—but, most of all, was the Michigan State crop report, which claimed that there would be only 574,031 bushels over from the crop of 1894, and that any wheat which Michigan can fur- nish must come from the preceding har- vest of 1893 and 1892; and as the 1892 crop of wheat is not sought after by millers, they will have to depend on the crop of 1893, and it appears that our pre- dictions come true that wheat will be some higher. While we cannot expect the high bull prices, a reasonable ad- vance is in order. Corn followed wheat and advanced Ic, while oats are still firmer. When the trade expected easier prices on this grain, the opposite happened. Receipts of grain during the week were 109 cars of wheat, 33 cars of corn, and 9 ears of oats. This is an unusually large receipt of wheat. C..G@. A. Voter. —_—_—~«

-—————————— From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade: Frank Smith, Leroy. Geo. Chantler, Manistique. H. E. Parmelee, Hilliards. Carrington & North, Trent. J. H. Van Den Bosch, Lucas. N. F. Miller, Lisbon. R. J. Hyma, Muskegon. Petoskey Lime Co., Bay Shere. Change inthe Sugar Card. The Committee on Trade Interests of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation promulgated a new schedule of prices on granulated sugar March 12, as follows: 5 cents per pound. 5 pounds for 25 cents. 11 pounds for 50 cents. 22 pounds for $1. Gillies’ fine New York Coffees are on top. J. P Visner, Agt. Wants Column. Advertisements will be inserted under this | head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents, Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. Vy TANTED — PARTNER (GENTLEMAN OR lady) with $4,000 or %5,00) cash, to take half interest in an established dry goods busi- ness in alive, growing town. Owner has an ex- cellent business and isin control of nearly the entire county trade in the dry goods line. Don’t reply unless you mean business. Addreas No. 719, care Michigan T:ade-man. 719 WOR SALE—DKUG STOCK, CLEAN AND fresh. New shelvirgs. counters showcases, soda fountain and safe The finest location in a gond business town. Will sell at a big sacrifice. Address No. 683, care Michigan Tradesman. 685 For. ‘SALE—TWO COAL STOVES AT $5 apiece, and two at $$ apiece; can be seen at 106 Louis st. TrRapEsmMAN Company, New Blod- gett building. Wi ee SALE — WELL ESTABLISHED AND good-paying tin and furnace business in this city. Good reasons for selling. Investiga- tion courted. P. O. Box, 547, Grand Rapids, Mich. 715 & = TO TAKE HALF IN- \ TANTED—PARTN terest in my 75 bbl steam roller mill and elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred; good wheat country. Full description, price, terms and inquiries given promptly by address- ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county, Mich. 711 OR SALE—TASLE FAC TOR Y. LOCATED in alive town of 2, 0 nhabitants Plant incluces boiler engine, kil ns. sawmilland nee essary machinery to manufacture tabies or other lines of furniture Town has three railroads, furnishing e 2xcellent shipping facilities. Plant cost $17,0 0 and is well worth $10,000, but will be sold rl #5,000, owing to inexperience of owner. Address No. t97, care Michigan Tradesman. 697 For SALE—A WELL-SEL ‘ECTED DRUG stock, statio 1ery, shoes Particulars, 703 aye SALE—A FIRST-( and implement bnsiness in good farming community. sehler, Grand Rapids, Mich 700 A GOOD STORE ‘ILDING AND $4,000 I stock generel merchandise, to exchange for farm worth $5,000. For particulars ad- dress No. 686. care Michigan Tradesman 686 YROCERY STOCK FOR SALE—INVOICING J about $7,000,in a hustling town of 8,000. Everything cash, The only grocery that made money last year. Reasons, otherirons. Address No. ¢91. care Michigan Tradesman. 691 YTOCK OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN'S k furnishing goods, to trade for real estate. Adc iress No. 660, C are Mic higan Tradesman. 660 {i YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL REAL estate, write me. I can satisfy you. Chas, . Mereer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb building. 653 ARDWARE n thriving villege Address Brown & (OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF interest in ssme, on one of the principal streets in Grand Rs ipids New stock, good trace, location Al. A¢ idre ss No, 624 care Michigan Tradesman, 624 MISCELLAN TEOUS, OOKING FOR REAL ESTATE INVEST- st ments, ‘rhave business chances for sale? See WINANS & MOORE, Room 1, Tower B ock, Grand Rapic Is. 71s \ EN TO SELL BAKING “POWDEI R TO THE Wii grocery trade. Steady employment, ex- perience unnecessary %7 expenses or comnmission. If offer is satisfactory address at once with particulars concerning yourself U.S. Chemical Works, Chicago, 677 | monthly salary and EGGS, POULTRY, apples, cabbages, etc. Watkins & Smith, Grand Rapids, 673 TEARLY NEW BAR-LOCK ‘TYPEWRITER for sale at a great reduction from cost Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of same make of machine, which we consider the best onthe market. Tradesman Company, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 564 \ JANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST starting in business and every onea iready started to use our system of poison ‘labels. What has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman Company. Grand Rapids V YANTED—BUTTER potatoes, onions, Correspondence solicited 83-86 South Division St., SITUAT‘ONS WANTED, TANTED—POSITION AS DRUG CLERK, by graduatein pharmacy. Registered in Michigan and West Virginia Best of refer- ences. Address H. J. Thompson, Ph.G., Man- chester, Ohio. 716 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. CHECKING GOLD EXPORTS. Now thatthe new Government bonds have been distributed, both here and in London, with the prospect of a gratify- ing profit to their recipients at the allot- ment price, and of one still more grati- fying to their original takers, interest centers in the probable effect of the op- eration upou gold exports from this country. The syndicate who negotiated the bonds have undertaken to reverse the natural course of things, and not only to supply the demand for remit- tances to Europe without shipping gold thither, but to bring the metal this way. They have already imported several mil- lions of it, and they are preventing its export by selling bills of exchange at a fraction under the export point. That they can keep on doing this so long as the proceeds of the bonds sold abroad hold out, and as much longer as their borrowing ability will permit, is indis- putable; and they evidently calculate that, before they have exhausted their re- sources in this respect, they will be re- lieved by the shipment of the approach- ing Summer’s crops. They have made a large contract, but they are backed up by the patriotism, as well as by the in- terest, of the entire native financial com- munity, and if they succeed only par- tially. they will have rendered a valu- able service to the country. In favor of the syndicate is the slight rise in the rate of interest of money in this market, due partly to a revival of trade and partly to the contraction caused by the recent redemptions of legal tender notes. So long as these notes had to be paid out again as fast as they came in—which has been the case for the last year and more, owing to the in- ability of the Treasury to meet from its other receipts the demands upon it—this redemption in gold procured by the sale of bonds was merely a roundabout way of borrowing gold with which to pay ex- penses, and it did not decrease the vol- ume of currency in circulation. The Seeretary of the Treasury lately reported to the Senate that he had reissued since Jan. 1, 1893, redeemed notes to the amount of $105,000,000. Clearly, if this sum had been kept locked up in the Treasury vaults, currency would have been by so much the scarcer, money could have been lent at higher rates, and thus the inducement to send it abroad in the shape of gold would have been lessened. The Secretary now de- clares that his receipts from customs and internal revenue taxes will, for the rest of the calendar year, more than equal his expenditures. If he is right, any further redemption in gold of legal ten- ders will have the effect of restricting gold exports instead of facilitating them. Senator Gorman disputes the Secretary’s deciaration, and asserts that the deti- ciency, which has heen so mischievous, will continue to occur, but his opinion, like the Secretary’s, is only an opinion, which the result may or may not con- firm. The question, however, which under- lies that of the currency, and which is of far more importance to the country, is whether or not we are going to maintain our credit with European money lenders. For years we have been largely depend- ent upon foreign capital for the means of developing our natural resources and of increasing our national wealth. Till within a few years past we have paid our creditors handsomely for their assist- ance, and they have left with us not only the original principal lent, but much of the income derived from it. Latterly their losses have been so great, espe- cially in Western railroad ventures, that they have become disgusted with the whole business, and are withdrawing their funds from them as fast as possible. Instead of buying new American bonds and stocks, they are selling their old ones, and instead of leaving here their income for reinvestment, they are taking it away largely in the shape of gold. What the exact amount is of our total debt to European investors statistics do not show. The excess of our merchan- dise exports over imports is often cited as a proof that we do not owe anything abroad, but that, on the contrary, Eu- rope owes us, but this is a conclusion not justified by the facts from which it is drawn. If every country having an excess of exports over its imports were a creditor, then, conversely, one having an excess of imports over exports is a debtor, and Great Britain, whose imports annually exceed her exports by some- thing like $500,000,000, should by this time be hopelessly overwhelmed by her debts to other countries.- The truth is that a nation’s exports and imports prove nothing whatever in regard to its finan- cial condition. A surplus of its exports over its imports may proceed from the demand upon it for the payment of in- terest on money borrowed and for the re- payment of loans, or it may be caused by expenditures abroad of surplus wealth. On the other hand, a surplus of imports may indicate, as does that of Great Britain, the remittance to a coun- try, in the shape of consumable commodi ties, of the income derived by its citizens from their foreign investments or from the collection of their foreign debts. That Great Britain can annually consume commodities to the amount of $500,000,- 000 more than she produces within her own territory, and still have a consider- able sum left for new investments, is the most convincing proof of the wealth of her citizens. That the United States, with a surplus of merchandise exports amounting in 1894 to $150,000,000, should have been obliged, besides, to ship abroad that same year 380,000,000 in gold, shows a state of comparative pov- erty and a limitation of borrowing power which, justly, create uneasiness. The discouragement of foreign invest- ments in this country, caused by the miscarriage of our great railroad enter- prises, has been increased by the indif- fereuce of Congress to the preservation of the national credit. When our English creditors see, as they have seen for a year past, both Houses of Congress, by large majorities, apparently inviting and promoting the bankruptcy of the national Treasury, it is wonderful that they do not exhibit more alacrity than they do in rescuing their property, while they can, from destruction. It may indeed be said that, so far as concerns I¢sses by investors from cor- porate mismanagement and dishonesty, Great Britain has had too many of them at home to be very squeamish about the risk of them here. The year just ended has alone witnessed over one thousand bankruptcies of British joint-stock com- panies, while even the Bank of England itself has lately suffered from the dis- honesty of its chief cashier to the extent of hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling. Going over the records of Dry Goods Price Current. 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The Mexican Way of Strikes. ‘They had an original and effective way of preventing strikes on the Sonora Railroad while it was building,’’ said its first superintendent. ‘‘The Mexican peons were queer iaborers to deal with, and there were habitual kickers and agi- tators among them to stir up discontent, like those we find in other more enlight- ened regions where great works are car- ried on. The Mexican Government, standing as a backer of the road, was, of course, interested that nothing should interfere with its progress, and so when it was discovered that a man was stir- ring up trouble among his fellow labor- ers he was disposed of in a way peculiar to that country. ‘Some men were detailed to get him drunk—no difficult task when liquor was furnished free—and he would wake up in the morning to find himself in mili- tary barracks and to be infurmed that he was an enlisted soldierin the army. All the formalities had duly been gone through with, and he was kept in seclu- sion in the barracks until he was trans- ferred to some remote part of the repub- lic. He was enlisted under an assumed name, so that when his friends came to the barracks to inquire after him by name they were informed that there was no such man there. If they doubted the statement there were the rolls which they might inspect. As the Mexican soldieris virtually a prisoner, and the army is made up to a considerable extent of criminals pardoned under condition of enlisting, no comment would be ex- cited by the keeping of a new recruit in confinement, and, off in Yucatan or Tabasco, his friends would not hear of him again, at least during the building of the road.” Preventing _ -o

POISONCUS DRUGS — sf HOw 60 US6 Them $s! Sowers ee! see alec j N—tse no other system of Poison Labels wilh this list, oO eS rs j 2 i > = 2 i isaieiaicial Te cca ~ : ORDER KEW LABELS BY NUMBER | +00 Amy cor Number 25 seems Asdtiona: mundrese CL 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 same re- 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. % * THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 The Conservation of Human Energy. Civilization may be regarded as an ex- pression of the conservation of human energy. Itis one of the great generali- zations of physical science that energy can neither be created nor destroyed within the sphere of nature. When it is expended in one form it assumes another form. It may be transformed; it cannot be annihilated. It may either be active or potential; but the sum total of energy in the physical universe is a constant quantity—that is to say, a quantity that ean be neither increased nor diminisbed. Prof. Balfour Stewart defines energy as the power of doing work, and he as- serts that, ‘‘with the trivial exception of tidal energy, all the work done in the world is due to the sun, so that we must look to our luminary as the great source of all our energy.’’ In the sphere of human nature, however, we discover other sources of energy. It is true that the animal strength of a human body is derived from food, and that food cannot be produced without the action of the sun’s rays; but it would be sheer ma- terialism to speak of the power of the human will as a mere transformation of physical energy. Every thought, every emotion, every volition, may result in a greater or less consumption of tissue; but unquestionably the mind brings to the body a new source of energy. So it happens that a man of feeble frame may achieve renown while the name of — All property is the conser- strong and indolent giant is lost in ob- livion. The decisive difference between them is intellectual or moral. But this higher form of enerzy is also | coin. One of | of metal which was dug from the earth, susceptible of transformation. its expressions, as we have said, is civili- zation. The energy of animals in a state of nature and of men in a condition of savagery is expended, dispersed and lost. 3ut when men become herdsmen, vation of somebody’s energy. The most apt illustration of this prin- ciple is afforded by money, especially by The dollar in your pocket is made molded and stamped by human labor. {It was produced by the exercise of lenergy, and it can be reconverted into | jenergy. Yes; itcan be converted into a when | they learn the uses of seeds and plant | 'find its way back to business and the gardens and orchards, when they build houses and boats, when, in a word, they begin to rule the forces of nature by dis- covering their laws, their energy is con- served in their works, and so their lives enter into the course of history. The useful art practiced at the village stithy may seem a very simple one, but it has played an important part in the develop- ment of human society, and the hammer has been handed down from father to son, from master to apprentice, for un- counted centuries. It has become one of the permanent possessions of our race. It is the conservatism of the energy of the ancients. And it is not merely thought that lives on and multiplies it- self. A man leaves his work, his energy, behind him transformed into palpable things of use and convenience. It is the heritage of his children; they find it in the cleared field and the substantial thousand forms of energy. A miser might hide it away, but at last it would stimulation of activity. It is a medium of exchange, a standard of value, a unit of account. Thatit preserves the work- ing power of the men who made itis plainly seen in the fact that it is made over again from day to day. The plow- boy, the baker, the butcher, all made it in their turn before it came to you. It has rewarded many a long day’s toil. Think of it un its eventful journey from hand to hand and from house to house! While all property is a conservation of energy, the dollar is the concentration of all the forms of energy. It cannot buy love, nor can it create genius; but there is no home and no employmeut in which it does not serve some useful end. The influence of inventions, and the changes introduced by new systems of industrial organization, do not affect the principle that energy survives its re- sults. It may, of course, be wasted; or it may serve sometimes only a temporary purpose; but nearly every useful pos- session of the modern world is the result in great part of some ancient labor. The inventor of a wheel was as useful as the inventor of the steam engine, and his work survives in every locomotive that speeds over the iron rails to-day. The wheel has never gone out of use, and All our machinery may be traced back to ancient workshops and simple appliances, just as our most transcendental mathematics rests at last upon the multiplication table and ele- mentary geometry. FRANK STOWELL. a An Original Advertisement. The Globe Shoe and Clothing Co., of Atlanta, Ga., recently placed eight mon- keys in their show window. Of the re- sults they write as follows: *‘Our show window is large and the ‘Darwinites’ are apparently happy and full of fun. The immense throng at our window every day is evidence that our monkey adv. is one of the greatest we ever had. The throng is so immense morning, noon and night that we have a special policeman to make a passageway through the con- tinued blockade.’’ > > — ~ Cost No Object. Shoe Clerk—‘‘What shall I mark that new lot of shoes at?’’ Employer—‘‘Mark the selling price at $3.50. Shoe 2 75,” $2 Y never will. Clerk—‘‘But they only cost asia don’t care. off regardless of cost.’’ I am selling You Do Not Need Because you are neither crazy nor FOR THOUGHT. sample of it: Why Buy Flour Here, Feed There crank. But try a free dose of our FOOD Twill build up your business system. Here is a And Sundries Elsewhere When you can just as well buy a Mixed Carload of us, and save freight, shortages and time? x ods. Let’s figure together Did you ever figure on that? ING IN FRE IGHT, no careless re-handling of packages, and divide the profits. BIG SAV. ro damaged nthe uP, RESERVES signature, Mforad timp > | ditiona} awa u mate saielin | Teen, hak Nee ne DENS ork Ee The Jobber The Ret We know it because we sell more sells more ! ailer sells more ! The Consumer buys more! The Babies cry for more, and more mothers write us stating that the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk Is unequalled as a food for infants. It Pays to Handle Such Goods each year. For Quotations See Price Columns VALLEY CITY MILLING 60. Grand Rapids Mic Mic It Has No Equal_——_ ae > aE: “BRASS ‘ 3 JOBS IN RUBBERS! ~ Lar WRITE FOR NET PRICE LIST BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE. Just the thing for A LEADER. Address G. R. MAYHEW, Grand Rapids, Mich. Sefie? ee pig eA ee 14 Bee ORS ee Oh Ee eS ork” THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN ing up accounts. ‘ly brightening.” ‘Oh, | suppose it is possible for two | of a trade to agree—there is an excep- | i ' | army are on duty, and, just in propor- . . | tion as this goes on, will consumers pay thing, the man who started the maxim | ' i 8 i Pp | their bills and retailers, in turn, meet tion to every rule—but, as a general down the ages was right Heinrich Biumenthal, the cobbler, is always willing to do whatever he can _ for Car! Schneider, the tailor, but it is al- together too much to expect the cobbler to do much towards helping another cobbler into favor. The human dog, like his brute companion, is willing that the horse should enjoy his oats, but when another dog, by accident or by de- sign, takes even a sniff at a long-dis- carded bone, there is war to the knife at ence. [t is brute and human alike, and the tradesman who finds it out early and governs himself accordingly will shun many a pitfall into whicha more trustful man will fall. *’Tis true, *tis pity, and pity ’tis tl ‘‘Isn’t the tendency of thing as narrowing asit is mean? ‘Oh, that’s quite another thing. You were talking about two of a trade agree- ing. They never do. Tuey are both after the almighty dollar, and they are both taking the ame means to get it Heinrich would be smart to go and tell the other fellow how to get his (Hein- rich’s) dumpling which he hopes to have for dinner, wouldn’t he? He never does, and he is like the rest of us.’’ *‘But doesn’t the practice have a tend- ency. in the long ruu, to make us will- ing to bite off ourown noses? And what kind of a place would that be to live in, where every man was afraid to have soup for dinner, lest is neighbor get a stray whiff which a chance wind may send over the fence?” ‘“*A very poor place, indeed. And that, my friend, is one of the first signs that a town is getting over its baby age. When it gets over reaching for the moon and crying for it—in other words, when it is willing that someone else shall live and move and have his being in that par- ticular neighborhood—the town will be- gin to grow, and not till then.”’ The other day a copy of the Toledo Blade strayed in here, and it was a pleasant thing to read that Grand Rapids has the reputation of being a town where the maxim with which I started outis proven untrue. In that world known furniture town Blumenthal helps the tailor, and better than that, he helps, in the same way, his brother, the cob- bler; and, wonderful to relate, he is in no danger of being cheated out of his dumpling for dinner by his fellowcrafts- man, and, moreover, lest that same craftsman be not so fortunate as he, Heinrich leaves a dumpling or two at his fellowtradesman’s door. ‘Two of a trade can never agree,’’ eh? Let us be thankful that Grand Rapids got over that sort of baby talk years ago! * * * nature, *tis true. that sort of ov One of the best signs that the business world is getting over the financial tooth- ache is the readiness and cheerfulness with which business men speak of col- lecting. ‘Our collections this year are much better than they were a year ago,’’ says a leading commission house. ‘‘Col- lections are certainly good, considering the condition of the country,’’ says a leading wholesale grocer. ‘Customers who usually discount their bills or pay at maturity manage, as a rule, to meet bills with usual promptness, and others, who are behind, are gradually straighten- Yes, times are certain- More of the rank and file of the human their obiigatioas. A healthy reaction once set in, prosperity will come back to stay. A straw showing which way the wind blows was noted in our office this very morning. Our collector, Dunn—mighty good name, too, for a collector—came in, a few minutes ago, all smiles. ‘*‘How’s that?” he asked, placing a receipted bill for $20 on the eashier’s desk. ‘‘Seems to me somebody said, when I went out with my package of bills this morning, that | should have my labor for my pains. That’s one you said I couldn’t collect. There’s another; and I don’t want you to call D—— & Co. a back number any more. Here’s a lot I ex- pected to get for the asking, so there is nothing to brag of there. But now Il am going to give you cause for astonish- ment, and there you have it—Wiggins’ bill in full for $138.17—and when he paid it he said we weren’t -half so glad to have it settled as he was.’’ The billhad been running for months and the house had about given it up, but, like the steamer La Gascogne, long overdue, it is safe in port, telling a tremendous story of a fearful passage over a stormy sea. There are other bills not yet in sight of Fire Isfand, but thereis a hopeful feel- ing that they are all right and that they will be sighted soon. a 2 Here is a wail from a housekeeper, who wants to know what in the world she is going to do, to get wholesome food for her table. It makes no difference what she wants nor how much she pays for it, it turns out to be something else. If she orders coffee, she finds that she has paid for chicory and peas. The vin- egar is so much acid. Codfish which seemed to be better than usual had been treated with boracic acid. Baking pow- der—but the list is too long and it’s too discouraging to talk about. There is hardly a thing brought into her kitchen which hasn’t a cheat about it somewhere. What is she to do? It is all very well to say, ‘“‘Buy only where you are sure of getting what you order; but what com- fort is there inthat when the dealer is as badly cheated as the housekeeper? There is but one answer to give and that is that, admitting what she said to be true, there is still less chance for the grocer to be cheated than for her, and that, if she knows a reliable dealer, she had better put her trust in him. There is more than a hint here for the grocer. The country is full of people who are sick and tired of being cheated. Why isn’t it a good plan for the dealer to take every possible opportunity of prov- ing himself that reputable dealer for whom the cheated world is on the look- out, and prove the truthfulness of the adage, **Honesty is the best policy?” =: = « In spite of the generally admitted fact that politics are out of place in trade, it is plain to be seen, by those who are at all versed in trade journals, that more and more the idea is gaining ground that the business man should have work to do in the political management of the coun- try. Theory is one thing—and without it little or nothing can be hoped for— practice is quite another; and a govern- Only Live Fish Move Up Stream! And it is only the up-to-date merchant who suc- ceeds; and he uses the up-to-date Cash Register, Champion THE KING OF ALL CASH REGISTERS! eZ A = _ = Gut oe Gat ME RE cS ea Sa eenera A Gee fe 1 a 34 : 2 ) FP ee ASN You Ask Why It Is? Because it tells you more about the receipts and disbursements of the Cash and Credit transac- tions at the close of the day’s business than any other Cash Register. Every essential feature of the CHAMPION is fully protected by patents owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Register Co. Users will be protected and infringements will not be allowed. Merchants desiring to inspect our REGISTERS are requested to drop us a card, so that one of our agents may call when in the dealer’s vicinity. It will cost nothing to see the machine and have its merits explained. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CHAMPION Cash Register Co,, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 ment given up wholly to the practical is as bad as the other extreme. A whole- some combination of the two seems to be the often expressed desire; and this can be brought about in no surer or quicker way than by sending to the national cap- itol more seund business men. There ought to be no difficulty in find- ing the proper legislative material; but it must not be a surprise to learn that the successful business man has been so narrowed by the exactions of trade as to make him unfit for the broader duties of statesmanship. There are exceptions, but the man who, from youth up, has given his days and his nights to business will not be found scholarly in thought— much less in speech—and so will be un- fit, in a great degree, to cope with the questions he will be constantly called upon to discuss in the halls of Congress. This very condition of things, however, shou!d be looked upon as a result. So far it has been generally understood that a business man has, and wants, nothing to do with politics; but, the moment it is found that he is needed there—as he is— there will be more attention given by the business man to the claims that enlight- need citizenship lays upon him, and the realm of trade will become so widened as to make him look carefully after its claims and prepare for them. Another fact may, with assurance, be written down, and that is that the busi- mess man, narrow as we find him, need not hesitate on that account, to-day, to assume any political position to which he may aspire. The country has not been overwhelmed, of late, with over- culture—‘‘the superlative,’’ as Emerson might possibly call it; and, with that keen insight into the spirit of things, which that same narrowness has sharp- ened, he will be found the man for the place and the man for whom the place has long been waiting. * * * It begins to look as if something of practical account is to be the outcome of the association idea. So long has the air been charged with the ]-don’t-want-any- in-mine spirit that even tue most fervent friends of the movement have vegun to doubt if anything will come of it. Of late, however, there has been a clearing of the atmosphere and a reaction has set in. The social club element is passing away and one of business benetit is tak- ing its place. If this last should prevail and it becomes known that ‘‘a feller can get 2 kink or two there which will help him over the hard places in his busi- ness,’ every meeting of the association will be crowded. That is what has been; needed all along. When I goto an as- sociation meeting just for the purpose of having a good time, I shall derive no ben- efit from such attendance; but, when I go for the purpose of finding new ways to overcome business difficulties, good results are sure to follow. A good many years ago, the teachers of the district where I lived had a gath- ering—an ‘‘Institute,” I think they called it. They seemed anxious to settle the question, ‘‘How shall we make a child, in reading, say ‘Oh,’ naturally?”’ Several papers were read without clear- ing up the matter. One teacher thought that, by saying the sentence over and over until the child caught the idea, the exclamation would be properly expressed. Finally, when everybody felt like saying “Oh,” with ‘dear!’ after it, a rough said that there were several ways to ac- complish the purpose. One was to tire the child all out, as he was that blessed minute; but a shorter way, and a much more effective one, was to jab a pin into him. He hadn’t tried it yet but was con- vinced, from his own personal expe- riences in that direction, that the pin would have the desired effect. From that time on, there were no more papers read. ‘‘We ought’’ gave place to ‘‘I did,” and for the next hour there was the liveliest teachers’ meeting that was held in the district that winter. It too often happens (if that is the right word to use) that two or three find it necessary to do all the talking at the association meetings, and such a state of affairs is not always conducive to best results. The President of the Associated Grocers of St. Louis has something to say which should be carried out to the letter: ‘‘Personal ambition must give way to the general good. Private inter- est must not preventa union of strength. Men who talk without saying anything must not be pushed tothe front. Men of action, men of brains, men of courage, must control our affairs—men who know what they have come for and know enough to do it after they get there.’”’ It is altogether evident that the President of this Association knows how to make its members say ‘‘Oh,’’ and it is safe, on that account, to predict that the organi- zation will be a success. RicwARD MALCOM STRONG. >< Proposed To Economize on Shoes. A curious advertisement appeared in some of the morning papers the other day to the effect that a one-legged man would hear of something to his advan- tage by applying at a certain address. Though not one-legged myself, recounts the writer, I called there and found the advertiser to be a Grand Army man who had lost a leg. Questioned as to why he had inserted the advertisement which attracted my attention, he gave this ex- planation: “My idea,” he said, ‘‘is to find a man who has lost a leg. You notice that my right is gone. Now I pay eight dol- lars a pair for my shoes, and I wear about five pair a year—that makes forty dollars. And besides that, 1 wear a good many socks, which also count up con- siderably. “You can readily see that if 1 can find a man who has lost the other leg, and wears the same size sboe that Ido, we ean whack up, and by buying our shoes together we would make considerable.” SWEET’S HOTEL MARTIN L. SWEET, Proprietor. HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, [l’grs. ' Steam heat in every room. Electric fire alarms throughout the house. Other improvements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan. 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. WANTED. Beans, Potatoes, Onions. If you have any to offer write us stating quantity and lowest price. Send us sample of beans you have to offer, car lots or less. MOSELEY BROS. 26 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. DO YOU WANT A HAND CART ? Diam. of Wheels. Size of Box Outside. Price Each. mo 6... 42 in. 48x28 in. $10 50 Me £0... 36 in. 40x23 in. 9 00 Ne 8 30 in. 32x20 in. q 35 Carts of this kind are growing in popular favor daily. Painters, Carpenters, Bill Posters, Masons, etc., find that they are ahead of anything else for carrying tools and light mater ial. Farmers. too, use them to good advantage in the orchard or garden. Box easily adjust able. Handles on carts No. 0 are not bent. Made also with springs and third wheel. Write for catalogue. LANSING WHEELBARROW CO., Lansing, Mich. SAY (THEX ALL “It’s as good as Sapolio” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell you that they are only trying to get you to aid their new article. Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is young schoolmaster from the backwoods it not the public? The manufacturers by constant and judicious advertising bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. a = * SAO ot, 3 ra oe Sti ip gee Dy A ee ga NE hes ites WIN RGR ANTS ents Snipe Be eR S Jaleo aa TAR. peat se hb hs N= shot AEN Sait atirle ENE mee oa Regular Meeting of ibe Reiali Grocers’ Association. At the regular meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association, held in the office of THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN Tuesday evening, March 5, Vice-President Klap presided. The Committee on Essays presented the following report: To the Members of the Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion: We, the undersigned Committee on Es- says, beg leave to report ts follows: We reccmmend that three cash prizes of $5, $5 and $2 be offered for the best three essays on ‘‘Advantages of the Cash System;” that no limitation be made as to the length of the articles, and that competition be open to the world; that the articles be published in Tue TRADESMAN as they are sent in, and that entries close March 1, and that the de- cision of the Committee be announced at the regular meeting of the Association on May 4. Respectfully submitted, J. WAGNER, PETER SCHUIT, HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, Committee. Mr. VanAnrooy moved that the report be laid on the table, taking the ground that the retailers in the suburbs of the city can never accomplish the cash sys- tem until the grocers on the main streets set the pace. Mr. Merrill stated that he had con- ducted a cash business in the southern part of the city for a year and had neve lost a nickel by bad debts. Mr. Goss favored the adoption of the report on the ground that one good pointer on the subject would be worth ali the articles cost. He moved that the motion be amended to read, to lay on the table until the next meeting, at which time it may betaken up for further dis- cussion. Adopted. On motion, it was decided to discon- tinue further meetings at Elik’s Hall, and accept the invitation of THE TRADESMAN to hold the meetings at that place hereafter. Mr. Goss gave notice that at the next meeting he would offer an amendment to the constitution changing the time of meeting from Monday evening to Tues- day evening. He moved that the next meeting be held on Tuesday evening, March 19. Adopted. A communication was received from - Boer & Bolt, of Grand Haven, relative to! the price of Anchor matches, which was accepted and placed on file. The following resolution, introduced by Mr. Stowe, was adopted, on motion of Mr. Goss: WHEREAS—Represeutative Chilver has introduced a biil in the Legislature amending the charter by taking the licensing of saloons and peddlers out of the hands of the Common Council and vesting it in the Board of Police & Fire Commissioners; therefore Resolved—That we believe such meas- ure to be in the interest of good govern- ment and municipa! reform and that we earnestly request our Kepresentatives and Senators to use their influence to se- cure its enactment. The Secretary suggested the employ- ment of a man to devote his entire atten- tion to the office of Secretary, with a view to securing the membership and ac- tive co-operation of every retail grocer in the city, so that the Association may be an organization of commanding strength and influence in the community. The suggestion was well received and will be taken up for diseussion and ac- tion at some future meeting. B. S. Harris moved that it be the sense of the meeting that the present sugar card be continued, which was adopted. On motion Mr. Lehman, the Secretary, was instructed to collect such of the 1894 dues as still remain unpaid, and also collect one-half of the 1895 dues with as little delay as possible. Mr. Lehman reported a balance on hand of $235.42 and the meeting ad- journed to meet at the same place on Tuesday evening, March 19. ———2 The retailer’s friend, Signal Five, 5c. cigar. See as THE JOHN BREGHYING, ARCHITECT. 79 WONDERLY BUILDING. Call or let’s correspond if you want to build. A. B. KNOWLSON, Wholesale Shipper Cement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Ets. CARLOTS AND LESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Crcte STEP LADDER. §. P. Bennett Fuel Rice Co Mine Agents and Jobbers for ALL KINDS OF FUEL. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \. G DUNTON & 60. Will buy all kinds of Lumber— Green or Dry. Office and Yards, 7th St. and,C. & W. M. R. R. Grand Ra;ids, Mich. Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. Jno. A. CovopneE Pres. HENRY oa Vice-Pres. . S. Verprer, Cashier, K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits. DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox T. J. O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno. W. Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. 8. Verdier Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, WRITE HIRTH, KRAUSE & 60, MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS, for Catalogue. Hs i EATON, LYON & CO. 20 & 99 Monroe S8t., GRAND RAPIDS. | BIOS. SHOE G0, 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 ' we are when our representative calls on you, REEDER BROS’. SHOE 00. HM. Reynolds & Son DEALERS IN PURE ASPHALT ROOF COATINGS ROOFING MATERIAL of all kinds HARDWARE WRAPPING PAPERS BUILOING PAPERS CARPET LININGS, Ete, Cor. Louis and Campau Sts. GRAND RAPIDS The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres Offices n the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. firand Rapids (fice, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Sapt. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “Te Niagara Falis Route.’’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27,1894 ) Arrive. = SP pm........ Detroit Express ........7 (am 5 30am ....*Atlanticand Pacific.....1, 20pm 1 o _ ..... New York Express ..... : 00 pm aily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALMQUIsT, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. CHICAGU 38 AND WEST MICHIGAN RB’Y, GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv. G’d Rapids.. 4 oo 1: 25pm *11:30pm Ar. Chicago .. 6:50pm *7:20am RETUENING ‘FROM CHICAG 0. Ly, Chieaee........... §: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 ‘0:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly.Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Mantstes........ 2:20pm 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City. 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar. Charlevoix... 3:15pm 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey.. 3:45pm 11:40pm Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00 pm. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. Parlor car leaves for ¢ hicago 1:25pm. Ar- rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars leave for Chicag, 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi- cago 6.25am. *Every day. Others week days only DET ROIT _ Oct. 28, 1894 LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, GOING TO _DETROFE. Ly. Grand Rapids. 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Br, Detroit... ..... i: 40am 5:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit..... . 7:41am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids .....12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm T© AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T, LOUI8, Lyv.G KR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. GR 11:35am 10:45pm TO AND FROM | LOWELL, Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:QWam 1:20pm 5: = AY. from Lowell.......-.- 12: 40pm 5:20pm .... THROUGH CAR SERVICE, Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morp ingtrain, ‘Trains week days only. GEV. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t vas GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WALKEE Railway. EASTWARD. Trains iu: ve tNo. i4;tNo. L6|tNu. — Gd

’ Seely’s Lemon, (Wrapped) Doz Gro, loz. $ 90 10 20 2 on, 120 t2 6e 4un. 200 32 80 60z 3 00 33 00 Seely's Vanilla (Wrapped) Doz. Gro. 1oz.$1 50 16 20 2o0z. 200 21 60 40z. 3 75 4080 4 > 57 60 a 6 oz Plain N.S. with corkscrew ut sxme price if preferred, Correspondence Soiiettrd MFG. CO., Detroit Mach. an) AME oe \O% CIGARS aad a en Vail and telegraph orders receive ; meaeial attention. Signal Five BEST HAVANA FILLER 8c CIGAR. MANUFACTURED BY ED. W. RUHE, 47 Dearborn St., Chicago. tepresented by F. E BUSHMAN , 523 John St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 9 MiINQUKGE WS, d Rapids vinisoi DiStiOULETS. Al Se tee eee ee cena eee ates OEE ARSE : i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 : 7 2 20| geidiitz Mixture...... 20 | Linseed, boiled.. .... 62 65 f Wholesale Price Current. Morphia, 8. P. & = aa — g re ie a C. Co .. Leet = ant... | 6«oaet aieeined .... ‘ Advanced—Gum Opium, Cocoaine, Gum Camphor, Sugar Milk, Turpentine, Alcohol. Moschus Canton..._.. 40 Snuff, Saas De SpiriteTurpentine.... 42 47 Declined—Salicylate Soda, Cod Liver Oil. Myristica, NO. ... G@ 201 Voes............ @ 3 aaa bbl. a Nu i 10 20 10 snuff “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 oO pene me a iso 18 | Soda Boras, (po. 9-16). 8@ 10] Red Venetian 1% — oo Oda Boras, (pO.s-1U). OM 10) MOU yeouetan.......... pais ee ol: : els 30 pega Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potusa Tart... 24@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars... 1 24 ae = a. Aconitum NapellisR....... 60] Co... eee. @2 00| Soda Carb............ ost 0 6S ee... os | Erigeron ..............1 20@1 30 5 | Putt euiie Giee or 2%4@3 —— Cle 21 BOQ 66} oy NO Beco $0] Plete Lig, 862, 4 al a2 00 | S0d& BiGarb.-.. 0... aie S| Putt. oom iy pure... 28 2MG3 be Boracic ..........--.. ee eee — |... s fe A le. a6@ 4) ”™ strictly pure..... i Curueueurm......... 2 St See et en oe 0S 1 | See pee 60 Picis Liq., quarts . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas........ _@ 2 — e Amer- 9015 t Cece ............, Same a8 Hedeoma LS eee 50 nis... @ & | Spis. EtherCo ........ 50@_ 55 . is ee eon Hydrochior .......-... 3 5 a, 50@2 00 Asafcotida eee eee ase 0| Pil Hydrare, aa .. @ SO| “ Mercia Dom... . G@ 00 = =n weno a Nice ............ 16@ 12) 5 aa 90@2 00 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 | Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 1 & * Mia" Imp.. @2 50 teed, red Lee “ae 2 —— gies 10@ i a ll 40m" 60 Benzol aes eee e oat Alba, (po ¢5) .. = . ini Rect. bbl. 2 58@2 63 oo soe >sine ea Ea 210@s0o|. |. CO............. ee a 2 53@2 2 Salieylicum eee ee Pek ne 1 none = ORERAr 50 | Plumbi coe oo 10@ 12 eon 5¢ gal., cash ten days. wens: ae = @ Suiphuricum.... ..... [ig E Morrbuae, gal ie 70@1 75 it 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 Strychnia C — ae 1 40@1 45 Whit then eeu 7 Tannicum.............1 40@i 60 Myrcia,ounce........ @ 50| Camtharides..220 200202221227 75 | Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl. -- 24@ 3 wae eae lee ‘Tartaricum..........- 30@ 38 — oe 90@3 00 Capsicum ees ead eee ay ou oe) | & PLD. Co.) dos... @1 25 pn 2 = * aa 8: a ee o- AMMONIA, Fics a Liquide, (gal. 5) = a Ca . ane 5 oo ee eee eae = — ae 0a 30 ——— Weniiee: 28@ 30| Universal Prepared ..1 co@i 15 we ttee sees . ae Ce earning Aqua, 16 ae. 4@ 6 eis FU 1 6 100 Quinia, 8. P.& Ww... 34%@39% | Theobromae . _ =. = De tua -— oe... 6@ a Rosae, ounce. .. ..++.. 6 50@8 50 Ce, 50 ts S. German.... MB 37 Vaate 8... i 3 No.1 Turp Coach.... } oa E nee eee eee 4 ce 40@ 45 ad Bee sede ee ceee = Rubia Tinctorum..___ 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. ........ i Extra Tur CL > soridum ........-... ——......... ae el ee £9 | Saccharum Lactispy. 16@ 18 ae o ee ae cee ; . ANILINE. ee ee 2 4 ae 2 30@2 50 . A ae 2 25 | Sassafras. .... = 4. ANNE NET Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Ga 3 Bigek..... es 2 OQ? 25 | ona. ig, ess, ounce. Pe lt ee Sa Po | 70 ©70|Japan Dryer, No. sit Brown.......-: ner a -- _@1 0 — Soe ttrame tena aes = sano Lard, extra........... 2 COU Rann aaa oC an are... (a0 22. ae eo = oo | Gentian 2.000000 50 a eS Ce BACCAR. Theobroman....-----.. 1B | gi. O--2---------- = © kg Y 6 25).-.-.. 20@ 2 POTASSIUM. ee 60 iii - oe eee ene a ee... a i oa ; Xanthoxylum... .... %@ 30] Biehromate . __.. te Hyoscyamus CO 50 bs premiae......... _. 2 Sie. % a BALSAMUM. re 12@ 15 . aaa to : Copaiba .. tees —< = Chlorate (po. 17@19)... 8 18 | Ferri Chloridum.. baie ni ss eae ae en SY Gyaniae 0g Ce Pera. 5. Canein .... GM Sinema, 7 2 Os OO} Lebelia 50 : : Thien 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. ae Mer 50 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Nax Veutea. 50 ‘ een Potass Nitras, opt. . ee 35 Abies, Canadian.... ....... 18 Potass Nitras.......... 7 9| “ Camphorated........... 50 Coamine ce a panes wa See a a: . = ats ee = Ik; h as ee a wide Cinchona oh a uiphate po..... coe MraisiCortex...... ....._. : seas o Bb oS § i *4 7 cae oe. cera = RADIX. naeele ........ Se 50 t is now the season y I 5 a] Myrica Cerifera, po......... ‘ 2 0 ; * pronus Virgini.....00 20 a CU 50 d ra Quilisia, Ee 10 Althae. -.............-. fa3 je] Cassia Acutifoi. ue 50 ponges an i! Sassafras "shee os | UU ee un e Imus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 | Arum, BO.......--- 2206 Se 50 h &s Pq i Se ranean <--> = Stscencarfame Se 60 amois ins. eng ail a5 | Gipchtehise tre is). top 19 | Tolutan fae ele chrrhiza, (pv. 15) .. CS | OCTET poecces. SMB %|Hiydrentie Cuneden, 0 | Valerian 200000. gg We carry a full line. ox ~ \ ee n= SE 13@ 14 Reliebore, Ala, po.... 15a 20 cane . AO, ok tw 14@ 15] Inula = ieee. ae a ‘6 1 fb ipecas, po..........-- 1 30@1 40 Bther, 8 nts Nit, - 2. ws 1H plox ( a 100 is Alumen : oo uo - In Sponges ‘3 W | poe nr... «4 AST Alen... = itd iat, Was . d, (po. orida Sheep : Carbonate Precip...... @ 15) Maranta, \s....... @ 3) groun : . aged Fe aoe. ose ee Nassau Shee; ’s Wool, | Ferrocyaniaumsei.. @ G0) gap) Bt ae | Antdimont, a aS lessee Sthncgis Weel, Sauman coal ei Pr 2 Spig a oo 3S Antipyrin sseinapae “2 40 Small Sheep’s Wool, ae on. © Vines on 8) 20 | Antifebrin............: @ % vt ; sinnsilt ” oa as ft son 55| Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 48 No. 1 Grass, FLORA. 55D «60 a ow - a7 4 No. 2 Grass, 2 ead Bu i —_.------- aa Similax, Oficina z [ees 1 20@1 40 No. 1 Slate or Reef, Anthems ..........--- 18-5 | sctilae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 Se aa. 1s, (48 os No. 2 Slate or Hardhead, 3 eo ee ee a . oe © % a w @ 35|Cantharides Russian, iis and a full and complete line of secececeessas Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ % eS . 4 Cassia Acutitol, ‘Tin: a erman... 15@ 20|Capsici Fructus,af... @ 2% Mediterranean Bath, i : mivelly 53+ +35. = 30| .{ngibera............ 13@ a0 je “ -— 22 from 1$c each to 80c each and in assurted cases. 2 Zepereor j.-........ x ‘“ “ po. 9 : * See a 12@ 2 ’ SEMEN. Guyeshylien, ¢ (po. = = = E oe Me. coaaen Se. ; E Beate ............ 8@ 1C} anisom, (po. 20). @ 15 Cera Alba, S. &F 50@ 55 e f hamois i @UMMI Apium (graveleons).. = - Conn Fane, 40 42 ur £1 SE Onn nee : ' Boe fe : ae ; i a Ba Sid de. : wee 2a oe 1 Oot a6 Cassia Pract $ 3 is complete and prices are rig g Bo morte oy) Gortemdraam 222020005." 329° 14] Contrarts..... @ i : ‘ atfvea sorts... = Cannabis Sativa COR ‘@ : ;. Chloroform " 60m 8 ee ck Loans : OVGORITEI. 0. nce sess 25 f Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 80) Chenopodina |... We i ee... as z Cape, (po. 20). @ 5H | Dipterix Odorate..:/:'1 e0@2 00 | Chioral Hy as F Socotri, (po. 60 e Poeniogium........... @ 15 Cinchont dine Faw tq b Catechu, is, (48, 14 nen, ) | Foenngreek, go....... (@ § ‘German 2%@ 12 es sos 60 Lint oh ny 35@ 4 | corks, lst dis. per f Ammoniae + OO | Lint, gra. (pbl.8%).. 344 | Corks, list, “ Asssfoxtida, (po 0 Ss isabel ms: . Came, 2 % i a seeee — 50 Pharlarie Canarian. an 5 Crata, (bbl. 75). wz 2 i amphors Pe a oo. Va 5 E Euphorbiom vi 2 Sinapte Adee oT. @ 8) i. aa i 4 1 p Gann — =o Nigra........ N@ 12) .. omen He : @ $ [ Gamboge, po --. Gab = | “a os : j Guaiacum, (pe 35 r @ 50 w., D. Co..2 50 — ee eee == i Kino, (po 2 50).. @? 50 | Frumenti, 2 00@~ 50 | Cudbear........ { Bu FR oe 2 WQ@2 25 ri Salph 5@ 6 CC .hhClCr CC, @ Cup. Pp i Mastic 40 1 25@l sv 10@ 12 : | Myrrh, (ro, 45) .. Ss rear S OD Oxirine ...... 1 - SS the i Opli (po 3 20@3- 30). 7 45 suniperts Co. 0. T : hm = — Sul ‘ie D - i ee cae eee 4 -—. -«- - . mery, & ; — bleached .... 4@ 45) Saachsrum N. B...... 1 == “ = 3 a y) y ; Tragecanth 10@ 80 Spt. — o........ : T5QE z Ergota - = = W ] i ni arco .......... 5 ae i — ——— Vini Aiba o 1 25@2 00 Galle a . 3 Rs = hs Absinininm .......-.-- 7 i am ee f 7 Zupatorium (eee os SPONGES Gelatin Cooper : Qo & : w ODOR * | vicrian ‘sheepe’ wool P we So Majoram ssentevve GRE aeons 2 0@2 75 | Giassware flint, by box 60. Mentha — Lone ee ata as = Nassan sheepe’ woo! 2 yw | Less than box 60. a carriage 7 he ST 9% we... ee eeee cee 50 Veivet sxtrs sheeps’ a Ee oe 13Q 25 : Tanecetom, V......-.---.-. we | . wool carriage... 7 ae, 13g 20 E Thymue, V — " © | Sutra yollow sheeps’ gs | Grana Paradiai...2 1... QR | MAGNESIA. carriage ee BQ 55 Tenney eae ied, Caleined, Pai. ...... 55@ bu aw wool Car- gs | Hy draag Chior, Mite. @ 75 nee Con = a Carbonate, Pat........ ee Se ee ra 5 : Rice Shee ee ae ee OS ed i a ee Carbonate. Jenaings.. 2@ 3% ST 1 40 « - Unguentum. 45@ 55 a OLEUM. i : BUPS. erargyram ......... @ 60 ‘} Absinthium. ........2 mat © oe 8Y. oe ate kan "11 251 50 { Amygdalse, Duic... .. ae ee one? ia... 75@1 00 er re ee onc ge 3 8003 9 Anisi - . SN i A ca hs il a Sa @4 70 ) Aurant! Cortex... 1 80gz 00 | Ferri tt art eucadineny: 50 Lupulta Eas cea @2 PERK] 8 DRUG C0. : Bergamli ...... . 2.3 00Q3 20 | Auranti Cortes.............. [on 60g 65 , : ee Similax ‘Ofticinalie.. rr @ 75 i — ek a = = Similax ore Bo Arsen et Hy: a : Che “en i co ee wae eee tea. os on aa see. 50 Liquor Potaas Aint 10@ 12 Manufacturing m ’ mnamonii .. .... 18 MBO... 22. esse cece eeeees Citronella @ cae Se = =— oe = © ov 2%@ 4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Conium Mac MER 65) Tonaten ........ 12. nce evses nas. 63 Copaiba .... 80@ 90| Prunus ¢irg....... i iedeus : . 20 CPt De oA eee Ba a ee THE MICHIGAN So fag ig ai ae as alae ee ae eee See eh ne a i el i ei "TRADESMAN. GROCERY PRICK CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the == A AXLE GREASE. Apricots. CREAM TARTAR. COUPON BOOKS. Peel. doz gross cote 2. | oe 1 40 | Strictly pure............. ae = Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxee 13 a aA. lrl tc lc cChU CU 1 40| Tolfer’s Absolute.......... Lemon _ oo 8 erin... eee 00 Lusk’... 1 50 Grace iso Orange “ 3 « 49) Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. aoe 50 5 vere .........._.- i B ld ———....... 7 «9:00 Blackberries. ner Raisins, a a Ss tnmirae. ... 85 Blue Label Brand, Ondura, 29 ib. boxes. @3 ee 55 6:00 Cherries. Haif pint. 25 bottles 2% Sultana,20 ‘ 6% 8 Regular aoe. @1 20 | Pini 4 Vaiencia.30 ‘* 5 Grade BAKING POWDER. re — Quart 1 doz bottles 3 50 Bea Lemon. | Whit 1 40 Triumph Brand. v7 . > i = Acm® ae 115] Half pint, cer ine 135 = = California, morse... 2 oz 8 % 14 1D, cans. 3 dos.. 45 | Damsons, Egg Plums and Green | Pint, 25 bottles .....__......4 50| 8 } books, per hundred ... 2 00 : 90x100 2 Ib. bxs. + oz 1 50 % -b. fc eeeeeeeeee %5 ages. eae. eee Co le Ue le a a" . = 1 = = e. ee 1 35 4 cg . > : = 8% Regular Oa i es ee oe oe Ce 1 2 IS P i ' x7 - 7 r Arctic. Gooseberries. ee we A 4 | Turkey ................ : os \% B cans 6 doz case....... 55] Common ........... | 1 25 | 5grossboxes........... —— in * * = Ree Siwee -— os ce - teen ------- a Peaches. “Superior.” ENVEL 402 2 40 Cee sage eee 1 10 COCOA SHELLS. 8 1 books, per hundred - 2 50 OPES, —s_| Bin fuavoriiagi |B * O°? ---- ,e * idee | oo 960) Maxwell... 1 50 82 -- 300 XX rag, white, Queen Flake. __ | Shepard’s cc Lepr bee ase es 1) SSGt mo. wig $1 35 XX Grade 3 ozcans6doz “ ....... 2 70 | California............. - 160@1 75 | Less quantity ee dice RG NE eT OO mae 110 Lemon. 6 oz ‘ 4doz sine 6 Ul Pound packages........ -.6%@7 | 810 _ a -. 50} No. 1.6 a 125 OZ..... 81 50 Sac" ton “ ..... eine = hot ny a 1 00 OZ..... 3 00 in ton | _.- 4. Pears. COFFEE. . Pe 5 Ib “ 1doz “2711.1 9 00] Domestic. _ “a anilla, white, XX Grade Red Star, 4 Bcans........ 40 Riverside re) oe GH... cece seek eee 5 Vanilla. 4 S . Ee 1 = _ Pineapples. ae ie Rio, ; aS ee pe 70 Oe... 81 75 a Pl eee pen 1 ee ee ee ca ae Th ” Coin 4 0z..... 3 50 _. = oe Universal. . Telfer’s, <1. — = oo un = —— ie $1 books, per hundred #3 00 mek 90 Jennings. ss * lb. : .. 1501 Booth’s sliced a NE i i : Lemon. — our. inte a 49 oth’s ae pets @ = UU = : : r i" | : = FARINACEOUS GOODS. — regular panel. r = : _ ib cans...... ze i : a / os “ en cans. . 150] Common ae a 1 10 = | 7 - ss Farina. 6 ox i --2 00 3 00 Raspberries. 7 OO] 115 Ib. kogs......... 2% | No.3 taper........ 1 35 2 00 BATH BRICK. aT 95 Above prices on coupon books Gnits No. 4 taper ..1 0 2 50 Black -fismaburg.” 146 23 are subject to the following i North . 2 dozen in case. Erie. black .. 120] Mexican and Guatamala, | W€#2tty discounts: Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 85 "Lemon. Vanill Biagiiohk -...........---.----- 80 " eaaabanaiin ae 21 200 books or over.. 5 per cent Aominy. 20z oval taper 3 a5 16 ee Dia aa Ul =. oe a ei ee es oe 4 Domestic.........--..--. ++ 60] Bamburgh ............ eae anna tan oe 7 Fe Grits .......-..-- 2.02 eeeeeee #4 }2ozregular * 8 1 20 scala a Erie... La ra Maracaibo. COUPON PASS BOOKS. Lima Beans. 4 ee es 2 25 " rrapin arene 1 05 Lanai oe {Can be made to represent any aoe... 5@5% GUNPOWDER. Arctic, 4 ox oyals.......--- 3 80] Biueberries......-- . i ages *¢ | denomination from 810 down.|| Maccaroni and Vermicelli. | | Ke rr 4 Cee eee — = ate, ee 25 20 books — 8100 Domestic, 12 1b. b elt co “ see deeu awed eau 1 90 : nts, on a 3 Tite 235] Private Growth............. eae 2 00 | Imported: .-........2.: 10%@11 aaaeier wk aa a a 1 10 0. 2, sifting box. . 275] Roast beef ..._..... 2 35 | Mandehling . i 28 eS 3 00 1 1b eres oi 2 .. 400 Potted ham, i ib eos 135 ee o50 Ot en 6 25 Pear! Barley. en 30 se No. 5, ss 2c: =. «a... os . : eee Sch h 2 e © oe... 18 a 70 | Imitation . Cs 500 Ee umacher... .......... 34 es be et i tongue, 1b. ‘17771 35 | Arabian... ete 17 50 Tay ee Ae re ber 8) catcken SIDS |g onstea : CREDIT CHECKS. Green, bu... esos... 1.10) BAM 39 ‘O ascertain cost of roasted] 500, any one denom’n.....88 00| Split perlb............ z | Quarter kegs.. .... ... : BROOMS, —— coffee , add \e. per lb. for roast- 1000: Te ita = oo Saiia igael manent 7411 lbcans...... . 34 Hamburzh siri : ng and 15 per cent. for shrink- 2000; -— “ i Rolled Oats. Ce ’ Noi — 3 OO “ Prend i —— 0 are. ae... ' 75 Schumacher, bbl.......... * 65 | Ke Bagle Duck—Dupont’s, 00 ee 215 c ee 125 Package. CRACKERS. M “" wait bbl ++ Se ee Rl a 5 75 eo ee 2 50 | Lima, green....... ..115] “cLaughlin’s XXXX.. £2 30 Butter. oe” tteseeeeeee 3% 00] Quarter kegs....... ....... 3 00 ee 50: saaee. .. 70|Bunola .... .. 21 96] Seymour XXX............... Monarch, % bbl... .... .. 213) 1 1b cans...............---. 60 Common Whisk --2.22... 35 | Lewis en Baked. ...../1 25 | Lion, 60 or 100 Ib. case.... 22 39 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... Quaker, cases........--... 3 20 HERBS, OL 1 00 | Bay State Baked............1 25 iiseeet, Pale cee Oven Baked................ 3% a sn "2 95| World’s Fair Baked........ 1 25 Family XXX, cartoon...... in enbHNT HAHN Pienic Baked................ 5 | Valley City % gross , 1] Salted XXX... aii ai 3 INDIGO. : Salt 7 ‘trrt* | German ........ a BRUSHES. Hamburgh resi Co 115 Hommel’s, foil, ross. a 165] Kenosha . .. ec ul Raat — oh 3% | Madras, 5 Ib. boxes.. 55 Steve, Met... 1 2 Livingston eee 109 un --++ 285] Boston. ........... see eeee es Wheat. =r a 51b. boxes.. 50 _ = 2. _ tree oo Butter biscuit . os Creamed... 3 ELLY. Ee 17% Mora Béw.... 0... aaa CHICORY een teen 15 Ib. pails. ca a @ 32 Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85] Morn ing ee Bulk 5 | Soda, XXX................. 5% stveaugs - of Rise Rost Scrub, $8 raw.... 1 25 | Soaked ..................... Cae a 7 | Soda, City.................4. ™ Bloaters. hy @ 58 Paimette, goose............ 1 5¢ Hambargh Ce son aa eee 8% | Yarmouth.................. 1 65 Pu LICORICE. ambpurg marrofat 1 oa Weer... 10% : re..... 30 —— early June . ...1 50 ee eee Long Island Wafers. ....... 1 | Georges —a al 4 Calabria... % Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.... .... 10 c Champion Eng..1 40/ Cotton, 40 ft....... per dos. 1 2 a ster. Georges genuine......... 6 Siolly... ............. aan 12 Star, 40 cereee see 9 tit poig.......1 40 50 ft....... 1 40| 8. Oyster XXX... 5% | Georges selected. 7 Se 10 aoe T ee . aa ancy sifted...165] ‘ 60ff....... “1 60 or ER ~n-~o-0~ Si Boneless, bricks” ...... LYE. sete seteeeeare 2 ee 5 “ “a “ erins Ovsler.............. Harrie standard............. : “ a ae ie : = DR 1ED FRUITS. Boneless, on treo Condensed, . om. Bensavvsens 1 = . : anCamp’s marrofat....... 1Misete «6h... “ mestic, ae CARED GOODS, : ts tar | (a Fe ‘Apples. oe 11@12 sane roma. Fish. Archer's Barly Blossom....1 2 OORNMENSRE MILK cmmiaaiong te SEN 6% ng Clams. a... 215 — ees _— Evaporated, _=. boxes 8 Herring Littic Neck, ilb.. .......1 20 Mushrooms. 4 dos. ‘in case. Apricots. Holiand, white hoops ke oi $00; Rrenoh _........1)._.. som California in Page Oa 8% bb Clam Chowder. Pumpkin. Evaporated in boxes. onwa’s t soones aa -_ = Sa turs......... — Blackberries. ‘ove Oysters. Squash. In boxes.. el Standsrd, ae 75 | Hubbard ...... Os 115 Nectarines. c_........ ie Succotash. bee. Lobaters. ae 13 25 Ib. boxes.... Star, > Se 245 ee ee EE 86 Seite ee & Lo on ae ; oxes are — is Cal. evap. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7 a Con Tomatoes. “ “ in bags...... Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 .& Mackerel eee 90 ears. MEASURES. Stacdard —_— : ee 9. California in 7 LU UCU = = oo ae 90 1 erries. —_ n, per dozen. _— es, ce.......... .... 25 BMDVUTE . ... 2.22. eeee.......1 BD CIB... 222. cee ee eens ss i wanes Sauce, a hl "213 00 | N-¥.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands | 50 1b. boxes ............ mae ae 1 40 Seasat, 2 &.......... 1225 CHOCOLATE Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 _ gos : > ee ecaee es aes :..... ..... : 70 alm: Baker's, . ae 6 2 Prunelles, 1, i bbis., caine 475 Halt init ‘ = > Columbia River, Sst tees tee : oo German £ Sweet.. No ‘* bbl, 40 Ibs..........2 26 en, a ete per doz ce : a 0. i, ae 63} 1 ee Agta 7 60 oe veeeeeeee 8: = Breakfast Cocos.... No 1,8lb kits............ 53 Halt g a Leese ee ee ae uart a Kinney’s, flate....-......... 1 95 a Whitefish. ae hia oe Sardines. i... a No.1 family MOLASSES. American - a 4%@ 5| Lenawee.............. % "3 100 aa oe 87 (0 3 50 Blackstrap. -- +++++- -6%@ 7 | Riverside ...... ...... Sugar house . ee Imported “e . i0| Gold Medal... 3 10 Ib. kits. Cuba Baking. Lou eet ce So @9 — i. 5 8 Ib. Ordinary . i 16 ——— 0 1 a See Renantaie ta Page. Porto Rits Boneless a 22 | Raam._. oo i ig f ~~ --- ~~ MATCHES. ee ee, 20 i 4 a { POOR eee weet of . 4% ie Leiden . 20 Nts: ica 4] Globe Match Co.’s Brands. | Fay New Orl ” Broek 0 cl 2 50 | Limburger @15 22e * moneke =n Columbia Parlor........... 81 25 ria iit Pineapple...... ou4 2 i yAPOF Currants ae oes......,.....,, 100 Pair ...-... ene 18 i uefort...... @35 :8 TEAM Paves, Obie. 7 Diamond Match Co.'s Brands, OG .....-.-- 2-22... 22 pre ne eed Bap Sago... .......... 20 \neentire 4 Vostizzas, 60 Ib. cases...... No.9 siiphir.... —— Se ce = York Stsie,gaijone 2 75 /SSr"Goneatio =. Gi bi 50 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 75 Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 40 PIPES, ory ~ ae... cL , 170 D. fal coumt........ 70 Cob, No. 3... «ood oe POTASH, 48 cans in Case. a .................. 4 00 Penna Salt Co.4.......... 3 00 RICE, —. Carolina head.. ; 5% Mat .............. 5 ss PO Bievee ccc ences. 4% Reemen:......... ..... 3% Imported. Japan, No. 4 a 5% Mee... 2... 5 deve .......-.-+0- oncecees OF Paes... on SPICES, Whole Sifted. Allee... ....-..-...,.... 9% Geaee, China in mats...... 9% ' Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolis...... 1.32 Ci oves, —— ees eae 22 Zenerper..... ..-... 11h Mace Hatavia....... .-....- Ww Nutmegs, SE 65 a : Lone cd see 60 * Woe .............. 5. Pepper, Singapore, —--- 10 white... .20 hot. . 16 Pure Ground in Bulk. Allasio .............-.------ 1 Cassia, Batavia oe eee : and Saigon.25 ° jn ee eee 35 Cloves, a 22 Za: —- cece eee 18 Ginger, — a4 Gene. ........... 20 . ae ee in Mace Batavis.............. 65 Mustard, oe = Trieste. . - Nutmegs, oy 2 Oe eke cues % Pepper, = — 16 ova 24 . ie. Seete eee 20 aa... “Absolute” in Packages. % Yn Allagiee ........ ... 3 1 55 GCiogieaes........ .... Sf 1S aaa... 84 155 Ginger, gemaicas ..... 84 155 Areas ........ 4 15 —— oe. = ; = ce Sage...... 84 SAL ‘SODA. Granulated, bbls. oe 1% 75lb cases...... 1% Lump, b ee 1% tapi keee........ 1% — Auise ..... @13 Canary, Smyrna. 4 Caraway _............. . Cardamon, Malabar.. 80 Hemp. Russian 4 Mixed Bird .......... 4% Mustard, white ...... 9 roe 8... 8 ae... 4% Cuttle ~. iS oae eres 30 ARCH. "Conn 20-1b boxes (i. 6 40-Ib Barrels SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders.........37 Maccaboy in jars...........35 french Rappee, in Jars. ... .43 SODA, Les cou eee oe a — English | - 4% Diamond Crystal. Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... 8 1 60 Barrels, 320 Ibs. -_—. — . 115 24% Ib bags... 4 00 " t05 Ib 3% ° 3010 lb ‘ ce Butter, oe > tees... .... 65 Didbbears ........ 3% - Sa0i) bbls ...--.- - £0 * me 2 25 Worcester. 115 24 lb sacks Ld aeeses oe 84:10 ees lr 3 30 tO lb ae 3 50 ) 3 30 oe... 2 0 8 lb sacks.. sree o> linen acks.... _ - Common Grades. 100 3-1b. sacks eee ce & 60 5-Ib. . 28 10-Ib. eam 1% War ; 56 lb. dairy in drill” bass... ® ce * . - . Ashton. % 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. Hi 8 ggin 56)», dairy in linen sacks 75 Soiar Rock. 56 lu, sacks...... Common Fine. Ss 8 SALERATUS, Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Canes... 3 30 Peeeeee. 3 15 Dwight s.... .. 3 30 Teyteres.......__... ..38 00 — EXTRACTS, 1 @. F. > 2 oa $10 20 gro Qs 5. Ss. 1 20 be 12 60 “ 2° BLM. 140 * Mae“ Vanilla, ct eo 16 20 gro 2 21 60 ‘ “Sse 258 - Rococo—Second Grade. Lemon. 2Oe. 5... 0 GOS... § 60 -" Vanilla, i @@doz..... se “ SOAP, Laundry. G. R. Soap Works Brands. Concordia, 100 34 lh. bars...3 50 5 box lots. ..... 3 a c 10 box lots. © 20 box lots.. Best German Family. ~oo...... Cris berm... 22 o box lots ..... 2 25, box lots... -2 00 Allen B. W risley’ ‘s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib ....... 3 2 Good Cheer, ab 3 90 White Borax, 100 %-lb ..... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Contera.................... 3 45 Ivory, 10 az... .... ....... 6 7 an oud cbs ceraceues 4 Looex. ...... Letnna see Mottled German. ee 3 5 Town Talk.. <1. oe Sines Brands. Simgie box. ....._........ 3 95 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 8 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, — d..83 33 plain. 2 OF - & wt N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands. Sanes Ciaas......._.....-.- 39) Brown, co vere... ........,. 2 10 So Dare ..... _o mw Lautz Bros. & Co.’s ene Ree... 8. 3 65 Coons ........ 6 00 es... . .---. es 4 00 Master oe .... £0 Thompson & Chute Co.'s Brands Pee eee daccoecce. & 66 Mae ese... 3 30 Savon lmproved .......-.. 2 50 eee 2 80 Garages _.................... See Economical ..... . & 20 Scouring, Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40 hand, 3 dos ll 2 40 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the lo- cal freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point,including 20 pounds for the weight of the burrel. Domimo................._.. = ae 438i Gob .. 4... 444 Powdered . 22 XXXX Powdered. eee ££ Giangtea _......--. .. 4 06 Fine Granniated........... 4 06 Extra Fine Granulated... 4 18 Mam A ..............-... 444 Diamond Confec. A....... 4 U6 Confec. Standard A......4W No. sf No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No No No. Corn. eee 18 Et ea... .... 20 Pure Cane, ae 15 ee 2u Cpeee ........ i... 25 TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ iB, laree ...... 475 small..... 2 75 Halford, inne bee ee 3 75 a... 22 Salad Dressing, large ..... 455 small..... 2 6 + TEAS, JaPpan—Kegular. a... @l17 Le @20 Caeree.............. Ga Chateees 0 32 @34 Dee 10 @12 8UN CURED. — ................. @l7 oe ................ @xi Cheiee 2... A @x Ctgicen......- 32 @34 pee........ - «2. Ge i BASKET FIRED. Or ; «ae 20) Choice.. ba Choicest. . @35 Extra choice, ‘wire lear @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fah....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Chotcest fancy........ 7% @ssd OOLONG, @26 Common co fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL, ‘Sommon to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Commor. to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Pe anes es ocean e eee... se. oo 4 G8 Best eee eee cee occas 49 @50 TOBACCOS., Fine Cut. P, Lorillard & Co.’s Brands, ..80 @R Sweet Russet.. —............ ®. Scotten & Co’s Brands, las _............ Cuba. Rocket. 32 30 Spaulding ‘& Merrick’ 8 — Diceies. 6... Private Brands. OE ee Can Can. ee eee @2i Neltje Bly -..-_-.--.- 24 @2 Unele Ben, ....... .--2§ Gx McGinty oe 27 4 bblg....... 31 Columbia .....-........ 24 Columbia, drums 23 Bang Up.. _ 20 Bang up, drums ......- 19 Plag. Sorg’s Brands, Spearhead .........--- 39 TOMOE . oo enon eo eeee ae 37 Nobby Twist.........--- 40 Scotten’s Brands. i .l 25 Hiawatha.........---- 38 Valley City ........--- 34 Finzer’ 8s Brands, Old Honesty...-..---- uw Jolly Tar 2 Lorillard’ B Brands. Climax (8 02., 41C). Green Turtic.......... Three Black Crows.. 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. 38 Something Good...... Gut at Sii.......... 24 Wilson;& McCaulay’s Brands. Gold Hope .......... 43 Happy Thought. ..... 37 Moawmiuae -........- 32 Naven........ ....... 31 Let Go..........-.-_-- 27 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. in Ge......-......... —_ Golden Shower.......-.---- Huntress Lo 2 Meerschaum__........--- 29@30 American Eagle Co.’s —- Myrtle Navy.. ......------- eee 3 — 15 Prog _............-----....- 32 ick igs foil.. a —— Tobacco Co.'s Brands. eee 26 cao. Cavendish.........- 36 Gaatat .. ..._.......... 3u0 Scotten’s Brands, Warpath .................... 14 Honey Dew........--..----- 26 Gow Sicce........ 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s Bra —_ Peerless. . . _ Old fae is Standard... _ ' 22 Globe Tobacco Co.’ 8 # Brande. Handmade.............--... Leidersdorf’s Brands. How Woy .......-..--.._._.- 26 Unele Sam............-- 232 Red Clover. ..........----.-- 32 Spaulding & Merrick. Tom and Jerry.....--------- ) Traveler Cavendish........ 38 Bek tare...) 3u Plow Boy...... ....-...- — Corn Cake. eee VINEGAR, ae ................ 8... @s8 eee @9 $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, eee, pores: ....... ..... 30 Beer mug, 2 doz in case. 1s YEAST. Maste......;. |... 2... «1 00 Wace... . ... ... 2 wee Poem... 1 00 Diamond....... : .. @ Royal .... 90 WOODENWARE, 0. 3 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 125 No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 35 Bowls, on" inch be oes wanes a. ff - ... ........ 1 25 . | a... 1 86 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: FURS. Mik... 400 @123 Coem ooo... =o © Skunk..... . ww @ixz Rat Spring.. 6b @ 18 Hat, witer..... 6& @ i! Rat, ia ...... Gea & ed Wox........ 100 @14 Gray for... ... .. 0 @ 6) Cross Fox. .....-. 300 @5 00 Badger... ... 3S @i@ Cat wild........ Oo @ & Cai, house...... 6B @ & Fisher ..........60 @60 os. ......... 1 ow @2 50 Martin, drrk. 200 @300 Martin, paie, yel 1 00 @ 150 ee ..ae..e. 500 @8 Ov Wolf.. oe @ 2 00 Beaver. La 300 @7 00 peee..... .. - 60 Ge @ Opessum........ we 3 Deer Skin, dry.. xe ea & Deer Skin,green 05 @ 12% HIDES. Gees... 3 @4 Part Cured. @> CO 5 @6 Py... 5 @7 Kips, green ........... 3 @4 * ooree..._. . @6 Cc alfrkins, green. . © @s oured...... 7 @8% Deacon skins...... ...10 @2 No. 2 hides \& off. PELTS. Bhossliings........-....5 @ BW Ramos |.............% @ @ wooL Weenea.. _... 12, @i5 Unwashed 2 @l2 MISCELLANEOUS. Tallow ...... . 38 @ 4% Grease butter . 1 @2 Rwrchos ....... 14%@ 2 Ginseng 2 0OG2 25 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFSs WHEAT. No. 1 White (58 1b. test) 50 No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 5u MEAL. Boles... 1 40 Granulated... * 1 05 FLOUR IN SACKS. *Fatomte.............. aac. 1 pigi@arae............. 1. 1 45 MakGwe ............1..... Eas a ..... 1 2u ie... 1 40 *Subject to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25c per bbi. ad- ditional. MILLSTUFFS, Bran.. Co ee $16 59 Screenings... .... _ .. 10 Midditngs...... .. ee. mo tree. ............. 18 00 Coarse meal ot oe CORN. Car iets... a Less than car lota...... .-.47 oaTs. Car lots ... ae Less than car lots. i. a7 AY 7 : Timothy, ear lots. ...10 00 . ton lots 11 00 *ISH AND OYSTERS FRESH FISH os |... @s Trout : @s Black Bass.. 15 Halibut, @1-% Uiscoes or ‘Herring. ' @ 6 Bigeeee. 8 @i2z% Fresh lobster, — lb. 20 Cod oe 10 Haddoee ..........-- @s No. 1 Fickerel. .. @s Fae. ......--...... @s Smoked White. ... ... @9 Red Snappers......... 13 bro gg River Sal- ee 12% Mackerel ee ae 18@25 Seallops _ 1 — ............. 12d Clams .. a. : 1 2) SHELL 600Ds, Oysters, per lu. .....: 25@1 50 Clams 75@1 00 OYSTERS—IN CANS, F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. Fairnaven Cuunts .. 33 PF. 2. D. Seleews....... 30 —........ ....,.. 25 P. 2. B., — . 23 Anehoes 20 Standards. .......c.-- 18 Pavyorie............ 15 Standards per gal.........1 10 Anchor Standards per g gall 10 OYSTERS—IN BULK. Counts, per gal le. 2 Selects ‘ .. & Extra Selects. per gal... 1 Oscar Allyn’s Brands. New York Counts.. oo Extra Selects.......... 30 Selects i 1X L standard@,... 0.272222 25 ene 8. Mondies 20 Standards, per gal ......... t 6 IXL‘Standards, per gal..... 12 Extra Sele ts, per gal ..... 1 90 Bereets, ver al.............. 18 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE LAMP BURNERS. OO 40 Nal * 45 Bes © ee Woewoe eau, 6* Tubular eee : Rf Decurry. web... 8... 60 focurey, WOZ.......... ccs. 1. oe Nutaes 0. eT 50 Breie... .. ... ee a. LAMP CHIMNEYs —6 dos. {n box. Pert Ne. @Sun....... oo an : : 1s mes C... .. 1 88 ee a ae First quality. No. 0 Sun, erizap top, wrapped and labeled.. 210 No.1 2 2 No. 2 “ “ec ‘“s ‘ “a Tr) 2 oe a XXX Flint. he ' Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 «uv No. : “ “ “ > cel No.2 “ ‘“ ‘“ ‘“ “ “ ae Fd Pear! top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled 3 76 Ne.2 * Loses. 2! No. 2 Hiage, “ - . _. -...4 of i Fire Proof—Plain tise No. 1, Sun, plain bulb evecese ec. a No. 2 Lede e cess. a La ‘Baste. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. _.... 1 = = 2 e 7% se a7 a i U i 1 50 No. 1 cr » So ae Rochester. Noa tf time (Ghedeg)... kl. 3 50 NO 2 le (Ge dea)... ae INO. 2, flim (SOc doz).............. oc 470 _ Electric. No.2, lime (70e doz) eo , ...4 10 No. 2 flint (80c doz) . te soe oe Miscellaneous. ommite, NOCHeee _ “oO Nutmeg ous ee Illuminator Bases................ .. oce4 ok Oo Barrel lots, 7Gon .. a 7 in. Porcelain Shades... oo oe Case lots, doz. ...._... oo Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps. | Doz 30x No. 3 Rochester, lime . .... 1 50 am No. 3 Rochester, flint. _& to 4 SU No. 3 Pear! top or Jewel gl’s.1 85 5 2 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. lime...1 75 5 10 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint...2 00 5 85 Ne. 2 Pearl gins, ....._..... 210 6 0 OIL CANS. Doz I gal tin cans with spout..... .... 2 fo I Sal gaily iron, with spout..........._... . 20 2 gal galv iron with spout ee <2 3 gal galv iron with spout.. Lee .. £30 eet Meu, withspoat. .................. 6.0 5 gal Eureka, aa. £#«C3C«4«..,...... 6 50 o ge) Hurelka with faucet... ..__......... 7 00 Seelcaiviron ASW ........ i... 2 oe 5 gal Tilting Cane Momerch .. .... 10 vO 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.. oo Pump Cans, 3 gal Home Rule... ..... pte p+ ope. USO ee Ee cl o eel Goodenouen.........__... +... 2, ee OO S gal Goodenough ......... 1... -13 50 oe Pirie Mine 8... .............- -.. 20 LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0, Tubular, cz LbeS 1 doz. each edges ala. 45 No. 0, ae Zz No. 0, r bbls 5 ee S eye, Cases | doz each.1 35 No. 0, : bull’s LAMP WICKS, Doe © per grams... Oe No 1, . ee 25 Oo. 2, eee etec eee | ce 3s -NSI Gt tbe oped lean : cam: per doz. So. ...... 7 JELLY TU ae Top. 1g Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00). . 1 65 1g 2 CU CU, doz bbl a) ..... 21 _ . ‘ box, “ Dom thon i).... & ai es * It ~ *~ bei, “ dou (bir m)..... 2 STONEWARE—AKHON. Butter Crocks, [toGgal ... 1 . Ye gal. per doz... i. 60 Jugs, 4 gal, per das...... . fl 7 hte 4@al porgal............ _—_- . a Miik Pans, » gui., per dos . 6u - . ' * ee 72 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. Butter Crocks, 1 and 2¢gal...... 6% Milk Pans, % gal. per duz.. 65 . 1 oe ae 78 OiLs. The Standard Oil Co quotes as follows: BARRELS. Eocene.. aha Me XXX W. W. Mich. . Headlight.. ne S/ Naptha.. " _. @7z Stove Gasoline.. eee @xk LE —— @36 Engine... .. Geeta, coc ceees + cee ee Gee Black, zero a 12 Minch, 5 cold test ..... ...... ool 10 FROM TANK WAGON. Eocene. . ae 8 XXX W.W. Mich. Headlight. ........ 5% Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows: BARRELS. Palacine. .... eee ..10% EE 9% Red Cross, W W Headlight. ll Meneses : _... - Stove Gasoline.... ' a... OM FROM TANK — Palace... ....... ete cae selec 8 Red Cross W W Headlight ie 6 a LECGROTYPES. DUPLICATES OF ENGRAVINGS TYPE FORMS TRADESMAN €0., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. pope epee 2 prepeeee secrete EEK eae ea 22 Dishonesty the Nation’s Peril. From the Northwestern Lumberman. Anybody who has been but acasual ob- server of events in this country must have been forcibly impressed with the recent growing tendency to dishonesty and downright villainy in politics, official life, corporate responsibility and private business obligations. There may be as many honest men in all these relations to-day as at any period of the country’s history, but it looks as if there were cer- tainly an augmenting number of rank rascals. This is seen, first, in the almost entire lack of honesty, honor and patriotism among politicians, the men who run the political machinery, from the township organizations to state and national con- ventions. Politics has become a word to which nobody but an ignoramus or a sophisticated office seeker attributes any element but that of dishonesty and fraud. It means a scheme of. designing men to get the offices and thereby the chances to deceive and rob the people. In the older days of the republic men who sought of- fice claimed and were accorded some de- gree of honor, and sense of responsibil- ity to their constituencies. They were to a large degree, at least, actuated by a patriotic desire to acquit themselves so as to be considered patriotic citizens, with a good name to preserve and hand down to posterity. Probably that feel- ing and motive are somewhat rife in the rural communities at the present time: but in the larger cities if any of it re- mains, it is neither conspicuous nor em- phatic. Men now seek office ‘‘for what there is in it?’ to them, and with small regard to the good of their constituents. They connive and combine to get the sup- port of the worst elements in the com- munity, because those elements repre- sent the greatest number of votes. They cajole and fool the ignorant, the debased, and the vietims of demagogy for the sake of votes, and the selfish partisans among the so-called better classes fail into line so as to be on the winning side. Officials thus elected cannot be expected to ad- minister public affairs with much refer- ence to anything but their own selfish in- terests. It cannot be expected that they will be much better than their constitu- encies. The effect of this debased motive in politics is to prostitute legislation to partizan ends, which are usually those of compromise with cliques which conspire to rob the people and fatten the conspira- tors. It also enables a lot of mediocre, or low grade, unprincipled men to get into office, and thus the body politic is permeated with dishonesty and, what is almost as bad, brainless, conscienceless incompetency. Corporate villainy, of course, follows such a condition of legislative and ad- ministrative affairs. Officials getting and holding office for ‘‘what there is in it,”? are ready todo the bidding of cor- poratiens for a consideration. Since this is a dangerous procedure, legislators cul- tivate deceit, craft, and dark, labyrin- thine ways toconfound justice or throw it off the trail. Corporations, knowing the men with whom they must deal, fall into dishonest, rascally methods in order to secure their ends. Knowing that the legislators are out for stuff, corporations resort to bribery and corruption in order to shape legislation to suit their schemes. in this way these two important elements in the community become brother ban- dits, and thus are bound to stand togeth- er against the common danger of being detected and punished; for the wheels of justice, though mostly of slow motion, and sometimes propelled by a feeble power, have never yet wholly ceased to revolve, and it sometimes happens that public corruptionists are caught and ground to powder. in plain, every-day business life, the filth of politics and the rottenness of the big corporations have dripped down and spread abroad so that strictly hones. and honorable methods are the exception and not the rule, as they should be. Com- petition inspires business men to deeds of downright dishonesty, to lying, brib- ery androbbery in order to keep pace with their rivals. It has come to this, it seems, that business cannot be done at a profit onstrictly honest principles, any more than a troop could travel through we rE a Te Re Oe Oi nee Bo eae et aia ee eee ede ‘THRE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. the country of the Arabs with the olive branch of peace as its only weapon. The dagger ef competition is unsheathed, and the business man must use it or fall in the fight. Itis the dishonesty and cor- ruption of the times whieh pervade the entire community from top to bottom, affecting politics, administration, cor- porations and individuals. This doleful state of affairs is empha- sized by daily observation. Malfeasance in office, embezzlement of public funds, bank defalcations, thieving by cashiers and handiers of money in trust, are por- trayed in every issue of the daily press. Of course,it should be understood that in these depressed times much of the preva- lent villainy of persons holding responsi- vile positions is induced by the stress of various circumstances in which individ- uals are involved. But such rascalities were all too prevalent in prosperous times. For years they have evinced a lamentably low moral tone in the official and business classes. The evil has been accentuated, it is regretable to say, by the leniency, not to use a harsher term, of our judiciary. Altogether, there is not a sufficiently high moral standard, as affecting busi- ness, prevailing in this country, and the tendency is to a worse condition even than now prevails. There needs to be a revival of old-fashioned business honor. It has come to this that we must have a change in this respect or the whole busi- ness fabric will topple to destruction. Already our dishonest, fraudulent meth- ods in respect to corporate management have discredited us abroad, and Ameri- can securities are rattling home to be re- deemed. This is one of the more impor- tant elements in the prevailing business and financial depression. It is with- drawing European capital from this country at a rapid rate, and forcing re- demption of securities on many of our Own capitalists who are just now poorly equipped for the ordeal. It is paralyz- ing enterprise in the extension and im- provement of railway properties and the larger industries. Such has been the impairment of the faith of our own peo- ple im the integrity of men who have the management of our corporations and their securities, that it is now nearly im- possible to float new issues, and thus de- velopment is at a standstill, and thou- sands are deprived of employment and forced to beggary and led into crime. The evil of dishonesty is working out its dire results, and the wisdom of the pre- cept, ‘‘Honesty is the best policy,” is be- ing illustrated. The main cause of the evils here re- cited is an overweening greed for money to satisfy an extravagant way of living. The peopie at large have an insane de- sire for the indulgencies which money affords. They want the power, elegan- cies, pleasures, and social position which come of wealth. The common people, and the smart ambitious though low minded and vulgar people, have imbibed the notion that each can become a prince of fortune if he make sufficient effort. This passion for money, and all that it implies, has become so strong as to de- throne conscience and reason, leading men to have a contempt for anything that does not lead to wealth. This is the trouble which is afflicting the American people to-day, debauching politics, of- ficial life, business, and even, it is to be feared, the judiciary and the clergy. A reform of moral sentiment and purpose must be wrought among the masses, or the nation will go to destruction, under- mined and disintegraded by corruption, as have several of the nations of history. It is to be hoped that there is yet sufficient moral salt in the nation to save it, but its renovating influence should be speedily and incessantly ap- plied in order to check the present rapid tendency toward decay and death. 2 q e a é ® a . 6 = a1 : DAT i or 6 oy. ¢ RE : > RAPID GUI DROPS | are all right for cheap mixtures, but its the better class of goods that pay the largest per cent. of profit. Our French and hand-made Creams, Fine Chocolates, Lozenges and Imperials cannot be surpassed tor purity and Leauty of tinish. The Putnam Candy Co. SUNLIGHT BUCKWHEAT The cream of the ground in the Best Mill in Michigan. Unequalled for Whiteness, Purity and Strength. Agents wanted in every town. Write us for prices and terms. The Walsh DeRoo Milling Co., HOLLAND, MICH. California Redland Seedlings. The finest medium-priced orange now Buy them of on the market. Rich in color and all sound. The Putnam Candy Co, HEROLD- BERTSCH SHOE CO., 5 and 7 Pearl St., Our Line for 1895 is Greater ip 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 n “Black Bottoms.” Headquarters for Rubbers. Wales-Goodyear e e e 8 Importers and:Jobbers of o* TEAS< 21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Not Extravagantly, but Judiciously. AT ALL TIMES AND YOU WILL WIN. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN reaches your customers EVERY WEEK. P)DVERYISE " #55 a 4s aaah a — og e+ THE MICHIGAN THE DRUMMER’S DANCE. Pecuilar Experience of a Well-known Traveling Man. ‘Speaking of practical jokes,” said a drummer at one of the hotels the other night, ‘*l was the victim of one of the most embarrassing l have heard of fora long time. it was during my first trip South, and, not being familiar with the people in that part of the country, | thought | had found a really sociable place when three young ‘swells’ of the town with whom | had been talking the evening before invited me to go with them to a dance that was to be given at a fce- male seminary a few miles from the city. 1 had been away from home for some time, and, not having had the pleasure of being in the company of young ladies, | was fairly delighted at the idea of spend- ing a pleasant evening. ‘1 told them I would be pleased to go, and, after hurried preparation, we started. The young men laughed at the idea of my paying anything toward the carriage hire, and f{ felt that | had never been in the company of a more hospita- ble -et of men. ‘‘When we arrived at the place the dance had already begun. We left the carriage in care of a negro man and entered the ballroom. Of course, I felt very strange at first among so many strangers, but wy companions seemed to feel quite at home, and insisted that | should meet some of the young women at once. One of the young men took me by the arm and led me across the room to where sat a@ young woman who was rather pretty and had an extremely neat appearance. ‘Arter receiving an introduction to her L sat down and started conversa- tion. Svon she was talking at an as- tonishingly rapid rate. 1 became rather interested in the girl, but was very much surprised to learn that she was the twentieth daughter of a wealthy farmer. At last she began to talk and laugh so loudly that 1 began to feel a little em- barrassed, and asked her if she did not want to dance. She wason her feet in an instant, and we had danced a few steps, when she suddenly yelled out at the top of her voice: ‘Don’t! Don’t! Oh, don’t hold me so tight. Lam full of dynamite,’ and she uttered a yell that made the cold chills run up and down my back. **T turned her loose in an instant, and stood simply horrified. I felt like swearing when the other people in the room only laughed and went on dancing. 1 did not know what to do. IL knew lL had dune nothing 1 should not have done, intentionally, at least, but 1 started up to her with an apology, when one of my companions came up with a young woman on his arm. He gave me an in- troduction to her, and asked me if lL would not dance the next set with her. I did not feel like dancing a bit, but there was no way of getting out of it, so I told him 1 would. While we were sit- ting waiting for the next dance she toid me she had been married four- teen times and had 1,000 children at home. 1 thought she was just trying to joke me, and asked her where she lived. She said she lived in heaven. I knew something was wrong with her, and lL made up my mind right there that I would not dance with her. I asked her to excuse me a moment, and without waiting for a reply rushed across the room toward the door. I thought to my- self that if 1 once got on the outside IL would never attend another ‘swell dance’ in Kentucky. ‘|! had got within a few feet of the door when an old woman ran up and threw her arms around my neck. She yelled out that | was her lost son, who ran away from home 400 years ago, when l was amere child. Itried to tear my- self away from the woman, and she fainted at my feet. I made a dart for the door, and when I reached the thresh- old Llooked back and saw several per- | 1 was) sons carrying her off the floor. dazed. Ilexpected to be arrested every moment. I saw a man outside and asked him if there was not a train leav- ing that place soon. He said there would be one going to Louisville in aboutan hour, and I concluded to wait ' around the little station until it was ready to leave. I do not remember to, have ever heard a more welcome sound | than the whistle of that train, after spending an hour in silent misery. I reached my hotel in the city shortly after midnight, but could not sleep. | had learned on the train that | had been to an insane asylum ball, and I was as mad as a hornet. “The next worning the young men came around to the hotel and apologized, and now they are the best friends I have in that city.’’ —~<> 2 <> Excelient Advice to Salesmen. Charles S$. Macnair in “Self Instruction in Practical Business Qualifications.” It is in the power of any clerk or sales- man to draw and retain, by his pleasant, straightforward and affable manner, a circle of customers for his exclusive at- tention, studying systematically to build up aconnection, as it were, for himself. This line of customers become, in time, attached to him, so much so that they will look for bim and will be waited on by no one else. In fact, they will often patiently wait, or call again, to obtain the services of their favorite salesman or clerk; and wonderful to note, this strange connection will invariably fol- low their favorite clerk from one store to another, if a change of employers is deemed advisable. This connection, | drawn to you by your polite courtesy and | straightforward dealing while in the em- | ploy of others, is worth more than capi- | tal, andis often a powerful lever which may, attimes, be judiciously turned to your profitable advancement, command- ing high wages, or a partnership, or, | again, fits you to start business on your | own account, all done without the aid of | capitai. Deceive your customers, and | you lose for your employer not only their | patronage, but their influence, which is} indeed a serious loss to the concern. | Above all things, keep things in order, avd everything in its proper place. When customers are scarce busy your- self fixing things up ready and conven- ient to receive them. Keplenish your string boxes and wrapping papers, put vour shelves, counters or show cases in order. There are hundreds of little odds and ends todo. A diligent clerk can a)- ways find useful and profitable work for spare time. Hunt and look up prices and price lists; study and make yourself conversant with the trade price lists and discounts. This desire to profitably turn to account spare time will meet with ample reward, and will pay you with compound interest on acquiring in dustrious habits alone; at the same time you rise in the estimation of those around you and become important. You know the condition of the stock, and where to put your band on everything. You are intelligently enlightened, and can speak of the quality or quantity, sizes and kinds that sell and give satis- faction; you become a reference to con- sult as to the condition of the stock— what is required to replenish and keep the stock up to the times and demands of the public. All this acquired informa- tion not only establishes confidence in yourself, but commands the confidence and respect of your fellow salesmen, customers and employer. Try the new cigar, Signal Five, 5c. GRINGHUIS’ ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. 2 Quires, = PAZCB. ..- eevee eee ee eee — 00 3 oo ae 2 4 - x0 i , | 3.00 5 _ 400 . eee eee eee ee 6 = 480 ee Eo 4 00 INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,830 invoices. ..82 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Agents, Grand Rapids, - - Mich. TRADESMAN, 25 ou Re LINE | oF ‘HAIR ORNAMENTS an t NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY IS NOW COMPLETE. SEND ALONG YOUR ORDERS WORZBURG JEWELRY CO, Grand - c- WHAT ? The Best Men’s Oil Grain or Calfskin “High Cut River Soe In the market, at $2.25 Also a Whole Stock KIP DRIVING SHOE High Cut, at $2.00 Alwaysin Stock. Send for Samples. A C.MCGRAW & C0 = DETROIT, MICH. Our Plan Saves disputes and enables you to discount your bills. Saves book charges and bad debts ay i dal eg Saves worry and loss of sleep. Wins cash trade and new Maa is cash IF NOT SATISFACIORY. YOUR MONEY BACK. New oo Can dy Lemons, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Etc. always in stock and of the finest quality. A. & iRdddd & 00,5 47 Ladla de saad _ Crd 25 POL OC CE. ee LOU LOD S_A, Enel at TiisPackace FREE Pte y,| se Now in. Oranges, Rapids, Mich, 4FACULES POW FOR DESCRIPTIVE Ms PAMPHLET. ¥ Stump before ab Blast. ai (STRONGEST AND SAFEST ed KNOWN TO THE ARTS. = POWDER, FUSE, CAPS. = ' Electric Mining Goods, HERCULES, AND ALL TOOLS FOR STUMP BLASTING. ‘HE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK HERCULES POWDER. COMPANY ANNIHILATOR. Cuyahoga Building, CLEVELAND, OrRice. | Fragments in a Blast Hercules Powder is carried in stock by all of the following jobbers: Potter Bros., Alpena, Buechner & Co., Kalamazoo, Seavey Hardware Co., Ft. Wayne, Camper & Steadman, South Bend. Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, A. Austin, 93 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, J. J. Post & Co., Cheboygan, Popp & Wolf, Siginaw, Use Yradesmans Wants Column. They Return Excellent Results. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis- --Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, March 9—The coffee mar- ket has developed no particularly inter- esting features during the week, prices remaining about the same, while the de- mand, as perhaps is natural at this sea- son, is rather light, for it is claimed that March is not a good ‘‘eoffee month.” Fair Rio No. 7 is held at 16%{e. Mild sorts are firm and holders make no con- cessions. Malang Javas can be _ pur- chased from 21@23c and fancy sorts, 28 @30ce. Sugar shows higher rates on all grades of refined, except one or two lower brands, granulated showing quite a good deal of firmness, and it is anticipated that another advance will occur shortly. The tea market is not altogether satis- factory to either buyer or seller; prices are ‘‘ragged” and, while plenty of good tea can be purchased, there is a consid- erable quantity of cheap stuff at all prices. Dealers are in a sort of waiting mood and the aspect of things meantime is very dull. Molasses is well held and the market is very firm. Holders are very confident and purchasers are paying full quota- tions to secure supplies. N. O. open kettle goods are worth from 28@30c for fair, to 36@38c for prime, and 36@39c for choice. Syrups, like molasses, are doing well, and are at a point where a profit is shown. The market is firm and holders are well satisfied with the outlook. Rice continues firm, as noted for some time past. Both foreign and domestic are selling at full rates and holders show no disposition whatever to make conces- sions. Japans are scarce and particu- larly firm. The spice market shows a good deal of firmness and buyers are not waiting for lower rates, as they seem to realize that the bottom has been touched and that the turn is now upward. Canned goods are continuing to do bet- ter and, with a more confident feeling all around, it is hoped that there will be some approach to a fairly decent market. Orders are for small lots, but they are numerous. However, the wonder is that they are not even more frequent, as prices are so low as to almost ensure a profit to those who buy now. Foreign green fruits, lemons, oranges, bananas, grapes and pineapples, are all doing better, and for lemons there is a tendency toward higher rates. Bananas are meeting with a very good demand. The stock of pineapples is light. For domestic green fruits there is a good demand and apples are selling at good figures if sound. The range is all the way from $3@6, as to variety. Butter is exceedingly dull and prices have taken another tumble, so that 20c may be called the outside figure for best Elgin, Penn., or State. The under grades are correspondingly depressed, for, when the best can be purchased for 20¢, the **‘baser metal’’ goes begging. Eggs are in better supply and already the fall has been mighty. While the quotation is 20c for the best, this is cer- tainly the outside price, unless in the ease of near-by strictly fresh stock. Western, 18@20c. Cheese is doing better. The demand grows stronger, although so far for only the very best grades. There is scarcely anything doing in an export way and what is being shipped is mainly of the poor sorts—gart or wholly skimmed. Jobbers report an even distribution of goods, with a fair trade. It is not to be expected that we shall have a boom—no need of it—but a better feeling prevails and every day adds confidence. The gro- cery tradc is one of the solidest in this city, both wholesale and retail, and fail- ures have been very few during the long months which have passed since the hard times struck us. Whatever grip or influenza may be, it is tolerably certain that the doctors of this town are in wholesome dread of it. and believe in heroic treatment. There is not the slightest relation between the treatment of one physician and another, and peopie who get tired of fighting grip THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | with one doctor very often change to another, to find themselves in the hands of a man whose ideas are diametrically opposed to the one who first had their ease in charge. There are only afew points in common, such as heroic doses of quinine, phenacitine, Dover’s pow- ders, iron and similar trifles upon which the physicians are apparently agreed. The man who gets over an attack of grip in three weeks may escape without the loss of his limbs, but the effect of powerful drugs upon the stomach is nearly always serious. One of the most noted physicians in New York said yes- terday that the stomach specialists in- varibly had a boom in their clientage after the grip season, which practically ends in April. He added that if a man who had the grip would go to bed and stay in a room of even temperature for two weeks, he would be cured more easily than by taking all the medicine in the world, and the recovery would also be more speedy than that effected by the average physician. —_>-+? > sini Gripsack Brigade. J. E. Raup, of Constantine, who re- cently traveled fur the Chicago Spice Co., has taken the position with the Jackson Grocery Co. recently vacated by F. E. Maxon, who resigned on account of poor health. E. H. Smith, who has represented Geo. C. Wetherbee & Co. (Detroit) in Central Michigan for several years, has severed his connection with that house. He is at present at his home in Jackson, earing for his sick family. Geo. W. Jenks, of Fenton, the popu- lar ‘‘essence’? man who _ represents Seeley Maaufacturing Co., of Detroit, is taking a vaeation on account of his and Mrs. Jenks’ health. They will travel through the South and West to California. His territory will be cov- ered by H. W. Hakes, of Lowell, dur- ing his absence. W. F. Bowen (Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.) recently left his clothing grip at Manton by mistake and had it forwarded to him at Cadillae by the landlord. In the interval, another guest at the hotel | deposited in the gripsack, evidently by mistake, certain articles of wearing ap- parel which Bowen disclaims, although some of the boys insist that he protests too much. At the regular monthly meeting of Post E, held at Elk’s Hall last Saturday evening, the report of the Executive Committee was accepted and adopted and the Committee discharged. It was decided to hold a social session on the occasion of the next monthly meeting, the second Saturday evening in April. Chairman Lawton appointed Geo. W. Stowitts, E. A. Stowe and Chas. I. Flyna to serve as the Committee on Relief un- til the annual meeting in December. While driving from Northport to Trav- erse City last Tuesday, E. E. Wooley purchased a couple of dead wild cats which had been killed by a trapper of the former place. The animals weighed 22 pounds apiece and Wooley was the hero of the hour so long as the denizens of Traverse City were permitted to be- lieve that the cats had been slaughtered by the intrepid traveler. The arrival of correct intelligence from Northport dis- pelled the illusion and from that time on { Mr. Wooley was regarded with no more respect than any other bright salesman. Willis P. Townsend writes: ‘I am un- der lasting obligations to Geo. L. Thurs- ton and THE TRADESMAN for the gra- tuitous advertising given me several weeks ago in relation to the Vanzolen- burg cracker episode. As over 1,500 people have spoken to me in regard to the article, I naturally conclude that the paper must have about 15,000 circu- lation. As near as I can estimate the advertising advantage of the article, 1 am ahead about $90, although some of my friends insist thatl ought to send Mr. Thurston my check for $100. The only thing 1 regret in connection with the matter is that Mr. Thurston still insists on handling the cheapest grade of crack- ers he can find in the market—so cheap, in fact, that they are in great demand at all G. A. R. meetings on account of their resemblance to the hard-tack of war times. Mr. Thurston keeps his cracker barrel on the outside of the counter and generously offers a basin of crackers to those of his customers who have come such a long distance that they have grown hungry on the way. I notice, however, that a man has to be very hun- gry or very drunk to respond to Mr. Thurston’s invitation.” ——— +6 The Grocery Market. Sugar—An advance of 1-16c last Fri- day was followed by another advance of the same amount Monday. The mar- ket is strong at the advance and stili higher quotations are by no means un- expected by some authorities. Provisions—Pork is about 50c per bbl. higher. Hams have advanced ec. Lard is stronger. Rolled Oats—The market is a little stronger. The trade has been puzzled by a quotation of $3.40, but an explana- tion of the quotation is found in the dis- covery that a considerable portion of the oats is not oats at all, but wheat. As wheat costs 50¢c for 60 pounds, while oats cost 32¢ for 50 pounds, the reason forthe sophistication is plainly disclosed. Oranges—Navels have advanced 25@ 40c per box at the coast, according to the different grades, and orders for prompt shipment are not accepted by the for- warding exchanges, but each is executed in rotation as originally filed. Seediings move quite freely, but no advance in price has taken place yet, as it is de- sired that the trade may crowd them a little harder and, by leaving them as a low priced articie, they will probably take with dealers at large. Messina and Catania fruit seems to be finding the way to Western markets more freely and, being cheaper than the navels, meets with ready sale. Dates—The market is firm at quota- tions, but no advance is looked for, as a great many of the largest dealers have laid in their stocks, and large sales will be the exception instead of the rule in the majority of future sales. Figs—Such dealers as had a good stock on hand last week are in good luck, as prices advanced fuliy le per pound on all grades at the New York sales. They have been very low for two months and the advance was not altogether unex- pected by those who kept track of the market Lemons—The fancy grades have ad- vanced fully 50c per box and prices gen- erally have stiffened up. Good stock which is bright colored and uniform in size and style of packing and free from frost is a good purchase at present prices. There is a good supply in the hands of local wholesalers and anyone in need of fruit can get just what is de- sired at most favorable figures. Corn Syrup—Declined 1c on account of manufacturers being overstocked. Oysters—The ice in the bays has nearly all drifted out and all the stock needed can be obtained at fair prices. The largest dredging boats have “‘pulled off,’? as the demand is not large enough to warrant them in working when the season is so nearly over. The demand will be fairly good during the present month if the weather remains cold, but present prices will probably be main- tained from now on, as all the stock will have to come in by express at an additional cost of about 20c per gallon. WHILE THE MARKET IS ADVANCING ON DARREL PORK PROVISIONS LARD BUTTERINE, Ele. ASK US FOR QUOTA TIONS ON ANYTHING IN OUR LINE BY TEL EPHONE, MAIL OR TEL- EGRAPH. WE ARE VERY BUSY BUT WE ARE ALWAYS READY FOR BIG DE HBSTERI BEER AND. PROVISION C0 71 Canal St. GRAND RAPIDS Telephone 1254 Note Lower Prices on x OYSTERS # Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can,............§ 14 Daisy Brand, Standards, per can......... .. 16 Daisy Brand, Helects, per Gan............... Solid Brang, Standards, percan............. 18 Sod Brand, & F..peréan. ......... oe Solid Brand, Selecta, per can................ 24 Solid Brand, «xtra Selects, per can......... 26 a hhLrttCtiCCC.. 16 Oysters fine and well filled. : The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with» boiled cider, very fine: oir eee. 65 -O1G bee... ccs ee 45 at oe 40 1 quart Mason Jars, per doz... | 40 A pints Mason Jars, per dos....... ........ & Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the Destiaade, Pree per case ............... 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: iP pall por i... cl. 6 arin, belie oerib..... lo 614 ie palin, pee 6% Si CA OP leet 1 40 Sip cans oer Got... ............_...... oe Eimt Manon Jars, per Gos........ .... ...... | @ Quart Mason Jars, per doz .............. _. 3 2% Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz 1 40 Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 25 Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00 Peach Marmalade, 20-Ib pails................ 1 00 EDWIN FALLAS, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN BARK AND GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ea cat aH 18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld. fs N. B. CLARK, Pres. eee W. D. Wave, Vice-Pres. Be. C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas, | son of 1895. Correspondence Solicited. | is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pu:- pose. It’s made from the best brine by the best process with the best grain. You keep the best of other things, why not keep the best of Salt. Your customers will appreciate it as they appreciate | pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea. Diamond Crystal Salt Reing free icom all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, wii. not get damp and * soggy on your hands. Put up in an attractive and salable manner. When * your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of ‘*zhe salt that's all salt.’’ Can be obtair _ from jobbers and dealers. For prices, see price current op other page ‘ For other information. address DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. PR LEE EAL LB AINE VO ERE TIIEEY ALE HT NTE TS a a a ETT 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 -ee our new Satin Fleurettes, Tela-Vela Ducks, Percales, Ginghams and Prints? Herpolsheimer & Co. VW holesale DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Ete. Grand Rapids, Mich. ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader. SOLD ONLY BY ELFER SPICE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~~, z : & FOR THE LENTEN SEASON Oysters, Fresh and Salt Fish OSCAR ALLYN Wholesale Prices 106 CANAL STREET PHONE oor. LUMBER CO, We are now ready to make | contracts for bark for the sea-| | ea ar an eB, lost (DY Yes S75 be PRA RE = RIKER EOS All } ABOVE ARE CUTS OF LACE CAPS WHICH WE WILL HAVE IN STOCK ABOUT MARCH 10th, RANGING IN PRICE FROM $2 to $4.50 We also have 15 numbers of Men’s and Children’s Faney Outing Caps from $1.75 to $4.50. Outing Shirts, 36 inches long, from $2.25 to $6 per dozen. P. Steketee & Sons WHOLESALE DRY GOODS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Muskegon Bakery Grackers (United States Baking Co.) | Are Perfect Health Food. | There area great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only a 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 Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR Other Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great Jelly Turnovers, FOR Specialties = Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S t Muskegon Branch, CAKES and Mlik Luneh, CRACKERS United States Baking Co. LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, Muskegon, Mich, No. 88S—ENGRAVED WATER SETS 2-3 doz. Setsin bbl. By the Bb] 50c. per Set. Bbl. 35e. Open Stock, 55e. Set. NO. 319. Try one Assorted Package of NEW REGENT WATER SETS. 12 Sets in Four Different Styles and Colors SPECIAL PRICE, $9.60, per doz. Bbl. 35¢ W rite for No. 319—RUBY WATER SET. WE HAVE A Colored Illustrations ee VARIETY OF STYLES . Boe. Open Stock, $1.13 per Set. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids The Vay Ul] Compu Ing Sta es “Aone Maing Features, 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, 1--6, 1888, 1*91, 1893 and 184. And we will prosecute all infringers to the ful! extent of the law. The simple using of Seales that infringe upon our patents makes the user liable to prosecuticn, and the importance of buying and using any other Computing and Price Scales than those manufactured by us and bearing our nameand date of pat ents and thereby incurring liability to prosecution is apparent. Respectfully THE COMPUTING SCALE CO. SEE WHAT USERS SAY: KIEF & MEANWELL, STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES, No 19 Huron Sr. YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 25, 1894. Messrs. Hoyt & Co.. Dayton, O. 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 PENNUES it saves will pay for the scales in six months. When the scales arrived 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 surprised to find ipon 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 sugar 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 delivering orders while we are putting up the goods. Ve both considered ourselves careful in weighing before, but we are more so now, and instead of giviyg chuck down weight, and at the same time giving away our protits, we still give full six- teen ounces to the pound, and pocket our profits. We would sooner think of partine with our safe now, than we would with the Computing scales. 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 poor fellow sufferer put 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 »fford to divide the profits. Very truly yours, KIEF & MEANWELL. ny For further information drop a postal card HOYT & COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio. a tT |